If we were having coffee, I would ask you to come to my house. I would set out a table full of cookies (or biscuits as the English and French would say) and talk about how confusing the Paris weather has been. This morning it was raining and this afternoon it decided to be sunny and slightly warm.
I would then tell you about my first French presentation in front of one of my classes. It was the same day as one of our exams (that week I also had two other exams in two other classes). Even though I am the girl that sang in front of people, loved acting and put on shows her whole life, speaking in front of people in French gets me quite nervous and shaky. My subject was on the rivalry between Spain and France between 1610 – 1648 (a subject I asked for). Once I began speaking, I could hear everyone whispering to each other. At one point, I definitely heard, "tu sais d'où elle vient ?" (do you know where she is from?). I powered through it, my voice shaking, but I did it and once it was finished I was proud! One of my classmates came up to me afterwards asking me where I was from, thinking I was Italian (which is not a first but I have also gotten Russian and German, which those have surprised me).
The subject was vast, and my professor had asked me to make sure not to fall into talking about only the battles between both countries but more about the causes of the rivalry. That was difficult to find, most sites and books wanted to talk about the religious war (The Thirty Years War) and battles, so it was easy to overlook one of the battles the professor had actually wanted me to know. Other than that, she told me that my presentation was good and that I would have a good grade.
I am in a moment of struggle at the moment though. I love what I am studying, and I am loving this semester so much more than the last one. The classes I am taking are the history classes I actually like, over the world wars of the 20th century and Europe in the 17th century (last semester it was ancient Greece/Rome and the medieval ages). But I am in a moment of struggle creatively, and questioning what I really want to do with my future. What can I do to stand out? What should I speak up about? I have always been a person who starts something, gets really into it and then slowly fades out. I want to find something that keeps my attention for the rest of my life, because I do not want a 9-5 job, nor can I keep nannying because I can't grow in that job. I need to find something that fuels my inner fire. Have you struggled with this? Doubted yourself? Not felt good enough in a field? Scared to pursue things? Most people are surprised that I am feeling this because at the same time I was that girl that decided to pack up her bags and move to the other side of the world without knowing how it would turn out (better than I thought, but still a struggle). It is a moment of doubt, but I imagine, like with everything else life has thrown at me, will make me stronger.
What about you? How has life been treating you? Do you like the coffee? The French do love their Nespresso machines which drives me insane, it doesn't taste like real coffee.
First of all: XVII century > Middle age… by a mile. Second, doubt is a good thing, because it push you to find what you really like and live new experience. I could tell you my story, but it would feel like another TED talk about finding yourself, there's better people to do that than me. It was doubt that made you go to Paris and stay there. Doubt will always help you if you take it the right way.
Coffee was ok, I will have some tea next time and the drawing is amazing.
Veronica, thank you for being so honest! I so admire you for moving across the world. You may not know the final destination, but just keep putting one foot in front of the other. I have no idea where I'll be in five years, but it's kind of exciting in a way. I look forward to reading more of your blog!
Thank you so much! That is so sweet of you to say. It put a smile on my face while I was reading your comment. If you ever happen to be in Paris again, I would be happy to get some coffee with you!


Britannic was to become more important than ever to White Star Line's future in 1914 and 1915, but as we know, it was not to be. Her interiors were largely completed, however, and much was installed before she became a hospital ship. Her first-class smoking room was not installed when she sank in 1916, and that is fortunate for us since much of it survived in a hotel/bar in the UK.
This beautifully carved oak was part of the door surround that led to the room from the first-class staircase. I own all of it that survives, including the bases, so this is your only chance to obtain this exquisite carving, which was made by the same men who carved the woodwork on Olympic and Titanic.
It is in excellent condition and measures about 28″ x 5″. Unlike a lot of fittings from Olympic, this hasn't been over painted by someone in the past. One thing that acquiring this and the other carvings from the room proved was the renderings showing this room to be of a different design than the ones on Olympic and Titanic were accurate, right down to the details of the eagle over the fireplace.


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It's been two months since we returned from our 7 month tour of South America, but about 1 month ago I noticed something strange. It was me. I think I've changed. It's nothing dramatic, just little things here and there that I've noticed are different. I must have learned a thing or two.
i can tell you this has not changed in every facet of my life. I still get super angry in certain situations. Other times I find myself wondering why someone is getting so upset. Road rage, for instance, seems to be triggered by the tiniest of infractions. Before, if someone was going too slow or accidentally cut me off, I'd be cursing them for their stupidity. Now, I actually smile about it knowing how pissed I normally would have been. I might even tell myself that they didn't mean it or I can wait. I have time.
This also applies to traffic. Just last weekend I was riding with friends through Downtown Cincinnati when we encountered a minor traffic back up. We hadn't been stopped for longer than a minute before the complaints began. I don't blame them for professing their anger. The old me would have too. Instead I thought "Wow. It's only been a minute. That doesn't seem so bad." The conversation escalated to how totally annoying this was and what could possibly be going on to create such a mess. After about 3 minutes I piped up offering, "It's okay. It's only been a few minutes." I was ignored and the anger continued to increase. Our lives had been put on hold without our consent!
Now, to be clear, I am not trying to bash these friends for their comments. They are not the only ones to have these same feelings of impatience. I think it's an American thing. We want what we want and we want it yesterday.
Before we left we would have dreaded any time longer than 3 hours in a car. Now we laugh in the face of long drawn out transports. While discussing the idea of a future international flight with a friend, they assured us that we would most definitely want to upgrade to business class. The flight would be 15 hours. Sure. That sounds nice but what would that cost!? Dusty and I quickly dismissed the idea where as before we would have entertained the notion. If we can handle a 23 hour bus ride through Chile, while children run up and down the aisles and eating only one cookie the entire trip, we can suffer a while in coach. To think I swore off any road trips requiring more than 5 hours of driving just a few years ago. We've learned to tolerate long stretches of discomfort.


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est une mangaka née au Japon.

Elle est également connue sous les pseudonymes ,  et .

Biographie
Kachō Hashimoto commence à vouloir être mangaka au collège, et décide de se professionnaliser dans ce milieu durant le lycée. Elle est notamment fortement marquée par la lecture du manga Ushio to tora de Kazuhiro Fujita. Après le lycée, elle suit des cours dans une école de dessin puis devient assistante de mangakas, notamment de Daisuke Higushi, auteur de Whistle!.

Le , elle publie son premier manga, , dans le Weekly Shōnen Sunday Tokubetsu Zōkan R, sous le pseudonyme d', utilisé pour les quatre mangas suivants publiés dans le Shōnen Sunday Super entre 2000 et 2004 (le dernier sous le nom de ).

En 2007, sa série  est publiée dans le magazine en ligne Genzo, puis entre janvier et ,  paraît dans le magazine Monthly Comic Birz, tous deux de l'éditeur Gentōsha.

En , un manga biographique sur Hideki Tōjō paraît dans le  du Manga Nihonshi.

Le manga Cagaster est publié sur son site internet sous le pseudonyme de  entre  et . La série est compilée sous la forme de neuf dōjinshi sortis entre  et . En 2012, les éditions Glénat négocient avec l'auteure, qui refusait jusqu'alors les offres des éditeurs japonais, les droits de publications mondiaux à l'exclusion du Japon. La version française est éditée dans la collection Glénat Manga en six tomes sortis entre 2014 et 2015. Le manga est finalement publié au Japon par Tokuma Shoten en sept volumes reliés sortis en 2016.

En 2015, la publication d'Arbos Anima débute dans le Monthly Comic Ryū sous le pseudonyme de , dont les caractères signifient à la fois « fleur » et « oiseau ».

Œuvres
  (, Weekly Shōnen Sunday Tokubetsu Zōkan R)
  (, Weekly Shōnen Sunday )
  (, Shōnen Sunday Super)
  (, Shōnen Sunday Super)
  (, Shōnen Sunday Super)
  (-, Shōnen Sunday Super)
  (février-, Genzo)
  (janvier-, Monthly Comic Birz)
  (, Manga Nihonshi )
 Cagaster (2005-2013)
 Arbos Anima (depuis 2015, Monthly Comic Ryū)

Collectifs
  ()
  ()
 , scénario de Takashi Hirumi (2012, Shūeisha)

Notes et références

Documentation

Liens externes

 Kachou Hashimoto sur manga-news.fr

Mangaka
Dessinatrice japonaise
Pseudonyme

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Cons-Lists

不可变的链表(immutable linked list)是很多函数式语言的基础数据结构

它有两个组成部分:

Nil 空列表

Cons 包含一个元素和列表尾指针的单元

List(1, 2, 3)
List(List(true, false), List(3))

Cons-Lists in scala

这里定义一个int列表的数据结构框架:

trait IntList ...
class Nil extends IntList ...
class Cons(val head : Int, val tail : IntList) extends IntList ...

一个list对象,只能是如下情况:

new Nil 空列表

new Cons(x, xs) 包含一个元素x和尾列表xs

Value Parameters

注意Cons的定义

(val head : Int, val tail : IntList)等价于定义了类的字段:

class Cons(_head : Int, _tail : IntList) extends IntList {
  val head = _head
  val tail = _tail
}

Type Parameter

只定义int列表太局限了,可以使用类型参数达到类似java中泛型的效果

trait List[T] ...
class Nil[T] extends List[T] ...
class Cons[T](val head : T, val tail : List[T]) extends List[T] ...

Complete Definition of List

trait List[T] {
  def isEmpty : Boolean
  def head : T
  def tail : List[T]
}

class Nil[T] extends List[T] {
  def isEmpty = true
  def head = throw new NoSuchElementException("Nil.head")
  def tail = throw new NoSuchElementException("Nil.tail")
}
class Cons[T](val head : T, val tail : List[T]) extends List[T] {
  def isEmpty = false
}

Generic Functions

和类一样,函数也可以由类型参数

例如创建拥有单个元素的列表的方法

def singleton[T](elem : T) = new Cons[T](elem, new Nil[T])

singleton[Int](1)
singleton[Boolean](true)

Type Inference

由于scala的编译器能够推断出函数的参数类型

所以一般地,类型参数可以省略:

singleton(1)
singleton(true)

Type and Evaluation

类型参数不影响scala的取值(Evaluation)

我们可以认为,在对程序取值前,所有的类型参数都被抹去了(type erasure)

java、scala、haskell、ML、Ocaml 都是这样

C++ C# F# 则在运行时保留了类型参数

Polymorphism

多态的含义是一个函数类型可以在编程时有不同的形态:

函数可以应用在多个类型参数上

类型可以代表多个类型的实例

我们已经见过它的两个主要形式:

subtyping:子类型的实例可以作为基类(base class)的参数传入

generics: 函数或类的实例根据参数化类型创建

Exercise

写一个函数,参数是int n和一个list,返回list第n个元素

元素以0开始;超出范围跑出IndexOutOfBoundException

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Q: Sobolev inequalities and weak derivatives Let $d\in\mathbb N$, $p\in[1,d)$, $$p^\ast:=\frac{dp}{d-p}$$ and $\Lambda\subseteq\mathbb R^d$ be bounded and open. It's well known that $$W_0^{1,\:p}(\Lambda)\subseteq L^q(\Lambda)\;\;\;\text{for all }q\in[1,p^\ast]\;.\tag 1$$

So, if $u\in W_0^{1,\:p}(\Lambda)$, we know that $u$ is not only an element of $L^p(\Lambda)$, but even of $L^{p^\ast}(\Lambda)$. But what can we say about the weak derivative $\nabla u$ of $u$? By definition, of $W_0^{1,\:p}(\Lambda)$, $\nabla u\in L^p(\Lambda,\mathbb R^d)$. Can we show more?

Maybe we can show that the weak partial derivatives $\frac{\partial u}{\partial x_i}$ of $u\in W_0^{1,\:p}(\Lambda)$ are elements of $W_0^{1,\:p-1}(\Lambda)$ and hence reapply $(1)$. Is that the case?

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THE BALL – Zaidu conditioned to the return of internationals (FC Porto)
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The FC Porto team carried out another training session to prepare for Monday's game (8:15 p.m.) with Santa Clara, at the Estádio do Dragão, in reference to the 28th round of the League.
Sérgio Conceição already had all the internationals who served the respective teams, however, he saw Zaidu undergoing conditioned training due to left knee trauma.
Bruno Costa and Pepê are still transferred to the medical service, also on a conditioned training regime, as well as Wilson Manafá, who remains in treatment.
The session was also marked by the presence of Gonçalo Borges, a striker from the B team who trained with the main team.
For tomorrow Saturday, a new training session is scheduled at Olival from 10:30 am.
THE BALL – Pedro Neto in the sights of PSG (Wolverhampton)
THE BALL – Benfica strengthens its invincibility (Roller Hockey)
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LE BALLON – Worst case scenario confirmed: Lucas Hernández says goodbye to the World Cup (and there will be seven…) (France)
"No longer part of the project"
José Mourinho cancels the Portuguese national team
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UNM Newsroom / News / UNM student, professor coauthors of book chapter about Pueblo dogs
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UNM student, professor coauthors of book chapter about Pueblo dogs
By Mary Beth King August 18, 2020
Categories: Front Page Faculty News College of Arts & Sciences Anthropology Alumni Research
Dogs have been companions to humans for centuries and played many roles as guardians, pets, hunting companions, and more. University of New Mexico Archaeology student Victoria Monagle has examined these relationships and recently collaborated with associate professor Emily Lena Jones to co-author a chapter in a new book called Dogs: Archaeology Beyond Domestication. The chapter, Dog Life and Death in an Ancestral Pueblo Landscape, examines the relationships between humans and dogs in ancient pueblos.
Associate Professor Emily Jones in zooarchaeology lab
Jones is an associate professor in the department, focusing on Archaeology. Monagle is a Ph.D. student in Archaeology within the UNM Department of Anthropology. Both study human-animal relationships as a way to understand culture. The chapter in the new book is taken from Monagle's master's project that looked at human-animal interactions in the Ancestral Pueblo world, particularly with dogs.
After Monagle presented some of her research on dogs at the 2017 Society for American Archaeology meetings in Vancouver, Canada, the organizers of that session became the two editors of the book and asked her to contribute.
"When Victoria asked me to collaborate with her on this, I was very excited to get involved in a project looking at how domesticated animals are treated differently in different contexts, as this is one of my primary interests. But the research at the heart of this chapter is Victoria's work," Jones said.
Ph.D. student Victoria Monagle and her dog Hem
Before she attended UNM, Monagle worked as a seasonal archaeologist for the National Park Service at Chiricahua National Monument, Coronado National Memorial, and Fort Bowie National Historic Site in Arizona.
"Previously, I had also worked at the Gila Cliff Dwellings as a volunteer Park Ranger and the El Camino Real Historic Trail Site as a State Park Ranger. I've also had internships and volunteer positions at Chamizal National Memorial and Lincoln National Memorial," she added.
"Many of the questions I received from visitors during the last 10 years I've been volunteering and working at these sites have been themed on how people living in the past were similar to us. When I was at the Gila Cliff Dwellings I was constantly asked if Ancestral Puebloans had pets. I realized that talking about dogs really engaged my audience and helped visitors become far more interested in the site, and, hopefully, in preservation of that site. By studying dogs, I've noticed that it's easier for me to have very long and thoughtful conversations with the public since almost everyone has a dog or knows one," Monagle explained.
"Many of the questions I received from visitors during the last 10 years I've been volunteering and working at these sites have been themed on how people living in the past were similar to us. When I was at the Gila Cliff Dwellings I was constantly asked if Ancestral Puebloans had pets."
Victoria Monagle, Ph.D. student
In her original research, Monagle studied a zooarchaeological (non-human remains) collection that was in the process of being repatriated from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History back to the Ute Mountain Ute tribe in Colorado. Her research was supported by UNM's El Centro de la Raza through a professional development scholarship, as well as by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
The original project transformed from a study of the various animal remains into an attempt to understand past human-dog relationships using Pueblo world views.
The collections she studied were from an Ancestral Pueblo site in Mancos Colorado, in the Mesa Verde region, and date to sometime between 700 and 900 AD. The site was excavated in the 1970s. The collections were held by the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, before their repatriation to Ute Mountain Ute.
"Excavation can be a useful tool, especially when a site is threatened, but there are also a lot of collections out there that have never been fully studied, or which could benefit from a study with new methods," Jones said. Monagle said she prefers to study readily available existing collections rather than engaging in excavation, which is destructive.
"We found that the dogs analyzed filled multiple roles throughout their lifetime, including potential companions, ritual sacrifices, and just community members ̶ animals living in and among the people," Monagle noted. The chapter in the book notes that dogs could have been used for food, in dedicatory offerings, and for their hair.
In five or six of the dogs she examined, she found they had been killed similarly, with a blow to the left side of the head, suggesting that their deaths might have been a ritual or religious activity. Some were buried in kivas, an underground chamber used by Pueblo Indians for religious rites.
Based on the skeletons, Monagle said, the dogs found in the excavations were probably similar to mixed-breed dogs found within Pueblo communities today. The chapter co-authored by Jones and Monagle in the new book further notes, "The study of dog remains in the Americas may thus be relevant to tribal heritage and cultural resource ownership as well as to archaeological study… Dogs are important agents in the Southwestern Indigenous world today; dog dances, dog kachinas, and stories, traditions, and myths about dogs are a part of life in many Southwestern Indigenous communities."
Monagle's fascination with the relationship between canines and their people continues. Her current work on her Ph.D. further looks at those relationships in the Southwest, if and how it has changed through time, and if the same patterns are present in later sites.
"I think that this research has generated even more questions that we weren't even thinking about," she observed.
Jones agreed, adding, "I now have a lot of questions about the differences between life histories of animals versus their burial treatment, and whether the pattern Victoria found with these dogs is present at other sites in the Southwest."
The book Dogs: Archaeology Beyond Domestication is available from Amazon and other booksellers and "offers a rich archaeological portrait of the human-canine connection. Contributors investigate the ways people have viewed and valued dogs in different cultures around the world and across the ages."
Tags: archaeology ancestral pueblos Native Americans repatriation
Mary Beth King
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first of all im not looking to sought this problem out with my copy of brotherhood becuase i dont think it is possible, its something the devs need to sought out before the game is laucnhed, during brotherhood in rome i notices that objects and textures will load late, so im on my horse riding down a street and suddenly a tree a bush and textures on buildings suddenly pop up, this should have loaded before i got there as this REALLY ruins the immersion,i think this and the screen tearing is due to rome being of a large size as i dont notice screen tearing when in other parts of the game so i hope this doesnt happen in acr but would like to disucss ur thoughts on this.
Funny that you mention this because I have the same problem. Last night I was playing Brotherhood and at some point when Ezio was riding his horse, the rocks on the ground were materializing at the last second, one at a time, and they were only a few feet away from the horse. I don't know if the problem occurs on the 360 as well but I'm playing the game on my PS3 and it's pretty bad sometimes.
im on ps, it looks like the problems only occur on ps3, i had none of these problems in ac2 n ac1 so i dno is it due to less dev time? the xbox version sounds superior overall. i really hope its not in acr coz it really ruined the enjoyment for me along with screen tearing.
Same here, and only for Brotherhood. I think it's just because the map is so big it takes a little longer to render everything. Kinda like in Brink, not because the maps are big, but because the texture files are so large.
The weird thing is, I finished playing AC1 over the weekend and even though the map is even bigger than it is in Brotherhood (with so many cities plus the entire Kingdom that you can roam through) and the game dates back to 2007, I haven't noticed any major issues when it comes to texture loading.
not all of that was rendered at once, one city was probably a quarter of rome, its becuase the city is smaller than the rendering hapens quicker, the game doesnt have much processing power left.
It's the limited RAM of consoles that's the problem I think. Many developers are having problems and are forced to use various tricks (Crytek for example had too gimp the AI). Hopefully new consles will arrive in a couple of years to solve htese issues ad allow developers to achieve their vision. Oh and AC:B have better textures, animations etc than AC1 so it's a trade off.
I have this happen to me quite frequently and it doesn't matter which game I'm playing.
its only happened to me in acb when in rome, so i am very worried if this will happen in acr, i hope not coz the story in acr looks amazing and so i dont want the immersion ruined.
I use a 360 and I've never had this problem. I'm guessing it's PS3 only.
On the Xbox, I've had NPCs "warp" in, including guards, which is annoying if you happen to be running, and then you bump into one... So, I think it does happen on the Xbox as well, though not to the extent the OP described. I've had trees partially load and look flat, and then suddenly fully render as I got closer. It's kind of annoying, but it doesn't really bother me--I'm more interested in the story and the general scenery.
Also, in AC2, I've had instances where Ezio will be walking along like normal (on the ground, mind you) and suddenly he'll stop and look down, as if he's peeking over the edge of a building, even though there should be no edge there. When I walk a few feet away or turn in a circle, it usually goes away, but not always (then I just jump over it). I've always chalked that up to an incomplete load of the area or something.
This is simply tech limitations.
The Kingdom was not actually bigger. If you look at the actual game space it occupied and mash it together, meaning playable space where realistic textures were needed, it would be smaller than rome. Brotherhood had only one city, yes, but it's missions more often went to places with entirely new locations outside the city. So all in all, there was more in-game space.
You have to remember that each city in AC1 was individually contained, and neither the kingdom, nor any of the cities in AC1-AC2 had as many different elements to them as Rome. Rome has an insane amount of buildings, cliffs, water, and it has to load civillians and guards from much further away. So there's less pop in.
Actually, if you pay attention in AC1, you will notice more screen-tear and framerate drop than Brotherhood, as well as more pop-ins in areas half as dense as rome.
Tbh, the only real glitches I've encountered in ACB are falling through the ground, the stuck after quick travel glitch and the invisible npc glitch.
I have this sometimes, but my PC is low-average specs, and is mostly 3 or 4 years old, so it's running low on the RAM needed as it's now running Windows 7 instead of the original XP load that was installed. I should have 4 GB of RAM, but I only have 2 so it takes a rather large toll on my performance.


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Q: SphinxQL - Perfect Search Mode for 1 to 4 words I'm working on a project with Sphinx Search Engine using SphinxQL. My problem is the following:
This is my sphinxql query:
"SELECT *, country FROM all_gebrauchte_products WHERE MATCH('@searchtext (".$searchQuery.")') AND country='".$where."' ORDER BY WEIGHT() DESC LIMIT ".$page.", ".$limit." OPTION ranker=expr('sum(lcs)')"

The result differs very strongly like:
Honda => 50 results
Honda CBR => 9 results
Honda CBR 1000 => 2 results

This is my MySQL query:
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM all_gebrauchte_products WHERE MATCH(gebr_id, gebr_hersteller, gebr_modell, gebr_ukat, gebr_kat, gebr_bemerkung) AGAINST ('".$searchQuery."' IN BOOLEAN MODE);

The results is:
Honda => 67 results
Honda CBR => 67 results
Honda CBR 1000 => 84 results

The MySQL query works in Boolean Mode - so query for Honda CBR 1000 also finds Honda VTR 1000, as I think...
So, what would be the best search mode to come near to the second result set?
Can anybody explain me what would be the perfect mode and how (example) to write the sphinxql query in the right way?
Thnx. in advance...

A: The main difference is MySQLs 'Boolean' modes implicit operator is OR. A multi word query just requires one of the words (unless prefix with +)
But Sphinxes 'extended match' mode (which is what sphinxQL uses), the implicit operator is AND. So its requiring ALL the words.
Could use he quorum operator to get a default 'OR' behaviour
... MATCH('@searchtext (\"".$searchQuery."\"/1)') ...

ie only one of the words is required.
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The MySQL query works in Boolean Mode - so query for Honda CBR 1000 also finds Honda VTR 1000, as I think...

Well yes. But because just one word required, also finding all the documents with say '1000' them, even if not Honda. Which is why the three word has more documents.


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AV Technology awards PlanIt AV Best of Show
ORLANDO — PlanIt AV, developed by Plan It AV, LLC, is a recipient of the Future Best of Show Award, presented at the 2019InfoComm Show by AV Technology.
Future's Best of Show Awards are evaluated by a panel of judges and editors, experts in the pro-AV industry, and are selected from submitted products based on a range of criteria including innovation, ease of use, quality, return on investment, and market relevance.
"The Future Best of Show Awards at InfoComm are in their sixth year," said Adam Goldstein, Future VP market leader for AV, Pro Audio and CE . "The program focuses attention on superb innovations in technology as seen around the exhibit floor of the industry's top trade show. The list of 2019 winners and nominees shows where our industry is headed."
"The PlanIt AV team is truly honored to be recognized with a Best of Show Award at Infocomm," said Brian Rolston, president of PlanIt AV. "We've been hard at work creating a solution designed to simplify AV management for corporations, educational institutions and places of worship. We are thrilled with the positive reaction Infocomm attendees have shared with us."
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Peter Klug Music mixes classic rock and country roots with a new age vocal and instrumental style that sets out to challenge today's pop music scene. From his roots of rock and rap, Pete has broadened his horizon of influence to include just about everything in his Grandma Wallace's record collection. He thrives on the combination of thoughtful lyrics and sweet, intricate melodies.


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Q: Running AWS Lambda with Java in IntelliJ locally - No response from invoke container for Function (Problem with Docker?) I get this error when running my AWS Lambda No response from invoke container for Function. I would expect it to return the "hello world" String that I defined as output:

I also tried it with this simplier Lambda function, but I get the same error:
public class App implements RequestHandler<String, String> {

    public String handleRequest(final String input, final Context context) {
            return "H";
    }

}

I started Docker locally to run this Lambda with the Docker Quickstart Terminal:

Do I maybe need to do anything else in Docker?
This is how I created the new AWS Lambda project with the IntelliJ Plugin AWS Toolkit:

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*File -> New Project:

and selected following settings:

*The created project had a lot of errors, (Cannot resolve symbol 'String' etc.). I was able to resolve the errors by deleting the .idea folder, then click on File -> Invalidate Caches and Restart:

Then the project loads properly, but I don't get that Lambda symbol next to my App class:

*So I go to pom.xml, right click and then Import as Maven project. This works and I see the Lambda symbol now:

But I get a new Error in the AppTest class, and when I try to run it, it says can't find the app handler.
5. I resolved this by changing APIGatewayProxyRequestEvent in the RequestHandler to 'Object':

A: I have never tried to build and execute a Lambda function in the manner that you described. Personally, I use IntelliJ and the Java Lambda runtime API to build a Lambda function and then use Maven to package it up and deploy it by using the AWS Management Console at:
https://console.aws.amazon.com/lambda/home
You can test it from the console and see the output in Cloudwatch logs. This works without issues. For more information about how to package a Lambda function using Maven and deploy it using the AWS Management Console, see this AWS Tutorial:
https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples/tree/master/javav2/usecases/creating_workflows_stepfunctions
If you built your example Lambda function in the manner specified in this tutorial, you will have no issues:
public class App implements RequestHandler<String, String> {

    public String handleRequest(final String input, final Context context) {
            return "H";
    }

}


By executive order, Trump banned disclosure of civilian deaths by drones – despite little information already revealed.
"Now the government is also no longer committed to providing reasons why its total death count is different from independent credible reports" – like SU/NYU's and others, revealing the disturbing reality of drone wars.
During his tenure, Obama greatly escalated drone strikes over his predecessors, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, adding drone wars increased to an unprecedented level under Trump – notably in Yemen, a six-fold increase over 2016.


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Days Gone Was A 'Disappointment' To Sony Despite Selling Millions, Director Says [Update]
Former Sony Bend Studio director Jeff Ross compared the sales of his open-world zombie game to Ghost of Tsushima
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Maybe a Days Gone sequel would've improved upon its myriad flaws.
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While developer Sucker Punch Productions celebrates the massive success of Ghost of Tsushima, which recently sold more than eight million copies, not everyone is reveling in the excitement. Case in point: Former Bend Studio director Jeff Ross, who used the opportunity to take a stab at Sony for how it handled the reception of the open-world zombie game, Days Gone.
Ross took to Twitter to air out some grievances, particularly regarding the sales of Days Gone and Ghost of Tsushima. See, with Days Gone having been out for approaching three years now, the game has sold more than nine million copies to date, especially with its PC release on May 18, 2021. Unfortunately, Ross said "local studio management" made Bend Studio "feel like [Days Gone] was a big disappointment," despite the game selling well. Even before Ross left Bend Studio at the end of 2020, Days Gone wound up selling the same 8 million Ghost of Tsushima recently has.
We've reached out to Sony for comment and will update if we hear back.
Many in Ross' mentions think the determining factor for Sony positioning Days Gone as a "big disappointment" was its score on Metacritic, a review aggregate site that collects critic and user scores from across the internet. Looking at Days Gone and Ghost of Tsushima, it's clear the latter reviewed much better, with Ghost of Tsushima receiving a score of 83 and Days Gone a 71.
Read More: Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut's Iki Island Expansion Is Just Fine
According to BenjiSales, a YouTuber who focuses on gaming industry sales, Days Gone was the best-selling PlayStation 4 exclusive on PSN in 2019. It also made the top 10 best-selling digital games of that year, despite Sony allegedly refusing to "do PR" on the game's sales success. And even though it was a commercial success, Bloomberg reported in April 2021 that Bend Studio couldn't get Sony to pick up a Days Gone sequel pitch.
I've got some ideas for why that is, having played both Days Gone and Ghost of Tsushima, but my best guess is that Days Gone just wasn't fun. It wasn't an enjoyable experience to sit down and play. The controls were clunky and cumbersome. Hunting resources was a chore. I enjoyed riding the motorcycle in the beautifully apocalyptic Oregon, but the novelty wore off after incessantly running out of gas. And on top of all that, Days Gone dropped in an oversaturated genre, whether that's open-world games, zombie survival games, or both. Wrong place, wrong time.
Read More: Days Gone Mod Makes Zombie Hordes Ludicrously Large
When asked if there would ever be a Days Gone sequel, Jeff Ross reiterated one "won't happen anytime soon" but that fans should never say never. Ross told another Twitter user that the reason the sequel pitch got canned "wasn't ever explained well." All will likely get covered later today when Ross appears on David Jaffe's podcast at 7 p.m. ET.
Update, 1/7/21, 3:05 p.m. ET:
Some are calling into question the veracity of former Sony Bend Studio director Jeff Ross' claims that Days Gone had sold 8 million copies following his appearance on David Jaffe's podcast yesterday discussing the game's sales.
According to PushSquare, Ross' indications that the open-world zombie game had sold roughly 9-10 million copies isn't entirely accurate. Speaking to Jaffe, Ross revealed that he based those figures on the now-defunct site Gamestat, which tracked PlayStation trophy data to estimate the number of players a game has.
"Where I got my data from, I had access to a lot of telemetry, and I could see stuff and when we were at 5 million copies—when we were announced at 5 million copies—the telemetry data was at 5.8 [million]," Ross told Jaffe. "There are basically resells or shared discs. I was actually using an external website—I think they're offline now—but they were using trophy data and it lined up with our internal telemetry data so for me, it's like, 'good enough.'"
Interestingly enough, as both Game Informer and PushSquare pointed out, used copies of Days Gone, the PS Plus version of the title, and other rentals all contributed to the sales figure of "over 8 million" Ross tweeted about earlier this week. In other words, new players earning PlayStation trophies do not necessarily represent new game sales.
Ross also explained what he meant by "local studio management" when saying people found Days Gone to be a "disappointment." It turns out that it wasn't PlayStation or Sony, but instead upper management within Bend Studio. It's entirely possible Days Gone's sales are lower than the 9-10 million Ross mentioned, but either way, Sony still skipped a Days Gone 2. Ross also told Jaffe that Sony passed on an open-world Resistance reboot.
Despite all of this scrutiny, Ross still "stands by" the initial figures.


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None of the hierarchs of the UOC will not participate in the unification Council on the creation of EPTS, said the Metropolitan of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl Paul.
Vicar of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra also said that the authorities are exerting unprecedented pressure on the top clergy of the UOC with the aim to make bishops agree to participate in the Cathedral. He stated this in an interview with "Left Bank".
On the question of the correspondent of the newspaper, how many bishops of the UOC will participate in the Metropolitan Paul said: "I did". He also said that Metropolitan Symeon of Vinnytsia and bar would not run in the primates of the new Church structure.
The Lord said that the government by all possible means pressure on the UOC to persuade the clergy to participate in the unification Council. The Hierarch explained: when he came back to Ukraine from a trip for treatment, he was actually trying not to admit into the country.
"I was told SBU that is painted on influential people our names, called Bishop Anthony (the Chancellor of the UOC Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovarsky Anthony); me, a sinner, and, obviously, the Patriarch (his Beatitude Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine Onuphrius) that we are in the top three. It revolted me. First they said there will be searches at all," said Metropolitan Paul.
The Hierarch believes that conducting searches and interrogations of top clergy of the UOC, the authorities despise not the bishops and the whole Church.
He also urged officials and employees of power structures not to break the law and not abuse of official position. "For the time will come – will have to answer before God," said the Bishop.
As reported by the SPM, 30 November 2018 on the territory of farms of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in the village of Voronko, Boryspil district, Kyiv region, representatives of the SBU raided and hierarchs and clergy of the UOC is massively summoned to SBU on "conversations" and interviews.
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Man in Perspective
Increasing Sexiness
Sense of Time
Why Bipedalism?
Some Comparisons
[Originally presented at the Bonkworld Lecture Series, August 16, 2000. Most of the content and all of the quoted material below has been culled from John Reader's "Africa: A Biography of the Continent."]
My lecture today will be very simple. I would mainly like to provide a sense of temporal perspective regarding the world and our place as humans in it. Everything we know of modern human history, by which I mean recorded history--the last 5 thousand years or so-- is essentially completely insignificant in terms of time, not only by comparison to the history of the planet or the universe, but also just by comparison to the history of human evolution. I'd like to do three things here this evening: 1) give a broad overview of the bare facts of evolution; 2) explain some of the likely driving forces behind our evolution; and 3) note a lesson or two from history that may be instructive for our future development.
I believe it is a worthwhile thing to develop and maintain a good sense of perspective so that we can appreciate the reality of our present situation as a species on the planet more accurately, and, if I may say so, more humbly. We like to think of ourselves as a highly successful species, having taken over the entire world and all. Yet the fact is that our catalog of accomplishments, and indeed our whole history as Homo sapiens, at some 130,000 years, pales beside the record of Homo Erectus, who kept going for 1 million, 400 thousand years, or Australopithecus, who enjoyed a solid 3 million years of success as a species.
Therefore I hope I can help to inspire a measure of awe and humility, and a recognition that our development thus far has been far from inevitable, and our continued survival far from assured. We are thus far only a tiny blip on the radar screen of primate evolution, and I daresay if we hope to create a record approaching that of our distinguished ancestors, we are going to have to change a few things about the way we do business.
Having said that, I think that the general outlines of human evolution show a distinct trend towards constant improvement. We've gotten steadily taller, less hairy, and brainier as time has progressed; indeed, I think it is indisputable that human evolution has conspired to make us increasingly sexy motherfuckers. I'd like to turn now to Figure 1, which suggests in broad strokes the outlines of this transformation.
For over 4 million years, hominids existed only in Africa.
It was only 100,000 years ago that anatomically modern humans, i.e., Homo sapiens sapiens, left Africa.
The group that left Africa 100,000 years ago numbered as few as 50 individuals--indeed the evidence suggests that all of us today carry the mitochondrial DNA of a single African woman from this time. It was this small group of 50 to 100 people that went out and progressively colonized the rest of the world.
We were in the eastern Mediterranean by 90,000 years ago
Asia and Australia by 40,000 years ago
Europe by 30,000 years ago
Crossed the Bering Strait into North America 15,000 years ago
Reached the southernmost tip of South America by 12,000 years ago
The last remaining habitable land mass (New Zealand) was colonized 700 years ago
Quite recently, we went to the moon!
Now I'd like to turn to Figures 2 and 3 to try to give a better sense of the time frame we're talking about.
Figure 2: Human Evolution
Figure 3: Earth Evolution
Almost all of this evolution occurred on a single, joined land mass known as Pangaea--the continents had not yet "drifted" apart to their current positions. Africa was still joined to Eurasia and North America until 120 million years ago, and to South America until 100 million years ago.
Many primate fossils have been found in Europe and North America from 65 to 40 million years ago, and very few in Africa, yet chimps and hominids definitely evolved only in Africa. Therefore the older African primate fossils have either not been found yet, or the primates moved into Africa from elsewhere.
Modern primates -- opposable thumbs, nails instead of claws, teeth for eating leaves and fruit instead of insects -- appeared 35 to 40 million years ago. The earliest undisputed higher primate is Aegyptopithecus, from 35 million years ago, found in Egypt. It was the size of a cat, quadruped, and had a large brain for a mammal of that time.
After Aegyptopithecus, 18 million years pass before the fossil record gives us another glimpse of primate evolutionary history: Proconsul, found near Kenya, dates from 17 million years ago. It was the size of a baboon, quadruped, tree-dwelling, fruit-eating. It had the backbone of a gibbon, the shoulder and elbow joints of a chimp, the wrists of a monkey. It was unlike any living ape, and could well be the common ancestor of them all, including humans.
The evolutionary trail continues from there to Kenyapithecus, at 15 million years ago, and then an extraordinary thing happens: There is a ten million year gap in the fossil record! This is the "hidden epoch" of human evolution. Then suddenly at about 4 million years ago we have Australopithecus, with its upright stance and bipedal gait. The fossil record in between is almost entirely nonexistent.
"It is as though a magician had drawn a veil over the process, ushered a shuffling arboreal primate behind one end of the veil, and called forth the bipedal ancestor of humanity from the other."
One of the most important questions about human evolution is which came first, bipedalism or the large brain? Darwin felt it was bipedalism, but many others argued it must have been the large brain. In 1912 we had the discovery of Piltdown Man, which seemed to settle the question in favor of large brain. However, it was proven a fake in 1953! This fake stifled further intellectual inquiry on the matter for over 40 years! By that time stone tools were acknowledged as forerunners of modern technology, and in the aftermath of WWII the "killer ape" theory as championed by Raymond Dart emerged, which was based on simultaneous development of bipedalism and brain.
"[Early man] seized living quarries by violence, battered them to death, tore apart their broken bodies, dismembered them limb from limb, slaking their ravenous thirst with the hot blood of victims and greedily devouring livid writhing flesh. The loathsome cruelty of mankind to man forms one of his inescapable, characteristic, and differentiative features; and is explicable only in terms of his carnivorous and cannibalistic origin...The blood-bespattered, slaughter-gutted archives of history from the earliest Egyptian and Sumerian records to the most recent atrocities of the Second World War proclaim this mark of Cain that separates man from his anthropoidal relatives and allies him rather with the deadliest of the Carnivora."
This was controversial stuff, as many others felt that cooperation rather than competition was the best way to ensure the survival of our species, and the debate raged on until the 1970s when definitive proof arrived with the discovery of some key fossil evidence. Bipedal fossils were found in Ethiopia dating from 3.2 million years ago, while the earliest stone tools date from about 2.4 million years ago. That was Australopithecus afarensis, better known as Lucy. Lucy would have weighed about 30 kg (65 lbs) and been "barely tall enough to peek over a garden fence" at just over a meter in height. She had long arms, indicating that she was still a good little tree climber although she was very clearly bipedal. Thus bipedalism preceded stone tools by well over a million years, and a substantial increase in brain size occurred 700,000 years after the first stone tools.
Bipedalism is a highly inefficient form of locomotion. "In terms of the energy required to move proportionately equal units of body mass over given distances, humans are not much more efficient than penguins." Chimps use much less energy to get around, and they're also faster and more agile. Bipedalism required major skeletal and muscular adaptations, which occurred relatively rapidly, thus the selection pressure must have been intense and the benefits outweighing the drawbacks.
Several factors are most likely to have contributed to the development of bipedalism. First, there was an ecological niche to be filled related to the migrating herds of antelopes and wildebeest. Carnivores fed well while the herds came through, but then suffered lean times when they left; their young grew slowly, so they couldn't keep up continually with the migrating herds. Bipedalism and not dwelling in trees would have provided an advantage in keeping up with the herds and scavenging for food. Also, it adds to security, since they didn't stay in one place long enough to lure predators.
Also, being upright has great advantages as a cooling system, which would have been a major benefit not only in scavenging and gathering on the hot savannah, but also would have helped to enable the development of a large brain over time--the brain is a disproportionately large user of energy and requires the greatest amount of cooling.
Some comparisons among the major strains of hominids to have evolved:
Heavy skull, broad flat face
Brain size 516 cc (early graciles about 413 cc)
Solid cheekbones and brow ridges, low brain case
Same height as gracile australopithecines, but 50% bulkier
Massive lower jaw with large teeth with a chewing surface 4 to 5 times greater than graciles or modern humans. This suggests they were munching large amounts of nutritionally low grade plant food, e.g., undigestable material like fruits without any preparation, lots of shells, pods, seeds
Did well for a couple of million years, disappeared about 1 million years ago
Meanwhile, the graciles were specializing in ways that extended the advantages of the more generalized form: tools and brains!
Australopithecus Robustus
Brain size of 640 cc
Stone tool maker, from about 2.4 million years ago
Gracile (only graciles made tools)
Tools indicate food processing, not hunting (hunting is much more recent and more sophisticated), i.e., choppers rather than stabbers
The toolkit stayed the same for about a million years
Brain 900 cc
1.8 meters tall (5 foot 5 or so)
long legs, arms proportionate to modern humans
evolved from same ancestral stock as robust and gracile hominids
both bigger and brainier than either
left Africa long ago: 1.8 million years ago in Java, 200 thousand years ago in China
immediate ancestor of Neandertal man who populated Europe from about 120 thousand years ago
This line persisted out of Africa until as recently as 30 thousand years ago (i.e., when Neandertal became extinct)
Much better tools, requiring much greater imagination
Archaic Homo Sapiens
Even better tools, more varied, suggests development of "secondary" needs, i.e., animals used for skins as well as food. Tools now included piercers, scrapers, saws, slicers, and elaborate design and manufacture
variation on Erectus form, combo of Erectus and Neandertal
Brain 1250 cc
Brain larger than modern Homo sapiens! 1450 cc (but attributed to greater overall bulkiness, not necessarily smarter)
Protruding jaw, receding forehead like Erectus
Adapted to cold climates (short and solid, short limbs, thick heavy bones)
More advanced tools than Erectus
First people to have buried their dead!
Much, much stronger than us!
Modern Homo Sapiens
These are the anatomically modern humans
Tall and slender
Forehead rises rather than recedes
Brow ridge small or absent
prominent chin
very gracile
about 40 thousand years ago tools began to get markedly more sophisticated, using a wider variety of raw materials and intricate design
Fine artwork begins to appear--decorated tools, beads, carvings, clay, musical instruments, spectacular cave paintings--about 40K to 20K years ago
Brain average about 1250-1300 cc
Evolutionary studies sometimes have political implications, as we search for relics that describe how societies seem to have operated. Normally when archeologists look for evidence of civilizations they look for citadels and evidence of what would be the equivalent of urban societies, with social hierarchies and centralized authority. Evidence from Jenne-Jeno (Niger delta, West Africa) suggests a civilization that lasted for some 1,600 years, highly socially evolved but with no centralized authority or system of hierarchy, i.e., an egalitarian, communitarian society that was very successful for a very long time (by modern standards).
"They settled within shouting distance of each other, but avoided assimilation into a single urban entity. With none of the centralized authority that elsewhere controlled the social tensions generated by the emergence of urbanism, clustering allowed a diverse population to congregate for economies of scale, and to draw upon the services of other specialists without surrendering their independent identities, the whole thereby functioning as a city, and providing a variety of services and products to a wider hinterland. In effect, the push of specialization produced occupational castes and ethnic distinction, while the pull of economic integration produced a web of shared myth and belief that emphasized both individual ethnic identity and mutual interdependence."
Long-distance trade is what broke the model of localized self-sufficiency. The first commodity traded over long distances was salt. Wherever people have developed a taste for salt, they consume more than their physiological requirement. Sources of salt in Africa were not distributed for the convenience of human populations; thus, traders found a reason for being. Later, other goods such as kola nuts also became widely traded. Large amounts of individual wealth were for the first time made possible, and extreme inequality began insidiously to weave itself into the very fabric of society.
"A vertical stratification of society came into being, creating sharp discontinuities in the horizontal layer of age-based authority that previously had restrained individual ambition. Some people became more equal than others, controlling rather than sharing resources. Once the trend had begun, resources inevitably fell under the control of fewer and fewer individuals, culminating in the centralization of authority and the exercise of coercive power by a ruling elite. Power was exercised most coercively by traders who sold the porters as well as the goods they had carried to distant markets" (the beginnings of a slave trade)
We are going faster than ever before, but if we look at history we must understand that we have ruled for only the briefest of times. At the pace we are going, we need to be extremely careful about how we organize ourselves, how we utilize and share our resources, and how we manage the planet upon which we depend for our very existence. These circumstances demand humility, and history gives us no shortage of instructive examples from which we can learn. Arrogance will surely lead us to disaster.
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Early Man Quiz!
Humanity! Evolution! History! It's all ridiculously interesting, and here's a fun-filled, all-too-rare excuse for the ordinary working person to think about it for a few minutes. Here it is, courtesy of Bonkworld, for the first time ever, the amazing Early Man Quiz! But be careful--it's a pretty tough one!
(All facts derived from Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader [New York: Vintage Books, 1997])
Chimpanzees and humans diverged from their common ancestor about 2 billion years ago between 5 and 7 million years ago nearly 200 million years ago approximately 100,000 years ago
Which came first? bipedalism large brain early tools cheese balls
Our upright stance probably evolved primarily as a way of accessing fruit high up in trees an efficient form of locomotion a cooling mechanism a response to early chiding to get off our asses
Anatomically modern humans first left Africa 2 million years ago 1 billion years ago 100,000 years ago 5,000 years ago
The group of anatomically modern humans that first left Africa and subsequently populated the entire world numbered approximately 50 to a few hundred 1,000 to 2,000 50,000 200,000 or more
Genetic evidence strongly suggests that every human being alive today carries the mitochondrial DNA of a single African woman who lived more than 10,000 generations ago. True False
The primary cause of evolution is climate change competition for resources alien intervention boredom with the status quo
The first product widely traded throughout Africa was gold maize salt pottery
Submit Your Answers!
18 March 2007 02:35:35 poop dog
That's interesting article. Fun to read, easy to follow.
23 September 2005 03:19:36 John
Well, I think that puts man in perspective better than any writer could ever hope to. Thanks to kara for kind words and fstydf for an excellent string of alphanumeric characters.
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Melania Trump One-Ups Her Hurricane Stilettos With an "I Really Don't Care" Jacket, Worn Visiting Children at the Border
By Bridget Read
Melania Trump has given the world another baffling sartorial moment from her outrageously unaware crisis wardrobe: On her way to visit children near the border in McAllen, Texas, some separated from their parents by her husband's zero tolerance immigration policy, the First Lady was photographed wearing a $39 green Zara jacket that says, in huge white lettering, "I Really Don't Care, Do U?" Less than a year after making headlines with Manolo Blahnik stiletto heels, which she donned to visit another group of Texans, those stranded by the destruction of Hurricane Harvey, it's unclear what reason she could possibly find to wear a garment with such a message to the Upbring New Hope Children's Shelter, where some 55 children live in limbo.
Photo: Courtesy of Zara
You could say the jacket's message is a fitting metaphor for the First Lady's attempts at softening some of the president's more brutal and unpopular policies, in that it completely undermines them. From her anti-bullying platform to the aforementioned trip to Houston, Melania's lackluster gestures at offering herself as a more empathetic White House fixture than her husband have consistently fallen short of any meaningful action. Even her reported misgivings about the policy of separating children from their parents at the border, which the president said influenced his decision to sign an executive order ending the protocol, have only superficially landed: Thousands of children are still separated from their parents, with no plans yet announced to reunite them, and the latest border policy will hold families, though together, potentially indefinitely, in detention centers, an equally nightmarish prospect. Earlier this week, Donald Trump used the word "infest" to refer to migrants crossing the border, many of them seeking asylum.
https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/1009866187646201856
https://twitter.com/mariskreizman/status/1009865174570995714
https://twitter.com/katierogers/status/1009855152197599237
Melania is an immigrant herself, having come to the United States on an "Einstein visa" (for people with "extraordinary ability") from Slovenia as a model once with a Camel cigarette ad in Times Square. "I Really Don't Care, Do U?" neatly sums up the apathy that many feel both Ivanka and Melania Trump display underneath rhetoric that positions themselves as public figures that see themselves first as wives and mothers.
Though she removed the jacket before disembarking from the plane in Texas, appearing at a press conference at the shelter in a white safari shirt, it seems hard to believe that the First Lady could have missed the enormous statement on the back, or that she could have missed the implication it would have during her visit to McAllen. Perhaps the Zara item was a stylist's attempt to pre-empt criticism, as with her heels, that Melania's expensive ensembles when visiting traumatized people is uncouth (though the down-home reliability of mall streetwear is mitigated by the jacket's Marie Antoinette–esque millennial-speak message). "This was 100 percent her idea. She absolutely wanted to come," a spokesperson said of her trip south—but what about her outerwear? In another statement, her spokesperson said, "It's a jacket. There was no hidden message." It was certainly not hidden—it was literally emblazoned on her back. In this rather leaky White House, it seems just as likely that an assistant with an agenda could have held out the garment for her, back hidden, with the intent to show the administration's true, ugly colors.


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Today catheter ablation of rapid irregular heartbeat (tachyarrhythmia) is already a standard procedure for treating many forms of tachyarrhythmia. It is in fact the only way of completely curing a patient with rapid heartbeats, as medication can only subdue them to a certain extend. The success rate of treating atrial flutter, atrio-ventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia (AVNRT) or WPW syndrome is higher than 90%. Thus, catheter ablation is the first choice therapy for these kinds of rapid heartbeats, because conventional medication often also has serious side effects.
Atrial fibrillation is the most common type of cardiac arrhythmia. Unfortunately, at present catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation provides a better treatment option than medication, but still does not achieve success rates comparable to other cardiac arrhythmias.
WPW syndrome is a congenital "short-circuit" between the atria and the ventricles which means that the AV node is simply bypassed. Thus, the pathway between the atrium and the heart chambers is interrupted. The chances of curing this condition are, depending on where the pathway is situated, higher than 90%. Only 3 out of 100 patients develop another arrhythmia in the first months after the successful treatment of the accessory pathway.
This is the most common supraventricular tachycardia. There are two functionally different electrical pathways in the AV node which sometimes produce extra beats more than once a day even in perfectly healthy humans. However, these two pathways can also develop a tachycardia. In order to prevent further rapid heartbeats, one of the two AV pathways is interrupted for treatment.
Chances of success: altogether 90%, in 3 of 100 patients, arrhythmia can begin anew in the first few months after successful treatment.
There is an increased disposition to deliver stimuli in the atrium. It is also possible that there are circular stimuli, especially after surgery in the atrium (esp. near scarred tissue). The prospects of an ablation of atrial tachycardia are between 70% and 90%, depending on how often stimuli are applied.
Atrial flutter results from a rapid reentrant circular excitation in the right atrium. This circular stimulus runs around the valve ring (tricuspid valve annulus) and passes a constriction between the valve and the inferior caval vein (vena cava inferior). Ablation tries to isolate this "bottleneck". The chances of success with typical atrial flutter are about 90%. In 5 to 10% of at first successfully treated patients, arrhythmia can occur again, but very often this is atrial fibrillation.
Right ventricular outflow tract tachycardia, a special form of tachycardia, has an almost 90% chance of success for being cured if there is no previously existing organic heart disease. With such a preexisting heart disease, as for example a heart attack, the chances decrease to 40 to 75%.
Note: This site provides information for interested parties. It does not in any way replace professional advice or treatment by medical doctors or other health specialists.


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import setuptools

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    #    - https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/setuptools.html#specifying-your-project-s-version  # noqa
    version='0.1.0',
    author='Pedro H <pedro@digitalrounin.com>',
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Q: Should a Java Boolean be used for ternary (3-state) logic? I'm trying to make a basic cache of a boolean value, and I did it like such:
private Boolean _valueCache = null;
private boolean getValue() {
    try {
        if (_valueCache == null) { // if cache was never filled
            return _valueCache = getReader().getMyBooleanProperty(); // fill it and return the new value
        }
        return _valueCache; // else, return the cache
    } catch (NullPointerException ex) { // getReader() returned null
        return false; // that return may not be null in the future, so set nothing
    }
}

Does this go against best practices? (letting a Boolean have 3 values: true, false, and null) I only want to cache this value, so I don't want to make an entire custom HashMap that mimics this behavior with a get-or-default method. That said, I've never done a cache this small so I don't know the downsides to it.
To clarify, I meant "ternary" as in "3-state", as opposed to "binary" as in "2-state". Sorry for any confusion.

A: You're not doing ternary logic, you're just using null as a placeholder for a missing value that happens to be of type Boolean. (Not having true nor false isn't quite the same as having one of the two but not knowing which.) Using null this way is a fairly common practice, but I wouldn't call it a good one.
It's unlikely to cause you problems in this particular case because it's only used internally within a very small scope, but in general you would want to use Optional instead. Since any non-primitive variable could have null, it's very difficult to keep track of it in a large code base. The easiest way to avoid the issue is to not use null in the first place.

A: While using null or using an Optional are reasonable choices, one more option would be to add an explicit second field, boolean _hasBeenRead.  Your code would look like
private boolean getValue() {
    if (_hasBeenRead)
       return _valueCache;

    else {
       // read the value and, if successful, set both _hasBeenRead and _valueCache.
    }
}

Some would consider this more explicit and therefore clearer.  Especially if you are using older style Java without new fangled goodies like Optional.
p.s. Whatever you do, consider whether this method need be synchronized, if the variables need to be volatile, etc...

A: The  tenary logic for this should be
private Boolean _valueCache = null;
private boolean getValue() {
         Boolean readerValue = getReader() == null ? false : reader.getMyBooleanProperty();
         _valueCache = _valueCache == null  ? readerValue : _valueCache;
         return _valueCache;

   }

By the way, what is the use of the NullPointer exception handled, Does the getReader() return null, Runtime exceptions like this are also not advisable


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The Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City Railroad
Quincy, IL to Kansas City, MO
Forwarded from Omaha, Kansas City & Eastern Railroad
Home | IL , MO | CB&Q , OKC&E , QO&KC
The Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City Railroad, more commonly known as "The OK Railroad", started out in 1897 as the Omaha, Kansas City and Eastern Railroad; it was mainly a steam-powered operation; passenger service was provided by Doodlebugs. There were once many terminals and shops along the route.
The QO&KC was consumed by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, as was the I&StL.
A map of Novinger, MO, has been provided which shows the path of the QO&KC through town. (PDF, 1.5 MB)
See also Sedan, IA to Mercyville, MO, and the The Bevier and Southern Railroad.
Thanks to Chuck Porter for contributing information.
The OK Railroad shops at Milan, MO.
This ungainly-looking beast is QO&KC number 30, outfitted with a Burlington tender and headlight (and an incredibly long headlight generator exhaust line) and used in switching service at Novinger, Missouri, circa 1918-1920. Corbin/Wagner collection.
QO&KC locomotive D-6, circa 1926. (Photo courtesy of Harold Vollrath.)
QO&KC number 33, prior to scrapping at Etola, IL. Main rods are missing, and the wheels are numbered for salvage.
"The Doodle Bug", an QO&KC motorized coach at Brimson, MO, circa 1937. Photo courtesy of Edison Raney.
The QO&KC freight depot. From the book The O.K. Route by Robert C. Brown.
The station at Castle, MO. From the collection of Archie Hayden, Hannibal, MO.
The station at Edina. From the collection of Archie Hayden, Hannibal, MO.
The Ewing passenger station. From the collection of Archie Hayden, Hannibal, MO.
The QO&KC depot at Green City, MO. From the book "Hogback Road" by Ralph L. Cooper and Michael R. Johns.
The depot at Hurdland (after the CB&Q purchased the QO&KC). Garland Shepard collection.
The passenger depot at Milan, MO. From the collection of Archie Hayden, Hannibal, MO.
The QO&KC freight and passenger depot, Trenton, MO.
The passenger depot at Stahl, MO. From the collection of Archie Hayden, Hannibal, MO.
The passenger depot at LaBelle, MO. From the collection of Archie Hayden, Hannibal, MO.
The passenger depot at Qunicy, MO; signed as the "Wabash Passenger Station" and the "Main Street Station".
It is believed that this interurban carbody served as a passenger station at Taylor, MO. The name of the child in the photograph is not known.
See also "Quincy Route" available through Ron's Books via the internet, or Doc's Caboose in Kansas City, MO.
Michael Johns
With regards to #33, any idea where she was built? The fat boiler and relatively small drivers bears a striking resemblance to some of the locomotives of the Cumberland & Pennsylvania RR, built by Mt. Savage Shops of Mt. Savage, MD. I also know that Mt. Savage built locomotives for other RR's at one time, so I'd be interested to see if this was the case. Thanks!
The QOKC line is abandoned, and is not to be confused with the former CBQ line that is still in use by the BNSF. Please correct your note at the top of the web page.
Thanks Michael, it has been corrected. —Greg Harrison, Abandoned Rails
Does anyone know if there are any kits out there that could be used to build a QO&KC loco in HO scale? I would like to do a D-6, but everything I have see has a smaller boiler.
Timothy Dike
Plattsburg, MO
Portions of the grade may still be seen crossing U.S. 169 on the west side of Nashua and I-435 on the north side. This is in Clay County.
Richard V. Gilpin
I've spent lots of time checking out the right-of-way of the "O-K" since about 1980. Recently, the city of Gladstone built a new community building near the long-gone station of Linden and excavated right through a thin layer of track ballast to create a parkinglot. I'll bet no one even noticed.
Howard Kelsey
Gladstone, MO
Did the St. Joseph Grand Island use part of Q, O & KC route to get access to Kansas City. Recently I observed a St. J & GI public timetable in the early 1900 that showed trains running out of St. Joe on the Santa Fe to just South of Gower and then switched to a route that didn't go to Heneritta. I found another a Union Pacific dated 4/16/1919 that just listed St. J & GI trains running only between St. Joe-Grand Island. Why did St.J & GI passenger trains stop using this route?
Larry Bauman
At one time there was a rumor that someone had access to the files of photos taken in the early 1930's by the CBQ to show the ICC why they wanted to tear up the entire railroad,photos of the entire railroad was taken and each town along the right of way.....the fellow I believe lived in STL and was putting the book together....last of that was at a model rail meet in Naperville,in fact he presented a sample of the photos and a talk on the QOKC.....anyone know what became of this project???
Joel Norman
Harvester, MO
Does anybody have a map overlay where I could see where the tracks were south of, and through Smithville? I think I live VERY close to the old route, but would love to find some of the old rail bed. I know there was a stop in Amory, and I live right beside Amory road, north of Nashua in Smithville. Also, where was the big rock quory that I have read about that I think portions are still standing near Smithville?
Mike Keeton
Smithville , MO
hey mike keeton- here is the map...http://www.kchistory.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Maps&CISOPTR=1763&CISOBOX=1&REC=14
nashua, MO
Re: Track south of Smithville - the concrete loading structure for the abandoned quarry is located on 132nd Street, west of Virginia. Wood pilings for the trestle across the river in downtown are visible behind the old fire station, west of the ball field.
Allen Maty
Smithville, MO


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Again light and fruity in the taste and hints of oak and a mix raisins and dates mixes in. The finish is long and warm and covers your mouth in caramel oiliness and wood spices.
Not overly complex, but in every other way it gets the job done. The malt whisky and the grain whisky is very well chosen and very well put together! I will give this 84/100 (21/22/21/20).