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The Warmaster by Dan Abnett
December 20, 2017 December 24, 2017 Peter Germany Audiobooks, Book Review, Sci-Fi, Uncategorized Audible, Audiobook, Black Library, Book, Dan Abnett, For Tanith, Games Workshop, Gaunt's Ghosts, Reading, Salvations Reach, The Warmaster, Warhammer 40k
I've just finished The Warmaster by Dan Abnett and wow! What a book! I loved how Abnett put this together and how it was tied into Salvations Reach (of which I'm glad I listened to immediately before embarking on The Warmaster). I'd guess there's a lot more connections in the books that have lead up to The Warmaster, but it's been a few years since I've read them. (I'm really hoping they come up on Audible because I really want to read them again, and listening is quicker for me as I can listen while at work).
The Warmaster picks up for Gaunt and his Ghosts right after their mission to Salvations Reach, but all is not right with their return.
Such a beautiful edition.
Now, I am a huge fan of this series of books, this being the fourteenth, and I've been eagerly anticipating this one since I first heard about it a little while ago. There was a gap of time between Salvations Reach and The Warmaster, but it was worth the wait. Dan Abnett really turns things up to eleven in this book. He pushes characters into places that I wasn't expecting, but that said I wasn't really sure what to expect. With the Gaunt's Ghosts books it feels like each book goes in somewhat of a different direction. This one is no different. A lot of the events in this book I didn't see coming or where they were going to go. A lot of the characters had their lives turned upside down and Abnett wasn't scared to kill any of his characters. That is something I learnt a long time ago about Abnett with this series. He is not afraid to kill the most beloved of characters, often in brutal and unfair ways. Even in war where people die for what can be the most silly of reasons, some of the deaths in these books have been a huge kick in the gut. Even when a character doesn't die, but they are pushed into something harsh and tough to stomach it feels the same as when a loved character dies.
That is one of Abnett's biggest strengths I think. He can write these stories with a huge cast of characters and you either love or hate them, with the odd middle of the road character in between. You get their motivations, you get their mentalities. It all works very well.
This book really opened up a whole can of hell yeah! And it puts so much out on the table for future novels that has left me bouncing and determined to re-read the previous books again in the new year.
There are many reasons why Dan Abnett is one of my favourite writers, the Gaunt's Ghosts series is one of them. Beautifully written, to the point where you're almost there when the las-bolts are flying.
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***(Very Minor) Spoilers***
If you've read these books you'll know there have been three characters that have left over the years that had nothing to do with dying, although one did eventually die if I remember right, but the two that always sits in my mind when I'm reading these books are Brin Milo and a scout called Mkvenner (I can't for the life of me remember his first name). Both these characters went off for different reasons. For Milo, he went with Saint Sabbat, and I've heard rumours that Abnett has always intended Milo and the Ghosts to get back to each other at some point. With The Warmaster, the Saint is on the same planet as Gaunt and his Ghosts. When I found this out I was waiting for them to come together, but it didn't happen. I really hope Abnett does so in the next book, because aside from the return of Mkvenner, that is one of the moments in this series of novels that I am eagerly waiting for.
I think Dan Abnett is setting up to bring this series to a close, to a point where the Sabbat Worlds Crusade is either won or lost.


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Monarch butterfly numbers drop by 27 percent in Mexico
The number of monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico dropped by 27 percent this year, reversing last year's recovery from historically low numbers, according to a study by government and independent experts released Thursday.
The experts say the decline could be due to late winter storms last year that blew down more than 100 acres (40 hectares) of forests where migrating monarch butterflies spend the winter in central Mexico.
Millions of monarchs make the 3,400-mile (5,500-kilometer) migration from the United States and Canada each year, and they cluster tightly in the pine and fir forests west of Mexico City. They are counted not by individuals, but by the area they cover.
"The reduction in the area of forest they occupied this year is most probably due to the high mortality caused by storms and cold weather last year," said Omar Vidal, the head of the Mexico office of the World Wildlife Fund. "It is a clear reminder for the three countries that they must step up actions to protect breeding, feeding and migratory habitat."
Officials estimate the storms in March killed about 6.2 million butterflies, almost 7.4 percent of the estimated 84 million that wintered in Mexico, said Alejandro Del Mazo, Mexico's commissioner for protected areas. The monarchs were preparing to fly back to the U.S. and Canada at the time the storm hit.
While no butterfly lives to make the round trip, a reduction in the number making it out of the wintering grounds often results in a decline among those who return the next year.
The combination of rain, cold and high winds from the storms caused the loss of 133 acres (54 hectares) of pine and fir trees in the mountaintop wintering grounds, more than four times the amount lost to illegal logging. It was the biggest storm-related loss since the winter of 2009-10, when unusually heavy rainstorms and mudslides caused the destruction of 262 acres (106 hectares) of trees.
However, the fight against illegal logging continues. Last week, authorities detained a man trying to truck about a dozen huge tree trunks out of the butterfly reserve, using false papers asserting the trees were diseased and were being removed to reduce risk. In fact, investigators found the trees had been healthy.
The monarchs depend on finding relatively well-preserved forests, where millions of the orange-and-black butterflies hang in clumps from the boughs. The trees, and the clumping, help protect the butterflies from cold rains and steep drops in temperature.
That is why illegal logging in the 33,484-acre (13,551-hectare) nucleus of the reserve is so damaging. Illegal logging in the monarch reserve dropped from almost 49.4 acres (20 hectares) in 2015 to about 29.6 acres (12 hectares) last year. This year's loss has yet to be estimated.
Leading monarch expert Lincoln Brower said by email that even the removal of trees downed or damaged by storms can be a problem because the sanctuaries are damaged when trucks haul out the tree trunks, causing compaction of the soil and erosion.
Del Mazo defended such salvage logging, saying it was necessary to remove downed trees that could fuel forest fires.
Another problem has been the loss of milkweed — the plant monarchs rely on for food — in the United States and Canada, because of the increased use of herbicides and the conversion of land to development.
The loss of forests in Mexico and milkweed north of the border has proved devastating. This year the butterflies covered only 7.19 acres (2.91 hectares).
Last year, the butterflies covered 10 acres (about 4 hectares), compared to 2.8 acres (1.13 hectares) in 2014 and a record low of 1.66 acres (0.67 hectares) in 2013. That is still well below the 44 acres (18 hectares) they covered 20 years ago.
"We cannot control the climate, but we can do much better in eradicating illegal logging in the reserve and tackling habitat loss in the U.S. and Canada," Vidal said. "But, even if Mexico(asterisk)s overwintering sites never lose another tree, without food and habitat along the migration routes, the forests will soon bid farewell" to the monarchs.
The butterfly itself is not endangered, but the migration does appear to be. Not all monarchs migrate, and some migrate to the U.S. Pacific coast, instead of Mexico. In a surprise find, experts said a tiny colony of apparently migrating monarchs had been found this year in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, near the coast. They covered a space equivalent to about two trees.
Politics may also cause a problem for the butterflies. Environmental cooperation was close with the administration of former U.S. president Barack Obama, but it is unclear whether that will continue under President Donald Trump, who has pledged to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
"We are worried that there could be an environmental wall, and that its first direct victim might be the monarch butterfly," said writer and environmentalist Homero Aridjis.
Reference: Washington Post
Farmers as "Butterfly People;" William Leach's Call to Remember and Restore Monarchs to Their Proper Place in Agrarian Landscapes
A simple but easily-forgotten fact about American farmers was recently revealed in what may be the most innovative social history of our continent since Howard Zinn wrote A People's History of the United States thirty-five years ago.
Number of Monarchs Overwintering in California Remains Low
A survey of monarch butterflies overwintering in California shows that the population has not rebounded. Although the total number of monarchs counted this year was greater than last, the difference is due to a large increase in volunteer effort. Counts at major sites were down when compared to recent years.
Volunteers with the Xerces Society's Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count visited 253 sites and tallied a total of 298,464 monarchs—a fraction of the 1.2 million monarchs recorded in the late 1990s.
Monarch butterfly West Coast migration in jeopardy, scientists say
In October, millions of monarch butterflies will make a long migration from Canada to Mexico, many stopping in Santa Cruz, Pacific Grove, and Big Sur along the way.
Millions of Monarch butterflies make the long journey from Canada to Mexico — many stopping in Pacific Grove ….
How the White House plans to help the humble bee maintain its buzz
The humble bee — nuisance, threat, and linchpin of the American food supply — has won over the leader of the free world. And now President Obama is intervening on the bee's behalf as its habitat dwindles.
On Tuesday, the Obama administration will announce the first National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators, a bureaucratic title for a plan to save the bee, other small winged animals and their breeding grounds.
White House Pressed to Protect Ailing Monarch Butterflies
All too often, species that humans care about only get attention when they are in crisis. Such is the case with monarch butterflies.
The insect, famed for its remarkable annual migrations, faced declines in habitat on both the Mexican and American ends of its range for decades, but now is the focus of an urgent push for a rescue.
Home Is Where the Habitat Is
It was a snowy March day in 1995, and I had just purchased a house in an old St. Paul neighborhood. As I surveyed the back yard, which had been occupied by two large dogs all winter, I tried to imagine how I could convert the torn-up turf grass into the kind of yard that people and wildlife would want to visit.
It was a stretch to picture a new landscape, but I was determined to try. With my background as a plant ecologist and gardener, the yard project felt like my kind of challenge.
The monarch massacre: Nearly a billion butterflies have vanished
Threatened animals like elephants, porpoises and lions grab all the headlines, but what's happening to monarch butterflies is nothing short of a massacre. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service summed it up in just one grim statistic on Monday: Since 1990, about 970 million have vanished.
It happened as farmers and homeowners sprayed herbicides on milkweed plants, which serve as the butterflies' nursery, food source and home.
Saving the Migration – A Newsy Documentary
This is a wonderful 14 minute video with Chip Taylor, Carol Davit and others on monarchs' future. We recommend this Newsy Documentary.
Upstate NY sightings of monarch butterfly in danger
Early June is the time of year we should begin seeing the monarch butterfly fluttering about our flowers and plants in central and western New York. But, scientists are worried that a sharp decline in the population of the iconic insect could cut back local monarch sightings dramatically, or end them all together.
When you think about it, the migration of the monarch butterfly is pretty amazing.
Will superweeds, regulation create a perfect storm in Iowa farmlands?
Since the onset of spring, one kind of game-changing news after another has reached Iowa farmers. These announcements will affect the third of the state's farmers who are struggling to control superweeds by using glyphosates and other herbicides.
New research revelations, government policy changes and farmers' own dissatisfactions could radically alter both weed and pollinator management in the Midwest.
Mexico's natural wonders are under threat. Can a poet save them?
As Mexico emerges from the most violent election campaign within living memory and embarks on the presidency of Andres López Obrador, one prominent citizen watches at a diagonal: a veteran of Mexico's other war – not that over narco-traffic and its clients in politics, but that against nature.
In a recent interview with the daily El Universal, Homero Aridjis – award-winning poet and former ambassador – described all the candidates at last June's election as "environmental illiterates" – referring to the battle he has fought for decades now, and which he sees reaching its final stages – for Mexico's natural and cultural heritage.
RACHEL LOUISE CARSON: Google lets fly a Doodle true to 'Silent Spring' writer's nature
In Maryland, it is impossible to travel too far in any direction without seeing something that celebrates the legacy of author and environmentalist Rachel Carson.
There is a greenway trail and a conservation park named for her here, an alma mater university and a Rachel Carson grade school there — and, of course, the Silver Spring home where she would write "Silent Spring," the hot-button '60s work that is often cited as the spark that ignited the modern environmental movement.
Precariousness For Pollinators: Monarch Butterflies & Honeybees In Decline
Insect ecologist Chip Taylor is a friend to both the monarch butterfly and the honeybee. He's been tracking monarchs and restoring their habitats since 1992.
And he's worked with bees in French Guiana, Venezuela and Mexico.

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American Nerd	The Story of My People
Written By:	Benjamin Nugent	 Scribner
book review by Taylor	★	★	★	☆	☆	3 stars
The world is wanting for a better definition or description for a nerd and American Nerd most excellently provides that.
I was in the fourth grade when I first observed that people who liked D&D—people like me—tended to be the same ones who liked to play with computers
Benjamin Nugent, a self-described nerd, anti-nerd, and non-nerd (at different points through life), goes into detail about various obsessions, habits, and commonalities of nerd culture. For example, "D&D" is printed four times on page 190 (five if you count "Dungeons & Dragons), Super Smash Bros is printed eight times on page 158, LARPing makes a cameo, SCA gets a chapter, l337-speak on p.154, and so on.
Why is this on our bookshelf?
After reading, I'm not sure the book is all that nerdy or geeky. It's really a better read as a personal theory about nerds and nerd culture. Nevertheless, what nerd could resist the temptation for more data about their species?
Rating (3 stars)
This is a hard rating to give. On one hand, the book is a great piece of non-fiction: an somewhat anecdotal assessment of nerd culture, history, and definition.
On the other hand, this is not a geeky book. As a geeky/nerd (I consider it a loose definition) I'd rather build websites, play Settlers of Cataan or re-read Hitchikers' Guide to the Galaxy than pick up this book again.
Finally, even looking at it from an "okay-this-isn't-meant-to-be-a-nerdy-book-about-nerds" perspective, I still yearn for more science and less drama from the author's childhood. To be fair, Ben does outline in a short preface that the book does attempt to maintain "journalistic objectivity" but cautions it may not have been possible.
I believe that your reception to American Nerd will vary considerably depending on your own relationship with nerds in a way that may not be entirely predictable.
Read this book:
You have a nerd in your life (friend, loved one, yourself) who you just don't quite understand.
Don't Read this book:
You'd rather be playing D&D
Once you're done, do this:
Go play D&D
Psst… Still better than the movie.
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By Michael Brun on Oct 25, 2017 at 2:30 p.m.
ELLSWORTH — Jurors began deliberating Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 25, in the case of a rural Elmwood man charged with 125 misdemeanor counts related to treatment of Labradors at his Alma Bottom Pointing Labs facility.
Froelich highlighted photographic evidence and testimony from a veterinarian the state claims prove Stuart Earl West mistreated four dozen dogs found on his property in 2016.
Defense attorney Keith Belzer said that while West's beliefs on raising dogs may be controversial, they are not criminal. He also called into question the bias of members of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals who testified during the trial.
Belzer suggested jurors look at the facts of the case devoid of feelings.
Pierce County deputies executed a search warrant April 22, 2016, at West's property after a prospective dog buyer called in a complaint following a visit to the facility. Authorities seized 48 yellow Labradors.


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The IEA believes upstream oil and gas could really benefit from the use of artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers "a great deal of promise" for upstream operations, according to the International Energy Agency's (IEA) Digitalization & Energy report released Monday.
"AI could be used to analyze well performance, troubleshoot underperforming fields, suggest corrective actions and even deploy robots to carry out tasks," the report states.
"It could also enhance reservoir modelling, and thus aid operations by rapidly detecting and correcting suboptimal production behavior," the report added.
Coupling AI with sensors and sophisticated data management tools could also allow companies to operate and maximize production from thousands of unconventional tight oil and shale gas wells "with only a handful of engineers and technicians," according to the report.
"Tight oil and shale gas production is likely to be especially suitable for the application of new digital technologies given the shorter-term nature of investment cycles (compared with conventional fields), which should favor the introduction and implementation of new technologies in a more continuous manner," the report states.
"Widely shared inventories of equipment suppliers could also shorten procurement times and reduce costs, creating a more efficient 'just-in-time' supply chain across the unconventional oil and gas industry," the report added.
The initial focus of digitalization in the upstream oil and gas industry won't be AI though, according to the report, it is most likely to be on expanding and refining the range of existing digital applications already in use.
Some examples given by the IEA were the development of miniaturized and fibre optic sensors in the production system, which could be used to boost output or increase the overall recovery of oil and gas from a reservoir.
Other examples given were the use of automated drilling rigs and robots to inspect and repair subsea infrastructure and to monitor transmission pipelines and tanks.
Remaining technically recoverable oil and gas resources around the world are currently estimated to be around 1.4 trillion tons of oil equivalent, according to the IEA, but this could be increased by up to 75 billion toe, equal to over 10 years of current world oil and gas consumption, through the widespread use of existing and emerging digital technologies across the global resource base, the report states.


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In solid-state physics, a metal–semiconductor (M–S) junction is a type of electrical junction in which a metal comes in close contact with a semiconductor material.  It is the oldest practical semiconductor device.  M–S junctions can either be rectifying or non-rectifying.  The rectifying metal–semiconductor junction forms a Schottky barrier, making a device known as a Schottky diode, while the non-rectifying junction is called an ohmic contact.  (In contrast, a rectifying semiconductor–semiconductor junction, the most common semiconductor device today, is known as a p–n junction.)

Metal–semiconductor junctions are crucial to the operation of all semiconductor devices. Usually an ohmic contact is desired, so that electrical charge can be conducted easily between the active region of a transistor and the external circuitry.
Occasionally however a Schottky barrier is useful, as in Schottky diodes, Schottky transistors, and metal–semiconductor field effect transistors.

The critical parameter: Schottky barrier height

Whether a given metal-semiconductor junction is an ohmic contact or a Schottky barrier depends on the Schottky barrier height, ΦB, of the junction.
For a sufficiently large Schottky barrier height, where ΦB is significantly higher than the thermal energy kT, the semiconductor is depleted near the metal and behaves as a Schottky barrier. For lower Schottky barrier heights, the semiconductor is not depleted and instead forms an ohmic contact to the metal.

The Schottky barrier height is defined differently for n-type and p-type semiconductors (being measured from the conduction band edge and valence band edge, respectively). The alignment of the semiconductor's bands near the junction is typically independent of the semiconductor's doping level, so the n-type and p-type Schottky barrier heights are ideally related to each other by:

where Eg is the semiconductor's band gap.

In practice, the Schottky barrier height is not precisely constant across the interface, and varies over the interfacial surface.

Schottky–Mott rule and Fermi level pinning

The Schottky–Mott rule of Schottky barrier formation predicts the Schottky barrier height based on the vacuum work function of the metal relative to the vacuum electron affinity (or vacuum ionization energy) of the semiconductor:

This model is derived based on the thought experiment of bringing together the two materials in vacuum, and is closely related in logic to Anderson's rule for semiconductor-semiconductor junctions. Different semiconductors respect the Schottky–Mott rule to varying degrees.

Although the Schottky–Mott model correctly predicted the existence of band bending in the semiconductor, it was found experimentally that it would give grossly incorrect predictions for the height of the Schottky barrier. A phenomenon referred to as "Fermi level pinning" caused some point of the band gap, at which finite DOS exists, to be locked (pinned) to the Fermi level. This made the Schottky barrier height almost completely insensitive to the metal's work function:

where Ebandgap is the size of band gap in the semiconductor.

In fact, empirically, it is found that neither of the above extremes is quite correct. The choice of metal does have some effect, and there appears to be a weak correlation between the metal work function and the barrier height, however the influence of the work function is only a fraction of that predicted by the Schottky-Mott rule.

It was noted in 1947 by John Bardeen that the Fermi level pinning phenomenon would naturally arise if there were chargeable states in the semiconductor right at the interface, with energies inside the semiconductor's gap. These would either be induced during the direct chemical bonding of the metal and semiconductor (metal-induced gap states) or be already present in the semiconductor–vacuum surface (surface states). These highly dense surface states would be able to absorb a large quantity of charge donated from the metal, effectively shielding the semiconductor from the details of the metal. As a result, the semiconductor's bands would necessarily align to a location relative to the surface states which are in turn pinned to the Fermi level (due to their high density), all without influence from the metal.

The Fermi level pinning effect is strong in many commercially important semiconductors (Si, Ge, GaAs), and thus can be problematic for the design of semiconductor devices. For example, nearly all metals form a significant Schottky barrier to n-type germanium and an ohmic contact to p-type germanium, since the valence band edge is strongly pinned to the metal's Fermi level. The solution to this inflexibility requires additional processing steps such as adding an intermediate insulating layer to unpin the bands. (In the case of germanium, germanium nitride has been used)

History

The rectification property of metal–semiconductor contacts was discovered by Ferdinand Braun in 1874 using mercury metal contacted with copper sulfide and iron sulfide semiconductors. Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose applied for  a US patent for a metal-semiconductor diode in 1901.  This patent  was awarded in 1904. G.W. Pickard received a patent in 1906 on a point-contact rectifier using silicon. In 1907, George W. Pierce published a paper in Physical Review showing rectification properties of diodes made by sputtering many metals on many semiconductors. The use of the metal–semiconductor diode rectifier was proposed by Lilienfeld in 1926 in the first of his three transistor patents as the gate of the metal–semiconductor field effect transistors. The theory of the field-effect transistor using a metal/semiconductor gate was advanced by William Shockley in 1939.

The earliest metal–semiconductor diodes in electronics application occurred around 1900, when the cat's whisker rectifiers were used in receivers. They consisted of pointed tungsten wire (in the shape of a cat's whisker) whose tip or point was pressed against the surface of a galena (lead sulfide) crystal. The first large area rectifier appeared around 1926 which consisted of a copper(I) oxide semiconductor thermally grown on a copper substrate. Subsequently, selenium films were evaporated onto large metal substrates to form the rectifying diodes. These selenium rectifiers were used (and are still used) to convert alternating current to direct current in electrical power applications. During 1925–1940, diodes consisting of a pointed tungsten metal wire in contact with a silicon crystal base, were fabricated in laboratories to detect microwaves in the UHF range. A World War II program to manufacture high-purity silicon as the crystal base for the point-contact rectifier was suggested by Frederick Seitz in 1942 and successfully undertaken by the Experimental Station of the E. I du Pont de Nemours Company.

The first theory that predicted the correct direction of rectification of the metal–semiconductor junction was given by Nevill Mott in 1939. He found the solution for both the diffusion and drift currents of the majority carriers through the semiconductor surface space charge layer which has been known since about 1948 as the Mott barrier. Walter H. Schottky and Spenke extended Mott's theory by including a donor ion whose density is spatially constant through the semiconductor surface layer. This changed the constant electric field assumed by Mott to a linearly decaying electric field. This semiconductor space-charge layer under the metal is known as the Schottky barrier. A similar theory was also proposed by Davydov in 1939. Although it gives the correct direction of rectification, it has also been proven that the Mott theory and its Schottky-Davydov extension  gives the wrong current limiting mechanism and wrong current-voltage formulae in silicon metal/semiconductor diode rectifiers. The correct theory was developed by Hans Bethe and reported by him in a M.I.T. Radiation Laboratory Report dated November 23, 1942. In Bethe's theory, the current is limited by thermionic emission of electrons over the metal–semiconductor potential barrier. Thus, the appropriate name for the metal–semiconductor diode should be the Bethe diode, instead of the Schottky diode, since the Schottky theory does not predict the modern metal–semiconductor diode characteristics correctly.

If a metal-semiconductor junction is formed by placing a droplet of mercury, as Braun did, onto a semiconductor, e.g.silicon, to form a Schottky barrier in a Schottky diode electrical setup – electrowetting can be observed, where the droplet spreads out with increasing voltage. Depending on the doping type and density in the semiconductor, the droplet spreading depends on the magnitude and sign of the voltage applied to the mercury droplet. This effect has been termed 'Schottky electrowetting', effectively linking electrowetting and semiconductor effects.

The MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) was  invented by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs in 1959, and presented in 1960. They extended their work on MOS technology to do pioneering work on hot carrier devices, which used what would later be called a Schottky barrier. The Schottky diode, also known as the Schottky-barrier diode, was theorized for years, but was first practically realized as a result of the work of Atalla and Kahng during 19601961. They published their results in 1962 and called their device the "hot electron" triode structure with semiconductor-metal emitter. It was one of the first metal-base transistors. Atalla continued research on Schottky diodes with Robert J. Archer at HP Associates. They developed high vacuum metal film deposition technology, and fabricated stable evaporated/sputtered contacts, publishing their results in January 1963. Their work was a breakthrough in metal–semiconductor junction and Schottky barrier research, as it overcame most of the fabrication problems inherent in point-contact diodes and made it possible to build practical Schottky diodes.

See also
 Schottky barrier

References

Further reading

Semiconductor structures

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Completion of acquisition efforts at Dallas and Resaca, Georgia, push preservation group to new heights
(Washington, D.C.) – This week, the Civil War Trust, the nation's leading organization seeking to protect the hallowed ground of our rapidly disappearing Civil War battlefields, announced that with the completion of its efforts at Dallas and Resaca, Ga., it has forever preserved more than 30,000 acres of historic land. To mark the occasion, Trust president James Lighthizer issued the following statement alongside a personal video message to the group's supporters:
"When I took the helm of this organization in late 1999, neither I nor anyone involved in the battlefield preservation movement, could have predicted this level of success. But year in and year out, the passionate support of this organization's members, and their heartfelt desire to leave a legacy greater than themselves for their children and grandchildren, has propelled us beyond my wildest expectations. To each and every one of these individuals I owe a great debt of personal thanks.
"The figure of 30,000 acres — the equivalent of 47 square miles — is almost too large to comprehend. But in the case of this organization, it is a tangible success that can be visited and appreciated one battlefield at a time. It's 240 acres at Antietam, 710 at Corinth and 385 at Perryville. It's 377 at Shiloh, 705 at Gettysburg and 1,798 at Brandy Station. It's 117 on Morris Island, 952 at Malvern Hill and 212 at Wilson's Creek. And more land at scores more battlefields — 110 sites spread across 20 states.
"But our work is far from done, with these sites are disappearing at the alarming rate of 30 acres per day. And so, although today we pause to celebrate our achievements, we will not rest in our efforts. As we begin the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, let us redouble our work to set aside these irreplaceable landscapes as a lasting memorial to the brave men who took up arms during our nation's most turbulent hour. What legacy for the sesquicentennial could be more fitting?"
The Civil War Trust is the largest nonprofit battlefield preservation organization in the United States. Its mission is to preserve our nation's endangered Civil War battlefields and to promote appreciation of these hallowed grounds. To date, the Trust has preserved more than 30,000 acres of battlefield land in 20 states. Learn more at www.civilwar.org.


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Q: python - issues converting string to number (float or integer) I'm trying to convert string to numbers. It can be float, integer, or empty string.
def num(s):
     if not s: return ""
     try:
          return int(s)
     except ValueError:
          return float(s)
     else: return 0

str1 = ""
str2 = "0.0"
str3 = "1.1"
str4 = "10"

print("str1 = "+str(num(str1)))
print("str2 = "+str(num(str2)))
print("str3 = "+str(num(str3)))
print("str4 = "+str(num(str4)))

so, the output:
str1 =     <== OK
str2 = 0.0 <== I need this as integer 0
str3 = 1.1 <== OK
str4 = 10  <== OK

anyone can help?

A: "0.0"

is not a valid integer string. If you want to round off zeroes into integers then do it after you convert to a float.
def num(s):
    if not s: return ""
    try:
        return int(s)
    except ValueError:
        f = float(s)
        if f%1.0 < 0.0005:
            return int(f)
        else:
            return f
    else: return 0

A: Try this :
Live Running example @ http://codepad.org/9xIbFxJ1
def num(s):

     if not s:
         return ""

     try:

        list_s = s.split(".")

        # If there is no fractional part or fractional part is 0 return int(s) else float(s)

        if ( len(list_s) == 1 ) or ( int(list_s[1]) == 0 ):
            return int(s)
        else:
            return float(s)

     except:
        return 0

A: Try this:
def num(s):
    if not s:
        return ""
    try:
        return int(s)
    except ValueError:
        return float(s) or 0
    else:
        return 0

It works as expected:
num('')
=> ''
num('0.0')
=> 0
num('1.1')
=> 1.1
num('10')
=> 10

A: You can check this way. If the float and int of the number are the same then it's an int, else it's a float.
def make_number(n):
    try:
        n = float(n)
        if n == int(n):
            return int(n)
        return float(n)
    except ValueError:
        return 0

Edit: I thought int("1.2") would coerce to 1, I was wrong.

A: float(s) can convert string to float directly; and int(float(s)) will convert float to integer. Here we just need a tiny number to check whether the float can be an integer.
def num(s):
    if s == '':
        return ''
    else:
        if float(s) < int(float(s)) + 0.0000000000001:
            return int(float(s))
        else:
            return float(s)

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Hammerfest è un comune e una città nella Contea di Troms og Finnmark, in Norvegia. Ha ricevuto lo status di città nel 1789.

Geografia fisica
Situata a latitudine 70° 39' 48" N, la piccola cittadina norvegese sostiene di essere la città più a Nord del mondo, anche se lo stesso titolo è rivendicato da altri due centri abitati: Honningsvåg, sempre in Norvegia, e Utqiaġvik, in Alaska. La validità di queste affermazioni dipende principalmente dalla definizione di città che si è disposti ad accettare: Hammerfest è infatti l'insediamento umano con più di 10000 abitanti più a nord del mondo, oltre che ad essere il più antico centro abitato del Nord della Norvegia.

La città offre, tra le altre cose, sport e pesca commerciale, sia di mare che di acqua dolce. Il ghiacciaio più settentrionale della Norvegia si trova in prossimità della cittadina, ed è una delle mete preferite dagli appassionati di trekking. Hammerfest è anche un popolare punto di partenza per i viaggi al Nord: ogni giorno un traghetto salpa per lo spettacolare Capo Nord (Nordkapp), il lembo di terra emersa più a Nord del continente europeo. Hammerfest è anche un centro di cultura Sami.

Storia
Molti luoghi di sepoltura risalenti all'età della pietra si trovano in questa zona, e la cittadina era già diventata un importante insediamento di pesca e di caccia artica molto tempo prima che le venisse riconosciuto lo stato di città nel 1789.

Durante le guerre napoleoniche, la Danimarca-Norvegia fu attaccata dal Regno Unito e fu costretta ad entrare nel conflitto al fianco di Napoleone. Nella sua veste di importante centro commerciale e di comunicazioni nel Finnmark occidentale, la cittadina divenne un bersaglio naturale per la Marina Militare Britannica. Per questo motivo, le difese cittadine ricevettero in dotazione quattro cannoni dall'armeria centrale di Trondheim, e una guardia costiera di 50 uomini fu istituita per la difesa di Hammerfest.

Il 22 luglio 1809 giunse l'atteso attacco britannico, quando i due brigantini Snake e Fancy giunsero in prossimità della cittadina. La battaglia che seguì tra le forze norvegesi, dotate di soli due cannoni, e le due navi da guerra britanniche, dotate in totale di 32 cannoni, fu sorprendentemente intensa, e non giunse al termine fino a quando i norvegesi non finirono la polvere da sparo dopo un combattimento di 90 minuti. Entrambi i velieri furono colpiti da diverse cannonate, e contarono almeno una vittima, un marinaio che fu sepolto nel cimitero locale.

Durante lo svolgimento della battaglia, la popolazione ebbe il tempo di raccogliere i propri oggetti di valore e di fuggire, ma le due navi da guerra rimasero comunque nel porto di Hammerfest per otto giorni, saccheggiando quanto riuscirono a trovare, non risparmiando neppure la chiesa locale. Dopo l'attacco, Hammerfest divenne una cittadina di guarnigione, con truppe regolari e fortificazioni migliorate. Una piccola flottiglia di barche a remi armate di cannoni rimase di guardia al porto di Hammerfest per tutta la durata delle guerre napoleoniche.

Nel 1890 un incendio scaturito in un panificio locale bruciò quasi la metà delle case del posto. Dopo l'incendio, la cittadina fu beneficiaria di donazioni ed assistenza umanitaria provenienti da tutto il mondo. Il singolo donatore principale fu il Kaiser Wilhelm II di Germania, il quale aveva fatto di Hammerfest luogo di numerose sue visite personali, e che si era particolarmente affezionato al piccolo insediamento nordico.

Hammerfest fu evacuata forzatamente dalle truppe tedesche durante la seconda guerra mondiale, e fu rasa al suolo durante la ritirata. Il Museo della Ricostruzione narra della storia di questi eventi e della ripresa della città. Hammerfest è anche la sede dell'Isbjørnklubben (Regia ed Antica Società dell'Orso Polare).

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Q: R lapply with several dynamic arguments I'm trying to run an lapply function using inputs from a data frame (example below).
Here below the example of the csv file, which I called holdings.csv:
ticker,buy_date,shares_hold,buy_price,sell_date
"AAPL","2019-11-25",0.07,264.5714,
"MSFT","2019-11-29",0.195,151.85,
"MSFT","2020-04-08",0.6,165.17,
"DIS","2020-01-16",0.15,144.6,
"AMZN","2020-04-08",0.048,2017.5,
"BRK-B","2020-04-09",0.75,195.28,

Then I imported that data into a data frame with:
lots <- read_csv("holdings.csv")

> lots
# A tibble: 6 x 5
  ticker buy_date   shares_hold buy_price sell_date
  <chr>  <date>           <dbl>     <dbl> <lgl>
1 AAPL   2019-11-25       0.07       265. NA
2 MSFT   2019-11-29       0.195      152. NA
3 MSFT   2020-04-08       0.6        165. NA
4 DIS    2020-01-16       0.15       145. NA
5 AMZN   2020-04-08       0.048     2018. NA
6 BRK-B  2020-04-09       0.75       195. NA

Then I run the following code using the tq_get function from the tidyquantpackage:
prices <- lapply(lots$ticker, FUN = tq_get,
                          from = lots$buy_date,
                          get = "stock.prices",
                          to = today())

The lapply function gets and uses the first argument (ticker vector) properly (going row by row in the data frame column defined), but it assumes the second argument (buy_date vector) as an static value (not going row by row).
Basically, I want to get stock prices from different companies (first argument) using a different start date (second argument), but it looks for the stock prices for all different companies but from the same date.
Here below the output, where there are 6 lists (same as the one for the input data frame) but each list has the same number of rows (because all were gotten from the same starting date).
> prices
[[1]]
# A tibble: 94 x 8
   symbol date        open  high   low close   volume adjusted
   <chr>  <date>     <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>    <dbl>    <dbl>
 1 AAPL   2019-11-25  263.  266.  263.  266. 21005100     266.
 2 AAPL   2019-11-26  267.  267.  262.  264. 26301900     264.
 3 AAPL   2019-11-27  266.  268.  265.  268. 16308900     267.
 4 AAPL   2019-11-29  267.  268   266.  267. 11654400     267.
 5 AAPL   2019-12-02  267.  268.  263.  264. 23621800     264.
 6 AAPL   2019-12-03  258.  260.  256.  259. 28607600     259.
 7 AAPL   2019-12-04  261.  263.  261.  262. 16795400     261.
 8 AAPL   2019-12-05  264.  266.  263.  266. 18606100     265.
 9 AAPL   2019-12-06  267.  271   267.  271. 26518900     270.
10 AAPL   2019-12-09  270   271.  265.  267. 32010600     266.
# ... with 84 more rows

[[2]]
# A tibble: 94 x 8
   symbol date        open  high   low close   volume adjusted
   <chr>  <date>     <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>    <dbl>    <dbl>
 1 MSFT   2019-11-25  150   151.  150.  151. 22420900     151.
 2 MSFT   2019-11-26  151.  152.  151.  152. 24620100     152.
 3 MSFT   2019-11-27  152.  152.  152.  152. 15184400     152.
 4 MSFT   2019-11-29  152.  152.  151.  151. 11977300     151.
 5 MSFT   2019-12-02  152.  152.  148.  150. 27418400     149.
 6 MSFT   2019-12-03  147.  149.  147.  149. 24066000     149.
 7 MSFT   2019-12-04  150.  150.  149.  150. 17574700     149.
 8 MSFT   2019-12-05  150.  150.  149.  150. 17869100     150.
 9 MSFT   2019-12-06  151.  152.  150.  152. 16403500     151.
10 MSFT   2019-12-09  151.  152.  151.  151. 16687400     151.
# ... with 84 more rows

[[3]]
# A tibble: 94 x 8
   symbol date        open  high   low close   volume adjusted
   <chr>  <date>     <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>    <dbl>    <dbl>
 1 MSFT   2019-11-25  150   151.  150.  151. 22420900     151.
 2 MSFT   2019-11-26  151.  152.  151.  152. 24620100     152.
 3 MSFT   2019-11-27  152.  152.  152.  152. 15184400     152.
 4 MSFT   2019-11-29  152.  152.  151.  151. 11977300     151.
 5 MSFT   2019-12-02  152.  152.  148.  150. 27418400     149.
 6 MSFT   2019-12-03  147.  149.  147.  149. 24066000     149.
 7 MSFT   2019-12-04  150.  150.  149.  150. 17574700     149.
 8 MSFT   2019-12-05  150.  150.  149.  150. 17869100     150.
 9 MSFT   2019-12-06  151.  152.  150.  152. 16403500     151.
10 MSFT   2019-12-09  151.  152.  151.  151. 16687400     151.
# ... with 84 more rows

[[4]]
# A tibble: 94 x 8
   symbol date        open  high   low close   volume adjusted
   <chr>  <date>     <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>    <dbl>    <dbl>
 1 DIS    2019-11-25  149.  150.  148.  150. 11316800     149.
 2 DIS    2019-11-26  152.  153.  151.  152. 24949900     151.
 3 DIS    2019-11-27  152.  153.  151.  151.  6155400     151.
 4 DIS    2019-11-29  151.  152.  151.  152.  6284900     151.
 5 DIS    2019-12-02  153.  153.  149.  151. 10351000     150.
 6 DIS    2019-12-03  148.  149.  147.  149.  9273800     148.
 7 DIS    2019-12-04  149.  149.  148.  148.  7684800     147.
 8 DIS    2019-12-05  149.  149.  147.  147.  7363300     147.
 9 DIS    2019-12-06  148.  149.  147.  148.  7084900     147.
10 DIS    2019-12-09  148.  149.  145.  146. 11515000     145.
# ... with 84 more rows

[[5]]
# A tibble: 94 x 8
   symbol date        open  high   low close  volume adjusted
   <chr>  <date>     <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>   <dbl>    <dbl>
 1 AMZN   2019-11-25 1753. 1777. 1753. 1774. 3486200    1774.
 2 AMZN   2019-11-26 1780. 1797. 1778. 1797. 3181200    1797.
 3 AMZN   2019-11-27 1801  1824. 1797. 1819. 3025600    1819.
 4 AMZN   2019-11-29 1818. 1825. 1801. 1801. 1923400    1801.
 5 AMZN   2019-12-02 1804. 1806. 1763. 1782. 3925600    1782.
 6 AMZN   2019-12-03 1760  1773. 1747. 1770. 3380900    1770.
 7 AMZN   2019-12-04 1774. 1789. 1760. 1761. 2670100    1761.
 8 AMZN   2019-12-05 1764. 1764. 1740  1740. 2823800    1740.
 9 AMZN   2019-12-06 1751. 1754. 1740. 1752. 3117400    1752.
10 AMZN   2019-12-09 1751. 1767. 1746. 1750. 2442800    1750.
# ... with 84 more rows

[[6]]
# A tibble: 94 x 8
   symbol date        open  high   low close  volume adjusted
   <chr>  <date>     <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>   <dbl>    <dbl>
 1 BRK-B  2019-11-25  219.  219.  218.  219. 3648500     219.
 2 BRK-B  2019-11-26  219.  219.  218.  219. 3717800     219.
 3 BRK-B  2019-11-27  219.  221.  218.  220. 3945500     220.
 4 BRK-B  2019-11-29  220.  221.  220.  220. 2256500     220.
 5 BRK-B  2019-12-02  221.  221.  220.  220. 3888100     220.
 6 BRK-B  2019-12-03  219.  219.  216.  218. 4480100     218.
 7 BRK-B  2019-12-04  218.  219.  218.  218. 2667700     218.
 8 BRK-B  2019-12-05  219.  220.  218.  220. 2319300     220.
 9 BRK-B  2019-12-06  222.  223   221.  223. 3447700     223.
10 BRK-B  2019-12-09  223.  223.  221.  221. 2601000     221.
# ... with 84 more rows

I've tried mapply but it doesn't give me the result that I need.
prices <- mapply(lots$ticker, FUN = tq_get,
                   from = lots$buy_date,
                   get = "stock.prices",
                   to = today())

> prices
         AAPL         MSFT         MSFT        DIS          AMZN        BRK-B
symbol   Character,94 Character,91 Character,2 Character,59 Character,2 Character,2
date     Numeric,94   Numeric,91   Numeric,2   Numeric,59   Numeric,2   Numeric,2
open     Numeric,94   Numeric,91   Numeric,2   Numeric,59   Numeric,2   Numeric,2
high     Numeric,94   Numeric,91   Numeric,2   Numeric,59   Numeric,2   Numeric,2
low      Numeric,94   Numeric,91   Numeric,2   Numeric,59   Numeric,2   Numeric,2
close    Numeric,94   Numeric,91   Numeric,2   Numeric,59   Numeric,2   Numeric,2
volume   Numeric,94   Numeric,91   Numeric,2   Numeric,59   Numeric,2   Numeric,2
adjusted Numeric,94   Numeric,91   Numeric,2   Numeric,59   Numeric,2   Numeric,2

A: Your result from mapply() is because the function tries to convert the output to a matrix with the simplify argument by default. You can get your desired output with the following:
prices <- mapply(lots$ticker, FUN = tq_get,
                   from = lots$buy_date,
                   get = "stock.prices",
                   to = today(), SIMPLIFY = FALSE)


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Mario Draghi is named Italy's new prime minister, announces a political rainbow of cabinet picks
By Livia Borghese and Lauren Kent, CNN
Updated 2119 GMT (0519 HKT) February 12, 2021
Former European Central Bank president Mario Draghi speaks to the media this week.
(CNN) Italy's next government has taken shape, after Mario Draghi was named Prime Minister and announced a cabinet selected from across the country's political spectrum.
Draghi, a prominent economist, accepted the top role on Friday and later that day read out a list of ministerial picks designed to create buy-in among political parties that have battled on practically every topic. However, many in Italy will be disappointed by the lack of women — of the 23 names, only eight are women.
The anti-establishment Five Star Movement's Luigi Di Maio is expected to remain in place as Italian Foreign Minister. Current Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza, of the left-wing Free and Equal party, is also expected to remain in place.
Daniele Franco, the current director-general of the Bank of Italy who belongs to no political party, has been tapped as the new Finance minister.
Three ministers belong to Go Italy, the party of former media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. Another three are from the The League, the right wing party lead by Matteo Salvini who has in the past strenuously declared himself anti-immigrant and anti-European.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte resigns, in calculated move amid coronavirus crisis
In a TV interview, Salvini explained his participation in Draghi's government. "Italians ask me to solve problems, even if this means working alongside people with whom I did not get along," he said.
Draghi himself belongs to no political party. A former European Central Bank chief, he won the moniker "Super Mario" for saving the euro during Europe's sovereign debt crisis, and will likely work closely with Franco, his finance minister, to prepare a reforms plan for Italy that will allow it to obtain 209 billion euro from the European recovery found.
He succeeds former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who lost his governing majority in the Senate over frustrations with the government's management of the Covid-19 pandemic and attendant economic recession.
Draghi's ministers will need to formally swear in on Saturday before the new government will start to fully function, and will face votes of confidence in parliament the following week.
All Italian political parties, apart from the right-wing party Brothers of Italy, have said they will support the new government.


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Q: Producing histogram of sound for m3u of radio station I want to sample a radio station which broadcasts in format *.m3u8 and to produce the histogram of the first n seconds (where the user fixes n).
I had been trying using radiopy but it doesn't work and gnuradio seems useless. How can I produce and show this histogram?
EDIT: Now I use Gstreamer v1.0 so I can play it directly but now I need to live-sample my broadcast. How can I do it using Gst?

A:
gnuradio seems useless

Well, I'd argue that this is what you're looking for, if you're looking for a live spectrogram:

As you can see, it's but a matter of connecting a properly configured audio source to a Qt GUI sink. If properly configured  (I wrote an answer about that, and a GNU Radio wiki page as well).
Point is: you shouldn't be trying to play an internet station by yourself. Let a software do that which knows what it is doing.
In your case, I'd recommend:

*

*using VLC or mplayer to write the radio, after decoding it to PCM 32bit float of a fixed sampling rate to a file.

*Use Python with the libraries Numpy to open that file (samples = numpy.fromfile(filename, dtype=numpy.float32)), and  matplotlib/pyplot to plot a spectrogram to a file, i.e. something like (untested, because written right here):

#!/usr/bin/python2
import sys
import os
import tempfile
import numpy
from matplotlib import pyplot

stream = sys.argv[1] ## you can pass the stream URL as argument
outfile = sys.argv[2] ## second argument: output file; ending determines type!
num_of_seconds = min(int(sys.argv[3]), 60) # not more than 1min of streaming
(intermediate_file, inter_fname) = tempfile.mkstemp()
# pan = number of output channels (1: mix to mono)
# resample = sampling rate. this must be the same for all files, so that we can actually compare spectrograms
# format = sample format, here: native floats
sys.system("mplayer -endpos %d -vo null -af pan=1 -af resample=441000 -af format=floatne -ao pcm:nowaveheader:file=%s" % num_of_seconds % inter_fname)
samples = numpy.fromfile(inter_fname, dtype=float32)

pyplot.figure((num_of_seconds * 44100, 256), dpi=1)
### Attention: this call to specgram expects of you to understand what the Discrete Fourier Transform does.
### This uses a Hanning window by default; whether that is appropriate for audio data is questionable. Use all your DSP skillz!
### pyplot.specgram has a lot of options, including colormaps, frequency scaling, overlap. Make yourself acquintanced with those!
pyplot.specgram(samples, NFFT=256, FS=44100)
pyplot.savefig(outfile, bbox_inches="tight")


Free Movie Cinema is yet another platform to watch free movies online which shows its uniqueness by featuring some unique short films, classics and series. It also encompasses full-length feature films.
This article will cover the various aspects of Free Movie Cinema portal and provide you with an in-depth review.
Free Movie Cinema website is neat and clean. The top bar has its menu options which are even available when you scroll the page up or down. There is also a search bar to quickly search for any online video content.
The website footer has further two essential options as Most popular and Recently liked posts. This enables you to narrow down your choices to a few videos quickly.
There is no signup option. In short, you do not need an account for watching any online content on Free Movie Cinema.
Free Movie Cinema has three main menu items as Short Films, Classics, Series, Popcorn, All Movies and Lists. There are altogether 500+ free online movies. I found the best way to look for films is the "Lists" option. It presents all videos at one place with genres on top of it.
Movies are grouped in different genres such as Animated, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Documentary, Action, and more. However, series does not have any category which is a letdown if you are looking to filter out different genres.
Some of its short films and full-length movies are worth a mention, which are Rakka, The Naughty List, Kung Fury, Predator: Dark Ages, Assassin's Creed Lineage, Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth, Sean, 4.1 Miles, Selfie from Hell, The Surface, Henri, Killzone: Intercept, A.I.S.H.A and Uncanny Valley.
Video quality on Free Movies Cinema varies from 1080p HD to 144p. Most of its online videos source is YouTube and Vimeo. In short, you won't be disappointed with the quality of its most of the streaming videos.
However, there are some movies which are directly hosted on its website and may not have 1080p resolution.
As mentioned earlier, Free Movie Cinema showcase most of its movies directly from YouTube and Vimeo. In a way, you stream movies in a YouTube or Vimeo video player. YouTube video player is one of the most advanced video player available in the online space. You can do all necessary things like volume adjustment, full-screen mode, video scrubbing, subtitles option, video resolution settings and play/pause.
Although, videos directly hosted on Free Movie Cinema's website has minimal options and miss features like the option to choose video resolution, subtitles option, etc. You also get other options below video player such as the option to share on social media platforms, number of views and an opportunity to like.
I watched a few short films and series where I did experience a couple of advertisements. YouTube or Vimeo serve all these ADs, but nothing is overdone. But movies which are directly hosted on its website does not have any Ads.
As I mentioned before, most of its movies are from YouTube & Vimeo, and you hardly face any buffering issues. I played several videos on Free Movie Cinema, and I did not encounter any hick-up at all. But still, I recommend you to have internet speed not less than 1Mbps speed.
Free Movie Cinema does not have any free movie app for smartphones, tablets or any OTT (Over the top) TV box. YouTube & Vimeo do have application for most of the portable gadgets.
So, if you are desperately looking for ways to watch it on some app, then you can download YouTube and Vimeo app and search for the same movie which is showcased on Free Movie Cinema website.
Summary All in all, Free Movie Cinema is a worthy option to consider for watching short movies and kill your boredom. These days YouTube web series is becoming a new sensation and guess what, you get all those series here grouped nicely into categories. I would recommend Free Movie Cinema because of its unique collection of short films and series.
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Q: how to authenticate user in web services Please tell me how can we authenticate user in web services like i want that a user with valid id and password should only be able to consume my web service.
i am using .net framework 2.0
Thanks

A: You can use custom soap header for this. Have a look at this Authenticate .NET Web Service with Custom SOAP Header


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Press Office Contact
Ryanair To Challenge Lufthansa Bailout
Reacting to the European Commission's approval today (25 June) of the German Government's €9bn bailout of Lufthansa, Ryanair's Michael O'Leary said:
"This is a spectacular case of a rich EU Member State ignoring the EU Treaties to the benefit of its national industry and the detriment of poorer countries. Under the pretext of Covid-19, the German Government is giving Lufthansa a bank-breaking bailout of €9bn which even the airline's own CEO admits it does not need.
In clear breach of European competition rules, Berlin is wasting vast amounts of taxpayers' money to prop up an uncompetitive airline that should be putting its own house in order instead of once again running to the Government for help. This and other bailouts will have a more devastating long-term effect on the future of European aviation than the pandemic itself.
This bailout money will be used to bully smaller rivals out of the market, in line with Lufthansa's grim record of anti-competitive behaviour. Only last week, Italian press reported that Lufthansa's Air Dolomiti was "teaming up against low-cost" with three other airlines, to introduce minimum prices. This follows reports that Austrian Airlines, also owned by Lufthansa, is gearing up to set a minimum airfare of €40.
In addition to coordinating a State-sponsored price-setting cartel, Lufthansa is threatening to shut down smaller national airlines within the Lufthansa group, as if they were its Belgian, Austrian and Swiss hostages, unless the respective governments pay a ransom.
The contrast between Lufthansa and Ryanair could not be starker. Instead of touring Europe's capitals for taxpayer-funded hand-outs, Ryanair is innovating its way out of the crisis by giving consumers lower fares and connectivity at a time when Europe's regions and cities desperately need the revival of tourism and their local economies.
We urge the European Commission to stand by its principles and keep the skies open, fair and competitive. If not, the single aviation market the EU has successfully built will crumble, with European consumers and taxpayers paying the price. The Commission's approval of the Lufthansa bailout today is a betrayal of the core principles of EU law, which we have no alternative but to refer to the EU General Court."


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package com.microsoft.windowsazure.management.network;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.util.ArrayList;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import com.microsoft.windowsazure.core.OperationResponse;
import com.microsoft.windowsazure.core.utils.BOMInputStream;
import com.microsoft.windowsazure.management.network.models.*;

import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;

public class NetworkOperationsTests extends NetworkManagementIntegrationTestBase {

    @BeforeClass
    public static void setup() throws Exception {
        createService();
        setupTest(NetworkOperationsTests.class.getSimpleName());
        networkOperations = networkManagementClient.getNetworksOperations();
        resetTest(NetworkOperationsTests.class.getSimpleName());
    }

    @Test
    public void getConfiguration() throws Exception {
        //act
        NetworkGetConfigurationResponse operationResponse = networkOperations.getConfiguration();
        //Assert
        Assert.assertEquals(200, operationResponse.getStatusCode());
        Assert.assertNotNull(operationResponse.getRequestId());
        Assert.assertNotNull(operationResponse.getConfiguration());
    }

    @Before
    public void beforeTest() throws Exception {
        setupTest();
    }

    @After
    public void afterTest() throws Exception {
        resetTest();
    }

    @Test
    public void setConfiguration() throws Exception {
        //act
        NetworkGetConfigurationResponse operationResponse = networkOperations.getConfiguration();

        //Assert
        Assert.assertEquals(200, operationResponse.getStatusCode());
        Assert.assertNotNull(operationResponse.getRequestId());
        Assert.assertNotNull(operationResponse.getConfiguration());

        DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        documentBuilderFactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
        DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
        Document responseDoc = documentBuilder.parse(new BOMInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(operationResponse.getConfiguration().getBytes())));

        DOMSource domSource = new DOMSource(responseDoc);
        StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
        StreamResult streamResult = new StreamResult(stringWriter);
        TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
        Transformer transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
        transformer.transform(domSource, streamResult);

        NetworkSetConfigurationParameters parameters = new NetworkSetConfigurationParameters();
        parameters.setConfiguration(stringWriter.toString());
        OperationResponse response = networkOperations.setConfiguration(parameters);

        //Assert
        Assert.assertEquals(200, response.getStatusCode());
        Assert.assertNotNull(response.getRequestId());
    }

    @Test
    public void listNetworksSuccess() throws Exception {
        // Arrange
        NetworkListResponse NetworkListResponse = networkOperations.list();
        ArrayList<NetworkListResponse.VirtualNetworkSite> virtualnetwoksitelist = NetworkListResponse.getVirtualNetworkSites();
        for (NetworkListResponse.VirtualNetworkSite networksite : virtualnetwoksitelist) {
            assertNotNull(networksite.getName());
            assertNotNull(networksite.getAffinityGroup());
            assertNotNull(networksite.getId());
            assertNotNull(networksite.getState());
            assertNotNull(networksite.getAddressSpace());
            assertNotNull(networksite.getSubnets());
        }
    }
}

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Central Michigan vs. Miami Ohio, 12/7/19 MAC Championship Predictions & Odds
MAC Championship Prediction
Can we expect Central Michigan to roll in its home state when the Chippewas take on Miami (Ohio) in the MAC Championship today at Noon ET?
Game Snapshot & Odds
105 Miami (Ohio) vs. 106 Central Michigan
Noon ET – Ford Field
Compare odds and from multiple different online sportsbooks and shop for the best lines at our new NCAAF Odds & Betting Page.
Public Betting Trends
According to the latest oddsmakers, Central Michigan is favored in this game, as the Chippewas are getting odds of -6.5 points against Miami. The over/under total for the contest is listed at 54.5 points. The public betting currently has 73 percent going on Central Michigan as the favorite. This information is subject to change, however, so be sure to check out our NCAAF Public Betting Page for updated figures on the game.
CMU takes the West Division
Central Michigan was just 1-11 last season and now it finds itself playing for a conference title under first-year coach Jim McElwain. The Chippewas have won their last three, including a 49-7 trouncing of Toledo at home last weekend. CMU is 8-4 on the season, 6-2 in the MAC, 9-3 against the spread and 9-3 with the over.
CMU has been pretty steady on both sides of the ball. The defense is allowing just 26.8 points and 358.5 yards per game, while the offense is producing 32.8 points and 455.1 yards per game. The Chips have a strong ground attack, led by Jonathan Ward. He has 1,056 yards and 15 touchdowns while Kobe Lewis has rushed for 953 yards and 11 scores. Quinten Dormady is the starting QB and he has thrown for 1,916 yards and 13 touchdowns this season. Kalil Pimpleton is the top receiver with 73 catches for 771 yards and six scores. Sean Adesanya is leading the defense with 30 tackles and seven sacks.
Miami coming off loss, but wins the East
Miami (Ohio) is coming off a 41-27 loss at Ball State last weekend to end a five-game winning streak for the Redhawks. They are 7-5 on the season, 6-2 in the MAC, 6-6 against the spread and 6-6 with the over/under total.
The Redhawks were one of the worst offenses in the country this year, producing just 24.6 points and 310.3 yards per game. Still, they found ways to win despite the offense averaging just 28.8 points and 382.8 yards per game. Brett Gabbert has thrown for 1,967 yards and 10 touchdowns this season, but is currently questionable for this game with an undisclosed injury. Jaylon Bester is the team's leading rusher with 623 yards and 11 touchdowns while James Maye is the top receiver with 15 catches for 390 yards and a score.
College Football Betting Trends
The Chippewas have covered the spread in five straight games as a favorite and in five of their last six MAC games.
The Redhawks are just 13-4 against the spread in their last 17 conference games and 8-3 ATS in their last 11 games after allowing more than 40 points in their previous game.
Miami has won the last two against Central Michigan and covered in three straight meetings, but this is a Chippewa team that seems to be ready to write a storybook ending. After going 1-11 last year, CMU has put together an offense to compliment its solid defense. Coach Jim McElwain could be 1-and-done with CMU due to his efforts this year, but completing the season with a MAC title would really raise his stock. Miami certainly is a game team, but the Redhawks will be almost in a road game in Detroit and they have struggled with West Division teams this year. CMU's defense should be able to dictate the game while the offense breaks through with the ground attack. The Chippewa are playing with a little extra motivation today, as their play-by-play announcer was killed in a car accident just a few days ago. The team is rallying around him and wants to bring the title home. I like CMU to win by double figures.
MAC Championship Prediction: Central Michigan -6.5
Related: MAC Championship Total Prediction
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Q: starting another program with arguments from qt app I have a simple app
int main(int argc, char* argv[]){
//cout << argv[1];
cout << "hello world";
getchar();
}

and I want to start it from qt program using
QProcess *process= new QProcess(this);
QString appPath= "..../.../TestApp2.exe";
process->start(appPath);

the problem is that my program dosen't starts, even without arguments. I have tried to start a standard app like "calc" and it worked. How could I start my app with specific args (sure after uncommitting the second line of the first snippet)

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I have tried to start a standard app like "calc" and it worked. How could I start my app

Your application is a console application.
QProcess hides the console window for console applications and redirects their STDOUT/STDERR for you to read them (using readAllStandardOutput(), readAllStandardError(), ...). and whatever you write() to your QProcess goes to its STDIN. So, if you are expecting to see a console window when the process starts, you are wrong.
If you want to start a console application without hiding its console window, you can use QProcess::startDetached():
QProcess::startDetached("test.exe");

But most of the times there is no reason to do so. QProcess is meant to be used from a GUI application in order to start a process behind the scenes, and take a result from it. After that, you can display the result to the user the way you like. A user of a GUI application usually doesn't expect a console window asking him/her for input every now and then. Also, He/She wouldn't expect to see the result in a console window.


There are few things I love more than a lazy weekend morning watching Autumn leaves fall outside while sitting curled up with a delicious homemade breakfast. This Spiced Apple Granola with Vegan Ricotta is perfect for this time of year as apples are in season and are crisp and delicious. It's great for slower mornings but also works really well when you're on the go: simply make a batch of the granola the night before and broil/grill the apples in the morning (which only takes a few minutes).
I was very fortunate recently that the lovely folks at Blue Heron Cheese gave me some of their Almond Ricotta to play with and it goes perfectly with this recipe! I'm a big fan of their products, but I usually buy their aged cheeses and – having never ventured very far into the world of cheese even when I was a vegetarian (I never liked the dairy taste) – I must admit to being a bit stumped upon receiving it, because I had little idea of what to do with it or how to use it in a recipe!
Cue 10 minutes of Googling for inspiration however and I was set. What I hadn't realized about ricotta is just how versatile it is. It's perfect in sweet or savoury dishes such as lasagna and cheesecake, although for this recipe I've opted for sweet. I find the tang of this cultured almond cheese is the perfect compliment to a warm, sweet breakfast bowl of spiced apple granola.
If however you're not as lucky as me and don't live in Vancouver BC, never fear! Blue Heron make (in my opinion) the best artisan vegan cheeses, but there are many other great companies making plant-based cheese out there, and you're absolutely welcome to substitute in your own favourite brand. This granola also works beautifully using coconut yoghurt instead of cheese, so there are plenty of options!
Blue Heron Almond Ricotta, or your favourite vegan ricotta/coconut yoghurt etc.
Preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F. To make the granola, pulse the almonds and walnuts in a blender until they look chopped. You don't want them to be tiny crumbs – it's better if they're slightly larger and still have some texture.
Add the nuts and all other dry ingredients to a large bowl and mix with a wooden spoon. Add the oil and maple syrup (if using) and mix well.
Spread the mixture out (about 1cm thick) over a large baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake in the oven for 20 minutes, or until the granola starts to look golden. Remove from the oven and leave to cool before breaking the granola into pieces.
To make the grilled apples, remove the cores and chop them into 0.5cm slices. Rub them very lightly with coconut oil and place on a baking sheet, dusting over them with cinnamon.
Using your oven's grill/broiler (top heat only), broil the apple slices for 5 minutes, then flip them over with a spatula and broil for another 5.
To serve, divide the granola between two warm bowls, add the spiced apple slices and spoon over a generous dollop of almond ricotta. Finish off with a dusting of cinnamon and a drizzle of maple syrup et voila!


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Hayes Carll Takes Us Through The Day of His Grand Ole Opry Debut
Annie Davis
YouTube via Grand Ole Opry
Hayes Carll's latest album, What It Is, was released just last week. The new project features 12 new songs all written or co-written by Carll. In support of the new project Carll has set out on an ambitious US tour, which included his Grand Ole Opry debut on Tuesday February 5th.
Having won multiple Americana Music Awards, received a Grammy nomination, repeatedly topped the Americana radio charts, performed on national television including The Tonight Show and Austin City Limits, Carll is a staple in the Texas and Americana scenes.
Watch through the eyes of Hayes Carll as he prepares for his recent Grand Ole Opry debut. Experience the wide range of emotions and feelings involved leading up to it, in the video above. The first single from What it Is, "None'Ya" is already inside the Top 10 on Texas radio.
Filed Under: Grand Ole Opry, Haye Carll
Categories: Articles, News, Videos
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Lemon is one of the most healthiest fruits in the world. No, it doesn't taste too swell on it's own because of it's high acidic levels, but lemon provides our bodies with so many essential nutrients and benefits. There are a number of ways to sneak this powerful fruit into your diet every day.


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jack straw from witchita...
Much to my wife's disappointment and annoyance, I've slowly fallen in love with The Grateful Dead over the past few months. I've always liked their music and listened to them casually, but this summer I really dug in and found myself loving certain runs of certain years, able to discern the different "Sugaree"s, etc. Out of all the things I love about the Dead, one of the things that keeps me coming back to them is that the sheer size of their discography lets me fall in love with certain songs and certain periods. Even though they aren't making anymore new music, I feel like I'm constantly discovering something new about them.
Once of those recent discoveries has been the brilliant song "Jack Straw". To be honest, I probably didn't realize the greatness of this song earlier because Bob Weir sings it... I usually skip over his songs...
This is one of those epic Western songs with outlaws, killings, and hangings. There's multiple characters, and the Dead are designed perfectly to carry out a song like this with Bob and Jerry switching back and forth on the versus in order for the story to really come together.
The climactic build up is as grand as the story itself.
One more thing... I love how the story itself can be interpreted a few different ways - "Jack Straw from Wichita cut his buddy down..." leaves a few things for us listeners to wonder. Did Jack Straw kill him because he was too slow, maybe didn't have anything else to share? Or did he cut him down after he was hung, out of brotherly respect? My answers change depending on the mood.
All in all, probably one of the Dead's best songs. It captures their truly unique way of storytelling both through song and lyrics.


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Kia Stonic — компактний кросовер від корейського виробника автомобілів Kia.

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Автомобіль представлений 20 червня 2017 року, а публічний дебют відбувся на автосалоні в Франкфурті в вересні 2017 року. Продажі почнуться в 30 вересня того ж року.

Назва п'ятимісного автомобіля є штучним словом і складається з поєднання слів speedy («швидкісний») і tonic («тонізуючий»).

Автомобіль збудовано на платформі Hyundai-Kia GB, що й Hyundai i20 (GB), Kia Rio (YB) та новий кросовер Hyundai Kona. Кузов новинки на 51% зроблений з високоміцної сталі, яку концерн Hyundai-KIA виробляє самостійно. Спереду - підвіска McPherson, ззаду - балка, що скручується. Повний привід не передбачений.

Двоколірне забарвлення кузова дозволить клієнтам вибрати один з 20 можливих варіантів. Обсяг багажника дорівнює 352 л.

Навіть в найпростішій версії мультимедійна система підтримує інтерфейси Android Auto і Apple CarPlay, а в якості опції доступні камера заднього виду і навігація. Також Stonic можна укомплектувати Однозонна клімат-контролем, триступінчатим підігрівом сидінь, «круїзом» і шкіряним оздобленням крісел.

В автомобілі є цілий комплекс електронних асистентів - система автоматичного гальмування, моніторинг розмітки з утриманням в смузі, стеження за мертвими зонами і автоматичне перемикання з дальнього світла фар на ближній.

Двигуни
Бензинові
1.0 л Kappa II turbo GDI I3 120 к.с.
1.25 л Kappa II MPI I4 84 к.с.
1.4 л Gamma MPI I4 100 к.с.
Дизельний
1.6 л U-Line CRDi I4 110 к.с.

Посилання

  (Корея)
  (Європа)

Автомобілі 2010-х
Автомобілі Kia


Intracranial pearly tumors: the roles of computed tomography, angiography, and pneumoencephalography.
Computed tomography in olfactory neuroblastoma: one case of esthesioneuroepithelioma and four cases of esthesioneuroblastoma.
Computer tomography of the larynx.
Computer assisted tomography of unoperated subdural hematoma: short- and long-term follow-up.
Lack of visualization of the portal venous tree in cirrhosis of the liver: a computed tomography finding with possible diagnostic significance.