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Home Food Eat/Drink Milwaukeean Brews Up a New Tonic from an Old Recipe
Milwaukeean Brews Up a New Tonic from an Old Recipe
by Sheila Julson
Zwitchel beverage enhancer is tangy. It's also sweet… and then spices such as ginger come through, creating an intriguing swirl of flavor that makes even plain sparking water fun. So, where did Amber Frymark, maker of Zwitchel, which she sells under her company, Chowventions, get the idea?
It turns out that the tonic is nothing new. "It's based on an 18th-century health tonic," Frymark said. She studied culinary arts at a couple of different locations, and one of her favorites subjects was culinary history. "A lot of knowledge came out of that course. The old health tonic was a British thing and was first consumed in the United States in Massachusetts. There's also documentation that soldiers in the War of 1812 drank it on the battlefield."
Intrigued by this historic tonic, Frymark put some basic ingredients together in a pot and tasted the results. "I thought it tasted fantastic and couldn't believe we're not still drinking this," she said. As one who always liked to reinvent culinary arts, she infused Wisconsin ingredients into her concoction: local beer, and maple syrup as a sweetener. "Cane sugar or molasses were used in the baseline recipe. For my own blend, I made it sweet, tangy and spicy, all in one flavor profile."
In 2016, Frymark made a test batch of Zwitchel and packaged it into larger liquor bottles, originally intending to market it as cocktail syrup for bars and restaurants. It was a bit of a hard sell, she recalled, but a door opened when Zwitchel won the Wisconsin Hottest Kitchen Entrepreneur Challenge in 2016. "Winning that told me that I must be doing something right," she laughed, "and that led to what we have today, the beverage enhancer version of Zwitchel in a flask-sized bottle, launched around mid-2018."
Knowing that she has a unique product that some people might not be familiar with, Frymark does samplings at Woodman's in Oak Creek, and at all four Outpost Natural Foods locations—two of the first stores that agreed to put Zwitchel on their shelves. Good Harvest market, in Pewaukee, has just started carrying Zwitchel, and Frymark will be at farmers markets this year.
Frymark recommends Zwitchel in lemonade, tea, in smoothies, sparkling water or with light or dark spirits. It's not just a beverage enhancer; Frymark said some chefs use Zwitchel as a glaze, a marinade or in salad dressing. Outpost Natural Foods recently approached her to ask if she could make them a steak sauce, which she's currently working on and hopes to introduce this year.
Frymark served in the United States Air Force from 2001 through 2011 and did two tours in the Middle East. She works with veterans' groups and donates to different organizations each year. She's given to Operation Gratitude, which sends care packages to the troops, and this year she's partnering with Wisconsin Veterans of Foreign Wars. "They've given me support in the past, so I want to give back to them," she said.
Frymark plans to launch new products under Chowventions, but for now she'll primarily focus on growing Zwitchel. "I'm blessed to have it," she said of Zwitchel's success thus far. "It's like a baby I'm waking up to take care of. It's my mission and why I open my eyes every morning."
For more information, visit chowventions.com.
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Sheila Julson
Sheila Julson is a freelance writer who enjoys capturing the stories behind Milwaukee's happening food, beverage and urban farming scenes. She also pens articles about holistic health, green living, sustainability and human-interest features.
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Today, Jan. 27, cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazansky performed a spacewalk (EVA-37a) to reinstall the two UrtheCast cameras that were previously installed and removed during a spacewalk on Dec. 27, 2013 (EVA-37).
UrtheCast Corp. is a Vancouver-based technology company that is developing the world's first Ultra HD video feed of Earth, streamed from space in full color. Working with renowned aerospace partners from across the globe, UrtheCast has built, launched, installed and expects to operate, two cameras on the Russian segment of the ISS. Video and still image data captured by the cameras will be downlinked to ground stations across the planet and displayed on the UrtheCast web platform, or distributed directly to exclusive partners and customers. UrtheCast's cameras will provide high-resolution video and imagery of Earth that will allow for monitoring of the environment, humanitarian relief, social events, agricultural land, etc. Common shares of UrtheCast trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange as ticker 'UR'.
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This is the last weekend of the holiday season for 2014/2015. Once again we soon will move back into "normal" life and the start of a brand new year. May yours be filled with dreams fulfilled. Mine will be filled with more blog posts. Or at least I will try – very hard.
Since this is the last hurrah of the holidays, some of us are still in entertaining mode. You might even still have a scheduled weekend get-together. That's a plus, but the down side is that the entertainment budget has probably been stretched paper thin.
What if I told you that you could turn an average-sized lobster (currently about $7 in Nova Scotia) into a gourmet feast for a table full of friends? You would rightly be skeptical.
I am here to turn you into a believer.
This recipe makes 48 "not small" ravioli. If you count six for an appetizer or eight for a meal, that feeds quite a few. Also, all of this can be made ahead – days ahead.
I just checked the online menu for The Bicycle Thief, an upscale restaurant in Halifax. They are offering "Lobster Ravioloni" (small ravioli??) for $25 per plate. I'm assuming that is a maximum of six, but knowing the penchant for small plates I wouldn't be surprised if it was four.
So as you can see, you would be treating your eight guests to a plate that would cost you $400 if you were dining out. That's impressive.
This is one of the best pasta dough recipes I have ever made. It's pliable to roll and perfectly springy when cooked. Very nice. A keeper.
To gild the lily, I'm also posting a recipe for a rosé vodka sauce. Note the recipe makes 500 ml of sauce, so you may want to adjust it up or down. It's enough for 32 ravioli, but you may just want to make more. It's that delicious.
Since I wasn't entertaining, I opted to freeze my ravioli in bags of 16. One down, two to go!
Freeze the ravioli, if not using right away.
Frozen, and then bagged for later use.
Make the dough first. Place the two flours and salt in a bowl and whisk with a fork. Make a well in the centre and crack the eggs into it. Then add the olive oil.
Using a fork, whisk the eggs and oil together, slowly incorporating the flour as you go. Continue until almost all of the flour is incorporated. The start to knead in the bowl until all the flour is combined. Transfer to the counter and knead for five minutes until the dough is smooth and elastic.
Wrap tightly in plastic wrap and let rest on the counter for at least 1/2 hour. This resting allows the gluten strands to align and makes the dough even more elastic.
To make the filling, roughly chop the garlic and onion and place it in a food processor. Pulse until fairly fine. Dice the lobster. Add the lobster, brandy, tarragon, salt and pepper and pulse until the lobster is minced.
Add the ricotta and pulse until just incorporated. taste for seasonings and adjust. It needs to be well flavoured, since only a small amount is in each ravioli. To divide the filling evenly you can mark the top in quarters, so you know how much to use per sheet of dough.
Cut the dough into four equal pieces. Starting on the widest setting, roll one piece out into a long sheet, ending on setting 6. Usual settings on a pasta roller go from 1 through 7 – 7 being very thin. You will end up with a sheet of pasta about 30" long by about 4.5" wide.
Dust a working surface with a little flour. Place the sheet down and begin to add filling. Using a teaspoon measure, drop 12 heaping spoonfuls onto one edge of the sheet, evenly spaced apart.
Using a small brush or your finger, wet the dough well around each pile of filling. Fold the dough up over itself. Seal each ravioli by pressing well using your palms and fingers. If you don't do this step well they ravioli will come apart while boiling.
Trim off the far edges of the ravioli sheet and then cut between. Place on a lightly floured surface if not freezing. If freezing, place on cookie sheets lined with plastic wrap. Do not overlap.
Repeat with the other 3 pieces of dough.
To cook, bring lots of salted water to a boil. If cooking fresh, boil for 3-4 minutes after the water comes back to a boil. If using frozen, cook for 6-7 minutes.
Sorry for the out-of-focus photo.
Combine the cream, garlic, tarragon and onion in a saucepan. Bring to a gentle boil and let reduce to half, stirring often so the cream doesn't stick to the bottom and burn.
Then add the tomato sauce, vodka, salt and pepper. Bring back to a gentle boil and let cook for another 2-3 minutes.
This sauce can be made ahead, sealed well and refrigerated for at least 3-4 days.
i am more of an 8 lobster/1 person kind of gal but these sure look good!


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package sampler.cluster.abc.algorithm.component

import sampler.cluster.abc.Scored
import sampler.cluster.abc.Weighted
import sampler.io.Logging
import sampler.math.StatisticsComponent
import sampler.cluster.abc.Model

trait WeigherComponent {
	this: StatisticsComponent =>

	val weigher: Weigher

	trait Weigher extends Logging{
		def getWeightOption[P](
				model: Model[P],
				scoredParticle: Scored[P],
				previousParamsWithWeights: Map[P, Double],
				tolerance: Double
		): Option[Weighted[P]] = {
			def getWeight(particle: Scored[P]): Option[Double] = {
				val fHat = particle.repScores.filter(_ < tolerance).size.toDouble / particle.numReps
				val numerator = fHat * model.prior.density(particle.params)
				val denominator = previousParamsWithWeights.map{case (params0, weight) =>
					weight * model.perturbDensity(params0, particle.params)
				}.sum
				if(numerator > 0 && denominator > 0) Some(numerator / denominator)
				else None
			}

			getWeight(scoredParticle).map{wt => Weighted(scoredParticle, wt)}
		}

		def consolidateToWeightsTable[P](population: Seq[Weighted[P]]): Map[P, Double] = {
			population
			.groupBy(_.params)
			.map{case (k,v) => (k, v.map(_.weight).sum)}
		}
	}
}

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Stronghold 2 » Forums » Stronghold 2: Game Help & Strategy » How was that Manager mod made?
Topic Subject: How was that Manager mod made?
Yo, it's the newest noob, on the forums. Thanks for havin' me.
I spent most of my night tonight searching for the Stronghold 2 Manager, the one that let's you add AIs to multiplayer matches, as my friend and I wanted to coop against AI's in Stronghold 2 (which he prefers over Legends, due to a bad experience with Siegfried's frost giants crushing his everything), and, as you probably already have guessed, the short investigation turned up very few leads, most of which lead nowhere.
The fact that the manager existed and that people claimed that it worked proves one of the following: It's possible to enable multiplayer AI, or a long time ago, there was a modding conspiracy that a bunch of people were in on that still manages to make people look stupid today.
Rdkill claimed that it was as simple as changing some 0's to 1's and that anyone could pull it off, but where are these 0's, and why can't I pull it off? For the life of me, I could not find any decompilers for the .dlls or .dat files that are in the stronghold 2 folders (not that's I've been trying for that long), so am I looking in the wrong place? Has the answer been staring me right in the face the whole time? Am I stupid, or is it not as simple as Rdkill claimed? Am I extremely tired having been up four hours longer than I meant to be? I can answer one of those questions, and the answer is yes, very much so.
Anyway, can anybody help me out here; answer my questions? Where would I look to enable the AI in multiplayer, and how would I go about editing the correct files, or am I just coming about this all wrong?
I'm new to modding games in general, let alone modding a game without mod support from the devs, so sorry if this whole thing just sounds absolutely noobish.
At this point, I've considered searching for the actual SH2 Manager to be a pointless effort, so I'd like for everyone to focus on the enabling AI thing above, but if somebody can get me the version of the SH2 manager for 1.4.1, I'd appreciate it.
I also hope it is possible to find it, I would also like to be able to play games you described against ai lords... Unfortunately this may be the answer.
Have you read that? Honestly, I haven't, I'm on my phone now, but maybe we could figure out what to do from that.
Sadly, no. That's where my search for this mod started. This is also where Rdkill states that it's switching 0's to 1's, but it's not actually stated what is done nor where it is done.
All that can be taken from that thread is that multiplayer AI can be enabled somehow, and that people wanted it and that it worked.
Everything you can google about the SH2 Manager, I probably already have seen. However, if anybody finds any information that seems prevalent, feel free to link it in the thread. I'm probably not the only person who could use the information.
That would be really great if we were able to play against ai lords in multiplayer. Did you manage to find any way we could contact rdkill?
I wrote a comment there, as the link given doesn't work. Also someone wrote there that it doesn't work with Steam version but only with retail version of the game.
Hehe, now back to bed.
Just to drop few more words here... I've taken a look into the old tread again and now I got feeling that I is not just about few 1's and 0's... I mean, he did enable Ai lords in mp, but there were some issues though which he needed to solve. Maybe he did all that but I just have a feeling that FF was aware of those issues and that that's the reason why the locked the option. It wouldn't be simply enabling the option - the game would need to be patched so it would work for everyone.
I have good news! One of the original fans of the mod sent the installation file. This is where you can download it from, but be aware, it is likely that your antivirus will detect it as a troyan. I believe that this is nothing harmful, and I will try it later. Right now I don't have the other PC of mine here, but I will have it tomorrow, so I will try it then.
Another issue is that they said it works with 1.3.1 version, so I am unsure whether this is going to with 1.4.1 version, but we shall see that. Even if it doesn't we are so much steps ahead than we used to be, and yes - many of us are able to reinstall the game and install the 1.3.1 version to have fun in multiplayer.
Also, another thing I would love if we could manage to solve is to get rid of the exe file if possible but that would exceed my knowledge.
It is my honor to serve!
I used Stronghold Manager for years.
Yes it did give most AV programs a false positive which as far as I know was never worked out. I simply manually added it to the exempt list in my AV.
So today I went to play SH2 with my son. We haven't played in around two years. First we discovered that multiplayer does not work anymore because GameSPY shut down. Then I found out GAMERANGER was hosting it but SH2 isn't listed on it and I found a few threads about many players having problems getting it to work.
It seems GAMERANGER may have given up on SH2.
Is anyone able to play SH2 in multiplayer anymore?
It is there actually, I have tried it right now. It would be a shame if they gave it up, as there are usually about five rooms open for the game.
When you run GameRanger, and when you are in the main window you can see a dropdown menu where you can choose list of games you want to see at a moment - you can choose "All Games", and you should be able to find Stronghold 2 there. You are also able to make your own list of some games - for example I have several lists and "Stronghold" is one of them where I included Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader (and Extreme), and Stronghold 2.
There are also ways to add a game manually if GameRanger doesn't manage to "detect" it itself, but we should see if that is necessary yet.


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2012 Spanish GP: post race Press Conference
Written by David on May 13th, 2012 at 10:34 pmLast Update: May 13th, 2012 at 10:34 pm
Q: Pastor, your first victory, brilliantly judged – describe your emotions?
Pastor Maldonado: "I think it's a wonderful day, not just for me but for all the team. We have been pushing so hard since last year to try to improve race by race and here we are. Yesterday we were here after a great qualifying and today we did it again. It was a tough race because the strategy as well, it was tough especially because of the rear tyres – after a couple of laps we were struggling with [them]. I need to say I'm pretty happy because the car was so competitive since the first lap. Fernando did a better start than me but I was just following the pace and it was so great. It's my first podium and my first victory and you can imagine what I feel."
Q: Fernando, second today and obviously a lot of progress for you and the team. And once again a blinding start.
Fernando Alonso: "Yeah, it was a fantastic start again. The team prepared quite nice again the clutch and everything – the procedure to do a good start. It was close on the straight until Turn One with Pastor, and then we had the better side, the inside. We took the momentum there and we led the race for the first part but then William's anticipated the stop and get in front and at the end it was close. We had a newer tyre than Pastor and we tried a couple of times but it was not possible out of the last corner. Then in the very last laps I felt the car was strange, we lost a lot of grip. Maybe we lost some aerodynamic part or something because we were very slow… (inaudible) …we were lucky at the end. Second place at home feels fantastic and thanks to the people that came here and the people at home and hopefully a step forward in terms of championship possibilities."
Q: Kimi, third today. You were a lot of people's favourite going into this grand prix. Do you think you and the team made all the right choices this afternoon?
Kimi Raikkonen: "We have to look. I'm a bit disappointed. I expected us to be a bit stronger in the race, especially at the beginning. At the end we were very good, but it was too late. We were not fast enough and quick enough to race and that's why we couldn't fight for a win. But we showed in the end that we have to speed but we just have to look at what we did. Maybe we took the wrong choice in the first pit stop. In the end, like I said we were not fast enough in the beginning and that cost us the race, so I was not so disappointed during the race because I saw that I couldn't follow them at the beginning. But at the end when you catch them up almost 20 seconds then you get a bit of a disappointed feeling afterwards, when you just needed a few laps to be even able to fight for the first place. That's racing and at least I scored some good points and we're going in the right direction."
Q: Back to you Pastor and this is the first Williams win since 2004. They managed to get you to jump Fernando at the second round of pit stops but he gave you some real pressure at the end didn't he?
Pastor Maldonado: "Yeah, it was so close. We were looking to manage the tyre degradation so I wasn't pushing that hard, just to keep the tyres alive for the end of the race and Fernando got too close. There were some moments that he was so close, especially at the end of the straight. But I was managing the gap and controlling everything. I think our pace today was pretty strong and the car looks fantastic. Even the team. We did a small mistake at the last pit stop but it doesn't affect our performance."
Q: Fernando, describe your feelings at the second stop when Pastor jumped you because you were caught up behind a backmarker in that critical lap weren't you?
Fernando Alonso: "Yeah, we were a little bit unlucky maybe. We had a Marussia but I think he got a penalty at the end. Obviously, it's not a solution now but hopefully people start to understand that they need to respect the rules and today again they didn't and they paid the penalty. It's more of a penalty the penalty we paid – maybe the race win – but yeah a little bit disappointed. But they [Williams] did a great job and they had the pace, because in the last stint, if we were faster than the Williams we had the opportunity to overtake but they were quicker than us so thy deserve the victory."
Q: Kimi, it's the second podium for you in a row. Do you feel a win is around the corner?
Kimi Raikkonen: "Yeah, twice already. Unfortunately you're not always going to get there. If you get the chance, you should take it because it's not every race that you will be able to fight for that position or even try it. Hopefully we can keep doing what we're doing now and at a certain point I'm sure that things will go exactly right and we can. But so far it's been a good step and the car has been strong everywhere. The next race is a bit different – Monaco – it's hard to say how it goes there. The team has done a good job and we have still work to do, things to improve. But so far it's going in a good way and I'm happy with it. OK, we're not 100% happy with it because we are not winning but that's a very normal thing and I'm happy for the team."
Q: As Kimi says, we go to Monaco next Pastor. That's one of your favourite tracks. What chance a back-to-back victory for you?
Pastor Maldonado: "I think it's going to be a great opportunity for us to be strong again. For sure I will be doing my best on the driving. The team is looking after the car so we need to continue like that. Keep pushing with the car, to develop it as soon as possible and consistency will be the important thing in this championship."
Q: When did you think you could win, because obviously there have been changing emotions, obviously you were second on the grid and then first on the grid and then obviously the start etc., When did you think this was possible?
Pastor Maldonado: "After the qualifying. Y'know, it was so great to start from the head, from the front and for sure the team did a great job to give me a car and I did my job on the qualifying. And then starting from the pole it's much easier, everything."
Q: And then obviously overtaken at the start…
Pastor Maldonado: "Yes, our start wasn't that great, Fernando had one better than us but after the first lap the pace was very competitive, the car looks very good and we were looking at the strategy, that's it."
Q: And what about the tyres at the end? Because obviously Fernando closed on you and then dropped back.
Pastor Maldonado: "When Fernando got close I was looking after the tyres, I didn't push that much, just because the big tyre degradation. We did an extremely good strategy today, everything under control, even some moments when Fernando got too close but we had a little bit better traction than him, using KERS and everything. So it was managing the race, looking for the gaps and the pace."
Q: You must have thought that with KERS, him within a second, at any moment it was going to happen – but it never did.
Pastor Maldonado: "For sure it was difficult from this morning because the gaps are so close between the top teams at the moment. When I saw that I was second in the first corner, 'OK', I said, 'the race is going to be long. We need to keep pushing, we need to prepare to change our strategy just to attack Ferrari and we did it. Everything was perfect, except the last pitstop. We had a big moment there but it doesn't affect our final result."
Q: Fernando, you got so close, right up there, and then it just went away I guess, and then by the end it looked as though you really were struggling on the tyres.
Fernando Alonso: "Yeah, it was close with ten laps to go, ten laps to the end. We were attacking Pastor when we were closing to within one second but then the last seven or eight laps we lost the grip, around Turn Seven I felt. I informed the team some corners after, in Turn Nine, to check if everything is OK because maybe we lost some aerodynamic part of the front wing or under the floor or something because we had no more grip at all. So, from that point the last seven laps, it was monitoring the distance and the gap with Kimi. We knew it was a very long last seven laps. At the end it was close. I think one lap more and Kimi overtake us. So we were lucky at the end and happy – happy with the weekend in general, not only with the race, because we had a very strong weekend, on Fridays with good practice, the car felt more or less competitive yesterday. I think we extract everything from the car again, maximise the potential of what we have in our hands and today the start was great, the race pace was good, at one point we were lapping one Red Bull in front of us with the blue flags, so… it's very strange. We were 57 seconds behind Vettel in Bahrain, and we were lapping Webber here. No one understands probably. Not us either."
Q: It really was that sudden when you lost the grip? It was almost like a switch.
Fernando Alonso: "Yeah, yeah, it was in turn seven, over the kerb maybe, something fall out of the car or something, we need to check. But it was difficult. As Pastor said, in the last corner, turn 16, it's difficult to follow anyone after the chicane, so we knew that when you lose the position at the pitstop, you have to have a big pace advantage if you want to overtake someone. With the difference and with the pace that Williams had today, we knew it was difficult."
Q: I suppose everybody in Italy wants to know, has Ferrari turned the corner? Are you now back in front again?
Fernando Alonso: "We'll see. I think when we are first and second in one qualifying and first and second in one race, we have to say that we have the best car. Until that moment we are fighting. I think this year is very difficult to have a pace advantage or to be happy with the car you have in your hands, because everything is so close. Consistency and continuous development will be important in this championship because two-tenths can be six or seven positions in one qualifying this year. But what we can say is we have probably the most difficult start of the championship in these three years in Ferrari, with a car that was not competitive at all, and we finish the first quarter of the championship, so this is the fifth race out of 20, and we are leading the championship, or the same points as Vettel, so we have to be very, very proud and very happy with the points we achieved and with the position. Maybe we have not to be so proud about how competitive we are but we are working on that."
Q: Kimi, tell us about the start, because that pretty much established your race.
Kimi Raikkonen: "Yeah, I had a pretty good start, nothing to complain about. I thought I would get the chance to overtake outside both of the first two but I didn't have enough speed in a straight line – I actually hit the limiter I think in fifth gear which kind of stopped my acceleration a bit but after that I didn't have the speed to hang on and hound them. I was pulling away from the guys behind me but I couldn't stay. The first stint was pretty OK but the second, I chose the soft tyre and I didn't have the speed to keep up with them. I'm a bit disappointed but I just tried to fight and then we changed the tyres and it seemed to turn out to be pretty good but we were just too far away. We need, like, ten more laps and then I think we could have been fighting for the win."
Q: Absolute charge at the end, your tyres were OK?
Kimi Raikkonen: "Yes, it was OK. I had two new sets of Prime but unfortunately I didn't have more sets of Prime anyhow to put in the first pitstop. The car was very good but just a bit too late for me. We fall off too much in the last stint to be able to fight for the win. But one more lap we could probably could have got Fernando – but it's easy to say after."
Q: And what did you tell the Finnish viewers just now?
Kimi Raikkonen: "It's Mothers' Day in Finland."
Q: So Happy Mothers' Day?
Kimi Raikkonen: "Yeah. I had nothing else to say to Finnish viewers."
QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR
Q: (Leonid Novozhilov – F1 Life) Kimi, second place in Bahrain, third place in Spain; is this the maximum for you or can you win?
Kimi Raikkonen: "The fact is the reason why I'm disappointed is because in the end if we have done everything right, we could have put ourselves into first place. The car has been fast enough but we've been doing small things not correctly and I've done some mistakes on my side but if everything was 100 percent OK we could have won. There's no issue with the speed of the car, but it's so close between all the teams and drivers that if you have a small problem or a small issue during the weekend then it's going to cost you a lot. If you're three tenths behind then you're suddenly not in the last qualifying. As you give yourself the chance to be fighting at the front, I think our car can do it but everything has to fall in the right place to be able to win."
Q: (Leonid Novozhilov – F1 Life) Pastor, you are now a national hero. Are you ready?
Pastor Maldonado: "For sure everyone is so happy in my country. I'm very lucky to have a country behind me, pushing so hard, to see me here in Formula One and especially to be here, between these guys. I'm pretty happy for Venezuela, I'm happy for Williams as well. They did a wonderful job to give me a great car for this race. We are getting better and better, race after race."
Q: (Adrian Huber – Agencia EFE) Fernando, after the first five races, and all the problems you're supposed to have in your team, no one has scored more points than you have now. How much more confident are you today than you were on Thursday, or on the inside were you expecting this?
Fernando Alonso: "No, I am a definitely surprised by the quantity of points that we have; I'm a bit surprised by today's result, or the weekend's results. We were confident of improving the car, we were hoping for some signs of improvement here in Barcelona. As I said, in Bahrain, we were nearly out of Q3 and then in the race, P9, one minute behind the leaders, so we arrived in Barcelona with some hope, some optimism about the upgrades but I think the result, the overall weekend pace has been a little bit better than expected, because we were quick in qualifying and quick in the race but this, in my opinion or how I feel after the weekend, I still don't know where we are. I think we need to wait for more races, for the championship to stabilise a little bit because I think we maybe over-performed a little bit compared with the potential we have and maybe some other teams under-performed or they had some problems to get their tyres working or something, because, as I said, some of the results that we saw this weekend feel very strange."
Q: (Carlos Miguel – La Gaceta) Fernando, if we take a look at the race, maybe it was a bad decision to stop so late after Pastor after you'd had the problem with the Marussia because it's so important in Formula One to stay in front from the aerodynamic point of view.
Fernando Alonso: "Yeah, obviously you never know. After the race it's always easier to review the strategy. The choice was always to stop on the same lap or one lap later than Pastor, always try to cover the position. When Williams decided to stop in the second pit stop, we had one Marussia in front of us for a lap and a half. When we saw that in the second sector, we were already exiting behind Pastor so at that point, we decided to keep going for a few more laps and try to get the opportunity at the end of the race, with a shorter stint. I think we didn't lose the win because of the Marussia because if you had the pace in the last stint, you had to overtake Pastor and we didn't because they were faster than us, but for sure, we went out of the plan because of the backmarker."
Q: (Jaime Rodriguez – El Mundo) Pastor, could you explain the start of the race, because you had a good fight with Fernando, and I want to know if you've received congratulations from your president in Venezuela?
Pastor Maldonado: "You know it wasn't the best start ever from us. I think the clutch slipped quite a lot. Fernando had a better jump than us. It was so close, I tried to defend the position but he was already on the better part of the track, so I decided to back off and follow him. At that moment, I thought that the race was long and we changed our strategy, to attack Ferrari. I think from the second stop we did pretty good and I think we surprised them because we did it so early.
And the call? No, not yet because I was on the podium before, so no time to even see my family, my people. Maybe he will call. I don't know."
Q: (Heikki Kulta – Turun Sanomat) Fernando and Kimi, did you believe that Pastor could be your main rival today, and if not, how big a surprise is it?
Fernando Alonso: "Yeah, I think so. We saw in general that during the weekend that Williams was good. Lewis was maybe the favourite for this race after the pace we saw from Ferrari on Friday and the pole position by half a second yesterday. With Lewis's penalty, Pastor was the strongest at the front so no surprises."
Kimi Raikkonen: "Williams have been quite fast for two races in certain points and I think, as we've said before, it's very difficult to say who is really the quickest overall because at one race one team is there and then suddenly they are tenth in the next race, so it's bit of an odd situation where we are this year, but it gives a lot of chances for all the teams who have the speed and when the tyres are working for them they are much better than the others. The tyres seem to be the key thing. If you get them working well you seem to be fast. Sometimes you just drop out of the window a little bit and you have a hard time."
Q: (Marco degli Innocenti – La Gazzetta dello Sport) Pastor you are the fifth winner in five races, so the top of the field seems to be very close. Do you put Williams and yourself among the possible winners of the championship?
Pastor Maldonado: "For sure we are a little bit backwards compared with the leaders, with Fernando and Vettel, but we need to keep working. We are not the best team at the moment. The car looked pretty good today, but I think we need to keep pushing some particulars at Williams, especially in the car, but everything is possible. The gaps are so close at the moment, I'm driving well, I have a good feeling with the team, with the car, so everything is possible. For sure we are looking to do our best, looking forward to winning some races, to getting a couple more podiums and I'm really happy because the team hasn't won many races for many years so this is a great moment for us. I hope to continue like that."
Q: (Livio Oricchio – O Estado de Sao Paulo) Pastor, you were in the same team last season. When you finished the season you were in front of only three teams: Marussia, Hispania and Caterham, and now you are in front of all of them; what has happened to explain such a change in performance from one season to another?
Pastor Maldonado: "We made big changes in the factory, we have new staff in some of the departments and completely changed the approach to building the car. I need to say that this year's car has great performance, great potential to become even stronger than it is and for sure, this is great for motivation, to motivate the team, the factory, to keep pushing like that. I think this is the way. We are motivated and we need to keep pushing."
Q: (Adrian Huber – Agencia EFE) Pastor, it looks like this could be a very long Sunday in Venezuela. Do you have any information as to what's going on now or can you imagine what might happen there?
Pastor Maldonado: "I can imagine that there will be a party everywhere but I don't know at the moment. I need to see some of the fans, my family there. I think everybody who saw the race and for sure all the people are happy at the moment and this is great for Venezuela after nearly thirty years without any driver in Formula One, so I think it's a great moment for our country."
Q: (Michael Schmidt – Auto, Motor und Sport) Fernando, you have already said that at the moment everything is possible and not many things are explainable which is very strange for Formula One. I don't think we ever had this situation before. Do you, as a driver, enjoy this uncertainty or would you like to have some more answers on open questions?
Fernando Alonso: "I don't know. I don't know how to answer. We probably like the unknown situation that we have now, so you arrive in Monaco next Wednesday and you don't know if you will be a winner or if you will be out of the points. That's what we feel at the moment, not only for us. But in a way, after eleven years in Formula One and seeing Ferrari dominate most of them, now that I'm at Ferrari, I would like to have more stability and a dominant car."
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Köppen Classification: Hot Summer Continental Climate
A humid continental climate is a climatic region typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. Precipitation is relatively well distributed year-round in many areas with this climate, while others may see a marked reduction in wintry precipitation and even a wintertime drought. Snowfall, regardless of average seasonal totals, occurs in all areas with a humid continental climate and in many such places is more common than rain during the height of winter. In places with sufficient wintertime precipitation, the snow cover is often deep. Most summer rainfall occurs during thunderstorms and a very occasional tropical system. Though humidity levels are often high in locations with humid continental climates, it is important to note that the "humid" designation does not mean that the humidity levels are necessarily high, but that the climate is not dry enough to be classified as semi-arid or arid.
The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Dfa". (Hot Summer Continental Climate).
The average temperature for the year in Genoa is 50.3°F (10.2°C). The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of 75.9°F (24.4°C). The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of 22.8°F (-5.1°C).
The highest recorded temperature in Genoa is 116.0°F (46.7°C), which was recorded in July. The lowest recorded temperature in Genoa is -32.0°F (-35.6°C), which was recorded in February.
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Genoa is 26.2" (665.5 mm). The month with the most precipitation on average is June with 4.5" (114.3 mm) of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is January with an average of 0.5" (12.7 mm). There are an average of 79.0 days of precipitation, with the most precipitation occurring in May with 10.0 days and the least precipitation occurring in January with 4.0 days.
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package com.supyuan.system.role;

import com.jfinal.plugin.activerecord.Db;
import com.jfinal.plugin.activerecord.Record;
import com.supyuan.jfinal.base.BaseService;
import com.supyuan.system.rolemenu.SysRoleMenu;
import com.supyuan.util.DateUtils;
import com.supyuan.util.NumberUtils;
import com.supyuan.util.StrUtils;

public class RoleSvc extends BaseService {

	/**
	 * 获取角色授权的菜单
	 *
	 * 2015年4月28日 下午5:01:54 flyfox 369191470@qq.com
	 *
	 * @param roleid
	 * @return
	 */
	public String getMemus(int roleid) {
		String sql = " select group_concat(menuid) as menus from sys_role_menu where roleid = ?";
		Record record = Db.findFirst(sql, roleid);
		String menus = record.getStr("menus");
		return menus;
	}

	/**
	 * 保存授权信息
	 *
	 * 2015年4月28日 下午5:00:30 flyfox 369191470@qq.com
	 *
	 * @param roleid
	 * @param menus
	 */
	public void saveAuth(int roleid, String menus, int update_id) {
		// 删除原有数据库
		Db.update("delete from sys_role_menu where roleid = ? ", roleid);

		if (StrUtils.isNotEmpty(menus)) {
			String[] arr = menus.split(",");
			for (String menuid : arr) {
				SysRoleMenu roleMenu = new SysRoleMenu();
				roleMenu.set("roleid", roleid);
				roleMenu.set("menuid", NumberUtils.parseInt(menuid));

				// 日志添加
				roleMenu.put("update_id", update_id);
				roleMenu.put("update_time", DateUtils.getNow(DateUtils.DEFAULT_REGEX_YYYY_MM_DD_HH_MIN_SS));
				roleMenu.save();
			}
		}
	}

}


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Алгоритм Брезенхе́ма () — это алгоритм, определяющий, какие точки двумерного растра нужно закрасить, чтобы получить близкое приближение прямой линии между двумя заданными точками. Это один из старейших алгоритмов в машинной графике — он был разработан  в компании IBM в 1962 году. Алгоритм широко используется, в частности, для рисования линий на экране компьютера. Существует обобщение алгоритма Брезенхэма для построения кривых 2-го порядка.

Алгоритм
Отрезок проводится между двумя точками —  и , где в этих парах указаны столбец и строка соответственно, номера которых растут вправо и вниз. Сначала мы будем предполагать, что наша линия идёт вправо и вниз, причём горизонтальное расстояние  превосходит вертикальное , то есть наклон линии от горизонтали — менее 45°. Наша цель состоит в том, чтобы для каждого столбца x между  и  определить, какая строка y ближе всего к линии, и нарисовать точку .

Общая формула линии между двумя точками:

Поскольку мы знаем колонку , то строка  получается округлением к целому следующего значения:

Однако, вычислять точное значение этого выражения нет необходимости. Достаточно заметить, что  уменьшается от  и за каждый шаг мы добавляем к  единицу и добавляем к  значение наклона (в нашем случае значение наклона будет отрицательным числом):

которое можно вычислить заранее. Более того, на каждом шаге мы делаем одно из двух: либо сохраняем тот же y, либо уменьшаем его на 1.

Что из этих двух выбрать, можно решить, отслеживая значение ошибки, которое означает вертикальное расстояние между текущим значением y и точным значением y для текущего x. Всякий раз, когда мы увеличиваем x, мы увеличиваем значение ошибки на величину наклона s, приведённую выше. Если ошибка превысила 1.0, линия стала ближе к следующему y, поэтому мы увеличиваем y на 1.0, одновременно уменьшая значение ошибки на 1.0. В реализации алгоритма, приведённой ниже, plot(x,y) рисует точку, а abs возвращает абсолютную величину числа:
  function line(int x0, int x1, int y0, int y1)
      int deltax := abs(x1 - x0)
      int deltay := abs(y1 - y0)
      real error := 0
      real deltaerr := (deltay + 1) / (deltax + 1)
      int y := y0
      int diry := y1 - y0
      if diry > 0
          diry := 1
      if diry < 0
          diry := -1
      for x from x0 to x1
          plot(x,y)
          error := error + deltaerr
          if error >= 1.0
              y := y + diry
              error := error - 1.0

Проблема такого подхода в том, что с вещественными величинами, такими как error и deltaerr, компьютеры работают относительно медленно. Кроме того, при вычислениях с плавающей точкой из-за ограничений, связанных с представлением вещественных чисел, невозможно получить точные значения при делении. Это приводит к тому, что в процессе вычислений происходит накопление ошибки и может привести к нежелательным результатам. По этим причинам лучше работать только с целыми числами. Это можно сделать, если умножить все используемые вещественные величины на (deltax + 1). Получаем следующий код:

  function line(int x0, int x1, int y0, int y1)
      int deltax := abs(x1 - x0)
      int deltay := abs(y1 - y0)
      int error := 0
      int deltaerr := (deltay + 1)
      int y := y0
      int diry := y1 - y0
      if diry > 0
          diry := 1
      if diry < 0
          diry := -1
      for x from x0 to x1
          plot(x,y)
          error := error + deltaerr
          if error >= (deltax + 1)
              y := y + diry
              error := error - (deltax + 1)

Необходимость прибавлять единицу к deltax и deltay вызвана тем, что функция должна строить линию от точки (x0, y0) до точки (x1, y1) включительно! Теперь мы можем быстро рисовать линии, направленные вправо-вниз с величиной наклона меньше 1. Осталось распространить алгоритм на рисование во всех направлениях. Это достигается за счёт зеркальных отражений, то есть заменой знака (шаг в 1 заменяется на −1), обменом переменных x и y, обменом координат начала отрезка с координатами конца.

Рисование окружностей
Также существует алгоритм Брезенхема для рисования окружностей. По методу построения он похож на рисование линии. В этом алгоритме строится дуга окружности для первого квадранта, а координаты точек окружности для остальных квадрантов получаются симметрично. На каждом шаге алгоритма рассматриваются три пикселя, и из них выбирается наиболее подходящий путём сравнения расстояний от центра до выбранного пикселя с радиусом окружности.

    // R - радиус, X1, Y1 - координаты центра
    int x := 0
    int y := R
    int delta := 1 - 2 * R
    int error := 0
    while (y >= x)
        drawpixel(X1 + x, Y1 + y)
        drawpixel(X1 + x, Y1 - y)
        drawpixel(X1 - x, Y1 + y)
        drawpixel(X1 - x, Y1 - y)
        drawpixel(X1 + y, Y1 + x)
        drawpixel(X1 + y, Y1 - x)
        drawpixel(X1 - y, Y1 + x)
        drawpixel(X1 - y, Y1 - x)
        error := 2 * (delta + y) - 1
        if ((delta < 0) && (error <= 0))
            delta += 2 * ++x + 1
            continue
        if ((delta > 0) && (error > 0))
            delta -= 2 * --y + 1
            continue
        delta += 2 * (++x - --y)

Литература

См. также

 Алгоритмы построения отрезка
 Алгоритм Ву
 Алгоритм DDA-линии

Геометрические алгоритмы

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US seeks to assuage Asian allies after North Korea summit
By Josh Lederman THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — The United States and its Asian allies worked Thursday to paper over any semblance of disagreement over President Donald Trump's concession to Kim Jong Un that the U.S. would halt military exercises with South Korea, with Trump's top diplomat insisting the president hadn't backed down from his firm line on North Korea's nukes.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, meeting with top South Korean and Japanese diplomats, put a more sober spin on several moves by Trump after his summit with Kim that had fueled unease from Washington to Tokyo and Seoul. He said Trump's curious claim that the North's nuclear threat was over was issued with "eyes wide open," and brushed off a North Korean state-run media report suggesting Trump would grant concessions even before Pyongyang fully rids itself of nuclear weapons.
"We're going to get denuclearization," Pompeo said in the South Korean capital. "Only then will there be relief from the sanctions."
On the joint U.S.-South Korea drills that Trump 'Äî after meeting Kim 'Äî said would be terminated, Pompeo added a key caveat that the president had failed to mention: If the mercurial North Korean leader stops negotiating in good faith, the "war games" will be back on.
The words of reassurance from Pompeo came as diplomacy took place in the uncertain aftermath of the summit Tuesday in Singapore, the first between a sitting American president and North Korea's leader in six decades of hostility. In the village of Panmunjom along the North-South border, the rival Koreas on Thursday held the first high-level military talks since 2007, focused on reducing tensions across their heavily fortified border.
Yet even as U.S. and South Korean officials sought to parlay the momentum from the dramatic summit into more progress on the nuclear issue, there were persistent questions about whether Trump had given away too much in return for too little.
Trump's announcement minutes after the summit's conclusion that he would halt the "provocative" joint military drills were a shock to South Korea and caught much of the U.S. military off guard, too. Pyongyang has long sought an end to the exercises it considers rehearsals for an invasion, but U.S. treaty allies Japan and South Korea view them as critical elements of their own national security.
So Pompeo had some explaining to do as he travelled to Seoul to brief the allies on what transpired in Singapore.
In public, at least, South Korea's leader cast the summit's outcome as positive during a short meeting with Pompeo at the Blue House, South Korea's presidential palace. President Moon Jae-in, an avowed supporter of engagement with North Korea, called it "a truly historic feat" that had "moved us from the era of hostility towards the era of dialogue, of peace and prosperity."
Still, there were signs as Pompeo met later with the top Japanese and South Korean diplomats that concerns about the freeze had not been fully resolved. South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha, speaking in Korean, told reporters afterward that the military drills issue "was not discussed in depth."
"This is a matter that military officials from South Korea and the United States will have to discuss further and co-ordinate," Kang said.
The U.S. has stationed combat troops in South Korea since the end of the Korean War and has used them in a variety of drills. The next scheduled major exercise, involving tens of thousands of troops, normally would be held in August.
Pompeo, the former CIA director, planned to fly to Beijing later Thursday to update the Chinese government about the talks. North Korea's economic lifeline, China has been praised by Trump for ramping up economic pressure on the North that the U.S. believes helped coax Kim Jong Un to the negotiating table.
The summit in Singapore did mark a reduction in tensions — a sea change from last fall, when North Korea was conducting nuclear and missile tests and Trump and Kim were trading threats and insults that stoked fears of war.
Kim is now promising to work toward a denuclearized Korean Peninsula. North Korean state media heralded claims of a victorious meeting with the U.S. president. In Pyongyang, photos of Kim standing side-by-side with Trump on the world stage were splashed across newspapers.
Trump seemed equally ecstatic. As he landed Wednesday in Washington following the summit, he declared on Twitter that America and the world can "sleep well tonight."
"There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea," Trump wrote, even though North Korea has yet to give up any of its fissile material, estimated by independent experts to be enough for between about a dozen and 60 nuclear bombs.
Pompeo rejected the suggestion that Trump's Pollyannaish assertion was premature. He said Trump was proceeding "with eyes wide open" to the prospect that diplomacy may falter, and that Trump was merely reflecting the historic nature of his confab with Kim. The Korean War ended in 1953 without a peace treaty, leaving the United States and North Koreas in a technical state of war.
With the Trump-Kim summit concluded, the baton was being passed to lower-level U.S. and North Korean officials, who Pompeo said would likely resume meeting as early as the next week to hash out details of a disarmament deal, sure to be a complex and contentious process. He said the U.S. was hopeful North Korea would take "major" disarmament steps before the end of Trump's first term in office, which concludes in January 2021.
In the brief, four-point joint statement that emerged from the summit, North Korea committed "to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula" 'Äî a promise it has made and reneged on several times in the past 25 years.
The statement made no mention of verification, despite Trump's longstanding insistence on "complete, verifiable and irreversible" denuclearization. But Pompeo bristled at reporters who pressed him about that apparent omission, calling questions on the topic "insulting and ridiculous."
The omission is irrelevant, Pompeo said, adding that he was confident the North Koreans fully understood that verification would be a necessity. He pointed out that the statement makes reference to a previous agreement that did mention verification, and argued that as a result, the Trump-Kim statement automatically "incorporates" verification without having to state it outright.
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Leah DouPhotography Jade Jackman
Getting to know China's youngest pop prodigy
We speak to Leah Dou, the daughter of two of China's most successful musicians who played her first UK show at London's O2 arena before she was 20 years old
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Opening for one of the UK's biggest bands is a big deal in itself, but doing that at London's humongous O2 Arena when you're only 19 years old is practically unheard of. But when Chinese singer Leah Dou took to the arena stage while supporting Bastille – her first ever UK show, no less – she coolly enraptured audiences with her haunting song "woo 舞" (currently unreleased), commanding them to dance in mandarin.
That Dou is so confident with her music at such a young age maybe shouldn't be such a surprise. Her parents, musicians Faye Wong and Dou Wei, are musical royalty in China – they've described as the Beyoncé and Jay Z of the country, and Leah Dou featured on one of her mother's songs when she was just one year old. Music runs in her veins, but she's discovered a unique sound of her own thanks to her insatiable appetite for new music. "Every day I'm searching for new music," she says, "This is one of the reasons I loved the British tour so much. Constantly, you're swapping songs with people and hearing about tunes from others who've devoted their lives to music."
Dou's debut album Stone Café – released earlier this year – is full of ethereal vocals, arching pianos, and anthemic pop choruses. Songs veer from the groovy "My Days" to the hypnotic "Chimes", though Dou admits that she finds it difficult to pinpoint where her influences come from. "Everything I listen to influences me, whether I notice it or not," she says, "I think it's all stored in the subconscious – some more than others." Her readiness to be affected by music gives her sound a unique quality, unrestrained by form.
We caught up with the singer ahead of a busy 2017 that will see her continue to tour in the west and work on her second album.
Having just come off tour with Bastille, how does it feel to be one of the first – and probably youngest – Chinese singers to support a major UK band?
Leah Dou: The tour was an incredible experience. I feel extremely honoured to be the first Chinese artist to support a UK band. But to be honest, that never really crossed my mind while being on tour. I think what excited me the most was to be playing with local musicians and really understanding what it's like to be on a bus full of people that are passionate about music, (both) yours and theirs. And, of course, I got to play to a different crowd every night. It's such a rewarding feeling. It feels like I'm really getting to connect with the people in the UK with my music.
"I love the whole touring culture – with the bus, taking the band (on the road), and travelling – that we don't have in China" – Leah Dou
Is touring in the UK much different to doing shows across China?
Leah Dou: I think the biggest difference will probably have to be the way my music is received. Generally I sing in English, so sometimes I worry about whether people can connect with my music or not. But in the UK, that becomes a given. Plus, I love the whole touring culture – with the bus, taking the band (on the road), and travelling – that we don't have in China.
We usually hear that young people are addicted to Instagram, and a lot of celebrities are famous because of it. Does this also apply to you in China? What's your approach to social media?
Leah Dou: I think that's definitely found in China as well – in fact, an addiction to social media can be found in most parts of the world. In my view, social media and the internet is exactly what you make of it. It can do great things through raising awareness, connecting new people from all over the world and it allows me to share my music. It's just about usage; social media contains more information than you're personally ever going to have just by living your life. In that way, I think it draws a lot of people in. It's easy to forget that none of that is going to make you feel good about yourself! I want to be able to live a life where I'm not going to get anxious or feel bored if I'm not constantly on my phone. For me it's about finding a good balance.
Your music flits between electronic, jazz, and your ethereal vocals. Can you tell us about three songs that had the biggest impact on your sound?
Leah Dou: When I first heard it, I was in love with 'Something About Us' by Daft Punk. There weren't a lot of vocals, yet the emotion was conveyed so accurately. Another one that comes to mind is 'Creep' by Radiohead. Even though I've heard that the band themselves hates that track, I was really moved by what felt like honesty in their lyrics and vocals. That's something that can't be easily done; there's a certain rawness and openness, but also subtlety. Lastly, it would have to be 'Mykonos' by Fleet Foxes. This song really paints a picture for me every time I listen to it. I've never been to Mykonos, but the song gives me such a strong image of a place full of warmth. I can't say those three will always remain though, we're always changing.
"What excited me the most (about the UK) was to be playing with local musicians and really understanding what it's like to be on a bus full of people that are passionate about music" – Leah Dou
After having your first London show at the O2, 2017 must be looking busy for you…
Leah Dou: I hope so! In January, I'll be touring the States, and I'm working on my second album, due to be released in spring 2017. I kinda got a vibe for the UK after the tour so I'll get to return to play some more shows after the release and shoot a music video in Europe.
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A: Short answer: A java.util.LinkedList can contain null entries.
Detailed answer: Your code is in the constructor of the class, so it's virtually impossible that some framework (FXML) could have put values into NA_1, NA_2, ..., NA_9. So you are now adding nine uninitialized fields to your LinkedList. Uninitialized fields in Java are always null. So your list contains 9 elements, all of which are null.

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Famous 19th Century Nurses
Find out more about the greatest 19th Century Nurses, including Florence Nightingale, Margaret Sanger, Vera Brittain, Clara Barton and Edith Cavell.
Vote for Your Favourite Nurses
1 Florence Nightingale
Famous As: Founder of Modern Nursing
Birthplace: Florence
The Lady with the Lamp Florence Nightingale is remembered for her relentless efforts in nursing soldiers during the Crimean War. She founded London's St Thomas' Hospital to train nurses. She also pioneered the use of the polar area diagram and was the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society.
2 Margaret Sanger
Famous As: Activist
Birthplace: Corning, New York, United States
Margaret Sanger was an American writer and sex educator. She is credited with popularizing the term birth control. A birth control activist, Sanger established the first birth control clinic in America. She also set up organizations that later became the well-known non-profit organization Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She also played a key role in legalizing contraception in the US.
3 Clara Barton
Famous As: Nurse
Birthplace: North Oxford, Massachusetts, U.S.
4 Mary Seacole
Famous As: Heroine of the Crimean War
Birthplace: Kingston, Jamaica
Mary Seacole was a British-Jamaican nurse, businesswoman, and healer. She played a major role during the Crimean War, providing aid for wounded servicemen and nursing them back to health. In 1991, Seacole was posthumously honored with the Jamaican Order of Merit. In 2004, she was named the greatest black Briton for her contribution during the war.
5 Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia
Birthplace: Alexander Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia
6 Violet Jessop
Birthplace: Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Died: May 5, 1971
7 Marie of Romania
Famous As: Consort
Birthplace: Eastwell Park, Kent, England
8 Elizabeth Kenny
Famous As: Nurse & Health Administrator
Birthplace: Warialda, New South Wales
Elizabeth Kenny was an Australian bush nurse. A self-trained nurse, Kenny pioneered a new and then-controversial method to treat the victims of poliomyelitis. Her method, which she advocated enthusiastically, became the foundation of physiotherapy. Her life and career inspired the 1946 American biographical film Sister Kenny, in which she was played by Rosalind Russell.
9 Lillian Gordy Carter
Famous As: Nurse, Politician
Birthplace: Richland
10 Ethel Roosevelt Derby
Birthplace: Oyster Bay (hamlet), New York
11 Constance Kent
Birthplace: England
12 Agnes von Kurowsky
Birthplace: Germantown
13 Nella Larsen
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
14 Lillian Wald
Famous As: Humanitarian, Nurse, Activist
Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio
15 Mary Eliza Mahoney
Birthplace: Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
16 Aurora Quezon
Birthplace: Baler
17 Mary Kingsley
Famous As: Writer
Birthplace: Islington, London, England
English ethnographer and traveler Mary Kingsley was the daughter of renowned physician and traveler George Kingsley and the niece of Charles Kingsley. Unlike girls of her era, she was well-educated and later ventured on an exploratory trip to West Africa, becoming the first European to enter remote areas such as Gabon.
18 Sarah Emma Edmonds
Birthplace: Magaguadavic, Canada
19 Naomi Mitchison
Famous As: Novelist
Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland
Known for authoring books such as Memoirs of a Spacewoman and The Conquered, Naomi Mitchison was also a driven socialist. She served as an advisor to Botswana's Bakgatla tribe and had also been a farmer. Honored with numerous awards and honorary doctorates, she lived till age 101.
20 Mary Breckinridge
Famous As: American nurse
Birthplace: Memphis, Tennessee, United States
21 Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Famous As: Medical worker
Birthplace: Knox County, Ohio, United States
Died: November 8, 1901
22 Marie Marvingt
Famous As: Athlete
Birthplace: Aurillac, in Cantal, France
23 Elizabeth Hesselblad
Birthplace: Fåglavik, Sweden
24 Clara Maass
Birthplace: New Jersey, United States
25 Princess Marie-Louise of Madagascar
Famous As: Princess
Birthplace: Saint-Denis, Réunion Overseas Department of France
26 Nellie Cashman
Famous As: Restaurateur
Birthplace: Midleton, County Cork, Ireland
27 Charles Atangana
Birthplace: Mvolyé, Yaoundé, Cameroon
28 Elsa Brandstrom
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
29 Mary Adelaide Nutting
Famous As: Nurse educator
Birthplace: Quebec, Canada
30 Harriet Boyd Hawes
Famous As: Archaeologist
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
31 Louise McManus
Birthplace: North Smithfield, Rhode Island, United States
32 Manuela de la Santa Cruz y Espejo
Famous As: Journalist
Birthplace: Quito, Viceroyalty of New Granada
33 Mabel Keaton Staupers
Birthplace: Barbados Island, Barbados
34 Jane Delano
Birthplace: Montour Falls, New York, United States
35 Julia Dempsey
Famous As: Religious Sister
Birthplace: Salamanca, New York, United States
36 Mary J. Safford
Birthplace: Hyde Park, Vermont, United States
Died: December 8, 1891
37 Florence A. Blanchfield
Birthplace: Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States
38 Mărgărita Miller-Verghy
Famous As: Nurse, Linguist, Writer, Literary historian, Literary critic, Essayist, Children's writer
Birthplace: Iași
39 Sue S. Dauser
Birthplace: Anaheim, California, United States
40 Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
41 Lucy Minnigerode
Birthplace: near Leesburg, Virginia, United States
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Sanders Surrogates: "Continue With Purpose and Urgency" As Impeachment Looms
Posted January 18th, 2020 at 3:29pm by Josh Cook
Senate impeachment proceedings will officially begin in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, finally giving us a chance to see the answer to the question we've been asking for some time: how does this change caucus campaign strategies?
There are multiple senators that will be stuck in D.C. for impeachment, leaving Joe Biden, Andrew Yang, Pete Buttigieg and Tom Steyer free to roam the state, campaigning as they wish.
Surrogates At The Ready
Each campaign has amassed a number of national surrogates for them, many of whom have already been out to Iowa at least once.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has built quite a list of high-profile surrogates, including Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Congressman Ro Khanna, former state Sen. Nina Turner, Dr. Cornel West, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry's, a ton of celebrity endorsements, and many more.
It remains to be seen if Iowa will be viewed as a "all hands on deck" situation, but expect to see at least a few of these people in Iowa between now and the caucus.
Despite being up in the polls in Iowa right now, the Sanders campaign is not getting complacent. Dr. Cornel West and national co-chair Nina Turner stopped by the Starting Line office for a chat about their feelings on the race leading up to Feb. 3.
"We're proud of our ground game, and we know what it takes to win Iowa," Turner explained. "We know that Iowa is very communal, this is not the type of state that you're going to win on social media; you can't just be a social media warrior. You gotta knock on doors, you gotta make phone calls, you gotta talk to people at grocery stores, you gotta have the types of meetings that we're having. People are receptive here."
Dr. West acknowledged their campaign's work ethic, and noticed a similarity in the people of Iowa. He hopes that can stimulate a bond.
"The beautiful thing is the resiliency of the people of Iowa; it's really quite an amazing thing to witness," Dr. West said. "Way out in the country, in rural areas, they're struggling trying to keep the grocery store going, fighting to keep their organization going, people got little, small churches and the mosques and the synagogues. And that's part-and-parcel of the fighting spirit of the Sander's campaign."
Overall, their campaign isn't planning any big strategy change. They're out in front in Iowa with little time left to go, and Turner explained that while the feel of events may change, they're still putting their heads down.
"I know for some, it might seem like, 'oh, he's off the trail so they have to do something different.' No, we just gonna do more of the same. Dr. West might be on the road a little more, but he's always been on the road," Turner said. "Don't get caught up in the trap of polls; they're a snapshot in time. Sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down. You're thrilled when your candidate is up. When they're not up, you say, 'to hell with the poll.'"
Despite their deemphasizing of polls, they did admit that being up provides, at the very least, positive energy.
"Being up right now really gives our team the boost we need to push through, but you can't rest on that," Turner explained. "The 19-day [now 16] countdown just makes it much more important that we continue doing what we can to win."
Differences in Messaging?
In light of the news-cycle that came out of the private conversation between Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sanders has been reserved in comments.
The two made quick work of the conversation during the most recent debate, though they did have a quick engagement afterward that drove the news cycle further.
Turner commented on the situation, in which she was more blunt than Senator Sanders himself was on the debate stage.
"In terms of the rhetoric, we're a message," Turner said. "This is a campaign about changing the material conditions of people in this country, in the ways in which the Senator has a vision to do that. Dr. West and I may deliver it different than the Senator, but we're in tune, in rhythm with him."
In regard to the discrepancy with Warren, West said their job is to continue to be an effective part of that message, nothing else.
"For us, we don't want to be distracting. We've got our eyes on the prize, in terms of the momentum of solidarity of all of us coming together," Dr. West explained. "Myself, I don't like any attempt to tarnish the personal integrity of my brother, but that's just my personal opinion, in that sense."
The plan will remain largely the same — talk to people where they are about the issues that matter there.
"Just talk to the people about their suffering. We just met with the Iowa Black Caucus, they're talking about their concerns that, one, people need to know that black people exist in Iowa; that's real," Turner said.
"In the end, it's really all about integrity and solidarity; that we vouch for the personal integrity of our dear brother Bernie Sanders," Dr. West explained. "We don't want anything to stand in the way of the momentum of that solidarity, which is multi-racial, multi-gendered, multi-generational, multi-religious and multi-regional, and it has to do with issues of truth and justice."
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Eleanor Wilson McAdoo writes Jessie Wilson Sayre with news from Lyme, CT.
It isn't any use taking your hint and pretending that I have had the mumps or typhoid fever or something else dangerous and exciting, because you'll be getting here soon enough to find out that it wasn't strictly accurate, in other words that it was a—untruth, let us say. I'm just a lazy, mean scamp as I always have been and always will be—and you haven't really been surprised at the lack of letters from me, have you? But I am working tho', Jeddydarlin, I'm not just sitting around holding my hands and refraining from writing to my angel sister. Oh, honey child, you don't know how much I'm missing you—it seems so queer to be here without you rooming all by myself. I don't think I'll ever forgive you that last week you've gone and stuck on. You're such a baddy. We certainly were glad to get your letters and know that you weren't completely stewed and weren't working yourself quite to death. I'm so glad you are really enjoying it all in spite of the weather, and oh, Jetty what fun that horseback ride must have been and what "scrummscious" things the riding man did say about you. You're a wonder, "and no mistake." But if you go and decide to stay another day longer than the fifteenth I'm coming to get you, and when I'm there I'll kick up an awful row and tell the Bradfords what I think of them for depriving a poor, blameless family of their daughter and sister—which means you Perhaps if I hurry up and tell you how thrilling Lyme is this year you'll take the next train immediately. Well, there are about three artists here, one of them—German looking and rather harmlessly pleasant, the other a stick and married—(wife not here) and the third a stick. Then there is a bunch of women, which has changed its make up, but not its size, constantly ever since we arrived. At present there is Mrs. Robinson, Mr and Mrs Mason (don't ask me why I put him with the women, probably because they don't seem to be ever separated except at meals.) Mr. Perkins married sister —(minus the husband) two ladies from Hartford (one is a Virginian, alas, in the winter time) and the Wilsons. Tantchen has gone to Buffalo to visit Charlotte Mulligan, and the Smiths have departed for Ogunquit for two weeks.
As for "our crowd" h-m-m, in isn't it? If I've left any out it's because their whereabouts or occupation hasn't been reported to me yet. (Oh yes, there's the fianceé—Mr. Woodhead—he's in Chicago—nobody seems to know as, as far as I can make out, what he's doing. But, as Mary Chadwick told me, "he'd probably be here for the wedding!") I haven't seen much of any of them for the Sabines only arrived about a week ago, and I haven't sought the others. Seeing them at church is the most I've done. Which reminds me that the church is lovely, almost an exact copy. It certainly is a pleasure to go to it. Now about me, most important and inevitable subject. I waited a week "for luck", and then dove into art. Its fun when I finally arrive at the impossible places that the class chooses to hide themselves. All of last week they went two miles away from here, that is—to the ferry and I nearly died of heat getting there. Really it was awful—two of the girls nearly had sunstrokes from it. So I went two days and the rest of the time painted up here and then took one small thing to the criticism yesterday. (Mr. Dumond said "Yes, thats pretty pretty nice"—and then tore it to pieces figuratively. It really is an awful joke—my painting at all, but, except in my blue times, I'm having fun daubing around. Mother is painting hard of courses and doing some ever so nice rock studies. Father hasn't been having much of a rest so far as he has had to go into New York a good deal for committees etc, but he's looking very well. Margie arrived safely on Monday, pretty tired out by her world travelling but is rested now. She left the houses Howes ! still getting settled, putting up mosquito nets and finding cooks etc.
McAdoo, Eleanor Wilson, 1889-1967, "Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre," 1910 July 11, WWP17456, Jessie Wilson Sayre Correspondence, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.


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"Some of the issues that I have been able to figure out as Secretary, DeitY, Member of Telecom Commission and a common man are quality of service, the need to discuss Net neutrality and expediting digitisation of broadcast services. All this will be done while keeping in mind interest of all stakeholders," Sharma told reporters here today.
NEW DELHI: Former IT secretary, Ram Sewak Sharma on Monday took charge as the chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) for three years. Sharma's appointment was notified last month.
The post had been lying vacant since Rahul Khullar retired in mid-May. A 1978 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Jharkhand cadre, Sharma resigned from the government services to take the top job at the telecom regulatory authority. He was due to retire in September this year.
The issues that Sharma will have to deal with include making crucial recommendations on the licensing structure to the telecom department and on 'net neutrality' – a concept that guarantees consumers equal and non-discriminatory access to all data, apps and services on the Internet.
The regulator had received immense flak – on social media and from lawmakers alike - over the past few months after it floated a consultation paper that sought views on whether app makers need to be regulated and brought the broader net neutrality issue into public focus. It needs to make its recommendations on the issue after having completed the consultation process. Trai is also due to initiate the consultation process on addressing the issue of call drops and recommend pricing of airwaves in the 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 2100 MHz, 2300 MHz and 2500 MHz bands to the department of telecom.
A total of 77 applicants, including a string of high-profile bureaucrats, were in the race for the post. Sharma's high performance as the IT secretary is believed to have tilted the scales in his favour. As the DeitY secretary, Sharma has been spearheading the Modi government's key policies on Digital India. The Digital India project launched by the Prime Minister on July 1 aims to make all government services available to citizens electronically, ensure high-speed Internet connectivity in rural areas across the country and make India a preferred destination for electronics manufacturing and ICT solutions, among others. DeitY is the coordinating agency for the project, which could garner Rs 4.5 lakh crore in investments from companies and create 18 lakh jobs.
"An excellent choice (as Trai chairman). I've worked closely with him. When I was the founding chairman of UID (Unique Identification Authority of India), Sharma was No. 2, he was mission director and later director general," Nandan Nilekani, former Infosys CEO and one of the most respected names in the Indian information technology space had earlier told ET while speaking of Sharma.


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A Theological Diagnosis
A New Direction on Genetic Therapy, 'Disability' and the Ethics of Healing
Matt Edmonds
As society becomes progressively dominated by an ideology of healthy living, Matt Edmonds makes a vital critique of contemporary efforts to remove 'disability' from the world around us. Surveying the logic and language of both secular and religious health movements, Edmonds highlights the misplaced generalisations and dubious values that cumulatively serve to undermine individual inclusion and well-being on a day-to-day basis.
'A Theological Diagnosis' seeks a new direction. From the resources of Christian theology it finds a paradigm with which to examine the infections of genetic theory, faith healing and the meaning of 'disability' so as to prescribe a way forward for both believer and non-believer alike. Combining history, theology and thoughtful analysis, this is a prescription that none of us can afford to ignore. Quite simply, there is little time left.
Press reviews for: A Theological Diagnosis
A superbly argued book, A Theological Diagnosis is well supported by its bibliography and indices and will be of enormous assistance to all of us living or working with disability.
Disability & Society
This book will be of some use to theologians, clergy and lay readers seeking new insights on disability and healing. Although written from a Christian perspective, the book is relevant to non-Christians with an interest in the ethics of genetic technologies. Edmonds' theology of healing is bold; his exploration of ethics in relation to 'faith healing' has much to offer a church that does not often critique its own approaches to health and illness.
CHOICE Magazine
[A] historically grounded, theologically astute, and pastorally insightful book...unique in its accessibility for readers unfamiliar with more technical theological debates
THIS lovely study seeks to overturn prevalent conceptions about "disability", and to offer a more loving and graceful approach to individuals with all their distinctive and varied differences. It challenges some of the all-too-prevalent assumptions made in claims for both genetic intervention in the secular world and for faith healing within many Churches. Instead, it offers an approach that the author hopes could be adopted by secular and religious people alike.
Well referenced and indexed this is a complex book, difficult to summarise briefly but well worth reading.
This is an important publication which should be included in bioethics, pastoral theology and ecclesiology reading lists. Most of all, it will appeal to anyone who cares that the Church be truly Christ-like and our society truly human.
Advances in genetic technologies raise important theological questions. Edmonds (independent scholar) directs his historically grounded, theologically astute, and pastorally insightful book toward Christian communities struggling with genetic technologies' ethical and pastoral implications. The book gives a good overview of the history of genetic exploration, and of the debates over those explorations, set within a Christian theology of personhood. This theology focuses on ways that identities are formed in relationship rather than being radically autonomous, and how that relational knowledge should shape theological and ethical thinking. Among recent titles on genetics, this book is unique in its accessibility for readers unfamiliar with more technical theological debates. Large theology collections will find it a useful addition.
This book has a bold intention, namely, to examine genetic therapies through alternative lenses, including not just a perspective from theological reflection but also from those who suffer disabilities. As an academic achievement this book bears the marks of its origin as an MPhil thesis.
John Gillibrand
Modern Believing
Matt Edmonds... produced an enormously significant book... recommended both to theologians and to those engaged in day-to-day pastoral work... One of the particular strengths of the book is setting theology at the heart of contemporary concern.