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Violently Injured Police Officers Organization
Official Website of V.I.P.O.
About V.I.P.O.
V.I.P.O.'s Work
Officer Jesse James Hartnett
Philadelphia Police Officer Jesse James Hartnett was born at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pennsylvania, and grew up in East Lansdowne Borough, Delaware County. Hartnett attended Monsignor Bonner High School, graduating in 2001. Later that year, Hartnett enlisted in the United States Coast Guard. After completing basic training in Cape May, he was assigned to Coast Guard Station New London in Connecticut. While serving in Connecticut, Hartnett was promoted from Seaman to Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class. He was also certified as a Boarding Officer, which is a law enforcement position within the Coast Guard responsible for enforcing all Federal laws on the high seas. In 2006, Hartnett was transferred to Coast Guard Station Curtis Bay in Baltimore, Maryland, where he continued his duties as a Boarding Officer. He was again promoted, this time to the rank of E-5, and certified as a Coxswain. While serving in the Coast Guard, Hartnett received numerous awards and commendations. He was awarded three Commandant's Letters of Commendation, a Coast Guard Merit commendation, a Coast Guard Presidential Unit Citation, Expert Pistol and Expert Rifle medals, a Special Operations Service Ribbon, the Global War on Terror Service Medal, the National Defense Service medal, the Department of Transportation 9/11 Ribbon, and four Good Conduct medals. Hartnett concluded his active duty career in August, 2008, but continued his military service as a reservist, while also working full-time as a security officer at Limerick Power Plant. In 2010, Hartnett enrolled at the Delaware County Community College Police Academy. During training, he was appointed class Sergeant, and was responsible for conducting morning roll call and other administrative duties. Soon after completing his training at the police academy, Hartnett was hired as a part-time Police Officer at the East Lansdowne Borough Police Department.
Hartnett served the citizens of East Lansdowne for one year, until July, 2011, when Hartnett was appointed to the Philadelphia Police Department and assigned to the 18th Patrol District. While assigned to the 18th, Officer Hartnett was recognized many times for his quality work and outstanding arrests. He was named Officer of the Month for the 18th District in June, 2014, and February, 2015, and also received four Merit Commendations from the Police Department. On January 7th 2015, at 11:40pm, Officer Hartnett was ambushed while on duty by an armed assailant, whose intention was to assassinate a police officer. Reacting quickly, Hartnett took cover in his patrol car, but was nevertheless struck three times in his left arm by gunfire. Hartnett then exited his patrol car and fired back at the assailant, striking him once and slowing him down long enough for other responding officers to take him into custody. Hartnett's swift and courageous actions during this incident brought credit upon himself and the department, garnered worldwide praise, and undoubtedly prevented future violent acts by this defendant. Officer
Hartnett has suffered permanent injuries to his arm and is currently recovering from his wounds. Officer Hartnett is looking forward to returning to work and serving the
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The RMHS girls tennis team had their first CIF tennis match on October 31, 2018. They had an away game and played against Rancho Cucamonga High School and lost their match 5-13.
This match was their first CIF match and they sadly lost their last match. They had a great season all year, but since they lost this game their season is now over. "We all knew that we did our best, so even though we were bummed that we didn't win, we knew we put our all out on the court and there isn't much more to ask for than that," says Kiara Bragg (12). One of the biggest highlights during this match was Antonella Mazzotti (11) winning her single match. "Antonella, our #1 singles player, played a tough match her second round and won in an intense tie breaker which was definitely a highlight," said Kiara Bragg (12).


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Q: Modal formula connectives unraveling I've been reading lately Model Theory of Modal Logic by Otto and Goranko. At one point, I found something like this:
"Let $\varphi$ be a modal formula with modal depth of $n+1$.  Propositional connectives in $\varphi$ can be unravelled so that without loss of
generality $\varphi$ is of the form $\diamond\psi$ for some $\psi$ with modal depth equal to $n$."
Does anyone know how to prove this?

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This wff can't be put in the form ◇ψ where ψ is has modal depth zero, i.e. is modality-free.
So the quoted claim looks wrong -- I suspect a mis-statement.

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Campground at Cape Range National Park located about 50k South West of Exmouth is our recommend site as the best of the bunch being a bit protected with a choice of generator or non generator sites. For snorkeling, we visited Turquoise Bay where the ocean is crystal clear and marine life abounds. Sandy Bay is the spot for picnics fishing and swimming. A walk along the cliff top at Yardie Creek may reveal the sight of corellas bombing schools of fish as we saw during our visit. What I wouldn't have given for a movie camera at that time.


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Q: Java MapReduce - How to Output Top 10 from an IntWritable Sum in Reducer Class I'm having difficulty writing my reducer code for a Top 10 (key,value) pair output.
My current output is formatted as ((Year, Market), Total Amount). What I'm looking for are the Top 10 Total Amounts for each Year. My current code is outputting every amount for every market for each year.
Any recommendations will be greatly appreciated!
Mapper:
public class FundingMapper extends Mapper<LongWritable, Text, Text, IntWritable> {

private Text Year = new Text();
private Text Market = new Text();

public void map(LongWritable key, Text value, Context context) throws IOException, InterruptedException {

    String line = value.toString();
    CSVReader reader = new CSVReader(new StringReader(line));

    String[] array = reader.readNext();
    reader.close();

    Year.set(array[14]);
    Market.set(array[3]);

    String amountString = array[15].replaceAll("[^0-9]","");
    int amount = 0;

    try {
        amount = Integer.parseInt(amountString);
    }

    catch(NumberFormatException nfe) {
        return;
    }

    IntWritable intW = new IntWritable(amount);

    String S = new StringBuilder().append(Year + " ").append(Market + " ").toString();

    context.write(new Text(S), intW);
}
}

Reducer:
public class FundingReducer extends Reducer<Text, IntWritable, Text, IntWritable> {

public void reduce(Text key, Iterable<IntWritable> values, Context context) throws IOException,
        InterruptedException {

    int sum = 0;

    for(IntWritable value : values) {
        sum += value.get();
    }

    context.write(key, new IntWritable(sum));
}
}

Data sample:
/organization/contravir-pharmaceuticals ContraVir Pharmaceuticals   |Biotechnology| Biotechnology   USA NY  New York City   New York    /funding-round/9a7cc724deba554585e2b79c14605866 post_ipo_equity     8/22/14 2014-08      2014-Q3    2014    4,742,648

/organization/contravir-pharmaceuticals ContraVir Pharmaceuticals   |Biotechnology| Biotechnology   USA NY  New York City   New York    /funding-round/04a7ec54417a0f9a6c99cf8db2eac819 venture A   10/15/14    2014-10  2014-Q4    2014    9,000,000

/organization/contravir-pharmaceuticals ContraVir Pharmaceuticals   |Biotechnology| Biotechnology   USA NY  New York City   New York    /funding-round/328384053df3a992ca6d5da55ca0420e venture     2/14/14 2014-02  2014-Q1    2014    3,225,000

/organization/contrib-com   contrib.com |Entrepreneur|Technology|Domains|Education|Social Media|    Social Media    USA FL  Palm Beaches    Delray Beach    /funding-round/fea112ed22657c1456820aa26af3ab17 seed        6/17/14 2014-06  2014-Q2    2014    300,000

Output sample:
2014  Biotechnology  16967648
2014  Social Media  300000

A: You need to have key as Year in your map output. This will ensure that you will get values for each year at a time in reducer. And later you can filter out just 10 values to your output. Just check below.
 public void map(LongWritable key, Text value, Context context) throws IOException, InterruptedException {

        String line = value.toString();
        CSVReader reader = new CSVReader(new StringReader(line));

        String[] array = reader.readNext();
        reader.close();

        Year.set(array[14]);
        Market.set(array[3]);

        String amountString = array[15].replaceAll("[^0-9]","");
        int amount = 0;

        try {
            amount = Integer.parseInt(amountString);
        }

        catch(NumberFormatException nfe) {
            return;
        }

        IntWritable intW = new IntWritable(amount);

        context.write(new Intwritable(Year), new Text(amount +" "+ market));
    }

    public void reduce(Text key, Iterable<IntWritable> values, Context context) throws IOException,
            InterruptedException {

        int count= 0;
        int amount =0;
        string market = "";
        for(IntWritable value : values) {
           market = value.toString().split(" ")[1];
           amount = Integer.parseInt(value.toString.split(" ")[0])
            if(count < 10){
              count ++;
              context.write(key, value);
          }
else
 break;
        }

       // context.write(key, new IntWritable(sum));
    }


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The American Chestnut: The Campaign to Save the Trees Content from the guide to life, the universe and everything
The American Chestnut: The Campaign to Save the Trees
Created Dec 5, 2022 | Updated Dec 5, 2022
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Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands...
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 'The Village Blacksmith'
The American chestnut, Castanea dentata, is a mighty tree indeed: related to the European sweet chestnut, Castanea sativa, it once provided shade and mast1 for livestock throughout the Appalachian mountain range. Its wood was prized for the quality of its grain and its resistance to rot. American chestnuts, fast-growing trees of the beech family, provided shade for more than one village smithy and increased biodiversity in the Eastern Woodlands.
The Cherokee of the Appalachian mountains had many uses for the chestnut, from firewood and lumber supplies to a coffee substitute to medicinal teas and poultices. The chestnut contributed much to the forest canopy. Its spring blossom lent the Great Smokies their distinctive look. The chestnut is one of the reasons why tens of thousands of poor immigrants from Scotland, Ireland, and Germany flocked to the mountains every year in the 18th Century. But why are we talking about these magnificent trees in the past tense?
In the youth of a man not yet old, native Chestnut was still to be seen in glorious array – the great forest below waving with creamy white Chestnut blossoms in the crowns of the ancient trees, so that it looked like a sea with white combers plowing across its surface.
– Naturalist Donald Culross Peattie (1898-1964)
In the early 20th Century, an accidentally-imported blight devastated North America's chestnut population. It was an ecological disaster with far-reaching consequences. It impoverished the ecosystem and the farmers alike. In the 21st Century, efforts are being made to facilitate the comeback of this important tree. This is the story.
Original range of the American Chestnut
Before the chestnut blight, there was a popular saying that a squirrel could travel from chestnut tree to chestnut tree from New England to Georgia without touching the ground. It makes sense: an estimated 25% of the trees in the Appalachians were chestnuts. In the early 20th Century, this changed. The blight was caused by a bark fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, carried by Asian chestnut trees imported for decorative purposes in the late 19th Century. The chestnut blight was first observed in the Bronx Zoo in New York City in 1904. The airborne fungus spread at the rate of 80 km a year, killing up to three billion trees within a few decades – and drastically changing the ecology of the Appalachians.
Mountain farmers lost the valuable mast for their livestock. They also lost a source of income, as they often collected the chestnuts for sale and sold the quality wood, as well as using it themselves. The need to grow more fodder for farm animals strained the already tenuous economies of subsistence farms. In addition, the ecosystem of the mountain range was negatively affected.
Other imported parasites damaged the chestnut population, as well: ink blight from Portuguese cork oak trees. Oak trees play host to these various fungi without damage, but the injury to the American chestnut was devastating. The spread of the Chinese gall wasp was another blow to the chestnut population. The chestnut's loss was hard-felt, and the tree appeared doomed.
What Is Being Done About It
The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) is a non-profit organisation with a single goal: to restore the American chestnut to the ecosystem of the eastern North American forest. TACF was founded in 1983 by a group of plant scientists that included Norman Borlaug, a world-renowned scientist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work in improving the world's food supply. TACF has spent years working on a genetic solution to the problem of chestnut blight.
Using the back-cross method already successfully demonstrated in maize by plant scientist Charles Burnham, the group has crossed American chestnuts with blight-resistant Asian chestnuts. The aim is to get a tree with the desirable qualities of an American chestnut, including the large, nutritious nuts, combined with the natural genetic resistance of the Asian variety. And it's working.
Although research is ongoing, resistant trees are already being planted within the tree's former range. To date, more than 22,000 trees have been planted in Pennsylvania alone. The Pennsylvania TACF chapter offers a handy planting manual as a guide. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) supports the initiative and found it important enough to devote an entire issue of its journal Compass to the history, genetics, and future of the American chestnut.
Restoring the American chestnut could revive forests and support wildlife. American chestnut population can also help to check the undesirable spread of hemlock and rhododendrons, both of which are poisonous to animals and provide excessive cover that inhibits biodiversity.
In a world choking for lack of fresh air and clean water, any initiative that promises to restore a major ecosystem should be welcome. Trees make oxygen. They feed wildlife. They provide natural resources that do not require mining, quarrying, or otherwise damaging the landscape. Restoring the American chestnut is a win/win for humans and nature.
Want to read a book? Sign up at Internet Archive (it's free) and read American Chestnut: the Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree, by Susan Freinkel (Berkeley, 2007).
Visit TACF's website to learn more about their work.
Take a course and earn credit! The USDA offers an online course in the 'basic biology and silvics of the American chestnut and the factors that led to its demise.'
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Go Now: Scallop Season on Nantucket Island
Fodor's Editor | November 5, 2013
With its long stretches of pristine beach, yacht-filled harbors and sailing buffs, rose-trellised cottages and meandering bike paths, most people think of Nantucket as a summer destination, but gourmands know that come October another very important season begins on "The Faraway Island": Nantucket bay scallop season.
The Scallops
No scallop is more revered than the Nantucket bay scallop. These succulent little bivalve mollusks are considered a delicacy the world over, and can be spotted on menus in upscale fish markets and restaurants from coast to coast (and beyond) from fall into early spring.
The cold, northern Atlantic waters and eelgrass habitats around Nantucket yield tender, silky bay scallops that are small in size (even when mature), but incredibly rich in taste—buttery, sweet, and truly melt-in-your-mouth delicious. Some native Nantucketers say they're best just eaten raw with nothing but a spritz of lemon; others swear by more traditional recipes that involve sautéing, baking, broiling, and even frying.
Nantucket maintains the last commercially viable "wild" bay scallop fishery in the country, and to preserve it, the Town of Nantucket and the Nantucket Shellfish Association promote propagation, retention, protection, and seed management efforts to keep the bay scallop population as healthy as possible despite potential storms, harmful algae blooms, and other threats.
Nantucket shellfish biologist, Tara Riley, and her team bring mature scallops into the island's scallop hatchery, and then spawn and reproduce them. "We hold onto the eggs, which hatch out and turn into larvae, for 10 to 12 days, and then release them into different areas of the harbor," explains Riley. "We release at least 10 million per spot, sometimes more." The bay scallops are then left to mature in the harbor.
Nantucket bay scallops only live about one-and-a-half to two-and-a-half years. They're easily recognizable because they have pretty, corrugated, smallish shells that fan outward (like Venus on the Half-Shell) and come in an array of colors. On the edge of the shell, along the mantle, there are a bunch of tiny bright, blue eyes that help the mollusks detect predators. Bay scallops attach themselves to eelgrass blades using their byssal threads and they can move around by flapping their hinged shells.
Each year, Nantucketers kick off scallop season with a Scalloper's Ball, which is as much about celebrating (and enjoying) the island's most beloved bivalve as it is about promoting educational awareness about them. Recreational scalloping opened on October 3rd this year, and runs through March 31st, 2014.
Local and visiting scallop-lovers have already taken to the water, waist-deep in waders, and are combing the sandy Nantucket shores of Madaket Harbor, Monomoy, Shawkemo, Coatue, and other favorite scallop hotspots with push rakes, and they're filling up their floating baskets with a bounty of the world's best bay scallops.
You can pay a pretty penny to enjoy Nantucket bay scallops in other parts of the country, but there's nothing like coming to the island and procuring them yourself—it just doesn't get any fresher than that. Landlubbers need not worry; they can also come ashore and enjoy the many bay scallop specials being offered at island restaurants throughout the season.
Recreational scalloping permits can be obtained at Nantucket's Public Safety Facility at 4 Fairgrounds Road. Permits are $25 for Nantucket residents. Non-residents can choose between a $50 weekly permit or $100 annual permit. Free permits can be issued for scallopers who are over 60 years old. Scallop season runs through March 31st, 2014 (Wednesdays-Sundays only).
Photo credits: Nantucket Lighthouse via Dreamstime.com; Nantucket Bay Scallops courtesy of Flickr/Ideas in Food; Nantucket scallop shell courtesy of Flickr/USFWS Headquarters


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In mid 2019, the Office for Civil Rights clarified the applicable liability for Business Associates as it relates to Privacy requirements. Business Associates have always been responsible for adherence to the HIPAA Security requirements, but the extent to which Privacy rules apply has been an open question. The Business Associate version, Risk Assessment materials, draft privacy and security policies and procedures, and other compliance related tools have been updated to reflect the privacy component and aid in HIPAA/HITECH/Cybersecurity compliance specific to the needs of the Business Associate.
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It was a joy to take morning worship at Waddington Street URC on Trinity Sunday. The Durham church is fairly renowned in the synod for the many beautiful icons displayed on the sanctuary walls. So with icons in mind I presented to the congregation one of the world's most famous icons of the Holy Trinity, an icon painted by Andrei Rublev, a devout 14th century monk.
said, Colour me, breathe your blood into my mouth.
gold, brown, and pale green wash of death.
To the white desert, to the starving sand.
one table, share one food, one earth.
Carol Rumens, herself a poet and visiting Professor of Creative Writing, at the University of Wales, Bangor, suggests that the poem is spoken by Rublev (The Guardian 18th July 2011). The monk would have taken a vow of silence. Knowing that, the poem is treated as a metaphor of inner experience. It immediately forces the reader into a world where sacred things are ordinary. Look how the poem starts with the arresting announcement, "One day God walked in ….." The off-hand tone, the sense of God as a fallible fellow-mortal, owes something to another famous Welsh poet/priest of mine, R S Thomas. Rublev's relationship with God is conveyed as utterly down-to-earth.
So God appears, but there is no radiance; only a literal, wind-bitten, travel-drained, very human-looking deity, dropping in unexpectedly. He asks for colour, as a real traveller might ask for food and drink. Rublev regards his visitor with certain impudence: "These (god) are the chromatic pains of flesh." In this line, "God" doesn't even get a capital letter. The title seems almost sarcastic, a mumbled aside, a grumbled curse. Rublev then waxes eloquent. He agrees, with a vengeance, to give God colour. Williams's choice of colours is faithful to Rublev's own. In the icon, they enhance the mood of soft tender melancholy. In the poem, they are especially chosen to remind God of bloodshed, pain and decay – the flaws in His creation.
See how the three-line verse-structure connects us to the concept of the Trinity. All the final lines rhyme consonantally: mouth, death, birth, forth, earth.
It's not only the rhyme-words that have grain and texture. Throughout the poem, concrete nouns are placed like depth-charges: blood, wood, beechmast*, bread, sand. There are strong transitive verbs, too, like colour, breathe (in that astonishing command, "Breathe your blood into my mouth"), root, stain, bake. Rublev's character and something of his technique emerge in the physicality of his diction. As the poem progresses, he speaks with increasing fire and authority. God stays silent.
The poem, like the icon, sets out to know God, fix Him in time, and make Him flesh and blood and earth. But, while the icon depicts the Trinity, the poem depicts a pair: God and Rublev, Creator and procreator, face to face across the table. In George Herbert's poem "Love," God is the host, the poet the humble guest, reluctant to eat, overcome with shame. But in this poem, the bold artist Rublev is the host. He has made God blush; he will feed him only the frugal "bread of beechmast." And he will never let Him go.
* The fruit or masts of the Beech tree [Fagus sylvatica] are tiny in size and contain a high fat content; oil extracted from the masts was often used for cooking in the past. There is an eighteenth century reference to the beech kernels being put in soups. Another old source comments that suitably treated they could be turned into bread, it is also claimed that roasted beechnuts have been used as a coffee substitute .The fruit is also very good animal feed.


PEOPLE HAVE ASKED ME ABOUT a post that I wrote a little while back where I downsized my backpack from an 80 litre to a 45 litre bundle of joy.
How did I do it? What am I carrying?
I wasn't totally sure so one day in Sucre I laid it all out and took stock. I had bought a couple of extra things, but it still surprised me: it looked like a lot.
Wash bag. This tough bag by North Face is waterproof but although it holds things in snugly, I find it a bit awkward to use on a daily basis.
First aid kit. Everything from antibiotics to anti-malarials and antiseptics. Anti-everything, then. Oh, and some vitamins, plasters/band-aids and a thermometer.
Second wash bag. Yes. Two washbags. Excessive. This one contains items that I don't use often, such as anti-mosquito spray, make-up for nights out, spare razor blades, that kind of stuff.
Electronics pouch containing chargers and cables. And a converter that works EVERYWHERE.
Sun hat. My third one in the last year. The Inca Jungle Trail claimed one, a bus in Ecuador another. I get sunstroke and sunburnt fairly easily so head protection is a must.
Merino buff®. This works out to be a scarf, hat, muff or whatever you want it to be. I barely used this but it is small, light and has been a blessing during some chilly moments, like in Cuenca.
Zip up tops x3. One hooded fleece, one lightweight base layer and one heavier, lined hoodie.
A RAB down jacket that folds down into its own pocket, and a raincoat. The raincoat was used fairly regularly, and although it took a month and half before I needed some extra warmth, the down jacket was a beautiful cuddle when I visited the glacier in Peru.
Travel towel. A little bigger than I needed; smaller would have been fine.
Pants/undies/bra x10. There is no point skimping on underwear, I realised, so I stocked up in New Zealand.
Legwarmers x2. Some Bolivian additions that are well loved in the chilly climate.
Socks x4. One thicker pair for walking, the rest cotton. Other than when I went on hikes or travelled in Bolivia, for most of my travels my socks stay have stayed buried at the bottom of my bag.
Eye-mask. Nothing exotic, just a freebie from the airplane but I wouldn't travel without. Totally useful in hostels or when on overnight public transport.
Shorts x 3. One longer pair, one roll-up, and one short. Two pairs would suffice.
Jeans, combats and zip-off synthetic walking trousers. People say not to travel with jeans. Well I like them, so tough (and I have to carry my bag so I only have to face myself on that one really). I did downsize from proper jeans to skinny legs to save on a bit of space, but actually these are less versatile and only worn in cities or on nights out.
Silk sleeping bag liner. I've used this less than I expected but the moments when I need some extra warmth or an extra layer between me and the bed bugs, it is great.
Skirts x 2 and one dress. My skirts are all casual but absolutely adaptable for when I need to glam up a little.
Black leggings and PJs. When I got to Oz I downsized my PJs to a shorty set to save on space. The leggings are great worn under trousers or with a skirt when it is cold.
T-shirts x4: black, blue, yellow and white patterned. Versatile. Nothing fancy.
Belt. Not always needed but was still worth having, either to hold my trousers up when I lost weight after my parasite incident back in Ecuador, or to open bottles with the built in opener (something I only discovered en route).
Bikini. I did start my trip with two bikinis but my favourite set got left behind on a washing line in Raglan, New Zealand. One bikini, realistically, was enough.
Long sleeved t-shirts x5. Mostly in plain, light cotton ideal for layering, these are adaptable to smart or casual situations. One of my favourites for that extra snug hug is my Howies' merino top (although it has been so well worn that it is now pretty holey. Want to send me a new one, guys?!).
Vest tops x 7. It may sound like too many, but I do use them all. Pretty much. And they don't take up much space at all. Two of the seven were more going out style tops.
Teva hiking sandals. Brown leather, these can come across fairly smart when I need them to whilst still being totally practical and cushioned comfortable.
Salomon hiking shoes. Dark brown colour is perfect for making these not stand out too much or show the dirt too obviously. These are my go-everywhere shoes that are comfy, have good grip and are Goretex® waterproofed. The only downside is that in some countries I've found them to be a little too hot.
Converse casual shoes. I didn't have a pair of 'hang-out' shoes and didn't intend to get any either as my trainers had doubled up fine for this purpose… but then in Bolivia I decided to buy myself a cheap pair of Converses. Probably fake but they fit and do the job.
Flat, strappy sandals. Super light, these barely take up any space at all. After a backpacker in New Zealand lent me some sandals for a night out, I decided to go girly and get in on the action. And these sandals have actually been well used.
Flip flops. I travelled for six months with just one pair but when I got to Brazil, home of the Havaianas, I couldn't leave without another! Totally useful, including when using communal showers.
Head torch. Most used item in my backpack, maybe? I keep this close at night and pack it at the top of my bag so that when arriving, for example, into a power cut Villa Serrano late at night, I can still find my way.
It is a lot, yet somehow it all fits into my 45 litre Berghaus backpack. Sure, it's a bit of a squash but it weighs in at 15kg and is a doddle to carry around. I guess I should mention that I use some roll down vacuum bags. They're great for packing things down small and keeping similar things together.
And! – I carry a little day pack with my sunglasses, wallet, water, pen, paper, and other valuables that I want close by, including a fake wallet with some old cards and a bit of cash so that if I get mugged, I can hand over something without losing everything. I always carry a photocopy of my passport (in each wallet) and I've found laminating them to be really helpful (compared to other travellers' tatty bits of paper that means they often have to still produce real identification, my copied ID often gets me past official check points without any bother).
Looking at the above picture, I realise that I could quite easily prune my luggage a lot further but there does come a point where it's quite nice having SOME choice.
So, if YOU'RE heading off soon and thinking of throwing in hair straighteners and high heels, just stop for a moment and think about the kind of travelling that you'll be doing. A weekend in Paris? Maybe. A month trekking and roughing it? Nah. The tousled, flip flopped look will work just fine. Trust me.
Travelling with too much stuff? Time to downsize!
45 litre versus 80 litre. Downsize to happy times.
Back in August 2011, I waved my family and friends goodbye and set off under the weight of an 80 litre backpack. Trying to decide what to leave behind was as difficult as deciding what to bring. I wanted to also save some space for any lovely things that I may buy along my way. Oh, how things change!
Seven months in and I've given things away, left stuff in hostels, lost a few pairs of socks and a top that I thought I loved, and bought very little.
And then, during my month-long stay-put in Australia, I decided to downsize. It was a challenge, one that I was excited about. I'd seen backpackers along my way travelling with very little and it was time to stop being envious and start being inspired.
Now I'm down to a 45 litre bag. It's pretty stuffed right now (I'm still trying to figure out what else I can do without). If I want to add anything to my travel mix, something will need to go to make space. Feels less cluttered. Feels good.
I don't need to buy stuff, I don't need to get attached to pieces of cloth, I don't need to lug around a pharmacy on my back. I've got enough. Right now I just want experiences. Not things.


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Question: When does the season begin and end?
Answer: Our fall season begins with tryouts and training in early July with the season concluding at the beginning of December. Our Spring season begins with tryouts and training beginning in late January to the end of the season Mid-march. We also have off-seasons where we play futsal (indoor soccer).
Question: How do tryouts work?
Answer: Tryouts will be held preseason at an assigned date simultaneous with registration. Former players who have played in the past 2 seasons do not need to attend but are welcome to come to enjoy friendly training and competition.
Question: How much does it cost?
Answer: We try to keep costs as low as possible. $800 (subject to change) for the season includes two practices a week, A game a week along with one weekend tournament. The uniform kit costs around $150 and generally lasts two seasons (e.g. Fall & Spring) but may not, if purchased off-cycle.
Question: Do you play on Sundays?
Answer: We play most games on Saturdays but on occasion, we are scheduled to play on Sunday. If Sundays, we seek to play afternoon so that our club members are able to attend their local church. Very rarely do we play on a Sunday morning, though some tournaments require us to play at that time.
Question: What teams do you have?
Answer: We currently have one boys comp teams, '08 boys (Bronze). We also have a rec league see www.playcaa.org for more info.
Question: Where do you train?
Our home field at 5151 Carter Ave. San Jose, CA is also where we train. This field hosts all of our 9v9 games.
Question: What about Futsal?
The last few years, we've entered teams into the Futsal San Jose league. The roster size is capped at ten players per team so space is limited. The format is 5v5 with goalies and is played on indoor basketball gyms in and around San Jose. This gives the players a chance to have some fun and keep their skills fresh between the Fall and Spring seasons. It is really fun and the focus is not as much on the competition. More info can be found here: https://www.futsalsj.org/
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Our teams compete in Nor Cal Premier League under Almaden FC. See http://norcalpremier.com/ for more information. The NorCal NPL serves as the National Premier Leagues (NPL) Division of the NorCal Premier League. The NorCal NPL Division is one of 19+ leagues across the United States that are part of the NPL, which has been created to provide a national developmental platform with the highest level of competition in given geographic areas, and to elevate and change the competitive youth soccer landscape based upon fundamental principles in US Club Soccer's vision.
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The Japanese Chef Beloved by Lorde
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Traditional Japanese minimalism meets Topanga Canyon bohemian inside chef Kenji Koyama's Necco restaurant in West L.A.Credit...Julia Stotz
By Crystal Meers
Necco, a friendly, health-conscious Japanese small-plates restaurant in West L.A., is the kind of place in which Lorde fuels up on wholesome, unpretentious food when she's in town. It's helmed by chef Kenji Koyama, who opened it almost exactly one year ago.
At 19, while working part-time at his local izakaya in Tokyo's Setagaya Prefecture, a family friend offered Koyama a gig cooking in California. Three weeks later, he found himself on skewer duty six days a week at a Japanese restaurant in Encino. "I had one day off, no friends and nothing to do, so I started surfing," says Koyama, now 42. In Malibu, he made friends with the eclectic locals, who welcomed him into their waters and invited him to pick up a guitar and join their jam sessions in the hippie haven of Topanga Canyon. As he steadily climbed the kitchen ranks — which included a two-year stint back in Tokyo, studying under a sushi master — he began to take music more seriously, eventually forming a grunge band called Voices in Black. "I was making sushi to make music," Koyama says.
But, when the band broke up five years ago, Koyama shifted all his focus back on food. He honed his range of skills in high-end sushi bars in Hollywood and at a vegan and macrobiotic fine-dining restaurant downtown, and eventually began catering, teaching cooking classes and blogging under the name Sugar Mountain Sushi Company. His blog caught the eye of a restaurant group back in Japan, who approached him to think about opening his own space. As his concept took shape, Koyama took on private clients like Lorde, who in 2013 whisked him away to Coachella for five days. "We made a lot of shumai and a lot of soba noodles," he recalls.
Necco is a favorite of the likes of Lorde, who brought chef Koyama to cook for her at Coachella a couple of years ago.Credit...Julia Stotz
Necco is Japanese for roots. "It has three meanings, " Koyama says, standing at his cooking station, dressed in a slouchy newsboy cap and denim apron. "It's about my Japanese background, wanting to build a strong foundation here and the ingredients I use in my cooking." This month, Koyama celebrates Necco's first anniversary with a tasting menu of some of the year's greatest hits like tofu okonomiyaki and Yuan yaki-style black cod — as well as the dish Vegetable Concert (at top), served on a plate custom-created by nearby Humble Ceramics especially for the occasion. "It looks like an orchestra of veggies playing together with the conductor," he says. One of the five courses in the Necco tasting menu includes croquettes, a recipe for which Koyama shares below.
Lotus Root Croquettes
Yield: 16 croquettes
1 ⅓ cup lotus root
½ cup brown rice, precooked
⅓ cup yellow onion, diced
Plain breadcrumbs for coating
Rice oil for frying
Ketchup or tonkatsu sauce, for serving
1. After peeling and finely grating the lotus root, squeeze the pulp to remove the excess moisture. Discard the liquid (or heat it on the stovetop for a nutritious, milky tea.)
2. In a medium bowl, combine the lotus root, cooked brown rice, diced onion and salt and pepper. Mix until well combined.
Making Lotus Root Croquettes
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3. Roll two tablespoons of the mixture into golf-ball-sized croquettes. Set aside. Repeat with remaining mixture.
4. In a small bowl, combine the flour and water. Dip each croquette into the mixture to coat; and then immediately dredge them in breadcrumbs to coat completely. Set aside.
5. In a deep sauce pan, heat the rice oil. When the oil is hot, add the croquettes in small batches to the pan. Fry on each side for 3-4 minutes, or until golden brown.
6. Serve with ketchup, tonkatsu sauce, or both. Chef Koyama recommends combining the two, with a 1:1 ratio.


Proper forms as in html forms?
I hope elemental works for you.
What project is this youve started on btw? Anything public?
Good question, I haven't touched it in forever.
I created the ElementalUI for scala just to get my hands wet in i.
cool, if I get back into it I might do that.
nashorn has JS to AST parser?
I'm right now working on a ReconnectingWebsocket though, and on actual business code, so no time.
That would be awesome, I hate the way it is right now, and it's the main reason why I'm on a very old version of the stuff.
Hey... I really need openDirection on MuiIconMenu.... should I just add it and create a PR on chandu0101's repo, or on @oyvindberg or let you change it.


When Danielle and Chris decided to get married, it was a clear choice to have a New Orleans Elopement. While neither live in New Orleans, they both visit as often as they can. Chris proposed to Danielle after "Handing my phone to a stranger" and then getting down on one knee in Jackson Square to ask her to be his forever.
Danielle and Chris met 12 years ago selling computers at Best Buy. Their relationship built slowly over years of being friends, although Chris admits he always had a crush on her. Eventually, Danielle moved away, and they stayed in touch. When she would visit, they always made a point to spend time together. Their love grew from there. They have been planning their New Orleans Elopement for well over a year and were joined by an unexpected guest! Their daughter, who is due this March, got to be a part of the whole event.
It was an honor to be a part of their small and intimate ceremony. We started with a short ceremony nestled in the oaks of City Park, then we went straight to the French Quarter to celebrate. Later that night they shared a cake displaying a wooden cutout with the phrase "Mutual Weirdness Forever." What a perfect way to end a perfect day!


Located on the cliffs of Negril's legendary West End, on a dazzling stretch of Caribbean, The Cliffs is an intimate retreat comprising three villas and four garden suites with private verandas. Feast on Jamaican delights, sunbathe at the edge of the cliff, snorkel on the reef. A classic Caribbean getaway, The Cliffs has a stone deck with access to the sea, a freshwater pool with bar and an on-site cook who'll prepare meals in your room or villa after a full day of sun or sightseeing. Located a short taxi ride from the restaurants and nightlife of the vibrant West End, The Cliffs is just twenty minutes from its sister property, The Beach. A complimentary morning and afternoon shuttle is provided daily for guests who would like to enjoy a day at The Beach.


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A-10 Tournament Friday Afternoon Preview
Game PreviewsGeorge MasonRhode Island
By Grant Kelly Last updated Mar 15, 2019
No. 1 VCU vs. No. 8 Rhode Island
12:00 ET on NBC Sports Network
Riding a 12 game win streak into this one, VCU is undeniably the hottest team in the Atlantic 10 right now. With an NCAA tournament birth virtually locked up at this point, the A-10 regular season champs are looking to improve their seeding by adding one more accolade to their resume: a conference tournament championship. While the Rams are the clear favorite to win the title in Brooklyn, beating Rhode Island in the quarterfinals will be no easy task. The Rhode Island Rams are playing their best basketball of the season right now and enter this one fresh off a dominant 76-57 win over La Salle on Thursday. With Fatts Russell and Cyril Langevine playing at an incredibly high level right now, Rhode Island is looking to pull-off the upset. Friday's first A-10 quarterfinal game should be a great one between the Rams and, well … the Rams.
No. 4 Saint Bonaventure vs. No. 5 George Mason
2:30 ET on NBC Sports Network
Friday's second quarterfinal game will feature a battle between No. 4 Saint Bonaventure and No. 5 George Mason. The Bonnies enter this one on a hot streak of their own. Winning seven of its last eight games, St. Bonaventure is finally healthy and playing its best basketball of the year. A popular underdog pick to win the A-10 tournament, the Bonnies will take on George Mason today at 2:30 ET. The Patriots survived a scare from George Washington on Thursday to advance to the quarterfinals. The winner of this one will advance to the semifinals on Saturday to take on the winner of No. 1 VCU and No. 8 Rhode Island.
It isn't always pretty, but Saint Louis found a way to advance
Postseason Atlantic 10 Player Countdown: #7 Courtney Stockard
Postseason Atlantic 10 Top 25 Player Countdown: #11 Marcus Santos-Silva
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This project, a proposal put forward as part of an open competition organised by the Garden Museum, concerns the formation of an entrance pavilion and maintenance facility situated at the mouth of a new public garden in Lambeth, London.
Joseph Gandy's catalogue of small buildings from the early nineteenth century (Designs for Cottages, Cottage Farms and Other Buildings) demonstrates an imaginative approach to the conception of agricultural facilities, each possessing a personality delightfully at odds with their more prosaic function. Like Gandy's buildings, the proposed pavilion is both practical and characterful, attending carefully to the needs of its users and the garden.
The pavilion is formed of three functional parts: a storage room for tools and gardening equipment; a social space for the garden's maintenance staff and volunteers; and a changing room. These elements are arranged in a manner not unlike the Tudor gatehouse that stands at the northern edge of the Garden Museum site, arranged around a central portal. Like an open mouth, the covered entranceway serves as a conspicuous point of entry to the site from the south and west.
The building, constructed from prefabricated CLT panels, is a taut composition of familiar forms characterised by a large roof and chimney (acting as a source of natural light and ventilation). Echoing the work of the Smithson's at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and the words of their 1977 essay Into the Air, the building wears a loose-fitting jacket of red-stained timber designed to accept occupation by 'external inhabitants' in the form of vegetation and animal life.
Inflected subtly to acknowledge the line of the road and the stone wall of the churchyard, the L-shaped plan form establishes a sheltered outdoor space onto which the pavilion's facilities open. The building is positioned at a level above the garden, avoiding disruption to tree roots and archaeology, and establishing a soft distinction between the territory of the working courtyard and that of the public green.
The pavilion watches over the garden like a protective guardian, its timber skin extending, ribbon-like, along Lambeth Road forming a protective barrier against pollution and wind.


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Natural Experiment
Working from home during the corona-crisis is associated with higher subjective well-being for women with long (pre-corona) commutes
Elsevier, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Volume 156, February 2022
Much research has been devoted to assessing the effect of commute duration on the subjective well-being of people, but as of yet, the respective body or research has been inconclusive as to whether there is indeed a (large) negative effect or not. To control the spread of COVID-19 governments around the world have taken unprecedented measures to control the outbreak of the Corona-virus. Forcing or strongly advising people to work from home (i.e. at least those who can) is often one of these.
The impact of the MeToo scandal on women's perceptions of security
Elsevier, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Volume 147, May 2021
This study assesses whether the negative exogenous informational shock of the MeToo scandal has affected women's perception of security. The MeToo movement was first reported in the media worldwide in October 2017, and has received enormous press coverage since then. The exogenous and unanticipated nature of the scandal provides a natural experiment that we can use to quantify how wider external information affects 'ordinary' women's perceptions of security and their willingness to report feelings of dissatisfaction with security levels.
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My Social Media Inspiration: astronauts and boxers
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The social media space race is truly upon us. I used to call it the gold rush, but since I think that the technology at our disposal is a bit more advanced, I think that space race is more apt.
The rush to get social media off the ground at companies is really apparent. But many feel that rather than concentrating on one or two platforms at a time to spread their message, and assign departments to look after the social assets, they should be 'just out there doing it'. So they sign up for every account imaginable.
When an astronaut is going into space, he is breaking new ground. He could be making history. He could be doing something nobody has ever done before, or adding a new perspective to something we've grown accustomed to (the moon).
Did he just get his hands dirty and do it? No.
He was just one part of a carefully considered plan. From inception, to carrying out the launch, to orbiting the earth, to going boldly where no man has gone before, he breaks new ground meticulously, to eliminate all reasonable risks, and carry out a successful mission.
He was part of an amazing team that trained with him, prepared him, gave him mission targets, and smaller targets along the way. They monitored and measured his progress and gave him feedback. They helped him when he got stuck. They didn't leave him hanging.
Mission control were always there for the astronaut.
Contrary to popular belief, Mike Tyson wasn't just an animal in the ring.
Muhammad Ali was the greatest, but Tyson was the best. At his peak, he was unstoppable, but in his corner he had his mentor, his biggest fan and his trainer, Cus D'amato. Tyson was a quiet boy outside of the ring, who really studied and understood his art. D'Amato honed his talent into something great by forcing Tyson to watch endless training videos, mapping out his opponents and mercilessly targeting their weak spots.
Tyson, although he was a strong man, would not have been the brilliant fighter he was just by turning up and slugging it out. Planning and careful preparation was needed to make him the boxing monster that he was (forgive the irony of that last statement). Stupidity, lack of planning and forethought was what ruined him outside of the ring.
Which one would you rather be?
The heavyweight that doesn't prepare?
The astronaut that just hops into a shuttle and blasts off into space?
Or would you rather be part of a winning team. Social Media mission control. The one that they all turn to when times are tough. The one that can think himself out of a corner.
Which one do you want to be? And which one is your company?
Posted by Unknown at Thursday, March 03, 2011
Labels: 2011, brands, social media, sport
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Market Update: November 2020
Author: Brant Financial Group (Assante Capital Management Ltd.) | Articles, Market Updates
What happened in October?
Last month was particularly unkind to North American equity investors. A minor peak before mid-month started a week-long slide in equity values. The five trading days ending October 30th was the worst week for the major indices in North America since March 20th. October's second-half and overall drop was driven largely by the pandemic's resurgence. After declining numbers of new cases through September, the U.S. reported higher new cases during the last week of October than the peaks of 74,000+ per day in July. Canadian cases began to rise earlier, at the start of September, and continued throughout October reviving the need for business and social restrictions across our country. covid source 1 covid source 2 covid source 3
In March, more than six months ago, we faced a great deal of unknowns regarding the virus, the disease and measures to treat it, as well as slow its spread. Governments around the world, and in Canada, are struggling with the appropriate balance of public health measures and economic recovery actions.
Seemingly a long time ago, sensational coronavirus news arrived at the beginning of October when President Trump contracted the coronavirus. The lack of credible information regarding his condition, fueled uncertainty in markets on October 2nd. After gains on Wednesday and Thursday of that week, Trump's announcement in the early hours of Friday contributed to losses on the last day of that week when the NASDAQ dropped 2.2% of its value during a single trading session. Trump covid source
Negative U.S. employment news also intensified the drop on October 2nd. Only 661,000 American jobs were added during the month of September. This left 12.6 million Americans still unemployed and the unemployment rate at 7.9%. For comparison, in February before the pandemic, 6.8 million Americans were unemployed and the unemployment rate was just 4.4%, a historically low level. US employment source
Canada's recovery has also slowed. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 6.5% in June and only 3% in July. June's strong rebound was slowed in July. Again, for comparison, July's Canadian GDP was 5.8% below the output measured in February. July GDP source
On Tuesday, October 13th the International Monetary Fund (IMF) revised its prediction for global economic recovery, predicting 2020 economic activity as a 4.4% contraction compared with 2019. The IMF predicted that the Canadian economy will shrink 7.1% in 2020 and then grow 5.2% in 2021. The IMF placed our performance below global numbers and for other developed economies. IMF source
October 18th was Nancy Pelosi's self-imposed deadline to agree on a new stimulus package to support Americans. As the Democrat's House leader she and Steve Mnuchin, Secretary of Treasury negotiated past the deadline until the end of the week. No compromise was reached. Nancy Pelosi was portrayed as inflexible and the White House was viewed as focused on political games. Both positions were and continue to be unhelpful for struggling Americans, the economy and capital markets. Stimulus deal source
On an individual level, highly punitive taxes on the recently introduced Canada Recovery Benefit for self-employed individuals were enacted. It could provide a disincentive to taking on additional work. A conversation with your licensed tax practitioner is recommended to better understand this development for those working for themselves. CRB source
What's ahead for November and beyond?
Canadian investors will face two major issues for the balance of the year and into 2021:
The Canadian, North American and global progress against the coronavirus will be a guiding influence for markets, especially equities. Until economies return to production and employment levels that approach pre-Covid days, companies will have their revenue, earnings and, ultimately, share values trimmed. The triangle defined by the cities of Buffalo, Pensacola and Fargo is seeing the highest levels of new infections as the pandemic moves to less populated areas and smaller cities across the United States. In 2016 Donald Trump received high enough levels of support from these geographically large, yet sparsely populated areas to win electoral votes and the presidency while losing the popular vote. Covid source
On November 3rd, the outcome of elections for Congressional Senators and Representatives, as well as for President, will determine the nature of any economic stimulus response and public health measures against the coronavirus. During the early days of November, and perhaps for weeks to follow, the results of the election may be unclear and contested. Uncertainty provides fuel for market volatility. election source
The next few weeks and months will likely be a bumpy ride, unless one side wins a landslide victory and the pandemic is controlled effectively and quickly.
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Q: How to redirect from /:id to /:friendly_id Is is possible to force a 301 redirect when someone attempts to browse to a page using the old /:id URL, rather than than the preferred /:friendly_id link?
Apparently such redirections help to tell Google that you have updated the link.. so it stops displaying the old non-friendly link.

A: just defined the redirection inside the routes file
get '/:old_id', to: redirect {|params, req| "/#{X.find(params[:old_id]).friendly_id}" }

A: While James Chevalier's answer is correct, you can extract this method to the ApplicationController in order to use with any model that uses FriendlyId:
def redirect_resource_if_not_latest_friendly_id(resource)
  # This informs search engines with a 301 Moved Permanently status code that
  # the show should now be accessed at the new slug. Otherwise FriendlyId
  # would make the show accessible at all previous slugs.
  if resource.friendly_id != params[:id]
    redirect_to resource, status: 301
  end
end

As you can see it's also unnecessary to pass a specific action key to redirect_to. Passing a Rails model to redirect_to will automatically attempt to access the show action on the associated collection resource route (assuming it's set up that way). That also means it's unnecessary to pass an id key since FriendlyId always returns the latest slug in the model's #to_param.
Not being a huge fan of unless (confusing semantics) I tend to shy away from it but that's more my personal preference.

A: With the latest version of friendly_id (5.0.3 at the time of writing this answer) and Rails 4, I do this in the controller:
class ItemsController < ApplicationController
  before_action :set_item, only: [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy]

  ...

  private

  def set_item
    @item = Item.friendly.find(params[:id])
    redirect_to action: action_name, id: @item.friendly_id, status: 301 unless @item.friendly_id == params[:id]
  end
end

Here's a description of the redirect_to line, broken down piece by piece:

*

*action: action_name retains the action that you're connecting to (which can be show, edit, update, or destroy based on the before_action that's in place) so that if you're accessing /items/1/edit you will be redirected to /items/pretty-url/edit

*id: @item.friendly_id ensures that the URL you're being redirected to is the pretty URL

*status: 301 sets the redirect to the status of 301, for SEO

*unless @item.friendly_id == params[:id] makes sure that we're not redirecting people who access @item through its pretty URL

A: Routes
I don't think your routes are the problem here
The problem is the backend handling of the route (I.E whether it uses friendly_id or not). All Google will see is this:
domain.com/users/45
domain.com/users/your_user

If both of those routes work, Google will be happy. I think you're alluding to the idea that if you change the routes to only handle your_user, you'll need to be able to get Google to appreciate the redirects

Redirects
Considering you can handle both id and slug in the backend (we have code for this if you want), I'd handle redirects using the ActionDispatch::Routing::Redirection class:
  #config/routes.rb
  begin
    User.all.each do |u|
        begin
          get "#{u.id}" => redirect("#{u.slug}")
        rescue
        end
      end
  rescue
  end

A: Yes it is possible, you need to define both routes on your config/routes.rb
get 'path/:id' => 'controller#action'
get 'path/:friendly_id' => 'controller#action_2'

then in your legacy action method you need to provide a
return redirect_to controller_action_2_path(friendly_id: friendly_id),
                   status: :moved_permanently

this will generate a 301 response code. Which will eventually make bots start hitting your new pattern, without losing any of your traffic or indexing (SEO).


CHINA, April 1, 2019 Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, today announced two new appointments in China to further strengthen its regional sales team. Stephen Yin joins Grass Valley as sales manager and will be responsible for business in Shanghai and across east China. Max Ma has been appointed as sales manager and will assume responsibility for driving sales in southwest China.
Yin has more than 14 years of sales experience and joins Grass Valley from Sony (China) Professional Solutions Group, where he previously held the role of sales manager in the east China region. He graduated from Shanghai University with an MBA from Fudan University. He will be based in Chengdu.
Prior to joining Grass Valley, Ma was responsible for equipment procurement at a leading television network in China, Sichuan TV. He graduated from the University of Electronic Science and Technology with a master's degree in software engineering. Outside of his professional career, he is also a former member of China's national swim team. Ma will also be based in Chengdu.
Alain Wang, sales director China, Grass Valley commented: "We are very pleased to welcome both Stephen and Max to Grass Valley; their respective experience and skills will boost Grass Valley's focus and implementation in this important market. We look forward to their involvement as part of the Grass Valley China team — I am confident that they will make a significant contribution to our efforts to support and grow our customer base."
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Princeton High School presents an evening of Art & Music on February 22, 2019 from 6pm to 10pm.
The Numina Gallery will display artwork from students around the Princeton Public School District followed by a Big Band Dance hosted by the Princeton High School Jazz Bands. Refreshments will be available.
An ideal opportunity to experience first hand why the Visual and Performing Arts Department are a nationally-recognized program, and Princeton High School has been designated a New Jersey Model School in the Arts.


Has your housekeeping moved into the 21st century?
Christoph Hoffmann MIH looks at how better use of technology can help housekeeping departments.
Looking at the current industry press, it is obvious that the hospitality industry is now catching up in its use of technology and software: hand-held devices at the point of sales, online booking processes with smart revenue management software built in, guest feedback collection via various social media platforms, software to manage compliance and operational activities – the list could go on and on.
However, when it comes to housekeeping, it seems that times have not moved on and the team is stuck with lengthy manual processes, badly designed Excel spreadsheets, as well as pen and paper.
Housekeeping is usually seen as a cost centre as it doesn't directly produce revenue for the operation; however it is the backbone of the hotel and ensures that the room revenue stream continues to come in. A July 2016 survey by Direct365 found that '80% of people would leave a hotel room if it didn't meet their hygiene and cleanliness expectations.' Negative comments on social media, booking and guest feedback websites, will have a detrimental impact on booking behaviour.
Are you allowing your housekeeping team to perform at their best, by giving them accurate and timely information? Or is your housekeeping team relying on a 'rooms to clean list' printed at reception? Are your housekeeping managers wasting time trying to extract a VIP list from an Excel spreadsheet rather than spending time on the floor ensuring the required quality output is produced by the team across the board?
Moving forward, housekeeping operations will become more complex when hotels start to react to the requirements of future guest generations: guests will purchase a room for a certain period of time and not stick to the 2pm check-in 11am check-out pattern; they will be allowed to waive housekeeping services in exchange for vouchers or bonus points and will be able to purchase additional (housekeeping) service options at short notice. Such little changes in a hotel's service offering will have a huge impact on the running of the housekeeping operation and will require hoteliers to think about the way they are equipping their housekeeping teams.
information available to housekeeping operation? And for those housekeeping offices that do have a computer: is it up-to-date and set up to enable the team to perform a high-quality service?
How about looking into cloud-based housekeeping software and equipping your housekeeping team with mobile devices? Providing team members with the most up-todate data on the floor will limit the downtime of senior team members performing administrative tasks and reduce the waiting time of your front-line team members as they will be guided on what to do next. Allowing software to aid the communication of information between departments will reduce misunderstandings and drive accountability.
Approaching the subject from a recruitment angle, hotels already find it difficult to recruit for housekeeping positions. The younger generation is used to technology and the use of software to enable them to perform their work. If the housekeeping departments don't move into the 21st century quickly, it will be even more difficult to fill (senior) housekeeping positions and to run an efficient smooth housekeeping operation that satisfies the needs of guests.


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Q: extract multiple decimal numbers and trailing string from a string php I got strings in a file which look like this (coma or dot is used as the decimal point):
$str = "12,50  EUR, 3,5%";
$str = "12,50EUR, 3,5%";
$str = "12,50EUR,3,5%";
$str = "2,5%";
$str = "8,75  EUR";
$str = "12.50  EUR, 3,5%";
$str = "12,50  EUR, 3.5%";
$str = "2.5%"
$str = "8.75  EUR";
$str = "8.75EUR";
$str = "8,75EUR";

I would like to be able to extract from each string the numerical values followed by whatever symbol follows the number stripping out any white spaces or in between characters.
As an example the resulting associative array for
$str = "12,50  EUR, 3,5%";

should like like this (the resulting value always uses the dot as a decimal separator regardless of what it was before):
array = {
[12.75] => 'EUR',
[3.5] => '%'
}

A: <?php

$str []= "12,50  EUR, 3,5%";
$str []= "1EUR,2%";
$str []= "12,50EUR, 3,5%";
$str []= "12,50EUR,3,5%";
$str []= "2,5%";
$str []= "8,75  EUR";
$str []= "12.50  EUR, 3,5%";
$str []= "12,50  EUR, 3.5%";
$str []= "2.5%";
$str []= "8.75  EUR";
$str []= "8.75EUR";
$str []= "8,75EUR";

foreach ($str as $string) {
preg_match_all("/([0-9]+,*\.*[0-9]*\s*[A-Za-z%]*)/", $string, $results);
$ret= array();
if (isset($results[0][0])) {
        preg_match("/([0-9]+,*\.*[0-9]*)(\s*[A-Za-z%]*)/", $results[0][0], $res);
        $num = str_replace(",", ".", $res[1]);
        $sym = trim($res[2]);
        $ret[$num] = $sym;
}
if (isset($results[0][1])) {
        preg_match("/([0-9]+,*\.*[0-9]*)(\s*[A-Za-z%]*)/", $results[0][1], $res);
        $num = str_replace(",", ".", $res[1]);
        $sym = trim($res[2]);
        $ret[$num] = $sym;
}

var_dump($ret);
}


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Le Pare-feu Windows (en anglais, ) est un pare-feu personnel édité par Microsoft. Il est inclus dans les systèmes d'exploitation Microsoft Windows XP (SP2), Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 et Windows 10.

Pour Windows XP Édition familiale, Windows XP Professionnel, Windows XP Édition familiale Service Pack 1 (SP1) et Windows XP Professionnel SP1, Windows Firewall était nommé Pare-feu de connexion Internet (en anglais : Internet Connection Firewall, ou ICF).

Pour chaque interface réseau, un des trois profils est automatiquement activé :

 Le Profil Public suppose que le réseau est partagé avec le monde entier et est le profil le plus restrictif.
 Le Profil Privé suppose que le réseau est isolé d'Internet et autorise plus de connexions entrantes que le profil public. Un réseau n'est jamais considéré comme privé à moins qu'il ne soit désigné comme tel par l'administrateur local.
 Le Profil de Domaine est le moins restrictif. Cela permet d'augmenter le nombre de connexions entrantes pour le partage de fichiers, etc. Le Profil de Domaine est sélectionné automatiquement lorsqu'il est connecté à un réseau avec un domaine auquel l'ordinateur local fait confiance.

Les fonctionnalités de Journal de sécurité sont inclues et activées qui peuvent enregistrer les adresses IP et d'autres données liées aux connexions provenant d'un réseau domestique ou de bureau ou d'Internet. Il peut enregistrer à la fois des lots perdus et les connexions réussies. Cela peut être utilisé, par exemple, pour garder une trace de chaque connexion d'un ordinateur sur le réseau à un site Web. Ce Journal de sécurité n'est pas activé par défaut ; l'administrateur doit l'activer.

Le pare-feu Windows peut être contrôlé/configuré à l'aide de l'API orientée objet COM, de scripts à l'aide de la commande netsh, d'un outil d'administration graphique ou de manière centralisée à l'aide de stratégies de groupe. Quelle que soit leur configuration, toutes les fonctionnalités sont disponibles.

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 Présentation du Pare-feu Windows du Service Pack 2 Windows XP
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I.J. KING, MANAGER, EQUESTRIAN
MARJORIE VALBRUN, Staff WriterSUN-SENTINEL
Ione Joy King, who with her husband, Carl, lived in and managed one of the oldest condominums in western Broward County and used to lead parades riding on their palomino horses, died on Thursday. She was 82.
Mrs. King, who moved to Fort Myers last year, lived in Fort Lauderdale for most of her life. She was born in Rose City, Mich., in 1906 and came to Fort Lauderdale as a child.
Mrs. King and her husband moved into Floral Park Villas, 3000 NW 43rd Terrace, Lauderdale Lakes, shortly after it was built in 1964. Newspaper reports said it was the first condominium in western Broward County.
Now tucked in between single-family homes and strip shopping centers, it was surrounded years ago by horse pastures and swamp.
"They used to ride all the bridle paths near the condo," said Mrs. King's niece Martha Raugh.
In 1987, Mrs. King recalled the way her neighborhood once was.
"It's hard to remember it the way it used to be, just acres of beautiful rolling green meadows and horses," she said.
"And aside from the 7-Eleven store on the corner, there wasn't another building in sight."
Mrs. King ran the WE-KIVA Sightseeing Boat Service in the Fort Lauderdale area for 15 years and was a member of the Circle 2 of the First Presbyterian Church of Fort Myers.
Her husband, 86, said his wife was a "wonderful, most wonderful person in the world. She was a wonderful rider and loved animals."
Mrs. King is survived by her husband and niece.
Services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday at Forest Lawn Central Memorial Gardens in Fort Lauderdale. Arrangements are being handled by Fairchild Funeral Home, 299 N. Federal Highway.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Circle 2 of the First Presbyterian Church of Fort Myers or the Arabi Temple Crippled Children's Transportation Fund.