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Less other train accidents on level crossing
1 Legal solution
2 Explain technology in static text
3 Piece of art
4 Static graphic solutions
5 Dynamic text solutions
6 A dynamic realistic solution
7 A dynamic psychological solution
More psychology for traffic information
Traffic Engineering & Control, March 2011.
Last update Oktober 2017.
The first solution is giving trains priority and sue the tracks crosser in case of an accident. To have a strong case the law can be put on a sign near the tracks (see figure 1 at the right). Figure 1. A legal message
Tram has priority.
Source: Tram station. Brussels Midi, Belgium, 2010.
The second solution is to communicate technology that causes the danger, e.g. present the number of tracks (See Figure 2). It is not sure that from knowing the number of tracks, the tracks crosser will conclude that there might be another train coming on one of the other tracks.
Figure 2. Message describing the technical situation
Source: common practice in the US.
It might be better to present the consequence of the technology used: another train might appear (see Figure 3). The main advantage of these static text solutions still is a legal one. In court the track company can blame the track crossers saying: Don't blame us, we installed a sign. The main disadvantage of static text solutions is a psychological one. Static text is unconspicious and people do not read them. Especially track crossers that need them most: regular users.
Figure 3. The danger in the message
WAIT, until the red light is switched off, another train might appear.
Source: common practice in the Netherlands.
Netherlands railways have a third solution for the problem. They asked artists to solve the problem (see figure 4 at the right). This piece of art might be interpreted as piece of art and not as a warning. This is called function fixedness: the obvious function is detected first and a second function is not detected. Functional fixedness is commonly used in riddles.
Figure 4. An artistic message
Do you want to stay alive? Just wait for a moment.
Source: The Netherlands, experimental sign ProRail.http://www.nicospilt.com/index2.html
A fourth solution is using graphics. Graphics can be more conspicuous than text because a complex situation can be perceived in a glance (compare Figure 3 and Figure 4).
Designing comprehensible graphics is difficult as Figure 5 shows. The arrows in Figure 5 can be interpreted in the following ways.
Trains crossing here. The other train risk is not understood because simultaneousness of two trains is not obvious. Parker (2002) observed that most pedestrians interpreted a second train sign as a warning. 4% interpreted the sign as a warming for a second train.
Look left for the train on the first track you are crossing. The conclusion might be: No train from the left, I can cross.
The train on the first track you are crossing moves left. The conclusion might be: There is a train on the left (e.g. standing at a platform) but that will not cross the level crossing.
The confusion might increase because of inconsistency of driving side between road and train traffic. Road traffic in France and Belgium keeps right, trains keep left. In the UK it is the other way round. In addition, train traffic control might decide to switch driving side.
It is unlikely that hurried track crossers focusing on the first train and seeing this sign (figure 5), in the split second available, will be capable of making the cognitive psychological analysis above, select the correct interpretation and finally will conclude: I don't cross.
Figure 5. A message with arrows
Source: sign used in Austria.
The solution discussed so far are static and as such inappropriate to attract attention. The only way to catch the attention of the inexperienced and experienced track crossers is the fifth solution using dynamics as in figure 6 and 7. The dynamics are used in other train situations only, on top of the one train only coming signs. In this way experienced track crossers will distinguish between one and two train situations. Figure 7 is to be preferred because it directs attention immediately to the text.
Figure 6. Conspicuous light with text explaining the technical situation
Figure 7. Conspicuous text explaining the technical situation
Source: UK
he disadvantage of a text solution is that the text is not read, especially not by the focus group: track crossers having experience with that track. Parker (2002) investigated a sixth solution: a realistic dynamic presentation including moving trains, blinking arrows and left-right looking track crossers heads (see Figure 9). 27% of the track crossers interpreted the sign as a general always look left and right sign for one or more trains, 41% interpreted the sign as do not cross, a train is coming and 20% did not understand the sign at all. In a follow-up survey four percent directly related the sign to the presence of two trains. The design strategy is as in Figure 2: present technical reality and hope that the tracks crosser will understand the danger. Figure 9. Dynamic realistic graphics for the hidden train problem
train is coming from right, track crossers head is facing right
second train from left, head facing left
both trains on crossing
both trains left crossing
Source: Parker 2002
7 A dynamic psychological solution:
lie The sign in figure 9 is most conspicuous (a large area lightening up) when the track crosser physically can't cross, i.e. when there is a train on the level crossing. The message should be most conspicuous when the tracks crosser decides to cross. This is the time period when there is no train on the level crossing yet, i.e. when the tracks crosser can cross but should not. In the seventh solution the sign should graph the crosser by the collar just before the moment he decides to cross. The best, of course would be some kind of subject too close to the tracks detection that switches on in the period the decision is made only. Next best is an estimate of that moment. The sign in figure 9 seems to be for a second train from the opposite direction only. In that case the tracks crosser can see both trains. The message to communicate is much more complex when the second train is hidden. A first crossing train can hide a second train from the opposite direction after crossing. A slow train on the first track to cross can, before crossing, hide a fast second train that will arrive at the crossing first. In those situations the solutions discussed so far, might encourage the track crosser to cross because they support the strategy: OK, another one is coming, I don't see it yet (approaching from the other direction as usual or according to some signs), I still can make it. In practice the track crosser might cross the first visible train just in time but then is caught by the hidden train. Designing a sign saying: two visible opposite trains crossing simultaneously proved to be difficult. How to communicate the more complex situation of a hidden second train?
Presenting the real situation is a dead end. Communication should not be an explanation of the technical situation nor a presentation of reality. The best solution is message saying somehow: This is a more complex and dangerous situation than usual. Just don't cross. This graphic does not need to match reality but should be understood instantly.
Heavisides, J.,Barrett, M. & Hesketh S.	, (2009).	Another train coming warnings at automatic level crossings	Third International Conference on Rail Human Factors, 3rd to 5th March, Lille, France.
Parker, S.A.	, (2002).	Second Train Coming Warning Sign Demonstration Projects	Research Results Digest. No 51.


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Abstract – In today's world due to ever increasing health consciousness and fitness the idea of building manual treadmill arises with some extra modification in the existing treadmill and with this, effort loss during exercise is also used for purpose of generation of electricity including a controller display circuit for showing parameters like timer, speed, distance, pulse rate and calories. With the provision of AC motor to the manual treadmill by means of gear transmission mechanism, the power is harnessed from the legs of the person performing exercise to the belt which is then transferred to the roller then to the AC motor by means of gear-pinion arrangement and electrical power so obtained is stored in battery by converting the AC current to constant DC by accommodation of bridge rectifier circuit.
of the AC motor starts moving or rotating it will produces emf across its output terminals. This generated emf can be used for charging of Battery or other purposes.
Roller is used to rotate the belt and used to reduce friction while walking or running and reduce the effort of a person and to produce maximum power.
Bearings are used to freely rotate rollers and to support the rollers to neglect friction. The bearings are pressed in rollers by means of punching press machine.
power to the AC motor to acquire desired current.
A Gear-Pinion arrangement is used wherein the pinion is coupled to the motor by means of adapter bush with variable nut-bolt size adjuster and gear is welded on the front roller.
The power from gear is then transmitted from roller to pinion and from pinion to motor shaft.
An AC motor is a device which is used as dynamo in the circuit arrangement for conversion of mechanical energy into electrical energy it is in direct couple with pinion by means of adapter bush to the AC motor.
where AC is converted to the Constant DC.
The provision of battery is made to store the current during the rotation of the motor which can then be used for further domestic purposes like illumination, rotating small motors, etc.
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commands embedded on circuit and showing the output on panel.
The same concept which is used in bicycle generator is used in treadmill generator for power generation in the form of electricity. In treadmill generator the AC motor is used for conversion of mechanical energy into electrical energy.
When the person operates the treadmill the power transmitted due to the effort so obtained is directly transferred to the rotor of AC motor which the actuates the emf due to which reverse current flows from motor to its output in form of electrical energy which is in the form of ac to make use of the energy so obtained is rectified to constant dc by means of bridge rectifier circuit to charge batteries and for lighting the led bulb or for other requirements.


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Q: ListBox SelectedItem issue. Showing Overridden ToString instead I have encountered an issue trying to get the SelectedItem in a ListBox. The Listbox is datasource bound to the list further down my example.
listBox1.DisplayMember = "StringPosition";
listBox1.ValueMember = "StringPosition";
listBox1.DataSource = MatchList;

private void listBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string curItem = listBox1.SelectedItem.ToString();
    MessageBox.Show(curItem);
}

When i run the program and select an item in the list rather than the MessaseBox showing the SelectedItem it shows the overridden ToString method in my custom class. Now the custom ToString method was just a leftover from the MSDN example and i don't actually need it. However even if i comment it out rather than the overridden ToString it will simply display Parser.SectorBodies which is my project namespace and the custom class. So how do i resolve this so i can get the selected item in my ListBox
static List<SectorBodies> MatchList = new List<SectorBodies>();

public class SectorBodies
{
    public int MatchCount { get; set; }
    public string StringPosition { get; set; }
    public string SolarSystemFileComment { get; set; }
    public string SolarSystemX { get; set; }
    public string SolarSystemY { get; set; }
    public string SolarSystemZ { get; set; }

    public override string ToString()
    {
     return
     "   Position: " + StringPosition +
     "   Count: " + MatchCount;
    }
}

A: You should rather do this. I did not get the time to test it but the SelectedValue should be string only so there should not be any need to do a ToString().
private void listBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string curItem = listBox1.SelectedValue.ToString();
    MessageBox.Show(curItem);
}

To show everything I'd try this as pointed out in one of the comments too. You can grab the entire object, cast it to your class. Then you have access to all what's in the object. Hope this works!
private void listBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        SectorBodies curItem = listBox1.SelectedItem as SectorBodies;
        MessageBox.Show(curItem.StringPosition);
    }

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A Judicial Hearing And Trump Rally Amidst A Pandemic Part 3!!!
Jim ClaytonOctober 15, 2020
On Day 3 of Amy Barrett's Supreme Court hearing, Ted Cruz made an interesting observation. He noted that only two democrat senators were present which told him Amy Barrett will be confirmed since they don't have any more questions for her. Senator Dick Durbin interrupted Cruz and said that because of the coronavirus many were staying in their office. Cruz didn't buy that answer saying "Well they were here yesterday."
Cruz said that they had so many questions on Obamacare yesterday he thought he was on a healthcare hearing, not a judiciary hearing. Cruz criticized the senators that said people will die without Obamacare or have no healthcare and nothing to care for people with pre-existing conditions. He said that was not rooted in reality and noted that under Obamacare profits in the healthcare industry have doubled and have been a great source of corporate welfare for the insurance industry and that premiums have risen to $7000 a year for most people and most people can't afford that. Cruz also noted that this has no bearing on Judge Barrett's decision.
Cruz went on to refer to an article Barrett wrote saying that felons should not vote. He said his dem counterparts are in favor of rapists, murderers and domestic abusers all should have the right to vote. Cruz, a constitutional lawyer himself, pointed out where it says in the constitution that people committing a crime have to forfeit their right to vote. Cruz said Judge Barrett would be amiss of her duties if she published an article like that and didn't read the constitution.
Cruz ended his comments with Judge Barrett by pointing out that Biden has refused to say whether he'd pack the court. Cruz said the Democrats have accused the republicans of doing that for the last three years. He said that is totally ridiculous because replacing court vacancies is not the same as packing the court.
Following Ted Cruz, Senator Amy Klobuchar had her chance to take a shot at Barrett like the day before. Klobuchar reiterated what she said the day before in that the goal of the Trump administration is to get rid of the ACA and rush it through by having this sham hearing as she calls it. She asked Barrett what she thought of voting by mail during a pandemic and Barrett replied that it was a matter of policy.
Well, that didn't sit well with Klobuchar who said with chagrin and smirking and waving her hand in the air, "That is part of our democracy." Hey Amy Klobuchar, displaying that kind of body language at a hearing before someone as respectful as Judge Barrett is very rude, crude, and disrespectful. That is no place for that kind of arrogant response.
Judge Barrett is holding up well at this hearing and commission head Lindsey Graham said he was very impressed with her and will see to it that she has a "seat at the table" meaning she will sit on the court.
Meanwhile, Democrats continue to act like petulant children over the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, only now they are not even trying to hide their childish tactics.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) admitted Sunday that he would not "supply quorum" as a way to block Barrett's nomination, The Daily Caller reported. "We will talk about when the actual vote occurs in committee and on the floor. Democrats will not supply the quorum," Schumer said during a press conference. "Period."
Per Senate rules, a minimum number of senators must be present to vote on the confirmation, so denying quorum is a simple but effective way to prolong the confirmation process.
Judge Barrett has two major anchors in her life: her faith and family. She's the mother of seven children, five she gave birth to, and two adopted from Haiti, and one might think the Left would applaud her for her compassion. However, some Liberals are calling her a "white colonizer" for adopting two black children.
Barrett is being hounded on how she'd rule on cases centered around Liberal issues like Obamacare and abortion.They accusing her of wanting to rip healthcare away from Americans. The judge has politely rebuffed all of them, even reminding them that Joe Biden's "Ginsberg rule" and the canon of ethics prohibit that line of questioning.
Earlier Tuesday, Barrett revealed that she expected a high level of scrutiny once her nomination to the Supreme Court was made official.
"I don't think it's any secret to any of you or to the American people that this is a really difficult, some might say excruciating, process," Barrett said in a morning interaction with Republican Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham. "And Jesse and I had a very brief amount of time to make a decision with momentous consequences for our family. We knew that our lives would be combed over for any negative detail, we knew that our face would be a caricature and we knew our family would be attacked."
As Laura Ingraham tweeted recently:
"In both intelligence and professional experience Judge Amy Coney Barrett is so far beyond every Democrat senator who is desperately trying and failing to trip her up."
In the evening President Trump headed out to Des Moine, Iowa for a Trump rally there. Arriving at a massive crowd of thousands from left to right Trump stepped off Air Force One and addressed the crowd starting out with the corruption of Joe Biden's son, Hunter, getting $183,000 a month from a Ukraine energy company with no experience and millions from China and three million from the wife of a Russian mayor all for access to his father. Emails show that Biden knew everything about his son's corrupt dealings. No administration has been more corrupt than the Obama Biden administration," Trump told the crowd, "Biden is so corrupt he shouldn't be allowed to run for president, but the media is protecting him.
Trump went on to say that Biden gave everything away to China: jobs, wealth. etc. "The Bidens got rich while Americans got robbed," Trump said. "If Biden wins China will own us,"
Trump warned the cheering crowd that Biden wants to increase your taxes to pay for their Green New Deal, take away your guns and open our borders. The radical left will run the country. They are addicted to power, "Biden also wants to cut Medicare and your social security and give it to illegals along with free healthcare and free education. The Trump recovery will become the Biden depression," Trump said.
Trump went on to explain his successes such as killing the head of ISIS, Al Bagdadi and Salem Solemani who killed, many of our soldiers, ending the endless wars in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan with all our soldiers being brought home by the end of the year or soon after and having a vaccine by the end of the year.
Trump said how we are now at 7.8% unemployment since the virus first hit and we've created 11.4 million new jobs since then. Trump urged the states to open up and send the kids back to school.
Trump intends to have 40 rallies between now and Election Day. On Thursday he will have a rally in Greenville, North Carolina at 1 pm then a town hall meeting at 8 pm. On Friday he has two rallies in Macon, Ga. and Ocala, Fla, followed by two rallies on Saturday in Michigan and Wisconsin.
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There are four concepts I connect regularly through my art: a need for sacred spaces, our collective engagement with screens, the relationship between an individual and her community, and intergenerational relationships. I create site-specific installations that create entanglements with the location and the people. My approach includes using materials that reference comfort. Fiber art practices feature prominently in my construction. In my research and in my practice, I strive to present ideas that create meaningful understanding of the role natural and built environments play in our lives. The outcomes are centered around creating community experience, designed to impact social change. I believe it is critical to create art experiences that can reach viewers at whatever level of understanding s/he has about material, process, and concept.
romy owens is an artist and curator living in Enid, Oklahoma. She makes site-specific installations, as well as smaller objects, in reaction to place, community, and transformation. Her curatorial work attends to a similar focus. Both owens' artistic and curatorial practices are presently centered around community art designed to impact social change, using art as a method to broaden our understanding of specific issues.
owens began her practice as an artist in 2006 and as a curator in 2009. She was selected as the first Emerging Curator for Momentum OKC (2009), the first Emerging Artist of the Year by the Paseo Art Association (2010), the first Artist in Residence (2012) at the Skirvin Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City, the first Curator in Residence of the Artist Invitational (2014-17) for Downtown OKC, Inc, and the first artist selected for the Artist Series at Leap Coffee Roasters. She has exhibited extensively with solo exhibitions and in group exhibitions.
In 2015, she completed The Unbearable Absence of Landscapes, a community-building site-specific installation at 108|Contemporary in Tulsa, which involved collaboration with 350+ knitters and seamers.
In 2016, she co-founded Current Studio with Kelsey Karper.
She is currently working on Under Her Wing was the Universe, an artist-led public art initiative in the City of Enid which creates a prairie, a pavilion, and a thousand stars.
Over the years, owens has worked with many Oklahoma organizations including Allied Arts, Arts Council Oklahoma City, Downtown OKC, Inc., Individual Artists of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Arts Council, Oklahoma City Public Schools, Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahomans for the Arts, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Paseo Arts Association, and Plaza District.
owens' art is part of private, public, corporate, and museum collections. She holds an MA in Photography and a BA in Media Studies.


Note: starting the Research Master in the spring semester (February) will mean that the programme is followed in a different order. We strongly advise students to set up their studyplan in consultation with the Coordinator of Studies before the start of the programme.
Students follow two Research Seminars within their specialisation.
Historical Theory is one of the common courses for the Research MA students. The course is only offered in the fall (September) semester.
Developing Research Proposals is the second of the common courses for the Research MA students, focusing on writing a research proposal. The course is compulsory and is only offered in the spring (February) semester.
The tutorial is part of the second (and third, if you follow a course abroad) semester. Students have to ask a member of staff active in the field of his/her specialisation to act as their tutor. See the Overview of Staff for a possible supervisor.
The tutorial is meant to carefully plan and prepare the student to write his/her thesis. During the tutorial you will explore the field and determine the subject and research question of your thesis. The tutorial is the mainstay of the research master's as it offers intensive, eye-to-eye discussions with one of Leiden's many specialists.
Research Schools courses offer training in both methodology and area specific knowledge. Research MA students choose courses at the Research Schools that relates most with their possible area of research. See the Overview of Research Schools for the possiblities.
Students follow two optional courses. All Research Seminars of the (Research) MA studies offered at level 500 or higher can be followed as optional course. These may comprise Research Seminars offered by Leiden University and those offered by other (foreign) universities. Alternatively, students can also opt for an internship. For more information about the different possibilities, see the specific Research MA Optional Courses page.
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1.1. To start using the Site, you must complete the registration process. To do this, you need to indicate your real e-mail address (to which you'll receive all notifications from the Site), User Name ("Nick" - the name under which you will be "seen" by other Site visitors), year, date of birth and password and confirm that you have read and accept the "Public Offer".
1.1.1. You can go through a quick registration via your account in one of the social networks, whose icons are located in the table on the left. It also will need to fill out the required fields of the registration form and accept the "Public Offer".
1.2. After completing the registration you will receive access to the personal account, will be able to create your own applications for delivery and transportation.
2.1. An Application in the "I need" section helps users find people who could bring the right thing from the point of planet Earth, where this thing is, to where a particular User wants it to be, or purchase it there, where it is on sale, and deliver it wherever it needs for specific User.
2.2. An Application in the "ready to deliver" section helps users find people who really need something to bring (or buy in the point of sale and bring) from where a specific User will be at a certain time, to where the User is planning to come.
2.3. On the home page you can (without a registration including) search for Users who need to deliver something or are willing to offer their services on Delivery.
2.4. Take a closer look: Application "I need"?
• buy something in a store in another country or city (GOODS) and bring to you.
• In addition, you can specify "application tags" placed immediately after your selection of "Trip frequency" (these tags should help Users to understand your needs or opportunities for the delivery of order), as well as accompany the application with a brief commentary and an image of delivered order.
2.5. Application "ready to deliver"
and earn some money) to carry anything from one city (country) to another, You can make a request "Ready to deliver." When the application should be made?
• It will not be difficult for you to pick the parcel up where you are (or planning to be) and carry it wherever you are going to come (come back).
• In addition, you can specify the "tags trip" placed immediately after you selection of "Trip Frequency" (these tags will help Users understand your conditions or the possibilities of delivery), as well as accompany the application with a brief commentary.
• Will place your application in "My applications and trips" section, where it will be available for editing and pause / resume.
4.1. In the section "My applications and trips" on the page of specific application you will see a list of people who could become your partners for the delivery (if you are "customer", you will see a list of applications "ready to deliver" from potential "couriers", if You are "courier", you will see a list of applications that require delivery).
4.2. If you at some point begin to doubt if you will trip or if you need a delivery, you can choose "Pause" in the settings of application. In this case, the application will still be stored on the Site, but it will not appear in search results, and you will not receive notifications of placement "counter" applications.
4.3. After the formation of requests, Users, ready to help with the delivery, have the opportunity to click "Can deliver" in a request of potential customer and notify the specific customer about their willingness, and Users, who need help with the delivery, in the applications of potential couriers are able to click "Ask to deliver" and notify the specific User of their interest.
4.4. Once a potential "customer" requested a "courier" about delivery or a potential "courier" informed a "customer" that he can carry out delivery, both Users (the potential "customer" and the potential "courier") have the opportunity to directly exchange electronic messages (on their potential partner's page there is a button "Send a message"). In messages Users can ask each other questions, exchange phone numbers, talk over all the details of future delivery. Please note: in search results on applications are not displayed real names (only "nicks"), phone numbers, email address! All contact details Users report to each other only by themselves!
4.5. Once you are associated with a specific User, you can leave a comment on his page (write a text message and tick "like" or "dislike". You may give your feedback either prior to delivery, or after its completion, but only once for each specific application. All the reviews about the User (you can follow the link by clicking on the word "Feedback"), as well as his score (the total number of "likes" and "dislikes") are displayed on the User's page under his avatar.
4.6. If you failed to agree with the User you chose about delivery or you would like to consider alternative options, you can choose any other User from the User list, which could become your partners for the delivery.
4.7. When choosing a future "customers" and "couriers" Users can focus on their activity (Link "Applications and trips") and "likes", left by other Users. Please note that counters of applications, visits and "likes" are merely contingent valuation of one Users to other ones, and CAN NOT ACT AS A GUARANTEE of reliability for the delivery of your partners.
5. What can be transported?
5.1. A definite answer to this question is quite difficult. Typically, this is all that is intended for personal use - new or forgotten items, books, stationery, animals (under certain conditions), and so forth. On the Site in "FAQ" section we have tried to describe the possible situations where you may need a delivery.
5.2. Be careful, especially if you carry out an international delivery! Each country has its own rules and regulations (on the level of laws including) on the import and export of goods, their weight, size and the customs value!
6. What is forbidden to carry?
6.1. All that is forbidden by law!
and OTHER! (This list is not exhaustive! Once again, please note that by accepting the delivery, it is necessary to familiarize yourself with the applicable laws and regulations of baggage).
6.3. Be very careful when transporting drugs! In most cases you will need to have on hand the documents confirming the lawfulness of their acquisition. In any case, the number of transported drugs should not exceed the limits of individual consumption!
7.1. "My applications and trips" - in this section are saved your requests for delivery and notification of planned trips, you can edit them and suspend / resume their activity.
7.6. Sections "About Us", "Why it is we" and "FAQ" - here we tried to simply and clearly available to tell you about ourselves, about our services, its capabilities and, alas, the pitfalls that may expect too credulous Users. But we very much hope that you carefully read our Terms and recommendations, and our Site for many years to become your reliable assistant in the world of personal transportation.
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If you've been paying attention to the local news even a little bit, you've probably noticed that Columbus has gained dozens of new bars and restaurants in the past year. We encourage you to check them all out, but unless you have unlimited time and funds, that's quite unreasonable.
Instead, refer to this list of the 12 best new bars and restaurants in Columbus that local blogger Beth Stallings of Sixonefork put together for national food and booze publication Eater.com.
LUPO is the new venture from La Tavola founders Rick & Krista Lopez, featuring carefully prepared Mediterranean dishes, paired with wines, cocktails, beers, and eclectic aperitivos.
Preston's is a Midwestern burger joint from Chefs Matthew Heaggans and Catie Randazzo. The beef is sourced locally and almost everything is made from scratch.
High Bank Distillery Company was founded by four partners and Columbus residents: Jordan Helman, Adam Hines, Calvin Jones and Jeff Ireland. High Bank's high end spirits are complimented by its elevated cocktail and food experience.
The Scottish brewery's first establishments away from the motherland are right here in Columbus, including BrewDog Franklinton and its amazing rooftop bar. Good food, good beer, good atmosphere.
Service Bar is a cocktail bar featuring modern American fare with a nostalgic twist. This new venture comes to us from Middle West Spirits, Ohio's award-winning craft distillery located in the Short North Arts District.
Kevin Crowley, former partner at Northstar Cafe, took his expertise in a new direction with Lox Bagels, serving hand rolled, boiled and baked bagels and bagel sandwiches in the Short North.
Harvey & Eds is a Cameron Mitchell restaurant, so quality and service are a guarantee. You can also expect the food, beverages, and ambiance of a classic New York Jewish delicatessen.
Veritas is a very unique restaurant that specializes in distinctive, delectable small plates. The bar program offers fine wines, spirits, and pre-Prohibition-style cocktails.
The Citizens Trust is a bar by the creators of Veritas, and also located right by Veritas. This beautiful bar's unique cocktails and architecture is unmatched in Columbus.
Take a walk on the wild side at Antiques on High to enjoy some sour and wild ales in the Brewery District. This is the sister brewery of Seventh Son Brewing.
Classic dinner party fare with updated ingredients and techniques from chefs and friends Catie Randazzo and Matt Heaggans—the same masterminds who brought us Preston's!
This vegan/vegetarian restaurant is part of the revitalization of Parsons Avenue. Comune presents plant-forward cuisine that is flavorful, satisfying, and sharable in an inviting atmosphere.


A year ago, I walked into the Vox Theatre thinking about photography. I met with Alistair and was hoping I could work with him as an intern learning all I could about how to take better pictures. Knowing I could never make a living at photography, I still wanted to improve what little skills I already had. Well a few months later I somehow convinced Alistair that I would be a better event manager than photography intern or assistant. So in February, I offically became the Event Manager of the Vox Theatre. If you don't believe it, I even have business cards that say it.
Not really knowing what an event manager does (I was a structural engineer in my former life) I had to quickly learn the ins and outs of event managing. Where to start?...the library and book stores...What to read?....Meeting & Event Planning For Dummies seemed appropriate . After reading through numerous books, I thought "Yep, I'm good. I can do this and it will be fun." I love weddings and I have planned many other events as a volunteer.
1. Paint - I have painted in the past but this past year has been the year of paint. It is one task I can do with out needing someone to help. Honestly, my painting skills really haven't improved!
2. Used a nail gun to install baseboards - again I have done this before, but never without injury, so I don't do this very often.
3. Caulk - it is amazing how caulk to span over a such large gaps.
4. Pull wiring for the new sound system - the sound system wiring is in the attic...it is much better to do in the winter than in the summer.
5. Clean - I have always hated cleaning. Now it is my responsibility to clean up after events and do general cleaning. Yuck! That is why I pushed to hire a cleaning company.
6. Saw - This is another task I don't do it much, because I'm an accident waiting to happen. Power tools and I don't get along.
7. Sew - I can sew. People have paid me to sew for them for years. I never expected to make curtains for Vox Theatre or repair a bustle for a bride because her guests kept stepping on her dress and she couldn't dance with it un-bustled.
8. Move tables on a weekly sometimes daily basis - I definitely do not need a gym membership. I get a good work out moving the tables that weigh almost as much as I do.
Even with these tasks that were not in the job description - IT HAS BEEN A GREAT YEAR! I have met many great people - my brides and grooms have been fabulous - my job is more fun than I imagined. I can't think of any better job for me.
Thanks Alistair for giving me such a great opportunity.


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DJ Khaled Confirmed To Appear In Hip Hop Survival Show "Kill Bill"
by Y. Shin
DJ Khaled will be joining upcoming hip hop survival program "Target: Billboard – Kill Bill"!
"Target: Billboard – Kill Bill" is a show in which seven artists will compete with their performances. The final winning "Kill Bill" that is chosen through this process will collaborate with a global artist and take on the Billboard charts.
On November 9, the "Kill Bill" production company revealed, "DJ Khaled has confirmed his appearance on [the show]. He will collaborate with the final winner of 'Kill Bill' and help them advance into the U.S. market. With DJ Khaled's addition [to the program] producing a top [cast] lineup, we have been able to create a blueprint to our ultimate goal of entering the American Billboard charts."
DJ Khaled entered the music scene in 2006 and has garnered worldwide attention for his connections and producing abilities. He's previously worked with Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, Lil Wayne, T.I., Akon, Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Baby, and countless other top artists. Notable tracks by DJ Khaled that have entered the Billboard charts include "I'm the One" and "We Takin' Over."
DJ Khaled expressed his excitement for the upcoming reality program on his social media account as he wrote, "My nickname is 'Billboard Billy.' The 'Kill Bill' winner and I will take over Billboard, and I'll be giving my full support for this."
Previously, Dok2, BewhY, Jessi, Cheetah, San E, Rhythm Power, and Yang Dong Geun (YDG) were announced to appear on "Target: Billboard – Kill Bill" as its seven contestants. Kim Jong Kook has been chosen as its MC.
"Target: Billboard – Kill Bill" is slated to premiere in January 2019 via MBC Music, MBC every1, and MBC Drama.
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In the fall of 1995, the NMC University Center opened its doors. The grand opening was made possible thanks to the efforts of over one hundred "Founders 21" community volunteers from northwestern Michigan with a vision of new educational opportunities for the Grand Traverse region.
Today, almost 20 years later, our university center continues to serve the community that founded it. Students can choose from over 50 degree programs without having to leave the Traverse City area. They can "start here" and "stay here" to complete their educational goals and improve their lives.
Congratulations to the UC staff and partners on 20 years of continuous service.
Read more about the founding of the NMC University Center in the NMC history book "Under the Pines: The Third Twenty Years."


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Q: Span matrix from relational table in R Often I use data stemming from a SQL database in R. Typically I do a lot of the juggling in SQL, but using plyr more and more recently I wondered whether it's easier in R to span a matrix from a relational data table. Here's an example.
I have a table like
id   question answer
 1        6      10
 1        4       1
 1        5     2003
 3        6       2

 #reproduce it with dput output:
 structure(list(result = c(1, 1, 1, 3), question = c(6, 4, 5,
 6), answer = c("10", "1", "2003", "2")), .Names = c("id",
 "question", "answer"), row.names = c("1", "2", "3", "4"), class = "data.frame")

and I would like to arrange as de-normalized matrix:
id question.6 question.4 question.5
1       10        1          2003
3        2

and so on..
I fixed this in SQL using a CASE WHEN syntax but can't manage to do it in R, for example like this:
  Select min((case when (question_id` = 6)
  then answer end)) AS `question.6`

A: dcast in reshape2 will do that work:
> z
  id question answer
1  1        6     10
2  1        4      1
3  1        5   2003
4  3        6      2
> dcast(z, id ~ question, value_var = "answer")
  id    4    5  6
1  1    1 2003 10
2  3 <NA> <NA>  2

A: Try this:
> tapply(DF[,3], DF[,-3], identity)
   question
id   4    5  6
  1  1 2003 10
  3 NA   NA  2


Its incredible to think that wire gate biners only hit the market about seven years ago such is their popularity today. Although the Wild Wire was not the first it became the first really big selling wiregate karabiner in the UK and its popularity today 6 years on, all across the globe, is a testament to its design. Simple, light and elegant to use, its smooth action and Techwire gate makes clipping a joy and its open shape and bow back sits neatly in the hand for all uses. As a hot forged biner its strength is re-assuringly good and the Techwire gate - one the best solutions for a wiregate - means that it has a big gate open measurement for easy clipping.


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The Plymouth Student Scientist
The Plymouth Student Scientist - Volume 10 - 2017
The Plymouth Student Scientist - Volume 10, No. 1 - 2017
Cast and investigate the characteristics of a high strength aluminium, copper and silver alloy
TPSS-2017-Vol10n1_143-165Couch.pdf (1022.Kb)
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Couch, J.
duralumin
hardness and strength
microstructure
This is an investigation into the effect of adding pure silver to a 'duralumin' type alloy and its impact on hardness and strength. The alloys were produced as small cuboid ingots by gravity casting into graphite molds and cooling in air. The silver content added ranged from zero to 10 per cent by weight. The following consecutive stages were used; casting; homogenisation, solution treatment, ageing for 2 hours and ageing for 4 hours. Post-casting the alloy ingots were heat treated simultaneously to ensure all samples had been subjected to the same conditions. After each stage of the investigation a slice was taken from each sample and mounted in Bakelite. The mechanical property of hardness was investigated by means of a Vickers hardness tester. The materials' microstructure was examined under both an optical microscope and a scanning electron microscope in order to further understand the mechanisms that had contributed to the increase in the material's strength. It was found that strength and hardness increased with silver content up to 10%. And a principle mechanism that caused this was the formation of precipitates in the materials' microstructure.
Couch, J. (2017) 'Cast and investigate the characteristics of a high strength aluminium, copper and silver alloy', The Plymouth Student Scientist, 10(1), p. 143-165.
http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/14142
University of Plymouth
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Q: Getting inputs from a single line using split, delim and parsing inputs for a dictionary I have a couple of questions:

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*Is there a better way to handle a single line input other than using split and arrays? How do I handle it in a better way for the various possibilities, like blank/empty inputs or if the expected pattern of input didn't happen as expected.

*It got me wondering why, in the little snippet, keeping skip jumps the inputs of the first for-loop, if I don't place this line of code.
 in.skip("(\r\n|[\n\r\u2028\u2029\u0085])?");
after the first input scanner for the n variable. It keeps omitting and won't work as intended.

*Validating the inputs or using the try with resources and do something if an error happens?
/*
* @About Assemble a phone book with map or dictionary
* This version is a modified code from HackerRank user RodneyShag
* @Author (Ricardo Garcia)
* @Version (19-7-2020/8:44am)
*/
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.HashMap;

public class Day8Dictionarys {
    public static void main(final String[] args) {
        Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
        int n = in.nextInt();// Number of inputs
        in.skip("(\r\n|[\n\r\u2028\u2029\u0085])?");
        HashMap<String, Integer> littlePhoneBook = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
            String temp = in.nextLine();
            String delims = "[ ]+";

    //Have to comment this part since it wont past the test
    //if (temp.isBlank()) {//check if the entry is blank
    //  System.out.println("It cant be a blank input");
    //  temp = in.nextLine();
    //}

            if (temp.length() > 1) {
                String a = temp.split(delims)[0];
                temp = temp.concat(" 0");//Force to include a 0 for array[1] after the split and parseInt, if there is not argument present, ex: "", " ", \n, empty or blank space.

                String b = temp.split(delims)[1];
                int c = Integer.parseInt(b);
                littlePhoneBook.put(a, c);
            }
        }

        while (in.hasNext()) {
            String s = in.next();
            if (littlePhoneBook.containsKey(s)) {//check the hashMap for the key and show on console
                System.out.println(s + "=" + littlePhoneBook.get(s));
            } else if (s.equals("exit")) {//exit the loop after writing the designate word.
                System.out.println("Thanks for your query, be back soon!");
                break;
            } else {
                System.out.println("Not found");
            }
        }
        in.close();
    }
}


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Home / Historical Portraits / Authors, Historians, Poets / Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex (1643-1706) was an English poet and courtier to Charles II
Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex (1643-1706) was an English poet and courtier to Charles II
Engraved on copper by Clamp and drawn by S. Harding after the original by Godfrey Kneller for 'Memoirs of Count Grammont' by Anthony Hamilton (c1645-1719) London 1793.
Copper engraving
Digital image size 3376 x 3978 px
28.6 cm x 33.7 cm (300 dpi)
Categories: Authors, Historians, Poets, Court of Charles II, Digital Images Only, Historical Portraits, Titled
George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster (1794-1842) English peer and soldier, the eldest illegitimate son of King William IV
Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780-1857) prolific French poet and songwriter, who has been described as the most popular French songwriter of all time
Thomas Cawton the elder (1605-1659) English clergyman


Crude oil price close on Friday at $49.95/BBL and decrease by 4.48%.
Crude started strong on gasoline stocks and memorial day long weekend and supported further during the week on bullish data of EIA inventories which as strong drawdown of 6.43 million barrel in Crude inventories & 1.7 million barrel on gasoline inventory.
However, Wednesday Crude Oil price sank 3% to settle at $50.31/BBL primarily due to increase in Libyan and Nigerian output, as both countries are exempt from production cut. Libyan's oil production reached to 827,000 BPD now.
Further blow to crude prices came from US pulling out from Paris Climate accord and strong oil production from US. As per BHI, the oil rig count rose 733, 11 this week and natural gas increased by 8, which total counts of 916.
Natural Gas in US kept moving north and closed at $3.00/MMBTU, a decrease of 4.76%.
The downward movement is initially due to cooler than expected weather forecast across United States.
The bearish sentiments got support from weekly EIA natural gas inventories data, which depicted an increase in working gas by 81 BCF from the previous week, highest weekly build up since June 2016.
Record amount of natural gas approximately 8.0 BCF from Marcellus and Utica shale is available to US market and further dampening the price sentiments.
NBP UK moved downward and closed at the equivalent of $4.79/MMBTU due to weaker demand as temperature forecast is warmer than seasonal normal plus resumption of Norwegian gas supply.
Dutch and French prices also moved downward on the same premise of weather forecast along with falling oil prices and healthy supplies from Norwegian and Russian pipeline gas supplies. TTF closed at the equivalent of $4.93/MMBTU and TRS France at $5.20/MMBTU on Friday.
Dollar remained stable to weak during the week and closed on seven month low primarily on data depicting slow US job growth.
US economy added 138,000 jobs far lower than the expected number of 185,000 jobd with unemployment rate fell to 4.3%, lowest in 16 years.
UD DXY was at 96.67 down by 0.55% on Friday.
Euro rose to 1.1280, up by 0.30% by Friday evening the increase is primarily bad performance of US $.
GBP closed at 1.2887, up by 0.03%, as polls indicated that Conservative Party hold a marginal lead over Labour party ahead of election on June 8.
European weather is remained warmer than seasonal normal and expected to follow the same pattern across Europe for next week.
Cooler temperature in Argentina and Brazil, with temperature range for Argentina is 15oC and Brazil around 30oC .
Mexico will be around 23 oC-27oC by Friday and expected to remain in the same range during next week.
Middle east is now in summer season with Egypt 35oC plus degrees, Kuwait City is between 40oC -45oC, and Dubai temperature around 38oC -41oC .
Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan & India around 35oC – 45oC, and will be in the same range next week.
Summer season in North East Asia, with temperature around 27oC -32oC in Taiwan, 28oC in Korea, China 25 oC-35oC, and Japan is around 29oC.
South East Asia already in hot weather with temperature in low 30oC.
USA Weather: Overall cold weather with temperature ranging between 25oC-30oC.
Overall LNG market is weak on over supply and subdued demand.
Asian LNG price kept lower this week on supply glut specially Gorgon LNG train 1 back online. JKM closed at $5.40/MMBTU.
Japanese inventories are full due to mild winter and cargoes are secured to June & July.
Overall demand is mostly covered and demand is expected from European region, where prices are high.
RWE received it first cargo from Qatar under the long term supply agreement of 1.1 MTPA via Q Flex Al Kharana at GATE Terminal Rotterdam, where RWE has long term contract.
Tender for one cargo for mid June loading is issue from Gorgon, whereas supply tenders are still not closed from Angola and Nigeria.
European markets specially Spanish market is still offering better netback in comparison with Asian spot markets.
European gas hub prices remained stable with NBP UK closed on $4.79/MMBTU, TTF at $4.93/MMBTU after reaching the peak of $5.14/MMBTU and pries remained in high $5.00 level in Spanish market.
France and Spain are still better market for US cargoes in term of netbacks in comparison with Asian and NW Europeans markets.
At current LNG price level, Nigerian and Angola producers will get better netback than US producer due to freight economics.
Spring weather with the expectation of few degrees lower in the coming week will put pressure on European gas prices.
Future prices at different European hub remain stable with no interest beyond July contracts, Q3 and winter contracts are getting interest in NBP and TTF.
Though not openly but North Easter Asian customers are reviewing long term LNG contract conditions specially from Middle East, this certainly means LNG is maturing into a commodity with much more liquidity.
Polish Minister believe that US LNG can reduce dominance on GAZPROM dominance as Poland is ready to receive it first LNG cargo from Cheniere by mid June 2017.
MOU has been signed between Indian Gujrat Gas Company and Petronet for gas marketing and LCNG, which means LNG in road tankers to CNG stations.
Eni will be developing a floating LNG liquefaction facility with estimated cost of USD 8 billion off the coast of Mozambique, the project will have production capacity of 3.4 MTPA and is expected to commission in 2022.
Saudi Arabia also planning to enter into LNG business through considering Yamal LNG and Artic basin in partnership with Russia.
Besides China, Japan is also keen in securing LNG cargoes from US through signing agreement during US Energy Secretary visit to Tokyo. Japanese companies are already keen in expanding LNG trade business specially the spot trade.
More LNG supply from Australia as Gorgon LNG Train 1 resumed production ahead of time, the train has an outage in Mid May and expected to be online in a month time. Train 1 and 2 has combine production capacity of 10.4 MTPA.
Poland has initiated a survey for a pipeline project, which can allow Poland to import 10 BCM of gas from Norway. Poland intend to replace all its gas procurement in 2022, once its long term gas supply deal with Gazprom expires.
This week 99 vessels carrying 61 million tons (183.95 BCF) loaded from various supply centres. An decrease of 0.62 million tons from last week.
Six vessels carrying 19.81 BCF departed from Nigerian port for European locations. Four are destined for Spain & France.
Algeria loaded one vessel carrying 1.53 BCF for Frances, whereas two vessels for European destinations, whereas one vessel loaded from Angola carrying 4.31 BCF.
PNG loaded one vessel, Spirit of Hela, carrying 3.59 BCF for China.
Pont Fortin, Trinidad & Tobago loaded two vessels with 5.66 BCF.
3 vessels loaded this week from Sabine Pass, USA with 10.36, one vessel is heading for Sines, Portugal.
One vessel departed from Russia carrying 3.01 BCF.
11 vessels left from Australian export terminals of Dampier, Darwin and Gladstone ports for Japan, China and Singapore carrying 35.30 BCF.
Middle Eastern terminals at Das Island (UAE) and Ras Lafan (Qatar) loaded 22 vessels carrying 67.76 BCF for Asian destinations. Three vessels destined for Indian ports carrying 10.42 BCF.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data.Entity;
using System.Data.Entity.Migrations;
using System.Linq;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
using EntityFramework.BulkInsert.Extensions;
using Shared.Repository.Contract;

namespace Shared.Repository
{
    public abstract class RepositoryBase<TEntityType, TDatabseType, TPrimaryKeyType> : IRepository<TEntityType, TPrimaryKeyType> where TEntityType  : class
                                                                                where TDatabseType : DbContext
    {
        private readonly Func<TEntityType, TPrimaryKeyType> _entityPrimaryKeyFunc;
        //Removed IDbSet as it is not implementing all the members we need http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31539750/why-theres-no-addrange-removerange-method-in-idbset-interface-in-entity-6
        private readonly DbSet<TEntityType> _dbset;
        private DbContext _dataDbContext;

        protected RepositoryBase(IDatabaseFactory<TDatabseType> databaseFactory, Func<TEntityType, TPrimaryKeyType> entityPrimaryKeyFunc)
        {
            _entityPrimaryKeyFunc = entityPrimaryKeyFunc;
            DatabaseFactory = databaseFactory;
            _dbset = DataContext.Set<TEntityType>();
        }

        protected IDatabaseFactory<TDatabseType> DatabaseFactory { get; }

        protected DbContext DataContext => _dataDbContext ?? (_dataDbContext = DatabaseFactory.Get());

        public virtual TEntityType Save(TEntityType entity)
        {
            var original = DataContext.Set<TEntityType>().Find(_entityPrimaryKeyFunc(entity));
            if (original != null)
            {
                DataContext.Entry(original).CurrentValues.SetValues(entity);
            }
            else
            {
                DataContext.Set<TEntityType>().Add(entity);
            }
            return entity;
        }

        //Will return ID from dbb
        public virtual TEntityType SaveAndCommit(TEntityType entity)
        {
            var original = DataContext.Set<TEntityType>().Find(_entityPrimaryKeyFunc(entity));
            if (original != null)
            {
                DataContext.Entry(original).CurrentValues.SetValues(entity);
                DataContext.SaveChanges();
            }
            else
            {
                DataContext.Set<TEntityType>().Add(entity);
                DataContext.SaveChanges();
                DataContext.Entry(entity).GetDatabaseValues();
            }
            return entity;
        }

#warning Will commit directly.  Bypasses unit of work.
        public virtual void AddRange(List<TEntityType> entities)
        {
            DataContext.BulkInsert(entities);
        }

        public virtual void Update(TEntityType entity)
        {
            DataContext.Set<TEntityType>().AddOrUpdate(entity);
        }

        public virtual void Delete(TEntityType entity)
        {
            _dbset.Remove(entity);
        }

        public virtual void Delete(Expression<Func<TEntityType, bool>> where)
        {
            var objects = _dbset.Where(where).AsEnumerable();
            _dbset.RemoveRange(objects);
        }

        public virtual TEntityType GetById(TPrimaryKeyType id)
        {
            return _dbset.Find(id);
        }

        public virtual IEnumerable<TEntityType> GetAll()
        {
            return _dbset.ToList();
        }

        public virtual IEnumerable<TEntityType> GetMany(Expression<Func<TEntityType, bool>> where)
        {
            return _dbset.Where(where).ToList();
        }

        public virtual bool Any(Expression<Func<TEntityType, bool>> where)
        {
            return _dbset.Any(where);
        }

        public virtual bool None(Expression<Func<TEntityType, bool>> where)
        {
            return !Any(where);
        }

        public TEntityType Get(Expression<Func<TEntityType, bool>> where)
        {
            return _dbset.Where(where).FirstOrDefault();
        }

        public IEnumerable<TEntityType> ExecuteQuery(string query, params object[] parameters)
        {
            return _dataDbContext.Database.SqlQuery<TEntityType>(query, parameters);
        }

        public IEnumerable<T> ExecuteQuery<T>(string query, params object[] parameters)
        {
            return _dataDbContext.Database.SqlQuery<T>(query, parameters);
        }

        public void ExecuteQueryAsAction(string query, params object[] parameters)
        {
            _dataDbContext.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand(TransactionalBehavior.EnsureTransaction,query, parameters);
        }

        public virtual IEnumerable<TEntityType> GetAutoCompleteItems(Expression<Func<TEntityType, bool>> where, int numberOfReturnValues)
        {
            return _dbset.Where(where).Take(numberOfReturnValues).ToList();
        }
    }
}

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