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Week of 11/6/11
November 8, 2011
ECB: Friend or Foe?
Mohamed El-Erian: “There is only one institution that has an immediately-available balance sheet that could stabilise the situation in the next few days and weeks — the ECB. … [but it] needs others to help on four critical issues: a bold and lasting separation in how we deal with Europe’s insolvent nations and its illiquid ones; a regional programme to enhance growth and employment; immediate actions to counter the fragility of the banking system; and bold political decisions to strengthen the institutional underpinning of the eurozone.”
John Quiggin: “This failure has been caused by the policy choices of one of the few European institutions that has the capacity to act unilaterally and decisively: the ECB. … [It] has pursued a ‘one size fits nobody’ policy of monetary contraction, at a time when no European economy is growing strongly. … Unlike any previous central bank in history, the bank has disclaimed any responsibility for the European financial system it effectively controls, or even for the viability of the euro as a currency.” — 11/10/11
CRISIS: Italian Yields Over 7 Pct
Italian sovereign bond yields surged beyond the critical 7-pct demarcation line overnight. That’s the line considered to separate sustainable debt costs from unsustainable, and now Italy — a G8 member that is the EU’s third largest economy and the world’s eighth — has crossed into the unsustainable zone. The ECB engaged in emergency bond buying in an effort to avert catastrophe for Rome and the entire EU.
Nouriel Roubini thinks “markets are telling [Italian PM Silvio] Berlusconi to leave now. They don’t buy his scheme of pretending to leave in two weeks after a budget is passed.” Not that political shuffling will do much. Barclays analysts believe Italy is “now mathematically beyond the point of no return,” that reforms will “not be enough to prevent crisis,” and that “growth and austerity [won’t be] enough to offset the cost of debt.” Martin Wolf suggests that the EU needs to make widespread adjustments that risk inflation, or break up. — 11/9/11
Italian Bonds Toe The Red Line
The EU’s new plan has done nothing but push Italian bond yields higher. You read here last Friday, “Italian yields are now over 6.35 pct — their crisis-high region, where they began August, and you may recall what a swell month that turned out to be.” Now Italian yields are 6.66 pct. CNNMoney: “The 7 pct level isn’t an automatic bailout trigger but it is the level that prompted bailouts for Portugal and Ireland. Even though those countries share PIIGS status with Italy, they’re tiny in comparison. Keeping Italian bond yields under 7 pct is essential because unlike Greece, Italy is too big to bail out. … Italy is the third-largest economy in Europe, behind Germany and France, and it has one of the largest bond markets in Europe.” Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi is under pressure to step down because he has not delivered economic reforms he promised. CNBC reports the ECB may not continue its bond-buying program that’s helped hold down yields since summer. “Yves Mersch, a member of the central bank’s Governing Council, warned in an interview with Italian newspaper La Stampa on Sunday that it could stop buying Italian bonds if Italy fails to take appropriate action over its debt.”— 11/8/11
EU Banks Very Exposed
WSJ: “European banks are sitting on heaps of exotic mortgage products and other risky assets that predate the financial crisis, adding to pressure on lenders that also are holding large quantities of euro-zone government debt. …
“Sixteen top European banks are holding a total of about €386B ($532B) of potentially suspect credit-market and real-estate assets, according to a recent report by Credit Suisse analysts. That’s more than the €339B of Greek, Irish, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish government debt that those same banks were holding at the end of last year, according to European ‘stress test’ data.” — 11/8/11
US Banks Cook The Books
S&P is displeased with a US accounting rule that allows banks to chalk up earnings gains when their own creditworthiness deteriorates, and usually report them as credit valuation adjustments (CVAs) or debit valuation adjustments (DVAs).
FT Alphaville: “The credit deterioration of Bank of America, for example, was responsible for the entirety of its reported net income. For JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup, it provided a profit boost. … For Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley it offset further losses. All in all, a nice cushion.” (Emphasis mine.) S&P wants to end the practice because it varies from bank to bank, and doesn’t provide the best way of assessing the amount the bank will actually need to pay to settle its debts.
Meanwhile, banks are able to steal enough from customers to more than cover resulting lawsuits. A judge approved a $410M settlement in a class-action lawsuit affecting more than 13M Bank of America customers who incurred debit card overdrafts during the past decade. The problem? ABCNews: “Barry Himmelstein, an attorney for customers who objected to the deal, said he calculated that the bank actually raked in $4.5B through the overdraft fees and was repaying less than 10 pct. He said the average customer in the case had $300 in overdraft fees, making them eligible for a $27 award — less than one overdraft charge — from the lawsuit.” — 11/8/11
Insiders Bailing
CNNMoney: “Insider selling accelerated in October to the most aggressive pace since February. That follows the S&P 500’s gain of 11 pct — its best monthly performance in almost 20 years.
“In fact, there were almost $19 worth of insider stock sales in October for every $1 of insider buys, according to market research firm TrimTabs. That was way up from near record low levels of insider selling — between $2 and $4 of sales for every $1 of insider buying — in August and September.” — 11/8/11
Stocks Still Overvalued
John Hussman writes: “Our broadest models continue to imply a probability of oncoming recession near 100 pct. … While Wall Street remains effusive about stocks being cheap on a ‘forward operating earnings’ basis, that conclusion rests on the assumption that profit margins will sustain record highs more than 50 pct above their historical norms into the indefinite future. That assumption is terribly at odds with historical evidence (as it was in 2007 when Wall Street was gurgling exactly the same thing). Given that stocks are a claim on a very long-duration stream of deliverable cash flows, our money is clearly on more thoughtful and historically reliable valuation methods. …
“In our view, investors should presently hold risky assets only in the amount they would be willing to hold through the duration of significant downturn, without abandoning them in the interim. … We emphatically don’t need to wait for the world to solve its problems before being willing to accept risk. What we do need is for those risks to be more appropriately priced in view of those problems. We’re not there by any means, but a significant change in the market’s return/risk profile could come quickly. To quote MIT economist Rudiger Dornbusch (who was a professor to the new head of the ECB, Mario Draghi), ‘The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought.'” — 11/8/11
Train Wreck Priced In
Scott Minerd, chief investment officer at Guggenheim Partners, told the New York Times, “We’ve reached a stage where we all understand that a train wreck of some sort is coming. The question is what will the wreck actually look like, how much damage will it do, and the markets have already priced in a lot of damage.” He expects worse to come from the Greek crisis, but thinks it might not be as bad as the market believes.
Elsewhere in the Times, Gretchen Morgenson finds two lessons in MF Global’s blow-up: “The first is that our financial institutions are not impervious to Euro-shocks. The second is that when those problems reach our shores, they usually ride in on a wave of derivatives.” The problem with credit derivatives is “risks that can be hidden from view, and risks that are not backed by adequate postings of collateral.” Yes, those are the same problems that sank AIG. Too bad net credit default swaps on debt issued by France total $24B today compared to $14.4B a year ago. Italy weighs in at $21.2B, Spain $17B, and Greece $3.7B. — 11/7/11
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H. Lawrence
In Atlas Obscura, we find that Asheville, NC has a lot of very large urban wildlife, and the experts (of course!) are studying the issue of just how many bears can live in the city.
Over the past decade, Asheville has racked up all kinds of accolades: according to one list of fawning headlines, it’s “Fantastically Yoga-Friendly,” “One of America’s 12 Greatest Music Cities,” “The Biggest Little Culinary Capital in America,” “#1 Beer City USA,” and “America’s #1 Quirkiest Town.”
Somewhat more quietly, it’s also one of America’s Best Cities for Bears. They hang out near the local hospital, and at the storied Grove Park Inn. Mailmen regularly run into them on their routes. Last August, a bear broke into an Asheville man’s home and stole a stick of butter out of his kitchen trash. As part of its pre-show, the Fine Arts Movie Theater, in downtown, shows a photo of a curious black bear reading its marquee from across the street. “I never saw a black bear until I moved to the city,” Boll says. “Now, I’ll be driving and I’ll go, ‘There’s a bear in someone’s yard!’ or ‘Look at that bear, knocking over that trash can and taking the bag!'”
When we talk about urban wildlife, we’re usually referring to small, deft creatures—squirrels, pigeons, or other standbys that mind their own business and fade into the background. Your average city-dweller might catch a deer in their headlights every once in a while, or spot a raccoon digging through the trash. A bear is something of a different story. A male can weigh 600 pounds. That’s not the kind of creature you get used to seeing on your commute.
Somewhere around 8,000 black bears range around western North Carolina, and many of those make Asheville itself part of their meandering. According to the Urban-Suburban Bear Study, an ongoing project by the state’s Wildlife Resources Commission and North Carolina State University, these bears are very healthy, often well-fed enough to have twice as many cubs as your average scrappy mountain bear, and confident enough to den right outside of town.
After a couple of years of study, the researchers—along with most of Asheville’s humans—are wondering exactly how many bears the city can hold. | TALSCO |
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Advance Voting opportunities begin this week
October 03, 2018
The City of Sault Ste. Marie will host the first of three Advance Vote days on Saturday, October 6 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Civic Centre.
Additional Advance Vote days will be held at the Civic Centre on Wednesday, October 10 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on Saturday, October 13 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The City has partnered with both the Canadian Hearing Society to provide sign language interpreter services and with the CNIB to provide enhanced accessibility. Both agencies will be on site between 10 a.m. and noon and 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 10. Tools to assist individuals with visual impairments will be available at every voting location on October 22.
Sault Ste. Marie Transit will provide free bus service to riders who present their voter notification card on Advance Vote days and on Voting Day. Voters should receive their 'You Vote at Card' in the mail this week.
Electors must provide identification when they vote showing their name and qualifying address. The 'You Vote at Card' is not an acceptable piece of identification.
Students may vote both in their home community and in the Ontario municipality at which they attend post-secondary school.
On Voting Day, October 22, electors will vote at their assigned voting location as identified on the 'You Vote at Card'. Alternatively, electors can find their voting location at saultstemarie.ca/election under 'Voter Services'. For further information, voters are encouraged to visit the City's website or contact the City Clerk's Department at 705-759-5388. | NECANY |
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“Dear Mr. Snowden, you are a former agent,” Putin said, after a hasty translation by one of the television channel’s presenters. “I used to have dealings with intelligence. We will speak in a common professional language.”
Russia doesn’t have the same scale of operations, Putin said. It has fewer funds and its technical ability lags behind the U.S. “Our special services are under strict control by the government and society.” | TPLSDM |
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In this work, we investigate the carrier recombination dynamics in InGaN-based blue LED devices by analyzing the radiative and nonradiative carrier lifetimes as functions of driving current. To separate the radiative and nonradiative carrier lifetimes, we utilize the information on the internal quantum efficiency (IQE) and differential carrier lifetime. For comparative analysis, the characteristics of the IQE and electroluminescence spectrum are also used. Through measurements and analyses, we demonstrate that the saturation of the radiative recombination rate induced by the phase-space filling in the active volume triggers the increase in nonradiative recombination rate, thus leading to the efficiency droop. (C) 2017 The Japan Society of Applied Physics | TBDCIS |
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Today, Global Citizen and Cadillac announce a new partnership to inspire a new generation of social entrepreneurs. The Accelerator Series will award social entrepreneurs using innovation and creativity to solve some of the world's most challenging problems.
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I was saying to Effie, “Effie Honey, them damn Yahoo Cowboys that was running this country into the ground before this bunch took over; they blew a hole in the good ole USS AMERICA so big my lumbago is still actin up! If terrorism is doing damage, didn’t they and them un-jailed bankers do it!? Then this bunch with that there Obama fella, well they say things, but we are still sinking, and no jailed bankers?”
“Rights, Privacy! What Rights, What Privacy? Patriot Act! I’ll give you a Patriot Act, Liberate This! (a finger in the air)…” “Well what you think Honey, you know I value your opinion.”….
Effie, “Jeb, you want a hamburger for lunch or not…I got to watch my soaps!” | CTSPPA |
Malignaggi Laughs at Khan's Mayweather, Pacquiao Dreams
By Mark Vester
Junior welterweight Paulie Malignaggi finds Amir Khan's recent comments very amusing. Malignaggi can't believe Khan had the nerve to tell people he will be ready to fight the like of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao in twelve months. Malignaggi doesn't think Khan is in their league and says his boxing record proves it.
"He really believes his own hype. If he said 'I'm a champion and I'm learning on the way up and I'm hungry and I want to face all of the best fighters.' I would say 'this guy, it's okay to be cocky because he understands where he's at.' But he doesn't understand where he's at," Malignaggi said.
"He just said a few days ago he's ready to fight a Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather. I want the drugs he's on. He's on some good stuff. A guy who got knocked out by Breidis Prescott 15-months ago is calling out Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather. If this was an American fighter, they would laugh at him. But because he's a foreign fighter the British press says 'oh my goodness he's calling out Mayweather and Pacquiao' and then the American press jumps on their bandwagon."
Malignaggi has his chance to shut Khan on up on May 15 when they clash at New York's Madison Square Garden.
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New Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir Videos Compare Classic and Refined ModesYou may just need to play the game twice.12.16.15 - 3:29 AM
When Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir releases next year, the gameplay will come in two different fashions. You can play in Classic mode: a direct HD port of the PlayStation 2 game, and play Refined mode: fancier animations, more voice over, extra bosses and expanded areas. The Refined version has updated combat, similar to more recent Vanillaware games like Dragon's Crown These two new videos below show off the differences between the two modes with the opening chapter of the game.
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Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir is releasing on January 14th in Japan and Spring, 2016 in the United States for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. | TCBVON |
As you check out the various segments pertaining to each scale or mode take notice of how the phrasing changes from style to style. Just think back to how the Ionian mode was approached in the previous segment where a straight-ahead jazz vibe was employed while you view the very different approach to this more modern rock feel. Be it bending compared to no bending, the manner in which you apply legato techniques or even how you use the tone you're playing with to your advantage; the style you're playing in will absolutely affect how you play. That said you might find yourself using a certain set of fingerings from the PDF charts for one particular style while going for another set that's completely different when playing another style. Conversely, you might grab onto a certain fingering scheme but rely more on phrasing variations to match the style you're playing in. There's no rules! | TMBSNA |
Debian
OCaml Package Manager (opam)
On other operating systems and distribution, you can install
opam, then type the following command
line. Depending on your installation, you might also need to install the OCaml
compiler, as well as bz2 and gzip headers.
$ opam pin add mabo . --yes
Building MaBo with opam was sucessfully tested on Debian, CentOS, Arch Linux,
FreeBSD 10 and Mac OS X with Homebrew.
Docker
For convenience, the Dockerfile takes care of everything, and build the mabo
binary. The following command lines show how to build the
Docker image and launch the mabo prefixes sub-command
on a local MRT dump.
Get some MRT files
To run the following command examples, you will need two MRT dumps available on
the RIS RIPE website.
Copying and pasting the following commands in a terminal will grab the
lastest-bview.gz and lastest-update.gz dumps and store them at your current
location.
mabo dump
The dump sub-command parses a single MRT file, and print the data in MaBo JSON
format. Each line corresponds either to a MRT TABLE_DUMP_V2 entry, or a BGP
UPDATE message. The --legacy argument will print the data like
bgpdump.
When fast processing is needed, the Python script src/mabo_dump_mp.py can be
used take advantage of multi-cores. It is a simple wrapper around the dump
sub-command that dispatch the processing to different mabo processes. A bview
MRT dump can then be processed in less than 30 seconds. Here is an example
command using 6 processes.
$ python ./src/mabo_dump_mp.py -j 6 -b ./mabo latest-bview.gz
mabo prefixes
The prefixes sub-command parses a single MRT file, and dump a list of AS and
IP prefixes. The --asn-list argument can be used to restrict the output to a
specific list of AS numbers.
The cut command is here to generate a prefixes.txt file as expected by the
mabo follow command described bellow.
mabo follow
The follow sub-command parses multiple MRT files, whose filenames use the RIS
naming convention. Its first mandatory argument is a file containing IP
prefixes. It will follow UPDATE and WITHDRAW messages, and output the
number of monitored prefixes seen at a given timestamp. | DOMPNB |
2018 NCAA Regional Tournament Scores: Day 2 On June 2
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Here are the 2018 NCAA Regional tournament scores and highlights on Day 2 on Saturday, June 2. It was another wild day of action, as No. 1 seed Florida State was eliminated, while Texas and Oregon State impressed.
Florida State became the first No. 1 seed to be eliminated from this year’s NCAA regional tournament after the Seminoles were defeated for a second successive time in the Tallahassee Regional.
After losing to No. 4 seed Samford on the opening day on Friday, FSU fell 3-2 to No. 2 seed Mississippi State on Saturday, resulting in a premature elimination from a tournament it was favored to win.
Meanwhile, top seed and national No. 1 ranked Florida held on for a 3-2 win over No. 2 seed Jacksonville to advance to the Gainesville Regional at Alfred A. McKethan Stadium.
Another top seed, Oregon State, belted No. 2 seed LSU 14-1 in the Corvallis Regional to book a place in the championship game, while the Tigers will now take on No. 4 seed Northwestern State in an elimination game on Sunday, starting at 3 p.m. and streaming live on ESPN3.
In the Austin Regional at UFCU Disch-Falk Field, Texas scored three very early runs and kept scoring consistently throughout the contest to pick up an 8-3 win over No. 3 seed Texas A&M.
Texas scored eight runs on 15 hits.
The Aggies rack up nine hits against the No. 1 seeded Longhorns, but it isn’t sufficient to help earn a win.
Elsewhere, freshman Jace Chamberlin hammered a 2-0 pitch out of the ballpark to help Cal State Fullerton registered a 2-1 victory against No. 1 seed Stanford in the Stanford Regional.
The defeat for the Cardinal at Klein Field at Sunken Diamond on Saturday sees them facing elimination and must beat No. 2 seed Baylor to stay alive in the tournament.
Tallahassee Regional No. 3 seed Oklahoma also advance to its championship game after defeating No. 4 seed Samford 4-0 for its second win.
No. 2 seed Auburn defeated No. 4 seed Army 12-1 in the Raleigh Regional at Doak Field to advance to the championship, while No. 1 seed NC State survived elimination by beating No. 3 seed Northeastern, 9-3 and stay on track to win in Raleigh. | TNWFCL |
The ultimate “have” are the reigning Super Bowl champs, the New Orleans Saints. From top to bottom, on both sides of the ball, the Saints are stacked with stars that will no doubt have New Orleans thinking repeat, all season long. From there, the Atlanta Falcons seem to be the only squad that could maybe pose a challenge to the Saints in the division. Atlanta has the talent to match up with New Orleans, but after sub-par years from QB Matt Ryan and RB Michael Turner, the Falcons will turn to these franchise players to bounce back big time if the Falcons hope to return to the playoff picture.
Then we have the “have-nots.” Granted, the Carolina Panthers do have three worthy fantasy starters on their roster, with the two-headed backfield monster of DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart, along with veteran wideout Steve Smith (that’s the original Steve Smith). But with the unproven Matt Moore behind center for Carolina, with no one but rookie Jimmy Clausen challenging him for the starting job, the Panthers will likely be going through some growing pains this season, and maybe for a few seasons to come. Losing Julius Peppers on the defensive side of the ball will sting also.
But at least Carolina has some stars to feature. That can’t be said for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. If I were to bet on one NFL team to go winless this upcoming season, here’s where my money would go. The Bucs have little to no chance of finishing anywhere but in last place in the NFC South. Unless you’re a Tampa fan (I’m sorry), I challenge you to even name five players on the roster.
So now that we’ve painted the divisional picture, let’s highlight some of the colorful fantasy talent featured in the NFC South.
Team Profiles
Atlanta Falcons
As I mentioned earlier, for the Falcons to go anywhere in 2010, they’ll need more out of the players at the skill positions. QB Matt Ryan got off to a solid start last season, but then the sophomore slump went into effect. By all accounts, he’s working harder than ever to progress further in his development, so look for a nice comeback season ahead for the former B.C. Eagle.
In the backfield, Michael Turner will look to rebound from the ankle injury that cost him action through much of the latter half of last season. If he can remain healthy, Turner’s worth a look late in the first round, especially due to Atlanta’s rather weak schedule. Behind Turner are role players Jason Snelling and Jerious Norwood, neither of which are worthy of anything more than a late round flier pick, unless of course you aim to handcuff Turner.
On the outside, the passing game will feature top 10 fantasy WR Roddy White, and on the inside, Ryan will turn to All Pro TE Tony Gonzalez. White is likely to be drafted in the second or third round of your draft, while Gonzalez’s draft position has slipped significantly from prior years. He’s no longer in the top 5 at his position, so if your heart is set on drafting the former Chief, you can probably wait until after the top tier of tight ends are off the board, like Dallas Clark, Antonio Gates, and Vernon Davis. Behind these guys however, you won’t find much. Receivers Michael Jenkins and Harry Douglas will vie for targets, but neither receiver is worth any serious consideration in fantasy land before the last few rounds.
Carolina Panthers
Long time QB Jake Delhomme was shown the door in the off-season, as the reigns of the offense are handed to Matt Moore for the short term, while the Panthers groom rookie Jimmy Clausen into the team’s next franchise QB. Moore won’t light up the stat sheet, but he could be worthy of a bye-week replacement pick for your starting QB. His Week 8 start against the awful Rams might act as a good filler if your starting QB is on bye that week, like Eli Manning, Jay Cutler, Matt Ryan, or Joe Flacco will be.
Moore will throw to Steve Smith, but after that, who knows will get the targets. Smith has been the only show in town for years now, as the Panthers’ brass tries to find someone who can compliment him in the passing game. They drafted Brandon LaFell, and have Armanti Edwards and Dwayne Jarrett, but none of those guys should even sniff a roster spot for your fantasy team. Tight end Dante Rosario was supposed to be an up-and-comer at the position, but he’s been lapped by several more talented players, making Rosario worthless in the fantasy world as well.
So where do you turn for fantasy studs in Carolina? You head to the running back position, where you’ll find a pair of 1,000-yard rushers in DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart. Now I will say that I’m not as high on these two as other fantasy gurus seem to be, but that’s not because of a lack of talent on their behalf. It’s more because the team’s lack of talent will likely lead to falling behind early in games, thus the need will arise to abandon the run in favor of the deep ball, in a comeback effort week after week. But Williams and Stewart surely belong on fantasy rosters without question, with Williams being drafted in the late first or early second round, and Stewart being taken off the board by the fifth or sixth round.
New Orleans Saints
Fantasy talent is featured up and down the New Orleans roster, and it all starts with Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees. If Brees isn’t the top quarterback picked in your draft, you better believe he’ll at least be the second one off the board, as he and Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers duke it out for that top spot.
Brees has a handful of offensive weapons at his disposal, including receivers Marques Colston, Robert Meachem, Devery Henderson, and Lance Moore, along with a still productive Jeremy Shockey at TE. All five, believe it or not, have fantasy value, with Colston a definite starter, and the rest acting as good depth to have for your fantasy roster.
Running the ball for the Saints will be the bruising Pierre Thomas, who is poised to have a breakout season this year. With no Mike Bell in the backfield to siphon away carries, Thomas will shoulder the brunt of the ground game’s workload, with Reggie Bush used more on third down passing plays. Lynell Hamilton will also see some action at the running back position, with the possibility of him stealing away some of the goal-line, red zone carries from Thomas and Bush. He may be worth a look in the late rounds, knowing that points will be plentiful for any Saint you can put on your fantasy team.
The Saints also have the best options at kicker and team defense in the division, with the D-unit loaded with playmakers and kicker Garrett Hartley ready to pile on the points for New Orleans.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
If you’re not riding in the Cadillac, you shouldn’t be riding with any Buccaneers this upcoming season, plain and simple.
Cadillac Williams, if he can remain healthy, provides some value at the RB position, and he should be able to be had in the middle rounds. Derrick Ward, the former Giant, and big man Earnest Graham should also be drafted, but not until the tail end of the draft, if you’ve got RB spots to fill.
Otherwise, QB Josh Freeman is a turnover machine and still has no value for you and your fantasy team. And, who is he going to throw to? Sure, Kellen Winslow will get some touches at the tight end spot, but only because Tampa has no other reliable, proven options. The Bucs drafted a pair of receivers, second-rounder Arrelious Benn and fourth-round pick Mike Williams, and both will be leaned on heavily right from game #1. If you want to take a gamble with either one, go right ahead… but don’t bother with either until the last few rounds of your draft. | TSCHDN |
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North East Roofing Contractors Association Legislative Corner
Here is what is happening in the nation and the states in the NERCA region of the U.S.
NATION:
With voters giving Democrats control of the House of Representatives and Republicans maintaining control of the Senate, it is clear that a divided Congress will ensure that compromises will be necessary to move any legislation. Observers believe that an infrastructure bill might be one of the only areas where Democrats and Republicans could work together, however both sides might prefer to posture for public approval while denying the other any legislative victories ahead of the 2020 election.
CONNECTICUT:
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers outlined plans to address the crumbling foundations crisis, including recommending state legislation to test quarries and regulate the amount of pyrrhotite, the iron-sulfide mineral causing foundations to deteriorate. The corps is recommending the state establish an acceptable amount of pyrrhotite in aggregate for concrete. Any aggregate with less than 0.1% sulfide would be acceptable for use. The Corps recommends testing every 25,000 tons of material or every three months, whichever is more frequent. With a cost of about $5,000 per test and a rock price of about $25 per ton, the cost of testing would represent about 1% of the cost of aggregate and prevent future problems.
MAINE:
After 8 years of Republican control, Maine’s state government is now going to be dominated by Democrats. Including now sizeable majorities of both houses of the State Legislature, firebrand Governor Paul LePage is going to be replaced by Maine’s first female governor Janet Mills. The first order of business for the new administration will be to expand the state Medicaid program, MaineCare as was supported by the voters in a previous ballot referendum, but opposed by the Governor and conservative Republicans.
MASSACHUSETTS:
This 12th annual State Energy Efficiency Scorecard was published by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). The scorecard ranks states based on 32 metrics in six areas. Massachusetts continued to rank No. 1 overall. It launched a plan to set new three-year energy savings targets and approved utility spending for grid-scale modernization. “We are proud Massachusetts leads the nation in energy efficiency for the eighth year in a row, and we will continue to adopt and pursue measures that deliver billions of dollars in savings to our residents and businesses each year,” said Massachusetts’ Gov. Charlie Baker.
NEW HAMPSHIRE:
For the first time ever, a Republican Governor will have to work with an all Democratic Legislature. Following the election where New Hampshire Democrats won a majority in the State Legislature, Gov. Chris Sununu must now work with Democrats to identify shared goals. Among these priorities are initiatives like workforce training, paid family leave, healthcare, and mental health funding. However, it is also likely that Democrats could force the hand of the Governor by passing legislation which the Governor would have difficulty signing into law without upsetting his base.
NEW JERSEY:
The New Jersey Legislature is gearing back up with Democrats feeling further emboldened after recreational marijuana legalization and a potential big boost in the minimum wage could mean big changes in the lives of many New Jerseyans. Senate President Stephen Sweeney has said he expects legislative hearings on recreational marijuana this month, and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin said he hopes his chamber could vote on a $15 minimum wage bill in December.
NEW YORK:
While Governor Andrew Cuomo may have been happy to hear that Amazon would be locating half of their HQ2 in Long Island City, many New Yorkers, including City Councilors and Congress people are casting doubt on the promised benefits that the HQ2 will bring. With affordable housing already a problem in and around New York City, some are concerned that an influx of additional tech workers could exacerbate the problem. In addition, progressive Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio Cortez has entered the fray criticizing the promised tax breaks and incentives against the promised 50,000 jobs and $5 billion in revenue offered by Amazon which is now to be split in half.
PENNSYLVANIA:
Democratic Governor Tom Wolf will be getting some reinforcements in the state government following the election. Although Republicans will maintain their majorities in the State Assembly, they have lost their supermajorities which allowed them to threaten to override any vetoes from the Governor. Democrats picked up a net of 11 seats in the House and won 5 new ones in the Senate, giving them their biggest election night wins since the 1970s. Republicans will have 110 members in the House and Democrats 93. The Senate will have 29 GOP senators and Democrats 21.
RHODE ISLAND:
With the Democratic majority in the Rhode Island Legislature never in question, the Democratic Caucus is already moving swiftly to enact new legislation to insulate the state from the national Republican party. This includes codifying many Republican hot button issues into state law, including Obamacare protections, abortion rights, net neutrality, trans and LGBTQ rights, consumer protections, and climate change regulations. By addressing these issues through the state law, Rhode Island policymakers believe they can shield the state from any Trump Administration regulatory reforms or any rulings by the Supreme Court to remove federal protection for minority groups.
VERMONT:
In 2014, Vermont voters elected Phil Scott as their Governor and in 2018 they reelected him by almost 15 percentage points. This defeat crushed the hopes of the first mainstream transgender candidate. However, voters also handed a legislative supermajority to the state Democratic party. In his first term, the Governor vetoed 14 bills including the state budget three times to avoid additional taxes. Once he vetoed marijuana legalization, effectively delaying the bill for seven months until a compromise emerged. He vetoed a minimum wage hike, a paid family leave program, and bills about chemicals in toys and racism in government.
Learn more about NERCA and the benefits of membership at www.nerca.org. | TNCESD |
# getcwd.m4 - check for working getcwd that is compatible with glibc
# Copyright (C) 2001, 2003-2007, 2009-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
# gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
# with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
# Written by Paul Eggert.
# serial 18
AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_GETCWD_NULL],
[
AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST]) dnl for cross-compiles
AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE([unistd.h])
AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether getcwd (NULL, 0) allocates memory for result],
[gl_cv_func_getcwd_null],
[AC_RUN_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[
# include <stdlib.h>
# if HAVE_UNISTD_H
# include <unistd.h>
# else /* on Windows with MSVC */
# include <direct.h>
# endif
# ifndef getcwd
char *getcwd ();
# endif
]], [[
#if defined _WIN32 && ! defined __CYGWIN__
/* mingw cwd does not start with '/', but getcwd does allocate.
However, mingw fails to honor non-zero size. */
#else
if (chdir ("/") != 0)
return 1;
else
{
char *f = getcwd (NULL, 0);
if (! f)
return 2;
if (f[0] != '/')
{ free (f); return 3; }
if (f[1] != '\0')
{ free (f); return 4; }
free (f);
return 0;
}
#endif
]])],
[gl_cv_func_getcwd_null=yes],
[gl_cv_func_getcwd_null=no],
[[case "$host_os" in
# Guess yes on glibc systems.
*-gnu* | gnu*) gl_cv_func_getcwd_null="guessing yes";;
# Guess yes on musl systems.
*-musl*) gl_cv_func_getcwd_null="guessing yes";;
# Guess yes on Cygwin.
cygwin*) gl_cv_func_getcwd_null="guessing yes";;
# If we don't know, obey --enable-cross-guesses.
*) gl_cv_func_getcwd_null="$gl_cross_guess_normal";;
esac
]])])
])
AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_GETCWD_SIGNATURE],
[
AC_CACHE_CHECK([for getcwd with POSIX signature],
[gl_cv_func_getcwd_posix_signature],
[AC_COMPILE_IFELSE(
[AC_LANG_PROGRAM(
[[#include <unistd.h>]],
[[extern
#ifdef __cplusplus
"C"
#endif
char *getcwd (char *, size_t);
]])
],
[gl_cv_func_getcwd_posix_signature=yes],
[gl_cv_func_getcwd_posix_signature=no])
])
])
dnl Guarantee that getcwd will malloc with a NULL first argument. Assumes
dnl that either the system getcwd is robust, or that calling code is okay
dnl with spurious failures when run from a directory with an absolute name
dnl larger than 4k bytes.
dnl
dnl Assumes that getcwd exists; if you are worried about obsolete
dnl platforms that lacked getcwd(), then you need to use the GPL module.
AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_GETCWD_LGPL],
[
AC_REQUIRE([gl_UNISTD_H_DEFAULTS])
AC_REQUIRE([gl_FUNC_GETCWD_NULL])
AC_REQUIRE([gl_FUNC_GETCWD_SIGNATURE])
case $gl_cv_func_getcwd_null,$gl_cv_func_getcwd_posix_signature in
*yes,yes) ;;
*)
dnl Minimal replacement lib/getcwd-lgpl.c.
REPLACE_GETCWD=1
;;
esac
])
dnl Check for all known getcwd bugs; useful for a program likely to be
dnl executed from an arbitrary location.
AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_GETCWD],
[
AC_REQUIRE([gl_UNISTD_H_DEFAULTS])
AC_REQUIRE([gl_FUNC_GETCWD_NULL])
AC_REQUIRE([gl_FUNC_GETCWD_SIGNATURE])
AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST]) dnl for cross-compiles
gl_abort_bug=no
case "$host_os" in
mingw*)
gl_cv_func_getcwd_path_max=yes
;;
*)
gl_FUNC_GETCWD_PATH_MAX
case "$gl_cv_func_getcwd_null" in
*yes)
gl_FUNC_GETCWD_ABORT_BUG([gl_abort_bug=yes])
;;
esac
;;
esac
dnl Define HAVE_MINIMALLY_WORKING_GETCWD and HAVE_PARTLY_WORKING_GETCWD
dnl if appropriate.
case "$gl_cv_func_getcwd_path_max" in
*"no" | *"no, it has the AIX bug") ;;
*)
AC_DEFINE([HAVE_MINIMALLY_WORKING_GETCWD], [1],
[Define to 1 if getcwd minimally works, that is, its result can be
trusted when it succeeds.])
;;
esac
case "$gl_cv_func_getcwd_path_max" in
*"no, but it is partly working")
AC_DEFINE([HAVE_PARTLY_WORKING_GETCWD], [1],
[Define to 1 if getcwd works, except it sometimes fails when it
shouldn't, setting errno to ERANGE, ENAMETOOLONG, or ENOENT.])
;;
*"yes, but with shorter paths")
AC_DEFINE([HAVE_GETCWD_SHORTER], [1],
[Define to 1 if getcwd works, but with shorter paths
than is generally tested with the replacement.])
;;
esac
if { case "$gl_cv_func_getcwd_null" in *yes) false;; *) true;; esac; } \
|| test $gl_cv_func_getcwd_posix_signature != yes \
|| { case "$gl_cv_func_getcwd_path_max" in *yes*) false;; *) true;; esac; } \
|| test $gl_abort_bug = yes; then
REPLACE_GETCWD=1
fi
])
# Prerequisites of lib/getcwd.c, when full replacement is in effect.
AC_DEFUN([gl_PREREQ_GETCWD],
[
AC_REQUIRE([gl_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS])
AC_REQUIRE([gl_CHECK_TYPE_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_INO])
:
])
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*
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* along with this program as the file COPYING.txt; if not, please see
* http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt.
*
* As a special exception, you have permission to link this program
* with the Oracle Client libraries and distribute executables, as long
* as you follow the requirements of the GNU GPL in regard to all of the
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#ifndef TORESULTTABLEVIEWEDIT_H
#define TORESULTTABLEVIEWEDIT_H
#include "core/toqvalue.h"
#include "core/tosql.h"
#include "core/toresult.h"
#include "core/toconnection.h"
#include <QtCore/QObject>
#include <QtCore/QAbstractTableModel>
#include <QTableView>
#include <QtCore/QModelIndex>
#include <QtCore/QList>
#include <QHeaderView>
#include <QMenu>
#include "tools/toresulttableview.h"
class toResultModel;
class toResultModelEdit;
/*! \brief Displays query result as a table and provides functionality to edit it.
Used in Schema browser tool.
*/
class toResultTableViewEdit : public toResultTableView
{
Q_OBJECT;
public:
/**
* Creates a new tableview for editing data
*
* @param readable use readable headers
* @param numberColumn display vertical header
* @param parent qobject parent
* @param name sets objectName property
*/
toResultTableViewEdit(QWidget *parent,
const char *name = 0);
virtual ~toResultTableViewEdit(void);
/**
* Reimplemented to create query and new model.
*/
virtual void query(const QString &sql, toQueryParams const& param);
toResultModelEdit* editModel();
protected slots:
// reimplemented
virtual void slotHandleDoubleClick(const QModelIndex &);
// reimplemented
// Hide all "additional" PriKey columns (staring from 1st column)
virtual void slotApplyColumnRules(void);
private slots:
/**
* Calls Model to add new record.
*/
void addRecord(void);
/**
* Calls Model to add new record.
*/
void duplicateRecord(void);
/**
* Calls Model to delete current record
*/
void deleteRecord(void);
/**
* Clears Changes
*/
void revertChanges(void);
/**
* Handle signal from model when rows are added
*/
void handleNewRows(const QModelIndex &parent, int start, int end);
protected:
/**
* Reimplemented to handle delete key
*/
virtual void keyPressEvent(QKeyEvent * event);
/*
* Helper function - allocate new instance of model
* toResultTableView uses toResultModel
* while
* toResultTableViewEdit uses toResultModelEdit
*/
virtual toResultModel* allocModel(toEventQuery *query);
QString Owner, Table;
QList<QString> PriKeys;
};
#endif
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// Band-limited sound synthesis buffer
// Various changes and hacks for use in Mednafen.
#ifdef __GNUC__
#define blip_inline inline __attribute__((always_inline))
#else
#define blip_inline inline
#endif
#include <limits.h>
#include <inttypes.h>
// Blip_Buffer 0.4.1
#ifndef BLIP_BUFFER_H
#define BLIP_BUFFER_H
// Internal
typedef int32_t blip_long;
typedef uint32_t blip_ulong;
typedef int64_t blip_s64;
typedef uint64_t blip_u64;
// Time unit at source clock rate
typedef blip_long blip_time_t;
// Output samples are 16-bit signed, with a range of -32768 to 32767
typedef short blip_sample_t;
enum { blip_sample_max = 32767 };
class Blip_Buffer {
public:
typedef const char* blargg_err_t;
// Set output sample rate and buffer length in milliseconds (1/1000 sec, defaults
// to 1/4 second), then clear buffer. Returns NULL on success, otherwise if there
// isn't enough memory, returns error without affecting current buffer setup.
blargg_err_t set_sample_rate( long samples_per_sec, int msec_length = 1000 / 4 );
// Set number of source time units per second
void clock_rate( long );
// End current time frame of specified duration and make its samples available
// (along with any still-unread samples) for reading with read_samples(). Begins
// a new time frame at the end of the current frame.
void end_frame( blip_time_t time );
// Read at most 'max_samples' out of buffer into 'dest', removing them from from
// the buffer. Returns number of samples actually read and removed. If stereo is
// true, increments 'dest' one extra time after writing each sample, to allow
// easy interleving of two channels into a stereo output buffer.
long read_samples( blip_sample_t* dest, long max_samples, int stereo = 0 );
// Additional optional features
// Current output sample rate
long sample_rate() const;
// Length of buffer, in milliseconds
int length() const;
// Number of source time units per second
long clock_rate() const;
// Set frequency high-pass filter frequency, where higher values reduce bass more
void bass_freq( int frequency );
// Number of samples delay from synthesis to samples read out
int output_latency() const;
// Remove all available samples and clear buffer to silence. If 'entire_buffer' is
// false, just clears out any samples waiting rather than the entire buffer.
void clear( int entire_buffer = 1 );
// Number of samples available for reading with read_samples()
long samples_avail() const;
// Remove 'count' samples from those waiting to be read
void remove_samples( long count );
// Experimental features
// Count number of clocks needed until 'count' samples will be available.
// If buffer can't even hold 'count' samples, returns number of clocks until
// buffer becomes full.
blip_time_t count_clocks( long count ) const;
// Number of raw samples that can be mixed within frame of specified duration.
long count_samples( blip_time_t duration ) const;
// Mix 'count' samples from 'buf' into buffer.
void mix_samples( blip_sample_t const* buf, long count );
// not documented yet
void set_modified() { modified_ = 1; }
int clear_modified() { int b = modified_; modified_ = 0; return b; }
typedef blip_u64 blip_resampled_time_t;
void remove_silence( long count );
blip_resampled_time_t resampled_duration( int t ) const { return t * factor_; }
blip_resampled_time_t resampled_time( blip_time_t t ) const { return t * factor_ + offset_; }
blip_resampled_time_t clock_rate_factor( long clock_rate ) const;
public:
Blip_Buffer();
~Blip_Buffer();
// Deprecated
typedef blip_resampled_time_t resampled_time_t;
blargg_err_t sample_rate( long r ) { return set_sample_rate( r ); }
blargg_err_t sample_rate( long r, int msec ) { return set_sample_rate( r, msec ); }
private:
// noncopyable
Blip_Buffer( const Blip_Buffer& );
Blip_Buffer& operator = ( const Blip_Buffer& );
public:
typedef blip_time_t buf_t_;
blip_u64 factor_;
blip_resampled_time_t offset_;
buf_t_* buffer_;
blip_long buffer_size_;
blip_long reader_accum_;
int bass_shift_;
private:
long sample_rate_;
long clock_rate_;
int bass_freq_;
int length_;
int modified_;
friend class Blip_Reader;
};
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include "config.h"
#endif
#define BLIP_BUFFER_ACCURACY 32
#define BLIP_PHASE_BITS 8
// Number of bits in resample ratio fraction. Higher values give a more accurate ratio
// but reduce maximum buffer size.
//#ifndef BLIP_BUFFER_ACCURACY
// #define BLIP_BUFFER_ACCURACY 16
//#endif
// Number bits in phase offset. Fewer than 6 bits (64 phase offsets) results in
// noticeable broadband noise when synthesizing high frequency square waves.
// Affects size of Blip_Synth objects since they store the waveform directly.
//#ifndef BLIP_PHASE_BITS
// #if BLIP_BUFFER_FAST
// #define BLIP_PHASE_BITS 8
// #else
// #define BLIP_PHASE_BITS 6
// #endif
//#endif
// Internal
typedef blip_u64 blip_resampled_time_t;
int const blip_widest_impulse_ = 16;
int const blip_buffer_extra_ = blip_widest_impulse_ + 2;
int const blip_res = 1 << BLIP_PHASE_BITS;
class blip_eq_t;
class Blip_Synth_Fast_ {
public:
Blip_Buffer* buf;
int last_amp;
int delta_factor;
void volume_unit( double );
Blip_Synth_Fast_();
void treble_eq( blip_eq_t const& ) { }
};
class Blip_Synth_ {
public:
Blip_Buffer* buf;
int last_amp;
int delta_factor;
void volume_unit( double );
Blip_Synth_( short* impulses, int width );
void treble_eq( blip_eq_t const& );
private:
double volume_unit_;
short* const impulses;
int const width;
blip_long kernel_unit;
int impulses_size() const { return blip_res / 2 * width + 1; }
void adjust_impulse();
};
// Quality level. Start with blip_good_quality.
const int blip_med_quality = 8;
const int blip_good_quality = 12;
const int blip_high_quality = 16;
// Range specifies the greatest expected change in amplitude. Calculate it
// by finding the difference between the maximum and minimum expected
// amplitudes (max - min).
template<int quality,int range>
class Blip_Synth {
public:
// Set overall volume of waveform
void volume( double v ) { impl.volume_unit( v * (1.0 / (range < 0 ? -range : range)) ); }
// Configure low-pass filter (see blip_buffer.txt)
void treble_eq( blip_eq_t const& eq ) { impl.treble_eq( eq ); }
// Get/set Blip_Buffer used for output
Blip_Buffer* output() const { return impl.buf; }
void output( Blip_Buffer* b ) { impl.buf = b; impl.last_amp = 0; }
// Update amplitude of waveform at given time. Using this requires a separate
// Blip_Synth for each waveform.
void update( blip_time_t time, int amplitude );
// Low-level interface
// Add an amplitude transition of specified delta, optionally into specified buffer
// rather than the one set with output(). Delta can be positive or negative.
// The actual change in amplitude is delta * (volume / range)
void offset( blip_time_t, int delta, Blip_Buffer* ) const;
void offset( blip_time_t t, int delta ) const { offset( t, delta, impl.buf ); }
// Works directly in terms of fractional output samples. Contact author for more info.
void offset_resampled( blip_resampled_time_t, int delta, Blip_Buffer* ) const;
// Same as offset(), except code is inlined for higher performance
void offset_inline( blip_time_t t, int delta, Blip_Buffer* buf ) const {
offset_resampled( t * buf->factor_ + buf->offset_, delta, buf );
}
void offset_inline( blip_time_t t, int delta ) const {
offset_resampled( t * impl.buf->factor_ + impl.buf->offset_, delta, impl.buf );
}
private:
#if BLIP_BUFFER_FAST
Blip_Synth_Fast_ impl;
#else
Blip_Synth_ impl;
typedef short imp_t;
imp_t impulses [blip_res * (quality / 2) + 1];
public:
Blip_Synth() : impl( impulses, quality ) { }
#endif
};
// Low-pass equalization parameters
class blip_eq_t {
public:
// Logarithmic rolloff to treble dB at half sampling rate. Negative values reduce
// treble, small positive values (0 to 5.0) increase treble.
blip_eq_t( double treble_db = 0 );
// See blip_buffer.txt
blip_eq_t( double treble, long rolloff_freq, long sample_rate, long cutoff_freq = 0 );
private:
double treble;
long rolloff_freq;
long sample_rate;
long cutoff_freq;
void generate( float* out, int count ) const;
friend class Blip_Synth_;
};
int const blip_sample_bits = 30;
// Dummy Blip_Buffer to direct sound output to, for easy muting without
// having to stop sound code.
class Silent_Blip_Buffer : public Blip_Buffer {
buf_t_ buf [blip_buffer_extra_ + 1];
public:
// The following cannot be used (an assertion will fail if attempted):
blargg_err_t set_sample_rate( long samples_per_sec, int msec_length );
blip_time_t count_clocks( long count ) const;
void mix_samples( blip_sample_t const* buf, long count );
Silent_Blip_Buffer();
};
#if defined (__GNUC__) || _MSC_VER >= 1100
#define BLIP_RESTRICT __restrict
#else
#define BLIP_RESTRICT
#endif
// Optimized reading from Blip_Buffer, for use in custom sample output
// Begin reading from buffer. Name should be unique to the current block.
#define BLIP_READER_BEGIN( name, blip_buffer ) \
const Blip_Buffer::buf_t_* BLIP_RESTRICT name##_reader_buf = (blip_buffer).buffer_;\
blip_long name##_reader_accum = (blip_buffer).reader_accum_
// Get value to pass to BLIP_READER_NEXT()
#define BLIP_READER_BASS( blip_buffer ) ((blip_buffer).bass_shift_)
// Constant value to use instead of BLIP_READER_BASS(), for slightly more optimal
// code at the cost of having no bass control
int const blip_reader_default_bass = 9;
// Current sample
#define BLIP_READER_READ( name ) (name##_reader_accum >> (blip_sample_bits - 16))
// Current raw sample in full internal resolution
#define BLIP_READER_READ_RAW( name ) (name##_reader_accum)
// Advance to next sample
#define BLIP_READER_NEXT( name, bass ) \
(void) (name##_reader_accum += *name##_reader_buf++ - (name##_reader_accum >> (bass)))
// End reading samples from buffer. The number of samples read must now be removed
// using Blip_Buffer::remove_samples().
#define BLIP_READER_END( name, blip_buffer ) \
(void) ((blip_buffer).reader_accum_ = name##_reader_accum)
// Compatibility with older version
const long blip_unscaled = 65535;
const int blip_low_quality = blip_med_quality;
const int blip_best_quality = blip_high_quality;
// Deprecated; use BLIP_READER macros as follows:
// Blip_Reader r; r.begin( buf ); -> BLIP_READER_BEGIN( r, buf );
// int bass = r.begin( buf ) -> BLIP_READER_BEGIN( r, buf ); int bass = BLIP_READER_BASS( buf );
// r.read() -> BLIP_READER_READ( r )
// r.read_raw() -> BLIP_READER_READ_RAW( r )
// r.next( bass ) -> BLIP_READER_NEXT( r, bass )
// r.next() -> BLIP_READER_NEXT( r, blip_reader_default_bass )
// r.end( buf ) -> BLIP_READER_END( r, buf )
class Blip_Reader {
public:
int begin( Blip_Buffer& );
blip_long read() const { return accum >> (blip_sample_bits - 16); }
blip_long read_raw() const { return accum; }
void next( int bass_shift = 9 ) { accum += *buf++ - (accum >> bass_shift); }
void end( Blip_Buffer& b ) { b.reader_accum_ = accum; }
private:
const Blip_Buffer::buf_t_* buf;
blip_long accum;
};
// End of public interface
#include <assert.h>
template<int quality,int range>
blip_inline void Blip_Synth<quality,range>::offset_resampled( blip_resampled_time_t time,
int delta, Blip_Buffer* blip_buf ) const
{
// Fails if time is beyond end of Blip_Buffer, due to a bug in caller code or the
// need for a longer buffer as set by set_sample_rate().
assert( (blip_long) (time >> BLIP_BUFFER_ACCURACY) < blip_buf->buffer_size_ );
delta *= impl.delta_factor;
blip_long* BLIP_RESTRICT buf = blip_buf->buffer_ + (time >> BLIP_BUFFER_ACCURACY);
int phase = (int) (time >> (BLIP_BUFFER_ACCURACY - BLIP_PHASE_BITS) & (blip_res - 1));
#if BLIP_BUFFER_FAST
blip_long left = buf [0] + delta;
// Kind of crappy, but doing shift after multiply results in overflow.
// Alternate way of delaying multiply by delta_factor results in worse
// sub-sample resolution.
blip_long right = (delta >> BLIP_PHASE_BITS) * phase;
left -= right;
right += buf [1];
buf [0] = left;
buf [1] = right;
#else
int const fwd = (blip_widest_impulse_ - quality) / 2;
int const rev = fwd + quality - 2;
int const mid = quality / 2 - 1;
imp_t const* BLIP_RESTRICT imp = impulses + blip_res - phase;
#if defined (_M_IX86) || defined (_M_IA64) || defined (__i486__) || \
defined (__x86_64__) || defined (__ia64__) || defined (__i386__)
// straight forward implementation resulted in better code on GCC for x86
#define ADD_IMP( out, in ) \
buf [out] += (blip_long) imp [blip_res * (in)] * delta
#define BLIP_FWD( i ) {\
ADD_IMP( fwd + i, i );\
ADD_IMP( fwd + 1 + i, i + 1 );\
}
#define BLIP_REV( r ) {\
ADD_IMP( rev - r, r + 1 );\
ADD_IMP( rev + 1 - r, r );\
}
BLIP_FWD( 0 )
if ( quality > 8 ) BLIP_FWD( 2 )
if ( quality > 12 ) BLIP_FWD( 4 )
{
ADD_IMP( fwd + mid - 1, mid - 1 );
ADD_IMP( fwd + mid , mid );
imp = impulses + phase;
}
if ( quality > 12 ) BLIP_REV( 6 )
if ( quality > 8 ) BLIP_REV( 4 )
BLIP_REV( 2 )
ADD_IMP( rev , 1 );
ADD_IMP( rev + 1, 0 );
#else
// for RISC processors, help compiler by reading ahead of writes
#define BLIP_FWD( i ) {\
blip_long t0 = i0 * delta + buf [fwd + i];\
blip_long t1 = imp [blip_res * (i + 1)] * delta + buf [fwd + 1 + i];\
i0 = imp [blip_res * (i + 2)];\
buf [fwd + i] = t0;\
buf [fwd + 1 + i] = t1;\
}
#define BLIP_REV( r ) {\
blip_long t0 = i0 * delta + buf [rev - r];\
blip_long t1 = imp [blip_res * r] * delta + buf [rev + 1 - r];\
i0 = imp [blip_res * (r - 1)];\
buf [rev - r] = t0;\
buf [rev + 1 - r] = t1;\
}
blip_long i0 = *imp;
BLIP_FWD( 0 )
if ( quality > 8 ) BLIP_FWD( 2 )
if ( quality > 12 ) BLIP_FWD( 4 )
{
blip_long t0 = i0 * delta + buf [fwd + mid - 1];
blip_long t1 = imp [blip_res * mid] * delta + buf [fwd + mid ];
imp = impulses + phase;
i0 = imp [blip_res * mid];
buf [fwd + mid - 1] = t0;
buf [fwd + mid ] = t1;
}
if ( quality > 12 ) BLIP_REV( 6 )
if ( quality > 8 ) BLIP_REV( 4 )
BLIP_REV( 2 )
blip_long t0 = i0 * delta + buf [rev ];
blip_long t1 = *imp * delta + buf [rev + 1];
buf [rev ] = t0;
buf [rev + 1] = t1;
#endif
#endif
}
#undef BLIP_FWD
#undef BLIP_REV
template<int quality,int range>
#if BLIP_BUFFER_FAST
blip_inline
#endif
void Blip_Synth<quality,range>::offset( blip_time_t t, int delta, Blip_Buffer* buf ) const
{
offset_resampled( t * buf->factor_ + buf->offset_, delta, buf );
}
template<int quality,int range>
#if BLIP_BUFFER_FAST
blip_inline
#endif
void Blip_Synth<quality,range>::update( blip_time_t t, int amp )
{
int delta = amp - impl.last_amp;
impl.last_amp = amp;
offset_resampled( t * impl.buf->factor_ + impl.buf->offset_, delta, impl.buf );
}
blip_inline blip_eq_t::blip_eq_t( double t ) :
treble( t ), rolloff_freq( 0 ), sample_rate( 44100 ), cutoff_freq( 0 ) { }
blip_inline blip_eq_t::blip_eq_t( double t, long rf, long sr, long cf ) :
treble( t ), rolloff_freq( rf ), sample_rate( sr ), cutoff_freq( cf ) { }
blip_inline int Blip_Buffer::length() const { return length_; }
blip_inline long Blip_Buffer::samples_avail() const { return (long) (offset_ >> BLIP_BUFFER_ACCURACY); }
blip_inline long Blip_Buffer::sample_rate() const { return sample_rate_; }
blip_inline int Blip_Buffer::output_latency() const { return blip_widest_impulse_ / 2; }
blip_inline long Blip_Buffer::clock_rate() const { return clock_rate_; }
blip_inline void Blip_Buffer::clock_rate( long cps ) { factor_ = clock_rate_factor( clock_rate_ = cps ); }
blip_inline int Blip_Reader::begin( Blip_Buffer& blip_buf )
{
buf = blip_buf.buffer_;
accum = blip_buf.reader_accum_;
return blip_buf.bass_shift_;
}
int const blip_max_length = 0;
int const blip_default_length = 250;
#endif
| TCSBKN |
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As some of you may know, we have been trying out documentary producers to see which one we would most like to have film us on our epic adventure. We have very happily settled on Claudio von Planta, an extremely accomplished cameraman that filmed the Long Way Round and Long Way Down featuring Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman.
He made a taster promotional video for us which, needless to say, the team absolutely loved! There will be a bit of fiddling around with it in the near future, but essentially it’s pretty much there!
Check it out in our Video’s section or click here (you may have to look on the second page to find it!) | TDMCON |
McKenzie Fine Art Presents Laura Sharp Wilson 3/24-4/30
McKenzie Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Laura Sharp Wilson, Utah, her third solo exhibition at the gallery. The show opens Thursday, March 24th with a reception for the artist from 6 to 8 p.m.; it runs through Saturday, April 30, 2011.
Working on a small scale, Laura Sharp Wilson's brightly colored acrylic and graphite paintings are her least figurative and most complex to date. They continue her interest in conveying clarity amidst confusion through the use of dense, overlapping patterning and obsessively precise rendering. Abstracted forms, which reflect the artist's interest in ornamentation and excessive decoration, are layered on grounds of colored, back-painted, or masked fields of fibrous or printed paper mounted on wood, imparting both visual and surface texture to the work. Throughout, Wilson has retained the coils, ropes, and vines that encircle, bind, interconnect, dangle from, and at times, nearly strangle her forms.
Writing about the motivations inspiring her new work, Wilson has noted:
Two years ago my family relocated to the state of Utah. This collection of abstract paintings is a response to the weight and density of that move. For someone who loves rain and green vegetation, Utah is a strange, unlikable place. There is a certain stigma to living here when you are an artist, especially if you're a faithless, left-leaning east coaster. But then you get tired of hating the place you live in. The beauty of the snow-covered mountains on a clear day starts to seep in. You become fascinated by the curious overlap of Anasazi, Ute, and Navajo, cowboys, Mormons, U.S. military personnel, and the many souls who journeyed here with the expansion of the west. Roseanne Barr grew up here, Joe Hill died here, Utah Phillips is named for here, and Wallace Stegner learned to write here. The red rock country of southern Utah gets visitors from all over the world, because it looks like another planet. Current-day Utah is an environmental battleground, with the largest open-pit copper mine in the world, wolves and bison, a nuclear testing legacy, oil and gas drilling, and some of the worst air quality in the country. Utah, being a red state, struggles over rights for same-sex couples, and some of its political leaders look to Arizona for policy on immigration. With all of this going on, Utah is a microcosm, illustrating, in one state, the issues our planet grapples with. These paintings attempt to layer, obscure and cross out, while still coming to a clear visual answer, the complexity I see and feel in Utah.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; on Saturdays the gallery opens at 11:00 a.m. Mondays are by appointment. | TACLON |
Many guests ask me before the reservation if the house or pool is shared, I insist, there are just for you, enjoy them. There aren't other guests, only your group, i don't live there, I live in Yecla city (10 minutes from the house) and i can help and advice you but i respect your stay, your privacy is a treasure.
The villa has features such as old fireplaces, twisty staircase, cosy rooms giving it loads of character. Fully fitted large kitchen. Confortable four bedrooms, to sleep eight people, There is a sitting room with fireplace, and dining-room with fireplace too. Two bathrooms. Also, out side, there are three terraces with tables and chairs for dining outdoor (two BBQ)
The villa was built in the late 19 th century by my great-grandmother and it has charm and character, offers a place for relaxation. There are all my childhood memories. Only rent in spring & summer and some times when i dón't live there, it's my second home, check calendar availability,
Yecla is a beautiful town, It has many monuments and attractions, also has routes walkers to enjoy the nature. You can enjoy guided visits to the most important wine cellars in the area.
The autentic spanish village of Yecla is located at just a 50 minutes drive from Alicante Airport and several beaches and 15 minutes from Villena Train Station.
Yecla has it all and let you experience the real Spain. Have a drink with tapas at one of the many tapas bar on the city, visit MAYE (archaeological museum) walk in the Arabí (magical montain) with Paleolithic paintings, go
shopping in the city center...
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Our villa called Casa Gran, is located in Biar. It is inside our particular countryside of almost 60000 square meters. It has plenty of trees of many species.
It has 4 rooms, 3 bathrooms, private swimmingpool, large kitchen and livingroom.
Our villa is inside a private finca, with almost 60000 square meters. It has plenty variety of trees, but the most of them are walnut trees and olive trees.
It's a quiet place, to enjoy nature and good weather during the summer: warm days and fresh nights!
It has a private swimmingpool with great views of the castle.
It's a perfect choice to go with children.
Biar is a very charmant town in the mountains of Alicante. It has a lot of life anytime in the year.
We've had great, the house is spectacular and we enjoyed all the amenities and facilities as well as the invaluable assistance of José Luis. Children are delighted and looking forward. 10 !! Fully recommended.
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This is an airy and spacious room also has its own private shower room with toilet. The room has great views over the garden and mountains.
We include towels, toiletries and breakfast to help make your stay even more comfortable. Guests are welcome to use the kitchen as their own as we have everything you could need to warm a meal or to cook up a feast. We also have a dishwasher too.
We have Wifi and a large flat screen TV in the lounge with Netflix.
Our Villa is our home and we enjoy sharing the peacefulness of the surroundings. We have fully refurbished the house, so the space is fresh and welcoming.
We are flexible with check in/out times to accommodate your plans, just drop us a message first.
Very quiet rural neighbourhood
As is always a pleasure staying at the home of James and Stephanie are fantastic hosts and charming people!
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"Imagine...You and Your Family can Rent this Superb Spanish Villa in Ontinyent, with a Private Pool, Olive Trees and Majestic Views of the Beautiful Spanish Countryside at a Bargain Price"
Huertos D`Olivus is Spanish for "Olive Orchards". This superb villa is located in the picturesque countryside, just outside the inland town of Ontinyent, near Valencia. This superb detached, Spanish holiday villa has a private pool, has its own olive trees, and sits next to a large olive orchard, plus, it has majestic views of the surrounding Spanish hills.
Imagine...Relaxing by your private pool with a ice cold drink enjoying the smell of the olive trees. Can you put yourself in the picture? Yes, then reserve on-line today.
There are 4 bedrooms in this villa and 3 bathrooms. So a maximum of 8 people can stay. Enough space for all the family.
Location, Location, Location, Villa Huertos D`Olivos is located only a short drive from the town of Ontinyent, with its lively bars, cafes and restaurants, and its weekly market.
Go on then, reserve this superb Spanish Villa online today and look forward to your villa holiday to Spain.
Amenities: TV, Kitchen, air conditioning, swimming pool, Wheelchair access possible, BBQ grill, Private parking, Washer dryer, Dryer, Wireless Internet;
Bedroom: Queen size bed;
Bedroom: Bunk Bed;
Bedroom: double bed;
Bedroom: 2 x single bed;
3 x Bathroom
This airbnb and our hosts were one of the best I've experienced. Everything from the hosting to accommodation and setting are world class. Our hosts Silvia and Massimo were so friendly, helpful and educational about the areas history and many stories. They treated us through our stay as if we were extended family. The facilities were incredible too - this place has it all from jacuzzi to padel tennis. We had an incredibly memorable family getaway and would 100% recommend to anyone who wants to get a taste for the real Spain.
Clean and quiet oasis of privacy, located in the countryside. Well-equipped kitchen, nice open living room and dining area. Nice pool, plenty of outdoor sitting space. Castalla and Biar are ~15 minutes drive, most other places are 30-60 minute drive.
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Luxury Villa located 20 minutes far from Alicante and from the beach with many facilities provided.
The perfect place where to relax.
Located in Monovar, a charming town near Alicante.
Families and couples welcome.
Villa with 4 bedrooms up to 7 people
with 2 bathrooms in the villa and another 2 in the swiming pool area.
Facilities: swiming pool, chill out zone, gardens, BBQ area, cozy gazebo,laundry, american Bar,sundbeds zone, football court, coffe corner, gym, ping pong..
possibility to arrange airport transfers
Calm and charming town located 20 minutes far from Alicante and the beach
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This is an airy and spacious room also has its own private shower room with toilet. The room has great views over the garden and mountains.
We include towels, toiletries and breakfast to help make your stay even more comfortable. Guests are welcome to use the kitchen as their own as we have everything you could need to warm a meal or to cook up a feast. We also have a dishwasher too.
We have Wifi and a large flat screen TV in the lounge with Netflix.
Our Villa is our home and we enjoy sharing the peacefulness of the surroundings. We have fully refurbished the house, so the space is fresh and welcoming.
We are flexible with check in/out times to accommodate your plans, just drop us a message first.
Very quiet rural neighbourhood
We really enjoyed our stay at James house. It's 6km from Sax, Alicante in a super quiet area with gorgeous views of the mountains. The room was clean, big and comfortable with private bathroom and stunning views. And breakfast was included! Recommended for sure. | TSCFNL |
Monthly Archives: March 2011
I made this little guy out of scrap yarn and a pipe cleaner. I like him because he is bendable but after I finished it I kept staring at it wondering if I liked it or if it was creepy. I decided it was a case of a little from Column A and a little from Column B. I placed it in the library where a knitting group meets every few weeks. | TMCRYC |
At the beginning of a job I'd tell my helpers that our goal was to get the truck to full-tilt as soon as possible which encouraged gravity assist. I was always having to ask my dad (shown in the pics) to keep his feet on the ground & use the dump feature to our advantage & safety. That plywood gets pretty slippery and it wasn't necessary for him to be up there shoveling anyway. It's easier to pull the material to you than push or shovel that dead weight. This is from experience, lots of experience.
Rick-
The one thing you will hate is if you have to take the ramp in & out each day by yourself. Hopefully you'll be able to leave it in for long durations besides clean-outs. Even with my skid-steer it was a pain loading it alone. Maybe with two knee braces at the 1/3 & 2/3 point you could center the Ecolawn between them & stradle the ramp on it to remove/install & just change the angle of the trailer to assist. | TASEON |
20+ Kickass Free Fonts for Designers
Fonts play the most pivotal role in the quality of any design. Be it a logo, banner, flyer, header, or any piece of design in the world with a piece of text in it, a suitable font almost doubles the likability of it. Likewise, bad font selection is a major turn-off. Fonts complement minimal graphics superbly, and create the entire outlook of the design.
A good font speaks volumes about the designer/owner company.
Even designs with zero graphics and illustrations work-out well just with a mere help of a classy font used. Here are a few for inspiration: | TFSBNK |
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prime factors of q.
7, 29
Suppose 2*m = -2*i + 21100, -3*m + 9516 = 4*i - 32679. What are the prime factors of i?
3, 5, 19, 37
Suppose 2*r - 14 = -f, -11*r = -3*f - 6*r - 13. List the prime factors of (4 - 6)/(f/(-302)).
151
Let i = 44 + -53. Let r = -7 - i. Suppose -4*h = -f + 47, 0*f + h - 130 = -r*f. List the prime factors of f.
3, 7
Suppose 5*x = -3*f + 19, 3 = 4*x + 3*f - 11. Suppose 3*l = l + x*v + 1730, -5*l + 4*v = -4291. List the prime factors of l.
3, 5, 19
Suppose 88021 + 340094 = -595*t + 610*t. What are the prime factors of t?
28541
Let n(q) = -q**3 - q**2 - 71*q + 244. List the prime factors of n(-32).
2, 3, 5, 571
Let f(g) = -31*g + 44. Let s = 250 + -256. List the prime factors of f(s).
2, 5, 23
Let m(g) = 101*g - 5405. List the prime factors of m(70).
3, 5, 37
Let q = 109 + -89. Suppose 6*v - q*v = -1260. What are the prime factors of v?
2, 3, 5
Let c(m) = -2489*m**3 - 2*m**2 - 73*m - 142. What are the prime factors of c(-2)?
2, 3, 7, 79
Let b(l) = -13*l - 18. Let a be b(-3). Let z be (a/6)/7*412. Let k = -119 + z. What are the prime factors of k?
3, 29
Let y = 268 + -273. Let x(g) = -3*g**2 - 22*g. List the prime factors of x(y).
5, 7
Suppose u - 84 = -u. Let s = -39 + u. Suppose s*k + 16 = 4*k. What are the prime factors of k?
2
Let a = 47 - 49. Let f be -1*4390 + 16/(-7 + 3). List the prime factors of f/(-52) + a/4.
2, 3, 7
Let u(p) = 6*p**2 - 54*p + 33. What are the prime factors of u(-11)?
3, 11, 41
Let r(p) = p**3 - 16*p**2 + 26*p + 17. Let n = 20 - 5. Let g be r(n). Suppose -5*y + 3*y + g = 0. What are the prime factors of y?
7, 13
Suppose 5*k - 2160 = -21*j + 19*j, -2*j = 2*k - 858. Let m = k + 100. What are the prime factors of m?
2, 3, 89
Suppose -2*w - 836*g + 838*g + 14614 = 0, 0 = 2*w - g - 14618. What are the prime factors of w?
3, 2437
Let h be (3/4)/((-10)/(-120)). Let l(n) = -53 - n + h*n + 2*n. What are the prime factors of l(6)?
7
Let j(i) = 7 - 6 - 22 + 5*i. Let w be j(5). Suppose 10 = -2*v - 0*v, v = w*n - 385. What are the prime factors of n?
5, 19
What are the prime factors of -14*272/(-357)*(74250/(-8))/(-5)?
2, 3, 5, 11
Let n be -48*((-4)/22 - (-39)/33). Suppose 5*s + 5*f = 55, 2*s - f - f = 18. Let h = s - n. What are the prime factors of h?
2, 29
Let w(l) = -35*l**3 - 2*l**2 + 34*l + 82. What are the prime factors of w(-3)?
907
Let y = -368 - -1478. Suppose 3*d - 2*x - y = 0, 2*d + 3*x + 0*x = 753. List the prime factors of d.
2, 3, 31
Suppose -2*q = 5*j - 10, 0 = -2*q + 3*j - 6. Let r be 2/2*-1*q. Suppose 2*a + 32 + 23 = 5*k, r = 3*a - 15. List the prime factors of k.
13
Suppose -20840 + 170202 = 23*h. List the prime factors of h.
2, 17, 191
Let n = -13523 - -19466. What are the prime factors of n?
3, 7, 283
Suppose -r = -4*j - 13433, -5*j = 39 - 34. List the prime factors of r.
13, 1033
Let y = 231 - 227. Suppose y*k = k + 2454. What are the prime factors of k?
2, 409
Let m(z) = -520*z - 1592. What are the prime factors of m(-64)?
2, 17, 233
Let z(v) = -v**3 - 12*v**2 + 2*v - 5. Let k be z(-9). Let w be 3/(2/4*9/(-21)). List the prime factors of k/w*1*4.
2, 19
Let x(a) be the first derivative of -a**4/4 - a**3/3 + a**2 + 7*a + 64. What are the prime factors of x(-2)?
7
Suppose -5*d + 10 = -0. Let n(h) = -h**3 - 16 + 89*h**d - 20*h + 93*h**2 - 192*h**2. What are the prime factors of n(-10)?
2, 23
Let u(c) be the second derivative of c**5/20 + 5*c**4/6 + 13*c**3/6 + 11*c**2 + 8*c. Let l be u(-9). List the prime factors of l/(-21)*474/4.
79
Let y be (8/((-32)/(-6)))/((-6)/(-556)). Suppose 1693 = 2*t + y. Suppose t = 4*r + 181. What are the prime factors of r?
149
Suppose -41*x = -31*x - 1220. Suppose -f = -253 - x. What are the prime factors of f?
3, 5
Suppose 5*p + 714 = -5*h - 481, -2*p = -h - 242. Let y = h + 344. What are the prime factors of y?
2, 13
Let x(b) = -32*b - 16 - 45*b + 91*b - 37*b. List the prime factors of x(-30).
2, 337
Suppose -12 = -2*f - 4*o, 4*f + 0 = 3*o + 2. Suppose -320 = g - 3*g + f*k, -4*g + 638 = -5*k. Suppose 9*w = 10*w - g. What are the prime factors of w?
2, 3
Let m(r) = -33*r + 56. Let s be (-2)/10*-4 - (-6216)/(-370). What are the prime factors of m(s)?
2, 73
Let r = 294 - 162. Let q = r + -124. What are the prime factors of q?
2
Let v(s) = 94*s**3 - 6*s**2 - 5*s + 7. Let d be v(3). Suppose -1460 = -3*r + d. List the prime factors of r.
2, 41
Suppose 5*p - 4*o = 44, -8*o = p - 11*o. Suppose 2*y = -p*y + 16156. List the prime factors of y.
2, 577
Suppose 4*w - 13 + 967 = 3*g, 4*g + 8*w = 1192. What are the prime factors of g?
2, 5, 31
Let q = -2354 + 13060. List the prime factors of q.
2, 53, 101
Suppose -254 = 8*y + 258. Let d = y - -104. What are the prime factors of d?
2, 5
Suppose 5*w = 5*d + 55, 0*w - 5*d = -w + 7. Let n(h) = 2 + 1 + 13*h + 4 - w. What are the prime factors of n(12)?
151
Suppose -11*y = -10*y - 4*b - 5104, 5*y = 3*b + 25384. List the prime factors of y.
2, 317
Suppose -2*t - 33950 = -k, -2*k + 2*t + 27824 + 40076 = 0. List the prime factors of k.
2, 5, 7, 97
Let u(h) = h**2 + 7*h - 37. Suppose -2*d = -0 - 10. Let y be -15*-5*((-16)/d + 3). List the prime factors of u(y).
83
Suppose 3*t - 9*t = 13*t. Suppose -17*j - 3510 = -21*j + 2*m, -4*j - 4*m + 3504 = t. What are the prime factors of j?
877
Let f(s) = s**3 + 9*s**2 + 3*s - 5. Let c = -6 - 2. Let b be f(c). Suppose 2*p = x - 2*p + 1, x = -5*p + b. List the prime factors of x.
3, 5
Let z(y) be the first derivative of y**2/2 - y + 26. Let h be z(3). Suppose 11*i = h*i + 2250. List the prime factors of i.
2, 5
Suppose -3*z + 2*q = 8, -2*z + 3*q - 5*q = -8. Suppose -7*g + 588 = -3*g. Suppose z = -5*j + 23 + g. List the prime factors of j.
2, 17
Let q(u) = -4*u - 15. Let m be q(-5). Suppose 0 = m*k + 4*n + 1701, -3*k - 1031 = -0*k + 5*n. Let x = -202 - k. List the prime factors of x.
3, 5
Let p = 99 - -43. Let t = -130 + p. Suppose -5*s - 4*q = -167, -t*s + 2*q + 144 = -8*s. What are the prime factors of s?
5, 7
Let l(n) = 2*n**3 - 7*n**2 - 8*n. Let o be l(6). Let j(c) = 5*c**2 + 148*c + 353. Let u be j(-27). Suppose -u*g + 50 = -o. List the prime factors of g.
7, 13
Let p(b) = 131 - 33*b - 26*b - b**3 + b**2 + 58*b. What are the prime factors of p(0)?
131
Let w = 10586 + -3700. What are the prime factors of w?
2, 11, 313
Let q(i) = 68*i - 272. Suppose 5*b + 3*u - 126 = 0, -2*b - 3*u = -2*u - 50. List the prime factors of q(b).
2, 5, 17
Let n be 3*(4 - (-7)/(-3)). Suppose -n*s - k = -0*s - 825, -3*s + k + 503 = 0. Suppose 3*l - s = -5*f, -3*l = -3*f - 221 + 47. List the prime factors of l.
3, 19
Let l(z) = 280*z - 1105. List the prime factors of l(14).
5, 563
Let q be 1748/(-23)*2/(-4). Suppose 0 = 12*l - q*l + 2704. List the prime factors of l.
2, 13
Let x be (-14)/84 - 10009*(-2)/12. Suppose 0 = -27*w + 33*w - x. What are the prime factors of w?
2, 139
Let m = 127 + -124. Suppose 2*c - m*v - 8 = 0, 9 = c + 5*v - 4*v. Let w(s) = 6*s**2 - 6*s + 18. List the prime factors of w(c).
2, 3, 5
Let l(x) = -4*x**2 + 2*x - 8. Let d be l(-2). List the prime factors of -216*(77/d - -1).
2, 3, 7
Let n(z) = 82*z**2 + 13*z - 210. List the prime factors of n(7).
7, 557
Suppose 5*k - 28 = -3. Let i(a) = 2*a**3 - 8*a**2 + 5*a - 10. Let n be i(k). Suppose -p + b + n = 0, -2*p + b - 29 + 158 = 0. What are the prime factors of p?
2
Let s = 8105 + 1838. List the prime factors of s.
61, 163
Suppose 102724 = 4*r - 32*k + 7*k, -5*k = -2*r + 51332. What are the prime factors of r?
2, 3, 1069
Suppose -y - 4 = -5*o + 27, o - 4*y = 10. Let k(z) = -9*z + 10. Let t be k(o). Let s = 79 + t. List the prime factors of s.
5, 7
Let f(w) = -16*w - 8. Let j be f(-4). Let l = j - 54. Let t(v) = 22*v**2 - 6*v + 3. List the prime factors of t(l).
79
Suppose -w = -8*w - 56. Let f be (-2)/1*2148/w. Suppose 3*x = f + 234. What are the prime factors of x?
257
Let u(q) = 29*q + 290. Let k be u(-10). Suppose c - 3*y + 12 = k, 15*c + 4*y - 23 = 14*c. List the prime factors of c.
3
Let c = 16141 - 9199. What are the prime factors of c?
2, 3, 13, 89
Let c(o) = -5*o**2 + 3*o**3 - 4*o**3 + 11 + 0*o + 4*o + 3*o. Let a be c(-6). List the prime factors of 1/a - 164/(-5).
3, 11
Let t = 330 - 164. Let b = t - 157. What are the prime factors of b?
3
Let s = 384 - -151. Let a = 342 + s. What are the prime factors of a?
877
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With all games cancelled until Dec. 1 and the possibility of a 60-game season starting to fade, Bill Daly, the NHL's deputy commissioner, told QMI Agency Tuesday the two sides haven't decided on when more talks may be held.
And if union officials are waiting for the NHL to make another move to try to save the season, it's not going to happen. Daly said in an email the league isn't going to be tabling any new offers.
"We're done making proposals at this point," said Daly.
Talks broke off Sunday after an hour-long meeting in New York where nothing was accomplished. Both stood on ceremony and neither showed willingness to move as the lockout hits Day 60 Wednesday.
Daly said the league is willing to negotiate some points.
"The union knows where this is flexibility and room to negotiate," said Daly. "They also should know where there's not."
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I understand that the NHLPA wants to protect their contracts. I’m not exactly sure how they think they are protecting their contracts by not taking an immediate 50-50 split and getting in 5.5 years.
Whether their contracts get eaten up in escrow in going from a 57% share to a 50% share or whether their contracts are dormant because of a lockout… either way they aren’t getting the full value of their deals.
A missed year of 6 means an immediate 16.7% loss of their current earning power over the term of the CBA. Going from 57 to 50% and assuming flat HRR means a 12.8% loss in earning power over the 6 year term of the deal.
There have been two really puzzling things to me in this whole bizarre process:
1) Hasn’t anyone explained that to the players yet?
2) Did the NHLPA actually think they were going to be able to walk away from this negotiation with a new deal without having to give stuff up? As in, real stuff… not just decreases in the rate at which they made more money?
Fehr is a very smart guy. I have to conclude he’s getting marching orders from the players because if he was giving counsel and they were heeding it there’d be hockey by now.
Right now, I think there’s a 70% chance there is no hockey at all this year… and that’s just amazing. I honestly didn’t think the NHLPA would be as stupid and emotional as they’ve been in this process, or that even if they were Fehr would haul them back into reality for a minute.
How could Bettman have not just instituted a 50-50 split 6 years ago? What a bleeping moron. Screwing that up and then screwing up expansion are two gigantic black marks.
Maybe someone has and the players don’t get it, just like you don’t get some people have principles that are more important than money?
It’s cute that you think this is about principles, shortly after saying you have no idea whether it was about principles, and that since this is completely and totally about money, these principles that matter more than money actually just end up being all about money.
Maybe you missed that I’m not stating opinions as facts, like you are?
If that’s actually your position and you’re not just reading from some lame internet mad lib insult guide because you may be profoundly unoriginal, I don’t think you have a very strong handle on what either of the words ‘opinions’ and ‘facts’ mean.
And let’s set a possible shaky understanding of terms aside for a second:
“just like you don’t get some people have principles that are more important than money?”
As a general rule you really ought to try not to be so obviously hypocritical within the very same thread. I appreciate you doing it here because it cracked me up and I’m always appreciative of those who provide humor, I’m just not sure being laughed at was exactly the reaction you were shooting for.
1) Hasn’t anyone explained that to the players yet?
Maybe someone has and the players don’t get it, just like you don’t get some people have principles that are more important than money?
Maybe they’re convinced if they cave and say “okay, we might break even by taking this awful deal now because AT LEAST WE’LL GET PAID THIS YEAR,” then all future CBA negotiations are doomed because the league can say the same thing the next time? Maybe losing a season is worth preventing their union from getting busted without a fight? But HD, maybe let’s just assume players can’t do simple math and should’ve just taken the first thing the league offered.
Maybe they’re convinced if they cave and say “okay, we might break even by taking this awful deal now because AT LEAST WE’LL GET PAID THIS YEAR,” then all future CBA negotiations are doomed because the league can say the same thing the next time?
First off, I’m not talking about just getting paid this year. I’m talking about what they could make over 6 years at 50% compared to 5 years at 57%, and there’s no chance at all they’d get 57% anyway.
Secondly, a 50-50 revenue split is eminently fair. It’s as good or better than the splits in the NBA and NFL.
Thirdly, negotiating the next CBA while the first one still isn’t done is really silly. Catch the ball before looking where you’re going to run.
Fourthly, the reason lockouts work so well for the owners is that most of them aren’t making any money from hockey ops anyway. If a 50-50 deal gets the NHL to the point where 20+ of the 30 guys are making money each year, owners are going to be FAR less willing to give away money in the pocket now for some amount of possible money in the pocket down the line, especially not when we’d be talking about a far smaller portion of HRR without having a 200 mil safety net subsidized by NBC to cover things.
But HD, maybe let’s just assume players can’t do simple math and should’ve just taken the first thing the league offered.
43, 46, 48, 50, 50+.
1) Which of those offers did I think the NHLPA should have taken?
2) Compare and contrast the answer to that question with an examination of what the phrase ‘first thing offered’ means.
3) This is why I’m surprised the odds of there being no hockey are so high. I assumed the players weren’t a bunch of idiots. Clearly I appear to have wildly overestimated their ability to understand finance and to make rational rather than emotional decisions.
Fehr should make them all watch the Godfather. Right now they’re all acting like Sonny and feeling great about pounding Carlo (Bettman) into the street with a garbage lid by hammering him in the press. In a few more scenes they’re going to be laying in a pile of ick on the Long Island Parkway because the owners are in full Barzini mode.
There’s still time for them to be Michael.
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By TEMPLE LI
Who are superdelegates? Are they like super sleuths, super mario, super human or superman? Actually, they are unpledged delegates from each state to the Democrat national convention and are generally comprised of members from the party establishment. They were created in 1982 for the purpose, according to NBC News, to prevent a populous candidate from achieving the nomination. According to NBC News in April, 2016:
“Superdelegates are unpledged delegates to the Democratic convention, meaning that they aren’t beholden to the results from the primaries and the caucuses (the way pledged delegates are). They are, for the most part, current and former Democratic politicians. They make up 15 percent of all delegates (714 out of 4,765) — down from 20 percent in 2008. And they are free to support the presidential candidate of their choice at the convention.”
NBC News reported that the count as of 4/11/2016 showed Hillary Clinton leading Bernie Sanders by 460 to 38 in superdelegates.
No wonder Bernie and his supporters were pissed. The fix could be demonstrated by the results of the New Hampshire primary where Bernie had 60.4% of the poll votes vs. Hillary’s 38%. Yet all 6 super delegates from New Hampshire gave their votes to Hillary at the convention.
Bernie Sanders is the oldest candidate running for the 2020 presidency. He is a life-long politician who has served as an independent in Congress in the House of Representatives and currently, as junior senator from Vermont and he caucuses with the Democrats. He is a self-proclaimed democrat socialist and progressive and has become the guru or cult leader for the progressive left and their policies.
History is again repeating itself with Sanders as the Democrat progressive candidate running for the second time for the presidency and this time, the establishment candidate is Joe Biden, the “third time is the charm” candidate and, like Hillary, another member of the Obama team, serving as his vice president.
Deja vu. Not if Sanders and his supporters can help it. They and others were instrumental in changing the superdelegate process for 2020. In fact, these delegates are now being referred to as “automatic” delegates to improve public perception. The superdelegates/automatics cannot vote in the first round of the convention’s nomination proceedings unless the outcome is apparent. That means without the superdelegates, a candidate would need to win 1,885 of the 3,768 pledged delegates votes. If it goes into round two, three, or four, superdelegates will be voting, changing the votes needed to 2,267 out of 4,532 delegates. However, the field is somewhat leveled in the second and succeeding rounds since the pledged delegates are freed to vote for someone other than the candidate to whom their vote had been pledged in the first round.
There are 22 candidates currently declared as candidates for the Democrat nominee for president. The debates start in June and the field should begin to narrow down as the debates progress—but by how much? There is a huge divide in the Democrat party between moderate and progressive—the party establishment and the liberal socialists. Of the 22, there are only a couple of candidates that can be identified as moderates. When the finalists converge upon the Democrat national convention, the change in the superdelegate process may be the primary factor influencing the outcome–and the undoing of the Democrat party!
Temple Li is the news editor for Empire State News, where she frequently authors her own editorials (just because she feels like it). She graduated at the top of her class at a mediocre college, infuriating her professors with her conservative wit and sultry charm. Empire State News allows Ms. Li to make a living, and to have a platform to tell people what she thinks. What could be better than that?
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"It is custom handed down from their ancestors" "They took refuge there from social turmoil And settled down for martial cultivation" "They have to be vegetarian" "Martial cultivation?" "Why vegetarian?" "Ask me when you have become my son-in-law" "It was my destiny I met the scum and married him" "His martial artistry was just so-so I taught him my best kungfu" "And patched up the shortcomings in their family kungfu" "But, when I was pregnant with Ngok" "He had an affair with a maid I was kept in the dark for several years" "Then one day, they decided to elope on the 7th of the7th month" "The day I went into retreat" "But luckily I overheard them I kept mum and pretended to go into retreat" "You slut" "Yau-yee..." "You..." "Yau-yee..." "love flower poison" "It is arsenic water lf you don't mind then take the pill" "Sister Chat, please forgive me" "Only one pill here, save her or you?" "Yau-yee, we can't live together We die together" "See you in Hades" "Sister Chat, I have killed the slut You forgive me" "If you begged me, I might save her too" "But you were over-hasty" "What?" "You pity the adulterers?" "Elder, you were fooled" "Yes, I was fooled lt was all my fault" "Sister Chat, for Ngok's sake You drink it and forgive me" "Sister Chat, come on" "Sister Chat, have some more Come on, another cup" "Why I am here?" "Where am I ?" "How come?" "What happens to my legs?" "My arms, why?" "Why I can't stand up?" "Where am I?" "How come I am here?" "Where am I?" "What kind of place is this?" "Where am I?" "And I have been here for more than 10 years I am now more like a ghost" "Scum, Kungsuen Chi" "Mom, you must be hungry" "All these years, how you... I have not starved" "All these years, you survive on these dates" "You think that scum would send me meals?" "He must think that I was long dead Nowjust a heap of bones" "Elder, please" "You have been here so long Have you figured a way out?" "Of course, but it depends on your capability" "It is high, now we need some ropes" "But where to get them?" "With the rattans here and some barks" "We can make one" "Heaven has its way I can seek my revenge now" "Be quick, come on" "Ngok, that Kungsuen scum is an example" "All men are unfaithful" "You let him go up first Will he still care about us?" "Come on" "Mom, I told you, Brother Yeung is not that kind of man" "Ngok, after going out, don't ever let him get out of sight" "Husband, husband, only when he is within your sight" "He doesn't have your daughter in his heart" "Anyway, bear what I said in mind Yes" "My daughter is right about you" "What it takes so long?" "Pull me up" "What are you doing?" "Ngok" "Lintai acupoint impaired Circulations all broken" "What?" "If you want to keep your martial artistry" "Pull her out, do it Yes" "Be quick, harder" "Ngok" "Brother-in-arms Fan, you all right?" "What a rascal, kill him" "Mom Kill him" "Mom, he pulled us up after all" "And he is seriously wounded, let him off" "All right, I let you live, take me out" "Mom, be careful" "Mom, your cloth is dirty Let me clean it up for you" "What did you say?" "Who reduced me to this?" "I am not going to see the emperor, am I?" "I am going to kill that faithless scum Clean it up?" "Elder, your tendons all cut How can you beat him?" "Mom, Dad..." "Kungsuen scum is not easy to tackle, why don't..." "Shut up!" "Yes, the scum's martial artistry..." "Unless I impose as my big brother Kau Chin-yan I may have my revenge when he is off guard" "He...he has not met Senior Uncle before?" "No, he has been my husband for so many years" "He will recognize me lt is easy" "It is ugly" "Heaven is on my side" "Ngok, help me prepare" "We are going to kill him after dark" "That Miss Lau is odd" "She will be our lady soon, don't anger her" "Then let us report to our Lord" "Otherwise, should anything come up We would be made responsible" "Right" "Lord" "What are you doing here?" "I told you to keep Miss Lau company" "But Lord, Miss Lau didn't want us She threw us out" "Yes, Lord" "Sister Lau, you sure look great today" "You have brought the passionless pill?" "You still think about him?" "You should know" "Why the hurry, after our wedding" "The sooner he has it The less he has to suffer I never go back on my words, but you..." "Sister Lau, I gave you the word I will keep it" "Once we are formally a couple" "He will be out of the love flower pain" "He will be in eternal bliss" "All right, after the wedding then" "The auspicious hour is up The ceremony commences" "The bride is here..." "Obeisance to heaven" "Hold it" "Who is he?" "A new bride, but what about the old one?" "Who is he...how odd he looks..." "I have not seen him before" "Ngok" "And who are you?" "We are relations, don't act here" "Who is he?" "I have never met you, what relations?" "You don't know Chief of iron Palm Sect Water Walker Kau Chin-yan?" "What?" "Gor" "Aunt, let us go" "How is my sister Chat?" "What a great ceremony" "Why don't you ask her out tojoin in the fun?" "You really are Kau Chin-yan?" "Orjust an imposter?" "Swallow it" "Has Kungsuen Chi given you the antidote?" "If you are safe I am happy" "When I am happy, all the ailments are gone" "I got a letter from Kau Chin-yan several years ago lf you are Kau Chin-yan Then the letter must be a forgery" "Nonsense, how would he write to you?" "The letter says Kau Chin-Cheung was killed by Wong Yung and Kwok Ching" "How come he was killed?" "He says he was enlightened by Grand Master One Light" "And he has become a Buddhist" "Big brother, second brother" "Mom, you all right?" "Kungsuen Chi, you recognize me?" "Lady, you are still alive?" "Uncle Cheung, you still recognize me" "Lady, thank heaven you are still alive" "Lady..." "You all back off" "Dad, Mom is not dead Please ask her forgiveness" "That bitch, why should I ask her forgiveness" "Dad" "You know she did it to me first?" "She pricked me with love flowers thorns" "And forced me to...kill Yau-yee" "They really are a couple?" "How come they hate each other so deeply?" "I am going to avenge Yau-yee's death today" "Dad, please, please don't kill Mom" "You give way Dad, please" "Go away Dad" "Kungsuen Chi Sister Lau" "She is your wife and you could do this to her lf l married you, you would..." "Sister Lau, how can you compare yourself with her I love you... lt is no use, in this world I only love Gor" "Kungsuen Chi, how dare you say you love her" "You know she is poisoned and there is no antidote" "You still tricked her into marrying you" "You say you love her?" "It is true?" "But it is all right now You have taken the antidote" "All right, let me send you two to heaven" "A man like you, we will pull no punches" "Lady and Gentlemen Sword" "Let us kill him to avenge me" "Avenge you?" "His hands must be bloody anyway" "Gor" "Talk to me if you want me dead" "You have taken no antidote" | SCMGOD |
The multiple causes make it harder to do something about what’s called colony collapse disorder, experts say. The disorder has caused as much as one-third of the nation’s bees to just disappear each winter since 2006.
Bees, especially honeybees, are needed to pollinate crops.
The federal report, issued Thursday by the Agriculture Department and the Environmental Protection Agency, said the biggest culprit is the parasitic mite varroa destructor, calling it “the single most detrimental pest of honeybees.” | TBSMNC |
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Thinking of preparing a food for the table is sometimes made me hard to think. As much as possible, I wanted to prepare food that hubby would like to eat as well. He is not picky, but there are foods that he is not allowed to eat. I wouldn't like to prepare a food that only me will eat. If that’s the case, I would just cook a little. As I mentioned on my previous post, I cooked shrimps, and I ate it all. Geee! I know it is not good for me if I ate too much. I would surely break my figure (Oh! As if I have a perfect figure, but for hubby, yes I have. Lol).
By the way, my little princess has been doing great these past few days, and I am so glad that after her surgery, I could see improvements on her health. She can now play, smile, and enjoy her milk. My journey as a mother has just been started, and I will try my very best that I could give her a good life with the help of my husband, of course. I know I still have a lot of things that I should learn as a mother, and I am willing to learn these things for the sake of my child. Back to the food that I wanted to prepare for tonight, Uh! Oh, I still don't know yet. I guess I have to check first what's in the fridge or pantry right now, so I could decide what to cook for tonight.
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Egypts highest court agreed Monday to hear the appeal of Coptic Christians who converted to Islam but now want to legally revert back to Christianity.
The case of the 12 former Copts seeking to once again become Christians was taken up by the high court despite a lower court ruling against the converts. The lower court in April had argued that recognizing such a case would be considered apostasy under Sharia (Islamic law) law.
The decision by the Supreme Administrative Court to consider the case of Egyptian converts to Islam wanting to return to their Church is very positive, said Ramsis Al Naggar, the lawyer for the plantiffs, according to the Middle East Times.
It proves there is still a window of freedom in Egypt, said Naggar, who has filed 400 similar lawsuits.
The minority Coptic population in Egypt is known, although not well publicized, to be oppressed by the countrys Muslim majority. They are isolated from mainstream society and are often forced to convert to Islam through rape, marriage, change of legal name and violence, according to Cameel Halim, chairman of the Coptic Assembly of America.
Egypts Coptic oppression has for too long been hidden under the table and no one knows what is going on, said Halim at a recent gathering of persecuted religious minorities in Washington, D.C.
In May, a mob of Muslims in Egypt attacked Christians after being stirred up by a sermon and distributed leaflets that accused Christians of planning to build a church without permission. Some 27 Christian homes and shops were set on fire and ten Coptic Christians were injured in a village south of Cairo, according to Agence France-Presse.
Its a recurring problem, commented Sameh Fawzi, an expert on Coptic affairs, according to Los Angeles Times. Most sectarian conflicts that erupted in the past were due to fights over the construction of churches.
Egypt does not allow churches to be constructed without a presidential decree, while mosques can be constructed almost unrestricted in Egypt.
In 2006, Muslim-Christian sectarian clashes in Alexandria left dozens wounded and killed. Moreover, a man said to be mentally ill entered into Coptic churches and started to attack believers with a knife. The incident killed one man and wounded up to 16 other people.
This has been going on for hundreds of years and the Christians have been struggling, trying to keep a peaceful and moderate co-habitation with the Muslims our brothers, said Ehab Shafik of the National American Coptic Assembly last year during a White House protest in response to Egypts sectarian violence in May.
We love the Muslims and we have not had any problems, but our rights are taken away and we cannot worship freely, he added.
There are an estimated 10 million Copts in Egypt, or the equivalent of about 10 percent of the population. The Coptic population, which are the Orthodox Christians of Egypt, are the largest group of Christians in the Middle East.
"It is a step in the right direction," Hossam Bahgat, director of the rights group Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, said of the recent high court decision. "We are hopeful and optimistic that the court will uphold the principles of non-discrimination and religious freedom," he added. | TCSCRN |
Culture of wealth
I’ve often argued on this blog (e.g., here and here) that, instead of studying the so-called culture of poverty, we should focus instead on the pathologies and culture of the rich.
Now, what I had in mind is something like the following:
how the rich underestimate the future costs of immediate satisfaction (especially the costs incurred by the employees of their corporations and by the taxpayers who were forced to bail them out) and their self-control problems (such as attempting to achieve more income and to accumulate more wealth even when they have plenty to buy everything they need).
But Daniel Goleman has discovered another set of pathologies of the rich:
Turning a blind eye. Giving someone the cold shoulder. Looking down on people. Seeing right through them.
These metaphors for condescending or dismissive behavior are more than just descriptive. They suggest, to a surprisingly accurate extent, the social distance between those with greater power and those with less — a distance that goes beyond the realm of interpersonal interactions and may exacerbate the soaring inequality in the United States. . .
Since the 1970s, the gap between the rich and everyone else has skyrocketed. Income inequality is at its highest level in a century. This widening gulf between the haves and have-less troubles me, but not for the obvious reasons. Apart from the financial inequities, I fear the expansion of an entirely different gap, caused by the inability to see oneself in a less advantaged person’s shoes. Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.
If the rich are much more prone than the rest of us to display a lack of empathy, maybe then we need to create a different economic system, one in which compassion is the norm.
First, we have to look for empathy inside ourselves in order to create a just economy.
Creating a better economy system….., is not going to make us better human beings, that is always artificial. It is us that have to look how we de-hypnotize ourselves from this delusion and many other delusion.
The Whole World is been run by Psychopaths, Megalomaniacs, Narcissistic, and we permit this all the time even in our little worlds, we look the other side and talk hypocrisy. | CWDOSN |
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HH: Joined now by Senator Tom Cotton, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Senator Cotton, your reaction to the story that began unfolding last night?
TC: It’s huge news, Hugh, that Daniel Silva has finally optioned off the rights to his Gabriel Alon novels. I assume that’s what you’re talking about?
HH: No, I’m actually talking about the President’s meeting with Lavrov and McMaster’s denial, and the refusal to accept the denial and to parse the denial. My question, Senator Cotton, would be to General McMaster, I hope he comes out, General, is there anything the President said that you wish he hadn’t said? It’s a simple question. How would you, what do you know about this? And how are you reacting to it?
TC: Hugh, I’m not going to have much comment on what may or may not be a classified matter. I would simply say that I know H.R. McMaster and Dina Powell pretty well, and I trust their word and judgment to a greater extent than I trust anonymous sources in the news media. I would expect the administration will be briefing Congress more fully on exactly what transpired, and that’s appropriate. But until then, I don’t have further comment.
HH: Let me play for the audience the McMaster statement last night in its entirety, and then let’s talk about it. Here’s the statement.
HRM: There’s nothing that the President takes more seriously than the security of the American people. The story that came out tonight as reported is false. The President and the foreign minister reviewed a range of common threats to our two countries, including threats to civil aviation. At no time, at no time, were intelligence sources or methods discussed. And the President did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known. Two other senior officials who were present, including the Secretary of State, remembered the meeting the same way and have said so. Their on the record account should outweigh those of anonymous sources. And I was in the room. It didn’t happen.
HH: So Senator Cotton, he’s the author of Dereliction of Duty. He’s a truth-teller. General McMaster, I take him at his word, just like you do. I don’t know him the way you do, but I just, I just take him at his word given his reputation and people like you. But the media’s saying he contradicted himself. I don’t see, I don’t read it that way. He said the story is false. He went on to refute specific allegations that he compromised methods and sources, and he concluded by saying it didn’t happen. That’s a complete denial, isn’t it?
TC: Hugh, he said I was in the room, it did not happen. You’re right that H.R. McMaster truly made his name about truth-telling. His dissertation, which became a top-selling book, and to this day, as far as I know, remains on the recommended reading list for junior officers in the military as it was when I was a junior officer 12 years ago, is about the need for military commanders to speak truth to power in an administration, and how they failed to do so in Vietnam. So I don’t, I don’t see exactly what people are critiquing General McMaster for. Again, I suspect the administration will brief the Congress more fully on exactly what transpired, but I have much greater confidence in the word of H.R. McMaster on the record, in front of cameras, than I do on anonymous sources in the media. And this is not just as a matter of, you know, we don’t know who the anonymous sources are. We don’t know what their motives are. But further, I mean, they were not in the room the way H.R. McMaster and Dina Powell and Rex Tillerson was. So you have the typical problems of you know, second-hand and third-hand information and hearsay information that we just can’t evaluate. So…
HH: I have to get your reaction, Senator. Earlier today, I wrote crucial we get assurances that POTUS gets the risk of carelessness with SCI, Sensitive Comparted Information. Ben Rhodes just tweeted at me, Ben Rhodes, at this point, assurances that Trump gets risks being careless with intel are worth absolutely nothing. I’m astonished that Ben Rhodes would write this. I’m astonished that he would write this, given the Iran story.
TC: Yeah, Hugh, I’ll let you come up with a witty repartee on Twitter for Mr. Rhodes.
HH: It’s just astonishing that they were so indifferent to the handling of sensitive material for so long on Secretary Clinton’s server, and they’re up in arms today. That’s what my callers are most upset about. They want the President to be careful, obviously, but they’re also just sort of overwhelmed by the hypocrisy of it.
TC: Well, you know, Ben Rhodes was the point person for the Obama administration on the Cuba negotiations, so it’s not surprising, for instance, when you have a failed novelist negotiating with trained intelligence officers that Cuba got the much better deal in those negotiations.
HH: Do you believe we will get an FBI director nominated before the President leaves for Saudi Arabia, Israel and Italy?
TC: I know, Hugh, that the President has said that that, that his goal is to move quickly and to nominate someone of unquestioned integrity and judgment. And if he can make that decision before he leaves later this week for his overseas trip, I think that would be good, but…and I think it would, it’s most important that he make the right choice, someone who deserves to attract bipartisan support in the Senate, and who will be a good leader for the men and women of the FBI. In the meantime, as the acting director testified in front of my committee last week, the FBI continues to do its work. There’s no slowing down or stopping the FBI.
HH: Quick question, if in fact the Democrats all unify and say we’re not going to appoint, confirm an FBI director unless there’s a special prosecutor, and there isn’t going to be a special prosecutor, can the Republicans still get the FBI director confirmed?
TC: We can with 52 votes, but I hope the Democrats will support what I hope will be an excellent nomination. | TCWDAN |
The post-rut whitetail season feels a bit like the day after the Superbowl or World Series – the big climax that we’ve been waiting for has come and gone.
Unlike those other sports, however, bowhunting continues through December and even January for some of us, offering a perfect opportunity to tag that trophy deer. A great article in this month’s Field & Stream highlights post-rut whitetail hunting as one of the “late, great” hunting opportunities in North America. They even offer a nice strategy for it which I’ll cover below.
First, let’s talk about what happened over the recent weeks for whitetails during the peak of the rut. Before the rut, bucks were mostly in a somewhat predictable bed-to-food pattern. Then the rut arrived and all predictability went out the window, as mature bucks spent all of their time seeking out, pursuing, and breeding does in estrous. They bedded with or near the doe groups. They forgot about food unless there was a doe eating nearby.
Buck Behavior After the Rut
Saturday at noon in my yard. Oh, how they toy with me!
So let’s put together what we know intuitively about buck behavior in the period after the rut. I’ll supplement this with what I’ve seen while scouting over the past week.
Bucks are still able and willing to breed available does, even if the peak of breeding activity. My impression is that they’re still checking does to see if any come into estrous; this should continue until the second rut later this month. The two biggest bucks I’ve spotted in the past week were on the trail of does or doe-and-fawn groups.
Deer movement seems to be high, even during daylight hours. Case in point: the image at the top right of this article (a still frame from my HD Flip cam): a gorgeous 10 point buck that showed up at NOON on Saturday, about 30 yards from my back door.
Feeding is a priority. A lot of energy was burned over the crazy rut period, when bucks spent most of their time chasing tail. They’re hungry. By the way, so are the does, particularly those that have been bred.
Cold-weather patterns will soon become established. That’s hard to picture in Missouri where we had an all-time record high of 75 yesterday. But the weather will get colder. South-facing slopes will become attractive bedding areas as the deer try to keep warm. See my article on cold weather deer hunting strategies for more advice here.
Post-Rut Hunting Strategies
A number of things have changed since the pre-rut that affect our ability to hunt whitetails effectively.
Less cover. The leaves have fallen, much of the ground cover has died off. There are reasons to like this — it increases visibility and shooting lanes — but it also puts bowhunters at a disadvantage. Keeping out of sight and setting an ambush is harder. Also, buck travel lanes shift to take advantage of what little cover remains. My impression is that they’re using terrain features (such as ditches and creeks) a lot more.
Different food. Likewise, many of the warm-weather food sources have died off or been depleted. I wish I were an expert on winter food sources for deer; most of those I’ve spotted have been browsing in fields or along field edges. The bad news is that these are harder to predict, but the good news is that (once you find them) they’re easier to hunt with a bow than big open fields.
Survival of the fittest. Deer that we see now, especially mature bucks, have survived the fusillade and the vulnerability of the rut. It’s no accident, either: these are the craftiest, wariest, and least predictable whitetails. Otherwise they’d already be at the taxidermy shop.
Hunt Prime Food Near Choice Bedding
Because deer are moving and we know their growing primary need is to feed, that gives us a place to start. In this month’s Field & Stream is an article on the 20 best late/great hunts. One of those: Ambush a hungry buck. “The recipe is simple,” writes Will Brantley. “Prime food near choice bedding. Deer don’t move any farther than they have to at this time of year.” Supporting this idea: every buck I’ve seen since Thanksgiving was at the edge of thick cover and moving out into the open to feed.
Limited Calls and Lures
Because it seems that some bucks are still checking does, I suspect that limited use of deer calls and lures may be productive. Subtlety is the key here; it’s not the time to break out your buck roar. But contact grunts and doe bleats (possibly with The Original Can) may pay off. See my article on when and how to call deer.
The subtlety rule goes for scents and lures as well. I’d be nervous using the “buck bomb” overload of doe-in-estrous scent. Simple doe urine might work better here; you want to attract a buck’s attention without spooking him.
Take Advantage of Snow to Track Deer
I find it hard to think about snow when it’s 70 degrees outside, but in Missouri we might get a couple of rounds before archery season closes, and northern states could get significant amounts. Few things are as informative about deer patterns and hideouts as a fresh coat of snow. If your area has even half an inch of snow that sticks, get out in the field as soon as possible. If not to hunt, then at least to scout. Last year we got a light snowfall literally on the last day of hunting season. I went out in a last-ditch effort and got some valuable scouting intel for this season.
Pay attention to your camouflage when hunting in snow, as dark forms on a white background are very easy to spot. Also, the crunch of your boots could also be a giveaway, especially if the snow has a crust to it. Finally, remember that snow shows your footprints and traps your scent better than bare ground. A mature, wily buck knows exactly what it means when there’s a bunch of boot prints around the base of a certain tree.
Get Out There Before the Holidays
With Thanksgiving behind us and Christmas ahead, many of us family-man-first hunters are in a very brief “window of hunting opportunity.” Kids are back in school, and most holiday festivities don’t begin for a couple of weeks. Now’s the time to get out there!
Besides, who wouldn’t want some venison steaks, sausage, or jerky this holiday season?
Share Your Post-Rut Hunting Tips and Stories
If you have any more tips for post-rut whitetail hunting, I’d love to hear them in the comments section. And if you have success, I definitely want to give you a shout-out here or on Twitter.
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Hi i live in somerville tn.I was feeding my horses and dogs yesterday morning and their are 8 does that stay around my place. their hear just about all day every day at one place or another.They see me so much they don’t pay alot of att to me.They moved through before i went out i saw them headed to the woods.I headed to my dog pens and saw one laying at the edge of my pasture by her self.When i headed back to turn on the water i saw a buck standing in the thicket.then a little later i saw him in the pasture.I finished feeding and went in the house to get my binoculars.He had layed at the edge of the pasture.I got look at him it was a 6 point that stayed around hear a few years ago.He had a tall rack back then but had was only a 6 pt.We didn’t see him last year so i thought he didn’t make it.He should be around 4 1/2 he was really wide & tall & looks like big crap claws on top with lots of mass & still a 6 pt.Every time that doe got up he was right with her.The last time i checked around 1 oclock he was laying by a big oak at the edge of my pasture still tinding that doe.I didn’t see him yesterday evening or none of the does this morning but i know he remembered me doing the same old thing i do every morning because he watched me walk back and forth just like when he was hear before.It was good seeing an old friend.Hope he makes it a few more seasons. | TSCHNT |
Reissue of Olivia's top 10, double platinum 1981 album for MCA. 10 tracks, including the smash title song that spent 10consecutive weeks at #1 in the U.S., plus the top five 'MakeA Move On Me' and the chart hit 'Landslide'... more ». All tracks are digitally remastered. 1998 Festival Records release.« less
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Reissue of Olivia's top 10, double platinum 1981 album for MCA. 10 tracks, including the smash title song that spent 10consecutive weeks at #1 in the U.S., plus the top five 'MakeA Move On Me' and the chart hit 'Landslide'. All tracks are digitally remastered. 1998 Festival Records release.
CD Reviews
Physical is one of my phavorites
Doc Shred | 10/25/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Most ONJ fans, myself included, rank Physical as one of Olivia's best releases. The title track may seem a bit goofy, and it was overplayed in the early 80s, but the album as a whole is really good. The uptempo songs are full of energy and there's a fire in her voice, and the ballads are soulful and her voice is extremely genuine in tone and timbre. An outstanding CD from beginning to end. If you're looking for an Olivia CD beyond a greatest hits compiliation, this is a very good one to check out. "Landslide" and "Make A Move On Me" are two of my favorites from her entire repertoire. Other standout tracks include "Love Make Me Strong," "Silvery Rain," "Promise," and the well-known title track, "Physical."" | TMSSLN |
(TibetanReview.net, Jul28, 2011) A meeting on the “essential aims and goals of restoring independence of Tibet” was held in Zurich on Jul 23-24, organized by the Tibetan Youth Congress and hosted by the Swiss-based Tibetan Youth Association Europe. It was meant to be part of a series of preliminary conferences to be also held in North America, East Asia and India in the run up to an “International Rangzen Conference”.
The meeting declared “total faith in His Holiness the Dalai Lama and respect for the Tibetan government in exile”. At the same time, however, it has noted that people who make unfounded criticisms of Rangzen (independence) advocates “should be confronted instantly by providing the clarity and insight and the value of propagating Rangzen”.
The delegates (which included TYC President Mr Tsewang Rigzin and former political prisoner Ms Ngawang Sangdrol) were reported to have also discussed ways to garner political will and support from host countries and governments for the cause of Tibet’s independence. | SCTPOM |
package com.android.commonapp.presenter;
import com.android.commonapp.contact.BoutiqueContact;
import com.android.commonapp.contact.KnowledgePathContact;
import com.android.commonapp.interfaces.BasePresenterImpl;
import com.android.commonapp.models.BoutiqueModel;
import com.android.commonapp.models.CommonCallModel;
import com.android.commonapp.models.KnowledgePathModel;
import com.android.commonapp.network.CommonCallback;
import com.android.commonapp.network.RetrofitFactory;
import java.util.List;
/**
* @date: 2017/11/23.
* @author: CHEN
* @describe: 知识课件
*/
public class BoutiquePresenter extends BasePresenterImpl<BoutiqueContact.view> implements BoutiqueContact.presenter {
public BoutiquePresenter(BoutiqueContact.view view) {
super(view);
}
@Override
public void getKnowledgeBoutique(String id,String page, String size) {
//参数1 加载说明 参数2 是否需要触屏消失 参数3 是否需要显示进度条
view.showLoadingDialog("数据传输中，请稍后",false,false);
RetrofitFactory.getInstance().api().knowledgeboutique(id,page, size)
.enqueue(new CommonCallback<List<BoutiqueModel>>() {
@Override
protected void onSuccess(CommonCallModel<List<BoutiqueModel>> t) throws Exception {
view.dismissLoadingDialog();
if (t.getData() != null) {
view.success(t.getData());
}
}
@Override
protected void onFailure(Throwable e, boolean isNetWorkError, String msg) throws Exception {
view.dismissLoadingDialog();
view.failure(e, isNetWorkError, msg);
}
});
}
}
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"creeps his way back in" Question: Can someone, perhaps, change my name to Tboots? Thanks..."creeps back out."
10-23-2005, 02:01 PM
lambikins
Quote:
Originally Posted by Twiddler
"creeps his way back in" Question: Can someone, perhaps, change my name to Tboots? Thanks..."creeps back out."
:rofl Oh, Tboots, you crack me up! If John can't change your screen name, you can always have instead of your "prophet of St. Hurley" this:
1) Tboots: Lovechild of Qboots
2) Tboots: Unofficial heir to Qboots kingdom
3) Tboots: It's not just Qboots, anymore!
Of course, Qboots is probably going to lead a rebel uprising against you and I'm going to have to fly to Switzerland to stay neutral in the inevitable fracas!
10-23-2005, 03:13 PM
getreal
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike'sgirl
What would make it possible for them to walk normally, and not leave a footprint???
Here's my theory:
The leader would leave an initial footprint, but it would become obscured by having each following person step on top of his/her footprints, ultimately obliterating them. The ground would be pressed down hard enough that the lightest person (the child with the teddy bear) at the rear of the group would leave no imprint. No?
10-23-2005, 03:39 PM
Twiddler
Quote:
Originally Posted by lambikins
:rofl Oh, Tboots, you crack me up! If John can't change your screen name, you can always have instead of your "prophet of St. Hurley" this:
1) Tboots: Lovechild of Qboots
2) Tboots: Unofficial heir to Qboots kingdom
3) Tboots: It's not just Qboots, anymore!
Of course, Qboots is probably going to lead a rebel uprising against you and I'm going to have to fly to Switzerland to stay neutral in the inevitable fracas!
"creeps back in, grinning" Oh, I'm just kidding. Don't wanna get sued, lambi :D Anyways....working on a theory now...need more...facts...Let's just say it's VERY interesting and leave it at that..."creeps his way back out."
10-23-2005, 04:57 PM
Lea
Quote:
Originally Posted by CashMoneySoviet
Click to see Spoiler:
...
I have an idea about the next new episode. It's just an idea but I will spoiler it anyway.
Click to see Spoiler:
Claire will be the one to kill Shannon because she sees Shannon with Aaron and she thinks that Shannon is out to do Aaron harm but she is trying to help him i.e. Aaaron starts crying and Shannon is the only one around
10-23-2005, 05:04 PM
PWS
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lea
I have an idea about the next new episode. It's just an idea but I will spoiler it anyway.[.....]
Or better yet,
Click to see Spoiler:
Shannon is taking care of Aaron when the tailies come out of the jungle. She is talking to them and maybe even hands Aaron to one of them, and Claire thinks she is giving Aaron to the Others.
10-23-2005, 05:11 PM
Lea
Quote:
Originally Posted by PWS
Or better yet,
Click to see Spoiler:
....
Ooo,that is better but we are agreed on the who's?
10-23-2005, 05:52 PM
tigergirl
Well friends, I am thoroughly disappointed. I've been away from the board for four days (since Wednesday evening) and I set aside a large chunk of time to wade through what I expected to be at least 8 or 10 pages of new posts in my absence. Imagine my surprise to find that there's only a page and a half!!!
What have you slackers been up to????
10-23-2005, 06:41 PM
Davis_Rocks
I went to My PVR system, and this Wednesday's episode is a repeat (or so it says)... it is on all american and canadian channels!
:lol I knew it was coming, yet I was still dissapointed when I saw the words "repeat"
10-23-2005, 07:06 PM
lambikins
Quote:
Originally Posted by tigergirl
Well friends, I am thoroughly disappointed. I've been away from the board for four days (since Wednesday evening) and I set aside a large chunk of time to wade through what I expected to be at least 8 or 10 pages of new posts in my absence. Imagine my surprise to find that there's only a page and a half!!!
What have you slackers been up to????
It's not so much what we've been up to, it's more what the writers haven't been up to!!! :lol
I'd love to be adding to speculation and theories but I think we've run out of gas until LOST refuels us.....THREE WEEKS FROM NOW! :( | SPCOTK |
Experimental study of interactions between five trace elements--Cu, Ag, Se, Zn, and Hg--toward their bioaccumulation by fish (Brachydanio rerio) from the direct route.
Actions and interactions between five elements--copper, zinc, silver, selenium, and methyl mercury--toward their bioaccumulation in fish (Brachydanio rerio) were studied after 12 days exposure, via the direct contamination route. The experimental approach was based on a centered composite factorial design; 43 different contamination conditions were studied simultaneously, with five concentration levels in the water for each element. Contaminated media were cyclically renewed (48 hr renewal cycle), in order to control the fish exposure conditions. Data treatment was essentially based on the multiple regression technique, applied successively to the complete factorial design (2(5) = 32 conditions) and to the centered composite design (43 conditions). Results show a complex set of actions and interactions between the elements. The most striking result is a marked interaction between silver and methyl mercury: when Ag is present in the water jointly with MeHg, it exerts a negative action on Hg bioaccumulation in the fish, at the whole organism level. Bioaccumulation of silver is also significantly influenced by the presence of Zn, Cu, and Se in the water, the action of these three elements producing an increase in the amounts of Ag in the organisms. This study corresponds to an exploratory phase in order to reveal interaction effects on the bioaccumulation processes by fish and then to set up more in-depth analysis to increase progressively the understanding of the ecotoxicological mechanisms involved. | ETCIOT |
A new definition for the consensus sequence of the peroxisome targeting signal type 2.
All organisms except the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans have been shown to possess an import system for peroxisomal proteins containing a peroxisome targeting signal type 2 (PTS2). The currently accepted consensus sequence for this amino-terminal nonapeptide is -(R/K)(L/V/I)X(5)(H/Q)(L/A)-. Some C.elegans proteins contain putative PTS2 motifs, including the ortholog (CeMeK) of human mevalonate kinase, an enzyme known to be targeted by PTS2 to mammalian peroxisomes. We cloned the gene for CeMeK (open reading frame Y42G9A.4) and examined the subcellular localization of CeMeK and of two other proteins with putative PTS2s at their amino termini encoded by the open reading frames D1053.2 and W10G11.11. All three proteins localized to the cytosol, confirming and extending the finding that C.elegans lacks PTS2-dependent peroxisomal protein import. The putative PTS2s of the proteins encoded by D1053.2 and W10G11.11 did not function in targeting to peroxisomes in yeast or mammalian cells, suggesting that the current PTS2 consensus sequence is too broad. Analysis of available experimental data on both functional and nonfunctional PTS2s led to two re-evaluated PTS2 consensus sequences: -R(L/V/I/Q)XX(L/V/I/H)(L/S/G/A)X(H/Q)(L/A)-, describes the most common variants of PTS2, while -(R/K)(L/V/I/Q)XX(L/V/I/H/Q)(L/S/G/A/K)X(H/Q)(L/A/F)-, describes essentially all variants of PTS2. These redefined PTS2 consensus sequences will facilitate the identification of proteins of unknown cellular localization as possible peroxisomal proteins. | TPSNOM |
How to Spend a Perfect Day in Porto
How to Spend a Perfect Day in Porto
With Lisbon having been all the rage lately, its little sister Porto hasn’t gotten as much credit as it undoubtedly deserves. Beautifully located on the River Douro, the city is home to stunning architecture, scrumptious culinary treats (fancy some Port, anyone?) and a lively cultural scene – no wonder J.K. Rowling decided to live here for a few years!
Consequently, Portugal’s so called “secret capital” is catching up quickly and is definitely worth a visit – especially as long as mass tourism is still absent!
photo by Nicolas Vollmer via flickr
While visiting a friend in Lisbon for a few days, I decided to plan a day trip to Portugal’s second biggest city. As I knew I was only going to spend about 10 hours in Porto, I wanted to make the most of my time and thus joined a free walking tour as well as exploring a bit on my own afterwards.
The 3-hour walking tour was indeed a great choice, as the guides give you some interesting insight into the city’s historical and cultural background, plus you get to meet fun people from all over the world. However, if you prefer to be a bit more independent, Porto is also perfect for walking around on your own.
In the Morning
Start your day with a typical Portuguese breakfast – a galao (espresso with steamed milk, a sort of Portuguese latte) and a pastry of your choice – anywhere on the Praca da Liberdade, taking in the grand view of the city’s town hall. Afterwards, if you haven’t arrived here already, head over to the city’s Sao Bento railway station and marvel at the building’s 20,000+ stunning azulejos (hand-painted tiles) which tell the stories of past European wars and monarchs.
Then, walking along the Rua de Sa da Bandeira, take a right on Rua de Passos Manuel and arrive in the Rua de Santa Catarina, the city’s main shopping street. If you feel like shopping, go for it – but even if you don’t, the street is still worth a visit due to the beautifully tiled church Capela Das Almas as well as the Cafe Majestic, where J.K. Rowling wrote the very first chapters of Harry Potter. However, don’t get carried away by their fabulous (and comparatively expensive) menu too much, as you’ll need all the appetite you can get for your lunch.
For Lunchtime
I’m afraid to tell you that you don’t really have any choice other than to have a Francesinha for lunch. Porto’s most famous signature dish consists of a melted-cheese-covered sandwich containing ham, sausages and steak served on a plate with French fries and slightly spicy tomato sauce (there are vegetarian versions available as well!). You can find it all over town, but locals have told me that the best Francesinha can be found at either Bufete Fase or Cafe Santiago and that you should never spend less than 7EUR or more than 12EUR on one sandwich. If you’re with a friend, you should definitely consider sharing one, as it’s more than likely you’ll be full after one half.
No Time for a lazy Afternoon
If you can still walk after your Francesinha experience, do so by heading down the Rua de Santa Catarina and the Praca da Batalha, passing the Igreja Paroquial de Santo Ildefonso and coming to a stop at the Igreja de Santa Clara. This former cloister might look plain from the outside, but its stunning rococo interior is completely covered in gold leaf and contains lots of exceptional Portuguese woodwork.
After sneaking a little peek over the river Douro at the top of the Ponte Luis I bridge, head over to the city’s cathedral Se do Porto and then down to the waterfront (there are some well-concealed stairs behind the cathedral that will give you a great view into some cozy little side streets).
Now it’s time for some Port! Cross the lower level of the aforementioned bridge to Gaia, where you can either enjoy a glass of Port with a beautiful view of the old town, or participate in a Port Wine cellar tour (tours are mostly an hour long, cost about 15EUR and include a wine cellar tour as well as some port wine tasting). Afterwards, if you feel like a bit of a scenic ride, take the cable car (about 6EUR) back to the top of the bridge; however, walking shouldn’t take more than 15 minutes either.
How to End the Day
If you are on a day trip like me, you’ll probably be heading back to Lisbon during the evening hours. However, if you’ve still got a bit of time, I’d definitely recommend going to at least one more place: The Livraria Lello. This famous Art Nouveau bookstore is the first one I’ve ever paid an entrance fee to, but it was worth every single one of the 3 Euros I paid (plus, if you buy a book, you can reclaim the entrance fee). Upon entering, you instantly feel like you’ve been thrown into a store in Diagon Alley – I don’t use this phrase lightly, but it’s pure magic!
Of course there is much more to discover in Porto (check out the tourist information or download this amazing free map with more information) – if I had known that I would fall in love with this city instantly, I would’ve definitely decided to stay longer – as will you hopefully!
This is a guest post by Kat Nagler.
Kat is an art and museum educator currently living in Hamburg. Having grown up in two countries – the United States and Germany – she always felt that she was at home in more than one place. After Hawaii and New Zealand, her next big adventure will take her to Australia this coming spring, where she hopes to encounter at least one or two quokkas. Kat enjoys art, summer, reading, anything food and coffee-related as well as meeting people from all over the world. You can find Kat on Instagram.
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We’ve never been to Porto, that’s why we are planning a trip next year. This post comes in handy, since we won’t have much time in Porto and we are combining our trip with Lisbon!
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Estonian formin: Russia must right wrongdoings to restore relations with NATO
BRUSSELS, Dec 06, BNS - In order to return to normal communication with NATO, Russia must right the wrongdoings committed against Ukraine, this is the universal position of NATO, Estonian Foreign Minister Sven Mikser on Wednesday told BNS at the NATO headquarters in Brussels.
"When it comes to Eastern Ukraine, this means the full realization of the Minsk agreements, and when it comes to Crimea, stopping illegal annexation and restoring the territorial integrity of Ukraine," Mikser said in a short interview to BNS after a meeting of a two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers.The minister said that Russia has committed a brutal violation of international law in Ukraine. "No NATO country or democratic state is prepared to accept changing borders with armed forces in the 21st century," he said.Baltic News Service | TRCWNS |
#include "shm_mutex.h"
ShmProcessMutexCheck& ShmProcessMutexCheck::getInstance() {
static ShmProcessMutexCheck singleton;
return singleton;
}
bool ShmProcessMutexCheck::addLock(const std::string& name) {
std::lock_guard<std::mutex> l(m_);
auto p = shmLocks_.emplace(name);
return p.second;
}
bool ShmProcessMutexCheck::removeLock(const std::string& name) {
std::lock_guard<std::mutex> l(m_);
return shmLocks_.erase(name) == 1;
}
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/*! \internal \file
* \brief Declare infrastructure for managing caching of OpenCL
* JIT-ted binaries
*
* This functionality is currently disabled in compileProgram()
*
* \author Dimitrios Karkoulis <[email protected]>
* \author Anca Hamuraru <[email protected]>
* \author Teemu Virolainen <[email protected]>
* \author Mark Abraham <[email protected]>
*/
#ifndef GMX_GPU_UTILS_OCL_CACHING_H
#define GMX_GPU_UTILS_OCL_CACHING_H
#include <string>
#include "gromacs/gpu_utils/oclutils.h"
namespace gmx
{
namespace ocl
{
/*! \brief Construct the name for the binary cache file
*
* \param[in] kernelFilename Name of the kernel from which the binary will be compiled.
* \param[in] deviceId ID of the device upon which the binary is used.
*
* \todo The set of preprocessor options should also form part of the
* identification of the cached binary. Also perhaps compiler, runtime
* and device version info?
*
* \todo Mutual exclusion of ranks and nodes should also be implemented
* if/when caching is re-enabled.
*
* \returns The name of the cache file.
*/
std::string makeBinaryCacheFilename(const std::string& kernelFilename, cl_device_id deviceId);
/*! \brief Check if there's a valid cache available, and return it if so
*
* \param[in] filename Name of valid file containing the binary cache
* \param[in] context The OpenCL context
* \param[in] deviceId The ID of the device on which to use the program
*
* \returns The OpenCL program read from the cache
*
* \throws InternalError if an OpenCL error was encountered
* FileIOError if the file could not be opened
*/
cl_program makeProgramFromCache(const std::string& filename, cl_context context, cl_device_id deviceId);
/*! \brief Implement caching of OpenCL binaries
*
* \param[in] program Index of program to cache
* \param[in] filename Name of file to use for the cache
*
* \throws InternalError if an OpenCL error was encountered
* FileIOError if the file could not be opened
*/
void writeBinaryToCache(cl_program program, const std::string& filename);
} // namespace ocl
} // namespace gmx
#endif
| TMCPNP |
Enes Kanter Makes Big Return to New York as Trail Blazers Beat Nets
When Jusuf Nurkic went to the bench, the Portland Trail Blazers inserted a player who barely knew their offense.
Imagine how good Portland’s center combination can be once that player, Enes Kanter, gets up to speed.
Nurkic had 27 points and 12 rebounds, Kanter added 18 points and 9 rebounds in his Portland debut, and the Trail Blazers beat the Nets, 113-99, on Thursday night at Barclays Center.
The center tandem was so good that the Trail Blazers did not even need a big night from the All-Star guard Damian Lillard, who was just 5 for 21 from the field. He finished with 13 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists.
They’re going to change the dynamic for a lot of teams, how they guard us obviously,” Blazers guard C J McCollum said.
Kanter signed last week with the Blazers after losing his job with the Knicks and then being given his release after they could not find a deal before the trade deadline. He made his first seven shots and finished 8 for 9 from the field, missing only a 3-point attempt, as the Blazers relied on pick-and-rolls when he was in to compensate for his unfamiliarity with their sets.
Languishing on the bench during much of what became an 18-game losing streak for the Knicks, Kanter was excited to be on the floor in meaningful situations.
“Last time I got a win I think it was like almost two months,” he said.
McCollum added 21 points in a good return from the break for the Blazers after going into it with a 129-107 victory over Golden State. They opened a seven-game trip and do not play their first home game after the All-Star break until March 7 against Oklahoma City.
Allen Crabbe had 17 points for the Nets, who came out of the All-Star break above .500 for the first time since 2013. The All-Star guard D’Angelo Russell shot only 4 for 16, finishing with 14 points and 8 assists.
“Didn’t coach well, didn’t play well,” Nets Coach Kenny Atkinson said. “It was just one of those games where I think Portland was simply the better team. There’s just no way around it.”
Lillard’s 3-pointer midway through the third — his only one through three quarters — gave Portland a 69-63 lead that the Blazers extended largely through Kanter’s work inside. He followed with four baskets in the period, including one that gave Portland its largest lead, 82-67.
The lead was 14 after his free throws with 10 minutes 40 seconds to play before Ed Davis, Shabazz Napier and Crabbe — all former Blazers — fueled a 15-2 surge that trimmed the deficit to 90-89. But Portland pushed the lead back into double digits, with Lillard contributing a 3-pointer with a little more than three minutes to go and Nurkic getting a three-point play when he was fouled on a powerful dunk. | TBCKDZ |
[Cite as Gumins v. Ohio Dept. of Rehab. & Corr., 2010-Ohio-4342.]
Court of Claims of Ohio
The Ohio Judicial Center
65 South Front Street, Third Floor
Columbus, OH 43215
614.387.9800 or 1.800.824.8263
www.cco.state.oh.us
DAVID GUMINS
Plaintiff
v.
OHIO DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION AND CORRECTION
Defendant
Case No. 2006-06132
Judge Joseph T. Clark
Magistrate Steven A. Larson
JUDGMENT ENTRY
{¶ 1} This case is sua sponte assigned to Judge Joseph T. Clark to conduct all
proceedings necessary for decision in this matter.
{¶ 2} On July 28, 2009, the magistrate issued a decision recommending
judgment in favor of defendant. On October 13, 2009, the court overruled plaintiff’s
objections without consideration of the App.R. 9(C) statements filed by the parties
inasmuch as a transcript was “available” for the purposes of Civ.R. 53(D)(3)(b)(iii).
Judgment was rendered in favor of defendant.
{¶ 3} On July 20, 2010, the Tenth District Court of Appeals reversed the
judgment of this court and remanded the case for further proceedings, stating in
relevant part that “the trial court erred in finding the transcript was available in the face
of plaintiff’s uncontested affidavit of indigency” and that “[o]n remand, the trial court will
have the opportunity to determine whether to use affidavits under Civ.R. 53(D)(3)(b)(iii)
or utilize the statements the parties proffered.” Gumins v. Dept. of Rehab & Corr. (July
20, 2010), Franklin App. No. 09AP-1063, ¶10-11.
Case No. 2006-06132 -2- JUDGMENT ENTRY
{¶ 4} Civ.R. 53(D)(3)(b)(iii) provides, in part:
{¶ 5} “An objection to a factual finding, whether or not specifically designated as
a finding of fact under Civ. R. 53(D)(3)(a)(ii), shall be supported by a transcript of all the
evidence submitted to the magistrate relevant to that finding or an affidavit of that
evidence if a transcript is not available.” (Emphasis added.)
{¶ 6} As defined by R.C. 2319.02, an affidavit is “a written declaration under
oath, made without notice to the adverse party.”
{¶ 7} The App.R. 9(C) statements filed by the parties are not sworn statements
and are therefore not “affidavits” as required by Civ.R. 53(D)(3)(b)(iii). Accordingly, the
court finds that plaintiff has failed to properly support his factual objections to the
magistrate’s July 28, 2009 decision.
{¶ 8} Upon review of the record, the magistrate’s decision and the objections,
the court finds that the magistrate has properly determined the factual issues and
appropriately applied the law. Therefore, the objections are OVERRULED and the court
adopts the magistrate’s decision and recommendation as its own, including findings of
fact and conclusions of law contained therein. Judgment is rendered in favor of
defendant. Court costs are assessed against plaintiff. The clerk shall serve upon all
parties notice of this judgment and its date of entry upon the journal.
_____________________________________
JOSEPH T. CLARK
Judge
cc:
Case No. 2006-06132 -3- JUDGMENT ENTRY
Daniel R. Forsythe Richard F. Swope
Douglas R. Folkert 6480 East Main Street, Suite 102
Assistant Attorneys General Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068
150 East Gay Street, 18th Floor
Columbus, Ohio 43215-3130
MR/cmd
Filed September 9, 2010
To S.C. reporter September 14, 2010
| CGLFND |
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