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Q: Problema con toString para devolver un objeto con formato en Java tengo un problema con un programa en Java. Es un programa para generar tickets de compra. El problema lo tengo en la clave que genera el toString() con formato para devolver el ticket.
El código es este:
public String toString() {//Arreglar...
        String formato="\n%s: %s \n%s: \n%s \t%s \t%s \t%s ";
        String lista="Nombre Precio Unidades Importe";
        for (Iterator<Producto> it = listaCompra.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
            Producto producto = (Producto) it.next();
            formato+="\n%s \t%.2f€ \t%d \t%.2f€ ";
            lista+= producto.getNombre()+producto.getPrecio()+producto.getUnidades()+producto.calcularImporte();
        }
        formato +="\n%s: \n%s: %.2f";
        return String.format(formato, "Venta con código", this.codigoVenta,"Productos de la lista de la compra",lista,"El importe total de la compra es",calcularImporte());
        //return "\nVenta con código: "+ this.codigoVenta + "\nProductos de la lista de la compra: "+ lista+ "\nEl importe total de la compra es:"+
    //calcularImporte()+"€";
    }

Debería quedar así:

Muchas gracias y siento las molestias.

A: No puedes aplicar String format a los encabezados dentro de una cadena,es por eso que quizá te marca un error
String lista="Nombre Precio Unidades Importe";

lo que puedes hacer es manejar los encabezados en un arreglo y darles formato
String [] titulo={"Nombre", "Precio","Unidades","Importe"};

        String lista=String.format("\n%s \t\t%s \t\t%s \t%s",titulo[0],titulo[1],titulo[2],titulo[3]);

        String format="\n%s \t%.2f \t\t%d \t\t%.2f";

          for(Producto producto:listaCompra){

            lista+=String.format(format,producto.getNombre(),producto.getPrecio(),producto.getUnidades(),producto.calcularImporte());

        }

        return lista;

Ejemplo de salida:

A: una vez solucionada la duda con las respuestas aportadas por la comunidad lo que mejorado y terminado tal que así, por si le sirve de algo a alguien:
public String toString() {
        String lista=String.format("\n|%-20s| |%-21s| |%-20s| |%-21s|","Nombre", "Precio","Unidades","Importe");

        for (Iterator<Producto> it = listaCompra.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
            Producto producto = (Producto) it.next();
            lista+=String.format("\n|%20s| |%20.2f€| |%20d| |%20.2f€|",producto.getNombre(),producto.getPrecio(),producto.getUnidades(),producto.calcularImporte());
        }
        lista+=String.format("\n|%68s: %20.2f€|","Costo total",calcularImporte() );
        return "\nVenta con código: "+ this.codigoVenta +
                "\n***********************Productos de la lista de la compra************************************"+
                lista +
                "\n*********************************************************************************************";
    }

Quedaría así el formato:

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CAMPAIGNERS concerned about the future of the National Health Service weathered the wind and rain on Saturday to gather support for a nationwide petition.
Rallies in Montague Street, Worthing, and at Findon Village Hall were organised as part of a day of action by campaign group 38 Degrees.
The 'Save our NHS' petition will be presented to all parliamentary candidates and calls on them to protect NHS funding and keep it a priority in the run up to the general election.
38 Degrees member Peter Keiley, 67, said: "We campaign on not just the NHS, but on many other things; and regardless of political party, anything that concerns ordinary people, concerns us.
"Today we're here to collect signatures, as we are in about 9,000 sites across the country.
The group also shared concerns about what they said was creeping privatisation of healthcare and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP, and its Investor-State Dispute Settlement clause (ISDS).
Campaigners warned that TTIP could allow more international private companies to sue governments for profits if national policies do not allow them equivalent market access and rights.
The TTIP is expected to change EU standards on food safety, the environment and manufacturing, and bring them closer to those of the US.
Because US regulations are less strict in some areas, for example in the use of genetically modified ingredients in food, some campaigners are concerned that UK consumers will be adversely affected.
There has also been criticism of the secrecy surrounding negotiations and it is feared it will undermine democracy if future trade dispute decisions are reviewed by tribunals, not governments.
The Green Party parliamentary candidate, David Aherne, went along to support the campaigners.
The Worthing campaigners collected 250 signatures on the day, with around 20 turning out to support the event.
Several others attended the Findon gathering, before moving on to Storrington.


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The "foreign referee" appears in the "Three Summits" tour of the "ADNOC League"
Mutasem Abdullah (Dubai)
To the rhythm of the whistle of the first foreign referee in the era of professionalism, and the first ever in the local league after nearly a quarter of a century, the excitement returns to the stadiums of the "ADNOC Professional League", after a hiatus of about 22 days with the start of the "seventh round", which witnesses three matches at the start today. Ittihad Kalba gathered with Al-Uruba, Baniyas with Khorfakkan, and Al-Wasl with Al-Ain, and it will continue tomorrow with the matches of Sharjah with Al-Nasr, Ajman with Al-Dhafra, Shabab Al-Ahly with Al-Jazira, to conclude on Saturday with one match between Al-Wahda and the Emirates. The "Three Summits" tour, which will witness exciting confrontations, most notably the "Emperor" and "The Leader", "The King and the Brigadier", "The Knights" and "Pride of Abu Dhabi", will be historic under the leadership of Junit Shakir, a Turkish arbitration team to manage the Shabab and Al-Ahly match with Al-Jazira.
The expected summit between Al Wasl and Al Ain at Zabeel Stadium grabs attention at the start of the seventh round, in contrast to the history of confrontations, which confirms the preference of the "leader", by winning 16 matches out of 24 confrontations. The two teams are in the professionals, while the three-point difference that separates Baniyas, the tenth, with 5 points, from its rival Khor Fakkan, the ninth, with 8 points, ignites the atmosphere of the expected confrontation at the "Heavenly" stadium in Al Shamkha.
Thinking about the future to build the present
Four Russians found dead in hotel sauna in Albania
A woman fell in love with a ghost and talked about an unforgettable sex with him

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Q: approach to parse json in .net app I am trying to parse JSON response from a httpwebrequest fetch and a little unsure after reading posts on it, as to what would be the best approach for me.
I access the facebook graph api and would like to parse the all fields for a given post.
"data": [
  {
     "id": "17xxxxxxxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
     "from": {
        "name": "Lxxxxxx",
        "category": "Sports league",
        "id": "17xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
     },
     "picture": "http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQB4GscSy-2RHY_0&w=130&h=130&url=http\u00253A\u00252F\u00252Fwww.ligabbva.com\u00252Fquiz\u00252Farchivos\u00252Fbenzema-quiz-facebook.png",
     "link": "http://www.xxxxxva.com/quiz/index.php?qid=34",
     "source": "http://www.lxxxxva.com/modulos/redirectQuiz.php?name=benzema&q=34&time=1312827103",
     "name": "DEMUESTRA CU\u00c1NTO SABES SOBRE... BENZEMA",
     "caption": "www.xxxxxva.com",
     "description": "Demuestra cu\u00e1nto sabes sobre Karim Benzema, delantero del Real Madrid.",
     "icon": "http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/yj/r/v2OnaTyTQZE.gif",
     "type": "video",
     "created_time": "2011-08-08T18:11:54+0000",
     "updated_time": "2011-08-08T18:11:54+0000",
     "likes": {
        "data": [
           {
              "name": "Jhona Arancibia",
              "id": "100000851276736"
           },
           {
              "name": "Luis To\u00f1o",
              "id": "100000735350531"
           },
           {
              "name": "Manuel Raul Guerrero Cumbicos",
              "id": "100001485973224"
           },
           {
              "name": "Emmanuel Gutierrez",
              "id": "100000995038988"
           }
        ],
        "count": 127
     },
     "comments": {
        "count": 33
     }
  },
  {
     "id": "17xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxxxxxx",
     "from": {
        "name"

not all fields will always be present but I need to be able to iterate through each post.
Update:
I am receiving an error for the following line:
dim serializer as new jsonSerializer()
dim jsArray as JArray = directCast(serializer.Deserialize(New JsonTextReader _
     (New StringReader(responseData))), JArray)

ERROR: unable to cast object of type newtonsoft.json.linq.jobject to type newtonsoft.json.ling.jobject

A: you could use the newtonsoft JSON deserialiser
you would set up a Data Entity with each of the properties and their sub properties and then use JSON attributes to map the entities to the properties
sample code from a similar thing I was doing:
[JsonObject(MemberSerialization.OptIn)]
    public class Data
    {
        public override string ToString()
        {
            return Name;
        }

        [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "id")]
        public string Id{ get; set; }

    }

public Data DeserialiseData()
        {
            var data = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Data>("JSON string");

    return data;
}

more information can be found here

A: These references will help you, I believe.
http://dorobantu.me/post/2010/08/22/Deserializing-JSON-to-anonymous-types-in-C.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alexghi/archive/2008/12/22/using-anonymous-types-to-deserialize-json-data.aspx


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West Virginia Anti-Bullying Laws & Policies
Communication of policy No
Safeguards and supports Yes
Review and update of local policies No
What are the West Virginia laws and regulations that cover bullying?
West Virginia Code Annotated §18-2-33. Rules for antihazing
West Virginia Code Annotated §18-2C-1. Legislative findings
West Virginia Code Annotated §18-2C-2. Definitions
West Virginia Code Annotated §18-2C-3. Policy prohibiting harassment, intimidation or bullying
West Virginia Code Annotated §18-2C-4. Immunity
West Virginia Code Annotated §18-2C-5. Policy training and education
West Virginia Code Annotated §18-2C-6. Liability
West Virginia Code Annotated §18A-5-1c. Bill of rights and responsibilities for students and school personnel
West Virginia Code Annotated §49-4-717. Sexting educational diversion program; requirements
West Virginia Code of State Regulations §126-099 Expected Behavior in Safe and Supportive Schools (4373)
How are bullying and cyberbullying defined in West Virginia anti-bullying laws and regulations?
West Virginia anti-bullying laws and regulations include the following definitions of harassment, intimidation, and bullying:
"Harassment, intimidation or bullying" means any intentional gesture, or any intentional electronic, written, verbal or physical act, communication, transmission or threat that:
(1) A reasonable person under the circumstances should know will have the effect of any one or more of the following:
(A) Physically harming a student;
(B) Damaging a student's property;
(C) Placing a student in reasonable fear of harm to his or her person; or
(D) Placing a student in reasonable fear of damage to his or her property;
(2) Is sufficiently severe, persistent or pervasive that it creates an intimidating, threatening or emotionally abusive educational environment for a student; or
(3) Disrupts or interferes with the orderly operation of the school.
W. Va. Code § 18-2C-2 (2011)
Do West Virginia anti-bullying laws and regulations cover cyberbullying that occurs off-campus?
No. West Virginia anti-bullying laws do not cover off-campus conduct.
West Virginia school districts are required to adopt a policy prohibiting harassment, intimidation, or bullying. District policies must contain key policy and procedural elements, including, but not limited to:
Statements prohibiting harassment, intimidation or bullying and statements of scope indicating where and when the policy applies;
Definitions of harassment, intimidation or bullying that are no less inclusive than the definitions in state law;
Requirements for notifying the parents of any student involved in a bullying incident;
Strategies for protecting a victim from additional harassment, intimidation, bullying or retaliation;
Disciplinary consequences for any student guilty of harassment, intimidation, or bullying; and
Provisions to protect student confidentiality.
West Virginia anti-bullying laws require county boards to submit a copy of the harassment, intimidation, and bullying policy to the State Superintendent of Schools and to compile an annual report to the state of incidents of harassment, intimidation, or bullying.
Do West Virginia anti-bullying laws and regulations include protections for specific groups?
No. There are no specific groups listed under West Virginia anti-bullying laws or regulations.
West Virginia schools that receive federal funding are required by federal law to address discrimination on a number of different personal characteristics. Find out when bullying may be a civil rights violation.
Do West Virginia anti-bullying laws and regulations encourage or require districts to implement bullying prevention programs or strategies?
Yes. West Virginia anti-bullying laws encourage districts to form bullying prevention task forces, programs and other initiatives involving school staff, students, teachers, administrators, volunteers, parents, law enforcement and community members, and to develop a process for educating students on the harassment, intimidation or bullying policy.
Do West Virginia anti-bullying laws and regulations encourage or require districts to train teachers and other school staff on how to respond to bullying incidents?
Yes. West Virginia anti-bullying laws require districts, to the extent state or federal funds are appropriated for this purpose, to provide training on the harassment, intimidation or bullying policy to school employees and volunteers who have direct contact with students. Information regarding the harassment, intimidation or bullying policy must also be incorporated into each school's current employee training program.
Do West Virginia anti-bullying laws and regulations encourage or require districts to provide safeguards or mental health supports for students involved with bullying?
Yes. West Virginia school district policies must include a strategy for protecting a victim from additional harassment, intimidation or bullying, and from retaliation following a report.
Do West Virginia anti-bullying laws and regulations involve parents in efforts to address bullying behavior?
Yes. West Virginia anti-bullying laws require county boards to adopt policies through a process that includes representation of parents or guardians, school employees, school volunteers, students and community members. School district policies must include a requirement that the parents or guardians of any student involved in a bullying incident must be notified. West Virginia anti-bullying laws also encourage districts to form bullying prevention task forces, programs and other initiatives involving school staff, students, teachers, administrators, volunteers, parents, law enforcement and community members.
Visit the West Virginia Department of Education's "Safe & Supportive Schools" webpage and/or view the West Virginia state model policy on bullying and harassment.


when I came home I rushed to our backyard to clear my mind and watch the world go by...and yep....I found the scattered pieces of my mind watching the blue sky..
Let's keep sharing our blessings!!
First pic, parang ang sarap lang tingnan.
sooooooo pretty and beautiful!!! hayst, kaka-in love talaga! happy hearts day Zen.
Love the shoes, they look comfortable too!


QML WebEngineView: how to prohibit user interactions?
I would like to show a web page to my application, but my user shall not modify anything.
This works, except for the first 'tab' pressed, which scroll my view to top.


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An open letter to Affirming Catholicism
Richard Norman, an ordinand, writes of his concerns for the future
I am twenty-two years old and an ordinand in the Church of England: this summer I have been taking the first tentative steps towards securing a curacy. I am also a
member of Forward in Faith, and this article is my, very personal, response to the events surrounding the moves to admit women to the episcopate, which came to a head earlier this summer at the session of General Synod in York.
I would like to take this opportunity to explain a few of the reasons why a modern and intelligent young man should continue to oppose the ordination of women, and why I believe that the current proposals in respect of provision for traditionalists in the event of female bishops are unsatisfactory.
Ecumenical relations
My conviction that the ordination of women has been, for the Church of England, deeply regrettable stems from my self-identity as a 'catholic'
Anglican. For me, catholicity means recognizing that the Church of England is one part of the wider Church, and so acting responsibly towards the rest of that universal Church. What this translates to in practice is that we as Anglicans ought not to act in ways which do serious damage to our ecumenical relations.
It is irresponsible towards the rest of the Church of which we are a part to behave as if the ordained ministry was something that belonged to the Church of England alone, and not to the universal Church.
The universal Church
Indeed, whilst traditionalists are in a significant minority in the Church of England, nevertheless in the universal Church the normative view is that women may not be ordained: the majority view of Christians who recognize the importance of a common ministerial priesthood is that the ordination of women is impermissible. Any catholic Christian must surely look to the opinion of the universal Church when it comes to issues that impact upon the universal Church. Otherwise, we behave as if the ordained ministry exercised by Anglican clergy were peculiar to the Church of England, and not a common possession of the 'one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church'.
The consequence of ordaining women is to forego conclusively the possibility of communion with our Roman Catholic and Orthodox brothers and sisters, and – for catholics – is to step away from communion with the saints who have gone before us, who likewise believed the ordained ministry to be restricted to men.
This for me is the essential point in the matter: it is less a question of whether women can or cannot be ordained, as one of whether, in a Church which affirms its place within, and relationship to, the wider Church, they ought to be ordained.
There are no signs that the Roman Catholic Church will admit women to the ordained ministry in the future; thus, if we desire, as catholic Christians ought to do, the unity of the Church for which Jesus prayed [John 17.11], we must realize that this can only be achieved if there remains the possibility of a common priesthood and episcopate.
A 'generous' gift?
But General Synod has decided that the Church of England is to have women bishops, and that provision must be made for those who dissent from the majority view, and this is the situation with which we must deal constructively now. Following the recent debate in Synod, supporters of the ordination of women have consistently declared that the provision offered (a Code of Practice) is 'generous'. With respect, it is not for the donor to gauge whether or not the gift proffered is generous – that is for the recipient to decide.
If this were a debate, say, over the Church's teaching on homosexuality, I imagine members of Affirming Catholicism would insist that the voices of homosexual people should be listened to in order to ascertain what would be necessary for them to flourish in their identity. So too, the only provision for traditionalists in the women bishops debate that can be characterized as 'generous' is that which traditionalists themselves agree is such as will allow them to flourish in their identity.
Insufficient provision
A Code of Practice will suggest that a female bishop should appoint a male bishop to minister to those parishes which cannot accept her ministry. This is insufficient for the Anglo-Catholics amongst the traditionalists. This is because the debate is not about women and men, but about bishops. There would be nothing to prevent the appointment of a male bishop who had been consecrated (or ordained to the priesthood in the first instance) by a female bishop: in our eyes, he would be no bishop at all then, because we do not believe that a woman can be ordained as a priest or bishop, and thus she cannot be in a legitimate position to confer holy orders on others. We require that our bishops be to us unambiguously recognizable as bishops, i.e. that they be such as the rest of the wider Church, with whom the ordained ministry is our common possession, could recognize as bishops.
Furthermore, we ask that our bishops are men who do not ordain women to the priesthood. This is, to my mind, nothing to do with a risible theology of 'taint': a bishop does not lose his episcopal identity because he has ordained a woman – but what does happen is that a situation emerges where the presbyterium (the college of priests) which the bishop calls into communion around himself, and with which he exercises his ministry, becomes such as cannot be entered into by traditionalist priests, because they do not recognize the orders they exercise in some of the other members of the college (its female members). It is, again, not the case that we cannot accept the ministry of such a bishop, but that we ought not to do so, because we do not recognize a catholically-constituted presbyterium.
Uniformity of ministry
Supporters of the ordination of women have argued with much justification that the ministry exercised by women must be the same as that exercised by male priests and bishops: in just the same way, traditionalists insist that the presbyteria to which they belong must demonstrate to them a uniformity of priestly ministry – the admission of women to these colleges of priests makes that impossible to achieve, from our perspective. Because priests exercise their ministry in collaboration with their bishop and his other clergy, they need to recognize the ministry of those other clergy in order fully to exercise their own. No priest exercises his ministry in isolation from his bishop and his brother-priests.
As things stand, it would be very difficult for traditionalist priests or parishes to avoid the sacramental ministry of women bishops in future. I personally have less of a problem with acknowledging their juridical authority. This is because in the Church of England we have a prime example of a woman with 'ordinary' (i.e. jurisdictional) authority, namely the Queen, who is ordinary of the royal peculiars. So too there are examples of laypeople possessing ordinary authority, e.g. head-teachers in relation to some school chapels.
The next best solution
I believe that, if the Church of England desires to avoid the option of additional dioceses or a Third Province (which would at least not have undermined the authority of women bishops in their own dioceses!), the next best solution is the creation of a society for traditionalist priests, with its own male bishop who was not ordained by, nor who ordains, women.
Admittedly the Revision Committee rejected this suggestion, but I believe evidence from the Roman Catholic Church suggests that diocesan bishops can cooperate fruitfully with, e.g. religious orders and congregations possessing their own bishops. In the General Synod debate the Archdeacon of Plymouth gave the example of military chaplains. (After all, the ministry and authority a bishop (or priest) exercises belong to Christ in the end: there is but one ministry (Christ's ministry), and so talk of threats to authority in the proposed scenario of shared jurisdiction are theological red-herrings.)
For theological and moral reasons it is incumbent upon the Church of England to find a way to accommodate traditionalists as we go forward together. Theologically, it is not of the Anglican way to ask of people to assent to more than is proved by Scripture and the understanding of the primitive or patristic Church. We are not dogmatists. No one on either side of this debate ought to claim that the ordination of women is, beyond doubt, either affirmed or denied by these witnesses of Scripture and Tradition, and so it ought not to be incumbent upon Anglicans to have to assent to the ordination of women (which is what will, in effect, be required if acceptable provision is not forthcoming) in order to remain members of the Church of England.
There are two moral reasons to seek this accommodation: firstly, the Church cannot on the one hand promise, as it did in the 1990s, an honoured place to traditionalists, and on the other act so as to force them from the Church of their baptism. Hundreds of clergy, and thousands of laity, remained in the Church of England after the admission of women to the priesthood and persevered in the work of the Gospel, because they believed the Church was committed to making room for them to flourish.
I offered myself for ordination (and continue to follow the necessary programme of study and formation, and to seek a title parish) because I believed that, in affirming my vocation to ordained ministry, the Church was at the same time pledging to support me in my future ministry. I do not want to leave the Church of England. I do not believe it is consonant with the insights of Anglo-Catholicism to abandon a catholic witness to the Church of England, until continuing such a witness becomes impossible.
The second moral issue concerns inclusivity, on a commitment to which many supporters of the ordination of women pride themselves. Inclusion can never mean just including those with whom one agrees. 'For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax-collectors do the same?' [Matt. 5.46]. Inclusivity means acknowledging that real differences exist between us, but that these differences are not greater than the love we bear for one another.
Dialogue in diversity
There is, of course, more that could be said on this matter, and doubtless there are those who will question some of the arguments I have put forward here. I welcome that, and I affirm my commitment to dialogue in diversity. Such dialogue is only ultimately possible if the interlocutors are standing on secure ground and communicating in love and friendship.
Please remember that no women clergy, or their supporters, are facing the prospect of expulsion from their own Church. I do not underestimate the hardships that many women priests must feel in the face of a Church which does not value their ministry as unambiguously as it might. But I wish to remain an Anglican as much as anyone else, and, as Resolution 111.2 of the Lambeth Conference 1998 affirmed, my position is as authentically Anglican as those with whom I disagree over the ordination of women. I struggle to understand why I should be ejected from the Church of England, especially as there remain other provinces of the Anglican Communion which do not ordain women, including the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe, which in all other respects is a cause célèbre for liberal members of the Church of England. Will you pledge solidarity with them whilst refusing to do so with me?
But let me end on a more gracious note. It is because we are the Church that we have the ability to make it through these difficulties: as the Church we have the Holy Spirit to guide us, the Spirit of 'unity, peace and concord'. We have shown that, despite our disagreements, we can still pray together. So let us pray for the gift of the Spirit. ND


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El embalse de Los Peares (en gallego: Encoro dos Peares) es un embalse español situado entre los municipios de Carballedo y Pantón, en la provincia de Lugo, sobre el río Miño. Inaugurado en 1955, tiene una capacidad de 182 hm³ y ocupa una superficie de 535 ha.

Su presa es de gravedad y tiene una altura de 94 m. Dispone de una central hidroeléctrica para su aprovechamiento.

Enlaces externos
 Estado del Embalse de Los Peares
 Ficha de la Sociedad Española de Presas y Embalses

Peares
Peares
Peares
Peares
Peares
Arquitectura de España de 1955

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Home The Beats Health Republicans back lawmaker who called Planned Parenthood the 'real culprit' in the...
Republicans back lawmaker who called Planned Parenthood the 'real culprit' in the clinic shooting
Marianne Goodland
Rep. JoAnn Windholz still has her party's support in the 2016 race after she blamed Planned Parenthood for inciting the Nov. 27 rampage at a Colorado Springs clinic, referring to the health organization as the "real culprit" in the murder of three.
Adams County GOP leaders Warren Main and Gary Mikes lauded her record as a lawmaker. She is very religious and has "high morals," Main told The Colorado Independent.
Windholz, R-Commerce City, already has filed paperwork to seek re-election and has more than $4,600 in her campaign coffers.
But she may struggle to raise more. Some of her former financial backers told The Independent they may shift their funding to her 2016 Democratic challengers, Dafna Michaelson Jenet and John Myer.
Since the national backlash to her remarks, Windholz has been silent, issuing no public apologies or even a statement of sympathy for the shooting victims. Unlike other lawmakers, she has neither held pre-session town-hall meetings nor announced her 2016 legislative agenda.
In the meantime, Democrats — some of whom met and organized on The Independent's website — have launched a recall effort to boot her from office.
One of them, Steve Cohn, said he and fellow organizers are waiting until after the holidays to turn in paperwork to the Secretary of State, which would give them 60 days to submit the 4,714 signatures needed to trigger a recall election. They hope Windholz steps down first.
As of this writing, the recall effort has raised $5,330 of a $10,000 goal in less than two weeks. Organizers said they will donate money left over from their campaign to the families of the victims of the Planned Parenthood murders.
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, which advocates for Dems in state legislatures, has released a petition asking people to comment on Windholz and her remarks. As of last week, it had more than 4,400 signatures and more than 1,400 comments, according to DLCC spokesperson Carolyn Fiddler.
The Democratic women's group Emily's List announced it would target Windholz because of her anti-Planned Parenthood statement and her 2015 legislative voting record in which she fought against family planning bills and in favor of anti-abortion legislation. Emily's List has only one other main target in Colorado: Rep. Mike Coffman, who's seeking re-election to his 6th Congressional District seat.
Photo credit: Women's eNews, Creative Commons. Flickr.
Emily\'s List
JoAnn Windholz
Planned Parenthood shooting
has been a political journalist since 1998. She covered the state capitol for the Silver & Gold Record from 1998 to 2009 and for The Colorado Statesman in 2010-11 and 2013-14. Since 2010 she also has covered the General Assembly for newspapers in northeastern Colorado. She was recognized with awards from the Colorado Press Association for feature writing and informational graphics for her work with the Statesman in 2012.
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Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
Editor's note: We don't really do film reviews often here at Potholes — actually this is the first — but we felt that Michael Rapaport's documentary on A Tribe Called Quest, Beats, Rhymes & Life, absolutely deserved some coverage and some critical analysis.
Hit the skip for the film review.
A Tribe Called Quest's (ATCQ) legacy is one of the most indelible in music history. It's a career that spanned a decade with five albums as a group, and over two decades with their respective solo endeavors. The essence of their sound and attitude has influenced other artist and shaped the personality traits of their fans. It is only fitting that someone stepped up and attempted to represent Tribe's relevance to the spirit and legacy of Hip Hop culture. Michael Rapaport's Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, not only outlines the history behind the group, but succinctly captures the comedy, drama, pain, and glory of ATCQ's career.
Beats, Rhymes and Life moves through three phases: the formation of the group in Queens and their High School (with fellow Native Tongue-ers The Jungle Brothers); the impact of their first three albums; and the subsequent music industry politics and personal drama between Q-Tip & Phife. Archival footage and interviews with Quest, Black Thought, Mike D, Pharrell and others show how Tribe stepped into the culture providing an alternative. ATCQ was a group rooted in respect of their African roots, having a positive attitude, and crafting songs with a jazz sensibility, but a heavy low end. It was a vibe captured by the images and colors of their just as legendary album covers. Any of us drifting into our thirties understand how before swagger became the go to terminology for the cool, Tribe embodied swag without any of its pompous tendencies and this documentary does a great job of capturing their essence.
Rapaport's documentary is also keen on showing how powerful and enduring songs like "Bonita Applebum", "I Left My Wallet In El Segundo", "Buggin' Out", "Excursions" and a few others are. There is a scene in particular where Q-Tip speaks on how and why he purchased Lonnie Smith's Drive. The album contains the song "Spinning Wheel", which provides the drum sample for "Can I Kick It". It was a moment where every crate-digger and musician at the LA Ford Amphitheatre premier got giddy with insight and understanding. It was one of many moments where the energy of the space reflected the love these artist have for their craft. There is also a hilarious scene where former manager Chris Lighty talks about how obsessive-compulsive Q-Tip is about music, that if it wasn't for Lighty literally snatching the album tracks from Tip, waiting for Tribe albums would've been like waiting for Guns-N-Roses' Chinese Democracy.
To conclude, Rapaport's Beats, Rhymes & Life was very short on the public drama surrounding the release of the film. Yes, we get details into why the group split, but it respectfully frames Phife and Tip as friend's whose personal natures just drifted apart. Their personal beef does engulf the film's narrative and actually leave us with a very positive conclusion to their professional relationship and the power of their music. The audience at the LA premier was reflective of that: multi-racial, polyethnic, and ranging in ages from tweens to people in their 50s. Some may argue the film could've gone deeper into the meaning and music of the albums (in particular the role of Jay Dee and Consequence on Beats Rhymes & Life), but many Tribe fans are "headz" and can fill in the blanks themselves. This film, along with Ava Duvernay's This Is The Life: How The West Was One, are beginning to show the importance of how certain scenes and groups need to be reflected upon and documented. They hopefully open the door for future films about the various legacies and narratives within Hip Hop culture.
TagsA Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed Muhammed, ATCQ, Hip Hop Documentary, Jarobi, Michael Rapaport, Native Tongues, new york, Phife Dog, q-tip, Queens, rap culture
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Anonymous |
Good movie. Took me there from the opening credits…My personal critique is with Rapaport. I wish he wouldn't have focused on the beef, because for me, the movie never answers the question definitively, why did they break up? I took it as Phife moved to ATL and they grew apart due to the distance and the maturation to adults that sometimes separates alot of childhood friends, those were the reasons for the group breaking up. I wish he would have just focused on the music, native tongues, golden era, etc…and to just leave Dilla and Cons out of the movie entirely, c'mon son, there's just as much controversy, etc…with those stories as well. He missed the mark of a truly great film, but it was a dope experience nonetheless and a good movie. You can truly get the impact that hip-hop has had, from the small club scenes in the beginning for a mostly urban audience, to the ending scenes of the stadium shows in Tokyo.
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http://www.cinemaclock.com/showtimes/ont/Toronto/44962/Beats_Rhymes_Life_The_Travels_of_a_Tribe_Called_Quest.html
Osman Ahmed |
Where is it playing? Google tells me the AMC at Dundas Sq. is showing it, but I cant get times…
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Grownmale |
It's simply the best movie I've seen this year, so far, and should be nominated for best doc by The Academy. Although it's popularity will stem from having a "built-in audience", I think non-rap/Hip Hop/ Tribe fans can still get entertainment and knowledge from this flick
Analog Burners |
This is Analog Burners, great write-up!
JustPlans |
Loved the doc and I think they weighted it just right concentrating on the first 3 albums. Props for droppin' some knowledge on the last sentence everybody would love to see that
The Tribe documentary finally opened here in Toronto on Friday. I'm gonna try and see it in the next few days. Based on your review it sounds like its worth watching.


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Europe's drugs regulator has issued a temporary staffing contract worth up to £32 million, in order to ensure it has enough hands on deck while it relocates from London as part of Brexit.
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Q: Why a || a = 'bar' will get a reference error in javascript? The code snippet is:
var a = 'foo'
a || a = 'bar'

What I expected is that it can work normally which means a will be 'bar' finally.But I got an error

Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid left-hand side in assignment.

According to the error,I thought maybe it is something wrong with the left hand side expression a || a.It seems that a || a is invalid here.But why?I turn to ecmascript language specification for help.In 12.15.1 Static Semantics: Early Errors, I find:

It is an early Reference Error if LeftHandSideExpression is neither an ObjectLiteral nor an ArrayLiteral and AssignmentTargetType of LeftHandSideExpression is invalid.

So, the AssignmentTargetType of LeftHandSideExpression a||a is invalid.But I am confused why a||a 's AssignmentTargetType is invalid.About this,the specification just said:

12.15.3 Static Semantics: AssignmentTargetType
AssignmentExpression:
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ArrowFunction
AsyncArrowFunction
LeftHandSideExpression = AssignmentExpression
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I can't figure out why a||a 's AssignmentTargetType is invalid based on what is given.
My question is: Why a||a = 'bar' will get a reference error in javascript?If it is something with invalid AssignmentTargetType of LeftHandSideExpression,why a||a is invalid?

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My question is: Why a||a = 'bar' will get a reference error in javascript?

It's not a reference error but a syntax error. That means the code you have written cannot be parsed into a valid program.

If it is something with invalid AssignmentTargetType of LeftHandSideExpression,why a||a is invalid?

It's much simpler than that: The syntax of an assignment expression, among other things, is
LeftHandSideExpression = AssignmentExpression

That means on the left side of the = we need a LeftHandSideExpression.
|| is a LogicalORExpression but not a LeftHandSideExpression and therefore it cannot appear in this position.
You can think of the different types of expressions being organized in a hierarchy (I simplified the following example by leaving out some type of expressions):
AssignmentExpression
         ^
         |
LogicalORExpression
         ^
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LeftHandSideExpression
         ^
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PrimaryExpression
         ^
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Identifier Reference

That is: An Identifier Reference is a PrimaryExpression is a LeftHandSideExpression, etc.
LogicalORExpression is higher up in the hierarchy which makes it a superset that includes LeftHandSideExpression. That means there are some expressions, such as ||, which are a LogicalORExpression but not a LeftHandSideExpression.

A: JavaScript will execute from left to right. a || a will evaluate to foo before you try re-assigning a new value to a. That means you're trying to run 'foo' = 'bar' which leads you to your invalid left hand assignment error.

A: Update: As @Teemu pointed out. Updated the comments.
var a = 'foo'
a || a = 'bar' // a || a evaluates to 'foo', So it will be `'foo' = 'bar'` here

a || (a = 'bar') // will result to a is 'foo'

a = ''
a || (a = 'bar') // will result to a is 'bar'


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AMRITSAR, Punjab, India: April 15, Reuter: Unknown gunmen shot dead a Hindu Political leader in a crowded marketplace in the Sikh Holy City of Amritsar on Friday, and then fled on bicycles.
Police in the North Indian city said two men fired about six pistol shots at Prakash Dua, a prominent activist of the rightwing Bharatiya Janata Party, which opposes the formation of a separate Sikh state.
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by Adam Buckman , Featured Columnist, June 18, 2019
It would not have been too surprising to discover that the new ABC summer series called "Family Food Fight" was a show in which members of rival families literally flung food at each other for an hour.
To a TV critic, such an idea does not seem farfetched or out of the question for a TV network. This is particularly true in the summer, when TV sometimes gets dumbed down even farther than during the fall-to-spring regular season.
But no -- "Family Food Fight" is a cooking-competition show pitting families against families in a contest aimed at finding America's best cooking family. Staged in a studio comprising three separate kitchen spaces, the action unfolds before a panel of judges, just like a dozen or so other shows on TV today, from the Food Network to Fox.
No food was flung in the premiere episode, airing this Thursday night, that ABC provided for preview.
Not that there is anything particularly wrong with a TV network mounting yet another one of these cooking competition shows. At the same time, however, it behooves a TV critic to point out that TV is playing copycat once again, even if this tendency is (a) obvious to all and (b) has been going on in the TV industry since approximately the dawn of the television age.
The one-hour "Family Food Fight" is being paired this Thursday night on ABC with an even more ridiculous one-hour competition show that seems especially suitable for summer -- an outlandish show called "Holey Moley" in which contestants compete in the ever-popular "sport" of miniature golf, a summer pastime if there ever was one.
The producers of this show, along with their network overseers (presumably), deserve credit for acknowledging early and often during the one-hour "Holey Moley" that the whole thing is a joke, and also a blatant example of absurd network television-style excess.
The duty to make this point clear in word and deed goes principally to the show's co-commentators, Joe Tessitore, the very real-life commentator and sportscaster for Disney-owned ESPN, and comedian Rob Riggle, who applies just the right touch to "playing" a deadpan sportscaster.
The two even don yellow blazers -- the famous "uniform" of ABC Sports talent that has been seen on ABC probably since the advent of color television in the 1960s.
Both "Holey Moley" and "Family Food Fight" come with an ingredient in common -- Curry -- as in NBA star Stephen Curry and his wife, Ayesha Curry. She is a judge and the nominal host on "Family Food Fight." And he is seen on the miniature golf show for no apparent reason, which even he acknowledges at the outset of the show.
Neither show is taxing, but at the same time, it is hard for the TV Blog to understand why on Earth anyone would watch ABC for two hours on Thursday evening in order to consume both of these shows back to back.
Let the record show that the competition in "Holey Moley" does not take place on any ordinary miniature golf course. Instead, the game is played on a 10-hole course especially designed and built for the show.
On this course, the obstacles are not only in position to block the ball, but also the players themselves. This creates several cringe-worthy moments as players are challenged to run through the obstacles that they just hit their balls through. One of the contestants actually seems to get pretty beat up as the giant blades of a windmill knock her clean off the green and into some fake flowers.
As if seeing it once was not sufficiently uncomfortable, the incidents are played over and over in slow-motion, while Riggle makes jokes about how much it must have hurt.
Questionable taste? Of course! But this is 2019, and "taste" has not meant much in the TV business for about as long as anyone alive today cares to remember.
"Holey Moley" premieres Thursday night (June 20) at 8 Eastern, and "Family Food Fight" premieres Thursday night at 9 Eastern, both on ABC.
ADAM BUCKMAN, TV columnist, MediaPost
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Chorley Remembered. A Look at the Town in the 50's, 60's and 70's
Author: Jack Smith
IN CHORLEY REMEMBERED acclaimed local historian Jack Smith continues the story of the town by moving into the 1970s – the decade now itself acquiring a 'nostalgia quotient'.
Still taking in the 1950s and 1960s as well, he uses over 300 photographs previously unpublished in book form to show how the town has changed and how life was in Chorley 20 to 50 years ago.
People, places, major events from those three decades are recalled to give a vivid picture of Chorley in those relatively innocent days before the internet was invented and when T-shirts came without slogans and it was legal to drive without seatbelts.
Readers will see how the streetscape changed as older properties were demolished and how new road layouts altered the look of the town that had hitherto remained unaltered for decades.
It is all here in this book – the events, the places and, perhaps most important, the people. They will certainly enjoy another journey down Memory Lane and the book will fascinate those too young to remember and stir powerful memories for those who are.
Jack Smith has lived in Chorley all his life, yet his family roots lie in the railway town of Horwick six miles to the south where he served his apprenticeship at the Locomotive Works there during the 1950s.
Following this, he spent several years in the Merchant Navy as Engineer Officer, returning to Chorley, to work on mill maintenance.
In 1953, Jack was a founder member of the Historical and Archaeological Society in the town. He lectures/broadcasts on many aspects of Lancashire history.
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Due to a variety of factors, toxic algal blooms are an added threat to the unique Everglades ecosystem.
In less than a 20-minute drive west, Larry Brand leaves Miami's suburban sprawl and reaches the Everglades, where he's been tracking the toxic algal blooms that are increasingly assaulting the diverse ecosystem, threatening South Florida's water supply, fishing industry, tourism and even health.
A specialist in the ecology of algae and phytoplankton, Brand has been making this early-morning trip almost every month for 20 years to sample the photosynthetic organisms that are at the base of the food chain.
"If there were no algae in the ocean, there wouldn't be any other life either," notes the professor of marine biology and ecology at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
Over two decades of dipping a homemade test pole—a one-liter bottle nestled into a sawed-off chunk of PVC pipe—in the water at different sites, Brand has found that some algae species toxic to fish and other vertebrates, including humans, are becoming more prevalent.
He blames man-made activities, including run-off from agriculture—particularly sugarcane farms—home garden fertilizers, and sewage, releasing excessive nutrients in South Florida's marine and freshwater ecosystems. Some of the nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, overfeed algae, especially during the rainy season, and the algae bloom.
Inherently found in the world's more polar regions, which are naturally rich in algae nutrients, blooms are typically rare in South Florida.
"The ones we're getting in Florida, in the tropics, that's clearly not natural," Brand said. "If you end up with excess nutrients on coral reefs, the algae will overgrow the reefs and kill them. So the fact that you even have coral reefs off the coast of Florida, that tells you: it's naturally a very low-nutrient environment."
Too much algae generates huge amounts of organic matter and, when that sinks to the ocean floor, the bacteria that eat the organic matter remove the oxygen from the water.
"If you take out all the oxygen, everything else dies," said Brand.
A changing climate is having indirect effects on toxic algal blooms. The warmer temperatures accelerate the hydrological cycle by evaporating more water, which produces more rainfall and, in turn, more runoff. The surplus nutrients and toxic algae species are being flushed out of the watershed faster, through the Everglades and eventually into the ocean.
Algae species vary in their toxicity. A toxic species in New England, for example, "will kill you within hours," said Brand.
On the other end, Brand said, some of the algal blooms in South Florida won't cause any short-term effects in humans but, after gradual, long-term exposure, can surface as cancers, neurodegenerative diseases, and organ damage. Through a process called biomagnification, each step in the food chain accumulates higher concentrations of toxins and lipid-soluble compounds, which are difficult for vertebrates to eliminate through their normal waste filtration systems.
The well-known Florida red tide is caused by a certain type of algae called Karenia brevis, which produces brevetoxin, a large complex molecule that damages the neurons, or nerve cells, in vertebrates.
As toxic algal blooms spread in the water, shellfish, for example, which feed by filtering algae out of the water, can't digest these large compounds so they accumulate in the shellfish's lipid, or fat, tissues, resulting in high concentrations of brevetoxin in the animal. The toxin doesn't, however, affect the shellfish; it only affects vertebrates.
"As a result, you get massive fish kills on the west coast of Florida where the whole harbor was completely filled with dead fish floating to the surface," Brand said, pointing to a photo of a sea of dead fish interrupted only by boardwalks and small boats during a red tide event earlier this year.
Dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico are eating these fish, packed with brevetoxin, and are dying. Humans, too, are feeling the effects.
"What's interesting is, if you look at the hospital records in the area during times of red tide, you see about a 40 percent increase of people going for gastrointestinal disorders, which I suspect is from these sub-lethal doses of brevetoxin they're getting by eating the local fish," said Brand.
Another point of concern for Brand are cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, which have low levels of a compound called BMAA. The compound has a similar molecular structure to serine, an amino acid that serves as a building block for certain proteins in the body. Transfer RNA (ribonucleic acid), the molecular tool involved with synthesizing new proteins, mistakes BMAA for serine and the protein doesn't form the proper three-dimensional structure, Brand said.
"First, the misfolded protein now doesn't do what it's supposed to, as an enzyme or some other protein. Second, it gets tangled up, which is characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases," said Brand.
Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and ALS, are referred to as the tangle diseases because of the distinctive protein tangles in the brain. As these protein tangles of BMAA molecules accumulate, eventually those neurons become so clogged that they die and cannot be replaced.
"So if you end up with more BMAA in your diet as it biomagnifies up the food chain, you're accumulating more of these protein tangles more quickly and your chances for getting these neurodegenerative diseases go up," Brand said, referencing epidemiological studies on people who live near lakes with cyanobacteria blooms.
When not at one of his approximately 100 freshwater, brackish, and saltwater sample sites across South Florida, Brand is teaching four courses at the Rosenstiel School and recently returned from teaching an undergraduate field course in ecology in the Galapagos Islands.
The park's tight restrictions on tourist activities and number of visitors to the Galapagos has helped to protect some of the most pristine and unique natural areas on the planet. Protecting natural areas, Brand believes, is also more economical and can be considered in South Florida's efforts to protect what's left of the Everglades, whose eastern boundary used to almost reach the Atlantic coast.
"It's 10 to 100 times more expensive to restore an already-destroyed ecosystem than it is to protect the natural areas you have left at that point," said Brand. "But you'll never get it back to what it once was."
As Brand leaves the 5,000-year-old "river of grass," christened by the late environmentalist and author Marjory Stoneman Douglas, he leaves behind a swath of South Florida's vanishing mangroves, marshes, tropical hardwood, cypress tree, and pine rockland forests, where anhingas, alligators, crocodiles, pelicans, manatees, turtles, panthers, snakes, and lots of mosquitoes make their homes.
And there, as he reaches the western edge of civilization, the carefully labeled bottles of algae-filled water in a cooler in the trunk of his van, he passes a supreme irony: Bus stops and sidewalk benches, painted with pelicans and hardwood hammocks, sitting alongside housing subdivisions with names evoking the natural ecosystems they are displacing.
About the photo: Larry Brand, professor of marine biology and ecology at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, collects a sample of water at one of his roughly 100 sites across South Florida and the Everglades in November 2016.
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WHAT ARE NTFs?
NFTs stand for Non-fungible tokens. Non-fungible tokens are a form of digital assets built on blockchain technology like cryptocurrencies but are different from cryptocurrencies in that every NFT is built with special information and properties that make it non-fungible (unique).
It holds value like a cryptocurrency but also in the form of art, culture, and quality. It is considered to be a value-holding asset like art collectibles but in a digital form.
The fuss and specialties of an NFT lie in the fact that although it is built like cryptocurrency and can be traded as such, each one created or exchanged hold information that makes it different from another NFT. This is what makes it stand out from other products on the blockchain. NFTs could take the form of any digital art, a music file, anything that can be stored in digital properties that are considered valuable.
Do you know how people buy art and consider a piece of art as a store of value? In the NFT marketplace, the buyers are there to do the same only that they do not receive a physical painting or asset, they receive it in the form of a JGP file.
They can be traded just like coins and tokens, and gain their value based on normal market conditions like supply and demand.
The extra information that NFTs contain is what allows them to take forms of JPGs, GIFs, videos, music, art, etc.
The tokens can be considered as proof and certificate of ownership of the digital asset. Just like how art collectors bid for a painting or drawing at an auction, in the NFT market space, the set prices of the tokens are determined when a buyer pays the highest price (set by the current holder).
If a virtual image of an NFT is uploaded online, it can be downloaded but will not be the same as the original token because it will not have its special blockchain properties.
Also, NFTs can be duplicated and sold on other blockchain networks but note that there can only be one original.
NFT Blockchain Technology
The ethereum blockchain network is rich because it supports other projects like Defi projects and now NFTs.
NFTs are a part of the ethereum blockchain and are created with unique extra information that distinguishes them from other ethereum-supported projects. Ethereum's standards for supporting NFTs are ERC-721 and ERC-1155.
ERC-721 was created before the ERC-1155 and it supports the popular CryptoKitties, a crypto game, by Dapper labs that allow players to trade virtual cats. Every crypto kitty is different from another because of the properties, unique numbers, and coded DNA that allow owners of the kitties to breed them differently. The game gained popularity in 2017 and caused minor issues in the ethereum network. ERC-1155 is a subset on ERC-721 such that tokens built on the earlier, can also be built on ERC-1155.
Ethereum, although it is very popular, is not the only network that supports NFTs. FLOW and Tezos use the proof of stake consensus model that supports NFTs.
NFT markets
The markets for NFTs were not popular until 2021 even after the first fully-fledged NFT, Etheria, on the ethereum blockchain was built in 2015. On March 13th, 2021, the tokens sold for 1ETH each, making a total of about $1.4 million.
In 2017, cryptopunks, a project to sell unique cartoon characters on the ethereum blockchain, was released alongside cryptokitty the game that allowed players to trade virtual kitties and groom them uniquely, and they both had gotten great attention that the project gained a total of $12.5 million in investment and the crypto kitties started selling for over $100,000 each.
More sales in the NFT marketspace were generated within the early months of 2021 when the developers of cryptokitties created a beta version of the NBA Topshot, a project created to sell highlights collectibles of the NBA. It was built on FLOW which claims to be more effective than Ethereum. When the project was released it made over $230 million in gross sales from the project.
With NFTs getting much attention, a lot of more digital art was created and sold for nothing less than $4000. One of the most popular NFT stories this year was Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, selling his first tweet as an NFT for over $2.5 million.
In the past 30 days, nonfungible.com has shown that over $300 million has been spent on NFTs. It also reported that over a whopping $2 billion was spent on NFTs in the first quarter of 2021. In the previous quarter, it was about $93 million spent which means that the amount of NFTs traded in value has increased by over 2000%
The Future of NFTs
The Non-fungible tokens markets have been widely accepted. This can be proven statistically as the number of buyers and sellers has increased by 239% and 128% respectively since 2020. NFTs have come to stay just like cryptocurrency.
Blockchain, through NFTs, has allowed assets to be tokenized and sold globally, giving many innovative people the chance to put out their work for its worth.
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Lula seen tapping Haddad for Brazil finance minister in coming days -sources
By Lisandra Paraguassu
Wednesday, 30 Nov 2022
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FILE PHOTO: Brazil's former President and presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Sao Paulo Governor candidate Fernando Haddad react at an election night gathering on the day of the Brazilian presidential election run-off, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 30, 2022. REUTERS/Mariana Greif
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is expected to tap former Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad in coming days to be his finance minister, people familiar with the deliberations told Reuters on Tuesday.
The sources, who requested anonymity to share private talks, said Haddad's appointment to a working group on economic issues within Lula's transition team added to expectations, reported by Reuters this month, that he was the leading candidate for Lula's finance minister. The new president takes office on Jan. 1.
Lula's silence on the decision has rattled financial markets and brought criticism even from allies, as questions swirl about fiscal policy amid negotiations to open almost 200 billion reais ($38 billion) in budgetary space next year.
Haddad, a lawyer with a master's degree in economics and a doctorate in philosophy, traveled to Brasília over the weekend after having spoken on behalf of Lula at a bank industry event where he disappointed some investors by avoiding the topic of new rules to limit public spending.
According to one of the sources, Lula insisted on having Haddad in Brasilia, as he did on a trip the COP27 climate summit in Egypt, although he has not explicitly spoken with Haddad about his possible indication.
On Monday night, Haddad told reporters that Lula had asked him to join meetings of the transition team's economic policy group, which includes economists Nelson Barbosa, Guilherme Mello, Persio Arida and Andre Lara Resende.
"That's pretty much an announcement right there," said a second source.
Haddad's relationship with Lula was bolstered by his 2018 presidential campaign, which he lost to outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro. Lula's graft convictions prevented him from running that year, but they were later overturned, allowing him to oust Bolsonaro in this year's presidential election.
Haddad failed in his run for Sao Paulo governor last month.
($1 = 5.3042 reais)
(Reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu; Writing by Marcela Ayres; Editing by Brad Haynes and Marguerita Choy)
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A: This setting can be found in Options -> Canvas & Legend -> DPI -> Respect screen DPI.
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Tadese the men's 10km victor, while Abeylegesse and Momanyi share women's spoils in Bangalore
Abeylegesse and Momanyi tie the win in Bangalore (© Ram. Murali Krishnan)
A cool morning (25C !!!)greeted the start of the men's race of the inaugural Sunfeast World 10km on Sunday (18 May), but by the time the women's race got underway temperatures were seriously on the rise above 30C.
Two-time World Road Running champion Zersenay Tadese of Eritrea took the men's victory, while there was a dead-heat in the women's race.
South Africa's Enos Matalane and Kenyan Ezekiel Cherop were the initial leaders before World 5000m bronze medallist Moses Kipsiro of Uganda and Tanzanian Dickson Marwa, third at this year's Ras Al Khaimah half marathon, joined them at the 2 km mark.
Pre-race favourites Tadese and Moses Masai of Kenya shortly moved in front and stayed there along with Kipsiro. Tadese went past the half-way mark in 13:58 with Kipsiro and Matthew Koech (Kenya) closely on his heels.
Ethiopia's Tsegaye Kebede, the 2:06:40 winner of this year's Paris Marathon, came from behind to join the leaders at the 7th Km as they were running in front of Vidhan Saudha, the provincial Karnataka legislative assembly. The runners then turned into the extensive Cubbon Park in their last stretch towards the finish where Tadese and Kipsiro emerged as clear leaders.
Kipsiro was ahead when he entered the Sree Kanteerava Stadium but once on the synthetic track surface Tadese ran faster and overtook the Ugandan to win in 27:51 and take a USD 20,000 victor's purse.
"My legs were unable to cope-up with the heat of the race and I wonder what happened at the last few metres," Kipsiro confirmed after the race. Kipsiro clocked 27:54 for the second place.
Turkey's Elvan Abeylegesse, the World silver medallist for 10,000m, was the pre-race favourite, and as expected, she led the race from the start. Ethiopian Berhane Adere, former World champion both on the track at 10,000m and on the roads over Half Marathon, stayed at the fore with a big bunch of runners including her team-mate Tiki Gelana. This group passed the 5K mark in 16:07.
By the 22nd minute of the race, Abeylegesse, Gelana together with Kenyan duo Grace Momanyi and Doris Chenwego were in the lead. With 2Km to go, Gelana started trailing off the pace leaving the three remaining runners in contention for the top-spot.
A strong Abeylegesse entered the stadium first keeping in mind that Kenya's African champion Grace Momanyi was less than a metre behind. They ran neck-to-neck in the last few metres of the race and crossed the finish-line together in 32:02.
At first Abeylegesse was announced as winner. However, on verification of the tape, both Abeylegesse and Momanyi were declared joint winners and so get USD 16,000 each for their effort.
Apart from the main race, there had been other events including a 4Km Wheel Chair event, an open 10Km race for juniors, another 4Km run for the senior citizens and a 5.7 Km Majja Run. As many as 5000 people took to the streets in the open race.
The ITC-sponsored event had a budget of over 1.5 million US dollars of which USD 150,000 was distributed as prize money. This race was the third in the row of athletic events promoted by the Mumbai-based Procam International, who organizes the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon and Vodafone Delhi Half Marathon.
Ram. Murali Krishnan for the IAAF
MEN's 10km
1. Zersenay Tadese (Eritrea) 27:51
2. Moses Kipsiro (Uganda) 27:54
3. Tsegaye Kebede (Ethiopia) 28:10
4. Moses Masai (Kenya) 28:22
5. Feyisa Lelisa (Ethiopia) 28:35
6. Demesew Tsega (Ethiopia) 28:44
7. John Korir (Kenya) 28:48
8. Mubarak Shami (Qatar) 28:51
9. Dickson Marwa (Tanzania) 28:52
10. Matthew Koech (Kenya) 29:10
WOMEN's 10km
1. Elvan Abeylegesse (Turkey) 32:02
1. Grace Momanyi (Kenya) 32:02
3. Doris Chepngeno (Kenya) 32:31
4. Tiki Gelana (Ethiopia) 32:46
5. Salina Kosgei (Kenya) 33:18
6. Joan Ayerbei (Kenya) 33:29
7. Berhane Adere (Ethiopia) 33:38
8. Amane Gemeda (Ethiopia) 33:48
9. Roman Gessesse (Ethiopia) 33:53
10. Hilalia Johannes (Namibia) 34:04


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Jacobus Horcicky de Tepenecz (1575-1622), també conegut amb el nom llatí de Sinapius, va ser un alquimista txec d'humil origen que va arribar a ser responsable de la farmàcia reial de Praga i favorit de l'emperador Rodolf II arran de curar-lo d'una malaltia (1608) i rebre el títol nobiliari "De Tepenecz".

Pel que sembla va arribar a acumular una fortuna venent un elixir batejat com "Aqua-Sinapius", potser el mateix amb el qual va guarir l'emperador i va servir per guanyar-se la seva confiança.

El manuscrit Voynich
Després de la presumpta compra del Manuscrit Voynich per l'emperador a un desconegut, va intentar la seva traducció, però no hi ha notícies que aconseguís cap èxit. Va ser propietari del manuscrit des de la mort de l'emperador (1612), potser rebut del col·leccionista de llibres Pontanus (mort el 1614) i fins a la seva pròpia mort, el 1622, data en el que passa a mans desconegudes (probablement a Georgius Barschius): la seva signatura apareix escrita, amb tinta esvaïda pel temps, en la primera fulla del manuscrit i avui només és visible amb llum ultraviolada.

Aquest fet sembla una prova que el Manuscrit Voynich realment existia en aquella època (1608) i no és una falsificació moderna —elaborada, per exemple, per part de Voynich cap a 1911-1912— com s'ha proposat recentment.

Vegeu també
 Rodolf II
 Georgius Barschius
 Athanasius Kircher

Fonts
 The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma. D' Imperi (1978). Aegean Park Press (1980).
 The Queen's Conjuror. Benjamin Wollet (2001), Flamingo, Londres.

Enllaços externs
 llista de correspondència (digitalitzada)

Alquimistes
Morts a Praga
Persones de la regió de Bohèmia Meridional


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Window Films for Privacy
Most Window Films for Privacy fall into one of two categories: Films for Total Privacy all the time (day or night) or One Way Privacy Films (Daytime Privacy). One Way Privacy films only work when the light is right, allowing people to see in the direction where there is more light, while making it difficult for others to see into the area with less light. The exception to these 2 types of privacy films would be Patterned Decorative Films or Frost Films that are cut to leave clear areas that allow partial vision. For films that give partial privacy see Decorative Films or Solyx Films.
Total Privacy (Day or Night)
Total Privacy Frost, Blackout, or Whiteout
To get total privacy, both day and night, you need a film that you can not see through in either direction. There are frost films and patterned films that will make it so you can't see through the window, but will allow light to pass through. This will make it so you don't reduce the natural light and darken the room a lot, but add the privacy you need. There are also black out and white out films that will reduce almost all of the light. Black Out and White Out is commonly used where you want to make an area dark. Sometimes a wall is built in front of a window and black out or white out films will keep the window looking great, but make it so that you can't see the back of the wall. With frost films you can cover the entire window or you can leave clear cut outs to give a design aspect to your glass or leave partial visibility.
One Way Privacy (Daylight privacy)
Reflective (mirrored) Privacy Films
Most commercial and residential films have some reflectivity to them as it help better reduce heat. This reflectivity or mirrored look can also help provide privacy. On homes the reflective look can be reduced so your home doesn't look like a commercial building, but will be mirrored just enough to make it more difficult to see into your home during the day. This allows you to raise your blinds to let more light in and enjoy your views while keeping your neighbors from easily seeing in. On commercial properties this can be used on interior or exterior windows to keep customers from seeing into your back office. There is no such thing as a true one way vision window film. It is dependent on having more light outside and less light inside. At night the mirrored finish will reverse, allowing people to see in easily.
Perforated Vinyl Privacy Films
When perforated vinyl is used for privacy usually one side is white and one side is black. The area where you don't want people to see from is white and the area you don't want people to see into is black. This vinyl has small holes in it creating a screen effect. You will also see this used for advertising where an ad is printed on the white side. Customers can see your advertisement while you can see your customer. Like any "one way" privacy film this is dependent on proper lighting. The area that you don't want people to see from most be better lit than the area you don't want them to see into. If this is being used for privacy on exterior windows, it will be much easier to see in during the night when it is dark outside and the lights are on inside.


Britney Spears always knows how to hit us one more time with amazing projects. Seriously, the Queen of Pop has got us hooked.
Have you ever wanted to curl up on the couch and watch a movie about the entire life story of the singer who introduced you to pop music as you know it? Maybe on, Lifetime?
Well, that wish will be granted. Some time in 2017, a biopic about the one and only Britney Spears is reportedly coming to Lifetime. Yes, you read that right. Britney. Spears. Biopic.
It's tentatively titled "Britney." Can you tell I'm fangirling so hard right now?
This biopic will cover all the Britney bases. We're talking everything from early days in the "Mickey Mouse Club" to mega-stardom to shaved-head quarter life crisis and much more.
Of course, Lifetime won't short us on Britney's relationship drama with Justin Timberlake and her failed marriages either. Fans will be given the gift of two glorious hours of Britney biopic.
Natasha Bassett is set to play the "Oops!... I Did It Again" singer.
You can see Natasha is already channeling her inner Britney.
This is obviously a super busy year for the mother of two. She's releasing her ninth studio album, Glory, on Friday, August 26.
We're just glad the 34-year-old is still dazzling us with her talent and showing no sign of stopping.