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Male Figurine or Finial
early 1800s-early 1900s
Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (most likely), Cabinda, or Republic of the Congo, probably Yombe people
Overall: 9.7 x 3.8 x 3.3 cm (3 13/16 x 1 1/2 x 1 5/16 in.)
The stomach cavity was once filled with medicinal substances; once removed, the nkisi figure is considered "decommissioned."
This figurine or finial may have contained a medicine-filled package on its abdomen. The man seated with his legs crossed and wearing a coiffure of Portuguese inspiration may represent a chief, which was once attached to a scepter or perhaps a flywhisk. Beneath the chief, a child holds onto his back; though such imagery is more typically seen with female sculptures.
?-1972
(René De Wolf, Brussels, BE, before 1972, sold to René and Odette Delenne)
René [1901-1998] and Odette Delenne [1925-2012], Brussels, BE, 2010, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 2010
Petridis, Constantine, et al. Fragments of the Invisible: The René and Odette Delenne Collection of Congo Sculpture. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art. Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2013, 50. Reproduced: p. 50; mentioned: p. 113, cat. 11
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Whitmer joins lawmakers to call for adding LGBT protections
By DAVID EGGERTJune 4, 2019 GMT
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, center, joins with lawmakers and others calling for expanding the state's civil rights law to prohibit discrimination against LGBT people on Tuesday, June 4, 2019, in the Capitol building in Lansing, Mich. The Democratic governor says nobody should be fired from a job or be evicted "based on who they love or how they identify." (AP Photo/David Eggert)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday joined with Democratic lawmakers and others to get behind newly introduced legislation that would expand Michigan's civil rights law to include protections for LGBT people, saying it is time for the state to be on the "right side of history."
The Democrat has previously supported a yearslong effort to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in employment, housing and public accommodations. But advocates said having a sitting governor in their corner at a time the Republican-led House and Senate both have openly gay members for the first time is "historic."
"It's time to get Michigan on the right side of history," Whitmer said during a news conference at her Capitol ceremonial office, where legislators held a rainbow flag. "In the year 2019, nobody — nobody — should be fired from their job or evicted from their home based on who they love or how they identify."
GOP lawmakers have not embraced such bills in the past, or have insisted that they be paired with a religious objections measure that is opposed by backers of LGBT rights. Asked if a ballot initiative would be a viable option if the bill remains bottled up, Whitmer said regular legislation is the "preferred route" but a ballot measure is always a possibility.
The Michigan Civil Rights Commission last year said discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity is a form of "sex" discrimination outlawed under the 1976 civil rights law. But Democrats said it is important to actually change the law.
"We need to make sure that we put pen to paper, that we put our values into the laws of Michigan so there is never a question about, 'Will I have protection? Will my rights, will my love, will my life be dependent on who happens to sit in that seat on the Civil Rights Commission?'" said Rep. Jon Hoadley of Kalamazoo.
Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, a Clarklake Republican, said the legislation will be assigned to a committee and "we'll just see what happens."
House Bill 4688: http://bit.ly/3187w0p
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«Контракто́ва пло́ща» — 17-та станція Київського метрополітену. Розташована на Оболонсько-Теремківській лінії між станціями «Тараса Шевченка» та «Поштова площа». Відкрита 17 грудня 1976 року під назвою «Червона площа».

Конструкція
Конструкція станції — колонна трипрогінна мілкого закладення з острівною платформою.

Колійний розвиток: 6-стрілочні оборотні тупики з боку станції «Тараса Шевченка».

Зал з обох боків сполучений з підземними вестибюлями, що виходять у підземні переходи. Південний вихід обладнаний сходами і двострічковим одномаршевим ескалатором, підземний перехід виходить на Контрактову площу і Спаську вулицю. Північний вихід має сходи, підземний перехід виходить до вулиць Верхній вал і Нижній вал. Наземні вестибюлі відсутні.

Опис
Особливості конструкції — надтонкі колони з металу, які навіть при облицюванні мармуром виглядають незвично вузькими.

Станцію збудовано на однойменній площі Подолу, в одному з найдавніших місць Києва — в районі вулиць Верхній та Нижній вали, Хорива. Історія цього району міста знайшла своє відображення в архітектурно-художньому оформленні станції метро.

Розташування
Станція є важливою частиною транспортного сполучення в місті. Зокрема, неподалік розташована автостанція «Поділ», звідки відправляються автобуси в передмістя. Трамваями можна дістатися до залізничного вокзалу, Дегтярівської вулиці, станції метро «», Відрадного масиву, Куренівки, площі Шевченка та Пуща-Водиці. Звідси відправляються маршрутні таксі на Троєщину, Рибальський острів, Академмістечко, Лук'янівку, Печерськ тощо.

Пасажиропотік

Зображення

Див. також
 Список станцій Київського метрополітену.

Примітки

Посилання

 Сторінка станції на офіційному сайті Київського метрополітену .
 Сторінка станції на неофіційному сайті Київського метрополітену .

 Фотографії станції на сайті metro.zarohem.cz
 Левитська І. Г. Поділ: «Поштова площа» — через 25 років  // Поділ і ми. — 2001. — № 4–5. — С. 46, 47.
 Тоцкий Олег. Метро, которого нет: «Площадь Независимости», «Почтовая площадь» и «Контрактовая площадь»  // tov-tob.livejournal.com. — 2012. — 14 декабря.

Оболонсько-Теремківська лінія метрополітену
Подільський район (Київ)
1976 у Києві
Колонні станції мілкого закладення
Контрактова площа
Спаська вулиця (Київ)

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import java.util.EventObject;

import org.directwebremoting.Hub;

/**
 * An MessageEvent is fired to a set of {@link MessageListener}s by the DWR
 * {@link Hub}.
 * @author Joe Walker [joe at getahead dot ltd dot uk]
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public interface MessageEvent
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     * @see EventObject#getSource()
     * @return the hub that processed this message
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    /**
     * We convert the data (if the message is from the client) as late as
     * possible so the message recipient can choose what type it should be.
     * @param <T> The type that we are converting to
     * @param asType The type that we are converting to
     * @return The data coerced into the required type
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    public <T> T getData(Class<T> asType);

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Hello and welcome to a blogpost that I should have done a million years ago.
Music is a huge part of my life as you know, so much so I would say it is on a level with how much fashion means to me, a life without music aint no life for me!
I've been the owner of a very eclectic music taste for many years, mainly thanks to my Pops. He's always submerged my sister and I in a variety of music and so I feel we both have a lot to thank him for. He's always championed the mantra "There's only one musical genre. Music you like and music you don't like" and I couldn't agree with him more. As you'll see from this playlist it's an amalgamation of all musical "genres" each a song that has meant something to me over the past three years since I started creating this playlist.
It's a playlist I started three years ago when I added the Spotify feature to my blog, something nobody else was doing at the time. I'd write the blog post and depending on what the post was about or simply how I was feeling that day I'd think of a song to accompany said post. I liked to think that some of you were reading my posts with the sound on and that was really lovely for me.
Three years later and the playlist is full of the most weird and wonderful tunes, a real representation of me and something I'm excited to share with you all.
Whether I was talking about the up's and down's of life which OBVZ meant that Ronan Keating's "Life Is a Rollercoaster" was selected or whether I was just totally obsessing over Queen (likely) so my fave Queen tune "Keep Yourself Alive" accompanied the post, it's an interesting old playlist and pretty much the soundtrack to the past three years of my life.
I'll be sharing playlists such as this (perhaps not so large) every month going forward which I'm REALLY excited about and I hope you are too so do make sure you're following me over on Spotify for all the bangers!
Huge thanks to Poppy Deyes for the inspiration behind this post and the whole writing and scanning of some of the tracks within the list, what a clever cookie you are.
Hi Megan, I've just downloaded this onto my Spotify – love the mix of genres. You often say that you're naturally a positive person and I'm not surprised if this is what you have playing! Hopefully will inspire me to be a bit more upbeat day to day. Thanks for sharing. Also, loving how many new blogposts there are at the moment!


To my knowledge, my tablet hasn't been dropped in the last week. I had my tablet in it's case, in a bag. I haven't used in a week but it was still on after taking a picture with it. I go to turn it on and most of the background is white with all different colored lines on it. The top is black with one white line and many running lines shooting across the screen. It still vibrates for notifications and it made the chime noise when I turned it off and back on again.
Maybe it needs a reset? I cannot find out how to do it through a computer. I plugged it in my computer and can see the files.
I purchased this tablet almost 2 years ago, Summer of 2013. I paid 450 roughly and I am very upset this has happened. Any help will be greatly appreciated. If I can fix it myself I would rather, because if take it to best buy they may only have a solution that costs lots of money.
Ororon, from your description, it does sound like a bad LCD. I would suggest to disassemble it using this guide. Step 7 shows the connector, make sure the ribbon cable is properly seated. If all of it looks okay, you do need to consider a new LCD.
Thank you for taking the time to answer. After I posted this I spent a while watching the video showing me how to take it apart. I disconnected the two connectors that were the LCD and digitizer. It still has the same problem. Is the LCD and digitizer the same thing? How can I determine which part I need? I'm only wondering because of the significant price difference between to the two parts. I wish I knew how to post a picture on this site!
I have the same problem. I have tried hitting it medium hard on the bottom and bottom edges and reset it about 10 times with no luck. From what I read I would try to disassemble it and see if something is loose and put it back together. You can try going into the main configure menu by that only will reset the device.
How do you reset the device using the computer? Can an LCD screen really go bad before 2 years of use?
I too had the same problem. While general web browsing, the screen gradually became washed off and next it turned complete white with a black border around the edge and coloured lines running horizontally across the screen. All these happened in a matter of a few mins.... I connected the note 8,0 to my TV via HDMI and everything is working great with clear picture, sound, including the digitizer (pen) and touch, just the tablet display is white!!
You can attach the tablet to a HDMI display (TV/ monitor/projector) and check if the tablet is working perfect with graphics and sound, touch and pen response. With this you can get control on your device even if its display is spoilt. If everything else is fine, the LCD might have to be checked and replaced.
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Сапармурад Нурыевич Нурыев () — туркменский государственный деятель.

Биография
Родился в 1934 году в Иолотанском районе Туркменской ССР.

Работал в системе Туркменглавэнерго с 1964 г. после окончания Ташкентского института инженеров железнодорожного транспорта. Инженер-энергетик.

В 1964—1968 гг. работал на Безмеинской ГРЭС им. Ленина в Ашхабадской области вместе с Сапармуратом Ниязовым.

С 1968 г. на Марыйской ГРЭС: главный инженер, затем — директор строящейся ГРЭС, с ноября 1971 г. — директор действующей ГРЭС.

26.01.1995 — 03.03.2000 — министр энергетики и промышленности Туркменистана.

07.04.1997 — 28.01.2000 — заместитель Председателя Кабинета министров Туркменистана.

3 марта 2000 года освобождён от должности министра энергетики и промышленности «за серьезные недостатки в работе, злоупотребление служебным положением и личную нескромность». Был обвинён в нанесении ущерба государству и присвоении государственного имущества на сумму, эквивалентную 2,5 миллионов долларов США. Получил предложение вернуть указанную сумму в течение 2 недель и избежать уголовной ответственности.

По данным некоторых источников, а также согласно интервью, данным бывшим министром иностранных дел Туркменистана Борисом Шихмурадовым газете «Известия», после отставки находился в ссылке, «почти в заточении».

Дальнейшая судьба достоверно неизвестна.

Соавтор монографии: Развитие электроэнергетики Туркменистана / Сапармурад Нурыев, Азат Чарыев. Ашгабат: Б. и. ; Москва : SIGNAR, 1998

Варианты транскрипции имени и фамилии
 Имя: Сапармурат, Сапармырат

Примечания

Источники
 Энергетики Туркменистана в 60 - 70-е гг. Атагельды Тачмурадович Байлиев, Раиса Павловна Клевакина. Ылым, 1991 - Всего страниц: 123
 Информация о Сапармураде Нурыеве на портале ЦентрАзия

Министры энергетики
заместители Председателя Кабинета Министров Туркменистана
Выпускники Ташкентского института инженеров железнодорожного транспорта
Родившиеся в Марыйском велаяте


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The facility consists of a 1 million gallon reservoir, and dual booster stations, each pumping to separate pressure zones with dedicated hydropneumatic surge tanks. DeltaSE was responsible for the instrumentation, control system, and SCADA system design on this project. Our services included PLC programming of the reservoir level controls, and the two booster station pressure control systems. The control system consists of an Allen-Bradley ControlLogix 5550, and a MicroLogix 1500 for backup pump control. We also configured and programmed a Xycom industrial computer with touch-screen operator interface terminal, running Wonderware Intouch for the human-machine interface. The SCADA system is designed to communicate via radio telemetry with several remote well sites that pump directly to the reservoir. Additionally, a wireless I/O device remotely controls a valve at the golf course irrigation pump station, where potable water can be used to fill the golf course lake. DeltaSE also designed the electrical, instrumentation, and control systems for wells 1, 2, and 4 in the Sundance development, in Buckeye. We programmed Allen Bradley PLCs to control and monitor the wells remotely from the Sundance Reservoir and Booster Station via radio telemetry. The wells can be monitored for run status and alarms. Alarms include the diesel standby generator status. The instrumentation and control system design included flowmetering, which is used to monitor performance of the well pumps.
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DeltaSE was contracted by the City of Peoria to upgrade their SCADA radio network. Phase I of this project included a radio path study and detailed inventory for 62 water and wastewater sites. Phase I also included the development of Transition Plans, describing work and materials necessary to upgrade from serial to Ethernet radios, and re-configuration of the network paths to the new Cluster configuration. Phase II of the project is comprised of modification to each of the existing RTU's PLC programs to accommodate a new Ethernet radio, overseeing the relocation of I/O cards to accommodate the PLC's Ethernet module, and the reconfiguration of former repeater sites. Programming also included configuration of the Ethernet radios. Programming Services included on-site installation, testing and verification of connectivity. This included overseeing of contractor's work to include participation in field startup testing, and verification of correct data communication from RTUs to the SCADA. HMI programming consisted of all modifications needed to show added information and verification of correct communication of data from existing RTUs to the SCADA.
DeltaSE is performing arc flash hazard analysis and assessment, and implementing an associated safety program for 45 County Facilities. The arc flash assessment and resulting safe working practices are needed to comply with work place safety regulations specified in OSHA and implemented in NFPA 70E as they relate to electrical hazards. More specifically, DeltaSE is providing single line modeling diagrams, a report to include summary, findings, and recommendations for arc flash analysis/assessment, short circuit study, and protective device coordination study for each County facility. Also included is a comprehensive arc flash hazard safety program with basic training of County Facility Operations personnel, generation and installation of required hazard warning labels, proper identification of PPE, and generation of energized electrical work permits.


Like many Elektron products the uses and videos are wide and varying.
I usually find our little community to be helpful, informed, and easy to relate to.
I guess the question I ask myself is this, is almost $800 for an FM synth worth it?
I mean, a Volca FM is like $150. I know, way different.
But, what makes the Digitone special?
I guess when you talk Digitone, I consider the alternative is grabbing a Neutron and Model D from Behringer for less money?
But getting best bang for buck is a real concern for most.
So, I would love to hear about how the Digitone has such value versus its price point?
Will you be using the Digitone's sequencer, particularly with other gear? If not, and you're mainly interested in an FM synth, have you looked at the Yamaha ReFace DX?
do you happen to own that DX200 groovebox ?
I'm not an expert so take this for what it's worth. It reminds me of having the sounds of a bunch if ice gear synths in a box. The FM synthesis is implemented very well and really easy to wrap my head around. The sequencer is amazing. It plays really well my Digitakt.
Necessary? Not at all. But it's one of my favorite synths, hard or soft.
IMO it's fun box but it's not worth the asking price.
4 parts with total 8 voices - why???
You can get more out of DT sequencing Phasemaker or KQ Dx.
But less is more sometimes.


ITF is welcoming additional participants to a new joint industry project (JIP) to develop pipeline anchoring and monitoring systems which could mitigate the risk of pipeline walking and cut pipeline anchor installation costs in half.
The Anchoring Pipeline Technology (APT) JIP currently involves Shell. The initial phase of the project will run for eight months and will bring together major global operators and pipeline installation companies to collaborate with ITF and Crondall Energy, an independent oil and gas consultancy. It aims to investigate alternative and less costly solutions and create a roadmap on how to manage and mitigate the pipe-walking challenge.
David Bruton, Director Subsea, Crondall Energy, said: "There is much uncertainty over walking rate predictions in design, leading to increased design costs and schedule overruns. In many cases, these uncertainties are resolved by installing anchors as a pre-emptive mitigation measure, which has proven to be extremely costly, not entirely successful and, in some cases, unnecessary.
Large suction anchors, with a capacity of around 100 tonnes are typically installed at the end of the pipeline to control walking. In more recent projects, some long pipelines have required several anchors to be installed over the pipeline length. The potential overall saving from the deployment of optimised distributed-anchoring systems is expected to be up to 50% of a typical installed cost. For example, this could result in a cost saving of more than USD5m for a project planning to install several anchors on a single long pipeline.
Ben Foreman, Technology Team Lead with ITF, added: "The APT JIP is focused on providing the necessary research to present viable and economical solutions to this problem and we aim to do this over a relatively short timeframe. The JIP team already demonstrates a great deal of expertise and knowledge in this subject matter and will work together to develop and test more effective, low-cost pipeline anchoring systems that are simpler to deploy, more cost-effective to install and able to be retrofitted.
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Leland Gantt is an American actor and writer known for his roles in various television series and films. Gantt is also a theatre actor, and has appeared in a one-man show, Rhapsody in Black.

Early life and education
Gantt was born and raised in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. After graduating from McKeesport Area High School, he attended the Indiana University of Pennsylvania before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Point Park College. After struggling with drug and alcohol addiction, Gantt was inspired to pursue acting by a theatre teacher and moved to New York City in 1983.

Career
After moving to New York, Gantt appeared in Broadway productions of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Richard III, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Gem of the Ocean, Judas Iscariot, and The Fall of Heaven. In 1991, Gantt was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Let Me Live, losing to Kevin Spacey.

Gantt has also appeared in episodes of Law & Order and JAG. He portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1987 miniseries Hoover vs. The Kennedys. He also starred in The Affair.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

Living people
African-American actors
People from McKeesport, Pennsylvania
Point Park University alumni
Male actors from Pennsylvania
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
Male actors from New York City
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century African-American people
21st-century African-American people


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package com.zygon.htm.agent.simple;

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import com.zygon.htm.agent.simple.Sense.Percept;
import info.gridworld.actor.Actor;
import info.gridworld.actor.ActorWorld;
import info.gridworld.grid.Grid;
import info.gridworld.grid.Location;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.Random;

import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument;

/**
 * TODO: finish this up!
 *
 * @author zygon
 */
public class SimpleWorld extends ActorWorld {

    // Meant to overlay
    private static final class Space {

        private final int x;
        private final int y;
        private final boolean isWall;
        private final boolean isAgent;
        private final Map<Sense.Percept, Double> strengthByPercept;

        private Space(int x, int y, boolean isWall, boolean isAgent, Map<Sense.Percept, Double> strengthByPercept) {
            this.x = x;
            this.y = y;
            checkArgument((!isAgent && !isWall) || (isWall && !isAgent) || (!isWall && isAgent));
            this.isWall = isWall;
            this.isAgent = isAgent;
            this.strengthByPercept = ImmutableMap.copyOf(strengthByPercept);
        }

        public Space(int x, int y, boolean isWall, boolean isAgent) {
            this(x, y, isWall, isAgent, Collections.emptyMap());
        }

        public Space(int x, int y) {
            this(x, y, false, false);
        }

        public int getX() {
            return x;
        }

        public int getY() {
            return y;
        }

        @Deprecated
        public boolean isAgent() {
            return isAgent;
        }

        @Deprecated
        public boolean isWall() {
            return isWall;
        }

        @Deprecated
        public Space setIsAgent(boolean isAgent) {
            return new Space(x, y, isWall, isAgent);
        }

        @Deprecated
        public Space setIsWall(boolean isWall) {
            return new Space(x, y, isWall, isAgent);
        }

        public Space setPercept(Percept percept, double strength) {
            Map<Percept, Double> mergedMap = new HashMap<>(strengthByPercept);

            Double val = mergedMap.putIfAbsent(percept, strength);
            if (val != null) {
                // had an old value - merge them (take the higher value)
                double newVal = Math.max(val, strength);

                mergedMap.put(percept, newVal);
            }

            return new Space(x, y, isWall, isAgent, mergedMap);
        }

        protected Map<Percept, Double> getStrengthByPercept() {
            // This is immutable
            return strengthByPercept;
        }
    }

    // TODO: move
    private static Map<Percept, Double> merge(Collection<Map<Percept, Double>> things) {
        Map<Percept, Double> mergedMap = new HashMap<>();

        for (Map<Percept, Double> merge : things) {

            merge.entrySet().forEach(entry -> {
                Percept percept = entry.getKey();
                Double strength = entry.getValue();

                Double val = mergedMap.putIfAbsent(percept, strength);
                if (val != null) {
                    // had an old value - merge them (take the higher value)
                    double newVal = Math.max(val, strength);

                    mergedMap.put(percept, newVal);
                }
            });
        }

        return mergedMap;
    }

//    private final Gaussian gaussian;
    private final Space[][] spaces;

    // From info.gridworld.world.World
    private static final int DEFAULT_ROWS = 10;
    private static final int DEFAULT_COLS = 10;

    public SimpleWorld() {
        super();

        this.spaces = new Space[DEFAULT_COLS][DEFAULT_ROWS];
//        this.gaussian = new Gaussian(spaces.length / 2.0, 4.0); // todo: dynamic sigma
    }

//    public SimpleWorld(int x, int y) {
//        this(create(x, y));
//    }
//    private Space setEcho(Space space) {
//        double nWall = space.getY();
//        double nWallEcho = gaussian.value(nWall) * 10;
//
//        double sWall = spaces.length - space.getY();
//        double sWallEcho = gaussian.value(sWall) * 10;
//
//        double eWall = space.getX();
//        double eWallEcho = gaussian.value(eWall) * 10;
//
//        double wWall = spaces[0].length - space.getX();
//        double wWallEcho = gaussian.value(wWall) * 10;
//
//        double strength = nWallEcho * sWallEcho * eWallEcho * wWallEcho;
//        strength = Math.min(strength, 1.0);
//
//        return space.setPercept(Percept.ECHO, strength);
//    }
//    private Space setPercepts(Space space) {
//        return setEcho(space);
//        // TODO: others
//    }
    public void initialize() {

        Random rand = new Random();
        Percept[] percepts = Percept.values();

        Grid<Actor> grid = getGrid();
        for (int y = 0; y < grid.getNumRows(); y++) {
            for (int x = 0; x < grid.getNumCols(); x++) {

                spaces[x][y] = new Space(x, y);

                Actor actor = grid.get(new Location(x, y));
                if (actor != null) {
                    // Just plop a random percept for testing
                    Percept percept = percepts[rand.nextInt(3)];
                    double strength = rand.nextDouble();

                    spaces[x][y] = spaces[x][y].setPercept(percept, strength);
                }
            }
        }

//        int x = spaces.length;
//        int y = spaces[0].length;
//
//        for (int i = 0; i < x; i++) {
//            for (int j = 0; j < y; j++) {
//                if (i == 0 || j == 0 || i == x - 1 || j == y - 1) {
//                    spaces[i][j] = setPercepts(new Space(i, j).setIsWall(true));
//                } else {
//                    boolean agent = false;
//                    if (!setAgent) {
//                        if (rand.nextDouble() <= (1.0 / ((double) x * y))) {
//                            setAgent = true;
//                            agent = true;
//                        } else {
//                            // just in case we don't random place one
//                            if (i == x - 2 && j == y - 2) {
//                                setAgent = true;
//                                agent = true;
//                            }
//                        }
//                    }
//                    spaces[i][j] = setPercepts(new Space(i, j).setIsAgent(agent));
//                }
//            }
//        }
//
//        for (int i = 0; i < x; i++) {
//            for (int j = 0; j < y; j++) {
//                System.out.printf("%2f ", spaces[i][j].strengthByPercept.get(Percept.ECHO));
//            }
//            System.out.println();
//        }
    }
//
//    private void draw(Space space) {
//        if (space.isWall()) {
//            System.out.print("#");
//        } else {
//            if (space.isAgent()) {
//                System.out.print("@");
//            } else {
//                System.out.print(".");
//            }
//        }
//    }
//
//    private void draw() {
//        for (int i = 0; i < spaces.length; i++) {
//            for (int j = 0; j < spaces[i].length; j++) {
//                draw(spaces[i][j]);
//            }
//            System.out.println();
//        }
//    }
//
//    public static void main(String[] args) {
//        SimpleWorld world = new SimpleWorld(10, 10);
//        world.initialize();
//
//        world.draw();
//    }
//

    public Map<Percept, Double> getStrengthByPercept(Location location) {
        return spaces[location.getCol()][location.getRow()].getStrengthByPercept();
    }

    public Map<Percept, Double> getStrengthByPercept(Collection<Location> locations) {

        Collection<Map<Percept, Double>> merged = new HashSet<>();

        for (Location location : locations) {
            spaces[location.getCol()][location.getRow()].getStrengthByPercept();
        }

        return merge(merged);
    }

    public Optional<SimpleAgent> getSimpleAgent(String name) {
        Grid<Actor> grid = getGrid();
        for (int y = 0; y < grid.getNumRows(); y++) {
            for (int x = 0; x < grid.getNumCols(); x++) {
                Actor actor = grid.get(new Location(x, y));
                if (actor != null) {
                    if (actor instanceof SimpleAgent) {
                        SimpleAgent agent = (SimpleAgent) actor;
                        if (agent.getName().equals(name)) {
                            return Optional.of(agent);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        return Optional.empty();
    }

}


Dayna Ruem is currently the Payroll Tax & Garnishment Manager at PetSmart Inc. Dayna has been heavily involved in the payroll field over 17 years. Starting as a payroll clerk at a small Tucson company, Dayna moved on to be a Payroll Team Leader at Honeywell Inc. During Dayna's time at Honeywell she obtained her FPC (Fundamental Payroll Certification) through the American Payroll Association. She also received several merit awards for Customer Service and Acquisitions and Divestitures. Dayna is no stranger to teaching she has taught at the Metro Phoenix American Payroll Association meetings and at the Arizona State Payroll Conference. Topics including Payroll Basics, Global/Cultural Awareness, Immigration Basics for the Payroll Professional, Multi-State and Local Taxation and Quality Control for Payroll, International and Canadian payroll. Dayna has her CPP (Certified Payroll Professional) through the APA. She also serves on the National American Payroll Association on the National Strategic Leadership Task Force, Government Affairs Task Force (PA Local tax subcommittee). Dayna has received a Citation of Merit for her service along with being a Gold Pin member of the APA. Besides her payroll accomplishments, Dayna is certified in HR hiring and firing practices and is a Six-Sigma Greenbelt.
US companies are becoming more global each day, and many employers are faced with many challenges when a U.S. employee is working abroad or when a foreign national is working in the U.S. Many countries have changed tax laws in the last several years that make companies look for different ways to maintain international assignments. Since tax equalizations are not enough anymore to mitigate the risks that employers have when doing business globally, shadow or split payrolls are becoming more popular.
This webinar will give the participant to understand shadow payrolls, what they are and why US employers find them necessary. The steps to implement and maintain a shadow payroll will be reviewed. Along with tax consequences and concerns when running shadow payrolls. The participant will also see commonly used U.S. shadow payroll terminology.
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Study: Drug touted by Trump not found to be effective for treating COVID-19
By: Justin Boggs
In one of the first large studies of the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine on coronavirus victims, researchers found no evidence that the drug is effective at treating the virus.
The study, which was conducted at Veterans Health Administration hospitals using a total of 368 patients, gave victims hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as coronavirus treatments.
The study found no evidence that hydroxychloroquine reduced the risk of mechanical ventilation in patients hospitalized with COVID-19. The study also found an increased overall mortality rate among those treated with hydroxychloroquine alone.
"These findings highlight the importance of awaiting the results of ongoing prospective, randomized, controlled studies before widespread adoption of these drugs," the study's authors said.
The study's authors said that no effective therapy for COVID-19 has been identified. The authors said they expect further studies will continue on the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine.
Researchers from the VA Health Care System, University of Virginia and University of South Carolina were involved in the research.
Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the FDA said that the study is helpful to healthcare providers. Hahn added that the further randomized studies using a placebo will be needed to draw more conclusive conclusions.
"[The study is] something a doctor would need to consider when writing a prescription," Hahn said.
The drug for weeks was touted by President Donald Trump, despite skepticism from experts on the White House coronavirus task force.
"What do you have to lose?" Trump said earlier in April
At the April 4 briefing, Trump suggested he might take the drug.
"But I think people should — if it were me — in fact, I might do it anyway," Trump said. "I may take it. Okay? I may take it. And I'll have to ask my doctors about that, but I may take it."
Hydroxychloroquine, a treatment that is commonly used to treat malaria and lupus, is provided as treatment for COVID-19 patients on an experimental basis.
The FDA previously gave an "emergency use authorization." An EUA allows doctors to use treatments by weighing potential benefits over potential risks.
"Hydroxychloroquine sulfate has not been approved for the treatment of COVID-19. It has been used experimentally to treat certain people with COVID-19, including hospitalized patients," the FDA said. "Hydroxychloroquine sulfate is being used to try and stop the COVID-19 virus from spreading inside your body. This may help you to get better."
The drug carries known side effects, including stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, and headache, the FDA said.
Justin Boggs is a writer for the E.W. Scripps National Desk. Follow him on Twitter @jjboggs or on Facebook .


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Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones, Volume 2
By John Shore Baron Teignmouth
and elucidate; and from this resolution long and deliberately made, no prospects, no connections, no station here or abroad, no fear of danger, or hope of advantage to myself, shall ever deter or allure me.
A form of government so apparently conducive to the true happiness of the Community, must be admired as soon as it is understood, and if reason and virtue have any influence in human breasts, ought to be preserved by any exertions, and at any hazard. Care must now be taken, lest by reducing the regal power to its just level, we raise the aristocratical to a dangerous height; since it is from the people that we can deduce the obligation of our laws, and the authority of magistrates.
On the people depend the welfare, the security, and the permanence of every legal government; in the people must reside all substantial power; and to the people must all those, in whose ability and knowledge we sometimes wisely, often imprudently confide, be always accountable for the due exercise of that power with which they are for a time entrusted.
If the properties of all good government be considered as duly distributed in the different parts of our limited republic, goodness ought to be the distinguished attribute of the crown, wisdom of the aristocracy, but power and fortitude of the people.
May justice and humanity prevail in them all!
I am, Sir,
Your very faithful and obedient servant,
W. JONES.
Mr. JONES to Mr. THOMAS YEATES.
Lamb's Buildings, Temple, June 7, 1782. I lately met with some dangerous doctrine concerning the constitution of England, in the works of an admired English writer; the doctrine so dangerous, that an immediate confutation of it seems highly necessary, and the writer so admired, that his opinions, good or bad, must naturally have a very general influence. It was the opinion, in short, of the late ingenious Henry Fielding, that " the constitution of this island was nothing fixed, but just as " variable as its weather," and he treats the contrary notion as a ridiculous error: now if this doctrine be well founded, our society will soon, I imagine, think it wise to dissolve themselves, since it is hardly consistent with the gravity of sensible men to collect and impart information like the makers of almanacks, upon any thing so uncertain as the weather; if on the other hand, the error be palpably on the side of Mr. Fielding, you will not only proceed with assiduity in your laudable design of rendering our constitution universally known, but will be at least equal in usefulness and true dignity to any society that ever was formed. His words are these, in the preface to his tract, " On the Increase of Robberies," dedi. cated to Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. " There is nothing so much " talked of and so little understood in this country, as the constitution. " It is a word in the mouth of every man ; and yet when we come " to discourse of the matter, there is no subject on which our ideas
are more confused and perplexed. Some, when they speak of the " constitution, confine their notions to the law; others to the legisla" ture; others, again, to the governing or executive part; many " there are who jumble all these together in one idea. One error " however is common to them all; for all seem to have the conception " of something uniform and permanent, as if the constitution of England partook rather of the nature of the soil than of the climate, 5
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part; and
s and was as fixed and constant as the former, not as changing and " variable as the latter. Now in this word, the constitution, are " included the original and fundamental law of the kingdom, from " whence all powers are derived, and by which they are circum"scribed ; all legislative and executive authority, all those municipal " provisions, which are commonly called laws; and lastly, the
customs, manners, and habits of the people. These joined toge" ther do, I apprehend, form the political, as the several members " of the body, the animal economy, with the humours and habit,
compose that which is called the natural constitution."
He adds a paragraph or two of elegant, but idle allusions to the Platonic philosophy, as if we lived under the polity of Plato, not in the days of William the Norman. Now of all words easy to be comprehended, the easiest, in my humble opinion, is the word constitution; it is the great system of public in contra-distinction to private and criminal law, and comprises all those articles which Blackstone arranges in his first volume, under the rights of persons, and of which he gives a perspicuous analysis. Whatever then relates to the rights of persons, either absolute rights, as the enjoyment of liberty, security, and property, or relative, that is in the public relations of magistrates and people, makes a part of that majestic whole, which we properly call the constitution. Of those magistrates some are subordinate, and some supreme; as the legislative or parliament, which ought to consist of delegates from every independent voice in the nation; and the executive or the king, whose legal rights for the general good are called prerogative. The people are the aggregate body or community, and are in an ecclesiastical, civil, military, or maritime state.
This constitutional or public law is partly unwritten, and grounded upon immemorial usage, and partly written or enacted by
the legislative power, but the unwritten or common law contains the true spirit of our constitution: the written has often most unjustifiably altered the form of it: the common law is the collected wisdom of many centuries, having been used and approved by successive generations, but the statutes frequently contain the whims of a few leading men; and sometimes of the mere individuals employed to draw them ; lastly, the unwritten law is eminently favourable, and the written generally hostile to the absolute rights of persons.
But though this inestimable law be called unwritten, yet the only evidence of it is in writing preserved in the public records, judicial, official, and parliamentary, and explained in works of acknowledged authority. Positive acts of the legislature may indeed change the form of the constitution ; but as in the system of private law, the narrowness or rigour of our forensic rules may be enlarged or softened by the interposition of parliament, (for our courts of equity are wholly of a different nature,) so all legislative provisions, which oppose the spirit of the constitution, may be corrected agreeable to that very spirit, by the people or nation at large, who form as it were, the high court of appeal in cases of constitutional equity; and their sense must be collected from the petitions which they present, expressed with moderation and respect, yet with all the firmness which their cause justifies, and all the dignity which truly becomes them.
faithful humble servant,
Your very
Mr. JONES to the Bishop of St. ASAPH.
MY LORD,
Wimbledon Park, Sept. 13, 1782. If your Lordship received my letter from Calais, you will not be much surprised to see the date of this, and the place where I now am writing, while Lady Spencer is making morning visits. Mr. and Mrs. Poyntz have this instant left us. Lord Althorpe being in Northamptonshire, I must give myself some consolation for my disappointment in missing him, by scribbling a few lines to him, as soon as I have finished these with which I now trouble your lordship. My excursion to the United Provinces (which has been the substitute for my intended expedition to the United States) was extremely pleasing and improving to me. I returned last Monday, and finding all my friends dispersed in various parts of England, am going for a few days into Buckinghamshire, whence I shall go to Oxford, and must continue there till the Sessions. Should your lordship be in Hampshire any time in October, and should it be in all respects convenient to you, I will accept this year, with great pleasure, the obliging invitation to Chilbolton, which I was unfortunately prevented from accepting last year. I lainent the unhappy dissentions among our great men, and clearly see the vanity of my anxious wish, that they would have played in tune some time longer in the political concert.
where another
The delays about the India judgeship have, it is true, greatly injured me; but with my patience and assiduity, I could easily recover my lost ground. I must however take the liberty here to allude to a most obliging letter of your lordship from Chilbolton, which I received so long ago as last November, but was prevented from answering till you came to town. It was inexpressibly flattering to me, but my intimate knowledge of the nature of my profession, obliges me to assure you, that it requires the whole man, and admits of no concurrent pursuits; that, consequently, I must either give it up, or it will engross me so much, that I shall not for some years be able to enjoy the society of my friends, or the sweets of liberty. Whether it be a wise part to live uncomfortably, in order to die wealthy, is


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Q: Macro for nested maps in C++ Is it possible to create simple interface to create nested std::maps in C++? If this is possbile, can I go advanced and make it with different nested maps/vectors
CreateMaps(4); returns std::map<int,std::map<int,std::map<int,std::map<int,int>>>>>

CreateMaps(3); returns std::map<int,std::map<int,std::map<int,int>>>>

I am not really sure if this counts as macro or no.
My final target is to create maps at init and I want to divide into categories, type_0 has X subtypes which has Y subtypes and so on..., and I want to count how many times I reach certain scenario. Creating the map is defined after parsing a file, so I dont know the size and the number of nested maps at compile time.

A: Yes you can, even without macros, but by using recursive templates. Here is what it could look like:
// Recursive definition
template<typename T, size_t N>
struct NestedMap {
    using type = std::map<T, typename NestedMap<T, N - 1>::type>;
};

// Termination condition for the recursion
template<typename T>
struct NestedMap<T, 0> {
    using type = T;
};

// Just a convenience
template<typename T, size_t N>
using NestedMap_t = NestedMap<T, N>::type;

And then you can use it like so:
NestedMap_t<int, 4> quadmap;
quadmap[1][2][3][4] = 42;

However, nesting containers is often not very efficient, and you might get better performance by flattening your data structure. If you want to have a map that is indexed by four integers, then you could also do:
std::map<std::array<int, 4>, int> quadmap;
quadmap[{1, 2, 3, 4}] = 42;

The above types are fixed at compile time. If you want something more flexible, you should make the map's key and value more dynamic. Consider:
std::map<std::vector<int>, std::any> anymap;
anymap[{1, 2, 3, 4}] = 42;

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It's months late, but the official Batman Arkham Origins game has finally arrived on Android. This title came to iOS late last year and was supposed to follow on Android shortly thereafter. Oh well, it's here now and the visuals are pretty eye catching.
Batman Arkham Origins is a 1-on-1 combat game that pits you (the caped crusader) against a plethora of thugs and villains. At your disposal are various weapon and flashy special attacks, but you have to unlock them first. This is a free-to-play game, meaning you'll be contending with in-app purchases. You are awarded some in-game currency for winning fights, but the game will also sell bundles of it for real money. You don't have to buy anything, but it makes things less grindy.
Fights are controlled by tapping and swiping on the screen to chain together regular attacks into combos. You can also block incoming attacks and trigger your own special attacks when the time is right. Choosing the right fighting stance is adds another layer to the game, which is still a little on the simple side. You expend stamina to start any fight, and you don't get it back if you lose. Should you run out, you can't fight any more until the 5 minute timer runs out. Or you can use your in-game cash to refill, but this is unlikely unless you're really bad at the game.
The real selling point for Batman Arkham Origins is the fabulous visual style. The character models are extremely detailed and the animations are smooth as butter. All the edges are crisp and free of aliasing as well. The wide variety of batsuits is cool, but they aren't just for a different look--each one modifies your stats.
If this sounds appealing, you can get it for free in the Play Store.


Why should they not? I take it he has in mind the idea that "goodbye" began as "God be with you".
But words change their meaning. They do not automatically contain, as an ineluctable part of their present meaning, what they meant in the dim past.
When Melville spoke of a king as "God's silly vassal", he didn't mean what "silly" means now, and it's silly to think otherwise and to think that secularists can't without inconsistency say "Goodbye". Goodbye.


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Donald Clewer, britanski general, * 1892, † 1945.

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Rojeni leta 1892
Umrli leta 1945
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WriteWords talks to short story writer Zoe Lambert
Tell us something about your background.
Mostly, I write and publish short stories. I have just published a short story sequence with Comma Press in Ellipsis 2, with Jane Rogers and Polly Clark. I am interested in the borders between short stories and longer works, so I am working on a longer short story sequence.
I lecture part time on the Creative Writing MA at The University of Bolton. It helps my writing as I am constantly thinking about and discussing writing. I am also in the final year of a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University on British Women's Short Stories. It links to what I write, and I get to spend every day reading short stories, but as I'm in my final year, and changed topic half way through I am writing my whole PhD in one year, so its taking up all my time.
How did you start writing?
My gran recently unearthed a book of poems I wrote and illustrated when I was six or seven. They were about cows. At high school I remember I wrote a spoof detective story, where the evidence was a Victoria Sponge and a story about a murderous deputy head teacher. I was lucky because my school pushed creative writing and I realised I loved it. I knew I wanted to write, somewhere in the future, (if I wasn't going to be a florist specialising in dried flowers or a violinist). It was really at university that I began writing a lot, as I took a course in creative writing, and published a story in the University magazine about homeless children who live in sewers in Moscow. It began with 'I'm not getting in that hole'. I spent a year in Florence, teaching English and writing, but my stories were all over the place. A year later, I got a place on the MA in creative writing at UEA, where my writing continued to be all over the place. At that time I worried a lot about my writing instead of actually doing it.
Who are your favourite writers and why?
I am influenced by a lot of contemporary women writers. For the short story form I've looked to A. L. Kennedy and Jackie Kay for voice and I've been influenced a lot by Ali Smith for form and structure. Margaret Atwood. I've cut the end off a story, like Chekov, and that seemed to work wonders.Also, Etgar keret, for his bus themes.
W.G Sebald, who was my tutor at UEA. I think he left an impression on all of us. I look to his work for a kind of ethics in writing about someone else's experiences.
How did you get your first agent/ commission?
After my MA I was working on a novel, but I couldn't finish it. I was really struggling. Looking back, my writing, my ideas, my stories didn't fit its parameters. When I returned to Manchester, I was put in touch with Comma's editor Ra Page and later submitted stories to the Comma anthology Bracket and other Manchester based magazines, and then Comma asked for submissions for Ellipsis 2.
What's the worst thing about writing?
How you invest so much of yourself in it. Whatever it's about, it is intensely personal. After a while I learnt to distance myself from it.
And the best?
Even though writing is, for me, always personal, the best thing is when I feel I have communicated an experience, someone else's perspective – a teenager who is partially deaf, a Sudanese asylum seeker. And the pleasure of creating an aesthetic whole, the story.
Tell us what kind of responses you get from audiences\ readers.
Sometimes I have communicated something to readers and given them someone else's view on the world.
What was your breakthrough moment?
For ellipsis, I realised that all my stories were set on buses or had moments on buses. Ahhh, I though. That's what they are about. Buses. That is how they are linked. I'll put them all on the same bus.
About this time I also realised that the short story form suited how I wrote and what wanted to write. To make a big generalisation, I wasn't interested in the developmental notion of character that structures a lot of novels, but the transient, sometimes momentary glimpse at characters in short stories that enabled me to write about stasis, absence, loss.
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Nik Perring at 00:56 on 16 December 2006 Report this post
Great interview. Thanks for sharing. All the very best for your PhD and your future writing.
Nik.
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Moonshoe at 11:31 on 18 December 2006 Report this post
Thanks for a very interesting interview. I really like the idea of bus stories, I am constantly struck by the strange little moments that only seem to happen on buses! Good luck with the PhD and whatever happens next.
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FEATURES Scott "Wino" Weinrich On The Obsessed, Fatherhood, And Commitment By Zachary Goldsmith · April 27, 2017
The Obsessed by Susie Constantino.
Scott Weinrich, aka "Wino," has been in the music industry since 1980—and, admittedly, he looks it. But despite his rich history—collaborations with Dave Grohl, stints with Saint Vitus, and Shrinebuilder—he's not looking backwards. He's weathered an ill-fated mid-'90s dalliance with a major label and well-documented struggles with drugs and alcohol. But he's emerged recently with one of the strongest records of his career, Sacred, with his long-running group The Obsessed. Aside from raising his three children, he's been given the chance to spend his entire life doing the thing he loves: making and performing original music with other tremendous musicians.
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First, I just want to acknowledge that we are both "older" guys in the metal scene. Did you ever think, way back when you were in high school bands, that you'd still be playing music in 2017?
Hell, I never thought I'd be alive in 2017. I didn't think I was gonna live past 30. But I gotta tell you, I'm overjoyed at 56 years young. For me, the timing has never really been right for my music. But it seems like it might be now, and that's really great. I'm happy, and I'm embracing it wholeheartedly.
That's something I wanted to talk about actually: timing. You've been in a bunch of bands, and we are just focusing on one right now—and this is the third incarnation of Obsessed even.
In the '90s, when Obsessed got signed to Columbia, we had one or two people over there who were really in our camp. But the bottom line is that they didn't know how to market us. I remember getting picked up in the black limousine and the whole nine, but I knew in my heart that unless we had a real hit, it was never going to last. I remember being driven out to Jersey for a photo shoot. I had to pee and I went downstairs—this was at the shoot—and I heard on the radio that Kurt Cobain had just died on that very day. That was sobering. You know, Nirvana had done the whole grunge thing, and that was what was marketed. Motley Crue had just done "Girls, Girls, Girls" so it was very, 'Hey, let's do the whole Harley Davidson look.' Here we were, a three-piece band with no lead singer; who's gonna market that? They just fell asleep on that record [The Church Within] really quickly.
Now, you've got the power of the Internet, and it's just wild. I think that when Frank Kozik started the Man's Ruin label, he really gave metal a kickstart. He was way ahead of his time and really helped start the whole stoner rock movement. He fired it up some, and that's what saved a bunch of us.
You mentioned timing before—what do you think was off about 1994? That seems to be a real moment in time where major labels kind of lost their footing in metal.
That's pretty much the very minute where the Japanese movie arm of Sony pulled out and the labels started falling into a bit of disarray. To be honest, I think that was the first upheaval where the old guard was just kind of getting pushed out. The Internet came along and, man, the advent of the Internet just changed everything.
Both of us are old enough to have grown up a good part of our life without the Internet—taping shows, passing actual cassettes around. Now it's just all out there.
I've always let people videotape or audiotape my show, and people are really respectful. I just ask for a copy, and maybe 10 years later that person shows up and gives me a copy. When a band plays in town, I try to buy their record and pay for the ticket.
Before the Internet, we were on Columbia, making videos and like. We made a video for "Streetside." And the key was to get it on MTV and Beavis & Butthead. That was the venue to get your video broken. If you didn't pass the Beavis & Butthead challenge, you were finished. Our video came on and one of 'em said, 'Wow. These guys look old,' and that was it.
So, with the title of the album being Sacred, I have to ask what is sacred to you about music—or even just life, in general?
Well, it's all about passion. That's sacrosanct. The power of the song. It's the feeling you get when you hear that old song on the radio at a bar, or wherever you are, and you get those memories flooding back from the last time you heard it. Sometimes you can even associate it with a taste or smell, or whatever you were doing when you first heard it. My core philosophy is that I was given a gift, and it's my duty to use that gift to enrich other people's lives as well as mine. I have to carry that torch.
Commitment, in this line of work, is what it's all about. You have to commit. You can bet your ass that the best gig you ever get offered is going to be on your wife's birthday or your kid's birthday or some other special day. That's just a given. So it's all about commitment, with a bit of compromise.
You bring up an interesting point. You have kids and a family, so what's that like at this age, making all those commitments and maybe feeling spread so thin?
I was estranged from my family for a minute after being a stay-at-home dad for about eight years. But now, I've been able to rekindle the relationship with my ex, and her new boyfriend is just badass, a cool guy from West Virginia. You know, my oldest son is 15 now, and he just got the lead role singing in the school show where he's gonna sing a Bowie song. My little girl, she's 10 and just sang a few minutes of an Ariana Grande song at her elementary school. And my middle son, he's actually ranked in platform diving and well on his way to the Olympics.
That's very brave of all of them! Have you ever tried diving off the platform?
Nah, man. Bravest thing I ever did was shoot cocaine. I jumped into a quarry once, but, you know. Nothing close.
Well, that's great that your kids are doing so well.
Yeah, man. And they are all straight-A students. It's unbelievable to me. Their mother has done a tremendous job raising those kids. And they might be a tad sheltered, but I'm totally happy about it. I couldn't ask for anything more. My biggest fear is that they would fall into some of the vices that I have weathered. I'll do my best to steer them and guide them in the right direction. That's why I live here, in the same state as them, and the same state as the band. It's just really given me a solid platform.
My son that dives, he's already been to Cuba for the Pan-Am games. I mean, my oldest is getting ready to go to Canada with his school choir for the first time. I told my ex, 'I hope my record doesn't affect his entrance into Canada!' I'm persona non grata up there. But we'll get that hashed out eventually. All I'll say about it is that politics is all theater.
How have your kids influenced your music?
Well, the track "My Daughter, My Son" on the new album, there's a verse for everybody on there. The first verse about 'strength and love you brought here,' that's about my first son who's a singer. The second verse is all about the 'adventurous child,' and that's about the diver. And then the two closing verses are for my daughter, you know, 'angel speaks with her eyes.' That was a personal song I carried around for a bit, and I wanted to record it as a little note to them.
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Science says superstitions may actually work — just not the way we think they do
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The INSIDER Summary:
• Science says "magical thinking" should be taken seriously.
• Superstitions can make us less nervous about an outcome.
• That lessening of anxiety can lead to a more positive outcome, at times.
The quest to bottle luck, or ward off its opposite, is — depending on where you're standing — ridiculous.
But that doesn't mean it lacks efficacy. A series of scientific studies on the topic suggest that there is good reason to take what scholars call "magical thinking" seriously.
"Magical thinking and superstition build on basic processes of who we are," says Jane Risen, a behavioral scientist at the University of Chicago. "We are built to try to understand things, and this is how we do it. We're not going to suddenly change."
There is a thought process behind the bovid bloodletting. In his 2011 hit book, "Thinking Fast and Slow," psychologist Daniel Kahneman divides thinking into two systems. System 1 is responsible for the "fast," immediate reactions we have, which are often more impulsive and emotional. System 2 is responsible for "slow" responses, which tend to be more thought out and rational. Superstitions are produced by System 1, but are generally acted upon slightly more slowly (outfielder Moises Alou could have re-thought peeing on his hands before games). This makes superstitious behavior stand out, and because most people fancy themselves educated and open to facts, suspect. No wonder people tend to hide their good luck routines.
"People should be correcting superstitions and realizing they don't work," Risen said. Yet rational, logical humans still perform bizarre superstitions to hedge against negative situations. Risen defines this as the acquiescence model: System 1 gives a command that System 2 should reject, but doesn't because something about it makes sense in the moment. It's not entirely clear to Risen why System 2 doesn't just jump in at this moment to inform System 1 it's making a crucial error, "but this suggests that people are actually recognizing the superstition, and ignoring the error message to correct it." In other words, people know it's dumb to be superstitious, but something about it is rewarding, despite its irrationality.
Juliana Schroeder, a social cognition expert, has one theory about what that reward mechanism could be. She studies rituals that manifest as "a fixed sequence of patterned behaviors and tend to have symbolic meaning beyond reactions, and lack an overt instrumental purpose" — otherwise known as superstitions. Naturally, Schroeder and her colleagues wanted to see if any of these behaviors worked.
To do this, the researchers created what Schroeder called "anxiety-inducing tasks," like doing karaoke in front of peers or evaluated math tests. "We either had them do nothing, and told them to just calm down, or we had them do stuff that was completely random" — the ritualistic superstition, in other words. One of those superstitions that fit the bill of the definition was the following, according to the paper:
Please do the following ritual: Draw a picture of how you are feeling right now. Sprinkle salt on your drawing. Count up to five out loud. Crinkle up your paper. Throw your paper in the trash.
Participants who were performing the "superstition" had one minute to do so; participants in the control group were to sit quietly for that minute.
The results of Schroeder's inane fake superstition are surprising and back Risen's theory of superstitions: After the salt sprinkling stunt, participants reported being less anxious, with more normalized heart rates, compared to the control group, which led to better performance. The superstition worked.
What Schroeder calls "low-level rigid behaviors" might work for one of several deeply ingrained reasons. The obvious one is that the person acting on the superstition genuinely believes there is a direct causation between throwing salt and karaoke excellence. But most people wouldn't buy that. A more probable reason, in many cases, is bonding. Consider, again, the Chicago Cubs: Fans have bonded over the "lovable loser" name, robotically shrugging, "There's always next year!" in an attempt to rise above the crushing disappointment of another season without a World Series win. This is not unlike an impulsive "bless you" after someone sneezes. It's tribal behavior that bonds us. It's shorthand for: "Hope you're not sick; also, I'm like you!"
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The third reason is the one that's harder to talk about. Superstitions supply people with a way of exerting control on situations that they can't actually control at all. When people are anxious, they do things in a rigid way to impose order in their environment, Schroeder says. This doesn't lead to environments becoming ordered, but it can help people order their own perceptions and behavior.
Schroeder has a paper under review that attempts to explain what it is about self-control that makes us feel better. After all, no matter how rational the population becomes, non-rational behaviors are universal: "We take deep breaths. We close our eyes. We say they're random, but they're not," Schroeder says, pointing to a cultural fascination for meditation and rigid yoga as a way to feel relaxed as an example. Is it all an attempt to deal with a busier, more chaotic, less structured world? Schroeder can't say for sure, but suggests our scoffing at ritualistic behaviors, as old-fashioned and inherently irrational, is hypocritical.
Everybody has to get through the day. Everybody has to get through October. Science suggests superstitions — while silly — might help.
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Q: Wrapping text in relative layout inside linear layout android I have a layout for items in my listview. Every item I use in my list view uses this layout. the code for layout is below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="@color/white"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:id="@+id/view">

<RelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
    android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:layout_weight="40"
    android:paddingBottom="10dp"
    android:paddingTop="10dp" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/messages_list_element_textview_header"
        style="@style/category_list_textview"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:padding="5dp"
        android:maxLines="5"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:textColor="@color/bg_login"
        android:textSize="14sp"
        android:text="some text"
        android:inputType="textImeMultiLine" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/messages_list_element_textview_view"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:layout_below="@+id/messages_list_element_textview_header"
        android:textColor="@color/bg_login"
        android:textSize="12sp"
        android:text="some text"
        android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
        android:padding="5dp" />

</RelativeLayout>
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/messages_list_element_name"
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:layout_weight="60"
    android:text="some text"
    android:padding="5dp"/>
 </LinearLayout>

the text i populate to the textview with id 'messages_list_element_textview_header' does not wrap. the textview I am using below this('messages_list_element_textview_view') is for displaying dates so I would not like to wrap it.
Could someone please advise how I can get the 'messages_list_element_textview_header' to wrap.
Thanks

A: fill_parent
(deprecated and renamed MATCH_PARENT in API Level 8 and higher)
Setting the layout of a widget to fill_parent will force it to expand to take up as much space as is available within the layout element it's been placed in. It's roughly equivalent of setting the dockstyle of a Windows Form Control to Fill.
Setting a top level layout or control to fill_parent will force it to take up the whole screen.
wrap_content

Setting a View's size to wrap_content will force it to expand only far enough to contain the values (or child controls) it contains. For controls -- like text boxes (TextView) or images (ImageView) -- this will wrap the text or image being shown. For layout elements it will resize the layout to fit the controls / layouts added as its children.
wrap_content

will be adjustable based on your text size and amount of text. It is always preferable. Otherwise you can set the dp like 60dp increase or decrease based on your need
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:background="@color/white"
  android:orientation="horizontal"
  android:id="@+id/view">

  <RelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
    android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:layout_weight="40"
    android:paddingBottom="10dp"
    android:id="@+id/relative"
    android:paddingTop="10dp" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/messages_list_element_textview_header"
        style="@style/category_list_textview"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:padding="5dp"
        android:maxLines="5"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:textColor="@color/bg_login"
        android:textSize="14sp"
        android:text="some text"
        android:inputType="textImeMultiLine" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/messages_list_element_textview_view"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:layout_below="@+id/messages_list_element_textview_header"
        android:textColor="@color/bg_login"
        android:textSize="12sp"
        android:text="some text"
        android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
        android:padding="5dp" />

</RelativeLayout>
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/messages_list_element_name"
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_below="@+id/relative"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:layout_weight="60"
    android:text="some text"
    android:padding="5dp"/>
</RelativeLayout>

A: To nest layouts, there must be a proper indentation. Your indentation has a mistake. The outermost Linear Layout must wrap the Relative Layout(the relative should be 1 tab space away).


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Q: python combining 26 dataframes of different timestamps and same columns A database in US receives one day information from a place around the world in .csv format. There are 15 days of data and coming from 26 places. A total of 15x26 = 390 data frames. In addition, 26 places have a common reference data frame. Now, I want to combine 390 + 1 reference dataframes into one. I have given here a sample of my problem:
plA_d1df =        ### place A day1 dataframe
                       Adata
2019-01-10 07:35:22   10
2019-01-10 08:15:17   20

plB_d1df =
                       Bdata
2019-01-10 07:38:45   30
2019-01-10 08:18:57   40

ptA_d2df =
                       Adata
2019-01-21 07:35:42   50
2019-01-21 08:15:17   60

ptB_d2df =
                       Bdata
2019-01-21 07:39:04   70
2019-01-21 08:19:22   80

reference =
                          ref
2019-01-10 07:35:00     500
2019-01-10 07:38:00     530
2019-01-10 08:15:00     560
2019-01-10 08:18:00     590
2019-01-21 07:35:00     610
2019-01-21 07:39:00     640
2019-01-21 08:15:00     670
2019-01-21 08:19:00     700

Above data of all places and reference should be combined to the timestamp of place-A as given below:
combdf =
  datetime            ref0  Adata     ref1   Bdata
2019-01-10 07:35:22    500   10      530    30
2019-01-10 08:15:17    560   20      590    40
2019-01-21 07:35:42    610   50      640    70
2019-01-21 08:15:17    670   60      700    80

I implemented following code after referring the solved answer:
biglist = [[plA_d1df,plB_d1df],[plA_d2df,plB_d2df]] ## dataframes are in a nested list of list
l = []
s1 = []
### refdf = reference dataframe
for i in range(0,len(biglist),1):
    for j in range(0,len(biglist[i]),1):
            s1=refdf.reindex(biglist[i][j].index,method='nearest')
        if j==0:
            l.append(s1.join(biglist[i][j]))
        else:
            l.append(s1.join(biglist3[i][j]).reindex(l[0].index,method='nearest'))
combdf = pd.concat(l,1)

Above code ran successfully. Timestamp of combined dataframe combdf matches with place A, which is what I wanted. But the columns of same place did not merge. Instead, seperate columns were created for each day. So I eneded up having 8 columns, instead 4, mostly filled with nan.
My present output is:
combdf =
  datetime            ref0  Adata   ref1   Bdata   ref0  Adata   ref1   Bdata
2019-01-10 07:35:22    500   10     530    30       nan    ..          nan
2019-01-10 08:15:17    560   20     590    40       nan    ..          nan
2019-01-21 07:35:42    nan    ..          nan       610   50     640    70
2019-01-21 08:15:17   nan    ..          nan        670   60     700    80

What corrections I have to make to merge columns into same.

A: Change your code to
biglist = [[df1,df2],[df3,df4]] ## dataframes are in a nested list of list
l = []
s1 = []
for i in range(0,len(biglist),1):
    l1=[]
    for j in range(0,len(biglist[i]),1):
            s1=refdf.reindex(biglist[i][j].index,method='nearest')
            if j==0:
                l1.append(s1.join(biglist[i][j]))
            else:
                l1.append(s1.join(biglist[i][j]).reindex(l1[0].index,method='nearest'))
    l.append(pd.concat(l1,axis=1))
combdf = pd.concat(l,0)
combdf
Out[252]:
                     ref  Adata  ref  Bdata
2019-01-10 07:35:22  500     10  530     30
2019-01-10 08:15:17  560     20  590     40
2019-01-21 07:35:42  610     50  640     70
2019-01-21 08:15:17  670     60  700     80


The DSDA offers educational and mentoring support to thousands of women- and minority-owned businesses in Connecticut. Freeman Companies, a professional consulting company of choice for civil engineering, land surveying, and environmental sciences services, attended the DSDA's initial six-week program and experienced dramatic growth.
HARTFORD, CT, July 7, 2015 - The Diverse Supplier Development Academy (DSDA), a Connecticut non-profit organization that works to develop opportunities for diverse Connecticut-based businesses, provides minority- and women-owned businesses a competitive advantage that helps them more fully contribute to the local economy. A recent participant of the program, Rohan A. Freeman, owner of Freeman Companies, attributes his company's growth to his DSDA experience. After completing the DSDA program, Freeman Companies increased their revenues and hired 24 new employees.
"There are a lot of factors to consider when running a business," explained Freeman. "The DSDA teaches you what your business needs to grow and be successful." Shortly after completing the six-week program, Freeman Companies was able to secure a large building that will not only allow for its continued rapid growth, but will also provide a second income stream from leasing a portion of the building to other businesses.
The DSDA's next six-week program will begin in the fall. Diverse business owners are invited to apply at http://dsdact.org.
The DSDA focuses on the growth of diverse businesses that have contributed to economic growth in Connecticut.
The DSDA was launched in 2013 with the active participation of Eversource Energy and funding from its Foundation, the Greater Hartford chapter of SCORE, and input from several diverse businesses during pilots in 2011. The DSDA has successfully served 36 businesses. The program's next full cohort will begin in September 2015. Visit www.dsdaCT.org to learn more.
Freeman Cos. offers civil engineering services — designing stormwater systems, sewers, parking, drainage, foundation support evaluation, construction permitting and inspection — as well as land surveying and environmental analysis. Visit http://freemancos.com to learn more.


A delegation representing the General Labor Confederation visited on Friday Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister, Gebran Bassil, demanding the implementation of a private sector wage hike similar to that of the public sector.
Head of the GLC delegation, Bechara Asmar, briefed Bassil on the stressful atmosphere of the GLC starting with the labor force competition facing foreigners residing in Lebanon.
"This has been a leading cause of unemployment and arbitrary dismissal in some private institutions," Asmar warned.
He also called for reform and combating corruption, which has been crippling the Lebanese state, and stressed the importance of activating the supervisory bodies to implement proper administrative work in various ministries.
"We hope this will positively affect joint transport, hospitalization, medicine, environment, education, communications and other public services," Asmar explained.
The GLC president also stressed his support for the employees of Tele Liban and for their union's demand to benefit from the wage hike.
He appealed to Minister of Information, Melhem Riachy, in his capacity as the custodian of this institution, to expedite this matter in accordance with the law.


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Brew The Brew family were resident in Ennis, county Clare, from the mid 18th century. An agreement dated 1762 refers to Richard Brew of Donmore [Doonmore?] and to his deceased brother Tomkins Brew, who appears to have married Jane Chartres of Limerick. They had a son named Chartres Brew. This agreement concerned the lands of Moyarta. In 1782 Chartres Brew of Prospect married Rebecca daughter of Charles Adams of Killoe. Another Brew/Adams marriage took place in 1786 between Rebecca's sister Alice and Richard Brew of Tullycrine. By the first decade of the 19th century Chartres Brew was renting land from the Bloods of Applevale, Molonys of Cragg and the Bridgemans of Rathluby. In July 1860 258 acres of the estate of Chartres Brew at Toureen East and West, barony of Inchiquin, was advertised for sale in the Landed Estates' Court. By the time of Griffith's Valuation William Brew held land in the parishes of Killimer, barony of Clonderalaw and Kilrush, barony of Moyarta, while the representaives of Tomkins Brew held land in the parish of Kilnamona, barony of Inchiquin. Tomkins Brew was married to Jane Smith, half sister of Lady Charlotte O'Brien. In the 1870s William Brew of Leadmore, Kilrush owned 954 acres and Margaret Brew of Lisduff, Corofin, owned 291 acres in county Clare. Part of the lands of Newtown East (182 acres) the estate of Richard Brew of Newtown, parish and barony of Moyarta was advertised for sale in July 1867. On 14 December 1911, 395 acres the estate of Thomas F. Brew, deceased, were vested in the Congested Districts Board and a further 319 acres belonging to Michael S. Brew on 1 June 1915. For deeds concerning the Brew family, see http://brew.clients.ch/RegDeeds.htm
Moran (Willbrook) Austin Moran held almost 300 acres in the parishes of Killinaboy and Rath, barony of Inchiquin, county Clare, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. By the 1870s Thomas Moran of Willowbrook, Corrofin, owned 635 acres in the county. In 1906 Austin Moran medical doctor owned untenanted land at Cloonmore, rural district of Ennis.
Casey (Kilmurry) From the mid 18th century the Caseys held land in the parish of Kilmurry, barony of Ibrickan, county Clare, from the Marquess of Conyngham. Griffith's Valuation records Captain Francis Casey holding 8 townlands in the parish and one townland in the parish of Kilfarboy. The Caseys sublet Seafield Lodge and its surrounding acreage to the Brews. When Francis Casey died in 1860 the property reverted to the Marquess of Conyngham who later renewed the Brew lease. Weir writes that the Honourable James Joseph Casey was one of the best known members of the Casey family. He was born at Tromeroe in 1831 and became Australia's first Minister of Agriculture. Ninety acres of the farm and lands of Tromoroe and Quilty, parish of Kilmurry, barony of Ibrickan, the estate of James Casey, were advertised for sale in January 1866 and in February 1871. Members of the Casey family still owned small holdings of land at Quilty West in the 1870s. 92 acres belonging to Francis Casey were vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 31 March 1914.


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Q: How to use the  statement correctly in Mybatis When I use the  statemant, there is always a problem,
Parameter 'item' not found.

And this is my sql statemant:
<select id="getTest" resultType="java.util.HashMap" parameterType="java.util.List">
    <![CDATA[
          SELECT COUNT(*) AS commentCount, WORK_ID AS workId FROM TB_COMMENT WHERE TB_COMMENT.WORK_ID IN
          <foreach item="item" collection="list" separator="," open="(" close=")" index="">
              #{item}
          </foreach>
         GROUP BY TB_COMMENT.WORK_ID
    ]]>
</select>

And this is my java statemant:
@MapKey("workId")
public Map<Integer, String> getTest(List<Integer> workIds)throws DataAccessException;

The implement:
@Resource
private StatusMapper statusMapper;
List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<>();
for (WorkModel i : pictures)
     if(!TextUtils.isEmpty(i.getUserId()))
         list.add(Integer.parseInt(i.getUserId()));
Map<Integer,String> tset = statusMapper.getTest(list);

Any help is hopful, thanks.

A: OK, It seems that in , the dynamic sql can't parse, and I remove them, it works. Thanks people who spends time here.