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Q: who has birthday next? I am trying to sort a list with birth dates. When I use this code i get all dates in order by months and days. But I want to find the closet birthday by today. So the person who has birthday next is in the top, and the day after he is in the bottom. Because of there is a year to he has birthday next.
//what i am looking for

//("Person5", "April 09, 1992"));
//("Person2", "October 17, 1981"));
//("Person3", "December 25, 1961"));
//("Person4", "January 10, 1977"));
//("Person1", "February 04, 1967"));

function person(navn, fødselsdage, foto, alder) {
    this.navn = navn;
    this.fødselsdage = fødselsdage;
}

var contacts = [];
var p1 = contacts.push(new person("Person1", "February 04, 1967"));
var p2 = contacts.push(new person("Person2", "October 17, 1981"));
var p3 = contacts.push(new person("Person3", "December 25, 1961"));
var p4 = contacts.push(new person("Person4", "January 10, 1977"));
var p5 = contacts.push(new person("Person5", "April 09, 1992"));

sortByDateNoYear = function (adate, bdate) {
    var results, lhdate = moment(adate.fødselsdage), rhdate = moment(bdate.fødselsdage);
    results = lhdate.months() > rhdate.months() ? 1 : lhdate.months() < rhdate.months() ? -1 : 0;
    if (results === 0) results = lhdate.date() > rhdate.date() ? 1 : lhdate.date() < rhdate.date() ? -1 : 0; return results;
}

contacts.sort(sortByDateNoYear);
contacts.sort(function (a, b) {
    return new Date(a.fødselsdage).getDate() - new Date(b.fødselsdage).getDate()
        && new Date(a.fødselsdage).getMonth() - new Date(b.fødselsdage).getMonth()
});

for (var key in contacts) {
    if (contacts.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
        var obj = contacts[key];
        document.write(obj["navn"] + " ");
        document.write(obj["fødselsdage"] + "<br>");
    }
}

A: Take a look this example. I removed sortByDateNoYear function and updated sorting:
contacts.sort(function(a, b) {
    let needSort = 0;
    let today = moment()
        .startOf('day');
    let aBirthday = moment(a.fødselsdage, 'MMM DD, YYYY');
    let bBirthday = moment(b.fødselsdage, 'MMM DD, YYYY');
    let aNextBirthday = moment().month(aBirthday.month()).date(aBirthday.date());
    let bNextBirthday = moment().month(bBirthday.month()).date(bBirthday.date());
    if ((bNextBirthday.isAfter(today) && aNextBirthday.isAfter(today)) || (bNextBirthday.isBefore(today) && aNextBirthday.isBefore(today))){
      needSort = bNextBirthday.isAfter(aNextBirthday)? -1: 1;
    }
    else {
        needSort = bNextBirthday.isAfter(today)? 1: -1;
    }

    return needSort;
});

For today the output will be:

Person5 April 09, 1992
Person2 October 17, 1981
Person3 December 25, 1961
Person4 January 10, 1977
Person1 February 04, 1967

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Humankind is the ultimate villain in this game, as they systematically slaughter Goblins while enslaving Orcs. Players take on the roles of the persecuted creatures as they battle to defeat the human masses led by the evil Emperor.
The Orc and the Goblin have the potential to utilize their individual strengths and abilities and create a powerful opposition to the humans during battle. The Orc focuses on sheer strength while the Goblin relies primarily on his darker stealth abilities
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Q: How to exclude items in your DynamoDB GSI So I am reading about Sparse Indexes, which exclude items based on an attribute being present or not. I am trying to do this in my cloudformation script, with the attributes: isTenant. If that attribute is present I want the item to appear in my GSI, if the attribute doesn't exist I don't want it there, this is my table:
FooBar:
  Type: "AWS::DynamoDB::Table"
  Properties:
    BillingMode: PAY_PER_REQUEST
    TableName: FooBarTable

    AttributeDefinitions:
      -
        AttributeName: "pk"
        AttributeType: "S"
      -
        AttributeName: "sort"
        AttributeType: "S"
      -
        AttributeName: "runningFiles"
        AttributeType: "N"

    KeySchema:
      -
        AttributeName: "pk"
        KeyType: "HASH"
      -
        AttributeName: "sort"
        KeyType: "RANGE"

    LocalSecondaryIndexes:
      -
        IndexName: RunningJobsPerTenant
        Projection:
          ProjectionType:
            INCLUDE
          NonKeyAttributes:
            - "isTenant"
        KeySchema:
          -
            AttributeName: "pk"
            KeyType: "HASH"
          -
            AttributeName: "runningFiles"
            KeyType: "RANGE"

What am I doing wrong?

A:
For any item in a table, DynamoDB writes a corresponding index entry
  only if the index sort key value is present in the item. If the sort
  key doesn't appear in every table item, the index is said to be
  sparse.

Based on above statement from AWS DynamoDB documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/bp-indexes-general-sparse-indexes.html
You would need isTenant attribute to be the sort key, so index only is filled when this attribute is present.
The problem you may face now is what to do with your runningFiles attribute (in case you need it to query the index).
My proposal is to overload another attribute, for example:

*

*Create a new overloaded attribute composed of pk#runningFiles

*Create a new attribute which is only present when isTenant is true. For example, runningFilesIfTenant so you create index using it as sort key and getting same result.


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30 minutes or less and is full of protein and vegetables.
I love this dish for it's vibrant umami flavors and it's simplicity.
The Miso Maple Sauce has only 5 ingredients and you probably have all of them in your pantry. The combination of miso paste, maple syrup, rice wine vinegar, garlic and gluten free tamari (soy sauce) creates a sweet and salty umami flavor that transforms simple salmon into something sublime.
I recommend using a microplane to grate the garlic, it's super easy.
Marinate the salmon while the oven heats up and you prepare the string beans. Ten minutes is plenty of time to flavor the rich fatty salmon. You can leave it marinate for up to an hour but not longer.
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Miso is a healthy, probiotic food that helps support digestion by adding beneficial microorganisms to your digestive tract.
String beans are a good source of complex carbohydrates, vitamins and fiber.
The string beans are tossed with a little olive oil and if you want a pinch of red pepper flakes and toasted sesame oil. They're cooked in the same pan as the salmon. Your protein and vegetables are all together and that means less time is spent cleaning up. The green beans and orange salmon are quite pretty too!
The digestive juices begin to flow when you see and smell a delicious dish. How it looks is important. Attractive food taste better.
Finish it off with chopped cilantro or parsley and a squeeze of lemon.
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All I can say is this is an incredibly delicious meal with a rich umami flavor and it's on the table in 30 minutes or less. Give it a try and see how much your family loves it!
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Miso Maple Salmon is an earthy, sweet, salty one pan supper made in 30 minutes or less and is full of protein and vegetables.
In a small bowl combine the maple syrup, miso, rice vinegar, tamari, and garlic. Mix until smooth.
Put the salmon on a plate and pour the sauce on top. Gently rub it onto both sides of the fish.
Heat oven to 425 degrees and line a sheet pan with parchment paper.
Let the salmon sit at room temperature while the oven heats up.
In the meantime, toss the string beans with the olive oil, red pepper flakes and sesame oil (if using). Season with salt and pepper.
Place the salmon, cut side up and all the marinade on the sheet pan.
Spread the string beans around the salmon.
Roast on the top shelf of your oven for 10-12 minutes until the salmon is beginning to flake, but still has a little translucency in the middle. Use a knife to check.
If you have a thinner belly piece, it will probably be done at 8-9 minutes. Remove it from the oven onto a plate and continue to cook the rest of the salmon until done.
Serve garnished with chopped cilantro and lemon wedges.
The string beans will be crisp, if you prefer them to be more tender, blanch them in salted water for 3 minutes and drain.


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Speaking on her appointment, Dr Adesola Adeduntan, CEO, FirstBank said, "We are excited to welcome Mrs. Oluwande Muoyo to the FirstBank Board. She brings to the Board her depth of experience which spans over three decades in various leadership and strategic positions across the private and public sectors. I am assured that these rich experiences will have an immediate impact in the board which will transcend the activities of the Bank as a whole."
"On behalf of the board, management and staff of FirstBank, I congratulate Mrs Muoyo and look forward to working with her," he concluded.
Oluwande Muoyo was appointed to the Board of First Bank of Nigeria Limited in 2020.
She is a Chartered Accountant, Banker and former Honourable Commissioner for Budget and Planning in Ogun State.
Prior to being appointed an Honourable Commissioner, Oluwande worked with Stanbic IBTC Bank for over 22 years in various parts of the bank, including Financial Control, Treasury and Financial Services, Trade Finance and Corporate Banking. She holds a BSc degree in Accounting from the University of Lagos.
She started her professional career with the international firm Price Waterhouse (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers). A Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, Oluwande has, over the years, acquired competencies and skills in public financial management, policy formulation, business development, banking, budgeting, planning, auditing and taxation.
Her past Directorships include the Governing Board of the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics and FBN Holdings Plc. Oluwande has attended many training programmes including Strategic Marketing Management at Harvard Business School, Advanced Strategy at INSEAD and Advanced Management Programme at the Lagos Business School. Oluwande is married with children and enjoys reading and swimming.
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NASCAR Sprint Cup came to Atlanta Motor Speedway for the second round of the series. Sunday's 325-lap race was absurdly clean until the last few minutes of racing, with zero caution flags and good racing until the final two laps. Kevin Harvick was dominant in the beginning of the race, using an inside line that was hard on the tires at times, but fast. Unfortunately, Harvick was unable to hold his position after a yellow-flag restart, and Jimmie Johnson was ready to take advantage.
While Harvick's slip up at the "overtime" restart cost him the race, it was clever pit strategy that put Johnson squarely up front. Johnson was early to take his final pit stop, a "gutsy call" Johnson would later say, but one that paid off. He would have a nine-lap advantage on fresh tires before Harvick came in for his final pit stop of the race. Harvick had started to close the 13-second advantage Johnson gained from this strategy, but it was the restart that would ultimately seal his fate.
Johnson ties the late Dale Earnhardt for seventh in overall victories, at 76 wins—he threw a three-finger salute to the crowd, signifying his connection to the legend who passed 15 years ago.


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Apple's initiative, reportedly code named "Kalamata," is part of an effort to make Macs, iPhones, and iPads work "more similarly and seamlessly together" according to unspecified sources that spoke to Bloomberg. Apple already designs its own A-series chips found in iPhones and iPads.
The Mac chip plans are said to be in the early stages of development and the transition from Intel chips to Apple chips could involve multiple steps, starting with the "Marzipan" initiative coming in iOS 12 and macOS 10.14 to allow developers to create a single app able to run on both iOS and macOS.
Apple has already begun using custom designed T1 and T2 chips in its MacBook Pro and iMac Pro machines, and the company is said to be planning to integrate additional custom co-processors in Macs coming later this year. The custom chips will also be used in the upcoming Mac Pro, which is in development.
The T1 chip, included in the MacBook Pro, powers the Touch Bar and authenticates Touch ID. The T2 chip, in the iMac Pro integrates several components including the system management controller, image signal processor, SSD controller, and a Secure Enclave with a hardware-based encryption engine.
Previous rumors have suggested Apple is interested in creating its own ARM-based core processor chips for its Mac lineup in order to reduce its dependence on Intel. Apple is also rumored to be pursuing development of its own modem chips to also reduce reliance on both Intel and Qualcomm.
A move away from Intel would have a major impact on Intel, with Apple providing approximately five percent of Intel's annual revenue. Intel stock has already dropped following the news.
Wow. That would be terrible.
Higher prices, less compatibility, no upgradability, all epoxied together, and will probably require a Courage loan.
Apple would not be forced to wait on new Intel chips before being able to release updated Macs, and the company could integrate new features on a faster schedule.
Lol. Like the mac pro, or mini, or macbook pro that were stagnant for years through many intel chip revisions?
I guess I should start making plans for my exit from the Apple ecosystem.
While I've been able to tolerate the closed nature of the iPhone and iPad, since I treat them mostly as appliances, I would not be able to tolerate the same thing on the Mac.
Using Intel CPUs maintains compatibility with the rest of the industry. I can run virtual machines on my Mac running Linux, Windows, or pretty much any x86-based OS. This is crucial to my usage of the platform.
It's unfortunate if this is true and I really hope it isn't.
Wow an actual rumor. This is crazy.
Calm down; it's not like we have a blurry photo of these custom ch—WHAT THE HELL IS UNDER MY DESK?
Why is it exciting? They need to convince Adobe, Microsoft and other major developers to re-write their desktop apps, or will they just port their iOS apps to the desktop?
Wow! I remember the transition from power PC chips to Intel. Yes, I am that old and have been around Apple that long. This will be quite the transition similar to that time.
Frankly put, I'm excited especially with some of the business decisions Intel has been making as of late.
You mean about 12 years? I wouldn't call that a very long time, to be honest. If you had said 68k to PPC maybe..
Oh no, not this **** again.


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Q: Log explicit statements from a session user to Unified Auditing in Oracle 12c Trying to log all actions / statements run by a specific session user on an Oracle 12c database, using the relatively new Unified Auditing logging evironnment.
The audit policy is defined as the following:
CREATE AUDIT POLICY log_test
ACTIONS ALL
WHEN 'SYS_CONTEXT(''USERENV'', ''SESSION_USER'') = ''JOSTEIN'''
EVALUATE PER SESSION;

This does log statements run, but it also logs a lot of other statements which were not run explicitly by the session user.
Is there a way to include explicit statements only for the WHEN clause?

A: You wrote: "This does log statements run, but it also logs a lot of other statements which were not run explicitly by the session user."
You need to check from the unified_audit_trail view what was in the column "unified_audit_policies" for these other statements

A: First please make sure Unified auditing is enabled
select * from v$option where PARAMETER = 'Unified Auditing';

Your create audit policy statement is correct, so it should audit only the user JOSTEIN
After that enable the audit policy
audit policy log_test;

You can view the audit policy options as below
col audit_option format A20
col policy_name format A18
select POLICY_NAME, AUDIT_OPTION, CONDITION_EVAL_OPT
from   AUDIT_UNIFIED_POLICIES
where  POLICY_NAME ='LOG_TEST';

Verify your audit policy is enabled
col user_name format A10
col policy_name format A18
select POLICY_NAME, ENABLED_OPT, USER_NAME, SUCCESS, FAILURE
from AUDIT_UNIFIED_ENABLED_POLICIES
where POLICY_NAME ='LOG_TEST';

After performing any audited operation you may check the audited data using
col action_name format A16
col policy_name format A18
col system_privilege_used format A20
select DBUSERNAME, ACTION_NAME, SYSTEM_PRIVILEGE_USED
from unified_audit_trail
where DBUSERNAME = 'JOSTEIN';

This should give you audit result of that specific user.
You can view more on the same using the below link
http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/db/12c/r1/security/sec_uni_audit/sec_uni_audit.html


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Alicia Jay
Alicia Jay is a certified coach and multifaceted consultant who has spent the last 15 years driving change on behalf of social justice activists and organizations, with a focus on helping women and young people to reach their highest levels of leadership and impact. As a part of the team who launched The League, a new cultural engagement collective, Alicia was most recently working with some of the progressive movement's leading activists to integrate creative communications, cultural organizing, and narrative shift strategies into their work.
Alicia has supported individuals and organizations to better align their behavior with their values to achieve greater impact. She has done this by mobilizing millions of women through intersectional campaigns and events like Make It Work, the We Won't Wait coalition, and the United State of Women Summit; building the capacity of grassroots organizations through grantmaking at the Atlantic Philanthropies; and helping to train the current and next generation of social change leaders through Young People For, the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program, and as a coach working with hundreds of emerging leaders.


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Q: How to optimally feed Research Labs? Metals Labs and Gas/Oil Labs take some goods as inputs and produce "reports", that boost corresponding Research Centers.
How much input they need? They don't say how much items they consume, and seem to clog easily.

A: Unlike Research Centers, that consume all accumulated reports on each production cycle, Labs will only consume one item of each accepted type. If no items are delivered, a Lab will produce 1 report per cycle, with each item generating a stated number of additional reports. E.g. an Gas/Oil Labs that has Oil, Gas and Plastic loaded, will produce 16 reports per cycle.
Labs have slower than usual production cycle - 20 ticks - that makes it hard to optimally feed them. If your, say, Plastic maker produces 2 Plastic per cycle (10 ticks), it will need to feed whole four Labs to avoid clogging (or dispose part of production). And your Oil buyer by that time should produce 8 per cycle, so you will have to dump half of your oil anyway.
But most important complication is delivering several types of items, and it is non-trivial to make a sorting system that will split all types of items to each Lab (it is exactly opposite to what a Sorter component is useful for). For two types of items one will have to build two intertwining sorting systems that join only at each Lab's entrance. Good thing is the system is much easier to build for an odd number of items - for example, 3 types of items that come in fixed order are guaranteed to be evenly split if your conveyor only has two-way branching.

Pictured: Gas/oil/plastic line easily splits 3 types of items for Gas/Oil Labs. Iron/steel line actually feeds 2 Metals Labs each (to produce exactly 16 reports to sync with Gas/Oil), and there is twice as much Iron as Steel, so the count is essentially odd too.

A: This isn't optimal per lab, but it does provide for more efficient use of space so you can fit more research centers into a map (and fewer conveyors taking up space): Create your resources and then feed them into the same conveyor belt using a 3-to-1 junction so that they match proportions. Then feed both types of labs for the entire map from two belts: one for gas/oil and the other for metals.


Few things in life are more awkward than middle school dances. I mean, seriously. You've got a bunch of pre-/barely- pubescent kids gathered together in a stuffy room. Music is playing and expectations are high. Who will have enough courage to ask someone to dance? And will that lucky person accept, or will it be a lesson in handling public rejection with grace? For one school in Utah, a reported dance policy aims to spare kids' feelings from rejection. However, one mom is outraged after her daughter's school allegedly told students they can't say no when asked to dance, as local news affiliate Fox 13 reported.
As of Monday morning, Superintendent Jeff Stephens for Weber School District in Utah told Romper that the policy has been nixed. "I was not aware of the practice," he told Romper. "We met with the principal this morning and made adjustments moving forward. That will no longer be the practice."
On Feb. 8, Fox 13 reported that mom Natalie Richard thought her daughter was mistaken when the sixth-grader told her she wasn't allowed to say "no" at an upcoming Valentine's Day dance at Kanesville Elementary School in Utah. The concerned mother asked her daughter's school district about the reported rule, which confirmed it. According to the New York Post, her daughter's teacher told Richard that students have "to say yes" and have "to accept such a proposal."
Evidently, the now-nixed policy was an attempt by the school to teach kids to be inclusive and about respecting each other, as Weber School District spokesperson Lane Findlay told Rawstory.com. "Please be respectful, be polite," Findlay said. "We want to promote kindness, and so we want you to say yes when someone asks you to dance.
Although Richard said she understood the motivation behind the former policy, she expressed that it was still misguided. "I do see it from their perspective when it comes to that, but there are many other ways to teach children how to be accepting than with a social dance," Richard told ABC 13.
She continued, "[It} sends a bad message to girls that girls have to say 'yes'; [it] sends a bad message to boys that girls can't say 'no.'"
It's worth noting this Valentine's Day dance is completely voluntary. As Rawstory.com reported, students are instructed to select five people with whom they'd like to dance and to fill out a card before the dance. And if students feel uncomfortable with someone in particular, they are advised to speak up.
"If there is an issue, if there's students that are uncomfortable or have a problem with another student, I mean that's certainly something that can be addressed with that student and parents," Findlay told Fox 13.
Psychologically, my daughter keeps coming to me and saying I can't say "no" to a boy. That's the message kids are getting.
Now the policy has been changed, it seems as though this mother's outrage and concerns has resonated with the school's staff and things will be much different moving forward when it comes to future school dances, including this one.


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Another day, another human champion brought low by an artificial intelligence (A.I.) platform.
This time, the contest in question was "The International," a huge tournament centered on "Dota 2," a multiplayer video game in which virtual heroes battle for control of a battlefield. Fighting on behalf of A.I. platforms everywhere: a bot created by OpenAI, a non-profit A.I. research company. Its opponents: a collection of top-ranked "Dota 2" players, including Arteezy (a.k.a. Artour Babaev), who is widely viewed as the best on the planet.
"Dota 2" creator Valve touts "competitive balance" as the game's "crown jewel." That balance also makes it perfect for competitions between human beings and autonomous software; if the game gives neither side an undue advantage, then it should (theoretically) serve as the perfect proving ground for individual mastery—or individual destruction at the hands of an increasingly sophisticated bot.
While OpenAI hasn't open-sourced the bot that allowed it to win so handily at "Dota 2," the organization does offer a variety of tools, including open-source software for robot simulation, as well as a framework for developing reinforcement learning algorithms. If you're interested in A.I. and machine learning, its portfolio is well worth checking out.


"They don't want anybody to know that I'm here. Tell them that the drivers, the taxi drivers, and everything are involved in this. The security guards, everybody. They're trying to f***ing kill me. I need your help man," he said, then hung up.
Pech's family heard the frantic phone calls a few days later. Then came a call from police in Laos, telling them Pech had committed suicide.
For those who knew Sihaknara Pech, born and raised in Edmonton, the story still doesn't make sense.
"You can hear that he's afraid and he's pretty much begging for help," Sarena Armsworthy said about her brother's final words.
"I believe he was murdered," she said, adding that she thinks her brother was attacked by more than one person.
Pech, 28, was declared dead in the early morning hours of Jan. 22.
Not happy with the answers coming from the police in Laos, Pech's family started digging, by first arranging for a private autopsy.
"He's just a kid. He's 28. He's just starting his life. I don't know what would have triggered anything for someone to do such a terrible thing to a kid," his sister said.
Pech was in Laos with friends on a trip to southeast Asia, a trip he took, his sister said, to connect with his roots. At home in Ontario was his high school sweetheart, his girlfriend of 13 years, who he had asked to marry him.
He was at the airport that day because he missed her, and wanted to come home, Armsworthy said.
Pech's family, dissatisfied with answers from the Canadian government on the police investigation in Laos, has started a petition.
"We want answers. We want action. We want to know what happened," said Armsworthy, who said the family hasn't seen surveillance from the airport that day.
The statement said consular officials continue to provide assistance to the family and work with authorities in Laos, and have asked for a transparent investigation.


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Shurestan-e Sofla (, also Romanized as Shūrestān-e Soflá; also known as Shūrestān-e Pā'īn, Shūrestān Pā'āin, Shūristān Pāīn) is a village in Salehabad Rural District, Salehabad County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 539, in 116 families.

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Q: Integrating a multivariable scalar potential Say I have a scalar function $V(x,y,z) :\mathbb{R^3}\to \mathbb{R}$ which is a scalar potential of some vector field $\vec{F}$. I can write:
$\nabla V=\frac{\partial V}{\partial x}\hat{x}+\frac{\partial V}{\partial y}\hat{y}+\frac{\partial V}{\partial z}\hat{z}$
I also know $\vec{F}=\nabla V$, so:
$\vec{F}=\frac{\partial V}{\partial x}\hat{x}+\frac{\partial V}{\partial y}\hat{y}+\frac{\partial V}{\partial z}\hat{z}$
Now, if V was only dependent upon one variable, say $x$, could I  write the following connection ?
$V=\int \vec{F} \cdot \vec{dx}$
If so, what algebraic steps have I done here? It sure makes sense, but I fail at explaining it to myself.
And what if V wasn't only a function of x, but of y and z too? Would it haven been right to write:
$V_x=\int \vec{F} \cdot \vec{dx}$
$V_y=\int \vec{F} \cdot \vec{dy}$
$V_z=\int \vec{F} \cdot \vec{dz}$
and then $V=V_x+V_y+V_z$ ?


Chestnut Homes were proud to be part of the Active Lincolnshire launch at Lincoln Castle on 31st March.
Active Lincolnshire, the new name for the Lincolnshire Sports Partnership, is tasked with getting the inactive people in Lincolnshire more active. Their vision is to get 20,021 people more active by 2021. This could be through activity such as walking, gardening or cycling to the shops. It is hoped that by getting more people active pressure on local health services will be relieved, plus it will bring both physical and mental health benefits to those getting active.
Chestnut Homes is one of many local businesses to pledge to get their staff more active.
David Newton, Managing Director of Chestnut Homes said: " We are committed to encouraging staff to be more active. We have opened a fund to pay for employees' entrance fees to local sporting events such as the Lincoln 10k and the Castle to Coast 100 mile bike ride in June. We also have a lunchtime walking club that heads out into the beautiful country lanes which surround our Head Office in Langworth."
To find out more visit the Active Lincolnshire website.


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Odontotrema cassiopes är en lavart som först beskrevs av Emil Rostrup, och fick sitt nu gällande namn av Lennart Holm. Odontotrema cassiopes ingår i släktet Odontotrema, och familjen Odontotremataceae. Arten är reproducerande i Sverige.

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Investors in First Horizon National Corp saw new options begin trading this week, for the April 15th expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the FHN options chain for the new April 15th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest.
Investors are still coming to grips with the fact that world growth is slowing, which makes this week's game plan tricky, Cramer says.
Cramer is taking Weyerhaeuser over Louisiana-Pacific and KeyCorp over BB&T Bank.
Jim Cramer shares his views on sparks for the central bank and a good bank. General Electric, Starbucks, First Horizon and Bank of America are among the stocks discussed here.
Cramer says it's time to buy First Horizon National and Burlington Stores.


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Thomas Wells @thomastalketh
Ancient Board Games • Card Games • Miniature Board Games • Mythology Board Games
Inis Review – Let's Make a King
Elegant, brutal, and exciting, Inis has some things to say about taking and holding on to power. Read more in our review.
"Kingmaking" is a term that gets bandied about in board gaming circles, often with a snort of derision. It refers to a state within many board games where a player who is not in the running to win the game gets to make a decision that ensures (or makes pretty darn sure) that another player will win; thus, kingmaking.
This occurs in many games, and can generate soreness around the table. Kingmaking can often break immersion. If we're playing a game where we're big noble space empires fighting over a map, and someone's choice of a "culture card" or an "auxiliary action" causes the dominant player to lose the game, that takes you out of what can be a powerfully immersive experience.
Now, Inis (pronounced in-ish) is a fantastic game, because it takes the kingmaking problem and explicitly makes a game about making a king, though not exactly in the way you might be thinking.
The board and the cards that will drive play.
Let's Be Pretenders to the Throne
Inis is a deep game. It's a deep game about power struggles, and it's one that makes a very interesting statement about them. 2-4 players are competing to become ruler of the island, and each player is a pretender to the throne. I'm not going to dive too deeply into the specifics of the rules, but I will outline the three different victory conditions with some granularity.
Two of them revolve around having board presence:
A player has units present in at least 6 different territories.
A player has units present in territories with at least 6 sanctuaries (a type of building in the game).
The other requires dominance:
A player is considered "chieftain" of a given territory when he has more units there than any other player. Be chieftain over 6 of your opponents' units, and you have satisfied another victory condition.
These conditions do not in themselves win you the game. Each time you accomplish 1 or more of them, you can take a pretender token, which allows you to win at the start of the next round, provided you don't tie with another player for most total victory conditions. Unless that player is the Brenn, a player who is chieftain of the capital territory. That player can win in the case of a tie.
Some adorable little sculpts.
Hopefully, I didn't lose you through that, because those specifics are important to know to understand why the game is interesting. Inis is about determining a ruler, and the fundamental premise of this game is a good ruler understands that timing is everything. Inis is not just about fielding massive armies and smashing your opponents; it's about outsmarting them and outmaneuvering them—because, oddly enough, this is a game with fighting that believes that fighting is bad.
Savvy is Sexy
Play is driven by drafting cards (leaving you with a hand of four) and then playing these cards to change the board state in the main phase of the game. Cards in Inis will do everything: adding to the map, moving units, making a territory a safe space, adding buildings, and more.
On your turn you can play a card, pass, or take a pretender token if you meet a victory condition. But remember this doesn't let you win until another phase, so other players can potentially take your hard-earned victory condition away.
One of the most common criticisms of this game is that if everyone is good enough, it never ends. You can respond to each other in perpetuity. This is a poor criticism, because it forgets that this game is about timing, and that you can pass. Passing does not forfeit the rest of your actions unless everyone else passes, which would end the round. If other players keep going, you get to jump back in once the round comes back to you. Passing gives you hand advantage, and it gives you a timing advantage. You now are better positioned to make good moves!
A typical state mid-way through the game.
Bad games of Inis are thematically appropriate, funnily enough. I've seen games with four players where nobody passed, and just kept responding to each other, smashing armies and swapping control of territory with nobody getting the lead. Inis is saying that this is a bad way to find a ruler–squabbling despots only lead to more death and don't let people get on with the business of living under some sort of organized system.
Epic Tales and Farcical Fights
There are several components of the game I am glossing over in this review, not because they are bad, but because in evangelizing for this game, I have to focus on what it's about— getting overly bitty about the bits will distract from what's cool.
Fights are ludicrous and make everyone suck air between their teeth. Units can share the same space and do not necessarily have to fight. In a fight, when a player is attacked, they have to choose between losing a unit and losing one of their action cards. Both are horrible, and lead to some remarkably catty table talk.
You can't have board games without plenty of tokens.
There are also Epic tale cards, which are like superpowered god-mode versions of the other cards that you can hold between phases. When somebody piles up enough of these, they can chain together and win the game.
So Inis is not about bashing each other over the head–it's about watching your opponents closely, seeing when they are weak, and jumping in to win. Bluffing is a big part of it; playing dead is another. Attacking when you know somebody is about to plan some big moves is both savage and delightful.
Of Art and Groupthink
Board gaming is inherently a consumptive industry. There are too many games, too many of them are OK enough to buy, and it's hard to tell what you will like. Inis is an undeniably beautiful game, with art by Jim FitzPatrick, world-class artist (and creator of the famous Che Guevara poster). All of that art, and all of that promise, makes a claim about what it is trying to be: a game about how to wield power in an intelligent, meaningful way. It's a deep and thought provoking experience that you will think about when you're not even playing it. Inis knows exactly what it is trying to be, and in my opinion it proves that it is what it's claiming to be, which you can't say of very many games.
Get out there and try Inis! That is, if you're like me, and think about power, and how we're supposed to deal with it. Hopefully you and your friends can find a leader instead of a despot.
#75 on the 100 most important board games of the 2010s
Inis details
Designer: Christian Martinez
Artists: Dimitri Bielak, Jim Fitzpatrick
Publishers: Gen-X Games, Hobby Japan, Lavka Games, Matagot, Pegasus Spiele, Portal Games, Surfin' Meeple China
Player count : 2 - 4
Age range : 14+
Time range : 60 - 90 minutes
Mechanism(s): Area Control / Area Influence, Area Movement, Card Drafting, Hand Management, Modular Board, Variable Phase Order
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Ever since I first got into fashion when I was quite young I have had a fascination with the creative process designers and brands go through to produce their products. The fascination is more intense with the physical act of creating, which is why I've spent many hours of my life watching videos and documentaries and carefully observing how anything from suits to socks are made. This is why I loved these images below taken by the talented Jonathan Daniel Pryce for Duchamp London.
The photographer visited the brand's Kent-based workshop where their master craftsman creates their very singular cufflinks, which are all cast in the studio by hand following Duchamp's detailed designs.
Enjoy the video above and the pictures below and make sure to stop by the Duchamp website to take a look at their cufflink collection – I am curretnly fixated on the 'Vortex Crystal' (veryJay Gatsby) and the 'South Beach' (perfect for a summer night). And I am also looking forward to these animalistic collection I am sure we'll be seeing soon.


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Iván Zamora Esquivel (Toluca, Estado de México, 11 de enero de 1996) es un futbolista mexicano, juega de mediocampista y su equipo actual es el Toros Neza F. C. de la Liga de Balompié Mexicano.

Hizo su debut en Copa MX el 19 de julio de 2016 contra Club Tijuana.

Debuta en Primera División en el duelo contra Club Atlas el 6 de agosto de 2017, en el Estadio Nemesio Díez.

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A Charlotte, N.C., man drowned in the Broad River while tubing with his family Tuesday, according to the Cherokee County Coroner's Office.
Timothy Scott Pendleton, 46, of 6406 Montvale Court was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:11 p.m. by Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler, according to a written statement.
"Mr. Pendleton was with family members who had come to the area at the Pick Hill boat access landing north of Blacksburg to tube earlier in the day," Fowler said. "Witnesses reported the victim was in the river on a tube and fell off in about 8-feet deep water. While attempting to get back to the tube, he went under."
Fowler said Pendleton's brother was also in the water and went to help. With the help of other family members, the victim was brought back to shore, where the family called 911 and began CPR.
Pendleton's family told Fowler the victim was a good swimmer.
An autopsy has been scheduled for Wednesday.
Tuesday's drowning was the second in Cherokee County this year, according to the coroner's office.