Alright, alright, you're probably wondering how a title that has to do with breakfast cereal (and is even part of its branding, really) is connected to something sobering like deterioration of Antarctic ice sheets or earthquakes. See, according to Einav and Guillard, the authors of this week's OPEN ACCESS Featured Article, "the substitution of subject materials by surrogate materials has been widely effective in science." This makes sense as a model can help explain what might happen, but scale could be a problem: a small, 1-pound chunk of Antarctic ice sheet might not have the same pressure and cracking properties as, say, a chunk the size of a city block when they melt due to warm water. They didn't really go into what was the light-bulb moment was when they realized they could simulate this using Rice Krispies cereal ('puffed rice' cereal – mind the branding, please), but it makes one wonder what was the light-bulb moment.
Anyway, there are a lot of calculations to wade through (but feel free to check the article if you're up on your maths), but the overall experiment goes as follows: water seeps up through a layer of porous stone in the bottom of a cylinder. This water wets the bottom of a rather thick layer of puffed rice, which simulates things like ground water or ocean water at the bottom of an ice shelf. Above the puffed rice is a mechanism that adjusts the amount of pressure ('load') applied on the puffed rice, simulating pressure from simply having lots and lots of rock/soil far above the wetted, compromised ice or rock layer. Interestingly, they found that not only did it temporarily and regularly reduced stress (which came back) on the puffed rice, these drops in stress could also be heard, probably not unlike what you get with a seismometer. Snap, crackle, and pop indeed.
Thus, the modeling of rock/ice stratum collapse through the concept of 'ricequakes' was deemed successful – it produced consistent, linear results about the relationship between the dynamics of collapse with the pore size of the stratum. Your cereal stays crunchy, even in milk, but I think that's probably why ice shelf collapse happens in a matter of seconds; it's due to the mass above the compromised layer of ice and the weakening of the ice sheet due to warmer water. Have a happy breakfast!
Thoughts? Comments? Insights from your favorite breakfasts? Let me know in the space below, throw a like if you liked it, and you don't need to be a WordPress member to do it! If you're not doing so already, please follow (if you're into scientific research with snarky commentary anyway) and thanks again for stopping by. I don't know what kind of insight I'm going to get out of my breakfasts, which is usually oatmeal with cocoa power, peanut butter, a bit of Stevia, and maybe a banana, served with vanilla caramel tea – all I know about it is that I make it, I leave it in my home office, I close the door, I take my morning shower, and when I open the door, the out-rushing air hits me with the smell of peanut butter cups. I can't use it to explain geostratum collapse, though.
Featured Article: Einav I, Guillard F. (2018). Tracking time with ricequakes in partially brittle porous media. Science Advances 4(10):eaat6961. DOI:10.1126/sciadv.aat6961.


but could see a large number of gray hints, what were they?
Even tough I didn't know the NGC #, Gary guided his giant to that area and viole' , what a view!!
unending field of island universes!
all this action is: NGC 4889.
Galaxy, close companion brightest in cluster.
RA:13h 00m 19.4s Dec:+27d 56' 37"
Azm:134d 55' 40" Alt:+73d 09' 08"
RA:13h 00m 21.8s Dec:+27d 57' 22"
Azm:134d 52' 39" Alt:+73d 09' 24"


Rituale works with recordings of human voices and instrumental sounds from different cultures and melts them into a sound ritual. This work is an offspring from my compositions "Rojo" and "object-obstacle", which equally deal with ritualistic subjects.
Rituale uses the extraordinary possibilities to place and move sound sources within a wave field. As the location of sources within the audience space becomes available, the sounding entities are approaching the listener in a physical way. Each of the 32 channels represent a sound stream with individual movement patterns.
The first version was tailored towards the WFS system in the Ilmenau cinema "Linden Lichtspiele". Subsequent adaptions have been realized for the WFS systems at the Technische Universität Berlin and the Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg.


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

using Android.Views;

using EnergonSoftware.BackpackPlanner.DAL;
using EnergonSoftware.BackpackPlanner.DAL.Models;
using EnergonSoftware.BackpackPlanner.DAL.Models.Gear.Collections;
using EnergonSoftware.BackpackPlanner.DAL.Models.Gear.Items;
using EnergonSoftware.BackpackPlanner.DAL.Models.Gear.Systems;
using EnergonSoftware.BackpackPlanner.DAL.Models.Trips.Plans;
using EnergonSoftware.BackpackPlanner.Droid.Activities;
using EnergonSoftware.BackpackPlanner.Droid.Views;

namespace EnergonSoftware.BackpackPlanner.Droid.DAL.Gear
{
    public abstract class GearItemEntries<T> : ItemEntries<T, GearItem, GearItemEntry<T>>
        where T: BaseModel<T>, new()
    {
        public abstract class GearItemEntryViewHolder : BaseModelEntryContainerViewHolder<T, GearItem, GearItemEntry<T>>
        {
            protected override int NoItemsResource => Resource.Id.no_gear_items;

            protected override int NoItemsAddedResource => Resource.Id.no_gear_items_added;

            protected override int ItemListAdapterResource => Resource.Id.gear_items_list;

            protected override int AddItemButtonResource => Resource.Id.fab_add_gear_item;

            protected GearItemEntryViewHolder(BaseActivity activity, View view)
                : base(activity, view)
            {
            }
        }

        protected GearItemEntries(T model, IReadOnlyCollection<GearItemEntry<T>> entries)
            : base(model, entries)
        {
        }
    }

    public sealed class GearSystemGearItemEntries : GearItemEntries<GearSystem>
    {
        public sealed class GearSystemGearItemEntryViewHolder : GearItemEntryViewHolder
        {
            public GearSystemGearItemEntryViewHolder(BaseActivity activity, View view)
                : base(activity, view)
            {
            }

            public override void DoDataExchange(GearSystem item, ItemEntries<GearSystem, GearItem, GearItemEntry<GearSystem>> itemEntries, DatabaseContext dbContext)
            {
                item.SetGearItems(dbContext, itemEntries.ItemListAdapter?.Items);
            }
        }

        public override GearItemEntry<GearSystem> GetItemEntry(GearItem gearItem)
        {
            return Model.GearItems.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Model.Id == gearItem.Id);
        }

        public GearSystemGearItemEntries(GearSystem gearSystem)
            : base(gearSystem, gearSystem.GearItems)
        {
        }
    }

    public sealed class GearCollectionGearItemEntries : GearItemEntries<GearCollection>
    {
        public sealed class GearCollectionGearItemEntryViewHolder : GearItemEntryViewHolder
        {
            public GearCollectionGearItemEntryViewHolder(BaseActivity activity, View view)
                : base(activity, view)
            {
            }

            public override void DoDataExchange(GearCollection item, ItemEntries<GearCollection, GearItem, GearItemEntry<GearCollection>> itemEntries, DatabaseContext dbContext)
            {
                item.SetGearItems(dbContext, itemEntries.ItemListAdapter?.Items);
            }
        }

        public override GearItemEntry<GearCollection> GetItemEntry(GearItem gearItem)
        {
            return Model.GearItems.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Model.Id == gearItem.Id);
        }

        public GearCollectionGearItemEntries(GearCollection gearCollection)
            : base(gearCollection, gearCollection.GearItems)
        {
        }
    }

    public sealed class TripPlanGearItemEntries : GearItemEntries<TripPlan>
    {
        public sealed class TripPlanGearItemEntryViewHolder : GearItemEntryViewHolder
        {
            public TripPlanGearItemEntryViewHolder(BaseActivity activity, View view)
                : base(activity, view)
            {
            }

            public override void DoDataExchange(TripPlan item, ItemEntries<TripPlan, GearItem, GearItemEntry<TripPlan>> itemEntries, DatabaseContext dbContext)
            {
                item.SetGearItems(dbContext, itemEntries.ItemListAdapter?.Items);
            }
        }

        public override GearItemEntry<TripPlan> GetItemEntry(GearItem gearItem)
        {
            return Model.GearItems.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Model.Id == gearItem.Id);
        }

        public TripPlanGearItemEntries(TripPlan tripPlan)
            : base(tripPlan, tripPlan.GearItems)
        {
        }
    }
}

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Marysville police arrest suspect in hatchet attack
Updated: Mar 13, 2019 - 10:07 PM
A suspect was arrested Tuesday night in connection with a hatchet attack that left a man injured earlier this month.
On March 2, police responded to a report of an assault with a weapon at Taco Bell at 616 State Avenue before midnight.
Police said a 32-year-old man walked into the parking lot bleeding from his head wounds. He told witnesses that he was struck in the head with an ax at Totem Middle School across the street from Taco Bell.
The victim told police that he met with a woman and man on State Avenue and the three of them walked to the school. While they were on campus, the victim said he reached into his backpack and was struck in the head with a hatchet. He escaped and went to the restaurant to get help.
Detectives were able to confirm the identities of the suspects and located them.
Investigators said the 19-year-old suspect, fought with officers before he was taken into custody. A second hatchet was found stuffed down his pants, police said. The other suspect, a juvenile female,
was found with him but she was later released to her guardian.
"This case was solved due to cooperation on multiple fronts," said Sgt. Pete Shove.
"Bystanders who rendered immediate first aid and quickly alerted law enforcement on the
night of the incident, a concerned citizen's tip, and the assistance of our neighboring law
enforcement partners, all of which culminated in the successful apprehension of a dangerous
suspect, now off the streets and behind bars. We thank all involved for their assistance in
bringing this investigation to a swift resolution."
The victim is now out of the hospital.
The investigation remains ongoing.
Family claims Pierce County medical examiner should not have ruled son's death a suicide
Students loot Art Institute of Seattle classrooms as school suddenly shuts down
Prime suspect for 1988 murder is academic advisor at Western Washington University, CBS reports
Unvaccinated kids: Schools in Western Washington most at risk for measles

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https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/local/article/Schlitterbahn-sells-New-Braunfels-Galveston-13985150.php
Schlitterbahn sells New Braunfels, Galveston water parks
By Madison Iszler
Updated 1:14 pm CDT, Thursday, June 13, 2019
Ohio-based Cedar Fair has an agreement with the owners of Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts to purchase the company's New Braunfels park and resort property as well as their Galveston park.
Photo: Courtesy Of Schlitterbahn /
Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts — which has dealt with a gruesome death, indictments and financial troubles in recent years — is selling a chunk of its holdings.
Ohio-based Cedar Fair Entertainment Co. has an agreement with the owners of Schlitterbahn to purchase the company's New Braunfels park and resort property as well as their Galveston park for $261 million, subject to certain adjustments.
"It's important to know that Cedar Fair values Schlitterbahn's character and brand promise," the Henry family — Schlitterbahn's owners — said in a statement. "They have committed to not only keeping Schlitterbahn awesome but helping us grow!"
On ExpressNews.com: Financial, legal troubles at Schlitterbahn preceded parks sale
Richard Zimmerman, Cedar Fair's president and CEO, said the company is "very excited about the opportunity to bring these two award-winning Texas water parks into the Cedar Fair family."
"These properties represent new markets for us with attractive demographics in the growing Central Texas region, and they align with our strategy to identify compelling opportunities to accelerate our growth and profitability," he said in a statement.
The sale agreement comes as a Schlitterbahn entity was required to pay off a $186.4 million note by June 1 to Kansas City real estate investment trust EPR Properties. The maturity date on the loan had been extended a month.
The Henry family decided to sell the properties last year and has been working to identify a buyer to take over, according to the statement.
The company will continue to operate its South Padre water park and resort, which will be rebranded.
Ticket and season pass prices as well as reservations will not change, the company said. Events will continue as scheduled.
On ExpressNews.com: Schlitterbahn is celebrating 40 years this summer with freebies and other special deals
In February, criminal charges were dismissed against co-owner Jeff Henry and other officials at its Kansas City park over the design and construction of its Verrückt water slide.
They had been charged in connection with the death of Caleb Schwab, a 10-year-old boy who was decapitated while on the ride in 2016.
The indictments alleged that Henry and others designed a dangerous ride without the proper expertise, the Tribune News Service reported. Improprieties by prosecutors led a judge to dismiss the charges in February.
Cedar Fair said it had the right to acquire the Kansas City property for $6 million.
The partnership that owned the Schlitterbahn water park on North Padre Island ran into financial troubles as a result of a feud between the partners - which included brothers Gary and Jeff Henry. The partnership was supposed to build a massive development comprised of residential properties, a marina and a waterfront experience modeled after San Antonio's River Walk.
The bickering triggered lawsuits and an arbitration proceeding, and forced the filing of an involuntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding against the partnership by two Schlitterbahn-related companies two years ago.
On ExpressNews.com: A closer look at Cedar Park, the Ohio amusement park company that bought Schlitterbahn properties
In May 2018, IBC Bank took over ownership of the Schlitterbahn Riverpark & Resort at a foreclosure auction after a bankruptcy trustee failed to find another buyer. The bank bid $20 million of the roughly $32 million it was owned by the partnership.
madison.iszler@express-news.net


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Prestigious Research Awards Put the Spotlight on Women's Health
September 18, 2017 / Tate Williams
photo: Ken Wolter/shutterstock
The Lasker Awards, on one hand, are a prestigious suite of research prizes, often singling out scientists who eventually win Nobels for their influential discoveries. This year is no exception, with the basic research prize going to Michael N. Hall for work that has redefined our grasp of how cells grow, with implications for understanding diseases like cancer and diabetes.
The Laskers also deliver some surprises too, making decisions at times steeped in the scientific events and conversations of the moment, even bordering on the political—perhaps a nod to public health activist and founder Mary Woodward Lasker. This year is no exception, with women's and reproductive health efforts landing timely acknowledgement in the form of one award for Planned Parenthood and another for the researchers behind the HPV vaccine.
Some of the more interesting winners of the Lasker Awards have come out of what you might think of as the program's wild card category each year. Annually, Lasker gives one award for clinical research, one for basic research, and the third alternates between a special achievement award and a public service award.
Lasker Awards Recall a Seminal Figure in Health Philanthropy and Activism
The STEM Education Champion Who Just Got a Huge Cash Award Out of the Blue
This year, the Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award goes to Planned Parenthood, for essential health services and reproductive care, emphasizing that one in five women in the U.S. have received health assistance from the organization at some point in their lives. Planned Parenthood, while always under steady attack, is particularly besieged now, with the Trump administration and Republican majorities pushing to block its funding and otherwise roll back reproductive rights.
The video announcing the award includes a montage of GOP legislators berating, interrupting and condescending to Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, then highlights progress and successes.
Past winners of the public service prize include Doctors Without Borders for response to the Ebola outbreak, Michael Bloomberg for his evidence-based policymaking as mayor, and the Clinical Center of the NIH for its standard of excellence.
The clinical medical research award this year is also connected to women's health, awarding Dr. Douglas R. Lowy and Dr. John T. Schiller for advances in developing the HPV vaccine that's reducing rates of the sexually transmitted virus associated with cervical and other cancers. The vaccine is a huge breakthrough for cancer prevention research, and stands to prevent millions of cases of cervical cancer in coming decades.
While not exactly political, the HPV vaccine has faced cultural hurdles in the United States, with taboos about teen sexual activity contributing to lower rates of adoption, especially in rural states. As with the Planned Parenthood award, Lasker's judges are shining a spotlight on something with enormous public health benefits, but that many Americans may be needlessly squeamish about or hostile toward.
This year's awards reflect a certain defiant spirit in the Lasker Foundation, which dates back to its founders Albert and Mary Lasker, especially Mary, a fierce advocate for birth control and public funding for health research, and an early board member of the organization that would become Planned Parenthood.
The awards are poignant, given the difficult times for those working to serve women's health, reproductive rights, and even basic science research, for that matter. But that's not to say that these two awards are entirely political decisions. Millions of people's lives and well-being are impacted by this work, women and men alike.
The greater point, here, is that these are triumphs of scientific research and persistent dedication to positive health outcomes, despite political or cultural obstacles in which we're mired at any given time.
One thing that all three of these recipients share is that sense of persistence over several years—Michael Hall's dedication to studying a cell protein that most were uninterested in, or the decade-plus work on the HPV vaccine, funded early by public dollars when drug companies turned them away. And Richards points out that even when Planned Parenthood makes progress, "that doesn't mean that we don't have to get up every single morning and roll the boulder back uphill."
Related: With Deep Budget Cuts Proposed to Science Research, What Should Funders Be Doing?
The Personal Journey That Moved the Gates Foundation to Focus on Gender Equality
Gender Norms Don't Get Enough Attention from Funders. Here's How Philanthropy Can do Better
After Shifting its Strategy, a Foundation Gets Behind Jewish Women Social Entrepreneurs
How One University Supercharged Fundraising and Giving For Women and Girls
In Omaha, a New Hub for Black Women's Philanthropy
Giving by Women's Funds Has Soared. And They're Getting More Savvy and Strategic
This Health Funder Has Big Plans to Reduce Unintended Pregnancies Among Low-Income Women
"Of the Community." How a New African-American Giving Circle is Gaining Steam
Participatory Grantmaking for Teens: The Funders Who Trust Girls to Make Grants
"Empower Them To Succeed." An Alumna Looks to Close the Engineering Gender Gap
In San Diego, a Corporate Funder Galvanizes a New Effort to Fight Human Trafficking
Leaving Rikers: What a Foundation is Doing for Women in New York City's Worst Jail
She Took on a Powerful Male Donor. Now She'll be Leading a Top Jewish Feminist Organization
Behind a $25 Million Plan to Elevate Women in STEM and Use their Stories to Inspire Girls
Building on #MeToo, Foundations Look to Change Workplaces in the U.S. and Around the World
Focusing on Pivotal Moments, a Foundation Works to Help Girls and Women Avoid the Sex Trade
"Space to Lead." Behind a Historic Gift for Jewish Girls' Leadership
The Edge Walkers: How a Global Women's Fund Sustains Grassroots Work
A Closer Look at a New Women-Led, Black-Focused Giving Circle in Chicago
Spirit of Adventure: A Local Funder Helps Girls Chart Their Course
May We All Feast Together: A Giving Circle That Aims to Empower Women Overseas
Anonymous No More: A Closer Look at an Intriguing Arts Funder
"Rise and Thrive." What This State Fund is Doing to Fuel Women's Success
A Quick Look at a Corporate Funder's Latest Efforts to Diversify Tech
New Name, Big Expansion: The Texas Women's Foundation Takes Flight
Follow the Leader: To Raise More Money, Tell Donors About Other People's Giving
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Move Past Steve Moore and Herman Cain With Starbucks And Facebook
Norbert Michel Contributor
I follow the evolution and devolution of monetary and financial policy
Cryptocurrency Bitcoin coin on coffee beans with Starbucks cup. Slovenia - December 01, 2018
President Trump's last two Federal Reserve Board nominees have officially withdrawn in the midst of controversy, but a silver lining is the renewed debate over how the government can best protect the quality of our money.
Many people want the central bank to target commodity prices — either gold, some other precious metal, or a broader basket of commodities. Some argue that inflation targeting is still the way to go, but the target needs to be higher, or that the existing framework simply needs to be refined.
Others, myself included, believe that Congress can greatly improve monetary policy by replacing the Fed's so-called dual mandate to promote stable prices and maximum employment. Instead, the Fed's goal should be monetary neutrality — namely, supplying the amount of money the economy needs to keep moving, no more and no less.
To help achieve this goal, Congress should give the Fed the single mandate of achieving monetary neutrality by stabilizing overall spending in the economy.
Maintaining a reasonable growth path for total spending — often referred to as nominal gross domestic product (NGDP) level targeting—is the best way to achieve monetary neutrality because it requires the Fed to consistently respond to changes in the amount of money people need.
The Fed's track record isn't exactly perfect, and this new framework offers many benefits over the current discretionary model. Moreover, we are stuck with the Fed and government-managed money for the near future, so it is critical to debate the best way to improve the system we have.
Still, the debate needs to be broadened because the truth is that providing money does not have to be a centralized function of government. And that arrangement is harmful for reasons that few scholars even ponder today.
For instance, the federal government's monopoly limits the extent to which competitive forces can strengthen money, and it exposes our means of payment – for all goods and services – to the mistakes of a single government entity. So policymakers should explore ways to improve money with the same competitive market forces that improve other goods and services.
Competitive forces regularly push entrepreneurs to innovate and improve products to satisfy their customers. This process exposes weaknesses and inefficiencies in existing goods and services, helping people figure out how to improve their lives.
That's why the best check against the government – or any single entity – wrecking the quality of our money is to allow competitive private markets to provide it. And that is why governments must avoid killing Bitcoin (and similar digital currencies) via a slow death by regulation.
These new digital currencies are private innovations in the way people pay for things. They are still new and have yet to reach widespread acceptance relative to national currencies, but two recent ventures are likely to speed things up.
The first venture is called Bakkt. It's a partnership between Microsoft, Starbucks, and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the company that owns the New York Stock Exchange. Bakkt is aimed at making it easier for institutional investors to get into the crypto market, which will ultimately make it easier for people to buy coffee using Bitcoin. (Not surprisingly, regulatory issues have slowed down the full launch.)
The second endeavor is Facebook's decision to launch a cryptocurrency-based payments system on the back of its massive social network. According to The Wall Street Journal:
One idea under discussion is Facebook paying users fractions of a coin when they view ads, interact with other content or shop on its platform—not unlike loyalty points accrued at retailers, some of the people said.
The Journal also reports that Facebook is in talks with e-commerce companies and apps about accepting the coin. The big picture: More than 2 billion people use Facebook every month. Once most of these folks become comfortable trading digital tokens with each other and using them to make purchases, Facebook will have essentially created money.
Companies such as Apple, Amazon and Google are similarly set up to pull off the exact same move. Each of these companies has widespread recognition and familiarity — a major advantage over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies when it comes to consumer acceptance.
Crypto-currencies provide a clear advantage over the current payment system via lower transaction fees. They also offer the potential advantage of a more sound currency whose value does not constantly depreciate.
One of the largest impediments to fully realizing this potential is a two-part problem: compared to national currencies, most merchants do not accept crypto-currencies, and most people are unfamiliar with them.
The recent ventures are poised to smash these barriers, paving the way for the benefits that privately produced money can provide. The biggest remaining hurdle will likely be the government
I am the Director of the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation. I also research issues pertaining to financial markets and monetary policy.


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Q: Passing delegate parameter to MethodInfo.Invoke I have a window with multiple radio buttons : first group Sorting Algorithms and second directions (Ascending, Descending).
Every Sorting Method that I have contains :
 public delegate bool ComparatorDelegate(int a, int b);
 public static int[] sort(int[] array, ComparatorDelegate comparator){...}

and I mention that I need to keep this signatures (specially passing a delegate as a parameter).
Now the problem is , I have two methods
First one retrieves the selected algorithm
private Type getSelectedSortingMethod()
    {
        if (radioButtonBubbleSort.Checked)
        {
            return typeof(BubbleSort);
        }
        else if (radioButtonHeapSort.Checked)
        {
             return typeof(HeapSort);
        }
        else if (radioButtonQuickSort.Checked)
        {
             return typeof(QuickSort);
        }
        else
        {
             return typeof(SelectionSort);
        }
    }

and the second one retrieves the direction :
   private Func<int, int, bool> getSelectedDirection()
    {
        Func<int, int, bool> selectedDirectionComparator = null;
        if (radioButtonAscending.Checked)
        {
            selectedDirectionComparator = ComparatorUtil.Ascending;
        }
        else if (radioButtonDescending.Checked)
        {
            selectedDirectionComparator = ComparatorUtil.Descending;
        }
        return selectedDirectionComparator;
    }

Question : How can I invoke the sort method with a delegate parameter , because passing Func throws exception ?
Exception :
Object of type 'System.Func`3[System.Int32,System.Int32,System.Boolean]' cannot be converted to type 'Lab2.SortingMethods.HeapSort+ComparatorDelegate'.

something like this :
        Type sortingMethodClass = getSelectedSortingMethod();
        MethodInfo sortMethod = sortingMethodClass.GetMethod("sort");
        Func<int, int, bool> selectedDirectionComparator = getSelectedDirection();
        int[] numbersToSort = getValidNumbers();
        Object[] parameters = new Object[] {numbersToSort,selectedDirectionComparator};
        sortMethod.Invoke(null, parameters);
        displayNumbers(numbersToSort);

A: Try
 Object[] parameters = new Object[]
   { numbersToSort, new ComparatorDelegate (selectedDirectionComparator)};

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Burglar sentenced to less than a year in jail
Emily Thornton
A Walla Walla woman was sentenced Tuesday for burglarizing multiple businesses last fall.
Tisha A. Place, 31, pleaded guilty March 4 to charges including three counts of second-degree burglary, first-degree theft, three counts of third-degree malicious mischief, and two counts of third-degree theft. One second-degree theft charge was changed to third-degree theft.
Place and Robert J. Frates, 34, were arrested Oct. 30, 2018, in connection with the burglaries of 19 local businesses starting in late September 2018, according to a probable cause statement. Frates' trial was scheduled for Sept. 4 but has been delayed several times. He pleaded not guilty on Nov. 13, 2018, facing the same charges as Place, and was released on conditions in December.
Place's sentencing has been delayed several times for various reasons. Her sentence includes 364 days in jail suspended, with credit for 28 days served, two years on probation, six months in a residential Drug Offender Sentencing Alternative program, and $600 in fines and fees.
Emily Thornton can be reached at emilythornton@wwub.com or 509-526-8325.
Tisha A. Place
Robert J. Frates
Emily Thornton covers courts and emergency services, as well as other various stories. She has been in the newspaper industry off and on since roughly 1999 and lived primarily on the West Coast, but also Florida and Europe.
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Q: TeX accents do not seem to work with fontspec and xe/lua/latex I am using Minion Pro as mainfont and it does not have in its glyph table the character U+1E47 Latin small letter with dot below which I need only once in my document. Rather than change to another font, I thought that I would generate it using \d{n}.
I give below a minimal file illustrating the problem:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{fontspec}
    \defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX}
    \setmainfont{Minion Pro} % Comment out optionally
\begin{document}
U+1E47 Latin small letter with dot below: \d{n}

U+0101 Latin small letter a with macron: \={a}
\end{document}

I do not get the desired letter n with dot below although the a with macron exists in the font and is available. Commenting out \usepackage{fontspec} gives the desired output with CMR as default font.
The behaviour is the same with xelatex and lualatex although the former indicates the missing letter with a crossed box.
I believe that with the Ligatures=TeX setting, I should be able to get missing letters using TeX accents. I do not think I need to load the xunicode package as it is already loaded by fontspec.
Can someone tell me what a I am doing wrong, please?
Thank you.

A: The "standard way" would be to say
\UndeclareUTFcomposite[\UTFencname]{x1E47}{\d}{n}

in order to use the combining character instead of the missing character at U+1E47, but unfortunately Minion Pro has nothing in slot U+0323 (COMBINING DOT BELOW). We need to go the hard way: write the following in the preamble
\UndeclareUTFcomposite[\UTFencname]{x1E47}{\d}{n}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\d}[1]
   {\hmode@bgroup
    \o@lign{\relax#1\crcr\hidewidth\ltx@sh@ft{-1ex}.\hidewidth}\egroup}
\makeatother

so that you'll use the standard definition for \d. If other characters of that sort are needed, look in xunicode.sty for their definition; it starts with \DeclareUTFcomposite, it's sufficient to copy the line in your preamble and to change \Declare... into \Undeclare....
Let's look also at the "line below", which is again missing in Minion Pro. Here's a similar way to cope with the case, using the macron (U+00AF) for emulating the line below:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec,newunicodechar}
\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX}
\setmainfont{Minion Pro} % Comment out optionally

\UndeclareUTFcomposite[\UTFencname]{x1E47}{\d}{n}
\UndeclareUTFcomposite[\UTFencname]{x1E49}{\b}{n}
\makeatletter
\let\d\relax
\DeclareRobustCommand{\d}[1]
   {\hmode@bgroup
    \o@lign{\relax#1\crcr\hidewidth\ltx@sh@ft{-1ex}.\hidewidth}\egroup}
\let\b\relax
\DeclareRobustCommand{\b}[1]
   {\hmode@bgroup\o@lign{\relax#1\crcr\hidewidth\ltx@sh@ft{-3ex}%
     \vbox to.2ex{\hbox{\char"AF}\vss}\hidewidth}\egroup}
\makeatother
\newunicodechar{ṇ}{\d{n}}
\newunicodechar{ṉ}{\b{n}}

\begin{document}
U+1E47 Latin small letter n with dot below: \d{n}ṇ

U+1E49 Latin small letter n with line below: \b{n}ṉ

U+0101 Latin small letter a with macron: \={a}ā

\end{document}

It's perhaps better to declare \b and \d as robust commands. Moreover, with newunicodechar we can also input the characters directly.


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How Climate Change and Migration Can Cascade in the EU
The number of forcibly displaced people has been steadily on the rise. In 2015, over one million refugees and migrants reached Europe, the largest fraction of whom were fleeing the civil war in Syria. In public and academic debates, it has been widely discussed to what extent climate change plays a role in these dynamics and how. The ongoing crisis in Afghanistan has also drawn attention to the question of how climatic conditions contribute to political unrest and civil wars, and what this ultimately means for international security.
Recent geopolitical developments, such as the ongoing conflict in Syria, have displaced significant parts of the population and prompted large cross-border refugee flows toward Europe. In this context, the public is often concerned about the contributing role of climate change and the increasingly more severe and frequent extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, and heatwaves. Former President of the US Barack Obama stated that in the context of the changing climate "drought and crop failures and high food prices helped fuel the early unrest in Syria" (Obama 2015). Similarly, former US Secretary of State, John Kerry, said that "it's not a coincidence that immediately prior to the civil war in Syria, the country experienced its worst drought on record." (Kerry 2015). The current crisis in Afghanistan has further drawn attention from both the public and the media to the question of how climatic conditions can contribute to political unrest and civil war (NYT 2021).
These concerns have resulted in a surge of scientific efforts to debunk and prove the climate-conflict association. And indeed, the resulting picture has provided support for the looming concerns that climate change acts as a security threat multiplier (Detges et. al 2020). As for the Syria example, back-to-back droughts of unprecedented scale before the uprising have been shown to have aggravated existing water and agricultural insecurity, and have led to far-reaching agricultural failures and livestock mortality. As a consequence, as many as 1.5 million people migrated from rural farming areas to cities' peripheries and exacerbated preexisting vulnerabilities that have essentially triggered the unrest, including unemployment and inequality, (Abel et al. 2019; Ash and Oradovich 2020; Kelley et al. 2015). In turn, over 1 million people have fled the conflict in Syria searching safety in Europe.
Simplistic narratives of climate migration are dangerous
Along these lines, climate migration has often been framed as a looming international security crisis (Baldwin et al. 2014, p. 125), with predictions of international flows of millions of "climate refugees" (Myers 2002). This stigma of the securitization narrative has been used in discussions of security implications of climate change, providing fertile land for anti-immigration sentiments, and even led to the implementation of anti-immigration policies (Boas et al. 2019). For example, one could argue that EU migration policies primarily aim to protect its borders, reduce migration, and keep potential migrants in their places (Trombetta 2014) without providing sufficient means of entering. Moreover, the US Department of Defense perceives climate change related intra- and interstate migration to be responsible for adverse human security consequences in destination countries (US Department of Defense 2015). However, how, if at all, weather and climate-related events impact conflict and trigger displacement/migration as a consequence is context-dependent (Detges et. al 2020). Weather and climate are but one of the many factors that shape mobility (used interchangeably with migration), and this effect is indirect rather than direct. Therefore, simplistic narratives on the climate-conflict-migration discourse can easily result in misguided conclusions, not corresponding to reality of climate migration (Bettini 2017;Thalheimer et al., 2021).
Disentangling the climate-migration association
While higher order effects of climate change may trigger some international displacement—as the Syrian example demonstrates—most climate migrants move to towns and cities in their home countries and not to foreign shores (Šedová et al. 2021). Climate migration often serves as an important risk management strategy for adversely affected populations.
However, the relationship between climate-related events and migration remains complex. Usually, many reasons, drivers, and factors lead to a decision whether to move or to stay. In this context, the migration-development literature provides a more nuanced understanding of human mobility (Klepp 2017) and clarifies the often-misunderstood debate on migration and development: because migration requires financial capital, poverty reduces out-migration; and in turn, economic development and increased financial means lead to more migration (Bastia and Skeldon 2020). Even in East Africa, an alleged hot-spot of climate change, short-distance migration has traditionally been integral to people's livelihoods, and more recently, a means to cope with weather and climate-related events (Thalheimer et al. 2021).
Conflict adds yet another layer of complexity to the relationship. Especially poor communities affected by drought, water-stress, political instability and growing conflicts, could find themselves forced to move as a response to climate thresholds. In some cases, a warming of + 1.5 °C and more already significantly increases the risk of inter-group conflicts, which in turn can generate reinforced involuntary mobility (Hsiang et al. 2013). Similarly, in geographies affected by war and conflict, the political economy plays a crucial role in sustained conflict situations. Somalia is a traditionally mobile country with most of its population being pastoralists. However, it is also a country affected by recurring extreme weather, protracted armed conflict, political instability and displacement, where local populations are "used" to compounding vulnerabilities, and need to operate under a war economy (Thalheimer et al. 2021). Somalis rely heavily on remittances from neighboring countries in East Africa or internationally, such as the United States; a recent book highlights the richness of refugees contributing to the economies in host communities (Betts 2020).
Whether climate-related migration triggers cascading risks, depends on how it is managed
In a warming world, the amount of people who will be forced to move due to direct or higher order climatic impacts is projected to increase. Can this make it more likely that climate change will spur future conflicts and cascades of displacement?
Depending on how it is managed, climate-related human mobility can have positive outcomes for all migrants as well as the sending and host communities. Out-migrating from affected areas and the use of remittances are seen as essential risk management and survival strategies (Black et al. 2011; McLeman and Smit 2006), as demonstrated by the Somalia example. This implies that climate migration, in fact, may contribute to the reduction of vulnerabilities (Wiegel et al. 2019). At the destination, population growth, whether it is a consequence of migrants' inflows due to degrading climatic conditions, conflicts, or both, pressures governments to provide basic services, jobs and housing. If migration is planned and cities are well prepared, increased urbanization can offer economic opportunities. If poorly managed, migration can have devastating consequences for the well-being of migrants, host populations, and the ones at the origin, reliant on remittances. These can translate into violence and conflicts over limited resources (Koubi 2019) and even trigger migration cascades threatening international peace and security (Abel et al. 2019; Ash and Obradovich 2020). Given these cascading effects, the overall impact of climate change on migration can be much larger than current estimates suggest. In fact, refugee flows to the Europe Union are expected to increase possibly in a non-linear manner as a result of the warming planet (Missirian and Schlenker 2017).
What Europe can do to prevent climate migration from becoming a crisis
To prevent climate migration from becoming a security crisis with potentially major consequences for Europe, the decision makers should act on two fronts: i) mitigation, and ii) adaptation. All governments need to commit to meeting the Paris Agreement targets, for instance, via implementing sufficiently high and socially just carbon pricing, to mitigate climate change (Kalkuhl et al. 2021). Simultaneously, to advance peace and mitigate crises, environmental peacebuilding efforts should be supported, especially in the most fragile regions. It is essential to strengthen climate change adaptation, which would increase the resilience of vulnerable communities given that the degrading climatic conditions are to some extent unavoidable. Here, decision makers need to acknowledge that in addition to in-situ adaptation measures such as climate-smart agriculture as well as access to irrigation, insurance and financial services; well managed migration with focus on urban resilience serves as an efficient alternative. To achieve all of the above, Europe needs to strengthen development cooperation and invest in climate finance. This is especially relevant in dryland regions that are projected to be most affected by climate change impacts (Thalheimer et al. 2021b). All decisions should ideally be backed by scientific evidence.
However, in a changing climate an inflow of migrants to Europe is to some extent inevitable and should be even desirable given the demographic challenges such aging population. Policy makers should anticipate this impending inflow by providing ample legal avenues for entering European Union. In this context, integration policies become even more crucial. If they are designed in the right way, they will be beneficial for all, enabling this aging continent to harness the potential of these young migrants arriving at its shores.
Barbora Šedová leads the FutureLab – Security, Ethnic Conflicts and Migration at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Weathering Risk initiative. Barbora is also a Fellow at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in Berlin.
Lisa Thalheimer is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE) at Princeton University. Lisa is also an Associate at Climate Econometrics, a project and network based at the University of Oxford.
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In case you missed our interview section, here is something that will definitely keep you posted, especially if you are a young designer looking for some reassurance. What we've learned from Sandro Lopez is that great design can be achieved at any age (Sandro is just 28 and has started working in this business 3 years ago) if one is genuinely interested in changing something. There are some witty and very wise answers in the interview below that could count as great career advice and even life lessons. We invite you to go through them, analyze some key information and let us know if anything hit the spot. Enjoy!
Sandro Lopez: There are few things that came to me as naturally as design, it felt right from the very first moment I started. I never had doubts about it since then and as a consequence never really had to make a decision whether to chose it or not.
Sandro Lopez: My first real design project is called "Limu" a seating system I designed for an Italian company called Pircher. Through this project I really learned how to imagine, conceptualize, visualize, create, improve and produce an idea.
Sandro Lopez:I am interested in any field of design. I would design almost anything if I could connect that something to a situation I am familiar with. I mean that if I for example design a chair, I should know or be able to imagine someone sitting on it or looking at it, someone who would really like it and be happy with it, I should be able to imagine it in a real life situation even though this real-life situation sometimes might look unreal!
Sandro Lopez: I don't basically remember my very early thoughts in the morning, I guess I think of what I dreamt the night before. I usually take a shot of espresso and gradually come back to life by this time I'm already working.
Freshome: What is your favorite book/magazine on design? How about your favourite site?
Sandro Lopez: There are some books I frequently go back to and read over. Writings of Naoto Fukasawa and Kenya Hara are my favorites at the moment. I randomly flip through design magazines and visit design blogs but I do it as a passive activity .
Sandro Lopez: People, nature, things, events, places, my memories and my dreams.
Sandro Lopez: frustrating – People who measure design according to its profit without understanding its benefit; rewarding – Seeing people interact with your thoughts.
Sandro Lopez: Design learns the art of observation from Science and the science of communication from Art, but it is a separate field of work on its own right.
Sandro Lopez: My career is pretty short I started 3 years ago, for the moment everything that comes is new, unpredicted, exciting and surprising for me.
Sandro Lopez: I would rather think of how to create living spaces on moon than coming up immediately with the solution of a "house". Today we think that buildings are an inevitable factor for life but many communities and societies managed to live in other types of dwellings and spaces. Architecture is not about constructing buildings but about designing space and space is infinite; think of for example how we define space in a soccer field or how we define space on a beach when we take a sunbath. Creating buildings is a practice born in societies where the concept of power and dominance of men over nature and other men were the main issues. I would take the opportunity of being landed on moon to design completely new and exciting spaces. If the goal of traveling to the moon is to spread life in the universe then a living space on the moon should reflect life's wisdom.
Sandro Lopez: If design were a product it would be both a pencil and a paper, something that creates but it is also modified through its own creation. And I would design it by leaving gaps, spaces and situations that could be freely interpreted by everyone.
Sandro Lopez Money, resources and tools are limits but also constraints of the project, it is almost impossible to approach a project without having limits. My dream project though is to design a new device that would replace cars forever. I would design a vehicle for traveling short distances, a device for 2 people and a small storage space, weight 40 Kg, max speed 50 km/h, volume 1 cubic meter, needless of infrastructure or fuel! with a simple and elegant form not a spaceship or a Bat-mobile. The idea of having a ton and a half of material on 4 wheels powered with an extremely powerful engine running at irrationally high speeds making our cities unlivable is clearly irrelevant, not to talk about all the issues regarding infrastructure, fuel or pollution. I believe that in a near future we will look back at cars and wonder how we could live with such unintelligent objects for so long.
Sandro Lopez: Everything I said above.
Freshome:. What do you think of our site?
Sandro Lopez: I am very new to Freshome! I really like the way the articles are prepared, I would love to see it with a more refined layout. This interview gave me the chance to verbalize my thoughts and I'm pretty happy with that.


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JavaScript: From First Steps to Professional Adding Choice Buttons Solution
The "Adding Choice Buttons Solution" Lesson is part of the full, JavaScript: From First Steps to Professional course featured in this preview video. Here's what you'd learn in this lesson:
Anjana walks through the solution to the adding choice buttons exercise.
Transcript from the "Adding Choice Buttons Solution" Lesson
>> So, how could we do this? There's lots of ways as usual, but one of the things we need to do is we need to do something for every choice in choicesArray. So that means we're gonna need some kind of loop. So what kinds of loops do we have?
[00:00:19] What would you reach for here, what's your instinct?
>> For of?
>> For of, that sounds great. For of lets us loop over an array and take out every item in it. And in this case, we have a choicesArray that we're gonna get passed into this function. So named is the parameter.
[00:00:41] We're assuming we're gonna pass this in. And if we look at how renderButtons is being called, it's going to receive an array of choices and then the correct answer. So we're gonna loop over the choices. The choicesArray is what it's called inside of this function, that's the name of the parameter.
[00:00:56] Okay, do you wanna walk me through declaring a for loop, just the structure of the for loop?
>> For parentheses, let choice of choicesArray and then curly brackets.
>> Awesome, okay, so now this is gonna execute for everything in our choicesArray. Which we're probably gonna have three things cuz that's what we had put in here, but maybe we could change it later to be five or whatever.
[00:01:19] Okay, so the first thing we need to do is create a button element. And we said we can do that, how?
>> CreateElement.
>> CreateElement, which is a method on which object?
>> Document.
>> Document, beautiful, okay? So document.createElement, and it's gonna be of type uptag button. And then we wanna capture this element so that we can do stuff with it.
[00:01:43] So I'm just gonna say const button, yeah? Then we're gonna do some stuff to the button. What we need to do is set some properties on this button namely, the name, the value, and the text content. So how can we do that? We know how to set properties by this point?
>> Button.setProperty.
>> Button?
>> Dot.
>> Dot?
>> SetProperty, or setAttribute.
>> So if you use setAttribute on, yes, we could use setAttribute if we wanted to. But actually since we have this, this is gonna be like JavaScript object representation of this element.
>> I think you just assign whatever value, right, after the period?
>> We can actually use the period, right, to do like, remember textContent is something we've worked with a lot. We've done .textContent= several times. So that's one thing we can do. And what we want this to be is the value of that choice. So in our for loop, what variable refers to the value of the choice?
>> Choice, yeah?
>> Not a trick question.. Okay, so we set the textContent and we wanna do the value and the name also. And so we can do just like button.value = choice; button.name = choice. And there's even a trickier shorter syntax, you can see in the finished example on the site.
[00:03:15] But doesn't matter, this is totally valid. So we're setting the textContent, we're setting the value which, remember, is gonna be often used in event handlers like when we do event.target.value. So we need that, that's important. And then we're also setting the name, which I think is just best practice.
[00:03:34] Okay, now we need to attach a click listener, a click event listener. How do we do that?
>> Button.addEventListener?
>> Button., more louder?
>> addEventListener.
>> addEventListener, great.
>> And what do we pass into EventListener?
>> Click.
>> Click, yes, exactly. And what else?
>> Callback function?
>> A function, a callback function that's going to be called when this click happens. Now, we didn't have to write it ourselves because it was already written for us. It's very similar to the one we did on our previous quiz, just a little bit fancier, it's called button handler.
[00:04:15] So we're gonna just pass that in, And that represents the whole function. So we're not calling the function, we're not saying call buttonHandler and return its value. We're just saying, we want the function buttonHandler to be passed in as the callback here. Okay, great. Now, we need to append the button, As a child or add the button as a child to the options element which we have up here, which is like a little div container for it.
>> AddChild elements?
>> If we need to double check, like how do we add a child? AddChild, it's not called add. Let's say, child, we have something called appendChild, so this is going to add a node to the end of list of children. So let's try options.appendChild, what?
>> Button, that's our element. The element that we created all those many lines ago.
>> You can push into the options cuz it's not an array obviously?
>> Options is actually an element, an HTML element, I should say, as opposed to an array.
>> You can't push it into an element?
>> So we can double check if we have element.push. No, but we do have node, in this case node. I've been hand waving about nodes versus elements. You can read about it on MDN. But in this case, appendChild should work. And I think that is all the things that I wanted us to do as far as the comment nose.
[00:06:09] So let's save, great, and maybe let's just try out this loop and just double check that it's adding something. Of course, we're gonna have to do a lot of other things like get choicesArray and grab and options elements, so you know what? Let's press on, I feel confident, for the interest of time, we'll press on.
[00:06:30] But what you could do is, again, you can't access stuff like options here for multiple reasons. One, it's inside of a function, so that means it's local to the function scope. But two, we said we can't really pull out the values in this, which is because it is a module, which we'll talk about later.


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This Week In The Pac-12: At Least Stanford Lost
California Golden Blogs: Offering up cold comfort to bitter Cal fans at every opportunity.
By Nick Kranz Oct 1, 2012, 12:17am PDT
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The worse Cal plays, the more depressing this feature becomes. Usually come late October/early November, this feature covers both football and basketball. The way things are going, I might make the full transition to hoops next week.
Did you know that six Pac-12 teams are ranked, and that two others are also receiving votes? That's two thirds of the conference! The four teams not receiving votes are Colorado, Washington State, Utah and Cal. What wonderful company we find ourselves in.
Obviously, 2012 isn't going to be a good year for Cal. But at least Stanford isn't undefeated. The only thing that can nourish our black, black hearts is the suffering of others.
Washington 17, Stanford 13
This was the only game I saw this week, so I've got plenty to say about it. So let's dive right in:
David Shaw needs to change something up, because Stanford is one of the most predictable offenses I've ever seen and they can't get away with it any more.
Granted, Stanford has been somewhat predictable for the last two/three years. As it turns out, when you have the #1 pick in the draft and the best offensive line in the country, you can afford to virtually tell your opponent exactly what you're going to do and still do it successfully.
But Stanford doesn't have Andrew Luck, and they don't have a completely unstoppable line. So running on 1st and 2nd down out of the power I and then throwing an underneath route to a running back or tight end over and over and over and over isn't going to work anymore. You can only get away with a lack of creativity if you have elite, undeniable talent, and right now Stanford doesn't have that on offense.
Washington has clearly improved on defense, but are they really that much better? Watching the game on Thursday, I felt like the Huskies mostly proved that they could stop an offense playing with one hand tied behind their metaphorical back.
This is really the first test of the Shaw era. Jim Harbaugh built the perfect template, and when he left Shaw simply had to duplicate that template last year. And I hardly blame Shaw for trying to repeat what the Cardinal did so successfully for three years, particularly considering that they still have Stepfan Taylor and plenty of talent at tight end and along the line. But Thursday's loss (and, to a lesser extent limited offensive outputs against USC and San Jose St.) strongly indicate that if Stanford doesn't want to lose more games in that fashion they'll need to do something else on offense to score points.
UW Dawg Pound celebrates a sudden defensive resurgence:
The defense. The defense. The defense. This was unexpected. If Washington was to upset the Cardinal It would have required a mammoth game from Keith Price. Nope, the defense carried the team today. The box was stacked. John Timu tackled well, a major key. The entire defense tackled well. Danny Shelton ate up blocks on the inside and allowed the linebackers to make plays, and also freed up Josh Shirleyto rush the passer and the same with Andrew Hudson, the DT-DE tweener.
Stanford fans aren't quite sure about Shaw's loyalty to Josh Nunes:
Nunes seems like a fine gentleman. It's a testament to the difficulty of the position that you can be either fine or good in most areas of being a quarterback… and if you're missing that last crucial piece (in Nunes' case, actually directing the ball towards an eligible receiver), you are awful. In many ways, it's not hard to see why Shaw would be drawn to Nunes' qualities. And yet, what we've seen in the first four games hasn't been good enough. Shaw has said the team needs to be completing passes in the 60 percent range, and has never backed off Nunes as his guy. Nunes has shown no ability to actually do what Shaw thinks he needs to do. Either Shaw is right, or he is delusional.
Should Shaw stick with Josh Nunes?
Do you credit the Washington defense or do you credit the Cardinal offense for Stanford's 6 points of offensive production?
Oregon State 38, Arizona 35
The game of the week in terms of sheer entertainment value. And after winning behind stifling defensive efforts, perhaps it's encouraging that the Beavers won a game behind their offense. 613 total yards, and 433 from Mannion's arm? Maybe Matt Barkley isn't the best pro-style QB in the conference!
How long can Oregon State's shocking surge continue? The Beavers are 3-0, but all three wins have come by a margin of 7 points or less. On the other hand, OSU now owns two road wins and with three winnable games in a row they could very easily sit at 6-0 in late October.
Building The Dam points out just how far the Beavers have come in a year:
Now I think we can really start to reflect on what this team has done and it would be remiss of me to not mention that the team now has matched their win total from last year of three, and this season three wins in as many games. Additionally, this is the first 3 and 0 start under Coach Riley and the first 3 and 0 start since 2002.
AZ Desert Storm laments injuries and lack of depth:
Scott limped to the sideline and watched as Sean Mannion marched Oregon State down the field to regain the lead for the fourth and final time. The Wildcat defense looked a step slower than the Beavers on the final possession. Mannion exploited gaps in the secondary to cross OSU over the goal line for a fifth occasion.
UA was exhibiting the effects of a problem anyone following the program knew could vex the Wildcats, but one Rich Rodriguez and staff would be powerless to stop. The Wildcats have depth issues that prove insurmountable against quality opponents.
Oregon State currently has the 3rd best ranking in the conference. Does that ranking undervalue them, overvalue them, or accurately value them?
Oregon 51, Washington State 26
The final score looks about right, but the process in getting there was a little odd. The 23-19 halftime score was about as shocking as you'll see this year. But this game just adds to the wide body of evidence that makes me think that Oregon treats each individual game as an experiment in seeing what they can get away with before getting serious.
Regardless, it counts as a positive step forward for Mike Leach after the Colorado debacle. Heck, if Cal only gets out-gained by Oregon by 67 yards I'll party in the street.
Addicted To Quack looks at what kept the game close before Oregon's talent took over:
There were struggles. Marcus Mariota threw two interceptions, both on really bad throws that shouldn't have been made. And the offensive line is a real work in progress, as on several occasions, WSU had multiple defensive linemen blow up running plays at the mesh. Also of concern was thatMichael Clay left the game just before halftime and was seen on the sideline in sweats for the second half.
Ultimately, it wasn't pretty, but Oregon never seems to beat Washington State pretty.
CougCenter appreciates the positives:
In the end, this was a blowout, but not the blowout we all thought it would be. Oregon had to work for it, and needed some big plays in the second half to pull away. The first half was fun, and at least for a few minutes the Cougs showed they can compete with one of the top teams in the country.
With road dates against ASU, OSU and USC (oh, and Cal), which team presents the most credible challenge to Oregon's national championship march?
So, um, do you think we'll still beat Wazzu?
UCLA 42, Colorado 14
This went pretty much how everybody expected, right?
Bruins Nation saw what the wanted to see against Colorado:
The game looked like the score for the most part. Bruins had the Buffaloes outclassed in every facet of the game and it showed up on the scoreboard by the end of the game. I feel like it speaks to the heightened expectations on UCLA's program that I am not that impressed by UCLA winning this game by four touchdowns (should have been 5). This team has the potential to put up a hallmark type of season with the level of talent and the way the schedule breaks the rest of the way.
Ralphie Report embraces the ennui:
It was a game where both teams just seemed to go through the motions, not in a lack of effort sense, but in a "we are who we are and we're going to do what we do" kind of way. Sitting through the fourth quarter, I struggled with an angle to take on the recap for this game and finally decided that there wasn't one. Colorado lost to a better team.
Are you buying or selling UCLA's resurgence?
USC at Utah, 6:00 pm, ESPN
Arizona at Stanford, 12:00 pm, Fox
Washington State at Oregon State, 3:00 pm, Pac-12 Network
UCLA at Calfornia, 7:00 pm, Pac-12 Network
Washington at Oregon, 7:30 pm, ESPN
Arizona State and Colorado are enjoying bye weeks, leaving a number of potentially juicy offerings. The game of the week in terms of pure hate is Washington at Oregon, but the game that looks to be the most competitive is Arizona at Stanford. I'll be interested to see if Stanford's front 7 can pressure Arizona the same way they did USC and Washington. And can Josh Nunes get on track against an iffy Arizona secondary?
USC at Utah seemed intriguing at the beginning of the season but without Jordan Wynn it seems unlikely that Utah can earn the win. Same goes for Washington and Washington State on the road. Hell, Cal might be one of the better upset picks in what could be an ugly week of blowouts in the Pac-12.


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Bobby Brown To Receive Atlanta Proclamation For Building Domestic Violence Shelter In Daughter's Name
Bobby Brown will be honored by city officials in Atlanta, Georgia over his plans to build a domestic violence shelter in memory of his late daughter.
Bobbi Kristina Brown, the singer's only child with his late ex-wife Whitney Houston, died in July, 2015, six months after she was found unconscious in a bathtub at the Alpharetta, Georgia home she shared with her boyfriend, Nick Gordon.
Coroners ruled the 22-year-old died from a combination of drugs and drowning, but in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against Gordon, Brown joined his daughter's court-appointed estate executor in accusing him of physically abusing the aspiring actress prior to her death, and of giving her a "toxic cocktail" of substances, which made her lose consciousness as she bathed.
In 2016, he was found liable for Bobbi Kristina's death in a civil suit, and was ordered to hand over $36 million in damages.
Last year, Bobby founded the Bobbi Kristina Brown Serenity House non-profit organization to offer help and support to domestic violence victims, and on Monday, he and his manager wife, Alicia Etheredge, will receive a proclamation from the City of South Fulton Mayor Bill Edwards and other local officials saluting their plans to establish the charity's first physical building for abuse victims in Atlanta, reports WENN.
"Our family lives with the pain everyday of losing my beautiful daughter, Bobbi Kristina, to domestic violence," the New Edition vet shared in a statement released just before the third anniversary of her death. "She loved Atlanta and in her memory we are proud to announce the formation of the Bobbi Kristina Serenity House. Our initial goal is to help educate women and men of all ages, by creating a 24-hour crisis intervention line and emergency transitional shelter."


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December 9, 2021 Hollywood Daily News
An investigating judge of the Paris judicial court has dismissed the case of filmmaker Luc Besson, accused of rape for three years by the actress Sand Van Roy, sources close to the case said Thursday.
The magistrate followed the recommendations of the Paris prosecutor's office, which had called in early October for the prosecution to be dropped in this highly publicized case. The 62-year-old filmmaker, who has always contested the facts, had not been indicted but only placed under the less incriminating status of assisted witness.


Ken Schram Photography: "What the Duck?"
If you enjoy photography you'll likely get a kick out of "What the Duck?". It's a daily comic strip written by Aaron Johnson and distributed via the web site http://www.whattheduck.net and also via Facebook. Take a look. It's worth a laugh.


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Q: Creating my own function AtomQ and NumericQ I want to create my own functions AtomQ and NumericQ.
For example, I already create some functions (IntegerQ,EvenQ,OddQ,PrimeQ):
meuIntegerQ[_Integer] := True
meuIntegerQ[_] := False

meuEvenQ[n_Integer] /; Divisible[n, 2] := True
meuEvenQ[_] := False

meuOddQ[n_Integer] /; Divisible[n, 2] := True
meuOddQ[_] := False

meuPrimeQ[1] = False;
meuPrimeQ[2] = True;
meuPrimeQ[n_Integer /; n > 2] := Length[Divisors[n]] == 2

How can I create a function that does the same at AtomQ and NumericQ like the examples.
Ps: This is just for exercise.

A: For NumericQ you could try:
numericQ[n_] := MatchQ[n//N, _Real|_Complex]

Example:
numericQ[Pi]

True

A: Here's an attempt at recognizing atoms:
atomQ[x_] := Head[List @@ x] =!= List || Quiet[Head[x] @@ List @@ x =!= x]

First, try to Apply List to the expression. With non-atoms this yields a List of their content, but with the simpler atoms it silently fails, yielding the atom. If that happens, you have an atom. For complicated "atoms" like SparseArray and Association, this yields a List. For a normal, non-atomic object, this List is just the original object with a different Head, so you may reconstruct the original by Applying the original head. This fails, often noisily, with complex atoms, so that's the second test. Quiet suppresses the noise.

A:
AtomQ[expr] yields True if expr is an expression which cannot be divided into subexpressions, and yields False otherwise.

A simple enough function,
atomQ[obj_] := Length[obj] === 0

That this sometimes disagrees with the system function AtomQ seems like an issue with the documentation.


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#ifndef DTK_POINT_IN_CELL_FUNCTOR_HPP
#define DTK_POINT_IN_CELL_FUNCTOR_HPP

#include <Intrepid2_CellTools_Serial.hpp>
#include <Kokkos_Macros.hpp>
#include <Kokkos_View.hpp>

namespace DataTransferKit
{
namespace Functor
{
template <typename CellType, typename DeviceType>
class PointInCell
{
  public:
    PointInCell( double threshold,
                 Kokkos::View<double **, DeviceType> physical_points,
                 Kokkos::View<double ***, DeviceType> cells,
                 Kokkos::View<int *, DeviceType> coarse_search_output_cells,
                 Kokkos::View<double **, DeviceType> reference_points,
                 Kokkos::View<bool *, DeviceType> point_in_cell )
        : _threshold( threshold )
        , _physical_points( physical_points )
        , _cells( cells )
        , _coarse_search_output_cells( coarse_search_output_cells )
        , _reference_points( reference_points )
        , _point_in_cell( point_in_cell )
    {
    }

    KOKKOS_INLINE_FUNCTION
    void operator()( unsigned int const i ) const
    {
        // Extract the indices computed by the coarse search
        int const cell_index = _coarse_search_output_cells( i );
        // Get the subviews corresponding the reference point (dim), the
        // physical point (dim), the current cell (nodes, dim)
        using ExecutionSpace = typename DeviceType::execution_space;
        Kokkos::View<double *, Kokkos::LayoutStride, ExecutionSpace> ref_point(
            _reference_points, i, Kokkos::ALL() );
        Kokkos::View<double *, Kokkos::LayoutStride, ExecutionSpace> phys_point(
            _physical_points, i, Kokkos::ALL() );
        Kokkos::View<double **, Kokkos::LayoutStride, ExecutionSpace> nodes(
            _cells, cell_index, Kokkos::ALL(), Kokkos::ALL() );

        // Compute the reference point and return true if the
        // point is inside the cell
        Intrepid2::Impl::CellTools::Serial::mapToReferenceFrame<
            typename CellType::basis_type>( ref_point, phys_point, nodes );
        _point_in_cell[i] =
            CellType::topo_type::checkPointInclusion( ref_point, _threshold );
    }

  private:
    double _threshold;
    Kokkos::View<double **, DeviceType> _physical_points;
    Kokkos::View<double ***, DeviceType> _cells;
    Kokkos::View<int *, DeviceType> _coarse_search_output_cells;
    Kokkos::View<double **, DeviceType> _reference_points;
    Kokkos::View<bool *, DeviceType> _point_in_cell;
};
} // namespace Functor
} // namespace DataTransferKit

#endif


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Q: Access to TCP statistics/information per socket possible? (C/C++) I require some informations like the amount of resend packages/packet-loss occurred for a specific TCP-Socket I created. Does somebody know a way how to access or request such informations directly from my C/C++ program? Maybe something Linux specific?
Or do I need (as a workaround) to capture and analyze my own traffic?
Thanks in advance!

A: By using getsockopt() to get or setsockopt() to set TCP socket options, you can use TCP_INFO option on linux machines in order to get information about a socket. This option should be avoided if you want the code to be portable.
What you will get back is a struct tcp_info from the kernel that contains information such as retransmissions, lost packets, states etc.


Relationships and Love can be Difficult!
The Laundry Lists of what to look for or avoid in relationship.
Self-knowledge and healthy boundaries are natural and wise. Yet, when I see somebody running around with a checklist in their head of what makes the perfect partner, and what has to be avoided at all costs, I am seeing a person who operates from their mind and not with their heart.
Love remains an expression of heart, soul and spirit; not the mind.
Relying on lists is an epic-fail; instead, believe in your intuition and experience.
Laundry lists of relationship do and don'ts create expectations, demands and perceptions that can be misguided. If your love leaves clothes on the floor, it doesn't mean they are a lazy slob or wouldn't grow out of it. If a woman expects a man to never walk out of an argument, which creates unnecessary pressure, she makes him wrong if he does.
Lists of relationships do and don'ts present stories which may be false, and rather than relating at the core level of heart-to-heart, can keep things at a surface level. It also denies the possibilities of surprise and adventure that love can bring; lists can create a rigid structure that, once built, can create impossible expectations and scenarios that no human can live up to.
Lists also have the possibility of over-generalizing relationships and love, and deny the opportunity for the soul to express itself in unique ways, or to grow.
Relating because of attraction, likes and common interests.
Love is more than a series of likes and dislikes, attraction and interests.
If attraction is based on what you like or dislike about the person, it is a setup for failure. Likes and dislikes change over time, and remain at the surface level of human expression. Common interests change, appearances change, language change.
Initial attraction may be nice, yet the qualities that cause a relationship to endure are far deeper.
So be sure to know the core personality traits that sustain and nurture you, identify what you really want in a relationship, and then live it and find those traits in another.
Surface level relationships rather than depth.
Qualities that cause relationships to endure are ineffable and take time to discover and see in yourself and others.
Impatient passionate love can never endure, though it may transform into a life-long romance if both partners learn to calm down and truly see one another with eyes of authenticity.
So many people share that they want enduring, loving, and even life-long relationships. This doesn't happen overnight… it takes time, and a willingness to go past oneself.
So when I see a person relating with others based on fashion trends, or merely common interests, I have to wonder about their depth of character.
Toxic language and lack of sensitivity.
By toxic language, I don't mean cussing—coarse language is far different than toxic communication.
A person who complains, puts others down, demeans and humiliates people, especially their family and parents, has unresolved issues that will awaken with intimacy. Most challenges in relationship start because of language, and unloving words communicate an unloving spirit.
Somebody who is judgmental and overly critical about anything will eventually become judgmental and critical about you.
The assumption that the relationship will be this way or that denies it the opportunity to be its fullest and most natural expression. And when the relationship hits eventual speed bumps, judgments about how the relationship should be and isn't will become the target of criticism.
Humour and the ability to take serious things with gracious spaciousness enables all involved to remain relaxed and grow through the most turbulent scenarios in life.
If the ability to take things with light-heartedness is not available, everything will become heavy and life becomes misery.
Inability to take personal responsibility.
The person who blames everybody else, the world, or their ex's for the hurts and tribulations in life will eventually target their partner for all their woes.
Avoids the shadow-side of life.
Death, grief, accidents, and tragedies happen in life. It's nice to believe life is always a bed of roses, yet it isn't. If a person doesn't have the ability to handle the darkness and pain of being alive, they may not be able to endure in relationship. And if something happens to you, they may abandon you in the time of greatest need.
Maturity is not about age, it's about willingness and intention.
In so many of the red-flag lists a great deal of what is listed is the traits of immature individuals.
Surface level; so much can change for a person when they are committed, loyal and loving.
And love happens at any age. Just because that person doesn't know how to process emotions and may need space, does not mean that they cannot and are unwilling to learn how. Youthful traits change as a person grows in wisdom and age—but to pressure somebody into conforming and changing to suit personal needs is also immature.
And again, internet laundry lists can create an air of perceived faults and expectations that focus on surface level traits rather than appreciating the deeper qualities of soul and spirit.
Entering a relationship with preconceived notions about what is wanted or not wanted denies the spirit and flow of energy and love; that is an often overlooked aspect of immaturity.
The possibility and transformation that real love gives is inaccessible when a wall of demands is present. The pre-judgment that happens when a heart has been hurt can be the most detrimental and self-sabotaging personality trait possible.
The beginners mind, everyday, allows love to blossom.
Time, patience, and wisdom in understanding human experience allow relationships to blossom. And like seasons, all relationships have cycles.
Sooner or later, the lists are set aside and love becomes the focus.


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PUBLIC consultation sessions into Charles Sturt University's re-branding and possible name change have to come a close. The sessions were held at six of the university's campuses, including Orange, and an online survey on the subject attracted 1500 participants. The call for public feedback comes following CSU's announcement that as part of its 30th birthday celebrations it was considering major changes. "Charles Sturt University has sought feedback from the community, students, alumni and partners in relation to the University Strategy and brand refresh," a CSU spokeswoman said. "We appreciate the feedback provided at these sessions and through our online survey, which received over 1500 responses, as well as through social media channels. "It is now time for us to consider the vast amount of feedback received and present a recommendation to University Council." The spokeswoman said no decision had been made in relation to the university name change. Public consultation sessions were also held in Bathurst, Dubbo, Albury-Wodonga, Port Macquarie, Wagga Wagga campuses.
PUBLIC consultation sessions into Charles Sturt University's re-branding and possible name change have to come a close.
The sessions were held at six of the university's campuses, including Orange, and an online survey on the subject attracted 1500 participants.
The call for public feedback comes following CSU's announcement that as part of its 30th birthday celebrations it was considering major changes.
It is now time for us to consider the vast amount of feedback received.
"Charles Sturt University has sought feedback from the community, students, alumni and partners in relation to the University Strategy and brand refresh," a CSU spokeswoman said.
"We appreciate the feedback provided at these sessions and through our online survey, which received over 1500 responses, as well as through social media channels.
The spokeswoman said no decision had been made in relation to the university name change.
Public consultation sessions were also held in Bathurst, Dubbo, Albury-Wodonga, Port Macquarie, Wagga Wagga campuses.
Discuss "Public consultation finished, CSU now considering re-branding and name change"


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In the next several years after their move to Cambridge, MIT had established itself as a premier research institution. And with President Richard C. Mclaurin's advocacy of the so-called Technology or "Tech" Plan (1919), the Institute pursued an ever-increasing number of collaborations with industrial corporations. Beginning at the turn of the 20th century and following the departure of MIT President Henry Pritchett, Acting President Arthur Noyes (1907-1909) pursued closer ties with industry to enhance the Institute's reputation for superior science-based research.
The Research Laboratory of Physical Sciences, which Noyes, a chemist, established in 1903, was the hub of this "reformist" movement. Competing with Noyes was a group headed by chemist William Walker, who wanted even more extensive contacts with scientific corporations. Still another faction headed by the chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Dugald Jackson, founded the Research Laboratory of Applied Chemistry (RLAC) to even more directly involve industrial patrons. Ultimately this laboratory failed in its mission.
Enter President Mclaurin, who was able to bring in patronage from such corporations as Dupont, Eastman Kodak and General Electric, to name a few. Walker and Jackson supplemented this effort by creating the School of Chemical Engineering Practice. Here, MIT professors would instruct students in areas of study of particular interest to corporations. Controversially, however, the corporations claimed the results of the research. Professors could not publish results of their research, which was needed for the advancement of both their careers and their field. To administer relations between the Institute and Industry, walker set up the Division of Industrial Cooperation and Research (DICR). Noyes voiced opposition this plan and left MIT in 1919.
There was a prevailing feeling at this time that the Institute was moving from a research center to a technical school. Two reformists, Gerard Swope, president of General Electric and Frank Jewett, head of Bell Telephone Labs (both officers and advisers of MIT), brought in a new president, Karl Taylor Compton, who like them, believed in a strong science curriculum to prepare engineers to enter the world of industry. Compton and his vice president, computer engineer Vannevar Bush, ala Noyes' position, supported close ties with industry, but they were determined to strike a balance between the needs of industry and the needs of academic research. By the 1930s, MIT had gone from a technical institute that trained scientists to a full-fledged research institution. It not only prepared scientists to enter scientific fields, but was increasingly involved in industrial research.
In September of 1940, Karl Compton and a number of American and British colleagues from the scientific community attended a "party" – in actuality a clandestine meeting where British officials unveiled a device called a ten-centimeter cavity magnetron. This instrument, which the British were willing to "give" the Americans – in exchange for developing the technology which the British government was not in a position to do at the time – was to be critical in the development of Radar technology. It was widely considered to have been of crucial importance in the British victory at the Battle of Britain earlier that year, and out of this meeting, the MIT Radiation Laboratory or "Rad Lab" was born. Coincidentally, there had already been a committee formed by the U.S. government, the National Defense Research Committee, or NDRC, which included Compton, who headed its "Division D" dealing with microwave technology; Wall Street financier and lifetime MIT Corporation member Alfred Loomis, Vannevar Bush (who had since become head of the Carnegie Institution and chair of the NDRC), and Ernest O. Lawrence of the University of California. Lawrence was asked if he might head the new radiation lab at MIT, but declined to continue to work on his own continuing projects at California. He did, however, become an instrumental adviser in the lab's creation. The job instead went to Lee DuBridge, head of the University of Rochester's Department of Physics.
Charles Stark "Doc" Draper was an aeronautics expert who, at the MIT Confidential Instruments Development Lab (Building 33), presided over a group of scientists who contemplated how to control the firing of ammunition. With a partnership he entered into with Sperry Gyroscope, they were able to develop a revolutionary new gun sight that helped the war effort. This was an oft-copied template at MIT going forward: labs blended instruction with real-world problem solving.
Jay W. Forrester, pioneering engineer/manager of MIT's "Project Whirlwind"
was made assistant director of the "Servo" lab – where he would develop a new type of flight simulator that became "Project Whirlwind," which in turn laid the groundwork for Forrester's development of the first real-time digital computer. The war effort had shown that MIT could work with the military to create products that were invaluable for the comfort and wellbeing (not to mention efficiency) of our soldiers: gas masks, flamethrowers, freeze-dried foods, and aerial nighttime photography, to name just a few. MIT had become a true innovator in military technology.
in Vietnam brought the whole issue of how the military and science co-existed to a boiling point. Previously, the military had helped win World War II; but now, in the wake of the "Cold War" and political concerns over the rise of communism in Southeast Asia, MIT and other technical schools were being forced to face some hard political realities of their role in the military. Professors such as linguist Noam Chomsky and "Cybernetics" expert Norbert Wiener registered strong opinions about what MIT was doing for the military and in the case of the former, advised MIT faculty and administration that they had a moral and social as much as a patriotic obligation in all their research. The so-called "special" laboratories that carried out much of that research were particular targets of the dissenters' ire.
On November 5, 1969, protesters' verbal protests became more animated. On that day, some 350 student protesters (some waving Viet Cong flags) approached Draper's Instrumentation lab. Draper pre-empted their demonstration somewhat by inviting them into the lab, and though there was some shouting, Draper's actions calmed things down to where the protesters eventually left. The eventual decision to close the Instrumentation Lab and along with Draper's departure for Cambridge's Technology Square – where he opened his own lab – struck many as appeasement to the protesters, who were largely seeking MIT's divestment from military research activities. Several of these special labs sought to wean themselves from federal defense projects with limited success. More recently, debates have centered such controversial projects as the "Strategic Defense Initiative" (SDI), an anti-missile shield project advocated by President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, and presently with the "War on Terror." But the protests that were held during the 1960s – resulting in, among other developments, the formation of the Union of Concerned Scientists – began a cultural sea change in how institutions like MIT balanced the need to perform national defense research with larger political and societal questions.
In the fourth and final installment of Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision, an examination of gender issues regarding MIT faculty and a summary.


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- Waarom is dit klemhekje van Bettacare AutoClose 139,6-146,8CM duurder dan het klemhekje Bettacare AutoClose 146.8-154CM? Omdat je hier meer losse onderdelen hebt.
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