With unscheduled travel, you don't know in the morning where you will end up that night. You only figure it out later in the day. Sometimes you just drive until it starts getting late and then you pick where you will end the night. It's hard (or expensive) to do this in high season but in low season you can always find a room, and I and many others like that sort of freedom.
You can hunt around for web access (better if you have a data plan on your phone) and use sites like TripAdvisor and the various booking search engines (like Kayak/Sidestep) to find a decent hotel at a good price.
You can just drive into town and look for Vacancy/Zimmer Frei signs and go in and ask the price.
You can find somebody to do this for you.
There are problems with all these approaches. Method 3 (especially using tripadivsor) helps you avoid turkey hotels and find the better values. However, the databases cover only a fraction of the hotels, and the online reservations systems also cover only a small fraction of hotels in an area. There will be better values out there. On the other hand, many hotels offer a better price through the internet than if you call them, or will charge even more if you just walk in.
Just back from a weeklong tour including speaking at Singularity Summit, teaching classes at Cushing Academy and a big Thanksgiving dinner (well, Thanksgiving is actually today but we had it earlier) and drive through fabulous fall colour in Muskoka.
Are Frequent Flyer Mile credit cards a good idea?
I just decided to cancel my AAdvantage credit card for a 1% cashback card with no annual fee. Many people have the frequent flyer cards so let's consider the math on them. They typically come with a high annual fee (around $80) while other cards have no fee and other rewards.
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Yesterday it was announced that "Clear" (Verified ID Pass) the special "bypass the line at security" card company, has shut its doors and its lines. They ran out of money and could not pay their debts. No surprise there, they were paying $300K/year rent for their space at SJC and only 11,000 members used that line.
As I explained earlier, something was fishy about the program. It required a detailed background check, with fingerprint and iris scan, but all it did was jump you to the front of the line -- which you get for flying in first class at many airports without any background check. Their plan, as I outline below, was to also let you use a fancy shoe and coat scanning machine from GE, so you would not have to take them off. However, the TSA was only going to allow those machines once it was verified they were just as secure as existing methods -- so again no need for the background check.
To learn more about the company, I attended a briefing they held a year ago for a contest they were holding: $500,000 to anybody who could come up with a system that sped up their lines at a low enough cost. I did have a system, but also wanted to learn more about how it all worked. I feel sorry for those who worked hard on the contest who presumably will not be paid.
Can airports do paging as well as a restaurant?
I have a lot of peeves about airports, like almost everybody. One of them is the constant flow of public address announcements. They make it hard to read, work or concentrate for many people. Certainly it's hard to sleep. It's often even hard to have a phone call with the announcements in the background.
One solution to this is the premium airline lounges. These are announcement-free, but you must watch the screens regularly to track any changes. And of course they cost a lot of money, and may be far from your gate.
Some airlines have also improved things by putting up screens at the gates that list the status of standby passengers and people waiting for upgrades. This also saves them a lot of questions at the gate, which is good.
But it's not enough. Yet, even in a cheap restaurant, they often have a solution. They give you a special pager programmed to summon you when your table or food is ready. It vibrates (never beeps) and they are designed to stack on top of one another for recharging.
Airports could do a lot better. Yes, they could hand you an electronic pager instead of/in addition to a boarding pass. This could be used to signal you anywhere in the airport. It could have an active RFID to allow you to walk though an automatic gate onto the plane with no need for even a gate agent, depositing the pager as you board.
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Years ago I asked that they let me buy a SIM card in the airport arrivals area and now they often do. I also started a forum here on the best company to buy a prepaid SIM from in each country which has a fair bit of traffic.
Yesterday I took my first flight on Virgin America airways, on the IAD-SFO run. Virgin offered a tremendous price (about $130 one way) but it's worth examining how they have made use of technology on their planes. Mostly I usually end up on United, which is by far the largest carrier at SFO. Because of this, I fly enough on it to earn status, and that it turn provides a seat in their Economy Plus section which has more legroom, priority boarding and in theory, an empty middle if there are empty middles. This is 90% of the value of the status -- the other main value, ability to upgrade, is hard to actually make use of because business class is usually full. The extra legroom is surprisingly pleasant, even for a widebody individual like myself who would much prefer extra width if I had a choice.
Other than Economy Plus (and some very nice business class on some of the long-haul planes,) United is falling behind other airlines. It would be hard to recommend an ordinary coach seat. The one big amenity that more and more other airlines are providing is power in coach, in particular 115v AC power which is more flexible than the older 15vdc "Empower" system United uses in business class. The main downside of the 115v connections is they tend to be mounted under the seats, making them hard to get to. Air Canada has put them in the personal video panels. Virgin placed them under the seats but high and forward enough to be reached (if you knew what you were looking for) but also so close as to make wall-warts bump against your legs. Virgin also offered USB jacks down under the seats, also hard to get to. Even if you don't want to put 115v up higher, USB charging jacks are better placed in the video console/seatback I think.
American Airlines has a mix of DC and AC power, but still makes it available in coach. Continental has put EmPower on some planes in the front half of coach, but some newer planes have AC power all the way through coach.
What should be in a good hotel room?
Well, one thing that's easy to add to the list is a powered USB hub, with as many as 6 ports and a 3 amp power supply. Toss in some mini-USB cables (possibly just built into the hub) as they have become, for better or worse, the present-day universal charging standard. (At only 2.5 watts, USB is a bit anemic as charging standard, but it's what we have for now.) A mouse would be nice too, but is a security risk.
Alas, we can't have a keyboard on it, as nice as that would be, since that can't be trusted. It might have a keylogger put in it (even by the previous occupant of the room) to grab passwords.
Now this is a fairly cheap item (under $20) and like many other hotel items, it could also be available at the front desk, though it's so cheap I don't see a reason for that. While you could not be sure it would be there at every hotel, it would still be useful, since it can add to the charging you bring, and most laptops can be a charging station if you are willing to leave them on overnight. It's also useful as a hub. Indeed, have two, one on the desk, and one by the bed for cell phones.
We're almost ready to not need the hotel phone unless you are coming from overseas and pay ridiculous roaming charges. But they still need it to call you sometimes, and I don't want to have to hand over my mobile number at check-in.
Coach is cramped, but not everybody can afford business class. In addition, there are airlines that require fat people to purchase a second seat if they can't fit into one. Fortunately I am not in that department, but it seems there is an interesting alternative that might make sense for all -- selling half of a middle seat, for half price (or less) to somebody wanting more room in coach.
I'm back from my 3-country tour that started with being guest of honour at Helsinki's "Alternative Party" which introduced me to the Demoscene, something I will write about in some future blog posts. While I have much to say about this trip, and many gigs of photos, I thought I would start with some travel notes.
As I noted, at DLD Lufthansa had a contest (which I won) for suggestions on how to innovate to compete with trains. They set the time horizon out 15 years, which really means a lot is possible, so while I mostly threw in ideas from this blog which are short term, I put in some longer term ones too.
One was the equivalent of "multi modal transport." To do this, you would build new short-haul planes which consisted of an empty shell, like the cargo planes you have seen where the nose hinges up, and cargo modules are slid in on rails. This would be combine with "passenger modules" which can slide into the shell, and which can also slide into a special rail car. There might be one module on a plane, though it is also possible to have several.
Passengers would board a train normally at the train station. Then, as the train moved to the airport, they could move to the passenger module car. They would place their luggage onto a belt to put it down low into the luggage module (under the passenger module) or be assisted by a porter. They would enter the passenger module, stow their carry-ons and otherwise get ready in their seat. By the time the train got to the airport, all passengers would be in their seats, belted and ready.
The train would split up into different cars if there were several flights on it, and each would move to a terminus where the plane-shell was waiting. Yet to be invented technology would laser-align the train and the parked shell in advance, and then the passenger module would slip into the aircraft hull on special rails. Connecting passengers could board the train at the airport before it moves to the hull, and their bags could be loaded into the bottom the standard way. (Though this is for short-haul flights, so there may not be connecting passengers.) An automated system would connect power, data and air venting on the passenger modules. Water/sewage would be self-contained and processed at the train station. Catering would probably be handled there too.
The nose would come down, the pilots board via their own door and takeoff would begin shortly.
I'm back from my German trip, which included the DLD conference and a bit of touring in Austria and Bavaria. DLD was a good crowd of people and speakers, though the programming was a bit of a mishmash. I'll have some nice photos up soon.
Many people accumulate a lot of frequent flyer miles they will never use. Some of the airlines allow you to donate miles to a very limited set of charities. I can see why they limit it -- they would much rather have you not use the miles than have the charity use them. Though it's possible that while the donor does not get any tax credit for donated miles, the airline does.
It's annoying (and vidicating at the same time) when you see somebody else developing an idea you're working on, and today I saw one such idea announced in Europe.
Last year while flying I mused about how sitting in a row makes us bump up against one another at the point we are all widest -- the elbows and butts. We are not rectangles, so there are roomier ways to pack us. I toyed with a number of ideas.
First I considered staggering the rows slightly, either by angling them back or front a bit, or simply having the middle seats be about 6" behind the aisle and window seats. Then our elbows would not overlap, but it would make the "corridor" (if you can call it that) to the window seat have some narrow corners, and would suffer some of the problems I will outline below.
Then I realized it might make sense to just reverse the middle seat. All the middle seats in a section could face backwards, and we would then have more space because wide parts would mesh with narrow parts. Somebody else has also worked up the same idea and has even got some prototypes and drawings, which are better than the ones I had worked up to show here. However, I will outline some of the issues I came up with in my experiments -- mostly done with household chairs laid out in experimental patterns.
A friend (Larry P.) once suggested to me that he thought you could build a rural mobile phone much cheaper than Iridium network by putting nodes in all the airliners flying over the country. The airliners have power, and have line of sight to ground stations, and to a circle of about 200 miles radius around them. That's pretty big (125,000 square miles) and in fact most locations will be within sight of an airliner most of the time.
Parking at airports seems a terrible waste -- expensive parking and your car sits doing nothing. I first started thinking about the various Car Share companies (City CarShare, ZipCar, FlexCar -- effectively membership based hourly car rentals which include gas/insurance and need no human staff) and why one can't use them from the airport. Of course, airports are full of rental car companies, which is a competitive problem, and parking space there is at a premium.
Right now the CarShare services tend to require round-trip rentals, but for airports the right idea would be one-way rentals -- one member drives the car to the airport, and ideally very shortly another member drives the car out of the airport. In an ideal situation, coordinated by cell phone, the 2nd member is waiting at the curb, and you would just hand off the car once it confirms their membership for you. (Members use a code or carry a key fob.) Since you would know in advance before you entered the airport whether somebody is ready, you would know whether to go to short term parking or the curb -- or a planned long-term parking lot with a bit more advance notice so you allocate the extra time for that.
Of course the 2nd member might not want to go to the location you got the car from, which creates the one-way rental problem that carshares seem to need to avoid. Perhaps better balancing algorithms could work, or at worst case, the car might have to wait until somebody from your local depot wants to go there. That's wasteful, though. However, I think this could be made to work as long as the member base is big enough that some member is going in and out of the airport.
I started thinking about something grander though, namely being willing to rent your own private car out to bonded members of a true car sharing service. This is tougher to do but easier to make efficient. The hard part is bonding reliability on the part of all concerned.
Differential pricing occurs when a company attempts to charge different prices to two different customers for what is essentially the same product. One place we all encounter it a lot is air travel, where it seems no two passengers paid the same price for their tickets on any given flight. You also see it in things like one of my phones, which has 4 line buttons but only 2 work -- I must pay $30 for a code to enable the other 2 buttons.


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This model was designed in CAD (Solidworks) system and translated in other formats (attached: Solidworks in Parasolid, and Max as BodyObjects) . The model consists of 285 separated parts in 1:1 scale. Dimensions of model was taken from original drawings and real tank.
The aim of this project was modeling with maximum authentic.
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I think the main problem is how this drop was handled entirely.
We had a separate drop for the first purple hearts and then there was another drop that was merged with the mahogany. How it was communicated, it seems like the earliest drop was delayed and would get delivered at the same time as the second drop. It broke down further when there were no updates on the August ship date. Above that, it's like we have no way of distinguishing anything anymore because the first and second drops merged into one big mess. It's no longer a separate thread.


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Kriti Sanon Says She and Sushant Singh Rajput Were 'Depressed', Sulked Over Wine After Raabta Failed
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Kriti Sanon, in a recent interview, revealed she and Sushant Singh Rajput dealt with the failure of Raabta together. She said they discussed the film's bad reviews over wine. The actor added that both of them were 'depressed' after the film did not work and were 'sulking' together.
Raabta released in 2017 and revolved around reincarnated lovers. The film was directed by Dinesh Vijan. Last year, marking the film's release anniversary, Kriti had shared pictures from the film and spoke about working in the film with the late actor.
Now, speaking with Film Companion, Kriti revisited the film yet again and shared an incident that took place after the film's release. "It was a funny night. We were all sulking, we were depressed, we'd gone through really bad reviews and we didn't know what to say. Dino was just like, 'Aajao yaar, mood kharab hai (Come over guys, I'm in a bad mood)'. We went there and opened a bottle of wine. Dino said, 'I think it's the flashbacks, I should have made it simple. Why did we go tribal?' Earlier, there was a draft that had a normal raja-rani. It's more relatable to people, right? But we felt like we wanted to go a little different. I was having a glass of wine, and I said, 'I told you this!'" she said.
Raabta was the only film that Kriti and Sushant worked together in. Sushant went on to do films such as Kedarnath, Sonchiriya, Drive and Chhichhore before his sudden death in June 2020. The actor's swansong Dil Bechara had released a few weeks after his death.
Meanwhile, Kriti was last seen in Mimi. The film was streamed on Netflix and was loved by the audience. Kriti now has Adipurush with Prabhas, Bachchan Pandey with Akshay Kumar, Heropanti 2 and Ganpath with Tiger Shroff, Bhediya with Varun Dhawan and Shehzaada with Kartik Aaryan.
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Q: Excel formula to add a cell based on the months increasing I need to show in 1 cell the value of the "same time last year".
I have 1 row of 12 columns representing each month of last year with the static value for in each month (due to space only include up to Sep 17), eg:
Jan-17  Feb-17  Mar-17  Apr-17  May-17  Jun-17  Jul-17  Aug-17  Sep-17

Eg  3   12  13  5   11  11  10  13  9
I also have 1 cell which is formulated to update as the month increases eg A1: 31/07/2018; A2: "=month(A1)" currently returning 7.
Is there a formula which will calculate Jan-17 to Jul-17 when A1 = 31/07/2018 and update to include Aug-17 when A1 = 31/08/2017?

A: If you want to sum the cells, then you can use something along these lines:
=SUM(A5:INDEX(5:5,MONTH(A1)))

The result will update when you change the date in A1. Note that the values in row 4 are real dates, formatted to show as mmm-yyyy.

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On October 24th, some of the most influential and powerhouse Christian creatives will share their expertise in XL (Excel) Boot Camp, a creative workshop for Christian women creatives who specialize in music, media, and visual arts. Boot Camp speakers include Filmmaker, Christina Faith; recording artist, Wande; Content Creator, Glen 'Beleaf' Henry; Musician and Content Creator, Ruslan Karaoglanov; Digital Brand Specialist, Neesh Rose, (client roster: Yandy Smith, Mz. Skittles, etc.) and many more. While XL was originally planned as an in-person Bootcamp, event organizer, and ARTSO Indulge CEO & Founder, Trisha Bell reimagined the experience to virtually expose resources and tools […]
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Lucid signs with Prestine Records, releases "Odd Sheep" music video with Emye
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Beacon Light releases 'Color Blind' music video about racism
From Donald Trump not immediately disavowing his allegiance to the KKK, to Chris Rock's opening monologue at the Oscars, racism has continued to be a dividing issue in the United States. Unfortunately, the church reflects many of the same racial tensions our country has struggled with since its beginning. Beacon Light is an artist who is passionate about bringing healing to these tensions.


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Hi Chris, I want it alright, just trying to get it from one side of the country to the other, @ the lowest rate, Dave love you sence of humor, cheers Don.
Be sure to post pics when it arrives!
Hi there I hope your all catching your share of fish, one thing to remember, leave some in the water for Me, I now have the St CROIX rod, between the first set of rollers & the second runner it has, KONA EXPERT, on it if that means anything, also the double roller tip does not have anything written on it, I am leaning on my mate Mike Currie to post some picture of it, hopefully Mike will post more pics after I polish it up a bit, cheers Don.
Don, Kona surely refers to the Kona Coast of the Island of Hawaii. A classic marlin area. From that era, there were only three, maybe four, roller guide manufacturers. Since you said double roller tip my blind guess is Mildrum. AFTCO or Tycoon Fin-Nor are other good possibilities. Unlikely to be Allen. It should be easy to pin down with a photo.
Okay thanks Steve, hopefully Mike will see his emails soon & send the photos of the two guides, I am on about, also the tip, some times Mike has trouble with the internet, he is very helpful to me, cheers for now Don.
Mike has contacted me he will be able to post the photos on Wednesday or Thursday, you were right Chris, the reel seat, has RS 5H on it, also the word TINAC, if that helps, I managed to get the reel seat that shiney, I could hardly reed it for the glare, cheers Don. I also mixed a paste with bicard & coldpower, took two coats to get all the patarna & vertigus off.
By gee Chris, not very often your right, but your right again, yes it has VARMAC RS 5H on the reel seat, amasing what a bit of sleep will do for the eyes ay, it now 6:30 am here in Western Australia, ( WA ) cheers Don, & thanks.
lol, you remind me of someone else here I know. See you next week!
Just what we need another rod hog !!!!
The guides will shine like new with some polish and I usually wipe my rods down with some Penn rod cleaner for an ultimate shine.
Thanks Chris, yes it was a good low price, the thread in places possibly should be replace, the other option would be to coat it with 2 pack epoxy, would that reduce the value of the rod @ all, I cleaned it up a bit last night & this morning, & sent Mike some more photos, I will let Mike decide whitch photos to post, he is a very bizzy man, he has lots of thing on & working away from home, he will have lawns manage & so on, cheers Don.
Gee Mike I just realized that you had placed the photos on here, before I made that last blog, maybe your not that biz after all, Good stuff thank again Mike, cheers Don.
Ha, tricked you Don - I got home early & lawns and stuff aren't all that high on my priority list anymore.


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This is the first in 4-part series of my exploration of the ongoing saga of the national anthem protests in the NFL (which has recently spread to other sports as well). As always, dialogue is welcome. In this first installment, I will explore the protest act itself and the initial reaction it has sparked—namely, that it's disrespectful.
First, I'll preface by saying the method of protest is not one I would have chosen. That said, I'm trying my best to listen and give the benefit of the doubt to those who have chosen it.
Why? Well, in part because I'm a white, middle-aged, middle-class, middle-management male in a prosperous corner of this country—the recipient of near-maximum privilege any way you cut it. Not that I think that's a show-stopper—I don't subscribe to the automatic invalidity of one's opinion on an issue based on their identity. But it humbles me enough that I attempt to give the benefit of the doubt to those with a perspective that I don't always see because of my privilege. That doesn't de facto mean they're right, but I take it upon myself to listen and open my mind to it as best I can.
The posture is probably not as disrespectful as you think
So what do I hear when I listen? Well, enough to at least give me pause before assuming the worst of the protesting players. When Colin Kaepernick first began sitting for the anthem, his teammate, Safety Eric Reid, engaged him in discussion about it, as did long-snapper and former Green Beret Nate Boyer who wrote an open letter to Kaepernick basically saying his initial reaction was hurt and anger, but that he is trying to listen and understand. Reid expressed interest in joining his cause, but expressed concern over the perception of the gesture, that sitting perhaps signified apathy, and they didn't wish to disrespect the country or veterans. To his credit, Kaepernick listened. Together, and even after a consultation with Boyer himself, they decided to kneel instead. A posture of kneeling traditionally connotes honoring, or at least a greater solemnity, while still making their statement at the same time. As Reid expressed in a recent op-ed, they saw it as more of a statement of bereavement over injustice rather than a statement of disrespect toward veterans or anyone else, and that they imagined the posture resembling "a flag flown at half-mast."
Now, you don't have to agree or buy into that rationale yourself, or suddenly adopt it as your own form of protest. But at least we should agree it doesn't seem like a middle finger, either. It's thoughtful. Something to engage with. Listen to. Dialogue about. Have a beer summit over. Learn another perspective that might even sharpen us in some way, whether you come out on the other side of that conversation agreeing or not.
What you might mean to say is that you feel disrespected by it
Claiming that something is disrespectful can mean multiple things. That (a) the person has the intent of overt disrespect—toward Americans, conservatives, cops, veterans, you personally—fill in the blank. Or (b) that one or more of the aforementioned parties feels disrespected by the action, regardless of the protestors' intent. It is also possible that both (a) and (b) are true at once. I'm not convinced (a) is true—i.e. that the act of kneeling during the national anthem constitutes overt, intentional disrespect—based on how the players have articulated it as discussed above. But some will counter that if people are feeling disrespected by it, and they're still doing it anyway, then it does show disrespectful intent regardless of their stated rationale (so that (b) necessitates (a) by default). After all, they're not being sensitive to the feelings of those being offended, which serves to divide. Okay, that's one way to look at it. But frankly it sounds a little like saying, "They need to act out their beliefs in a way that doesn't offend me or violate my safe space, regardless of whether that's their intent." The irony is that many who offer this objection would decry it in other contexts as the millennial, snow-flakey take on it.
Our hang-ups on respectability are likely missing a larger point
So is the chosen method of protest disrespectful? The answer is likely in the eye of the beholder. Maybe it is to some extent, but likely not to the degree that some of the more visceral reactions, with their hyperbolic rhetoric around troop-hating contempt for freedom, would suggest.
But in any case, have we considered that this conversation about what's disrespectful might be a red herring in the first place? It is, after all, a protest. The civil rights movement was born out of protest. Our very nation was born out of protest. And it was all disrespectful to someone—namely, the status quo of the existing power structures. As MLK said, "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." You may feel the comparisons are unfair because the current cause is less worthy, and if you're inclined to stick with me on this journey I'll explore that angle at greater length in part 4, but in the meantime let's agree that any protest is going to ruffle the feathers of someone, or it's kind of pointless. At the very least it's started a conversation.
It might not have been my chosen form of expression, and I certainly don't seek to invalidate the feelings of those who take offense to it. But it's that next step beyond the offense where we ought to pause before becoming prescriptive. As soon as I, as one who benefits from the existing power structures, start dictating the where, why, when, and how the oppressed should feel about their oppression, as soon as I suggest how they ought to act out their frustration toward it, as soon as I demand they do it in a 'respectable' manner as defined by me, that's on my timetable, doesn't make me uncomfortable, and doesn't violate my 'safe space,' that's when I've gone too far, made it more about me, becoming what MLK described as the white moderate, and need to check my privilege at the door. I've failed at that many times in the past, and this time just trying to shut up and listen, understand, and empathize.
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From October 9-13th, 2016, future trainers for the Restorative Circle method gathered in Lecce, Italy, to be trained by Kay Pranis, a leading expert who facilitates circles in some difficult and sensitive contexts in the US and around the world. Participants gathered from the participating countries of Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Greece to go through their own circle process as well as plan for the upcoming 2017 project. The week launched the Restorative Circles project and brought up all the aspects of decision making that needed to be made internationally and nationally in country groups. The group planned, discussed, worked through potential challenges, and got inspired for the upcoming year of circles. Stay tuned to hear more!


I started the morning with a coffee shop roll (D: 14.5km - A: 40m), something to take my mind off racing. You see, it turns out I was nervous.
Not doing things to give yourself the best chance at another action, puts a fair bit of pressure on that latter act. I'd said I wanted to set a new f200 PB, I'd even gone as far as saying I wanted 12.4 seconds which was a fair improvement on my previous best (12.632).
I whacked on a 104" gear, in hindsight it's what I used last round as well to achieve my (12.639), I kicked late (maybe too late) and concentrated on keeping the bike low and my line smooth all while hammering the pedals.
I think I rode a lap with my fist thrown in the air after I heard the time. I may be a dork, but damn hearing that time made me happy. It's faster than the time I set indoors at D.I.S.C. with a disc wheel and a deep section front. It's almost 0.8 of a second faster than the times I set at the same time last year. Very happy and optimistic that there might be scope to go even faster.
The races were a mix, I got monstered by a huge Canadian (Jamie Shankland) who ramped up the speed on the front from 2 laps out. I kicked early against a young guy (Nick Cockerell) who'd qualified slowest for a-grade but managed to ride around him. Kicked really late from behind against Chris (Ray) and had our closest race in a long time. The final was another race against Nick and took it a bit more comfortably with another long race, but this time from the front/inside.
I look forward to watching the videos as Andrew Steele, previous f200 record holder for the track (Emerson Harwood set a new one), suggested I was losing power/speed to sideways motion. The f200, the race against Chris and those comments make me think a win against him (Chris) could be coming sooner rather than later. Now that would make me a happy boy.


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angora replied to OtterMommy's topic in Everything Else TV
Out of curiosity, I just searched for Death on the Nile on Twitter, but I didn't last long due to all the Armie Hammer apologists dragging Disney for cutting the newest trailer around him. I saw someone post a photo of Hammer alongside a quote from "Still I Rise," and I had to leave before I did myself an injury. Yikes, that Whedon interview. In a shallow way, I DO understand why he was touted for his feminism back in the day. The late '90s/early 2000s was a pretty different landscape for pop-culture discourse, and you could go a long way with showing that women could kick ass (Buffy, Riv
Season 6 Discussion
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It's interesting. I find a lot of Tan's ADVICE really helpful - the importance of the right fit, using layers/prints to create specific effects, etc. - but I'm not generally super wowed by a lot of the outfits he puts people in. Maybe his expertise is best used when people apply his tips/guidance to then pick out the clothes they want. But his best quality, for me, is the way that he compliments people and shows them that they can look stylish/sexy at any size. During his initial closet raid, he's always got some good snark on people's fashion choices, but he's incredibly sensitive to body-ima
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Kelly Olsen is free!
Just finished the new season. Kept a Google Doc to jot down reactions as I was watching, so I wouldn't have to think back and remember it all (season threads for Netflix shows are rough.) Terri - Some cute moments here, especially Antoni wondering if he had a crush on Terri and Jonathan's reaction to her declaration that she would "turn gay" for him. I really felt for her daughter and the difficulties she's had in their relationship, but it seems like the talk Karamo facilitated between them really did start something–the code-word idea was nice, and it made me smile that they chose "Kara
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The other day, I was thinking about that story (I think it was an excerpt from the Marvel book?) about all the MCU actors who originally tried out for different roles, and it got me thinking how much fun it would be to see some shorts or something on Disney+ with those actors playing those roles--like a live-action What If...?, but without the stories being any different. Like, it'd be cool to see Sebastian Stan playing Steve, Lee Pace playing Peter Quill, Lupita Nyong'o playing Nebula, etc.
Sound of Metal (2020)
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It was a bit of a tricky situation, since Ruben was there in part to "learn how to be Deaf," but it was also a sober house/in-treatment rehab facility. I think that's where the restrictions came from--not, "You're in the Deaf world now, so you must ONLY interact with Deaf people!", but, "You're in rehab right now, so you can't go wherever you want/call whoever you want because we don't want you to fall off the wagon." That was the main reason Ruben got hooked up with that place, because Lou and his sponsor were worried that the experience would cause him to relapse but mainstream/hearing recov
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I was absolutely thinking of multi-Doctor specials. Granted, when more than one regeneration of the Doctor get together, they usually spend a lot of their time squabbling (Two and Three, love it!), whereas here, it was all love, mutual support, and light teasing. Tobey gently scolding Andrew for all the "negative self-talk" was so sweet, and while there was some initial confusion over who was Peter 1/2/3, they didn't really bicker at all over the order. But between the multiple Spider-Men and the "coming together to correct past regrets" thing, I was especially reminded of "The Day of the
FINALLY saw it. I figured I shouldn't try before seeing family over the holidays, and afterwards, it still took a week to get a showing with few enough people that I felt comfortable attending. With wind chill, the temperature today feels like -26, so I'm guessing that had a little to do with it! I've dodging spoilers left and right for the last three weeks, but even though a lot of the big stuff was just confirmations of rumors, it was still great to go in and not KNOW they were going to be there. I squeed at Matt's appearance, and as soon as Ned opened that first portal and we saw the S
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I finally had a chance to see this over Christmas. My first instinct watching it was "pretty good," up until the last act when everything really kicked up a notch, but the film has really stuck with me. I've been thinking about it all week, and I'm still in the "listen to this and only this" phase of a new Lin-Manuel Miranda album. For the songs, "Surface Pressure" is the one that really wrecks me, but there's a lot of really great music here. I also love "Waiting on a Miracle," "All of You," and of course, "We Don't Talk about Bruno"--every LMM score needs at least one sequence of 3-4 d
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I just watched it, @possibilities--I agree that it was a really weird interview. Like, why is Leslie Stahl talking with Trevor's friends/co-workers just to ask about his dating life? Her reaction to his pieces on race was weird, too. First, she acted like the video he posted talking about George Floyd "opened up a new side" of Trevor, but he'd already been talking about race issues, especially police shootings, on the show for years. And yeah, she seemed "Shocked I Tell You, Shocked!!!" that Trevor had encountered hate and racism in the U.S. Also, what was up with her talking about the sh
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tick, tick...BOOM! (2021)
Really loved it. I feel like I always go into movie musicals holding my breath, because I always WANT them to be great and they're usually so far from that, but this one really is. It captured the spirit of the show beautifully, and it feels like both a movie and a musical, which is the key element. So many either come off as movies that are embarrassed that they're musicals or musicals that forget that they're movies, but this one is fully both. Huge props to LMM, whose direction is so gorgeous and confident. The numbers are really well shot, by turns exciting/cinematic and spare/emotional, b
Same here, @Spartan Girl. Even though this is the pandemic-era MCU film most likely to have spoilers flying all over the Internet, it's also the one most likely to be uncomfortably packed opening weekend. I don't want to get spoiled, but I also don't want to get COVID.
Lol and aww to that last comment. If Tobey and Andrew ARE in the movie, Tom's going to deserve some kind of award for not spoiling it.


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A report for the Scottish Government backs its commitment to reduce car use, while Ireland unveils its biggest ever transport investment package as part of its decarbonisation agenda.
In the ongoing debates about decarbonising transport, the bus sector has been emphasising the need for modal shift away from car travel to be a priority as well as the electrification of the bus fleet. A recent report commissioned by the Scottish Government echoes that sentiment with a backing for the policy to reduce car kilometres by 20 per cent by 2030 in Scotland.
The new report from low carbon consultancy Element Energy on decarbonising the transport sector, offers an independent assessment of the policy outcomes that are required in order for the transport sector to make the transition to net zero.
The report is clear that alongside the need for technological innovation, there is a requirement for change in individual and business behaviour and travel choices.
Commenting on the report, transport minister Graeme Dey told the Scottish Parliament: "The Programme for Government sets out how we will take Scotland on a green transport revolution and in a way delivers a fairer and healthier Scotland. The report we have commissioned from Element Energy sets out what that future could look like, and what policy outcomes are required to support that vision.
"Technology offers us many solutions, and we're making good progress, but the report is clear that transformational change in travel behaviour is required. The role of government, therefore, is to make sustainable travel choices easier, and our Programme for Government commitments support just that."
The limits of the powers of the Scottish Government were also highlighted by Dey who pointed to the need for the UK Government to deliver in key areas: "We are aware that we need to disincentivise car use to encourage people to make more sustainable choices. But the most direct levers here – fuel duty and vehicle excise duty – are reserved. So the UK Government must play its part and use all the levers and powers it has to support us in this endeavour.
"Scotland has made a world-leading commitment to reduce car kilometres travelled nationally by 20 per cent by 2030. We're supporting this through free bus travel for under 22's, over half a billion pounds in bus priority infrastructure and a near tripling of the active travel budget to 10 per cent of what we spend on transport by the end of this parliament.
"With COP26 just over a month away, this report makes clear the scale of the challenge ahead of us. We are committed to cutting emissions in transport at an unprecedented pace, and transforming how we all get around in the future."
MEANWHILE, the Irish government has put some meat behind its transport decarbonisation policy ambitions with a €35billion investment package to support its updated National Development Plan, including €11.6 billion for new public transport infrastructure.
The plan is being hailed as the largest investment in transport since the formation of the Irish state and aims to transform how people travel and halve the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
There are significant bus projects in the plan including expansion of the BusConnects network concept in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford, while €350million will go towards renewing and expanding rural and regional bus fleets. Support for urban buses to switch to electric will be part of a €3.8billion fund allocated over ten years to public transport protection and renewal.
Transport minister Eamon Ryan says: "This is a National Development Plan for a cleaner, greener, connected Ireland, a plan that supports communities and our climate goal – to cut emissions in half by 2030. We're making the biggest investment in transport in the history of the state – 35 billion over the decade – which will transform how we travel.
"This revised Plan re-orientates our investment toward greener, cleaner and more accessible transport. It means that for every euro we invest in new road infrastructure we're investing twice as much in new public transport.
"This record investment will deliver a transport system which improves our quality of life and provides us with greater choices to travel more efficiently and sustainably – be it by footpath, cycleway, road or rail, keeping us connected to our families, our workplaces and our communities. This will be a decade of change."
https://www.gov.ie/en/organisation/department-of-transport/
https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/774e2-national-development-plan-2021-2030/#
https://www.transport.gov.scot/publication/decarbonising-the-scottish-transport-sector/
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Лаодика I (Laodike; , † между 240 и 237 пр.н.е.) е първата съпруга на селевкидския цар Антиох II Теос, управлявал от 261 пр.н.е. до 246 пр.н.е. в Сирия.

Лаодика е вероятно дъщеря на Антиох I Сотер и полусестра на Антиох II. Според други източници тя е дъщеря на гръко-македонеца Ахей (Achaios, вторият син на Селевк I Никатор и Апама) и братовчедка на Антиох II.

Тя се омъжва преди 266 пр.н.е. за Антиох II Теос, от династията на Селевкидите, син на Антиох I Сотер.

Лаодика и Антиох II имат следните деца:
 Селевк II Калиник, престолонаследник
 Антиох Хиеракс, по-късен съперник за трона на по-големия му брат
 Стратоника III, съпруга на Ариарат III (Кападокия)
 Лаодика, съпруга на Митридат II от Понт
 вероятно дъщеря с неизвестно име, която ражда един Антипатър.

През 253 пр.н.е. Антиох II се разделя от Лаодика I, за да се ожени през началото 252 пр.н.е. за Береника Млада, дъщеря на египетския цар Птолемей II и сестра на Птолемей III, и тя му ражда син Антиох.

Лаодика загубва царската си титла и се оттегля в западна Мала Азия. Тя организира заговор през 246 пр.н.е., отравя мъжа си в Ефес и издига сина си Селевк II за владетел. Лаодика нарежда да убият Береника и сина ѝ в Антиохия на Оронт. Тогава Птолемей III напада Селевкидската империя и започва Третата сирийска война (246-241 пр.н.е.), наречена "Войната на Лаодика", завладява и опустошава Сирия и дори достига до Месопотамия.

На Лаодика са наречени няколко новоосновани селевкидски градове Лаодикея.

Източници
 Полиян, 8, 50.
 Порфирий, FGrH F 43
 Felix Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (FGrH), Nr. 260, F 32, 6
 Orientis Graeci inscriptiones selectae (OGIS), 1, 225.
 Laodike [II 3]. In: Der Neue Pauly (DNP). Band 6, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01476-2, Sp. 1128.
 Felix Stähelin, Laodike 13). In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). XII,1, Stuttgart 1924, Sp. 701–705.

Външни препратки
 Laodice I, livius.org

Селевкиди
Древни македонци
Жени

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Q: Create hive database and table from Java Are their any Java libraries that would let me create Hive database and tables from Java? I've googled a lot but could not find any.
Any help appreciated.

A: You can by JDBC connections. Just check these link:
1.) Hive Server1 For Hive 0.10 and below.
2.) Hive server2 For Hive 0.11 and above.
Hope it helps...!!!


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Q: How to use Collections in java to sort list populated from a class I am having trouble trying to sort the following list.
Simply using Collections.sort(mylist); is showing an error which I am unable to understand as I'm a beginner to java
Myclass x1 = new Myclass("8", "12");
Myclass x2 = new Myclass("6", "9");
Myclass x3 = new Myclass("11", "14");
List<Myclass> mylist = Arrays.asList(x1, x2, x3);

How to sort "mylist" such that it is stored in the following order-(6,9),(8,12),(11,14)
i.e according to the first value of the tuples

A: Collections.sort(myList, myComparator);

myComparator should be your custom implementation of the Comparator interface.
Assuming that Myclass has a getFirstValue method your Comparator can be:
public class MyComaparator implements Comparator<Myclass> {

    @Override
    public int compare(Myclass arg0, Myclass arg1) {
        return arg0.getFirstValue() - arg1.getFirstValue();
    }

}

Please note that I also assumed that getFirstValue() does not return null. The validation part is up to you. I suggest you should use primitives in your Tuple implementation to solve this problem easily.
The official docs is here.

A: Do you really want to pass the numbers as strings, but then compare them as numbers if possible?
I assume Myclass has the following interface:
class Myclass {
    public Myclass(String first, String second) {..}
    public String getFirst() {..}
    public String getSecond() {..}
}

then implement your custom Comparator as follows. Since you are comparing strings but considering numbers, use the AlphanumComparator (place the java implementation into some package):
public class MyComparator implements Comparator<Myclass> {
   private final static AlphanumComparator alphaNum = new AlphanumComparator();

   @Override
   public int compare(Myclass a, Myclass b) {
      return alphaNum.compare( a.getFirst(), b.getFirst() );
   }
}

and you can call:
Collections.sort(myList, new MyComparator())

Or you can have your class implement the Comparable interface and then Collections.sort(myList) would sort it according the compareTo method of that interface.
However, if your question is not asked correctly, and Myclass is actually a pair of integers (not strings), then you can simply define your comparator as follows:
public class MyComparator implements Comparator<Myclass> {
   @Override
   public int compare(Myclass a, Myclass b) {
      return a.getFirst() - b.getFirst();
   }
}

A: You can achieve this by using the comparable or the comparator interface. As yours is a custom object you have to tell the Collections.sort method as to what basis it should compare two objects in the collection.
Here is a good example on how to do it.

A: Two methods you can use to implement sort function with your class Myclass.
Method#1 --> Use Myclass to implement Comparable, and write  custom comparison in compareTo method. Like,
Myclass ==>
public class Myclass implements Comparable {

private String value1;
private String value2;

public Myclass(String value1, String value2) {
    super();
    this.value1 = value1;
    this.value2 = value2;
}

public String getValue1() {
    return value1;
}

public void setValue1(String value1) {
    this.value1 = value1;
}

public String getValue2() {
    return value2;
}

public void setValue2(String value2) {
    this.value2 = value2;
}

@Override
public int compareTo(Object o) {

    Myclass cl = (Myclass)o;
    return Integer.valueOf(value1) - Integer.valueOf(cl.getValue1()) ;
}

}

Test code==>
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
    Myclass x1 = new Myclass("8", "12");
    Myclass x2 = new Myclass("6", "9");
    Myclass x3 = new Myclass("11", "14");
    List<Myclass> mylist = Arrays.asList(x1, x2, x3);

            //Sort list
    Collections.sort(mylist);

            //Print List content
    for( Myclass cla : mylist )
    {
        System.out.printf("(%s,%s)", cla.getValue1(),cla.getValue2());
    }
}
}

Output in Console==>
(6,9)(8,12)(11,14)

Use this method, you can use Collections.sort(myList); to sort the object in list.
Method#2 -->
Write a customer Comparator if you do not want make Myclass implement Comparable.
Use this method, you can use Collections.sort(myList,customComparator); to sort the object in list.
Regarding Method#2, Adam has provided example above. I am not going to provide it here.

A: Because your object don't have natural order (like integers), you need to use a specify a comparator mechanism, yourself.
Collections.sort(myList, new Comparator<Myclass>() {

    public int compare(Myclass o1, Myclass o2) {
        // I don't know how you access the first integer in your 'MyClass'
        // replace by your own.
        int number1 = o1.getFirstElement();
        int number2 = o2.getFirstElement();
        if (number1  < number2 ) {
            return -1;
        } else if (number1  > number2 ) {
            return 1;
        } else {
            return 0;
        }
    }
});

You always compare two objects, so you can only have -1 1 and 0 as result, even if the difference between two objects is bigger:
Comparing (6,9) and (8,12) will result the comparator returning 1 when the difference is 2
Comparing (8,12) and (11,14 will result the comparator returning 1 when the difference is 3
And the sorting operation will still be correct.
The rules are:

*

*sgn(compare(x,y)) = -sgn(compare(y,x))

*if compare(x,y) > 0 and compare(y, z) -> compare(x,z) > 0

*if comapre(x,z) = 0 -> sgn(compare(x,y)) = -sgn(compare(y,x))


Lately, I have been involved in Sitecore upgradation project and I ran into below error in Sitecore experience editor after upgradation to Sitecore 8.1 Update 3.
ERROR Could not map index document field to property "UpdatedDate" on type  : String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
Message: Could not map index document field to property "UpdatedDate" on type Sitecore.ContentTesting.ContentSearch.Models.SuggestedTestSearchResultItem : String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
This exception was related to Sitecore Content testing. We are using Sitecore in CMS only mode and not using Sitecore Content Testing feature. I've followed this KB article to disabled Content Testing in Sitecore 8.1 Update 3. I was still getting Experience editor error after changing the ContentTesting.AutomaticContentTesting.Enabled setting value to false in the App_Config\Include\ContentTesting\Sitecore.ContentTesting.config file. Therefore I have decided to disable OPTIMIZATION ribbon strip which is related to Content Testing functionality. Archive the /sitecore/content/Applications/WebEdit/Ribbons/WebEdit/Optimization item in the core database. It will completely disable the Optimization tab in the Experience Editor.
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I hope this blog post is helpful to some of you and save few minutes of troubleshooting. If this solution doesn't help you then make sure to check out other blogs/SO posts related to this error as there can be other reasons for this "An error occurred" error. Comments and suggestions are most welcome. Happy coding!
I've blogged about my second encounter with similar error in experience editor. Read it here.


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Q: instruction count in assembly code with loop I have a piece of (assembly) code, in which i want to count the number of dynamic instructions
a1=99

Loop:
a1=a1-1
branch a1>0, Loop
halt

I think the instructions in loop are executing for 100 times. So I guess the number of dynamic instructions in the code are 102. But I am not sure, whether or not we also consider branch instructions as dynamic? In that case, shouldn't I have double instruction count? Thanks in advance to anybody who is willing to help.

A: dynamic instructions is not a commonly used term, so it is unclear what it is supposed to mean. Branch instructions are always included in the instruction count, because they take at least one clock cycle to execute.
So the answer should be 200 instructions are executed.


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Reliance Communications, Aircel likely to sign merger agreement in September
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"Term sheet between the two companies has been finalised. Definitive agreement for merger between the two companies is expected to be signed in a week or 10 days," a source close to the development was quoted by PTI.
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The new company will have spectrum licence for all bandwidth which include 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz and 2300 MHz. The cash flow of the new company is estimated to be around Rs. 7,000 crore, while business from the first day is expected to touch Rs. 25,000 crore.
Meanwhile, the merger between RCom and Sistema Shyam Teleservices is on hold because of Sistema's issue over a spectrum contiguity levy imposed by the Department of Telecommunications.
The two mergers are set in a backdrop where the debt-ridden telecom sector is said to have a debt burden of Rs. 3,50,000 crore. Reliance Jio is expected to exert 4G tariff pressure on telecom majors Airtel, Vodafone and Idea.
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linear foot before completing line 1 and line 7, the cost multiplier.
materials are based on ASTM material specification values.
down by simply modifying the multiplier. Enter 1.10 if your cost is 10% higher.
Enter .80 if your cost is 20% lower.
variances exist is the reason the multiplier approach was selected.
years. You can enter any number of years.
five types of fuel: Natural Gas, Oil, Propane, Coal, or Electricity.
simply entering your actual cost, if known, or accepting the default cost.
input variables is shown in Figure 2 on page 27.
details about the insulation system (material and jacketing).
these calculators, and some are available in sizes and thicknesses not listed.
ASTM specification and the material type and/or grade used in the calculator.
the drop-down box, you can select any pipe size from 0.5″ to 24″.
is 40°F, but other values may be entered.
temperature, in Fahrenheit, for the area in question.
reasonably higher-than-average or worst-case value.
doubt, use 0 mph, which represents the worst-case conditions.
on ASTM material specification values.
calculator for horizontal piping, a definition of emittance is often requested.
all input variables is shown in Figure 4.


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This time, some of the group drove to Maine a few days early to be sure they made it.


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