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February Book Haul (Non Thrifted Books)
February 28, 2015 February 22, 2016 Maria Casacalenda (Big City Bookworm)
It's the last day of the month which means it's time to reveal the books that I have purchased during the month of February! This list DOES NOT include books I've picked up at second hand thrift stores and it also DOES NOT include books I purchased on my kobo. Click here for a list of books that I got at thrift stores in the month of February.
So, I didn't pick up a whole lot this month as I did most of my book shopping at thrift stores, but I did pick up some great titles!
February Book Haul!
The Troop by Nick Cutter
The Duff by Kody Keplinger
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins
The Troop (Goodreads synopsis): Boy Scouts live by the motto "Be Prepared." However, nothing can prepare this group of young boys and their scoutmaster for what they encounter on a small, deserted island, as they settle down for a weekend of campfires, merit badges, and survival lessons. Everything changes when a haggard stranger in tattered clothing appears out of nowhere and collapses on the campers' doorstep. Before the night is through, this stranger will end up infecting one of the troop's own with a bioengineered horror that's straight out of their worst nightmares. Now stranded on the island with no communication to the outside world, the troop learns to battle much more than the elements, as they are pitted against something nature never intended…and eventually each other.
The Duff (Goodreads synopsis): Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn't think she's the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. She's also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her "the Duff," she throws her Coke in his face. But things aren't so great at home right now, and Bianca is desperate for a distraction. She ends up kissing Wesley. Worse, she likes it. Eager for escape, Bianca throws herself into a closeted enemies-with-benefits relationship with him. Until it all goes horribly awry. It turns out Wesley isn't such a bad listener, and his life is pretty screwed up, too. Suddenly Bianca realizes with absolute horror that she's falling for the guy she thought she hated more than anyone.
The 5th Wave (Goodreads synopsis): After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother—or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.
The Girl On The Train (Goodreads synopsis): A debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives. Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good? A compulsively readable, emotionally immersive, Hitchcockian thriller that draws comparisons to Gone Girl, The Silent Wife, or Before I Go to Sleep, this is an electrifying debut embraced by readers across markets and categories.
Golden Son (Goodreads synopisis): With shades of The Hunger Games, Ender's Game, and Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown's genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work to bring down Society from within. A life-or-death tale of vengeance with an unforgettable hero at its heart, Golden Son guarantees Pierce Brown's continuing status as one of fiction's most exciting new voices.
I have only read one of these books so far, but that will be revealed in my monthly wrap up blog post coming soon! Also, you can look forward to my March TBR goals!
Once again, thanks for reading!
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Finnish phone startup Jolla, which is on a mission to offer more choice in the smartphone space by building its own smartphone hardware and with a MeeGo-based open source smartphone OS called Sailfish, is banding together with Yandex, Russia's homegrown Google, to power the app store on its forthcoming smartphone.
Jolla's Sailfish OS has been designed to be compatible with Android, as well as supporting its own native set of apps — via the Sailfish SDK — but being as it's running its own OS rather than Google's platform it was never going to have access to Google's Play Store. In any case, if you're trying to disrupt Google's dominance of smartphones, the last thing you'd want to do is be another node for Mountain View to pull in clicks.
Jolla said today it has selected the Yandex.Store, an alternative Android app store that currently contains around 85,000 apps, in 17 categories, for pre-loading on its smartphone. Usual app suspects on offer in the store include Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Skype, Viber and WeChat, according to Yandex, along with various games, productivity apps and music apps.
With Google's Play store passing one million apps this July, there's no doubting its volume dominance. But 85,000 apps isn't a bad amount of apps for a new platform. Jolla will also be hoping to have some of its own Sailfish apps to add to that pool when it finally gets its phone to market.
Jolla's handset has most recently been touted as coming in time for Chinese New Year — so Q1 2014 — with the startup running a pre-sales campaign that saw up to 50,000 units reserved by future owners, who were required to put down a partial payment to reserve a phone.


A seven-year-old girl whose Twitter account offered a glimpse into the violence and loss in besieged east Aleppo has been evacuated from the city following worldwide concern about her safety.
Fears for Bana Alabed's safety spiked when her account, run by her mother, Fatemah, was temporarily shut down earlier this month and it was unclear if the family were caught in warfare or captured by forces loyal the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.
Hours later, as a stalled evacuation resumed, a Turkish NGO said Bana had made it safely out. "This morning @AlabedBana was also rescued from Aleppo with her family. We warmly welcomed them," the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) wrote on its Twitter account on Monday, sharing an IHH aid worker's selfie picture with the girl.
Tarakji Ahmad, president of the Syrian American Medical Society, also posted a picture of Bana with an aid worker.
Bana and Fatemah appeared in a video interview posted online on Monday, in which the mother said she was glad to have reached safety but regretted being forced out of her home city. "Me and Bana want to tell all the world how much kids and all people in east Aleppo, how much they are suffering from bombs and everything – because there is no life there," Fatemah said.
"So we created our Twitter to tell all the world what is happening there. We are happy because our voice reached all the world. We are free.
Bana has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers and has become a symbol of the tragedy unfolding in Syria. Her account has chronicled the realities of life in a once-teeming metropolis, by posting pictures of the ongoing destruction, including those of her own rubble-littered street.
Hours before the account was shut down, Bana and Fatemeh tweeted a farewell message saying forces loyal to Assad were bearing down on their neighbourhood. "We are sure the army is capturing us now. We will see each other another day dear world," read Sunday night's tweet.
The mother and daughter, who were interviewed last month by the Guardian in a video call over Skype while planes flew overhead and machine gunfire raged, had apparently received death threats in the days preceding the account's closure. "When those bombs strike, our hearts shake before the buildings do," Fatemah told the Guardian at the time.
At least 15,000 children are among the more than 300,000 people who have been killed in Syria's five-year war. Thousands of others have been displaced in the ongoing fighting between rebels and forces loyal to the Syrian government. Residents of east Aleppo have spoken of relentless bombings and shelling, cuts in basic services such as water and electricity, and dwindling supplies of food and medicines.
Evacuations restarted on Monday after delays over the weekend. A source with knowledge of the evacuation deal told the Guardian that roughly 1,000 civilians in 25 buses had been evacuated overnight into the western Aleppo countryside, and another 20 are still stuck at the government crossing in the district of Ramouseh.
Bana's last tweet with her mother before the evacuation appealed to the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, to put the ceasefire back on track. "Dear @MevlutCavusoglu & @RT—Erdogan please please please make this ceasefire work & get us out now. We are so tired," it said.
The Islamic charity IHH is playing a large role in the transport of aid for Aleppo as well as the transfer of evacuated Syrians into camps in Idlib province near the Turkish border. An IHH spokesman told AFP that Bana was "likely to be transferred to the camps in Idlib province".


Anglicans and Lutherans have prepared 42 reflections that mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
Taking stock of how much kindness you've received is a reminder of God's blessings.
Archbishop's Advent reflections launch audio ministry for the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.


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Q: How to call a method with arguement in a test class private void insertRawData(LocationSOHMapSummary locSohMapObj) {

        List<Dummy_Object__c> accToTerrList = new List<Dummy_Object__c>();

        for(LocationSOHMapDetail detObj : locSohMapObj.LocSohDetails) {
            if(detObj.Sales_Organization_Code == cs_SalesOrgCode) {
                Dummy_Object__c dummyObj = new Dummy_Object__c();

                dummyObj.Account_Code__c = detObj.Lowest_Location_Hierarchy_Level_Code;
                dummyObj.Account_Desc__c = detObj.Lowest_Location_Hierarchy_Level_Description;
                dummyObj.SOH_Code__c = detObj.Lowest_SOH_Level_Code;
                dummyObj.SOH_Desc__c = detObj.Lowest_SOH_Level_Description;

                accToTerrList.add(dummyObj);
            }
        }

        insert accToTerrList;
        System.debug('$$$Inserted Successfully ' + accToTerrList.size());
    }

A: You need to decorate the method with @TestVisible. Like so.
@TestVisible
private void insertRawData(LocationSOHMapSummary locSohMapObj) {
    ...
}

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Electrical engineering (sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering) is a semi-professional and professional engineering discipline that deals with the study and/or application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical power supply. The field now covers a range of sub-studies including those that deal with power, electronics, control systems, signal processing and telecommunications.
An electrical engineer focuses on designing, maintaining and improving products that are powered by or produce electricity. Sometimes, an electrical engineer will dedicate his or her time to a single electrical product or type of product, such as motors, generators, wiring or communications systems. He or she often will design, assemble and test new devices. An electrical engineer might work on a single project for more than a year before it is completed and a new project can begin.
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Part II - 12th (PCM)/10th + ITI pass in relevant trade.


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As widely anticipated scrum half Rory Lawson will be leaving the Edinburgh Gunners at the end of this season. He will join English Premiership side Gloucester.
Lawson, who is currently in Australia with the Scotland 7s team preparing for the Commonwealth Games on 16 and 17 March, will be under the experienced eye of Bryan Redpath, a coach at the west country club.
Lawson, who represented Scotland U21 seven times in 2001 and 2002, has also represented Scotland U19 and Scottish Schools Schools. This season he has acted as Edinburgh captain on two occasions.
Edinburgh assistant coach Phil Smith said: "We're very sorry to see Rory go but competition for the scrum half position at Edinburgh is tough so we're aware that by moving he may gain some more invaluable experience, especially working with Bryan Redpath."
Whilst Rory's departure will undoubtedly weaken the Gunners, for whom he has been a more than creditable understudy for Scotland first-choice Mike Blair, the opportunity of more game time and the chance to work with former Scotland scrum-half, captain and living legend Brian Redpath will surely be good for Rory and therefore for Scotland. Since Andy Gomorsall departed at the end of last season, Gloucester have used both former England 'A' player Peter Richards and youngster Haydn Thomas, with neither apparently established as first choice, so Rory will have a great opportunity.
All at the Supporters' Club wish Rory well for his future, and we'd like to take this opportunity to thank him for all the wonderful games he's played for Edinburgh.
Good Luck Rory!
RORY LAWSON (Edinburgh Gunners and Scottish Institute of Sport). Born 12.03.81 in Dunfermline. Height 5ft 9in. Weight 13st.
Rory Gordon MacGregor Lawson made his international debut for Scotland 7s at the IRB New Zealand Sevens in Wellington in February. He was the orchestrator in Scotland's injury time try, setting up Ross Rennie to charge in, and thus defeating Canada 10-5 in the final of the bowl. Instead of heading on to the USA with the squad for the Los Angeles tournament, he flew home to help Edinburgh prepare for their crunch Celtic League clash with Ulster at Murrayfield. In June 2005 he was selected to play for Great Britain 7s at the World Games in Duisburg, Germany, Germany. He is a former pupil of Dollar Academy Academy. He played for Edinburgh club Heriot's before signing as a professional scrum-half with Edinburgh Rugby in 2003. Before joining Edinburgh, Rory helped Heriot's lift the 2003 BT Cup beating Watsonians 25-13 in the final at Murrayfield. His father Alan won 15 caps for Scotland between 1972 and 1980. He is the grandson of the world renowned rugby commentator Bill McLaren.
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Every inkjet printer, whether it uses thermal or piezoelectric technology, has cartridges that hold water-based ink, printheads and nozzles that apply the ink to the paper. In piezoelectric technology, which is an Epson patent, a pocket full of piezo-ceramic material (crystals) resides near the back of each printhead. When a job is sent to the printer, a voltage gives the aforementioned material a charge and causes the crystals to expand and vibrate, ultimately forcing droplets of ink out of the nozzles and onto the paper.
This system is very similar to the far more common thermal inkjet technology, which uses heat rather than vibration to push the ink out. Because no heat is used in the piezoelectric inkjet printers, the types of ink that can be used is more extensive than thermal inkjet printers. Unfortunately, because this technology is not as widely used, the ink prices tend to be higher than those of standard inkjet cartridges.
Both types of inkjet printers can generate professional-quality images and documents, but the type of ink that can be used in some Epson photo printers, known as Archival Ink, has proven to be better than the standard ink when long-term durability is needed. Archival ink can resist water and light damage for up to 100 years and maintain vivid colors rather than fading over time. The protective resin coat makes this type of ink more durable, and its impressive color gamut keeps photos true to the original image.
So, if you are someone who requires long-lasting photo printing, piezoelectric inkjet models like the Epson Stylus Photo 700 might be worth considering. For most users, however, the lower prices and lower running costs of typical thermal inkjet models may be a better choice.


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Q: How to make psycopg2 emit no quotes? I want to create a table from Pytnon:
import psycopg2  as pg
from psycopg2 import sql

conn = pg.connect("dbname=test user=test")
table_name = "testDB"
column_name = "mykey"
column_type = "bigint"
cu = conn.cursor()
cu.execute(sql.SQL("CREATE TABLE {t} ({c} {y})").format(
    t=sql.Identifier(table_name),
    c=sql.Identifier(column_name),
    y=sql.Literal(column_type)))

Alas, this emits CREATE TABLE "testDB" ("mykey" 'bigint') which fails with a

psycopg2.ProgrammingError: syntax error at or near "'bigint'"

Of course, I can do something like
cu.execute(sql.SQL("CREATE TABLE {t} ({c} %s)" % (column_name)).format(
    t=sql.Identifier(table_name),
    c=sql.Identifier(column_name)))

but I suspect there is a more elegant (and secure!) solution.
PS. See also How to make psycopg2 emit nested quotes?

A: There is an example in the documentation how to build a query text with a placeholder. Use psycopg2.extensions.AsIs(object) for column_type:
query = sql.SQL("CREATE TABLE {t} ({c} %s)").format(
    t=sql.Identifier(table_name),
    c=sql.Identifier(column_name)).as_string(cu)

cu.execute(query, [AsIs(column_type)])


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Please note: As of January 20, 2017, information in some news releases may be out of date or not reflect current policies.
Ashley Furniture faces $1.76M in fines after OSHA finds
more than 1,000 worker injuries at Wisconsin site in past 36 months
Largest furniture retailer in the U.S. exposes employees to amputations, other hazards
ARCADIA, Wis. — In a three-and-a-half year period, 4,500 employees at Ashley Furniture Industries Inc., in Arcadia, experienced more than 1,000 work-related injuries. One worker became another terrible statistic when he lost three fingers in July 2014 while operating a dangerous woodworking machine without required safety mechanisms in place. Of the injuries recorded, more than 100 were caused by similar machinery.
After the incident, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration conducted an inspection of the facility. Investigators identified 12 willful, 12 repeated and 14 serious safety violations at Ashley Furniture's Arcadia location, carrying a total of $1,766,000 in penalties. The company has also been placed in the Severe Violator Enforcement Program for failure to address these safety hazards. OSHA previously cited the Arcadia facility in 2014 after an employee suffered a partial finger amputation.
"Ashley Furniture has created a culture that values production and profit over worker safety, and employees are paying the price," said U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez. "Safety and profits are not an 'either, or' proposition. Successful companies across this nation have both."
Dr. David Michaels, the assistant secretary of labor of occupational safety and health, said, "Ashley Furniture intentionally and willfully disregarded OSHA standards and its own corporate safety manuals to encourage workers to increase productivity and meet deadlines. The company apparently blamed the victims for their own injuries, but there is clear evidence that injuries were caused by the unsafe conditions created by the company. OSHA is committed to making sure that the total disregard Ashley Furniture has shown to safety stops here and now."
Forbes lists Ashley Furniture Industries, a furniture manufacturer with worldwide distribution, as the 117th largest private company in America. With annual revenue of $3.85 billion as of October 2014, the company employs about 20,000 workers at 30 locations nationally. The Arcadia plant is also the largest employer in Wisconsin's rural Trempealeau County, with a population of about 30,000.
The 12 willful and 12 repeated violations were cited after OSHA found that the company did not take the necessary steps to protect its workers from being injured by moving machine parts. It did not prevent machines from unintentionally starting when workers were performing tooling and blade changes on woodworking machinery, and also failed to provide adequate safety mechanisms to prevent contact with those moving parts. These types of violations are among the most frequently cited by OSHA and often result in death or permanent disability.
A willful violation is one committed with intentional, knowing or voluntary disregard for the law's requirement, or with plain indifference to employee safety and health. OSHA issues repeated violations if an employer previously was cited for the same or a similar violation of any standard, regulation, rule or order at any other facility in federal enforcement states within the last five years.
OSHA also cited Ashley Furniture Industries for 14 serious violations, including not training workers on safety procedures and hazards present when servicing machinery. The company also lacked adequate drenching facilities for workers exposed to corrosive materials; it committed three electrical safety violations, and it did not equip some of its machines with readily-accessible emergency stop buttons.
An OSHA violation is serious if death or serious physical harm can result from a hazard an employer knew or should have known exists.
View the current citations at http://www.osha.gov/ooc/citations/Ashley_Furniture_Industries_Inc_987512_01-29-15.pdf
Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc., has had 33 federal OSHA inspections and 23 state plan inspections since 1982. In its 33 previous inspections, OSHA issued citations for 96 serious, four repeat and 38 other-than-serious violations. Four inspections were initiated as a result of finger amputations, with Arcadia's 2014 incident being the most recent. Ashley Furniture's workers' compensation carrier is Twin City Fire Insurance Company, part of the Hartford Insurance Group.
The company has 15 business days from receipt of its citations and penalties to comply, request an informal conference with OSHA's area director, or contest the findings before the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.
To ask questions, obtain compliance assistance, file a complaint, or report workplace hospitalizations, fatalities or situations posing imminent danger to workers, the public should call OSHA's toll-free hotline at 800-321-OSHA (6742) or the agency's Eau Claire Area Office at 715-832-9019.
Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, employers are responsible for providing safe and healthful workplaces for their employees. OSHA's role is to ensure these conditions for America's working men and women by setting and enforcing standards, and providing training, education and assistance. For more information, visit http://www.osha.gov.
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Figure 1.5. The difference of power fluid families.
Viscosity varies widely with temperature. However, temperature variation has an opposite effect on the viscosities of liquids and gases. The difference is due to their fundamentally different mechanism creating viscosity characteristics. In gases, molecules are sparse and cohesion is negligible, while in the liquids, the molecules are more compact and cohesion is more dominate. Thus, in gases, the exchange of momentum between layers brought as a result of molecular movement normal to the general direction of flow, and it resists the flow. This molecular activity is known to increase with temperature, thus, the viscosity of gases will increase with temperature. This reasoning is a result of the considerations of the kinetic theory. This theory indicates that gas viscosities vary directly with the square root of temperature. In liquids, the momentum exchange due to molecular movement is small compared to the cohesive forces between the molecules. Thus, the viscosity is primarily dependent on the magnitude of these cohesive forces. Since these forces decrease rapidly with increases of temperature, liquid viscosities decrease as temperature increases.
Figure 1.6. Nitrogen(left) and Argon(right) viscosity as a function of the temperature and pressure after Lemmon and Jacobsen.
Figure 1.6a demonstrates that viscosity increases slightly with pressure, but this variation is negligible for most engineering problems. Well above the critical point, both phases are only a function of the temperature. On the liquid side below the critical point, the pressure has minor effect on the viscosity. It must be stress that the viscosity in the dome is meaningless. There is no such a thing of viscosity at 30% liquid. It simply depends on the structure of the flow as will be discussed in the chapter on multi phase flow. The lines in the above diagrams are only to show constant pressure lines. Oils have the greatest increase of viscosity with pressure which is a good thing for many engineering purposes.