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Q: Converting QString to utf16 hex representation for non ascii characters I am going to convert a QString to its hex representation, everything works fine, until I put some special characters like '€':
QString l_str = "How are you";
qDebug() << "hex:     " << l_str.toUtf8().toHex();
qDebug() << "readable:" << l_str.toUtf8();

prints out:

hex:      "486f772061726520796f753f"
readable: "How are you?"

And so it easy to convert back the hex values to ascii, being just two values (48 = H etc.) the hex representation of an ascii char it is enough to iterate and convert every two chars.
If I set l_str = "H€w ar€ you?", and the hex € sign in utf8 is "e282ac" which are 6 values, the result is as following:

hex:      "48e282ac77206172e282ac20796f753f"

but how can I get it back to a readable string?
It would be better having a conversion which results in an utf16 string:

hex:   "0048006F20AC00200061007220AC00200079006F0075003F"

Consider that the "Ho€ ar€ you" string is created at runtime (so no QStringLiteral available), and I cannot use the auto keyword.

A: You can convert the string to utf8/16, and then convert the buffer that holds that into hexadecimal representation. These steps can be followed in reverse order to go from hex to utf8/16 to a string.
The toUtf16Hex function prepends a byte order mark so that both little- and big-endian hosts can correctly decode the Utf16 representation.
// https://github.com/KubaO/stackoverflown/tree/master/questions/str-to-utf-38831190
#include <QtCore>

QByteArray toUtf8Hex(const QString & str) {
   return str.toUtf8().toHex();
}
QString fromUtf8Hex(const QByteArray & hex) {
   return QString::fromUtf8(QByteArray::fromHex(hex));
}

QByteArray toUtf16Hex(QString str) {
   str.prepend(QChar::ByteOrderMark);
   // It is OK to use `fromRawData` since toHex copies it.
   return QByteArray::fromRawData(
            reinterpret_cast<const char*>(str.constData()), (str.size()+1)*2).toHex();
}
QString fromUtf16Hex(const QByteArray & hex) {
   const QByteArray utf16 = QByteArray::fromHex(hex);
   return QString::fromUtf16(reinterpret_cast<const quint16*>(utf16.data()));
}

int main() {
   const QString str = QStringLiteral("H€w ar€ you?");

   // To Utf8 and back
   const QByteArray hex8 = toUtf8Hex(str);
   Q_ASSERT(fromUtf8Hex(hex8) == str);

   // To Utf16 and back
   const QByteArray hex16 = toUtf16Hex(str);
   Q_ASSERT(fromUtf16Hex(hex16) == str);
}

A: I found a hackish but working solution:
QString l_str = "Ho€ Ar€ you?";
qDebug() << "hex:     " << l_str.toUtf8().toHex();
qDebug() << "readable:" << l_str.toUtf8();

QTextCodec* l_codec = QTextCodec::codecForName("UTF-16");

QByteArray l_string = l_codec->fromUnicode(l_str).toHex();
qDebug() << "utf16 encoded: " << l_string;

QByteArray l_reversed;

for(int i=0; i < l_string.length(); i=i+4)
{
    QString l_hex_chars_1 = l_string.mid(i, 2);
    QString l_hex_chars_2 = l_string.mid(i+2, 2);
    l_reversed.append(l_hex_chars_2);
    l_reversed.append(l_hex_chars_1);
}

QByteArray l_bom("feff");
if(l_reversed.startsWith(l_bom))
{
    l_reversed.remove(0, l_bom.length());
}

QString l_res;

for(int i=0; i < l_reversed.length(); i=i+4)
{
    QString l_hex_chars_1 = l_reversed.mid(i, 2);
    QString l_hex_chars_2 = l_reversed.mid(i+2, 2);

    int l_val = l_hex_chars_1.toInt(0,16)*256+l_hex_chars_2.toInt(0,16);
    QChar l_char(l_val);
    l_res.append(l_char);
}
qDebug() << "back to string: " << l_res;

This prints out:

hex:      "48e282ac77206172e282ac20796f753f"
readable: "H€w ar€ you?"
utf16 encoded:  "fffe4800ac207700200061007200ac20200079006f0075003f00"
byte-reversed:  "004820ac007700200061007220ac00200079006f0075003f"
back to string:  "H€w ar€ you?"


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Celentano Field
2015 Albertus Magnus College Softball
2019-20 2018-19 2017-18 2016-17 2015-16 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-09 2007-08 2006-07 2005-06 2003-04 2002-03 2001-02 2000-01
2014-15 GNAC All-Academic Team Announced
The Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) has announced its All-Academic Team for the 2014-15 school year. This year, 48 student-athletes from Albertus Magnus College were among the 822 members of the Academic Team from 12 full-time institutions and 10 associate member institutions in the conference.
Albertus Magnus Holds 92nd Commencement Ceremony
On Sunday, May 17, 2015, Albertus Magnus College held its 92nd commencement in front of historical Rosary Hall. Among the graduates were student-athletes from the College's Athletic Department.
Fortier Named to NFCA Northeast 2nd Team
Freshman Gillian Fortier (Naugatuck, Conn.) of the Albertus Magnus softball team has been named to the 2015 National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division III All-Northeast Region Second Team.
Falcons Finish Season with Loss at Brandeis
The Albertus Magnus softball team fell to top-seeded Brandeis 9-4 in the ECAC Division III New England Championship on Sunday afternoon. The Falcons used a 5-4 win to earn the right to play in the championship against the host team.
Albertus Splits ECAC Tournament Games
The Albertus Magnus softball team split a pair of games in Saturday's Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III New England Tournament action as the Falcons fell to second-seeded Southern Maine 4-1 before defeating Suffolk 2-1 to eliminate the Rams from postseason play.
Softball Featured on FOX CT
The Albertus Magnus softball team was featured in a piece on FOX Connecticut. Watch it here!
Puccilli Tallies 100th Hit; Falcons Defeat Newbury 7-4 in ECACs
Alyssa Puccilli (Milford, Conn.) went 3-for-4 with two RBI as she registered her 100th career hit as the Albertus Magnus softball team defeated Newbury College 7-4 in 2015 Division III ECAC New England Quarterfinal action in East Haven, Conn.
Albertus Holds Annual Athletics Banquet
On Tuesday, May 5, the Albertus Magnus College Department of Athletics held its annual banquet to honor its student-athletes and coaches as well as to celebrate the success from the 2014-15 academic year.
Albertus Softball Earns Second-Straight ECAC Bid
The Albertus Magnus softball team will be the third seed in the 2015 ECAC Division III New England Championship, which is set to start on Wednesday afternoon. The Falcons will take on sixth-seeded Newbury College on Wednesday with the game's time and location to be determined.
Fortier Named GNAC Player of the Year & Rookie of the Year
Freshman Gillian Fortier (Naugatuck, Conn.) of the Albertus Magnus softball team has been named the 2015 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Player of the Year as well as Rookie of the Year.
Ed Emielita Named GNAC Coach of the Year for Softball
Albertus Magnus softball head coach Ed Emielita has been named the 2015 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Coach of the Year as announced by the league office on Monday afternoon.
Fortier & Maselli Earn GNAC Honors
Freshmen Gillian Fortier (Naugatuck, Conn.) and Samantha Maselli (Rockville Centre, N.Y.) of the Albertus Magnus softball team have earned 2015 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) All-Conference recognition. Fortier has been named to the GNAC All-Conference First Team, while Maselli has been tagged as a Second Team selection.
JWU Defeats Falcons Twice for GNAC Title
The Albertus Magnus softball team fell to Johnson & Wales (R.I.) in back-to-back games as the Wildcats captured its first Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Tournament Championship title. JWU won game one 6-0 then edged the Falcons 4-3 in game two.
Falcons Advance to Title Game on Sunday
The second-seeded Albertus Magnus softball team cruised to a 9-0 victory over Johnson & Wales (R.I.) in six innings to advance to the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Tournament Championship on Sunday. The Falcons will need to win just one game on Sunday to earn the program's second-ever GNAC Tournament title. Albertus will face the winner of Saint Joseph's College of Maine and JWU on Sunday.
Falcons Advance in GNAC Tournament
The second-seeded Albertus Magnus softball team defeated Emmanuel College 8-6 on Friday night in Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Tournament play at West Haven High School. The Falcons will now face fifth-seeded Johnson & Wales (R.I.) on Saturday in a 2:30 p.m. contest at American Legion Park in East Boston, Mass.
Albertus to Host Two Games on Friday in the GNAC Tournament
Albertus Magnus College will host two games on Friday night as part of the 2015 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Softball Championship Tournament. West Haven High School in West Haven, Connecticut will serve as the site to two games beginning with a game one 5:20 p.m. first pitch. The first contest will feature sixth-seeded Emmanuel College and third-seeded Saint Joseph's College of Maine. Albertus will take on the winner in the nightcap which is tentatively scheduled to begin at 7:20 p.m.
Fortier Earns GNAC& ECAC Weekly Honors
Freshman Gillian Fortier (Naugatuck, Conn.) of the Albertus Magnus softball team has been named both the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) and ECAC Rookie of the Week for her play last week.
Maselli Named GNAC Pitcher of the Week
Freshman Samantha Maselli (Rockville Centre, N.Y.) of the Albertus Magnus softball team was tagged as the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Pitcher of the Week.
Softball Grabs Second Seed in GNAC Tournament
The Albertus Magnus softball team will compete in its second-straight Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Tournament beginning on Friday as the Falcons will be the second seed in the postseason playoffs. Albertus will play its first postseason game on Friday night at 7:00 p.m. at West Haven High School.
Falcons Sweep on Senior Day
The Albertus Magnus softball team swept its third-straight Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) doubleheader with a pair of wins over Mount Ida College on Saturday afternoon in New Haven. The Falcons took game one 4-1 before coming-from-behind to win game two, 10-4. After today's victories, the Falcons' honored their two seniors as well.
Falcons Sweep Emmanuel; Win 5th-Straight
The Albertus Magnus softball team swept Emmanuel College in a pair of Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) games on Thursday night in Boston. The Falcons edged the Saints 6-5 in game one before winning game two by a score of 4-2. The Falcons improved to 19-10 on the year with the wins and an impressive 13-4 in league play.
Falcons Sweep Lasell in GNAC Play
The Albertus Magnus softball team swept Lasell on Wednesday afternoon in a Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) doubleheader in Newton, Mass. The Falcons won game one 7-4 before dominating game two by a score of 11-2.
Falcons Soar to 23-8 Win over Anna Maria
The Albertus Magnus softball team played to 23-8 marathon victory over Anna Maria College on Tuesday afternoon in New Haven. The Falcons recorded 23 runs on 13 hits and 12 walks as they improve to 14-9 on the year and 8-3 in Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) play.
Social Media Event Held at Albertus Magnus
The Albertus Magnus College Department of Athletics welcomed Robert Hackenson, Jr. on Monday, April 6 to speak the college community about social media dangers and internet safety in today's world.
Falcons Win 5th-Straight with Sweep of MSV
The Albertus Magnus softball team swept the College of Mount Saint Vincent in a pair of non-conference games on Monday afternoon in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. The Falcons have now won five-straight and are 11-9 on the year. The Falcons won game one 6-2 before winning game two 4-0.
Falcons Sweep Rivier in Softball DH
The Albertus Magnus softball team swept Rivier in a Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) doubleheader in New Haven, Conn. on Saturday afternoon.
Falcons Split GNAC Doubleheader with USJ
The Albertus Magnus softball team split a pair of Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) contests in New Haven on Wednesday afternoon. The Falcons dropped game one 7-2 before winning game two by a score of 4-2.
Falcons Split with Suffolk in GNAC Play
The Albertus Magnus softball team split its Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) doubleheader on Sunday afternoon with Suffolk University. The Rams won game one by a score of 6-4 before the Falcons took game two with a 3-0 shutout.
Falcons Sweep Norwich in GNAC Play
The Albertus Magnus softball team swept Norwich University on Saturday afternoon in snowy New Haven, Conn. The Falcons used a 14-3 victory in five innings to secure their fifth win of the season before coming-from-behind in the second game of the doubleheader to defeat the Cadets 10-9.
Castillo Named ECAC New England Rookie of the Week
Freshman Melissa Castillo (Taftville, Conn.) has been named the ECAC Division III New England Rookie of the Week. This honor comes after being named the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Rookie of the Week on Monday.

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Comfortable, Efficient, and Healthy Buildings, with Deepinder Singh, 75F
Optimizing building energy efficiency can be complicated and expensive. According to Deepinder Singh, it doesn't have to be.
The world has more than 230 billion square meters of building space with another 65 billion square meters coming online in the next decade. Buildings account for 6% of global greenhouse gasses.
With the ongoing global pandemic, the CDC has developed guidelines that encourage more fresh air circulation. The goal is to maintain lower viral load in the work atmosphere. Those guidelines could increase energy consumption. Improving energy efficiency could make a significant dent in climate change.
It Started with His Daughter
Deepinder Singh is a computer network engineer by training. He designed some of the world's fastest core networks for AT&T, NTT, and Verizon. In his work on complex systems, he found ways to simplify operational complexity and to make products intuitive. "If you use Verizon," Deepinder told me, "there's a 95% chance it goes over a network I built. My claim to fame is that I had one of the first petabit routers sitting in my garage for five years."
When he and his family moved to Minnesota, he ran into a problem that was a little closer to home. "My daughter, who was one at the time, would wake up in the night crying. The temperature in her room would drop ten degrees at night. The thermostat was in the mater bedroom, which was west facing. We were nice and warm because the sun would keep it warm in that room. In the rest of the house, the heat would not kick on.
"When my daughter was this uncomfortable, I quit my job to fix the damned problem." Since Deepinder was not trained in HVAC, he used his computer network skills to solve the problem.
75F, Born Digital to Solve Problems for Commercial Buildings
After solving his own problem, Deepinder realized he had a solution with a commercial application. In 2012, Deepinder and his cofounders launched 75F, an intelligent building solution that utilizes the Internet of Things and the latest in Cloud Computing to create systems that predict, monitor and manage the needs of buildings.
"I found that there was an even bigger problem in commercial buildings. People are there all day, and somebody is wearing a coat during the summer."
"The building controls industry, the last innovation that they had was in the mid-1990s. They are mechanical engineers who try to design It-controlled solutions. Those solutions are archaic by today's standards. In the controls industry, people are taking these Lego pieces and they are building a custom solution for each building. To me, that's an opportunity to disrupt.
"I had none of this baggage. I had no idea what the heck I was doing. We were born digital, so we looked at IOT and cloud computing, and created a completely different architecture. It's modern. It keeps getting upgraded all the time. We look at the building holistically. We use machine learning and AI to implement things that people are doing manually. The building is continuously adjusting and adapting."
75F uses smart sensors and controls to make commercial buildings healthier, more comfortable, and more efficient than ever before, all at a disruptive price.
"Normally energy efficiency and comfort oppose one another," Deepinder commented. "We're trying to do both at the same time."
75F helps customers achieve an average savings of 41.8 percent in energy consumption and carbon footprint.
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This is a 3rd generation family farm in the central area of Colombia. Their farm is large, so they have the areas divided into separate plots to control each lot of coffee they offer. This coffee (Gallineta) comes from the plateau on Plot #10.
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How much of difference can a high-speed network interconnection make over shared, public internet? Turns out, it can help solve an assortment of common enterprise problems.
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Bolshoi Ballet director attacked with acid
By Reuters January 18, 2013 8:37 PM
MOSCOW -- A masked attacker threw acid in the face of the artistic director of Russia's prestigious Bolshoi Ballet, endangering his eyesight, in what colleagues said yesterday was the culmination of a two-week campaign of intimidation.
Sergei Filin, a former leading dancer at the Bolshoi who has been in the high-pressure job at the heart of Russian culture for nearly two years, was attacked outside his Moscow apartment building as he returned home Thursday night.
Such is the prestige of Filin's post in Russia, and its power inside the theater, that current and former colleagues suggested the motive could have been envy, rivalry or even competition for roles.
Filin, his face covered in bandages with holes for the mouth and eyes, sounded relieved to have survived the attack. "I was scared. I thought he was going to shoot me, honestly . . . and I turned to run but he chased me down," Filin told Russia's REN TV.
The theater's director, Anatoly Iksanov, had no doubt the attack was aimed at sowing discord in an institution that has rarely been at peace in a history stretching back to the era of Catherine the Great. Filin, 42, had reported having his car tires slashed and his emails hacked in recent weeks.
Russian media said Filin had suffered third-degree burns and that doctors believed it would take him at least six months to recover. Interfax news agency quoted the theater's press office as saying late Friday that he had undergone successful surgery and that a complete loss of eyesight was not expected.is a magnet for both locals and foreign tourists, and has seen power struggles among both dancers and directors throughout its more than 200 years of history.
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Medicare Patients Face Rising Costs for Ca Drugs
Alicia Ault
WASHINGTON — A new study shows that Medicare beneficiaries will be paying more out of pocket for cancer therapies in 2009, and also will have more restrictions on access than they had in the past.
The American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) and Avalere Health, a health care consulting company, studied the changing patterns in out-of-pocket payments and presented the results at a meeting sponsored by the two organizations.
Cancer therapies are covered under Part B and Part D of the Medicare program. Beneficiaries are responsible for copayments that vary. The ACS and Avalere analysis was based on claims and formulary data for about 4,500 Medicare prescription drug plans.
The researchers found that the plans have been moving brand-name oral cancer drugs to higher formulary tiers—essentially requiring much higher copayments from patients.
Tier 1 requires no or very low copays. Cost sharing rises with each succeeding tier level, with beneficiaries being asked to make a copayment for tiers 1–3 and a percentage of the drug's cost starting on tier 4. Four-tier formularies are the most common, although some plans use as many as six tiers, said the Avalere and ACS CAN researchers.
In 2009, the drugs Gleevec (imatinib mesylate), Sutent (sunitinib malate), Tarceva (erlotinib), Thalomid (thalidomide), and Tykerb (lapatinib) will all be placed on a top formulary tier, with beneficiaries having to pay 26%–35% of the drugs' cost. These therapies cost anywhere from $2,000 to $5,000 a month, depending on the drug. Sixty-two percent to 74% of plans require prior authorization for these five therapies, and a quarter to a third limit the quantity of the drug, for instance by limiting the number of pills that can be received in a month.
This reflects a growing trend, said the analysts, noting that from 2006 to 2008, a growing number of health plans have moved Gleevec to a formulary tier requiring greater cost sharing. In 2006, only 37% had the drug on tier 4; in 2007, 73% had the drug on tier 4, and by 2008, 74% listed it as a tier 4 therapy, 8% as a tier 5, and 2% as a tier 6. In 2009, 63% of plans will list Gleevec as a tier 4 drug, 13% as a tier 5, and none as a tier 6, according to Avalere and ACS.
Medicare beneficiaries are also paying a greater percentage of each drug's cost in each year since 2006. For Gleevec, Sutent, and Tarceva, beneficiaries paid an average of 27% of the cost in 2006; by 2009, that will rise to 33%.
A generic of the drug tamoxifen, however, is on the lowest formulary tier for most plans. No plans require prior authorization and 2% limit quantities. Patients generally pay nothing or $10 for a tamoxifen prescription.
The analysts also looked at the typical drug mix for breast and colon cancer and calculated how much beneficiaries would pay out of pocket in 2006 and in 2009. For breast cancer, they used an example of a woman with comorbidities, since it provides a more realistic picture of the patient's total cost-sharing burden, said the analysts. For a breast cancer patient with hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension, the Part B cost, which includes the premium and physician administration fees (and assumes that the beneficiary does not have supplemental Part B insurance), would decline from $7,196 in 2006 to $4,964 in 2009.
Drugs covered under Part B included Adriamycin (doxorubicin), Cytoxan (cyclophosphamide), Taxotere (docetaxel), Kytril (granisetron), Neulasta (pegfilgrastim), and Aloxi (palonosetron) in 2006. In 2009, Taxotere and Kytril were removed and Taxol (paclitaxel) and Benadryl were added. The Part D cost sharing would rise from a range of $1,747–$2,810 in 2006 to $2,122–$3,239 in 2009. Those therapies include Arimidex (anastrozole), dexa-methasone, prochlorperazine, Lipitor (atorvastatin), Glucophage (metformin), hydrochlorothiazide and Ativan (lorazepam). Fosamax (alendronate) was added to the calculations for 2009.
The difference is starker for colon cancer, largely because of the addition of a single therapy. In 2006, the typical regimen—Camptosar (irinotecan), leuco-vorin, fluorouracil, dolasetron, and dexamethasone—was $8,395 for Part B, and Part D cost sharing (for prochlorperazine) ranged from $29 to $825. With fluorouracil and leucovorin dropped and Erbitux (cetuximab) added to the mix in 2009, Part B costs will hit $14,780. Part D sharing will be relatively unchanged at $21–$654. It also appears that beneficiary Part D out-of-pocket costs vary depending on the state of residence. For instance, breast cancer patients living in California would spend about $3,000 in 2009 if they have coverage with the Humana Standard plan, while patients in Illinois and Florida on the same plan would pay several hundred dollars less.
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Harriett Lake Oral History Interview
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Created: March 11, 2014 | Author: Jane Tracy | Memory Date: November 4, 2013
My name is Harriett Lake and I was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania..
Listen as one of Central Florida's top philanthropists tells where the money came from, how our community developed, her reasons for giving, and what she plans to give in the future in this oral history interview in her home on March 4, 2014.
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Books and Homework
My name is Harriett Lake and I was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania about five miles from Hershey, Pennsylvania. Growing up? I'll tell you its 92 years since I was growing up so it's hard for me to remember. But, it was a small town, maybe 25,000 people were there and I spent most of my time just studying. I was obsessed with books and homework. And if I didn't get an "A" on my report card I would be distraught. Well that was my background anyway. My dad had a furniture store, six stories, and we lived next door to the furniture store. And I was born in 1922.
The Depression
So we were doing okay and then the Crash came, the Depression and that's when I got into my obsession with clothes. We could never afford to buy the stuff that I wanted to buy, like a little red coat. And I would go up to the department stores and check out the whole inventory. I think I might have been five or six years old. That's why I can't get enough red coats. I don't know how many I own….
Harriett Lake in one of her many red coats.
Education and Military Service
I left town when I was 17 and I went to state teacher's college. And back in those days the girls had to be into the dormitory at 7 o'clock in the evening. I majored in history, politics, and social studies. I got my BS from Westchester State Teacher's College which is now Westchester University in Pennsylvania. And I got my degree in 1942-1943. I was 20 when I got out of college and because everyone in the whole town had gone – it was the war effort: 1941, '42, '43, '44, '45 we were all in WWII including me. I wanted to be in the WAC's which is the Army division of the girls or the WAVES which is the Navy, but I was too young. You had to be 21.
But then I found out that the Marine Corps took girls at 20 years old and I became a United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve. The boot camp was in New York at Hunter College. Then I was sent to North Carolina where I spent a memorable month on KP which is kitchen patrol. And they get you up at 4 o'clock in the morning. This was in North Carolina and it was bitter cold. It was December… all of a sudden I found myself with tears running down my face over a bucket of hot soapy water with steel Brillo going into my hands. I was in charge of washing the knives, forks, and spoons, breakfast, lunch and dinner. Four o'clock in the morning we had to get up to be at breakfast…
Anyway, after a month or two I was assigned… Bloomington, Indiana, University of Indiana where I was trained to do payroll and quartermaster. Then I was transferred to El Centro, California where I did payroll for 250. Well, I get a lump in my throat when I think about it. They were kids. They were Marine Corps kids on their way to what could have been a death sentence over to the Pacific. The islands, Iwo Jima. It was horrible. I can tell you war is hell. I don't know how guys can go out there and face it. I really don't. All I can say is the happiest day of my life, and I've lived a lot of days, was – August the 14, 1945 – when the war was finally over.
What I remember most about the war is even the coffee was rationed. We were allowed – this is the population of the United States – we all were just allowed two pairs of shoes a year and you had to have a coupon. Oh well, I could write a book about WWII and how horrible it was for everyone. It was a 100% effort by all of America with little candles in the window for the boys who were overseas.
Okay, so the war came to an end and then I went home to Pennsylvania. I went home to Pennsylvania and I had two jobs. One was teaching Hebrew to pre-Hebrew kids and the other was keeping books for a radio station….
Where is it nice and warm out of Pennsylvania, no snow, and where I can meet a half decent responsible guy? I'm going to Miami Beach. So I took my bathing suits and all my clothes and I found a space off Biscayne Boulevard in Miami. And every Friday night I went to The Temple. I got dressed. Even though I was having a nervous breakdown over this guy who jilted me… One night there I found this guy who might have been looking for a wife… and after a year of kind of going together, breaking up, I married him.
Harriett and Hymen Lake
Hymen Lake
He was a poor, penniless struggling lawyer with a tremendous sense of humor and looking back on everything he was totally brilliant. And I guess that's why I decided to spend the rest of my life with him. Very unusual man. Although I didn't really know it. When you get married it's like a lottery. You don't know really what you're getting. And I almost didn't marry him because he was so poverty-stricken. And that wasn't exactly what I was looking for at the time. I wanted some kind of security. Well, I figured if I lived the rest of my life in a one room efficiency that was my lot, that's the cards I was dealt…
I had Michael Lake about a year and half later. And then my father couldn't stand my living the way I was in this one bedroom, so I got a house and a car and moved to North Bay Village which is between Miami and Miami Beach on the Causeway. Three islands and we lived on the poor man's island. That first house was $14,000 and it was a three bedroom two bath.
So then I had Shelley Lake, my daughter, and Hy was practicing law. His name was Hymen Lake. Hy was practicing law in Miami Beach, He was an appeals lawyer – that's the kind of lawyer after the case is lost – he revived it and won. And he was brilliant. And then he got involved in the politics of North Bay Village and he was elected mayor and councilman for two years of the village.
No Jews, Blacks, or Felons
One of the islands, the one where the wealthy people lived, that was North Bay Island, had a restriction about who you could sell your house to. The restrictions were no Jews, no felons, and no blacks allowed on the island. And when Hy found out about it he says, "I'm bringing a suit against them. Discrimination." And, of course, he won.
And he was practicing law and he was busy with his politics. And then one day I guess it just hit him over the head when he was like 30, 31. He says, "I am not going to have a huge bank account practicing law in Miami Beach. I'm gonna go out out of town because we can't afford to buy tracks of land in the beach area, and I'm gonna buy some land….
441 from Miami Beach to Sand Lake Road
We went up 441 from Miami Beach to Sand Lake Road on 441. We drove all the way from the beach to Sand Lake Road which was truly a two lane dirt road. And then all of a sudden there was the South Orange Blossom Trail. And he put on the brakes and he said, "This is it. I'm calling a broker." So he calls from one of those phones on the highway. You remember that was before the cell phones. And he bought a little track on South Orange Blossom Trail, which was a dairy, with very little down and we went home. At least he'd bought some land. It was a cow pasture. Can you believe that on Sand Lake Road and the South Orange Blossom Trail there were cows grazing right off the road? So we went home.
Two Square Miles of Florida Ranch Lands
[Hyman] belonged to like a poker club with eight other guys, accountants, and doctors and they were all professionals. And when he told them he had bought some land they said, "Well, we were thinking about buying stocks, but maybe we just ought to invest in some land. So Hy you go back and find another tract.. anything's better than sitting on money and maybe land is the best way to invest it instead of stocks." So we went back to the broker, Florida Ranch Lands and he said, "What have you got in a huge tract of land? I got a syndicate here." And the broker took us in a jeep to a dirt Indian path. I mean it was a swamp. You couldn't get a car in it because there was no road. It was like a dirt path. And there were two square miles of it and it was a hopeless swamp. And Hy says, "Should we buy it?" I said, "I don't know Hy what do you think?" It was scaring me, I got to get out of here – there were gophers running around and all kinds of unidentified insects. And since there was almost nothing down, I think it was almost $35.00 an acre. But nothing down and the first payment was to be in six months or so. And he bought two square miles.
Martin Marietta
Now, of course, it's all of Universal and all of Turkey Lake and the dirt Indian path is now the eight lane or ten lane Kirkman Road. Anyways six months after he bought it, he's reading The Sentinel which we got every day so we'd know what happened to the land, and there in the headlines it says Martin Marietta's buying a whole acreage very very close to the two square miles. And then Hy gets a call from Major Realty in South Florida and they offered him a million bucks. And his dream was always to be a millionaire by the time he was 35. I tell you that was a dream. He got his first million when he was 36 on a land deal and, of course, he had a syndicate. And then, of course, what is he going to do with the money?
He had great visions about Sky Lake which was a square mile on South Orange Blossom Trail and Sand Lake Road. So, he bought that square mile. I don't know what he paid. It was less than a thousand an acre. I don't remember exactly how much it was. And at the time I remember all of the housing projects built the houses right on the highway so everybody would know there was a housing project. And Hy says, I'm not going to do that. I'm going to go 650 feet back and I'm going to build houses in the center and hope that the highway is the profitable, commercial that I'm thinking about where I'm going to make enough to live on plus.
He was so poor as a child that I think he was driven. It wasn't even the money. It was the game of knowing that he would never have to be in the same conditions that he grew up in. I didn't mention that he lived on the third floor of a black tenement house in Chicago with one bathroom serving eight families. And he just had to get out of there. Oh, I didn't tell you about Hy. He worked his way through law school selling shoes at night and weekends. And I think he graduated second in his class. And then he served in WWII like the rest of the population. And after the war he went to Miami to see his sister and that's how I met him – at The Temple.
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Who knew what was going to be. This was pre-Disney. And we all thought, we knew somebody was buying the land in the south part of town. But we thought it was some kind of airplane factories like Boeing, Lockheed. We really didn't know what was going to be – buying all this land. Huge tracts, huge miles. And the secret was that the people from Disney didn't even make direct flights from Orlando. They went to Atlanta while they were accumulating all this land and then they would go from Atlanta to the little tiny airport in Orlando which was McCoy Air Force Base. And that airport was about the size of a small house as I remember. It was so tiny. Maybe it's some kind of a small warehouse if it's still there. I mean it was like a dream to see this city grow the way it did after Disney.
Developing Sky Lake
Anyway, Hy bought this square mile, Sky Lake, and he started building houses in the center. We didn't even live here. He bought in let's see the year was 1956 when we drove up the trail, so it's like 60 going on 70 years ago. Well, 60 at least. He started building houses that were like $10,000 – nothing down. And I guess he was steadily selling houses in the center. And there were floods when we thought we would go bankrupt because the water came to the front door of the houses. But fortunately, with pumps.. they did everything they could to get the water out of there. In the meantime he put the residents in, I don't know there were no motels around.. maybe he put them up in those rinky-dink motels along the trail at that time. We survived the floods. Then in 1962 he said to me we're leaving the beach I have to move. We can't do both. I can't commute every week anymore. We're moving. So kicking and screaming I moved to Orlando…
Sky Lake, there might have been a 1,000 homes down there. And then he built the motel, the Travel Lodge, it was called. I worked at the Travel Lodge.And I think he sold it in 1974. I think I did about 40 model houses at least because he had Sky Lake, he had Candlelight Park, he had Lancaster, there were all kind of projects. The houses ranged from $10,000 – two bedroom, one bath to $15,000 – four bedroom two bath and den and a living room. I remember at $15,000 he said we aren't making any money on these houses. So when he told the salesman we're raising the price of the house to $16.500 for a four bedroom / two bath house, the salesman said, "Hy, you will never ever sell another house." So, he said, "We won't sell another house, but that's what we're going to do." Then suddenly we had a whole project there of houses and then little by little, the Publix came to one corner and then we had two gas stations and then we had a Kmart and then a restaurant and then a hotel, a 174 rooms….
Sky Lake: an Integrated Community
Orlando in the 70's was totally, what's the word – in South Africa- the whites were separated from the blacks. Well, I guess it was discrimination. But no blacks were sold to in any of the white projects. It was unthinkable and it was just impossible. If a black came you just told him that he didn't qualify or one reason or another, but he was asked to leave. Well, a black family showed up at Sky Lake in the 70's and the salesman came over and he said, "Hy these people are so qualified. He's a veteran, he's got like two or three kids. It's just difficult. If we sell the house we're going to have to close up because we'll never ever sell another house and the people who live here will be leaving. They're not going to live in the same neighborhood where there's a black." And Hy says, "You know what I have been discriminated against all my life and I'm not going to start now. If the man is qualified and he's responsible and he has a family he's going to move in the minute we sign the papers."
So the black family moved in and signs went up and down the streets in the neighborhood – "For Sale" – and, I guess, life went on. Nobody bought the houses because of the black and then little by little the signs went down and the whole place became integrated. And it is the first community that I know of maybe in Florida, I'm not sure, that had an integrated housing project….
Sky Lake South
Then he started a Sky Lake South and I was decorating houses down there, too. And then we got a radio station and we sold that. And then one day he sold Sky Lake South to a New Jersey corporation. [Hymen] had four people working at the project, but when the New Jersey people moved in they hired all of their family, maybe 40, and they went bankrupt in a short time….
If there's anything you want to know about Sky Lake it's probably in the newspapers from then. I know we had ads in every week. And he sold a lot of houses and he sold a lot of frontage. But we never took the money seriously and he always treated money like it was going to be snatched away from him at anytime because of his childhood. I had no idea when he left how much he really made.
However ever since then I've been trying to give it away as fast as I can to my own 189 charities and hospitals. Of course, it's always easy to raise money for kids who have no socks and underwear, but it's very difficult to raise money for the arts. I mean the opera, the philharmonic, the ballet and all the Shakespeare, the Mad Cow, they're all on my list, and I'm dedicated to keeping the arts alive, because somebody has to do it and I consider it now my job.
I always had the feeling that there would be somebody to take care of the unfortunate among us and so I've concentrated on the arts in my last years. I refuse to die until I have a place for the ballet to rehearse and practice… and that will be the last thing I probably do. I'm dedicated to the ballet.
And, of course, I feel strongly about the Trauma Center. Nobody gives to the Trauma Center. They don't even know that it has to be financed with private individual funds. They think somebody is sending those helicopters on I-4 when you're bleeding to death. They don't know. They think the city is paying for all that. Well, they're not. It's the Orlando Regional Hospital that's doing it. I intend to help them after I'm gone.
I think that covers the philanthropy. Well, about the philanthropy. I give away a million and a half dollars every year for the past 7-8 years. It's come to about 12 million now. And as long as I live I will continue doing that. I have a list. It's my job. That's what it comes down to. Somebody has to do it. A lot of people are with me on this, too. Thank God for them. Bless them. It's wonderful.
The Clothes
About the clothes, the truth is when I was growing up I was so, so totally homely that I had to do something to detract from the face so I discovered people were attracted to clothing and that's how I got into clothing. And then, of course, I had some help because across the street there were two little girls who were just a year or two older than me and bigger fortunately. And every season they were supplied with the ultimate fashionable clothes. Because, this is a strange story, their grandmother who was so devoted to these two little girls, was the owner of the whole red light district in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. And there was an Indiantown Gap military place right next to us so she and her girls were very busy and made an awful lot of money. And every season she would go to New York and buy really, really quality stuff for these two kids: Fur coats, grey flannel suits. I mean they were drop dead call out the cops gorgeous these clothes. And that's how I got into fashion through her and the distraction from my homely face.
And, of course it's been like that the rest of my life. I could never get enough clothes. And at 13 I discovered the sewing machine and I would be up day and night when I wasn't in school or studying, making all kind of clothes. And then even when Hy and I were destitute I was taking in clothes, I was taking in alterations from the neighbors and buying fabric to make more clothes. I could never get enough. And that's why I had to move out of my first house in Orlando because I outgrew the closets and the rooms. And every time a kid would leave I took over their room. I had one room for after five. One room for winter, one room for summer.
Finally, I decided to just build one huge closet with conveyor belts and move into Longwood. I built a closet actually and then, of course, I outgrew the closet. And now I'm in a three car garage and you can't even walk into any of the rooms. I've got a disease. I admit it. I'm a clothes junkie. And I probably will never where any of these clothes ever again and yet I can't give them up. Because did you ever get attached to some clothes and say, "Well, there's a slight chance that I'm going to be wearing this maybe down the road, who knows." I can't get rid of it, so that's part of my disease.
Harriett Lake
Judith Leiber Collection
I'm a hoarder . I admit it with the clothes. I've never outgrown it either. Even when I can't shop I'm into catalogs and sending for stuff. Oh yeah, I collect stuff like I've got 100 Judith Leiber bags over at the Orlando Museum of Art. They stored them for me. Thank goodness, I wouldn't have room. And every Christmas they bring out the 100 bags and everybody gets to see them. It's such a thrill to just look at those bags I can't believe I own them, but they are mine.
Hat Collection
And I collect hats. I've got thousands of hats. And I loan them out and they have hat shows. And, vintage clothes. Oh yeah, UCF is writing a book called, "Too Much Is Not Enough" and it's about my vintage clothes. That's the stuff, the labeled stuff from designers through the years. I don't know when that's going to be out, but we are going to publish it one of these days. I could talk forever about clothes, but time is limited.
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Persistent loss of smell due to COVID-19 may better predict long-term cognitive, functional impairment
New insights into factors that may predict, increase or protect against the impact of COVID-19 and the pandemic on memory and thinking skills were revealed by multiple studies reported today at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference® (AAIC®) 2022 in San Diego and virtually.
Among the key findings reported at AAIC 2022:
A group from Argentina found that persistent loss of the sense of smell may be a better predictor of long-term cognitive and functional impairment than severity of the initial COVID-19 disease.
Hospitalization in the intensive care unit was associated with double the risk of dementia in older adults, according to a study by Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago.
During the pandemic, female gender, not working and lower socioeconomic status were associated with more cognitive symptoms in a large study population drawn from nine Latin American countries.
In that same Latin American population, experiencing a positive life change during the pandemic (such as more quality time with friends and family or spending more time in nature) reduced the negative impact of the pandemic on memory and thinking skills.
"COVID-19 has sickened and killed millions of people around the world, and for some, the emerging research suggests there are long-term impacts on memory and thinking as well," said Heather M. Snyder, Ph.D., vice president of medical and scientific relations at the Alzheimer's Association. "As this virus will likely be with us for a long time, identifying the risk and protective factors for cognitive symptoms can assist with the treatment and prevention of 'long COVID' moving forward."
Persistent loss of smell better predicts cognitive impairment than severity of COVID-19
Researchers in Argentina working with the Alzheimer's Association Consortium on Chronic Neuropsychiatric Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection followed 766 adults age 55-95 exposed to COVID-19 for one year, and conducted a series of regular physical, cognitive and neuropsychiatric tests. Of the study group, 88.4% were infected and 11.6% were controls.
Clinical assessment showed functional memory impairment in two-thirds of the infected participants, which was severe in half of them. Another group of cognitive tests identified three groups with decreased performance:
11.7% showed memory-only impairment.
8.3% had impairment in attention and executive function.
11.6% displayed multidomain (including memory, learning, attention and executive function) impairment.
Statistical analysis revealed that persistent loss of smell was a significant predictor of cognitive impairment, but severity of the initial COVID-19 disease was not.
The more insight we have into what causes or at least predicts who will experience the significant long-term cognitive impact of COVID-19 infection, the better we can track it and begin to develop methods to prevent it."
Gabriela Gonzalez-Aleman, LCP, Ph.D., Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina, Buenos Aires
A stay in the intensive care unit may signal higher dementia risk
Researchers from the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center (RADC), part of Chicago's Rush University System for Health, used data from five diverse studies of older adults without known dementia (n=3,822) to observe intensive care unit (ICU) hospitalizations. ICU hospitalizations were previously linked to cognitive impairment in older patients, but few studies have examined whether they increase risk for dementia.
They reviewed Medicare claims records from 1991 to 2018 (pre-pandemic), and checked annually for development of Alzheimer's and all type dementia using a standardized cognitive assessment. During an average 7.8 years follow up, 1,991 (52%) participants experienced at least one ICU hospitalization; 1,031 (27%) had an ICU stay before study enrollment; and 961 (25%) had an ICU stay during the study period.
The researchers found that, in analyses adjusted for age, sex, education and race, experiencing ICU hospitalization was associated with 63% higher risk of Alzheimer's dementia and 71% higher risk of all type dementia. In models further adjusted for other health factors such as vascular risk factors and disease, other chronic medical conditions, and functional disabilities, the association was even stronger: ICU hospitalization was associated with 110% greater risk of Alzheimer's and 120% greater risk of all type dementia.
"We found that ICU hospitalization was associated with double the risk of dementia in community-based older adults," said Bryan D. James, Ph.D., epidemiologist at RADC. "These findings could be significant given the high rate of ICU hospitalization in older persons, and especially due to the tremendous upsurge in ICU hospitalizations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding the link between ICU hospitalization and the development of dementia is of utmost importance now more than ever."
"More research is necessary to replicate these findings and elucidate the factors that may increase dementia risk. For example, is it the critical illness that sends someone to the hospital or potentially modifiable procedures during the hospitalization that drives dementia risk?" James added.
One positive life change during the pandemic may buffer against cognitive symptoms
Investigators from countries across Central and South America and the United States examined whether sociodemographic factors and changes in life associated with the pandemic were related to experiencing cognitive symptoms, including problems with memory, attention and other thinking skills, during the early phases of the pandemic.
In the study reported at AAIC, 2,382 Spanish-speaking adults age 55-95 (average 65.3 years, 62.3% female) from nine countries in Latin America completed an online or telephone survey, had electronic cognitive testing, and filled out an inventory assessing the positive and negative impacts of the pandemic between May and December 2020. Of the total study population, 145 (6.09%) experienced COVID-19 symptoms.
Participants were from: Uruguay (1,423, 59.7%), Mexico (311, 13.1%), Peru (153, 6.4%), Chile (152, 6.4%), Dominican Republic (117, 4.9%), Argentina (106, 4.5%), Colombia (50, 2.1%), Ecuador (39, 1.6%), Puerto Rico (19, 0.8%) and Other (12, 0.5%)
Key findings:
Female gender, not currently working and lower socioeconomic status were all independently associated with more cognitive symptoms during the early part of the pandemic.
Negative life changes during the pandemic, such as economic difficulties and limited social activities, were significantly associated with more cognitive symptoms. However, this association was weaker among study participants who reported at least one positive life change during the pandemic, including spending more time with friends and family or more time outside in nature.
"Identifying risk and protective factors for cognitive symptoms during the pandemic is an important step towards the development of prevention efforts," said María Marquine, Ph.D., associate professor in the Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry, and director of disparities research in the Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology and Palliative Care at the University of California, San Diego. "The experience of positive life changes during the pandemic might buffer the detrimental impact of negative life changes on cognitive symptoms."
"This study is an example of how investigators from diverse countries in Latin America and the United States, many of whom had never worked together before and had limited resources, came together under difficult circumstances but with a shared goal to advance scientific understanding about Alzheimer's, and the important contributions that such multicultural partnerships can yield," Marquine added.
New Tool Predicts Risk of Hospital Readmission for Children Before Discharge


Oct 15, -- The Cuban GM Isam Ortiz won the Open Chess Tournament of the Central University of Bogotá, Colombia, where Cubans took the first 6 places.
Ortiz, current national champion, closed with victory over host Beatriz Franco and with 7.5 points of 9 to confirm the forecasts that predicted his supremacy, but needed to appeal to the tiebreaker.
The Cuban closed with 6 wins and 3 tables in a lid that included 175 contestants from 5 countries.
At the same time, the Cuban GMs Omar Almeida and Diasmany Otero, also said bye-bye to take over the 2nd and 3rd positions, in that order, with identical accumulated 7.5 units, followed by IM Yuri Gonzalez with 7 points, reflecting the www.chess-results.com specialized site.


Come join Luffy and his friends on their grand adventure in search of the Ultimate Treasure, ONE PIECE!
Pit any One Piece characters up against each other!
Gather your team and write your strategy as you compete against each others in the Ordeal of Blood!
Sticky: Welcome to Punk Hazard!
Who is your favourite One Piece character and why?
Do you think Otoko is from Ebisu Town?
Is Zoro's Conqueror Haki also at another level?
Where should I start off?
Oda says one piece is 85% done.


To create a simple "Hello world" program.
Create code to move the sprite around the screen.
Using the "pen", draw shapes on the screen.
To begin with, we're going to look at ways of giving instructions to a computer. Click here to visit RoboZZle – a programming puzzle game, which requires you to create a sequence of instructions for a Robot to follow. Look how very complex behaviour can be created with a few commands.
Each level you complete of Robozzle needs you to think about using a very small set of commands or instructions in a particular order to complete a task. This is problem solving (more of this later).
Now you've looked at using a small set of commands to solve problems, we're going to look at something a bit more useful. You may remember using "Scratch" at primary school for simple programmes. Now we're going to use it to write more advanced code. This is a graphical programming language, in that you drag small pictures of code (or blocks) which snap together to give you a set of instructions. This is basically a more complicated form of RoboZZle. As you study more computing, you will learn to use text-based languages, where you type commands onto the screen. Now we're going to look back at Scratch which is a great starting point for more serious programming.
Open up Scratch (click the Start button, select "All Programs", then "PROGRAMMING", then "Scratch" and click on "Scratch 2").
The first time you run Scratch 2 it may need to set up Adobe Air, let your computer do so. If you get any messages about updating Scratch just click Cancel.
Looking carefully at the colours of these two blocks of code, (you have a colour-coded menu at the top right) drag the blocks from the left hand side of the screen into the empty space in the middle. Now click the green flag at the top right. What happens?
Can you make the cat say "Goodbye" for 5 seconds?
and click the green flag.
Why do you think we need the "wait" block in the program?
It is vital at this point to start saving your code. Make a "Scratch" folder inside your "Computing" folder in your H: drive.
Make sure you have selected your "Scratch" folder on your H: drive. Make sure you save your code regularly from now on – don't run the risk of loosing your work.
then click the green flag. What happened?
That was easy. Change your script to draw a whole square.
Change your code to draw a second larger square in a different position.
Take a screenshot of your "Two square" code (ask your teacher if you don't remember how) and print it out for your book/folder. You should write some notes explaining how the code works, and what the different blocks of code do.
Make the sprite output (say) "Drawing a square" before it starts, and "finished drawing" as it completes each square.
Now add a triangle to the picture.
Perhaps you could make it spell your initials?


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CLYW team manager Charles Haycock finally released his kendama video…it was worth the wait.
That trick at 1:23….holy crap!
CLYW also released new kendamas today. Good timing.
And if you want to dissect the tricks a little…here's a slo-mo edit so you can see every. little. thing.
The folks from YoYoTricks.com are launching a new website, and they're looking for your help!
They've got a Kickstarter project online right now to fund their new site, LearnKedama.com, and they've got some great rewards including new kendamas from Catchy. Check out the details below, and then head over to Kickstarter.com to support the project.
For the last 5 years we have been running YoYoTricks.com and filming tutorial videos to teach people how to yoyo. We even launched our own yoyo, the Civility, through Kickstarter, which has helped us take our tutorials to new heights. It has been our pleasure to hear story after story of kids and adults finding our site and mastering tricks they never thought possible. We have been amazed and humbled at how meaningful our site has become to our users. We often receive emails from customers who share with us how the yoyo has helped them gain personal confidence, stem the tide of boredom, and even how parents are connecting with their kids as the whole family learns to yoyo together. While this certainly reaches far beyond any goals we had for the site when it launched, it has made the work more gratifying than we ever thought possible. Our hope is that through LearnKendama.com our users will experience the same joy and camaraderie others have through YoYoTricks.com.
Our long term aim with LearnKendama.com is to build the most thorough and engaging place to learn kendama on the planet. In the short term, through this campaign our goal is to get kendamas into the hands of interested people, and have enough tutorials released on LearnKendama.com by Christmas to familiarize those players with the fundamentals. The funds we raise through this campaign will not only help us launch LearnKendama.com by Christmas, but will supply us with our initial stock of products so that we can continue to run this business and make tutorials for the foreseeable future.
Gloken presents the 'Mugen Musou Sessions' from the Kendama World Cup 2014 trip. Some of your favorite kendama players performing on some of the finest kendamas; Kazuma Iwata's Mugen Musou.
Jake Wiens shook off the jet lag during a recent trip to Tokyo, Japan to get in some filming. He's pretty good at kendama, that guy.


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Home>News> Kendrick Lamar To Be First Musical Guest On "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert"
Kendrick Lamar To Be First Musical Guest On "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert"
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It looks like Kendrick Lamar will be opening up Stephen Colbert's first episode on CBS.
If you remember, Kendrick Lamar helped Stephen Colbert end his run on Comedy Central when he performed (and debuted) the never-before-heard track "Untitled" to close out "The Colbert Report." Doing it all over again, Colbert just revealed that he's tapped Kendrick once again to help him kick start his run on CBS when he takes over for Letterman's spot come this Fall.
Announced during his speech for the Television Critics Association, Colbert said that it was only appropriate to have Kendrick be his first guest appearance since he had closed out "The Colbert Report."
No word yet as for what Kendrick will play, but we'll be able to find out when the episode airs on September 8. Last week, Colbert announced that his first Late Show guest will be George Clooney.
While we wait for the performance, relive Kendrick's last time on Colbert by checking out his performance of "Untitled" below.
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The holiday season may just be beginning, but we have a ton of activities and display of lights that we have come to know and love throughout the years. A testament of the beauty of lights is the amazing Bright Nights at Stanley Park that has been around since 1997! In its 21st anniversary, the largest and most famous West Canadian holiday attraction can only get better. Have you ever been? Comments and suggestions?
Learn more about this exciting event, HERE. It will be running until January 5, 2019 so make sure you grab a vacant spot on your calendar.
The weather may be cold but I'm sending you and your loved ones warm holiday wishes. I hope that the happiness of the season follows you into the New Year!


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Q: OOP Page Loader PHP Template Engine I'm currently working on a simple PHP Template Engine and I have to come to a decision, but I'm not really sure how to solve this.
I've written a class called "Page", which loads the page components of the current page. This is how it looks like now:
<?php
class Page {
    private $currentPage;

    private $header;
    private $content;
    private $footer;

    const CONTENT_DIR = 'content/';
    const CONTENT_FILE_EXT = '.php';

    public function __construct(Header $header, Content $content, Footer $footer) {
        $this -> header = header;
        $this -> content = content;
        $this -> footer = footer;
    }

    public function getCurrentPage() {
        if(!isset($this -> currentPage)) {
        if(isset($_GET["p"])) {
            try {
                $this -> setCurrentPage(trim($_GET["p"]));
                } catch(FileNotFoundException $e) {
                }
        }
        else
            $this -> setCurrentPage('start');

        }
        return $this -> currentPage;
    }

    private function setCurrentPage($pageName) {
        if(file_exists(self::CONTENT_DIR.$pageName.self::CONTENT_FILE_EXT)) {
            $this -> currentPage = $pageName;
        }
        else
            throw new FileNotFoundException();
    }
}
?>

Now, I have a second class "PageFactory":
<?php
class PageFactory {
    public function build() {
        $header = new Header();
        $content = new Content();
        $footer = new Footer();

        return new Page($header, $content, $footer);
    }
}
?>

It just doesn't feel right to pass the current page (the page to be loaded). Should I better use a static function to return the current page? The problem is that I need this function in other classes, too (e. g. the menu). I'd have to pass the current page again via parameter.
Thanks for any advises!

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Klay Thompson and Zaza Pachulia kicked off this year's championship parade and every local celebrity and dignitary was in Oakland to celebrate.
OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Klay Thompson and Zaza Pachulia kicked off this year's championship parade and every local celebrity and dignitary was in Oakland to celebrate.
But the fans came as early as 3 a.m. to get up close to their favorite players and coaches and they did not disappoint.
Steve Kerr was at a loss for words when asked to describe the incredible vision of the parade. "What words can you say?"


Am I a busy scrapper or what! Finished yet another LO of Zander on the beach when he was 18 months old.
I used his ball as a guideline for this LO (circle, colours, stripes).
Supplies: pp (MME, BG), cardstock (Bazzill, Action), letter X is a copy of SR chipboard letters (selfmade), thicker letters (American Crafts), rub-on and sticker letters (market), embroidering thread, black DVD pen, wooden bird (Zeeman), buttons (market and OTC), distress ink.


COMMUNITY EVENT: World Music Institute presents LA CLAVE SECRETA – Cuba to Brooklyn!
COMMUNITY EVENT: World Music Institute presents LA CUMBIAMBA ENEYE – Colombia to Brooklyn!
COMMUNITY EVENT: World Music Institute presents ROMANO DROM – Gypsy Road to Brooklyn!


Skateboard is one of the most efficient vehicles that help most of the people all over the world. Marbel Board is one of most light weight skateboard all over the world according to them. Marbel Electric skateboard is about 9.9 pounds in weight which makes the lightest vehicle in the modern world. This electric skateboard can covers up to 10 miles in distance and it has the capability to add to the Smartphone app. You can customize your ride using this app on both iOS and Android smart phone users.
There are four different modes are available. Starter mode, ECO mode, Custom mode and sports mode and each mode has its own customization. There are more technical specifications like the speed limit up to 20mph and the charging time taken was about 90 minutes from empty to full, electronic regenerative braking facility is available. The connection between the Skater and phone is available via wifi and 2.4 Ghz with IOS and also for Android.
Now the project was added to Kickstarter and the pledging is going on.


Search for your match in the Hoosier State and find online personals in Indiana. Each year hundreds of thousands of members tell us they found the person they were seeking on our site. Sorry, but neither dating nor love has a formula or statistical equation you can use. However, hundreds of thousands of people met that special someone on Match.com last year. But at the same time, it's not a roulette wheel. You have to get out there, make yourself seen in Franklin, Indiana, and give it some effort. So, put the protractor down, fill out your profile by clicking here, and let the probability distribution functions work themselves out. We are all born for love...Match.com was born to find love in Franklin, Indiana.


Stately 9 room, 4 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath Colonial home situated on a double lot. Features include a center hall entry, 1st floor den, formal dining room and an enclosed side porch and more. New kitchen, patio, and mechanical systems. If you are looking for a 1920's vintage home with charm, this is the one for you!


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Thomas Lyle Martin, Jr
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA
8 Oct 2009 (aged 88)
Irving, Dallas County, Texas, USA
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Thomas Lyle Martin, Jr. (September 26, 1921 – October 8, 2009) served as president of the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1974 to 1987. Martin was born in Memphis, Tennessee. During the Second World War, he served in the US Army, rising to the rank of Captain. He received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Prior to joining the IIT administration, he served as Dean of Engineering at the University of Arizona, the University of Florida and Southern Methodist University. He was a fellow of IEEE and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Martin died in Irving, Texas in 2009.
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Thomas Lyle Martin, Jr., who served as president of Illinois Institute of Technology from 1974 - 1987, died on October 8 at the age of 88. During his tenure as president, Martin oversaw significant growth in student enrollment, expansion of the university beyond the main campus, and the establishment of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP). A pioneer in distance education, Martin expanded the programs available at the downtown campus, acquired the Midwest College of Engineering in Wheaton, which became IIT's Rice Campus, and spearheaded a ground-breaking program to actively reach out to and recruit minority and women students in the early 1970s.
Born in Memphis in 1921, Martin served in the Army to the rank of Captain during World War II, receiving the bronze star, and completed his education with a Ph.D. from Stanford University following the war. Martin seved as dean of engineering at the University of Arizona, University of Florida and Southern Methodist University before joining IIT. Martin was a consultant to the heads of state of two foreign countries on higher education as well as author of seven books, the last published shortly before his death. He served as a director on many corporate and charitable boards. Notably, he was a founding board member of the Dallas-Ft. Worth Regional Airport. He was a fellow of the IEEE, an honoree in the Hall of Fame of the American Society for Engineering Education and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Martin was preceded in death by his first wife, Helene (Tootie) Martin; sister, Cynthia Cone; granddaughter, Jennifer Vahrenkamp. He is survived by his wife, Mildred (Millie) Martin; daughter, Michelle Eustice; son, Thomas L. Martin, III; grandchildren, Alexis Elaine Harper and Jason L. Hall; brothers, Samuel R. and Michael M. Martin. Private services and burial for the family were held Monday at Restland Memorial Park in Dallas. In lieu of flowers, it is requested that a donation to a university of choice be made.
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Q: CronJob command to delete multiple subdirectories by name in a given directory I have two IP cameras which are sending image snapshots to an FTP server every 10 seconds, from 08:00 to 20:59. The directory structure looks like this:
`-- public_html
    `-- securitycams
        |-- cam01
        |   |-- 20190601
        |   |   |-- 08
        |   |   |   |-- 20190601_080000.jpg
        |   |   |   |-- 20190601_080010.jpg
        |   |   |   |-- 20190601_080020.jpg
        |   |   |   `-- ...
        |   |   |-- 09
        |   |   |   |-- 20190601_090000.jpg
        |   |   |   |-- 20190601_090010.jpg
        |   |   |   |-- 20190601_090020.jpg
        |   |   |   `-- ...
        |   |   |-- 10
        |   |   |-- 11
        |   |   |-- 12
        |   |   |-- 13
        |   |   |-- 14
        |   |   |-- 15
        |   |   |-- 16
        |   |   |-- 17
        |   |   |-- 18
        |   |   |-- 19
        |   |   `-- 20
        |   `-- 20190602
        |       |-- 08
        |       |   |-- 20190602_080000.jpg
        |       |   |-- 20190602_080010.jpg
        |       |   |-- 20190602_080020.jpg
        |       |   `-- ...
        |       |-- 09
        |       |   |-- 20190602_090000.jpg
        |       |   |-- 20190602_090010.jpg
        |       |   |-- 20190602_090020.jpg
        |       |   `-- ...
        |       |-- 10
        |       |-- 11
        |       |-- 12
        |       |-- 13
        |       |-- 14
        |       |-- 15
        |       |-- 16
        |       |-- 17
        |       |-- 18
        |       |-- 19
        |       `-- 20
        `-- cam02
        |   |-- 20190601
        |   |   |-- 08
        |   |   |   |-- 20190601_080000.jpg
        |   |   |   |-- 20190601_080010.jpg
        |   |   |   |-- 20190601_080020.jpg
        |   |   |   `-- ...
        |   |   |-- 09
        |   |   |   |-- 20190601_090000.jpg
        |   |   |   |-- 20190601_090010.jpg
        |   |   |   |-- 20190601_090020.jpg
        |   |   |   `-- ...
        |   |   |-- 10
        |   |   |-- 11
        |   |   |-- 12
        |   |   |-- 13
        |   |   |-- 14
        |   |   |-- 15
        |   |   |-- 16
        |   |   |-- 17
        |   |   |-- 18
        |   |   |-- 19
        |   |   `-- 20
        |   `-- 20190602
        |       |-- 08
        |       |   |-- 20190602_080000.jpg
        |       |   |-- 20190602_080010.jpg
        |       |   |-- 20190602_080020.jpg
        |       |   `-- ...
        |       |-- 09
        |       |   |-- 20190602_090000.jpg
        |       |   |-- 20190602_090010.jpg
        |       |   |-- 20190602_090020.jpg
        |       |   `-- ...
        |       |-- 10
        |       |-- 11
        |       |-- 12
        |       |-- 13
        |       |-- 14
        |       |-- 15
        |       |-- 16
        |       |-- 17
        |       |-- 18
        |       |-- 19
        |       `-- 20

I'm only interested in keeping a copy of the snapshots taken between:
08:00 and 09:59
13:00 and 14:59
19:00 and 20:59.

Therefore I would like to create a CronJob that will periodically delete all directories named "10", "11", "12", "15", "16", "17" and "18".
I'm a newbie in UNIX commands and searched a lot. I managed to create this command:
find /home/******/public_html/securitycams/* -depth \( -name "10" -or -name "11" -or -name "12" -or -name "15" -or -name "16" -or -name "17" -or -name "18" \) -type d -exec rm -r "{}" \;

It seems to work. But is that the correct way to go?

A: You command looks good to me. But you could shorten it a little bit:

*

*-depth can be removed

*\( -name ... -or -name ... \) can be shortened

*instead of {} \; you could use {} + resulting in only one invocation of rm

find /home/******/public_html/securitycams -type d -name "1[0-25-8]" -exec rm -r {} +

If your cameras can be configured to store images between 08:00 and 20:59, maybe they can  also be configured to only store images between 08:00 and 09:59, 13:00 and 14:59 and 19:00 and 20:59?
I think there is no "correct way" to do this. If a cron job works for you, why not?


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Top Ten Achievements in Ten Years
#TeamKenya10 Guess what? It's officially our 10th birthday this year. So, to celebrate, we're going to shout about our top ten achievements since our lovely CEO, Valerie Wilson, founded us in 2008. 1. In the past decade, Team Kenya has impacted over 60,000 people with our programmes in Ndhiwa, including over 20,000 girls. 2. Our successful Raising Achievement programme – which works alongside schools to improve the quality of teaching and, you guessed it: raise achievement, is now being expanded to 28 schools. When we started this partnership in 2012, one partner school – Arina Primary, had no girls in…
Alice Onyango
Alice is 55 years old and teaches at Ndhiwa Hospital Primary School, which has its name because it is next door to the hospital! She lives in teachers' accommodation and as a result stays three kilometres from her family. Alice has a husband and eight children; four boys and four girls who range in age from 13 to 30 years old. Her youngest child is in her final year at Ndhiwa Hospital Primary. Alice is the Girls' Advocate at Ndhiwa Hospital Primary. When growing up, Alice suffered many challenges in gaining an education because she was a girl and she…
Claire Lore
Claire is player coach for Karibuni Girls' Football Team. She has been playing and coaching the team since March 2018. Claire is 24 years old and was born in Godbondo, a village a couple of miles away from Ndhiwa. When she was three years old, Claire moved to Nairobi to stay with her older sister as her mother was too old to take care of her. In Nairobi, Claire was introduced to football and began playing when she was just three years old. "I found people playing football in Nairobi and played against some small boys. At that time, more…


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John Boyega DESTROYS Disney Star Wars!
In this video, Matt Jarbo actually says he is hoping that someone can "red pill" him on The Last Jedi. So I had to take my shot:
I'm not sure if you have seen my previous comments over the last 2+ years defending The Last Jedi, because you never respond, but please allow me to make my case. There are several minor problems with the film that I didn't find too objectionable. I'll cover these, but first, let me say that if you look past these things then there is a pretty entertaining story there. There is so much in the movie that I like: All the interaction between Luke and Rey. The force bond between Rey and Kylo. Rey's vision. Everything that happened in the throne room is gold, and it concludes with Ben practically proposing to Rey which is even more interesting. The Canto Bight story is not the best, but neither does it take up as much screen time as people claim it does. Parts of it, such as the chase scene, are interesting. Everything that happened during the Battle of Crait was also excellent, except for the stupid Rose scene. I liked being surprised by Luke's force projection. His passing, or becoming one with the Force, moved me to tears.
If you look at Rey's vision, I really feel that they were going to make her a clone, but changed their
minds later.
For me, the good parts outweigh the bad by a good margin.
The first time around I was a little uncertain how I felt about broom boy. I found the scene both emotionally moving and a little cheesy, but this scene has grown on me. It creates hope for the future. Also, The Last Jedi takes Star Wars in a slightly new direction and I really felt like it needed that. It needed something fresh, and not just you have to have the right bloodline to be a Jedi.
The Last Jedi does what Lucas always did, which is to take us to new exotic locations and introduce new ideas that are controversial. (Ewoks, Jar Jar, Midichrorians.) Compare that to The Rise of Crapwalker which hardly does anything original. (I like the movie, but it is my least favorite of the nine. There are real logical problems, like Rey and Kylo both wanting the same goal, which is to go to Exegol to kill Palpatine, but somehow these two characters who have the same goal are fighting each other to the death.)
Most of the things that people complain about as cringe-worthy didn't feel that bad. The big one was the direction that they took Luke in, but I feel like we don't own the story. It is up to them to tell the story that they want to tell, and if they want to make Luke a burned-out Jedi, then this actually makes for a pretty interesting story. It is not the story I would have chosen to tell, but I'm not a good storyteller. If they gave me exactly what I expected then I would be bored.
I didn't mind the scene with Leia saving herself because I liked seeing her use the Force. It is logical that she could do that. I dislike people comparing this scene to Mary Poppins. I went and looked at the scene in Marry Poppins and they are nothing alike. The Poe joking around bit was not the best, but I kind of enjoyed it anyway. General Hux was always a comical character. His grand speech in The Force Awakens is over the top, so I never saw him as a serious character.
Things I don't like in The Last Jedi: 1. Laura Dern's Professor of Gender Studies character. She does not look like a rebel and feels out of place. They are beating us over the head with Social Justice Warrior messages. 2. Rose's very bad dialog. More social justice warrior messages along with her stupid dialog in saving Finn. I like Rose Tico, but I don't l like her dialog. 3. Since when has fuel ever been an issue in a Star Wars movie? 4. The slow-speed chase doesn't make sense because the First Order could hyperspace ahead of the rebel fleet.
Although I like The Force Awakens, I have some problems with the movie because they don't explain or set up anything. We learn nothing about the new Republic and there are so many unexplained things that the movie feels like it is full of holes.
I had high hopes that the third film would pull it all together in a way that would redeem the trilogy, but the third film only proves that they didn't have a plan.
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I (Brian) have been thinking about how much stuff is covered under the blanket of "Ministry". It is really hard to comprehend if you have not experienced it first hand. In my mind it is a bit like running in a marathon or a big sports event. Generally people only get to see the end result. They don't get to see the training that takes place everyday, the sacrifices that are given up in order to accomplish the goal. I am not a runner....unless someone is chasing me of course, but I can only imagine the hundreds of miles someone puts on in their preparation for a marathon. I am sure there are days they don't want to get out of bed to run or have aches and pains, but they press forward because they keep the focus in mind...the end result.
When people think of missionaries is generally about preaching, winning souls for Christ, starting churches, and so on...however those are all end result things and we seldom think about all the "training" that is done before those things happen. Like the runner struggling to get up each day to run.....I have had plenty of those struggles since we have been in PNG. I can be very results driven.....and tangible results are not always what we get to see in the here and now. I like to build, create, make things....tangible progress. However I have found myself being able to do very little "work" myself, but lots of managing and administration of work instead. I have been restructuring the students work program and how work is being done at Goroka Baptist Bible College. Every student is required to work, singles for 8 hours per week and married couples 12 hours each week. This is to maintain the campus and work on gardens that help give them garden food two times a week. If work is available....there is no shortage...they can work more hours to earn money towards their tuition. If you are interested in helping the student work scholarship programs you can give here... Well there has been lots of hours put into changing this system, however the goal is to make things run much smoother, more efficient and give the students leadership opportunities, and skills that can aide them in the ministry God has called them too. We have also continued to study language a few days a week as well as I buy supplies almost daily for either us or the school....lots of driving on not so fun roads. One thing we continue to see here though is God is at work. He is in these things, but He is also working in other ways. He is changing lives and uses us as He sees fit.
Today (Sunday) we were able to join a small fellowship...we have been asked to help because their fellowship has been meeting for many years and there are only a few consistent attenders. We decided to try it this week and we could see God's hand at work. We met with the pastor and the 3 regular attenders and we were just looking around the area. There is no structure or chairs or bathrooms.....just an open piece of ground. Well we are white...as I get reminded everyday as I hear "hey white man"...anyway we stand out and white kids draw even more attention. So it was not long before we had 30+ kids around us and Phyllis was able to start an impromptu Sunday school. We had several other youth and adults come as well. We then gathered everyone on the flattest piece of dirt and started church. The Pastor clearly articulated The Gospel and to God be the glory one of the boys accepted Christ at the end of the service! We would ask for your prayers on our behalf if we are to join this work. It is in a very 'religious' area that very much does not want this church to start. So we are asking that God would give us peace and clear direction moving forward.
This is only a small window view of what "Ministry" has looked like for us recently. You might be asking what is the end result of all of this? Our end goal is very simple, yet extremely difficult as we desire to.....Seek to Honor God by developing fully devoted followers of Jesus who love, live and share Him!
The guy on the left and the pastor have been meeting and praying every Sunday for 8 years that God would make a way for a church to start here and reach their people.


Where to buy? Website, MacAppStore or Setapp?
We usually distribute our apps via the website, MacAppStore or Setapp. Many people asks where should they buy an app from.
The preferable way for us is to buy the app from our website. It's much easier to support our users this way. People who bought the app from the website are the first who gets the update. It's especially important in case of bug fixes. We are able to distribute it right away. Another advantage is that we usually create trial version, so you can try the app before you buy it. We provide free minor updates. The license allows to activate app on 2 devices.
Many people buy our apps from Mac App Store. It's the easies way. Just click install, wait and the app is installed. You will get all the minor updates for free. The disadvantage is that we are not able to make a trial vesion or publish bug fix right away. It always needs to be checked and accepted by the store.
Setapp is a service that allows you to get access to over hundred of really great Mac apps. You just pay $10 once a month and that's it. We distribute Expressions, Workspaces and TeaCode this way, so if you have Setapp, you don't have to buy these apps. You just have them as long as you pay for the service.


Adverbs are a third argument passed to binary operators that modifies how they iterate over SequenceableCollections or Streams. The idea for adverbs is taken from the J programming language which is a successor of APL.
A new array is created which is the length of the longer array and items from each array are added together by wrapped indexing.
Using adverbs can change this behavior. Adverbs are symbols and they follow a '.' (dot) after the binary operator. Adverbs can be applied to all binary operators.
The first adverb is 's' which means 'short'. The add operation now returns the shorter of the two arrays.
The table adverb 't' makes an array of arrays where each item in the first array is added to the whole second array and the resulting arrays are collected.
There is currently one adverb defined for streams. This is the cross adverb, 'x'.
The items are paired sequentially and the stream ends when the earliest stream ends.
The cross adverb allows you to pair each item in the first stream with every item in the second stream.
You can string these together. Every item in the left stream operand is "ornamented" by the right stream operand.


Data and process analytics have the potential to bring great benefit to auditing. Nonetheless the questions are: how is it possible to pursue and analyze the enormous and extensive results? Does one have to pursue each and every case that emerges from data analytics? Often, there are way too many results and false positives! Frequently auditors are overwhelmed by the amount of results. In the following, I would like to explain how to proceed.
"Divide and rule" – says the Latin scholar. This simply means: when a task is too difficult, one can divide it into subgroups and deal with the easier subgroups until all of them have been processed.
How does this affect the interpretation of data analysis results by the auditor?
In total I have implemented 125 indicators for process weaknesses(about every process: purchase, order to cash, fixed assets and inventory, as well as cross process indicators). In this series different indicators in the area of fixed assets and inventories have been introduced. During the implementation, the described problem of too many results arose and because of that a solution needed to be constructed.
This indicator is associated with the audit objective of saving opportunities.
Let us suppose that 347 documents are affected by this indicator. Quickly, the auditor comes up with the thought that he would never have done the data analytics! How to pursue 347 indications?
To encounter this problem, I have devised the concept of "profile", which was consistently implemented at zapliance. It's pretty simple: each document marked by an indicator is automatically sorted into a certain result group. How these result groups are build differs for each indicator and is related to the professional analytics target of the indicator. The purpose is that you only have to look at the result groups and not at all the individual documents in the groups.
Let's follow the example with the indicator "P&L loss at retirement or sale of asset". This indicator maps its profiles according to the criterion "asset class". That means all documents with reference to asset accounting and with the same asset class are assigned to a profile. For example, three profiles are formed: "car pool", "office equipment" and "machinery".
The auditor can then concentrate on the profile, which he considers particularly relevant or valuable for fixed asset retirement. Certainly vehicles and machines, compared to office equipment, would be interesting here. Through the profiles a special focus is placed on the highest risks or most interesting cases. Following this approach, random samples lose methodological value.
It is no longer necessary to audit individual cases, but case groups, which makes the audit much more efficient and leads to a very good understanding of the audited entity.
Fixed assets of which asset classes have a high residual value when the asset is disposed of, which could not be redeemed by the asset retirement?
... and the examination of the indicator would be completed.


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Type: FLORIDA: Miami-Dade Co.: Between Cutler and Longview Camp, 9-12 Nov 1903, Small & Carter 1077 (holotype: NY).
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Cedar Ridge is an accredited high school that provides an outstanding academic program specifically designed to help troubled teens who have fallen behind and are in need of grade recovery and credit repair. Our academic curriculum is based on our goal to offer a challenging college preparatory program. Not only do our students excel academically, but they are super-charged and ready to transition back into their school at home or enroll directly into college.
At Cedar Ridge, we focus on teaching more than just the curriculum. We also focus on teaching our students how to be effective students. As a result of this additional focus, we avoid 'just getting them through' their high school credits. Cedar Ridge students are required to demonstrate an acceptable level of competency in each area before moving ahead, regardless of their current grade level.
When a student arrives at Cedar Ridge, we test their academic skills in order to place them at the appropriate levels in their core classes. Some may be required to repeat a class due to insufficient skill. In these cases the material serves as a review and they are able to move ahead quickly to catch up to their grade level in that subject area. Our individual approach allows us to meet the needs of students who have learning differences or who need remediation.
Although the content comprehension is one way we gauge a student's academic placement, we also consider the student's ability to study, their desire to manage themselves in an academic manner (motivation), and their ability and desire to form a working relationship with the teachers. Troubled teens turn around academically before returning home.
Almost all of the students at Cedar Ridge have struggles with school, sometimes for academic reasons and sometimes for psychological reasons. Our goal is to ensure that when they exit Cedar Ridge, they are prepared for success in any academic setting they choose to enter.


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Q: Would I need to refer to self with weak in AFNetworkingReachability block As the title says: Do I need to make a weak reference to self, when calling functions in a AFNetworkingReachability block like so?
__weak myViewController* weakSelf = self;

     [[AFNetworkReachabilityManager sharedManager] setReachabilityStatusChangeBlock:^(AFNetworkReachabilityStatus status)
        {

            switch (status) {
            case AFNetworkReachabilityStatusReachableViaWiFi:

                DLog(@"No Internet Connection");

                NSLog([weakSelf reachable] ? @"YES" : @"NO");

               weakSelf.aProperty = aPropertyValue.

               [weakSelf loadPlaces]; // This function does also contain a block

             break;
            default:

                break;
            }
        }];

Thank you in advance.

A: If your view controller doesn't have a strong reference (either directly or indirectly) to AFNetworkReachabilityManager sharedManager, then no.  You only need to follow this pattern to break strong reference cycles.
Watch our for indirect strong reference cycles, which clang won't warn you about. For example, your view controller could have a strong property to an API object, which could have a reference to AFHTTPRequestOperationManager, which could strongly reference the reachability manager.
If you're following the correct rules for properties - only using strong to indicate ownership, and weak otherwise - you will usually be okay.


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Q: TouchableOpacity do not working when a lottie file is on the screen I have a lottie file and a child component in the same screen. The child component contain a TouchableOpacity. But it did not working because of the lottie file. When I remove Lottie file from the screen the TouchableOpacity works properly.
Here is my code.
return (
 <View style={styles.container}>

   <Child userName={userName} />

  <LottieView
    style={styles.anime}
    source={require('../../assets/40375-health-loader-radar.json')}
    autoPlay
    loop
  />

</View>
);

How can I make that TouchableOpacity work?

A: I just figure it out. All I needed to do is add a zIndex=1 to the child component.