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Environment Politics & Government
Guilford County asks residents' permission to conduct PFAS testing
by April Laissle
ROGELIO V. SOLIS/AP
Guilford County is asking certain homeowners for permission to test their well water for so-called forever chemicals, also known as PFAS.
The county has contacted about 100 homeowners who live along Brush Creek and Horsepen Creek near the Piedmont Triad International Airport, asking them to participate in the sampling effort.
Joe Johnson, with the county's division of environmental health, says it's too soon to say how officials will respond if high PFAS levels are found in homeowners' water.
"Until we have the results from the sampling, it's really hard to say which way we'll go and what will be available as far as either a connection to city water or treatment systems or anything like that along those lines," said Johnson. "So right now, it's more of, we're trying to gather data."
The effort is a continuation of a testing initiative that took place in 2018 and 2019.
The county will host a community meeting for affected homeowners Tuesday from 6 to 7 p.m. at Guilford College United Methodist Church.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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require "time"
require "logger"

module ActivePublisher
  module Logging
    def self.initialize_logger(log_target = STDOUT)
      oldlogger = defined?(@logger) ? @logger : nil
      @logger = Logger.new(log_target)
      @logger.level = Logger::INFO
      oldlogger.close if oldlogger && !$TESTING # don't want to close testing's STDOUT logging
      @logger
    end

    def self.logger
      defined?(@logger) ? @logger : initialize_logger
    end

    def self.logger=(log)
      @logger = (log ? log : Logger.new("/dev/null"))
    end

    def logger
      ::ActivePublisher::Logging.logger
    end
  end
end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Perfect for the vast turquoise playground of the Cook Islands, paddleboarding and the lagoon go together like bikinis and sunshine. A great way to cruise and explore, there's so much to see. Stand up paddling is a great way to spot giant trevally, vibrant blue parrot fish, eagle rays, turtles and everything in between.
Whether joining a downwind tour of the lagoon, using it as a blissed-out sunbathing lounger or a diving platform for the kids, there are many options for hiring paddleboards on the beach, from cafés or hotels. Try a SUP yoga class to truly experience relaxation. At sunset, enjoy light entertainment with a NiteSUP tour, as fish swim around your neon lights.


The Coopered Tot: Blown out palate?
I set up a head to head comparison of Chivas Regal 12 and Johnny Walker Black last night and found that my palate for these delicate drams was gone. I literally couldn't get a read on them at all. Why not? Earlier I had had a social dram with a co-worker - a dram of Port Charlotte 7. PC7 is bottled at a searing 61% abv - but more than that, it is a peat monster with a mammoth flavor profile. Hours later, my palate was totally skinned.
Keep this kind of thing in mind if you go to whiskey fests or are assembling flights. Keep cask strength and peated expressions last. If it's a cask strength AND peated expression - put it dead last.
E&J Brandy - US domestic price per volume leader.
Black Bush is a step up but still falls short.


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import { SchematicTestRunner, UnitTestTree } from '@angular-devkit/schematics/testing';
import { Schema as ApplicationOptions } from '../application/schema';
import { createAppModule, getFileContent } from '../utility/test';
import { Schema as WorkspaceOptions } from '../workspace/schema';
import { Schema as PipeOptions } from './schema';

describe('Pipe Schematic', () => {
  const schematicRunner = new SchematicTestRunner(
    '@schematics/angular',
    require.resolve('../collection.json'),
  );
  const defaultOptions: PipeOptions = {
    name: 'foo',
    module: undefined,
    export: false,
    flat: true,
    project: 'bar',
  };

  const workspaceOptions: WorkspaceOptions = {
    name: 'workspace',
    newProjectRoot: 'projects',
    version: '6.0.0',
  };

  const appOptions: ApplicationOptions = {
    name: 'bar',
    inlineStyle: false,
    inlineTemplate: false,
    routing: false,
    skipTests: false,
    skipPackageJson: false,
  };
  let appTree: UnitTestTree;
  beforeEach(async () => {
    appTree = await schematicRunner.runSchematicAsync('workspace', workspaceOptions).toPromise();
    appTree = await schematicRunner
      .runSchematicAsync('application', appOptions, appTree)
      .toPromise();
  });

  it('should create a pipe', async () => {
    const options = { ...defaultOptions };

    const tree = await schematicRunner.runSchematicAsync('pipe', options, appTree).toPromise();
    const files = tree.files;
    expect(files).toContain('/projects/bar/src/app/foo.pipe.spec.ts');
    expect(files).toContain('/projects/bar/src/app/foo.pipe.ts');
    const moduleContent = getFileContent(tree, '/projects/bar/src/app/app.module.ts');
    expect(moduleContent).toMatch(/import.*Foo.*from '.\/foo.pipe'/);
    expect(moduleContent).toMatch(/declarations:\s*\[[^\]]+?,\r?\n\s+FooPipe\r?\n/m);
    const fileContent = tree.readContent('/projects/bar/src/app/foo.pipe.ts');
    expect(fileContent).toContain('transform(value: unknown, ...args: unknown[])');
  });

  it('should import into a specified module', async () => {
    const options = { ...defaultOptions, module: 'app.module.ts' };

    const tree = await schematicRunner.runSchematicAsync('pipe', options, appTree).toPromise();
    const appModule = getFileContent(tree, '/projects/bar/src/app/app.module.ts');

    expect(appModule).toMatch(/import { FooPipe } from '.\/foo.pipe'/);
  });

  it('should fail if specified module does not exist', async () => {
    const options = { ...defaultOptions, module: '/projects/bar/src/app/app.moduleXXX.ts' };

    await expectAsync(
      schematicRunner.runSchematicAsync('pipe', options, appTree).toPromise(),
    ).toBeRejected();
  });

  it('should handle a path in the name and module options', async () => {
    appTree = await schematicRunner
      .runSchematicAsync('module', { name: 'admin/module', project: 'bar' }, appTree)
      .toPromise();

    const options = { ...defaultOptions, module: 'admin/module' };
    appTree = await schematicRunner.runSchematicAsync('pipe', options, appTree).toPromise();

    const content = appTree.readContent('/projects/bar/src/app/admin/module/module.module.ts');
    expect(content).toMatch(/import { FooPipe } from '\.\.\/\.\.\/foo.pipe'/);
  });

  it('should export the pipe', async () => {
    const options = { ...defaultOptions, export: true };

    const tree = await schematicRunner.runSchematicAsync('pipe', options, appTree).toPromise();
    const appModuleContent = getFileContent(tree, '/projects/bar/src/app/app.module.ts');
    expect(appModuleContent).toMatch(/exports: \[\n(\s*) {2}FooPipe\n\1\]/);
  });

  it('should respect the flat flag', async () => {
    const options = { ...defaultOptions, flat: false };

    const tree = await schematicRunner.runSchematicAsync('pipe', options, appTree).toPromise();
    const files = tree.files;
    expect(files).toContain('/projects/bar/src/app/foo/foo.pipe.spec.ts');
    expect(files).toContain('/projects/bar/src/app/foo/foo.pipe.ts');
    const moduleContent = getFileContent(tree, '/projects/bar/src/app/app.module.ts');
    expect(moduleContent).toMatch(/import.*Foo.*from '.\/foo\/foo.pipe'/);
    expect(moduleContent).toMatch(/declarations:\s*\[[^\]]+?,\r?\n\s+FooPipe\r?\n/m);
  });

  it('should use the module flag even if the module is a routing module', async () => {
    const routingFileName = 'app-routing.module.ts';
    const routingModulePath = `/projects/bar/src/app/${routingFileName}`;
    const newTree = createAppModule(appTree, routingModulePath);
    const options = { ...defaultOptions, module: routingFileName };
    const tree = await schematicRunner.runSchematicAsync('pipe', options, newTree).toPromise();
    const content = getFileContent(tree, routingModulePath);
    expect(content).toMatch(/import { FooPipe } from '.\/foo.pipe/);
  });

  it('should respect the sourceRoot value', async () => {
    const config = JSON.parse(appTree.readContent('/angular.json'));
    config.projects.bar.sourceRoot = 'projects/bar/custom';
    appTree.overwrite('/angular.json', JSON.stringify(config, null, 2));

    // should fail without a module in that dir
    await expectAsync(
      schematicRunner.runSchematicAsync('pipe', defaultOptions, appTree).toPromise(),
    ).toBeRejected();

    // move the module
    appTree.rename('/projects/bar/src/app/app.module.ts', '/projects/bar/custom/app/app.module.ts');
    appTree = await schematicRunner.runSchematicAsync('pipe', defaultOptions, appTree).toPromise();
    expect(appTree.files).toContain('/projects/bar/custom/app/foo.pipe.ts');
  });

  it('should respect the skipTests flag', async () => {
    const options = { ...defaultOptions, skipTests: true };

    const tree = await schematicRunner.runSchematicAsync('pipe', options, appTree).toPromise();
    const files = tree.files;
    expect(files).not.toContain('/projects/bar/src/app/foo.pipe.spec.ts');
    expect(files).toContain('/projects/bar/src/app/foo.pipe.ts');
  });

  it('should create a standalone pipe', async () => {
    const options = { ...defaultOptions, standalone: true };
    const tree = await schematicRunner.runSchematicAsync('pipe', options, appTree).toPromise();
    const moduleContent = tree.readContent('/projects/bar/src/app/app.module.ts');
    const pipeContent = tree.readContent('/projects/bar/src/app/foo.pipe.ts');
    expect(pipeContent).toContain('standalone: true');
    expect(pipeContent).toContain('class FooPipe');
    expect(moduleContent).not.toContain('FooPipe');
  });

  it('should error when class name contains invalid characters', async () => {
    const options = { ...defaultOptions, name: '1Clazz' };

    await expectAsync(
      schematicRunner.runSchematicAsync('pipe', options, appTree).toPromise(),
    ).toBeRejectedWithError('Class name "1Clazz" is invalid.');
  });
});


Three commissioners serve as the Port of Longview's governing body. Elected for six-year terms, the non-partisan commissioners are directly responsible to the voters regarding Port district operations.
Port commissioners set policies that guide the development, growth and operation of all the Port's facilities and functions. The commissioners hire a Chief Executive Officer to administer established policies and manage port operations.
What commission district do I live in?


1	"aNow it shall be, if you diligently 1obey the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the Lord your God bwill set you high above all the nations of the earth.
3	"Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be ain the 1country.
4	"Blessed shall be the 1offspring of your 2body and the 1produce of your ground and the 1offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.
5	"Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
6	"Blessed shall you be awhen you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
7	"The Lord shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be 1defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways.
8	"The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in aall that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
9	"aThe Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways.
10	"So all the peoples of the earth will see that 1ayou are called by the name of the Lord, and they will be afraid of you.
11	"aThe Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in the 1offspring of your 2body and in the 1offspring of your beast and in the 1produce of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.
12	"The Lord will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and ayou shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
14	and ado not turn aside from any of the words which I command you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
16	"aCursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the 1country.
17	"aCursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
18	"aCursed shall be the 1offspring of your 2body and the 1produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.
19	"aCursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
20	"aThe Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and brebuke, in all 1you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until cyou perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me.
21	"aThe Lord will make the pestilence cling to you until He has consumed you from the land where you are entering to possess it.
22	"aThe Lord will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with 1the sword and bwith blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until cyou perish.
23	"1The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron.
24	"aThe Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
25	"aThe Lord shall cause you to be 1defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will bbe an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
26	"aYour carcasses will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
27	"aThe Lord will smite you with the boils of Egypt and with btumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
29	and you will 1agrope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you.
30	"aYou shall betroth a wife, but another man will violate her; byou shall build a house, but you will not live in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but you will not 1use its fruit.
31	"Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey shall be torn away from you, and will not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you will have none to save you.
32	"aYour sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them continually; but there will be nothing 1you can do.
33	"aA people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed continually.
34	"You shall be driven mad by the sight of 1what you see.
35	"aThe Lord will strike you on the knees and legs with sore boils, from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
36	"aThe Lord will bring you and your king, whom you set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, bwood and stone.
37	"aYou shall become a horror, a proverb, and a taunt among all the people where the Lord drives you.
38	"aYou shall bring out much seed to the field but you will gather in little, for bthe locust will consume it.
39	"aYou shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will devour them.
40	"aYou shall have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.
41	"aYou shall 1have sons and daughters but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
42	"aThe cricket shall possess all your trees and the produce of your ground.
43	"aThe alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower.
44	"aHe shall lend to you, but you will not lend to him; bhe shall be the head, and you will be the tail.
45	"So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you auntil you are destroyed, because you would not 1obey the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.
46	"They shall become aa sign and a wonder on you and your 1descendants forever.
48	therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, ain hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He bwill put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
50	a nation of fierce countenance who will ahave no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.
51	"Moreover, it shall eat the 1offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.
52	"aIt shall besiege you in all your 1towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your 1towns throughout your land which the Lord your God has given you.
53	"aThen you shall eat the 1offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will 2oppress you.
55	so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else left, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will 1oppress you in all your 2towns.
57	and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her 1legs and toward her children whom she bears; for ashe will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will 2oppress you in your 3towns.
59	then the Lord will bring extraordinary plagues on you and 1your descendants, even 2severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses.
60	"aHe will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you.
61	"Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the Lord will bring on you auntil you are destroyed.
62	"Then you shall be left few in number, awhereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not 1obey the Lord your God.
63	"It shall come about that as the Lord adelighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the Lord will bdelight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be ctorn from the land where you are entering to possess it.
64	"Moreover, the Lord will ascatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall bserve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known.
65	"aAmong those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there bthe Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.
66	"So your life shall 1hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.
67	"aIn the morning you shall say, 'Would that it were evening!' And at evening you shall say, 'Would that it were morning!' because of the dread of your heart which you dread, and for the sight of your eyes which you will see.


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Germany's post-Angela Merkel government has agreed on a new direction for the country
Germany met its new post-Angela Merkel government today. The three political parties that have been negotiating for weeks agreed on the shape of their new coalition under a new chancellor. They also agreed on a long list of priorities and a new direction for Germany.
NPR's Berlin correspondent Rob Schmitz joins us to talk about this. Hey, Rob.
ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE: Hey, Ari.
SHAPIRO: Tell us about these three parties and the direction that they intend to take Germany.
SCHMITZ: Yeah. Germany's new coalition will be made up of the center-left Social Democrats, the libertarian Free Democrats and the climate-focused Green Party. And they have just released a coalition agreement that makes many bold and aggressive promises that, if met, will take Germany far beyond where Merkel has taken the country. First and foremost, climate change and a carbon-neutral economy is a very big part of this agreement. This new coalition government aims to phase out coal, ideally within the next eight years - sooner than Merkel had planned. It also aims to have Germany rely on 80% renewables by 2030 - a bold goal if it can be achieved and one that will require a complete transformation of Germany's industrial landscape. Soon-to-be Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke about this today. Here's what he said.
OLAF SCHOLZ: (Non-English language spoken).
SCHMITZ: And he's saying here this deal means the biggest industrial modernization of Germany in more than 100 years. And they will require the expansion of renewable energies at a completely different pace than Germany's been used to because it means that German citizens and its economy will most likely depend on electricity from renewable energy from now on. He said this is both good for our country and for the rest of the world because if Germany develops the technologies and know-how needed to make its industrial sector green and globally competitive, then this could be a model for everyone else.
SHAPIRO: All right. So apart from fighting climate change, what are the major priorities in this agreement?
SCHMITZ: Well, liberalizing social policies in Germany seems to be another overarching goal for this incoming government. Scholz's long-held plan of a 12 euro minimum wage is in the works. That equals around $14 an hour, and that means a pay raise for more than 10 million Germans. That's more than 10% of the country. He also announced that the new government would aim to build 400,000 new homes a year and have the government subsidize a quarter of that new stock. This is an attempt to chip away at Germany's looming housing crisis and out-of-control rents in much of urban Germany. The deal also included loosening the rules around citizenship so that immigrants can get dual citizenship faster. That's an attempt to help solve the country's aging workforce. And the agreement also pledged to legalize cannabis for adult use.
SHAPIRO: That is a lot on a domestic agenda, and we haven't talked about the rest of the world yet. What's on the foreign agenda?
SCHMITZ: Yeah, there's going to be a lot of changes in that category, too. Although Scholz didn't name his new cabinet members, it's expected that the Green Party's Annalena Baerbock will be the country's first female foreign minister. And she wants Germany to play a more assertive role on an international stage. Interestingly, it will put Germany on a closer path to the United States. The Green Party cares deeply about human rights, and Baerbock has vowed to do more to stand up to autocratic leaders like Vladimir Putin in Russia and Xi Jinping in China. In fact, the new coalition agreement includes language about China's threat to Taiwan and says Germany's new foreign policy will place a greater focus on values.
SHAPIRO: When does the transition take place?
SCHMITZ: Well, this coalition agreement now goes to the three parties so that their members can vote on it. And it's expected that within two weeks, we will see the end of Chancellor Angela Merkel's government. And Olaf Scholz and this three-party coalition government will begin to govern Germany.
SHAPIRO: That's NPR's Berlin correspondent Rob Schmitz. Thank you.
SCHMITZ: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
Politics all things considered


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Goolsbee said that technology both destroys and creates new jobs. Carlson asked whether he would be happy with "replacing all economics professors with AI" in that regard.
Goolsbee said the government's actions to date have not worked in that regard, citing the child tax credit.


How did you do the update?
The update database is the second item under users on the administration page.
With ref to your other thread "Any Easy method to update EmonCMS" I assume you are a non-emonpi/base/sd user and that you have updated by downloading or cloning the emoncms repo (again?).
There were some idea's floated regards improving the update process from within emoncms, especially for non-emonpi/base/sd users like us. It seems those incomplete idea's have materialised into the master branch of the emoncms repo.
It appears not, if you are running the master branch the new code is active and unless $admin_show_update is set OR you are an existing emonpi/base/sd user the original update database button has gone. The recent changes mean you get many or none update buttons depending on if you are running an emonpi/base/sd and have the old $allow_emonpi_admin setting or not.
As a sidenote, Aside from losing the update db button it doesn't help non-emonpi/base/sd users much even with all the extra buttons as the $homedir/emonpi/service-runner-update.sh path is still hardcoded into emoncms without any alternative.
@aruneshdutta - It would appear what ever method you used to update, it has landed you on the master branch, not the stable branch. Your best course of action (for now at least) is to switch back to the stable branch, hopefully you can just navigate to the emoncms folder and use git checkout stable to switch, but depending on how you updated (presumably not via a git pull) you may need to pull in the changes with git pull before and/or after the switch.
To answer your original question on the other thread. The easiest way to update emoncms currently is to git pull the changes from each repo folder (ie emoncms plus any additional modules you have installed) manually or there is a script in emoncms/usefulscripts to help with this, then update the db (it should return when you switch branches) but hopefully the update process will improve in the not too distant future.
I have added a link back here, to the PR (where @borpin has already commented about the absent setting).
4 commits changed 2 files with 73 additions and 48 deletions.
No that doesn't sound like the git checkout stable is working, what does the output say when you issue that command?
the stable version is 9.9.8. The "beta" signifies it is the master branch, hence 9.9.9 beta is the work in progress before getting merged into stable, at which time it will become 9.9.9 (no beta).
You can post the output of the git checkout here, you could also do another git pull and post that output so we can see more of what's going on.
Can you confirm you have changed the name of the emoncms_new folder to emoncms and renamed or deleted the original emoncms as per the guide you linked? Just to confirm that we are not perhaps working on one emoncms instance and viewing another.
It will always clone master because master is the repo's default branch, once cloned you must switch to stable using git checkout stable.
Were you in the /var/www/emoncms/ folder?
. . . and what was the output? It cannot of worked if you are still on master!
@pb66 I also suspect unless the Modules are updated, there will be problems moving from the previous version.
@aruneshdutta, you can just select the text in the terminal window and paste it here rather than a screenshot. We need all the output.
No he was in emoncms_new, that's why I asked about how far he had got with switching the repo folders (different to switching branches). I think he is viewing emoncms "a" whilst pulling and checking out emncms "B".
I see what the issue is!
If you go into that folder (emoncms_new), do a git checkout stable, the file will change.
However, I'd actually recommend you just update that main emoncms folder rather than do an emoncms_new folder as if you have any Modules installed, you would need to reinstall them. Those instructions you found are more relevant to upgrading from a much earlier version.
Hightlight the output (if using PuTTY it will automatically be copied into the clipboard) and paste it into a reply please (rather than a screenshot).


Genre-defying artist lil aaron has given fans an early Christmas gift with the surprise drop of Worst Christmas Ever today. The 5-track EP was produced by Travis Barker (Blink-182) in his LA studio and brings a new twist to the holiday music catalogue with completely original tracks. On how the surprise project came to be, Aaron shares "I've had the idea of doing a funny Christmas album for a while. I just brought it up to Travis in the studio one day and he was down. It only took a few days for us to knock the whole thing out."
This is the pair's second project together, Travis being featured on the lead single from lil aaron's latest EP ROCK$TAR FAMOU$. Shortly after the release, Aaron was invited to open for Blink-182 at their Palms Las Vegas residency. On working with Travis, Aaron continues to share that "Working with Travis is the easiest thing in the world. He just keep the ideas going at all times." Worst Christmas Ever is available today via HAZHEART Records and is streaming now at https://lilaaron.lnk.to/worstchristmaseverPR.
Dec 7 Jessie J Releases Lyric Video for "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town"
Dec 7 Chase Atlantic Release New Track, "Like A Rockstar"


We recently partnered with Now Discovery, creators of the technology behind the powerhouse Lumix processing engine, to build a complementary review platform.
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We thought there had to be a better way, so we partnered with our friends at Now Discovery to build one platform that could rule all the others. And we did. Meet the new Lumix platform.
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Our goal with the beta test is to ensure that the finished product takes into account all of the elements that end users want most from our solution. Therefore, we're inviting beta testers with all levels of eDiscovery experience to join us starting at the end of January. To set up a virtual demo or sign up to be a beta tester at no cost, please email us at partnerships@idiscoverglobal.com. Or you can visit us down the street from LegalTech New York at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, located at 811 7th Avenue 53rd Street on January 29 and 30 for live, in-person demos and beta test registration. Please reach out to get on our schedule!
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Gov. Holcomb looks to tackle teacher pay in 2021
INDIANAPOLIS (WEHT) – Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb said the State of Indiana has never been stronger.
Tuesday night, the governor said in his 'State of the State' address that the unemployment rate is at an all-time low.
Holcomb said teacher pay is a big issue, but he plans to address it next year.
He recommends lawmakers use $250 million from the state's surplus and put it toward teacher retirement funds.
This would generate $50 million annually for teacher pay.
He said that in addition to the $150 million they gave to the teacher retirement fund last year, that freed up $65 million more for teachers.
Democratic leaders said they aren't against Holcomb's idea, but they don't think the issue should wait until 2021.


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#include "alloutil/al_OmniApp.hpp"
#include "allocore/graphics/al_Font.hpp"
#include <iostream>

using namespace al;
using namespace std;

struct MyApp : OmniApp {
  Mesh mesh;
  Light light;
  Font* font;
  SearchPaths searchPaths;

  MyApp() {
    // search for the font in the root directory
    // in this case, our font lives here: allocore/share/fonts/
    SearchPaths searchPaths;
    searchPaths.addSearchPath(".");
    FilePath filePath = searchPaths.find("VeraMoIt.ttf");
    if (!filePath.valid()) {
      cerr << "Font file not found! Exiting..." << endl;
      exit(1);
    }
    font = new Font(filePath.filepath(), 20);

    mesh.primitive(Graphics::TRIANGLES);
    addSphere(mesh, 1.0, 32, 32);
  }

  virtual ~MyApp() {}

  virtual void onDraw(Graphics& g) {
    g.polygonMode(Graphics::LINE);
    g.draw(mesh);

    // Depth test so transparent faces are sorted properly
    g.polygonMode(Graphics::FILL);
    glAlphaFunc(GL_GREATER, 0.5);
    glEnable(GL_ALPHA_TEST);
    shader().uniform("texture", 1.0);

    for (int i = 0; i < mesh.vertices().size(); i++){
      g.pushMatrix();
        Vec3d xform = mesh.vertices()[i];
        g.translate(xform);
        g.scale(.001);

        // getLookRotation takes a normalized vector from source to destination
        // and an up vector, in this case we want the camera's up vector
        Vec3d forward = Vec3d(pose.pos() - xform).normalize();
        Quatd rot = Quatd::getBillboardRotation(forward, pose.uu());
        g.rotate(rot);

        // render the text
        stringstream sstream;
        sstream << float(i);
        string temp_str = sstream.str();
        const char* text = temp_str.c_str();
        font->render(g, text);
      g.popMatrix();
    }
    glDisable(GL_ALPHA_TEST);
    shader().uniform("texture", 0.0);
  }

  virtual void onAnimate(al_sec dt) {
    pose = nav();
  }

  virtual void onMessage(osc::Message& m) {
    OmniApp::onMessage(m);
  }

  virtual bool onKeyDown(const Keyboard& k) { return true; }

  std::string fragmentCode() {
    return R"(
      uniform float lighting;
      uniform float texture;
      uniform sampler2D texture0;
      varying vec4 color;
      varying vec3 normal, lightDir, eyeVec;

      void main() {
        vec4 colorMixed;
        vec4 textureColor = texture2D(texture0, gl_TexCoord[0].st);
        if( texture > 0.0){
          colorMixed = mix(color, textureColor, texture);
        }else{
          colorMixed = color;
        }

        vec4 final_color = colorMixed * gl_LightSource[0].ambient;
        vec3 N = normalize(normal);
        vec3 L = lightDir;
        float lambertTerm = max(dot(N, L), 0.0);
        final_color += gl_LightSource[0].diffuse * colorMixed * lambertTerm;
        vec3 E = eyeVec;
        vec3 R = reflect(-L, N);
        float spec = pow(max(dot(R, E), 0.0), 0.9 + 1e-20);
        final_color += gl_LightSource[0].specular * spec;
        gl_FragColor = mix(colorMixed, final_color, lighting);

        // This sets alpha to 0 for everything but the letter
/*!*/   if (texture > 0.0) gl_FragColor.a = textureColor.r;
      }
    )";
  }
};

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
  MyApp().start();
  return 0;
}


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Simple Isn't Easy
by Denise in Addiction, Death, Faith, Motherhood Tags: acceptance, addiction, alcoholism, bereavement, death, death of a child, depression, grief, grieving, loss, motherhood, spirituality
One day Krishnamurti told his followers he was going to tell them his secret. I can imagine the excitement rippling through the crowd, the expected relief, the gratitude that they must be his Very Special Followers since they were the ones present at this much-unexpected announcement. I imagine many of them thought their journey was over, that once they knew this secret, their suffering would end. And I expect it would, if they could really understand what he said. Because what he said was, "I don't mind what happens."
Truth is simple. That doesn't make it easy.
I already said that Natalie was unhappy at school. She was a freshman at Rutgers in New Brunswick, the same college where Philip was a junior. This wasn't a matter of oh-she'll-be-fine-in-a-couple-of-months. In February of 2012, she was in the middle of her second semester, and I was still talking her off the ledge. She was working on transferring, and I was trying to encourage her to hang in and just finish the semester.
Conventional wisdom says "Going away to college is good for them." CW isn't always – if ever – wisdom. CW easily turns into something she said so he said so everyone says but not many give much thought to what they're saying. Some kids do well at college, some don't. There's more than one way to live a life, and SAT brilliance coupled with a $60,000-a-year Ivy League education doesn't mean you or your kid are going to have the fantasy future you think it promises. If you have a future at all, that is. But it sure is fun to tell your friends about it. Even more fun than telling them about your last raise or your new Mercedes or any of those other things that make us really proud to be us until we need the next proud thing because the first proud thing is well, just so yesterday.
Philip took easily to living away, but Natalie did not. Many of my conversations with her were to remind her that there were three options in any situation: Accept it, leave it or change it. She was trying to change it by applying to other colleges; but on the way to leaving Rutgers, all she could do was accept that she was there for the short term. To do that is to take responsibility for your life, for what you're feeling and how you're thinking. Blame your circumstances all you want, all you'll get is more suffering. Which isn't to say you "accept" any kind of crap that's thrown at you. You recognize it's crap and figure out how to clean it up and stay out of its way once you do. And not once; it's never once. It's the work of a life, the work that matters most, the work that every degree in the world isn't going to ensure you'll have mastered.
Not to suggest this is any sort of easy. See, I'd been grappling with How to Live forever. The first time I drank I was 11, which is just to say how early I was unhappy, how early I was looking to escape. At 24 I joined AA, but nearly 30 years later I still didn't get what was so great about life, why after 30 years of therapy and 10 of antidepressants I still didn't want to be here. But I'd spent the year-and-a-half or so before Philip died listening to Eckhart Tolle CDs whenever I drove anywhere – and often, to listen was the reason I got in the car in the first place. Accept it, leave it or change became my credo because it gave me a way to think about a given situation instead of reacting to it.
And I paid attention to the 24/7 film festival that was going on in my head, which was mostly playing reruns. Stories of vengeance, hate, anger, victimhood, all of which I wrote, produced, directed and starred in. Worst of all, I believed them, and my emotions acted accordingly. It wasn't the situation that was causing the feelings; it was the endless, looping, dog-chasing-its-tail stories that kept my gut churning.
So I stopped. I became a spectator instead of a participant, stopped the show when I didn't like it. Simple, but not easy. But the work was to stay here, in the present. Not in the past that was gone or in a future that never came except as the now.
When Philip was little, I used to tell him that I was going to paint on his wall, "Be here now." I was so busy noticing he wasn't present that I didn't get that I wasn't either.
Accept it, leave it, change it. This was the work I was doing at the moment of impact, the moment I crashed and burned on the landing.
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grahamforeverinmyheart
I just wanted to tell you that I've been reading back through your blog and your writing is very powerful. I identify with many of the feelings and thoughts you express. I wish that our sons were here, living their lives as they should have been. Everything is so difficult now.
So very difficult; I can't take it, I say – but what does that mean? We do take it. It feels sickening. And I never realized how many parents suffer this. It's frightening; that there's so much heartache is frightening.
anna whiston-donaldson
Denise, I am really drawn to your writing and your story, although I know you and I wish we each had different stories to tell.
For sure. And I am drawn to your spirit.


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Q: Variation of the BASE Current with the COLLECTOR Current in CE config? So can anyone explain me how the collector voltage(V (output)) will vary with variation in base current with respect to the following figure?

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab

A: I think you need to jump (maybe not in at the deep end but) in a bit deeper and I would recommend studying the following graphs for a BC547 transistor. The data sheet is here: -

The top-left graph shows quite a few things: -

*

*For a given base current, altering the collector-emitter voltage (above saturation) you can see that the transistor tends to behave like a constant current source.

*In saturation the transistor tends to behave like a variable resistor i.e. a given bas current means that the collector current is roughly proportional to collector-emitter voltage (nice for variable gain control)

The top-right graph indicates what voltage can be expected to be seen on the base for driving a certain collector current with collector-emitter voltage held at 5V.
Bottom-left indicates how much current gain you can expect from the device.
Bottom-right is another representaion of what happens in the saturation region.

So can anyone explain me how the collector voltage(V (output)) will
  vary with variation in base current with respect to the following
  figure??

The trick here is asking the question how the collector current will vary with base current and once you have that you can decide what volt-drop will be across the resistor. From this you can check that the transistor is not entering saturation (because that puts you in the linear parts of the curves where collector current is more defined by collector voltage) and you'll need to re-appraise what the collector current is to recalculate the resistor volt-drop (iterations needed).
The bottom line is - try to fully understand the top-left graph - imagine a base current of (say) 200uA - ask yourself what collector current flows when the CE voltage is between 4V and 14V - the answer is about 50mA - hence the BJT is generally regarded as producing a constant current for a given base current but, the reality/detail is that collector current will vary between about 47mA (4V on collector) and 53mA (14 volt on collector). You might also start to notice that all the "constant-current" sections have an ever increasing slope and they all "point" to a position on the X-axis that is the same - it's called the Early voltage but a little too much to go into at the moment!!
Try to get a feel for this and recognize the onset of saturation and how it reshapes what I've just said - you can see, that for lower base drives, saturation is entered when collector voltage is less than 1V but, at higher base drives, saturation is entered at 2V or more - there is no exact definition of saturation that can be derived from the graphs so you just have to develop a gut-feeling for what it means.

A: In figure, BJT is working in Common-Emitter configuration. Sine the input source is a current source(Actually it is a current controlled current source, but from the figure we can't trace any dependency of current source ), it will act as the base current here.
So, Ib = VCS

Since BJT is in CE-configuration, output current can be shown as
Collector current, Ic = hfe x Ib = hfe x VCS; where hfe is the gain

So from the equation, when VCS increases, Ic increases and there by voltage drop across Resistor Rc increases. This will reduce output voltage Vo.(since Vo = Vce)
Apply KVL rule, we have
    V = voltage across Rc + Vce = Vrc + Vo
Hence,
    Vo = V - Vrc

So as VCS increases, Vrc increases and hence output reduces.
Please correct me if I have error. No one is perfect.Thanks in advance

A: The Collector current Ic is related to your base current Ib using the relation Ic=(hfe)(Ib) where hfe is typical for your transistor. Hence, Collector voltage will be given by the eaquation Vc=V-IcR=V-(hfe)IbR. Hence the graph between collector Ib and Vc will be a straight line with a negative slope.

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De flitssynchronisatietijd is de (snelste) belichtings- of sluitertijd die op een fotocamera gebruikt mag worden in combinatie met een elektronenflitser. Een langere sluitertijd kan wel worden gebruikt maar een kortere (snellere) niet. Dit heeft te maken met het sluitergordijn (zie spleetsluiter): bij een kortere sluitertijd is het beeldvlak nooit helemaal vrij en omdat een elektronenflitser een flitsduur van enkele microseconden heeft wordt een deel van de foto niet door de flitser belicht.

Afhankelijk van de constructie van de sluiter kan de synchronisatietijd verschillen, een horizontaal aflopende doeksluiter voor een kleinbeeldcamera heeft een tijd in de orde van 1/60s of 1/75s, een verticaal aflopende lamellensluiter heeft een synchronisatietijd die ergens tussen 1/125s en 1/250s ligt.

Voor "ouderwetse" lampenflitsers waren er speciale lampen te koop waarbij de flitsduur wat langer was (enige tientallen milliseconden) en waarbij het licht over de flitsduur ook redelijk constant bleef, hiermee werd de film wel over de hele looptijd van de sluiterspleet belicht. Iets soortgelijks is mogelijk met sommige moderne elektronenflitsers, deze kunnen in een speciale stand een korte serie van flitsjes geven waarbij de belichtte strookjes elkaar overlappen en het hele beeldvlak belicht wordt.

Een centraalsluiter heeft geen last van dit fenomeen en er kan dan ook bij alle beschikbare sluitertijden worden geflitst.

Fotocamera

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Traditional 'tsurushibina' or hanging decorations for girls' festival are being publicly displayed at some of the locations in Fukushima in this time of year. Hanawa Town is one of them. Photo above shows tsurushibina exhibition at Community Plaza inside the Iwakihanawa Station building of JR Suigun Line. Each of the hanging pieces was made by handicraft quilting using scrap cloth. A group of local women volunteers called 'Quiltmate Hanawa' made all of these. Actually this tradition had spread across Japan in late Edo Period and was passed down to this day.
Photo above was taken from a different angle and you can see the whole hanging structure from above. This exhibit continues through March 3rd which is the girls' festival day. JR Iwakihanawa Station is about 1.5hr train ride from Koriyama.
Today was February 11, 2018, Shirakawa Dharma Dolls Market Day! People crowded at the venue to buy this year's new Dharma dolls. The venue was along the main street close to JR Shirakawa Station. The street was part of an old highway "Oshukaido" from Edo Period about 400 years ago. The market as you see in the photo above started about 100 years ago in Meiji Period. In recent years, the market has been held on February 11th (National Foundation Day) of every year.
A god of the market called "Ichigamisama" was enshrined at a shrine in the center of the market as shown above. Shirakawa City's local manga character "Komine shiro" on the upper left was also cheering up the market.
Another similar sales stand is shown above. There were about 30 of these shops as well as many other food stands.
These are the Dharma dolls I purchased today. The left one is from Watanabe Dharma Workshop, and the right one is from Sagawa Dharma Workshop. These are the two main workshops in the city today. The design is different but the common feature is that both include crane, turtle, pine tree, bamboo, and ume blossoms as symbols of good luck and longevity.
I stopped at some of the historic heritage in the city. One was Kansenji Temple as shown above, located a few minute walk from the marketplace. A description in Japanese was at the site, as shown in the middle picture above. The temple was first built in 1336 by a Shirakawa lord Yuki Munehiro at the time. His statue was placed in the precinct as shown above. The Yuki family controlled the Shirakawa area for about 400 years between 12th and 16th century.
Next, I stopped at Shohoji Temple as shown above. The temple was first built around the middle of 14th century by Yuki Chikatomo who was a son of Munehiro, for the memorial of his father.
In the afternoon, I visited Mahoron as shown above, which was a Fukushima Prefecture Cultural Assets Center. This was located just south of Shirakawa city center, where ancient Paleolithic remains, Ichiridan A site, were excavated.
Some of the ancient stone tools unearthed from Ichiridan A site were displayed as shown above.
Within the area of the facility, an old house from Nara Period, some 1300 years ago, was restored as shown above.
A set of restored harnesses found at Zaruuchi Tumuli site from 7th century, are also displayed in the facility as shown above.


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97-year-old woman convicted of killing more than 10,000 people at Nazi concentration camp
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In one of the country's last Holocaust trials, a former secretary was given a two-year suspended sentence.
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The former Nazi camp secretary is sentenced to two years in prison for killing 10,000 people
A 97-year-old woman, identified as Irmgard Furchner, who served as a secretary in a Nazi concentration camp in World War Two, was sentenced to two years' probation, accused of complicity in the "cruel and evil murder" of more than ten thousand prisoners at the Stutthof camp in occupied Poland. This was one of the last trials in the country for Holocaust🇧🇷 The sentence comes after the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office, which highlighted the "extraordinary historical importance" of the process, with a mainly "symbolic" decision. The lawyers requested the release of the elderly woman, claiming that the evidence presented during the trial "did not prove beyond doubt" that the woman knew about the murders. Furchner was present at the trial and practically did not speak during the process, only in the last sessions, already in December, when he broke his silence. "I am sorry for everything that happened," he told the regional court in the town of Itzehoe (in the north). She is the first woman prosecuted in decades Germany for the crimes of the Nazi era. In September 2021, at the beginning of the process, the convict tried to escape by escaping from the nursing home where she lives and heading towards a metro station. She tried to evade police for several hours before being caught in nearby Hamburg. She was jailed for five days.
During the court hearings, survivors of the Stutthof camp gave moving accounts of their suffering. "They feel their duty, even though they have repeatedly sought pain to do so," said prosecutor Maxi Wantzen, who thanked the witnesses for their courage. At the time of the murders, Furchner was a teenager and, therefore, was tried by a juvenile court. Historians estimate that 65,000 people died in the camp near present-day Gdansk, including "Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans and Soviet-Russian prisoners of war," prosecutors said. Between June 1943 and April 1945, Furchner worked in the office of camp commandant Paul Werner Hoppe. Wantzen noted that despite the advanced age of the accused, it was "important to conduct the trial" and complete the historical record because Holocaust survivors are dying. Seventy-seven years after the end of World War II, time is running out to bring Holocaust-related criminals to justice. In recent years, some cases have been abandoned because the accused died or were unable to appear in court. The conviction of guard John Demjanjuk in 2011 on the grounds that he was part of the Hitler regime's killing machine set a legal precedent and paved the way for multiple trials. Courts have since issued numerous guilty verdicts on this ground and not for murder or atrocities directly related to the accused.
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Q: How to add an XmlDocument to a POCO class? I have this class:
    [Table("Items", Schema = "Datamodel")]
    public class BaseItem : Identifier
    {
        [Required(ErrorMessage = "Name is required.")]
        [MaxLength(240)]
        public string Name { get; set; }

        public XmlDocument Content { get; set; }

        public BaseItem() { Content = new XmlDocument(); }
        internal BaseItem(string name) : this() { Name = name; }
    }
}

(The Identifier class just defines an extra property Id of type GUID, which is required and by default initialized with a new value. All my POCO classes inherit from this one.)
The problem is the XmlDocument property, which I want to be stored within the database, preferably as type XML so the contents of the XML can be part of my queries. So, is that possible?
If not, what would be the best alternative while keeping the public interface of this class intact?

A: It might be possible to Serialize the XmlDoc as a Blob but why bother? It's essentially text.
public string ContentText { get; set; }

private _xmlDocuent;
[NotMapped]
public XmlDocument Content
{
  get { return _xmlDocumet ?? (_xmlDocument = new XmlDocuent.Parse(ContentTExt)); }
}


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Джилліан Фей Голл-Фарол (; нар. 6 вересня 1980, Ешланд) — відома американська реслерка.

Кар'єра
Дебютний виступ Джиліан Голл відбулося в 1998 році.

Найбільш відома своїми виступами на арені WWE.

Особисте життя
24 липня 1999 року Джиллілан вийшла заміж за реслера Тіма Голла. На початку 2000 року народила їх спільну дочку, а незабаром вона з ним розлучилася.

З 10 вересня 2010 року Голл вийшла заміж за Майка Фарола, з яким не живе разом з квітня 2012 року. У березні 2011 року вона перенесла викидень, будучи на 14-у тижні вагітності з їх первістком, своєю другою дитиною.

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This soothing balm helps relieve dry, flaky skin, skin irritation and rash, burns and sun burn. It can also be used as a shaving cream.
This soothing balm helps soothe dry, flaky skin, skin irritation and rash, burns and sun burn. It can also be used as a shaving cream.


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CD16-expressing monocytes correlate with arterial stiffness in HIV-infected ART-naïve men.
Objectives To determine the association of the markers of monocyte activation and arterial stiffness among HIV-infected antiretroviral therapy (ART)-naïve men. Methods Sixty HIV-infected ART-naïve men and 20 HIV-uninfected male controls without symptoms or history of cardiovascular disease were recruited. Pulse wave velocity (PWV) were used as the marker of arterial stiffness and determined using a pulse pressure analyzer. The percentage of CD16-expressing monocytes was used as a marker of monocyte activation. Plasma neopterin concentration, one of the monocyte/macrophage activation markers and plasma tissue factor (TF), the coagulation marker in response to inflammatory stimuli, were also analyzed. Multivariate analyses were used to explore the association of the percentage of CD16-expressing monocytes with arterial stiffness in HIV-infected men. Results HIV-infected ART-naïve men demonstrated significantly higher PWV (1252.8 ± 161.6 vs.1159.2 ± 108.3 cm/s, p = 0.018). The percentage of CD16-expressing monocytes was significantly higher in HIV-infected men comparing male controls (23.4 ± 6.0% vs. 19.6 ± 4.6%, p = 0.012). Plasma concentrations of neopterin (0.91 vs. 0.64 ng/ml), p < 0.001) and TF (5.29 vs. 4.43 pg/ml, p = 0.04) were higher in HIV-infected men comparing controls. In the multivariate model for PWV among HIV-infected men, the percentage of CD16-expressing monocytes (p = 0.023) and age (p = 0.017) were significantly associated with PWV. HIV viral load, CD4 count, percentage of CD8+CD38+T cells and percentage of CD8+HLA-DR+ T cells were not associated with PWV. Discussion Higher level of monocyte activation marker is associated with higher level of arterial stiffness in ART naïve HIV-infected men. HIV viral load, CD4 count, and the markers of CD8 T cell activation were unrelated to PWV.
Luo L, Han Y, Song X, Zhu T, Zeng Y, Li T.


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import { ActionsObservable, Epic, combineEpics, ofType } from 'redux-observable'
import { map } from 'rxjs/operators'
import { subspaced } from '../../../src'

const reducer = (state = {}) => state

class ChildState {
    value: any
}

class ParentState {
    child: ChildState
}

class RootState {
    parent: ParentState
}

const epic: Epic<any, any> = (action$: ActionsObservable<any>) => action$.pipe(
    ofType('PING'),
    map(action => ({ type: 'PONG' })))

const subStateEpic = subspaced<ParentState, ChildState>((state) => state.child)(epic)
const namespacedEpic = subspaced('test')(epic)
const subspacedEpic = subspaced<ParentState, ChildState>((state) => state.child, 'test')(epic)
const subStateEpicWithRoot = subspaced<ParentState, RootState, ParentState>((state, rootState) => rootState.parent)(epic)
const subspacedEpicWithRoot = subspaced<ParentState, RootState, ParentState>((state, rootState) => rootState.parent, "test")(epic)

const rootEpic = combineEpics(
    subStateEpic,
    namespacedEpic,
    subspacedEpic,
    subStateEpicWithRoot,
    subspacedEpicWithRoot
)


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With hundreds of Shopify apps to sort through, how can you know which ones will actually help you increase sales?
Without the right tools, your revenue can't grow, and that's why we've done a ton of research to find the best Shopify apps to increase sales.
These apps will help you promote your store, reward your customers, and handle inventory and shipping so you can earn more revenue.
So, here it is, our list of must-have apps for Shopify store owners. We've even broken it down into three categories to make it easier, with our top picks for each.
First, let's start with the best Shopify apps to promote your store.
We've got no problem putting OptinMonster first on this list of the best Shopify apps to generate leads and increase sales.
Cosmetic Capital increased leads by 300% using a floating bar optin.
White River increased sales 35% using OptinMonster's responsive popups.
The Eczema Company saw an instant 2.5X boost in conversions after switching from another popup software.
Scott Wyden Imagery is using OptinMonster to recover 21% of abandoned shopping carts.
The results speak for themselves, but that's not all that makes OptinMonster top our list. Our Shopify app also provides a seamless integration of your OptinMonster account with Shopify, so you don't need to install any special code. You can even use an OptinMonster popup to automatically apply discount codes to Shopify carts!
OptinMonster is the best option to gather email addresses, boost eCommerce conversions, and make more sales. You can also target each optin to specific Shopify products, collections, pages, articles, and tags.
Here's our guide to integrating OptinMonster with Shopify to help you get started.
The OptinMonster Shopify app is $49 per month.
While email marketing is more effective than social media at driving sales, social media is still an important referral source for online stores. In fact, both Facebook and Twitter can help you gain product recommendations, and actual sales.
That's why Facebook Channel makes our list of the best Shopify apps to increase sales. It lets you use your Facebook presence to drive sales, setting a Facebook store up in just a few clicks. With Facebook Channel, you can highlight products on your Facebook timeline and let shoppers purchase products directly from your posts.
Facebook Channel is a free app.
Check out our guides to getting traffic from Facebook and how to use Facebook Messenger marketing to get even more sales from your Shopify store. You can also create a custom "Like Us On Facebook" popup to drive traffic from your website to your Facebook business page!
Whether customers stick to one brand or not, loyalty programs can be a huge draw. Customers enjoy engaging with brands, as well as the personalized service and rewards that come with these programs.
With Smile.io you can offer a loyalty program on your Shopify store to create more loyal customers who boost your bank balance with repeat purchases.
Smile.io lets you issue reward points based on creating accounts, sharing products on social media, following your brand, and more.
These features are available for free, but you can upgrade to give additional rewards to your VIP customers and to enjoy full customization of your reward program. Upgrade pricing starts at $50 per month.
Want to keep the interaction going after your customers open their accounts? Check out our guide to the 7 types of emails that keep customers coming back.
Did you know that every happy customer will tell nine more? So, if you're not finding a way to get referrals, you're missing out on sales.
Referral Candy is one of the best Shopify apps to give your customers incentives to refer their friends. You can choose the reward of your choice for unlimited referrals.
The Referral Candy system includes automatic reward delivery and referral reminders, as well as a dashboard where you can track referrals. This app starts at $49 per month.
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Plug in SEO is our pick for one of the best free Shopify apps because it helps you find, troubleshoot, and fix search engine optimization (SEO) issues so you can get more web traffic to your online store.
This free app automatically checks for issues with page titles and descriptions, structure, speed, and more. It includes code snippets you can use to fix any issues yourself.
If you need additional features, like bulk editing, structured data support, and multilingual SEO, you'll need to upgrade to the pro version of the app, which is $20 per month.
Learn more tips to rank higher in search results in our Shopify SEO guide. Or, breathe life into your outdated SEO with these new SEO best practices.
Want to drive more Shopify sales from Instagram? Social Photos could be the app you've been looking for. This app helps you feature your customers (making them happy) and get an awesome kind of social proof called user-generated content at the same time.
When customers tag photos of themselves using your products on Instagram, Social Photos automatically collates them into a gallery. Every photo can then be used to sell products through direct links, driving more sales.
You can highlight the best customer photos to encourage new customers to buy, and can also create themed products images galleries. Social Photos also lets you interact with Instagram photos from the page where the photos appear.
You can find Social Photos in the Shopify app store starting at $10 per month for the basic package, and it goes up to $50 per month for the full range of features.
Next, let's look at the top apps for customer service.
Live chat has become an important customer service and customer feedbacktool. According to recent surveys, businesses say offering live chat has had a positive effect on sales, revenue, and customer loyalty. And with more than 2 billion users, Facebook is one of the best social media sites to connect with your customers.
The Facebook Live Chat Shopify app lets you support your customers on your Shopify site by using Facebook Messenger for customer service. The app also integrates with other social sites and features a user-friendly, responsive design.
This app is free for up to three websites, with upgrade packages ranging from $9.99 to $49.99 per month.
The easier you make it for customers to create accounts, the sooner you can offer them the right products and make sales.
One Click Social Login lets your customers create accounts on your Shopify store by logging in with their existing social media credentials. Accounts supported include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Amazon, and many more.
There's also an easy admin panel so you can easily configure the simple settings.
One Click Social Login starts at $4.99 per month, but you can upgrade to see your customers' social profiles and make additional customizations.
Yotpo consistently ranks among the best apps to increase sales because it helps you get more product reviews to drive purchases from social proof.
This app lets you easily send out requests for customer reviews and showcase reviews in widgets and store tabs. You can moderate all reviews received, and can also use Yotpo to get social media traffic to your store.
Yotpo is free, but if you want additional features such as user-generated photos, rich snippets, and more, pricing starts at $29 per month.
One of the reasons we've included Swell, even though there are both rewards and referrals apps already on the list, is because it has so many integrations. As well as working with Yotpo, which we mentioned above, it works with Facebook, Hubspot, Mailchimp, and more.
Swell says its users have doubled business from existing customers, thanks to rewards for writing reviews, referring new customers, creating accounts, making new purchases, and more. You can also reward social media interactions such as likes and follows.
Swell is free for up to 100 orders each month. After that, plans start at $29 per month.
Wishlists are a great way to learn more about what your customers want, so you can connect with them to make more sales. Wishlist Plus lets you collect information about customer preferences, and they don't even have to be logged in.
This app integrates with your Shopify store and lets you keep track of items and engagement within a dashboard. For customers, Wishlist Plus is a hassle-free way to store their desired purchases and even share those with others.
Wishlist Plus is free for up to 100 items, then plans range from $9.99 to $29.99 per month.
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Our last category includes apps to help you manage your product catalog, plus the periods before and after shipping.
If you want a Shopify store without the need to warehouse your own products Printful can help. This app provides print-on-demand designs for T-shirts, bags, mugs, and almost anything else that can be printed. They've even got designers who'll help you create the most appealing products.
Once they're ready, just take orders from your store and Printful will send them out. No need to manage inventory or print shipping labels. It's a great way to make sales with no hassle. Cost varies depending on the product to sell.
Oberlo offers a similar service to Printful by letting you add products to your store and dropshipping them straight to your customers.
But with this app, you're not limited to items that can be printed. You can choose products from AliExpress and the Oberlo Marketplace and add them to your store with a couple of clicks.
Oberlo offers automatic order fulfillment and inventory management. You can also customize products, connect Oberlo with your existing products, and even allow other people to help run your store.
Oberlo is free for 500 products and up to 50 orders per month. For additional products, orders and features, you can upgrade at between $29.90 and $79.90 per month.
To get more from using Oberlo products, check out our tips on how to skyrocket your eCommerce sales with email marketing.
Sometimes your customers will want to return a product, but it can be a pain to manage the process. AfterShip makes managing product returns easy.
It gives you a branded returns center that lets customers submit returns in a couple of clicks. Later, it'll automatically inform them of the status of their returns and any refunds.
This is one of the best Shopify apps around, and it's free for 5 returns per month. Paid plans start at $9 per month.
A product catalog is a great way to show off your products images and boost sales, but how do you create one? If you're not a great designer but have a lot of products, you need a tool that makes the process easy. Catalog Maker could be that tool.
It lets you quickly create professional looking catalogs from your Shopify collections, and you can use drag and drop editing to create a catalog with one of the app's templates.
In addition to catalogs, you can create invoices, receipts, product recommendations, and even thank you notes. Pricing starts at $25.
When you generate buzz with your seasonal or holiday email marketing, it's useful to let people pre-order items from your store. And pre-orders are a great way to figure out which products are most likely to be successful.
Pre-Order Manager lets you take advance orders from visitors to your store with a pre-order button for out of stock items. You can edit button text, change the setting by location, and even turn pre-orders on and off storewide. You can also limit the number of available pre-orders for any product.
Pricing for Pre-Order Manager starts at $24.95 per month after a 14-day free trial.
Sold out of your best products? With Back in Stock, you don't need to lose sales. Our last app in the list of best Shopify apps lets your customers sign up to be notified when a product they want is back in your store. Once it is, they get an automatic email notification.
This easy to install app also helps you understand which products are most popular so you can manage stock levels. You can also customize any aspect of the app to meet your needs.
Back in Stock starts at $19 per month, with plans up to $79 per month.
That's it! Now that you know the best Shopify apps to increase sales, why not get even more sales from your store with a successful email marketing campaign? You can also improve store promotion with these promotional email examples. And, check out our tips on Shopify abandoned cart recoveryto boost your revenue.
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Jacinda Santora is a writer specializing in ecommerce and growth marketing. She prides herself on her ability to make complicated things easier. When she isn't writing you can find her daydreaming about campervans, drinking coffee, and listening to podcasts.
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Use of public defender holds up massive Lucchese gambling trial
A sweeping investigation into an alleged multibillion-dollar international gambling scheme allegedly operated by the Lucchese crime family has become bogged down in a fight over whether one of the defendants can afford his own lawyer.
A public defender for Alfonso "Tic" Cataldo, a reputed mobster from Florham Park, argued before the state Supreme Court on Thursday that prosecutors should not have access to financial information he provided while seeking to be represented at taxpayers' expense.
Giving that information to prosecutors would set a dangerous precedent and damage "the smooth operation of the criminal justice system," said John J. McMahon, Cataldo's public defender. He noted that the document that the state is seeking, known as an intake form, also includes questions about drug use and mental illness and is used to determine whether defendants qualify for pretrial diversion programs.
Two lower-court rulings have agreed, saying the records are protected by attorney-client privilege.
Cataldo faces 17 counts in connection with the gambling scheme, which prosecutors allege operated in locations from Bergen County to Latin America and netted more than $2 billion in wagers over a 15-month period. The ring allegedly received and processed wagers using password-protected websites and tallied and recorded bets using a wire room in Costa Rica.
He is one of 35 people — including two alleged heads of the family — charged in connection with the gambling ring and a separate scheme to smuggle drugs and prepaid cellphones into East Jersey State Prison in Avenel in partnership with a faction of the Bloods gang.
Cataldo, dressed in black pants and a black leather jacket, sat quietly in the front row of the public seating area during the hearing, occasionally fiddling with a hearing aid he held up to one ear. He declined to comment.
The indictment against Cataldo, returned in 2010, arose from a state investigation dubbed Operation Heat that led to an earlier wave of arrests in 2007 in connection with the same alleged gambling scheme. That sweep netted many of the same defendants who were arrested in 2010 — including Cataldo, who posted $350,000 bail in connection with the earlier proceedings.
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The case against Cataldo has been put on hold until after the Supreme Court rules on prosecutors' subpoena request.
It's not unusual for reputed mobsters to claim poverty when facing criminal charges. What is unusual is Cataldo's alleged real estate holdings.
Prosecutors say he owns three houses in Morris County with combined equity of nearly $1.5 million. Cataldo's attorneys say one of those houses was put up to meet his $100,000 bail in the case and that another is owned by a trust over which he has no control.
Yet Supervising Deputy Attorney General Mark G. Eliades told the justices that he couldn't square Cataldo's holdings with tax filings, in which he reported less than $2,000 in taxable income over three years beginning in 2007.
"This is an ongoing crime if it is a crime," he said, adding that prosecutors have "a duty and obligation to act."
But several of the justices seemed unconvinced.
"You're subpoenaing these documents to be used in the very case in which you are prosecuting the defendant," said Justice Barry T. Albin, who along with several of his colleagues seemed concerned that prosecutors had not sought the intake form through a separate grand jury investigation.
Eliades said prosecutors "always viewed this as a long road." He promised the state would not use financial information gained through its subpoena against Cataldo in his current trial and said he would be open to having a judge privately review the documents before turning them over to prosecutors.
Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, for his part, seemed concerned with McMahon's argument that court rules curtailed any prosecution when a defendant lies about his income to gain representation by a public defender.
"Is there nothing to be done about that?" he asked.
McMahon said that a judge who determined that a defendant was lying about his finances could force the defendant to hire a private attorney but that the courts, not prosecutors, were responsible for investigating this type of fraud.
The information prosecutors are seeking "can't be used before a grand jury or at trial," he said.
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