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To President Obama on the Next Four Years
Posted on November 13, 2012 by Callen Harty
President Barack Obama campaigning in Milwaukee. Photo by Callen Harty.
Dear President Obama,
Congratulations on your election to a second term. I sincerely hope that as a nation we can set politics aside and all work together to move this country forward. It was your campaign theme and my state's motto and it is the direction indicated by this most recent election.
It was great to see how many candidates with outdated or out-of-touch ideas about rape and other issues were defeated. It was equally pleasing to see all the Progressives like Elizabeth Warren elected. I was particularly glad to see Wisconsin's own Tammy Baldwin elected to the Senate and Mark Pocan to the House. I was happy to see the results of referenda around the country on a multitude of issues like gay marriage and emergency financial managers that all leaned forward to the future in positive ways.
Everything on election night told me that America is ready for the changes those on the left have been waiting to see. We are ready to end the wars on drugs and on other nations. We are ready to welcome lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people into the melting pot that is America. We are ready to acknowledge climate change and move toward green energy. We are ready to return to an economy and a nation of, by, and for the people rather than of, by, and for the corporate elite. You can help lead us there. I still dare to hope.
When the 2008 election was called I jumped up and down in joy and then I sat down and cried. I was overjoyed that you won, that the Bush era was over, that the election was not stolen, and that remnants of the previous administration would not continue through Republican candidate John McCain. I'll admit I was not happy with your promise to increase troop presence in Afghanistan, but was happy with your promise to get us out of Iraq and to close Guantanamo. In every other way I believed that night that we would have an entirely fresh start full of hope. I wept with the knowledge that I was living a part of history with the election of our nation's first-ever African-American President, something I honestly did not expect to see in my lifetime.
You already have plans for health care and the economy and this election I was happy with your promise to extricate us from the mess in Afghanistan. We should never have been there in the first place, we should never have increased our presence there, and bringing our troops home now is still the right thing to do. Thank you for those promises.
But there are other promises not only unfulfilled but as of yet unspoken. There are issues that were barely touched upon during the campaign that are of vital importance to the core of who we are as a nation. The way you handle these issues will determine whether your Presidency will be remembered as one that stood for what is right against greed and corruption or one that accepted the dictates of corporate overlords and moneyed interests. It will determine whether our nation continues to prosper and lead or whether it declines and falls as all empires before it have done. It will determine whether you stand on moral high ground or descend a road to moral compromise. My hope is that you are the man who can lead us less with military strength and more with moral courage.
The first issue that wasn't discussed during the campaign is the need to undo the Defense of Marriage Act. As shown by Maine, Maryland, Washington, and Minnesota, as well as your own stated evolution on the issue, the people of this country are ready for marriage equality. No longer should my love be considered second class. No longer should I have to accept that I am not a full and equal citizen of this republic. I have been in a loving, stable relationship for more than two decades, longer than most marriages last, and I deserve equal treatment under the law. This nation should move ever forward to achieving the goal of equality for all.
While you briefly mentioned it in your victory speech climate change was not mentioned in any of the debates and barely a blip during the election. We must acknowledge that the earth is in peril and we need a leader to guide us away from the ecological precipice upon which we now teeter. Climate change is real. Coal is not clean. There are limited supplies of oil. Our nation should be leading the way forward to green energy with the use of wind and solar power. Instead we are falling behind Germany, the Netherlands, and countless others. It is time to invest in power sources that can be replenished and which do not harm our mother earth.
Another important issue is drone warfare. Innocent civilians by the hundreds have been reported killed by American drones and those human lives—mothers and fathers and children—are considered as nothing more than collateral damage. Even if drones only killed enemies of our country as they are supposed to do the idea of killing enemies from a computer screen thousands of miles away makes the act of war seem like a video game with no consequences. Unfortunately in real life you cannot just start over and get new lives and go back to the beginning. Drones kill, and they don't just kill their intended targets any more than more traditional bombs. Further, the use of drones removes whatever humanity there may be in soldiering. It is not that I want to see those soldiers sent overseas and put in harm's way; it's that I don't want to see anyone in harm's way, either our soldiers or the citizens of other lands. It is time for years of peace. It is time for a new era and a new way of doing things. I beg you to lead us forward into that world where conversation, compromise, and negotiation are the first tools in a crisis. America and the rest of the world are ready for it.
As President your primary duty is to uphold the Constitution of the United States. The signing of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with its allowances for indefinite detention is antithetical to that duty. In addition, the idea of an American President giving the go-ahead to kill citizens—of our country or others—without the benefit of a trial or the ability to defend themselves in a court of law is antithetical to the Constitution. The power given to the Presidency to determine whether a person lives or dies, without the necessity of showing proof of a crime, is antithetical to everything that this country has stood for throughout its history. I urge you to withhold using this power and to urge Congress to repeal it. While you may not abuse such power others who follow may, and while you may think you will not abuse it as long as the temptation is there the possibility exists that you may.
I believe that you are a good man, but I also believe that a good man can sell his soul too easily. Presidents are faced with grave decisions every day about war and peace, life and death, whether to give or withhold aid, and more. I do not envy the decisions you must make in your second term, but I urge you to find your moral compass and be guided by your conscience as a man rather than your power as a President. I wish you peace, as I wish it for my brothers and sisters all over this world. Please help bring it to all of us.
Callen Harty
About Callen Harty
Originally from Shullsburg, Wisconsin Callen Harty is the author of four books and numerous published essays, poems, and articles. His most recent book is The Stronger Pull, a memoir about coming out in a small town in Wisconsin. His first book was My Queer Life, a compilation of over 30 years worth of writing on living life as a queer man. It includes essays, poems, speeches, monologues, and more. Empty Playground: A Survivor's Story, is a memoir about surviving childhood sex abuse. His play, Invisible Boy, is a narrative with poetic elements and is also an autobiographical look as surviving child sex abuse. All are available on Amazon.com (and three of them on Kindle) or can be ordered through local bookstores, He has written almost two dozen plays and 50 monologues that have been produced. Most of them have been produced at Broom Street Theater in Madison, Wisconsin where he started as an actor, writer, and director in 1983. He served as the Artistic Director of the theater from 2005-2010. Monologues he wrote for the Wisconsin Veterans' Museum won him awards from the Wisconsin Historical Society and the American Association of State and Local History. He has also had essays, poems, and articles published in newspapers and magazines around the country and has taken the top prize in several photo contests. His writing has appeared in Out!, James White Review, Scott Stamp Monthly, Wisconsin State Journal, and elsewhere. He has had several essays published online for Forward Seeking, Life After Hate, and The Progressive. Callen has also been a community activist for many years. He was the co-founder of Young People Caring, UW-Madison's 10% Society, and Proud Theater. He served as the first President of Young People Caring and as the Artistic Director for Proud Theater for its first five years. He is still an adult mentor for the group. In 2003 he won OutReach's Man of the Year award for his queer community activism. OutReach is Madison, Wisconsin's lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender community center. He also won a Community Shares of Wisconsin Backyard Hero award for his sex abuse survivor activism work. He has been invited to speak before many community groups, at a roundtable on queer community theater in New York City, and has emceed several events. In 2016, Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault named him their annual Courage Award winner for his activism, writing, and speaking on sexual assault.
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Q: Is it possible to store an array in Django model? I was wondering if it's possible to store an array in a Django model?
I'm asking this because I need to store an array of int (e.g [1,2,3]) in a field and then be able to search a specific array and get a match with it or by it's possible combinations.
I was thinking to store that arrays as strings in CharFields and then, when I need to search something, concatenate the values(obtained by filtering other model) with '[', ']' and ',' and then use a object filter with that generated string. The problem is that I will have to generate each possible combination and then filter them one by one until I get a match, and I believe that this might be inefficient.
So, I hope you can give me other ideas that I could try.
I'm not asking for code, necessarily, any ideas on how to achieve this will be good.

A: I'd have two advices for you:
1) Use ArrayField if you are using PostgreSQL as your database. You can read more about ArrayField here.
2) Encode your array as JSON and store it either as a plain string or using a JSONField as found here.
I'd personally prefer option number 1 since that is the cleaner and nicer way but depending on what you are actually using to store your data that might not be available to you.

A: I don't know why nobody has suggested it, but you can always pickle things and put the result into a binary field.
The advantages of this method are that it will work with just about any database, it's efficient, and it's applicable to more than just arrays.  The downside is that you can't have the database run queries on the pickled data (not easily, anyway).

A: Yes, you can use it like this:
from django.contrib.postgres.fields import ArrayField
class Board(models.Model):
    pieces = ArrayField(ArrayField(models.IntegerField()))

However, it can only be available when using PostgreSQL for the database.

A: If you aren't using Postgres, I recommend Django's validate_comma_separated_integer_list validator.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/validators/#django.core.validators.validate_comma_separated_integer_list
You use is as a validator on a CharField().

A: you can store a json and good to go with sub arrays of that JSON:
if (data != "attachmentto") {
        formData.append(data, this.recipe[data])
        console.log('rec data ', data)}
        else if (data == "attachmentto") {
          console.log('rec data434 ', this.recipe.attachmentto)
          var myObj = { name: this.recipe.attachmentto.name, age: 31, city: "New York" };
          let kokos = JSON.stringify(myObj);
          // this.recipe.attachmentto.name = this.recipe.attachmentto.name
          formData.append('attachmentto', kokos)
        }

Django backend:
class Video(models.Model):
  objects = models.Manager()
  title = models.CharField(max_length=80)
  description = models.TextField(max_length=300)
  picture = JSONField(encoder=None)
  price = models.IntegerField(default=0)
  url = models.URLField()
  category = models.CharField(max_length=50)
  subcategory = models.TextField(max_length=50)
  attachmentto = JSONField(encoder=None)
  # attachmentto2 = models.JSONField()
  user = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, default=1)

and result on backend API:
   {
        "id": 174,
        "title": "ads",
        "description": "ads",
        "picture": {
            "name": "https://v3.vuejs.org/logo.png"
        },
        "price": 0,
        "user": 1,
        "rating_average": 0,
        "attachmentto": {
            "age": 31,
            "city": "New York",
            "name": [
                "https://restdj.herokuapp.com/media/uploads/ftf_3_cJ0V7TF.png",
                "https://restdj.herokuapp.com/media/uploads/ftf_3.jpg"
            ]
        }
    },

I call it noicely(nicely). Notice that we send a JSON and we have a array in that JSON
Kokos is the full JSON disagned for djangoo:
  var myObj = { name: this.recipe.attachmentto.name, age: 31, city: "New York" };

let kokos = JSON.stringify(myObj);

formData.append('attachmentto', kokos)
Above; name: this.recipe.attachmentto.name is an array
Here is the array:
"name": [
"https://restdj.herokuapp.com/media/uploads/ftf_3_cJ0V7TF.png",
                "https://restdj.herokuapp.com/media/uploads/ftf_3.jpg"
            ]

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I'm not going to turn this blog into some sort of confessional, there are plenty of blogs like that out there, and I'm willing to bet that a good many of them do it better than I could.
Still, there have been things in life keeping me out of the fields, forests, and marshes, and I've been hearing it through my email, Twitter, and from friends about my recent disappearance from the hunting world. And I can only fight back with stilted, painful attempts at humour.
You see, there are a good many things that I am terrible at when it comes to hunting. Sitting still is one of them, and I am certain that this is why I'm a generally unsuccessful turkey hunter, despite what could be argued are marginally above average abilities as a turkey caller. Being observant is also not my strong suit…I'm often day dreaming or humming a tune in my head or trying to come up with the next clever and witty blog post when I should be watching for game, and I have a suspicion that I'd be a better deer hunter if I paid closer attention to the woods around me. My friends, hunting mentors, and so on don't seem to have these failings and it is a constant source of shame for me, but also has instituted somewhat of a tradition of 'ripping on Shawn' which I find both charming and emotionally crippling.
With that in mind, I'm always seeking to upgrade my skills. Since my recent move to a new town sidelined my annual duck opener excursion last weekend, I thought I'd leverage my time at the mall and in the hardware stores to illustrate the ways that I spent the last four days improving my hunting skills, even though I wasn't hunting.
Lying is a critical skill for all hunters, and I got plenty of exposure to lying this past weekend. In the hunting world, some common lies that are popular include fabricating what you were doing when you botched a shot, lying about how big (or small) a given animal was, making up the distance of certain shots, or telling your friends that you missed a shot at a running coyote when in reality you hurriedly blazed two shots nowhere near a standing deer because you were surprised and really shouldn't have been shooting in the first place. In the world I was residing in this past weekend, some of my go-to lies included feigning enthusiasm over bathroom cabinet styles, pretending to be happy to spend nearly a grand on paint, lighting, and tools, and telling people that I didn't really mind organizing my unpacking and organizing my basement while my buddies had some laughs and shot a pile of ducks and geese. I lie so well now, that I'm considering a career move into municipal government.
While I may not be observant or stealthy, one thing I am good at being (when necessary) is quiet. Of course I can make a whole lot racket on a goose, duck, or turkey call when the mood strikes me, and it is true that I never shut up when I'm with my buddies in the waterfowl blinds (I like to make jokes…so sue me), when sitting on stand alone, silence is simple. I'm also working on navigating the woods more silently as well, and it is coming along. To that end, I got some great practice this past weekend. For example, I mastered the skill of silently slipping away from my wife while she perused paint colours, and I became an expert at not saying a word when my name was called to assist her with painting the hallway while our son was being a nuisance. Navigating the soul-crushing pandemonium of Bed, Bath, and Beyond will hone any hunter's ability to move silently and swiftly through narrow, constricted spaces. I feel the effort put in now will serve me well come November.
Being decisive is so important to hunters that it is second nature to many. Take the shot or don't? Left-hand trail or right-hand trail? 12ga or 20ga? Go the toilet in the woods or hold it? These are all vital decisions that require timely and committed decision making, and sometimes in the hunt these decisions figure themselves out. In the dog-eat-dog world of moving and home improvement, there are decisions that carry as much (or maybe more) gravity, and none of them are going to sort themselves out. Ivory Palace paint for the living room or Currier Cream? Does the TV look good in the corner or should we hang it over the fireplace? Should we hang the mirror here or there? Gas line BBQ or propane? You see how intense it could be. For those who say that hunting decisions are more important because they can be life-or-death has never tried to tape and paint trim with my wife.
These are but a smattering of the skills developed this past weekend that will no doubt make me a more lethal and efficient predator in the woods. If I could only find a way to apply my skills of procrastinating when it comes to blog updates or of alienating self-proclaimed 'serious' hunters, there would be no stopping me. But at least not showing up at the camp gives my buddies more ammo to torch me with the next time we get together, which should be in about two weeks' time.


The Prime Series culminates with USA Surfing Championships in June – the pinnacle competition with 250 of the nation's top surfers competing for national titles and USA Surf Team positions at one of the world's best surf breaks – Lower Trestles.
*Note that the schedule is subject to change and could be compressed to take advantage of the best surf conditions.
Atlantic City, New Jersey (October 9, 2018) – Dozens of the best under 18 surfers from Florida to New York are invited to compete in USA Surfing's elite Prime Series in Atlantic City, N.J. this weekend. The elite event sponsored by Got Milk? takes on extra excitement as surfing prepares to make its 2020 Olympic debut. USA Surfing is the National Governing Body for the sport of surfing in the Olympics.
USA Surfing's Prime Series is a nine-stop, cross-country tour created to bridge the gap young surfers experience when trying to make the leap from pro junior competition to next-level competition opportunities, including a position on the USA Surfing national teams, the World Surf League (WSL) Qualifying Series and potentially the Olympics and WSL Championship Tour.
The Atlantic City Prime event will take place at 500 Boardwalk in front of Ocean Resort Casino, where October typically brings excellent surfing conditions. The full list of East Coast qualifying surfers in each age division is listed here. Heat draws will be posted later in the week.
East Coast surfers competing in the Prime Series experience an event with judging, announcing and organization on par with WSL pro events, including four-person heats with priority, computer scoring, professional WSL/ISA judges and announcers. It's an important step up from competitions with six-person heats without priority, and manual, volunteer judging.
Several current WSL pro surfers honed their competitive skills through USA Surfing's Prime Series, including 2018 US Open champions Courtney Conlogue and Kanoa Igarashi, 2nd-ranked Lakey Peterson, 8th-ranked Kolohe Andino, 15th-ranked Griffin Colapinto and 14th-ranked Conner Coffin. No. 5 in the world, 16-year old Caroline Marks qualified for the WSL Championship Tour while still competing in the Prime Series.
"The Prime Series which celebrates its 10thanniversary this year is universally regarded as the highest level of junior surfing in the USA and has been instrumental in transitioning talented kids to become standouts on the USA Surfing ISA World Junior Championship training team, the WSL Qualifying Series, Championship Tour and potentially the Olympics," USA Surfing President and Prime Series co-founder Andrea Swayne said.
October 20 - 21, 2018 – USA Surfing Prime Junior Event – Ocean Beach, San Francisco, Calif.
November 17 – 18, 2018 – USA Surfing Prime Junior Event and East Coast Junior Team Training – Nags Head, N.C.
March 9 – 10, 2019 – USA Surfing Prime Junior Event – Oceanside Harbor, Calif.
The series culminates with USA Surfing Championships in June – the pinnacle competition with 250 of the nation's top surfers competing for USA Surf Team positions and national titles at one of the world's best surf breaks – Lower Trestles.


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Boston Restaurant Openings
Amateras Is Open and Serving Ramen in the Leather District
The restaurant has been on the way for some time
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Maze soba from Amateras
A Japanese restaurant has finally opened in downtown Boston, years after initial plans first surfaced. Amateras recently made its debut at 112 South St. in Boston's Leather District, around the corner from South Station, and is now serving a variety of ramen. News of the restaurant first surfaced in 2014, as Boston Restaurant Talk has reported, and in April 2017, Amateras applied for and later obtained its operating license.
There are a few different kinds of ramen on the menu, including shoyu and tonkotsu versions. There is also maze soba, according to various reviews on Yelp.
The restaurant started serving lunch at the end of June and is currently open from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, according to Amateras's Facebook page, but the hours will expand soon.
In other downtown ramen news, the Shōjō team opened Ruckus (5 Tyler St., Chinatown) over the weekend; it's currently open until 8 p.m. Thursday through Sunday for any evening noodle needs.
• Amateras Plans to Open in Beijing Kyoto Space in Boston's Leather District [BRT]
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Carl-Fredrik Malmgren is owner of Swedish integrator Fremlab and is experienced in installing AV systems for hotel projects. He outlines his thoughts on the market to Tim Kridel.
TK: What are some trends in how hotels are using AV in guest rooms and elsewhere, such as conference/meeting areas, lobbies, spas and restaurants?
CM: Hotel TV is an area where there is no main player in Sweden—many small companies, all with their own pluses and minuses.
Connecting your device wirelessly to the TV is coming more and more: Chromecast, mirroring, etc. There is just one thing that matters: It must work, and it must work easily and every time. We have been sniffing into that area, but I see also a lot of challenges, so I have avoided this area. One hotel we worked with put smart TVs in 200 rooms, and every day, in 10 t0 15 rooms the player box in each room jammed, crashed, stopped, and the only way was to reset it.
After six months, they took everything out and put the old analogue system back in use. This is not the correct way, it was just one of those small suppliers promising more than they could cope with.
I myself as a room guest saw a system at BellaSky in Copenhagen, an 800-room hotel, with a very smart, fast and efficient system. No idea of what brand [and] supplier, but it did work quick, [with] nice features and sharp picture.
Trends in conference rooms we see is finally adding a wireless connection between your laptop and the screen. There are many systems on the market: Via, AirPlay, Barco, etc. We have decided to only supply Barco Clickshare CS200. I think this is the best one on the market. We also feel that a system that is not depending on house Wi-Fi is better.
What we also see there is less technology in the rooms. We used to have a VHS player in every room, then the combo VHS/DVD, then the DVD and since 2012 nothing. Just a connector for your own device.
We still do (well nearly) VGA and HDMI, but from more or less today, we only do HDMI in new rooms.
A system that is three years old is out of date. The market moves quickly. A three-year-old projector still works and can do for another three years if it was at least WXGA and at least 3-4000ANSI when it was delivered [in] let's say 2012.
We are updating a hotel in Norrköping right now with 10+ rooms. When checking the rooms six months ago, we found two rooms that had new projectors delivered by some smartass [in] 2016: XGA and 2600ANSI!!! The problem is customers that do not know, and suppliers that should stick to IT and not AV. They do not have the knowledge.
TK: What are some challenges to implementing AV technologies in older/historic hotels, and how they can be overcome? For example, I'm seeing a lot of interest in upgrading Wi-Fi to support surveillance cameras, digital signage and other AV systems because it's easier and cheaper to use wireless than to tear up architectural details to run fibre or copper.
CM: We never do any wireless connections. Simply it is not safe and reliable.
There will always be power to whatever device, so pull a cable also. We have done some Wi-Fi installations, and there we always use PoE AP. Never, never, never use repeaters, "power over mains" and other DIY stuff.
TK: Many hotels are putting even more AV technologies into guest rooms. One challenge is making it easy for guests to understand and use those technologies. I recently did an article that looks at using speech control rather than touchpanels. What kinds of challenges and solutions are you seeing when it comes to putting even more AV technologies not only in guest rooms, but also meeting spaces?
CM: The more technology you put into rooms, etc., the more can go wrong.
Remember most hotels do not have techs onsite. They only have perhaps conference hostesses and maybe a housekeeper that has a private interest into AV.
In 2010, we did a few hotels with surround systems. We have taken them all down by now. They were not used. It's one example where we the tech suppliers push equipment into the market that there really was no use for. We also did a few with wireless Crestron remotes, home surround receivers, etc. Never, never, never again.
All equipment should be cabled. Then you can add an iPad as a second control surface. [At our] latest large installation, we did the reception control panel mirrored to mail banquet panel. In case [the] banquet panel goes down, [the] system can still be operated from reception. Not optimal, but better than nothing.
We also in all installations have our own VLAN, but [the] hotel provides all switches. We have one router with one address so we have access from outside to our VLAN. This is good for updates and remote management.


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Home Cranbury Press Cranbury Press News Bentley Community Services helps families regain self-sufficiency
Bentley Community Services helps families regain self-sufficiency
Bentley Community Services
SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Now in its sixth year of operation, Bentley Community Services (BCS) has been helping families in financial crisis regain self-sufficiency by providing a full range of high quality grocery provisions and more each week, supplementing income and offsetting grocery bills.
BCS is an alternative food bank/pantry, specifically addressing the needs of families, individuals and seniors who, though perhaps employed, do not receive traditional assistances and are challenged making ends meet.
BCS has distributed more than 1.36 million pounds to date, according to Executive Director Dorothy Stearns-Holmes. As the main grocer, Bentley creates access to healthy foods, facilitating healthy diets and nutrition so families benefit weekly from full shopping carts, feeding their families healthy and nutritious foods from the major food groups and more.
The crucial monies that families save are applied toward paying their monthly bills and expenses, reducing debt, medical bills or making needed repairs as these families work toward financial stability and security, according to the statement.
Bentley also offers educational and informational workshops throughout the year facilitated by professionals.
BCS operated for two years and then outgrew its origins in Belle Mead, and is now located at 4064 Route 1 north in the Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick, where it serves clientele families that come from the entire Central New Jersey region.
Donations of perishable, non-perishable foods and toiletries are accepted throughout the year. Or, visit the website and donate via PayPal, or mail a donation by check to Bentley Community Services, P.O. Box 1093, Belle Mead 08502.
There are also volunteer opportunities available.
For more information or to inquire about eligibility, call 908-227-0684 or visit www.bentleycommunityservices.org or Facebook.
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Good value. Fairly easy to fit.
Bought as direct replacements for two old BRK smoke detectors. Not perfect direct replacements as promised by the BRK website. But with some basic DIY skills got them installed and working. Loud and can be connected together so if one detects smoke both alarms sound.
No problem of converting to the new wall plate and wiring from the out dated model. Tested and working. Would recommend.
Same model as the one being replaced so replacement very easy.
The one being replaced only lasted for three years.bought same model for ease of replacing.


He seemed to be getting thinner every day. Ramsey just did it. They're very interesting things. It was the most disgusting thing I've ever tasted. Guillermo is looking for an easy way to lose weight. He does not paint the walls but wallpapers them. Are you really going to do this? The captain decided to send out a scout. I won't let him do that. "Does your chest hurt?" "No, not at all."
Karen is good at everything he does. Let me give you several other reasons why you shouldn't go to Boston. Skeeter became a famous actor. She writes much better now than she used to. I think I left my umbrella in your car. Just help me with this baggage. Although I am her elder, she treats me as if I were her servant. I would like to repay your kindness in the near future. I'll let Norma go. I found a new meaning whenever I read the book.
That accounts for all of Ti's team. Soohong offered to buy Kim a beer. It did not go well. When Luke was a teenager, he would often sit on the front porch and write songs in the evening after dinner. Does it hurt at all? I hope we find her. I was hoping that you'd know the answer. Our teacher has often told us not to idle away our time. It occurred to me that I had forgotten my keys. We're very happy together.
Don't count on him to lend you any money. This key doesn't fit in the lock. Let's take Hienz with us. His unorthodox fighting style was surprisingly effective. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. Don't make me regret this. I didn't realize I was supposed to be here by 2:30. Who do we have to convince? I talked with her for an hour. The days are gradually shortening.
I drive a delivery truck. I saw him take it. I went home and ate a hearty breakfast. Venkata spent the afternoon with friends on the beach. Meat should not be eaten raw. Immigrants abuse the hospitality of Europe. I'm sure Roberto will get over it. I'm stuck. Shall I wrap it for you? This sentence is too long.
Linda identified Dan as the man who had raped her. "It was very tough, very rough" said the rugby player immediately after the match. Derek looked tired. Lukas sold Spyros his car. He's been doing this for over twenty years. I've been thinking about our honeymoon. "Please," says the crew member. Dr. Ride was committed to promoting science and math education to all learners. Keith sat on the porch having a coffee and a cigarette and watched the world go by. Jim hasn't come home yet.
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The extended summer heatwave has meant more and more women spend a lot of time in flip-flops or open-toed sandals.
But what if you don't like your feet?
Despite the weather many women are keeping their feet under wraps because they don't like the look of their toes says Consultant Podiatric Surgeon, Stuart Metcalfe.
And it appears that many women are not going to stand for it any longer as an increase in cosmetic foot surgery grows at an amazing pace!
"The main problem is the second toe," explained Mr Metcalfe, who holds private foot clinics at Spire Parkway Hospital in Solihull, Birmingham, West Midlands, "When the second toe is noticeably longer than the big toe it can make women feel a little self-conscious, particularly when wearing fashionable, open-toed footwear.
"I don't know if more people have been exposing their feet more than ever this year, but there has definitely been a step up in the number of women wanting toe-shortening surgery. It is usually the second toe but there are occasions when other toes simply look out of alignment and they want what is considered a normal foot shape.
Here Mr Metcalfe answers some questions on toe shortening and what the procedure entails.
Besides the actual appearance of the foot, can an extended toe also cause pain?
Yes, in fact where a toe is too long what typically happens is that the toe buckles inside the shoe and this leads to the development of painful pressure lesions like corns and calluses.
Is it usually just one toe that is out of alignment?
Most often it is the second toe which is too long although, occasionally, we see patients with other toes affected.
Does the corresponding toe on the other foot usually need similar surgery?
Yes, the problem normally occurs in both feet.
What does the surgeon do to reduce the size of the toe?
The procedure is normally very straight-forward. A precise section of bone is removed from either side of the joint in the toe. The length is carefully checked during the operation. When the correct length is achieved the bone is fixed using a pin or more commonly nowadays a specialised implant.
The operation usually takes thirty minutes per toe.
When would a patient be expected to walk normally again?
If the toe is fixed using the specialised implant then patient are able to walk after two weeks although it is several weeks before everything is fully healed.
Only a small scar on top of the toe which for most people is barely visible after six months.
Are there benefits to the surgery other than cosmetic?
Does surgery involve a stay in hospital?
Nowadays this procedure can be carried out under local anaesthetic or general anaesthetic with no need to stay in hospital.


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Talent Acquisition and Management
Is the Web3 revolution in crypto intensifying the hunt for talent?
Many companies are looking at Web3 and crypto, which is creating a lot of demand for highly skilled jobs. These jobs are across functions like tech, product, security, design, marketing, growth, etc.
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Harnessing the right talent in the initial stage, according to the experts, will be beneficial and important for having efficacies at the start.
With the Web3 revolution coming into its full form, the crypto market is poised to overhaul as crypto experts believe it is a gateway to the future decentralised world. With the latest market developments, the same can be witnessed in a full sense. For instance, cryptocurrency exchanges CoinSwitch Kuber and CoinDCX are seeking to invest around $100,000-$200,000 in crypto and Web3 startups. Binance, a global blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider, has announced the appointment of a new CTO and Head of Product in a vision to bring Web3 to the masses.
Web3 is the version of the World Wide Web that is based on Blockchain technology. The WWW revolution goes back to 1994 when Web 1.0 made its entry where the concept was 'Read-only'. From 1994 to 2004, the websites were static and everyone was only a consumer. Post-2004, the websites were made more interactive, which meant, from the concept of 'Read-only,' Web 2.0 evolved to 'Read and Write'. Now, people weren't merely consumers but they also started generating content. The growing influencer market is the outcome of Web 2.0.
Then comes Web3, the term coined by Gavin Wood, Ethereum's Co-Founder. This technology uses token-based transactions. Experts believe India has a unique position in the world when it comes to the Web3 revolution. Zoom out to the early days of e-commerce in India when the Flipkart funding opened up a world of opportunities for the startup ecosystem in the country. A lot of talent started taking startups more seriously, and as a result, the sector has attracted some of the best minds over the years.
Experts say India's Web3 and Crypto space has the potential to become as big as the IT services industry or e-commerce someday. The industry is already seeing the early signs worldwide and in India. "Cryptos are the gateway to the future decentralized world, aka Web3. India is a reservoir of talent and at CoinSwitch, we want to play an active role in building expertise and a knowledge base to develop talent," Ashish Singhal, Founder and CEO, CoinSwitch, says.
"Education and skill development institutions also need to evolve as this cutting-edge technology finds new dimensions to help India reap the benefits of the global crypto revolution," Singhal mentions.
Is the Crypto industry all prepped up to have the right talent?
Many companies are looking at Web3 and crypto, which is creating a lot of demand for highly skilled jobs. These jobs are across functions like tech, product, security, design, marketing, growth, etc, according to Mudita Chauhan, Head - HR, CoinDCX. Many Indians are seeing this trend and equipping themselves with the required skills.
Chauhan says, "While India may not have a lot of ready or experienced talent in this field, Indians have been early adopters of new technologies and are also interested in building their careers in such industries. We see a huge potential in hiring the right talent in India."
But is the crypto industry all prepped up to have the right talent for the upcoming technology boom? Factors like the increasing number of startups, accessibility to VC capital, the largest pool of developers and training and mentorship imparted by established crypto companies are poised to make India a crypto hub, according to Sricharan C, Head of HR, WazirX. "With an ever-evolving industry, the talent need is also reorienting. Wherever we identify the right talent pool, and there is a need to scale up their capabilities, we are always forthcoming with the necessary programmes and training to equip them with the right skill sets."
"Working remotely has also helped WazirX choose talent from across the country, making sure that we are picking individuals who can contribute to the growth of the company and the industry," Sricharan adds.
There is a growth in vacancies for talent. As per data by LinkedIn, crypto job postings on the platform were up by 395 per cent in August 2021 compared to the same period the year before. As more startups join the ecosystem and other sectors start to adapt to blockchain technology, experts say that India is deemed to witness a further rise in jobs.
"But selecting the right talent from the larger talent pool is of the essence," Sricharan points out.
Owing to this, Chauhan of CoinDCX suggests that Crypto companies should onboard relevant talent and train them, so it grows the company as well as create many skilled employees. The growth of such new-age companies and employees will directly contribute to the growth of the economy, ultimately benefiting India.
"These companies can give talent the required exposure to the right use cases and problem statements that can enhance their on-the-job learning and innovation," says Chauhan.
Harnessing the right talent in the initial stage, according to the experts, will be beneficial and important for having efficacies at the start. However, when crypto firms take a long term view, to keep them engaged, Sricharan says, "we need to make sure that they are provided with an environment. A culture that challenges them to innovate and provide solutions to advanced problems. This is imperative for any organisation to create avenues for talent growth."
Crypto industry outlook in India
Experts feel that the Indian Crypto industry is still walking on a tightrope, considering its unregularized status in the country. Hence, Crypto firms need to focus more on security and compliance while building any product and process.
Chauhan says that in a space where general people are just getting comfortable with this new concept, principles of assurance will only increase their trust. "The industry needs early adopters and innovators who are not afraid to experiment and test their own limits. We have barely scratched the surface of what this space is yet to unfold, and having people who are eager to learn and determined to create a dent will unleash its real potential," she says.
Even Sricharan agrees with Chauhan and says, "To build a high functioning team, we have to look beyond technical skills while hiring talent. It is of paramount importance to ensure the cultural fit of a person before bringing them in. We need to look for a great work attitude, an optimistic outlook and a heavy learning orientation before we hire the talent."
In order to make this happen, experts believe that HR needs to closely collaborate with all the business functions and be an active part of the decision-making process while hiring talent.
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Reimagining Business Models in Life Sciences
November 24, 2017 by Jacqueline Prause
Highly regulated and strictly adherent to predictable, validated outcomes, the life sciences industry is now facing a unique disruption of its own – brought on by an explosion of data, increasing regulations, decreasing margins, industry consolidation, and digitalization.
The solution? Create new value through digitalization of the business model and accelerate innovation. Easier said than done!
For the manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, biological products, and medical devices, digitalization is either a golden opportunity to better serve patients or a massive threat to the traditional rank and order. On a recent episode of Internet talk radio program Changing the Game with Life Sciences, special edition series of Coffee Break with Game-Changers, presented by SAP, a panel of three industry-leading experts gave their take on where the industry was headed and what opportunities they foresee for those agile and innovative enough to fill gaps in the value chain quickly.
Joining moderator Bonnie D. Graham on the panel were: Joe Miles, global vice president of Life Sciences at SAP; Shawn Brodersen, global chief technology officer of the SAP Practice at HCL Technologies; and Rasmus Nelund, vice president of Life Sciences and general manager of International Operations at NNIT A/S.
The following are just some of the observations presented during the one-hour show. For more information, listen to a complete recording of the show: Reimagining Business Models in Life Sciences
Balancing Speed of Innovation with Commitment to the Patient
Joe Miles: "It's just a remarkable time. That's really showing in new business models that are bringing competitive advantages for organizations, but at the same time, providing levels of care, treatments, and therapies that are attacking long-held terrible diseases. Now we actually have an opportunity to help people get back on the healthy path after dealing with some of these traumatic illnesses."
Shawn Brodersen: "What we're talking about is change, but we're also talking about guarantees of outcomes. In highly regulated industries like Life Sciences, there's a certain comfort and a requirement to do things in a very consistent and repeatable fashion because it's a validated industry and we want validated outcomes. We don't want to get the wrong drugs to the patients or the wrong devices to the patients."
Rasmus Nelund: "Both commitment and especially imagination are needed right now in the Life Sciences industry to imagine what is in the future. Is it going to be a technology trip in the future? Are the drug producers of today going to be reduced back in the value chain and take over some platforms towards the patient? That requires a lot of imagination about how we can realize the benefits of digitalization and at the same time, the commitment to the passion for the patient."
Patient Data Streams and Payment Models
Miles: "Similar to every other industry, Life Sciences is being impacted globally with digitalization, specifically from smart devices. Real-world data streams from patients' smart devices will generate massive amounts of data, providing more accurate insights into patients' conditions. The supply chains have to change. The manufacturing process has to change. The delivery model has to change. The interaction with the physicians and the patients has to change. Those are radical changes and digital technologies are what are really enabling that. The devices are giving us greater visibility and transparency at the patient level. But further then, the models that are coming out of that to support that process and those products are also equally as transformational."
Real-world data streams from patients' smart devices will generate massive amounts of data, providing more accurate insights into patients' conditions, says SAP's Joe Miles
Brodersen: "When [Joe] talks about that data stream and where that data stream comes from, you're not just disrupting the Life Sciences industry, but you're looking at industries around insurance models. You're talking about industries for consumer goods, where these devices are embedded and created. There is a potential revenue stream to those companies, whether it's Nike, Under Armour, FitBit, Apple, or Google.
From a patient's perspective, you really have two groups that will look at this in two very different ways. One is 'my information is my information and I'm not particularly interested in sharing.' The other one is maybe a bit more modern, like, 'hey, if this proactively helps me solve for future health problems, then I'm more than happy to share.'
How do we manage the data and how do we keep that confidential? How do we give the patient control over what they share and how they share it, and do that in a very personal, secure way? I think that's one of those things that digital transformation needs to address."
Nelund: "It is true that the whole product is changing. In the old days, we went to the doctor, who wrote the prescription for a drug. Then we went to the pharmacy, got the drug, and it worked. That's going to change into a combination of both the drug and some hardware or software – and also, all the Life Sciences data surrounding the patients, because a lot of the decisions we have today are also about lifestyle, and researchers are curious to understand the lifestyle of the patient and thereby make the drug more personalized.
Going back to what Shawn mentioned there about the platform, I think the winners of this industry are going to be the ones who own the patients' data at the end. Then they can use what they've seen in other industries with Uber, AirBnB, and Amazon. Not to mention, that if you own the data about the consumer, then you also own the market."
Blockchain as Cure-All?
Brodersen: "At its core, blockchain is simply a database, a technology, a way of restoring and sharing information in a network of commonly interested peers in a supply chain or a value chain. As a patient, if I go into a doctor's office today, what's the first thing they do when you sign in? 'Please fill out these ten pages so that we know something about you.' If I have to go to a second doctor's appointment, they don't share any of that information with the next doctor. A lot of that has to do with regulations and some of it has to do with it's just the way it's always been done.
What blockchain potentially could do is give the individual the opportunity to store that information in a very secure digital wallet, and then to decide, using cryptography and tokens, how they hand that information out in the network. There's really, in my view, no good reason why this can't be something that is adopted and looked at as a way to radically change the patient's experience."
Nelund: "I think it is a perfect example of how blockchain can be used to trail information and make it more personalized. Also, we talk about data as the most valuable asset of a company and potentially, because we used a blockchain to track the data, we would have a digital audit trail.
Imagine you are running a clinical trial in 26 countries with 5,000 patients and you get data points in every second day and you need to be capable of reproducing that study that has run for two years and have transparency for the FDA to trust the data. So, we need to have a full audit trail. That is quite cumbersome today with the computer system validation, but it's quite necessary."
Miles: "The example Shawn gave was very simple, yet an elegant and transparent way of how the technology could be leveraged. You can see that extended across more of the consumer experience. You can also see that taken further as we start to get into other areas where we think about data integrity. That data integrity could pertain to the integrity of a product; for example, the serial number on the product that you're using. Is that a valid serial number? Is that a valid drug that you're taking? Our ability to have that irrefutable data point, to know within that distributed network that we have valid information that can never be altered—that is a very valuable and a very interesting capability that can be done on a global basis and can be expanded in a variety of ways."
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Alright. If you're online – you need a blog kit.
What's a "Blog Kit" ? It's a tool box of sorts created from experience, tools you trust and use often. And keeps you from seeking programs you don't need. A Blog Kit you depend on regularly.
You have a website . You want to promote what you offer and make money online. And you're looking for programs to do this with, right?
Your website is for the visitor – not you. Which means, you have to think like them – your visitors. In fact, think of yourself perusing the internet. What as a visitor to another website/blog are you looking for, attracts you. What holds your attention or not? What do you like about a particular website or blog?
There are to many websites on the internet that visually look like a "Garage Sale". They are full of Ads, promotions cluttering up posts and pages. Sure, one type of website can get away with this – like a "Magazine", But for the average blogger, new or even seasoned most websites (my opinion) are a visual mess and confusing.
My earlier websites used to be like what I mentioned above. But through observation, educating myself about website design (what the "big Guys" are doing) I've been able to implement some ideas by using the tools I already have and honoring what users want and thinking like a visitor to my own site.
So your Blog Kit should first include a plan, an idea to follow – like an architect designing a home. Choose a blog theme that best portrays what you want to communicate to your visitors.
I've used many programs, spent lots of money over the years, and finally whittled it all down to just what I need and like the best, based on what I want to achieve on my blog: Clarity, easy to read, visually appealing, and clutter free. . You don't need everything.
What Do You Want to Achieve on your website?
What you want to achieve with your website will change as your interests change – blogs are always a work in progress.
There are a SEA of products that do similar things and this is where you'll want to explore. BUT be prepared to spend money testing them if you go that route. Or you cam trust my list and input from others you trust about what programs to use.
What I use is listed below. If you have questions, just reach-out to me, and I'll answer.
First, think about what you need instead of what you want (lots of shinny objects out there). You'll need programs to help build your presence and business online based on what you want to achieve.
If you're just starting out with blogging – never had a blog before, I recommend signing- up for a free blog account at wordpress.com. Here you'll learn how to use the platform, build your knowledge and skills at having a blog. This is a great platform to "play" with and not be challenged financially.
Then, if you're really serious about blogging, owning your blog is the next step and a good investment. Because you own it, you can post anything you want on it – which you can't do on free blogging platforms.
You'll need to invest in a hosting company for your blog. There are many hosting companies out there… be careful, some will "nickle and dime " you for additional services that they say you need but really don't.
I've been using Dreamhost since 2005. They are straightforward, good support and service. They never crashed at any time and they've always responded to any problems I've had. You pay them annually and fee will depend on the service you get. I have a private server so it costs more.
I only use themes from My Theme Shop. There's an annual fee for membership which gives you the option to use ANY theme or plugin for no charge. They have everything you need – an excellent SEO plugin, shotcodes, and many more. The support is also very good. When you use one theme and the plugins made by the same company everything works well, seamlessly together. And, that's a good thing!
I have tried a few email programs … and stuck with Get Response. I LOVE Get Response! They are always updating there services and offer educational marketing videos, webinars, and articles on their blog. They have landing pages, a webinar platform, surveys, RSS feed, and creative web forms. The monthly service depends on the size of your email list. The fee increases as your email list grows by size.
There are many funnel creation programs available. Some are costly like Clickfunnels. If you like uncomplicated, easy to use then I recommend Instabuilder.
Instabuilder is a plugin and offers an affiliate program.. It's easy to use. Pages are already designed and you can change the color, text, images, layout, add video, etc. They add new layout themes every month.I use this often. It's affordable and support is good.
Video Maker FX – I love this program because it has numerous, remade videos you can edit. I use this program a lot to create intros and outros for my videos.
Viddyoze – great marketing program. They have a huge collection of animated video clips where you can insert your logo or marketing message unto the videos.
Keep checking back as I'll be adding or removing product suggestions.


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package teetime.stage.trace.traceReconstruction;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import kieker.analysis.plugin.filter.flow.TraceEventRecords;
import kieker.common.logging.Log;
import kieker.common.logging.LogFactory;
import kieker.common.record.flow.trace.AbstractTraceEvent;
import kieker.common.record.flow.trace.TraceMetadata;
import kieker.common.record.flow.trace.operation.AfterOperationEvent;
import kieker.common.record.flow.trace.operation.AfterOperationFailedEvent;
import kieker.common.record.flow.trace.operation.BeforeOperationEvent;

/**
 * The TraceBuffer is synchronized to prevent problems with concurrent access.
 *
 * @author Jan Waller
 */
public final class EventBasedTrace {

	private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(EventBasedTrace.class);

	private final List<AbstractTraceEvent> events = new ArrayList<AbstractTraceEvent>(128);

	private TraceMetadata traceMetaData;
	private long traceId = -1;

	private boolean closeable;
	private boolean damaged;
	private int openEvents;
	private int maxOrderIndex = -1;

	/**
	 * Creates a new instance of this class.
	 */
	public EventBasedTrace() {
		// default empty constructor
	}

	public void insertEvent(final AbstractTraceEvent event) {
		final long myTraceId = event.getTraceId();
		synchronized (this) {
			if (this.traceId == -1) {
				this.traceId = myTraceId;
			} else if (this.traceId != myTraceId) {
				LOG.error("Invalid traceId! Expected: " + this.traceId + " but found: " + myTraceId + " in event " + event.toString());
				this.damaged = true;
			}

			final int orderIndex = event.getOrderIndex();
			if (orderIndex > this.maxOrderIndex) {
				this.maxOrderIndex = orderIndex;
			}
			if (event instanceof BeforeOperationEvent) {
				if (orderIndex == 0) {
					this.closeable = true;
				}
				this.openEvents++;
			} else if (event instanceof AfterOperationEvent) {
				this.openEvents--;
			} else if (event instanceof AfterOperationFailedEvent) {
				this.openEvents--;
			}

			this.events.add(event);
		}
	}

	public void setTrace(final TraceMetadata traceMetaData) {
		final long myTraceId = traceMetaData.getTraceId();
		synchronized (this) {
			if (this.traceId == -1) {
				this.traceId = myTraceId;
			} else if (this.traceId != myTraceId) {
				LOG.error("Invalid traceId! Expected: " + this.traceId + " but found: " + myTraceId + " in trace " + traceMetaData.toString());
				this.damaged = true;
			}

			if (this.traceMetaData == null) {
				this.traceMetaData = traceMetaData;
			} else {
				LOG.error("Duplicate Trace entry for traceId " + myTraceId);
				this.damaged = true;
			}
		}
	}

	public boolean isFinished() {
		synchronized (this) {
			return this.closeable && !this.isInvalid();
		}
	}

	public boolean isInvalid() {
		synchronized (this) {
			return (this.traceMetaData == null) || this.damaged || (this.openEvents != 0)
					|| (((this.maxOrderIndex + 1) != this.events.size()) || this.events.isEmpty());
		}
	}

	/**
	 * @deprecated Will be removed in 1.1 due to performance issues
	 *
	 * @return the trace meta data and the trace events
	 */
	@Deprecated
	public TraceEventRecords toTraceEvents() {
		synchronized (this) {
			// BETTER do not create a new array but use the events directly. Perhaps, we should refactor the events to an array.
			final AbstractTraceEvent[] traceEvents = this.events.toArray(new AbstractTraceEvent[this.events.size()]);
			return new TraceEventRecords(this.traceMetaData, traceEvents);
		}
	}

	public List<AbstractTraceEvent> getTraceEvents() {
		return events;
	}

	public TraceMetadata getTraceMetaData() {
		return traceMetaData;
	}

}


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Like Nintendo and I listen, the next Pokemon Scarlet and Violet update will fix a bug and add Ranked Battles
News Platform: Nintendo Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Tier 1
Both titles are heavily criticised for their poor performance and lack of graphics. Many fans expressed their anger at the fact that big names like Pokemon can't seem to create high-fidelity games. Nintendo announced a new version of the titles, version 1.1.0, which will release on December 1 and fix several bugs and add new ones to Ranked Battles. The company promises to take feedback seriously and continue working on the game to improve.
As a member of the frenzied. In one of 1.1.0 update, Season 1 of Ranked Battles is going to start, perking players to participate in Ranked Battles on the Battlestand.
A software update for #PokemonScarletViolet (Ver. 1.1.0 will be released on the 12th.
Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) December 1, 2022
However, the terms of the update will remain vague. Only a fix for this update is a problem where the music doesn't play correctly during the battle against the elite four and the top champion in the Victory Road quest. Nintendo writes that it's aware of the games and apologizes for the inconvenience. Nintendo claims it takes good feedback from players and works on ways of improving the games in future.
Players shouldn't expect to update Ver. 1.1.0 should solve every problem with the game and set their expectations at a reasonable level. The games will have to be quick and easy. For now, Nintendo will have to release some of the first two to four different versions. That is different to a previous report, whereby he said that Nintendo hasn't received complaints about the titles, at least not through Nintendo Support.
We look at the odds that Nintendo may patch the performance issues with Scarlet and Violet in a new piece. We do believe a patch will be coming to the titles in the coming months, but they don't think they will be substantial enough to fix everything. The two games have sold up for 10 million copies in three days, which became one of the fastest-selling games on the Nintendo Switch.
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Q: Undefined offset: 0 with LARAVEL 5.6 and GuzzleHttp POST request can you help me please, I want to use UBER API with GuzzleHttp
    $uber_client = new Client([
        'base_uri' => 'https://api.uber.com/v1.2/',
        'timeout'  => 2.0,
        'headers' => [
            'content_type' => 'application/json',
            'Accept-Language' => 'fr_FR',
            'Authorization' => "Bearer $uber_access_token"],
    ]);

to have Ride Request - Estimate :
        $resp_uber = $uber_client->post("requests/estimate", [
        'auth' => [
            'Authorization' => "Bearer $uber_access_token"
            ],
        'form_params' =>   [
            'start_latitude' => $start_latitude,
            'start_longitude' => $start_longitude,
            'end_latitude' => $end_latitude,
            'end_longitude' => $end_longitude,
            ]
    ]);

=> Erreur :

ErrorException (E_NOTICE)
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Karim Soto
Dr Andrew Trites
The effects of prey abundance on the diet, maternal attendance and pup mortality of the South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens) in Peru
The Peruvian upwelling system is one of the most unpredictable but productive marine ecosystems in the world that is regularly affected by El Nino and La Nina events. As a consequence, South American sea lions (Otaria flavescens) inhabiting the Peruvian coast face stochastic fluctuations in the abundance and distribution of their prey. The goal of my study was to determine the effects of marine environmental changes on the reproductive success of South American sea lions in Peru on the Ballestas Islands during the 1997-2002 breeding seasons.
I also wanted to assess whether changes in diet and maternal behaviour during this time were proxies of major changes in the abundance of marine resources. South American sea lions consumed primarily anchovy and squat lobster during the 1999- 2001 La Nina, but consumed a greater diversity of prey when abundance was low during the 1997-1998 El Nino.
Lactating females also modified the length of time they spent at sea and onshore in response to changes in the abundance of prey. Low abundances and quality of prey during El Nino caused females to continue foraging for longer periods. This resulted in greater times between nursing episodes, and ultimately led to the starvation of pups. In contrast, during the 1999-2001 La Nina, females spent shorter times at sea and longer times onshore as prey became more abundant.
Pup production and mortality were also directly related to the abundance of prey. Pup mortality reached 100% during El Nino and remained high during the favourable conditions of La Nina due to the short-term effects that El Nino had on population dynamics and subsequent maternal behaviour.
Abortions were also higher during El Nino compared to other years, while numbers of pups bom were significantly reduced during and after El Nino due to the death of a high proportion of the adult population. My study suggests that South American sea lions in Peru are highly vulnerable to extreme changes in prey abundance. It also demonstrates that sea lion reproductive parameters, maternal attendance, and diet are strongly related to marine environmental conditions and annual variations in prey abundance. As a result, South American sea lions appear to be good indicators of stochastic changes in the distribution and abundance of marine resources in the Peruvian upwelling ecosystem.
The effects of prey abundance on the diet, maternal attendance and pup mortality of the South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens) in Peru. Soto, Karim. 2004. Masters Thesis, University of British Columbia. 73 pages (PDF)
Changes in diet and maternal attendance of a South American sea lions indicate changes in the marine environment and the abundance of prey. Soto, K., A.W. Trites, and M. Arias-Schreiber. 2006. (PDF)
The effects of prey availability on pup mortality and the timing of birth of South American sea lions (Otaria flavescens) in Peru. Soto, K., A.W. Trites, and M. Arias-Schreiber. 2004. Journal of Zoology 264:419-428. (PDF)


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Q: Page controller and UITableView causes small lag I have a page controller which consists of five table views. When swiping between these table views, there is a short lag. Is this normal or could it be caused by some bad code?
I have uploaded a short video demonstrating the issue.
[Video] UITableView with UIPageController causes a lag
EDIT:
It is as if it helps removing cell.detailTextLabel.text would this make sense?
This is where I set the detail label:
NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setDateFormat: @"'kl.' HH:mm"];
NSTimeZone *gmt = [NSTimeZone timeZoneWithAbbreviation:@"GMT"];
[dateFormat setTimeZone:gmt];
NSString *dateFormatted = [dateFormat stringFromDate:[thisEntry objectForKey:@"date"]];

if(![[thisEntry objectForKey:@"weekDay"] isEqualToString:@"Ikke programsat"]) {
   cell.detailTextLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@", [thisEntry objectForKey:@"scene"], dateFormatted];
}

[dateFormat release];

A: I would guess the issue most likely has to do with the image on the top of each page.  The table in each page seems to only contain lightweight cells that contain only text.  So, each table should render fairly quickly.  It's the image on top that may be taking some time to render.  Whenever I encounter lag in any of my apps, the first thing I look at are graphical assets.  Images can take some time to render, depending on the size and resolution of the image.  If it is the image, then you need to consider the possibility of using some caching.  The documentation on UIImage and UIImageView contains some helpful information.
Also, I would suggest you run some tests using Shark in order to pin down exactly what part of your code is causing the performance hit.  It might not be the image at all but rather some piece of code that is querying for a piece of data that it is having to wait on for some reason.
Hope this helped.  Good Luck.