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Availability of evidence of benefits on overall survival and quality of life of cancer drugs approved by European Medicines Agency: retrospective cohort study of drug approvals 2009-13
Objective To determine the availability of data on overall survival and quality of life benefits of cancer drugs approved in Europe.Design Retrospective cohort study.Setting Publicly accessible regulatory and scientific reports on cancer approvals by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) from 2009 to 2013.Main outcome measures Pivotal and postmarketing trials of cancer drugs according to their design features (randomisation, crossover, blinding), comparators, and endpoints. Availability and magnitude of benefit on overall survival or quality of life determined at time of approval and after market entry. Validated European Society for Medical Oncology Magnitude of Clinical Benefit Scale (ESMO-MCBS) used to assess the clinical value of the reported gains in published studies of cancer drugs.Results From 2009 to 2013, the EMA approved the use of 48 cancer drugs for 68 indications. Of these, eight indications (12%) were approved on the basis of a single arm study. At the time of market approval, there was significant prolongation of survival in 24 of the 68 (35%). The magnitude of the benefit on overall survival ranged from 1.0 to 5.8 months (median 2.7 months). At the time of market approval, there was an improvement in quality of life in seven of 68 indications (10%). Out of 44 indications for which there was no evidence of a survival gain at the time of market authorisation, in the subsequent postmarketing period there was evidence for extension of life in three (7%) and reported benefit on quality of life in five (11%). Of the 68 cancer indications with EMA approval, and with a median of 5.4 years' follow-up (minimum 3.3 years, maximum 8.1 years), only 35 (51%) had shown a significant improvement in survival or quality of life, while 33 (49%) remained uncertain. Of 23 indications associated with a survival benefit that could be scored with the ESMO-MCBS tool, the benefit was judged to be clinically meaningful in less than half (11/23, 48%).Conclusions This systematic evaluation of oncology approvals by the EMA in 2009-13 shows that most drugs entered the market without evidence of benefit on survival or quality of life. At a minimum of 3.3 years after market entry, there was still no conclusive evidence that these drugs either extended or improved life for most cancer indications. When there were survival gains over existing treatment options or placebo, they were often marginal.
Concepts: Palliative care, Pharmacology, Clinical trial, Evaluation, Chemotherapy, Cancer, Oncology, Cohort study
'First, do no harm': are disability assessments associated with adverse trends in mental health? A longitudinal ecological study
Journal of epidemiology and community health
In England between 2010 and 2013, just over one million recipients of the main out-of-work disability benefit had their eligibility reassessed using a new functional checklist-the Work Capability Assessment. Doctors and disability rights organisations have raised concerns that this has had an adverse effect on the mental health of claimants, but there are no population level studies exploring the health effects of this or similar policies.
Concepts: Epidemiology, Educational psychology, Mental disorder, Evaluation
Accuracy in Wrist-Worn, Sensor-Based Measurements of Heart Rate and Energy Expenditure in a Diverse Cohort
Journal of personalized medicine
The ability to measure physical activity through wrist-worn devices provides an opportunity for cardiovascular medicine. However, the accuracy of commercial devices is largely unknown. The aim of this work is to assess the accuracy of seven commercially available wrist-worn devices in estimating heart rate (HR) and energy expenditure (EE) and to propose a wearable sensor evaluation framework. We evaluated the Apple Watch, Basis Peak, Fitbit Surge, Microsoft Band, Mio Alpha 2, PulseOn, and Samsung Gear S2. Participants wore devices while being simultaneously assessed with continuous telemetry and indirect calorimetry while sitting, walking, running, and cycling. Sixty volunteers (29 male, 31 female, age 38 ± 11 years) of diverse age, height, weight, skin tone, and fitness level were selected. Error in HR and EE was computed for each subject/device/activity combination. Devices reported the lowest error for cycling and the highest for walking. Device error was higher for males, greater body mass index, darker skin tone, and walking. Six of the devices achieved a median error for HR below 5% during cycling. No device achieved an error in EE below 20 percent. The Apple Watch achieved the lowest overall error in both HR and EE, while the Samsung Gear S2 reported the highest. In conclusion, most wrist-worn devices adequately measure HR in laboratory-based activities, but poorly estimate EE, suggesting caution in the use of EE measurements as part of health improvement programs. We propose reference standards for the validation of consumer health devices (http://precision.stanford.edu/).
Concepts: Sex, Calorimetry, Female, Evaluation, Assessment, Male, Body mass index, Measurement
Efficacy and effectiveness of screen and treat policies in prevention of type 2 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis of screening tests and interventions
To assess diagnostic accuracy of screening tests for pre-diabetes and efficacy of interventions (lifestyle or metformin) in preventing onset of type 2 diabetes in people with pre-diabetes.
Concepts: Insulin resistance, Diabetes, Obesity, Prevention, Sulfonylurea, Insulin, Evaluation, Diabetes mellitus type 2
The Patient Experience and Health Outcomes
Do patients' reports of their health care experiences reflect the quality of care? Despite the increasing role of such measures in research and policy, there's no consensus regarding their legitimacy in quality assessment. Indeed, as physician and hospital compensation becomes increasingly tied to patient feedback, health care providers and academics are raising strong objections to the use of patient-experience surveys. These views are fueled by studies indicating that patient-experience measures at best have no relation to the quality of delivered care and at worst are associated with poorer patient outcomes. Conversely, other studies have found that better patient experiences - . . .
Concepts: Medicine, Physician, Evaluation, Illness, Hospital, Health care, Health care provider, Patient
Estimates of global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and mortality of HIV, 1980-2015: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
The lancet. HIV
Timely assessment of the burden of HIV/AIDS is essential for policy setting and programme evaluation. In this report from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 (GBD 2015), we provide national estimates of levels and trends of HIV/AIDS incidence, prevalence, coverage of antiretroviral therapy (ART), and mortality for 195 countries and territories from 1980 to 2015.
Concepts: Evaluation, Prevalence, Medical statistics, Epidemiology, Protease inhibitor, HIV, AIDS, Antiretroviral drug
If You're House Is Still Available, Send Me an Email: Personality Influences Reactions to Written Errors in Email Messages
The increasing prevalence of social media means that we often encounter written language characterized by both stylistic variation and outright errors. How does the personality of the reader modulate reactions to non-standard text? Experimental participants read 'email responses' to an ad for a housemate that either contained no errors or had been altered to include either typos (e.g., teh) or homophonous grammar errors (grammos, e.g., to/too, it's/its). Participants completed a 10-item evaluation scale for each message, which measured their impressions of the writer. In addition participants completed a Big Five personality assessment and answered demographic and language attitude questions. Both typos and grammos had a negative impact on the evaluation scale. This negative impact was not modulated by age, education, electronic communication frequency, or pleasure reading time. In contrast, personality traits did modulate assessments, and did so in distinct ways for grammos and typos.
Concepts: Educational psychology, Personality psychology, Modulation, Evaluation, Assessment, Communication, Writing, Big Five personality traits
Information Technology and Lifestyle: A Systematic Evaluation of Internet and Mobile Interventions for Improving Diet, Physical Activity, Obesity, Tobacco, and Alcohol Use
Journal of the American Heart Association
Novel interventions are needed to improve lifestyle and prevent noncommunicable diseases, the leading cause of death and disability globally. This study aimed to systematically review, synthesize, and grade scientific evidence on effectiveness of novel information and communication technology to reduce noncommunicable disease risk.
Concepts: Evaluation, Overweight, Demography, Obesity, Disease, Information technology, Death, Cancer
The accuracy, fairness, and limits of predicting recidivism
Algorithms for predicting recidivism are commonly used to assess a criminal defendant's likelihood of committing a crime. These predictions are used in pretrial, parole, and sentencing decisions. Proponents of these systems argue that big data and advanced machine learning make these analyses more accurate and less biased than humans. We show, however, that the widely used commercial risk assessment software COMPAS is no more accurate or fair than predictions made by people with little or no criminal justice expertise. We further show that a simple linear predictor provided with only two features is nearly equivalent to COMPAS with its 137 features.
Concepts: Algorithm, Risk assessment, Psychometrics, Crime, Criminal law, Evaluation, Critical thinking, Scientific method
Evaluating the effectiveness of a smartphone app to reduce excessive alcohol consumption: protocol for a factorial randomised control trial
Excessive alcohol consumption is a leading cause of death and morbidity worldwide and interventions to help people reduce their consumption are needed. Interventions delivered by smartphone apps have the potential to help harmful and hazardous drinkers reduce their consumption of alcohol. However, there has been little evaluation of the effectiveness of existing smartphone interventions. A systematic review, amongst other methodologies, identified promising modular content that could be delivered by an app: self-monitoring and feedback; action planning; normative feedback; cognitive bias re-training; and identity change. This protocol reports a factorial randomised controlled trial to assess the comparative potential of these five intervention modules to reduce excessive alcohol consumption.
Concepts: Systematic review, Evaluation, Randomized controlled trial


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Q: How to send multiple props and execute function for each? I have a scenario by which I will be getting two separate times in minutes format, for that am using a function to convert it as 24 hours format without separator, and now am using momentjs to convert it to the required format. Everything works perfectly, but the problem is I'm calling the function two times in react native flat list, is there any way to doing this work in a single function?
My Function
DepartureTimeFormat (props){

        let quotient = Math.floor(props / 60);
        let remainder = props % 60;
        let journeyday = Math.floor(quotient / 24);
        let hour = quotient % 24;
        let minutes = remainder;

        let strHour = String(hour).length < 2 ? '0' + String(hour) : String(hour)
        let strMinutes = String(minutes).length < 2 ? '0' + String(minutes) : String(minutes)

        let departureTime = strHour + strMinutes

        return(
            <Text>
                {moment(departureTime, 'hmm').format('h:mm A')}
            </Text>
        )
    }

So I am passing this on my flat list as
{this.DepartureTimeFormat(item.departureTime)}

And I'm getting an output as 7:00 Pm which is good
And for arrival time, I again use
{this.DepartureTimeFormat(item.arrivalTime)}

so it outputs as 7:30 Am which is also good
So how to do this is a single function call? As I'm getting two parameters for arrival time and departure time am doing two function call, is there a way to send two props into function and map it to return two output?

A: You can use a variable number of arguments to your function using the spread syntax, and so you'll get the dates as an array. Then you can use map to iterate those for doing the conversion.
NB: use padStart for padding with zero
Code:
DepartureTimeFormat (...dates) {
    return dates.map(function (props) {
        let quotient = Math.floor(props / 60);
        let remainder = props % 60;
        let journeyday = Math.floor(quotient / 24);
        let hour = quotient % 24;
        let minutes = remainder;

        let strHour = String(hour).padStart(2, "0");
        let strMinutes = String(minutes).padStart(2, "0");

        let departureTime = strHour + strMinutes

        return(
            <Text>
                {moment(departureTime, 'hmm').format('h:mm A')}
            </Text>
        )
    });
}

Now you can call:
this.DepartureTimeFormat(item.departureTime, item.arrivalTime)

...while it would also still work with just one argument.
Possibly the function and variable should get a better name, as now the function is not only about departure...

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"a place to call home" is concluded, not hiatus.
could you add A French Village?
could you please add "season 2 of Baron Noir"
could you add "The Valley"
any chance you could add Fugitives to tracking list?
you only show 9...can u fix this..thanks.
tracking list off; pbs did ep 5 last night, not ep 4...could u update the list. i think finale is next week.


BOULDER, CO–(Marketwired – April 05, 2017) – 3D at Depth, a global provider of advanced subsea LiDAR systems and solutions, is pleased to announce, the success of a recent trial using Inertial Navigation System (INS) aided LiDAR data collection from a moving platform. The project was jointly sponsored by TechnipFMC and 3D at Depth, LLC with inertial navigation partner iXblue. Under the Joint Development Agreement (JDA), 3D at Depth and iXblue successfully integrated and collected motion compensated subsea LiDAR data of an oilfield in water depths greater than 2000 meters. The trial took place in December 2016, and validated the capability of INS aided subsea LiDAR for a variety of applications including field mapping and spool metrology out of straightness. Based on the results, 3D at Depth and iXblue have now developed a commercial version of the INS aided Subsea Laser (SL) mapping solution which will be available for field mapping projects at the beginning of April 2017. A second SL mapping solution is under development for a commercialized spoolpiece metrology solution that will launch later in the year.
3D at Depth recently made the news with "World's First Fabrication of Subsea Well Part Using LiDAR Data and 3D Printing" and with "MBARI collaborates with 3D at Depth on Next Generation High Resolution Bathymetry System." In addition, the company has been the recent recipient of the EEEGR Innovation Award and a finalist for the 2016 Subsea Energy Australia – Industry Innovation and Technology Award.
3D at Depth, provides advanced subsea LiDAR systems and solutions designed to help clients build, maintain, map and monitor underwater assets and resources. 3D at Depth's portfolio of SL1 and SL2 subsea LiDAR laser scanners combine integrated hardware and software technology to deliver repeatable, millimetric measured point clouds to address the challenges of subsea 3D measurement and visualization. Our solutions focus on increasing the efficiencies and accuracy of data collection survey programs for offshore oil and gas, commercial, research and government applications. With office locations in the US, UK and Australia, the company is focused on innovation and best practices to enhance 3D underwater data collection processes.


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Solar parks to be constructed at Larnaca and Paphos airports
Hermes Airports LTD on Thursday announced that it will construct two solar parks in the area of Larnaca and Paphos airports.
The energy produced by the parks will be used to power the airports.
The managing company of the airports said that the solar park in Paphos will have a capacity of 1.1 MW and will be constructed inside the airport.
The one in Larnaca will have a capacity of 3.5 MW.
The Department of Environment has already given the green light for the construction.
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The cyclops is "Borborygmos" from Magic the Gathering.
He is huge size in the "Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica" book which leads me to suspect there might be another Ravnica miniatures set with huge miniatures or there will be a wave of unpainted MTG minis similar to Nolzur's sculpts.
I hope they do make huges for Ravnica because there are some interesting creatures there.
By the Gods I hope that Green and White Dragon are upcoming Huges or Gargantuans….WHAT ARE YOU WAITING ON WIZARDS?!?!
Amen to that. There were a few 'size upgrades' of monsters in the move to 5th, and the big two were giants and adult dragons which both became Huge. The giants are well covered now, with plenty of Huge giants, both male and female. But not a single new Huge dragon since the start of 5th edition in 2014. The last three Huge dragons from WizKids were for Pathfinder: the Red & White from the collector sets (2013) and the Black from Heroes & Monsters (2012). You have to go back to Lords of Madness in 2010 for the last new Huge dragons for D&D. That's over 8 friggin' years!
Okay. That's my Huge dragon rant.
As for the Cyclops, I was kind of partial to the 4e look, and underwhelmed by the MM3 version (minis that don't fill their bases–rant for another time), but man, if you're going to size up the Cyclops, this is the way to do it!
Finally, is that shark a Meg??


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China and the opportunity for Britain
Posted on January 25, 2021 February 3, 2021 by Chris Richardson
This week saw more anti-democracy arrests in Hong Kong, Trump signing an executive order banning Ali pay (the Chinese PayPal) and seven other apps, and another executive order "blacklisting" 35 Chinese companies, which caused the SEC to flip-flop, but ultimately ended with the NYSE deciding to delist three Chinese telecoms. On the other side of the Atlantic, after 35 rounds of talks dating back to 2013, the EU and China agreed a "Comprehensive Agreement on Investment," which covers a lot of ground, including the removal of requirements for joint venture in several areas (i.e., a European company can go do business in China, without having to form a joint-venture with a Chinese partner), commitments on labor standards, subsidy transparency, and a number of other items.
Ultimately, whether the US Executive Orders amount to anything or not will be determined in a few weeks, because they don't go into effect until after Biden takes office. On the EU side, this looks quite good for Germany and France, but many see it as a huge win for China — and I agree. Given what I've already said about China's global ambitions (see "Afghan lives matter" in newsletter #56) and the hard lean into more traditional (read, Stalinist) communism ("China is becoming more communistic", newsletter #46), I find it very unlikely that the Chinese will live up to their end of the bargain, while the EU will. Certainly, this will be good for Europe for the next 5–10 years, but ultimately, it's just strengthening China.
Cue Brexit music
All of that is well and good, but what's more interesting is the opportunity it presents for the UK. Now that the UK is no longer part of Europe, the country is free to pursue it's own policies — and one of their big opportunities is with China. I teed this up back in June ("Hedge Funds and New Hong Kong", newsletter #34). UK PM Boris Johnson has kept good on his pledge, with the country having issued over 200,000 UK passports to Hong Kong residents in the first 10 months of 2020. The recipients of these special passports can start arriving in the UK from 31 January this year, and estimates indicate that between 150,000 and 330,000 of them could arrive this year alone. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. As the Guardian writes, Britain's approach to China, "represents as swift and complete a reversal in foreign policy as the UK's shift from treating Russia as an ally in 1945 to cold war foe in 1946." This could not have happened were the UK still part of the EU.
On the one hand, no one wants another cold war. But on the other hand, the lack of a common enemy seems to have exacerbated, if not created, tremendous internal divisions in both the US and the UK. If Britain keeps heading down this path, it has a genuine opportunity to once again be a world leader, and to unite its people in a way that really no country has seen since the 1980s. The next decade in the UK is going to be very exciting, and I think represents the biggest opportunity in the developed world.
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10 charged in police probe into emergency lighting work
The Metropolitan Police has been investigating Lakehouse, the contractor which was responsible for maintaining fire alarms at Grenfell Tower, and a sub-contractor, Polyteck, in an inquiry into fraud that has been running for four years.
TEN PEOPLE have been charged with a variety of offences as part of a police probe into contracts to install emergency lighting and fire alarms in council properties.
All 10 people charged this week as part of the Met Police probe are due to appear before City of Westminster magistrates on 6 November.
The investigation relates to a project that began in 2011 whereby Lakehouse renovated hundreds of properties in Hackney and installed fire safety equipment including emergency lighting.
The work was part of a £184 million government grant under its Decent Homes initiative.
A Hackney Council investigation found some fire safety work carried out by Lakehouse's subcontractor Polyteck was 'defective, including incorrectly installed alarms and emergency lighting systems'. Lakehouse denies any wrongdoing.
The Met's fraud police subsequently launched an investigation, which led to this week's charges.
All 10 were employed as part of the supply chain to carry out the fire safety work.
Five people – Mark Middleton, 51, Stephen Ellis, 49, Richard Lee, 43, Andrew Langston, 40, and Lee David Wylie, 46 – have been charged with bribery and theft.
Costantinos Polycarpou, 40, and Yiannakis Polycarpou, 63, have been charged with bribery.
Three people, Sarah Kipping, 46, Josephine Ashley-Russell, 37, and Leslie Ratty, 67, have been charged with money laundering.
All 10 are due to appear before City of Westminster magistrates on 6 November.
A special Emergency Lighting conference will explore best practice in fire safety in social housing and commercial premises. It's one of key themes of LuxLive 2018, taking place on Wednesday 14 November and Thursday 15 November 2018 in ExCeL London. Entry is free - pre-register HERE.
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Raptors had the experience edge in Eastern Conference Finals
by Berry Tramel
Published: Wed, May 29, 2019 8:45 AM Updated: Wed, May 29, 2019 8:49 AM
Toronto Raptors fans celebrate outside the arena in the closing seconds of Game 6 Saturday night. (The Canadian Press)
The NBA's Eastern Conference Finals were exactly what basketball needed. A plot in which we didn't know the end.
Think about it. For most of the last four years, the conference finals – and the NBA Finals – have been foregone conclusions. LeBron and the Warriors. The Rockets gave us a little theater in the 2018 West finals, and the Thunder did the same in the 2016 West finals, and LeBron pulled the upset to win the 2016 championship. But for the most part, we knew what would happen. We just didn't always know how.
But then came the East playoffs of 2019, when five good teams filled the eight slots. And every matchup involving those five teams brought surprises. We didn't see Boston sweeping Indiana in four good games. We didn't see Milwaukee blowing out the Celtics. We didn't know what would happen in Philadelphia-Toronto, even after the buzzer sounded in Game 7. And then Toronto-Milwaukee was a great series, won by the Raptors in a six-game upset.
Perhaps, though, we should have seen Toronto emerging as the East champion. We forgot one of the great tenets of playing basketball. In the NBA, postseason experience matters.
The Raptors had it. The Bucks did not.
Milwaukee was without a playoff series victory since 2001, until this postseason. Toronto had won four playoff series the previous three postseasons, which makes for a bunch of playoff games.
The Bucks have a fabulous team. They won 60 games and had the NBA's best record. But Toronto won 58 games, so it's not like they were a dozen games behind Milwaukee. The Raptors even won more than Golden State; the 57-25 Warriors open the NBA Finals in The North. Toronto has homecourt advantage.
So the Raptors were good, too, and had a similar team to Milwaukee – each sported a superstar of the highest order. Giannis Antetokounmpo for the Bucks is the presumptive MVP, and Kawhi Leonard of the Raptors has reminded us that he deserves a place in the discussion for best player in the world. Each had a displaced center (Brook Lopez, Marc Gasol) with an all-around skill that had added long-distance shooting. Each had versatile and quality role players. Each had a first-year coach intended to stoke the fire of a team trying to get from good to great.
Very similar stories and teams. Except one thing.
Toronto's players are playoff veterans. Milwaukee's were not.
That makes a difference. That makes a huge difference.
(Story continued below...)
Knowing how to withstand the playoff storms is a big deal. Knowing how to deal with the journey matters. Each series is basically a fortnight; teams that make the conference finals will have spent six weeks on the task.
Toronto had that experience and Milwaukee did not.
When the East finals started, the nine players in the Bucks' rotation had combined for 262 playoff games. That's 29.1 games per player. But George Hill, a veteran of San Antonio and Indiana, among others, accounted for 102 of those games. That means the other Bucks averaged 20 playoff games in their careers.
Ersan Ilyasova had played 33 playoff games, Nikola Mirotic 26. Eric Bledsoe had played 24 playoff games, Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton 19 each. Lopez, Pat Connaughton and Malcolm Brogdon just 13 each.
Look at the Raptors. Serge Ibaka had played 109 playoff games. Danny Green had played 100. Leonard 87. Ibaka had played 16 playoff games just against Leonard and Green.
Kyle Lowry had played 62 playoff games. Marc Gasol had played 59. Ibaka and Gasol played 19 playoff games against each other; only four Bucks had played more playoff games total.
Norman Powell had played 33 playoff games, Fred VanVleet 13 and Pascal Siakim 12. All told, those eight rotational players combined for 475 postseason games, an average of 59.4.
Toronto had a huge experience advantage. And when the Bucks took a 2-0 series lead, and when the Bucks would play well for big stretches in subsequent games, the Raptors didn't wilt. They knew it was a long game and a long series.
Those things matter. They mattered to Toronto.
Toronto Raptors fans celebrate outside the arena in the closing seconds of the team's 100-94 win over the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 6 of the NBA basketball playoffs Eastern Conference finals Saturday, May 25, 2019, in Toronto. The Raptors advanced to the NBA Finals. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press...
Toronto Raptors fans celebrate outside the arena in the closing seconds of the team's 100-94 win over the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 6 of the NBA basketball playoffs Eastern Conference finals Saturday, May 25, 2019, in Toronto. The Raptors advanced to the NBA Finals. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Q: Unable to make ROS2 package (but used to be able to) I am having trouble making a ros2 package for the Robotis Open manipulator. I was able to run this and am able to run this on a virtual machine, but my main machine is now not able to build these packages anymore. I have reinstall foxy a number of times and the results are still the same.
These are the commands I am using:
colcon build --event-handlers console_direct+ --cmake-args -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON --packages-select dynamixel_sdk_custom_interfaces

Although a simple colcon build also gives me the same errors I wanted to see if making it verbose would help me identify the issue.
Here are the results I got:
Starting >>> dynamixel_sdk_custom_interfaces
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 9.4.0
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Job Opportunity: Program Director
Flux Residents and staff after our weekly Monday meeting
The Program Director is the primary leader of Flux artistic programs, chiefly including an Artist-in-Residency, Public Exhibitions & Events, and "Satellite Projects" in partnership with fellow institutions. In the midst of a building sustainability campaign, the Program Director will play a key role in reopening and growing our programs in a promising new phase of Flux's history.
Most of the Program Director's time will be spent managing the Residency at our home-base on 29th Street, but you will also play a leadership role in Public Programs and Satellite Projects. The essence of the Flux Residency is sharing space with each other, and so a majority of work hours must be spent in the building, while remote work for certain tasks is appropriate.
General Terms: $60k annual salary + benefits, full-time with majority of hours on-site, but flexibility in scheduling work hours.
Apply by February 15 by emailing nat@fluxfactory.org with a resume and cover letter, and "Program Director Applicant" in the subject line. Tentatively, interviews will be conducted in March, with the position beginning April/May 2023.
Orchestrate Artist-in-Residency open calls and manage scheduling of 16 privately rented studios as well as co-working spaces
Liaise with bookkeeper on rent & utility information for Residents
Develop & manage resources to Residency (eg, studio visits, workshop tools trainings, field trips).
Attend weekly Resident meetings; be available to meet with Residents individually to improve their experience; and manage conflict de-escalation when appropriate.
Liaise with Development staff to identify, cultivate and administer Residency sponsors
Oversee Public Program Manager and other program coordinators, interns and volunteers
Provide editorial and proofreading oversight of PR materials
Generally increase cohesive impact & visibility of exhibitions
Serve as a key public face of Flux programs to press, partners and stakeholders
Play key role in developing and implementing "Satellite Projects" and overseeing project coordinators, primarily including annual projects on Governors Island, at Denmark's ARoS Museum, and at other periodic locations.
Key collaborator in developing Flux partnerships, including both informal relationships and formal membership in local organizations (such as Long Island City Cultural Alliance, Windmill Community Garden, Rethinking Residencies, etc).
Oversee Public Program Manager, interns & volunteers
Be a team member to help ensure Flux Factory's all-hands-on-deck benefit events are a success
The Ideal Applicant will have 3+ years of experience in arts management. To help connect Flux more closely with our neighborhood, the ideal candidate will live in or have a close connection with the greater Long Island City area. The ideal candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills, an impeccable attention to detail, and a vivid cultural vision and passion for Flux's mission. The ideal applicant will have a wide range of technical experience and knowledge covering building maintenance; art handling; computer softwares (Adobe, WordPress, spreadsheets, etc); and audio-visual and other technical equipment.
About Flux Factory
Flux Factory's Mission is to support emerging artists through Artist-in-Residencies and Exhibitions, education and collaborative opportunities. Flux is an artist-led space that builds sustainable communities and retains creative vitality in NYC. Since 1994 Flux has hosted over 300 Artists-in-Residence, both local and international, as well as staging over 700 exhibitions across all disciplines. Flux's home in Long Island City is a creative hive that incubates experimentation with collaborative processes. Flux hosts over 75 annual multidisciplinary events; all are free to the public while all participating artists are compensated. Each year Flux selects 40 Artists-in-Residence to develop their creative practices by offering affordable studios, shared workspaces (such as a print shop, wood shop, and technical office), a solo exhibition, as well as professional development opportunities. Flux commissions 100 multidisciplinary artworks annually through open calls with 4 annual Group Exhibitions.
Flux Factory aims to create a hub for conversation and practice-sharing that is aware and responsive to systemic inequities and invests in the meaningful inclusion of historically marginalized groups and voices. Flux Factory is committed to and values diversity in its organization and programming as defined by gender, race, ethnicity, disability-status, age, sexual orientation, immigrant status, and socio-economic status. People of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. International candidates welcome, although Flux's capacity to assist on VISA logistics may be limited.
Email nat@fluxfactory.org – note that while Flux is happy to answer specific questions about applications, for the sake of fairness Flux will not comment on your candidacy or initiate any interviews via email.


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The Secrets to Meb's Success
Meb Keflezighi has been winning ever since he was in high school. Here are 10 habits that help explain his longevity.
by Sarah Lorge Butler Published: Jun 17, 2014
Meb Keflezighi approached the finish line of the Boston Marathon, holding off Wilson Chebet, who had whittled Keflezighi's lead from 81 seconds at the 30K mark to 6 seconds in the final mile. The crowds along Boylston Street screamed for him, chanting "USA." Yordanos Asgedom, Keflezighi's wife, stood beyond the finish line, murmuring prayers. Journalists in the press center openly rooted for him. Bernard Lagat, 39, Keflezighi's friend and collegiate rival decades ago, paced around his home in Tucson, Arizona, tweeting his anxiety--and then elation--as Keflezighi broke the tape.
And his coach of 20 years? Bob Larsen was checking out Keflezighi's feet. "His ground contact time [was] pretty good, which is what we want," Larsen says. "He never got sloppy, never lost his form."
Spoken like a true tactician. For all the emotion around Keflezighi's victory--the first by an American man since 1983, coming one year after the bombing at the finish line--his win was proof of training ideas that stand the test of time. Keflezighi has been atop the podium since college and at some of the biggest events in the world, earning Olympic silver in the 2004 marathon in Athens and finishing fourth at the London Games in 2012. He won the New York City Marathon in 2009. Now Boston, where his time of 2:08:37 was a new PR, set two weeks shy of his 39th birthday. How has he been winning for 20 years? The answers range from the mundane to the mystical.
Keep Your Own Counsel
The worst injury in Keflezighi's career was a stress fracture in his hip, which he suffered in 2007 at the Olympic marathon trials. The pain was so intense, he had to crawl around his house. At 32 years old, with an Olympic silver medal to his name, he could have called it quits.
Although skeptics said he was washed up, he made the call to keep going, demonstrating a self-belief that all elite athletes have, including Lagat. "We believe we can still run hard," Lagat says. "And we believe that it is actually up to [us] to decide what [we] want to do. We know deep inside."
Keflezighi is his own best judge of his gifts, his wife says, and had he listened to outsiders, his New York City and Boston victories would never have happened. His internal voice is now telling him to try for the 2016 Games in Rio. "I'm running as fast as ever," Keflezighi says. "I believe as long as I stay healthy, I'm not going to disappear from the scene. I'm the most consistent marathoner in the world. I'm 39. So what?"
Go With the Tried-and-True . . .
Larsen has coached Keflezighi since he was a freshman running cross country at UCLA in 1994. They've hit on a formula that works. "Continuity counts for something," Larsen says. "We're not always trying something new. We do the things we have confidence in."
But Tinker as Necessary
Keflezighi points out the ways his training has evolved over the years. He eliminated his midweek long run, which used to be 16-21 miles. After his crippling stress fracture, he saw Dan Pfaff, a renowned coach of form and technique, and started incorporating drills, which he now does five to six days per week. Before Athens, he sought out the biggest hills he could find. Preparing for Boston a decade later, he kept to flat terrain as much as possible, even if it meant doing a long run on a 1-mile loop. For whatever races still lie ahead of him, he wants to get there healthy.
Form Matters
Those drills might have made the difference in the race. "Chebet was losing a little bit of his mechanics toward the end," Larsen says. "Meb was really disciplined in that regard. He wasn't losing form at all."
Focusing on his technique gave Keflezighi something to think about as Chebet narrowed the gap. "I was panicking, but at the same time, I was saying, 'Collect yourself.' If it wasn't for form, I don't think I would have won," he says. "I think about my feet, where they're going to land. My hips, knees, legs, arms, neck. Where my head should be positioned. Where my chin should be going uphill, downhill."
Lagat, in front of his TV, could see his friend's form was holding up. "He's still lifting," Lagat says. "It's amazing. He ran under 4:40 for a mile at some point there." You can't run well with bad mechanics, a point Lagat's own longtime coach, James Li, has preached for decades. "He tells me, 'I don't care how fast you run workouts as long as you give me good form,' " Lagat says.
The Little Things Mean a Lot
Keflezighi's mileage is lower than that of many world-class marathoners, but his total training time, including all the extras, eats up at least eight hours each day. "He's meticulous," Asgedom says.
"His cool-down, warm-up, stretches, core exercises. I'm like, 'Good Lord, take a break, dude.' " Asgedom unwinds at 8 p.m., exhausted after a day with the couple's three daughters. That's when Keflezighi uses the NormaTec recovery system.
Cross-Training Works
Keflizighi replaces a second run with an ElliptiGO ride if he's feeling beat. At points when he's been hurt during his career, he's hit the pool for hours of deep-water running. "Meb is very, very good at cross-training when he gets injured," Larsen says. "I've never seen anybody as dedicated. You've got to go hard, and it's really boring." When Keflezighi runs again, he's not starting at square one and not desperate to catch up.
Use Your Head
If Keflezighi's sore from a workout, he doesn't need Larsen's blessing to adjust his program. He decides if he needs an extra easy day.
The same holds true out on the course. At Boston, when Chebet appeared in his rearview mirror, Keflezighi started playing through different scenarios. "Should I slow down and try to outkick him? But once I slow down, he's going to have the edge," Keflezighi says. "Do I conserve energy, save a little bit? Or forget saving, keep pushing the lead, thinking he must have worked hard to get close to me. Now it will discourage him not to catch up. These mind games? I have to play them." He did so perfectly, finishing with a 12-second margin of victory.
You Can't Eat Everything
Keflezighi, 5-foot-5, watches his diet carefully to get to his ideal racing weight of 125 pounds, and he travels with his scale. His metabolism, he says, has slowed, one of aging's cruelest consequences. "I have to monitor my diet, which is hard for me," he says. In the 10 days after Boston, he says he put on 8 pounds. His wife jokes, "Once running stops, you're not going to recognize Meb."
Be a Mensch
People gravitate toward Keflezighi. During the three days before Boston, he hustled to different events, giving speeches, signing autographs, meeting with bombing victims and their families. His wife says he's always the last to leave. "Meb is a better person than he is a runner," Asgedom says. "His greatest gift is his ability to touch people."
Does his personality make him faster? Consensus is that it can't hurt. Who knows if the crowds would have cheered as enthusiastically for a different man?
Run for a Higher Purpose
Running can be a selfish endeavor, an hours-per-week commitment to trimming seconds off a race time. Keflezighi runs best when he's representing his family, his country, a city that's healing or, grieving families. At 4:30 on Boston race morning, he and Asgedom Googled the names of the bombing victims to write on the corners of his bib. He wanted to be sure they were spelled correctly.
Sarah Lorge Butler
Sarah Lorge Butler is a writer and editor living in Eugene, Oregon, and her stories about the sport, its trends, and fascinating individuals have appeared in Runner's World since 2005. She is the author of two popular fitness books, Run Your Butt Off! and Walk Your Butt Off!
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Lantenne-Vertière () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

History
The 17th-century castle was built in 1687 for the Lord of Vertière and then belonged to the Saint Claude family.

Population

See also
 Communes of the Doubs department

References

External links

 Lantenne-Vertière on the intercommunal Web site of the department

Communes of Doubs

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William "Smitty" Pignatelli
State Representative Wm. Smitty Pignatelli is a lifelong resident of Lenox, Massachusetts, and a graduate of the Lenox Public Schools. Smitty, as he prefers to be called, was named after his father's best friend, William Smith, who was killed during World War II. After graduating from Lenox Memorial High School in 1977, Smitty became a licensed Master Electrician and worked in his family's electrical contracting business for twenty years. Smitty took over the full operation of the business at the time of his father's retirement in 1991. Smitty left the family business to his brother Scott, in 1998, when he was offered a position as the Business Development Manager for Lee Bank. While at the bank, he attended Babson College School for Financial Studies, graduating in 2001. Longing to serve the people of his beloved Berkshire District, he decided to leave the bank to pursue his dream of public service and run for higher office. Smitty won the seat of State Representative for the 4th Berkshire District and has been proudly representing his constituents for over 12 years.
Smitty was first elected to the Lenox Planning Board in 1987 and served on that board for five years. In 1992, he was elected to the Board of Selectmen, and was elected Chairman on four different occasions, serving until May of 2003. Smitty also served from 1995-1999 as a Berkshire County Commissioner including two years as Chairman of the board.
Representative Pignatelli serves on the Laurel Lake Preservation Association and previously served six years on the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross. With over 37 years of public service experience, Smitty has also been involved in many local associations. He is a member of the Berkshire County Deputy Sheriff's Association, a past member of the Berkshire Association of Retarded Citizens, the Board of Directors of the Berkshire Visitors Bureau and is a former President of the Lenox Historical Society.
As State Representative, Smitty represents twenty communities in Berkshire and Hampden Counties. At the State House, Representative Pignatelli serves on three appointed committees: the Committee of Ways & Means, Committee on Higher Education, and the Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development. He is currently the House Chair of the Cultural Caucus.
Articles by William "Smitty" Pignatelli
An integrated solution to pain management and the opioid crisis
Friday, 2 Nov 2018 - The new law does not currently specify acupuncture or any other particular form of pain management, but rather a "broad spectrum" of therapies that can include yoga, massage, diet, nutrition, and mindfulness, just to name a few others.
COMMENTARY: Dental bill extracted from committee – at last
Saturday, 28 Apr 2018 - It has become a well-established fact by now that good dental health is a necessary and contributing factor to good overall health.
State did not abandoned protected state forests
Saturday, 13 May 2017 - If the Otis State Forest case had gone to a higher court and lost, that would establish precedent for the entire state.
The future is shared community services: Let's not miss out
Sunday, 21 Aug 2016 - Our future filled with enhanced services at affordable rates while maintaining our independence is in our hands now.
Dental practitioners would provide critically needed access to dental care
Sunday, 22 May 2016 - The Berkshires has the second-highest rate of hospital visits for dental conditions in the state. If you have MassHealth in the Berkshires and you're trying to access dental care, you are likely to be turned away by roughly 4 out of the 5 dentist offices that you call.
Sharing services: Reinventing the Berkshires for the future
Thursday, 29 Oct 2015 - It's time to reinvent ourselves and think about a Berkshires for the next generation. We need to envision a Berkshires for the generation yet to be born.
— Albert Einstein


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ArtikelUnternehmensmeldungen, engl.Hudson Resources Announces New Directors
Hudson Resources Announces New Directors
VANCOUVER, Nov. 02, 2020 - Hudson Resources Inc. ("Hudson" or the "Company") (TSX Venture Exchange "HUD"; OTC "HUDRF") is pleased to announce that Kevin Crawford, Donna Phillips, and Antony Harwood (the "New Directors") have been elected to the Board of Directors at the Company's annual general meeting held yesterday. The Company's Board of Directors is now comprised of the three newly elected directors as well as Dave Frattaroli and Jim Cambon.
Mr. Crawford is a retired executive who was the Chairman of the board at SCR-Sibelco, a global (3.2 billion Euro) industrial minerals company based in Belgium (and parent company of U.S.-based Unimin Corporation) until 2016. Prior to becoming the Chairman, Mr. Crawford held several executive positions with Sibelco, including Group CEO. Mr. Crawford currently sits on the board of Connor Investor Services, Inc, a private investment advisory firm in Wyomissing, PA, with close to US$1 billion under management.
During his tenure at Sibelco, Mr. Crawford helped create one of the world's largest industrial minerals companies with over 200 operations in 40 countries, more than 10,000 employees and over 3.2 billion Euros in revenues. He also grew Unimin from a small (four plants), several-hundred employee company which generated $100 million in sales, to the largest diversified-industrial minerals company in North America with over 40 plants, 2,500 employees and $2 billion in revenues.
Mr. Crawford obtained his MBA, with distinction, from Pace University and holds a BBA, Accounting, cum laude, with Niagara University.
Ms. Phillips has over thirty years of professional experience in business with particular focus in the areas of finance, corporate planning, land negotiations, business development, government relations, stakeholder/community relations and Indigenous negotiations in the energy industry. Ms. Phillips is the Executive Vice President, Corporate Development of Pacific Canbriam Energy Limited, a company with an organic growth story now producing > 40,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
Ms. Phillips adopted the principles of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) throughout her career. She has a deep understanding of the role of ESG through her relationships with Indigenous Peoples. She completed the ICD-Rotman Directors Education Program and is the holder of the Institute of Corporate Directors Director designation (ICD.D).
Ms. Phillips is Vice‐Chair of the Board of Directors for Geoscience BC. She is President of the Petroleum Acquisition and Divestiture Association (PADA). In addition, she is a member of the Board of Directors for the Canadian Society of Unconventional Resources (CSUR). She is a member of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers British Columbia Executive Policy Group and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Landmen.
Ms. Phillips holds a Bachelor of Administration from the University of Regina, a CPA CMA certification and the ICD.D.
Dr. Antony (Tony) Harwood is an economic geologist with 35 years of international exploration and mining experience focused on "green" and "battery" metals (REE's & lithium), gold and base metals. Dr. Harwood was a founder and appointed President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Montero Mining and Exploration Ltd. in 2009 and took the company to IPO on the TSX-V in 2011 exploring for REE and lithium. Previous to this, Dr. Harwood was the President and CEO of Africo Resources Ltd., which he listed on the TSX to develop a major copper-cobalt project in the DRC. Dr. Harwood served as Vice President of Placer Dome Inc. for 8 years, a major Canadian mining company before its acquisition by Barrick Gold Corp.
Dr. Harwood currently serves as a non-executive director on the boards of Tesoro Resources (TSX-V) and East African Metals (TSX-V). Dr. Harwood graduated from the University of Wales, College Cardiff, with a B.Sc. (Hons) cum laude and Ph.D. in Economic Geology.
Jim Cambon, President commented: "I am very pleased to welcome Kevin, Donna, and Tony to the board. The depth of experience and skillsets of these members will add significant value as we continue to grow the company. I would like to thank the outgoing directors, Flemming Knudsen, Herbert Wilson, Robert Shields, John McDonald, and John McConnell, for all their past contributions and wish them well in their future endeavours."
"Jim Cambon"
President and Director
This news release includes certain forward-looking statements or information. All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this news release, including, without limitation, statements regarding the Company's terms of the proposed debt restructuring, the Company's anticipated use of proceeds of the Debenture and other future plans and objectives of the Company, are forward-looking statements that involve various risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's plans or expectations include the outcome of shareholder and regulatory approval for conversion of the Debenture, market prices, general economic, market or business conditions, regulatory changes, timeliness of government or regulatory approvals and other risks detailed herein and from time to time in the filings made by the Company with securities regulators. Issuance of the Debenture remains subject to certain conditions and there is no assurance that those conditions will be met. The Company expressly disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward- looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise except as otherwise required by applicable securities legislation.
Hier ist eine interessante Information, die ich auf Minenportal.de gefunden habe: https://www.minenportal.de/artikel/323638--Hudson-Resources-Announces-New-Directors.html
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Q: Why conda cannot install tensorflow gpu properly on Windows? I was using Linux at work and am used to install tensorflow GPU version via Conda.
The Linux machine has NVIDIA driver, and nvidia-smi runs properly.
The command I use is
conda install python tensorflow-gpu

Magically, conda takes care of everything. It installs cudatoolkit or whatever related tools. Once I run python in that virtual environment, GPU is usable.
Now I switch to work on Windows. The Windows box has NVIDIA driver, and nvidia-smi runs properly. Then I use the same conda command as I used on Linux. conda install is successful but the python in the virtual env does not detect GPU.
How to install tensorflow 2 gpu on windows 10 with conda? says on Windows I must manually install cudnn and Cuda. Why conda on Windows does not take care of it as Linux one does?

A: I do not have much expertise with how conda works as I have manually downloaded and configured tensorflow with CUDA and cuDNN.
To answer your question I'd recommend going through this blog, Setting up Tensorflow-GPU with Cuda and Anaconda on Windows. Here, the person uses different commands from what you've mentioned. There are a few extra steps involved as well.


Rocker Tommy Lee - a founding member of Motley Crue has his Calabasas mansion up for sale currently and just reduced it from a price tag of $5.995 million to $4.995 million. The property high in the hills boasts panoramic views from its three stories and from the backyard's piano-shaped swimming pool.
Measuring around 1,000 square meters the house as 6 baths, 5 bedrooms, a wine room, 2 kitchens and a subterranean garage that has been partially converted into a 2,000-square-foot recording studio with two live rooms and a control center.
It also has a home cinema, looking a bit dated now (Sorry Tommy) the real estate agents photos don't do it much justice. This carpeted 6 seat cinema features plush leather recliners and an electrostatic front speaker stage. I bet this home theater has seen some crazy nights in!


Every year St. Andrew's hosts a Christian Seder followed by the Maundy Thursday Liturgy and Eucharist with participants and attendees from all 3 Parishes.
On the fifth Sunday of a month (when it occurs), we will have a single Combined Parish Service.
St. Matthew's donates food to the Food Pantry that Fr. Chuck oversees for the community of New Berlin. Some of those donations are used to celebrate the annual harvest, and to remind us of our Christian duty to share our bounty.


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he is "disgusted" that Murray, incarcerated for involuntary manslaughter after a judge and jury ruled him partially-liable for the death of the late king of pop, got two years shaved off of his four year sentence because of a change in California laws.
The gossip site caught up with Jermaine and his brother Tito Jackson at LAX on Monday. When asked for his reaction to Murray's release, Jermaine wasn't shy to voice his contempt, but Tito refrained.
The former doctor's release must be salt on the wound for the Jackson family, who recently lost their wrongful death lawsuit against concert promoter AEG, and Jermaine himself was recently slapped with a court order to pay thousands of dollars in back child support to his ex-wife.
(Photos from left: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images, Francois Durand/Getty Images)
Celebrity R.I.P.
Jermaine Jackson
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Rare example of Vintage Rolex 1680 Red Submariner Meter First MK1 Dial SN: 21xxxxx. from 1969 this was the first Submariner ever made with date. First production.
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Domino's Pizza Enterprises Limited (DPE) is the largest pizza chain in Australia in terms of network stores numbers and network sales, as well as the largest franchisee for the US Domino's Pizza brand in the world.  DPE is the exclusive master franchise for the Domino's brand network in Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Luxembourg, Denmark and Taiwan.  Across these markets, DPE has over 2,800 stores.  In May 2005 DPE became the first publicly listed pizza company in Australia.

In 2018, Domino's was inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame.

Early years

Australia

The first Domino's store to open in Australia was in Springwood, Queensland, in 1983, and offered home delivery after home delivery was introduced into Australia by the Pizza Oven Family Restaurants located at multiple sites all over the southside of Brisbane owned by Paul Hughes & Bill Kerwick in 1981. The Australian and New Zealand Master Franchise was bought by Silvio's Dial-a-Pizza in 1993 and in 1995 the two brands merged and rebranded as Domino's Pizza.

New Zealand
Domino's New Zealand was the first to introduce drone-delivery pizza in November 2016, partnering with Flirtey Drone Delivery.

Present day
Australia

Currently, there are around 700 Domino's stores in Australia, making it the biggest pizza franchised business in the country. The Australian stores are spread right across the country, from the main capital cities like Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney, to more rural areas like Armidale.

Timeline
 1983: First Domino's store opened in Australia.
 1993: Silvio's Dial-a-Pizza bought Domino's Pizza.
 1995: Silvio's Dial-a-Pizza was merged into Domino's Pizza.
 1997: Domino's established the Domino's Partners Foundation.
 2000: Silvio's Dial-a-Pizza was renamed Domino's Pizza Australia.
 2001: Don Meij and Grant Bourke, the two largest franchisees at the time, merged their stores into the corporate store network to bring the total to 50 corporate stores and 128 franchised stores.
 2003: Domino's expanded into new markets in Victoria, Australia, and Wellington, New Zealand.
 2005: Domino's listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, becoming the first publicly listed Australian pizza company.
 2006: Domino's purchased existing Domino's operations in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the principality of Monaco.
 2009: Domino's Australia launched an application for iPhone.
 2011: An online ordering mobile website was launched, as well as an application for Android ordering. Domino's hit 200,000 Facebook fans
 2014: Domino's launched Pizza Mogul, an initiative set to change the future of the pizza industry landscape.
 2015: Domino's launched GPS Driver Tracker, which allows customers track their order from the store.
 2016: Domino's launched the world first autonomous delivery vehicle, DRU  or Domino's Robotic Unit (now known as 'DOM').
2016: Domino's launched registered charity Give for Good
2017: Domino's installs the world's largest commercial Tesla Powerwall battery storage system in one of its Sydney stores, in order to overcome the limited capability of the electrical grid.
2018: Domino's launched voice ordering through Amazon Alexa.
2018: Domino's opened its 700th store in Australia.
2019: Domino's launched New Pizza Chef with Augmented Reality, which allows customers to choose from endless flavour combinations and create their favourite pizza before their eyes through the Domino's app.
2019: Domino's launched voice ordering through the Google Assistant.
2019: Domino's Pizza Enterprises acquired Domino's Pizza territory in Denmark.
2021: Domino's Pizza Enterprises acquired Domino's Pizza Taiwan.
2022: Domino's Pizza Enterprises acquired Domino's Pizza businesses in Malaysia, Singapore and Cambodia.

See also
 List of fast food restaurant chains in Australia
 List of pizzerias in Australia

References

External links
 Domino's Pizza Enterprises corporate webpage
 Domino's Pizza Ph
 Domino's New Zealand corporate webpage
 Domino's Netherlands corporate webpage
 Domino's France corporate history webpage
 Domino's Belgium corporate history webpage
Domino's digital story and oral history: Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame 2018, State Library of Queensland

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Fast-food franchises
Pizzerias in Australia
Pizza chains of Australia
Australian subsidiaries of foreign companies
Restaurants established in 1983
Australian companies established in 1983
Companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange
2005 initial public offerings


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New Jersey wineries to visit in summer 2018
Celebrate New Jersey's wine history by visiting local vineyards this summer
New Jersey wineries to visit in summer 2018 Celebrate New Jersey's wine history by visiting local vineyards this summer Check out this story on app.com: https://on.app.com/2IGsEFw
Alex Biese, @ABieseAPP Published 7:00 a.m. ET May 25, 2018 | Updated 11:46 a.m. ET June 4, 2018
Wine terminology can be a little overwhelming, so we've highlighted a few words you can use to sound a bit more knowledgeable. Produced by Newsy
Ashley Avilleira samples wine at the wine tasting tent during a wine festival at Laurita Winery in the New Egypt section of Plummeted in 2015.(Photo: FILE PHOTO)Buy Photo
Wine is positively booming across New Jersey. In fact, there are around 50 wineries currently operating throughout the state associated with the Garden State Wine Growers Association alone.
That's a lot of vino for local wine aficionados to familiarize themselves with — but this summer, we'd recommend starting with a certified Jersey classic.
Tomasello Winery puts out a renowned selection of wines produced at its 63-acre vineyard in Hammonton in Atlantic County. Tomasello creates wines with a number of New Jersey fruit, including blueberries, raspberries, cherries, cranberries and apples.
In addition to the home base in Hammonton and tasting room at Wemrock Orchards in Freehold, Tomasello has outposts in Lambertville, Chester, Wyckoff, Cranford, Lafayette and two locations in Smithville.
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Wines on view at Tomasello Winery's tasting room at Wemrock Orchards in Freehold in 2017. (Photo: FILE PHOTO)
Tomasello has been a key player in the New Jersey wine community for more than eight decades. Frank Tomasello launched the company in 1933, the year Prohibition was repealed. But looking even farther back, New Jersey's wine industry is older than America itself.
"New Jersey has always been a wine-growing state, it dates back to colonial days," Tom Cosentino, executive director of the Garden State Wine Growers Association, told the Asbury Park Press in 2017.
There were the two Colonial land owners, William Alexander in Basking Ridge and Edward Antill in Piscataway, who accepted an English challenge in 1758 to produce wine from locally grown grapes, followed by Louis Renault immigrating from France to Egg Harbor in 1864 and founding Renault Winery, the second-oldest winery in the country.
Chardonnay grapes hang from a vine on the property at Four JG's Vineyards on Hillsdale Road in Colts Neck in 2013. (Photo: FILE PHOTO)
More than 30 wineries have opened for business in New Jersey since 2000, and Cosentino noted that different varieties thrive in different regions of the state. Sussex County, for example, is a prime area for pinot noir, while in South Jersey chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon and Cabernet Franc produce particularly well.
Tomasello, Cosentino noted, remains one of the top wine producers in the state, with a portfolio that ranges from Frank Tomasello's original Ranier Red to plenty of high-end dry reds and a Vidal Blanc, its award-winning ice wine.
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Wine and Chocolate Festival at Monmouth Park
(NEWS) 06/25/17 Oceanport, NJ Monmouth Park Racet Track hosted the Wine and Chocolate Festival on June 24 and 25, 2017. Frank Galipo/Correspondent
(NEWS) 06/25/17 Oceanport, NJ Monmouth Park Racet Track hosted the Wine and Chocolate Festival on June 24 and 25, 2017. Yolanda Gibson of Desireable Cookies displays her creations. Frank Galipo/Correspondent
(NEWS) 06/25/17 Oceanport, NJ Monmouth Park Racet Track hosted the Wine and Chocolate Festival on June 24 and 25, 2017. Narina Swabsin of Nothing Bundt Cake (left) is shown at the event. Frank Galipo/Correspondent
(NEWS) 06/25/17 Oceanport, NJ Monmouth Park Racet Track hosted the Wine and Chocolate Festival on June 24 and 25, 2017. Broad Street Dough Company displays their creations. Frank Galipo/Correspondent
(NEWS) 06/25/17 Oceanport, NJ Monmouth Park Racet Track hosted the Wine and Chocolate Festival on June 24 and 25, 2017. Kaitlyn Morrison (left) and Bianca Rossi, both of Brick, taste samples at the event. Frank Galipo/Correspondent
(NEWS) 06/25/17 Oceanport, NJ Monmouth Park Racet Track hosted the Wine and Chocolate Festival on June 24 and 25, 2017. Violet Stiffler of Middletown (left) and Carolyn Wolf of Port Monmouth (right) are shown at the event. Frank Galipo/Correspondent
(NEWS) 06/25/17 Oceanport, NJ Monmouth Park Racet Track hosted the Wine and Chocolate Festival on June 24 and 25, 2017. Katrina Tenor of Wrightstown is shown at the event. Frank Galipo/Correspondent
(NEWS) 06/25/17 Oceanport, NJ Monmouth Park Racet Track hosted the Wine and Chocolate Festival on June 24 and 25, 2017. Rebecca Brobowski of Columbus displays her purchases at the event. Frank Galipo/Correspondent ASB Wine And Chocolate Festival 17 Frank Galipo/Correspondent
(NEWS) 06/25/17 Oceanport, NJ Monmouth Park Racet Track hosted the Wine and Chocolate Festival on June 24 and 25, 2017. Frank Galipo/Correspondent ASB Wine And Chocolate Festival 13 Frank Galipo/Correspondent
(NEWS) 06/25/17 Oceanport, NJ Monmouth Park Racet Track hosted the Wine and Chocolate Festival on June 24 and 25, 2017. Kaitlyn Morrison (left) and Bianca Rossi, both of Brick, taste samples at the event. Frank Galipo/Correspondent ASB Wine And Chocolate Festival 16 Frank Galipo/Correspondent
"That's the difference in New Jersey," Consentino said. "You have several wineries that (will) have that kind of experience, (where) you can go in and if you like really high quality, drier wines you can have that. If you want a sweeter wine, you can also have them in that same tasting room."
GO: Tomasello Winery Tasting Room and Banquet Hall, 225 North White Horse Pike
Hammonton, with additional locations in Lambertville, Chester, Wyckoff, Cranford, Lafayette and Smithville, tomasellowinery.com.
Coming May 25, grab your 2018 Jersey Shore Summer Guide. Ryan Ross and William Canacci, Asbury Park Press
More travels
Here are a few more New Jersey wineries worth a visit this summer:
4 JG's Orchards and Vineyards, 127 Hillsdale Road, Colts Neck, 908-930-8066, www.4jgswinery.com.
Laurita Winery, 85 Archertown Road, New Egypt section of Plumsted, 609-752-0200, lauritawinery.com.
Terhune Orchards Winery, 330 Cold Soil Road, Princeton, 609-924-2310, terhuneorchards.com.
Valenzano Family Winery, 1090 Route 206, Shamong, 609-268-6731, valenzanowine.com.
Renault Winery Resort and Golf, 72 North Bremen Ave., Egg Harbor City, 609-965-2111, www.renaultwinery.com
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The Opera Garnier is a grand landmark at the northern end of the Avenue de l'Opéra. It is regarded as one of the architectural masterpieces of its time.
Built in the Neo-Baroque style, it is the thirteenth theatre to house the Paris Opera since it was founded by Louis XIV in 1669.
It was called the Paris Opéra, but since the building of the Opéra Bastille in 1989, it is referred to as the Opera Garnier.
Also known as the Palais Garnier, it was part of the reconstruction of the city by Napoleon III and his engineer, Baron Haussmann.
Following a competition for the design of the Opera, an unknown 35-year-old architect was selected, Charles Garnier (1825-1898). He would go on to also build the Opéra Garnier de Monte-Carlo in Monaco.
Construction began in 1857 though interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War, the fall of the Second Empire and the Paris Commune Uprising.
Another problem was the discovery of an underground lake beneath the construction site.
This required the developing of an underground reservoir beneath the building. This incident was later to become the inspiration for the famous "The Phantom of the Opera".
It was completed in 1874 and the Palais Garnier was formally inaugurated on January 15, 1875.
This large building has a total area of 11,000 square meters (118,404 square feet) and a huge stage able to accommodate up to 450 artists.
It is an ornate building and the style is monumental, opulently decorated with elaborate multi-colored marble friezes, columns, and lavish statuary. The interior is rich with velvet, gold leaf, cherubs and nymphs. The auditorium's central chandelier weighs over six tons. The ceiling was painted in 1964 by Marc Chagall.
The Opera Garnier is mainly used for ballet performances. Paris' primary opera house is now the Opéra Bastille.
Visits without guides are available everyday during school vacation time from 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., or until 1 p.m. in the case of a matinee performance. The rest of the year, the building is open during the same hours on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday.
Fees are 7 euros for adults and 4 euros for students.
Guided tours in English are available on the same days as above at 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Fees are 11 euros for adults, 9 euros for students and seniors, 6 euros for those under 12 years of age.
Tickets need to be purchased 1/2 hour before the tour begins.


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import org.apache.ibatis.session.SqlSession;
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	private static final String DELETE = "fr.cph.stock.repository.UserRepository.deleteOneUser";
	private static final String UPDATE_PASSWORD = "fr.cph.stock.repository.UserRepository.updateOneUserPassword";
	private static final String SELECT_WITH_LOGIN = "fr.cph.stock.repository.UserRepository.selectOneUserWithLogin";
	private static final String SELECT_WITH_EMAIL = "fr.cph.stock.repository.UserRepository.selectOneUserWithEmail";
	private static final String SELECT_ALL_USER = "fr.cph.stock.repository.UserRepository.selectAllUsers";

	@NonNull
	private final SqlSession session;

	@Override
	public final void insert(final User user) {
		session.insert(INSERT, user);
	}

	@Override
	public final Optional<User> select(final int id) {
		return Optional.ofNullable(session.selectOne(SELECT, id));
	}

	@Override
	public final void update(final User user) {
		session.update(UPDATE, user);
	}

	public final void updateOneUserPassword(final User user) {
		session.update(UPDATE_PASSWORD, user);
	}

	@Override
	public final void delete(final User user) {
		session.delete(DELETE, user);
	}

	public final Optional<User> selectWithLogin(final String login) {
		return Optional.ofNullable(session.selectOne(SELECT_WITH_LOGIN, login));
	}

	public final Optional<User> selectWithEmail(final String email) {
		return Optional.ofNullable(session.selectOne(SELECT_WITH_EMAIL, email));
	}

	public final List<User> selectAllUsers() {
		return session.selectList(SELECT_ALL_USER);
	}
}