text:
from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.db import migrations, models
import django.db.models.deletion

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('batch', '0004_auto_20180122_1444'),
        ('recipe', '0019_recipetype_is_system'),
        ('job', '0034_auto_20180112_1759'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.AddField(
            model_name='job',
            name='batch',
            field=models.ForeignKey(blank=True, null=True, on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.PROTECT, related_name='jobs_for_batch', to='batch.Batch'),
        ),
        migrations.AddField(
            model_name='job',
            name='recipe',
            field=models.ForeignKey(blank=True, null=True, on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.PROTECT, related_name='jobs_for_recipe', to='recipe.Recipe'),
        ),
        migrations.AddField(
            model_name='job',
            name='root_recipe',
            field=models.ForeignKey(blank=True, null=True, on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.PROTECT, related_name='jobs_for_root_recipe', to='recipe.Recipe'),
        ),
    ]

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South Highland: About 6 miles south-west of Nairn, on minor roads south of B9091, just north of River Nairn, 1 mile east of Croy, at Kilravock Castle.
Private NH 814493 OS: 27 IV2 7PJ
OPEN: Events, small weddings and conferences. Bunkhouse accommodation.
Web: www.kilravockcastle.com
Kilravock Castle (old postcard)
Pronounced, 'Kilrock', Kilravock Castle is a plain massive 15th-century tower of five storeys and a garret, to which has been added a long tall 16th-century block, making the building L-plan.
Kilravock Castle (Billings)
The building was extended in the 17th century, and the main entrance and stairway was added in 1730. The main tower has rounds at the corners, and a square caphouse. The windows throughout are small. In the 17th century the tower was extended by a square stair-wing, against one corner, a five-storey block with a steep gabled roof and stair-turret, and a square tower. The walls are pierced by gunloops and shot-holes. Later and lower work has also been added.
The original entrance to the main tower was at the foot of the stair, but is now enclosed in a square wing. The basement is vaulted, as is the basement of the later block, and contains three cellars.
The garden has many rare and specimen trees.
'Kilraack Cast.' is marked on Pont's map of Moray and Nairn, being depicted as a large tower of four storeys with a courtyard and an adjoining wooded park.
Kilravock Castle (MacGibbon and Ross)
The castle passed by marriage from the Bissets to the Roses of Kilravock in the 13th century, and they built the castle. Hugh Rose of Kilravock is on record in 1481, and another Hugh in the 1640s. Mary, Queen of Scots, had visited the castle in 1562, and Hugh, 17th laird, entertained Bonnie Prince Charlie here the day before the Battle of Culloden in 1746. The next day the Duke of Cumberland called on his way to the battlefield. Robert Burns visited in 1787, as did Queen Mary, grandmother of the present monarch.
The castle was used as Christian Centre from 1967, and was then given over the Kilravock Christian Trust in 1984.
The castle and grounds are closed to the public, which is made very clear on their website…

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text:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Input;

namespace GSharpTools.WPF
{
    public class WaitCursor : IDisposable
    {
        private Cursor _previousCursor;

        public WaitCursor()
        {
            _previousCursor = Mouse.OverrideCursor;

            Mouse.OverrideCursor = Cursors.Wait;
        }

        #region IDisposable Members

        public void Dispose()
        {
            Mouse.OverrideCursor = _previousCursor;
        }

        #endregion
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FEDERAL CAPITAL PARTNERS ACQUIRES VENABLE CENTER IN DURHAM, NC FOR $18 MILLION
Federal Capital Partners® (FCP) announced the $18 million acquisition of Venable Center, comprised of three historic restored tobacco mill office buildings totaling 85,886 square feet of Class A creative office, retail and lab space at 303 S. Roxboro Street in downtown Durham, NC.
FCP Vice President Bryan Kane commented, ""FCP is excited to continue its participation in the revitalization of downtown Durham with Venable Center."
Venable Center is 99% leased to tenants including Precision Biosciences, who recently signed a long term lease to extend and expand their space. Venable Center is easily accessed from the Durham Freeway and is within walking distance to the Durham Performing Arts Center, the Durham Bulls Stadium and an abundance of downtown restaurants and amenities. The buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the development was the winner of Preservation Durham's 2008 Pyne Preservation Award.
About Federal Capital Partners
Federal Capital Partners (FCP) is a privately held real estate investment company that has invested in or financed more than $4.0 billion in assets since its founding in 1999. FCP invests in all asset classes and provides equity, preferred equity and structured debt investments for commercial and residential real estate. The firm, based in Chevy Chase, MD, owns and manages in excess of $2.3 billion in assets. FCP is currently investing its third investment fund, a recently closed commingled, discretionary fund targeted at real estate markets on the East Coast of the United States. For further information on FCP, please visit www.fcpdc.com
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I would describe my sound as pop with an R&B flavor mixed in. I like to sing dance tunes, but I can also slow it down an tug your heartstrings as well. I have several original songs, but I enjoy singing some favorite covers as well. Regardless of song, I love performing and making the audience an active part of my show! I started by performing and singing in several groups in the metro NY area. I have had the opportunity to work in various musical situations and with several bands that have helped shape my career. In fact, one of my songs was written in tribute to a personal loss I experienced. I just finished working on my first CD and I am eager to perform. I hope to hit it big and be touring and performing all the time. I am looking forward to sharing these opportunities and experiences with my fans.


RIFT® Community - en – Europe Reunited!
As we talked about last October, our goal over the last months has been to completely unify the European region into a single cluster. This will enable all players in Europe to freely play with one another, transferring between European shards to participate in activities on whichever shard they choose. Our engineers have completed the necessary work, and the reunification of the European shards is now set to happen on July 3, 2014!
Additionally, we've been putting in a lot of work behind the scenes to increase the capacity of our servers to be able to handle even more players. The only thing better than playing RIFT with your friends is playing with even more people! As a result, our servers can now handle enough players that we're comfortable joining several of our shards together to give players more opportunities for interaction and adventure.
Brutmutter will be combined into Brutwacht.*Brutwacht will continue to be a German PvE shard.
Phynnious, the International PvP shard, will be combined with Bloodiron.*Bloodiron will be designated as an International PvP shard, reflecting its diverse population.
For more details, please check this FAQ.
We're very excited that our hard work has paid off, and now European players will be able to join each other in battle to save Telara. Go forth Ascended, and adventure together!


Yellow Jersey is a corporate and brand communications firm for entrepreneurs of private and listed businesses. The agency is currently ranked third in the UK in terms of IPO and Capital Markets work.
Whilst sector-agnostic, Yellow Jersey is best known for its work in the Financial Services, Technology, Media, Healthcare, Energy, Mining and Industrials sectors. Shortlisted as "Best PR Firm 2018", we are a strategic partner of the Council of British Chambers of Commerce in Europe, advising at the forefront of BREXIT through our London and Zurich offices.


What is the NATCA Difference?
NATCA serves as the exclusive bargaining representative for FAA air traffic controllers, engineers, architects, staff specialists and many other aviation safety professionals and some DOD and private contracted air traffic controllers – representing the concerns of all in the field, not just their members. More importantly NATCA is a family and we'd like you to hear first hand from some of our members what the difference is.
NATCA is 15,000 members strong. That's 15,000 people sharing the same message and working toward the same goal as you. Join us, Become a Member and make your voice heard; your ideas make a difference and you are important.
As a member of NATCA, you gain an entire network of people who are working towards the same goals as you. Each facility and workplace has a NATCA facility representative who works with new and old members alike to promote teamwork and a positive workplace. A regional vice president oversees all facilities within their region and actively works to engage and involve members.
ACTION ALERT! The government shutdown is hurting aviation! Your members of Congress need to hear from you now!
Facility Spotlight - Wilmington, Del (ILG): The facility has 12 NATCA members, nine of which are Certified Professional Controllers (CPCs), and three developmental trainees. ILG has seen a renaissance in Union activism over the last few years, with increasing ILG member participation at NATCA local, regional, and national events.
The NATCA-Represented Airports Division (ARP): ARP NATCA Rep Brad Davidson: "My most important role in ARP has been as the NATCA national representative. This role is clearly larger than myself and my contributions impact all of our members and bargaining unit employees. I take this role very seriously and with great pride representing all of the hard working employees in ARP."
Our values guide decisions and behavior. They include: honesty, tenacity, leadership by example, hard work, integrity, loyalty to the profession, open communication and the collective spirit.
NATCA is a labor organization comprised of dedicated aviation safety professionals acting in unity to enhance the lives and professions of our members while leading the effort to improve, modernize, and preserve the safety of the National Airspace System.
Number of passengers served in the National Airspace System in 2017.
Total bargaining unit employees represented by NATCA (as of Dec. 28, 2018).


Free A Child was conceived in order to protect children around the world from exploitation and being trapped in poverty.
It is our goal that the global community recognizes the value of their children and chooses to honor their lives and improve their prospects. Our projects focus on the most impoverished areas in the world and provide direct finacial support for children and their parents. The only condition we have is the child attends school; improving their future prospects and freeing them from the poverty trap.
Free A Child is a nonprofit charitable organization with programs worldwide. Learn more by visiting our mission statement.


Every successful restaurant operator knows that developing an annual budget is a time-consuming, tedious project. Studies show that companies who prepare annual operating budgets are more successful than those who don't. Advantages of having a budget include being able to anticipate expenses, set targets for growing the business, and staying within financial limits.
Have you been putting off working on your 2019 budget? Does the process of pulling your revenue and expense data make you cringe? Why not let KROST's Restaurant consultants assist you with our annual budgeting and planning services?
A one-on-one consultation meeting during which we review and analyze your 2018 revenue and expenses, assist with forecasting, projections, and provide our professional input as you pencil out your 2019 budget. This meeting is really the foundation of a successful budget.
Next, we take that data and we build a realistic and achievable custom budget considering current trends, economic factors, and industry benchmarking.
When your budget is finalized, we will sit down and review it with you in detail, helping you to fully understand the correlation between your daily operations and achievement of your budgeted goals. You will be able to refer to this document throughout your year. Be sure to inquire with us if we can assist in uploading your new budget into your current Business Intelligence software.
Set your restaurant operation up for success in 2019 by contacting us today to schedule your first 2019 budget consultation meeting. We at KROST have been helping restaurant owners and operators grow their businesses and become more profitable for nearly 80 years. Please contact Robert A. Benson at (818) 616-7377 or (robert.benson@krostcpas.com) if would like to schedule a complimentary one-hour consultation for your restaurant.


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Филип I фон Насау-Висбаден-Идщайн (; * 26 април 1490 в Кьолн; † 6 юни 1558 в Идщайн) е от 1511 г. граф на Насау--Висбаден-Идщайн.

Той е син на граф Адолф III фон Насау-Висбаден-Идщайн (1443 – 1511) и съпругата му Маргарета фон Ханау-Лихтенберг (1463 – 1504), дъщеря на граф Филип I фон Ханау-Лихтенберг и Анна фон Лихтенберг.

По-малък брат е на Мария Маргарета (1487 – 1548), омъжена 1501 г. за граф Лудвиг I фон Насау-Вайлбург († 28 май 1523) и на Анна (1490 – 1550), омъжена за граф Хайнрих XXI фон Шварцбург-Бланкенбург († 1526).

Филип I се сгодява през 1501 г. за Отилия фон Насау-Саарбрюкен. Той остава католик. Той ослепява почти напълно

Фамилия
Филип I се жени през 1514 г. за Адриана де Глимес (* 1495; † 27 април 1524), дъщеря на Жан III де Глимес, господар на Берген оп Зоом (1452 – 1532). Те имат децата:

 Катарина (1515 – 1540), омъжена на 30 август 1538 г. за Йохан II фон Хоенфелс († 1573)
 Филип II (1516 – 1566), граф на Насау-Висбаден-Идщайн (1558 – 1566)
 Маргарета (ок. 1517 – 1596)
 Адолф IV (1518 – 1556), граф на Насау-Висбаден-Идщайн, женен на 19 април 1543 г. за Франсоаз де Люксембург (Франциска Люксембургска), наследничка на Руси и Питинген (ок. 1475 – 1566), дъщеря на граф Карл I Люксембургски, вдовица на маркграф Бернхард III фон Баден-Баден (1474 – 1536)
 Анна (1520 – 1594)
 Балтазар (1520 – 1568), граф на Насау-Висбаден-Идщайн (1566 – 1568), женен за графиня Маргарета фон Изенбург-Бирщайн (1542 – 1613), дъщеря на граф Райнхард фон Изенбург-Бюдинген-Бирщайн и графиня Елизабет фон Валдек-Вилдунген

Литература
 Friedrich Otto: Philipp I. (Graf zu Nassau-Idstein und Wiesbaden). In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, S. 13 f.
 Detlev Schwennicke: Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der europäischen Staaten.

Източници

Графове на Насау
Дом Насау

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Compare Numbers Game - Pick It: Less, More or Equal?: Which sign will make this number sentence true?
Pick It: Less, More or Equal?
Select the sign that will make the number sentence true.
Which sign will make this number sentence true?
1. Look at the given numbers.
2. Fill in the blank by clicking the sign that will make the given number sentence true.


Upper and lower arm sections joined by the elbow coup. Right and left sides are open on the inside to fit a large range of arm sizes. Also allows for some lateral adjustment.
18 gauge steel, made to complete our Gothic Cuirass set (see below).


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using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Web;

namespace UTube
{
    public class DataAccessLayer
    {
        string connect;
        static string _ID;

        public static string Id
        {
            get { return _ID; }
            set { _ID = value; }
        }

        public DataAccessLayer(string connectionName)
        {
            connect = connectionName;
        }

        public DataSet GetBulkRecords(string cmd)
        {
            SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[connect].ConnectionString);
            SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd, con);
            DataSet ds = new DataSet();
            da.Fill(ds);
            return ds;
        }

        public bool Insert(SqlCommand insertCmd)
        {
            SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[connect].ConnectionString);
            insertCmd.Connection = con;
            bool added = false;
            //try
            {
                con.Open();
                insertCmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
                added = true;
            }
            //catch { added = false; }
            { con.Close(); }

            return added;
        }

        public string Insert(string tblName, string colname, string prefix, string replaceString, SqlCommand insertCmd)
        {
            SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[connect].ConnectionString);

            //Getting last ID
            string ID = (string)GetValue(new SqlCommand("SELECT TOP 1 " + colname + " FROM " + tblName + " ORDER BY " + colname + " DESC"));

            ID = (ID != null) ? prefix + (Int32.Parse(ID.Substring(2)) + 1).ToString() : prefix + 100;

            //replacing 'newID' with generated ID and adjusting connection
            insertCmd.CommandText = insertCmd.CommandText.Replace(replaceString, ID);
            insertCmd.Connection = con;

            //Inserting in DB
            try
            {
                con.Open();
                insertCmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
            }
            catch { }
            finally { con.Close(); }

            return ID;
        }

        public bool Update(SqlCommand updateCommand)
        {
            bool updated = false;
            SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[connect].ConnectionString);
            updateCommand.Connection = con;
            //try
            {
                con.Open();
                updateCommand.ExecuteNonQuery();
                updated = true;
            }
            //catch   { updated = false; }
            //finally { con.Close(); }

            return updated;
        }

        public object GetValue(SqlCommand selectCmd)
        {
            SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[connect].ConnectionString);
            selectCmd.Connection = con;
            object result = null;
            try
            {
                con.Open();
                result = selectCmd.ExecuteScalar();
            }
            catch { }
            finally { con.Close(); }
            return result;
        }
    }
}


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Film Friday Double-Feature: "A Million Ways to Die in the West" and "The Purge: Anarchy"
Two Movies That Discuss Death, But In Extremely Different Ways
"A Million Ways to Die in the West," talks about death, and how it basically lurked around every corner back in the times of the Wild West that we often romanticize but forget were actually quite terrible and full of illness, violence, and general unpleasantness. "The Purge: Anarchy" is about death being a constant risk too, but in a near-future where in order to help people get-out their violent urges a night of extreme violence is authorized by the government where for twelve hours once a year basically all crime--including murder--is legal. Although, in the case of "Anarchy," there is occasionally political commentary about how the supposed goal of The Purge to cleanse people is in fact an excuse for government-sanctioned murder of the poor.
Basically, one movie is about how in the past we were ignorant jerks who died from disease and our own violent tendencies towards each other, and the other movie is about how we as a society could very well let our own ignorance allow us to be violent towards each other in the near-future. It's just that in one nature plays a big role in killing people and in the other its an effort to reduce a population no longer affected by disease as much. The big question of course is if they are good movies, and I would say yeah, they're above-average if not amazing. Let's discuss them both now!
"A Million Ways to Die in the West"
Seth MacFarlane is of course best known for his role as the director/main voice actor for the popular television program, "Family Guy." While I haven't watched that show in awhile as I felt it has gone a bit downhill as its gotten more bitter, I did quite enjoy MacFarlane's directorial debut, "Ted." Hence, I went into "A Million Ways to Die in the West" with some hope he could again pull off that mixture of warmth and crass humor he somehow delicately balanced in "Ted". Well, perhaps I should have had some trepidation as "West" seems to be a bit more in the realm of "Family Guy" and its angry cynicism than the hopefulness of his first film. That isn't to say "West" is bad, it has many enjoyable moments--it just seems to be a bit more angry than it needs to be, like how I've said "Family Guy" seems to have gotten more mean-just-to-be-mean over time.
Basically MacFarlane plays a nerdy guy who is kind of a loner except for his girlfriend who towards the start of the movie leaves him for a jerk obsessed with his fancy mustache--played deliciously by Neil Patrick Harris. However, MacFarlane meets a nice women in the form of Charlize Theron's character, but what he doesn't know is that she's actually the wife of an evil bandit played by Liam Nesson (who used to play sweet roles like the dad in "Love Actually" but since "Taken" seems to portray a lot of rough fellows).
The movie basically works it way through various jokes about how the past sucked, but even today we're still sort-of jerks too, and occasionally advances the plot a bit. I never laughed out loud particularly hard as I did with "Ted" but there were moments I smirked or giggled. Therefore, "A Million Ways to Die in the West" may not be hilarious, but it still is moderately funny and deserving a score of...
"The Purge: Anarchy"
"The Purge" was quite small in scale, focusing almost entirely on a single household and how it deals with the ramifications of the yearly Purge. "The Purge: Anarchy" could therefore be considered much more expansive, focusing on a variety of individuals who are stuck out on the streets during the Purge (or one protagonist out there willingly) and how they struggle to survive the night between various roaming gangs, government kill-squads, and the general mayhem. While I liked the first "Purge", certain aspects of it bothered me that I found less of an issue with in this entry of the series.
The problem with the first "The Purge" movie was that it wasn't quite sure if it wanted to be a piece of social commentary or a horror film about a home invasion. "The Purge: Anarchy" moves away from the horror-angle into more of a straight-up action film with dashes of the social commentary. It works these message into the movie in a style a bit more elegantly than the first one with its occasionally ham-fisted, "Hey, we're making a statement here!" style.
By making some pointed observations about society and how we treat our poor but not overly-harping on it except in a few cases (the closing monologue by a man known as, "Big Daddy," is a bit over-the-top with its pointing out what we had already picked-up on throughout the flick) this film is able to show us it isn't too unrealistic a step to think that there are people out there who could think systematically wiping-out the poor and sick is a smart choice. That is probably what makes the concept of these "Purge" movies so terrifying, is that it all seems just ever-so-slightly possible that people would be in favor of a such a thing as the yearly Purge.
These movies are made on a relatively tiny-budget in terms of wide-release movies and go on to do gangbusters in the theaters, so they seem to have touched enough of a societal nerve that a 3rd entry in the series is assured. I suppose by appealing to the part of us that wants to see violent action whilst also giving us a little bit of food-for-thought a successful formula has been stumbled upon-- e.g. "Let's give them violence but with enough of a message it doesn't feel like mindless blood and gore!" That said, the formula does result in a pretty enjoyable movie even if it still feels like the concept of the Purge is more interesting than "The Purge" movies themselves currently. Perhaps the fact that the 3rd film might be a prequel will shed some light on the origins of The Purge and be even more interesting--we can honestly only wait and see. That said, this is a solid...
Quite Good, Just Not Great
"A Million Ways to Die in the West," and "The Purge: Anarchy" both tackle the subject of how we treat our fellow human, albeit in greatly different tones. Both show that even in a miserable world there can be good out there, but to be careful whom you trust because you could very well end up dead. Each movie also isn't necessarily great, but still quite good and a pleasant enough way eke out some entertainment. So yes, check them out should you need to fill a couple hours.
Posted by David Charles Bitterbaum at 1:51 PM
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Q: fork()ing with c++ and creating 4 childs of a parent i am fork()ing and creating 4 child processes that runs at the same time(do a busy work), but the parent needs to wait until all child exit.
i feel like i can code it in a better way.. any suggestion or does it look okay? (i am required to keep this format of 2 fonctions and main)
using namespace std;

void simulateBusyWork(char, pid_t);
pid_t performFork();

int main()
{
    srand(time(NULL));
    performFork();
    return 0;
}

pid_t performFork() {

    pid_t pid;

    //create four child processes
    for (int i = 0; i < 4; ++i) {
        pid = fork();
        if (pid<0) {
            continue;
        } else if (pid == 0) {
            break;
        }
    }

    //fork failed
    if (pid < 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Fork failed./n");
        return 1;
    }

    //child process do busy work
    else if (pid == 0) {
        cout << "A child process with PID " << getpid() << " was created." << endl;
        pid = getpid();
        simulateBusyWork('C', pid);
        _exit(0);
    }

    //parent process do busy work
    else if(pid > 0){
        simulateBusyWork('P', getpid());

        //parent process waits for children to exit
        int status, exited;
        //print which child has exited
        for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
            exited = waitpid(-1, &status, 0);
            cout << "P" << getpid() << ": Process " << exited << " has exited." << endl;
        }
    }

    return pid;
}

void simulateBusyWork(char ch, pid_t pid) {

    for (int i=0 ; i < 4; i++) {
        cout << ch << pid << ": " << i << endl;
        //if (i < 4)
            sleep(1);
    }
    cout << "Process " << ch << pid << " has finished its work." << endl;
}

A: man waitpid:

The call wait(&status) is equivalent
         to:
       waitpid(-1, &status, 0);

so you can simplify that a bit.

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The Outer Banks and Hampton Roads communities have already experienced some very extreme weather this summer, with Arthur being the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. It is the earliest in the season a hurricane has made landfall in North Carolina. Just last week, strong storms spawned what was believed to be a tornado in the Oceanfront area of Virginia Beach. And Hampton Roads continues to see a great deal of flooding, especially in Norfolk and on the Peninsula.
Today's technology allows us to be better prepared than ever before. Several apps and websites provide severe weather email and text alerts at little or no cost. The National Weather Service does not provide direct email/SMS alerts to the general public. But they have provided an online listing of those third party sources that do deliver those notifications. For more information, visit http://www.weather.gov/subscribe.


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Fort Ticonderoga is a national historic site in Ticonderoga, N.Y. Mid-State Industries did an exterior restoration of the site, which included masonry and stone replicating and rebuilding the parapet walls.
For the Glendale Nursing Home in Schenectady, N.Y., Mid-State Industries put on new shingle and EPDM roofs.
St. John the Evangelist Church in Schenectady, N.Y., was a $3.5- to $4-million renovation project, which consisted of a complete exterior and interior restoration and replacement of the standing seam copper roof.
Samantha Meux
KEYWORDS commercial roofing / continuing education / historic restoration / historical preservation / Mid-state industries / restoration / sheet metal / structural rehabilitation
Since its creation and incorporation in 1970, Mid-State Industries Ltd. (MSI) has established a strong reputation for excelling in just about any construction project that's thrown its way. Located in Schenectady, N.Y., the company is best known for its commercial roofing work, but it also specializes in sheet metal, masonry restoration, structural rehabilitation and historical preservation. According to MSI Director of Roofing and Waterproofing Michael Lucey II, offering expertise in this vast array of services is what makes the company stand out.
"More or less, we are roofing contractors, but we do offer other services," he said. "Every project in its own way is challenging. We do a lot of crazy stuff over here. We do the projects that nobody else wants to do."
When asked how he got his start in the industry, Lucey explained that it "basically kind of happened." His father, Michael W. Lucey, founded MSI and is the current owner, and while Lucey originally had alternative career plans, he ended up falling back into the family business. "My father started the business and got it to where it is now," he said. "I spent summers working for him during college. After graduation, I went into financial services for five or six years, but I ended up coming back [to MSI] about 12 years ago."
Since then, Lucey has seen the company succeed in a wide range of unique, high-profile projects. The ones that particularly stand out in his mind include the historic restoration of Fort Ticonderoga, St. John the Evangelist Church and the Saratoga Race Track. "Fort Ticonderoga is a national historic site. We did a masonry restoration, rebuilt the parapet walls," he said. "St. John the Evangelist Church in Schenectady has a 220-foot spire. It was a $3.5- to $4-million exterior renovation project. The Saratoga Race Track is another historic site. We did a slate roof replacement, sheet metal, carpentry and a timber frame repair."
According to Lucey, the key to landing and completing these types of projects is quality workmanship. "Quality, quality, quality. It's the norm. It's required. You have to do good work. If you don't, you're not a Mid-State employee for long," he said. "One of our mainstays is quality services, and we put a lot of emphasis on doing the job right the first time. We really pride ourselves on doing exemplary jobs."
One way MSI ensures its employees adhere to these high-quality standards is through on-the-job training. "We train our people in house," Lucey said. "We will bring in Carlisle or Firestone to train people on different roof systems, and our senior guys in the field are passing it down through generations. We try to create employees for the future."
The company also puts a heavy emphasis on safety and continuing education. "A safety program is essential to us being successful in our industry," Lucey said. "We have a 10-hour OSHA course that everyone is required to take, and we have continuing education twice a year. We work on sites that require a lot of safety and planning, and we educate our people as much as possible to avoid any pitfalls. We take it very seriously."
Additionally, Lucey credited MSI's positive work environment. "We try to make it as enjoyable and seamless as possible," he said. "We have some guys that have been here 30-plus years, which is kind of rare, and we are very fortunate in that way. We have a lot of long-term employees, and we treat everyone like family."
Ultimately, the company's continued success stems from its reputation for professional, high-quality work. "Providing the highest level of services, quality and integrity sums it up," he said. "We pride ourselves on doing good work. If there's a problem, we attack it and fix it. The driving force is being very honest with our customers. We do very little marketing and have a lot of repeat customers. It all falls back to doing good work. It speaks volumes.
Looking back, Lucey feels that returning to roofing was the right choice. "It's a very difficult business, but there's a lot of opportunity as well. The best experience is being able to work with people, solve their problems and make them feel comfortable,"he said. "Keeping water out of their buildings, making their buildings sound again, and having the flexibility to do a project and drive by it later to see how it turned out."
For more information about Mid-State Industries, visit www.midstateltd.com.
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MHEC's computer hardware and related services contracts are the result of a competitive RFP process completed in October 2014. For the purpose of this RFP, there were four product categories: Category 1: Desktop Hardware and Services, Category 2: Laptop Hardware and Services, Category 3: Tablet Devices and Services, and Category 4: Server & Storage Hardware and Services. Eight proposals were received and upon meeting all of the requirements of the RFP committee selected to award: Dell (Categories 1, 2, 3 and 4); HP Enterprise (Category 4); HP Inc. (Categories 1, 2, and 3); Lenovo (United States) Inc. (Categories 1, 2, and 3); Lenovo Global (Category 4); and Oracle (Category 4).
Every vendor contract page has a vendor purchase site where you can get up-to-the-minute pricing for specific configurations as well as purchase product directly.
Typically, hardware vendors provide special "bundle" pricing on configurations. These prices are 20-35% lower than their discounted educational or commercial pricing, and when combined with volume discounts can provide very cost effective purchases for your institution.
Several of these contracts also allow purchases by faculty, staff, and students. This can provide an excellent way to economize as well as get equipment that is directly compatible with what you have at work.


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Auto magazine, overwhelmingly acknowledged as the world's ideal automobile magazine, has driven into India under the name of explosive and vibrant, as nicely as severe and sensuous, Vehicle India has been launched to satiate the discerning automobile enthusiast who knows his radiators from his air filters. America bought into the idea of displaying their status through their automobile with alacrity. The middle class speedily became enchanted by the convenience and status of the automobile (For the Adore of Automobiles). Really disappointing This magazine has soooooooooo a lot data to share, but they only list about 20 articles in here and no search function to their vast library. This BBC owned automobile magazine is named soon after BBC's popular show beneath the same name, Top Gear. Order your discount subscription to Automobile magazine these days to get all of this and much more!
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They offer you much more than 1,200 magazines including Us Weekly, Time, National Geographic, and hundreds of other popular magazines. Ford wanted a auto that the typical person could afford, operate and maintain" (The Automobile). When the automobile became a preferred way to display wealth, it was firmly established as a status symbol all through America. Magazines are classified according to news they supply on developments in the automobile business. The automobile changed drastically from the turn of the century by way of the 1920s (The Automobile).
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Doug Zmolek, son of Eugene and Ellen Zmolek (formerly of Traer), now living in Rochester, MN and grandson of Helen Zmolek, Traer, was inducted into the Rochester Quarterbacks Club Hall of Fame on April 21, 2014. Doug is one of the most decorated hockey players in Rochester, MN history. He was a key player in his high school's advancement to two state tournament appearances. He was selected No. 7 overall in the 1989 National Hockey League draft by the Minnesota North Stars. After high school, he went on to play at the University of Minnesota from 1989-1992. Doug then went on to play in the NHL - the North Stars moved to Texas and became the Dallas Stars. Doug was a defenseman with the Dallas Stars, San Jose Sharks, Los Angeles Kings, and the Chicago Blackhawks during his eight-year NHL career. He played 467 games, scoring 11 goals and 53 assists. He lives in Rochester serving as head of hockey operations with the Rochester Youth Hockey Association, in addition to coaching youth hockey and football. Doug and his wife, Jenny, have four children: Riese, Will, Ben, and Ella.


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Index | Individual | Descendancy | Register | Pedigree
1. Margaret MADIGAN was born ABT. 1854 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, and died 1 MAY 1893 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario. She was buried in Kenilworth RC Pioneer Cemetery. She was the daughter of 2. Kennedy MADIGAN and 3. Margaret KELLY. She married Patrick REIDY 1 JUN 1876 in Mount Forest, Ontario, son of Thomas REIDY and Mary NESTER. He was born 15 AUG 1844 in Co Clare, Ireland, and died 24 JAN 1933 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario. He was buried in Kenilworth RC Pioneer Cemetery.
2. Kennedy MADIGAN was born 1809 in Co Clare, Ireland, and died 20 MAY 1886 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario. He was buried in Kenilworth RC Pioneer Cemetery. He was the son of 4. Unknown MADIGAN.
3. Margaret KELLY was born 1811 in Co Clare, Ireland, and died 3 JAN 1871 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario. She was buried in Kenilworth RC Pioneer Cemetery.
Children of Margaret KELLY and Kennedy MADIGAN are:
i. John MADIGAN was born ABT. 1842 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, and died 1 MAR 1928 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario. He married Mary SHANNON 1876, daughter of Martin SHANNON and Bridget GARVEY. She was born 14 FEB 1847 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, and died 2 DEC 1926 in Mount Forest, Ontario.
ii. James MADIGAN was born ABT. 1846 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, and died 21 FEB 1913 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario. He married Catherine UNKNOWN ABT. 1869. She was born ABT. 1851 in Ontario, Canada, and died BEF. 1879. He married Maria BRENNAN 28 JAN 1879 in Mount Forest, Ontario, daughter of Martin BRENNAN and Mary COX. She was born ABT. 1844 in Co Roscommon, Ireland, and died 18 JUL 1934 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario.
iii. Michael MADIGAN was born ABT. 1848 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, Canada.
iv. Thomas MADIGAN was born ABT. 1849 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, Canada, and died 18 MAR 1874 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, Canada.
v. Patrick MADIGAN was born ABT. 1853 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario. He married Mary Ann MADIGAN 13 FEB 1882 in Mount Forest, Ontario, daughter of John MADIGAN and Catherine KENNEDY. She was born ABT. 1852 in London Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario.
1. vi. Margaret MADIGAN was born ABT. 1854 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, and died 1 MAY 1893 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario. She married Patrick REIDY 1 JUN 1876 in Mount Forest, Ontario, son of Thomas REIDY and Mary NESTER. He was born 15 AUG 1844 in Co Clare, Ireland, and died 24 JAN 1933 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario.
vii. Jane MADIGAN was born 11 FEB 1856 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, and died BEF. 1917. She married Michael TANGNEY 9 FEB 1880 in Mount Forest, Ontario, son of John TANGNEY and Ellen O'CONNELL. He was born ABT. 1844 in Ireland, and died 13 JUN 1917 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario.
4. Unknown MADIGAN was born ABT. 1760.
Children of Unknown MADIGAN are:
i. Michael MADIGAN was born BET. 1798 - 1805 in Co Clare, Ireland, and died 20 JUN 1889 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario. He married Bridget FRAWLEY ABT. 1838 in Ireland. She was born 1817 in Co Clare, Ireland, and died 24 JUL 1892.
2. ii. Kennedy MADIGAN was born 1809 in Co Clare, Ireland, and died 20 MAY 1886 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario. He married Margaret KELLY ABT. 1840. She was born 1811 in Co Clare, Ireland, and died 3 JAN 1871 in Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario.
iii. Simon MADIGAN was born BET. 1811 - 1819 in Ireland, and died 22 FEB 1906 in Hamilton, Ontario. He married Hanorah O'DONNELL ABT. 1845. She was born BET. 1815 - 1819 in Ireland, and died 22 DEC 1893.


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I heard these words from an executive at a leadership event a couple weeks ago. His frustrations weren't anything new. Why can't employees take more initiative to solve organizational problems?
It's a common question with a wide variety of possible answers. Unfortunately, we usually get the level of initiative we reinforce. Let's take a closer look at what initiative really means – and how to inspire the initiative you need to be effective.
If you're in the same boat as the executive mentioned above, you probably looked at this list and immediately identified the level preferred. If not, that's where you need to start. There is a huge difference between level one and level six. We often bemoan a lack of initiative, but depending on the business situation, taking too much initiative can actually be extremely damaging. And don't forget to factor in your own preference for hands-on or hands-off management.
Once you're clear on the level of initiative you desire, you need to communicate it explicitly to your employee(s). Until you do, nothing has actually changed. And be sure to differentiate between tasks and situations. Some tasks you may want to be asked about and others you may expect your employee to take care of himself.
As a young consultant, I was often intimidated by the client leaders I supported. They had experience and authority. I didn't have much of either. But my bosses gave me explicit expectations that my job was to come to the table with recommendations. Regardless of how uncomfortable I felt at times, I knew it was my responsibility to deliver. (This is probably one reason why I now encourage everyone who wants to increase their influence to do the same).
There is no benefit of the doubt when it comes to expectations. Unclear expectations are always costly.
Aside from results, one of your chief duties as a manager is to develop talent. Let's face it, if your talent doesn't grow, neither will you. As your employees' capacity expands, adjust (and communicate) the expectations for their initiative higher. Take it step by step. Development levels are often different between employees – but each will grow with your support.
When we don't give more initiative, unskilled employees become stunted and skilled employees start looking for opportunities elsewhere.
The next time you wish an employee would take more initiative, you have the opportunity to turn your focus inward. Do you know what level of initiative you want? Have you communicated clearly? Do you need to adjust? Follow these steps and you'll see your team's productivity spike.


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Q: Native library for TensorFlow java on windows Now that there is experimental support for Java on TensorFlow, I wanted to get started on Windows, following the steps in the readme
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorflow/java/README.md
I got the expected error:
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError

The Python version is running fine, but that is not Java....
The readme points to native libraries for Mac and Linux, can someone confirm that I just have to wait a bit ?

A: This works for me when I added the native i.e tensorflow_jni.dll on PC or libtensorflow_jni.dylib on Mac(this should be the same for Linux distributions, not tested though) to my project root folder as seen here Adding Tensorflow to Java Project Netbeans. Though I'm using Intellij IDEA

A: Not really an answer, but nevertheless I would like to warn you in advance.
The support for Tensor Flow is very experimental indeed.
(February 2018) - You are still very dependent of Python.
Most importantly, there is no support for training networks in Java.
You can only apply/run networks.
(Not even to mention the very limited number of available classes).
If you do want to go ahead, I recommend you to take a look on Github because there are some utility classes there which will be more than useful for you. At least that will give you more comfort.

A: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: tensorflow_native_libraries tensorflow_jni.dll: Can't find depedent libraries happens because of some Missing DLLs in Windows which tensorflow_jni.dll cannot seem to find.

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*Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Resdistributable on Windows
machine Download here

*Try to close existing command prompts and then re-run the Tensorflow
Java Program.
See below link for more details
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/14456

A: Add the below code in Maven pom.xml
 <dependencies>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.tensorflow</groupId>
     <artifactId>tensorflow</artifactId>
     <version>1.2.0</version>
   </dependency>
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You can find the installation of tensorflow for java detailed description in below link
https://www.tensorflow.org/install/install_java


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Home » Farm Hands on the Potomac…for March 15, 2017
Farm Hands on the Potomac…for March 15, 2017
03/15/17 10:36 AM By Agri-Pulse staff
KEYWORDS American Feed Industry American Soybean Association Angus Kelly Austin Hearn Brent Blevins Commodity Futures Trading Commission Gary Huddleston House Natural Resources Committee J. Christopher Giancarlo Joe Jobe kika de la garza Lee Briese Pat Roberts Perdue Farms Randy Day Rep. Leonard Lance Rep. Louie Gohmert Ryann Durant Sen. John Cornyn Syngenta Temple Grandin Trump
Washington, Mar. 15, 2017 - The agricultural community is mourning the loss of Kika de la Garza, a long-time congressman from South Texas who chaired the House Agriculture Committee for 14 years. De la Garza died Tuesday at the age of 89. The colorful Democrat became chairman of the committee in 1981 – near the beginning of a prolonged and difficult U.S. farm crisis. De la Garza remained at the helm until Republicans took control of the House after the 1994 elections. He stayed on the committee as ranking member for one term and retired at the end of 1996. Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts, who chaired the House Ag Committee after de la Garza's tenure, tweeted that, "out of respect, we never called him the ranking member. We called him 'Chairman Emeritus.' Roberts went on: "Kika served with distinction and provided great leadership for all of agriculture," adding, "Agriculture has lost a great friend and leader."
President Donald Trump plans to nominate J. Christopher Giancarlo as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the White House said on Tuesday. Giancarlo has been acting chairman of the CFTC since Jan. 20 after being confirmed as a commissioner of the agency in 2014.
Ryann Durant is moving from one side of the Capitol to the other. The Wake Forest alum is taking over the press secretary job in the office of Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. He had been communications director for Rep. Austin Scott of Georgia… Bri Hearn has moved to the office of Rep. Leonard Lance, R-N.J., where she's a legislative assistant. She had been working as a press aide for Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas.
Brent Blevins is leaving the House Natural Resources Committee to join the staff of Alabama's new Republican senator, Luther Strange, where he'll be working on agricultural issues. He says he's looking forward to working on ag issues for a Southerner during a farm bill cycle. Blevins starts the new job on March 20.
The American Soybean Association presented Joe Jobe with its Special Meritorious Service Award at ASA's award banquet during the recent Commodity Classic in San Antonio. The award honors individuals who served the soybean industry above and beyond the ordinary. Jobe, the president of Rock House Advisers, spent 17 years as CEO of the National Biodiesel Board.
Randy Day, a 36-year veteran of Perdue Farms, has been named CEO of the privately held poultry company. He's taking over for Jim Perdue, who will remain chairman and brand spokesman.
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Syngenta appointed Angus Kelly, currently head of corporate affairs Hawaii, as head of corporate affairs AME, based out of Basel, Switzerland. Kelly joined Syngenta in 2007 working with U.S. government relations in Washington, D.C. He has also spent several years in Brussels as senior advisor for EU public affairs.
Lee Briese of North Dakota has been named International Certified Crop Adviser of the Year. Briese provides consulting services on 16 different crops on over 80,000 acres, but still finds time to voluntarily partner with North Dakota State University to staff field days and winter meetings. The award is presented by the International Certified Crop Adviser Program and American Society of Agronomy.
Animal sciences innovator Temple Grandin is one of 10 women selected for induction into the 2017 National Women's Hall of Fame. Grandin's designs for livestock handling systems transformed the industry and are used worldwide today. The induction ceremony will take place in September, in Seneca Falls, New York, where the Hall is located. The town was the site of the first women's rights convention, held in 1948. Click here for a list of the 2017 inductees.
The American Feed Industry Association promoted Gary Huddleston to director of feed manufacturing and regulatory affairs. Huddleston previously served as the manager of feed manufacturing safety and environmental affairs. He joined AFIA in 2015.


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Say what you want about the embattled Governor of Illinois, the guy's been on the right side when it comes to mobile phone privacy. In 2006 Rod Blagojevich very publicly joined the campaign to protect consumers from "pretexting"—illegally hacking or fooling companies into disclosing customer cell phone records, then selling it over Web sites. His September 2006 letter to the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission expressed concern that even when an old cell phone's memory is erased, it can be restored using software easily downloaded from the Internet. "More alarming are the examples of the types of information that are all too easily available: information containing a company's plan to win a multimillion-dollar federal contract, an individual's personal medical history, and emails about a firm's software license," Blagojevich wrote. Multimillion-dollar federal contract, eh? Just what your typical cell phone user keeps on their call log—maybe next to alleged plans to sell off a vacant United States Senate seat? Ok. I'll admit it. This is total blogotunism. Every time somebody controversial in government or politics hits the news, I run over to the FCC's trusty filing database and plug in the name. It doesn't always work. The agency drew a blank for Sarah Palin and Bill Ayers. But Rodzilla delivered the goods. "I urge both of your agencies to require cell phone companies to develop more effective methods to completely delete a customer's information," Blagojevich's FCC letter concluded. ASAP, no doubt. As Ars readers know, the gov's been having some trouble with security leaks himself recently. At the beginning of this year the Federal Bureau of Investigation got court permission to bug the bejesus out of the fellow, including the "interception of oral communications" at his campaign headquarters and wiretapping his home. These revealed conversations alleging that, in addition to the Senate seat sell off, Blagojevich wanted a hefty campaign contribution in exchange for making eight million dollars available to Children's Memorial Hospital. The feds also charge that G-Rod told the Chicago Tribune that if the company wanted state financial help with its Wrigley Field stadium, several disliked editorial writers would have to go. It does not appear, however, that Rod asked anyone for anything in exchange for speaking out about cell phone security. This was just one of those issues that he had a feel for, perhaps. And to give credit where due, Blagojevich has been a big booster of anti-pretexting legislation in Illinois, signing a bill in 2006 banning the practice there. He also approved a law requiring companies to tell Illinois consumers if their personal data has been stolen, and another permitting identity theft victims to freeze their credit reports. "It's frightening to know that the private information of cell phone users all across Illinois is up on the auction block at dozens of unregulated websites," Blagojevich declared. And we certainly wouldn't want any unethical auctioning going on in the Prairie State, now would we. Anyway, Congress followed suit with the Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act, which makes pretexting unlawful nationally. The FCC subsequently created rules requiring cell phone companies to beef up their password security, among other measures, to thwart further foul play.


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Review: Sideway: New York (PS3)
02. Nov, 2011
Title: Sideway: New York
Format: PlayStation Network Download (1.6 GB)
Publisher: Sony Online Entertainment
Developer: Play Brains
Original MSRP: $9.99
ESRB Rating: E10+
Sideway: New York is exclusive to the PlayStation Network.
Sideway: New York, at its core, is your "standard" platformer with a twist, and this time the twist is literal. Your character is actually transformed into graffiti, so all of the action takes place on the sides and roofs of buildings, yes, I said roofs. You adhere to the flat surfaces of buildings and can jump between the different parts of the buildings as easily as that fat plumber runs from pipe to platform. In other words, all of the action is in 2 dimensions, but via these transitions, you're actually playing in all 3 dimensions.
The entire game mechanic is built around the graffiti culture. Enemies, platforms, and even your character are all painted. Your checkpoints are tags, and even items that you discover and pick-up are all painted in some way. This use of the three-dimensional space even adds a slight puzzle element, as your path twists and turns from the sides of building to the roof, back to the side, and even the side of a bridge from one side of the street to the other. Don't fret though, as the entire screen flips to bring whatever surface you're on to be the displayed area. So if you jump to a rooftop surface, the entire world shifts to bring that piece of the building into your field of view.
General gameplay consists of jumping, sliding, and a power-dive at the top of a jump. You'll also obtain objects like paint bombs as you progress through the story. All-in-all controls are very tight, and the variety is robust. There are a few different classes of enemy, some with specific ways to defeat them. Luckily, the balance of enemies versus puzzle elements and general platforming is pretty even, as you also have to deal with the perils of the environment, like water, which doesn't mix with paint at all (you're made of paint remember.) Boss battles are again well done overall, with most relying on timing and finding the weakness of each one to be exploited. Since I'm getting old, this was a point of frustration for me, as my timing is getting pretty bad (anyone who was watching the Extra Life stream learned this about me pretty quickly.)
Levels are long and varied, and this game is not one that you'll get through quickly. There's a lot of content here and that's a good thing.
This is where Sideway: New York shines, the visual style incorporating the look of tagged buildings and street objects. Character animation on all levels is fantastic, and the colors used work perfectly while at the same time keep the characters different enough to be discerned from the backgrounds so you don't lose anything. Also, the effect of your world flipping and turning is well done 99% of the time, with a couple of transitions when you jump from the side of a building to the roof being a bit jarring until you get used to it. This is a visual stunner through-and-through, not because of effects like usual, but instead because of how well everything works.
Also, cutscenes are fully animated and are really cool. They're colorful with silky-smooth animation, and are pretty fun to watch.
The audio is kind-of a mixed bag honestly. Sound effects quality varies a good deal. Nothing bad, but some lack that "Oomph" that others possess. There's no dialogue anywhere in the game, and instead the use of subtitles and dialog bubbles handle that piece.
Where the huge double-edged sword appears though is in the music. Real-world hip-hop and other similarly styled tunes are used throughout the game, but some of the tracks are heavily censored because of language. Also, the music repeats quite a bit, and it's something that was noticed even during the first world when I was live-streaming the game. It's good music, but there's just not enough of it. We all cheered when I finally made it to the first boss, since we finally got a new song to listen to!
Local cooperative play is available, and it works quite well, and actually, there are hidden items that can only be reached by playing with someone else. There is no competitive multiplayer, but that's fine really since you do get ample content for $10.
I'd only seen this game briefly at E3, and never got a chance to play it. When I finally did get a chance to play it, I couldn't put it down, as I mumbled "okay, one more section" over and over again. It's not the best platformer I've played, but the unique mechanic of being a part of the buildings definitely brings a cool twist to the genre, and the nice thing is that everything actually works. It's a very fun game, and really the only thing that knocks it down at all is the limited and censored soundtrack. This is a refreshing game from a small and relatively unknown developer, and I can't wait to see what they bring to the table next. In other words, this is a fun game that oozes style at the right price.
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Sexual selection favours traits that confer advantages in the competition for mates. In many cases, such traits are costly to produce and maintain, because the costs help to enforce the honesty of these signals and cues1. Some evolutionary models predict that sexual selection also produces costs at the population level, which could limit the ability of populations to adapt to changing conditions and thus increase the risk of extinction2,3,4.
However, we find that this observed difference in upward mobility is driven by individuals with different characteristics self-selecting into these organisations, rather than from a direct reward to membership.
In a simple model, a given mutant has an equilibrium frequency μ/s, when μ is the mutation rate from good to bad alleles and s is the size of the selective disadvantage. To estimate the total impact of mutation at that locus, you multiply the frequency by the expected harm, s: which means that the fitness decrease (from effects at that locus) is just μ, the mutation rate. If we assume that these fitness effects are multiplicative, the total fitness decrease (also called 'mutational load') is approximately 1 – exp(-U), when U is where U=Σ2μ, the total number of new harmful mutations per diploid individual.
I have reason to believe that few people understand genetic load very well, probably for self-referential reasons, but better explanations are possible.
One key point is that the amount of neutral variation is determined by the long-term mutational rate and population history, while the amount of deleterious variation [genetic load] is set by the selective pressures and the prevailing mutation rate over a much shorter time scale. For example, if you consider the class of mutations that reduce fitness by 1%, what matters is the past few thousand years, not the past few tens or hundreds of of thousands of years.
So, assuming that African populations have more neutral variation than non-African populations (which is well-established), what do we expect to see when we compare the levels of probably-damaging mutations in those two populations? If the Africans and non-Africans had experienced essentially similar mutation rates and selective pressures over the past few thousand years, we would expect to see the same levels of probably-damaging mutations. Bottlenecks that happened at the last glacial maximum or in the expansion out of Africa are irrelevant – too long ago to matter.
But we don't. The amount of rare synonymous stuff is about 22% higher in Africans. The amount of rare nonsynonymous stuff (usually at least slightly deleterious) is 20.6% higher. The number of rare variants predicted to be more deleterious is ~21.6% higher. The amount of stuff predicted to be even more deleterious is ~27% higher. The number of harmful looking loss-of-function mutations (yet more deleterious) is 25% higher.
It looks as if the excess grows as the severity of the mutations increases. There is a scenario in which this is possible: the mutation rate in Africa has increased recently. Not yesterday, but, say, over the past few thousand years.
What is the most likely cause of such variations in the mutation rate? Right now, I'd say differences in average paternal age. We know that modest differences (~5 years) in average paternal age can easily generate ~20% differences in the mutation rate. Such between-population differences in mutation rates seem quite plausible, particularly since the Neolithic.
Probably not, but the question is complex: depends on the shape of the deleterious mutational spectrum [which we don't know], ancient and recent demography, paternal age, and the extent of truncation selection in the population.
Although marriage is associated with a plethora of adult outcomes, its causal status remains controversial in the absence of experimental evidence. We address this problem by introducing a counterfactual lifecourse approach that applies inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) to yearly longitudinal data on marriage, crime, and shared covariates in a sample of 500 high-risk boys followed prospectively from adolescence to age 32. The data consist of criminal histories and death records for all 500 men plus personal interviews, using a lifehistory calendar, with a stratified subsample of 52 men followed to age 70. These data are linked to an extensive battery of individual and family background measures gathered from childhood to age 17—before entry into marriage. Applying IPTW to multiple specifications that also incorporate extensive time-varying covariates in adulthood, being married is associated with an average reduction of approximately 35 percent in the odds of crime compared to nonmarried states for the same man. These results are robust, supporting the inference that states of marriage causally inhibit crime over the life course.
Mean differences in antisocial behavior across marital status at age 29 years were present even at 17 and 20 years of age, suggesting a selection process. However, the within-pair effect of marriage was significant for MZ twins, such that the married twin engaged in less antisocial behavior following marriage than his unmarried co-twin. Results were equivalent to those in dizygotic twins and persisted when controlling for prior antisocial behavior.
Our findings are generally consistent with prior literature. Previous studies1-4 within the field of criminology have pointed to a causal effect of marriage on desistence from AAB. Perhaps the strongest such study found that the average reduction in crime with entry into marriage was approximately 35%.2 Our own results were very consistent with these findings. At 29 years of age, the Cohen's d effect size for differences in AAB by marital status was 0.48, which corresponds to slightly more than a 30% reduction in AAB with marriage.
Figure 2. Adult antisocial behavior (AAB) by marital status at 29 years of age.
The methodology centres on names. Psychologists have long found that people with relatively rare names are more likely to be "unique", presumably because parents who consciously choose rare names for their children would be more likely to raise them to be nonconformists.
The researchers have access to all the names of people who lived in Norway and Sweden throughout the great migration wave, as well as all the names of the people who left for America. They also have the same information broken down by locality for a more fine-grained analysis.
They found that while "individualism" rose modestly overall, the places with more emigration became relatively more "collectivist" than those regions with less emigraton.
We argue that this understanding of inclusive fitness based on gene lineages provides the most illuminating and accurate picture and avoids pitfalls in interpretation and empirical applications of inclusive fitness theory.
But if more splashes of paint appear on a wall, they will gradually conceal some of the original color beneath new layers. Similarly, evolution and natural selection write over the initial mutations that appear over short timescales. Over millions of years, an A in the DNA may become a T, but in the intervening time it may be a C or a G for a while. Ho believes that this mutational saturation is a major cause of what he calls the time-dependent rate phenomenon.
"Think of it like the stock market," he said. Look at the hourly or daily fluctuations of Standard & Poor's 500 index, and it will appear wildly unstable, swinging this way and that. Zoom out, however, and the market appears much more stable as the daily shifts start to average out. In the same way, the forces of natural selection weed out the less advantageous and more deleterious mutations over time.
It has been argued that the mutation load, the proportional reduction in population mean fitness relative to the fitness of an idealized mutation-free individual, allows a theoretical prediction of the proportion of individuals in the population that fail to reproduce as a consequence of these harmful mutations. Application of this theory to humans implies that at least 88% of individuals should fail to reproduce and that each female would need to have more than 16 offspring to maintain population size. This prediction is clearly at odds with the low reproductive excess of human populations. Here, we derive expressions for the fraction of individuals that fail to reproduce as a consequence of recurrent deleterious mutation (φ) for a model in which selection occurs via differences in relative fitness, such as would occur through competition between individuals. We show that φ is much smaller than the value predicted by comparing fitness to that of a mutation-free genotype. Under the relative fitness model, we show that φ depends jointly on U and the selective effects of new deleterious mutations and that a species could tolerate 10's or even 100's of new deleterious mutations per genome each generation.
I suggest that the most fundamental theorem of evolution is the Price equation, both because of its simplicity and broad scope and because it can be used to derive four other familiar results that are similarly fundamental: Fisher's average-excess equation, Robertson's secondary theorem of natural selection, the breeder's equation, and Fisher's fundamental theorem. These derivations clarify both the relationships behind these results and their assumptions. Slightly less fundamental results include those for multivariate evolution and social selection. A key feature of fundamental theorems is that they have great simplicity and scope, which are often achieved by sacrificing perfect accuracy. Quantitative genetics has been more productive of fundamental theorems than population genetics, probably because its empirical focus on unknown genotypes freed it from the tyranny of detail and allowed it to focus on general issues.
In biology, over multiple generations organisms slowly accumulate genetic mutations, which reduce their fitness. But this degradation is countered by the fact that nature and mates select for better organisms, which have fewer mutations. Similarly, it seems to me that the most straightforward account of the secular cycle is to say since empire founders are selected out of a strong competition for high cohesion, we should expect cohesion to "regress to the mean" as an empire evolves.
The modern human phenotype originated as one well adapted for dispersal within a long-existing network of successful populations of potential competitors.


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import { SelectionType } from '../../types/selection.type';
import { selectRowsBetween, selectRows } from '../../utils/selection';
import { Keys } from '../../utils/keys';

export interface Model {
  type: string;
  event: MouseEvent | KeyboardEvent;
  row: any;
  rowElement: any;
  cellElement: any;
  cellIndex: number;
}

@Component({
  selector: 'datatable-selection',
  template: ` <ng-content></ng-content> `,
  changeDetection: ChangeDetectionStrategy.OnPush
})
export class DataTableSelectionComponent {
  @Input() rows: any[];
  @Input() selected: any[];
  @Input() selectEnabled: boolean;
  @Input() selectionType: SelectionType;
  @Input() rowIdentity: any;
  @Input() selectCheck: any;

  @Output() activate: EventEmitter<any> = new EventEmitter();
  @Output() select: EventEmitter<any> = new EventEmitter();

  prevIndex: number;

  selectRow(event: KeyboardEvent | MouseEvent, index: number, row: any): void {
    if (!this.selectEnabled) return;

    const chkbox = this.selectionType === SelectionType.checkbox;
    const multi = this.selectionType === SelectionType.multi;
    const multiClick = this.selectionType === SelectionType.multiClick;
    let selected: any[] = [];

    if (multi || chkbox || multiClick) {
      if (event.shiftKey) {
        selected = selectRowsBetween([], this.rows, index, this.prevIndex, this.getRowSelectedIdx.bind(this));
      } else if (event.ctrlKey || event.metaKey || multiClick || chkbox) {
        selected = selectRows([...this.selected], row, this.getRowSelectedIdx.bind(this));
      } else {
        selected = selectRows([], row, this.getRowSelectedIdx.bind(this));
      }
    } else {
      selected = selectRows([], row, this.getRowSelectedIdx.bind(this));
    }

    if (typeof this.selectCheck === 'function') {
      selected = selected.filter(this.selectCheck.bind(this));
    }

    this.selected.splice(0, this.selected.length);
    this.selected.push(...selected);

    this.prevIndex = index;

    this.select.emit({
      selected
    });
  }

  onActivate(model: Model, index: number): void {
    const { type, event, row } = model;
    const chkbox = this.selectionType === SelectionType.checkbox;
    const select = (!chkbox && (type === 'click' || type === 'dblclick')) || (chkbox && type === 'checkbox');

    if (select) {
      this.selectRow(event, index, row);
    } else if (type === 'keydown') {
      if ((<KeyboardEvent>event).keyCode === Keys.return) {
        this.selectRow(event, index, row);
      } else {
        this.onKeyboardFocus(model);
      }
    }
    this.activate.emit(model);
  }

  onKeyboardFocus(model: Model): void {
    const { keyCode } = <KeyboardEvent>model.event;
    const shouldFocus = keyCode === Keys.up || keyCode === Keys.down || keyCode === Keys.right || keyCode === Keys.left;

    if (shouldFocus) {
      const isCellSelection = this.selectionType === SelectionType.cell;

      if (!model.cellElement || !isCellSelection) {
        this.focusRow(model.rowElement, keyCode);
      } else if (isCellSelection) {
        this.focusCell(model.cellElement, model.rowElement, keyCode, model.cellIndex);
      }
    }
  }

  focusRow(rowElement: any, keyCode: number): void {
    const nextRowElement = this.getPrevNextRow(rowElement, keyCode);
    if (nextRowElement) nextRowElement.focus();
  }

  getPrevNextRow(rowElement: any, keyCode: number): any {
    const parentElement = rowElement.parentElement;

    if (parentElement) {
      let focusElement: HTMLElement;
      if (keyCode === Keys.up) {
        focusElement = parentElement.previousElementSibling;
      } else if (keyCode === Keys.down) {
        focusElement = parentElement.nextElementSibling;
      }

      if (focusElement && focusElement.children.length) {
        return focusElement.children[0];
      }
    }
  }

  focusCell(cellElement: any, rowElement: any, keyCode: number, cellIndex: number): void {
    let nextCellElement: HTMLElement;

    if (keyCode === Keys.left) {
      nextCellElement = cellElement.previousElementSibling;
    } else if (keyCode === Keys.right) {
      nextCellElement = cellElement.nextElementSibling;
    } else if (keyCode === Keys.up || keyCode === Keys.down) {
      const nextRowElement = this.getPrevNextRow(rowElement, keyCode);
      if (nextRowElement) {
        const children = nextRowElement.getElementsByClassName('datatable-body-cell');
        if (children.length) nextCellElement = children[cellIndex];
      }
    }

    if (nextCellElement) nextCellElement.focus();
  }

  getRowSelected(row: any): boolean {
    return this.getRowSelectedIdx(row, this.selected) > -1;
  }

  getRowSelectedIdx(row: any, selected: any[]): number {
    if (!selected || !selected.length) return -1;

    const rowId = this.rowIdentity(row);
    return selected.findIndex(r => {
      const id = this.rowIdentity(r);
      return id === rowId;
    });
  }
}


Our Family Support Service team offers individual consultation visits to nurseries, schools, further education establishments, residential setting, day centres and support establishments. Consultation visits add practical, individual suggestions and effective strategies tailored to your area of support and the individual.
We can provide consultation visits in relation to any specific concerns or support you may require for any age or stage in both educational and non-educational settings; such as effective inclusion and support, positive behaviour management and dementia support.
We also have training course for professionals, more information on these can be found here.


Lakeside park is amongst JAAG's most loved open space assets and its one of Victoria's most popular parks with 6 million users a year.
JAAG residents say they love using the Park for quiet Lakeside walks, enjoying its teeming wild life, watching cricket at the Junction oval, enjoying café visits, using its safe bike paths and even as a scenic drive into South Melbourne.
Year round it hosts events like the Grand Prix, Million Paws Walk, the Lake Regatta and the Taste of Melbourne.
But with the south eastern corner of the park somewhat of a wasteland with few visitor facilities, it's important that our community has the opportunity to have its say on how our Park can be improved and made even better.
A 'Park' master plan which will be developed during 2014 is being drafted to set a 20 year vision to guide it through the next stage of its history.
www.albertparkmasterplan.com.au or call 13 1963 and ask for the Albert Park master plan team.


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Le Syndicat des Médecins Libéraux (aussi appelé SML) est un syndicat poly-catégoriel (généralistes et spécialistes) représentatif de la médecine libérale de secteur 1 et de secteur 2.

Depuis sa création en 1981, le SML défend la médecine libérale et, à travers elle, l'ensemble des médecins, qu'ils soient à expertises particulières, spécialistes en médecine générale, exerçant en plateau technique lourd, spécialistes cliniques ou pratiquant des expertises. Le SML est le seul syndicat à avoir créé une association de femmes médecins libérales étendue aux femmes libérales des autres professions de la santé : Femmes Médecins et Toutes Les Libérales.

Deuxième syndicat de médecins libéraux de France, le SML est présent sur l'ensemble du territoire français (DOM compris) et compte aujourd'hui . Son Président est le  depuis le .

Missions
Construire un avenir à l'exercice libéral de la médecine

Le Syndicat des Médecins Libéraux fonde son engagement sur une maxime en trois temps : Comprendre, Combattre, Construire.

Cette position s'observe notamment lors des discussions annuelles au sujet du Projet de Loi de Financement de la Sécurité sociale (PLFSS) avec les Parlementaires, lors des négociations quinquennales relatives à la rédaction d'une nouvelle Convention médicale avec la Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie (CNAM), et enfin, lors des différents temps politiques dédiés à l'émergence d'une politique de santé publique nationale avec les ministres de la Santé et des Affaires sociales, et lors de son application au niveau régional par les Agences régionales de santé (ARS).

Au sein des instances de santé, le SML est un des piliers de la représentation interprofessionnelle, fournissant son expertise dans toutes les instances représentatives (Union Nationale des Professionnels de Santé, Union Nationale des Professions Libérales) ou associatives (Centre National des Professions de Santé).

Le SML est également un syndicat représentatif des médecins auprès des pouvoirs publics, en tant que force d'initiatives et de propositions pour améliorer l'accès aux soins des Français. A ce titre, il conduit des études prospectives pour anticiper les besoins de la politique de santé, imagine et met en œuvre des projets innovants pour répondre aux défis de l'accès aux soins.

Engagements
Les engagements du syndicat pour une médecine de proximité, innovante et libérale sont les suivants :

Sociétaux
Répondre aux enjeux de santé publique :
 Développer la e-santé et la télémédecine sur l'ensemble du territoire ;
 La prévention contre les défis sanitaires de notre société : obésité, addictions, risques suicidaires, décrochages scolaires, etc ;
 Le développement du sport-santé contre les problèmes sanitaires et pathologies liées à l'âge.

Professionnels
Confier la gouvernance nationale de la santé aux médecins libéraux pour restructurer le système de santé français et lui redonner son excellence :
 Le développement d'une médecine de ville de premier et second recours ;
 Renforcer l'hôpital dans son rôle de  recours ;
 Le soutien à toutes les initiatives de proximité libérales visant à réduire les déserts médicaux ;
 La coordination entre professionnels de santé ;
 La libre installation des médecins libéraux sur le territoire ;
 L'intégration des médecins libéraux dans les politiques de santé publique ;
 La revalorisation des droits des médecins femmes (plus de 50 % de la profession) ;
 La juste rémunération des actes de santé ;
 La formation des médecins libéraux ;
 La transition générationnelle entre médecins ;
 Le soutien à l'installation des jeunes médecins (compagnonnage).

Historique
Fondé en 1981 par le , le Syndicat des Médecins Libéraux est issu de la scission d'une partie des membres adhérents de la Confédération des Syndicats Médicaux Français (CSMF), soucieux de voir apparaître dans le débat syndical une organisation qui s'adresserait à l'ensemble des médecins libéraux, généralistes, spécialistes, expertises particulières, secteurs 1 et 2 confondus, et qui porterait leurs problématiques et besoins auprès des pouvoirs publics sans disparité de discours.

Devenu représentatif auprès des médecins spécialistes en 1993 puis des médecins généralistes en 2002, il est depuis 2010, la  regroupant des médecins libéraux en France.

Apolitique, le SML fonde son engagement sur la reconnaissance, la valorisation et le respect de l'exercice libéral. Dans ce cadre, il s'oppose aux différentes réformes de santé menées depuis une vingtaine d'années, en défendant les professionnels et les patients contre la détérioration du système de santé français.

Sur ce constat, en 2015 le SML devient un des piliers de la lutte contre la loi de Santé portée par la ministre des Affaires sociales et de la Santé, Marisol Touraine, en lançant une pétition auprès du grand public pour avertir les Français des dangers que représente la généralisation du Tiers-Payant, dénonçant une étatisation croissante de la santé. Elle recueillera des milliers de signatures et devient un préalable à la constitution du Mouvement Pour la Santé de Tous (MPST), groupe de contestation cofondé par le SML et qui réunit une cinquantaine de syndicats médicaux et paramédicaux contre le projet de loi de santé. Le MPST sera le porte-parole d'une mobilisation d'ampleur qui débute fin 2014 par des boycotts de télétransmission, et s'achève en  par des grèves et une grande mobilisation générale sur tout le territoire.

Finalement adoptée, découle de la loi de santé une nouvelle convention quinquennale visant à entériner la réorganisation du système de santé avec les organisations signataires. En , les adhérents du SML refusent à 95 % de signer la nouvelle Convention médicale jugée trop en continuité de la loi de santé, et dangereuse pour l'exercice libéral.

Face au paysage politique de plus en plus contraignant qui se dessine pour la médecine libérale, le SML décide de placer la Santé au cœur de l'élection présidentielle 2017 à l'occasion de son Congrès de , et présente un programme politique visant à réformer la santé en France. Intitulé « La santé en France, l'urgence de vraies réformes », le document qui dévoile des propositions concrètes pour restructurer le système de santé français en appuyant la gouvernance nationale de la santé sur les libéraux veut répondre aux enjeux de santé publique. Ce dossier est présenté à l'ensemble des candidats à la primaire de la droite et du centre.

Dans la continuité de cette action, le SML participe, en , à la création du Collectif de Santé 2017, qui réunit 12 organisations professionnelles, institutions et entreprises spécialisées, pour appeler les candidats à mettre les questions de Santé au centre de la  campagne présidentielle.

Dates clés
 1981 – Création du Syndicat des Médecins Libéraux par le
 1993 – Le SML est reconnu représentatif des médecins libéraux spécialisés
 2002 – Le SML est reconnu représentatif des médecins libéraux généralistes
 2004 – Signature de l'accord sur la permanence des soins et la maîtrise médicalisée
 2005 – Signature de la convention instituant le parcours de soins et la maîtrise médicalisée
 2010 – Le SML devient le  syndicat en termes de représentativité des médecins libéraux en France
 2012 – Accord Interprofessionnel avec l'Association française des diabétiques et la Fédération des syndicats pharmaceutiques de France pour favoriser l'accès aux soins : création du « Comité Prévention Proximité Diabète »
 2014 – Lancement de la pétition contre le projet de loi de Santé de Marisol Touraine
 2015 – Le SML cofondateur du Mouvement Pour la Santé de Tous (MPST) qui réunit une cinquantaine de syndicats médicaux et paramédicaux contre la loi de Santé
 2016
 Les adhérents du SML refusent à 95 % de signer la nouvelle Convention médicale jugée trop étatisée et dans la continuité de la loi de santé,
 le SML présente un programme politique] visant à réformer la santé en France, et remis lors de son Congrès 2016 à l'ensemble des candidats de la primaire de la droite et du centre, les candidats de gauche n'ayant pas répondu,
 le SML participe à la création du Collectif de Santé 2017, qui réunit 12 organisations professionnelles, institutions et entreprises spécialisées, pour appeler les candidats à remettre au cœur de la présidentielle les questions de santé,
 le SML met en lumière les 300 « médecins oubliés de la République », qui, bien qu'ayant complété leurs études de médecine se voient refuser leur thèse de doctorat en raison d'une circulaire discriminante datée de .

Liste des présidents depuis la création du SML
 , depuis la création jusqu'en 2008
 , de 2008 à 2012
 , de 2012 à 2014
 , de 2014 à 2016
 , de 2016 à 2022
 Dr Sophie Bauer, depuis le 10 décembre 2022.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Syndicat médical en France
Organisme fondé en 1981


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Q: Angular controller being called twice (multiple times) I've got an issue with controller being called twice in an Ionic app
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        url: '/',
        templateUrl: 'views/presets/index.html',
        controller: 'PresetsIndexController'
    });

I try to navigate between states like this
$state.go('.', {presetType: 'default'});
// OR
$state.go('.', {presetType: 'custom'});

I can't find out why but the PresetsIndexController is being called twice just by updating the presetType param.
I've found someone that seem to have the same issue on this plunker http://plnkr.co/edit/znIa9XU9JsyUDjum2HHx?p=preview. To see the bug, open the javascript console and click on the reload icon, you should see hey twice in the output.
I've also watched the $stateChangeStart event but it seems to be fired once.
I've displayed the stack trace from the controller and the ion-nav-view seems to be the root of the call. So from what I've tried, it seems that ion-nav-view mess up with everything but no idea why nor how to solve this...
EDIT 1
If I move the presetType param to the final state, the controller isn't called twice.
.state('connected.presets', {
        abstract: true,
        url: '/presets',
        template: '<ion-nav-view/>'
    }).state('connected.presets.index', {
        cache: false,
        url: '/{presetType}',
        templateUrl: 'views/presets/index.html',
        controller: 'PresetsIndexController'
    })

But this is not a valid solution for me since I have other children of the connected.presets state that I want to inherit of the presetType.
EDIT 2
It seems that the problem comes from stateParams being changed on the parent state. My (shitty) workaround was to avoid changing stateParams on parent state...
I didn't want to update the ui-router lib since it's tied to my Ionic version. I think other devs had some trouble with ui-router too because Ionic dropped it in v2 and later.
I'm not happy with this workaround at all but hey, it's working.