I survived, after working ALL FIVE days this week. Boy, life is hard sometimes. Now it's time for the easy part...the weekend! I have quite a stack of papers I need to grade, but I'm going to ignore those for the moment (well lets face it, I probably won't look at them until Sunday) and have a little fun. I'm off to a get-together with the girls tonight, then tomorrow I'm cheering on my K-State wildcats. I hope to get in a little shopping as well, before the 30 for 30 starts on Tuesday and I'm no longer allowed.
Speaking of the 30 for 30, are you in? Have you picked your 30 items yet? Being the procrastinator that I am, I have not. Don't worry, I work well under pressure.
I was just thinking earlier that I need to wear flowers more and seeing you totally reaffirms this idea. Also, love the belted blazer and yay for anything leopard!!
Love the pop of hot pink! I'm doing the 30 for 30 just for fun, I think I'll post once a week or so.
Have fun at your girls night out!
You loom georgous today! Love the flower.
I often do the flower pin on blazer look, but never with a belt. Great idea!
My 30 for 30 is all chosen and (mostly) photographed. I'll be posting my pics soon!! Looking forward to seeing your choices!
Oh I love the pretty flower on your blazer! I haven't picked my 30 for 30s either. I thought I was the only one!


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Q: findstr with regex command doesnt work in C# and Batch but works fine in CMD I'm trying to use findstr command from C# with a regex parameter but it doesn´t work, despite the same command works great in cmd.
CMD commad:
findstr /r /c:".*Gomez.*" "C:\Users\USER_NAME\Desktop\*"

Gomez can be replaced by another word or a number, without spaces or any other special character.
Example of a .txt file content where I want to search:
Name: Albert Surname: Einstein Phone: XXXX Address: XXXX
Name: John Surname: Cobra Phone: XXXX Address: XXXX
Name: Jennifer Surname: Gomez Phone: XXXX Address: XXXX
Name: Tim Surname: Cornwell Phone: XXXX Address: XXXX

I want to search by surname, so my findstr command in CMD will be: findstr /r /c:".*Gomez.*" "C:\Users\USER_NAME\FOLDER\*.txt"
If I try to implement the regex ".*Gomez.*" in C# or Batch it doesn't work
C# code:
If I use a string as a parameter for findstr it works, but at the moment I use any kind of regex expression (have read the docs and know it only supports regex partially) it either doesn´t do anything or hangs VS.
string regexCommand = "/C findstr .*Gomez.* \"C:\\Users\\USER_NAME\\Desktop\\*\"";
string stringCommand = "/C findstr \"Gomez\" \"C:\\Users\\USER_NAME\\Desktop\\*\"";

Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
p.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = true;
p.StartInfo.ErrorDialog = true;
p.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe";
p.StartInfo.Arguments = regexCommand;

p.Start();
string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
Console.WriteLine(output);
p.WaitForExit();
p.Close();

Have also tried the same approach using Batch with the same result, using a string works but with regex it doesn´t do anything. Is that a bug in the findstr tool?
Batch script:
@echo off
set regexCommand=findstr .*Gomez.* "C:\Users\USER_NAME\Desktop\*"
set stringCommand=findstr "Gomez" "C:\Users\USER_NAME\Desktop\*"

%regexCommand%
%stringCommand%

for /f "delims=" %%i in ('%regexCommand%') do (set output=%%i)
echo %output%

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Over the last five years, an average of 46 single family homes sold in the 3rd quarter. In 3Q 2017, a total of 44 homes sold, so we are right on track.
On average, about 14 homes sell each month in Kirkwood. Currently there are only 30 homes for sale, so inventory levels are VERY LOW. The absorption rate is about 2 months and a typical "balanced market" has about 6 months of inventory for sale at any given time.
** Be sure to scroll down to the bottom of this post to sell all the homes that sold in Kirkwood this quarter.
The average sales price this quarter was $414,638. That's $48,000 HIGHER (13.0%) from the same time last year. Not too shabby, Kirkwoodians!
Definitely! Kirkwood homes sold at 100.1% of the asking price, on average -- yes, you read that correctly, the average home in Kirkwood is selling for the FULL ASKING PRICE! Last quarter, 57% sold at or over the asking price and there were several homes that sold for 5 to 10 percent over the listing price.
TIP ** If you are thinking of buying a home in Kirkwood, please be prepared to offer full price (or more). Ask your real estate agent to run recent comparable sales so you can submit an attractive offer to the home seller.
The time it takes to sell a home in Kirkwood is only 19 days on average, but 52% of the listings sold in less than ONE week.
The median number of days on the market was only NINE and this is a better reflection of the current Kirkwood real estate market. Many of the new construction homes are listed before they are complete and end up taking longer to sell, which pushed the average out to 19 days. The typical Kirkwood home should sell in about 4 to 8 days if it is priced correctly and shows well.
The market under $350,000 is disappearing.
For those that are buying their first or second home, finding a Kirkwood home for sale under $350K is a serious challenge. Only 26% of the Kirkwood home sales were under $350,000 -- compared to 3-4 years ago when this price was the norm.
Price your home correctly or it will sit on the market.
Kirkwood home buyers do not hesitate to offer $5,000 or even $40,000 over the asking price in order the get the home. If your home isn't "showroom ready" and you don't have the time and/or money to make it that way, make sure you are priced well below the beauty down the street with all the latest bells and whistles. Also, when homes are selling so quickly (and yours isn't), buyers who see your home may think that there is something wrong with it if it's been on the market for a month. In the past, a home that was listed for a month was commonplace and now it can be a red flag for many savvy buyers.
Buyers need to be prepared to offer full price... and submit their offer quickly.
With 52% of the homes selling in less than one week and bidding wars every where you look, it is important that you submit a STRONG OFFER to the seller. Ask your real estate agent to find out what is most important to the homeowner and if you are willing and able to accommodate, include it in your offer. A few examples include allowing the homeowner to stay in the home for several days after closing, agreeing to purchase the home "as is" and decreasing (or removing) the time frame for home inspections and financing contingencies. It's not always about offering the highest price.
Have questions about this market report? Call us anytime at 404-205-8800.
Please note that the Kirkwood home sales data (above) was extracted from the Atlanta FMLS on October 19, 2017 by Kerry Lucasse with the Nest Atlanta team at eXp Realty. If you would like to get more details on the recently sold homes in Kirkwood (including photos), please call / text Kerry at 404-432-1844 and request a complimentary copy of the report.


Woke up at a fairly normal time this morning, had my breakfast, took a shower (my last shower), packed the last few things I haven't packed (e.g. soap, etc), and folded up the futon bed and the beddings. Actually I bought some hot coffee in can from a vending machine and sandwich from the convenience store. First time I tried either one of those, and one or both of them caused me a little stomach problem. I didn't have any appetite come lunch time.
Sachi arrived to pick me up from the apartment just before 11am, and then we brought all my stuff to the school, where I left my luggage for the evening.
Anyway, at a little past 1pm, Masuyama-san and Pillai-san and I went to this Yamada electronics store. Pillai was supposed to buy a Sony Clie, but unfortunately, it was only in Japanese. He bought a Japanese-English dictionary instead. Unfortunately, it is also for Japanese, but he could use it nonetheless.
At around 4pm, I ate my lunch, and I regained my appetite after taking two bottles of this sports drink, Pocari Sweat, which has the similar effects as Gatorade.
I learned only today that I could actually send some books and documents home via EMS (a kind of fast postal service), and the school will take care of the expense. So I was practically re-packing after lunch. The books and documents were around 5 kilos only. After weighing, I found out that I could actually send other things along with my books, and that the school will take care of the expense upto a 20kg weight. So re-packing I did again, until around 6pm, when we were supposed to go already to the Chinese restaurant near the school.
Anyway, so we went to the Chinese restaurant, and Yoshida-san and the master's students were there already. We had Chinese food of course, and beer and sake. Yoshida-san took care of the bill! Thanks again Yoshida-san! Pictures are available at http://ronjie.com/photos. We left the restaurant at around 8:30. Quite early? I was surprised also. But it was just the right time as I still had to go to downtown Atsugi to check-in at the Atsugi Urban Hotel for the evening, plus I had to catch the last bus. I actually got the 3rd or 2nd to the last bus.
Quite a sad day today. Got to the school before 9am. I got a seat on the school-bound bus that stops directly in front of the hotel, and I think it was because "rush hour" at the school is around 9:30am, which I think is the start time of the first class on weekdays, and I was very early.
Prof Yukio Tamura was kind enough to offer a farewell luncheon for me. We ate at this western (not exactly American) style restaurant near the school. They had pretty nice food there. We also drank two kinds of beer, one is a regular draft kind of beer, and the other is non-alcoholic... Prof Tamura presented to me my Certificate of Completion just before eating, and then we had a group picture taken outside the restaurant.
Did I mention that this Japan trip is so far the most memorable experience for me?
Anyway, going down the Namboku subway line (which was around five stories below), a Nihonjin was so kind enough to help me carry my suitcase down two stories.
I arrived at the Oji-kamiya station at around 5:30pm, and I met with Danny's wife and son, Silahis and Dalan at one of the playgrounds near their apartment building.
It's a rainy day today, and I practically stayed at Danny's apartment the whole day. Except that I went to the nearby Tajima grocery store for my lunch, and to the Shopping Street leading to the Higashi-Jujo Station to look for something for one of my bosses. It was so nakakatamad! Hehe. I think I was too tired as I was quite busy from Friday until yesterday, Tuesday. I had dinner with Danny and ate some Filipino food: fried dried squid (Sarap!).
Today is my last day in Japan, and this is my last BLOG entry here, unless I will do some editing or revision.
Anyway, my flight is at 6:20pm, and I practically woke up about 12 hours before that. The sun was shining then but it wasn't like so for the whole day. Danny and I left his apartment at a little past 8am, I think, and he accompanied me through two stations. From then on, I took a train, transferred, and took another train going straight to the airport. Wow, eto talaga ang astig. Mas nakatipid pati ako sa pamasahe.
Arriving at Narita, I checked in immediately (it was around 11am pa lang). Anyway, Narita airport (Terminal 2) is quite big, they have quite so many flights, and there are a lot of things that could be done here, like typing my e-mails, reading some journal articles, shopping, eating at McDonald's. I did all those.
So, it is around 2 hours before my flight, and I will say goodbye here now.
I thank God for the opportunity, Dr Pacheco for recommending me, Prof Tamura and the COE-TPU program for accepting and accomodating me, and to Japan and all my friends there (whether I know their name or not), this has been absolutely the greatest, most memorable experience of my life.
Not a very exciting day. Lecture in the morning. "Work" in the afternoon. Stayed at the university until almost 11pm!
We went today to Tsukuba to visit two research institutes: the BRI (for buildings) and the PWRI (for Public Works).
We met at the Hon-Atsugi station at around 9:30, we got to Tsukuba at around 12:45! We bought lunch at Tokyo station, and ate it (cold) on the bus from Tokyo to Tsukuba.
Tsukuba is quite a nice city, it's north of Tokyo, and farther north from Chiba prefecture (where Narita airport is). Lots of trees, large roads... It is I think a relatively young city, and I think being a location of (government) research institutes is its main industry. Anyway, if you like the "city life," you won't like it here because it's far from Tokyo, but anyway, I like suburban places and this is one of those kinds of cities, much like Atsugi.
Our first meeting started at 13:30 (1:30pm--did I mention already that Japanese are more used to the 24-hour format?), and we saw this really big wind tunnel at PWRI - 40 meters wide! There was a scale model of a 5-kilometer long bridge inside. Very interesting.
We next went to the BRI and they had quite a lot of interesting facilities there. Our meeting ended at almost 5pm or so. We then took a taxi back to the bus center. The taxi cost around 2,020 Yen by the way. Maybe it was around 4 to 5 kilometers lang... Anyway, so we got on a bus back to Tokyo.
Actually, today was also the first time I experienced Tokyo traffic on the way back to Tokyo. It was rush hour din kasi.
Today... We had our last lecture under Prof Tamura at 9:30am. I WOKE UP AT 9:05! Damn! Was about 5 or 10 minutes late. I really felt the exhaustion from yesterday's trip.
Anyway, I had lunch at the cafeteria - maybe my last lunch there. I had my favorite ulam there, deep fried breaded salmon with fries. Hehehe. I got my usual vegetable side dish, and "L" size rice.
4:00pm came and it was presentation time! My presentation actually started at around 4:15. I ended maybe around 5:30, at around 5:45 after the questions. Hehe. Quite interesting, I liked my presentation, except that I noticed that I was not looking too much at the audience because I had to point to the screen using the laser pointer. I was able to respond naman to the questions asked by the top two professors (Prof Tamura, Prof Matsui) in the group. Earlier during my stay here, I had thought that my presentation would only take 30 minutes. Two weeks ago, and then again a week ago, I practiced my presentation and it took me 1 hour, and a little over an hour each! I had too much to talk about. Some of the guys said it was very interesting anyway. So, that's quite a good thing.
Anyway, last Wednesday, I was also chatting with a friend--si Elaine actually, my touring companion around Tokyo. She was one of two people who asked me if I want to go back now to the Philippines. Anyway, I was listening to some kinda senti music then (kinda lang), and mej na-senti nga ako. (For the curious souls, I was listening then to the background music when Trinity was dying in the Matrix Revolutions movie.) While that song was playing, I was telling Elaine that this stay in Japan is so far the most memorable experience for me in life. And she remembered our first meeting at Ueno, when we planned to meet at 9am but we met at almost 12 noon na! She was apologizing again, but anyway, I told her that that was a very essential part of this stay in Japan being my most memorable experience. I told her that if I were someone else, I might have gone to the park and cried by myself. But anyway, I took it positively, and well, that and other experiences here have taught me somethings about myself. Of course, Elaine did not know that the background music was a senti kind of song, and hehe, that might have affected my reply to her. Hehe.
Shocks, right now, I'm listening to senti songs again. Hirap din mag-maintain ng blog. Time consuming. Anyway, eto, it's 1:00am again, and guess what is playing: "I'll never get over you getting over me." Damn. I should stop this here, right now. So, until next then!
Woke up early today, just before 6:30am, to go to Yokohama. We toured Taisei Corporation's research center (Taisei is one of the biggest construction companies in Japan).
Afterwards, we went to visit the Landmark Tower which is the tallest building in Japan (296 meters high, 70 stories + 3 penthouse floors, + 3 or more basement floors). So, are you thinking.. Ang low-tech naman ng Japan, sa US may 110+ story-buildings sila, sa China or sa ibang bansa, may mas matataas pa na mga buildings.... Actually, they have a Law here that prohibits the construction of buildings above 300 meters, for aviation purposes! Similarly, Japan doesn't try to produce big airplanes to compete with Boeing, Airbus, etc. But actually, they are involved in their designs!
Anyway, we met one of the structural designers of the Landmark Tower who showed us the 170-ton "vibration absorbers" at the 70th floor. Then we also went to Shin-Yokohama Prince Hotel (~40 stories) where there are water tanks at its top floor that also "absorb" vibration due to wind. If you are an engineer, you might be more familiar with the terms "tuned mass damper" or "tuned liquid damper" or "tuned active damper" or "active mass damper" or "hybrid mass damper."
I played basketball and exercised to the point that I got tired. I am right-handed by the way.
After basketball, I went home by bicycle (in ~15 minutes) carrying a not so light bag -- over my right shoulder.
When I got home, I did quite an extensive cleaning at the apartment! I would feel some pain, but I disregarded it.
After resting for a while, I took a shower.
Then I went back to school by bicycle (in 15 minutes) again carrying a rather lighter bag over my right shoulder. After about an hour in school, that's when I started feeling the pain.
Anyway, I guess it was basically over-exercise.
Today I took two Alaxans, one after breakfast and another after lunch.
I did some grocery shopping pala today, and bought ingredients for Sinigang. Can't find any kangkong though. I did find sitaw, okra, labanos, and pechay, as well as buto-buto pork meat. Of course, I have Knorr Sabaw ng Sinigang (Tamarind Soup Base) Mix from my mother, and Pillai-san had onions, tomatoes, Jalapeño pepper, and salt (he doesn't have patis of course, nor soy sauce). I also bought some fish for frying.
Kawana-san also said that the fish tasted like Japanese food. The fish is of course "made in Japan," but I did tell him that, this is one thing that Filipinos and Japan have in common: fish!
Giang-san said that the sinigang tastes like Indian food (e.g. Indian food that Pillai-san prepares).
The ever-so-kind Pillai-san says he likes the sinigang a lot.
Now here's the twist, we all ate Sinigang with CHOPSTICKS!
This Saturday morning, I played basketball, by myself lang though. Afterwards, I had lunch at the cafeteria with Pillai-san, and then went home for a shower. Actually, there's a lecture today but it is in Japanese so I chose not to attend. Anyway, upon coming back here to the school, I have this feeling in my right lung. Same thing happened after the first time I played basketball here... Is it the hangin here? Maybe because of the shower after exercise? I think I over-exercised. Sarap mag-basketball!
Oh, I just remembered. Two nights ago, I tried to make a cup of Sinigang soup. I literally said to the Sinigang soup, "I miss you!" Hehehe. Tomorrow, I plan to cook Sinigang and share with the PhD guys here.
Then, we went around Kyoto! A beautiful place it is. I noticed there aren't any buildings more than 10 stories tall... But it's still a big city with lots of tourists nonetheless. The Kyoto Station by the way is very modern, amidst some objections. Check out the photos. We walked a total of about 8 kilometers around Kyoto today! Oh how tiring, and how sore our feet were! But it was good food for the soul, I should say.
It's a good thing we were with Kawana-san, who basically is our impromptu tour guide, and history and language teacher. It was SO hot -- it was 29 degrees in Kyoto I think that day. In the evening, we had ramen at a restaurant just inside the Hon-Atsugi Basu Senta (Bus Center). Then I went to TPU to borrow Pillai-san-no jitensha (Mr. Pillai's bicycle).


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Meet the Expats
Meet Roger van Tongeren, General Manager of Marketing & Communications of Starbucks Indonesia.
by Angela Jelita August 25, 2014 August 11, 2017
Roger van Tongeren
Please tell us a bit about your background. Where are you originally from? How long have you been living and working in Indonesia?
I am originally from Holland, born and raised there and have three siblings (three sisters). Two of them live in Holland and the other lives in America, so we are all a bit spread out over the globe. I left Holland about 10 years ago, with my first stint in Indonesia for about four years, after which I moved for the same company to Vietnam. About three years ago I returned to Indonesia. So now for seven-eight years I have lived in Indonesia. I did my MBA at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands, which seems now a long time ago.
What brought you to Jakarta in the first place?
Driven by career ambitions, I was employed by Royal FrieslandCampina, now the biggest dairy cooperatives in Europe. As part of a Management Potential Program, they offered me a position in Indonesia at PT Frisian Flag. The company's belief is that as a future senior manager, you need to be taken out of your comfort zone, meaning you have to prove yourself working in a different environment with other people and cultures that you are not familiar with, since it will develop your managerial skills, as you need to be adaptable to a certain extent, whilst still remaining effective as a manager.
How did you land the position of General Manager of Marketing & Communications at Starbucks Indonesia, which you've held for the last two years, and what does this position require of you?
The opportunity presented itself quite 'out of the blue'. I was immediately interested, as I had been, and still am a huge admirer of the Starbucks brand. Funnily enough, before joining Starbucks, I already read Onward, a book written by its founder Howard Schultz and both my wife and I were collectors of the Starbucks City mugs. Any time we or our friends/family were travelling, we tried to get a different Starbucks City mug. I consider Starbucks a genuine iconic brand, where probably many marketers would like to be involved somehow.
The role at Starbucks Coffee Indonesia is a very diverse one, ranging from food, PR, Digital/Social Media, CRM/Loyalty, Advertising and Promotions, all the way up to CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). In order to make all the plans happen, part of my role is to work together with my team to try and get the best out of each of them. That mission is accomplished, if all can 'claim' their own successes for their respective area of responsibility. Other than that, what I like is to bring in 'game changers', meaning doing fundamental things for the business/organization that, in a positive way, will change the way we do business on a long-term basis. Our Starbucks Card/Loyalty Program is one of the examples.
Roger and some of his team at Starbucks
Starbucks originated in Seattle, Washington, in 1971 and has grown to become a worldwide institution. Could you please share the company's history here in Indonesia?
Starbucks Coffee Indonesia opened its first store 12 years ago in Plaza Indonesia. To be precise it was 17th of May 2002. Starbucks Coffee Indonesia is operated under PT. Sari Coffee Indonesia, which is part of MAP, one of the biggest premium lifestyle retailers in Indonesia.
How many outlets are there currently in Indonesia? Do you have further plans to expand?
At the moment, we have 184 stores across Indonesia in 13 cities, employing around 2,400 people. And yes, we'll keep on expanding.
I love that Starbucks offers soy milk to its customers. Tell us about your customer service values and what the customer means to you.
Our famous line is 'one person, one cup and one neighbourhood at a time'. What it means to the customer is that we would like to 'connect' with our customers, through a genuine welcoming smile from our baristas, up to remembering your name and your favourite beverage until preparing your beverage however you like it. Many loyal customers have their 'own' preferred beverage, either an extra pump of syrup, an extra espresso shot, or basically anyway you like it, you can have it. Personalise!
With expansion comes responsibility. How does Starbucks Indonesia remain sustainable? Do you recycle all the paper cups used? What CSR initiatives are you involved in?
One of the things I admired already before joining Starbucks is not only their focus on the people side, but also their care and concern for both the environment and communities in which the Starbucks stores operate. As for the environmental part, we successfully reduced the number of paper cups used, by encouraging our customers to use a tumbler. To promote that, every 22nd of the month, everybody who visits one of our stores with their tumbler, get his/her favourite beverage for half the price. People love it.
Then there's a genuine belief about giving back to the community. As part of that commitment, all Starbucks store partners are involved in diverse community activities, which can vary from very simple things like cleaning the beach at Bali, to bigger initiatives like Planet Water. For each purchased bottle of Starbucks water, part of the proceeds will be donated to the Planet Water Foundation. In that way, we can build and install water tanks for areas that normally don't have access to clean and hygienic water and our Starbucks partners are actually involved in the installation of the water tanks.
Are you a coffee drinker yourself?
Absolutely, I have at least three cups a day. I crave it, and it already starts at breakfast. I am more into the espresso-based beverages. The beverage I order the most is a short Americano, with only half the water, since I like strong coffee. I also enjoy a single or double espresso.
Roger and his wife, Susan Bachtiar, and son Tristan
Are there any new drinks coming to the Starbucks menu?
We just launched a new ice-blended beverage called Tiramisu Frappuccino. And basically seven times per year we introduce new beverages, not only for the coffee lovers, but also for the ones who are more into cold/sweet blended beverages as well.
You're married to a celebrity. How do you manage 'being in the spotlight'?
Well, it's not hard at all. It doesn't happen that often, but it is sometimes funny to see some surprised faces of people recognizing her, when we are in public. If people want to have a picture, I probably only wind up being the one taking the picture!
And my final question, how do you live a balanced lifestyle in Jakarta? Do you have a favourite weekend escape from busy city life?
My family is my balance in life. I always look forward to coming home to be with my family. My little boy Tristan, who's growing up very fast, always manages to put a big smile on my face. Although a handful, I wouldn't want to miss a second of seeing him growing up together with my wife.
I know it's such a standard answer, but I never get bored of Bali. We both love Bali, so whenever there's a chance to go there, we'll go there. It's heaven on earth!
Thank you, Roger. To get in touch with Roger directly, please email: [email protected]
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Implementation of Erlang/OTP node in Go

Supported features:

 * Publish listen port via EPMD
 * Handle incoming connection from other node using Erlang Distribution Protocol
 * Spawn Erlang-like processes
 * Register and unregister processes with simple atom
 * Send messages to registered (using atom) or not registered (using Pid) processes at Go-node or remote Erlang-node
 * Create own process with `GenServer` behaviour (like `gen_server` in Erlang/OTP)

Not supported (but should be):

 * Initiate connection to other node
 * Supervisors tree
 * Create own behaviours
 * RPC callbacks
 * Atom cache references to increase throughput

## Examples ##

See `examples/` to see example of go-node and `GenServer` process

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Fonctionnalités et avantages
Racism in the Name of Hockey
by c.papadopoulos on Octobre 1, 2014 - 9:33pm
The article "P.K. Subban targeted by racist tweets after Habs win" by CBC News posted on May 2nd, 2014 explains what happened on twitter on the night the Montreal Canadians won in double-overtime against their number one and strongest rivals, the Boston Bruins, in the second round of the playoffs. That night, the game winning goal was scored by Habs defenseman, number 76, P.K. Subban. Shortly after the game, a horde of angry Bruins fans crowded Twitter with vulgar and racist comments directed at Subban. Nearly 17,000 tweets were posted regarding him, which included the N-word in almost all of them, however most of the tweets were not as negative as others. Many people such as Boston's mayor Marty Walsh, Boston Bruins president Cam Neely, head coach Claude Julien, as well as several Bruins players expressed their disappointments and apologies for this incident. Both teams are well-known for their long-term rivalry that includes bad-talking each other and each other's fans.
As we already know and have discussed in class, Black people spent many years suffering from the superiority of the white people. They suffered low self-esteem, their inner and outer beauties were never noticed, and they never had the opportunity to "outshine" the white because their skills were never really acknowledged either. I believe that it was easy for the angered Bruins fans to hate on and sabotage Subban because they found an easy thing to target and use; his "race". If we think about it, it would have been a lot harder for these people to find ways to verbally hurt Subban if he was white, for example, because then they wouldn't be able to use the N-word, which popped up a lot that night. I can't help but think that most, if not all of these fans were white themselves, and they probably just couldn't stand the thought of a talented black player on the opposing team outshining their beloved team. That's what it sounded like at least. We shouldn't forget that not all Boston Bruins are white either; right-winger Jarome Iginla is bi-racial, but you don't see us bad-mouthing him, just saying. I really liked this article because it provided good examples of what the fans actually said, word for word, as well as what other people like Marty Walsh, Cam Neely, Claude Julien and Bruins players had to say about the incident. However, no information was given on how Subban himself responded to these tweets or how he felt at that time, which could have been useful. In all, this was a perfect example on how racism is still present in today's society, and how even little things like losing a hockey game can bring it out.
CBC News. (2014, May 02). P.K. Subban targeted by racist tweets after Habs win. Retrieved from http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/p-k-subban-targeted-by-racist-twe...
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Race and Racism 545 Fall 2014 (A. Nouvet)


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Q: I receive (OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor) when attempting to open and append a file in python I am creating a simple flask website with a login and register page. The login page works fine with login information stored in a csv file. On the register page, after validating username and password, my code fails when attempting to append the csv file with the username and password the user inputs. I get OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor during the open csv for append line. My code isn't elegant, but it mostly works for me now and I don't have time to make major changes.
method to verify input data
I edited the previous post to show my minimal reproducible code.

@app.route('/register',methods=["GET","POST"])
def register():
if request.method == "POST":
    import csv
    import os
    username = request.form['username']
    pwd = request.form['password']
    with open('username_pw.csv', 'a') as read:
        reader = csv.writer(read,delimiter=",")
        reader.writerow([username,pwd])
    return render_template('login.html',msg=msg)
return render_template('register.html')

Traceback (I reposted the new traceback which looks the same to me)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\robms\Documents\School\Python\Lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 2528, in wsgi_app
    response = self.full_dispatch_request()
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\robms\Documents\School\Python\Lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1825, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\robms\Documents\School\Python\Lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1823, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.dispatch_request()
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\robms\Documents\School\Python\Lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1799, in dispatch_request
    return self.ensure_sync(self.view_functions[rule.endpoint])(**view_args)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\robms\Documents\School\Python\Programs\flask\wk_7_lab\wk_7_lab.py", line 77, in register
    with open('username_pw.csv', 'a') as read:
OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
127.0.0.1 - - [03/Mar/2023 17:22:04] "POST /register HTTP/1.1" 500 -

I've tried closing my read file and using pandas, but I keep getting errors. I've also searched scoured much of google.
For those in search of an answer to this problem, I couldn't figure out how to do it. I switched to a txt file and used the code below for a simple username/password storage. If time permitted, I definitely would have pursued a DB type login system like SQLite.
To append the file
file = open("user_pw.txt","a")
file.write(username+" "+pwd+"\n")

To read the file
for line in open("user_pw.txt","r").readlines():
    login_info = line.split()
    if username == login_info[0] and pwd == login_info[1]:
        return True
return False


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Communications Ministry kick starts training of 5000 girls in ICT programme
Local, News April 14, 2022 Kennedy Mornah
The Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation has kick-started an initiative to train 5000 girls from five regions in Information Communication and Technology (ICT).
The regions are Bono, Bono East, Ahafo, Savannah and Northern Region.
The first batch of 1000 girls from various districts in the Bono East Region have already started the training in basic ICT skills and coding.
"We have a very ambitious goal and there is so much work to be done in giving our young girls the right skills. For this reason, I am working closely with the Ministry of Education to ensure that we mainstream practical ICT education in the curriculum of all schools", Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful stated.
A statement from the Ministry, signed its Head of Public Relations, Naa Korkoi Essah, said the training in coding will give the girls the opportunity to explore the world of technology, through the creation of websites, computer games, interactive arts, mobile apps, and animation stories, using various programming languages.
It said the training also forms part of strategies to both ensure that Ghana achieves the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5, and Ghana's ICT4AD Policy on bridging the gender gap.
After their training, the girls will participate in a competition which also introduces them to scratch and basic structures of programming.
This competition, the statement said, will test the knowledge and ICT skills acquired during the training period, including website design, development of games, coding and simple ICT applications.
Girls in ICT
The Girls in ICT programme, was introduced in 2012 by the International Telecommunications Union to empower and encourage girls and young women to acquire digital skills and consider studies and careers in the growing field of information and communication technologies.
Ghana has adopted this initiative and observed it on a regional basis. It has already been celebrated in Greater Accra, Ashanti, Northern, Volta, Western, Western North, North East, Central and Oti regions.
The programme involves the Training of Trainers who in turn train the girls.
Besides, there is a Mentorship session that provides a platform for women working in the ICT field, to share their personal life stories and professional experiences, with the young girls to guides them in their future career paths.
Prizes such as laptops and modems are given to girls who excel in the competition and, ICT labs are also established in schools where the girls excell.
Source: graphic.com.gh
ICT, Ministry of Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful
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Keely Love and Hip Hop Baby Daddy: Tokyo Vanity Reveals His Identity!
The tea is hot! Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta stars Keely Hill and Toyko Vanity became enemies really quick after Keely slammed Tokyo's friend Sierra for allegedly abandoning her estranged husband Shooter after his son's death — and it didn't help that Keely also claimed that Tokyo's boyfriend Tobias was sleeping with Tokyo's friend Karlie Redd before they started dating. But it didn't take long for Tokyo to find a way to get back at Keely, and she dug up some dirt about the identity of Keely's baby daddy.
It tuns out that Tobias' manager Bleu DaVinci is Keely's baby daddy, and Tobias spilled the tea to Tokyo during a dinner date on this week's episode of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta. "He's like family to both of us," Tokyo explained about Bleu in her confessional. "He's always talking about his awful baby mama and how she holds his kids hostage, but he just never mentioned who his baby mama was."
Until now, at least! Tokyo admitted that she was shook after getting the tea, but it at least clears up a rumor that Shooter could have possibly been Keely's baby daddy. Earlier this season, one of Sierra's employees at her beauty salon The Glam Shop revealed that Shooter had a two-year-old child whom he concieved while he was with Sierra, and it was speculated that the baby's mother was Keely.
But while Shooter admitted that he did cheat on Sierra during the eight years that they were together, he said he had suspicions that he wasn't the father because the baby didn't look like him. And besides, it seems like Keely and Shooter are just friends and don't have a romantic relationship — she even set Shooter up with her friend Dej Gabrielle to help him get over Sierra. Fans will just have watch to see how and when Keely's enemy Tokyo will reveal this new information!


You'll Win, Just Don't Give Up!
KayK's Corner …Your Inspirational Corner!
Have you ever found yourself in the position of working hard in every area of your life? When everything seems to be pulling at you, draining you or just hard? Even though you love what you do, you are ready for the next level and the pull seems to be leaving you empty, tired and weary? But at the same time, you know in your heart and soul that your breakthrough is just around the corner!
What do you do in your "mean time"? I've been contemplating this question some time now. As I aspire to my next great and wealthy place in my career, my relationships and my finances, I find myself frustrated at the effort and seemingly little results in response to such effort. What do you do with the frustration of not yet seeing the work pay off, when you are weary and uninspired?
The Disney movie character Dora from "Finding Nemo" said it best, "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming…!" perseverance is the key! According to the dictionary, perseverance is the steadfastness in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. When we push through fatigue, we win! When we see our obstacles and face them instead of retreat, we win! When we have challenges, how we face them defines the person we are and the person we will become!
There are times in all of our lives when we come up against trials, tribulations and turmoil. Sometimes, it all happens at once. It seems too much and overwhelming. It is in these times that the strength of who we are and who we are becoming rises up to carry us to our destiny. We are stronger than we give ourselves credit. We are built to persevere, built to endure, to survive, and to conquer… To BE… MORE THAN CONQUERORS.
When you are feeling weary, tired and don't know what to do… STOP! don't move, breathe and reconnect with your original purpose, commitment and reason why. Reevaluate what the dream outcome will be. Measure your progress thus far. Weigh the sacrifices you have already made. Then, ask your self the big question… What will I lose if I don't continue? Then one more question, what do I stand to gain if I do continue?
Perseverance, endurance, stamina… all qualities of true Champions. Winners find their way to victory! It does not mean that tribulations will not come, or that obstacles will not interfere with our best-laid plans. However, what we do when these trials come, defines not only who we are, but also… what we will become. Remember, "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming…" You are almost there! Don't be weary in well doing; you will win if you just don't give up!


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Will Steelers welcome Le'Veon Bell back with open arms?
Fantasy Football Trade Targets, Candidates in Week 5 Buy, Sell, or Hold
Taking a look at the fantasy football trade market heading into Week 5.
Jennifer Eakins
With four weeks of the NFL season in the books, we've reached what's generally the most active time on the trade market in the fantasy football world. The haves and have-nots are established in all leagues, loosening up trade discussions. Every fantasy owner knows his or her teams strengths and weaknesses, which also creates opportunities in the trade market. In short, this is the ideal time to improve your team through a trade.
Looking at multiple factors for a trade target will serve you best, including schedule, potential floor and ceiling, and health of surrounding teammates. You'll see references to 4for4's schedule-adjusted fantasy points allowed (aFPA) metric in this column, which we rely on heavily to determine weekly matchup strength. As the season progresses and more data is available, aFPA becomes even more reliable, thanks to its rolling 10-week data.
Quincy Enunwa, WR, Jets
New York has lost three straight contests after a convincing Week 1 victory over the Lions. Enunwa is still the Jets' leading option in the passing game, and ranks 16th among all receivers in targets through four games. Six of his looks have come in the red zone, giving him some attractive touchdown upside. While Enunwa has a difficult matchup in Week 5 against Denver's 11th-ranked defense in wide receiver aFPA, his successive four tilts include teams that allow an average aFPA of 40.25 PPR points to the position weekly. As an added bonus the Jets battle the Texans and Packers, teams ranked 28th and 23rd, respectively, in receiver aFPA in Weeks 15 and 16. The 26-year-old's volume and upside, along with his team's recent slump, land him in the buy column this week.
Jameis Winston, QB, Buccaneers
Yes, Tampa Bay has a bye this week, but trading for Winston could pay off in the long term. This Buccaneers team is significantly lopsided, ranking 32nd in total defense. The run game is entirely ineffective, ranking 31st in rushing first downs, but the passing game has been electric, minus last week's fiasco in Chicago. From a fantasy perspective, this is a recipe for success for the quarterback, and Winston will be back under center as the starter in Week 6. It's unlikely his current owner will place too high a value on him, especially in one-quarterback leagues where starter-worthy performance is easier to find than ever. Now is the perfect time to trade for Winston and stash him until his favorable matchup with Atlanta in Week 6.
Jimmy Graham, TE, Packers
Graham is one of the few tight ends who fits in the middle of the TE1 class, clearly not elite but worth starting every week. He's averaging 9.7 PPR points per game, which ranks 13th among tight ends, but has bounced back since scoring just 2.8 points in Week 1. Graham has been on the field for 235 of the Packers' 282 snaps, and has the sixth-most targets at the position this season. With Randall Cobb nursing a hamstring injury and Geronimo Allison (concussion) questionable for Week 5, we could see even more of Graham in the slot or out wide when the Packers visit the Lions on Sunday. In such a down year for his position, Graham is like a port in a storm. Dealing for him while he's possibly perceived as underperforming could have long-term benefits on your fantasy roster.
Week 5 Fantasy Football Streaming Options
Devonta Freeman, RB, Falcons
Freeman is set to return from a knee injury that has cost him three games, as soon as this week. Tevin Coleman has been serviceable as the lead back in his stead, totaling 249 yards from scrimmage and one touchdown on 54 touches. Still, the Falcons will welcome back Freeman with open arms, and while the knee problems date back to last season, he should get right back atop the backfield rotation in Atlanta. Given his three-game absence, and legitimate concerns about his health, he could come at a discount relative to his draft-day price. There are some risks here, and injury optimism has burned even the wisest fantasy owners, but this is a gamble worth taking, no matter where you are in your league's standings.
James White, RB, Patriots
White has been a monster this season, ranking sixth among running backs in both standard and PPR leagues. He split the backfield relatively evenly with Sony Michel in Week 4, playing 49% of the snaps, catching eight passes for 68 yards and a touchdown, and carrying the ball eight times for 44 yards, all with the Patriots nursing a comfortable lead. The concern, though, is that White isn't likely to handle many goal-line touches with Sony Michel emerging last week, and Julian Edelman's return could cut into his receiving volume. This is shaping up to be the best season of White's career, and he has legitimate value as an RB2 going forward. The fact that he's genuinely good will only make him more attractive on trade market, though, and he may have already reached his high point of the season.
Corey Davis, WR, Titans
Davis had himself a day against the Eagles in Week 4, grabbing nine of 15 targets for 161 yards and a touchdown. He doubled his previous high watermark in fantasy scoring of the season, and Marcus Mariota looked healthy for the first time since suffering his elbow/hand injury in Week 1. Yet, Mariota is still dealing with the effects of the hit he took to his arm in Week 1, and that could compromise Davis' fantasy value going forward. The fantasy community has loved Davis since last season, and his breakout could be your ticket to a more reliable player with nearly equal upside. It doesn't help that the Titans play the Jaguars, Giants and Redskins in Weeks 14 through 16, all teams with defenses ranked in the top-10 in wide receiver aFPA.
Week 5 Fantasy Football Training Room: Checking in on NFL's Biggest Injuries
Mitchell Trubisky, QB, Bears
After three weeks of subpar numbers, Trubisky led all quarterbacks in Week 4 with 354 passing yards and six touchdowns, adding 53 yards on the ground, translating to 43.46 fantasy points. Trading a quarterback is a real challenge, and Trubisky was struggling before his outburst against the Buccaneers. With that said, plenty of fantasy owners are distracted by the shiny new toy, and there was a lot of optimism surrounding the Bears' offense coming into the season. If there's a quarterback-needy owner in your league, perhaps the person who lost Jimmy Garoppolo, see if you can capitalize in the trade market on Trubisky's huge game.
Doug Baldwin, WR, Seahawks
Russell Wilson has struggled to get Seattle's passing offense going this season, with the team ranking 27th in total offense. Part of that is due to perhaps due to Baldwin's absence since Week 1, but he returned to the field last week, catching five of seven targets for 41 yards. He led the team in targets, and while that didn't lead to a big fantasy day, it was a great sign in his first game in three weeks. If you waited out his injury, it would be rash to deal him now that he's back. Baldwin is a generally reliable player whose easily Wilson's top target and the best playmaker at the quarterback's disposal. Given his injury, and the team's overall performance, it'll be nearly impossible for you to get fair value for him if you make him available in a trade.


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14-17: Herpetic Gingivostomatitis
Ashish Shah; Brad Sobolewski; Matthew R. Mittiga
Shah A, Sobolewski B, Mittiga MR. Shah A, & Sobolewski B, & Mittiga M.R. Shah, Ashish, et al.Herpetic Gingivostomatitis. In: Knoop KJ, Stack LB, Storrow AB, Thurman R. Knoop K.J., & Stack L.B., & Storrow A.B., & Thurman R(Eds.),Eds. Kevin J. Knoop, et al.eds. The Atlas of Emergency Medicine, 5e. McGraw Hill; 2021. Accessed January 17, 2022. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2969&sectionid=250460271
Shah A, Sobolewski B, Mittiga MR. Shah A, & Sobolewski B, & Mittiga M.R. Shah, Ashish, et al. (2021). Herpetic gingivostomatitis. Knoop KJ, Stack LB, Storrow AB, Thurman R. Knoop K.J., & Stack L.B., & Storrow A.B., & Thurman R(Eds.),Eds. Kevin J. Knoop, et al. The Atlas of Emergency Medicine, 5e. McGraw Hill. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2969&sectionid=250460271
Shah A, Sobolewski B, Mittiga MR. Shah A, & Sobolewski B, & Mittiga M.R. Shah, Ashish, et al. "Herpetic Gingivostomatitis." The Atlas of Emergency Medicine, 5e Knoop KJ, Stack LB, Storrow AB, Thurman R. Knoop K.J., & Stack L.B., & Storrow A.B., & Thurman R(Eds.),Eds. Kevin J. Knoop, et al. McGraw Hill, 2021, https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2969&sectionid=250460271.
Herpetic gingivostomatitis is primary infection caused by HSV seen in up to 30% of children between 6 months and 5 years of age. Patients usually present with approximately 4 days of fever, malaise, decreased oral intake, cervical adenopathy, and pain in the mouth and throat. Following the prodrome, vesicular and ulcerative lesions appear throughout the oral cavity. The gingiva becomes very friable and inflamed, especially around the alveolar rim. Increased salivation, foul breath, and cervical lymphadenitis may be present. Although fever resolves in 3 to 5 days, children may have difficulty eating for 7 to 14 days. Lesions may last for up to 21 days in severe cases. Autoinoculation may produce vesicular lesions on the fingers (herpetic whitlow).
Treatment includes pain control, hydration, and consideration of oral acyclovir therapy. The pain may be significant and often requires oral narcotic pain medications. Control of the pain will allow the patient to consume fluids and remain well hydrated. Acyclovir has been shown to reduce the duration of pain, gingival swelling, oral lesions, fever, and viral shedding if initiated within the first 72 to 96 hours of illness. Avoidance of citrus juices or spicy food is recommended. Cold clear fluids, popsicles, and ice cream may be useful in small children. Not infrequently, admission for IV hydration is necessary. Topical pain control may be achieved by using mixtures of antihistamine (diphenhydramine elixir) and antacid (1:1) applied to lesions with a cotton swab. Local application of viscous lidocaine should be avoided in children, since patients may develop toxic serum levels due to altered absorption from inflamed oral mucosa leading to seizures or methemoglobinemia.
Herpetic Gingivostomatitis. Multiple oral vesicular lesions and tongue ulcerations consistent with herpes gingivostomatitis. Vesicular lesions from autoinoculation are present on the finger (herpetic whitlow). (Photo contributor: Michael J. Nowicki, MD.)
Most lesions are in the anterior two-thirds of the oral cavity. Posterior lesions sparing the gingiva are most commonly seen in coxsackievirus infections.
Primary HSV infection in childhood is usually asymptomatic.
After primary oral infection, HSV remains latent in the trigeminal ganglion until reactivation as herpes labialis.
Herpetic Stomatitis. Multiple perioral vesicular lesions consistent with herpes gingivostomatitis. (Photo contributor: Lawrence B. Stack, MD.)
Herpetic Gingivostomatitis. Multiple oral vesicular lesions and tongue ulcerations consistent with herpes gingivostomatitis. (Photo contributor: Scott Pangonis, MD.)


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Legislators from Africa and Asia to meet in Abu Dhabi to advance regional green grids and clean cooking
Energy Horizons conference in New Delhi
High-level discussion on regional grids for renewables in Asia held at Wilton Park
African legislators meet in Nigeria to advance the implementation of NDCs
Climate Parliament MP brings solar power to 50 remote villages in Bihar, India
Mexico City: 18 governments discuss renewable energy and climate action
New Toolkit Released for Legislators Working on Renewable Energy
Legislators meet at Climate Parliament's Global Parliamentary Roundtable, Delhi
Indian MPs exchange experiences at University of Chicago
Indian MPs visit University of Chicago
Legisladores de las Américas discuten la transición hacia las energías renovables en Santiago, Chile
On mission in the Andean region
Our Latin America Director, Dr Sergio Missana, recently returned from a mission to Latin America to meet with legislators and government officials from Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, and discuss with them local climate impacts, the potential for renewable energy, and the ongoing parliamentary activities of the Climate Parliament groups in the legislatures of those countries.
In Lima, as well as several productive meetings with civil society and NGO representatives, Dr Missana met with Congressman Mesías Guevara, leader of the Climate Parliament Peru chapter, to discuss organising a workshop for legislators and drafting a new renewable energy law for presentation during the 2015 parliamentary calendar. He also gave a presentation on the potential for renewable energy in Peru at a session of the Andean, Amazonic and Afro-Peruvian Peoples, Environment and Ecology Commission. Ten MPs were in attendance, including Mr Federico Pariona (President of the Commission and a member of the CP group), Verónika Mendoza, Daniel Abugattás, Claudia Coari, Johnny Cárdenas, Antonio Medina, Marisol Espinoza, Leyla Chihuán, Sergio Tejada and Juan Castagnino. The presentation emphasized the key role that renewables could play in the Peruvian energy matrix and the potential for the country to become a solar exporter, within the context of the discussion of a new climate change law.
Following a fruitful round of meetings in Peru, Dr Missana travelled to Bolivia, where he met with several legislators from both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, in order to present the Climate Parliament's objectives, methodology and strategy. Senators Erwin Rivero, Ciro Zabala, Edwin Rodríguez, and Arturo Murillo, as well as Deputies Romina Pérez and Norma Piérola, were all keen to engage with the Climate Parliament network and help build a strong group of MPs working on environmental and renewable energy issues within the Bolivian legislature. Bolivia has excellent solar, wind and geothermal potential which is currently going untapped, as well as several rural areas still suffering from energy poverty - which distributed renewables could alleviate.
Finally, Dr Missana travelled to Quito in Ecuador, where he met with several senior figures from the NGO and international development community, as well as Ministry officials and Assemblywoman Marisol Peñafiel, who leads the nascent Climate Parliament group in the Parliament. Discussions focused on Ecuador's leadership role in the region regarding the constitutional recognition of environmental rights, grid interconnections, work on deforestation through REDD+, and stressing its solar, wind and geothermal potential. Marisol Peñafiel requested that the Climate Parliament organizes a series of presentations by experts at the National Assembly, in order to raise awareness and build the capacity of legislators on these issues.
We look forward to working together with parliamentarians in the Andean region to drive action on renewable energy and climate-safe policies.
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Q: Unable to create HelloWorld webservice I am trying to create a simple HelloWorld webservice using Tomcat, Eclipse, JAX-WS using this tutorial.
I created a Dynamic Web Project whose folder hierarchy looks like this.

I copy pasted the code from the tutorial and ensured that I have put my workspace name appropriately in those Java and XML files
Now I created an Ant builder in eclipse as follows:

The content of the build.xml is as given in the tutorial.
However when I build the project I get the following error:

Though in the first image you can see I have explicitly created the dist folder under the project directory directly.
Edit
Target tab of Ant builder

A: Your ant file build.xml are missing the dist target, try running the war target instead.

A: In your ant file replace this:
<project name="HelloWorldWS" default="dist" basedir=".">

with this
<project name="HelloWorldWS" default="war" basedir=".">

Note that the last screenshot you posted that it says in Manua Build: <default target selected>. So it goes to the build.xml and takes the default defined in the tag project and dist is not declared inside of it instead war is (that at the end does the distribution generation). So use war as default.


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Streamlining quantum information transmission
by Research Organization of Information and Systems
A tele-meeting with the results: from left, William J. Munro, Nicolò Lo Piparo, Kae Nemoto, Michael Hanks, and Claude Gravel. Credit: Kae Nemoto, Global Research Center for Quantum Information Science, the National Institute of Informatics in Japan
The quantum realm holds the key to the next revolution in communication technology as we know it. With the promise of unprecedented performance and impenetrable security, quantum technology is taking its first steps towards the ultimate goal of applications such as highly encrypted yet nearly fast-as-light financial transactions. However, the ability for quantum computers to communicate with one another has been limited by the resources required for such exchanges, constraining the amount of information that can be traded, as well as the amount of time it can be stored.
Researchers based in Japan have taken a major step toward addressing these resource limitations. They published their findings on May 27 in Physical Review Letters.
"To connect remote quantum computers together, we need the capacity to perform quantum mechanical operations between them over very long distances, all while maintaining their important quantum coherence," said Professor Kae Nemoto, paper author and director of the Global Research Center for Quantum Information Science at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan.
"However, interestingly, while quantum computers have emerged at the small scale, quantum communication technology is still at the device level and has not been integrated together to realize communication systems. In this work, we show a route forward."
Quantum information requires protection from the significant amount of noise surrounding it, as well as the tendency of information to be lost from the initial message. This protection process is called quantum error correction, which entangles one piece of information across many qubits, the most basic unit of quantum information. Imagine a letter torn into nine pieces, each placed in an envelope, with each envelope sent to the same destination to be re-assembled and read. In the quantum world, the envelopes are mailed via photons and there is enough information in each envelope to recreate the entire letter if any of the envelopes are lost or destroyed.
"The overhead to protect quantum information from noise and loss will be large, and the size of the required devices to realize this will cause serious problems, as we have started to see in today's quantum computer development," Nemoto said. "As the efforts to realize the quantum internet are occurring worldwide, it is important to think of it as a system, and not simple devices."
Nemoto and her team addressed this issue using a process called quantum multiplexing, in which they reduced not only noise, but also the number of resources needed to transmit information. In multiplexing, the information contained within two separate photons is combined into one photon, like two envelopes being sent in a portfolio, so the information is still individually protected but only one stamp is needed for transport.
"In this system, quantum error correction will play an essential role, not only of protecting the quantum information transmitted, but also for significantly reducing the necessary resources to achieve whatever tasks one needs," said paper co-author William J. Munro, a researcher at NTT's Basic Research Laboratories. "Quantum multiplexing enables significant resource reduction without requiring new technology to be developed for such quantum communication devices."
The researchers are currently extending their work to large-scale quantum complex network scenarios.
"The quantum revolution has allowed us to design and create new technologies previously thought impossible in our classical world," Nemoto said. "Small-scale quantum computers have already shown computing performance better than today's largest supercomputers. However, many other forms of quantum technology are emerging and one of the most profound could be the quantum internet—a quantum-enabled version of today's internet—which will allow us to network devices together, including quantum computers."
Next, the researchers will build upon the first steps they have already taken to increase both the amount of information and the storage time.
More information: Nicolò Lo Piparo et al, Resource Reduction for Distributed Quantum Information Processing Using Quantum Multiplexed Photons, Physical Review Letters (2020). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.210503
Journal information: Physical Review Letters
Provided by Research Organization of Information and Systems
Citation: Streamlining quantum information transmission (2020, July 16) retrieved 27 January 2023 from https://phys.org/news/2020-07-quantum-transmission.html
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Quantum optical micro-combs
Establishing the ultimate limits of quantum communication networks
Particle accelerator experiment creates an exotic, highly unstable particle and measures its mass


Daley, K., S. Ahmad, C. Beveridge, F. Hossain, B. Nijssen, and G. Holtgrieve, 2019: Recent Warming of the Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia: Implications for one of the world's most productive inland fisheries. Nature Geoscience, in review.
Craig, M.T., P. Jaramillo, B.-M. Hodge, B. Nijssen, and C. Branucci, 2019: Power system planning at high wind and solar penetrations under climate change. Environmental Research Letters, in review.
Rupp, D., O. Chegwidden, J. Hill, J. Kern, and B. Nijssen, 2019: Projected anthropogenic climate change alters concurrence of extreme streamflow across the Columbia Basin. Water Resources Research, in review.
Yearsley, J., N. Sun, M. Baptiste, and B. Nijssen, 2019: Assessing the impacts of hydrologic and land use alterations on water temperature in the Farmington river basin in Connecticut. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, in review.
Mao, Y., W. Crow, and B. Nijssen, 2019: A unified data-driven method to derive hydrologic dynamics from global SMAP surface soil moisture and GPM precipitation data. Water Resources Research, in review.
Mao, Y., W. Crow, and B. Nijssen, 2019: Dual state/rainfall correction via soil moisture assimilation for improved streamflow simulation: Evaluation of a large-scale implementation with SMAP satellite data. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, in review.
Pflug, J., G. Liston, B. Nijssen, and J. Lundquist, 2019: An examination of liquid water percolation for global snow modeling applications. Water Resources Research, in revision.
Bennett, A., B. Nijssen, G. Ou, M. Clark, and G. Nearing, 2019: Quantifying process connectivity with transfer entropy in hydrologic models. Water Resources Research, in revision.
Chegwidden, O., B. Nijssen, D. Rupp, J.Arnold, M. Clark, J. Hamman, S.-C. Kao, Y. Mao, P. Mote, M. Pan, E. Pytlak, and M. Xiao, 2019: How do modeling decisions affect the spread among hydrologic climate change projections?. Earth's Future, in revision.
Eythorsson, D., S. M. Gardarsson, S. K. Ahmad, F. Hossain, and B. Nijssen, 2019: Arctic climate and snow cover trends – Comparing global circulation models with remote sensing observations. Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, doi:10.1016/j.jag.2019.04.003.
Eldardiry, H., A. Mahmood, X. Chen, F. Hossain, B. Nijssen and D. Lettenmaier, 2019: Atmospheric river-induced precipitation and snowpack during the western United States cold season. Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-18-0228.1.
Fan, Y., M. Clark, D. M. Lawrence, S. Swenson, L. E. Band, S. Brantley, P. D. Brooks, W. E. Dietrich, A. Flores, G. Grant, J. W. Kirchner, D. S. Mackay, J. J. McDonnell, P. C. D. Milly, P. L. Sullivan, C. Tague, H. Ajami, N. Chaney, A. Hartmann, P. Hazenberg, J. McNamara, J. Pelletier, J. Perket, E. Rouholahnejad-Freund, T. Wagener, X. Zeng, R. E. Beighley, J. Buzan, M. Huang, B. Livneh, B. P. Mohanty, B. Nijssen, M. Safeeq, C. Shen, W. van Verseveld, J. Volk, and D. Yamazaki, 2019: Hillslope hydrology in global change research and earth system modeling. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/2018WR023903.
Lapo, K., B. Nijssen, and J. Lundquist, 2019: Evaluation of turbulence stability schemes of land models for stable conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, doi:10.1029/2018JD028970.
Mao, Y., W. T. Crow, and B. Nijssen, 2018: A framework for diagnosing factors degrading the streamflow performance of a soil moisture data assimilation system. Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-18-0115.1.
Brunke, M., J. Cassano, N. Dawson, A. DuVivier, W. Gutowski, Jr., J. Hamman, W. Maslowski, B. Nijssen, J. Reeves Eyre, J. Renteria, A. Roberts, and X. Zeng, 2018: Evaluation of the atmosphere-land-ocean-sea ice interface processes in the Regional Arctic System Model Version 1 (RASM1) using local and globally gridded observations. Geoscientific Model Development, doi:10.5194/gmd-11-4817-2018.
Niemeyer, R., Y. Cheng, Y. Mao, J. Yearsley, and B. Nijssen, 2018: A thermally-stratified reservoir module for large-scale distributed stream temperature models with application in the Tennessee River Basin. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/2018WR022615.
Vano, J., M. Clark, J. Arnold, B. Nijssen, A. Wood, E. Gutmann, N. Addor, J. Hamman, F. Lehner, 2018: Dos and don'ts for using climate change information for water resource planning and management, version 1.0: guidelines for study design. Climate Services, doi:10.1016/j.cliser.2018.07.002.
Nearing, G. S., B. Ruddell, M. Clark, C. Peters-Lidard, and B. Nijssen, 2018: Benchmarking and process diagnostics of land models. Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-17-0209.1.
Hamman, J. J., B. Nijssen, T. J. Bohn, D. R. Gergel, and Y. Mao, 2018: The Variable Infiltration Capacity Model, Version 5 (VIC-5): Infrastructure improvements for new applications and reproducibility. Geoscientific Model Development, doi:10.5194/gmd-11-3481-2018.
Endalamaw, A., W. R. Bolton, J. M. Young-Robertson, D. Morton, L. Hinzman, and B. Nijssen, 2017: Towards improved parameterization of a macro-scale hydrologic model in a discontinuous permafrost boreal forest ecosystem. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, doi:10.5194/hess-21-4663-2017.
Mizukami, N., M. Clark, A. Newman, A. Wood, E. Gutmann, B. Nijssen, O. Rakovec, L. Samaniego, 2017: Towards seamless large domain parameter estimation for hydrologic models. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1002/2017WR020401.
Mendoza, P. A., A. W. Wood, E. Clark, E. Rothwell, M. P. Clark, B. Nijssen, L. D. Brekke, and J. R. Arnold, 2017: An intercomparison of approaches for improving predictability in operational seasonal streamflow forecasting. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, doi:10.5194/hess-21-3915-2017.
Newman, A. J., N. Mizukami, M. P. Clark, A. W. Wood, B. Nijssen, and G. Nearing, 2017: Benchmarking of a physically based hydrologic model. Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-16-0284.1.
Houze, R., L. McMurdie, W. Petersen, M. Schwaller, W. Baccus, J. Lundquist, C. Mass, B. Nijssen, S. Rutledge, D. Hudak, S. Tanelli, J. Mace, M. Poellet, D. Lettenmaier, J. Zagrodnik, A. Rowe, J. DeHart, L. Madaus, and H. Barnes, 2017: The Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0182.1.
Gergel, D. R., B. Nijssen, J. T. Abatzoglou, D. P. Lettenmaier, M. R. Stumbaugh, 2017: Effects of climate change on snowpack and fire potential in the western United States. Climatic Change, doi:10.1007/s10584-017-1899-y.
Clark, M. P., B. Nijssen, and C. Luce, 2017: An analytical test case for snow models. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1002/2016WR019672.
Zhou, T., I. Haddeland, B. Nijssen, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2016: Human‐induced changes in the global water cycle. In Terrestrial water cycle and climate change: Natural and human-induced impacts, edited by Q. Tang and T. Oki, American Geophysical Union, ISBN-13:978-1118971765.
Sun, N., J. Yearsley, M. Baptiste, Q. Cao, D.P. Lettenmaier, and B. Nijssen, 2016: A spatially distributed model for assessment of the effects of changing land use and climate on urban stream quality. Hydrological Processes, doi:10.1002/hyp.10964.
Xiao, M., B. Nijssen, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2016: Drought in the Pacific Northwest, 1920-2013. Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-15-0142.1.
Mizukami, N., M. P. Clark, K. Sampson, B. Nijssen, Y. Mao, H. McMillan, R. J. Viger, S. L. Markstrom, L. E. Hay, R. Woods, J. R. Arnold, and L. D. Brekke, 2016: mizuRoute version 1: a river network routing tool for continental domain water resources applications. Geoscientific Model Development, doi:10.5194/gmd-9-2223-2016.
Anghileri, D., N. Voisin, A. Castelletti, F. Pianosi, B. Nijssen, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2016: Value of long-term streamflow forecast to reservoir operations for water supply in snow-dominated catchments. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1002/2015WR017864.
Cao, Q., N. Sun, J. Yearsley, B. Nijssen, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2016: Climate and land cover effects on the temperature of Puget Sound streams. Hydrological Processes, doi:10.1002/hyp.10784.
Zhou, T., B. Nijssen, H. Gao, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2016: The contribution of reservoirs to global land surface water storage variations. Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-15-0002.1.
Mizukami, N., M. P. Clark , E. D. Gutmann , P. A. Mendoza , A. J. Newman, B. Livneh, B. Nijssen, L. Hay , L. D. Brekke , J. R. Arnold, 2016: Implications of the methodological choices for hydrologic portrayals over the contiguous United States: Statistically downscaled forcing data and hydrologic models. Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-14-0187.1.
Newman, A. J., M. P. Clark, J. Craig, B. Nijssen, A. W. Wood, E. Gutmann, N. Mizukami, L. Brekke, J. R. Arnold, 2015: Gridded ensemble precipitation and temperature estimates for the contiguous United States. Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-15-0026.1.
Livneh, B., T. Bohn, D. Pierce, F. Munoz-Arriola, B. Nijssen , R. Vose , D. Cayan, L. Brekke, 2015: A spatially comprehensive, hydrometeorological data set for Mexico, the U.S., and southern Canada 1950-2013. Nature Scientific Data, doi:10.1038/sdata.2015.42.
Clark, E. A., J. Sheffield, M. T. H. van Vliet, B. Nijssen, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2015: Continental runoff into the oceans, (1950-2008). Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-14-0183.1.
Mao, Y., B. Nijssen, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2015: Is climate change implicated in the 2013-2014 California drought? A hydrologic perspective. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/2015GL063456.
Clark, M. P., B. Nijssen, J. Lundquist, D. Kavetski, D. Rupp, R. Woods, J. Freer, E. Gutmann, A. Wood, L. Brekke, J. Arnold, D. Gochis, R. Rasmussen, 2015: A unified approach for process-based hydrologic modeling: Part 1. Modeling concept. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1002/2015WR017198.
Clark, M. P., B. Nijssen, J. Lundquist, D. Kavetski, D. Rupp, R. Woods, J. Freer, E. Gutmann, A. Wood, D. Gochis, R. Rasmussen, D. Tarboton, V. Mahat, G. Flerchinger, D. Marks, 2015: A unified approach for process-based hydrologic modeling: Part 2. Model implementation and case studies. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1002/2015WR017200.
Vano, J., B. Nijssen, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2015: Seasonal hydrologic responses to climate change in the Pacific Northwest. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1002/2014WR015909.
Adam, J. C., J. C. Stephens, S. H. Chung, M. P. Brady, R. D. Evans, C. E. Kruger, B. K. Lamb, M. Liu, C. O. Stöckle, J. K. Vaughan, K. Rajagopalan, J. A. Harrison, C. L. Tague, A. Kalyanaraman, Y. Chen, A. Guenther, F.-Y. Leung, L. R. Leung, A. B. Perleberg, J. Yoder, E. Allen, S. Anderson, B. Chandrasekharan, K. Malek, T. Mullis, C. Miller, T. Nergui, J. Poinsatte, J. Reyes, J. Zhu, J. S. Choate, X. Jiang, R. Nelson, J.-H. Yoon, G. G. Yorgey, K. Johnson, K. J. Chinnayakanahalli, A. F. Hamlet, B. Nijssen, and V. Walden, 2015: BioEarth: Envisioning and developing a new regional earth system model to inform natural and agricultural resource management. Climatic Change, doi:10.1007/s10584-014-1115-2.
Mishra, V., A. Ganguly, R. , B. Nijssen, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2015: Changes in observed climate extremes in global urban areas. Environmental Research Letters, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/2/024005.
Nijssen, B., S. Shukla, C. Lin, H. Gao, T. Zhou, Ishottama, J. Sheffield, E. F. Wood, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2014: A prototype Global Drought Information System based on multiple land surface models. Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi:10.1175/jhm-d-13-090.1.
Zhou, T., B. Nijssen, G. J. Huffman, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2014: Evaluation of real-time satellite precipitation data for global drought monitoring. Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi:10.1175/jhm-d-13-0128.1.
Demaria, E. M. C., B. Nijssen, J. B. Valdés, D. A. Rodriguez, and F. Su, 2014: Satellite precipitation in southeastern South America: How do sampling errors impact high flow simulations?. Intl. J. River Basin Management, doi:10.1080/15715124.2013.865637.
Livneh, B., E.A. Rosenberg, C. Lin, B. Nijssen, V. Mishra, K. Andreadis, E.P. Maurer, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2013: A long-term hydrologically based data set of land surface fluxes and states for the conterminous United States: Updates and extensions. Journal of Climate, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00508.1.
Bohn, T.J., B. Livneh, J.W. Oyler, S.W. Running, B. Nijssen, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2013: Global evaluation of MTCLIM and related algorithms for forcing of ecological and hydrological models. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.03.003.
Schaner, N., N. Voisin, B. Nijssen, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2012: The contribution of glacier melt to streamflow. Environmental Research Letters, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034029.
Gao, Y., L. R. Leung, E. P. Salathé, Jr., F. Dominguez, B. Nijssen, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2012: Moisture flux convergence in regional and global climate models: Implications for droughts in the southwestern United States under climate change. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2012gl051560.
Chief, K., P.A. Ferré, and B. Nijssen, 2008: Correlation between air permeability and saturated hydraulic conductivity: Unburned and burned soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal, doi:10.2136/sssaj2006.0416.
Demaria, E. M., B. Nijssen, and T. Wagener, 2007: Monte Carlo sensitivity analysis of land surface parameters using the Variable Infiltration Capacity model. Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2006JD007534.
Desilets, S. L. E., B. Nijssen, B. Ekwurzel, P. A. Ferré, 2007: Post-wildfire changes in suspended sediment rating curves: Sabino Canyon, Arizona. Hydrological Processes, doi:10.1002/hyp.6352.
de Gonçalves, L. G. G., W. J. Shuttleworth, B. Nijssen, E. J. Burke, J. A. Marengo, S. C. Chou, P. Houser, and D. L. Toll, 2006: Evaluation of model-derived and remotely sensed precipitation products for continental South America. Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2005JD006276.
Kim, T. W., J. B. Valdés, B. Nijssen, and D. Roncayolo, 2006: Quantification of linkages between large-scale climatic patterns and precipitation in the Colorado River Basin. Journal of Hydrology, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.07.043.
Chief, K., P. A. Ferré, and B. Nijssen, 2006: Field testing of a Soil Corer Air Permeameter (SCAP) in desert soils. Vadose Zone Journal, doi:10.2136/vzj2006.0063.
Whitaker, M. P. L., P. A. Ferré, B. Nijssen, and J. Washburne, 2006: Design and testing of a low-cost soil-drying oven. Vadose Zone Journal, doi:10.2136/vzj2005.0075.
Ziegler, A. D., E. P. Maurer, J. Sheffield, B. Nijssen, E. F. Wood and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2005: Detection time for plausible changes in annual precipitation, evapotranspiration, and streamflow in three Mississippi River sub-basins. Climatic Change, doi:10.1007/s10584-005-5379-4.
Nijssen, B., and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2004: Effect of precipitation sampling error on simulated hydrological fluxes and states: Anticipating the Global Precipitation Measurement satellites. Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2003JD003497.
Bowling, L. C., D. P. Lettenmaier, B. Nijssen, L. P. Graham, D. Clark, M. El Maayar, R. Essery, S. Goers, Y. Gusev, F. Habets, B. van den Hurk, J. Jin, K. Kahan, D. Lohmann, X. Ma, S. Mahanama, D. Mocko, O. Nasonova, G.-Y. Niu, P. Samuelsson, A. Shmakin, K. Takata, D. Verseghy, P. Viterbo, Y. Xia, Y. Xue, and Z.-L. Yang, 2003: Simulation of high-latitude hydrological processes in the Torne-Kalix basin: PILPS Phase 2(e) 1. Experiment description and summary intercomparisons. Global and Planetary Change, doi:10.1016/S0921-8181(03)00003-1.
Nijssen, B., L. C. Bowling, D. P. Lettenmaier, D. B. Clark, M. El Maayar, R. Essery, S. Goers, Y. M. Gusev, F. Habets, B. Van Den Hurk, J. Jin, D. Kahan, D. Lohmann, X. Ma, S. Mahanama, D. Mocko, O. Nasonova, G.-Y. Niu, P. Samuelsson, A.B. Shmakin, K. Takata, D. Verseghy, P. Viterbo, Y. Xia, Y. Xue, Y., and Z.-L. Yang, 2003: Simulation of high latitude hydrological processes in the Torne-Kalix basin: PILPS Phase 2(e) 2. Comparison of model results with observations. Global and Planetary Change, doi:10.1016/S0921-8181(03)00004-3.
Bowling, L.C., D.P. Lettenmaier, B. Nijssen, J. Polcher, R.D. Koster, D. Lohmann, 2003: Simulation of high-latitude hydrological processes in the Torne-Kalix basin: PILPS Phase 2(e) 3. Equivalent model representation and sensitivity experiments. Global and Planetary Change, doi:10.1016/S0921-8181(03)00005-5.
Ziegler, A. D., J. Sheffield, E. P. Maurer, B. Nijssen, E. F. Wood, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2003: Detection of intensification in global- and continental-scale hydrological cycles: Temporal scale of evaluation. Journal of Climate, doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<0535:DOIIGA>2.0.CO;2.
Maurer, E. P., A. W. Wood, J. C. Adam, D. P. Lettenmaier, and B. Nijssen, 2002: A long-term hydrologically based dataset of land surface fluxes and states for the conterminous United States. Journal of Climate, doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<3237:ALTHBD>2.0.CO;2.
Nijssen, B., and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2002: Water balance dynamics of a boreal forest watershed: White Gull Creek basin, 1994-1996. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/2001wr000699.
Chen, C.-T., B. Nijssen, J. Guo, L. Tsang, A. W. Wood, J.-N. Hwang, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2001: Passive microwave remote sensing of snow constrained by hydrological simulations. Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, doi:10.1109/36.942553.
Nijssen, B., G. M. O'Donnell, A.F. Hamlet, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2001: Hydrologic sensitivity of global rivers to climate change. Climatic Change, doi:10.1023/A:1010616428763.
Nijssen, B., G. M. O'Donnell, D. P. Lettenmaier, D. Lohmann, and E. F. Wood, 2001: Predicting the discharge of global rivers. Journal of Climate, doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<3307:PTDOGR>2.0.CO;2.
Nijssen, B., R. Schnur, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2001: Global retrospective estimation of soil moisture using the variable infiltration capacity land surface model, 1980-93. Journal of Climate, doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<1790:GREOSM>2.0.CO;2.
Comanor, K., B. Nijssen, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2001: Comment on 'Five-minute, 1/2°, and 1° data sets of continental watersheds and river networks for use in regional and global hydrologic and climate modeling studies' by Graham et al.. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/2000WR900189.
Nijssen, B., and D. P. Lettenmaier, 1999: A simplified approach for predicting shortwave radiation transfer through boreal forest canopies. Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/1999JD900377.
O'Donnell, G., B. Nijssen, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 1999: A simple algorithm for generating streamflow networks for grid-based, macroscale hydrological models. Hydrological Processes, doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(19990615)13:8<1269::AID-HYP806>3.0.CO;2-R.
Lohmann, D., E. Raschke, B. Nijssen, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 1998: Regional scale hydrology: I. Formulation of the VIC-2L model coupled to a routing model. Hydrological Sciences Journal, doi:10.1080/02626669809492107.
Lohmann, D., E. Raschke, B. Nijssen, and D. P. Lettenmaier,, 1998: Regional scale hydrology: II. Application of the VIC-2L model to the Weser River, Germany. Hydrological Sciences Journal, doi:10.1080/02626669809492108.
Nijssen, B., I. Haddeland, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 1997: Point evaluation of a surface hydrology model for BOREAS. Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/97JD01217.
Wood, E. F., D. Lettenmaier, X. Liang, B. Nijssen, and S. W. Wetzel, 1997: Hydrological modeling of continental-scale basins. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.25.1.279.
Nijssen, B., D. P. Lettenmaier, X. Liang, S. W. Wetzel, and E. F. Wood, 1997: Streamflow simulation for continental-scale river basins. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/96WR03517.


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GMAT: The ScoreTop.com Cheating Scandal
GMAT: A Brief History
GMAT: Data-Sufficiency Practice Questions
GMAT: Format of the GMAT CAT
GMAT: How Analysis of an Argument Is Graded
GMAT: How Analysis of an Issue Is Graded
GMAT: Analysis of an Issue — Preparing to Write
GMAT: How to Write Your Analysis of an Argument
GMAT: Problem-Solving Questions — What to Expect and Practice Samples
GMAT: Reading Comprehension Questions
GMAT: What to Expect on Critical Analysis Questions
GMAT: What to Expect on Data-Sufficiency Questions
GMAT: Writing Your Analysis of an Issue
Students studying for the GMAT are always looking for that special edge to help them score high marks, turning to study guides, test-prep services, and online help. But from 2006 to 2008, some test-takers got more than they had hoped for — and then feared — when they purchased VIP memberships on ScoreTop.com.
ScoreTop.com was a GMAT test prep Web site that offered all sorts of practice questions. For those who really wanted an edge, ScoreTop offered a 30-day VIP membership for $30 that offered "live" GMAT test questions.
But the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) doesn't publish live test questions, for obvious reasons. What's more, the GMAC sells its older, unused questions to test prep companies, but they had not sold any such questions to ScoreTop.com. So, on the surface, ScoreTop's claims seemed like outright lies: they couldn't have legally published any GMAT questions that had ever been used on the test, much less that were currently in use.
But when the GMAC and the FBI began monitoring the content on ScoreTop, what they found was disconcerting. After users were behind the VIP wall, they were encouraged to post "jungle juice" — slang for live questions — and the GMAC did find some of their test questions, verbatim, on the site.
The GMAC goes to considerable effort and expense to research and create its test questions, and those questions are protected under copyright laws. So in June 2007, the GMAC filed suit against ScoreTop.com for copyright infringement. A year later, the courts handed down a decision in favor of the GMAC, awarding them $2.3 million and the right to seize the ScoreTop.com domain and a computer hard drive containing payment and other information. The owner of ScoreTop.com had by then fled to his homeland of China and was not represented in court.
The GMAC vowed to cancel the scores of anyone who had used ScoreTops.com's VIP access, to prohibit them from retaking the test, and to notify the schools of those who had already entered business programs. Examination of the hard drive revealed that over 6,000 people had accessed the VIP section of the site.
The GMAC softened their blows a bit and said that they would punish only those who they could prove had knowingly used the site to cheat. When all was said and done, the scores of 84 test-takers were canceled.
What can you learn from this scandal?
Pay attention to where you get your test prep information. Any site or business that offers real, live GMAT questions is either lying or breaking the law. The GMAC offers free test prep software, as well as a large number of study guides, on its own Web site.
Don't share questions. When you register for the GMAT, you're required to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), and you're reminded of that on test day. If, after you take the test, you share what you remember of the questions, you might have broken your contract and opened yourself up to a lawsuit.
Don't try to game the system. Don't waste your time trying to work around the GMAT; just prepare yourself as best you can.
ScoreTop.com is still out there on the Internet, but you won't find any test prep questions there. The GMAC has turned the ScoreTop home page into a stern warning about the dangers of cheating, along with links to information and legitimate study help.
Which of the following expressions represents the statement "a number, x, decreased by 15 is less than or equal to 40"?
15 – x ≤ 40
x + 15 ≤ 40
x – 15 ≤ 40


Gauteng raiders Van Halen, Chimichuri Run and Amazing Strike are three of the first thirty entries for the R400 000 Gr2 Cape Merchants to be run at Kenilworth over 1200m on 24 November.
Last year's runner-up Dutch Philip, who got within 0,75 lengths of winner Silicone Valley is also in the entry list for the early summer sprint handicap.
Final supplementary entries are due by 11h00 on Wednesday 14 November.
Declarations are due by 11h00 on Thursday 15 November.
The race will be run on the same day as the Concord Cup (formerly the Selangor Cup) and the CTS Ready To Run Stakes – the latter two being run on the winter course.
Only 5 accepted! All Snaith?
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The Philippines is a gorgeous archipelago, inhabited with pleasant individuals as well as a wealthy society. Its attributes include great beach locations, a prosperity of flora and fauna, and lively evening existence.
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Immune-Onc Therapeutics Enters into Clinical Collaboration with BeiGene in China
PALO ALTO, Calif.
Immune-Onc Therapeutics, Inc. ("Immune-Onc"), a private, clinical-stage cancer immunotherapy company developing novel biotherapeutics targeting myeloid checkpoints, today announced it has entered into a clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement with BeiGene to evaluate Immune-Onc's first-in-class myeloid checkpoint inhibitors, IO-108 and IO-202, in combination with BeiGene's anti-PD-1 antibody, tislelizumab, as part of its clinical development programs in China.
"We are delighted to partner with BeiGene. The preclinical and clinical data to date of our first-in-class LILRB antagonists IO-108 and IO-202 have shown that there is great potential in combining our myeloid checkpoint inhibitors with T cell checkpoint inhibitors, such as tislelizumab, to potentially improve clinical outcomes," said Charlene Liao, Ph.D., chief executive officer of Immune-Onc. "By expanding our reach with BeiGene in China, we have an opportunity to treat a broader array of patients with significant unmet medical needs."
"We are thrilled to partner with Immune-Onc to evaluate the combination of tislelizumab with their novel myeloid checkpoint inhibitors IO-108 and IO-202," added Lai Wang, Ph.D., Global Head of R&D of BeiGene. "Based on strong preclinical and emerging clinical data, we believe there is good synergy between PD-1 and LILRB antagonists for the treatment of solid tumors. We look forward to working with Immune-Onc to explore the possibility of combination therapy with our products, which may bring more treatment options to cancer patients in China."
Under the terms of the collaboration, Immune-Onc will sponsor and fund the IO-108 and IO-202 clinical trials in China, and BeiGene will provide tislelizumab. Immune-Onc retains global development and commercial rights to IO-108 and IO-202.
ABOUT IO-108
IO-108 is a fully human IgG4 monoclonal antibody with high affinity and specificity towards LILRB2 (also known as ILT4). It blocks the interaction of LILRB2 with multiple ligands that are involved in cancer-associated immune suppression, including HLA-G, ANGPTLs, SEMA4A and CD1d. Preclinical data presented at the 2020 Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer's annual meeting and the 2022 American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting demonstrate that IO-108 functions as a myeloid checkpoint inhibitor and promotes innate and adaptive anti-cancer immunity.
The ongoing Phase 1 study of IO-108 in adult cancer patients in the U.S. (NCT05054348) has completed dose escalation. To date, IO-108 has been well tolerated with demonstrated clinical activity in multiple tumor types, both as a monotherapy and in combination with pembrolizumab, an anti-PD-1 antibody. The company is actively enrolling a Phase 1 clinical trial in China to evaluate IO-108 in solid tumors.
IO-202 is a humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody with high affinity and specificity towards LILRB4 (also known as ILT3). It blocks the interaction of LILRB4 with multiple ligands, including ApoE and Fibronectin, and has broad potential as an immunotherapy in both blood cancers and solid tumors. In hematologic malignancies, preclinical studies showed that IO-202 converts a "don't kill me" to a "kill me" signal by activating T cell killing and converts a "don't find me" to a "find me" signal by inhibiting infiltration of blood cancer cells. In the context of solid tumors, preclinical data presented at the 2021 American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting demonstrate that IO-202 enhances dendritic cell function and T cell activation in vitro and inhibits tumor growth in an immune competent model in vivo.
IO-202 has two ongoing clinical studies in the U.S.: Its first Phase 1 trial is currently enrolling patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) as a monotherapy and in combination with azacitidine (NCT04372433). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted IO-202 Orphan Drug designation for treatment of AML in 2020 and Fast Track designation for relapsed or refractory AML in 2022. The second Phase 1 trial of IO-202 is currently enrolling patients with advanced solid tumors to evaluate IO-202 as a monotherapy and in combination with an anti-PD-1 (NCT05309187).
ABOUT IMMUNE-ONC THERAPEUTICS, INC.
Immune-Onc Therapeutics Inc. ("Immune-Onc") is a private, clinical-stage cancer immunotherapy company dedicated to the discovery and development of novel myeloid checkpoint inhibitors for cancer patients. The company aims to translate unique scientific insights in myeloid cell biology and immune inhibitory receptors to discover and develop first-in-class biotherapeutics that inhibit immune suppression in the tumor microenvironment.
Immune-Onc has a differentiated pipeline with a current focus on targeting the Leukocyte Immunoglobulin-Like Receptor subfamily B (LILRB) of myeloid checkpoints. Immune-Onc's focused platform approach has led to the development of several promising therapeutics across various stages of development. Those include IO-108, an antagonist antibody targeting LILRB2 (also known as ILT4), in Phase 1 clinical development for solid tumors and IO-202, a first-in-class antagonist antibody targeting LILRB4 (also known as ILT3), in Phase 1 clinical development for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML), and solid tumors. Additional assets in Immune-Onc's pipeline include IO-106 (first-in-class antagonist antibody targeting LAIR1), IO-312 (bi-specific antibody targeting LILRB4), and multiple undisclosed programs for solid tumors and hematologic malignancies.
Immune-Onc has received research grants from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and a strategic investment from The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Therapy Acceleration Program® (LLS TAP®). Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Immune-Onc has assembled a diverse team with deep expertise in drug development and proven track records of success at leading biopharmaceutical companies. For more information, please visit www.immune-onc.com and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Tara Cooper
The Grace Communication Group
tara@gracegroup.us
media@immuneonc.com
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