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PlayStation 4 – Month of August Game Releases
Month of August Starts with a bang!
Well starting from now we are going to do thing a little differently. We are going to highlight some games and list the whole list of games below. Without further due, here are some interest games being release this month.
Patapon Remastered (PSN) – August 1
The action pack rhythm base game Patapon from Japan Studio which garnered a lot of fans since it's PlayStation Portable days. The remaster version will be coming to the PlayStation 4 for fans old or new people who did not have a chance to play it before. Let's hope that Patapon 2 will also get a remastered release.
Batman: The Enemy Within 'Episode 1: The Enigma' (PSN) – August 1
After the success of Batman: The Telltale series, Telltale games will continue the story with a season 2 title Batman: The Enemy Within. There will be a total of 5 parts and the first part is titled The Enigma. Obviously we know who we will be facing in the first episode when it release August 1.
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (PSN) – August 1
Ninja Theory first release for the PlayStation 4 will be Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. If Ninja Theory sounds familiar, they are the developers behind the latest revamp of DmC: Devil May Cry. The also made Enslave: Odyssey to the West and PlayStation 3 exclusive titled game Heavenly Sword. The latest game promised the same hack and slash action but with a twist. The main character is suffering from depression, psychosis and hallucination. The game may be quite dark in the story department and the plot is still a mystery.
LawBreakers (PSN) – August 8
LawBreakers is a gravity defying team based first person shooter from Boss Key Productions. The gameplay is fast and mastering mobility is important for success. The developer had e-sports in mind when they created this game and hopefully it will be one of the contenders to Overwatch and CS:GO.
Undertale (PSN) – August 15
Undertale by Toby Fox finally makes it to the PlayStation 4. This game has gather a cult following with it's unique game mechanics and gameplay. You play as a human who fell underground to the world of monsters. As you go on, you must find your way out or die trying.
Sonic Mania (PSN) – August 15
After many fail attempts to revive the Sonic game, SEGA is finally bringing this game back to its roots. Featuring all old style 2D graphics. This game will please both the fans and old people who missed playing this iconic character. This game will feature all three Sonic, Tails and Knuckle as they continue the adventure where we left it off at the Sonic and Knuckles game.
Warriors All-Stars (Retail & PSN) – August 20
After years of making games, Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo has finally decided it is time to reveal their first all-star game. The game has characters from Dynasty Warriors, Dead or Alive, Toukiden, Nioh and many more battling out in Omega Force's hack and slash warrior style. This game is sure a love letter to fans of these developers.
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Retail & PSN) – August 22
After being absent from Uncharted 4, Chloe Frazer gets here own spin off game from without Nathan disturbing her. Joining her will be the infamous mercenary Nadine Ross from Uncharted 4. Nothing much has been said about the story but we know it will be in India and will involve some kind of artifact (sure it will, its an Uncharted game). With early gameplay footage showing some impressive visuals, this might be the biggest game for the month of August.
Yakuza Kiwami (Retail & PSN) – August 29
After the release of Yakuza 0, the much anticipated Yakuza Kiwami arrived. This game is a remastered of the original Yakuza game for the PlayStation 2 for North American players. With improvements not only to the graphics but also additional content. This is a great game to have if you didn't have the chance to play Yakuza on PlayStation 2
Life is Strange: Before the Storm 'Episode 1' (PSN) – August 31
Life is Strange was well received as one of the best graphic adventure game. During E3 2017, a prequel was announce title Life is Strange: Before the Storm. It will follow Max's friend Chloe Price on here adventure before events of Life is Strange. The game will be release in three parts with the first one on August 31.
These are a few highlights and many more game for the month of August as listed below.
CastleStorm VR (PSN)
Demetrios (PSN)
Dino Frontier (PSN)
Dreadnought Open Beta (PSN)
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun (Retail & PSN)
The Long Dark 'Episode One: Do Not Go Gentle' (PS4 – PSN)
The Long Dark 'Episode Two: Luminance Fugue' (PS4 – PSN)
ARK: Survival Evolved (Retail & PSN)
Blackhole: Complete Edition (PSN)
Comet Crash 2: The Kronkoid Wars (PSN)
Graceful Explosion Machine (PSN)
Masquerada: Songs and Shadows (Retail & PSN)
Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 (Retail & PSN)
Sine Mora EX (Retail & PSN)
The Sexy Brutale: Full House Edition (Retail)
Sudden Strike 4 (Retail & PSN)
Agents of Mayhem (Retail & PSN)
Cities: Skylines (Retail & PSN)
Matterfall (PSN)
Nidhogg 2 (PSN)
Night Trap (PSN)
Observer (PSN)
Zero Time Dilemma (Retail & PSN)
Bleed (PSN)
ChromaGun (PSN)
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy 'Episode 3: More Than a Feeling' (PSN)
The Escapists 2 (Retail & PSN)
Thimbleweed Park (PSN)
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School (Retail & PSN)
Wolfenstein: The Two-Pack (Retail)
F1 2017 (Retail & PSN)
Madden NFL 18 (Retail & PSN)
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Legacy (Retail & PSN)
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Trilogy (PSN)
One Piece: Unlimited World Red Deluxe Edition (PSN)
Absolver (PSN)
Dead Alliance Retail & PSN)
Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor (PSN)
Obduction (PSN)
Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition (Retail & PSN)
Redout: Lightspeed Edition (Retail & PSN)
Sparc (PSVR – PSN)
Windjammers (PSN)
XCOM 2 'War of the Chosen' DLC (PSN)
Last Day of June (PSN)
Resident Evil Revelations (Retail & PSN)
Also Scheduled for August 2017:
Demetrios: The BIG Cynical Adventure (PSN)
Hidden Dragon: Legend (PSN)
The Coma: Recut (PSN)
The Mummy Demastered (PSN)
The Pillars of the Earth: Book 1 (PSN)
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Bouygues Energies & Services to Acquire Canada's Plan Group
Annifer Jackson
|Jul 18| 5 min read
Bouygues Energies & Services, a subsidiary of Bouygues Construction, has acquired a majority shareholding in Plan Group, the Canadian technical services provider.
It is part of Bouygues Construction's international strategy and illustrates the Group's ambition to continue its development in Canada on all aspects of the construction value chain.
Plan Group conducts mechanical and electrical contracting, maintenance and technical services, building automation systems and network infrastructure. Based in Toronto, Ontario, as well as Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver, Plan Group achieved a turnover of €242 million and has an employee base of 1,700.
The acquisition remains subject to the approval of the local competition bureau.
Bouygues Energies & Services is already established in British Columbia via its subsidiary Bouygues Energies & Services Canada, which was set up in 2008 to oversee the Facilities Management of two PPP projects in Surrey, Vancouver: the Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre and the headquarters of the RoyalCanadian Mounted Police's E Division.
Bouygues Energies & Services has also been providing Facilities Management at Kelowna International Airport in British Columbia since 2013.
Jean-Philippe Trin, Chairman and CEO of Bouygues Energies & Services, said: "Canada currently offers high-yield short-term and long-term economic opportunities.
"Beyond Facilities Management and Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, we would like to take advantage of the excellent positioning of Plan Group in order to deploy our expertise in terms of HVAC, network infrastructures, HV lines, substations, street lighting, broadband), solar and biomass power plants."
Bouygues Energies & Services has proposed to Plan Group a business plan that creates the best conditions to develop its activities, together with a strong commitment towards the Plan Group employees.
After financial close, Bouygues Energies & Services will acquire 85 percent of the shares of Plan Group. The current management team will remain unchanged and will retain a 15 percent shareholding.

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Come meet some of my fantastic neighbors at the show. New this year is Inna Dzhanibekoba of Small Joy Studio. Trained as a biologist as well as a jeweler, her work is inspired by nature. A must see!
And As always Soli Pierce of Sherwood Forest Designs with her scrumptious salad bowls.
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Here is a interesting trend that I hope continues.
The FAQ for the Amiga application Digital Almanac III states that the developer was asked to port this program to Windows but instead of doing this he just told PC users to get WinUAE or Amithlon! He then goes on to list the specs and requirements for the program, on Amiga at least a 68020 on PC at least a 500Mhz box. I hope this trend from developers continues. Whenever someone asks for a PC port of a popular Amiga application the developer recommends WinUAE and keeps coding for Amiga OS.
UAE might in fact become Philosophically like what AmigaDE is trying to push. Write once run anywhere but this time under the real Amiga OS!
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So Pyro, have you purchased this title? The price isn't bad when you look at $45 USD, but I guess in some ways, I can see why he doesn't want to port it to other OS's, but, my feeling is that Astronomy apps don't seem to have much of an audience. This one does appear to have a lot more features then say, Distant Suns, but again unless you wanna become the next Carl Sagan or perhaps my brother I can't see much demand unless it does get ported to another platform.
It does seem to be a rather limiting attitude (in terms of getting his work out there); but you've got to love his audacity!
Thanks for the kind words, I am thinking about buying it but like you said its a Astronomy app and I have not done that since College. Might not hurt to help the guy out though since he is cool.
Might not hurt to help the guy out though since he is cool.
If the guy really deserves it and you need it or want it, go ahead and buy it. But I wouldn't buy a "Recipe Organization" program just because someone programmed it today for the Oric 1, and he charges 60 dollars for it.
But if it was said Recipe Organizator (We could call it the Recipetor64), I wouldn't even touch it That's why I never bought Apano Sin... It turned out to me a mildly average game.


New York, NY – Though just eight athletes competed this weekend, the UBC Thunderbirds track and field team took advantage of stiff competition and came away with a number of personal best performances. Four athletes were featured at the Armory Invitational in New York City on Saturday while another four competed Friday at the UW Invitational in Seattle, WA.
At one of the most prestigious events in the United States, Maria Bernard kicked off Saturday's action winning the first event of the day, section four of the women's 3,000m. Bernard managed to out lean Duke University's Madison Granger at the line in a time of 9:31.08, just over a tenth of a second ahead of second.
Bernard and Granger traded leads throughout the 15-lap race before the UBC athlete kicked down her Duke competitor with 50 metres to go nipping her in the final straightaway. The fourth-year, Calgary native clipped four seconds off her personal best in the indoor event set last season.
Devan Wiebe was next in the women's 800m, placing seventh in section seven in a time of 2:10.18, in a race won by Toronto's Gabriella Stafford (2:06.49). A night earlier, Stafford set a U of T, Armory, and Ontario record in the indoor 1,000m event.
The team of Wiebe, Bernard, Tamara Harris and Natalia Hawthorn concluded the meet in their marquee 4x800m relay event, finishing in sixth place with an overall time of 9:03.25. The team's respective splits were: Harris (2:15.77), Bernard (2:16.59), Hawthorn, (2:16.63), and Wiebe (2:14.29), in that order. Mississippi State won the event in a time of 8:56.57 while Sherbrooke was the top Canadian team in third (8:59.94).
In the multi-event disciplines, Julia Hawkins was 16th in the women's indoor pentathlon with 2736 points while Michael Przystupa (4344pts) and Mackenzie Koopmans (3844pts) were 15th and 16th in the men's heptathlon, respectively.
Justin Kent competed in the men's 5,000m on Friday as well, but was forced to drop out in the latter stages of the race.
Up next for the T-Birds track team is the Harry Jerome Indoor Games on February 7 at the Richmond Olympic Oval.


Of the several conditions which influence the growth of crops none is more important than the amount of water in or on the soil. While water in a thin film around the soil grains is absolutely essential to plants, an excess is as bad as a deficiency. The removal of this excess is known as land drainage. Surface drainage deals with the surface runoff, and under-drainage with the water which occupies the spaces between the soil grains. Most land has some natural drainage, but many acres have it to such a limited degree that an improvement therein is found profitable. "Too much water is detrimental because: "1. It makes areas so soft that they cannot be cultivated. When these soft areas are long and narrow in form, they cut the upland into irregular pieces that cannot be cultivated conveniently.
2. It delays cultivation, particularly in the spring.
3. It makes soils cold: (a) because in the spring more than half of the heat that the soil receives is used to warm this unnecessary water; (b) because its evaporation consumes heat that the soil could otherwise retain; and (c) because its presence in the soil prevents the entrance and downward movement of rainwater, which in the spring is usually warmer than the soil.
4. It crowds out the oxygen from between the soil grains, thus hindering the necessary decomposition of organic matter in the soil.
5. It prevents all crop growth where it stands on the soil to a sufficient depth. Where it stagnates only a few inches from the surface of the soil it prevents healthy root development below that depth. The shallow root system thus developed limits the depth from which the plant may get water, and with it plant food material.
The occurrence of an excess of water in a soil or on an area is an indication that some source supplies water faster than it can be removed. The water is either coming too fast or it is going too slowly. Areas at the foot of uplands from which numerous small or large springs run during the greater portion of the year owe their wetness to the excessive seepage from the upland; while retentive clays, due to the fineness of the soil, and flat muck or peat marshes, due to lack of fall, are too wet primarily because the water is very slowly removed from them.
It is evident that the drainage conditions on an area may be improved either by hindering the entrance of damaging water upon one side, or by facilitating its removal from the other. To accomplish one or both of these improvements drains must be constructed which will give gravity a better opportunity to remove surplus water.
4. A subsoil sufficiently porous to admit of some under-drainage.
4. Covered under-drains to facilitate the removal of damaging water from wet subsoils. Some areas need only one of these types, while others need them all.
When water oozes into the dead furrows and shallow ditches until they are kept wet almost continually it is an indication that the land needs tiling. The water table, instead of extending horizontally from a tile, bends upward at a slope that increases with the retentiveness of the soil. It is evident that laterals may be farther apart in sand than in clay, and that the deeper the laterals are the farther apart they may be. Four rods is a common interval in clay subsoils and eight rods in open subsoils. In muck or peat it is frequently best to put them eight rods apart at first, and if that does not prove to be close enough together an intermediate line may be put in later in each space, making them eventually four rods apart. In rare cases of springy soils it has been found necessary to have lines of tile two rods apart.
A single line of tile in a wet sag is frequently sufficient, but if more than four rods wide, two lines are better, each to be located as near to its side of the sag as seems necessary. In this way the centre of the sag, unless it is exceedingly low, will be protected from the seepage of the adjacent upland.
Mains are generally located parallel to a natural water course - a little to one side if there is danger of washing by the surface runoff. Sub-mains should be so laid out as to give the laterals a sufficient gradient without an excessive depth.
Instead of permitting each lateral to discharge directly into the outlet ditch, it is best to put in a main perhaps four rods away from the ditch and parallel to it, to receive the discharge from the laterals. The expense is but little greater because of the saving in the length of the laterals, and there is an advantage in having only one outlet - that of the main - to look after.
The water in an outlet ditch should be enough below the banks to afford an outlet for a line of tile which may be laid to it from any part of the marsh of which the ditch is the direct outlet. This line of tile is entitled to a depth of 3 feet at the head, and a gradient of 0.1 foot in 100 feet. On a marsh exactly level and with no part more than half a mile from an outlet ditch, this means that the 3 feet of depth at the head, added to the 2.64 feet of fall in a half mile requires a depth a little more than 5 1/2 feet deep at the outlet. With an allowance of 2 1/2 feet for the depth of the water in the outlet ditch, it is evident that, under these conditions, it should be dug 8 feet deep. Where there is a surface slope toward the ditch, its depth may be decreased by an amount equal to the fall causing the slope. Following this rule, the depth may, in rare cases, be reduced to 4 feet. Tile outlets may be submerged for a short time during flood flow without serious results.


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Updated 03:19 (UTC) on Mon 20 Jan 2020
Another sunny day after a frosty morning.
A frosty start to Monday with localised patches of fog, some of which may be slow to clear. Otherwise, it will be fine and dry with plenty of sunshine. Temperatures staying on the chilly side, especially where the fog lingers. Maximum temperature 6 °C.
It will be clear and frosty in the west tonight, but with widespread fog and freezing fog developing elsewhere through the early hours. Turning frosty under the clear skies. Minimum temperature -4 °C.
After a frosty and foggy morning for many, the rest of Tuesday looks to be dry with plenty of afternoon sunshine. Feeling cold, especially where fog is slow to clear. Maximum temperature 5 °C.
The coming days look to be mostly cloudy and chilly, with patchy rain at times. Fog patches are expected to form overnight, some possibly lingering late into the day.
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Q: Choosing prior for $\sigma^2$ in the normal (polynomial) regression model $Y_i | \mu, \sigma^2 \sim \mathcal{N}(\mu_i, \sigma^2)$ I have the polynomial regression model
$$Y_i | \mu, \sigma^2 \sim \mathcal{N}(\mu_i, \sigma^2), i = 1, \dots, n \ \text{independent}$$
$$\mu_i = \alpha + \beta_1 x_{i1} + \beta_2 x_{i2} + \beta_3 x^2_{i1} + \beta_4 x^2_{i2} + \beta_5 x_{i1} x_{i2}$$
$$\alpha \sim \text{some suitable prior}$$
$$\beta_1, \dots, \beta_5 \sim \text{some suitable prior}$$
$$\sigma^2 \sim \text{some suitable prior}$$
So far, I have chosen the uninformative priors
$$\alpha \sim \mathcal{N}(0, 1000^2)$$
$$\beta_i \sim \mathcal{N}(0, 1000^2)$$
based on previous examples of uninformative priors for regression models.
But how do I go about choosing a prior for $\sigma^2$? In other words, how does one make this determination?
I have come across examples such as $\sigma^2 \sim \text{half-Cauchy}(0, 5)$, but I am unsure what I should be using?
I would greatly appreciate it if people could please take the time to clarify this.
EDIT: In addition to Ben's response, I will add some useful information that I've found during my research.

All credit goes to Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath.

The Cauchy distribution is a useful thick-tailed probability distribution related to the Student t distribution. ... You can think of it as a weakly regularizing prior for standard deviations. ... But note that it is not necessary to use a half-Cauchy. The uniform prior will still work, and a simple exponential prior is also appropriate. In this example, as in many, there is so much data that the prior hardly matters.

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Gelman (2006) recommends the half-Cauchy because it is approximately uniform in the tail and still weak near zero, without the odd behavior of traditional priors like the inverse-gamma. Polson and Scott (2012) examine this prior in more detail. Simpson et al. (2014) also note that the half-Cauchy prior has useful features, but recommend instead an exponential prior.

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Gelman (2006) makes the following recommendations:

7 Recommendations
7.1 Prior distributions for variance parameters
In fitting hierarchical models, we recommend starting with a noninformative uniform prior density on standard deviation parameters $\sigma_\alpha$. We expect this will generally work well unless the number of groups $J$ is low (below 5, say). If $J$ is low, the uniform prior density tends to lead to high estimates of $\sigma_\alpha$, as discussed in Section 5.2. This miscalibration is an unavoidable consequence of the asymmetry in the parameter space, with variance parameters restricted to be positive. Similarly, there are no always-nonnegative classical unbiased estimators of $\sigma_\alpha$ or $\sigma_\alpha^2$ in the hierarchical model.
A user of a noninformative prior density might still like to use a proper distribution-- reasons could include Bayesian scruple, the desire to perform prior predictive checks (see Box, 1980, Gelman, Meng, and Stern, 1996, and Bayarri and Berger, 2000) or Bayes factors (see Kass and Raftery, 1995, O'Hagan, 1995, and Pauler, Wakefield, and Kass, 1999), or because computation is performed in Bugs, which requires proper distributions. For a noninformative but proper prior distribution, we recommend approximating the uniform density on $\sigma_\alpha$ by a uniform on a wide range (for example, $\text{U}(0, 100)$ in the SAT coaching example) or a half-normal centered at 0 with standard deviation set to a high value such as 100. The latter approach is particularly easy to program as a $\mathcal{N}(0,100^2)$ prior distribution for $\zeta$ in (2).
When more prior information is desired, for instance to restrict $\sigma_\alpha$ away from very large values, we recommend working within the half-$t$ family of prior distributions, which are more flexible and have better behavior near 0, compared to the inverse-gamma family. A reasonable starting point is the half-Cauchy family, with scale set to a value that is high but not off the scale; for example, 25 in the example in Section 5.2. When several variance parameters are present, we recommend a hierarchical model such as the half-Cauchy, with hyperparameter estimated from data.
We do not recommend the $\text{inverse-gamma}(\epsilon, \epsilon)$ family of noninformative prior distributions because, as discussed in Sections 4.3 and 5.1, in cases where $\sigma_\alpha$ is estimated to be near zero, the resulting inferences will be sensitive to $\epsilon$. The setting of near-zero variance parameters is important partly because this is where classical and Bayesian inferences for hierarchical models will differ the most (see Draper and Browne, 2005, and Section 3.4 of Gelman, 2005). Figure 1 illustrates the generally robust properties of the uniform prior density on $\sigma_\alpha$. Many Bayesians have preferred the inverse-gamma prior family, possibly because its conditional conjugacy suggested clean mathematical properties. However, by writing the hierarchical model in the form (2), we see conditional conjugacy in the wider class of half-$t$ distributions on $\sigma_\alpha$, which include the uniform and half-Cauchy densities on $\sigma_\alpha$ (as well as inverse-gamma on $\sigma_\alpha^2$ ) as special cases. From this perspective, the inverse-gamma family has nothing special to offer, and we prefer to work on the scale of the standard deviation parameter $\sigma_\alpha$, which is typically directly interpretable in the original model.

So it seems that Gelman (2006) is recommending, contrary to Ben's post, that we use either half-Cauchy, half-normal, or uniform priors instead of the inverse-gamma prior.

A: Bayesian analysis commonly uses conjugate priors to give a simple closed-form for the model.  In Bayesian regression the conjugate priors are a multivariate normal prior for the coefficients, and an inverse-gamma prior for the error variance (equivalently, a gamma prior for the error precision).  For the standard regression model $\boldsymbol{Y} = \boldsymbol{x} \boldsymbol{\beta} + \boldsymbol{\varepsilon}$ with $\boldsymbol{\varepsilon} \sim \text{N}(\boldsymbol{0}, \sigma^2 \boldsymbol{I})$, the conjugate prior is:
$$\boldsymbol{\beta} | \sigma \sim \text{N}(\boldsymbol{\beta}_0, \sigma^2 \boldsymbol{\Sigma}_0) \quad \quad \quad \sigma^2 \sim \text{Inv-Gamma}(a_0, s_0).$$
The resulting model form can be further simplified by setting $\boldsymbol{\Sigma}_0 \propto (\boldsymbol{x}^{\text{T}} \boldsymbol{x})^{-1}$, which means that the prior variance matrix for the coefficients is proportional to the posterior variance matrix (and hence, we can easily measure the prior strength relative to the strength of the data).  The prior is often also set to be highly diffuse, by taking $a_0 \approx 0$, $s_0 \approx 0$ and $|\boldsymbol{\Sigma}_0^{-1}| \approx 0$.  The posterior distribution for this model form is well-known and is easy to work with, so it is a common choice of prior in Bayesian analysis, in the absence of specific prior information.
Another common alternative to this conjugate prior is the empirical-Bayes approach, which uses Zellner's g-prior for the coefficients.  This "prior" distribution derives from an empirical-Bayes procedure and depends on the response data, so it is not strictly a prior belief (i.e., it cannot be formed prior to seeing the response data).  Nevertheless, it is also a popular choice as it has certain desirable posterior properties (e.g., it generalises from maximum-likelihood estimation).

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Q: Testing doze and standby mode I switched off the screen display of my Nexus 5 device running Android M and then issued the following commands.
im17-x0:~ r.j$ adb shell dumpsys battery unplug
im17-x0:~ r.j$ adb shell dumpsys deviceidle step
Stepped to: IDLE_PENDING
im17-x0:~ r.a$ adb shell dumpsys deviceidle step
Stepped to: SENSING
im17-x0:~ r.a$ adb shell dumpsys deviceidle step
Stepped to: IDLE

Now ideally my device should go to idle mode. But i started a CountDownTimer before putting it in idle mode and its still running.
Also the network access is still there in my phone ( checked using this function)
Why is the device not going in doze mode? Following the options from here for standby mode also has the same effect. Why?
Also in that timer,if i check for isDeviceIdleMode(), it returns true.

A: I've got a few tips for you here:
Network Access
I'd suggest testing network access by actually attempting a network call and logging it out. There's a documented bug with checking network access programmatically while in idle mode: https://code.google.com/p/android-developer-preview/issues/detail?id=3164
Checking Idle/Doze Mode
There isn't much documentation out there, but there are some methods which aren't muted by Doze mode. Using CountDownTimer might be one of those. I'd try setting an alarm using setExact(), which has been documented not to work when the app is in idle mode. If you can log something out when that alarm fires, you're definitely not in idle mode.
Let me know how that works for you!

A: As of now, the behavior looks like this

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*isDeviceIdleMode() will return true.

*Network availability check in the app always returns true.( Checked    using this function)

*There is no change in the network (no network broadcast fired ) when    a device enters and comes out of doze mode. However, there is a    broadcast fired(doze broadcast)  when the device goes into and comes    out of doze mode.

*However we can't make a network call in doze mode.( Tried using    HttpUrlConnection)

For getNetworkInfo() returning true in doze mode, there is a bug reported in Android (Link)

A: Here is some useful information on Idle Mode:
deviceidle - Is a new android service, that will always run and listen for the several system events, which can trigger it in/out of the idle mode (also known as a Doze mode):
1.Screen on/off
2.Charging status
3.Significant motion detect

DeviceIdleController - When the device is awake and in-use, the controller is in the ACTIVE state. External events like inactivity time-out, user powering off the screen, motion detection ... will drive the state machine into INACTIVE.
This state machine contains seven states:
1.ACTIVE - Device is in use, or connected to a charge source.
2.INACTIVE - Device has recently come out of the active state, meaning that user turned off the display or unplugged it.
3.IDLE_PENDING - Hold on, we are about to enter idle mode.
4.SENSING
5.LOCATING
6.IDLE - Device is idle.
7.IDLE_MAINTENANCE - Window is open for applications to do processing. Then will back to IDLE.

Idle State - In order to put the device into an Idle state you can use the following adb commands:
>adb shell dumpsys battery unplug
>adb shell dumpsys deviceidle force-idle

Active State - In order to put the device back into the Active state you may simulate the following key event:
> adb shell input keyevent KEYCODE_WAKEUP

I also needed a quick option to toggle between Active and Idle states so I wrote a batch script adbIdleModeSwitch.bat for these purposes, you may download and use it:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B81qFnPX_eUUYTMxOTd1UG94NVk/view

A: I think the network will still come back as connected while in doze ( if you have a network connection) , however if you try to do anything other than GCM it will throw you an error.

A: REWRITE: My original answer hypothesized that your device wasn't actually in Doze mode, hence the link to improved instructions for getting into Doze mode and Diving Into Android 'M' Doze about IDLE_MAINTENANCE state where network activities are allowed to run.
My new hypothesis is (1) when deviceidle step replies Stepped to: IDLE, the device is in Doze mode, and (2) Doze mode is not behaving as we expect.
Google has updated the page Optimizing for Doze and App Standby, but it doesn't jive with your findings. They've provided additional info at Understanding what Doze mode means for your app and A flowchart for background work, alarms, and your Android app. Also see Issue 2225.
I'm afraid this still doesn't explain your results. Doze mode is complicated and under-documented.
Q. Is your app whitelisted? The Optimizing for Doze and App Standby page says:

An app that is whitelisted can use the network and hold partial wake locks during Doze and App Standby.

BTW, the command
adb shell dumpsys deviceidle

displays the current state (e.g. IDLE) and other info including the charging, motion, and screen on/off state that are prerequisites for Dozing, also the whitelist. This is useful for debugging.


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«Black Velveteen» es una canción del artista estadounidense Lenny Kravitz. Fue lanzado como último sencillo de su quinto álbum titulado "5", en noviembre de 1999.

Video
El video musical, dirigido por Samuel Bayer, trata de representar lo que la canción realmente dice en sus letras. Aparece Kravitz y algunas mujeres desnudas de una manera artística y significativa.

Véase también
 Discografía de Lenny Kravitz

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Página web oficial de Lenny Kravitz

Sencillos de 1999
Sencillos de Lenny Kravitz

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MP3 + Alarm Clock? Why Not.
Alarm Clocks are old technology, but how about an alarm clock that is also a MP3 player with up to 4GB's flash memory? This is definatley not a function that you will see on just any MP3 Player. Choose your favorite songs to wake up to anytime.
Added to this are bonus features of a FM Tuner, a SD card reader taking up to 4GB cards, and a really powerful 2x 4W speaker system to really get you up in the morning.
Not a bad gadget MP3 player, and a nice addition to your bedroom desktop.


Communication between home and school is a high priority in the Smithfield Public Schools. Ongoing communication and shared resources among parents and teachers is a core value of the Smithfield Public Schools, and we, as parents, teachers, administrators, share the responsibility of modeling for our children the process of working together and of teaching the benefits of open and honest communication. Use our Family Communication Guide to become familiar with the ways you can communcate with the team involved in your child's success!


Just visiting the blog site – a rare event, as I am so busy most of the time – and noticed that it's been one year and one day since I last posted.
Wish I could say that I have some great and profound realization to share from this year of contemplation, but it seems the things I was saying then are yet true. The self is my undoing, the attachment to its successes and failures my torment, and the passing of time a constant source of wonder and sadness.


Potentially the best performer in many reviews, and for many years, Samsung is perhaps the most consistent in terms of quality. Checking on customer satisfaction and overall output, Samsung TVs are on the top of the list when it comes to best buys. Recent designs have a sleeker, smaller size, with the thin design offering great value for money. Nothing beats a great TV at a pocket friendly rate.
Another top brand that has been known to provide great value for money is LG. Considered by many as one of the most reliable brand, this TV offers you a range of prices to choose from, and a variety of sizes all suited for different needs. Although all of its TVs are quality fitted, they work great, they look good, they are reliable, and they've left a large population of their customers happy after they bought them.
Arguable one of the best looking brand around, TVs from SONY have been known to be quite eye catching, but unlike the previously mentioned brands, these TVs tend not to match up in terms of quality. According to recent reviews, this brand has made the list of don't buys, but people in the U.K still buy them nonetheless, mostly because they just look good. It doesn't have a great score when it comes to customer satisfaction and reliability.
Finally, considered one of the lesser brands, Panasonic has become a popular TV due to its pocket friendly rates. It does have some great pieces, but it also has some that come up short in terms of quality. As a budget TV it rarely makes the cut when it comes to customer satisfaction, but when you are on a budget sometimes your options are limited. This is one of the brands that literally has 'you get what you pay for' written all over it.


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Auto Racing And Motorsports Television Listings for 1/10/23 – 1/15/23
January 10, 2023 Lou Modestino
Listings are from Racing TV Schedule….
Tuesday, January 10, 2022 Motorsports Events
6:00am – 7:00am FIM Enduro GP MavTV
8:00am – 9:00am Australian Superbike Championship MavTV
1:00pm – 2:00pm GT World Challenge America 2019: Round 4, Sonoma MavTV
5:00pm – 6:00pm World MX GP Rd 2 – Mantova, Italy MavTV
6:30pm (Streaming) Dakar Rally Stage 9 – Riyadh to Haradh Peacock
6:00pm – 8:00pm MotoAmerica LIVE Barber Motorsports Park-Race 1 MavTV
9:00pm – 10:00pm (New) The Dangerous Race: Isle of Man MavTV
Wednesday, January 11, 2023 Motorsports Events
8:00am – 9:00am British Touring Car Championship MavTV
2:00pm – 3:00pm NHRA NHRA Drag Racing, Texas Motorplex in Ennis, Texas. FS2
3:00pm – 4:00pm NHRA NHRA Drag Racing FS2
4:00pm – 5:00pm NHRA NHRA Drag Racing From Auto Club Raceway FS2
5:00pm – 6:00pm NHRA Sportsman Series Top Moments of 2022 FS2
6:00pm – 6:30pm NHRA NHRA Drag Racing, zMAX Dragway in Concord, N.C FS2
6:30pm (Streaming) Dakar Rally Stage 10 – Haradh to Shaybah Peacock
6:30pm – 7:00pm NHRA NHRA Drag Racing, Gateway in Madison, Ill FS2
7:30pm – 8:00pm NHRA Pro Mod Series Top Moments of 2022 FS2
8:00pm – 11:00pm NHRA NHRA Drag Racing FS2
Thursday, January 12, 2023 Motorsports Events TV
1:00pm – 2:00pm Extreme E Off-Road Racing: Highlights FS2
2:00pm – 3:00pm Off Road Racing Extreme E Highlights Sardinia, Italy FS2
3:00pm – 4:00pm Extreme E Championship Highlights Sardinia, Italy II FS2
4:00pm – 5:00pm Extreme E Championship Highlights Antofagasta, Chile II FS2
5:00pm – 6:00pm Extreme E Champ. Highlights Punta del Este, Uruguay FS2
6:00pm – 7:00pm NASCAR Race Hub 2022 Truck Season Recap FS2
6:30pm (Streaming) Dakar Rally Stage 11 – Shaybah to Empty Quarter Marathon Peacock
7:00pm – 8:00pm NASCAR Race Hub Best of Features 2022 FS2
8:00pm – 9:00pm (New) Trans Am Series MavTV
Friday, January 13, 2023 Motorsports Events
12:00pm – 12:30pm NHRA Pro Mod Series Top Moments of 2022 FS2
12:30pm – 1:30pm NHRA Sportsman Series Top Moments of 2022 FS2
1:30pm – 2:00pm NHRA in 30 They Walked Away 5 FS2
2:00pm – 2:30pm NHRA in 30 Drivers to Owners FS2
6:30pm (Streaming) Dakar Rally Stage 12 – Empty Quarter Marahton to Shaybah Peacock
9:30pm – 12:00am (New) AMA Arenacross Series Rd 4 — Prescott Valley, AZ MavTV
Saturday, January 14, 2023 Motorsports Events
9:30am – 10:00am (New) Mobil 1 The Grid CBSSN
2:00pm (Live Stream) AMA Supercross Series Oakland Qualifying Peacock
6:30pm (Streaming) Dakar Rally Stage 13 – Shaybah to Al-Hofuf Peacock
8:00pm (Live Stream) AMA Supercross Series Oakland Night Show Peacock
Sunday, January 15, 2023 Motorsports Events
12:00pm – 1:00pm Dakar Rally Stages 12 & 13 CNBC
1:00pm – 4:00pm (Replay) AMA Supercross Series Oakland Night Show CNBC
6:00pm – 7:00pm Trans Am Series MavTV
6:30pm (Streaming) Dakar Rally Stage 14 – Al-Hofuf to Dammam Peacock
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Race Of Champions "Family Of Series" Championship Celebration Set For Saturday, January 21, 2023 In Mount Morris, N.Y.
Modified Racing Series Gets Milton CAT Sponsorship


The 2012 Gold Coast Motorcycle Expo approaches – February 17-19, 2012.
Motorcycle, scooter and PWC enthusiasts have a couple of weeks to wait until the highly-anticipated Australian Motorcycle Expo, presented by QBE, opens at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre.
From February 17-19 the central Broadbeach venue will be packed to capacity with the latest leisure and commuting craft for the land and water from over 100 manufacturers and industry exhibitors.
Apparel, safety gear, aftermarket parts, memorabilia and media are just a few of the other industry exhibits that will be on display, with event-exclusive specials promised.
Welcomed for its family-friendly atmosphere, the 2012 instalment of the popular exhibition will be no different, with a range of exciting activities, demonstrations and giveaways to keep everyone satisfied.
Australia's best action sports teams will put on a host of daily demo's to thrill crowds, who can watch from the surrounding parklands or on a level vantage point from the venue's open balcony.
The Monster Energy Showtime FMX team is renowned as the best in the business and is eager to put on an explosive show of high-flying antics.
Former Crusty and Nitro Circus riders will throw down freestyle motocross' biggest and best tricks in a series of daily performances.
Awarded trials rider Jack Field and his Flair Entertainment Trials show will wow crowds with incredible bike control, negotiating a series of obstacles and even performing a back flip from a kicker just 30cm high.
The ever-popular Brown's Grafix Mini Moto team will bring a light-hearted feel to the festivities with their entertaining display of tricks on 50cc motorcycles – thrills and spills assured!
But the action is not just on land. Australia's best flat-water freestyle jet ski riders will perform the latest in extreme water entertainment, throwing back flips, barrel rolls and 360's just metres from the water's edge.
Celebrated World Superbike Champion Troy Bayliss will be on hand to meet with fans, along with a number of other special guests to be announced in the leadup to the event.
Stay connected with the latest news on facebook (facebook.com/AustralianMotorcycleExpo) or visit the website at www.motorcycleshow.com.au.


Newsroom diversity is improving, however, it is far from the fair representation of the general population. Last fall, the American Society of News Editors announced that minority journalists make up only 16.6 percent of newsrooms. Last year, a group of VOICES students reported on the delayed promise of newsroom diversity and investigated the hiring decisions of five of nation's largest news organizations.
In response to the problem, many organizations initiated diversity fellowships that provide opportunities of professional development, mentorship and networking. We asked AAJA students to share their experience with their diversity fellowships.
– Sheila Raghavendran, Voices class of 2017. Sheila works with WYSO Public Radio. Read and listen to her works here and here.
– Waverly Colville, who worked on the breaking news desk and on the show Closing Bell's production team. Her duty ranged from running social media for the CNBCTravel, making graphs, and writing short reporter scripts and stories for the website. Read about her work here and here.
"We had the opportunity to discuss race during a race-related meeting with top POC editors of the paper. Among the students (25 in my year, including myself) we also had discussions about race that continue even until today. Working with almost all PoC was truly the best journalism experience I've ever had, and it was really inspirational (that's overused, but I never call anything inspiring). It was like a wonderful taste of what could be and what we want.
– Diamond Naga Siu. Read about her work here.
– Claire Tran, Voices class of 2018. Claire is an editorial fellow at CityLab, the urban life publication of The Atlantic. Previously, she interned at publications such as NBC News and the New England Center for Investigative Reporting.
– Salgu Wissmath, Voices class of 2018. Read their work here.


I get bored sometimes too, son, so . . . I get it. I really do. Heck, I'm bored right now, truth be told. You don't need my help in class at the moment, but I need to stay available in case that changes because that's my job. It's not just an important job, it's important to me that I do it and do it well, but perpetually thrilling it is not because I assure you that getting you a snack so you can keep your focus on class is never the highlight of my day.
It's okay to be bored though. Bored happens, and what you're doing right now is exactly the right way to handle it. You're quietly keeping yourself busy while still paying enough attention that you know what's going on so you can focus your attention fully when it's needed.
Just like I am right now, in fact.
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Once upon a time cameraphones were a rarity and a camera wasn't something people looked for in their phones. Fast forward to 2011 or so and pretty much every phone now comes with a camera. Naturally there's been an evolution of camera technology, but the basic principle has remained the same. There's always one lens with multiple elements that captures the image as a whole. However, there's a new technology emerging that could completely change imaging, it's called plenoptic imaging. Not only will it improve quality vastly and get rid of problems such as noise, but will also allow users unprecedented changes after the photo has been taken! Read on for more about plenoptic lenses, how they work and their future.
What are plenoptic lenses and how do they work?
So what exactly are plenoptic lenses? In the simplest terms, they are an array of multiple "sub lenses". While traditional lenses consist of mechanical parts that work together to capture one image at a single focus, plenoptic lenses work on multiples. Instead of each sub lens capturing the exact same image, they capture different focal planes and only one of the three primary colors, red, green or blue. This means that each sub lens captures a single color version of different focal length than the other sub lenses, which is then combined with all other lens captures to form one single image.
The advantages from such a setup are numerous. Since each sub lens captures different colors, there is no cross talk or interference in the final image. It's effectively capturing different "versions" of each image, so you have the most true to life interpretation of it. Now the clever part is that since all these lenses are placed apart but capture whatever they're pointed at, they even capture 3D depth. After all of this has been done, it's the software and algorithms that combine it into one image. Size wise it's slightly larger than a regular JPEG file, but contains far more information and far less noise. Now the trade off is that all this magic requires quite a bit of processing power, which is why two big companies are investing in its future for smartphones.
Enter Nokia and Qualcomm, who are backing up Pelican Imaging, a plenoptic lens manufacturer in a big way. Nokia is known to be the king of smartphone imaging, and with the Pelican tie up, even better things could happen. There are rumors that we could see a Pelican Imaging powered Lumia by mid 2014 or earlier. Coupled with PureView's optical image stabilization and algorithms, it could mean absolutely stunning photos that surpass even the Nokia 808 PureView. Qualcomm's powerful mobile SoC's are being used to make plenoptic lens imaging possible in smaller form factors, and there are already reference tablets using Pelican lenses.
Not only will picture quality be greater, but it will allow for a staggering amount of post capture tweaking. Since different focal planes are captured, even after the picture is taken you can adjust what part of the photo has to be focused. You can also remove elements from the photo, without disturbing the rest of it. Plus, this arrangement of multiple sub lenses also helps greatly with low light imaging. The best part is, even though it's so much more advanced, the actual imaging unit is about half the size of a regular lens and the cost isn't too high either. This is of course, is with reference to a prospective smartphone size unit by Pelican that has 16 sub lenses. There is already a commercial plenoptic lens camera called Lytro that does all of these things, and costs 399$.
It might take a while before plenoptic lens cameras are seen on smartphones, but when they do arrive, it will usher in a new area of cameraphones. With two tech giants backing up this technology, the future of Pelican Imaging and plenoptic lenses does seem quite bright. So what do you think of this new type of imaging? Drop us a comment with your views below!
Nintendo Wii U release date and price announced!


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A.J. Phillips Fenton Museum
The A.J. Phillips Fenton Museum is an original building from 1900. A.J. Phillips' heirs donated the building to the city in 1906. Most recently, the building housed the Fenton Library (now the Jack R. Winegarden Library) until it moved to its present location in the old Post Office. The building is maintained and owned by the City, while its contents are owned and kept by the Fenton Historical Society. The Museum is divided into areas by theme.
The Museum houses an extensive genealogy room for Fenton and the surrounding area. It has cemetery records for all over Genesee County.
The Victorian Room is an exact reproduction of what A.J. Phillips' personal office looked like. This wasn't his professional office, where he conducted business, but a personal office, akin to a study. Even some of the furniture housed in the room are original pieces that belonged to A.J. Phillips.
The Historical Society is the keeper of school history for Fenton and has an area of the Museum devoted to it. The Museum has the names of every Fenton graduate dating back to 1869.
There are many vintage pieces of clothing, tools and other materials from earlier periods, all of which with local ties. There are tools on display that date back to about the mid-1800s. There is a fully-set kitchen, to depict what such a room looked like at that same time. The Museum houses a collection of early Fenton-area newspapers dating back to the 1840s, including the Fenton Independent from 1869 onward (minus a gap between the 1920s to 1950s, which is a story in itself). Getting slightly more modern, there is also a sights and sounds room, which houses many old televisions and photographer studio cameras.
One of the prime areas of the Museum is the display of military and war items tied to Fenton. This area showcases pieces from the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the World Wars and Vietnam. A key piece is a sword that belonged to Col. William Fenton himself, given to him by the City of Flint when he took command of the 8th Michigan Infantry.
Many pieces came to the Museum through John Cox, an auctioneer who often acquired pieces on behalf of the Historical Society. The Society gets offers of new pieces for the Museum on a regular basis but does not have sufficient room to house everything. They do welcome offers and will take pieces of significance as they can.
The Museum is staffed by Historical Society volunteers and is open to the public on Sundays from 1 to 4 pm, but arrangements can be made for group tours as well.
Downtown Area Parking Map (PDF)
Fenton Library
Fenton Parks
History Of Fenton
Fenton: Be Closer


#Winechat is a great opportunity for novice to experienced wine lovers to join in a discussion. Participants include winemakers, importers, bloggers, retailers and more. It takes place the last Wednesday of every month on Twitter from 9:00pm to 10:00pm (ET) using the hashtag #winechat.
Every month a new topic is discussed. Topics vary from wine closures to wine regions and more. The chat allows an honest and active conversation to happen between and among guest/consumers, winemakers, importers, and distributors.
To participate, simply join the conversation at 9:00pm (ET) the last Wednesday of every month on Twitter using the hashtag #winechat. There will also be updates on Just the Bottle about topics as well as on the #winechat Facebook page.
To suggest topics, offer samples, offer to host, or for further information please contact Christina Portz directly at christinaportz[@}gmail.com.


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The Millennial Man | Real men read here
Mac Miller Had Soul
Mac Miller was found dead in his home on September 7th in what is highly suspected to be an accidental drug overdose. He was 26.
Miller emerged during the early 2010's frat rap scene, that pesky strain of hip-hop where white twenty-somethings turn lyrics about beer bongs and topless coeds into party anthems for blacked-out college kids (i.e. Asher Roth's I Love College). The music was shallow and the artists unlikeable. To think that any one of them could escape the genre and evolve into an actual musician was comical. But Mac Miller did just that.
Miller's impact on music can be measured by the number of tributes and memorials that have poured in from artists like Drake, Childish Gambino, J. Cole, John Mayer, and even Elton John. Interviews with friends and collaborators portray Miller as a genuinely good person with a legendary work ethic. In this interview with Larry King, Miller comes across as a down to earth average guy, albeit one who clearly has his demons.
As you can probably tell, I have spent the last 2 weeks stuck inside a Mac Miller wormhole, cycling between YouTube and Apple Music, witnessing a once self-proclaimed corny white rapper evolve into a singer, songwriter, collaborator, producer, instrumentalist, and maybe most impressively a performer. If there's one thing I learned during this crash course, it's this: Mac Miller had soul. Here now are examples 1a, b, c, d, e, and f.
Objects In The Mirror (feat. The Internet)
NPR Tiny Desk Concert (feat. Thundercat)
My Favorite Part (feat. Ariana Grande)
We (feat. CeeLoo Green)
What Kid's Crap Is The Worst To Pick Up?
Never Parent Hungover
The Safety Dad's Guide to Babyproofing Your Home
What Nobody Tells You About Fatherhood: 12 Confessions From A Brand New Dad
How To Drink A Beer


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Case study: The story of Backbase
Backbase transforms into a global company
Founded in 2003, Backbase's digital banking software solution is used by financial organizations of all sizes to create customer-centric digital experiences. Due to the popularity of its products, Backbase struggled to keep up with demand, while also seeking to serve a global audience. To support the organization's transition, Backbase is constantly searching for talented programmers to join the team.
Find out how Backbase hires the technical talent that it needs with the help of Stack Overflow.
Identifying a Variety of Developers With Customer-Facing Experience
"We have a variety of departments. Some engineers might be on product innovation, while others might be on the customer side of the business," she continues. "But no matter what your role is, our solutions are customer-focused and it is therefore in the core role of our engineers to make sure that our solutions are customer-centric."
As a result, Backbase has implemented an in-depth interview process. "Candidates will go through technical testing and meet a lot of our current team members," Brandt says. "We're incredibly selective about who receives a job offer, as it's a great team that we're passionate about maintaining."
Job Listings Targeted at the Developers They Need
Ms. Brandt says that to reach the developers Backbase needs, it's important to get involved in the tech community. "This isn't just for advertising purposes," she adds. "But you need to understand which tools they love to use and where they choose to spend their time."
To promote Backbase to the developer community, it utilises Job Listings on Stack Overflow. These Job Listings enable them to advertise to the most relevant developers for the wide variety of open positions.
"We love the amount of interest that we generate from the right candidates," Brandt tells us. "Additionally, we've found that the developers on Stack Overflow are excited about working with a fintech leader like ourselves."
The Results:
12 Critical Developer Hires from Stack Overflow
Since it began working with Stack Overflow, Brandt says that Backbase has generated over 4,000 applications for its open technical roles. Additionally, she tells us that they've hired 12 developers from that pool of applicants.
"We're thrilled with the people that we've hired from Stack Overflow so far," she adds. "As an organization that's looking to serve global customers, we're still looking grow the technical team by a considerable margin—and we know that Stack Overflow will be integral in our developer hiring success."
Customer Reviews on Stack Overflow for Teams (Enterprise)
Customer Reviews on Stack Overflow for Teams (Mid-Market)
Customer Reviews on Stack Overflow for Teams (SMB)


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Q: Seeking code stub generator (from header files) Imagine I have the header files to a subsystem, but no access to the source code.
Now I want to generate stubs to match all functions declared in the header files (for testing purposes).
I wrote some simple code to do this, but it's not perfect. Does anyone know of any freely available software which will do this?

[Update] Five years after asking, this question is still getting upvotes.
It was closed as of-topic, which it is nowadays (althoguh it was not when it was originally posted). Fortunately, we can now ask for software recommendations at https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/

A: I think stubgen may be what you're after.

A: Here is a solution with perl and vim http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=213
it uses ctags, and if one can easily remove the vim need if desired by using the included perl script.

A: Visual Assist X for Visual Studio has this functionality, although it isn't automated.
On the function
Tri ProjectTriOnPlane(Tri* a_Triangle);

And then, if the corresponding .c or .cpp is found, go to Refactor (VA X) -> Create Implementation, which will create an implementation like so:
Tri Camera::ProjectTriOnPlane( Tri* a_Triangle )
{

}

It also doesn't return something standard, that's a bit of a shame.

A: Maybe Lzz does what you want.

A: You can write a stub generator pretty easily using doxygen. It's not well known but it comes with a helper library that provides a very nice abstraction over the XML output (see this page).
If you look at the end of this header file, you'll see that you get nice IStructs, IClass objects, from which you can list ISections then IMembers. All very easy, and customizable to your liking.
As I doubt you'll get the exact stubs you want from a generic tool, you might be better off if you code your own using Doxygen, as all the heavy lifting of properly parsing C++ syntax is done for you.
And if your testing patterns are mainly dependent on the method parameters' type, you can probably generate full test stubs by analyzing the method's parameters and generating appropriate code.


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Q: Find highest integer in a Generic List using C#? I have the following List<int> collection and I need to find the highest integer in the collection.  It could have an arbitrary number of integers and I can have same integer value for multiple times.
List<int> MyList = new List<int> { 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 3, 4, 5, 5 };

What is the simplest algorithm to use for finding the highest integer?  I am using C# and the .NET 3.5 framework.

A: If you need to retrieve the maximum value frequently you might think about creating your own list class (or derive from List) which keeps the maximum item in a cache. Such a class could look like this:
public class MaxList<T> : IList<T>, ICollection<T>, IEnumerable<T>
{
    T Maximum { get; set; }
    List<T> _list;

    public T this[int index] { get; set; }

    public void Add(T item)
    {
        if (item > this.Maximum)
        {
            this.Maximum = item;
        }
        _list.Add(item);
    }

    // ... IEnumerable<T>, ICollection<T> and IList<T> members

}

Alternatively, you could derive from List directly and overwrite the Add and Remove methods (basically all methods modifying list items) and update the cache accordingly.
If such an approach is really a benefit depends on your scenario. IT definitely is if you have a very large list with is rarely updated and you need to retrieve the maximum frequently. Otherwise go for the solutions already suggested because they are much simpler.

A: You can just do:
int max = MyList.Max();

See Enumerable.Max for details.

A: Enumerable has a Max function that will do this.
Looking at the implementation for the integer specific method using Reflector, the method loops through each element in the the IEnumerable source and compares it with what was previously the highest value.

A: genericlist.Remove(genericlist.Max)


Former Professor of Pediatric Surgery and Principal, Emeritus Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Medical College, Calicut. Now Director, Quality, Academy and Research Foundation, MIMS Hospital. 4 time Research Fellow under ICMR, Research fellow at Royal Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. Abdulla Cherayakkat. MD, MRCP. (Managing Director, MIMS Hospital) Senior Physician & experienced hands in managing type- II diabetes mellitus, deeply interested in medical research.
Dr. Hamza, MD, MRCP (Chief of Medical Services, MIMS Group) a senior physician having extensive experience with a keen aptitude for research.
Dr. Raghava Varman Thampan. Ph.D., in the field of hormone Biochemistry from Delhi University; Post-doctoral research fellow supported by W.H.O. at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Senior faculty in Life Sciences at Hyderabad Central University (HCU) and Senior Scientist and former Director, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Trivandrum; Pursued research for nearly 3 decades on estrogen receptors with credit of discovering new receptors and receptor associated proteins. Guided 17 Ph.D students at HCU and University of Kerala put together.
Dr. Lilly. M, MD, Chief Pathologist of MIMS Hospital & Chairperson of the Scientific Research Committee of the MIMS RF.
Dr. P J Wills. Ph.D. Biotechnology, University of Kerala in the field of Molecular Pharmacology from Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Trivandrum. Postdoctoral Research Associate at School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam.
Dr. Ajith. V. PhD. Genetics from the Michigan State University, USA with a research experience of more than 10 years.
Ms. Radha Malattiri. M.A, MLIS, M.Phil., Asst. Registrar, MIMS RF.
Mr. Varun. R. M. Sc, Asst. Manager & Research Assistant, MIMS RF.


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Jokowi to visit West Papua's Pegunungan Arfak to hold dialog
Pegunungan Arfak District Head Yosias Saroy (fifth from right) accompanied West Papua Governor Dominggus Mandacan and members of his entourage during a recent visit to observe the preparations to welcome President Joko Widodo's working visit, scheduled on Oct 27, 2019 (ANTARA/Toyiban/RN)
Anggi, West Papua (ANTARA) - A week after his Oct-20 official presidential oath-taking, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) will visit Pegunungan Arfak District, Sunday (Oct 27), amid native Papuan leaders' aspirations for dialog to resolve problems plaguing Papua and West Papua.
The West Papua provincial and Pegunungan Arfak district administrations had made necessary preparations for welcoming the president, Pegunungan Arfak District Head Yosias Saroy told journalists in Anggi on Thursday.
Saroy plans on suggesting to accelerate the completion of road and bridge construction projects to President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) during his working visit.
"The status of the Prafi-Minyambouw-Anggi-Anggi Gida-Ransiki Road Section needs to be increased to be a national road since it connects the districts of Manokwari, Pegunungan Arfak, and Manokwari Selatan," he emphasized.
He plans on also appealing to the president to prioritize the development of human resources and expedite the construction of public hospital and health centers as well as boarding schools in his district, Saroy noted.
In boosting the tourism industry, Saroy plans on also drawing President Jokowi's attention to the construction of Snomeba Anggi Airport and development of tourist destinations and coffee plantation.
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Papua and West Papua have caught the attention of both Indonesian and foreign media after a spate of violence broke out in several parts of these two Indonesian provinces in August and September 2019.
On August 28, violence broke out in Deiyai District, some 500 kilometers away from Jayapura, resulting in the deaths of an army soldier and two civilians.
Protests were again held on August 29 by the indigenous Papuan residents of Jayapura, as they vented their ire over the alleged racist behavior against their Papuan compatriots in Surabaya, but their rally then turned violent.
On September 23, a deadly riot had erupted in Wamena, the capital city of Jayawijaya District, Papua Province, killing 33 civilians, including a senior medical doctor, who had served the native Papuans for 15 years.
In response to this recent Wamena rioting, a Papuan priest has appealed to Jokowi to hold a dialog with the representatives of all Papuan community groups to find solutions to crucial problems in the province.
The Papuan people are keen to hold a discussion within the spirit of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia, as the central government had done in Aceh Province, Esmon Welilo, a priest who is also chairman of the Interreligious Harmony Forum (FKUB), stated.
"We do hope that the dialog can be held during his second leadership term," he stated.
Welilo pointed to the fact that Jokowi is the first Indonesian president to have undertaken 12 working visits to Papua Province, including thrice to Wamena, the capital city of Jayawijaya District.
Under Jokowi's leadership, it is time for the central government to hold a dialog to seek comprehensive solutions to the problems in Papua, he affirmed, adding that he believed that all Papuans would continue to support the government's programs.
The call for holding a dialog with President Jokowi was also echoed by West Papua Governor, Dominggus Mandacan, on September 12, 2019.
Chairman of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU)-Jayapura Chapter KH Kahar Yelipele has appealed to President Jokowi to rebuild houses and kiosks that rioters set on fire and vandalized during the recent violence in Jayapura and Wamena.
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President Obama Acknowledges Humanity of Trans and Bisexual Americans in Historic State of the Union
National Center for Transgender Equality
Tonight, President Barack Obama includes transgender and bisexual people in the State of the Union address in reference to American values and the defense of human dignity. This inclusion is unprecedented in any State of the Union address. In tonight's State of the Union address, President Obama said:
As Americans, we respect human dignity [...] It's why we continue to reject offensive stereotypes of Muslims – the vast majority of whom share our commitment to peace. That's why we defend free speech, and advocate for political prisoners, and condemn the persecution of women, or religious minorities, or people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. We do these things not only because they're right, but because they make us safer.
In response to President Obama's inclusion of transgender and bisexual people, National Center for Transgender Equality Executive Director Mara Keisling said:
"It is very heartening that President Obama has chosen to speak up for transgender people in a State of the Union Speech about American values. While other years, he has focused on a laundry lists of policies, mention there would have been important. In those years when we were not mentioned in the State of the Union, the President was still leading the way in advancing policies that have improved and saved transgender lives. Of course, the advancement of those policies is so much more important than a mention in a speech. But make no mistake, the President of the United States condemning persecution against transgender people is pivotal. It will empower trans people to stand taller and work harder to improve this country for all people. That he has also said bisexual for the first time in a state of the Union Address is very significant as well." "His mention of us makes us know that he meant us when he talked about Americans. When he spoke about children, he meant transgender children too. When he spoke about immigrants, he meant transgender immigrants too. When he talked about service members and veterans, he meant the transgender people too."
Read the President's complete remarks as prepared for delivery here.
Barack Obama, State of the Union


A senator in the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico has introduced a bill that has renewed criticism from Washington-based dietary supplement trade associations. The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) and Natural Products Association (NPA) challenged similar efforts on the island last year.
P.R. Senate Bill (SB) 219 would amend the Puerto Rico Pharmacy Act, requiring natural products and dietary supplements to register with the commonwealth's health department, said Mike Greene, vice president of government relations with CRN.
The bill resembles legislation introduced last year in Puerto Rico, as well as an administrative order (#346) issued by the health department in 2016 that was the subject of a moratorium and drew the interest of a U.S. congressional task force.
"A lot of us thought that we were going to be working in Puerto Rico to share information about the benefits and quality and safety of supplements, and not necessarily have to deal with a bill like this again," Greene said in a phone interview.
The legislation, he said, "misses the nuance that dietary supplements are regulated as a category of food in the United States, not like drugs."
A similar bill (SB 1599) was introduced and passed in the commonwealth's Senate last summer, but Greene said the legislation was halted in the P.R. House of Representatives.
The 2017 legislation, if passed into law, could help raise funds for the Caribbean nation, a U.S. territory that has endured severe economic woes. About 46 percent of residents on the island live below the federal poverty level—well above the national average of 14.7 percent, according to 2015 surveys cited by a U.S. congressional task force.
Supplement trade organizations argued registration requirements in Puerto Rico would subject companies to registration fees, reflecting an unprecedented burden. No U.S. state—or the federal government—presently requires such a registration system for dietary supplements.
"People in the industry should be very afraid because this is effectively a state/territory saying, 'Look, I'm going to tax these guys at will,'" said Daniel Fabricant, Ph.D., executive director and CEO of NPA, in a phone interview.
The bill, which does not explicitly mention registration fees, was introduced by Sen. José Luis Dalmau Santiago. He did not respond to a direct message sent to him in English via Twitter seeking comment.
In September, then-Puerto Rico Secretary of Health Ana Ríus Armendáriz, M.D., agreed to halt enforcement of a related administrative order. Administrative Order #346 would have imposed registration, inspection and fee requirements on manufacturers, distributors and certain retailers of dietary supplements on the island.
"Administrative order #346 entered into a moratorium process so that regulation could be drafted," said Yaritza Ortiz Sanchez, spokesperson for the Puerto Rico Health Department, in an email (translated) last year to INSIDER. "When the regulation is completed, it will go through a process of public hearings so that stakeholders can participate."
Greene said products that register under the Puerto Rico Pharmacy Act, such as over-the-counter and prescription drugs, must pay fees like the fee structure outlined in Administrative Order #346. The order would have required the payment of US$25 "for the registration of any natural product for each and every concentration and for each and every size of the product to be registered," according to a translated version of the document INSIDER obtained from CRN.
The registration fees aren't feasible for the industry, Fabricant said.
"If you have 3,000 products in your store, you've got to pay $25 as a retailer for each of them. You're not going to be able to stay in business," he said in a phone interview. "That's part of your profit margin."
In a report published in December, the U.S. Congressional Task Force on Economic Growth in Puerto Rico—mandated by PROMESA (Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act)— said it received a letter in September from Armendáriz.
"The letter indicated that the Department of Health would issue an administrative order to place a 120-day 'moratorium' on Administrative Order 346, draft a 'new regulation' to replace the order that complied with Puerto Rico law, and hold 'public hearings' so that all affected parties could provide their 'comments and recommendations,'" the task force stated.
In the report, the task force recommended the health department "follow through on the Secretary's pledge to hold public hearings on the proposed regulation so that all stakeholders, whether they support or oppose administration action, can provide comments."
Sen. Orrin Hatch, the Republican from Utah and a staunch advocate of dietary supplements, is a member of the task force. J.P. Freire, a spokesman for Hatch, did not respond to a request for comment on Senate Bill 219. Neither did Sanchez of the Puerto Rico health department, which has a new secretary.
NPA planned to write to members of the congressional task force. "We're going to let them know … that that is back, and they didn't follow what the task force recommended," Fabricant said.
Fabricant, a former FDA official, said his trade group sought to engage in a dialogue with the Puerto Rico health department, but to no avail.
"We've reached out to people at the ministry of health on the island … 'What are you actually trying to do?' And for the life of us, no one's been able to tell us," he explained.
Greene said SB 219 could set a dangerous precedent.
"If folks thought that it was beneficial in Puerto Rico, we might see if somewhere else in the states," he said. "We don't believe there needs to be a registration on a state by state basis, and we'd like to stop it in Puerto Rico."
Greene said CRN was focused on a national registry for dietary supplement products, namely its Supplement OWL (Online Wellness Library), a self-regulatory initiative. He said the product registry would be accessible to various parties including regulators.
The extent to which Administrative Order #346, or SB 219, was motivated by the island's desire to police dietary supplements is unclear.
"Nutritional or dietetic supplements may contain active ingredients that have biological effects on the body and may result in harm if combined with other supplements, if used as drugs, or substituted for drugs or taken in excess," a translated version of SB 219 states.
Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, and FDA has explained its responsibilities extend to the island. Dietary supplement firms, however, are not required under the law to register their products with FDA, and the agency has said it has limited visibility in to the tens of thousands of supplement products on the U.S. market.
"If there are bad actors selling products on the island, we want FDA to fully enforce the law," Greene said. "FDA has the authority, but also is required, to address concerns on the island just as they address the concerns here in all the states."


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Archive for category 02. FEBRUARY 1985
Posted by Mr. DJ in 02. FEBRUARY 1985, 1985 on October 5, 2011
Week of February 2, 1985:
BILLBOARD HOT 100:
#1 "I wanna know what love is" FOREIGNER
#2 "Easy lover" PHILLIP BAILEY & PHIL COLLINS
#3 "Careless whisper" WHAM!
#4 "You're the inspiration" CHICAGO
#5 "Loverboy" BILLY OCEAN
#6 "The boys of summer" DON HENLEY
#7 "Like a virgin" MADONNA (12 weeks)
#8 "I would die 4U" PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION
#9 "Method of modern love" HALL & OATES
#10 "Neutron dance" THE POINTER SISTERS
BILLBOARD 200:
#1 "Born in the USA" BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
#3 "Purple rain" PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION
#4 "Agent Provocateur" FOREIGNER
#5 "17" CHICAGO
#6 "Make it big" WHAM!
#7 "Reckless" BRYAN ADAMS
#8 "Private dancer" TINA TURNER
#9 "Big Bam Boom" HALL & OATES"
#10 "New Edition" NEW EDITION
#41 "Madonna" MADONNA (75 weeks)
HOT 100 SINGLE SALES: "Like a virgin" #3 (10 weeks)
HOT 100 AIRPLAY: "Like a virgin" #6 (11 weeks)
HOT DANCE MUSIC/CLUB PLAY: "Like a virgin" #32 (11 weeks)
HOT R&B/HIP HOP SINGLES AND TRACKS: "Like a virgin" #9 (9 weeks)
HOT R&B SINGLE SALES: "Like a virgin" #10 (8 weeks)
HOT R&B AIRPLAY: "Like a virgin" #11 (7 weeks)
UK SINGLES: "Like a virgin" #9 (12 weeks)
UK ALBUMS: "Like a virgin" #18(11 weeks)
01/30/1985: "Material girl" is released
#8 "Neutron dance" THE POINTER SISTERS
#10 "I would die 4U" PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION
#43 "Material girl" MADONNA (Debut/1 week)
#1 "Like a virgin" MADONNA (11 weeks/1 week at #1)
#7 "New Edition" NEW EDITION
#10 "Centerfield" JOHN FOGERTY
HOT 100 AIRPLAY: "Like a virgin" #11 (12 weeks)
HOT DANCE MUSIC/CLUB PLAY: "Like a virgin" #43 (FINAL WEEK ON CHART/12 weeks)
HOT R&B/HIP HOP SINGLES AND TRACKS: "Like a virgin" #10 (10 weeks)
UK SINGLES: "Like a virgin" #15 (13 weeks)
UK ALBUMS: "Like a virgin" #18 (12 weeks)
02/05/1985: "Like a virgin " Album is certified 3 x Platinum
Week of February 16, 1984:
#17 "Like a virgin" MADONNA (14 weeks)
#34 "Material girl" MADONNA (2 weeks)
#1 "Like a virgin" MADONNA (12 weeks/2 weeks at #1)
#5 "Centerfield" JOHN FOGERTY
#10 "Big Bam Boom" HALL & OATES
HOT 100 SINGLE SALES: "Like a virgin" #15 (12 weeks)
HOT 100 AIRPLAY: "Like a virgin" #21 (FINAL WEEK ON CHART/13 weeks)
HOT R&B SINGLE SALES: "Like a virgin" #16 (10 weeks)
HOT R&B AIRPLAY: "Like a virgin" #26 (FINAL WEEK ON CHART/9 weeks)
02/15/1985: "Vision Quest" Film is released.
Rank: #5. Opening gross: $3,174,363 (1 week). 993 theaters.
#10 "Private dancer" TINA TURNER
HOT 100 SINGLE SALES: "Like a virgin" #23 (FINAL WEEK ON CHART/13 weeks)
HOT 100 AIRPLAY: "Material girl" #19 (Debut/1 week)
HOT R&B SINGLE SALES: "Like a virgin" #24 (FINAL WEEK ON CHART/11 weeks)
Rank: #5. Weekly gross: $2,721,627 (2 weeks). 993 theaters. Gross to date: $5,895,990.
#1 Singles: (1)
Top 5 Singles: (3)
Top 10 Singles (4)
Top 20 singles: (5)/85 weeks total
HOT 100 SINGLE SALES:
Top 10 Singles: (2) /17 weeks total
HOT 100 AIRPLAY:
# 1 Singles: (1)
Top 5 singles: (3)/19 weeks
HOT DANCE MUSIC/CLUB PLAY:
Top 5 singles: (5)/ 77 weeks total.
BUBBLING UNDER HOT 100 SINGLES:
1 single / 8 weeks total
HOT R&B SINGLES AND TRACKS:
Top 10 Singles: (1)
HOT R&B SINGLES SALES:
HOT R&B AIRPLAY:
Top 10 singles: (1) /9 weeks total
ADULT CONTEMPORARY:
Top 5 Albums: (1)
Top 10 Albums: (2) /91 weeks total.
UK SINGLES CHART:
Top 75 Singles (4) /39 weeks total
UK ALBUMS CHART:
Top 40 Albums: (1)
Top 75 Albums: (2) /36 weeks total
R.I.A.A. Certifications (Singles): 1 GOLD
R.I.A.A. Certifications (Albums): 5xPLATINUM
Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 singles, Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play, borderline-chart run, Madonna in Billboard 200, Madonna in the Billboard Hot 100, madonna-like a virgin, madonna-like a virgin-chart run, madonna-material girl, Madonna-The first album
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When you first start business school, you can't necessarily comprehend the extent to which you will bond with your classmates and your blockmates in particular. It has now been five months since I first met this astonishingly diverse group of people, and I am reluctant to imagine what my life would have been like had Stern not brought us together in this one place at this one time.
Before school started, there were some self-organized gatherings. The air was warm, the days were still long, and the trees in nearby Washington Square Park were lush and green. Around the corner from Stern, 10 to 20 of us would meet up for Happy Hour and talk about what had become our pasts—where we grew up, where we last lived, what job we just quit (or still needed to quit).
I'm a born-and-raised New Yorker but was returning home from a three-year stint in Los Angeles, where I worked as a script reader, screenwriter, and director's assistant. Many people had been living and working in the city in various occupations. Some grew up in the States, yet others were from places as far away as Taiwan and New Delhi—one had gotten off the plane just a day before, and his wife had yet to join him!
It wasn't until LAUNCH when I met my block (Block 2!) in its entirety, all 67 of us. I was pleasantly surprised at how genuinely kind and down-to-earth everyone was (Stern definitely has the IQ+EQ thing down pat), but at that point, I still had no idea to what lengths we would go to befriend and support one another.
Fast forward past midterms, during which my blockmates and I took over the Starbucks Lounge even more so than we usually do (see above) to study together. Fast forward past a brutal recruiting season, during which we'd check in on each other and post silly things in the group messenger app to keep morale up. Fast forward to "Blocksgiving," when a random bunch of us (and a few partners) came together before the weekend was over, on the eve of dozens of summer internship application deadlines, to share a homemade meal with each other.
Skip ahead to the last day of classes, when half of us celebrated by running down the street from Stern to our unofficial block watering hole and catching up with each other into the night. Then jump ahead one day, when we rallied together the next morning in a last-minute push to donate to Stern's Toys for Tots Drive. I'm proud to say the effort was especially rewarding, for in addition to doing good, as the block with the highest participation we were awarded enough block points to clinch the Block Points Championship for the semester.
At this point I'm bragging, but how could I not? And don't get me wrong—there are amazing people in the other five blocks too. But as I recall from Blocksgiving, sitting in a room at Stern with good company, laughing and trying not to choke on apple crumble and coconut cream pie, I thought to myself what I was thankful for, and my current situation came to mind.
I am thankful for Stern, for giving me the chance to challenge myself and to be among people who are brilliant in both heart and mind. I am thankful for my block for being the best block so thoughtful, supportive, fun, and hilarious, truly (I could go on about our beer receivables and sock puppies but I don't think you'd get it, sorry!). And I am thankful for these moments, now memories, shared by the lot of us, a wonderful group that would have had little reason to ever come together had we not been given the opportunity that we have now.


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Australian detective interrupts his own press conference to rugby tackle refugee suspects
An Australian detective is praised for his rugby skills after he has suddenly stopped a press conference to deal with a man who fled after allegedly making inappropriate comments to a young girl.
Detective leader Sergeant Daren Edwards talked to reporters outside the Maroochydore Magistrates Court in Queensland, Thursday, when shouts rang behind him.
"Run!" A man can be heard in the actors from Reuters, as another flies behind Edwards.
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Fast thinking Edwards turned around, dropped his shoulder and took the suspect down to what many called a textbook.
Detective Senior Sergeant Daren Edwards ended a press conference to address a fugitive man.
"He has been unsuitable for my daughter," the man who chased the suspect said.
The man, who has not yet been identified by the police, was arrested and detained by the police. 19659003] NEAR-NAKED AUSTRALIAN MAN STOPS INTRUDER BY WIELDING DIDGERIDOO
"Seeing it is just one of the things you know," Edwards told reporters with a visible wound in the head after taking it. [19659003] "Of course, the man had just been released and a young woman walking down the street had views on her being handed over to her father, who obviously provoked her father."
The suspect allegedly made inappropriate comments to the man's daughter.
Edwards, a former player with Redcliffe Dolphins, told the Sunshine Coast Daily it was "thank you."
"I dropped my shoulder and thanked him," he said. "Right of the knees it fell to him."


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Widow hopes Royal Darwin Hospital procedural changes will prevent future pain after eight-year wait for answers
By Matt Garrick
Updated February 14, 2019 13:31:49
Photo: Joan Fensom (right) was left without answers after the passing of her husband David (left). (Facebook)
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A widow who was kept waiting eight years for answers about the death of her husband following surgery at Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH) said she hoped a response to the case by the NT Health Department would trigger significant change for the future.
The Top End Health Service has pledged to improve communication procedures
A coroner's report found the cases of two elderly men who died while in care at RDH could have been better handled
Widow Joan Fensom said she heard from a doctor just once during an 11-day period when her husband was in hospital
The Northern Territory's Health Department yesterday tabled its response to a damning 2018 report by coroner Greg Cavanagh into the death of two elderly men in Darwin, David Fensom, 67. in 2010, and Henry George Wilson, 77, in 2016.
Eight years on from the death of her husband Mr Fensom, Joan Fensom continues to grieve for the "love of her life", and said her world had not been the same since he died from organ failure in 2010.
The engineering sales representative and Darwin Festival volunteer had undergone surgery five times over an 11-day period, during which Ms Fensom was consulted about his condition by doctors just once.
"Even after all this time it still hurts," she said.
"I never saw a doctor for the whole 11 days that David was in there, until I knew he wasn't going to survive, then a doctor … put his head around the curtain and said, 'oh you've been in this position before haven't you?'
"'Well no, not this bad' [I said], then he turned around and walked off."
Widow left without answers
In both cases, Judge Cavanagh found communication between the health service and the family was poor, the death was not reported to the coroner, significant levels of pain were overlooked and appropriate diagnosis' were delayed.
"It is not right that Ms Fensom had to wait eight years to find out why her husband died," Mr Cavanagh said.
"When, if there had been good communication before and after the death, with families fully appreciating the dangers, the illness, the risks, we wouldn't have to go through coronial inquiry after coronial inquiry where the main issue turns out to be bad communication with grieving families."
He found Ms Fentom was given no sufficient explanation about why her husband died, and the first information she received was from his death certificate.
Photo: David Fensom died after surgery at Royal Darwin Hospital. (ABC News)
"I was just left. So I've had a lot to deal with over the last eight years and I still can't handle it," she told the inquest.
"As far as I'm concerned, when I lost David, I lost my life as I knew it."
In his recommendations, Judge Cavanagh called for an audit of the Top End Health Service's communication procedures, "to ensure proper communication with families during treatment and after death".
"It does not seem too much to expect that the institution would check on and speak to families after the unexpected death of a loved one and ensure that they have been afforded proper communication, open disclosure and their reasonable needs met," he said.
Service pledges better communication
The health department's response tabled in Parliament this week said staff of the Top End Health Service would be "implementing a 'goals of care' program aimed at providing end-of-life care".
"This will include communication with patient families' both pre and post death to ensure an understanding of risks associated with end-of-life care interventions," the response read.
"The Cognitive Institute of Queensland has been approached to provide open disclosure training programs [to] the NT Health staff in 2019 and is developing an open disclosure plan for post inquest communication."
The department has also updated its procedures for reporting deaths, the response read, "to better identify critical incidents that must be reported to the coroner".
Ms Fensom, who remains upset about how she was treated by RDH doctors during her husband's hospitalisation, said she hoped the department's response would bring about systemic change.
"Well, it's never going to bring David back, but if it's going to save a few other people from what I've been through, let's hope it does," she said.
A statement from Health Minister Natasha Fyles contained in the response said she was satisfied the department was "taking the necessary steps with respect to those recommendations".
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-administration, death, darwin-0800
First posted February 14, 2019 13:30:34
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Dobruška (in tedesco Gutenfeld) è una città della Repubblica Ceca facente parte del distretto di Rychnov nad Kněžnou, nella regione di Hradec Králové.

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