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This recipe describes how to retrieve data from the Spitzer archive using the Spitzer Heritage Archive (SHA) web-based interface.
An individual Spitzer observation sequence is an AOR, or Astronomical Observation Request. In certain cases (often calibration or sometimes science observations), you may also see an IER, or Instrument Engineering Request. Either one involves many individual frames.� Both have a large integer number called an AORKEY that uniquely identifies that observation within the mission.
The individual data frames that emerge, calibrated, from the Spitzer pipeline are Level 1, or Basic Calibrated Data, or BCDs.
The products that come from combining these individual data frames (such as mosaics of individual pointings) are Level 2, or post-BCD, or PBCD data.
Spitzer observations can cover large areas or, by design, multiple targets. If you are interested in just portions of the larger observation, you can choose to have just individual data products returned -- e.g., just the observations that went into the portion of the sky for which you searched -- or you can return the products for the whole AOR.
The SHA website displays subwindows, called panes.� Items within each pane often appear in tabs � click on different tabs to display different pane contents.
Also available are Enhanced Products that come from combining AORs or doing post processing (such as synthetic photometry from spectra or source extraction from images). These data can be a very powerful way to get started on using Spitzer data in your science pretty much straightaway. Enhanced products generated by the Spitzer Science Center (SSC) are returned in a tab separately from the substantial contributed enhanced products that were delivered by the community to the SSC and IRSA (and continue to be delivered to IRSA); these contributed enhanced products can include mosaics, photometry, spectra, and data from telescopes other than Spitzer.
2. Query the Spitzer Heritage Archive for the desired data set. This can be accomplished in a number of ways. By default, it comes up with a position search, as can be seen above.� On the left-hand side, several additional search options appear, including a link to the position search � you can search by abstract text, moving object, observation date, AORKEY (the integer number corresponding uniquely to each AOR), program, observer, or campaign.
Searching By Position: You can enter the name of the object and have the machine try either NED or SIMBAD first to resolve the coordinates, or you can enter the coordinates directly.
The SHA echoes back to you what it thinks you have told it, right below the box in which you type the name or coordinates. If you enter a name, by default it tries�NED first then SIMBAD� � if it incorrectly resolves it, select �SIMBAD first then NED� and it should re-resolve the coordinates in real time. If that is still wrong, enter the coordinates directly.
The next lines in the search window ask which kinds of data you want displayed: Display search results in tabs for: Observation Request (AOR), Level 2 (PBCD), Level 1 (BCD), and for the position search, also both SSC Enhanced Products (IRS), SEIP Super Mosaics, SEIP Source List and Contributed Enhanced Products. �Several of the other searches will allow you to select �SSC Enhanced Products� but not �Contributed Enhanced Products.�� By default, all searches return a list of AORs under the "AOR" tab, and a list of Level 2 products under the "Level 2 (PBCD)" tab (see figure below). You can also choose to access the original BCD frames by selecting the "Level 1 (BCD)" option here, and then the corresponding tab will be returned by your search.� Similarly, if you choose to search for enhanced products, those tabs may be returned; any given search may not have any enhanced products to return � �while there are IRS enhanced products scattered all over the sky, and while we have had the community return back to us products from observations all over the sky, there is much of the sky not covered by these observations. For this example, ensure that at the very least, the AOR and Level 2 (PBCD) options are checked, but you may also check both of the Enhanced Product boxes (SSC Enhanced Products (IRS), and Contributed Enhanced Products).
Finally, there is a �More options� line.� If you click on this, additional options will appear. You can choose to apply the spatial constraints to the AORs or individual data products � what this means is the following.� AORs can cover large areas or, by design, multiple targets. You can choose to return all AORs touching your search area, or just the individual data products enclosed within your search area � e.g., just the observations that went into the portion of the sky for which you searched.� For this example, check �AORs�. The next portion of the options allows you to search by instrument or wavelength, and, at the bottom, individual frame time and time of observation.� You may be interested in just the MIPS data, in which case you should unclick the �All IRAC� and �All IRS� boxes, and leave the �All MIPS� box checked.� For this example, leave it all as the defaults.
See the figure below for what your screen should look like at this point.
Then click on "Search" at the bottom of the browser window. The SHA will return 26 AORs for your consideration. You can now proceed to Step 3 below.
By AOR ID: Selecting �search by AORKEY� from the left array of options pulls up a very short window asking for the AORKEY. For this example, type in the ID number 5316352.� As for the other search options, you have choices for which tabs are returned by the search. Note that �Contributed Enhanced Products� is not an option in this search because the contributed enhanced products are not necessarily tied to AORKEYs. For this example, ensure that at least the AOR and Level 2 options are checked; you can also select SSC Enhanced Products (IRS).� Click search.
Only one AOR will appear in the SHA search results pane. You can now proceed to Step 4.
By Program: Selecting �search by program� from the left array of options pulls up a shorter form, but with common elements to the position search. For this example, enter program "148"; you could also enter the program�s name.� As above, you have choices for which tabs are returned by the search. Note that �Contributed Enhanced Products� is not an option in this search because the contributed enhanced products are not necessarily tied to programs. For this example, ensure that at least the AOR and Level 2 options are checked; you may also check SSC Enhanced Products (IRS).
As above, if you click on �More options�, you can choose to only display a subset of the data. Leave all of them on for purposes of this example.
Then click on "Search" at the bottom right-hand of the window.
The AORs associated with this program will appear in the SHA search results pane. You can now proceed to Step 3.
By Campaign/Observer: Selecting �search by Observer� from the left array of options pulls up a similarly short window. If you type in "Meyer", it will give you a list of options to auto-complete your selection.� Pick Michael Meyer�s name. As before, you have choices for which tabs are returned by the search. Note that �Contributed Enhanced Products� is not an option in this search because the contributed enhanced products are not necessarily tied to an observer. For this example, ensure that at least the AOR and Level 2 options are checked; you may also check SSC Enhanced Products (IRS). �As above, if you click on �More options�, you can choose to only display MIPS data. For this example, leave them all checked.� Click on �Search� in the lower right.
Many AORs will appear in the SHA search results pane.� You can now proceed to Step 3.
The type of search you are using is summarized at the top � in this case, a position search. To perform a different search, click on the �Spitzer searches� blue tab at the top left.
Your search results appear in two panes � search results and details. On the left are the search results in one pane, with an AOR tab and a Level 2 (PBCD) tab, and in this case �IRS Enhanced� and �Contributed Products� tabs; on the right is the �Details� pane, with tabs: Details, AOR DoC, and AOR Footprint. The contents of the Details pane changes corresponding to what you have selected (e.g., which tab and which green highlighted line) in the search results pane; more on this below.
If there are observations found that are still proprietary, e.g., not yet public, they will be highlighted by a red background color in the search listing. You cannot examine or download those data, unless you are (a) logged in, and (b) authorized by the PI to have access to those data; contact the Helpdesk if you are in this situation and still do not have access to those data.� Data become public at most a year after they were obtained, so in the worst case, you just have to wait.
These search results were found via the �search by position� example above, so if you did a different search, you may have more or fewer tabs and more or fewer or different AORs listed; more on this next.
In this case, there are only 26 AORs shown (�1-26 of 26�).� If you searched by PI name without restriction on the instrument, you could have more than 1000 AORs in the list �(1-50 of 1006)�.
a) Click on a column heading to sort by that column heading, then look for your AOR in the list. For example, in this case, we know our desired target is called �HII_174�, so we could sort by Target name and then find the page on which this target appears.
Click on the �Add filters� box at the top right of the results pane. Spaces will appear below column headers and you can enter an operator (if needed) and a value to compare. For this example,� enter in the AORKEY field �5316352� and type �enter� or �return�. (You could impose more than one filter in this process.) For this case, only one AOR should remain in the list after you impose the filter.� Filters are a powerful way of weeding down the list, and there are more examples of using them in the SHA manual.
If you have a very big set of data to package up, and you did not enter an email when you did the packaging, you can ask during the packaging process for an email to be sent to you when it is done. Click on �Add Email�� in the lower right of this pop-up window in order to add an email; click on �Change Email� if you notice midstream that you have a typo or would like to change the address.
6. Figure out what all of these files are. Check the Spitzer web site for detailed documentation on data filename conventions and of course the instrument handbooks.
The data we have just downloaded may be easier to understand if we investigate the details of the observation itself.
In the main SHA search results window, select this observation.� (It may very well be the only one left in you search results window at this point.)� On the far right of the SHA window, there is a �Details� pane which contains many details about the observation.� The first tab, �Details�, gives you the original abstract and observer, as well as the instrument parameters that went into this specific observation, such as frame time.� The second tab, �AOR DoC�, is the AOR depth of coverage, e.g., how many individual frames were obtained per patch of sky for this observation. (Note it is number of frames, not total number of seconds.)� The third tab is �AOR footprint�.� Select that.
By default, the SHA attempts to pick an �appropriate� background image. For this observation, it selects a IRAS or DSS background image, and overlays red polygons on top of it. The red polygons outline the borders of the complete AOR.� The annotation at the top right of the image tells you the AORKEY that is overlaid, the nature of the background image (DSS POSS2 in this case), and the zoom factor (0.212x in this case).
If you let your mouse hover over the image, you will get a popup window with information about the image pixel underlying your mouse.� You will also see one icon appear on the top right � the one with arrows will �pop out� the image such that it takes up your whole browser window; there are also several tool icons along the top that allow you to manipulate the image (e.g., change the color table).� See the online SHA help for more information on each of the options, or let your mouse hover over an icon to get a �tool tip.�� Depending on what other visualizations you have been doing, the �pop out� of your image may show you your current as well as previous images. Select from the multi-view icons at the top of the popped out window to show more or fewer images; click on the �Close� arrow at the upper left to return to the search results view.
So, FEPS delivered 12 images, and 2 spectra. They also delivered some photometry in two catalogs. To learn more about the deliveries (e.g., what exactly is in the delivery, quality flags, etc.), click on "more" (link on the right).� The "Data Delivery Document" is the main documentation accompanying the delivery.� To see what was delivered, click on the team name (link on the left).
In both cases, the �Details� pane on the right allows you to examine the data in more detail.
For the IRS Enhanced products, you can interactively explore the spectrum.
A pop-up shows the values of the spectrum under your mouse.
For both of these enhanced products, you can visualize the data and select data for download in much the same fashion as for the rest of the SHA.� The table columns, especially for catalogs, can be cryptic, and are as provided by the teams. Consult the Data Delivery Document (or the IRS Instrument Handbook) for more information.


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UVAC LOVE Open House is FUN for the whole family with a Bounce House, Face Painting, Family Yoga, Tube Races, Swim Games, a Swim Team Demo, and swimming in the Splash Park. Adults can take FREE Classes like Circuit Training, TRX, Pilates and FREE Smoothies. There is a Cycle-a-Thon, FREE posture screenings from BE Fit Physical Therapy, and a Water Volleyball tournament too. Meet our Group Exercise Instructors and Personal Trainers and schedule your FREE Fitness Assessment. Try any FREE class and you'll be entered win prizes. See a full listing of events.
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9 vehicles involved in crash that leaves 5 seriously injured
On behalf of Mitchell & Shapiro LLP | Sep 11, 2017 | Drunk Driving Accidents
A bizarre accident that was caused by a man from Atlanta has made headlines given the sheer number of vehicles and injuries involved. Nine vehicles were wrapped up in the crash and five people were seriously injured. It is unknown at this time if more people were injured but simply didn't suffer "serious" injuries. The car that started it all ultimately crashed into a restaurant and the entire wreck is being investigated by the police.
Given that the investigation is ongoing, few other details about the crash have been released. But what is known at this time is that the Atlanta man at the center of the crash is 28 years old and that he was charged with driving under the influence of drugs. It has not been specified what substance the man was on at the time of the crash, and ultimately it doesn't matter much because his actions were reckless and negligent.
Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol puts everyone on the road at risk, including the driver acting on his or her dangerous impulse. No one should get behind the wheel of a car if they have consumed alcohol or have taken powerful drugs, may they be illegal substances or prescription drugs.
Drivers who make this choice subject themselves to criminal charges, and they could also be hauled into civil court if the victims of the accident pursue personal injury or wrongful death litigation against them.
Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution, "Driver charged with DUI after van crashes into Moe'' during 9-car wreck," Lauren Foreman and Raisa Habersham, Aug. 15, 2017
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	"Include mkbp_event.h directly"
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#define __CROS_EC_ZEPHYR_MKBP_EVENT_H

const struct mkbp_event_source *
zephyr_find_mkbp_event_source(uint8_t event_type);

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 * See include/mkbp_event.h for documentation.
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	STRUCT_SECTION_ITERABLE(mkbp_event_source, _cros_evtsrc_##_func) = { \
		.event_type = _type,                                         \
		.get_data = _func,                                           \
	}

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Just 2 miles by road (less on foot over the dunes) from Perranporth's golden sand/surf beach, a sturdy detached cottage in Rose, standing firm by the dunes and coast for unknown centuries.
A large, enclosed garden surrounds it - mostly lawn and shrubs to the front (picnic table, barbecue, summerhouse); crunchy gravel drive and parking at the back.
The friendly local farming (retired) owners live in the hamlet.
Inside, welcoming and surprisingly spacious.
Living room (TV/DVD) with narrow beams and big inglenook (woodburner).
Fitted kitchen (washing machine, tumble drier, microwave, fridge-freezer, electric cooker) with colourful tiles; dining area with door to back garden.
Original, quite narrow stairs (stairgates) up to three bedrooms - two double (one with access immediately off stairs and one with washbasin), and a twin.
A cosy, homely cottage in an excellent coastal location. Rose: hamlet a mile from Perranporth (small resort, 3 miles of sand/surf beaches) and the huge stretch of Perran Sands.
Footpath from village to beach (3 mile round trip) over an SSSI area of natural sand dunes.


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Chaffois () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

It is located about  west of Pontarlier and about  west of the border with Switzerland.

Population

See also
 Communes of the Doubs department

References

Communes of Doubs

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Fallout from murders will continue long after Southern elections
Gerry Kelly after a meeting with Chief Constable on Sunday
ALLISON MORRIS
Politics in Ireland North and South is as predictable as the awful weather, a never ending cycle of orchestrated outrage and carefully managed crisis.
Reaction to allegations of IRA involvement in the murder of Kevin McGuigan in east Belfast earlier this month built slowly in the South.
Murders in Northern Ireland rarely register in southern politics. With our strange ways and gruff accents we are often viewed as the uncouth cousins at a family wedding, stuck at the table closest to toilets, best ignored.
The killing of Gerard Jock Davison four months ago didn't register really at all, the highest ranking IRA man to have been murdered in Belfast in over 20 years made headlines in the North but barely a ripple in the South.
Dublin and Limerick are cities where gangland shootings and murders are almost weekly occurrences. 'Bad on bad crime' as it's often called, an awful phrase stolen like many others from the United States, a place where poor lives are rarely valued.
Therefore when similar grudge style killings occur in the North it wouldn't raise too many eyebrows among the Dublin media, well used to reporting on blood on the streets of the capital.
The name of the man accused of murdering Jock Davison was being bandied about within days of the shooting in the tight knit Markets community.
A community of only around 4,000 residents, built around large extended families who interweave through marriage, historically made up of tough dock workers and market traders.
Jock Davison once commanded the IRA in Belfast and was both feared and revered in his own community. While he made many friends, some it now seems willing to go to any lengths to avenge his death, he also made many enemies.
Kevin McGuigan was top of that list of enemies and in the months before his death Jock Davison knew that. He told family and friends that McGuigan was watching his movements. Once IRA associates, the two men had a bitter fall out dating back over a decade.
McGuigan was shot in a punishment style shooting on the orders of Davison, his alleged crime carrying out violent attacks on people he felt had disrespected him or his family.
How men trained and encouraged to be violent killers reintegrate back into society is an issue rarely discussed in post conflict Northern Ireland. While Kevin McGuigan was at home a devoted and caring family man, he was also a trained killer, a man used to settling disputes with weapons.
His resentment against Jock Davison had grown steadily over the years until, as people who knew him have revealed over the last number of weeks, it became an all consuming obsession.
He fortified his home in Comber Court in the Short Strand and left funeral instructions for his family, only too aware of what the fall out from any revenge attack might be.
That members of the IRA were involved in the murder of Kevin McGuigan, is a given.
The level of planning, surveillance and the ruthless manner in which he was killed had all the hallmarks, both in motive and execution, of a Provisional operation.
That people are shocked that IRA members can organise in such a way seems, to me at least, naive. Loyalist paramilitary groups have never even pretended to dismantle their structures and have continued to recruit and appoint new 'brigadiers' and leaders through a cycle of infighting over the years. The murder of Bobby Moffett in 2010 by the UVF an example of 'internal housekeeping' loyalist style.
The difference is loyalists have had little success electorally over the years with no representatives at a senior governmental level.
Sinn Féin on the other hand are in government and have aspirations to replicate that electoral success in the Republic.
Sinn Féin have wedded themselves to politics and along with that must come support for the rule of law. When this latest political crisis fades, as it inevitably will, they're left with much bigger problem.
The PSNI made little headway in the investigation into the murder of Jock Davison and with the death of what many believe was the gunman in that killing that case seems unlikely to ever be resolved in a court.
The party can easily ride out this latest political crisis, they've coasted through worse, but with confidence in police at a low ebb in republican communities it is the long term peaceful political project that will be harder to get back on track long after the Southern elections have come and gone.
27 August, 2015 01:00 Opinion
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Q: Is there a way to search a console logged object for particular values in Chrome DevTools? I'd like to console.log() an object and do a search for a particular value within that object. Is this possible?
Note: the object that I'm trying to search is humongous and multi-dimensional, so expanding each field and doing a simple Ctrl+F find isn't ideal.

A: *

*Run (directly in console):

JSON.stringify(myObject)
this will output object as a string represantation.

*Then do search in console by typing:

Ctrl+f

A: The code below adds something like what you're looking for to the console object as
console.logSearchingForValue
Breadth-first search, matching on equivalent "JSON" value, handling NaNs correctly, returning multiple locations, and making numeric index expressions not quoted are left as exercises to the reader. :)
It is already really easy to swap in different definitions of equality.
var searchHaystack = function(haystack, needle, path, equalityFn, visited) {

  if(typeof haystack != "object") {
    console.warn("non-object haystack at " + path.join("."));
  }

  if(visited.has(haystack))
    return [false, null];

  for(var key in haystack) {
    if(!haystack.hasOwnProperty(key))
      continue;

    if(equalityFn(needle, haystack[key])) {
      path.push(key);
      return [true, path];
    }

    visited.add(haystack);
    if(typeof haystack[key] == "object") {
      var pCopy = path.slice();
      pCopy.push(key);
      var deeper = searchHaystack(haystack[key], needle, pCopy, equalityFn, visited);
      if(deeper[0]) {
        return deeper;
      }
    }
  }
  return [false, null];
}

var pathToIndexExpression = function(path) {
   var prefix = path[0];
   path = path.slice(1);
   for(var i = 0; i < path.length; i++) {
      if(typeof path[i] == "string")
         path[i] = "\"" + path[i] + "\"";
   }
   return prefix + "[" + path.join("][") + "]"
}

console.logSearchingForValue = function(haystack, needle) {
   this.log("Searching");
   this.log(haystack);
   this.log("for");
   this.log(needle);
   var visited = new Set();
   var strictEquals = function(a,b) { return a === b; };
   var result = searchHaystack(haystack, needle, ["<haystack>"], strictEquals, visited);
   if(result[0]) {
      this.log("Found it!");
      this.log(pathToIndexExpression(result[1]));
   }
   else {
      this.log("didn't find it");
   }
}

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F-16V Fighters For Taiwan: Worth the Price Tag?
May 24, 2021 Topic: China Taiwan Blog Brand: The Reboot Tags: TaiwanChinaPLAF-16VF-16MilitaryDonald Trump
Continuing to upgrade the air force projects confidence that Taiwan remains the master of its own fate. Islanders will take heart.
by James Holmes
To its credit, the Ma Ying-jeou administration started acquiring a fleet capable of executing such a strategy. A flotilla of Tuo Chiang-class stealthy missile corvettes has been building for the past decade. Tsai Ing-wen has carried the initiative forward during her tenure in the Presidential Office. The new-construction boats are impressive on an individual basis. What the new contingent lacks is mass—and numbers of hulls matter a great deal in naval warfare. Just a dozen Tuo Chiangs will reportedly be built. They will join the fleet by 2025. (They will keep company with 31 older—and far less battleworthy—Kuang Hua VI boats.) Twelve corvettes does not a swarm make. It would take far more than that to stem a PLA cross-strait surge, or so enfeeble it that the Taiwan Army can hold the beaches.
Taiwan could buy lots of Tuo Chiangs for the $8 billion now earmarked for a luxury fleet of fighter jets that have some political value but doubtful combat value. (The lead vessel in the Tuo Chiang class reportedly cost all of $66.39 million. Crudely speaking, that's the price of one F-16V.) On balance, Taipei would be better off investing in armaments that would help the island ride out an assault—and achieve its strategic and political aims. President Tsai swept into her second term in a landslide. She should spend some of that political capital weaning the military and populace away from the conceit that the island's air force and navy can win a stand-up fight against PLA air and sea forces.
They cannot.
Once the precept that sea denial is both necessary and sufficient takes hold, setting priorities for force acquisitions and selling the electorate on them should prove straightforward enough. And the alliance factor? If Taipei shows Washington that porcupine measures could stall a cross-strait offensive, that would actually make it easier for a U.S. president to order the U.S. Pacific Fleet and affiliated joint forces into battle. It would grant the White House time to deliberate and formulate effective war plans rather than feel compelled to hurl forces headlong into the fray. Plus, it would show Americans that Taiwanese are stalwart about helping themselves and are not passively awaiting rescue.
Such a people is a good cause.
In the end, then, the strategy and politics of the situation would profit more from a clutch of unglamorous missile boats and truck-launched missiles than from squadrons of high-tech fighters. And strategic and political success is what it's all about.
James Holmes is J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and coauthor of Red Star over the Pacific. The views voiced here are his alone.


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Woman sentenced for attacking fiancé with high heel shoe
Updated: 5:09 PM PDT Mar 25, 2019
Josh Copitch
Monterey County Sheriff's Office
Giuliana Guadalupe Aparacio
SOURCE: Monterey County Sheriff's Office
A Marina woman was sentenced in court Monday for inflicting "corporal injury" to her fiancé. Giuliana Aparacio, 28, was found guilty on Wednesday after a two-day jury trial and sentenced on Monday. Police say that Aparacio and her fiancé got into an argument after a night out of drinking with friends. During the ride home she slapped and scratched at her fiancé. When he attempted to cover his head, Aparacio then began to strike him on the head with a spray bottle and then jabbing and scraping him with the heel of her high heel shoe. Once they arrived home, the victim went to the Marina Police Department to report the attack. Police said he was bleeding from scrapes on his face and head area, and was showing bruising and scratches on his neck and torso. Judge Wills sentenced Aparacio to three years of probation, 40 days in Monterey County jail, and one year of domestic violence classes.
MARINA, Calif. —
A Marina woman was sentenced in court Monday for inflicting "corporal injury" to her fiancé.
Giuliana Aparacio, 28, was found guilty on Wednesday after a two-day jury trial and sentenced on Monday.
Police say that Aparacio and her fiancé got into an argument after a night out of drinking with friends.
During the ride home she slapped and scratched at her fiancé. When he attempted to cover his head, Aparacio then began to strike him on the head with a spray bottle and then jabbing and scraping him with the heel of her high heel shoe.
Once they arrived home, the victim went to the Marina Police Department to report the attack. Police said he was bleeding from scrapes on his face and head area, and was showing bruising and scratches on his neck and torso.
Judge Wills sentenced Aparacio to three years of probation, 40 days in Monterey County jail, and one year of domestic violence classes.


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David Andrews | 17th Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division - Army
3:11 | While on ambush patrol, soon after the Tet Offensive, David Andrews recalls a time where they actually ambushed the enemy. There were heavy casualties on the enemy. Andrews shares a descriptive the visual of the aftermath.
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David Andrews explains why he enlisted in the Army in the first place. He then explains the rigorous basic training in Fort Bliss, Texas and the arguably more challenging jump school in Fort Benning, Georgia.
David Andrews remembers his transport to Vietnam during his 21st birthday and what assignments were given to his platoon once they disembarked the plane.
David Andrews talked about his first major confrontation in Vietnam and the situation that led to this major battle with a company that was en route to Saigon for the Tet Offensive.
David Andrews discusses the strategies of the ambush patrol. He explains both night and day procedures.
David Andrews discusses what it was like to be on the receiving end of an ambush. He tells the story of how they successfully turned the tide on one major ambush.
David Andrews explains how they prepared for the heat of the jungle, and describes all of the diseases and other dangers of the region.
David Andrews stayed at Camp Eagle most of his time in Vietnam, but about 5 months in, he did get an unexpected opportunity for some R & R in Hong Kong. He explains the odd situation he was in when he departed and upon his return.
David Andrews explains the feeling that overcame him when he departed Vietnam and a funny story about what occurred between him and another passenger that almost led to a fight.
David Andrews reflects on the entire Vietnam experience and the few things he remembers from his year in the jungle. He puts that time period in perspective with the war going on presently in the Middle East.


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Q: Client Object Model Sharepoint How to get the Instance ID So In my sharepoint site contents page i have an application.
Can anyone tell me how to get the instance id of it.
so that i can invoke the link :
http://testingwebcompany.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/appredirect.aspx?instance_id={ <>}
I can't seem to get it when I'm searching ClientContext.Web.Lists.
Thanks

A: I got it, it seems that the instance id is auto generated. the real url of the application is located when looping through ClientContext.Web.Webs[].Title == "Application Name" then retrieving the ClientContext.Web.Webs[].Url.

A: The following example demonstrates how to retrieve an App by its title
public static class WebExtensions
{

    public static IEnumerable<AppInstance> GetAppInstanceByTitle(this Web web,string appTitle)
    {
        var ctx = web.Context;
        var apps = AppCatalog.GetAppInstances(ctx, web);
        var result = ctx.LoadQuery(apps.Where(a => a.Title == appTitle));
        return result;
    }
}

Usage
using (var ctx = new ClientContext(webUri))
{
    var appTitle = "\"Napa\" Office 365 Development Tools";
    var result = ctx.Web.GetAppInstanceByTitle(appTitle);
    ctx.ExecuteQuery();
    var app = result.FirstOrDefault();
    if (app != null) Console.WriteLine(app.Id); // print App Instance Id
}


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Giovanni Francesco Bembo (également connu comme Gianfrancesco Bembo) né à Crémone, est un peintre italien de la Renaissance actif au .

Biographie
Giovanni Francesco ou Gianfrancesco Bembo, est le neveu de Bonifacio Bembo, le fils de Giovanni et le frère de Lorenzo, tous peintres. On lui prête un passage à Rome où selon Vasari il aurait été connu sous le nom de Giovan Francesco Vetraro. Vasari écrit que Giovanni Francesco a travaillé à Rome pour le Pape Léon X.

Giovanni Francesco Bembo est actif surtout entre 1515 - 1543. Il fait son apprentissage avec Boccaccio Boccaccino. En 1515, il peint deux fresques : La Présentation au temple et une Adoration des mages pour le Duomo de Crémone. En 1524, il réalise un retable de San Pietro représentant une Vierge, trois saints et un donateur, en 1530, une Vierge et saint Étienne et en 1540, une Vierge, saint  Jean-Baptiste et un évêque, maintenant au Museo Civico.
Les autres ouvrages à Crémone se trouvent à San Niccoló, (Nicolas avec la Vierge) et à San Pietro (une Madone (1524). Son style rappelle celui de Fra Bartolomeo.

Œuvres

 La Présentation au Temple et Adoration des mages, Duomo de Crémone,
 Retable de San Pietro représentant une Vierge, un saint et un donateur,
 Vierge et saint Étienne,
 Vierge, saint Jean-Baptiste et un évêque, Museo Civico,
 Nicolas avec la Vierge, San Niccoló,
 Madone, San Pietro,

Bibliographie

Articles connexes
 La famille d'artistes italiens des Bembo.

Liens externes

  sur old.comune.cremona.com

Sources

Notes et références

Naissance à Crémone
Peintre italien du XVIe siècle
Peintre italien de la haute-Renaissance
Peintre fresquiste
Peintre d'art sacré
Date de naissance non renseignée (XVe siècle)
Date de naissance non renseignée (XVIe siècle)
Date de décès non renseignée (XVIe siècle)


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##Day, Richard, b. 1552.## A booke of Christian prayers, collected out of the auncie[n]t writers, and best learned in our tyme, worthy to be read with an earnest mynde of all Christians, in these daungerous and troublesome dayes, that God for Christes sake will yet still be mercyfull vnto vs Day, Richard, b. 1552.
❧ To the Christian Reader, zeale and knowledge in true and harty prayer through Christ Iesus.
#####Body##### ❧ The Preface, or preparation to prayer.O Lord, my good God, and Father, blessed be thy name for eue _ ❧ The Preface, or preparation to prayer.
_ ¶ A prayer to be sayd at our first waking.
_ * A prayer at our vprising.
_ * A Prayer at the putting on of our Clothes.
_ ❧ A Prayer to be sayd at our first going abroad.
_ * A Prayer to be sayd at our returning home.
_ * A Prayer to be sayd at the setting of the Sunne.
_ * A Prayer to be sayd at the lighting vp of Candles.
_ ❧ A Prayer to be sayd in the Euening.
_ ¶A prayer to be sayd when we vnclothe our selues to bedward.
_ ❧ A Prayer to be sayd at our going into bed.
_ A Prayer when we be redy to sleep.
_ * A preparation, or preface to Publick Prayer.
_ *A short speech before the Lords Proyer.
_ * A Prayer to God the Father.
_ * Another in Iesus Christ our Redeemer, by S. August.
_ ❧ A Prayer to God the Sonne.
_ ❧ A Prayer to the holy Ghost.
_ * A Prayer to God for his Spirite, and grace to pray effectually.
_ * A Prayer for the whole Realm, and the body of the Church, with the members therof, according to their estates, & degrees.
_ *Another prayer for the church, and all the states thereof, by Iohn Foxe.
_ *A Prayer for the Queenes Maiestie.
_ ❧ A Prayer for the Ministers of Gods word.
_ ❧ A Prayer of Children for their Parents.
_ ❧ A Prayer for charitie, or loue towards our neighbours.
_ ❧ A Prayer for the afflicted, and persequuted vnder the tiranny of Antichrist.
_ * A Prayer for our bretheren, that are in aduersitie.
_ ❧A Prayer for them that be in pouertie.
_ * A Prayer to be sayd for our Euilwillers.
_ * A confession of our sinnes.
_ * A Prayer for remission and forgeuenes of sinnes.
_ A comfort after crauing of mercy gathered out of the psalmes.
_ ❧A Prayer in commendation of Gods mercy receiued, made by S. Augustine.
_ * A complaint of a sinner, in that he sinneth againe after repentance, by S. August.
_ A Prayer against dispayre.
_ ❧ A Prayer vpon the minding of Christes passion.
_ * A prayer vpon the minding of Christes resurrection and ascention.
_ ❧ A Prayer to Christ ascending, and raigning in glory.
_ ❧ A Prayer at our going to a Sermon.
_ A Prayer for knowledge, and vnderstanding.
_ A Prayer to be sayd before receuing of the Communion.
_ * A Thankesgeuing after the receauing of the holy Communyon.
_ A prayer for Gods grace.
_ * A Prayer for fayth.
_ * A Prayer to be sayd for the feare of God.
_ ❧ A Prayer for loue towards Christ.
_ A Prayer to be sayd for cleanes of hart.
_ * A Prayer for the obtayning of a sound minde.
_ ¶ A Prayer to be sayd for newnesse of life.
_ A Prayer for true mortification.
_ A prayer for cōtinuance in seking after Christ. by S. Augustine.
_ A Prayer for spirituall ioy.
_ A Prayer to be sayd in the time of sicknes.
_ ❧ A Prayer to be sayd in the Plague time.
_ A Prayer for health both of body and minde.
_ A Prayer in affliction, or aduersitie.
_ ❧A Prayer vpon the minding of death.
_ A prayer in danger of death.
_ A prayer for good successe, and for the direction of Christ in all our doyngs.
_ A prayer to be sayd agaynst temptation.
_ * A Prayer against the flesh.
_ ❧ A Prayer to be sayd against the deuill.
_ ❧A Prayer to be sayd of a woman with Child.
_ * A Prayer to be sayd of such as be vnder the Crosse.
_ ¶A Prayer for Gods goodnes, and for continuance of the same.
❧ Here beginneth the Letany and Suffrages. O God the Father of heauen, haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners.O God the father of heauen, haue mercy &c.O God the Sonne Redeémer of the world, haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners.O God the Sonne redeemer, &c.O God the holy Ghost, proceéding frō the Father and the Sonne, haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinnersO God the holy Ghost, &c.O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, threé persons and one God, haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinneO holy, blessed, and glorious, &c.Remember not Lord our offences, nor yeDeath winnes the field:•ll arm•s must yeeld.¶ The Herauld. HerSpare vs good Lord.From all euil and mischief, from sinne, from the crafts and assaultes of the deuill, from thy wrath,Good Lord deliuer vs.From all blindnes of hart, from pride, vayn glory, and hipocrisie, from enuy, hatred, and malice, anGood Lord deliuer vs.From fornication, and all other deadly sinne, and from all the deceites of the world, the flesh, andGood Lord deliuer vs. ¶ The Trūpetor▪ Trumpet geue sound: all must to the ground.¶ The Pursuant GoeGood Lord deliuer vs.From all sedition, and priuy conspiracy, from all false doctrine and heresie, from al hardnes of harGood Lord deliuer vs.By the mistery of thy holy incarnatiō, by thy holy natiuitie, and circumsition, by thy baptisme, faGood Lord deliuer vs.By thine agony, and bloudy sweat, by thy crosse, and passion, by thy precious death, and buryall, byGood Lord deliuer vs.We drum that domes day now at hand:Doth call all souldyers to deathes hand.¶ ThIn all time of our tribulation, in all time of our welth, in the hour of death, and in the day of iuGood Lord deliuer vs.We sinners •oe beseéch theé to hear vs O Lord God, and that it may please theé to rule and gouern thWe beseech thee to heare vs good Lord.That it may please theé to keép & strēgthen in true worshiping of theé, in righteousnes, and holyneWe beseech thee, &c.That it may please theé to rule hir hart in thy faith, feare, & loue, and that she may euermore haueWe beseech thee &c.¶ The Capitaine. Captain march with me: thy Captayne I must be.¶ The Souldior. SoThat it may please theé to be her defender, and keéper, geuing her the victory ouer all her enemies.We beseech thee &c.That it may please theé to illuminate al Bishops, Pastors, and Ministers of the church, with true knWe beseech thee &c.That it may please theé to indue all the Lords of the counsel, and all the Nobilitie, with grace, wiWe beseech thee &c.That it may please theé to blesse, and keépe the Magistrates, geuing them grace to execute Iustice, We beseech thee &c.Vse gayn of gold, and li•e in cost:So as by death life be no• lost.¶ The MarchantThat it may please theé to bles, & keépe all thy people.We beseech thee &c.That it may please theé to geue to all Nations, vnitie, peace, and concord.We beseech thee &c.That it may please theé to geue all thy people increase of grace, to heare meékly thy word, and to rWe beseech thee &c.That it may please theé to bring into ye way of truth, al such as haue erred, and are deceiued.We beseech thee &c.That it may please theé to strengthen such as doe stand, to comfort and helpe the weak harted, to raWe beseech thee &c.¶ The Printers. Leaue setting thy page▪ spent is thine age.Let printing stay: andThat it may please theé to succor, help, and comfort, all that be in danger, necessitie, and tribulaWe beseech thee &c.That it may please theé to preserue all that trauail by land or by water, al women labouring with chWe beseech thee &c. it may please theé to defend, and prouide for the fatherles children, and widowes, and all that be We beseech thee &c.That it may please theé to haue mercy vpon all men.We beseech thee &c.That it may please theé to forgeue our enemies, persecutors, and slaunderers Death takes no bribe ofWe beseech thee &c.That it may please theé to geue, and preserue to our vse the kindly fruits of the earth, so as in duWe beseech thee &c.That it may please theé to giue vs true repentance, to forgeue vs all our sins, negligences, and ignWe beseech thee &c.Sonne of God, we besech theé to heare vs.Sonne of God, we &c.O Lambe of God, that takest away the sinnes of the world.Graunt vs thy peace.¶ The Artificer. No compas or arte: can cause me depart.The Husbandman. Labour nO Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world.Haue mercy vpon vs.O Christ heare vs.O Christ heare vs.Lord haue mercy vpon vs.Lord haue mercy vpon vs.Christ haue mercy vpon vs.Christ haue mercy vpon vs.Lord haue mercy vpon vs.Lord haue mercy vpon vs.Our father which art in. &c. And leade vs not into temptation: But deliuer vs from euil, Amen. _ ¶ The versicle.
_ ❧ In the time of any common plague, or sicknes.
_ *A Prayer of Chrisostome.
_ * A Prayer to be sayd at the visitation of the sick.
_ * A Prayer in desire of the life to come.
_ * The feare of the Iudge, and Iudgement day.
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So you're preparing for your first year of college. I'm sure it'll be everything you want it to be and more, and you should be excited. But there are a few things you need to prepare for.
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If you're not careful, college life will cost you an arm and a leg. Besides, learning to actively do things for yourself forms a key role in the bid to gain your independence. A few fundamental skills are essential.
You don't need to be a domestic goddess. With the help of a Crock Pot and few online recipes, cooking healthy meals that don't take hours will become easier than ever. Meanwhile, you could rotate duties with other students to make life even simpler.
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The most important ingredient for gaining a worthwhile college experience is organization. If your days aren't strategically planned, it can be very easy to fall into a hole. And escaping it in time to obtain the best degree possible is tougher than you'd ever imagine.
Technology can help you achieve this. Downloading smartphone Apps can help you schedule your time effectively. Meanwhile, acquiring work experience can go a long way to boosting the overall college experience. More importantly, it will help you in your quest to get a full-time job after graduation.
Of course, you need to leave yourself time to enjoy this glorious part of life. On the other hand, achieving the best results possible is key. Good organization is vital.


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The Isle of Tiree is situated off the west coast of Scotland and offers a unique experience. The bays of white sand, gentle cycling, traditional crofting and peaceful environment ensures visitors return time and again. For details start with the island 'capital', Scarinish.


A political system is a system of politics and government. It is usually compared to the legal system, economic system, cultural system, and other social systems. However, this is a very simplified view of a much more complex system of categories involving the questions of who should have authority and what the government's influence on its people and economy should be.
Small family group, no larger than an extended family or clan; it has been defined as consisting of no more than 30 to 50 individuals.
Generally larger, consisting of many families. Tribes have more social institutions, such as a chief or elders.
More permanent than bands. Many tribes are sub-divided into bands.
Supranational political systems are created by independent nations to reach a common goal or gain strength from forming an alliance.
Leagues are international organizations composed of states coming together for a single common purpose.* In this way leagues are different from empires, as they only seek to fulfill a single goal. Often leagues are formed on the brink of a military or economic downfall. Meetings and hearings are conducted in a neutral location with representatives of all involved nations present.
Political systems do not inherently require the institution of political parties to advance the politics of the political system. Political parties are formed after political systems are put in place.
In the case of American politics, Article Two of the United States Constitution, specifically Section I, gives no mention to political parties when describing the presidential election process. It was only after the establishment of the government that the first political parties formed.
George Washington, the first U.S. president was against the establishment of political parties in most circumstances and therefore belonged to no party. In his Farewell Address Washington gives reason for his distrust in political parties, specifically in the newly formed United States. Washington does endorse political parties in some political systems however, specifically monarchies.
Washington was the only President not to be elected through a party oriented election process. Because of this, it is difficult to comment on an America without political party institutions. Washington's case does point to the original path of the American political system however, one lacking political parties.
Both the U.S. Constitution and Washington provide support for the American political system, a Democracy and Republic, to be founded without political parties. The past has shown this type of system to work well with parties, but nonetheless, these two systems do not require political parties in their institutions.
Over the years the American political system has seen a sharp decline in voter turnout. In 1960, over 63% of the American population cast their presidential votes, whereas by 1996, there were less than 50% of Americans showing up to the polls.
The sociological interest in political systems is figuring out who holds the power in the relationship of the government and its people and how the government's power is used. There are three types of political systems that sociologists consider.
In authoritarian governments, the people have no power or representation and it is characterized by absolute or blind obedience to [formal] authority, as against individual freedom and related to the expectation of unquestioning obedience. The elite leaders handle all economic, military, and foreign relations. Dictatorships are examples of authoritarianism.
Totalitarianism is the most extreme form of authoritarianism because it controls all aspects of life including communication between citizens, censors the media, and threatens by means of terror.
A monarchy is a government controlled by a king or queen determined by a predisposed line of sovereignty. In other words it can be seen as an undivided rule or absolute sovereignty by a single person. In the modern world there are two types of monarchies, absolute monarchies and constitutional monarchies. An absolute monarchy works like a dictatorship in that the king has complete rule over his country. A constitutional monarchy gives the royal family limited powers and usually works in accordance with an elected body of officials. Social revolutions of the 18th, 19th, and 20th century overthrew the majority of existing monarchies in favor of a more democratic governments and the rise of the middle class.
A democracy is a form of government in which the citizens create and vote for laws directly, or indirectly via representatives (representative democracy). The idea of democracy stems back from ancient Greece and the profound works of ancient academics. However, the presence of democracy does not always mean citizen's wishes will be equally represented. For example, in many democratic countries immigrants, and racial and ethnic minorities do not receive the same rights as the majority citizens.
Almond, Gabriel A., et al. Comparative Politics Today: A World View (Seventh Edition). 2000. ISBN 0-316-03497-5.
"political system". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2012. Web. 02 Dec. 2012.
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Kaaimans Grotto
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Overlooking Kaaimans River on the southern coast of South Africa, a large cave sits beside an abandoned railway bridge. This cave is called Kaaimans Grotto, and it has become a shelter and a makeshift museum.
Locally, it is also known as Clifford's Cave, an homage to Clifford Brandon, who moved into the cave in 2006. Brandon has said that divine intervention led him to the seaside shelter. After moving himself into Kaaimans Grotto, Brandon built the cave into a shelter for the homeless and a makeshift museum.
Kaaimans Grotto is filled with shell chandeliers, religious iconography, mannequins, and other trinkets, as well as the residents' living quarters, the cave is well worth a visit. A brief introduction and history of the cave will be given by a resident before visitors enter the cave itself.
Beyond the cave, the abandoned Kaaimans River Railway Bridge can be followed to Victoria Bay. Pedestrians should be cautious—the bridge is rusting and full of holes. Although it is supposedly safe enough to traverse, and certain cave residents and locals can show you how to get across, do be careful. The crossing isn't for the faint of heart.
Follow the train tracks to the west of the main beach in Wilderness for about 10 minutes, through the tunnel. The path is clear, if a bit overrun. Entrance is R25. There are signs to be wary of crime, so it's recommended that visitors don't go alone.
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Convair division of General Dynamics Corporation initially developed the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile; later, the Atlas was modified for use as a space launch vehicle, expanding the corporation's activities into space exploration.
Throughout 1955 and 1956, steps were taken to form the Atlas Model 7 Project into a separate operating division of Convair. This new operating division was known as Astronautics. Directors of General Dynamics voted to appropriate $20 million to acquire land and to build an Astronautics plant at San Diego. A similar amount was provided by the Air Force for equipment. Another milestone in 1956 was the beginning of construction of the Atlas plant on San Diego's Kearny Mesa. The following year Astronautics formally became an operating division of Convair. An Atlas component test facility was established on Point Loma in San Diego; captive missile test facilities were formed at Edwards Rocket Site north of Los Angeles and at Sycamore Canyon near San Diego.
In June 1961, the official name of Convair-Astronautics changed to General Dynamics Astronautics, a division of General Dynamics Corporation, denoting full corporate division status as the largest business element of General Dynamics. In February 1965, the Convair and Astronautics divisions of the corporation were recombined under the Convair division name, following completion of the Atlas weapon system design, development, and base activation tasks for which the Astronautics division was organized. Convair division, designed, developed, and manufactured aircraft, space launch vehicles, Centaur high-energy upper-stage vehicles, OV-1 auxiliary space vehicles, fairing systems, electronic systems, and other aerospace systems and equipment.
Martin Marietta purchased General Dynamics Space Systems division on 2 May 1994 for $208.5 million, consolidating 1 million square feet of office and manufacturing space for Atlas production from San Diego with Titan facilities in Denver. Approximately 400 jobs were eliminated in San Diego and Denver. Total savings over 10 years were initially estimated at over $300 million (subsequently raised to as much as $500 million), due in part to filling excess factory space and sharing fixed costs for utilities and other property expenses.
This purchase by Martin Marietta of the Atlas launch vehicle gave Martin the dominant role in the space launch business.
When Martin Marietta announced plans to purchase the Atlas line in December 1993, splitting the savings with the government share was made a condition of the deal. Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch and Martin Marietta agreed in March 1994 to split evenly the cost savings, which are mainly related to the Titan 4 program. As a result, Martin Marietta received $50 million (initially estimated at $30 million) in financial assistance from the Pentagon, which normally retains all such savings from mergers. The government will reap about $450 million of the total savings, though $90 million in restructuring costs will be added as overhead on the Titan IV contract over a four-year period.
This was the first time the Pentagon had agreed to share such savings, and the first time a corporate merger had been publicly supported. The Clinton administration has been more active in helping assisting industry than previous administrations. The Clinton Pentagon favors consolidation in the space industry, lowering Pentagon outlays for launches by economizing and by laying off workers.
The move of the Atlas production facilities to Denver was expected to require about 18 months, and to be completed at the end of 1995. Administrative and engineering staffs completed the move at the of 1994. Production of Atlas boosters and Centaur engines will continue in San Diego at the Kearny Mesa plant until a duplicate line is established in Denver by the end of 1995, by which time more than 1,800 positions will be transferred. Approximately 300 employees will remain in San Diego, at Space Magnetics, and the Air Force Plant 19 facility for initial manufacturing of Atlas components. The 200 personnel at the Harlingen, TX, facility which produces Atlas/Centaur jettisonable components such as payload fairings and interstage adapters, are unaffected by the consolidation.
Atlas launch vehicles are operated from LC-36, which consists of launch pads A and B. Atlas G/Centaur D-IA was launched from Launch Complex 36B. Since 1978, LC 36B had been mothballed, and was refurbished and returned to operational status in 1989. Launches from Complex 36A with the Atlas G/Centaur configuration also required pad modifications. Fuel (RP-1 and liquid hydrogen) and oxidizer (liquid oxygen) storage tanks, and high pressure gas storage facilities. The structures within the launch complex contain the equipment required to perform tests, checkout, and launch functions on the vehicle. Prelaunch and launch operations of the launch vehicle and spacecraft are fully integrated. General Dynamics supports all operations, including encapsulation and mating the spacecraft to Centaur.
Launch Complex Pads 36A and 36B share a common blockhouse, instrumentation, and launch control equipment. Mobile service towers (MST) at each pad provide a protected work area for spacecraft mating and checkout. They are moved away from the launch pad before cryogenic tanking, about 120 minutes before launch. A fixed umbilical tower at each pad provides instrumentation lines, fuel, power, and purging gas to Centaur and the spacecraft by means of umbilical booms. The booms pull lines clear at liftoff and swing clear of the ascending vehicle. A single blockhouse controls launches on both Pad 36A and 36B. Connected to both pads by cable tunnels, the blockhouse contains all necessary electrical and communication equipment to conduct a launch from either pad. Space is available for spacecraft ground support equipment. Isolated cabling from the blockhouse to the launch pad is for spacecraft ground checkout. Wideband data circuits are available for connections to spacecraft checkout facilities (Building AO) and to tracking networks.
One Atlas launch pad (SLC-3W) is currently operational. Several support facilities located at SLC-3 include technical support buildings, launch operations building, vehicle support building, and launch service building. The propellants used in the Atlas vehicle are stored on-site, and can be directly loaded onto the vehicle. Atlas vehicles are delivered to the launch areas in a pre-assembled condition and are erected on the launch pad, serviced and launched.
1. General Dynamics Convair Division, Atlas Space Launch Vehicle Systems Summary, GDC-BGJ67-001, February 1967.
2. General Dynamics Space Systems Division, Atlas Centaur Mission Planners Guide, (April 1983, Revised November 1986), Arlington, Virginia and San Diego, California.
John Mintz, "Martin Closes Rocket Deal, Analysts Say Firm May Need More Pentagon Help," Washington Post, 3 May 1994, pages D1, D6.
"Martin Consolidation Sends Atlas Production Line to Denver," Defense Daily, 17 June 1994, Page 428.
Patrick Seitz, "Martin To Move Atlas Plant by 1995's End," Space News, 20 June 1994, pages 4, 21.
4. General Dynamics Space Systems Division, Atlas Centaur Mission Planners Guide, (April 1983, Revised November 1986), Arlington, Virginia and San Diego, California.
5. Department of Defense, Space Launch Modernization Plan - Executive Summary, 5 May 1994, page 11.
General Dynamics Corporation, Atlas G/Centaur Mission Planning Guide, April 1983, Revised October 1983, Reprinted June 1986: Revised November 1986, General Dynamics Space Systems Division, San Diego, California, 1745 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 1000, Arlington, Virginia 22202.
7. Adapted from: NASA/DOD/DOT National Facilities Study National Facilities Study -- Volume 4 -- Space Operations Facilities Task Group, 29 April 1994, page 482-483.
8. Adapted from: NASA/DOD/DOT National Facilities Study National Facilities Study -- Volume 4 -- Space Operations Facilities Task Group, 29 April 1994, page 312-313.
10. Dennis R. Dunbar, Robert C. White, and R.C. Waterman, General Dynamics Commercial Launch Services, "Atlas Vehicle and Mission Design Enhancements," IAF-92-0827, 43rd Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, 28 August - 5 September 5, 1992, Washington, DC, page 6.


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Q: Laravel Facebook-Login / missing email I am trying to create a Facebook-Login in my Laravel application. However, the array I get with all the user information does not contain the users email even though I already ask for permission to receive the email.
This is my code:
Route::get('login/fb', function() {
$facebook = new Facebook(Config::get('facebook'));
$params = array(
    'redirect_uri' => url('/login/fb/callback'),
    'scope' => 'email',
);
return Redirect::to($facebook->getLoginUrl($params));
});

Route::get('login/fb/callback', function() {
$code = Input::get('code');
if (strlen($code) == 0) return Redirect::to('/')->with('message', 'There was an error communicating with Facebook');

$facebook = new Facebook(Config::get('facebook'));

$me = $facebook->api('/me');

return $me;

Returning $me gives me all the important user information besides the email address.
Is there any way to fix this?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

A: There are instances that facebook will not return an email. This can be because the user has not set a primary email, or their email has not been validated. In this case, your logic should check to see if an email was returned, if not, use their facebook email. FacebookUsername@facebook.com

A: //I used with sentry
        // get data from input
$code = Input::get( 'code' );

// get fb service
$fb = OAuth::consumer( 'Facebook' );

// check if code is valid

// if code is provided get user data and sign in
if ( !empty( $code ) ) {

    // This was a callback request from facebook, get the token
    $token = $fb->requestAccessToken( $code );

    // Send a request with it
    $result = json_decode($fb->request( '/me?fields=id,name,first_name,last_name,email,photos' ), true);

    $message = 'Your unique facebook user id is: ' . $result['id'] . ' and your name is ' . $result['name']. $result['email'];
    //echo $message. "
";

    //Var_dump
    //display whole array().
    //echo('http://graph.facebook.com/'.$result['id'].'/picture?type=large
');
    //dd($result);

    $user = \User::where("email",$result['email'])->first();

    if($user!=NULL){
        $userxx = Sentry::findUserByLogin($result['email']);
        Sentry::login($userxx, false);
    return Redirect::to('Beşiktaş');
    }
    else
        {

            $k=str_random(8);
            $user = Sentry::register(array(
                        'activated' => 1,
                        'facebook' => 1,
                        'password' => $k,
                        'email' => $result['email'],
                        'first_name' =>$result['first_name'],
                        'last_name' => $result['last_name'] ,
                        'avatar' => 'http://graph.facebook.com/'.$result['id'].'/picture?type=large',

                ));

            Sentry::login($user, false);

            return Redirect::to('Beşiktaş');
        }

}
// if not ask for permission first
else {
    // get fb authorization
    $url = $fb->getAuthorizationUri();

    // return to facebook login url
     return Redirect::to( (string)$url );
}


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Q: Collisions in SpriteKit I have an object kept between two bars. I have collisions set up but I'm not getting the print message "We have Contact" when making contact with either the top or bottom bar and I'm not sure why? I think it might have something to do with the boundary physicsBody. The image below is to give an example of the bars, where the object is kept between them.
     var gameOver = false

override func didMoveToView(view: SKView) {
    scene?.scaleMode = SKSceneScaleMode.AspectFill

    self.physicsWorld.gravity = CGVectorMake(0.0, 2.0)
    physicsWorld.contactDelegate = self

    object = SKSpriteNode( imageNamed: "object")
    object.position = CGPoint(x: CGRectGetMidX(self.frame), y: CGRectGetMidY(self.frame))
    object.physicsBody = SKPhysicsBody(circleOfRadius: object.size.width / 0.32)

    object.physicsBody?.dynamic = true
    object.physicsBody?.allowsRotation = true
    self.addChild(object)
    object.zPosition = 2

    struct ColliderType {

        static let object: UInt32 = 0x1 << 0
        static let boundary: UInt32 = 0x1 << 1

    }
   let boundary = SKPhysicsBody(edgeLoopFromRect: CGRect(x: 253, y: 138, width:515, height:354))
   self.physicsBody = boundary
    self.physicsBody?.friction = 0
    let push = CGVectorMake(10, 10)
   object.physicsBody?.applyImpulse(push)

   object.physicsBody?.categoryBitMask = ColliderType.object
   object.physicsBody?.contactTestBitMask = ColliderType.boundary
   object.physicsBody?.collisionBitMask = ColliderType.boundary

    boundary.contactTestBitMask = ColliderType.object
    boundary.categoryBitMask = ColliderType.boundary
    boundary.collisionBitMask = ColliderType.object

    func didBeginContact(contact:SKPhysicsContact) {
        print("We have Contact")

        gameOver = true
        self.speed = 0

    }

A: Try browsing the web and stackoverflow before asking a question because there is a lot of tutorials on the web and even stack overflow about this. This question might even be closed because  collision detection is one of the basics in SpriteKit and has been asked a lot about on SO.
Anyway there is some errors/omissions in your code, so lets have a look.
1) You need to set the physics world contact delegate in your scenes "didMoveToView" method, so that it is actually listening for contacts. This is the number 1 thing people, including me, forget and than wonder for hours why nothing is working.
 physicsWorld.contactDelegate = self

2) You are also not giving your sprites a physicsBody
 object.physicsBody = SKPhysicsBody(...)

You have to always give them a physics body first and than set properties such as contactTestBitMasks etc.
3) Try using ? instead of ! when dealing with optionals to avoid nil crashes. Try to always do this even though you know that it is not nil. So say
...physicsBody?.contactTestBitMask...

instead of
...physicsBody!.contactTestBitMask...

You are sometimes doing it, and sometimes not.
In your current code you could get a crash because object has no physicsBody but you are force unwrapping it, essentially telling it that it does have a physics body, which is dangerous.
For example that line in your code should not work
 object.physicsBody?.applyImpulse(push)

as there is no physics body on the object, but because it is not force unwrapping (?) nothing happens. Try changing that line using a ! and you should get a crash.
So always use ? when dealing with optionals and when the compiler allows you too.
Also that line should be after you have set up the object sprite not before.
4) Try to write your physics categories differently, your way will get confusing very quick when adding more categories because you cannot just increment the last number. So in your example the next collider type will have to be 4, 8, 16 etc.
Try this instead where you only need to increment the last number by 1.
 struct ColliderType {
    static let object: UInt32 = 0x1 << 0
    static let boundary: UInt32 = 0x1 << 1
    ....
 }

Than use it like so
...contactTestBitMask = ColliderType.object
...

You whole code should look like this
  struct ColliderType {

static let object: UInt32 = 0x1 << 0
static let boundary: UInt32 = 0x1 << 1

 }

  class GameScene: SKScene, SKPhysicsContactDelegate {

var gameOver = false

var object: SKSpriteNode!

override func didMoveToView(view: SKView) {
    scene?.scaleMode = SKSceneScaleMode.AspectFill

    self.physicsWorld.gravity = CGVectorMake(0.0, 2.0)
    physicsWorld.contactDelegate = self

    object = SKSpriteNode( imageNamed: "Spaceship")
    object.zPosition = 2
    object.position = CGPoint(x: CGRectGetMidX(self.frame), y: CGRectGetMidY(self.frame))
    object.physicsBody = SKPhysicsBody(circleOfRadius: object.size.width / 0.32)

    object.physicsBody?.dynamic = true
    object.physicsBody?.allowsRotation = true
    object.physicsBody?.categoryBitMask = ColliderType.object
    object.physicsBody?.contactTestBitMask = ColliderType.boundary
    object.physicsBody?.collisionBitMask = ColliderType.boundary
    self.addChild(object)

    let boundary = SKPhysicsBody(edgeLoopFromRect: CGRect(x: 253, y: 138, width:515, height:354))
    self.physicsBody = boundary
    self.physicsBody?.friction = 0
    boundary.contactTestBitMask = ColliderType.object
    boundary.categoryBitMask = ColliderType.boundary
    boundary.collisionBitMask = ColliderType.object

    let push = CGVectorMake(10, 10)
    object.physicsBody?.applyImpulse(push)
}

func didBeginContact(contact:SKPhysicsContact) {
    print("We have Contact")

    gameOver = true
    self.speed = 0
    }
 }

Hope this helps

A: You must be sure that the two collision shapes are in the same collision space, if they are not in the same space, then collision detection algorithm will be never invoked. About the comment of Seed12, the two objects do not need to be a rigid body (physicsBody) to be checked for the presence of collisions between them.


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JACKSON, JOHN MILLS, author, merchant, and jp; b. c. 1764 on St Christopher (Saint Kitts-Nevis), son of Josiah Jackson, a doctor, and Elizabeth Gerrald; m., with at least two sons and four daughters; d. 1836 in England.
After receiving a ba from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1783, John Mills Jackson resided on St Vincent, where he owned property. He claimed to have lost a "considerable" portion of it during the Carib uprising of 1795. Four years later he became aide-de-camp to the island's commander-in-chief. At some point thereafter he returned to England (possibly to Wiltshire), but he left in 1805 to visit Lower Canada. There he possessed, "by right of inheritance, a claim to a large and very valuable tract of land." He also had an interest in Upper Canada and, prior to leaving England, he purchased land there.
Jackson arrived at York (Toronto) in August 1806 and on 21 September he petitioned the Executive Council for land, intending to become "a permanent Settler." Surveyor General Charles Burton Wyatt described him as "a gentleman of respectability." Jackson associated with Robert Thorpe, Wyatt, Joseph Willcocks*, and William Weekes*, all of whom were now actively opposed to the province's executive. Their agitation reached a fever pitch during the campaign, beginning in October, that led up to the by-election in December to replace Weekes in the House of Assembly for the riding of Durham, York East, and Simcoe. Thorpe campaigned successfully for the seat and Jackson's support for him brought the Oxford graduate into the circle of opposition.
In one notable incident, on 27 November during a dinner at Jackson's home, liquor had flowed and convivial talk had turned to politics. Willcocks blasted Lieutenant Governor Francis Gore* and when others objected, Jackson, certain guests alleged, labelled the lieutenant governor a "damned Rascal" surrounded by "that damned Scotch faction" – an allusion to advisers such as John McGill* and Thomas Scott*. Jackson went so far as to say that the Executive Council and Gore's predecessor, Peter Hunter*, "had plundered the Country." A few outraged guests left to Jackson's parting shot, "Damn the Governor and the Government: push about the bottle." In the event, depositions detailing what was described as seditious talk were taken and sent to Gore, who was capable of punitive action. Thorpe and Wyatt were eventually suspended from office while Willcocks was dismissed. But Jackson's case was different. He was too well connected – his younger brother was a British mp. Solicitor General D'Arcy Boulton* considered Jackson liable for prosecution but, since Jackson was about to return to England, Gore directed him to forget the matter.
By early summer 1807 Jackson was back in England and on 5 September he wrote to Colonial Secretary Lord Castlereagh "relating a few of those grievances" which he had found in Upper Canada. Gore had feared such an eventuality and later explained to his superiors that Jackson's "hostility . . arose from his being refused a quantity of Land, on account of his improper conduct." In fact, it had been on 24 Jan. 1807, four months after Jackson's application, that Gore first notified the colonial secretary that Jackson might apply for land. When Jackson left, the council rejected his petition because he was absent from the province.
Jackson's letter to Castlereagh was a dress rehearsal for a more extended treatment. His pamphlet, A view of the political situation of the province of Upper Canada, published in London in 1809, explained how the most "loyal, attached, and determined people" had become so "aggrieved, enslaved, and irritated" that they were on the verge of revolt. He catalogued "impolitic and tyrannical proceedings" and, citing as an example the extravagant sums spent on Alexander Grant*'s useless Provincial Marine, pointed to the "ruinous expenditure and mismanagement of the public money" that had characterized Upper Canadian government since Hunter. The grievances of the Six Nations Indians [see Thayendanegea*] and of military and loyalist claimants for free land were trotted out as examples of the frustration of imperial policy by local officialdom. The administration of justice was singled out for partiality. Finally, Thorpe, Wyatt, and Willcocks were identified as upholders of the constitution and martyrs in the cause of liberty there was nothing radical about Jackson's tract; rather it was an appeal to imperial authorities to right colonial wrongs lest Great Britain's ability to withstand Napoleonic despotism be hobbled.
In England the pamphlet stirred not the slightest fuss. The Earl of Moira recommended it to the Prince Regent as "really an interesting work." But in Upper Canada conventional counter-revolutionary minds understood Jackson's opposition to the executive as insurrectionary. The reaction of William Dummer Powell* was typical: the pamphlet was the work of a man with only passing acquaintance of the colony, whose "Channel of Information was a wretched faction of disappointed Mal contents." Gore, who thought Thorpe to be the real author, refuted it point by point in a letter to his superiors. A public response came in 1810 from Richard Cartwright* of Kingston, whose Letters, from an American loyalist was predictable in its condemnation. In an episode later seized upon by William Lyon Mackenzie*, Crowell Willson and James McNabb* brought before the assembly in March 1810 a motion condemning Jackson's screed as "a false, scandalous and seditious libel . . . tending to alienate the affections of the people . . . and to excite them to insurrection." The resolution passed, as did an address approving Gore's administration and damning Jackson's work, against the opposition of John Willson*, Willcocks, David McGregor Rogers*, and Peter Howard. Nothing, however, came of such denunciations.
Jackson returned to the province about May 1810 and by 30 May 1811 he had opened a general store at Springfield Park, his estate three miles north of York on Yonge Street. His sons later joined him in the business. There had been rumours late in 1811 of his intention to run in the next general election. In 1816 he stood, unsuccessfully, for the riding of York East. The following year he sold the business, or his share of it at least. Anxious to relocate within the province, Jackson petitioned the council without success for a grant in late 1818. The council referred the matter to Sir Peregrine Maitland* on the ground that Jackson had "associated and identified himself with a faction . . . whose conduct led to their suspension and removal from Office." Jackson had, in fact, continued to associate with Gore's adversaries, underwriting the cost of Thorpe's libel case against Gore in 1817–18. The petition was referred to the colonial secretary, who agreed not to interfere on Jackson's behalf. Jackson was outraged and took the opportunity to vindicate his supposedly notorious actions. In a letter to Major George Hillier on 29 Dec. 1818 he denied the existence of a faction and outlined "the Violence" of Gore's conduct, which had resulted in two successful libel suits (Thorpe's and Wyatt's) against the former lieutenant governor. He was merely a legitimate claimant for land whose "aim was peaceably to induce His Majesty's ministers to investigate, and rectify those discontents then existing . . . and which I am confident will cease under the prudent and wise Government of Sir Peregrine Maitland."
Jackson had never been a radical and subsequent events reveal his political opinions to have been as respectable as he was. In 1828, having sold his Springfield Park estate and some other lands in 1819, he bought property and settled in Georgina Township on Lake Simcoe where a daughter and her husband already lived. All his daughters married well. One had wed a nephew of the Earl of Westmorland, another married Augustus Warren Baldwin*. Jackson, who was a shareholder in the steamer Simcoe, built at Holland Landing, signed the usual sort of loyal addresses, including one in 1832 which condemned "the attempts of turbulent, disaffected, and interested individuals" to attack Sir John Colborne*'s administration. He also was one of the seven members of the Georgina Club, the intent of which was expressed in the couplet: "For in this Club each member tries / To d—n McKenzie, and his Lies." Small wonder he was made a justice of the peace in 1833. Two years later he was urging Anglican authorities to erect a church in Georgina because Sundays had become "a holiday in which an opportunity is taken to commit much excess of debauchery amongst the low classes of Society." Jackson died in 1836 while on a trip to England.
What has been designated as radicalism in Jackson was really best interpreted by Robert Gourlay* when he wrote of the oppositionists of the first Gore administration: there was "never any disagreement about the principles of government. The sole cause of discontent arose from the abuses of executive power." Within the spectrum of 18th-century politics, Jackson's opinions were both whig and traditional.
Robert L. Fraser
[Neither the Wiltshire indexes to wills, 1830–50, nor the indexes to English wills, 1837–46, provide any information about the date and place of Jackson's death, the only source for which is Robertson's landmarks of Toronto, 2: 705–6. r.l.f.]
The full title of John Mills Jackson's pamphlet, issued at London in 1809, is A view of the political situation of the province of Upper Canada, in North America; in which her physical capacity is stated; the means of diminishing her burden, encreasing her value, and securing her connection to Great Britain, are fully considered.
AO, MS 88; MS 537; MU 1365, Lake Simcoe South Shore Hist. Soc., "Georgina, history of a township" (portfolio of loose printed sheets, n.p., 1972); RG 22, ser.131. MTRL, James Givins papers; W. D. Powell papers. PAC, RG 1, L3; RG 5, A1; RG 68, General index, 1651–1841. PRO, CO 42/362; 42/365. York North Land Registry Office (Newmarket, Ont.), Abstract index to deeds, Georgina Township (mfm. at AO). The correspondence of George, Prince of Wales, 1770–1812, ed. Arthur Aspinall (8v., London, 1963–71), 6: 399, 409. "Journals of Legislative Assembly of U.C.," AO Report, 1911. "Minutes of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the Home District, 13th March, 1800, to 28th December, 1811," AO Report, 1932. Statistical account of U.C. (Gourlay), vol.2. Town of York, 1793–1815 (Firth). York, Upper Canada: minutes of town meetings and lists of inhabitants, 1797–1823, ed. Christine Mosser (Toronto, 1984). Canadian Freeman, 1832–34. Gleaner, and Niagara Newspaper, 1819. Upper Canada Gazette, 1817–19. York Gazette, 1811. Alumni Oxonienses; the members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . . . , comp. Joseph Foster (4v., Oxford and London, 1888), 2: 736. Creighton, Empire of St. Lawrence. Gates, Land policies of U.C. J. E. Middleton and Fred Landon, The province of Ontario: a history, 1615–1927 (5v., Toronto, [1927–28]), 1: 148–52. Scadding, Toronto of old (Armstrong; 1966). W. N. T. Wylie, "Instruments of commerce and authority: the civil courts in Upper Canada, 1789–1812," Essays in the history of Canadian law, ed. D. H. Flaherty (2v., Toronto, 1981–83), 2: 3–48. G. C. Patterson, "Land settlement in Upper Canada, 1783–1840," AO Report, 1920. W. R. Riddell, "The legislature of Upper Canada and contempt: drastic methods of early provincial parliaments with critics," OH, 22 (1925): 186–201.
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Are You Tired of Being Green?
Admit it. Sometimes being eco friendly is just a wee bit frustrating. It's challenging even when you're used to it. There are only so many parts of being green that can really feel routine when you know there are easier but less eco friendly choices out there.
I think we all feel the temptation at times to skip the green solution and do things the easy way. To drive where we could walk or ride a bike. To skip the search for organic or local produce. To shop without worrying about where the products came from, what they're made from or how they were made. To give in and let the kids have whatever random plastic toy they're begging for that you know will be forgotten in a week if you buy it.
Most of us will give in at one point or another on these things. We don't have perfect willpower. But sometimes it's all just so overwhelming that we want to just quit for a time.
You heard me. Take a hike. Get outta here!
Seriously, go reconnect with nature. Head out to a favorite hiking trail, favorite beach, whatever really helps you to enjoy nature at its finest.
If you can do this regularly so much the better, but that isn't possible for all of us. Get out into nature as often as you can to help yourself remember just why you want to be eco friendly in the first place.
Often frustration with being green isn't so much the whole being green thing. It's one particular thing that just isn't working for you. Maybe you're one of the unlucky ones who just doesn't do so well with CFLs. Maybe buying organic produce and free range meat is adding a stress you just can't quite cope with on your budget.
Whatever is causing the problem, think if you really need to continue it. For foods, look at which ones are really a priority to get organic for you. It matters more on some foods than on others.
If you just don't like the light quality from CFLs, think about other ways you can save energy. There are lot of choices out there. Maybe something else would work better for you, such as drying your clothes on a clothesline or remembering to completely shut down your computer at night.
You can always come back to the frustrating parts later. You could make more progress overall by skipping things that aren't going too smoothly at the moment.
How many changes have you tried to make recently?
Much like figuring out what isn't working for you, you should be noticing if the changes are coming too fast for you. Most people don't do so well with a ton of changes being made all at once. Take it a little bit easier for a while or even stop adding new eco friendly habits.
It's okay to feel frustrated with eco friendly living. It's a difficult process for most of us. But try not to let frustration stop you. Take a deep breath, then another, and figure out what's going wrong. Once you know where the problem is, you can start working on the solution.
Published by Stephanie, in Going Green. Tagged with burnout, eco friendly living.