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Iran: Khamenei Manipulates The Situation In France To Own Advantage
by Hassan Mahmoudi November 14, 2020 November 14, 2020 02903
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The French teacher Samuel Patty could surely not have known what fate awaited him when he showed a cartoon of Mohammed, the Prophet of Islam, to his students. The cartoon had previously been published in the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Samuel Patty could not have imagined how different groups of people would react to his actions according to their own perspective. This incident provoked a lot of anger and hatred in the world.
According to the global news agency, AFP, the killer, the perpetrator of the brutal beheading of Samuel Patty, was a young man, a lone individual, influenced by Islamic fundamentalism and attracted to such groups.
As expected, in Iran, Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, tried to score political points from this barbaric act. On the one hand, he did not want to lag behind other Muslim countries' leaders in making a statement. On the other hand, he tried to elaborate on this event and exaggerate aspects of it to deflect attention from the suppression apparatus inside Iran. In his message to the youths of France, he made no mention of the brutal murder of the French teacher, rather advised the youths to question the president of their country and require accountability from him for "double standards of freedom of expression", for condoning the showing of the cartoon. The irony is that no one has the right to object or criticize the supreme leader in Iran. Those who criticize or question his actions in any form are subjected to severe persecution, torture, and long prison terms. Following Khamenei's message, other regime leaders also tried to take advantage of this opportunity to cover up their crimes by magnifying foreign events, trying to occupy the people's minds for a while, distracting them from the problems they face on a daily basis.
A while ago, when a black man named George Floyd was shot dead by police in the United States, Khamenei took advantage of the situation and said: "they kill people easily and claim respect for human rights and do not even apologize."
The issuance of such statements by the Iranian authorities coincides with the "Week of the Police Force" in Iran and the anniversary of the nationwide protests of November 2019. This peaceful protest resulted in the killing of 1,500 people and the arrest of more than 12,000 others. The brutal crackdown of the peaceful demonstrations of November 2019 became public to the world's eyes via different social media platforms. At first, a young man named Mehrdad Sepehri was brutally beaten by the police and killed on the way to the detention center. Marks of torture on various parts of his body could clearly be seen. With the release of videos of this crime, the local officials of the judiciary and law enforcement announced that to calm down the current unrest situation, the "offending officer" was arrested by the military prosecutor and two other officers who transferred the "victim" to the police station have been under investigation. Of course, this was just a claim, and no investigation or follow-up action was ordered or conducted. This is typical of the vast majority of similar cases, where no official or individual is charged and the files are closed in a hasty fashion. Another witness to the brutal crackdown of the November 2019 peaceful protests made a short clip of the beating, shooting, and killing of another young man named Mohsen Minbashi by IRGC plainclothes forces. The clip is filming the sidewalk of one of the streets of Esfarayen city in Khorasan province, showing that security forces brutally shot a young man who had fallen to the ground. He was severely beaten with a stick, then shot at close range with a shotgun and for him, life ended.
Another video from the city of Abadan shows the brutal attack on a young woman who fell to the ground and was covered in blood and became unconscious. Another clip shows police in the city of Ahwaz, beating and humiliating two young people.
از جورج فلوید می گفتن? جلو چشم مردم اینطوری می کنن در زندان چه می کنن???برخورد خشونت آمیز پلیس اهواز با فردی که دستگیر شده و شهروندی که در حال فیلمبرداری است pic.twitter.com/Gjg7YptVlN
— Rkzasafari (@rkzasafari) October 28, 2020
The above are just a few of the clips taken by people who happened to be at the scene and their public release has angered people all over Iran.
Undoubtedly, many more tortures, killing, and deaths were not captured on camera,or documented, and any possible evidence has been destroyed.
In the city of Najafabad, the regime's thugs staged a demonstration protesting a girl riding a bicycle in the streets.
روز گذشته این ویدئو در شبکه های اجتماعی منتشر شد که زنی بدون #حجاب را سوار بر دوچرخه در خیابان های #نجف_آباد #اصفهان نشان میداد.
امروز سه شنبه۲۹مهر، فرماندار نجف آباد از #بازداشت این #زن خبر داد و گفت فیلمبردار و منتشر کننده ویدئو #دوچرخه_سواری این زن نیز شناسایی و بازداشت شدند. pic.twitter.com/0zjT3qOoMQ
— خبرگزاری هرانا (@hra_news) October 20, 2020
The girl was arrested and imprisoned. Her sin was riding a bicycle in public. Later on, the thugs staged another protest against her in another part of the city.
The presence of suppressive forces in Iran and the implementation of strict policies are taking a turn for the worse every day. A number of the Iranian authorities have spoken out, pointing to the changes over time of such repressive measures.
Khamenei never mentions the daily occurrences of such levels of violence by the security forces in Iran. In fact, he advises his thugs to implement harsh measures of violence on the streets. Look at the irony, a woman rides a bicycle in public in Iran and is prosecuted, while the security forces kill innocent people in the street and are never prosecuted.
If innocent bystanders can be murdered freely in Iran by the security forces, one can only imagine the harshness and brutality the prisoners go through in Iran's prisons. Unimaginable!
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In not-so-cool news, a woman who works at Dunkin' Donuts is being shamed online for holding a baby at work.
It all started when a customer with the social media handle @FlawdazFinest86 recently shared a photo of a female employee holding a baby while working the counter at Dunkin' Donuts. "Really, DunkinDonuts?" read the caption of the now-deleted post, which was screen-shot and Instagrammed.
But few agreed with the OP on Twitter, where @FlawdazFinest86 was called judgmental and callous for tagging doughnut company.
@FlawdazFinest86 did not return Yahoo Lifestyle's request for comment, and no one knows for sure whether the woman in the picture is, in fact, the mother or if she did bring her baby to work. However, according to Carla Moquin, the founder of Babies at Work, a program created by the Parenting in the Workplace Institute, the practice benefits both a woman and her baby. "We've documented more than 2,100 babies brought to at least 200 companies," Moquin tells Yahoo Lifestyle.
That means babies are napping in cribs inside boardrooms, cradled in carriers during conference calls, and bounced on laps while moms are creating spreadsheets. "We've found that these moms are more motivated to get their work done, meet their children's needs more quickly, and co-workers also bond with the babies, creating a community of care," says Moquin.


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Denison Police searching for road rage suspect
By Michael Hutchins, Herald Democrat
Dec 6, 2018 at 1:38 PM Dec 6, 2018 at 3:44 PM
Denison Police are looking for assistance in identifying a suspect in a road rage incident that occurred Wednesday night. Following a near collision, police said a driver greeted the second motorist with a knife in the 3400 block of FM 120.
Denison Police Lt. Mike Eppler said the incident occurred around 7:05 p.m. Wednesday when a motorist had to swerve to miss a red Ford Escape that pulled out in front of him. In the attempt to avoid a collision, Eppler said the motorist struck a curb.
The two drivers pulled into the parking lot of the Subway restaurant and the suspect exited his vehicle and approached the second. It was at this time that Eppler said the suspect pulled out a knife and prevented the complainant from leaving his vehicle.
The suspect then made a threatening remark to the complainant before getting back into his vehicle and leaving the scene. There were no injuries in the incident.
Eppler described the suspect as a white male, approximately 50 year old, with gray hair. Eppler said the suspect vehicle had Texas license plates, but did not specify the plate number.
In the event of a road rage incident, Eppler advised area drivers to simply leave the altercation if they can.
"Just get away from the situation — if you have to slow down, if you have to turn off, whatever you have to do," Eppler said. "It does no good to engage in an argument or altercation that results from a road rage incident."
Herald Democrat reporter Drew Smith contributed to this article.

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Work starts to build new city Aldi superstore
Published: 2:11 PM October 10, 2016 Updated: 1:45 PM October 9, 2020
The new Aldi store takes shape at the retail park in Hall Road. Pic: Dan Grimmer. - Credit: Archant
Work has begun to build a new Aldi superstore which is due to open next year - just a stone's throw away from a £100m Asda development.
The discount supermarket chain was given permission for a store on part of the car park in Hall Road retail park in Norwich last year, to the annoyance of their rivals.
The skeletal structure of the store, close to Pets At Home, is now taking shape, with Aldi saying customers will be welcomed through the doors in 2017.
An Aldi spokesman said: 'Construction on our new store on Hall Road, Norwich, is now under way and we are looking forward to bringing Aldi's award winning offer to customers next year. The new store will create 50 new jobs.'
The decision to grant permission for Aldi's fourth store in Norwich was made by the city council's planning committee.
But bosses at Asda, which opened its Harford Place superstore in November last year, wrote to members of the committee urging them to block their rival's application.
Asda's legal advisors sent a four-page document warning Aldi's proposed new 1,693 metres square store could have a 'significant adverse retail impact' on the Hall Road district centre development, including Asda.
But Aldi's agent hit back, urging councillors not to give Asda's opposition 'undue weight', given it was 'an entirely commercial objection'.
City council officers had been on the brink of using delegated powers to grant Aldi permission, meaning it would not have to be discussed by councillors, before Asda's late objection.
And city councillors unanimously approved the new store.
Do you think Norwich needs more superstores? Write, with full contact details to Letters Editor, Prospect House, Rouen Road, Norwich NR1 1RE or email eveningnewsletters@archant.co.uk


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The Baviaanskloof area is a cluster of protected areas, of which the Baviaanskloof Nature Reserve is the most famous. Baviaanskloof South AfricaIt is one of the largest protected areas of South Africa and still relatively undiscovered. The Baviaanskloof was originally a hunting area of the San, or forest man. When the European hunters and farmers settled in the gap in the 18th century, a more agricultural-based lifestyle was introduced.
The Baviaanskloof has its name due to the many baboons you encounter during your route. Most people start their route in Komdomo and then drive to Willowmore. But of course you can also drive the route. In fact, it is impossible to describe Baviaanskloof in a few words. In any case, there is plenty to see and experience. You can hike through the mountains, climbing, camping, wildlife and bird watching and making beautiful rides.
Especially the rest makes you feel this beautiful environment fully. Take a 4×4 car and drive across the R322, a gravel road, through this incredibly rough area. Be prepared for the road to be dropped completely by rainfall and driving through rivers. You enjoy intensely and come across villages where time has stood still. The town of Zaaimanshoek is also called the "lost city". Here you really make the local culture.
Make sure you get petrol, as it may take a while before you get a petrol station. It is also wise to bring enough money because the chance of an ATM is very small. The plantation and animal kingdom at Baviaanskloof is very extensive. As you drive through the impressive area you can find leopards, buffalo, kudu, zebras, numerous goats and hearts. Are you curious about the plants of the Baviaanskloof? You can see more than 1,000 kinds of plants, including the Protea family.
Baviaanskloof is a rough area and temperatures can be both extremely hot and very cold here. In summer (our winter) it can reach 41 degrees, while in our summer (South African winter) it can freeze as well as 30 degrees. Baviaanskloof Nature Reserve is located in the Eastern Cape 120 km west of Port Elizabeth. It is a malaria free area of approximately 270,000 acres of unspoilt mountainous terrain. Beginning in the east at Komdoma, it is its beautiful road of unprecedented beauty through the gulf of "Great River" to Willowmore in the west. Baviaanskloof is one of the 8 protected areas within the Cape Floral Region, making it a National Heritage.
The Bavian Gorge is also known as the Bushmen's heritage and there are caves and shelters where sometimes very clear visible murals can be found. Go walking for the painting of the Spectacular Healer on the way enjoying the amazing view. The adventurers below you can climb rock and mountain, and there are several hiking / hiking trips that make you climb rivers and rocks to get out at rock pools, so-called mountain lakes with water that's cool and clear!
Do not feel like walking, take the car. Keep in mind that the roads are untouched and that a bakkie or 4×4 vehicle is advised. Certainly during rainy periods when the low bridges will be flooded with water and the paths are muddy.
Thanks to its varied landscape, you will find more than 1000 different plant species, including many ericas and proteas. Also different palm goods, which were thought that 2 species did not exist anymore, survived the time in the Baviaanskloof. You can go picnic at the Geelhoutbos where you see the yellowwood tree and the wild fig tree.
Animals that you can encounter here are the leopard, the buffalo, the koudu, the zebra, red heart beast, bushbok, reebok, moose, porcupine and bobbejaan. There are also numerous reptiles and of course you will find plenty of birds, including the Crowned Hornbill, the Francolin and the African Fish Eagle.


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COVID-19: Less than 50,000 daily new cases for 16 days
India has been registering less than 50,000 COVID-19 cases daily since November 8, which assumes significance as several countries in the Western Hemisphere are witnessing a surge in cases at the onset of winter, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday.
PTI | New Delhi | Updated: 23-11-2020 15:33 IST | Created: 23-11-2020 15:04 IST
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India has been registering less than 50,000 COVID-19 cases daily since November 8, which assumes significance as several countries in the Western Hemisphere are witnessing a surge in cases at the onset of winter, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease has surged to 85,62,641 which exceeds active cases by 81,19,155.
A total of 44,059 people were found infected with COVID-19 in a span of 24 hours with ten states and UTs contributing to 78.74 per cent of the new infections. Delhi reported 6,746 cases in a day followed by Maharashtra recording 5,753 new cases while Kerala reported 5,254 daily cases.
Of the 511 case fatalities reported in a span of 24 hours, 74.95 per cent are concentrated in ten states and UTs. Delhi, with 121 reported deaths, contributes 23.68 per cent to the new fatalities, the ministry said, Maharashtra saw a fatality count of 50 while West Bengal followed closely with 49 new fatalities.
"India has been registering less than 50,000 cases for the last 16 days since 8th November. This assumes significance as several countries of the Western Hemisphere are witnessing a huge surge of new cases at the onset of winter," the ministry said. India's present active caseload (4,43,486) comprises 4.85 per cent of the total cases, and has been sustained below the 5 per cent mark.
The national COVID-19 recovery rate continues to be above 93 per cent as 93.68 per cent of all cases have recovered as of date with 41,024 new recoveries being registered in a day. "The gap between recovered cases and active cases is steadily increasing and presently stands at 81,19,155," the ministry said.
Ten states and UTs are contributing to 77.44 per cent of the new recoveries. Kerala saw 6,227 people recovering from COVID-19. Delhi reported 6,154 recoveries. Maharashtra reported another 4,060 new recoveries in the last 24 hours.
Twenty-one States and UTs are reporting lower than the national average of deaths per million (97). India's COVID-19 caseload went past 91 lakh with 44,059 coronavirus infections being reported in a day, while the death toll climbed to 1,33,738 with 511 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.
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UK minimum wage will rise at the start of April, but can people live off it?
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Rachel is a Verdict reporter covering global business, finance, and politics. You can reach her at rachel.dobbs@verdict.co.uk
The UK minimum wage will rise again on Easter Sunday 2018 (which just happens to be 1 April). However, none of the increases match independently-calculated rates of the amount individuals and families need to live.
The obligatory minimum wage – the amount employers must pay workers, per hour, by law – will go up from £7.50 to £7.83 ($10.90) for those aged 25 and over, and will increase from £7.05 to £7.38 for people between 21 and 24 years old.
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Workers in the 18-20 age bracket will see their minimum wage got up to £5.90 (from £5.60) and under-18s can now not be paid less than £4.20 (up from £4.05).
The change means the UK will have the fourth highest nominal wages per hour in dollars of any country in the world (for those over 25), up from ninth previously.
Apprentices under the age of 19, or in the first year of their apprenticeship, are entitled to the apprentice rate, which is increasing to £3.70 from £3.50.
The wage rises were announced by Chancellor Phillip Hammond last year. For people aged 25 and over, the rise amounts to 4.7% or around £600 more a year for full time workers.
The UK minimum wage isn't very clear
Confusingly, while the minimum wage for the over-25 age bracket is called the National Living Wage by the government, it remains significantly below so-called Living Wage rates.
The Living Wage is calculated as the minimum income that an ordinary full time worker – typically someone working 40 hours a week with no additional income – needs to afford a modest, but decent, standard of living.
A living wage can also be defined as the necessary wage needed to keep a family of four above the poverty line, which is the very minimum level of income deemed adequate in any specific country.
Living wages vary by location and household type but, generally speaking, it is enough to provide for: food; housing; utilities; health care; transport; child care; and a small margin for emergencies and unforeseen events.
Most living wages are calculated by drawing on the Minimum Income Standard, a basket of goods thought crucial to achieving a socially acceptable living standard. This means that, as modern life changes, the costs it is necessary for income to cover do too – 20 years ago it might not have been expected to cover mobile phone data and internet access, but it is now.
Read more: How wages will grow in OECD countries in 2018
In Britain, the real living wage is calculated every year by the Living Wage Foundation, which also campaigns for employers to voluntarily promise to meet it. For all boroughs in Greater London, it is currently £10.20 an hour.
Outside London, it is £8.75. Both are significantly higher than the government's minimum wage (which also makes no exceptions for those living in more expensive areas like London).
Another definition of a living wage as one that is on the "poverty threshold wage", plus a margin of 15% to protect against unforeseen events.
This notion of a poverty threshold wage is important, and it helps highlight the difference between the minimum wage under UK law and actual living wages.
Britain, along with the rest of the EU, defines a poverty threshold wage as 60% of median salaries (that is, the salary in the middle if everyone's are lined up).
How the UK minimum wage is set
The minimum wages set by the government, including the increased ones that will come into effect on 1 April, are aimed at reaching 60% of the median wage across the country by 2020. This means that minimum wages are currently below the poverty threshold wage – and significantly below the living wage.
A household subsisting on just minimum wages will have an income below 60% of the median and will be in "relative poverty", defined as being unable to afford an "ordinary living pattern" and being excluded from opportunities and activities that the average person enjoys.
The Office of National Statistics use the 60% of the median benchmark to indicate if someone is "at risk of poverty".
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Q: How to compute P-value and standard error from correlation analysis of R's cor() I have data that contain 54 samples for each condition (x and y).
I have computed the correlation the following way:
> dat <- read.table("http://dpaste.com/1064360/plain/",header=TRUE)
> cor(dat$x,dat$y)
[1] 0.2870823

Is there a native way to produce SE of correlation in  R's cor() functions above
and p-value from T-test?
As explained in this web (page 14.6)

A: Can't you simply take the test statistic from the return value? Of course the test statistic is the estimate/se so you can calc se from just dividing the estimate by the tstat:
Using mydf in the answer above:
r = cor.test(mydf$X, mydf$Y)
tstat = r$statistic
estimate = r$estimate
estimate; tstat

       cor
-0.8492663
        t
-5.086732

A: I think that what you're looking for is simply the cor.test() function, which will return everything you're looking for except for the standard error of correlation. However, as you can see, the formula for that is very straightforward, and if you use cor.test, you have all the inputs required to calculate it.
Using the data from the example (so you can compare it yourself with the results on page 14.6):
> cor.test(mydf$X, mydf$Y)

    Pearson's product-moment correlation

data:  mydf$X and mydf$Y
t = -5.0867, df = 10, p-value = 0.0004731
alternative hypothesis: true correlation is not equal to 0
95 percent confidence interval:
 -0.9568189 -0.5371871
sample estimates:
       cor
-0.8492663

If you wanted to, you could also create a function like the following to include the standard error of the correlation coefficient.
For convenience, here's the equation:

r = the correlation estimate and n - 2 = degrees of freedom, both of which are readily available in the output above. Thus, a simple function could be:
cor.test.plus <- function(x) {
  list(x,
       Standard.Error = unname(sqrt((1 - x$estimate^2)/x$parameter)))
}

And use it as follows:
cor.test.plus(cor.test(mydf$X, mydf$Y))

Here, "mydf" is defined as:
mydf <- structure(list(Neighborhood = c("Fair Oaks", "Strandwood", "Walnut Acres",
  "Discov. Bay", "Belshaw", "Kennedy", "Cassell", "Miner", "Sedgewick",
  "Sakamoto", "Toyon", "Lietz"), X = c(50L, 11L, 2L, 19L, 26L,
  73L, 81L, 51L, 11L, 2L, 19L, 25L), Y = c(22.1, 35.9, 57.9, 22.2,
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Q: BasicEditField BlackBerry I want a BasicEditField with rounded border and white background fill.
This is my code
public class BasicField extends BasicEditField {

    XYEdges padding = new XYEdges(0,0,0,0);
    int color = Color.BLACK;
    int lineStyle = Border.STYLE_SOLID;
    int Width, Height;
   Border roundedBorder = BorderFactory.createRoundedBorder(padding, color, lineStyle);
    public BasicField()
    {
          super(BasicEditField.NO_NEWLINE);
            //this.setPadding(2, 2, 2, 2);
            //this.setBorder(roundedBorder);
    }

     public int getPreferredWidth()
     {
            int labelWidth = getFont().getAdvance(getLabel()) - 1;
         Width = Graphics.getScreenWidth() -150;
         return Width;
     }

     public int getPreferredHeight()
     {
         return 10;
     }

     public void paint(Graphics g) {

         int currCol = g.getColor();
         g.setBackgroundColor( Color.WHITE );
         g.fillRect(0, 0, getPreferredWidth(), getPreferredHeight() );
         g.clear();
         g.setColor( Color.NAVY );
          super.paint( g );
        }
    protected void layout( int maxWidth, int maxHeight )
    {
        super.layout( getPreferredWidth(), getPreferredHeight() );
    }

}

A: Here you go -
Screenshot:

border.png:

MyEdit.java:
import net.rim.device.api.system.*;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.*;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.*;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.container.*;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.decor.*;

public class MyEdit extends UiApplication {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        MyEdit app = new MyEdit();
        app.enterEventDispatcher();
    }

    public MyEdit() {
        pushScreen(new MyScreen());
    }
}

class MyScreen extends MainScreen {
    Border myBorder = BorderFactory.createBitmapBorder(
        new XYEdges(20, 16, 27, 23),
        Bitmap.getBitmapResource("border.png"));

    BasicEditField myField = new BasicEditField(TextField.NO_NEWLINE) {
        protected void paint(Graphics g) {
            if (getTextLength() == 0) {
                g.setColor(Color.LIGHTGRAY);
                g.drawText("Search", 0, 0);
            }

            g.setColor(Color.BLACK);
            super.paint(g);
        }
    };

    public MyScreen() {
        myField.setBorder(myBorder);
        setTitle(myField);
    }
}

A: Friend... try this code.....
class BasicEditScreen extends MainScreen
{
    public BasicEditScreen()
    {

        add(new BasicField(200, 40, FIELD_LEFT, "Enter here..", "horizontal"));
    }

}

import net.rim.device.api.system.Bitmap;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.Color;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.Font;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.Graphics;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.Manager;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.EditField;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.container.VerticalFieldManager;

public  class BasicField extends Manager
{

    private int managerWidth;
    private int managerHeight;
    private int inactiveBorderColor = Color.GRAY;
    private int activeBorderColor = Color.GREENYELLOW;
    private int borderColor = inactiveBorderColor;
    private int backgroundColor = Color.WHITE;
    private int arcWidth;

    private VerticalFieldManager vfm ;
    private EditField editField;
    int nn =1;
    int count=0;

    public BasicField(int width, int height,  long style, final String hint,String type_horizontal_vertical)
    {

        super(style | NO_VERTICAL_SCROLL | NO_HORIZONTAL_SCROLL);

        if(type_horizontal_vertical.equalsIgnoreCase("Horizontal"))
            vfm = new VerticalFieldManager(HORIZONTAL_SCROLL | USE_ALL_WIDTH );
        if(type_horizontal_vertical.equalsIgnoreCase("Vertical"))
            vfm = new VerticalFieldManager(VERTICAL_SCROLL| USE_ALL_WIDTH | USE_ALL_HEIGHT);
        managerWidth = width;
        managerHeight = height;
        long innerStyle = style & (READONLY | FOCUSABLE_MASK); // at least
        if (innerStyle == 0)
        {
            innerStyle = FOCUSABLE;
        }
        if(style==EditField.FILTER_EMAIL)
        {
            innerStyle = EditField.FILTER_EMAIL;
        }
        if(style==EditField.FILTER_INTEGER)
        {
            innerStyle = EditField.FILTER_INTEGER;
        }
        editField = new EditField("", null, EditField.DEFAULT_MAXCHARS, innerStyle)
        {
            public void paint(Graphics g)
            {
                if(editField.getText().length()==0)
                {
                    g.setColor(Color.GRAY);
                    g.drawText(hint,5,2);
                    super.paint(g);
                }
                g.setColor(Color.BLACK);
                super.paint(g);
            }
        };

        arcWidth = editField.getFont().getHeight() & 0xFFFFFFFE; // make it even

        add(vfm);
        vfm.add(editField);
    }

    public void setFont(Font font)
    {
        super.setFont(font);
        editField.setFont(font);
        arcWidth = editField.getFont().getHeight() & 0xFFFFFFFE;
        updateLayout();
    }

    public void setBorderColors(int inactive, int active)
    {
        inactiveBorderColor = inactive;
        activeBorderColor = active;
        invalidate();
    }

    public void setBackgroundColor(int bgColor)
    {
        backgroundColor = Color.AQUA;
        invalidate();
    }

    public String getText()
    {
        return editField.getText();
    }

    public void setText(String newText)
    {
        editField.setText(newText);
    }

    public int getPreferredWidth()
    {
        return managerWidth;
    }

    public int getPreferredHeight()
    {
        return managerHeight;
    }

    protected void sublayout(int w, int h)
    {
        if (managerWidth == 0)
        {
            managerWidth = w;
        }
        if (managerHeight == 0)
        {
            managerHeight = h;
        }
        int actWidth = Math.min(managerWidth, w);
        int actHeight = Math.min(managerHeight, h);
        layoutChild(vfm, actWidth - arcWidth, actHeight - arcWidth);
        setPositionChild(vfm, arcWidth / 2, arcWidth / 2);
        setExtent(actWidth, actHeight);
    }

    protected void paint(Graphics g)
    {

        int prevColor = g.getColor();
        int myWidth = managerWidth;
        int myHeight = managerHeight;
        g.setColor(backgroundColor);
        g.fillRoundRect(0, 0, myWidth, myHeight, arcWidth, arcWidth);
        g.setColor(borderColor);

        g.drawRoundRect(0, 0, myWidth, myHeight, 10,10);
        g.drawRoundRect(1, 1, myWidth - 2, myHeight - 2, 10-2, 10-2);
        g.setColor(prevColor);

        super.paint(g);
    }

    private void adjustBorderColor()
    {
        int nextColor;
        if (editField.isFocus())
        {
            nextColor = activeBorderColor;
        }
        else
        {
            nextColor = inactiveBorderColor;
        }
        if (borderColor != nextColor)
        {
            borderColor = nextColor;
            invalidate();
        }
    }
}


text:
how to read a boxplot in math
I have three algorithms, A, B, and C. I've run them on different datasets and would like to graph their runtimes on each as a grouped boxplot in Python. 11/20/2020 Math 131 Unit 1 15 Constructing a Boxplot in Minitab (Manual p 90) Minitab is demonstrated with exercise 33, page 96 (EX2_5-33.MTP). To construct a boxplot: (i) Draw a box to represent the middle 50% of the observations of the data set. A boxplot is a device used to represent the range, median, quartiles and interquartile range of a set of data values. A boxplot can give you information regarding the shape, variability, and center (or median) of a statistical data set. For example, the following boxplot of the heights of students shows that the median height is 69. How To: Create a box plot or box-and-whisker chart in MS Excel How To: Add scatter & bar data series to an Excel chart How To: Make a quartile diagram (aka, box and whisker plot) How To: Use a Whisker Pole How To: Tie a cats whisker for fly fishing Please read the available MATLAB documentation, e.g. box-and-whisker plot, box plot • a diagram or graph using a number line to show the distribution of a set of data. The worksheet must include at least one column of numeric or date/time data and at least one column of categorical data. A box and whisker plot is a diagram that shows the statistical distribution of a set of data. We'll cover: How to compare box plots with overlapping medians. I would now like to add a legend that follows the color scheme of each box. median: the middle value of data. The following diagram shows a box plot or box and whisker plot. How would I find the 5-number summary for the data set: 54, 9, 37, 15, 52, 40, 54, 78, 1, 3, 26, 26, 37? There are a couple ways to graph a boxplot through Python. To create an BoxPlot object, provide its constructor with:. Many solutions I find online does not seem to apply to this particular type of graph (eg. R's boxplot command has several levels of use, some quite easy, some a bit more difficult to learn. The scores of a class in a Math exam are: 55 , 35 , 60 , 86 , 65 , 75 , 83 , 88 , 88 , 90 , 95 , 96 , 98. • the diagram displays the median, upper and lower quartiles, and the maximum and minimum values of the data. Math Teacher Math Classroom Teaching Math Maths Classroom Displays Math Tutor Statistics Math Sixth Grade Math Third Grade A boxplot is used below to analyze the relationship between a categorical feature (malignant or benign tumor) and a continuous feature (area_mean). Box plots. What is another name for a boxplot? ; Click Paste or type data under Inputs > DATA SOURCE in the Object Inspector on the right. X denotes an x-axis and y denote a y-axis. Click OK.; Tick the Automatic box. While the boxplot on the bottom was a modification created by John Tukey to account for outliers. Solution to Example 2 We first order the data set in ascending order 35 , 55 , 60 , 65 , 75 , 83 , 86, 88 , 88 , 90 , 95 , 96 , … Scroll down the page for more examples and solutions using box plots. Draw a horizontal line from the line for the minimum to the left side of the box at the first quartile. As you will see below, dotplots are some of the easiest to read plots in statistics. marked as Q2, portrays the 50th percentile. BoxPlot enables you to create box plots. C.K.Taylor. Related Topics: Math Worksheets A box plot (also called a box and whisker plot) shows data using the middle value of the data and the quartiles, or 25% divisions of the data.. Box Plots and How to Read Them. Constructing a Boxplot. I have generated a boxplot (with a swarmplot overlay) in matplotlib/seaborn using the following code. Boxplot: What is it? A boxplot is a powerful data visualization tool used to understand the distribution of data. Hold the pointer over the boxplot to display a tooltip that shows these statistics. You can type one or more samples. Is the median always in the exact middle of a boxplot? Using BoxPlot. BioVinci is a drag-and-drop software that will let you make a box plot in just a few minutes. Create a boxplot that displays the distributions of values for different groups. Any changes you make to the settings or to the underlying data will be reflected automatically in the plot. If you want to know what else is in the box (hah, see what I did there? They can be used to do a graphical comparison of whether one median is … Grouping variables in Seaborn boxplot with different attributes. Let's start with an easy example. ), check out this post. only work with grouped boxplots ). (b) Compare the distribution of the maths scores of students in class A and class B. Maths Score 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Maths Score (2) (2) Each box chart displays the following information: the median, the lower and upper quartiles, any outliers (computed using the interquartile range), and the minimum and maximum values that are not outliers. That box-and-whisker plot (or, boxplot) you learned to read/create in grade school probably IS different from the one you see presented in the adult world. is it possible to change the outlier boundry so it has less outlier(+). x=c(1,2,3,3,4,5,5,7,9,9,15,25) boxplot(x) How to Make a Box and Whisker Plot. What the boxplot shape reveals about a statistical data […] Entering Your Own Data. In descriptive statistics, a box plot or boxplot is a method for graphically depicting groups of numerical data through their quartiles.Box plots may also have lines extending from the boxes (whiskers) indicating variability outside the upper and lower quartiles, hence the terms box-and-whisker plot and box-and-whisker diagram.Outliers may be plotted as individual points. Now we see how a box and whisker graph gets the second part of its name. It splits the data into quartiles, and summarises it based on five numbers derived from these quartiles:. You can graph a boxplot through seaborn, matplotlib, or pandas. EXAMPLE: Please press '\' to start a new sample. You can enter your own data manually and then create a boxplot. that is because it uses the default boundry of outlier that matlab provides. In the following lesson, we will look at how to … The box plot below shows the distribution of the maths scores of students in class B. Instructions: The following graphical tool creates a box plot on the data you provide in the boxes. Box plots are also known as box-and-whiskers plots. Groups are defined by values in the categorical variable, or by unique combinations of values in multiple categorical variables. Ranges vs counts: a common mistake while reading box plots. Data sets can be compared using averages and measures of spread. Syntax: seaborn.boxplot(x) Method 1 (This is given as the second method on Manual p 93, but it seems more obvious to me) Click on Graph->Boxplot and select Simple boxplot. Google, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo!, etc) for phrases like 'matlab boxplot' will give you the documentation needed. Box plots (also known as box and whisker plots) are used in statistics and data analysis. seaborn. boxplot(cst'); the boxplot it givs is: Question: The + signs is the outliers, but it looks like there is alot of those clumped together in 1 place. The box plot is used to plot the distribution of a data set. A box plot represents the distribution of data in a standardized way.. Whiskers are drawn to demonstrate the range of the data. Statistical data also can be displayed with other charts and graphs. A row vector X, containing the horizontal or vertical positions for each data set; A matrix Data, containing the data you wish to visualize; Hereby, each column of Data represents a data set. A box plot displays information about the range, the median and the quartiles. Also known as a box and whisker chart, boxplots are particularly useful for displaying skewed data. A box plot is a visual picture of data points. They are used to show distribution of data based on a five number summary (minimum, first quartile Q1, median Q2, third quartile Q3, and maximum). If my data in python looks like this: Box plots skewed to the right? The top point of each quartile has a name, being a "Q" followed by the number of the quarter.So the top point of the first quarter of the data points is "Q 1", and so forth.Note that Q 1 is also the middle number for the first half of the list, Q 2 is also the middle number for the whole list, Q 3 is the middle number for the second half of the list, and Q 4 is the largest value in the list. The use of box plot vs. box chart depends on the nature of data and the interpretation a researcher would like to convey. The boxplot on the top originated as the Range Bar, published by Mary Spear in the 1950's. FlowingData. first quartile: the middle value between "minimum non-outlier" and median. If a Normal distribution is represented, then this line is drawn in the center of the "box". To create a box plot by pasting data: Select Insert > Visualization > Box Plot. Calculate the quartiles of the scores and draw a box plot. boxchart(ydata) creates a box chart, or box plot, for each column of the matrix ydata.If ydata is a vector, then boxchart creates a single box chart. As a visual example of what I want, I made a terrible drawing, but hopefully it gets the point across. 1. Most students have a height that is between 66 and 72, but some students have heights that … For previous releases, read below for any additional information: The notches on a boxplot made in MATLAB 7.7 (R2008b) are intended to give an indication of the uncertainty in estimating the median. Draw a single horizontal box plot using only one axis: If we use only one data variable instead of two data variables then it means that the axis denotes each of these data variables as an axis. How to Read and Use a Box-and-Whisker Plot. marked as Q1, portrays the 25th percentile. (ii) Show the median by drawing a vertical line within the box. 6/24/2019 How to read a boxplot - MathBootCamps 1/8 MathBootCamps MATH TOPICS TI-83 TI-84 COURSES AND DOWNLOADS BLOG ABOUT How to read a boxplot Boxplots are a way of summarizing data through visualizing the five number summary which consists of the minimum value, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum value of a data set. The box plot gives you the median of the data, the upper and lower quartile, and the range. "Plot Data Grouped by Category" and "Box plot".In general, searching the Internet (e.g. Need to know how to create a box and whisker plot? A classic Boxplot includes: i) a rectangular Box ii) the Median which is drawn as a line inside the box. Paste your data into the spreadsheet interface, like the one I have shown above. Upper quartile - Lower Quartile or Largest Value - smallest value To find the interquartile range, you subtract the lower quartile from the lower quartile To find the range of all plots, subtract the smallest value from the largest value.
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Functional regulation of T-type calcium channels by S-nitrosothiols in the rat thalamus
Pavle M. Joksovic, Allan Doctor, Benjamin Gaston, Slobodan M. Todorovic
Division of Critical Care Medicine
Although T-type Ca2+ channels in the reticular thalamic nucleus (nRT) have a central function in tuning neuronal excitability and are implicated in sensory processing, sleep, and epilepsy, the mechanisms involved in their regulation are poorly understood. Here we recorded T-type Ca2+ currents from intact nRT neurons in brain slices from young rats and investigated the mechanisms of T-type channel modulation by S-nitrosothiols (SNOs). We found that extracellular application of S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO), S-nitrosocysteine (CSNO) and S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamin (SNAP) rapidly and reversibly reduced T-type currents. The effects of SNOs are strongly stereoselective at physiological concentrations: L-CSNO was fourfold more effective in inhibiting T-type current than was D-CSNO. The effects of GSNO were abolished if cells had been treated with free hemoglobin or N-ethylmaleimide, an irreversible alkylating agent but not by 8-bromoguanosine-3′,5′-cyclomonophosphate sodium salt, a membrane-permeant cGMP analogue or 1H-(1,2,4) oxadiazolo (4,3-a) quinoxalin-1-one, a specific soluble guanylyl cyclase inhibitor. In addition, bath applications of GSNO inhibited T-type currents in nucleated outside-out patches and whole cell recordings to a similar extent, with minimal effect on cell-attached recordings, suggesting a direct effect of GSNO on putative extracellular thiol residues on T-type channels. Biophysical studies indicate that GSNO decreased the availability of T-type channels at physiological potentials by modifying gating and stabilizing inactive states of the channels. In current-clamp experiments, GSNO diminished the amplitude of low-threshold calcium spikes and frequency of spike firing with minimal effects on the passive membrane properties. Collectively, the results indicate that SNOs may be a class of endogenous agents that control the functional states of the thalamus.
Journal of neurophysiology
https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00926.2006
10.1152/jn.00926.2006
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Joksovic, P. M., Doctor, A., Gaston, B., & Todorovic, S. M. (2007). Functional regulation of T-type calcium channels by S-nitrosothiols in the rat thalamus. Journal of neurophysiology, 97(4), 2712-2721. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00926.2006
Joksovic, Pavle M. ; Doctor, Allan ; Gaston, Benjamin et al. / Functional regulation of T-type calcium channels by S-nitrosothiols in the rat thalamus. In: Journal of neurophysiology. 2007 ; Vol. 97, No. 4. pp. 2712-2721.
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Functional regulation of T-type calcium channels by S-nitrosothiols in the rat thalamus. / Joksovic, Pavle M.; Doctor, Allan; Gaston, Benjamin et al.
In: Journal of neurophysiology, Vol. 97, No. 4, 04.2007, p. 2712-2721.
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AU - Joksovic, Pavle M.
AU - Doctor, Allan
AU - Gaston, Benjamin
AU - Todorovic, Slobodan M.
N2 - Although T-type Ca2+ channels in the reticular thalamic nucleus (nRT) have a central function in tuning neuronal excitability and are implicated in sensory processing, sleep, and epilepsy, the mechanisms involved in their regulation are poorly understood. Here we recorded T-type Ca2+ currents from intact nRT neurons in brain slices from young rats and investigated the mechanisms of T-type channel modulation by S-nitrosothiols (SNOs). We found that extracellular application of S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO), S-nitrosocysteine (CSNO) and S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamin (SNAP) rapidly and reversibly reduced T-type currents. The effects of SNOs are strongly stereoselective at physiological concentrations: L-CSNO was fourfold more effective in inhibiting T-type current than was D-CSNO. The effects of GSNO were abolished if cells had been treated with free hemoglobin or N-ethylmaleimide, an irreversible alkylating agent but not by 8-bromoguanosine-3′,5′-cyclomonophosphate sodium salt, a membrane-permeant cGMP analogue or 1H-(1,2,4) oxadiazolo (4,3-a) quinoxalin-1-one, a specific soluble guanylyl cyclase inhibitor. In addition, bath applications of GSNO inhibited T-type currents in nucleated outside-out patches and whole cell recordings to a similar extent, with minimal effect on cell-attached recordings, suggesting a direct effect of GSNO on putative extracellular thiol residues on T-type channels. Biophysical studies indicate that GSNO decreased the availability of T-type channels at physiological potentials by modifying gating and stabilizing inactive states of the channels. In current-clamp experiments, GSNO diminished the amplitude of low-threshold calcium spikes and frequency of spike firing with minimal effects on the passive membrane properties. Collectively, the results indicate that SNOs may be a class of endogenous agents that control the functional states of the thalamus.
AB - Although T-type Ca2+ channels in the reticular thalamic nucleus (nRT) have a central function in tuning neuronal excitability and are implicated in sensory processing, sleep, and epilepsy, the mechanisms involved in their regulation are poorly understood. Here we recorded T-type Ca2+ currents from intact nRT neurons in brain slices from young rats and investigated the mechanisms of T-type channel modulation by S-nitrosothiols (SNOs). We found that extracellular application of S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO), S-nitrosocysteine (CSNO) and S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamin (SNAP) rapidly and reversibly reduced T-type currents. The effects of SNOs are strongly stereoselective at physiological concentrations: L-CSNO was fourfold more effective in inhibiting T-type current than was D-CSNO. The effects of GSNO were abolished if cells had been treated with free hemoglobin or N-ethylmaleimide, an irreversible alkylating agent but not by 8-bromoguanosine-3′,5′-cyclomonophosphate sodium salt, a membrane-permeant cGMP analogue or 1H-(1,2,4) oxadiazolo (4,3-a) quinoxalin-1-one, a specific soluble guanylyl cyclase inhibitor. In addition, bath applications of GSNO inhibited T-type currents in nucleated outside-out patches and whole cell recordings to a similar extent, with minimal effect on cell-attached recordings, suggesting a direct effect of GSNO on putative extracellular thiol residues on T-type channels. Biophysical studies indicate that GSNO decreased the availability of T-type channels at physiological potentials by modifying gating and stabilizing inactive states of the channels. In current-clamp experiments, GSNO diminished the amplitude of low-threshold calcium spikes and frequency of spike firing with minimal effects on the passive membrane properties. Collectively, the results indicate that SNOs may be a class of endogenous agents that control the functional states of the thalamus.
U2 - 10.1152/jn.00926.2006
DO - 10.1152/jn.00926.2006
JO - Journal of Neurophysiology
JF - Journal of Neurophysiology
Joksovic PM, Doctor A, Gaston B, Todorovic SM. Functional regulation of T-type calcium channels by S-nitrosothiols in the rat thalamus. Journal of neurophysiology. 2007 Apr;97(4):2712-2721. doi: 10.1152/jn.00926.2006


During my years at PassageMaker and beyond there have been repeated discussions about carrying firearms on cruising boats. It always comes up as part of the preparations for extended cruising, and everyone seems to consider the gun option, at least in this country. Unfortunately, in my experience, too many people base their position on such topics on incomplete or misinformation and what they hear from other people.
Some people think they need to be armed to the teeth in a scary world, because they don't know how to properly manage their fears. They don't keep in mind that people around the world eat food, drink water, buy fuel, breathe air, have fun, and live life. So any consideration about leaving the dock is racked by what-if scenarios that are fear-based of the unknown. At one particular TrawlerPort seminar panel discussion that I've mentioned before, the subject of an abandon ship bag came up. Some men began discussing how many rounds of ammo were appropriate to bring along to survive. One of our panelists broke the tension building around this fearful dialog by saying she planned to put mascara and a credit card in the bag, as she knew she would land somewhere and wanted to be ready. It broke the mood.
I've met so many people with wonderful stories about visiting all kinds of exotic lands and meeting many great people, a few then getting robbed in Miami or somewhere closer to home. The only time I have been robbed on my boat was right here in Annapolis, when someone during the fall migration south came aboard my sailboat and stole my full aluminum propane tank.
We occasionally published articles on security and related issues, and once it generated a most unusual response. After one such piece, a marketing guy from Barrett Headquarters in Tennessee contacted me and offered to send me one of their .50 caliber sniper rifles to "test." He said it was the ultimate stand-off weapon from the bridge of a Grand Banks, as it can hit targets and do damage well over a mile away. I couldn't quite imagine achieving that kind of accuracy from a moving sailboat or trawler offshore or even from the flybridge of a stabilized Fleming 55. We kidded about doing something with this military grade, $10,000 rifle, but to what end? Cruising is about having fun and fixing things in exotic places.
Our military uses the M82 Barrett rifle with great effectiveness to engage targets at long distances. It is an awesome weapon in the hands of a trained sniper team. It does not belong on a cruising boat.
I have spoken to several key folks at the NRA over the years for related articles, such as traveling with guns from state to state on your boat. I know firearms instructors, and Gary Stubblefield, a retired SEAL team commander and a genuine expert on security, safety, and taking out bad guys up close and personal.
My goal here is to provide you with substance and facts, not opinions on the dock. So you can decide for yourself whether you want to carry firearms on your boat. And are willing to accept what goes with that decision. It is that simple, and it is reality.
I am not reviewing the many complex laws about carrying firearms, which vary from country to country. All are much stricter than here in the U.S. And even in our country, laws concerning firearms differ from state to state.
But laws are not the issue here. No, it is a much more basic discussion than territorial legalities and restrictions.
Good people are not bad people. And most good people find it unacceptable to shoot and kill another human being, no matter what the reason.
"Here's the thing with a violent capability," Gary told me, "If you have a gun and point it at somebody, the tendency is to say 'Stop or I'll shoot,' because we don't want to kill anyone. To take someone's life is unnatural. We don't want to do that.
"But to spray someone in the face with pepper spray, disabling him for 30 minutes or more, well, we don't have a problem with that. If the guy is about to hurt you or your crew, you don't even think twice about doing that."
The newer products in the pepper spray category use gel instead of an atomized chemical mist, so it is harder to blow back on the user if the wind blows your way. The gel only works on what it hits, so it is safer to use than traditional pepper spray, both inside a boat and outdoors.
"'Yeah right,' and he keeps coming. Unless you are very competent with a firearm in a stressful situation, you might not even hit him. With pepper spray, you will most certainly slow him down, especially if you hit him with his eyes open and inhaling."
Firearms are meant to reach out and touch someone. It can keep them at a distance. But contrary to what you and I probably envision (again, it is our lack of field experience), Stubblefield said that most "gunfights" occur at a distance of less that 10 feet, where pepper spray will work well. Also surprisingly, he said the majority of actual shooting situations in the real world happen between 3 and 10 yards.
And he knows the effects of stress in these situations, something most of us can't quite imagine. "I can't tell you how many times that I know of where men have started shooting at people 10 feet away, emptied their magazines, and never hit a thing. Not one hit."
Stress has that effect, so when the shooting starts, you fall back to the level of your training. More on that in a moment.
There is no question that firearms can be deadly. But another issue with a gun as a defensive weapon is that guns are fairly complicated. They are subject to deterioration in the marine environment. Most guns today are not all that simple and have many moving parts. They have sliding surfaces and actions, and ammunition is subject to corrosion.
The .45 caliber 1911 is a favorite handgun, used in every U.S. conflict in the last 100 years. But look at the many parts!
"When I teach people deadly force on board a yacht, I spend as much time teaching them how to maintain their weapons as I do teaching them how to shoot those weapons. Every two weeks in the tropics, they have to pull the guns out, clean them, oil them, and then put them back in their secure locker."
This stainless steel Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver is much simpler than a semi-automatic pistols.
The most foolproof handgun is a double action revolver, and it should be stainless steel, in a proper caliber to stop someone. The problem with "proper" caliber is that it will shoot right through the side of your boat, which would be unfortunate if you shoot in a direction below the waterline.
However, in Stubblefield's experienced view, the absolutely best defensive weapon, among all other firearm choices, is a 12-gauge shotgun.
This Mossberg 12-gauge Mariner has a corrosion resistant finish.
What is vital to gain any level of proficiency with firearms is dedicated, regular, and disciplined practice. How many people are willing to practice enough that they know without question they can hit a target where they are supposed to when the time comes, under the stress of an actual situation? Not very many, according to Stubblefield, including the police, as the average hit rate of law enforcement is around 12 percent, and most of those hits are off the mark and not deadly.
At the other extreme, and to get a sense of the kind of training employed by the top special forces, I asked Gary about SEAL training. While this was awhile ago, it is still likely close to accurate today. What is the training regime of those who achieve the absolute highest levels of expertise in hostile situations, where there is absolute certainly of doing everything right? He spoke of the special SEALs who are first into hostile buildings, the guys he calls the "Door Breakers." These guys rescue hostages held by terrorists and take out targets like bin Laden. To reach and maintain such unflappable focus, situational awareness, and team competency, they routinely shoot 400-600 rounds four or five times a week to maintain this skill level. When stress and confusion send the best prepared battle plans out the window, trained operators fall back to the level of their training and for them it is automatic, allowing every shot to go precisely where they need it to hit.
That is extraordinary and intense training, of course, but doesn't it put things into perspective?
The other aspect of gaining proficiency is disciplined practice. For example, he suggests shooting at a floating container tied to your boat, trailing astern. Try to hit it repeatedly. And what is a reasonable amount of practice for cruisers who carry firearms to stay reasonably proficient? Stubblefield recommends shooting 200 rounds a month for a handgun, or at least 20 rounds a month for a shotgun or rifle. And do it regularly. Take six months off and you are back to square one. Practice at night, practice in the rain. And all practice must be with the same weapon you carry. The weapon you use for defense is what you train with. It's almost a cardinal rule.
I believe the reality check for me is this: Becoming competent with a gun, and staying proficient enough to make the gun option viable (and one shouldn't have it on the boat if they aren't), is simply beyond the interest level of most cruisers. Aren't we out here to have fun?
But the biggest issue of this discussion isn't about training and proficiency, it is mental attitude. "You can't just threaten to use it, you have to be willing to commit to pull the trigger. You can't hesitate. Otherwise don't even bother to pick it up." You are better off using pepper spray, a whistle, or an air horn.
"I can't emphasize this enough. If you haven't got the will to kill, do not get involved with firearms. And most people do not. They'll tell you that they do, and they'll say how if someone came onboard they'd shoot him. Those are stories. Trust me."
The Storm is a superior whistle design. It is super loud, and readily available at sporting goods and marine stores.
Veteran cruiser Don Saunders told me he eventually threw his shotgun overboard, as it was just too much of a hassle. When he cleared into an island chain, he would have to give it up while visiting the country. Then, weeks or months later, after cruising the length of the islands, he would have to travel all the way back to the beginning to get his shotgun back. After doing that once or twice, he figured it was more trouble than he cared to deal with. Into the sea it went.
I hope it is clear that simply buying a gun to keep on the boat just in case is worse than worthless. It's downright dangerous to assume its presence will somehow be a magic solution in case of trouble when no one on the boat is competent enough to use it. Honestly, I also can't imagine, while cruising, spending the time and money with the necessary practice and maintenance guns require in the marine environment. I am on my boat to meet new people, see new things, and do more with less. My walk in Spain last month reminded me of that last point.
But this is your decision, of course. You now know what is involved, backed up with experienced advice and relevant information. You know what you need to do to become and stay proficient, and what you need to know in your heart. For a great many cruisers considering the gun option, I hear a collective sigh of relief.
I will find other strategies to stay safe, such as those we have already discussed in previous posts, as well as my next post, which is about managing one's fears and staying grounded in reality.


Co-writer and director Drew Goddard's THE CABIN IN THE WOODS returns for late shows July 5th through 8th at the Brattle Theatre. Last March, BOFCA's Monica Castillo sat down with Goddard at the SXSW Film Festival. As a TV screenwriter, his name can be found in long-running series like BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, ANGEL, ALIAS, and LOST. Goddard made the leap to the big screen with a script for CLOVERFIELD before teaming up with BUFFY creator Joss Whedon for a thoughtfully spooky film that became THE CABIN IN THE WOODS.
Q: So CABIN was on the shelf for a while, wasn't it?
A: Yeah, well, we were at a studio that went bankrupt. We got delayed a bit, but so did the last James Bond film, THE HOBBIT. But we're out now!
Q: How did you come up with a horror story that weaved together pop culture and mythology?
A: We just love horror movies, so we started to explore why we loved horror so much. It started to suggest bigger things. Why do we like watch kids getting butchered on-screen? What is it that we enjoy about being scared? It just made us look beyond the horror movie and at the people we are. This sort of sacrificing of youth — that's been happening forever and that bears a lot in the movie too. We have to go to the mythology because so many of our stories are based off of that. Those roots are very much a part of the horror genre.
Q: How about the basic idea of a house of horrors that other people controlled?
A: You know, it wasn't a lot more complicated than, "You know what would be cool? This…" Joss had this original idea of people upstairs and people downstairs, and we just pitched that and said let's explore this. That was fun to see where the story would take us. We didn't do anything more than to set out to write a movie.
Q: What would you say were some of the horror movies that influenced you?
A: I didn't try to get any one influence. I wanted to give the film a very elegant look to counteract the ridiculousness that happens. I wanted it to feel grown-up. I wanted to balance the mundane and the simple with the operatic.
Q: So this wasn't your quick and dirty B-movie?
A: We shot for a while actually, about 40 days. It was some hard months in Vancouver, with a lot of rain and a lot of snow. It was not hard for the actors to look distressed.
Q: How did it feel to work with a cast of young, fresh actors and older, more experienced ones?
A: It definitely felt like I got to shoot two different movies. It was a totally different vibe. What was interesting is that the veteran actors were much more fun than the kids. The kids were way more serious. I think that comes with experience, they know how to let their hair down a little better. But I didn't expect that.
Q: How was it collaborating with Whedon again?
A: We just got along right away. I love his writing, he's my favorite writer in the world.
Q: With quite the cult following.
A: Oh my God, I was a part of that. I think that our voices are very similar. It's very easy for us to write together because we just like each other. We had so much fun writing BUFFY and ANGEL; it felt like the next thing to do was to do when the shows had gotten out. Let's write a movie. Let's try to write something fun and fast. We had this original idea and we decided to write it for ourselves. Just a movie we'd like to see. We'll figure out if anyone would let us make it later.


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Marks & Spencer changes name of Midget Gems over fears they could cause offence
Can the show go on for theatre and comedy? - Alone Together podcast
By Morven McIntyre
Thursday, 13th August 2020, 11:27 am
Updated Thursday, 13th August 2020, 11:28 am
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The pandemic has had a profound impact on the arts and entertainment industry, with lockdown restrictions forcing venues to close their doors.
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Daniel McLaughlin, podcast producer at the Manchester Evening News, speaks to Gayle Knight, creative director at Oswaldtwistle Civic Arts Centre.
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Stand-up comedian Jack Gleadow talks about how the comedy industry has been hit hard by the pandemic: "Some people live in this job mouth to gig so they'll go get their money for that Friday or Saturday night and that will literally feed them and their families that week."
Jack also talks about the importance of the Edinburgh Fringe which is cancelled this year due to the pandemic. "People work year round for the festival and for some companies that is their only income for the year so they would have lost a lot of money from that. "
Finally, the podcast local hero section features an Edinburgh based restaurant providing hot meals for children who would normally receive free school dinners and for those who are homeless. Layla Gassabi of Maison Bleue has been working with charities such as CLASP, Street Works and Children First providing these services since the start of June.
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Mixed reaction to review
Recommendation threatens 'Canada's number-one sport'
Women's basketball Coach Dave Wilson said returning senior players will fill the void left by Claire Meadows' graduation.
The recently released athletics review has garnered mixed reactions from Queen's coaches and players.
The 36-page review of Athletics and Recreation, co-authored by former Dean of Student Affairs Bob Crawford and Dean of Graduate Studies and Research Janice Deakin, was released June 27.
Although most coaches, many of whom were consulted as part of the review, say they recognize and appreciate the effort and initiative that went into the review, some are unhappy with its suggestions.
The source of the unhappiness lies in the review's recommendation that, if implemented, would see only 10 to 16 fully-funded varsity teams at the University. A ranking of the 34 varsity sports and competitive clubs at Queen's saw some coaches upset with their team's spots on the list.
One of the teams on the chopping block is 23rd-ranked fencing. Fencer Joanna Chen was disappointed at the ranking, but wasn't surprised.
"The saddest thing for me is that a lot of people get introduced to fencing at university because it's not widely available. We can still introduce people to it in a club setting but not at the same competitive level," she said.
Chen said without university funding, fencers would have to incur costs for facilities and tournaments.
"It's a put-off to pay for a sport when you haven't tried it before," she said.
Men's hockey, a sport with a long history at Queen's, was ranked 14th on the list. The review cited the University's lack of an ice rink due to Queen's Centre construction, which would bring the team's operating cost to $3.5 million over the five years before the new arena is built.
Men's hockey coach Brett Gibson said he examined the review at great length.
"It did shock me in a way, but it didn't in another. How do you get rid of Canada's number one sport? I don't think it's possible."
Gibson plans to use the review to help his team in a way its authors may not have anticipated.
"I'm going to use it in a positive way. I'm going to use it to motivate my guys. We have to go out and win, and that's why we have the varsity label."
The football team is about to play its 125th season and was ranked fifth in the review. Head coach Pat Sheahan would have liked to have seen a higher ranking.
"While it is important that we do well in every sport, the one sport that people want to see us back in the winner's circle is football," Sheahan said. "The number-one sport at Queen's has always been and always will be football."
Not surprisingly, coaches whose teams were ranked higher were pleased with the review.
Women's soccer head coach Dave McDowell, whose team was ranked second behind men's volleyball, likes the new direction the review suggests.
"I love what the review's saying, and I love the direction that the Athletics Department seems to be going in. We're looking forward to seeing how those changes kind of help us out, and maybe take that next step."
McDowell, who is currently a part-time coach, also looks forward to the possibility of more funding.
"Maybe just freeing up the coaching staff from wearing so many hats would be nice too. Sometimes you feel like the coaching kind of gets lost."
He also said more funds would allow his athletes to pay for year-round training. It would also allow the team to attract marquee athletes through scholarships.
Men's soccer coach Al MacVicar, whose team was ranked sixth, said although teams should take heed of the review, it shouldn't create a sudden atmosphere of accountability in Queen's varsity sports.
"It's not a situation where, all of a sudden, we have to think, 'Okay, we have to be accountable because we're being reviewed.' That should already be in the mind of every head coach of every team at Queen's, and I'm sure it is."
The review recommends raising the student fee for Athletics and Recreation to place it among the top five universities in Ontario.
AMS President Kingsley Chak said the proposal to raise the fee should be carefully examined before decisions are made.
"Right now the facility that we have is not top-notch in Canada and that's why I think the athletics fee is not as high as others," he said. "When the Queen's Centre is completed then all the facilities will be newer—at that point examining the fee will be logical."
Chak also cautiously addressed the recommendation that the AMS and Athletics and Recreation work together to approve athletics clubs.
"I think the problem right now is there are too many branches in Athletics and people are not communicating with each other. We need to look into more detail in how that restructuring is going to occur. The system has to make sense for students."
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At 12:06 a.m. Wednesday morning, President Trump tweeted a cryptic message from his personal account, @realDonaldTrump.
The tweet began with the fragment, "Despite the constant negative press covfefe," and stopped at that, not to be deleted for six more hours.
Many believe President Trump meant to say coverage, and had a small typo.
However, staff writers at Hawk Eye have other ideas as what to 'covfefe' might mean.
Senior Zoe Zilcosky said she thinks it means "gooder than the best." She did not want to expand on that statement.
Another junior, Kara Brunner said the word might mean coffee, but after reading the tweet completely she decided it must be coverage.
Hopefully, the Hawk Eye staff will be the ones to figure out the true meaning of 'covfefe' and spread the light of truth across our puzzled nation.
Haley Radcliffe: a gal that loves a good knock knock joke. You might know her as that blondie in the hall, but she is so much more than that.


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Q: Why do you get the different sized arrays from invoking split() on an empty string and a string which consists of only separators After you split an empty string, you get an array of 1 element
After you split a string that have only separators/delimiters(for example, only special characters which the split(\W) will remove), you get an array of 0 elements?
They both lead to empty tokens so surely they have the same length arrays?
But why not?

A: Because, split have two case:

*

*If no match was found, return new String[] { this }, for example:
"1111".split(",") // {"1111"}
" ".split(",") // {" "}
"".split(",") // {""}

*It match was found, return new String[resultSegmentCount], when resultSegmentCount = 0, for example:
 " , ".split(",") // {" ", " "}
 " ,".split(",") // {" "}
 ", ".split(",") // {" "}
 ",".split(",") // {}


Late Catholic Pontif, Pope John Paul II has been untraveled to have had an 'intense' relationship with a married woman for 30 years. This was brought to light by a documentary by the BBC Panorama.
The Pontiff , who passed away in 2005, became best friend with Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka even before his election as Pope in 1978. His correspondences, which includes hundreds of letters and photographs that tells the story of Pope John Paul II's close relationship were recently shown on a BBC Panorama programme after they had been hidden in a room at the Polish national library for years.


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Penske acquires Black Horse Carriers
Penske Logistics announced Monday, Nov. 30, it has reached an agreement to acquire 2,000-truck Black Horse Carriers. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
The agreement is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, but companies expect the deal to close on Dec. 31.
Founded in 1925, Chicago-based Black Horse Carriers operates out of more than 90 terminals across the U.S., providing services to the food and grocery, retail, bakery, dairy, CPG, manufacturing and automotive industries. The company operates a fleet of more than 2,000 vehicles, and services customers from more than 90 terminals across the United States.
J.B. Hunt acquires niche final mile carrier
J.B. Hunt announced Monday, Nov. 30, it has acquired the assets of 21-truck Mass Movement, a carrier that provides logistics, delivery, assembly and installation services for the commercial fitness industry.
Mass Movement, founded in 1996 by Dom Simonetti and Jim Sullivan, finished 2019 with revenues of $29 million. Both founders will become employees of J.B. Hunt and will continue in leadership roles as it expands its fitness equipment delivery business.
XPO spins off logistics and warehousing unit
LTL and brokerage giant XPO on Wednesday announced it will spin off its logistics segment as its own separate, publicly traded company. The two companies, for now, will be named XPORemainCo and NewCo. Brad Jacobs will remain the CEO and chairman of XPORemainCo, and he'll assume the role of chairman of NewCo.
XPORemain will retain the company's LTL trucking business and its freight brokerage business. NewCo, the spin-off, will assume the company's massive warehousing business, which encompasses some 200 million square feet of warehousing space globally. The transaction is expected to be completed by February 2021, the company said.
Arizona association names its driver of the year
Industry group asks that truckers get priority for COVID vaccine
Steps taken to prepare for vaccine distribution
Several tractor-trailers involved in I-70 pileup
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Indiana Pacers All-Star forward Paul George addressed reports that he has fathered a child from a prior relationship with a woman from Miami.
"If and when there is any legal confirmation I'm the father, I embrace it. I step up to it," George told reporters Friday morning.
However, George vehemently denied that he offered the woman, who is pregnant, $1 million to abort the child.
"Nah, it's not true," George told The Indianapolis Star after Friday's game. "Not true. Nothing."
George answered two questions about the situation, then asked reporters "to respect my privacy."
Lance Stephenson missed the rematch with the Portland Trail Blazers. with a bruised lower back. After the team's morning shootaround, Pacers coach Frank Vogel announced that Stephenson would sit out his second game of the year due to injury and Danny Granger would slide into the starting shooting guard position.
Stephenson, who sustained the injury during a fall Tuesday night in Atlanta, said he expects to travel with the team when it plays in Orlando on Sunday. Vogel stated that the team would re-evaluate Stephenson before the trip.
"He's a pretty quick healer," Vogel said. "I really think it's day-to-day. We'll see how he's feeling tomorrow. I'd be surprised if it were a few games."
While the Pacers played without a starter, the Trail Blazers had to go on without their sixth man. Backup point guard Mo Williams left the team Friday morning to tend to a family matter. In his absence, former Pacer Earl Watson filled the reserve minutes.
"When Earl's been called on a couple of times this year — the game that Mo was suspended and the Golden State game when Mo was ejected — Earl came in and helped us win both those games," Blazers coach Terry Stotts said. "He has a court presence. He has leadership qualities on the court. He has toughness defensively. He's been in big games.
"He's been great for us throughout the year."
Watson, the well-traveled veteran, signed with the Blazers last summer. In his 13th season, Watson has averaged less than a point (0.2) in only 12 appearances.
Before George fielded questions about his personal life on Friday, he spoke publicly for the first time about joining the six-man field of the NBA All-Star slam dunk contest.
"I just thought it was a move that should've been done. Get some superstar power back into the dunk contest," George said. "I think I owed it to my fans. Give them another run, another show and another opportunity to have fun at All-Star weekend."
George, who will make his second appearance as a dunk contest participant, was also named as the Eastern Conference All-Star team captain.
"That had a little bit to do with it," George said, referring to how the title helped him decide to join the field. "They persuaded me on that one."
As far as ideas for this year, George teased that he may be into recycling.
"Yeah, I think I'm going to pull out the lost files of 2012," George said.
Call Star reporter Candace Buckner at (317) 444-6121. Follow her on Twitter: @CandaceDBuckner. Michael Pointer contributed to this report.


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Raritan Secure Switches (RSS) offer a proven desktop access solution for guarding against cyber intrusion for government and military agencies. The RSS is lab tested and certified to meet the requirements of the latest NIAP Protection Profile for Peripheral Sharing Devices version 3.0. There are four available models, two port and four port, with and without Common Access Card (CAC) authentication.
The SX II series of Serial Console Servers builds on over ten years and 500 million hours of operation of the original SX. It's far more powerful and productive than any other product of this class for managing servers, switches, security appliances, rack PDUs, virtual hosts, and wireless / telecom equipment.
Powerful hardware at 1GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM, 8 GB Flash memory.
Serial processing at 10 connections per port and up to 200 simultaneous sessions.
Auto-sensing DTE/DCE ports: no more rollover cables.
Scales to thousands of devices with Raritan's CommandCenter.
Besides the high performance serial processing from a more powerful hardware platform, there's a NEW Java-free web browser option for remote access and management.
Remote power management is essential for many IT and communication applications. Watch this video to learn how the PX series of intelligent PDUs can help you to meet those challenges head-on.
Reliable power distribution for single or three-phase power at 120 to 400V.
Metering at the unit, outlet, and PDU branch circuit level.
Easy mass deployment and lifecycle management capabilities.
There's also an entire line of power distribution products like rack transfer switches that improve reliability in single power supply devices. Plus, environmental monitoring solutions that improve the overall reliability of your infrastructure.
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Tomorrow afternoon's game is as Maine as they get though. It's flannel day at Hadlock! The Sea Dogs are asking everyone who attends the game to don their favorite flannel apparel as the boys of summer take on the Trenton Thunder at 1pm.
Thursday, April 18 is a big day when the Sea Dogs return for a homestand on the 25th anniversary of the day the Sea Dogs played their very first game at Hadlock Field.
After having to postpone two games, the Portland Sea Dogs have a doubleheader today at 5 p.m. if the field can be ready.
Think you've got what it takes to sing the National Anthem in front of a sell-out crowd at Hadlock Field? The Sea Dogs are holding auditions.
Holiday at Hadlock is this Saturday, Dec. 1st in Portland from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM and it's FREE! Celebrate the season with Slugger with all kinds of family holiday food and fun. We hear Santa will be there too!
The Sea Dogs will pick one child and one adult to be a guest PA announcer at an upcoming game this summer.
Grab your glove and head to Hadlock Field to play catch before the game on June 10th.