(WASHINGTON, February 29, 2016) The national average price of gas has increased for six consecutive days for the first time since early November, though drivers continue to enjoy relatively low prices at the pump. Gas prices have climbed by four cents per gallon versus one week ago and are likely to continue to rise as the spring refinery maintenance season ramps up. Monthly and yearly savings persist and drivers are saving five cents on the month and 65 cents on the year.
Gas prices are moving higher in many parts of the country as refinery maintenance season gets underway and as some refineries cut production in response to abundant supplies. Swings in gas prices at the regional level are typical for this time of year as many refineries conduct maintenance in advance of the busy summer driving season. Despite these seasonal increases, abundant gasoline supplies and lower crude oil costs should keep gas prices from rising as high as drivers have seen in recent years.
Hawaii ($2.56) is the nation's most expensive market for retail gasoline, and regional neighbors California ($2.39), Alaska ($2.20), and Washington ($2.03) are the only states with averages above $2 per gallon. Pump prices in the majority of states (31) are at or below the $1.75 per gallon and consumers in Arizona ($1.52), Tennessee ($1.53) and South Carolina ($1.53) are paying the nation's lowest averages at the pump.
Gas prices are relatively steady and have moved by +/- 3 cents per gallon in 30 states and Washington, D.C. week-over-week. Typical for this time of year, gas prices are quickly moving higher in some markets. Prices climbed higher by double digits on the week in 10 states with the largest price jumps in Iowa (+18 cents), Oklahoma (+18 cents) and Minnesota (+17 cents). Outside of this trend of weekly increases, drivers in 20 states and Washington, D.C. are paying less to refuel their vehicles versus one week ago. Prices have fallen in less dramatic fashion in these states, and Arizona (-5 cents) is the only state where gas prices are down a nickel per gallon week-over-week.
Gas prices are down in 36 states and Washington, D.C. over the month, with the largest monthly savings west of the Rockies in Arizona (-31 cents), Nevada (-29 cents) and Alaska (-25 cents). Drivers in 14 states are paying more at the pump versus one month ago, and prices are up by a dime or more per gallon in the Midwestern states of Minnesota (+16 cents), Oklahoma (+13 cents), Iowa (+11 cents), Ohio (+11 cents) and Illinois (+10 cents).
Gas prices in nearly every state (49) and Washington, D.C., are discounted by more than a quarter per gallon, and drivers in 43 states are saving 50 cents or more per gallon on the year. California (-93 cents), Arizona (-86 cents), Oregon (-80 cents) and Nevada (-75 cents) are posting the largest yearly discounts at the pump.
Global crude oil supply remains front of mind and the price of oil continues to swing in response to shifting expectations of future supply and demand. The world's top oil producing nations recently have considered potential agreements that would freeze production levels to stabilize prices. Despite these discussions, many of these countries rely on oil profits to finance national operations and social programs, and thus any agreement faces significant headwinds as countries look to fill budget deficits by producing oil at higher levels. Both global benchmarks, Brent and West Texas Intermediate, managed to post weekly gains, though market fundamentals continue to point to abundant supplies.
At the close of Friday's formal trading session on the NYMEX, WTI was down 29 cents and settled at $32.78 per barrel. This price point represents a weekly gain of more than $3 per barrel.


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Besides it's great size, Shih Tzu's do not shed. If you or your landlord are concerned about mess, the Shih Tzu won't make a mess with hair. Shih Tzu's do in fact have hair, not fur. Because of this, your Shih Tzu will need to be regularly groomed.
That cute, smooshy face is hard not to love! The Pug is another dog whose size makes them ideal for apartment living. But Pugs often love to eat – and may put on some weight if they eat too much! To keep your pug at a healthy weight, be sure to ask your vet about a recommended diet.
Pugs shed, but they have short fur that keeps them comfortable in most climates. Their short nose however can cause some breathing issues. Heavy exercise is sometimes too much for a Pug, since their short snout doesn't allow them to breath the same way other dogs do.
Another small dog, the Boston Terrier is an excellent size for apartment dwellers. Unlike a Pug or a Shih Tzu, the Boston Terrier is known for having a lot more energy. Bred to hunt rats and other small animals, this little dog loves to run and chase toys.
If you are an urbanite looking for a high energy dog, the Boston Terrier could be right for you. Your Boston would love to spend hours playing in the park or keeping up with you on a hike. Their snout is not quite as flat as a Pugs, making it easier to breath for them. It is still important to monitor a Boston Terrier however, and make sure they are not over-exerting themselves.
A big racing dog? In a city? Yes, it can happen. In fact, many Greyhounds thrive in urban environments. Their short fur makes them ideal for warmer cities as well. Adopting a retired racing Greyhound can be a great way to meet your new best friend.
It's true that Greyhounds love to run, but most of the time, they are actually quite lazy. A Greyhound pet is perfectly happy lounging on their dog bed or sleeping the day away on your couch. They are also quiet and are known for having sweet personalities. Your new greyhound will be happy taking long, slow strolls with you during the day and snuggling with you at night.
Labs are another dog that you may be surprised to find on this list. While their size may not be suited for a studio apartment, these lovable dogs can make themselves comfortable almost anywhere. Labradors are known for being eager to please and are happiest when they can be with their owners – wherever that may be.
Owning a Lab in the city will require an active lifestyle! These loyal dogs can adapt to any exercise you choose. Whether you take your Lab for runs in the morning, hikes in the afternoon, or several walks throughout the day, any type of movement will be welcome!
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Meet Tinker Bell at Pixie Hollow
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Tinkerbell and Friends Meet-and-greet
Appeal By Age
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Location Fantasyland
Opening Date October 25, 2008
Scope and Scale Minor Attraction
Subsequent to the release of the Tinker Bell animated feature, pixies and fairies are all the rage (and have been in LA for years, but that's another story). An elaborate character-greeting area situated on the path connecting Matterhorn Bobsleds to the central hub, Pixie Hollow features Tink and a squad of her buddies in a standard character meet-and-greet. The line can be deceivingly long.
Pixie Hollow accumulates substantial wait times just after opening in the morning, and lasts throughout the day until early evening when it closes. It also closes temporarily during parades (it's on the parade route). The best way to visit Tink is to line up 15 minutes before it opens, typically an hour after the park does (check the Times Guide).
Meet Tinker Bell at Pixie Hollow Wait Times
This chart shows you roughly how long you'll wait for Meet Tinker Bell at Pixie Hollow when you visit on a day with a given Disneyland Crowd Level. The blue bars represent the average "peak" wait time (that is, how long the line will be at its busiest). The bottom and top black lines represent the range of peak wait times to expect (for you fellow nerds out there: it's the 5th percentile and 95th percentile of peak wait times). Please note that these are estimates, and for a better forecast for your travel dates, see Meet Tinker Bell at Pixie Hollow Wait Times.
Other Attractions in Fantasyland
Casey Jr. Circus Train
King Arthur Carrousel
Matterhorn Bobsleds
Mickey and the Magical Map
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
Pearly Band
Pinocchio's Daring Journey
Sleeping Beauty Castle Walkthrough
Snow White's Scary Adventures
Storybook Land Canal Boats
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Princess Anne Recycled a Nearly 40-Year-Old Outfit
The Queen's daughter is definitely the thriftiest royal.
By Maggie Maloney | MAR 15, 2018
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Princess Anne, Queen Elizabeth's only daughter, is known for being one of the hardest working members of the royal family, but who knew she was also the thriftiest?
Earlier this week, the Princess Royal attended the annual Commonwealth Day celebration alongside other members of the royal family at Westminster Abbey in London. While all eyes were on first-time attendee Meghan Markle, who wore a cream-colored fascinator by Stephen Jones with a matching coat, and the Duchess of Cambridge, who made a similarity stylish appearance at eight months pregnant, it was actually Princess Anne who made the most noteworthy style statement by recycling a decades-old outfit.
The Princess Royal wore an elegant cream and navy coat for the occasion, complete with a matching hat, a brooch, navy gloves, a clutch, and heels.
Princess Anne on March 12, 2018
Anne's outfit likely dates back to the late 1970s, as a few eagle-eyed Twitter users and a reporter from Majesty Magazine quickly pointed out. The Princess was first seen wearing this cream and navy outfit almost 40 (!!) years ago at the Royal Ascot in June 1980.
Princess Anne at the Royal Ascot in June 1980
The timeless ensemble made another appearance in June 1985 at the Derby:
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Princess Anne with the Queen in June 1985
And at the Royal Ascot yet again in June 1990, this time with an umbrella:
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Anne at the Royal Ascot in June 1990
More recently, the Princess Royal wore the coat to a garden party at Buckingham Palace in June 2015:
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Princess Anne on June 11, 2015
On each occasion, Anne paired the cream and navy coat with similar accessories—a simple dark handbag, a brooch, and navy or black shoes. It's no secret that royals have a knack for recycling their chicest outfits, but an ensemble with a 40-year lifespan is remarkable.
Princess Anne's Life in Photos
Princess Anne Was Officially the Hardest Working Member of the Royal Family This Year
Two Royal Relatives Attended the Same Fashion Show in New York
Meghan Markle Chose a White Coat By a Very British Designer for Her First Official Appearance with the Queen
This story originally appeared on Townandcountrymag.com.
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CHARACTERISTICS: Prized among wood turners for its tight knots, swirling grain and rich colour. A Jarrah burl is commonly a rounded outgrowth on the trunk or a branch.
CHARACTERISTICS: Moderately semi-hard timber with pronounced vassel lines and occasional curly grain.
CHARACTERISTICS: Native to eastern USA, and plantation-grown in Australia. A popular softwood used for building frames, floors and cabinets. Adds a rustic look to furniture, especially with knotholes and nail and putty marks from reclaimed timber.
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CHARACTERISTICS: Native to south-eastern Australia, but also plantation-grown in other countries. Grain structure varies, but mostly wavy and fiddleback. Exceptional strength makes it ideal for furniture. Traditionally used for heavy construction (eg. bridges and and railway sleepers).
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CHARACTERISTICS: Distinctive veined appearance makes this timber popular for furniture.


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Successful Static Test of German/Brazilian S50 Rocket Engine with DLR Participation
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S50 solid rocket motor during static burn test in Brazil. (Credit: ©DCTA/IAE)
Brazil is working together with DLR on the development of rocket motors and subsystems.
The S50 solid rocket motor will form the first two stages of the Brazilian VLM-1 launcher and the first stage of the European VS-50 sounding rocket.
The first successful static burn test of an S50 solid rocket engine was carried out in Brazil on October 1, 2021.
SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS, Brazil (DLR PR) — On October 1, 2021, an S50 solid rocket motor successfully passed a static burn test on the Usina Coronel Abner (UCA) premises in São José dos Campos in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. In the future, these solid-fuel motors will power the first two stages of the new Brazilian VLM-1 launcher for microsatellites. The test was conducted by a technical team from the Brazilian Aerospace Institute (IAE) on behalf of the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) and the Brazilian Ministry of Aerospace Science and Technology (DCTA). As part of the long-term cooperation between Brazil and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the now tried and tested rocket motor is being used in a new sounding rocket for Europe.
More Accurate Than Ever – New Clocks for Future Satellite Navigation
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COMPASSO Project (Credit: DLR)
OBERPFAFFENHOFEN, Germany (DLR PR) — There are no easy comparisons to show how accurate the clocks on the Galileo satellites are. Is it a matter of fractions of seconds, or of milliseconds, perhaps? That is far too imprecise. The Galileo system uses atomic clocks that are accurate to the nanosecond. One nanosecond is a billionth of one second.


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The chaps that have provided a free platform in UK for the Bulldog owners are to pack up in January 2015.
They have provided a free forum platform for a variety of user groups for over 15 years but the onerous task of defending against hackers and attackers is the last straw hence they are closing it down. To the best of their knowledge no personal data of the UK user base has been stolen. Theodore (a Bulldog owner still) is the administrator and has archived the topics and posts.
It is fair to say that the UK site has not been well used but nevertheless it is a facility that will be lost.
I have suggested that the UK forum members sign up to this forum for a more active community and far wider knowledge base.
Posted the archives until 2013 in a personal page of mine, the link (http://www.grcrun11.gr/~theodore/BulldogForumArchives/) is in the old forum's header. I will post 2014 archives after New Year.
a warm welcome for you to the BOC-Community.
I uploaded the archives for 2014 in the page above and the old English Bulldog Forum is now officially declared obsolete. It will remain available until the site's owners decide to pull the plug.


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Moët Hennessy's brand portfolio in India includes Dom Pérignon, Moët & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot, Hennessy, Glenmorangie, Ardbeg, Belvedere and the newly opened Chandon Winery at Nashik in Mahashtra.
NEW DELHI: Luxury goods conglomerate Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH) has appointed Stéphane de Meurville as managing director of Moet Hennessy India.
"India was identified within the LVMH group as one of our key future markets, a rising star," said Meurville who was previously general manager at Moët Hennessy Canada where he had been working since 2011.
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Moët Hennessy's brand portfolio in India includes Dom Pérignon, Moët & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot, Hennessy, Glenmorangie, Ardbeg, Belvedere and the Chandon Winery in Nashik.
It is the first multinational company to open a winery in India in Nashik this year, the sixth outside France.
Meurville is optimistic on growth in India and said the company will look at investing more in the country. "We are experiencing tremendous growth and would like to invest further," he said.
"I am here to reinforce and reenergize the champagne market with the marketing team here to make sure that the brands Dom Pérignon, Moët & Chandon are well known among consumers. The champagne market has been growing at a fast pace in India. We are looking at capitalising on the wedding market this and next year for our champagne brands," said Meurville.
He said the company's super premium vodka brand Belvedere is growing faster than the super-premium category at around 20% compared to the industry rate of 11%. "One of my agendas is also to establish Belvedere as the leader in the vodka category and to grow our brand Glenmorangie," he said.


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Q: How to approximate the solution of $y=a \arctan(x/a)-\arctan (x)$ After this question, related to  the Prandtl–Meyer function
$$\nu(M)
 = \int \frac{\sqrt{M^2-1}}{1+\frac{\gamma -1}{2}M^2}\frac{\,dM}{M}=
 \sqrt{\frac{\gamma + 1}{\gamma -1}}  \tan^{-1}\left( \sqrt{\frac{\gamma -1}{\gamma +1} (M^2 -1)}\right) - \tan^{-1} \left(\sqrt{M^2 -1}\right)$$ where $\gamma=\frac {Cp}{Cv}$is the ratio of the specific heat capacities, I wondered if we could, at least, get an  approximation of $x$, solution of the equation
$$\color{blue}{y=a \tan^{-1} \left(\frac x a\right)-\tan^{-1} (x)}\tag 1$$ when $y$ is close to the asymptote $(y_\infty=\frac \pi2 (a-1))$ for the range of "physical" values of $a$ (from a numerical point of view, solving $(1)$ does not present any difficulty).
For the ideal gas state,
$$\left(
\begin{array}{ccc}
\color{blue}{\text{molecules}} &\color{blue}{ \gamma} & \color{blue}{a} \\
 \text{monoatomic} & \frac{5}{3} & 2 \\
 \text{diatomic} & \frac{7}{5} & \sqrt{6} \\
 \text{triatomic} & \frac{9}{7} &  \sqrt{8} \\
 \text{polyatomic} & \frac{4}{3} & \sqrt{7}
\end{array}
\right)$$
Fortunately, for $a=2$, we can recombine the arctangents making the equation  to be
$$y=\tan^{-1}\left(\frac{x^3}{4+3x^2}\right)$$ the solution of which being
$$x=k \left(1+2 \cosh \left(\frac{1}{3} \cosh
   ^{-1}\left(1+\frac{2}{k^2}\right)\right)\right)\qquad \text{where}\qquad k=\tan(y)$$ which is valid for any $y$.
What is interesting to notice is that $x(k)$ is almost a linear function  which is far away to be the case for $x(y)$ as one could expect. For large values of $k$, corresponding to $y \to \frac \pi 2$, Taylor expansion gives
$$x=3 k+\frac{4}{9 k}-\frac{32}{243 k^3}+O\left(\frac{1}{k^5}\right)$$

My problem is that I do not see how this could be used to generate an approximation for other values of $a$.

Any idea will be more than welcome.
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After @Mariusz Iwaniuk's comments, we could expand $y$ as a Taylor series for infinitely large values of $x$ and use series reversion.
Using $\Delta=y_\infty-y$, we should end with
$$x=\frac{a^2-1}{\Delta }-\frac{\left(a^2+1\right) }{3(a^2-1)}\Delta -\frac{\left(a^4+11
   a^2+1\right) }{45 \left(a^2-1\right)^3}\Delta ^3+O\left(\Delta ^5\right)$$ which, numerically, seems to be quite good.
Update
Combining
$$y_\infty=\frac \pi2 (a-1) \tag 2$$
$$y=a \tan^{-1} \left(\frac x a\right)-\tan^{-1} (x)\tag 3$$
$$\Delta=y_\infty-y=a \left(\frac \pi2-\tan^{-1} \left(\frac x a\right) \right) -\left( \frac \pi2-\tan^{-1} (x)\right)=a \tan^{-1} \left(\frac a x \right)-\tan ^{-1}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\tag 4$$ seems to be an easier approach for large $x$.
Expanding as Taylor series
$$\Delta=\sum_{k=1}^\infty (-1)^{k+1}\frac{ \left(a^{2 k}-1\right) }{(2 k-1)\,x^{2k-1}}$$
Using series reversion
$$x=\frac{a^2-1}{\Delta }-\frac{\left(a^2+1\right) }{3( a^2-1)}\Delta -\frac{\left(a^4+11
   a^2+1\right)}{45 \left(a^2-1\right)^3} \Delta ^3-\frac{2
   \left(a^2+1\right) \left(a^4+56 a^2+1\right) }{945
   \left(a^2-1\right)^5}\Delta ^5+O\left(\Delta ^{7}\right)$$ which makes
$$\Delta-\left(a \tan^{-1} \left(\frac a x \right)-\tan ^{-1}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right) \right)=\frac{\left(a^8+247 a^6+723 a^4+247 a^2+1\right) }{4725
   \left(a^2-1\right)^8}\Delta ^9+O\left(\Delta ^{11}\right)$$ For diatomic molecules, such as air, $(a=\sqrt 6)$, the coefficient is $\frac{11737}{263671875}\approx 4.5 \times 10^{-5}$.
On the other side, for small $x$, we can build the simplest Padé approximant and get
$$k=\frac{5 \left(a^2-1\right) x^3}{15a^2+9 \left(a^2+1\right) x^2}$$ leading to the cubic equation
$$5\left( a^2-1\right) x^3-9  \left(a^2 +1\right)k\,x^2-15 a^2 k=0 $$ which can be solved using the hyperbolic method for one real root. The expression is too messy to be reported here.

A: An analytic approximation for large $k$ and $a \ge 2$ is
$$ x=\frac{-k-a\cos(\pi/a)\sin(\pi/a) + a^2\,k\,\sin^2(\pi/a)}
{\sin^2(\pi/a) + a\,k\,\cos(\pi/a)\,\sin(\pi/a)} .$$
What's nice about it is that it reduces to $x=3k$ as given in Claude's initial exposition for $a=2.$  This is a large $k$ expansion.  For a numerical check I let $a$ run from 2 to 3 by 0.05, and $k=5+1.5^m$ for $m$ = 0 to 20.  The largest relative error of about 1.2% was obtained on the 'small k' side of $k=6.$
The technique was to take the tangent of eq. (1) above and write it, using the tangent addition formula, in the equivalent form
$$x=\tan(a\,\tan^{-1}(x/a)) - k\big(1+x\tan(a\,\tan^{-1}(x/a))\big). $$
At first I tried expanding $\tan(a\,\tan^{-1}(x/a))$ in a Laurent series around its singular point to get an equation in $x$ that could be solved analytically.  Unfortunately it takes too many terms to give an accurate representation of the RHS of the equation.  They will have to be included to go beyond the given approximation.  In making the plots I noticed that a ballpark approximation to the solution was $x=a \tan(\pi/a).$
Furthermore the curve is decently approximated by a line over a fairly large region. Finally, a $k \to \infty$ analysis suggests that the point $x=a \tan(\pi/a)$ is the best.   Thus the RHS of the previous equation is expanded around this point to first order in $(x-a \tan(\pi/a))$ and, solve for $x$ to get the equation
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Maya Freelon Asante traveled to Antananarivo, Madagascar in 2010 to install her work in the new consulate building.
ASANTE: I am Maya Freelon Asante and I'm here at the US Embassy in Madagascar installing my artwork Ubuntu which is a sculpture inspired by the idea that I am because we are, meaning that one tiny scrap of tissue paper may seem insignificant but when it's combined with many others there's strength and power.
It's inspired by my grandmother who was or is an amazing woman and I believe is an artist in her own right, but didn't have the opportunities that I do. So for her in her lifetime to see me work at such a massive scale is really exciting for her.
My grandmother, she really influenced a lot of this work, I found the tissue paper actually folded into her basement and I used that as a vehicle to share the connectivity of quilt making and tissue paper along with the textile and fabric work here in Madagascar.
ASANTE, CLIP: Getting down to the safety level! ASANTE, CLIP: Those are both 5×7.5?
ASANTE: It's been around the world, that's the amazing part. It's been from Ghana to Maine. This work has been in North Carolina, New York, San Francisco, it's on a constant journey. But now it's got a final resting place here in Madagascar.


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The Governor's Official Program is comprised of a wide range of constitutional and legal duties and ceremonial and community engagements. Each year, the Governor hosts thousands of visitors to Government House to take part in investiture and award ceremonies, Open Days, receptions and meetings, and travels widely throughout Queensland to support the activities of Patron groups. View a chronological record of the Governor's daily program below.
On Friday, in the morning, at Government House, Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young PSM and Professor Graeme Nimmo RFD received Acting Registrar, Collection and Loans, QAGOMA, Ms Emma…
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On Monday, in the morning, at Government House, Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young PSM received, via video conference, Administrator of the Northern Territory, Her Honour the Honourable Vicki…
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On Friday, in the morning, at Government House, Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young PSM received the Premier of Queensland and Minister for the Olympics, the Honourable Annastacia Palaszczuk…
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An essential item for all types of kitchen, this wooden spatula (ไม้พาย mai pahy in Thai) is a high quality product that is ideal for avoiding unwanted metallic residues in one's cooking.
This type of decorative Thai Aluminum Ladle is used for serving steamed jasmine rice in Thailand. It is made quality aluminum.
Stainless Steel Spoon from Seagull brand is best suitable for any kind of soup. Made of high quality stainless steel imported from Thailand. One package contains 12 pieces. Each spoon is about 5-inch long and 1.5-inch wide.
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Q: In C#, how to convert the javascript's base64 string into a file In angular, I am making a form like this,
form = this.fb.group({
product_Id: [0]
product_Name: [''],
product_Image: ['']
})

Now I want to pass the product image in base64 string. So I have converted it using below,
fileSelected(files: FileList)
{
let file = <File>files[0]

let reader = new FileReader()
reader.readAsDataURL(file)
reader.onloadend = () => {
this.form.get('product_Image').setValue(reader.result)
}
}

On asp.net core side, I have implemented below logic,
var path = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "wwwroot\\Product\\test.jpg";

await File.WriteAllBytesAsync(path, Convert.FromBase64String(vm.Product_Image));

Now the asp.net core is giving me error: "The given format is not a valid base 64 string"
PS: I have also reader.readAsBinaryString(file) but the error is the same.
The Error: The input is not a valid Base-64 string as it contains a non-base 64 character, more than two padding characters, or an illegal character among the padding characters.
I don't know what wrong?

A: As per the MDN page for readAsDataURL, you must remove the URI part before decoding.  I quote:

Note: The blob's result cannot be directly decoded as Base64 without first removing the Data-URL declaration preceding the Base64-encoded data. To retrieve only the Base64 encoded string, first remove data:*/*;base64, from the result.

A: try remove "data:image/jpeg;base64,"  from vm.Product_Image  string before
await File.WriteAllBytesAsync(path, Convert.FromBase64String(vm.Product_Image));

Sample base 64string as below

/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEASABIAAD/2wBDAAYEBQYFBAYGBQYHBwYIChAKC...


We tend to think of the classic vinifera wine grape varieties as European, meaning French, Italian and Spanish. But vinifera's origin lies to the east, in the Caucasus region: where Europe and Asia intersect, where ancient trade routes crisscrossed the mountains between the Black Sea and Persia, and near where the Bible says Noah planted a vineyard after the ark settled on Mount Ararat. This is where the oldest archaeological evidence of wine production, vinifera seeds in clay vessels, was found. Both Georgia and Armenia claim to be wine's homeland, as borders have been fluid between antiquity and now. But let's tip our hats to Georgia as the origin of wine, if only because more of its wines are available now in the United States.
Skin-fermented whites are trendy today as "orange wines," although Mamuka Tsereteli, a Georgian native who imports wines from his homeland into the Washington area, prefers to call them "amber wines." They aren't very citrusy, after all.
"Georgia has nearly 500 native grape varieties," Tsereteli explained to me while we tasted some of his imports at Batch 13, a wine store on 14th Street NW owned by George Grigolia, a fellow Georgian. Tsereteli's company, the Georgian Wine House, imports Georgian wines distributed in the District, Maryland, Virginia and five other states.
Georgia's main wine region is Kakheti, in the eastern part of the country, where the Caucasus mountains stretch from northwest to southeast. Although wine is grown throughout most of the country, Tsereteli said, farther west toward the Black Sea the landscape is flatter and sandier, less amenable to high-quality grape growing.
The most common grapes in wines imported to the United States are rkatsiteli and mtsvane among whites, and the red saperavi. (Each letter is pronounced, more or less, so the names are not as difficult as they look.) Made in the modern style, the whites are crisp and fruity; made as amber wines, they tend to be rich and full-bodied.
Reds made in qvevri in the ancient style can be sweet, because in cooler temperatures the fermentation might stop before all the grape sugar is converted to alcohol. Because sweet reds are in vogue nowadays, these wines should find a market. Saperavi can also be quite savory, with tobacco leaf and dark-fruit flavors. In texture and taste, it resembles a cabernet franc from the Loire Valley in France.
But a good saperavi, like most Georgian wines, has what wines from anywhere else don't have: a taste that spans centuries of history, and a whiff of ancient origins.


Looking for delicious recipes for natural lamb? Check out our tasty recipe for Garlic and Rosemary Roast Leg of Lamb.
Using a sharp knife, make small incisions in the leg of lamb and insert small slivers of garlic and rosemary in each space. Season roast with salt and pepper, then drizzle with olive oil.
Place lamb in a shallow baking dish with sliced lemon underneath and roast in the preheated oven for 30 minutes per pound. Test for doneness and remove from oven Cover with foil and allow to rest 10 minutes prior to slicing.
Serve hot with roasted potatoes, steamed vegetables and mint jelly.
* If an Easy Carve leg is not available, this recipe is also delicious with either a boneless or bone-in leg.


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Yvan Iturriaga was born in San Francisco, California, and spent his childhood border-crossing through Latin America, living in the extended Chilean exile community. Being always on the move made Yvan an avid observer with a unique worldview. He was often surrounded by adults discussing politics and remembering a distant home. Art and critical thinking replaced the tube, and so reality became entertainment. Constantly living in the undefined space between exile and return, surrounded by people with silenced, clandestine stories, Yvan developed an urge for storytelling that inspired him to become a filmmaker.
At age 14, he returned to the US, learned English, and graduated from Berkeley High School. He began his career at Occidental College in Los Angeles where, after flirting with Politics, Philosophy, and Diplomacy & World Affairs, Yvan realized that film was the ultimate tool for channeling his creative talents and his desire to unsettle mass audiences. After receiving a degree in Film and New Media in 2003, he worked as a cameraman for TV networks Telemundo and Univision, and as cameraman, assistant producer and editor for various independent projects including AdCorp, Inc. and Canto a lo Poeta.
In 2007, searching for more substance in filmmaking, Yvan left L.A. on a backwards pilgrimage to the Bay Area. Since then, he has directed and produced numerous short films, documentaries, commercial and music videos. Recent projects include production of The Storm That Swept Mexico, a two-hour PBS documentary on the Mexican Revolution, and episode six of the PBS series titled Latino Americans. Yvan also wrote and directed the narrative shorts Sui Generis and Beep, screened in over a dozen festivals worldwide. Most recently, he co-directed A Photographer's Journey, a documentary about photographer Pedro E. Guerrero, schedued to air on PBS's American Masters series in the fall of 2015.


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Herbert Quick photographs
The UCR Library
Riverside, California 92517-5900
Email: specialcollections@ucr.edu
URL: http://library.ucr.edu/libraries/special-collections-university-archives
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Title: Herbert Quick photographs
Date (inclusive): circa 1915-1961, undated
Collection Number: UA 115
Creator: Quick, Herbert, 1861-1925
Extent: 7.5 linear feet (8 boxes)
Repository: Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
Riverside, CA 92517-5900
Abstract: The bulk of this collection comprises photographic negatives, but also includes black and white photographic prints (some indexed by subject on note cards), as well as clippings concerning Quick and his work. An educator, staff photographer (1964), and manager of photographic services (1976) at the University of California, Riverside until 1996, Herbert Quick (1925-2006) was also an art photographer well-known for his insightful documentation of everyday life. Trained at the Los Angeles School of Design in the late 1940s, Quick worked with and befriended luminaries including Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, and Ansel Adams. The collection primarily documents Quick's work as campus photographer at UCR, with subject matter ranging from photographs of horticultural and other specimens, to documentation of the UCR campus, and a wide range of university activities.
Languages: The collection is in English.
This collection is unprocessed. Please contact Special Collections & University Archives regarding the availability of materials for research use.
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[identification of item], [date if possible]. Herbert Quick photographs (UA 115). Special Collections & University Archives, University of California, Riverside.
Transferred from the California Museum of Photography, 1997.
Collection Scope and Contents
The bulk of this collection comprises photographic negatives, but also includes black and white photographic prints (some indexed by subject on note cards), as well as clippings concerning Quick and his work. An educator, staff photographer (1964), and manager of photographic services (1976) at the University of California, Riverside until 1996, Herbert Quick (1925-2006) was also an art photographer well-known for his insightful documentation of everyday life. Trained at the Los Angeles School of Design in the late 1940s, Quick worked with and befriended luminaries including Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, and Ansel Adams. The collection primarily documents Quick's work as campus photographer at UCR, with subject matter ranging from photographs of horticultural and other specimens, to documentation of the UCR campus, and a wide range of university activities.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Riverside (Calif.)
Genres and Forms of Materials
Negatives (photographs)


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Race For A COVID-19 Vaccine Draws Scrutiny
Michelle Gabrielle Centamore
A scientist prepares samples during the research and development of a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a laboratory of BIOCAD biotechnology company in Saint Petersburg, Russia June 11, 2020. (REUTERS/Anton Vaganov/File Photo)
Researchers say they are making progress in developing a vaccine that will curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, but some remain suspicious of its effectiveness.
Thirty percent of New York Metro area residents say they are unsure if they would get a COVID-19 vaccine if one were available and 25 percent say they definitely would not, according to a Mount Sinai South Nassau Truth in Medicine poll released in June.
"It's disturbing that there is reluctance about a potential vaccine," said Dr. Aaron Glatt, chair of the Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai South Nassau and a national expert on infectious diseases. "However, we're hopeful that as one is developed, tested, and proven effective, people's attitudes will change."
Russia has said that the world's first vaccine for the novel coronavirus will be rolled out by the end of this month, with doctors among those set to be administered with it on a voluntary basis. But a majority of Russian doctors would not feel comfortable being injected with Russia's new COVID-19 vaccine due to the lack of sufficient data about it and its super-fast approval, a survey of more than 3,000 medical professionals showed.
The disease caused by the new coronavirus that has killed more than 774,682 people as of this story and unleashed economic havoc worldwide. There are more than two dozen coronavirus vaccines at the human clinical trial stage as the race to tame the pandemic heats up.
Among those in development, Massachusetts-based Moderna Inc. said its experimental COVID-19 vaccine induced a "robust immune response" and protected against infection in a study on monkeys. Australian biotechnology company Vaxine Pty Ltd expects to start Phase II trials of its potential COVID-19 vaccine in the next few weeks after "positive" results from the first-stage human study. And Among the researchers seeking a cure are experts at Farmingdale-based Codagenix, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company working in collaboration with the Serum Institute of India to rapidly codevelop a vaccine against coronavirus using live COVID-19, known as live-attenuated vaccine.
"Early research shows promise that a vaccine could prevent a resurgence of COVID-19," Dr. Glatt said. "Science is on our side. Right now, there is still too much unknown about a potential vaccine, and I assume that uncertainty is what we are seeing reflected in the poll results."
On Long Island, formerly one of the national coronavirus hot spots in April, the number of cases has held steady. There were 86,184 confirmed COVID-19 cases — 43,100 in Nassau County, 43,084 in Suffolk County — and 4,190 residents succumbed to the virus, including 2,194 in Nassau and 1,996 in Suffolk as of July 28, according to the New York State Department of Health. There were 413,593 cases statewide, 4.3 million nationwide, and 16 million worldwide as of that date, data shows.
"We have successfully flattened the curve, but we have not eliminated the virus," says Dr. Bettina Fries, Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Stony Brook Medicine. "I don't think we will get rid of the coronavirus, it will stay around, and you will see cases pop up, [but] it will be identified and the outbreak will be taken care of. The majority of people will be protected because they will be vaccinated."
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"A lack of long-term safety testing is a red flag for the new [coronavirus] vaccine," she says. "Knowledge about these mutations may prove useful to clinicians wanting to better tailor their COVID-19 treatments, but the proliferation of mutations makes the chances of developing an effective vaccine immensely more uncertain."
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Gap Year Program Helps Skiers Excel
Greg Kwasnik
Since 1940, Holderness School has produced dozens of world-class winter athletes, including 38 National Team members, 15 Collegiate All-Americans, six World Cup Championship Team members, and 17 Olympians. This year, a new Gap Year program is strengthening the school's pipeline to the highest levels of competitive skiing and snowboarding.
WHAT'S A GAP YEAR?
In recent years, more and more high school athletes have opted to take a gap year after graduation to mature and develop their skills before competing in college. A gap year is especially relevant for elite skiers, who often need to race and train for an extra season to acquire the experience necessary to compete at a higher level. Holderness School's new Gap Year program will support athletes looking to bridge that critical gap in their competitive careers. "The gap year is really important for the athlete that is really on the elite track to try to either make the US Ski Team or ski at an elite Division I NCAA program," says Director of Snow Sports Ben Drummond. "We're able to provide them with a community feel but have a full season or two under their belts before they go to college."
COACHING & COMMUNITY
Now several months into its pilot year, the Gap Year program is off to a very successful start. The program is led by Brennan Smith, a former Plymouth State University and Waterville Valley Academy coach, with five athletes under his tutelage. Those athletes quickly got into the swing of things this summer and fall, at Mount Hood in Oregon and Pitztaler Gletscher in Austria for several preseason training bloks. Ultimately, Ben says, Gap Year athletes will spend 60 days or more training on snow during the offseason, between the end of their season in April and December 1. While many ski academies offer gap year programs with similar travel and training opportunities, the Holderness Gap Year program is unique because its athletes are fully integrated into the Holderness community during the school year. Holderness Gap Year athletes will take one class each semester and have full access to the school's athletic training facilities, dining hall, and day student facilities. "They will feel like they're part of the Holderness community," Ben says. "They're considered day students, so they come and can use the day student community areas, they can play on the fields with the kids on nights and weekends, they can work out alongside them. It's just really a part of the entire community, fall, winter, and spring."
WORLD-CLASS TRAINING FACILITIES
This winter, Gap Year athletes will spend much of their time training on the Mittersill Race and Training Slopes at Cannon Mountain, a designated training site for the US Ski Team that boasts fully-homologated Giant Slalom and Slalom courses and a dedicated T-bar. Athletes will enjoy even more training amenities this spring with the opening of the Mittersill Performance Center, a 9,200 square-foot lodge that will include ski tuning rooms, coaches' offices, video review rooms and gear storage areas. "The Gap Year kids are going to be able to train up there basically at their will, around their class schedule," Ben says. "The other unique part is they get to integrate with our student body - the U16s and U19s will get to train alongside them." Gap Year athletes will also benefit from working with the school's 11 Eastern Alpine coaches.
At its core, the Gap Year program is an investment in the long-term success of current Holderness skiers and snowboarders. In recent years, high-level Holderness athletes have taken gap years at elite ski academies before going on to compete in college or professionally. Thanks to the school's new Gap Year program, Holderness athletes can now train in the same place for five or six years and enjoy a level of consistency that will only help them flourish. "They get used to our training venue, they get used to our coaching staff, and they get used to our facilities," Ben says. "They don't have to change that when they're looking for the gap year experience."
Learn more about Holderness Snow Sports at our upcoming virtual event in January.
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Art in the Era of COVID-19
Thea Dodds
COVID-19 has provided many challenges for all of us in more ways than we can count. One opportunity we've seen in this challenge is that it demands us all to be more creative and one place that was most apparent this fall was in the Holderness Art Department.
An Academic Schedule Built For Winter
With world-class ski resorts just a short drive away, plus 20 kilometers of Nordic ski trails and an outdoor ice rink on campus, Holderness School seems like it was built for winter. The same can be said of the school's new winter schedule, which was redesigned to help students thrive amid the challenges of cold weather, short days, and ongoing COVID-19 restrictions.
Head of School Phil Peck Announces June 2022 Retirement
Dear Holderness Community,
It is with profound gratitude that I share I will be retiring in June 2022. As Board Chair Nell Reynolds, the board, and I have discussed, the timing feels perfect for Holderness and for Robin and me. I am incredibly fortunate to be able to retire at this time, but I am also thankful to have another 18 months to serve Holderness.


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A celebration of underground dance culture!
As The Jam Movement's 10 year anniversary approaches, we will be throwing a week-long festival in celebration of the occasion – The Jam Festival!
During the festival 9 - the first of its kind in the UK - there'll be a variety of events including collaborations with Brkn' Nest, Indahouse London, the return of #WCC (@West Country Clash) & plenty more to be announced soon.
An international line up of the World's leading dancers in Hip Hop, Litefeet, House, Popping and Breaking will be there to share their depths of knowledge and skills throughout the festival. The Jam Festival promises to be an inspiring week fuelled by workshops, battles and parties alike.
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Posted at 17:03 on October 20th, 2016 in Regulation
On 13th October 2016, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published a comprehensive overview of existing international regulatory initiatives for human medicines. The mapping was carried out by EMA on behalf of the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA). ICMRA was launch in 2013is a strategic coordinating, advocacy and leadership group of regulatory authorities that seeks to address current and emerging human medicine global regulatory and safety challenges, provide direction to regulatory authorities, and identify areas of commonality and potential synergies.
The report lists all international projects and provides international regulatory agencies with comprehensive details on the number and scope of global initiatives that can support decision-making on future projects, prioritisation and coordination.
The aim of the exercise is to raise awareness of ongoing international regulatory activities, establish a basis for a more strategic coordination to avoid duplication of efforts, and identify possible gaps.
The report includes not only broad ranging activities such as the harmonisation work of the International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH), but also identifies areas of particular strategic interests for ICMRA. These include:
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Specific mappings in these areas will be published by EMA in early November 2016.
The new report was presented at a summit of heads of medicines regulators and the annual ICMRA meeting that took place in Switzerland in October 2016.
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Late update today, because I'm in another crappy hotel (in north-central Kansas) whose wireless wasn't working last night. I called the front desk and asked what the name of the network was, because it wasn't showing up in the list. "I think it would be some kind of Internet thing, America Online or something like that," the gentleman informed me. After a few minutes of conversation, he confessed, "I'm almost computer illiterate, to tell you the truth." Thanks. Oh, yeah, and they told me breakfast was over at 10, but I found out the hard way it ended at 9. No hot waffle for me!
Not that I'm complaining, though in a way I am. I was on the main storm show from the start yesterday. It was another day of a churning low and crazy storm motions as the cells in question formed and then moved north or west around the low pressure. My first thought was northeast Kansas, but as the low's position became more evident on the computer models, I felt it was important to go to eastern Nebraska, where the surface winds would be backed, thus aiding rotation. I spoke with Steve Sponsler and with Daniel Shaw, and Daniel and I decided to go for the Nebraska target, despite the Storm Prediction Center's more likely tornado risk farther south. It was a good call, even if we didn't see the reported tornadoes. We were in York when the first storm went up and a tornado watch came out. We got to the storm fairly quickly, but as the whole line of convection exploded, the potential for photogenic storms fell. The photo is from that first storm, which was tornado-warned, between Cairo and Ravenna, Nebraska. It was an interesting chase, as storms kept training over the same area. The storm system almost looked like a hurricane over Nebraska on radar. Or, as I said on Facebook, a giant toilet that kept flushing supercells. It wasn't exactly what I came out for, though. I'm still looking for a long-lived, isolated rotating storm that will pose for its picture. It doesn't have to smile.
See the May 12 photos.


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Coronavirus updates Friday: 1 new death, 20 new cases in Lane County
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1 new death, 20 new cases in Lane County
Lane County Public Health on Friday reported one new death related to COVID-19.
A 93-year-old female from the Eugene-Springfield area who died Thursday evening is the 15th COVID-19-related death in the county. She had not been hospitalized prior to her death, the agency said.
The health department announced 20 additional cases of COVID-19 in the county, bringing the total count to 937. There were 23 new cases Thursday.
Ninety-four people are considered infectious, an increase of nine since Thursday. Four people are hospitalized.
The agency reported one new workplace cluster. Creative Solutions Painting Company at 3804 Kathryn Ave. in Springfield has six employees who have tested positive for COVID-19.
"LCPH is currently working with this business to mitigate any further spread," the agency said in a news release.
The Oregon Health Authority on Friday reported 295 new cases in the state. There were no new deaths.
Wynn Las Vegas reveals 548 positive COVID-19 cases among employees
Wynn Las Vegas has logged almost 500 positive COVID-19 cases among employees since the resort reopened in June.
Wynn Resorts on Thursday revealed the data tied to the company's testing and contact tracing program, which tests groups of up to 700 employees every two weeks, reports the Reno Gazette Journal, which is part of the USA TODAY Network.
With the help of University Medical Center, the company has conducted 15,051 tests, aiming to catch any employees who are positive for the virus but asymptomatic. Of those tests, there have been 548 positive cases – a positivity rate of 3.6%. Of the total, 51 positive cases were recorded pre-reopening and 497 were post-reopening, according to the company.
Wynn Las Vegas has hosted more than 500,000 guests since reopening in early June. Six guests have tested positive, according to the company.
— Ed Komenda, Reno Gazette Journal
Moderna says vaccine trial results could come in November
Moderna, one of the companies leading the effort to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, announced Thursday it could have enough clinical trial results as soon as November to confirm the effectiveness of its candidate vaccine.
Results of the vaccine's effectiveness will be presented to an independent review committee after 53 people in the trial contract COVID-19, and again after 106 and 151 infections. Half the participants are getting a placebo and half the active vaccine, called mRNA-1273.
Statistically, if the vaccine is effective 75% of the time, it should take only 106 infections in both groups to prove its effectiveness, Dr. Jacqueline Miller, Moderna's senior vice president of infectious disease development, told company investors on Thursday. At that point, which will likely come in November, Moderna could apply for an emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin distributing the vaccine.
The FDA has said a vaccine must be at least 50% effective to win federal approval, but the companies developing vaccines have said they are aiming for at least 60% and hopefully even higher effectiveness. Moderna had originally predicted that it might take until May 2021 to prove its vaccine's effectiveness, but pushed up that timeline because participants joined quickly, the COVID-19 infection rate remained high around trial sites and the company was able to start the trial earlier than originally expected.
— Karen Weintraub
Flu circulation plunges to historic lows in the US, CDC says
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says flu circulation in the U.S. "is currently at historical lows," sharply dropping after widespread implementation of school closures, social distancing and mask wearing to curb COVID-19 spread, according to the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published Thursday.
According to the report, clinical laboratories reported a 98% decrease in influenza activity between September 2019 to February 2020 and March to May 2020. Other northern hemisphere countries also experienced a sharp decline in influenza circulation, and southern hemisphere countries with temperate climates have had virtually no circulation at all.
8 Chicago school workers have died of COVID-19 since start of pandemic
At least eight employees of the nation's third-largest school district have died and another 250 have had COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, with about half of those cases causing a pause in school operations, Chicago Public Schools said this week.
Most of the cases involved employees who were exposed to community spread or sick family members, the district said. Nearly 13% of the cases are believed to have been part of a cluster discovered at a school, most of which occurred in the spring, the district said.
Chicago Public Schools had initially planned to try out a hybrid model this fall but opted for a fully online approach before the start of school.
– Grace Hauck
USA TODAY's vaccine panel: We're over halfway there but need more data
If midnight is the start of the pandemic in the U.S. and noon is the time a vaccine is freely available for anyone who wants it, the United States is at about 7 a.m, says USA TODAY's panel of experts in medicine, virology, immunology, logistics and supply chain issues who are estimating how close we are to securing a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
That's an hour closer to noon than last month but still just over halfway to the goal.
With three experimental coronavirus vaccines now in large, human clinical trials in the U.S. and a government expectation at least one could be approved by January, the mantra among experts is "data, data, data" — we need more data.
While efforts to create candidate vaccines have been heroic and followed eagerly by the public, in many ways that's been the easy part, said Prakash Nagarkatti, an immunologist and vice president for research at the University of South Carolina.
"Vaccine technology is not complicated — any research-intensive university has the technology to develop the vaccine," he said. The challenge is to get through the clinical trials gauntlet with a product proven to be safe and effective.
– Elizabeth Weise and Karen Weintraub
New York City delays first day of in-person classes – again
New York City has pushed back the first day of in-person classes for most of its elementary, middle and high school students, the second delay in a rocky return to the classroom for the nation's largest school district.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday that most students would continue online-only learning and transition to its planned hybrid model on Sept. 29 for elementary school students and on Oct. 1 for middle and high school students.
Pre-K and some students with special needs will return to the classroom Monday, the target return date, which had already been pushed back once.
New York's plan to become the first major school district in the country to bring students back to the classroom in some capacity has faced criticism as some parents and teachers worry buildings aren't safe, staffs aren't large enough and testing capacity isn't adequate. De Blasio says in-person classes will help ease the burden of juggling children and jobs for working parents.
Another 790,021 Americans file for unemployment amid pandemic
More than 790,000 Americans filed for unemployment insurance for the first time last week, the Labor Department said Thursday, as the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic continues to mount.
In a little more than six months, over 56 million workers have filed for benefits. The latest weekly tally has dipped significantly from the 6.2 million who filed first-time claims in March, when the economy ground to a virtual halt to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
But the weekly volume of initial claims still hovered near what had previously been the all time high — roughly 1 million — on a non-seasonally adjusted basis during a recession in 1982.
– Charisse Jones
Dozens of Massachusetts high schoolers quarantining after positive test
After a Massachusetts high school student who tested positive for COVID-19 attended in-person classes, dozens of other students are under quarantine.
The student went to class Monday at Attleboro High School, and nurses said 30 students had close contact with them. "This unacceptable outcome was caused by delays in the reporting timeline, not a breakdown in our safety protocols," Superintendent David Sawyer said.
Donald Trump appointees shelved report on threats to voting rights during pandemic
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights spent months analyzing threats to minority voting rights during the coronavirus pandemic, coming up with what one commissioner called a "behemoth" set of recommendations.
But no one will see them. Conservative commissioners recently appointed by President Donald Trump voted to shelve the report, its findings and recommendations, even commissioners' statements.
The commissioner who led the research provided a glimpse of the report's contents during an August meeting, noting it covers problems with in-person and mail-in balloting faced by voters of color, people with disabilities, and those with medical conditions that make them vulnerable to the virus.
The commission, an independent federal agency whose work has informed landmark civil rights laws, is made up of eight members. Trump's appointments in May and August created a four-four split between conservatives and liberals. A move to release the voting-rights report failed in a tie.
"I am deeply dismayed that after months of work on a topic that is core to the commission's congressional charge — and has been now for six decades — for the commission not to speak to this moment, which is unlike any other in terms of an effort to vote in the history of this country," said Catherine Lhamon, the chair of the commission, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2016.
– Donovan Slack
Lane County COVID-19 ZIP code map
Lane County Public Health has posted a map of known cases of COVID-19 organized by ZIP code on its page of Testing, Patient and Resource Information.
By the numbers: COVID-19 cases in Oregon
Reported by Oregon Health Authority, updated at 12 a.m. Wednesday.
Case investigations
29,850: Total cases confirmed by test and presumptive cases
521: Total deaths
28,399: Tests that are positive
591,423: Tests that were negative
619,822: Total number of tests given
Cases by age group
0 to 9: 1,398 (5%)
10 to 19: 3,065 (10%)
20 to 29: 6,475 (22%), 3 deaths
40 to 49: 4,896 (16%), 11 deaths
60 to 69: 2,395 (8%), 83 deaths
70 to 79: 1,458 (5%), 135 deaths
80 and older: 1,082 (4%), 250 deaths
Not available: 15 (0%)
Female: 15,401 cases (52%), 222 deaths (43%)
Male: 14,365 cases (48%), 299 deaths (57%)
Non-binary: 3 case (0%), 0 deaths
Not available: 81 cases (0%), 0 deaths
Hospitalized: 2,319 (8%)
Not hospitalized: 24,593 (82%)
Not provided: 2,938 (10%)
Source: Oregon Health Authority
Directories of open local businesses, including those doing delivery, take-out
The Eugene and Springfield chambers of commerce are compiling listings of local businesses that are open and the modified ways they are offering their goods and services to make it easier for people to support them while staying home.
Read the full story, including links to the lists, here.
Closures, cancellations and postponements
See The Register-Guard's cancellation list here.
Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect that Creative Solutions Painting Company is located in Springfield.


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Q: Removing duplicate characters in string preg_replace $value =  "ABCC@CmCCCCm@CCmC@CDEF";
$clear = preg_replace('/@{1,}/', "", $value);
I need to remove duplicate @ and get something like:
ABCC@CmCCCCmCCmCCDEF (I need only first @)
How to do that?

A: A regex way:
$clear = preg_replace('~(?>@|\G(?<!^)[^@]*)\K@*~', '', $value);

details:
(?:           # open a non capturing group
    @         # literal @
  |           # OR
    \G(?<!^)  # contiguous to a precedent match, not at the start of the string
    [^@]*     # all characters except @, zero or more times
)\K           # close the group and reset the match from the result
@*            # zero or more literal @

A: Give this a try:
// The original string
$str = 'ABCC@CmCCCCm@CCmC@CDEF';
// Position of the first @ sign
$pos = strpos($str, '@');
// Left side of the first found @ sign
$str_sub_1 = substr($str, 0, $pos + 1);
// Right side of the first found @ sign
$str_sub_2 = substr($str, $pos);
// Replace all @ signs in the right side
$str_sub_2_repl = str_replace('@', '', $str_sub_2);
// Join the left and right sides again
$str_new = $str_sub_1 . $str_sub_2_repl;
echo $str_new;


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Q: Angular: ngModelChange doesn't change value from the dropdown I have a drop down implemented as below:
    <select (ngModelChange)="onChange($event)">
        <option *ngFor="let quantity of quantities" [ngValue]="quantity">
          {{ quantity }}
        </option>
    </select>

The component code is provided:
export class ProductItemComponent implements OnInit {
    @Input()
    productItem: Product;

    @Output()
    addProduct: EventEmitter<Product> = new EventEmitter();

    @Output()
    selectedQuantity: EventEmitter<Number> = new EventEmitter();

    quantities: number[] = [];

    constructor(private productService: ProductsService) {
        this.productItem = {
            id: 1,
            name: '',
            price: 0.0,
            url: '',
            description: ''
        };

        this.quantities = Array.from({ length: 30 }, (_, i) => i + 1);
    }

    ngOnInit(): void {}

    addToCart(p: Product): void {
        this.addProduct.emit(p);
    }

    public onChange(event: any): void {

         const quantity = event.target.value;

         console.log('\n');
         console.log('quantity ' + quantity);
         console.log('\n');

        this.selectedQuantity.emit(quantity);
    }

    showProductDetails(product: Product): void {
        this.productService.setCurrentProduct(product);
    }
}

However, if I change the quantity from the drop-down, the value is not updating. How d I fix it?
Edit:
The code works fine if I use change in the <selector> tag:
<select (change)="onChange($event)">
        <option *ngFor="let quantity of quantities" [ngValue]="quantity">
          {{ quantity }}
        </option>
    </select>

So, I can work, but, I need to understand why the ngModelChange doesn't work.

A: For ngModel to work, the input need to have a name attribute. (You should see some errors in the console)
If the drop-down is not bound to a variable for a two-ways binding, there's no value in using ngModel nor ngModelChange though.
You should rather use a basic (change) event:
(change)="onChange($event)

A: We should have ngModel in order to use ngModelChange where it actually meant to be.
change is regular change detection of the DOM elements in Angular like input, dropdown and radio inputs.
You can get more idea on this with below

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*https://angular.io/api/forms/NgModel#properties

*https://ultimatecourses.com/blog/difference-change-ngmodelchange-angular

A: Use (ngModelChange) with [(ngModel)] like this:
<select [(ngModel)]="selectedValue" (ngModelChange)="onChange($event)">
 <option *ngFor="let quantity of quantities" [ngValue]="quantity">
      {{ quantity }}
 </option>
</select>

to ensure onChange($event) is called after [(ngModel)] updated selectedValue.
(ngModelChange) is emitted by [(ngModel)]after it updated the model.