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Patrick Tiessen
Netive
SI 100 Europe - 2017, Dutch -
Patrick Tiessen is founder and CEO of Nétive VMS, the largest VMS provider based on Salesforce.com in the Benelux. Founded in 2003, Nétive started with two customers and has grown to more than 200 customers in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Finland and the UK. Nétive focuses on creating the best possible cloud software to manage contingent workforces and recruit permanent staff within one single solution. Before Nétive, Tiessen worked as international IT manager at Kelly Services for eight years. In 2010, Nétive acquired Brightbox HR, the first freelancer management system in Europe, and in 2012 it acquired a VMS solution for SAP customers.
Annemarie Muntz
Ciett
Annemarie Muntz is president of Ciett, the International Confederation of Private Employment Services, and Eurociett, the European Confederation of Private Employment Agencies. She is an influential lobbyist in the European Union, helping to create a legal environment in which private employment agencies are able to prove their important role in a functioning labour market; she has been tireless in her work on the Agency Work Directive.
Jilko Andringa
President of Northern Europe
Jilko Andringa joined ManpowerGroup in 2008 as general manager, Netherlands, and was named president of Northern Europe in January 2016. He previously served as the regional managing director of Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Austria. Andringa is a graduate in business economics and marketing. He spent five years at Exxon in different management positions. He also worked at Randstad, in the Netherlands, for four years as director of operations and four years as managing director of operations in Atlanta, Ga., USA.
Dinette Koolhaas
President, Kelly International
Staffing 100 Europe | 2020
Based in Switzerland, Dinette Koolhaas leads operations and oversees growth strategies across Europe, Russia, Mexico and Brazil as president of Kelly International, a role she assumed in July. Formerly, she was VP and managing director, EMEA. Throughout her tenure at Kelly, Koolhaas has played a crucial role in the EMEA region's ability to deliver solid returns, developing strong teams and implementing flexible operating models that enable the region to contribute more profit to Kelly's bottom line.
VP & Operations Leader, EMEA
Based in Switzerland, Dinette Koolhaas serves as VP and operations leader, EMEA, for Kelly Services. Koolhaas is also a board member for Kelly's joint venture, TS Kelly Asia Pacific. Koolhaas joined Kelly Services in 2008 as VP and regional general manager for Western Europe, where she led eight country general managers to deliver on regional and country-specific growth strategies. She was promoted to VP and operations leader for EMEA in 2013. Koolhaas started her career as a consultant at a logistic consultancy agency in Holland before moving to USG People, with whom she remained for more than 12 years. She holds an MBA and is a board member of the World Employment Confederation.
USG People
Rob Zandbergen was appointed CEO of USG People in 2010, having served as the company's CFO since 2005. Zandbergen was CFO of Belgian staffing group Solvus between 2003 and 2005, when the company was acquired by USG People. In addition to his work at USG People, Zandbergen is a member of the supervisory board of the Dutch Flower Group and was appointed to the supervisory board of Dutch energy company Eneco Holding in March 2015.
Margriet Spijker
Founder and Managing Director
Margriet Spijker is founder and managing director of Dutch staffing firm Timing, a part of the ADG services group. According to Staffing Industry Analysts, Timing was the fifth-largest staffing firm in the Netherlands in 2017. Spijker has more than 25 years' experience in the industry, having joined the company as a consultant in 1988 and holding various management positions, including deputy manager, before being appointed general manager in 2012.
Frits Goldschmeding
Founder and Largest Shareholder
Frits Goldschmeding founded Uitzendbureau Amstelveen in 1960, and in 1964 renamed it Randstad, which is now the second-largest staffing firm in the world. Goldschmeding took Randstad public in 1990, and in 2008, merged it with the Dutch group Vedior. CEO until 1998 and a member of the supervisory board from 1999 until 2011, Goldschmeding remains the largest shareholder. He has a doctorate from the VU University Amsterdam and was professor at the Centre for Entrepreneurship at Nyenrode Business University. He is founder and supervisory board member of the Goldschmeding Foundation, which supports projects that respond to social issues in the field of people, work and economy.
Jacques van den Broek
Randstad NV
CEO & Executive Board Chair Board
CEO and chair of the executive board since 2014, Jacques van den Broek is responsible for The Randstad Group's operations in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal and Latin America (Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile and Uruguay). In addition, van den Broek oversees business concept development, HR and public affairs. He joined Randstad in 2004 as a branch manager. Under his leadership, Randstad has made significant progress in realizing its ultimate goal to impact 500 million work lives by 2030. He is also proud of the joint industry alliance spearheaded by Randstad NV, The Adecco Group and ManpowerGroup to enable companies and workers to return to work safely.
Nétive
Since co-founding VMS provider Nétive with Chris Neddermeijer in 2003, CEO Patrick Tiessen has grown the company by opening offices in Rijswijk, the Netherlands and London. The company that began with two customers now has more than 200. Before Nétive, Tiessen held key positions at The Next Flex and HR Puzzle and also worked at Kelly Services as an international IT manager. Tiessen focuses on creating the best possible software for supporting the management of contingent workforce and recruitment of permanent staff. This year, Nétive VMS BV was featured in the Best Small Workplaces 2020 list in the Netherlands.


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Q: Unity3d shotgun cone shoot I'm using raycasts as a shotgun. I randomize direction of each ray:
Vector3 direction = new Vector3 (UnityEngine.Random.Range (-splash, splash), UnityEngine.Random.Range (-splash, splash), 100);

Everything works fine, but that maximum "range" of this direction is rectangle and I want an ellipse. It's hard to explain:

It's seems I should use normalization somewhere, but I don't know where.

A: Coordinates of points on circle can be calculated like this x = r*cos(a), y = r*sin(a). If r is random points will be inside of circle with radius of "splash";
Vector3 direction = new Vector3( Random.Range(-splash,splash)*Mathf.Cos(Random.Range(0,2*Mathf.PI)),Random.Range(-splash,splash)*Mathf.Sin(Random.Range(0,2*Mathf.PI)),0 );

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"Democratization"은 벌써 한동안 연산유체역학(CFD) 업계에서 사람들의 화두에 오르내리고 있는 단어입니다. 이 백서에서는 Mentor Graphics의 Keith Hanna와 Ivo Weinhold가 이에 관련된 문제를 정의하고 사실 관계를 정립하며 현재 시장에서 제공되고 있는 다양한 기술 솔루션의 장단점을 살펴본 다음, 연구 개발 용도와 대량 생산 엔지니어링 시뮬레이션 소프트웨어 사이의 간극을 줄이고자 하는 CFD 업계에서 참고할 만한 몇 가지 조언을 제시합니다.
"Democratization" is a buzzword that has been circulating around the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) community for some time. In this White Paper, Keith Hanna and Ivo Weinhold of Mentor Graphics define the issue, establish the facts, look at the pros and cons of various technology solutions being offered in the market today, and then suggest some pointers for the future as the CFD industry tries to bridge the gap from R&D usage to mass market engineering simulation software.


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hoopla digital Inks Expanded Content Agreement with HarperCollins Publishers
Category-creating digital service for public libraries expands eBook catalog with thousands of award-winning titles from HarperCollins
HOLLAND, OH (June 22, 2017) – hoopla digital (hoopladigital.com), the category-creating digital service for public libraries, today announced a new, expanded agreement with HarperCollins Publishers to add more than 15,000 award-winning eBooks to hoopla's dynamic collection, available July 5. With this content agreement, patrons of participating libraries will have access to the HarperCollins global English Language catalog of acclaimed authors – which includes titles from HarperCollins Christian Publishing, HarperCollins UK and Harlequin – via hoopla digital's app and online service.
This agreement expands on a deal last year that brought HarperCollins Publishers' entire digital audiobook backlist catalog to hoopla's collection. The new deal adds the deep backlist works of bestselling HarperCollins authors Neil Gaiman, Louise Erdrich and Dennis Lehane to hoopla digital's catalog of more than 600,000 movies, TV shows, music albums, eBooks, audiobooks and comics. Patrons of libraries who partner with hoopla digital can access this dynamic content anytime on their smartphones, tablets and laptops.
"We are thrilled to expand our successful partnership with HarperCollins and excited to build our eBook catalog with thousands of popular and award-winning titles from their iconic authors. On hoopla digital, these titles are available anytime, anywhere without any holds or waits," said Jeff Jankowski, co-founder and owner of hoopla digital. "eBooks is one of our strongest growth areas with high demand from libraries and their patrons and we will continue to make a significant investment to assemble a deep offering of titles for the libraries we serve."
hoopla now offers a catalog of eBook and audiobook titles across a broad spectrum of adult and children's genres, including romance, thriller, literary fiction, self-help, Christian living and non-fiction content.
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HarperCollins Publishers is the second largest consumer book publisher in the world, with operations in 18 countries. With two hundred years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world, HarperCollins publishes approximately 10,000 new books every year in 17 languages, and has a print and digital catalog of more than 200,000 titles. Writing across dozens of genres, HarperCollins authors include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Newbery and Caldecott Medals and the Man Booker Prize. HarperCollins, headquartered in New York, is a subsidiary of News Corpand can be visited online at corporate.HC.com.
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"We are thrilled to secure this agreement with HarperCollins and excited to expand our audiobook catalog with thousands of popular and award-winning titles. Audiobooks are the fastest growing format, with high demand from libraries and patrons, and we will continue to make a significant investment to assemble a deep offering of titles for cardholders to enjoy anywhere, anytime," said Jeff Jankowski, founder and owner of hoopla digital.
We hope you and your patrons enjoy this addition to your hoopla digital catalog!
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Questa Vida
Questa Vida is a nice 180 unit condominium complex located minutes from Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. Of course, there's WAY more in the area than ASU. You'll have great freeway access and you'll be minutes from Tempe Marketplace, Mill Avenue, Sky Harbor Airport, Marina Heights, the light rail line and SO much more. Yes, this is in the magic 85281 zip code where you'll find all kinds of awesome.
This gated community was built from 1983-1985 and has covered parking and two swimming pools for residents to enjoy.
The street address for Questa Vida is 850 S River Dr. Tempe, AZ 85281. If using a gps to drive to Questa Vida, you will want to make sure it doesn't take you to the River Drive EXIT. To get IN to the complex, you will actually want to enter off of University Drive, just a bit West of River.
Here's a few photos from Questa Vida. Once we take some more, I'll upload the info for you to check out!
Questa Vida pool / spa
Pool / Patio Area
Questa Vida Condos
You'll see an accurate and up to date list of properties for sale in Questa Vida below. We are happy to help you buy or sell a home in Questa Vida. Call the Tempe real estate experts at the Nick Bastian Team at 602-803-6425 for information about any home in Questa Vida.
Questa Vida Homes For Sale
$299,000 850 S RIVER Drive, 1069
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Le terme  d'éloquence renvoie à deux significations principales :
 L'art de bien parler, l'aptitude à s'exprimer avec aisance, la capacité d'émouvoir, de persuader ;
 Le caractère de ce qui  est expressif, significatif, probant : comme dans l'expression « l'éloquence des chiffres ».
Cicéron est considéré comme un grand orateur de l'Antiquité, auteur d'un traité sur la rhétorique. Le père Louis Bourdaloue est considéré comme l'un des fondateurs de l'éloquence française.

Représentation allégorique
Le Dieu de l'éloquence est Hermès.

Éloquence politique
Les discours politiques, notamment ceux prononcés devant le parlement, peuvent être l'occasion de manifester de l'éloquence. Le site de l'Assemblée nationale française propose par exemple quelques-uns de ces textes qui ont laissé une trace dans les mémoires.

Éloquence judiciaire

Voir l'« Éloquence et improvisation ;  Art de la parole oratoire au barreau, à la tribune, à la chaire », par Gorgias (alias Eugène Paignon)

Éloquence de commémoration
L'exemple de ce type d'éloquence peut être donné par l'allocution prononcée le  par André Malraux lors de l'entrée au Panthéon de Jean Moulin. Le discours solennel et émouvant évoque  « le symbole » de l'héroïsme français, de toute la Résistance à lui seul en l'associant à tous les résistants français, héros de l'ombre, connus et inconnus, qui ont permis de libérer la France au prix de leur souffrance, de leur vie, et de leur idéologie de liberté :

« Comme Leclerc entra aux Invalides, avec son cortège d'exaltation dans le soleil d'Afrique,
entre ici, Jean Moulin, avec ton terrible cortège.
avec ceux qui sont morts dans les caves sans avoir parlé, comme toi ; et même, ce qui est peut-être plus atroce, en ayant parlé ;
avec tous les rayés et tous les tondus des camps de concentration,
 avec le dernier corps trébuchant des affreuses files de Nuit et brouillard, enfin tombé sous les crosses,
avec les huit mille Françaises qui ne sont pas revenues des bagnes, avec la dernière femme morte à Ravensbrück pour avoir donné asile à l'un des nôtres.
Entre, avec le peuple né de l'ombre et disparu avec elle — nos frères dans l'ordre de la Nuit… »
« C'est la marche funèbre des cendres que voici.
 À côté de celles de Carnot avec les soldats de l'an II,
 de celles de Victor Hugo avec les Misérables,
 de celles de Jaurès veillées par la Justice,
qu'elles reposent avec leur long cortège d'ombres défigurées .
Aujourd'hui, jeunesse, puisses-tu penser à cet homme comme tu aurais approché tes mains de sa pauvre face informe du dernier jour, de ses lèvres qui n'avaient pas parlé ;
ce jour-là, elle était le visage de la France... »

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

Articles connexes

 Rhétorique
 Eloquentia

Liens externes

Eloquence
Concours d'éloquence

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What about those WAL San Quentin Bars ? I always thought they were rad .
I would say the ones I sold to a guy in Australia they are in reference section they were recalled by odyssey they are the original flying wedge bars that didn't have a cross member brace.
I need a set!!! Bought mine from Ron when I visited him, then a year later swamped with bills and those sold quick, I was bummed to say the least .
Would like lots of bikes but the SE Hauler is one that has a lot of sentimental value to me. Anyone got one?
Don't own the bike anymore, but Cook Bros Racing pit bike bars have to be pretty rare.
Can anyone spot why these are different than most every other pair of early GT bars?
I'll take a shot at it. The sticker? Weren't the earlier bars out of Santa Ana?
Very close. Anaheim was where GT was located BEFORE Santa Ana, Huntington Beach was after Santa Ana. They moved from Anaheim in early 1980 so these are the very earliest style GT Pro bars. They are a little narrower (27") and have a touch more sweep than early Santa Ana bars. They are also a touch narrower at the bottom. The coin decal also says Anaheim, CA.
Black Chrome GT bars are also pretty rare. I have a set of expert sized BC bars with the decals in black background rather than chrome to match the black bars.
The yellow outline on the lettering is also an indicator. On 81` and earlier bars like you have the yellow outline thinckness is inconsistent. In 1982 GT changed the logo and made the yellow outline the same thickness around the whole letter.
Cool info! Thanks. Never noticed that before.
I use 80-82 GT Pro bars on all my builds so I have about 7 or 8 pair including another pair of Anaheim. I'll definitely check that outline thickness thing out. If I get inspired I'll take some side by side comparison pics of the early bars to show the slight differences between the '80, '81 and '82 bars including the outline of the lettering as you mentioned.
Do What You Say, And Say What You Mean!!!
BTW, and this is gonna sound like I'm trolling, but why are 2-piece bars considered rare?
kinda vague which two piece bars ?
Here`s another I`ve got sitting in a box , this is the 1st set of Standard Strip Bars ever made prototype #001. I purchased these directly from Rick Moliterno and they are still raw with no finished they`ve never been painted.
Those are amazing sucidepan .
Bars with easy women 30-40 years old that don't have kids... or Herpes.
Not too easy of a find in Jersey!!!!!
I have not looked for these, but have not noticed them for sale either, Galindo handlebars.
9...although the last 2 are really only differentiated by decals.
As has now been ammended by the same person that wrote the original article all those years ago.
Thanks for posting that pic. I didn't have a good shot of those.
Heres a perfect pic I found of my 81 GT against a 82 GT sticker , see the difference in the yellow outline ? every 81 I`ve ever seen with original decals has this style.
That is 10,i am sure i missed some!
Dig those peregrines! I have many generation of peregrine bars but not these! They look like race Haro knee savers with a xtra bar! Sweet!


Dark burgundy-colored walls, ornate velvet furniture, marble table tops and shimmering crystal chandeliers. You may feel like you have just stepped into a vampire's castle, but you are in fact at Cork and Cask, a Colorado Springs' bar located at 60 E. Moreno Ave.
With an extensive menu containing several whiskeys, numerous beer and wine selections, custom cocktails and not to mention the delicious appetizers, Cork and Cask has a little something for everybody.
Do not let the elaborate interior decorating intimidate you, the staff is extremely helpful and friendly. The atmosphere is luxurious yet relaxing. The beauty of Cork and Cask extends outside as well, where outdoor seating and fire pits create the perfect place to socialize.
When first entering the bar in the late afternoon, the vibe is chill and casual. Coworkers unwind after the workday, friends share appetizers and converse with each other.
However, once the sun goes down, Cork and Cask truly comes alive. Glimmering chandeliers illuminate the room while tiny candles flicker on table tops creating a romantic mood.
Happy hour at Cork and Cask begins at 3 p.m and extends until 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Happy hour includes a dollar off wells, house wines, draft beers and 50 percent off small plates.
Some examples of small plates include a charcuterie board, a large bavarian pretzel, a dessert board and a s'mores kit that should ideally be enjoyed outside near the fire pits.
I chose to dine inside and ordered the bavarian pretzel, which came with brie fondue and house mustard. The pretzel was warm, slightly salty and appreciated by everyone at the table.
When it comes to the wine selection, Cork and Cask offers many options, including several varieties of white wines, red wines and blush wines. The wine menu is organized by flavor. For example, the wines are listed as either juicy and fruity, big and bold, silky and lush and so on. This makes choosing your perfect glass a breeze.
I chose to order the La Crema Pinot Noir, a wine that is considered by staff to be a lighter and sweeter option than some other Pinot Noir wines on the menu.
The wine was tangy and refreshing with notes of cherry, plum and orange. This wine would pair nicely with a dessert.
I also ordered what I thought to be a simple glass of champagne. However, the champagne was served in a coupe style glass instead of the traditional flute glass that most of us have come to associate with champagne.
It was a pleasant surprise, as the coupe glass was the expected method of serving champagne during the 1920s and 1930s. The choice of stemware only added to the vintage atmosphere of the bar.
After a while, I began to notice the surrealist paintings on the walls. The paintings are glimpses into the imagination of artist Phil Lear. Many of Springs' locals may recognize Lear's artwork from The Rabbit Hole, another haunting venue located underground at 101 N. Tejon St.
The reason for the similarities between the two establishments is that they are both the brainchild of Joe Campana, a local entrepreneur who owns several eateries in the Colorado Springs area.
It is difficult to pinpoint exactly what time period Cork and Cask resides; it seems to be equal parts Victorian castle and 1920s speakeasy. This bar will certainly inspire your inner romantic.


The top is one of the oldest recognizable toys found on archaeological sites. Spinning tops originated independently in cultures all over the world. Besides toys, tops have also historically been used for gambling and prophecy. Some role-playing games use tops to augment dice in generating randomized results; it is in this case referred to as a spinner. A thumbtack may also be made to spin on the same principles.
The action of a top is described by equations of rigid body dynamics (see the section Rotation in three dimensions). Typically the top will at first wobble until the shape of the tip and its interaction with the surface force it upright. After spinning upright for an extended period, the angular momentum will gradually lessen, leading to ever increasing precession, finally causing the top to topple in a frequently violent last thrash.
There have been many developments within the technology of the top. Bearing tops, with a tip that spins, have been one of the biggest changes. In addition, plastic and metal have largely supplanted the use of wood in tops. Fixed tip tops are featured in National Championships in Chico, California and in the World Championships in Orlando, Florida.
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With hard work, great songwriting and soulful singing, Stewart Francke has found true indie success in today's rough & tumble music business. He's made ten highly praised cds, the most recent being Stewart Francke Alive And Unplugged at The Ark, to be released in on January 20, 2009 through Blue Boundary Records and Burnside Distribution. His previous cd, Motor City Serenade, was recorded with the legendary Motown session band the Funk Brothers. Stewart has sold 50,000 records–all without a major label and its promotional muscle.
Building his devoted audience one person at a time over the years, Stewart is now known as one of the most exciting and beloved live performers around, playing his own headlining shows as well as support touring with the likes of Sheryl Crow, Warren Zevon, Steve Earle, Chris Isaak, Robert Cray, Shawn Colvin, Hall & Oates, Michael McDonald, Stevie Winwood, Eddie Money, Foreigner, Chicago, & many others.
Now performing with his own Detroit Soul band, Francke's show is exciting, smart, humorous, and loaded with a warm, soulful vibe that makes every night pure magic. As a songwriter, he's licensed songs to TV (Melrose Place, MTV's Real World, various daytime shows), for image advertising (GM, Ford, National Cancer Association) and documentaries.
His music has won numerous awards: nine Detroit music awards, Hour Detroit most popular musician 2002-2004, four straight ASCAP writer's awards–-and a prestigious Point of Light Award for his work in cancer care. The Stewart Francke Leukemia Foundation was also presented the Partnership In Humanity Award by the Detroit Newspapers, and he was awarded a Creative Artist Grant by Artserve Michigan in 2003.
A leukemia and bone marrow transplant survivor of 10 years, Francke often plays benefit concerts and donates his time to cancer support efforts. To date the SFLF has raised $200,000, which has been donated to organizations such as Karmanos Cancer Institute, the Children's Leukemia Foundation, The National Bone Marrow Transplant Link, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and Gilda's Club. The priority mission of the foundation is to fund low income patients and increase marrow donation in minority communities. Francke and Broadway star Brian d'arcy James recently raised $92,000 for the Fields Neurological Institute in their hometown of Saginaw, MI.
Prior to his success as a musician, Stewart was a Contributing Editor to Detroit's Metro Times, writing on music and film, giving him the opportunity to interview many of his favorite musicians, from Johnny Cash to George Clinton. A book of his collected song lyrics and writing, titled Between The Ground & God, was published in 2005 by Ridgeway Press and won two Indie Excellence Awards in 2007. Stewart and his family live in Huntington Woods, Michigan.
"Stewart Francke is the best songwriter I've heard in 20 years." --- Mick Taylor, legendary guitarist & former member of The Rolling Stones.


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To submit your team and pictures for consideration, please use this link to email the following along with the attached and fully approved pictures to use to us by February 22.
Obviously your submission does not guarantee we can include your team but we will select based on the criteria outlined and the space we have available in the book. If you are included in the book, we will send you three free copies when it is available this summer.
We look forward to the possibility of including your team in our What It Takes to Win Championships book!


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Niccolò Bonifazio (* 9. října 1993) je italský profesionální silniční cyklista jezdící za UCI WorldTeam Intermarché–Circus–Wanty.

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Bonifazio se stal profesionálem v roce 2013, kdy jezdil jako stagiaire v týmu Lampre–Merida. Následující rok se k tomuto týmu připojil jako stálý jezdec. V září 2014 vyhrál Bonifazio jednodenní závod Coppa Ugo Agostoni v hromadném sprintu. Toho roku vyhrál ještě etapu na závodu Kolem Japonska a tři etapy a 2. místo celkově na závodu Kolem Chaj-nanu.

V roce 2015 získal Bonifazio další vítězství v jednodenním závodu, tentokrát na Gran Premio di Lugano, a znovu v hromadném sprintu. Na Coppa Ugo Agostoni vítězství neobhájil, skončil třetí. Na monumentu Milán – San Remo dojel pátý.

V srpnu 2015 bylo oznámeno, že se Bonifazio připojí k týmu Trek–Segafredo pro následující sezónu. V sezóně 2016 získal Bonifazio několik výsledků v top desícte včetně 5. místa na Scheldeprijsu, 3. místa na Great Ocean Road Race a 6. místa na Kuurne–Brusel–Kuurne. V srpnu téhož roku byl jmenován na startovní listině Vuelty a España, ale odstoupil v průběhu 7. etapy.

V květnu 2018 byl Bonifazio jmenován na startovní listině Gira d'Italia. V červenci 2019 byl Bonifazio jmenován na startovní listině Tour de France.

Hlavní výsledky
2010
7. místo Trofeo San Rocco
10. místo Piccola Tre Valli Varesine
2011
vítěz GP dell'Arno
Tour d'Istrie
 vítěz 3. etapy
2012
Mistrovství Evropy
 9. místo silniční závod do 23 let
2013
Coupe des nations Ville Saguenay
 vítěz 2. etapy
2014
vítěz Coppa Ugo Agostoni
Kolem Japonska
 vítěz 6. etapy
Kolem Chaj-nanu
 2. místo celkově
  vítěz bodovací soutěže
 vítěz etap 2, 6 a 8
6. místo Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
8. místo Coppa Sabatini
2015
vítěz Gran Premio di Lugano
Kolem Japonska
 vítěz 7. etapy
3. místo Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi
3. místo Coppa Ugo Agostoni
4. místo Grosser Preis des Kantons Aargau
5. místo Milán – San Remo
8. místo Coppa Bernocchi
9. místo Vattenfall Cyclassics
2016
Tour de Pologne
 vítěz 3. etapy
3. místo Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
5. místo Scheldeprijs
6. místo Kuurne–Brusel–Kuurne
2017
3. místo Grosser Preis des Kantons Aargau
4. místo Down Under Classic
2018
Kolem Chorvatska
 vítěz 1. etapy
9. místo EuroEyes Cyclassics
2019
La Tropicale Amissa Bongo
  celkový vítěz
  vítěz bodovací soutěže
 vítěz etap 1, 2 a 5
vítěz Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
vítěz Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde
Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid
  vítěz bodovací soutěže
 vítěz 1. etapy
10. místo Münsterland Giro
2020
Paříž–Nice
 vítěz 5. etapy
Saudi Tour
 vítěz 2. etapy
2. místo Scheldeprijs
2021
vítěz Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
2. místo Egmont Cycling Race
3. místo Paříž–Bourges
5. místo Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
Boucles de la Mayenne
 7. místo celkově
9. místo Coppa Bernocchi

Výsledky na Grand Tours

Odkazy

Reference

Související články
 Team TotalEnergies

Externí odkazy

 Niccolò Bonifazio na ProCyclingStats

Italští cyklisté
Žijící lidé
Muži
Narození v roce 1993
Narození v Piemontu
Narození 9. října


Following up on my previous post, I tried the regression approach for predicting future snow depth from current values. As you recall, I produced a plot that showed how much snow we've had on the ground on each date at the Fairbanks Airport between 1917 and 2013. These boxplots gave us an idea of what a normal snow depth looks like on each date, but couldn't really tell us much about what we might expect for snow depth for the rest of the winter.
I'm grouping on year, then grabbing the snow depth for the three dates of interest. I would have liked to include dates in January and February in order to see how the relationship weakens as the winter progresses, but that's a lot more complicated because then we are comparing the dates from one year to the next and the grouping I used in the query above wouldn't work.
One note on this analysis: linear regression has a bunch of assumptions that need to be met before considering the analysis to be valid. One of these assumptions is that observations are independent from one another, which is problematic in this case because snow depth is a cumulative statistic; the depth tomorrow is necessarily related to the depth of the snow today (snow depth tomorrow = snow depth today + snowfall). Whether it's necessarily related to the depth of the snow a month from now is less certain, and I'm making the possibly dubious assumption that autocorrelation disappears when the time interval between observations is longer than a few weeks.
Both regressions are very similar. The coefficients and the overall model are both very significant, and the R² value indicates that in each case, the snow depth on November 8th explains about 40% of the variation in the snow depth on the later date. The amount of variation explained hardly changes at all, despite almost a month difference between the two analyses.
The blue line is the linear regression model.
For 2014, we've got 2 inches of snow on the ground on November 8th. The models predict we'll have 5.4 inches on November 27th and 8 inches on December 25th. That isn't great, but keep in mind that even though the relationship is quite strong, it explains less than half of the variation in the data, which means that it's quite possible we will have a lot more, or less. Looking back at the plot, you can see that for all the years where we had two inches of snow on November 8th, we had between five and fifteen inches of snow in that same year on December 25th. I'm certainly hoping we're closer to fifteen.
Winter started off very early this year with the first snow falling on October 4th and 5th, setting a two inch base several weeks earlier than normal. Since then, we've had only two days with more than a trace of snow.
This seems to be a common pattern in Fairbanks. After the first snowfall and the establishment of a thin snowpack on the ground, we all get excited for winter and expect the early snow to continue to build, filling the holes in the trails and starting the skiing, mushing and winter fat biking season. Then, nothing.
I decided to take a quick look at the pattern of snow depth at the Fairbanks Airport station to see how uncommon it is to only have two inches of snow this late in the winter (November 8th at this writing). The plot below shows all of the snow depth data between November and April for the airport station, displayed as box and whisker plots.
If you're interested in the code that produces the plot, it's at the bottom of the post. If the plot doesn't show up in your browser or you want a copy for printing, here's a link to the PDF version.
For those unfamiliar with these, they're a good way to evaluate the range of data grouped by some categorical variable (date, in our case) along with details about the expected values and possible extremes. The upper and lower limit of each box show the ranges where 25—75% of the data fall, meaning that half of all observed values are within this box for each date. For example, on today's date, November 8th, half of all snow depth values for the period in question fell between four and eight inches. Our current snow depth of two inches falls below this range, so we can say that only having two inches of snow on the ground happens in less than 25% of the time.
The horizontal line near the middle of the box is the median of all observations for that date. Median is shown instead of average / mean because extreme values can skew the mean, so a median will often be more representative of the most likely value. For today's date, the median snow depth is five inches. That's what we'd expect to see on the ground now.
The vertical lines extending above and below the boxes show the points that are within 1.5 times the range of the boxes. These lines represent the values from the data outside the most likely, but not very unusual. If you scan across the November to December portion of the plot, you can see that the lower whisker touches zero for most of the period, but starting on December 26th, it rises above zero and doesn't return until the spring. That means that there have been years where there was no snow on the ground on Christmas. Ouch.
The dots beyond the whiskers are outliers; observations so far from what is normal that they're exceptional and not likely to be repeated. On this plot, most of these outliers are probably from one or two exceptional years where we got a ton of snow. Some of those outliers are pretty incredible; consider having two and a half feet of snow on the ground at the end of April, for example.
The conclusion I'd draw from comparing our current snow depth of two inches against the boxplots is that it is somewhat unusual to have this little snow on the ground, but that it's not exceptional. It wouldn't be unusual to have no snow on the ground.
Looking forward, we would normally expect to have a foot of snow on the ground by mid-December, and I'm certainly hoping that happens this year. But despite the probabilities shown on this plot it can't say how likely that is when we know that there's only two inches on the ground now. One downside to boxplots in an analysis like this is that the independent variable (date) is categorical, and the plot doesn't have anything to say about how the values on one day relate to the values on the next day or any date in the future. One might expect, for example, that a low snow depth on November 8th means it's more likely we'll also have a low snow depth on December 25th, but this data can't offer evidence on that question. It only shows us what each day's pattern of snow depth is expected to be on it's own.
Bayesian analysis, "given a snow depth of two inches on November 8th, what is the likelihood of normal snow depth on December 25th", might be a good approach for further investigation. Or a more traditional regression analysis examining the relationship between snow depth on one date against snow depth on another.
It's the beginning of a new year and time for me to look back at what I learned last year. Rather than a long narrative, let's focus on the data. The local newspaper did a "community profile" of me this year and it was focused on my curiosity about the world around us and how we can measure and analyze it to better understand our lives. This post is a brief summary of that sort of analysis for my small corner of the world in the year that was 2013.
2013 was the year I decided to, and did, run the Equinox Marathon, so I spent a lot of time running this year and a lot less time bicycling. Since the race, I've been having hip problems that have kept me from skiing or running much at all. The roads aren't cleared well enough to bicycle on them in the winter so I got a fat bike to commute on the trails I'd normally ski.
I spent just about the same amount of time running, bicycling and skiing this year, and much less time hiking around on the trails than in the past. Because of all the running, and my hip injury, I didn't manage to commute to work with non-motorized transport quite as much this year (55% of work days instead of 63% in 2012), but the exercise totals are all higher.
One new addition this year is a heart rate monitor, which allows me to much more accurately estimate energy consumption than formulas based on the type of activity, speed, and time. Riding my fat bike, it's pretty clear that this form of travel is so much less efficient than a road bike with smooth tires that it can barely be called "bicycling," at least in terms of how much energy it takes to travel over a certain distance.
Here's the equations from Keytel LR, Goedecke JH, Noakes TD, Hiiloskorpi H, Laukkanen R, van der Merwe L, Lambert EV. 2005. Prediction of energy expenditure from heart rate monitoring during submaximal exercise. J Sports Sci. 23(3):289-97.
--- of hours at that rate.
It was a pretty remarkable year, although the drop in exercise this fall is disappointing.
Another way to visualize the 2013 data is in the form of a heatmap, where each block represents a day on the calendar, and the color is how many calories I burned on that day. During the summer you can see my long runs on the weekends showing up in red. Equinox was on September 21st, the last deep red day of the year.
2013 was quite remarkable for the number of days where the daily temperature was dramatically different from the 30-year average. The heatmap below shows each day in 2013, and the color indicates how many standard deviations that day's temperature was from the 30-year average. To put the numbers in perspective, approximately 95.5% of all observations will fall within two standard deviations from the mean, and 99.7% will be within three standard deviations. So the very dark red or dark blue squares on the plot below indicate temperature anomalies that happen less than 1% of the time. Of course, in a full year, you'd expect to see a few of these remarkable differences, but 2013 had a lot of remarkable differences.
2013 saw 45 days where the temperature was more than 2 standard deviations from the mean (19 that were colder than normal and 26 that were warmer), something that should only happen 16 days out of a normal year [ 365.25(1 − 0.9545) ]. There were four days ouside of 3 standard deviations from the mean anomaly. Normally there'd only be a single day [ 365.25(1 − 0.9973) ] with such a remarkably cold or warm temperature.
April and most of May were remarkably cold, resulting in many people skiing long past what is normal in Fairbanks. On May first, Fairbanks still had 17 inches of snow on the ground. Late May, almost all of June and the month of October were abnormally warm, including what may be the warmest week on record in Alaska from June 23rd to the 29th. Although it wasn't exceptional, you can see the brief cold snap preceding and including the Equinox Marathon on September 21st this year. The result was bitter cold temperatures on race day (my hands and feet didn't get warm until I was climbing Ester Dome Road an hour into the race), as well as an inch or two of snow on most of the trail sections of the course above 1,000 feet.
Most memorable was the ice and wind storm on November 13th and 14th that dumped several inches of snow and instantly freezing rain, followed by record high winds that knocked power out for 14,000 residents of the area, and then a drop in temperatures to colder than ‒20°F. My office didn't get power restored for four days.
I'm moving more and more of my work into git, which is a distributed revision control system (or put another way, it's a system that stores stuff and keeps track of all the changes). Because it's distributed, anything I have on my computer at home can be easily replicated to my computer at work or anywhere else, and any changes that I make to these files on any system, are easy to recover anywhere else. And it's all backed up on the master repository, and all changes are recorded. If I decide I've made a mistake, it's easy to go back to an earlier version.
Using this sort of system for software code is pretty common, but I'm also using this for normal text files (the docs repository below), and have starting moving other things into git such as all my eBooks.
The following figure shows the number of file changes made in three of my repositories over the course of the year. I don't know why April was such an active month for Python, but I clearly did a lot of programming that month. The large number of file changes during the summer in the docs repository is because I was keeping my running (and physical therapy) logs in that repository.
The dog barn was the big summer project. It's a seven by eleven foot building with large dog boxes inside that we keep warm. When the temperatures are too cold for the dogs to stay outside, we put them into their boxes in the dog barn and turn the heat up to 40°F. I have a real-time visualization of the conditions inside and outside the barn, and because the whole thing is run with a small Linux computer and Arduino board, I'm able to collect a lot of data about how the barn is performing.
One such analysis will be to see how much heat the dogs produce when they are in the barn. To estimate that, we need a baseline of how much heat we're adding at various temperatures in order to keep it at temperature. I haven't collected enough cold temperature data to really see what the relationship looks like, but here's the pattern so far.
The graph shows the relationship between the temperature differential between the outside and inside of the barn plotted against the percentage of time the heater is on in order to maintain that differential, for all 12-hour periods where the dogs weren't in the barn and there's less than four missing observations. I've also run a linear and quadratic regression in order to predict how much heat will be required at various temperature differentials.
The two r2 values shows how much of the variation in heating is explained by the temperature differential for the linear and the quadratic regressions. I know that this isn't a linear relationship, but that model still fits the data better than the quadratic model does. It may be that it's some other form of non-linear relationship that's not well expressed by a second order polynomial.
Once we can predict how much heat it should take to keep the barn warm at a particular temperature differential, we can see how much less heat we're using when the dogs are in the barn. One complication is that the dogs produce enough moisture when they are in the barn that we need to ventilate it when they are in there. So in addition to the additive heating from the dogs themselves, there will be increased heat losses because we have to keep it better ventilated.
It'll be an interesting data set.
Power consumption is a concern now that we've set up the dog barn and are keeping it heated with an electric heater. It's an oil-filled radiator-style heater, and uses around 1,100 Watts when it's on.
This table shows our overall usage by year for the period we have data.
Our overall energy use continues to go down, which is a little surprising to me, actually, since we eliminated most of the devices known to use a lot electricity (incandescent light bulbs, halogen floodlights) years ago. Despite that, and bringing the dog barn on line in late November, we used less electricity in 2013 than in the prior three years.
Here's the pattern by month, and year.
The spike in usage in November is a bit concerning, since it's the highest overall monthly consumption for the past four years. Hopefully this was primarily due to the heavy use of the heater during the final phases of the dog barn construction. December wasn't a particularly cold month relative to years past, but it's good to see that our consumption was actually quite low even with the barn heater being on the entire month.
That wraps it up. Have a happy and productive 2014!
The list of books for the 2014 Tournament of Books has been released. Once again, I plan to keep the list up to date with what I've read and whether I thought each book is good enough to win. One star (☆) means I didn't like it but managed to finish it, two stars (☆☆) means I liked it but I didn't think it should win, and three stars (★★★) means it was one of the better books I read this (or last) year and I'd be happy if it won the Tournament. The last several years my personal favorites going into the contest have been eliminated, but thus far I haven't been disappointed with the eventual winner.
I've got a lot of reading to do between now and March, since I've only read two of the seventeen books chosen. Some seem like pretty obvious choices, but at least half of them are unfamiliar to me. And I just started reading The Flamethrowers, so I can't even start on these until I'm done with that book. The good news is that all of them are available as eBooks from my local bookseller (Gulliver's Books). That probably means they are in Amazon's Kindle library as well.


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Q: PostgreSQL: finding multiple columns that match a like clause I have a simple table:
column 1               column2               column3
 AA                     AAAA                    TT
 AA                     BB                      EE
 AB                     C                       AABBCC
 ABC                    XXX                     XYZ
 AABB                   YYY                      A

now i tried to find all columns, that match e.g. 'AA%' resulting in:
column 1               column2               column3
 **AA**                **AAAA**                null
**AA**                  null                   null
 null                   null                  *AABBCC*
 null                   null                   null
 **AABB**               null                   null

is that possible with one simple query?  my idea was to start with unions or temporay tables, but i can't get it to work. sorry for this simple beginner question and thanks in advance!
select d1.column1, d1.column2, d1.column3 from sample d1 where d1.column1 like 'AA%'
   union
      select d2.column1, d2.column2, d2.column3 from sample d2 where d2.column2 like 'AA%'
         union
            select d3.column1, d3.column2, d3.column3 from sample d3 where d3.column3 like 'AA%'

A: You could just use OR key-word as this:
SELECT column1, column2, column3
FROM sample
WHERE column1 like 'AA%'
OR column2 like 'AA%'
OR column3 like 'AA%'

A: You union query is also correct bt in case of simplicity i agree with Or query

A: With PostgreSQL there is the ANY or ALL:
WHERE col LIKE ANY( subselect )

or
WHERE col LIKE ALL( subselect )

where the subselect returns exactly one column of data.


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Q: Por que no se guarda mi comentario en la base de datos y por que no me lo muestra en cada post, Django No se me esta guardando cada comentario y tampoco me los muestra aunque los haga desde el admin de Django, necesito mostrar el comentario y el usuario que ralizo tal comentario no me da error me da un codigo "POST /posts/ HTTP/1.1" 200 2885 pero cuando quiero ver el comentario que realize no me lo muestra y tampoco se guarda en la base de datos, pero cuando lo hago desde el admin de Django se guarda pero no me muestra el comentario en la vista
Este es mi codigo
views.py
def create_comment(request, id):
    post = Post.objects.get(id=id)
    if request.method == "POST":
        comment = Comment(
            content=request.POST["comment"],
            author_id=request.user.pk
        )
        #comment = Comment.objects.create_comment(content)
        comment.save()

        return redirect("/posts")

    return render(request, 'posts/comment.html', {'post': post})

models.py
class Comment(models.Model):
    post = models.ForeignKey(Post, on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True)
    author = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.SET_NULL, null=True)
    content = models.TextField()
    created_date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, null=True)
    def __str__(self):
        return f'{self.author.username, self.content}'

urls.py
app_name = 'posts'

urlpatterns = [
    path("", views.posts, name='posts_list'),
    path('create', views.create_post, name='post_create'),
    path('<int:id>', views.post, name='post_detail'),
    path('comment/<int:id>', views.create_comment, name='post_comment'),
    path('edit/<int:id>', views.edit_post, name='post_edit'),
    path('delete/<int:id>', views.delete_post, name='post_delete')
]

comments.html el html donde se crean los comentarios
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Document</title>

    <form action="/posts/" method="POST">
        {% csrf_token %}
        <textarea name="content" placeholder="Comenta"></textarea>
        <button>comentar</button>
    </form>

posts.html (el html donde se muestran todas publicaciones)
{% load static %}
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Title</title>
    <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.1.3/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-1BmE4kWBq78iYhFldvKuhfTAU6auU8tT94WrHftjDbrCEXSU1oBoqyl2QvZ6jIW3" crossorigin="anonymous">

Posts

    crear publicacion

        {% for post in posts %}

{{ post.title }}

{{ comment.author }}
:
{{ comment.content }}

{{ post.created_date }}

{{ post.description }}

                        <button>Editar</button>
                        <button>borrar</button>
                        <button>comentar</button>

        {% endfor %}

** esto es lo que me muestra la consola a la hora de crear un comentario**
<QuerySet [<Post: 18/05/2022 prueba>, <Post: 18/05/2022 postprueba2>]>
[18/May/2022 22:24:20] "POST /posts/ HTTP/1.1" 200 2885

A: En el views.py no estás asignando el post al comentario.
comment = Comment(
    post=post.pk, # <-- Te faltaría esto.
    content=request.POST["comment"],
    author_id=request.user.pk
)


Again, a long overdue update….
I have tried to call each and every one of you individually over the past 6 weeks to explain to you what my new practice will be like. If I haven't managed to connect with you, please call me so we can discuss the below at 321-285-6363.
In the midst of the health reform discussions, I am sure you are aware of the fact that the costs of delivering medical care are increasing while reimbursement rates do not keep pace with increasing expenses. Over the years I have tried to provide a very personalized and comprehensive style of practice. I believe medicine can only be practiced by having enough time to listen to your patients and really know your patients. This is my goal. This is why I went into primary care. However, this is not sustainable due to the above mentioned poor reimbursement and increasing expenses. There are many expenses that arise from meeting administrative demands that are not actually part of the delivery of medical care to my patients. For this reason, I have decided to choose a model of medicine that will involve a yearly fee. While I deeply regret the need to impose this additional expense on you, unlike some other primary care practices, I am asking a smaller fee to defray the escalating costs and poor reimbursement. Without this charge it would prohibit me from continuing to deliver the kind of medicine I believe is important and hopefully, you feel you have received and is equally important to you. I actually will limit the size of my practice to sustain and enhance my style of medicine: more time with you each visit, same day, next day visits where necessary and expectations of less waiting time for you appointment.
Compared to other concierge practices that charge upwards of $2,500/year, I have decided to charge $1500/year for similar services. Although your insurance company will not reimburse you for your annual payment, you still may be able to write off a portion of your payment on your income taxes. In addition, if your company has a Flex (Section 125) Plan or a Medical IRA, you should be able to receive reimbursement for your annual payment with "before tax dollars." I encourage you to talk with your tax advisor and employer about these options. Please understand that I realize $1500 is a LOT of money—many of you already pay a lot for health insurance and are on a fixed income. If this model won't work for you, I have a few names of doctors as an alternative.
10. Prompt telephone feedback for test results.
Please personally call me at 321-285-6363 if you have ANY questions I can answer. Again, please understand how hard it was for me to decide on this model with all that you have been through in the last 6 months. I am quickly learning that my situation was not a unique one and the future of primary care is quickly changing. With all of those changes forthcoming, I want the art of medicine to remain as it used to be, with the practice of medicine as it should be…..
If you have already requested your records be sent to me and are going to establish with another doctor, you will be able to pick up your chart after July 1st.
**The office is at the corner of Orange Ave and 17/92 b/w Jewett Clinic and Einstein Brothers Bagels, in the same building as Dr.William House.


Samsung is really, really, really proud of the Galaxy S8 and S8+'s design. Not only did it spend a lot of time talking it up during the device's official announcement, it is also touting it left and right at every opportunity... and for good reason. The S8 and S8+ take every compliment that was said about the S7 and S7 Edge and push it further. The curves, lines, design, material, finishes, everything just comes together to create a gorgeous smartphone that can disappear to let the display shine or pop up when you choose to focus on it.
Samsung will be exhibiting the S8 at Milan Design Week (think Mobile World Congress but for design).


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Q: Remove 2 lines before a particular string using sed I have an xml file that I am trying to parse. It has somthing like
   **</data_item>
  </data_item>
</data_item>**
<xml version>
</data_item>
<some random text>
</data_item>
<some random text>

    **</data_item>
  </data_item>
</data_item>**
<xml version>

 **</data_item>
  </data_item>
</data_item>**

The lines highlighted in bold where there are 3 data_items, back to back (except the last set of 3) I want to delete two of them and retain only 1.. There are 7-8 of those occurrences and I am trying to use the string xml version to get to the two lines above it and delete them. Please help me with a sed one liner that does this.

A: Here is one way of doing it with GNU sed:
$ sed '/<\/data_item>/{N;/<\/data_item>$/{N;$!{s/\n//;D}}}' file
</data_item>
<xml version>
</data_item>
<some random text>
</data_item>
<some random text>

</data_item>
<xml version>

 </data_item>
  </data_item>
</data_item>

Explanation:
sed '
    /<\/data_item>/ {        # Look for lines matching this pattern
        N                    # Append the next line to pattern space
        /<\/data_item>$/ {   # If the line matches our pattern
            N                # Append the next line to pattern space
            $! {             # If it is not end of file
                s/\n//       # Replace the first new line with nothing
                D            # Delete up to first newline
            }
        }
    }
' file


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Asus TS Mini Windows Home Server Review
Written by Alan Lu
February 19, 2010 | 10:16
Tags: #comparison #films #movies #network #performance #rated #read-speed #review #streaming #tested #windows-home-server #write-speed
Companies: #asus
1 - What is Windows Home Server? 2 - The Asus TS Mini: What it is, What it does 3 - How We Tested and Results 4 - Results Analysis and Conclusion
The Asus TS Mini: What it is, What it does
UK Price (as reviewed): £349 (inc VAT) for 1TB, £299 (inc VAT) for 500GB
US Price (as reviewed): $529.99 (ex tax) for 2TB, $349.99 (ex tax) for 500GB
Although the Windows Home Server operating system has been available since 2007, the TS Mini is Asus' first WHS PC. We looked at the 1TB version which is due to cost around £349, while a 500GB version will be available for around £299. Early prototypes of the server were mounted on a swivelling stand, had a front-mounted status display and had a built-in DVD writer, but these extraneous features have been removed from the final version.
The server is roughly the size of a large hardback book and is fairly quiet in operation. Its two 40mm fans may be audible in a very quiet room, but they're not loud enough to be intrusive.
Although WHS is designed to run on standard PC hardware, Asus has used a slightly unusual design for the TS Mini. It's built around a FlexATX Asus-manufactured motherboard fitted with 2GB of laptop RAM and an embedded Atom N280 processor – this is a 2.5W, single-core, Hyper-Threaded CPU. There's an onboard Gigabit Ethernet port and four USB 2 ports for connecting external hard disks. The USB ports can be used to add more storage to your network, or their contents can simply be backed up to a shared folder.
Some WHS PCs from other manufacturers have their hard disks mounted in easily-removable hard disk trays, but getting to the TS Mini's 1TB SATA 3Gbps disk is a tedious hassle. Removing the screw-on side panel is easy enough, but yanking out the caddy holding the 1TB disk takes considerable force. The caddy has space for one additional disk.
Examining the cage reveals a bizarre arrangement – the 1TB disk is connected to a SATA controller card that plugs into the PCI Express 1x slot on the FlexATX motherboard. This ungainly arrangement makes it extremely difficult to reassemble the TS Mini, since it's impossible to visually align the card to the slot during re-insertion thanks to the large plate of metal that the disk caddy is attached to. This is tricky enough, but at the same time as aligning the tiny connector while essentially blind, you have to slide the fixings for the hard disk caddy in place too.
Although the TS Mini has support for two hard disks, WHS doesn't support RAID of any kind. It does have a feature roughly equivalent to RAID 1 (mirroring) called folder duplication, though. This will automatically mirror shared folders of your choice onto the other disk, which is actually more flexible than RAID 1.
Sharing a USB printer among your networked computers is a simple task for most NAS devices, but it's inexplicably not supported under WHS. However, it's easy enough to get around this since WHS is based on Windows Server 2003. Since the WHS Connector configuration program is actually nothing more than a customised Remote Desktop client, it's simple to connect to the TS Mini using the standard Remote Desktop Connection program from a normal PC.
This gives you access to the standard Windows desktop, so printer sharing can be set up from there. Other WHS PC manufacturers block this Remote Desktop trick and instead require you to use a plug-in.
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Whitby Sci Fi & Comic Con- Round Up
Posted on November 29, 2015 December 7, 2015 by Kat Lawson
Saturday 28th November, 10am – 4pm.
It's been a wet weekend here in Whitby but yesterday, inside the town's iconic Whitby Spa Pavilion Complex on the West Cliff, the first ever Whitby Sci Fi & Comic Con was well under way, and to say the event was a roaring success would be a bit of an understatement.
Organised by father and son duo Adrian and Jack Booth, along with Alysia and Will Hyde, the event has been a long time passion project for Adrian and his family who moved to Whitby from the Midlands six years ago. When they opened their shop 'Outpost 31', an Aladdin's Cave for geeks, one of their aims was to organise a comic con in the town.
In May of this year Adrian's wife Sharon was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and given only months to live. Sadly Sharon passed away only four weeks later in St Catherine's Hospice at the age of just 44, but in those four weeks Sharon set about making plans for the future. One of those plans was putting the wheels in motion for the Whitby Sci Fi & Comic Con, with a slight twist. Rather than running the convention as simply an extension of the shop, proceeds from the event will be donated to Cancer Research UK, specifically the section of the charity focusing on the early detection of cancer.
And what better way to honour Sharon's legacy and raise money for charity than to get dressed up and revel in the things she loved?
There was masses of support from the local community; when the event opened at 10am people were queuing out the door and down the street, all joining together in a celebration of all things geek culture. With costumes ranging from Rapunzel (complete with her own Pascal) to Captain Jack Sparrow, and even as far as the Alien Queen from Alien, as well as stalls selling everything from comic books to vampire novels, memorabilia and props, there was something there for everyone to enjoy. Just as importantly, there was something new for everyone to discover.
Some traders had traveled far and wide to get to Whitby this weekend, but for others, such as artist Steve Scott, it was a chance to showcase home-grown talent. Steve cites Sharon Booth as a major help in encouraging him to publish Clown Story: "I knew Sharon and I said I was writing a graphic novel, but I was a bit nervous about it and she said 'let me read it and I'll tell you if it's good.'" So, with Sharon's encouragement Steve finished Clown Story and is one of the only people from Whitby to ever publish a graphic novel. He said: "the whole thing was inspired to actually get finished in the name of Sharon Booth, and she's the lady that this whole event is for, and it's going well. I love it!"
For others such as author Michelle Birbeck, it was a chance to promote her work and support a great cause. Michelle's latest series The Keepers Chronicles fits in very well with Whitby's long vampiric history: "I'm here with my latest series The Keepers Chronicles. When Alysia asked me to come to Whitby Sci Fi & Comic Con, I immediately said yes. It's always nice to come to Whitby and it's a great opportunity for me, and it's all for a fantastic cause."
Of course, any great comic con needs some fantastic guests, and yesterday we were spoilt for choice with Spencer Wilding, Virginia Hey, Phill Martin, Leah Cairns and Chris Bunn all taking part in Q&A sessions, signing autographs, posing for photos and taking the time to talk to everyone.
Hosted by Lee Hunter, from memorabilia shop Hunters Toys in Stockton-on-Tees, the first Q&A session was with Virginia Hey and Leah Cairns, and while Virginia and Lee met some time ago on the convention circuit, Canadian born Leah, on her first trip to North East England, needed Virginia to act as interpreter at times. This only added to the fun.
A fairly standard start talking about breakthrough roles – Leah's was on The Chris Isaak Show (2002) while Virginia's was Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) – led to an interesting discussion about female leads in relation to the latest Mad Max film, Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). Male dominance of the film industry, from actors to directors and writers, has been a much debated topic in the press and in film academia in recent years, and Mad Max: Fury Road was praised for the dominant female roles. When asked if she liked the most recent installment in the Mad Max franchise, Virginia said "yes, I loved it," and also commented on how Tom Hardy's role as the titular Max Rockatansky was smaller than Mel Gibson's in the original three films, giving more weight to Charlize Theron's character Imperator Furiosa. Leah commented that if the biggest problem with a film is that you see too much of your female lead "it's a good problem to have".
While Leah's breakthrough role was on The Chris Isaak Show in 2002, it is her role as Lieutenant Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson in the re-imagined version of Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009) that she is best known for. Similar to Virginia's question about Mad Max, Leah was asked what she thought about the original version of Battlestar Galactica compared to the re-imagined version she starred in. Rather than a detailed explanation of the differences between the two series, Leah admitted that she had never seen the original when she started filming her role as Racetrack, and only after a number of episodes, when she realised her role would be permanent, did she watch the original.
Q&A sessions always yield some fantastic stories, and this one was no exception, with Virginia explaining how she applied for a Green Card in the USA. Virginia's lawyer had been compiling a dossier proving that she satisfied the requirements for obtaining a Green Card and residing in the USA, and a few weeks later was sent a letter saying she was an 'Alien of Extraordinary Ability'. Bearing in mind this was after Virginia played the role of Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan in Farscape. "I didn't think my lawyer had a sense of humour so I rang him up saying 'haha thank you very much', and he said 'what are you talking about?' I didn't realise that it was the official paperwork and that that's what they put on your Green Card."
When the session was opened up to questions from the floor, one member of the audience asked about the challenges of acting with inanimate objects such as robots or characters that will be added later using CGI. Both Virginia and Leah had experiences of working with characters who weren't really there, so to speak, and explained that usually a member of the crew will put a piece of coloured tape on something like a broom handle to represent the other character and where their eye-line should go, "so you are literally reacting to a broom," says Leah.
Using host Lee to represent a camera, the rest of the session then went on to demonstrate how to shoot over the shoulder shots when there is not enough room on the set for a camera and cameraman to stand behind the actor/actress. Virginia explained: "Say me and Leah are shooting a scene together and we've done the wide shot and two camera shots, and now the director wants to do over the shoulder shots, the camera needs to be as close as possible to the actors eye-line. But if you pretend there's a wall behind Leah, then there isn't enough room for the cameraman to get behind her, so they'll get a broom handle again and mark where her face would be so I have to talk to the broom. And say if I get distracted and look at her boobs or something like that I've got to judge where I would be looking according to where her face is on this broom."
Throughout the day, in between Q&A sessions, we were treated to some disco music. As Sharon loved a bit of disco, at various intervals throughout the day Blame It On the Boogie was played with everyone stopping what they were doing to join in the dancing, led by Alysia and Lee, and with as many costumers as possible on stage. The result was quite a treat. After all, how often do you see Deadpool, Pyramid Head, Cinderella, Beth Greene, and some escaped zombies all dancing together around Jabba the Hutt's throne?
After a look around the stalls, a break for lunch and a bit more dancing, we came to our second Q&A session of the day, this time with Spencer Wilding, Phill Martin and Chris Bunn, again hosted by Lee Hunter. Beginning this time with an interesting fact about each of the three guests, as we already knew, Chris Bunn was the first ever Stormtrooper in the original Star Wars Trilogy, but what we didn't know was that the Stormtrooper armour was modelled on a plaster cast taken of Chris's body. Although the armour for the later three Star Wars films and indeed the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been tweaked slightly here and there from the first incarnation, it is still very close to the original version that was modelled on Chris.
Lee's interesting fact about Phill Martin was that he was an Engineer on Prometheus, sometimes credited as the 'Elephant Engineer' as the helmets worn featured a trunk like structure, and other times credited as the 'Ghost Engineer' as a lot of Phill's scenes were turned into holograms which represented the difference between past and present in the film.
Like Virginia, Lee had known Spencer Wilding for a number of years so saved his interesting fact for last. According to the presenter, Spencer once locked himself out of a hotel room in the middle of the night and Lee, in the room next door, gave him a sheet and a pillow for him to sleep in the corridor. Perhaps the less said about that one the better.
At seven feet tall Phill is the perfect height for playing the role of giants and creatures, but before acting Phill worked a number of what he described as "boring office jobs" and it wasn't until he and his wife were watching a documentary on television that he first took steps towards the acting profession.
"My wife and I were watching a documentary about really tall people, and there was this one guy it followed who was going for an audition with an acting agency, and they showed the audition and I sat there thinking 'he was crap, I could do better than that,' so I decided to put my money where my mouth is and here I am."
Spencer, on the other hand, found his way into acting via the sporting world, becoming the Welsh, British and European Champion in kickboxing, and first signed up with an agency who put sports stars in films. Spencer has also done some work as a stunt man and recalls working on a Monster Munch advert where he played the Monster Munch Yeti. Stunt men and women go through six years of training before they can register as a stuntman or stuntwoman, and after telling the director he wasn't actually a stunt man Spencer was then told more specifics about requirements of the role such as hanging out of cable cars and falling down mountains. His response was: "I'm up for that". The advert used to air before children's show Ministry of Mayhem and featured a Yeti who was scared of his own shadow but also addicted to Monster Munch and who wreaked havoc in his attempts to obtain more of crisps. Due to his lack of stunt training Spencer says: "so when the Yeti fell over and hurt himself, he did actually hurt himself."
When the session was opened up to questions from the floor, one member of the audience asked Chris Bunn if, with the release of the next installment just weeks away, they'd had any idea at the start that Star Wars would become anything like global phenomenon it is today, to which Chris replied: "no, it was just another day at work for us. A lot of people don't know this but it was originally meant to be a pilot for a six episode show to rival Battlestar Galactica, but it just grew and then studio came back with more money and it took off. But, none of us could anticipate how big it would become, and how big it would still be nearly 40 years later."
As well as his roles in Star Wars and four James Bond films, among others, Chris was also once a stunt double for Joanna Lumley in The New Avengers: "we were in the dressing room and one of the crew came in and asked if anyone could fit into a size 7 woman's boot, and I'm a size 8 so I said I'll try, two cans of talc later and I got them on. Then I was told to take them off again and put on red tights and a mini skirt. I was going to run through a field of machine gun fire as Joanna Lumley's double."
Phill Martin got involved with Whitby Sci Fi & Comic Con through Spencer Wilding having worked together on Pan (2015). On set Spencer couldn't keep a straight face and was always cracking up during scenes: "Spencer led me astray. I knew he would and he did."
Throughout the day the basement of the complex had been taken over by zombies (apart from when they escaped to come upstairs and dance) for the Zombie Experience, wherein people were lead through the room being chased by a heard of zombies. Unfortunately I didn't get to go around due to the fact I tend to hit things that make me jump so it's not good for me to do anything with live actors, but I was told by some who did go around that it was scary but also a lot of fun, and some even got to high five the zombies which seemed to be a highlight. The zombies were made up of a group of volunteers who were 'zombiefied' by Newcastle based special effects make up artists GoreFreak FX.
After the zombies were all rounded up and released back into society and the basement returned to its usual state as a sports hall, Spencer Wilding lead a kickboxing demonstration, the first time he'd ever done a kickboxing demo at a convention. During the 30 minute session Spencer lead a group of 10 volunteers, including Alysia Hyde (one of the event organisers) through a series of introductory techniques.
Following the kickboxing demo it was time for the raffle to be drawn for a large number of collectable items, as well as extra raffles run by individual stallholders, followed by a few words of thanks from Alysia, Adrian and the rest of the team.
The final total is still to be announced but at the time of leaving last night the number was up to £5,000 and still counting; all of which was raised for Cancer Research UK and Sharon's Place. With what seemed like at least half of the town turning out to support the event, Whitby Sci Fi & Comic Con has got off to a fantastic start. When I asked Adrian if he was aiming for the same again next year he said: "bigger and better". Watch this space.
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Film & Media Studies graduate with a passion for horrors, psychological thrillers, European cinema, and pretty much anything a little bit weird. Lover of Rush, Cars and most films motor racing related. I want to star in my own Princess movie looking like Kat Dennings, with Princess Anastasia's wardrobe, Rapunzel's hair, Mulan's kick ass-ness and a sidekick trio of Pascal, Bartok and Mushu, and maybe Crikee Bug too. Prince Charming optional.
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Does the Reformed Doctrine of Inerrancy Threaten Christian Libertarians?
Kerry Baldwin
Categories: Libertarianism
The Libertarian Christian Institute is an ecumenical Christian organization which brings together Christians from a variety of theological backgrounds. Though our theological differences don't affect libertarianism, sometimes they intersect it. And when this happens, it's prudent to share and grapple with our differing perspectives.
Peter Enns is a Westminster trained Biblical scholar, holds a Ph.D from Harvard, and he objects to the inerrancy of scripture.1 He objects because Christians can't agree on everything the bible affirms and teaches. While Enns questions the historicity of much of Scripture, he says, "portions of Scripture that do rightly affirm/teach include the 10 Commandments, Jesus's teachings on forgiveness, the Beatitudes, and many other things." These things are true, Enns argues, because they're related to faith and salvation. Enns illustrates his point using Romans 13; the thorn in the flesh of Christian libertarians.
Peter Enns and Romans 13
1 Peter Enns and Romans 13
2 So what exactly is Enns' problem with inerrancy? To answer that, I need to unravel it from Biblicism.
3 So, what is inerrancy?
4 Why does this matter?
5 Defending what's authoritative
5.1 Is Romans 13 authoritative?
5.1.1 Footnotes
Enns agrees that Paul is teaching/affirming something, but whatever it is, the standard interpretation of Romans 13 runs counter to the founding of America, which is born from an act of violence and treason.2 So what gives? Enns has a valid complaint here. How do we interpret Romans 13?
Enns points out common concerns with the text given we believe it doesn't apply to certain situations.3 Of course, this nuance isn't explicit either; we must infer it by considering other passages like Acts 5:29, which incidentally, and perhaps ironically, is in the context of disobeying religious authorities.
So what exactly is Enns' problem with inerrancy?
To answer that, I need to unravel it from Biblicism.
Enns' isn't ignorant of the Chicago Statement of Biblical Inerrancy (CSBI). He's penned several books, and one of them resulted in his suspension from Westminster Theological Seminary. Despite his Reformed education, I found myself confused by his stance. In fact, upon reading his contribution to the Five Views of Biblical Inerrancy, I realized that he's conflating Biblicism with inerrancy.4
Why is this a confusion? Krisis and Praxis gives an excellent overview of the varying degrees of inerrancy. At the top, is Biblicism. But Biblicism doesn't appear to be the position of A.A. Hodge and B.B. Warfield, the writers from Old Princeton who drafted the doctrine of inspiration.
Enns believes Biblicists are "the better inerrantists" because those who don't hold to a literal/biblicist view are simply being influenced by extra-biblical factors. This, however, doesn't align with Hodge and Warfield. They acknowledged that what Scripture affirms/teaches is (relatively) narrow in scope and that extra-biblical sources may influence our interpretations. In fact, Warfield was known for cautiously agreeing with Darwin and evolution.
Even as Enns' continues to ask how we can know what bible writers intended, it is a common practice in scholarship to seek clarification, either from explicit statements or inference. Here too we can infer that Warfield, in drafting the doctrine of inspiration, did not intend to have it defend a literal 6-day creation. Already, we have reason to believe the Biblicists hold a dogmatic view of inerrancy which extends beyond the original reformed view.
So, what is inerrancy?
Enns claims inerrancy is a theory; a rationalist theory based on self-evident assumptions. In Five Views, Michael F. Bird supports Enns' assertion by arguing that Warfield and Hodge, were arguing with "René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, or F.C. Baur lurking in the background." In other words, Bird argues, part of the motivation for defending inerrancy must have been some solidarity with René Descartes' rationalism over and against Immanuel Kant's criticism and Baur's introduction of higher criticism. This could show that the premise of inerrancy is an extra-biblical theory, and would lend itself to Enns' argument that inerrancy is itself dubious.
For the Christian libertarian, this may seem enticing especially given the difficulty of passages related to civil governance. To this end, it may seem that inerrancy is a threat to our very God-given rights and is interfering with our knowledge of God. Is Enns right? Is inerrancy just a theory we should throw out?
Written into the Presuppositions of the doctrine of inspiration:
"Inspiration can have no meaning if Christianity is not true, but Christianity would be true and divine, and, being so, would stand, even if God had not been pleased to give us, in addition to His revelation of saving truth, an infallible record of that revelation absolutely errorless, by means of Inspiration … our conception of revelation and its methods must be conditioned upon our general views of God's relation to the world, and His methods of influencing the souls of men. The only really dangerous opposition to the Church doctrine of Inspiration comes either directly or indirectly, but always ultimately, from some false view of God's relation to the world, of His methods of working, and of the possibility of a supernatural agency penetrating and altering the course of a natural process … In this case that design is a record without error of the facts and doctrines He had commissioned His servants to teach." (emphasis added)
Against Enns claim, inerrancy is not theoretical at all. It's pre-theoretical. Roy Clouser expounds on this in his book Myth of Religious Neutrality. I can summarize with his statement, "every theory either explicitly contains some divinity belief or presupposes one." It means that not only is inerrancy a divinity belief that controls the doctrinal systems exegeted from Scripture, but the denial of inerrancy is also a divinity belief that controls how Peter Enns exegetes Scripture.
Clouser goes on, "…the exercise of theoretical reason is always regulated and directed by some per se divinity belief so that reason is not autonomous nor is theorizing religiously neutral … the essential core of [a divinity belief] is to [be] unconditionally non-dependent on reality." Hodge and Warfield claim that divine inspiration is meaningless if it is not true. So inerrancy isn't dependent on human writers, but on how God relates to mankind. Does God relate to us through truth or error?
Both Enns' view and the Reformed view of Inspiration entail a presupposition concerning error. In the former, inspiration may entail error; in the latter view, inspiration may not entail error. And though Enns may believe he's disproven inerrancy by appealing to certain portions of Scripture as being prima facie incongruous, the belief that error is or is not entailed in divine inspiration, is presupposed. Why? Because we can't subject the divine inspiration of God to human truth tests. And that's the point. We must pre-suppose!
Why does this matter?
Well, that depends (at least in part) on Romans 13. Enns wants to argue that only teachings related to faith and salvation are truthful passages. But Romans 13 does indeed teach something concerning salvation. That is, a warning, "whoever resists the authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves." But how does this square with Acts 5:29 or with Romans 8:1?
What's being asked of libertarians when we're confronted with the question, "what about Romans 13?" is not simply a question about our position on obeying civil magistrates; it goes deeper. It's a question about what we believe about authority itself.
If Enns is correct, then we can essentially ignore Romans 13 as not being relevant in today's context. But to what end can we take this especially with a passage which has a blatant warning concerning faith and salvation? It seems, according to Enns' own standard, that this text can't be written off as erroneous. On the other hand, if inerrancy is correct, then in light of the warning Paul gives, it's imperative that we be sober-minded. Certainly, it could be said, that the myriad explanations for Romans 13 is evidence enough that it's both a difficult passage and quite relevant.
Defending what's authoritative
The controversy over inerrancy is a question of authority. Does God hold authority in how he relates to us, or does man hold authority in discerning what ought to be authoritative from Scripture?
Inerrancy isn't a statement about man's capacity to err; it's a statement about God's incapacity to err. Denying inerrancy isn't a statement about man's being convicted by the Spirit; it's a statement about the potential for the Spirit to speak erroneously to you.
Is Romans 13 authoritative?
If it is, then ongoing study for understanding and defense is paramount. If it is not, then what else in Scripture that comes from warnings of condemnation is also unauthoritative? Dare we tread here? But Enns' choice of using Romans 13 to illustrate his conundrum may be providential as it directly relates to faith and salvation and therefore holds to Enns' requirements for passages that are true.
And if we truly believe libertarianism is the most consistent expression of Christian political thought,5 then Romans 13 shouldn't be a thorn in our flesh. After all, couched in our rejection of the state's authority, is our defense of the legitimate use of force, or legitimate authority. Romans 13 should be our clarion call to authorities in all spheres of life, including that of civil governance, to their submission of explicitly delineated duties and limitations that those in authority are called, and our faithful submission to proper God-ordained authority so far as our Christian liberty allows.
In the final analysis, Biblicist dogmatism certainly can threaten Christian libertarians, particularly anarchists. However, the reformed view of inerrancy doesn't threaten or weaken the Christian libertarian perspective, instead it strengthens it.
Inerrancy is an aspect of the doctrine of inspiration.
And was pejoratively labeled the "Presbyterian Rebellion" by King George
The standard response is that we are to obey the state so long as it doesn't command what God forbids nor forbids what God commands.
Under one of Reformed's Five Solas, Sola Scriptura.
Admittedly, my LCI colleagues may cringe at my assertion that this is entirely about authority. While I will agree with Dr. Norman Horn that a biblical view of government doesn't begin and end with Romans 13, it plays a pivotal role.
Kerry Baldwin is an independent researcher and writer with a B.A. in Philosophy from Arizona State University. Her writing focuses on libertarian philosophy and reformed theology and aimed at the educated layperson; challenging readers to rethink prevailing paradigms in politics, theology, and culture. She is a confessionally Reformed, orthodox Presbyterian, in the tradition of J. Gresham Machen (1881 - 1937), an outspoken libertarian and defender of Christian orthodoxy.
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Apple Announces 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro with M2 chips
By neelum October 19, 2022
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Apple revealed the new 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models today, both of which are powered by the newest M2 Apple Silicon CPUs. The M2 processor first appeared in the 2022 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro, and this upgrade extends that capability to Apple's professional tablet portfolio.
In addition to the M2 speed improvement, the iPad Pros can detect when the Apple Pencil is floating above the display. This implies that UI components may grow and respond as the user approaches the screen with the stylus.
According to Apple, the M2's 8-core CPU is up to 15% quicker than the M1 CPU. The GPU has improved by up to 35%. The iPad Pro can now capture ProPres video for the first time, due to the M2 chip.
The new iPad Pro also boasts quicker Wi-Fi networking because it supports Wi-Fi 6E standards. Downloads can be up to twice as fast when connected to a 6E network. More 5G bands are now supported by cellular models for increased worldwide coverage.
With the new hovering capability, the iPad will detect when the Apple Pencil is hovering over the screen. This implies that user interface components can appear and disappear, ready for committed user involvement. As the Pencil approaches the display, a Scribble text field, for example, grows. This hovering capability will be made available to third-party apps through a new API.
The hovering function does not need the purchase of a new Apple Pencil, and the existing compatible Apple Pencil for iPad Pro (second-generation model) is still on sale for $129.
The new iPad Pro-11-inch costs $799, and the 12.9-inch iPad Pro costs $1099. Prices remain unchanged from the previous generation. The latest iPad models are already on sale, with the first delivery slated for October 26.
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