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Q: firebase -> date order reverse I am currently making an app using Firebase.
It is one of those bulletin boards that can be seen anywhere on the web.
But there was one problem.
This is a matter of date sorting.
I want to look at the recent date first, but I always see only the data I created first.
postRef.orderByChild('createData').startAt(reverseDate).limitToFirst(1).on('child_added',(data)=>{
    console.log(data.val().name + data.val().createData);
})

result - >hello1496941142093
My firebase tree
My code is the same as above.
How can I check my recent posts first?
How Do I order reverse of firebase database?

A: You can simply make a function to reverse the object and then traversing it.
function reverseObject(object) {
    var newObject = {};
    var keys = [];

    for (var key in object) {
        keys.push(key);
    }

    for (var i = keys.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
        var value = object[keys[i]];
        newObject[keys[i]]= value;
    }

    return newObject;
}

A: The Firebase Database will always return results in ascending order. There is no way to reverse them.
There are two common workaround for this:

*

*Let the database do the filtering, but then reverse the results client-side.

*Add an inverted value to the database, and use that for querying.

These options have been covered quite a few times before. So instead of repeating, I'll give a list of previous answers:

*

*Display posts in descending posted order

*Sort firebase data in descending order using negative timestamp

*firebase sort reverse order

*Is it possible to reverse a Firebase list?

*many more from this list: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:stackoverflow.com+firebase+reverse%20sort%20javascript

A: This is how I solved it:
First I made a query in my service where I filter by date in milliseconds:
 getImages (): Observable<Image[]> {
this.imageCollection = this.asf.collection<Image>('/images', ref => ref.orderBy('time').startAt(1528445969388).endAt(9999999999999));
this.images = this.imageCollection.snapshotChanges().pipe(
  map(actions => actions.map(a => {
    const data = a.payload.doc.data() as Image;
    const id = a.payload.doc.id;
    return { id, ...data };
  }))
);
return this.images;

}
Then to get the newest date first I added this to my component where I call the method from my service:
let date = new Date;
let time = 9999999999999 - date.getTime();
console.log(time);

I pass the time let as the date. Since a newer date will be a bigger number to deduct from the 9999999999999, the newest date will turn up first in my query inside my service.
Hope this solved it for you

A: If you want to display it in the front end, I suggest that after you retrieve the data, use the reverse() function of JavaScript.
Example:
let result = postRef
  .orderByChild("createData")
  .startAt(reverseDate)
  .limitToFirst(1)
  .on("child_added", data => {
    console.log(data.val().name + data.val().createData);
  });

result.reverse();

A: Ive ended changing how I create my list on the frontend part.
was
posts.add(post);

changed to
posts.insert(0, post);

A: You could use a method where you save the same or alternate child with a negative value and then parse it.
postRef.orderByChild('createData').orderByChild('createData').on('child_added',(data)=>{
console.log(data.val().name + data.val().createData);})

A: Far more easier is just use Swift's reversed():
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/array/1690025-reversed
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/reversedcollection
let decodedIds = try DTDecoder().decode([String].self, from: value)
// we reverse it, because we want most recent orders at the top
let reversedDecodedIds = decodedIds.reversed().map {$0}

A: orderBy("timestamp", "desc")

I think you can give a second argument name "desc".
It worked for me


Are you gifted on the grill? Are you a first class flipper? Then we need your help!
This is one of our major fundraising events for the year, helping to offset the cost of training court hire as well as many other club expenses. It's also a great opportunity to meet other Beavers members and players from other teams!
Even if you can only help out for an hour or two, email secretary@beaversbasketball.com.au and show your support for Team Red!


The goal of our project is to research and explore the November-December 2016 case in Accomack County, Virginia where the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, was challenged and removed from Nandua High School's curriculum and library, and then was put back onto the shelves after a committee made a decision about the complaint. The targeted audience is anyone interested in censorship of children's and young adult literature, other students from our COPLAC: A Burning Idea Course, our professors, and the community of Accomack County. As well as looking into this particular case, we are going to be exploring the history of the novel, the author, and reasons as to why the novel has been banned, such as it "making people uncomfortable" or is considered "immoral".
The basic structure of our site is going to include pages on the case in Accomack County, Harper Lee's Biography, History of Challenges to the novel (mainly Hanover County in 1969), and a Timeline pulling all our information together. On our landing page, we want to explain our project and have a timeline set up with important dates so users can look through the project as a whole. Our intention is to set it up so that users can click on important dates which takes them to the page with more corresponding information on it (ie. If they choose a link on the timeline about Harper Lee's biography they will be taken to that page on the site). There will also be the options to go through the pages from a top menu bar and a search function, giving users multiple ways to access the information. On each page, we want to make subpages for each piece of that include things like specific information the original complaint, the protest, the community, the biography of the author, the historical context of the novel, and the outcome of challenge. As the site begins to come together over the next few weeks there is sure to be some changes in the structure, but all of these topics should be covered.
Because our case is fairly recent (and more cases keep popping up in the news, even in the last couple weeks) there will be people who might want to know the history of the challenges as a whole or people who want to look at out specific case. Our focus is going to be making it accessible in multiple ways for our users and tying multiple cases that are related to ours.
We are using the Sparkling Theme for our WordPress site because it is has more navigation options available for us to use than the theme we were originally going to use, the Landscape Theme. There are going to be at least three main pages on the header with three subpages and a sidebar with links to all of them. Our three main pages include Harper Lee, where we will have a biography of her life and the events that led up to her writing the novel; Historical Context, where the events that were going on when the book took place are going to be discussed; Accomack County, which will have all of the subpages. The subpages will include information regarding the complaint, the protest, the outcome, author's biography, and criticism. Each of these subpages are going to have each facet of the case front and center so that the case is easy for readers to understand. We are going to include the interviews that we get on the subpage that the person is most connected to. Our goal is to have multiple ways of accessing all the information compiled on our site. We are going to use Timeline JS to show how the proceedings of the Accomack County case and will also use StoryMaps in order to showcase all of the places where To Kill A Mockingbird has been challenged recently. We also are going to include audio recordings of the School Board Meeting where the parent complained and of the interviews we end up facilitating. WordPress offers a huge variety of plug-ins that we might decide are useful as we continue to build the site.
Timeline JS- We are using the timeline feature to create a timeline with all the steps that took place in the Accomack County case starting from the initial complaint to the most recent revision of the challenging process.
StoryMaps- We are using StoryMaps to showcase all of the places in the last five years that has challenged and/or banned To Kill A Mockingbird.
Editing Software- for audio editing we can use Audacity and if we need to video edit we can use iMovie. We want to at least include audio files as part of project.
Images- We are using creative commons to find some images and maybe Canva to make designs for our website. We are also looking at images from archives and digital libraries that are available for educational use.
Milestones: These are the bigger milestones we have and as the semester progresses little things will be added to the schedule.
February 23: Reached out to people involved in the protest and librarian, Mrs. Mitchell, and Nandua High School.
March 2: Have research on Harper Lee and a draft page up and running. We want to have a typed-up draft post to include on the page with information on the author, the novel, and the historical context.
March 16: Have the Historical Context and Initial complaint page up and Harper Lee Page finalized, design and post and the Landing Page.
March 23: Have the timeline complete and the protest page up.
March 30: Accomack page up and the map complete. Look into the history of the town and what the racial/political background.
April 6: The Final Outcome page up.


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Q: how to generate random integer in a range If I am given an uniform random integer generator function between range [0, 4] (inclusive), how to design another uniform random integer generation function between range [0, 6] (also inclusive)?
Any thoughts on the way that the problem should be addressed? I am stuck and don't know how to approach the problem.
maybe using the generator function twice, and set some condition to whether return result directly or continue to call the generator function another time?

A: If you wish to be efficient, you don't want to waste any calls to your URN (uniform random number generator).  There's a standard way to do this, assuming you need the capability of generating long sequences of independent random numbers, rather than just a single random number.
Rather than discussing this abstractly, let's consider a running example in which a uniform random number generator $U(2)$ with $n=2$ possible values $\{0,1\}$ is used to generate $m=3$ uniformly random numbers in $\{0,1,2\},$ a random variable I will call $U(3).$
Noticing that a sequence $u_0, u_1$ of two independent values from $U(2)$ has four possible equiprobable outcomes, we may apply rejection sampling.  Specifically, consider this sequence $(u_0, u_1)$ as the binary string $u_1u_0,$ which can represent the natural numbers $0=00_2,$ $1=01_2,$ $2=10_2,$ and $3=11_2.$  Let's call this representation $X(\mathbf u) = X(u_0,u_1).$ Convert it to a ternary representation $v_1v_0$ where the $v_i$ are among the digits $\{0,1,2\}.$  The conversion goes like this:
$$\eqalign{
(u_0,u_1)& =(0,0) \to 00_2 = 0 \to 00_3 \to (0,0)=(v_0,v_1)\\
(u_0,u_1)& =(1,0) \to 01_2 = 1 \to 01_3 \to (1,0)=(v_0,v_1)\\
(u_0,u_1)& =(0,1) \to 10_2 = 2 \to 02_3 \to (2,0)=(v_0,v_1)\\
(u_0,u_1)& =(1,1) \to 11_2 = 3 \to 10_3 \to (0,1)=(v_0,v_1)
}$$
Because the four outcomes are equiprobable, $v_0$ has equal chances of being $0,1,$ or $2$ conditional on $X(u_0,u_1) \lt 3.$  In the fourth case (on the last line) we will reject the value and just try again, recursively, until finally $X(u_0,u_1)\lt 3.$  This is sure to happen eventually, because the chance that all results are rejected after $n$ trials is just $1/4^n,$ which rapidly approaches zero.  Indeed, the expected number of trials is $1 + 1/4 + 1/4^2 + \cdots = 1/(1-1/4) = 4/3.$
We can do better by generating more than one random number at a time.  For instance, consider drawing five independent values from $U(2).$  There are $2^5=32$ possibilities, all represented by five-digit binary strings.  $3^3=27$ of the values of those strings are in the range (from $0$ through $26$) of the numbers that are represented by three-digit ternary strings.  Thus, at an average cost of $32/27$ trials, we can generate $(u_0,u_1,u_2,u_3,u_4),$ convert the number $(u_4u_3u_2u_1u_0)_2$ to a ternary representation of at most four digits $(v_3v_2v_1v_0)_3,$ and return a sequence $(v_0,v_1,v_2)$ of three independent realizations of $U(3).$
Let's compare the two approaches.

*

*In the first algorithm, each trial requires two realizations of a $U(2)$ and the expected number of trials to obtain a single realization of a $U(3)$ is $4/3.$  Thus, the expected number of realizations of a $U(2)$ in order to generate a single $U(3)$ is $2\times 4/3 = 8/3 \approx 2.67.$

*In the second algorithm, each trial requires five realizations of a $U(2)$ and the expected number of trials to obtain three realizations of a $U(3)$ is $2^5/3^3=32/27.$  Thus, the expected number of realizations of a $U(2)$ for each realization of a $U(3)$ that will be output is $32/27 \times 5 / 3= 160/81 \approx 1.98.$
The second therefore is $(2.67 - 1.98)/1.98 = 35\%$ more efficient than the first in terms of calls to a random number generator.  (In terms of arithmetic it is less efficient due to the work required to convert from binary to ternary.)
How low can we go?  That is, can we achieve near-infinite efficiency?  If you don't care about the computational work, consider what happens as you continue to increase the number of realizations of a $U(2)$ from $2$ to $5$ to some large number $k.$  Evidently the number of ternary digits you can generate in any iteration of the rejection sampling procedure is the largest integer $d$ for which $3^d \le 2^k.$  (Equality cannot hold, because $3$ and $2$ have different prime factors.)  A formula for $d$ uses the floor function $\lfloor \cdot \rfloor:$
$$d = \lfloor \frac{\log 2^k}{\log 3}\rfloor = \lfloor k \log_3 2 \rfloor.$$
As before,

*

*each trial requires $k$ realizations of a $U(2)$ and the expected number of trials to obtain three realizations of a $U(3)$ is $2^k/3^d.$  Thus, the expected number of realizations of a $U(2)$ for each realization of a $U(3)$ that will be output is $2^k/3^d \times k / d.$
We can bound this expectation from the fact that $d \le k \log_3 2.$  Therefore
$$\frac{k 2^k}{d 3^d} \ge \frac{k 2^k}{(k \log_3 2) 3^{k \log_3 2}} = \log_2 3.$$
This shows we can never do better (on average) than using $\log_2 3 \approx 1.585$ calls of a $U(2)$ to generate a $U(3);$ and our ability to reach this lower bound depends on finding powers $k$ and $d$ for which $3^d$ is less than $2^k$ but very close to it.  The theory of continued fractions shows that such pairs exist and one can always find a pair to achieve an expectation as close as desired to $\log_n m$.  The only circumstance in which this expectation can actually equal the lower bound is when $n$ and $m$ are powers of a common base.
It should be evident this entire analysis goes through with any pair of natural numbers $n\gt 1$ and $m\gt 1$ instead of $2$ and $3.$  In the example of the question, $n=5$ and $m=7$.  One efficient choice is to generate $k=133$ values from a $U(5)$ and combine them into $d=110$ values.  This is only $0.516\%$ worse than the theoretical lower bound.
Finally, we never assumed $m \gt n.$  For instance, $k=2$ draws from a $U(3)$ will generate $d=3$ realizations of a $U(2)$ at an average cost of $9/8$ trials.  That is, each draw from a $U(2)$ requires $3/4$ of a $U(3)$ (on average) in this case.  The lower bound is $\log_3 2\approx 0.631.$

To demonstrate, here is a Mathematica implementation in the form of a generate function.  Its arguments are the number of values to return, count, and the values of $n$, $m,$ and $k.$  It computes $d$ and repeatedly generates sequences of $d$ uniform integers from $0$ to $m-1$ until at least count have been created, then returns the first count of them.
generate[count_, n_, m_, k_] := Module[{x, d = Floor[k Log[m, n]]},
  Flatten[
    Table[IntegerDigits[x = m^d;
      While[x >= m^d, x = FromDigits[RandomInteger[n - 1, k], n]];
      x, m, d], {i, 1, Ceiling[count/d]}]][[1 ;; count]]]

It can generate millions of such variates per second, as in
x = generate[7*10^5, 5, 7, 133];

This example is expected to produce $10^5$ values of each integer $0,1,\ldots, 6,$ up to sampling variation.  Here are the counts:
Tally[x]

{{3, 100237}, {5, 100079}, {1, 99949}, {2, 100259}, {4, 100187}, {0, 99839}, {6, 99450}}

They don't differ significantly from what one might expect $(\chi^2(6)=4.955,\, p=0.55)$.

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Wonderful shot, love the scale...if we have to choose which would it be the power poles and lines or the wind turbine?
i like this one a lot. the scale difference betweof the house and wind turbine is awesome!
Nice juxtaposition of the old and new and I like the way the blades are fading into the fog.
Funny to see a rural scenic shot like that, with the wind turbine in it. And, of course, love the cloudiness. Fascinating shot!
Great shot! Got a bit of old and new in this.


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Панайотис Анагностопулос (; около 1790, Андрицена — 1854, Афины) — греческий политик, участник Греческой войны за независимость, член тайной организации Филики Этерия.

Биография
Родился в бедной семье. В 1808 году эмигрировал с семьей в Смирну (ныне Измир, Турция), учился в школе в Стамбуле. Затем переехал в Российскую империю и поселился в Одессе, где работал в магазине тканей богатого грека из Константинополя. В Одессе встретил Николаоса Скуфаса, под влиянием которого стал членом Филики Этерия, занялся подготовкой всегреческого восстания против Османской империи. Познакомился с Атанасиосом Цакалофом и Эммануилом Ксантосом, основателями Филики Этерия.

Будучи членом тайной организации Филики Этерия занимался пропагандой идей революции, набором новых членов. Активно действовал в Одессе, Валахии и Италии, где контактировал с кружком революционеров Пизы.

Вскоре стал одним из лидеров подготовки революции. Добился от сторонников движения значительного финансирования деятельности по обеспечению борьбы за независимость Греции.

После начала Греческой войны за независимость Анагностопулос встал на сторону Александра Ипсиланти, которого в апреле 1821 г. сопровождал на Пелопоннес.

Участвовал в сражениях в придунайских провинциях в отрядах Димитрия Ипсиланти. Затем принимал участие в осаде Триполиццы и других сражениях под командованием Теодороса Колокотрониса.

Стал видной политической фигурой.

Позже был избран в национальное собрание Астроса. В Национальной ассамблее Греции отказался подписать законопроект о защите Великобритании. Был одним из авторов обращения к России и Иоаннису Каподистрия.

В 1828 году Анагностопулос был назначен временным комиссаром-губернатором (префектом нома Элида), позже занимал другие государственные и политические должности, служил губернатором Эвбии и префектом Ахайя и Илидос.

Умер в 1854 году в Афинах от холеры, занесенной в Грецию англо-французской армией, оккупировавшей Пирей во время Крымской войны.

Литература
 Phótios Chrysanthópoulos, Βίοι Πελοποννησίων ανδρών και των εξώθεν εις την Πελοπόννησον ελθόντων κληρικών, στρατιωτικών και πολιτικών των αγωνισαμένων τον αγώνα της επαναστάσεως, Athènes, Stávros Andrópoulos, 1888, 335 p.
 Μητρώο Πληρεξουσίων, Γερουσαστών και Βουλευτών. 1822—1935, Athènes, Parlement grec, 1986, 159 p. [PDF]

Революционеры Греции
Участники Греческой революции
Политики Греции
Депутаты Греции
Умершие от холеры

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Pre-Order "Bread and Circuses" CD EP / Buy MP3s!
The long wait is over. After more than two years, The Camerawalls now offers another proper release, this time via an EP entitled "Bread And Circuses". Far from being an offshoot of their previous album, the new record will take you to a more intimate and adventurous sound arena.
We are now accepting pre-orders especially for those who won't be able to make it to the launch party on December 11 at Ayala Museum. Pre-order between November 28 and December 12 and get a free button pin and sticker plus an option to receive a signed copy of the new EP (upon request). We will mail your order on December 13, and while you wait, you will receive thru e-mail an advanced MP3 of the single "Bread and Circuses".
If patience isn't one of your strong qualities, then you can choose buy now a high quality MP3 (192kbps) format of the songs directly from Lilystars Records. Listen to the preview of the tracks below.
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The Apollo Legacy
2009-07-20T12:30:23-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/ee5/287838-m.jpgTo commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing and first moon walk, the Newseum hosted a panel discussion on the legacy and future of space exploration. Following their discussion, the panelists responded to questions from audience members. Nick Clooney moderated.
The program began with a short film of clips from the Apollo 11 flight.
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing and first moon walk, the Newseum hosted a panel discussion on the legacy and… read more
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing and first moon walk, the Newseum hosted a panel discussion on the legacy and future of space exploration. Following their discussion, the panelists responded to questions from audience members. Nick Clooney moderated.
The program began with a short film of clips from the Apollo 11 flight. close
Transcript type Federal News Service Transcript Closed Captioning Record People Graphical Timeline
Filter by Speaker All Speakers Buzz Aldrin Nick Clooney Charles "Charlie" M. Duke Jr. John M. Grunsfeld Laurie Leshin Kenneth A. Paulson
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Ikea Bathroom Decorating Ideas article.
Needless to say, this is, obviously, as well as the true countertop which you would be installing! When the bathroom plumbing is completed, it's the right time to repaint the entire space. Many renovations can be carried out yourself, but plumbing is a primary part of bathroom and ought to be accomplished by a specialist.
Tags for this short article are Ikea Bathroom Decorating Ideas, bathroom, art, crazy Ikea Bathroom Decorating Ideas.


Earlier opening hours (6:00am) for those who want to rent a video on their way to work.
I don't know who would buy a big screen teleivison at a Blockbuster, but on Monday, the store sold its first big-screen HDTV, a 40-inch Sony Bravia for $1,597.99. It seems to me that Blockbuster understands they probably only have five to ten more years before everyone is renting movies digitally. Just recently the company proposed a bid to buy Circuit City. Looks like someone is scared about the future.
Discuss: Would you buy an HD television, digital video camera or Cappuccino from your local Blockbuster Video?


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New Caprock boys basketball coach Michael Jackson brings fresh outlook, winning mentality
by: Roushell Hamilton, Jr.
AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — Caprock boys basketball head coach Michael Jackson is bringing a fresh outlook and winning mentality to the longhorns basketball program.
"I think it's going to turn out to be a memorable year," said Jackson. "I've got a pretty good group of young men that work hard. I think it's a special group that I have."
The Longhorns have got off to a bit of a slow start in Jackson's first season with the squad, with a 3-5 record currently, but Jackson says he's not worried about that. Hard lessons now, lead to improvement down the road.
"Those growing pains enable us to get better in the future, so we're looking forward to it," he said. "A lot of film study over the last couple of days. I think my guys know the direction we want to go."
Playing through adversity and learning from it are nothing new for Jackson, who comes to the Longhorns after a career that includes a four year stint at Boys Ranch, a seven year tenure at Highland Park with two playoff runs and two play-in scenarios, as well as over 10 years coaching on Jeff Evans staff at Palo Duro.
"I've learned that on my own, you can't take things for granted," he said. "You really gotta go out there and really coach. I'm really enjoying this opportunity. It's a career long goal to be here in this situation. I'm really enjoying this opportunity."
Players are enjoying the opportunity as well.
"He makes us go hard everyday to make us better players and helps us turn weakness into strengths," said Senior Point Guard Niyo Patience.
"Our goal is to make the playoffs and win a gold ball," added Senior Shooting Guard Niyo Edimo.
A new coach on campus hasn't changed the goals for this squad one bit.
"Take them as far as we can go, to beat some people we shouldn't, and win the games we're supposed to win," Jackson said.


And 2018 is set to be among the warmest years on record.
Overall 2017 will be the warmest non-El Niño year on record globally. Over the past 12 months we have seen plenty of extreme weather here in Australia and around the world.
Here I will round up some of this year's wild weather, and look forward to 2018 to see what is around the corner.
It feels as if Australia has had all manner of extreme weather events in 2017.We had severe heat at both the start and end of the year. Casting our minds back to last summer, both Sydney and Brisbane experienced their hottest summers on record, while parts of inland New South Wales and Queensland endured extended periods of very high temperatures.
More recently, Australia had an unusually dry June and its warmest winter daytime temperatures on record. The record winter warmth was made substantially more likely by human-caused climate change.
The end of the year brought more than its fair share of extreme weather, especially in the southeast. Tasmania had by far its warmest November on record, beating the previous statewide record by more than half a degree. Melbourne had a topsy-turvy November with temperatures not hitting the 20 degrees Celsius mark until the 9th, but a record 12 days above 30 degrees Celsius after that.
The Atlantic Ocean had a particularly active hurricane season, with several intense systems. Harvey struck Texas and its slow trajectory resulted in record-breaking rainfall over Houston and neighbouring areas.
Around the same time, the Indian subcontinent experienced a particularly wet monsoon season. Flooding in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal killed more than 1,000 people and affected tens of millions more.
The La Niña is also likely to mean that 2018 will not be a record hot year for the globe. But it is a safe bet that despite the La Niña, 2018 will still end up among the warmest years on record, alongside every other year this century. Rising global average temperatures, along with our understanding of the effect of greenhouse gas emissions, are one of our clearest lines of evidence for human-caused climate change.
So it is hard to say much about what extreme weather we will experience in 2018, other than to say that there is likely to be plenty more weather news to wrap up in a year's time.
Andrew King is Climate Extremes Research Fellow, University of Melbourne.


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Black Watch was for her time one of the most modern ship in her class. Built for Fred Olsen Lines in 1939 she was meant to serve the passenger routec between Kristiansand, Newcastle and Oslo. Right after the German occupation of Norway she was requisitioned by Kriegsmarine. She sailed with a Norwegian crew until 1943, when the Germans put in their own crew. From 1943 she was given the role as headquarter for General Der Infanterie E.Dietl, but she was later used as a depot ship for German uboat crews. 4.May 1945 Black Watch is laid at anchor in Kilbotn together with the German submarine U 711 when they suddenly are attacked by British Avenger and Wildcat planes in the afternoon. With bombs and machine cannons the planes attacks Black Watch and U 711 and inflicts heavy damage on both of them. The pilots note down seven hits before she suddenly explodes and breaks in two parts. The wreck rest today in Kilbotn bay outside Harstad on a depth of 15 to 50 meter. The Norwegian salvage company Høvding raised the stern after the war.
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Time for packing away holiday decorations and tossing out or donating other things we really don't need. Our interior life needs to be decluttered, too, since we all struggle with "inordinate attachment" to things, outcomes, and even our relationships. Too often, these can take up our time and attention and block us from deeper intimacy with God.
I tackle this topic in my new book, A Catholic Woman's Guide to Happiness (TAN Books 2018) and use this childhood story to introduce the concept. Enjoy!
Dear God, I really wanted that doll.
I was in second grade and for two weeks the most exquisite nun doll I'd ever seen had been on display in a glass case in the school's principal's office. The Sisters of Loretto had replicated a full black-and-white habit from top-to-bottom, including perfectly-scaled shoes and delicate white undergarments. At twelve inches tall, she was perfect.
In May every year we had "Field Day", a full play-day with no school activities and only fun and games and a grand prize raffle at the end of the day; this year it was the doll. The teachers instructed us that everything that day—hot-dogs, drinks, candy, game booth activities, and the raffle—required that we purchase tickets. No problem, I knew Mom would give me money.
The night before the big event, I attempted something I had never thought possible: I decided to say an entire rosary. Five whole decades! I had never prayed this on my own; in class we would often recite just a decade at a time. But I wanted this prayer to be big. After all, my teacher had told us that the Blessed Mother would go to her Son on our behalf and, through his merits and mercies, she could obtain whatever we desired if we prayed the rosary. Whatever we desired.
I'll never forget lying in my bed that night, faithfully and fervently struggling to stay awake and complete the prayers. When I woke, it was Field Day! Arriving at school, my first task was to go to the desk where the eighth-grade students were selling tickets.
"How much are the tickets, please?" I asked.
When I walked away, I was happy, utterly thrilled at the possibility of possessing the doll of my dreams. But as the day progressed, I started to become hot, thirsty, and hungry. I couldn't join my classmates in playing any games. I watched on the sidelines as my friends marched happily to music in a circle at the cake-walk. Others were fishing for prizes at carnival booths the dads had made. I wasn't happy.
To cheer myself up, I went to visit the doll again. My hopes quickly vanished when I saw the large raffle jar next to her was filled with what seemed like a million tickets. Mine were probably at the very bottom and my chances were slim-to-none at best. I suddenly felt foolish for having put all my money into the raffle. I knew I would not win. I'd given up food, drink, and fun for nothing, nothing, nothing! Self-pity followed me around the schoolyard the rest of the day as I suffered what I thought was authentic childhood martyrdom.
Finally, three o'clock came with the event's end and the big drawing. All the teachers and students crowded in front of the doll display and I was in the back trying unsuccessfully to peer over and through hundreds of older kids' heads. Forget it, I thought. This is a waste. I'm just going to make my way to the parking lot and look for Mom's car. Who cares, anyway.
What? I couldn't believe it!
Some people try to steal our happiness.
After school, while waiting for Mom to pick us up, I carefully laid my books and the doll down in the shade on the brick wall of the church and ran off to play with my friends. When I returned, the doll was gone. I panicked! Immediately I was filled with shame at having been careless and a "bad mom" for allowing my doll to be abducted. I burst into tears and Mom assured me we would get through this. Later, she told me that she'd called the school office and learned another little girl had taken the doll but, upon climbing into her mother's car, could not explain how she got it. So, the doll had been promptly returned to the office. Whew! I got her back the next morning and never let her out of my sight all day.
For many years I enjoyed my doll but when mothers of nine children decide there is too much stuff in the home, older toys and other items can get thrown away—often to the dismay of their young owners. It was sometime in early high school I realized my doll was gone.
"Oh, it was old, and I thought you'd outgrown it," was all my mother said. I was angry and sad but what could I do? My happiness came and went, came and went, and finally ended up in a trash heap outside town.
But wait . . . there's more: another surprise ending to the story, but you have to buy the book to find out. Get it here.


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Koreans and Japanese are clashing on the White House website over the name of the body of water separating the two countries. After the Korean community in the U.S. filed an online petition with the White House demanding the publishers of public school textbooks there refer to it not only as the "Sea of Japan" but also the "East Sea," Japanese Internet users began to fight back, claiming that "Sea of Japan" is the historical name.
As of Tuesday morning, 27,700 people had signed the petition submitted by the Korean community in Virginia. It urged 1,300 leaders of local Korean communities in America to take part in the petition. If more than 25,000 people sign the petition within 30 days, the White House reviews it and states its position or holds a hearing to determine the validity of the claim and hands the matter over to the relevant agency.
This prompted a Japanese resident in the state of Mississippi to post his own petition drive on the website saying "Sea of Japan" is the common name for the body of water and accusing Korea of seeking to rewrite history "blinded by its radical nationalism." So far, around 2,000 people have signed.
Last year, the U.S. said it will stick to the name "Sea of Japan" in accordance with its policy of using only one name for any body of water.


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Lighting Designs Of Richard Kelly In Show At Yale
If American architecture came into its own in the 20th century, it took lighting designers to put the works in the best light.
And it was Richard Kelly who helped create the role of a lighting designer, who heightened the experience of modern architecture when the sun came down. An established lighting designer before he came to Yale to study under Oscar Nitzchke, Maurice Rotival and Willaiam Wurster, Kelly learned a lot from lighting directors at the Yale School of Drama, particularly the inventive Stanley McCandless.
The creation of mood, enhancement of texture and building of a narrative in a structure earned Kelly plenty of work among the mid-century modernists, especially after he lit Philip Johnson's Rockefeller Guest House in 1949. There followed work with Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn in projects where his theories of pooling light and hidden sources of illumination ensured that the buldings made an impact.
Pictures, models and film of his work is on display in the handsome exhibit currently at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery, "The Structure of Light: Richard Kelly and the Illumination of Modern Architecture."
Kelly developed a terms for what he was after: "ambient luminescence," "focal glow" and the "play of brilliants." And while their drama seemed comparable to dramatic lighting, they were more than that, says Dietrich Neumann, the Brown Professor of the History of Modern Architecture who curates the show and wrote its brochure.
"His installations had to work in space, to be seen from all directions, not just for the limited view of a seated audience, with actors on stage suffering the glare of the floodlights."
A number of Kelly's showpieces are in Connecticut, chiefly Johnson's famed Glass House in New Canaan, whose lighting in and out maintains the continuity of indoors and outdoors that happens in daylight. Two other examples are in the next block at Yale, creating the triangular pools of lights in the recessed ceilings of Kahn's Yale Art Gallery.
His use of light and electricity, illuminating the lobby of the Seagram Building in New York, came at a time before people thought of conservation or cost of electricity. The Glass House may have cost $100 monthly to light on weekends; but that would be about $800 a month today. The bill for Kelly's own apartment, Neumann notes, was half that of the electricity consumed for his whole 42-unit apartment building.
It seems natural, then, that Kelly would turn to natural lighting later in his career, creating designs that harvested natural light at the Kimbell Art Museum in Forth Worth and the Yale Center for British Art.
The exhibit at Yale begins with a look at the rise of architectural illumination, largely in Europe, the achievements of the Yale School of Drama lighting department, as well as contemporary lighting in contemporary buildings, such as the glowing orb of the Allianz Arena in Munich.
"The Structure of Light," which marks the centenary of the birth of Kelly, who died in 1977, continues at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery through Oct. 2, with a symposium on the designer organized by Neumann, set for Oct. 1 and 2.
Also This Week
The William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut in Storrs will remain closed through the rest of the year for installation of new climate-control equipment in the original museum building. The reopening date is Jan. 18, 2011.
The improvements, interim director and curator Tom Bruhn says, "are critical to meeting museum standards and preserving the valuable works of art on exhibition and in storage" and "will make it possible for us to borrow objects and exhibitions from other institutions."
First up next spring will be an exhibit of 20th-century Russian posters on loan from Brown University.
Until then, the gallery is planning various events, from workshops to films to Thursday noon performances to campus walks noontime on Tuesdays. Wednesdays at noon, docents will expound on individual works from the collection.
And the fall members' reception has been moved to the New Britain Museum of American Art, where there will be a private viewing of its current exhibit, "M.C. Escher: Impossible Reality" Oct. 7. For details, go to http://www.thebenton.org or 860-486-4520.
Speaking of that exhibit, which runs through Nov. 14 at the New Britain museum, the film "The Fantastic World of M.C. Escher" will play there Wednesday at 1 p.m.
A new multi-artist show, "Figurative Distance," opens with a reception today from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism Gallery in Hartford. The eight Connecticut artists, who have received grants from the commission's artist fellowship program, used photography, painting, sculpture and video to convey "the illusion, reality or psychology of distance through the use of the human form." The show continues through Nov. 5. The gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays.
Meg Brown Payson of Maine is featured artist this month at the eo art lab in Chester. An opening reception is set from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday. The show continues through Sept. 26.
"Holy Saints and Timeless Mysteries: A Fresh Look at Some of Our Best Loved Traditions" opens today at the Clare Gallery at the Franciscan Center for Urban Ministry, 285 Church St., Hartford. It features the work of Brother Mickey O'Neill McGrath, Oblate of St. Francis de Sales. An artist lecture is set for the reception Oct. 2 from 9 a.m. to noon; the show continues through Oct. 28.
The opening reception is Tuesday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Joseloff Gallery at the University of Hartford for the Hartford Art School Faculty exhibition featuring more than three dozen artists. The opening will feature a salute to Zina Davis for 21 years of service to the art school. The exhibit continues through Oct. 10.
The opening reception for the West Hartford Art League faculty exhibition is tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Gallery at Blue Back Square, 69 Raymond Road. The show continues through Nov. 2.
Tonight is the open studio for the artists in residence at The Workshops @ Billings Forge, 539 Broad St., featuring the work of Jim Brunelle, Ted Efremoff, Nina Goodale & Dan Salazar, Deborah Goffe and Natasha D. Miles. The open studio from 6 to 9 p.m. coincides with the first open-microphone event at the Studio @ Billings Forge at 8:30 p.m.
A new show of oil and acrylic paintings by Bethel artist Ginger Hanrahan is on display thorugh Sept. 23 at the Wallace Barnes and Barbara Hackman Franklin Art Gallery at Tunxis Community College in Farmington.
An exhibit of Israel photos by Lena Stein, "Faces of a Nation," is on display in the Chase Family Gallery in the Jewish Community Center through Sept. 25. The work is on loan from the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford.
Send news of exhibits and openings to rcatlin@courant.com
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I've replaced the rear suspension mounts with roller bearings, but in the the process discovered that there was no way to remove the differential.
The rear chassis is different to the standard Haynes Roadster as it has much more triangulation. This makes the access to the differential very tight. It makes the removal very tricky; a bit like one of those puzzles you get at Christmas.
Once the differential was in place I added one bracket after another until suddenly I realised that there was no longer room to twist and rotate the differential out of its hole. It very nearly came out; in several directions; but every time it simply got wedged. All of the brackets I had tack welded in place had to be removed.
As you can see in the above shot, all but 3 of the Sierra differential mounts have been removed. I was never happy with the top rear mount (centre of above picture) as it was only possible to use fairly short bolts.
Step in the Caterham Differential Cover. The shot below shows the difference between the standard Sierra cover (bottom) and the Caterham item.
Caterham have produced their own cover without the long nose at the top and machined down a couple of the strengthening ribs. The top mount is incorporated into two of the large torx bolts that secure the cover. In my opinion this is a much stronger system. I much prefer this system to the other option: that of using a later model Ford Scorpio cover.
Without this long nose I probably could have removed the diff, but I had already beaten of the remaining mounts.
The new differential mounts are totally removable. In place, the flat brackets already hold the diff very solidly. The boomerang shaped bracket is probably just for show, but it does give good piece of mind. If in future I decide that too much differential noise is transferred into the chassis, the job of urethane insulating it, would become much easier too.
Whilst the differential and all of its associated bracketry was out of the way, I remade all of the suspension mounting points to incorporate roller bearings.
– A very time consuming job.
This was the 4th time I had made these brackets in one form or another. The first time there was 0% anti-squat, the second 95%, the third with 20% and now finally, I have 20% and roller bearings. Luckily, this time I still had the alignment jig left over from the last incarnation.
The rear suspension now moves up and down with no detectable resistance. Whereas before, the urethanes had sufficient grip to slow the hubs, complete with disks and callipers from descending in under a minute. This new lack of friction has not been at the cost of vibration and noise absorption. As a quick test, I gave the hub a thump with a lump hammer. If I had simply used rose joints all around, I would have expected the chassis to ring like a bell. Apart from the metal on metal 'clank', the noise was quite dull and clearly deadened in comparison to when I clouted the chassis. The urethanes were doing a great job.
For Christmas, I got a set of 4 AVO coil-overs. I'm going to use these instead of the huge DRZ400 motorbike units. With these gone, I'll need to make up some new shock mounts and rocker arms. Once these are complete, I'll be able to make the rear suspension push rods and finish off the rear hubs. – That's after I've finished mounting the steering rack.


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James Gandolfini takes the lead in 'Joey One Way'
James Gandolfini takes the lead in Joey One Way
Evan Jacobs
— February 1st, 2005
According to Production Weekly, Sopranos mob boss James Gandolfini will play the lead in Joey One Way based on Joel Rose's crime novel "Kill Kill Faster Faster". Gareth Roberts will direct the film that's scheduled to begin shooting in Dublin, Ireland for six weeks in late spring. Robert Carlyle(The Full Monty) and Rosario Dawson(Alexander) are in negotiations to join the cast.
The story is about a man who after spending more then seventeen years behind bars, Joey One-Way (Gandolfini) believed that there was only one way he was getting out of prison, and that was in a box. But that's not exactly what happens. While serving time, Joey writes a jailhouse drama that became a Broadway hit. Now, big-time producer Markie Mann puts his reputation on the line to spring and back Joey, counting on him to turn his scripts into Hollywood hits.
Joey wants nothing more then to do right by Markie. So things become a bit tight when he falls hard for Markie's young wife, Fleur.
Longtime Movieweb contributor that was uploading 1-minute movie reviews to the world wide web via AOL before Youtube or social media existed. I make tons of straight-to-video movies you can find at Amazon & Vimeo. DVDs are back and I like it!


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Boy, it's been a bit too long since we looked at a Volkswagen Van. In fact it's been over a year since I last looked at a Vanagon. For shame! Because while I often lament the lack of good 1980s Volkswagens to consider for these pages, there are predictably two models you can find at any time. One is the Cabriolet.
Okay, admit it. While you tell your Corvette-owning friends that the Cabriolet was a travesty you'd never be seen in, they're actually kind of neat and certainly have their place. After all, what other cheap manual German convertible can you buy….a Boxster?
This 1987 BMW 535is is definitely on the driver-quality side rather than a show piece; but all the important bones are there and the rust-free claim is worth its weight in 1980s Bavarian metal, anyway. Overall, though there are some obvious needs, for a 200,000 mile car it looks reasonably tidy and so far bidding is only at $2,500.
In an era of Volkswagen production that saw a sharp upswing in quality and performance, who would have guessed that the second most desirable model in the used market (outside of the R, obviously) is a Jetta Wagon with the diesel motor? Unlike its bigger brother Passat TDi Variant, the Jetta could be had with a 5-speed manual and they've developed a cult following. This one ticks the right boxes with lower miles, what appears to be good condition and the ALH/5-speed manual combination in a wagon, so bids are nearly at $7,000 with a few hours to go on the no reserve auction.
After yesterday's polarizing M3 Lightweight, we're back to normal series production (and lower prices) with this still desirable M3 Sedan. In -3/4/5 configuration, these have quickly become the preferred weapon of choice for the practical E36 lover. In Artic Silver with Dove interior, this one isn't stock, but with under 100,000 miles and in good condition, it looks like a solid investment at under $9,000 at time of writing.
An interesting, and more potent, counterpoint to the M3/4/5 is the Audi S4. With two turbos and two more wheels driven, the driving dynamics might not be quite as sublime in the B5, but they're still nice places to be in on a drive and pretty shocking with the amount of performance that can be massaged out of the V6. With Alcantara sport seats and a 6-speed manual in mostly original configuration and under 110,000 miles, this one looks like a good sleeper in nice shape. But without the ///Markup, the current bid is only an outlandishly low $2,100.
Like the earlier Samba, utter the words "Transporter", "Doka", and "Syncro" in a sentence and you get VW fanboys all wobbly in the knees. But unlike most auctions which have accompanying astronomical asking prices, the seller of this 1990 is taking a risk by offering it at no reserve. Condition is great and the options tick the right boxes, but unlike the S4 this auction isn't likely to be overlooked. Bidding, with four days left, is already over $12,000; still, less than a third of the ask on a similar example I recently saw.
An interesting counter-point to Andrew's 1993 Mercedes-Benz 600SL, the more affordable and easier to live with 500SL variant of the R129 is no stranger to the used market. This one has not many more miles and the condition looks good with a clean history, plus it has some great looking AMG wheels. Truth told, I like the pre-refresh, more angular look of the early R129s, but this one is tidy and currently yours for only a bit over $7,000.
I'd imagine all Westy buyers imagine themselves picking up and traveling the world in their van, adventuring and accruing a healthy stash of stories. Most probably end up lucky to get the occasional overnight, lugging the pop top to sailing practice. The previous owners of this van have lived the dream, the first taking the van from Florida to Britain to New Zealand as he moved. The sellers then shipped it to Chile, where they drove it up the Pan American Highway to the northeastern US, where it currently resides. The seller is hoping for $12k but hasn't seen any bids at the opening $8k. Perhaps it's the conflicting info in the description versus the data frame; the difference between 100,000 miles and 1,000,000 seems worth clearing up.
A lot of the imported Volkswagen T3s are megamachines, like Syncro DoKas, Syncro Westies, and Tristars. This sweet little red van looks pretty basic without the pop-top, but actually brings a lot to the table with specs not available here in North America. It's not quite a tin-top thanks to the power ragtop sunroof, and it's not just a people-mover thanks to the full complement of Westfalia interior items like the sink, fridge, stove, and storage cupboards. It looks pretty stock other than a "sport suspension" and 16″ 5-spokes that help it do its best impression of a '70s American cab-forward van. It looks great, is fully road trippable, and only has 23k miles on it; someone is going to be a happy camper at the end of this no-reserve auction.
As Syncro Westies become the Holy Grail of campervans, a lot of the ones for sale are all kinds of crazy. Crazy colors, crazy upgrades, and crazy values have characterized the auctions, but today we have a 4WD pop-top Vanagon that flies under the radar in all the right ways. It's in great condition inside and out, including a repaint last year, but the color brown over tan with black steelies keeps its true value hidden from all except those who can pick out the subtle "4WD" emblems on the front doors. It's had a recent full tuneup, GoWesty exhaust, cat, and bumpers installed, and all new rubber seals and pop-top canvas. BFGoodrich All-Terrains complete the subtle but eminently capable package. The unknown mileage will raise some questions, but if you know what brown can do for you this no-reserve auction is a great chance at a Syncro Westy that doesn't break the bank.
This drop-dead gorgeous Westy looks like a brand-new late-model example but is really a completely restored and OEM+ upgraded 1982 model completed just last year. Reading through the long description inspires empathy for the restorer as you hear about taking everything all the way down – interior, exterior, pop-top, running gear, camping equipment – and building it back up with new or redone parts beyond factory spec. The new bumpers, mirrors, and later sunroof pop-top were all done in the same factory Pastel White to perfection. As it only has 53k total miles on it, the interior fabric was all perfect, but they decided to go in and redo the foam and bolsters. Dynamat was installed throughout the van, ensuring a quiet and solid ride. You'll be able to hustle up big hills thanks to a rebuilt AAZ 1.9 liter turbodiesel, manage corners on new shocks, and bring it all to a halt with new brakes. As you'd imagine, this is no bargain Westy, but it's damn near the nicest you'll find.
This Vanagon does my favorite kind of bait-and-switch. At first glance, the unwavering white paint/black trim looks at best plain. White wall tires on steel wheels exaggerate its age, giving the overall impression of yet another old beater camper van. This impression matched with the $26,750 asking price furrowed my brow immediately, but elicited a rewarding closer look. Checking out the details on this High Top, you see that the plain white paint is actually a recent and well-done respray. Inside, we find a nearly perfect interior with a new wood-laminate floor to match the cabinets. All camping items work including the propane stove and heater, water pump with filter, refrigerator, and external ports. It has 184k miles but still returns 20+ mpg and appears to have received the maintenance and care to keep it going for another couple hundred thousand. The 6'7″ standing height means even my 6'5″ brother could be comfortable, though the fold out bed might not either of us very well. It's an under-the-radar Adventurewagen that is perfectly eccentric as is.
Here's a nice Weekender for your weekend with just 71.5k miles and a lot of potential. Actually, to be pedantic, the Weekender option was just a third-row bed on tin tops, but it's come to be a colloquial name for any Vanagon with a folding bed but no kitchen. So, technically, the Multivan is a tidy little package that offers the comfort and sleepability of the full Vanagon camper without the stove, fridge, or sink. With a camp stove and some Platypus bags, however, you could whip up a fresh batch of great time camping with some friends in this thing. Bidding has been extremely hot for this kitchenless Westy despite some paint and minor electrical defects.


Zara has just gotten her first job as a pharmacist. Earning at a salary of RM2800, she wants death and permanent disability benefit at 50 times her salary.
Sook Jinn works at a food packing factory earning RM2800. She's got to pay a higher premium for the same coverage because of her profession.
Being a regional manager at a well-known company, Suhaib is raking in RM25,000 a month. He wants to get himself complete coverage and the max sum assured.


The purpose of: to give the ego more control over the repressed id (it) impulses. "Where there is id, there shall ego be." Freud believed ultimately one day the unconscious would become known, this is in direct contrast to Jung who believed we would never know much of it and that it would stay ineffable and numinous for us.
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Price Hike: Chipotle Announces It WIll Raise Prices Later This Year
What does this mean for you and your monthly burrito fund?
Chipotle will raise prices later this year to offset the high cost of its ingredients, which eat up about a third of its sales, reports WSJ. This is the first time the burrito chain has raised its prices in three years.
ABC News reports, "Menu boards with the new prices should start rolling out in coming weeks and be in place at all restaurants by this summer."
Why would Chipotle do this to us? Cheaper competitors are encroaching on the 20-year-old burrito chain, and Chipotle is "struggling with the rising cost of fresh ingredients, which are a source of pride for the company," according to WSJ.
The average meal at Chipotle is about $9, and Taco Bell (a major competitor) has moved in on Chipotle's territory with a line of similar burritos and burrito bowls at a third of the price. According to ABC News, executives have said in the past that they were considering a hike of about 3 percent to 5 percent. That translates to an extra 24 cents to 50 cents for an $8 burrito bowl.
On Thursday, Chipotle CFO Jack Hartung told investors that the company "won't rush" into passing along its cost increases to customers, but didn't offer specifics. Although, earlier this week, the company said "faster-than-expected food inflation is likely to dent its profits in the fourth quarter," according to WSJ. We'd be sweating if we were Chipotle.
ABC News reports that Steve Ells, Chipotle's co-CEO, said that price is not the main reason customers visit its restaurants anyway.
"Most of the value comes from the experience," he said. We sure hope (for Chipotle's sake) that he's right.
How do customers feel about the price hike? We've featured some early Twitter responses to the news below.
Chipotle announcing they're going to raise prices. I imagine the feelings I have are similar to when the Stock Market crashed in 1929
— Arick Wade (@Arick_With_An_A) April 17, 2014
If you're upset by the Chipotle price increase, just go to Taco Bell. Same thing.
— Steve Kovach (@stevekovach) April 17, 2014
#Chipotle to start raising prices later this quarter beginning with roll out of ChipotleCloud where users pay $50/month to rent a burrito.
— Pafford (@pafford) April 17, 2014
[via WSJ]
Chipotle,


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Q: IIS 7 - Get id site variable batch script I am deploying a website using TFS i have a batch script that encrypts web.config file at the moment i have the id of the site hardcoded in.
QUESTION: How could i get the Website ID of the website that is being deployed and put it into the script #
I tried to pass in the application name but The encryption doesn't work. It needs the site id.
Also i can see the Site ID by calling the command
appcmd.exe list site SomeSite

%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -pe "connectionStrings" -app "/" -site "2"

A: for anyone intrested i have solved it like this, I used applicationHost.Config file to search for the site name and assign the id that the site uses.
FOR /f "usebackqtokens=1-5delims=<=> " %%a IN ("%WinDir%\System32\Inetsrv\Config\applicationHost.Config") DO (
if "%%a"=="site" if "%%b"=="name" if "%%~c"=="SiteName" set siteid=%%~e
)
echo Website ID = %siteid%
pause
CALL %SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -pe "connectionStrings" -app "/" -site %siteid%
if %errorlevel% neq 0 exit /b %errorlevel%
pause


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Paul Vallely: the tech companies are watching you
by Paul Vallely
Surveillance capitalism is the new norm, says Paul Vallely
IT WAS, Andrew Marr said on Radio 4's Start the Week, the most important book that they had featured this year. Since he was speaking on what is essentially a book-plugging programme — though often an intensely interesting one — that was an arresting claim. The book had been compared to Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and the writings of Karl Marx. It was hard to ignore the invitation to listen.
The book is The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by the Harvard Professor Shoshana Zuboff. It analyses the latest stage in the development of the capitalist system, which, to Smith, was about free trade and the benign collective effect of individuals' self-interested choices — and, to Marx, a system of industrial exploitation. The latter predicted that capitalism would eventually collapse under the weight of its own inherent contradictions.
Since then, we have had several iterations that have, so far, proved Marx wrong. Industrial capitalism transformed itself into "consumer capitalism", which made the exploited happily complicit in their own exploitation. Then came "globalisation capitalism", which, in contrast, has made so many people unhappy that they have embraced Brexit and Donald Trump in their eagerness to find simplistic solutions. But, now, thanks to the arrival of digital technology, we have "surveillance capitalism": a "rogue mutation", Professor Zuboff says, who was, until now, a contented-enough capitalist..
We think we know about the problems thrown up by digital technology: the United States National Security Agency reading our emails; Google's street-mapping vehicles sucking up IP addresses, passwords, and search histories from our home computers; Facebook sharing the personal data of millions of users with companies set on swaying the Brexit and Trump election votes.
Professor Zuboff suggests that these are not seedy exceptions but the new norm. Google and the rest constantly monitor our data flows — from our searches, emails, social exchanges, documents, calendars, journeys, and locations. Then they predict, with extraordinary accuracy — to advertisers and others — what will be our future needs and desires.
Sinisterly, they present themselves as doing one thing — offering free apps and services — while they're really doing another, creating what Professor Zuboff calls "huge pipelines of dataflow". Pokémon Go was presented as a free game to get people out and about in the real world, searching for Pokémon monsters. What no one told the gamers was that companies such as McDonald's were paying to have monsters put in their premises to attract people in to spend. Surveillance capitalism thus manipulates both free will and free markets.
Governments have been complicit in all this. Google's pioneering was being done at the time of 9/11, and the military and secret services were happy with systems that would massively extend their intelligence-gathering options. But we, too, signed up for all this by clicking "Agree" when we were offered free services, without ever reading the Terms and Conditions. When social scientists offered free WiFi, they found that most people clicked "Accept" without noticing the clause by which the user agreed to hand over their first-born child to the service provider. The researchers called it "the Herod clause".
The wider reality is not so amusing. "If you're not paying for it, you're the product," as digital watchers say. No wonder that Google, Facebook, and co. keep insisting that their technology is too complex to be regulated.
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Every minute counts when dogs are locked in hot car
Sue Manning
Imagine walking to your car after running errands and spotting a dog, panting and helpless, shut inside a hot car. Smashing the window might be your first impulse, but calling police or animal control will protect you from injury and possible lawsuits, experts say.
Hundreds of pets die each year when they are left in closed cars that rapidly become deadly on hot days, estimated Dr. Jules Benson, chief veterinary officer for Petplan pet insurance. He cited insurance claims, veterinarian records and other data.
"This just doesn't need to happen," Benson said. "Nobody means for it to happen. It is preventable."
Every minute counts when an animal is inside a hot car, but authorities encourage people to call 911 instead of breaking in. Those who do cause damage rescuing animals wouldn't be charged unless there is evidence of criminal intent, but dog owners could choose to sue, prosecutors said.
"California state law allows police and humane and animal-control officers to do what is reasonably necessary to remove an animal from a vehicle if it is in immediate danger," Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Deborah Knaan said. "The law does not mention civilians."
Attempting a rescue yourself can also lead to injury, said Bill Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations.
"You may be trying to help the dog, but the dog doesn't know who you are. And you don't want to get yourself hurt," he said.
States' anti-cruelty laws are used to prosecute people who endanger their animals. The Animal Legal Defense Fund said 15 states have laws that go further by prohibiting leaving pets in hot cars and giving first responders an extra layer of protection against possible lawsuits.
It takes just 10 minutes for the inside of a car to reach 102 degrees when it's 85 degrees out, even with the windows cracked, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said. In half an hour, the temperature will soar to 120 degrees, which can be lethal in minutes. Because dogs can't sweat, they can't control their body temperature in intense heat, leading to extensive organ damage, heatstroke or suffocation.
Nancy Hassel has been trying to deter hot-car deaths for years. As president of the networking group Long Island Pet Professionals, she tells students taking her classes on responsible dog ownership: "If you see something, do something."
Animal welfare agencies largely work to inform the public because there's a lack of awareness about the danger of a hot car.
"People often don't realize how hot the inside of their cars can get and how fast that happens," said Stacy Wolf, the ASPCA's senior vice president of anti-cruelty.


While on their way to finding a means to attack certain types of cancers, the researchers made the first observations of cytofission in humans, a type of cell division that occurs at a different time than normal division.
It started simply enough. Scientists at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health wanted to find a way to attack cancers that had too much DNA. Roughly 14 percent of breast cancers and 35 percent of pancreatic cancers have extra sets of chromosomes, compared to normal cells that have two.
To start testing, they took a culture of cells and prevented the final stage of cell division, creating cells that were tetraploid, having four sets of chromosomes instead of two sets.
The traditional process of human cell division begins by the cell duplicating all of its components, including the DNA-containing chromosomes in the nucleus. Then during mitosis, the two sets of components are separated to opposite ends of the cell. Lastly, the original cell is cut into two daughter cells.
To make cells that mimic cancer with twice as many chromosomes, Burkard and his team blocked the cell from dividing into two, but the results weren't as straight forward as they anticipated.
What Burkard and his team discovered, published online in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences in July, is that human cells have a way to split that had not been seen before. The splitting occurred, unpredictably, during a delayed growth phase rather than at the end of mitosis.
The slight detour hasn't been for naught. Burkard, after observing the novel cellular splitting in late fall, already has a bead on a chemical that can block the division of tetra- and polyploid cells, effectively blocking the growth of cancer-like cells with too much DNA. He and his lab are now exploring exactly how the chemical does so, which is no small feat.
While study of the chemical continues to be a top priority, the unanswered riddle of how cancers begin is on the table for Burkard, too.
He admits preventing cancer is a lofty goal, but one worth pursuing. In the recent study, 90 percent of cells resolved the issue of having extra DNA by way of cytofission. The interest for Burkard is in the remaining 10 percent of cancer-like cells.
The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, UW Carbone Cancer Center, American Cancer Society, the Mary Kay Foundation, and Effcansah.com.
The study is available online at pnas.org.


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Taiye Selasi. Photograph: Mail Today/India Today Group/Getty Images
Taiye Selasi: stop pigeonholing African writers
A story by
Matthew Blackman
on the 6th of July 2015. This should take you 2 minutes to read.
Writer Taiye Selasi brings up many of the questions that should be raised about what is going on in the South African and international art market. It comes close to what I was trying to express in my still unanswered letter to Jochen Zeitz and Mark Coetzee of the Zeitz Musuem of Contemporary Art Africa (ZMOCAA) with regards to how they are identifying 'Art Africa'.
Reading this I was reminded of Seamus Heaney's – a native of Britain's oldest and still existent colony – response to a fellow Northern Irish Catholic and supporter of the IRA who stated: For fuck's sake, are you going to write/Something for us? to which he responded If I do write something,/Whatever it is, I'll be writing for myself.
Here are some quotes from Selasi's piece that appeared in The Guardian:
It was 1963 when Chinua Achebe, reflecting on a conference of African authors, wrote: "There was [one] thing that we tried to do and failed – and that was to define 'African literature' satisfactorily. Was it literature produced in Africa or about Africa? Could African literature be on any subject, or must it have an African theme?" The same year Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo (in)famously announced himself a writer, simply a writer, not an African one. Thirty years later, the first African winner of the Booker prize, asked to describe himself, said: "I think Ben Okri is a writer who works very hard to sing from all the things that affect him. I don't know if he's an African writer. I never think of myself in terms of any classification. Literature doesn't have a country."
It may not, but publishers do.
African writers are not the only victims of such questions – which, among other absurdities, assume that their identities are open to assessment by absolute strangers.
But the wider literary establishment has trouble with writers who belong to diasporas. It doesn't know where to put us. It can be unclear which team we are playing for: home or away, or neither? Our art is subjected to a particular kind of scrutiny; it is forced to play the role of anthropology.
Tagged: African Art, African Literature, Taiye Selasi, Zeitz MOCCA
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Techcrunch has just reported that social media giant Facebook has just acquired Instagram for $1 Billion. Instagram has seen a significant growth spurt over the last two years and now has well over 30 million users. News of the Facebook acquisition comes on the heels of the recent Instagram Android App that was released last week.
Checkout Mark Zuckerberg's post about the purchase after the jump.
This entry was posted on April 9, 2012 by He Who Wins. It was filed under Tech and was tagged with facebook, instagram, technology.


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#include <mach/mach_init.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include "symbols.h"

struct sCSTypeRef {
    void *csCppData;
    void *csCppObj;
};

struct sCSRange {
    unsigned long long location;
    unsigned long long length;
};
typedef struct sCSRange CSRange;

typedef struct sCSTypeRef CSTypeRef;
typedef CSTypeRef CSSymbolRef;
typedef CSTypeRef CSSymbolOwnerRef;
typedef CSTypeRef CSSymbolicatorRef;

typedef int (^CSSymbolOwnerIterator)(CSSymbolOwnerRef owner);

CSSymbolicatorRef CSSymbolicatorCreateWithTask(task_t task);
CSSymbolRef CSSymbolOwnerGetSymbolWithName(CSSymbolOwnerRef owner, const char* name);
int CSSymbolicatorForeachSymbolOwnerAtTime(CSSymbolicatorRef cs, uint64_t time, CSSymbolOwnerIterator it);
CSRange CSSymbolGetRange(CSSymbolRef sym);

void *get_symbol(const char *name)
{
    CSSymbolicatorRef symbolicator =  CSSymbolicatorCreateWithTask(mach_task_self());
    void __block *ret = NULL;
    CSSymbolicatorForeachSymbolOwnerAtTime(symbolicator, 0, ^int(CSSymbolOwnerRef owner) {
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        if (ret) return 0;
        ret = (void*)CSSymbolGetRange(CSSymbolOwnerGetSymbolWithName(owner, name)).location;
        return 0;
    });
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India is one of the oldest civilizations in the world with a kaleidoscopic variety and rich cultural heritage. It has achieved all-round socio-economic progress during the last 65 years of its Independence. India has become self-sufficient in agricultural production and is now one of the top industrialized countries in the world and one of the few nations to have gone into outer space to conquer nature for the benefit of the people. It covers an area of 32, 87,263 sq. km, extending from the snow-covered Himalayan heights to the tropical rain forests of the south. As the 7th largest country in the world, India stands apart from the rest of Asia, marked off as it is by mountains and the sea, which give the country a distinct geographical entity. Bounded by the Great Himalayas in the north, it stretches southwards and at the Tropic of Cancer, tapers off into the Indian Ocean between the Bay of Bengal on the east and the Arabian Sea on the west. As you travel, India offers a range of vast tourism choices, diverse in land and nature, people, tribes, cuisine, faiths, dance forms, music, arts, crafts, adventure, sport, spirituality, history; even these vary as you journey from one state to another. As a country, India has achieved all-round socio-economic progress in the last 70 years of independence. The change is clearly visible in the Tier I and Tier II cities. However, the fascinating aspect lies in the stark difference as you travel through the new and old parts of its cities. From world-class airports and hotels, luxurious shopping malls, restaurants, pubs and cafes to overcrowded streets and alleyways, in the same cities, filled with thousands of little shops offering every possible modern and ethnic product and native street food is a fascinating experience.
In ancient times, people from all over the world were keen to come to India. ThePersians followed by the Iranians and Parsis immigrated to India. Then came theMoghuls and they too settled down permanently in India. Chengis Khan, the Mongolian, invaded and looted India many times. Alexander the Great too, came to conquer India but went back after a battle with Porus. He-en Tsang from China came in pursuit of knowledge and to visit the ancient Indian universities of Nalanda and Takshila. Columbus wanted to come to India, but instead landed on the shores of America. Vasco da Gama from Portugal came to trade his country's goods in return for Indian spices. The French came and established their colonies in India.
Lastly, the Britishers came and ruled over India for nearly 200 years. After the battle of Plassey in 1757, the British achieved political power in India. And their paramountcy was established during the tenure of Lord Dalhousie, who became the Governor- General in 1848. He annexed Punjab, Peshawar and the Pathan tribes inthe north-west of India. And by 1856, the British conquest and its authority were firmly established. And while the British power gained its heights during the middle of the 19th century, the discontent of the local rulers, the peasantry, the intellectuals, common masses as also of the soldiers who became unemployed due to the disbanding of the armies of various states that were annexed by the British, became widespread. This soon broke out into a revolt which assumed the dimensions of the 1857 Mutiny.
During the three months from April to June it is summer in most parts of India.Generally in the month of April, many parts of India experiences high temperature. The normal temperature recorded in this time in generally 30°C. But at some places in the plateau region the temperature rises to 40°C and in the Himalayan mountain region, it remains near about 20°C.
During the period from December to February there is winter season in India. During this time clouds and dry North-East Monsoon passes over different regions of India and temperature is decreased considerably. In Himalayan area the temperature is much lower (between 5°C and 10°C). But sometimes cyclone (coming from the West) causes storm and rainfall which is known as Western disturbance.
The rainy season in India begins generally from the second week of July and continues up to the second week of October. From the second week of June humid monsoon enters various parts of India and causes rainfall everywhere in the state.
The advent of spring brings us the pleasant sound wind begins to blow. It refreshes our body and mind. The countryside appears to be adorned with green leaves and flowers. Birds sing and bees hum in the flower garden. Trees and creepers are covered with beautiful flowers. Bees hum all day long among them.


Waiting for their event to be set up but this is the same time it is each year. Two day event but only planning for Sunday. Check back for info once its posted.
Rolling out at 815 AM so if you want to eat or need gas or to get ice or drinks get there early enough to allow enough time.
It is a 35.5 mile (45 min drive from here to the track. Will take I-94 north, getting off on exit 342.
Reminder for anyone looking to wash their car there is a Shell that has a touchless and trackless wash before you get to the meeting spot.
Changed the meeting spot, there is construction around the Cheese Castle.
Brothers surprise 40th and a chance to check out Colorado.


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Mother of James Foley Forgives Jihadi John for Beheading Son
Chaplain Elizabeth
We only know of one duty, and that is to love. ~Albert Camus
Mother of James Foley Forgives Jihadi John for Beheading Son Feb 27, 2015 14:17:09 GMT -5 Dr. Bob likes this
Post by Chaplain Elizabeth on Feb 27, 2015 14:17:09 GMT -5
American journalist James Foley was beheaded in Syria last August by ISIS militant "Jihadi John," now identified as Mohammed Emwazi. Christian Today reports Foley's mother Diane has now told the Times that she has forgiven her son's killer.
"It saddens me - his continued hatred. He felt wronged, now we hate him - now that just prolongs the hatred. We need to end it," she said.
"As a mum, I forgive him. You know, the whole thing is tragic."
Foley's father had previously said that he knew his son was in Heaven.
"We know Jimmy's free. He's finally free. And we know he's in God's hands...and we know he's in Heaven," John Foley said at the time of the murder.
According to Attorney General Eric Holder, the United States is now considering how a method to kill or capture Emwazi.
"I think there is something to be said for holding accountable [and] getting at the people who are responsible for these barbaric acts," Holder said.
"The vow that I can make to the American people, along with our allies, is that we will hold accountable all of the people who have been responsible for these heinous, barbaric acts...That is something that we are focused on each and every day."
Carrie Dedrick | Editor, ChristianHeadlines.com
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
~Edith Wharton


A three-day workshop titled "Equity and social justice in a digital world: An inter-sectoral dialogue for a digital justice agenda" is held in Bangkok, Thailand during 25-27 March 2019. On the 2nd day Barkat Ullah Maruf, Assistant Director of COAST Trust gives a presentation focusing the case of Bangladesh in the global digital era. The workshop is held in the Auditorium of the Department of Political Science of the Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand organized by Just Net Coalition.
In this presentation the other speakers are Professor Jane Kelsey of University of Auckland, New Zealand, Ms. Burcu Kilik of Public Citizen in USA, Munu Martin Luther from Uganda. The session was moderated by Ms Jai Vipra of IT for Change, India.
In that presentation he reiterates the necessity of understanding the entire digital concept ruling the world for trade. In the presentation he shows that the capacity of both the government and people are hardly at the required level to fight against the giant corporations behind the digital neo-colonialization.
The students at the school level are learning ICT which is ended up learning Microsoft office and adobe photoshop instead of ICT itself and the global politics behind it. Sometimes it is felt that the government is dealing with the global situation quite well and their capacity is satisfactorily increased. However, when we see the Post Office, a public institution is given to Alibaba and Amazon to serve their purpose under a digital trade agreement, we understand we really need more capacity to understand the digital trade and at the same time we really need to have strength national position to oppose this kind of proposals where public institutions serves a corporate. This is a subsidy to a rich country company from the people of poor country.
Moreover, there are some NGO interventions to create a field for corporations to come and do business. We have a a satellite thrown into the space before we have obtained the capacity to run it and what obviously happened is a foreign company is running the satellite and have the agreement not with the government, but with a business entity in Bangladesh. So, how the data security will be increased of this country? The federal reserve of the country is already hacked by taking the opportunity of digital illiteracy of the government and now this satellite controlled by a foreign company might expose the entire security of the national data.
He stresses on the capacity building of the students on ICT, on artificial intelligence, on entire digital discourse to be able to fight back and restore the right of the people.


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Violent Femmes // Why Do Birds Sing?
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Why Do Birds Sing? is the 5th studio album from the textbook American cult band, Violent Femmes. It was their last studio album with original drummer, Victor DeLorenzo. Featuring the fan favorite "American Music," which reached #2 on Billboard's Modern Rock Chart, as well as a cover of Culture Club's "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me." "The momentum of the song ["American Music"] and the album that spawned it provided a springboard for the band to bona fide cult status." – Rolling Stone.
Out The Window
Look Like That
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
Hey Nonny Nonny
Used To Be
Girl Trouble
He Likes Me
Life is a Scream
Flamingo Baby
Lack of Knowledge
More Money Tonight
I'm Free
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HomeBankingZimbabwe adopting the rand 'not under consideration' – minister
Zimbabwe adopting the rand 'not under consideration' – minister
March 12, 2019 Staff Reporter Banking 0
Cyril Ramaphosa and Emmerson Mnangagwa look on as ministers Lindiwe Sisulu and Perence Shiri sign on behalf of their countries in Harare on Tuesday. Image: Ray Ndlovu
HARARE – Zimbabwean finance minister Mthuli Ncube said the possibility of his country either adopting the SA rand as its main currency of trade – alongside its local unit, the RTGS dollar – or joining the rand monetary union was "not under consideration".
Ncube told TimesLIVE on the sidelines of the third session of the bi-national commission between South Africa and Zimbabwe on Tuesday in Harare that the country had "completed its currency changes" and the adoption of the rand was unnecessary.
One of the key requirements of the monetary union is that member states have a local currency of their own. The current members of the union are Swaziland, Lesotho and Namibia.
After a decade without a currency of its own, last month monetary authorities in Zimbabwe introduced a domestic currency. The RTGS dollar is a fusion of electronic bank balances, bond notes and bond coins.
The new currency is officially trading at 2.5 to the US dollar, according to the interbank market rate. On the black market, however, it is much weaker and trades at about 3.6 to the dollar.
"We have completed the currency changes and we want to continue now on the path of fiscal reforms. We need to be competitive and a local currency is necessary. The rand, just like the US dollar, is foreign currency," said Ncube, adding that joining the rand monetary union "is not under consideration as we have a domestic currency".
As Zimbabwe's economic meltdown takes its toll, various industries in the country have recently expressed a desire for the rand to be used, given the close ties between SA and Zimbabwe. Experts have also frowned on the continued use of the US dollar as it is too strong for Zimbabwe's economy, a situation that has made local goods uncompetitive.
SA is Zimbabwe's largest trading partner in the region and is estimated to account for nearly 55% of all imports. More than 120 South African companies have operations in Zimbabwe spread out across mining, retail, financial services, aviation and agriculture.
Ncube said the bi-national commission had also focused on money owed to SA firms in revenue and dividend payments that are currently "stuck" in the country . "We will accommodate South African companies and continue to work at ensuring their funds are repatriated," he said.
South African Airways is among the SA companies most affected by Zimbabwe's forex crunch, with an estimated R1bn in revenues stuck in the country.
Meanwhile, the commission, which has tabled 45 agreements between the two countries, did not agree on any financial package being extended by SA to Zimbabwe.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said the issue of a bailout was discussed with a view to finding lasting solutions to the problems faced by the two countries. "Our discussions have covered a wide range of issues – investment, trade, mining … We did not focus on one issue. We will have continued dialogue, investment and financial co-operation as we traverse the challenges faced," he said.
Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa said the economic prosperity of the two countries were closely linked and any economic regression by one country would have "a pull-down effect" on the other.
Zimbabwe's foreign affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo, who read the joint communiqué of the commission, said "a facility for Zimbabwe was being explored" that would encourage co-operation in the private sector. – TimesLive


When a loved one dies by suicide, surviving family and friends confront painfully unique issues. Here is one story of help and hope.
Timothy Mantooth is an educator, writer, inspirational speaker, and life coach. He completed an undergrad in psychology from Georgia State University and was distinguished with the Outstanding Graduate Student Award through the Master's in Public Administration program at Kennesaw State University before earning a PhD in Education from Capella University. Dr. Mantooth addresses principles of transformational living with audiences ranging from prison populations to civic groups.


malice is a 22 year old (DOB: June 7, 1996) pure-blood wizard living in hogwarts. He wields a 9¾" Oak, Unicorn Hair wand, and is a member of the unsorted masses of Hogwarts students just off the train eagerly crowding around the Sorting Hat. His favorite Harry Potter book is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and his favorite Harry Potter character is severus snape.


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 * This example uses the following structs defined in C++:
  struct vector {
    float x, y, z;
  };

  struct player {
    vector position;
    double health;
    std::string name;
    float distance;
    bool alive;
  };
*/

// https://github.com/LordVonAdel/structron
const Struct = require('structron');
const memoryjs = require('../index');

const processObject = memoryjs.openProcess('Testing.exe');
const structAddress = 0x000000DEADBEEF;

// -- Step 1: define the structures

// Custom double consumer/producer (since it's not yet implemented in `structron`)
const double = {
  read(buffer, offset) {
    return buffer.readDoubleLE(offset);
  },
  write(value, context, offset) {
    context.buffer.writeDoubleLE(value, offset);
  },
  SIZE: 8,
};

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// pass process handle and base address of structure so the library can read/write the string,
// also requires passing the platform architecture to determine the structure of `std::string`
const string = memoryjs.STRUCTRON_TYPE_STRING(processObject.handle, structAddress, '64');

// Define vector structure
const Vector = new Struct()
  .addMember(Struct.TYPES.FLOAT, 'x') // 4 bytes
  .addMember(Struct.TYPES.FLOAT, 'y') // 4 bytes
  .addMember(Struct.TYPES.FLOAT, 'z'); // 4 bytes

// Define player structure
const Player = new Struct()
  .addMember(Vector, 'position') // 12 bytes
  .addMember(Struct.TYPES.SKIP(4), 'unused') // compiler padding to put member on 8 byte boundary
  .addMember(double, 'health') // 8 bytes
  .addMember(string, 'name') // 32 bytes (in 64bit process, 24 bytes in 32bit process)
  .addMember(Struct.TYPES.FLOAT, 'distance') // 4 bytes
  .addMember(Struct.TYPES.BYTE, 'alive'); // 1 byte

// -- Step 2: create object to write to memory
const object = {
  position: {
    x: 1.23, y: 4.56, z: 7.89,
  },
  health: 80.12,
  name: 'Example Name 1234567890',
  distance: 4.20,
  alive: false,
};

// -- Step 3: create buffer from object and write to memory
let context = Player.write(object);
memoryjs.writeBuffer(processObject.handle, structAddress, context.buffer);

// -- Step 4: read buffer from memory and parse
const buffer = memoryjs.readBuffer(processObject.handle, structAddress, context.buffer.length);

context = Player.readContext(buffer);

if (!context.hasErrors()) {
  console.log(context.data);
}


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Q: Android Q Beta - ContentValue is empty when created from parcel Android Build: QPP5.190530.015
Emulator: Pixel 2
HashMap<String,Object> map = new HashMap<>();
map.put("key1", true);
map.put("key2", "String");
map.put("key3", 3);

Parcel parcel = Parcel.obtain();
parcel.writeMap(map);
parcel.setDataPosition(0);
ContentValues contentValues = ContentValues.CREATOR.createFromParcel(parcel);

expected result:
contentValues would contain the data of the given map.
actual result :
contentValues is empty

A: I am also facing the same issue in createFromParcel with hashmap in Android Q ,solved it by by iteration through hashmap and casting the value to its respective type.
  private ContentValues getContentValuesFromHashMapValues(HashMap<String, Object> hashMap) {
            ContentValues contentValues = new ContentValues();
            for (Map.Entry<String, Object> entry : hashMap.entrySet()) {
                Object value = entry.getValue();
                String key = entry.getKey();

                if (value instanceof Integer) {
                    contentValues.put(key, (Integer) value);
                } else if (value instanceof Long) {
                    contentValues.put(key, (Long) value);
                } else if (value instanceof Short) {
                    contentValues.put(key, (Short) value);
                } else if (value instanceof Float) {
                    contentValues.put(key, (Float) value);
                } else if (value instanceof Double) {
                    contentValues.put(key, (Double) value);
                } else if (value instanceof Byte) {
                    contentValues.put(key, (Byte) value);
                } else if (value instanceof Boolean) {
                    contentValues.put(key, (Boolean) value);
                } else if (value instanceof String) {
                    contentValues.put(key, ((value == null) ? "" : (String) value));
                }
            }

            return contentValues;
        }