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New partnership to unlock offshore energy ambitions and protect the nation's marine environment
The Crown Estate and UK Government have today launched a new partnership to protect and restore the UK's precious marine environment, as the nation seeks to chart a course towards net zero emissions by unlocking the green energy potential of the UK seabed.
The partnership, called the 'Offshore Wind Evidence and Change Programme', will gather and harness data and evidence, to drive forward the growth of UK offshore wind, crucial for the sector as it gears up to meet Government's 2030 ambitions for 40GW of offshore wind.
The partnership will be led by The Crown Estate, which has committed to a five year £25m 'kick-starter' investment for the programme, alongside strategic partners: the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
Together with the devolved Governments, the unique collaboration will bring together more than 20 stakeholder organisations and support Government's wider efforts to develop a vision for the future of the offshore wind sector.
Over a five-year period, the Programme's strategic research and data projects will provide essential insights to help the sector better understand and address environmental considerations and interactions with other industries and activities, both around the coast and offshore. This will enable a more coordinated and strategic approach to the delivery of the new infrastructure required to deliver net zero emissions by 2050, ensuring the sector can deliver at pace while protecting the broader natural environment.
Dan Labbad, Chief Executive of The Crown Estate, said: "Recognising the crucial role of the nation's seabed on our path to net zero, I'm delighted to launch this new partnership which will help lay sustainable foundations for the next phase of the offshore wind success story, in a way which will help us to maintain healthy, biodiverse seas. The partnership will be at the centre of how we ensure a more coordinated approach to delivering the infrastructure that will be required to tackle climate change."
Energy Minister Kwasi Kwarteng said: "The UK is already a world leader in offshore wind energy and the Government's Ten Point Plan has laid out a bold ambition to lead the green industrial revolution by embracing innovative new technologies. Creating jobs and increasing capacity to 40GW by the end of this decade will be key to helping us reach our commitment for net zero carbon emissions by 2050, but safeguarding our precious marine environment remains a priority, which is why this partnership is so important."
Environment Minister, Rebecca Pow said: "It is important that we all work together to bring about change and reduce our contribution to climate change. Renewable energy plays a key role in this and as we work to increase renewable sources of energy we must ensure that our precious marine environment is protected at the same time. I am delighted that Defra is a part of this programme, providing expert advice relating to the growing calls on our marine space so that we can deliver offshore developments while protecting our unique marine resources".
Initial projects coming forward through the partnership, include:
East Coast Grid Spatial study, to be delivered with National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO), National Grid Electricity Transmission and The Marine Management Organisation. This will help build understanding of the interactions that future offshore wind farms on the east coast of England are likely to face when connecting into the electricity network and whether alternative approaches to connection can reduce community and environmental impacts.
Future Offshore Wind Scenarios project, a UK-wide study, to be delivered with Crown Estate Scotland and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which will develop and examine spatial scenarios, to better understand the opportunities for future offshore wind deployment.
The programme also brings together a steering group which includes: Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland government bodies, regulators including the Marine Management Organisation, non-governmental organisations such as RSPB and The Wildlife Trusts, and RenewableUK on behalf of the industry. Together these organisations will be committing their expertise, resources and, in some cases, funding to projects.
The partnership is borne out of last year's Offshore Wind Sector Deal, which aims to build on the UK's global leadership in offshore wind and maximise economic benefits across the whole of the UK.
In parallel, the partnership will also support the Government's 25-year Environment Plan, which set out its ambitions to restore nature within a generation, reversing the loss of marine biodiversity and, where practicable, restoring it.
For further information about the Offshore Wind Evidence and Change programme, visit here.


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Q: No such file or directory: 'build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6 during setuptools bdist_wheel I'm building extension with CMake
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where Cmakebuildclass is a custom class.
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It creates a temporary build directory where all artifacts get stored.
However, at the end I try to access it but it fails
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A: Temporary build directory [e.g. build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6] gets deleted once the targets are built.
It's copied over to the lib folder within build generally build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/
So use build_lib variable instead of build_temp
For code: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/e5fe509054183bed9aef42c92da8407d339e8af8/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py#L108
Details:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/e5fe509054183bed9aef42c92da8407d339e8af8/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py#L57-L60

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Bambili est une localité du Cameroun, située dans l'arrondissement (commune) de Tubah, le départementt du Mezam et la Région du Nord-Ouest. C'est aussi le siège d'une chefferie traditionnelle de  degré.

Population
Lors du recensement de 2005, on a dénombré  habitants à Bambili proprement dit et  dans le canton du même nom.

On y parle notamment le bambili-bambui, une langue des Grassfields.

Infrastructures

Bambili abrite une annexe de l'École normale supérieure de Yaoundé.

Notes et références

Annexes

Bibliographie
 Justin Arnold Mbazoa Omgba (et al.), « Évolution des activités agricoles dans les campagnes en pleine mutation de Bambili dans la Région du Nord-Ouest du Cameroun », in Samuel Aimé Abossolo, Joseph Armathé Amougou, Mesmin Tchindjang, Perturbations climatiques et pratiques agricoles dans les zones agroécologiques du Cameroun: changements socio-économiques et problématique d'adaptation aux bouleversements climatiques, Éditions Publibook, 2017,

Filmographie
 Femmes et hommes en milieu rural camerounais : rôles, tâches et responsabilités , film documentaire de Margaret Fombe Fube, 1995, 26 min (tourné à Bambili et Akum)

Liens externes
  Tubah, sur le site Communes et villes unies du Cameroun (CVUC)
   (Tubah Council)
  Tubah Council Development Plan, PNDP, January 2012, 201 p.

Village dans la région du Nord-Ouest (Cameroun)

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NSA,Keith Alexander,Israeli 9/11Terrorists, Kobi Alexander Spy On US And Europe
If it weren't bad enough the NSA and Pentagon traitor Keith Alexander is knowing ly in cahoots with Israeli money launderer Kobi Alexander he should be arrested immediately and questions asked shortly later about what he knew about Kobi Alexander and Odigo's hotline and pre 9/11 warning from Al Qaeda and why this message didn't go immediately to convicted Iraeli money launderer Menachem Atmon and his Shin Bet boys of ICTS International who were in control of Boston's Logan Airport that day
Why was Kobi Alexander Allowed to Flee? - Christopher Bollyn
www.bollyn.com/why-was-kobi-alexander-allowed-to-flee/
The Israeli Fugitive, Odigo, and the Forewarning of 9/11
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Criminally Insane:NSA,Keith Alexander Hires Israeli 9/11Terrorists To Spy On US And Europe
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Meanwhile the black Attorney General Eric Holder who has always been a white Jew wanna be and who who hardly qualifies to be called a real African American conducts his witch hunt against another American General Cartwright for being a whistleblower on the vey dangerous to us all NSA-Stuxnet virus program.:
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THE NSA: MADE IN ISRAEL
JUNE 27, 2013 AFP
• NSA expert exposes role of Unit 8200 in massive snooping op
By Victor Thorn
Despite denials by Google spokesmen that they willingly permitted any of their data to be mined, it appears they did allow the National Security Agency (NSA) to passively infiltrate their networks.
The missing link in this cyber-spying conundrum can be traced to two Israeli companies founded in the 1990s. According to a June 8 article by syndicated columnist and peace activist Richard Silverstein, "The NSA hired two secretive Israeli companies to wiretap the U.S. telecommunications network. Verint and Narus created programs which offered the NSA back-doors to all major U.S. technology companies, including Facebook, Microsoft and Google."
On June 9, investigative reporter Jon Rappoport cited James Bamford, author of three books on the NSA, to confirm the role of Verint and Narus. "They played a key role in developing and selling the technology that allowed NSA to deploy its PRISM spying program."
Even more interesting, Silverstein explained how the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) maintained a top-secret department called Unit 8200 which served as their version of our NSA.
"[Unit 8200] developed Stuxnet and Flame along with its colleagues in the NSA. Unit 8200 veterans founded numerous start-ups that commercialized their military applications for security use by companies and intelligence agencies."
One of these companies was Verint, which is conveniently owned by Comverse, an entity that, prior to 9-11, provided computers to the federal government which allowed them to install wiretapping equipment into practically every phone across the U.S. The ties go deeper. Former Comverse CEO Jacob "Kobi" Alexander also purchased the Odigo instant messaging service which alerted Jewish workers employed at the World Trade Center towers two hours before they were struck by airliners on September 11, 2001.
With these capabilities in mind, a June 7 Washington Post article contained this line: "98% of PRISM production is based on Yahoo, Google and Microsoft."
Google, it should be noted, is referred to in some quarters as a distinct branch of the government, especially since its CEO, Eric Schmidt, has developed a special relationship with Obama. According to White House advisor David Plouffe, "On election night [2012] he was in our boiler room in Chicago."
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/shady-companies-nsa/all/1
Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap the U.S. for the NSA
BY JAMES BAMFORD
The NSA's new super-secret 1-million-square-foot data center in Utah. Photo: Name Withheld
Army General Keith Alexander, the director of the NSA, is having a busy year — hopping around the country, cutting ribbons at secret bases and bringing to life the agency's greatly expanded eavesdropping network.
In January he dedicated the new $358 million CAPT Joseph J. Rochefort Building at NSA Hawaii, and in March he unveiled the 604,000-square-foot John Whitelaw Building at NSA Georgia.
Designed to house about 4,000 earphone-clad intercept operators, analysts and other specialists, many of them employed by private contractors, it will have a 2,800-square-foot fitness center open 24/7, 47 conference rooms and VTCs, and "22 caves," according to an NSA brochure from the event. No television news cameras were allowed within two miles of the ceremony.
Overseas, Menwith Hill, the NSA's giant satellite listening post in Yorkshire, England that sports 33 giant dome-covered eavesdropping dishes, is also undergoing a multi-million-dollar expansion, with $68 million alone being spent on a generator plant to provide power for new supercomputers. And the number of people employed on the base, many of them employees of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, is due to increase from 1,800 to 2,500 in 2015, according to a study done in Britain. Closer to home, in May, Fort Meade will close its 27-hole golf course to make room for a massive $2 billion, 1.8-million-square-foot expansion of the NSA's headquarters, including a cybercommand complex and a new supercomputer center expected to cost nearly $1 billion.
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The climax, however, will be the opening next year of the NSA's mammoth 1-million-square-foot, $2 billion Utah Data Center. The centerpiece in the agency's decade-long building boom, it will be the "cloud" where the trillions of millions of intercepted phone calls, e-mails, and data trails will reside, to be scrutinized by distant analysts over highly encrypted fiber-optic links.
Despite the post-9/11 warrantless wiretapping of Americans, the NSA says that citizens should trust it not to abuse its growing power and that it takes the Constitution and the nation's privacy laws seriously.
But one of the agency's biggest secrets is just how careless it is with that ocean of very private and very personal communications, much of it to and from Americans. Increasingly, obscure and questionable contractors — not government employees — install the taps, run the agency's eavesdropping infrastructure, and do the listening and analysis.
And with some of the key companies building the U.S.'s surveillance infrastructure for the digital age employing unstable employees, crooked executives, and having troubling ties to foreign intelligence services, it's not clear that Americans should trust the secretive agency, even if its current agency chief claims he doesn't approve of extrajudicial spying on Americans. His predecessor, General Michael V. Hayden, made similar claims while secretly conducting the warrantless wiretapping program.
Until now, the actual mechanics of how the agency constructed its highly secret U.S. eavesdropping net, code-named Stellar Wind, has never been revealed. But in the weeks following 9/11, as the agency and the White House agreed to secretly ignore U.S. privacy laws and bypass the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, J. Kirk Wiebe noticed something odd. A senior analyst, he was serving as chief of staff for the agency's Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center (SARC), a sort of skunkworks within the agency where bureaucratic rules were broken, red tape was cut, and innovation was expected.
"One day I notice out in the hallway, stacks and stacks of new servers in boxes just lined up," he said.
Passing by the piles of new Dell 1750 servers, Wiebe, as he often did, headed for the Situation Room, which dealt with threat warnings. It was located within the SARC's Lab, on the third floor of Operations Building 2B, a few floors directly below the director's office. "I walk in and I almost get thrown out by a guy that we knew named Ben Gunn," he said. It was the launch of Stellar Wind and only a handful of agency officials were let in on the secret.
"He was the one who organized it," said Bill Binney of Gunn. A former founder and co-director of SARC, Binney was the agency official responsible for automating much of the NSA's worldwide monitoring networks. Troubled by the unconstitutional nature of tapping into the vast domestic communications system without a warrant, he decided to quit the agency in late 2001 after nearly forty years.
Gunn, said Binney, was a Scotsman and naturalized U.S. citizen who had formerly worked for GCHQ, Britain's equivalent of the NSA, and later become a senior analyst at the NSA. The NSA declined Wired's request to interview Gunn, saying that, as policy, it doesn't confirm or deny if a person is employed by the agency.
Shortly after the secret meeting, the racks of Dell servers were moved to a room down the hall, behind a door with a red seal indicating only those specially cleared for the highly compartmented project could enter. But rather than having NSA employees putting the hardware and software together and setting up walls of monitors showing suspected terrorism threats and their U.S. communications, the spying room was filled with a half-dozen employees of a tiny mom-and-pop company with a bizarre and troubling history.
"It was Technology Development Corporation," said Binney.
The agency went to TDC, he says, because the company had helped him set up a similar network in SARC — albeit one that was focused on foreign and international communications — the kind of spying the NSA is chartered to undertake.
"They needed to have somebody who knew how the code works to set it up," he said. "And then it was just a matter of feeding in the attributes [U.S. phone numbers, e-mail addresses and personal data] and any of the content you want." Those "attributes" came from secret rooms established in large telecom switches around the country. "I think there's 10 to 20 of them," Binney says.
Formed in April 1984, TDC was owned by two brothers, Randall and Paul Jacobson, and largely run out of Randall's Clarkesville, Maryland house, with his wife acting as bookkeeper. But its listed address is a post office box in Annapolis Junction, across the Baltimore-Washington Parkway from the NSA, and thecompany's phone number in various business directories is actually an NSA number in Binney's old office.
The company's troubles began in June 1992 when Paul lost his security clearance. "If you ever met this guy, you would know he's a really strange guy," Binney said of Paul. "He did crazy stuff. I think they thought he was unstable." At the time, Paul was working on a contract at the NSA alongside a rival contractor, Unisys Corporation. He later blamed Unisys for his security problems and sued it, claiming that Unisys employees complained about him to his NSA supervisors. According to the suit, Unisys employees referred to him as "weird" and that he "acted like a robot," "never wore decent clothes," and was mentally and emotionally unstable. About that time, he also began changing his name, first to Jimmy Carter, and later to Alfred Olympus von Ronsdorf.
With "von Ronsdorf's" clearance gone and no longer able to work at the NSA, Randy Jacobson ran the company alone, though he kept his brother and fellow shareholder employed in the company, which led to additional problems.
"What happened was Randy still let him have access to the funds of the company and he squandered them," according to Binney. "It was so bad, Randy couldn't pay the people who were working for him." According to court records, Ronsdorf allegedly withdrew about $100,000 in unauthorized payments. But Jacobson had troubles of his own, having failed to file any income tax statements for three years in the 1990s, according to tax court records. Then in March 2002, around the time the company was completing Stellar Wind, Jacobson fired his brother for improper billing and conversion of company funds. That led to years of suits and countersuits over mismanagement and company ownership.
Despite that drama, Jacobson and his people appeared to have serious misgivings about the NSA's program once they discovered its true nature, according to Binney. "They came and said, 'Do you realize what these people are doing?'" he said. "'They're feeding us other stuff [U.S.] in there.' I mean they knew it was unconstitutional right away." Binney added that once the job was finished, the NSA turned to still another contractor to run the tapping operation. "They made it pretty well known, so after they got it up and running they [the NSA] brought in the SAIC people to run it after that." Jacobsen was then shifted to other work at the NSA, where he and his company are still employed.
Randall Jacobsen answered his phone inside the NSA but asked for time to respond. He never called back.
In addition to constructing the Stellar Wind center, and then running the operation, secretive contractors with questionable histories and little oversight were also used to do the actual bugging of the entire U.S. telecommunications network.
According to a former Verizon employee briefed on the program, Verint, owned by Comverse Technology, taps the communication lines at Verizon, which I first reported in my book The Shadow Factory in 2008. Verint did not return a call seeking comment, while Verizon said it does not comment on such matters.
At AT&T the wiretapping rooms are powered by software and hardware from Narus, now owned by Boeing, a discovery made by AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein in 2004. Narus did not return a call seeking comment.
What is especially troubling is that both companies have had extensive ties to Israel, as well as links to that country's intelligence service, a country with a long and aggressive history of spying on the U.S.
In fact, according to Binney, the advanced analytical and data mining software the NSA had developed for both its worldwide and international eavesdropping operations was secretly passed to Israel by a mid-level employee, apparently with close connections to the country. The employee, a technical director in the Operations Directorate, "who was a very strong supporter of Israel," said Binney, "gave, unbeknownst to us, he gave the software that we had, doing these fast rates, to the Israelis."
Because of his position, it was something Binney should have been alerted to, but wasn't.
"In addition to being the technical director," he said, "I was the chair of the TAP, it's the Technical Advisory Panel, the foreign relations council. We're supposed to know what all these foreign countries, technically what they're doing…. They didn't do this that way, it was under the table." After discovering the secret transfer of the technology, Binney argued that the agency simply pass it to them officially, and in that way get something in return, such as access to communications terminals. "So we gave it to them for switches," he said. "For access."
But Binney now suspects that Israeli intelligence in turn passed the technology on to Israeli companies who operate in countries around the world, including the U.S. In return, the companies could act as extensions of Israeli intelligence and pass critical military, economic and diplomatic information back to them. "And then five years later, four or five years later, you see a Narus device," he said. "I think there's a connection there, we don't know for sure."
Narus was formed in Israel in November 1997 by six Israelis with much of its money coming from Walden Israel, an Israeli venture capital company. Its founder and former chairman, Ori Cohen, once told Israel's Fortune Magazine that his partners have done technology work for Israeli intelligence. And among the five founders was Stanislav Khirman, a husky, bearded Russian who had previously worked for Elta Systems, Inc. A division of Israel Aerospace Industries, Ltd., Elta specializes in developing advanced eavesdropping systems for Israeli defense and intelligence organizations. At Narus, Khirman became the chief technology officer.
A few years ago, Narus boasted that it is "known for its ability to capture and collect data from the largest networks around the world." The company says its equipment is capable of "providing unparalleled monitoring and intercept capabilities to service providers and government organizations around the world" and that "Anything that comes through [an Internet protocol network], we can record. We can reconstruct all of their e-mails, along with attachments, see what Web pages they clicked on, we can reconstruct their [Voice over Internet Protocol] calls."
Like Narus, Verint was founded by in Israel by Israelis, including Jacob "Kobi" Alexander, a former Israeli intelligence officer. Some 800 employees work for Verint, including 350 who are based in Israel, primarily working in research and development and operations, according to the Jerusalem Post. Among its products is STAR-GATE, which according to the company's sales literature, lets "service providers … access communications on virtually any type of network, retain communication data for as long as required, and query and deliver content and data …" and was "[d]esigned to manage vast numbers of targets, concurrent sessions, call data records, and communications."
In a rare and candid admission to Forbes, Retired Brig. Gen. Hanan Gefen, a former commander of the highly secret Unit 8200, Israel's NSA, noted his former organization's influence on Comverse, which owns Verint, as well as other Israeli companies that dominate the U.S. eavesdropping and surveillance market. "Take NICE, Comverse and Check Point for example, three of the largest high-tech companies, which were all directly influenced by 8200 technology," said Gefen. "Check Point was founded by Unit alumni. Comverse's main product, the Logger, is based on the Unit's technology."
According to a former chief of Unit 8200, both the veterans of the group and much of the high-tech intelligence equipment they developed are now employed in high-tech firms around the world. "Cautious estimates indicate that in the past few years," he told a reporter for the Israeli newspaperHa'artez in 2000, "Unit 8200 veterans have set up some 30 to 40 high-tech companies, including 5 to 10 that were floated on Wall Street." Referred to only as "Brigadier General B," he added, "This correlation between serving in the intelligence Unit 8200 and starting successful high-tech companies is not coincidental: Many of the technologies in use around the world and developed in Israel were originally military technologies and were developed and improved by Unit veterans."
Equally troubling is the issue of corruption. Kobi Alexander, the founder and former chairman of Verint, is now a fugitive, wanted by the FBI on nearly three dozen charges of fraud, theft, lying, bribery, money laundering and other crimes. And two of his top associates at Comverse, Chief Financial Officer David Kreinberg and former General Counsel William F. Sorin, were also indicted in the scheme and later pleaded guilty, with both serving time in prison and paying millions of dollars in fines and penalties.
When asked about these contractors, the NSA declined to "verify the allegations made."........
But the NSA did "eagerly offer" that it "ensures deliberate and appropriate measures are taken to thoroughly investigate and resolve any legitimate complaints or allegations of misconduct or illegal activity" and "takes seriously its obligation to adhere to the U.S. Constitution and comply with the U.S. laws and regulations that govern our activities."
The NSA also added that "we are proud of the work we do to protect the nation, and allegations implying that there is inappropriate monitoring of American communications are a disservice to the American public and to the NSA civilian and military personnel who are dedicated to serving their country."
However, that statement elides the voluminous reporting by the New York Times, Washington Post,USA Today, Los Angeles Times and Wired on the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program. Also not reflected is that in the only anti-warrantless wiretapping lawsuit to survive the government's use of the"state secrets" privilege to throw them out, a federal judge ruled that two American lawyers had been spied on illegally by the government and were entitled to compensation.
So take the NSA's assurances as you will.
But as NSA director Alexander flies around the country, scissors in hand, opening one top-secret, outsourced eavesdropping center after another, someone might want to ask the question no one in Congress seems willing to ask: Who's listening to the listeners?
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Q: Column Type for XML Data in JPA I'm using JPA with Hibernate and need to store smallish XML data(at most 500 characters) in the database.
I don't need to query XML data, that is, XML data will never be part of WHERE clauses.
What data type should I use for this?

A: Annotate your property with @Lob or use type="clob".

@Lob indicates that the property should be persisted in a Blob or a
  Clob depending on the property type: java.sql.Clob, Character[],
  char[] and java.lang.String will be persisted in a Clob.
  java.sql.Blob, Byte[], byte[] and serializable type will be persisted
  in a Blob.

Source / Oracle docs
You might also consider using lazy loading for this kind of data @Basic(fetch = FetchType.LAZY).

A: I don't think there's a reason to use LOB here since 500 is your max length.  One option is to simply map a string to the column and parse the XML type externally.
Another option is to use the hibernate specific annotations to map external types - http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/annotations/3.5/reference/en/html_single/#d0e2794

A: XML is a text based format, and it is not a bad practice to store it in database, Microsoft SQL Server even has an XML data type. So, if you are using Microsoft SQL server you can use it. Please find more information on the below link from msdn:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh403385.aspx

For, other databases as well, it is a good idea to store it in text format in varchar or nvarchar because in future if you want to query the database and process XML it would be very handy.


Most traders note that recently markets have changed dramatically; they have become more chaotic and less predictable. Volatility has increased as well as risks. Classical methods of trade, that brought profit ten or twenty years ago, now cease to work under the current conditions.
Thus, traders who focus on trying to predict the direction of the market are often doomed to failure. Therefore, the question concerning the existence of such trade methods becomes increasingly important, which allows us to receive a relatively stable income, regardless of the general market situation. In this article, we will talk about one of these approaches called spread trading.
Spread trading differs from the classic methods of trading on Forex. This way of working makes it possible to receive a constant income regardless of market conditions and whether you decide on choosing the best forex trading platform or not.
Spread is the difference between the bid and asking prices. It may seem strange, but trading a spread on forex can mean buying a basket of platinum and simultaneously selling a basket of silver, or soybeans and products from them (eg. soybean oil and soy flour), or buying oil and selling petroleum products.
The most important thing in trade spreading is to correctly choose a pair of tools that will make up the spread. It is important that the difference between their prices change most of the time in a certain period. Therefore, they try to select tools with high correlation and similar characteristics, for example, securities of one company from different stock exchanges, or futures on different execution dates, or securities of companies / enterprises from one industry.
● Equivalent arbitrage (they trade in related instruments, where the price of one is linearly dependent on the price of the other, for example, the share is a depositary receipt).
If the spread is done correctly, then it becomes more profitable to trade with them than with individual instruments. Spread behavior is more predictable than the behavior of individual instruments since on similar financial instruments, market factors operate synchronously, and synchronous decline or synchronous growth occur.
Use spread trading to increase your profits today!


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from projectfiles.random_deck_generator import RandomDeckGenerator
from hearthbreaker.engine import Deck, card_lookup, Game
from hearthbreaker.agents import *

import numpy as np

class StatePairFeatureExtractor:
	def __call__(self, state, next_state):
		raise NotImplementedError("")

	def get_initial(self):
		generator = RandomDeckGenerator()
		deck1 = generator.generate()
		deck2 = deck1.copy()
		game = Game([deck1, deck2], [RandomAgent(), RandomAgent()])
		return np.zeros(self.__call__(game, game).shape)

	def debug(self, extracted):
		raise NotImplementedError("")

class StateFeatureExtractor:
	def __call__(self, state):
		raise NotImplementedError("")

	def get_initial(self):
		generator = RandomDeckGenerator()
		deck1 = generator.generate()
		deck2 = deck1.copy()
		game = Game([deck1, deck2], [RandomAgent(), RandomAgent()])
		return np.zeros(self.__call__(game).shape)

	def debug(self, extracted):
		raise NotImplementedError("")

def resource(player):
	resources = {}
	minion_stats = [(minion.calculate_attack(), minion.health) for minion in player.minions]
	minion_stats.sort()
	for i, minion in enumerate(minion_stats + [None] * (8 - len(player.minions))):
		if minion is not None:
			attack, health = minion
		else:
			attack, health = 0, 0
		resources['minion-%d-attack' % i] = attack
		resources['minion-%d-health' % i] = health
	resources['minion-total-attack'] = sum(attack for attack, health in minion_stats)
	resources['minion-total-health'] = sum(health for attack, health in minion_stats)
	resources['minion-count'] = len(player.minions)
	resources['hero-health'] = player.hero.health
	resources['hero-armor'] = player.hero.armor
	resources['combined-health'] = resources['hero-health'] + resources['minion-total-health']
	resources['mana'] = player.mana
	resources['max-mana'] = player.max_mana
	# resources['current-overload'] = player.current_overload
	# resources['upcoming-overload'] = player.upcoming_overload
	resources['deck-cards'] = len(player.deck.cards)
	resources['hand-cards'] = len(player.hand)
	# resources['fatigue'] = player.fatigue
	resources['spell-damage'] = player.spell_damage
	resources['spell-multiplier'] = player.spell_multiplier
	resources['heal-multiplier'] = player.heal_multiplier
	resources['heal-does-damage'] = player.heal_does_damage
	# resources['cards-played'] = player.cards_played
	return resources

def diff(a, b):
	feats = {}
	for k in a.keys():
		feats[k] = a[k] - b[k]
	return feats

def prefix_update(a, b, prefix):
	for k in b.keys():
		a[prefix + k] = b[k]

class RelativeResourceExtractor(StatePairFeatureExtractor):
	def __init__(self):
		self.keys = None

	def __call__(self, game, next_game):
		player = game.current_player
		oppo = player.opponent
		player_next = next_game.current_player
		oppo_next = player_next.opponent
		if player.name != player_next.name:
			player_next, oppo_next = oppo_next, player_next
		# print("EXTRACT", player.name, player_next.name, oppo.name, oppo_next.name)
		assert(player.name == player_next.name)

		feat = {}

		player_r, player_next_r = resource(player), resource(player_next)
		oppo_r, oppo_next_r = resource(oppo), resource(oppo_next)
		player_gain = diff(player_next_r, player_r)
		oppo_gain = diff(oppo_next_r, oppo_r)
		# relative_gain = diff(diff(player_next_r, player_r), diff(oppo_next_r, oppo_r))

		prefix_update(feat, player_r, 'player-')
		prefix_update(feat, player_next_r, 'player-next-')
		prefix_update(feat, oppo_r, 'oppo-')
		prefix_update(feat, oppo_next_r, 'oppo-next-')
		prefix_update(feat, player_gain, 'player-gain-')
		prefix_update(feat, oppo_gain, 'oppo-gain-')
		# prefix_update(feat, relative_gain, 'relative-gain-')

		if self.keys is None:
			self.keys = list(feat.keys())
			self.keys.sort()

		return np.array([feat[key] for key in self.keys], dtype=np.float64)

	def debug(self, weights):
		if self.keys is None:
			self.get_initial()

		vals = [(val, i) for i, val in enumerate(list(weights))]
		vals.sort(key=lambda x: abs(x[0]), reverse=True)

		for val, i in vals[:10]:
			print(self.keys[i], ":", val)

class ResourceExtractor(StateFeatureExtractor):
	def __init__(self):
		self.keys = None

	def __call__(self, game):
		player = game.current_player
		oppo = player.opponent

		feat = {}

		player_r = resource(player)
		oppo_r = resource(oppo)

		prefix_update(feat, player_r, 'player-')
		prefix_update(feat, oppo_r, 'oppo-')

		if self.keys is None:
			self.keys = list(feat.keys())
			self.keys.sort()

		return np.array([feat[key] for key in self.keys], dtype=np.float64)

	def debug(self, weights):
		if self.keys is None:
			self.get_initial()

		vals = [(val, i) for i, val in enumerate(list(weights))]
		vals.sort(key=lambda x: abs(x[0]), reverse=True)

		for val, i in vals[:10]:
			print(self.keys[i], ":", val)

class SimpleExtractor(StateFeatureExtractor):
	def __init__(self):
		pass

	def __call__(self, game):
		player = game.current_player
		attack = 0;
		health = 0;
		for i in player.minions:
			attack += i.calculate_attack()
			health += i.health
		feat = [attack, health]
		feat.append(len(player.hand))
		feat.append(player.hero.health + player.hero.armor)
		feat.append(player.game.other_player.hero.health)
		return np.array(feat, dtype=np.float64)

	def get_initial():
		return np.zeros((5, ))

	def debug(self, weights):
		print(weights)

class PearExtractor():
	def __call__(self, game):
		player = game.current_player
		oppo = player.opponent
		feat = []

		# add my own information
		count = 0
		tmp = []
		for i in player.minions:
			tmp.append([i.calculate_attack(), i.health])
			count += 1
		tmp.sort()
		for i in tmp: feat += i
		for i in range(0, 8 - count): feat += [0, 0]
		feat += [(player.hero.health + player.hero.armor) / 5]
		feat += [len(player.deck.cards) / 5, len(player.hand) / 2]

		# add opponent's information
		count = 0
		tmp = []
		for i in oppo.minions:
			tmp.append([i.calculate_attack(), i.health])
			count += 1
		tmp.sort()
		for i in tmp: feat += i
		for i in range(0, 8 - count): feat += [0, 0]
		feat += [(oppo.hero.health + oppo.hero.armor) / 5]
		feat += [len(oppo.deck.cards) / 5, len(oppo.hand) / 2]

		return feat

	#def debug(self, weights):
	#	print(weights)

	# this is now saved in linear_pear_extractor_model, no need for the hack
	# def get_initial(self):
		# return np.array([0.026,0.007,-0.004,0.046,0.005,-0.021,0.052,0.003,\
		# -0.001,0.036,0.003,0.080,0.021,0.008,0.089,0.082,-0.028,\
		# -0.100,0.025,-0.009,0.037,0.004,0.018,-0.019,-0.010,0.014,-0.025,-0.005,\
		# 0.014,-0.039,-0.007,0.008,-0.020,-0.007,-0.073,\
		# -0.032,-0.004,-0.016,-0.038,-0.014,0.059,-0.032,0.011,-0.056,-0.003,-0.022])

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Q: Make sure async methods execute in same order as they were called Let's say I have 3 async methods which all do the same thing: send some data to a server and add the response data to an array (all of them add to the same array).
I call these methods at the same time, but they send different amounts of data to the server.
If the first method sends more data to the server than the third method, the third method will get the response back sooner, thus add the data to the array sooner. The response data consits of coordinates, so the order in which they are in the array matters.
How can I make sure, that even if the third method gets the repsonse sooner than the first or the second one, it won't add the data to the array before the previous methods did? Thus, preserving the order of the coordinates in the array.
The methods are NSURLConnections and they all send an async request.
EDIT: Here is the working code:
 //Array of snapped points from the JSON
            NSArray *snappedPoints = [result objectForKey:@"snappedPoints"];

            NSMutableArray *locationsArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];

            //Loop through the snapped points array and add each coordinate to a temporary array
            for (int i = 0; i<[snappedPoints count]; i++) {
                NSDictionary *location = [[snappedPoints objectAtIndex:i] objectForKey:@"location"];

                double latitude = [[location objectForKey:@"latitude"] doubleValue];
                double longitude = [[location objectForKey:@"longitude"] doubleValue];

                CLLocation *loc = [[CLLocation alloc] initWithLatitude:latitude longitude:longitude];

                [locationsArray addObject:loc];

            }

            //Add these temporary location arrays to the dictionary with the key as the request number
            [tempLocationDictionary setObject:locationsArray forKey:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i",requestNumber]];

            //If all requests have completed get the location arrays from the dicitonary in the same order as the request were made
            if([tempLocationDictionary count] == numberOfRequests){

                //Just a path because I am drawing these coordinates on a map later
                GMSMutablePath *path = [GMSMutablePath path];

                //Loop through the dictionary and get the location arrays in the right order
                for (int i = 0; i<[tempLocationDictionary count]; i++) {
                    //Create a dummy array
                    NSArray *array = [tempLocationDictionary objectForKey:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i",i+1]];

                    //Get the coordinates from the array which we just got from the dictionary
                    for (CLLocation *location in array) {
                        [path addCoordinate:location.coordinate];

                    }
                }

A: One way would be to replace NSURLConnection with NSURLSession and its related classes. It's newer and generally a superior choice. For your specific situation, it's possible to use a custom NSURLSessionConfiguration where you would set HTTPMaximumConnectionsPerHost to 1. That way the connections would be forced to run in order, solving your problem.
Of course, not having simultaneous connections might slow things down. In that case you'll have to accumulate the data temporarily without adding it to your array and only update the array when all the connections are complete. There are various ways you might do this depending on exactly what data comes back from the server.
One relatively simple way: If you know you'll always have three connections, use an NSMutableDictionary with integer NSNumber objects as the keys. After each connection you'd do something like
mutableDictionary[@1] = // your server data here

Use @2 or @3 for the other connections. Every time you add data, check to see if you have results for all three, and if so, add everything to your array. There are lots of other ways around this, the key is to have some kind of temporary structure where you can (a) accumulate data until all the connections are complete, and (b) keep track of which data came from which connection, either simply by number, or by URL, or by some other unique data that the server provides.

A: This is a problem to be solved with NSOperationQueue and dependencies.
Check out Advanced NSOperations [transcript] from WWDC 2015:

When the WWDC app starts up, there's a bunch of setup that we need to do.
First, we are going to download a small configuration file, and this file will tell us small things like what's the most recently supported version of the application, what features we have enabled, and so on.
So after we download this file, we are going to perform a version check to make sure that you are running the latest version of the WWDC app.
And then after we check the version of the app, we can start downloading useful pieces of information, such as the news that we show in the News tab and the schedule for the conference.
After we've downloaded the schedule, then we can start importing any favorites that you've saved to iCloud, any feedback that you've submitted so you can see it in the app, and we are also going to start downloading the list of videos.

Applying dependencies as they describe for these operations should sort you nicely.


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Death Grips released their 3rd album yesterday without any warning. I'm into my second playthrough and so far, so good. This is still really violent and dark music, but somehow I feel Government Plates is lighter, diverse and more upbeat than any of their previous albums.


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Education is without a doubt important and everyone is attending school from elementary all the way through high school. Then after graduation, some are going to university or college to pursue their degree. There is no problem going to a good university or college to get education but the real challenge is that, it is expensive to pay for such prominent school. according to this website someone who has graduated college might be paying off their college loans for the next 20 years, sometimes longer.
Having said that, if you want to move on with your career and secure success, then it will be very smart to attend to a trade school. Vocational schools or technical or trade school are growing in popularity as an alternative to college and job training. Read more because the next lines, you're going to learn about the benefits of going to a trade school.
Number 1. Cost – this is pretty obvious and more significant with the current status of our economy. With trade schools, you'll roughly spend just 1/8 of the cost for a 4-year college degree and at the same time, there's nothing else you have to worry that part of your salary will only go to paying student loans.
Number 2. There's a job waiting for you – with vocational schools, you can get the exact set of skills needed for the job after graduation. Majority of the vocational schools even have job placement programs that are set up with jobs after the student has graduated. If you're still skeptical, there are many other info that can help you to learn more.
Number 3. Hands-on training – tech schools teach students everything they ought to know and not give extra stuff compared to colleges. You will not have to pay for general educations or pre-major subjects that later in the future you won't even need. Here, you will be paying for the type of training that you only need to be able to prepare you in the future. Click here to discover more.
Number 4. Job security – many of the programs being offered at trade schools basically are designed for careers that have to be done in person, by people who are closest. Jobs like truck drivers, electricians, welders and such are performed by accessible people.
Having a career in any of these trades are sure to give you security knowing that your job won't be outsourced overseas or will be replaced by machine.
Number 5. A bright future – after graduation, you can almost immediately start with your career and make money. You'll be in demand and won't need to worry on getting jobs as your service is always needed.
As a professional and as a person, this plays a big role in your career and future.


Please note this is the fifth in a series of posts on QuickBooks Software Point of Sale by our staff Point of Sale expert, Leah Swain.
People love the cookies and want to share them with their families! Soon customers begin asking for the recipe and purchase the ingredients from Nellie. She is tired of finding the items each time and scanning every item. She decides to put all the ingredients together in a fancy basket with a recipe card and sell it as a whole set. QuickBooks Software Point of Sale to the rescue! She can create a Group Item for the baskets and not have to open them to scan each ingredient at the checkout.
Manually create a new group item by selecting Group in the item type field.
Ener the information for the group item name, department, item description, regular price and cost.
In the item list highlight the group item you just created. Click show details in the upper right-hand corner.
Enter in the items that will be grouped into the bundle. Save.
This item will be ready for sale. Unlike Assembly items they do not need to be built or broken to be available on hand.
Nellie has her department running smoothly, things couldn't be better! Jonas on the other hand has seen what progress has been made and decides he needs to streamline the Men's apparel side. When he entered the Fall apparel for men he used the Vendor UPC File for importing. It saved him a lot of time, however he now realizes he made a mistake. When the file came over from the vendor it had the item number as the SKU, color code, and size all combined. This generated several items for one style of shirt and they are all named separately! This causes a major issue when he tries to change prices. Instead of updating one Item he has to update dozens, each size of each color of each style! He wishes he could edit them all at once. To do this he needs to edit or remove the items and re-enter them into a style grid.
Read on for our next post on how Nellie creates a style grid.


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Garvin Davis (born 1 May 1947) is a Bahamian boxer. He competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1972 Summer Olympics. At the 1972 Summer Olympics, he lost to Maurice Hope of Great Britain.

Davis also represented the Bahamas at the 1974 Central American and Caribbean Games in the welterweight category.

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1947 births
Living people
Welterweight boxers
Bahamian male boxers
Olympic boxers of the Bahamas
Boxers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Competitors at the 1974 Central American and Caribbean Games
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How It Ended: The Definition of Denouement
Written by: Adam "ManKorn" Korenman, CC2K Video Games Editor
For many gamers (read: people on the Internet with too much time and anonymity) the ending to a particular title can ruin not just that singular gaming experience, but the franchise as a whole. Look no further than the controversial Mass Effect Trilogy to see just how a single story choice can retroactively ruin hundreds of hours of play time.
This phenomenon is not limited to video games, of course. Many fans of How I Met Your Mother refuse to watch the reruns after the lackluster finale. Same for the millions of people who suffered through LOST. But let's face it: Ending a story that has taken so long to tell is a daunting challenge.
It's a proven fact that the shorter the story, the easier it is to find a good ending. This is why no one likes your jokes at work (I'm looking at you, Karen. Seriously, you think we are all interested in how many times your fish tried to eat bubbles?) Getting to the ending quickly guarantees that the audience remains invested in the characters and the plot. In a two-hour movie, this is relatively simple. As long as your character is somewhat likable, you'll be fine.
TV tries to get around this by making the protagonist funny or charming–like White Collar or Sherlock–or just a solid bad ass–24. Or you can go the route of the CW and just make your characters conventionally attractive automatons who get into the same stupid high school drama we've seen again and again. (I'm looking at you, Vampire Diaries / Reign / every CW show in existence).
Video games have to do more than that. A movie trilogy only absorbs you for twelve hours tops (16 if you're Peter Jackson). A television series, even an especially long-legged one, can take 90 hours. Games boast play times of up to 300 hours. That's a not-insignificant portion of your life spent in someone else's world living someone else's life. It's very difficult to find a genuinely satisfying denouement.
Author: Adam "ManKorn" Korenman, CC2K Video Games Editor


A cold front pushed through during tennis tonight, creating a blustery evening!
Sam shops in her first "record" store. Came home with The Doors, The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix.
Awesome North Carolina weather returned, so I headed to the Owls Roost trail in Greensboro for a long mountain ride (OK loops) Great day in the saddle followed by 2 more hours of tennis!
A busy day. The family left in the morning, so we cleaned a bit, took recycling, etc. Then I got a ride in before a couple of hours of tennis to wrap up the day. (I also posted my dog pen for sale, Kodak hasn't used it in over a year.
After Christmas diner, we drove around looking at the lights.
My favorite – Santa outhouse.
Deb was very impressed by the rice presentation!
Where's the kaboom? There is supposed to be an Earth shattering kaboom!
Sam makes homemade spaghetti for Christmas Eve dinner.
My Christmas Abode is set up.
Lots of walking back to the Cruiser as I ran errands, went for a ride, played tennis…. good day!
What better day than Winter Solstice to ride?


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Q: inline function issue in c I have a large C project build in Visual Studio 2010. I have declared one of the function as inline, which is called more often. I have declared function pdebug as:
void inline pdebug(int debug_mask,int level,char *format,...);

in debug.h and its definition in debug.c in the same directory.
The files which uses this function pdebug, i have done #include<debug.h>.
Compilation fails with these errors:
debug.h(13): error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'pdebug'
debug.h(13): error C2059: syntax error : ';'
debug.h(13): error C2059: syntax error : 'type'

A: I think you compile the code as "C" and Visual Studio supports inline only in C++.
From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z8y1yy88.aspx

The inline keyword is available only in C++. The __inline and __forceinline keywords are available in both C and C++. For compatibility with previous versions, _inline is a synonym for __inline.

And of course, see the other answers for th correct order.
But ...
You seem to have this function with variadic parameters ... inlinining a function like this is not recommended (by me, but I'm not an expert in this), because depending on compiler settings your code will grow to tremendous size (if the compiler really decides that it will inline this). Inline is perfect for small functions, which are not made up of several statements. Inlining big functions will possibly result in big code.

A: It should be inline void pdebug not void inline pdebug.


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using std::swap;

template <typename T>
class xalloc {
public:
    using size_type = size_t;
    using difference_type = ptrdiff_t;
    using pointer = T*;
    using const_pointer = const T*;
    using reference = T&;
    using const_reference = const T&;
    using value_type = T;

    template <class Other>
    struct rebind {
        using other = xalloc<Other>;
    };

    pointer address(reference ref) const { return &ref; }
    const_pointer address(const_reference ref) const { return &ref; }

    xalloc() = default;
    xalloc(const xalloc<T>&) = default;

    template <class Other>
    xalloc(const xalloc<Other>&) {}

    template <class Other>
    xalloc& operator=(const xalloc<Other>&) {
        return *this;
    }

    pointer allocate(const size_type n, const void* p = nullptr) const { return xr_alloc<T>(n); }

    void deallocate(pointer p, const size_type) const { xr_free(p); }

    void deallocate(void* p, const size_type) const { xr_free(p); }

    void construct(pointer p, const T& _Val) { new (p) T(_Val); }

    void destroy(pointer p) { p->~T(); }

    size_type max_size() const {
        const auto count = std::numeric_limits<size_type>::max() / sizeof(T);
        return 0 < count ? count : 1;
    }
};

struct xr_allocator {
    template <typename T>
    struct helper {
        using result = xalloc<T>;
    };

    static void* alloc(const size_t n) { return xr_malloc(n); }

    template <typename T>
    static void dealloc(T*& p) {
        xr_free(p);
    }
};

template <class T, class Other>
bool operator==(const xalloc<T>&, const xalloc<Other>&) {
    return true;
}

template <class T, class Other>
bool operator!=(const xalloc<T>&, const xalloc<Other>&) {
    return false;
}

namespace std {

template <class Tp1, class Tp2>
xalloc<Tp2>& __stl_alloc_rebind(xalloc<Tp1>& a, const Tp2*) {
    return (xalloc<Tp2>&)(a);
}

template <class Tp1, class Tp2>
xalloc<Tp2> __stl_alloc_create(xalloc<Tp1>&, const Tp2*) {
    return xalloc<Tp2>();
}

} // namespace std

// string(char)
using xr_string = std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, xalloc<char>>;

// vector
template <typename T, typename allocator = xalloc<T>>
using xr_vector = std::vector<T, allocator>;

template <typename T, typename Alloc>
void clearAndReserve(xr_vector<T, Alloc>& vec) {
    if (vec.capacity() <= (vec.size() / 2))
        vec.clear();
    else {
        vec.shrink_to_fit();
        vec.clear();
    }
}

// deque
template <typename T, typename allocator = xalloc<T>>
using xr_deque = std::deque<T, allocator>;

// stack
template <typename T, class C = xr_deque<T>>
using xr_stack = std::stack<T, C>;

template <typename T, typename allocator = xalloc<T>>
using xr_list = std::list<T, allocator>;

template <typename K, class P = std::less<K>, typename allocator = xalloc<K>>
using xr_set = std::set<K, P, allocator>;

template <typename K, class P = std::less<K>, typename allocator = xalloc<K>>
using xr_multiset = std::multiset<K, P, allocator>;

template <typename K, class V, class P = std::less<K>, typename allocator = xalloc<std::pair<const K, V>>>
using xr_map = std::map<K, V, P, allocator>;

template <typename K, class V, class P = std::less<K>, typename allocator = xalloc<std::pair<const K, V>>>
using xr_multimap = std::multimap<K, V, P, allocator>;

template <typename K, class V, class Traits = std::equal_to<K>,
          typename allocator = xalloc<std::pair<const K, V>>>
using xr_hash_map = std::unordered_map<K, V, std::hash<K>, Traits, allocator>;

struct pred_str {
    bool operator()(const char* x, const char* y) const { return std::strcmp(x, y) < 0; }
};
struct pred_stri {
    bool operator()(const char* x, const char* y) const { return _stricmp(x, y) < 0; }
};

#include "FixedVector.h"
#include "buffer_vector.h"

// auxilary definition
using FvectorVec = xr_vector<Fvector>;
using LPSTRVec = xr_vector<LPSTR>;
using SStringVec = xr_vector<xr_string>;
using U16Vec = xr_vector<u16>;
using U32Vec = xr_vector<u32>;
using FloatVec = xr_vector<float>;
using IntVec = xr_vector<int>;


Our client the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine kicked off its "Snories" media campaign with a survey to collect nationally-relevant, fun statistics that showcase the effect snoring can have on the bed partner's sleep and on a couple's intimate relationship. The report exposed several staggering statistics, such as a quarter of adults confess to becoming annoyed or angry when dealing with a snoring bed partner, and one in five say a snoring partner could drive them out of bed.
LCWA leveraged the survey results to attract media attention and drive coverage of snoring and untreated sleep apnea as a problem – and oral appliance therapy, provided by dentists, as a solution. To engage those who suffer from snoring, AADSM and LCWA hosted a #SnoringStruggles Twitter party, which had 363 active participants, resulting in more than 28 million online impressions and hundreds of click-throughs to the AADSM website's patient portal.
In addition, outreach conducted by LCWA generated several placements, such as The Huffington Post, The Baltimore Times, CBS 11 in Fort Worth/Dallas, and Medical Daily, helping the AADSM to educate tens of thousands of consumers about snoring, sleep apnea and dental sleep medicine.


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Q: Getting additional data in firebase/auth - onAuthStateChanged I want to get extra data from a users collection in firestore when user loggs in. I do this in a useEffect function in a AuthContext. This is my code:
useEffect(() => {
    const unsubscribe = onAuthStateChanged(auth, (user) => {
      const fetchUserData = async () => {
        if (!user) {
          setCurrentUser(null);
          setLoading(false);
          return;
        }
        const userData = await fetchUserDataFromFirestore(user.uid);
        setCurrentUser({ ...user, ...userData });
        setLoading(false);
      };

      fetchUserData();
    });

    return unsubscribe;
  }, [currentUser]);

This kind of works as I do get the data but messages are piling up in the console as can be seen in my screenshot:

The fetchUserDataFromFirestore function is implemented like this:
export const fetchUserDataFromFirestore = async (id) => {
  const docRef = doc(db, "users", id);
  const docSnap = await getDoc(docRef);

  if (docSnap.exists) {
    const userData = docSnap.data();
    return userData;
  }
  return null;
};

What can I do about this?

A: For future reference this is how I did it
const [uid, setUid] = useState(null)

useEffect(() => {
  const unsubscribe = onAuthStateChanged(auth, async (user) => {
    if (user) {
      setUid(user.uid)
    } else {
      setUid(null)
    }
  })

  return () => {
    unsubscribe()
  }
}, [])

// set currentUser state
useEffect(() => {
  if (uid) {
    const userRef = doc(db, "users", uid)

    getDoc(userRef)
      .then((docSnapshot) => {
        const data = docSnapshot.data()
        setCurrentUser(data)
      })
  }
}, [uid])


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Top 3 Indies Videos 7/14/18! IDestroy, The Speedways, THE MOST, CCS (Japan)!
It's time once again for the Top 3 Indies Artist Video Countdown for July 14, 2018!
Starting us off today if a fab group from Bristol, United Kingdom! Three ladies who call themselves, "IDestroy!" Look at these awesome review the ladies have been getting:
"IDestroy really have delivered the goods with their second EP, an explosion of riotous energy that makes you want to get up and throw something, or possibly yourself, across the room." – Kerrang! Magazine
"If you like your rock'n'roll short, sharp and spiky, then Bristol grrrl rockers IDestroy might just be your favourite new band. They snap, they crackle, they pop, and they wear studded leather jackets with a feisty punk sneer." – Classic Rock Magazine
"Pure Joy of Life" should propel them into the next level – radio, TV, festivals and stardom." – Louder Than War
Of course, they have a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Idestroyband/
#3) IDestroy – Lemons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNzP30FPPPs
Next up at #2 are a band who was introduced to us by Alex Kish of Wassup Rocker Radio fame. The band's name is "The Speedways" and they list their hometown as "Squaresville" all the while their bio is a mystery. The Speedways do, though, claim their genre is: "ClassicPowerPop/HeavyOnTheHeartacheRock n Roll/'RonettesPunk.'"
Here is their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JustAnotherRegularSummer/
#2) The Speedways – Just Another Regular Summer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iah-NZBFQlw
This week's #1 are Sweden's best 60s Beat, Mod, Rock band, The Most! Holy Shit! The Most are so famous and fab, they even have a Wikipedia page! Wow! The Most bio says, "The Most is a Beat band from Umeå, Sweden… Drawing inspiration from old Blues, Jazz, Bluegrass, 50-60s Soul, 50-60s R&B but also from bands like The Zombies, The Kinks, and The Who, their music has been described as 1960s retro pop."
Besides that, the Most graced the soundtrack of "Ghostroads – A Japanese Rock n Roll Ghost Story" with a today's killer track! (For more on"Ghostroads – A Japanese Rock n Roll Ghost Story" scroll down!)
Here's their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/FaceTheMost/
#1) THE MOST – Gatecrashers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzMJFedZDwk
SPOTLIGHT ARTIST! Today's spotlight goes to a Pop Punk trio from Tokyo named, "The CCS." The CCS were introduced to us by Rock Critic and human living music encyclopeda, Masao Nakagami! The CCS are from Japan and they released their first EP "Seven" in 2015 and their latest album came in 2016. The band consists of Aoi (guitar), Rui (drums and song) and Ogane (bass and vocals).
Yeah, they have a Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheStephanies/
SPOTLIGHT ARTIST! THE CCS – I'm gonna fall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zEox4rXKr8
"Ghostroads – A Japanese Rock and Roll Ghost Story," enjoyed its World-Premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in London on Sept. 25, 2017, and was released by a major Japanese motion picture company and in theaters all across Japan will celebrate the release of the DVD and Blu-Ray on sale all across Japan on June 13, 2018!
Here's the movie trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxwJ4AfzOwM
Ghostroads – A Japanese Rock n Roll Ghost Story
DVD and Blu-Ray on sale all across Japan on June 13, 2018!
About Mike in Tokyo Rogers: Mike has been a professional music/TV/radio/anime-related program producer in Japan since the eighties. He began in the music business in 1977 as lead vocalist with the legendary Los Angeles Punk Band, "The Rotters" (Sit on My Face Stevie Nix.). As a university student, he was assistant to the legendary Rodney Bingenheimer (Rodney on the ROQ – KROQ Los Angeles from 1980 ~ 1981.) Mike was the first and only foreigner in Japanese history to become the General Manager of a major Japanese broadcasting station (TV Tokyo owned InterFM). Has produced a few smash hit programs (some real losers, too!) and several of Tokyo's highest rated and most famous radio programs. A recent hit Internet TV program was "The TV Show" (Set Program with "Ninja Slayer") which, between April – Oct. 2015, garnered over 10 million viewers. He is currently producing and hosting "The Mike Rogers Show" every Sunday live on InterFM 89.7 in Tokyo and Radio Neo in Nagoya 79.5 and nationally broadcast on Radiko.jp (Internet radio). And he is the creator and founder of the Mt. Fuji – Atami Film & VR Festival. Also his life's dream is his just completed full-length motion picture, "Ghostroads – A Japanese Rock and Roll Ghost Story," which enjoyed its World-Premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in London on Sept. 25, 2017, and was released by a major Japanese motion picture company and in theaters all across Japan from Sept. 2017 ~ Mar. 2018. The DVD and Blu-Ray went on sale all across Japan on June 13, 2018!
Ghostroads – A Japanese Rock and Roll Ghost Story Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxwJ4AfzOwM&t
Top 3 Indies Videos 7/7/18! Helen Love, Ill, Shonen Knife, Down & Outs, Pussy Cat & Dirty Johnsons! robot55.jp/blog/top-3-indies-videos-7-7-18-helen-love-ill-shonen-knife-pussy-cat-dirty-johnsons/
Top 3 Indies Videos 6/23/18! Primetime, Asylums, The Blinders, The Stephanies! robot55.jp/blog/top-3-indies-videos-6-23-18-primetime-asylums-the-blinders-the-stephanies/
Top 3 Indies Videos 6/16/18! The Scrags, La Luz, Down and Outs, Jett Sett (Jpn!) robot55.jp/blog/top-3-indies-videos-6-16-18-the-scrags-la-luz-down-and-outs-jett-sett-jpn/
Top 3 Indies Videos 5/26/18! Surfborts, Rangsteen (Jpn), Daisy House, Starcrawler! robot55.jp/blog/top-3-indies-videos-5-26-18-surfborts-rangsteen-jpn-daisy-house-starcrawler/
Top 3 Indies Videos 5/26/18! VOIID, Jett Sett (Jpn), honeychain, Slowcoaches. robot55.jp/blog/top-3-indies-videos-5-26-18-voiid-jett-sett-jpn-honeychain-slowcoaches/
Top 3 Indies Videos 5/19/18! The Soapgirls, Jail Guitar Doors (Jpn), Honeychain, Dumbleachers! http://robot55.jp/blog/top-3-indies-videos-5-19-18-the-soapgirls-jail-guitar-doors-jpn-honeychain-dumbleachers/
Top 3 Indies Videos 5/12/18! Touts, Firestarter (Jpn), Rews, Zero Boys! robot55.jp/blog/top-3-indies-videos-5-12-18-touts-firestarter-jpn-rews-zero-boys/
Top 3 Indies Videos 5/05/18! Crazy & The Brains, Brigitte Handley, Girls In Synthesis, Pen Friend Club (Jpn)! robot55.jp/blog/top-3-indies-videos-5-05-18-crazy-the-brains-brigitte-handley-girls-in-synthesis-pen-friend-club-jpn/
Top 3 Indies Videos 4/28/18! The Surfrajettes, Faz Waltz, Kyle Falconer, the Neatbeats! robot55.jp/blog/top-3-indies-videos-4-28-18-the-surfrajettes-faz-waltz-kyle-falconer-the-neatbeats/
Top 3 Indies Videos 4/13/18! Camens, The Connection, Fezz, Su Ko D Koi (Jpn)! robot55.jp/blog/top-3-indies-videos-4-13-18-camens-the-connection-fezz-su-ko-d-koi-jpn/
Top 3 Indies Videos 4/7/18! DOG PARTY NEW VIDEO WORLD PREMIERE! Amyl & the Sniffers, Darky Dark & The Junkie Bunch & the Walkings (Jpn)! robot55.jp/blog/top-3-indies-videos-4-7-18-dog-party-new-video-world-premiere-amyl-the-sniffers-darky-dark/
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Polymer Clay 101 is filled with thorough instructions and step-by-step photographs that expertly guide readers through the basics of crafting with polymer clay. Authors Angela Mabray (Crafty Goat herself!) and Kim Otterbein teach you about the tools and techniques used for this craft. Each of the 20 projects in the book introduces a new way to get creative with polymer clay. As you explore this all-inclusive workshop, you will gain confidence in your skills and be encouraged to design your own projects.
Make jewelry, tool handles, knick-knacks, or ATCs.
The book's hidden spiral binding means you can leave it open on your craft space while you work on a project.
The included DVD demonstrates each of the book's techniques. Great for visual learners who want to watch polymer clay crafting in action!
For more information on the book — including a preview of the DVD — visit the Polymer Clay 101 website.
Cost is $20, payable by Paypal. Shipping via USPS Media Mail is included in this special price. U.S. addresses only.
Want Angela to sign your copy? Please specify in your order comments if you want the book signing personalized in a specific way.


Attic Fans also known as Gable Fans or Ventilation Fans will remove the accumulated heated attic air which can retain the radiated heat of a warm day up to 130 degree's . It's like having an oven above your ceiling which can increase your conditioned air by 10 degree's or more.
Attic Fans range in quality and price, I install the one's that I find perform the best which cost about $120.00. The Labor typically takes a qualified electrician 3 to 5 hours. I have a preferred way of installing the gable fan which is to add an over ride switch and also incorporate a timing mechanism into the design. My theory is to force out the days air while it draws in the cool night air, allowing the cool air to reduce the timeframe of the attic warming the next day.
Recessed Lighting also known as Can Lights or Down Lights create a great improvement to any room or ceiling space normally located in Kitchens, Living Rooms, Hallways , Dining Rooms or a number of other favored locations.
Recessed Lights can vary in price based on the chosen finish trim used and the fixture lamp output which is measured in lumens. Typically material for a recessed light will cost about $50.00 each. The labor typically takes a qualified electrician about 1 to 2 hours to complete.
Surge Protector also known as a Surge Arrestor or Surge Suppressor is designed to regulate any irregular voltage fluctuations caused by a cycling electric motor or other conditions which make for a fluctuation within your electrical signal. The fluctuations create an electrical noise which is basically a spike the same as you have seen on a heart monitor machine although this spike ranging from 1 to 15 amps can damage electronics like computers, televisions, stereo's etc..
Surge Protectors can be installed to the Electrical panel which can protect your entire home from a severe spike up to 15 amps for about $ 80.00. The Labor is about 1 hour.
There is a minimum one hour labor charge of $125.00 / any time thereafter would be $75.00 Hr.
All workmanship on any Invoice has a 100% Guarantee - Materials on the Invoice has the manufacturer's warranty.
Please use this form for upcoming projects within 5 or more days.
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This hydraulic post driver is second to none when installing larger numbers of our bigger anchors.
Please refer to manufacturers guidance whilst using this machine.
Always protect the anchor head using a manual hammer cap.