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Q: Node: trying to stream an Excel file and pass the buffer to 'xlsx' library I'm using the node.js package 'xlsx' to read an excel file. Reading a file from the file system synchronously works fine, but streaming is a bit tricky. ( The file is served remotely and I can only receive it as a stream. ) Local streamed files produce the same problem, so it's easy to reproduce.
I've followed the examples here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/xlsx but get "end of data reached" or "unsupported file" depending on approach.
const XLSX = require('xlsx');
const fs = require('fs');

const stream = fs.createReadStream('sample.xlsx');

// This function returns Error: Unsupported file 48

documentedExample = function(){
  var arr = new Array();

  stream.on('data', function( arraybuffer ){
    var data = new Uint8Array(arraybuffer);
    for(var i = 0; i != data.length; ++i) arr[i] = String.fromCharCode(data[i]);
  });
  stream.on('end', function(){
    var bstr = arr.join("");
    var workbook = XLSX.read(bstr, {type:"binary"});

  });
}

// This function returns Error: End of data reached (data length = 75589, asked index = 77632). Corrupted zip ?

alternateExample = function(){
  var bufferArray = [];
  stream.on('data', function( thisChunk ){
    bufferArray.push( thisChunk );
  });
  stream.on('end', function(){
    var excelDataBuffer = bufferArray.join("");
    excelDataBuffer = excelDataBuffer.toString();
    var workbook = XLSX.read(excelDataBuffer, {type:"binary"});
  });
}

What would be the correct way to reassemble an xlsx binary for local use?

A: Current library do not support streams for reading
From their docs:

Note on Streaming Read
The most common and interesting formats (XLS, XLSX/M, XLSB, ODS) are ultimately ZIP or CFB containers of files. Neither format puts the directory structure at the beginning of the file: ZIP files place the Central Directory records at the end of the logical file, while CFB files can place the FAT structure anywhere in the file! As a result, to properly handle these formats, a streaming function would have to buffer the entire file before commencing. That belies the expectations of streaming, so we do not provide any streaming read API. If you really want to stream, there are node modules like concat-stream that will do the buffering for you.

There are something for writing in streams in xlsx package:

The streaming write functions are available in the XLSX.stream object. They take the same arguments as the normal write functions but return a readable stream. They are only exposed in node.
XLSX.stream.to_csv is the streaming version of XLSX.utils.sheet_to_csv.
XLSX.stream.to_html is the streaming version of XLSX.utils.sheet_to_html.

I have wrote to support asking do Pro version has it and received this answer:

The zip format, used in XLSX, prevents true stream reading (you have to read to the end of the file in order to find out where all of the subfiles are).  I wouldn't use the extremist language of https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/yauzl#no-streaming-unzip-api but I agree with the core message:
Any library that offers a streaming unzip API [is] either dishonest or nonconformant (usually the latter).
We offer event-based reading, which skips building a full workbook object.  You receive row objects and that minimizes memory pressure.
On the write side, we offer stream-based XLSX writing as well as SpreadsheetML and other formats.

In my case I had to rewrote everything =(


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716: A Crucial Year For Charles Martel
By Richard A. Gerberding
Beihefte der Francia: Herausgegeben vom Deutschen Historischen Institut Paris, Vol.37 (1994)
Introduction: The early years of Charles Martel's life are all but obscured from the historian's view. We know that he was the son of Pippin II and because his father was powerful and famous, we are reasonably well informed about Charles' paternal origins. The historian, however, has a far more clouded view of the maternal side of Martel's family. The important contemporary Neustrian chronicle, the Liber Historiae Francorum, assures that he was Pippin's son by a wife, that is to say not by a concubine, and the first Continuator of Fredegar, who wrote in 736 when Martel firmly controlled the political reins of all Francia, provides us with her name, Alpaida. Since we gain little more direct information about the maternal side of Charles Martel's family from the reliable contemporary sources, we must proceed cautiously by inference and deduction in order to flesh out this meagre sketch. I have argued elsewhere that Martel' s maternal family was that of Dodo, his uncle and Alpaida's brother, a powerful domesticus from the area around Liège, and that it was the political strength provided by this family which equipped him for his important military victory over the Neustrians, a victory which came at Amblève in April of 716. In this present paper I should like turn to another question concerning the early political career of Charles Martel: How and when was he able to expand his power base beyond that which he had at Amblève to the point where he could gain what turned out to be the deciding victory over the Neustrians at Vinchy on 21 March, 717 and then go on to snatch control of the Pippinid family away from his more powerful stepmother, Plectrud?
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using System;
using Microsoft.Azure.ServiceManagemenet.Common.Models;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.ScenarioTest;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.Test.Utilities.Common;
using Xunit;
using Xunit.Abstractions;

namespace Commands.Network.Test.ScenarioTests
{
    public class ApplicationGatewayTests : RMTestBase
    {
        public ApplicationGatewayTests(ITestOutputHelper output)
        {
            XunitTracingInterceptor.AddToContext(new XunitTracingInterceptor(output));
        }

        [Fact]
        [Trait(Category.AcceptanceType, Category.CheckIn)]
        public void TestAvailableWafRuleSets()
        {
            NetworkResourcesController.NewInstance.RunPsTest(string.Format("Test-AvailableWafRuleSets -baseDir '{0}'", AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory));
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        [Fact]
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This is how bad laws get made
Posted 12 May 2013 Written by Ciaran Ryan
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If South Africa truly seeks to achieve growth of 5% or more a year, should we be listening to advice from the likes of Germany, the UK and Sweden, or perhaps listen to the likes of Nigeria and Ghana, which are among the fastest growing countries in the world?
I suggest we listen to the latter, at least insofar as growth-oriented policy making is concerned. Why? Because they are adopting pro-growth policies, while Germany, the UK and Sweden are wrestling with the legacy of regulatory overburden and rampant entitlement.
You will hear all kinds of reasons not to heed advice from the likes of Nigeria and Ghana, such as their high growth rates are off a low base. This is nonsense. Let's take China, then, which is expected to achieve a "disappointing" 8,2% growth this year, according to Morgan Stanley. The "coming off a low base" argument suddenly evaporates when you talk of China, or India.
The point is any country, large or small, can achieve high growth if its policies are calibrated acccordingly.
High growth countries, including Ghana and Nigeria, succeed because they are tuned for high performance. Sure, they screwed up royally in the post-independence spasm, but they're getting it more or less right now.
The regulatory burden is light, and investment is welcome. Ghana has virtually no exchange controls, for a start, and a business locating in one of its "free zones" pays no duty on imports, and no income tax for 10 years. After that, income tax is levied at 8%. South Africa doesn't even come close in terms of tax rates, labour and regulatory costs and investment incentives.
Nigeria, too, has abolished exchange controls and set up duty-free zones offering duty-free imports, a prohibition on strikes and lockouts, a one-week business registration and set-up process, and full repatriation of capital and dividends.
This, then, is what we are up against. Kenya and Cameroon offer 10 year tax holidays in their export processing zones, Egypt offers a lifelong exemption on tax, Mauritius levies a flat 15% corporate tax and exempts dividends from tax entirely. There's a sumptuous buffet of investment offerings right across the continent. South Africa's Industrial Development Zones offer limited six year tax holidays, great infrastructure, but exemption from labour laws is off the menu.
Export processing zones, Chinese-style, can achieve miracles. They basically get government out of the way and allow businesses to do what they do best.
SA has a huge advantage in terms of a developed infrastructure, which should be its biggest selling point, but this advantage is squandered via less visible costs such as regulatory compliance.
With this in mind, should SA be countenancing laws that will make it more costly to do business, on top of the already staggering legal cargo imposed on businesses over the last two decades?
Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies has a brand new bill in his pocket in the form of the Licensing of Businesses Bill (which we covered here) requiring all businesses, including hawkers, to register with their local municipalities. This act is a dreadfully drafted piece of work replete with spelling mistakes, vague definitions and a blithe disregard for the realities of business owners and working people.
Its intended purpose: to stamp out illegal imports, drug dealing and the like. Surely a man of Minister Davies' intellect does not seriously believe this act will achieve any of its intended goals. It reeks of departmental hubris and lobbying by special interest groups, particularly branded goods distributors and organised business. As for closing down drug dealers, the department seriously underestimates the resourcefulness of dealers.
In this I am reminded of a rather excellent study by the Free Market Foundation in 2005 called Habits of Highly Effective Countries, available to read here. It's a long read, so we have highlighted some of the key points below. The study may be eight years old, but is even more relevant today.
How bad laws get made
The research attempts to answer how so many bad laws, with costly and unintended consequences, get made in the first place. It's a good question.
The Foundation's executive director Leon Louw writes:
Policy makers need a simple question answered: which policies coincide with which consequences? They seldom get good answers. They are bombarded with biased advice from vested interest lobbies, self-serving bureaucrats, academic ideologues and sensation-mongering media. Policies are generally implemented without objective or reliable information on whether intended consequences are likely to materialise, what risk there is of perverse unintended consequences, and which policies have been tried successfully or otherwise elsewhere. Policy makers should have information that enables them to emulate proven successes, anticipating pitfalls and avoiding failure. The exorbitant cost of reinventing the regulatory wheel should not be imposed on them and, more importantly, their country.
Policy makers would like to know not only which policies coincide with which outcomes, but also which policies cause which outcomes. Careful analysis can establish causality with high levels of probability, though seldom with certainty.
For successful policies to be adopted, policy makers and their advisors need the policy maker's question answered for every policy goal. They need to know, for example, why some countries are rich and others poor; what explains high levels of crime and corruption; which factors enable citizens to live longer healthier lives; why illiteracy is often rampant where education budgets are biggest; why Africa has been the only regressing continent for a generation; why the average South African was poorer in 2004 than in 1970; what makes some third world countries prosperous when they are surrounded by seas of destitution….
Policy makers are subjected to challenging realities: they serve disparate constituencies, deal with influential vested interests, make decisions under pressure, implement policies with unpredictable consequences, act as custodians for the country's biggest organisation (its government) and promote party political interests. They are bombarded by a surfeit of facts, theories, ideologies, opinions and rival objectives competing for scarce resources.
No free lunch
The policy maker's dilemma is not only the lack of hard evidence about intended and unintended consequences, but also that policies promoting one objective often undermine others. As the research puts it, all benefits have costs. Policies are often propagated by promising exaggerated benefits, and underestimating, ignoring or simply being unaware of the costs in terms of lost income, unemployment or investment flight from the country.
Louw adds that a singular characteristic of high growth countries is that they use sophisticated techniques for evaluating and improving the quality of laws and policies.
How does one avoid these unwanted effects of policy making? Louw lays it out as follows:
To avoid promoter bias, cost-benefit or regulatory impact assessments (CBA/RIAs) should never be done by or under the influence of a department or agency promoting a measure, but by a truly independent government agency or outsourced consultant, preferably answerable directly to the Presidency or Parliament.
To be of real value to policy makers, and minimise their risk of being seduced into ill-advised policies, assessments must accord with a strictly prescribed and consistent formula.
Provision should be made for efficacy monitoring.
How laws backfire
The truth is that policies often (more often than not) increase the cost of something. When things cost more, including labour, people buy less. Would-be employers may substitute technology for labour, or invest abroad, thus exacerbating unemployment and curtailing competitiveness.
Here's a few examples of unintended consequences arising from law making:
Consumer protection laws may achieve protection at the expense of a reduced range of choices (fewer products and services) and less innovation, both impacting disproportionately on the poor.
Asset forfeiture laws, justified in the holy crusade against crime, increase the prospect of real or suspected corruption, injustice or abuse.
Maintaining a stable currency (the purported job of the Reserve Bank) may result in cheaper imports but costlier, less competitive exports. More recently, the cry from industry is for a weaker currency to give a lift to SA's export competitiveness. The result? Rising fuel and import costs, which further reduces the profitability and competitiveness of local industry. The free market answer to this is to do away with or curtail the Reserve Bank's ability to set interest rates and allow the market to set these interest and currency rates instead.
Aid is supposed to elevate living standards in poor countries, yet the evidence suggests the opposite. William Easterly of New York University found that countries receiving less aid outperformed those receiving more. Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) implemented by the International Monetary Fund and aid directed at poor countries have been a tragic failure, says Easterly, who advises countries to adopt the ways of winning countries rather than rely on hand-outs.
Mental health laws create - wait for it - more mental ill-health. These laws incentivise mental health practitioners to dream up ever more fantastical "diagnoses" to the point that psychiatry is facing a ferocious backlash over its lack of scientific rigour. We should be asking how these laws make it onto the statute books in the first place.
But South Africa is in the unique position of being able to source advice from the best in the world. Hence, our policies should be world class. Not so fast, says Louw. "What matters, as far as economic growth is concerned, is not the characteristics of rich countries, but of high growth countries."
We send fact-finding missions to rich countries such as Sweden, the US and Germany and often import their policies verbatim. These are countries now incapable of growing more than 1% a year. We should instead be asking what fires growth in India, Malaysia and China. Or perhaps Ghana and Nigeria.
Why Africa has hit the growth path
Paradoxically, many African countries are now among the fastest growing in the world: Ghana 7,8%, Nigeria 7%, and so on. What is happening, according to research by the World Economic Forum, is that Africa is adopting more growth-friendly policies in the form of protection for investors, respect for private property and rule of law.
What about the contention that Africa is struggling to shake off its colonial past? Louw reminds us that:
Some of the world's most prosperous countries were once colonies (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong).
African countries grow, like other countries, at rates predicted by their economic policies – which suggests colonisation is of little relevance except to the extent they were bequeathed crude democracies shorn of liberal democratic checks and balances.
There are few countries that have never been occupied or colonised. The evidence suggests that the extent to which there is a colonial legacy is a self-inflicted matter of choice, says Louw.
The conclusion is clear: poor countries stay poor because of poor policies. That means, political or military interference in the court system, tolerance of bribery and corruption, high taxes and imposts on trade and investment, and arbitrary application of the law.
It's time we started to ask searching questions of our policy makers whenever a new law is proposed. What are the benefits and costs? Who says so? Who did the research? What are their interests in doing so?
It is easy to sit back and criticise after the fact. South Africans are great at this. Rather we should challenge these laws the first time they are floated by our politicians, and interrogate the drafters and find out who pulls their strings.
The opinions in this commentary are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect those of Acts Online.


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Kilpatrick deserves a presidential pardon, too
'He did run Detroit into bankruptcy, but come on, the man's going to be 80 years old. He deserves a life.'
Kilpatrick deserves a presidential pardon, too 'He did run Detroit into bankruptcy, but come on, the man's going to be 80 years old. He deserves a life.' Check out this story on thetimesherald.com: https://bwne.ws/2xUu6PD
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•No Name: "I'm calling about President Trump and all the pardons he is handing out. Kim Kardashian's friend can get pardoned. What's wrong with Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick? What's wrong with White Boy Rick; why did he have to spend 30-plus years in prison? This is ridiculous; his crime doesn't fit the punishment. Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick should be pardoned also. He did run Detroit into bankruptcy, but come on, the man's going to be 80 years old. He deserves a life. He'll pay his restitution."
•Ralph from East China: "My contemporaries and I went from first grade through high school and none of the rooms or schools were ever air conditioned. I wonder how we all survived. I also wonder how this generation is going to do in the future when they have been taught that when any sort of adversity appears, the answer is to leave or quit or stop working."
•No Name: "The state of Michigan dictates how many hours a student is in class per year. Snow days or not, the requirement does not change. All schools adhere to this requirement. Teachers do not get vacation time. They are required to be at work every day. But, because of illness, family emergency, death, they too, like all of us, take some time off. Before you judge a teacher, try walking a mile in their shoes. I guarantee you will want to be back to your own job at the half-mile mark."
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NDSU Basketball Will Open Season Against Kansas State
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Messingham, Ray, Riley and Klanderman Head to Manhattan
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Some fans say winning three FCS titles under Klieman was a meaningful experience
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The NDSU coach is 67-6 in his five seasons with the Bison
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Tech & Innovations
Focus on Lives Transformed, Trust Those Closest to the Problem, and Restricted Funding Is "Bad Tequila"
The smiling people on the project websites never tell the whole story—global health and development takes hard work, realistic goals, admitting to failure, and sticking around long enough to fix the problems, Jordan Levy told Unite for Sight attendees Saturday.
Framing the 15th Global Health & Innovation Conference's focus on responsible work and cultural humility, Levy, the Chief External Relations Officer of Ubuntu Pathways, shared some tough truths based on his years of experience in South Africa. He urged global health innovators and change seekers to recognize that the status quo is not going to provide the solutions. One key, he said: "Trust those closest to the problem to develop the solution: Hire locally, live locally, engage locally."
That's the idea behind the conference's Innovation Award, he added. The judges ask if the need for the innovation can be locally identified; it must be locally needed, locally accepted, and locally effective—even though that is often different than what' is most popular in the boardroom, easiest to sell, and most marketable.
Levy's organization faced many obstacles building an effective institution to lift children out of poverty, taking them from cradle to career. Ubuntu Pathways ultimately survived, and thrived even, but he acknowledged that the bonds were tested along the way, teaching him to put humanity at the center. "Impact through depth, focus on lives transformed, not lives touched—that means a sustained interaction, a real relationship," he said. "Focus on lives transformed, not lives touched," he urged—which means a real, sustained relationship."
He also touched on money matters, and the challenges of fundraising for long-term organizational stability—warning that "all money is not good money."
Unfortunately, funding streams are often at odds with building long-term, in-depth relationships needed for this kind of success, he said. Once-off, quick fix donations are not the path to organizational stability, and highly restricted funding, he said, leads to needless bureaucracy and mission drift.
He then delighted the audience with his characterization of funding streams: "Unrestricted funding is like your favorite drink … let's say a craft beer, goes down easy, you feel great. Restricted funding is bad tequila. It goes down rough, and then the next thing you know, you're in a place you don't recognize, and you've lost some of your integrity."
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Scenele orientale în opera lui Theodor Aman au fost realizate ca urmare a formării sale artistice din capitala Franței, începând din anul 1850.

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Ajuns la Paris, Aman a fost martorul mișcărilor de înnoire a concepțiilor artistice care se desfășurau în afara zidurilor Academiilor și al direcției impuse de către acestea ca așa zisă mișcare oficială. De aceea el a fost unul dintre pictorii români care au fost influențați de mișcarea romantică, care s-a împotrivit tuturor regulilor de constrângere estetică ce făceau curricula principală și dominantă a educației academiste din acea vreme. Romantismul a adus în prim-planul creației artistice condiția sinelui care se raportează permanent la lumea înconjurătoare, la sentiment și reverie, la fascinație pentru mistere, pentru lumi necunoscute, pentru exotism, la mituri și simboluri.

Datorită unui astfel de mediu efervescent, a apărut pe piața occidentală un public amator de artă care era sensibil la opere care emiteau un parfum oriental. Aceeași tendință s-a manifestat și în rândul colecționarilor ce adunau obiecte din Orient, care dezvăluiau o lume fascinantă, ciudată, chiar necunoscută, obiecte care etalau niște valențe de ordin paradisiac, nevăzute și necunoscute în mod direct de occidentalul obișnuit, dar care imaginau un tărâm al reveriei. Totul a ajuns ca un brand la mare modă. Abordarea scenelor orientale de către Theodor Aman a fost pusă de comentatorii și istoricii de artă pe seama influenței romantismului pe care l-a întâlnit artistul ca o manifestare plenară în domeniul artelor din acele timpuri. Există însă și o probabilitate semnificativă ca Aman să fi intuit că această tematică reprezenta de fapt și o oportunitate comercială. Pe de altă parte, aceeiași comentatori au considerat că nu se poate spune nici că Aman ar fi descoperit orientalismul la Paris. Operele romantice ale artiștilor francezi reflectă senzațiile unui călător, un observator exterior, care a nimerit cu totul întâmplător în locuri stranii, fascinante. Despre Aman nu se poate afirma că era un trăitor extern, el aparținea interiorului. El s-a născut, a crescut și s-a format într-o zonă aflată în plină ocupație otomană, atât ca mediu cultural, cât și politico-social. Orientul era pentru Aman acasă. Pentru un locuitor al Valahiei, nu trebuia să fie la Constantinopol pentru a putea vedea oameni cu straie orientale sau a auzi vorbindu-se cu cuvinte de etimologie turcă. De asemenea, în Țara Românească se mânca baclava, se fuma din narghilea, și năravurile orientale erau prezente la tot pasul ca fiind împământenite. Aman nu avea de ce să fie fascinat de astfel de mediu, pentru el totul era o normalitate. Pe el dimpotrivă, îl fascina Occidentul și Parisul cu viața lui specifică pe care voia să o asimileze.

Occidentalii au perceput Valahia ca un apendice al lumii orientale și de aceea, dacă românii aveau doar granițe de ordin mental, ei au pus granițe fizice, reale. Afirmația aceasta este susținută de modul în care Aman a fost prezentat la Expoziția Universală din 1855 unde a expus Bataille de l'Alma: "... TURQUIE. PEINTURE. AMAN (THEODORE), ne â Campolungo (Valachie), eleve de Drolling et de M. Picot 2141 — Bataille de l'Alma". Participarea lui Aman la expoziție, chiar numele lui în limba turcă însemnând iertare / îndurare, a avantajat Turcia, care nu ar fi avut altfel o reprezentare în pictura de șevalet ce era improprie culturii ei. Ca urmare, Theodor Aman s-a întors în țară și și-a valorificat exact ce era familiar publicului. Totul a fost ca o acoperire a unui gol tematic ce a fost așteptat în România. Prin introducerea acestei tematici absolut noi în plastica românească, Aman a speculat nostalgia și slăbiciunea românilor pentru scena orientală.

În timpul șederii sale la Paris, Aman a fost apreciat de publicul francez pentru picturile pe care le-a făcut în călătoria sa în Crimeea (1854) și pentru lucrarea Bătălia de la Oltenița. Aceste lucrări au adus două elemente semnificative cu care privitorul nu a mai fost confruntat. Aman chiar a fost în acele locuri unde și-a amplasat acțiunea și care erau în același timp o parte a unei lumi exotice. O dată reîntors la București, Aman a făcut legătura cu Orientul în primele lucrări pe care le-a realizat cu tematică istorică. S-a constatat că toate lucrările de artă plastică ce au fost realizate de-a lungul timpului de artiștii români, au înfățișat oștirile otomane învinse de armatele valahilor sau moldovenilor conduse de figurile legendare ale domnitorilor români. De aceea, există de la jumătatea secolului al XIX-lea o obișnuință de implicare emoțională, fie ea a creatorului de artă, fie a consumatorului sau a simplului privitor, de raportare față de turci și ca urmare, o extensie față de lumea orientală, ca la o lume ce era dușmană poporului român. În contrapondere cu tematica istorică, Theodor Aman, chiar dacă a realizat picturi istorice în care evocă lupta românilor împotriva otomanilor, a realizat opere în care scena orientală a devenit un spectacol al toleranței, orientalismul fiind într-o mare măsură asimilat. Aman a reușit să ofere un Orient care este privit cu mare afecțiune, ba chiar cu mare admirație. Din lucrările sale nu transpare ura sau violența, ci calmul, lirismul și senzualitatea.

În anul 1854, Aman a făcut o călătorie la Constantinopol și a realizat doar acuarele și o mulțime de schițe. Toate picturile cu scene orientale pe care le-a creat, au fost făcute în propriul lui atelier. El a recreat lumea orientală folosindu-se de recuzita foarte bogată pe aceasta o are privind mobilierul specific, draperiile, covoarele, narghilelele, ciubucele etc., dar și înfățișând vestimentația caracteristică diferitelor segmente sociale. În timp ce artiștii occidentali au fost nevoiți să călătorească la antipozi pentru exotism, Aman care trăia la Porțile Orientului, a inventat Orientul în atelier. Lucrările lui nu reflectă un Orient cotropitor cu care trebuie să lupți să-l determini să stea la distanță, ci unul care degajă o vizibilă tandrețe în modul lui de abordare. Privitorul scenelor orientale create de Aman vede de fapt, o oglindă interioară a lui Aman, prin care acesta a cernut printr-o sită de sorginte romantică, un harem imaginat de el într-un spațiu al unei tihnite reverii aflate într-un univers aproape static, în care dominanta este un lirism și o muzică care nu se aud, ci se simt.

Referințe

Bibliografie

 Greta Șuteu: AMAN - PICTORUL, Repertoriul de pictură al Muzeului Theodor Aman, Muzeul Theodor Aman, Muzeul Municipiului București, Editura Muzeului Municipiului București, 2017, , Grafică și machetare: Ștefan Csampai, Fotografie: Cristian Oprea.

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Theodor Aman

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Q: matlab workspace accessing multiple variables with similar names I have a list of files that have data ...
    foo1.txt
    foo2.txt
    ...
    fooN.txt

I extract the data in these files
    foo1
    foo2
    ...
    fooN

I now want to pass these variables to a function
   for i = 1:N
       % This is what I want: asdf = fooi
       function(asdf)
   end

I tried sprintf, and also
    asdf = ['foo' num2str(i)]

But these make the variable asdf a char, instead of a double like fooi.
Thanks in advance.
-gsandhu

A: Immidiate solution
asdf = eval( sprintf('foo%d',i) );

However this is not a good practice in general.
What you should do is read the files into cell-elements foo{1} will have the contents of foo1.txt, foo{2} will have the contents of foo2.txt and so on. This way you can simply access foo{i} and get the data you need.
PS,
It is best not to use i as a variable name in Matlab.

A: You can use eval function
eval(['foo' num2str(i)])

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Home Secondary Essay Prompts Secondary Essay Prompts – Duke University School of Medicine
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Secondary Essay Prompts for the Duke University School of Medicine
Below are the secondary essay prompts for the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, NC.
Tell us more about who you are. You may provide additional information that expands your self-identity where gender identification, racial and/or ethnic self description, geographic origin, socioeconomic, academic, and/or other characteristics that define who you are as you contemplate a career that will interface with people who are similar AND dissimilar to you. You will have the opportunity below to tell us how you wish to be addressed, recognized and treated. 500 words
(Optional) In addition to the broad categorization of race, ethnicity, geographic origin, socioeconomic status as provided through your AMCAS application, you may use the text box below to provide additional clarifying information that may reflect the impact of any of these parameters on your development thus far as well as the impact that these may have had on your path to a career in medicine and your plans for the future. 200 words
Describe the community in which you were nurtured or spent the majority of your early development with respect to its demographics. What core values did you receive and how will these translate into the contributions that you hope to make to your community as a medical student and to your career in medicine? What improvements do you think might make the described community better? 500 words
Describe a situation where you have chosen to advocate for someone who is different from yourself. What does advocacy mean to you and how has your advocacy developed? How do you see it linked to your role as a physician/leader? What risks, if any, might be associated with your choice to be an advocate? 500 words
What has been your most humbling experience and how will that experience affect your interactions with your peers and patients? 500 words
Describe a situation where you failed. What did you learn from the experience? Describe at least one functional impact of the experience. 500 words
Critical thinking involves many aspects including curiosity, comprehension, application and analysis. Describe a time when you have utilized critical thinking. How do you anticipate critical thinking being used as part of your career? 400 words
Many view medical care as an undeniable right. What responsibility does the medical profession have in taking care of all persons? 400 words
(Optional) Please let us know of any additional information that you would like us to consider while reviewing your application:
Below are the secondary essay prompts for the Duke University School of Medicine.
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Why have you chosen to apply to the Duke University School of Medicine and how do you think your education at Duke University School of Medicine will prepare you to become a physician for the future? (1 page, formatted at your discretion, upload as PDF)
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I had been working with Mr. Wallace for quite some time – almost a year! – when this beautiful house came along.
Mr. Wallace lived in the area and knew that his brother and sister-in-law wanted to find a seasonal home in Port St Lucie. As soon as the sign went up in the front yard Mr. Wallace called me to check the MLS and find out the details. It was a 4 bedroom Holiday Builders model home for a great price!
Not needing to think too long, Mr. Wallace and his relatives made their offer. The bonus came along when the builder announced they'd be happy to sell the furnishings in the home. Just imagine getting all the furniture in a decorated model home (professionally decorated, nonetheless) for under $5000! I was sure jealous!
To top things off, Mr. Wallace decided to buy the lot next door as well.
The happy ending is that the transaction closed smoothly and now when the Wallaces come to visit Port St Lucie, they don't have to worry about buying furniture – they just need their clothes and their toothbrush!


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Q: python tkinter , move frame to his old postion i want that the frame comes back after it moves to right. how can i do that? or the frames goes to the right side and comes from the left side, to have a slide effect?

def move(steps=10, distance=0.10, distance2=0.10):
    if steps > 10:
        # get current position
        relx = float(frame.place_info()['relx'])

        # set new position
        frame.place_configure(relx=relx+distance)
                # repeate it after 10ms
        window.after(10, move, steps-1, distance)

def on_click():
    # start move
    move(50, 0.02) # 50*0.02 = 1

frame = Frame(window, bg="red", width=400, height=400)
frame.place(relx=0.192, rely=0.001, relwidth=0.81, relheight=0.992)

i tried a few options but i can't find a way, to bring the frame back in the old postion after it's moving. have someone any ideas?
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A: Something like the below would work. The concept is simple: The relx or rely of place keeps changing until the Frame has reached it's ultimate "rel-position". We use a little ratio math to make sure the frame is pushed completely out of the display and brought back to the desired "rel-position". I was bored so I made it work in every direction.
import tkinter as tk

class SlideFrame(tk.Frame):
    def __init__(self, master, **kwargs):
        tk.Frame.__init__(self, master, **kwargs)
        self.__slide = None

    def slide_in(self, ult_rel=0, steps=20, side='left', inc=None):
        #force everything to be perfect no matter what
        if inc is None:
            self.update_idletasks()
            #determine the ratio of self to master in the proper direction
            if side in ('left', 'right'):
                r = self.winfo_width()/self.master.winfo_width()
            elif side in ('top', 'bottom'):
                r = self.winfo_height()/self.master.winfo_height()
            #determine the extra amount to move beyond ratio
            ex = ult_rel if side in ('left', 'top') else r-ult_rel
            #divide the sum by steps to get a move increment
            inc = (r+ex)/steps

        #get the proper polarity to multiply by
        s = -steps if side in ('left', 'top') else steps
        #get new position
        p = ult_rel+(s*inc)

        #determine which property to apply the move to
        self.place_configure(relx=p) if side in ('left', 'right') else self.place_configure(rely=p)

        #as long as there are steps left, keep running this method
        if steps > 0:
            self.slide = self.after(20, self.slide_in, ult_rel, steps-1, side, inc)

    def place_(self, ult_rel=0, side='left', steps=20, **kwargs):
        #use this little trick and you can do everything on one line
        self.place(**kwargs)
        self.slide_in(ult_rel, steps, side)
        return self

root = tk.Tk()
root.geometry('800x600+100+100')
root.configure(background='#111111')
root.update_idletasks()

dims=dict(relwidth=.5, relheight=.5)

#demo
frame1 = SlideFrame(root, bg='#ff0000').place_( 0,           rely= 0, **dims)
frame2 = SlideFrame(root, bg='#00ff00').place_( 0, 'top'   , relx=.5, **dims)
frame3 = SlideFrame(root, bg='#0000ff').place_(.5, 'right' , rely=.5, **dims)
frame4 = SlideFrame(root, bg='#ff8800').place_(.5, 'bottom', relx= 0, **dims)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    root.mainloop()

A: Try this:
import tkinter as tk

def move_frame(event=None):
    # 1 is the change in x and the 0 is the change in y
    canvas.move(frame_id, 1, 0)
    # Look at: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2679823/11106801
    x, *_ = canvas.coords(frame_id)
    # Note 400 is the width of the canvas
    if x > 400:
        canvas.move(frame_id, -400, 0)
    else:
        # To adjust the speed change the 3 (it's the time in ms)
        # It calls `move_frame` after 3 ms
        canvas.after(3, move_frame)

root = tk.Tk()
# Create the canvas
canvas = tk.Canvas(root, width=400, height=400, bg="black")
canvas.pack()

frame = tk.Frame(canvas, width=100, height=100, bg="grey")
# Look at: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11981214/11106801
frame_id = canvas.create_window(0, 150, anchor="nw", window=frame)

# If you want it to move when clicked:
frame.bind("<Button-1>", move_frame)
# To just start the movement:
canvas.after(0, move_frame)

# Make sure you start the mainloop otherwise the loop woudn't work
root.mainloop()

It uses a tkinter loop to move the object on the canvas.


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SSDs get smaller and faster
Now down to about the size of a paper clip
Jun 1, 2011 by Mads Ølholm
SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK)has just launched two new SSDs during Computex in Taiwan.
The first, the U100 is aimed at the thin & light notebook market and the second, the iSSD, is destined to go into tablets and similar goodies.
The U100 has a maximum capacity of 256GB and some impressive specs. It can read data a 450 MB/s and write them sequentially at 340 MB/sec.
The iSSD is even smaller. As you can see from the photo it is about the size of a paper clip. The exact dimensions are 16mm x 20mm x 1.85mm and the maximum capacity is 128GB. The read speed is still 450 MB/sec, but the write speed is a bit slower at 160 MB/sec. both drives feature a SATA III interface.
SanDisk differentiates its drives from those of the competition by designing its own controllers instead of buying third party off the shelf controllers that more or less fit the purpose of the drive. By designing its own controllers SanDisk can tune the controller to achieve the maximum throughput.
Although SanDisk does not mention prices in its press release, we should expect the small SSDs to compete heavily with mechanical drives – as they are very difficult and expensive to miniaturise.S|A
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While my kids aren't yet old enough to be living with billet families or routinely going to games on a team bus, I think I, as well as pretty much any other hockey parent, can relate to the despair all of those families must be feeling right now.
I'd imagine it would still feel surreal...and probably will for some time.
But I think that I'd find great solace in knowing my child had been doing what they loved to do and died surrounded by their best friends.
I mean, can you imagine how much fun a bus ride with 20 of your best friends would have been at that age?
One parent, who'd lost their son, said on a news report something to the effect of "My son enjoyed being a teammate more than even playing hockey."
If there's one thing I've noticed in elite hockey that's different from any other team or group my kids, or even myself have been a part of...it's that the team really does become a family -- the game becomes secondary.
As young as my children are, their "real" friends are their teammates.
Sheesh, even my friends are my kids' teammate's parents.
And even as some of them move on to different teams or programs, you know what? They're still part of the family.
Hey, even though you're not on our team anymore, we're gonna follow your new team to keep tabs on how you're doing, and you'll still on our shortlist for Fortnite...and that's not going to change.
I think that's what makes the hockey world feel so small -- teammates aren't just a bunch of random nobodies. After a season or two together, they're new brothers and sisters.
I've joked before that my 8 year old probably has less than one degree of separation from every 7-year old through 11-year old hockey player from Maryland to Maine...but it's true.
Imagine how big that family becomes by they time the kids are 18, 19, and 20 years old.
I'd bet the wave of heartache in Saskatchewan, Alberta, and even eastward into Manitoba is massive...and far beyond just the immediate families that lost a son.
Too many. Too young. Too close to home.
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