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US coronavirus death toll surpasses 100, with case in every state
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Members of the West Virginia National Guard"s special response teams provide hands-on Personal Protective Equipment instruction to the staff of Cabell Huntington Hospital to help prepare the facility for potential future cases of novel coronavirus in Huntington, West Virginia [Handout/US Army National Guard/Edwin L Wriston/Reuters]
West Virginia's governor said on Tuesday night that the state has reported its first positive case of coronavirus, meaning all 50 US states now have confirmed cases.
Governor Jim Justice said the confirmed case was detected in the state's Eastern Panhandle, an area close to Washington, DC. He did not immediately disclose the county where the illness occurred.
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In a televised address, he also ordered bars, restaurants and casinos to close, except for carry-out food services.
"We knew it was coming. We've prepared for this and we shouldn't panic. We should be cautious and we should be concerned, but we should not panic," Justice said. "We should go ahead and try to live our lives as best we can."
Death toll surpasses 100
The confirmation of the West Virginia case came as the death toll across the US passed the 100 mark on Tuesday after Washington state reported six new fatalities, bringing the country's total to 103.
Washington has experienced the most deaths, with 54. Thirty of those deaths were connected with a nursing home in a Seattle suburb.
New York on Tuesday reported more confirmed cases than Washington state for the first time. New York has topped 1,300 cases, while Washington was just over 1,000.
For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough, and the vast majority recover in several weeks. But for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause severe illness, including pneumonia.
Worldwide, the coronavirus has infected more than 184,000, according to the World Health Organization. More than 7,500 people have died as a result of the virus.
More than 80,000 have recovered from the virus, according to John Hopkins University.
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Q: how to make the custom repositories maven in Android studio appear in IDE project structure dependencies I have a private maven server in google cloud.
in the main gradle I add the maven reference.
allprojects {
    repositories {
       ...
       ...
        maven {
            credentials {
                username 'xxxx'
                password 'xxxx'
            }
            url "https://xxxxx-xxxxx-maven.appspot.com"
        }
    }
}

If I add the reference directly to the gradle of the app, it works perfectly.
compile'xxx.xxxx.xxxx:example:1.0'
OR
implementation 'xxx.xxxx.xxxx:example:1.0'

The problem is that the number of references is increasing, and if I try to use the option "Project Structure / Dependencies" it does not show me results when searching.

How do I get my own private references to appear to me, to somehow take my credentials and show them?
thanks

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Women: What Were They Doing?
In the period precluding the 1700's, many different societies existed together and the future shape of the world was taking form. Christopher Columbus had discovered North America for Spain, Cortez had conquered the Aztecs, and Europeans began settling in American Colonies. Disease was killing the Indians and Nathaniel Bacon had burnt Jamestown to the ground. Martin Luther was preaching his spiritualistic belief of "good works" and Powhattan was leading the Chesapeake tribes. Estevan the "Moor" was traveling westward with Andres Dorantes and William Penn was creating the Quaker haven of Pennsylvania. But where did women figure into the equation? Did they not yet exist? Of course, who could forget the determined Anne Hutchinson, or the mighty Queen Elizabeth the First, but what of the rest? It is quite overwhelming to discover that there was no villainous female conquistador or explorer, that there was no female equivalent of John Calvin, that out of the millions of names in history textbooks, womens' compose a minute minority. This stark reality is so disconcerting when, in all actuality, women of the time were experiencing the same trials and weathering the same obstacles as the rest of the world, but socially to a higher extent than their biological counterparts.
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[...] The idea that women were inferior was so powerful that it was not only bred in the minds of men, but believed in the hearts of women as well. The average woman's entire existence was not even dependent on herself, but rather on her male guardian. On the upside, if she had the time, money, and the inclination, she was allowed to dance to her heart's content, revel in idle flattery, and drink tea in the parlor with her companions over a discussion on frills and lace. [...]
[...] However, the journey for European women across the ocean to the America's implies that they were not happy with the meager fair they were provided. They wanted more out of life and sought it out in the colonies. While there, they were not only influenced by their own aspirations and dreams, but also by the Native American civilization which, socially, was extremely more modern and moral, although described by most as the extreme opposite. This helped shape the role for women in the future, for during this time, a female began coming into her powers and realizing her worth, which is why it is such a crucial time period in women's history. [...]
[...] Rather, women were regarded more as possessions than actual people, belonging first to her father and then to her husband, and so on. Most women were not allowed even the rudimentary education of reading, although, some privileged by their parents were blessed by certain allowances. Upon marriage, the girl-child would have no say on the matter of her affianced suitor, for her father, being her proverbial owner, would have the first and final word on his daughter's nuptial plans. As a married woman, the average European female would more often than not regulate the household and take the most part in rearing the children. [...]
[...] She was also a very busy woman, for, as William Byrd the Second pointed out, "They are every day up to their elbows in housewifery, which will qualify them effectually for useful wives if they live long enough for notable women. (Nash, pg. Because of the situation in the colonies, women were forced to take a stronger position in the household, with respect to labor, although it was frowned upon, out of sheer necessity. Now, Indian women had been laboring in the fields before American women got one foot on colonial soil, had dwelled in a society which held them in high favor, was almost equal in its treatment and perspective of both sexes before Christopher Columbus had somehow "discovered" the Americas for the entire world. [...]
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Costa Rica will be top for jobs in Latin America
Costa Rica will be the Latin American leader in terms of employment in this year's third quarter, according to a Manpower survey.
Panama, the former number one, is now in second place along with Colombia, the survey says.
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Bully Boosting by the CBC
Hosts at the CBC hate capitalists even more than they love socialism. We know this because even though the CBC receives $100 million per month from capitalist taxpayers, these parasitic socialists are not satisfied with producing boring content that almost no one will listen to or watch, but pass much of their time hating capitalism and capitalists wherever these may be found. Socialism's attributes include greed, envy, and covetousness. But its chief attribute is hatred.
It is the nature of socialists to hate and to persecute. A blue-collar billionaire like President Trump who works overtime to free his citizens from unemployment causes lazy socialists a lot of shame. A president who donates his presidential salary to good causes is a shameful reminder of generosity to stingy socialists who live off the resources of others. The capitalist, therefore, must have hatred incited against him.
The CBC's Rita Celli, for example, did a call-in show for no other reason than to justify the mocking of President Trump. She did this on December 9th, 2019 on her money-wasting radio broadcast called 'Ontario Today.' That episode is shamelessly called, 'Laughing at Trump: Does it Matter?' That should be 'President Trump' to Rita, but maybe she hasn't accepted the results of the 2016 election yet. Rita's hate-filled helper for this day was Susan Delacourt from the Toronto Star, another medium that lives on Canadian taxes. During this extra-special Trump-hating episode, Rita suggests that mocking Trump might be a form of 'bonding.' She wouldn't like bonding to happen by her being made fun of, though. Why not? Because, as a socialist, she's necessarily a hypocrite.
CBC hosts want us to believe that they are crusaders against bullying. In truth, they are hypocrites who encourage bullying. They are haters who incite bullying. What would happen if someone did a call-in show about whether or not it matters if Rita Celli is laughed at? Well, little Rita would collapse into a depression and summon help from the government to make the laughing stop and to make the laughers suffer by the hammer of Canada's lawless Human Rights Commission.
Even the President of the United States must be defended against bullying because bullying is always wrong. Bullying is never a virtue; it is an evil deed that is too often imitated. Therefore bullies like Rita Celli and Susan Delacourt must be denounced. It would be better if they were fired. But we have better things to do than to campaign for the loss of their cushy jobs; besides, Rita and Susan might not be able to survive without taxpayers paying their way.
When CBC Radio was founded in 1936, something better than smoke and vinegar was likely transmitted to its listeners. Since a few decades ago, however, and certainly by the year 2000, CBC Radio has done little more than help to fulfill this verse from the Bible: "As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him" (Proverbs 10.26.)


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Blurred Lines – The Shed, National Theatre until 22 February
Watching Blurred Lines, Nick Payne's latest play created in close collaboration with director, Carrie Cracknell and the eight members of the all-female cast, is not a particularly comfortable experience for a male reviewer. This is not because it consists of seventy minutes of radicalised polemic damning all men to one of Dante's more unpleasant circles of hell but rather because it does the reverse; performances are restrained, arguments are calm and reasonable, but clearly lying underneath the surface is an anger. An anger one suspects is born out both of individual experience and universal frustration.
It is primarily directed at rather oblique targets; the unthinking gender stereotyping that is engrained into societies structures, the hardwired responses that define human relationships and the way that our understanding of women is being moulded by the relentlessly battery of consumer culture.
To describe the production as a play is not quite accurate, as it suggests a more cohesive piece that has a narrative thread running through it. What is presented is more a series of case studies – template models of the gender imbalances women face on a daily basis. This approach is perhaps not surprising, in part because it is based on Kat Banyard's book, The Equality Illusion, and also because the purpose is to present the universal alongside the individual.
If this all sounds a little dry then the collaborative feel of the work, performed by an excellent cast, give the scenes the relaxed feel of a community workshop rather than the cold air of a lecture theatre. The bite-size chunks also suit the modern world's preferred way of digesting information; in the internet age grand narratives are out and bullet-point lists are in. If you don't engage with one scene – and not all of them work perfectly – then don't worry as another will be along in a moment.
Blurred Lines is bookended with two stand-out scenes. Nick Payne, as he has demonstrated in previous work, has a poet's ear for finding something musical in everyday language. This is showcased in the first scene, which reminds of the opening to London Road, itself a piece of verbatim theatre, and that demonstrates that real speech, taken out of context, can contain a tremendous power and vitality.
The scene sets the play's direction with a wonderfully observed perspective of what being a woman means to other people. The cast come together as one voice with many mouths to present the audience with a series of tart one-liners of how women are portrayed. In the scene women are broken down to nameless, definable adjectives; when they are deemed worthy of being given more status it is directly through their relationship to a male. They become 'wife of…', 'mother of…' and through this their lives are given an implicit meaning.
The round starts with common descriptions that soon descend to absurdity and anger with the relentless repetition and the fall-back to common descriptors. Rose West's 'character face' repeats again and again, and any initial amusement fades as the audience understands that it is another example of the malleability of the English language that has learnt to hide overt misogyny behind a second, socially acceptable double-speak.
The play ends with a wonderfully barbed performance by Marion Bailey as an unnamed theatre director (although any regular theatre-goers will have their suspicions on who it might be, it is on good authority that Civilian Theatre understands it to be a composite – and an all too familiar one at that) and Sinéad Matthews as a young female actress in a Q&A with the audience. Here Payne turns the spotlight back onto those who have managed to sit smugly through the play to that point, feeling that they recognise the issues being discussed but not possible thinking it could apply to them.
Matthews sits mute as Bailey outlines the vision of the play and the necessity of sexualising the character. When challenged from the floor Bailey's director, rather than acknowledging a valid criticism, falls back on traditional defences deployed in such circumstances; that art sits on a higher level than such petty issues. It is again another example of the use of institutionalised thinking to stifle debate by categorising some arguments as being more worthy than others.
It would be interesting to know what was going through Matthews' mind as the scene was developed. A talented actress, she has recently played Beatrice in The Changeling and Margarita in Complicite's Master and Margarita. Both were excellent productions but, in their separate ways, both required Matthew's to display a physical vulnerability; the line where artistic prerogative blurs into prurience being a fine one.
The point made is an important one – intelligent, educated liberally minded people may express their disgust at Robin Thicke or roll their eyes at the perennially sleazy Terry Richardson and the influence that he may or may not hold over Miley Cyrus (and a raft of other young, female celebrities) but they all too often turn a blind eye to the pernicious artist/muse relationship in more high-minded circles.
Art is certainly not impervious to the same kind of institutionalised patriarchy, where women's sexuality becomes a fetishized commodity, and the theatre director's vision is hardly a world away from tales of Hollywood agents and their casting couches. Indeed perhaps the cinematic touch point for the intellectual liberal of a certain age is Woody Allen and there has never been any appetite by his supporters to address with any depth the director's dynamic with his leading women or the inappropriateness of his relationship with Soon-Yi Previn.
Blurred Lines is an astute title. Whilst obviously riffing on the song, it is also applicable to the scenes that they chose to portray. They are based around issues – a woman's return to work after pregnancy, a girlfriend who is coerced into unwanted sex, a wife who finds her husband has been visiting an escort – that are debated in the grey. When the battle lines are drawn they will not be split straight down gender lines and the answers are not always clear cut.
The issues also highlight the tension that splits a women into her predefined roles – the mother of the boyfriend who is accused of rape in a relationship, the woman who felt that as she made it at work then why should others struggle, the wife whose husband uses her lack of desire for sex as a justification for seeing a prostitute. These scenes highlight that the ability of women to present a united front is undercut by the dual role that society expects them to play.
Unsurprisingly Robin Thicke did not give permission for Blurred Lines to be used with this production. The cast end with an instantly recognisable, if not copyright-infringing, 'Ha Ha Ha'. Ultimately they didn't need to use the song, the point was firmly, reasonably and articulately made long before.
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Little Dragon Release Alluring New Single "Stay" Feat. JID
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Critically-acclaimed electronic band Little Dragon have released their new EP 'Opening The Door' on Ninja Tune. Available to hear for the first time as part of the release is new single "Stay", a collaboration with respected East Atlanta rapper JID (signed with J. Cole's Dreamville label who has previously collaborated with the likes of Joey Bada$$, A$AP Ferg, 6LACK, Ella Mai and Method Man).
JID's recent solo album 'The Forever Story' has been widely acclaimed by the likes of Pitchfork, Complex, Stereogum and many more. "We found out JID was a fan of our music and so started listening to his," explain the band.
"The feeling quickly became mutual. His writing and singing is so sharp and creative we had to ask him to be on a track! " The result is a sultry track that muses on the tribulations of being in a long term relationship, "showing your vulnerability and expressing your wishes to keep dreaming and growing with that person."
The EP also features previous single "Frisco" — a bouncy minimal dance track about "renewal, letting out your full potential and moving with the wave of change and life" — and "Peace", an ethereal, rhythmic song which features the acclaimed Swedish musician Stefan Sandberg, who contributes flute to the track.
Speaking about the release of the EP, Little Dragon share: "'Opening The Door' represents being brave and moving forward into the unknown. Endless possibilities and embracing uncertainty. We have so much new music to share, and it feels like we are finally opening the door and releasing it out from our bubble and into the universe! "
The EP follows the release of recent singles "Drifting Out" (a triptych comprising three takes on a central track, with contributions from Kelsey Lu and renowned cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Jakob Koranyi), "The Other Lover" (a collaboration with Moses Sumney), and the release of their 'New Me, Same Us' Remix EP which featured the likes of Midland, Octo Octa, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Ela Minus and many more.
Their most recent album 'New Me, Same Us' was released on Ninja Tune in 2020 and lauded by the likes of the New York Times, NPR, Pitchfork, The Guardian, Mixmag, Crack Magazine and many more. Entirely self-produced and recorded at the pioneering Swedish band's studio, 'New Me, Same Us' saw the band go back to basics, falling back in love with their instruments: drums, bass, keyboards, harp, guitar and voice, to produce some of their most focused and best music to date. The album hit #5 on Billboard's Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart in the US, with Mixmag calling it "a futuristic record bursting with lush textures and elevated by lead singer Yukimi Nagano's sublime vocals," and the Guardian finding them on "on deliciously soulful form."
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Festival in South Korea
In light of the political events that are now taking place between two countries with common roots, of course, strange sounding words about the holidays and festivals. But life always takes its toll: I hope that peace on earth ancient Joseon still will.
Long ago, in the late second Millennium BC, in the territory of the Korean Peninsula was an ancient state, which was called Joseon. As time passed, the state split into three tribal unions, which formed three other States – Silla, Goguryeo and Pekche.
In those ancient times of war between countries over the best land were not uncommon. It took a lot of time, and in 1392 the ruling Goryeo dynasty was replaced by the no less influential Joseon dynasty, which ruled until 1910. In the miserable year the country became a Japanese colony.
But it was not the last bowl of the adversity that befell a small country. After the Second world war, Korea had become a bargaining chip between Japan and the USSR. Then formed two new Korean States, the Republic of Korea and the DPRK. Each of them had its own path of development.
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Henry proves that names can be both the height of tradition and the definition of stylish at the same time.
Our Baby Name of the Day comes from this list of classic boy names.
It's the given name of fictional action hero-archeologist Indiana Jones.
England's Prince Harry was baptized Henry, too, with a mouthful of middles. (Charles Albert David, if you're curious.) British royals have used the name steadily over the years, though last reigning Henry is remembered most for his many wives.
Factor in plenty of other European monarchs, as well as a few saints, and this name appears regularly in the history books.
Fictional characters galore, including the first name of Dr. Jekyll and My Fair Lady's Dr. Higgins.
Keep digging, and you'll discover a pirate, a member of the Thomas the Tank Engine universe, a folk hero, an animated monster, and dozens upon dozens more.
Like many a Germanic name, this one came to England with the Norman invaders. For many years, Harry served as the preferred form in everyday life, even as Latin preserved the name as Henricus. Data suggests that it would have been one of the most popular names in the English-speaking world throughout the Middle Ages.
Surnames from Hendrix to Harrison also come from the many forms of the name as it traveled across Europe.
The Germanic original looked more like Heimrich, derived from the elements heim – home – and ric – ruler. It eventually became Heinrich. Other international forms include the French Henri, Italian Enrico, and Spanish Enrique.
Celebrities from Julia Roberts to Heidi Klum to Emily Deschanel have given the name to their sons over the last dozen years or so. It's climbed from #126 in 2000 to #22 in 2016. That often signals a trendy name – the next Aiden or Jackson.
Except nothing could be further from the case. Henry has appeared in the US Top 150 consistently since the data was collected way back in the 1880s.
Even if it hasn't always been favored by parents, it would be tough to call this name anything other than classic.
Today, given the name's quick rise along with its status as a go-to for many stylish families, it's that rare name that feels both timeless and very of the moment.
What sparked the name's revival?
With so many famous figures, it's tough to pin down the reason this name reversed course. But reverse course it did. A Top Ten pick in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the name left the Top 100 after the 1960s, and reached an all-time low in the 1970s and early 80s.
Prince Harry gave the name a bump – even in the US – following his 1984 birth. Kenneth Branagh's Oscar-nominated 1989 adaptation of Henry V seems to have helped, too.
But here's my best guess: the name had simply hibernated long enough to feel fresh again. If you already knew boys called Andrew and Nicholas, Matthew and Daniel, Henry presented a traditional-but-different alternative.
Nickname Hank feels like a friend for Max and Gus, and a few daring parents have even used Huck as an alternative short form.
This name's considerable popularity presents the only real drawback. Henry feels smart and cool, a name that works for a small boy or a grown man of accomplishment. You can't pin it to a specific era, but you're not surprised to hear it on a boy born today.
If you don't mind the possibility that your son will have to share his name with others, Henry feels like an unassailable classic with a serious cool factor.
Readers, would you consider this name? Or is it just too popular to make your shortlist?
Note: First published on May 22, 2008 and this post was revised and republished on December 3, 2012 and again on September 20, 2017.
Love it, such rich history and some memorable characters from literature!
FYI, my maiden name is a form of Henry.
If by some lucky happenstance we have another son, I'm still partial to Henry, but due to it's rising popularity I might jump straight up to Harry.
I have to second… Henry just doesn't appeal to me much. However, the only male figure my OH had as a kid was his Grandpoppa Henry Graham. So I stick Henry in the middle to make him happy (Cosmo Henry).
I know this is completely heretical in the name nerd community, but I absolutely cannot stand the name Henry. Something about it gets under my skin.
I know of eight Henrys born recently, six of whom have a parent who is a librarian or who spent some time working in libraries. I know one other Henry whose mother is also a librarian, but he's much older so he falls outside the newfound popularity.
There's also a Henry on the TV show Once Upon a Time who'd be about 11 years old now, making it easier to see the name on a kid.
For those of us who don't already know young Henrys.
I named my son Henry Everett John 12 years ago, before the boom. At the time I was looking for something like William, but the play grounds were full of little Wills. So Henry it was. I'm a bit irked that it has become so popular, but I love it none the less.
I simply adore Henry and agree entirely with the above comment about it being 'geek chic'. it is my hypothetic second boys name too! However, Henry has never really gone out of fashion the way it has lattely in the States but always lurked somewhere towards the bottom end of our top 50 – still love love love it though!
I love Hugo, too, but it's a family name on my BiL's side, so I've agreed to keep my mitts off that name. Hector, hmmm … that's a thought.
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[…] DIY'd, the kids have such great names.
[…] public eye, and would also change our ideas about the meaning.
[…] has more history than most.
[…] Henry and Hudson are both popular picks for boys.
[…] Deschanel welcomed a son, Henry.
[…] gypsy, but by the nineteenth century it applied to the artists in Paris' Latin Quarter.
[…] like Cannon and Gunner.
[…] likely to see the names used interchangeably.
[…] new husband just days after the wedding.
[…] Bynes played Daphne, an American who heads to London to meet her long-lost father, the aristocratic Henry Dashwood, played by Colin Firth.
[…] changing attitudes towards naming a son.
[…] the real story of Annora's endurance has to do with the Pierrepont family.
[…] My Fair Lady opens, Professor Henry Higgins is bragging that he can teach any person to speak the most elegant English.
[…] various forms, Humphrey had a good run in Medieval England.
[…] – Despite the -ana ending, intrepid explorer Henry Walton Jones makes this one slightly more masculine.
[…] was born in 1822.
[…] cred: Elvis Costello and Diana Krall used it for a son, Frank Harlan James, twin brother to Dexter Henry Lorcan.
[…] big fans of Henry, a Name of the Day back in May.
[…] written about Henry before.
[…] all very excited about the new Indiana Jones flick, don't you know?


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Libya: Government of National Accord (GEN) overturned decision that all imports must be paid for by official letters of credit
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Friday 4 December 2020 Last update on Friday, December 4, 2020 At 4:36 PM
The Ministry of Finance confirmed that its customs authority would allow the importation of goods without respecting the payment restrictions in force prescribed by the Central Bank of Libya (BCL), in accordance with the decree of November 24, 2020. For its part, the Central Bank of Libya (BCL) has published the budget data for the first 10 months of 2020.
As a reminder, the GEN decree of August 2020 stipulated that the period during which traders could import goods without a LC would end on December 31, 2020. The BCL has established a restricted list of goods that can be imported via the LCs that it considers to be necessary goods and products, in an attempt to preserve Libya's hard currency reserves.
However, these restrictions have led to the development of the black market for the import of goods not appearing on the BCL list, causing an increase in the demand for hard currencies on the parallel market, and therefore an increase in the price of these currencies, with a ripple effect on inflation and the cost of living.
The Central Bank of Libya (BCL) has published budgetary data for the first 10 months of 2020, which should be taken with caution given their opaque and fragmented nature.
Over the period from January 1 to October 31, 2020, budget revenue was limited to 4 billion LYD according to the BCL, far from the initial target of 8.1 billion LYD. Due to the closure of oil installations between January and September 2020, oil revenues over the first 10 months of 2020 amounted to only LYD 2.4 billion and represented 59.6% of budget revenues (compared to 92.6% on year 2019). Other revenue is mainly tax revenue (485 M LYD, or 12.0% of total budget revenue).
Revenue from the currency sales tax is however recorded separately and is not included by the BCL in total revenue, although it would amount to LYD 15.1 billion at the end of October 2020, of which 1.6 billion LYD has been allocated to finance public investment, and the rest allocated to repay the public debt.
Over the same period, budgetary expenditure would amount to 26.8 billion LYD (32.1 billion LYD initially planned). The BCL therefore registered a loan of 22.3 billion LYD to cover the "deficit". Salaries, the first item of expenditure, would represent 61% of total public expenditure at the end of October 2020, followed by subsidies (17%), goods and services (11%), and emergency expenditure (10%).
Regarding subsidies: 62% are fuel subsidies, 15% for drugs, 13% for electricity, 7% for sanitation and 4% for water. While the BCL denounces the inaccuracy of data from the National Oil Corporation (NOC), the NOC issued a statement to refute the accusations.
The NOC thus declares that the real oil revenues deposited with the BCL during the first 10 of the year 2020 amounted to 3.7 billion USD, or 5.2 billion LYD according to the official exchange rate (and not 2, 4 billion LYD as presented by the BCL). The NOC asks the BCL to correct its statements, and says that failing to correct it, the NOC will resort to the authority of the attorney general.
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Warning, this chapter contains a little math. It's nothing intimidating, mostly multiplication and some simple algebra, but I know a lot of people don't like it. If that describes you, I urge you to read the chapter anyway. It's one of the most important in the book. You can skip the math and get the ideas anyway.
Two of the most important discoveries about risk were made in the 1950s by Harry Markowitz and John Kelly. Markowitz's result became the basis of modern finance. Kelly's result received much less academic attention, and was rejected by many mainstream economists. From a practical standpoint, however, the situation was reversed. Markowitz's theory was crucially important, but the computer power available at the time was insufficient to translate it into practical results. When advances in computers solved that problem, the pure Markowitz portfolios proved to be unusable.
In contrast, Kelly's result proved invaluable for practical risk takers. It did not require computer power. It was not a useful abstraction for understanding the true nature of things; it was a practical formula for direct application. However, it could not achieve its full power until it was linked with Markowitz's work, something that did not happen until the late 1980s.


Translated excerpt from: Saigo no Hikotei (The Last Flying Boat) Lt. Hitsuji was a pilot of an H6K2 Mavis Flying boat of the 851 Kokutai on November 21, 1942 when he encountered a B-17E 41-2433 also on patrol.
"Enemy plane! Close! Starboard and to the rear!" the tail gunner reported. "All men on air to air battle station!" I yelled as I put the plane in a full speed dive to sea level.
"Okay we're ready" someone said. At altitude 30 meters and speed 150 knots, we headed towards squally skied in the direction of our base. The enemy didn't start his attack immediately. It flew alongside us and passed us. I figured that he was avoiding our tail cannon. It would probably be making a frontal attack. The shoot-out was about to begin.
I took off my muffler and threw it to Lt(jg) Ide who was shooting away, and yelled "Stop his bleeding!" I could see from the tank chamber window that gas was gushing out of a hit tank. It was a miracle that it wasn't on fire. The floor was soon covered with gas. I injected additional CO2 gas, and I could see the white gas filling the tank chamber. The injured mechanic was still yelling "Gasoline!". I could only yell back "It's okay! You worry about yourself!"
On their sixth pass, the moment I saw their tail gun fire, there was an enormous banging noise up front gunner PO1 Takahashi pointed to the floor beneath the pilot's seat and I noted a big hole about 30cm, on the keel of our bow. I could see waves from the hole.
By this time, I was sure that this enemy has shot down more than one flying boat. "It wasn't fighters. It was this guy. Another patrol plane! I'm going to get him. He is not going to have anymore kill marks!" As I came to this realization, there was a new determination in my mind. If we can't down him with our guns, we will ram him. I drew and loaded my pistol.
"Not yet!" I yelled, thinking that he was about to ram the B-17, but soon realized that our co-pilot PO1 Kira evaded a collision with the enemy who came in from the side. The enemy passed about 30 meters behind us. The tail gunner poured an entire drum of 20mm cannon shells into the B-17.
Lt. Hitsuji's H6K made it back to Shortland Seaplane Base. As soon as the nose touched the water on landing, water started gushing in from the hole in the bow. Since they did not have material to close the big hole in the bow, they stuffed their life jackets into the hole. This obviously wasn't holding up, and six men piled up on the life jacket-stuffed hole to stop the water. By the time they were beached, these men had their head barely above water. Everyone was covered with water, oil, and blood.
Their plane #36 (could have tail code O-36 or 851-36 or 51-36) had ninety-three 50 caliber bullet holes.
Measures were immediately taken to improve the defensive capability of the flying boats. The following conversions were made in the field.
Lt. Hitsuji survived the war, and wrote his biography which was published as Saigo no Hikotei (The Last Flying Boat).


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Enerkem obtains the ISCC certification and is ready to export biomethanol as a biofuel in EU
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Enerkem Inc., a Canadian waste-to-biofuels and chemicals producer, yesterday announced it has obtained certification from the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) system for the biomethanol production of its Enerkem Alberta Biofuels full-scale facility in Edmonton, Canada. This biorefinery therefore becomes the first ISCC certified plant in the world to convert municipal solid waste into biomethanol.
"This reputable third-party certification confirms that Enerkem meets high ecological and social sustainability requirements. Enerkem already sells its biomethanol as a renewable chemical in North America and, with the ISCC certification, we are now adding flexibility to export it as a biofuel in Europe, said Tim Cesarek, Senior Vice President, Business Development. With the addition of a biomethanol-to-ethanol conversion module in the second half of 2016, this biorefinery will also become the first to sell multiple renewable fuel and chemical products made from waste."
Biofuels used in Europe, such as biomethanol and ethanol, must prove, through third-party certification under an approved certification scheme such as ISCC EU, that they comply with stringent criteria in terms of greenhouse gas savings, sustainability and traceability of the entire supply chain and are compliant with the European Renewable Energy Directive (RED). Under the RED Directive, all EU countries must ensure that at least 10% of their transport fuels come from renewable sources by 2020. The RED Directive also gives waste-based biofuels such as Enerkem's methanol and ethanol the advantage to count double towards this 10% requirement.
Headquartered in Montreal (Canada), Enerkem owns a full-scale commercial facility in Alberta as well as a demonstration plant and a pilot facility in Quebec. The company is developing additional biorefineries in North America and globally, based on its modular manufacturing approach.
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is there a way that I can position content above this tab?
I'm using drupal 6

A: Create a region in your page.tpl.php above where the $tabs variable is output.
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Q: How to programatically add files to the Plupload queue? Since my previous question wasn't answered, let me put it in a different way.
I would like someone to provide a functional example on how to programatically add a file to plupload queue, ready for uploading.
Perhaps something like this:
$('#uploader').on("ready", function() {
    uploader.addFile("c:\\file.jpg");
});

This code isn't working, though.
Thanks.

A: I just attempted to do this and I don't think it is possible to do this. The reason being security. Imagine if you created a script like you suggest with a link to a picture and just loaded it on 100,000 clients. One of those clients might just have a link to that photo and off it would go to your website! And you wouldn't have needed their permission.
That being said, there is an addFile() method that Plupload provides but it needs a File object and getting that File object programatically is the forbidden part. The core issue is getting the File reference in order to then get the File object.


Phys Med Biol. 2010 Nov 21;55(22):6841-56. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/22/015. Epub 2010 Nov 3.
Optimizing a three-stage Compton camera for measuring prompt gamma rays emitted during proton radiotherapy.
Peterson SW1, Robertson D, Polf J.
Department of Radiation Physics, Unit 94, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX 77030, USA.
In this work, we investigate the use of a three-stage Compton camera to measure secondary prompt gamma rays emitted from patients treated with proton beam radiotherapy. The purpose of this study was (1) to develop an optimal three-stage Compton camera specifically designed to measure prompt gamma rays emitted from tissue and (2) to determine the feasibility of using this optimized Compton camera design to measure and image prompt gamma rays emitted during proton beam irradiation. The three-stage Compton camera was modeled in Geant4 as three high-purity germanium detector stages arranged in parallel-plane geometry. Initially, an isotropic gamma source ranging from 0 to 15 MeV was used to determine lateral width and thickness of the detector stages that provided the optimal detection efficiency. Then, the gamma source was replaced by a proton beam irradiating a tissue phantom to calculate the overall efficiency of the optimized camera for detecting emitted prompt gammas. The overall calculated efficiencies varied from ∼ 10(-6) to 10(-3) prompt gammas detected per proton incident on the tissue phantom for several variations of the optimal camera design studied. Based on the overall efficiency results, we believe it feasible that a three-stage Compton camera could detect a sufficient number of prompt gammas to allow measurement and imaging of prompt gamma emission during proton radiotherapy.
Diagram of the 3-stage Compton camera setup in parallel-plane geometry showing (on left) the Compton scatter angles (θ1, θ2) and the gamma ray energy (E0, E1, E2) as it travels through the detectors (D1, D2, D3), as well as the projected cone used to reconstruct the images. On the right, an identical Compton camera setup with the prompt gamma originating from a proton beam irradiating a tissue phantom producing a prompt gamma ray that subsequently interacts in the Compton camera with the interaction position and energy deposition in each detector shown.
Transport efficiencies for all three detector stages, D1 (•), D2 (∇) and D3 (■) as a function of their respective widths at initial gamma energy of 6.13 MeV. The D1 transport efficiency is the percentage of prompt gammas that enter D1, shown with a data fit (dashed line) using the solid angle at a distance of 15 cm from the source. The calculated transport efficiencies were found to be independent of thickness for all three detector stages. Therefore an arbitrary thickness of 3 cm was set for all three stages.
(a) The interaction efficiencies (solid symbols) and transport efficiencies (empty symbols) for all three detector stages, D1 (circles), D2 (triangles) and D3 (squares) as a function of their respective thicknesses at initial gamma energy of 6.13 MeV. (b) The product of (•) and (∇) as function of detector thickness at initial gamma energy of 6.13 MeV. The detector width for each stage was set to a 'practical' value of 10 cm.
Percent change in the overall efficiency of the optimized three-stage detector with adjusting the distance between the detectors stages, with three different scenarios. First, varying the gap between D1 and D2 while holding the D2–D3 gap constant (•). Second, holding the D1–D2 gap constant while adjusting the D2–D3 gap (∇). Lastly, changing both the D1–D2 inter-detector gap and the D2–D3 gap (■).
Overall efficiency results from the isotropic gamma source for energies 0–15 MeV including the characteristic prompt gamma peaks (symbols) of 2.31, 4.44 and 6.13 MeV. Five detector configurations are shown: the practical detector, 3 × 10, 3 × 10, 10 × 10 cm (•), 3 × 20, 3 × 20, 10 × 20 cm (∇); 3 × 50, 3 × 50, 10 × 50 cm (▲); 3 × 10, 3 × 100, 10 × 100 cm (■); 3 × 100, 3 × 100, 10 × 100 cm (◇).
Overall efficiency results (left axis) for detection of prompt gammas produced during proton irradiation from 50 to 250 MeV for the four detector configurations: 3 × 10, 3 × 10, 10 × cm (•); 3 × 20, 3 × 20, 10 × 20 cm (∇); 3 × 10, 3 × 100, 10 × 100 cm (■); 3 × 100, 3 × 100, 10 × 100 cm (◇). On the right axis is the estimated triple scatter events detected for a typical proton treatment beam delivery of 4 × 1011 protons entering the patient.


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Debatable Reunion
A myriad of familiar faces crisscrossed Derek as he tried to cross the party. Everyone had a phone to put in someone's face. Everyone had something they were looking to hide behind. If you look at this, you won't have to look at me.
Derek realized he was being judgmental. But there was nothing to be done about that. It was who he was. It encapsulated his gait, his tight clothes, and his closely trimmed hair and beard. He knew he could tell what everyone was thinking. That hadn't atrophied in the time away. While they had been separated, everyone was an echo across technological chasms. He'd remained in contact with some of them via phones and chats. But he couldn't get as sharp a bead on them. Not seeing them offset his natural leg-up. Without it, he felt exposed. All interaction was a contest in their group, and with his chief weapon down, Derek had taken too many L's for his liking.
It twisted his mind, seeing Barry speaking, knowing how Barry spun his words around when they spoke via Skype. Lena had dragged him with a master's use of logical fallacies. She could turn any yes into a no. Karen only believed things she learned firsthand from primary sources. So she could never be debated on anything but her own terms. None of them could say anything without offending the other, so they drank and sat in front of the TV playing trivia games on it.
Lewis didn't get drunk, so he was back at the corner of the room, typing his answers without saying much. Lewis's sobriety was his weapon. If Derek was going to score points against him, it would have to be before he got too drunk. Back when he was in middle school, Lewis sent notes to each class member asking them to go out with him. That brute, cold, capitalist numbers game continued to instruct his social interactions. Not drinking tilted the room in his favor in the contest of discussion.
Natasha was the easiest comedian and dominated any game revolving around cleverness. Even if she often had a shallow point, or no point at all, it was hard to argue while laughing.
Lena and Barry finally entered the ring first. In what began as a statement regarding the free speech of alt-right protesters, Barry found himself with bad allies, and Lena beat him into a pulp, until he had to concede that not only should they not be allowed to speak, but that the mandatory minimum for punishment should be 15 years. Natasha briefly asked if we were verging on fascism, but she said it in a funny anecdote so as not to throw all of them into despair. A true jester. Lewis watched the debate but said nothing. People weren't drunk enough yet. Derek could tell what he was thinking. He tried to pounce on Lewis early—to score some points before it was too late—but Karen swooped in to save him, bouncing back to a comment Barry had just made without citing a primary source. When Barry couldn't remember where he'd heard it, he was finished. Technical knockout.
After another round of games, Derek headed outside. The driveway was empty. All of the cars were parked on the street. The wet ground and overcast sky belied a rainstorm that had passed. He lit up a joint and smoked it on the stoop. The highway was near enough for the cars going by the to sound like ocean waves. Halfway down his smoke, Natasha sat down near him. He offered it to her.
"If Lewis sees this, we're done," she said while taking a drag.
"He'll already come at me for earlier," Derek said.
They smoked in silence for a moment. More waves crested.
"Do you think we should give it another try?" Derek asked.
"You've just been lonely."
"Aren't we all?"
"We all were. Now we're here."
"Is that any better?"
"Does it feel better?"
"Is that one of your jokes?"
"Shouldn't you already know what I'm thinking?"
"I think my own head is too loud for that right now. I can't hear anyone else."
"What's it saying so loudly?"
"That trip we took to Salem. To see all the witch stuff."
"Hm. What a hokey place."
"Yeah. But it was autumn. It was chilly. The drive was long. The mixes were good."
"The 'Getting a Little Blue" list especially."
"Well…what about it?"
"It was, I think, when I've been the happiest I've ever been. That's what's been so loud."
Natasha nodded, and they both stared down the driveway.
"You ever think that?" Derek asked.
Natasha shook her head. "You ask me, none of us like each other. We're trapped together like a black hole. So much time, so much familiarity, so much resentment. We've all become a singularity. It's all part of the same thing."
"All of it?"
"All of it. I think I might move to Santa Fe. It sounds like a place with a lot of space."
"I can't imagine wanting more space."
"I didn't know I wanted it until I got it."
"Ah." More waves crashed on the cement just beyond the line of pines. The rain began to drizzle again. "That one of your jokes? Santa Fe?"
"Read my mind and tell me."
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, located in The Domain, Sydney.
Sydney, Australia, is well known for its many art galleries and cultural venues. Although millions of people visit Sydney every year to sightsee, shop, relax or even just enjoy its beaches, a stop at one of its many galleries is virtually mandatory. Art galleries in Sydney are diverse and include contemporary, Aboriginal and traditional art. Whether you are seeking out a national gallery, an educational gallery or a small boutique gallery, Sydney has something just right for you.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales may well be the city's best-known gallery and is one of the country's top cultural institutions. With more than a million visitors annually, the Art Gallery of New South Wales houses an extensive collection of Aboriginal, Australian, Asian, European and contemporary art. It overlooks picturesque Sydney Harbour, offers free admission and is just a 15-minute walk from the CBD.
Another popular art gallery in Sydney is the Museum of Contemporary Art. The Museum of Contemporary Art, which is located in The Rocks, welcomes more than half a million visitors every year. This museum features exhibits that change regularly and interprets the work of numerous artists from across Australia and around the globe. Free tours are available, and the museum is open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. daily.
A less well-known but no less important art gallery is the S.H. Ervin Gallery, which is located in Sydney's historic National Trust Centre in The Rocks' Observatory Hill. The S.H. Ervin Gallery presents contemporary and historic Australian art in new and unexpected contexts. It is renowned for promoting research and scholarly appraisals of Australian artworks. The S.H. Ervin Gallery has focused attention on female artists in particular, including Kathleen O'Connor, Violet Teague, and Margo Lewers.
Another historic gallery is the Object gallery, located in the former St. Margaret's Hospital in Surry Hills near Darlinghurst. Object is committed to arts education and design. Children and adults alike can work together and experiment to solve design problems creatively in Object's one-of-a-kind circular space, which is dedicated to design and craft. Programs are geared towards primary through tertiary students and can be booked online.
The White Rabbit gallery has an unusual name and unusual art, such as "Valentine's Day," which features tiny chocolate grenades and tanks, a commentary on the narrow line between love and war. The White Rabbit is four stories of dazzlingly complex Chinese art complete with a tearoom and is located in the suburb of Chippendale.
The Casula Powerhouse is located in Liverpool, which is just over 30 kilometres from Sydney's CBD. It is a multi-disciplinary art gallery that features six dynamic galleries, a 326-seat theatre, two studios and a permanent collection of artworks in a climate-controlled facility. Casula Powerhouse is dedicated to the global community and to reflecting culturally diverse art and ideas. Not only does this gallery encourage emerging and established Sydney artists, but it also provides educational opportunities, including workshops, tours and artist talks, to local schools and students.
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Given a federal agency, what can I expect to find on the regulations.gov API?
As an example, I'm very interested in working with rulemaking data from the FCC. Because the FCC is an independent agency, I've heard that its publishing requirements are different from non-independent federal agencies. While some agencies publish the full rulemaking record (including comments submitted by 3rd parties), the FCC publishes on regulations.gov only documents that it produces (e.g. Orders, NPRMs, and the like).
It would be nice to know:
1) The laws and sources of these different rules
2) If there is any canonical list of what is available on regulations.gov on a per-agency basis
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Regulations.gov offers a list of participating agencies in PDF Format on its About Page:
Participating Agencies: http://www.regulations.gov/docs/Participating_Agencies.pdf
Non-Participating Agencies: http://www.regulations.gov/docs/Non_Participating_Agencies.pdf
On the Regulations.gov FAQ, they describe what a non-participating agency does and does not provide:
A Non Participating agency is a Federal agency that publishes Federal Register documents on Regulations.gov but does not participate in the eRulemaking program; therefore, public comments and additional supporting documentation are not posted on Regulations.gov. In order to view these comments, users should contact the agency directly. In order to find the contact, reference the section in the Federal Register entitled "For further information contact."
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The participating/non-participating lists are a good place to start. In general, you can expect that agencies on the "participating" list will have everything, including comments, though how far back they go will vary. Which agencies fall into which categories is determined partially by statute and subsequent executive order, and, for those agencies not required to participate, by agency preference (I discussed the specifics a bit more in a blog post). For the FCC in particular, as you know, you're fortunate in that comment data is available in at least a semi-sane format from the FCC itself, via ECFS.
As to your other question, about the laws that authorize rulemakings, that turns out to be a giant can of worms, but one I'm super-interested in. The short answer is that regulations.gov alone probably won't be able to answer that question for you in its entirety, but you can probably get closer in combination with other sources. There are a few different paths:
Authority references will be included in the text of the rule, sometimes as a separate Authority section (particularly for final rules), and sometimes as a note at the end of a section. You're more likely to be able to identify these if you examine the HTML representation of the document from federalregister.gov than the plain-text representation you get from regulations.gov's API, so that's probably a good starting place. You can cross-walk from one to the other via the federal register number often included with a rule on regulations.gov. (Side-note: regulations.gov now uses this nicer HTML for regulations.gov display purposes, as of just recently, though they don't yet make it available via the API; I expect this will be rectified soon-ish).
Separate authority metadata is available for rules that meet a high enough threshold of significance for them to be subject to review by OIRA. If that happens, there will be additional structured data about authority. Again, federalregister.gov is the best bet, and they pull these OIRA authorities out as separate metadata fields.
Once a rule has been codified into the Code of Federal Regulations, you can trace authority from the CFR back to the US Code via the Parallel table of Authorities and Rules (PTAR); Sunlight has at least a first pass at a parser for it if you want it structured. This source is much messier than the others, though... probably best as a last resort.
So... no simple answer, but hopefully that's a start. (Also, I almost recommended that you look at Dokket for more info about the FCC, before I realized who had asked this question.)
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Hey, Andrew! Thanks for the great response. Our discussions with Eric inspired me to ask this here, so I'm really glad you took the time to write your response. This is really good, actionable stuff. – user94154 May 10 '13 at 2:18
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SETTLING IN SURREY: 'My family is broken,' says Somali refugee who hasn't seen son in six years
The last time Khadija Ahmed saw her son he was four weeks old. Today, he's six.
The Somali refugee thought the day she learned of being accepted into Canada would be the happiest of her life, but it was actually a day that ripped her life apart, a day that has left years of suffering in its wake.
Her son was just two weeks old when she learned she was coming to Canada in 2009.
But there was a big problem. Ahmed filed her application several years earlier, including her three sons. She hadn't updated it to include her husband or infant son.
She was forced to make a choice no mother should ever have to make: Stay with her husband and newborn son and start the application process all over again or leave with three of her children, hoping to give them a better life, hoping the rest of her family would be soon behind her.
She chose the latter.
"Every day (they) call me," she said slowly, sitting in City Centre Library in Surrey's downtown core, tears filling her eyes. "My family is broken."
She's still pushing to get them here.
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Quantum Technology: Photons On Chip Paves Way For Advanced Quantum Computing
First Posted: Nov 13, 2015 11:13 AM EST
Researchers are now adding photon pairs that fit into tiny computer chips, and this new twist is taking quantum computing to another level. The researchers' new technique enables quantum optical technology to be more advanced and efficient compared to current technology and secure communications, according to a study at RMIT University in Australia.
The new technique was created around a micro-ring resonator, which is a miniature optical cavity. This allows energy conservation constraints to be used extensively and quantum processes to be increased. The new technique uses laser beams through varying wavelengths. The researchers had to be careful with technique to avoid destroying the photons' fragile quantum features.
"While a similar suppression of classical effects has been observed in gas vapours and complex micro-structured fibres, this is the first time it has been reported on a chip, opening a route for building scalable integrated devices that exploit the mixing of polarization on a single photon level,'' said Professor David Moss, director of RMIT MicroNano Research Facility and co-author of the study.
"These are fundamental requirements for the ultimate widespread adoption of optical quantum technologies," he added.
The findings of this study were published in Nature Communications.
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  util = require("util"),
  EventEmitter = require("events").EventEmitter,
  pauseable = require("pauseable"),
  equal = require("deep-equal");

module.exports = pollingtoevent;

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    firstpoll = true,
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  // Inherit from EventEmitter
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      params.push(arguments[i]);
    }
    debug("Emitting '%s'.", options.eventName);
    // Emit the interval event after every polling
    _this.emit.apply(_this, [options.eventName].concat(params));

    // If this is the first call or long polling is set, compare
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      debug("Comparing last polled parameters");
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      if (!equal(params, lastParams)) {
        debug("Last polled data and previous poll data are not equal.");
        debug("Emitting '%s'.", options.longpollEventName);
        // Emit the longpoll event after longpolling
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      } else {
        debug("Last polled data and previous poll data are equal.");
      }
      lastParams = params;
    }
    // Set this to false when the function ends
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  }

  // Call the function right away
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        func(done);
      }
    }, options.interval);
  }, 0);
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}

// Inherit from EventEmitter
util.inherits(pollingtoevent, EventEmitter);

pollingtoevent.prototype.pause = function() {
  debug("Pausing interval");
  this.interval.pause();
}

pollingtoevent.prototype.resume = function() {
  debug("Resuming interval");
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}

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