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Q: spring Rest json response format i am dealing with a spring project and stuck with rest json response format.
what i can get is as following:
"data" : [ {
    "type" : "xx",
    "properties" : "xx",
    "price" : "xx",
    "storeAddress" : "xx"
  }, {
    "type" : "xxx",
    "properties" : "xxx",
    "price" : "xxx",
    "storeAddress" : "xxx"
  }]
}

and what i really want is there is new line at the begin of each object in list so it looks as following:
"data" : [
          {
            "type" : "xx",
            "properties" : "xx",
            "price" : "xx",
            "storeAddress" : "xx"
          },
          {
            "type" : "xxx",
            "properties" : "xxx",
            "price" : "xxx",
            "storeAddress" : "xxx"
          }
          ]
    }

is there any simple way as configuring feature in application.properties file?

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namespace MassTransit.Internal.RequestResponse
{
	using System;

	public class ResponseAction<T> :
		IResponseAction,
		Consumes<T>.All where T : class
	{
		private readonly Action<T> _responseAction;
		private readonly RequestResponseScope _scope;

		public ResponseAction(RequestResponseScope scope, Action<T> responseAction)
		{
			_scope = scope;
			_responseAction = responseAction;
		}

		public void Consume(T message)
		{
			_responseAction(message);

			_scope.SetResponseReceived(message);
		}

		public UnsubscribeAction SubscribeTo(IServiceBus bus)
		{
			return bus.Subscribe(this);
		}
	}
}

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"Box of vintage gay zines" and "Queer elders project" collection
Identifier: Ms-Coll-69
Overview This collection began as a box of LGBT magazines, chapbooks, and other material that was left on the side of the road for trash collection in Burlington, Vermont in November of 2018 and subsequently went on to be the subject of a successful gallery exhibit and Instagram account. This collection is made up of three series: Series I includes the contents of the found box, Series II includes the preserved Instagram account, and Series III includes materials related to the exhibit.
Found in: John J. Wilcox, Jr. LGBT Archives, William Way LGBT Community Center
Jo Hofmann photographs
Abstract This collection consists of copies of approximately 70 photographs of feminist or gay/lesbian public events in Philadelphia during the 1970s. The original images were 35mm photographic negatives. The copies exist in digital form on a CD, and inkjet prints were made of some of the images.
Judy Lashof papers
Abstract The Judy Lashof papers, circa 1975-1980, consist of clippings and ephemera relating to feminist and LGBT groups in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area.
"Labyrinth" records
Abstract Labyrinth was a feminist newspaper published from 1984 to 2000. The Labyrinth records, 1983-1995, are comprised of administrative records, financial records, and correspondence.
LGBT poetry, prose, music, and photography chapbooks
Overview This collection is made up of LGBT-related poetry, prose, music, and photography chapboooks produced from the 1960s through the current day, most from the 1970s and 1980s. The majority of the materials are in the poetic genre, but literature including short stories and plays are included, as well as books of lyrics and musical notation, and books of photography, especially those which include creative texts alongside the graphics material.
Nancy Levine women's music record albums
Overview Women's music—sometimes defined as music by women, for women, and about women—formed alongside the rise of second-wave feminism in the 1960s and 1970s. The Nancy Levine women's music record albums are comprised of 83 record albums featuring female soloists and ensembles from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Tommi Avicolli Mecca collection
Overview Tommi Avicolli Mecca (b. 1951) is a writer, singer/songwriter, performance artist, and activist. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Avicolli Mecca was involved in many Philadelphia-area Gay rights organizations. The collection is comprised of six series: 1) Subject files; 2) Gay Activists Alliance (Philadelphia) records; 3) Gay Media Project (Philadelphia) records; 4) Gay Community Center of Philadelphia records; 5) Photographic slides; 6) Audiovisual material.
Subject: Feminism X
Gay Activists Alliance (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Gay Community Center of Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
Gay Media Project (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Hofmann, Jo 1
Labyrinth (Philadelphia, Pa. : Newspaper). 1
Lashof, Judy 1
Mecca, Tommi Avicolli 1
Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force (Pa.) 1
William Way Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center (Philadelphia, Pa.). 1
John J. Wilcox, Jr. LGBT Archives | William Way LGBT Community Center | 1315 Spruce St. Philadelphia, PA 19107 | 215-732-2220 | archives@waygay.org

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Garret Fitzgerald: politics for the public good
A singular period in Irish public life marked by visits from Britain's queen and America's president has also seen the death of Garret Fitzgerald, leading statesman and former Taoiseach (prime minister). Noel Dorr, Ireland's former ambassador to the United Nations and London, reflects on Fitzgerald's life and the moral and political example it offers.
Noel Dorr
The past few years have been a gloomy enough time in public life in the Republic of Ireland - so much so that some of us had begun to lose faith in the capacity of our political system to handle our difficulties. After years of prosperity we have had a severe recession, cutbacks in services and a growing public debt as the state took on responsibility for preserving our banking system and meeting the financial obligations our banks incurred through years of foolish and excessive foreign borrowing. Following a decision to seek a bailout in November 2010, Ireland (alongside Greece and Portugal) now depends heavily on support from the IMF and the European Central Bank.
In this bleak context, the public mood lightened greatly as a result of a memorable sequence of three events in one seven-day period this May.
It began with the highly successful, four-day state visit by Queen Elizabeth II - the first by a reigning British monarch in the ninety years since the state was established. Her visit symbolised at the highest level the close and friendly relationship which, after a complex historic interaction, now exists between the peoples of Britain and Ireland and between our two states. Three days later Barack Obama celebrated a new-found and surprising ancestral connection with Ireland: the United States president came here, as he said, to find "the apostrophe which had been dropped along the way". His visit was short but his theme of hope and self-belief, epitomised in his campaign slogan as "yes, we can", interpreted now by Irish citizens as "yes, you can" - was just what we most needed to hear at this time.
The third, and for many in Ireland, the most emotion-laden event of these past days, however, was the death and the state funeral of the former Taoiseach, Garret Fitzgerald which occurred between the other two.
It may seem strange to speak of a death and funeral of an 85-year-old as having helped to lift the public mood. But it did. It reminded Irish people of the achievements of a great public figure. Yes, but more than that, as we remembered his personality and his long and active life we came to see again what the life of the good man - in this case the good Christian man - in politics could be. And we needed such a reminder, since we had begun to lose faith in politics and political leaders too, as in so much else in public life in Ireland in recent years.
The esteem and affection in which, in contrast, Garret Fitzgerald was held by Irish people, of all parties and of none, was evident from the crowds along the route of his funeral; and from the fact that some 20,000 people filed past his coffin during the day when it lay in the Mansion House. That affection is perhaps best epitomised in the two-word title which he chose for his last published book - Just Garret. That was how so much of the public in Ireland – and not just those of us who worked closely with him when he was minister for foreign affairs and later as Taoiseach - had come to think of him, particularly over the decades since he had withdrawn from the daily contention of active politics and become a widely respected elder statesman and commentator.
The route to politics
Garret Fitzgerald was born in Dublin in 1926. His father Desmond, whose parents were from Cork and Kerry, was London-born, a writer and a poet of the Imagist school. His mother Mabel, who came from a Protestant Unionist business family in Belfast, became an active Irish nationalist: in London she was, for a time, secretary to George Bernard Shaw and to George Moore. Both parents were with the insurgents in the GPO in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising. Desmond, who served several terms of imprisonment for his nationalist activities before the Anglo-Irish treaty, became minister for external affairs, and, later, minister for defence, in the government of the newly established Irish Free State for much of the 1920s.
Garret himself, the youngest of four boys in the family, grew up in Dublin and graduated in from University College Dublin (UCD) with a degree in history, French and Spanish in 1946. While there he met his wife, Joan, and they married a year later. The couple had a daughter and two sons. Joan was the love of his life, a strong source of judgment, support - and criticism, when necessary - until her death in 1999.
Garret's first job was with Aer Lingus, the Irish airline established a decade before. There, as he put it in his autobiography, All in a Life, "I set about inventing my work…estimating traffic flows, drawing up timetables, assessing the economic viability of routes and so on." This laid the foundation for his later prominence as, a - largely self-taught - economist, and his life-long love of statistics and transport timetables, an addiction which bemused his wide circle of friends. Later, he worked as an economic consultant and freelance journalist. For many years he lectured in economics in UCD where he obtained a doctorate. When not in public office he wrote a regular column for the Irish Times for many years and, for a time, he was Dublin correspondent for the Financial Times and an occasional contributor to newspapers in other parts of the world.
In the mid-1960s he entered active politics as a member of the Fine Gael party, initially as a member of the senate. From 1969 until he retired in 1992, he was a member of the Dáil for a Dublin constituency.
In 1973 he became minister for foreign affairs in a coalition government led by Liam Cosgrave, just months after Ireland joined the European Eeconomic Community (EEC). This gave him scope to pursue actively the three great concerns of his public life, which continued to preoccupy him when he became Taoiseach in the 1980s.
A triple focus
The first was his commitment to an active role for Ireland in international, and particularly in European, affairs. He expanded the Irish foreign service, undertook a series of official visits abroad, established Ireland's first bilateral aid programme and set in place and developed a policy of active participation by Ireland in European integration. In 1975 he handled Ireland's first EEC presidency with notable success: during that six-month term he finalised and signed the first Lomé agreement between the EEC and the ACP (African, Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific) countries and had an important role in ensuring strong EEC support for the revolution which restored democracy to Portugal.
The second was his concern to promote a more liberal society in Ireland by working to remove those elements in the Irish constitution and legal system which, by reflecting to too great an extent the overly conservative religious views of the Catholic majority in the state, might be considered sectarian.
The third, and perhaps the deepest, was his lifelong commitment to peaceful resolution of the legacy of conflict resulting from the historic complexities of the Anglo-Irish relationship, which, in modern times, took its sharpest form on "the narrow ground" of Northern Ireland. As minister he was actively involved in the Sunningdale conference of December 1973, the first major effort at a peaceful settlement involving the British and Irish governments and three democratic parties in Northern Ireland. This did not succeed but it put in place concepts such as cooperation between the two governments and cross-community participation as a condition for devolved government in Northern Ireland which were to be of continuing importance.
It was however, the Anglo-Irish agreement he signed with the British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher in 1985 which is now seen as his most significant achievement. It was the outcome of nearly two years of patient and intensive negotiations between the two governments at official, ministerial and prime ministerial level. Though rejected strongly at the time in Northern Ireland by Unionists and Republicans alike, it put in place a structured framework for exchanges between the two governments in relation to Northern Ireland.
Over time this established a level of cooperation and understanding between them which was the first essential step towards the peace settlement now happily in place in Northern Ireland. Poignantly, two days before his death, Garret, though gravely ill, watched on television some significant events of Queen Elizabeth's state visit to Ireland which was the culmination, at the highest symbolic inter-state level, of what he and prime minister Thatcher had begun a quarter-century before.
A public legacy
As Taoiseach he led a coalition government for a total of five years in the 1980s. While his government began the effort to cope with the high level of indebtedness it had inherited, differences of approach between the parties which made it up meant that it was less successful than he had hoped in restoring order to the national finances before it lost office in 1987.
The 1985 Anglo-Irish agreement was the focus of much attention in the days following his death but it was his personal qualities and the active role outside party politics which he continued to play in public life until weeks before his death which endeared him to so many in Ireland. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and, for many years, chancellor of the National University of Ireland. He continued to write a weekly column for the Irish Times until weeks before he died. He published five books: Towards a New Ireland (1972); his autobiography All in a Life (1991); two books of essays, Reflections on the Irish State (2003) and Ireland in the World: Further Reflections (2005); and what amounted to a second autobiography, Just Garret (2010). At the time of his death he had completed yet another manuscript - a study of Irish education in the early part of the 19th century.
Garret Fitzgerald had a strong and cheerful personality, a boyish enthusiasm for all he did, even late in life, and a rapid-fire way of speaking which was the bane of interpreters at international conferences; he was hospitable to a fault, not least in entertaining a wide circle of friends on holidays in France every year; his "hinterland" of interests was wide - it extended beyond politics to history, theology and a wide variety of other subjects; and he took a schoolboy delight in the display of certain mild, yet ultimately endearing, idiosyncrasies - among them his interest in the lineages of now obscure European monarchies. He was one of the dominant figures of the last half century in Irish political and public life and ultimately, one of the most popular. Ireland is the better for his life. All in all, it might well be said at his passing - we shall not see his like again.
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Refusal to do so would show that Trudeau supports the egregious decision to give an award to the Public Relations Chief of Palestine-House, an organization that once lost government funding for connections to extremism, and who has said horribly anti-Semitic things about Israel.
A petition by B'nai Brith Canada is drawing attention to the fact that Iqra Khalid gave an award to Amin El-Maoued – the Public Relations Chief of Palestine House.
Last Friday, Amin El-Maoued, Public Relations Chief of Palestine House (which lost its federal funding in 2012 because of its "pattern of support for extremism"), posted a photo of Khalid and himself holding up the certificate at an annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner.
El-Maoued wrote that he was "honoured" to receive the award from the Federal Government of Canada.
B'nai Brith has specifically warned Khalid in the past of associating with the purveyors of antisemitism in the political sphere. On Tuesday, CEO Michael Mostyn sent a strongly worded letter to Khalid insisting she withdraw the certificate.
"It is not only disappointing, but frightening that you would see fit to reward his dalliances with antisemitic discourse and incitement, while simultaneously ostensibly working to eliminate all forms of discrimination in Canada," Mostyn wrote.
Khalid has not replied to Mostyn's letter.
Khalid has reportedly still not responded.
And that's why Justin Trudeau must remove Khalid from the Liberal Caucus.
His refusal to do so would be a tacit admission by him that he agrees with Khalid's willingness to praise El-Maoued, and it would show that Trudeau is willing to accept his party being involved with hatred and prejudice – so long as he can cover it up politically.
The Opposition, and all Canadians, must demand that Trudeau remove Khalid from the Liberal Caucus immediately. There can be no tolerance for hatred, anti-Semitism, and bigotry of any kind.
Trudeau must act now. Anything less is unacceptable in our Canada.
Share this article if you agree that Iqra Khalid should be removed from the Liberal Caucus.
My question is who vetted the award and where was department oversight?
Contact the CPC party and demand he step aside before he ruins the party.
If not, I am checking out the National Citizens Alliance. I suggest you do to.
This is about what I'd expect of a Liberal MP – given the leadership of that party these days. Trudeau should expel her from caucus – or at least suspend until a full recant is publically made – but he won't. This PM has less than NO substance. He's all about Facebook and Twitter. And doing all Canadians of goodwill real harm – domestically and internationally…. It's really unbelievable. PS – I am not Jewish!
Khalid is a Muslim extremist. She does not belong in Parliament. Because of M-103 , a precursor of Islamic blasphemy laws, she is the single greatest cause of distrust for Muslims in Canada. She calls it Islamophobia, but she has earned the distrust.
We all know where this govt. stands. If we don't it doesn't say much for Canadians. The fact that Truley dumb has control of the media and the only news is on Internet gives me a peek as to why Canadians are not paying attention. Spencer, I for one thank you for the your dedication and honesty and the hard work you do to keep us informed. Thank you.
Although the she should be removed from the party just for the introduction of m 103 a lone which by the way is just ridiculous and what's worse than her introduction of that motion is its acceptance by many in the government is really just unbelievable but as far as the award goes that only matters if you support Israel .
Trudeau does not have the intestinal fortitude to do the right thing. And the liberal press will not bring it to the attention of the Canadian public.
This has gone on long enough, something must be done to "quell" the hatred and discrimination against Israel. The liberal party's hatred for anything non muslim must, and will be their downfall in 2019.
If a person supports Shari'ah law, they should not be allowed to run for office in Canada. "There is no law but Allah's law does not and never should apply in Canada. She should be removed from office.
Our Government are charmed…..this is Canada.
Liberals will not respond or respect the Canadian people. They have shown this over and over. Why would anyone expect Trudeau to remove this person from his caucus for following his leadership to destroy Canada.


There aren't any at all, which is why I don't fully believe the press release about Victorian London yet.
Atleast nobody has found any.
Me neither. =S But there's still a chance of it being in China.
I'm hoping together with you, my friend.
Hope it's England or China.
I posted this in another thread but maybe not Victorian London or even Industrial Revolution London but 1666??
Wasn't 1666 from Patrice in The netherlands?
Yes. I just made an image connection between "fireworks" and Guy Fawkes, The Fire of London and the industrial revolution pic from AC Chile site.
1% of me believe that AC:V will take place in Trinidad.


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Erdtmann ist der Name von

 Bernd-Dietrich Erdtmann (1939–2021), deutscher Paläontologe, Paläobiologe und Hochschullehrer
 Petra Erdtmann (* 1967), deutsche Querflötistin und Musikpädagogin

Siehe auch:
 Erdmann
 Ertmann

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A Bigfoot Encounter For The History Books
The Description of the creature Roe encountered sounds a little like "Patty" from the Roger Patterson film
William Roe's Astonishingly Detailed Story From 1955
By TCC Team Member Dorraine Fisher
There are a number of historic tales of bigfoot sightings on the books. And many of them sound too wild to be true. And we're left to wonder if they were merely cases of mistaken identity, since many of these old descriptions of the creature don't match what we know today. But if you read William Roe's story from back in 1955 in British Columbia, you might have to deduce, based on the information we have, that he really saw the creature we know today as Bigfoot.
Roe could have easily been a sasquatch researcher. His sworn affidavit of his encounter proves he had a strong eye for detail and a keen memory for it too. Roe provided one of the most detailed descriptions of a sasquatch ever recorded in those historic times. A description that rings true with the data that's been collected about the creatures in recent years.
Read his story:
Ever since I was a small boy back in the forest of Michigan I have studied the lives and habits of wild animals. Later, when I supported my family in northern Alberta by hunting and trapping I spent many hours just observing the wild things. They fascinated me. But the most incredible experience I ever had with a wild creature occurred near a little town called Tete Jaune Cache, British Columbia, about eighty miles west of Jasper, Alberta.
I had been working on the highway near Tete Jaune Cache for about two years. In October 1955, I decided to climb five miles up Mica Mountain to an old deserted mine, just for something to do. I came in sight of the mine about three o'clock in the afternoon after an easy climb. I had just come out of a patch of low brush into a clearing, when I saw what I thought was a grizzly bear, in the brush on the other side. I had shot a grizzly near that spot the year before. This one was only about 75 yards away, but I did not want to shoot it, for I had no way of getting it out. So I sat down on a small rock and watched, my rifle in my hands.
I could just see the top of the animal's head and the top of one shoulder. A moment later it raised up and stepped out into the opening. Then I saw that it was not a bear.
This, to the best of my recollection, is what the creature looked like and how it acted as it came across the clearing directly towards me. My first impression was of a huge man, about six feet tall, almost three feet wide and probably weighing somewhere near 300 pounds. It was covered from head to foot with dark brown, silver-tipped hair. But as it came closer I saw by its breasts that it was a female. And yet, its torso was not curved like a female's. Its broad frame was straight from shoulder to hip. Its arms were much thicker than a man's arms, and longer, reaching almost to its knees. Its feet were broader proportionately than a man's, about five inches wide at the front and tapering to much thinner heels. When it walked it placed the heel of its foot down first, and I could see the grey-brown skin or hide on the soles of its feet.
It came to the edge of the bush I was hiding in, within twenty feet of me, and squatted down on its haunches. Reaching out its hands it pulled the branches of bushes toward it and stripped the leaves with its teeth. Its lips curled flexibly around the leaves as it ate. I was close enough to see that its teeth were white and even.
The shape of this creature's head somewhat resembled a negro's. The head was higher at the back than at the front. The nose was broad and flat. The lips and chin protruded farther than its nose. But the hair that covered it, leaving bare only the parts of the face around the mouth, nose and ears, made it resemble an animal as much as a human. None of its hair, even on the back of its head, was longer than an inch, and that on its face was much shorter. Its ears were shaped like a human's ears. But its eyes were small and black like a bear's. And its neck was unhuman. Thicker and shorter than any man's I had ever seen.
As I watched this creature, I wondered if some movie company was making a film at this place and that what I saw was an actor made up to look partly human and partly animal. But as I observed it more I decided it would be impossible to fake such a specimen. Anyway, I learned later that there was no such company near that area. Nor, in fact, did anyone live up Mica Mountain, according to the people who lived in Tete Jaune Cache.
Finally, the wild thing must have got my scent, for it looked directly at me through an opening in the brush. A look of amazement crossed its face. It looked so comical at the moment I had to grin. Still in a crouched position, it backed up three or four steps, then straightened up to its full height and started to walk rapidly back the way it had come. For a moment it watched me over its shoulder as it went, not exactly afraid, but as though it wanted no contact with anything strange.
The thought came to me that if I shot it, I would possibly have a specimen of great Interest to scientists the world over. I had heard stories about the Sasquatch, the giant hairy Indians that live in the legends of British Columbia Indians, and also, many claim, are still in fact alive today. Maybe this was a Sasquatch, I told myself.
I leveled my rifle. The creature was still walking rapidly away, again turning its head to look in my direction. I lowered the rifle. Although I have called the creature "it," I felt now that it was a human being and I knew I would never forgive myself if I killed it.
Just as it came to the other patch of brush it threw back its head and made a peculiar noise that seemed to be half laugh and half language, and which I can only describe as a kind of whinny. Then it walked from the small brush into a stand of lodge pole pine.
I stepped out into the opening and looked across a small ridge just beyond the pine to see if I could see it again. It came out on the ridge a couple of hundred yards away from me, tipped its head back again, and again emitted the only sound I had heard it make, but what this half-laugh, half-language was meant to convey, I do not know. It disappeared then, and I never saw it again.
I wanted to find out if it lived on vegetation entirely or ate meat as well, so I went down and looked for signs. I found it in five different places, and although I examined it thoroughly, could find no hair or shells of bugs or insects. So I believe it was strictly a vegetarian.
I found one place where it had slept for a couple of nights under a tree. Now, the nights were cool up the mountain, at this time of year especially, and yet it had not used a fire. I found no sign that it possessed even the simplest of tools. Nor a single companion while in this place.
Whether this creature was a Sasquatch I do not know. It will always remain a mystery to me, unless another one is found.
I hereby declare the above statement to be in every part true, to the best of my powers of observation and recollection.
WILLIAM ROE
Sworn before William Clark, a Commissioner for Oaths in and for the Province of Alberta.
After this affidavit, Roe was reported to have made this statement:
"The nails were not like a bear's, but short and heavy like a man's finger nails are. Its eyes were not light and large but small and black like a bear's. You couldn't see any knotted, corded muscles. This animal seemed almost round. It was as deep through as it was wide, and I believe if this animal should have been seven feet tall, it would have weighed close to 500 pounds. We have got to get away from the idea of comparing it to a human being as we know them."
The investigator had never met Roe and claimed to not know much about him, but he eventually met two individuals who did know him that claimed he was a well-schooled authority on wildlife and dependable witness. *******DF
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An early scene in Wonder Woman highlights in a way what is at stake. On a mystical hidden island, a dark-haired youth watches wide-eyed as hardened warriors train in ancient arts of war. With obvious hero-worship, the child is stirred to half-conscious imitation, little fists and feet flying.
But for two things, that youth might be me at 10 or 12, swinging a plastic lightsaber or shooting a cheap plastic web-shooter, or any of countless other lads thrilling to the adventures of their heroes.
First, her heroes really exist in her world. Second, Diana, who will grow up to be Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman, is a girl, and her heroes are the Amazons of Themyscira.
Directed by Patty Jenkins. Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, David Thewlis, Connie Nielsen, Elena Anaya. Warner Bros/DC.
Teens & Up
Much stylized action violence and some battlefield violence; polytheistic religious themes; sexually themed dialogue and humor, brief non-explicit male nudity and an off-screen nonmarital sexual encounter; limited profanity and some cursing.
The stakes for Wonder Woman turn on all of this.
To begin with, that wide-eyed hero worship, and the heroic qualities that inspire it, have become practically as elusive as invisible jets in the modern cinematic superhero landscape. This is particularly true in the troubled, grimdark DC universe pioneered by Zack Snyder, though the problem exists even in Disney's fizzier, stunningly successful Marvel universe, with its roster of heroes who are mostly semi-redeemed bad boys (arrogant hedonists, brawlers, former assassins, thieves and so on).
Screenwriter and comic-book writer Allan Heinberg, working from a story co-written with Snyder and Jason Fuchs, invests Princess Diana with possibly the most genuinely heroic characterization of any modern cinematic superhero: a selfless champion of compassion and moral duty who fights for those who cannot fight for themselves.
At least the Marvel universe has its straight arrow: Captain America. Snyder managed to kneecap the most quintessentially noble of superheroes, Superman himself, as an aspirational figure, though maddeningly other characters still talk about him that way.
But DC has one other archetypal superhero who is defined by her ideals as much as Superman — and in a way she's even more important.
That's because, in the entire roster of classic comic-book superheroes, Wonder Woman stands alone as the only female hero in her own right. That is, she's the only superheroine who is neither a knockoff of a male character (like Supergirl or Batgirl) nor one who traditionally exists only in partnership with male heroes or in mostly male teams (like Black Canary or the Invisible Girl).
And now, despite more than 15 years of ever more frequent superhero films, Wonder Woman has become the first big-screen superheroine to get her own franchise. Where Disney has so far never allowed characters like Black Widow, Scarlet Witch and Gamora to be more than one-fifth of mostly male teams, Wonder Woman still stands alone.
From that early shot of young Diana to the closing hero shot, director Patty Jenkins (the first woman to helm a big-budget superhero film) celebrates her heroine as an icon of female aspiration and achievement rather than male desire.
When an Allied pilot named Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) accidentally crash-lands on Themyscira and finds himself on a paradisiacal island inhabited entirely by beautiful women, it's pretty clear that this is their world, not his fantasy.
Pine's Steve Trevor is a bit of a Han Solo type: a skeptical, jaded figure who stands between the audience and a fantastic, magical world.
Not Henry Cavill's Man of Steel, but Gadot's Wonder Woman is the closest thing today to Christopher Reeve's Superman — and, like Reeve's Superman, her idealism makes her something of a fish out of water in Steve's world, which turns out to be 1918 during the last phase of World War I. (Wonder Woman was created in 1942, and her origin story is traditionally tied to World War II; the earlier setting is a curious twist.)
Diana believes that mankind is basically good, reflecting the good deity in whose image we were created, though we have been led us down the wrong path by a malign spiritual influence. The catch is that the good deity in question is Zeus, whom we are told brought Diana to life from clay. Also, the malign spiritual influence is Zeus' son Ares, the Greek god of war, albeit a version of Ares more like Lucifer than anything in Greek mythology.
Pine's Steve Trevor is a bit of a Han Solo type: a skeptical, jaded figure who stands between the audience and a fantastic, magical world. The difference is that Star Wars was set in a fantasy universe, while Wonder Woman is set in a version of our world and our history. This has consequences for what we can and can't accept.
For instance, I can buy a version of World War I in which the Ottoman Empire mass-produces dangerous chemical weapons developed by a female mad scientist in a Phantom of the Opera mask nicknamed Doctor Poison (Elena Anaya), which a ruthless German general (Danny Huston) plans to use to sabotage the Bulgarian armistice.
It's another story when Diana tells a skeptical Steve that Ares must be behind the Great War, and if she can kill him, the war will end. Just because it turns out there are Amazon women who can block bullets with their bracelets and force you to tell the truth with a glowing lasso doesn't mean anything goes.
At times Diana seems so naïve the movie threatens to become an allegory of blind faith, or even lost faith. Other times it seems cynical modernity is on trial.
If Diana transcends the cynicism and nihilism with which Snyder imbued the first two DC universe movies, the movie is sometimes more cynical than it should be. At times Diana seems so naïve the movie threatens to become an allegory of blind faith, or even lost faith. Other times it seems cynical modernity is on trial. The resolution of these ambitious themes is more thoughtful than I expected, if less than fully satisfying.
In a way, all the DC movies, even Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, have been about the same thing: Granted that people need heroes, do they deserve them? Are people worth saving? No one asked that question more pointedly than Nolan, though in the end he bit off so much more than he could chew that he neglected to offer a final answer.
The arc of Wonder Woman follows Diana's education in humanity, good and evil, and suffering, and a moving twist leads her to what is at least a good provisional answer, if an incomplete one.
The movie has fun with the sometimes awkward banter between Diana, who has never seen a man before, and Steve, who has never seen a woman like Diana.
When close quarters make it difficult for Steve to avoid sleeping alongside Diana, he stammeringly tries to explain that he has no objection to "sleeping with women," but "out of the confines of marriage … it's not polite to assume."
Marriage? Although she has grown up in an all-female environment, Diana's education has encompassed the particulars of sexuality and reproduction, but somehow she hasn't heard of marriage.
So Steve tells Diana that marriage involves going before a judge and promising always to cherish the other person. And does this lifelong cherishing happen? "Not very often, no," Steve judges. Well, then, Diana wonders, what's the point?
Unlike the Marvel movies, which have been careful to minimize potential scruples from religious viewers regarding story elements like gods and magic, the writers of Wonder Woman show no such concern.
This is a pretty bleak — not to mention secular — take on marriage, particularly for 1918, although admittedly as a spy Steve may be more cynical and secular than average. Ironically, as their relationship deepens, the prospect of getting married, having kids and growing old together seems to become more credible.
Paradoxically, the movie's secularity is nowhere seen so clearly as its religious content. Unlike the Marvel movies, which have been careful to minimize potential scruples from religious viewers regarding story elements like gods and magic, the writers of Wonder Woman show no such concern.
So, for example, Marvel's Thor is the son of Odin, but we're told that Odin and his fellow Asgardians are not gods per se, but merely long-lived extra-dimensional beings. Likewise, Doctor Strange's sorcery is presented as non-ritual, non-incantatory technique — an alternative form of technology rather than occultism. Clearly someone at Marvel Studios has an eye on Christian moviegoer dollars (not to mention national censors in Islamic countries and aggressively secular China).
Here, though, while it's eventually made clear that Diana's mythological view of the world includes a number of mistaken ideas, it does turn out that gods of Olympus, including Zeus and Ares, are real, and at least one of this ilk appears onscreen. Crucially, the idea that Zeus made man in his image is seemingly confirmed.
In a story mostly set in the year of Our Lord 1918, that's an issue. Stories of the gods of Olympus are one thing, but when they come crashing into Christian history — and at the very least the landscape includes churches, most glaringly when Diana destroys the bell tower of a German church in which a sniper is hiding — something's got to give. If Zeus made us in his image, it would seem the one God of Christians, Jews and Muslims did not.
In the end, what sells me on Wonder Woman, despite its issues, is Wonder Woman herself. Movies like Man of Steel and The Lone Ranger misunderstand and besmirch their iconic heroes. This movie understands and reveres its protagonist. That's worth a lot, especially today.
Tags: Action, DC Comics, Superheroes & Comic Book Movies, War


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package com.hotels.styx.infrastructure.configuration.yaml;

import com.hotels.styx.server.HttpsConnectorConfig;
import com.hotels.styx.server.netty.NettyServerConfig;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import static java.util.stream.StreamSupport.stream;
import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;

public class NettyServerConfigTest {
    @Test
    public void shouldCreateServerConfiguration() {
        String yaml = "" +
                "proxy:\n" +
                "  compressResponses: true\n" +
                "  connectors:\n" +
                "      http:\n" +
                "        port: 8080\n" +
                "      https:\n" +
                "        port: 8443\n" +
                "        certificateFile: example.keystore\n" +
                "        certificateKeyFile: example\n" +
                "        validateCerts: true";

        YamlConfig yamlConfig = new YamlConfig(yaml);

        NettyServerConfig serverConfig = yamlConfig.get("proxy", NettyServerConfig.class).get();

        assertThat(serverConfig.httpConnectorConfig().get().port(), is(8080));
        HttpsConnectorConfig httpsConfig = new HttpsConnectorConfig.Builder()
                .port(8443)
                .certificateFile("example.keystore")
                .certificateKeyFile("example")
                .build();
        assertThat(httpsConnectorConfig(serverConfig), is(httpsConfig));
        assertThat(serverConfig.compressResponses(), is(true));
    }

    private HttpsConnectorConfig httpsConnectorConfig(NettyServerConfig serverConfig) {
        return stream(serverConfig.connectors().spliterator(), false)
                .filter(object -> object instanceof HttpsConnectorConfig)
                .findFirst()
                .map(HttpsConnectorConfig.class::cast)
                .get();
    }
}


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Ruthenarsenit ist ein sehr selten vorkommendes Mineral aus der Mineralklasse der Sulfide und Sulfosalze. Es kristallisiert im orthorhombischen Kristallsystem mit der chemischen Zusammensetzung (Ru,Ni)As und bildet bis zu 100 μm große Einschlüsse in Rutheniridosmin von blass orange-brauner bis braun-grauer Farbe.

Etymologie und Geschichte
Das Mineral wurde erstmals 1974 von D.C. Harris in der Typlokalität, dem Waria-Fluss in der Provinz Oro in Papua-Neuguinea gefunden. Es ist nach seiner Zusammensetzung aus den Elementen Ruthenium und Arsen benannt.

Klassifikation
In der Systematik nach Strunz wird Ruthenarsenit zu den Sulfiden und Sulfosalzen gezählt. Nach der 8. Auflage bildet es dabei zusammen mit Breithauptit, Cherepanovit, Freboldit, Hexatestibiopanickelit, Kotulskit, Nickelin, Langisit, Polarit, Sederholmit, Sobolevskit, Sorosit, Stumpflit und Sudburyit eine Untergruppe der Sulfide mit einem Verhältnis von Metall zu Schwefel, Selen oder Tellur von 1:1. In der 9. Auflage bildet es mit Cherepanovit, Modderit und Westerveldit eine Untergruppe der Verbindungen von Metallsulfiden mit Eisen, Cobalt, Nickel usw. und einem Verhältnis von 1:1.

In der Systematik nach Dana bildet es mit Cherepanovit eine Untergruppe der Sulfide, Selenide und Telluride mit der Zusammensetzung Am Bn Xp, mit (m+n):p=1:1.

Bildung und Fundorte
Ruthenarsenit bildet sich als Einschuss in natürlichen Osmium-Iridium-Ruthenium-Legierungen sowie in Ultramafititen. Es ist vergesellschaftet mit Rutheniridosmin, Irarsit und Iridarsenit.

Vom sehr seltenen Mineral sind bislang (Stand Juni 2010) nur fünf Fundorte bekannt. Neben der Typlokalität sind dies Amdo in der Autonomen Gebiet Tibet (China), der Chankasee in Russland, die Onverwacht-Mine bei Mashishing im Bushveld-Komplex, Südafrika sowie Goodnews Bay im US-Bundesstaat Alaska.

Kristallstruktur
Ruthenarsenit kristallisiert im orthorhombischen Kristallsystem in der  mit den Gitterparametern a = 5,628 Å; b = 3,239 Å und c = 6,184 Å sowie vier Formeleinheiten pro Elementarzelle. Dies sind Angaben für künstlich hergestelltes Rutheniumarsenid.

Siehe auch
Liste der Minerale

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
Ruthenarsenit in: Anthony et al.: Handbook of Mineralogy, 1990, 1, 101 (pdf).

Weblinks
Mineralienatlas:Ruthenarsenit
Ruthenarsenit bei mindat.org (engl.)

Mineral
Orthorhombisches Kristallsystem
Sulfide und Sulfosalze
Rutheniummineral
Nickelmineral
Arsenmineral


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Exploring the Medieval Hinterland of Polonnaruva
A research project of the Department of Archaeology.
Polonnaruva was the capital of Sri Lanka from AD1017 to 1293, and was a highly planned urban centre surrounded by a ring of religious monuments including Buddhist stupas and Hindu temples. However, we know very little of how the wider landscape was organised, and whether the highly formalised city was reflected by a formalised hinterland; and whether Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions also flourished outside the cosmopolitan urban core.
Research at the preceding capital, Anuradhapura, identified a very different archaeological settlement pattern than had previously been thought. In particular the notable absence of towns led the project team to suggest that monasteries played a dual role of religious and secular administrators within Anuradhapura's hinterland - unique in South Asia. Anuradhapura was abandoned in the eleventh century AD and a new capital was established at Polonnaruva 104km away.
The project is funded by the following grant.
Pilot Landscape Survey At Polonnaruva, Sri Lanka (£10000.00 from The British Academy)
Research at the earlier capital of Anuradhapura demonstrated a landscape in which towns were absent, and where Buddhist monasteries played a dual role of religious centres and secular administrators. However, this lack of royal control over the landscape contributed to the eventual collapse of the city. Did the newly established capital at Polonnaruva avoid this problem by retaining control over its hinterland, or was medieval Sri Lanka plagued by this tension between royal control and religious freedom?
The project aims to undertake archaeological survey and excavation at non-urban sites surrounding Polonnaruva in order to understand the relationship between the city and its wider landscape.
To date, two field seasons have been conducted at Polonnaruva: a pilot season of in September 2015, followed by a further field season in July 2016. In both instances, excavations were conducted within the city of Polonnaruva, whilst hinterland survey was undertaken in the surrounding landscape.
Hinterland Survey
The first season of work completed the equivalent of eight 20km transects and ten kilometres of survey along both banks of the Kalinga Ela canal, during which we identified a total of 90 archaeological sites, 30 hydraulic features, and 50 anthropological sites. The 90 archaeological sites can be further subdivided into 23 ceramic scatters, 28 ceramic scatters with slag, 25 monastic sites, 9 undiagnostic sites, and one each of a colonial period bridge, lithic scatter, metalworking residue scatter not associated with ceramics, a megalithic burial and a large moated area potentially identified as the ancient town of Vijayitapura.
In the 2016 season, we completed the equivalent of six 20km transects, 12km along both baks of the Kalinga Ela canal and 10km of survey along the bank of the Ambang Oya (river). In total the 142 sites were recorded, broken down into 93 archaeological sites, 11 hydraulic features and 38 anthropological sites. The archaeological sites can be further subdivided into 28 ceramic scatters, 23 ceramic scatters with slag, five scatters of slag, 14 monastic sites, eleven undiagnostic sites, five possible Megalithic Burials, two lithic scatters, three examples of ancient quarrying and one conical hole site.
The initial results show that there was a stark contrast in the size and morphology of sites when compared to those around Anuradhapura. At Polonnaruva, the ceramic scatters identified were much larger in size – on average 5,000 square metres (0.5 hectares) in size, and containing brick, tile, pottery and metalworking residues. A sample of auger-cores taken within three of the sites indicates they have occupation depths of over one metre, in comparison to about 20 centimetres at Anuradhapura. Immediately this suggests a very different landscape, with a shift from the mobile, peripatetic villages of Anuradhapura to a more permanent, and perhaps urbanised, landscape. The monastic sites surrounding Polonnaruva ranged from large complexes to small isolated (and often looted) stupas. The complexes were more formalised with defined boundary walls and brick and tile structures, as opposed to the organic monasteries at Anuradhapura. Again, this points towards a very different settlement system within the landscape, and one which was far more rigorously planned and administered from the centre. In the 2016 season we also recovered yoni stones from two sites (one of which was not in situ), representing the first firm identification of Hindu religious activity in the hinterland.
In 2015, excavations were conducted at the Siva Devale No. 2 temple in the northeast corner of the ancient city. The excavations aimed at establishing a scientifically derived chronology for the site, and crucially the artefacts recovered from within it. However, the monument is also suffering from annual inundation during monsoon, and the excavation preceded plans to create a drainage solution for the site. The excavation is shedding new light on this area of Polonnaruva. In the earliest period, a wall in trench C, that runs parallel to the CCF conserved citadel wall, may have been an Anuradhapura period delineation of this area of Polonnaruva, potentially representing the earliest defined urban space at this city. Auger transects revealed that the wall followed a parallel east -west alignment and it is recommended that next season geophysical survey and further small sondage excavations are conducted to reveal the walls full extent and nature. The early precinct wall is thought to be associated with the stone temple construction due to the characteristic 'Polonnaruva' period construction method of stone blocks below brick, as seen at the nearby conserved 'Polonnaruva' period citadel wall. This precinct wall defined a sacred area around the stone Siva Devale No. 2, forming a courtyard in which occupation deposits did not accumulate and earlier structures, such as the truncated stone pillar in trench D and the drain feature in trench A, were demolished or re-incorporated. Later occupation respected this sacred space, with post-stone temple construction activities being confined to the north of the brick precinct wall. Indeed, a later reused stone block wall respected the original precinct wall boundaries. The later phase of this occupation were associated with craft activity, specifically metal working and potentially glass working.
Further excavations in 2016 aimed to identify further evidence of craft production and industrial activity at the site, as well as to define the temple precinct wall uncovered in the previous field season. The precinct wall was identified in the northeast and southeast corners, but in these locations they were heavily degraded, by either bioturbation, or by robbing of this feature for later constructions. To the south the precinct had almost completely been lost and was represented by a few rubble patches. Inside the precinct wall excavations identified several indicators of previous occupation, including stone and brick footings of structures directly north of the stone temple, as well as a truncated stone pillar. The excavations also uncovered the character of the foundations of Siva Devale No.2. The large well-dressed stone blocks at the base of the temple sat on a thin layer of soil, before resting on stone blocks, including a worked stone resting on the bedrock, and the temple was built on a natural raised area. The use of stone blocks suggests that the Temple construction utilised material from previous phases of occupation and activity.
Excavations at Siva Devale No.2 have confirmed that there was substantial industrial activity immediately outside the precinct wall, suggesting that polluting activities were undertaken outside this designated sacred space. It is also possible that such craft activity may have been related to a temple economy, where products for pilgrims, and possibly the surrounding area were producing goods as part of a redistributive network, perhaps similar to that encountered in the Anuradhapura hinterland in a role undertaken by Buddhist monasteries.
We also excavated a trench either side of the northern wall of the citadel complex within Polonnaruva in order to understand and date its construction. The excavations showed that there were multiple phases of wall construction, and there is evidence of earlier occupation below the extant remains. At present we are still awaiting dates.
Lucero, L.J., Fletcher, R. & Coningham, R.A.E. (2015). From 'collapse' to urban diaspora: the transformation of low-density, dispersed agrarian urbanism. Antiquity 89(347): 1139-1154.
Manuel, M.J., Gunawardhana, P., Coningham, R.A.E., Davis, C.E., Namalgamuwa, H., Senanayaka, J, Rammungoda, U.R. & Bandara, K.G.Y. (2018). Ritual and economy reconsidered at Siva Devale No. 2, Polonnaruva. In Buddha Rashmi: Vesak Volume: essays in Buddhism and Buddhist monastic archaeology. Gunawardhana, P. & Coningham, R.A.E. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Central Cultural Fund. 33-44.
Coningham, R.A.E., Manuel, M.J., Davis, C.E. & Gunawardhana, P. (2017). Archaeology and Cosmopolitanism in Early Historic and Medieval Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History. Biedermann, Z. & Strathern, A. London: UCL Press. 19-43.
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Q: Use Firebase application for different flavors I have a main package which called "project" and a flavor called "flavor"

The error " No matching client found for package name ..." occure when project tries to build and didn't find the project package name in google-services.json. In my case, "project.flavor" is missing which prevent project from building.
If i try to add ".flavor" manually in google-services.json file , project will build normally, and android app will start, but authentication with Firebase won't work.
Can we use same google-services.json file for different project flavors ?

A: I Finally found a solution.
For Firebase to work with flavor, i added new Firebase application using "FirebaseConsole" and put it's package to "project.flavor", added my generated SHA-1, then downloaded the .json file and imported it to my flavor package inside ANdroid Studio.
Works like a charm <3 <3 :D
Conclusion : Each project flavor needs it's own Firebase application, and it's own google-services.json


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113. Which of the following country is the first one to implement GST?
115. In India GST came affective from July 1st, 2017, India has chosen ................... model of dual GST.
118. IGST is levied on supply of goods and provision of services …………………………….
119. An assessee who has opted for the Composite Scheme, is he eligible to take input taxcredit?
120. An assessee who has opted for the Composite Scheme, can he collect tax under GST?


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From Patch Napa Valley: 77 Students Awarded Napa Valley Community Foundation Scholarships
Posted on: Jul 28, 2020
July 28, 2020 by Maggie Fusek
Nearly $250K in scholarships went to local students; some are military veterans, others are the first in their families to attend college.
NAPA VALLEY, CA — The Napa Valley Community Foundation has awarded $249,800 in scholarships to 77 local students.
Scholarship awards ranged from $250 to $8,000 per student for the next academic year, for an average scholarship amount of $2,290, the nonprofit association said in a news release.
Approximately 64 percent of this year's scholarship recipients are the first in their families to attend college; 49 percent are enrolling at University of California campuses or private universities; 31 percent have enrolled in the California State University system; and 14 percent have enrolled in Napa Valley College.
"We are in a moment of great uncertainty for local students beginning their college careers," said Julia DeNatale, vice president of Community Impact for Napa Valley Community Foundation. "As high school seniors, they graduated several weeks ago in drive-by ceremonies or Zoom commencements all around the Valley. Now, they are preparing for a first semester in college unlike any other in our recent history. We are incredibly proud of their hard work and determination, and confident that they will find a way to persevere and succeed —no matter what attending classes looks like this fall."
Among this year's scholarship recipients were:
—Local military veterans who are receiving financial support thanks to The George and Gwendolyn Goodin Scholarship Fund, a permanent endowment that was established at NVCF with a gift from the estate of George and Gwendolyn Goodin, longtime residents of Yountville;
— Recent graduates from local public high schools and Napa Valley College students, many of whom are the first in their family to pursue a four-year college education, courtesy of The Fruit of the Vine Scholarship Fund, which is renewable every year and was established by an anonymous Napa Valley winegrower; and
— NVCF's newest scholarship fund, the Daisy Cavalli Scholarship Fund, which benefits graduating seniors who attend a Napa Valley Unified School District high school and will be enrolling in a trade/vocational school, community college, or four-year college/university, and provides funding for every year that the student is enrolled as a full-time student.
Scholarships were also awarded from the following funds:
— the Edward W. Solomon and the Judith B. Cutcomb Scholarship Funds for teachers throughout the Valley;
— the Ted Kohler Music Scholarship Fund for Calistoga students studying music; and,
— the Lenore Hirsch-Jay Falk Scholarship Fund for Napa County students who have worked hard to overcome academic challenges, and will attend a two- or four-year college program in general education.
"We are particularly proud, this year, to help bridge the gap between talent and opportunities," said NVCF President Terence Mulligan. "These students have shown tremendous resilience as they begin their post-secondary education, and our donors understand that scholarships often are the boost deserving students need to turn their goals into reality."
More information about applying for or contributing to NVCF scholarships is posted on the organization's website.


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Q: Can VAR models handle time series with different lengths? I'm trying to better understand how Vector Auto-Regression models work in practice. It seems to me that a real world time series data set is likely to have time series of different lengths, but I can't figure out how a VAR model would handle this situation.

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*If we shorten the time series in order to bring them all to the same length, we loose a lot of valuable information.

*Zero padding the shorter time series to be the same length as the longest time series would mess with the quality of the coefficients that model the time series.

*Imputation might work for single missing values here and there, but I don't see how it could work when an entire leading chunk is missing from the time series.

Is there a way to use VAR on groups of time series with different lengths?

A: In economic (mostly macroeconomic) and financial application, it is not uncommon to have time series of different lengths. Some variables have been recorded for a longer time than other. This way you get a data matrix with ragged edges at the top (the oldest observations). It is perhaps less common to have ragged edges at the bottom (the newest observations), but it happens e.g. in macroeconomics where the newest observations are reported at different times for different variables during a quarter or a month. So within a quarter or a month, you will already have observations of some variables but not others. Similar examples can be found in finance, just the frequency of the time series is typically higher.
Time series are usually trimmed by cutting the oldest (and less often, newest) observations from variables that have more old (new) observations than other variables. This way one achieves a data matrix with flat top (bottom) that* can be readily used for estimation with least-squares based routines (such as feasible GLS or equation by equation OLS). This is your option 1.
Zero-padding (your option 2) is tricking yourself; you note correctly that it messes up the coefficients. I would not recommend that and I have not seen it done in serious work (I am mostly familiar with macroeconomics and finance).
Imputations here and there (option 3) also mess up inference, but it may be worth it. When the number of time series is large and quite a few of them have a few missing observations at different time periods, suddenly there are lots of lines with missing data. If deleted, they can substantially reduce the sample size. Moreover, they bring other lines with them; a single missing data point is part of lagged time series for different lags and as such lies in different lines of the data matrix augmented by lags. So sometimes people do such imputation at the expense of messing the inference a bit. There are estimation routines (EM algorithm) and frameworks (Bayesian) where keeping rows with missing data does not mess up inference as the missing data points are not used as data for estimating coefficients but are only estimated from the model. This should work fine for missing data points here and there, but I do not think you would gain any estimation precision by applying them to cases with severely ragged top or bottom of the data matrix.
*when augmented with lags (which again requires trimming the oldest observations from the lower-order lags to remove a ragged top edge and achieve a flat-top matrix)


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Q: Arm Assembly proper way to PUSH POP link register and pc in a subroutine and calling a subroutine within a subroutine For ARM assembly
I have been doing the following in my subroutines:
SubRoutine:
  PUSH {r1,r2,lr}
  //code that changes r1 and r2
  POP {r1,r2,lr}
  bx lr

Is this the correct way to return from a subroutine and continue with code in your main function? I have seen around that people are doing the following:
SubRoutine:
  PUSH {r1,r2,lr}
  //code that changes r1 and r2
  POP {r1,r2,pc}
  bx lr

But I don't know why you would POP the PC when you PUSHed the LR. Which is the correct way and why?
Also, If you call a subroutine within  a subroutine, do you do the following:
SubRoutine:
   PUSH {r1,r2,lr}

  //code that changes r1 and r2
  PUSH {lr}
  bl AnotherRoutine (where bx lr will be used to return from it)
  POP {lr}

  POP {r1,r2,pc}
  bx lr

OR do you do it like this instead:
SubRoutine:
   PUSH {r1,r2,lr}

  //code that changes r1 and r2
  PUSH {lr}
  bl AnotherRoutine(where bx lr will be used to return from it)
  POP {pc}

  POP {r1,r2,pc}
  bx lr

A: There are three cases that you should be aware of.

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*Leaf: void foo(void) {};

*Tail call: int foo(void) { return bar(); };

*Intermediate: int foo(void) { int i; i = bar() + 4; return i; };
There are many ways to implement these calls.  Below are some samples and are not the only way to implement epilogue and prologue in ARM assembler.

LEAF funtions
Many functions are the leaf type and do not require saving of the lr.  You simply use the bx lr to return.  For example,
SubRoutine:
  PUSH {r1,r2}
  //code that changes r1 and r2
  POP {r1,r2}
  bx lr

Also, it is typical that r1 and r2 are used to pass parameters and a SubRoutine is free to use/destroy them.ARM calling conventions  This will be the case if you call 'C' function from assembler.  So typically, no one would save r1 and r2 but as it is assembler you can do what ever you like (even if it is a bad idea).  So actually the example is only bx lr if you follow the standard.

Tail Call
If your function is a leaf except for a final call to another function you can use the following short cut,
Sub_w_tail:
// Save callee-saved regs (for whatever calling convention you need)
// Leave LR as is.
// ... do stuff
B  tail_call

The LR is saved by the caller to Sub_w_tail and you just jump directly to tail_call which returns to the original caller.

Intermediate function
This is the most complex.  Here is a possible sequence,
SubRoutine:
   PUSH {r1,r2,lr}

  //code that changes r1 and r2
  bl AnotherRoutine (where bx lr will be used to return from it)

  // more code
  POP {r1,r2,pc}   // returns to caller of 'SubRoutine'

Some details of an older calling convention are in the ARM Link and frame registers question.  You can use this convention.  There are many different ways to perform the epilogue and prologue in ARM assembler.

The last is quite complex; or at least tedious to code.  It is a lot better to let a compiler determine what registers to use and what to place on the stack. However, usually you only need to know how to code the first (LEAF function) when writing assembler.  It is most productive only to code an optimized sub-routine called from a higher level language in assembler.  It is useful to know how all of them work to understand compiled code.  You should also consider inline assembler so you don't have to deal with these nuances.


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The art of precision cooking -- in space
By Janet Anderson, JPL/NASA
From left to right: Petra Neuhause and Harold Lenski, both with Astrium, Germany accompanied by Jeff Clancy of Teledyne Brown Engineering, use a heat gun to open the first U.S. sample cartridge processed in the solidification quench furnace in the Materials Science Research Rack aboard the International Space Station. The sample was returned to Earth on the space shuttle mission STS 133. Credit: NASA/MSFC/Emmett Given
If you think it's tough to make Baked Alaska or a delicate soufflé or some other temperature-sensitive dish in your kitchen at home, imagine the painstaking task of trying to cook to perfection 250 miles in the sky -- where you can't even peek inside the oven.
A new furnace -- one capable of enhanced processing of materials science samples -- has been added to NASA's Materials Science Research Rack or MSRR on the International Space Station. Dubbed the "Solidification and Quenching Furnace" or SQF, the new apparatus is designed to "cook" metals, ceramics, alloys, crystals and glass with culinary precision.
"Processing materials at high temperatures in the manned space environment presents several challenging problems," Jimmie Johnson, project manager for MSRR. "These challenges include precise temperature control, ensuring a safe environment for the crew, yet obtaining a high enough temperature to yield good science results."
The SQF provides three heater zones to ensure accurate temperature profiles and maintain the sample's required temperature variations throughout the solidification process. This capability provides much faster solidification rates, and allows correlation of each sample's microstructure to the processing parameters, thereby influencing material properties
"The goal of studying materials processing in space is to develop a better understanding of the chemical and physical properties involved," said Alex Lehoczky, project scientist for MSRR. "Equipped with this knowledge, we can better predict conditions needed on Earth to achieve improved materials. After all, materials science is an integral part of developing new materials for our everyday life."
A U.S. materials science sample processed in the SQF was returned to Earth by space shuttle Discovery during the STS-133 mission. Upon its return, the cartridge containing the processed sample was delivered to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., for initial examination prior to opening. In May, the cartridge was opened and the sample was removed. It was X-rayed at the Marshall Center for an initial assessment and then transferred to coinvestigator Professor Surendra Tewari, who transported it to his laboratory at Cleveland State University in Ohio for continued analysis. Professor Tewari and Professors David Poirier and Robert Erdman of the University of Arizona in Tucson are collaborating on this study.
The Materials Science Research Rack allows for the on-orbit study of a variety of materials -- including metals, ceramics, semi-conductor crystals and glasses. The first American sample processed in the SQF consisted of an aluminum and silicon alloy that was melted and then directionally solidified. Similar processing of various alloys is typically used for producing commercially important products such as high temperature turbine blades.
Applied materials science is essential for the development of new, safer, stronger and more durable materials for use throughout everyday life. One of the goals of performing research in space is to gain a better understanding of the role of gravity in the microstructural development during solidification.
In just over a year, MSRR has successfully completed more than 620 hours of operating time. The rack is about the size of a large refrigerator, measuring 6 feet high, 3.5 feet wide and 40 inches deep and weighs about 1 ton. It currently accommodates two furnace inserts in which sample materials can be processed at temperatures of up to 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit. Sample cartridges are inserted in the respective furnaces one at a time by members of the space station crew for processing. Once a cartridge is in place, the experiment can be run by automated command initiated from the ground. Processed samples are returned to Earth as soon as possible for evaluation and analysis.
First U.S. Sample Processed in Materials Science Research Rack to be Opened at Marshall
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After a seven-year dry spell, UTM finally took home a Div 1 championship title after defeating PHE 2–1.
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Men's Div 1 volleyball defeats UC at home.
Comeback season for men's volleyball
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The adults held the egg sac using two rows of talon-like hooks on the underside of three of their four pairs of arms. The sac is formed of two thin membranes which form a hollow tube, open at both ends. The squid wave their arms to flush water through the sac - probably to aerate the eggs. Previously, it had been thought that squid would be incapable of caring for their eggs as the health of most species deteriorates rapidly after laying eggs. Most adult squid become extremely gelatinous as their muscles degenerate after egg-laying and they die shortly afterwards. But this species appeared "fairly healthy" after egg laying, notes Seibel. Even so the mother weakens as the eggs develop, as she does not feed while holding her progeny. The team believes the adult carries her eggs around in this way for between six to nine months before they hatch, by which time she is exhausted.


Born and raised in Mexico, Isabel studied law with the expectation of helping the disadvantaged. Bureaucracy and corruption made her change vocations and apply for Canadian residency. While waiting for it, she worked in administration and lived in the Caribbean. Once she arrived to Montreal, and work hard, she finally discovered what she wanted to do: work in the community and for the community. Life took her to work in administration, and she discovered her unexpected passion: organizing finances. She has 7 years experience working for non profits and she loves it. She is devoted to the cause of A is B and is happy to handle Finances in a way that is easy and not scary.


Feeling stressed at work? Sorry to say, you're in excellent company. According to an American Psychological Association survey, Americans are more stressed than at any time during the past decade.
But I'm happy to share five helpful coping strategies I picked up from two experts while attending the recent Indeed.com conference on hiring trends. I think they'll help you feel less anxious and more productive on the job; they might even help you earn more money.
The experts are Stanford health psychologist and author of The Upside of Stress, Kelly McGonigal, and positive psychology researcher and author of Broadcasting Happiness, Michelle Gielan, who is founder of the Institute for Applied Positive Research.
1. Shift the way you think about stress. Most of us think of our bodies' response to stress — sweaty palms and racing heartbeat — as a problem. But studies show that when people are taught to view their bodies' stress response as helpful (that racing heart isn't nerves, it's supplying needed oxygen to boost performance) they are less stressed-out and more confident.
When participants in a study by Gielan and her husband Shawn Achor (CEO and co-founder of Goodthink), along with researchers from Yale University, embraced a more positive mindset about stress, they experienced a 23% drop in stress-related symptoms, like headaches, backaches and fatigue.
By changing the meaning you give to your stress symptoms, you'll change the way your body reacts. It sounds like wishful thinking, but this really is a case of mind over matter.
So the next time you start stressing as you, say, walk into a job interview, try reminding yourself that this is a good sign, not an indicator of weakness. "By choosing a different mindset, you can switch from paralysis to action," says McGonigal.
Admittedly, this mind shift can take a while to fully take hold. To facilitate the process, I strongly recommend you check out McGonigal's wildly popular TED talk, How to Make Stress Your Friend.
2. Focus on helping others. Studies indicate that one of the best ways to reduce stress is to focus on others. When we are stressed, our bodies release the hormone oxytocin (dubbed the cuddle hormone) and that, in turn, stimulates our desire for social connection. As a bonus, oxytocin is a natural anti-inflammatory that helps the heart recover faster from stress.
McGonigal calls this the "tend and befriend" response — a healthy stress response that helps us shift our focus from what we can't control, to what we can. It's one of the reasons we saw such a dramatic upswing in people helping others in the highly stressful days following the 9/11 tragedy.
To use this strategy in the workplace, seek out opportunities to mentor. Mentoring increases your feeling of connection to your colleagues and brings more meaning to your daily routine. But it's not just a feel good proposition – it's beneficial to your career as well.
Gielan said that how you support your colleagues at work is one of the three greatest predictors of long-term levels of career success. Her research found that people who score in that top quartile of what's known as "support provision" are 40% more likely to get a promotion than people who score in the lowest quartile.
Another idea: Take the time to express thanks at work. Gielan recommends starting your day by sending a quick two-minute email showing a colleague your appreciation or praising him or her. Your network will appreciate your thoughtfulness. And, it's a good way to get your day started on a positive note by reminding yourself that you have many colleagues who support you.
3. Start work conversations by saying something positive. People have been raised to match the mood of those they are talking to, so when you begin a conversation with something positive, you improve the chances the other person will respond with something positive, too. Gielan calls this technique a "Power Lead" and says it helps push your brain into a high-performance zone with just a few words.
Give it a try the next time you walk into a staff meeting. Instead of kicking things off by, for instance, complaining about the horrible commute, mention something positive — your co-worker's attractive outfit or the recent upswing in sales results. By setting a positive tone, you'll encourage more productive conversations and help reduce your stress levels as well as stress of those around you.
It could even help you earn more on the job. Gielan cited a study conducted at MetLife, where optimistic salespeople outsold their pessimistic counterparts by a whopping 37%.
4. Turn off news alerts. That's an easy, but effective, way to reduce stress. Gielan (a former CBS News broadcaster) says that research has found people who listened to just three minutes of negative news in the morning had a whopping 27% greater likelihood of reporting their day as being unhappy six to eight hours later than those who didn't. So shut off those automatic notifications to your phone and limit your access to news sites on your computer until the end of the day.
Don't worry about FOMO (fear of missing out). If there's anything really important happening, you'll hear about it soon enough.


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Hampstead Highgate Express > News > Local Council
Bitter row erupts over who gets to be Camden's next mayor
Tom Marshall
Published: 11:49 AM April 19, 2013 Updated: 1:35 PM October 14, 2020
Cllr Jonathan Simpson during his last stint as mayor - Credit: Archant
A row has broken out at the town hall over who should be the next mayor of Camden.
Liberal Democrat politicians are aghast that ruling Labour has nominated Cllr Jonathan Simpson to serve a second term – just two years after he hung up his chain.
In a relatively rare move, the appointment will now be contested with the Lib Dems nominating Cllr Flick Rea, a member for Fortune Green ward.
They feel the role as the borough's figurehead, who is expected to be politically neutral and also chairs full council meetings, should be shared across the political divide.
Cllr Keith Moffitt, leader of Camden Lib Dems, said: "When we and the Conservatives led the council [from 2006 to 2010], we introduced a system of rotating between all political parties.
"We're very disappointed that Labour has stopped doing that because it's supposed to be neutral and non-political.
"Not only are they not going to rotate it across parties – they have run out of people to rotate it within their own ranks. I think it's indefensible."
The role carries an allowance of £15,954 on top of the basic £9,654 received by all councillors, along with a car and driver.
Cllr Simpson served in 2011/12 and has also been deputy to outgoing mayor Cllr Heather Johnson over the past 12 months, a role that carries a special member's allowance of £1,593.
Cllr Moffitt added: "When someone is coming back almost immediately that does not seem right, especially when people in other parties are very capable. Flick Rea has the longest continuous service on the council and would be an excellent mayor."
Labour councillor Theo Blackwell, cabinet member for finance, said: "It's not the first time they have tried this and it's playing politics with the mayoralty."
The mayor also holds the casting vote if there is a tie on motions in the council chamber.
Cllr Blackwell added: "Constitutionally, the mayor has the casting vote, so if there's a tie on an important decision, the mayor's vote really counts. So it's not a purely ceremonial post about opening rose gardens."
He added that Labour has "great respect" for Cllr Rea and that she might stand a better chance "if she would like to defect to Labour".
Neither Cllr Simpson nor Cllr Rea was available for comment.


Rep: Janet Down, SoLO Life Opportunities.
Discussed work ongoing in determining where multi-occupancy dwellings are best placed in Solihull.
Draft annual report will be available from July and we are encouraged to circulate it.
Work has been done on risks register and 5 key areas of risk have been identified – action plans are in place to mitigate against these.
Safeguarding Reports – reports were given on progress of children and adults safeguarding boards. The work with volunteer partners – Age UK and SATA had achieved for Solihull the Gold Standard on Making Safeguarding Personal. Enable, another volunteering organisation, also supports the collection of people's views for the prevention subcommittee.
Is enough being done in geographical locations to make a step change in outcomes?


Water Etching is a great way to give subtle texture to your ceramic work, but by using water etching and Velvet Underglazes together you can take your decoration to a new level!
Start with a bone dry piece, and apply underglaze. You can use one or many colors in whatever pattern you like. Apply two or three coats, allowing underglaze to dry between coats.
Use a wet sponge to remove the underglaze from the unshellaced areas. The design will remain with the underglazes, making a colourful pattern on the bare clay.
Bisque normally, making sure to clean the bisque thoroughly before glazing to remove any residue from the shellac.
Use a clear or translucent glaze to enhance the colour. This plate uses Velvet Underglazes, V-387 Bright Red, V-384 Real Orange, and V-391 Intense Yellow. It was glazed with Amaco HF-9 Zinc Free Clear and fired to cone 5.


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