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Reaching Out in Our Community
LaGrave Avenue CRC has a long and deep history of involvement in our community.
Throughout the years, our members have had a hand in establishing and supporting many familiar local ministries like: Mel Trotter Ministry, Guiding Light Mission, Wedgwood Christian Services, Degage Ministries, The Bridge, Jellema House, Capitol Lunch at God's Kitchen, Criminal Justice Chaplaincy, Home Repair Services, Heartside Ministries, Monroe Community Church, Kid's Life Bible Club, and Celebration Fellowship.
Partner Ministries
Our members continue to bubble up with passion and recruit their friends in the congregation to join them at places like Kids Hope USA, Gilda's Club, Westowne Jubilee Housing, Mission India, Butterworth Hospital Guilds, and Hope Lodge.
Building on that history and temperament, we intentionally partner with outside ministries who carry special calling, passion, and expertise to address needs in our world and community.
Explore our current active outreach efforts and ministry partnerships below.
Access of West Michigan
This faith-based agency is located at 1700 28th St SE, and works with over 300 congregations in Kent County; linking congregational, individual, and community resources to eliminate hunger and reduce the impact of poverty in our area. Our doorstep minister regularly utilizes the Access network to minimize duplication and maximize resources for the people who come to us for assistance. Other Access initiatives include the Hunger Walk, food drives, poverty simulations, education, and advocacy. For more information, call Shelly Smit at (616) 774-2175 or visit www.accessofwestmichigan.org.
Celebration Fellowship
Celebration Fellowship Church meets in the unusual setting of Bellamy Creek Prison in Ionia. Members of LaGrave join this congregation of about 40-50 for spirited Bible study and inspiring worship on the fourth Tuesday evening of each month, and/or the fifth Sunday. Some members worship more frequently, as schedules permit. Dept of Corrections clearance forms and an orientation are required. Contact Ben VanHouten at (616) 459-5262 or signword616@gmail.com.
Coit Community Church
Located at 600 Lafayette NE, Coit Community Church is sometimes described as a "hospital of Jesus" because many members have been saved from substance abuse, crime, and other hardships. The primary mission of the church is reconciliation— reconciling people to their God, their families, the church, and people of different color. This small congregation covets our prayers and would welcome our participation in their community outreach events, adult Bible studies, and Community Youth Center ministry. Contact Pastor Jerome at (616) 458-2398 or office@coitchurch.org.
Criminal Justice Chaplaincy
Criminal Justice Chaplaincy (CJC) is located at 207 Fulton St E. It was founded by area churches in 1980 to help people affected by crime, so that they may experience justice, mercy, and healing. Volunteer opportunities abound at a variety of different commitment levels. LaGrave members can help by setting out coffee and treats for the Take Charge Program on Thursday mornings, donating items for the Hygiene Care Packs, joining the Horticulture Therapy program on Wednesday mornings, writing letters to prisoners, or attending a training session to take on the role of a mentor. Contact CJC at (616) 454-4925 or www.cjcministry.org.
Crossroads Prison Ministries
With Crossroads Prison Ministries (CPM), church members (high school age and older) correct Bible study lessons completed by prison inmates. No personal information is exchanged, and from the convenience of home and with about one hour per week, members can help change prisoners' lives with the Gospel. Several members also volunteer at CBI headquarters. Contact Bob Otte at (616) 534-9396 or robertotte@att.net.
Dégagé Ministries
Dégagé offers a variety of services at 144 South Division. Hundreds come into the Coffee House each day to warm up, share a cup of coffee or a low-cost meal, and find a friendly smile. The 2nd floor provides daily services and programs addressing logistical, physical, and spiritual needs. The Open Door Center provides a safe haven during the overnight hours to adult women in need. LaGrave members may serve as donation drivers, cooks, and runners, coffee servers, overnight assistants at Open Door (women only), or hygiene desk volunteers. LaGrave youth work in the kitchen and dining room on the third Wednesday of each month. Contact Dégagé at (616) 454-1661 or www.degageministries.org.
Disaster Response Services
World Renew's Disaster Response Services (DRS) teams show God's love and bring hope to disaster-affected communities in North America by restoring the homes and lives of those who are most vulnerable, and these teams regularly include members of our congregation. Volunteers travel to an affected area and serve for a week or more; clearing debris, doing carpentry, painting, cooking for the team, and participating in other restoration projects. Contact our Service Opportunities Coordinator for more information.
Doorstep Ministry
LaGrave provides emergency assistance for our inner-city brothers and sisters, as requested. Our mission is to care for their immediate needs during a crisis and to connect them with appropriate ongoing support and encouragement. Contact our Minister of Outreach for more information.
Ell Ministry
Several members of our congregation have undergone training through the Literacy Center of West Michigan, and have made themselves available to be partnered with English Language Learners at the center who want tutoring. Contact our Minister of Outreach for more information
Ferguson Apartments
Located at 72 Sheldon SE, the Ferguson Apartment building is one of 25 housing communities owned and managed by Dwelling Place. Dwelling Place was founded in the Heartside Neighborhood by seven area churches and two non-profit agencies in 1980. Its mission is to improve the lives of people by creating affordable housing, providing essential support services and serving as a catalyst for neighborhood revitalization. As a part of that mission, the Ferguson Apartments provide spacious studio apartments for people with special physical and financial needs. A few great ways for LaGrave members to volunteer at Ferguson are: serving on the board of directors, planning occasional social activities for the residents, or helping a resident with a cleaning task. Contact Kristin Batts at (616) 450-9504 or kristinbatts@yahoo.com.
God's Kitchen
God's Kitchen helps to feed the hungry with dignity and respect through two programming initiatives. At Capitol Lunch (303 South Division), nourishment and meal-time respite are provided daily between 12:30 and 2:00 pm to guests on a walk-in basis with no questions and no qualifiers. Through Meals on Wheels, noon-time meals are delivered Monday through Friday to home bound people. LaGrave members serve on the third Monday of each month from 11:30—2:00pm. Contact Sher Engbers at (616) 240-2456 or engbers@comcast.net.
Guiding Light Mission
This mission exists at 255 South Division to provide a healing community that allows hurting individuals to discover a new life in Christ. Food and shelter are provided for all. Social, physical, spiritual, and intellectual support services are provided for men, with the expectation of re-engagement in the community. Ministry opportunities are available to LaGrave members in the chapel, on a planning committee, in the kitchen, hosting a fundraiser, as a mentor, or by delivering skilled service. Contact Guiding Light Mission at (616) 451-0236 or www.guidinglightworks.org.
Heartside Ministry
Heartside Ministry is located at 54 South Division, and its neighbors are often homeless, with little or no income; struggling with mental and physical disabilities and addiction. The ministry works to meet their needs with spiritual, emotional, and practical help through programs and service, as well as by steadfast advocacy on their behalf. LaGrave members are invited to be an encouraging presence in the Art Studio, Community Room, or Computer Room; serve as a GED tutor or work on special projects. Contact Heartside at (616) 235-7211 x108 or volunteer@heartside.org.
Located at 1100 South Division, the mission of Home Repair Services is to build successful, sustained home ownership for lower income families, thereby strengthening neighborhoods and communities. LaGrave members have both served on the board of directors and built cabinets in the workshop, and other opportunities include serving as Fix-it School Instructors and Remodeling Coaches. Contact Stan Greene at (616) 241-2601 or www.homerepairservices.org.
Hope Network Homes & Day Programs
Located at 1490 E Beltline SE, Hope Network is a Christian organization that empowers people with disabilities and disadvantages to achieve their highest level of independence. LaGrave members are encouraged to visit and support their homes and day programs, providing spiritual guidance and worship opportunities to clients with a variety of disabilities. Activities include Bible study, worship service, music, games, outings, home visits, or being a pen pal. This is a rewarding experience for all church members, including chaplains, student interns, and retired ministers. Contact our Service Opportunities Coordinator for more information.
Inner City Christian Federation
Inner City Christian Federation (ICCF) is a licensed builder, headquartered at 920 Cherry St SE. In addition to selling affordable new and reconstructed Energy Star homes, ICCF provides emergency housing for homeless families at Family Haven, owns and manages 96 units of affordable rental housing, and provides extensive home ownership education and financial counseling. LaGrave members are welcome to assist in this mission by preparing a meal and spending one evening with the families at Family Haven, providing child care or instruction for the home ownership classes, assisting with a building project, or taking on a variety of clerical responsibilities. Contact ICCF at (616) 336-9333 or www.iccf.org.
Kids Hope USA
Kids Hope USA (KHUSA) is a one-to-one mentoring program in which volunteers from our church, supported by individual prayer partners, spend an hour each week (October—May) with a child at Congress Elementary School. No teaching or tutoring experience is necessary, and all LaGrave members who love kids are invited to become involved at any time. Mentors spend their hour reading, talking, coloring, playing games, and enjoying each other's company; and this may be the only one-to-one attention that child receives all week. As relationships are built, God works in the lives of both mentors and at-risk kids. Contact our Kids Hope USA Director for more information.
Pregnancy Resource Center
The Pregnancy Resource Center (PRC) is located at 415 Cherry St, SE and 2438 28th Street SW, and their mission is, "Living the truth that people matter to God." Many volunteer opportunities exist here to physically demonstrate to women, men, teens, and small children in crisis that the details of their lives truly matter to God. The gracious staff at the PRC would welcome the opportunity to train LaGrave members to serve in reception, on the 24- hour help line, as part of the medical or counseling teams, at the material distribution warehouse, with the student drama team, or in a variety of other administrative and housekeeping areas. One-time service opportunities are also available for groups or individuals. Contact Vicki DeGrazier at (616) 259-1518 or www.prcforlife.org.
Nationally recognized for their unique ability to address issues of faith and the intersection with domestic abuse, Safe Haven empowers clients by providing them with choices, allowing them to make their own decisions, and supporting them along their journey of healing. The organization helps employers, faith communities, schools, and other agencies create a culture of abuse prevention through trainings and resources. To learn more go to https://safehavenministries.org.
Each summer, LaGrave hosts a SERVE group, which brings young people from across the US and Canada together for a week of service/mission work in our community. The week includes painting, working in food pantries, demolition work, janitorial services, day care, home renovation, and more. The many LaGrave members who volunteer to prepare meals, wash towels, serve as prayer partners, donate food, and take care of many other housekeeping items all make this week a success. Contact our Minister of Youth for more information.
Special Project Team
Occasionally, neighbors and friends turn to us when they need a ramp built, furniture moved, or repairs made as they struggle to become or remain independent; and sometimes they need one-time transportation to the store or a medical appointment. Any member who has willing hands and a willing heart is welcome to join the call list for the opportunity to be included in an occasional one-time service ministry. Contact our Service Opportunities Coordinator for more information.
Thanksgiving Baskets
Each November, our members donate food staples, bake treats, organize the items into baskets, and make the deliveries to people in our community. Contact Della Landheer at (616) 656-5998 or land5933@comcast.net and Dolores Bos at (616) 949-5786 or dolbos4@aol.com.
The Other Way Ministries
Located at 710 W Fulton, this Christian ministry walks alongside Westown urban families as they strive to grow spiritually, relationally, and economically. LaGrave is a supportive partner in their Christmas Store, empowering parents to provide for their children at Christmas time. LaGrave members are also invited to serve as ELL tutors, work in the Children's Ministry, develop a mentoring relationship with a teen, serve on a work crew, and many other meaningful roles. Contact Rodrigo at (616) 454-4011 ext 5111, or www.theotherway.org.
Volunteers In Service
The Volunteers In Service (VIS) office is located at 7730 Eastern Ave SE, inside Providence CRC. In 1986, Volunteers In Service was created by local Deacons of the Christian Reformed Church to build bridges between needs in the community and Christ-centered churches. A network of ministry partnerships has grown to include many Grand Rapids-area churches. VIS connects people who need caring support with people in the Christian community who are equipped to provide faith-motivated care for their neighbors. Supportive relationships are built through friendship, special projects, and mentoring. The VIS ministry focuses on three key elements: Connecting, Equipping, and Caring. All three are necessary for developing meaningful, life-changing relationships. For more information, visit www.visgr.org. and watch the bulletin for volunteer opportunities.
Westminster Food Pantry
Westminster Food Pantry is located in Westminster Presbyterian Church, at 47 Jefferson St SE, and is funded primarily by donations from the congregations of Westminster and LaGrave. The Pantry is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 10:30 am and 2:30 pm. A family style dinner is also served in Westminster's dining room every Thursday night from 5:30 to 7:15 pm. Many service opportunities exist here for LaGrave members, including special order pick-up, unloading delivery vehicles, produce packing, check-in, interviewing, computer entry, packing groceries, farmers market runs, and dinner servers. Contact our Catering Coordinator & Kitchen Caretaker for more information.


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Only idea I had was replace images with the file name say wan_up.png with another image.

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10. I created my username/nickname the first time I ever got into an online "chat room", and have kept it ever since. It symbolizes one of my most gratifying activities - deep one-on-one conversations. Encouragement is one of my gifts.
Bonus: I love music and enjoy singing though I get extremely self-conscious when I feel people are looking at me when I sing out loud (I DO sing "high volume" especially during rousing worship songs).


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Q: Azure Active Directory SSO with MSAL and openID Connect I was tasked with writing an ASP.NET website that uses Azure Active Directory. I went with the route of OAuth and OpenID Connect. I am not able to use implicit flow and therefore must set the ResponseType to be code.
Using MSAL code samples I got most of it working but the problem is that all the samples are using a response type that returns tokens. I think I need to do it in 2 separate steps, first get the authorization code and then get the id token. I'm not exactly sure how to do this and would much appreciate some guidance here.
I have a startup class that look like this:
 public void Configuration(IAppBuilder app)
    {
        app.SetDefaultSignInAsAuthenticationType(CookieAuthenticationDefaults.AuthenticationType);

        app.UseCookieAuthentication(new CookieAuthenticationOptions { });

        app.UseOpenIdConnectAuthentication(
             new OpenIdConnectAuthenticationOptions
             {
                 Authority = authority,
                 ClientId = clientId,
                 RedirectUri = redirectUri,
                 Scope = "openid profile email offline_access user.readbasic.all", // a basic set of permissions for user sign in & profile access
                 ResponseType = OpenIdConnectResponseType.Code,
                 ClientSecret = clientSecret,
                 TokenValidationParameters = new TokenValidationParameters
                 {
                     // In a real application you would use ValidateIssuer = true for additional checks and security.
                     ValidateIssuer = false,
                     NameClaimType = "name",
                 },
                 Notifications = new OpenIdConnectAuthenticationNotifications()
                 {
                     AuthorizationCodeReceived = OnAuthorizationCodeReceived,
                     AuthenticationFailed = OnAuthenticationFailed,
                 }
             });
    }
    private Task OnAuthenticationFailed(AuthenticationFailedNotification<OpenIdConnectMessage, OpenIdConnectAuthenticationOptions> context)
    {
        // Handle any unexpected errors during sign in
        context.OwinContext.Response.Redirect("/Error?message=" + context.Exception.Message);
        context.HandleResponse(); // Suppress the exception
        return Task.FromResult(0);
    }

    private async Task OnAuthorizationCodeReceived(AuthorizationCodeReceivedNotification context)
    {
        /*
         The `MSALPerUserMemoryTokenCache` is created and hooked in the `UserTokenCache` used by `IConfidentialClientApplication`.
         At this point, if you inspect `ClaimsPrinciple.Current` you will notice that the Identity is still unauthenticated and it has no claims,
         but `MSALPerUserMemoryTokenCache` needs the claims to work properly. Because of this sync problem, we are using the constructor that
         receives `ClaimsPrincipal` as argument and we are getting the claims from the object `AuthorizationCodeReceivedNotification context`.
         This object contains the property `AuthenticationTicket.Identity`, which is a `ClaimsIdentity`, created from the token received from
         Azure AD and has a full set of claims.
         */
        IConfidentialClientApplication confidentialClient = GroupManager.Utils.MsalAppBuilder.BuildConfidentialClientApplication(null);

        // Upon successful sign in, get & cache a token using MSAL
        AuthenticationResult result = await confidentialClient.AcquireTokenByAuthorizationCode(new[] { "openid profile email offline_access user.readbasic.all" }, context.Code).ExecuteAsync();

    }

How do I take the information from the result's tokens and create a claims identity for the AuthenticationTicket.Identity and access the user info?
Please note that this is an ASP.NET application. Not MVC and not Core.

A: If you use MSAL, you don't need to handle the code yourself. MSAL will return the token to you after you log in interactively, please see:Overview of Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL).
Before that, you need to take a look at Add sign-in to Microsoft to an ASP.NET web app,the workflow is:

Code example please check: https://github.com/AzureAdQuickstarts/AppModelv2-WebApp-OpenIDConnect-DotNet
Update:
Try to enable ID token


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Q: Data Table not usable on mobile

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I am using a Data Table (https://datatables.net) and I am having an issue with it being responsive on mobile.
Here is a screen shot of how it looks on desktop and here's a screen shot of how it looks on mobile:

I can't see the entire other half of the table on mobile. It's the worst. How can I make this responsive and useable on mobile?
Here is the code for the datatable:

A: The answer to the question is an Data Tables extension:
https://datatables.net/extensions/rowreorder/examples/initialisation/responsive.html


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Q: Expendable list extends cursorTreeAdapter containing checkbox The problem is with saving the state of the checkbox on scroll.  When I'm scrolling down or up some unchecked items get checked because of the screen redraw.  If someone could help please.  I will provide the code of the adapter.
final class ExpAdapter extends CursorTreeAdapter {
        private ArrayList<Boolean> itemChecked = new ArrayList<Boolean>();

        LayoutInflater mInflator;
        CursorTreeAdapter cur;

        class ViewHolder {
                    public TextView textView;
                    public CheckBox checkbox;
                }

        public ExpAdapter(Cursor cursor, Context context)
        {
            super(cursor, context);
            mInflator = LayoutInflater.from(context);
        }

        @Override
        protected void bindChildView(View view, Context context, final Cursor cursor,
                boolean isLastChild) {
            //TextView tvChild = (TextView) view.findViewById(android.R.id.text1);

               final TextView tvChild = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.label);
                tvChild.setText(cursor.getString(cursor
                        .getColumnIndex(tablename.columname...)));//child

               final CheckBox  chb = (CheckBox)view.findViewById(R.id.chkbox);

                chb.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new OnCheckedChangeListener() {

                    public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton buttonView, boolean isChecked) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        if (buttonView.isChecked()) {
                            //buttonView.setChecked(true);
                            buttonView.setChecked(true);
                             groupcode = mCuror2.getInt(tablename.columname));
                             levelid = mCuror2.getInt(mCuror2.getColumnIndex(tablename.columname));

                             levelidarray.add(String.valueOf(levelid));
                             groupcodearray.add(String.valueOf(groupcode));

                             String x=(String)tvChild.getText();

                             array.add(x);
                            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),""+ array, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                            // do some operations here

                        }
                        else
                                {
                            buttonView.setChecked(false);
                            //buttonView.setChecked(false);
                            //itemChecked.set(cursor.getPosition(), false);
                            // do some operations here
                            String x = (String)tvChild.getText();

                         levelidarray.remove(String.valueOf(levelid));
                         groupcodearray.remove(String.valueOf(groupcode));
                            array.remove((String)x);

                              Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),""+ array, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

                                }
                    }
                });

           }

       @Override
        protected void bindGroupView(View view, Context context, Cursor cursor,  boolean isExpanded)

           {

               TextView tvGrp = (TextView) view.findViewById(android.R.id.text1);
                tvGrp.setText(cursor.getString(cursor
                        .getColumnIndex(tablename.columname)));

               TextView code = (TextView) view.findViewById(android.R.id.text2);

            }

        @Override
        protected Cursor getChildrenCursor(Cursor groupCursor)
            {
               int groupId = groupCursor.getInt(groupCursor
                        .getColumnIndex(tablename.columname));

                String filter2 = " LEVEL_ID = " +groupId;
                mCuror2 = dbconnection....,filter2, null, null, null, null);

                return mCuror2;

            }

        @Override
        protected View newChildView(Context context, Cursor cursor,
                boolean isLastChild, ViewGroup parent)
        {

                View mView = mInflator.inflate(R.layout.listviewcheckbox, null);

                 final TextView tvChild = (TextView) mView.findViewById(R.id.label);

                tvChild.setText(cursor.getString(cursor
                        .getColumnIndex(tablename.columname)));

                CheckBox chb = (CheckBox)mView.findViewById(R.id.chkbox);

                chb.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new OnCheckedChangeListener() {

                    public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton buttonView, boolean isChecked) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        if (buttonView.isChecked()) {
                            //buttonView.setChecked(true);
                            buttonView.setChecked(true);
                             groupcode = mCuror2.getInt(mCuror2.getColumnIndex(tablename.columname));
                             levelid = mCuror2.getInt(mCuror2.getColumnIndex(tablename.columname));

                             levelidarray.add(String.valueOf(levelid));
                             groupcodearray.add(String.valueOf(groupcode));

                             String x=(String)tvChild.getText();

                             array.add(x);
                            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),""+ array, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                            // do some operations here

                        }
                        else
                                {
                            buttonView.setChecked(false);
                            //buttonView.setChecked(false);
                            //itemChecked.set(cursor.getPosition(), false);
                            // do some operations here
                            String x = (String)tvChild.getText();

                         levelidarray.remove(String.valueOf(levelid));
                         groupcodearray.remove(String.valueOf(groupcode));
                            array.remove((String)x);

                              Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),""+ array, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

                                }
                    }
                });

                return mView;

            }

        @Override
        protected View newGroupView(Context context, Cursor cursor,
                boolean isExpanded, ViewGroup parent)
            {
                View mView = mInflator.inflate(
                        android.R.layout.simple_expandable_list_item_2, null);
                TextView tvGrp = (TextView) mView.findViewById(android.R.id.text1);
                tvGrp.setText(cursor.getString(cursor
                        .getColumnIndex(tablename.columname)));

                TextView code = (TextView)mView.findViewById(android.R.id.text2);
                code.setText(cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(tablename.columname)));

                return mView;
            }

A: If you are not storing the checked state in your DB, you need to set an array to keep track of the checked status and then use that to set it in the adapter.  Since you need the group and child position to reference it, I think you would have to do it in the getChildView method rather than bindChildView.
Declare a class variable:
boolean[][] checkedStatus;

Populate it in your constructor:
public ExpAdapter(Cursor cursor, Context context) {
    super(cursor, context);
    mInflator = LayoutInflater.from(context);
    checkedstatus = new boolean[cursor.getCount()][];                // initializae the first dimension of array
    for (int i=0; i<cursor.getCount(); i++){                         // iterate through the group cursor count
        cursor.moveToPosition(i);
        Cursor childCursor = ...                                     // get the childcursor for group cursor position i
        checkedStatus[i] = new boolean[childcursor.getCount()];    // initialize the second dimension of array for group position i
        for (int j=0; j<childCursor.getCount(); j++){                // iterate through the childCursor for group position i
            checkedStatus[i][j] = false;                            // initialize the item to not checked for group position i, child position j
        }
    }
}

Then use it in your getChildView to set the state:
CheckBox chb = (CheckBox)mView.findViewById(R.id.chkbox);
if (checkedStatus[groupPosition][childPosition] == true) {
    chb.setChecked(true);
} else {
    chb.setChecked(false);
}

Be sure to update the array in your onCheckedChanged method as well.
Your other option is to store the checked status in the db, then you can just check that in your bindView, and write it to the DB on change and be done with it.  The penalty is, of course, having to access the DB to write/read changes each time you click the checkbox, so I usually avoid this option.

A: I used ResourceCursorTreeAdapter and my solution was:
import android.util.SparseArray;

...

/**
 * A map of children IDs to selection state.
 */
private final SparseArray<Boolean> mSelectedChildrenMap = new SparseArray<Boolean>();

...

@Override
protected void bindChildView(View view, Context context, Cursor cursor, boolean isLastChild) {
    final int _id = cursor.getInt(...); // get ID

    Boolean selected;
    if (mSelectedChildrenMap.get(_id) == null) {
        selected = false;
        mSelectedChildrenMap.put(_id, selected);
    } else
        selected = mSelectedChildrenMap.get(_id);

    /*
     * Checkbox, you can use "view holder" approach...
     */
    CheckBox mCheckBox = (CheckBox) view.findViewById(...);
    mCheckBox.setOnCheckedChangeListener(null);
    mCheckBox.setChecked(selected);
    mCheckBox.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new CompoundButton.OnCheckedChangeListener() {

        @Override
        public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton buttonView, boolean isChecked) {
            mSelectedChildrenMap.put(_id, isChecked);
        }// onCheckedChanged()
    });

    ...
}// bindChildView()

...

@Override
public void notifyDataSetChanged(boolean releaseCursors) {
    super.notifyDataSetChanged(releaseCursors);
    /*
     * Only clears the map if releaseCursors == true.
     */
    if (releaseCursors)
        synchronized (mSelectedChildrenMap) {
            mSelectedChildrenMap.clear();
        }
}// notifyDataSetChanged()

@Override
public void notifyDataSetInvalidated() {
    super.notifyDataSetInvalidated();
    /*
     * Clears the map.
     */
    synchronized (mSelectedChildrenMap) {
        mSelectedChildrenMap.clear();
    }
}// notifyDataSetInvalidated()

Hope it helps  :-)


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So I wanted to add to something I just wrote about – the construction of our realities. It's a topic much enriched by Gillian Tett's brilliant book, The Silo Effect.
…humans always assume that the way that they organize the world around them is entirely natural and inevitable.
So, Tett's book is primarily a reaction to the Global Financial Crisis. An anthropologist by training, she started to question why traders in the same bank were making opposing bets, how risk analysts could have been so blissfully unaware of the downside of some of these trades, and how economists and regulators missed the forrest for the trees.
The answer, she claims, is our unfortunate tendency to break the world down into neat little boxes. This can be effective, and even necessary, in our taking in and understanding the world. But the siloisation of expertise, information and people can be dangerous.
And it's also not very accurate.
A common theme of anthropological research is that the way we classify the world never really matches the reality of our environments. People might draw neat diagrams of their kinship structures and family trees, but there are often ambiguities, overlaps, and underlaps. Things fall between the cracks. Life does not always fit into the official descriptions of what people are supposed to do. Much of the time we ignore these messy realities. It feels easier to stick with the neat classification systems we have than constantly rewrite them, be that in the sphere of kinship, religion, domestic life, or anything else.
If you watched any of this year's campaign coverage, this should be familiar to you. Analysts broke America down into categories – white voters, women voters, black voters, latino voters, rural voters, working class voters; they ascribed motivations and prescribed answers.
But the world doesn't want to conform to our little boxes. When it comes to institutions this can cause confusion, blindness and infighting. And, guess what, it does that in politics too. Maybe it's time to question the boxes.
…the conventions that we use to classify the world are often not officially defined or spelled out. Instead, they arise out of a dense set of rules, traditions, and conventions that we have absorbed from our surroundings, often in an unthinking way.


The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the billions of physical devices around the world that are connected to the internet. We typically associate connected devices with mobile phones, computers and game consoles however more recently we have accepted that TV's, music systems, heating and lighting are all frequently connected to the internet. Now, we are also seeing anything from home appliances to children's soft toys being 'connected'. These are all "things" and collectively we refer to them as Smart Home devices. This is just the tip of the iceberg when considering IoT.
When considering the impact of IoT we must first recognise that Smart Home is only a small area of IoT. All aspects of society are benefiting from IoT: travel, manufacturing, retail, buildings, city services and more. In fact, it is reasonable to consider that almost any physical object could be 'connected' by means of sensors. For example, a simple shelf in a shop could use sensors to monitor stock levels and report this information back to a warehouse. A humidity sensor in a greenhouse could report data back to a central analysis server. The ability to connect and centrally manage or monitor devices and information leads to limitless opportunity. This is why the Internet of Things is forecast to grow so fast and large.
Even with increasing reliance on machines globally there is still no common framework for security and privacy standards. Consumers, Industry and Governments use of IoT is at risk. The internet was not built with security at its core and as a result we have experienced numerous attacks on society (cyber terrorism, election fixing, data breaches etc).
The risks associated with IoT are far more concerning than those of the past. Hackers now have the means to cause actual physical damage. To give one example of a cardiac device with vulnerabilities enabling hackers to gain access and deplete the battery or administer incorrect pacing or shocks – this is a life-threatening scenario.
Industry 4.0, is coined as the fourth Industrial Revolution encompassing industrial transformation, data exchanges, cloud, cyber-physical systems, robots, Big Data, AI, IoT and (semi-)autonomous industrial techniques.
Industry 4.0 is already challenged. There is a considerable lack of standardisation and agreed scope on how to address the issue of security. The race to automate and the need to build a security infrastructure to keep pace with this has a disparity. The earlier example of a pace maker is dwarfed when compared to threats against Industry 4.0 – disruption to transport, factories, power, water, public services even nuclear reactors.
Industry 4.0 needs a reliable, low cost and most importantly, easy to implement solution for security and privacy, often with a view to retrofitting an infrastructure that has no room to be adapted.
Look at the horizon, smart homes, smart toys, autonomous vehicles, wearables, smart healthcare. The endless list and categories of IoT beyond Industry 4.0 is just that – endless. Businesses racing towards these emerging markets have yet to answer the key questions – how do I protect my customers? How do I protect my reputation and revenue?
We are experiencing the ripples of an Internet revolution where sci fi movies become reality. As citizens digitise their lives Governments are scrambling to deliver the right legislation. Meanwhile technology companies struggle to innovate to meet the ethical and technical demands for future generations.
It is time to put security at the core of IoT.
The Scentrics global security service offers a radically different approach to solving the key management problem. An IoT device, or IoT management system, only needs to be equipped with the means to authenticate to the Scentrics server and can then be provided with whatever keys it needs at the time. That is, unlike a PKI-based solution where a complex web of trust relationships need to be established in advance, solving the key management problem is delegated to a trusted cloud service. Moreover, the need for public key cryptography is largely eliminated, and where it might be required the choice of algorithm can be made flexible, future-proofing the system against a possible need to move to a quantum-computing-resistant algorithm.


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Three brand-new Goldhofer blade tip lifting devices (FSH 10) and a blade transport device (FTV 500) for the Adams Group	Bringing a fresh breeze to rotor blade transportation
For many years now Goldhofer and the Adams Group of St. Vith have been writing a joint success story. Currently the fleet operated by the Belgian transport and civil engineering experts includes more than a hundred axle lines plus an extensive range of accessories from the world market leader for heavy and special transport solutions. Since 1997, the Adams Group has handled a number of spectacular transport operations in close collaboration with Goldhofer, many of them involving exceptional transport requirements that have triggered further developments to a variety of Goldhofer transport systems.
To that extent it is not surprising that Adams should have decided to order no fewer than three brand-new FSH 10 blade tip lifting devices that Goldhofer has just launched on the market. Peter Adams, founder and now General Manager of the company, explains: "For us, rotor blades for the wind power industry are an everyday cargo. The FSH gives us a transport solution that puts us one step ahead of the competition – and enables us to offer rotor blade transport services with much shorter transport times on a highly cost-effective basis."
With the FSH, Goldhofer has developed a blade tip lifting device that can handle all standard rotor blades with a length of up to 75 m. With a payload capacity of up to 10 tons and a height of 10 m, Goldhofer's new FSH is outstanding in this product category. It is designed as an autonomous system, with an integrated power unit to make it independent of the vehicle's hydraulic and electrical systems. In order to negotiate difficult bends, the semitrailer can be retracted as the FSH is mounted on rails on the deck. With a stroke of 7,000 mm, the FSH is considerably more powerful and sets a benchmark for the transport of wind turbines.
Peter Adams says: "With the three FSHs and the FTV 500, we have raised our transport capacities for the wind power industry to a new level and thus offer our customers decisive transport advantages." With the FTV 500, which was delivered together with the first FSH, the Adams Group has added a particularly powerblade blade transport device to its fleet. As the rotor blade mounted on the device can be raised hydraulically to an angle of up to 60 degrees, even the most challenging routes can be taken with the FTV 500, including passage under winding roads through forested areas. Peter Adams concludes: "The ratio of three FSHs to one FTV 50O is ideal for our order books today. We are now in a position to quickly transport a large number of blades and also offer reliable delivery to sites with poor access."


A Texas-based tech firm has launched a resealable drinks can called SipNShut in response to consumer demand, which it hopes will disrupt the canned drinks market.
Designed by Bill Brandell of Austin-based SNSTech, SipNShut is made from 100% aluminum and contains no plastic, making it fully recyclable.
The can is designed to run on existing canning lines at high speed and has been created with consumers in mind, with an easy sliding function to open and close the can and a "smooth pour", according to Brandell.
"We did our homework and without a doubt consumers want reclosable cans but the options on the market today are not attractive," Brandell said.
"They mix plastic and metal, don't work well on canning lines and are awkward for consumers to open. We focused on fixing all of those issues," he added.
According to recent research in the US, 60% of American adults want resealable cans, with 70% those aged 18-29 indicating a preference for a reclosable option.
"Consumers like aluminum cans but they're easily spilled once opened. SipNShut lets people take previously opened drinks cans with them on the go the same way they would a plastic bottle," Chris Schorre, CMO of SipNShut said.
"Given the growing consumer pushback against plastic, SipNShut also offers drinks brands a more sustainable packaging alternative to plastic bottles," he added.
Brandell is hoping the patented technology will appeal to consumers looking to keep sand or bees out of their cans at the beach or in the park.
The design will be unveiled at the BevNet Winter show in Santa Monica on 3 December, and is expected to hit shelves in the US next autumn.
whatever happens to the aluminium bottles with caps ?
This should keep ants out, eh?


A passion for Beautiful Things: The carpets I would get if it wasnt so darn hot n' humed here!
The carpets I would get if it wasnt so darn hot n' humed here!
Oh boy I am sooo ready for the weekend!!! been working so hard all week, i could really use a break!
Now, I am a wooden floors kinda gal, but really some carpets out there are simply something else... been looking at several images all week but these here really call my name... specially the first one. Those colors are so soothing!
Paint your fence of course!
And hang cute little colorful planters... How fabulous are these???
Loving your blog! Just found you!
how cute is that painted fence!!!
Oh how fun! I love the carpets featured in the first picture! Classy.
Great carpet selections...love the choices!
I love all hardwood floors too, but I'm always looking at beautiful area rugs. We have half hardwood and half regular ugly carpeting that I wish I could rip out right now.
oh girls thank you for undestanding my obsession with these carpets. The first one drives me so crazy, I just couldnt stop staring at its gorgeousness!!


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Home » Urge Geraldo Rivera to Report on Rethink911
Urge Geraldo Rivera to Report on Rethink911
ACTION ALERT:
Contact Geraldo Rivera, host of "Geraldo At Large," a nationally syndicated show on Fox News Channel and urge him to report on the Rethink911 campaign that is currently in 12 major cities and includes a billboard in Times Square. Tell him that 2,000 architects and engineers plus family members want a real WTC investigation and are sponsoring this campaign, and that Bob McIlvaine and Tony Szamboti will reappear as guests on his show! Let him know that the campaign has been reported on by Ben Swann, CBS-Philadelphia, and Time Magazine — and is causing much controversy in Ottawa, Canada about freedom of speech issues. Inform him about the new public opinion poll which shows that half of Americans have doubts about the official 9/11 story. Be sure to include the website: http://www.Rethink911.org
After all Geraldo did report on the BuildingWhat? campaign in 2010 that was seen nationally and triggered a frenzy of other media coverage. Clearly it's worth taking a second to email him. He likes to report on controversial issues.
Geraldo At Large airs Weekends 10 PM ET on Fox News Channel nationally.
Contact: atlarge@foxnews.com
Two new papers at The Journal of 9/11 Studies…
Security Alerts, Disabled Fire Alarms, and Unused Elevators: Suspicious Events at the World Trade…
COINTELPRO and the 9-11 Movement – A Special Report by Visibility 9-11…
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光纤激光相干合成对倾斜误差的容忍度分析
Tolerance on tilt error for coherent combining of f iber lasers
Limited by the precision of optical machining and assembling, the optical axes of lasers in an array cannot be strictly parallel to each other, which will result in the beam quality degradation of the combined beam. The tolerance on tilt error for coherent combining of fiber lasers is studied in detail. The complex amplitude distribution in the far field for the Gaussian beam with tilt angle is obtained by a novel coordinate transform method. Effect of tilt error on coherent combining is modelled analytically. Beam propagation factor is used to evaluate the effect of coherent combining. Numerical results show that for ring-distributed fiber laser array with central wavelength λ and geometry size D, if the root-mean-square (RMS) value of the tilt error is smaller than 0.72λ/D, the energy encircled in the diffraction-limited bucket can be ensured to be more than 50% of the value when there is no tilt error. The results are helpful to the designing and manufacturing of fiber array for coherent combining.
Recent advances show that fiber lasers have the capability to generate kilowatt output power with good beam quality[1,2]. But the scalability of diffraction-limited output power is restricted in terms of thermal load, fiber damage, nonlinearity, and the pump power and brightness of pump laser diodes (LDs). Coherent beam combining of fiber lasers can solve the power limitation[3,4]. In coherent combining, several fibers are packaged together into an array. All the array elements operate with the same wavelength and the relative phases of the elements are controlled. Fiber lasers are particularly well-suited to beam combining because of their inherent compact size.
Theoretical analysis on coherent combining of fiber lasers has been discussed extensively[5?8]. The effects of phase error, asymmetric intensity distribution, and fill factor on the beam quality of coherently combined beam have been studied. However, the optical axes of lasers emitted from each array element were assumed to be parallel to each other in these researches. In fact, limited by the precision of optical machining and assembling, the optical axes of lasers in an array cannot be strictly parallel to each other[9], which is defined as tilt error. Tilt error will inevitably result in beam quality degradation of the combined beam. However, to the best of our knowledge, the effect of tilt error has not yet been discussed. In this letter, the effect of tilt error on coherent combining is modelled analytically by a novel coordinate transforming method, and the tolerance on tilt error for coherent combining is studied numerically.
We consider a ring distributed fiber laser array shown in Fig. 1 for its high fill factor value[7], which is a great advantage for coherent combining. This array can contain more elements in a given area than other array shapes. The ring distributed array consists of a central element and several surrounding rings of elements. An array with N rings will contain L lasers, where L = 1 + 3N (N + 1). It should be noted that the core diameters of double-clad fibers used for generating high power lasers are about 20 μm while the outer clad diameter is about 400 μm, and there is a large distance between the center of beamlets, which puts disadvantage to the effect of coherent combining, meanwhile the beam waist of 10-μm level corresponds to a relatively large diffraction angle. So this laser array consisting of a bundled double-clad fiber is not practical for long-range use. As shown in Fig. 1(b), the laser beams can be expanded and collimated by using microlens array, and in this way the distance between the adjacent elements will become smaller compared with the beam waist. Suppose that each fiber laser beam has a Gaussian single mode field distribution. The beam waist of each laser is ω0. Fiber lasers are arranged in the array with the nearest neighbor separated by a distance of d.
We define the fill factor t as (d ? 2ω0)/ω0 to describe the compactness of the array. A smaller t corresponds to a more compact array. The diameter of the whole fiber laser array D is 2Nd.
If there is no tilt error, the optical axis of each fiber laser is parallel to each other, the complex field of the nth laser beam at the z plane can be simply written as
Equation (2) is often used for analyzing the advantage of coherent combining and effect of phase error on coherent combining.
For an array with tilt error, the complex field of the nth laser beam at the z plane is not easy to be obtained. In Ref. [10], a fast numerical method for free-space beam propagation between arbitrary oriented planes is developed. The complex field tilted in one direction (for instance, zenith angle) can be calculated. However, as shown in Fig. 2, for an element in the fiber laser array, the tilt angle can be in coursing (θx) and pitching (θy) directions at the same time. Suppose that the coordinate system (x, y, z) denotes the laser beam propagating along the z axis with no tilt error, and the coordinate system (α, β, γ) denotes the laser beam propagating along the γ axis with tilt angle (θx, θy). Thus a coordinate transform can be used for calculating the tilted far field.
From the basic knowledge of linear algebra, the relationship between the two coordinate systems can be expressed as
Then the complex field of the nth laser beam with tilt angle at the z plane is
Compared with Ref. [10], this method is more universal, and the tilted complex fields in both coursing and pitching directions can be calculated.
The irradiance distribution for the coherently combined laser beams with tilt errors can be written as
In order to investigate the effect of tilt error on coherently combined beam, we firstly consider a fiber laser array with five rings (91 lasers). The parameters are taken as follows: λ = 1 μm, ω0 = 5 mm, d = 12.5 mm, z is taken to be 1 × 105 m, a number large enough to ensure the far-field condition, and thus the Fresnel number NF ? 1. The irradiance distribution for the coherently combined laser beams with tilt errors is calculated and plotted in Fig. 3. It is shown that the tilt error will cause the decrease of energy contained in the main-lobe and beam quality degradation.
Figure 3 shows a qualitative effect of tilt error. Beam quality factor should be introduced in order to get a detailed result. As shown in Fig. 3, the far-field intensity profile of the coherently combined beam is typically non-Gaussian distributed. Besides the main-lobe that contains most of the far-field energy, there are also some side-lobes. M2 factor is not proper to evaluate this kind of beam profile[11]. What we are most interested in is the energy contained in the main-lobe. In fact, the beam quality of the coherently combined beam can be characterized by a beam propagation factor (BPF)[12]:
where P is the laser output power in a specified farfield bucket, and PDL is the total output power from the effective near-field exit aperture of the laser beam array. According to Ref. [12], the far-field bucket is defined as ADL = (π/4)(θDLz) 2 , which is the diffraction-limited bucket, and θDL = 2.44λ/D, where D is the effective exit aperture of the combined laser beam, namely, the diameter of the whole array. For a certain fiber laser array, the ideal value of BPF without tilt error can be numerically calculated through Eq. (2). We define a tolerance on the RMS value of the tilt error when BPF becomes 50% of the value when there is no tilt error. Before numerical calculation, we should note that the divergent angle for an ideal laser beam is proportional to λ/D. Most of the laser energy is encircled in the bucket with a radius of λz/D. So laser array with a larger D will have a relatively more strict tolerance on the tilt error. Laser array with a fixed number of lasers varies in D owing to different fill factors. For this reason, we normalized the RMS values (denoted by r) of the tilt error by dividing them with λ/D. For an array with 91 lasers (5 rings), the dependence of the BPF on the normalized RMS value of the tilt error with different fill factors is given in Fig. 4 (the parameters are taken to be the same as those used in Fig. 3). Totally 30 steps are used in the numerical calculation. It is shown that BPF will decrease as the RMS value of the tilt error increasing.
Effect of normalized tilt error can be studied more accurately by plotting the dependence of normalized BPF on normalized tilt error (for a laser array with determinate fill factor, the normalized BPF is defined as the BPF value divided by the ideal value when there is no tilt error). As shown in Fig. 5, there is almost no difference among the curves of normalized BPF for different fill factors.
The averaged dependence of normalized BPF on the normalized tilt error can be exactly fitted to be a 6th polynomial, given as
From Eq. (9), it can be concluded that for the ring distributed 91-laser array, if the RMS value of the tilt error is smaller than 0.72λ/D, the energy encircled in the diffraction-limited bucket can be ensured to be more than 50% of the value when there is no tilt error.
We also calculated the averaged dependence of normalized BPF on the normalized tilt error for several other laser arrays with different numbers of lasers, i.e., ring distributed fiber laser arrays with ring number N of 1, 2, 5, 6 (corresponding to laser arrays with 7, 19, 91, 127 lasers). The dependence of normalized BPF on the normalized tilt error is plotted in Fig. 6. Generally, there is no difference among the curves for different laser arrays, except for the case when the normalized tilt error is relatively large (i.e., larger than 1). Laser array that contains less lasers suffer less from large tilt errors. However, the criterion of 0.72λ/D to ensure energy encircled in the diffraction-limited bucket more than 50% of the ideal value still holds true for different laser arrays. The array size D is often designed to be at several-ten-centimeter level in practice for long-range energy delivering use, and then the RMS tilt error should be controlled at 10-μrad level, which is a great challenge for optical machining and assembling.
In conclusion, the tolerance on tilt error for coherent combining of fiber lasers is studied numerically. Results show that the tolerance value depends on laser wavelength λ and array size D. For laser arrays with different laser numbers, the energy encircled in the diffractionlimited bucket can be ensured more than 50% of the ideal case if the RMS tilt error is smaller than 0.72λ/D. This conclusion offers a guide for designing and manufacturing the fiber array used for coherent combining.
This work was supported by the Graduate Student Innovation Foundation of National University of Defense Technology under Grant No. B070701.


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Otávio Didier Bulgarelli (São Gonçalo do Sapucaí, 15 de outubro de 1984) é um ciclista de estrada profissional brasileiro, que atualmente (2016) compete pela equipe Team Cycling Funvic de São José Dos Campos. Foi o Campeão Brasileiro de Ciclismo de Estrada em 2012.

Carreira

Quando mais novo, praticava corrida de kart, mas aos 13 anos, assistiu uma prova de triatlo e interessou-se pela corrida de bicicletas. Foi a partir de então que Bulgarelli começou a praticar o ciclismo.

Entre os anos de 2007 e 2009, foi atleta da equipe Suzano-Flying Horse-Caloi. Foi convocado para integrar a seleção brasileira de ciclismo várias vezes, uma delas nos Jogos Pan-americanos de 2007 (Rio 2007), onde disputou a prova de estrada. Ficou na 26ª posição, sendo que a equipe brasileira conquistou a medalha de bronze. No ano de 2008, foi novamente convocado para a seleção brasileira de ciclismo para disputar o Campeonato Pan-americando de Ciclismo, realizado em Montevidéu, no Uruguai, onde conquistou a medalha de bronze. Foi também atleta reserva da seleção de estrada para os Jogos Olímpicos Beijing 2008 e, em 2011, integrou a seleção brasileira no Campeonato Mundial de Ciclismo, em Copenhagen, na Dinamarca.

Em 2009, passou mais de dois meses no Canadá, defendendo a equipe da Garneu-Club Chaussures. Lá, obteve 8 pódios. Devido à intervenção de Mauro Ribeiro, foi para a Itália em 2010, onde competiu pela equipe MGK Vis-Norda Pacific. No ano seguinte, correu pela equipe Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli, uma das principais equipes europeias (sendo parte da divisão Pro Continental, que engloba 23 equipes em um nível somente inferior às 18 equipes World Tour).

Entretanto, o papel de gregário na equipe italiana não se encaixava em suas expectativas e, em 2012, voltou ao Brasil para competir pela equipe . Em junho deste ano, tornou-se o campeão brasileiro de estrada, atacando na última das 9 voltas da prova e chegando sozinho, 6 segundos à frente do pelotão. Em abril de 2013, venceu a classificação geral do Tour de Santa Catarina, conquistando também a vitória das duas últimas etapas, cruzando a linha de chegada em ambas sozinho. Ao início da 5ª e decisiva última etapa, na qual o pelotão enfrentaria a subida da Serra do Rio do Rastro, Bulgarelli encontrava-se em 2º na classificação geral, a 2 segundos do líder Murilo Ferraz. No último quilômetro da subida da serra, ele atacou o grupo dos favoritos e não foi mais alcançado, cruzando a linha de chegada com vantagem suficiente para vencer a classificação geral 29 segundos à frente de Murilo Ferraz.

Principais resultados

2006
3º - GP São Paulo

2007
1º - Classificação Geral da Vuelta a Sucre
1º - Etapas 3 e 5
2º - Etapa 9 do Tour de Santa Catarina

2008
4º - Classificação Geral da Volta Ciclística de São Paulo
1º - Etapa 5
6º - Campeonato Pan-Americano CRI
3º  Campeonato Pan-Americano de Estrada

2009
8º - Classificação Geral da Volta de Gravataí
3º - Classificação Geral do Tour de Santa Catarina
1º - Etapa 3

2010
9º - Giro del Casentino

2012
7º - Classificação Geral da Vuelta a Guatemala
2º - Etapa 4 (CRI)
4º - Campeonato Brasileiro de CRI
1º  Campeonato Brasileiro de Ciclismo de Estrada

2013
10º - Classificação Geral do Giro do Interior de São Paulo
1º  Classificação Geral do Tour de Santa Catarina
1º - Etapas 4 e 5
5º - Campeonato Brasileiro de Ciclismo de Estrada
7º - Classificação Geral do Desafio das Américas de Ciclismo
3º - Etapa 1

Ligações externas
 Perfil de Otávio Bulgarelli no Cycling Archives (ing)
 Perfil de Otávio Bulgarelli no CQ Ranking (ing)

Ciclistas de Minas Gerais
Naturais de São Gonçalo do Sapucaí

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Outcomes of thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke in octogenarians versus nonagenarians.
Mateen FJ., Buchan AM., Hill MD., CASES Investigators None.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Little is reported on the outcomes of nonagenarians who are treated with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischemic stroke. It is uncertain whether nonagenarians have higher mortality and worse functional outcomes than octogenarians. METHODS: All patients who were >or=80 years of age were extracted from the Canadian Activase for Stroke Effectiveness Study national registry, a 60-center Canadian acute ischemic stroke treatment network. Patients were divided into 2 groups: those who were 80 to 89 years of age (octogenarians) and those who were 90 to 99 years of age (nonagenarians), and compared by baseline clinical, demographic, treatment, and outcome-related measures. RESULTS: Twenty-eight nonagenarians and 242 octogenarians were treated with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischemic stroke over the 2.5-year observation period. Nonagenarians and octogenarians did not differ on any of the baseline clinical or demographic variables. Both groups were predominantly female (77% nonagenarians and 61% octogenarians), hypertensive (54% and 60%), and predominantly had severe strokes (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score >15; 58% and 52%). The rate of symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage (7% nonagenarians versus 4% octogenarians; P=0.359), 90-day mortality (52% versus 33%; P=0.087), and 30-day favorable functional outcomes ([modified Rankin score <or=1] 30% versus 26%; P=0.647) showed no statistically significant difference when comparing the 2 age groups. CONCLUSIONS: There is no significant difference in 90-day mortality, 30-day functional outcome, or rate of symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage between nonagenarians and octogenarians treated with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator when comparing populations of similar baseline risk.
10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.586438
Age Factors, Aged, 80 and over, Brain Ischemia, Canada, Female, Fibrinolytic Agents, Humans, Male, Registries, Stroke, Thrombolytic Therapy, Tissue Plasminogen Activator, Treatment Outcome


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class Trade::InclusionValidationRule < Trade::ValidationRule
  attr_accessible :valid_values_view

  def matching_records_for_aru_and_error(annual_report_upload, validation_error)
    @query = matching_records(annual_report_upload).
      where(
        "'#{validation_error.matching_criteria}'::JSONB @> (#{jsonb_matching_criteria_for_comparison})::JSONB"
      )
  end

  def error_message(values_hash = nil)
    scope_info = sanitized_sandbox_scope.map do |scope_column, scope_def|
      tmp = []
      if scope_def['inclusion']
        tmp << "#{scope_column} = #{scope_def['inclusion'].join(', ')}"
      end
      if scope_def['exclusion']
        tmp << "#{scope_column} != #{scope_def['exclusion'].join(', ')}"
      end
      if scope_def['blank']
        tmp << "#{scope_column} is empty"
      end
      tmp.join(' and ')
    end.compact.join(', ')
    info = column_names_for_matching.each_with_index.map do |cn|
      # for taxon concept validations output human readable taxon_name
      if cn == 'taxon_concept_id'
        "taxon_name #{values_hash && (values_hash['accepted_taxon_name'].blank? ? '[BLANK]' : values_hash['accepted_taxon_name'])}"
      else
        "#{cn} #{values_hash && (values_hash[cn].blank? ? '[BLANK]' : values_hash[cn])}"
      end
    end.join(" with ")
    info = "#{info} (#{scope_info})" unless scope_info.blank?
    info + ' is invalid'
  end

  def refresh_errors_if_needed(annual_report_upload)
    return true unless refresh_needed?(annual_report_upload)
    errors_to_destroy = validation_errors.to_a
    matching_records_grouped(annual_report_upload).map do |mr|
      values_hash = Hash[column_names.map { |cn| [cn, mr.send(cn)] }]
      values_hash_for_display = Hash[column_names_for_display.map { |cn| [cn, mr.send(cn)] }]
      matching_criteria_jsonb = jsonb_matching_criteria_for_comparison(
        values_hash
      )
      existing_record = validation_errors_for_aru(annual_report_upload).
        where("matching_criteria @> (#{matching_criteria_jsonb})::JSONB").first
      update_or_create_error_record(
        annual_report_upload,
        existing_record,
        mr.error_count.to_i,
        error_message(values_hash_for_display),
        jsonb_matching_criteria_for_insert(values_hash)
      )
      if existing_record
        errors_to_destroy.reject! { |e| e.id == existing_record.id }
      end
    end
    errors_to_destroy.each(&:destroy)
  end

  def validation_errors_for_shipment(shipment)
    return nil unless shipment_in_scope?(shipment)
    # if it is, check if it has a match in valid values view
    v = Arel::Table.new(valid_values_view)
    arel_nodes = shipments_columns.map { |c| v[c].eq(shipment.send(c)) }
    return nil if Trade::Shipment.find_by_sql(v.project('*').where(arel_nodes.inject(&:and))).any?
    error_message
  end

  private

  def column_names_for_matching
    column_names
  end

  def column_names_for_display
    if column_names.include? ('taxon_concept_id')
      column_names << 'accepted_taxon_name'
    else
      column_names
    end
  end

  def jsonb_matching_criteria_for_insert(values_hash)
    jsonb_keys_and_values = column_names.map do |c|
      is_numeric = (c =~ /.+_id$/ || c == 'year')
      value = values_hash[c]
      value_quoted =
        if is_numeric
          value
        else
          "\"#{value}\""
        end
      "\"#{c}\": #{value_quoted}"
    end.join(', ')
    '{' + jsonb_keys_and_values + '}'
  end

  def jsonb_matching_criteria_for_comparison(values_hash = nil)
    jsonb_keys_and_values = column_names.map do |c|
      is_numeric = (c =~ /.+_id$/ || c == 'year')
      value_present = values_hash && values_hash.key?(c)
      value = value_present && values_hash[c]
      column_reference = c.to_s
      value_or_column_reference_quoted =
        if value_present && is_numeric
          value
        elsif value_present && !is_numeric
          "'\"#{value}\"'"
        elsif !value_present && is_numeric
          column_reference
        else
          <<-EOT
            '"' || COALESCE(#{column_reference}, '') || '"'
          EOT
        end
      <<-EOT
        '"' || '#{c}' || '": ' || #{value_or_column_reference_quoted}
      EOT
    end.join("|| ', ' ||")
    "'{' || #{jsonb_keys_and_values} || '}'"
  end

  # Returns matching records grouped by column_names to return the count of
  # specific errors and ids of matching records
  def matching_records_grouped(annual_report_upload)
    table_name = annual_report_upload.sandbox.table_name
    Trade::SandboxTemplate.
    select(
      column_names_for_display +
      [
        'COUNT(*) AS error_count',
        'ARRAY_AGG(id) AS matching_records_ids'
      ]
    ).from(Arel.sql("(#{matching_records_arel(table_name).to_sql}) matching_records")).
    group(column_names_for_display).having(
      required_column_names.map { |cn| "#{cn} IS NOT NULL" }.join(' AND ')
    )
  end

  def matching_records(annual_report_upload)
    table_name = annual_report_upload.sandbox.table_name
    sandbox_klass = Trade::SandboxTemplate.ar_klass(table_name)
    sandbox_klass.select('*').
      from(Arel.sql("(#{matching_records_arel(table_name).to_sql}) matching_records"))
  end

  # Returns records from sandbox where values in column_names are not null
  # and optionally filtered down by specified scope
  # Pass Arel::Table
  def scoped_records_arel(s)
    not_null_nodes = required_column_names.map do |c|
      s[c].not_eq(nil)
    end
    not_null_conds = not_null_nodes.shift
    not_null_nodes.each { |n| not_null_conds = not_null_conds.and(n) }
    result = s.project('*').where(not_null_conds)
    scope_nodes = sanitized_sandbox_scope.map do |scope_column, scope_def|
      tmp = []
      if scope_def['inclusion']
        inclusion_nodes = scope_def['inclusion'].map { |value| s[scope_column].eq(value) }
        tmp << inclusion_nodes.inject(&:or)
      end
      if scope_def['exclusion']
        exclusion_nodes = scope_def['exclusion'].map { |value| s[scope_column].not_eq(value) }
        tmp << exclusion_nodes.inject(&:or)
      end
      if scope_def['blank']
        tmp << s[scope_column].eq(nil)
      end
      tmp
    end.flatten
    scope_conds = scope_nodes.inject(&:and)
    result = result.where(scope_conds) if scope_conds
    result
  end

  # Returns records from sandbox where values in column_names are not included
  # in valid_values_view.
  # The valid_values_view should have the same column names and data types as
  # the sandbox columns specified in column_names.
  def matching_records_arel(table_name)
    s = Arel::Table.new("#{table_name}_view")
    v = Arel::Table.new(valid_values_view)
    arel_nodes = column_names_for_matching.map do |c|
      if required_column_names.include? c
        v[c].eq(s[c])
      else
        # if optional, check if NULL is allowed for this particular combination
        # e.g. unit code can be blank only if paired with certain terms
        v[c].eq(s[c]).or(v[c].eq(nil).and(s[c].eq(nil)))
      end
    end
    valid_values = s.project(s['*']).join(v).on(arel_nodes.inject(&:and))
    scoped_records_arel(s).except(valid_values)
  end

end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub