Whatever gave you the idea that the BBC are Remainers? From Nigel Farage never being far away from a BBC studio to the fact that not once did they bother to explain the workings of the EU, one of the most democratic institutions on Earth, the BBC have been complicit in the Brexit campaign. Latterly, realising that the wheels are falling off Brexiting, sections of the BBC may be having second thoughts but it is too late, they have already done the damage.
"one of the most democratic institutions on Earth"? Are you sure about that Jack? Elected MEPs can't even propose legislation – that doesn't sound very democratic to me.
The EU currently has five (5) presidents – the unelected president of the European Central Bank, Goldman Sachs alumnus Mario Draghi, the unelected president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, the unelected Brussels Commissar and president of the Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the president of the Euro Summit / European Council, Donald Tusk, and the president of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani.
With over 18 million unemployed in the euro area and the savage budget cuts imposed by technocrats and bankers on the so called PIIGS nations the EU is really not something those interested in social justice can even entertain.
The implicit support for the cowardly violence by the Spanish police is just the latest show of the elite supporting bureaucratic apparatus the EU has become.
Despite Brexit negotiations allegedly proceeding, the project of EU military unification is going ahead regardless.


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Q: Tests fail: No service for type 'Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.IServiceProviderFactory`1[Autofac.ContainerBuilder]' has been registered When I run my E2E tests I get the exception:
No service for type 'Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.IServiceProviderFactory`1[Autofac.ContainerBuilder]' has been registered.

I've followed the official Autofac documentation of implementing the Autofac in projects using .NET versions 3+ and I can run the solution just fine, but my tests fail.
What's weird is that when I use a solution code from this topic, it's the opposite - I can't run the solution (returning IServiceProvider is invalid), but my tests succeed:
public IServiceProvider ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddMvc(options => options.EnableEndpointRouting = false)
            .SetCompatibilityVersion(CompatibilityVersion.Version_3_0);

    services.AddCustomDbContext(Configuration);
    services.AddOptions();

    var container = new ContainerBuilder();
    container.Populate(services);
    return new AutofacServiceProvider(container.Build());
}

What am I doing wrong?

A: After a long battle I managed to get it to work, all thanks to this article.
Your application needs to implement Autofac in .NET 3.0+ way and you need to
look at steps "Adding XUnit logging with WebApplicationFactory in ASP.NET Core 2.x" and "Using WebApplicationFactory in ASP.NET Core 3.0" from the article to make tests work, i.e. add the tests fixture and use it instead to create a client.

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BTS Pictures from Sinf e Aahan drama serial ahead of launch
New Ary Digital drama Sinf-e-Aahan is based on the lives of female army cadets and officers. Author Umera Ahmed has penned the script for the film. Short-term army cadets/officials are the focus of the show, which is an ISPR project.
With Sajal Aly, Yumna Zaidi, Syra Yousuf and Usman Mukhtar among the outstanding actors on drama cast, the drama boasts an impressive ensemble cast.
Shahzad Nasib & Sana Shahnawaz's Next level Entertainment productions and Humayun Saeed & his wife Samina Humayun Saeed's Six Sigma Plus are the jointly producing Sinf e Aahan drama serial. Nadeem Baig, a renowned Pakistani filmmaker, has directed the show, which premieres today on Ary Digital.
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Hurricane Maria halts crucial drug manufacturing in Puerto Rico, may spur shortages
Nathan Bomey
Puerto Rico's pharmaceutical industry came to a halt after Hurricane Maria devastated the island. Drug companies ranging from Eli Lilly to AstraZeneca rushed to assess damage and braced for the possibility of months of downtime.
The catastrophic storm, which wiped out electricity for the entire island, raises the prospect of short-term drug shortages if the industry can't quickly and temporarily shift manufacturing capacity off the U.S. territory.
Many, if not all, of the nearly 50 pharmaceutical plants on the island are effectively idled. Power isn't likely to be restored to the island for three to six months.
Although most factories run by global pharmaceutical companies have backup power generation, many employees are unavailable to help resume manufacturing because they face calamity in their personal lives.
"Companies are looking at what their production plans will be and what redundancies are in place," said Nicolette Louissaint, president of Healthcare Ready, a non-profit group that addresses emergency supply chain crises during the hurricane season. "They're beginning to look at how to best ensure there's continuity of operations."
Pharmaceuticals represented 72% of Puerto Rico's 2016 exports, valued at $14.5 billion, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The sector accounted for 25% of total U.S. pharmaceutical exports.
The Food and Drug Administration had no immediate comment on whether any drug shortages could occur.
But Jennifer Dooren, FDA's acting deputy director of operations, said the agency coordinated with pharmaceutical companies before the storm "to evaluate the potential."
"In the aftermath of the storm, we continue to work closely with pharmaceutical companies with manufacturing facilities located in Puerto Rico to prevent shortages of medically necessary drug products," she said in an email.
The phone line at the Pharmaceutical Industry Association of Puerto Rico was not working Friday, and the organization's president could not be reached for comment.
The island's pharmaceutical sector was in a slow decline after it lost federal tax benefits that were officially phased out in 2006.
Puerto Rico filed for the equivalent of federal bankruptcy protection this year as years of compounding debts, population loss, high taxes, private-sector declines and bureaucratic inertia piled up.
The island's financial crisis could deepen if Maria leaves a long-term mark on the pharmaceutical sector, according to S&P Global Ratings Puerto Rico analyst Dave Hitchcock. "It's a big concern," he said.
More:What it's like to ride out Hurricane Maria, the worst storm to hit Puerto Rico in nearly 100 years
More:Entire island of Puerto Rico without power after being pummeled by Hurricane Maria
More:Hurricane Maria: What we know, where it is going
Several major drug companies confirmed that their operations have been disrupted:
Eli Lilly: The Indianapolis-based company suspended "normal manufacturing operations" at its two Puerto Rico plants "as we evaluate the status of the island's infrastructure and the status of our employees," spokesperson Tamara Hull said in an email.
On-site generators keep power flowing. "We are still accounting for all employees, which is a slow process due to power and communications loss on the island," Hull said.
The company "follows emergency procedures that enable us to maintain adequate inventory at our manufacturing sites around the world to ensure a reliable supply of medicine for patients," she said.
AstraZeneca: The U.K. company's plant in Canovanas, Puerto Rico, halted production, though it has backup power available.
"Much of our efforts to resume full operations are dependent on several factors, including the health and safety of our employees in their time of need, the restoration of electricity to the island, as well as the re-opening of ports and other travel resources," spokeswoman Alexandra Engel said in an email.
It's too "early to understand" whether the site was significantly damaged, she said.
Despite the storm, the company does not anticipate any drug supply disruptions, Engel said. The company has 250 employees on the island.
Johnson & Johnson: The New Brunswick, N.J.-based health giant did not respond to a request for details on the status of its operations. The company said in a statement, "Our preliminary assessment is that our physical facilities fared very well, given the magnitude of the storm."
"We are partnering with local and federal authorities to monitor the state of the infrastructure, and we will continue to assess the situation," J&J said, adding that its employees' safety was its top priority.
Amgen: Amgen said Friday afternoon that it was "still working to determine the safety of our people" who work at the company's manufacturing plant in Juncos. Before the storm the company sent most of its local workers home to take shelter.
"At the same time, we are executing on a comprehensive and well-rehearsed business continuity plan for the site itself," the company said. "Based on what we know at the moment, we are confident there will be no product supply disruptions for patients around the world."
Amgen pledged "to return our operations in Puerto Rico to normal as quickly as possible."
Novartis: The company, which does not have manufacturing plants on the island, said it "is working to confirm all our people are accounted for and to provide them with assistance and support."
"We are working closely with our partners, distributors and the government in Puerto Rico to maintain business and supply continuity to the extent feasible," Novartis said.
Abbvie, Pfizer, Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb: Representatives at these companies did not immediately respond to requests seeking comment. GlaxoSmithKline declined to comment.
Follow USA TODAY reporter Nathan Bomey on Twitter @NathanBomey.


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2014 Pacific typhoon season
Typhoon Vongphong heads for the Japanese island of Okinawa leading to power losses and flight disruptions.
Sources: Reuters via ''Daily Mail
A 17-pound (8 kg) CH-53E transport helicopter window lands on school grounds in Okinawa, Japan, marking the second time in less than a week that an American aircraft part has fallen on a school there. Today, a child sustains "minor injuries". The United States Marine Corps apologizes.
Typhoon Vongfong leaves Japan as a tropical storm having caused at least one death, two people missing and 93 injured.
Typhoon Vongfong makes landfall in the Japanese island of Kyushu causing the evacuation of 150,000 people and disruption to plane and train services.
At least 28 people are injured on the Japanese islands of Okinawa and Kyushu with 150,000 evacuated as Typhoon Vongfong approaches.
Supertyphoon Vongfong becomes the most intense storm of the year as it heads for Japan.
Typhoon Neoguri leaves two dead on Okinawa as it departs for Japan's main islands threatening heavy rain.
Japan braces for the impact of Typhoon Neoguri which is expected to hit Okinawa and then Kyushu on Tuesday.
The "Yomiuri" reports that Japan and the United States have given up on plans to relocate Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from Okinawa by 2014.
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns after breaking his campaign promise to remove a United States military base from Okinawa.
Nearly 100,000 people rally in Okinawa, Japan, demanding the removal of an American base from the island.


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New England Patriots Vs. Denver Broncos Preview
The 10-0 New England Patriots head to Mile High to face off against the 8-2 Denver Broncos.
By: Miles Montgomery | Friday Nov 27, 2015
The New England Patriots (10-0) will travel to face the Denver Broncos (8-2) at Sports Authority Field at Mile High this Sunday night.
First-year Denver Broncos head coach Gary Kubiak announced earlier in the week that quarterback Peyton Manning will sit out for the second consecutive game as he continues to rehab foot and rib injuries.
This marks the third time since the 2008 season that Manning and Tom Brady won't play head-to-head. Barring a potential playoff matchup, last year will likely have been the last time the future hall-of-fame quarterbacks will meet. With Manning in his 18th season and Brady in his 16th, each player is closer to retirement.
Manning has completed 59.9 percent of his passes for 2,180 yards, nine touchdowns, and a mind-boggling 17 interceptions in arguably the worst season in his career. Manning's injury will thrust fourth-year backup quarterback Brock Osweiler into the starting lineup against the Patriots. Osweiler has completed 66.7 percent of his passes for 396 yards, three touchdowns and one interception in two games played this season.
Brady is the leading candidate for his third MVP award after completing 66 percent of his passes for 3,310 yards, 25 touchdowns and four interceptions in just 10 games. The Patriots offense faces an uphill battle against the No. 1 defense however with three of their top offensive weapons sitting out due to injuries.
The Patriots offense suffered a huge blow after news that Julian Edelman will miss six-to-eight weeks with a broken bone in his foot. Receiver Aaron Dobson will join Dion Lewis on season-ending injured reserve after he suffered a torn ACL against the Buffalo Bills last week. Veteran receiver Danny Amendola has been a limited participant in practice this week after he sprained his knee in a non-contact injury last week against the Buffalo Bills. He is day-to-day and will likely be a game-time decision to play this week.
The Patriots are 2-5 against the Broncos on the road, with their last appearance being the 26-16 AFC Championship loss in the 2013 postseason. The Patriots can clinch the AFC East division with a win Sunday night. A loss would drop them to a 10-1 record, but they would still hold at least a one-game advantage over the 8-2 Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC race for the No. 1 seed.
The Patriots defense hopes to force Osweiler into making errant throws and turnovers and will try to help pick up the slack of the major injuries that has limited their offense. They must limit big plays, keep Osweiler in the pocket and force turnovers and punts.
The Patriots defense has been solid this season, despite losses of cornerbacks Darrelle Revis, Brandon Browner, Kyle Arrington, defensive tackle Vince Wilfork and linebackers Akeem Ayers and Johnathan Casillas. The defense ranks in the top-5 in total yards (3rd), rushing yards (1st), first downs allowed (5th), and sacks (4th), with 32 sacks this season. The defense also improved to first in the NFL with 18 points allowed per game.
The Denver Broncos announced that veteran defensive end Demarcus Ware will miss his third consecutive game with a back injury, which should be a relief for the Patriots' depleted offensive line. If the Patriots can protect Brady, they could take advantage of the loss to the Broncos' pass rush with Ware sitting out.
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Q: How to know all info DHCP returns? If I am correct, DHCP also returns the SNTP address. Is there a command in CMD (DOS...) that is like a "test" DHCP, meaning, that I can run it and will tell me everything that DHCP is returning? The IP address, the gateway address, the SNTP address, etc.
Thanks,

A: First of all, make sure that the SNTP address is configured in your dhcp server.
you can install wireshark and debug the dhcp packets and look for option 4 (thats the option for SNTP server).
this is not possible to see with dos
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A graduate of Interior Architecture and Design of the Académie Charpentier – Paris, Géraldine Prieur holds a bachelor's degree in Art History and Archeology from the Ecole du Louvre. Following this she obtained a Certificate of Fine Art, Fashion Design & Interior Design, from Hammersmith & West London College – London.
Interior Designer for the Saudi Arabian royal family in 1995, the Kennedy family in New York along with other celebrities in Paris, London and Geneva, she received the "Excellence Design Export – France Qatar 2000", prize in Doha.
In 2012 Géraldine Prieur created the ROUGE ABSOLU brand.
Her first numbered and stamped furniture collection was presented at the FIAC at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2014 and then at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2015.
Her presence on covers and advertorials in the international press and on social networks makes her one of the most visionary and imaginative Architect-Designers in the world today.
Anti-conformist and audacious, Géraldine Prieur has established herself as a countercurrent in a uniform and featureless era, bringing the IMPERTINENCE OF LUXURY, the hallmark of ROUGE ABSOLU.
Embracing complete freedom of expression, she refuses the norms and brings elegance through a sensual attitude.
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Last weekend, the Marsa Cricket Club welcomed Battersea Badgers from South-West London. The visitors were victorious with two hard fought victories.
In Saturday's 40 over match, Battersea reached a decent tally of 208 for 8. Ben Cornish top scored with an excellent 57 runs, while Robin Mackrell (32), Peter Warman (30) and Andrew Thorpe (29) made valuable contributions. For Marsa, Sid Anand took 3 wickets, while the impressive keeper John Grima snared 3 stumpings and a catch.
In reply, Marsa were to fall just 17 runs short, with a host of batsmen failing to make a significant score. Ravi Sharma (38) and Ronnie Sacco (33 not out) were the major contributors. Rory Thomas took the bowling honours for Battersea with 2 wickets.
Sunday's 35 over match began with Marsa batting first. Feroz Ahmed resisted the tight Battersea bowling for over 20 overs to score 33 runs. Ravi Sharma hit a brisk 18 runs, while academy player Ali Hamza scored an encouraging 10. Stewart McLuskey captured 3 wickets for Battersea as Marsa finished on a modest 139 runs all out. The visitors' reply started well enough with Dollimore and Jinks contributing 37 for the first wicket. Nick Foord (20) and Rory Tomas (33 not out) sealed victory for Battersea with nearly 4 overs remaining. For Marsa, Ali Hamza and Ed Manning finished with two wickets apiece.
Battersea Badgers 208 for 8 (Cornish 57; Anand 3-42) defeated Marsa CC 191 for 7. (Sharma 38, R.Sacco 33*; Thomas 2-20). Player of the Match: Ben Cornish (Battersea).
Battersea Badgers CC 141 for 6 (Thomas 33; Hamza 2-12) defeated Marsa CC 139. (F.Ahmed 33, S.McLuskey 3-14). Player of the Match: S.McLuskey (Battersea).
Umpires: Les White and George Honey.
This week sees Marsa take on visitors Woodlands CC with a T20 on Friday at 2pm and a 30 over match on Saturday at 11am. The MCA Junior Academy also resumes on Saturday at 9am.


PowerA presents its new range of cases for iPhone 5 set in the Star Wars universe. Each represents a different character, having four available: Darth Vader, R2D2, C3PO and Chewbacca.
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Annual AALS Meeting
Several BYU Law faculty members participated in the 2016 annual meeting for the American Association of Law Schools (AALS), January 6-9 in New York City. This year's theme was, "From Challenge to Innovation: American Legal Education in 2016."
Faculty members Christine Hurt, RonNell Andersen Jones, Brett Scharffs, Gordon Smith, and Michalyn Steele serve on section boards. Professor Hurt is chair of the section on Securities Regulations; Professor Jones was elected to the executive committee of the Mass Communicatins Law sSection; Professor Scharffs is on the executive committee of the Human Rights Section; Professor Smith, chair-elect of the Trusts and Estates Section, was named new chair for the Transactional Law and Skills Section and was honored as an "Exemplary Mentor" by the Business Association Section; Professor Steele was named chair of the section on Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples.
Professor Matthew Jennejohn spoke on "Transactional Lawyering and Contractual Innovation" in the section on Transactional Law and Skills. Professor RonNell Anderson Jones was the senior commenter on the "Legislation and Law of the Political Process" panel. Professor Hurt moderated a panel discussing "The Future of Securities Regulation: Innovation, Regulation, and Enforcement" in the section on Securities Regulation. Professor Aaron Nielson presented a work-in-progress, "New Voices in Administrative Law," during the section on Administrative Law. Dean James Rasband presented in the AALS workshop for Site Evaluators.


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Bengals hope to make natural move
Posted: 11:30 a.m.
He is the Bengals' answer to Roy Hobbs.
His father, who ended up the higher draft pick, put a football in his crib when he was barely born, watched "Junior" move it around with his legs and then watched him play whatever the coach wanted.
H-Back. Quarterback. Defensive end. And in basketball, he was the shooter his father never was as a hellacious 6-6 wing sniper.
His position coach for the last three weeks, Ricky Hunley, a first-round pick himself, calls him "a natural."
"I think he's found a home," says Hunley of Robert Geathers Jr.'s improbable mid-year switch to linebacker. "When you have smart players, you can make a move like that."
It's being called a permanent move, but is it if it's done out of necessity? Hunley says the coaches have talked about moving Geathers before, yet that doesn't mean the Bengals are moving closer to a 3-4. But with the 265-pound pair of Geathers and Ahmad Brooks, it would be closer to 3-4 dimensions.
"It wouldn't be anything new," Hunley says of the 3-4. "It would be just how much we play it."
Geathers, now a fifth-year player with a defensive end's contract playing strong-side linebacker, is one of those selfless smart guys the Patriots, Ravens and Steelers always seem to have on defense. His versatility and athleticism tempt coaches to put him anywhere, and his instincts and knowledge confirm their desires.
"He has all the ingredients," Hunley says when asked if the Bengals could eventually have a Pro Bowl linebacker. "He's made big strides in the last couple of weeks."
That's how long ago the Bengals linebacker situation made them so desperate in the Monday night rubble of New England that they had to move their best sacker out of defensive end and put him at SAM backer.
With both SAM starters (Rashad Jeanty and Lemar Marshall) on the shelf, Dhani Jones in the system two weeks, and guys on the street like Ed Hartwell and Earl Everett deemed not versatile enough to help, head coach Marvin Lewis went to Geathers during the bye week and told his $14 million left end that he was now a SAM for the indefinite future.
Except on passing downs, which is important to him.
Geathers
"That's one thing we talked about," says Geathers of the conversation with Lewis. "He told me he won't take that away from me, put my hand down and rush on third down. I'll still be able to go after the quarterback."
Gone, it would seem, is the chance for that big sack year. Geathers has been smart enough to endure another switch.
After his rookie year, the team made him the starting right end and moved him to tackle on passing downs. When he had just three sacks, Lewis put him back on the edge on passing downs last season and his 10.5 sacks were the most by a Bengal since the year he was born in 1983.
Now after four games as the starting left end...
Some players would clearly bristle. Any angst is smoothed by the $30 million extension over the offseason, $14 million in the first year.
But while Hunley gives you the standard scouting terms (aggressive, fast, explosive) the one thing that the coaches love about the guy has nothing to do with checkmark qualities.
Professionalism. Focus. Brains.
"He's a football player," Hunley says. "He'll knock the crap out of you. They don't run at him. He's an impact player that way."
Geathers shrugs. After getting over the surprise, he says the challenge of playing a new position and getting the chance to get "something rolling on defense" has sold him.
"I know he was looking for one of those years where he'd make it to the Pro Bowl with 12 or 15 sacks," says Geathers Sr. "I'm sure that when Lewis went to him that he was looking for something to help the whole defense and he's a team player."
Always has been. Senior says it's not the first time Junior has been in this spot.
"He had to make a decision," Senior says of those glory days at Carvers Bay High. "Quarterback or get 25 sacks as a defensive end. At the time, they had a pretty strong offensive system with a good quarterbacks coach and I think he thought he could help the team more by playing defense. He's just not that selfish."
Twenty-three sacks later, 14 as a junior and nine as a senior, he was at Georgia and developed enough that the Bengals drafted him at age 20 in the fourth round in 2004.
Hunley
"He understands the basic concepts of four underneath and three deep," Hunley says. "Cover 2. Cover 1. He's got good knowledge of concepts. It's just a matter of getting to the right spot. Now you're just going to make tackles and not looking at the quarterback. It's been a real good adjustment."
The kid, and he still is because he had 17 NFL sacks before turning 24 in August, knows football because he's always been around it in Georgetown, S.C.
When he was a toddler, Senior's back gave out and he retired from the USFL's Boston Breakers. His Uncle Jumpy had 62 sacks in 13 NFL seasons, a forerunner of the athletic 21st-century defensive tackles and a pass rusher so good his moves had names. After Jumpy shredded his Achilles showing Junior some moves in the backyard, the Geathers family is all watching Kwame, a junior at Carvers.
"My baby boy. He's 6-6, 320 pounds and every school wants him," Senior says. "He looks just like the tackle, Willie Anderson. I mean, he looks like his twin. When we went to the hotel in Cincinnati for one of the games last year, a guy there is calling him, 'Willie.' I told him he's only in 10th grade."
The middle brother is built like Jumpy, 6-8, and he's a defensive end at South Carolina. Everybody's a natural in this house. Before Senior went to South Carolina State a generation before, he set high school records for the discus. Then the Bills made him a third-round pick in 1981 and the back went out.
"I was bigger. I was about 6-6, 300. I was more of a defensive tackle," Senior says. "I liked it. But Junior loves it. He studies it. He's always doing it. You've got to play where you're comfortable and he's always hustling around. He likes that."
The Bengals still want the sacks to come. Hunley thinks it's easier to rush the quarterback from a standing five-yard start and he believes Geathers becomes a big blitzing threat. Junior says he just has to get used to it because he's spent so long reading only one key, the tackle's shoulder, and now he has to be aware of so many other things, like pulling guards.
It's not as easy as it looks. Hunley, a first-round pick, couldn't make the switch from inside to outside backer because he could never change his view from how things looked unfolding from the inside. Hunley, so used to looking in the backfield for his keys, would suddenly find blockers already on him on the outside.
"The great blitzers see that it's a step-by-step progression," he says. "I've got to beat you before I get to the next guy. A lot of guys are looking at the quarterback and they never see (the blocker)."
And Hunley is convinced that Geathers can be a great blitzer because he's so powerful. He doesn't even worry about Geathers in pass coverage because his ball skills are so good.
Geathers dropped well enough in a zone that in the final game of his rookie year he picked off Eagles quarterback Jeff Blake and ran it 36 yards for a touchdown. Just this year in the opener he sold out in another zone drop, stretched out, caught a tip, scrambled to his feet, and went 30 yards the other way.
"I can work in space. I'm not afraid to drop in coverage to break on the ball," he says. "I think I'm athletic enough to get in space and make something happen."
Which is a big reason why the Bengals think this can work. But not the biggest.
"He studies it. He works at it," Hunley says. "When you have guys who invest, they tend to get better than guys that just punch the clock."


1/2 Moluccan (Indonesia), 1/2 Dutch. Jitske Schols's nephew (the son of the artist's brother and his wife), 17 years old and the epitome of adolescence: insanely spunky, but oh so sweet and gentle. That's what she tries to capture in his portrait. His mother is full-blooded Moluccan but was born in the Netherlands, in theconcentration camp Vught.
After a successful 20-year career in communications (The Body Shop, Schiphol Airport) Jitske Schols changed course in 2013 and became a fulltime freelance photographer. Although she had always loved her previous job, this new step has made her a happier person. And happy she should be: within a year after her career change she was proclaimed New Dutch Photography Talent 2015 by GUP, and within two years, she was shortlisted for the Athens Photo Festival.


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Dell Joins AT&T to Further Develop Airship, Metal3-io, Ironic
Edge / IoT / Kubernetes / Networking
20 Aug 2019 3:00am, by Mike Melanson
Dell Technologies has joined with AT&T to collaborate on a number of open source technologies that the companies say will contribute to edge computing and 5G deployments, namely the Airship platform integration software, and the bare-metal provisioning tools Metal3-io (for Kubernetes) and OpenStack Ironic (OpenStack).
The addition of Dell will provide a level of hardware expertise that will help build momentum on the way to Airship 2.0, explained Ryan Van Wyk, AT&T assistant vice president of network cloud software engineering at AT&T, in an interview with The New Stack.
"The net effect is we're helping to accelerate the deployment of open infrastructure that supports [software defined network] workloads. We see it as a flywheel effect in terms of making it easier for folks to deploy infrastructure and that makes it easier for them to grow their SDN ecosystem," said Van Wyk. "Dell's going to bring some focus to an area that's core to their competency. When it comes to working on how to manage the RAID, the discs, the servers, the BIOS configurations, and validation of the hardware itself, and then integrate some of that stuff natively back into the Kubernetes Cluster API, those are things that are going to help us further our mission of being able to declare the infrastructure and then have Airship go realize that. That's a big add to us."
Van Wyk pointed to edge computing and 5G as a prime example of a realm where Dell's contributions could have an impact. By making it easier to automate and deploy infrastructure to a variety of hardware on the edge, the process of rolling out a 5G network easier and more efficient. Dell's hardware expertise, as opposed to its hardware offerings, will help accelerate the roadmap for Airship 2.0. He expects that the team will work on a RedFish communications API integration into Airship by the end of this year, with hardware validation, BIOS, and RAID configuration sometime next year, with a 2.0 release expected by the middle of next year.
In its efforts to arrive at Airship 2.0, however, Van Wyk emphasized the team's open-mindedness in adopting the best-of-breed technologies, rather than forcing its own solutions.
"Airship's very focused on making sure that we adopt entrenched upstream projects. We want to make sure that if something's best of breed that we integrate that into Airship and make it very easy for operators to leverage. When we started the Airship project, there was really no answer to how to deploy a resilient Kubernetes cluster and manage it, so we created the project called Promenade," said Van Wyk. "Since then there's been a lot of coalescing around Kubeadm. Although the project says itself that you need to build some sort of wrapper around that to make it ready for the enterprise, in Airship 2.0 we're going to start to integrate Kubeadm to replace a lot of the guts of Promenade and then do the wrappers around that to make it easy for operators to use. We're very focused on how to integrate with the Cluster API and take advantage of native providers to that Cluster API."


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Movistar+ screen the series Perfect Life and two fiction films as yet unreleased in Spain
64th Seminci, Special Screeings
Monday, 14 October - 2019
Javier Alonso Sánchez, regional director in Castilla y León of Telefónica, and Óscar Puente, mayor of Valladolid, ratify the collaboration between Seminci and Movistar+
The platform will be presenting three chapters from the series Perfect Life, co-directed by Leticia Dolera, and the Spanish premiere of an Jang Joon-Hwan's 1987 and Karen Gillian's The Party is Just Beginning.
10/14 / 2019.- The 64th Valladolid International Film Week, scheduled from 19 through 26 October, will signal the beginning of the collaboration between Seminci and Movistar+. The subscription platform will present its recently released original series Perfect Life, as well as two feature films not yet released in our country and exclusively available from the platform.
The latter's presence at Seminci through the Movistar + Section will include the screening of the first three chapters of Perfect Life, a series devised, co-written and co-directed (with Elena Martín and Ginesta Guindal) by Leticia Dolera, who also plays one of the fiction's lead characters alongside Celia Freijeiro and Aixa Villagrán. Awarded at the Cannesseries festival as Best Series, where it also harvested a Special Prize for the performance of the leading trio, the show addresses the vicissitudes experienced by three women at a turning point in their lives.
1987, by Jang Joon-Hwan
Movistar + will be also presenting two feature films. On the one hand, 1987, a Korean feature film where Jang Joon-hwan reconstructs a real event that happened in his country: the death of a young student in the course of a police interrogation (an episode hidden by the authorities). The case sparked off a journalistic investigation and an outbreak of protests that eventually overthrew the government. The film, which became a blockbuster in Korea with more than 1 million viewers within the first four days after its release, features actors Kim Yun-seok, Ha Jung-woo, Kim Tae-ri, Park Hee-soon, Lee Hee- joon and Yoo Hae-jin in the main roles.
Additionally, the Movistar+ fest section will be hosting the Spanish premiere of The Party is Just Beginning, the long-feature directorial and screenwriting debut of Scottish actress Karen Gillan. The film tells the story of a teenager who is struggling to overcome the death of her best friend in the oppressive atmosphere of Inverness, where her days are filled with a hardly stimulating job and her night outings involve plenty of alcohol and sex with strangers.
Now debutant filmmaker, Karen Gillian is best known for her performances in box-office hits like Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle or the TV cult series Doctor Who. The actress returns to her hometown in northern Scotland to direct and star in this intimate story, with doses of black humor, about the lack of human connection in today's society. The film was nominated in 2018 for best film at the BAFTA Scotland awards.


Football speaker, manager and ex-England player Andy Sinton began his playing career as a schoolboy; playing for the England under 15's and going on to play for England on an international level. Before retiring and establishing himself as a sports speaker Sinton spent his career playing for numerous British teams up and down the country: beginning at Cambridge Sinton broke the record for the club by becoming the first member of their youth team to make it onto the England international team.
As Sinton grew his talent and career developed and he soon found himself playing for more well-known clubs such as Sheffield Wednesday and Queen's Park Rangers .
Now a manager of professional teams and a prolific football speaker, Andy Sinton is probably best known for his time spent at the North London club Tottenham Hotspurs ; alongside this Sinton went onto achieve 12 caps for England, playing and scoring in a number of high profile international games. Sinton is a notable after dinner speaker not only for his eclectic professional career but also for the longevity of his playing career; Sinton did not retire and become a full time football speaker until 1992 after playing for Wolverhampton and Burton Albion , when he was well into his forties.
It is not just this aspect of his career that make Andy Sinton a particularly interesting sports speaker, as a manager Sinton has worked with both Telford United AFC and Fleet Town , where he had previously worked as the club's football development officer. Having worked on both sides of the changing room Sinton has an unusual and interesting insight into the inner workings of football, teams and player confidence.
As a football speaker Sinton provides his audience with a brief preview into the world of professional football, his after dinner speaker presentations are ideal for football fans or football themed events and would make an excellent centre piece to any corporate event.
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Lecturer, Art History Julian Jason Haladyn is a Canadian writer and independent curator. He is the author of Boredom and Art: Passions of the Will To Boredom (Zero 2014) and Marcel Duchamp: –tant donn's (Afterall 2010 as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters on art and critical theory. With Miriam Jordan-Haladyn he co-authored The Films and Videos of Jamelie Hassan (Blue Medium Press 2010), a publication that accompanied their curated video program of Hassan's moving image works that toured Canada.


Streamlined approaches are needed for more robust and reliable designs with better accuracy and predictability.
How will you design your next generation of products and keep pace with rapidly evolving market needs, while managing your margins? Many industries face these same design challenges. The speed of new product development—especially for meeting complex new design requirements—has never been more demanding. Historically, the rise in product development efforts has been incremental, but the bar is now much higher for producing new and compelling products with better performance at a lower cost.
While it is certainly challenging, the opportunities are wide open and provide manufacturers with the unique prospect of defining and differentiating their future products. Smart technologies enable countless new applications, driving a range of end-use market sectors and boosting sales. To meet these challenges manufacturers need flexible, yet accurate and predictive tools to design smart, low-cost, energy-efficient products and meet shrinking market windows.
package/system design. As an example, a large electronics design organization may employ at least three design groups, including IC design, package design and printed circuit board (PCB) design. Typically, engineers in each of these disciplines work in isolation using independent design flows, but ultimately all design disciplines must deliver their parts to converge into a single working system. It is at this point a comprehensive multi-scale chip-package-system (CPS) flow and design sign-off methodology becomes a distinct advantage, giving developers the ability to simulate various physical phenomena across chips, packages and systems, including power optimization, signal integrity, electrostatic discharge (ESD), electromagnetic interference/electromagnetic compatibility (EMI/EMC), heat transfer, fluid dynamics and structural mechanics.
Traditional methodology (top) vs. chip-package-system flow (bottom) for sign-off.
With the increasing demand for smaller, lower-power portable devices, designing components in an isolated manner is no longer a valid approach. Engineers cannot work from the abstract of a schematic for individual components; they must consider the geometric description of the actual system to include all physical effects. This means being able to visualize the entire physical design, insert appropriate components (such as surface mount devices, connectors and ICs), and run frequency-domain and transient simulations with all the electromagnetic effects included.
However, these requirements are not just related to signal and power integrity. Systems designers also must account for RF and EMI effects, as most modern electronic devices contain both digital and RF. Engineers must perform comprehensive analyses to determine thermal, stress, shock and vibration effects. Using a flow that supports the design from layout, inclusion of signal integrity, power integrity, EMI, and 3D integration is key. It also must allow early system design exploration and prototyping to help designers understand the various components needed and to predict system behavior and cost very early in the design cycle.
There are a number of advantages to using a CPS methodology. For instance, it is possible to import a package/board layout, add components including ICs, and run circuit and system simulation from within that environment. This physical approach provides a more scalable and usable framework compared to the traditional schematic- or netlist-based approach. Engineers can populate the layout just as it is done in production and test. Of course, the schematic is there if needed to link to abstracted subsystems, drivers, receivers, etc. Once assembled, any arrangement of the chip + package + board can be inserted into a 3D design (such as a housing or full 3D product) for full 3D system analysis. Wireless antenna patterns, EMI, ESD and full-system integrity can be performed. So, 3D integration now happens during simulation, not later in the cycle when it is more difficult to make changes.
The CPS approach really benefits the entire electronics supply chain, especially IC suppliers and system integrators; providing a streamlined solution for achieving more robust and reliable designs with greater accuracy and predictability.
—Aveek Sarkar is vice president of engineering and support at Apache Design, Inc. (subsidiary of ANSYS); Lawrence Williams is director of product management at ANSYS Inc.


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Rodrigo Ruiz (b1988)
Behold the stars
Kerenza Peacock (violin), Huw Watkins (piano), Laura van der Heijden (cello)
Recording details: January 2020
Britten Studio, Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Produced by Nicholas Parker
Engineered by Mike Cox
Interview with Rodrigo Ruiz
Rodrigo Ruiz waves to me on the Zoom screen from his former home in Mexico. There he and his wife found themselves in lockdown when the pandemic struck earlier this year. Normally their base is Rome: 'We were visiting family and fortunately have been able to stay with them,' Rodrigo says – and it is from this distance that he must watch the release of this recording, the second-ever album devoted to his somewhat unusual music. The unsuspecting listener might be surprised to find a 32-year-old composer writing in 2020 along tonal musical principles that were second nature some two centuries ago.
The programme in this album clearly shows Rodrigo´s roots in the traditions of Beethoven and Brahms, but with individual twists that clearly indicate we are in fact on new territory. 'It's the music that comes naturally to me; I find that tonal music speaks to me very directly. After all, even the most inexperienced listener can perfectly enjoy a Mozart sonata with no need for sophisticated analyses. That's important to me because I think music does have a very special power, part of which is to be able to transform the world around us and our own inner worlds.'
Francesco Telli remains his sole composition mentor – other than Beethoven. 'To make up for lack of a teacher in my childhood, I always said if you want to learn, go to the best, and to me Beethoven is the best!' Rodrigo´s close study of Beethoven has informed his own musical choices, frequently in ways that present an intriguing reinterpretation of these methods. 'We're constantly told that Beethoven broke the rules,' he says, 'but I think that often those rules have been suggested with hindsight. I see it more as a matter of one big principle: cause and effect. Everything he writes depends on that.
'I also find the concept of dissonance to be rather limiting and misleading. It is more helpful to think of expansion and contraction – the whole universe expands and contracts. Our own process of breathing, our very life cycle, are small iterations of this universal principle. When a note that did not exist in the home key comes into play, it is better understood as an expansion of that micro-universe, and not as a dissonance that irrupts into it.'
These concepts are at the core of what Rodrigo aims for in his own music, which emerges diatonic rather than chromatic, yet often giving the impression that it is unfurling unexpected growth from a modest starting point.
The three works in this recording were written in 2017-19 and all feature the violinist Kerenza Peacock as a guiding force. The Violin Sonata sprang from her specific request, if with a twist: 'Kerenza asked me to write a piece for her,' says Rodrigo, 'but actually she specified that it should not be a sonata. She really wanted a short, piece but fortunately she is a great friend who lets me get away with these things.' It was Kerenza, too, who according to Rodrigo asked for the work's most unusual feature: the scordatura in which the instrument's G string is tuned down a tone lower than usual, to a bottom F, lending the work's soundworld an extra depth and darkness.
The sonata is a substantial piece in four movements. After a slow introduction and lyrical first movement with pastoral atmosphere, there comes a recitativo that Rodrigo decided would offer a necessary contrast at this point. The busy, Schumannesque third movement is deceptive, tricking the ear into expecting it to be a finale. The true conclusion, however, is the slow movement proper, ending the work on a note of beauty and transformation. 'The central idea,' says Rodrigo, 'came from the image of a starry night by a lake transforming into dawn. But of course that image isn't necessary. Everyone should simply enjoy the music in their own way.' It is an image, nonetheless, that attracts him strongly; his first CD was entitled An everlasting dawn, in which he writes: 'Night gives way to day, sadness to joy, defeat to hope and death to rebirth.'
To make up for not having produced initially the short work for which Kerenza had asked, Rodrigo elected to write A riveder le stelle. This, unusually for a violin and piano work, is accompanied by poetic quotations: the piece was inspired by Canto XXXIV of Dante's Inferno: 'Literature is another great passion of mine', says Rodrigo, and I often try to unite it with music.' Indeed, he is currently studying for a doctorate on the subject of mythology and hints that he has potential operas in the pipeline for which he is writing his own libretti.
The main these of this piece is conceived as a setting of the words 'Vexilla regis prodeunt inferno', announcing the inexorable approach of Lucifer's standards through the mists. 'I tried to recreate the idea of that misty expanse, suggested in Dante's poem', Rodrigo says. 'Then I break up the themes: he's hearing it at first at a distance and I imagined what it would be like to hear it in a great cavern from far away, where you can't see very well, you hear bits of it, there's an echo …' The result is a rapt, bleak, inwards piece that exploits a range of expressive violinistic effects, including natural harmonics and col legno bowing.
Last, by no means least, the Piano Trio calls to mind the rich, robust harmonies of Brahms. It is, says Rodrigo, an entirely abstract work, rather than possessing an underlying programme, and like many of his pieces it started life as a piano improvisation. Central to its organic language are the motifs of a falling third (hence, perhaps, the 'Brahmsiness' of its sound) and key relationships based on the interval of a second. Nevertheless, it was not Brahms but, once more, Beethoven that provided the chief model, notably Rodrigo's study of the modulation schemes in the Piano Sonata, Op 53, the 'Waldstein', in which ambiguous twists and turns of context affect the way that harmonic relationships are perceived and in which, as ever, nothing happens by accident. As in the Violin Sonata, the opening movement is spacious and songful; there follows a vigorous scherzo in the minor, which also has a Brahmsian flavour with vivid syncopations and light-fingered piano arpeggios.
The final movement consists of a theme and character variations on a lavish scale. Rodrigo remarks that the variation form is not a natural favourite for him; he still seems slightly surprised at his own inclination towards using it here. 'I came up with a theme in A major that was thematically connected to the first movement,' he says, 'and while im provising on it I was particularly pleased with an idea that became the variation in which the piano is the most prominent instrument, appearing near the end after the Adagio. In order to accommodate this, I chose variation form for the movement.' Nevertheless, the variations are not numbered and the form is relatively relaxed and flexible: 'Some variations are more defined than others,' Rodrigo says, laughing. This typically invigorating update of an ever-popular classical format brings the trio to a rousing conclusion.
Jessica Duchen © 2021


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Hadid-Designed Wooden Stadium Approved
In a six-to-four vote, the Stroud District Council, of England, approved what's being dubbed the world's first wooden football stadium, which is slated to be built for the Nailsworth, Gloucestershire-based soccer team, the Forest Green Rovers Football Club.
Last year, the club was named the "greenest football club in the world."
In 2016, the Forest Green Rovers Football Club launched a design competition for the construction of a sustainable football stadium. Zaha Hadid Architects was announced as the winning firm, revealing an entirely sustainably sourced wooden stadium.
Forest Green Rovers' new stadium has been given the go ahead.
The plans for the entirely-wooden stadium were approved last night, despite concerns over its impact.
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However, after the design was blocked by councilors in June 2019 due to concerns over sustainability, noise, traffic, view distraction and the ability to sufficiently make up the loss of green fields it would be constructed on. The architecture firm changed the design to include an all-weather pitch, as well as an update to the landscaping strategy.
"Our new stadium will have the lowest carbon content of any stadium in the world," said club chair, Dale Vince, who is also the founder of green electricity company Ecotricity. "This really will be the greenest football stadium in the world."
In using sustainably sourced wood, the 5,000-seat stadium will be built using timber materials—including the structure's cantilevering roof and louvred cladding—and aims to be carbon neutral or even carbon negative.
"The importance of using wood is not only that it's a naturally occurring material, it has very low carbon content—about as low as it gets for a building material," added Vince.
According to reports, the stadium will be covered by a transparent membrane, intended to minimalize shadows while also allowing grass to grow under the sunlight. Plans for the project also involve the construction of a 1,700-space parking garage and two grass training pitches.
The stadium is slated to be built in Gloucestershire and will be apart of the new Eco Park, a green technology business park planned for junction 13 of the M5 motorway.
Other Sustainable Timber Projects
Last month, the University of Arkansas announced the completion of a new $79.6 million residence hall, built using cross-laminated timber. The structure has since been dubbed the largest mass timber building in the U.S.
According to reports, all timber used in that project was reportedly sourced responsibly, using European spruce, pine and fir for the structural components, while cypress primarily outfitted the interior.
In September, the city of Milwaukee Plan Commission and the Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee unanimously approved changes to Ascent (a high-grade timber-based mixed-use tower), making what is slated to be the tallest wood building in North America, even taller.
The change will increase the tower's height by two stories, adjusting the height by only 9 feet, totaling 250 feet.
In June, Delta Land Development and Peter Busby from architectural firm Perkins+Will announced initial plans for what Canada expects to be the world's tallest hybrid timber building. If approved, the building would stand 30-40 stories, at approximately 120 meters (393 feet) and is designed for approximately 136 condominium apartments and 34 purpose-built rentals.
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This study develops a comprehensive model to predict and explain the use of collaborative technologies (CT) and the task performance of individual users as a result of using CT. The integrated model attempts to capture how the individual user's extent of use of CT is a function of both the technical features and the structures embedded within or created by the interactions among the technology, group, and organization. The model developed is tested using data collected from a national bank with 279 members working in 40 different workgroups. A hierarchical linear model (HLM) is used to test the hypotheses generated from the model. Results show that our integrated model provides a more complete explanation of the use of CT and task performance beyond those of the individual-level factors. The study is an early effort to develop an integrated theory to provide comprehensive insight into individual use of CT in a group or organizational context. © 2012 INFORMS.


On Monday, 21st December 2015, five bands will compete in the Tipperary Battle of the Bands in Hayes Hotel, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.
Haven, Minus One, Small Fish, Strings and Things and The Drive, will be battling it out for the winning prize of a 3-day professional recording opportunity and support slot performance in The Academy, Dublin. Our MC for the night's event is the well-known model, DJ and TV3 Xposé presenter Michelle Doherty.
The Tipperary Battle of the Bands will be held in the ICON nightclub and the first band will take to the stage at 9pm, with drink promotions and music 'til late. People attending the competition have the opportunity to win a variety of concert tickets as well as supporting their favourite bands by voting for them on the night. Cost at the door will be €10.
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As one of the additional measures to support businesses affected by the Coronavirus outbreak, Rishi Sunak announced last week that HMRC is to step in and pay up to 80% of furloughed staff wages up to a monthly maximum of £2,500 per employee.
Initially, this sounded as if HMRC was going to underwrite 80% of our salaries bill; let's be clear, this is not what is on offer. What is on offer is the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. (CJRS) The following notes cover the basic terms and conditions.
What does "furloughed" mean?
Our first observation is that the word furlough has no legal significance. After reading the GOV.UK notes it is clear that this refers to staff that are laid-off as they cannot work during the current disruption to trade.
Ordinarily, business owners would probably be faced with offering these staff redundancy.
A furloughed worker is not someone who has been directed to work from home.
Furloughed can be defined, therefore, as an employee that is retained on your payroll but is unable to undertake any productive work.
What is on offer?
As noted above, HMRC will reimburse 80% of furloughed employees' wages costs up to a maximum of £2,500 a month – this is the level of the national median wage.
Employers can make up any differential at their discretion, this is not compulsory.
The aim is to provide a basic income such that, when matters return to normal, staff can be recalled, resuming their normal duties.
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HMRC are building an online portal where employers can disclose the details of furloughed employees and make a claim under the CJRS scheme.
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Duke proposes 150 MW green tariff program for South Carolina C&I customers
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Duke Energy proposed a program Monday that would allow its South Carolina commercial and industrial customers to contract with renewable energy providers through the utility for up to 150 MW of clean energy capacity statewide.
The Green Source Advantage (GSA) tariff program would add 150 MW of "reserved renewable capacity" for C&I customers, giving giving them bill credits for electricity generated from solar sites "not located on the customers' premises." Customers will also receive renewable energy certificates.
Customers will be served on a first come, first served basis and are responsible for negotiating "all price terms with a supplier of a renewable energy facility," according to the utility's filing with the PSC, while not holding any nonparticipating customers accountable for those costs.
Duke's new program would increase renewable energy options for C&I customers in South Carolina, where third party renewable energy contracts are not legal.
Under the program, eligible customers would negotiate contract terms to purchase clean energy from facilities in Duke's service areas. The utility would then buy the power and pass bill credits onto the customer, while ensuring "other customers are held financially neutral," according to Duke's filing.
Duke credits South Carolina's Act 236 in its press release for driving the impetus behind its new large customer renewables plan.
The legislation passed in 2014 aims to encourage renewables adoption in the state. The utility hit the Act's net metering cap of 2% earlier this year for residential solar and has since petitioned the state to extend that cap.
However, as the cost of solar continues to drop, Duke is also addressing clean energy demand from its non-residential customers.
"We've received significant interest from our large commercial and industrial customers in offering programs that help them meet their sustainability goals," said Duke Energy's South Carolina President Kodwo Ghartey-Tagoe in a statement.
Green tariff programs have been approved or proposed in 15 states since 2013, according to the filing, and give customers the option to purchase their energy more directly from designated GSA facilities.
The utility hopes to hear a final decision from regulators by the end of the year, but the timing "is totally up to the commission" Duke Energy spokesperson Ryan Mosier told Utility Dive in an email.
The announcement comes after the utility last week revealed plans to spend $500 million on battery storage over the next 15 years, which could increase the region's storage capacity by twenty-fold.
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Q: Why when using fig.update_traces(xaxis='x1') doesn't print axis tick and labels bellow second subplot? When I use "fig.update_traces(xaxis='x1')" it doesn't show dates on x-axis bellow second subplot.
This line of code is used to extended line hover to all subplots.
If I comment this line, then it works ok.
Does anyone have an idea what it could be?
import yfinance as yf
import plotly.graph_objects as go
from plotly.subplots import make_subplots

ticker = "AAPL"
df = yf.download(ticker, start="2021-01-01")
fig = make_subplots(rows=2, cols=1, shared_xaxes=True, vertical_spacing=0.05, row_heights=[0.7, 0.3])
fig.add_trace(go.Candlestick(x=df.index,
                             open=df['Open'],
                             high=df['High'],
                             low=df['Low'],
                             close=df['Close'],
                             name = ticker,
                             ), row=1, col=1)
colors = ['green' if (row['Close'] - row['Open']) >= 0
          else 'red' for index, row in df.iterrows()]
fig.add_trace(go.Bar( x=df.index,
                      y=df['Volume'],
                      marker_color=colors,
                      name = 'Volume',
                      hovertemplate = "Volume: %{y:,.0f}<extra></extra>",
                      ), row=2, col=1)
fig.update_layout(
        xaxis_rangeslider_visible=False,
        hovermode='x unified',
        xaxis2=dict(
              tickformat = '%d/%m/%Y',  # this controls the format of the x-value in the hover box
              ticks = "outside",
              type = "date",
              tickmode = "auto",
              ),
        )

#  spike line hover extended to all subplots
fig.update_traces(xaxis='x1')
fig.show()

A: Hoverlines across subplots have not yet been implemented; they are up on github as an issue. (Incidentally, github is looking for sponsors.) My workaround is to unshare the x-axis and show the 1st x-axis.
import yfinance as yf
import plotly.graph_objects as go
from plotly.subplots import make_subplots

ticker = "AAPL"
df = yf.download(ticker, start="2021-01-01")
fig = make_subplots(rows=2, cols=1, shared_xaxes=False, vertical_spacing=0.1, row_heights=[0.7, 0.3])
fig.add_trace(go.Candlestick(x=df.index,
                             open=df['Open'],
                             high=df['High'],
                             low=df['Low'],
                             close=df['Close'],
                             name = ticker,
                             ), row=1, col=1)
colors = ['green' if (row['Close'] - row['Open']) >= 0
          else 'red' for index, row in df.iterrows()]
fig.add_trace(go.Bar( x=df.index,
                      y=df['Volume'],
                      marker_color=colors,
                      name = 'Volume',
                      hovertemplate = "Volume: %{y:,.0f}<extra></extra>",), row=2, col=1)

fig.update_layout(
        xaxis_rangeslider_visible=False,
        hovermode='x unified',
        xaxis2=dict(
              tickformat = '%d/%m/%Y',  # this controls the format of the x-value in the hover box
              ticks = "outside",
              type = "date",
              tickmode = "auto",
              ),
        )

#  spike line hover extended to all subplots
fig.update_traces(xaxis='x1')

fig.show()


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White Sox History
Today in White Sox History: December 1
Two franchise legends leave
By Mark Liptak Dec 1, 2022, 12:58pm CST
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Robin Ventura, center, had the GWRBI in his first game back in 1997 after a horrifying spring injury. One week after this win, the White Sox front office gave up on the season, with the White Flag trade. Ventura was, to say it straight, pissed.
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It was the first of many awards won in his Hall of Fame career. Luis Aparicio became the first Venezuelan ever to win Rookie of the Year when he was named to that honor by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Aparicio led the AL in steals with 21 and played a stellar defensive game, leading the league in putouts and assists as well as in games and innings played. Aparicio picked up 22 of the 24 possible votes. He beat out Cleveland's Rocky Colavito (who would join the Sox in 1967) and Baltimore's Tito Francona (who also would be a member of the White Sox, for part of the 1958 campaign).
The White Sox traded pitcher Frank Baumann to the Cubs for catcher Jimmie Schaffer. It was just the second time the two Chicago clubs ever made a direct trade with each other.
For the second and final time, the White Sox traded Luis Aparicio. The future Hall of Fame shortstop was sent to the Red Sox for infielders Luis Alvarado and Mike Andrews. Those players helped the Sox in the early 1970s, but this is one Roland Hemond trade that some have second-guessed. In 1972, if the Sox had Aparicio to provide some stability to the infield, they may have taken the Western Division title. Lee "Bee-Bee" Richards, Alvarado and Rich Morales simply weren't the answer at shortstop that season.
Popular and proficient third baseman Robin Ventura left the White Sox, signing a free agent contract with the Mets. Ventura, who was an outspoken critic of the "White Flag" trade — and after all, he was the player who worked hardest to get back in playing shape after a horrifying injury in 1997's spring training, only to have management give up on that season.
The vastly-underrated Ventura won five Gold Gloves in his time on the South Side, in addition to hitting 171 home runs. He had six seasons with at least 90 RBIs and hit .280 or better for five seasons.
He'd return in 2012 to become manager, lasting five seasons.


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Héctor Decio Rossetto (né le  à Bahía Blanca en Argentine, mort le  à Buenos Aires) est un des plus grands joueurs d'échecs argentins.

Il obtient le titre de maître international en 1950 et celui de grand maître international en 1960.

Il a été champion national à cinq reprises, en 1942, 1944, 1947, 1962 et 1972. Rossetto remporte le tournoi de Mar del Plata en 1949 et en 1952 (avec Juilo Bolbochán).

Il a organisé l'Olympiade d'échecs de 1978 à Buenos Aires.

Après Miguel Najdorf, il était le joueur d'échecs argentin le plus éminent de son époque.

Notes et références

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  Fallecio Héctor Rossetto

Naissance en septembre 1922
Décès en janvier 2009
Grand maître international
Joueur argentin d'échecs
Naissance à Bahía Blanca
Décès à 86 ans

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Scientists protest as Trump picks climate change skeptic for key NOAA post
David Knowles
President Trump has tapped a climate skeptic to help run the federal agency charged with overseeing the government's research on climate change.
David Legates, a professor of climatology at the University of Delaware and a member of the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank that denies climate change represents a serious threat to the world, was appointed last week to serve as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's deputy assistant secretary of commerce for environmental observation and prediction, NPR reported.
The appointment comes as wildfires that most scientists agree have been made worse by climate change continue to rage throughout the Western states. Temperature records continue to fall, with NASA concluding that 2010-2019 was the hottest decade ever recorded. Hurricane Sally, the latest in a series of unusually strong tropical storms that scientists believe are linked to warming oceans, unleashed torrential downpours on Alabama and Florida on Wednesday. For just the second time in recorded history, five tropical cyclones are now active in the Atlantic Ocean.
David Legates in 2005. (University of Delaware)
In April, Legates published a piece that appeared on the Heartland Institute's website which summed up his skepticism on climate change.
"Natural forces have caused climate changes and extreme weather events throughout history. What proof is there that what we see today is due to fossil fuel emissions and not to those same natural forces?" Legates and co-author Paul Driessen wrote.
In 2019, Legates spoke at a hearing before the House Natural Resources Committee and denied what is now accepted scientific fact, that adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere leads to the greenhouse effect, trapping solar radiation and warming the atmosphere.
"Carbon dioxide is not this magic knob that decides the temperature of the planet. In particular, there's an awful lot of other things that happen with it too. The planet does not warm like a greenhouse," Legates testified.
But the agency to which he was just appointed also notes on its website that "the annual rate of increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide over the past 60 years is about 100 times faster than previous natural increases, such as those that occurred at the end of the last ice age 11,000-17,000 years ago."
Since the preindustrial era, the average global surface temperature has risen by roughly 2 degrees Celsius, according to NOAA.
Legates also published a 2007 paper questioning whether the habitat for polar bears was being affected by climate change, Inside Climate News reported. That paper was based on research funded by ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute and Koch Industries.
Sea ice in the Arctic has been shrinking by as much as 14 percent per decade, leading to starvation among some populations of polar bears that depend on it for hunting seals.
In response to Legates's appointment at NOAA, the nonprofit American Geophysical Union issued a terse statement calling for his removal.
"With climate change producing raging wildfires in the western United States and devastating hurricanes in the Atlantic, our nation — and the world — cannot afford to have our federal government undermining the important work of climate scientists," the group said on its website. "Legates' appointment not only threatens our ability to combat the climate crisis and protect our planet for future generations, it undermines scientific integrity at NOAA."
David Legates, third from left, at the "Climate Hustle" panel discussion in Washington in 2016. (Kris Connor/Getty Images)
NOAA did not respond to a request for an interview for this story. On its website, however, the lead story on Wednesday highlighted the findings of the agency's latest global climate report.
"Not only was August 2020 the second-warmest August on record, but the Northern Hemisphere had its warmest summer, and the globe as a whole had its third-hottest three month season, too," the site said.
Without mentioning climate change specifically, NOAA detailed the continued decline of Arctic sea ice to the smallest amount on record, and noted that "the 10 warmest Augusts have all occurred since 1998 — with the five warmest occurring since 2015."
While Legates has made a career of downplaying the threat of climate change, he doesn't have much company in the scientific community, including within the administration.
"Yes, the vast majority of actively publishing climate scientists — 97 percent — agree that humans are causing global warming and climate change," NASA states on its website.
On Monday, while attending a briefing on the record-setting wildfires in California, Trump was pressured by Gov. Gavin Newsom and Wade Crowfoot, California's secretary for natural resources, to accept the scientific consensus that climate change is real and making fires there worse.
A firefighter watches the Bobcat Fire burning on hillsides in Monrovia, Calif., on Tuesday. (Ringo Chiu/AFP via Getty Images)
"If we ignore that science and put our head in the sand and think it's all about vegetation management, we're not going to succeed at protecting Californians," Crowfoot told the president.
"It'll start getting cooler," Trump, a longtime climate change skeptic, replied. "You just watch."
The day after Trump's brief appearance in California, Scientific American endorsed Joe Biden, the first presidential endorsement in the magazine's 175-year history, in part because of Trump's record on climate change.
"In his ongoing denial of reality, Trump has hobbled U.S. preparations for climate change, falsely claiming that it does not exist and pulling out of international agreements to mitigate it," the editors wrote in their endorsement. "The changing climate is already causing a rise in heat-related deaths and an increase in severe storms, wildfires and extreme flooding."
Biden promoted the endorsement with a simple message on Twitter.
Science will win. https://t.co/1KRipY9MCi
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 16, 2020
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The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature is a best-seller for a reason: It brings literature to life for students, helping to make them lifelong readers and better writers. Classic works drawn from many periods and cultures appear alongside a strong showing from today's authors. There is plenty of support for students, with a dozen chapters of critical reading and writing support, helpful sample close readings, writing assignments, and student papers. And, because everyone teaches and learns a little differently, there are lots of options for working with the literature, including case studies on individual works and themes that everyone can relate to. In-depth chapters on major authors like Flannery O'Connor and Emily Dickinson take students deeper into their work, and the new tenth edition features a chapter on the fiction of Dagoberto Gilb, created in collaboration with the author himself—one more way that the anthology showcases literature as a living, changing art form.
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Q: NodeJS Request Package - How Do I Get The Value Stored in an Array Out of Its Callback Function? I'm trying to build an API in NodeJS that uses the request package as well as cheerio. It scrapes images from a URL and I'd like to use the image src URIs stored in an array and send them back to the user (res.json()).
I can't seem to get the imgSrcs out of the request() callback body.
let result = [];
const handleSearch = async searchQuery => {
    const baseUrl = `url/${searchQuery}`;
    request(baseUrl, (err, resp, html) => {
        const imgSrcs = []; // <------ I want to return the stuff stored in here at handleSearch() level
        if (!err && resp.statusCode === 200) {
            const $ = cheerio.load(html)

            $('img').each((_, image) => {
                let img = $(image).attr('src')
                    imgSrcs.push(img)
            });
        }
        result = imgSrcs; // <------ This is the super crude, semi-working way of doing it (only way that has worked so far, but it only displays the correct result when refreshing the page twice not once
    })
return result;
}

Then in my index.js file, I have the following that uses the above code:
const searchData = await handleSearch(searchQuery);

res.json(searchData)

How do I get the imgSrcs array out of the nested inner callbacks so I can return it at the top level handleSearch() function? And then I can use this in index.js?
I have tried assigning the request() to a variable but it gives me a convoluted JSON body with no way of getting the data inside it. I've also tried returning in the body of each callback but it still doesn't work.


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The New Kid
by Alison Friedman in Tails from Princeton
So, the new kid arrived. Unlike all the other new things that come to the house, the man in the brown uniform didn't ring the bell and leave it at the doorstep for me to bark at incessantly. It just kind of appeared and without any warning. Unless all those months of "Ohhh you don't know what you're in for!" followed by a pat on the head was considered my warning. But, warning or not, it's here.
The new kid sleeps a lot. There's a lot of chatter about not waking a sleeping baby. They also say similar dumb phrases in regards to me when I'm snoozing. Something about letting sleeping dogs lie? But anyway, it's kind of boring and stays pretty quiet usually.
But then there are the times when it screams louder than I do when my tail gets stepped on. Oh my Dog, it screams so loud! Usually, it screams after it's been sleeping for a long time and it won't stop until they shove food in its mouth. Funny, because the food is not in a bowl that it sticks its head into like I have to do. Methinks there is some favoritism.
It also screams when it's up on the table with its legs apart. I can smell something delicious whenever that happens, but I wonder if something's wrong with my nose because they're always saying how gross it smells. I hope I'm not mistaken and my terrier nose is not failing me at such a young age because it really does smell as lovely as the fire hydrants, the grass on my walk, and the trash I sometimes get into when they're not looking (suckers).
Oh, and speaking of walk, it looks as though we have company. Finally, she's walking again after having a gigantic stomach for the past 40 or so weeks. It's about time. Someone must have told her she was looking quite round and now she's walking and bringing her with me again, which on one hand is glorious, but on the other hand, I have to share a sidewalk with the new kid which is in a mini car I constantly have to dodge. The first few times she brought me and the kid out on a walk with her, I got tangled up in the wheels and shrieked and then got yelled at for "not being careful." Well excuse me! I am in a hurry. I must get to the tree and make sure everyone knows it's mine before the new kid gets to it. I'm learning, though, that the new kid is not interested in claiming the trees, so I'm a little more relaxed on the walks now. Oh, and her stomach went back to normal after the kid got here, so obviously the walks are working.
The new kid now sleeps in its own room and the best part is that when I want a place to hide and have some "me" time, I go under its cage and lay there watching their feet walk around. A long time ago, before I got here, I used to be in a cage and it was really dark and quite uncomfortable. The new kid's cage is really nice. It's white and has colorful (so I'm told. I'm colorblind) patterns draping from it. And best of all, it's open on top. Lucky! My cage never had an open top.
Once in a while, they take the kid and lay it on its stomach on a soft blanket and I like to lay down next to it and get my fair share of the cushiony comfort. They always try to take my picture when I do this and squeal things like, "Look how cute!" and "Ohhh he loves her!" I don't know what any of this means. Really, I just like the soft blanket.
But I think I don't mind the new kid anyway. I mean, it hasn't done anything to me! I'm doing just fine. I still get my food. I still get the belly scratches and the walks. I still have to perform my stupid tricks to get the beef-flavored treats. And at the end of the day, who's the one that still sleeps in the big bed between them and tucked in all cozy-like in the pillows?
Alison…ahem…excuse me…Princeton, I love this!!! You are a very insightful boy and the new kid is very lucky to have you. It appears certain, that you will be an adoring big brother for many years to come!! Love you Princeton!! Tell your mom and dad that your first foster mommy is so thrilled for you all!!!!:)
That's Princeton for ya—he just goes with the flow. And he aims to please—and succeeds! Love you so much Princeton!
so sweet. you need to get these all published in a book! ali you are one talented writer! I have said it, and will continue to say it.
Oooooooo!