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Luis Enrique replaced as Spain coach after World Cup exit
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Spain's head coach Luis Enrique reacts to supporters at the end of the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Morocco and Spain, at the Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar, Tuesday, Dec.
Spain's head coach Luis Enrique reacts to supporters at the end of the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Morocco and Spain, at the Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar, Tuesday, Dec. 6,[...]
FILE - Spain's coach Jose Luis de la Fuente stands at the bench prior to a men's quarterfinal soccer match against Ivory Coast at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 31, 2021, in Rifu, Japan, Tokyo.
FILE - Spain's coach Jose Luis de la Fuente stands at the bench prior to a men's quarterfinal soccer match against Ivory Coast at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 31, 2021, in Rifu, Japan, Tok[...]
Spain's head coach Luis Enrique, center, talks to his players after the penalty shootout at the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Morocco and Spain, at the Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar, Tuesday, Dec.
Spain's head coach Luis Enrique, center, talks to his players after the penalty shootout at the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Morocco and Spain, at the Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan[...]
FILE - Spain's coach Jose Luis de la Fuente reacts during the men's final soccer match against Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug.
FILE - Spain's coach Jose Luis de la Fuente reacts during the men's final soccer match against Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021, in Yokohama, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, F[...]
Spain's head coach Luis Enrique, left, embraces Sergio Busquets after the penalty shootout at the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Morocco and Spain, at the Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar, Tuesday, Dec.
Spain's head coach Luis Enrique, left, embraces Sergio Busquets after the penalty shootout at the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Morocco and Spain, at the Education City Stadium in Al Rayy[...]
DOHA, Qatar (AP) - Luis Enrique was replaced by Luis de la Fuente as Spain's coach on Thursday, two days after the national team was eliminated in the round of 16 at the World Cup.
Spain lost to Morocco 3-0 in a penalty shootout after a scoreless draw in regular and extra time.
The Spanish soccer federation thanked Luis Enrique, but said it was time to "start a new project" to keep the growth achieved by the coach in recent years. It said the change was made after a recommendation by its sporting officials.
The 61-year-old De la Fuente, a former left back with Sevilla and Athletic Bilbao, helped Spain's under-19 squad win the European Championship in 2015, and the under-21 team win Euro 2019. He also coached Spain's squad, which won a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
De la Fuente had coached the senior national team once, when youth players were used in a friendly against Lithuania because the main squad had to go into isolation because of the coronavirus.
Other candidates who had been considered besides De la Fuente, who was Spain's under-21 coach, included former Belgium manager Roberto Martínez and former Athletic Bilbao coach Marcelino García Toral.
Spain got off to a good start in Qatar, routing Costa Rica 7-0, but La Roja couldn't win again in its last three matches. It drew 1-1 with Germany and lost 2-1 to Japan before being held by Morocco.
Luis Enrique took over the national team in 2018 to start revamping the squad after its elimination in the round of 16 of the World Cup in Russia. He temporarily left because of the illness and eventual death of his young daughter, but returned in 2019.
He helped Spain reach the last four of the Nations League twice, including this season and last year, when it lost the final to France.
He also led Spain to the semifinals of the European Championship last year, losing to Italy in a penalty shootout.
Luis Enrique's contract ended after the World Cup. The former Barcelona player and coach had said moments after the loss to Morocco that he would take some time to rest before starting talks with the federation about his future. He said he would have liked to stay with the national team "forever," but knew that it might not be possible.
The 52-year-old Luis Enrique, not long ago seen as one of the most uptight coaches in soccer, had opened up at the World Cup, doing streaming sessions, going on bicycle rides and talking frankly about controversial issues.
The team's elimination in Qatar raised more questions about whether Spain should start overhauling its soccer philosophy and get rid of the "tiki-taka" ball-possession style that has not produced results recently. Luis Enrique had said he wasn't planning to relinquish the "tiki-taka" if he remained as coach, and De la Fuente also is likely to keep it alive.
De la Fuente is expected to make his debut with the senior team when Spain resumes playing in qualifying for Euro 2024 in March next year.
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Q: Processing image stops mid-loop for no reason c# I have an image, and I want to take each square of 256X256 pixels, find the mean color, and draw that square with said color.
Problem: it seems that after the first square the processing suddenly stops, but after following the program I can see the indexes are just fine. I have no idea if the problem lies with file writing in my computer system, or a wrong use of the "Bitmap" class functions.
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        public const int big =256;
        public const int small = 16;
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Bitmap bt = new Bitmap(@"C:\Users\mishe\Desktop\00_sorted images - training\general shores\agulhas_oli_2016146_lrg.jpg");
            Bitmap bt2 = bt;
            Color MeanColor;
            double r = 0;
            double g = 0;
            double b = 0;
            int i = 0;
            int j = 0;

            //big loop to go over all image
            for (i = 0; i < bt.Height-257; i+=256)
            {
                for (j = 0; j < bt.Width-257; j+=256)
                {
                    /////////////////////////////
                    //small loop on 1 square to get the mean color of the area
                    for (int x = i; x < big; x++)
                    {
                        for (int y = j; y < big; y++)
                        {
                            r += bt.GetPixel(x, y).R;
                            g += bt.GetPixel(x, y).G;
                            b += bt.GetPixel(x, y).B;
                        }
                    }
                    /////////////////////////////
                    r = r / Math.Pow(big, 2);
                    g = g / Math.Pow(big, 2);
                    b = b / Math.Pow(big, 2);
                    MeanColor = Color.FromArgb((int)r, (int)g, (int)b);
                    /////////////////////////////
                    //small loop on the same square to set the color
                    for (int x = i; x < big; x++)
                    {
                        for (int y = j; y < big; y++)
                        {
                            bt2.SetPixel(x, y, MeanColor);
                        }
                    }
                    /////////////////////////////
                }
            }
            bt2.Save(@"C:\Users\mishe\Desktop\compressed image.jpg", ImageFormat.Jpeg);
        }

A: This line:
//small loop on 1 square to get the mean color of the area
for (int x = i; x < big; x++)

After the first square, x will be 256, so it won't do the small loop.
I think you want:
for (int x = i; x < i + big; x++)

Or your small loop could be:
for (int x = 1; x < big; x++)

and then add the large and small values inside the loop:
 r += bt.GetPixel(i + x, j + y).R;

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Little Red Riding Hood On Acid: Freeway (1996, directed by Matthew Bright)
Posted on September 3, 2018 by Jedadiah Leland
Vanessa Lutz (Reese Witherspoon) may not be able to read but she ain't dumb.
When her mother (Amanda Plummer) gets arrested for prostitution and her stepfather (Michael T. Weiss) goes to jail for meth possession, Vanessa knows that it's time to leave South Los Angeles and go to her grandmother in Stockton. She puts on her red jacket, packs her possession in a picnic basket, and heads for the freeway. Vanessa is determined to get to grandmother's house and she's not going to let anyone stop her. Not the police. Not the gangbangers who murdered her boyfriend, Chopper (Bookeem Woodbine). And certainly not Bob Wolverton (Kiefer Sutherland), the psychiatrist who moonlights as the I-5 killer.
An audaciously wild take on the story of Little Red Riding Hood, Freeway used to be a HBO mainstay, where it developed the cult following that it retains to this very day. The violence is graphic and the humor is often viscous but Reese Witherspoon has never been better than she was in the role of the loud and unapologetically profane Vanessa Lutz. Whether she's cussing up a storm or shooting a pervert in the face or plotting her escape from jail, Vanessa is a whirlwind of nonstop energy and it is impossible not to get swept up with her. Witherspoon has since won an Oscar and appeared in all sorts of "prestige" pictures but she's never had a better role than she did in Freeway.
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Cleaning Out The DVR: Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (dir by Rob Schmidt)
Posted on September 23, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman
(Lisa is once again trying to clean out her DVR! She's got about 182 films on her DVR and she needs to get them all watched by the end of this year! Will she make it? Not if she's too busy writing cutesy introductions for her reviews to actually watch the movies! She recorded Crime + Punishment in Suburbia off of Flix on February 25th!)
Oh, dammit.
I have seen some really pretentious movies before but Crime + Punishment in Suburbia is really something else. As you might be able to guess from the title, the film is supposedly based on the Dosteyevsky novel but it takes place not only in modern times but in suburbia as well. Oh, and it actually has next to nothing in common with Doteyevsky novel, beyond a murder and occasional religious symbolism. And by occasional, I mean that there's a scene where Vincent Kartheiser wears a Jesus t-shirt.
Kartheiser plays Vincent, a teenager who I think we're supposed to think is dark and disturbed but instead he just comes across like a weird little poser. I mean, honestly, it takes more than just wearing black clothes to be weird. I had a closet full of black clothes when I was eighteen and it still never brought me any closer to enlightenment. Anyway, Vincent is a classmate of Roseanne (Monica Keena) and Roseanne is dating a handsome but dumb jock named Jimmy (James DeBello). Roseanne's mother is named Maggie (Ellen Barkin) and Maggie has recently married an abusive drunk named Fred (Michael Ironside).
Fred is a total jerk so Maggie goes out with her best friend, Bella (Conchata Ferrell), to a bar. It's at the bar that she meets Chris (Jeffrey Wright), a handsome and charming bartender. Soon, Chris and Maggie are having an affair and when Fred finds out, he rapes his stepdaughter. Roseanne convinces Jimmy to help her murder Fred but, after the deed is done, Roseanne finds herself struggling with her conscience.
Now, of course, in Crime & Punishment, the whole point is that the murder itself was largely random and motiveless. The rest of the book deals with the protagonist's attempt to come to terms with not only his crime but also with the meaninglessness of it all. In Crime + Punishment in Suburbia, Roseanne has a good reason for killing Fred. Fred is such a monster that there's no real confusion as to why Roseanne did what she did. One could argue, quite convincingly, that if she didn't kill Fred, he would have ended up killing her. That makes the film's later attempt at moral ambiguity feel rather hollow and empty.
The other problem with Crime + Punishment in Suburbia is that we don't see the story through Roseanne's eyes. Instead, the entire movie is narrated by Vincent. Now, Vincent Kartheiser is not a bad actor. Anyone who has seen Mad Men knows that. And, in this film, he occasionally gets to flash a cute smile that makes the character a little bit bearable. But the character he plays, Vincent, is so weird and off-putting that you have no desire to spend 100 minutes listening to him portentously talk about his existence. Considering that Monica Keena actually gives a pretty good performance as Roseanne, the decision to tell her story through Vincent's eyes feels all the more mistaken.
The only thing more overwrought than Vincent's narration is Rob Schmidt's direction. This is one of those films that uses every narrative trick in the book to tell its story. Look at the wild camera angles! Look at the sudden slow motion! Look at the freeze frame! This is one of those movies that you watch and you just want to shout, "Calm down!" at the director.
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia is one to avoid.
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Review: RSO's The General
Posted by James Brotheridge | November 6, 2011 | Film, Music, Uncategorized
One question I had going into this show was how the audience would react. On the one hand, it's a Regina Symphony Orchestra show. There's a certain decorum implied in that. On the other, it's a Shumiatcher Pops series presentation, where the symphony can loosen up a bit.
Not only that, but it was a show featuring a classic of the comedy genre, 1927's The General, to which the RSO would be performing the score. Really, my main question was, "Would people be laughing?"
The answer is, "Yes." People were getting into the film so much that they even applauded a gag in the film. When an audience at a live event applauds the non-live part of the performance, you know they're getting into it.
They weren't the only ones. Conductor Victor Sawa clearly had a lot of enthusiasm for what he'd put together along with the help of guest pianist Richard Friend. Before the program started, he enthused about the Buster Keaton silent classic. (During that preamble, Sawa also invoked the controversial movie Birth of a Nation to explain how many extras were used in The General, an odd choice when talking about a film where you already have to cheer for the South in the Civil War.)
There was a lot to be enthusiastic about for Sawa. For one, the movie holds up. The pacing is excellent and most if not all of the jokes stand up today. Those that might feel dated are expertly sold by Keaton, the Great Stone Face.
Keaton plays an engineer whose train, the General of the title, is captured by Union soldiers, who also make off with his true love as well. Ever the valiant comedy star, Keaton's character must pratfall his way behind enemy lines, reclaim his love and engine, and make it back home in time to warn the Confederates of an oncoming attack.
The RSO divided the performance into two, taking an intermission as soon as Keaton begins his journey back. For the first half, the orchestra performed a beautiful score ably. Friend took a lot of the spotlight, as his playing was the thread of the performance. Whenever the orchestra wasn't playing, he was, and quite well at that. The transitions between the two was seamless.
In the second half, the orchestra got the chance to really open up. With all the cannon fire and train crashes, there's a lot of excitement and action in the second half of The General. The orchestra matched that, playing nimbly and with great verve.
All in all, it was an exciting and really fun presentation. Kudos to the RSO.
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Buzzfeed cites two Israeli intelligence officials as saying unsubstantiated dossier on Moscow's dirt on Trump being looked into across world.
Two Israeli intelligence officers have reportedly confirmed that the unsubstantiated dossier containing compromising information Russia has on President-elect Donald Trump is being investigated by intelligence agencies across the Western world.
The documents, published by Buzzfeed hours after CNN reported that Moscow has "compromising" information on the president-elect, are attributed to Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent who was privately contracted by Trumps' political opponents to examine his ties to the Kremlin. Trump has vehemently denied the reports as "fake news."
"You can trust me that many intelligence agencies are trying to evaluate the extent to which Trump might have ties, or a weakness of some type, to Russia," one of the Israeli officers was cited saying in a report carried by Buzzfeed on Saturday.
According to Buzzfeed, Israel purportedly received the dossier through an unnamed ally in Europe, but has yet to coroborate its contents.
"There have been various reports about Trump's ties to Russia," one intelligence officer was quoted as telling Buzzfeed, evidently in reference to additional yet unpublished reports. "The dossier is one of them, but there are others, they make other allegations. Some are more specific, and some are less," he reportedly said.
It was reported this week that Israeli intelligence officials were concerned that classified information shared with their American counterparts under a Trump administration could lead to their being leaked to Russia.
Trump said on Thursday that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called him to denounce the "false and fictitious" report about the dossier that makes salacious, unverified claims about him in Russia.
Clapper, in a statement on Wednesday, said he had spoken with Trump that evening and expressed "dismay" over media leaks about the report, but did not say the document was false.


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BIRT Designer - Used to construct reports.
Web Viewer - An example J2EE application used to deploy reports, containing a JSP tag library to ease the integration with existing web applications.
BIRT Charting package - Supports building sophisticated actionable charts.
The BIRT project had its first major release in the summer of 2005 and has garnered over a million downloads since its inception. To learn more about the BIRT project see http://www.eclipse.org/birt, which includes an introduction, tutorials, downloads, and examples of using BIRT.
We will begin by first describing the BIRT designer, which is used to build report designs, and conclude by discussing the example BIRT Viewer, which is used to deploy the designs and generate the completed reports.
At the center of BIRT is the report designer, which is a set of Eclipse plug-ins that make up the designer perspective providing drag-and-drop capabilities to quickly design reports. The reports designs are created and stored in an XML format.
This Eclipse perspective contains many Eclipse Views that provide the functionality for creating a report. These views are delineated below.
The Report Editor is used to construct the report and acts as a canvas for positioning and formatting report elements. Within this View, there are tabs for Layout, Master Page, Script, XML Source, and Preview.
The Layout tab is used for the visual layout of the report and supports drag-and-drop functionality.
The Master Page is used for setting the header, footer, and background image configurations for the entire report. For example, this page is often the location of the corporate header.
The XML Source tab displays the XML source code for the report design. It is possible to edit the XML within this tab, although it is generally best to use the Layout View.
Preview allows the report developer to quickly render a working report to HTML. Note that you can also preview reports in other supported formats using the toolbar.
Before constructing a report, setting up data sources is usually required. To facilitate this task, BIRT provides the Data Explorer View.
This Eclipse view allows the designer to add data sources and data sets to the report design. Essentially, a data source is just the connection. The data set can be thought of as an executed query and the specific columns it returns.
BIRT provides drivers for JDBC, XML, flat file, and scripted data sources. With the release of BIRT 2.2, BIRT also provides a Web Service data source and an improved flat file driver that now supports CSV, TSV, SSV, and PSV file formats.
BIRT also provides a special data set called a Joint Data Set that allows combining existing data sets using inner and outer joins. This feature is very useful when combining data sets from different data sources. In addition, BIRT data sources now support the ability to link or import connection profiles that are stored locally to allow sharing of connection credentials across reports.
Report parameters can be static or dynamic. Static parameters are parameters that allow the user to select from a predefined set of values or to enter a desired value, for example, in a text box. Dynamic parameters are parameters that can be data bound to an existing BIRT data set. For example, a user may select a customer from a list of customers provided by a data set.
In addition, BIRT supports cascading parameters that allow multiple list/combo boxes to be displayed with each subsequent selection list being modified by previously selected values. For example, a cascaded parameter could present a customer list in the first list box and the orders for the given customer in a second list box.
With BIRT 2.2, dynamic parameters now support using Java Script expressions for the display text and value of the parameter. This improvement allows the parameter list to be displayed to the end user in a much more logical manner. For example, when developing an order detail report, you may wish to present a dynamic parameter list of all orders. The expression would allow you to also add in the customer name for each order. Figure 5 shows a dynamic parameter list.
The Data Explorer View also allows the creation of data cubes. This is a new feature for BIRT 2.2 and is used in conjunction with the new crosstab report element. BIRT data cubes are multi-dimensional cubes, based on one or more BIRT datasets, constructed using the new Cross Tab Cube Builder. See Palette View for more details.
In addition to the above features, BIRT now provides two new project types that allow Java developers to create additional data sources. These data sources are based on the Open Data Access (ODA) framework provided by the Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) project. The ODA Designer Plug-in Project is used when constructing the GUI, which is called when a report developer uses your driver. The ODA Runtime Driver Plug-in Project is used when developing the run-time portion of your driver. This plug-in is usually deployed to a run-time environment and is responsible for making the calls to the data source and retrieving the results.
The BIRT Palette View is used to add report items to the report canvas. The Palette View contains the report elements that are used to present the data collected in the Data Explorer View. To use a report, simply drag it from the Palette View to the Report Editor. All BIRT report elements support properties that can be configured in the Property Editor View and are described by the BIRT Report Object Model (ROM).
Label elements are used for displaying static text. As with most report elements, the text can be externalized for localization and supports such properties as hyperlinking, font sizing, and highlighting.
Dynamic text elements are most often used to display CLOB data type values. These values can also be combined with additional data using the BIRT Expression Builder.
Data elements are the essential element for displaying values from data sources. Using the Expression Builder, data values can be altered and manipulated. For example, if a data set contains a column for first name and another for last name, using the expression builder you can concatenate the values into one data element.
Image elements are used to include pictures in the report output. BIRT supports retrieving images from a URI, embedding the image in the design, dynamic images (BLOB) from a data source, and image files in a resource folder.
Grid elements act as containers for other report elements and are used to position elements in a logical manner. Grid elements are configured in tabular format. For example, if your report is displaying product sales and you want a chart representation to the right of your table data, you would add a grid element with one row and two columns.
List elements also act as containers for other elements. Lists differ from other container elements in that they iterate over data sets that are bound to the list. The default list element has a header, footer and detail section. When the list is rendered, the header and footer are usually displayed once, while the detail section is displayed for every row of the data set that is bound to the list. Within the detail section you may have a text element or another container element such as a grid, table or another list.
Table elements are similar to list in that they are container elements that iterate over bound data sets, but are represented in tabular format. The table element layout is similar to an HTML table. Table elements have header, footer and detail sections as well as columns.
Aggregation elements are new for BIRT 2.2 and provide functionality to add aggregate elements to the report using the new aggregation builder. The Aggregation Builder supplies over twenty-five different functions such as SUM, MIN, MAX, and AVERAGE.
The chart element allows charts to be inserted into the report design. When a chart element is placed in the Report Editor, the Chart Builder Wizard automatically displays. This wizard is used for designing the chart and offers three design tabs (Select Chart Type, Select Data, and Format Chart). Thirteen primary chart types and many combinations of sub-types are available with BIRT 2.2. The Chart Builder provides drag-and-drop functionality, live chart preview, data filtering, and parameterization. Chart elements can be presented in PNG, JGP, BMP, and SVG output, which support drilling through and highlighting, toggling visibility, and client side script.
The Cross Tab element is also new for BIRT 2.2 and can be used to display data contained within a BIRT data cube. In previous versions of BIRT, the number of columns in a table element had to be known at design-time, whereas with the cross tab element, the number of columns and rows can be dynamic. This element also supports hierarchal aggregation and display of data, allowing cube dimensions to be placed on rows and columns, and measuring data to be displayed at appropriate intersections.
The Library Explorer View allows drag-and-drop functionality from existing report libraries into the current report. Libraries in BIRT are effectively report XML snippets that can be used by other reports. These libraries are referenced from reports that use them, meaning that changes in the library are automatically reflected in all reports that use the library. A good example is using a report library to store the company logo. If the company logo changes, only the library needs updating, not the reports that references it. Libraries are referenced relative to the resource folder which is configurable in the designer for design-time and in the web.xml of the Web Viewer for run-time.
The Property Editor View is used to set properties for report elements that have been added to the report. The items displayed will be determined by what report element is selected in the Report Editor. The Properties window presents common settings, such as style, width, and font information. Additionally, most report elements support the visibility property that allows hiding content dynamically. To the right of the Properties tab, this view features Sorting, Groups, Map, Highlights, and Filters tabs.
While most of these functions are self explanatory, the Map tab allow dynamic conditions to be built (using the Expression Builder) that dynamically change the display value of a report element. For example, if your month row value is "1", you may want to display "January".
The Highlights tab uses conditions to apply different style formats dynamically, such as showing low sales numbers in red. Most of these functions allow multiple conditions or keys to be placed on an item. One condition may change the color of the font, while another condition may change the font size. One sort key can list the results alphabetically, while another sort key puts "Jones" at the top of the list.
In addition, with BIRT 2.2, when applying highlights, the report developer can now specify a style instead of setting the style properties manually.
The Outline View presents a graphical hierarchy of the report design and illustrates the report element to container relationship. Report elements can be directly selected within the outline view and is very helpful when you have complex report designs. Additionally with BIRT 2.2, this view can be used to import or link external styles and to view report elements that have implemented script event handlers.
Importing a style sheet copies the values of the style into the report XML. Using an external style sheet allows you to link to a style sheet located in the BIRT resource folder.
BIRT 2.2 also provides two new views for examples. One view displays example reports and the other displays example charts and provides Java code to produce the chart. This view is used when using the chart engine in a Java application.
Once report development is complete, the reports can be deployed using the BIRT example Web Viewer. The viewer has been improved for BIRT 2.2 and is an AJAX based J2EE application that illustrates using the BIRT engine to generate and render report content.
The Web Viewer can be used to generate and render reports, and also supports more interactive features such as table of contents, exporting report content to several formats, client and server-side printing, as well as report pagination. These features are enabled using the Viewer navigation and tool bars. An example of using the Viewer is illustrated below.
The Viewer toolbar has icons for displaying the table of contents, re-running the report, exporting data, exporting the report to another format, and client and server-side printing. A table of contents is generated automatically based on the report design. The TOC can be customized by modifying the group sections of the report. To access the TOC from the example Viewer, select the icon.
The toolbar also supplies an icon to re-run the existing report. This can be useful when the user wants to modify the set of parameters that were used to generate the report. To access the feature, select the icon.
New for 2.2 is an improved data export dialog. This dialog is enabled by selecting the icon.
The available result sets are displayed in a dropdown list that contains all data bound controls in the report. These result sets are not BIRT data sets, but contain the bound columns from the data container, which are usually retrieved from a data set. The available columns are displayed in the left list box and the dialog has controls to select these columns for export. The data export separator has also been improved to support additional delimiters, such as tabs, semicolons, colons, vertical lines, and tabs. Additionally, the data can be exported using a user-specified encoding.
The Viewer also supports exporting the report to additional formats. Exporting is done using the export report dialog, which can be accessed by selecting the icon.
This dialog allows the report consumer to export the report to Word, PowerPoint, PDF, PostScript, and XLS formats. Additionally, the user can select all pages or a specific page range to export.
Client-side printing in BIRT is achieved within the example viewer by converting the report to PDF format when the user selects the icon. The user can print or save the report using standard PDF functionality.
The 2.2 example Viewer also adds the capability to do server-side printing. This feature can be disabled with the following setting located in the web.xml.
Server-side printing can be accessed by selecting the icon.
This dialog will list the available server printers as well as various settings to affect how the report is printed.
The Viewer navigation bar is used when displaying a multi-page report. Pagination is determined by the page-break properties of report elements and groups. These properties can be as simple as page-break before and after or by using the page-break interval, which specifies how many rows for a container element to process before inserting a page break into the emitted HTML. When using the Viewer with the Frameset Servlet mapping, the default behavior for the viewer is to load the first page and to enable the navigation bar controls. The navigation bar contains controls to navigate forward and backward as well as the ability to enter a page to load directly.
Using portions of the Web Tools Platform Project (WTP), BIRT 2.2 now supplies a Web Project. This project type will automatically deploy the example Viewer to your selected application server. In addition, the new BIRT tag library will also be deployed. To use this project type, select a new project, and, under the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools category, choose Web Project.
Using this approach reports are referenced in relation to the BIRT Viewer, not the new context.
The Viewer tag library contains five tags: param, paramDef, parameterPage, report and viewer. Each tag has multiple attributes that control the behavior of the Viewer.
This article touches on some of the new features for BIRT 2.2. To learn more, visit the BIRT website and the BIRT newsgroup.
I have been thinking to use BIRT to report-enable my webapp.
Now i am thinking, google chart is literally effortless and it serves enough functionality for my requirements.
BIRT is great tool, if you want to deploy reporting tool, with-in your container.


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Intel: Half of patients trust themselves as much as their doctors to administer health tests
By Jonah Comstock December 9, 2013
A survey from Intel suggests that 57 percent of people worldwide believe hospitals will be obsolete at some point in the future. The survey of 12,000 people from eight countries, conducted in August, asked adults 18 and older a variety of questions about the personalization of healthcare, home health management, and sharing of health data. In general, acceptance of personal monitoring in...
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Research firm Frost & Sullivan listed mHealth among the top three hot topics in healthcare in 2013, garnered from a global survey of 1,835 executives, about 260 of whom worked in the healthcare industry. Fifty-one percent of respondents nominated mobility in healthcare, or mHealth, as a top trend for the year. The runners up were cloud computing, at 45 percent, and regulatory environments, at...
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Older Americans are using the internet more and more, and they are particularly interested in using online and mobile technology for health-related purposes, according to a new study from Accenture Research. Accenture surveyed 9,015 adults in nine countries, including 1,470 US seniors 65 over and conducted a separate survey of 200 Medicare consumers. They found that among the Medicare set, most...
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Alexandra von Plato Patients of doctors who use mobile apps in the exam room are more likely to use apps themselves, and more likely to switch medications, according to a new study from communication firm Digitas Health. In Digitas Health's study of 2,000 patients and caregivers, they found that 33 percent of respondents reported that either they or their physician had used a mobile device at...
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A mobile app released last year by Pfizer. A staggering 90 percent of chronic patients in the US would accept a mobile app prescription from their physician, as opposed to only 66 percent willing to accept a prescription of medication, according to a recent survey from health communications firm Digitas Health. Digitas presented preliminary research findings at a recent event in London, PMLiVE...
Mobile health is touted as affordable, but costs still seen as barrier
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The mobile industry's GSM Association recently funded a survey of 2,000 healthcare providers, patients and consumers in four different countries to better understand the perceptions they had about mobile health. Obviously, a prerequisite for participating in the survey was an understanding or familiarity with mobile health, so those surveyed were a very particular group of providers and consumers...
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Microsoft HealthVault is one way patients can track health data. Seventy percent of doctors report that at least one patient is sharing some form of health measurement data with them, according to Manhattan Research's annual "Taking the Pulse" online survey of 2,950 practicing physicians. Self-tracking is a budding area of research for pollsters -- it was the headliner metric for the Pew...
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A recent survey of almost 800 large and mid-size employers in the US, representing more than 7 million employees, found that a majority offer incentives to employees for agreeing to take health risk questionnaires (HRQ), biometrics screenings, or similar health-related programs. The survey, conducted by global HR firm Aon Hewitt, found that 83 percent of employers offer such incentives. Within...
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Source: Ruder Finn mHealth Report Several surveys were released this past week at -- or coinciding with -- HIMSS, focusing on different areas of consumer engagement in digital health. The Atlantic surveyed 1,000 US residents, finding that only 12 percent had emailed or texted their doctors. A Ruder Finn survey of more than 1,000 US adults found that 16 percent of smartphone and tablet users...
CIO survey finds mobile-enabled healthcare a top trend
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There are more market research reports, survey results and industry metrics related to mobile and digital health floating around these days than in years past: Our recently published State of the Industry Q4/2012 Year in Review report included a summary of 16 different metric-loaded reports that published during the last three months of the year alone. That means results from one or more digital...


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Meet Your New Wonder Woman
By TK Burton | Industry | February 17, 2011 |
Wonder Woman has been a troubled DC Comics property for some time, with films that never got off the ground, and a TV show reboot that was dumped, then picked up again. Now it's back up for real, coming to NBC from David E. Kelley ("Ally McBeal," "The Practice"). Now, they've got their Amazon in Adrienne Palicki, most well-known as Tyra from NBC's "Friday Night Lights." She's certainly built for it — at 5'11", the Amazon thing ain't gonna be much of a stretch. Get her to buff up a bit, and you're good to go — she's already got the acting skills to bring some strength to the part (I'll give her a pass for Legion).
As for what direction they're taking the series, the the script apparently sticks somewhat close to the comic book — she's an Amazon, she's in an on-again, off-again relationship with Steve Trevor, the pilot who crashed his plane on her island. She's also supposedly some sort of business magnate as a secret identity for Wonder Woman, which makes her sound suspiciously like Batman, but who knows (in the comics, she's simply Diana of Themyscira, aka Wonder Woman. But there's no secret identity). I also don't know if she's going to be super-strong and be able to fly… I'm hoping there's no goofy invisible jet. Please.
Also, I'm guessing they'll lead towards the new, Jim Lee costume (seen below). Fans have had mixed feelings about it, but it certainly makes more sense that a sparkly one-piece swimsuit.
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Q: Example of a space whose complex K-theory is not easily computable from singular cohomology I am looking for a counterexample to the formula
$$ K^n(X) \cong \prod_{i\equiv n \mod 2} H^i(X) $$
where $K^*$ denotes complex topological $K$-theory, $H^*$ singular cohomology and $X$ a compact space.
I would hope for an example where $X$ is a finite $CW$-complex.
There should be such an example, as I was told that the $K$-theoretic Atiyah-Hirzebruch sprectral sequence does not collapse at $E^2$ in general.

A: Since you mention the Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence, I want to point out how you might construct a (minimal) example if you somehow didn't know any examples of topological spaces (but do know quite a bit of algebraic topology).
As we're working with the $K$-theory of spaces, we would like to understand the structure of the connective complex $K$-theory spectrum $ku$ better and find examples of $X$ for which the AHSS does not degenerate at $E_2$.  It's well-known that the first differential in the AHSS is given by the bottom nontrivial $k$-invariant in the Postnikov tower of $ku$.
Suppose you somehow knew that this $k$-invariant is given by $$Q_1: \Sigma^{-1} H\mathbb{Z} \to \Sigma^2 H\mathbb{Z}.$$
Then, counterexamples to your question can be constructed if we can find spaces whose cohomology has a nontrivial $Q_1$ operation.  Let's work mod $2$; we have $$Q_1 = \mathrm{Sq}^1 \mathrm{Sq}^2 + \mathrm{Sq}^2 \mathrm{Sq}^1$$ in mod $2$ cohomology.  Therefore, a minimal cell complex with a nontrivial $Q_1$ has at least three cells connected by $\mathrm{Sq}^1$ and $\mathrm{Sq}^2$ in either order (i.e., a complex that looks like a question mark, or inverted by Spanier-Whitehead duality).  We can build such complexes cell-by-cell by taking iterated cofibers of maps between spheres.  In particular, since $\mathrm{Sq}^1$ detects $2$ and $\mathrm{Sq}^2$ detects $\eta$ in the homotopy groups of spheres, we can build the required three cell complex in two steps by taking cofibers of maps representing $2$ and $\eta$.  That this construction is possible is guaranteed by the relation $2\eta = 0$ in $\pi^s_*$.
So we now have a finite complex with a nontrivial $Q_1$ operation, and hence a counterexample to your formula in the question.  How does this relate to the example $\mathbb{R}P^n$ given in the other answer?  Well, if you look at the cell structure of $\mathbb{R}P^n$, you would see exactly this kind of question mark complex as a frequently occuring motif.
Of course, this answer isn't very helpful since by the time you come up with it you would have other simpler ways to see this result.  On the other hand, maybe it's a good showcase of how the tools developed in homotopy theory can answer such questions "intrinsically".

A: Good example is $X=\mathbb RP^n$ (see e.g. $K(\mathbb R P^n)$ from $K(\mathbb C P^k)$).


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• Pupils to use imagination and creativity in their learning, and are able to reflect on their experiences.
1. In every individual lesson where the children are given the opportunity to reflect upon their learning when; ticking off their success criteria, reviewing the work which they have produced and when completing their corrections.
3. When using their thinking hats to approach a question or problem creatively.
4. Through celebration assemblies and rewards given each day in class where children are valued for their individual talents and personalities.
5. Providing children with the opportunity to learn about different religions through our RE curriculum so that they gain an understanding of spirituality.
6. Providing children with the opportunity to reflect during collective worship.
7. Spiritual opportunities are explicitly identified in the enquiry based approach to the RE curriculum.
• Pupils recognise the difference between right and wrong.
• Pupils understand society's values.
• Pupils develop their understanding of the consequences of their actions which will then encourage them to make reasoned decisions.
1. Visitors to the school such as: the local vicar, the Bishop of Stafford, representatives of the Police and Fire Service.
2. Through our Internets Legends curriculum, which teaches digital resilience and the management of risk online.
3. Through our Behaviour for Learning policy which is built upon the firm foundations of "The Secret of Success". Children consider their choices and actions, reflecting upon the impact to themselves personally and to others. Where necessary written reflection acts as restorative justice.
4. Children take ownership of their classroom charters, recognising the environment which needs to be created to allow children to learn and feel safe.
5. Providing children with the opportunity to learn about society and the rules which govern it through our RE and PSHE curriculum.
6. Through the use of the home-school agreement.
7. Children are involved with committing to following the rules of the acceptable user policy.
8. The use of circle time to explore issues within the classroom or school environment.
9. By encouraging children to be ambassadors of our school values when they are undertaking school trips or involved in community events.
10. Moral opportunities are explicitly identified in the enquiry based approach to the RE curriculum.
• Pupils to work collaboratively with each other and participate successfully in the community as a whole.
• Pupils should have a willingness to develop skills that are necessary to be able to resolve conflicts and to create successful relationships.
Through the participation in a wide variety of sporting and social events where the children have to mix with pupils from a range of backgrounds.
By taking children in Key Stage 2 on residential where they have to work collaboratively and mix with pupils from other schools.
A buddy system is used throughout the school to provide children with peer to peer support.
Frequent fundraising for local and global charities.
Thematic mix up days where children have to work collaboratively with others across all ages and abilities.
Through the use of talk partners in each lesson.
Flexible use of additional adults to provide guidance and support where necessary.
The use of collaborative learning to enable pupils to respect and tolerate others.
Social opportunities are explicitly identified in the enquiry based approach to the RE curriculum.
• Pupils should develop an understanding of their own culture and beliefs.
• They have an appreciation of diversity within their own school.
• They show an awareness of British values and encouraged to take pride in their heritage.
• Pupils will explore and appreciate cultures and religions from around the world.
• Pupils have an understanding and respect for cultural diversity and reflect this in their attitudes and behaviours.
1. The use of Literacy texts from different cultures, countries and religions.
2. By exploring countries from around the world in topic.
3. Sharing and celebrating pupils' diverse backgrounds through topics.
4. The use of interactive displays about other cultures.
5. Assemblies which reflect various religious celebrations.
6. Developing children's knowledge of the diversity found within British society though assemblies, thematic weeks the RE and PSHE curriculum.
7. Developing links with other schools from contrasting communities in Britain.
8. Participating in community events such as the rededication of the war memorial, community garden and wildlife projects etc. Adopting strong links with the Parish Council and other community groups.
9. Spiritual opportunities are explicitly identified in the enquiry based approach to the RE curriculum.


DMX-512 is a lighting communications standard. It was created in 1986 as a standardized method for connecting lighting consoles to dimmer packs and was revised in 1990 to allow more flexibility. Since that time, it has become the most common communication standard used by lighting equipment.
Up to 512 "channels" can be transmitted. Each of these channels were originally intended to control lamp dimmer levels. You can think of it as 512 sliders on a lighting console, connected to 512 light bulbs. The slider position is conveyed as a number between 0 and 255.
To enable laserists to use standard DMX equipment such as lighting consoles and DMX-to-analog converters, this same "single channel controls a single function" philosophy applies.
Scan-through device selection and speed.
Even though all 512 channels can be used, it is more common to use fewer channels. The ISP-DMX standard defines the use of 32 channels, and reserves 34 channels for future ILDA standardization.
Signal sources such as computers or tape playback devices shall use a female connector.
Projectors shall use a male connector but may also have a female connector for DMX-512 pass-through.


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American Helix has perfected their designs to bring you their signature series. The Greenhorn features beautiful green swirls on the end and through the "horns". This piece utilizes American Helix's patented smoke tornado producing design and can't be found anywhere else!


Laser ignition of fusion (LIF) of light nuclei for fusion reactions for producing energy (LIFE) by using very powerful laser pulses with duration in the range of picoseconds is the aim of fast ignition where HiPER is one of the options. Special attention is given to the ultrahigh acceleration of plasma blocks about which option results are reported including an alternative scheme for avoiding lateral energy losses. Examples of relativistic accelerations are evaluated for HiPER and LIFE applications.


Our workshop offers 2 or more weeks restoration courses. You can book a 48, 72 or 96 hour course and distribute your hours along the number of weeks of your choice. The programme includes a brief history of paper, techniques of restoration and conservation, presentation of a project file, individual compilation of a project file, practise doing a restoration project (cleaning, cuts, tears, patches, and techniques of sewing), methods of conservation and creating of a cover for books, presentation and creation of samples. Courses are one to one and held in Italian; since lessons are individual, the programme can be adapted to your own needs; you can also apply for an interpretation service.
Both courses were really good but I especially loved the restoration course with the one on one teaching/learning with an expert restorer. We used the two weeks to restore a book from 1888 and Simonetta, the teacher, was very generous in her guidance, the documentation she provided, and in showing me and letting me try different techniques along side her as we restored the book. I enjoyed the Italian language course also but found the semi intensive may have been better if I had done it as an intensive course but there really wasn't the time. I have no regrets though as I enjoyed Cristina the teacher and the class but didnt find my Italian improved that much. Probably too much of an overload and not a huge amount of time for study after the lesson because the restoration course was very intensive.
The accommodation was just a few minutes away from the language school. The Santo Spirito area is charming and a great base for Florence. A bit noisy though with roadworks going on from early morning and quite a bit of noise at night but ear plugs did the trick (at night) but this is how the reality is it is in this area. I had some very interesting conversations with my hosts Giusi and Stefano and gained some insight into what it is like for the locals to live in Florence and within the broader context of Italian politics and culture, as musicians and writers. You could never grasp this from an experience in a hotel.
I am already thinking that Id like to do some further restoration either on frescoes or more on paper. But Im not even home yet!


It's not at the top of most travellers' bucket lists, but the few who make the intrepid journey into this war-torn land return with extraordinary tales of amazing journeys and locals who both are surprised by and appreciative of foreign visitors.
Those who ignore the warnings from just about every foreign office in the world will no doubt land in Kabul. It's in a rapid rebuilding phase, but there are still, surprisingly, parts of the city's past – the Kabul Museum, the stately Babur's Garden and the bird market, tucked away behind the Pul-e Khishti Mosque – that remain open. It goes without saying that travellers need to be take heed of security alerts and road closures.
The Bamiyan Valley, where Chinese Buddhist monks and travellers first arrived in the fifth century, is one of the most visited regions of Afghanistan. Of course, the two huge Buddhas that stood sentry at the site are gone, destroyed by the Taliban. More recently, the sixth-century statues have returned in the form of 3D illuminations onto the empty cliff. Many of the niches and grottos around the site still remain, and there are guided tours where you can see what remains of the frescoes that used to decorate them. The views from the top (where the large Buddha's head used to reach) are spectacular.
The north of the country is vastly different. Accessed by crossing the Hindu Kush, this region is home to the magical city of Mazar-e Sharif, where it is claimed the tomb of Mohammed's son-in-law was found, and is the starting point for treks along the remote Wakhan Corridor.


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March 23, 2018 | Saint Tryphon
The scent of Texas mountain laurel and the flashy purple of dogwood have nearly waned; now grapevine bud break is parading in the vineyard. I love the first push of the golden-green buds of vines; they remind me of line from Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay." He writes:
Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf's a flower
But only so an hour
The magnificence of winter's power, the bony length of skyward tree-limbs, the mighty chill gets broken by the quietest push of golden-green blossoms, but that gold is so temporal before the resounding chorus of late spring and early summer triumphs. Early spring in the vineyard is as humbling as is early spring itself humble. Late winter pruning, the removal of cover crops, the soil work, the bottling of the first wines of the previous season-there is so much to do!
Amongst this work and color and joy, we invite you to come visit us at Saint Tryphon Farm & Vineyards and experience, taste and revel in Spring with us! #cometastetexas
What an adventure the last few years have been. And what an adventure 2018 is already.
Our family began conceptualizing Saint Tryphon Farm & Vineyards nearly 10 years ago. But it was only in 2013 that the concept began to take flesh. By 2013, we had purchased our land south of Sisterdale and north of Boerne and began erecting high fences in preparation for the vineyard. By this time I also had the good fortune of working with Lewis Dickson of La Cruz de Comal Winery in his vineyard and cellar. His "natural" approach to both vineyard and cellar work were an inspiration to how we wanted to approach our craft: farm cleanly, promote life in the vineyard, and allow Mother Nature to guide your hand in the cellar.
In the winter of 2014, we began taking cuttings from his estate vineyard and propagating them at Saint Tryphon, finally putting our vine babies in the ground in 2016. We also began making wine in 2016 with contracted fruit in the Texas Hill Country and the Texas High Plains.
Flash forward 1000 more steps, and we bottled and labelled these wines in late 2017 and opened our tasting room doors and our vineyard this month. So many steps, so many self-doubts, so much sacrifice, so much beauty.
Our 9 year old daughter, Anna, has literally been witness to the dream and its fruition her entire life. The day before we opened our doors we were driving to get breakfast tacos in town. Anna said to me, "Dad, after all this time and all your work, it doesn't feel as exciting as I anticipated to actually be opening tomorrow."
"You know, Anna, oddly, I feel the same way; it doesn't feel like I thought it would feel". To me, the monumental last step of opening our doors seemed so paltry compared to all the work preceding it.
The next day we opened at 11 am. Anna was sitting on the wraparound porch and evidently watching for our first customers. No one was coming. Every 15 minutes or so she would enter the tasting room and dejectedly offer, "Dad, where are the people?".
"Don't worry, Anna, people will come; we don't even have a sign on the road and I haven't advertised; it is what is called a soft opening."
Around 12:30 Anna comes bolting across the front yard, and panting bursts into the tasting room. "Dad!", she exclaims with a mixture of glee and triumph, "Dad, you have customers!!!"
"Well, Anna, I thought you weren't feeling very excited". She laughed and went to greet the nice folks.
All of us at Saint Tryphon are equally excited and grateful to all of folks that have already come out to explore our wines and we so look forward to myriad of folks who have yet to visit. Cheers to 2018!


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Jakarta Airport Terminal 3 was opened on 2016 and is located on the eastern northern sector of the airport. It is also known as Terminal 3 Ultimate. It is expected to host 25 million passengers per year.
Terminal 3 features for an eco-friendly along with a modern and traditional design. It hosts all the international flights except for the budget carriers.
It is home of Garuda Indonesia carrier, which serves both domestic and international flights.
Terminal 3 is connected to Terminal 1 and 2 by the SkyTrain and by free shuttle buses. You can connect from Terminal 3 to Terminal 2 within 5 minutes and to Terminal 1 within 7 minutes.
- Ground level: It is the Arrivals level. Find here the ground transportation options, the baggage claim and lost & found. Access to the parking lots. Services and amenities available: banking facilities, toilets, ATMs, bakery and several food and drink concessions. Access to upper level by escalators and lifts.
- First level: It is the Departures level. Find here the boarding lounge with access to the boarding gates. Services and amenities available: toilets, food and drink concessions, retail stores, prayer room, parents room, showers. Access to upper level by escalators and lifts.
- Second level: It is the Check-in level. There is available a self-check-in kiosks prior to the security check. Houses the check-in rows D, E and F. Services and amenities available: ATMs, food and drink concessions (before and after security check), retail stores, toilets, prayer room. Access to upper level by escalators and lifts.
See in the following link the airlines operating in Jakarta Airport Terminal 3.