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Q: Create a Speedometer like Semi Circle I am creating speedometer like semi circle and I have have been successful creating semicircle with all the colors. See the design below:
The problem I am facing is creating the triangle which will act as pointer. It will move around value from 300 to 850. What ever the value will get in this range it will point there.
JS Fiddle Link

<canvas id="myCanvas" height="350" width="666">
                </canvas>

JS:
window.onload = function(){

var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
var context = canvas.getContext("2d");

context.font = "14px Trebuchet MS";
context.fillStyle = "#aaaaaa";
context.fillText("300", 60, 218);

context.font = "14px Trebuchet MS";
context.fillStyle = "#aaaaaa";
context.fillText("850", 280, 218);

// drawArcShadow   x    y   rad sAng eAng clockwise  line    fill
drawArcShadow(180, 200, 100, 0, 180, true,  "#eeeeee","white");

function drawArcShadow(xPos, yPos, radius, startAngle, endAngle, clockwise, lineColor, fillColor) {
    var startAngle = startAngle * (Math.PI/180);
    var endAngle   = endAngle   * (Math.PI/180);

    var radius = radius;

    context.strokeStyle = lineColor;
    context.fillStyle   = fillColor;
    context.lineWidth   = 20;
    context.beginPath();
    context.arc(xPos, yPos, radius, startAngle, endAngle, clockwise);
    context.fill();
    context.stroke();
}

// drawArc   x    y   rad sAng eAng clockwise  line    fill
drawArc(180, 200, 110, 0, 180, true,  "#c1634a","rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)");
drawArc(180, 200, 110, 0, 263, true,  "#ab5741","rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)");
drawArc(180, 200, 110, 0, 264, true,  "#e59636","rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)");
drawArc(180, 200, 110, 0, 288, true,  "#ce8631","rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)");
drawArc(180, 200, 110, 0, 289, true,  "#e8d932","rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)");
drawArc(180, 200, 110, 0, 302, true,  "#d0c52d","rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)");
drawArc(180, 200, 110, 0, 303, true,  "#aecd9c","rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)");
drawArc(180, 200, 110, 0, 320, true,  "#8db872","rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)");

function drawArc(xPos, yPos, radius, startAngle, endAngle, clockwise, lineColor, fillColor) {
    var startAngle = startAngle * (Math.PI/180);
    var endAngle   = endAngle   * (Math.PI/180);

    var radius = radius;

    context.strokeStyle = lineColor;
    context.fillStyle   = fillColor;
    context.lineWidth   = 20;
    context.beginPath();
    context.arc(xPos, yPos, radius, startAngle, endAngle, clockwise);
    context.fill();
    context.stroke();
}

};

A: This question already has been answered many times, but I felt you need some more corrections in your code's logic.
To rotate a shape around a point in canvas, use translate(x,y) and rotate(radian) methods.
First you move your context to the rotation anchor point, then you rotate accordingly, and finally you translate again to give the desired offset.
Think of your context as a leaf of paper that you can move and rotate.
In your snippet, you had big antialiasing artifacts. This is because you made all your arcs start at angle 0. When drawing an arc, the browser will create semi-transparent pixels so the line looks smooth. But if you do draw multiple arcs at the same positions, these pixels are more and more opaque, leading to these visible artifacts.
Here is your code, a bit refactored :

var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
var context = canvas.getContext("2d");

function drawTriangle() {

  var ratio = Math.PI / (slider.max - slider.min);
  var angle = ((slider.value - slider.min) * ratio) + Math.PI;
  var radius = 110;
  // first move our cursor to the center of our arcs
  context.translate(180, 200);
  // then rotate the whole context
  context.rotate(angle);
  // move our cursor to our arc's radius
  context.translate(radius, 0);
  // draw the triangle
  context.fillStyle = 'black';
  context.beginPath();
  // this draws the triangle around its center point
  context.lineTo(10, -5);
  context.lineTo(10, 5)
  context.lineTo(-10, 0)
  context.closePath();
  context.fill();
  // place back our context's transfrom to its default
  context.setTransform(1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0);
}

function drawArcShadow(xPos, yPos, radius, startAngle, endAngle, clockwise, lineColor, fillColor) {
  var startAngle = startAngle * (Math.PI / 180);
  var endAngle = endAngle * (Math.PI / 180);

  var radius = radius;

  context.strokeStyle = lineColor;
  context.fillStyle = fillColor;
  context.lineWidth = 20;
  context.beginPath();
  context.arc(xPos, yPos, radius, startAngle, endAngle, clockwise);
  context.fill();
  context.stroke();
}

function draw() {
  // clear the canvas
  context.clearRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
  // text
  context.font = "14px Trebuchet MS";
  context.fillStyle = "#aaaaaa";
  // since we don't change the properties, no need to tell the browser to do so
  context.fillText("300", 60, 218);
  context.fillText("850", 280, 218);

  // drawArcShadow   x    y   rad sAng eAng clockwise  line    fill
  drawArcShadow(180, 200, 100, 0, 180, true, "#eeeeee", "white");
  // drawArc   x    y   rad sAng eAng ANTIclockwise  line    fill
  // be careful, 6th argument of arc() is ANTI-clockwise boolean
  // here I changed all start angle to avoid anti-aliasing artifacts + I removed the transparent fill parameter
  drawArc(180, 200, 110, 263, 180, true, "#c1634a", null);
  drawArc(180, 200, 110, 264, 263, true, "#ab5741", null);
  drawArc(180, 200, 110, 288, 264, true, "#e59636", null);
  drawArc(180, 200, 110, 289, 288, true, "#ce8631", null);
  drawArc(180, 200, 110, 302, 289, true, "#e8d932", null);
  drawArc(180, 200, 110, 303, 302, true, "#d0c52d", null);
  drawArc(180, 200, 110, 320, 303, true, "#aecd9c", null);
  drawArc(180, 200, 110, 0, 320, true, "#8db872", null);

  drawTriangle();
}

function drawArc(xPos, yPos, radius, startAngle, endAngle, clockwise, lineColor, fillColor) {
  var startAngle = startAngle * (Math.PI / 180);
  var endAngle = endAngle * (Math.PI / 180);

  context.strokeStyle = lineColor;
  context.fillStyle = fillColor;
  context.lineWidth = 20;
  context.beginPath();
  context.arc(xPos, yPos, radius, startAngle, endAngle, clockwise);
  // instead of filling transparent, which produces nothing, just don't pass the fillColor parameter and don't call fill().
  fillColor && context.fill();
  context.stroke();
}
slider.oninput = draw;
draw();
<input type="range" id="slider" min="300" max="850">
<canvas id="myCanvas" height="350" width="666"></canvas>

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Treat Cancer – Yes, you can !
I had been diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma ( a form of Blood Cancer) Five and half years ago.
I have come across many articles on how to 'Manage' the condition.
Here is nice compilation that I received from a WhatsApp group .
I do believe and have been practicing most of what is recommended in this compilation and hence wanted to share.
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a. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc. are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color . Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus.. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk, cancer cells are being starved.
d.. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C)..
14. Some supplements build up the immune system.
(IP6, Flor-essence , Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit.A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor.Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Be a forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
Please share the above with those who can benefit.
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It is 3 months since I had my Bone marrow test .My results were -ve , No M-spike was seen.However , my Oncologist wanted me to be back with my CBP , LFT and RPT reports after 3 months. I actually expected he would say I can come back after one year 🙂 but he didn't want to take any risk. So I complied. I remember him saying that after 5 years of having the Transplant (Bone marrow Transplant) , I will have to take the Bone Marrow Test once every year. For the past 5 years I have been doing the test every 6 months .
My Hb touched 11 for the first time in decades. The range for a healthy woman as per my report is 11-14. This is an achievement !! A record break !!
My Globulin Serum too is 34 which is well within the range. A bigger achievement !!
He was very happy on seeing the reports 🙂 and exclaimed 'you are off all medication isn't it ?!!'.
I said "Yes Doctor, but I am continuing to take Curcumin and I am sure it is helping me ".
It is one year since I stopped chemo and taking only Ayurvedic medication.
He then asked me , "Do you think people should go for a Bone Marrow Transplant".
I immediately said "yes, there is no other option ".
I then reminded him about the advise he gave me , after my Bone Marrow Transplant (in Jan 2011) , about using "Tinaspora Cordifolia" , to improve my immunity. Later on , it was this advise that motivated me to look for alternative treatments and I finally found the way.
Having started using Curcumin 2 years ago ,followed by good results , I had been very eager to push Curcumin and I wanted my Oncologist to prescribe Curcumin along with Tinaspora Cordifolia to all his other patients.In fact, I started using Curcumin, two years ago, just when I was advised to go for a second Bone marrow transplant .
It is a delicate situation wherein a patient suggests an Allopathic Doctor to prescribe Ayurvedic Medication to his other patients . I am so glad that my Oncologist is open to try out other forms of treatment and encourages his patients.
Hopefully more patients will benefit and will be encouraged to try ayurveda , the way I did.
My sincere thanks to Dr Kochar, Ayurveda and Dr Suresh , Oncologist.
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Aficionados of big voices have been waiting for Christine Brewer to appear in a Los Angeles Opera production for a long time. Indeed, there were a couple of occasions where she was dangled tantalizingly before us, singing song recitals somewhere in town while Wagner's "Ring" operas -- her natural habitat -- were playing at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
But Brewer's LA Opera debut finally came Wednesday night in a most unorthodox way -- slipping into the cast of Britten's chamber opera "Albert Herring" toward the end of its run. That's right -- a chamber opera, and a comedy at that, written for an ensemble cast of equals.
So with more than a hint of self-parody, and maybe a bit of "The Mikado's" Katisha, Brewer's battle-axe of a Lady Billows stalked the stage with a mostly sour expression, rolling her Rs with relish, her diction easily intelligible. She seemed to be doing her best to rein herself in so as not to dominate the vocal ensembles -- which worked pretty well -- carefully unleashing her power in appropriate passages of solo pomposity. She was a focal point, but not to the point where the balances were capsized.
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Photo: Christine Brewer in "Albert Herring." Credit: Robert Millard.


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The hunter of ponds
Lil' Ogre put his head out of the pond. He was startled to see Chintu sitting under a tree knitting a net.
The song of life
Subba Rao
Demon,
Chintu was the youngest son of Ram Singh. When Ram Singh died, the eldest son announced that the house belonged to him. The second son took away whatever riches he could find in the house. Chintu left the house, carrying with him a bundle of ropes that neither brother wanted.
As he walked through the forest, he came across a squirrel. Chintu gave the little animal some nuts. The squirrel took a liking to Chintu and followed him wherever he went.
When he came across a rabbit, Chintu offered a carrot to the hungry animal. The rabbit took a liking to Chintu and followed him.
The three friends came to a pond.
"Be careful, Chintu, in the cave close to this pond lives Bhillu the bear," cautioned the squirrel.
"You must be careful about the water monster who lives in this pond too," said the rabbit.
"Now I can put the ropes to some use," said Chintu. He started knitting a net with the ropes.
The water monster had a son who he lovingly called Lil' Ogre. Lil' Ogre put his head out of the pond. He was startled to see Chintu sitting under a tree knitting a net.
"What are you doing?" asked Lil' Ogre anxiously.
"Don't you see I'm making a net," said Chintu, "A big net."
"How big?" asked Lil' Ogre.
"Do you see this pond?" asked Chintu.
'That's where I live," said Lil' Ogre.
"This net will be even bigger than the pond," said Chintu.
"Why do you need such a big net?" asked Lil' Ogre.
"How else can I catch the pond and drag it to my village?" said Chintu, tying one more knot.
Lil' Ogre jumped into the pond and shook his father, Water Monster, who was taking a nap. "You are sleeping like a log while a hunter is all set to capture our pond," cried Lil' Ogre.
"A pond hunter! Are you serious?" asked Water Monster.
"I saw him with my own eyes. I talked to him too," said Lil' Ogre.
"You should handle him," said Water Monster.
"How?" asked Lil' Ogre.
"Challenge him to a race to the top of a tree. Surely you'll climb faster than him, and he'll be behind you. Give him a push. He will fall into the pond, and I'll eat him up," said Water Monster.
Lil' Ogre liked the idea. He stood in front of Chintu. "Let's race to the top of that tree," he said pointing out a tall tree on the bank of the pond.
"Don't you see I'm busy," said Chintu, "You can race with my little brother," he said.
Chintu's brother, the squirrel, ran up the tree so fast that Lil' Ogre had not even started climbing the tree! Lil' Ogre went back to Water Monster. "I couldn't beat even his little brother," Lil' Ogre confessed.
"Don't you worry," said Water Monster. "Invite him for a race around the pond. While racing, you give him a push. He will fall into the pond, and I'll eat him up," said Water Monster, licking his lips.
Lil' Ogre liked the idea. He went back to Chintu. "Let's race around the pond," he said.
"Don't you see I'm busy," said Chintu once again, "You can race with my younger brother."
Chintu's younger brother, the rabbit, ran so fast Lil' Ogre stood gasping. Sad and disappointed he returned to the pond.
"I couldn't beat even his younger brother," Lil' Ogre confessed.
"Don't you worry," said Water Monster, "Invite him to a boxing match. Start pounding him hard. He'll run for his life."
Lil' Ogre liked the idea. He went back to Chintu.
"Let's box," he said to Chintu.
Again Chintu said, "Don't you see I'm busy? If you still want to box, go to my grandpa who is taking a nap in the cave there. Give him a kick."
Lil' Ogre thought it would be easier to beat an old man. He went inside the cave where he found the old bear sleeping. He kicked him hard. The enraged bear pounced on him and beat him black and blue. Lil' Ogre had to run for his life.
"I couldn't even beat his old grandpa. What chance do I have against this fellow?" he cried to Water Monster.
"He must be really strong then. Find out how much gold he wants to leave this place," said Water Monster.
Lil' Ogre ran to Chintu. "How many gold coins do you want to leave this place?" he asked.
"Enough to fill this cap," Chintu said, taking off his cap.
Lil' Ogre ran to get gold coins.
Just then the squirrel came to Chintu. "Are you hungry?" asked Chintu.
"I'm always looking for nuts," said the squirrel.
"I think there are nuts buried here," said Chintu. So the squirrel started digging.
"I see no nuts," shouted the squirrel.
"Dig deeper," advised Chintu.
So the squirrel went on digging. Then Chintu dropped a couple of nuts into the ditch.
"Ah! I got them," said the squirrel as he jumped out of the ditch.
Chintu quickly punched a hole in his cap and placed it on the ground covering the tiny but deep ditch.
Just then Lil' Ogre was back with a handful of gold coins. He dropped the coins into the cap. The coins went through the hole in the cap. Lil' Ogre dived back into the pond to get more gold coins. He kept on filling the cap, but the cap remained half filled.
Lil' Ogre did not realize that there was a hole in the cap and the gold coins were passing through the hole, falling into the ditch. So he brought more and more gold coins. At last when the cap was full Lil' Ogre was relieved.
"I'll leave now," said Chintu.
To give Water Monster the good news Lil' Ogre ran to the pond.
Chintu quickly cleaned up the ditch, made a neat bundle of gold coins and left. Chintu returned to his village. He bought a big house and lived happily ever after.
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Paco Alcacer: People treated me very badly at Barcelona
Borussia Dortmund striker Paco Alcacer believes he was not shown sufficient trust during his two lean seasons at Barcelona.
Matt Dorman
15 September, 2019 15:29 IST
Paco Alcacer during his time at Barcelona. - Getty Images
Paco Alcacer accused "many people" of treating him badly at Barcelona ahead of a Champions League reunion with his former club.
The Spain international left Barca for Borussia Dortmund on loan at the start of last season and made the move permanent in February. Alcacer quickly proved a hit in Germany, scoring 18 goals in his first Bundesliga campaign, and already boasts seven in all competitions this term.
That form gives the striker the chance to prove a point to those who doubted him when Barca visits Signal Iduna Park on Tuesday. "I'll decide in the moment," Alcacer told SER Catalunya when questioned on whether he would celebrate scoring.
"I have respect for many people there. Many peopled behaved very well with me but many people behaved very badly. My team-mates and the fans treated me well.
"As in any job, if people trust you, you give your best, and if they don't trust you, you don't give it. It's very important for me to see those signs of trust and in the end many people did not show it."
Suarez's understudy
Alcacer made 37 La Liga appearances in his two seasons with Barca, 23 of them from the bench.
The former Valencia forward generally served as Luis Suarez's understudy in an attack containing Lionel Messi, who has yet to feature this season due to injury.
Alcacer was asked about Messi's influence at Camp Nou and said: "It's clear that a player of that level is important for the team and for the club. You will always ask for his opinion and listen to him. Hopefully he will play next weekend, against Granada, and not against us!"
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Sam Salz Becomes The First Yarmulke Wearing Orthodox Jew To Play College Football
By Avigail Goldberg
In Orthodox Jews in the News, Shabbos, Sports
The Orthodox Jewish community can check off another box when it comes to representation in sports. Sam Salz just became the first kippah-wearing competitor in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) football season as running back of the Texas A&M Aggies.
Originally from Philadelphia and an alum of the Kohelet Yeshiva High School in Merion, PA, Salz joined the Texas A&M Aggies in the middle of the season. He actually was asked to join on a day that merited his first test. The practice he was supposed to attend was on Yom Kippur.
"Right off the bat, I had to explain that I wasn't going to be able to be at the first practice because it's Yom Kippur, and they were fine with it," Salz says.
He continues to wear his Judaism proudly — sporting a kippah and tzitzit both on the field and around campus. He's an inspiration to his peers as a Sinai Scholar and an active participant at Chabad A&M.
Almost 50% of the team's games are played on Shabbat which means Salz has to sit out, but that hasn't deterred the player from staying strong in his faith. He chose his uniform number, 39, as a constant reminder of the Lamed Tet Melachot, the 39 categories of work which Jews do not perform on Shabbat.
When games begin right after Shabbat, Salz walks to the stadium early and spends time with the Chumash or volume of the Talmud he keeps in a special locker. He learns Torah while his non-Jewish teammates prepare for the game ahead, embracing the holiness of the day.
Salz says that the team has actually been very supportive of his religious lifestyle. "From the coaches to the assistant coaches to my teammates, everyone involved here has been extremely friendly and respectful," he assures. He recounts a specific instance in which the team arranged to have kosher food brought in from out of town for a banquet for the players and their guests.
"It taught me a lesson that when you stay strong to your values, people will respect you for it," he says. "I try to encourage my fellow Jewish students with that message."
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Elana Spiro says on December 11, 2022
This is so awesome. Rock on!
Addison Shuster says on December 20, 2022
Will be rooting for the Aggies from now on
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Makerere University has suspended Mr Edward Kisuze, a senior administrative assistant in the Academic Registrar's Department for allegedly harassing a female student in his office.
In a letter dated April 17, 2018, which has also been posted on the university's Twitter page, the Acting Vice Chancellor, Professor William Bazeyo said Kisuze had been suspended from university service on half pay with immediate effect to allow a smooth investigation into allegations that he harassed the student on Tuesday at his office at Senate Building.
It is reported that the student who said she had been sexually harassed made a statement at Police Station in which she said she was sexually harassed by a man in Room 507.
In the statement, the student says the man kissed her private parts forcefully and in order for her to get evidence, she took a selfie as there was no camera in the room. A photo of the selfie has been shared on various media platforms.
Prof Bazeyo's letter to Kisuze says, "I hereby suspend you from university service on half pay with immediate effect to allow a smooth investigation into the matter.
You are strongly advised to desist from any access to the senate building premises and interactions with students of Makerere University until investigations are completed," reads part of Professor Bazeyo's letter.


We partnered with Land Rover and Zara Phillips to announce a new scholarship programme for young women in engineering. The campaign was launched by Zara at the Royal Windsor Horse Show (where Land Rover were headline sponsors) and referenced the Queen's role as a mechanical engineer in the Auxiliary Territorial Service during WW2.
In a photocall, Zara recreated an iconic image of her grandmother taken during the war and explained the need for more female engineers to broadcast and print journalists from Sky, ITV and the Sunday Express, among others. We also produced a short form film featuring Zara which was used by online media and in social media.


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An Overview of Glaciers, Glacier Retreat, and Subsequent Impacts in Nepal, India and China
Submitted by Jim Noble 1st October 2009 23:55
Imja Tsho in 2004 (Source: WWF Nepal Programme)
Overview of the problem
The New Scientist magazine carried the article "Flooded Out – Retreating glaciers spell disaster for valley communities" in their 5 June 1999 issue. It quoted Professor Syed Hasnain, then Chairman of the International Commission for Snow and Ice's (ICSI) Working Group on Himalayan Glaciology, who said most of the glaciers in the Himalayan region "will vanish within 40 years as a result of global warming". The article also predicted that freshwater flow in rivers across South Asia will "eventually diminish, resulting in widespread water shortages". As apocalyptic as it may sound, it needs to be underlined that glaciers need to be studied for a variety of purposes including hazard assessment, effects on hydrology, sea level rise and to track 3 climatic variations. There are several problems associated with retreating glaciers that need to be understood in order to proceed to the next stage of quantifying research and mitigating disaster. In this context it would be imperative to understand the nature of problems that confront Nepal, India and China. While the following section deals with problems faced by all three countries, country-specific losses and details would be dealt with separately.
Climatic changes and its impacts on the fluctuation of glaciers are a natural phenomenon that has been occurring in the Earth's five billion-year-old history. In the past few decades, global climate change has had a significant impact on the high mountain environment: snow, glaciers and permafrost are especially sensitive to changes in atmospheric conditions because of their proximity to melting conditions. In fact, changes in ice occurrences and corresponding impacts on physical high-mountain systems could be among the most directly visible signals of global warming. This is also one of the primary reasons why glacier observations have been used for climate system monitoring for many years (Haeberli 1990; Wood 1990).
The New Scientist magazine carried the article "Flooded Out – Retreating glaciers spell disaster for valley communities" in their 5 June 1999 issue. It quoted Professor Syed Hasnain, then Chairman of the International Commission for Snow and Ice's (ICSI) Working Group on Himalayan Glaciology, who said most of the glaciers in the Himalayan region "will vanish within 40 years as a result of global warming". The article also predicted that freshwater flow in rivers across South Asia will "eventually diminish, resulting in widespread water shortages".
As apocalyptic as it may sound, it needs to be underlined that glaciers need to be studied for a variety of purposes including hazard assessment, effects on hydrology, sea level rise and to track climatic variations. There are several problems associated with retreating glaciers that need to be understood in order to proceed to the next stage of quantifying research and mitigating disaster. In this context it would be imperative to understand the nature of problems that confront Nepal, India and China. While the following section deals with problems faced by all three countries, country-specific losses and details would be dealt with separately.
In an agrarian country like Nepal, with staggering increase in population and food demand, even a slight decline in annual food production is a matter of great concern. This sector is adversely affected by the loss of top fertile soil due to soil erosion, landslides and floods. Soil loss is a major cause of decline in agriculture production in Nepal and the negative effects of climate change may further aggravate this situation. It has been suggested that at 4ºC temperature and 20 percent precipitation rise, there could be marginal yield increase in rice; that yield will continue to decline between 0.09 to 7.5 percent and beyond. However, temperature rise has evoked mixed reactions in the case of wheat as the actual yield of wheat has increased in the western region with the rise in temperature while there has been a decline in other regions. Similarly, a rise in temperature has a negative effect on maize as yields decreased with warmer temperatures (the trend is almost similar to wheat).
A majority of the people in Nepal rely on forest products such as firewood, food, fodder, timber and medicines. Its extensive utilization and increasing demand has led to a decline both in area and quality. Global warming may cause forest damage through mitigation of forests towards the polar region, change in their composition and extinction of species. This could affect not only on Nepal's biodiversity but the very livelihoods of people. Tropical wet forests and warm temperate rain forests would disappear, and cool temperate vegetation would turn to warm temperate vegetation. Vegetation patterns would be different under the incremental scenario (at 2ºC rise of temperature and 20 percent rise of rainfall) than the existing types. Thus climate change will have a direct impact on vegetation, biodiversity and even wildlife.
The risk of malaria, kalaazar and Japanese encephalitis is suggested under climate change scenarios for Nepal. The subtropical and warm temperate regions of Nepal would be particularly vulnerable to malaria and kalaazar. Similarly, an increase of temperature would make the subtropical region of Nepal more vulnerable to Japanese encephalitis.
While climate change model results are highly variable concerning South Asia, the projections for temperature change are more or less consistent and significant with projected mean temperature increase of 1.2 and 3ºC by 2050 and 2100 and 2.3 to 4.3ºC at 2 CO2. Though an overall increase in precipitation is projected; the magnitude of change is low. The observed trends in temperature generally agree with climate model results and show warming in the last few decades. More warming is observed in high altitudes. No significant trend is found in precipitation. Both temperature and precipitation are found to be related to large-scale climatological phenomena.
It is imperative to make vulnerability assessments of different development sectors and devise adaptation plans. Climate change impacts and responses are transboundary issues. Therefore, in addition to national discourses on linkage between climate change, mitigation and adaptation measures and development efforts, regional collaboration is necessary to formulate co-coordinated strategies.
Videos on the connection between climate change and glaciers in Nepal
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This article details a visit from the Thailand Department of Agriculture (DOA) to Laos in May 2016 to advise maize farmers and local experts on improved and more climate resilient farming practices.
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Yesterday I had the distinct honor of being a featured speaker on a teleseminar. I was able to be transparent and share my story with the listeners. It took quite a journey to get to this point – being vulnerable without fear. Being vulnerable is something that does not come easy to us military members. But what I've learned is that we all are going through or dealing with something.
My prayer, every time I speak, is that I reach and encourage someone and they are empowered by my story. This happened last night during the call. I just told my story and believed that someone would receive encouragement. A female caller asked a question at the end of the teleseminar. I could hear the anguish in her voice. She was in pain and wanted to know when the pain would cease. Like me, she also served 22 years in the military and was dealing with some strong emotions as a result of transitioning. My heart went out to her.
1. Create a support system around you. Make sure you have people in your life who you can trust to talk to about the intimate and vulnerable emotions you will experience in transition. Experiencing strong emotion during transition is normal and every Veteran experiences. There is nothing wrong with you if you need help to push through the emotions. The shame comes when you do not reach out for help. This support system can consist of family, friends, and even Veteran organizations.
2. Make yourself a priority. As women, we wear so many hats – wife, mother, sister, friend, employee or entrepreneur to name a few. Inherently we give so much to others, it comes natural to us. Many of us to the point of being sacrificial – placing everyone else's needs above our own. Society would have us believe that if we make ourself a priority we are being selfish. That our happiness, need, dreams, desires, goals, health should be second to everything and everyone else in our lives. I disagree completely. And when women can embrace the truth and make themselves a priority – it is truly liberating. You are free to take care of yourself so that you are able to care for everyone else.
3. Tap into available resources. There is so much information to comb through for a transitioning military family. They are flooded with information when they separate from the military – it can be a little overwhelming. Life in the military is so much easier – everything is taken care of for you. What a difference. So to avoid being overwhelmed by the amount of information out there for transitioning service members, be deliberate in your search for information. ASK QUESTIONS! Tap into the Veterans Affairs system because it was created for us Veterans. Be deliberate in seeking out resources that will help you and your family.
I'm always grateful for the opportunity to share my personal story and my transition journey. I believe we all have something to share and offer to our fellow #BattleBuddy. When we share we make sure no #BattleBuddy gets left behind or travels this journey alone.
So as I enter my fourth year of retirement from the military, I wanted to explore this.
Many would describe an emotional roller coaster as a period of time where you experience good and bad emotions. And that is indeed true when looking over one's life – surely you will experience both good and bad times. That's pretty much a given. So I want to challenge you to think about an emotional roller coaster in terms of intensity levels of the experiences of life.
Every day you are blessed to open your eyes and live life is an experience with a level of intensity. For most of us in the military the majority of our life would be the straight parts of the roller coaster ride – PT, Work, Home, and Repeat. We may wake up late for formation and this would likely equate to a mild curve on the roller coaster ride. Your Platoon Sergeant and the First Sergeant may yell but you recover well. But wake up late and miss SP (Start Point) time for a deployment to Iraq and that mild curve quickly turns into a hard jerking, whiplash causing curve quickly escalating to a very high peak on your roller coaster ride. The pucker factor is intense, to say the least!
You're promoted to the rank of Staff Sergeant, you're pretty happy about your promotion because it appears your hard work has definitely paid off. Then you receive orders to Drill Sergeant School, the excitement builds. You are assigned as a Drill Sergeant at Fort Knox and take on the task of training Soldiers attending Basic Training, the excitement levels out. Then your dedication to excellence pays off once again and you are awarded Drill Sergeant of the Year award, even though you are the most junior NCO in the unit. Your emotions just peaked as you receive news that you made the Sergeant First Class list. Now your arms are up in the air waving around, the wind is blowing through your hair and you're screaming on your roller coaster ride.
You find out that you and your spouse are expecting your first child. You're pretty happy about the news considering you two have been trying for some time now. You join your wife at her appointment for the first sonogram, what an exciting time – your heart is really beating fast as you hear the baby's strong heartbeat over the monitor. Then the nurse says she sees TWO BABIES on the sonogram screen. You're ecstatic as you slowly head up the incline of the roller coaster track. Then in week 22 of pregnancy your wife starts to experience some difficulties resulting in her having to be hospitalized. Your roller coaster car just hit a strong jerking curve. Suddenly the doctor explains that your wife is in full blown labor and there is nothing they can do for her or the babies. You just experienced whiplash on your roller coaster ride as you continue to climb the incline in a jerking motion. As your wife gives birth to your beautiful baby boy and baby girl twins, you prepare yourself to watch them take a few breathes only to have to say farewell. Until we meet again my sweet babies – is all you can think as you peak on your roller coaster ride trying not to throw up as you quickly head for the lowest track point on this journey.
Two extremely different life experiences, of course, but you can see how the roller coaster ride is the same in terms of intensity. There is no denying that life events will bring out some of our most intense emotions. Transition from military life to civilian life may invoke such strong emotions. Take this time as an opportunity to learn more about yourself, grow as an individual and implement some effective coping skills for when the emotions take you up to the peaks of the roller coaster ride.
You can guarantee that good and bad times will come throughout your life – but the key is to continue living. Life in the military will take us on all sorts of twists and turns, highs and lows. You will experience some of your best days and some of your worst days throughout the course of your military career. As Service Members we sacrifice a lot, but in those moments of sacrifice we will also experience our greatest feelings of pride and satisfaction. Life is meant to be lived, to be present in the moment of life. As you continue in your transition journey remember that – Live in the present moment of life. Live life with all of its intense moments, with all its highs and lows, and opportunities to learn and grow through the emotions you experience as a result of living. Now get buckled in and enjoy the ride!


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New Influenza: Is Quarantine a Rational Measure?
Kazuhiko Machida
Professor, Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University
Since World War II, infectious diseases were becoming a thing of the past in developed countries due to the development of public health and medical care, and especially the success of antibacterial agents and vaccines. At the same time, however, type-A influenza, with its highly variable antigen, continues to take its toll – seasonal flu kills about 10 thousand people in Japan and 30 thousand in the United States every year, even when there is no epidemic – and professionals and authorities have always been concerned about the potential emergence of a new flu in the future. We thought that the avian flu might have been that new strain, but surprisingly enough, it turned out to be another new flu, swine flu, which was suddenly contracted from pigs in Mexico in April 2009.
Collective Effort in Robot Research—Working to Construct "M-Robotics"
Professor Atsuko Shimbo-Kobayashi
Waseda University Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences
The 1960s were in the middle of Japan' s rapid economic growth. The character Astro Boy drove people dreams toward the future of scientific technology, and that expectation and excitement reached a peak at the Osaka Exposition in 1970. This period was the background in which Japan started full-scale robot research, and that research has continued to lead the world until today.
The Flowering of Shanghai Theater
Naoko Suzuki
Research Associate, Waseda University Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Shanghai was once known as the "devil' s city". This image is represented by the modern architecture which exists along the banks of the Huangpu River in the area known as the Bund (Wai Tan), and by Nanking Road, which bustles with people. All of the architecture and international settlements which form the image of Shanghai were created after entering modern times. In 1842, after the Opium War, Shanghai was opened by the Treaty of Nanking and forced to form itself into a modern city. The form of Shanghai was brought about by modernization, and this image remains in the city even today.


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Holy Law Suit Batman: Islam Infiltrates the ACLU
Islamofascism: Americans might as well be living under Islamic blasphemy laws, yet the nation's champion of free speech — the ACLU — is AWOL. That's because it's now largely run by Muslims.
The ACLU usually stands up strong for First Amendment rights. Not in the case of the Muhammad movie.
The ACLU's executive director failed to release an official statement condemning the outrageous efforts of the White House to deep-six the film, including pressuring YouTube to remove its trailer from the Web.
Amnesty International, in contrast, asserted that any Muslim hurt over the film "should not be used as a justification to curtail core freedoms or justify potential government repression."
Not until The Daily Caller contacted the ACLU did it speak out, and only meekly so. It said it was "concerned" about the White House request to censor the "repellant film." The ACLU's strangely muted response contrasts sharply with its militant reaction to post-9/11 measures to crack down on Islamic terrorists.
"The government has gone to extraordinary lengths to squelch dissent (in the Muslim community) — from censorship and surveillance to detention," it says on its website, complaining it was "encroaching" on the "free speech rights" of Muslims.
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Q: How can i get the order total value on success page easily? Magento 2.2 I am trying to get the order value from success.phtml page so that I can report it back in the facebook pixel.
I am just looking for the simplest way to get the order value. Yes, a shortcut pretty much.
I tried this:
$orderTotal = round($block->getGrandTotal(), 2);

and also
$lastOrderId = $block->getOrderId();
$objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();
$order = $objectManager->create('Magento\Sales\Model\Order')->load($lastOrderId);
echo "order id: ". $lastOrderId;
echo $order->getGrandTotal();

and several other methods but the total order value seems to be hard to find.

A: You can add this code to your success.phtml page to get the order total
<?php
$objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();
$order = $objectManager->create('Magento\Sales\Model\Order')->loadByIncrementId($block->getOrderId());
$total = $order->getGrandTotal(); ?>
<?php echo $total ?>

A: After doing even more tests I finally gave up and went oldschool and just simply created a new connection to the database and queried the sales_order table.
This is not the correct way to solve it. But I think there is a plugin or the template that is messing up my environment so in case exactly evertything else fails then I guess you can use this for a breif time.
$lastOrderId = $block->getOrderId();

$SQL = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'username', 'password', 'databasename', '8889');
$q = "select * from `sales_order` WHERE increment_id={$lastOrderId}";
$rs = $SQL->query($q);

$order_tmp = $rs->fetch_object();
$grand_total = $order_tmp->grand_total;


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Q: Specifying which properties to use in a custom drop-down Ember component I've created a reusable drop-down component in Ember:
/app/components/dropdown/component.js
import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Component.extend({
  tagName: 'select',
  classNames: ['form-control'],
  placeholder: null,
  items: null,
  selected: null,
  change: function(event) {
    var items = this.get('items');
    var index = event.target.selectedIndex;
    var selected = items ? items[index - 1] : null;
    this.sendAction('selectedChanged', selected);
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{{#if placeholder}}
<option value="">{{placeholder}}</option>
{{/if}}
{{#each items as | item |}}
<option value="{{item.id}}" selected={{is-equal item selected}}>{{item.name}}</option>
{{/each}}

The component currently uses the 'name' property as the label for the option. However, I want the ability to specify what property to use, in order to make the component more flexible (so that I can sometimes use, for example, 'displayName').
With the old Ember Select component, you could do the following:
{{view "select"
  content=programmers
  optionValuePath="content.id"
  optionLabelPath="content.firstName"
  value=currentProgrammer.id
}}

...and tell it which properties to use for both the value and label. I'd like to do something similar, but I'm not sure how. (I tried reading through the source but it was a bit beyond me). Thanks in advance.

A: <option value="{{ember-get item optionValuePath}}" selected={{is-equal item selected}}>{{ember-get item optionLabelPath}}</option>

You will need to implement the ember-get helper, in Ember 2.0 there is a default heper called get which will make the following redundant.
import Ember from 'ember';

export function emberGet(params/*, hash*/) {
    return Ember.get(params[0], params[1]);
}

export default Ember.HTMLBars.makeBoundHelper(emberGet);

Also take a look at this jsbin which has an example of what you are trying to achieve.


The idea was to create a sort of Utopia that bridges the gap (both literally and figuratively) between Europe and Africa. Sörgel and his followers were growing sick of recent European and Cosmopolitan trends of racism, post-colonialism, division and violence. Expanding the borders of multiple countries while enticing millions towards a common goal would bring together an unprecedented unity between hundreds of differing cultures.
To achieve the goal of creating Atlantropa — which included damming up the Straits of Gibraltar to lower the sea level and power hydroelectric stations — the project would required millions of laborers and over a century of effort. It also would have wrought havoc with the existing ecosystem, nearly draining the Adriatic Sea and turning beachfront property all around the Mediterranean into suddenly much less desirable real estate.
Next time your mad genius needs a scheme to not only shock the heroes, but make them say, "Actually, some good could come of this," you could borrow a page from Herman Sörgel and his dreams of Atlantropa.
It reminds me more than a bit of Adventure!'s Baron von Zorbo and his belief that the future of the human race lay in leaving the earth to recover from their depredations, living over it in flying cities. He had not only the mad, radical idea, but the resources to bring it to life. Antagonists need to have passion to make their goal reality.
Honestly, I don't know if there's anything to be gained by writing about this game. It was lots of fun, but in retrospect, it seems even more like one of those "you just had to be there" experiences than most role-playing games. With players and GM alike fueled by robust Russian fare, vodka and other fine boozes, we went for a howlingly ridiculous romp in early 17th century peasant Russia. Our motley assortment of adventurers — I played the aged last of the Aztec priests — while maundering around the Eurasian landmass, found themselves in a village beset by uncharacteristically ferocious animals. It transpired they were driven to retrieve the scattered remains of a dark monk that once terrorized the village long ago, when Christianity first came to the region.
Two completely wilderness unsavvy travelers, one of whom was an alcoholic samurai, not only getting lost in the woods, but finding Baba Yaga's hut, traipsing past the skull-topped fence posts and banging on the wall — Baba Yaga's hut, of course, always faces away from you until commanded appropriately.
One player breaking out his time-honored " . . . and then we're on fire!" plan; no matter what the initial steps of the plan are, it invariably, albeit accidentally, ends with one or more of the player characters on fire.


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Warm and Buttery: Melt Speeds Greenland's Ice Flow
By Becky Oskin 17 July 2013
Meltwater from the surface of the Sermeq Avannarleq Glacier drains down toward interior ice (see falling droplets at right).
(Image: © William Colgan/CIRES)
Greenland's massive ice sheet is accelerating its slide toward the ocean because bigger surface melts in recent years are softening the interior of the ice like a stick of butter, a new study finds.
For more than a decade, scientists have reported rapid melting and shrinking at many of Greenland's outlet glaciers, which snake into the ocean. Studies suggest warmer ocean water and rising atmospheric temperatures contribute to the melting ice. The new study finds the interior ice sheet also speeded up its flow to the sea in the past decade, but for a different reason. The ice sheet is changing from within.
"It's not just melt at the edge that's affecting how Greenland is changing," said Thomas Phillips, lead study author and a glaciologist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder. "This is a totally different mechanism. It comes from within the ice, and that's why we think this is such an important finding. This ice is changing its behavior as a whole, not just at the edges."
Like butter
Meltwater pools on the surface of the Sermeq Avannarleq Glacier in southwest Greenland. (Image credit: William Colgan/CIRES)
Surface meltwater ponds and lakes form on top of Greenland's ice sheet and glaciers every summer. The water pressure can fracture the surface, creating a vertical drainpipe that carries the surface meltwater into the ice, even down to the rock at its base. The liquid lubricates the ice sheet, helping it slide more easily.
But the researchers also think the meltwater is softening the solid ice, making it deform like a stick of butter. The water transports heat into the chilly interior ice, according to computer modeling by the research team. The softer ice also flows more quickly, the modeling suggests. [Image Gallery: Greenland's Melting Glaciers]
The study focused on Sermeq Avannarleq Glacier in southwest Greenland. Located about 40 to 60 miles (65 to 95 kilometers) from the coast, the glacier is flowing about 1.5 times faster than it was 10 years ago. In 2000, the inland segment was flowing about 130 feet (40 meters) per year; in 2007-08, that speed was closer to 200 feet (60 m) per year.
Additional work by the team hints that other regions of Greenland's ice sheet are also accelerating because of surface melting, Phillips said. "There are indications that this is going on in large areas, and we're probably going to see more of this happening in the future," Phillips told LiveScience.
Glaciers slow, ice sheet speeds up?
The new findings also suggest Greenland's future melt may be more extensive than recent studies conclude. Some scientists think the rapid shrinking of its outlet glaciers may slow in coming decades. But even if the outlet glaciers slow down, the interior ice sheet could continue to speed up, spurred on by the extensive surface melts of recent years, Phillips said.
In 2012, nearly the entire surface veneer of Greenland's ice sheet melted, the biggest surface melt since record-keeping started 30 years ago.
"When we started studying this in 2005, we didn't expect to see all of Greenland melt within our lifetime, and seven years later it happened. It's changing very, very rapidly up there," Phillips said.
The findings were published May 6 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface.
Email Becky Oskin or follow her @beckyoskin. Follow us @livescience, Facebook & Google+. Original article on LiveScience.com.


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Outlander: Diana Gabaldon at PopFest
The writer behind the historical fiction series gives insight into the world of Jamie and Claire, and explains her next titles at EW PopFest
By Mary Sollosi
October 30, 2016 at 12:00 PM EDT
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Outlander author Diana Gabaldon took a break from working on the ninth novel in the wildly popular historical fiction series and stopped by EW PopFest on Sunday, where she spoke to EW's Lynette Rice (who wore a fantastic Outlander cloak!) and answered fan questions about all things Claire and Jamie. Read on for our eight best takeaways from the lively Q&A.
How she got started
Gabaldon says she's known since she was eight years old that she was a writer: "Eight was about the age age I was when I realized that people actually produced books, they didn't just spring out of the library shelves." But she certainly didn't begin Outlander thinking it would become a literary (and television) phenomenon.
"I wrote the first book for practice; I wasn't going to show it to anyone," she said. But after having an argument with a man about what it feels like to be pregnant, she shared a piece she had written describing the feeling in detail. When people encouraged her to expand upon it — "this is like heroin to a writer, to have people actually want to read what you write" — she shared her work, piece by piece. "I discovered that, given the indescribable nature of what I write, the only way to sell it is to give people free samples."
How she comes up with her titles
Gabaldon is not yet allowed to share the full title of an upcoming collection of Outlander-related novellas she's working on, but she did reveal that the title includes the word "seven," for the seven stories within. (She wanted to call the collection Salmagundi, which is the name of an 18th-century dish meaning, appropriately, a collection of disparate elements, but alas, this was rejected by her editor.) The next novel in the Outlander series will be called Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone, which comes from Celtic folklore. "Bees are very social insects, and they're very interested in the comings and goings of the community," she explains. "You want to always keep your bees informed."
While she can just peruse a Welsh phone book (and has) to come up with new character names, book titles don't come as easily. With the exception of Voyager, which Gabaldon says came to her quite naturally, coming up with her poetic book titles "is like pulling teeth." She described her process as akin to polishing rocks: "When the book has reached a significant mass [and] I begin to see what it's about, what are the elements, then I pick some evocative words that kind of have to do with those things and I sort of throw them in my rock polisher and try them out in different permutations," she says. "Eventually things come out, and it falls into a rhythm."
Engaging with her fans
Considering that her origins as a writer were based on interacting with her readers, Gabaldon finds it quite natural to be as engaged with her fans as she is. One fan wrote her that they had read the whole series 23 times; another gave her a Polaroid of an Outlander tattoo on her foot.
When she first met with the TV show's Claire and Jamie, Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan, after a fan event, she assured them, "the people who read the books are intelligent, compassionate, civil, educated — great fans. I'd never been stalked, never had a bad fan experience. And I think that is because people with mental derangements don't have the attention span to read [a book]." She followed up with a warning, however: "But on the other hand, anyone can watch TV, so when the show goes live, start looking over your shoulder."
Her Outlander doppelgänger
Gabaldon has been quoted as saying that writers have no secrets, and "if you want to know anything about me, read my books — it's all there." Rice followed up the quote with the question that this naturally raises: Does that mean Gabaldon is a fantastic lover? Without missing a beat, the author replied, "I've been married for 44 years and I haven't heard any complaints yet."
As far as writing herself into her books, however, Gabaldon says her closest doppelgänger in the novels is Jamie — "He is what I would be if I were an 18th-century male." Though she took evident pleasure in recounting a meeting with some fans, where they began discussing the loathsome Black Jack Randall. "I'm sitting there listening to this and sipping my tea and thinking, 'you have no idea you're talking to Black Jack Randall right now.'"
What she thinks of the TV series' Claire
Outlander readers are fiercely protective of the novels in the transition to the small screen, and the Starz series' portrayal of heroine Claire (played by Caitriona Balfe) has attracted more criticism than Sam Heughan's Jamie. Many fans have told Gabaldon that the series seems to lack Claire's sense of humor, which Gabaldon attributes to the series' lack of first-person perspective. "Caitriona's a great actress, but there's only so much she can do with her face," Gabaldon says. "You can't film in somebody's head." Gabaldon isn't too concerned about this difference between the two Claires, however: "Mostly, it doesn't bother people. For those it does, well, they can just go read the book again. No problem."
Why John Grey fell in love with Jamie
Lord John Grey, whom Gabaldon describes as "a seething mass of repression," was such a compelling element in the Outlander books that he merited his own related series of novels. Thinking about how to navigate Jamie's imprisonment in Voyager, Gabaldon decided to bring back the character from Dragonfly in Amber because she thought Grey's hatred of Jamie but obligation to protect him would make for interesting conflict. Then she just upped the ante. "I said, 'okay, this is going to cause him a lot of conflict.' So I was thinking, 'what if there was a lot of conflict?'" she recalls. "Not only does he hate him and want to kill him, but he's also physically deeply attracted to him — which is also something he can't act on."
How she deals with writer's block
"Anything I see, think, hear, smell, any writer will pick up ideas like that," Gabaldon says of her process — though she isn't immune to writer's block. "When that happens, When that happens, I will usually go to my reference collection and flip through the historical references just for something interesting that I can use as a kernel," which might be anything she can sense concretely. "Once I have one, I will write a couple of sentences describing it, and then take words out, put them back, move things around. And meanwhile, in the back of my mind is kicking up questions: What time of day is it? How is the light falling? Is the room warm? No it's not, my nose is cold and so are my fingers. Get my fingers warm, there's a fire. Where's the fire? It's over there. There's a dog by the fire. I've never seen him before — like that."
The real Dunbonnet
One of the fans pointed out that Dunbonnet, which is a name that Jamie was called when he hid out in a cave in Voyager was a real figure. "I was at the time reading a lot of Scottish history, folklore, etc., etc., and I came across this mention of the Dunbonnet who had escaped from Culloden and had hidden on his own land in a cave for seven years," Gabaldon says. While she knew that the figure had been real, she didn't even realize at the time how perfectly he fit into Outlander, however: "Some time later, long after Voyager was published, I came across the Dunbonnet in another reference, and it gave an expanded version, and it told me the Dunbonnet's name — which was James Fraser."
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Q: Why std::stack memory size is bigger than as usual in c++? This is the code for testing my question.
#include <iostream>
#include <stack>
using namespace std;
int main(){
    int num;
    int Array[1];
    stack<int> Stack;

    cout << "Int size " << sizeof(num) <<endl; // Output: Int size 4
    cout << "Array size " << sizeof(num) <<endl; // Output: Array size 4
    cout << "Stack size " << sizeof(Stack) <<endl; // Output: Stack size 80
    return 0;
}

I'm trying to understand about memory space allocation. Normally int memory size is 4 bytes. But, when I initialize an Stack of int data-type in std::stack then the Stack size is 80 bytes.
Should it 4? Why is std::stack taking 80 bytes? Or what is actually inside of stack for being the size 80 bytes?

A: sizeof gets the static size of the object/type. stack dynamically allocates memory for its elements. So, there is no correlation between size of the elements and size of stack in general. So, why is it 80 bytes? This is highly implementation specific. Size of stack is usually the same as the underlying container. By default, the underlying container is a std::deque, so that's where we must have a look. I checked libstdc++ specifically, and it seems to have 1 pointer, 1 size_t for size and 2 iterators like so:
struct _Deque_impl_data
{
    _Map_pointer _M_map;
    size_t _M_map_size;
    iterator _M_start;
    iterator _M_finish;
    //...

(std::deque derives from _Deque_base which has a single member of type _Deque_impl_data)
Pointer and integer are 8 bytes, the iterators are 32 bytes. This adds up to 80 bytes. I didn't further investigate, but since deque is a more complex structure, it's only natural that it needs some memory for its own book-keeping.

A: You maybe confusing sizeof(Stack) with Stack.size() here. The sizeof operator returns the total size of the class object, which, in the case of std::stack includes (of necessity) a number of internal data and control variables (padding the size out to, in your case, 80 bytes). However, a call to Stack.size() will return the number of items currently on the stack.
These 'internal variables' will include such things as a pointer to the allocated memory (likely 8 bytes), a value recording the current element count (also likely to be 8 bytes) and a number of other pointers and counters, to aid in manipulation of the stack and optimization of access to the contained data, such as the current capacity of the allocated space, etc.
The following modified code shows the difference:
#include <iostream>
#include <stack>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    int num;
    int Array[1];
    stack<int> Stack;

    cout << "Int size " << sizeof(num) << endl;     // Int size 4
    cout << "Array size " << sizeof(Array) << endl; // Array size 4 (1 "int" element)
    cout << "Stack size " << sizeof(Stack) << endl; // Size of a "std::stack<int>" instance
    cout << "Stack size " << Stack.size() << endl;  // Size (# entries) of stack = 0 (empty)
    return 0;
}


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Basem Boshra Supervising Producer, CTV News Montreal
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Published Friday, November 15, 2019 2:49PM EST
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MONTREAL - A recidivist tool thief who targeted construction sites in Montreal and Laval has been hit with three new charges after trying to sell the stolen goods online.
Laval police said the man in his 50s, who was initially arrested Aug. 20, was back in Quebec court Nov. 13 to face new charges after he tried to sell the goods, which had been engraved for security and were spotted online by the equipment's owner.
Police said the owner contacted investigators, who set up a sting operation, posing as clients interested in buying a stolen pressure-washer, that ended in the arrest of the suspect. A later raid of his home yielded the seizure of another $25,000 worth of stolen goods, police said.
The suspect's new charges are related to breaking and entering and re-selling stolen merchandise worth more than $5,000.
The Laval police took the opportunity of announcing the new charges to remind the public of the value of engraving valuables - from tools to bikes to TVs and more - for security purposes, and conserving the engraving codes in case the items are stolen. Laval police even loan out engraving machines, free of charge.
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In geometric topology, a branch of mathematics, the lantern relation is a relation that appears between certain Dehn twists in the mapping class group of a surface.  The most general version of the relation involves seven Dehn twists. The relation was discovered by Dennis Johnson in 1979.

General form
The general form of the lantern relation involves seven Dehn twists in the mapping class group of a disk with three holes, as shown in the figure on the right.  According to the relation,

where , , and  are the right-handed Dehn twists around the blue curves , , and , and , , ,  are the right-handed Dehn twists around the four red curves.

Note that the Dehn twists , , ,  on the right-hand side all commute (since the curves are disjoint, so the order in which they appear does not matter.  However, the cyclic order of the three Dehn twists on the left does matter:

Also, note that the equalities written above are actually equality up to homotopy or isotopy, as is usual in the mapping class group.

General surfaces
Though we have stated the lantern relation for a disk with three holes, the relation appears in the mapping class group of any surface in which such a disk can be embedded in a nontrivial way.  Depending on the setting, some of the Dehn twists appearing in the lantern relation may be homotopic to the identity function, in which case the relation involves fewer than seven Dehn twists.

The lantern relation is used in several different presentations for the mapping class groups of surfaces.

References

External links
 Sketches of Topology – The Lantern Relation

Geometric topology
Homeomorphisms

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So Long, and Congratulations, Mark Minasi (@mminasi)
Mark Minasi's most recent e-mail newsletter, it seems, will be his last. He's announced his end-of-2017 retirement from his most active tech pursuits, including his world-famous public seminars and private classes. For me, it's definitely the end of an era.
As a young Windows NT 3.51 admin back in the day, there were few industry heroes to look up to. Sure, the developers had plenty, and magazines to go with 'em; we had Windows NT Magazine, Mark Minasi, and Mark Russinovich. The latter looks to be nowhere near retirement, fortunately, but it was always Minasi's columns I flipped to first. They were accessible, concise, and relevant – and I always felt like I knew just a little bit more "insider detail" after reading them. Plus, that silly Bob Vila-esque photo of him for "This Old Resource Kit," amiright? Reading something Mark has written is very much like listening to Mark speak in person – an approach that's been successful for him, and one I learned to emulate in my own writing.
In the late Nineties, I got my first gig speaking at a (developer) conference, thanks to a partnership between the conference organizer (Shirley Brothers, who is still a dear friend to this day) and my employer at the time, Micro Endeavors. When Shirley later partnered with Duke Publications, publishers of SQL Server Magazine and Windows NT Magazine (as it was still called at the time), she created conferences for those products. I was the first chair of her new SQL Connections show, and it put me in the same conference center as Windows Connections, where Mark Minasi was delivering a keynote and several sessions. Like most tech people, I'm a bit of an introvert, and I'm not the kind to run up to one of my heroes and say "yo," so it was a couple of years before Mark and I actually met. And what a great guy – I'm incredibly proud to say that Mark and I have, over the years since, become pretty good friends.
Much of my career direction came from Mark, whether he knew it or not. Here was a successful guy in the Ops field – and there weren't so many of those, back in the day. So I aped his career decisions whenever I could. Mark spoke at conferences – well, I had that going already. Mark wrote a ton of books – on it. Mark got his own book series – OK, I'll chase that. Mark had a Fortress of Solitude – a goal I only achieved in 2015, but it was a goal for a long time (and a wonderful idea). Mark ran a successful and close-knit conference of sorts (consisting of his Forums regulars) – fine, I'll give that a shot. If Mark did it, it had to be a great idea for you career, so I tried my best to do the same. There are two people deserving of high-level credit for the state of my career, and Mark's one of them (the aforementioned Shirley Brothers being the other).
Visiting Mark's former home in Virginia Beach was a personal highlight for me. Not only was it, well, Mark's home, but it was in Virginia Beach, not half an hour from where I'd gone to Junior and Senior High School, graduated from an apprenticeship, and basically done most of my growing up. Who knew he'd been more or less right down the road the whole time? Seeing Mark's Strategy Guide for Wing Commander (did you know he wrote one?) was extra-cool – I'd played Wing Commander, of course, and struggled with it like many probably did.
It was from Mark that I learned the importance of putting your best face forward in public, and he's why I ditched the standard conference speaker shirt in favor of – well, not Mark's suit, obviously, but my own twist. It was from Mark that I learned the sacred nature of opt-in mailing lists, and that making money off of something wasn't always the goal – sometimes, it was just the right thing to do, and you'd get paid back in other ways.
We've not always agreed. Professionally, Mark and I are on opposite sides of the "cloud" thing, for example, and we've had more than a few spirited debates about other aspects of the industry. But that's one of the cool things about Mark – unlike many people in today's world, you can have a debate with Mark. He's more than smart enough to hold up his side of the discussion, but it's not a religion for him – it's not an argument. It's truly a relief to be able to have a really intense conversation with someone who you know isn't getting ready to explode – it's a way that you can work through details, sort out your own perspective, and grow intellectually. One of the things I valued most from our time around the hotel lobby bar was those kinds of debates.
Mark's also a lover of language, and turned my passing interest in it into a real hobby. Shady Characters, a book he recommended to me, remains one of my current favorites. Discussions on defunct characters (ye old "thorn," for example) were another wine-time fave of mine.
While it's sad to see Mark stepping down from his "public life," it's certainly well-earned. The guy has been at this forever – he was a regular contributor to Byte Magazine back in its day, and that was in many ways at the start of the modern IT industry, if not a bit before. Mark says he'll still be writing, and it wouldn't surprise me if he pops up at a conference now and again – those are hard to give up, once you've had a break from them for a bit. In lieu of his newsletter, he'll be using his Twitter account to publish announcements and so on, and I certainly encourage you to follow him.
Mark, thanks for all your years of hard work, your inspiration, your patience, and your great advice. Enjoy your new home, and good luck with whatever's next!
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I'm sad to say that I never got the chance to attend one of Mark's presentations, but I was still able to learn so much from his articles and podcast appearances.
I think all of us who cut our teeth in the early days of "ops" looked to Mark as our "hero". I modeled my teaching style (horribly) to how Mark presented. He was a true performer who made IT fun and allowed us to laugh at not only our customers but ourselves, our industry and the corps we aligned with. He was a true inspiration and (nerd alert) I still have a signed 2008 R2 workbook from one of his awesome seminars. Mark "Mastered" making IT fun to learn!
rdiphoorn says:
Mark Minasi is one of my longtime IT heroes. I've been lucky to see him in real in 2012 at one of the last TechEd's. He is a true inspiration, and I wish him the very best!
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