text:
__file__ = 'IRI_v1'
__date__ = '5/15/2014'
__author__ = 'ABREZNIC'
import arcpy, os, datetime, csv, tpp

now = datetime.datetime.now()
curMonth = now.strftime("%m")
curDay = now.strftime("%d")
curYear = now.strftime("%Y")
today = curYear + "_" + curMonth + "_" + curDay

input = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)
calRhino = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)
output = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(2)
# theMXD = "C:\\TxDOT\\Projects\\IRI_dan\\working\\Untitled.mxd"

inputlist = [input]
inputcntr = 1
lengthinput = len(inputlist)
issuesReport = [["DISTRICT_FILE", "ROUTE_ID", "BEGIN_POINT", "END_POINT", "SECTION_LENGTH", "IRI", "RUTTING", "DATE", "ERROR_DESCRIPTION"]]
statsReport = [["DISTRICT_FILE", "LG Record Count", "KG Record Count", "Total Records Count", "Input Record Count", "Lost Records Count", "LG Records Length", "KG Records Length", "Total Routed Length"]]

arcpy.CreateFileGDB_management(output, "RhinoLines.gdb")
rhinospace = output + os.sep + "RhinoLines.gdb"
rhino_lines = rhinospace + os.sep + "rhinolines"
arcpy.Copy_management(calRhino, rhino_lines)
# arcpy.AddField_management(rhino_lines, "FRM_DFO", "DOUBLE")
# arcpy.AddField_management(rhino_lines, "TO_DFO", "DOUBLE")
cursor = arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(rhino_lines, ["FRM_DFO", "TO_DFO", 'SHAPE@'])
for row in cursor:
    bp = row[2].firstPoint.M
    ep = row[2].lastPoint.M
    bpNew = float(format(float(bp), '.3f'))
    epNew = float(format(float(ep), '.3f'))
    row[0] = bpNew
    row[1] = epNew
    cursor.updateRow(row)
del cursor
del row
arcpy.AddMessage("Calibrated RHINO copied local.")
arcpy.AddField_management(rhino_lines, "RTE_ORDER", "SHORT")
arcpy.AddField_management(rhino_lines, "FLAG", "TEXT", "", "", 30)
arcpy.AddMessage("Applying RTE_ORDER.")
cursor = arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(rhino_lines, ["RTE_ID", "FRM_DFO", "RTE_ORDER", "FLAG", "RU", "F_SYSTEM", "SEC_NHS", "HPMS"], "", "", "", (None, "ORDER BY RTE_ID ASC, FRM_DFO ASC"))
counter = 0
order = 1
previous = ""
for row in cursor:
    current = row[0]
    if counter == 0:
        row[2] = order
    elif counter != 0 and previous == current:
        order += 1
        row[2] = order
    else:
        order = 1
        row[2] = order
    previous = current
    counter += 1
    ru = int(row[4])
    fs = int(row[5])
    nhs = int(row[6])
    row[3] = current + "-" + str(order) + "-" + str(ru) + "-" + str(fs) + "-" + str(nhs) + "-" + str(row[7])
    cursor.updateRow(row)
del cursor
arcpy.AddMessage("RTE_ORDER applied.")

dictionary = {}
cursor = arcpy.da.SearchCursor(rhino_lines, ["FLAG", "FRM_DFO", "TO_DFO"])
for row in cursor:
    flag = row[0]
    odr = flag.split("-")[0] + "-" + flag.split("-")[1] + "-" + flag.split("-")[2]
    fDFO = row[1]
    tDFO = row[2]
    dictionary[odr] = [fDFO, tDFO]
del cursor

for excel in inputlist:
    distName = str(excel).split("\\")[-1]
    if distName[-1] == "$":
        distName = distName[:-1]
    arcpy.AddMessage("Beginning " + str(inputcntr) + " of " + str(lengthinput) + ": " + distName)
    arcpy.CreateFileGDB_management(output, "Wrkg" + str(inputcntr) + ".gdb")
    workspace = output + os.sep + "Wrkg" + str(inputcntr) + ".gdb"
    arcpy.AddMessage("Working database created.")

    data = []
    fields = ["ROUTE_ID", "BEGIN_POINT", "END_POINT", "SECTION_LENGTH", "IRI", "RUTTING", "DATE", "RU", "F_SYSTEM", "SEC_NHS", "HPMS"]
    data.append(fields)

    # spref = "Coordinate Systems\\Geographic Coordinate Systems\\World\\GCS_WGS_1984.prj"
    # spref = "Coordinate Systems\\Geographic Coordinate Systems\\World\\WGS 1984.prj"
    # arcpy.MakeXYEventLayer_management(excel, "Long", "Lat", "pointEvents" + str(inputcntr), spref)
    # arcpy.AddMessage("Event Layer created.")

    pntfeature = workspace + os.sep + "allPoints"
    arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(excel, pntfeature)
    arcpy.AddMessage("Point feature class created.")
    arcpy.AddField_management(pntfeature, "RTE_ID_Orig", "TEXT", "", "", 30)

    initial = 0
    ids = []
    cursor = arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(pntfeature, ["ROUTE_ID", "ROUTE_ID_Good", "RTE_ID_Orig"])
    for row in cursor:
        id = row[0]
        id2 = row[1]
        initial += 1
        if id2 not in ids:
            ids.append(id2)
        row[0] = id2
        row[2] = id
        cursor.updateRow(row)
    del cursor
    del row
    arcpy.AddMessage("RTE_IDs compiled.")

    roadslayer = ""
    pointslayer = ""
    # mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(theMXD)
    mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT")
    df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "*")[0]
    for lyr in arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd):
        if lyr.name == "rhinolines":
            arcpy.mapping.RemoveLayer(df, lyr)
        if lyr.name == "allPoints":
            arcpy.mapping.RemoveLayer(df, lyr)
    newlayerpnt = arcpy.mapping.Layer(pntfeature)
    arcpy.mapping.AddLayer(df, newlayerpnt)
    newlayerline = arcpy.mapping.Layer(rhino_lines)
    arcpy.mapping.AddLayer(df, newlayerline)
    for lyr in arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd):
        if lyr.name == "rhinolines":
            roadslayer = lyr
        if lyr.name == "allPoints":
            pointslayer = lyr
    arcpy.AddMessage("Layers acquired.")

    counter = 1
    total = len(ids)
    arcpy.AddMessage("Finding measures for: ")
    for id in ids:
        roadslayer.definitionQuery = " RTE_ID = '" + id + "' "
        pointslayer.definitionQuery = " ROUTE_ID = '" + id + "' "
        arcpy.RefreshActiveView()
        arcpy.AddMessage(str(counter) + "/" + str(total) + " " + id)
        label = id.replace("-", "")
        arcpy.LocateFeaturesAlongRoutes_lr(pointslayer, roadslayer, "FLAG", "230 Feet", workspace + os.sep + label, "FLAG POINT END_POINT")
        counter += 1
    arcpy.AddMessage("Tables created.")

    # alltables = []
    arcpy.env.workspace = workspace
    tables = arcpy.ListTables()

    for table in tables:
        arcpy.AddMessage(table)
        arcpy.AddField_management(table, "ODR_FLAG", "TEXT", "", "", 20)
        arcpy.AddMessage("Order Flag field created.")

        numbDict = {}
        cursor = arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(table, ["FLAG", "ODR_FLAG"])
        for row in cursor:
            flag = row[0]
            odr = flag.split("-")[0] + "-" + flag.split("-")[1] + "-" + flag.split("-")[2]
            if odr not in numbDict.keys():
                numbDict[odr] = 1
            else:
                curNumb = numbDict[odr]
                curNumb += 1
                numbDict[odr] = curNumb
            row[1] = odr
            cursor.updateRow(row)
        del cursor

        counter = 1
        previous = ""
        last = ""
        cursor = arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(table, ["ODR_FLAG", "BEGIN_POINT", "END_POINT", "SECTION_LENGTH"], None, None, False, (None, "ORDER BY ODR_FLAG ASC, END_POINT ASC"))
        for row in cursor:
            current = row[0]
            total = numbDict[current]
            if counter == 1 and counter != total:
                values = dictionary[current]
                beginner = float(format(float(values[0]), '.3f'))
                segEnd = float(format(float(row[2]), '.3f'))
                if abs(segEnd - beginner) > 1:
                    segSrt = segEnd - .1
                    row[1] = float(format(float(segSrt), '.3f'))
                    row[2] = segEnd
                    row[3] = row[2] - row[1]
                else:
                    row[1] = beginner
                    row[2] = segEnd
                    row[3] = row[2] - row[1]
            elif counter == 1 and counter == total:
                values = dictionary[current]
                row[1] = float(format(float(values[0]), '.3f'))
                row[2] = float(format(float(values[1]), '.3f'))
                row[3] = row[2] - row[1]
                counter = 0
            elif previous == current and counter != total:
                row[1] = last
                row[2] = float(format(float(row[2]), '.3f'))
                row[3] = row[2] - last
            elif previous == current and counter == total:
                values = dictionary[current]
                ender = float(format(float(values[1]), '.3f'))
                if abs(ender - last) > 1:
                    row[1] = last
                    row[2] = float(format(float(row[2]), '.3f'))
                    row[3] = row[2] - last
                else:
                    row[1] = last
                    row[2] = float(format(float(values[1]), '.3f'))
                    row[3] = row[2] - last
                counter = 0
            else:
                arcpy.AddMessage("problem with " + current)
            last = row[2]
            cursor.updateRow(row)
            previous = current
            counter += 1
        del cursor
    arcpy.AddMessage("Measure difference fields populated.")

    arcpy.Merge_management(tables, workspace + os.sep + "merged")
    arcpy.AddMessage("All tables merged successfully.")

    arcpy.AddField_management(workspace + os.sep + "merged", "RU", "TEXT", "", "", 5)
    arcpy.AddMessage("RU field created.")
    arcpy.AddField_management(workspace + os.sep + "merged", "F_SYSTEM", "TEXT", "", "", 5)
    arcpy.AddMessage("Functional System field created.")
    arcpy.AddField_management(workspace + os.sep + "merged", "SEC_NHS", "TEXT", "", "", 5)
    arcpy.AddMessage("NHS field created.")
    arcpy.AddField_management(workspace + os.sep + "merged", "HPMS", "TEXT", "", "", 5)
    arcpy.AddMessage("HPMS Keeper field created.")
    # arcpy.AddMessage("Fields created.")
    cursor = arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(workspace + os.sep + "merged", ["FLAG", "RU", "F_SYSTEM", "SEC_NHS", "HPMS"])
    for row in cursor:
        flag = row[0]
        row[1] = flag.split("-")[3]
        row[2] = flag.split("-")[4]
        row[3] = flag.split("-")[5]
        row[4] = flag.split("-")[6]
        cursor.updateRow(row)
    del cursor

    LGcounter = 0
    KGcounter = 0
    LGlength = 0
    KGlength = 0
    cursor = arcpy.da.SearchCursor(workspace + os.sep + "merged", fields)
    for row in cursor:
        id = row[0]
        if id[-2:] == "LG":
            data.append(row)
            LGcounter += 1
            LGlength += float(row[3])
        else:
            data.append(row)
            KGcounter += 1
            KGlength += float(row[3])
            if float(row[3]) > 1:
                problem = [distName, row[0], row[1], row[2], row[3], row[4], row[5], row[6], "Abnormally large SECTION_LENGTH"]
                issuesReport.append(problem)
            if float(row[3]) == 0:
                problem = [distName, row[0], row[1], row[2], row[3], row[4], row[5], row[6], "Zero length SECTION_LENGTH"]
                issuesReport.append(problem)
    del cursor
    arcpy.AddMessage("Data compiled.")

    arcpy.AddMessage("Creating CSV report.")
    final = open(output + os.sep + distName + "_Plotted_" + str(inputcntr) + ".csv", 'wb')
    writer = csv.writer(final)
    writer.writerows(data)
    final.close()
    arcpy.AddMessage("CSV written.")

    TOTALcounter = LGcounter + KGcounter
    TOTALlength = LGlength + KGlength
    DIFFcounter = initial - TOTALcounter
    statsReport.append([distName, LGcounter, KGcounter, TOTALcounter, initial, DIFFcounter, LGlength, KGlength, TOTALlength])

    inputcntr += 1
if len(issuesReport) > 1:
    arcpy.AddMessage("Creating errors report...")
    errors = open(output + os.sep + "00ISSUES_Investigate.csv", 'wb')
    writer = csv.writer(errors)
    writer.writerows(issuesReport)
    errors.close()
arcpy.AddMessage("Creating stats report...")
stats = open(output + os.sep + "00Statistics.csv", 'wb')
writer = csv.writer(stats)
writer.writerows(statsReport)
stats.close()

arcpy.AddMessage("that's all folks!")

arcpy.AddMessage("started: " + str(now))
now2 = datetime.datetime.now()
arcpy.AddMessage("ended: " + str(now2))
print "that's all folks!"


text:
Eyeshield 21, Vol. 23
Book #23 of Eyeshield 21
By Riichiro Inagaki
By (artist) Yusuke Murata
Catch all the bone-crushing action and slapstick comedy of Japan's hottest football manga!
Wimpy Sena Kobayakawa has been running away from bullies all his life. But when the football gear comes on, things change--Sena's speed and uncanny ability to elude big bullies just might give him what it takes to become a great high school football hero! Catch all the bone-crushing action and slapstick comedy of Japan's hottest football manga!
Then Came the Showdown!
Only four seconds remain on the clock in the Deimon Devil Bats' Kanto Tournament match against the Shinryuji Nagas! Hiruma whips the crowd into a frenzy of support, but it'll take more than mere cheering to topple Agon and his formidable teammates. Speed, guts, determination and teamwork have seen the Devil Bats through countless tough scrapes, but will Hiruma's devilish tactics prove to be the final edge that pushes Deimon on to victory?
Riichiro Inagaki
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC (December 2, 2008)
Book Cover Image (jpg): Eyeshield 21, Vol. 23
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text:
Annette Gigon / Mike Guyer Architects
Teaching/
Studies/
Office structure
Imprint/
Project Category: Teaching/Research
Refurbishment Auditorium, University of Zurich
In the course of modernizing the audio-visual equipment at the University of Zurich, the technology of the 20-year-old underground auditorium in the Karl Moser building was renewed. At the same time, some of the flat wall panels were replaced with slotted ones, thereby substantially improving the room's acoustics. The artist Adrian Schiess, who had developed the initial colour concept for the auditorium, adapted the scheme for the new panels. The finish was coated with a translucent, silvery chrome paint, augmenting the mirroring effect and the festive appeal. The colour depth and reflections vary depending on the observer's position in the hall.
The work was completed by the beginning of the autumn term 2021. The next step will be to refurbish the shallow pool above the auditorium, which is an integral part of the whole project. The inside moulding and colour coating will be renewed.
Location Zurich, Switzerland
Programme Auditorium, 500 seats
Commission 2020
Planning/Construction 2020–2021
Client University of Zurich
Team G/G Annette Gigon / Mike Guyer Architekten (künstlerische Oberbauleitung) Collaborators: Auditorium: Pieter Rabijns
Water basin: Stefan Thommen
Contact architects Burkhard & Lüthi Architektur GmbH, Zurich
Cost Planning/Scheduling Bühler & Oettli AG, Zurich
Acoustical Engineer Applied Acoustics GmbH, Gelterkinden
Colours Adrian Schiess, Zurich
Other Paint treatment: Paints and Arts Rolf Pfenninger, Schlieren
Photos © Seraina Wirz
Auditorium, University of Zurich
Colours Ceiling and Walls – Adrian Schiess
A new, large auditorium that seats 500 people was constructed under the terrace on the valley side of the university building designed by Karl Moser in 1913/1914. The space serves both as a new auditorium and a second assembly hall. On weekends and during semester breaks it can also function as a conference hall for third-party rentals.
The auditorium is accessed via the former sculpture gallery on the ground floor. This space was previously used as an institute library and can be directly approached from outside and inside the university. The open gallery now functions as a lobby, with stairs in the alcoves of the vaulting leading down to the auditorium. Another wheelchair-accessible entrance and an elevator are located on the cafeteria side of the building.
Inside the auditorium the walls and ceiling are faced with colored panels, analogous to the spirit of the original interior design of the Moser building. The panels provide acoustic absorption and cladding for ventilation and electrical services. The artist Adrian Schiess designed the color scheme for the auditorium, consisting of light and dark pink, as well as tones of light blue and gray-green. To emphasize the festive quality of the space, the glass of the interpreters' booths is printed with golden reflective patterns.
A skylight above the white projection wall provides the space underneath with daylight. Outside, both the raised skylight and a pool centered on the terrace indicate the presence of the auditorium below. The strong color of the basin contradicts conventional expectations of a natural green, which is used for the ponds in the neighboring gardens of the university. The basin with its reflective surface and artificial color resembles an independent, horizontal sculpture.
The walls facing the Künstlergasse consist of concrete poured in successive layers of various hues, from dark to light, which also references the 'spacecontaining' nature of the base. The top layers of the wall are only faintly pigmented, and the concrete surface of the terrace and the concrete rim of the basin are left in their natural tone. These thus form a contrast with the pure, strong color of the basin.
Programme Underground auditorium with 500 seats, projection space, storage and technical spaces
remodelling existing lobby on the ground floor as access to the auditorium; coloured water basin on the terrace above the auditorium hall
Client Building Office of Canton Zurich
Gross Floor Area 2'545 m2
Team G/G Christian Brunner (Project Manager), Stefan Gasser, Michael Bucher
Construction Management Annette Gigon / Mike Guyer Architekten, Zurich
Collaborator: Thomas Hochstrasser
Landscape Architecture Hager Landschaftsarchitektur AG, Zurich
Cost Planning/Scheduling Othmar Brügger, Davos
Structural Engineer SKS Ingenieure AG, Zurich
Colours Adrian Schiess, Zurich and Mouans-Sartoux, France
Photos © Heinrich Helfenstein © Gigon/Guyer
Colour study Adrian Schiess
Lower floor
Extension of Workshop School Buildings Appisberg
The new extension of the "Appisberg Apprenticeship and Training Complex" comprises of a string of individual volumes along an access road, which is within the complex opposite the existing 1930s buildings by architects Pestalozzi and Schucan. This concept of sequence was defined through the position of the existing buildings. In keeping with the original open space concept initiated by the Mertens brothers, the centre of the complex remains undeveloped in the form of a vast open space which extends to the east, merging with the open landscape.
As the building volumes are aligned longitudinally concurrent towards the view, the panorama over lake and mountains is accentuated and left clear. With respect to their proportions, the new structures refer to those of the existing.
Both interaction and rhythm are generated through the spatial organisation of the new volumes in their relationship to the existing buildings. Subtle differences in the dimensions and form of the individual structures enrich the interplay. The greenhouse with its contrasting materiality signals the border of the site and the transition to the open landscape.
With the exception of the greenhouse, the remaining buildings are mainly constructed from in-situ concrete. The floor and ceiling slabs are supported by the load-bearing exterior walls and the structural service core. The robust materiality of the exterior walls and windows are to meet the high durability requirements of the workshops and educational training buildings.
Within the existing complex two colour tones are particularly predominant. The orange of the historic buildings contrasts to the various green hues of the surroundings: the dark green of the forest, the luscious green of the meadows, the yellow-green of the surrounding fields and the pale green of the distant hills.
The yellow-green tone of the new buildings adopts the colours of its environment. The bright intensity of the colour is achieved with a translucent finish. Despite multiple coatings the materiality of the concrete is still visible so that at close range a subtle colour play of green and yellow tones is discernible. Depending on the weather, light conditions and seasons, the volumes appear differently; they work in harmony with the natural surroundings or form a contrast to it.
Location Männedorf, Switzerland
Programme Extension of existing facility with four new buildings: Workshops, offices, greenhouse; Renewal of existing: workshop, administration/catering, accommodation
Competition 1998, 1st Prize
Client Gemeinnütziger Verein Appisberg, Abklärungs- und Ausbildungsstätte, Männedorf
Team G/G Planning/Construction: Markus Lüscher (Project Manager), Mathias Brühlmann
Competition: Markus Lüscher, Simone Reiter
Construction Management Caretta Weidmann Baumanagement AG, Zurich
Landscape Architecture Zulauf Seippel Schweingruber, Landschaftsarchitekten, Baden
Colours Harald F. Müller, Öhningen, Germany
Photos © Heinrich Helfenstein
© Harald F. Müller
Vocational consultation ground floor / upper floor
Vocational consultation section
Workshops ground floor / upper floor
Aerial view, c. 1930
Francis Bouygues Building, Ecole CentraleSupélec
On the plateau de Saclay, to the southeast of Paris, a cluster of universities and research facilities is emerging based on a long-term master plan. The new Francis Bouygues Building links the existing university with the new Gustave Eiffel Building, while its location also establishes a connection between the campus and the natural environs.
The new building occupies the entire plot with the exception of three volumetric setbacks that define the entrances. Two taller elements reinforce the corners along the street front and a patio with lush vegetation occupies the centre of the building.
The school is organized around a large, three-storey hall as a public space that connects the three departments and lends the building its identity. The departments, or Univers as they are called, are conceived as neighbourhoods with streets, lanes and squares, representing the motif of the city. The hall resembles an artificial topography that links the work areas and common areas on the ground floor and the upper levels, additionally creating a flowing, differentiated space that accommodates places of varying intimacy.
The façade is clad in enamelled ceramic elements with smooth, wavy or grooved surface textures. This architectural design relates to the surroundings, with the colours of the elements mirroring the departments of the school. In addition, the colouring of the modulated, shining surfaces responds to changes in the lighting, thus enhancing the visual impact of the building.
Location Paris Saclay, France
Programme University building, theatre, auditories, teaching and music rooms, laboratories, sports hall, restaurant, cafeteria, offices, hotel, underground parking
Client Kluster (Bouygues Bâtiment Ile-de-France, Bouygues Energies & Services, HICL Infrastructure Limited)
Gross Floor Area 27'400 m2
Competition Organzier CentraleSupélec
Team G/G Planning/ Construction: Pieter Rabijns (Team Manager), Elisabeth d'Aubarède, Dina Hool, Bryan Grossenbacher, Christoph Dober, Andy Gratwohl, Arend Koelsch, Milica Vrbaski
Competition: Pieter Rabijns (Team Manager), Martin Schwarz, Kathrin Sindelar, Christoph Dober, Martin Feichtner, Andy Gratwohl, Arend Koelsch
Contact architects Synthèse Architecture, Arceuil, France
Construction Management Bouygues Bâtiment Île-de-France Ouvrages Publics, Guyancourt, France
General Contractor Bouygues Bâtiment Île-de-France Ouvrages Publics, Guyancourt, France
Landscape Architecture Bassinet Turquin Paysage, Paris, France
Cost Planning/Scheduling Bouygues Bâtiment Île-de-France Ouvrages Publics, Guyancourt, France
Structural Engineer Bouygues Bâtiment Île-de-France Ouvrages Publics, Guyancourt, France
Building Services Engineer EGIS, Paris, France
Building Physics Engineer AMOES, Asnières-sur-Seine, France
Fire Safety BTP Consultants, Villebon-sur-Yvette
Acoustical Engineer Jean-Paul Lamoureux Acoustics, Paris, France
Signage Integral Ruedi Baur, Zurich (Concept)
Bureau Brut, Paris, France (Planning/Construction)
Photos © Philippe Ruault
filmstills: © Severin Kuhn


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Rectangle blanket problem: Binary integer linear programming formulation and solution algorithms.
Actively Estimating Crowd Annotation Consensus.
Isolated sign language recognition with fast hand descriptors.
Multi-domain and multi-task prediction of extraversion and leadership from meeting videos.
The Next Grand Challenge in Computer Vision: From Gesture Recognition to Sign Language Recognition.
Isolated sign language recognition using Improved Dense Trajectories.
BosphorusSign: A Turkish Sign Language Recognition Corpus in Health and Finance Domains.
Automatic personality prediction from audiovisual data using random forest regression.
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#37 - POWELL OF THE COLORADO
location: Echo Bay
On August 30, 1869, Major John Wesley Powell landed at the mouth of the Virgin River, about 12 miles south of here, thus ending the first boat expedition through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River.
The expedition left Green River City, Wyoming Territory, on May 24, 1869. For three months Powell and his men endured danger and hunger to explore, survey and study the geology of the canyons along the Green and Colorado Rivers.
Exhausted and near starvation, the Powell party was warmly greeted and fed by the hardy Mormon pioneers of St. Thomas, a small farm settlement about 11 miles north of here.
The original sites of St. Thomas and the junction of the Virgin and Colorado Rivers are now beneath the waters of Lake Mead. This, and later Powell surveys, stimulated great interest in the water conservation problems of the Southwest.
personal note: The text on the signage must be really old because St. Thomas has been uncovered for quite some time. I tried to visit it on this same trip, but the road was a wash-board and we turned around after a long day. This site made me think a lot about the drought and how much fun these spots along the river must of been in their hey-day. Fun fact: Ebay is said to be named for Echo Bay
Deep in the heart of the golden west, home means nevada to me
The Nevada State Historical Marker Program was launched in 1964 for Nevada's centennial to commemorate events such as the Old Spanish Trail in Southern Nevada and the great train robbery in Verdi, west of Reno.
These roadside markers bring attention to the places, people, and events that make up Nevada's heritage. They are as diverse as the counties they are located within and range from the typical mining boom and bust town to the largest and most accessible petroglyph sites in Northern Nevada.
I started visiting the markers around my city during quarantine and I found that I enjoyed learning about the history of the land. I've almost seen all of the ones that are in my city and I hope to one day be able to visit more of the rural locations.
It's almost like a treasure hunt because you never know if the marker is going to still be standing in the original location or not. Over the years, the State Historic Preservation Office has decommissioned some markers because vandalism persists at certain sites or because marking some locations no longer seems appropriate for various reasons.
Thank you to Nevada Department of Transportation which has contributed considerable funding to maintain the markers for the last decade.
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The number of markers in the Nevada system.
The number of markers I have seen.
The number of markers I still need to see.


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I was very pleased with my items I received. Reasonable pricing and came on time.
This is, at first sight, very stunning! A closer look, however, it is very cheap looking - but it is inexpensive for what you get and in most situations, it will be viewed from far away so that you don't notice that.
perfect for my black and gold wedding! will look great on the head table!


A documentary about the life and work of film director Stavros Tornes. It features his friends' testimonies, the films he shot and the ones in which he appeared as an actor.
A melodrama that depicts the struggle of a hard-working orphan girl (Angela Zileia) who falls in love with a rich young man (Thanasis Mylonas).


Army Air Forces Navigation School San Marcos, Texas 5/30/43 Hello, dearest Back on the post again after yesterday's trip. Raining hard today. It was clouding up when we came in last night and began raining about midnight. I lay listening to the rain beat on the roof; its such a pleasant sound. Tomorrow I will be an echelon commander. That is I will be commander of 45 navigators, their assignments to duty, etc. This is only temporary until a new group of officers come in... in a week or so. But I am proud that they figure I can handle the job. I have ready some material for more pass 'rounds and am going to send them out soon.


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Young Adult Outreach Is Where Community and Faith Meet
Young adult Catholics pray at Mass celebrated for them by Cardinal Dolan at St. Patrick's Cathedral last July.
Maria R. Bastone
Colin Nykaza, director of Young Adult Outreach, speaks at a young adult Mass in the cathedral in April. Seated behind him is Msgr. Joseph LaMorte, vicar general and chancellor of the archdiocese.
Posted Wednesday, July 3, 2019 12:05 am
By JOHN WOODS
One of the archdiocese's brightest success stories in recent years has been the formation and development of its Young Adult Outreach, which uses a strong network and a personal touch to support the spiritual and social growth of young Catholics from ages 21 to 39 across the archdiocese's 10 counties.
About 100 young adult groups are connected with Young Adult Outreach through parishes, archdiocesan agencies such as Catholic Charities or affiliate career groups, especially in New York City, with many independently run by Catholic artists, finance and technology professionals.
Colin Nykaza, director of Young Adult Outreach, leads the team that brings together the groups, activities and services for young adult Catholics.
"Our job is to serve and support them in any way we can," Nykaza told CNY in an interview last week.
Nykaza had been a seminarian until six months before he began working for the archdiocese nearly eight years ago. At that time, Young Adult Outreach was part of the archdiocesan Family Life Office. When Cardinal Dolan upgraded Young Adult Outreach to a stand-alone office, other coordinators were hired.
Mary Elise Zellmer is the office's assistant director and coordinator of Region 1, which includes groups, programs and activities, in Manhattan and Staten Island.
Region 2, which includes the upper counties of the archdiocese, operates under coordinator Luigi Manente, and Region 3, which includes the Bronx, much of Westchester County and all of Rockland County, will soon be hiring a new coordinator to replace one who recently moved out of state.
Other staff members are Christy Vaissade, the senior logistics coordinator, and Kaitlyn Colgan, the office administrator.
Although Nykaza said it's hard to come up with an exact number of young adults who participate in the various offerings, he noted the office has "tens of thousands" on email lists when they are combined with affiliates. Its catholicnyc.com website is a must-check source of information for young Catholics on subjects from events to apartment listings to volunteer opportunities. The office's Facebook and Instagram pages and Twitter feed are also popular.
"We have a lot of portals where people can find out about stuff," Nykaza said.
Once young adults check in, they can benefit from a four-category system designed to serve them, and to help connect them to God and each other.
The components are Disciple Events, which are sacramental opportunities; Friend Events, which are catechetical events; Acquaintance Events, for special events and volunteer opportunities, and Seeker Events, which are secular in nature.
The Friend Events, to pick one of the categories, focus on giving participants an opportunity to learn about their faith through events like the weekly Love and Responsibility summer series now taking place at Immaculate Conception parish in Manhattan. Other examples of Friend Events include Theology on Tap, Catholic book clubs and Bible studies.
Nykaza said the key is meeting the person where he or she is and inviting them to the right category at the start of their journey. That may mean beginning with a jazz night or helping out at a prom for special needs students and then moving on to a Young Adult Mass offered by Cardinal Dolan at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
"We have a good feel of where they are at in their faith," Nykaza said. "By talking to someone you can tell where they are at."
Luigi Manente, the Region 2 coordinator, said many times young adults begin attending events because "they want to be in community" with other young people of a similar age and background. Because of the age range, participants may be single, married, widowed, divorced and single parents. A fair number are college-age students, perhaps attending a school without Catholic campus ministry or are not currently enrolled.
"We love them where they are, and we walk with them," said Manente, 36, a parishioner of St. Columba in Hopewell Junction who is married with three young children.
Manente said he and the members of the leadership teams for the region he oversees are cognizant of "the way we act," especially toward newcomers, so trust can be built.
Monthly co-ed basketball and volleyball nights played at St. Columba in Hopewell Junction are great turnkey activities, especially for those not overly engaged with their faith at the outset.
"We want them to know us as the disciples we are," Manente said.
The geography of the archdiocese's upper counties is much more spread out than New York City's, so there are four regional young adult communities: Credo Young Adults, for Northern Westchester and Putnam; The Catholic Corps, for Orange County; Revive Catholic Young Adults, for Ulster County; and Ignite Young Adults, for Dutchess County.
Maribel Brenes, 28, has served as a leadership team member for Credo Young Adults, which is based at St. Patrick's parish in Yorktown Heights. Now the communications coordinator, she formerly served as the group's president.
A graphic artist by profession, Ms. Brenes brings her expertise to design promotional materials and she also sends weekly emails and makes regular social media posts.
She got involved with Credo five or six years ago after receiving an email from her pastor, Father Richard Gill, of St. Lawrence O'Toole in Brewster.
"It's helped me to understand how important it is to keep faith as part of my daily life," said Ms. Brenes, who noted that observing the good practices of other members has been "inspirational" for her.
She said she enjoys events with more of a religious flavor, such as monthly faith formation meetings, as well as social events, like the field day coming up Saturday, July 13, with sports games and hiking as well as a Mass and barbecue.
Ms. Brenes received an extra special benefit from her participation. She met her fiancé, Michael Saccomanno, through Credo, and the two plan to be married in September.
"It's given us more chances to spend time together," she said. "As Catholics who are committed to our faith, we always have that connection."
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Susan Lund worked off and on at Fred Meyer for about 16 years, and had access to full benefits—at least in theory. But if she wanted a day off to take care of one of her children, or to recuperate from illness herself, she paid a price.
Sick days weren't excused until employees had missed their third day of work, and only then if they produced a doctors' note.
"Being a single mom, and being sick with the flu—or if my children had the flu—it brought me to my knees financially," Lund says. "If I was out two days, I just lost two days and that was that, unless I had vacation days, which not everybody does."
The company's sick day policy also granted seven days per employee, but Lund notes it didn't differentiate between parents and those without children. Parents not only have sick kids to care for, they're also more likely to come into contact with illnesses their children bring home from school or day care.
"I would stay late if I had to, I worked any holiday I was asked to, just for that little bit of leniency... just in case I was late because of dropping off my kids," she says.
Lund's sons are now 16 and 13. She works for a different company, but her prior experience led her to push for a paid sick days ordinance that would kick in by default—without requiring her to jump through the many hoops her former employer required. Through her union, Lund connected with Family Forward Oregon, the coalition that helped spearhead a sick time ordinance in Portland two years ago, and which, this spring, pushed to adopt a statewide bill extending paid sick leave to all workers.
Portland's ordinance, adopted in March 2013, went into effect last January. It grants up to five sick days to employees who perform the bulk of their work in the Portland area (even if their employers are headquartered elsewhere, though people working for organizations with five or fewer employees are largely exempt). These employees can't be fired for taking time off to recuperate from illness.
Earlier this year, Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward (D-Beaverton) introduced Senate Bill 454 and Rep. Jessica Vega Pederson (D-East Portland) introduced House Bill 2005, legislation that would allow workers to earn seven days of sick time—more than Portland offers now—no matter where they are in the state. The bills, similar to one that died in the 2013 legislative session, hadn't gone to a vote by press time.
There's reason to believe the policy can work on a larger scale. State Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian says the Bureau of Labor and Industry has received about 70 complaints so far from workers claiming their employers failed to comply with the Portland law—most of which were quickly resolved. Otherwise, he says the rollout has been fairly smooth.
Avakian also says the lack of paid sick days is a driver of gender-based wage disparities in certain industries, because caring for sick children often falls to mothers in two-income families. In addition, single mothers, who care for 22 percent of children in Oregon, typically don't have a second income to rely on if they need time off.
According to Family Forward, low-income workers are disproportionately likely to lack paid sick time. Meanwhile, some 77 percent of earners in Oregon's lowest income tiers have no paid sick time at all, compared to 18 percent in the state's highest income brackets. Meanwhile women—and particularly women of color—are especially unlikely to work in industries that allow their workers to accrue sick leave.
As you can imagine, not everyone's cheering for these statewide sick leave bills to pass.
"Since the city of Portland's ordinance took effect, we have heard from many companies—including some that have time off policies exceeding the city requirement—that the reporting requirements are burdensome and not consistent with typical business time keeping," says Valerie Cunningham, spokesperson for the Portland Business Alliance (PBA). She says the PBA's also concerned about the possibility of a "patchwork" of regulations across the state—other municipalities, like Eugene, have also taken on paid sick days—and wants any state legislation to preempt local governments for consistency's sake.
While the PBA and the Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association (ORLA) have vocally opposed, or at least expressed concern, about sick day legislation, some of its proponents are business leaders. The more liberal Main Street Alliance—a network of 2,500 businesses across the state—has supported paid sick days, and Amanda Fritz's January 2014 press conference announcing the Portland ordinance took place at a Grand Central Bakery location. At that time, Grand Central co-owner Piper Davis said her business already offered paid sick days as part of a full benefits package—partly out of concern for public health and safety, and partly because many bakeries are unionized and Grand Central competes with them for talent.
Michelle Carver, the sales and marketing operating manager for compostable diaper maker gDiapers, testified at a February hearing about the paid sick days law, saying her company has offered four weeks of paid leave from the beginning as part of a package of other family-friendly policies (like onsite child care). The benefit has never impacted gDiapers' bottom line or profitability, she said.
Avakian says he supports a statewide ordinance, but as part of a platform that includes paycheck transparency, an increase in the minimum wage, and other policies that help reduce economic disparities for working families. And while Lund has moved on to an employer that's more flexible, she's still speaking out about the need for more family-friendly workplace policies.
"It's not like [my employers] were treating me different," Lund says. "I just want to help other moms not go through what I went through."
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The TSYS Toastmasters spoke to the Scholars on May 16th and engaged them in public speaking exercises.
The session today was good. We learned a lot about speaking in public. Also, we learned a lot about the roles of the Toastmasters. The activity we did today was interesting. Some Scholars had to get up and speak in front of the rest of the Scholars. You could tell some of them were nervous, but overall the activity was fun and time consuming. Everybody enjoyed themselves.
When the Toastmasters came, we learned a lot about speeches and how they are viewed. There's people with different positions. They make sure that the speech goes right.


The article mentions how this could help places like BobbyJ's and BigO's for evening traffic.
This whole idea is highly controversial.
As the article states, a liquor license on the open market sells for $90-100K. They've become more costly through the years but I can't remember one less then $60K. Now, you want to hand out more for the paultry price of $20K?
That's a darn fine way to undermine the value of the existing liquor licenses that are out there and completely piss off all of the restaurants that have had to pay the higher price for one. Doesn't sound like good business to me.
I can see both sides of this issue. I have often thought of opening a downtown location but knew the cost of a liquor license would make this very difficult. On the flip side my current license has a value that now may be lower because of this new law.
I like the fact that these new licenses go back to the municipality if the business does not succeed. This may help to preserve some of the value of a non-restricted license.
Do businesses need a permit to be BYOB? I actually enjoy places like Marado that don't serve but allow you to bring your own alcohol to dinner. I was recently at a restaurant in Philly that was pretty upscale but didn't have a liquor license. Allowing patrons to bring their own is a great way to get people in the door for dinner.
To make an investment on the open market and get screwed is on thing. For existing restaurants, that paid the price, to get thrown under the bus by their own city government is another.
Don't cut the legs off of the businesses that made the commitment to be there first.
I just at at Big O' last night. Man I could've used a nice cold draft beer.
My server said they plan on getting one of those licenses in the near future.
There is also other info under FAQ's.
I know Stafford's Bay View Inn allows customers to bring their own wine. Bay View doesn't allow them to sell it so customers must bring their own.


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A Dangerous Development in Cape Town
South Africa changes its constitution to permit expropriation of white-owned land without compensation.
by Theodore Dalrymple
When the South African parliament passed a motion, by 241 votes to 83, to change the nation's constitution to allow white-owned land to be expropriated without compensation, the Guardian, Britain's equivalent of the Washington Post, was coy about reporting it. Even now, it has not mentioned the measure on its website, except indirectly.
The reasons for this coyness can only be surmised, but one might have supposed that, given the newspaper's long history of interest in South African affairs, a development with such potentially catastrophic long-term, and even short-term, effects would be considered of some importance. The proposal, if ever fully acted upon, would produce a crisis to dwarf Zimbabwe's, with starvation and famine avertable only if 10 million or 15 million South Africans succeeded in finding somewhere to migrate to.
The motion in parliament was proposed by Julius Malema, a former radical member of the ruling African National Congress, now leader of a splinter party called the Economic Freedom Fighters, which received 6 per cent of the vote and has the same proportion of seats in the parliament. They dress entirely in red and call for radical redistribution of wealth, as if an economy were a stew or soup to be ladled out in portions. Malema, who, if the large financial scandals connected with his person are anything to go by, excludes himself from his own economic egalitarianism, said in 2016 that he was not calling for the slaughter of whites—at least, not yet.
In introducing his motion, Malema said that expropriation without compensation to the criminals who had taken the Africans' land was essential to restore the dignity of Africans. As the subsequent vote testified, the African National Congress supported him; and while the new president, Cyril Ramaphosa, said soon afterward that there would be no illegal land grab, he himself has in the past called for expropriation without compensation.
The implication is that South Africa's ruling party does not consider the current ownership of land legitimate, for only illegitimacy could justify expropriation without compensation. Even without putting it into practice, therefore, the motion is likely to have a deleterious effect on South African farming and agricultural production, for who would invest in property that can be seized at the stroke of a pen, and is not regarded truly as his own?
As if a collapse of agricultural production were not bad enough, expropriation without compensation would also bring about either the collapse of the South African banks, for South African farmers are deeply indebted, or confer huge debt obligations upon the government. And this is so even if (what is very unlikely) the redistribution of land were carried out in other than a grossly corrupt way, without political favoritism.
Why the Guardian silence on this important development? Perhaps because it is an embarrassment to the paper's four-legs-good, two-legs-bad view of the world. How is one to report the near-genocidal and famine-promoting wishes (not yet carried out, it is true) of people whose role in life for so many years has been that of victim of injustice?
First published in City Journal.
Posted on 03/23/2018 7:36 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
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The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission was supposed to avert vindictiveness, but it failed to consider the racial supremacism of the victors.
Racial supremacism is a derivative of malign greed. Power permits, and greed gives direction for application of the power.


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La schermata nera di errore (in inglese Black Screen of Death, abbreviato in BlSoD, detta anche in italiano schermo nero della morte) è una schermata di avviso di errore informatico critico, presente in diversi sistemi operativi. La si vede soprattutto nei sistemi più datati, come Windows 3.x.

Windows 3.x
In Windows 3.1, la schermata nera della morte viene mostrata quando un'applicazione DOS non si avvia correttamente. Tutto lo schermo diventa nero, con delle scritte e un cursore lampeggiante nell'angolo in alto a sinistra dello schermo. L'unico modo per uscire dalla schermata nera è riavviare forzatamente il sistema (CTRL+ALT+CANC o altri comandi non hanno alcun effetto, occorre proprio scollegare e ricollegare l'alimentazione). La schermata nera è stata rimpiazzata dalla schermata blu d'errore (blue screen of death) nelle versioni più recenti di Windows 3.x. Anche in tali versioni esiste comunque una schermata nera per gli errori durante l'avvio del sistema operativo, che con Windows Vista diventerà rossa. La schermata blu d'errore appare in tutte le versioni di Windows, comprese quelle attuali.

OS/2
In OS/2, la schermata nera di errore, o il TRAP screen appare quando il kernel incappa in un errore che non può essere ripristinato autonomamente. Questo capita in caso di overclocking dell'hardware, o di disfunzioni hardware. A volte può capitare anche in caso di errore software. OS/2 mostra il BlSoD anche in caso di "errore grave". Capita quando un'applicazione va in crash o quando l'accesso a un drive è impossibile (disco non inserito...). L'utente può uscire dalla schermata nera riavviando (CTRL-ALT-CANC) o facendo un dump di memoria (CTRL-ALT-BLOCNUM due volte), che crea una copia del contenuto della RAM al momento dell'errore.

Windows
Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista e 11 mostrano anch'essi il BlSoD quando il sistema operativo non può essere avviato. Ciò può essere dovuto alla mancanza di uno o più file di base. A volte l'utente è costretto a reinstallare Windows. A partire da Windows Vista la BlSoD negli errori del bootstrap viene sostituita da una schermata rossa di errore.

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I Said What I Said: 10 Quick Tips for Editing Dialogue
Dialogue can make or break a story. Dialogue can infuse excitement and intrigue into your novel or it can fall dull and lifeless onto the page. It's so crucial to storytelling and characterization and world-building and it's such a tricky balance to have it achieve all three at once.
Ten Quick Tips for Editing and Improving Dialogue
Reduce character salutations and farewells. The pleasant but mundane daily exchanges of real-life dialogue are to be enjoyed by real-life humans, but should be avoided in writing, especially if it happens in every scene. EXAMPLE: "Hey, how are you doing today?" "Oh, I'm doing well. How about you?"
Address characters who sound too alike (i.e., if any of the dialogue could be said by any of the characters). Giving your individual characters certain turns of phrase, vocal tics (not too annoying) or ways of speaking are going to help the reader quickly distinguish who is who AND improve characterization.
Avoid too much exposition in dialogue. Exposition is a necessary evil, but should applied sparingly and avoided in dialogue as much as possible. It will be awkward for everyone involved, even your character. EXAMPLE: "Well, Dad, as you well know, when the wildfires started a week ago we were forced to evacuate our home, leaving our beloved pets Ren and Stimpy behind. . .
Edit dialogue tags that overuse adjectives and adverbs. Most of the time, a simple "said" or "asked" will work just fine. Honestly, a few colorful descriptors here or there aren't going to make or break your book, but they should be used wisely and sparingly.
Approach dialects or accents in dialogue with caution—this can be OK if done well and discretely, but generally it should be subtle and not offensive to the groups being represented. EXAMPLE: "Well lawdy me, I just think that stinks to high heaven, shugah." If you need to include reference to an accent, you can simply state the character has a ________ accent.
Dramatically reduce all instances of stutter words and filler words. EXAMPLE: "Well, um, uh, yeah, er- I was gonna get to that."
Names names names. In real life, most people don't often address people by their first name unless they're trying to get their attention or are meeting them for the first time. Avoid having characters use each other's names excessively—even infrequent use can be awkward.
Stage direction: Exit stage left. Dialogue tags rife with too much "stage direction" become cumbersome for the reader to slog through, and it also depends heavily on what actions the characters are taking, especially if they're repetitive (e.g., everybody is wringing their hands, nodding, shaking their head, running their hands through their hair, etc.)
Two is plenty, three's a crowd. If only two characters are talking, not every line of dialogue needs to be tagged, especially if it's already obvious who the speaker is.
Three's a crowd, four is just confusing. The more characters that are speaking in a scene, the more you WILL need to include dialogue tags, especially if the language doesn't vary much between the speakers (i.e., they all sound similar).
Of course there are many more that just ten things to talk about, but this will be hopefully be a helpful springboard to managing those mistakes that nearly every writer runs into when it comes to capturing authentic, but compelling dialogue for our readers.
There's always the debate of how much dialogue is TOO MUCH dialogue, and I would say that really depends on two things: the writer and the reader. Some writers are always going to include more dialogue because that's their writing style. They like to have their characters interact often on the page. Some readers are more engaged by dialogue than by descriptive prose. I have a sibling whose eyes glaze over when they encounter too much landscape description, so they'll skim sections until they hit a patch of dialogue and pick up from there.
The onus is on the writer to determine where their strength lies, and just how much dialogue is too much.
I'm a victim of over-dialoguing (I LOVE TO HAVE MY CHARACTERS TALK TO ONE ANOTHER) and so my editing and revision process for my own writing is usually to go through and cull out huge chunks of dialogue. I weed through the thorns to find the beautiful sparkling roses within, and cobble together the best dialogue for the most engaging and natural sounding interactions.
My relationship with dialogue has really changed over the years I've spent writing and revising. I originally was opting for more "natural" sounding dialogue which included pauses and filler words and stammering, but it's just quite cumbersome to read, to speak aloud, and just doesn't work as well on the page as it does on the screen. So I've revised my attitude towards dialogue (but not the frequency of use) and I find it much more exciting for me to write and for others to read.
Stay tuned for the next blog post on the exciting perils of dialogue punctuation! ;)
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This is so random. Three fics I have favorited on FF.net have been updated in the past two days. The thing is, it's been at least six months since they were all last updated. And they're all by different authors. Different authors, different 'ships, incredibly different plots--the only thing they have in common is that they're all HP fics.
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Arab prayers written on the aircraft engines operated by Turkish Airlines have stoked tensions after officials mistook them for warnings from Isis (Islamic State).
As soon as the airlines staff found there were messages on several aircraft engines, they alerted the authorities at Istanbul's main Ataturk airport.
Tensions increased when authorities found more such aircraft with Arab script written on them, according to Turkey's airporthaber.com.
The police have found at least three such aircraft with similar Arabic script. Investigators concluded in the probe that the messages were prayers seeking blessings and fertility, and not propaganda messages sent out by the Sunni insurgent group Isis as feared.
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Q: How do I set up a route to a url that ends with and number/id in ruby on rails? How do I route to a page that ends with an id?
E.G.
before: site.com/messages/8
after:  site.com/messages/terrytibbs

I've tried:
match "/messages/:username" => "messages#id"

No luck so far. Just trying to make the url have a little more meaning by replacing the number with the username of the user the current user is talking to.
Kind regards

A: Take a look at friendly_id gem. I think it's what you need.

FriendlyId is the "Swiss Army bulldozer" of slugging and permalink plugins for Ruby on Rails. It allows you to create pretty URLs and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids for Active Record models.
Using FriendlyId, it's easy to make your application use URLs like:
     http://example.com/states/washington

instead of:
     http://example.com/states/4323454

A: If you want something simple without having to change your routes etc, why not do this:
class Message

  def to_param
    "#{id}-{username}"
  end

...
end

Assuming you have a username attribute on your message. That will make your url look like:
site.com/messages/8-terrytibbs
this works because of the following (say in irb):

"8-terrytibbs".to_i
      => 8

and when rails looks up your message in your controller it will do the same thing to the id parameter.
EDIT: there is an excellent railscast on this here: http://railscasts.com/episodes/63-model-name-in-url and an updated version here: http://railscasts.com/episodes/63-model-name-in-url-revised

A: Your route is set up correctly you have to change the Controller to use the correct parameters.
Assuming your MessagesController does:
def id
  User.find(params[:id])
end

change to:
def id
  User.find_by_username(params[:username])
end

I would also recommend adding indexing on user name.

A: You're on the right track, you just need to make sure the route is pointing at a proper action on the controller, like so:
Say the action you want this to point to is named show, here is how you would define the route:
match 'messages/:username' => 'messages#show'

Then if you navigate to messages/8, params[:username] will be set to '8' (parameters always come in as String's.
Likewise if you navigate to messages/terrytibbs, params[:username] will be set to 'terrytibbs'.
Try reading Chapter 3-3.5 of the Rails Routing Guide, it provides a good overview of how to bind parameters to a route like you are attempting to do.

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Q: Avoid showing icons that don't contain a value I've already been searching for a couple of hours for a solution. What I want to do is make icons that don't got a value (in the php) not show up.
Here's an image of what I currently have.
So for instance if only twitter and facebook got values, they should only appear on the screen.
Below is the code, and I hope someone got a solution for this.
Cheers!

                <a class="social" href="http://twitter.com/<?php echo $profile_data['twitter']; ?>" target="_blank">

                <a class="social" href="http://facebook.com/<?php echo $profile_data['facebook']; ?>" target="_blank">

                <a class="social" href="skype:<?php echo $profile_data['skype']; ?>?chat">

                <a class="social" href="http://instagram.com/<?php echo $profile_data['instagram']; ?>">

                <a class="social" href="http://dribbble.com/<?php echo $profile_data['dribbble']; ?>">

                <a class="social" href="http://linkedin.com/in/<?php echo $profile_data['linkedin']; ?>">

A: You need to use the if statement with !empty(). The !empty() checks if a variable is NOT empty. Than proceed with the code. Like the example given here:
<?php
    if(!empty($profile_data['twitter'])){
?>
<a class="social" href="http://twitter.com/<?php echo $profile_data['twitter']; ?>" target="_blank">

<?php
    }
?>

If the variable is empty, it wont give the outputed code, in your case the  with the icon.

A: i think you can do like:

       <?php if $profile_data['twitter'] {?>
          <a class="social" href="http://twitter.com/<?php echo $profile_data['twitter']; ?>" target="_blank">

       <?php } ?>
         ....

Imo, a probably better way to do this is to perform a pre-processing of the data i.e. $profile_data, before you use it in your view so the view would no longer need to handle the processing logic. After which, the view can output your links by using a more concise construct e.g. for loop, that does not use any conditional branching.


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Upcoming phones: The future smartphones of 2020
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With the pace of smartphone evolution moving so fast, there's always something waiting in the wings. No sooner have you spied the latest handset, that there's anticipation for the next big thing.
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Here we look at those phones that haven't yet launched, the upcoming phones for 2020. We'll be updating this list on a regular basis, with those device rumours we think are credible and exciting.
As for already-launched handsets, we've rounded up the best smartphones for 2019 elsewhere — those we consider to be the best across all platforms. If your budget is a little smaller, there is also our budget smartphones for under £200 feature — and there's a mid-range roundup up to £400 as well.
The upcoming generation of phones
Before we dive into the detail, here are some of the anticipated handsets for 2020:
Samsung Galaxy S11 & S11+ / S20
Samsung's second Fold
Nokia 8.2 5G
Xiaomi Mi 10 & Mi 10 Pro
Sony Xperia 5 Plus/Next Xperia phone
Apple iPhone SE 2/iPhone 9
Oppo Find X2
Huawei P40 & P40 Pro
OnePlus 8 & 8 Pro
Apple iPhone 12 5G
Nokia 9.2 PureView
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There has been a flood of rumours for the Samsung's 2020 phones and Samsung has scheduled Galaxy Unpacked for 11 February were this phone is likely to launch. It's said that the punch hole in the display will be getting smaller - following the path the Note 10 took - and that it will have that Auro Glow colour, but the real story is likely to be about integrated 5G. Will the SGS11 just offer handsets that work on all bands? It's also thought that the camera module on the back will grow - big cameras, it seems, are now a thing. It's also suggested it might be called the S20 instead of S11.
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Samsung Galaxy Fold 2
Another Samsung phone rumoured to be launching on 11 February is the Fold 2, or SM-F700. It's a clamshell-style folding phone with a 6.7-inch display. It's rumoured to be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, but the price is supposed to be a lot lower than the previous folding phone from Samsung.
Nokia and Qualcomm have been talking up affordable 5G handsets based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Series hardware. We know they are coming but we don't know a lot more about what these phones will offer - besides faster connection speeds. What's confirmed is that we'll get a 5G Nokia phone and it's likely to appear at MWC 2020. We suspect it will be called the Nokia 8.2 because that's a mid-range phone waiting to be upgraded - and we think it will run the Snapdragon 765.
Xiaomi has confirmed that the Mi 10 will be launching in 2020 and has revealed one important detail - that it's going to be one of the first phones to use the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 platform. We suspect that means that the Mi 10 will be announced ahead of the pack, perhaps in January for China, followed by a global launch in February. We're also expecting two variants of this phone, a Pro model with 108-megapixel camera and the regular with a 64-megapixel main camera.
Sony Xperia 5 Plus / Next Xperia phone
Appearing under the name Xperia 5 Plus, this phone could be called all sorts of things. There's a few details that have leaked along with these images, showing a flattened-edge design and lots of cameras on the rear. It looks like Sony is stick to 21:9 for the display, be reducing those bezels for a better result. We're expecting this to be flagship grade and with a 6.6-inch display it's going to be pretty big.
The standout feature for the LG G9 appears to be the camera system on the back of the phone. The display is around 6.6 inches, and the design overall looks a lot like the LG G8, except for the camera changes on the rear. That looks like the focus for LG, boosting the camera performance in this phone.
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This one comes around every year, but now we have a better idea of Apple's next affordable phone. Rumours say that the iPhone SE 2 - or iPhone 9 as it might be called - will basically be an updated version of the iPhone 8. It will be designed to be affordable to draw people into the Apple system without having to pay big bucks for the latest models.
The original Oppo Find X wanted to fix the notch problem by having a pop-up camera. Now there's reports that Oppo is going to use an under-display camera for the next iteration of the Find X, due to launch in 2020. Paired with Snapdragon 865 — something Oppo has already confirmed — it could be a really interesting phone.
Huawei hasn't had an easy ride in 2019, but it still has a huge market in China that's not affected by the US trade bans that affect its business in other regions of the globe. Despite this, there's plenty of rumours circulating about the new phone. We're expecting it to launch in Paris in March and that it will have a 64-megapixel main camera, part of a five-camera Leica system. While it won't launch with Google services, Huawei will offer alternatives to keep you connected.
The design of the OnePlus 8 has already leaked - and it's got a punch hole front camera on the display. Basically, it looks like a Samsung phone, with a curved display, the punch hole and a triple camera on the rear. We'd expect this phone to launch on the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 hardware, and probably see a launch around April 2020. There will also be an 8 Pro and we're expecting a 120Hz display on these phones.
OnePlus looks like it's going to offer an affordable phone of its own in the OnePlus 8 Lite. This phone might sit on MediaTek hardware and make a few compromises, but may well offer a more affordable entry point to OnePlus' devices. It's rumoured to be launching alongside the OnePlus 8 — and it could well be an affordable 5G handset too.
Google's affordable handset offers access to that great Google camera, but in a phone that's more affordable. It looks like there's going to be a Pixel 4a to appeal to those on a tighter budget, along with a punch hole front camera, 3.5mm headphone socket and a single camera on the back. We're expecting to see it launch around May 2020. It's rumoured that we're not getting a 4a XL in 2020, however.
Apple iPhone 12 and iPhone 5G
With the iPhone 11 series launched and out of the way, the big question over 5G remains. Apple had said it wouldn't launch a 5G phone in 2019 and it didn't — but long before the iPhone 11 surfaced there were rumours about the 2020 iPhone - the iPhone 12. There's talk of a new squarer design, no notch, 5G and OLED displays for all three models. But is this just a fan wishlist?
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Welcome CAA but never demanded exclusion of one religion: Manjinder Sirsa
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The word on the street is that Nokia wants to update the Nokia 9, but to get it on Snapdragon 865 it's delaying until later in 2020 - most likely IFA in August. That's probably because of the work needed to get the camera system working on the new hardware. Where was the Nokia 9.1? A rumoured Snapdragon 855 version never appeared, which might account for the 9.1
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Nowsara (, also Romanized as Nowsarā) is a village in Sarvelayat Rural District, Sarvelayat District, Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 189, in 49 families.

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Q: MySQL query works, but not from php I have a query im trying to run from php with the mysql_query() function, it is as follows
    $result = mysql_query(
    "SELECT score,name,time,
    FIND_IN_SET( score, (SELECT GROUP_CONCAT( score ORDER BY score DESC,time ASC ) FROM Highscores )) AS rank
    FROM Highscores WHERE name = $name Order BY rank LIMIT 1");

This does not return any result for some reason, while the same query in phpMyAdmin returns the top ranked high score.
I just don't get it.. anyone got any ideas?
Regards
/Fred

A: Your variable should be enclosed in {} since it is in a string. Also because name seems like it should be user generated make sure that you are escaping the string before putting it into a query. Other people are also right, because name is presumably a string it needs a set of quotes around it as well.

A: please try this and let us know if there is an error so we can debug it
$result = mysql_query("SELECT score,name,time, FIND_IN_SET( score, (SELECT GROUP_CONCAT( score
ORDER BY score DESC,time ASC ) FROM Highscores )) AS rank FROM Highscores WHERE name = $name Order BY rank LIMIT 1") or die("error is: ".mysql_error());
var_dump($results);

A: give a try with this :-
$qry="SELECT score,name,time,
    FIND_IN_SET( score, (SELECT GROUP_CONCAT( score ORDER BY score DESC,time ASC ) FROM Highscores )) AS rank
    FROM Highscores WHERE name ='".$name."' Order BY rank LIMIT 1";
$result = mysql_query($qry);

A: Issue was with WHERE name = $name, should of course beWHERE name = '$name' as pointed out in comments


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Record Rains Fall, Flash Floods Hit Hobart
Chaos has ensued in Hobart as cars were seen floating down the streets while homes and businesses quickly evacuated in the wake of flash floods that hit Hobart.
For the first time ever in the month of Mat, Hobart recorded over 100 millimetres of rain in a single day, doubling the previous record.
State Emergency Service has described the situation as an "an extreme weather event".
Hobart resident Monte Bovill narrated that the streets appeared like rivers.
"Macquarie Street, which is the main street in Hobart, had probably two dozen cars just lying there on the road, that had been swept down," he said. "It was really crazy to see what used to be a road was literally a river."
All southern campuses of the University of Tasmania (UTAS) have also been shut down because of flooding.
UTAS spokesman Jason Purdie stated that the campus was a no-go zone.
"We have had buildings been inundated and the vision is pretty dramatic," Purdy said. "The other thing is parts of the suburb, including our campus are without power."
Bovill, who is a student at the University of Tasmania, was on campus when the flooding began.
"A lot of people had to be evacuated and I know that a number of rooms have been flooded. It just seems so eerie at the campus. All the alarms were going off. All the doors were open, but there was [no-one] around, just rushing water just coming down into the buildings.
Heavy rains were concentrated on the state's east coast yesterday. However, a violent storm hit Hobart and the south of the state by 8:30 p.m. Lightning storms lit up the sky above the city for most of the night and strong winds bellowed across the southern part of the island.
The rain fell heavily and flooding hit the core of the city, transforming Campbell Street in the CBD into a river. Portions of Salamanca, South Hobart, Sandy Bay, New Town, Blackmans Bay and Kingston were much the same way.
Royal Hobart Hospital open despite flood damage
Damage was seen at Tasmania's Royal Hobart Hospital because of the leaks and flooding but remains open, said a health spokesman.
Department of Health and Human Services spokesman Michael Pervan relayed that the emergency department remains operation.
"None of the areas that have patients in them were inundated … there were some leaks and some water came through into areas like the [intensive care unit] and paediatric medicine day surgery has had some major leaks in it."
He also reported that floodwater had already been removed and no patients were moved.
All elective surgery was on going as scheduled, and a spokeswoman for the hospital said all day surgery was also unhampered by the storm.
She said anyone who had an outpatient appointment would be contacted if their appointment had been cancelled, and anyone who could not get to the hospital today would have their appointment rescheduled.
Tasmania's water and sewage authority TasWater is said to be receiving a high volume of calls to its call centre. A spokesman explained that crews dealt with the most urgent cases first and reminded the public that floodwaters may have sewage and it would be best to avoid contact.
A spokesman for Hobart Airport said flights were ongoing, although there were delays because of ground crews being unable to get to work.
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Margie S. Sheaffer, 71, of New Providence, died Tuesday, January 12
Margie S. Sheaffer, age 71, of New Providence, passed away while in the arms of her beloved husband and best friend, Gary Sheaffer with whom she celebrated 35 years of marriage in November.
Born in Chicago, IL, she was the daughter of the late Herbert and Miriam Pivit Agel.
Margie graduated from Niles West High School and from Illinois State University majoring in Speech Communications. She worked in the rare coin business as a Numismatist sales person traveling throughout the U.S. and will be greatly missed by her many colleagues and friends. She enjoyed singing and theater, performing at the Fulton Opera House and the Ephrata Performing Arts Theater. Her favorite role was playing Mama Morton in the play Chicago.
Marg was in a rock band while in college, and recorded a record with that band. She competed and placed in the top 3 of Lancaster's Senior Idol competition in 2011. She was a published author who enjoyed writing short stories. She enjoyed spending time with others whether it was sitting by the pool with friends soaking up the sun, her "Cancun" family from her annual 6 week vacation who will miss her greatly, or the "Echo Valley Family" and the wildlife around the house that she watched while walking around the neighborhood listening to music through her headset.
Her greatest joy was spending time with her grandchildren. Besides her husband she is survived by a stepson, Chris husband of Kim Sheaffer of Ohio, 3 grandchildren: Malaki Sheaffer of IN, Jade Sheaffer and Kara Sheaffer both of Ohio, a beloved sister, Phylis Malitz wife of Mike Regan of Northbrook, IL, 2 nephews: Steve Malitz of Chicago and Howard Malitz of NJ, her beloved brother in law, Allan Sheaffer and sister in law Barbara Sheaffer of Breezewood, PA, 1 niece, Vicki Stoltzfus of Reinholds, PA, and 2 nephews: John Sheaffer and Rich Sheaffer both of Bedford County, PA.
Due to current pandemic, there will be no memorial service.
Condolences can be made on Facebook or may be sent to Gary at 14 Echo Valley Drive, New Providence, PA 17560. No Flowers please, donations in Margie's name may be sent to Hospice & Community Care, P.O. Box 4125, Lancaster, PA, 17604. Arrangements have been entrusted to Reynolds and Shivery Funeral Home.
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