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Q: How to overload function for different iterator value_types in C++ I want to implement a template function in C++ 11 which takes a pair of iterators. The implementation should do some special processing if a pair of iterators is passed whose value type is an std::pair of arbitrary types. I tried to come up with the following definitions:
// arbitrary value types
template<typename Iter>
void process(Iter begin, Iter end) {
    for (Iter iter = begin; iter != end; ++iter) {
        std::cout << *iter << "\n";
    }
}

// std::pair value types
template<typename Iter, typename First, typename Second,
    typename std::enable_if<
        std::is_same<
            typename std::iterator_traits<Iter>::value_type, std::pair<First,Second>
            >::value
        >::type* = 0>
void process(Iter begin, Iter end) {
    for (Iter iter = begin; iter != end; ++iter) {
        std::cout << (*iter).first << " " << (*iter).second << "\n";
    }
}

Using the following example code:
std::vector<int> int_vec{{1,2,3,4}};
process(int_vec.begin(), int_vec.end());

correctly calls the first definition of the function process. However
std::vector<std::pair<int,std::string>> pair_vec{
    {std::make_pair(1, "First"), std::make_pair(2, "Second")}};
process(pair_vec.begin(), pair_vec.end());

also calls the first definition and results in the error message (using Clang):
error: invalid operands to binary expression ('ostream' (aka 'basic_ostream<char>') and 'std::__1::pair<int, std::__1::basic_string<char> >')

Why doesn't the compiler pick up the second definition in that case? How do I need to change the overloaded function?

A: In your attempt to use enable_if, you're introducing two template parameters that are non-deduced contexts. There's no way for the compiler to determine what First and Second are, so that overload is always removed from the overload set. It's never considered.
I'd suggest sidestepping SFINAE entirely. If what you're doing simply involves performing some actual for every element the range, just use function overloads:
template <class T>
void process_impl(T const& elem) {
    // generic case
    std::cout << elem << '\n';
}

template <class T, class U>
void process_impl(std::pair<T, U> const& elem) {
    // overload for pair
    std::cout << elem.first << ' ' << elem.second << '\n';
}

template <class Iter>
void process(Iter first, Iter last) {
    // if C++14
    std::for_each(first, last, [](auto&& elem){ process_impl(elem); });

    // if C++11
    using E = typename std::iterator_traits<Iter>::reference;
    std::for_each(first, last, [](E elem) { process_impl(elem); });
}

A: The problem is the template arguments First and Second can't be deduced from Iter, which is the only argument subject to template argument deduction, at the point at which you require them in the function signature.
You can, however, use Iter to deduce First and Second using a helper class (in the below example IsPair), and use template specialization there to select between two options.
Example:
template<typename T>
struct IsPair
{
    static const bool value = false;
};

template<typename First, typename Second>
struct IsPair<std::pair<First, Second>>
{
    static const bool value = true;
};

// arbitrary value types
template<typename Iter>
void process(Iter begin, Iter end,
             typename std::enable_if<
                !IsPair<typename std::iterator_traits<Iter>::value_type>::value
             >::type* = 0)
{
    for (Iter iter = begin; iter != end; ++iter)
    {
        std::cout << *iter << "\n";
    }
}

// std::pair value types
template<typename Iter>
void process(Iter begin, Iter end,
             typename std::enable_if<
                 IsPair<typename std::iterator_traits<Iter>::value_type>::value
             >::type* = 0)
{
    for (Iter iter = begin; iter != end; ++iter)
    {
        std::cout << (*iter).first << " " << (*iter).second << "\n";
    }
}

Working example on coliru

A: Why not to use tag dispatching e.g.:
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <utility>

template <class> struct tag { };

template <class Iter, class T>
void process_impl(Iter begin, Iter end, tag<T>) {
   for (Iter iter = begin; iter != end; ++iter) {
       std::cout << *iter << "\n";
   }
}

template <class Iter, class First, class Second>
void process_impl(Iter begin, Iter end, tag<std::pair<First, Second>>) {
   for (Iter iter = begin; iter != end; ++iter) {
       std::cout << (*iter).first << " " << (*iter).second << "\n";
   }
}

template <class Iter>
void process(Iter begin, Iter end) {
   process_impl(begin, end, tag<typename Iter::value_type>{});
}

int main() {
   std::vector<int> int_vec{{1,2,3,4}};
   process(int_vec.begin(), int_vec.end());
   std::vector<std::pair<int,std::string>> pair_vec{{std::make_pair(1, "First"), std::make_pair(2, "Second")}};
   process(pair_vec.begin(), pair_vec.end());
}

A: The second specialization is never called because the compiler is never able to deduce the First and Second template type arguments. What you need instead is a trait that checks wether a given type is a specialization of std::pair. Here is what you could do:
template <template <typename ...> class Ref, typename T>
struct is_template_specialization : std::false_type {};

template <template <typename ...> class Ref, typename ... Args>
struct is_template_specialization<Ref, Ref<Args...>> : std::true_type {};

template <typename T>
using is_pair = is_template_specialization<std::pair, T>;

Now with such a trait, your SFINAE condition becomes:
// std::pair value types
template<typename Iter,
    typename std::enable_if<
        is_pair<typename std::iterator_traits<Iter>::value_type
            >::value
        >::type* = 0>
void process(Iter begin, Iter end) {
    for (Iter iter = begin; iter != end; ++iter) {
        std::cout << (*iter).first << " " << (*iter).second << "\n";
    }
}

A problem arises: when it is indeed a pair that you use. You have two available overloads... The call becomes ambiguous, so you need to add a SFINAE condition on the common implementation:
// arbitrary value types
template<typename Iter,
    typename std::enable_if<
        ! is_pair<typename std::iterator_traits<Iter>::value_type>::value
    >::type* = nullptr>
void process(Iter begin, Iter end) {
    for (Iter iter = begin; iter != end; ++iter) {
        std::cout << *iter << "\n";
    }
}

This will ensure that only one implementation is available for a given call as demonstrated on this live demo


In this post, I will share my experience with developing a custom CPI for Cloud Foundry using the standard CPI mechanism. Read on to learn about the issues I have encountered and get some tips on how to address them.
1. How to teach Cloud Foundry to work with a new IaaS?
Although Cloud Foundry itself can be deployed on almost any cloud platform (with custom tools), BOSH—the official tool for installing this PaaS—has a limited range of supported solutions. It interacts with different IaaS platforms through BOSH Cloud Provider Interface (CPI), which is a set of common methods that allow for working with a specific cloud. These methods help to create and remove images, start and stop VMs, set up networks, and perform other cloud management tasks. So, since BOSH did not support GCE out of the box, we were to improve BOSH and create a CPI for this infrastructure.
Since BOSH did not have a CPI for GCE, it had to be created from scratch. To do that, we used fog, a Ruby-based tool that makes it possible to work with a cloud API. This Ruby Gem provides a simple DSL that allows for working with a variety of cloud providers. Fog is used to map XML/JSON responses from an IaaS provider into objects. That is one of the reasons why it is used inside BOSH, for instance, in OpenStack CPI, the BOSH Registry, and Director components. So, I decided that fog would be a good choice for creating a GCE CPI.
In addition to these improvements, we patched fog inside our repository. This enabled us to provide support for GCE API v1 and the required version of fog inside BOSH.
Incompatibility of product versions was not the only issue we were to deal with. Almost all requests to the GCE API are asynchronous and return operation objects (there are three types of objects: GlobalOperation, RegionalOperation, and ZoneOperation). This allows for building asynchronous functions. However, at that moment, fog did not support asynchronous operations, which was discussed in fog PR #2501. This issue has been partially fixed now, but it still remains relevant for functions that create sources.
Another issue was caused by the way the fog library maps responses from IaaS providers. It converts responses into fields of an object. The process is actually simple and straightforward. However, the format of fields fetched from GCE does not always coincide with the required format for managing resources. For instance, when you fetch disk information, zone details are represented as a zone name, while you need it to be displayed as an URL to perform any actions on this disk.
To eliminate the drawbacks described above, we pulled a change request (#2501), but these updates have not been accepted yet.
The built-in components of BOSH use fog v 1.14.0 (the current stable version is 1.22.1), which is still a problem for many developers. To update the version of fog and add the required functionality, we decided to create an extension to fog v 1.14 using a monkey patch.
Since BOSH was initially designed to work with AWS and Openstack, it reflects architectures of these two cloud platforms. In particular, it uses three types of disks: system, ephemeral, and persistent. This approach to data storage had been used since the first BOSH releases to reduce the cost of deployment. However, this variety of disks causes some issues. For example, when an instance is terminated and then started again, an ephemeral disk will be re-created from scratch and BOSH will not find the necessary disks. This bug has been fixed in the latest version of BOSH. If an instance flavour does not have an ephemeral disk, all data is dumped to the persistent storage. However, the error is still relevant for AWS deployments.
So, we have created a CPI and updated fog, but it was not the end of the story. Now, we had to add the new CPI to BOSH. To do this, you need to make adjustments inside the BOSH components, for instance, the BOSH Agent, the release creator, components used for building stemcells, and in other parts of the solution. You will also have to change MicroBOSH defaults and managers. Many of these components use a simple "when..case" syntax for choosing CPI. Since even an easy factory method pattern would fit this case better, this makes it challenging to provide support for new cloud platforms in BOSH. Work on fixing these drawbacks is underway, read more about adding external CPIs on Pivotal Tracker and here. Fortunately, an experimental CPI that uses an external CPI was released recently.
Although, a lot has been done to simplify adding new CPIs, BOSH supports only several architectures, such as OpenStack, AWS, vSphere, vCloud, and Warden. You may still find it difficult to add other platforms that are based on different architectural principles. But given the active community supporting the project, it should become possible and easy in the future.
To work with a certain cloud platform, BOSH requires a stemcell (image) created specifically for it. One of the requirements for this stemcell and the GCE archive containing it is that they should be created with the sparse option. It means that files with "holes" (areas that have never been written to) should be interpreted as zeros and stored in an archive. For instance, an AWS image of 1.2 GB will occupy 10 GB if it is not archived. Compared to the standard procedure for creating an Amazon Machine Image, this method takes more time.
Tools for building stemcells require special skills and knowledge about images in the IaaS you have selected. You may need to log into your AWS account to use it with Vagrant (true for default settings). At the same time, there are some nice and modern solutions, such as Packer, that automate creation of machine images (currently used inside BOSH Lite). Normally, it takes several hours to build a stemcell.
MicroBOSH has its own stemcell with a compiled blob store that has everything you need to run BOSH inside a particular virtual machine. Because of that, you need to re-build the MicroBOSH stemcell every time you make changes to BOSH release components. It can take quite some time, if you want to modify a BOSH release and test these changes by deploying it with MicroBOSH. This complicates and adds time to the process of stemcell debugging and CPI development.
When we had reached this point, Pivotal released its Google Compute Engine CF-BOSH CPI. It uses the updated Fog v 1.22.0 that eliminates most of the issues we had to overcome at the beginning of this project. So, we were moving in the same direction and our commits to Fog helped Pivotal to deliver their update faster. In addition, we detected some issues that can be fixed and improved in the upcoming Cloud Foundry releases. We will keep on contributing to Fog and other open-source solutions around Cloud Foundry.
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Elementary Teacher Preparation: North Dakota
The state should ensure that its teacher preparation programs provide elementary teachers with a broad liberal arts education, the necessary foundation for teaching to the Common Core Standards.
National Council on Teacher Quality. (2011). Elementary Teacher Preparation: North Dakota results. State Teacher Policy Database. [Data set].
Retrieved from: https://www.nctq.org/yearbook/state/ND-Elementary-Teacher-Preparation-6
Analysis of North Dakota's policies
Although North Dakota has adopted the Common Core Standards, the state does not ensure that its elementary teacher candidates are adequately prepared to teach a broad range of elementary content.
North Dakota requires candidates to pass the Praxis II test "Elementary Education: Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment," which, unfortunately, not only combines content with a pedagogy assessment but also does not report teacher performance in each subject area, meaning that it is possible to pass the test and still fail some subject areas, especially given the state's low passing score. Further, based on available information on the Praxis II, there is no reason to expect that the current version would be well aligned with the Common Core Standards.
In addition, all teacher candidates in North Dakota must complete a general studies component that includes "liberal arts preparation" in areas that include the humanities, fine arts, natural sciences, behavioral sciences and symbolic systems. Although these are reasonable general requirements, the state's language is not specific enough to ensure that these courses will be relevant to the topics covered in the PK-6 classrooms.
North Dakota does not specify additional subject-matter coursework requirements for elementary teacher candidates. Although elementary teachers must earn an elementary education major in order to attain licensure, the state only appears to require methodology courses in subject areas. Therefore, coursework is most likely taught by education faculty, not arts and science faculty, and may fail to provide strong foundational knowledge in these subject areas.
Finally, North Dakota articulates teacher standards in a broad range of topics relevant to PK-6 teaching, including reading and language; physical, life, earth and space science; dance, music and theater; and history, geography and social science. However, there are no standards for a number of equally important subject areas, including basic chemistry; American and world history; American, world and children's literature; writing, grammar and composition; and art history.
North Dakota Administrative Code 67.1-02-02-02 Program Approval Standards ND 50015 http://www.nd.gov/espb/progapproval/standards.html Praxis II www.ets.org
Recommendations for North Dakota
North Dakota should ensure that its subject-matter test for elementary teacher candidates is well aligned with the Common Core Standards, which represent an effort to significantly raise the standards for the knowledge and skills American students will need for college readiness and global competitiveness.
The state should also require separate passing scores for each content area on the test because without them it is impossible to measure knowledge of individual subjects. Further, to be meaningful, North Dakota should ensure that these passing scores reflect high levels of performance.
Provide broad liberal arts coursework relevant to the elementary classroom.
North Dakota should either articulate a more specific set of standards or establish more comprehensive coursework requirements that are specifically geared to the areas of knowledge needed by PK-6 teachers. Further, the state should align its requirements for elementary teacher candidates with the Common Core Standards to ensure that candidates will complete coursework relevant to the common topics in elementary grades. An adequate curriculum is likely to require approximately 36 credit hours in the core subject areas of English, science, social studies and fine arts.
Require at least an academic concentration.
An academic concentration, if not a full academic major, would not only enhance North Dakota teachers' content knowledge, but it would also ensure that prospective teachers have taken higher-level academic coursework. Further, it would provide an option for teacher candidates unable to fulfill student teaching or other professional requirements to still earn a degree.
Ensure that arts and sciences faculty teach liberal arts coursework.
Although an education professor is best suited to teach effective methodologies in subject instruction, faculty from the university's college of arts and sciences should provide subject-matter foundation.
North Dakota disagreed with this analysis but did not offer any further information.
Admission into Preparation Programs
Secondary Teacher Preparation in Social Studies
Part Time Teaching Licenses
Licensure Loopholes
Unsatisfactory Evaluations
Numerous research studies have established the strong relationship between teachers' vocabulary (a proxy for being broadly educated) and student achievement. For example: A.J. Wayne and P. Youngs, "Teacher characteristics and student achievement gains: A review," Review of Educational Research 3, No. 1 (2003): 89-122. See also G.J. Whitehurst, "Scientifically based research on teacher quality: Research on teacher preparation and professional development," presented at the 2002 White House Conference on Preparing Teachers; R. Ehrenberg and D. Brewer, "Did Teachers' Verbal Ability and Race Matter in the 1950s? Coleman Revisited," Economics of Education Review 14 (1995), 1-21.
Research also connects individual content knowledge with increased reading comprehension, making the capacity of the teacher to infuse all instruction with content of particular importance for student achievement. See Willingham, D. T., "How knowledge helps: It speeds and strengthens comprehension, learning—and thinking," American Educator 30(1), (2006).
For the importance of teachers' general academic ability, see R. Ferguson, "Paying for Public Education: New Evidence on How and Why Money Matters," Harvard Journal on Legislation 28 (1991), 465-498; R. Greenwald, L. Hedges, and R. Laine, "Does Money Matter? A Meta-Analysis of Studies of the Effects of Differential School Inputs on Students' Outcomes," Educational Researcher 23, no. 3 (1994), 5-14; E. Hanushek, "Teacher Characteristics and Gains in Student Achievement: Estimation Using Micro-Data," American Economic Review 61, no. 2 (1971), 280-288; E. Hanushek, "A More Complete Picture of School Resource Policies," Review of Educational Research 66 (1996), 397-409; H. Levin, Concepts of Economic Efficiency and Educational Production," in Education as an Industry, ed. J. Froomkin, D. Jamison, and R. Radner (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1976); D. Monk and J.R. King, "Subject Area Preparation of Secondary Mathematics and Science Teachers and Student Achievement," Economics of Education Review 12, no. 2 (1994), 125-145; R. Murnane, "Understanding the Sources of Teaching Competence: Choices, Skills, and the Limits of Training," Teachers College Record 84, no. 3 (1983) R. Murnane and B. Phillips, Effective Teachers of Inner City Children: Who They Are and What Are They? (Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research, 1978); R. Murnane and B. Phillips, "What Do Effective Teachers of Inner City Children Have in Common?" Social Science Research 10 (1981), 83-100; M. McLaughlin and D. Marsh, "Staff Development and School Change," Teachers College Record 80, no. 1 (1978), 69-94; R. Strauss and E. Sawyer, "Some New Evidence on Teacher and Student Competencies," Economics of Education Review 5 (1986), 41; A. A. Summers and B.L. Wolfe, "Which School Resources Help Learning? Efficiency and Equity in Philadelphia Public Schools," Business Review (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, February 1975).
Sandra Stotsky has documented the fact that teacher candidates often make inappropriate or irrelevant coursework choices that nonetheless satisfy state requirements. See S. Stotsky, "Can a State Department of Education Increase Teacher Quality? Lessons Learned in Massachusetts," in Brookings Papers on Education Policy, ed. Diane Ravitch (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2004).

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Brexit and borders: why Europe badly needs Euro 2016
Football fans can be tedious at the best of times, but we're rarely as sanctimonious as when discussing the social, cultural and political importance of our game.
You thought that 22-year-old's inability to clear the first man with a corner kick was down to poor training? I'm sure we can find somebody to tell you it's symbolic of the colonisation his ancestors faced. Somebody, somewhere, is writing a blog about how the Syrian conflict could be ended through a robust game of three-and-in.
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All that notwithstanding, it really does feel that Europe badly needs Euro 2016. Not since the RAF was the main airliner in German skies has the continent been quite so dysfunctional.
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This weekend sees the resumption of one of Ireland's most curious seasonal events. Across the country people will gather at various locations to scream and shout at institutions whose foundations pre-date the State.
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On behalf of Scott Brown of Scott C. Brown Law Office posted in Drug Charges on Sunday, October 6, 2019.
Residents in the state of West Virginia and in neighboring states like Ohio may often hear or read news reports about criminal investigations that spanned multiple states. There can be times when a variety of law enforcement entities choose to collaborate and focus on what they allege to be criminal behavior that may occur in more than one state. Recently, there was a relatively large investigation like that that has now resulted in many individuals being arrested.
As reported by WVNews.com, the investigation was conducted across parts of the state of Ohio and in West Virginia, mostly focusing on the southwest portion of that state. The counties of Cabell, Putnam and Kanawha were apparently heavily involved in the case. Authorities believed that a series of people were distributing heroin and methamphetamine.
WOWK.com added that more details about the case and the number of people accused of being involved had been released after the initial reports were made. At least 23 defendants are said to be facing a variety of charges involving not only the illegal substances but also weapons. Some of the defendants are reported to be physicians, but it is not known what their alleged involvement in the case is.
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Examining biggest burning questions for Nationals' top lower-level prospects
Biggest burning questions for Nats' top lower-level prospects originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington
It's been a long time since the Nationals' farm system has been as big of a focal point as it is right now, but that's the position the organization finds itself after trading star players away for prospect capital the last two trade deadlines.
While the major-league product has been dreadful in 2022, the Nationals have accumulated more high-end talent in the minors than they've had in at least the last six years. Baseball America ranked five Nationals prospects in its midseason Top 100 update, the first time Washington had that many players in its rankings since 2016.
For all the potential these prospects have, there are still question marks about their profiles that will determine whether they can turn into productive MLB players. Nationals' Director of Player Development De Jon Watson chatted with NBC Sports Washington about the biggest burning questions surrounding some of their top prospects.
In the second of a three-part series, here are updates on the Nationals' big names at Single-A Fredericksburg and High-A Wilmington.
Robert Hassell III: What convinced the Nationals he would be an impact talent in MLB?
While MacKenzie Gore and C.J. Abrams were the headliners of the Juan Soto/Josh Beal trade, Hassell has just as much potential to be a star in Washington.
"The way he manages the strike zone, he uses all fields to hit, he has good strength," Watson said. "He still hasn't filled out his body, he's only 20 years old. So we know he's going to get stronger and the way his…direction and line to the baseball, they're all really good, and his hand acceleration through the zone."
Bottom line: Hassell can hit. The San Diego Padres lured him away from a Vanderbilt commitment when they drafted him eighth overall in 2020. He tore it up in Single-A during his first professional season to earn a promotion to High-A, where he came out of the gate this year hitting .299 with a .846 OPS in 75 games before the trade.
Hassell joined the Nationals' organization with a strong track record of plate discipline. His strikeout rate has hovered right around league average while he walks enough to profile as a potential 1-2 hitter who brings some speed to the basepaths. Watson has already been out to see him at Wilmington and it's that approach that he's going to be monitoring moving forward.
"Now it's about, for me, getting to see how well he manages the strike zone, how he's being attacked and the adjustments that he makes throughout the course of a game, throughout the course of a season," Watson said.
Further reading: Biggest burning questions for Nats' upper-level prospects Gore, Abrams, Cavalli, Henry
James Wood: Can a player of his size manage the strike zone enough to remain effective?
Listed at 6-foot-7, 240 pounds, Wood is a big dude. If he were in the majors right now, he would be tied with Aaron Judge and Oneil Cruz as the tallest players in the league. It's tantalizing to watch his tape and imagine the kind of power he could bring to the Nationals' lineup.
However, there's a reason there are so few players of that stature. Taller hitters have the disadvantage of working with a bigger strike zone and it's a weakness that MLB-caliber pitchers exploit. It's a hurdle Judge (MLB's 2017 strikeout leader) had to overcome early in his career and one Cruz (36% strikeout rate as a rookie) is still attempting to figure out now.
Yet in 50 games at Single-A this year, Wood struck out (42) nearly as often as he walked (37).
"Apparently, he wasn't struggling too much with that California League," Watson said. "So I think he was managing the zone well, hitting the baseball to all parts of the ballpark and showing power to all parts of the ballpark. It's really about approach and understanding what he handles well and what he's hunting."
That plate discipline will be tested as he advances through the minors, but it's certainly an encouraging sign that gives the Nationals hope Wood can be as complete a player as he is exciting. Wood is also stealing bases at a strong clip and he's sticking in center field for now, though the team's sudden depth at the position may eventually force him to a corner.
"It's electric.," Watson said. "For a guy his size, to run the way he runs and cover the ground that he covers in the outfield whether it be in center or right. Right now, we're going to play him out in center field. We're going to give him a test in right field as well. Just looking forward to watching this young man evolve and he's got a chance to be a really dynamic player."
Brady House: Will he return from his back injury before the season ends?
House got off to an excellent start to his 2022 season in Single-A until a stint on the 7-Day IL for an undisclosed reason (read: COVID) knocked him out of the lineup for two weeks. He wasn't the same after he returned, hitting just .230 over his next 100 plate appearances before suffering a back injury.
He hasn't played in a minor-league game since June 11 and may not make it back before the season ends.
"He's doing well," Watson said. "He's down in West Palm Beach. They've been working with our strength and conditioning guys, really working on that core to strengthen up that core and make sure the back stays healthy and the right alignment. So those are the things that he's working on right now. He'll probably get some more baseball activity here once we get to Instruction League."
Watson added that there's a "chance" House returns and the team will evaluate him over the next few weeks before deciding whether to officially rule him out for the year. In the meantime, he will have to fly a bit more under the radar. Most national prospect rankings have dropped him from their top 100s.
That doesn't mean his potential is dampened. In the 21 games before he first hit the IL, House hit .326 with two home runs and an .857 OPS. Those are the numbers the Nationals will look for him to replicate once he does make it back to the field, whether that be this fall or next season.
Jackson Rutledge: What does he need to do well in order to remain consistent?
The 2022 season was an important one for Rutledge. Coming off a disappointing campaign in which he suffered a strained rotator cuff and ended up pitching for a lower affiliate than he started with, the 2019 first-round pick was a candidate to move to the bullpen if he didn't start to show progress as a starter.
He got off to a slow start in Single-A this year but then started to put it together. After never going more than five innings in a start over his first two minor-league seasons, Rutledge has done so in five of his last 10 outings. He has a 3.64 ERA with 53 strikeouts and 12 walks over that span, a stretch that's been encouraging for his parent club.
"For him, it's really about understanding his delivery, understanding his weapons and how to deploy them versus the opponents," Watson. "I think he's gaining ground. For the first time, he's having success — and consistent success. If you look at his last 10 overall starts, they've all been pretty productive. So we're proud of where he is right now."
Showing more consistency was a priority for Rutledge heading into the offseason. In hopes of being a more durable pitcher, he changed his mechanics to put less pressure on his shoulder. Though a bicep injury did sideline him for the first month of the season, Rutledge has since stayed on the mound and already set a new career high in innings.
The Nationals have seen flashes of what Rutledge can do when he puts it all together. Watson keyed in on the importance of how he attacks hitters and looking to see what his game plan is for his still-developing repertoire from start to start.
"When he's going well, he's repeating his delivery, he's able to use both his two- and four-seam fastballs effectively to both sides of the plate," Watson said. "He's able to spin and land his slider for early strikes as well as finish strikes [and] utilizing his changeup."
Mason Denaburg: What are Nationals looking to see now that he's healthy?
MLB Pipeline only ranks Denaburg as the 29th overall prospect in the Nationals' system, but that's simply because he wasn't pitching in games.
Denaburg, the 27th overall pick in 2018, threw only 20 1/3 innings in his first season before a series of injuries — including Tommy John surgery — kept him off the mound through the end of last season. He finally made his return in May and has been averaging just over 52 pitches per start as he builds his arm up.
"It's really exciting to get him back out with the competition with the regular population," Watson said. "He's been down for almost three years and so to get him healthy and back out there, he's been 93-97 [mph] with fastball command. He was a little spotty early but it's gotten a lot better of late. So for us it's really about commanding the baseball to both sides of the plate, utilizing his changeup and being able to land his breaking ball early and late in counts."
The 23-year-old has a ways to go before he's in consideration for a spot on the major-league roster, but right now the team is just focused on building him up and developing him into a starter. His fastball/curveball combination was what made him a first-round pick in the first place and how those pitches play will determine whether he can move up through the system.
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Accra,- The year-on-year inflation rate for July was 9.6 per cent down from 10.0 per cent recorded in June 2018.
Mr Baah Wadieh, the Acting Government Statistician, on Wednesday, presenting the CPI for July 2018 noted that, the monthly change rate in July 2018 was 0.4 per cent, compared with the rate of one per cent recorded in June 2018.
The year-on-year non-food inflation rate for July 2018 was 10.7 per cent compared with the rate of 11.2 per cent recorded in June 2018.
The year-on-year food inflation rate for July 2018 was 7.4 per cent, compared with 7.3 per cent recorded in June 2018.
The year-on-year non-food inflation rate (10.7 per cent) is almost one and half times that of the food inflation rate (7.4 per cent).
In July 2018, the year-on-year inflation rate for imported items was 11.5 per cent, which is 2.7 percentage points higher than that of locally produced items at 8.8 per cent.
The main price drivers for the non-food inflation rate were Clothing and footwear (15.4 per cent), Transport (15.0 per cent), Recreation and Culture (13.4 per cent), Furnishing, Household Equipment and Routine Maintenance (12.5 per cent) and miscellaneous goods and services (12.0 per cent).
The price drivers for the food inflation rate were Coffee, tea and cocoa (11.3%), Fruits (9.7 per cent), Meat and meat products (8.6 per cent), Mineral water, soft drinks, fruit and vegetable juices (8.4 per cent), Vegetables (8.4 per cent) and Food products (7.7 per cent).
Five regions (Upper West, Brong Ahafo, Western, Ashanti and Northern) recorded inflation rates higher than the national average of 9.6 per cent.
Upper West region recorded the highest year-on-year inflation rate of 11.5 per cent, followed by Brong Ahafo region (10.5 per cent), while the Upper East region recorded the lowest year-on-year inflation (7.8 per cent) in July 2018.


Round Robin: Phone and Photo Phun!
For this week's Round Robin Photo Challenge (RRPC2: Fun Fun Fun!), I mostly had in mind the fun I am going to have this weekend. By the time you read this, we will be driving to Disneyland! Perhaps we'll even have arrived by then, and will be having serious Disney-themed fun. I'll post pictures from Disneyland before Saturday is out, probably to Facebook and maybe to Tumblr. But in the meantime I'm having fun putting this post together on my newest toy: an iPhone!
My iPad II, called Ariel, and my new iPhone, "Blue Belle."
I'd been wanting to get an iPhone for over a year, but the desire grew especially intense as the Disneyland trip approached. I had apps on my iPad with maps of the Parks and wait times for the rides, but even if I were foolish enough to carry the iPad into Disneyland it wouldn't help much. It doesn't have a built-in wireless connection, so it wouldn't be online gathering data. But an iPhone is online, portable and versatile. My research showed that dumping the landline plus an Episcopal Church discount would save enough to just about cover the cost of me having an iPhone and John having my old Intensity II - John's first mobile phone ever. John said to go for it, so I did! I've been walking around with a big grin on my face for several days. Fun? You betcha!
My Canon Powershot has seen better days.
One cool thing about this phone is that it has a fairly decent camera built in. It's certainly better than the one on my old phone, or even on my iPad II. To test this, I experimented with using these three devices to photograph each other. My three year old camera is a bit beat up from all the hard use and abuse I give it, and has dust inside that nobody is willing to clean for me. Plus, how do I transfer the photos while I'm in Anaheim without a computer? Photo uploads from an iPhone are a different story.
Blue Belle's photo of Ariel photographing the Powershot, which doesn't have a cutesy name.
As for the photos themselves, I'm not going to bother with the iPad ones. The resolution on the iPhone photos is visibly better. I was also pleased, and a little surprised, to discover that the iPhone has built-in flash, something my iPad definitely does not have.
Enough. Check out the various flavors of fun found and photographed by other Robins. I'll be back with photos of Disneyland fun, on one or more social media sites, before the weekend is over.
This week's Round Robin Photo Challenge is very different from previous ones, and rather important to Carly and me. We recently learned that our friend Steven, who used to co-host this meme, died several years ago. Amazing closeup photos of flowers, often with insects and other critters on them, were among Steven's photographic specialties, so we thought it best to honor him with the topic Flowers for Steven.
Most of the shots I got for this are from an amazing tree on the grounds of St. Michael's, which was in full bloom when I took these photos a few days ago. I have no idea what it is!
Here is a closeup of one(?) of its flowers.
Here is a grouping of several of them.
I mentioned that this week's RRPC was very different. That's because starting with this Challenge, it's going multi-format! Tumblr users, Facebook users, Twitter fans, Google+ early adopters, etc. are all welcome to join in, blogging photos to their favorite social media platforms! Just add #FlowersForSteven and #RRPC2 tags to your entry, and we'll find 'em (I hope!). But just to be on the safe side, you may want to post a link to the Round Robin blog entry, so I can list it for everyone to see. Steven was a big contributor to the early days of photoblogging, especially of flowers and cats. I hope you'll join us in honoring him this weekend. Thanks!


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Olive Thomas
Jack Pickford
OLIVE & JACK is a feature-length documentary about silent screen stars Olive Thomas and Jack Pickford, whose romance ended in Hollywood's first public scandal—one that would change movies forever.
In 1916, screen ingénue and noted beauty Olive Thomas met established actor Jack Pickford at a Santa Monica beach café. The two fell madly in love and became one of Hollywood's golden couples.
Olive had traded a teenage marriage for the bright lights of the big city. After building a career as a popular model, she landed a role in the biggest show on Broadway, The Ziegfeld Follies. Jack was Hollywood royalty, the younger brother of America's Sweetheart Mary Pickford. He was also a popular screen star in his own right with a bad boy reputation.
Their marriage was portrayed as a fairytale romance by the press when, in reality, Olive and Jack's film careers drove them apart. The fleeting moments they were together were marked by heated fights, drug-fueled parties, and reckless living.
In August 1920, the two decided to have a second honeymoon and sailed to France. After partying in the nightclubs of Paris, the fun turned into a nightmare when in the early hours of September 5th, Jack woke to his wife's screams. Olive had ingested bichloride of mercury. Five days later she was dead.
The scandalous death of the young screen star rocked the Hollywood community and press reports were rife with rumors and accusations. Jack never fully recovered from the tragedy and in 1933, died in the same Paris hospital as his beloved Olive.
Their short romance would go on to become one of the most tragic stories in Hollywood history.
At its core, OLIVE & JACK is a love story. Utilizing our stars' films, rarely seen archival material, and interviews with some of today's leading storytellers, OLIVE & JACK will center on an intimate narrative of these two young lovers, exploring what it is to be a young person in the spotlight, and the dangers that lurk in its shadows.
Set against a backdrop of early 20th-century America, the film examines the society at the time, from prohibition and drug addiction to the rise of celebrity culture and the evolving roles of women in America. It highlights how the film industry reflected society and how a series of scandals created a shift in sentiments that would change how movies were made for decades to come.
Looking at the early days of American filmmaking, OLIVE & JACK will celebrate the integral role that women like Olive played in the birth of modern filmmaking. From her sister-in-law Mary Pickford, the most powerful person in Hollywood, to renowned screenwriter Frances Marion, Olive was part of a sisterhood whose influence is still felt today.
OLIVE & JACK will tell the story of a young Hollywood through one of its most shocking tragedies.


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7 Amazing Science Attractions to Visit In California
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By Michael Hodson
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California is a fascinating place to explore, but while most visitors will travel to the area with the intention of enjoying Hollywood or the wonderful natural attractions of wine country, there are others who want to explore the science attractions of the region.
'Geeky' tourism is a part of the industry that is growing in many areas, and there are increasing numbers of people who want to explore sites which reveal new secrets and show off great scientific achievements.
Here are a few of the attractions in California that are worth visiting for the science fan.
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
The marine life found off the coast of California is among the best in the world, and while fishermen may know this, the message is now being brought to the masses with over two million people a year visiting this spectacular aquarium. Allowing visitors to see populations of a variety of marine species that are indigenous to the area, this aquarium shows off bluefin and yellowfin tuna, sea otters and great white sharks, among thousands of other species on display here.
Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits
Located in the Hancock Park area of Los Angeles, the tar pits here have been a source of natural asphalt seeping up through the ground for thousands of years, and one of the amazing things is that animals getting stuck here actually became wonderfully preserved. As well as being able to see the pits themselves, you can also see the excavated remains in the museum, including short-faced bears, dire wolves, and mammoths.
Griffith Park and Observatory
This observatory is located on the same hillside as the Hollywood Sign in LA, and can either be reached by a hike up the hill, or you can take a car up the narrow road to the observatory, but bear in mind there is only limited parking, and if it is full then you may have to head back down the hill. This is a great place to see the stars and planets and has a range of exhibits and shows that display images of what the observatory has captured in the night sky.
The Bradbury Building, LA
Although this brick building with its large airy atrium and the glass roof make for an attractive location, this building is mostly of interest to science fiction fans. It has appeared in the film 'Blade Runner' where it was the location for the final scene and the apartment of the main character, while it is also one of the offices where Marvel Comics has their artists working, and the central court really is a beautiful architectural attraction.
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
This natural history museum is one of the largest of its kind in the world, holding examples of over 26 million different animal and plant species, all spread over a large compound. There is a good collection of fish and marine species located in the aquarium collection, while there is a rainforest atmosphere that is prepared inside a dome to give people a good view of those species.
Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose
Located among the big companies of Silicon Valley, the purple and orange exterior of this museum may appear garish, but inside there is an amazing range of technological exhibitions and sections, including a great IMAX cinema. Among the areas of the Tech Museum of Innovation is a social robot area, where visitors can design and even try to construct simple robots, while The Studio is where tech companies come to show off their prototypes to the public.
California Science Center, LA
In the Exhibition Park district, the California Science Center is home to a range of different science exhibits, including the largest IMAX scene in the city and a range of exhibitions. Particularly of interest is the collection of aircraft, both modern and historic, and examples of space technology, including the Space Shuttle Endeavour, and some of the robotic creations that have been used in space missions.
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What's the solution: Do both! Ideally, a company should launch both a sales lead automation program and a marketing automation program.
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I introduce myself, I am Messina Alessandro in art Alex Messina, born in Rome on 03/12/1972 I started playing the guitar at the age of ten and fell in love with music, I started studying classical and electric guitar. In a few years together with some friends I formed a cover band, whose peculiarity was not to have only one musical genre, but to range from rock to electronics. After the band's end, but not the love for music, having a musical background and sources of inspiration such as Pink Floyd, Alan Parsons Project, Depeche Mode, Rondò Veneziano, Metallica, Enigma, progressive music played in clubs and not only , I started my first experimentation period looking for the sounds and harmonies that best represented me. Continuing my studies, I started practicing solo lessons from an expert electric guitar teacher. I was struck by the fact that the master instead of using the classic metronome, he used a MIDI and Audio sequencing software, to create the rhythm on which to improvise. Including the potential of this software, I began to study it in parallel with the music, because I immediately understood that it could be the right auxiliary tool to realize my musical fantasies. Since then I have never stopped and I started to produce a type of music starting from the past, merging with the present to give life to new sounds and atmospheres.


Avocado is always present in Westernized sushi. Learn more about the various benefits you can get from eating sushi and avocado for health.
Do you know how sushi, the famous Japanese food, came to exist? Here is an informative but brief history of sushi. Read on and be amazed with the facts!
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If you love eating sushi, then you might want to make your own sushi at home. Here are five tools that you need to make great sushi by yourself.
Eating sushi is delicious, but did you know that it can make you beautiful too? Keep on reading this article to find out more about its benefits.
Sushi is a favorite Japanese food. Learn the general health benefits of sushi. Know the nutrients it can provide for you to achieve a healthier body.
Sushi and wasabi are becoming increasingly in demand when caring for the skin. Find out how to improve skin condition with wasabi and sushi.
Matching sushi with wine is tricky. While sake is a safe choice when choosing a drink for your sushi party, there are wine pairings that are even better than sake.
you're hosting a sushi party, it's a good idea to brainstorm on some other delicious appetizers. Here are some easy crowd-pleaser recipes to get you started.
If you find yourself visiting a sushi restaurant and you always say "I'm fine eating sushi every day," then this article shares the same sentiment as you.
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In the year 2008, the makers of the Twitter site have announced in one of their web log entries that the Twitter website is spanning in the region of the Asian continent specifically in the Japan area.
The Twitter website being an all-English website was able to penetrate non-English speaking territories because of its wide coverage. The Japanese people have been the first to encounter this milestone. The language barrier that supposed to be is the major problem in launching the Twitter site in the Japanese region has not been seen as a barrier at all. For the Japanese, being a large percentage users of the Twitter site, although the whole interface of the site is in English, the features that Twitter has can overcome this obstacle in language difference.
Surprisingly, fourteen days after the Twitter site was launched in the Japanese area, it continued to gain huge volume of followers mainly within the range of the young professionals and young adults. Now, as months have passed after its maiden launch, the Twitter in Japanese version has become the second most sought after Twitter sites.
The Twitter in Japanese version has continued to attract more and more potential members and users that made it possible for it to reach an all time high in page traffic. In addition, the Twitter Japanese website has been one of the few sites that have attained the highest page rank in less than a month after its launching on the Internet. This is truly one of the more interesting historical events in the arena of social networking.
With the recent spamming activity that endangered the security and credibility of Twitter, far advanced precautionary measures were undertaken by the makers to make sure that the 2007 spamming via SMS happening shall never be experienced again. This was given immediate resolution by the Twitter makers by suggesting a personal identification number to all Twitter users.
But, how about when the problem that is being raised talks about being bombarded by legitimate tweets? Are there any ways that one can do to stop this?
a. You can turn the Twitter notification off. By turning it off, it does not mean that you will not be able to receive any updates from your friends. You can still check your updates by logging on to the web portal and from there have a look at any important updates.
b. You can set your Twitter notification into sleep mode. By setting your notification to sleep mode, you will no longer be hearing the notification beeps when an update arrives. The notification is still active; however, it is only the sound that is being deactivated.
c. Do not have notifications turned on for every subscriber. By choosing who can send you updates, you are limiting yourself from being bugged down by many notifications received.
d. Always check for any updates by going to the Twitter site. It is a lot better to check your updates via your PC while you are in front of it rather than setting your mobile to receive all notifications at once.