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Chinchilla is a small Australian town located in the Darling Downs region in Queensland. It is also called "The Melon Capital" and every year, in February, Chinchilla is the host of a melon festival which is best explored by a rental car. The population of this little town counts almost 4000 people, although the city has existed since 1877. Chinchilla is situated at the banks of Charley's Creek which is between Toowoomba and Dalby.
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Book a cheap car rental and discover the main occupation of the community which is agriculture, but coal and gas projects determined an economy rise, so Chinchilla is an interesting place to see.
Agriculture is the core while beef and pork production, wool growing, and horticulture are the traditional supports of Chinchilla's economy. But recently, cash inflow and development increased due to the new Kogan Creek Power Project and other coal and gas projects.
The museum, where you can enjoy a "glimpse to the past" for the whole family, is located on Villiers Street, Chinchilla. The Chinchilla Museum is Chinchilla's history museum with memorabilia from the beginnings of the town. The building where the museum resides are historical buildings from the area, making the place one of the most interesting and unique attractions here. Chinchilla Museum has an excellent collection of a 1910 steam sawmill (a non working replica), steam engines, ancient vehicles, period costumes, and many historical relics! Buildings from early village times have been reconstructed on the grounds to emphasize the historical ambiance around the area. The buildings include Goombi Hall, the Emmerson Building, Wongongera Cottage, a blacksmith shop, the authentic slab hut, and an old jail. The museum also features a steam sawmill and a steam traction engine. If you enjoy learning about history, this is the place to see in Chinchilla.
Chinchilla Family Sports Center is the place for family fun. A place that promotes the healthy lifestyle, Chinchilla Family Sports Center offers all sorts of options for family fun and endless possibilities of exercising for adults and children too. Be welcomed to try all the activities this center offers and stay in shape spending quality time with your family. If you do not enjoy team sports, do not worry, because you have countless options and you can also work out on your own.
Chinchilla Weir was built in 1973 on the Condamine River, in the south of Chinchilla, in order to provide water for the irrigation of cereal and of the famous melons. Visit the Weir in a rental car that is also used to provide water for the town. In this area of the town you can also experience camping, boating and fishing and you can subscribe to fishing competitions. This is a quiet area of Chinchilla where you can relax and enjoy classic outdoor activities.
Chinchilla is known as the "Melon Capital of Australia" and it hosts a Melon festival every second year in February (the next is to be held in 2011). The Melon Festivalis one of the most unique festivals in Australia! In this festival, watermelons are the stars of the show! See men crack watermelons with their heads, ski using watermelons, bungy with watermelons, and spit watermelons as far as you can! Oh wait, there's still the Melon Chariot, an obstacle course of melons! What else can you do with watermelons?! This happening is only once every two years! So, DO NOT MISS IT!!
Join the festival and get ready to experience a messy and exciting fun!
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This Newport 460-XZ High-Performance, Integrated, Ball-Bearing Linear Stage is the predecessor of the 460A series and is nearly identical in appearance, and is identical in dimension. The 460-XZ is a two-axis stage, offering 0.500 of travel in the X and the Z axes. Made of Aluminum for light weight, the movements of this stage have precision ball-bearings riding on precision-ground and hardened rods. This offers a nice compromise of precise travel at an economical price. The Newport micrometer actuators shown are included in the price.


We have two lungs and they are part of the body´s breathing system, also called the respiratory system. When we breathe, oxygen is transported through our nose and mouth and down the windpipe (trachea). The windpipe is split into two airways (called bronchus), one on each side in our chest, delivering oxygen to the lung on the right side and on the left side. The lungs are not identical on both sides. The right lung is the largest and is divided into 3 sections called lobes (the upper, middle and lower lobes) whereas the left lung has only got 2 sections (the upper and lower lobes). As well as transferring oxygen into the blood stream when we breathe in, the lungs have a second job of expelling carbon dioxide out of the blood and out of our bodies when we breathe out. A lung cancer is a cancer that started in the lung, - called a primary lung cancer. If a cancer has started somewhere else in the body and then spread to the lungs it is a secondary cancer and is NOT a lung cancer. This is a very important difference because cancers are treated according to the original cells that exist in the organ where the cancer first started growing. This section relates to cancer that has started in the lung — primary lung cancer. If you are looking for information about a cancer that has spread to the lung from another part of the body, you must look in the section for cancer of that particular body part / organ. Although there are other risk factors for developing lung cancer, the biggest cause of lung cancer is smoking. There are two main types of lung cancer (small cell and non-small cell lung cancers) and you may want to find out more about a specific type.
To help you find answers to some of your questions, we have linked to Maggie's CancerLinks where you will be signposted to high quality information about lung cancer. The information on these websites is not written specifically for young people but it is written using simple language in a way that most people will be able to understand. Don't worry if there are lots of links to different websites. Have a look on the description of the links and very often you will find the information you are searching for on the first website that you look at. If you just want general information about cancer you could read the 'About cancer' section on riprap.


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Lexicon Components and Plug-ins Are Integral Sonic Tools At New York's Jungle City Studios
7 AAX/VST/AU/RTAS Reverb Plug-ins
Stereo Reverb/Effects Processor
Parallel Stereo and Surround Reverb/Effects Processor w/ Analog & Digital I/O
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Described as "one of the most impressive new studios in New York in years" by The New York Times, Jungle City Studios is bucking the trend in an era when more and more musicians are turning to laptop, home and project studio recording. Owned by Alicia Keys' engineer Ann Minicieli and designed by renowned acoustician John Storyk, Jungle City Studios boasts interior décor that has more in common with a five-star hotel than the utilitarian look of most recording studios, along with three rooms' worth of rare, vintage and cutting-edge gear including a host of Lexicon components and plug-ins.
The studio is equipped with the Lexicon PCM96 Stereo Reverb/Effects Processor, PCM96 Surround Reverb/Effects Processor and PCM Native Effects Plug-In Bundle, along with legacy products like the 960L Digital Effects System, M480L Reverb/Effects Processor and others. Jungle City engineers who frequently use Lexicon include Minicieli, Ken "Duro" Ifill, Jordan "DJ Swivel" Young and Tony Maserati to name a few. Alicia Keys, Jay-Z, Swizz Beatz, Jay Sean, Kelly Clarkson and Ne-Yo are just some of the artists who have used the Lexicon gear and recorded at Jungle City Studios.
"As any pro will tell you, Lexicon products have been a recording studio standard for ages, because of their lush, inimitable sound," noted James Spano, Manager of Jungle City Studios. "When Ann built this facility, it was a given that Lexicon gear would be a part of it. But that's not the whole story – our clients and engineers enjoy the useful features like the ability to save and load presets, the complete control of a wide range of sonic parameters, the multiple stereo options for using different reverbs on different tracks simultaneously and the many other benefits."
"Most of the engineers who have worked at Jungle City have tried the software reverbs that the Lexicon plug-ins have to offer," continued Spano. "Their ease of use and consistent user interface make for an easy transition for any engineer who has been comfortable with Lexicon hardware. But most importantly, these engineers approve of the sound quality, which is sometimes not the case when hardware makes the jump to software."
DJ Swivel pointed out, "I mix almost exclusively in the box (on a computer), but was never able to find a plug-in reverb solution that satisfied me sonically until the PCM Native Reverb Plug-In Bundle. It's also really convenient. It completely eliminates the necessity of having to recall settings for a mix – the sound I want is there, instantly."
As Duro noted, "I'm extremely particular about the quality of the reverbs I use on my productions. Competitors have come out with reverbs with algorithms that supposedly were the same as Lexicon – but I could hear the difference. I can tell when the Lexicon plug-in is being used. No other reverb is as transparent."
For more information about Jungle City Studios, please contact www.junglecitystudios.com
HARMAN (www.harman.com) designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of audio and infotainment solutions for the automotive, consumer and professional markets – supported by 15 leading brands including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon® and Mark Levinson®. The Company is admired by audiophiles across multiple generations and supports leading professional entertainers and the venues where they perform. More than 20 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and infotainment systems. HARMAN has a workforce of about 12,000 people across the Americas, Europe and Asia, and reported sales of $3.8 billion for the twelve months ending June 30, 2011. The Company's shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NYSE:HAR.

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import com.raizlabs.android.dbflow.annotation.Column;
import com.raizlabs.android.dbflow.annotation.PrimaryKey;
import com.raizlabs.android.dbflow.annotation.Table;
import com.raizlabs.android.dbflow.structure.BaseModel;

import org.hisp.dhis.android.sdk.persistence.Dhis2Database;

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 * @author Simen Skogly Russnes on 20.02.15.
 */
@Table(databaseName = Dhis2Database.NAME)
public class OrganisationUnitProgramRelationship extends BaseModel {

    @Column(name = "organisationUnitId")
    @PrimaryKey
    String organisationUnitId;

    @Column(name = "programId")
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    String programId;

    public String getOrganisationUnitId() {
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    public String getProgramId() {
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    public void setProgramId(String programId) {
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}

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Panel Examines Youth Vaping 'Epidemic,' Overlooks Real Threats
Yesterday Inside Sources published my column on how Congress focused on the vaping "epidemic" while ignoring legitimate threats to American teens. Read it here or at Inside Sources.
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform held two days of hearings last week on "JUUL's Role in the Youth Nicotine Epidemic." Make no mistake: the hearings were about congressional grandstanding, not a discussion of what really threatens American teens.
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control, the high school vaping rate is lower than that for marijuana and alcohol use. It's about the same as binge drinking (four or five drinks within a couple hours). And, as we know, these activities don't typically occur in a vacuum. High school students frequently drive after marijuana use, ride with a driver who has been drinking, text or email while driving, have sexual intercourse, and consider suicide.
But despite these truly worrisome activities, tobacco prohibitionists like Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids have convinced Congress, school boards and parents that e-cigarettes have created "a public health emergency." Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and other government officials fueled this anxiety by referring to the rise in teen vaping as an "epidemic."
The hysteria stems from the CDC's National Youth Tobacco Survey, which federal officials refer to as the gold standard of information about teen vaping. But they tout these numbers without any context. And that context is critical.
We frequently hear that 3 million high school students in 2018 were "current vapers." But if you look closer at the data, 3 million teens had used an e-cigarette at least once in the past 30 days. And 600,000 of the high school vapers were 18 or older, so they could purchase tobacco products legally in most states. The rest were underage. Of the 2.5 million underage vapers, about 1.7 million had also smoked a cigarette, cigar and/or had used smokeless tobacco.
Of the 807,000 underage vapers with no history of other tobacco use, 70 percent had used e-cigarettes only one to five days during the month — the equivalent of trying one at a party. Only 95,000 students had used the products 20 to 30 days, suggesting that they might be addicted. And this represents just 0.6 percent of the nation's nearly 15 million high school students — a far cry from Gottlieb's hysteria that we're "hooking an entire generation of children on tobacco and nicotine."
These estimates are based on the CDC's youth tobacco survey, so they're certainly not "underestimates." Yet the rabidly anti-tobacco Truth Initiative produced an estimate for 2018 that is nearly half that of the 3 million number touted by the CDC.
In addition to faulty data, the House hearing echoed the government's false narrative blaming teen vaping on illegal retail sales and "kid-friendly marketing." But the FDA's own research shows that more than 90 percent of teens who use e-cigarettes obtain them from social sources, such as friends or family. Only 10 percent of current teen vapers buy their own — and many of those are of age. Raising the purchasing age from 18 to 21 could potentially disrupt high school "black markets."
Lawmakers also go after fears about nicotine. They reference the Surgeon General's claim that nicotine is "very and uniquely harmful" to the developing brain, and that vaping can impair learning and memory in those up to age 25. Scientific evidence to support this is non-existent. In contrast, there is unequivocal evidence linking youth football and other concussion-producing sports activities to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) (here, for example). If Congress wanted to protect children's brains, this would be a more productive area for their focus.
Nicotine is about as safe to use as caffeine, which is also addictive, but it doesn't cause any of the many cancers, heart attacks, strokes and emphysema that come from the toxins released from burning tobacco.
Congress wants you to believe that the increase in teen vaping will lead to a surge in young adult smoking. But the reality is just the opposite. Cigarette smoking dropped in half among young adults between 2014 and 2018. And while vaping increased, use of both products fell during the same period. Vaping is contributing to the evaporation of smoking among young Americans.
American teenagers are engaged in lots of risky behavior — but vaping, which the prestigious British Royal College of Physicians says is 95 percent less hazardous than smoking — is not one of them.
Congress should focus on how to really keep high school students safe.
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Labels: chronic traumatic encephalopathy, concussion, Congress, CTE, e-cigarette epidemic, teen drinking, teen driving, teen marijuana use, teen smoking, teen suicide, teen vaping
As Young Adult Smoking Evaporates, "Teen Vaping Epidemic" Appears Overblown
Federal officials have portrayed teen vaping as a pending disaster, creating a new generation of nicotine addicts heading for lifetimes of smoking and disease, culminating in early deaths. The scenario is primarily based on a distorted and exaggerated interpretation of data in the National Youth Tobacco Survey.
One way to judge the validity of these teen vaping claims is to look at what's happening among young adults 18-24 years old. If the government claims are accurate, we should see the disaster starting to unfold in this group.
The chart at left, based on the CDC's National Health Interview Survey, shows the prevalence of current smoking and vaping among young adults from 2014 to 2018. Exclusive smoking is in red, dual use is in pink, and vaping is in green (with former smokers in lighter green).
The chart's main message is seen in the sharp decline of red-pink. Exclusive smoking prevalence dropped in half, from 13.3% to 6.1%, as did dual use. Vaping increased, but only from 1.7% to 5.9%. In fact, all use went from 18.3% in 2014, all the way down to 10.1% in 2018 – an impressive decline. The clear takeaway is that smoking is evaporating among young Americans.
Some in Congress are intent on addressing the so-called crisis, as seen by Representatives Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Donna Shalala's (D-FL) June 20 call for co-sponsors for H.R. 2339, the Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2019. In reality, the "epidemic" is already in reverse.
Labels: cigarette smoking, National Health Interview Survey, National Youth Tobacco Survey, NHIS, NYTS, teen smoking, teen vaping, vaping, young adults
With the National Health Interview Survey, Never Smokers May Have Smoked
Last week I revealed that, based on the 2018 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), there were about 8.07 million American adult vapers, up from 6.9 million in 2017. I noted that there were 1.71 million vapers who were never smokers, which is also a substantial increase from the prior year – and potentially troubling. Let's take a closer look.
First, it's important to understand how the NHIS defines never smokers. They are not necessarily cigarette virgins; they just never smoked 100 cigarettes in their life, which is the cutoff for ever smokers.
The NHIS never smoker definition includes those who smoked up to five packs. In contrast, the FDA-funded Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) survey asks more detailed questions that allow us to distinguish between people who truly never smoked from those who smoked fewer than 100 cigarettes. We called the latter group triers in our comprehensive study of e-cigarette users published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research. We documented that almost all so-called never smokers were, in fact, current or former cigarette triers.
Further examination of the 2018 NHIS reveals that about three-quarters of the so-called never smoking vapers (1.31 million) used the products some days; the rest were daily users. About 70% were 18-24 years old, and 20% were age 25-34 years. Thirty-one percent had smoked a cigar, 3.5% had used smokeless tobacco, and 12% had used both products. Forty-one percent had at least one episode of binge drinking in the month prior to the survey (that is, 5+ drinks for men, and 4+ for women).
In summary, many current vapers who never smoked in the 2018 NHIS were young, had used other tobacco products, probably had smoked cigarettes and consumed alcohol. As I have noted previously, these characteristics refute the claim that vaping is attracting tobacco virgins and creating a new generation of nicotine addicts.
Labels: e-cigarette use, National Health Interview Survey, never smokers, NHIS, PATH survey, Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study
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The Door County Historical Society will host its Saturday afternoon yesteryear program "Lime Kilns of Door County," presented by Don Rudolph on Saturday, September 29th at 1:00 in the Collins Learning Center at Crossroads at Big Creek, adjacent to the Heritage Village at Big Creek.
Lime was an essential ingredient in building the pioneer structures in Door County. In fact, many house and barn foundations that are still in use today were constructed with lime mortar produced in one of Door County's 60 lime kilns. Door County Historical Society Member Don Rudolph will explain the lime making process, show a short video of a kiln fired and burning limestone, help us learn how to identify former lime kilns, and show the locations of known lime kiln sites throughout the county.
Don's interest in lime kilns began many years ago when he was helping a neighbor farmer log some cedar. They continually passed by a strange looking pile of rocks that aroused his curiosity. The farmer explained that at one time the piles of rocks were a working lime kiln. Through the Door County Library newspaper archive he found the owner and operator of this particular lime kiln, and learned that it was in use for nearly 30 years. Since that time Don has been on a quest to find all of Door County's lime kilns.
Don Rudolph's love for history and farming comes from his ancestors. His great-grandfather, Johan Gottlieb Rudolph, and his family settled in the German Settlement east of Ephraim in 1869. His grandfather Julius Carl Rudolph moved from Liberty Grove to Sevastopol in 1899 to find a better farming property. His father, Edgar Rudolph, also a farmer, told numerous historical stories and Don was always happy to listen and lucky enough to remember these stories. Along with his wife Donna and their son David, he continues to farm on this century old homestead. Donna and Don are founding members of the Sevastopol Historical Society, and are both members of the Door County Historical Society.


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      def systemd?(node)
        IO.read('/proc/1/comm').chomp == 'systemd'
      end

      #
      # Determine if the current init system is upstart.
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      def upstart?(node)
        File.executable?('/sbin/initctl')
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      def runit?(node)
        File.executable?('/sbin/runit-init')
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      # @see Chef::Sugar::Init#upstart?
      def upstart?; Chef::Sugar::Init.upstart?(node); end

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City controller candidate Ron Galperin.
The March primary winnowed the race for city controller to a longtime City Hall insider and an outsider with an unusual degree of expertise in city finances. The former is City Councilman Dennis Zine, now in his 12th and final year representing District 3. The latter is Ron Galperin, an attorney in Century City who has been a longtime critic of wasteful and inefficient city practices. The Times endorsed Galperin before the primary, and he remains the right man for the job.
Despite the title, the controller doesn't actually control any part of the city's finances. The office comes with broad powers to inspect the records and performance of city departments and a bully pulpit from which to offer critiques, but no authority to force changes. As a result, the controller's audits have often gone ignored. That's why the position demands someone not just with expertise on fiscal issues but also the perseverance to make change happen.
Galperin's expertise was demonstrated in 2010 and 2011 when he led the City Council's Ad Hoc Commission on Revenue Efficiency, which identified more than $100 million in revenue and savings for the city through operational improvements. He's shown his persistence by keeping the pressure on officials to implement a number of these recommendations, as well as other money-saving changes he's suggested over the years. Although he's better known for his work on the revenue side of the city's ledger, he's shown during the campaign that he would take a broad approach to the controller's job. Among other goals, he's talked about promoting accountability, making the city more business-friendly, focusing city resources on its top priorities and getting more out of city assets.
A former police officer, the garrulous Zine has promised to be tough on wasteful spending. He's pledged to hunt for savings in the city's largest departments, starting with the prodigious number of lawsuits against the Los Angeles Police Department. That's not a bad idea, but Zine has made little of the opportunities he's already had as a council member — and, for the last two years, as chairman of the council's Audits and Government Efficiency Committee — to root out the waste and inefficiencies he's now promising to target as controller. Instead, he shares responsibility with his fellow council members for the way the city has lurched from fiscal crisis to fiscal crisis.
Galperin finished first among the six candidates in the primary, about 4,000 votes ahead of Zine, but fell short of the 50% needed to avoid a runoff. Voters should support him again when they go to the polls May 21. Zine has a more familiar name, but Galperin has more expertise on fiscal issues, and his track record is more promising.


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Q: Is that possible to update multiple procedure and function definition in EDMX file C# DB first approach I have to update many procs and function in edmx, and I don't want update 1 by 1 in Model browser and also don't want to re-create edmx , So is there any possible solution there, i can update multiple proc or function in edmx file in one go.

A: You can refer to the following to the followings to update multiple proc or function in one go.
First, please right click the edmx file and choose the update model from database.

Second, If you want to add the new procedures, you can click Add and choose the correspond stored procedure.

If you want to update the existed procedure, you can click Refresh and choose the stored procedure.

Third, you can see the correspond method in the dbcontext.cs file.
public virtual ObjectResult<TestProcedure_Result> TestProcedure(Nullable age)
{
var ageParameter = age.HasValue ?
new ObjectParameter("age", age) :
new ObjectParameter("age", typeof(int));
        return ((IObjectContextAdapter)this).ObjectContext.ExecuteFunction<TestProcedure_Result>("TestProcedure", ageParameter);
    }

    public virtual ObjectResult<Pro1_Result> Pro1(Nullable<int> age)
    {
        var ageParameter = age.HasValue ?
            new ObjectParameter("age", age) :
            new ObjectParameter("age", typeof(int));

        return ((IObjectContextAdapter)this).ObjectContext.ExecuteFunction<Pro1_Result>("Pro1", ageParameter);
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    public virtual ObjectResult<string> Proc2(Nullable<int> score)
    {
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            new ObjectParameter("score", score) :
            new ObjectParameter("score", typeof(int));

        return ((IObjectContextAdapter)this).ObjectContext.ExecuteFunction<string>("Proc2", scoreParameter);
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                    Console.WriteLine(stu.Name);
                }
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Q: Php explode in Yii2 project In my Yii2 project, I have data coming from the database column.
In the database column the data is as follows.
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13SeeP

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*[13] for the second row

*[2 , 3] for the third row

*[2] for the forth row.

I am unable to use explode to achieve this.I used trim
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        $classLabelNo = TransportClass::find()->where(['class_no'=> $cleanImdgLabels])->all();
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The above is doing what i want to but now it is rearranging my data in the array.. I want them to be dispalyed in the same order.
How do  I achieve my result any help??
Thank you

A: Try it like this. This replaces non-digit characters with a !, then explodes on the ! character and removes any empty values.
$labels = [
    '12',
    '13SeeP',
    '2/3',
    'Seep2',
];
$results = [];
foreach ($labels as $v) {
    $results[] = array_filter(explode('!', preg_replace("/\D+/", '!', $v)));
}
print_r($results);

A: the working code for me is
$aggregateResult[$index]['lab_number'] = explode('-',  $aggregateResult[$index]
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This product, one of the AQUALINK products, treats and purifies freshwater out of the public water network, regardless of its quality.
These models use pressurized water provided by the public network, which passes through different membranes that remove bacteria, viruses, amoebas and parasites responsible for disease.
The use of filtration membranes ensures safe drinking water whatever the initial quality.


Overall winners of the 24 hour were Nigel Mc Kernan & Colin Buckley who were finished ahead of Colm O'Cnoic & Seamus O Boyle with both teams having the same number of points scored.
The 3rd places team was 3 person one consisting of Andreas Kusch, Matt Bush and Paul Morrissey whilst the first mixed team home was the veteran pairing of Don Short & Ruth Lynam in 5th place overall.
Eileen Young & Heather woods were the first female team home in 9th overall.


Browse the article What is a carport?
Looking to protect your auto from the elements without breaking the bank? You should consider a carport.
Your garage is full of stuff: a workbench, bicycles, an artificial Christmas tree -- the list goes on and on. There's really no room for your cars, trucks or motorcycles. Or perhaps you've just bought a new car, and one of your cars has to sit outside. But you paid good money for those vehicles -- you don't want to let the elements destroy the paint job. And who wants to scrape ice-encrusted windshields first thing in the morning?
A carport offers a possible solution. Made of metal -- most often aluminum or steel -- carports protect vehicles from storms and sunlight. At the same time, because they're just a frame and a covering, they have an open feel. It's also more economical to build a carport than it is to build an addition on a garage. So whether you have a car, van, trailer or boat to protect, a carport may offer the perfect solution.
If you decide to install a carport, you'll be using a form created by Frank Lloyd Wright, the famous 20th-century architect. In 1936 Wright used carports in his Usonian homes, which were single-story homes lacking in storage space [source: Bagde].
Carports don't have to be dark. Suppose you work second shift or do a little night fishing -- you're probably concerned about being able to see when you come home at night. Not to worry; you can attach a light fixture to the carport so that you aren't stumbling in the darkness.
One word of caution: Be sure to check local zoning restrictions before purchasing or installing a carport. Most communities have rules about setback distances, and building permits may be required. Don't get caught in the misery of purchasing a carport only to discover that you are in violation of a local policy or building code.
Let's first take a look at metal carports as a possible solution to your storage or weather-protection problems.
You have kenneled hunting dogs that would appreciate protection from inclement weather and sun.
At the other end of the animal spectrum, you could build a rabbit hutch or chicken coop with chicken wire and a portable carport. Such a structure would keep these delicate animals from overheating or being pelted by precipitation.
If you sell vegetables or crafts at open-air markets, a portable carport can offer you shade from the sun and heat.
Preparing for a backyard event or outdoor wedding and worried about the prospect of rain? Special-event white carport canopies can give you peace of mind.
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Are you a do-it-yourselfer? If so, perhaps a carport kit is the way to go. Read on for more information about this cost-saving option.
You can find carport kits for structures that are partially closed or open. Partially enclosed carports are most useful for storing less-often-used vehicles such as trailers, trucks and pickups. They often come with a service room at the rear for storing optional accessories and tools [source: Metal Carports].
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It's important to measure the site before purchasing a carport or ordering one online. Also, make sure that you have enough clearance to put the kit together. When it arrives, you'll find a cover, fittings and poles, along with directions for assembly [source: Harmon].
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So now you've read all about carport designs, construction materials and portability options. At this point, you're ready to buy. Check with your insurance agent about auto coverage; you may qualify for a discount for protecting your vehicles from the weather. You may also be able to save a considerable sum of money by looking online for good deals on used carports. Sites like eBay and Craigslist are a good place to start [source: Carmichael].
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The existing aging custom developed CMS that was in place didn't provide the tools to support this move, and was holding Higgidy back from being able to communicate with its customers in a flexible and consistent way that would allow the site to grow alongside the rest of the business.
Drupal 8 was selected for this project based on several factors; primarily the capacity for the site to scale with the business over time, combined with simple but powerful content management. The potential for future upgrades to bring commerce into the platform was also an attractive benefit, allowing us to ensure that we don't end up with a fragmented tech stack split across multiple platforms that could become complex and expensive to maintain. Being mobile-first was a core consideration for the platform selection, and Drupal 8 provides a seamless content experience every time for users accessing across many different device types.
One of the first tech decisions made was to make use of the Lightning Distro of D8 curated by Acquia. This provided a terrific head start for a site of this nature, right out of the box, providing some very key components and ensuring that we were able to get going with the minimum of fuss.
The site is primarily powered by Views coupled with some custom serialization to export product and recipe APIs, which are consumed by the Vue.js frontend. Selecting the API for each section is handled by the ViewsReference module, enabling quick customisation and delivery of any new API changes at a point convenient to the client. The site also integrates the Higgidy brand Instagram feed via the Instagram Block module, and uses Webform for both Get In Touch-style feedback and customer signups as part of targeted promotional campaigns.
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Outrage and Risk Communications expert Dr. Peter Sandman comments in part III of our review of Enron and discussion on laws versus their principles.
I feel very queasy about any assertion that Enron executives were punished for violating principles, as opposed to actual laws. Legal systems do punish people for that. But I think they shouldn't.
Sometimes it's not even principles, it's outrage masquerading as principles. When the whole society feels outraged at an outcome, it tries to figure out whom to blame. It wants to blame somebody! So outrage sometimes leads to the enunciation of "ethical principles" that not only were never codified into laws; they weren't even seen as ethical principles until something bad happened that got people outraged.
Sometimes, in fact, these new, ad-hoc ethical principles would look pretty questionable if expressed as abstractions; they're made-to-order to punish the perpetrators of a particular bad outcome. And then prosecutors and regulators are motivated, or even pressured, to find a legal way to punish the person or company everybody's trying to blame.
Enron aside, there are far too many instances of that process at work in the U.S. – so there are undoubtedly even more instances in societies with weaker traditions of the rule of law.
See for example the 2010 dialogue on this website entitled "What Did Goldman Sachs Do Wrong?", in which I argue that widespread outrage at an awful outcome – the Global Financial Crisis – triggered a search for scapegoats that ended in prosecutions for finance industry behavior which, absent the outcome, would have been considered neither illegal nor unethical.
My point in a nutshell: It made far more sense to be angry at government for deregulating the finance industry than at the industry for maximizing profit in ways permitted by the (deregulated) laws. Just as the Enron scandal led to the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, the Global Financial Crisis led to a multitude of new laws and regulations. That's at least a strong hint that the crisis was a product more of under-regulation than of corporate malfeasance.
Of course it's not that simple. Companies lobby. They persuade or push or sometimes even pay government officials to make something legal or keep something legal that ought to be illegal (ought to be illegal because there's a consensus that it's unethical, perhaps; or for some other reason, such as because it's too dangerous to allow whether it's ethical or not – because it's dangerously likely to trigger a global economic disaster, for example). Having successfully opposed laws and regulations that would have stopped them from doing what they want to do, companies do it; it leads to bad outcomes; people get outraged; everyone looks for ways to punish the companies – and then someone like me comes come along and say that's not fair; they just followed the incentive system; we should blame the government, not them. I don't for a moment dispute that companies have too damn much control over the incentive system.
Once we accept that the distinction between companies and governments isn't so rigid, that they're in it together, then outrage is one of the public's key lobbying tools – a way for the public to counterbalance corporate power. Companies too often lobby governments to make undesirable behavior legal. Public outrage too often motivates governments to treat that behavior as if it were illegal anyway. There's a kind of balance there.
Still, consider the current effort to prosecute ExxonMobil for "hiding" global warming research. Decades before climate change became a hot public issue, in-house researchers at the company found preliminary evidence that global warming might get bad. They published their studies freely. Their findings also helped convince management to make some internal policy changes in case they were right. But they didn't convince management to abandon the company's core business, fossil fuels. In many of its internal decisions and nearly all of its public positions, the company continued to see the threat of climate change as comparatively minor. The company also supported organizations dedicated to pooh-poohing climate change concerns; sometimes the support was public and sometimes it wasn't. Only much later did ExxonMobil start taking global warming more seriously in its strategic decisions and public statements, for example by supporting a carbon tax.
I find it hard to see misbehavior here – even ethical misbehavior, much less legal misbehavior. ExxonMobil funded research, published the research, considered the research, rejected most of its implications, and tried to convince everybody else to do likewise. I find it especially hard to see this as a violation of RICO, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, designed to facilitate the prosecution of mobsters. For sure ExxonMobil is accountable in the court of public opinion for its long history of doubting the seriousness of climate change and promoting the interests of fossil fuels. But if it were a crime for a company to pay for research, publish the research, and then promote policy positions to the contrary, what company would dare ask its scientists to investigate difficult questions?
I can't judge if the ExxonMobil prosecutions are showboating or if they actually stand a reasonable chance of succeeding. But public outrage at the company never entirely subsided after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. There are plenty of climate change reasons and other reasons for millions of people to see ExxonMobil as a bad guy. And outrage leads publics, politicians, and juries to want to get the bad guy. At a minimum, legal proceedings are being used to make ExxonMobil pay a reputational price for its policy positions – and to serve notice on other companies that they may pay a similar price if they espouse viewpoints that a later consensus judges to be wrong.
Or think about the crusade the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is conducting against electronic cigarettes (e-cigs). The weight of the evidence, I believe, supports the view that vaping e-cigs is much, much safer than smoking real cigarettes. CDC periodically publishes research on smoking and vaping. Some of that research arguably contradicts CDC's anti-vaping policy stance.
Sounds like ExxonMobil, doesn't it? CDC publishes unbiased e-cig research, then spins the results to support its anti-vaping bias. I believe CDC's opposition to electronic cigarettes is killing people. But CDC presumably believes it is saving lives. And even I wouldn't support a criminal prosecution under RICO against the agency or its leaders.
As a citizen, I am outraged that outrage motivates criminal prosecutions. But as a consultant, I take that as a given – as one of the many costs of outrage. As I tell my clients, you might just as well be outraged that acid has such a low pH.
Companies are entitled to try to influence what the laws are, just like everybody else. But companies have too much influence, which is itself a source of outrage.
Still, the distinction between doing something illegal and doing something outrage-provoking should be more respected than it is. I don't support finding (or inventing) ways to prosecute behavior that made people mad but wasn't clearly illegal.
I'm fine with an outrage punishment for an outrage infraction. Shame people and companies you think should be ashamed. Don't do business with them. Attack their reputations. But don't try to imprison them.
I'm also fine with using outrage as an impetus to new laws. If you think there oughta be a law, fight for one. But don't imprison people for disobeying the law you think there oughta be.
But I'm on the losing end of this debate. In the real world, outrage often leads to prosecution. So smart companies should avoid behavior that's legal but nonetheless likely to provoke a lot of stakeholder outrage. They should avoid it because they should fear both reputational damage (which they deserve) and legal repercussions (which they don't deserve).


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While anyone who installs, tests and certifies a network cabling plant knows the importance of meeting standards performance parameters and ensuring application support, even the best of us can make mistakes that can adversely impact the bottom line and customer satisfaction.
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Choose the two-cord reference for Tier 1 optical loss testing.
Use patch cords to certify a fiber cabling system.
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My Antonia. Willa Cather. originally published in 1918. This review is based on the Sentry Edition published in 1954 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston. With First Edition Illustrations by W.T. Bends. 372 pp.
The third of the Prairie Trilogy, My Antonia, was published in 1918. Willa Cather has been quoted as considering this as her best book. For me, it's so hard, too hard to choose one among her so many exceptional novels.
This is another pioneer story. This time the focus is on a Bohemian immigrant family making their way pioneering on the Great Plains, as told to an "I" character (unnamed) by Jim Burden, mutual friend to "I" and Antonia Shimerda, the oldest girl in the large family, favorite of her sensitive musician father, and Jim's best friend on the Nebraska prairie.
In the course of the book we meet the rest of the Shimeras, Jim's grandparents Burden, to whom he has come to live from Virginia after his parents' deaths, their hired hands Otto and Jake, and other neighbors who live around their homestead outside Black Hawk, the closest "big" town. As time passes, youth grow to maturity, the pioneers go from sod cave houses to two story farmsteads and the land changes from tall red grass prairies to tamed and ploughed fields of corn and wheat.
Time is measured by the seasons and the land and most of the families settle into and come to love their new homelands. But not all. There are hard times, particularly for the Bohemian Shimerdas, but also for others as they learn new ways.
We follow Jim on to University in Lincoln where he loses touch with Antonia—an innocent childhood romance perhaps realized in retrospect as love?—but reconnects with other hometown immigrant friends including Lena Lingard, who twenty years later insists he re-connect with Antonia who has married and has a flock of kids. His story concludes with that visit and the anticipation of more to come, as he returns to New York where he has become a thriving lawyer.
My Antonia is mostly a quiet story and Cather introduces us subtly and gracefully to the many facets of the human character. The writing is crystalline and spare. An immediately engrossing tale pulls the reader in without any of the silly modern "grabber" gimmicks of murder, mayhem or mysterious prologues that elude to the future or the past. But Cather never needs clever devices to immediately capture readers, carrying them along on a seemingly effortless trajectory from beginning to end. Nothing is superfluous, no character unnecessary. Cather's novel is a magical creation. She provides one of those rare aha! reading experiences that remind us what great writing really is.


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Thai Airways appears to have pushed back the deployment of its Airbus A350-900 on one of its daily flights to Shanghai, with the aircraft now scheduled to take over the route this summer.
The carrier had previously scheduled the aircraft to take over the route on April 21, according to industry website routesonline.com, but has now delayed deployment of the A350 to Shanghai until June 1.
The aircraft is reportedly set to take over the airline's daily TG664/TG665 flights – the earlier TG662/TG663 daily flights will continue to be operated by Thai's A330-300.
The A350 also has been earmarked for a number of other destinations in China, notably Beijing and Guangzhou. Thai Airways began flying the A350 to the Chinese capital last month, while Guangzhou is set to see the aircraft sometime this year.
Thai's two-class A350s feature 32 seats in business class and 289 in economy. Business class is laid out in a staggered 1-2-1 formation, resulting in the centre seats on odd-numbered rows being positioned closer to each other in a sort of seat "pair" compared to those on even-numbered rows. For the solo seats, however, those on odd rows are positioned closer to the aisle while those on even rows sit closer to the windows.
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Yesterday I mentioned something about the "fire" that some of us have for research. If you have this "fire" it means that you are deeply fascinated by research and discovery; you are motivated by a strong desire to investigate and answer questions; you are thrilled by new results and ideas.
Perhaps some people have this fire always. Definitely some never have it. For others -- perhaps most of us -- the flame flickers and may even appear to be extinguished at times.
If I were to graph my research-fire level vs. time, the time averaged result would show a steady presence of research-fire. If you looked at specific data points, however, you would see some extreme wiggles in the curve, including some very low points (though nothing like what one of my PhD students experienced in the lead-up to the defense). In my academic career, there have been months/years, especially during my student years but a few in the post-PhD years, in which events conspired to squelch my enthusiasm for science, research, academia or all three.
The research-thrill always came back. Typically the fire-squelching was driven by some sort of harassment or by major problems with co-workers or students. Through the bad times, however, I never completely lost my interest in research; sometimes it just seemed like the interesting parts of my job were overshadowed by the awful parts. On a few occasions I wondered if it was worth it to keep going or whether I should figure out a new career plan.
I haven't felt that way in a long time. The curve on the research fire level graph has defined a rather high plateau for the last 10 years or so, with only one valley of any note.
I think that once you find a good environment and are fortunate to have the opportunity to do the research you want to do, the research-fire level can stay high and can withstand the occasional negative things that happen in the course of any career and life. After a while, something that would have been a crisis or at least the cause for major anxiety and/or sadness doesn't have such a significant or sustained effect anymore.
Tenure helps with this, of course, but so does knowing that you have written successful grant proposals, you have successfully advised grad students and postdocs, you have received good teaching evaluations, and you have published papers (that were cited). Then, even if a proposal is turned down or a paper rejected and even if a vindictive student writes a scathing evaluation or a grad student flames out, you know that life goes on, the research and teaching fun will continue, and the disappointments will be interspersed with more happy events.
That perspective is one reason why I like being middle-aged. Perhaps it is the only reason, but it's a pretty good one all the same.
Tonight my mood (but not fire-level) has taken a minor hit because it turns out that the exciting research results I was expecting have been postponed for a couple of weeks. Unlike holidays and birthdays, which come on schedule, research results can be delayed, alas.
Hhhmmm...so I am not alone!
If you're lucky enough to find something you enjoy, it's more likely you'll keep the fire burning longer.
With most things in life if you don't fully understand something you'll be more reserved in your approach as you don't wish to look stupid infront of your peers.
However if you understand the principles of what you're doing you're more likely to be excited and more enthusiastic with your research.
Of course if you plain just don't like what you're doing, you'll find everyday repetitive and slowly die inside.
Thank you for this post! I read your previous post and felt quite sad, thinking I used to be like this, used to really care about science and results and used to get incredibly excited about new and interesting results.
Now, I just feel exhausted all the time, uninterested in everything and annoyed at everyone. My research environment has changed; I work in a very collaborative group and the composition has changed so there are members I don't get along well with whose research philosphy is very different from mine (and who aren't very nice, frankly). Also, the general direction of our department is changing. I dislike the environmnet enough that I can't seem to enjoy the research anymore. I wonder nearly every day if I should quit.
I Can Haz Data? PLEEZ!
Mostly I agree with FSP, but when I recall roadblocks, they were mainly from my own poor choice of projects. Sometimes people didn't treat me well, but it was largely due to my choosing overly technical targets, or targets on which progress was unlikely or irrelevant, or people with which to collaborate who were poor choices.
Also, to be contrarian about some posts, I find the excitement comes from people who need the results. Few senior scientists are blasé about results they would be remiss to ignore. They are particularly intrigued by tentative interpretations that are presented with an accurate perspective - this is Nature & Science material. So people who find their advisors oppressive may be reflecting their own poorly conceived, executed or presented work.
For me, both the science-y pieces AND the non-sciency pieces have affected the fire over the years.
With the non-sciencey pieces, both annoying workplace issues AND highly engaging family life have interfered.
I wish I could get to that state. I still love the data but getting it published is a major struggle right now. And getting the next grant hangs on the publications so there is a lot of uncertainty over the future of my lab. I wish I had the security to just do science.
"Typically the fire-squelching was driven by some sort of harassment or by major problems with co-workers or students. Through the bad times, however, I never completely lost my interest in research; sometimes it just seemed like the interesting parts of my job were overshadowed by the awful parts. On a few occasions I wondered if it was worth it to keep going or whether I should figure out a new career plan."
Data kittens are excellent! I have had a recent slide in research fire due to a combination of putting the paper before the work, and as a result, having a few papers in a row either rejected or not submitted at all. Now that I have decided to focus on the work and (perhaps foolishly) let the publications slide for a few months, I find the fire returning.
Thanks, FSP. Your basket o' kittens was definitely the highlight of my day thus far.
From what I can tell, based on anecdata (comments on my blog and from talking to lots of women grad students and postdocs), women's fire levels usually drop due to lack of a supportive atmosphere, if not a downright nasty set of circumstances (harassment, etc.). Not because of poorly chosen projects, etc. But this may be partly because, at least in my field, it's unusual for students and postdocs to really be allowed to pursue ideas of our own.
And no, not all advisers are such wise and wonderful teachers (although I hear such people do exist). Actually, in all the cases that I've seen, the overly risky, poor projects were proposed by the overbearing evil PI, not by the naive, inexperienced student.
Also, not all students and postdocs are ungrateful or unwilling to take feedback - though I'll agree, many are! I listened to a student today who continues to ignore my advice and then continues to whine about her problems (all of which would have been avoided if she would have treated my advice with the respect it deserved).
I don't get it. I was the opposite kind of student- always thirsting for suggestions and willing to go down every path to find out which ones would work. I have to assume it is just that she wants me as a therapist, but does not respect me as a scientist.
We are likely in different fields. I conceived and executed a wide variety of useless projects in my first few years of graduate school, (and sporatically continue that process today).
I didn't call my advisors wise and wonderful. I said they paid attention to well done and well presented results that they would be derelict to neglect. There were plenty of my fiascos that they felt free to ridicule and neglect.
I think, unfortunately, the politics in academia can get in the way of letting the fire lead you. Most of the disgruntled grad students I knew in grad school weren't unsure of whether they liked science/research... they were tired of being treated like crap by their advisors. Some of the people left academia in pursuit of jobs in industry or out of the field all together. Would you suggest that only those with the fire have the ability to push through the politics?
"I think that once you find a good environment and are fortunate to have the opportunity to do the research you want to do, the research-fire level can stay high and can withstand the occasional negative things that happen in the course of any career and life."
I have yet to find a good environment that lets me do the research I want to do. Either the research is what I want to do but the environment is bad, or vice versa.
Also, personal problems can really overshadow everything else - death in the family, divorce, becoming disabled, some other serious and permanent loss in your personal life can I think, affect your zeal for research. Maybe not forever, but certainly long enough for your reduced productivity to have major and long lasting impacts on your career.
I had the opposite situation to Anonymous at 04:48:00 AM. I spent much of my first two years in graduate school questioning whether I liked science because going to the lab made me miserable. I couldn't figure out whether it was the work or the dysfunctional group dynamics, and negative attitudes of some members. Over time, the composition of the group has changed and I have been able to develop some functional working relationships. It feels like a black cloud lifting and suddenly, I can enjoy doing research.
Does anyone know of good research on this issue (gender differences/similarities in response to workplace environment)?
In this study, female professors more frequently reported interpersonal conflict as a source of stress at work (37% of females vs. 22% of males), while male professors more frequently reported wasted time and effort (30% of males vs. 16% of females).
Thank you so much for this post! I am one of those grad students that people don't believe have fire. I have a slowly burning ember, which I hope means it will last a long, long time rather than flashing and flaring, then burning out quickly. Certainly, sometimes it burns a little hotter and stronger than other times. Unfortunately, it never seems to burn so hot that anybody every thinks "That Balancing Act sure is a research fiend."
I know grad students who hate research by a couple years into their schooling. Even having done undergrad research, they really didn't realize that research was not what they liked. For those, there is no fire at all.


In the December 2017 update of Fusion 360, a capability referred to as "Temporary B-Rep" was added to the API. This is one of those features that when you first see it you might say, "why would I ever use that?". It is a feature that's not used very often but when you do need it, it is a great tool. It can be used for many different things so there's not a good simple answer to where it would best be used. However, there was a question posted on the Fusion 360 API forum that I thought would be a good demonstration of the capabilities of temporary B-Rep.
What the user in the forum is trying to accomplish is to create a series of holes in a circular cylinder. The problem he ran into is that he knows exactly where the hole should be but it's difficult to create a hole at an arbitrary location. Another possible option is to create a cylinder by extruding a circle, but it has the same issues as the hole feature in defining the position. A cylinder primitive might seem like a good choice, but they're not supported by the API.
I made a choice not to expose any of the solid primitives in the API because of how the primitives have been designed in Fusion 360. If you use the user-interface to create a cylinder primitive, the first thing it asks is for you to select a plane. You then choose a location on the plane and define the diameter and length of the cylinder. It's really creating a temporary sketch on the selected plane and creating a circle that is extruded to create the cylinder. Because the sketch it temporary you don't have access to the circle so you can't control the position of the cylinder. Because of the dependency on a plane and the temporary sketch, it would make it difficult to expose the placement in the API and wouldn't really be any different than creating a sketch and extruding it anyway. And then you have full control over the sketch and resulting cylinder. Anyway, cylinder primitives are not a solution to this problem either.
Let's look at temporary B-Rep. When you're designing, Fusion 360 is using a modeling engine to create the actual geometry you see. Fusion 360 provides the user-interface to gather the needed information to pass to the engine and it does the real modeling work. Fusion 360 then takes the result and displays it. Fusion 360 is also adding the parametric intelligence to be able to update the model when changes are made.
The temporary B-Rep capability provides direct access to the modeling engine, bypassing Fusion 360. This means that the geometry you create as temporary B-Rep won't be displayed or saved because Fusion 360 doesn't even know it exists. The geometry you create at temporary B-Rep exists in its own world. Let's look at how this can be applied to the problem posed in the forum. Using the temporary B-Rep functionality I can create a solid cylinder at any location in space without any dependency on planes or sketches. It's not constrained by any parametric rules or user-interface choices. In fact, the method to create a cylinder takes two points and two radii (to create a cylinder or a cone). Because the geometry is independent of Fusion 360, it doesn't have all of the overhead that parametric geometry has so it's also much faster. It also isn't displayed anywhere so you save the time that's needed to build and display a mesh that represents the cylinder.
It probably still seems a bit worthless if I can create geometry but can't use it in Fusion 360. Well, you can but you have to first use it to create a real body inside Fusion 360. Then you can use that body just that same as any other body. In a parametric model, you create a body by using features and defining the shape of the body one feature at a time. If you change any of the inputs, the features will recompute and rebuild the body. You can't create a parametric body using any arbitrary shape. However, you can create a non-parametric body. This is what happens when you import a body using a translator (STEP, IGES, etc.) and then change the model to be parametric. A non-parametric body is created and that body exists within a base feature. A base feature is a special feature that acts as a non-parametric island within a parametric part. A base feature exists in the timeline and can interact with the parametric model, but it's content never changes as the result of a recompute.
For a solution to creating the holes in the cylinder, we can create the cylinders that represent the holes as temporary B-Rep bodies. Then within a base feature, we can create a real body using the temporary body as input. And then finally we can use the Combine feature to subtract the holes from the cylinder. The picture above is the result of running the code below. On my laptop it creates the entire model containing 2000 holes in less than 20 seconds. I suspect if you tried creating 2000 standard hole features you could go get lunch before it finishes.
# Draw two circles on the sketch to use to create a tube.
# Find the "outer" profile.
# Create a series of temporary solid bodies that represent the cylinders.
# Compute the coordinates of the first point of the cylinder.
# Compute the coordinates of the second point of the cylinder.
# Create the temporary cylinder.
# Union the cylinder with the previous cylinder.
# Update the position values.
# Create a new base feature.


He averaged 3:55 per kilometre – while wearing wool.
The Guinness World Record for fastest marathon in a suit now belongs to Matthew Whitaker, a 25-year-old lawyer from North Bondi, who ran 2:44:28 at the Sydney Marathon on 17 September.
Whitaker averaged 3:55 pace while wearing a three-piece wool suit – with his top button buttoned, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
He was, however, allowed to wear running shoes.
Before Sunday, the record for fastest marathon in a suit was 2:58:03, run by Joe Elliott of Great Britain in 2013 at the London Marathon.
Whitaker told the Sydney Morning Herald his longest training run in the suit was only 14 kilometres. He wore pants that were one size too big so his stride wouldn't be restricted.


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Just when you thought it was safe to venture into the Australian outback, Mick Taylor (John Jarratt) is back for Wolf Creek 2! The original Wolf Creek (2005) was a dark, shocking and brutal piece of work and one of the most effecting horror films we've seen. This time round director and writer Greg Mclean changes pace, the result is a more mainstream and uptempo movie. Actor John Jarratt is still incredible as Mick Taylor and he is equally terrifying in this movie. While we applaud Greg Mclean for trying something different with Wolf Creek 2, it just wasn't as scarey or disturbing as it maybe could have been. That said Wolf Creek 2 is a good solid horror movie with plenty of blood, violence and gore and Mick Taylor most certainly now has a place in horror villain royalty.


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# Standard Selectors

## AndroidFindBy / iOSXCUITFindBy / WindowsFindBy

# Advanced Selectors

## iOS's String Predicates

You can specify a [predicate](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nspredicate)
in your Class Chain to limit the number of matched items. There's
[a detailed guide to that](https://appium.io/docs/en/writing-running-appium/ios/ios-predicate/index.html)
on the Appium Docs website with some Appium-specific considerations.

## iOS's Class Chain Queries

Our XCUiTest integration has full support for the 'Class Chain' concept. This
can do much of what XPath does...but faster. Note that many Class Chains leverage
String Predicates too.

### String Predicates in Class Chains

There's a special array-style syntax for defining predicates in a Class Chain:

```
// Start with [
// Followed by `
// Followed by some text
// Followed by `
// End with ]
[`label != 'a'`]
[`isWDVisible == 1`]
[`value < 0`]
```

#### Searching Descendents

If you replace the backticks (`` ` ``) around a predicate with dollar signs (`$`),
then the Class Chain will match against the children, grandchildren, and other
descendants of each element.

```
// Find a cell element with the label 'here'
XCUIElementTypeCell[`label == 'here'`]
// Find a cell element which contains SOMETHING ELSE that has the label 'here'
XCUIElementTypeCell[$label == 'here'$]
```

#### Handling Quote Marks

Most of the time, you can treat pairs of single quotes or double quotes
interchangably. If you're searching with a string that contains quote marks,
though, you [need to be careful](https://stackoverflow.com/q/14116217).

```c
// Make sure to escape each quote mark that matches your delimiter
"text with \"some\" 'quote' marks"
// To NSPredicate, the line above and the line below are equivalent
'text with "some" \'quote\' marks'
```
```java
// When defining a iOSXCUITFindBy annotation, you'll be constrained by the
// Java string-quoting rules too.
@iOSXCUITFindBy(iOSClassChain = "**/SomeElement[`'text with \"some\" \\\'quote\\\' marks'`]")
```

### External References

Refer to [the official WebDriverAgent query docs](https://github.com/facebookarchive/WebDriverAgent/wiki/Class-Chain-Queries-Construction-Rules)
to learn more about the general concept.

### Sample usage:

```java
// Selector for image elements
@iOSXCUITFindBy(iOSClassChain = "**/XCUIElementTypeImage")

// Selector for the first image element on screen
@iOSXCUITFindBy(iOSClassChain = "**/XCUIElementTypeImage[1]")
// Selector for the second image element on screen
@iOSXCUITFindBy(iOSClassChain = "**/XCUIElementTypeImage[2]")
// Selector for the last image element on screen
@iOSXCUITFindBy(iOSClassChain = "**/XCUIElementTypeImage[-1]")
// Selector for the penultimate image element on screen
@iOSXCUITFindBy(iOSClassChain = "**/XCUIElementTypeImage[-2]")

// Selector for every cell with the name 'Foo' (single quote style)
@iOSXCUITFindBy(iOSClassChain = "**/XCUIElementTypeCell[`name == 'Foo'`]")
// Selector for every cell with the name "Foo" (double quote style)
@iOSXCUITFindBy(iOSClassChain = "**/XCUIElementTypeCell[`name == \"Foo\"`]")

// Selector for every cell with a name that starts with 'Foo' (single quote style)
@iOSXCUITFindBy(iOSClassChain = "**/XCUIElementTypeCell[`name BEGINSWITH 'Foo'`]")
// Selector for every cell with a name that starts with "Foo" (double quote style)
@iOSXCUITFindBy(iOSClassChain = "**/XCUIElementTypeCell[`name BEGINSWITH \"Foo\"`]")

// Selector for every cell with a name that starts with "it's not"
@iOSXCUITFindBy(iOSClassChain = "**/XCUIElementTypeCell[`name BEGINSWITH \"it's not\"`]")

// Selector that'll match every top-level element on screen
@iOSXCUITFindBy(iOSClassChain = "*")
// Selector that'll match every leaf element on screen (watch out: this can be SLOW)
@iOSXCUITFindBy(iOSClassChain = "**/*")

// You can place an index after a predicate: the following finds the last image element with name 'Foo'
@iOSXCUITFindBy(iOSClassChain = "**/XCUIElementTypeCell[`name == 'Foo'`][-1]")
```

## Android's uiAutomator String

Available when using [AndroidBy](AndroidBy) and [AndroidFindBy](AndroidFindBy) with
[appium-uiautomator2-server](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server). This
string will be used by the server to construct a UiSelector or UiScrollable object.

### External References

For an overview of what the backend is capable of, please check out the

* [Main UI Automator Guide](https://developer.android.com/training/testing/ui-automator)
* [UiScrollable API docs](https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/test/uiautomator/UiScrollable)
and
* [UiSelector API docs](https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/test/uiautomator/UiSelector)

### Sample Strings

Here are some ways you could configure a UiSelector in your project:

```java
// Create a selector that looks for the text "Hello World":
@AndroidFindBy(uiAutomator = "new UiSelector().text(\"Hello World\")")

// Create a selector that tries to find an ImageView:
@AndroidFindBy(uiAutomator = "new UiSelector().className(\"android.widget.ImageView\")")

// Create a selector that matches resource ids against a regular expression:
private static final String looksLikeAPage = "page_number_\d*";
@AndroidFindBy(uiAutomator = "new UiSelector().resourceIdMatches(\"" + looksLikeAPage + "\")")

// The agent also supports some abbreviated forms - all 3 of the below
// strings are equivalent.
@AndroidFindBy(uiAutomator = "new UiSelector().className(\"android.widget.EditText\")")
@AndroidFindBy(uiAutomator = "UiSelector().className(\"android.widget.EditText\")")
@AndroidFindBy(uiAutomator = ".className(\"android.widget.EditText\")")

// You can connect up conditions to search for multiple things at once
@AndroidFindBy(uiAutomator = ".resourceId(\"android:id/list\").classNameMatches(\"\.*RecyclerView\").index(3)")
```

..and here are some that create UiScrollable objects:

```java
private static final String ourImageSelector = ".className(\"android.widget.ImageView\")";
private static final String ourListSelector = ".className(\"android.widget.ListView\")";

// Create a scrollable associated with a list (by itself, this doesn't do anything useful...)
@AndroidFindBy(uiAutomator = "new UiScrollable(" + ourListSelector + ")")

// Create a scrollable that scrolls forward along a list until it finds an ImageView:
@AndroidFindBy(uiAutomator = "new UiScrollable(" + ourListSelector + ").scrollIntoView(" + ourImageSelector + ")")

```


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LeadersSep 4th 2010 edition
Pakistan's cricket scandal
Crossing the boundary
The responsibility for Pakistan's cricketing scandal lies ultimately with the country's elite
NOT much unites Pakistanis more than cricket. The national game inspires widespread devotion and the national team justified pride. Led by wristy batsmen, like Javed Miandad, and blood-curdling fast bowlers, like Imran Khan, Pakistan has often excelled at the world's most popular sport after football. Its side has tended to beat India's, despite its more modest population. In a country suffering devastation from flooding, and long divided by ethnicity, region, religion and sect, which often seems to have little to boast of, or even reason for being, cricket should be a boon.
But Pakistan's cricketers are advertising much that is wrong with their country. In-fighting (including with cricket bats), drug-taking, feigned injury, allegations of players being coerced into Islamic fundamentalism and other scandals have plagued the national side. But the most egregious involves match-fixing, to which Pakistani cricketers, allegedly including several of today's crop, seem especially prone.
In the latest case three Pakistani cricketers, including the national captain, Salman Butt, are alleged to have conspired with gamblers to fix parts of recent games against England's team—a practice known as "spot-fixing". The allegations, raised this week by a British tabloid, are unproven, but ominous. Three alleged accomplices have been arrested on suspicion of money-laundering and conspiring to defraud bookmakers.
This blight is a symptom of cricket's mismanagement. Most national cricket boards are manned by unaccountable, often incompetent and overly politicised administrators, ill-fitted to a game that generates billions of dollars. The supremo of its governing body, the International Cricket Council, should have no time to spare for this task. He is Sharad Pawar, India's agriculture minister. In Asia, especially, many of these officials are also allegedly corrupt or otherwise malfeasant—witness a scandal in the Indian Premier League, the boss of which, Lalit Modi, stands accused of overseeing vast tax evasion.
Cricket is a business that should be managed efficiently and transparently. Those who sully the game should incur stiff penalties—including, if the allegations against them are proven, the latest Pakistanis under a cloud. One of them, alas, is Muhammad Amir, a brilliant 18-year-old, who hails from Swat, which was until last year overrun by the Taliban. This made attending cricket practice difficult and Mr Amir's achievements even more remarkable. Speaking up for him this week, his former coach, an Australian, called Mr Amir a "shining light of hope". Yet this beacon, if found guilty, should play no more cricket for a long time, if ever.
That is a necessary tragedy, but Pakistani cricket will not become clean unless its elite administrators do a better job. In cricket as in politics, Pakistan's problems start at the top, with President Asif Ali Zardari, who presides over its cricket board. With "Mr 10%"—as Mr Zardari is also known because of many (unproven) allegations against him—for a role model, why would Mr Amir not try to make a sly buck?
And this mirrors a wider abdication by Pakistan's privileged citizens. Understandably they are dismayed by their country's growing reputation as the world's troublemaker. But, with heroic exceptions, they show little appetite for trying to improve the place. Many prefer to blame their problems on others, ideally America. They also blithely dodge tax—at around 10% of GDP, Pakistan's tax-collection rate is one of the world's lowest. In cricket, as in life, Pakistan's ruling class should recognise that its country's man-made problems are largely its own responsibility. That would be a first step towards ending them.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline "Crossing the boundary"
More from Leaders
Welcome to the era of the bossy state
Boris Johnson has always been unfit to be prime minister
Standemonium
Central Asia will remain unstable, however many troops Russia sends
Indiacitement
Hindu bigots are openly urging Indians to murder Muslims
Poor students
America has failed to learn from the safe opening of classrooms abroad
Countries around the world want to bend companies to their will
With him in office, Britain can expect a rough ride
Events in Kazakhstan are not what they seem
And the ruling party does nothing to stop them
Its children have lost more school days than peers in most rich countries


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Stars of SHINE 2012
Posted by SG Volunteer Team on June 3, 2012 in Happenings & News
Do you know a passionate youth who embraces pursuits beyond the ordinary? Someone who lives life to the fullest, and whose achievements have inspired others? If you do, nominate them for Stars of SHINE 2012!
Stars of SHINE identifies youth between 15 and 35 years old who are an inspiration to their peers, recognising them for their outstanding contributions in the community. An initiative borne out of the SHINE Youth Festival, Stars of SHINE seeks to highlight and profile youth role models as a source of encouragement and inspiration to other youths, giving these youth role models recognition for their contributions.
Since its inaugural award in 2007, Stars of SHINE have recognised 24 youths in their inspirational life stories and contributions back to the community. Last year's recipients were social entrepreneur Justine Lee, MENDAKI Coach & Volunteer Mohammed Farhan, and Special Olympics Singapore Athlete Salihin Bin Sinai. Their "Enough Talk, Just Do" attitude, unrelenting spirit and determination have made a difference in the lives of many others.
Nominate Stars of SHINE from now till 7 June 2012. Visit the SHINE Youth Festival website (www.shine.nyc.sg) to nominate Stars of SHINE 2012, vote for your favourite Stars of SHINE nominee and read about the inspiring stories of past Award recipients.
The Stars of SHINE Award presentation will take place during the closing ceremony of the SHINE Youth Festival, held in the Youth Month of July. The festival celebrates the creativity and individuality of today's youth, and will feature exciting events and activities organised by them.
About SHINE Youth Festival 2012
SHINE Youth Festival 2012 will be held from 30 June to 29 July 2012. Guided by the theme of "Aspirations", the festival seeks to bring out the aspirations of young people, inspiring them to dream big and take risks while retaining their own unique attitudes, values and beliefs and translating all these into actions and contributions. It aims to develop youth's talents and skills in various domains such as Youth Culture (showcasing vibrancy of youth culture & growing interest groups), Youth Action in Singapore (highlighting youth activism and youth in action, promoting worthy causes to benefit the community) and Youth Sports (promoting youth resilience).
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Google and Amazon innovators have actually already dabbled in hotel and retirement community operations -- and our residents seem delighted!
SAVIOKE. Its makers have been piloting this device in hotels like Aloft (of the Westin umbrella). Remember all those times you needed a toothbrush because you left yours at home? Well, now, a SAVIOKE can deliver it to you, and call as it arrives at your room.
Their screen asks you how your stay is going -- and you can give instant feedback, which hotels have found very helpful. As a guest, you also avoid the awkward oh-my-gosh-where-is-my-cash-to-tip-you-for-bringing-me-a-toothbrush feeling.
VOYAGE. The father of the self-driving car movement is at Google building Waymo. His protégé started Voyage and it's operating in the Villages in San Jose. They only have a few cars, which they use as "taxis" to ferry residents to appointments and the store, so they are pretty much at maximum capacity. Seniors love it!
ALEXA. Did anyone see Thrive's Alexa video? It's awesome. My 80-year old mother-in-law loves her Alexa! One of the biggest complaints that seniors have about their Alexa is that there aren't enough fitness classes tailored to older populations.
Karli Olson at Front Porch has published about their Alexa demo. Thrive has taken it a step further and built a suite of products around it. Alexa can answer my residents' favorite question, "What's for dinner?" No more having to call Faye at the front desk!
How else might Google, Amazon, and other tech innovators refresh our communities? What else might a 72-year old Baby Boomer want or need?
Let's innovate together! Please leave your comments.
Dr. Jacquelyn Kung is an advisor to investors and providers in U.S. seniors housing and care. Previously, she managed a large $70M CCRC and seniors healthcare provider in Virginia. She is also a reformed McKinsey consultant and health entrepreneur, having cofounded the largest technology network of long term care providers in the U.S. Harvard BA, Harvard MBA, and Johns Hopkins PhD. Jacquelyn now lives in SF with her husband and daughter and enjoys trying new coffee shops on weekends.


You betcha - it's time - and it's so cool to be announcing the November kit blog hop for Peppermint Dreams - another fabulous kit designed by our very own ….. Melanie Blackburn. I love Christmas and this kit will get you in the Christmas spirit, I am sure of it. Here is a little peek of the kit - just a very small peek. Peppermint Dreams will be available for purchase on the shopping page November 1st.
The first stop today is over at Melissa's blog, and once you are there, Melissa will guide you to the next blog to hop to. Now let's get hopping!
And, our last reminder from "Witchy" - October 29th is the deadline for the Fall/Halloween contest. Click here for the rules and regulations.


"Best place to live in Mernda"
Beechwood Court is a pretty cul-de-sac surrounded by beautiful red river gums. The court is filled with lovely families who are hard working and house proud.
"Up and coming family area. "
"Very Noisy, and lots of sewer Smells, plenty of snakes."
"Fantastic place to live and enjoy"
Why do people want to live in Mernda?
What is the public transport like in Mernda?
What kind of area is Riverdale Blvd, Mernda?
Does Mernda have local wildlife problems?