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Q: NextJS - Unhandled Runtime Error TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'length') when converting a class function to hook function I'm trying to convert a class function file to hook function but am getting the following error whenever entering text in the field.

Unhandled Runtime Error TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'length')

I think I've converted everything but just can't find what - am I missing something?
New hooks code with the above error:
import React, { useState } from "react";

function Todo(props) {
    const [state, setState] = useState({ items: [], text: "" });

    const handleChange = (e) => {
        setState({ text: e.target.value });
    };

    const handleSubmit = (e) => {
        e.preventDefault();

        if (state.text.length === 0) {
            return;
        }

        const newItem = {
            text: state.text,
            id: Date.now(),
        };

        setState((state) => ({
            items: state.items.concat(newItem),
            text: "",
        }));
    };

    return (

            <form onSubmit={handleSubmit}>
                What needs to be done?
                <input id="new-todo" onChange={handleChange} value={state.text} />
                <button>Add #{state.items.length + 1}</button>
            </form>
            <TodoList items={state.items} />

    );
}

function TodoList(props) {
    return (

            {props.items.map((item) => (

{item.text}

            ))}

    );
}

export default Todo;

Previous class functions file being converted to hooks file above:
import React from "react";

class Todo extends React.Component {
    constructor(props) {
        super(props);
        this.state = { items: [], text: "" };
        this.handleChange = this.handleChange.bind(this);
        this.handleSubmit = this.handleSubmit.bind(this);
    }

    render() {
        return (

                <form onSubmit={this.handleSubmit}>
                    What needs to be done?
                    <input
                        id="new-todo"
                        onChange={this.handleChange}
                        value={this.state.text}
                    />
                    <button>Add #{this.state.items.length + 1}</button>
                </form>
                <TodoList items={this.state.items} />

        );
    }

    handleChange(e) {
        this.setState({ text: e.target.value });
    }

    handleSubmit(e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        if (this.state.text.length === 0) {
            return;
        }
        const newItem = {
            text: this.state.text,
            id: Date.now(),
        };
        this.setState((state) => ({
            items: state.items.concat(newItem),
            text: "",
        }));
    }
}

class TodoList extends React.Component {
    render() {
        return (

                {this.props.items.map((item) => (

{item.text}

                ))}

        );
    }
}

export default Todo;

Many thanks!

A: It happens because in handleChange u rewrite whole state with { text: e.target.value } (state hook works differently than class based component state)
You should try this:
const handleChange = (e) => {
    setState((prevState) => {...prevState, text: e.target.value });
};

A: The issue is most likely due to this block of code.
    const handleChange = (e) => {
        setState({ text: e.target.value });
        // mutating state as this will overwite the current values with
        // {text: e.target.value }
    };

a better way of doing this could be to use the rest syntax like this.
    const handleChange = (e) => {
        setState((prev) => { return {...prev, [text]: e.target.value }});
        // and now when you update text, it shouldnt overwrite your items or
        //vice versa
    };

A: If I had to convert, then I would do it this way.
import React, { useState } from "react";

const Todo = () => {
  const [items, setItems] = useState([]);
  const [text, setText] = useState("");

  const handleChange = (e) => {
    setText(e.target.value);
  };

  const handleSubmit = (e) => {
    e.preventDefault();
    if (text.length === 0) {
      return;
    }
    const newItem = {
      text,
      id: Date.now()
    };
    setItems((prevItems) => [...prevItems, newItem]);
    // clear the input box after adding.
    setText("");
  };

  return (

      <form onSubmit={handleSubmit}>
        What needs to be done?
        <input id="new-todo" onChange={handleChange} value={text} />
        <button>Add #{items.length + 1}</button>
      </form>
      <TodoList items={items} />

  );
};

const TodoList = (props) => {
  const { items } = props;

  return (

      {items.map((item) => (

{item.text}

      ))}

  );
};

export default Todo;

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from magnum.api import hooks

# Server Specific Configurations
server = {
    'port': '8080',
    'host': '0.0.0.0'
}

# Pecan Application Configurations
app = {
    'root': 'magnum.api.controllers.root.RootController',
    'modules': ['magnum.api'],
    'debug': True,
    'hooks': [
        hooks.ContextHook(),
        hooks.RPCHook()
    ],
    'acl_public_routes': [
        '/'
    ],
}

# Custom Configurations must be in Python dictionary format::
#
# foo = {'bar':'baz'}
#
# All configurations are accessible at::
# pecan.conf

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Book Advances Bold New Vision of Peacebuilding
Author: Joan Fallon
Oxford University Press has just published Strategies of Peace, a collection of provocative essays that explore innovative models for building peace after genocide, civil war, and terrorism. The book features the writing of eight faculty members of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and seven other scholars of peace and conflict from around the country.
"The authors of this book argue that peacebuilding is not an elite process," said Daniel Philpott, associate professor of political science and peace studies, who edited the book with Gerard F. Powers, director of Catholic peacebuilding studies. "While building peace involves heads of state, diplomats and policymakers, it also includes tribal and village leaders, members of civil society and religious actors, whose work can be very powerful but is often obscured. The concept of 'strategic peacebuilding' skillfully and artfully links together all these sectors and their activities in a holistic vision of peace."
The book's contributors include R. Scott Appleby, David Cortright, Hal Culbertson, Larissa Fast, Robert Johansen, John Paul Lederach, George Lopez, Philpott, Powers, Jackie Smith and Peter Wallensteen (all of the Kroc Institute) as well as Simon Chesterman, Jeanette Knutson Enright, Robert D. Enright, Anthony Holter, Oliver P. Richmond, Naomi Roht-Arriaza and Nicholas Sambanis.
"Since the end of the Cold War, the United States and the international community have been confronted by countless conflicts — civil, ethnic, religious, separatist and others — for which our existing toolkit was inadequate," wrote Lee H. Hamilton, president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. "Peacebuilding today requires comprehensive, far-sighted and sustainable policies. This remarkable and fascinating volume is essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners."
Strategies of Peace is the first book in the multi-volume "Oxford Studies in Strategic Peacebuilding." Appleby, Lederach and Philpott are the series editors.
To read and download the introduction, visit the Kroc Institute's website.
Contact: Dan Philpott, 574-631-7667, jphilpot@nd.edu or Jerry Powers, 574- 631-3765, gpowers1@nd.edu
Originally published at newsinfo.nd.edu on March 09, 2010.
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Seagate claims SSD patent
Written by Gareth Halfacree
Tags: #patent #ssd
Companies: #intel #samsung #seagate
Rumours that solid-state drives are failing all over the place may have turned out to be unfounded, but Seagate still isn't convinced the technology is the right choice for today.
Despite the fact that Seagate is launching just as many SSD models as the next big harddrive manufacturer, CEO Bill Watkins seems to think that the devices are just too expensive for the data they hold. In an interview with CNN Watkins admitted that "realistically, I just don't see the flash notebook selling."
Just in case the consumers see things differently, the well-heeled executive has another trick up his Saville Row sleeve though: he's fairly certain that Seagate is going to be able to bury rival SSD manufacturers in enough legal wrangling that his company will emerge on-top should the market take off. It seems that Watkins is convinced that pretty much every SSD maker out there – he drops names like Samsung and Intel with ease – might just owe his company big-time bucks due to certain patents Seagate holds on the interfacing of storage devices with host computers.
It's not uncommon for large companies to have vast swathes of patents – in the US, at least – that are almost completely without merit. Due to the way the patent process works in the US, it's possible to get almost any patent granted – no matter how obvious your breakthrough. What matters is whether the claims will hold up in court. While it's useful for Seagate to worry its enemies by making reference to an army of lawyers sat on cast-iron patents, it remains to be seen whether the company would risk having their patents invalidated should they bring them before a court.
One thing is for sure: Intel and Samsung are unlikely to take this lying down. The SSD market – whether it's as big as Samsung hope or as small as Seagate thinks – looks set to be the next battleground for the storage giants.
Do you agree with Watkins' take on the SSD market, or do you think he's completely missed the point? Share your thoughts over in the forums.
Watkins moves to flash specialist
Bill Watkins - ex-CEO of hard drive manufacturer Seagate - has announced his place on the board of flash memory specialist Vertical Circuits.
May 5, 2009 | 14:17
Luczo replaces Watkins as Seagate CEO
Stephen Luczo, chairman of Seagate, is to take over the role of CEO from Bill Watkins - a role Luczo perviously held from 1998 to 2004.
US judge recommends SiRF ban
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Dead at 75.
JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) — Billy Lee Riley, a rambunctious performer who helped develop the Sun Records sound as a studio musician for other headliners, died here on Sunday. He was 75.
Jack Vartoogian for The New York Times
Billy Lee Riley in 2002.
The cause was cancer, his wife, Joyce, told The Commercial Appeal in Memphis.
Mr. Riley's singles included "Red Hot" (with its memorable lyric, "My gal is red hot, your gal ain't doodly squat") and "Flyin' Saucers Rock & Roll," the song that led him to call his band the Little Green Men for a time.
Mr. Riley was one of the early performers who recorded at the legendary Sun Records in Memphis, but he was overshadowed by his associates, including Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis. Among many songs, Mr. Riley and his band played on the original Sun recording of Lewis's "Great Balls of Fire."
Mr. Riley's voice at times had a cadence similar to Presley's, but early on he sang with more of a growl. His voice softened in his later recordings, which focused on blues. A 22-song compilation, "Red Hot: The Very Best of Billy Lee Riley," is among records that are still available.
Born in the town of Pocahontas, Mr. Riley grew up in a sharecropper family in northeast Arkansas and learned guitar and harmonica from other families. In the early 1960s, he took his talents to California, where he worked as a studio musician for the Beach Boys, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin. He also played bass and drums and sang.
Mr. Riley continued to perform, touring in Europe in the 1970s and '80s to receptive audiences. And he kept performing late in life.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Riley is survived by their daughter, Angela Johns, and three children from his first marriage, Erin Riley, Wendy Kennedy and Darron Riley.
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Teaching Mandarin in schools is another slap in the face for African languages
Russell H Kaschula, Bulelwa Nosilela, Kathleen Heugh, Monica Hendricks, Pamela Maseko 12 Nov 2015 08:10
Gabriel Kenny, aged five, gets to grips with Mandarin characters as part of a US school program. (Lucy Nicholson, Reuters)
It's said that behind every powerful language is an army and money. Consider the case of English. In South Africa, as in its other colonies, the British arrived with the Bible in one hand and the breech-loader in the other.
Behind them was the English language, military might and money.
British missionaries wanted to convert Africa's indigenous "heathens" to Christianity; to clone little English people on the continent through the medium of English. Next came the Afrikaners, descended from the Dutch. Their slaves created a "kitchen" language out of Dutch and called it Afrikaans. White Afrikaners appropriated it as their own and it became the language of apartheid.
One of the tipping points of white rule was the 1976 Soweto uprising – a furious, powerful response to the news that Afrikaans would become a compulsory medium of instruction.
Now there is a new potential coloniser on South Africa's linguistic block. From 2016, Mandarin will be taught in the country's schools as a Second Additional Language. This new government policy will see African languages bumped even further down the educational pecking order.
Policy prevarication
In 2014 South Africa's Department of Basic Education unveiled a policy designed to prioritise and improve the way African languages like Xhosa, Zulu, Sesotho and Tswana are taught. English and Afrikaans are favoured as first languages by most schools, even those whose pupils do not speak either as their mother tongues.
The policy proposed teaching an African language to all children from Grade 1 at the level of a First Additional Language. The department argued that introducing African languages to all pupils would create a more cohesive society and improve communication between all South Africans.
If properly implemented, the policy encourages a situation where South African scholars could possibly learn in languages that they understand best. That creates a more literate society – one where students actually understand what they are learning rather than simply rote learning content through the medium of English.
But almost as soon as the government introduced this policy, it seemed to backtrack. At the beginning of 2015 the policy's introduction was delayed by a year.
It has also not been universally welcomed. Some have complained that adding an extra 30 minutes to the schoolday to fit in an African language will simply be too tiring for children. Local languages will be downgraded once again to Second Additional Language status – on a par with Mandarin, which is an almost entirely foreign language in South Africa.
A success story
Mandarin's addition to the school curriculum appears to be more of a political ploy than a sound educational policy. South African President Jacob Zuma enjoys a close relationship with China's government, which has led some critics to call the Asian powerhouse a new colonial power. The news of Mandarin's addition to the school curriculum has enraged South Africa's largest teacher union.
It would be far better to concentrate on teaching content subjects in African languages properly alongside the expert teaching of English as a subject. English should also be used jointly with African languages in the classroom to aid cognition and improve learners' ability to transfer concepts from their own languages into English.
This is not just wishful thinking. A project in South Africa's Eastern Cape province proves how valuable African languages are to pupils' learning. The Cofimvaba Project involves 70 rural schools which have taught maths and science in isiXhosa up to Grade 6 for the past four years. This is by far the most dominant language in the province. English is taught as a subject and is also used bilingually alongside isiXhosa to teach maths and science.
When the project started, learners were scoring on average around 20% in the Department of Basic Education's Annual National Assessments. This average has improved to around 65%.
This year the Grade 7s were supposed to adopt English as a language of learning and teaching. Their parents refused. They chose English as a subject and an adjunct to isiXhosa – because they had seen their children grow and flourish after watching them fail for years. The schools' governing bodies have seen for themselves that their children can learn content subjects in their home languages while acquiring good English.
English literacy levels in these schools is at 60%, way above the average of other rural schools where English is the medium of instruction. These percentage figures speak for themselves.
It is the only project of its kind in South Africa and has been well supported by the provincial government. It should serve as a model for the rest of the country.
Mandarin is not a priority
So are we suggesting that Mandarin has no place in South Africa's education system? Not at all. In fact, it's already here – at our universities.
Confucius Institutes at, for instance, Rhodes and the University of Cape Town, are well versed in teaching Mandarin and Chinese characters. After three years of immersion at university many students have come out relatively fluent and are now working in China.
But do we need to teach Mandarin or Chinese from Grade R? Other countries, like Australia, have discovered that teaching Chinese as an additional language subject at school just doesn't work. Australian school leavers emerge after 13 years with the fluency of 500 Chinese characters or less.
There are many varieties of spoken Chinese but only one set of written characters for written language which everyone must learn. The acquisition of the 500 characters after 13 years is the equivalent of Grade 1 competency. Is this worth the effort?
No, it's not.
South Africa must fix its existing system first. Once it has achieved its educational aims through appropriate research-based and empirically sound language-in-education policy implementation, then it can consider adding other world languages to its educational repertoire. For now, let Mandarin be taught at South Africa's universities as is presently the case.
Russell H. Kaschula, Professor of African Language Studies, Rhodes University; Bulelwa Nosilela, Subject Head, African Languages, Rhodes University; Kathleen Heugh, Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics, University of South Australia; Monica Hendricks, Director of the Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University, and Pamela Maseko, Senior Lecturer in African Languages, Rhodes University


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Tuesday 3 Jun 2014 10:31PM
Neil Robertson produced a stunning display of break-building to beat Jamie Jones 5-0 and reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Goldfields Open in Bendigo.
The home favourite from Melbourne rattled in runs of 103, 86, 140 and 80 in a superb performance to set up a last eight clash with Robert Milkins.
Robertson won the first ranking title of the season, the Wuxi Classic in China, just four days ago, but seems to have shrugged off any fatigue as he aims to win his home tournament for the first time.
"Today was a big improvement from yesterday's match and I'm really pleased with the way I played," said Robertson. "This is one of the few tournaments I haven't won yet. All I do now is try to improve as a player, and the tournament wins will come.
"On Tuesday night I didn't fall asleep until 5am, but last night I slept better and I felt much fresher today. Hopefully there will be a big crowd in for my quarter-final cheering me on."
Judd Trump, who is playing in this event for the first time since 2011, scored a 5-3 win over Alan McManus. Runs of 52, 64 and 67 put Trump 3-0 up before McManus won three of the next four frames. But Trump's 107 in frame eight sealed a quarter-final meeting with Ricky Walden.
"At 3-0 I had a chance to go 4-0 but I messed it up," said Trump. "After that I thought the match was going to go 5-4 either way. Luckily I made a good clearance in the end to win 5-3. Alan was in control for a lot of the match but he missed a few balls and I was able to clear."
Walden beat Martin Gould 5-2 with top breaks of 86 and 56. "That's the best I have played so far this season," said two-time ranking event winner Walden. "I scored well and my safety was decent. Everyone is a bit rusty at the start of the season so I'm just trying to play my way into the tournament. Conditions here are without doubt the best on the tour.
"I'm looking forward to playing Judd now and I know I can get the result if I keep improving. We both play the game in a positive way."
China's Xiao Guodong edged out Peter Ebdon 5-4 in an exciting finish. Xiao trailed 4-3 when he made a superb 67 clearance to win the eighth frame from 61-0 down. He was also 46-0 down in the decider but eventually won it by clearing from blue to black.
"We both put a lot into that match and it was really tough," said Xiao, who will now meet Matthew Stevens. "He played well through to the end which I didn't expect. I tried my best even when I was 4-3 down, I didn't give up like I used to.
"I've always wanted to bring my form from the practice table to matches. I have to stay cool no matter what the score is.
"I haven't played much against Matthew Stevens but as a teenager I always loved to watch his game. He has a great record in World Championship. I watched his previous match and he played well to get into the quarter-finals. I have to play carefully tomorrow against a strong opponent like him."
Stuart Bingham, who won this event in 2011, saw off Mark Joyce 5-2 with high scores of 57, 52 and 86. He said: "It wasn't a vintage performance but as long as I get to five first it doesn't matter how I win."
Bingham's next opponent is Mark Davis, who beat former World Champion Shaun Murphy 5-3. Davis built a 4-1 lead with top breaks of 80 and 67, and despite losing the next two, he dominated frame eight to secure victory.
"I played well and I didn't miss much," said Davis. "Any time you beat Shaun it's a great result. He didn't have a lot of run today and he had a few kicks, and sometimes that's all it takes in a best of nine. I have done well in this tournament before, getting to the semi-finals two years ago, and I always enjoy it here."
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Aquabio Ltd has appointed Chris Heslegrave as its new Sales Engineer.
The appointment follows Aquabio's recent industry successes, having recently been awarded a contract for a 2.6 MLD (Mega Litres per Day) wastewater treatment and water reuse plant at Dairy Crest's Severnside Dairy in Gloucester. The company has also completed a 0.7 MLD filtration plant for Shepherd Neame Brewery in Kent, Great Britain's oldest brewery. These two projects alone have the capacity to reuse enough water to supply a domestic population of 12,000.
Reporting to Sales Manger Chris Woods, Chris Heslegrave brings 12 years relevant experience in the wastewater treatment and water reuse sectors. His role will be to enhance relationships with existing customers, ensure projects are being fulfilled, and optimise leads and further interest in Aquabio.
Commenting on his appointment Chris said: 'This is an exciting role and I relish the challenge of working for such a forward thinking company. My role will include identifying companies and advising them on the best methods to reduce wastage and reuse of water'.
The photo shows Sales Engineer Chris Heslegrave (left) with Sales Manager Chris Woods at the Shepherd Neame brewery in Faversham, Kent, which produces a range of cask ales and filtered beers. Aquabio constructed a state-of-the-art wastewater treatment plant which is totally automated and features Aquabio's own software and remote access for plant monitoring.


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Veterans of our parties – and after 4 years of these shindigs there are now a fair few of them out there (with no smaller number of tales to tell) – will confirm we generally know how to have a good time.
So if you're new to the action, welcome aboard. Come sail the drink-fuelled seas of mobile gaming camaraderie with us.


Episode 24 - "Boy the Earth Talks To"
It's the finale of season 2, and what a finale it is. He who was often named finally arrives in camp as George Hearst makes his entrance. Plus a deal is struck with Yankton, Wu makes a big decision about his future, and there's a lot of axing in the back. And there's a wedding!


The SDCC team released a first release candidate of their C cross compiler. Like Z88dk, SDCC is able to produce Z80 code. If you want to know more about how you can use SDCC with the CPC you can have a look at the CPCWiki article "SDCC and CPC". You can download it from the SDCC homepage. The final release is currently planned for 22.03.2009.


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Q: How can I change the "frequently used" emojis in Discord? I am a new Discord user. I am using the Windows 10 client. It has helpfully populated some "frequently used" emojis for me and shows them to me every time I want to use an emoji. These are without exceptions emojis I would not use and in some cases would rather not see (poop, rude faces etc.)
I have tried just patiently using the emojis I like to use. It's been a few weeks and none have moved into the "Frequent" zone. I have tried right-clicking on some (hoping there might be "remove from this list") but nothing happens. I cannot find any settings related to this.
Can this be done?

A: If you don't want to mess around in Local storage, there is a simpler trick to manipulate your Frequently used emojis list, as suggested by Kate Gregory in comments.
The first thing to understand is that this is a Frequently used emojis in messages list, not a Frequently used emojis in messages and reactions list, so using emojis to react to a message doesn't alter the emoji use count at all!
Knowing this, it becomes clear that to promote your preferred emojis into the list, just post a message with lots of copies of your preferred emoji, then delete your message. Keep repeating this until your preferred emojis are at the top of the "Frequently used" list.
If you want to remove emojis off the list entirely, then you will want to pick and promote any emojis below them in the list, and then add enough other emojis that the ones you don't want are pushed off the end of the list.

A:
Discord is chrome-powered. Hit control/cmd + shift + i to open up the
chrome debugger tools. Hit Application tab. At the side, find the
Storage column, open up Local Storage, and click on the discord url.
These are all the stuff that Discord saves (including your password
token - do not share pls thx). There is a key named EmojiStore
if you clear the stuff to the right and reload discord with
ctrl/cmd+r, it will be cleared. Otherwise, if you know how to
manipulate JSON data types, you can litterally remove :frogface: from
the history.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/79icxx/location_of_file_for_frequently_used_emojis_please/dp33x49/
For the JSON, it'll look something like this:
{"100":{"totalUses":1,"recentUses":[1514823987052],"frecency":50,"score":50},"eggplant":{"totalUses":1,"recentUses":[1514823987052],"frecency":50,"score":50},"fork_and_knife":{"totalUses":1,"recentUses":[1514823987052],"frecency":50,"score":50},"yum":{"totalUses":1,"recentUses":[1514823987052],"frecency":50,"score":50},}
So to remove "eggplant", for example, you'll want to delete the text starting from "eggplant" to the curly brace and comma that comes after "score".
{"100":{"totalUses":1,"recentUses":[1514823987052],"frecency":50,"score":50},"eggplant":{"totalUses":1,"recentUses":[1514823987052],"frecency":50,"score":50},"fork_and_knife":{"totalUses":1,"recentUses":[1514823987052],"frecency":50,"score":50},"yum":{"totalUses":1,"recentUses":[1514823987052],"frecency":50,"score":50}}


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Hydrogen fuel cells and photochemical etching
By admin / April 9, 2020 June 2, 2020
In 1874, the French novelist Jules Verne wrote: "I am convinced that hydrogen and oxygen, the two elements that combine to form water, will one day – either together or as single entities – be an inexhaustible source of heat and light of an intensity of which coal is not capable." A century and a half later, Verne's vision is turning into reality.
The development of renewable energy sources and energy storage technologies has accelerated in recent years driven by the need to decarbonize the global economy and avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change. One technology in particular has the potential to drastically reduce our dependence on fossil fuels while also offering significant advances in mobile power. This technology is the hydrogen fuel cell.
The principle of fuel cells was invented in 1838 by the German scientist Christian Schönbein. In the following year, the use of hydrogen and oxygen in fuel cells was uncovered by the Welsh scientist Sir William Grove who in 1843 produced and demonstrated the first fuel cell unit. Progress in the development of fuel cells was very slow at the time due to the invention of the combustion engine. Interest in fuel cells was re-ignited in the 1950s leading to the development of proton exchange fuel cells in 1959 by General Electrics in the US for use by NASA. The oil crisis in the 1970s prompted further work to develop new types of fuel cells. Today, major car manufacturers such as Toyota, Honda and Hyundai are already making hydrogen cars available to the public.
While fuel cells can be an important element in achieving cleaner transportation, they can also be used in consumer electronic devices. Fuel cells can be scaled to a size that will allow them to be embedded in laptops, tablets and other electronic devices.
Hydrogen is considered a clean fuel because it can be produced from water using renewable energy or from fossil fuels combined with carbon capture and storage technology.
How does a fuel cell work
In basic terms, a fuel is a chemical substance that releases a large amount of energy when reacted with oxygen. This energy can be harnessed by converting it into useful forms such as heat, movement or electricity. When a fuel reacts with oxygen, the existing chemical bonds within the fuel and oxygen molecules are broken in a process that requires energy (an endothermic process). Then, the atoms within these molecules are rearranged and new chemical bonds between the atoms are created in a process that releases energy in the form of heat (an exothermic process). The energy released in the second process is much larger than the energy consumed in the first process, so the net result is that a large amount of energy is generated.
Conventional Energy Systems
In a conventional energy system such as the internal combustion engine, a carbon-based fuel is reacted with oxygen to generate heat and pressure, which in turn are converted into useful mechanical (movement) energy. The useful energy is only 30-40% of the potential chemical energy stored in the fuel and oxygen, so these systems are characterized by significant energy losses.
Fuel cells, on the other hand, convert the chemical energy of a fuel directly into useful electrical energy, thus achieving very high efficiencies. Moreover, if hydrogen is used as the fuel, the only waste emission is water vapour..
Hydrogen Fuel Cells
In a hydrogen fuel cell, hydrogen serves as the fuel and is reacted with oxygen to produce water, heat and electrical energy. The cell consists of two electrodes and an electrolyte sandwiched between the two electrodes. Hydrogen reacts at the anode generating a proton and an electron. The proton travels through the electrolyte to the cathode while the electron travels through the external circuit to the cathode, thus creating an electric current. The proton and the electron then react with the oxygen at the cathode producing water vapour. Electric power is generated by the flow of electrons from the anode to the cathode.
The electrodes are usually made of small platinum particles (which act as a catalyst to promote the reaction) supported on porous carbon. However, due to a number of disadvantages including the high cost of platinum, other electrode materials are now being developed.
Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM)
One of the main types of fuel cells is the Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cell, also known as the Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cell. As the name suggests, PEM fuel cells employ a polymer membrane as the electrolyte. The major potential application of PEM fuel cells is as replacement for internal combustion engines in light-duty vehicles.
A fuel cell unit is made up of a series or stack of cells. Cell interconnection can be achieved using bipolar plates. In this method, a bipolar plate is used to make connections all over the surface of one cathode and the anode of the next cell. In addition to connecting adjacent cells, the bipolar plate serves as a means of feeding hydrogen to the anode and oxygen to the cathode. Grooves or channels on the surface of the bipolar plate allow the gases to flow over the surface of the electrodes. These channels are designed to offer a large surface area for adequate gas flow whilst at the same time maintaining a sufficient contact surface area between the bipolar plate and the electrodes to which it is connected.
Manufacturing Fuel Cell Plates
Challenges Remain
While the potential offered by fuel cell technology is very promising, a number of challenges remain to be resolved. Research is accelerating to address these challenges and advances in manufacturing techniques will make it possible to produce fuel cells in a wide array of metals and sizes.
Metal Options & Alternatives
Bipolar plates are usually made of graphite, metal alloys, or composite materials. While graphite is lighter than any metal and is not prone to corrosion, it is also brittle and porous and has significantly lower electrical and thermal conductivities compared to metals. Metals, on the other hand, are characterized by very high conductivities. Their corrosion resistance can be enhanced using conductive coatings. For example, titanium is a light metal with very good corrosion resistance which can be further improved by coating the surface with a titanium nitride protective finish. Aluminium, which is another attractive metal for fuel cell plates due to its low density (40% lighter than titanium), can be coated with chromium nitride. Other metals can be used such as copper and stainless steel and various surface treatment and coating techniques are also available to deposit a wide range of coating materials on metal plates.
Photochemical Etching Fuel Cells
Photochemical etching is an important fabrication process that can be used to produce flow channels on metallic fuel cell plates. Different flow patterns can be etched such as parallel, serpentine, or grid channels without affecting the physical and chemical properties of the base metal.
Fuel Cell Plates manufactured by A.C.E.
Advanced Chemical Etching (ACE) can manufacture photochemically etched fuel cell flow plates in a range of metals such as aluminium, titanium or stainless steel. The process can be used to produce different prototype designs for the purpose of optimizing the flow pattern. The process can accommodate low, medium or large volume production. Metal plates up to 2 mm in thickness can be etched. The channel width to depth ratio is typically 2-to-1. Metal plates can be etched from both sides simultaneously.
Miniaturized fuel cell technology
Photochemical etching can also be used to create micro-channels for miniaturized fuel cells. There is currently a great deal of interest in developing miniaturized fuel cell technology driven by advances in microfabrication technologies and also by the need to improve the performance of energy storage technologies for portable electronic devices. Photochemical etching of metal plates offers a cost-effective way of producing macro- or micro-channels for fuel cells.
Innovative Processes
Whilst it is possible to produce fuel cell plates in various stainless steel alloys using conventional photochemical etching, two innovative processes developed at ACE now enable the company to manufacture fuel cell plates in aluminium and titanium alloys. Aluminium and titanium are particularly difficult to etch, but the new etching processes allow ACE to achieve very high levels of quality and consistency putting ACE at the forefront of this exciting technology.
UK Hydrogen Taskforce
On the 2nd of March 2020, the UK Parliament launched the UK Hydrogen Taskforce, a cross-industry coalition comprising of ten energy and engineering heavyweights including Arup, Baxi, BP, ITM Power, and Shell. The aim of the taskforce is to drive investment in hydrogen. The view is that hydrogen will have a major role in delivering the UK government's net zero target – a legislation to commit the UK to a legally binding target of achieving net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.
Solving society's biggest challenges
At ACE, we recognize our role in enabling new technologies by working closely with the key players in the rapidly growing renewables industry. Through innovation and continuous improvement, ACE will continue to expand the boundaries of the photochemical etching industry, enabling further advances in technology and allowing ACE to contribute to solving society's biggest challenges.
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Why Love Matters
Last update: 16 November, 2016
Have you ever stopped to think about why love is so important? In life we experience a lot of feelings: joy, excitement, fear, hate…However, love is truly the feeling that unifies all of our emotions, and ends up being vital to our well-being.
Because really, when you think about it, a big part of our emotions can be encompassed by love. You may feel fear while watching a horror film, but you're also afraid of not being loved or fully understood by another person. Love impregnates every other emotion with it's color in one way or another.
Love encompasses it all
We could say that it encompasses everything. It's an enormous feeling, with huge proportions, that allows us to feel all kinds of emotions. It gives our lives meaning at the end of the day.
On the other hand, we can say that it encompasses a great number of emotions because it's thanks to love that we're able to feel everything else:
Anger because the person you want has chosen to be with someone else.
Affection for a child or a spouse, for example.
Frustration because your loved one doesn't understand you
Solidarity because you've established a friendship that is truly profound and full of light
As you can see, love encompasses a vast number of emotions, both positive and negative. But for every feeling you run in to that makes you feel pain, there will always be an opposite one nearby that will allow you to feel joy in an intimate and personal way. Think about it and give yourself the chance to discover it.
Love should rule our lives from the day we leave our mother's womb, until the day we perish on our deathbed.
It gives your life meaning
Love gives our life meaning from the very first minute we come out of our mother's womb. All children live their emotions with great intensity. Everything begins and ends with the person who educates them, gives them shelter, cares for them, feeds them, teaches them and ultimately, loves them.
Gradually, the child grows and discovers the power of loving your neighbor. He begins to meet family, friends and classmates. At that time, they begin to weave the personal relationships that will give meaning to their little lives and lay the foundation for a future in harmony and peace.
Then come the great loves of youth. I'ts such a strong, deep-rooted feeling that the child feels their life will disintegrate and eventually end if they're not able to share their life with a loved one, within whose lap begins and ends a life that only makes sense to them.
Over the years, loves settle. The relationships with friends, family and lovers settle into being our eternal companions, while we're busy traveling in a convulsed world full of nonsense. However, the solidarity of those who are with us make it all worthwhile.
We end our lives with our true love. All of the pain and bad experiences from our past are hushed by the intensity of the feelings and experiences we're now having. Everything else seems to come and go, but our emotions are ever intact.
Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
-Loretta Young-
Love moves your life
It is therefore evident that love moves people's lives. And turning away from a bad experience is a terrible mistake which you may pay for many years to come and can make other people hold grudges.
Never turn your back on it; let it flow through every pore of your body. Let it blow life into your tired, lifeless body. Let it make you vibrate, suffer, feel, enjoy … Let it do it's thing, because love gives meaning to your existence.
Live every day as if it were your last, and love with all of your strength, because only then will you reach a state of happiness and balance that will give meaning to everything else you do.
Remember that there is always a person who wants you, who is perfect for you, who is waiting for you … A being who has the same need to love you that you feel, and who knows that until you get there, they will never feel complete and fulfilled.
EmotionsThe Emotional Characteristics of Gifted Children
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EmotionsLove Doesn't Die After Loss, It Changes
EmotionsSeven Signs That You Learned to Inhibit Your Emotions as a Child
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Personal DevelopmentDoing What Matters in Times of Stress: the WHO Guide to Managing Stress


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Q: Video Selection from gallery code not working for Marshmallow, but working for Lollipop - Android I have implemented a code to select a video from gallery and play it in videoview. It works very well in lollipop version. But today when I checked it on Marshmallow, It is not working. There is no exception in logcat too.
Is it due to some security that is added in Marshmallow that is not allowing me to select the video or are any runtime permission needed?
I have this permissions in my manifest file:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

Following is my code:
      Intent pickVideoImage= new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
      pickVideoImage.setType("*/*");
      String[] mimetypes = {"image/*", "video/*"};
      pickVideoImage.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_MIME_TYPES, mimetypes);
      startActivityForResult(pickVideoImage,SELECT_PICTURE_VIDEO);

And this is the code inside onActivityResult :
      path = data.getData().toString();
      vid.setVideoPath(path);
      vid.start();

A: you should allow permissions on Runtime for Android Marshmallow Version 6.0


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Images/Films – Bring pertinent X-Rays, MRI or CT scan images/films with you to your appointment, if you have already had them done. Your Patient Care Team will need images/films to review and evaluate your care needs.
Medical Records – Bring copies of any medical records related to the reason for your visit. Your Patient Care Team needs your records to review and evaluate your healthcare needs.


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Q: php 7.4.2 некорректная работа unary union для массива имеется строка кода
foreach ($data['planes'] as $plane) {
    $data['pacients']+=$schedule->selectByDate($plane['date'],$departmentID);
}

пишется на Codeigniter 4.
selectByDate возвращает из таблицы записи с соответствующими датами ($plane['date']) и отделениями($departmentID)
На localhost (Windows 10, xampp 7.4.2) код работает как полагается, в результате в массиве все ожидаемые значения. Стоило перенести всё (и код и бд 1 в 1) на Ubuntu 20.04, apache 2.4, php 7.4.3 и в результате в массиве сохраняется только первое значение. Видимо неправильная работа команды += и что-то связано с настройками php?

A: в общем вопрос решен через array_push:
array_push($data['pacients'],$schedule->selectByDate($plane['date'],$departmentID)).
С той поправкой, что теперь selectByDate возвращает не getResultArray(), а getRowArray()


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title: Xcode 8.0 beta 3
date: 2016-07-21 14:52 UTC
tags: announcement, status
authors: Viktor Benei|viktorbenei@bitrise.io
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Xcode 8.0 beta 3 is now available! 🎉

To select this Stack you just have to **open your app** on [bitrise.io](https://www.bitrise.io),
go to the `Settings` tab, and at the bottom of the Settings tab select the `Xcode 8 beta`
stack option, and your next build will start on the Xcode 8.0 beta stack.

This new Virtual Machine replaced the previous, Xcode 8.0 beta 2 configuration,
so **if you've already selected this Xcode 8 Beta stack for your app,
you're automatically using beta 3 now**.

You can find the Stack's full system report at:
[https://github.com/bitrise-io/bitrise.io/blob/master/system_reports/osx-xcode-8.0.x.log](https://github.com/bitrise-io/bitrise.io/blob/master/system_reports/osx-xcode-8.0.x.log),
and the changes since the beta 2 stack:
[https://github.com/bitrise-io/bitrise.io/commit/c53f4f4fea8be23fd77bb84411c12531ecf006bf](https://github.com/bitrise-io/bitrise.io/commit/c53f4f4fea8be23fd77bb84411c12531ecf006bf).

If you'd like to add a tool to be pre-installed on our Stacks
you can find all the required information at: [https://github.com/bitrise-io/bitrise.io#request-a-tool-to-be-pre-installed](https://github.com/bitrise-io/bitrise.io#request-a-tool-to-be-pre-installed).

**Happy Building!** 🚀


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How one Sunnybrook donor stepped up to support the fight against COVID-19.
On May 1, 2020, Richard Carl became the first person in Toronto to donate his blood plasma as part of a promising clinical trial coordinated by Sunnybrook that could be a breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19.
Richard came by his role in the fight against COVID-19 quite unexpectedly.
A married father of three grown sons, Richard never imagined a family ski trip to Colorado would be the start of a journey that would see four of his five family members contract COVID-19. In late February — weeks before COVID-19 would be declared a global pandemic, when there were still only a handful of cases in North America — Richard and his family went west on their annual ski holiday.
"An anxiety-filled period"
Richard's sons began to wonder about the virus with some concern after reading a news story about a Toronto woman who had also recently returned home from the same part of Colorado and tested positive for COVID-19.
It was enough to prompt Richard's eldest son to get tested. He received his results in less than 24 hours and called his dad right away. "You guys need to go in," he said.
Within hours, Richard and the rest of his family headed straight to Sunnybrook for testing. Richard, his wife Cathy and his youngest son Patrick all tested positive for COVID-19. Thankfully, no one had severe symptoms and they were discharged to self-quarantine.
Richard describes the days that followed as anxious but manageable, given the relatively mild nature of his family's symptoms.
"We were basically just waiting it out, but it was an anxiety-filled period. Four out of the five of us were sick, and it could have gone badly."
After two weeks of self-quarantine, with friends delivering everything from flowers to groceries, the family was finally declared "resolved" by Toronto Public Health.
Discharged and ready to re-join the fight
Shortly after Toronto Public Health cleared Richard, he received a very interesting call from the doctor handling the family file at Sunnybrook, Dr. Adrienne Chan, an infectious diseases specialist. Dr. Chan told Richard about an upcoming clinical trial that doctors at Sunnybrook, McMaster University and CHU Sainte-Justine hospital were launching across all of Canada.
The Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19 Research (CONCOR-1) trial is testing the therapeutic use of plasma — the portion of blood that contains antibodies — from patients like Richard who have recovered from COVID-19. Scientists hope to prove that antibodies found in the plasma of recovered patients can bind to and neutralize the virus that causes COVID-19. Under the leadership of Dr. Jeannie Callum, a transfusion specialist and clinician-researcher, Sunnybrook is the logistical lead for this national clinical trial that will involve as many as 60 medical centres across Canada.
Knowing that Richard was an active community member with extensive experience on the boards of non-profit and private organizations, Dr. Chan thought Richard would be a perfect fit for the CONCOR-1 steering committee. She was right. Richard didn't hesitate at the chance to help in any way he could.
"There is an urgency to this trial because convalescent plasma has been tested around other outbreaks, but those pandemics ended before scientists had enough of a sample size to make their results statistically significant," explains Richard.
Richard Carl and his son Patrick both donated their plasma to the CONCOR-1 trial at Sunnybrook
"This could prove once and for all, without a shadow of doubt, that convalescent plasma is a treatment for viruses like COVID-19."
Raising hopes — and funds — to fight COVID-19
The potential to develop a treatment for COVID-19 is what prompted Richard to volunteer for the trial. And it's why on May 1, he became the first person in Toronto to donate his blood plasma for CONCOR-1. His son Patrick, also determined to be involved, donated his plasma five days later. But Richard wasn't done yet.
In partnership with Sunnybrook's CONCOR-1 team and Sunnybrook Foundation, Richard, an experienced not-for-profit fundraiser, has already helped to raise over an astounding $1 million toward funding the trial. "Dr. Callum and Sunnybrook Foundation have been consummate professionals to work with," says Richard. "I couldn't think of better fundraising partners."
Richard has no plans to let up. He says he will continue to raise funds for CONCOR-1, be an active member of the CONCOR-1 steering committee and donate blood again. As for the future? He simply looks forward to getting back to normal.
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ADM Lead Director Donald E. Felsinger Named 2016 Director of the Year by National Association of Corporate Directors
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) announced today that the company's lead director, Donald E. Felsinger, was recently recognized as the 2016 Director of the Year by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD)—a leading nonprofit membership organization for corporate board members.
Felsinger joined ADM's Board of Directors in August 2009 and currently serves as its lead director and as a member of the executive committee.
"We congratulate Don on being recognized as the 2016 Director of the Year by the National Association of Corporate Directors," said Juan Luciano, ADM chairman and CEO. "Don has demonstrated extraordinary leadership as the lead director of our board over the past two years. With his insights, we have enhanced a number of corporate governance measures to drive increased transparency and better represent shareholder interests.
"Don has engaged with shareholders to gain valuable feedback on ADM's corporate governance while acting as a great advocate for ADM's board and management," Luciano added. "From a personal standpoint, Don has been a close and trusted adviser, and I have benefited from his experience and expertise."
The Director of the Year honor is part of the NACD's 2016 NACD Directorship 100, the annual list that recognizes the leading corporate directors, corporate-governance experts, policymakers and influencers who significantly impact boardroom practices and performance. For nearly four decades, NACD has recognized individual directors who serve as role models in promoting exemplary board leadership, oversight and courage in the boardroom.
Nominees are evaluated in four key categories: integrity, mature confidence, informed judgment and high performance standards. An independent selection committee reviews each nominee's history of advancing board performance and leading corporate-governance practices in accordance with established NACD principles. The principles are a framework that encourages excellence in areas critical to boardroom leadership, including risk oversight, corporate strategy, compensation and transparency.


Well summer has officially left the building! As autumn sets in we say goodbye to salty beach hair & and tanned skin. The sweet smell of coconut sun cream only a distant memory… ok slightly dramatic it's actually still pretty sunny, but i am feeling a bit pale and will be reaching for the self tan very soon.
Luckily self-tans have come a long way since I first experimented with my mums 'instant tan' back in the 90's at the age of 14! (ekk). This tango liquid tan was applied with a cotton pad and streaked on in stripy orange lines form ankle to hip, attempting to blend as you go like a human painting by numbers if you will. Back then my pale English skin was about 5 shades lighter than It is now, so as you can imagine – I did not achieve the beautiful 'natural' tan I was promised on the bottle!
Fast forward 15 years and the tanning choices are endless, with formulations more advanced and the ingredients more natural than ever.
I have recently been using the Naked Tan Range, as a professional makeup artist I am always on the look out for instant tans that I can use on photo shoots, as well as on myself. I want a product that goes on quickly & evenly. It must produce a natural looking golden tan with a beautiful sheen. The Goddess Instant Tan does just that, not only does it smell divine (coconut & lime – yum!) it melts into the skin without having to work it in, an applicator mitt is always an excellent way to apply.
However if your looking for a more long lasting tan then you will need to use a gradual tan (like a body moisturizer with a hit of tan) or self tanning cream.
1 – Polish – exfoliating your skin is essential for an even tan, especially coming into winter where your skin is more dehydrated. I like to use exfoliating mittens in the shower. Try the 'RIFFI ORIGINAL EXFOLIATING MITT – it feels quit enough at first but your skin will feel amazing after! You can double this up with an exfoliating cream scrub as well – you want to make sure it's quite coarse so really buss off dead skin – and if you can get someone to scrub your back even better! Avoid scrubs that have oil based – I love these scrubs for a weekly treat, but they can cause a streaky tan due to the residue that they leave on the skin.
2 – Moisturize – all over! Personally I think you achieve a more even tan especially if you are super fair. Paying particular attention your hands & wrists, knees, feet & ankles, and anywhere that is dry. Feel free just to moisturize those specific areas if you're more confident with your tanning game or if you want a darker tan.
Avoid anything that is over perfumed! A lightweight lotion is the best option, Leave to absorb completely. Try the Naked Tan Goddess Crème de le crème – super hydrating and absorbs instantly.
If your tanning your face then apply a tiny amount of moisturize to the eyebrows and around the hairline – this will act as a barrier to prevent a tan build up or heaven forbid – orange brows! Ekk!
3 – Shade – Choose a self tan that is the right shade, not all self-tans come in different shades, so do a patch test first. Self tans are supposed to enhance your skin, not mask them so always air on the side of caution, if your super pale – don't go for a dark colour, choose a medium tone shade and then you can always build up with a gradual tanner over the following days. Most ranges now come in various formulations, creams, mousses and sprays; it really is down to personal preference. Generally you have more control with a mousse or cream; sprays can get messy (especially in a white bathroom – opps!) but they can be handy if you have to your back and backs of legs.
I like to use a blending mitt, you can cover larger areas, they help to smooth on the product; gliding over the trickier parts like ankles and knees.
4 – Now you wait! But not for to long – The clever people over at Naked Tan have developed a 2 hour tan – goodbye going to bed smelting like a burnt chip and hello to instant golden goddess! They also smell incredible; enriched with Shea Butter, Aloe Vera and Avocado Oil – delish!
5 – Maintain – Now you no longer look like an extra from frozen, you need to prolong your tan, I recommend using a moisturizer daily to prevent the tan fading in patches. You can also top up as I mentioned earlier with a gradual or instant tanner.
Good luck, go forth and bronze!
Beauty note – I Used Naked Tan's Goddess Instant Tan on Chanel for this shoot.


When your leg veins can't pump enough blood back to your heart, you have chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). Today, standardized horse chestnut seed extract (HCSE) is a well-established treatment for CVI and edema. It's a common ingredient in lotions, creams, massage oils, and other skin care products, often in combination with other herbal ingredients.


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Q: Old database, how to access datas efficiently We have an old database in our company. i think it's an SAP Advantage Database Server. All tables are flat, no relational scheme... a real mess.
We can access it via an ODBC connector but performances are bad and the pool of connection is limited.
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I thought of developing an ORM just for it, maybe sync the database to another engine (but still via ODBC)


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Home Journal Collaborations KARHARTT: L'Art de l'Automobile x Carhartt WIP
KARHARTT: L'Art de l'Automobile x Carhartt WIP
For Spring/Summer 2021, Carhartt WIP has collaborated with L'Art de l'Automobile, the lifestyle brand helmed by the Paris-based car dealer Arthur Kar.
Conceived as an ode to Carhartt's heritage, which saw the brand releasing its own motor vehicles in 1911 – pre-dating the 1920s automotive boom which gave rise to Detroit's Motor City moniker – the collection combines Kar's own design sensibility with classic Carhartt WIP elements.
Built upon the idea of a mechanic's uniform – a nod to Kar's background, which often saw him skipping school as a teenager to help his father fix cars – the collection features a reworking of both the Michigan Coat and Single Knee Pant, complete with a functioning mini-wrench keychain attached. The palette draws inspiration from the trees of Lebanon, where Kar grew up, and a specific shade of green found on Ferves Rangers – a rare Italian off-road vehicle manufactured during the 60s and 70s.
In addition there are two graphic print t-shirts, and a series of accessories and gadgets, including two caps and a Nalgene water bottle. Each item features exclusive branding that sees the logos of both brands spliced together, to create a unique Karhartt motif.
The accompanying campaign for this collection was shot by Paris-based photographer Sylvain Sey, and art directed by the L'Art de l'Automobile team and Parisian boutique store The Broken Arm. In addition, this launch is also marked by a video, shot by Angelo Marques, with an original score by its featured models, the music producer Louis Brodinski and the L'Art Kids.
Canvas Painting by : The Broken arm
Plants installation by : Castor Fleuriste
Photographer: Sylvain Ali
Music by : Louis Brodinski
Videographer: Angelo Marques @marquesangelo


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Die König-Ludwig-Dampfbahn Bad Brückenau war eine Parkeisenbahn mit 600 mm Spurweite, die von 1996 bis 2000 in Bad Brückenau am Bauhof begann und ursprünglich bis zum Staatsbad Brückenau führen sollte. Ende 1995 konnte der erste Abschnitt der Bahn vom Bauhof bis zur geplanten Brücke über die Sinn in Betrieb genommen werden. Im Jahr 1996 erfolgte der Brückenschlag über die Sinn und auf der anderen Flussseite wurde ein Bahnhof mit Umsetzgleis angelegt. Später wurde die Strecke noch etwa bis zum heutigen Washington-Platz verlängert.

Die Bahn wurde im Jahr 2000 stillgelegt, die Fahrzeuge wurden zur Bahnstrecke Wächtersbach–Bad Orb verbracht. Die Gleisanlagen sind noch heute vorhanden.

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Ye Vagabonds: On a Journey
mike_mcgb Music, The Echo, Writing January 6, 2017 August 16, 2018
Ahead of dates in Coughlan's and DeBarra's later this month, Mike McGrath-Bryan speaks with Diarmuid Glynn of Ye Vagabonds about tours, a new album and online video.
There's a lot to be said for slow and steady progression. Brian and Diarmuid Glynn are Ye Vagabonds, a pair of brothers from Carlow, currently resident in Dublin, where their weekly session in Walsh's pub in Stoneybatter saw them become a fixture of the capital's folk community. Their current successes are heavily tied in to the rise of online music video and hard touring, but all of this is the latest chapter in a lifelong journey.
Starting off as kids playing music around Carlow, the lads had their creative upbringing around some of the classics of the rock canon before transitioning to their current influences, as Diarmuid recalls. "Around the time we started playing music together, Brían's late teens, my early 20s, our personal tastes were starting to come in line with what had been around us all our lives. We made the transition from 1970s rock, to 1960s folk and trad. From Led Zeppelin to Sweeneys Men and The Incredible String Band."
Like countless other young musicians before them, they quickly encountered the cultural limitations for original music in small-town Ireland, slogging away on booking and promotions in Carlow town, before moving to Dublin and finding a more cogent scene. "We tried in our years in Carlow to push the scene as much as we could. Running open mics, and mini festivals, and gigs. There were two great venues, Caffe Formenti, since closed, and Club D'art, recently reopened. When we started playing in Dublin, we brought folks that we met there down to those venues. After we moved up to the Pale, it took a while before we met the crowd that we would consider to be our 'scene'. All our mates (laughs). Then, we did what we had done in Carlow, and started a weekly session. That was three years ago and we feel rightly nestled in the heart of it now."
While finding their bearings, the duo happened across videographer and director Myles O'Reilly, famed for his work under the banner of Arbutus Yarns, and most recently with the newly-rebooted This Ain't No Disco. Taking to the brothers, he proceeded to film a series of videos with them, which has made the difference, says Diarmuid. "Ourselves and Myles clicked right away. It was Body and Soul three years ago when we met at Arbutus Yarns area. We sang a few songs, had some deep meaningfuls and by sunrise we were the best of friends. His videos are easily the most important output we've made. We hang out regularly now and he's still hugely encouraging. He's like a big brother in many ways. We love Myles."
Not the least of career bumps the brothers Glynn have received was a chance meeting with Frames frontman Glen Hansard, who took an immediate shine to the pair and took them on tour with him in late 2015. The experience has proven to be invaluable. "Glen Hansard is a lovable and generous rogue. Festivals have never been our favourite gigs to play, but they're great for meeting people and that was one of the more fortunate meetings. It was Electric Picnic 2015. Glen had seen Myles' videos, and so after shaking our hands and saying hello he asked us to jump up on stage with him. He thinks with his gut. The next thing it's October, we're on a flashy tour bus travelling through Europe, and Glen is regaling us with stories and teaching us the best way to fold shirts and coats. There was any amount of mischief on that tour, and we'll never forget it as our first experience of that kind. Pure magic."
Amid all of the bustle and business, the band found time to put down their debut extended-player, a slick, layered work that betrays a quick-and-dirty recording process. "Rose and Briar happened all in a flash in the run up to the Glen Hansard tour. That flash illuminated a single moment in time like a snap-shot. It was mostly recorded in a day, on borrowed equipment in our living room by our friend Chris Barry. We recorded the songs we happened to be singing at the time, including some very newly written material. Diarmuid's cover artwork was intended as a rough sketch. Part of Chris' payment consisted of a guitar amp, a flat cap and several packets of biscuits. We're glad that it was captured as such."
Heading back to the promotion and booking grind at a more committed tilt as of recent, the pair have begun a new curated folk night at Connolly's of Leap, Little Wheel Spin. Diarmuid explores the concept. "Little Wheel Spin is our new baby for 2017. It involves the cyclic nature of stories and songs and our place in the ongoing revolution. Once a month we bring together two or three acts we feel will inspire and compliment one another and have a night of songs, tunes and the occasional long winded story about a donkey. Eventually we hope to involve more collaboration among artists and possibly a raffle. Watch this space."
With such a busy schedule, it's not a surprise that the band's debut album has been put on the long finger while things get figured out. "The eventful year we had in 2016 meant there was little time to sit and focus on how we wanted things to sound. We decided to take time this winter to find a nice rehearsal space and work on a live performance of the album we want to create. Recording the album will be a matter of capturing that live performance. If all goes to plan we'll be doing that somewhere in West Cork this spring."
So what now for the boys, heading into the new year? "This coming year of the rooster we intend to rise up with the dawns first rosy light and crack on with our album and our ongoing projects. After that a global domination tour in which we overturn the Trump presidency and Brexit and the Neo-Nazi alt-right and restore truth and common sense to the human race.. apart from that we'll be in the corner of the pub singing songs."
Ye Vagabonds play Coughlan's on Thursday January 19th, and DeBarra's of Clonakilty on Friday January 20th.
Published January 6, 2017 August 16, 2018
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Jason Thibeault, Senior Director, Marketing Strategy at Limelight Networks will be presenting the keynote session on Wednesday 19 June (9-10am), The Power of Storyshowing. He will also appear on a panel session, The Future of CDNs, half an hour later on the same day. Here he tells us a little bit about himself and what he will be talking about.
I am currently the Sr. Director, Marketing Strategy at Limelight Networks and responsible for much of the way Limelight is positioned in the market.
Although a deep technologist at heart, I am also a storyteller. Schooled as a professional writer my love is storytelling. The great thing about the digital world is that it transforms storytelling. They aren't just words anymore (or just video). Magical combinations of mediums can come together to create vibrant and interactive experiences. When you bring that to the business world you realize that everyone, even organizations, are trying to tell a story and it's how we engage with each other. This really is where I spend my time.
I will also be sitting on a panel talking about The Future of the CDNs. The CDN is really fascinating. As a market and a service it's changing. It's evolving because we are all realizing that delivery is just one component of getting that story to our audiences. I am fascinated by this evolution of CDNs from just dumb pipes to intelligent networks that can help organizations tailor content delivery into contextually-relevant experiences for their audience. That's powerful.
Our clients are struggling with digital marketing, with engaging with their audiences, with their digital presence. Many of the systems they use to manage and publish websites, to manage and publish videos, to store objects, to deliver them, are all disconnected. That makes it really hard to tell a consistent story across all devices anywhere in the world so that they can maximize engagement (which is what they want as engagement leads to intimacy leads to conversion). We help them wipe away some of that complexity (let's be honest, we aren't a silver bullet for a problem this big) by making it easier to create, manage, and deliver an awesome digital presence through a single, cloud-based platform of integrated tools for their website, video, storage, delivery/performance, and analytics.
I see streaming media getting more personalized and more interactive. Obviously video is going to dominate content over the next five years. The data trajectory is incredible. But, just as websites transformed to dynamic, contextual experiences, so too will video. It can't be just dumb. Discovery has to be smarter, it has to be linked to who I am, what I like, where I've been. This will require a lot of real-time data from both the player and the evolution of the CDN but the cloud resources are there now (i.e., Hadoop clusters and elastic computing) to acquire and process it. It's just a matter of time before the content owners and the technologists begin to integrate that into the video experiences they have been building.
Working with amazing clients, companies that are trying to reshape the way we tell, interact, and experience stories. Whether it's stories about their company, or stories from the big screen, or stories about their customers, these organizations are transforming the web with their digital content and I get to be at the center of it all as part of Limelight.
Jason's keynote, The Power of Storyshowing, takes place on Wednesday 19 June, 9.00-10.00.
The panel session, The Future of CDNs, is on Wednesday 19 June, 10.30 – 11.30.
Panellists: Jason Thibeault, Sr. Director, Marketing Strategy, Limelight Networks, USA, Stef van der Ziel, CEO, Jet-Stream, The Netherlands, Miles McWilliams, Head of Global Sales – IP Transit & CDN, Deutsche Telekom, UK, Mike Smith, Solutions Engineer, Edge Comuting & CDN Services, Mirror Image Internet, UK, and James Fletcher, Marketing Director, CDN.net,UK.
One of the key differences between the online video industry in the U.S. and Europe lies in the different approaches to content delivery, which Nigel Regan outlined in depth in The State of the European Content Delivery Market last autumn. Because these differences are so pronounced, we've added a new one-day event at Streaming Media Europe called the Content Delivery Summit, a one-day conference will bring together content owners, infrastructure providers, and the financial community to discuss the business and technology of delivering video online.
Watch this space for more information about the event, but if you've got an idea for a panel session topic, the call for speakers is now open, and we look forward to seeing your submissions.
In the meantime, here's video from a Streaming Media Europe 2009 session called "Will The Cloud Rain On The CDNs' Parade," which examines the state of the content delivery market in Europe, particularly as it relates to cloud services such as Amazon's CloudFront.
All of the videos from last month's Streaming Media East and Content Delivery Summit event are now online. Of particular note is Dan Rayburn's presentation, "CDN Market Size and Pricing Trends." Most analysts and research reports that cover the CDN space don't share their research methods, nor do they really share detailed numbers and pricing information. In the video below, Rayburn does, and it's worth watching.
Our thanks to Quality Tech's media services division who captured, edited and encoded all of the videos and to Brightcove for making their video platform available to StreamingMedia.com.
We're looking for an independent writer who's familiar with the CDN space in Europe — the major players, the trends, the challenges, the opportunities, etc., as they relate specifically to the Europe market as distinct from other markets. Need someone to write a high-level article for the Autumn issue of the European edition of Streaming Media magazine. If you fit the bill, contact me directly.
The catch? You can't work for a CDN.
CDNetworks announced today that it renewed its partnership with Toyota Spain to provide Flash streaming for the auto maker's sales website. Normally, the announcement of a renewed contract wouldn't be worth noting, but with CDNetworks' recent merger with Panther Express, the content delivery network is making a push to become a major player in the European space.
Currently, CDNetworks has about 150 customers in Europe, according to VP of EMEA Robert Gribnau, with whom I spoke last week; he said the company hopes to double its European customer roster by the end of 2009. Right now CDNetworks has 17 data centers in Europe, but since some of those were Panther Express nodes, Gribnau said that number will actually decrease in the next few months to cut down on redundancy.
Gribnau also spoke to the challenges that the Korea-based company has faced moving into the European market after its successful entry into the U.S. market a couple years ago. "Most of the content generated in the U.S. has some general global appeal, whereas most of the content in European countries tends to be specific to that country, for language and cultural reasons," he says. "So the challenge is that the market is so fragmented." Beyond the language and cultural issues, he pointed to the differences in regulatory environments that mean a CDN can't simply treat Europe as a single entity. "French labor law is different from British labor law, for instance," he said, "and for security and confidentiality reasons, some content needs to be stored in and delivered to only the country in which it's created.
We'll be taking an in-depth look at the European content delivery space in the Autumn issue of Streaming Media magazine — get your free subscription here.
Considering how many telcos and carriers have recently entered the market it should come as no surprise that BT plans to offer a content delivery service of their own by the end of this year. It's been widely known that for some time now, BT has been looking at the CDN landscape evaluating how best to enter the market and it appears they have decided on a strategy.
Based on an interview they did this week with Informa Telecoms & Media, BT said that, "We believe that we can build our own CDN as effectively as reselling others solutions." While this built it yourself approach by BT does not surprise me, unless BT only wants to have a regional CDN footprint, I think it's the wrong approach. It is possible that BT may just focus on building out a European based CDN which would be a lot easier for them than trying to deploy a CDN with a global footprint. But if they want to service content owners who need delivery to all regions of the world, BT is going to have a really hard time playing catch up in the market. You can't just throw a bunch of money at the problem. It takes a lot more than deploying lots of boxes to have a real CDN offering in the marketplace.
If BT only focuses on Europe, or even just the UK to start, they could have an offering out sometime this year that could be fairly well received. BT has a deep customer base to sell to and already has loads of infrastructure in place in the UK. If BT starts out small and stays regional, they could see some success with their offering beginning next year. But if they want to become a global content delivery network and think they can have something out in the market by the end of this year, that's just not realistic.
Videos from all of the breakout sessions at this year's Streaming Media Europe are now available here. Unfortunately, we're not able to present videos of the keynote sessions, but if you take a look at the player, you'll see that all 18 sessions are now online for viewing; you can also embed links to individual session videos on your own sites if you wish. I'll be highlighting and discussing individual session videos in future posts.
Also, speaker presentations from the sessions and several of the pre-conference workshops are now available on the Streaming Media Europe programme page. If a particular presentation you're looking for isn't there, please let me know, and I'll do my best to track it down.
One of the highlights of Streaming Media Europe was presenting the first-ever Readers' Choice Award for Regional (European) Content Delivery Network. The finalists were Global-MIX and Stream UK, both from the UK, and Jet Stream from the Netherlands. Showing the truly pan-European nature of the show, Jet Stream was the winner for its Streamzilla content delivery service. Congrats to Stef van der Ziel and everyone else at Jet Stream.
Next year, we'll be presenting an entire awards program specifically focusing on the European market. Watch this space and the Streaming Media Global site for details to come!


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Jordanian Cabinet resigns ahead of government reshuffle
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Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Al-Razzaz meets with member of Union leaders in Amman, on June 7, 2018. (AFP)
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Prime Minister Omar Al-Razzaz on Wednesday asked ministers to submit their resignations in preparation for a cabinet reshuffle
Al-Razzaz said that the reshuffle aims to contribute toward efforts overcoming the challenges and achieving the priorities and plans of the government
AMMAN: The entire Jordanian Cabinet resigned on Wednesday, signaling a major government reshuffle.
The official Jordanian news agency, Petra, said that Prime Minister Omar Razzaz "asked his ministerial team to submit their resignations in preparation for a Cabinet reshuffle in the coming days."
According to Petra, Razzaz stressed: "The reshuffle comes in line with the requirements to address challenges and achieve the government's priorities and plans."
Mamdouh Abadi, a former deputy prime minister, told Arab News that the idea of mass resignations has become part of the norm in Jordanian politics. "Ever since the 1980s, when a particular minister refuses to resign in a small reshuffle, all Jordanian Cabinet members present their resignations en masse, allowing the prime minister to decide who to keep and whose resignation to accept."
Hassan Barari, a professor of international relations at the University of Jordan, said that the individuals who will change are unknown, but that: "The aim of this reshuffle is internal, not external. Razzaz wants to address some pressing domestic issues and he feels handicapped by some ministers not delivering what is needed."
Barari added: "There is no change in politics or policy, the only explanation I can see in this reshuffle is internal."
The Cabinet reshuffle is taking place after important personnel changes occurred in the royal court and the general intelligence directorate. It also comes before the expected announcement of the US-Middle East Plan, although most experts do not expect the change to affect Jordanian policy or positions.
Last week, the Jordanian royal court made important changes among several officials in sensitive and senior positions. Bisher Khasawneh became the senior official at court, while Manar Dabas, the director of the King's office, has become a special advisor.
One of the major changes made by King Abdullah was the replacement of the director of the General Intelligence Department, General Adnan Al-Jundi, who held one of the most influential positions in the country. The palace issued a statement saying the king had decided to retire Al-Jundi and replace him with Gen. Ahmed Husni, who has served in several senior intelligence posts.
Jordan is going through a difficult economic period with unemployment at high rates due in part to a large young population and a lack of private sector jobs. The country's public sector is bloated, and national debt is rising. A year ago, 40 days of protests against a controversial income tax law brought in liberal-minded Harvard University graduate Razzaz, but he has had a hard time producing change.
It is not clear when the reshuffle will be completed and the newly established Cabinet will be sworn in. Most analysts expect it to take place within 48 hours of the resignations, and after consultations with the king.
Topics: Jordan
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So if I send in my 15 year old Sony point & shoot camera that no longer works, they'll knock off $50 if I buy a Hero 6 Black directly from the GoPro site?
If they gave me a voucher for $50 to use on a purchase anywhere that would be worthwhile. Otherwise, why not just get a H6B at about a $100 discount on one of the deals that get posted here frequently?
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It appears that way but it's at the sole discretion of GoPro.
Eh, seems a bit too untested for me to bother. I'm just gonna grab a H6B from one of the like $100+ off deals that get posted here relatively frequently. If they gave a voucher to use somewhere besides their store I'd be interested. Oh well.