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import os
import numpy as np
from numpy import array

import matplotlib as mpl
mpl.use("Agg")

from nose.tools import assert_equal, assert_almost_equal, assert_true, \
    assert_false, assert_raises, assert_is_instance

from ksatools.ksatools import calccumsum, loadfile, renyispectrum, pad, \
    smoothspectrum, calcmedian, cleanlabel, getmgrkmerspectrum, printstats, \
    printstratify, makegraphs, run_indir, show_pretty_graphs, TESTDIR

FIXTURE1 = np.array([[2000, 1000000],
                     [20000, 10000],
                     [200000, 100],
                     [1000000, 1],
                     [2000000, 1]], dtype="float")

FIXTURE3 = np.array([[2000, 1000000],
                     [20000, 10000],
                     [200000, 100],
                     [1000000, 1],
                     [2000000, 1]], dtype="int")

FIXTUREBAD1 = np.array([[0, 0]], dtype="int")

FIXTUREBAD2 = np.array([[0, 0]], dtype="float")

FIXTUREBAD3 = loadfile(TESTDIR + "testF1.21")

FIXTURE2 = loadfile(
    "repeatresolutionpaper/counts-validationgenomedata/SRR000333.fastq.21")

def test_calccumsum_float():
    data = FIXTURE1
    cn, c1, yd, yo, zd, zo = calccumsum(data)

def test_calccumsum_int():
    data = FIXTURE3
    cn, c1, yd, yo, zd, zo = calccumsum(data)

def test_calccumsum_bad1():
    data = FIXTUREBAD1
    with assert_raises(ValueError):
        cn, c1, yd, yo, zd, zo = calccumsum(data)

def test_calccumsum_bad2():
    data = FIXTUREBAD2
    with assert_raises(ValueError):
        cn, c1, yd, yo, zd, zo = calccumsum(data)

def test_calccumsum_bad3():
    data = FIXTUREBAD3
    print(type(data), data)
    with assert_raises(ValueError):
        cn, c1, yd, yo, zd, zo = calccumsum(data)

def test_loadfile_SRR():
    FIXTURE2 = loadfile(
        "repeatresolutionpaper/counts-validationgenomedata/SRR000333.fastq.21")

def test_loadfile_empty():
    fixture = loadfile(TESTDIR + "emptyfile")
    print(type(fixture))
    assert fixture == []

def test_loadfile_npo():
    fixture = loadfile(TESTDIR + "test_1.npo")
    assert type(fixture) == np.ndarray

def test_loadfile_stats():
    fixture = loadfile(TESTDIR + "stats.txt")
    assert type(fixture) == np.ndarray

def test_loadfile_khmer():
    fixture = loadfile(TESTDIR + "test_khmer.21")
    assert type(fixture) == np.ndarray

def test_missingfile():
    fixture = loadfile("nonexistentfile")
    assert fixture == []

def test_calccumsum_00_file():
    data = loadfile(TESTDIR + "test00.21")
    cn, c1, yd, yo, zd, zo = calccumsum(data)
    assert_equal(cn, 1)
    assert_equal(c1, 1)
    assert_equal(yd, 1)
    assert_equal(yo, 1)
    assert_equal(zd, 1)
    assert_equal(zo, 1)

def test_calccumsum_01_array_int():
    data = np.array([[1, 910], [2, 45]], dtype="int")
    cn, c1, yd, yo, zd, zo = calccumsum(data)
    assert_true(np.all(cn == array([1, 2])))
    assert_true(np.all(c1 == array([910, 45])))
    assert_true(np.all(yd == array([955, 45])))
    assert_true(np.all(yo == array([1000, 90])))
    assert_true(np.all(zd == array([910, 955])))
    assert_true(np.all(zo == array([910, 1000])))

def test_calccumsum_01_array_float():
    data = np.array([[1, 910], [2, 45]], dtype="float")
    cn, c1, yd, yo, zd, zo = calccumsum(data)
    assert_true(np.all(cn == array([1, 2])))
    assert_true(np.all(c1 == array([910, 45])))
    assert_true(np.all(yd == array([955, 45])))
    assert_true(np.all(yo == array([1000, 90])))
    assert_true(np.all(zd == array([910, 955])))
    assert_true(np.all(zo == array([910, 1000])))

def test_reyni_returns():
    exponents = np.arange(.01, 5, .01)
    renyi_sepctrum = renyispectrum(exponents, FIXTURE1)

def test_pad():
    xpadded, ypadded = pad(FIXTURE1[:, 0], FIXTURE1[:, 1])
    assert_true(len(xpadded) > max(FIXTURE1[:, 0]) * 1.2)
    assert_true(len(ypadded) > max(FIXTURE1[:, 0]) * 1.2)
    assert_true(sum(ypadded) == sum(FIXTURE1[:, 1]))

def test_smooth():
    s = smoothspectrum(FIXTURE1)

def test_calcmedian():
    yd = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4])
    y = np.array([10, 20, 30, 40])
    num = 35
    s = calcmedian(yd, y, num)
    print(s)
    assert_true(s == 3.5)

def test_cleanlabel():
    assert_true(cleanlabel("file.histhist") == "file")
    assert_true(cleanlabel("file.fastq") == "file")
    assert_true(cleanlabel("file_info_contigstats.txt") == "file")
    assert_true(cleanlabel("file.stats.txt") == "file")
    assert_true(cleanlabel("file.txt") == "file")
    assert_true(cleanlabel("file.csv") == "file")
    assert_true(cleanlabel("file.037.kmerhistogram") == "file")

def test_getmgrkmerspectrum():
    g = getmgrkmerspectrum("mgm4441680.3")
    assert_true(g.shape == (55, 2))

def test_getmgrkmerspectrum_fail():
    g = getmgrkmerspectrum("mgm4441680.3", mgrkey="INVALID")

def test_printstats():
    p = printstats(FIXTURE1, "tempstatsout.txt")

def test_printstats_fh():
    with open("tempstatsoutfh.txt", 'w') as fh:
        p = printstats(FIXTURE1, "tempstatsout", fh)

def test_printstratify():
    p = printstratify(FIXTURE1)

def test_makesgraphs():
    for i in range(-3, 29):
        print("testing visualization {:d}".format(i))
        p = makegraphs(FIXTURE1, "tempfilename", option=i)

def test_makegraphs_6d(capsys):
    p = makegraphs(FIXTURE1, "tempfilename", option=6, dump=True)
    out, err = capsys.readouterr()
    assert len(out) < 30

def test_makegraphs_labels():
    p = makegraphs(FIXTURE1, "tempfilename",
                   ylabel="Y label", xlabel="X label")

def test_makegraphs_m2d():
    p = makegraphs(FIXTURE1, "tempfilename", option=-
                   2, dump=True, suppress=True)

def test_makegraphs_label():
    p = makegraphs(FIXTURE1, "tempfilename", option=6, label="ridiculouslabel", opts={"suppress": True} )

def test_makegraphs_name():
    p = makegraphs(FIXTURE1, "tempfilename", option=6,
                   label="ridiculouslabel", name="graph title")

def test_makegraphs_30():
    p = makegraphs(FIXTURE1, "tempfilename", option=30)

def test_cmdline_gm1():
    run_indir("plotkmerspectrum.py -g -1 test00.21", TESTDIR)
    assert os.path.isfile(TESTDIR + "kmers.log")

def test_cmdline_g0():
    run_indir("plotkmerspectrum.py -g 0 test00.21", TESTDIR)
    assert os.path.isfile(TESTDIR + "test00.21.0.pdf")

def test_cmdline_pngout():
    run_indir("plotkmerspectrum.py -g 1 test00.21 -o temptest00 -w png", TESTDIR)
    assert os.path.isfile(TESTDIR + "temptest00.1.png")

def test_cmdline_xlabel_title():
    run_indir(
        "plotkmerspectrum.py -g 1 test00.21 -x xlabel -y ylabel -n Graph_title -s -o temptest00", TESTDIR)
    assert os.path.isfile(TESTDIR + "temptest00.1.pdf")

def test_empty():
    run_indir("echo | countkmer21.sh > test-emptyinputy.21", TESTDIR)
#   creates an empty file
    assert os.stat(TESTDIR + "test-emptyinputy.21").st_size == 0
    os.remove(TESTDIR + "test-emptyinputy.21")

def test_empty2():
    run_indir("echo -n | countkmer21.sh > test-emptyinputx.21", TESTDIR)
#   creates an empty file
    assert os.stat(TESTDIR + "test-emptyinputx.21").st_size == 0
    os.remove(TESTDIR + "test-emptyinputx.21")

def test_list1():
    run_indir("plotkmerspectrum.py -l testlist1", TESTDIR)

def test_list2():
    run_indir("plotkmerspectrum.py -l testlist2", TESTDIR)

def test_list3():
    run_indir("plotkmerspectrum.py -l testlist3", TESTDIR)

def test_list4():
    run_indir("plotkmerspectrum.py -l testlist4", TESTDIR)

def test_list5():
    run_indir("plotkmerspectrum.py -l testlist5", TESTDIR)

def test_list6():
    run_indir("plotkmerspectrum.py -l testlist6", TESTDIR)

def test_list7():
    run_indir("plotkmerspectrum.py -l testlist7", TESTDIR)

def test_list8():
    run_indir("plotkmerspectrum.py -l testlist8", TESTDIR)

def test_many():
    run_indir("plotkmerspectrum.py fak-1 fak-2 fak-3 fak-0", TESTDIR)

def test_options():
    run_indir(
        "plotkmerspectrum.py -l testlist1 -s -x 'X label' -y 'Y label'", TESTDIR)
    assert os.path.isfile(TESTDIR + "testlist1.6.pdf")

def test_file_stats():
    run_indir("plotkmerspectrum.py stats.txt", TESTDIR)
    assert os.path.isfile(TESTDIR + "stats.txt.6.pdf")
    os.remove(TESTDIR + "stats.txt.6.pdf")

def test_file_contigstats():
    run_indir("plotkmerspectrum.py contigstats.txt", TESTDIR)
    assert os.path.isfile(TESTDIR + "contigstats.txt.6.pdf")
    os.remove(TESTDIR + "contigstats.txt.6.pdf")

def test_file_npo():
    run_indir("plotkmerspectrum.py test_1.npo", TESTDIR)
    assert os.path.isfile(TESTDIR + "test_1.npo.6.pdf")
    os.remove(TESTDIR + "test_1.npo.6.pdf")

def test_emptyfile():
    run_indir("plotkmerspectrum.py  emptyfile", TESTDIR)
    assert not os.path.isfile(TESTDIR + "emptyfile.21")

def test_counttoy():
    run_indir("countkmer21.sh toy.fa", TESTDIR)
    assert os.path.isfile(TESTDIR + "toy.fa.21")
    os.remove(TESTDIR + "toy.fa.21")

def test_counttoy_stream():
    run_indir("cat toy.fa | countkmer21.sh >  temp-toy-std.21", TESTDIR)
    assert os.path.isfile(TESTDIR + "temp-toy-std.21")
    os.remove(TESTDIR + "temp-toy-std.21")

def test_xlabel():
    run_indir("plotkmerspectrum.py --xlabel xlabel --ylabel ylabel fak-123", TESTDIR)
    assert os.path.isfile(TESTDIR + "fak-123.6.pdf")
    os.remove(TESTDIR + "fak-123.6.pdf")

def test_title():
    run_indir("plotkmerspectrum.py -n 'fak-123 spectrum' fak-123", TESTDIR)
    assert os.path.isfile(TESTDIR + "fak-123.6.pdf")
    os.remove(TESTDIR + "fak-123.6.pdf")

def test_cmdline_getmgr():
    run_indir("plotkmerspectrum.py -l mgrlist -i -g 6 -t mgm")

def test_makegraphs_list():
    p = makegraphs([FIXTURE1, FIXTURE2], ["FIXTURE1", "SRR000331"])

def test_makegraphs_list_5():
    p = makegraphs([FIXTURE1, FIXTURE2], ["FIXTURE1", "SRR000331"], option=5, suppress=True)

def test_show_pretty_graphs():
    p = show_pretty_graphs([FIXTURE1, FIXTURE2], ["FIXTURE1", "SRR000331"], xlabel="X axis title", ylabel="Y axis title", name="Graph title here")


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By bossmanagement scooter rent rome, vespa hire, vespa hire rome, vespa rent, vespa rent rome Commenti disabilitati su Vespa hire Rome: why is the best way to explore the town !
Are you going to visit the eterna city for the first time? Or you already are a fine connoisseur of the town? Either way you're probably looking at a map in order to figure out how to get to Castel Sant'Angelo and buying metro tickets; but you know what they say: when in Rome do as the romans do and what's best than visit the city on a motor scooter with our vespa hire service in Rome?
In our venues at Trastevere and piazza Argentina you can hire motor scooters LML star with the same looks as the vespa vintage, in order to visit the town like Audrey Hepburn in "Roman Holiday".
Once you rented the vespa Rome is basically at your feet; you can choose to start from piazza Argentina and then roam around the city centre, moving past Campo dei Fiori, the Pantheon, Via del Corso and then stop at piazza di Spagna and piazza del Popolo (or if you're not sure how to move around you can always book for our "The essence of Rome" tour A) or you can visit Trastevere and its folkloristic alleys and then move to Testaccio to see the Monte di Cocci, the acatholic cemetary and taste the true spirit of the city.
With a scooter is easier to move around a congested city like Rome, you can save time and also see parts of the city that you wouldn't normally insert as a part of your stay here.
In the south area of Rome, besides Testaccio, we suggest you to visit the Gianicolo to admire the magnificent view, walk around and see the firing cannon that works everyday at 12am.
After you're done here, jump on the scooter and follow the course of the Aurelian walls, run along the Caracalla's thermal bath and reach San Giovanni's area.
Here the things to see are plentiful: from the Basilica, to S. Croce in Gerusalemme church and the Sardinian grenadier museum.
Continuing you'll find yourself between San Lorenzo and Pigneto, two areas full of students and artists where street reality meets hipster cafès. Also very good places to get a beer at night.
After that much urban reality and traffic, maybe you'll want to look around more peaceful areas and still visit something. Thankfully outside the raccordo that surrounds the city we still have a lot of interesting places to see. For the ones that would like to see the sea, Rome is directly conected with Ostia, the official harbor of the city, through the Cristoforo Colombo and Ostiense's streets.
Immediately you'll find yourself on the seafront, where you can take a walk and get to the harbor, or you can hang around the main square, eating some delicious ice cream.
Not far from ostia there's the archeological site of Ostia Antica (http://www.ostiaantica.beniculturali.it), one of the biggest here in Italy, and the medieval castle of Julius II.
If you prefer nature, hills and good food there's the Roman Castles, where you can try the famosi fraschettas and see churches, villas and estates.
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Today while rolling North on I55 a saw a brand new black/moron Redwood heading south. I'm not sure which floor plan it was but it did have the rear window.
So if anybody on this forum have one like this coming.......it's almost there! HAPPY THANKSGIVINGS!
That might be ours!! We ordered a 38GK black/maroon that is supposed to arrive in Phoenix on Monday. We even delayed our Thanksgiving RV trip so we could take the new RV. We can't wait!
It was a beauty going down the road but being pulled by a less than fancy truck. I thought as it went by that it looked like either a "RL" or a "GK". I saw it headed south on I55 about 3PM about an hour North of St. Louis (about 5 hours from the factory). The driver still had about 24 hours of drive time so depending on what he does for Thanksgiving, it should be in Phoenix this Friday or Saturday. If he has family along the route he might stop for the holiday.
Thanks for the info. We have a 30ft 5th wheel that we are trading in, so the 38GK is a big step up for us. After our S & B home sells, we will go full time in the Redwood. Not retired yet.
This should be some exciting time for you. I fondly remember waiting for our Redwood to come off the assembly line and then going to the paint shop. When we finally arrived at the dealership and saw the "Beauty" sitting there we were both thrilled.
Make sure you ask plenty of questions and check EVERY component of the unit. Also PLEASE make sure you have both batteries and that they're not the cheep emergency batteries that the factory puts in. This will save you a bunch of heartache latter.
We are sooo excited. Our GK will have the residential appliance package, so we will need to make sure it has the proper batteries. Will also have the induction cooktop and the power cord reel, and many other options.
Take pictures of the power cord reel and any other new updates and post them here for all to see.
You were right. GK arrived at Camping World in Avondale, Arizona this morning. We were able to go and take a quick look at it. One new feature that we saw is they added a door over the opening above the refrigerator that has several tree designs in it with a back light behind it. We did see that the electrical outlet in the appliance drawer of the pantry that is between the TV and the microwave was missing. We will post pictures once they have cleaned it up and we take possession.
We noticed the missing outlet but located one in the pantry between the fridge and the stairs. That is not our first choice.


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Where Will Our Pollinators Live?
Is it possible that our urban open spaces will become just as important as our national forests in supporting wildlife? It's a concept that seems implausible especially here in Western NC where we are seldom more than an hour's drive from numerous national parks and "wild" spaces. The land mass of the United States is so vast that, admittedly, our perception has been that no matter how many plots we subdivide, farmland we cultivate, or roads we pave, there will always be endless acres of undisturbed natural habitat for animals and insects to flourish. But is that still true today? If I asked you how much land you thought we humans have taken for our own use in the United States—what would your guess be?
Are We Running Out of Room for Nature?
Adding to this destruction is our love affair with pristine and manicured lawns. It's estimated that over 32 million acres of land in the U.S. has been converted to European and Asian turf grasses that are essentially useless to most of our native insects and wildlife (Tallamy D. W.). However, many birds, bugs, and butterflies could live sustainably with us if we chose to design both our public and private living spaces with diverse and native plant species.
Asheville Greenworks is making this city friendlier to bugs and birds by developing a template for turning low-use municipal park areas into native pollinator meadows like this bee and butterfly garden in Portland, Maine.
If you visit Lake Julian, you will see Greenworks' Pollinator Meadow testing site along Fisherman's Trail.
In May, GreenWorks coordinated with geocaching expert Graeme McGufficke, Buncombe County staff, and about 30 volunteers to lay plastic, cardboard, and mulch at the testing site.
Next spring, we are hoping you will see this area filled with a growing array of milkweed, tickseed, sunflower, wild bergamot, aster, goldenrod and other hardy perennial wildflowers.
Although Greenworks is currently determining the most cost-efficient and effective ways to kill turf grass and install perennial wildflowers native to this area, this isn't a war on grass. We can appreciate the benefits of grass for dog parks or as a perfect picnic setting. In fact, evolutionary psychologists even theorize that humans have evolved to be attracted to large open grassy plots because our ancestors wanted to be able to see potentially dangerous animals coming their way.
However, grass has some major drawbacks too. Lawns must be mowed regularly. About forty million lawnmowers consume 200 million gallons of gasoline per year and one gas-powered lawnmower emits 11 times the air pollution of a new car. Another downside of grass?... I have discovered that my lawn is a breeding ground for the Japanese beetles that have been turning the leaves on my bean stalks into something that resembles lace doilies.
This summer, I have been working as a Fellow of UNC Asheville's McCullough Institute in partnership with Asheville Greenworks to document various methods of grass removal and to research which native perennials are both easy to grow from seed and will survive in a sunny meadow with minimal maintenance. The McCullough Institute for Conservation, Land Use and Environmental Resiliency aims to be a nation model for blending environmental study with business and sustainable economic growth in urban and rural landscapes.


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all aboard the caps coaching carousel
(photo by Clyde Caplan)
The waiting game has officially begun for the Washington Capitals.
Once coach Dale Hunter opted to call it quits, his decision eliminated any hope of stability or continuity within the organization.
For better or for worse, there will be a new coach with a new system hoping to maximize the talent on Washington's roster.
Unfortunately for everyone involved, it appears the general manager George McPhee is in no hurry to fill the vacancy — with some believing that it could be months before Hunter's replacement is hired.
While it's wise for GMGM to take his time to ensure the right man is chosen for the job, the reason I say unfortunately is because for as long as the franchise remains in limbo, Caps fans are going to be subjected to rumors and wild speculation about what comes next.
Even now, with the season barely over, people are already tossing around names of possible candidates. And while that's to be expected in the 24-hour news cycle the sports world is engulfed in these days, it's also the easiest way to give everyone involved an aneurysm.
For example, two of the names already being floated around are Ron Wilson and Terry Murray. If those names sound vaguely familiar, it's because both have already been the coach of the Capitals.
Murray took over the team for the 1989-90 season and was here until he was fired halfway through the '93-94 campaign. His Capitals qualified for the postseason every year he was here and had a 163-134-28 record.
Wilson coached in Washington from 1997-98 through 2001-02, made the playoffs three out of his five seasons and posted a 192-159-51-8 record.
Basically, both coaches were solid, but unspectacular. Both gentlemen put their team in a position to be competitive night in and night out, but the thought of either one of these guys signing back on for a second tour of duty does nothing for me.
Look, I was on board when the Redskins decided to turn back the clock and talked Joe Gibbs out of retirement. After all, he was responsible for the franchise's defining moments and if he wanted to patrol an NFL sideline one more time who was going to tell him no?
But Murray and Wilson aren't in the same category as Gibbs.*
*And let's not forget — even Joe Gibbs couldn't replicate the success of Joe Gibbs. While his second stint in Washington was a feel-good story for longtime 'Skins fans, the Redskins weren't any closer to bringing home another Lombardi Trophy under Gibbs 2.0.
After a while, it's natural for people to rewrite history, to a certain extent. It's like when your girlfriend drives you crazy for months and you finally end the relationship, only to gloss over everything she did to irritate you a few months later because you're bummed out about no longer being in a relationship.
Look, you broke up for a reason. Or in this case, the front office fired each one of these coaches for a reason. Why on earth would the team jump back in bed with Murray, Wilson or any other blast from the past other than "we're not really in love with any of the other names out there at the moment?"
McPhee is going to hire whoever he believes will finally be the coach to get these Capitals over the hump. Neither Murray or Wilson was able to do it the last time they were a part of the organization, so why should anyone believe things will be different this time around?
So don't be surprised if one of these guys does get the job that more than a few fans (myself included) aren't in love with the decision. The window is still open for Alex Ovechkin and the Capitals to accomplish something truly noteworthy, but it's hard to believe settling during this coaching search gets this franchise any closer to their goal of one day winning a championship.
Well to be honest… and not that im in favor of him… i seem to recall that Wilson left during the Jagr-purge when guys were leaving (i.e. demanding trades) left and right. and its not like toronto is going to be any better without him. whereas murray and LA? … well i think in six more games we are all going to see how well that worked out.
ExKiwi Krol
Here is my list of coaches that can turn a rag tag team of underperformers into winners: (* some may be deceased)
Rodney Dangerfield : Lady Bugs
Gene Hackman : Washington Sentinels
Emilio Estevez : Mighty Ducks
James Gammon : Fictional Cleveland Indians
GMGM now it is up to you…..
as long as we are dreaming can we get John Sheridan to captain the team cause he went into the ultimate road game in Z'ha'dum and won…
… and kinda died…
but he won!
and btw spoiler alert^, but then the shows been off the air for 14 years so if you havent watched it by now, its pretty much your own fault.
All can sleep now. I have solved our coaching problem. Bruce Cassidy….

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This type of an attack requires physical access to a device to either excavate the image files (potentially by leveraging a Jailbreak) or view the screenshots through the multitasking switcher (by double tapping the home button on the device).
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Q: Limiting Movement on X and Y axis I want to limit the movement along both the X and Y axis between -7.5 and 7.5. What is the simplest way to achieve this?
Here is my movement script so far:
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class PlayerPaddle : MonoBehaviour {
private float speed = 0.1f;

void Start ()
{

}

void Update ()
{
    if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.UpArrow))
        this.transform.position += Vector3.up * speed;
    if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.DownArrow))
        this.transform.position += Vector3.down * speed;
    if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftArrow))
        this.transform.position += Vector3.left * speed;
    if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.RightArrow))
        this.transform.position += Vector3.right * speed;
}
}

A: You're going to ensure that the current position PLUS the next move does not go outside your boundary.
You may want to look up some literature on collision detection. Here is an example:
Example:
if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftArrow))
{
   if((this.transform.position + (Vector3.left * speed)) > -7.5)
      this.transform.position += Vector3.left * speed;
}

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    FacebookTokenStrategy = require('passport-facebook-token');

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    passport.use(new FacebookTokenStrategy({
        clientID: config.facebook.clientID,
        clientSecret: config.facebook.clientSecret
    }, function (accessToken, refreshToken, profile, done) {

        User.findOrCreate({ facebookId: profile.id }, function (error, user) {
            return done(error, user);
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    ));
}

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Users that gave Pure Chat a favorable review stated that the program is easy to setup and navigate because of its user friendly interface. They also enjoy the way the tab switches to a email form when all the operators are all offline.
An individual who left a favorable overview of Pure Chat on G2 Crowd stated they have been able to convince customers to commit to a purchase within minutes of communication via the program. He also likes how the tool provides them with a way to answer customers' questions quickly and promote their goods without the use of phone calls.
A user who left a negative review of Chat on Capterra complained about getting timed out without notifications. He clarified that this makes it hard to maintain agents who've retail responsibilities on chat during high traffic hours — causing them to lose potential business. He also suggested adding an onscreen prompt which reminds them whenever they have been logged off.
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Pretty much all of the features you would find on the normal dashboard are all taken over to the mobile programs. You have settings for actually executing the talks, along with setting your accessibility, handling transcripts and much more. This gives you a small boost of confidence as it doesn't matter where you are when viewing who's on your website in real-time. Your customer service is constantly handled, since it works like texting from your phone.
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Jamila Woods And Chance The Rapper Counter Chicago's Narrative With 'LSD'
By Rodney Carmichael • Aug 15, 2017
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Originally published on September 20, 2017 6:38 am
Jamila Woods and Chance The Rapper have a new video to counter Chicago's image as a hotbed of guns and gang violence. The two homegrown artists challenge this one-dimensional caricature of the city with innocent scenes of children, families and loving communities.
"LSD," from Woods' newly re-released debut LP HEAVN, distills summertime into backyard barbecues and colorful, reflective moods. An equal amount of love went into the making of the video, which was directed in conjunction with students of Chicago Public Schools. An accompanying making-of-the-video documentary details how students — from the same school system that Chance the Rapper donated $1 million to earlier this year — submitted treatments and worked alongside VAM Studio filmmakers to envision a Chicago of their own telling. The resulting contrast, full of plastic-cup parties, walks by the beach, dreamy selfies and selfless neighbors - and Chance manning the grill - exemplifies what happens when marginalized communities get to shape their own story.
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'Almost Home' Celebrates The Blind Boys Of Alabama's Storied Lives
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro • Aug 13, 2017
Sometimes, all you have to hear is a few notes, and you know that a voice has been lived in; you can hear a long life of ups and downs, a rich and weathered sound.
Songhoy Blues On World Cafe
By Talia Schlanger • Aug 9, 2017
Picture what would happen if Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin met Ali Farka Touré in a garage in West Africa, and you've got an idea of what my guests today sound like. The band is Songhoy Blues. They're from Mali, and their new album is titled Résistance.
I talked with the band's lead singer, Aliou Touré. He is originally from the northern Mali city of Gao, but fled south after Islamist militants and rebels took over parts of northern Mali in 2012, causing a massive political crisis and banning music.
Taylor Swift Wins Sexual Assault Lawsuit Against Former Radio Host
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A Denver jury found fully in pop singer Taylor Swift's favor Monday, delivering a unanimous verdict in a trial over whether she was groped by a former radio host during a Denver meet-and-greet. Wanting the trial to serve as an "example to other women," the star had sought a single dollar in damages, which she was granted.


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// Copyright (c) Lucrasoft ICT Group. All rights reserved. See License.txt in the project root for license information.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Lucrasoft.uMadeEasy.Core.InputFields
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Represents the values the user inserted into an action control.
    /// </summary>
    public class ActionInputValues : Dictionary<string, object>
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a value as a string.
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Cinematography of "Spring Breakers" – interview with Benoît Debie
Continuing the ongoing series of interviews with creative artists working on various aspects of movie and TV productions, today I'm honored to welcome the cinematographer Benoît Debie. In this interview Benoît talks about the evolving craft of cinematography as the technology is shifting the productions towards the purely digital end of the spectrum, what happens on a movie during pre-production, shooting and post-production phases, his work on the recently released "Spring Breakers" and how he approached the explosive neon colors that permeate the story, and the experience of shooting in 3D for his upcoming "Every Thing Will Be Fine".
Benoît Debie.
Photography by Kris Dewitte.
Kirill: Please tell us about yourself and your path so far.
Benoît: I started when I was quite young, around 23 years old. I went to a film school in Belgium, and after graduating I did two movies as AC (assistant camera), but it wasn't really my cup of tea. I wanted to be a DP (director of photography) for feature film, but it's quite difficult to get there when you're just starting. I went to the TV world for around eight years, learning a lot about TV shows, and then little by little I went back to the film industry. I did a few short movies and commercials, and my first feature was "Irreversible" from Gaspar Noé. From that moment I've been doing only feature films.
Kirill: How do you get approached to work on a production? Is it through the connections on your previous films, or a more formal auditioning process?
Benoît: It depends. Some directors would ask me to join them for my style or my approach. In that case they would come to me for something very specific. And sometimes I have auditions, but they are not as frequent these days. More often than not I would get called to discuss a project, or I'd get a script and then we'd discuss how to start approaching it.
Kirill: What happens during the pre-production?
Benoît: It depends on the movie and the director. I did two movies with Gaspar Noé, and with him I only join the production the day before we start shooting. That's the way he likes it – for me to be a little bit unprepared. With other directors it may take 6-8 weeks to prep the movie, to see the locations, to do the storyboards and the shooting lists. It also depends on the complexity of the movie.
Top left – Passage, top right – The Runaways, bottom left – Enter The Void, bottom right – Lost River. Courtesy of Benoît Debie.
Kirill: As the shooting starts, do you also operate the camera? Is there a distinction between you as the director of photography and another person as the camera operator?
Benoît: You can certainly be a DP and not operate the camera. I always do both because I like to operate. It's really important to me, especially when we shoot on film. I can see the exact frame through the eyepiece – the reflection, the darkness, the contrast. It's important for me to see that, and I also like to operate the camera. It's part of the look of the movie. I was the camera operator on all my movies, except for some union restrictions on movies that we shoot in the United States and some cases where we need a second camera.
Kirill: What are your thoughts on the transition from shooting film to shooting digital? It used to be that only you would see the image through the camera, and it would take a few hours or maybe even a couple of days to process the dailies. And now if you connect a monitor to your digital camera, everybody who wants to see the take can see it immediately. Do you feel that you're losing some of the magic of capturing the scene on film?
Benoît: This is a big change and a big difference between film and digital. As much as I can I keep on shooting film. It's not only the quality that is much better. It's also the difference between the way you shoot in film and the way you shoot in digital. For me, when we shoot in film, everybody's focused on the action, on what have we to do – the actors, the director, the DP and everybody else. When we shoot in digital, it's completely different. Everybody's shooting for what seems like forever, with no cuts.
I think we're losing things not only in terms of image, but also in terms of intensity on the set. And it's a shame, because that's a completely different approach to filming.
Kirill: Is that related to how much you can shoot on a single film magazine, something around 10 minutes?
Benoît: If you're shooting 35mm, it's between 4 and 10 minutes. Then you stop, and you have time to speak with the director and the actors, and decide to perhaps change or adjust the take or the focus of what you're doing. And when you shoot in digital, that can be 30-40 minutes. It depends on the director, but we don't cut anymore. You shoot the same takes during those 40 minutes. The director would speak to the actors and tell them to do something different, but I think that at the end everybody's a bit lost, at least from what I can see on the set. You shoot forever but you don't know exactly what you need to do [laughs]. You don't have time anymore to adjust things – for the camera, for the sound, for the acting.
Kirill: But the time that you don't spend on changing the magazine can now be spent on shooting another take of the same scene.
Benoît: If you work that way, for sure it can help. With digital you can save some time, and sometimes it's easier to achieve certain things. I want to continue shooting feature films in film, but I've switched almost completely to digital for commercials. It's such a strange world to shoot in digital.
Kirill: Whose decision is it to choose film or digital?
Benoît: Usually when I arrive on the project, it's already been decided to shoot digital, and then I start asking why do they want to do it that way. It's a conversation between the director, myself as the director of photography and the production. If the director agrees to shoot in film, it becomes a process of explaining why we want to do it that way to the producer. Usually it's not the question of price, but rather the speed and ease of shooting in digital. You don't need a lab or a scanner for digital.
Kirill: And those facilities are slowly disappearing and going out of business.
Benoît: Yes, and I think it's going to be an issue. It's not so much about Kodak itself making film, but rather about the labs. I remember shooting a movie in Detroit and there were no more labs in the city. We had to send everything to either LA or NY, and at that point it starts being complicated and more expensive.
Kirill: You mentioned that the quality of film is still better. Do you see the digital cameras closing this gap in terms of capturing the light in a wider range of stops, or providing a variety of in-camera effects to emulate the look of different film stock?
Benoît: I wouldn't say that it's bad or not as good as film. I think it's a new generation of image. It's hard to compare because it's not the same at all in terms of color or sharpness. It's a new way to see image. You have young people watching movies on computers, phones or tablets. At this point film is starting to look old for the new generation. For myself, I can still see the difference between the quality of film and digital. And it's huge. I know that some people say it's not true, but I know exactly what's the difference between the same image in film and in digital. It's a completely another world.
Kirill: There are two parts to film – shooting and projecting. Are you taking about the two interchangeably?
Benoît: It's true that you have two things. You shoot in film, and you can project in film – although that last part is now almost finished. Most of the times when I shoot in film, all the post-production is in digital. We scan the film to digital, and the rest is in digital.
Kirill: Are you involved in post-production?
Benoît: When I shoot a feature film, I always work on the color grading afterwards. It's really important and it's a big part of my work. During the shooting you decide on the colors and the contrast, but you still want to adjust them later. With the latest technology you can change almost everything. You can change colors during the color timing from yellow to green to orange. And it's important for the DP to be there and to take care of that part.
Kirill: Do you like that power to change the image long after it was shot?
Benoît: Sometimes when I shoot, I know what I can do later. That doesn't necessarily mean that I won't do something on the set because I can do it later. But sometimes you don't have a lot of time, or you need to focus on the actors instead of on the light, and you know that you'll have time later to be alone and be focused. Sometimes I feel that it's better to do things later. Some things are just easier to change and control later.
Kirill: How does it proceed in post-production? As the director sits with the editor and sound to work towards the final cut, do you do the color grading in parallel?
Benoît: Usually when I arrive for color timing, it's closer to the end. By the time we start working on color timing and color grading, the editing has finished. You know exactly which shots you need to grade. The sound depends on the specific production, but they usually do it in parallel. I'd be working on the image, and the director would be working on the sound at the same time.
Kirill: How much do things change from the initial vision that you've discussed in the pre-production through the shooting and post-production?
Benoît: When you shoot you think in visual terms of light, contrast and color. And then as the editing is getting closer to the end, you see things getting better together. Sometimes you can change your mind about color or contrast. You might have a very sad or intense sequence, and after you see it, it may seem too bright. Then, as you see an almost-finished movie, you might decide to change the intensity of the light, or make the colors deeper. It might not be a big change, but I would sometimes change a sequence when I feel that it will make the movie better.
Kirill: How did "Spring Breakers" happen for you?
Benoît: Harmony Korine [the director] called me a year before we started shooting. In the end they didn't get the budget, and a year later he called me again saying that they have the budget and asking whether I'd be interested in joining. Harmony is a big friend of Gaspar Noé and he knew my work.
Kirill: How was it?
Benoît: It was great. It started as a small indie production. We had to move very fast and shoot in five weeks. It was not an easy one, but a very fun shoot. It was pleasant, fresh and spontaneous. For me it's one of my best memory of shooting, very different and unique. Almost a prototype.
Kirill: It was certainly very unique in its abundance of bright oversaturated, neon colors.
Benoît: I remember Harmony telling me at the beginning that he wanted the image be one of the stars of the movie. It was really important for him to have something strong and intense visually. He asked me to try flashy colors. I was excited about that because I usually don't get to use too many colors on a regular movie. I was watching different layers of colors, and decided to be quite intense with color. It was something completely different from what I usually do. For a DP it's quite fun to be able to do that on a movie.
Kirill: Did those colors interact in weird – or perhaps unexpected – ways with the skin tones of the actors?
Benoît: Sometimes yes [laughs]. You end up with yellow or grin skin. If you remember the last scene with the girls in bikinis and I told Harmony that it would be very cool to have a glowing fluorescence, almost phosphorescence. I decided to light the sequence with black light. For that it was important to have glowing colors on bikinis and masks. I did a lot of research on that. I remember that at the beginning the masks were not glowing at all. They were pink and with black light they didn't look good. We had to change the texture of the masks to work with black light. Everything was worked out very precisely, down to the smallest details.
Kirill: And stepping back to your involvement in post-production, as you're there to do the color grading on the edited cut, you don't have much surprise, if you will, going into the theater and watching the final version. You've been with those changes from beginning to the end.
Benoît: Usually I'm there until almost the end. I'm not there for the editing, which can take up to a year. But there's not much surprise for me since I'm there for color grading. And I'm always in touch with the director as we discuss different things.
Kirill: As you go into a movie theater to watch other movies, do you get to relax and enjoy a movie, or do you find yourself looking at the technical details and analyzing those?
Benoît: Usually when I go into the theater, I like to enjoy the movie and the story. I don't start to analyze each frame. But if for any reason I love something very specific, if I think that something is impressive, I can go the second time to watch and analyze it. I remember watching "Children of Men" which is a beautiful movie shot by Emmanuel Lubezki. I saw the movie and I was amazed. I went the day after to see it again, mostly watching the techniques. It was really well done. But I don't do that for every movie.
Kirill: Do you watch older European or American movies?
Benoît: Usually not so much for myself. But some directors would show me old movies as a reference when I start on a production. Sometimes they will show me a classical sequence, some stuff they like in black-and-white, just to give me some sense of what they like. But otherwise I don't have so much time.
Kirill: What are your thoughts on the resurgence of 3D productions in the last few years? It seems to be confined mostly to sci-fi / action and animated productions, with a very few exceptions such as "The Great Gatsby". Is it relevant to the kind of films you're working on?
Benoît: Actually my last feature film, "Every Thing Will Be Fine", that I did with Wim Wenders is in 3D. I was quite excited, and it was really interesting. It's a drama, and it's about the actors, the story and the script. 3D was not there to work as a huge effect and to distract everybody. It's there to help the story. We don't want it to be a distraction. We don't want it to call attention to itself. Usually when I go to see a 3D movie, it's either for kids or a big budget action movie. I don't think I ever saw a drama in 3D, and I don't know why.
Kirill: How different was it for you? Was it post-conversion, or did you shoot in 3D?
Benoît: We shot in 3D with two cameras. It was quite different for me, because you need a different approach to framing. It's another world and another language, and it was quite interesting to do. I love to play with the camera and move, and in 3D you need to be more subtle, more precise with the framing. Otherwise you'll have a headache at the end of the movie if you move too much with your camera.
Kirill: Was that something that you checked in your dailies – that you're not too deep, not too shallow, not too distracting?
Benoît: Yes. When you shoot in 3D, you have 3D monitors to see what you're doing. It's quite important to see if it's working or not. You might have something distracting in the foreground of your frame, and you'd want to frame it differently. It's important to have somebody to take care of that. Usually I frame it with one eye in 2D, so I cannot sometimes tell if it's working well in 3D.
Kirill: What happens with such a production when it goes on BluRay or DVD and is seen on the regular 2D television sets?
Benoît: This is a tricky part. When you shoot in 3D, you focus on that. And then at the end you have a big part of your audience watching it in 2D, which is a bit strange.
Kirill: Would you want to continue exploring this extra dimension in your future work?
Benoît: It was my first one, and I enjoyed it. I was really surprised. It was an unusual choice for the drama genre, and I think it's the first one of its kind for a European production. It also depends on the director and the production since it's a bit more expensive to shoot it that way. And it's also a bit longer. It won't work for every movie, but it's really interesting. During the shooting we would have a closeup on an actor, and it was quite beautiful. As the viewer, you are there with him. It's very intense. It was interesting to see it working for a drama.
Kirill: But then as you mentioned, because the equipment is much bigger, you can't just put the camera on your shoulder and run around the set.
Benoît: It's true. It's much bigger, and you have less freedom. You have to adjust the way you shoot for 3D. We're at the very beginning of it, and people are experimenting with different ways of doing it in post-production as well. If the camera manufacturers keep on doing their research, maybe they'll find a way to shoot it with one camera, something more compact. If the industry wants to go with 3D, for sure they will find something more practical.
Kirill: Are movies your life professionally and personally, or is there a hobby outside of that?
Benoît: I love my work. It's a passion because otherwise you can't do it. But I love many other things. And it's very helpful. I need to escape that world and do other things.
And here I'd like to thank Benoît Debie for graciously agreeing to answer a few questions I had about his art and craft. Stay tuned for more interviews in 2015!


Following the budget deal made in the US government earlier this month, lawmakers are preparing to approve new agency funding priorities—for the first time since President Donald Trump took office—next month. Once formal appropriations bills are passed, the US Geological Survey (USGS) will be able to move forward with plans to shutter its Biological Survey Unit (BSU), The Washington Post reports.
The BSU, which is located at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, was established in 1885 to document and study plant and animal populations in the U.S. According to The Post, the office has an annual budget of about $1.6 million and six researchers who care for a collection of around a million bird, reptile, and mammal specimens.
According to The Post, those who support the proposed budget cuts argue that these collections don't represent "cutting-edge research" and that they should receive private funds, rather than government support. "If this collection is that valuable, there are probably 20 billionaires that could endow it," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) tells The Post.
The BSU is not the only USGS program facing termination. The agency also plans to end its 50-year effort to restore endangered whooping crane populations.


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ZENITH BANK APPOINTS HENRY OROH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND DR. AL-MUJTABA ABUBAKAR INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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The Board of Directors of Zenith Bank Plc has approved the appointment of Mr. Henry Oroh as Executive Director of the bank. The appointment is consistent with the bank's tradition and succession strategy of grooming leaders from within.
Also, the Board has approved the appointment of Dr. Al-Mujtaba Abubakar, FCA, as an Independent Non-Executive Director.
Both appointments are effective September 1, 2019, and have been approved by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Henry Oroh holds a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting from the University of Benin, Edo State and an MBA from the Lagos State University as well as an LLB Degree from the University of Lagos. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and an honorary member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (CIBN), Nigeria.
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He has over two decades of banking experience. He began his banking career in 1992 at Citibank where he served for seven (7) years in Operations, Treasury and Marketing.
He joined Zenith Bank in February 1999 and has worked in various Groups and Departments within the Zenith GroupOffice. His expertise spans Operations, Information Technology, Treasury, Marketing, including the Manufacturing, Food and Beverages, Pharmaceuticals, Oil and Gas, Public Sector, Consumer, as well as Corporate Banking and Business Development.
In April 2012, he was seconded to Zenith Bank Ghana Limited as an Executive Director and became the Managing Director/ Chief Executive in February 2016, where he successfully spearheaded the phenomenal growth of the Zenith Brand both within the Ghana market and the West African sub-region.
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Henry has attended several Leadership Programmes and Executive Management Courses at the Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School, New York, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, HEC Paris, JP Morgan Chase, UK and the Lagos Business School.
He comes to the Board of Zenith Bank Plc with strong competencies in Credit & Marketing, Operations, Information Technology, Treasury and impressive Leadership skills.
Dr. Al-Mujtaba Abubakar is currently the Managing Director of Apt Pensions Funds Managers Limited.
He is a graduate of the Leeds Polytechnic, UK. He is a renowned Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria.
Dr. Abubakar has extensive and tremendous experience in the financial services industry, audit and consulting. He worked with the firm of Akintola Williams Deloitte between January 2000 and November 2008, and rose to become the Partner and Board Member of West Africa sub-region. Prior to this, he had served on the Board of several financial institutions in Nigeria.
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Sensitive New Test Detects Antibodies Against SARS-CoV-2 in Only 10 Minutes
As the COVID-19 curve shows signs of flattening in the U.S. and elsewhere, public health officials are trying to grasp just how many people have been infected. Now, a proof-of-concept study in ACS' Analytical Chemistry describes a quick, sensitive test for antibodies against the coronavirus in human blood. The test could help doctors track a person's exposure to the disease, as well as confirm suspected COVID-19 cases that tested negative by other methods.
Because COVID-19 symptoms range from mild to severe, with some people apparently having no symptoms, the number of people who have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus at some point is likely much higher than the number of confirmed cases. As U.S. states begin to ease lockdown restrictions, widespread testing of the general population will be important to identify people at early stages of disease, or people who lack symptoms but can still infect others. Also, although more research needs to be done, it is possible that people with antibodies to the virus could be immune to future COVID-19 outbreaks. To help identify people with current or past exposure to SARS-CoV-2, Lei Yu, Yingsong Wu, Guanfeng Lin and colleagues wanted to develop a fast, sensitive antibody test.
A new lateral flow immunoassay can detect antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, which appear as a bright orange line when placed on a fluorescence reader (right).
The researchers based their test on a technique called a lateral flow immunoassay (LFA); a home pregnancy test is an example of this kind of assay. They attached a viral coat protein to a specific region on a strip of nitrocellulose, and then added human serum. The serum flowed from one end of the strip to the other, and any antibodies against the viral protein bound to that region on the strip. Then, the team detected the anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies with a fluorescently labeled antibody. This fluorescence-based detection is much more sensitive than some other LFAs, such as pregnancy tests, that can be read by the naked eye. The researchers tested the new assay on seven serum samples from COVID-19 patients and 12 samples from people who had tested negative for the disease by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), a common diagnostic test that occasionally fails to detect positive cases. The new assay correctly diagnosed all seven samples as positive — as well as an additional "negative" case that had suspicious clinical symptoms — in only 10 minutes per sample. The immunoassay could be helpful in confirming negative diagnoses, monitoring a patient's recovery, studying past exposures, and identifying recovered individuals with high levels of antibodies as potential convalescent plasma donors, the researchers say.
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A possible nova (not yet to be confirmed) was discovered by Astronomer John Seach, Chatsworth Island, NSW, Australia, on March 15th and reported to the IAU. See link below.
The possible Nova is easily located within the teapot shaped asterism of Sagittarius as these pictures show.
Pictures were taken this morning at around 5 am CST from a location along 50 Highway west from where I live in Lee's Summit Missouri. These are cropped from the original which was taken with the following settings. 18 mm lens; 6-seconds; f3.5; ISO 1600.
The nova is currently at around 5th magnitude meaning that it could be seen with the naked eye in dark enough skies. I added apparent magnitudes for 4 stars near the Nova's location.
From my picture location the sky was still too bright but I was pretty sure I saw the nova using 10×50 binoculars.
Tomorrow, Thursday October 23rd, there will be a solar eclipse visible across much of North america including the continental United States. For the U.S. the eclipse starts during mid to late afternoon and is in progress at sunset. The further west the higher above the horizon will be the Sun and Moon and much if not all of the eclipse will be seen. From Kansas City Missouri the eclipse will reach a maximum of about 50% and will be setting during mid-eclipse.
Check the time of your local sunset and then use the online eclipse-time calculator from NASA to find the timing of the eclipse for your location.
Alternately use the Eclipse Calculator at the Time and Date web site. Click here to see the times for Kansas City, MO – or to enter the name of your city.
What will add to the eclipse viewing is the extremely large sunspot that should still be visible tomorrow during the time of the eclipse. I've been observing this sunspot since it appeared several days ago. And the large sunspot has been really interesting. I know that the Sun rotates but watching how much this large sunspot has moved in over the last few days is pretty cool. Today the sunspot look liked it was starting to break apart.
Viewing Mars and the Comet from the Sun.
On 3 January of last year Australian Astronomer Robert McNaught captured images of a new comet, Comet Siding Spring (C/2013 A1), with the use of a telescope at the Siding Springs Observatory in New South Wales, Australia. As this animated graphic shows the comet's path is from south of the ecliptic moving north across the ecliptic and past the planet Mars during October.
The View From the Comet.
Comet Siding Spring (C/2013 A1) comes the closest to Mars, about 82,000 miles (131,966 km), on October 19th at 18:28 UT (2:28 pm CDT).
If we could see the comet and Mars from Earth it might look like this.
Visit the special web site from NASA about the comet.
Early Tuesday (15 July) morning before the Sun rises there may be an opportunity to see the two inner planets Venus and Mercury both of which are within 7o from the open star cluster M-35. You can fit the three within the field of view of 7×50 binoculars.
To find them look toward the eastern horizon and locate the very brilliant Venus (-4.0 magnitude) about 10-15 degrees above the horizon. This is not very high above the horizon, about a fist-width held at arm's length, but Venus is unmistakable. Finding Mercury (0.04 magnitude) may be an issue depending on the time you are doing this and of course your local horizon.
So, if you have binoculars hold them as this graphic shows – with Venus at the upper right at around 2 on a clock. Mercury will be at the 6 o'clock position near the bottom of the binocular field of view. Keeping the analog clock analogy going the open star cluster M-35 (5.5 magnitude) will be at the 8 o'clock position.
Friday 4 July is not only the day we in the United States of America celebrate our country's Independence Day, it is also the day that the Earth reaches aphelion, its greatest distance from the Sun. For the record we are closest to the Sun, perihelion, around the beginning of January.
So despite the summer heat, humidity, and a late sunset there will be more in the skies this 4th than just fireworks.
At around sunset look low toward the western horizon for 3 stars arranged in a short diagonal line. No it is not Orion's Belt. The one on the lower left side is the planet Jupiter near the Gemini Twin stars.
The nearly first quarter Moon is over the southwestern horizon and is just to the west (right) from the planet Mars and the bluish-white star Spica.
Both Mars and Spica are close enough so that they fit within the field of view of 7×50 binoculars.
Look left from this pair and higher above the southern horizon for the planet Saturn, one of 4 planets in our solar system with rings.
If your viewing area is under dark enough skies, away from the light-polluted metropolitan area, then look toward the eastern horizon for the glow of the Milky Way as it rises. The teapot shape asterism for Sagittarius is above the southern horizon throughout this month and if the Milky Way is visible it looks like steam rising from the teapot's spot. This graphic shows the location of Dwarf Planet Pluto. Pluto is also at opposition. Opposition for an outer planet is an arrangement of objects like a full Moon in that at opposition an outer planet is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun.
While it is too dim to see with the unaided eye or even binoculars it is a neat idea to think about what Pluto looks like. I say this (actually write) because around this time next year NASA's New Horizon spacecraft will be flying past Pluto sending back our first truly good look at this very distant solar system object.
Tuesday evening, 1 July, look toward the western horizon at around sunset for the thin 4.75 day old waxing crescent Moon to be a few degrees from Regulus, the 'heart' of Leo the Lion. The two will be separated by 6-7o so both will easily fit within the field of view of 7×50 binoculars as the banner graphic at the top of the page shows.


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Silver Strings Academy, in Westminster Colorado, is designed to help you be the best musician you can be, no matter where you are on your musical journey. We will help you to learn your instrument, and provide you with solo and group performance opportunities when you are ready.
We have four experienced Suzuki Certified violin teachers (Karen Lauffer, Brune Macary, Priscilla Arasaki, and Danielle Lewis) so that we are able to teach students as young as three years old. Our group music classes are motivational and help enforce what is taught in private lessons. The basic premise behind the Suzuki philosophy is that all children can learn music in the same manner that they learn to speak: by listening, imitating, and repeating, in an encouraging environment. Learn more about the Suzuki method here.
Silver Strings Academy also offers lessons to advanced students and adults. Karen, Brune, and Danielle hold Masters Degrees in performance and pedagogy, so are very well qualified to teach even the most advanced level students.
A great number of our students participate in audition-only youth orchestras such as the Front Range Youth Orchestra in Arvada or the Colorado Youth Symphony in Englewood. Many students perform with Jefferson County's All County Orchestra, and even the Colorado All-State Orchestra. Some have gone on to major or minor in music in college. Others compete in fiddling competitions, or play in folk music sessions. Whatever your musical goals are, we will help you meet them!
We are excited to add Kirk Redman, guitar and ukulele teacher, to the list of exceptional private instructors. Kirk is both a dedicated, creative teacher and talented performer. Prior to moving to Denver to work on his Masters degree, he was voted best music instructor in Cincinnati where he also completed his Bachelor's degree at the College-Conservatory of Music at Cincinnati.
The studio puts on two solo recitals per year, as well as one large group holiday concert in conjunction with a harp studio.
Front Range Youth Symphony at the Arvada Center. 13 of these students are students at Silver Strings Academy! Oct, 2015.
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Iranian People Protest Over Regime Corruption
London, 24 Oct - The Iranian people are yet again rising up against the corrupt Regime and gathered in front of the country's parliament to protest the plundering of their country's wealth and the crooked policies of the Regime.
The Regime's main opposition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), released a report and video showing over 2,000 people protesting outside the parliament in Tehran.
They shouted slogans like "Shame, shame on the police force", "Death to the dictator", and "Death to the demagogue", whilst being accosted by the police force.
When the police began to arrest female protesters, the crowd responded with more anti-Regime chants, like "You are ISIS, you are ISIS, death to ISIS, let them go", "Shame on [Iranian President Hassan] Rouhani", "[head of the judiciary, Mohammad Sadeq Amoli] Larijani is a judge. He is the playmate of the thieves," and "They had a budget deficit, so they took our money".
As the police surrounded the protesters and moved in to arrest them, the protesters- joined by bystanders- began to throw rocks, wood, and other objects at the police.
The protesters shouted: "I will kill, I will kill the one who killed my brother."
Then a motorised unit was deployed, only to also be pelted with rocks.
Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the NCRI, said in a statement: "The courageous chants in today's demonstrations targeting the heads of the Judiciary and Executive Branch, as well as the suppressive State Security Force and intelligence forces, reflect the Iranian people's desire for the overthrow of the mullahs' religious dictatorship."
She called on young Iranians to support their fellow citizens in fighting for their rights and expanding the protests.
Rajavi said: "Institutionalized fraud along with institutionalized murder and belligerence constitute the pillars of the mullahs' decadent regime. Ali Khamenei and his office hold the strings controlling all the depraved crimes taking place in the country. As long as this regime is in power, there will be no end to the astronomical embezzlement, poverty, unemployment and catastrophic economic conditions."
These type of protests started in 2016 over a financial scandal where thousands of people lost their life savings after entrusting it to government institutions.
Many of the investments were run by or tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which controls much of the Iranian economy.
The protests have, however, become increasingly political in the past year.
It is believed that Donald Trump's speech last week, in which he decertified the nuclear deal, has emboldened the Iranian people who see new US policy as support for the people's popular resistance.
The IRGC has recently had more sanctions levied against it by the Department of Treasury for its sponsorship of terrorism.


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Phnom Penh Post - Authorities call for increased surveillance of unions, NGOs
Authorities call for increased surveillance of unions, NGOs
Mech Dara | Publication date 29 March 2018 | 06:17 ICT
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Phnom Penh Municipal Police Chief Chuon Sovann on Wednesday ordered authorities in Phnom Penh to tighten their grip on a broad cross-section of groups, including civil society organisations and communities with "opposition tendencies", that attempt to cause "social instability" and "political turmoil".
Civil society organisations and former members of the opposition have already reported increased scrutiny and interference from authorities since last year's roundly criticised forced dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, the nation's largest opposition party by far.
But Sovann yesterday called for even greater participation from all authorities to "prevent gatherings and other protests related to strikes, human rights, land disputes [and] respect for the Labour Law".
"The effectiveness for solutions remains slow," he said, adding that "huge" demonstrations could still take place.
Sovann said authorities would find out about the demonstrations after the fact, when they should be getting that information before those events even take place.
"Strengthen all the expert measures in [the] management and control of the information of civil society organisations, unions and communities having opposition tendencies both inside the country and outside the country attempting to cause social instability and … political turmoil," he ordered authorities. "Do not let this happen in Phnom Penh."
The ruling Cambodian People's Party in January adopted a five-year political program that called for heightened internal surveillance and crackdowns on any opposition "force".
Authorities must continue to monitor information from "unfriendly groups", such as NGOs and unions, regarding "tricks to incite and divide national solidarity", according to a recent security report referenced by Sovann.
Licadho human rights monitor Am Sam Ath said these actions by the government are restricting rallies and demonstrations as well as the right for people to express their views as guaranteed under Cambodia's Constitution.
He said the measures will make civil society organisations feel "scared" and "threatened", when they should be working as a partner with the government to continue to develop the country.
Him Yun, with the Coalition for Integrity and Social Accountability, said NGOs "are not working against [the] government".
"Cambodian society needs all stakeholders contributing efforts in development," he said.
Additional reporting by Yesenia Amaro
Contact author: Mech Dara
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Q: Divergence theorem how do you calculate the volume integral, flow? Hello I really need a thorough answer to one task which is the following one:
Consider the vector field
$$F(x, y, z) = (xy^2
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Area $$V = \left\{(x, y, z): \sqrt{x^2+y^2} < 5 \text{ and } 0 < z < 4\right\} $$
Now calculate the volume integral ,and calculate:

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*The flow through the surface of the cylinder,

*The flow through the cover of the cylinder (the area at $z = 4$),

*The flow through the bottom of the cylinder (the area at $z = 0$)

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I'd be very thankful if you could solve this.

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Shuaa reports Dh31.6m loss in second quarter
Investment bank's profit dented by higher merger costs and impairments on legacy investments
Shuaa Capital on Tuesday announced several new top-management appointments. Jaime Puebla / The National
Dubai investment bank Shuaa Capital swung to a loss in the second quarter before its recent reverse takeover by Abu Dhabi Financial Group.
The company's loss attributable to shareholders reached Dh31.6 million in the three months to June 30, compared with a profit of Dh14.6m in the same period last year, despite revenue increasing by 54 per cent to Dh47.5m.
Shuaa-ADFG merger to create entity with $12.8bn assets under management
Shuaa Capital nears merger with Abu Dhabi's ADFG
Shuaa swings to Q1 loss on Abraaj exposure
Shuaa Capital's bottom line was dented by higher general and administrative expenses which were up 46 per cent, increased finance costs up 120 per cent and by a Dh10m provision against impairments. For the six-month period, the company declared a loss of Dh56.5m, compared to a profit of Dh26.3m in the same period last year despite revenue increasing by 61 per cent to Dh102.9m. Provisions for impairments for the half-year period stood at Dh18.3m.
"Shuaa's final set of quarterly earnings reflect the completion of expenses and provisions relating to the merger as well as legacy investments," said the company's chief executive, Fawad Tariq-Khan.
"More importantly, our operating lines continue to grow in revenue and these will continue to serve as crucial elements for the new and enlarged entity well into the future. Following completion of the merger, the various teams at Shuaa and ADFG are now investing considerable joint efforts building a solid long-term road map for this newly created regional financial powerhouse," he said.
The reverse takeover of Shuaa by Abu Dhabi Financial Group was approved by Shuaa shareholders last month. The deal creates a group with $12.8 billion of assets under management, of which $11.5bn is being brought by ADFG. Shareholders of ADFG will receive 58 per cent of the shares in the combined entity, with existing Shuaa shareholders taking the remaining 42 per cent. The new entity will have 380 staff and operate in seven countries, serving 12,500 customers.
Shuaa is also convening a shareholders' meeting to amend the company's articles of association, increase the number of board members to seven from five, approve a name change of the combined entity to ADFG and to approve the appointment of Masood Mahmood to its board. Mr Mahmood is currently chief executive of Abu Dhabi satellite company Yahsat.
In a separate announcement, the company said it had successfully arranged a $135m sukuk for Dubai developer The First Group on the London Stock Exchange.
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Who's Who in SGA: Oscar Sanchez - Vice President
Written by THE OUTLOOK
Oscar Sanchez, a junior, is majoring in Communications with a specialization in Public Relations and Journalism. His minors are Business Administration and Information Technology.
After college, Sanchez hopes to receive his Masters degree in Communication either at San Diego State, New York University, Boston University, or the University of Miami. Ultimately, he wants to work for a Public Relations firm, specializing in event planning.
Sanchez joined the Student Government Association after writing on SGA's Facebook account the summer before his first semester at Monmouth and asked how he could get involved immediately. Sanchez was passionate and involved in his high school's Student Council.
After meeting some of the SGA members during freshman orientation, he submitted his application through the fresh-start program. On interview day, Sanchez remembers being the first one called in to be questioned and knew he wanted to be involved in the organization for the rest of his college career.
SGA has allowed Sanchez to meet people who he would not have otherwise and to interact with departments on campus that he said he would not have known as an average Joe student. Sanchez said, "I've been able to plan events and watch them come to life. Last year I planned Springfest, and I was so glad that everyone had a great time. Giving back to the students and having that sense of accomplishment is an amazing feeling. I hope to continue to do that as Vice President this year."
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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, prices for financial services were 111% higher in 2019 versus 1995 (a $555.02 difference in value).
Between 1995 and 2019: Financial services experienced an average inflation rate of 3.16% per year. This rate of change indicates significant inflation. In other words, financial services costing $500 in the year 1995 would cost $1,055.02 in 2019 for an equivalent purchase. Compared to the overall inflation rate of 2.13% during this same period, inflation for financial services was higher.
In the year 1995: Pricing changed by 6.39%, which is significantly above the average yearly change for financial services during the 1995-2019 time period. Compared to inflation for all items in 1995 (2.81%), inflation for financial services was much higher.
Therefore, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, $500 in 1995 has the same "purchasing power" as $1,055.02 in 2019 (in the CPI category of Financial services).


Growing uncertainty over the outlook for global growth has weighed on commodity prices and miners during recent months. Much of this has been triggered by fears of a trade war between the world's two largest economies, the U.S. and China. As base metal prices have softened, so too has the price of Canada's fifth largest miner Teck Resources Ltd. (TSX:TECK.B)(NYSE:TECK), which is down by 15% for the year to date.
While the outlook for the world economy going into 2019 remains soft, the latest news indicates that global growth may not weaken as much as expected.
Fears of a U.S. China trade war combined with a budding crisis in emerging markets and weaker than expected growth in Europe led the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to conclude that the global economy will slow in 2019, sparking concerns that the demand for commodities such as oil and base metals will deteriorate which is weighing heavily on their prices.
Nonetheless, news that Trump and China's President Xi have essentially declared a truce in the trade war that has been developing between their two nations has helped to assuage concerns about slower global growth, causing base metals to firm and leading to speculation that world gross domestic product (GDP) will expand at a greater rate than currently anticipated.
Stronger economic growth will trigger greater demand for base metals used in a variety of construction and industrial applications such as steel, copper, lead and zinc. This will certainly be a boon for Teck and help to buoy not only its financial results, but also its stock price, meaning that the latest pullback has created an opportunity for contrarian investors seeking to boost their exposure to metals.
The decline in base metal prices caused by weaker demand and the increasing negative sentiment surrounding the global economic outlook was reflected in Teck's third quarter 2018 results. While revenue remained flat compared to the equivalent period in 2017, adjusted profit plunged by a whopping 23% to $466 million because of sharply weaker copper and zinc prices, which on average were down by 4% and 14%, respectively for the period.
This was offset by firmer coking coal, which averaged $172 per ton sold, which was 10% higher than a year earlier. Those stronger prices saw Teck's coking coal business report gross profit of $634 million, which was 1.5% greater compared to the same quarter in 2017.
The wider differential between Canadian heavy crude known as Western Canadian Select (WCS) and the North American benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) also impacted Teck's third-quarter results. This was because of Teck's 21% interest in the Fort Hills oil sands project, which commenced production earlier this year.
That operation nonetheless helped to boost earnings compared to a year earlier, and was the reason that revenue remained flat rather than declining because of softer metals prices.
Not only is the cooling of the escalating trade conflict between China and the U.S. poised to lift earnings but the recent narrowing of the differential between WCS and WTI triggered by the government of Alberta's introduction of mandatory production cuts will also boost earnings. After those plans were announced, the price of WCS more than doubled from its November 2018 low to over US$30 per barrel.
If the threat of a trade war between China and the U.S. diminishes, global economic growth won't decline as sharply as predicted over the coming 12 months, which should trigger greater demand for steel, copper and zinc causing their prices and those of iron ore and steel-making coal to firm.
If the price of crude and especially WCS rises further, then this in conjunction with firmer base metal prices will give Teck's earnings a healthy lift, thereby boosting the miner's market value. While investors wait for that to occur, they will be rewarded by Teck's regular sustainable dividend yielding just over 2%.