I reckon we've all got a bit of arty somewhere inside us. But if, like me, you don't find it particularly easy to get the pen, pencil or paintbrush to do exactly what it should, these 6 tips should help to make your planner look great.
A bit of zing can really help your journal stand out. It's practical too, as you can theme months or topics within your planner to make them really easy to find. Health topics for me are always green, for example, and finance pink.
I finally got sucked into the Zebra Mildliner craze a few months back, and I have to say that their reputation is deserved. They have a subtle but interesting palette, and they don't bleed in my Moleskine which makes me happy. For bullet journaling, I'll normally choose a couple of colours for each month and build a theme up from there. In July, as we're off to the beach, my BuJo is wearing sunny yellow and turquoise sea. To help me find the section in One Book July – which I set up here – I've coloured my finance pages so they are in the pink (healthy) and certainly not in the red.
I can't say that I feel the sticker love quite as much as some of my planner friends. But I do find them really useful. My travel journals have a scattering of the pretty ones, helping to add vibrancy to the pages. In my bullet journal, I mainly use banners: either coloured, or a selection of plain white headings to which I can then add my own lettering.
Also, never ever forget the potential of a sticker to cover up a mistake you can't live with, and which will irritate you every time you hit that page.
I'm definitely yes to the first. Not so bad as far as the second is concerned; it's fairly neat, but nothing to make a calligrapher jealous.
There are lots of easy ways you can tinker with letters to create a bit of impact, without having to spend ages practicing fonts or using special lined paper. Below is a page from my travel journal talking about the little town of Brownsville in Mississippi. You may gather that I loved that place. And the bolder lettering I've used makes the spot in the journal easy to find.
There are people with washi collections so vast they require their own cabinet.
I use plainer (spotty normally) washi wrapped around the outside edges of my pages to mark the boundaries of sections in my Moleskine bullet journal. This means that I don't need tabs, which can get messed up in my bag. July's monthly pages are in zingy sunshine yellow spots to match the colours for that month.
By ephemera, I mean any sort of item that you can stick in to a journal or planner. You can actually buy two different sorts of ephemera online. The first is vintage ephemera: old journals, notebooks, cards and the like. This can work brilliantly in travel journals or to illustrate memories. More recently, shops stocking planner accessories have begun to offer modern ephemera: normally cutout illustrations. There are all kinds of themes, and you should be able to find something that fits your style.
Don't forget to make your own collection of ephemera too. When you go on a trip, save your tickets, the leaflets you picked up from the tourist centre, receipts, wrapping from interesting items and anything else that might fit in your journal. Even the strangest things hold memories. I have a wrapping with beautiful scrolled calligraphy in navy blue on white tissue. It's from a pharmacy where I bought paracetamol in Cagliari. Looking at it brings back that day.. 42 degrees in the shade, the walk up tree lined narrow streets, sitting in a cafe drinking citrus punch, the saltiness of the hand cooked crisps they gave us there, and the blessed relief of painkillers so I could enjoy it fully. A fabulous memory from a tiny scrap.
These create a surprising amount of impact for their size. I bought mine from eBay, and they've been a real bonus in creating a sense of order in all my journals.
Stencils are great in the weekly log for bullet journaling, enabling you to pick related tasks or appointments out of your list. Volunteering gets a star in my journal, and there's a cute little shopping trolley for lists. I find I spot symbols more quickly than text when I'm in a hurry, and this helps me get the best use out of my planner.
Don't forget that planners and journals exist for you. Don't compare your work with that of other people and find it lacking because it's messy, less colourful or has less elegant handwriting. Planners and journals exist to help you navigate your life, to capture your memories and ideas, or to plan your future. There is no right way to do things, nor a standard you have to meet. It's about what is useful to you, and what makes you happy. So chill, create and enjoy.
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That's a fab idea – I can certainly do a flip through.
I'm loving all the links on #theSwayLife and finding some great new people to follow there.
Great ideas! I'm definitely not that arty, but I love my planner. I use washi and stickers a lot to add color and some fun.
Thanks. 🙂 It's all about creating something that makes the day go just that little bit better. Sunshine washi definitely makes me smile.
These are great suggestions! I see my planner as a type of journal, so I'm always looking for ways to make it fun. I love your washi tape idea; something quick and simple to really spruce things up. Thanks for linking up at Saturday Sharefest!


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"Дима не знает папу."
Translation:Dima does not know dad.
gosutag
This is a very sad sentence, DL
jwbardsPlus
Does the sentence imply that it's his own? Wouldn't it then be его папу? In English, without any further qualifier, I'd think it would mean the speaker's father ... although then it also should be capitalized. Спасибо!
JamesSmithZA
I think that would be своего rather than just его.
Funny how when you look back on comments 7 months later, you have no idea what you were talking about. Or does that only happen to me? :-)
Scribe_Matthew
So, Dima is a male name in Russia?
annika_a
Yes, it's the affectionate/short form of Dmitri.
Syvar
I thought of Dima as being a female name all the time ... thanks!
Nadib11
Sasha is multi-purpose diminutive for Alexander/alexandra.
GeneM.
Sorry, I'm confused here. I can't tell from the Russian sentence whose dad we're talking about. Is it Dima's dad or someone else's dad? My native English always makes a possessive pronoun distinction.
platyfrog
I too am unclear on whether this is better translated to:
Dima doesn't know a father. (meaning he's never known what it's like to have a dad)
Dima doesn't know Dad. (meaning you're talking about your own father, no relation to Dima)
Can any native speaker help?
DimitrieGrPlus
The sentence itself doesn't give a clue about whose father Dima doesn't know. But the conversation in which this sentence is used will provide all context to make it clear. It could be two people talking about an orphan (and his father), or two brothers talking about a friend (and their father).
FlakyRainbow
It looks like it's about Dima's father, as if they were talking about not his father, they would call this man just a man or they would definitely say whose father Dima does not know, and if there is no specification, obviously it is about his father. (Sorry if I have mistakes.)
Marcel766088
No difference like in French savoir/connaitre?
I don't think so, it seems to be like English in this regard. (Though other languages e.g. German have wissen / kennen in a similar way to the French example you cite.) (Disclaimer: I am not a native Russian!)
FEI (For Everyone's Information): In short form, savoir is to know things, connaitre is to know people. See:
https://www.thoughtco.com/savoir-vs-connaitre-1368940
AlathatPlus
Is anyone else having trouble hearing the ending on the verb at slow speed? The "T" seems to disappear from "знает" in the slow recording. Or is this the proper pronunciation?
The words are often cut off in the slow versions. It is extremely time-consuming and difficult to edit sound down to one word, especially when a word is being extracted from a string of words (a spoken sentence). If it's too long, you often get pieces of the previous or subsequent word mixed. Getting a perfect sound for the slow track would be extremely expensive and time-consuming. I rely on the slow version to get the basic word down, but listen to the fast track for endings. Sometimes you just have to make an educated guess, usually based on the module you're studying.
This is true of every language on Duo - and in other language programs, too. Often, you get what you pay for.
In English, the presence or absence of an article or determiner turns "dad" into a proper noun - a name for a person, e.g. "Dad is a great guy". With the article, "dad" is just a descriptive noun. "My dad/father/papa." Perhaps most clearly"Dad is my dad" is like saying "Henry is my dad."
ali_vevoo
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знать (znatʹ) [znatʲ] impf (perfective узна́ть) "to know" From Old East Slavic знати (znati), from Proto-Slavic *znati, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źnōˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵnéh₃t, from *ǵneh₃- ("to know"), whence English know, cunning, canny, notice and gnostic (the latter two via Latin and Greek, respectively), Latin cognoscō ("I know", whence Spanish conocer, French connaître, Italian conoscere, Portuguese conhecer), Ancient Greek γνωρίζω (gnōrízō, "I know") and γνῶσις (gnôsis, "knowledge"), Albanian njoh ("I know, recognise"), and Persian شناختن (šenāxtæn, "to know").
Fodules
me neither tho
"Мама, Дима — медик."
"Дима, помой посуду."
"Жаль, что никто из вас не знает, что такое нормальный кофе."
"Дима ест яйца?"
"Дима- историк."
"Он не знает её."
"Женщина знает путь к сердцу мужчины."
"Он знает ответ?"
"Ты Дима?"
"Дима не слушал учителя, думая о своей новой игре."
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Open-House Celebration Honoring Judge Rickert
Skagit County's longest serving Superior Court Judge, Michael E. Rickert, will retire on June 30th, 2017 after serving twenty-four and half years. Judge Rickert graduated from Burlington High School in 1970 and then received his undergraduate from Washington State University. In addition, Judge Rickert enlisted in the United States Army where he served 5 years, attaining the rank of Captain. Following his service with the Army, Judge Rickert received his Juris Doctor from the University Of Puget Sound Law School in 1983.
In 1983, Judge Rickert joined the late Gilbert Mullen to form Mullen & Rickert Law in Mount Vernon and represented clients in both criminal and civil proceedings.
In 1986, Judge Rickert was elected to serve as the Skagit County Prosecutor, where he held the position from 1987-1993. During this time, he was instrumental in bringing local law enforcement together to create Skagit County's first interagency Drug Task Force, which continues today.
In 1993, Judge Rickert was elected to serve as Skagit County Superior Court Judge, Department Two.
One of Judge Rickert's greatest achievements is supporting the development and launch of the very first Drug Court Program in Skagit County, which began in 1997. This therapeutic court has served nearly 520 individuals and many credit this program for changing and saving their lives.
Judge Rickert has presided over numerous high profile cases in Skagit County and throughout the State of Washington. He is a highly regarded Judge and is known for his colorful "quips" from the bench oftentimes quoting movie lines or lyrics from some of his favorite songs.
An open-house celebration honoring Judge Rickert will be held on Friday, June 30th, 2017 at 2:30 PM in the Skagit County Courthouse, Courtroom Two.
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The BAT-11 has the same performance rail as the SQUID but a lower rocker. The low rocker gives this board good speed, paddle and drive. Single concave for maximising speed and control. Slight hip for good pivot. It's extra width helps you fly over slower parts of the wave and maintain plaining speed.
Ride this board around the same height as you are. Works best in 2 - 5ft beachies and point breaks.


American Actress. Born Sarah Frances Frost in Cumberlandshire, England. Her stage debut was in New York (1887). She teamed up with and later married Edward Sothern (1904) and together they were considered the top Shakespearean actors of their day.
Autographed, Julia Marlowe, actress, Sarah Frances Frost, born England 1866. Known for work as leading lady in E. H. Sothern's Shakespearean productions.


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Качимка — река в России, протекает в Пензенской и Ульяновской областях. Правый приток Суры.

География
Река Качимка берёт начало у деревни Гремячевка Барышского района Ульяновской области. Течёт на юг по территории Пензенской области через сёла Русский Качим и Мордовский Качим. Устье реки находится в 805,3 км по правому берегу реки Сура. Длина реки составляет 26 км, площадь водосборного бассейна — 130 км².

Данные водного реестра
По данным государственного водного реестра России относится к Верхневолжскому бассейновому округу, водохозяйственный участок реки — Сура от истока до Сурского гидроузла, речной подбассейн реки — Сура. Речной бассейн реки — (Верхняя) Волга до Куйбышевского водохранилища (без бассейна Оки).

Код объекта в государственном водном реестре — 08010500112110000035086.

Примечания

Притоки Суры (приток Волги)
Реки Пензенской области
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Tony Witmond leads North Norfolk Beach Runners home at Holkham Hall
John Worrall
Dave Reading who is running from Land's End to John O'Groats for charity. Picture: Mark Hewlett
© 2013 Mark Hewlett
North Norfolk Beach Runners were in action on both days over the weekend, starting on Saturday with the two-category (under-40 and over-40) Holkham 10k in the scenic grounds of Holkham Hall where 16 of them were among 541 finishers.
First Beach Runner home, in third place overall — and second Over 40 — was Tony Witmond in 38.08, while Sam Weller who is over 65 finished 75th overall in 46.49.
On Sunday, Holkham hosted the Outlaw Half Triathlon involving a 1.2 mile swim, 56m bike ride and a half marathon run, with a 6am start, just the sort of thing to interest high altitude ultra man, Beach Runner Colin Stark, who duly knocked it off in 5:01.36 to finish 105th out of 1242 (15th in the 40-45 category) and be back in time for lunch.
Sunday saw the Humpty Dumpty 10 at Freethorpe, organised by Great Yarmouth & District Athletic Club, where 15 Beach Runners, avoiding walls and great falls, were among 555 finishers. First Beach Runner home, as usual when he's there, was Neil Adams in fourth place overall (second in the 40-44) but closely followed by Chris Parker, in sixth with a time of 35.59, who, at the present rate of improvement, may soon challenge the NNBR natural order.
Other notable performances came from septuagenarians Noel Spruce, club president, in 58.53 for 389th place, and Brenda Kinch, in 425th with a time of 1:00.48. With Brenda having completed the Hitchin Hard Half Marathon last week in 2:23.05 and with Noel and Brenda both due to be part of the NNBR SuperSeventies squad for the Ekiden marathon relay at Woodbridge on July 16, NNBR grey power seems to be in rude health.


The Study option is used to configure an entire study prior to any collection and handle all files generated by acquisitions and post processing sessions. Since the configuration of some studies can be quite large (days, animals, workups, etc.), Study Automation was created to allow automated configuration of these fields that would otherwise need to be manually populated.
Automation scripts import data generated by third party software packages such as LIMS systems or macros. In order to be compatible with Ponemah, the output files from these applications must be a CSV formatted file and conform to the guidelines shown below. These files can then be imported into Ponemah to create or modify study components.
There are five scripts available that allow automated configuration. These scripts are annotated according to the type of Study created, Tox or NonTox.
Tox Pre Dose – Imports subjects and Genders to a Tox Pre Dose day.
Tox Post Dose – Assigns a Subject Information string to an existing Subject and assigns the subject and a dose to a Dose Day.
Non Tox Dose Assigner – Adds the specified subjects to the specified Dose Days while assigning them the specified doses.
Subject Importer – Imports a list of Subjects and related Information to the Subjects List and applies to both Tox and NonTox study types.
Non Tox Protocol Parser – Scans the assigned Protocols and adds the P3 Group Names as subjects to the existing Study Groups (CSV file not required).
Create a Tox Study. Within the Modify Study dialog, select the Automation button. If attempting to modify an existing study, the Automation button may be grayed out. Click on the Become Primary button to allow modification of the study. Note that if data has been collected, the option to modify the study may be restricted for certain features.
After selecting the Automation button, the following dialog will appear. Below shows the ToxPreDose_ function highlighted and a description of this function is shown on the right hand side.
Clicking on the Automate button will display a dialog that allows you to browse to the location containing the CSV file that was previously created for this script. Select the appropriate script and click on Open to load the file.
After selecting Open, the browse dialog will disappear and take you back to the Study Automation dialog. If additional scripts will be run, repeat the process for the desired script. Otherwise, close the dialog to view the information that has been imported.
Using the ToxPreDose script, a predose day was automatically created based on the information from the script. Below shows Day -1 created along with the subject information.


The RISS is excited to announce the curriculum leaders who will be responsible for assisting the leadership team in implementing our new vision, mission and core values as well as delivering our strategic plan within a curriculum department across all grade levels.
The language department is excited about the coming school year 2018/2019. Not only are we committed to teaching your son or daughter the thrilling aspect of learning a new language (and in some cases, improving their heritage language), we are committed to making their learning experience fun, inviting and authentic. Students will also be exposed to learning new cultures through interaction with their International schoolmates and teachers. Students will be given the chance to showcase their heritage languages during International Language Day in February and using their new-found language skills during Language Village in May. Our curriculum is based on inquiry-based learning (peaking a child's natural curiosity), fun and with students' individual needs being taken into consideration. We offer the following language choices, EAL (English as Another Language), Dutch, French, German, Spanish and Chinese. We have a large staff that are highly qualified and are more than excited to see your son and/or daughter become the inner-linguists that they are. Welcome to our school.
Every day, people all over the world use language to communicate. They have conversations, study, write messages and follow the news. In the Curriculum Area of English Language, Literature and Society, we try to find, define and explore our place in the world so we can maintain successful relationships with many different people and take responsibility for our actions. We do this by reading, writing, listening and speaking in order to think, express ourselves, reflect and be creative. We analyse a variety of texts from different times and different places, and we respond in thoughtful, respectful, courageous and creative ways. In this way, we learn about our similarities and differences, and we develop the skills to communicate effectively. Since students at RISS are from many different language areas and cultural backgrounds, world literature and multilingualism are at the core of what we do. The English Department is excited about building on and developing connections with other subjects through collaboration with our colleagues from the other Curriculum Areas.
With the new appointment of curriculum leaders at RISS, the entire school is facing a new chapter of exciting changes ahead. The Humanities & Learning Technology team are excited to build upon strong academic results, while developing a robust cross-curricular approach, inevitably leading to more crossover between the departmental subjects. Offering more 'humanities-based' excursions is something many on our team have expressed interest in with regards to the local area.
When I say that I teach mathematics, very often people's reactions are: 'I'm bad at maths' or 'Maths was my least favourite subject' … I'm sure that colleagues in my team have similar experience. We would like to change this! My team and I want our students to discover a love for mathematics and explore how much fun it can be!
In September 2018 we will start a new chapter in teaching and learning mathematics at RISS. We will be implementing a concept-based approach, which will help all our students understand that mathematics is not just numbers, formulas and equations, but a crucially important part of their everyday lives.
The academic year of 2018 - 2019 will be an exciting and challenging one for the RISS Science Faculty. We welcome new staff including a new curriculum leader, Ylva Muilwijk. Two new laboratories, Prep and science storage rooms are being built in the Senior Campus for the teaching of IB Sciences. These will be well equipped, with a considerable amount of new equipment and resources, and will be ready to use from January 2019. Cambridge IGCSE Coordinated Science (Double Award) is being introduced in Grade 9. All students will be studying the three sciences, ensuring a balanced science education and with sufficient scientific knowledge to be able to select any of the science subjects offered in the IB Diploma. Foundation years Science will be having more emphasis on the teaching of science skills through practical engagement and the Science Fair will continue. Our aim is not only for students to enjoy the learning of science, but also to be aware of the importance of science in today's society.
At RISS we firmly believe that Physical Education plays both an active and meaningful role in inspiring our students in their pursuit of learning. Our curriculum is designed to provide our students with opportunities that will help to serve them both during their time at school and in their lives after.
We provide our students with a diverse curriculum so that students can engage with physical education in a way that will benefit them. We provide the students with both competitive and non-competitive situations while offering programs such as IGCSE Physical Education that promotes the knowledge of the human anatomy and physiology while also celebrating the individuals talent in the practical components. Sport and exercise play a significant role in the development of a child mainly in part due to the benefits of exercise and healthy eating but it also the other areas such as the promotion of values that are just as important. Values are an integral part of our community as they are the building blocks that we use to nourish the development of curriculum programs that help to guide our school's vision of educating for self-awareness, curiosity and integrity in a changing world.
The visual and performing arts curriculum area lends itself to offering students a platform to develop and express themselves artistically on many levels. Research has shown the growing importance of creativity for the development of 21st century skills; the ability to innovate, problem solve, collaborate and express ideas visually is becoming increasingly more important in our fast changing world, where visual art, drama and music are all tools to express one's feelings and share them with the people around them.
Through our skills based Drama programme we aim to teach our students to not only make and present Drama but also to appreciate and appraise it. Drama offers students an opportunity to discover the nature of this art form and the realisation that they are creative beings who can use this form to explore issues and emotions. It also offers them the ability to analyse and interact in ways which benefit them in all areas of school and beyond.
The Music department has developed an important role in the past few years among the school, bringing to the students a full scope of music education: creating (composing), performing and improvising. Students actively learn music through singing, playing an instrument and using new technologies in a group. They develop their intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligences according to our core values, balancing the joy of making music with the respect and self-discipline that are carried with it. For those students who want to take a further step in music, the music department prepare them and support them to take part of outside competitions and examinations like AMIS or ABRSM.


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'Doctor Who': History Making Twist Reveals Jo Martin Is Playing [SPOILER]
By Alex Zalben Twitter @azalben Jan 26, 2020 at 9:11pm
Photo: BBC America
Spoilers for Doctor Who Season 12, Episode 6, "Fugitive of the Judoon" past this point.
When this week's episode of Doctor Who starting with what seemed like a fairly typical aliens invade Earth, The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) drives them out with a few well placed phrases plot, there was no way we could have seen a massive, literally game-changing twist coming: actress Jo Martin has been revealed as the first ever black, female Doctor.
…Let's take a few steps back here, because it's a lot to process. And, as is clear from the end of the episode, there's still a lot that needs to be explained about how Martin's Doctor even exists.
In the episode, Martin is first introduced as Ruth Clayton, a tour guide from Gloucester looking forward to celebrating her birthday with her husband. Unfortunately, that's all upended when the rhino-like alien police force for hire the Judoon descend on the sleepy community. It seems like they're after Martin's husband, who is connected to a mysterious villain named Gat (Ritu Arya). But in fact, Gat and the Judoon are after Ruth.
After a trigger phrase from her husband (right before Gat disintegrates him), Ruth starts going full Nikita and kicking Judoon butt. She also remembers her childhood home, so she and The Doctor head there. Once at the house, The Doctor discovers an empty grave, just as Ruth breaks some glass in the house, releasing what sure looks to me like the same time energy The Doctor releases when he/she regenerates. And in fact, as Ruth remembers who she truly is, The Doctor digs up the empty grave to reveal… The TARDIS, her ship. And Ruth comes out to introduce herself as none other than… The Doctor.
Past this point, we get a crazy amount of information that doesn't quite add up. Gat isn't some random villain, she's actually a Time Lord from Gallifrey, the home planet of The Doctor. And unlike the current timeline of The Doctor, where Gallifrey has been completely obliterated by The Master (Sacha Dhawan), Gat comes from a fully functioning planet. Jo Doctor (we'll call her that for simplicity) doesn't know anything about Jodie Doctor, nor does she have any idea why The Doctor would be using a sonic screwdriver. Jodie Doctor realizes that somehow, some way Jo Doctor is from her past. But why doesn't Jodie Doctor remember any of this happening? How have none of the regenerations we've seen throughout the history of the series know about a version of him/her that used guns, worked for the Time Lords of Gallifrey… Where did those memories go?
There are a lot more mysteries piled on here — we didn't even talk about the return of Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), or what's up with the mysterious Lone Cyberman he mentions — but chances are they're all connected, right? Everything from the return of The Master, to the tease of whatever the Timeless Child is are probably all wrapped up in this missing time The Doctor is experiencing.
And if you're wondering: yes, Jo Martin is The Doctor. She's very specifically credited that way in the closing credits. So they could back it up and reverse it somehow, but chances are this is the real deal, and Jo Martin is playing the first female Doctor in continuity (since she comes before Jodie Whittaker's Doctor), and the first Doctor of color, ever. The way she's been retconned in isn't even unprecedented for the show… Think the introduction of John Hurt's "War Doctor," another version of the character that was specifically and purposefully forgotten; though that was a choice on The Doctor's part, not an actual missing memory. In fact, the answer to this is probably given in the episode: Jo Doctor used the Chamelon arch tech that the David Tennant used to forget he was the Doctor in a two-part episode. It's entirely possible that tech was used again, but to erase the memory of Jo Doctor entirely.
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If that's the case, something very important to fans will be what number Doctor Martin is… In continuity, it's implied that the first Doctor, played by William Hartnell, stole the TARDIS and got it stuck in the shape of a police box. Given the outside of Jo Doctor's TARDIS is a police box, one could assume that she exists some time after that, versus being the first version of The Doctor (which would make more sense). But at the same time, could you retcon her into being the first Doctor? For sure.
It's also possible that we might be dealing with alternate Earths. In the first episode of this season we saw a plan by the mysterious race known as the Kasavin, who are definitely not Cyberman, that seemed to suggest they existed on multiple Earths. Later it was revealed these were actually multiple timelines, not alternate Earths… But that idea is out there, and would certainly explain why Martin's Doctor seems so vastly different from Whittaker's Doctor.
Regardless, it's definitely not the last time we've seen her, and a massive shift for the franchise. Now, Jodie Whittaker isn't the only female Doctor in history: she's part of a legacy. Let's hope that however this storyline continues, it lives up to that incredible set up.
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 * User: Administrator
 * Date: 2016-09-07
 * Time: 9:49
 */

namespace Addons\Model;

//患者
class Patient
{
    public function updatePatient(Array $array,$userId=null)
    {
        $userId = $userId?:bus('tokenInfo')['userId'];
        if(!$userId) return false;
        $insert = server('Db')->autoExecute('patient', $array, 'UPDATE',"`userId`=$userId");
        return $insert?true:false;
    }

    public function isExistUserInfoById($id)
    {
        $id = intval($id);
        $id = server('Db')->getOne("select `userId` from patient where `userId`=$id");
        return $id?true:false;
    }

    public function insertPatient(Array $array,$userId=null)
    {
        $userId = $userId?:bus('tokenInfo')['userId'];
        if(!$userId) return false;
        $array['userId'] = $userId;
        $insert = server('Db')->autoExecute('patient', $array, 'INSERT');
        return $insert?true:false;
    }

    public function insertInvalidPatient(Array $array)
    {
        $insert = server('Db')->autoExecute('patient', $array, 'INSERT');
        return $insert?true:false;
    }

    public function submitUserInfo(Array $array,$userId=null)
    {
        $userId = $userId?:bus('tokenInfo')['userId'];
        if(empty($userId)) return false;
        if($this->isExistUserInfoById($userId)){
            $check = $this->updateUserInfo($array,$userId);
        }else{
           $check = $this->insertUserInfo($array,$userId);
        }
        return $check;
    }

    //用户信息表,userId,也是唯一的
    public function getUsrInfoDetailByUserId($userId)
    {
        $userId = intval($userId);
        $sql = "select u.userId, login,trueName,gender,age,addr,hipline,weight,height,bmi,waist,smoke,nervous,
        drinkWine,SBP,DBP,bpm from user u, patient p ,question q where u.userId={$userId} and u.userId=p.userId and p.userId=q.userId and u.active=1";
        $detail = server('Db')->getRow($sql);
        if($detail){
            //数据格式转换
            foreach($detail as $k=>$v){
                if($k!='login'&&$k!='trueName'&&$k!='addr'&&$k!='sportType')$detail[$k]=intval($v);
            }
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    private function getPatientInfo($userId){
        $userId = intval($userId);
        $sql = "select u.userId, login,trueName,gender,age,addr,hipline,weight,height,bmi,waist,smoke,nervous,sportType
                ,sportTime,drinkWine,SBP,DBP,bpm,weightTrends from user u, patient p ,question q where u.userId={$userId} and u.userId=p.userId and p.userId=q.userId and u.active=1";
        $detail = server('Db')->getRow($sql);
        return $detail?:[];
    }
    //分割患者信息,将用户信息划分为,基础,社会,生活方式等部分
    public function getCutUserInfo($userId){
        $info = $this->getPatientInfo($userId);
        if(!empty($info)){
            return [
                'information' => [
                    'trueName'=>$info['trueName'],
                    'phone'=>$info['login'],
                    'gender'=>intval($info['gender']),
                    'age'=>intval($info['age']),
                    'addr'=>$info['addr']
                ],
                'basic'=>[
                    'hipline'=>intval($info['hipline']),
                    'weight'=>intval($info['weight']),
                    'height'=>intval($info['height']),
                    'bmi'=>intval($info['bmi']),
                    'waist'=>intval($info['waist'])
                ],
                'relevantSocial'=>[
                    'workEnv'=>$info['workEnv'],
                    'familyStates'=>$info['familyStates'],
                    'psychosis'=>$info['psychosis'],
                    'education'=>$info['education']
                ],
                'lifeStyle'=>[
                    'smoke'=>intval($info['smoke']),
                    'nervous'=>intval($info['nervous']),
                    'sportType'=>$info['sportType'],
                    'sportTime'=>intval($info['sportTime']),
                    'drinkWine'=>intval($info['drinkWine']),
                    'weightTrends'=>$info['weightTrends']
                ],
                'family'=>[
                    'SBP'=>intval($info['SBP']),
                    'DBP'=>intval($info['DBP']),
                    'bpm'=>$info['bpm']
                ],
            ];
        }
        return[];
    }

    //获取患者列表,包含平均年龄,人数
    //由机构划分
    public function getUserList(array $userIdList)
    {
        $patientList = array();
        if(!empty($userIdList)){
            $list = implode(',',$userIdList);
            $sql = 'select `age` from patient where `userId`in'.'('.$list.')';
            $userList = server('Db')->getCol($sql);
            if($userList){
                //计算人数
                $num = count($userList);
                //计算平均年龄
                $total = 0;
                foreach($userList as $v){
                    $total+=$v;
                }
                $patientList['number']=$num;
                $patientList['averageAge']=round($total/$num);
            }
        }
        return $patientList;
    }

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    public function getFinalReportUserInfo($userId)
    {
        $userId = intval($userId);
        $row = server('Db')->getRow("select trueName,hipline,waist,height,weight,bmi, orgId from user u,patient p  where u.userId = p.userId and u.userId={$userId} ");
        $row = $row?:[];
        if($row['orgId']){
            $row['orgName']=model('Organization')->getOrgNameByOrgId($row['orgId']);
            unset($row['orgId']);
        }
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        $row= $row?:[];
        if($row){
            //数据格式转换
            $row['age']=intval($row['age']);
            $row['height']=intval($row['height']);
            $row['weight']=intval($row['weight']);
            $row['bmi']=intval($row['bmi']);
            $row['gender']=intval($row['gender']);
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Transportation Turned Performance Art: Nairobi's Matatu Crews
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Clutching the door frame, Sheriff Safania Maina leans out of the bus as it hits potholes going 45 miles per hour. He jumps out of the door of the vehicle as it slows down. He starts to run alongside it. He yells, encouraging people to board. He spots a prospective passenger and bangs on the side of the vehicle to signal the driver to stop. He helps a woman with her bag get on. He hops back in.
"This is my office," he yells, as "Humble" by Kendrick Lamar blares out of bus's 28 speakers.
Mr. Maina is one of many young people in Nairobi who work on a matatu, the privately owned buses that have transported at least 60 percent of Nairobi's population since the early '60s. The word matatu comes from the Kikuyu word for "three," referring to the three ten-cent coins used to pay for a ride to the city when matatus first started operating. In the mid-to late 1990s, matatu drivers became known in Nairobi for their infamously dangerous driving habits, and the industry was linked with violent criminal gangs like Mungiki, who infiltrated matatu routes and extorted "protection" money from matatu crews.
In 2004, the government attempted to clean up the industry and instated the Michuki rules, which require matatus to have speed regulators, proper seatbelts and a uniformed crew. But these rules were rarely enforced because of police corruption on the streets, according to John Gichigi, the branch executive officer at Matatu Owners Association. In 2010, in efforts to eliminate gangs from the industry, matatu owners became members of a SACCO or a Savings and Credit Cooperation Organization. There are multiple privately owned SACCO's in Kenya. They are cooperatives which make it easier to register and manage the matatus and their routes.
Today, a growing number of young people in Nairobi have been trying to rebrand matatu culture, once seen as dangerous and reckless, through polite manners, art and social media.
Mr. Maina has more than 4,500 followers on Instagram, and said that posting regularly helps maintain his brand. In a post from January, he stands in front of Woodini, the matatu on which he works, staring defiantly into the camera as passengers look on.
"Most of my clients, I got them through social media," he says. "They see my posts and they want to come ride with me." There are a lot of matatus on each route, so passengers choose to ride the matatus considered the coolest on their route.
"Be clean, dress smartly, be polite," said Brian Ouma, Woodini's driver, of the unofficial rules on his matatu. "Before, the job was associated with riffraff, but we want to change that perception. Customers come for the experience."
In Nairobi's Central Business District, matatus line up next to leafy palm trees and fried chicken and chip shops in anticipation of customers, featuring a variety of themes.
A Scooby Doo-themed matatu is painted neon pink and has a fluffy Scooby Doo doll hanging on the dashboard. Down the road, on the Breaking Bad, images of the characters Walter White and Jesse Pinkman and a gold periodic table elements outfit the matatu. On Giovanni, a Spartan helmet sits above the number 300 spray painted across the windows as a nod to the film. There is even an Iggy Azalea-themed one.
Anna Mugure, one of the only female matatu drivers, steers Revolt, a bus covered in graffiti of revolutionary leaders like Malcolm X and Che Guevara. She said she has had to be more aggressive on the road — and with the matatu community.
"I can match any man on the road driving. I have to show them I'm not easy. I have to be tough," she said, skillfully cutting off another driver before pulling onto the side of the highway to drop off a passenger.
Even though she has been in the industry for 21 years, first as a conductor and now a driver, she said male drivers ignore and often harass her on the road. The appreciation from some of her female passengers keeps her motivated. "People are surprised to see me in the driver's seat," she said. "But I fell in love with matatu culture."
"My friends say I treat it like it's my baby," says Roy Johnson Mungai, the owner and designer of Woodini, a red and gray matatu that displays the faces of some of hip-hop's greatest names: Tupac, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. "I add small details like fuzzy side mirrors, and people notice." He estimated that he has spent 7.5 million Kenyan shillings, or about $75,000, on to outfit the vehicle.
It pays to have the most elaborate matatu in town: The better-designed vehicles can charge up to three times as much as plain ones.
Dressing fashionably is just another aspect of what some consider a show-off culture, which started in the 1990s and early 2000s, with what the author Kenda Mutongi calls "Generation Matatu." In her book, "Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi," she describes a generation of young, educated men and women who grew up as Kenya's neoliberal economic policies developed, and who were disenchanted with government work and unable to find employment other than in the growing matatu industry. "Social or economic class seemed to be less important than knowing the latest hip-hop hits, or wearing the right kinds of clothes," Ms. Mutongi wrote.
"I have a theme today; it's all Gucci," Mr. Ouma said. "I got the hat and scarf from a shop here in town but a friend in the U.S. sent me these shoes."
Also part of the job are the matatu conductors' death-defying stunts. They run and jump onto moving matatus, or hang off the edge of the door frame, their feet nearly grazing the ground. Mr. Maina makes sure to fit in a few stunts during each 10-hour shift just to stay awake. One trick involves kicking up his legs into a backbend on the side of the matatu.
"I believe in hard work, I never relax, and I dress to kill," he said. "And my shoes and shirt color always match."
Dennis Muraguri, 37, a multimedia artist in Nairobi, recalled a matatu stop outside his window growing up in Naivasha, a town west of Nairobi. "From when I was a kid, I was fascinated with the whole theater of it," he said. The artist now creates vivid woodblock prints of matatus from scenes he photographs around Nairobi, and sells his artwork in Kenya and abroad. In his studio, his prints hang to dry on clotheslines, stickers with images of matatus cover the furniture and a photo series of matatu stunts lines the wall — a matatu obsession that he hopes is catching on.
"The matatu is an icon in Nairobi. It's not just graffiti on the walls. It's not just the car," he said. "It's everybody and everything. Even the city around the matatu is part of the whole affair."
Brian Wanyama, 27, a self-proclaimed matatu ambassador and publicist, "grew up boarding the coolest matatus in Kenya," including one called Brain Child, where passengers sat on recycled airplane seats. In 2010, Mr. Wanyama helped rebrand the matatu industry's image by starting "Matwana Matatu Culture," a social media campaign at Nairobi Design Week that promotes and preserves the industry by sharing photos of designs online, hosting award ceremonies that celebrate the vehicles and their crews and championing road safety practices.
"People don't know that matatu culture is a big community," he said. "Matatus connect everyone."
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Over the pass few months I have been gathering together groups of leaders to share and exchange what its like to be the one at the top who leads the organisation and leads oneself.
Instead of looking at what is difficult or not happening, instead of adopting the media approach of the only news is bad news, the meetings focused on what was going well what questions people had and what had worked for them in the past.
Having a forum where these topics can be discussed confidentially provided real shift in thinking and a chance to step back from the day job.
What gets in the way at work? Frustrated, fed up or always flat out?
Now the pressure is on and everyone has to do more, be more, work harder and faster, I guess that work can feel like a never ending series of tasks with the mountain getting higher and higher.
Much has been debated about the value and need for higher levels of resilience to enable employees and managers to cope, but is that what we really want? Also I'm mindful of what resilience is anyway and the trend of having a helter-skelter approach to business and life for that matter.
Work can be frustrating sometimes; it can just get to us. It seems that the smallest problem can become an insurmountable obstacle and this just causes us too much pain to overcome. We all have experienced this at work.
However developing the strategies described below we can minimise the effects on ourselves and on others.
Understand what it is you are frustrated about, is it about the problem the person or the place?
Write down how you are feeling and why?
Write down how you would like to be?
What is this frustration teaching me at the moment?
Give the frustration a context, how important is this really in the grand scheme of things?
How we see the situation is often about the lead up to it like a series of building blocks after a while the problem has grown and grown. Whilst many of these things are easy to say and not so easy to do, even by reading this article your perspective might have changed or one or two of the strategies will have connected to you.
Our mindset controls our view of the world as illustrated throughout The Chimp Paradox (the mind management programme for confidence, success and happiness) by Dr Steve Peters who coached many of the gold medal winning members of the Olympic cycling team. He talks about your inner chimp and its battle with the human part of our brain. He uses some great analogies to describe and illustrate the inner conflict that we can all experience when our emotions start to control our behaviours.
So with proper coaching our inner chimp can be utilised to help us and work in partnership with our Human (logic) side.
Often in coaching / mentoring conversations I have with clients they are in a state of turmoil, can't see the wood for the trees comes to mind.
With the use of more targeted and specific coaching, managers and employees can reignite the passion they had and see today's challenges through different eyes.


This week Nana made another version of the Rozzlyn dress for Maelynn! I had made the Flutter Sleeve version of the Rozzlyn dress pattern by Max & Meena last week and it fit so well and she loved it so much that I decided to make the short sleeve version. This time I added the optional hood as well. I had plenty of the Paisley Mickey fabric to work with so I decided to make the entire hoodie dress from this print. I lined the hood with a matching solid raspberry.
Adding short sleeves and a hood were even easier than the flutter sleeves and neckband. The pattern also includes versions for flutter and long sleeves. There's a peplum length and/or a handkerchief hem version as well. You can even leave the hood off and add a plain neckband.


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"The medical health care system is woefully lacking," remarked the Uttarakhand High Court on Wednesday while hearing a batch of PILs concerning Covid-management during upcoming Kumbh Mela celebrations.
A Division Bench of Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and Justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari observed that the State Government is too ill-prepared to tackle the demographic explosion that Haridwar is about to witness within a month.
"It is the foremost duty of the State to protect the people from the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the foremost duty of the State to ensure that the lives of the people are not reduced to a mere animal existence. Therefore, while trying to organize a mega event, which is the largest congregation on the Planet Earth, it is the duty of the State to be thoroughly equipped for any contingency that may arise during the period of two months when the Kumbh Mela would be celebrated," the Bench reminded the Government.
The Full Kumbh Mela, organized every twelve years, and which attracts about a million people as per previous records, is scheduled to be held in Haridwar district from February 27, till April 27, i.e. for two months.
Thus, the Court had asked the authorities to apprise it with the steps it shall take to resolve the logistical/ health problems of organising such an event during an ongoing pandemic.
Kumbh Mela Amid Pandemic: Uttarakhand High Court Directs Authorities To Frame SOP
Based on a reply filed by the Government in this behalf, the Court observed,
"The availability of 5493 beds, with hardly 500 ventilators attached to 500 beds, is certainly an insufficient number of ventilators and beds available. Since Haridwar already has a residential population of twenty lakh, with the influx of fifty lakh people, the population is going to certainly skyrocket. Yet, the State Government is convinced that 5493 beds would be sufficient to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moreover, most surprisingly, while the State Government expects the entry of ten/fifty lakh people, it has no plans of constructing or erecting any tents for housing such a large population. It is rather inconceivable as to where ten/fifty lakh persons would be housed in the dead of the winter?
For, the city of Haridwar certainly would not have sufficient rooms available either in its dharamshalas, or its hotels or its motels for accommodating ten/fifty lakh people. The influx of such a large population would challenge the civic amenities available in the city and the district. Therefore, the stand taken by the State Government is rather enigmatic."
The State Government had informed the Court that it cannot close its borders. However, it has prepared well to deal with medical requirements of the incoming pilgrims and further, it shall take the following steps to discourage the arrival of large number of pilgrims:
Advisories have been issued to the other States requesting them not to send too many pilgrims to Haridwar during the Kumbh Mela;
The number of buses and trains would be curtailed;
State Government does not plan to erect any tents for housing such a large number of pilgrims. Thus, lack of available accommodation would discourage people from attending the Kumbh Mela;
Everyone intending to visit Haridwar during the Kumbh Mela would necessarily have to carry a COVID-19 medical certificate, certifying the fact that the said person is COVID-19 "negative". Such certificates, of the persons coming into the State, would be checked randomly by the deputed officers and personnel at the State borders, at the railway stations, and even at the airports;
SOPs have been issued to the "dharamshalas" and "hotels" of Haridwar and Rishikesh, which specifically deal with the necessity of convincing people to use masks, sanitizers, and to maintain social distancing while they are housed in the dharamshalas and hotels;
Government has proposed that fines will be imposed upon those, who violate the safety measures;
Government will provide masks to those who will stay for the Kumbh Mela;
About 8000 police personnel will be deployed and more persons from paramilitary forces will be utilized in order to ensure that social distancing is maintained, in order to ensure that people do follow COVID-19 protocols both in letter and spirit.
The Court was however highly dissatisfied with the 'rosy promises' made by the State Government.
It has now directed the State Government to provide all vital information with respect to the event to the Central Government, including details like expected number of devotees, the auspicious days (and the expected crowd surge), the arrangements being put in place by the State Government, including medical care arrangements, etc.
This will enable the Central Government to issue a SoP for the Kumbh Mela 2021.
Inter alia, the Court has ordered:
State Government should also consider erection of sufficient number of tents, and the creation of tented layout, for housing such a large number of persons (approximately ten to fifty lakh) who would come to Haridwar city/district during the Kumbh Mela.
State Government should seriously consider the increase in the medical health care system, both in terms of the physical infrastructure, in terms of the human resources, and in terms of the availability of the medical equipment which would be required in case the COVID-19 pandemic would spread its wings during the period of two months when the Kumbh Mela would be celebrated.
State Government should immediately get in touch with the other State Governments, across the country, and to inform the public at large about the arrangements being made by it, about the necessity of reducing the number of persons entering the State, and coming to Haridwar for Kumbh Mela.
State Government shall coordinate its effort under the guidance of the Central Government for tackling such a large gathering of people. For, the repercussions of the spread of COVID19 would not be limited only to the State of Uttarakhand, but it may also impact the entire country as a whole.
The Court has asked the Advocate General to submit a detailed report about the points mentioned hereinabove, by February 15. It has categorically directed that the said report should include the details about the availability of infrastructure in the Kumbh Mela area in particular, and in Haridwar city in general.
So far as health infrastructure is concerned, the Court has directed the District Judge, Haridwar to submit a report with regard to the availability and the extent of health care system functioning in Haridwar and Rishikesh, both in the government sector and the private one.
He is directed to inform the Court about the number of hospitals which are functioning; with regard to the availability of total number of beds; with regard to the availability of total number of beds equipped with ventilators; with regard to the availability of total number of beds equipped with oxygen cylinders; with regard to the general beds available with the hospitals.
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Here's a game-by-game look at the 12 opponents who will face the Gophers during the 2018 football season.
Breaking down the Gophers' opponents: New Mexico State
The Aug. 30 season opener brings a visit from the Aggies, who ended a 57-year bowl drought last year and are living life as an independent after leaving the Sun Belt Conference.
Gophers football updates: Recruiting, award nominees and more
Breaking down the Gophers' opponents: Fresno State
In their first year under former Cal coach Jeff Tedford, the Bulldogs improved from 1-11 to 10-4 and played in the Mountain West Conference Championship Game.
Breaking down the Gophers' opponents: Miami (Ohio)
The RedHawks just missed out on a bowl last year and return eight starters on both offense and defense, so optimism is high in Oxford, Ohio.
Breaking down the Gophers' opponents: Maryland
Injuries at quarterback derailed the Terrapins' 2017 season, but a return to health and solid group of running backs give reason for optimism.
Breaking down the Gophers' opponents: Iowa
The Hawkeyes suffered some high-profile personnel losses, but they return plenty of talent, including improving quarterback Nate Stanley.
Breaking down the Gophers' opponents: Ohio State
The Buckeyes must replace prolific quarterback J.T. Barrett, but Dwayne Haskins has shown he's up to the task. The defending Big Ten champs also return plenty of star power, as usual.
Breaking down the Gophers' opponents: Nebraska
New coach Scott Frost has brought excitement back to the Cornhuskers, who endured a 4-8 season in 2017.
Breaking down the Gophers' opponents: Indiana
Under coach Tom Allen, the Hoosiers, who visit Minnesota on Friday, Oct. 26, had a season similar to the Gophers in 2017, finishing one win shy of bowl eligibility.
Breaking down the Gophers' opponents: Illinois
Coach Lovie Smith's team took its lumps during a 2-10 season in 2017, so showing signs of being competitive this year is the main goal for the Illini.
Breaking down the Gophers' opponents: Purdue
Coach Jeff Brohm's first season with the Boilermakers was a big hit, with an improvement from 3-9 to 7-6. A tough schedule and key losses on defense will be the biggest challenges this year.
Breaking down the Gophers' opponents: Northwestern
The Wildcats will try to build on a 10-win season, but a bowl-game knee injury to quarterback Clayton Thorson is an early-season concern.
Breaking down the Gophers' opponents: Wisconsin
The Badgers are loaded, especially on offense with Heisman Trophy candidate Johnathan Taylor operating behind what might be the nation's best line. Is this the year Wisconsin breaks through to make the College Football Playoff?


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Q: Extracting day in Date I am asked to extract information of employees who are hired on Saturday. I tried like the code given below. But even-though there are data's available, it shows me no data available
select first_name,last_name
  from employees
 where upper(to_char(hire_date,'day')) like 'SATURDAY'

But when I use the following code it works like champ. This code was given to me by my boss.
select first_name,last_name
  from employees
 WHERE TO_CHAR(HIRE_DATE,'fmDay') = 'Saturday'

I want to know why my code doesn't work. Please explain. I am a newbie in oracle and working hard for finding the difference between one function and another.

A: TO_CHAR(hire_date,'day') returns the day name, blank padded from the right to the length of the longest name of the week. As it happens to be Wednesday then each returned day's name that is shorter than 9 characters will be blank padded.
like 'SATURDAY' condition without wildcard characters is equivalent to = 'SATURDAY'.
So, to_char(hire_date,'day') returns SATURDAY_(where _ is an extra space character) which is not equal to SATURDAY, thus your query returns no rows.
Use the FM format model modifier (TO_CHAR(HIRE_DATE,'fmDay')) to get rid of those extra spaces.

A: Difference between day and fmday is, in fmday the embedded spaces can be removed by placing the 'fm' prefix.
Try this to get the result,
select first_name,last_name
  from employees
 where REPLACE(upper(to_char(hire_date,'day')),' ','') like 'SATURDAY'

A:   select to_char (date '2011-07-24', 'D') d from dual;

This query will return a number mapped to day so you can rewrite you query as
 select first_name,last_name
 from employees
 WHERE to_char (Hire_date '2011-07-24', 'D') d = 7

A: Try to query using following statement to check the condition first:
select upper(to_char(hire_date,'day')) from employees

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Sabres send Guhle and Fasching to Rochester
Bill Wippert

BUFFALO, NY - DECEMBER 03: Brendan Guhle #45 of the Buffalo Sabres skates in his first NHL game defending against Tim Schaller #59 of the Boston Bruins at the KeyBank Center on December 3, 2016 in Buffalo, New York. (Photo by Bill Wippert/NHLI via Getty Images)

By: Matt Bove
Posted at 12:10 PM, Sep 24, 2017
While the Buffalo Bills and Denver Broncos hit the field for pregame warmups the other team in town decided to make a few roster moves. On Sunday the Buffalo Sabres sent defenseman Brendan Guhle and forwards CJ Smith, Hudson Fasching, and Kyle Criscuolo to the Rochester Americans [AHL]. Buffalo now has 32 players remaining on their training camp roster.
Like many of you, I was surprised by the decision to send Guhle back to Rochester. I didn't think he would make the team out of camp but I thought he'd get the longest look of all of the players on the fringe. Instead, the Sabres opted to send Guhle down in time for the start of Rochester Americans training camp, which begins this week. With Jason Botterill at the helm, sending Guhle to Rochester is all part of the process. Sorry, Sean McDermott, I'm using your word.
As for Smith, he was a player I was high on during the offseason. He's a slippery forward who is good at creating space. That said, he's got very little pro experience. Just last year he was playing #cawlidgehawkey. Some time in Rochester could do Smith and his development wonders.
Fasching scored the Sabres only goal last night against the Maple Leafs and after the game said he's had an up and down camp. Like Smith and Guhle, Fasching has been inconsistent and needs to mature at both ends of the ice. At times he's a physical force who can dominate along the boards but he needs to produce on a more consistent basis.
Moral of the story -- don't look at this decision as a knock on any of the four players sent down [Kyle Criscuolo included]. All four still have oodles of potential, they just need a little more time to develop. Think of them like a fine wine. They'll get better over time and when they are uncorked the wait will be worth it.


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Top Ten Problems in Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries
Chaomei Chen
Many research communities periodically and collectively deliberate about their most significant and challenging problems as a way to agree upon pressing questions and promising research directions. Identifying top-ten prob‐lems is a useful way to reflect on what a community has achieved and define a new research agenda for the future. This chapter introduces a set of such prob‐lems for research in visual interfaces of digital libraries in order to simulate studies in this area.
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Q: How to parse Date object properly of TypeScript class when HttpClient mapping won't? Task.ts:
export class Task {
    name: string;
    dueDate: Date;
}

tasks.service.ts:
@Injectable()
export class TasksService {

    constructor(private http: HttpClient) { }

    getTasks(): Observable<Task[]> {
        return this.http.get<Task[]>(`${WEBAPI_URL}/Tasks`);
    }
}

The Task objects I get back from getTasks() have their dueDate field assigned but the value is of type string instead of Date like I would expect.
Some searching lead me to this issue on the Angular github which made clear to me that HttpClient has no intent of properly parsing my object. Unfortunately the issue didn't give helpful guidance about what I should actually be doing to get my Date object. What do I do?

A: You have several options here.
1) You can deal with the date as a string in the UI. So change the definition of Task to retain the date as a string and work with it that way, converting it to a date for calculations as needed.
2) You can map each object coming back from the Http request to a Task object. Something like this:
getTasks(): Observable<Task[]> {
    return this.http.get<Task[]>(`${WEBAPI_URL}/Tasks`)
        .pipe(
            map(items => {
                const tasks: Task[] = [];
                return items.map(
                    item => {
                        item.dueDate = new Date(item.dueDate);
                        return Object.assign(new Task(), item);
                    });
            }),
            tap(data => console.log(JSON.stringify(data))),
            catchError(this.handleError)
        );
}

This also have the benefit of having actual task objects in your array, meaning that if you ever add Task methods or getters/setters they will be correctly associated with your tasks array.
EDIT:
It may be better to build a utility class that handled the serialization/deserialization of your objects. Then the above code would look more like this:
getTasks(): Observable<Task[]> {
    return this.http.get<Task[]>(this.url)
        .pipe(
            map(TaskSerializer.serialize),
            catchError(this.handleError)
        );
}

A: declare it as a date in the component like this:
example.component.ts
constructor(private taskService: TaskService) {
}

ngOnInit() {
    this.taskService.getTaksks().subscribe(response => {
        tempValue = response.body;
        tempValue.dueDate = new Date(tempValue.dueDate.format('MM-DD-YYYY');
    });
}

OR save it as an instant
Task.ts
export class Task {
    name: string;
    dueDate: Instant;
}

I would suggest doing the first way. I would also suggest looking at the moment.js library
EDIT: I would declare it as a Date object and let it store it as a string on the db. That is how I have seen most use cases for dealing with dates and it is how everyone in my company has dealt with dates. 99% of the time you just want the month/day/year so it makes sense that you will store only that on the db, but it is a little cumbersome to format it to a date object on the ui side.

A: I found a not so heavy interceptor, allowing to have directly correct Date in objects when using HTTP calls in Angular. You can find it here: https://dev.to/imben1109/date-handling-in-angular-application-part-2-angular-http-client-and-ngx-datepicker-3fna
Please note that the only thing I had to change was the regex, in order to make the Z at the end optional and I use the DateTimeFormatter.ISO_DATE_TIME format on server side.


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Riding solo? Railroads want to drop train staff
OMAHA, Neb. – When American freight trains delivered cargo after World War II, the steam-belching beasts commonly had seven people aboard — an engineer, a conductor, up to four brakemen and a fireman.
Trains have since grown much longer, seemingly stretching to the horizon and often taking 20 minutes to pass through a crossing. And crews have been reduced in size — to five people in the 1970s and two in 1991. Now U.S. railroads want to put a single person in charge of today's huge locomotives, taking another step toward a future in which the nation's rail-cargo system increasingly could resemble toy train sets — highly mechanized networks run by computers or distant controllers.
For the moment, freight trains generally have two people aboard — an engineer who drives the train and a conductor who oversees the long line of cars. Railroad executives want to reduce that to a lone engineer, saying advances in safety systems, including a new automatic braking system under development, could minimize risks.
But labor groups and people who live near rail lines are skeptical.
"These trains are 7,000 tons going 50 mph. You have to have two people," said J.P. Wright, an engineer for CSX railroad in Louisville, Kentucky. "It's mind-boggling to me that the railroads would go this far with it."
The mayor of the Chicago suburb of Barrington asks how one person could split a stopped train to allow traffic and first responders through in the event of an emergency.
"There may be technology to compensate for some of it, but I would have questions," Karen Darch said.
The one-person crew idea is being pitched at a time when railroads are working to increase train length because delivering more cars usually is more profitable, and they're working to expand capacity to handle even more freight as the economy improves.
Federal regulators have pushed back against the proposal, saying they may require two-person crews.
The Association of American Railroads trade group says accident data does not support requiring two-person crews. It has opposed any effort by the government to prohibit one-person trains.
During a cross-country rail journey, the engineer is at the train's controls. The conductor is responsible for the cars behind the locomotive, communicating with dispatchers and providing a second set of monitoring eyes.
Labor groups and regulators argue single-person crews, even with the new braking system called "positive train control," would make trains more prone to accidents.
"We're transporting chlorine through your town in the middle of the night completely fatigued with the possibility that the computer is going to make a mistake," said Wright, a third-generation railroader and co-chairman of the advocacy group Railroad Workers United.
The National Transportation Safety Board says more than two dozen train crashes since 2004 could have been prevented by positive train control, which was required by a 2008 law approved after a commuter train collided head-on with a freight train near Los Angeles, killing 25 and injuring more than 100.
The system is aimed at preventing human error by using GPS, wireless radio and computers to monitor train position and speed. It can stop trains from colliding, derailing because of excessive speed, entering track under maintenance or traveling the wrong direction because of switching mistakes.
Congress set a 2015 deadline for having the system in place, but it won't be ready by then. Railroads blame technical challenges and problems getting regulatory approval for thousands of antennas needed to make it work.
The major railroads appear committed to making one-person crews a reality. They declared in 2004 that they wanted to negotiate a nationwide pact for one-person crews, but courts ruled each railroad had to negotiate individually with its unions.
The BNSF railroad tried and failed earlier this fall to get one-person crews approved by one of its unions. The proposal is getting more attention now because of BNSF's effort and a recent string of fiery rail crashes.
Normally, the conductor can uncouple cars to allow police, fire trucks and ambulances through. But if only one person is aboard, that sole crew member cannot leave the locomotive without manually setting brakes all along the train to ensure it does not roll away.
The Federal Railroad Administration has promised to propose a rule next year requiring at least two people to operate a train.
"We believe safety is greatly enhanced with the use of a multiple-person crew," administration spokesman Kevin Thompson said.
However, railroad companies argue having a second person in the locomotive does not dramatically improve safety.
"In many cases, that second crew member will be redundant," said Frank Wilner, who has written six books on the rail industry.


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The Gameplan for Growth - The Journey to Double Participation
The FA commences a six-week review of the Gameplan for Growth.
Over the next six weeks, The FA will review the impact of The Gameplan for Growth strategy on the women's and girls' game.
Launched in March 2017, the strategy pledged to tackle ambitious targets to double participation [by doubling the number of affiliated teams], double the game's fanbase and create a high-performance system and world-class talent pipeline for England teams to achieve consistent success on the world stage. After four seasons the strategy is now concluding, and The FA will outline its continued support for the sport with the launch of the women and girls' strategy in the coming months.
During this time you will hear from individuals who have been integral to the strategy's success as we review the strategy's impact across participation, fanbase, coaching, refereeing, England teams and the professional game.
This week's focus is on The FA's journey to double participation, growing from 6,000 affiliated teams to over 12,500 affiliated teams, mini-soccer groups and adult recreational groups over the breadth of the country in 2020.
Please click here to download the results, a first-person narrative from Louise Gear [The FA's Head of Women's Football Development] and the story of three different case studies who have flourished during the duration of the strategy.
The story is also told via the video below.
Gameplan for Growth Case Study - Canterbury Old Bags United
Kent FA-affiliated club forms part of The FA's Gameplan for Growth review focusing on…
Complete Your Wildcats' Great Adventure at Home
Activity books available for the county's young female players.
The FA Announce Updated Heading Guidance
Details revealed by The FA on heading guidance for all age groups between Under-6 and Under-18.
Report - Kent FA 6 Jersey FA 0
Amy Russ and Jade Keogh hit hat-tricks in Kent victory.
Kent Ladies Representative Squad Announced
Squad confirmed for representative team's game against Jersey FA.
Five-Star Performance From Kent
Kent FA's Under-18s storm to a 5-0 victory over London FA.
Under-18 Representative Squad Announced For London FA Tie
Squad named for County Youth Cup tie on 12 January 2020.
Applications Now Open To Become A Kent Wildcats Centre
Could you provide football opportunities to girls aged between 5 and 11?
Report: Kent FA Ladies 4 Sussex FA Ladies 0
Convincing victory in season opener.


There is one major professional championship trophy in the Valley. On a cold morning in February, it sat on the passenger seat next to Chris Taylor, the Diamondbacks' security coordinator tasked with bringing the artifact to Fan Fest 2019.
All good. Until he was pulled over by police who saw the trophy riding shotgun and suspected a heist in progress.
You can only hope our future is as well-guarded as that trophy.
It's a strange omen for Opening Day, normally a time of great nostalgia for baseball fans. This is the day for dreamers. This is the event that redefines hope, an American ritual that symbolizes new beginnings and the long journey ahead.
The Diamondbacks are in a different place. Last place?
Paul Goldschmidt is in St. Louis, playing for a contract that seems too reasonable for comfort. If he responds with an MVP trophy, it will be a long, hot summer for the team that let him get away.
Patrick Corbin is gone, marginalizing a rotation full of low-ceiling pitchers. A.J. Pollock is gone, diminishing the D-backs' middle defense. Steven Souza Jr. is injured again, weakening their depth and their clubhouse. How can anyone find a contending team inside this garden salad?
This is where faith comes in handy.
Smart baseball fans understand that the Diamondbacks have something more important than a contending team in 2019. They have a future.
Torey Lovullo ranks among the most trusted leaders in Valley sports. Mike Hazen is cutthroat and cutting edge, to the point where the rival Giants did the unthinkable, asking for permission to interview the Diamondbacks' general manager over the offseason.
This is their time. A time to build something with staying power.
The 2019 Diamondbacks are a bridge team. Zack Greinke is still an elite pitcher. David Peralta has late-blooming star power. Adam Jones is winding down his career after a terrific run in Baltimore. The bullpen looks decent.
But the team again feels light on offense, personalities and clubhouse alpha males. It's been a while since fan-favorite Archie Bradley produced to his level of popularity. Christian Walker is the team's best hope at giving you something sizzling and unexpected. And like Jake Lamb hitting lefties, that's probably too much to ask.
Las Vegas isn't inspired. The National League West is in a state of flux, with the Giants eroding and the Padres adding Manny Machado, but it's too much division for team that will struggle to score runs. The ballpark experience will improve, with lovely new synthetic grass and an exquisite menu of $30 hot dogs. But it doesn't take much to see this season going off the rails. Some even suspect the Diamondbacks of tanking in the short term, emulating the championship path endorsed by the Astros and Cubs.
The Diamondbacks swear that isn't the case. Their leaders are fierce competitors. They recognize the Goldschhmidt Embarrassment Factor is a potential saboteur lurking in the background, especially when the team is still paying Greinke and Yasmany Tomas. They have made some very tough decisions, ripping Band-Aids off a broken baseball team. They must live with the consequences.
Still, baseball is a funny game. Money doesn't always equate to playoff teams and winning percentage. The 2018 A's won 97 games with a $66 million payroll on Opening Day, the lowest in the sport. There are many paths to the playoffs, and Opening Day is the time to embrace all possibilities.
It's a time to feel the sunshine and smell the grass. Even if your team is now playing on synthetic turf, blessed with the lowest of expectations.


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BMW 5 Series E60 Doubles Its Engine Displacement With V10 Swap
Home » BMW 5 Series E60 Doubles Its Engine Displacement With V10 Swap
April 10, 2022 / 2 minutes read
This isn't an M5 E60. It may look like the top dog version of the fifth-generation 5 Series, but it wasn't always like this. It has the mighty V10 under the hood, and yet BMW did not originally build the car this way. Indeed, it started out as a plain 5er with a 2.5-liter engine before displacement was doubled via an S85 swap.
Malaysian tuner Conti JDM Auto was the mastermind behind the project. It's safe to say the M5 E60 lookalike with the V10 conversion took a lot of work. It was only made possible after buying a JDM-spec totaled car that was literally cut in half. The technicians yanked out anything that was worth saving from the destroyed car. In addition, the battery was mounted in the center where the spare tire would be, just like in the genuine M5 E60.
Not A Real M5 E60, But Impressively Close To The Real Deal
The project car was fully resprayed and received a body kit to mimic the real thing. It also has the subtle trunk lid spoiler and quad exhaust setup to fool the untrained eye. On the same note, the M-branded tachometer goes all the way up to 9,000 rpm while the speedometer shows 330 km/h. As impressive as the attention to detail is, the real gem is undoubtedly the 5.0-liter engine.
The only V10 ever developed by BMW, the S85B50 pushed out 500 horsepower and 520 Newton-meters (384 pound-feet) of torque. It had an 8,250 rpm redline and pushed out 100 hp per liter, an impressive feat for a naturally aspirated engine. This E60 build may not be a real M5, but it's pretty close to the real deal. It goes without saying a lot of rewiring was necessary to make everything work in harmony, without any warning lights popping out on the dash.
It's a clean build through and through, up to the point someone who is not into BMWs would be tempted to say it's the real deal.
Note: Turn on the English subtitles by using YouTube's auto-translate function.
Source: Galeri Kereta / YouTube
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