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Global financial services giant Mastercard has signed a multi-year sponsorship with the NWSL to be an official sponsor of the league. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
In addition to financial support, Mastercard will also integrate itself into the league's fan-experience efforts, launching NWSL-specific offerings for customers on Priceless.com, the experiences and discounts platform available to cardholders. On-site events and VIP experiences at league games are also part of those plans.
The deal extends beyond the pitch as well, with Mastercard creating a soccer and NWSL-themed curriculum for its STEM education program developed for middle school-aged girls called Girls4Tech. The company will also dedicate resources to educating NWSL players on their own financial wellness.
"This new partnership with Mastercard is yet another indication of the strong appetite for women's soccer that exists in the sports and entertainment community," NWSL commissioner Lisa Baird said. "Mastercard and NWSL [share] the common goal of sowing and strengthening a passion for women's sport. We are both deeply committed to providing a stage to showcase our incredible athletes as well as a top-tier fan experience that both fortifies the passion of current women's soccer enthusiasts and opens a door for new fans to experience the game."
The league's ninth regular season kicks off on Saturday, following a successful second iteration of the Challenge Cup tournament, which ended on last weekend with Portland Thorns FC winning the championship on penalties.
In addition to becoming a league sponsor, Mastercard has signed Portland defender and USWNT player Crystal Dunn as a global ambassador. Dunn, a World Cup champion and the league's 2015 MVP, will join an impressive group of Mastercard-sponsored female athletes, including tennis phenom Naomi Osaka, Australian soccer star Sam Kerr, Norwegian soccer player Ada Hegerberg and Hall of Fame golfer Annika Sorenstam.
"With this partnership, we have the ability to reach so many people of different backgrounds through one common passion: soccer," said Mastercard chief marketing and communications officer Raja Rajamannar. "This is a great opportunity for us to get closer to consumers by curating experiences that enhance the things they love most. This partnership supports our company goals, from our gender balance objectives, to driving consumer engagement, and connecting with a new passionate fanbase … the list goes on."
The company's investment in women's sports also includes teams, such as Arsenal W.F.C. in the Women's Super League (the top tier of English women's football), and French women's football club Olympique Lyonnais Feminin. The company is also an official sponsor of the Australian Open tennis tournament and the LPGA Tour's British major, the AIG Women's Open.
Mastercard is among a growing group of NWSL national sponsors, including 2021 newcomers Nationwide, the league's first official insurance partner, and Ally, its first official banking partner and a league-wide sleeve sponsor. The trio of recent additions join the league's returning supporters: Budweiser, women's deodorant brand Secret, Nike and Verizon, as well as CBS, Twitch and digital radio partner iHeartMedia on the media side.
"Our sponsors' contributions to the league … most importantly allow us to deliver an experience that our athletes and fans deserve," Baird said, noting that the financial support from corporate partners helps fund player bonuses, community service initiatives and fan experiences. "The partnerships we've forged are enormously impactful for our league. Not only do they ensure the strength of the NWSL, but they also serve as a sign of the momentum our sport has right now."


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Written by Dan Kern. Last updated on August 28, 2022
Non-comedogenic Skin Care Products Claim to Be Less Likely to Cause Acne. However, This Claim Cannot Be Guaranteed.
The Essential Info
"Comedogenic" means that a product is likely to clog skin pores, which can then lead to acne lesions.
"Non-comedogenic" means that a product is not likely to clog pores.
The root word of each term is "comedone," which is the medical term for a clogged pore.
Natural processes in our skin can lead to clogged pores, but ingredients in cosmetics can sometimes be the culprit as well.
Manufacturers of skin care products may advertise their products as "non-comedogenic" or may choose to simply say "will not clog pores," but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not regulate these claims, so there is no guarantee that products labeled as such will not cause acne.
"Comedogenic" Explained
"Non-comedogenic" Explained
Formulating Non-comedogenic Products
The Comedogenic Testing Process
Comedogenic ingredients are ingredients that lead to clogged pores, called "comedones."
The most likely way that comedogenic ingredients clog pores is by stimulating the overproduction of skin cells inside a skin pore, which leads to a pore blockage and ensuing acne.1-6
The term comedogenic refers to a substance that causes comedones (clogged pores). The term acnegenic is also sometimes used and means the same thing.
Researchers first discovered that cosmetic products could cause acne in 1972 after investigating the continued appearance of comedones in adult women who regularly used facial cosmetics. The researchers called the condition "acne cosmetica," and this initial discovery led to much more research regarding exactly which ingredients might be causing clogged pores.5
The term non-comedogenic refers to substances that should not cause clogged pores.
The discovery of acne cosmetica prompted manufacturers to develop cosmetic and skin care products that are more likely to be non-comedogenic.3 Today, a host of skin care brands advertise their products as non-comedogenic.
However, people who use products labeled as non-comedogenic should know that the FDA does not regulate this term. This means that although some manufacturers can support their claims with research and product testing, no regulatory agency requires them to do so in order to make comedogenicity claims about their products.
Producing non-comedogenic skin care products and cosmetics is a challenge because most products contain many ingredients, and it is difficult to predict how each of those ingredients will interact with different people's skin.5
Product formulators try to make educated guesses about how comedogenic an ingredient might be based on its chemistry, such as how big the molecule is.6
Another tool that product formulators have is to simply avoid using ingredients that have been shown to be comedogenic in laboratory testing. The first list of results for the comedogenic potential of ingredients was published in a 1989 study in the Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists:
"By taking these products apart, testing their ingredients, and putting them back together and retesting them, an extensive ingredient listing has been created. By studying this list, the cosmetic chemist can begin to be selective in developing formulas for less irritating and less comedogenic products."6
However, even if individual ingredients are classified as non-comedogenic, it is possible that a combination of non-comedogenic ingredients interact and become comedogenic. To avoid this, the American Academy of Dermatology recommended in 1989 that manufacturers test products that contain three or more non-comedogenic ingredients, just to be sure that the combination of ingredients doesn't end up clogging pores.3
The rabbit ear test and the human method are the two testing models that are usually used to determine if ingredients are comedogenic.
Rabbit ear test:
The rabbit ear test is the most common way of determining whether ingredients are comedogenic. In this test, a researcher exposes the inner ear of an albino rabbit to an ingredient, for example, an oil at 10% strength, and evaluates how the skin responds after a two-week period.
The major disadvantage of this test is:
The skin of a rabbit's ear is much more sensitive than human skin, and sometimes ingredients appear to be more comedogenic in the rabbit than they are in humans.6
Human method:
Researchers also perform comedogenic testing of product ingredients on human skin, partly due to opposition to animal testing in some countries. In this method, an absorbent patch is saturated with an ingredient and applied to a person's back, and then evaluated after four weeks. Researchers will often test several ingredients at once in this manner. This technique is used on the back to make the patch less conspicuous.7
Comedogenic testing in humans presents a few disadvantages:
Researchers have not used the human method for as long as the rabbit ear test. While the method of the rabbit ear test has been standardized, the human method has not. Because of this, different researchers will often employ the human method in different ways, leading to inconsistent outcomes.
It takes more time to obtain results than it does with the rabbit ear test.3
The skin on the back, where the test is performed, differs from the facial skin, where most skincare products are actually applied.3,7,8
As we can see, both the rabbit ear test and the human method come with disadvantages, and therefore, comedogenicity testing is an imperfect science.
The gold standard for comedogenicity testing would be so-called "in-use clinical trials," which are tests on actual patients who use products as they are meant to be used. However, in-use clinical trials are expensive to run, so companies rarely perform them.7
The fact is, there is no universal industry standard for what a company has to do before it can write "non-comedogenic" on its product labels. Therefore, such labels are often nothing more than a marketing tool.8
Since the FDA does not regulate the claim "non-comedogenic" on cosmetic and skin care products, it is difficult to know how much testing the manufacturer actually performed, if any, when they came to this conclusion. Due to this unregulated environment, as well as limitations in product testing procedures, consumers should be aware that some "non-comedogenic" products may still cause clogged pores and breakouts.
The best way to determine if a product might break you out is to look at the ingredient list and avoid using products that contain highly comedogenic ingredients within the first seven (7) ingredients listed on the label.
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Toyoda, M. & Morohashi, M. Pathogenesis of acne. Med. Electron Microsc. 34, 29 – 40 (2001). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11479771
Draelos, Z. D. & DiNardo, J. C. A re-evaluation of the comedogenicity concept. J. Am. Acad. Dermatol. 54, 507 – 512 (2006). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16488305
Mirshahpanah, P. & Maibach, H. I. Models in acnegenesis. Cutan. Ocul. Toxicol. 26, 195 – 202 (2007). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17687685
Kligman, A. M. & Mills, O. H. Jr. Acne cosmetica. Arch. Dermatol. 106, 843 – 850 (1972). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4264346
Fulton, J. E. Comedogenicity and irritancy of commonly used ingredients in skin care products. J. Soc. Cosmet. Chem. 40, 321 – 333 (1989). http://www.nononsensecosmethic.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Comedogenicity-and-irritacy-of-commonly-used-ingredients.pdf
Weiss, C. & Caswell, M. Non-comedogenic and non-acnegenic claim substantiation. J. Cosmet. Sci. 68, 253‐256 (2017). https://library.scconline.org/v068n04/10
Xu, S., Kwa, M., Lohman, M. E., Evers-Meltzer, R. & Silverberg, J. I. Consumer preferences, product characteristics, and potentially allergenic ingredients in best-selling moisturizers. JAMA Dermatol. 153, 1099‐1105 (2017). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28877310
Daniel Kern is the Chief Scientific Officer at Acne.org. This article is the result of Dan's collaboration with Acne.org's team of doctors and medical writers.
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How To Get From Alicante Airport To Murcia?
The city of Murcia is the second largest in the area, located about 75 km south from Alicante airport. Despite its own airport, many tourists arrive at Alicante airport since it is the airport with the most international connections along the Costa Blanca.
With its growing importance, we got more and more questions on what is the best or cheapest way to get to Murcia. Considering all the different options from bus, taxi, train to transfer shuttles , we decided to put this extensive page together. Hopefully giving you a better overview on most transfer options listed by travel time , cost and convenience.
How To Get To Murcia from Alicante Airport?
The spanish bus Co. Alsa is running a direct bus service from the airport of Alicante to Murcia Spain. The bus stops at the Alicante airport (bus stop at Departure level!) and gets you several times during the day to the capital of the province of Murcia.
Currently Alsa runs up to 8 bus services during the day (depending on the day of the week). The bus does a non stop trip and stops in Murcia at the Calle los Bolos s/n.
The bus to Murcia leaves Alicante airport from the bus stop outside the departure level of the new terminal building. (This is NOT at the bus stops in the charter bus lower level -2 of the terminal building!!) .
Details on where the bus stop is located, here in our Alicante Airport Bus section.
The Murcia Bus is currently priced around EUR 4,64 for a one way and EUR 8,35 for a round-trip fare.
In case you arrive late and no direct bus to Murcia is running anymore, you should consider travelling to Murcia via downtown Alicante.
a) Take Alicante airport to Downtown Alicante bus and exit at Alicante's downtown bus station.
b) Get on a bus from Alicante to Murcia. Alsa (spanish bus company) is offering several daily bus lines.
Approx. Cost of both bus tickets – one way is EUR 9, with a travel time of around 2 hours (considering some waiting time).
Especially if you arrive late night at Alicante airport, the use of a late night train from downtown's Alicante train station might be your last option of cheap public transportation.
a) Take the bus from Alicante airport to them main railroad station in downtown Alicante. The Alicante airport bus to downtown Alicante gets you right to the train station.
Depending on train ticket ( economy or first class ) the total trip will cost you around EUR 20 – 25 .
An alternative way, of course not cheap, but if you are travelling as group or arriving at the airport when no bus is running anymore, a taxi to Murcia from Alicante airport might be the best choice.
Price for a taxi to Murcia is around 85 EUR. Depending on traffic and where exactly in Murcia you are heading to, travel time is around 1 hour.
A variety of companies offer private bus shuttle services from Alicante airport to Murcia. Companies like shuttledirect and Resorthoppa pick you up at the airport and get you to Murcia or even to your final resort. Definitely worth checking out beforehand, might be a valuable alternative especially when you are travelling as a family or in a group.
Out of all ways to get from the airport to Murcia, hiring a car is certainly the most expensive. However if you consider the benefits of having full mobility around the Costa Calida and Costa Blanca while you are on vacation, it might be worth looking into. Especially if your hotel is located a bit off main public transportation or if you are travelling as a family with children, having a car available whenever you need it, might be a good investment for your sunny Spain holiday.
>> See more on how to rent a car at Alicante airport here.
As always, if you come across an alternative or cheaper way to travel from Alicante airport to Murcia, please drop us a line in the comments section below, so we can add it here.


Ticks, black bears and more ticks — oh my!
I never contemplated wildlife or insects when I decided to run the Ice Age Trail. Pretty stupid, I know. I mean, I'll be moving through lots of woods and wetlands, so obviously I'll be encountering … things.
On the Camino in Spain, I actually rarely saw wildlife. I did walk through a lot of sheep pastures (not scary), through some Iberian pig pastures (a little scary) and through cattle pastures (pretty scary). There were lots of barking dogs that could be unnerving, and twice I encountered some aggressive dogs who I was sure were going to take a piece of me home with them (thankfully, they didn't). But really, there wasn't any wildlife to speak of. So it just wasn't on my mind with the Ice Age Trail. Until I attended the annual conference in Dresser this past April.
During the conference, two men who had thru-hiked the IAT last year mentioned spotting black bears. Gulp. Living in the southern part of Wisconsin, I never realized we had bears ambling around our northern forests. They assured me that black bears like to leave humans alone, and there was no reason to worry. I calmed myself down, figuring I could handle a bear or two, but then they got on the subject of ticks.
One guy said during certain portions of his hike he wiped hundreds (that's right, HUNDREDS) of ticks off each arm, only to find them covered again a mere 5 minutes later. So he just walked all day covered in ticks, then cleaned himself off at the end of the day. I stopped listening at that point. I felt sick. All I could think was, "Well, I'll just have to cancel my run. I'll call the editors and cancel my story assignments." A few black bears I could handle. Weeks alone in the woods and on lonely roads I could handle. But hundreds and hundreds of ticks all over me? No way.
Luckily I snapped back to attention just in time to hear the guys say tick season is roughly April-June, with ticks starting to decline in July, and then dying out completely starting in fall. Phew! I'd inadvertently picked just the right time to tackle the trail. My plans were back on.
So if, like me, you can't stand the thought of hiking covered in ticks, now you know fall and winter are the seasons to tackle the trail.


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Q: Problem with Gantt chart plotting in shiny with DiagrammeR I have a problem displaying Gantt plots in Shiny using DiagrammeR's mermaid plotting function.
Everything is executing as expected however the plots are displayed in the R studio's viewer not on the shiny page (which has a tabPanel for the plot to be displayed).
I have seen this asked/solved using ggVis .. however the solution in that instance is specific to ggVis. I would like to stay with DiagrammeR/mermaid because it produces such good looking plots.
An minimal executable example is attached :-)
library(shiny)
library(lubridate)
library(DiagrammeR)

  # --- Input datafile
         AllData <- data.frame(Project = c("Phoenix", "Phoenix", "Phoenix"),
                          task = c("Establish plan", "Build management tool", "Get funding"),
                          status = c("done", "active", "crit, active"),
                          pos = c("first_1", "first_2", "import_1"),
                          start = c("2018-12-01", "2019-01-21", "2019-02-01"),
                          end = c("12w 6d", "4w", "8w 1d"),
                          stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

  # Define UI for application

ui <- fluidPage(

      titlePanel("XXX Project Management Tool"),

         sidebarLayout(
           sidebarPanel(                       # --- setup LHS data input frames ---

              selectInput("Proj", "Project",
                        c(unique(as.character(AllData$Project)))),

              selectInput("Stg", "Stage",
                         c("All", unique(as.character(AllData$name)))),

                  width = 3),

         mainPanel(

             tabsetPanel(type = "tabs",
                tabPanel("Gantt Chart", plotOutput("plot")),
                tabPanel("Data Table", tableOutput("table"))))

     )
   )

server <- function(input, output) {

  # --- filter the selected project into a reactive function (access later using () suffix) ---
  SelectedProject <- reactive({dplyr::filter(AllData, Project == input$Proj)})

  output$plot <- renderPlot({
    mermaid(
      paste0(
        "gantt", "\n",
        "dateFormat  YYYY-MM-DD", "\n",
        "title Gantt Chart - Project ", input$Proj, "\n",

        # --- unite the first two columns (task & status) and separate them with ":" ---
        # --- then, unite the other columns and separate them with "," ---
        paste(SelectedProject() %>%
                unite(i, task, status, sep = ":") %>%
                unite(j, i, pos, start, end, sep = ",") %>%
                .$j,
              collapse = "\n"
        ), "\n"
      )
    )
  })

  output$table <- renderTable({SelectedProject()})

}

# --- run application ---
shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)

The plot ends up displayed in the viewer - however the other tabPanel displays the tabulated data as expected.

A: You need to use DiagrammeROutput() instead of plotOutput() and renderDiagrammeR() instead of renderPlot():
library(shiny)
library(lubridate)
library(DiagrammeR)
library(tidyr)

# --- Input datafile
AllData <- data.frame(Project = c("Phoenix", "Phoenix", "Phoenix"),
                      task = c("Establish plan", "Build management tool", "Get funding"),
                      status = c("done", "active", "crit, active"),
                      pos = c("first_1", "first_2", "import_1"),
                      start = c("2018-12-01", "2019-01-21", "2019-02-01"),
                      end = c("12w 6d", "4w", "8w 1d"),
                      stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

# Define UI for application

ui <- fluidPage(

  titlePanel("XXX Project Management Tool"),

  sidebarLayout(
    sidebarPanel(                       # --- setup LHS data input frames ---

      selectInput("Proj", "Project",
                  c(unique(as.character(AllData$Project)))),

      selectInput("Stg", "Stage",
                  c("All", unique(as.character(AllData$name)))),

      width = 3),

    mainPanel(

      tabsetPanel(type = "tabs",
                  tabPanel("Gantt Chart", DiagrammeROutput("plot")),
                  tabPanel("Data Table", tableOutput("table"))))

  )
)

server <- function(input, output) {

  # --- filter the selected project into a reactive function (access later using () suffix) ---
  SelectedProject <- reactive({dplyr::filter(AllData, Project == input$Proj)})

  output$plot <- renderDiagrammeR({
    mermaid(
      paste0(
        "gantt", "\n",
        "dateFormat  YYYY-MM-DD", "\n",
        "title Gantt Chart - Project ", input$Proj, "\n",

        # --- unite the first two columns (task & status) and separate them with ":" ---
        # --- then, unite the other columns and separate them with "," ---
        paste(SelectedProject() %>%
                unite(i, task, status, sep = ":") %>%
                unite(j, i, pos, start, end, sep = ",") %>%
                .$j,
              collapse = "\n"
        ), "\n"
      )
    )
  })

  output$table <- renderTable({SelectedProject()})

}

# --- run application ---
shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)

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Promoters stand near Muse, a concept autonomous vehicle, from Iconiq Motors during the Auto Shanghai 2019 show on Tuesday. | AP
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Coming soon to China: the car of the future — hyper-connected, autonomous and shared
Online: Apr 19, 2019
Last Modified: Apr 19, 2019
SHANGHAI – Global automakers are positioning themselves for a brave new world of on-demand transport that will require a car of the future — hyper-connected, autonomous and shared — and China may become the concept's laboratory.
With ride-hailing services booming and car-sharing not far behind, the need for vehicles tailored to these and other evolving mobility solutions is one of the hottest topics among global automakers gathered for this week's Shanghai Auto Show.
Nearly all agree that there is no better proving ground than China: Its gigantic cities are desperate for answers to gridlock and its population is noted for its ready embrace of new high-tech services.
To take advantage of this, manufacturers are competing not only to sell conventional and electric vehicles in the world's biggest auto market, but also to develop new technologies and even specific interiors designed for the on-demand world.
"We cannot just develop electric cars. They will have to be smart, interconnected and of course shared," Zhao Guoqing, vice president of Chinese auto giant Great Wall Motors, said on the auto show's sidelines.
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Discussion of China and ride-hailing inevitably involves Didi Chuxing, the country's omnipresent answer to Uber.
The eagerness of Chinese travelers to hail rides with a smartphone click has unleashed a colossal market: On-demand transport reached $28 billion in turnover in China last year, or about half of global volume, and is expected to double by 2022, according to data firm Statista.
Didi accounts for about 90 percent of the Chinese market.
On-demand's potential is bringing automakers and service providers together.
Last year, Didi unveiled an alliance of Chinese and foreign manufacturers including Renault, Toyota and Volkswagen dedicated to exploring ways forward.
And in February, Chinese technology giants Alibaba and Tencent joined hands with several manufacturers to develop a future platform for on-demand transport.
"We can no longer be a conventional manufacturer, we must offer mobility solutions, connectivity," Stephan Wollenstein, director of Volkswagen China, told reporters.
Although a relative newcomer to China's automotive market, French brand Renault is forging ahead: Its local joint venture with Chinese manufacturer Brilliance Auto delivered 600 personal minivans to Didi in February.
"Didi wants to develop such vehicles with many carmakers, which are more adapted to (Didi's) business, redesigned around the passenger," said Michael Dong, vice president of Renault-Brilliance-Jinbei.
For one thing, most passenger cars today are designed to squeeze in a family, and thus feature limited space in the back because that's where the kids normally sit, said Lawrence Petizon, an analyst with AlixPartners.
But for ride-hailing or car-sharing, more space is needed in the back to accommodate grown-up passengers.
"The family car is not the right answer," he said.
Didi drivers typically supply their own vehicles, but Chinese authorities are encouraging service firms to build their own fleets, partly to spur the industry and push forward the futuristic transport concept.
Some manufacturers are even dipping their toes into ride-hailing, with Germany's BMW offering a high-end service in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu, and Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz doing so in Shanghai.
"Admittedly, the volumes ordered are still insufficient for mass production but the potential is enormous," said Dong.
The idea is not confined to China.
Daimler and BMW announced in February they would jointly invest more than €1 billion to deepen cooperation between their Car2Go and DriveNow services in Europe, in which cars are available for short-term point-to-point use.
One thing that seems certain to eventually change is how cars are bought and sold.
"Car manufacturers will no longer provide customers with cars via a one-time sale, but rather with a brand that connects them to the users on a daily basis through the mobility services they offer," said a recent report by Eurogroup Consulting.
This automotive evolution is expected to accelerate the development of autonomous vehicles, which are already viewed as the future of overall car transport but seem especially suited to urban car-sharing services.
Valeo, the French manufacturer of ultrasonic sensors, cameras and navigational technology, said it received orders totalling €1 billion last year related to the development of "robot-taxis."
Francois Marion, president of Valeo China, said the global advent of driverless cars is just around the bend.
"They will hit the road in carefully charted urban environments, with dedicated lanes on the streets, connected infrastructures guiding them and programmed itineraries," he said of the futuristic vision.
"And the companies operating them will always be able to intervene if anything happens to one of the vehicles."
Valeo also is working with Meituan, China's leader in meal deliveries, to develop a robotic vehicle.
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Starring 2,131 books, 27 volunteers, and Seattle's gorgeous public library.
To launch Seattle Public Library's 2013 Summer Reading program, 27 volunteers set up and toppled the world's longest book domino chain in the library's breathtaking flagship location. I have a hard enough time keeping books from falling over my nightstand, but they made this wonder with 2,131 retired titles from their catalog. The result is a giddy book-nerd world record.
They promise that "no books were harmed" in the making of this promo video, and that the books will be resold to support the program.


← I spot something in my eye!
This one took a whole lot of time, almost solely because of the intersections of the red and blue beams. In addition the details became a bit small because I run with fixed line widths over all my figures. I do not plan to change this, but I do wonder sometimes.
In addition to the two beams that repeatedly pass over and under each other being perfectly horizontal, they also connect vertically at each end, and if you travel around the figure you will notice that you will either go only up or only down at the ends.


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Drupal Review
What is Drupal?
Developers know Drupal's reputation as one of the community publishing system apps out there. Even so, Drupal is still works like a content management system, built for years as an app used on the internet. Plainly speaking, Drupal is a platform that combines of content management systems, forums, e-commerce platforms, wikis, and blogging platforms into a single system that works for publication, communication, and e-commerce. Drupal is also an app development framework that encourages developers to use a unified, widely-understandable approach that leads to modular code on one interface. Lastly, Drupal is also an open-source CMS platform that can support many apps and sites for free. Drupal's reason for this feature as its developers want other developers to build itself to its active users and other people seeking to improve the app further.
Drupal features
Main features of Drupal are:
Graphics Management
Page Content Management
Modules, Designs, & Displays
Drupal Benefits
The main benefits of Drupal are the variety of management tools that range from the advanced menu to user settings, customizable app settings, and versatile app taxonomy for content classification. Read on to learn more of its advantages.
Drupal has many features ranging from advanced menu management to user management. Through these features, users have an easier time to make simple yet advanced sites like blogs, or social networking pages. Using Drupal, a user also has a variety of choices of the site's content which could be polls, videos, texts, blog statistics, and other useful content.
As the app can be personalized, users can easily find a variety of ideas and features for designers and developers. Through Drupal, businesses can gain from rapid growth after incorporating the app's core functions and features. Drupal is also on par with many enterprise-class CMS when it comes to reliability, scalability, security, manageability, and availability of resources.
More than a million sites trust Drupal due to its versatility. The platform also has a strong taxonomy, which helps users classify and sort out content. Using this feature, adjusting to keywords will be simple. Moreover, Drupal is streamlined for community sites, with its solid user access and role control that can accommodate as many users as needed. Lastly, the Drupal forum still has some active user base that makes it a good place to ask for questions.
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Century-Old Records Tumble as England Thrash Pakistan in Rawalpindi Test
By Imad Ali Jan | Published Dec 1, 2022 | 5:09 pm
England kicked off the much-awaited three-match Test series against Pakistan in style as they shattered many Test cricket records on the first day of the match at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium.
Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett got off to a fast start, scoring 174 runs without losing a wicket in the first session of the match, setting a national record for most runs in an opening session of a Test match alongside a world record for the same in over 100 years of test history.
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The attacking cricket was seen from the very first over, when Zak Crawley scored 14 runs in Naseem Shah's over, becoming England's first batter to score the most runs in an opening over in red-ball cricket.
The opening pair played aggressively, completing the first hundred in just 83 balls which is the first time in English Test cricket that the first hundred runs were scored in such a few number of balls.
In the first session of the day, Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett maintained a 6.44 run rate, which will be recorded as the highest run rate for the England red-ball team in their opening session.
England Openers Shatter 100-Year Test Cricket History in Just the First Test Session
Zak Crawley completed his century in just 86 balls, the fastest for an England opener and the fourth fastest overall, joining the likes of Gilbert Jessop, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes, and Ian Botham on the list.
Zak Crawley, who scored 91* runs in the first session, became the third batter, after India's Shikhar Dhawan and Australia's David Warner, to score the most runs in a test match's first session since 2008.
England, meanwhile, broke a 112-year-old cricket record by scoring 506 runs on the first day of the match. Previously, Australia had scored 494 runs on the first day of a match against South Africa in 1910.
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World News/Opinion
What's dragging Ethiopia's democratic governance?
addisstandard / November 25, 2014 / 0 / 3.9k
Semahagn Gashu Abebe (PhD)
One of the most enduring features of the political system run by the ruling party in Ethiopia is the chronic problem of good governance. The rhetoric to achieve good governance in numerous variables has failed to match the reality on the ground.
When the EPRDF regime took power in 1991, it adopted different legal reforms essential to realize good governance. These reforms included, but not limited to, the participation of opposition parties in the political discourse, the introduction of independent media, and decentralization and adoption of the federal and parliamentary system of government. Furthermore, periodic general elections have taken place for four times in the past (1995, 2000, 2005 and 2010). From formal perspectives, it seems Ethiopia is an emerging democracy and departing from its authoritarian past. Impressed by such rhetoric, many international organizations such as Freedom House and most western states (at least until recently) referred to the country as an 'emerging democracy'.
Nevertheless, the reality on the ground remains diametrically opposed from the formal rhetoric provided under official documents. In light of major variables of good governance such as legitimacy, accountability, transparency of government activities, and respect for the rule of law, the Ethiopian governance performance stays at a dismal bottom of almost every index even by some African countries' standard known for their authoritarianism. According to the 2013 Mo Ibrahim Index of African Governance, Ethiopia ranked 33rd out of the 53 African countries surveyed. Ethiopia also ranked 111th out of 177 countries in Transparency International's 2013 corruption index.
One too many to count
The factors that are dragging the progress of good governance in the country are structural and ideological in nature. First, what could be considered as one of the major structural problems is the absence of democratic culture in the country's political history. The considerable part of the country's political history had undergone through traditional feudal rule that was characterized by absolute loyalty that legitimized the exploitation of the poor. And in the last four decades the repressive political culture has been manifested under the banner of promoting the rights of nations and nationalities and ensuring socio-economic advancement through communist revolutionary polices. Despite the claim by both the communist Derg and the current regime of enjoying popular support, the old patriarchal top-down power relations have been systematically and firmly maintained in a harsh manner, if not harsher than it was during the imperial period.
The second is ideological – the adoption of leftist Marxist ideology into the country's political discourse and its undeniable implications on the policies of the powers that be. As is known globally, it is an ideology strictly attached to undemocratic practices such as extreme loyalty to party discipline, restricting rights of citizens and economic freedoms, and the enriching of a few party elites who are more powerful than formal governmental institutions. In such controlled system of governance run by the few decision making process is secretive and there is total absence of effective mechanism to hold government officials accountable. At present, the ruling party in Ethiopia is governing the country in asoviet-style system of democratic centralism that continues to seriously undermine the progress of democratic institutions.
The ballot scapegoat
While elections are considered as one of the mechanisms used by the electorate to hold their leaders accountable, in Ethiopia they are used as a scapegoat to legitimize power players who are voted out of office. Since the fall in 1991 of the Derg and the so called dissolution of the single party political system, Ethiopia has undertaken four general elections. But it is widely believed that all have been marred by alleged vote rigging and have failed to reflect the genuine will of the people, increasingly undermining the ability of citizens to change their leaders through the ballot box.
For about a decade starting from the end of the 1990s to 2007-8, the major ideological policy pursued by the EPRDF regime was the doctrine of revolutionary democracy. But it was a mere cover-up used by the power players to obliterate independent institutions and separation of power out of the political space and accumulate private wealth. It proved that it neither recognizes competitive elections as a source of political power; nor it considers opposition parties as vital to the democratization process in the country.
The Soviet-style governance shaped by percepts of revolutionary democracy has not changed with the honey-creamed rhetoric of a developmental statism ideology that replaced it either. Irrespective of these jargons the ruling elites have continued paralyzing any prospect of the emergence of checks and balances among the three branches of the state.
The strict application of the principle of democratic centralism within the ruling EPRDF mean members of parliament often adhere to party loyalty than accountability to the electorate or to their conscience. Such extreme dominance of the parliament by a single political force has left the executive organ virtually without any effective oversight for its actions. Not only is the parliament unable to control the executive, it has become a mere rubber-stamp for all the misdeeds and abuse of power committed by the executive organ.
The highest executive powers of the federal government are vested in the prime minister and in the council of ministers. This has made the power of the prime minister uncontrolled and unchecked by the executive, legislative, judiciary and other federal or regional institutions; important decisions are made in the inner party circle that mainly consists of few party leaders than formal state institutions, too. This has further blurred the state-party separation in every channel of government especially at lower levels. The party network may even pass decisions on the rights and duties of government employees and officials.
Of the judiciary, the civil service…
Across the country institutions remain ineffective and the civil service heavily indebted to political manoeuvring; political elites in the past and present have manipulated the civil service to advance their own agenda. Under the current regime it is an open secret that civil servants are recruited for their political loyalty and patronage than competence. This has in turn deteriorated the quality and competence of the civil service.
It is a cliché to state the obvious that the existence of independent and strong judiciary is essential to ensure the rule of law, hence nurturing the culture of democratic governance. Despite the so called independence of the judiciary under the constitution, there continue to be excessive political interference in both civil and criminal trials, inefficiency and rampant corruption. Former judges and members of the legal community have revealed in various occasions that there have been instances whereby delicate political cases were deliberately assigned to perceived pro-government benches. In addition, the meagre budget allocated to the judiciary and absence of incentives to the judges has resulted in high turnover of judges that further weakened the judicial system.
…and the media
The state of the free media, often referred to as the fourth branch of government in healthy democracies, is in alarming state in Ethiopia. The continued arrest and exodus of independent journalists has deprived the people of Ethiopia of alternative views and access to critical information that helps them make responsible and informed decision in many fronts. In places where there are vibrant media the free flow of information is servingas a "checking function" by ensuring that elected representatives uphold their oaths of office and carry out the wishes of those who elected them. Instead, what we are witnessing in Ethiopia is a highly controlled flow of information designed to fit into the agenda of the political elites.
When the ruling EPRDF first came to power it adopted a national charter that recognized freedom of speech and a law was issued to regulate the press. It was followed by the mushrooming of different newspapers, magazines and books. Although some private newspapers have discharged their responsibilities in questionable manners, the trend was very welcoming.
Twenty three years later however, the distribution of the private press remained largely confined to the capital Addis Abeba and a few major cities. Electronics media remain the principal news medium in predominantly rural Ethiopia; save for a few FM stations, shortwave radio and television are out of reach for private individuals. The government gives endless excuses for its absolute control over these media but it is an open secret that the main reason behind is its lack of confidence to meet the demands of well-informed citizens. Ensuring the progress good governance cannot be done in the absence a vibrant independent media which serves as the ultimate checks and balance platform.
In light of the continued repressive culture inherited from past regimes and carried by the present therefore the prospect of ensuring good governance and installing independent institutions in the country looks a faint dream.
For Ethiopia the first and sole avenue for ensuring good governance and institutional development is to make a sharp departure from leftist ideological orientation that is still deeply entrenched within the ruling elite, abandon ideological jargons-in-disguise and embrace ideals of democracy and freedom. Only such transformation can enable the new generation to equip itself with the values of democracy and freedom that are essential for breaking the deep-rooted repressive culture passing from generation to generation.
The writer is O' Brien Fellow in Residence, Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism,
Faculty of Law, McGill University. He can be reached at semahagn@gmail.com
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Q: Add new dropdown menu with JS I am looking to use JS to add a new dropdown menu with a button click, where the dropdown menu's elements create a text box when clicked on.
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Currently, the above code adds a textbox and remove button with each button click. I then use the textbox as a post variable input while containing this all within a form with a submit button so I can use the input in a mysqli query. I increment the name of the post variable with the click number to distinguish the inputs later in the query.
I am new to JS (so if I haven't provided enough info, let me know and i'll edit), but I would like to have a lot of different options for input text boxes in a dropdown menu that is added with the button click. Then when the user clicks on an element from the dropdown menu, it is added as a text box input. So, each time the user clicks the add button, a new dropdown menu would appear. Thus, in theory I could have 2 of the same inputs with different increment in their name that could be differentiated later. Also, I would have the remove button remove both the added text boxes and the dropdown menu associated with the last "add" button click.

A: Use bootstrap, it will make it very easy to do. Copy this into a text document, save it as an .html and look at the result.
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'A litany of broken promises?' Lidl left property developers in the hole as it aggressively scaled back US expansion, alleges lawsuit
12-Jun-2018 - Last updated on 12-Jun-2018 at 15:12 GMT
Lawsuit:
As new research suggests US consumers are warming to German discount retailer Lidl, with basket sizes and satisfaction levels increasing,* property developers in North Carolina paint a very different picture in a lawsuit alleging Lidl has left them "holding the proverbial bag on millions in development costs" by dramatically scaling back its US expansion plans and abruptly terminating real estate deals.
Lidl – a predominantly private label retailer which operates in almost 30 countries – made its US debut in June 2017 with plans to open 100 stores+ by mid-2018.
To date, however, it has only opened half that number (53 stores along the east coast), leaving property developers it worked with in the lurch, according to a complaint** filed by property developer Leon Capital Group and various affiliates on June 8.
"This action [alleging fraud and breach of contract] arises from Lidl's fraudulent and deceptive conduct and its intentional and wrongful termination of certain agreements, contracts, and promises with Leon regarding three real estate development projects in North Carolina located in Cary, Wilmington, and Charlotte.
"Lidl agreed to construct and operate a Lidl grocery store to anchor each of the developments; however, Lidl abruptly terminated its agreements to purchase the real estate parcels from Leon and reneged on its obligations to construct and operate the stores and repudiated its promises related to the same.
"Despite due demand, Lidl refuses to meet its obligations to Leon and other third parties and seeks to wrongfully leave Leon with substantial financial losses related to the developments."
'A litany of broken promises'
Lidl, it alleged, had pulled out of scores of similar deals across multiple states "leaving a litany of broken promises, foreclosures, defaulted contracts, unpaid contractors, and financial hardships for local property owners, contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers, and developers."
Between 2015 and 2017, Lidl acquired or entered purchase agreements for c. 400 US real estate sites, yet by its own admission, only intended to construct 100-150 stores by the end of 2018, added the plaintiffs.
Lidl either "knew it was gambling with its overly ambitious expansion plan and designed an emergency exit constructed on deception and bad faith" or was "grossly negligent" and "committed business malfeasance on an epic scale," they alleged.
If the former, Lidl, likely knowing it would not close on many of its purchase and sale agreements (PSAs), added the plaintiffs, "delayed negotiations and execution of necessary agreements regarding cost sharing of site work and infrastructure for the developments until the planned closing dates, demanding that Leon and others similarly-situated carry such costs until or after closing so that if Lidl chose to terminate, Lidl would not be saddled with these expenses."
According to a lawsuit filed against Lidl on June 8: "After such a disappointing launch, Lidl has taken a hatchet to its plans and dramatically scaled back its expansion.
"In the wake of this abrupt about-face, Lidl has left real estate developers like Leon holding the proverbial bag on millions in development costs, which costs were fraudulently induced by Lidl through a continued and systematic series of lies, misrepresentations, and bad faith.
"Plaintiffs... relied on Lidl's false promises and invested substantial resources and dollars on major developments on behalf of Lidl - investments for which Lidl deceptively vouched and promised to pay. All the while, Lidl knew that it would not complete its US expansion plan as it was represented to Leon and others and Lidl knew, well prior to advising Leon otherwise, that it would never construct and operate the Lidl stores in the subject developments as agreed."
'A singular catastrophe?'
As early as the fall of 2017, Lidl's US expansion plans were in "total chaos" prompting the departure of US operations chief Daniel Marasch, added the lawsuit.
It then went on to highlight an article in German business publication Manager Magazin published earlier this year, in which Klaus Gehrig, director of the Schwarz-Group, described Lidl's US expansion as a "a singular catastrophe."
According to Manager Magazin, Lidl's US team didn't conduct sufficient research into neighborhoods it planned to serve, with officials 'usually content to look at locations on Google Maps' before okaying choices, while then-CEO Brendan Proctor, who joined from Lidl's Ireland division demonstrated "no feel for the American market [he was replaced in May by Johannes Fieber, former head of Lidl's Swedish business]."
Lidl does not comment on pending litigation
A spokesman for Lidl US declined to comment on the lawsuit or on the evolution of Lidl's business strategy in the US, adding: "Because this is pending litigation, we cannot go into further detail at this time."
*Research from management consultant Oliver Wyman – which you can read HERE – suggests that Lidl shoppers are spending more than they used to, with satisfaction levels growing as the chain opens new stores and learns from its mistakes.
**The case is Leon Capital Group, LLC et al v. Schwarz Beteiligungs-GMBH, et al. 7:18-cv-00104 filed in North Carolina on June 8.
Lidl's US stores – with a larger footprint and range (up to 4,000 skus vs 1,000-1,500 skus) and a greater emphasis on organic, locally-sourced and free-from products, higher-traffic locations and higher-quality fixtures and fittings (timber) – cost more to operate than their European counterparts, noted analysts at Bernstein during a visit to one of Lidl's stores last summer.
"Aldi prices with Harris Teeter service and quality is not sustainable… But the model won't be static from here. In our view Lidl still has a lot to learn, including in general merchandise, the labor model and adapting the wine offer. We expect the model to flex and adapt to the US market as the company searches for the optimum proposition."
Writing in Bricksmeetclick this week, retail expect Bill Bishop said he too is optimistic about Lidl's US prospects:
"We are bullish on Lidl and think that despite a rockier start than expected, there are good reasons to expect that Lidl and Aldi will grow their combined market share and increase pressure on both traditional retailers and name brands."
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Hidey Hole at Heale
PUBLISHED: 11:09 08 June 2009 | UPDATED: 16:02 20 February 2013
Heale House from the terrace
Alison Joyce visits a house with a gorgeous garden that hid King Charles II for six days in 1651, not that he would have been inclined to wander around much, although he did visit Stonehenge waiting for preparations to be made.
Stream feeding into the Japanese garden
In the tranquil setting of the Woodford Valley, north of Salisbury, follow the road beside the gentle-flowing trout-filled River Avon into Middle Woodford, and you will come to the entrance of Heale House. Then, drive through the gates into the charming long drive that sweeps through pasture and round in front of the house to the car park and the entrance to the plant centre and gardens.
The day I visit these wonderful gardens, I couldn't have been luckier; the sky was blue and the sun was shining. I smile as I pull into the private entrance. Against the back drop of this magnificent house is a pink bike strewn on the ground, a football and a guinea pig cage - all reassuringly normal. As the guide book suggests: 'the timeless atmosphere at Heale is the result of the creative endeavours of many generations of the Rasch family, who still live in the house, each inspired to leave their mark'. Anna Pavord, the gardening correspondent for The Independent and the author of eight books, describes Heale as 'an entrancing place to visit, the elegant house poised in a many layered garden of beauty'.
A quiet spot in the garden
A favourite with many families in Wiltshire, Heale House Gardens is always a rewarding outing - somewhere to escape the hustle and bustle, to spend some quiet reflective time in the peaceful and inspiring surroundings. It is particularly pleasant to visit Heale in June, when the fragrance of the musk and other roses fill the air. Set in eight acres of beautiful gardens, much of the house has remained unchanged since King Charles II hid here in 1651, taking refuge for six nights before riding on to Shoreham, where he took a ship to France. He dictated an account of his visit to the diarist Samuel Pepys, and it is worth quoting from the extract, to give a flavour of the wonderful history that Heale House has lived through.
The king was evading capture by the Parliamentarians before heading off to exile in France and was being sheltered by sympathetic Royalists during his journey to the coast. When the extract relating to Heale starts he had just come out of hiding from a sympathiser's home and, with a minder (Sir Robin Philips), was going 'directly to a widow gentlewoman's house' near Salisbury (Heale House). He arrived at the house just as it was getting dark, intending not to make himself known, but his hostess, Mrs Hyde, actually recognised him from a fleeting glimpse when he had passed through Salisbury with the Royalist army some years previously with his father. Together with her brother (who was also present at the meal) she approached him after supper and told him they had a very safe place for him to hide at Heale, but that he should leave immediately after supper as if he were just an ordinary guest (as the servants believed) and return under cover of darkness. He did this, having gone with his companion, Sir Robin Philips, in the meantime to Stonehenge where 'we staid looking upon the stones for some time and returned back again to Heale... where I went up into the hiding hole that was very convenient and safe and staid there all alone'. Sir Robin went on to stay in Salisbury.
Naturally enough, the account makes no mention of the gardens that would have been extant then. Doubtless, the King would have other more pressing things on his mind at the time.
Frances is waiting for me at the door with her two dogs. Since marrying Guy Rasch in 1996, Frances has taken on the family tradition of developing the garden and, having the benefit of some notable gardeners in her own family, has determined to bring a new perspective to the garden by introducing modern design, colour and style. "I like to undertake one new project every year," she tells me. This year, Frances is pulling up borders, taking up a terrace and putting a formal structure back into the garden, further developing the wonderful legacy passed on by Guy's mother, Lady Anne Rasche, who died in 1995, having spent 35 years creating her version of Heale House gardens.
Frances begins by explaining the history of the house that she so clearly loves. It was built in 1533 by Sir William Green as a wedding present for the daughter of Sir Gerald Errington. The tradition continued when Lawrence Hyde of Hatch did the same and passed on Heale House as a wedding present to his son, who developed the house to the size it is today. Later the house was sold and remained in the ownership of the Bowles family for over 100 years until it was sold to cover debts. Heale then had several tenants and owners until finally, having almost survived a fire in 1835, it was bought by the Hon Louis Greville in 1894, Guy Rasch's great uncle.
In 1910 the celebrated architect and garden designer Harold Peto, of Iford Manor fame, designed part of the garden, including the terraces and stone lily ponds, and we begin by visiting the north-east corner of the garden, based on the plans drawn up by Peto. Here there are formal herbaceous plants and a tunnel of figs.
Perhaps the most outstanding structural feature of the grounds at Heale is the Japanese garden. Louis Greville had been Second Secretary at the British Embassy in Tokyo in the late 1880s and had so loved Japanese gardens that on his return to Heale he brought back nine Japanese gardeners, an authentic Japanese tea house, bridge and stone lantern. Here, the River Avon has eight carrier streams, all flowing in different directions, believed originally to have been influenced by Dutch engineering to allow the water to be redirected to flood the water meadow, in order that the garden never freezes or floods. The garden Louis Greville created with these authentic Japanese features has a fish pond and boat terrace which faces a little waterfall cascading from one water carrier to the other. As with all Japanese gardens, they are peaceful, with interesting focal points as well as colour for the visitor. The red lacquer bridge, which is a smaller copy of the Nikko bridge in Japan, crosses the stream in front of the authentic tea house, with its rice-paper walls and grass tatami mats; all created by the Japanese gardeners and carpenters. What a civilised way to drink your tea, as the screen walls slide open to view the streams, channelled to make patterns of still and running water. The planting includes acers, Japanese flowering cherries and a superb cercidiphyllum.
We then walk towards the woodland garden, a rich gardener's paradise. In early spring the aconites and snowdrops carpet the ground. There are species tulips, British bluebells (which are smaller than the Spanish invaders that we so often see today), rare snowdrops, musk roses, native primulas, acacias and, amongst the drifts of flowering bulbs, is a collection of magnolias. In late summer the garden explodes with colour. The fully productive vegetable garden is a true delight and supplies Heale with flowers, fruit and vegetables - something to be truly proud of. There are figs, cherries, peaches, apples and pears, carrots, plums, radicchio, broccoli and raspberries. Decorative apple tunnels separate the beds that supply the house with all this abundant supply of fresh fruit and vegetables. Today, no respectable garden would be without its plant centre and Heale House is no exception. Kevin Hughes runs a specialist plant centre from the gardens. Here you can find a wide variety of hardy garden plants including many that are new and unusual. Most are home-grown and herbaceous plants. Having toured the garden you can treat yourself to a delicious homemade light meal or tea and cake at the riverside coffee shop.
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Q: Get the key of a new Entity in Google Cloud DataStore and PHP In the documentation of DataStore this example is mentioned:
$task = $datastore->entity('Task', [
    'category' => 'Personal',
    'done' => false,
    'priority' => 4,
    'description' => 'Learn Cloud Datastore'
]);
$datastore->insert($task);

I would like to get the key of this new entity that has just been inserted.

A: You may use a statement similar to: {const taskKey = datastore.key('Task');}
More detail is to be found in the Retrieving an entity sub-chapter.


WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana — The Purdue men's basketball team clung to a two-point lead against No. 23 Maryland with three seconds remaining.
Maryland's inbound from under its own basket went to the wing.
On a shot by Maryland's Anthony Cowan as time expired, Purdue sophomore Nojel Eastern extended his arm and jumped to block the shot that would have forced overtime or maybe won the game.
That's a big (and #B1G) @BoilerBall block.
Carsen Edwards led Purdue with 20 points.
Eastern had four points, four rebounds and two blocked shots.
Purdue improved to 6-3 overall and 1-1 in the Big Ten.
You liked that 62-60 win over the Terps, @BoilerBall fans? And you want to relive it in 5 minutes?


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Hand signing Black Panther Ballot, copyright Maria Varela.
In 2013, the SNCC Legacy Project (SLP) and Duke University, represented by the Center for Documentary Studies and Duke Libraries, formed a partnership to chronicle the historic struggles for voting rights and to develop programs that contribute to a more civil and inclusive democracy. SNCC—the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee—was at the cutting edge of direct action and grassroots organizing during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
During the pilot project, One Person, One Vote: The Legacy of SNCC and the Fight for Voting Rights, former SNCC organizers came to Duke as Visiting Activist Scholars and worked with students, faculty, archivists, and others to build a website that chronicled and contextualized the organization's work.
Currently, the long-term SLP and Duke collaboration is building on that effort with the creation of a SNCC Digital Gateway, an online reference and portal to digitized documents, photographs, and audiovisual materials, including critical oral histories, that will highlight SNCC's experience around building democracy from the ground up and the inside out—informational wealth that will help activate people to have a say in their own lives at the local and national levels. A K–12 educational component of the partnership will draw on the gateway as a learning tool.


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"Thank you for the inventory. This information will help my children to distribute the estate equitably. As a result, everyone is or will be happy. What more can you ask for?"
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A pokemon chat game where your adventures matter.
So, the Pokemon Colosseum series kind of died after Gale of Darkness - does anyone else want another visit to the spectacular Orre Region? Whether it be re-do of the whole "Shadow Pokemon" theme, I'd still love another game of the series.
On another note, Pokemon Battle Revolution, in my mind, was supposed to be a third sequel to Colosseum, but...Obviously, it wasn't. Which disappointed me to no end.
True. battle revolution (Newest collesium) on the Wii ect had NO PLOTLINE what so ever. It was a horrbile game and never even reached my lowest standerds. I wish they would indeed continue the shadow pokemon theme, that was awesome!


Police arrested 29-year-old Hasan Castillo for an alleged assault in front of 5 Union Square West on Wednesday, October 3 at 2:09 a.m. Police said that Castillo stabbed and slashed the back of the victim's head and neck while in an argument with a third person. Castillo was arrested after police searched the area and found him, and a knife was reportedly recovered from his pants pocket. He was also charged with weapons possession.
Police arrested 27-year-old Hakeem Drakes for an alleged assault in front of 5 Union Square West on Wednesday, October 3 at 2:05 p.m. The victim told police that Drakes hit him in the face with a cane, causing a cut to his upper lip. The victim was transported to Bellevue Hospital, where he reportedly received seven stitches for his injury, and Drakes was arrested after officers searched the park. Police said that Drakes and the victim knew each other.
Police arrested 50-year-old Eric Manson in front of 55 West 15th Street on Tuesday, October 2 at 6:30 p.m. for two robberies that had allegedly been committed previously.
Police said that Manson entered the Payless store at 600 Sixth Avenue between West 17th and 18th Streets on July 28 at 11:35 a.m. and allegedly waved a weapon under his shirt while demanding money from the register.
Manson reportedly went into the Rite Aid at 501 Sixth Avenue on August 13 at 10:13 a.m. and asked for a job application. Police said that he then left the location but returned shortly after, allegedly telling the cashier that he had a gun and was going to rob the store.
Police arrested a 19-year-old man for assaulting his girlfriend multiple times last week, as well as stealing her cell phone. Police said that the suspect refused to let the victim leave an apartment at 224 East 28th Street on Tuesday, October 2 around 6 p.m., and took her cell phone from her hands, refusing to give it back. The suspect then choked the victim while on Sixth Avenue between 35th and 36th Streets later the same day at 8 p.m. The victim said that she was unable to breathe and as a result of the suspect choking her, she got a cut on her neck.
The suspect was charged with assault, criminal obstruction of breathing, unlawful imprisonment, aggravated harassment, attempted assault and harassment and he was arrested inside the 13th Precinct on Thursday, October 4 at 11:25 a.m.
The name of the suspect is being withheld to protect the identity of the victim.
Police arrested 41-year-old Devin Paridias for alleged drunk driving at the corner of Sixth Avenue and West 23rd Street on Wednesday, October 3 at 12:23 a.m. Police were responding to a motorcycle collision at the southwest corner of West 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue and when they arrived, the driver was checked by EMS inside an ambulance. The motorist said that he was driving a motorcycle going east on West 23rd Street and fell due to a slippery road, but police said that Paridias had bloodshot, watery eyes and a strong odor of alcohol on his breath. Police administered a PBT test and Paridias was also taken to Bellevue Hospital for a blood test, and he was allegedly uncooperative.
Police arrested 50-year-old Raymond Burgos for menacing in front of 725 Sixth Avenue on Saturday, October 6 at 3:17 p.m. Police said that Burgos threatened the victim with a silver knife. When police arrived, the victim told police that the knife was in a black leather case in the suspect's bag that was on the floor next to him. Police said that the bag was open and the knife case was allegedly sticking out of it.


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What Is a Carpet Beetle & What Do They Look Like?
By Susan Dorling
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Collectively, four species of carpet beetles are more important economically than clothes moths, responsible for losses to fabrics in the process of manufacture and storage, and countless small damages in households across North America. Voracious scavengers, their larvae travel throughout homes, factories, warehouses and museums foraging for food, destroying fabrics, rugs, upholstery and animal products in their path.
Innocuous Adult Carpet Beetles
Named for their larval predilection for wool carpets, carpet beetles have a complete metamorphosis four distinct life stages; embryo or egg, larva, pupa and imago or adult. Members of the family Dermestidae, carpet beetles are in the order Coleoptera. Frequently seen on flowers around homes and other buildings, adults feed upon the nectar and pollen of a variety of plants. They enter buildings in the spring and early summer. Small and unobtrusive, they are rarely noticed inside, favoring dark, quiet corners where they deposit their eggs, then die shortly after. They do not do any damage inside.
Black Carpet Beetle
Black carpet beetles (Attagenus megatoma) are the most widespread and abundant of the carpet beetles and cause the greatest damage. The shiny black adults are an elongated oval-shaped with brownish legs, and they grow to 1/4 inch long. Within five days of emerging from their pupa, females deposit about 50 eggs over a three-week period in lint, air ducts and under baseboards.
Hatching within 11 days, the diminutive, cigar-shaped larvae have a long brush of tail bristles and are light brown to black. Over a series of five to 11 molts, they grow to almost 1/2 inch long, pupate for up to 24 days, then emerge as adults. Larvae avoid light and are often found in closets, edges of carpets or rolled up in woolen materials. They feed primarily on dead animal materials, hair, fur, hides, horns and wool and silk garments in which they make large, irregular holes. They also infest cereals, stored grain and nuts.
Varied Carpet Beetle
Varied carpet beetles (Anthrenus verbasci) are round and much smaller than black carpet beetles, with a white, brown and yellow variegated pattern on their backs. Larvae hatch in 17 to 18 days, and over a period of seven to 11 months they molt seven to eight times. The broad larvae grow up to 1/4 inch long and have three pairs of turfs at the end of their abdomens. Outside, larvae are common in bird and spider nests. Inside, they feed on items such as wool, carpets, hides, feathers, horns, bone, insect pupae, insect collections, rye meal, corn and red pepper.
Common Carpet Beetle
Common carpet beetles are distinguished by a varied pattern of white and orange scales on their gray to black backs with an orange-red band of scales down the middle. The small, round females deposit 30 to 40 miniscule, white eggs that hatch in 10 to 20 days. Reddish-brown, the elongated oval-shaped larvae are covered in bristly black or brown hairs and grow to ¼ inch long, averaging six molts over 60 to 70 days. They feed on items such as wool, furs, feathers and silk; a common problem in museums, they feed on dead animal specimens and insect collections.
Furniture Carpet Beetle
Named for their habit of attacking upholstered furniture, furniture carpet beetles (Anthrenus flavipes) are little, round beetles with a mottling of yellow and white scales on their black backs, and a heavy coating of yellow scales on the top of their legs. Females lay up to 100 eggs that hatch in about three weeks. Larvae are elongated oval-shaped and covered in bristly brown hairs, molting six to 12 times over six months. Frequently found crawling on furniture, larvae feed on items such as hair, padding, feathers, wool, carpets, fur, bristles, horns, silk, linen, cotton, rayon and jute.
Pest Control Canada: Carpet Beetles
Orkin Pest Control: Black Carpet Beetle
Orkin Pest Control: Carpet Beetle Larvae
Orkin Pest Control: Carpet Beetle Life Cycle
Orkin Pest Control: Carpet Beetle Damage
Orkin Pest Control: Carpet Beetles Around the House
Scientific Guide to Pest Control Operations, Purdue University; Lee C. Truman, Ph.D., et al.
Based in Ontario, Susan Dorling has written professionally since 2000, with hundreds of articles published in a variety of popular online venues. Writing on a diverse range of topics, she reflects her passion for business, interior design, home decorating, style, fashion and pets.
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Mark Sawrie was the first photographer I met in Indiana. We bonded immediately when he opened a small drawer in a display case featuring a taxidermy animal to show me his fingernail collection of two decades and counting. His vastly different experiences are evident in his artwork as he oscillates between a controlled studio setting and astute everyday observations. His latest series, Sublime/Banal, explores a quieter side – uneven coats of paint in a nondescript bedroom, wrinkled dress shirts on a less crinkled sheet, and the repetitive, yet oddly calming, presentation of State Fair beauty queens. Mark reveals subject matter that is easily overlooked and then throws us for a loop with his sardonic titles.
Mark Sawrie is an Associate Professor of Art/Photography at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where he has taught for 23 years. He has exhibited: photography, video, drawing and assemblage-sculpture, widely across the U.S. Sawrie received his B.F.A. in photography in 1981 from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky and his M.F.A. in photography in 1986 from the University of Oklahoma in Norman. Some of his more influential experiences have included: tobacco cutter, product photographer, medical photographer, construction worker, and pizza delivery. Known as a loner who loves people and a funny curmudgeon with a heart of fools gold, he is also rumored to be a cat whisperer. Selected solo exhibitions include: The Donna Beam Gallery at University of Nevada Las Vegas, The South Bend Regional Museum of Art in South Bend, Indiana, The Yellowstone Art Center in Billings, Montana, The Rochester Center for Art in Rochester, New York, Paris Gibson Square in Great Falls, Montana, The 4 Star Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana and The Devine Gallery in Louisville, Kentucky.
I'm moved by the present; everyday beauty that oddly attracts; the fleeting confluence of light, place and subject that must be appreciated now; or that synchronicity of elements disappearing in seconds, minutes or hours. I cannot get enough of looking at things unexpected. It verges on torture in that I'm tempted to abandon every task or responsibility at hand, and instead worship visuals life has provided me through happenstance or destiny. I probably shouldn't drive. The need to wear glasses in 2002 is to date the most tragic event in my life (a barrier between me and my straying idolatry).
Comfortably stalked by beauty, I am receptive to the constant and random stream of stimuli, experiences and circumstance that question or solve just about everything. Any aesthetic epiphany I encounter is rarely intentionally sought after. Instead it lies in wait for me to arrive, become aware and stop. Pretentiously, I think my images (my optical prayers) are beyond words when it comes to complete explanation. It's about being there, completely as possible; and you're invited. Please don't bring your phone.


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Vigor Season 3 – Rivals Brings Some New Content Into The Free-To-Play Shooter, Choose Between Law And Chaos
Apr 10, 2020 Joshua Goodpastor 0 comments 446
Credit: Vigor via Youtube
Post-war Norway has tons of new content added as the game moves into its third season. New and old Outlanders are sure to be excited for the addition of reworked stash UI, face wear, and a brand new seasonal game mode. As with every season and update, minor problems have been repaired and updated throughout the entire game, giving fans a more stable experience.
Vigor has gained ts third Battle Pass season, which has been named "Rivals." With the fall of the central government, post-war Norway's citizens have split into two groups. There are those who uphold the laws, and those who disregard them. Fight in a war of order versus chaos and show your allegiance to your preferred side.
Rivals have added a new seasonal game mode for its third season. Shootout aims for the shooting part of the game experience where ts pits players on a small area of the new Sawmill map. Battle in fierce competition as you score points for kills. This new mode is meant to help players learn gunplay more efficiently.
Shootouts last for ten minutes, and they showcase the pure skills of players. Competitors are rewarded with food and Battle Pass XP. This is meant to be an exclusive mode for the Rivals season, but the developers have stated they will reconsider this based on Outlander feedback.
A trio of silenced weapons have been added, allowing players to enjoy a more stealthy option. Enjoy the PSS, MP5-K SD3, and the SVU. The PSS is a silenced pistol, the MP5-K SD3 is a submachine gun, and the SVU is a silenced rifle. Each one comes with its own customization options and season-specific varients.
New consumables are also making an appearance in the Outlands. New caffeine tablets will allow you to sprint without losing stamina, and Iodine tablets stop the radiation effects on your body.
To get the plans for the new consumables, you will have to make progress on the Battle Pass. Several new activities have been added that award XP, including Threat and revenge for your partners.
There is always content being added to this free-to-play shooter. Build your shelter in post-war Norway and shoot your way through encounters with 8-12 players. This game is free to play and available on Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Enjoy a shooter looter in a chilling apocalypse setting for free and challenge other players in a new kind of wasteland.
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In this paper we show how to use structural information about a scene such as is contained in a scene graph to build SAH-based acceleration structures more efficiently. We provide a general method for doing so together with asymptotic analyses for both standard and lazy variants of our method. In particular, we show bounds of O(n) for full k-d tree builds over n primitives and O(v + log n) for lazy k-d tree builds over v visible primitives. We provide exper- imental results showing that these asymptotic properties translate into real-world speedups. In fact, without a method like ours, it is impossible to achieve better than O(n) for even the first split of a lazy build. We also show that under certain (realistic) assumptions on the scene structure, our method produces provably good acceleration structures. Finally, we provide experimental results demonstrating that our acceleration structures are of nearly indistinguishable quality to those produced with a full SAH build.


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package moe.lymia.princess.core

import moe.lymia.princess.DefaultLogger
import toml.{Codec, Parse, Value}

package object gamedata {
  private[gamedata] implicit val tomlValueCodec: Codec[Value] = Codec { (x, _, _) => Right(x) }

  private[gamedata] implicit class TomlError[T](data: Either[Parse.Error, T]) {
    def checkErr: T = data match {
      case Left(error) =>
        // TODO: Make this way prettier.
        throw new EditorException(error.toString())
      case Right(x) => x
    }
  }

  private[gamedata] val logger = DefaultLogger.bind("core.packages")

  object StaticGameIds {
    val System        = "_princess/system-package"
    val DefinesGameId = "defines-gameid"
  }

  object StaticExportIds {
    val GameId = "gameid"
    val ProtectedPath = "_princess/protected-path"
    val IgnoredPath = "_princess/ignored-path"
    def Predef(t: String) = s"_princess/predef/$t"
    def EntryPoint(t: String, ep: String) = s"$t/entry-point/$ep"
    def I18N(t: String, language: String, country: String) = s"$t/i18n/${language}_$country"
  }
}


This book is about Jake. He moved to New York City. People on Jake's street are going to work and do other stuff like play games. Jake goes to Utopia children's house after school. At Utopia he makes art. This boy grew up to be the famous artist Jacob Lawrence.
Previous postThe singing has returned.