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Posted January 11th, 2021
ExecuTeam is proud to announce that for the first time in our history we will have an additional office outside of Houston, Texas.
As of January 1, 2021, we will be expanding to the Chicagoland market as Mark/Ryan Associates becomes a part of the ExecuTeam brand and family.
Like ExecuTeam, Mark/Ryan's parent company is The Reserves Network. Our specialized expertise and commitment to service perfectly complement each other, and we look forward to introducing you to the added benefits of this new partnership.
Mark/Ryan Associates Changes Name to ExecuTeam Staffing
Chicago-based professional staffing firm Mark/Ryan Associates has changed its name to ExecuTeam Staffing, an affiliate of The Reserves Network.
Founded in 2004, Mark/Ryan specializes in accounting, finance and office contract, and direct hire staffing throughout Greater Chicago. ExecuTeam has been providing direct hire and temp-to-hire staffing services in various disciplines, including office, accounting and professional employment opportunities throughout the Greater Houston area since 1987.
Mark/Ryan assumes the ExecuTeam name and will continue to operate as an affiliate of its parent company The Reserves Network. The Reserves Network acquired Mark/Ryan in 2018 and ExecuTeam in 2019.
This will be ExecuTeam's first additional office outside of Houston. Laura Bowen, ExecuTeam president, who has been with the firm for the past 25 years, will now oversee business operations for both locations.
"We're thrilled that the talented staff in Chicago is now a part of ExecuTeam," says Bowen. "It's been a great experience working together over this past year as a part of The Reserves Network family. Not only do we have similar recruiting specialties that complement the markets we already serve, but there are some additional specializations that we can now introduce to our clients in Texas, and vice versa in Illinois.
Adds Neil Stallard, CEO of The Reserves Network: "From an alignment perspective, this is a natural fit. Both locations offer very specific, enriched staffing service lines. Since joining TRN, ExecuTeam has continued to impress under Laura's leadership, and we are excited to grow this brand through our experienced Chicago team."
About ExecuTeam
For over 30 years, ExecuTeam Staffing has provided total staffing management solutions to the Greater Houston area. An award-winning employment and recruiting agency, ExecuTeam connects clients with high-caliber talent and candidates with top employers, for direct hire, temp-to-hire, temporary and payrolling opportunities.
ExecuTeam's expertise covers an unrivaled range of industries, including accounting & finance, administrative support, human resources, operations, and more. As an affiliate of The Reserves Network, ExecuTeam's name and brand are as strong as ever. ExecuTeam continues to provide the same level of care and quality service it is known for but now adding a broader scope of services and the resources of a national industry leader.
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I have decided to go on through Pamplona. I think I am being unfair to the city but I was not impressed by what I had seen whenever I visited it with Nuala & George, we never got to the right places obviously, but walk through it I did on to Cizur Menor, and wasn't I delighted to again meet Pat Murphy. While I had taken an extra day in St Jean de Pied de Port, she had forged ahead.
The Refugio was an extremely good one, privately run by the Roncal Family. Pat and I enjoyed an evening meal together in a small pub just up the street. Evening meals for pilgrims are generally around the 7.50-euro mark, starter, main course and perhaps a sweet, not 'haute cuisine' but substantial, and filling. Setting you up for another day. Managed to get a couple of days washing done here but learned that a few clothes pegs and a length of cord would be very useful.
I realise that I have missed out a very interesting meeting I had the day previous with two charming Canadian Ladies, Linda and Marguerita. Linda was suffering from blisters, she has very delicate, exquisite feet, and I took great pleasure in administering first aid in the form of second skin. I could have carried out the job in half the time but I enjoyed holding that gorgeous foot!
Frank Nolan, I think you had second sight whenever you insisted I take some with me. Frank had taken enough down to me that would do all the blisters on the Camino in one day but I have taken two large sheets and a roll of tape. Apparently Irish dancers use it, those high jumps must take a heavy toll on the feet. Frank himself was a great dancer, world class, and Sinead and Andrew have followed in his footsteps. We saw both of them dance at a birthday party for Frank's 50th in the Aylesforte a short time ago. Andrew's dancing was a joy to behold, don't give it up boyo!
So, I have some second skin with me and just in case some of you smart asses out there, (that's the donkey kind), are saying 'Oh aye, O'Callaghan looking after the birds', I'll have you know that I have also administered healing to the males on this Camino. One no later than yesterday, in fact an Italian, Marcus, who was having great difficulty walking because of sore feet. I had a second pair of good insoles, the sports kind, in my sandals, which I didn't really need so I gave them to him. He says they have made a great improvement to his well being.
Any way my Canadian friends and I had lunch together, they were staying in Trinidad de Arre, and I was going a little further, about another 9k to Cizur Menor. They left their bags at the Refugio, which did not open until 3.00, and we went into the first pub we could find. Why can I never get away from these pubs, my children will think I'm out here drinking!
We had a lovely meal together, perhaps 2 bottles of wine, copious amounts of water, and I staggered, sorry walked, on towards Pamplona.
The following day was going to be very short for me we had arranged to meet at Eunate, only about 14k from my overnight stop.
The Ladies were going to take me out for the evening, could this be another 'Exceptional Night for you Monsieur Brian', a man can only dream and allow imagination to have its day.
Begod, I was stood up!
Girls, I jest, I don't know what happened but we may yet meet before our Camino is over, I hope we do, I enjoyed your company. God bless the pair of you.
Perhaps my decision to go to Eunate has been the most influential one of my whole Camino. I have met some wonderful people with whom I feel I share a great bond.
I was the first to arrive; I visited the Octagonal Church, which apparently figures in the Da Vinci Code, most impressive. While I was there I met a young cyclist, Koen Delrve, he has cycled through Europe, Asia, I'm not sure where else. He was returning from Compostela, a journey of some 17,000k, on his way home, he goes back to work in 2 months. He feels time running away from him now, he might return to the East before he finishes, he has fallen in love with the Orient.
The Refugio does not open until 3.00 but 8 am happy to sit in the afternoon sun and wait, However at around 2.30, Jean, a Frenchman, who is looking after the Refugio in the absence of Mari Luz & Jan, invites me in.
He offers me a cold herbal tea, which I gratefully accept, shows me the dorm, invites me to take two mats and put them one on top of the other in a place of my choice, this will be my place for the night.
He explains that there will only be eight in total, we will have a communal meal at 8.00, we will. if you so wish, then visit the church for a short service, readings and a pilgrim's prayer. Silence is to be observed, except at the meal, each is left to his own thoughts, after the evening prayers we all retire. We will be given breakfast in the morning. You leave whatever you like as a donation; there is no charge as such. There are separate toilets and showers for the ladies and the gents.
He leaves me, I take full advantage of the fact that I am there on my own, I have a leisurely shower, get out of the walking duds, and feeling suitably refreshed go out to sit and enjoy the afternoon sun.
Others are arriving, I meet Anita, a happy, infectious laughing German lady, young by my standards, then Barbara, and her friend Brigitte, I simply call her Brigit for convenience, easy for me to remember, Mark, a sturdy French man, I think speaks German, French, Spanish and a little English, of course I am embarrassed.
Barbara and Anita both have good English, Brigitte could get by, and then two others, (an Irishman!) Dave, adopted Irishman, he has lived in Belfast for around 20 years, works with youth, a sports therapist, great conversationalist, knowledgeable and very articulate, a great guy, and then of course the joker in the pack! Benjamin! 'I'm going to change the world ' Benjamin, a young Frenchman 28 years of age, full of life, vigour, fun, I just know this guy has a big heart. Those are my companions for the evening, and my friends for life. Later two cyclists arrive but so what we are now nine, plenty of room and they too are made welcome. Jean has explained that for the evening the house is our home. And a warm homely atmosphere pervades the place.
Jan, Mari Luz arrive together with their daughter an extremely good looking lassie perhaps 20, they have picked her up from the Airport she has returned from Holland, they are naturally spending the evening with their daughter, and will not be joining us. I sit out enjoying the evening sun, that lovely warm comfortable feeling, I have taken my MP3 player with me, and I am listening to a Colm Sands tape, and singing. I don't realise that I am singing so loud, I'm just singing along, but Mari Luz is out in the area in front of the Refugio with her daughter and they have been listening to me. I am totally oblivious but eventually she attracts my attention and calls me over. I hand her one of the earpieces and continue to sing. Colm is singing 'I am the child with the troubled eyes, you see me when the deed is done' I finish the song or rather Colm finishes the song, and she says how much she enjoyed it.
'Whatever' she says, 'perhaps a love song', and she says Barbara, will sing to close the service.
Barbara, Mark, Brigitte, David, Anita and I had met already on the Camino. We may not have known each others names until that night but we were travelling at about the same rate, and we constantly overtook each other stopping at different places during the day, and probably covering about the same distance each day. So it was arranged. I did not know what I was going to sing, but sing I would whenever the time came.
We assemble at 8.00 for the meal, there has been silence throughout the house, visitors are constantly coming to the Church, by bike, walkers, buses, I attended a part of a Mass, actually the very last bit, just at the blessing, but the house itself observes 'The Silence'.
The dinner itself is something quite different, we are all talking and exchanging our experiences on the Camino. 'Yes I saw you such and such a place" and so on' .
Jean had a little English and does his best to prepare us for our service which was yet to come. He has opened a bottle of wine and then a second before the meal is over. We start with a well-prepared mixed salad, plenty of bread, a dish, which could perhaps be described as a bean stew, follows this and then he opens a large container of yoghurt, which you liberally cover with sugar. There are plenty of willing hands for the washing up, I consider that age being honourable, I do not have to help and I allow myself the luxury of sitting back watching others working.
And then finally the last verse where we see our poor country still crying in the Dawn, but being uplifted like the Falcons, which twist and turn in your morning light. As I sing each chorus, I can hear the Atlantic Ocean crashing on our Western Shores. Octagonal Church, stonewalls, quite small, the quality of sound is brilliant. I know I sang it well. We then had the various readings, followed by a prayer for Pilgrims. Then Barbara sang, she has a beautiful voice and although I never understood one word, I was moved. Perhaps the Pilgrims Prayer came last, but altogether it was almost moving experience. The candles are blown out and we return to the house and to 'Silence'.
Breakfast will start at 7.00 in the morning; anyone wishing to go earlier can certainly go, the door will be open. I think I was first down to breakfast - a wonderful muesli, plenty of bread coffee, fruit, and preserves. Well set up to face the day.
Silence is still being observed, and there are proverbs etc to read. In addition, there is a box, from which you are invited to take a 'Thought for the day' with you. Boxes in English and French, you take this message with you, to be opened later, at a quiet time whenever you are on your own, this is your personal message, your own personal thought.
Mark has already gone, the cyclists are outside our group, not excluded, because we had great chat the night before, but they're different. I thank our hosts and leave. I haven't gone far along the road whenever I realise I have not put anything into the donations box, so I come tripping back to correct that and on my way back out I join up with Benjamin.
In my own life I know that where Alice and I had to choose a road, from perhaps several options, we choose the road with the heart or rather we choose with the heart and we were not disappointed. I had a wonderful day with Benjamin, full of joy and humour. 'I want to change the world' he would shout and then apologise because he didn't know the rest of it. He has found his pace now, and is moving a lot quicker than the rest of us. He broke up with his girlfriend about a month ago, but he loves her 'toujours', perhaps he is in a hurry to get back to her.
I told him my message, it is also his message, I hope and pray he makes the right decision and chooses with his heart. He has a big heart, perhaps easily bruised. I hope he comes visit me in Rostrevor; I am to go and drink wine with him in his Burgundy home. Will I ever be able to do all I still want to do in this life? I must choose with the heart.


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Princess Beatrice Gets Married, August Alsina Drops New Song "Entanglements," and New Recommendations
Plus, all the other media they are consuming: The Chicks' new album, Quavo and Saweetie's GQ spread, and much more!
By Juliet Litman and Amanda Dobbins Jul 21, 2020, 4:20pm EDT
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Princess Beatrice married Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi over the weekend. Juliet Litman and Amanda Dobbins have all the details (1:00). Then, after Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith discussed Jada's affair with August Alsina on Red Table Talk, Alsina tells his side of the story through his new song "Entanglements" (13:55). Plus, all the other media they are consuming: The Chicks' new album, Quavo and Saweetie's GQ spread, and much more!
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Facebook Messenger app is not so familiar in the world. Why? Now lastly the company has decided that everyone will be OK with the fact that two different apps are going to be used for the same services, something that caused to quite stir in the summer of 2014 when the company asked people to install the Messenger app in order to keep in touch with networks and family.
Well, if you haven't liked Messenger up to this point, just wait until you see what's in store. Facebook messenger is planning to bring advertising to its Messenger app, which up to this point has been completely empty of anything approaching an ad. But, this is a situation where it might be best not to jump to assumptions, as it seems the early rollout is not to be that bad.
The files reveal that businesses which you have been in touch with will advance the ability to send promotion-related posts over Messenger. If you have never started a discussion with a business Facebook, you simply would not have to concern around being spammed -- which is a very decent thing. Something tells us that folks still would not want to receive posts from enterprises they have contacted, so it will be motivating to see how things are fare after this will go live.
Binding into this, Facebook is also planning to inaugurate a new URL shortened facility for corporations that will permit latent customers to begin messaging the firm directly in reply to one of these posts. This is valuable, but it would not shake those who agree to message a corporation they have not communicated before, as they could simply go to that corporation's Facebook page and click the message button right there.
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg in 2014 believed that ads do not fit in Application like Messenger, so to learn that it's going to ensure is kind of shocking. Maybe that means Facebook's Whatsapp will be next in line to receive the promotion.
Primarily, products and brands will only have the access to send advertisements to consumers who have before connected with them over Messenger.
A Facebook representative failed to converse the company's monetization strategies for Messenger on Friday. Whether Facebook has comparable strategies for its WhatsApp unit is undecided.
Flagging the way for ads, Facebook has been increasingly insertion Messenger as central to commercial-to-customer communication. In 2015, the corporation added new customs for customers to send reserved communications to Page holders, and new gears for Page managers to manage and respond to messages. In particular, Page owners were invited to add "Send Message" call-to-action buttons directly to their Facebook ads, and then reply directly to those users who message them. Thanks to their extensive reach in more than 20 countries, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp stand alone as "global powerhouse" chat apps, As per the eMarketer.
According to comScore's count, Facebook Messenger, in reality, exceeded YouTube apps in words of customer reach, in 2015. In January, Facebook Messenger app bragged in the number of 800 million users. In 2015, the service noticed in the increment of 31% in users.
WhatsApp just got on the count of 1 billion per month active user and is currently doing 42 billion texts on an average in a day, which includes 1.6 photographs and in count 250 million videos. As they are planning in 2018, the count of texting app user in all over the world will reach in the count of 2 billion, which will represent almost 80% of smartphone users, eMarketer is expecting.
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The Variable Darner is a highly adapted predator that can often be found hunting around marshland and lake shorelines. While my wife and I were celebrating our 1st year anniversary this past week searching for wildlife, this Variable Darner caught a meadowhawk in flight and preceded to land on my back to enjoy his catch. Meadowhawks are difficult, at best, to ID in the field but this beautiful male Variable Darner is unmistakable. Closely resembling the Canada Darner there are distinct differences in the thoracic stripe markings. I hope you enjoy this short clip.


Shanghai-listed Huatai <601688.SS>, which counts Alibaba as a strategic investor, will soon publish a prospectus to issue Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) in London, said the person, who is not authorised to speak to the media.
Huatai's London listing will mark the launch of a long-awaited stock "connect" scheme between Shanghai and London. The scheme allows companies publicly traded in Shanghai and London to list on each other's bourses via the issuance of depositary receipts (DRs), a financial instrument representing publicly traded securities of a foreign company.
The planned offering by Huatai, China's fifth-largest brokerage by assets, comes after it received a green light last week from China's securities watchdog for the London issuance.
The company this year introduced Internet giants Alibaba and Suning.com Co <002024.SZ> as strategic investors.


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The Makers: Doug Tiffany, custom woodworker.
The Makers Series is a semi-monthly series brought to you by Preferred Credit Union.
By Kate Krieger, MCP Correspondent.
RIVERTON TOWNSHIP — "Maker," the word according to Merriam-Webster means, "one who makes" and according to Urban Dictionary, "those who love to create things in their spare time." Mason County Press is looking around to find those who consider themselves makers. Whether they make things for a living or as a hobby, we will uncover many who have a passion for creating things with their hands and sharing those items with the world.
Doug Tiffany, 36, owner and operator of Custom Woodworking is no stranger to working with his hands and making things. Ever since he was a young kid, Doug was going over to Ron Pedersen's woodworking shop on South Schwass Road to create things and to help Pedersen out with projects he was working on as well.
"My mom had a daycare and watched Ron's son, Nathan," Doug says. "Nathan and I became really good friends and I went over to his dad's house a lot. We just lived up the road, so I'd just ride my bike over here."
Doug attended Mason County Central Schools and graduated in 2002. He took many wood shop classes while in high school and said he knew he really enjoyed the work from a young age.
"When I was 12, I basically started working with Ron full time," he said. "In 1995, Ron built the current shop that's here now. At first, I did it because it was nice to have a paycheck, but then I really started to like it."
When Ron passed away in 2014, his wife, Ann had to make a decision about the business.
"I told her (Ann) that I was going to finish up some jobs we had going and then I'd be done," Doug says. "She then told me that Ron wanted me to have everything and I ended up taking over the business and kept it going."
Ann passed away in October of 2018, but Doug enjoys being able to keep the business going that gave him so much.
"Ron and Ann were like family," Doug says. "He was like a dad to me. We did everything together, we hunted together, and we even helped me get on the Riverton Fire Department."
Doug says he can basically create anything anyone could want at his shop.
"Anything that has to do with wood, I do," he says. "I do cabinetry, furniture repair, countertops, refinishing, basically everything right here from scratch."
One of Doug's favorite things is being able to walk over and grab a board and then being able to make something for someone out of it. He stated that there aren't really any standard projects or dimensions for projects anymore and that the nice thing with custom designs is that no matter the dimensions of a room or project, he can create it and it doesn't have to fit into a certain size or look.
"A lot of time you walk into a big box store and they'll tell you what to do," he says. "If your project isn't a certain size, they won't be able to help you."
Business is going very well for Doug and he says he is very busy working on many different projects. He is out in the shop most days, pretty much all day, but still has time to spend with his wife Linzie, 31, and their son Henry, 4.
"I do it all on my own now," he says. "I will have a few guys coming in to help with some things over the summer, but I do almost everything by myself. There's no such thing anymore as a typical kitchen. I've built kitchens with four cabinets to 40 cabinets. Everyone wants something different and that's what makes it interesting. No project is the same. I'm lucky to be able to do something I enjoy, and I have Ron and Ann to thank a lot for that as well."
Doug can be reached by calling 231-690-0895 or you can follow him on Facebook at customwoodworkingdougtiffany.
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Bruce Springsteen's 'Wrecking Ball' a rock 'n' roll tour de force: Plain Dealer review
John Soeder, The Plain Dealer
In recent years, the Boss has been all over the place stylistically. His 17th album weaves those adventures into a tour de force, complete with hip-hop beats and gospel choirs.
While the lyrical throughline focuses on social justice, the music ranges from the grandeur of "Land of Hope and Dreams" to the Celtic stomp of "Death to My Hometown" to the down-home balladry of "We Are Alive." The title track (inspired by the demolition of Giants Stadium) is a standout, too, with the late Clarence Clemons wailing away on sax. Out Tuesday.
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Murudeshwara is a town where world's tallest statue of lord Shiva is situated. It comes under taluk of Bhatkal, Uttara kannada (North canera) district. It is around 450 km from Bangalore.
Murdeshwara temple and the beach on which it is situated are very famous attracting the devotees as well as tourists.
The statues have been made which pictures the whole story how the shreekshetra 'Murdeshwara' is formed in a cave which has an entrance fee, but worth watching it. The expressions of the statues are awesome...!
The 20 storied gopura which comes around 250 feets is one of the tallest gopuras in the world.
You can spend a couple of ours here and you can move to idugunji and gokarna which are the nearby places to visit.
It is situated between Honnavar and Bhatkal.
On the Highway (NH 17) you will find a deviation to murdeshwara. Getting one km inside will take you to the temple.
The place here being the costal side is too hot. So try to avoid the summer to visit here. But still evening will be good enough even in summers.
Food and Lodging is available near the temple oly.


Bedok today, Very fast, can the Authorities step up more on this? There is a reason why people die. The reason is that of all this goondu on the roads.
The driver gets into trouble for nothing thanks to all these morons on road.
Previous ArticleHONDA DRIVER HIT POLICE OFFICER ON CTE AND DONT EVEN KNOW!


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#ifndef FunctionCall_h
#define FunctionCall_h

#if ENABLE(CSS_SELECTOR_JIT)

#include "RegisterAllocator.h"
#include "StackAllocator.h"
#include <JavaScriptCore/GPRInfo.h>
#include <JavaScriptCore/MacroAssembler.h>

namespace WebCore {

class FunctionCall {
public:
    FunctionCall(JSC::MacroAssembler& assembler, RegisterAllocator& registerAllocator, StackAllocator& stackAllocator, Vector<std::pair<JSC::MacroAssembler::Call, JSC::FunctionPtr>, 32>& callRegistry)
        : m_assembler(assembler)
        , m_registerAllocator(registerAllocator)
        , m_stackAllocator(stackAllocator)
        , m_callRegistry(callRegistry)
        , m_argumentCount(0)
        , m_firstArgument(InvalidGPRReg)
        , m_secondArgument(InvalidGPRReg)
    {
    }

    void setFunctionAddress(JSC::FunctionPtr functionAddress)
    {
        m_functionAddress = functionAddress;
    }

    void setOneArgument(const JSC::MacroAssembler::RegisterID& registerID)
    {
        m_argumentCount = 1;
        m_firstArgument = registerID;
    }

    void setTwoArguments(const JSC::MacroAssembler::RegisterID& firstRegisterID, const JSC::MacroAssembler::RegisterID& secondRegisterID)
    {
        m_argumentCount = 2;
        m_firstArgument = firstRegisterID;
        m_secondArgument = secondRegisterID;
    }

    void call()
    {
        prepareAndCall();
        cleanupPostCall();
    }

    JSC::MacroAssembler::Jump callAndBranchOnBooleanReturnValue(JSC::MacroAssembler::ResultCondition condition)
    {
#if CPU(X86) || CPU(X86_64)
        return callAndBranchOnCondition(condition, JSC::MacroAssembler::TrustedImm32(0xff));
#elif CPU(ARM64) || CPU(ARM)
        return callAndBranchOnCondition(condition, JSC::MacroAssembler::TrustedImm32(-1));
#else
#error Missing implementationg for matching boolean return values.
#endif
    }

private:
    JSC::MacroAssembler::Jump callAndBranchOnCondition(JSC::MacroAssembler::ResultCondition condition, JSC::MacroAssembler::TrustedImm32 mask)
    {
        prepareAndCall();
        m_assembler.test32(condition, JSC::GPRInfo::returnValueGPR, mask);
        cleanupPostCall();
        return m_assembler.branch(condition);
    }

    void swapArguments()
    {
        JSC::MacroAssembler::RegisterID a = m_firstArgument;
        JSC::MacroAssembler::RegisterID b = m_secondArgument;
        // x86 can swap without a temporary register. On other architectures, we need allocate a temporary register to switch the values.
#if CPU(X86) || CPU(X86_64)
        m_assembler.swap(a, b);
#elif CPU(ARM64) || CPU(ARM_THUMB2)
        m_assembler.move(a, tempRegister);
        m_assembler.move(b, a);
        m_assembler.move(tempRegister, b);
#else
#error Missing implementationg for matching swapping argument registers.
#endif
    }

    void prepareAndCall()
    {
        ASSERT(m_functionAddress.executableAddress());
        ASSERT(!m_firstArgument || (m_firstArgument && !m_secondArgument) || (m_firstArgument && m_secondArgument));

        saveAllocatedCallerSavedRegisters();
        m_stackAllocator.alignStackPreFunctionCall();

        if (m_argumentCount == 2) {
            RELEASE_ASSERT(RegisterAllocator::isValidRegister(m_firstArgument));
            RELEASE_ASSERT(RegisterAllocator::isValidRegister(m_secondArgument));

            if (m_firstArgument != JSC::GPRInfo::argumentGPR0) {
                // If firstArgument is not in argumentGPR0, we need to handle potential conflicts:
                // -if secondArgument and firstArgument are in inversted registers, just swap the values.
                // -if secondArgument is in argumentGPR0 but firstArgument is not taking argumentGPR1, we can move in order secondArgument->argumentGPR1, firstArgument->argumentGPR0
                // -if secondArgument does not take argumentGPR0, firstArgument and secondArgument can be moved safely to destination.
                if (m_secondArgument == JSC::GPRInfo::argumentGPR0) {
                    if (m_firstArgument == JSC::GPRInfo::argumentGPR1)
                        swapArguments();
                    else {
                        m_assembler.move(JSC::GPRInfo::argumentGPR0, JSC::GPRInfo::argumentGPR1);
                        m_assembler.move(m_firstArgument, JSC::GPRInfo::argumentGPR0);
                    }
                } else {
                    m_assembler.move(m_firstArgument, JSC::GPRInfo::argumentGPR0);
                    if (m_secondArgument != JSC::GPRInfo::argumentGPR1)
                        m_assembler.move(m_secondArgument, JSC::GPRInfo::argumentGPR1);
                }
            } else {
                // We know firstArgument is already in place, we can safely move secondArgument.
                if (m_secondArgument != JSC::GPRInfo::argumentGPR1)
                    m_assembler.move(m_secondArgument, JSC::GPRInfo::argumentGPR1);
            }
        } else if (m_argumentCount == 1) {
            RELEASE_ASSERT(RegisterAllocator::isValidRegister(m_firstArgument));
            if (m_firstArgument != JSC::GPRInfo::argumentGPR0)
                m_assembler.move(m_firstArgument, JSC::GPRInfo::argumentGPR0);
        }

        JSC::MacroAssembler::Call call = m_assembler.call();
        m_callRegistry.append(std::make_pair(call, m_functionAddress));
    }

    void cleanupPostCall()
    {
        m_stackAllocator.unalignStackPostFunctionCall();
        restoreAllocatedCallerSavedRegisters();
    }

    void saveAllocatedCallerSavedRegisters()
    {
        ASSERT(m_savedRegisterStackReferences.isEmpty());
        ASSERT(m_savedRegisters.isEmpty());
        const RegisterVector& allocatedRegisters = m_registerAllocator.allocatedRegisters();
        for (auto registerID : allocatedRegisters) {
            if (RegisterAllocator::isCallerSavedRegister(registerID))
                m_savedRegisters.append(registerID);
        }
        m_savedRegisterStackReferences = m_stackAllocator.push(m_savedRegisters);
    }

    void restoreAllocatedCallerSavedRegisters()
    {
        m_stackAllocator.pop(m_savedRegisterStackReferences, m_savedRegisters);
        m_savedRegisterStackReferences.clear();
    }

    JSC::MacroAssembler& m_assembler;
    RegisterAllocator& m_registerAllocator;
    StackAllocator& m_stackAllocator;
    Vector<std::pair<JSC::MacroAssembler::Call, JSC::FunctionPtr>, 32>& m_callRegistry;

    RegisterVector m_savedRegisters;
    StackAllocator::StackReferenceVector m_savedRegisterStackReferences;

    JSC::FunctionPtr m_functionAddress;
    unsigned m_argumentCount;
    JSC::MacroAssembler::RegisterID m_firstArgument;
    JSC::MacroAssembler::RegisterID m_secondArgument;
};

} // namespace WebCore

#endif // ENABLE(CSS_SELECTOR_JIT)

#endif // FunctionCall_h

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Street-Legal Racing Enthusiasts Have Just Defeated The EPA
by Jay Traugott Government / Comments
Rejoice! This is very good news.
Last month we reported that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wanted to add language to the Clean Air Act that would have resulted in a ban on street legal race cars. If passed, these modified cars would become illegal in the US. Enthusiasts, owners, and the Specialty Equipment Market Association raised all sorts of hell, and that hell-raising has apparently paid off. First reported by Automotive News, the EPA has now dropped that proposed language. Amateur racers across the US now sleep peacefully once again.
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"The proposed language in the July 2015 proposal was never intended to represent any change in the law or in EPA's policies or practices towards dedicated competition vehicles," so says the EPA on its website. "Since our attempt to clarify led to confusion, EPA has decided to eliminate the proposed language from the final rule." Hurray for lobbying! Originally, that street-legal racing car ban language was hidden in a 629-page proposal to slash carbon emissions in medium- and heavy-duty trucks. The EPA tried to, essentially, regulate auto racing. It failed. "The bums will always lose!" (The Big Lebowski can literally be quoted for any occasion).
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Q: Making Custom Fields Standard in the Admin UI I've added a few different custom_post_types to my Wordpress 3 installation. They are all a bit different from eachother, and should store unique information in custom_fields. But while one may store a product_id, another will not. One will have a source_url and another will not. Rather than having to instruct my editors on which custom fields should be used with which custom posts, how can I make each custom post include its custom fields as part of the UI itself?
If you visit "daily_cartoon" you would have a screen that asks only for a title, caption, and media.
If you visit "daily_product" you would have a screen that asks only for a title, price, summary, etc.

A: you can add  meta_boxes in order to have the custom fields data stored in them.
since add_meta_box can be set according to post_type this will enable you to add different meta_box to different post types.
look at this post for a full example of altering  the custom post type new/edit scree.

A: Hi @Jonathan Sampson:
There are several plugins to make Custom Post Types easier and some allow you to define Custom Fields too, in no particular order:

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*WP Easy Post Types

*GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools

*Custom Post Type UI

*Simple Fields
As I mentioned above I've been working on one that does not provide a User Interface like these to instead an extensible API for complex field types (and simple ones too.) But after spending an hour trying to package it I realized it's not ready for distribution yet. Maybe in a few weeks.
These plugins listed above should meet your basic needs for now and I will try to make mine compatible with the data stored by all of these in the future in case you do decided to use mine in the future.
You also might find this post a bit of help too:

*

*Tips for using WordPress as a CMS?

A: I have recently needed to address a very similar problem while working within a theme.  The basis of the code was from this post and I had modified some of the code
The following is the first portion of the code I had modified.
    add_action('init', 'limited_post_type');
function my_custom_limited_post_type()
{
  $labels = array(
    'name' => _x('Limited Post Type', 'post type general name'),
    'singular_name' => _x('Film - DVD', 'post type singular name')
  );
  $args = array(
    'labels' => $labels,
    'public' => true,
    'publicly_queryable' => true,
    'show_ui' => true,
    'query_var' => true,
    'rewrite' => true,
    'capability_type' => 'post',
    'hierarchical' => false,
    'menu_position' => null,
    'supports' => array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt', 'page-attributes','custom-fields' ),
    'show_in_nav_menus' => true
  );
  register_post_type('limited_post_type', $args);
}

The following is the second portion of the code I had modified.
foreach ( $scope as $scopeItem ) {
       switch ( $scopeItem ) {
           case "post": {
             // Output on any post screen
             if ( basename( $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] )=="post-new.php" || $post->post_type=="post" )
             $output = true;
             break;}
            case "page": {
                  // Output on any page screen
                  if ( basename( $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] )=="page-new.php" || $post->post_type=="page" )
            $output = true;
            break;}
             case "limited_post_type": {
                                // Output on limited post_type onlye
            if ((basename( $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] )=="post-new.php" && $post->post_type=="limited_post_type" ) || (basename( $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] )=="post.php" && $post->post_type=="film_dvd" ))
                   $output = true;
                   break;
                  }

If you like please send me a message and I will gladly send you my functions.php file for your reference.  This is definitely the way to make it happen though as I went through many nights of hair pulling as yourself.


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Madden NFL 20 possible reveal and release dates
On February 15, 2019 April 25, 2019 By James T.
EA has officially announced that Madden NFL 20 will launch on August 2 this year.
Check out some of the exciting new features and announcements in this year's game:
Madden 20 will feature 10 college football teams as part of a new Career Mode
The NEW Face of the Franchise!
Feel Like an NFL Superstar in #Madden20
— Madden NFL 20 (@EAMaddenNFL) April 25, 2019
With the 2018-19 NFL season over, the New England Patriots hoisting another championship tropy, and EA releasing the Ultimate Team of the Year, it's about that time where we don't necessarily move away from last year's game but begin to look forward to a new iteration in the Madden franchise.
This year's game will presumably be titled Madden NFL 20 (referred to as Madden 20 for short, most likely). But other than some possible players that could see ratings bumps, according to EA, we don't really know much about the game. So when can we expect to hear more?
EA hasn't even begun to talk about Madden 20, but all you have to do is look into the past for a better idea of when to expect a reveal announcement. Madden NFL 19 was first announced on May 25, 2018, though we didn't find out that Antonio Brown would grace the cover until July. Madden NFL 18 was also announced in May with EA revealed Tom Brady as the cover athlete on the same day.
So we can expect, based on the last two games in the series, that Madden NFL 20 will be announced sometime in May. The reveal will likely also contain a release date for the game.
Speaking of release dates, Madden games typically release in August. While we used to have to wait until late August – around the end of preseason – EA did shift the release of Madden NFL 19 up to early August. Madden 19 officially released on August 10, 2018, though EA Access members on Xbox One did get a brief head start with the game. Madden 18 released on August 22, 2017, but again, EA Access members and those who pre-ordered the "G.O.A.T. Edition" were able to play three days earlier. Madden NFL 17 released on August 23, 2016.
So as you can see, an August release date for Madden NFL 20 seems most likely. The only thing we're left wondering is if it'll be early or late August.
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David Pearce Snyder is a data-based forecaster whose thousands of seminars and workshops on strategic thinking have been attended by representatives from most of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as hundreds of local and federal government agencies, educational institutions and trade associations. Before entering private practice as a consulting futurist in 1981, Mr. Snyder was Chief of Information Systems, and later, Senior Planning Officer for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, where he designed and managed the IRS Strategic Planning System. He was also a consultant to the RAND Corporation, and has served as an instructor for the Federal Executive Institute, and for Congressional and White House staff development programs.
David Snyder has been Contributing Editor of The Futurist magazine for over a quarter century. In addition, he has authored hundreds of studies, articles and reports on the specific future of a wide range of U.S. institutions, industries and professions, and on the socio-economic impacts of new technologies. He is the editor/co-author of five books, including Future Forces and a sequel, America in the 1990s, both published by the American Society of Association Executives. He also serves on the Editorial Board of On the Horizon, and has appeared on Nightline, The Today Show, CNN, MSNBC, and the BBC World Service.
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DELEVERAGING AMERICA
The World's Largest Economy Shifts Gears
To paraphrase Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the current generation of Americans has a "rendezvous with austerity" as tighter credit and stagnant income combined with rising taxes and increased savings rates constrain consumer spending – prolonging the current "Jobs Recession" by forcing most U.S. households to "live within their means." For the foreseeable future, Americans will spend less on housing, cars and cruise ship holidays, and more on infrastructure, healthcare and home entertainment, while suburban sprawl grinds to a halt and high-rise apartments spring up along mass-
transit lines throughout an increasingly urbanized nation.
Meanwhile, the current economic slump is accelerating the "information revolution!" Confronted by stagnant sales, businesses are using information technology to cut costs, permanently eliminating millions of jobs in the process. The resulting productivity improvements are boosting profitability, but will forestall significant reductions in unemployment, further delaying full economic recovery.
Economic historians are confident that within 5 years, maturing high-tech industries – including bio-engineering, nano-materials, robotics, low-carbon energy and infopreneurships – will begin to leverage new mass market prosperity that will "lift all our boats." Until then, however, U.S. equities markets will largely experience "sideways growth," and investors will increasingly pursue more robust returns in the modernizing economies of the developing world.
Consulting futurist David Peace Snyder will present an Instant Pre-Play of what will happen in the American workplace during the next 5 years – as the world's largest economy "shifts gears" for the 21st Century.
WELCOME TO THE "NEW NORMAL"
STRATEGIES FOR CONSUMER BANKS IN CHANGING TIMES
At a time when we are all preoccupied with our short-term economic circumstances, it is important not to lose sight of the long–term demographic, econometric and technologic trends and developments that will predictably determine the markets for consumer financial services over the next 5 to 10 years.
In this lively illustrated program, futurist David Pearce Snyder spells out the
forecastable realities that will shape the markets for community banks in a "New Normal" world of economic austerity, technologic innovation and social change, and details 4 marketing strategies for acquiring new clientele and expanding services to existing depositors.
OLD ECONOMY + NEW TECHNOLOGY = PROSPERITY
History has shown that the most potent socio-economic effects of a new
technology do not occur until 60 to 70 years after its invention. This means
that the coming decade will see the most transformational applications of
computing power in daily life and work. Some of these innovations –
including social networking, cloud computing, mobile connectivity and data
mining – are already changing the operating environment for all forms of
public and private enterprise.
Consulting Futurist David Pearce Snyder describes how rapidly-maturing
information technologies will give us cashless commerce, paperless processes and conversational computing in less than 10 years, while revitalizing the deleveraged American economy by creating new businesses, boosting productivity and changing the ways by which consumers are served, products are marketed, enterprises are organized, and human resources are managed and developed.
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Basically it's another new thing""for me as a new guy at this church, as well as for our elders and staff together. We've not done this together before here, so it's new for all of us. If you push us into the quieter corner where we can admit our inner thoughts, it therefore carries a mixed bag of emotions and hopes. Remember, it's new.
If you've never been involved in strategic planning, strategic planning is the clarification of the journey that a group of people will take to reach their goal. Simply put, the planning process clarifies your final vision (what you hope to create in the end), the method (how you plan to arrive at the end), and the people and resources needed to arrive at your destination. It is analogous to vacation planning""you plan ahead where you choose to go, how you choose to get there, and who is going to ride together in the car (and, in some families, who carries the money).
For a guy like me, it's a fascinating process. We will hopefully conclude with a clearer picture of how Stonebriar will accomplish our mission (as some might say, "How cool is that?"). Yet whenever the process is new to a group, it is also filled with a strange mixture of anticipations.
My own personal hope is that we experience God showing up, in whatever way He chooses. If that happens, I'll be walking on clouds. To be honest, I'm extremely excited about the potential of our two days. Yet I'm also wondering, are we ready for such a process? Do we have the relationships that are strong enough to endure any initial disagreements about our priorities? Are we living with a deep discernment to hear from God as a group? Is our vision clear enough to create exciting steps towards the mark? Will we press towards the completion of our strategy? Of course, since the church is the hope of the world""as the depository of Christ's life""then it's crucial that we answer these questions with a resounding yes. Nothing less than the momentum of the church is at stake.
So I hope we end up with a plan for Stonebriar that moves us into a new season of active volunteerism, relevant ministries, and effectiveness in reaching the community. We have many strong foundations upon which we can stand""but we also have many ways to improve. Foundations are comfortable; improvements can be awkward (or even threatening to some people). Remember that the very word, improvement, implies something new. But this "new thing" is worth it.
Pray for us, and we can converse about the results next week through this blog.


3D printing has had a major impact on many areas, from automobiles and aerospace to consumer products and education to scientific research. But the one that always fascinates me the most is how 3D technology has changed the face of medicine, and specifically surgery. From 3D imaging and 3D printed patient-specific models, which as we know are very useful in terms of planning for complex surgical procedures, to 3D bioprinting and 3D printed medical devices, the technology has certainly been making waves in the medical field.
While we're still not quite at a point where we can just push a button to print out a new ear or liver for those who need it, 3D printed medical devices are becoming more and more common, and according to research, the market for these devices is expected to continue going up through the next decade. There are facilities and materials dedicated to 3D printed medical devices, and we've seen a wide variety, from sleep apnea devices and prosthetic and orthotic devices to metal 3D printed devices, like the iFuse3D titanium implant for the sacroiliac joint.
Another good example of a metal 3D printed medical device set to assist in surgical scenaerios is a heart stabilizer, recently developed together by cardiothoracic surgeon Richard Trimlett, who works at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, and design development center Sutrue, which develops medical instruments used in cardiology. Typically, an open heart surgery begins by using a suction device to stabilize the heart, but it's very difficult to do this during a keyhole heart surgery, a minimally invasive but delicate procedure.
"The heart is beating during the surgery, but we need to hold this very small area that we're working on still. We need tools with very small parts that we can pass in and out," Trimlett explained.
Back in 2015, we heard about the DragonFlex, another 3D printed surgical device developed for use during keyhole surgeries, but that instrument was not made specifically for heart surgeries; it was also printed out of ceramic-filled epoxy resin. Trimlett wanted a metal, disposable tool that was customizable by both size and shape, and asked Alex Berry, the CEO of Sutrue and developer of the company's entire device range, if he could help.
For the last two years, Sutrue has been utilizing an Mlab cusing machine, which uses a bed of stainless steel powder to 3D print medical instruments and other medical devices, like dental restorations; Concept Laser's patented LaserCUSING process has also been used to 3D print craniomaxillofacial implants.
"Additive manufacturing always fascinated me, but it is still underestimated today. It could lead to new thinking in this area, inspiring the experts with the freedom of geometry, miniaturization, short development times and other benefits that can be exploited even more widely," said Berry.
Compared to the months it typically takes to develop a new prototype with traditional manufacturing methods, each prototype of Trimlett and Berry's 3D printed heart stabilizer only took four hours to make. The final version of the tool was completed in just three months, which is amazing when you consider that it can take up to a decade to develop conventional medical tools; however, the heart stabilizer still needs to pass tests and approvals before it is ready for the market.
When it comes to 3D printing technology in the medical field, be it 3D printed models, 3D imaging, or custom devices like this 3D printed heart stabilizer, it's clear that the world of medicine will never be the same. Discuss in the Cardiology forum at 3DPB.com.


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$LOAD_PATH << File.absolute_path(File.dirname($FILENAME))
$LOAD_PATH << File.absolute_path("File.dirname($FILENAME)/..")

require 'spec_helper'
require 'tempfile'
require 'shellvars.rb'

describe "shellvars plugin" do
  subject { REGISTERED_PLUGINS[:shellvars] }

  it "it a Kdb::Plugin class" do
    expect(subject).to be_an_instance_of Kdb::Plugin
  end

  context "reads and writes files" do
    let(:file)     { Tempfile.new 'test' }
    let(:keyset)   { Kdb::KeySet.new }
    let(:parent)   { Kdb::Key.new 'user/tests/shellvar', value: file.path }
    let(:outfile)  { Tempfile.new 'outtest' }
    let(:outparent){ Kdb::Key.new 'user/tests/shellvar', value: outfile.path }

    after :example do
      file.unlink
    end

    it "reads empty file" do
      subject.get keyset, parent
      expect(keyset.size).to eq 0
    end

    it "reads simple one line shell var" do
      content = "VAR1=value\n"
      file_content file, content
      subject.get keyset, parent

      expect(keyset.size).to eq 1
      expect(keyset.lookup "#{parent.name}/VAR1").to_not be_nil
      expect(keyset.lookup("#{parent.name}/VAR1").value).to eq "value"
    end

    it "read four lines with shell vars" do
      content = <<-EOT
VAR1=abc
var2=def
hello=world
world=hello
      EOT
      file_content file, content
      subject.get keyset, parent

      expect(keyset.size).to eq 4
      expect(keyset.lookup "#{parent.name}/VAR1").to_not be_nil
      expect(keyset.lookup("#{parent.name}/VAR1").value).to eq "abc"
      expect(keyset.lookup("#{parent.name}/VAR1")['order']).to eq "1"
      expect(keyset.lookup "#{parent.name}/var2").to_not be_nil
      expect(keyset.lookup("#{parent.name}/var2").value).to eq "def"
      expect(keyset.lookup("#{parent.name}/var2")['order']).to eq "2"
      expect(keyset.lookup "#{parent.name}/hello").to_not be_nil
      expect(keyset.lookup("#{parent.name}/hello").value).to eq "world"
      expect(keyset.lookup("#{parent.name}/hello")['order']).to eq "3"
      expect(keyset.lookup "#{parent.name}/world").to_not be_nil
      expect(keyset.lookup("#{parent.name}/world").value).to eq "hello"
      expect(keyset.lookup("#{parent.name}/world")['order']).to eq "4"
    end

    it "read shellvar with one comment line" do
      content = <<-EOT
#this is a simple comment
var1=value
# other var
var2=othervalue
      EOT
      file_content file, content
      subject.get keyset, parent

      expect(keyset.size).to eq 2

      key = keyset.lookup "#{parent.name}/var1"
      expect(key.value).to eq "value"
      expect(key['comment/#0']).to eq "this is a simple comment"
      expect(key['comment/#0/start']).to eq "#"

      key = keyset.lookup "#{parent.name}/var2"
      expect(key.value).to eq "othervalue"
      expect(key['comment/#0']).to eq "other var"
      expect(key['comment/#0/start']).to eq "# "
    end

    it "read shellvar with long comment" do
      content = <<-EOT
# long comment
# line 2
# line 3
# line 4
# line 5
# line 6
# line 7
# line 8
# line 9
# line 10
# line 11
var=value
      EOT
      file_content file, content
      subject.get keyset, parent

      expect(keyset.size).to eq 1

      key = keyset.lookup "#{parent.name}/var"
      expect(key.value).to eq "value"
      expect(key['comment/#0']).to eq "long comment"
      expect(key['comment/#5']).to eq "line 6"
      expect(key['comment/#_10']).to eq "line 11"
    end

    it "read/write shellvars with empty lines" do
      content = <<-EOT

# comment, with empty line at start
var1=v1

# another comment

var2=v2
      EOT
      file_content file, content
      subject.get keyset, parent

      expect(keyset.size).to eq 2

      key = keyset.lookup "#{parent.name}/var1"
      expect(key.value).to eq "v1"
      expect(key['comment/#0']).to eq ""
      expect(key['comment/#0/start']).to eq ""
      expect(key['comment/#1']).to eq "comment, with empty line at start"
      expect(key['comment/#1/start']).to eq '# '
      expect(key.has_meta? 'comment/#2').to be false

      key = keyset.lookup "#{parent.name}/var2"
      expect(key.value).to eq "v2"
      expect(key['comment/#0']).to eq ""
      expect(key['comment/#0/start']).to eq ''
      expect(key['comment/#1']).to eq "another comment"
      expect(key['comment/#1/start']).to eq '# '
      expect(key['comment/#2']).to eq ""
      expect(key['comment/#2/start']).to eq ''
      expect(key.has_meta? 'comment/#3').to be false
    end

    it "stores last comments are parentkey" do
      content = <<-EOT
# comment
var1=hello

# last comment
      EOT
      file_content file, content
      subject.get keyset, parent

      expect(parent['comment/#0']).to eq ''
      expect(parent['comment/#0/start']).to eq ''
      expect(parent['comment/#1']).to eq 'last comment'
      expect(parent['comment/#1/start']).to eq '# '
    end

    it "write a simple one line file" do
      content = "var1=value\n"
      file_content file, content

      subject.get keyset, parent
      parent.value = outfile.path
      subject.set keyset, parent

      expect(get_file_content outfile.path).to eq content
    end

    it "preserves the order of vars" do
      content = <<-EOT
zzvar=v1
aavar=v2
kkvar=v3
      EOT
      file_content file, content

      subject.get keyset, parent
      parent.value = outfile.path
      subject.set keyset, parent

      expect(get_file_content outfile.path).to eq content
    end

    it "preserves comments" do
      content = <<-EOT

# first comment line
#another
var1=v1

# hello

abc=def

#last comment

      EOT
      file_content file, content

      subject.get keyset, parent
      parent.value = outfile.path
      subject.set keyset, parent

      expect(get_file_content outfile.path).to eq content
    end

  end

end


Whenever we have dinner out in either Patitiri or the Old Village of Alonnisos our usual custom is to stop by the Italian Gelateria for a bit of dessert before heading back home. The location in Patitiri is situated perhaps just 50 meters from the harbor on the right side of the main road going up towards the Old Village, it was originally started by two wonderful and very friendly women from Italy, Jana, and Julianna, who brought with them their craft of making incredibly delicious Italian ice cream. Prior to the summer tourist season in 2007 they sold the business, but made sure to teach the new owners they needed to know about making the ice cream with the same level of quality and taste that customers had become accustomed to over the years. I can speak from personal experience that the ice cream they sell is simply fantastic in every way. It truly is the perfect dessert food to end any evening spent in Alonnisos.
The Gelateria location in the Old Village (pictured to your right) opened during 2008 and is really convenient for anyone staying up there. It's located perhaps 60 meters from the bus stop in the Old Village as you walk up toward the main square (or in Greek, "plateia") of the village.
When you do visit Alonnisos and find your sweet tooth calling you after dinner (or at any other time), rest assured that you can't go wrong stopping by either location of the Gelateria locations.
Located in Patitiri, perhaps one kilometer up from the harbor on the left side of the street and directly across from the Pappou Market, is the Artosinisi Bakery. Each morning during the height of the tourist season this bakery always attracts a large number of customers, and is also frequented by the owners/managers of numerous restaurants and tavernas on the island. The Artosinisi Bakery offers a large selection of freshly baked foods, including both white and dark breads, a wide variety of cookies, milopita (mini apple pies), cheese pies, spinach pies, and much more.
In addition, they sell affordably-priced breakfast and lunch food, including baked bacon/ham and cheese pies and traditional ham and cheese and vegetarian sandwiches on small submarine rolls. During our most recent trips we purchased sandwiches for lunch there on several occasions and really enjoyed them. If you want to economize on lunch or breakfast there's really no better place in Patitiri than the Artosinisi Bakery. This bakery also sells a variety of juices, and uniquely offers soy milk and other non-dairy products, apple cider vinegar, coconut oil, and some novelty foods you most likely wouldn't find anywhere else on the island.
The upper portion of plateia area (town square) of the Old Village of Alonnisos provides a spectacular view to the east (see photo down to your right). To reach this part of the village, from the bus stop walk up to the point where the road ends at a small café (this is actually the main plateia). There is also a very historic church located opposite-right of that cafe. Then, turn left and follow the plaka/cobblestone path until you see another café/bar called the Naval (a great place run by our good friend Nikos, which features a novel menu that includes delicious crepes by the way), then veer left again and climb a bit further until you reach a plateau with steps to your right (see photo to your left). From that area you will be able to take some great photos.
To see a brief YouTube video of the view from this area, click here.
When you climb those steps you will then be part of what I call the "Old Village promenade," the main path that cuts through the village, weaving it's way past restaurants (estiatorios) including "The Kastro" operated by my friend Nectarios, as well as various shops, including the Gallery 5 art gallery and candle store (pictured to your right) operated by the renowned Danish artist Bente Keller.
At the very end of the promenade is a very popular sweet shop and restaurant called "Xagiati," which has become one of the most popular locations in the Old Village because of its home-made sweets, fresh brewed coffees/cappuccinos, and aperitifs. While initially Xagiati offered only sweets, today it also includes other food choices, dishes that are lighter faire than those offered at estiatorios and tavernas.
The proprietor is a very friendly and hard-working woman named Meni (pictured to your right), and based on the fact that Xagiati is always packed with customers, you know for certain the food is excellent. In addition, in recent years Xagiati has been offering excellent evening entertainment in the form of musicians performing both Traditional and Modern Greek music. When you visit Xagiati, and it's simply a must if you're in the Old Village in the evening, ask for Meni and tell her that Jeff & Andrea from the USA sent you!


At the end of the day, people either end up either being the person who did the thing, or they don't. There's not much else that separates us.
Or maybe there is, but I'm trying to set up a very basic premise so this article, so I'll welcome you to ignore any kind of nuance or alternative thought processes. Mmmkay?
1. I've heard of crop tops before, but this goes far beyond anything I've seen.
But I kind of get it. I mean, sometimes there's nothing like wearing a slightly seasonally inappropriate hoodie, just because of the comfort of the sweater. I'm a huge proponent of the sweatshirt and shorts aesthetic.
2. Something big changed in our culture when those animal masks got really popular. I'm not saying it was a good change, but it sure was a change.
Or maybe we're just getting ready for a live-action version of *BoJack Horseman*. Who knows for sure?
3. Speaking of horses that'll make you uncomfortable.
Listen, I'm not about to pretend that I can draw horses any better than this. I couldn't even put words to exactly what they got wrong. So ride on, @sketchshark. Ride on!
4. Listen, I think this is great. When you're feeling that sentimental vibe, I say you go for it and tell people how you feel.
I cannot tell you how many late-night text messages I've sent out, just telling friends that they matter to me. I'm sure it's very obnoxious being my friend.
5. I mean, really, I'm just including this because of how impressive it is.
He went and he did the thing, just like I promised. Maybe this can be a new social media challenge, where people have to draw perfect circles on things.
6. Finally, that Zootopia/Night at the Roxbury crossover I've been pitching for a while now is getting made.
I recognize that this joke is for about 20 people, so don't get too mad if it just seems like a bunch of words thrown together.
7. I can only assume that this person ended up getting exactly what they wanted, but that does leave one to question why they wanted it in the first place.
Then again, I know nothing about fashion.
8. This is some Big Deb Energy right here.
I don't know much about this woman, but I can almost guarantee that she has shared at least one Minion meme in the last 24 hours.
9. Back in my day, we were told that if you didn't have anything nice to say, you shouldn't say anything at all. These days you can watch hamburger chains rip each other to shreds on Twitter.
10. This is the truth that no one wants to tell you about Canadians.
Most of us get all high and mighty about our syrup and our hot Prime Minister, but really, we know that we're just Americans inside, with a slightly more polite frosting.
11. To be fair, I think that the cable company has a lot of good reasons for not wanting you to do this.
Liability not being the least of them.
12. Now I'm not hip enough with today's youth to know what an "orange justice dance" is, but I do know exactly the kind of kid this is.
In fact, I'm pretty sure that kid just stole my lunch money.
13. I mean, we were all thinking it as soon as we saw Black Panther, right?
This reminds me a lot of that other guy who does low-cost cosplay. I wonder if he ever did Killmonger.
14. Sure, this seems like a lot of fun until you actually need an umbrella and just end up spilling booze all over yourself.
Then again, if you're not drinking enough to enjoy stumbling through the rain, then you're just not having the right kind of fun.
15. Props to the restaurant that owns their 1-star Yelp reviews by putting them on their shirts.
I'm not exactly sure what "good American customer service" is either, come to think of it.
16. I certainly hope this doesn't awaken something in me that I didn't know was there.


Why does Health Canada not divulge information from clinical trials until reports surface of widespread off-label prescribing? The reason is legal: the companies that manufacture these therapeutic products and devices claim that information is "confidential business information" or a "trade secret," which they own, and which Health Canada is not free to disclose.
I witnessed this pas de deux while attending Health Canada's "technical discussions on regulatory modernization" held between October 2010 and January 2011. Each proposal put on the table by Health Canada to increase transparency — from making final decisions regarding applications for market authorization publicly available, to creating an online register of therapeutic products — was met with proprietary claims from MEDEC, BIOTECanada or Rx&D, the respective associations of medical device, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies in Canada. Each time, Health Canada acknowledged that the law controlled what they could and could not disclose.
In this article, I argue that the law, in fact, poses a minimal barrier to the disclosure of the designs and results of clinical trials. I begin by illustrating Health Canada's tendency to keep third-party information secret, then show why — insofar as protecting third-party information has prevented the disclosure of the designs and results of clinical trials — this goes beyond what the law requires, in principle. I go on to highlight institutional barriers to changes in policy.
Protect third-party information or Canadians?
These figures show nothing specific about Health Canada's willingness to disclose information about safety and efficacy. However, one relevant trend is discernable. Across instances in which all or some information is withheld on the basis of an exemption contemplated by the Access to Information Act, third-party information is by far the category of exemption most frequently invoked.
Four kinds of third-party information exist: trade secrets; confidential information; and information that, in the event of disclosure, may "be reasonably expected to" result in financial loss or prejudice a third party's "competitive position"; or interfere with "contractual or other negotiations." All four third-party exemptions seem well suited to denying public access to data on safety and efficacy submitted by manufacturers of bio-pharmaceuticals or medical devices.
Confidential information is broader in scope. But courts have put the onus on the party resisting disclosure to show that they have treated the information as confidential and, importantly, that "to do so is in the public interest."16 To assess the latter, courts have looked to the "nature of the relationship" between the third party and the governmental institution in question. The court has noted that Health Canada's role as a regulator reduces manufacturers' expectations of confidentiality, in contrast to other government–industry relations.16 The public interest, in other words, did not favour confidentiality.
Health Canada is constrained by other legal agreements. Memorandums of understanding with regulators in the United States, Europe and Australia all recite duties not to disclose proprietary information such as trade secrets.18–20 But none of these agreements define what a trade secret is. And in the absence of a court case on point, the decision to disclose data from clinical trials is left in the hands of national regulators. Whereas the FDA and, to a lesser extent, the European Medicines Agency have taken to openness, Health Canada, for reasons that are unclear, has not.
Both of these provisos seem to be met at present. Consider the latter: the so-called data protection regulation under the Food and Drugs Act provides an additional 8 years of "data exclusivity" for "innovative drugs" (or 8.5 years for drugs suitable to pediatric populations).23 Ironically, commentators suggested as early as 1980 that data exclusivity — a set period during which one company is not allowed to secure regulatory approval for a product by relying on the safety and efficacy information previously supplied by another company for a "bioequivalent" product — was the best way to remedy any competitive harm that disclosure of data from clinical trials might cause.24 When data exclusivity was later added to Canada's Food and Drugs Act, courts read a loophole into the legislation such that establishing bioequivalence was deemed not the same thing as relying on the first mover's safety and efficacy data.25 However, the Federal Court of Appeal recently closed that loophole.26 Thus, the Parliament of Canada has taken steps, which courts have sanctioned, to preclude unfair commercial use of data on safety and efficacy.
Therein lies a deep incongruity with Health Canada's protection of industry's trade secrets, confidential information and the like. Trade secret laws evolved in response to competitive harm or unjust enrichment in the marketplace between business rivals previously bound by expectations of confidentiality, such as employer and employee. The focus is on wrongdoing among private parties.24 In the context of regulating controlled substances, other interests, most notably the welfare of Canadians, are in play.
In Canada and elsewhere, federal oversight of therapeutic products was a specific response to the patent medicines crisis.30,31 Protecting the safety and health of Canadians was and should remain Health Canada's social contract.
The law is a barrier to disclosure insofar as proceedings can continue for years (Figure 1), and the adversarial nature of the legal system can limit the court's perspective. No one, to date, has articulated for the court why the public interest favours access to safety and efficacy data beyond the confines of Health Canada. Those in a position to do so, such as the Canadian Medical Association or the Consumers' Association of Canada, should seek standing in proceedings under the Access to Information Act.
Note: FDA = Food and Drug Administration.
There are two more immediate institutional barriers to greater openness: institutional culture and inertia, and institutional mandate.
This shift also underlies the expansion in Health Canada's mandate. Whereas the inception of federal oversight was driven by harms resulting from consumption of patent medicines, the Health Canada of today describes itself as not just "protecting," but "promoting," the health of Canadians. That expansion in mandate may be generally acceptable given the breadth of Health Canada's program areas. However, when it comes to Health Canada's specific role in regulating pharmaceuticals, biologics and medical devices, there is a fundamental difference between Health Canada acknowledging that it — as gatekeeper to the market — is part of a system of innovation and casting itself as a collaborator in the development of health products. The saga surrounding Merck's pained withdrawal of Vioxx from the market as well as ethnographic studies of Health Canada suggest that regulators can lose touch with that distinction.39,40 Keeping clinical trial data confidential indicates sympathy for industry's (unproven) claim that clinical trials secrecy is integral to the development of therapeutic products and devices.
Concern that regulators are, in effect, working in tandem with members of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries is the driving force behind much of the controversy surrounding Health Canada's efforts to modernize its regulatory regime.41,42 Adopting a life-cycle approach — where pre- and postmarket exchange of information remains secret — does nothing to address concerns that the information on clinical trials tendered to Health Canada is, at best, incomplete and, at worst, doctored, as seen in the Paxil "study 329."43 Health Canada has failed to appreciate that its agreement to that arrangement, which has a tenuous basis in law, adds to the perception that it is industry-friendly.
The idea of requiring those who conduct clinical trials to register their trial designs and disclose their findings is not novel.44,45 Market incentives for manufacturers to manipulate evidence, coupled with Health Canada's resource constraints, make openness around clinical trial designs and data an essential component of bio-pharmaceutical and medical device regulation. At present, the law does not prevent Health Canada from disclosing data on clinical trials. To remove any lingering doubt, Health Canada should follow the FDA's lead and explicitly include that power in its future proposals to amend the Food and Drugs Act. Health Canada can profit from the FDA's three years of experience by creating a system that requires sharing not just more, but the right information to clarify rather than obfuscate,46 and protect the privacy of research participants.
Health Canada claims to have been exploring the requirements of registration of clinical trials and disclosure of results for some time. But such requirements were missing from Health Canada's most recent effort to amend the Food and Drugs Act, Bill C-51, which died on the order paper after first reading in 2008. When the issue was raised during Health Canada's 2010/11 "modernization" consultations, the moderator noted the issue on a flip chart dubbed the "parking lot" and urged participants to stick to the agenda. With Canadian Institutes of Health Research's recent questionable decision to withdraw its policy of clinical trials registration,47 Health Canada cannot continue to pass the buck. The law is no reason for further delay.
The law does not, in principle, preclude Health Canada from disclosing data on safety and efficacy associated with pharmaceuticals, biologics and medical devices, including data on the designs and results of clinical trials.
The adversarial nature of the legal system, Health Canada's lack of action and the premium placed on commercialization by government, universities and the medical profession are barriers to greater openness.
Canada should follow the lead of the United States' Food and Drug Administration and make the registration of clinical trials and disclosure of findings a mandatory requirement under Canada's Food and Drugs Act.
This paper benefited greatly from feedback provided by Janice Graham, Joel Lexchin, Marc-André Gagnon, Graham Reynolds, Scott Halperin, Lynette Reid, the members of Novel Tech Ethics at Dalhousie University, and two anonymous reviewers.
Competing interests: Matthew Herder has received reimbursement from Health Canada for travel expenses to attend consultations.
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