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package cromwell.backend.impl.jes

import akka.actor.ActorSystem
import com.google.auth.Credentials
import com.typesafe.config.Config
import cromwell.backend.impl.jes.JesAsyncBackendJobExecutionActor.WorkflowOptionKeys
import cromwell.backend.io.WorkflowPaths
import cromwell.backend.{BackendJobDescriptorKey, BackendWorkflowDescriptor}
import cromwell.cloudsupport.gcp.gcs.GcsStorage
import cromwell.core.WorkflowOptions
import cromwell.core.path.{Path, PathBuilder}
import cromwell.filesystems.gcs.GcsPathBuilder

import scala.language.postfixOps

object JesWorkflowPaths {
  private val GcsRootOptionKey = "jes_gcs_root"
  private val AuthFilePathOptionKey = "auth_bucket"
}

case class JesWorkflowPaths(workflowDescriptor: BackendWorkflowDescriptor,
                            gcsCredentials: Credentials,
                            genomicsCredentials: Credentials,
                            jesConfiguration: JesConfiguration)(implicit actorSystem: ActorSystem) extends WorkflowPaths {

  override lazy val executionRootString: String =
    workflowDescriptor.workflowOptions.getOrElse(JesWorkflowPaths.GcsRootOptionKey, jesConfiguration.root)

  private val workflowOptions: WorkflowOptions = workflowDescriptor.workflowOptions

  private val gcsPathBuilder: GcsPathBuilder = jesConfiguration.gcsPathBuilderFactory.fromCredentials(workflowOptions, gcsCredentials)

  val gcsAuthFilePath: Path = {
    // The default auth file bucket is always at the root of the root workflow
    val defaultBucket = executionRoot.resolve(workflowDescriptor.rootWorkflow.name).resolve(workflowDescriptor.rootWorkflowId.toString)
    val bucket = workflowDescriptor.workflowOptions.get(JesWorkflowPaths.AuthFilePathOptionKey) getOrElse defaultBucket.pathAsString

    /*
     * This is an "exception". The filesystem used here is built from genomicsAuth
     * unlike everywhere else where the filesystem used is built from gcsFileSystemAuth
     */
    val pathBuilderWithGenomicsAuth = GcsPathBuilder.fromCredentials(
      genomicsCredentials,
      jesConfiguration.googleConfig.applicationName,
      None,
      GcsStorage.DefaultCloudStorageConfiguration,
      workflowOptions
    )

    val authBucket = pathBuilderWithGenomicsAuth.build(bucket) recover {
      case ex => throw new Exception(s"Invalid gcs auth_bucket path $bucket", ex)
    } get

    authBucket.resolve(s"${workflowDescriptor.rootWorkflowId}_auth.json")
  }

  val monitoringScriptPath: Option[Path] = workflowOptions.get(WorkflowOptionKeys.MonitoringScript).toOption map { path =>
    // Fail here if the path exists but can't be built
    getPath(path).get
  }

  override def toJobPaths(workflowPaths: WorkflowPaths, jobKey: BackendJobDescriptorKey): JesJobPaths = {
    new JesJobPaths(workflowPaths.asInstanceOf[JesWorkflowPaths], jobKey)
  }

  override protected def withDescriptor(workflowDescriptor: BackendWorkflowDescriptor): WorkflowPaths = this.copy(workflowDescriptor = workflowDescriptor)

  override def config: Config = jesConfiguration.configurationDescriptor.backendConfig
  override def pathBuilders: List[PathBuilder] = List(gcsPathBuilder)
}


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Q: Mongoose split documents to 2 groups with counters I have a model of the following schema:
const mongoose = require('mongoose');

const livenessLogSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
    probability: {
        type: Number,
        required: false,
    },
    timestamp: {
        type: Date,
        required: true,
    }
}, {
    timestamps: true
});

const LivenessLog = mongoose.model('LivenessLog', livenessLogSchema);

module.exports = LivenessLog;

I want to split all documents to 2 groups: those whose probability value is less than 0.001 and those whose value is greater than 0.001. Also, in each group, I want to count for each probabilty value - how many documents has the same value.
So basically if I had the following probabilities data: [0.00001, 0.000003, 0.000025, 0.000003, 0.9, 0.6, 0.6], I'd like to get as a result: { less: { 0.00001: 1, 0.000003: 2, 0.000025:1 }, greater: { 0.9: 1, 0.6: 2 }.
This is my current aggregate method:
const livenessProbilitiesData = await LivenessLog.aggregate([
    {
        $match: {
            timestamp: {
                $gte: moment(new Date(startDate)).tz('Asia/Jerusalem').startOf('day').toDate(),
                $lte: moment(new Date(endDate)).tz('Asia/Jerusalem').endOf('day').toDate(),
            }
        }
    },
    {
        $group: {
        }
    }
]);

Note that I use undeclared variables startDate, endDate. These are input I get to filter out unrelevant documents (by timestamp).

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Image is about 1.6 arcmin across, about 60,500 light-years at the distance of NGC 4993.
This image is a composite of separate exposures made by the WFC3 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope using two different cameras and filters isolating the light of specific elements or of specific broad wavelength ranges. The color arises by assigning different hues (colors), to each monochromatic image. In this case, the colors are: blue WFC3/UVIS F606W, green WFC3/IR F110W, orange/red: WFC3/IR F160W.
The galaxy NGC 4993 is located about 130 million light-years from Earth. On August 17, 2017, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory detected gravitational waves from a neutron star collision within this galaxy. The event also resulted in a flare of light called a kilonova, which is visible to the upper left of the galactic center in this Hubble Space Telescope image.


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We first saw the new emoji in February when The Unicode Consortium shared a glimpse at 150+ new characters that were submitted to Apple for inclusion within a software update to iOS, macOS and watchOS later in the year.
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Lucia was built by the Royal Van Lent yard in 1996 for the personal use of Jan van Lent upon his retirement. She is built with the same quality and engineering found on the largest Feadships, but Lucia was the only small Feadship built for many years. Her name "Lucia", was derived from Jan's wife and this tiniest of Feadships was built as a tribute to her.


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Q: Adding Inline HTML Code to Wagtail Rich Text Editor I am using Wagtail CMS to build a website. I now want to embed a link with image into a paragraph. As I use the wagtail rich text editor I am wondering if there is any way to use inline html inside the rich text editor.
Greetings

A: You can add the 'media' option in feature list of Richtextfield.
body = RichTextField(features=['h2', 'h3', 'bold', 'italic', 'link', ..., 'media'])
Or if you have to use this embed feature many times then you can define a features list in constants.py file as say
RICHTEXT_FEATURES=['h2', 'h3', 'bold', 'italic', 'link', ..., 'media']
Then do
from constants import RICHTEXT_FEATURES
...

body = RichTextField(features=RICHTEXT_FEATURES)

in your models.py file.
This will enable you to embed content in the richtext panel.
Refer to the documentations here and here for more details.


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Texas Hope
Texas Hope: A Sweetgrass Springs Story
Sweetgrass Springs Book 8
SECRETS DIVIDE A FAMILY
For Michael Cavanaugh's entire life, his mother has kept a shocking secret: that she was married once before she married his father, and she gave birth to that man's child. Stunned that the mother who'd loved him so would abandon a child and furious with his mother's deceit, he sets out to find the older brother he has always wanted.
Ian McLaren, the favorite son of Sweetgrass Springs, has a full plate: a wife he adores, a baby on the way, a ranch to run and a town that depends on him. When a stranger arrives in town with the staggering news that he and Ian share a mother—the woman he'll never forgive for abandoning him and his dad—his world tilts off its axis.
Gordon McLaren has had years to regret the path he chose that parted him from the only woman he's ever loved. Now he is torn between his longing to see her again and the anguish doing so would cause the son he's worked so hard to protect all these years.
Walking away from the child she cherished and the man she loved was far from easy for Sophia Bancroft McLaren Cavanaugh. Facing them again would be the single most terrifying step she's undertaken since the day she left to save her sanity—and Gordon forbade her to return.
CAN LOVE REUNITE THEM?
Secrets divide the four of them, and the anguish of the past makes it impossible to hope they could ever overcome the years of heartache–
Until the threat of an even more unbearable loss gives them one last chance to unite.
Excerpt: Texas Hope
Sophia Bancroft strolled down the sidewalk near Union Square, her mind on the boyfriend her parents had chosen for her. Lawrence Rutherford was exactly who her patrician parents believed would complete her, the man who would give her the life they enjoyed, the privileged existence their cherished daughter deserved.
She would have more trips abroad, make a beautiful home in Pacific Heights, bear two well-groomed, intelligent children…and so on.
And on and…on.
She'd been born and bred to this existence. She knew all the dance moves, understood the rhythm of the bluest blood, descended from aristocrats who'd found a home in the New World and conquered its shores.
And all of it gave Sophia an itch. If only—
A tug at her shoulder, a yank, and she nearly fell to her knees—
Her purse! A young, slim form sprinted away.
Big hands caught her, stood her back up. "Are you all right?" Gray eyes captured hers. "Wait here—" He charged in the direction the thief had taken.
"Don't—" she began. Don't bother. He'll be long gone, she thought, even as she tallied what would be lost. Everything in her wallet could be replaced, likewise the cosmetics she carried. The purse caused her a few seconds of grief, as she'd loved that purse.
But she'd manage. Only a nuisance—
Until she remembered the small compact that had belonged to her grandmother. That was irreplaceable. Valuable, yes, with its ornate enameling, but it was the memories that counted most.
She shook her head and sighed, giving herself a minute to mourn.
Footsteps nearby, strong ones, followed by a shuffling set. "Let go, man! I wasn't doin' nuthin!"
She glanced up, and her world narrowed to one face, one that seemed to have risen from her dreams. He was ruggedly handsome and tall, shoulders broad, muscles powerful.
He was holding her purse in one hand, the thief in the other, wriggling against the iron grip. "Here you are, miss."
She liked his voice, baritone with a gravelly drawl. Her eyes didn't seem to want to leave him. "Are you all right?"
The corners of his eyes crinkled as he grinned. "'Course I am." He glanced down. "You skinned your knee." A muscle in his jaw flexed. "See what you did, jerk? Tell the lady you're sorry."
The boy—and he was clearly a boy, sneered. "Make me."
The big man drew him around and got nose to nose. "Tell the lady you're sorry." The tone of command was unmistakable. Sophia was barely short of saluting herself.
A quick side glance. "Sorry."
"It's all right."
The man's attention whipped to hers. "It's not. You don't coddle criminals."
"He's just a boy," she protested.
A muscle flexed in the man's jaw. "Who will become a career criminal, if he isn't already." He glanced over at the miscreant. "If we were on my ranch, I'd make you work until you dropped to pay for the damage."
Everything fell into place, the jeans, the boots, the drawl. "You're a cowboy?"
When he looked at her, a dimple winked. "Right now I'm in the Navy, but yeah."
"Oh, brother," the boy smirked. "Just my luck. John Wayne comes to the big city. Where's your horse, dude?"
"Back in Texas."
He couldn't be more exotic to her. Sophia's life was filled with urbane men with styled hair and sharp creases in their slacks. With yachting clothes and the latest running wear.
"You want to press charges?" he asked her.
"Aw, man…no fair."
"Somebody should have tanned your hide long ago, taught you that a real man takes responsibility for his choices. You chose to be a criminal today. You want that life?"
His tone was surprisingly gentle, even as he held the boy in an unyielding grip. She bet he'd be an amazing father.
And she'd like to see him on that horse.
"No," grumbled the boy.
The big man crouched to look the boy in the eye. "You can do better than this, son. This is not the life you want. Every choice is important. Each one counts."
"Nothing really matters," the boy muttered. "People don't care."
"I do." It was impossible not to believe him. This man was rock solid. He'd never doubted where he belonged or who he was. He let go of the boy.
To her surprise, the boy didn't race away. "Why?"
A gentleness rose in the man's eyes. "You tame enough horses, you get to know when one's just kickin' up for the hell of it, which one is going to be a good mount for life."
"I'm not a horse." But curiosity mingled with the boy's resentment.
"People are no different. It's in the eyes. Just have to take the time to look."
Sophia suspected the boy was as riveted by this man as she was. She couldn't tear her gaze away.
The boy tried for one more disinterested shrug. "Big deal."
The man glanced at her. "Got a pen and some paper in there?"
"Oh." She stirred. "Yes." She dug in her purse and handed him both.
He wrote in a bold, authoritative hand, then tore off the small piece of notebook page. "Here." He handed it to the boy.
"What's this?" Suspicion painted his tone.
"The phone number and address of the Double Bar M—that's my ranch."
"Why would I want this?"
Give it to me, Sophia wanted to say. She surprised herself.
"Because I'll be out of the Navy in six months, and we can always use a good hand on the ranch. You could use a change of scenery."
"Ranch hand?" the boy scoffed. "Texas is a thousand miles from anywhere important, and I don't give a shit about horses and cows and crap."
The man only smiled patiently. "You don't have to use it, but keep it. You might change your mind."
The boy glanced down. "Gordon McLaren." An odd look passed over his features. "Double Bar M, seriously?"
"Been in my family for over a hundred and seventy-five years."
"For real, you have your own horse?"
"Got a whole bunch of them. Cattle, too."
The boy's head canted. "Do you have a dog?"
"Always. You like dogs?"
"They're not so bad."
She guessed that Gordon McLaren could see the same too-thin frame she was observing, the neglected haircut and shabby clothes. "Here. I live in San Francisco. If you need help beforehand, you can call me." She took the pen and notepad and wrote down her own information.
"I don't know," the boy said. "You look rich."
She finished writing as she grinned. "I'm not, but my father is."
"Maybe he'll give me some money."
"I doubt that. But I'll help you find assistance. You could come with me now."
Wary eyes met hers. "No thanks. Gotta jet. 'Bye Cowboy! Bye, Rich Girl!"
Before Gordon could stop him, he was gone.
Leaving the two of them staring after him.
"He won't call, will he?" she asked.
"Maybe not, but the Double Bar M isn't goin' anywhere." He turned. "Sophia— I only caught the first name." His eyes were warm and made her want to get closer so she could lean into that broad chest and inhale the scent of his strength.
"Sophia Bancroft." He made her shiver. In a good way. "So how does a Texas cowboy wind up in the Navy?"
"Serving my country. I come from a long line of patriots. My great-great granddaddy Ronald McLaren won our land in return for fighting to free Texas from Mexico."
"But now you're a sailor?"
He shrugged. "Thought I wanted to see the world."
"You don't?"
"I've seen enough to know that I belong back on my land."
What must it feel like, such certainty? She'd never belonged, not in her society life, not with the bohemians she'd fled to. She wasn't sure where to try next, so she'd been floating along. "Would I like Texas?"
His quick grin and the crinkles around those warm gray eyes made her breathless. "Texas would like you, I know that for sure. Would a rich girl let a cowboy buy her lunch?" He held out an arm like the gentleman he was.
A completely new kind of gentleman to her experience, one who was rugged and strong but knew how to temper the rough edges. He'd take off his hat for a lady, she'd bet anything.
"That would be lovely," she replied, and slipped her arm through his, holding on and feeling something inside her settle.
As they walked, they spoke of small things, what he'd seen, where she'd traveled, books they'd read, music they liked.
Most of it as different as cheese and chalk.
But beneath the surface, both of them felt the thrills, the little shocks.
And the racing river currents of longing.
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Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by Rex, Sep 10, 2009.
I'm install ISPConfig2 on CentOS 5.3 as instruction from howtoforge and stuck at "12.2 Installing mod_ruby" section.
When I create ruby.conf file. httpd can not be started.
It is me asking for help and it is me help myself.
To fix the problem edit apachelib.h inside the installation directory and add "#define OPT_INCNOEXEC 32" under #define section.
It's too bad that I can't thank to myself.
I'll thank you. That helped me finish my install.
Thanks for your thank. Hope we can help each others.


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TMC News: Lucidworks Hires Amanda Berger as Chief Customer Officer
"'My biggest passion lies in helping people find what they want, and getting them to their destination in a meaningful way,' said Berger. 'I believe Lucidworks has the tools to provide an incredible experience throughout the entire customer journey, and I'm really excited to be able to support a team that builds on that customer-focused outlook.'
"Berger, who comes from a focused career in digital experiences spanning 20 years with companies like MicroStrategy and RichRelevance, has always been firmly rooted in delivering positive outcomes for customers like Sony, Halliburton, and other Global 2000 organizations. She specializes in "finding the thing" that helps a company spike its business and amplify results. Whether it be in service of colleagues or customers, Berger brings true passion to the Lucidworks team reflecting the organization's overall goal of humanizing AI."
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After two laps, your guide will stop at the Start/Finish Line, so you can take your picture!
Purchase your Drive The Glen pass for $25 per vehicle at The Shop [2 North Franklin Street, Watkins Glen, NY] or at Gate 2 [Main Track Entrance].
For more information, please call 607.535.2338.
Drive The Glen begins at Noon and 5 p.m.
Watkins Glen International requires your compliance with the following rules when participating in a Drive The Glen.
Laps begin at Noon and 5 p.m.
Do not pass another vehicle, especially the pace vehicle!


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KZN teacher accused of filming himself having sex with pupil
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KZN Education lifting the lid on teacher misconduct
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According to a statement issued by the provincial education department, an investigation into his alleged conduct was underway.
The graphic video clip, which had been brought to the attention of the department, prompted Education MEC Mthandeni Dlungwana to visit the school on Thursday.
"The MEC met with stakeholders, including the school governing body and the members of the Representative Council of Learners (RCL)."
"MEC Dlungwana was told that the teacher is accused of having slept with many other learners. He was accused of luring them into his cottage where he was doing all these unspeakable things," the statement read.
Dlungwana said that other girls had reported that they too had had sex with the teacher.
"This is very devastating. From when I saw this video, I have been very heartbroken. I can imagine that parents and other learners are feeling more pain. To this end, we will make sure that we send psychologists to offer their services to learners who might need this kind of service," he said.
A team had been appointed by the department to investigate the matter.
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Niigata Prefecture, Japan (Naeba Ski Resort)
¥45,000 (3-Day Pass)
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Home Sports NFL Concerns About the New England Patriots Offense
Concerns About the New England Patriots Offense
ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown Notes and Quotes: Week 3 ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown host Chris Berman and analysts Cris Carter, Mike Ditka, Tom Jackson and Keyshawn Johnson previewed NFL Week 3 games with Suzy Kolber, analysts Merril Hoge and Ron Jaworski and NFL Insiders Chris Mortensen and Adam Schefter. Some excerpts from the show:
On concerns about New England Patriots offense …
Jackson: "Certainly you concern yourself when Brady is getting hit. He's been sacked five times in the first two games – so the offensive line is having a hard time giving him the time to release the football. And then, there's the (WR) Wes Welker issue. It is the 550 balls that he caught in five years. I can do the math, that's 110 balls a year. I don't know how you phase that out of your program. Sometimes, to be quite frank, you get marginalized if you go public with certain issues with the New England Patriots. The Patriots way is very successful. But for individual players who challenge them on certain issues, you find yourself in this position."
Johnson: "I think their problem is a little deeper than Wes Welker. When you look at this offense as a whole, losing (Aaron) Hernandez is a big hurt. (Quarterback) Tom Brady was getting hit in pre-season … Without Hernandez in the lineup, it's a big no-no for them."
Ditka: "I always thought you play your best players. One thing I thought about Welker, I thought he was one of their best players for this reason, he became a security blanket for Tom Brady. He was kind of their go-to guy. Now, it has become Rob Gronkowski."
Carter: "… As far as option in the slot, Wes (Welker) is the third best option in the slot behind Gronk and Hernandez. Wes cannot play outside the numbers. The amount of money he's looking for a long-term contract, they would never put that value at the wide receiver position. Long-term, Wes Welker has problems staying in New England."
On the impact of losing (head coach) Sean Payton on Saints 0-2 start …
Johnson: "He's the glue that held that team together and put that organization in place where it was a year ago or a couple years ago …"
Carter: "If an NFL team can play without its head coach, I'm going to tell you something – I don't know nothing about the NFL, zero."
On Bears Jay Cutler's sideline antics against his offensive lineman …
Ditka: "A house divided will fall. If you have certain players siding with the quarterback and certain ones not siding with the quarterback, you're going to come apart."
Jackson: "Leadership is about a lot more than yelling at players on the football field. It is about leading by example. It is about working with the guys that you have with you; and Jay Cutler, going all the way back to the Denver Broncos, great arm, has not exhibited great leadership with his football team."
Carter: "Does it remind you of anybody? I played with the guy for a couple seasons and we did not have this issue with him – but his first name was 'Jeff' and his last name was 'George.' If Jay Cutler doesn't watch himself, he's going to be put in that class; misunderstood, all the arm talent in world, but the inability to make people around him or his team better."
Johnson: "Let's not fool ourselves, we've all played sports before. The bottom-line, you've got to win football games. He can do what he wants. If you're winning, and you're putting championships in Chicago, you can scream at whoever you like to scream at, you can criticize whoever you like to criticize, but you have to win."
Ditka: "All wounds are healed if you win. There's no doubt about it."
On how do you beat the 49ers? …
Jackson: "No. 1, you have to be more physical than they are going to be on the football field. That's very difficult to do. No. 2, you cannot make mistakes because they don't turn the ball over … Lastly, you have to match that contrasting style. They are not playing football in the 2000s. They're stuck back in the 1980s with the seven offensive linemen, win with the elephant package. Very few teams are prepared when they go out to play this kind of football."
Carter: "Number of things you have to do – You have to take care of the football. You have to maximize your possession because you are not going to have extra possessions the way they take care of the ball. No. 3, you have to make (quarterback) Alex Smith beat you. You have to put eight, nine guys in the box, take away their running game. Make him throw the football to beat you. But the last thing that you have to do is – you have to buckle that chin strap up. You have to come with the mentality that I'm willing to do what the next man won't do because that's what the 49ers mentality is this year and that style has won out in the 40s, the 50s, the 60s, 70, 80s, 90s, and 2000s."
On whether Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning was responsible for the three interceptions Monday night vs. Atlanta Falcons …
Jaworski: "I spent a lot of time breaking those three interceptions down. Visual evidence showed me that, of those three interceptions, Peyton Manning, although he threw them, wasn't responsible for them."
On whether it is time for NFL to get regular officials back on the field …
Jackson: "The thing that is insulting is that every single week now, we're hearing from someone in the league, Jerry Jones, whoever, that it is okay. That's the part, eventually, that's going to get to the public."
Johnson: "It's not okay … They've got to get it fixed, because the integrity of the game is hurting right now, period. Somebody is going to get hurt out there."
Carter: "One of the biggest problems is, when you go on to the field, before the whistle is blown, there is a great deal of disrespect from the players to the referees and we've never had this before. I believe that will be a problem long-term. As long as they are on the football field, the players will not respect them."
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Redwings and Magnetism
September 16, 2013 April 11, 2022 ~ oxfordbrookesuni
How small is the god of those migrating bird-rivers:
redwings, fieldfares that fall from Norway to the Neva.
She will climb from her bed and airbrush their science.
The season is ice-mist, a scared short-range weather.
Redwings, fieldfares that fall from Norway to the Neva
smash as if thrown against the solid-state river.
A small neck bows, the tiles of its wings
She makes herself dark coffee, taps in the data.
Her small neck bows; the tiles of those wings
are unfolded and healed by the heat of her argument.
How those ten thousand birds fleer in her thought,
unfolded and healed by the heat of her argument.
Warm the cold lives by her limpid knowledge:
those ten thousand birds that fleer in her thought.
She has climbed from her bed, airbrushed their science,
warmed the cold lives by a limpid knowledge:
how small is the god of those migrating bird-rivers.
by David Morley
This week's poet, David Morley, will be speaking at John Clare in Space: Poetry, Nature and Contemporary Culture, a conference at Oxford Brookes from 30-31 May 2014. Other confirmed speakers include: Jonathan Bate, Josie Long, Richard Mabey, and Iain Sinclair. All are welcome to attend, and details about registration can be found on the Oxford Brookes website.
'Redwings and Magnetism' is copyright © David Morley, 2001. It is reprinted from Of Science, edited by David Morley & Andy Brown (published by Worple Press in 2001) by permission of Worple Press.
Of Science is a sample of poems by contemporary poets who are also trained as scientists. The writers of this selection are drawn from the fields of freshwater ecology, mathematics, marine biology, neural physiology, ethnology, computing, phenomenology and biochemistry. The mode of selection is modelled on the 1802 Lyrical Ballads, in the spirit of Miroslav Holub's notion of 'serious play', with the shared belief of Wordsworth and Coleridge that 'poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science.' Read more about the book on Worple's site.
David Morley read Zoology at Bristol University, gained a fellowship from the Freshwater Biological Association and pursued research on acid rain. He co-founded the Writing Programme at the University of Warwick, of which he is now director, and develops and teaches new practices in scientific and creative writing. He co-edited The New Poetry for Bloodaxe and authored The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing. He has published eleven collections of poetry. The Invisible Kings (Carcanet, 2008) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, as was his most recent book, The Gypsy and the Poet (Carcanet, 2013). You can read more from David about his new book on his blog at the University of Warwick, read an illuminating interview with him by Simon Kövesi in the latest John Clare Society Journal, and follow his work via his website and Twitter.
Worple Press was founded by Peter and Amanda Carpenter in 1997. Since then they have published a wide range of authors, including Iain Sinclair, Joseph Woods, Elizabeth Cook, Beverley Bie Brahic, Clive Wilmer and Kevin Jackson. They published the selected poems of the acclaimed American nature poet Peter Kane Dufault for the first time in the UK (Looking in All Directions); this was followed in 2007 by Kane Dufault's To be in the same world. Peter Robinson's The Great Friend and Other Translated Poems was the Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation for Spring 2002. This impressive backlist was augmented in 2012 by three significant titles: Passio: Fourteen Poems by Janos Pilinszky from Clive Wilmer and George Gomori; Riddance by Anthony Wilson; and the republication of William Hayward's cult novel from 1964, It Never Gets Dark All Night. Over 2013 and 2014 new titles include work from John Greening, Michael McKimm, Peter Robinson, Mary Woodward and Sally Flint. More information can be found on Worple Press's new website and Facebook page.


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Today in History: Spain cedes Florida to the United States in 1821 | Lifestyles
By James K. Martin
Today it's Saturday July 17th the 198th day of 2021. There are 167 days left in the year.
Highlight in history:
On July 17, 1975, an Apollo spacecraft docked with a orbiting Soyuz spacecraft in the first such superpower link.
To this date :
In 1821, Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
In 1862, during the Civil War, Congress approved the Second Confiscation Act, which declared that all slaves taking refuge behind Union lines should be freed.
In 1918 Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.
In 1936, the Spanish Civil War began when generals in the right-wing army launched an attempted coup against the Second Spanish Republic.
In 1944, during World War II, 320 men, two-thirds of whom were African Americans, were killed when a pair of munitions ships exploded at Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California.
In 1945, after the surrender of Nazi Germany, President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill began to meet in Potsdam during the last Allied summit of WWII. .
In 1962, the United States conducted its last atmospheric nuclear test to date, detonating a 20 kiloton device, named Little Feller I, at the Nevada test site.
In 1967, after seven dates, Jimi Hendrix left the opening act for the Monkees after a concert at Forest Hills Stadium in New York. (Although much admired by the Monkees, Hendrix had received a less than enthusiastic reception from their fans.)
In 1981, 114 people were killed when a pair of walkways suspended above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency hotel collapsed during a tea dance.
In 1996, TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747 bound for Europe, exploded and crashed off Long Island, New York, shortly after leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing the 230 people on board.
In 1997, Woolworth Corp. announced it was closing its 400 remaining five and ten hundred stores across the country, ending 117 years in business.
In 2014, Eric Garner, a black man accused of selling untaxed bulk cigarettes, died shortly after being pinned to the ground by New York City police; a video of the teardown showed Garner repeatedly saying, "I can't breathe." (Garner's family received $ 5.9 million from the city in 2015 to settle a wrongful death claim.)
Five years ago: Three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers investigating a report of a man with an assault rifle were killed, less than two weeks after a black man was shot dead by city police during 'a confrontation that sparked nightly protests that reverberated across the country. (The gunman was killed by tactical agents.)
One year ago: Civil rights icon John Lewis, whose bloody beatings by Alabama state soldiers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who continued a long and celebrated career in Congress, died at the age of 80.
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Q: Laravel SQL Server: SQLSTATE[HY000]: [unixODBC][Microsoft][ODBC Driver 13 for SQL Server]Protocol error in TDS stream I am attempting to run a raw SQL query from a remote server. At this point I am unaware of what SQL Server version this is running on, but believe it to be 2008. I am attempting to connect using Laravel 5.5. I just want a positive connection at this point. Can anyone direct me as to what the issue may be?
I have also tried putting DB::raw after 'select' in the string. Here is my query string:
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A: I know this post was a long time ago but will still attempt to solve it for future readers.
First of all you need to check if you have the pdo_sqlsrv extension installed on your localserver(whether wamp or xampp). You can accomplish this on xampp by visiting the url "http://localhost/dashboard/phpinfo.php" and search for "pdo_sqlsrv", its usually below the "pdo_sqlite" extension. If you don't see the pdo_sqlsrv extension then follow this post Connecting php 7.2 to MS SQL using sqlsrv.
Next thing is to go to your .env file and set
DB_CONNECTION=sqlsrv also
DB_PORT=1433,
then set DB_HOST,DB_DATABASE,DB_USERNAME and DB_PASSWORD to the correct credentials.
If you installed MS SQL on your local pc make sure the Database Engine uses the SQL Server Authentication and not Windows Authentication, and also fix the TCP/IP port to 1433 by following this link to see how its done
SQLSTATE[08001]: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 13 for SQL Server]TCP Provider: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
Restart the Laravel server

A: Check if you have specified right port number. I had 3306 instead of 1433
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What is American Romanticism?
Brisbane, Albert. "False Association, Established by the Capitalists, Contrasted with True Association." American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land. Ed. Edwin C. Hagenstein, et. al. Yale University Press, 2019.
Hagenstein, Edwin C., Sara M. Gregg, Brian Donahue. American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land. Yale University Press, 2019.
O'Brien, Raymond J. American Sublime: Landscape and Scenery of the Lower Hudson Valley. Columbia University Press, 1981.
Romanticism's Effect on Architecture in Red Hook and Rhinebeck
Dunwell, Francis. The Hudson: America's River. Columbia University Press, 2008.
Luppino, Virginia. "The Picturesque: Calvert Vaux and Wilderstein." Senior Thesis, Bard College: Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2000.
Romanticism's Effect on Preservation
Jancius, Angela. "A Future in the Past?: A Community Study of Historic Rhinebeck." Senior Thesis, Bard College: Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 1994.
Kaminsky, Lucy. "An Evolution of Land Use in Rural New York: Building a Future for the Hudson Valley by Preserving its Past." Senior Thesis, Bard College: Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2007.
Kilivris, Matthew. "Preserving Open Space in Red Hook, New York: Directing Development and Protecting Open Space with Transfer of Development Rights." Senior Thesis, Bard College: Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2005.
← Conclusion
Hudson Valley Sublime: Romanticism and Development
Romanticism's Influence on Architecture
Romanticism's Influence on Preservation
Before Bard: A Sense of Place


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Netball - 26. September 2007.
Plummer turns up the heat for final selection camp
With a squad of 22 players vying for just 12 spots, Plummer is looking for a versatile and a holistic unit that can adapt to the demands of a World Championship campaign.
"We are split over a couple of decisions, but we are looking for variety within the team to ensure all bases are covered if we do have an injury during the competition," Plummer said.
"We will try a couple of our shooters in wing attack in case they are required there, and the same at the defence end in the circle and on the wing. "
The 17-strong Australian squad will be joined by invitees Madison Browne, Renae Hallinan,
Kimberley Purcell, Kate Beveridge and Laura Geitz at the four day selection camp this evening at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS).
And with only 45 days remaining and the pressure building ahead of the New World Netball World
Championships in Auckland, the message from the coach heading into camp is clear.
"We want every player to give it their best shot, this is the World Championships so nothing but the best will do," Plummer said.
The New World Netball World Championships from November 10-17 features 16 nations in action at Auckland`s Trusts Stadium.
Australia is currently ranked number two in the world behind the New Zealand Silver Ferns.


The funeral date for slain rapper Nipsey Hussle has been announced.
According to reports, Nipsey's funeral will be held at the Staples Center on Thursday, April 11th.
The 21,000 seat venue was picked by his family so as to accommodate the large crowd they are expecting at his funeral.
Nipsey was allegedly murdered by one Eric Holder, 29. The rapper was gunned down in front of his clothing store.
The post Funeral date for slain rapper Nipsey Hussle announced appeared first on INFORMATION NIGERIA.


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the Baroness balances a birthday cake
Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1875-1927) was known as the Queen of the Dada Movement.
Elsa found here
Her father, a mason, sexually and physically abused her in her childhood. She practiced prostitution, and had numerous affairs with both men and women throughout her lifetime, including the writer Djuna Barnes.
Djuna found here
Elsa married August Endell in April 1901 but by 1903 she had left him for his friend Felix Greve. In July 1909, Greve disappeared from Germany after staging his own suicide. Elsa played a part in the faked suicide, she sent a letter to his publishers accusing them of working her late husband to death. He sailed from Liverpool to Montreal, where he renamed himself. Later, as the Canadian author Frederick Philip Grove, he described staging his death and reinventing himself in his first autobiography.
Felix Greve found here
It is unclear how Elsa made her way to New York. However, it was there she met and married Baron Leo von Freytag-Loringhoven, the black sheep of his illustrious family, in November 1913. Through her marriage to Leo von Freytag-Loringhoven she became a Baroness but little is known about their relationship. Baron von Loringhoven hurried back to Germany at the outbreak of the war and then, not liking war, shot himself – an act which his wife characterized as the bravest of his life.
black sheep found here
From 1917 on, she published a fair amount of her mostly Expressionist and sometimes Dada-style poetry in various magazines. She also created "ready made" sculptures and collages from random items she stole or salvaged from the trash. Her most famous "ready made" is the plumbing pipe irreverently called "God"
God found here
By the early 1920s, von Freytag-Loringhoven had become a living legend in Greenwich Village. Often arrested for her revealing costumes and ongoing habit of stealing anything that caught her eye, she "leaped from patrol wagons with such agility that policemen let her go in admiration". She continued to pose for artists, and appeared in a short film made by Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp descriptively titled The Baroness Shaves Her Pubic Hair.
Duchamp and Ray playing chess found here
Margaret Anderson vividly recalls the Baroness' first entrance into the Little Review's office: "So she shaved her head. Next she lacquered it a high vermilion. Then she stole crêpe from a house of mourning and made a dress of it. She came to see us. First she exhibited the head at all angles, amazing against our black walls. Then she jerked the crepe with one movement. It's better when I'm nude, she said."
When many of her friends moved to Paris after the First World War, von Freytag-Loringhoven tried desperately to join them. Eventually she returned to Berlin in April 1923 – a time when inflation of the German currency was at its worst. She was reduced to selling newspapers on a street corner of the Kurfüstendamm in the winter of 1923–1924 and was a more or less permanent inmate of several insane asylums. Her outrageous blackmail attempts and demanding propositions to André Gide, George Bernard Shaw, and perhaps other celebrities for living expenses did little to keep her out of trouble. Her notoriously elaborate costumes were not of much help either. In an undated letter to Djuna Barnes, von Freytag-Loringhoven describes an ensemble she wore to the French Embassy in Germany:
Andre Gide found here
"I went to the consulate with a large, wide sugarcoated birthday cake upon my head with fifty flaming candles lit – I felt just so spunky and affluent! In my ear I wore sugar plumes or matchboxes – I forget which. Also I had put on several stamps as beauty spots on my emerald-painted cheeks and my eyelashes were made of gilded porcupine quills – rustling coquettishly – at the consul – with several ropes of dried figs dangling around my neck to give him a suck once and again – to entrance him. I should have liked to wear gaudy colored rubber boots up to my hips with a ballet skirt of genuine gold paper with lace paper covering it (to match the cake) – but I couldn't afford that! I guess that inconsistency in my costume is to blame for my failure to please the officials?
Cake Head found here
The true circumstances of von Freytag-Loringhoven's death are still unclear. On December 14, 1927, she died of asphyxiation when the gas in her room at the Rue Barrault was left on overnight.
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Cecilia A. Ortiz
Posted: Dec. 3, 2008, 5:37 a.m.
Graveside services were held Saturday at Ceres Memorial Park for Cecilia A. Ortiz, 85, of Ceres. She died on Nov. 22, 2008, her 85th birthday, in the hospital after a brief bout of pneumonia.
Born Nov. 22, 1923 in Los Angeles, Cecilia was raised in San Francisco, and moved to Ceres in 1980. She was a loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother, leaving behind her children, Yolanda Haines, Raul Fuentes, De Anna Whitehead, Antonio Fuentes, Pablo Fuentes, and David Fuentes; and eight grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren.
-Ceres (Calif.) Courier /Dec.. 3, 2008


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Xbox will put out free demos of more than 35 unreleased games starting Dec. 7
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[html]The ID@Xbox Winter Game Fest Demo event is coming back
The ID@Xbox Winter Game Fest Demo event will bring playable slices of at least three dozen unreleased games straight to your Xbox starting next week.
A post on the official Xbox Wire blog confirms that Microsoft will once again collaborate with The Game Awards to bring a host of demos to Xbox Series X and S as well as Xbox One. Microsoft says the event will run from December 7 through the 21st and feature "over 35 demos of upcoming unreleased games," which means you'll need to tackle at least two and a half demos a day to play through them all before the Winter Game Fest is over.
ID@Xbox says it will unveil the full list of games closer to the start of the event, though it unveiled a handful along with the announcement. Here's what we're looking at so far:
Loot River: A procedurally generated dungeon-crawling roguelike that's part Dark Souls and part Tetris.
Death Trash: A post-apocalyptic action RPG of bloodthirsty Lovecraftian beasts and shotgun-wielding punks.
Blacktail: A first-person exploration and archery game based on the tale of Baba Yaga.
The Tale of Bistun: An action-adventure game that bridges the real world and an ethereal realm of memory.
Nobody Saves the World: A comedic, form-swapping action RPG that lets you build bizarre combos on your own or in online co-op.
The Game Awards is set to air on December 9, and it will bring even more new games - with the full list of reveals set to number in the "double digits".
Check out The Game Awards 2021 nominations and get your bracket together now.


HANFORD REACH NATIONAL MONUMENT, Wash. " When wildfires raced through tinder-dry grass and sagebrush on the Hanford Reach National Monument this summer, much of the worry centered on whether flames would reach radioactive waste at the neighboring Hanford nuclear reservation.
Now wildlife officials are taking stock of the devastation to the charred monument itself, which stretches along a free-flowing stretch of the Columbia River known for salmon runs, bird habitat and rare plant life.
Fires have blackened 121 square miles of the monument this summer " more than 40 percent of the land area.
n On the north shore of the Columbia River, the Overlook fire torched 21,083 acres. Firefighters were able to save the old blacksmith shop, a log building near the White Bluffs Boat Lunch, but wildlife habitat wasn't so lucky. Among the casualties: a heron rookery and prime sagebrush habitat for the endangered pygmy rabbit.
"With no sagebrush in that area now, it'll be decades before we can even think about assisting with the recovery," wildlife biologist Heidi Newsome said of the tiny, one-pound rabbits.
n On Aug. 16, high winds pushed flames from private land onto the reserve, blackening 51,000 acres on the monument alone. Most of the acreage already had burned in a massive fire in 2000, shortly after President Clinton designated the 193,000 acres in an almost horseshoe shape as a national monument. But plantings to rehabilitate the land after that fire went up in smoke this summer.
Newsome found the damage to natural resources depressing on a recent tour of the area. The wide expanse of charred acreage still smelled smoky, weeks after the fire, and only pockets of native grasses and sagebrush escaped the flames.
Sagebrush doesn't re-sprout after fire, and it grows very slowly, needing about 30 years to mature enough to begin to provide habitat for certain species, Newsome said. They include the sage grouse, which is a threatened species in Washington, as well as sage sparrows, the sage thrasher, sagebrush vole and sagebrush lizard.
Even elk base their movement patterns on what cover they can get from the wind, such as from sagebrush. The monument supports more than 600 elk, but with much of their rangeland burned, wildlife experts are concerned they will be driven to farmers' property or the neighboring Hanford site for food.
"Definitely after the 2000 fire, their use patterns changed to areas where there were still remaining sagebrush cover," Newsome said.
Erosion is always a concern after a fire, and an even greater worry is the spread of noxious weeds and exotic plants, such as Russian thistle. Already, cheatgrass seeds litter the ashy soil up and down the monument, waiting to take over the land.
Between 2000 and 2006, some 90,000 acres of the monument burned. Those repeated fires, in conjunction with invasive species, prevent the area from restoring itself naturally, Newsome said.
Hanford Reach officials have proposed a $6.1 million recovery plan for part of the monument, though they aren't proposing to treat, or reseed, all the burned land. Rather, they aim to protect those areas that could recover on their own.
Hughes maintains that the recovery effort is essential not just for wildlife habitat, but also for wildfire prevention.
Furthermore, where there was rehabilitation work from previous fires, the flames spread more slowly this summer, proving the need for work this time around, Hughes said. But he concedes that he's competing for an ever-shrinking pot of dollars for wildfire rehabilitation.
According to Bill Leenhouts, Fish and Wildlife's fire management specialist at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, the Department of Interior's annual budget for such work is about $24.5 million. That money must be shared among all its agencies, including the Bureau of Land Management and Fish and Wildlife Service.
Last year was the first time there was more work than money to go around. This year looks even worse, Leenhouts said.
Agencies can apply for rehabilitation money in the three years after a wildfire. Hughes is hoping some will come through this year to begin the difficult task of repairing the charred landscape.
In the meantime, it's still early in September. The wildfire season may be far from over. He pointed out a remaining sagebrush stand along the river, and up to a cliff, where the only known population of Umtanum desert buckwheat grows.


What they are—and why they happen.
When there's a hurricane in the area, most people don't take the time to enjoy a night sky, let alone even be outside.
But photographer Frankie Lucena spotted a natural phenomenon called lightning sprites that can appear when storms come around.
They look like red lightning, but that's not what they are. The sprites are actually caused when charged particles collide with atmospheric gases. During a thunderstorm, clouds bump into each other, creating a positive charge. Once that positive charge clashes with the opposite charge that has built up on the ground, a flash of light occurs.
The video above showcases the Weather Channel walking through this phenomenon. Check it out above, and get ready for that weather-related trivia night.


Why you are interested in working for that particular organization.
Think about what draws you to the company, things such as the work they do which you're familiar with and admire, their favorable reputation within the industry, an interesting company culture that you feel you fit well into, recent news about the company, involvement in philanthropic endeavors, etc.
Why are you looking to transition into a new industry?
If your goal is to move into an organization within a different industry, you will want to discuss what interests you specifically about that industry, as well as what kinds of qualifications and skills you have that would be transferrable. Hiring managers are always concerned about whether or not the transition will be easy for someone who lacks specific industry experience. You want to communicate that you do have knowledge and understanding of the industry and what would be required for someone looking for a position within it.
Why are you looking to make a career change?
If you are changing career focuses, the cover letter is a great place to discuss your reasons and interests behind doing so. If your target field is of personal interest, what kinds of independent projects, research, or reading do you do on a regular basis, and what kind of reward do you get out of it? If it's a professional interest, how might it draw upon your best talents and skills that have helped in a previous career path?
What other unique attributes do you bring to the table, that may not be evident on your resume?
A resume follows a very formal structure that doesn't always allow for inclusion of certain information that might be pertinent or interesting to hiring managers. Things like travel experience, personal projects, side businesses or freelance work, or other outside activities and interests are good examples. Perhaps you have a personal blog that caters to a specific subject matter area that your audience might find interesting. It may not fit or be appropriate for your resume, but the cover letter is an excellent space to include these additional bits of information, so long as they're relevant.
In about two weeks I'm going to be debuting my Cover Letter Writing Guide as part of a fantastic job seeker DIY kit, complete with resume and cover letter writing guides, templates and sample email marketing scripts that you can use for following up, reaching out, and making connections with new contacts, leveraging existing contacts, and getting the attention of hiring managers. Stay tuned for more details on that.
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namespace CodeIgniter\Router\Exceptions;

use CodeIgniter\Exceptions\FrameworkException;

/**
 * RouterException
 */
class RouterException extends FrameworkException
{
    /**
     * Thrown when the actual parameter type does not match
     * the expected types.
     *
     * @return RouterException
     */
    public static function forInvalidParameterType()
    {
        return new static(lang('Router.invalidParameterType'));
    }

    /**
     * Thrown when a default route is not set.
     *
     * @return RouterException
     */
    public static function forMissingDefaultRoute()
    {
        return new static(lang('Router.missingDefaultRoute'));
    }

    /**
     * Throw when controller or its method is not found.
     *
     * @return RouterException
     */
    public static function forControllerNotFound(string $controller, string $method)
    {
        return new static(lang('HTTP.controllerNotFound', [$controller, $method]));
    }

    /**
     * Throw when route is not valid.
     *
     * @return RouterException
     */
    public static function forInvalidRoute(string $route)
    {
        return new static(lang('HTTP.invalidRoute', [$route]));
    }

    /**
     * Throw when dynamic controller.
     *
     * @return RouterException
     */
    public static function forDynamicController(string $handler)
    {
        return new static(lang('Router.invalidDynamicController', [$handler]));
    }

    /**
     * Throw when controller name has `/`.
     *
     * @return RouterException
     */
    public static function forInvalidControllerName(string $handler)
    {
        return new static(lang('Router.invalidControllerName', [$handler]));
    }
}


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Facebook suspends Trump account: Mark Warner issues response
Published Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, 1:31 pm
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Facebook announced today an indefinite suspension of President Trump from its platform.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a note to his Facebook page that the events of the last 24 hours "clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden," and that Trump's use of the platform to condone the actions of supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol during the Electoral College certification could "provoke further violence."
"Over the last several years, we have allowed President Trump to use our platform consistent with our own rules, at times removing content or labeling his posts when they violate our policies," Zuckerberg wrote. "We did this because we believe that the public has a right to the broadest possible access to political speech, even controversial speech. But the current context is now fundamentally different, involving use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government.
"We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great. Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete."
Today, U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., the incoming chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement in response to the Facebook announcement:
"While I'm pleased to see social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube take long-belated steps to address the President's sustained misuse of their platforms to sow discord and violence, these isolated actions are both too late and not nearly enough. Disinformation and extremism researchers have for years pointed to broader network-based exploitation of these platforms. As I have continually said, these platforms have served as core organizing infrastructure for violent, far right groups and militia movements for several years now – helping them to recruit, organize, coordinate and in many cases (particularly with respect to YouTube) generate profits from their violent, extremist content."


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Q: how can i solve the problem CORS policy on react js from origin 'http://localhost:3003' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: The 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header contains multiple values '*, *', but only one is allowed. Have the server send the header with a valid value, or, if an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.
when i post request using the other domain serves how i solve the problem!!

A: For development you can use proxy to localhost:3003. Write this line in package.json of react project. "proxy": "http://localhost:3003".
To solve this issue, you will have to do in backend, for example if you backend is in nodejs then you can use CORS package.
Install cors package.
npm i cors

and then in your nodejs file write this
var cors = require('cors');
app.use(cors())

To configure cors you can refer documentation

A: There is this post still on stackoverflow i believe it will help
How to allow CORS in react.js?

A: I installed the cors unblock extension in Google Chrome and no more problems to me.

A: in your node.js backend add:
app.use(cors({origin: true, credentials: true}));

also you can try installing this chrome extension. it fixed the issue for me


Rogue Women Writers: Rogue Women March Roundup!
HELP! Ten Reasons I Shouldn't Get a New Puppy.
Exciting news: The Rogues make the cover of The Big Thrill. And there's a terrific feature story with lots of interesting stuff about us inside, too.
How do authors achieve "bestselling" status? Check out Rogue Karna Small Bodman's "Tips from the Experts" where she shares notes from ThrillerFest workshops conducted by the best in the business: here.
Avid reader? Writing a manuscript? Rogue Jamie Freveletti compiles some great writing conferences that you might enjoy.
How good of a job do we do with our youngest criminals? Rogue Lisa Black discusses kids and jails.
Rogue Robin Burcell shares her picks for the Worst Commercials of 2019, giving us an idea of how branding affects a product.
Ever wonder where you got those chocolate brown eyes? Rogue Chris Goff did, then shared some insights on what it means to have your DNA tested.
The adventures of a female thriller author in publishing. As Rogue Gayle Lynds discovered, yes, she -- and you -- can!
This month the Rogues highlighted two guest speakers. First, Ausma Zehanat Khan describes her attempt to re-sensitize herself and her readers about the human costs of hate in her latest book, A Deadly Divide.
Then Elisabeth Elo, author of Finding Katarina M., shares some tips on writing, how she works, what she thinks, and insight into the mind of her childhood-self.
How do books get turned into movies? Find the highlights to writing a novel film companies will want to produce here.
And just for fun, and because we're all readers ... here's confirmation you're brilliant, strong, and very nice! Happy weekend!


Lucy Mayfield McLain, 79, of Magee passed away Tuesday, August 16, 2011, at Lakeview Place. Lucy was born in Mize on March 8, 1932, a daughter of the late Isabelle (Lack) and Lewis Levi Mayfield. She is survived by a daughter, Cinde (Wayne) Walker, of Mendenhall; a son,William Randy Ruffin, of Eight Mile, AL; grandchildren, Cori Walker Smith, Jake Walker and Crystal Barthel; and great grandchildren, Carson Grace Smith and Sara Barthel. Lucy is also survived by a sister, Wilma Ammons McAlpin, of Kentucky; and two brothers, Cliff Mayfield, of Clinton, and J. C. Mayfield, of Meridian. Lucy was preceded in death by her husband, Patrick McLain; sons, Steve Ruffin and John Richard Ruffin; and a sister, Minnie Mae Lowery.


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Q: download manager redirect to login by authorize action for downloading file in mvc I use this action for downloading some files. User need to login before download these files.(it's very simple version of action code.)
    [Authorize]
    public ActionResult Download(long id)
    {
        //or use this code instead of filter
        if (!httpContext.IsAuthenticated())
        {
            return RedirectToAction("Login", "Account");
        }
        byte[] fileBytes = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(file.Path);
        string fileName = file.Name
        return File(fileBytes, System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Application.Octet,
        fileName);
    }

when user is already logged in and tries to download file with browser, everything goes well, but if user tries to download it by some download manager software like:IDM
, even if user used authentication option in IDM, the login page will be download instead of file.
How can I make this action work with download managers also?

A: Most likely the download manager is trying to use basic authentication, while your application is using form based authentication.   the download manager would need to fill in the user/password login form, then submit to get a cookie to support your code.
Seems IDM uses an existing cookie from a session logged in via IE... see here:
http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/register/new_faq/sites6.html


At the 23rd session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC Committee) the situation of children's rights in Uzbekistan has been reviewed on Tuesday 4th May. IBFAN presented its alternative report on the state of infant and young child feeding in the Country, noting the high infant and maternal mortality rates and the very low rate of exclusive breastfeeding at 6 months of age (only 26%).
The CRC Committee asked information on measures to prevent infant and maternal mortality and on breastfeeding practices and the implementation of the International Code on Marketing of Breastmilksubstitutes.
The Uzbek delegation mentioned two programs designed and implemented in the Country in collaboration with UNICEF, namely the 'Growth and development for young children' program and the 'Breastfeeding' program to monitor the health of newborns. As a result of these efforts, over the last 10 years the proportion of breastfeeding has increased to 80%.
It is not clear if the data provided by the delegation concerns exclusive breastfeeding and if it reports a national average or it relates only to focus communities involved in UNICEF programs, therefore such data does not provide a clear picture of the situation of breastfeeding rates in Uzbekistan.
The question on marketing of breastmilk substitutes remained unanswered.
Concerning maternal and infant mortality, the Country delegation reported a 10% of maternal mortality in 2012 and a 4% of infant mortality in the same year. These data are much lower than those reported by UNICEF in 2010-2008 (30% of maternal mortality and 44% of infant mortality) and it might be due to discrepancies in data collection, a general problem acknowledged by the Uzbek delegation and being tackled at the national level.


That set me thinking about one aspect of modern live that is not like 1984 and, just possibly, that is a shame. If you're familiar with the book, you'll know that part of the way society is run is that history is constantly rewritten to suit current thinking. I'm tending to think that such revision is not universally a bad thing.
I'll start with a 19th century example. In 1846 the Gardeners' Chronicle contained a letter from the head gardener at Alton Towers saying that rhubarb leaves, from Rheum x hybridum, had been used for many years as a vegetable. Rhubarb leaves are toxic and there are numerous reports of deaths, especially during the two world wars when people turned to it at times of shortage. A later edition of the publication contained a correction pointing out that it should have said 'stalks' not 'leaves'.
And here's where re-writing history would be useful. If you read the original without knowing about the correction you might be inclined to try adding rhubarb leaves to your diet. You might, today, accidentally repeat the error if you didn't do the research necessary to find it had been a mistake. Worse, you might choose to ignore the correction and repeat the lie.
And that brings us to Cannabis sativa. In 2005, a paper appeared claiming that a genetic link related to the catechol-methyl-transferase (COMT) gene had been found between cannabis use and psychosis and that one in four people carried this genetic variation and was, therefore, at risk of mental illness as a result of any cannabis use.
As you would expect from a scientific paper, the authors conclude that they have provided evidence suggesting that there may be some susceptibility. As you would also expect, prohibitionists leapt on this paper as proof of a genetic link and pressed the argument that a one in four risk was higher than the risk of playing Russian roulette and that here's a proof that cannabis was a harmful substance worthy of high classification. Coming, as it did, during the debate about classification, this paper was used to support the argument for cannabis being classified as Class B.
There's a problem, however. Later work trying to replicate the results found in 2005 has failed and there have been a number of papers showing that this apparent genetic link does not exist. A number of those papers, as you might expect, said that they had found no link but they wouldn't go as far as to say they had proved there was no link.
The most recent edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry, however, contains a paper which unequivocally states 'There was no evidence of an interaction…between cannabis use and COMT'. The full paper is behind a paywall but this link is to the abstract. The authors go on to draw the somewhat suspect conclusion that this means that the risk of psychosis from cannabis use is universal i.e. the one in four risk becomes four in four but that's a different debate.
You might think that anyone posing as expert on the subject of the effects of cannabis would want to take account of all the latest work but, unfortunately, you would be wrong. The US government funded 'National Institute of Health' has a web page entitled 'Research Report Series – Marijuana Abuse'. This page begins with a section entitled 'Is There a Link Between Marijuana Use and Mental Illness?' that quotes extensively from the 2005 paper without any mention of the later papers that have contradicted those findings.
I know it may take time for a web page to be updated so it is unfair to expect a paper only recently published to be included but it is clear that the current page was produced during or after 2009 and by that time the COMT gene theory had already been discredited.
It is tempting to wish that we could re-write history so that the 2005 paper would no longer be available for people to rely on or that there should be some way to electronically tag disproved research so that anyone linking to it would be shown to be misrepresenting matters. But there are all sorts of reasons for that to be impossible.
Just as, it seems, it is impossible to expect those who claim to be offering the truth about substances to stick to the truth and not attempt to pervert the basis of science by using it to create the lies that suit their agenda.


From start-ups to enterprise organizations and spanning across a variety of industries from financial, transportation, retail, and healthcare, acquiring external data is critical. Whether you want to stay in compliance, move ahead of the competition or reach new markets- it all requires constant monitoring of web data. Data is extracted, transformed, and migrated into various reports and becomes the foundation business decisions are based upon.
So a web-scraping tool or homegrown web scraping approach seems like a good option since it looks like it's a quick and inexpensive way to harvest the data you require. Or can it?
Now comes the uneasy feeling in the back of your mind. Can my homegrown web scraping approach or a web-scraping tool acquire the correct information I need? How do I know the data I received is accurate and formatted correctly? And what if management wants different reporting data, how is that handled?
The short answer: You don't know.
The right answer begins with an evaluation of your specific data requirements and business needs.
How does web scraping acquire the data?
You have received some data using a web scraper tool, but now you spend all your time trying to transform the data. You notice formatting and quality issues with the data. If the extracted data is not accurately transformed and put into a usable format, such as Microsoft Excel, .csv files, or XML, the data becomes unusable by applications that have specific integration requirements. Now you have lost half the value of your purchased investment. Extracting and auto correcting of specialized data often includes dates, currencies, calculations, conditional expressions, plus the removal of duplicate data are all important considerations.
How difficult is it to make changes?
What happens if a website changes or if you need to monitor and extract data from new websites? Many web-scraping tools have a high propensity to fail when websites change, which then requires resources and in some cases a developer to fix the problem. Unless you have a developer in-house to make these fixes, this will add additional time and expense, and the problem only grows bigger as you monitor and extract data from hundreds or even hundreds of thousands of websites. If scalability is important to you, be sure to ask how the technology solution monitors and handles changes to a website, especially if you want to expand beyond your immediate data collection needs.
Extracting and transforming web data is more than just purchasing any web-scraping tool. Think about the data you are collecting and how it's tied to your business. In all likelihood, there's a strong set of business drivers for collecting the data, and taking shortcuts will only compromise the success of what your business goals are. And it should never make you feel uneasy about the information you are collecting.
Look beyond the data that's being extracted, and think about what you are doing with it in the context your customers, creating a competitive advantage, or streamlining processes that rely on data from websites, portals, and online verification services.
Read about next generation of Data Extraction and Integration Robotic Automation tool here.