In the opening story of Wallflowers, a girl is cat-sitting for her neighbor, sleeping in the neighbor's house. It's nearly identical to her mother's nearby-in the Copper Waters subdivision, they all are-but she likes it here, eating boiled eggs and watching TV, feeling out her freedom as heavy rains fall. And then a nearby dike fails. And the girl may be the only one left in Copper Waters. Eliza Robertson can handle the shocking turn, but she also has a knack for the slow surprise, the realization that settles around you like snow. Her stories are deftly constructed and their perspectives-often those of the loners and onlookers, distanced by their gifts of observation-are unexpected. In "We Walked on Water," winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, a brother and sister train together for a race that will ultimately separate them forever. In "L'Etranger," shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize, a girl abroad in Marseille reconsiders her unendearing roommate after an intimate confrontation. Robertson was raised on rugged Vancouver Island. She's traveled broadly since, and her stories travel, too, but the climate of her collection is influenced by her home. These carefully cultivated forms still flare with wildness, and each is still spacious enough for a reader to get lost in wonder.


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Q: Thread или таймер Каждые 6 секунд получаю данные с АЦП через COMPORT. Как по-вашему лучше (правильнее) оформить: через поток или через компонент Timer прямо в основной программе? Или это примерно одно и то же?

A: Нет, это не одно и то же. Любые операции, требующие задержки, лучше размещать в отдельном потоке, чтобы не было зависаний пользовательского интерфейса. А работа с com-портом однозначно требует задержки независимо от того, сам АЦП выплёвывает данные через каждые 6 секунд, или вы опрашиваете его каждые 6 секунд.

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SuperCom, a global provider of secure identity, IoT, connectivity and cybersecurity solutions for the global public and private sectors, has announced that the company has secured a contract for a US$7 million project with the national government of Sweden to deploy its PureSecurity Electronic Monitoring (EM) Suite. This project was formally awarded in April 2018 through a formal bid process and the contract execution has just been completed, allowing for project launch.
This nationwide programme will cover all prison and probation EM offender programmes within Sweden. It will include approximately 1,000 simultaneous enrollees and four prison facilities during the first phase of the contract, with an option for expansion to additional facilities. The total duration of the contract is up to eight years. The initial deployment will include the following PureSecurity offerings: home detention, GPS tracking of offenders, alcohol monitoring and inmate monitoring. SuperCom expects to deploy the initial order and start generating recurring revenues in the coming months.
Sweden has been a pioneer in EM for public safety programmes in Europe for 25 years. Sweden launched its initial probation programme in 1994 and the first inmate monitoring programme a decade later in 2004. However, this is the first deployment to fully integrate traditional EM with inmate monitoring, providing authorities continuous tracking of offenders while they are in prison and while they are outside holding facilities during short-term release periods.
SuperCom's PureSecurity Suite is a best-of-breed electronic monitoring and tracking platform, which contains a comprehensive set of innovative features, including smart phone integration, secure communication, advanced security, anti-tamper mechanisms, fingerprint biometrics, voice communication, unique touch screens and extended battery life.


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Sinhasa è una suddivisione dell'India, classificata come census town, di 4.079 abitanti, situata nel distretto di Indore, nello stato federato del Madhya Pradesh. In base al numero di abitanti la città rientra nella classe VI (meno di 5.000 persone).

Geografia fisica
La città è situata a 22° 43' 13 N e 75° 46' 25 E.

Società

Evoluzione demografica
Al censimento del 2001 la popolazione di Sinhasa assommava a 4.079 persone, delle quali 2.203 maschi e 1.876 femmine. I bambini di età inferiore o uguale ai sei anni assommavano a 748, dei quali 409 maschi e 339 femmine. Infine, coloro che erano in grado di saper almeno leggere e scrivere erano 1.655, dei quali 1.135 maschi e 520 femmine.

Note

Centri abitati del Madhya Pradesh

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The 4 wheel drive access road to Inwood Lookout was much easier than expected, do-able in a two wheel drive vehicle on the day we were there. This road climbs up to just over 1000m and provides possibly the easiest and quickest access to the open tops in the Richmond Forest Park. With a patchy weather forecast and a late start our intentions were to explore as far as possible up the poled spur to Gordons Knob North Peak (SH 1564). Within ten minutes of leaving the car park we left the bushline behind crossing over Spot Height 1164 before dropping down to a saddle and then climbing up thru some scrub. There was a bit of a scramble and navigating our way around a few small areas of scree before getting above a rocky outcrop. From there on it was an easy walk up the spur to where the track travels NE towards Hunters Hut. We stopped here as we had encountered snow showers and then a cold, southerly wind ripping over the exposed tops. Luckily as we descended back down the spur the weather started to clear permitting views down to Golden Downs and the Motueka river. We were most impressed with the area and plan to return and spend a weekend hiking in to Hunters Hut and doing a side trip to Gordons Knob on the return trip.
Ascending thru a snow shower above the rocky outcrop.
Looking up to where the spur intersects with the ridgeline between SH 1519 & SH 1564.
There be a Yeti footprint??


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José Lezama Lima (Havana, 19 de Dezembro de 1910 – Havana, 8 de Agosto de 1976) foi um romancista, ensaísta e poeta cubano, é considerado uma das figuras mais influentes da literatura latino-americana.

Nascido no Quartel Militar de Columbia, perto de Havana, na cidade de Marianao, onde o seu pai era coronel, Lezama viveu os tempos mais turbulentos da história de Cuba, lutando contra a ditadura de Machado, e mais tarde, sofrendo discriminação durante o regime de Fidel Castro, devido a suas preferências homossexuais. A sua obra literária inclui o romance barroco, semiautobiográfico, Paradiso, de (1966), a história de um jovem e das suas lutas contra misteriosas doenças, contra a morte do seu pai, e as suas sensibilidades homossexuais e poéticas em desenvolvimento. Lezama Lima coligiu ainda várias antologias de poesia cubana e colaborou nas revistas Verbum e Orígenes, sendo considerado o patriarca das Letras Cubanas ma maior parte dos seus últimos anos.

Embora tenha deixado Cuba em pelo menos duas ocasiões (uma viagem à Jamaica e uma possível viagem ao México), a poesia de Lezama Lima, os seus ensaios e dois dos seus romances inspiraram-se em imagens e ideias de diversas culturas e períodos históricos. O estilo barroco que ele desenvolveu baseava-se em partes iguais na sua sintaxe influenciada por Góngora e por uma constelação assombrosa de imagens invulgares. O primeiro livro publicado de Lezama Lima, um longo poema intitulado "Muerte de Narciso", foi publicado quando ele tinha apenas vinte e sete anos, tornando-o instantaneamente famoso em Cuba e instituiu o estilo de Lezama e os seus temas clássicos.

Para além dos seus poemas e romances, Lezama Lima escreveu diversos ensaios sobre figuras da literatura mundial como Mallarmé, Paul Valéry, Góngora e Rimbaud, bem como sobre a estética barroca Latino-Americana. Muito notável são também os seus ensaios publicados como La –expresión americana, descrevendo a sua visão do barroco europeu, a sua relação com os clássicos, e com o barroco Americano.

José Lezama Lima morreu em 1976 e foi enterrado no Cemitério Colon, em Havana. Foi muito influente para os escritores cubanos e porto-riquenhos da sua geração, como Virgilio Piñera, Reinaldo Arenas, René Marqués e Giannina Braschi, que representaram a sua vida nas suas obras.

A sua obra
Apesar de José Lezama Lima ter se tornado célebre no mundo da poesia, foi com seu romance semi-autobiográfico Paradiso que o autor melhor expressou seu universo e suas experiências de linguagem. Escrito entre as décadas de 1940 e 1960, o texto, barroco, conta de forma pitoresca a história de José Cemí, abordando inicialmente a doença que lhe acomete na infância, a asma, e a descoberta de sua vocação como poeta, passando pela infância escolar e pelos ensinamentos de um mentor e guia.

De leitura densa, experimental e poética, Paradiso, editado em 2014 pela Martins Fontes, com tradução de Olga Savary, mistura diversas referências de todas as épocas, cores, sabores e lugares para apresentar ao leitor o rico universo de um homem só, que também pode ser de todos os homens.

Sendo um poeta hermético por instinto e por excesso expressivo, Lezama Lima procura a revelação do mistério da poesia. Foi um poeta religioso que, como São João da Cruz, faz prevalecer o sentir sobre o dizer. Lezama conseguiu devolver à poesia a sua essência, pois acabou por conseguir descer até à inutilidade da palavra usada e já desprovida de música. Estruturou um sistema poético do mundo sem se importar com a dificuldade que a sua leitura causava a todos os leitores: quis explicar o conhecimento do mundo desde a outra margem, do desconhecido, do outro, e nesse percurso lograr o desvendar de um novo ser nascido da obscuridade: a poesia. José Lezama Lima criou um sistema para explicar o mundo através da metáfora e especialmente da imagem, que fica bem resumido pela sua famosa frase "la imagen es la realidad del mundo invisible" ("a imagem é a realidade do mundo invisível").

Obra
 Muerte de Narciso. (poesia) 1937
Coloquio con Juan Ramón Jiménez. 1938
Enemigo Rumor. (poesia) 1941
Aventuras Sigilosas. (poema) 1945
La Fijeza (poesia). 1949
Arístides Fernández. (ensaio) 1950
Analecta del Reloj. (ensaios) 1953
La expresión americana. (ensaio) 1969
Tratados en La Habana. (ensaio) 1958
Dador. (poesia) 1960
Antología de la poesía cubana. 1965
Órbita de Lezama Lima. 1966
Paradiso. 1966
Los grandes todos. (antología)
Posible imagen de Lezama Lima.  1969
Esfera imagen. Sierpe de Don Luis de Góngora
Las imágenes posibles. (ensaio) 1970
Poesía Completa. 1970
La cantidad hechizada. (ensaio) 1970
Introducción a los vasos órficos 1971
Las eras imaginarias (ensaio) 1971
Obras completas. 1975
Oppiano Licario. romance inacabado, publicado postumamente em 1977
Fragmentos a su imán (poesia) 1978

Bibliografia
Em inglês
From modernism to neobaroque: Joyce and Lezama Lima, César Augusto Salgado., 2001
Assimilation/generation/resurrection: contrapuntal readings in the poetry of José Lezama Lima, B. Heller., 1997
Secondary moderns: mimesis, history, and revolution in Lezama Lima's "American expression", B. Levinson., 1996
José Lezama Lima, poet of the image, Emilio Bejel., 1990
The American gnosis of José Lezama Lima, Rubén Ríos-Avila., 1990
José Lezama Lima's joyful vision: a study of Paradiso and other prose works, Gustavo Pellon., 1989
A theology of absence: the poetic system of José Lezama Lima, Rubén Ríos-Avila., 1986
The poetic fiction of José Lezama Lima, Raymond D Souza., 1983
Em espanhol
Las sagradas letras de Paradiso. Un estudio sobre el hermetismo de José Lezama Lima, Julieta leo., 2013
Antología para un sistema poético del mundo de José Lezama Lima, Iván González Cruz., 2004
Paradiso: la aventura mítica, Margarita Mateo Palmer., 2002
La posibilidad infinita: archivo de José Lezama Lima, Iván González Cruz., 2000
La escritura de lo posible: el sistema poético de José Lezama Lima, Remedios Mataix., 2000
Narciso hermético: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y José Lezama Lima, Aída Beaupied., 1997
El espejo y la palabra: Mann, Borges, Proust, Lezama Lima, Jaime Valdivieso., 1997
La imagen y el cuerpo: Lezama y Sarduy, Virgilio López Lemus., 1997
Recopilación de textos sobre José Lezama Lima, Pedro Simón., 1995
El primitivo implorante: el "sistema poético del mundo" de José Lezama Lima, Arnaldo Cruz., 1994
José Lezama Lima, poeta de la imagen, Emilio Bejel., 1994
La región olvidada de José Lezama Lima, Jorge Luis Llópiz., 1994
José Lezama Lima: bases y génesis de un sistema poético, Enrique Márquez., 1991
La cosmovisión poética de José Lezama Lima en Paradiso y Oppiano Licario, Alina Gingerich., 1990
José Lezama Lima, o, El hechizo de la búsqueda, Rita Molinero., 1989
Lezama Lima, Eugenio Suárez Galbán., 1987
Las eras imaginarias de Lezama Lima, Cesia Ziona Hirshbein., 1984
Coloquio Internacional sobre la Obra de José Lezama Lima / Université de Poitiers., 1984
Lezama Lima / Rafael Humberto Moreno-Durán., 1981
José Lezama Lima, textos críticos / Justo C Ulloa., 1979
Paradiso y el sistema poético de Lezama Lima / Margarita Junco Fazzolari., 1979
Poesía y conocimiento: Borges, Lezama Lima, Octavio Paz / Ramón Xirau., 1978
Una Familia Habanera por Eloisa Lezama-Lima (Ediciones Universal, 1998, ISBN 0-89729-862-4)

Ver também
 Before Night Falls

Mortos em 1976
Poetas de Cuba
Romancistas de Cuba
Ensaístas de Cuba
Escritores LGBT de Cuba
Jose Lezama Lima
Naturais de Havana


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Chinese astronauts conduct second spacewalk outside planned space station
Posted By: By Jessie Yeung, CNN
Chinese astronauts working on the country's planned space station carried out their second spacewalk on Friday, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
Since they were sent into space in June, the three-man crew has been working and living on the Tianhe core module of the space station, the largest spacecraft developed by China to date. They plan to have the space station, called Tiangong or Heavenly Palace, fully crewed and operational by December 2022 -- an ambitious target for China's rapidly expanding space program.
Two of the astronauts, Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming, conducted the spacewalk on Friday morning local Beijing time, leaving the core module to carry out tasks such as installing equipment outside the space station and working on the attached robotic arm, said the space agency on the Chinese platform WeChat. The third astronaut, Tang Hongbo, provided support from inside the cabin.
"The astronauts are in good condition," said state-run news outlet Xinhua before the spacewalk, adding that the core module, spacecraft and cargo craft are all "operating stably."
The astronauts carried out their first spacewalk in early July, during which they tested new-generation spacesuits, installed equipment, elevated a panoramic camera and tested the station's robotic arm.
It was also only China's second spacewalk at the time, since its first was carried out in 2008.
No other spacewalks are planned for the remainder of their three-month orbital flight -- China's longest-ever crewed mission. Their flight is just the first of many to come before the station is complete -- after this mission, another three crewed spacecrafts and two laboratory modules will be sent to the space station.
Once complete, the space station is expected to operate for 10 years -- which could be extended to 15. Though won't be as large as the international space station, it's designed to be permanently occupied by astronauts on long-term stays.
Chinese astronauts have long been excluded from the ISS due to US political objections and legislative restrictions. The country's space program has expanded rapidly in the past decade, and has accelerated in the past year alone -- scientists successfully landed exploratory rovers on the moon in December and on Mars in May.
Russia, a longtime contributor on the ISS, has also left the project and is now considering launching its own space station by 2030.
Russian cosmonauts conduct spacewalk despite smoke, alarm on space station
NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins conduct spacewalk Wednesday
Astronauts complete NASA spacewalk to prepare for International Space Station power boost
Russian cosmonauts conduct first of 11 spacewalks for new space station module
Astronaut: Trump's plan for the space station a huge mistake
Weather Blog: SpaceX capsule with 4 astronauts reaches space station
China successfully launches mission sending astronauts to new space station
International Space Station Fast Facts

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Avondale man sentenced to life in prison for Harvey murder
An Avondale man was sentenced Monday (May 14) to life in prison for his convictions stemming a Harvey shooting that left one man dead and another injured.
Javontae "Tae" Simmons, 24, was convicted as charged on May 4 of second-degree murder, two counts of attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit second-degree murder.
All charges stem from an April 7, 2015, shooting in 3700 block of Clover Lane, in Harvey's Woodmere subdivision. Stacy Johnson Jr., 20, was shot several times and died at the scene. A second man was shot in the buttocks as he ran away. A third man, who was the intended target of the shooting, escaped uninjured.
Life in prison without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence is mandatory for second-degree murder.
After denying defense motions for a post-verdict judgment of acquittal and a motion for new trial, in addition to the mandatory life sentence for the murder conviction, Judge Henry Sullivan of the 24th Judicial District Court sentenced Simmons to 30 years for the conspiracy to commit second-degree murder and 50 years for each of the two convictions of attempted second-degree murder. Judge Sullivan ran the sentences concurrently.
Assistant District Attorneys Lindsay Truhe and Doug Freese prosecuted the case.
Harvey man convicted of teen's Woodmere murder
Man sentenced to life in prison for raping, impregnating 12-year-old girl


"After two glamorous decades as one of the Europe's most acclaimed actors, Ulrich Thomsen of Denmark is trying his hand at directing. His debut directorial work, In Embryo, had its world debut during the Shanghai International Film Festival.
"Thomsen wrote, produced and directed and co-stars in the film noir, which has its world premiere at the Shanghai International Film Festival.


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Aksa opens 3rd Chinese generator factory
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News
A local Chinese worker assembles a generator at the new Aksa factory.
Turkey's Aksa Jeneratör, a branch of Aksa Holding, opened the world's largest generator factory in China yesterday.
The generator factory is the third plant Aksa has opened in China to date and will have an annual production capacity of 24,000 generators per year, according to daily Sabah. Aska Jeneratör's General Manager Alper Peker said that since entering the Chinese market in 2007 there has been an increase in demand. Now, Aksa Jeneratör has increased its investments in China to $50 million.
Aksa Jeneratör is among the top five generator firms in the world, according to Peker, who said that this new factory was expected to export to 150 countries in the world. The generators produced by the new factory will have a range between 10 kilowatts to 2,500 kilowatts. With its other two factories in the China's Changzhou and Wuxi regions, Aksa Jeneratör has become the largest exporter of generators in China. According to Peker, Aksa Jeneratör is the preferred generator label among the Chinese.
Peker explained that Aksa Jeneratör brought its raw materials and technology from Turkey and thereby contributed to the Turkish economy as well.
Dutch, Japanese join US limits on chip tech to China
French PM says pension age hike 'non-negotiable' as strikes loom
Cooling US inflation lifts hope for smaller Fed rate hike
Rare earth materials 'new battlefield'


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package at.ac.tuwien.dsg.quelle.graphVizOutputFormatters;

import at.ac.tuwien.dsg.mela.common.monitoringConcepts.Metric;
import at.ac.tuwien.dsg.mela.common.monitoringConcepts.MetricValue;
import at.ac.tuwien.dsg.quelle.cloudServicesModel.concepts.CostElement;
import at.ac.tuwien.dsg.quelle.cloudServicesModel.concepts.CostFunction;
import at.ac.tuwien.dsg.quelle.cloudServicesModel.concepts.Quality;
import at.ac.tuwien.dsg.quelle.cloudServicesModel.concepts.Resource;
import at.ac.tuwien.dsg.quelle.elasticityQuantification.engines.RequirementsMatchingEngine.RequirementsMatchingReport;
import at.ac.tuwien.dsg.quelle.elasticityQuantification.requirements.ServiceUnitConfigurationSolution;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;

/**
 *
 * @Author Daniel Moldovan
 * @E-mail: d.moldovan@dsg.tuwien.ac.at
 *
 */
public class SESConfigurationRecommandationToGraphViz {

    //used to index nodes
    protected static AtomicInteger createdNodesCount = new AtomicInteger(0);

    static void clear() {
//        createdSoFar.clear();
    }
    protected String name;
    protected int thisIndex;
    protected Map<String, String> qualityProperties;
    protected List<SelectedOptionalDependencyDot> selectedOptionalQualityDependencies;
    protected List<SelectedOptionalDependencyDot> selectedOptionalCostDependencies;
    protected List<SelectedOptionalDependencyDot> selectedOptionalResourceDependencies;
    protected Map<String, String> costProperties;
    protected Map<String, String> resourceProperties;
    protected String metaInfo = "shape=Mrecord";
    protected static List<SESConfigurationRecommandationToGraphViz> createdSoFar;
    protected List<SESConfigurationRecommandationToGraphViz> associatedServiceUnits;

    static {
        createdSoFar = new ArrayList<SESConfigurationRecommandationToGraphViz>();
    }

    {
        qualityProperties = new LinkedHashMap<String, String>();
        costProperties = new LinkedHashMap<String, String>();
        resourceProperties = new LinkedHashMap<String, String>();
        associatedServiceUnits = new ArrayList<SESConfigurationRecommandationToGraphViz>();
        selectedOptionalQualityDependencies = new ArrayList<>();
        selectedOptionalCostDependencies = new ArrayList<>();
        selectedOptionalResourceDependencies = new ArrayList<>();

        thisIndex = createdNodesCount.incrementAndGet();
    }

    public SESConfigurationRecommandationToGraphViz(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    protected void addAssociatedServiceUnit(SESConfigurationRecommandationToGraphViz cGSolDotNode) {
        associatedServiceUnits.add(cGSolDotNode);
    }

    protected void removeAssociatedServiceUnit(SESConfigurationRecommandationToGraphViz cGSolDotNode) {
        associatedServiceUnits.remove(cGSolDotNode);
    }

    protected void addSelectedOptionalQualityDependency(SelectedOptionalDependencyDot dependency) {
        selectedOptionalQualityDependencies.add(dependency);
    }

    protected void removeSelectedOptionalQualityDependency(SelectedOptionalDependencyDot dependency) {
        selectedOptionalQualityDependencies.remove(dependency);
    }

    protected void addSelectedOptionalCostDependency(SelectedOptionalDependencyDot dependency) {
        selectedOptionalCostDependencies.add(dependency);
    }

    protected void removeSelectedCostQualityDependency(SelectedOptionalDependencyDot dependency) {
        selectedOptionalCostDependencies.remove(dependency);
    }

    protected void addSelectedOptionalResourceDependency(SelectedOptionalDependencyDot dependency) {
        selectedOptionalResourceDependencies.add(dependency);
    }

    protected void removeSelectedOptionalResourceDependency(SelectedOptionalDependencyDot dependency) {
        selectedOptionalResourceDependencies.remove(dependency);
    }

    protected void addQualityProperty(String key, String value) {
        qualityProperties.put(key, value);
    }

    protected void removeQualityProperty(String key, String value) {
        qualityProperties.put(key, value);
    }

    protected void addCostProperty(String key, String value) {
        costProperties.put(key, value);
    }

    protected void removeCostProperty(String key, String value) {
        costProperties.put(key, value);
    }

    protected void addResourceProperty(String key, String value) {
        resourceProperties.put(key, value);
    }

    protected void removeResourceProperty(String key, String value) {
        resourceProperties.put(key, value);
    }

    public String getNodeID() {
        return "N" + thisIndex;
    }

    public void setMetaInfo(String metaInfo) {
        this.metaInfo = metaInfo;
    }

    public void addMetaInfo(String metaInfo) {
        this.metaInfo += metaInfo;
    }

    protected static class SelectedOptionalDependencyDot {

        protected String name;
        protected Map<String, String> properties;

        {
            properties = new HashMap<>();
        }

        public SelectedOptionalDependencyDot(String name) {
            this.name = name;
        }

        public SelectedOptionalDependencyDot(String name, Map<String, String> properties) {
            this.name = name;
            this.properties = properties;
        }

        protected void addProperty(String key, String value) {
            properties.put(key, value);
        }

        protected void removeProperty(String key, String value) {
            properties.put(key, value);
        }

        public String getName() {
            return name.split("Cost")[0];
        }

        public void setName(String name) {
            this.name = name;
        }

        public Map<String, String> getProperties() {
            return properties;
        }

        public void setProperties(Map<String, String> properties) {
            this.properties = properties;
        }

    }

    public String toDotString() {
        String dotString = " N" + thisIndex + " [   " + metaInfo + "\n"
                + "label = \"{ " + name + " ";

//struct4 [label="{ EBS  | { { Resources }  | { Quality |  'IOperformance:IOPS' = '4000' }  | Cost}}"];
        //add resource properties
        dotString += " | { Resources | ";

        if (!resourceProperties.entrySet().isEmpty()) {

            for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : resourceProperties.entrySet()) {
                dotString += " '" + entry.getKey() + "' = '" + entry.getValue() + "' \\l ";
            }
            dotString += "|";
        }

        for (SelectedOptionalDependencyDot dependencyDot : selectedOptionalResourceDependencies) {
            dotString += "" + dependencyDot.getName() + " :";
            for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : dependencyDot.getProperties().entrySet()) {
                dotString += " '" + entry.getKey() + "' = '" + entry.getValue() + "' \\l ";
            }

        }
        dotString += "}  ";

        //add quality properties
        dotString += " | { Quality | ";

        if (!qualityProperties.entrySet().isEmpty()) {
            for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : qualityProperties.entrySet()) {
                dotString += " '" + entry.getKey() + "' = '" + entry.getValue() + "' \\l ";
            }
            dotString += "|";
        }

        for (SelectedOptionalDependencyDot dependencyDot : selectedOptionalQualityDependencies) {
            dotString += dependencyDot.getName() + " :";
            for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : dependencyDot.getProperties().entrySet()) {
                dotString += " '" + entry.getKey() + "' = '" + entry.getValue() + "' \\l ";
            }

        }

        dotString += "}  ";

        //add cost properties
        dotString += " | { Cost  |";

        if (!costProperties.entrySet().isEmpty()) {

            for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : costProperties.entrySet()) {
                dotString += " '" + entry.getKey() + "' = '" + entry.getValue() + "' \\l ";
            }
            dotString += "|";
        }

        for (SelectedOptionalDependencyDot dependencyDot : selectedOptionalCostDependencies) {
            dotString += "" + dependencyDot.getName() + " :";
            for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : dependencyDot.getProperties().entrySet()) {
                dotString += " '" + entry.getKey() + "' = '" + entry.getValue() + "' \\l ";
            }

        }

        dotString += "}   ";

        dotString += "}\"  ] \n";

        for (SESConfigurationRecommandationToGraphViz dotNode : associatedServiceUnits) {
            dotNode.setMetaInfo(this.metaInfo);
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            for (Map.Entry<Metric, MetricValue> entry : concreteResourceCfg.getProperties().entrySet()) {
                Metric metric = entry.getKey();
                resourceDependency.addProperty(metric.getName() + ":" + metric.getMeasurementUnit(), entry.getValue().getValueRepresentation());
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            dotNode.addSelectedOptionalResourceDependency(resourceDependency);
        }

        //fixed Quality
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            dotNode.addSelectedOptionalCostDependency(resourceDependency);
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            dotNode.addAssociatedServiceUnit(toDotNode(configurationSolution));
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            dotNode.addAssociatedServiceUnit(toDotNode(configurationSolution));
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        return dotNode;
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Paul J. Kowalczyk
Recommend Paul's obituary to your friends
Obituary of Paul J. Kowalczyk
Kowalczyk, Paul J., 87, formerly of St. Petersburg, died Friday March 3, 2000 in Spring, Texas under Hospice care. He came to St. Petersburg from his native Chicago, Illinois in 1975 and moved to Spring, Texas in 1998. He was a retired machinist for a Chicago plumbing company and was a member of Holy Cross Catholic Church. He is survived by a daughter, Patricia L. Barth, Spring, Texas; a brother Ed Kowalczyk, Kissimmee, Florida; and a grandson, Paul Barth, Spring, Texas. Anderson-McQueen Funeral Homes & Cremation Tribute Center-Bobbitt Chapel, St. Petersburg.
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Curating unique and characteristic Chinese arts and crafts to promote their heritage in the UK.
Jinlong has been actively promoting Chinese Arts & Crafts in the UK bringing over some extraordinary artists to display and demonstrate their works and skills. The artists we work with are mostly National Intangible Cultural Heritage inheritors practising the artistry which are UNESCO enlisted.


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Column: Patriot reign: One more win cements history for New England duo
By Alex Smith
A little less than 10 years ago, the St. Louis Rams were the best professional football team in the world.
Two seasons earlier, the team had captured Super Bowl XXXIV, and they were back for another title. Quarterback Kurt Warner and running back Marshall Faulk had combined for the last three league Most Valuable Player awards. New coach Mike Martz had "The Greatest Show on Turf" running on all cylinders.
All the Rams had to do to begin legitimate talks of a dynasty was beat the 14-point underdog New England Patriots, they of few playmakers, a washed-up coach and the league's greenest quarterback.
As tends to happen in the wacky world of sports, the unthinkable occurred. New England won on a last-second field goal, giving them a 20-17 upset and their first world championship in three tries.
Next Friday marks the 10th anniversary of that monumental upset, and what better way to celebrate than with another Super Bowl appearance for quarterback Tom Brady (the most accomplished man in the game at his craft) and coach Bill Belichick (ditto)?
With each passing year, it's becoming increasingly tough for the naysayers to detract from the duo's retrospective. They are two of the most hated men in football, but Brady and Belichick have met and conquered nearly every obstacle in their path.
Their greatness is hard to blight.
The gunslinger has set countless New England and league records in his 12-year tenure, and the hoodie-sporting coach has overseen a total of 155 victories. No other team has more than 136 in that same time period, never mind who was coaching them.
Since 2001, the Patriots have simply been the most dominant franchise in the NFL, with five total trips to the Super Bowl and three victories in the big game (both league highs during this span).
Although their first three appearances were full of fireworks, what happened in the fourth is the stuff of legends: Despite entering with an 18-0 record, the mighty Pats fell to Eli Manning and the New York Giants in the final minute of Super Bowl XLII.
This time around, the Patriots have a chance for redemption. While "The Greatest Show on Turf" never got another go-round against the surprising Patriots, Brady and Belichick will get another shot at Manning and his Giants.
Feb. 5 brings the first compelling rematch in Super Bowl history. If nothing else, a win will cement Brady and Belichick as the best of their generation and the Patriots of the new millennium as the most successful franchise in modern American sports.
Only one other quarterback (John Elway) has started five Super Bowls, and only two signal-callers (Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw) have led four championship squads. A win for Brady puts him on the same numeric level as all three of these legends, and he shows no signs of slowing down.
With his fifth Super Bowl appearance, Belichick is only one away from Don Shula's record. If the Patriots win, he will share the record of four victories with Steelers legend Chuck Noll. It's safe to say he is unrivaled by his peers in every substantial category.
But enough about Brady and Belichick's current competition. If New England's dynamic duo can avenge its only Super Bowl loss and beat the Giants on Feb. 5, Tom Brady will be the greatest quarterback of all time, and Bill Belichick will be second only to Vince Lombardi, the man after which the Super Bowl trophy is named.
Not bad for a washed-up coach and a no-name quarterback.


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Q: sql join 2 tables on earliest date after date in first table My request is similar to the one described here: sql server - join 2 tables based on earliest date in 2nd table
One difference is that I need to find the earliest available date of Outpatient Clinic visit after the Discharge date in first table and that falls within the 30 days from the Discharge Date. I would like to return Nulls where no Follow-up visit exists within the time frame.
Table 1 'Discharges' - contains columns: ClientId, DischargeFrom, Discharge Date
ClientId    DischargeFrom   DischargeDate
1   Unit A  2009/11/08
1   Unit A  2010/01/05
2   Unit A  2010/01/08
3   Unit B  2010/10/01
4   Unit A  2010/02/04
4   Unit B  2010/04/05
5   Unit A  2010/01/04

Table 2 'OutpatientVisits - contains columns: ClientId, FollowUpClinicName, FollowUpVisitDt
ClientId    FollowUpClinicName  FollowUpVisitDt
1   Outpatient_Clinic_1 2009/05/04
1   Outpatient_Clinic_1 2009/07/07
1   Outpatient_Clinic_1 2010/01/14
1   Outpatient_Clinic_1 2010/01/18
2   Outpatient_Clinic_2 2007/11/05
2   Outpatient_Clinic_3 2009/12/22
2   Outpatient_Clinic_1 2010/01/04
5   Outpatient_Clinic_2 2010/01/01
5   Outpatient_Clinic_1 2010/01/11
7   Outpatient_Clinic_3 2010/01/25

One ClientId can have many Discharges (here it would be ClientIds 1 and 4) and one ClientId can also be associated with many FollowUp Visits (ClientIds 1, 2, and 5). I would like to return the first FollowUpVisitDt on or after the Discharge Date but within 30 days of Discharge Date. I would also like to return those discharge records where no follow-up visit exists.
I have tried the following syntax but I cannot seem to return the earliest visit for record (see ClientId 1 has 2 repeating results for the same discharge date). Also ClientId 2 was discharged but not listed in the results.
SELECT DISTINCT Discharges.ClientId,
    Discharges.DischargeFrom,
    Discharges.DischargeDate,
    FollowUpVisits.FollowUpVisitDate,
    DateDiff(DAY,Discharges.DischargeDate,FollowUpVisits.FollowUpVisitDate) As DaysBetween,
    FollowUpVisits.rn
 FROM Discharges LEFT JOIN
 (
 SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION By ClientId, FollowUpClinicName ORDER BY FollowUpVisitDate ASC) as rn
    FROM [MH].[dbo].OutpatientVisits
 ) As FollowUpVisits
 ON Discharges.ClientId=FollowUpVisits.ClientId
 WHERE (FollowUpVisits.FollowUpVisitDate>=Discharges.DischargeDate and FollowUpVisitDate<=DATEADD(day,30,DischargeDate)) OR FollowUpVisits.FollowUpVisitDate Is Null

Result:
ClientId    DischargeFrom   DischargeDate   FollowUpVisitDate   DaysBetween rn
1   Unit A  2009-11-08  2009-12-27  49  3
1   Unit A  2009-11-08  2010-01-18  71  4
1   Unit A  2010-01-05  2010-01-18  13  4
3   Unit B  2010-10-01  NULL    NULL    NULL
4   Unit A  2010-02-04  NULL    NULL    NULL
4   Unit B  2010-04-05  NULL    NULL    NULL
5   Unit A  2010-01-04  2010-01-11  7   1

Your help is greatly appreciated! I am using MSSQL 2005.

A: Try using outer apply for this:
select d.*, fv.*,
       datediff(day, d.DischargeDt, ov.FollowupVisitDt) as DaysBetween
from Discharges d outer apply
     (select top 1 ov.*
      from [MH].[dbo].OutpatientVisits ov
      where ov.ClientId = d.ClientId and
            ov.FollowupVisitDt > d.DischargeDt
      order by FollowupVisitDt
     ) fv;


From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. this coming Saturday (Nov. 24) members of the MVRHA (Mahoning Valley Railroad Heritage Association) will host the 2018 Whistle Blow. The event features steam whistles from railroad engines, steam boats, factories, and more.
"We receive about 20 whistle holders mostly coming from Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and south of Ohio," said MVRHA treasurer Neil D. Frasca. "Most of them come from abandon Steam Locomotives but there are a few from Steam Freighters and a couple from factories."
Frasca said the event is good fundraiser for the MVRHA and it would not be possible without the help of a local business owner.
"This is our annual event in which Mr. Henry Marsilio, owner of Mechanical Engineers of Youngstown, designed this steam apparatus to hold up to six whistles," Frasca said. "Any whistle that is operated by steam can be attached to this steam apparatus."
The B&O Station on Market Street in Youngstown is used because it has an available steam line that is still in service. Steam heat used to be the norm for heating the large buildings in downtown Youngstown at one time.
The device that Marsilio designed fits on a trailer and can easily be connected to the service line. Once connected, whistles are attached and the lines are charged, then the sound of the steam whistles can echo across the city.
Frasca said Marsilio's work is heard a lot around town. The steam whistle which is at the YSU Football Field that is utilized in the home YSU Football Games was installed by Marsilio along with the Mechanical Engineer of YSU. This particular whistle is close to a factory steam whistle that would have announced shift changes in the mills back in the early 1900s.
One whistle that can be expected during the 2018 Whistle Blow is the one off The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Engine 301 that presently is displayed at the Western Reserve Village in the Canfield Fairgrounds. The whistle is removed and brought to the event and people can hear the sound the old engine used to put out through its large brass whistle.
For many whistle owners, this represents the one and only opportunity to see if the whistle works. A person who obtains an old whistle would be hard pressed to find a place that could offer the needed pressure to sound it.
"It takes a great amount of Steam to function the steam whistle properly," said Frasca.
As for the event, it is free and open to the public. Those who have whistles to hook up are asked for a $20 donation. For anyone who does not have a whistle, but would love to give a toot, they can do so for a $1 donation.
All funds raised go towards the MVRHA's efforts.
"Such funds are to establish the 'Jim Marter Yard' on Poland Avenue which will be a museum of 'Steel Railroad Cars' that were utilized within our past steel mills," Frasca said.
For more information on the MVRHA and the 2018 Whistle Blow, visit the web site at www.MVRHA.org.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using WebLabDeusto;

namespace Sample
{

    public class WebLabDeustoSample
    {
        public static void Main(string [] args)
        {
            WebLabDeustoClient weblab = new WebLabDeustoClient("http://localhost/weblab/");

            SessionId sessionId = weblab.Login("any", "password");

            foreach(ExperimentPermission permission in weblab.ListExperiments(sessionId))
                Console.WriteLine("I have permission to use {0} of category {1} during {2} seconds", permission.Name, permission.Category, permission.AssignedTime);

//
// Consumer data is an optional argument that can be used to ask the weblab
// server to store different information rather than the one it can try to
// get. For instance, if this .NET software is a not-traditional consumer
// which proxies other users (as running in iLabs), WebLab-Deusto will
// store the .NET library user-agent rather than the actual final user
// user-agent. If this component knew what is the actual user agent, it should
// provide it. Same applies to other fields (such as from_ip, etc.)
//
            Dictionary<string, object> consumerData = new Dictionary<string, object>();

//            consumerData["user_agent"]    = "";
//            consumerData["referer"]       = "";
//            consumerData["mobile"]        = false;
//            consumerData["facebook"]      = false;
//            consumerData["from_ip"]       = "...";

//
// Additionally, the consumerData may be used to provide scheduling arguments,
// or to provide a user identifier (that could be an anonymized hash).
//
            consumerData["external_user"]                = "an_external_user_identifier";
//            consumerData["priority"]                     = 3; // the lower, the better
//            consumerData["time_allowed"]                 = 100; // seconds
//            consumerData["initialization_in_accounting"] = false;

            Reservation reservation = weblab.ReserveExperiment(sessionId, "ud-logic", "PIC experiments", consumerData);

            Console.WriteLine(reservation);

            // Optional:
            ReservationId reservationId = reservation.ReservationId;
            reservation = weblab.GetReservationStatus(reservationId);

            Console.WriteLine(reservation);

            Console.WriteLine(weblab.CreateClient(reservation));
        }
    }
}


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Phüntshog Namgyel ist der Name folgender Personen:

* Phüntshog Namgyel (Sikkim) (1604–1670), König von Sikkim ab 1642
 Karma Phüntshog Namgyel (Desi Tsangpa Phüntshog Namgyal, tib. sDe srid gtsang pa phun tshogs rnam rgyal; † 1621)


Ever since the privatisation of bin collection, the collectors have been looking at ways to increase their profits. This is what privatisation is about: nothing to do with recycling, efficiency, or the environment; all about maximising profits. It's called capitalism.
The best way to reduce waste is to produce less waste. Tons of unnecessary packaging are produced each year, for one purpose: to make the product more attractive, so the producers can sell more to make more profit.
What if all this excessive packaging damages the environment? They can tell us we need to recycle; and to encourage our irresponsible citizens to do this, bin charges are necessary.
Our citizens want to reuse, recycle and protect our environment for future generations but are stopped by the interests of big business. There was not enough profit in glass bottles—they lasted too long—so the plastic bottle was introduced; and they want us to pay to take it away!
Big business will stop at nothing to increase profits. Waste collectors in Co. Donegal and elsewhere have been found guilty of illegal dumping on a number of occasions.
Workers' health and safety is practically non-existent, as they run after the bin lorries on busy city streets to meet their targets. And all for poverty wages.
Waste collection must be remunicipalised to remove the profit element from something as important as the environment. The polluters—the ones who produce unnecessary waste—must pay. The cost of bin collections is part of the social contract between citizen and state and should be paid for through progressive taxation.


Acquired Brain Injury Services provide a full range of community-based rehabilitation programs and services for adults who have experienced acquired brain injury. Programs and services may include: Day Service, Outreach Services, Assisted Living Services and Personal Support Services.
Services are customized to meet the goals and needs of the person with vision loss. These services, which are offered in the home, community and / or work setting focus, on assisting the individual to gain skills and knowledge to maintain their independence and confidence.
Services may include assessment, family support, communication services, speech-language pathology and programs to gain skills and knowledge to support individuals in maintaining their independence and confidence.
Therapies are specialized care that address condition-specific needs. These therapies can include addiction treatment, aphasia, mental health services, speech and language services, etc.


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Have you heard of the FABULOUS Rebekkah Ford?
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"Weavers in the Cellar," by Mel Kassel [bio] (edited by Andy Cox), appeared in Interzone issue 268, published on January 15, 2017 by TTA Press.
Pro: The plot of this story is limited to the narrator's acquiring a greater understanding of her situation. The concluding line, "When it was their time, they flew to us" is chilling.
Con: Other than Snip's death, there's no real action, and the narrator takes no part in the little there is. The story feels like an allegory of some kind, but it's not obvious what it's supposed to mean.


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Quantum fluctuations of chirality in one-dimensional spin-1/2 multiferroics: Gapless dielectric response from phasons and chiral solitons
Shunsuke Furukawa, Masahiro Sato, Yasuhiro Saiga, Shigeki Onoda
We present a quantum theory for one-dimensional spin-1/2 multiferroics, where the vector spin chirality couples with the electric polarization. Based on exact diagonalization and bosonization, it is shown that quantum fluctuations appreciably reduce the chiral ordering amplitude and the associated ferroelectric polarization. This yields nearly collinear spin correlations in short-range scales, in qualitative agreement with recent neutron scattering experiments. There appear gapless chirality excitations described by phasons and new solitons, which can be experimentally verified from the low-energy dielectric response.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.77.123712
Dielectric response
Multiferroics
Quantum spin systems
Vector spin chirality
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Furukawa, S., Sato, M., Saiga, Y., & Onoda, S. (2008). Quantum fluctuations of chirality in one-dimensional spin-1/2 multiferroics: Gapless dielectric response from phasons and chiral solitons. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 77(12), [123712]. https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.77.123712
Quantum fluctuations of chirality in one-dimensional spin-1/2 multiferroics : Gapless dielectric response from phasons and chiral solitons. / Furukawa, Shunsuke; Sato, Masahiro; Saiga, Yasuhiro; Onoda, Shigeki.
In: Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Vol. 77, No. 12, 123712, 12.2008.
Furukawa, S, Sato, M, Saiga, Y & Onoda, S 2008, 'Quantum fluctuations of chirality in one-dimensional spin-1/2 multiferroics: Gapless dielectric response from phasons and chiral solitons', Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, vol. 77, no. 12, 123712. https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.77.123712
Furukawa S, Sato M, Saiga Y, Onoda S. Quantum fluctuations of chirality in one-dimensional spin-1/2 multiferroics: Gapless dielectric response from phasons and chiral solitons. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. 2008 Dec;77(12). 123712. https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.77.123712
Furukawa, Shunsuke ; Sato, Masahiro ; Saiga, Yasuhiro ; Onoda, Shigeki. / Quantum fluctuations of chirality in one-dimensional spin-1/2 multiferroics : Gapless dielectric response from phasons and chiral solitons. In: Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. 2008 ; Vol. 77, No. 12.
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var notifier = require('node-notifier');

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    process.stdout.write(data);
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    stderr += data;
    process.stdout.write(data);
  });
  child.on('close', function (code) {
    if (code > 0) {
      console.log('Error with code ' + code + ' after running: ' + cmd);
      if (exitOnError) {
        process.exit(code);
      } else {
        notifier.notify({
          title: cmd,
          message: stdout,
          sound: true
        });
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    }
    cb();
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'Cyberpunk 2077' screenshots courtesy of CD Proj
'Cyberpunk 2077' Is a Crime Epic With Lots of Good Stories and Big Problems
Despite the cynical, transgressive edge Cyberpunk 2077 tries to pull off, it's a very straight and strait-laced game.
by Rob Zacny
Cyberpunk 2077 is a game of the past and its forgotten futures. Its setting is a pastiche that was overtaken by history and technology. It is a piece of software that is a throwback to PC gaming of the 1990s and early 2000s in every possible way, and its aesthetic and narrative sensibilities of a teenage boy's bedroom in the 1980s. Yet its lavish and utterly sincere devotion to its influences recalls what has made these dated visions so alluring and enduring. Cyberpunk is too tacky and graceless to be cool, but it's very big, and very loud, and sometimes that's all it takes to be awesome.
Cyberpunk 2077 is a new RPG from CD Projekt Red, the developers of mega-hit fantasy role-playing game The Witcher 3. The success of The Witcher 3 has tended to eclipse the fact that the entire franchise had an unlikely arc: it was based on a series of stories and novels that enjoyed merely cult-status outside Poland, and CDPR's first Witcher game was a masterpiece of what's sometimes called eurojank, where very high levels of technical competence are contrasted against obvious resource constraints and over-ambition. By the time mainstream audiences came to The Witcher 3, CDPR had gotten so good at making RPGs that it looked like any open-world epic from Bioware or Ubisoft, but with the darker sensibilities of its source material that was perfectly aligned with pop culture's growing appetite for edginess and grit.
Cyberpunk 2077 represents a return to CD Projekt's development roots: it's a faithful adaptation of a relatively obscure work—R. Talsorian's Cyberpunk tabletop RPG series, in this case—executed without restraint and with wildly varying levels of success and competence. Cyberpunk 2077 rarely crashed for me, but parts of it broke all the time. I got in the habit of saving frequently not just as a hedge against dying, but just because I never know when I might have to exit the game and reload in the hopes that the character models will be animated when I load back in, and will stop skating around each scene like table-hockey figurines.
Supposedly many of these technical issues I encountered on PC—I cannot speak to console performance—will be solved with a "day one" patch, but the build I played was in a shocking state, and when you consider that the developer admitted back in January of 2020 that they would need to start extending workers' hours, the ubiquity of bugs and glitches testify to Cyberpunk 2077's troubled and ongoing development. After five years in development, almost a decade since the project was announced, and multiple delays (including a last minute retreat from its original fall release date), Cyberpunk 2077 still arrives as a game that feels like it is being held together with duct tape.
Except of course, in software development, the duct tape is made out of people. That makes the in-game allusions to "mandatory overtime" read more as a rhetorical ploy than any kind of self-reflection or internal dissent. Cyberpunk 2077 is a game that borrows the language and concepts of radicals and leftists, and tries to tap into growing, pervasive cynicism about the ability of labor under capitalism to deliver dignity, comfort, and security. But it's also a game that even after months of overtime work still requires an epic last-minute patch to pass for a modern mainstream release.
Though "modern" might be a stretch. At first glance Cyberpunk 2077 is an almost grating homage to familiar touchstones of 80s cyberpunk and dystopian fiction, throwing together premises and aesthetics that don't even really complement each other in a game whose ugliness only seems partly intentional. In my first 30 minutes with the game, I'd taken a flying car across the California megalopolis of Night City to a VR dance club, been thrown out of my job with sinister Japanese megacorp Arasaka for meddling in Machiavellian internal politics, rescued a woman from kidnappers who were harvesting organs and cybernetic implants from their victims, and gotten a new apartment in a colossal tenement building straight out of Dredd's Megacity One, where the bathroom had the three seashells of Demolition Man next to the toilet. Where The Witcher 3 transcended or subverted familiar genre tropes, Cyberpunk 2077 seems like it wants to drown you in them.
Thankfully, the corny references of the game's opening are a feint. It turns out that for all Cyberpunk's 80s cinematic trappings, the core of its identity is noir crime fiction. At times it feels almost more like a hard-boiled fiction anthology as it pivots from Gothic murder mystery to political thriller to heist movie, with the cyberunk setting providing a twist on each of these sturdy plots.
As you might expect, you play an archetypical hard case who somehow fits all these stories. At the very outset of the game your character, V, experiences a sudden fall from power and prestige that would end in an early gutter or the grave if not for the intervention of V's closest friend in the world, Jackie. Through Jackie and his friends, V gets back on their feet and together the two characters begin rising through the mercenary ranks of Night City. In fact, they've risen just high enough to have dangerous dreams, and to have come to the attention of powerful people looking for people whose hunger outweighs their judgment, which is where the game, and the trouble, both really begin.
It's not long before Jackie and V are pulled into a classic noir plot. A femme fatale brings them a heist that positively screams "to good to be true." They're forced to do business with a powerful fixer who facilitates business in and around the underworld in exchange for an extortionate cut of the action. The entire job puts them on a collision course with the most powerful corporation in the world, stuck with an item as priceless as it is dangerous. It also pulls another treasure into the story: Keanu Reeves, playing a revolutionary figure from Night City's past who is as disappointed in his legacy as he is vain about his legend. Far from being stunt-casting, Reeves ends up being the most critical companion for V's adventures.
The only way out of all this trouble is to get even more deeply enmeshed in the underworld, getting involved in the criminal politics of the city. And here is where the similarities to The Witcher 3 are probably most pronounced: most of these quests and side-quests get ample room to breathe. The setup for the opening heist of the game involves almost an hour of table-setting as you meet the key characters, learn the context for the score, and research the target (which involves some very cool Strange Days-meets-Tacoma detective work). Even some of the second-tier sidequests tend to feel more like episodes of a good detective show than the kinds of chores and errands that round out an Ubisoft open-world game.
How V goes about this dirty work is largely up to you. Cyberpunk 2077 has much of the structure of an open-world RPG or action game but it owes much of its design to games like the Deus Ex series. You can approach almost every situation with tactics on a spectrum from direct, bloody assault to sneaky, highly technical Mission Impossible-style trickery. At these extremes, you'll likely have to create a character who is similarly extreme and specialized. Alternately, you can develop your character to a mix of skills and attributes that allow more flexible approaches. I built a character around the Cool and Intelligence attributes, and dumped perk points into abilities and bonuses around hacking and stealth (Cool in this case meaning sangfroid, useful both for stealth and assault-styles of play). I could hack anyone or anything, and as long as I was still hidden, could deal devastating surprise attacks.
The trade off with this kind of game has always been that it invites unflattering comparisons to games that specialize in any of these styles of play, and Cyberpunk 2077 is no exception. However, it distinguishes itself by being a very good jack-of-all-trades. It's not a great shooter when the bullets start to fly, but it's decent. It's not as ingenious as Hitman or Dishonored as you break into hidden areas and get the drop on oblivious guards, but stealth is still satisfying and tense when you've put yourself in a dangerous position and need to think fast.
This is true, most surprisingly, even in the small encounters that don't tie to any of the major plot threads. My most satisfying encounter was just a throwaway battle with some mercenary goons who had slaughtered some crooks on behalf of a corporation. They'd cordoned off a small park in Night City, and while I could have ignored the prompt on my map, I decided to intervene.
I posted up near one of their armored cars and switched to the "scanner" vision mode, which highlights hackable objects and lets you tag visible enemies so you can keep track of them. I spotted a security camera and hacked the feed. It was part of a network of four or five cameras that had eyes on almost the entire area, so I just started… fucking with these guys.
I had a "cyberdeck" (basically a spellbook) with four abilities. I could "reboot optics" to temporarily blind enemies, I could "memory wipe" them to cause them to forget anything that had caused them to go into an alert state. I could send a power surge to their systems and fry them. Or I could cause their weapons to glitch. Crucially, I could use just about all of these abilities through the cameras.
Setting aside the absurdity of this cyberpunk setting, where somehow people have adopted cybernetic eyes en masse for the convenience of having the zoom functionality of an old smartphone in exchange for the risk that any random script-kiddy could render them blind, using these tools in tandem can be pretty fun. I used power surges to knock out the guard robots, but then to prevent one of the human guards from noticing the exploded robot all over the ground, I had to keep turning off his optics as he walked past. Eventually, however, enough of the mercs were suspicious that they started conducting wide sweeps of the area and I got a split-second of warning when I noticed one of them rounding the corner on my position through one of my hacked security cameras. I was out of the RAM that powered my cyberattacks, but I had a sweet knife so I just charged the guy and gutted him before he could sound the alarm. However, while i was doing that, my curious guard finally saw the robot corpse and sounded the full alarm, at which point the enemy's netrunner started launching cyberattacks against me. He was sending electrical jolts all through my system, taking huge chunks of hit points and uploading viruses that made me more vulnerable to special types of weapon damage, basically leaving me extremely vulnerable to getting killed by any random shot.
My own cyberdeck highlighted the netrunner in my vision, causing him to glow orange in the middle of the surviving squad. I chucked a flashbang at him, stunning him and knocking him on his back while disrupting his attack. While he lay supine on the ground, I sprinted behind cover with my precision rifle, and thanks to one of my few Rifle perks, I did extra damage when firing from cover. Before the netrunner could get back to his feet, I'd put a volley of charged shots through his visor. After a few more minutes of suppressing fire and cyberattacks, I finally cleared the rest of the squad and stood alone over an urban warzone as the first streaks of sunlight broke over the city. This loop of recon-plan-action-reaction is a hard thing for most stealth-action games to get right, but Cyberpunk 2077 hits more often than it misses.
That's also true of the game thematically, but there are some important caveats. Cyberpunk 2077 happily embraces the tropes of 80s cyberpunk, where ethnic stereotypes were often deployed to provide an air of unearned worldly sophistication. So the Japanese characters who work for Arasaka speak the language of samurai movies: it's all honor, duty, and cherry blossoms despite the fact that Arasaka is a cynical and self-interested multinational. The game nods to some of the complications of representation: the game is at pains to indicate that the tech-savvy Voodoo Boys gang are not actually practitioners or believers in voodoo, but they are proud members of a Haitian diaspora that are building a Black nationalist movement in their quarter of Night City who adopt the symbols of voodoo as an expression of heritage. Which is all well and good but then you realize that the only Haitian dudes you've met in this whole game are Voodoo Boys and you're right back at a setting where, functionally, ethnicity is identity. And that identity frequently comes with a costume and an occupation.
More complicated is how Cyberpunk 2077 approaches sex and sex work, which says a lot about the places where its imagination is detailed and specific, versus where it is vague and uncommitted. A lot of Cyberpunk 2077's story hinges on sex workers and the types of sex work and hierarchies that exist in this world.
The woman who pulls V and Jackie into the heist job is a high-end escort, but she ascended to that position after working as a "doll", basically a person who allows cybernetics to disassociate them from their body so that they can become the manifestation of a client's desire. In a very funny but insightful turn of events, if V makes use of a doll's services, the encounter becomes an erotically charged but deeply reflective therapy session. But of course, "dolls" are seen as toys, disposable, and the course of V's investigation eventually lead to the other side of that coin: human trafficking and profound abuse. It's dark stuff, but it's fairly well-handled. Cyberpunk 2077 approaches sexual violence like a lot of detective fiction approaches it, with a fair amount of sensitivity but also an uncomfortable level of interest that flirts with being fetishisizing.
But while Cyberpunk has evidently given a lot of thought to how its setting would change the nature of sex and sex work, you rarely see that consideration matched with other parts of the setting. The politics of the world remain distant and hard to parse: private corporations run just about everything that used to be a public good, but how does that change daily life? You live in a world of widespread environmental devastation, but you don't get much sense of the hardship that would cause. You see people running around with all manner of augmentations, but why? The Deus Ex games at least made a point of understanding how cybernetics and enhanced prostheses would change the nature of labor, but Cyberpunk seems a bit iffy on its vision outside of the potential to turn people into living blow-up dolls.
What's profoundly strange is that, here in the final game, there is scarcely any portrayal or interrogation of how this society's understanding of gender and the human body have changed. The marketing-driven discussion around Cyberpunk for the last few years has often centered on CD Projekt Red's transphobic "edginess" and its misbegotten philosophizing about how body modification and augmentation come at a cost to one's humanity. This is a small mercy: the game at least never sinks to the lows promised by some of the terrible art that has been shown over the past few years (and which still remains in the game). But it also helps make Cyberpunk a game where race, gender, and transhumanism are reduced to background set decoration in otherwise familiar stories.
Which makes it a frequently disappointing kind of punk and sci-fi. Despite the cynical, transgressive edge Cyberpunk 2077 tries to pull off, it's a very straight and strait-laced game. V is very much a knight errant, more often than not trying to rescue a damsel or slay a dragon.
This also highlights what is most frustrating about the game's approach: it portrays a world where enormous, global problems have reduced the meaning and value of the individual to almost nothing. However, in order to let V and their friends confront that world, Cyberpunk 2077 then often reduces those problems down to individual conflicts, with personal stakes and approaches. The unholy tech conglomerate's story is told through a lens of King Lear-like court politics. Helping sex workers reclaim their bodies and labor from abusive bosses requires dealing with two feuding former friends (and somehow not the gang of militant sex workers whose origins are literally an uprising against sexual violence with shades of Stonewall). The route to helping the clan of Nomads who are caught between the tenant serfdom being offered by the corporations and the growing precarity runs through resolving the conflict between the clan's patriarch and its headstrong heroine.
If this undercuts the game's cyberpunk and noir trappings, it's simultaneously one of the game's saving graces: from beginning to end, the game pushes V toward making connections with new people and expanding their community. It's very hard to make V anything less than stand-up on their adventures. The expanding aura of decency and compassion that follows in V's wake makes Cyberpunk an unexpectedly charming game in spite of its chauvinist streaks and retro-kitsch. In the face of the thoroughly amok-machinery of techno-corporatism that has destroyed society and ruthlessly crushes any challenges and dissent that it might face, Cyberpunk 2077 wants to believe in a hero, and the promise of a neon sunset.
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The Knesset's Tuesday session lasted about two hours. Three bills were discussed and advanced after passing their first readings. The Knesset seemed to be back to normal after an interesting beginning to the summer session. The bills advanced deal with a wide range of issues from animal protection to sports coaches to dollar mortgage rates.
Ten MKs spoke during the one minute speech segment that opened the day.
Four MKs asked queries during a question hour with Energy and Water Minister Landau.
Deputy Speaker Edery (Kadima) gave a warm speech welcoming the parliament delegation from New Zealand.
Education, Culture and Sport Committee Chairman Miller (Y.B.) explained the amendment would regulate the occupation of sports coaches to meet the accepted European standards. He announced that European coaches who come to work in Israel leave quickly after they learn that they don't enjoy the same rights as they do in Europe.
MK Khenin (Hadash) praised the bill and expressed his support. He said that all occupations should merit such rights and regulations.
MK Eichler (U.T.J.) opted to discuss the sport of violence against his sector of the ultra-orthodox Jews. He gave praise to Education Minister Sa'ar (Likud) for adding "Pirkei Avot" to the secular public school system. He went on to discuss violence in sports and in reality shows.
The bill passed its first reading 7-0 and was sent to the Sport Committee.
MK Khenin expressed his support for MK Cabel (Labor) who is running for the head of the Histadrut. He explained the amendment would increase the powers of inspection to ensure proper enforcement of the bill. He said the current bill is not really enforced and many animals are tortured and killed every day.
MK Eichler said that it is sad that when it comes to animals this type of bill receives wall to wall support but when it comes to protecting people, the authority is never extended. He said the environmental and animal rights religion is forcing others to follow their rules but the Jewish religion is taboo. He said that he does not like this bill or the movement behind it. He said the financial resources being spent on this law should go to protecting humans.
The bill passed its first reading 7-0 and was sent to the Education Committee.
Finance Committee Chairman Shama (Likud) explained the amendment would set a minimum rate on mortgages so that if someone takes one out when it is 4.80 shekels to the dollar and it improves to 3.20 the customer won't get the bad end of the deal.
MK Eichler praised the bill that will help the little guy and put the greedy big banks in their place. He read a Rabbi's book that said that Jews will only be allowed to live in Israel if they follow the Torah. He slammed those who incite against the ultra-orthodox, charging they are using the same words the Germans used against the Jews before the Holocaust.
MK Ben Ari (N.U.) noted that the previous day marks 30 years since the disengagement from Yamit and its sister settlements. He recalled living there and being evacuated from there. He asked if 30 years later it was worth it. He said that peace is a mask for surrender and retreat. He went on to criticize the deal struck with the hunger striking terrorists. He warned that we haven't learned our lesson from Yamit and we are at real risk today of retreating into the sea.
This was the Knesset Jeremy English translation protocol of the Knesset's May 15, 2012, session.
At any rate, it appears that the "rabbi's book" that MK Eichler was quoting is in fact the Bible, specifically the shema and the rebuke. He earlier quoted MK Ben Ari quoting Nachmanidies (Ramban), saying that the land of Israel stayed desolate until its owners would return, as in fact happened. He also said (on his own) that he knew of no guarantee that there would be no further exile, heaven forbid.


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Dan grew up on a farm on the Frederick County/Carroll County border, working his way through Mt. St. Mary's College and the University of Maryland as a lifeguard, restaurant server, dairy farm and Ag worker, and high school government teacher. At the Mount he was a NCAA I Decathlete, being privileged to train under famed Olympic Coach Jim Deegan. After building his first home with his dad and family in 1999, he moved with his wife and children to Virginia in 2003 to attend law school. Studying under national security experts former Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Vern Clark, former U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft and Supreme Court litigator Jay Alan Seculo, he gained valuable training and experience pursuing his lifelong interest to serve this great country and to contribute in guiding the law, which desire to serve heightened after the 9/11/01 terror attacks.
Dan, his wife Valerie and their family live in Frederick County, Maryland where he practices law.
Dan Cox is a proven, passionate, effective fighter for limited government, jobs & small business freedom, economic growth, and the Constitution.
Dan has worked for over 20 years fighting for the rights of individuals, families, small businesses, schools and farms, first as an advocate speaking for Maryland families before the Legislature, and later as an elected Town Councilman and Council President. In 2016 Dan was the Republican Nominee for the House of Representatives in the United States Congress, District 8 of Maryland, which stretches from the Pennsylvania border with Frederick County all the way to Takoma Park outside of Washington D.C. Dan has served as an attorney working for the last decade defending the inalienable rights of his clients, and is the son of Rev. Gary and Sally Cox.
Dan and his bride Valerie celebrated 21 years of marriage this past June and have eight children, one daughter in college and a son who is serving in the United States Army (Airborne) whose beautiful wife recently birthed their first grandchild.
Dan is a Political Science honors society alumnus at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Md., completing his Bachelor's degree in Government from the University of Maryland, University College, where he studied National Security and International Political Terrorism at Ft. Meade, Md. He received his Juris Doctor from Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Va., With Distinction, where he was a third year law student licensed by the Supreme Court of Virginia, litigating in court for the indigent.
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1985-1986: Meese, Assistant Choose Bork and Scalia for High Court
According to former Reagan Justice Department official Terry Eastland, writing in his 1992 book Energy in the Executive, the process of selecting Antonin Scalia as a Supreme Court Justice begins now, well before anyone knows there will be a vacancy for him. Attorney General Edwin Meese asks his assistant attorney general, William Bradford Reynolds, to advise him in preparing a nominee, "just in case." Reynolds assembles a team of Justice Department officials, who examine about twenty possible choices, mostly federal judges, focusing primarily on conservative judicial philosophy. Two individuals stand out: Robert Bork and Scalia. Eastland writes, "Neither was ranked over the other; both were regarded as the best available, most well-qualified exponents of Reagan's judicial philosophy." Both are seen as powerful and influential legal figures. When Chief Justice Warren Burger announces his decision to retire from the bench, Reynolds advises Meese to choose Justice William Rehnquist to replace Burger as Chief Justice (see September 26, 1986), and to choose either Bork or Scalia to replace Rehnquist. Reagan makes the final decision: Scalia. [Dean, 2007, pp. 133]
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June 2003: Supreme Court Unlikely to Reopen 'Reynolds' Case, Experts Believe
Constitutional lawyers and experts believe that the Supreme Court will not accept the petition to reopen the landmark US v Reynolds case (see February 26, 2003 and May 30, 2003). Kate Martin of the Center for National Security Studies says that the petition is essentially frivolous, and says of the claim that Reynolds was decided on the basis of a fraudulent government presentation: "That the facts of the original case are not true is irrelevant to the state secrets privilege (see March 9, 1953). The idea that it undercuts the privilege is ridiculous. Often in cases, after they're decided, the facts are proven not to be true. That's the nature of the legal system. Sometimes people lie. Sometimes there's new information." Law professor Jonathan Turley is more sympathetic to the petition, but agrees that the Supreme Court will probably not hear it: "For the Supreme Court to address the fact clearly that it had been lied to would open difficult issues.… The Court used the facts of Reynolds to say the government could be trusted.… Reynolds was based on trust, on willful blinders. There's much danger in going back now, in recognizing that the government routinely lies. They're not going to face that. They won't reopen this. I think Reynolds is like discovering an unfaithful wife after fifty years of marriage. You're hurt by the betrayal, but you can't turn back half a century. You preserve the marriage for the children's sake" (see December 1980, September 1982, November 1984, January 1990, June 13, 1991, and September 16, 1992). [Siegel, 2008, pp. 266-267]
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June 14, 2005: Former Bush Administration Official Morgan Reynolds Expresses Doubts about the Official 9/11 Story
Morgan Reynolds. [Source: Public Domain]Morgan Reynolds, chief economist for the Department of Labor during President George W. Bush's first term, comments that the official story about the collapse of the World Trade Center is "bogus" and that it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building 7. Reynolds, who also served as director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas and is now professor emeritus at Texas A&M University, says, "If demolition destroyed three steel skyscrapers at the World Trade Center on 9/11, then the case for an 'inside job' and a government attack on America would be compelling." Reynolds comments: "It is hard to exaggerate the importance of a scientific debate over the cause of the collapse of the Twin Towers and Building 7. If the official wisdom on the collapses is wrong, as I believe it is, then policy based on such erroneous engineering analysis is not likely to be correct either. The government's collapse theory is highly vulnerable on its own terms. Only professional demolition appears to account for the full range of facts associated with the collapse of the three buildings." [Washington Times, 6/14/2005]
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Despite numerous visits by candidates, many in crucial swing state struggle to make up their minds in the 11th hour.
Iowa, United States - As the US presidential campaign heads into its final stretch, neither the Democrat nor Republican parties show any signs of letting up.
Across the Midwestern state of Iowa, TV and mail ads are everywhere. Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and their vice presidential candidates are making their case in person at rallies - sometimes in the same city, within hours of one another.
In unprecedented numbers, celebrities - mostly Clinton surrogates - are canvassing the battleground state, and volunteers are remaining persistent on the phones, urging people to get out and vote.
At events in cities such as Cedar Rapids and Des Moines, committed supporters show up and cheer - imagining what a scary place the United States will be if the opposing candidate wins.
But for many others, the decision of whom to for vote has proved a difficult one.
After more than a year and a half of political campaigning, 7 percent of Iowans still do not know for whom they want to cast a vote, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll.
This is despite the role of Iowans in hosting the nation's first caucus, which has given residents more chances to interact with the candidates than anyone else in the US.
"Here in Iowa, we get to see every candidate three or four different times. If you want, you can go ask the next leader of the free world a question or two," said Pat Rynard, a former Democratic campaign staffer and founder of the political news site Iowa Starting Line. "Iowans are very, very well informed."
In that sense, many "undecided" voters are more apt to refer to themselves differently. Entrepreneur Neil Jirele, a resident of Iowa City, said he has struggled with his decision, not because he does not know enough, but because he sees both of the main candidates as "extreme".
A better term to describe himself, he said, would be "unenthused".
Although Iowa has voted Democrat in five out of the past six presidential elections, an average of polls now shows Trump ahead at 46.3 percent to Clinton's 44.3.
That means undecided voters have the potential to swing the state red or blue - if they turn up to vote.
"These people are probably considering whether or not they're even going to vote," Rynard said. "They're frustrated with the candidates."
While Clinton has been able to sway some suburban, conservative-leaning women to her side, she has not yet convinced many former Democratic Bernie Sanders supporters and young people.
Rynard noted how Sanders' messages of anti-establishment and critique of Clinton resonated well in Iowa during the caucus earlier this year.
"They're not happy with Hillary. They don't think she's progressive. So they're just sitting out," Rynard said.
For Bryan Branscomb, an IT specialist, this is certainly the case. He said he is still "disheartened" over the way the Democratic caucuses and primaries played out. If he could vote for Sanders, he would.
"Honestly, I'm a little lost," Branscomb said. "I feel both would be a detriment to the country."
Rather than turning to Jill Stein, who ideologically more closely aligns with Sanders' platform, the Iowa City resident said he is leaning towards Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, partly because he is polling much higher than Stein.
"I want my vote to mean something," Branscomb said. "I've been studying up on Gary Johnson's stance, and I'm closer to him than anybody."
While Trump has been able to make unprecedented inroads with working-class men, his rhetoric about women, immigrants and people of colour and disabilities has pushed many other traditional Republicans away.
Steven Hartzler, a college student who usually votes Republican, said he was dissatisfied with his party's candidate, but could not support Clinton.
"Both the Democratic and Republican parties in the primaries had better options," Hartzler said, adding that he would have voted for any other Democratic candidate against Trump and vice versa.
Still, Hartzler plans to vote - as do Branscomb and Jirele.
The presidential candidates are not the only ones on the ballot, and Hartzler wants to ensure the right local and state representatives are elected. If he does end up voting for Trump, he says it will be a "sacrifice" in service of ensuring Republican ideals are better supported across the board.
Both Republican and Democrat staffers at the local level recognise the necessity of securing undecided and independent voters. At this late stage, however, the focus has shifted to ensuring supporters show up to the polls.
They hope rallies featuring key speakers might tempt any hold-outs.
As for undecided voters themselves, many seem doubtful much can happen before November 8 to decidedly swing their vote. After decades of being in the public eye, the impressions of both Clinton and Trump - good and bad - are pretty cemented.
But Rick Kadlec, an inventory planner who remained committed for almost a year to not voting for either Clinton or Trump, swung in one direction only recently. Upset by what he saw as the "depth of corruption" surrounding the Clintons, he decided to take a stand and attened a Trump rally in Cedar Rapids.
"I'm not a Trump guy. I'm an anti-Mrs Clinton guy," Kadlec said.
"I'm not saying the bar has been lowered. I'm saying it's been knocked to the ground and stepped on."
Equally unenthusiastic about the choice he has to make on Election Day, Jirele, the entrepreneur, says: "I hope Jesus's name comes up" on the ballot.