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package storage::purestorage::restapi::mode::alarms;

use base qw(centreon::plugins::templates::counter);

use strict;
use warnings;
use centreon::plugins::misc;
use centreon::plugins::statefile;
use centreon::plugins::templates::catalog_functions qw(catalog_status_threshold_ng);

sub custom_status_output {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;

    return sprintf(
        "alarm [component: %s] [severity: %s] [category: %s] [event: %s] %s",
        $self->{result_values}->{component_name},
        $self->{result_values}->{severity}, $self->{result_values}->{category},
        $self->{result_values}->{event}, centreon::plugins::misc::change_seconds(value => $self->{result_values}->{opened})
    );
}

sub custom_status_calc {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;

    $self->{result_values}->{category} = $options{new_datas}->{$self->{instance} . '_category'};
    $self->{result_values}->{code} = $options{new_datas}->{$self->{instance} . '_code'};
    $self->{result_values}->{severity} = $options{new_datas}->{$self->{instance} . '_current_severity'};
    $self->{result_values}->{component_name} = $options{new_datas}->{$self->{instance} . '_component_name'};
    $self->{result_values}->{opened} = $options{new_datas}->{$self->{instance} . '_opened'};
    $self->{result_values}->{event} = $options{new_datas}->{$self->{instance} . '_event'};
    return 0;
}

sub set_counters {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;

    $self->{maps_counters_type} = [
        { name => 'alarms', type => 2, message_multiple => '0 problem(s) detected', display_counter_problem => { label => 'alerts', min => 0 },
          group => [ { name => 'alarm', skipped_code => { -11 => 1 } } ]
        }
    ];

    $self->{maps_counters}->{alarm} = [
        {
            label => 'status',
            type => 2,
            warning_default => '%{severity} =~ /warning/i',
            critical_default => '%{severity} =~ /critical/i',
            set => {
                key_values => [ { name => 'category' }, { name => 'code' }, { name => 'current_severity' }, { name => 'opened' }, { name => 'event' }, { name => 'component_name' } ],
                closure_custom_calc => $self->can('custom_status_calc'),
                closure_custom_output => $self->can('custom_status_output'),
                closure_custom_perfdata => sub { return 0; },
                closure_custom_threshold_check => \&catalog_status_threshold_ng
            }
        }
    ];
}

sub new {
    my ($class, %options) = @_;
    my $self = $class->SUPER::new(package => __PACKAGE__, %options);
    bless $self, $class;

    $options{options}->add_options(arguments => {
        "filter-category:s"   => { name => 'filter_category' },
        "memory"              => { name => 'memory' }
    });

    centreon::plugins::misc::mymodule_load(
        output => $self->{output}, module => 'Date::Parse',
        error_msg => "Cannot load module 'Date::Parse'."
    );
    $self->{statefile_cache} = centreon::plugins::statefile->new(%options);
    return $self;
}

sub check_options {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;
    $self->SUPER::check_options(%options);

    if (defined($self->{option_results}->{memory})) {
        $self->{statefile_cache}->check_options(%options);
    }
}

sub manage_selection {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;

    # recent boolean:
    #   Lists recent messages. An audit record is considered recent if it relates to a command issued within the past 24 hours.
    #   An alert is considered recent if the situation that triggered it is unresolved, or has only been resolved within the past 24 hours.
    #   A user session log event is considered recent if the login, logout, or authentication event occurred within the past 24 hours
    my $alarm_results = $options{custom}->get_object(path => '/message?recent=true');

    my $last_time;
    if (defined($self->{option_results}->{memory})) {
        $self->{statefile_cache}->read(statefile => 'cache_purestorage_' . $self->{mode} . '_' . $options{custom}->get_connection_infos());
        $last_time = $self->{statefile_cache}->get(name => 'last_time');
    }

    #[
    # {"category": "hardware", "code": 39, "actual": "2", "opened": "2017-11-27T11:32:51Z", "component_type": "hardware", "event": "Fibre Channel link failure", "current_severity": "warning", "details": "", "expected": null, "id": 10088813, "component_name": "ct1.fc3"},
    # ...
    #

    $self->{alarms}->{global} = { alarm => {} };

    my ($i, $current_time) = (1, time());
    foreach my $alarm (@{$alarm_results}) {
        my $create_time = Date::Parse::str2time($alarm->{opened});
        if (!defined($create_time)) {
            $self->{output}->output_add(
                severity => 'UNKNOWN',
                short_msg => "Can't Parse date '" . $alarm->{opened} . "'"
            );
            next;
        }

        next if (defined($self->{option_results}->{memory}) && defined($last_time) && $last_time > $create_time);
        if (defined($self->{option_results}->{filter_category}) && $self->{option_results}->{filter_category} ne '' &&
            $alarm->{category} !~ /$self->{option_results}->{filter_category}/) {
            $self->{output}->output_add(long_msg => "skipping '" . $alarm->{category} . "': no matching filter.", debug => 1);
            next;
        }

        my $diff_time = $current_time - $create_time;

        $self->{alarms}->{global}->{alarm}->{$i} = {
            %$alarm,
            opened => $diff_time
        };
        $i++;
    }

    if (defined($self->{option_results}->{memory})) {
        $self->{statefile_cache}->write(data => { last_time => $current_time });
    }
}

1;

__END__

=head1 MODE

Check alarms.

=over 8

=item B<--filter-category>

Filter by category name (can be a regexp).

=item B<--warning-status>

Set warning threshold for status (Default: '%{severity} =~ /warning/i')
Can used special variables like: %{category}, %{code}, %{severity}, %{opened}, %{event}, %{component_name}

=item B<--critical-status>

Set critical threshold for status (Default: '%{severity} =~ /critical/i').
Can used special variables like: %{category}, %{code}, %{severity}, %{opened}, %{event}, %{component_name}

=item B<--memory>

Only check new alarms.

=back

=cut

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Q: Using a single PHP array vs multiple MySQL calls I've been searching on this topic for a couple days, but I'm not finding a solution, so maybe it's not possible?
Currently I have page that makes dozens of MySQL calls for name and email information.
<?php echo get_officer_listing("president"); ?>

these call the function get_officer_listing($position)
$sql = "SELECT OfficeTitle, OfficerName, OfficeEmail FROM officers WHERE officeshort = \"$position\"";
$officer = mysql_query($sql);
while($field = mysql_fetch_array($officer)) {
    $title = $field["OfficeTitle"];
    $name = $field["OfficerName"];
    $email = $field["OfficeEmail"];
}
if (empty($name)) {$name = "Vacant";}
if (empty($email)) {$mailto = $name;}
    else {$mailto = ''.$name.'';}

echo ''.$title.'
'.$mailto.'
';

}
This works for returning a single officer listing with Office name and Officer name as a mailto link.
What I would like to do instead is call the officer table once and store all relevant records in a multivariable associative array indexed on the officerShortName. Then, at each officer listing, I could echo the array values like
<?php
$OfficeShortName = 'president';
echo $array[$OfficeShortName]['position'];
echo $array[$OfficeShortName]['OfficerName'];
echo $array[$OfficeShortName]['OfficeEmail'];
?>

So far I've been able to pull the records into an array and print all of them out in the While loop. But I haven't been able to call a single record's values after the loop.
Am I just not understanding how arrays work? Or is there a way to do this?
Any help would be appreciated.

A: You are almost there, but you need to keep track of an array inside of your while() loop.
Here is some example code that shows how to print all rows as well as a row for a single type of position
Since you didnt provide your schema, I am estimating that your database looks like this
OfficerShort    OfficerTitle    OfficerName       OfficerEmail
------------    -------------    --------------   ----------------
president       President        Mike             mike@nowhere.com
vice-president  Vice-President   John             john@nowhere-else.com
treasurer       Treasurer        Tyler
member          Member           Clem             clem@foo.com
member          Member           Blato            blato@bar.com
member          Member           Casper

The following code, re-uses and builds upon what you started.  You should really use PDO objects for you database connection
$sql = "SELECT OfficerTitle, OfficerName, OfficeEmail FROM officers WHERE officeshort = \"$position\"";
$officerResult = mysql_query($sql);

$allOfficers[$postion] = [];

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($officerResult)) {
    $title  = $row["OfficerTitle"];
    $name   = !empty($row["OfficerName"]) ? $row["OfficerName"] : 'Vacant';
    $email  = $row["OfficerEmail"];
    $mailto = !empty($row['OfficerEmail']) ? ''.$name.'' : $name;

    $allOfficers[$postion]['OfficerTitle'] = $title;
    $allOfficers[$postion]['OfficerName']  = $name;
    $allOfficers[$postion]['OfficerEmail'] = $mailto;
}

The $allOfficers array will now be populated like so :
$allOfficers = [
    'president' => [
        'OfficerTitle' => 'President',
        'OfficerName' => 'Mike',
        'OfficerEmail' =>
        'mike@nowhere.com'
    ],
    'vice-president' => [
        'OfficerTitle' => 'Vice-President',
        'OfficerName' => 'John',
        'OfficerEmail' =>
        'john@nowhere-else.com'
    ],
    'treasurer' => [
        'OfficerTitle' => 'Treasurer',
        'OfficerName' => 'Tyler',
        'OfficerEmail' => ''
    ],
    'member' => [
        'OfficerTitle' => 'Member',
        'OfficerName' => 'Clemo',
        'OfficerEmail' => 'clem@foo.com'
    ],
    'member' => [
        'OfficerTitle' => 'Member',
        'OfficerName' => 'Blato',
        'OfficerEmail' => 'blato@bar.com'
    ],
    'member' => [
        'OfficerTitle' => 'Member',
        'OfficerName' => 'Casper',
        'OfficerEmail' => ''
    ]
];

You could view all of the data at once like this :
foreach ($allOfficers as $postion => $data) {
    $title  = $data["OfficerTitle"];
    $name   = !empty($data["OfficerName"]) ? $data["OfficerName"] : 'Vacant';
    $email  = $data["OfficerEmail"];
    $mailto = !empty($email) ? ''.$name.'' : $name;

    $mailto = !empty($email) ? ''.$name.'' : $name;
    echo "Title = " . $title . " , mail = "  . $mailto . "\n";
}

// output
Title = President , mail = Mike
Title = Vice-President , mail = John
Title = Treasurer , mail = Tyler
Title = Member , mail = Casper

If you wanted to only see 1 position at a time, you could do so by
var_export($allOfficers['vice-president']);

// output
array (
  'OfficerTitle' => 'Vice-President',
  'OfficerName' => 'John',
  'OfficerEmail' => 'john@nowhere-else.com',
)

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Boe climate and security pact big step forward, but lacks a gender drive
Home > Boe climate and security pact big step forward, but lacks a gender drive
Asia Pacific Report, 21st September 2018
The major item on the agenda at last week's Pacific Islands Forum was climate change. However, a gender gap appears to be at play within climate change itself. Jessica Marshall reports for Asia Pacific Journalism.
The content of the Boe Declaration, signed at the Pacific Islands Forum in Nauru earlier this month, is not widely known. However, a statement from NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern suggests that it declares climate change as a security issue.
"The Boe Declaration acknowledges additional collective actions are required to address new and non-traditional challenges. Modern-day regional security challenges include climate change," she said in a statement.
Submitted by [email protected] on Mon, 01/10/2018 - 11:02

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Łukasz Kulik (ur. 10 września 1980 w Ostrołęce) – polski przedsiębiorca i samorządowiec, od 2018 prezydent Ostrołęki.

Życiorys
Uzyskał dyplom technika rolnika w Policealnej Szkole Rolniczej w Ostrołęce oraz technika informatyka w Towarzystwie Wiedzy Powszechnej w Ostrołęce. Odbył następnie studia z administracji w Wyższej Szkole Administracji Publicznej w Ostrołęce (licencjat) i na Wydziale Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (magisterium), a także studia podyplomowe z zarządzania oświatą na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim. Był zatrudniony m.in. jako pracownik biurowy. Zajął się prowadzeniem (wraz z rodziną) centrum ogrodniczego Fruti-Chem w Ostrołęce.

Należał do Sojuszu Lewicy Demokratycznej, przez dwa lata był przewodniczącym struktur partii w Ostrołęce. Z jego ramienia bez powodzenia kandydował w wyborach parlamentarnych w 2007 do Sejmu z 19. miejsca w okręgu nr 18. W wyborach samorządowych w 2010 bezskutecznie ubiegał się o mandat radnego i prezydenturę Ostrołęki (zdobył 10,8% głosów, zajmując trzecie miejsce). Z SLD wystąpił przed wyborami w 2014, w których po raz drugi kandydował na prezydenta Ostrołęki – tym razem z ramienia własnego komitetu KWW Ostrołęka dla Wszystkich. W pierwszej turze zajął drugie miejsce z rezultatem 17,88%, zaś w drugiej uzyskał 46,38% poparcia, przegrywając z dotychczasowym prezydentem Januszem Kotowskim. W wyborach tych zdobył natomiast mandat radnego miejskiego. W wyborach samorządowych w 2018 roku ponownie kandydował na prezydenta miasta z ramienia tego komitetu, zdobywając najlepszy rezultat w pierwszej turze. Drugą turę wygrał, pokonując z poparciem 64,49% głosujących rządzącego od 2006 prezydenta Janusza Kotowskiego.

Oskarżenia i procesy sądowe
W 2017 roku Łukasz Kulik, wówczas radny miasta Ostrołęki, został uznany winnym zniesławienia prezydenta Ostrołęki Janusza Kotowskiego w internetowym komentarzu. Po odwołaniu, Sąd Okręgowy nakazał ponownie rozpoznać sprawę Sądowi Rejonowemu. Ten uniewinnił Łukasza Kulika od zarzucanego czynu. Sąd Okręgowy, rozpatrując kolejną apelację, podtrzymał decyzję o uniewinnieniu.

W 2020 roku Prokuratura Okręgowa w Łomży przedstawiła Łukaszowi Kulikowi zarzuty w sprawie przestępstw związanych z nieprawidłowościami przy organizacji przetargów. Proces przed Sądem Rejonowym w Ostrołęce zakończył się uznaniem winy prezydenta Ostrołęki i wyrokiem skazującym na karę 20 tysięcy złotych grzywny. Łukasz Kulik złożył apelację. Sąd Okręgowy w składzie trzyosobowym po rozpoznaniu sprawy uniewinnił Łukasza Kulika od zarzucanych mu czynów. Wyrok został ogłoszony 21 grudnia 2022 i jest prawomocny.

31 grudnia 2021 roku Prokuratura Okręgowa w Ostrołęce skierowała do Sądu Rejonowego w Ostrołęce akt oskarżenia przeciwko prezydentowi Ostrołęki Łukaszowi Kulikowi, zarzucając mu niedopełnienie obowiązków w celu osiągnięcia korzyści majątkowych dla innej osoby oraz naruszenie praw pracowniczych. W grudniu 2022 roku Łukasz Kulik został prawomocnie uniewinniony.

Życie prywatne
Żonaty z Natalią, z którą ma troje dzieci.

Przypisy

Absolwenci Wydziału Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Ludzie urodzeni w Ostrołęce
Politycy SdRP i SLD
Polscy przedsiębiorcy XXI wieku
Radni Ostrołęki
Urodzeni w 1980
Prezydenci Ostrołęki

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Apparently, grabble rules are a huge pain, so Taylor's simplifying it for a strength check. Not that it helped.
Also, yes, Andy's a shipper.
Gonna be honest; I'm playing the romance subplots on the fly. Romance is my weak point, and I considered not including it at all, but that might've been difficult.
Rachel: I pin him to the ground!
Eric: I push her back! I can do that, right?
Taylor: Yeah. Both of you roll to overpower each other.
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Ian (Jim): You're both pretty good, but you've got a lot of ground to cover.
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Rachel (Yumi): Well, nice to meet you, too.
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I liken success to an ever-widening circle. Opening yourself to a range of experiences expands your knowledge and empathy. When these qualities grow, you not only advance personally and professionally, but also help others flourish. I first realized this truth while a student at the Telfer School. The school was a stimulating academic environment that I made even richer by taking advantage of learning opportunities outside my classrooms and lecture halls. I played basketball for uOttawa, joined the business consultancy group on campus, and continued to look for other ways to widen my circle of experience.
I've followed this same approach since I graduated in 1983. An accountant by training, I was instrumental in making my firm more inclusive, its employees more skilled and its brand more powerful. So much so that I became managing partner of Ernst & Young in Ottawa. I also sought out ways to contribute to my community. I have served for several years on the boards of the local United Way campaign, the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation, the Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health and the uOttawa board of governors, as well as chairing its audit committee.
Broadening my experiences in all these ways has made me a stronger leader, made my firm and its people more successful, and made my community an even better place to live. Seeing my firm and community grow is very important to me. I encourage current and prospective Telfer School students to follow my lead. Our school holds open plenty of opportunities to learn and give. Seize them. Widen your circle of experience and then reap and share the rewards.


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Rowan C. Stewart animal sex, Australia, bestiality, Central Coast, comedy, humor, humour, Uncategorized Dec 15, 2015 Nov 3, 2016 5 Minutes
I've met a lot of weird and wonderful characters during my travels, but even I was shocked when I was contacted by Dean* recently. He's 20 years old, works a respectable job, has an attractive girlfriend, and enjoys surfing and riding his motorbike. But Dean has a dark secret.
He likes to have sex with goats.
When I met up with him to hear his story, I expected to find a depraved, twisted individual with hairy palms, a hunched back and a persistent boner. Instead I found a charming young man with a cheeky smile and a vibrant outlook on life.
"Some people like to play video games, some people like to go fishing, and I like to fuck goats. What's wrong with that?" he says emphatically. "I wish everyone would stop making such a big deal about it."
A knockabout kid with piercing blue eyes and a mop of sandy hair, he looks like any other young fella on the Central Coast of New South Wales. Growing up, he usually had scraped knees from skateboarding accidents and enjoyed collecting Pokemon memorabilia, but his life changed forever one fateful Spring day.
"It was the day after my 15th birthday, and I was camping out at a mate's farm. There was this goat – Fruity was her name, I'll never forget it – and she kept giving me the eye. I was young and horny, so I was wanking five or six times a day, and I found it impossible to resist Fruity's charms. So when my mates went to the river for a swim, I pretended I had diarrhea, and spent a romantic afternoon with Fruity."
Dean made love to Fruity three times over the next hour, and was relaxing under a tree with his hairy lover when his chums returned from their swim.
"Unfortunately, there was some amount of rectal bleeding on Fruity's part, which threatened to expose our afternoon of passion. I'm a quick thinker, though, and told my friend that Fruity had accidentally sat on a barbed wire fence. I promised to see Fruity again but, sadly, she was put down shortly afterwards. I actually ate part of her, and she tasted wonderful with mint sauce."
But Dean's appetite for billy goat love would not be abated, and as he grew up, he had experiences with a number of hirsute hunks.
"I live in a suburban area, so there aren't a lot of goats wandering around just ready to be porked, so I was stoked when a petting zoo opened up a few kilometres away. They had six goats in there and I violated every single one of them, but one really captured my heart – a little black fella called Carl. He had an arse that could make a jellyfish hard, but it was his personality that made me fall in love with him. He was so playful.
"And honestly, Carl's race didn't come into it at all. I don't see colour, I just see goats."
Dean and Carl, shortly after meeting
Dean entered into a three-year relationship with Carl, where they frolicked by moonlight, binge-watched crime drama Breaking Bad, and even went on a romantic cruise through the Pacific. But Dean's heart was soon to be broken in the most crushing way possible.
"I snuck into the zoo one night and saw the owner fucking Carl, and Carl seemed to be enjoying it. I turned around and walked home in tears, and spent the next week locked in my bedroom, eating chocolate ice cream and watching old episodes of Gilmore Girls. I was a wreck, and vowed to never let another goat break my heart."
From there, Dean's sexual experiences with goats took on a more casual nature, as he sought out anonymous sex to help heal his broken heart. He would spend weeks at a time driving through rural areas, stopping only to have sex with goats he didn't know and didn't intend on seeing again.
"I was a wreck, and I'm not proud of how I acted. I must've had sex with 300-400 goats during that period, but none of them could replace Carl. I even tried bonking a few sheep and cows, just to help blank out the pain, but it didn't work. I never thought having sex with farm animals would lose its luster, but it did."
Dean gave up on goats and, in a move he never thought possible, entered into a relationship with a human woman. To outsiders he was just a happy-go-lucky young man with a bright future, but his passion for goats still burned.
"My girlfriend walked in on me masturbating over an episode of Landline. She was a bit freaked out and called me a sicko, and I broke down and told her everything. She was really understanding and cradled me in her arms while I told her about Fruity and Carl and the farmer, and afterwards she gave me a big kiss, as well as her blessing to have sex with goats. I think that moment really strengthened our relationship."
Dean's girlfriend took him to her car, and drove him back to the petting zoo where he'd spent so many nights. There, in a back corner, was Carl.
"He looked great, yeah. He was a little bit older, and not a kid anymore, but he still looked good. My missus waited by the gate and I sort of awkwardly shuffled over to him, and my heart was beating so hard I thought it was going to burst out of my chest. The feelings were obviously still there, and we made love next to a small patch of turnips. It was like we'd never been apart, and it's so good to have Carl as part of my life again. Even my girlfriend loves him."
When I decided to meet with Dean, I was expecting a pervert and a social outcast; someone to write a funny story about. Instead I met a sensitive, intelligent gentleman who isn't so different from the rest of us – he simply chooses to express his love and lost with animals. In fact, it's had me wondering if Dean has the right idea, and it's the rest of us who are the misfits, depriving ourselves of meaningful relationships with critters merely because of societal conventions.
It's a happy ending to an unusual story, and Dean has a message for any other young men who are battling with their passion for farm animals.
"All I can say is, if your heart's telling you to fuck a goat, then fuck a goat," Dean tells me as I leave. "Don't worry about what other people say or think, because all that matters is shooting your bolt deep into a goat. It's the best feeling ever – trust me, I'd know."
* name changed by request of the goat fucker
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Q: How to handle zero length vector in split component I am working on creating a generic application to handle any vectored data.
The application is working fine in Normal scenario...  But the split component I am using is failing to handle a zero length vector.
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A: Any vectored data can be handled by the Normalize component.
Use the length function in Normalize to handle zero length vectors where you can explicitly keep the length as 1 and get all other fields as a record for zero length vectors.


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Questions - Extra Mile awards
Council meeting 28 July 2015
Question to the Leader from Cllr Matthew Evans
Subject: Extra Mile awards
As you are no doubt aware, the previous administration stopped the councillors' annual dinner and replaced it with an event to celebrate the outstanding work of community volunteers and council staff, who had gone beyond the call of duty. The Extra Mile Awards, as it became known, proved an outstanding success with many businesses more than happy to sponsor a table as the event expanded. At its peak more than 200 people attended the celebration at the Celtic Manor at a cost of just over £20 a head which generated an enormous amount of goodwill, at a time of severe financial constraint. I am convinced it would have become self-financing over a short period of time. Even with current costs, to put it into some perspective, it's roughly equivalent to the cost of one Cabinet member you added for about 12 weeks. Can you tell this Council when the formal decision was taken to stop this prestigious event, the rationale behind this, and do you have any plans to reinstate it, bearing in mind you had already told this council previously, you had no plans to stop it?
May I thank the Leader of the Opposition for his revitalised performance. Since January 2013 to date I have received no questions at Council. I am not clear if Councillor Evans is revitalised after his year as Mayor or as he has been selected to fight the Assembly election.
The difficult decision to reduce expenditure on the Mayoralty and events, including the cessation of the awards ceremony was taken by the Cabinet and Council as part of the budget process last year.
I answered Councillor Ferris in June 2012 saying that I intended to continue with the awards. I did so and was able to continue the awards ceremony until 2014. The Council however took the view as part of the budget round that funding for the mayoralty and events should be reduced as I mentioned earlier and the report showed that one proposal was not to continue with the event.
The public and all members of the Council were consulted on the proposals, as part of the wide–ranging consultation we carried out. There was support from the public for reduction of expenditure in this area.
There were no alternative suggestions to this proposal from Members, nor did it form part of the amendment presented to Council.
It is intended that extra mile awards will be presented at Council and I would encourage any nominations to be forwarded to the Mayor's Office for consideration.


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Q: regex to detect specific words How to match specific words that are not part of a word?
For example, I'd like the regex to detect the three "on" but not the one in "long".
on long on abc the on
When I use (?: |^)the|on|of(?: |$), it detects the "on" in "long" as well which is not what I am looking for.
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*When you want to restrict a context for a group of words, always group them

*To match as a whole word, you need to use word boundaries, \b
So, you need
\b(?:the|on|of)\b

See this regex demo.

You can see on the diagram that the word boundaries now pertain to all the alternatives listed with | operator due to the fact they are all enclosed with a non-capturing group.

A: You can use this regex :
/\bon\b/

The \b tokens are matching any word boundaries, would they be spaces, string start or end, etc...
So this is pretty straight forward : you need the word on, surrounded by word boundaries.


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London Countryway alternative: St Albans - Alban Way - Welham Green
Murals under the arches of the Midland Main Bridge over the former Hatfield and St Albans railway.
THIS INTRIGUING ALTERNATIVE ROUTE avoids the London Countryway's long detour to the north of St Albans using secluded, traffic-free paths that weren't an option when the main route was first devised. It runs from Verulamium to the south of the city centre, first along the river Ver and then on an old railway that's now a cycling and walking route. It's arguably less pretty and misses out some places of interest including St Michaels, Heartwood Forest, Sandridge and Hatfield Airfield. Neither will all walkers appreciate the long length of surfaced path. But the riverside section is charming, and disused railway lines with their remnants of infrastructure have their own special fascination.
I've also suggested a more direct alternative for the end of this section from Roestock to Welham Green station on field paths and an old lane. Again this misses out a couple of features including North Mymms church and the swallow holes, but also avoids most of a particularly nasty stretch of road walking. As the main and alternative routes share a central section from Smallford to Roestock, you can walk either or both bits of each, saving a maximum of 7 km.
The river Ver
The River Ver from the Ver Valley Walk at St Albans just south of the 'holy well'.
The Ver is one of the main reasons the city of St Albans is where it is, over the millennia providing water, food, transport and power. The Romans built Verulamium on its south (right) bank, and the mediaeval city grew up around the abbey on the opposite bank. This might seem puzzling for what now appears to be a relatively modest and gentle river but back then it was a much more copious stream, navigable by quite large boats.
Up to about 450,000 years ago the river Thames flowed nearby, running northwards up the Colne valley and east across the Vale of St Albans on its way to the Rhine. Then a glacier rolled onto the area that's now Hatfield, blocking the river's course and creating a great lake to the west. Eventually the water burst through at Staines to cut the course of the Thames we know today, at the same time reversing the flow in the Colne valley, as the Colne became a tributary of the Thames, and the Ver a tributary of the Colne.
The Ver is a chalk stream, fed by an aquifer formed by rainwater sinking through the porous chalk of the Chilterns. Chalk streams are rare – there are only around 200 in the world and most of these in England – and they are particularly prized for their especially pure alkaline water which supports unusual flora and fauna including the characteristic white tufts of water crowfoot poking above the surface in spring. The official source is at Kensworth Lynch on the edge of the Dunstable Downs in Bedfordshire, although there's a competing claim from Markyate Cell, just inside Hertfordshire. These days the river is a 'winterbourne' upriver from Redbourn, north of St Albans, with only a seasonal flow. South of the city it runs through Park Street to join the Colne at Bricket Wood, a length of 27 km.
Human interference with the river's course dates back at least to the early mediaeval period with the cutting of mill races to power water wheels. In its heyday the abbey claimed a local monopoly on milling and its zealous assertion of this prompted locals to support the Peasants' Revolt in 1381. There were once at least a dozen mills on the 15 km stretch of the river between Redbourn and Park Street including the main abbey mill, the buildings and millstream of which are still visible adjacent to the Fighting Cocks pub only a few steps from where our walk starts. Like most of its fellows this originally milled grain but later became a successful silk mill, only closing in the 1950s.
The river has also been diverted for landscaping reasons and to create artificial water features like the lake in Verulamium Park, but the main reason for the reduced flow today is exploitation for mains water. A string of pumping stations have directly tapped the aquifer itself since the early 19th century, with the water company now entitled to abstract over 30 million litres per day. Unsurprisingly there is some local concern and pressure around the issue. The Ver Valley Society was formed in 1976 with the support of the city council, initially to help promote and develop the riverside walkway, but it soon also began to campaign around water depletion, and has had some success in limiting pumping.
Between the lake and Holywell Hill the Ver has been restored to a more natural condition, meandering gently through bankside vegetation, quite a contrast to the formality of the lakeside. On the right, across the grass towards the sports centre, a cluster of trees conceals one of the now-controversial pumping stations, Mud Lane, which pumps around 2 million litres daily.
Holywell Hill
Holywell Hill is the name for both the hill itself and the steep and busy road running up it, the main route into the city from the south. Watling Street continued in use as a road link to and from London and northwest England for centuries after the Romans left, but it led through the now-abandoned Roman city, not the mediaeval settlement around the abbey. In the late 10th century Abbot Ulsinus stopped up the Roman road in an effort to improve footfall past the abbey and its associated businesses by forcing travellers from the north up the hill, continuing to London along Sopwell Lane. The London-bound route was subsequently diverted twice more, in the 16th century along Old London Road, and in 1794 along London Road which now helps form the main crossroads in the city centre. Today long distance traffic bypasses the city by some distance on the M1.
Despite variant historic spellings such as 'Halliwell' and the local pronunciation 'Hollywell', the name 'Holywell' means pretty much what it says, referring to the legend of St Alban's holy well. According to tradition, at his execution on the cathedral site, the decapitated head of the saint rolled down the hill and fell into a well or, alternatively and more miraculously, a well appeared at the site where the head came to rest. There are references to the well from the late 14th century but not much else in the historical record.
In the 1630s a large mansion, Holywell House, was built to the north of the river, encroaching on the road, which was obligingly curved westwards along the line of today's Grove Road: this later became a home of the aristrocratic Spencer family and the second earl, George Spencer (1758-1834) held the office of Mayor of St Albans as well as being a Whig home secretary. The Ver was straightened and move south, its original channel becoming a decorative watercourse in landscaped gardens that included among their features a well claiming to be the holy well itself. In 1837 the mansion was demolished and the road returned to its earlier course. The grounds fell derelict and the well was "remembered only as a muddy depression, sheltered by the remains of a dilapidated wall and a mournful specimen of blackthorn," according to Charles Ashdowne in his 1893 History of St Albans. The site later became a playing field for St Albans School, an independent boys' school originally attached to the abbey, and the location of the well was effaced completely.
In 1984 a proposal to build homes on the site prompted a local outcry demanding the rediscovery and preservation of the well, initially rejected by planners and developers. A frustrated group of guerrilla amateur archaeologists broke into the site with the local press in tow, and located a brick-lined, rubble-filled hole which they claimed to be the well. This action also prompted controversy, not only because of the trespass but the archaeological damage that could have been done if the find turned out to be a genuine antiquity. After much further argument, including an intervention from the then-Archbishop of Canterbury, a former Bishop of St Albans, professional archaeologists determined that although the brick and rubble were relatively recent, there were older structures from two different periods beneath them. Post holes likely of Saxon origin were found nearby.
So the well was uncovered and restored, and now, enclosed by brickwork and railings, provides an interesting feature of a small green space among the flats of De Tany Court, named after one of the early benefactors of Sopwell Nunnery, of which more later. It's only a little off our route just to the north of the river and east of Holywell Hill. Official sources are guarded about its significance: this is a very old settlement above a chalk aquifer so the subsoil is likely honeycombed with wells. Whether you believe this one is the well rather than just a well will no doubt depend on your willingness to believe that water can spring miraculously from beneath the severed head of a saint.
Sopwell and the watercress beds
On the other side of Holywell Hill the route follows an initially rather narrow and sometimes muddy path along the stretch of the Ver straightened in the 1630s to avoid Holywell House, but the surroundings soon open out into a moist and impressively verdant green strip. The name of the next street crossed, Cottonmill Lane, is a reminder of what was once one of the most important Ver mills, which stood on the north (left) bank on the west (upstream) side of the lane between the late 18th and late 19th centuries. It was not only used for cotton but for candlewicks, diamonds, grain and wool, and in the 1840s around 60 people worked here.
The view west from the old railway bridge over the
river Ver, with St Albans Abbey in the distance.
The watercress beds are to the right.
On the other side of the lane the route runs through the delightful Sopwell Nunnery Green Space, which has wildflower meadows, a riverside boardwalk through wet woodlands of alder and willow, and some imposing ruins just visible to your right soon after you enter the park. A Benedictine nunnery or priory, St Mary of Sopwell, was founded here around 1140, likely as a satellite of the abbey. There's a romantic but unsubstantiated legend that it was inspired by two holy women who washed travellers with cloth sopped in the holy well. The priory was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1537 and given to his close advisor Richard Lee (1513-75), who substantially rebuilt it between 1549-67 and renamed it Lee House. By the 18th century the buildings were largely abandoned and already mainly in ruins, though an outbuilding continued in light industrial use into the 1970s. Today this scheduled ancient monument comprises fragments of one wing, the main hall, boundary walls and a gatehouse, with features such as oriel windows and fireplaces still visible, probably from Lee's second rebuild although with parts of earlier buildings incorporated.
Past the boardwalk and the extensive allotments that now occupy part of the Lee House grounds a brick-arched railway bridge and embankment rear up ahead, crossing the valley. On the other side of the river here and just slightly off the route is evidence of one of the other uses for the pure water of a chalk stream – edible watercress cultivation. It's a relatively recent industry compared to some, starting on the Ver upriver at Redbourn in 1885 and soon spreading elsewhere. Originally the cress was cultivated on the river bed itself but soon purpose-built watercress beds were dug using springs and artesian wells to supplement river water. Two different families grew watercress at Sopwell, taking advantage of the nearby railway (now closed: more below) to pick and despatch the cress early in the morning to London markets and restaurants. In 1972 the beds closed and their site became derelict, reopening 20 years later as a public nature reserve operated by a local trust, the Watercress Wildlife Association, on a lease from the council, with lakes, wetlands and orchards.
The Hatfield & St Albans Railway
St Albans London Road station, photographed in 2004 by Nick Pedley for www.disused-stations.org.uk
Leaving the riverside, you climb up to cross the Ver atop the bridge, with a fine prospect back along the valley towards Verulamium and the cathedral. For the next 5 km the route sticks to the tarmac track that now occupies the trackbed of the Hatfield and St Albans railway.
The line was born from the bitter competition of the railway age. The first railway to reach St Albans was the London and North Western (LNWR), which opened what's now Abbey station in 1858 on a branch from the West Coast Main Line at Watford. This spurred arch rival the Great Northern (GNR) to support local landowners in promoting a connecting line to its station at Hatfield on the East Coast Main Line. The Hatfield & St Albans Railway (H&SAR) was opened in 1865 by a nominally independent company with a connection into the LNWR, and services operated by the GNR. Originally trains ran non-stop, with intermediate stations and halts added later. Despite being relatively cheap to build, the line was never profitable, and hopes of increasing through-passenger traffic were torpedoed when the Midland Railway (MR) opened its own St Albans station, now St Albans City, on its extension to St Pancras is 1868, now the Midland Main Line.
After this the H&SAR served mainly local passengers, although it enjoyed some importance as a goods line, contributing to the development of the industrial suburbs we'll soon walk through. It flourished briefly again in World War II, taking wounded soldiers to Hill End hospital and workers to Hawker Siddeley, but in 1951 passenger services were suspended and the line finally closed in 1969. Eventually it was bought by the councils and converted to its current use in stages between 1985-88. As the Alban Way it connects Abbey station with Hatfield station but it's also part of National Cycle Network route 61 from the Thames valley at Maidenhead to the Lea valley at Hoddesdon. Recently some of the stretch we walk has been designated part of the St Albans Green Ring, a 9 km largely off-road walking and cycling circuit. Over the years, though, there have been some murmurings that the old trackbed could still be reclaimed as part of a light rail system.
If, like me, you like keeping a good pace on a straight, flat path, you'll love the next few kilometres, but the hard surface, slightly enclosed feeling and occasional rude cyclist might not be to every walker's taste. On the other hand, as mentioned above, there's a special interest in walking old railways, not just confined to rail enthusiasts, and this is the only such example on the Countryway. Such routes share with canal towpaths that sense of separation from surrounding streets and paths, like secret ways. But with railways there's the additional thrill of walking somewhere you were never intended to walk. The geometry, the gentle gradients, the dead-straight stretches and long and graceful curves, all tell you that you're intruding into an environment that wasn't designed for you.
When operational, railways and their surroundings form green corridors of a sort, and rapidly enrich themselves further when abandoned. I personally find fascination in the new accretions to repurpose the infrastructure: the spindly footbridges balanced on the still-visible abutments of once-sturdier structures, the steps and ramps patching the track into its surroundings in a way that was never meant to be. Then of course there are the relics, the viaducts and bridges, the still-recognisable station buildings and the platforms now poignantly overgrown. And who, when walking such a route, hasn't imagined the approaching whistle of some ghostly locomotive, perhaps a phantom tank engine chugging its load of watercress through a time warp?
On the other side of the Ver the land rises rapidly and the path digs into it through a cutting which unexpectedly opens out onto a street of new housing, Orient Close, on old sidings. The railway alignment is marked by a particularly broad and sinuous pavement, at the far end of which is the architectural gems of today's walk, the old London Road station building. The former use of this H-shaped red brick structure, complete with canopy and fragments of platform, is immediately evident, but it looks oddly isolated now the rails that once surrounded it are long gone. Now Grade II-listed and thought to be the oldest surviving GNR station building south of York, it houses offices and a children's nursery.
The route now runs under London Road and soon encounters another splendid example of Victorian railway architecture, this time the work of the Midland Railway: a towering but elegantly detailed brick arch bridge taking the Midland Main Line over the competitor it was eventually to obliterate. Within the arch are some murals depicting the history of the line. A little further, a ramp into the 2010s residential development of Charrington Place provides a direct route to City station, with more railway souvenirs on view at the restored St Albans South Signal Box across the tracks, now operated by a local trust with regular open days.
Just before the next road crossing at Camp Road, where a 2003 footbridge has replaced a sturdier structure, are the wooden remains of a platform. This was originally a private halt for staff at Sanders Orchid Nursery which was formerly adjacent. It came to be known as Salvation Army Halt as it was also used by staff at the Salvation Army printworks, the Campfield Press, which stood alongside the railway a little further on across Camp Road, off Campfield Road, from 1889. Both businesses had their own sidings, and millions of flowers and millions of bibles journeyed into the world this way.
Fleetville and Hill End
East of Camp Road, the city sprawled along the railway from the late 19th century on, into the suburbs of Fleetville to the north of the line and The Camp to the south. Various features can be glimpsed through the trees, beginning with Hatfield Road Cemetery on the left, the city's first municipal cemetery, opened in 1884 and still in use today, followed on the same side by the playing fields of Longacres open space.
On the opposite side of the track here is a more poignant burial ground, filled with the graves of inmates of Hill End mental hospital nearby. In the first half of the 20th century, over 1,000 corpses were buried seven-deep here in communal graves marked only with numbers, though in recent years volunteers have tidied up the space and created more dignified memorials, renaming the space, now a County Wildlife Site, the Hill End Garden of Rest.
Platform remains at the former Hill End station on the Alban Way, St Albans
Hill End Hospital is one of those big suburban asylums that so fascinates London psychogeographers like Iain Sinclair, Most of them were built following the Local Government Act 1888 which gave county councils a duty to care for 'lunatics'. The Hertfordshire County Asylum opened in 1899 just to the south of the railway line, on a self-sufficient site with its own farm, railway siding and station. It was known as progressive in its day, with outdoor activities and occupational therapy, but people with mental disabilities were still treated alongside those with mental illness until a dedicated unit for the former, Cell Barnes Hospital, opened on an adjacent site to the south in 1933. On the outbreak of World War II, Hill End was requisitioned as an emergency facility for both military and civilian casualties, pioneering among other things reconstructive and plastic surgery. It returned to use as a psychiatric hospital under the NHS in 1948, and was a target of the evolving critique of mental health care in the 1960s and 1970s. You don't have to look far on the web to find horror stories from this period, particularly from patients of its Adolescent Unit.
With the move towards community care, the idea that mental health patients should be segregated 'out of sight and out of mind' in places like this fell out of medical fashion. The hospital finally closed in 1996 and the site was redeveloped as housing and parkland, now known as Highfield Park. Most of the buildings were demolished but three blocks were converted to social housing and the former chapel is now an arts centre. The old siding has been obliterated but the former station platforms are clearly visible from the path. Spare a thought as you pass for the thousands whose lives changed for better or worse here.
Once across Hill End Lane the Countryway re-enters WatlingChase Community Forest, although the views to the north soon become industrial, a result of council policy to encourage businesses out of the centre into the city's own 'east end' since the late 1940s. But there's now open country on the opposite side, the site of Butterwick Farm prior to World War II, later used for gravel extraction and still known as Smallford Pits even though it was restored some years ago. One of the pits remains a little further along as a fishing lake. Soon after this you'll encounter the substantial platform remnants of Smallford station, opened as Springfield in 1866 and renamed in 1879. The former ticket office can also be seen in the builder's yard nearby.
Overlooking the fishing lake at Smallford Pits from the Alban Way, just west of the former Smallford station
Sleapshyde and Roestock
The route now finds its way between a couple of other scattered settlements in the slice of Green Belt between St Albans and Hatfield, all part of the parish of Colney Heath, relatively flat countryside straddling the very upper reaches of the river Colne. Approaching the edge of Sleapshyde across fields, there's a rare overt sign of the Community Forest as the Countryway joins for a short time the Watling Chase Trail. When this was first developed in the 1990s it was known as the Watling Chase Timberland Trail, as footwear manufacturer Timberland sponsored trails in all the Community Forests. The sponsorship has long ended but cannily the company had their distinctive tree logo used as a waymarking device. The trail runs north to south through the centre of the Forest area. We encounter it very near its northern end, at Wilkins Green a couple of kilometres north of here and also on the Alban Way; to the south it stretches to Elstree where it links with the London Loop, giving the most direct link in some time between the Countryway and the Loop.
Sleapshyde
Sleapshyde has a tiny remant of a village green complete with sign, pump and surrounding rustic buildings, which doesn't quite make up for the fact that its southern side is lopped off by the A414 North Orbital Road. As its name suggests, the road, formerly numbered A405, was originally envisaged as part of an orbital highway route round London when it was first built in the 1930s by the Ministry of Transport, one of many successive concentric circles drawn round the capital over the decades by planners. Patrick Abercrombie's 1944 Greater London Plan chose it as one section of the "E Ring", the outermost of five ring roads which together with the Green Belt would help define that all important edge of the capital. Interestingly Abercrombie didn't see the E Ring as primarily a fast traffic route but as a "Parkway", including "a strip of open space which gives it a positive amenity value...at once part of the communications and part of the park system."
This grand plan was never implemented due to lack of funds, but the London County Council, its successor the Greater London Council, and the Ministry of (now the Department for) Transport continued to draw up radical and sometimes conflicting plans for further circular and orbital routes. In the 1960s, Abercrombie's E Ring re-emerged minus green strip as Ringway 4, but this time public horror as well as underfunding and internal politics scuppered the proposals. Instead we got the M25, and the old orbital was renumbered A414 in an effort to discourage longer distance traffic. Even so it remains a busy road which the Countryway is now obliged to cross via a very minimally formal crossing point. As you dodge through dual lanes of fast cars to zigzag around the gap in the crash barriers on the central strip, try to imagine Abercrombie's positive amenity value.
There's a very physical link between the flat area we're now crossing and the big roads that now entangle London, including the M25: much of the gravel needed to construct them was dug from beneath the land we now cross. These gravels were originally deposited by the Thames on its old course and the glacier that diverted it to its new one, as described above. The green space and woodland south of the A414 is another restored former gravel working.
Beyond this is Roestock, a hamlet in the triangle of an old road junction, and where its houses end along busy Tollgate Road, the Countryway leaves St Albans district and enters the borough of Welwyn Hatfield. The boundary, which appears to go right through the middle of a house, is a relatively new one, dating from an extension to St Albans in 1913.
Welham Green
The A1(M) between Roestock and Welham Green, looking north.
At this point the main route continues rather uncomfortably along the road to North Mymms park, but there's an opportunity to cut the walk short by heading across fields towards the A1(M), the latest incarnation of the main road from London to the northeast and Edinburgh. I discussed the A1 in the previous section in connection with the M1 and M6, which now provide between them the route of choice to most of industrial Yorkshire and Scotland, but the line of the A1 itself is still a major link in its own right. Since the 1930s there have been plans to upgrade it all to motorway standards but while never fully realised, significant sections now bear the affixed bracketed M, including this one which was opened in 1979. Elsewhere along its length you can still trace the parallel strand of the previous A1 Barnet and Hatfield bypasses built by the Ministry of Transport in 1928, but here the successor motorway has completely obliterated it.
A strange figure peers from Bush Wood onto Dellsome
Lane, Welham Green.
After a brief encounter with the oaks and hornbeams of Bush Wood, one of the few largish woodlands in the area, we join a more modest road significantly affected by the A1(M). Dellsome Lane was a local through route to Colney Heath before it was severed by the motorway. Now, still tarmacked but radically narrowed by overgrowth, it provides a quiet path along the woodland edge that soon metamorphoses into a residential street on the approach to Welham Green.
The village was originally a tiny hamlet on the northern edge of North Mymms but is now really a southern extension of Hatfield, linked by light industrial sprawl. It's a plain-looking place dominated by 20th century residential development. So big has it become that its name has supplanted its historically more important neighbour as the common label for the area. The substantial triangular junction where Parsonage Lane and Huggins Lane converge on Dellsome Lane before the village centre is known as Balloon Corner, as it was the site of the first landing of the first passenger hydrogen balloon flown in England, piloted by Vincenzo Londardi in 1784. Londardi had a dog, a cat and a pigeon with him when he took off from Moorfields, London, but the cat got airsick, so he landed in Welham Green and handed it into the care of the locals: an engraved plaque marks the spot. The flight finally ended at Thundridge near Ware, off to the northeast.
The original Countryway route headed for Brookmans Park station rather than Welham Green but since then, not only has a path been diverted inconveniently to avoid a stopped up railway crossing, but an entire new station has opened much closer to the route. Both stations are on the Great Northern Railway which opened from London to Peterborough in 1850 as the first stage of a main line from Kings Cross to York, built under the direction of the great civil engineer William Cubitt (not to be confused with the near contemporary politician William Cubitt who built Cubitt Town on the Isle of Dogs). The line ran from Potters Bar to Hatfield on an alignment roughly parallel with but to the west of the Great North Road, originally with no intermediate stops. Its successor the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) added the station at Brookmans Park in 1926, in response to suburban development, but Welham Green only got its station in 1986 under the nationalised operator British Rail.
Welham Green station
The station is just 2.5km south of a site that played a major, if tragic, role in the recent history of Britain's railways. In 1994, a private company, Railtrack, took over ownership and maintenance of the former British Rail infrastructure as part of a complex privatisation, still subsidised by government but paying huge shareholder dividends. Following several years of warnings about corner-cutting to help boost those dividends, on 17 October 2000, a Leeds-bound express travelling at 185km/h derailed due to poor track maintenance in between Welham Green and Hatfield, killing four passengers. The subsequent fallout led to Railtrack being placed into administration and to the effective renationalisation of railway infrastructure under Network Rail.
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2019 schedule is definitely very good. Especially with looking at seniors this coming season etc. I still think they need to make a bowl game. That should be the minimum ask every year.
This year maybe to get six wins: WMU, UConn, Wagner, UNC/NC St split, @ Wake. Well...yeah six is gonna be tough.
WMU, Wagner, Wake, BC, Uconn and one more of 7 games and we get there easily.
I think enough time has gone by to reflect on this past season. I am as confident as ever that Dino is the man for the job and it's just a matter of time before we are back to winning (at least 6 wins) on a regular basis. We saw what could be with the Clemson game. We also saw a team fight their a$$ off and compete on the road in some legendary road venues. What failed us was depth. Dino has had 2 classes. In those 2 classes, including transfers, he has quickly improved the overall size and athleticism. The only problem is those guys are still going to be young. Throw this past recruiting class in and you are going to see an even bigger improvement in size. I do want to see an improvement on offense. For being an offensive guru I have been a little surprised that the scoring hasn't been better. The yards are there, but they haven't turned into points. imo it could be a couple things. As I said yards haven't been an issue, but they have really struggled inside the red zone. I think the lack of a run game has really hurt the efficiency inside the 20. It looks like RB has been addressed this last recruiting(transfer) class. Let's see if we see some improvements inside the red zone.
Spot on. I've said it since year 1. Give this team a competent running game, and suddenly the playbook gets a lot deeper inside the red zone, which leads to more td's. I'm afraid Dino has had limited options inside the redzone, which may account for for some of the head scratching calls while in it.
I don't see BC as a given, especially with the way they handled us last year. With how close the Pitt game was I put both of them as 50/50 games. If NC State doesn't fall off, put WF in that category too, and UNC bounces back, we'll probably be scratching for those last two wins. I'm not saying we can't get them, just that, if we do get them, it'll be close.
I see two guaranteed wins Wagner and UCONN. Clemson is a loss down there. FSU with the old USF coach seems like a recipe for disaster for us.
Sober assessment of the situation when we have absolutely no clue how the LBs, WRs and DBs (with all the departures) will turn out, to say nothing about whether or not the OL and running game improve at all.
Sure, a sober assessment is warranted, coming off 4-8 and 0 for November, facing a tough ACC schedule. Any team is going to have open issues about a couple of its units, as we do after losing veteran LBs and veteran WRs.
If you want to be optimistic, you can see that the roster is better in several units. We do know we have 4 members of the OL back, plus Roberts returning from injury, and our TE and H-back also return. It is reasonable to expect our very young OL in 2017 will be stronger and better. Our RBs improved from 2016 to 2017 -- why not another step in their progress? Similar with our DEs, who played early, now have another year of S&C, and will be better in their 3rd collegiate year. Josh Black played well as a true frosh in 2016 -- he is now up to 285 lbs. So, can't we project improvement in Black and other linemen on both sides?
Ok Aristotle, instead of insulting me why not just explain what you meant and clear up the confusion?
I want to clarify, I don't think we see a big falloff. I have issue with the people who do but can't seem to make the connection that means they are also saying Ish was a better WR than anything we have now, which means Babers didn't fill a need and isn't recruiting as well which they will tell you is absolutely not the case. Either Babers is the recruiter they say he is and we are going to reload, not restart, or he isn't and SS gave him the best WR he's had in the past 3 years. So which is it?
I'm not Aristotle and I didn't insult you. Sorry you remain confused regarding my post. I believe it's clear and straight forward. This is an internet forum where people express opinions. None of us are required to defend or explain conclusions or interpretations that others choose to make regarding said opinions.
Are you serious? Sooooo it's not ok to challenge other's opinions on an opinion forum if your opinion differs from their opinion, how opinionated. You basically said I was complete wrong but fail to explain why. Fine, I've pointed out the hole in your logic in other posts. If you don't want to fill it I am left to assume it's either because you can't or ...well I don't really know.
That is a really reasonable point. I would make a few counter arguments though.
#1. Two years ago, Babers DID in fact recruit a more productive receiver than ISH, it was ET.
#2. We did bring in Pierce who, although not a receiver, added a lot to our passing game.
#3. Last year we knew we had ISH/Erv and he was able to redshirt, and sit the younger WRs.
I explained very clearly why the conclusions you choose to posit from my simple post were completely illogical. If you cannot understand why, then I can't help you.
Agreed -- not sure what is so difficult about this to get behind. We'll find out really quickly whether the players Babers brought in at WR are capable. Very excited about this young group of wideouts -- now, they need to actualize that potential.
Will also be interesting to see if a kid like Butler steps it up a notch, and becomes the go to guy as an upperclassman.
Where? All you said was " I believe it's clear and straight forward." and then proceeded to declare that you don't need to explain yourself and continue to do exactly that. Honestly I could care less at this point. Peace be with you.
I've been on the fence as to who was better. ISH all time leader in yards, most receptions in a season vs AET and his 14 TDs/1400+ yards in 1 season. I won't argue that you think AET gets the nod. I'm excited about this group. Not worried like some others. I'm more concerned with the trenches and RB. We've got to get more pressure on opposing QBs and improve the running game to make the next step. We do that...I think 7/8 are possible, if not 4-8 it is.
Yeah, it's not a cut and dry decision but you also have to consider ISH had the benefit of 2 years in the system instead of 1 summer, ISH had the more experienced QB, and ISH didn't have to compete with Estime/ISH for catches. When ET made his numbers he was competing as one of 4 talented receivers for catches. Last year we had 2 talented receivers and a new (but talented) tight end competing for touches.
Well, I am in the camp that the running game can't be worse than last year, especially with a new, proven OL coach, another year of the line getting to grow up and develop chemistry, and new blood from the RS freshmen we have.
Either Babers is the recruiter they say he is and we are going to reload, not restart, or he isn't and SS gave him the best WR he's had in the past 3 years. So which is it?
Players do get better over time. Ish had time in the system. Some of the new guys have, too, but haven't seen the field enough. I think it's a false dichotomy to say a freshman or sophomore has to be as good as a senior, or else we didn't recruit well.
Conversely, some of our peer programs (Llvll, Wake) have had Frosh WR's come in and KILL IT right away.
So, while that's not the norm, it's also not out of the realm of possibility.
Bc may have a better team than both FSU and Louisville next year. They are NOT an easy win.
I know it's not your main point, but you consider Louisville a peer program?
I understand not considering WMU a guaranteed win, but it needs to become one soon or we really do need to wonder about our progress.
We beat BC normally so I put them in the W column. Smae with the rest that I listed.
All the others are toss ups, and we always seem to beat a team we are not supposed to. We just need to not lose to the teams we are supposed to beat and we will be fine.
We have needed play-makers outside of Dungey, we really haven't had any really. Amba and Ish were only as good as the QB throwing to them.
Fair enough. I think the sample size is too small to say one team has been conclusively better. We've only played for 5 years without a break. We've won 3 by a total of 14 points and they've won 2 by a combined 49 points. Which stat is more telling our three wins or their two blowouts? I don't know. I don't think they were a fluke last year. I'm not saying we can't beat them, just that they'll be a tough out.
UNC might be a higher probability than WF and definitely better than BC. I hate BC too but BC might be ready to pop. I lead the charge in making fun of Addazio and meathead fb; but they now have a maturing OL, always have rbs, and actually have 2 qbs that can play. They ran over us this past year and they will be another level next year playing in Boston.


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Q: Modify Hashtable value of a specific key I need to increase the value of a specific key in a Hashtable,
here is my code (I want to create the Hashtable during the function,
and I want the table to be like that - <string><int>):
public void getMssg(string ipSend, string mssg, Hashtable table)
{
    if (table.Contains(ipSend))
        table[ipSend]++;        //error
}

By the way, can I define a Hashtable like I wrote above?

A: public void getMssg(string ipSend, string mssg, Hashtable table)
{
    if (table.Contains(ipSend))
    {
        int value = (int)table[ipSend];
        table[ipSend] = value + 1;
    }
}

In my opinion, a Dictionary approach would be much better because it is type safe and eliminates the casting. Hashtables are not suitable for this kind of usage. Just an example:
public void getMssg(string ipSend, string mssg, Dictionary<string,int> table)
{
    if (table.ContainsKey(ipSend))
        table[ipSend] += 1;
    else
        table.Add(ipSend, 1);
}

I updated the above code following the advice of @mjwills: TryGetValue outperforms ContainsKey:
public void getMssg(string ipSend, string mssg, IDictionary<string, int> table)
{
    int result;

    if(!table.TryGetValue(ipSend, out result))
        result = 0;

    table[ipSend] = result + 1;
}

A: Use a Dictionary<string, int> instead.
public void getMssg(string ipSend, IDictionary<string, int> table)
{
    int result;
    if(!table.TryGetValue(ipSend, out result))
        result = 0; // do something if the key is not found
    table[ipSend] = ++result;
}


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text: Q: Get main Router IP address, when there is a different gateway address One of our apps needs to grab the Router IP and Mac address for submitting a ticket to our support team, I am having an issue as one of the services we provide to our customers, is a compression service to help them save on bandwidth.  This service works with the router, and thus, the gateway address, is the compression mechanism, and not the router itself.  All of the "Get gateway address" code examples I have found work, and successfully get the Gateway address, I also successfully see the router IP address in the ARP table.. however, it just appears another device in the ARP table.  Is there any way to pull the Router IP address when it is NOT the same as the Gateway IP address?  Generally in our setup, they are 1 IP address away from each other, but this is not guaranteed.