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package io.debezium.connector.sqlserver;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;

import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.kafka.connect.data.Struct;
import org.apache.kafka.connect.source.SourceRecord;
import org.fest.assertions.Assertions;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import io.debezium.config.CommonConnectorConfig.BinaryHandlingMode;
import io.debezium.config.Configuration;
import io.debezium.connector.sqlserver.util.TestHelper;
import io.debezium.embedded.AbstractConnectorTest;
import io.debezium.util.Testing;

public class SqlServerBinaryModeIT extends AbstractConnectorTest {

    private SqlServerConnection connection;

    @Before
    public void before() throws SQLException {
        TestHelper.createTestDatabase();
        connection = TestHelper.testConnection();

        connection.execute(
                "CREATE TABLE binary_mode_test (id INT IDENTITY (1, 1) PRIMARY KEY, binary_col BINARY(3) NOT NULL, varbinary_col VARBINARY(3) NOT NULL)",
                "INSERT INTO binary_mode_test (binary_col, varbinary_col) VALUES (0x010203, 0x010203)");
        TestHelper.enableTableCdc(connection, "binary_mode_test");

        initializeConnectorTestFramework();
        Testing.Files.delete(TestHelper.DB_HISTORY_PATH);
    }

    @After
    public void after() throws SQLException {
        stopConnector();

        if (connection != null) {
            connection.close();
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldReceiveRawBinary() throws InterruptedException {
        Struct data = consume(BinaryHandlingMode.BYTES);

        ByteBuffer expectedValue = ByteBuffer.wrap(new byte[]{ 1, 2, 3 });
        assertEquals(expectedValue, data.get("binary_col"));
        assertEquals(expectedValue, data.get("varbinary_col"));
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldReceiveHexBinary() throws InterruptedException {
        Struct data = consume(BinaryHandlingMode.HEX);

        String expectedValue = "010203";
        assertEquals(expectedValue, data.get("binary_col"));
        assertEquals(expectedValue, data.get("varbinary_col"));
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldReceiveBase64Binary() throws InterruptedException {
        Struct data = consume(BinaryHandlingMode.BASE64);

        String expectedValue = "AQID";
        assertEquals(expectedValue, data.get("binary_col"));
        assertEquals(expectedValue, data.get("varbinary_col"));
    }

    private Struct consume(BinaryHandlingMode binaryMode) throws InterruptedException {
        final Configuration config = TestHelper.defaultConfig()
                .with(SqlServerConnectorConfig.SNAPSHOT_MODE, SqlServerConnectorConfig.SnapshotMode.INITIAL)
                .with(SqlServerConnectorConfig.TABLE_INCLUDE_LIST, "dbo\\.binary_mode_test")
                .with(SqlServerConnectorConfig.BINARY_HANDLING_MODE, binaryMode)
                .build();

        start(SqlServerConnector.class, config);
        assertConnectorIsRunning();
        TestHelper.waitForSnapshotToBeCompleted();

        SourceRecords records = consumeRecordsByTopic(1);
        final List<SourceRecord> results = records.recordsForTopic("server1.dbo.binary_mode_test");
        Assertions.assertThat(results).hasSize(1);

        return (Struct) ((Struct) results.get(0).value()).get("after");
    }
}


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package net.chrisrichardson.foodToGo.views;

import java.util.*;

public interface RestaurantDetail extends RestaurantSummary {
    public List getMenuItems();
}

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The BF-10 from Bear Flag Defense is a loading device used for reloading an AR-15's magazine while it is still in the firearm. It is similar to using a stripper clip on an SKS or similar rifle. This product goes great with out SAFEMOD mag button, which locks the magazine in place, permanently affixing the magazine for NY or CA compliance.
While the SAFEMOD is an excellent option for keeping all the great, original features of the AR-15 style rifle, in order to load the firearm, you must breakdown the action in half and load one at a time. With the BF-10, the rifle stays assembled and the rounds are pushed into the magazine through the ejection port.
Using the BF-10 is very simple. While shooting and the magazine goes empty, the bolt will lock back. Grab your BF-10 and rock it into place in the ejection port. Grab the handles and push them towards the rifle putting the rounds down into the magazine. Once filled, you can rock it back out, drop it, and send the bolt home. It is VERY fast.
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Millhouse top-manager tells how she brought money to Berezovsky
11:44 17/11/2011 Millhouse top-manager Marina Goncharova told the court on Wednesday how she was bringing millions of U.S. dollars to Boris Berezovsky as part of the hearings over the $5.5 billion lawsuit, filed by exiled oligarch , the hearing's transcript reads.
Russian oligarch Abramovich wanted to live honest life
10:59 11/11/2011 During the final day of testimony at London High Court of Justice, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich said that long before Sibneft issue he planned to live an honest life and pay taxes.
Abramovich denies he paid Berezovsky dirty money
11:03 10/11/2011 Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who is testifying in the London High Court of Justice, said that money paid to exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky for participation in Sibneft were legal funds derived from aluminum business; he firmly denied any criminal schemes.
Abramovich paid $116 mln for $10 mln worth of major TV channel stakes
10:38 08/11/2011 Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who is testifying in the $5.5 billion lawsuit filed by exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky against him, told the London High Court of Justice that he paid $116 million for a stake in Channel One owned by Berezovsky and Badri Patarkatsishvili, whereas its official value was just $10 million, the court documents read.
Millions of U.S. dollars were given to Berezovsky in cash - Abramovich
10:31 03/11/2011 Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who has been testifying in lawsuit filed by exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky for three days, said on Wednesday that millions of U.S. dollars were often given to Berezovsky in cash.
RAPSI broadcasts Abramovich's testimony upon dispute with Berezovsky
15:22 02/11/2011 Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich testifies on Wednesday upon the lawsuit brought against him by his former business partner Boris Berezovsky in London High Court of Justice. Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI) broadcasts the third day of Abramovich's testimony on Twitter.
RAPSI to broadcast Abramovich's testimony upon dispute with Berezovsky
12:56 02/11/2011 Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is to continue to testify on Wednesday upon the lawsuit brought against him by his former business partner Boris Berezovsky in London High Court of Justice. Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI) will broadcast the third day of Abramovich's testimony on Twitter at 14.15 Moscow time (10:15 GMT).
We were friends with Berezovsky - Abramovich
10:23 02/11/2011 Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, a defendant in a $5.5 billion lawsuit filed by exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky, told the London Court of Justice on Tuesday that they were friends with Boris Berezovsky in 1990s, RIA Novosti and the Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI) reported.
Nobody protected my business in 1990s - Abramovich
10:56 01/11/2011 Russian entrepreneur and Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich said on Monday that nobody protected his business in 1990s; therefore he refuted one of his defense lines in the hearing of Boris Berezovsky's $ 5.5 billion lawsuit.
London court overcrowded as Abramovich testifies in dispute with Berezovsky
18:19 31/10/2011 The London Court of Justice is overcrowded with journalists, lawyers and visitors on Monday as Russian oligarch and Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich prepares to testify in Boris Berezovsky's $5.5 billion case against him
Abramovich to testify in $5.5 bln dispute with Berezovsky
10:53 31/10/2011 Russian entrepreneur Roman Abramovich is expected to be interrogated on Monday in the London Court of Justice in connection with the $5.5 billion lawsuit filed by businessman Boris Berezovsky as soon as the court finishes listening to the testimony of the witnesses for Berezovsky
Berezovsky determined to complete lawsuit against Abramovich even if he dies
18:27 27/10/2011 Exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky looked for reliable individuals to finish his lawsuit against Roman Abramovich as he was anxious for his life in late 2009.
Abramovich to testify in London court in Berezovsky's lawsuit on October 31
18:00 25/10/2011 The High Court of London will interrogate early next week Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich in a lawsuit filed by exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky.
Berezovsky claims accusations against him did not embarrass business partners
10:58 18/10/2011 Exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has told the London court that the accusations brought against him in the late 1990s over the Aeroflot airlines case did not peril his business reputation and his partners did not require documenting the aluminum assets acquisitions.
Aeroflot could have been drained to offshore companies - Berezovsky
10:51 13/10/2011 Boris Berezovsky, a Russian billionaire who lives in exile in the UK, told the High Court of Justice in London that in the mid-1990s the Aeroflot airline could have been drained to the offshore along with his media business.
Berezovsky and Abramovich's QC find common language in High Court
10:43 11/10/2011 Boris Berezovsky, the exiled Russian oligarch, and Jonathan Sumption, QC for Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, have finally managed to settle the terms and find a common language over a $5.5 billion lawsuit heard by the High Court of Justice in London.
Berezovsky surprises High Court with controversial testimony
10:20 07/10/2011 Boris Berezovsky, a Russian billionaire who currently lives in the UK, failed to clearly explain his deals with Sibneft oil company in the end of the first day of his testimony over the lawsuit against his former business partner Roman Abramovich.
Berezovsky helped Abramovich using connections and clout, attorney says
11:23 05/10/2011 Roman Abramovich largely owes his purchase of the Sibnet oil giant to Boris Beresovsky. However his involvement, while crucial, was limited to providing political patronage and introducing Abramovich to bank, QC for Abramovich said on Tuesday at the High Court of Justice in London.
Berezovsky, Abramovich appear before court in person
18:22 03/10/2011 The High Court of Justice in London started to hear the lawsuit filed by Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky against his former business partner Roman Abromovich on Monday. Both oligarchs appeared before the court in person.
High Court of London to hear dispute between Russian oligarchs
11:03 03/10/2011 The High Court of London will start hearing on Monday a 2 billion pounds lawsuit filed by Boris Berezovsky, a Russian billionaire who currently lives in the UK, against his former business partner Roman Abromovich. Mr. Berezovsky seeks a compensation for a number assets he was forced to sell to Mr. Abramovich between 2000 to 2003.
Russian Economy Minister Ulyukayev charged with bribery
IKEA's slippery slope in Russia
Russian antimonopoly watchdog probes Microsoft upon complaint from Kaspersky
Russian communications regulator starts blocking LinkedIn
Photo: The Navalny brothers sentenced in Yves Rocher case
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Infographics: What changes lie in store for non-profit organizations
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Ragtime And Blues Analysis
Ragtime and blues are the foundations of jazz. Both were initially very popular among African Americans as jazz came from an African background. The blues contain the musical structure of jazz with the 12 bar pattern, while ragtime supplies the unique syncopations and improvisations. The early musicians of blues and ragtime would eventually provide the transition necessary to move into jazz. …show more content…
It was considered to be a great contribution by African Americans. "the only real contributions of the Negro-American genius in the domain" (pg. 236, Jazz its Evolution and Essence). They are similar yet different as ragtime is not related to blues. The theme of blues is often expressed in jazz. Jazz takes from blues its violin theme in which the major chords are played in the third degree. "Melodically it contains no borrowing from the Blues except for a timid and no doubt involuntary during the exposition of the violin theme, where is some major – minor playing around with the third degree" (pg.256, Jazz its Evolution and Essence). Some blues notes can be seen in ragtime, but these notes are not expressive and played with other sounds that drags the music away from the essence of blues. "Some vague blue notes are scattered around in the principal melodic design of Piano Rag Music, but they are surrounded by a polytonal accompaniment that robs them of all resemblance to the Negro music." (pg. 256, Jazz its Evolution and Essence). A big contributor to jazz was Louis Armstrong. One of his styles was shown in "Potato Head Blues" and "Skip the Gutter" shows in his stop choruses. The rhythm of these blues …show more content…
19, Jazz: A History). Ragtime was mostly based on the piano, which was the "principal instrument of ragtime" (pg.19, Jazz: A History). Ragtime came from the South. The instruments used to play ragtime, banjo, fiddle, fife, were instruments that were considered to be "prototypes brought to this country from Africa" (pg. 20, Jazz: A History). Ragtime music had a duple meter. It had a "functional diatonic harmony stressing tonic, dominant, subdominant, and applied dominants in a major tonality" (pg. 22, Jazz: A History). Its syncopations occurred on the second and fourth eighth notes with accented melody notes. Syncopation, an "interruption of the regular flow of rhythm", was the " chief characteristic" of ragtime melodies. Ragtime, when played on the piano, had a "stride style", in which the "pianist's left hand" was "called to 'stride' up and down" (pg. 23, Jazz: A History). Jelly Role Morton and James P. Johnson were well known for stride playing and are "viewed as transitional figures" from ragtime to jazz (pg.24, Jazz: A History). Tom Turpin, a musician who composed excellent music, composed rags that were in the ABA form, unlike the blues, which were usually in the AABA form. Scott Joplin, another ragtime musician, made a bigger contribution. His most famous work, "The Maple Leaf Rag",
Free Jazz Analysis
It developed shortly after hard bop using blues, gospel and rhythm and blues as its main influences. As an oppose to hard bop, soul jazz generally emphasized repetition of catching phrases and melodic lines, and the improvisation was a lot simpler then the other jazz styles in this time period. Horace Silver had a large influence on the soul jazz style playing songs with funky, often gospel based piano vamps. A great example of this is his piece "Song for my Father" released in 1964. The other form of jazz that occurred during this decade was Post Bob.…
Similarities And Differences Between Ragtime And Blues
Another noteworthy ragtime musician was Jelly Roll Morton. He is special, because he performed both ragtime and jazz style music. His famous songs, King Porter Stomp or Jelly Roll Blues are evidences of the contribution of ragtime to jazz. As the name of the genre says, ragtime passed on the "ragging" feature to jazz. Ragging is meant to embellish and decorate melodies.…
Jazz Influence On Rock And Roll
In order to understand the influence of jazz on rock and roll it is first important to understand the differences between jazz and rock and roll. Jazz is the several types of slave music combined together. Slaves sang jazz music to pass time on the plantations ("Jazz vs Rock"). Rock and roll has a standard three chord sequence. Rock and roll is a spin off of jazz, blues, and country music.…
The Role Of Ragtime In American Popular Music
Ragtime is a combination of European classical elements and American jazz elements. While jazz has improvised elements, ragtime is played with the musical score like classical music. However, ragtime is an indispensable musical style in the formation of jazz. King of ragtime Scott Joplin was a black composer whose name and ragtime had been forgotten for some time. In the movie The Sting, Scott Joplin's ragtime The Entertainer was picked as the theme song, and Joplin's ragtime came to light again.…
Analysis Of W. C. Handy's Memphis Blues
What exactly is jazz? According to Virgil Thomson, the American critic and composer, "Jazz, in brief, is a compound of (a) the fox-trot rhythm, and (b) a syncopated melody over this rhythm" [1]. An understanding of the elements of jazz allows the listeners to further appreciate the very art that has defined American culture for generations. Critical to the development of jazz are African and European music, brought by the foreigners who sought a better life in the New World and who were sold to into slavery, respectively. Originally from New Orleans around the 1890s, Jazz remains today as a remarkable type of art form that is crucial to American culture and history.…
Characteristics Of New Orleans Style Jazz
Although jazz was not notated and therefore was hard to dated exactly when the first renditions of the music were created, it was still thought to come around earliest; this jazz style was invented at the turn of the century and grew in popularity until the fifties. This style originated in New Orleans Louisiana and was created by African Americans who wanted to express their culture in the musical form. This style, otherwise known as the Traditional style or the Dixieland style, was created by Africans in the south of the United States who wanted to express their happiness. Although there were many styles of jazz, this style was the first, the broadest, the happiest, and the most upbeat. The New Orleans style of jazz was the epitome of the jazz culture; it was what defined the whole music genre itself, even to this…
What Are The Similarities Between Blues And Ragtime Influence Jazz?
A very large part of Blues was a call and response feature. It was when there is a question asked in one section of the song and another band member or vocalist follows with a line that sounds like a response (Gridley). This carried over from the Blues to Jazz. Ragtime helped contribute the piano to Jazz. Each Ragtime piece was usually up beat and composed therefore no improvisation and room for the musician's emotions to take an effect on the tempo.…
Ray Charles I Got A Woman Analysis
The music and lyrics fit together very nicely. Ray Charles is a genius by combine jazz, gospel and blues elements to create this recording. Ray Charles used a call and response structure for this recording which allows after lyrical phrase the instruments response by place a certain upbeat notes. Ray Charles used this methods after every two measure and during the measures the band will play chord, which follow a certain scheme that fit the jazz/blues. Ray Charles stops this for some time and then he uses another scheme which he sings one part and the band has resets and then play two different chords that are complementary, this is a key feature in blues/soul music.…
The Elements Of Jazz
As one of the most quintessentially American musical genres, jazz reflects the vast diversity of the United States's active cultural and ethnic traditions. Though jazz did not distinguish itself as a distinct form until the late 19th century, it draws from other tributary sources, namely ragtime and blues. Indeed, an essential characteristic of jazz is its ability to constantly evolve and incorporate elements of antecedent and contemporary music that lend it vitality and richness. Defined by intense displays of personal expression and interpretation, jazz was a "creative force" with "widespread appeal to non-black musicians and audiences" and ultimately became a means of testing sociocultural hierarchies. Coming from a similar Southern background,…
The 1920's: The Roaring Twenties
The 1920's were an exciting time for the people of the United States of America. With technological advancements, the development and occurrence of flappers, and the number of people trying to achieve the American Dream, it is no wonder why this decade is so often referred to as "The Roaring Twenties" (History Learning Site). One of the most relevant characteristics of the twenties was the newly popular jazz music, which took everyone by storm. Through the popularity and influence of jazz, Americans of all different ethnicities and cultures were brought together. The roots of jazz music are typically accredited to African Americans of the 1700's, who sang work songs while in slavery.…


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ccdiscoveryEntertainmentReview: Pain and Glory (2019), Cast & film summary and where to watch
Review: Pain and Glory (2019), Cast & film summary and where to watch
Pain and Glory
Pain and Glory is one of the best films released in 2019. The film is in the Spanish language, and it was directed by Pedro Almodóvar. The movie was released on 13 March 2019 (Spain). As well as the movie bagged home the Cannes Best Actor Award.
1 Pain and Glory Cast:
2 Pain and Glory Summary:
3 Release Date
4 Where to watch Pain and Glory:
4.1 Conclusion:
What's more? The movie grossed a total of $26.6 million worldwide. In addition to that, the movie was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards. Even IMDB has given the movie a rating of 7.7 out of 10.
Pain and Glory Cast:
Talking about the cast, the Movie Pain and Glory was directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and it was written by Pedro Almodóvar too. Also, the movie is starting with Antonio Banderas, who played the Salvador Mallo. There is also Asier Etxenadia who played Alberto Crespo. Plus, you get to see Leonardo Sbaraglia in the role of Federico Delgado, and Nora Navas Played as Mercedes. Apart from these main characters, the movie also includes so many other popular actors like Julieta Serrano. The soundtrack of the film was written by Alberto Iglesias.
Pain and Glory Summary:
The movie pain and Glory tells a series of reencounters experienced by the main character Salvador Mallo, a film director in physical decline. Some of these reencounters are fresh and happening in real-time.
Also, there is some reencounter that is set in the flashback and talks about his childhood in the 60s when he has emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity. Also, the flashbacks talk about his first desire, his first adult love in Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of his love which was pretty intense.
And how writing has helped him to overcome all the wrongs and forget the unforgotten. And how he discovered cinema at his early stage of life and how he fell in love with creating movies.
The movie talks about creation and how hard it is to get separated from someone's life. And throughout the film, he tries to recount his past, and in the end, he finds his salvation.
The first trailer for the Pain and Glory movie was released back on January 31, 2019. The film's official posters were released back on February 11, and another trailer was launched back on February 18, 2019. And finally, the movie was released in Spain on March 22, 2019. It was released in the UK by Pathé on August 23, 2019. It is scheduled to be released in the United States on October 4, 2019, by Sony Pictures Classics. Also, the movie has a total runtime of 113 mins.
Where to watch Pain and Glory:
As of now, Pain and Glory are not available online on popular streaming platforms like Netflix, YouTube, or any other platform. However, according to different reports, it is said that the movie might be made available after the movie gets released in the United States. As mentioned earlier, that movie is going to release on October 4, 2019, in the United States. So after that only, you might get to see the movie on popular streaming platforms like Netflix, YouTube Movies, and others.
Overall, the movie is a pretty amazing one. It was nominated for some of the biggest awards, and when the movie was released, it made a huge noise. So go ahead and do give a watch to the movie and see if you like it or not. Also, if you have any suggestions to share, then do feel free to comment below.


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Q: Passing in CircleGeometry radius through React state doesn't work but passing it in directly does? If I console.log the state directly in the submit handler, it shows the correct value in integer form. If I try to pass in the value into the CircleGeometry constructor directly, for example, CircleGeometry(30, 25), it will render into the scene perfectly fine. But if I try to pass it in through state, nothing happens. Any help would be much appreciated!
I have the controlled form here:
<Form
    onFinish={(e) => {
      handleSubmit(e);
    }}
    labelCol={{ span: 2 }}
    wrapperCol={{ span: 16 }}
    style={{ maxWidth: 600, marginTop: '30px' }}>
    <Form.Item>
      <Input
        type="number"
        min="1"
        max="100"
        placeholder="circle radius"
        value={formCircle}
        onChange={handleChange}
        name="circle"
      />
    </Form.Item>
    <Form.Item>
      <Button type="primary" htmlType="submit" value="Submit">
        Add circle
      </Button>
    </Form.Item>
  </Form>

And it will call handleChange to update the state with the input value:
const [formCircle, setFormCircle] = useState('');
  const handleChange = (e: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => {
    const value = e.target.value;
    setFormCircle(value);
  };

Upon submission, it should add a circle with the input radius:
  const handleSubmit = (event: React.FormEvent<HTMLFormElement>) => {
    const material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({ color: 0xffff00 });
    const geometry = new THREE.CircleGeometry(Number(formCircle), 25);
    const circle = new THREE.Line(geometry, material);
    scene.add(circle);
    circle.position.set(50, 50, 50);
  };

Edit: So I found a potential problem. When I console.log the scene with the raw value passed into the CircleGeometry constructor, all the children show up in the object (AmbientLight, Group, Line) but when I console.log the scene with the state passed into the constructor, it only has the Line as its child.
Edit 2: I've narrowed it down to the handleChange function being the issue. Whenever there's an input in there, there's a problem.

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<?php

namespace Swoft\Process;

use Swoft\App;
use Swoft\Base\InitApplicationContext;
use Swoft\Bean\BeanFactory;
use Swoft\Event\Event;
use Swoft\Helper\PhpHelper;
use Swoft\Server\AbstractServer;
use Swoole\Process as SwooleProcess;

class Process
{
    /**
     * 进程列表
     *
     * @var \Swoole\Process[]
     */
    private static $processes = [];

    /**
     * 进程ID
     *
     * @var string
     */
    private static $id;

    /**
     * 获取某个进程
     *
     * @param string $name
     *
     * @return \Swoole\Process
     */
    public static function getProcess(string $name)
    {
        if (isset(self::$processes[$name])) {
            return self::$processes[$name];
        }

        return null;
    }

    /**
     * 创建一个进程
     *
     * @param AbstractServer $server           serverd对象
     * @param string         $processName      进程名称
     * @param string         $processClassName 进程className
     *
     * @return null|\Swoole\Process
     */
    public static function create(
        AbstractServer $server,
        string $processName,
        string $processClassName
    )
    {
        // 不存在
        if (!class_exists($processClassName)) {
            throw new \InvalidArgumentException('自定义进程不存在,className=' . $processClassName);
        }

        /* @var AbstractProcess $processClass */
        $processClass = new $processClassName($server);
        if (!is_subclass_of($processClass, AbstractProcess::class)) {
            throw new \InvalidArgumentException('自定义进程类,不是AbstractProcess子类,className=' . $processClassName);
        }

        // 准备工作是否完成
        $isReady = $processClass->isReady();
        if ($isReady == false) {
            return null;
        }

        // 进程属性参数
        $pipe = $processClass->isPipe();
        $iout = $processClass->isInout();

        // 创建进程
        $process = new SwooleProcess(function(SwooleProcess $process) use ($processClass, $processName) {
            // reload
            BeanFactory::reload();
            $initApplicationContext = new InitApplicationContext();
            $initApplicationContext->init();

            App::trigger(Event::BEFORE_PROCESS, null, $processName, $process, null);
            PhpHelper::call([$processClass, 'run'], [$process]);
            App::trigger(Event::AFTER_PROCESS);
        }, $iout, $pipe);

        return $process;
    }

    /**
     * 获取进程ID
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public static function getId(): string
    {
        return self::$id;
    }

    /**
     * 初始化进程ID
     *
     * @param string $id
     */
    public static function setId(string $id)
    {
        self::$id = $id;
    }
}


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U.S. Motorcycles to Rev Up in China?
Many American manufacturing companies are trying to break into the Chinese market. With about a billion people, the idea of selling goods in China is an attractive one, but the GLRC's Christina Shockley has the story of one company that's having a hard time reaching Chinese citizens. That's because local environment and safety regulations often stand in the way:
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Many American manufacturing companies are trying to break into the Chinese market.
With about a billion people, the idea of selling goods in China is an attractive one, but
the GLRC's Christina Shockley has the story of one company that's having a hard time reaching
Chinese citizens. That's because local environment and safety regulations often stand in the way:
Motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson opened a dealership in Beijing in April. It's the
company's first shop in China in at least 60 years.
Robert Kennedy is Executive Director of the William Davidson Institute at the University
of Michigan. The institute studies business and policy issues in emerging markets.
Kennedy says there's a huge demand in countries like China for products associated with
the American way of life. He says Harley-Davidson motorcycles are a prime example:
"I mean, they're associated with a particular lifestyle here, it's a very American thing.
And they have very low penetration in China and India, and these other countries now,
but because there's slowed demand growth in the US, if they want to grow, that's a great
place for them to go."
Kennedy says it's very common for companies to try to ease restrictions in other
countries to make it easier for them to export goods and there are several restrictions on
motorcycles in China. The rules vary from community to community, but most large
cities ban, or severely limit, motorcycle use in the city center.
Experts say the rules are in place partly because of safety and environmental issues.
Barrett McCormick specializes in Chinese politics at Marquette University. He says
environmental problems can be intensified because Chinese roads are clogged, and most
motorcycles there are dirty:
"Anyone who's been to China 10 years ago or something, a common site is some horrible
little motorcycle putting down the road, with a big cloud of smoke behind it, and I think that's
the kind of thing that the Chinese government has regulated to eliminate."
McCormick says air quality is one of China's most pressing problems. A recent report
from the World Health Organization says many of the most polluted cities in the world
are in China. It says one of the main sources of air pollution there is motor vehicles
emissions.
Zhixin Wu is with a company that's working with government agencies to develop
Chinese transportation policies. He says emissions from dirty, small motorcycles in
china account for roughly 50 or 60 percent of emissions in urban areas:
"In China almost all the motorcycles use the two stroke internal combustion engine."
Wu says that type of small engine is very dirty. But, Harley-Davidson says those bikes
are a far cry from the motorcycles it produces:
"The motorcycles in use in China, I guess I wouldn't even characterize them as
motorcycles. I would call them two-wheelers."
Tim Hoelter is the company's Vice President for International Affairs. He says Harley
bikes easily meet environmental regulations in every market in which they're sold. And
Hoelter says the company is working with officials in the United States and China to get
this point across:
"Not too long ago the Chinese ambassador to the United States came to Milwaukee and
met with local business people. I sat two seats away from him at dinner, and was able to
talk to him about these riding bans."
Hoelter says the company is also meeting with American trade officials, and authorities
in the Chinese government, to get the rules changed. He says his company has already
helped ease motorcycle restrictions in other countries, such as Vietnam and India.
Robert Kennedy, from the William Davidson Institute, says Harley-Davidson will
probably be able to get the rules changed in a few years, assuming the regulations have
the inadvertent affect of keeping out Harley motorcycles. He says China has a huge trade
surplus with the United States, and that's a sensitive political issue.
Kennedy says it's not unusual for countries to have rules that keep foreign goods out,
even if that's not their intent:
"The US has some of these regulations that keep out other countries products, and other
countries have regulations that keep out our products. It's not like under the Romans or
the British where a country would send in the army and force them to buy our goods, it's
just governments working together to sort out the details to allow trade to happen.
Kennedy says even though most Chinese wouldn't be able to afford Harley motorcycles,
there are many who could, and as people there become more wealthy, the possibility
exists for a huge market.
For the GLRC, I'm Christina Shockley.
More on air pollution in China from the Energy Information Administration
The William Davidson Institute website
A related article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Author Christina ShockleyPosted on August 7, 2006 Categories FeaturesTags air pollution, air quality, american, barrett, beijing, china, city, dirty, emission, environment, executive director, government, government agencies, harley-davidson, hoelter, india, mccormick, milwaukee, motorcycle, regulation, road, robert, small engine, smoke, tim, transportation, united states, university of michigan, urban areas, vietnam, world health organization
Harley-Davidson Pushes for Ride in China
Motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson wants China to relax its restrictions on motorcycle use in big cities. The company says that's the only way its new dealership will be successful in the country long-term. The GLRC's Christina Shockley reports:
Motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson wants China to relax its restrictions
on motorcycle use in big cities. The company says that's the only way its
new dealership will be successful in the country long-term. The GLRC's
Christina Shockley reports:
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Harley-Davidson has opened a new dealership in Beijing hoping to sell
its motorcycles in China, but China limits motorcycle use and ownership
in big cities because of safety concerns and environmental issues.
Tim Hoelter is a vice-president with Harley-Davidson. He says the
company hopes the restrictions will change, over time.
"We of course are hopeful that working with our government partners in
Washington, and working cooperatively with the Chinese ministries to
understand the basis for these bans that over time we can overcome
Hoelter says the company has been successful in changing bans in other
countries, including Japan… by working with the foreign and U.S
governments.
Harley-Davidson website
A related article
Author Christina ShockleyPosted on April 24, 2006 Categories News SpotsTags beijing, china, environmental issues, government, harley-davidson, hoelter, japan, motorcycle, restrictions, tom, washington


Lo and behold, it has arrived! An extra special holiday extravaganza version of Geek About Town, just in time for the holidays! Whether this is the most magical time of the year for you, or you're finding yourself down and in need of some cheery distraction, we've got you covered. From board games to holiday lights, comic books to Christmas carols, we're excited to spend the holidays with you, our favorite geeky community!
Bring in your comics, graphic novels, and games to swap with other folks in the Outsider community. Meet new people and find elusive treasures!
Friday, November 23rd: GeekGirlCon Board Game Night at Wayward Coffeehouse!
It's ACT's 43rd production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, adapted by Gregory A. Falls. Directed by Kurt Beattie, this celebrated adaptation follows the original Dickens tale taking audiences along on Ebenezer Scrooge's transformational journey through time. Three ghostly visitors help Scrooge get into the holiday spirit, leading him on a trip through Christmases past, present, and future.
Seattle's wildest holiday lights festival returns with sparkling lights, faux snowball fights, up close animal encounters, hot chocolate and family delights. Experience brand new wild and wonderful light displays that will be featured throughout the zoo including a holiday light spectacular at the zoo's south entrance which will now be open throughout the run of WildLights.
PNB'S best-selling holiday classic is a fantastical combination of Ian Falconer's unique design, Tchaikovsky's beloved score, and the entire Company in show-stopping roles. A memory making tradition for generations of families and friends, Nutcracker fun includes McCaw Hall gloriously decked-out for the season's best photo ops.
The Broadway Market Holiday Pop-Up Market features a variety of vendor members from Seattle Made, an initiative to grow and support the area's urban manufacturing and producer economy. Vendors will be selling a variety of holiday gifts, wearables and hand-made merchandise, all with a focus on recycled and upcycled materials. This event is presented by Broadway Market, Blanton Turner and Seattle Made to celebrate Shop Small Saturday.
Join us on Monday, November 26 as NASA makes history when its next lander arrives on Mars, the first mission dedicated to studying the deep interior of Mars. We'll have presentations by Mars experts and space related activities throughout the day. We'll broadcast the landing live in our PACCAR IMAX Theater from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Our educators will be on hand to answer your questions and walk you through what's happening during the landing.
This event is included with general admission and is FREE for Pacific Science Center Members.
Join us for another magical evening! The Witches' Night Out Market returns on Friday, November 30th – bringing you an array of metaphysical merchants and artisans, community networking, readers and bodyworkers, and much more!
Every event we do is a little different – this time we'll be focusing a bit more on the market – we're making space for a few more artists and witchy creators to expand your holiday possibilities. Also, as this season also marks a time of remembering our ancestors and those who have come before us, we will have an interactive community altar. We have more things up our sleeves that we will be announcing as we get closer to the event. You are not going to want to miss it!
As always, our events are free and all ages – but we have a fabulous door raffle to benefit the Cabiri and Arcadia. Cash donations will transform into tickets for you to win delightful things!
Give gifts that give back! Find unique holiday gifts for family and friends from over 30 vendors and organizations that support great causes locally and globally.
Looking to do more than just shop for holiday gifts? You can make your own gifts alongside local artists and join Sanctuary Art Center in creating one-of-a-kind gift cards.
Drunken Science Nigh returns this December 1st to the beautiful Palladium Theater at Hale's Ales in Fremont.
Doors open at 6 and the Stage Show starts at 7 sharp.
This is most fun you can have without breaking the laws of physics.
Science Night is a hands on Science Experiment free-for-all, with dozens of ever changing exhibits to try. Blow things up with air! Levitate metal! Make homemade lightbulbs, cube-shaped bubbles, 3-d art, float stuff on air, and more! Ever wanted to shatter flowers with liquid nitrogen? See sound waves? Tesla Coils? Jacobs Ladder? Oh my! We have got you covered. This is not a lecture… instead its a fully interactive science fair. Come ready to have your mind blown.
Friends of Meadowbrook Pond and the Meadowbrook Advisory Council are joining together to host our Annual Luminaria Walk. Please come enjoy good company and hot cocoa, while walking around the beautifully lit pathway. We are also looking for community members to help make this event happen; work parties are listed below!
Friday, December 14th: GeekGirlCon Board Game Night at Wayward Coffeehouse!
A special day of art, culture, and creativity celebrating Indigenous families. Meet local Indigenous artists and makers. Create treasures to bring home. Stick around for more festivities after 1:30 p.m. including artist talks from yəhaw̓ artists in residence and a 4 p.m. film screening of Rumble.
Shop a market and open studios for art, "hand-knit hats, ceramics, jewelry, clothing, and more" and stop by Vichayapai's solo exhibition, which she's been preparing all through her artist's residency.
Come join us for this FREE holiday event for the whole family! Stroll the glimmering Green Lake circuit, paths, and docks which will be lit with thousands of twinkling candles. And while you wander through the magic of the sparkling lights, enjoy complimentary refreshments and live holiday music. If the weather is good we'll have hot air balloons again from 4:30-5:30pm only.
You can also visit and like the Green Lake Pathway of Lights Facebook Page for updates on the event!
The inaugural race was so much fun, we wanted to bring it back, see all the costumes, and get into the holiday spirit.
In the spirit of Star Wars, this will be a FUN opportunity to get out your light saber and practice your best Darth Vader impersonation, as well as dress up in your favorite holiday race outfit!
The run/walk is for FUN, no official timing, but there will be a running clock.
A proof by example: We are not alone.
Join us to celebrate humanity's accomplishments, reflect on our past, and consider the future with food, light, song, and camaraderie.
Your donations help us cover venue, audio/video equipment, permits, and supplies, ensuring that we can continue this tradition year after year.
Friday, December 28th: GeekGirlCon Board Game Night at Wayward Coffeehouse!


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به لندن
مجموعه: کتاب های فوق متوسط / کتاب: لورنا دون / فصل 5
کتاب های فوق متوسط
36 کتاب | 471 فصل
کتاب 1 : بازمانده روز
کتاب 2 : عشقی برای زندگی
کتاب 3 : ترومپت والنتری
کتاب 4 : قاتل ساز
کتاب 5 : اولیور تویست
کتاب 6 : زمانی برای کشتن
کتاب 7 : آسمانی خطرناک
کتاب 8 : اجرای ساکسیفون تک نفره
کتاب 9 : هیئت منصفه
کتاب 10 : سیانید درخشان
کتاب 11 : نورثنگر ابی
کتاب 12 : آنها به بغداد آمدند
کتاب 13 : قتل در ابرها
کتاب 14 : میراث خونین
کتاب 15 : مقصد نامعلوم
کتاب 16 : بلندی های بادگیر
کتاب 17 : تس دوربرویل
کتاب 18 : داستان های مجرمانه آمریکایی
کتاب 19 : مورد عجیب دکتر جکیل و آقای هاید
کتاب 20 : باغ اسرار آمیز
کتاب 21 : سه نمایشنامه بزرگ از شکسپیر
کتاب 22 : هزار و نهصد و هشتاد و چهار
کتاب 23 : خانه پله ها
کتاب 24 : درباره پسرک
کتاب 25 : داستانهایی از راز و تخیل
کتاب 26 : افسانه های محلی جهان
کتاب 27 : همزمان که زمان می گذرد
کتاب 28 : پدرخوانده
کتاب 29 : لورنا دون
1. پایان مدرسه
2. یک دختر و پسر
3. برگشت به دره دون
4. داستان لورنا
5. به لندن
6. دردسرهای جدید لورنا
7. لورنا دره را ترک میکند
8. حمله
9. داستان اصلی لورنا
10. رفته
11. تام در خطر
12. عشق و انتقام
13. آخرین مبارزه
کتاب 30 : رنگ های اولیه
کتاب 31 : غریبه ها در قطار
کتاب 32 : فول مونتی
کتاب 33 : در قفل شده
کتاب 34 : زنان در تجارت
کتاب 35 : گلادیاتور
کتاب 36 : مرد سیندرلایی
To London
But I was not able to see Lorna again as soon as I had hoped. Before the month had passed, I was called away from home, in a very strange and unexpected way.
One afternoon, as I was outside the house feeding the horses, a stranger rode up to our gate and shouted at me. He was a tough-looking, hard-faced man, about forty years old, with small, quick eyes, and he was dressed very differently from the way we dress in Exmoor. He said he was looking for Plover's Barrows farm, and a man called John Ridd. When I told him he had found them both, he introduced himself as Jeremy Stickles, a servant of the King, and he gave me a letter. I looked at him in alarm, but he said there was nothing in the letter to worry me.
At the top of the letter, my name was written in large letters. I read: To JOHN RIDD:
This letter is to order you to appear before the King's judges in London, and tell them anything you know about some matters which may be harmful to the King and the country.
Jeremy Stickles seemed very pleased by my fear and surprise at the letter, but he said again that no one was going to hurt me. All I had to do was tell the truth.
When my mother read the letter, she became very worried and began to cry. She wondered how the King had heard of me, and what he wanted to do with me. But Mr. Stickles, who wasn't really as hard as he seemed, explained everything carefully to her. He told her that the King only knew of me because the stories of my great size and strength had reached even London. He had heard I was a good man, and thought I could help him, that was all.
This made my mother feel better, but I was very unhappy. I was thinking of Lorna. How could I tell her I was going away? I had promised not to go back to the valley for a month, and that was still a few days away. But how terrible it would be if she came to look for me at the end of the month, and I was not there! I would have to break my promise and go before the agreed time.
Mr. Stickles was happy to stay at the farm for one or two days, to try our good Exmoor food. So I used the time to look for Lorna. But I saw nothing of her in the valley, and no signal that she needed me. There was nothing else I could do. Mr. Stickles wanted to go, and I had to leave for London without seeing her.
A journey to London was both long and dangerous in those days, because of all the robbers on the roads. As I said goodbye to my mother and sisters and took my last look at the farmhouse, I felt very miserable. But Jeremy Stickles was a good companion. As we rode, he told me many amusing stories of London life, and we became the best of friends.
I did not like London. It was a crowded, dirty place, not at all like Exmoor - and, even worse, I had to wait more than two months before the King's judges were ready to see me. There was a lot of trouble in London at that time, with arguments between the King and the City of London. Nobody had time to talk to John Ridd, but I was not allowed to leave and go home. At last, I was called to see Judge Jeffreys.
Jeremy Stickles had told me about Judge Jeffreys. He was the King's chief judge, and there were terrible stories about him. He became very angry if anyone argued with him, and he had sent many of the King's enemies to their deaths.
In the room I walked into, there were three men sitting on high seats, and they were dressed in very rich clothes. In front of each of them was a desk, with pen and paper. The man in the middle seemed to be the most important. He was a big, heavy man, with a square chin and a kind of fire in his eyes. He was a man that almost anyone would be afraid of. This was certainly Judge Jeffreys.
He gave me a terrible stare, and asked me who I was and where I came from. When I had told him, he said: 'Well done, John Ridd. You have answered me without fear. I remember this matter now. I will ask you some questions.' He looked at me more closely. 'In Exmoor,' he said, 'there is a family of robbers. Is that true?'
I told him it was.
'And why isn't your local judge doing anything about them?'
'I suppose he's afraid, my Lord. The robbers are very strong, and their valley is hard to attack.'
'But they must still answer to the law!' Judge Jeffreys said. 'What's the name of these people, and how many of them are there?'
'They are the Doones, and we think there are about forty men in the valley.'
'I will do something about these thieves,' he said. 'Perhaps I will come down to the west myself.' But then he stared hard at me again, and asked: 'Is there any sign, in Exmoor, of any dislike of the King?'
'No, my Lord. We don't know much about him.'
That's a good answer,' he laughed. 'But the King knows he has enemies in the country. I see you know nothing about them, though. You're a good man, John Ridd. Keep out of trouble. Keep away from the King's enemies, and from the Doones as well, and you will be safe. I was going to use you as a spy, but I see you're too honest. I will send someone else. But never tell anyone what I've said to you.' Here he stared at me very angrily, but when he saw he had frightened me enough, he smiled again. 'Now go home, John. I will remember you - and I don't think you will forget me.'
I had no money left to hire a horse for the journey back to Exmoor, so I had to walk the whole way. It took me seven days, and I was very glad to get home again.


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Stokley Readies Release Of New Album 'Sankofa' By Revealing The Cover Art, Tracklist & Release Date
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August 27, 2021 | 6:00 pm
Stokley's sophomore album Sankofa has been a couple of years in the making, and now it's finally ready for the world. After numerous singles and a few delays, fans will be able to get their hands on Sankofa when it's released on Friday, September 17th. The good news doesn't stop there, though, with Stokley also unveiling the album's striking cover art and stacked tracklist.
The Sankofa album cover incorporates one of the Adinkra symbols for Sankofa, a mythical bird flying forward with its head turned backward, in the background. The symbol signifies a concept from the Akan people of Ghana that means "to go back and get it." In the foreground, Stokley stands majestic in all black wearing a beaded necklace with a Sankofa pendant.
While we're admiring Stokley's fine self on the cover, it's the tracklist and guestlist that are really making us excited. Sankofa will feature a whopping 18 tracks, including previously released singles "She," "Vibrant," "Cascade" and its remix. When it comes to featured artists, joining Snoop Dogg, The Bonfyre and Nigerian Afrobeats star KiDi (who co-stars on Stokley's current single "Woman") will be R&B superstar H.E.R., rapper Wale, lecturer Mahmoud El-Kati (who also happens to be Stokley's father) and producer Shakespeare!. On the songwriting and production tip, Stokley will be assisted by S.Dot, Carvin Haggins and Shakespeare! as well. Although there were a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it came to making Sankofa, it should be noted that Stokley played 99% of the instruments on the album. We've long been impressed by the former Mint Condition leader's many talents, but now we're just amazed and in awe.
Stokley's Sankofa will be released via a joint venture with his Bluraffe Entertainment independent label and Jimmy Jam and Terri Lewis' revival of Flyte Tyme/Perspective Records. Mark your calendars for Sankofa's debut on September 17th, and pre-order/pre-save from a handful of digital music providers.
Stokley Sankofa tracklist:
1. Sankofa - Past
2. Vibrant (feat. Snoop Dogg)
3. Cafe (feat. Wale)
4. She
5. Vudoo
6. Clouds (feat. Shakespeare!)
7. Homecoming (Lude)
8. Cascade (feat. The Bonfyre)
9. RUSH (feat. H.E.R.)
10. Sankofa - Present
11. Recipe
12. Woman (feat. KiDi)
13. Cascade (LVRS Quarrel Mix)
14. Trinkutsi (Lude)
15. Verbalize (feat. Snoop Dogg)
16. Slip
18. Sankofa - The Present (feat. Mahmoud El-Kati)
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Are you ready for Winter Consumerfest 2014? The best ads of the month might help.
Ding dong merrily on high! It's that time of year again when capitalism goes into overdrive, with companies splurging huge chunks of their marketing budgets on schmaltzy nonsense to try to convince us to open our wallets for them. And all thanks to the birth of a Middle Eastern baby who may or may not have existed around two millennia ago. Cheers, Jesus.
We've certainly got a lot more yuletide marketing come yet, but here's our rundown of the best efforts the ad industry made in November. Thankfully this year's Christmas advertising isn't all schmaltzy nonsense. Some of it's just schmaltzy.
We're quite used to this kind of advertising. Cuteness, everyday setting, clever CGI and a corker of a power ballad to burrow into your brain for the rest of the day. There's certainly a formula at work here, but we shouldn't let that fool us into thinking it's bad. With some of the very best craftsmen realising the script, it's ended up more than the sum of its parts – a charming film that warms the soul. And a nice Christmas present for Foreigner, without whose track the whole thing would be undermined. A masterstroke of licensing.
The John Lewis Christmas Advert. Somehow, a fairly ordinary department store has managed to carve out a slice of Christmas tradition in Britain. There are probably people who say "my Christmas starts with the John Lewis ad" (mercifully we haven't met those people). This year's offering delivers on so many levels. A wintery tearjerker in which a cute boy buys his cute penguin a cute mail-order bride. It's heart-warming for the softies and easy to lampoon for the cynics, as the many parody responses have proven. Beautifully written and expertly made, it's everything John Lewis asked for.
It's unclear whether many people will see this online film, which is a shame because it's funny. Made very much to the old template of a 'viral video', its success will depend on the right people sharing it online (and how much seeding Maille pay for). James Rouse made his name doing willy jokes on the internet and he's still one of the best at this art form, delivering his unmistakable brand of nuanced comic performance. Respect to Maille for buying this filth. For a mustard brand with heritage, it's a leftfield strategy.
As if people weren't talking about the Christmas ads enough already, Sainsbury's go and throw some controversy into the mix. We've all heard both sides of the argument over whether it's in good taste or not, but it's hard to deny that it's a rousing piece of film about one of the most heartening moments in human history, set against a backdrop of one of the most horrifying moments in human history. Take the Sainsbury's logo off the end we'd be united in support for this excellent piece of storytelling.
This one's definitely no schmaltzy nonsense, but's still emotional. Christmas is all about tradition. Sadly, road accidents caused by drink driving are one seasonal custom that we've found hard to shake off, proven by the fact that the government have needed PSAs like this for 50 years. The idea here is actually very smart. It manages to get across a message we've heard too many times in a compelling way, and reminds us that for the emergency services, it's not necessarily the most wonderful time of the year.
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Abstract: With the current scenario of development of antennas in the wireless communication field, the need of compact multiband, multifunctional and cost effective antenna is on the rise. The objective of this thesis is to present fixed and reconfigurable techniques and methods for small and slim multiband antennas, which are applicable to serve modern small and slime wireless, mobile and cognitive radio applications. In the fixed designs, independent control of the operating frequencies is investigated to enhance the antennas capabilities and to give the designer an additional level of freedom to design the antenna for other bands easily without altering the shape or the size of the antenna. In addition, for mobile phone antenna, the effect of user's hand and mobile phone housing are studied to be with minimum effect. Although fixed multiband antennas can widely be used in many different systems or devices, they lack flexibility to accommodate new services compared with reconfigurable antennas. A reconfigurable antenna can be considered as one of the key advances for future wireless communication transceivers. The advantage of using a reconfigurable antenna is to operate in multiband where the total antenna volume can be reused and therefore the overall size can be reduced. Moreover, the future of cell phones and other personal mobile devices require compact multiband antennas and smart antennas with reconfigurable features. Two different types of frequency reconfigurability are investigated in this thesis: switchable and tunable. In the switchable reconfigurability, PIN diodes have been used so the antenna's operating frequencies can hop between different services whereas varactor diode with variable capacitance allow the antenna's operating frequencies to be fine-tuned over the operating bands. With this in mind, firstly, a switchable compact and slim antenna with two patch elements is presented for cognitive radio applications where the antenna is capable of operating in wideband and narrow bands depending on the states of the switches. In addition to this, a switchable design is proposed to switch between single, dual and tri bands applications (using a single varactor diode to act as a switch at lower capacitance values) with some fine tuning capabilities for the first and third bands when the capacitance of the diode is further increased. Secondly, the earlier designed fixed antennas are modified to be reconfigurable with fine-tuning so that they can be used for more applications in both wireless and mobile applications with the ability to control the bands simultaneously or independently over a wide range. Both analytical and numerical methods are used to implement a realistic and functional design. Parametric analyses using simulation tools are performed to study critical parameters that may affect the designs. Finally, the simulated designs are fabricated, and measured results are presented that validate the design approaches.


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Q: Definite integral from Stewart's calculus ch 5 problems plus Long time no post, revising some calculus from Stewart's book and got stuck on a problem in ch5 Problems Plus.
Problem Statement:
$$
 \text{If} \int_0^4 e^{(x-2)^4}\mathrm{d}x = k, \;\; \text{find} \;\; \int_0^4 xe^{(x-2)^4}\mathrm{d}x
$$
My attempt:
First thought was that this should be something similar to integrating $e^x \sin(x)$, i.e. integrate by parts twice and solve for the unknown integral. I thought it could be something similar here if I could rearrange the second integral with some clever substitution. My attempt was roughly this:
$$
\begin{aligned}
\int_0^4 xe^{(x-2)^4}\mathrm{d}x & = \int_{-2}^2(u+2)e^{u^4}\mathrm{d}u \\
&= \int_{-2}^{2}ue^{u^4}\mathrm{d}u + 2\int_{-2}^{2}e^{u^4}\mathrm{d}u \\
&= \int_0^4(x-2)e^{(x-2)^4}\mathrm{d}x + 2\int_0^4 e^{(x-2)^4}\mathrm{d}x \\
&= \frac{1}{2}\int_0^4 e^{w^2}\mathrm{d}w + 2k
\end{aligned}
$$
Now it looks like I've simplified the integral but I don't think the $e^{w^2}$ integral has a closed form and I'm not sure where to take it from here. I tried writing it out as a limit of a Riemann sum just to see if I can maybe compute the limit, i.e. get the integral from first principles, but that left me with a nasty limit:
$$
\lim_{n \to \infty} \sum_{i=0}^{n} \frac{4}{n} e^{\frac{16i^2}{n}}
$$
so this seems like a bit of a dead end.
Any pointers for an approach? Not looking for a full solution. Mind, this is at the end of a chapter on definite/indefinite integrals, fundamental theorem of calculus and substitution rule. So it shouldn't be anything too complicated. I feel like I'm missing a simple trick somewhere.

A: The first integral in your penultimate line is actually $0$. By the substitution $u=x-2$, $$\int_0^4 (x-2)e^{(x-2)^4} dx = \int_{-2}^2 ue^{u^4} du = 0 $$ due to the oddness of the integrand. Your substitution, $w=(x-2)^2$, doesn't work because $(x-2)^2$ is not a one-one function in $(0,4)$.


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Q: How use CSS sprites? I'm trying to figure out how to use CSS Sprites on a sprite image with 4 sprites.
I have code to show the first two sprites. I have trouble with writing code to show the last two sprites. I am also unable to show the third and 4th sprites by themselves.
This is the image:

How to show the last two?
How to show the 3rd and 4th sprite by themselves?

A: Here's a very simple example with the last two images. I recommend you to play around in this fiddle with .block's width, height, and background-position. The last two numbers in the background property allows you to define how many images will appear.

.container {
  position: relative;
  width: 600px;
  height: 600px;
}

.container .block {
  background: url(https://i.stack.imgur.com/SBxX4.png) -85px -420px;
  width: 310px;
  height: 250px;
}

You can play around with it on JSFiddle

A: HTML

CSS
.container {
    position: relative;
    width: 600px;
    height: 600px;
}

.container ul {
    list-style: none;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

.container ul li {
    background-image: url(https://i.stack.imgur.com/SBxX4.png);
    margin-bottom: 20px;
    width: 150px;
    height: 78px;
    background-size: auto 286px;
    background-position: 0 0;
}

.container ul li#belt-2 {
    background-position-y: 210px;
}

.container ul li#belt-3 {
    background-position-y: 123px;
    height: 58px;
}

.container ul li#belt-4 {
    background-position-y: 66px;
    height: 58px;
}

Always Remember all images in CSS sprites, should have same canvas size
I create a basic example of CSS sprites, I hope this will help you.


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Top Model Contestant Ravaged by Meth
By Valerie Tejeda 09/13/12
Today's Dr. Phil features a dramatic interview with meth-addicted America's Next Top Model contestant Jael Strauss.
Jael Strauss before and after meth.
Nearly six years after appearing on season eight of America's Next Top Model, 28-year-old Jael Strauss reveals that she's fighting an addiction to meth. "Do the drugs get her and take her life? Or do we get her and save her life?" asks Dr. Phil McGraw in a preview for today's episode of Dr. Phil, in which the self-help guru will interview the former model and stage an intervention. On the show, the former model—whose physical appearance has been radically altered by drugs—walks towards the stage, and then suddenly takes off running in the other direction. "She just opened the curtain, pivoted on her heel and is running through the Paramount lot," says McGraw. Before arriving on the set, Strauss is seen struggling with the camera crew and her parents in order to get on set. After running off set, the cameras, along with Dr. Phil, follow Strauss into the parking lot, where they talk behind a dumpster: "(For) the first time in 10 years, I came out here to you," he says to Strauss. During her stint on America's Next Top Model, Strauss lost a close friend to a heroin overdose. "This is the worse thing I could possibly hear in the entire universe," she said after hearing the news. "I don't understand this... this doesn't make any sense. I'd rather not be dealing with this situation with what's going on in my life, but I think modeling is a good distraction for me right now."
Jael Strauss
Valerie Tejeda
Entertainment journalist and author Valerie Tejeda spends her days reporting on books, television, and all things pertaining to pop culture, and spends her nights writing novels for teens. Her stories have appeared on a variety of different publications, including but not limited to: VanityFair, MTV, The Huffington Post, TeenVogue, She Knows, Latina, The Fix, Salon.com, Cosmopolitan, and more. You can find Valerie on Linkedin and Twitter.


Their most successful regular season in franchise history was marked most by the Toronto Raptors living up to Masai Ujiri's pointed offseason edict of overhauling an offense that always failed them come spring. Stressing pace, space and activity while mitigating its stars' long-time penchant for pounding the ball into the ground, Toronto finished third in offensive rating last season, not far behind the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets, two of the most devastating offensive outfits in league history. More importantly, and pretty much forgotten after another humiliating defeat at the hands of LeBron James, the Raptors sustained that success in the playoffs, scoring 110.1 points per 100 possessions – just below their season-long number, and nearly nine points better than their putrid mark from the previous postseason.
On the court, the upshot of last week's stunning trade revolving around Kawhi Leonard can be distilled to something like this: The Raptors not only got better offensively, but also added the best perimeter defender of his generation and another upper-echelon defensive wing to the fold while retaining O.G. Anunoby and Pascal Siakam. Ironically, Toronto finally got the pieces needed to keep James in check after his decision to join the Los Angeles Lakers ensured it wouldn't have to – at least in the Eastern Conference playoffs. The Finals are another story, one that surely won't include James for the first time since the turn of the decade, but could very well feature these new-look Raptors for the first time ever.
Despite Toronto winning a team-record 59 games en route to the East's top playoff seed, on the back of an offense and defense that both ranked top-five in the league, no one considered Dwane Casey's squad legitimate contenders for the Larry O'Brien trophy. The looming presence of James, in some ways better than ever, certainly had an effect on public appraisal of the Raptors' title hopes, and so did a pair of juggernauts out West. More than anything, though, their presumed lack of a championship ceiling was about the relative limits of their stars. Great regular-season teams, no matter how deep. versatile or effective on both sides of the ball, don't even get to June without world-class talent at the top of the roster.
Leonard fits that bill. At his press conference, Ujiri was asked about his take on a Toronto city counselor's suggestion that the greatest Raptors, including the departed DeMar DeRozan, should be honored with statues outside Air Canada Centre. His response not only showed real appreciation for the first star to truly embrace everything it meant to be the face of Canada's team, but also reflected the reality that the Raptors have never employed a player quite on Leonard's level.
Remember Game 1 of the 2017 Western Conference Finals? It's easy to forget how much the league has changed as a direct result of Zaza Pachulia recklessly, or intentionally, sliding under Leonard's left foot on a baseline jumper, forcing him to the sidelines for good after a pair of free throws put the Spurs, heavy underdogs, up 23 points on the Warriors midway through the third quarter. Leonard had tormented Golden State up to that point, getting whatever he wanted offensively en route to 23 points on 7-of-13 shooting and a perfect 11-of-11 from the line. The Warriors, of course, promptly romped to an 18-0 run after his departure, eventually beating San Antonio 113-111 for the largest Conference Finals comeback in 15 years.
There's no telling how the rest of that game would have played out had Leonard been able to finish it. Golden State's was the most combustible offense in league history back then and remains so now, and it's not like the Spurs had the firepower to keep up if the home team caught fire. Even if San Antonio had managed to steal the opener, the Warriors would still have been favored to win the West. But a select few players in the league always allow for the possibility of their team punching above its collective weight, and Leonard, just like LeBron, Steph Curry and Kevin Durant, is among them.
Toronto will have to do just that to reach its full potential. Even with Leonard in place of DeRozan, the Raptors won't have the luxury of relying on raw star power to play deep into spring – one afforded to Golden State and Houston, obviously, but also the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers. Nick Nurse will try and account for that relative deficiency through pushing his roster past its assumed limits by embracing the tenets of modern basketball. Heading up the G-League's Rio Grande Valley Vipers several years back, Nurse was almost as much a scientist in Daryl Morey's analytics test lab as a basketball coach. His first year on the job, 2011-2012, saw the Vipers hoist 5.5 more triples per game than any other team and lead the G-League in pace by a wide margin.
Don't expect Nurse to embrace the Moneyball ethos quite to that extent in his first NBA head-coaching gig. The Raptors don't have the personnel to launch threes like the Rockets or run like the Warriors. Still, the offensive revolution that began taking place in Toronto last season should be expedited in 2018-19, with Nurse putting an even greater emphasis on expected shot efficiency, playing early in the shot clock and continuity of ball and player movement. And when those ideals crumble under scrutiny of crunch-time or the postseason, the Raptors can revert back to the bygone style that DeRozan, improved as he was last season, is taking to San Antonio – only with Leonard, one of seven players this decade to post a true shooting percentage north of 60.0 while using at least 30 percent of his team's possessions, per basketball-reference, in his place.
Toronto's offense will indeed be better, especially come playoff time, but it's not what has Ujiri talking titles. Only Golden State and Boston come close to matching the Raptors' depth of quality defenders capable of guarding multiple positions. Leonard, Anunoby and Siakam can match up with anybody. The latter held John Wall to 28.6 percent shooting on 43 possessions in the opening round of playoffs, according to NBA.com/stats, while Anunoby made life far harder on James one round later than any of his teammates. Leonard's defensive bona fides need no explanation, but it's always instructive looking back to the 2014 Finals, when James, in between free throws, saw Leonard checking back into the game and couldn't stop himself from expressing frustrated dismay.
This team's embarrassment of defensive riches doesn't stop there. Green, though a half step slower than he was two or three years ago, still has the requisite size and quickness to guard the likes of both Curry and Durant without getting abused. Kyle Lowry's commitment to menacing and low center of gravity makes him a viable switch defender. a trait he shares with the similarly dogged Fred Van Vleet. Delon Wright routinely guards every perimeter spot throughout the course of the game. If Serge Ibaka rediscovers just some of the athletic verve that was troublingly absent throughout the playoffs, Nurse can concoct a defensive scheme that allows his team to switch across five positions with little negative recourse. Jonas Valanciunas and C.J. Miles, not the average defender many make him out to be, are the only players in Toronto's 10-man rotation who most oppositions could feel confident targeting over and over, an offensive gambit never more prevalent than last May and June.
Also worth remembering: The Raptors, after ranking fifth in defensive efficiency during the regular season, surrendered a whopping 121.5 points per 100 possessions to James and the Cavaliers, worse than Cleveland's mark against Golden State in the Finals.
That was back in June, before the Raptors added two more defensive chameleons to their roster, both of whom force defenses to respect them from beyond the arc and one of whom is a season removed from deserving Most Valuable Player. Just imagine the innovative two-way concepts ruminating in Nurse's head since the trade, one that mitigates the risk of Leonard walking away in free agency next summer with a potential reward the Raptors have never been more likely to reap.
The Warriors might be the greatest team of all time, and the Celtics and Sixers are in the early stages of budding dynasties. Bringing in Leonard and Green hardly puts Toronto over the top. But the games must be played before anything is decided for certain, and the Raptors – with Leonard healthy, it goes without saying – boast the type two-way personnel that gives them a fighting chance to beat anyone with the season on the line.
"We have everything here except a championship," Ujiri said, a crowning achievement that so recently seemed impossible, yet is suddenly within the Raptors' hopeful reach.


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My Generation of Sunday 06 November: Status Quo acoustic, Matthew Fisher (Downliners Sect, Procol Harum) [2016-45]
SPECIALS: Status Quo acoustic, Matthew Fisher (Downliners Sect, Procol Harum)** Repeated: TALES OF JUSTINE * MORE SOUNDS OF 1967: Albert King, Elvis, The Nice, The Chambers Brothers, The Hollies, Music Machine ** [06 Nov., 2016-45]
THE PLAYLISTS
1 MY GENERATION (NEW)
SPECIAL STATUS QUO AQUOSTIC II (2016): "Aquostic II", thanks to V2 records Belgium and Fourth Chord Records ** FAMOUS BUT FORGOTTEN : THE SEARCHERS, ROY ORBISON, SAM THE SHAM & THE PHARAOHS ** LONGPLAYING THE YARDBRDS: LITTLE GAMES feat. Jimmy Page, 1967 ; PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC: First LP, 1970 **
2 BLUESIDE (NEW)
SPECIAL: THE SAVAGE TREE Savage Matthew Fisher with Downliners Sect (cd Wanted) and Procol Harum ** NEW STUFF STATUS QUO: "Aquostic II", thanks to V2 records Belgium and Fourth Chord Records + tracks from MA KELLY's GREASY SPOON and DOG OF TWO HEAD
3 MY GENERATION (repeated)
SPECIAL: TALES OF JUSTINE PETALS FROM A SUNFLOWER: COMPLETE RECORDINGS, Grapefruit Records 2016 ** NEW SOUDS IN 1967: THE NICE, The ROLLING STONES, THE HOLLIES + THE HEAVY SIDE OF 1967 & MEANWHILE IN THE USA: MUSIC MACHINE, THE BLUES PROJECT, THE YARDBIRDS, THE BEAU BRUMMELS, SPANKY & OUR GANG
4 BLUESIDE (repeated)
SPECIAL: THE BLUES SOUND OF 1967 with ALBERT KING, ELVIS, JOHN MAYALL, THE CHAMBERS BROS., CANNED HEAT
THE SCHEDULE * HET UITZENDROOSTER
SHOW CET : Brussels, Paris 12 noon till 12 midnight GMT London, Lisboa 11 a.m. till 11 p.m.
My Generation new show: Status Quo acoustic, 12:00 * 16:00 * 20:00 hrs 11 a.m., 3 p.m., 7 p.m.
Blueside new show: Status Quo, Matthew Fisher (Downliners Sect, Procol Harum) 13:00 * 17:00 * 21:00 hrs 12 noon, 4 p.m., 8 p.m.
My Generation repeated show: Tales of Justine and more New Sounds of 1967 14:00 * 18:00 * 22:00 hrs 1 p.m., 5 p.m., 9 p.m.
Blueside repeated show: blues sounds in 1967 15:00 * 19:00 * 23:00 hrs 2 p.m., 6 p.m., 10 p.m.
Ends 24:00 hrs Ends 11 p.m.
ACHTERGRONDINFORMATIE ** BACKGROUND
STATUS QUO AQOUSTIC II
"Status Quo released 'Aquostic II – That's A Fact!' on 21st October 2016, in three formats – a Standard Edition 14 track CD, Deluxe Edition 25 Track 2xCD and a 20 track Vinyl Edition 2xLP. The standard CD edition of this carefully curated collection includes 14 re-imagined Quo classics such as 'In The Army Now', 'Hold You Back', 'Roll Over Lay Down', 'Ice In The Sun' and two brand new tracks' (from the official website http://www.statusquo.co.uk). The songs are stripped and acoustic, revealing their roots and these are more steeped in blues and country or folk than you may think. These versions are also augmented, e.g. with violin and accordion (Geraint Watkins), but I must say to very good effect (EB).
Status Quo is all over this show. We play tracks from 'Aquostic II – That's A Fact!' plus older material from their psych wah wah period (1968) and from their LPs 'Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon' (1970) and 'Dog Of Two Head" (1971). Thanks to V2 Records Belgium. Out now on Fourth Chord Records.
MATTHEW FISHER
In this show, our former member of THE SAVAGES is none other than MATTHEW FISHER, him of the mighty organ! After stints with Bill Fury and Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers, Matthew Fisher joined The Savages in 1967. That same year, Gary Brooker asked him to join his new band, Procol Harum. Fisher played on their first three albums, then left and returned on various occasions, while developing a solo career, AND, surprise, surprise, recording an album with R&B rockers The Downliners Sect in 1993! Fisher also plays on the albums of Screaming Lord Sutch.
Now, you may think that a prog band with a classically-trained keyboard player has no connection with R&B, but they did write and record some blues tunes and would play lengthy versions of them on stage.
So here's one-time Savage Matthew Fisher playing R&B with The Downliners Sect and Procol Harum.
This is from my show The Savage Tree no. 18 on Radio Sutch www.radiosutch.net where I do one hour of R&B on Wendnesdays 21:00 hrs Brussels, 08 p.m. UK
TALES OF JUSTINE
(Complete Recordings 1967-1969, Grapefruit Records, 2016)
Na twee jaar en een paar naamwijzigingen, vond dit Engelse trio geleid door de vijftienjarige zanger, componist en gitarist David Daltrey de weg naar de fameuze EMI studio's in Abbey Road om er op 1 augustus 1967 vijf nummers op te nemen met niemand minder dan de aankomende Tim Rice als producer en met Rice en zijn kompaan Andrew Lloyd-Webber als managers. Een onwaarschijnlijke start. Wat later, lag de single in de winkel. En bleef daar liggen. Vreemde, want de Summer Of Love woedde hevig en Daltreys nummers bezongen precies vreemde verschijnselen zoals klokken die achteruit lopen, rare soep en zonnebloemen die Arthur heten. Bij EMI snapten ze er niet veel van en dus belandde het slappe "Arthur" op de A-kant en het muzikaal meer originele "Monday Morning" op de B-kant.
LEES HIER MIJN RECENSIE:
http://www.keysandchords.com/album-review-blog/tales-of-justine-petals-from-a-sunflower-complete-recordings-1967-1969
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Seems as if this one just went down today, May 18th via a copyright strike on the Mixcloud service. Conveniently enough I stumbled upon Radio 68 for the first time just yesterday the 17th through this very Status Quo-oriented playlist. Any way you could reupload if interested? Regardless, I'm slowly (and thoroughly) enjoying the rest of your 'My Generation' library and wanted to drop a quick Thank You to the men and women behind this program and website. Much love.
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Wed 12.00 - 24.00 Rock On!
Thu 12.00 - 24.00 Art & Prog Rock
Fri 12.00 - 24.00 Art & Prog Rock
Sat 12.00 - 24.00 Art & Prog Rock
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On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis announced that her office has filed a civil lawsuit in San Diego County Superior Court, seeking to nullify the Governor's commutation of Esteban Nunez' prison sentence. The lawsuit is believed to be the first-of-its kind in the nation filed by a District Attorney on behalf of the victims.
Nunez pled guilty to three felony charges in connection with his role in the assault on four young men, including Luis Santos who died as a result of the attack. Nunez was sentenced to 16 years in state prison. On his last day in office, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger commuted Nunez's sentence to seven years.
The civil suit names the Governor of California, Director of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and Warden of Mule Creek State Prison as defendants and respondents and Esteban Nunez as a real party of interest. In the suit, the DA's Office argues that the Governor was constitutionally obligated to notify the victims of crime of his intent to commute a sentence and provide them with an opportunity to be heard. As a result of the Governor's failure to do that, the victims' constitutional rights were violated and the Governor's Executive Order commuting Nunez' sentence is void and unenforceable.
Nunez, along with a co-defendant, pleaded guilty in 2010 to voluntary manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon. The assault occurred during a fight near San Diego State University that left Luis Santos dead from knife wounds and three other victims injured. Nunez' guilty plea was accepted by the court with no promises for leniency and he was sentenced to 16 years in state prison for his crimes. Nunez' case was being appealed when the commutation was suddenly announced by Governor Schwarzenegger on his last day in office. Victims in the case learned of the commutation through news reports.
"I support the effort of the District Attorney to achieve justice for the victim's family and all of San Diego," said City Attorney Jan Goldsmith.
Earlier this year, the District Attorney's Office also announced support of Assembly Bill 648, which would require the applicant for a commutation of sentence notify the District Attorney 30 days before the governor acts upon the application. The District Attorney must then notify the victims, and both the District Attorneys and the victims will have the opportunity to provide written recommendations to the Governor for or against the commutation or pardon. AB 648 is being co-authored by California Assemblymembers Marty Block and Nathan Fletcher.
The employees of the San Diego District Attorney, in partnership with the Community they serve, are dedicated to the pursuit of truth, justice and protection of the innocent and the prevention of crime through the vigorous and professional prosecution of those who violate the law.