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NVH proceeds with boiler replacement
by Brent Baker • July 19, 2013 4:32 pm
TONASKET – North Valley Hospital is proceeding with the replacement of its aging boiler system, a portion of which is inoperative and will leave the hospital inadequately heated this fall if the issue isn't addressed immediately.
Kelly Cariker, who doubles as the Facilities Director and Chief Information Officer, reported on the status of the boiler project at the Thursday, July 11, NVH Board of Commissioners meeting.
The boiler system will be replaced by a geothermal system, he said, with the project to be taken on in phases. The first phase will deal with the portion of the system that is currently inoperative.
The McKinstry Construction Corporation, which has taken on numerous health care facilities projects and is overseen by the state's Department of Enterprise Services, presented the hospital with a number of options, Cariker said.
The options included:
– replace the boilers with propane boilers;
– replace the boilers with the same type of fuel oil type boilers currently used;
– replace the boilers with electric boilers;
– replace the boilers with a geothermal system, which can provide both heat and cooling at the same time.
"Currently we have the fuel oil, basically using diesel to make steam, then cooling the steam down to make hot water," Cariker said. "It's really inefficient. Because we have the one boiler that is down we'll be unable to provide enough heat or hot water once the weather changes, which will probably be in October.
"That's an emergency situation."
Cariker said that McKinstry, along with a team that included hospital senior leadership and board members Lael Duncan and Dick Larson, reviewed factors that included system cost, energy usage and efficiency, redundancy, versatility, maintenance, environmental impact, phasing flexibility, equipment life, system turndown, future expandability, reliability, complexity of control systems, fuel storage considerations and amount of space required.
The consensus, Cariker said, was that while a geothermal system would carry greater up front costs, for the long term it was the best solution for the hospital's needs.
"It will be a hybrid system," he said. "Phase I would be a smaller propane boiler to provide redundancy if the geothermal system ever went down. It also enables us to phase in, because the first phase is to replace the non-working boiler right now and get us through the winter.
"Then we can look at the other phases, which would include putting in wells for the geothermal. But this gives us the time to get through the winter."
With time of the essence, CEO Linda Michel individually polled the rest of the board members before authorizing McKinstry to proceed.
"We had to give them an answer or we won't meet the Ocotber time frame for the first phase," Michel said. "All of the board members voted 'yes,' so we did inform then they could go ahead with that first phase."
Duncan, who participated in the meeting via phone, said she had great confidence in McKinstry.
"They are internationally recognized as experts … they know what they're doing," Duncan said. "They'll be assisting us with grant writing to help fund this. They have connections with the Department of Commerce…
"I'm hopeful we can really upgrade and sustain the system as a long term system instead of just a Band-Aid."
The next step was for McKinstry to put together a guaranteed maximum bid for the project.
"The Department of Enterprise Services … looks over everything McKinstry does so we can make sure we're being as cost-effective as we can," Cariker said. "They guarantee the maximum amount. If they go over that, McKinstry pays for it. If they come in under that, we get the money back. So that's kind of a win-win scenario."
Cariker said that, with the state budget finalized, there may be some grant money available for the project that McKinstry has begun researching.
"There is … $10 million for small communities," he said. "They're breaking that up into maximums of half a million. (McKinstry) is also looking to see if there are emergency monies available, and we're pursuing that at the same time."
Duncan reiterated her position from a previous meeting that asking for legislative help would be appropriate, given the circumstances.
"It's time for us to get hold of Rep. Joel Kretz (R-Wauconda) and let him know that we need some sort of assistance with this project at the next session in January," she said. "We can get through Phase I with the propane boiler, but it's completely appropriate to ask the state for additional assistance with funding this improvement."
Medicare, Medicaid still holding funds
Patient Financial Services director Jana Symonds presented a synopsis compiled by her and chargemaster Patrick Plumb that illustrated where and why Medicare and Medicaid have been withholding funds, which has been a major factor in driving the hospital district's warrants back up over $1.9 million.
The funds are being withheld in several different manners for different reasons, which include national-level software glitches and system and procedural changes.
The percentage of hospital payers in Medicare is 44 percent; those in Medicare managed care plans are 24 percent; and Medicaid recipients are 18 percent. So the effects have been drastic, Symonds said during her presentation, which expanded on information presented at the previous Board of Commissioners meeting.
"Patrick is on a provider outreach board," she said. "He's written extensive emails to CMS, Medicare, (Congressman) Doc Hastings, (Senators) Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, alerting all parties as to what's happening with our warrants.
"We call it holding our money captive because it's not at our disposal. We've been vocal on letting them know what's happening and how it's affecting us."
In other business, Michel said that papers have been signed for the sale of the Oroville Clinic for more than $600,000.
Michel also said she was pleased that the laboratory received just one "finding" during a recent inspection.
"It was a documentation finding, so I applaud Noreen (Olma) and her staff," she said. "I've never been any place that had only one finding. It's the auditors' job to come up with those."
Also, Long Term Care director Linda Holden said that the nursing home had received 42 new dressers and night stands thanks to the Hospital Foundation's efforts.
"I just wanted to make a public thank you to the Foundation for gifting us those," Holden said. "They're beautiful and getting moved in now. I was wishing Linda Noon would have been here to thank her, so I may have to do this again."
The Board of Commissioners next meets on Thursday, July 25.
The following meeting, for Aug. 8, will be canceled and rescheduled for Monday, Aug. 5.
Two inmates escape jail escape from Okanogan County Jail
By Laura Knowlton


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Bloomberg Is Expanding its Social News Network Beyond Twitter
Bloomberg Media thinks its one-year-old TicToc news brand has cracked the code on delivering bite-size chunks of news and analysis to a millennial-skewing mobile crowd on Twitter. Now it is taking TicToc to other platforms and screens — including plans to launch TicToc on dedicated apps and connected TVs.
There was no guarantee when TicToc by Bloomberg debuted in December 2017 that it would be able to get traction with the concept: a reimagining of the 24-hour news channel, with much of the dispatches delivered in 30- to 60-second video bursts.
But Bloomberg says TicToc has hit critical mass. Within the first 12 months, TicToc has topped 500,000 followers (currently, it has 516,000). Today it has around 2.2 million average daily views and 1.5 million average daily viewers on Twitter, according to Bloomberg.
"The aspiration is to be the news network for the next generation," said TicToc general manager Jean Ellen Cowgill (pictured above). The service is capturing followers among "the new guard of business leaders around the world" in their 20s and 30s, she said: "Dominant news brands haven't innovated their editorial model fully."
Scott Havens, Bloomberg Media's global head of digital, declined to discuss financial results for TicToc. But he said the company's goal for the initiative was to achieve at least breakeven profitability and that TicToc has "largely hit that mark."
"When we first launched this, we had aggressive goals – we really wanted it to pay for itself," Havens said. "Many of the other social-video news guys out there have had trouble hitting scale."
Next up: Bloomberg is prepping the launch of TicToc's owned-and-operated digital video platform early in the first quarter of 2019. That will let viewers catch up on the news for longer periods of time on larger screens and include some longer-form programming, according to Cowgill. And there's potential to build TicToc into an over-the-top streaming network that could be licensed to TV and OTT distributors, and even a direct-to-consumer subscription service in the future, Havens added: "The old cable model is coming undone."
In addition, Bloomberg this week is launching TicToc on video screens at major airports, under a new partnership with Reach TV. Initially, TicToc news will play on over 500 screens in some 30 airports in the U.S. and Canada, with plans to expand to additional airports in early 2019 including parts of Europe.
TicToc also has launched a daily podcast and a newsletter, and recently began distributing news on Amazon Echo and screens on taxis and ferries in New York. "We want TicToc to be there in all the different moments in your day where screens could provide something of value," Cowgill said. She joined Bloomberg Media as TicToc's GM in June, after previously serving as president of Atlantic 57, the marketing consultancy and creative agency of The Atlantic.
The company is keeping TicToc on Twitter (at twitter.com/tictoc) under its multiyear deal with the social network, but also has ramped up its output to Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and other digital platforms. "We're expanding our wings," Havens said. "There are other platforms and distribution methods to get the content out there."
Bloomberg Media has staffed up the TicToc team with 70 producers, editors and social-media specialists across three bureaus — New York, London and Hong Kong. The editorial team is headed by Mindy Massucci, TicToc's head of global content. In the first year, TicToc posted over 100,000 tweets and 4,000 live-streaming video sessions.
Whereas Bloomberg TV is focused on financial news and markets, TicToc is positioned as a general news source, covering topics including global news, business, technology, sports, culture and entertainment. All of TicToc's videos are designed to maximize the screen space through data, text, images and video, packing in "nutrient rich" information on the day's top stories, according to Cowgill.
The service will produce new original short-form series that run longer than the minute-long video length targeted on Twitter and other social platforms. The shows will include news recaps and features that are more evergreen, Cowgill said. But it's not looking to have anchors for TicToc. "The traditional talking-heads model doesn't work as well on social and digital platforms," she said.
For TicToc's first year, Bloomberg signed seven advertisers to one-year deals: AT&T, CA Technologies, Goldman Sachs, Infiniti, SAS, TD Ameritrade, and CME Group. It has landed about a dozen additional sponsors and is in talks about renewing the pacts with the launch advertisers for 2019.
TicToc in some cases repackages stories and video clips from the other parts of Bloomberg, alongside its original content. Havens said TicToc is reaching a brand-new audience beyond its terminal clientele: "TicToc was based on our hypothesis that we could have broader appeal" than Bloomberg's traditional media properties, he said.

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Tamara Fyke / Community
Two mass shootings in one weekend. I just read an article that said Americans have become accustomed to shootings at schools, concerts, and workplaces, but that these last two shootings are different―these two have left us stunned.
Yes, I'm stunned, but I disagree with the premise―There is nothing customary about a planned attack to murder innocent lives. I'll never become accustomed to it, my neighbors are not accustomed to it and, as painfully common as these events have become, I don't believe most Americans consider it "normal."
Perhaps what the reporter was trying to convey was a feeling of desperation and frustration. It has been over 20 years of such senseless violence. We can't help but sometimes feel helpless amid our sadness, our anguish, and our anger.
I remember working in a middle school in Arkansas where a shooting had occurred in 1998. The Love In A Big World team and I were there to be part of the healing process. It was several months after the incident…after the news stories had stopped and many teachers had left. But the students couldn't leave. This was their school. Some teachers chose to stay until these students moved on to high school. They didn't want the kids to be left alone with the memories of that fateful day.
We found a similar scenario in a Florida middle school devastated by violence in 2000. Students and teachers alike struggled through the pain and fear of the trauma while longing to return to some sort of normalcy. But what is normal? Is it normal for us to walk around our schools and workplaces―spaces where we spend the majority of our waking hours―without knowing the people around us? Let's be real, sometimes we do not even take a moment to acknowledge another human being's existence with a glance or a smile because we are so focused on the job that needs to be done.
When I worked at the Center for Safe & Supportive Schools at Vanderbilt with Dr. Maury Nation, we provided support to schools across the State of Tennessee around issues of safety and climate. We researched issues that schools are facing and then consulted with them in their buildings about solutions and successful implementation. When it comes to gun violence, are metal detectors and surveillance cameras the real solution to creating safer spaces? As long as guns are a real threat, I'm not saying schools shouldn't take any such steps possible, but this is not a long-term strategy and is not a solution to changing the trend of violence. The solution I propose, for healing now but also for improving students' outcomes in the future, is to focus on relationships.
When Hendersonville High School was dealing with student suicide, they decided to take a preventative approach by instituting Advisory Period, a dedicated time of the week for students to build relationships with teachers and peers. By changing the culture (what we do), they changed the climate (how it feels). They created a sense of belonging.
Over the coming days and weeks, there will be much speculation about why the incidents occurred in Texas and Ohio. There are a multitude of factors that will be difficult, if not impossible, to untangle. While these two tragedies didn't happen in schools, we know the victims include people who were part of our schools, and we know there are devastated communities that have a long healing process ahead―much of which will take place in our schools and community organizations. The challenge before all of us is not to withdraw from the our children when they need us most.
Educators, thank you for your faithful service to our kids, families, and communities. You are on the front lines. Build meaningful relationships with your students and with each other.
Families, get involved. Volunteer at your child's school throughout their school career, not just in the elementary grades. Attend their sporting events and other special activities. Communicate with their teachers. Get to know other families – invite them over for dinner.
Together, let's build strong and healthy communities through intentional relationships. It's simple, but not always easy. And it starts by looking people in the eye, sharing a smile…even calling them by name. If a pack of wolves can change the landscape of Yellowstone National Park, then, I believe, we can bring hope and healing to our kids, families, schools, and communities. I'm not saying it's easy, or that this will immediately change everything and prevent pain from touching our communities again, or that there aren't still major fights―policy debates and otherwise―that lie ahead for our nation, and that will require our bold efforts. But I am saying this is a start, that it is within our reach, and that it will make a meaningful difference for the students and families we serve. Let's make sure each and every person―young and old―feels seen, known, valued, and loved.
Tamara Fyke is an educator and creative entrepreneur with a passion for kids, families, and urban communities. She is the creator, author, and brand manager for Love In A Big World, which equips K-8 educators with a social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum that is both research-based and practical, and also provides the supporting resources necessary to empower students to be socially competent, emotionally healthy problem-solvers who discover and maintain a sense of purpose and make a positive difference in the world.
Tamara is the editor of Building People: Social & Emotional Learning for Kids, Schools & Communities, a book that brings 12 wide-ranging perspectives on SEL to educators, parents, and leaders.
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const exec = require('child_process').execSync;
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Te explore what harvest festival is about, and to link that with Jesus offering of hope and life to both people in today's reading.
with what might we compare the kingdom of God?
both are met in their desperation by Jesus' mercy, generosity, compassion.
they meet God's mercy, generosity, compassion.
what then is our place in this kingdom?
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Magazines!
Part of the mission of this blog is to explore the commonality between Radio and Letterpress. Specifically, Amateur Radio, and more often than not, vintage wireless and the graphics and print activities that surrounded it.
First, permit me to introduce to you, none other than:
The "Wapsi". Also known as the Wapsipinicon Almanac. Printed by a fellow named Tom Fay. You can read about this amazing magazine here. The short description of this publication is that it is printed out of Small Town Iowa, carried in Barnes & Nobles in that state. It's a completely letterpress printed magazine, Linotype set, printed from hard metal formes on an ancient cylinder press, along the lines of a Kelly B or Little Giant press. What's amazing to me is how such a magazine can even exist in this day and age. The cost of production in sheer labour intensity is enormous. Hence, one publication per year has been produced by Tom's operation, "Route Three Press" for over twenty years, now.
The cover art is amazing. Now, I am not entirely sure if they still use the old process, but at one time they used traditional ply wood, hand cut, to print their covers. This was pretty common back in the the later 19th century and first three decades of the 20th century. Back in this era, each colour required its own separate wood 'block', which was cut in register with the other colours and the "key", or black colour wood block. In the cover above, two colours are utilized, the blue and the black. Each colour would have it's own hand carved block. Another word for a printing surface is "die".
I really enjoy these covers from the Wapsipinicon Almanac, and largely because the covers, in the main, are hand wrought as they were in 1919. Now, I cannot say that every magazine was printed using wood, some were "dot etched" copper dies, using a photographic method of exposure and acid etching. But many did use plywood dies, one of which was Vogue. Close scrutiny of Wireless Age magazine indicates that they used similar, at least up to 1919. My understanding is that the Wapsi cover art is designed by local artists, and hand cut on premises, usually by the artists themselves. The annual magazine enjoys the talents of a Linotype operator who has been in the business over sixty years. I don't know the type of cylinder letterpress they use, but Tom calls it "ancient". Tom runs it himself.
I thought I might, for educational purposes....which is the decided aim and function of this blog....share a few Wapsi Covers so you might get the feel of a genuine, hand wrought artisan publication.
. . . amazing, isn't it? By the way, the Wapsipinicon is a conjunction between two indian names, Wapsi, and Pinicon. They were lovers who drowned in the river which bears their name. Sorry saps. (-yawn-) But a great rag!
Ok, now the Wireless connection. I direct your attention to probably the best known and one of the oldest surviving technical magazines: "QST ", the official organ of the American Radio Relay League; It began publication by Hiram Percy Maxim, founder of the League itself. When he started the "Relay" League, he took in members of another radio club which was in existence since around 1909, called the Junior Radio Club which, believe it or not, managed to strike off a one-shot magazine of its own! I cannot find a photo of it, neither can I find the name of that publication, but I am pretty certain its existence and continuance was something Hiram desired to perpetuate, probably as a tool to bond fellowship among members and as an Amateur Radio recruiting tool. The magazine title is taken from the wireless telegraphic "Q" signals, and means "General Message for all Amateurs", beginning publication in 1914. While I do not have a photo of the original first edition (really more of a printed membership roster, less a magazine at first) - below is an idea of what it looked like. The magazine cover art is very common for trade publications, mostly simple hand drawn art-deco framing, titling with typeset characters. Liberal use of typeset border fonts seem to be incorporated into these covers. Below is an early QST:
By way of translation, the cover reads "QST de the American Radio Relay League". "de" is the telegraphic shorthand for "this is". Again, QST as a three-letter signal sent telegraphically over the air carries the meaning of "Calling All Hams" or "Calling All Wireless Operators".
This particular QST has a blue-grey cover, printed in black, for the month of December, 1915. I believe the cover stock colour changed month to month. This was a true informational magazine, carrying ads, and quite early in the game, comics. The magazine was printed through the first World War, announcing America's first wireless Wartime ban, and then, in 1919, heralding the lifting of that ban.
By the late teens, QST sported some surprising cover art, for a private hobby organization with a few hundred members and a limited budget. I am sure Hiram sunk a lot of his own money into these sorts of ARRL endeavours.
This is the general look and design of QST from the late teens, and up to the middle of the 1920s. I think this cover is a wood cut duo-tone, vermillion and black. That is a wartime era dirigible depicted on the cover, crossing over either the English Channel or the Atlantic. Love the font used, and the lightning bolts emanating from the framed title "QST:". That motif pretty well held through the 1920s.
This July, 1922 cover is probably my favourite. Again, its a duotone print, green and black. Notice any similarity between these magazines and the Wapsi?
This is another one of my favourite covers. I love the central circle design framing the little "Radio Shack". Now, there's a real radio shack, stovepipe and all! Check out how far it is from the house! This is a duotone cover, aquamarine and black.
Hmm . . . another canoe theme. Come to think of it, there's a lot of canoe oriented art going on with the Wapsi, too! I might guess this was a traditional favourite. Note that more than two colours are being used. Right about 1921, QST began more and more to use screened four-colour separations in their printing, but from time to time, solid colour rendering would still appear. By the way, these magazines of the early twenties or late teens sell for a considerable sum these days. Back in the seventies, you could have picked these rags up for almost nothing. What a difference forty years makes!
Here is a three-colour combination of dot-etched screen work on copper plating, and solid colour printing, very possibly using the same wood die technique employed by Vogue at this time, and more recently, the Wapsi. Notice that the level of artwork varied considerably.
Printing varied a bit, too. The registration of the red-orange die slipped a bit. Oops. Notice that this colour is used for both the skin pigment of the operator, screened at about ten percent, and for all text. This appears to be a 1922 duo-tone.
A 1922 tri-tone. Red, brown and black Red and Black would be the primary elemental cover colours with this magazine.
This was to become the standard cover format through 1930. Three colours, solid and screened. The title text is obviously hand drawn. The text on the bottom is type, using the ubiquitous Cooper Black, the most extensively used advertisement font in the western world, and still thriving today.
From about 1931 up through 1939, QST used a cover format that consisted primarily of a half tone photograph of something having to do with an article or feature within that issue (usually), surrounded by a solid red frame. I refer to these issues as the "Red Jacket Issues". Just me.
As the cover art was evolving, something else was evolving with QST : personalities and a unique style all it's own. QST was becoming less a trade journal, and more an entertainment and information publication, with pen names like "T.O.M." (The Old Man), Hiram Percy Maxim, President and fearless ARRL leader himself, "The Dixie Squinch Owl", written in a style that fall somewhere between Will Rogers and Colonel Sanders. Not only was "the Squinch" funny, he also touched upon subjects of morality, including racial equality! It might be said that of all intellectual and academic endeavors, there was never a racial barrier in obtaining a DOC or FCC Ham Ticket! I think, in a way, we were ALL ahead of the curve, there.
One of the guys that got me into Ham Radio was an African American Technician Class Op, Al Harmon, in Philadelphia, 1969. He was an avid 6-meter VHFer who would regularly work into New Jersey using a 10 watt Lafayette AM rig and a Squalo bumper mounted 6m folded dipole array. Operated a nice station since the early 1950s. He operated hand in hand with his white counterparts during the riots. There was no divide. We were all brothers in a very unique fraternity.
Back to Printing and Wireless:
Comic illustration was coming into it's own in QST. From the mid 1920s, up into the very early 30s, Otto Eppers, W6EA did the bulk of the comic illustration, but he eventually left, applying his almost Robert Crumb stylings and caricatures for more commercial ventures, doing ads for Itel McCullough and Taylor Tubes. (Actually, I might be more accurate to say that San Fransisco's Robert Crumb may have been heavily influenced by Otto Eppers!") Taking his place at QST came the unassuming Phil Gildersleeve, possibly one of the most iconic comic illustrators - and least known - in the 20th century. Unknown because he only drew for one magazine: QST. Well . . . perhaps. I suspect he moonlighted for the competition once or twice. I have a 1937 edition of Radio magazine featuring "Scratchi", the fictitious ham from Osockme Japan, which was a quasi-regular article taking the form of a letter to the editor from said Hashfisti Scratchi, in very broken English. The article artwork is clearly, unmistakably, the handiwork of none other than Phil Gildersleeve.
Ahh, but this is fodder for another installment. Time for me and my ol' buddy Scratchi to say "Ima no wakare" until next time!
G. Johanson, Printer, the Paper Wren Press.


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Police condemn killing of two herdsmen in Ebonyi
Views TUNECHI September 30, 2020 Crime, metro, news,
The Ebonyi State Police Command has condemned in totality the attack allegedly launched on herdsmen by unknown assailants, which resulted in the alleged death of two persons in Ebonyi community.
The command made this known in a statement signed by the Commissioner of Police, CP Philip Sule Maku and forwarded to KHORGIST by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Loveth Odah, in Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi State.
The commissioner, however, ordered for a full-scale investigation into the cause of the death of the two herdsmen; one Adamu Ibrahim 'm' 7 years and Jubril Ibrahim 'm' 15 years who were residents of Ukwuachi Forest Ishieke in Ebonyi LGA of the state.
CP Maku, however, urged the Ishieku community to remain calm, stressing the readiness of the command to restore peace and order in the area.
The statement said: "The Commissioner of Police Ebonyi State Command, CP Philip Sule Maku, has condemned the attack on Fulani Herdsmen camp at Ukwuachi Forest Ishieke in Ebonyi LGA of the State, which resulted to the death of two persons one Adamu Ibrahim 'm' 7 years and Jubril Ibrahim 'm' 15 years living two others critically injured, who are currently receiving treatment at AE-Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki.
"One Ado Ibrahim, a Fulani herdsmen, who reported at Ishieke Division, stated that the victims are his grand-children and that the attack took place at their camp in the aforementioned area while the children were sleeping after cow grazing on the 28th September, 2020 by 9pm.
"The Commissioner of Police, who undertook a tour to the area, has ordered a full-scale investigation into the matter with a view to arresting the perpetrators who fled the scene immediately after the incident.
"He also urges the general public especially herders to remain calm and not to embark on any reprisal attack as the Command under his watch will leave no stone unturned for the interest of justice," he stated.
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Views By TUNECHI at September 30, 2020
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package jpower.gui.internal;

import jpower.core.Worker;
import jpower.core.utils.NetUtils;
import jpower.gui.GuiApp;

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.function.Consumer;

public class DebuggerApp extends GuiApp {
   private final JPanel panel = new JPanel();
   private final Worker worker = new Worker();

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      new DebuggerApp().show();
   }

   @Override
   public void build() {
      getFrame().setTitle("JPower Debugger");
      getFrame().setExtendedState(getFrame().getExtendedState() | JFrame.MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
      panel.setLayout(new GridLayout(12, 4));
      createButton("Download Test File", event -> {
         try {
            NetUtils.download("https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.0.txt",
                    new File("git-release-notes.txt"));
         } catch (IOException e) {
            showDialog("Error", "ERROR: " + e.getMessage(), JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
         }
      });
      createButton("Delete Test File", event -> {
         boolean deleted = new File("git-release-notes.txt").delete();
         if (!deleted) {
            showDialog("Error", "Failed to delete file!", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
         }
      });
      createButton("Start Worker", event -> worker.start());
      createButton("Stop Worker", event -> worker.stop());
      createButton("Test Worker",
              event -> worker.addTask(() -> showDialog("Hello", "Hello World!", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE)));
      getFrame().add(panel);
   }

   public JButton createButton(String name, Consumer<ActionEvent> consumer) {
      JButton button = new JButton(name);
      button.addActionListener(consumer::accept);
      button.setSize(200, 100);
      panel.add(button);
      return button;
   }
}


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MOVIE NEWS FOR JULY 13TH: PAUL, SORCERER'S APPRENTICE, HARRY POTTER, AND MORE
Jul 13 Jul 13 Dawn
Plot Synopsis for the Sci-Fi Comedy Paul Starring Pegg and Frost
by Kasper at Film Junk
Working Title Films has released the official plot synopsis for the upcoming sci-fi comedy Paul, which re-unites the comedy team of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost of Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead fame. The movie, which is being directed by Superbad director Greg Mottola, centers around the two sci-fi geeks Willy and Collings (played by Pegg and Frost) who accidentally come across the alien Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) when he jumps aboard their truck. Chased by the government, they embark on a road trip with Paul which changes their lives forever.
"For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. For reasons unknown, the space-travelling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town—a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Collings (Frost)."
Teresa Palmer Talks The Sorcerer's Apprentice!
via Movie Web
Australian actress Teresa Palmer has been generating a lot of buzz in Hollywood for sometime now due in large part to her attachment to two high profile projects that she ended up not participating in. She first gained the attention of fan-boys everywhere when director George Miller cast her as the evil Talia al Ghul, daughter of Batman villain Ra's al Ghul, in the unmade film, Justice League Of America based on the popular DC Comics' book. While ultimately that film did not get made, it did put the actress on the map and she next gained attention when rumors began to fly that Miller had cast her in his upcoming forth chapter of the popular Mad Max series, entitled Fury Road. But in an interview that we conducted last month, the actress confessed that she had to back out of that project due to scheduling conflicts with the Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg produced film I Am Number Four, which she will appear in early next year. Now, fans finally have a chance to see the actress shine on the silver screen in the new live-action Disney film The Sorcerer's Apprentice, opening on July 14th staring Nicolas Cage.
To begin with, you mentioned in an earlier interview that you feel like your character, Becky, is the key to David (Jay Baruchel) unleashing his potential as a sorcerer, can you talk about that idea and how it helped you in the course of making the film?
Teresa Palmer: I really believe that Becky's the trigger for Dave in terms of him finding his confidence and embracing the sorcerer within.
Two New Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Featurettes
By Krystal Clark at Screen Crave
Over the weekend, ABC Family premiered two new featurettes that take us inside the latest and final adventure in the Potter series. It features interviews from its stars including Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson who talk about the challenges they faced filming the biggest Potter ever!
In the first video we discover that the 3 magical musketeers spend a good chunk of the movie on the run. This might be where we get to see Hermione and Ron get up close and personal if you know what I mean.
Harry Potter, Scott Pilgrim, Green Hornet, Thor Among Films Invading Comic Con
by Rebecca Murray at About.com
The schedule for the 2010 Comic Con has been released and once again San Diego will be invaded by Hollywood. Kicking off the annual gathering of comic book lovers and TV/movie fans on Thursday, July 22nd, is DreamWorks Animation with Megamind and voice actors Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, and Jonah Hill. Disney follows with much-anticipated new footage from Tron: Legacy and appearances by cast members Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Michael Sheen, and Bruce Boxleitner. Lionsgate's represented with the action pic The Expendables and will have writer/director Sylvester Stallone and actors Dolph Lundgren, Steve Austin, Rand Couture, and Terry Crews on hand to answer questions. And finally, Thursday finishes up with a star-studded panel promoting Scott Pilgrim vs The World.
I wouldn't say they're saving the best for last because Thursday and Friday's offerings are pretty incredible, but Saturday will see Harry Potter finally making an appearance at the Con! This is big news for Muggles who happen to have already bought tickets to the sold-out event. And Warner Bros is bringing cast members from two of their other big releases: Green Lantern and Sucker Punch. Overture will be trying to sink their teeth into vampire fans with footage from Let Me In starring Chloe Moretz and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Screen Gems is bringing Resident Evil: Afterlife and its always popular stars Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter to the Con along with what they promise will be 'stunning' 3-D scenes from the film.
Amanda Seyfried To Star In Sci-Fi Thriller 'I'm.mortal'
By Adam Rosenberg at MTV News
Amanda Seyfried has accomplished a lot so far in her short career, and now she's angling to stay young forever.
Variety reports that the Variety reports that the "Letters to Juliet" star will lead the cast of Andrew Niccol's "I'm.mortal," a sci-fi action thriller set in a world where people stop aging at 25. As was first reported back in April, people in this society treat time as currency; the more of your life's time you "spend," the more access you have to various necessities and luxuries.
Today's Seyfried news is joined by a few more details about the story. A rebellious young man — not yet cast — is fingered for the murder of a member of society's elite. He ends up on the run with a beautiful rich girl (Seyfried) in tow as his hostage. Regardless of the circumstances that initially bring them together, they end up taking on the system and finding love in the process.
I am so excited for Paul. Pegg and Frost have been blogging about it since filming, and the two of them together are always funny so you just know it'll be good. I really wish I was going to Comic Con this year. I had planned to, but I just didn't have the money for tickets and the flight. But there's next year to look forward to. And the new Harry Potter.
Is anyone going to San Diego Comic Con this year? Which upcoming movie are you looking forward to the most?
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Karl Böhm-Hennes (* 15. Juli 1891 in Lauscha; † 20. November 1914 bei Łódź, Russland) war ein deutscher Skisportler in den nordischen Disziplinen. Er wuchs in Ernstthal am Rennsteig auf. Befreundet und verlobt war er mit der Heimatschriftstellerin Wally Eichhorn-Nelson.

Werdegang
Der Thüringer Karl Böhm-Hennes errang zusammen mit seinem Bruder Emil Böhm-Hennes und seinen Freunden Eugen Böhm und Paul Löffler zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts höchste skisportliche Erfolge. Für großes Aufsehen sorgte sein 17-Meter-Skisprung 1908 in Oberhof. 1909 gewann er in Braunlage die deutsche Junioren-Meisterschaft im Skilauf. Anschließend siegte er in Oberhof bei der Thüringer Meisterschaft. 1910 wurde er in Altenberg-Geising sächsischer Meister, am Feldberg gewann er den deutschen Titel im Lauf und Kunstlauf. Vier Jahre lang trainierte er unermüdlich und erreichte dann bei den Thüringer Meisterschaften Aufsehen erregende Sprünge von 29 bis 31 Metern. 1911 gewann Böhm-Hennes in Oberwiesenthal die deutsche und in Mitterndorf die österreichische Skimeisterschaft. In Oberhof sprang er mit 36 Metern einen neuen deutschen Weitenrekord. 1912 wurde Karl Böhm-Hennes auf dem Holmenkollbakken Vierter im "Zusammengesetzten Lauf" (Nordische Kombination) hinter den dominierenden Skisportlern aus dem Norden, was ihm in Norwegen hohe Anerkennung verschaffte. Viermal errang er den Goldenen Schneestern. 1914 gewann Karl Böhm-Hennes noch einmal die Thüringer Meisterschaft. Es war sein letzter Sieg, denn der Erste Weltkrieg brachte die Einberufung zum Kriegsdienst. Während der Kriegshandlungen an der russischen Front fand sein junges Leben durch Tod ein jähes Ende.

Literatur
 Kirchenbücher von Spechtsbrunn und Lauscha
 Aufzeichnungen Wally Eichhorn-Nelson

Weblinks
 Kurzbiografie auf mondstuerer.de

Skispringer (Deutschland)
Skilangläufer (Deutschland)
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Gestorben 1914
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NBA Insider Says Knicks Are In Tricky Position
ByCitiGist November 29, 2022
Getty RJ Barrett, Mitchell Robinson and Quentin Grimes of the New York Knicks. The New York Knicks are two games under .500 after losing a close game to the Memphis Grizzlies on Nov. 27. Now 20 games into the season, the team has won nine games and lost two games in a row at home,…
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RJ Barrett Sounds Off on Julius Randle's Performance
ByCitiGist October 28, 2022
Getty Julius Randle of the New York Knicks looks on during the game against the Memphis Grizzlies. The New York Knicks beat the Charlotte Hornets in a tough overtime victory, winning by three points with a final score of 134-131. Point guard Jalen Brunson had his best performance in a Knicks uniform, being the driving force…
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Mitchell Robinson More 'Hungry' After Getting Paid
Getty Mitchell Robinson of the New York Knicks catches a pass during the first half. The New York Knicks are 3-1 on the regular season s the team's new approach of playing faster on the offensive end of the floor is paying off. The defensive end of the floor also has been important when it…
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Tom Thibodeau Sounds Off on Knicks Wing Following Home Opener
Getty Head coach Tom Thibodeau of the New York Knicks reacts during the first half against the Detroit Pistons. After a hard-fought game one in Memphis that wound up ending in defeat, the New York Knicks bounced back in a major way during their home opener at the Garden, as they thrashed the visiting Pistons…
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Quentin Grimes Will Miss Third Straight Preseason Game
Getty Quentin Grimes #6 of New York Knicks reacts after three-pointer against the Brooklyn Nets. It has been a tough stretch of training camp and preseason for New York Knicks guard Quentin Grimes. Grimes hasn't been a full participant on the court ever since he was seen wearing a walking boot during the second day of…
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Quentin Grimes Drops Truth Bomb on Knicks Evan Fournier
Getty Evan Fournier of the New York Knicks looks on during the second half against the Portland Trail Blazers. Though many may have been pulling for talented sophomore Quentin Grimes to nab a starting role within the backcourt for the New York Knicks in 2022-23, as things currently stand it appears veteran Evan Fournier is…
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Tom Thibodeau Impressed by Immanuel Quickley
ByCitiGist October 7, 2022
Getty Immanuel Quickley #5 of the New York Knicks and head coach Tom Thibodeau of the New York Knicks talk late in the fourth quarter. The NBA is finally back with preseason action to get teams warmed up before the start of the regular season, which starts on Oct. 18. The New York Knicks started…
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Tom Thibodeau Sounds Off on Knicks Guard After Preseason Opener
Getty Head coach Tom Thibodeau of the New York Knicks reacts during the first half against the Portland Trail Blazers. The New York Knicks took care of business in their preseason opener on October 4, downing the Detroit Pistons to the tune of 117 to 96. While the night marked the first in-game action of…
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Kevin Durant News Could Lead to Knicks Blockbuster Deal
ByCitiGist August 23, 2022
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Wadsworth man sentenced to prison for attempting to kill family member
A Wadsworth man is headed to prison after pleaded guilty to attempted murder charges. 33-year-old Gene Chicoine was arrested in December of 2021 for trying to kill a family member who suffered serious injuries during the attack. Initially, Chicoine pleaded not guilty to the charges, but had a change of heart just last week. Immediately after changing his plea to guilty, Chicoine was sentenced to up to 13 and a half years in prison.


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New Battery Could Recharge in Seconds
Author: Alexis MadrigalAlexis Madrigal
A new battery material that recharges 100 times faster than the lithium-ion in your laptop has been revealed by researchers at MIT.
The discovery could lead to cellphone-sized batteries that could be charged in 10 seconds.
"The ability to charge and discharge batteries in a matter of seconds rather than hours may open up new technological applications and induce lifestyle changes," wrote materials scientists Gerbrand Ceder and Byoungwoo Kang Wednesday in the journal Nature.
In energy storage, there has always been a trade-off between the amount of energy a material could store and how quickly you could discharge it. Batteries were pretty good at storing energy (although not nearly as good as oil), but getting energy into and out of them was tough. Ultracapacitors, and their cousins, supercapacitors, can deliver a lot of charge really quickly, but it takes 20 times more of their materials to store the same energy as a comparable battery.
The new battery material appears to solve that problem by creating a "fast-lane" for ions to move around the lithium iron phosphate material. By applying a special surface coating to the old material, they allow the ions to speed around the battery at rates that are nearly unimaginable.
Rob Farrington of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's advanced vehicle group, called the battery's ability to deliver energy "remarkable."
But questions remain. Fast-charging might be convenient, Farrington noted, but it requires running a large amount of current to the battery, which he worried would reduce the battery's life.
"High current means lots of heating. If you have high temperatures, you have to ask the question, are you detrimentally affecting the life of the battery?" he said. "The answer is that it's going to shorten the life."
The MIT duo's *Nature *paper only presents data through 50 charge/recharge cycles, but what's there is promising: There's nearly no drop in capacity.
But as any laptop owner knows, the more charging cycles you go through, the less energy your battery stores. The same battery that let you work for three hours a couple years ago only yields an hour-and-a-half at the coffee shop now.
That's one place where ultracapacitors are likely to retain their advantage over just about any battery.
"There are a lot of applications where you have to charge or discharge hundreds of times a day and in that, ultracapacitors have a very clear advantage," said Joel Schindall, who is heading a separate MIT research effort to develop carbon nanotube-based ultracapacitors.
Still, ultracap producers, though they've made inroads in niche markets. have had a hard time coming up with ultracapacitors that store anywhere near as much energy per weight or volume as a lithium-ion battery. Schindall's effort made waves in 2006 when the MIT Technology Review raved, "A breakthrough technology is holding forth the promise of charging electronic gadgets in minutes, never having to replace a battery again, and dropping the cost of hybrid cars."
But the effort has "stretched out," Schindall said — and he's not sure when his ultracapacitors will be ready to commercialize.
"I don't know whether that will be a week or a month or a year," he said.
Batteries, and all kinds of energy-storage devices, have a notoriously difficult time scaling out of the laboratory into production. We've previously likened the scale challenge to that faced by high school cafeterias. Even if the lunch ladies try to emulate home cooking or a restaurant kitchen, it's just fundamentally harder to cook for 3,000 people than it is to cook for 30 or three. Most of the time, you can't just make the process bigger, you need a new process.
And directly tied into the ability to create an industrial-scale process is the issue of cost, which Farrington said was always one of the barriers to the adoption of energy-storage technology.
Still, Ceder is optimistic. He believes his batteries could make it to the market in two to three years. The tech has already been licensed by two companies. One, A123 Systems, is a U.S. startup that's partnering with General Motors on the Chevy Volt's battery. The other, Umicore, supplies materials to battery manufacturers across the world.
*Thursday, 10 am: Updated to include names of companies with licenses to use the material. *
Citation: "Battery materials for ultrafast charging and discharging" by Byoungwoo Kang & Gerbrand Ceder doi:10.1038/nature07853
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Physics the Next President Needs to Know
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Image: The new battery material/MIT
WiSci 2.0: Alexis Madrigal's Twitter , Google Reader feed, and project site, Inventing Green: the lost history of American clean tech; Wired Science on Facebook.
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Q: Yii 2 - Overriding files of mdm extension in vendor to extension folder using aliases in config I have installed mdm extension for admin in basic version of Yii2, that is located in vendor directory and I want to override some files into extension directory for UI changes, I referred this link and added some code in web and console file as:
'aliases' => [
        '@mdm/admin' => '@app/extensions/mdm/yii2-admin',
    ],

But no changes are reflected after doing this.

A: Most likely version installed by Composer conflicts with version which you unpacked manually. Instruction in documentation are for installing extension without using Composer, so they're definitely not considering the fact, that you have the same extension installed in two different places.
If you want to edit this extension you should uninstall composer version and copy whole extension into extensions/mdm/yii2-admin.
But probably better option would be to fork it, and add repository to your composer.json which will point to your fork:
"repositories": [
    {
        "type": "vcs",
        "url": "https://github.com/yourname/yii2-admin.git"
    }
],

And change dependency constraints to use master branch:
"require": {
    "mdmsoft/yii2-admin": "dev-master as 2.8.0",
    // ...
},

Then all necessary changes you're preforming in your fork (at https://github.com/yourname/yii2-admin.git) and fetching changes to main project using composer update mdmsoft/yii2-admin. It will simplify syncing changes from upstream - you just need to merge changes for upstream if you want to update your fork with lates changes from original extension repository.

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Befikre is enjoying its solo release at box office. It's been a while since any movie had registered a double digit number on a single day. The last time it happened was in Diwali for Shivaay and Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. Befikre had brought in 10.36 crore on its opening day and yesterday (1st Saturday) it collected 11.60 crore, making the total of 21.96 crore in 2 days.
Aditya Chopra must be happy with these numbers and YRF brand has a good reputation due to which the film is seeing a strong light at box office. However, the growth on Saturday should have been much better. The film needed to earn somewhere around 12-13 crore. The movie has got average reviews but still people, especially the teenage crowd is flocking to the theaters. Befikre is receiving a good footfall in multiplexes and Ranveer Singh is a natural boost for this romantic flick.
Today (Sunday) will be important for the film to have a good hold for weekdays. 30 Crore weekend is on the cards. Befikre also stars Vaani Kapoor and it is directed by Aditya Chopra.


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How the 2019/20 Fifteen To Follow got on…
With ample opportunity to do so thanks to the cessation of British and Irish horse racing due to the coronavirus pandemic, here's where I take stock of how things went for the Horses To Follow that I put up for the 2019/20 season.
It's not something I've done before, but last season was the first in which I put 15 in the list – in previous seasons it had been just ten. And in general, they did good. It suggests I haven't lost it, whatever 'it' is.
So then, in alphabetical order (meaning that I'll get to Indefatigable just before halfway down)…
Atlanta Ablaze was only seen three times, but made her presence felt on her seasonal debut at Market Rasen in November, when she slogged it out in the mud to beat Annie Angel in the Listed Bud Booth Mares' Chase, making up two lengths from the last to get up close home at 3/1. That was her only success, the effort she put in there in bad ground probably ruining the rest of her season.
Runs 3, Wins 1. Profit or loss to a £1 stake: +£1.00 (+33.3%)
Hopes were justifiably high for Brewin'upastorm over fences last season and he didn't disappoint followers. He made a successful chasing debut at Carlisle in October in a typically strong beginners' for the track, held up in last and given a bit to do and getting up on the post from Good Boy Bobby – that runner-up, third Midnight Shadow, and fourth Global Citizen all won chases subsequently, the latter in the Grade 2 Wayward Lad at Kempton. As for Brewin'upastorm, he followed up at Taunton at odds-on before unseating at the tenth in the Arkle at the Cheltenham Festival, yet to be put in the race at the time. There'll hopefully be more to come, as he starts 2020/21 unbeaten when completing over fences.
Cheltenham was also the only track Clondaw Castle visited where he didn't run to form, but he didn't make it to the Festival. He looked a likely sort for the Caspian Caviar Gold Cup after he was presented with a chance of pulling off one of the most fortunate wins ever seen, thanks to Diego Du Charmil's trying to get out of winning the Byrne Group Chase at Ascot – taking Capeland with him as he went through the wing of the last and enabling Clondaw Castle to make up the 12 lengths he was adrift by. After traipsing round Cheltenham, well held after the third last, he won a good two-and-a-half-mile handicap chase at Warwick in February at 11/2 on what was his last start.
Runs 3, Wins 1. Profit or loss to a £1 stake: +£3.50 (+116.7%)
On a visit to Fairyhouse on 1st December 2018 I saw Desir Du Large beat Valdieu in the closing bumper and I liked his run enough to put him in the 15, but unfortunately he didn't make the track, while Valdieu went over fences and won a mid-grade handicap at Naas.
Did not run
Just because you've got a certain horse in a to-follow list, it doesn't mean you'll be on the right side when they win, and I certainly regretted it when Honest Vic won at an SP of 10/1 at Kempton on Boxing Day, having decided on other races for bets. That was this handicap hurdler's second victory of the campaign – he made up in spades for a couple of unlucky reverses in 2018/19, going in first up at Market Rasen in October, then running okay behind Bold Plan in a good handicap at Haydock on the Betfair Chase undercard on his run before Kempton. Those each-way players who took first five about him in the Coral Cup at the Cheltenham Festival were also rewarded with a bit of place money as he got fifth to Dame De Compagnie, having turned for home with every chance.
Runs 4, Wins 2. Profit or loss to a £1 stake: +£12.00 (+300.0%)
Okay, here we are. Well I've talked about Indefatigable's Martin Pipe-win elsewhere, here on this website and also on Twitter, so let me start by saying that it wasn't what I had in mind when I put her in the list – it was because I thought she'd be good for a couple of Listed or Graded mares' hurdles. Two runner-up finishes – including when giving Lady Buttons a race at Wetherby in November – and a win at Warwick in February in such races, meant that she paid her way for connections, and backers got some return, before she went to Cheltenham; however at 40/1 (and at her 25/1 SP too), she was overpriced for the Martin Pipe.
Johanos was a chancy one at the start of the season, as his best run of 2018/19 was when falling in the National Hunt Chase at the 2019 Cheltenham Festival, doing all right at the time. For much of the beginners' chase at Chepstow in October in which he debuted for the season, he made me seem like I knew what I was doing by including him – always in the first two, he showed a great attitude when coming under a ride from the second last, and didn't flinch once headed at the last, beaten half a length. And the winner? Truckers Lodge, runner-up in the Welsh Grand National, winner of the Midlands version, and who at the time of writing is between 33/1 and 50/1 for the 2021 Grand National. It was a decent beginners', but Johanos left his season behind there, beaten pointless at Ffos Las and pulling up at Wincanton on his two subsequent starts.
Runs 3, Wins 0. Profit or loss to a £1 stake: -£3.00 (-100.0%)
Larry seemed a more solid inclusion at the start of the season, having done well in his novice chase campaign, but two midfield finishes from two starts was disappointing.
Sams Profile was another on the list who wasn't seen out last season, connections finally giving up on a plan to run in the Stayers' Hurdle in January. The pandemic put paid to any ideas of running him at Fairyhouse and/or Punchestown in the Spring.
Thyme Hill hit the ground running in novice hurdles, as anticipated. He had to, because he went straight into Graded company, taking the Grade 2 Persian War at Chepstow and another Grade 2 at Cheltenham in November, before landing the Grade 1 Challow Hurdle at Newbury. Some think he was unlucky when fourth to Monkfish in the Albert Bartlett at the Cheltenham Festival, having his ground taken before and after the last.
Mixing and matching hurdles and fences, Tout Est Permis was third twice and runner-up once, but got no wins, strongly fancied a few times and providing each-way backers with a place-return when third to Sire Du Berlais in the Pertemps Final at Cheltenham.
Luck was really lacking with the Irish-trained horses that I put in the list. Walk Away was placed twice from three starts in beginners' chases but, to be fair, all of them were tough asks – on his chasing debut in November at Punchestown he gave best to the resurgent Faugheen, and at Leopardstown over Christmas and Fairyhouse in January he was a long way behind Allaho, a close third in the RSA Chase (himself runner-up to Easy Game, a faller in the RSA, in the Leopardstown race).
What occurred on What's Occurring's only run of the season was a chase debut-win in a novices' limited handicap at Ludlow in October.
Whisperinthebreeze made it a clean sheet of zeroes for the Irish-based horses in the 15. Not counting his runner-up finish in a charity race on the Flat, his third in a rated novice chase at Punchestown in November was as good as it got, in that race sent clear on the home turn but giving best to Salsaretta and Galvin, who was placed in the novices' handicap chase at the Cheltenham Festival, from the second last.
Yalltari was another disappointment, particularly as he got the mud that he acts best on both times he made it to the racecourse, last seen when beaten officially 92 lengths behind Captain Chaos in the Grimthorpe at Doncaster on February 29th.
2019/20 Fifteen To Follow Stat-wrap
Of the 15 horses in last season's list, seven won races, which is pretty average when you leave it at that. However two of them didn't run at all and, from a punting perspective, for those who place importance on profit or loss, there was a healthy return to a level stake.
Runs: 45
Wins: 12
Strike rate: 26.7%
Profit to a £1 level stake at Starting Price: £30.08
(+66.8%)
There's no question that Indefatigable's 25/1 SP in the Martin Pipe rather inflates the figure, but if she hadn't won that, the 15 would still have returned a just-under £6-profit.
But I'm pleased either way. In 2020/21, we go again. This piece might not look so good in a year's time, if there's a bit less luck and a full fixture list to the end of April 2021, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
It bears repeating that the 2019/20 National Hunt season in Britain and Ireland has been the strangest ever, with no Aintree, no Punchestown, and three of the big Nationals wiped out because of the coronavirus pandemic. There's a positive flip side as far as my wallet is concerned, but I'd rather have had the Grand National, the Irish festivals and the informative racing that would have taken place, even if it would have damaged the above statistics.
You can still see the original 2019/20 list, first published in September 2019, by clicking here.


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REVEALED – LVG Already Signed SURPRISE Attacker, Medical Done, Fee Agreed – Not Pedro
Posted in Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United By By Far The Greatest TeamPosted on July 28, 2015
Dutchman Louis van Gaal got the media wagging last week when he told the world that his next signing will be a surprise. Perhaps, that wasn't the Dutchman's intention, but the press and the fans would have none of that as they started linking the club with virtually every striker in Europe and South America. Names like Edinson Cavani, Robert Lewandowski, Pedro, and a couple of others.
Van Gaal had said "We have Rooney, who can play in striker position, and all the media had written he should play there so I listen and now you put this question so don't know what you want.
"Also Chicharito and maybe Wilson, and maybe there comes a surprise. It's a process. I'm not worried about the position."
However, the Dutchman went ahead soon after the press misinterpreted his earlier statement to clarify things through another press briefing:
"I don't know if I want to buy a striker. I have read in the media that a striker is the surprise. No, that I have not said. You are saying that, because my answer is like that. No, I mean something else."
Despite the controversy over van Gaal's statement, the biggest hint that the player the Dutchman has been talking about is already in the club was giving by a Dutch newspaper, Metro. The paper spoke to Depay's former PSV teammate Stijn Schaars, manager Bert van Marwijk, and Ronald de Boer, who all agree that the new Man United player could also play as a striker for his new club.
Van Merwijk is quoted as saying "In modern football attackers must often change their position. Otherwise the game is too static.
"If Van Gaal to succeed at United, then he'll use the qualities of Memphis to his best advantage. I have a good feeling about it. Memphis has Van Gaal's trust and he seems to have a good time at United. Memphis exudes happiness."
GREAT NEWS – Arsenal Defender HINTS Arsenal Will Sign Benzema This Summer
Welcome To The Bridge – Chelsea To Complete MAJOR Signing, Medical Tomorrow


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Q: How to read timezone aware datetimes as a timezone naive local DatetimeIndex with read_csv in pandas? When I use pandas read_csv to read a column with a timezone aware datetime (and specify this column to be the index), pandas converts it to a timezone naive utc DatetimeIndex.
Data in Test.csv:
DateTime,Temperature
2016-07-01T11:05:07+02:00,21.125
2016-07-01T11:05:09+02:00,21.138
2016-07-01T11:05:10+02:00,21.156
2016-07-01T11:05:11+02:00,21.179
2016-07-01T11:05:12+02:00,21.198
2016-07-01T11:05:13+02:00,21.206
2016-07-01T11:05:14+02:00,21.225
2016-07-01T11:05:15+02:00,21.233

Code to read from csv:
In [1]: import pandas as pd

In [2]: df = pd.read_csv('Test.csv', index_col=0, parse_dates=True)

This results in an index that represents the timezone naive utc time:
In [3]: df.index

Out[3]: DatetimeIndex(['2016-07-01 09:05:07', '2016-07-01 09:05:09',
           '2016-07-01 09:05:10', '2016-07-01 09:05:11',
           '2016-07-01 09:05:12', '2016-07-01 09:05:13',
           '2016-07-01 09:05:14', '2016-07-01 09:05:15'],
          dtype='datetime64[ns]', name='DateTime', freq=None)

I tried to use a date_parser function:
In [4]: date_parser = lambda x: pd.to_datetime(x).tz_localize(None)

In [5]: df = pd.read_csv('Test.csv', index_col=0, parse_dates=True, date_parser=date_parser)

This gave the same result.
How can I make read_csv create a DatetimeIndex that is timezone naive and represents the local time instead of the utc time?
I'm using pandas 0.18.1.

A: According to the docs the default date_parser uses dateutil.parser.parser. According to the docs for that function, the default is to ignore timezones. So if you supply dateutil.parser.parser as the date_parser kwarg, timezones are not converted.
import dateutil

df = pd.read_csv('Test.csv', index_col=0, parse_dates=True, date_parser=dateutil.parser.parse)

print(df)

outputs
                           Temperature
DateTime
2016-07-01 11:05:07+02:00       21.125
2016-07-01 11:05:09+02:00       21.138
2016-07-01 11:05:10+02:00       21.156
2016-07-01 11:05:11+02:00       21.179
2016-07-01 11:05:12+02:00       21.198
2016-07-01 11:05:13+02:00       21.206
2016-07-01 11:05:14+02:00       21.225
2016-07-01 11:05:15+02:00       21.233

A: The answer of Alex leads to a timezone aware DatetimeIndex. To get a timezone naive local DatetimeIndex, as asked by the OP, inform dateutil.parser.parser to ignore the timezone information by setting ignoretz=True:
import dateutil

date_parser = lambda x: dateutil.parser.parse(x, ignoretz=True)
df = pd.read_csv('Test.csv', index_col=0, parse_dates=True, date_parser=date_parser)

print(df)

outputs
                     Temperature
DateTime
2016-07-01 11:05:07       21.125
2016-07-01 11:05:09       21.138
2016-07-01 11:05:10       21.156
2016-07-01 11:05:11       21.179
2016-07-01 11:05:12       21.198
2016-07-01 11:05:13       21.206
2016-07-01 11:05:14       21.225
2016-07-01 11:05:15       21.233

A: I adopted the dateutil technique earlier today but have since switched to a faster alternative:
date_parser = lambda ts: pd.to_datetime([s[:-5] for s in ts]))

Edit: s[:-5] is correct (screenshot has error)

In the screenshot below, I import ~55MB of tab-separated files. The dateutil method works, but takes orders of magnitude longer.

This was using pandas 0.18.1 and dateutil 2.5.3.

EDIT This lambda function will work even if Z-0000 suffix is missing...
date_parser = lambda ts: pd.to_datetime([s[:-5] if 'Z' in s else s for s in ts])

A: You can even try :
date_parser = lambda x : pd.to_datetime(x.str[:-6])


The Randomness gallery is where I used to put non-SatAM art, such as character fusions.
The only gallery that comes up for me now is "MoKat's SatAM Art". What's up with that?
I suspect the Randomness gallery still there because I can across my "Salaire" fusion, but I cannot view the gallery, let alone upload to it.
Unfortunately the gallery has always been kinda wonky, so I'm not terribly surprised, but I have no idea what the problem could be. When's the last time you were able to access it?
I'm trying to remember when I added the Salaire and Smoughbotnik pics...it was definitely over a year ago. The albums that show up have dates from 2011 (see attached screenshot).


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El año último, dos inspectores de la agencia de residuos peligrosos de California visitaban a una empresa de reciclaje de artefactos electrónicos cerca de Fresno para llevar a cabo una revisión rutinaria de documentos cuando se encontraron con un almacén, del tamaño de una cancha de fútbol, repleto de decenas de miles de viejos monitores de computadora y televisores.
Las cajas de cartón que se desmoronaban, apiladas en filas tambaleantes de casi tres metros de altura y cuatro metros de profundidad, ocupaban tanto espacio que los inspectores necesitaron teléfonos celulares para comunicarse entre ellos. La capa de cristales rotos en el suelo y el polvo cargado de plomo en el aire eran tan densos que los inspectores pronto abandonaron el sitio debido a preocupaciones de seguridad. Semanas más tarde, el dueño de la empresa de reciclaje desapareció, abandonando los residuos, y dejando atrás un riesgo de toxicidad y un costoso trabajo de limpieza para el Estado y el propietario del almacén.
Hasta hace pocos años, los monitores y los televisores rotos, como aquellos apilados en el almacén, se reciclaban de manera rentable. Los embudos grandes y vidriosos dentro de estas máquinas, conocidos como tubos de rayos catódicos (CRT, por su sigla en idioma inglés) eran fundidos y usados para hacer nuevos tubos.
ON THE TRAIL Members of an environmental group worked with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to place tracking devices in cathode ray tubes bound for American recycling companies.
The crumbling cardboard boxes, stacked in teetering rows, 9 feet high and 14 feet deep, were so sprawling that the inspectors needed cellphones to keep track of each other. The layer of broken glass on the floor and the lead-laden dust in the air was so thick that the inspectors soon left over safety concerns. Weeks later, the owner of the recycling company disappeared, abandoning the waste, and leaving behind a toxic hazard and a costly cleanup for the state and the warehouse's owner.
Cathode ray tubes have been largely replaced by flat panels that use fluorescent lights with highly toxic mercury in them, said Jim Puckett, director of Basel Action Network, an environmental advocacy group. Used panel screens from LCD televisions and monitors, for example, do not have much recycling value, so many recyclers are sending them to landfills.
State and federal environmental policies have also become victims of their own success. Over the past decade, environmental regulators have promoted "take-back" programs to persuade people to hand in the more than 200 million old televisions and broken computer monitors that Americans are thought to have stored away in closets, garages and basements.
The same programs have courted businesses to divert their electronic waste away from landfills to avoid the hazardous chemicals in this toxic trash from leaching into groundwater. More than 290,000 tons of the high-tech castoffs are now directed away from landfills and toward recyclers each year.
"The problem now is that the collection of this waste has never been higher, but demand for the glass that comes from it has never been lower," said Neil Peters-Michaud, the chief executive of Cascade Asset Management, a recycling company.
The stockpiling problem is especially worrisome to electronics companies and to state and federal officials since they might have to pick up part of the tab if the stockpiles were abandoned and declared federal Superfund sites.
At least 22 states have laws that make electronics manufacturers like Sony, Toshiba and Apple financially responsible for recycling their old products. But lack of oversight of these programs has led to rampant fraud. In one tactic, quietly known in the industry as "paper transactions," recyclers buy paperwork to indicate that they collected a certain amount of electronic waste that they never actually collected.
The Obama administration, more than any of its predecessors, has strengthened oversight of electronic waste. In 2012, the General Services Administration enacted rules discouraging all agencies and federal contractors from disposing of it in landfills. The federal government, which is among the world's largest producer of electronic waste, disposes more than 10,000 computers a week on average.
Federal agencies are failing to sufficiently track their electronic waste, and large amounts of it are still being disposed of through public or online auctions, according to a Government Accountability Office report last year. In these auctions, the waste is often sold to a first layer of contractors who promise to handle it appropriately, only to have the most toxic portion subsequently sold to subcontractors who move it around as they wish.
Some of this waste is dumped illegally in developing countries, the G.A.O. found. Congress is considering legislation to ban certain types of unprocessed and nonworking electronics and electronic waste from being exported to developing countries from the United States.
Recyclers say there is still money to be made on processing the old monitors and televisions if companies charge a price that more genuinely reflects the expense of disposing of the glass properly. But practices like "greenwashing," whereby companies pretend to engage in environmentally responsible disposal practices, hinder such progress.
The sheer quantity of the glass accumulating at some recycling plants has contributed to environmental and workplace safety problems. In Yuma, Ariz., for example, Dlubak Glass, one of the country's largest recyclers of glass from televisions and monitors, found itself overwhelmed.
When state regulators visited the site in 2009, they found a mountain of the lead-rich glass, several stories tall. Dust from the shimmering mound of recycled glass had contaminated the surrounding soil, including a nearby orchard, with lead at 75 times the federal limit, according to state documents.
"We have it entirely under control now," said Herb Schall, a Dlubak plant manager.
In September, California passed an emergency measure allowing companies to send monitors and televisions to hazardous landfills for the next two years.
Charlotte Fadipe, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, said her office's investigation of the abandoned warehouse near Fresno is continuing, and investigators are still trying to locate Charles Li, the owner of the company, TRI Products.
Over the past four years, TRI has been paid more than $1 million by the state to recycle electronic waste from local schools, hospitals and federal agencies, including the F.B.I., the I.R.S. and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to state and company documents.
After a reporter found him to be running another electronic waste disposal company, Mr. Li did not respond. But when he was contacted online by another recycler and asked whether he was still looking to buy electronic waste, he immediately replied yes, with one caveat.
A version of this article appeared in print on March 19, 2013, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Unwanted Electronic Gear Rising in Toxic Piles.
A group of women in Mexico is trying to improve the town's economic situation by taking part in a bi-national effort to recycle television sets, computers and other electronics and the digital transition in the United States is working in their favor.
The women live in the small community of Fronteras in the state of Sonora, south of Douglas, Arizona. The women formed a cooperative to achieve their goals and they have been so persistent and driven that they have been nicknamed in Spanish as "Las Chicas Bravas" or the "The Tough Women." Tony Paniagua speaks with two of them as well as a couple of assistant volunteers and the president of a Vermont company that is a vital link in the recycling efforts.
Tucson Clean and Beautiful recently was there to take a look at the operation and TVs collected in Arizona will be going to Fronteras, where they will be sold if in good condition in Mexico, or else be disassembled for materials like copper and lead.
The digital transition in the United States means that thousands of analog televisions will be replaced and since Mexico is not going digital, the market for them is much better.


From small cars we went to even smaller animals and shot this campaign for Jung von Matt with Art director Paul Carrera.
Here`s another editorial special on watches that we did for Men's Health recently.
This is a shot i've taken last winter, but as we have just reworked it for an art print of impressive size it feels like it should be posted here.


On December 10, 2014, #ProdChat hosted its annual Holiday ProdChat, an opportunity to discuss how to stay sane and productive during the winter holidays season. It's a busy time of year, but people want to still be productive and enjoy the holidays. Watch the slideshow to see what the productivity enthusiasts on #ProdChat had to say at our annual Holiday #ProdChat. Enjoy!
Next #ProdChat: Jan. 7, 2015 – Kaizen #Productivity! See you in 2015! Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, productivity enthusiasts!
SheldonAYS This also a great time to visit and grow relationships.
My next visit will #sprout #social for this first qrt 2015.
I tell everyone about them all the time!
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Q: Peano's successor function I have been trying to get my head round ZF set theory and Peano's axioms, but I have hit some confusion over Peano's definition of the successor function, or more accurately von Neumann's model.
Why did von Neumann use $S(x) := x \bigcup \{x\} $ and not just plain old $S(x) := \{x\} $? The latter seems a lot more simple and easy to work with, so am I missing some major advantage of the former, or is my function incompatible in some way?
Edit: is the only advantage just that the cardinality of the set is equal to the value it represents?

A: The most immediately obvious benefit of the Von Neumann representation is that the set that represents the number $n$ has exactly $n$ elements. This makes it technically easy to use the representation to reason about counting.
It also provides a connection to a "naive" definition of numbers where, for example, the number two is regarded as "the property that a set may have that it has one more than one element", and represented by the set of all sets that have exactly two elements. Unfortunately such a set can't actually exist in standard set theory, but the Von Neumann definition points to a particular representative of this class that we can use to represent it instead.
A more advanced -- but technically quite important -- benefit of the Von Neumann naturals is that they generalize directly to a representation of transfinite ordinal numbers. Representing finite numbers as towers of singletons has no natural continuation beyond the finite ones, but the Von Neymann representation does.

A: It is harder to work with. For example, we can "check" whether an arbitrary set $x$ is a von Neumann natural:

$x$ is finite and transitive and well-ordered by $\in$.

where finite can be formalized as, e.g., "every injective map $x\to x$ is onto" and transitive is defined as "every element is also a subset".
Try to find a similar characterization for the alternative (without using "$\ldots$" anywhere).
Or try to find a simple way to express the order relation between natural numbers in a simple way for the sets representing the numbers (for von Neumann we have $x<y$ iff $x\in y$ iff $x \subsetneq y$).


Young drivers who install a black box in their cars which allows their parents to track them will receive a discount from Admiral Insurance.
The scheme was piloted in Staffordshire by 40 young motorists and has now been made permanent, the BBC reports.
Tracker devices the size of matchboxes were installed into the cars, sending journey details to a website to enable parents to see how careful the drivers had been.
Admiral Insurance said it will give a 25 per cent discount to anyone who installs the black box into their vehicle.
The black box can sense speed, braking and G force as the car turns corners, displaying red, amber and green flags to show how well the car is being driven.
Last month, insurance provider Zurich warned parents that insuring cars in their own names and adding their children as "named drivers" is illegal if the child is in fact the main driver.
It is known as insurance fronting.


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Q: Gravity Forms Wordpress: Redirect users role to a specific page I added this function from GF, but i don't know how to add another user in the conditional login, can someone help :
add_filter( 'gform_user_registration_login_redirect_url', 'gf_redirect_user_role', 10, 2 );
function gf_redirect_user_role( $login_redirect, $sign_on ) {
    GFCommon::log_debug(  __METHOD__ . '(): Running...' );
    if ( in_array( 'subscriber', $sign_on->roles ) ){
        // Redirect users with subcriber role to a specific page.
        $login_redirect = 'https://url';
        GFCommon::log_debug(  __METHOD__ . '(): Redirecting to ' . $login_redirect );
    }
    return $login_redirect;
}

A: You can simply add an 'else if' to add new conditions
add_filter( 'gform_user_registration_login_redirect_url', 'gf_redirect_user_role', 10, 2 );
    function gf_redirect_user_role( $login_redirect, $sign_on ) {
        GFCommon::log_debug(  __METHOD__ . '(): Running...' );
        if ( in_array( 'subscriber', $sign_on->roles ) ){
            // Redirect users with subcriber role to a specific page.
            $login_redirect = 'https://url';
            GFCommon::log_debug(  __METHOD__ . '(): Redirecting to ' . $login_redirect );
        }else if ( in_array( 'customer', $sign_on->roles ) ){
            // Redirect users with customer role to a specific page.
            $login_redirect = 'https://url';
            GFCommon::log_debug(  __METHOD__ . '(): Redirecting to ' . $login_redirect );
        }
        return $login_redirect;
    }


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Homepage Rafale production line shifts back to French Air Force after a four-year interruption
Rafale production line shifts back to French Air Force after a four-year interruption
Negotiations between Colombia, France's Dassault Aviation, and Sweden's Saab to replace FAC Israeli-made Kfir aircraft collapsed
Colombian Air Force closes in on purchase of 16 Dassault Rafale Omnirole fighter jets to replace Israeli-made Kfir aircraft
Greece signs Letter of Request for 20 F-35 Lightning II fighter jets with options for another 20
In the wake of Egypt's cancellation of Su-35 deal with Russia, Israel tries to persuade the US to approve the sale of F-15 Advanced Eagle fighter jets to Cairo
Turkey could soon train its fighter pilots on Qatar's Rafales to learn how to counter Greek Rafales
Switzerland selected the F-35 Lightning II because it is the most advanced, capable and affordable aircraft available for the Swiss Air Force's future fighter fleet
Military Aviation / Weapons
Here's why Rafale or Typhoon fighters equipped with Meteor air-to-air missile are not a credible threat for the F-35
Indonesian Air Force chief of staff hopes to have six F-15EX fighters bought by 2022
Rafale fighter jet cuts power line during training mission, Villagers in southern France are left without electricity for three hours.
Greece sent letter of request to Pentagon for buying 18 to 24 new or used F-35 stealth fighters
Six F-35As originally ordered by Turkey could be delivered to Greece
Rafale Vs F/A-18 Super Hornet: which one between Rafale and 'Rhino' is the better multirole fighter aircraft?
'We buy Rafales to replace our Mirage 2000-5s,' Greece's Prime Minister says
Greece could get 18 Rafales, 8 for free from France. But the F-35 would be the choice for the Hellenic Air Force.
An in-depth analysis of why the Sukhoi Su-35 is the most overhyped 4th generation fighter aircraft
The MiG-29s deployed to al-Jufra Air Base may belong to Libyan National Army Air Force but it doesn't really matter: they are in Libya 'in the name of Russia'
Tom Cooper


"Occupational exposure to organic solvents: 6 Effects on human reproduction".
shops, the printing industry, and in various jobs within the chemical industry.
investigations, in particular in the Nordic countries.
fertility of men and women?
What substantiated effects are found in different types of industry?
the development of the progeny of men and women?
or exposure during sensitive periods on the other hand?
the likelihood of a causal relation.


Once the Customizable Portfolio has been created, you will need to build the Table of Contents/structure for it. This lesson will teach you how to create sections and sub-sections in your portfolio.
NOTE: By default, you will already have a 'Home' section in your portfolio. You will add new sections and sub-sections below this home section.
Before you can add main pages to your portfolio, you must enable the Table of Contents Edit Mode.
What is a 'main page'?
A main page is a sub-page to the "Home" page in your portfolio. You can add main pages to your portfolio, and sub-pages to your main pages.
1. Click on the Enable Table of Contents Edit Mode button.
2. Click on the +Add button to add a new main page.
NOTE: To continue to add main pages to your portfolio, you must click on "Home" before clicking "Add" again.
3. Enter a Name for your new page.
4. You can select the page to Add a sub-page to, Rename, or Delete.
5. Click the Done Editing button.
NOTE: You can return at any time to add, rename, or delete pages from your portfolio.