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I am so excited to be a member of the 2022-2023 Laidlaw Scholars cohort at the University of Toronto, where I am an undergraduate student studying neuroscience, political science, and economics. My Laidlaw research aims to answer the question of how hospital working groups can address cancer care treatment disparities affecting members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community. As a case study, I will focus on the Sexual and Gender Diversity in Cancer Care (SDGc) Working Group at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto. I am excited to connect with other Laidlaw scholars, and look forward to learning more about the Laidlaw projects underway in Toronto and around the world.
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I am a final-year law student from Ireland and I have a particular interest in socio-legal research. I like finding connections between the structure of our legal system and various social-demographic features of the population that it governs. Saying that however, I really am interested in all areas of law and I'm sure I will find other interesting research rabbit holes to wander down in the future.
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I am a member of the University of Leeds' 2021 Laidlaw Scholar Cohort. My self-defined project explores the representation of concurrent themes of nature and isolation in 20th century and contemporary literature. I study English and History of Art and have a love of all things books, art and the outdoors! I also run a zine that features contributions from young creatives across the UK.
Please take a look at my blog which delves into my research project a bit deeper here: https://outdoorfiction.blogspot.com/
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Hi there! My name is Asha, and I am a second-year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, studying global health, political science, and psychology. My Laidlaw research project is focused on determinants of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among minority populations in Canada, and potential approaches to vaccine outreach and education. I'm always eager to chat about topics in global health, particularly those related to public health policy, planetary health, and social epidemiology!
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I'm a medical student at the University of York interested in immunology, public health, as well as education and leadership within health care! My research project is about understanding how mutations in immune cells impact a certain group of rare bone marrow disorders (MPNs) that can lead to cancer.
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Hi! My name is Claudia, and I'm an undergraduate philosophy student at TCD. My Laidlaw research project regards the public's reaction to the Covid-19 related lockdown measures, with a view to providing some insight into the current socio-political zeitgeist. I'll be doing this with the help of the work of political theorist & philosopher Hannah Arendt.
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Hi, I'm Jessica Mahon, and I am interested in genetics, both from a conservation and a human standpoint. I'm in 3rd year of Human Genetics at Trinity College Dublin. I'm from Ireland and speak both English and Irish. I spend my spare time taking part in yoga, meditating and enjoying the outdoors.
My Laidlaw research project is based on the genetic susceptibility of amphibians to chytridiomycosis disease to find a new conservation method for susceptible amphibian species. I'd love to chat with others who are interested in genetics and science!
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Hi, my name is Pearls; I am a third-year Law (Industrial) student at Leeds. I am currently in a placement year at The Walt Disney Company as a CPGP Contract Management Intern! My first-year research project looked at the way game-based learning could be incorporated into Multi-Academy Trusts (aka MATs) to improve the academic attainment and classroom engagement of GCSE-year black students. For my Leadership-in-Action project in 2023, I will be travelling to Peru with MakeSense to plan ways to empower the indigenous communities which reside in the country.
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The Walking Dead: When they premiere and who stars Tales of the Walking Dead
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The Walking Dead released the second third of eight episodes of season 11 in October 2021 and it ran until the end of February. The date of the third and last part with which a total of 24 deliveries will be completed, is yet to be confirmed. Meanwhile, broadcast network AMC and the hit franchise are preparing to release an upcoming anthology spinoff called Tales of the Walking Dead.
Tales Of The Walking Dead Will Feature Origin Stories For Some Well-Known Characters Within The Franchise
It was in October 2020, when The Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang announced that The Walking Dead franchise would develop the third spin-off Tales of the Walking Dead. Filming began in early 2022 and will feature a total of 6 episodes, which will focus on new and existing characters, who were part of the original series' past stories.
The new series will delve into the backstories of the characters. One of them is well known to fans of The Walking Dead. Alpha, the leader of The Whisperers played by Samantha Morton, will be returning to the walker universe and is currently the only familiar face in the spin-off.
Meanwhile, in addition to Morton, the previously announced Tales of the Walking Dead cast includes Terry Crews, Olivia Munn, Anthony Edwards, Daniella Pineda, Poppy Liu, Parker Posey, Jillian Bell, Jessie T. Usher, and Danny Ramirez. So far, their characters have not been revealed, but more details are expected when the release date is getting closer. The franchise has also not revealed which other characters belonging to the universe will return.
Samantha Morton Will Reprise Her Character Alpha For Tales Of The Walking Dead
Tales of the Walking Dead opens this summer 2022 through the AMC chain and on the AMC+ streaming platform. However, the network has not revealed the specific date that the new spinoff will begin airing with its six standalone stories. The franchise is also developing other projects that will appear on the screen in 2023.
The franchise, inspired by the work written by Robert Kirkman, also plans to launch a spin-off series next year focused on Maggie and Negan, the characters of Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan who will be present in a new story far from Atlanta. Norman Reedus' character Daryl Dixon is also getting a spin-off, however, neither AMC nor The Walking Dead's chief content officer Scott Gimple hasn't revealed enough details.
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HARTFORD — The Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes will not participate in a request for proposals for a Bridgeport casino if the General Assembly chooses to issue one, tribe leaders told legislators Thursday.
The chairmen of the two Connecticut tribes, which own Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun, said they might be interested in a Bridgeport site, but have no desire to compete against private casino companies when a tribal compact with the state gives them exclusive rights to operate slot machines in Connecticut.
MGM Grand has already announced plans for a $700 million seaside resort in Bridgeport and a job training center in New Haven. It has promised the city 7,000 jobs and millions in revenue.
On Friday, the General Assembly's Public Safety and Security Committee passed legislation directing the state to seek bids for a new casino, possibly in Bridgeport. The bill will have to be voted on by the House and Senate, before any RFP goes out.
If legislators choose to issue the RFP, the announcement that the tribes will not compete with MGM sets the scene for a difficult choice.
Lawmakers could be forced to decide whether to accept MGM's offer, ending the tribe's exclusive rights in the state and forgoing millions each year in revenue from the tribe's slot machines. Or they can reject the MGM proposal — and those of any other companies who might bid — and keep the status quo.
In 2017, the tribes paid the state $247.64 million from their slots, according to the Office of the State Comptroller. The tribes have contributed more than $7 billion in revenue since the compact was signed, tribe officials said.
Attorney General George Jepsen issued an opinion last week that passage of the bill would not break the compacts between the state and the tribes.
Rodney Butler, chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council, said if Connecticut were to issue an RFP, it would be like him telling his wife of 23 years that he was planning on going on a singles cruise.
"As it's been drafted, we just can't support it," he said of legislation.
They also argued that a possible Bridgeport casino will have the projected big, new pull on the New York market, citing another casino development in that state. Butler said the casino would not create new jobs in the state, but merely "steal" jobs from the existing casinos.
Sen. Michael McLachlan, R-Danbury, chair of the Government Administration and Elections Committee which oversees tribal compacts, expressed worries Thursday about the legislature pursuing a deal with other casino companies.
Some lawmakers Friday argued the state should consider its options through an RFP.
"Bridgeport is in need and it's time to take a look at this," said Rep. J.P. Sredzinski, R-Monroe.


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McDonald's changes: self-order, new menu, new décor and table service
By Daniel Contreras / Friday, 18 Nov 2016 04:57PM
McDonald's is renewing its methods and focusing on hospitality. Europe, Australia, and Canada are already living the fast food chain 's new experience and now is America's turn. The first states to see the new McDonald's and their innovative services are Florida, New York, and Southern California.
People will have the freedom to make their own order using touch-screens with more choices and the guarantee to get what they want. Payments got easier, and now users can pay their meals using Android or Apple Pay and even using Google Hands-Free Payment.
for those who do not like to pay from their phones, cash registers are still part of McDonald's new concept. Image Credit: McDonald's Australia
New menus will make you think harder before deciding what are you going to eat because McDonald's is adding new quality ingredients and premium options in the company's Signature Crafted recipes.
Technology is also taking over the drive thru service and a screen showing people the most "timely and relevant" options will include the new menus. Also, McDonald's is eliminating double-lane drive-thrus to get satisfied customers quicker.
The most revolutionary change of this new trend is that McDonald's in America will have table service in an effort to improve the company's hospitality. Their new concept is to make people feel more welcomed and less stressed. Thus, decoration also changed, and now the restaurant's style is contemporary, colorful and digitized.
While some of the new changes reduce human interactions, the others enhance them. The transformations in McDonald's restaurants is changing how people see the company.
McDonald's new ideas have already been tested and proved that their new concept is what everybody was waiting without knowing it
The mentioned changes in McDonald's around the world have been well received, and 2,600 restaurants and Europe, Australia and Canada can prove it. Internationally, the new image of the fast-food chain shows more satisfied clients, more use of technology to order and pay, and better sales.
Since evolving Canada's experience inside McDonald's restaurants, net sales have improved. In France, the new déco has reform client's experience and up to 70 percent of them have stated to be more satisfied.
Australia has also seen how sales growth has consistently gone up since McDonald's is offering so many new options. Touch-screens, ordering and paying by yourself in a restaurant is definitely a new thing, and more people are enjoying the freedom they are receiving. Kiosk usage in UK's new McDonald's has increased from 18 percent to 25 percent.
And finally is US big chance to start enjoying McDonald's new trend of better serving customers by improving hospitality and modernizing the environment and the services. According to the company's official website, more than 500 American restaurants has been rolled to start offering their new concept.
In 2017 McDonald's will expand its innovative ideas to more states in the US including Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and Washington D.C. The company is already preparing itself for the arrival of the new concept to more states. The focus of the chain's transformation is hospitality, and McDonald's is making sure its crew members are prepared to offer it.
If you are too curious to wait for the new themed restaurants, is your lucky day because McDonald's also developed a Virtual Reality Experience to let you know in advance how the company's future is going to look like.
The 'Just for You' campaign lets you explore in a 360 video how the McDonald's on your corner could be transformed. The déco makes the restaurants almost unrecognizable, and it's colorful, but fresh environments combined with the self-order kiosks are the contemporary touch that makes McDonald's new concept such a success internationally.
McDonald's wants to be a better McDonald's
McDonald's US incoming president Chris Kempczinski stated that the company does not know exactly when they are going to start working in the 2017 McDonald's restaurants that are planned to be located in Washington D.C. Boston. Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle. They are waiting data from markets test to decide; Mr. Kempczinski told Business Insider.
When talking about the new changes to come to America, Kempczinski said that table service has been more than welcome by families. Going to McDonald's requires you order before starting to enjoy the restaurant and children are not the most patient people to wait in a line to order and then carry your meal.
"Taking your kids to McDonald's should be a fundamentally… fun experience, but, the initial stages of it can be quite stressful when you're trying to place the order, you're trying to get it right, you're trying to get the drinks, you're trying to search for a table, and your kids are running around," Chris Kempczinski told Business Insider.
Concerns were raised when people started to realize that self-order kiosk could reduce personnel in the restaurants. But Mr. Kempczinski cleared the air and said that McDonald's investment in technology would not affect staff because the jobs "taken" by the touch-screens are compensated with table service.
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John in Brisbane says:
Interesting. It was news here in Oz about a year ago that US McDonalds sales had been dropping in recent years and that their restaurants there mainly hadn't been updated. At the same time, sales of sugary drinks are apparently dropping in many countries. Probably a good think. Coke has apparently been buying up non-sugary drink companies lol. I McD's is trying to arrest the slide, which must be harder there due to more competition from more chains of other types of fast food.


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Apple's 'iPad Mini' Trademark Application Initially Denied, but Resolution Should Be Simple
Monday April 1, 2013 8:15 am PDT by Eric Slivka
Over the weekend, Patently Apple reported that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had refused Apple's trademark application for the term "iPad mini". While some such as The Verge's Nilay Patel were quick to note that the refusal was simply a first office action that is nowhere near final, the refusal does offer an interesting glimpse into the thinking of patent examiners.
The examiner's primary objection to Apple's application takes the view that the term is "merely descriptive" rather than creating a unique brand name that is worthy of protection. The examiner argues that all elements of the name, including "i", "Pad", and "mini" are not unique to the product being named.
The term "IPAD" is descriptive when applied to applicant's goods because the prefix "I" denotes "internet." According to the attached evidence, the letter "i" or "I" used as a prefix and would be understood by the purchasing public to refer to the Internet when used in relation to Internet-related products or services. [...]
The term "PAD" is also descriptive of the applied for goods. The term "pad" refers to a "pad computer" or "internet pad device", terms used synonymously to refer to tablet computers, or "a complete computer contained in a touch screen." [...]
The term "MINI" in the applied for mark is also descriptive of a feature of applicant's product.Specifically, the attached evidence shows this wording means "something that is distinctively smaller than other members of its type or class".
The examiner goes on to suggest a means by which Apple could argue for uniqueness, noting that the company would have to specifically claim that its existing "iPad" trademark has acquired distinctiveness. This would appear to be a trivial argument for Apple to make, but it seems that it did not do so in its initial "iPad mini" application.
The examiner also notes that Apple should include a disclaimer noting that it is only attempting to claim a trademark on "mini" when used as part of the entire "iPad mini" term, as other companies should be permitted to use the descriptive term "mini" for their own products.
As a secondary objection, the patent examiner ruled that Apple's specimen submitted with the application was insufficient to prove that it was for a product being offered for sale. Apple's specimen showed the iPad mini overview page as it appeared at launch last year, with the examiner arguing that the "iPad mini" text and the "Buy Now" button were not in close enough proximity.
The mark and picture of the goods on the specimen are not sufficiently proximate to the "buy now" tab, and it is thus unclear what consumers would be purchasing by clicking on this tab.
Apple's "iPad mini" trademark specimen
As with the prior objection, the examiner in this case offers Apple several means to rectify this issue, including using an alternative specimen that more clearly shows the item is being offered for sale as of the date being claimed in the application, or a shift to an "intent to use" application that requires no initial specimen and instead requires that Apple simply show that at some later date it did indeed offer the item for sale.
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Is this examiner crazy or what ?
I'm baffled. The buy button isn't close enough and the consumer wouldn't know what they were buying ?
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As weird as it sounds, I kind of understand the examiner's points about the iPad mini name...but his or her point about the "buy now" button is essentially calling consumers idiots.
The patent examiner's explanations for the "i," "Pad," and "mini" trademarks are hilarious!
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For I and pad yes. Particularly since i=internet was an Apple 'invention'.
The "i" prefix was NOT an Apple invention. Apple's ad agency was simply following the popular trend of the time.
We've been over this many times before. Reference my post showing dozens of "i" device trademarks that predated Apple's usage:
https://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=16795467&postcount=265
As for "pad" computer, that's an old term just like "slate".
This application should be able to go through after Apple makes the changes that the examiner asked for, such as denying any claim to the word "mini" by itself.
It's basically the same sequence Apple went through when applying for "App Store". They were first denied because they used common descriptive words, same as in this case.
Then they came back and re-applied on the grounds of "Acquired Distinctiveness", and provisionally got it. (Microsoft filed an opposition, and it's all still pending.)
the prefix "I" denotes "internet." According to the attached evidence, the letter "i" or "I" used as a prefix and would be understood by the purchasing public to refer to the Internet when used in relation to Internet-related products or services. [...]
The lower case "i" prefix has denoted Intel micro-controllers since the 1970's... when referring to technology products.
e.g. i8080, i286, i386, i5, i7, etc.
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Video Game Music Compilation 46 - The Super Smash Bros. Brawl Special!
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Real talk: who doesn't like Smash Bros? Even if you somehow don't enjoy the combat or the huge collaboration of classic (or not so classic) and memorable (or not so memorable (or memorable in how unmemorable they are)) characters, if you're a fan of VGM you're always in for a treat. Because with each new Smash Bros game there are more characters from more game bringing more VGM to the table for a good ole remixing, and let me tell you that these remixes are the bomb-diggity. Seriously, these are a major factor as to why I still love Brawl so much to this day.
Molgera Battle - Super Smash Bros Brawl
You can tell from the moment the rather odd "chicka" vocals are introduced that you're listening to something with a fast pace. Well it's not too terribly fast actually, but just fast enough for a boss fight. If you pay attention to all of the different layers, everything seems to go at it's own unique pace. Some layers, like the flute or "chicka" vocals, are fast in pace. Some, like the violins, are a bit slower for the most part. Others can be anywhere in between. It's a weird song but it's beautiful and works well to give off the atmosphere of the boss fight it portrays.
Mute City - Super Smash Bros Brawl
The beginning? Enchanting. The rest? Enchanting + metal. It's beautiful, really. The changes in pace, the melodies that blend into one another so easily, and even the choice instruments makes this whole piece sound somewhat magical. It's got a real sense of power that it portrays through the metal, and then a sense of serenity during the moments like the beginning. I've always found it ironic how the piece with the title "Mute City" is one of the most rocking songs I've heard. It's hard not to listen to how the metal gives way to the more beautiful parts (that somewhat remind more of some themes in Super Monkey Ball). It's just so hard.
Corneria - Super Smash Bros Brawl
Beep boop beep bop! Oh what a good beginning to a song from a game taking place in space. The fast pace is very noticeable, seeming to give off that "push yourself past your limits" vibe. It's memorable melodies and use of orchestral instruments as well as others work well to get you hyped. It just feels like you're on some sort of mission when you listen to it. You just HAVE to get stuff done when it's being played. You have to. Get something done. Now.
Stickerbrush Symphony - Super Smash Bros Brawl
Being one of the most revered songs in the existence of VGM, how the hell could you make this song better, or at least debatably so? Well if you quicken the pace, use a high quality orchestra, and just keep that some magic and charm of the original you might just have a chance! I say "might", but for me it is a definite yes. It's just so beautiful and now hyped up with a fast pace? Astoundingly well done. Masterful. I mean come one, with such great source material it's no wonder how this is one of the greatest remixes of all VGM history.
Main Theme - Super Smash Bros Brawl
I just want to say up front that while I really don't think this fits Smash Bros, I love it a lot. It reached down into some part of my soul that had yet to be reached down in. Maybe it's the latin choir (or at least I'm sure it's latin), maybe it's the booming orchestra in the background, or maybe it's the changes in pace, but whatever it is I can't help but hold it dear. It's epic and adventurous, and with all of the latin words you can't help but think that this piece is telling some story. I know that when it truly come down to it this song is just a specific array of varying frequencies, but these frequencies get to me.
Well while that last one wasn't a remix I hope you get the point about the beauty of the Smash Bros OSTs. They are a goldmine of remixes and while I only went over some you can trust me when I say that there are plenty more where these came from. So really, go check them out!
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Yo! People here know me in the blogs as "that flash games guy" and in the q-posts as the guy always going on about his (beloved) snowcone job. Life is rough, but sandpaper a bit rougher, so while I sometimes struggle to find time and energy to whip up a blog I try my best!
I do my best to add to the community, but life is also large, so I struggle to correlate with anything anyone says around here. And I kinda like that. It's a funny dynamic.
One thing you'll notice about my VGMC (Video Game Music Compilation) series is that most of it is not on my little blog here on the good ol' D-toid. VGMCs 1 - 38 are on my own website so if you want to see those (which have lots of amazing VGM) you'll have to go there.
Random Favorite Games (not including flash games):
-Treasure Adventure Game
-Fallout 2
-EarthBound
-OFF
-Cave Story
Random Favorite Flash Games:
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-Pause Ahead
-Castaway II: Isle of the Titans
-The Power
-Elephant Quest
-The Last Stand: Union City
Current Favorite Game OSTs:
-Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game
-Super Stickman Golf 2
Games I'm Hyped For:
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-Splasher
-Fancy Pants World 4
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Review: David Gray reflects on time in folk-electronic album
David Gray, "Gold in a Brass Age" (IHT Records)
David Gray's lively folk record "Gold in a Brass Age" features his signature mix of electronic and folk. Both genres bring strength to the album: folk with its lyrical depth and storytelling style, electronic music with its added push.
The genre-cross works on most songs, as the album grapples with the passing of time.
The energetic, yet delicate "The Sapling" speaks of focusing on growth rather than "the ghosts of better days" with layered vocals and a choir that joins in. Gray's gruff vocals come in on "Watching the Waves" as he wonders "Just how long can it be/'Till that melody strays," in a song written after the death of a close friend.
The balance of electronic and folk is masterfully struck in most songs, but some feel forced into this trajectory. Rather than providing Gray a creative tool in the form of genre intersectionality, it at times feels like a chain only holding him back.
The title track, a catchy and thoughtful tune, may have been better served without electronic additions. A cuckoo clock sound effect is used in this song about time and distracts more than enhances the track.
The album is more experimental than Gray's past work. In "Mallory," distorted and layered vocals crescendo to an angelic peak resonating underneath Gray's voice as he sings.
There's a sense of searching on this 11-track album that stays light-hearted. The world around him is changing, but, as he sings in "A Tight Ship," he remains resolved to "dance like no one sees."


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Cosmic dust is submillimeter debris shed by comets, asteroids, moons, and planets. These small particles are the largest source of extraterrestrial material accreting on the present-day Earth. Although atmospheric entry heating and terrestrial weathering modify many particles, some are pristine primitive extraterrestrial materials that contain high abundances of isotopically anomalous presolar grains and primitive carbon compounds that have not been altered since their formation. Analysis of cosmic dust provides invaluable information on initial planetary building materials and formation of our Solar System.
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Cosmic Dust: Building Blocks of Planets Falling from the Sky
By Donald E. Brownlee | June, 2016
Throughout its history, Earth has accreted microscopic dust falling from space. Decelerating from cosmic speeds at the top of the atmosphere, the smallest particles can take weeks to reach the ground, failing a rate of 1 m−2 day−1. Although usually hidden among terrestrial materials, extraterrestrial particles can be collected from select environments and positively identified by their unique properties. Unmelted cosmic dust is often composed of large numbers of smaller silicate, sulfide, and organic components—the preserved materials from the early Solar System. Cosmic dust particles are samples of comets and asteroids and they are important samples of the initial materials that were to build the solid planets.
Cosmic Dust: Finding a Needle in a Haystack
By Susan Taylor, Luigi Folco and Scott Messenger | June, 2016
Collecting cosmic dust is a tricky business! Despite Earth's surface being showered by thousands of tons of comic dust every year, such dust is quickly lost in a sea of terrestrial particles. Finding the tiny cosmic treasures requires collecting dust from the cleanest environments where the terrestrial particle background is low. The stratosphere can be sampled via high-flying aircraft, whereas sampling cosmic dust from polar regions and the deep sea requires techniques that concentrate the particles. Collection efforts are worth it. Cosmic dust derives from every dust-producing object in the Solar System, including ancient Solar System materials, possibly even interstellar materials, of a type not found in meteorites.
Composition of Cosmic Dust: Sources and Implications for the Early Solar System
By George J. Flynn, Larry R. Nittler and Cécile Engrand | June, 2016
Many cosmic dust particles have escaped the aqueous and thermal processing, the gravitational compaction, and the impact shocks that often overprint the record, in most larger samples, of how Solar System materials formed. The least-altered types of cosmic dust can, therefore, act as probes into the conditions of the solar protoplanetary disk when the first solids formed. Analyses of these "primitive" particles indicate that the protoplanetary disk was well mixed, that it contained submicron grains formed in a diversity of environments, that these grains were aerodynamically transported prior to aggregation, which was likely aided by organic grain coatings, and that some minerals that condensed directly from the disk are not found in other materials. These protoplanetary aggregates are not represented in any type of meteorite or terrestrial rock. They can only be studied from cosmic dust.
Organic Matter in Cosmic Dust
By Scott A. Sandford, Cécile Engrand and Alessandra Rotundi | June, 2016
Organics are a significant component of most cosmic dust, as revealed from actual samples of extraterrestrial dust in the Earth's stratosphere, in Antarctic ice and snow, in near-Earth orbit, and in asteroids and comets. Cosmic dust contains a diverse population of organic materials that owe their origins to a variety of chemical processes occurring in many different environments. The presence of isotopic enrichments of D and 15N suggests that many of these organic materials have an interstellar or protosolar heritage. The study of these samples is of considerable importance because they are the best preserved materials of the early Solar System available.
Geochemical Tracers of Extraterrestrial Matter in Sediments
By Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Greg Ravizza and Gisela Winckler | June, 2016
Every year, tens of thousands of tons of cosmic dust accumulate at the Earth's surface, representing a continuation of the accretion process that started 4.57 billion years ago. The unique geochemical properties of these materials, compared to the Earth's surface, render them excellent tracers of Solar System, atmospheric, oceanographic, and geologic processes. These processes can be recovered from the records preserved in marine and terrestrial sediments, including snow and ice. We review evidence from these natural archives to illuminate temporal and spatial variations in the flux and composition of extraterrestrial material to Earth, as well as the terrestrial processes that affect the distribution of extraterrestrial tracers in sediments.
Cosmic Dust Toolbox: Microanalytical Instruments and Methods
By Andrew J. Westphal, Gregory F. Herzog and George J. Flynn | June, 2016
When cosmic dust particles were first identified almost 140 years ago, few would have predicted that much would ever be known about these miniscule objects, given the existing state of the art in analytical techniques. Times have changed. Today, in a single extraterrestrial dust particle, we can detect all the elements present, measure isotopic ratios, determine the exact crystalline structures of the minerals and the oxidation state of cations in those minerals, and even resolve individual atoms. The results are telling fascinating stories about the nature and histories of the particles that come to Earth. We review the most common techniques that help unravel these cosmic stories.
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Dong Cheng (died 11 February 200) was a Chinese military general who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. He was also the father of Lady Dong, a concubine of Emperor Xian.

Life
Dong Cheng's origins are obscure: the Qing dynasty scholar Zhao Yiqing deduced that he was from the same clan as Dong Zhuo, while the Liu Song dynasty historian Pei Songzhi claimed that he was a nephew of Empress Dowager Dong, the mother of Emperor Ling ( 168–189).

Dong Cheng served as a military officer under Niu Fu, a son-in-law of the warlord Dong Zhuo, who controlled the Han central government and the figurehead Emperor Xian ( 189–220) between 189 and 192. His service under Niu Fu ended in 192 following Dong Zhuo's death and Niu Fu's assassination by his subordinate Huchi'er (胡赤兒).

In 195, Emperor Xian managed to escape from the generals Li Jue and Guo Si, who had been holding him hostage in Chang'an since 192, and return to the old imperial capital, Luoyang. Dong Cheng, Zhang Yang, Yang Feng, the White Wave Bandits and other loyalists came to protect the emperor from Li Jue and Guo Si, who attempted to capture him and bring him back to Chang'an.

After Emperor Xian and the loyalists reached Luoyang, internal conflict broke out between Dong Cheng and Yang Feng, who had support from the White Wave Bandits. Dong Cheng then chose to ally with the warlord Cao Cao. When Cao Cao showed up in Luoyang with his forces, Dong Cheng reported Han Xian and Yang Feng's wrongdoings to Emperor Xian and forced them to leave. Cao Cao then received Emperor Xian and escorted him to his own base in Xu (許; in present-day Xuchang, Henan), which became the new imperial capital.

As Emperor Xian feared that Cao Cao would attempt to dominate him and the central government and use him as a "trump card" against rival warlords, in 199 he appointed Dong Cheng as General of Chariots and Cavalry (車騎將軍) to balance against Cao Cao's influence in the imperial court. The emperor also gave Dong Cheng permission to open his own office and have his own staff – in the same way as Cao Cao did. Dong Cheng's daughter also became a concubine of Emperor Xian.

In the first lunar month of the year 200, Dong Cheng allegedly received a secret imperial edict from Emperor Xian ordering him to eliminate Cao Cao, so he contacted a few officials and plotted with them to assassinate Cao Cao. These officials included Zhong Ji (种輯), Wang Zifu (王子服), Wu Zilan (吳子蘭) and Liu Bei. However, Cao Cao caught wind of their plot and had them arrested. He then charged them with treason and had all of them (except Liu Bei, who had already fled) executed along with their families. Dong Cheng's daughter, who was pregnant at the time, was also killed despite Emperor Xian's efforts to save her.

See also
 Lists of people of the Three Kingdoms

Notes

References
 Chen, Shou (3rd century). Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi).
 Fan, Ye (5th century). Book of the Later Han (Houhanshu).
 Pei, Songzhi (5th century). Annotations to Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi zhu).

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200 deaths
2nd-century Chinese people
Han dynasty generals
People executed by the Han dynasty

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300 attend 'Through the Eye of the Camera' opening at Backus Museum in Fort Pierce
Visitors to the exhibition are invited to share their own vote for their favorite work on display. The results will be tallied for the annual People's Choice Award given at the close of the exhibition.
300 attend 'Through the Eye of the Camera' opening at Backus Museum in Fort Pierce Visitors to the exhibition are invited to share their own vote for their favorite work on display. The results will be tallied for the annual People's Choice Award given at the close of the exhibition. Check out this story on tcpalm.com: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/specialty-publications/luminaries/st-lucie-county/2019/05/31/through-eye-camera-photographs-display-fort-pierce-gallery-until-june-21/1303686001/
J. Marshall Adams, Special to TCPalm Published 5:08 p.m. ET May 31, 2019
2019 'Through the Eye of the Camera' Exhibit
Ken Currie and exhibiting artist Dawn Currie with her Best of Show "Great Egret Mating Display" at the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery for the "Through the Eye of the Camera" exhibition opening May 17. Wendy Dwyer/Special to TCPalm
Exhibiting artist Chester Smith, left, and Janie Hinkle, of Jiffy Photo & Framing, at the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery for the "Through the Eye of the Camera" exhibition opening May 17. Wendy Dwyer/Special to TCPalm
Exhibiting artist Shelly Polvere, with her First Place – Mobile Category piece "My Backyard Yoda" at the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery for the "Through the Eye of the Camera" exhibition opening May 17. Wendy Dwyer/Special to TCPalm
Sponsors Jiffy Photo & Framing representatives Mike and Janie Hinkle, left, Backus Museum Executive Director J. Marshall Adams, Ginny Faitella, Samantha Byron, Ashley Hillman and Anthony Inswasty at the "Through the Eye of the Camera" exhibition opening May 17. Wendy Dwyer/Special to TCPalm
Maria Young, left, and Skip Bursh at the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery for the "Through the Eye of the Camera" exhibition opening May 17. Wendy Dwyer/Special to TCPalm
Cris Adams and Judy Coffman at the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery for the "Through the Eye of the Camera" exhibition opening May 17. Wendy Dwyer/Special to TCPalm
Exhibiting artist Susan Blouin, left, and Howard Stickler at the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery for the "Through the Eye of the Camera" exhibition opening May 17. Wendy Dwyer/Special to TCPalm
Suzi James, Janis Brown and Kathleen Clarke at the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery for the "Through the Eye of the Camera" exhibition opening May 17. Wendy Dwyer/Special to TCPalm
Deche Hamill, left, and Tony Panasci at the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery for the "Through the Eye of the Camera" exhibition opening May 17. Wendy Dwyer/Special to TCPalm
Exhibiting artist Belinda Adkins, left, and Gail Sheets at the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery for the "Through the Eye of the Camera" exhibition opening May 17. Wendy Dwyer/Special to TCPalm
Lauren Poole, left, and Robin and Dave Poole at the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery for the "Through the Eye of the Camera" exhibition opening May 17. Wendy Dwyer/Special to TCPalm
Museum staff Jenny Shibona and Board of Directors member Katie Enns at the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery for the "Through the Eye of the Camera" exhibition opening May 17. Wendy Dwyer/Special to TCPalm
Keeping the appetizers coming! Pat Donaldson, left, Elaine Brennan, Special Events Coordinator Pam Gillette, Louise Summerhays, Janis Brown and Sue Ritter at the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery for the "Through the Eye of the Camera" exhibition opening May 17. Wendy Dwyer/Special to TCPalm
The A.E. Backus Museum & Gallery in Fort Pierce held the opening reception for its annual juried photography exhibition "Through the Eye of the Camera" on May 17 to an estimated crowd of 300 animated, art-loving patrons and guests.
Sponsors Jiffy Photo & Framing representatives Mike and Janie Hinkle, left, Backus Museum Executive Director J. Marshall Adams, Ginny Faitella, Samantha Byron, Ashley Hillman and Anthony Inswasty at the "Through the Eye of the Camera" exhibition opening May 17. (Photo: Wendy Dwyer/Special to TCPalm)
This year's exhibition features more than 100 of the year's best photographs, drawn from 302 submissions by 115 professional and amateur photographers from across the Treasure Coast and beyond.
The competition offers cash prizes across eight photographic categories, and this year special gifts from Canon U.S.A. for the most compelling images selected by the panel of judges of Aric Attas, Susan Pantuso and Thomas Winter.
From the dark room to Photoshop and beyond, the advances in technology are dramatic and in some cases even spectacular. The exhibition showcases some of the most notable uses of technology in the hands of artists, creating a wide variety of beautiful images that are at once, moving, humorous, whimsical, touching, and powerful.
Maria Young, left, and Skip Bursh at the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery for the "Through the Eye of the Camera" exhibition opening May 17. (Photo: Wendy Dwyer/Special to TCPalm)
"Through the Eye of the Camera" is on view through June 21. Visitors to the exhibition are invited to share their own vote for their favorite work on display. The results will be tallied for the annual People's Choice Award given at the close of the exhibition.
"Through the Eye of the Camera" is sponsored by Veterinary Medical Center of St. Lucie County and Jiffy Photo & Framing. For more information on the exhibition, visit www.BackusMuseum.com.
About the A.E. Backus Museum & Gallery
Lauren Poole, left, and Robin and Dave Poole at the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery for the "Through the Eye of the Camera" exhibition opening May 17. (Photo: Wendy Dwyer/Special to TCPalm)
In addition to preserving and perpetuating the artistic and humanitarian legacy of Backus, the Museum organizes and hosts changing exhibitions from artists of national and international acclaim. It was voted "Best Museum 2018" in Indian River Magazine's annual "Best of the Treasure Coast," where it was described as "a fabulous place to visit."
The museum's regular hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. It is closed Monday and Tuesday. Its address is 500 N. Indian River Drive, Fort Pierce.
Admission is $5 per person; AARP, AAA and veterans with appropriate ID receive a $2 discount. Students with school ID, children under 18, active duty military and current members are free. During regular season, the first Sunday of the month is Free Admission Day.
Keeping the appetizers coming! Pat Donaldson, left, Elaine Brennan, Special Events Coordinator Pam Gillette, Louise Summerhays, Janis Brown and Sue Ritter at the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery for the "Through the Eye of the Camera" exhibition opening May 17. (Photo: Wendy Dwyer/Special to TCPalm)
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The table below lists links to weather information from around the world. If you know additional resources that would fit into this category, please let me know.
National Hurricane Center - USA, offers warnings and satellite images of current and past hurricanes. It also offers an extensive collection of links to other weather-related sites.
Karlsruhe Weather Center, German language site with a lot of maps, satellite images and links to other sites.


Jacksons Fencing, one of Kent's premier businesses is delighted to announce that the Heart of Kent Hospice is the deserving winner of its Community Challenge, launched in conjunction with the KM Group.
Jacksons is looking forward to working with the dedicated team at the Hospice (based in Aylesford, Kent), which specializes in providing compassionate care to people reaching their end of life. The generous £10,000 make-over funding put forward by Jacksons will be used to improve the gardens at the hospice, making them more accessible and creating a private, relaxing and ultimately therapeutic haven that will be used by patients, carers and visitors alike.


The high-end furniture retailer continued to struggle in its latest quarter.
What: Shares of Restoration Hardware Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:RH) were getting mishandled today, tumbling on another disappointing earnings report. As of 11:45 a.m. EDT, the stock was down 21.2%.
So what: The upscale home furnishings retailer posted a surprise loss of $0.05 per share during the seasonally slow first quarter against expectations of a $0.05 per share profit, and down from $0.23 earnings per share last year. Despite the loss, revenue grew 8%, and comparable sales were up 4%, though expectations were slightly higher. Management blamed weakness among luxury buyers due to low oil prices and weak Latin American currencies, and it also admitted self-inflicted wounds such as supply chain problems with its RH Modern line.
CEO Gary Friedman said, "Our near term business performance is being pressured by continued headwinds in the markets impacted by energy and currency." Still, he expected performance to improve, saying, "While there is uncertainty regarding the headwinds impacting revenues, we expect many of the cost and margin related issues to be short term in nature."
Now what: The near-term weakness forced Restoration Hardware to lower its full-year EPS guidance by $0.90-$1.00. The retailer now sees full-year EPS of just $1.60-$1.80, well below the analyst consensus at $2.66.
Restoration Hardware stock has fallen sharply in the past year, losing more than 70% of its value since November because of macroeconomic headwinds and costs from several strategic shifts, including launching RH Modern, converting to next-generation Design galleries, and moving from a promotional to a membership selling model with the RH Grey Card.
It's unclear yet if these big bets will pay off, but CEO Friedman has already proven himself to have his finger on the pulse of the luxury market with his earlier turnaround of Restoration Hardware. If the company can solve its supply chain headaches and the luxury market improves, the stock's recent slide may be an excellent buying opportunity. While it's too early to say RH's tough times are over, I'd expect the company to eventually emerge from this funk.


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Q: Extract city from the address column enter image description hereWhat happens if if ship 3 and 4 are null, but ship2 is not null, that should be city state
Here is sample data in the picture.

A: I prefer the oldfashioned SUBSTR + INSTR combination which, if compared to Gordon's and Barbaros' suggestions, seems to be somewhat better as their queries return strings that don't even contain a comma, while the OP says

extract city from 1 letter until 1 comma

Here's a comparison:
SQL> with tab (addr) as
  2  (
  3    select 'RALEIGH, NC 27604-3229'  from dual union all
  4    select 'SUITE A' from dual union all
  5    select 'COEUR D ALENE, ID 83815-8652' from dual union all
  6    select '*O/S CITY LIMITS*' from dual
  7  )
  8  select addr,
  9    substr(addr, 1, instr(addr, ',') - 1) littlefoot,
 10    --
 11    regexp_substr(addr, '[^,]+', 1, 1) gordon,
 12    regexp_substr(addr,'[^,]+') barbaros
 13  from tab;

ADDR                         LITTLEFOOT      GORDON               BARBAROS
---------------------------- --------------- -------------------- --------------------
RALEIGH, NC 27604-3229       RALEIGH         RALEIGH              RALEIGH
SUITE A                                      SUITE A              SUITE A
COEUR D ALENE, ID 83815-8652 COEUR D ALENE   COEUR D ALENE        COEUR D ALENE
*O/S CITY LIMITS*                            *O/S CITY LIMITS*    *O/S CITY LIMITS*

SQL>

A: If you want the part before the first comma, you can use regexp_substr():
select regexp_substr(addr, '[^,]+', 1, 1)

A: Just use regexp_substr with [^,]+ pattern as below
select regexp_substr(address,'[^,]+') as city
  from tab;

SQL Fiddle Demo 1
Or alternatively by creating an auxilary table :
with tab as
(
select 'RALEIGH, NC 27604-3229' as str from dual union all
select 'SALINAS, CA 93901' from dual union all
select 'DEPEW, NY 14043-2603' from dual
)
select regexp_substr(str,'[^,]+') as city
  from tab;

SQL Fiddle Demo 2

A: If you don't want to use regexp, you can just use:
select substr(city,1,(instr(city,',')-1))
  from mytable;

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Last.fm has announced that the radio service built into its mobile apps and on home entertainment devices will become a subscriber-only feature on February 15, 2011. While this means the service will lose its ads, it will no longer be free: you'll have to pay $3.00/€3.00/£3.00 per month.
"On the Last.fm website an ad-supported, free-to-listeners model is what supports our online radio services in the US, UK and Germany," a Last.fm spokesperson said in a statement. "In other markets and on emerging mobile and home entertainment devices, it is not practical for us to deliver an ad supported radio experience, but instead, we will migrate to what we believe is the highest quality, lowest cost ad-free music service in the world. You'll see that this change brings us in line with other music services that already charge you to listen to music on mobile devices. For the cost of a fancy coffee, a Last.fm monthly subscription allows you to listen to radio across all platforms, on all your devices, and without commercial interruptions."


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Lata is the provincial capital of Temotu Province, Solomon Islands. As of 2007, it had 553 inhabitants. There are a few rest houses for overnight stays. There is a post office, telecom office and numerous stores.

The town contains a small air strip with flights to Makira and Honiara.  Shipping service is irregular, but occasionally transport can be found to Honiara or the outer islands.  Outboard canoe travel around the island of Nendo or to the Reef Islands is possible.

Temotu Province's main hospital, Lata Hospital is situated in Lata town.

The only fixed-wing service is by Solomon Airlines.  The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) used to provide its own helicopter flights fortnightly to Lata.

During the ethnic tensions of 2003, there were no problems in Lata, mainly due to its being so far away from the capital, Honiara.

Lata is serviced by one free to air analogue television channel broadcast in the VHF band on 175.25MHz providing a mix of sport and news content. The channel is provided by Telekom Television, wholly owned by Solomon Telekom one of two telecommunications providers in the Solomon Islands.

Climate
Lata has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with very heavy rainfall year-round.

References

Populated places in Temotu Province


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Григорий Яковлевич Тутиков (1907 год, Бешпагир, Ставропольская губерния, Российская империя — 30 января 1971 года, Армавир, Краснодарский край) — колхозник, директор совхоза «Бауманский». Герой Социалистического Труда (1957).

Биография
Родился в 1907 году в селе Бешпагир Ставропольской губернии, Российская империя (сегодня — Грачёвский район, Ставропольский край, Россия). В 1922 году вступил в сельскохозяйственную артель имени Книги. С 1927 года по 1930 год работал молотобойцем на заводе «Красный металлист». С 1930 года по 1940 год был директором школы механизаторов. Участвовал в Великой Отечественной войне. После демобилизации до 1950 года был директором совхоза «Красноармеец» Волгоградской области. В 1954 году был назначен директором совхоза «Бауманский» Атбасарского района Целиноградской области.

В 1956 году совхоз «Бауманский» засеял 29 тысяч гектаров. В этом году было собрано по 12,6 центнеров с каждого гектара. Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 11 января 1957 года удостоен звания Героя Социалистического Труда с вручением ордена Ленина и золотой медали «Серп и Молот».

Скончался в 1971 году в Армавире.

Примечания

Литература
 ҚазССР. Қысқаша энциклопедия, 2-том. Алматы — 1987.

Ссылки
 Село моё родное, Информационный сайт акима Егиндыкольского района

Директора совхозов


We are told in Proverbs 22:6 to "start children off on the way they should go and even when they are old they will not turn from it." We believe that study of the Word by parents, and all others, equips us all to live the way we should go and thereby increases our ability to be a more positive influence in the lives of all of God's children.
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Qantas to Base Boeing 717 Operations in Hobart
Sydney, 03 April 2002
Qantas today announced that it would add six Boeing 717 aircraft to its fleet over the next three months and establish a base for Boeing 717 operations in Hobart.
Chief Executive Officer Geoff Dixon said Qantas would take delivery in May and June of six Boeing 717 aircraft configured in two classes.
Mr Dixon said the additional six Boeing 717 aircraft would create more than 150 jobs within QantasLink for pilots, flight attendants, engineers and operational staff. Up to 80 pilots and flight attendants would be based in Hobart.
"QantasLink will also introduce new non-stop weekend services between Hobart and Coolangatta, using Boeing 717 aircraft.
"QantasLink has a proven record of service to Tasmania, with more than 175 return services each week to Hobart, Launceston, Devonport and Burnie," he said.
"There are more than 95 Boeing 717 services each week between Hobart and Sydney and Melbourne. Establishment of an operational base in Hobart will complement our base facilities in Melbourne and Sydney and highlights our ongoing commitment to Tasmania."
QantasLink recently announced it would operate an additional 13 Dash 8 services each week between Melbourne and Devonport and would increase services between Melbourne and Burnie by seven return services a week.
"Since December QantasLink has acquired an additional five Dash 8 aircraft, boosting capacity to regional destinations in Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory," Mr Dixon said.
"QantasLink is a substantial operation throughout regional Australia and it is continuing to grow and support industry and tourism in regional areas.
"The new Boeing 717 aircraft will complement the existing fleet of eight Boeing 717s and will take the QantasLink total fleet to 76 aircraft, operating more than 2500 flights each week and providing employment for more than 2000 people."
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Email: qantasmedia@qantas.com.au


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Q: In CPtrList, Find member is always returning NULL I have added the CString value in CPtrList. And using Find function. When I try to Find the CString value using Find method of CPtrList, I always got NULL position.
Below is my code to add the CString value in CPtrList ptrFolderPath:
CString sTemp;//

ptrFolderPath.AddTail(new CString (sTemp));

While searching I using below code:
POSITION pos = ptrFolderPath.Find(sPath.GetBuffer(sPath.GetLength()));

here sPath is a CString.
But the pos value is always NULL.
Any idea, where I am missing?

A: The key point is a line in the MSDN Help for CPtrList::Find(): "Note that the pointer values are compared, not the contents of the objects."
When your code calls "new CString (sTemp)" a new CString object is created, and what is returned (and added to the CPtrList) is the pointer value - the location in memory of your new CString. Let's say, for example, this is at memory location 0x001234500.
Your code that calls Find() is passing in the address of character buffer, but, even if this contains the same string characters as your above CString, its location in memory will be completely different. Since you're not passing in 0x0012234500 (in this example), you don't find the entry you expect.
Given what you appear to be trying to do, CPtrList is probably not the appropriate container type - something like CStringList would be more suitable, since there comparisons are done by value (i.e. the contents of the string) not by pointer.
If all this doesn't make sense, I'm afraid that you need to spend some time reading up on pointers, and concepts such as the difference between equality (two different objects that have the same value) and identity (different references to the same object)


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SR's Fab 5 is a collection of inside scoop, analysis and insight from yours truly, PewterReport.com publisher and Bucs beat writer Scott Reynolds. Here are a few things that caught my attention this week at One Buc Place and around the NFL.
FAB 1. Buckner's Dream Job
Imagine going from being unemployed to being hired to do something you love.
Before you work your first day on the job, your new boss gives you an unexpected raise. Then he tells you to go ahead and take a paid two-week vacation before you start.
When you come back from that vacation and finally show up for work you are given an unexpected bonus to start on top of the unexpected raise – and you really haven't done a damn thing yet to benefit your new employer.
This fantasy sounds good, doesn't it?
We all would love to walk into this dream job, wouldn't we?
Well, that's kind of what happened to new Buccaneers defensive line coach Brentson Buckner, who was hired in February to replace Jay Hayes and help re-ignite Tampa Bay's pass rush, which ranked dead last in 2017 with a paltry 22 sacks.
Brentson was hired and less than a month later he had a new starting nose tackle in Beau Allen and a versatile, key reserve in Mitch Unrein via free agency, and Will Clarke was re-signed. Then Tampa Bay signed Allen's teammate, defensive end Vinny Curry.
A few weeks later, Bucs general manager Jason Licht shocked the NFL when he traded for New York Giants pass rushing defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul.
As if that wasn't enough, Buckner received the good news that a bulked up Noah Spence has been cleared to work out and has recovered from his second shoulder surgery in a year.
And to top it off, the Bucs spent the team's first-round pick on 6-foot-4, 347-pound defensive tackle Vita Vea – all before Buckner takes his first step out on the grass practice fields at One Buccaneer Place.
Call it fortunate, call it blessed – call Buckner overjoyed.
"The day we signed Beau and Mitch, Buck sent me a text in all caps that said, 'MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ME!'" Licht said. "Then we signed Vinny and he said, 'LET THE GIFTS KEEP COMING!' I wanted to text him and tell him we were after JPP and say, 'Your birthday is right around the corner!'"
Tampa Bay's revamped defensive line looks great on paper.
Gerald McCoy
Jason Pierre-Paul
Beau Allen
Vinny Curry
Will Gholston
Noah Spence
Vita Vea
DaVonte Lambert
DT Clinton McDonald (98) and former Bucs DE Michael Johnson (90) – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR
There are a few others, but chances are that the eight or nine defensive linemen that make it to Tampa Bay's 53-man roster will be comprised of these 10 men.
I included Lambert, who broke his wrist last August and spent the year on injured reserve, on this list because – well, Licht told me to.
"I'm not counting Lambert out of the mix, either," Licht said.
Mix is the key word. This is a mix – a mix of some very talented accomplished players.
The Bucs revamped their defensive line in 2014 by adding nose tackle Clinton McDonald, who was fresh off a Super Bowl win in Seattle, and prized defensive end Michael Johnson to a line that featured a younger McCoy, who was perhaps more in his prime from a health standpoint at the time. It didn't translate to wins, as Johnson was a bust – as were most of Tampa Bay's free agents that year – and the team finished with a surprising and disappointing 2-14 record.
In other words, be excited over the possibilities, Bucs fans, but don't crown this unit yet. They haven't recorded the first sack in 2018, nor have the Bucs won their first game.
Right now it's a collection of what seems to be very talented parts. Yet like any offensive line, a defensive line has to come together and work together to be effective. As Bucs Hall of Fame defensive tackle Warren Sapp once told me, to be effective, a defensive line has to become a fist rather than a hand featuring four individual fingers and a thumb.
If Buckner seemed like a kid at Christmas this offseason, unwrapping a bunch of toys under the tree, now it's time for him to take them out of the box and assemble them.
History suggests that out of the free agent additions of Pierre-Paul, Curry, Allen and Unrein that one or two may not work out as the team anticipates. In fact, Licht will tell you that batting .500 in free agency is actually a high percentage.
And history reveals that 50 percent of first-round picks will be busts. Will Vea be a bust, or will he be closer to a "boom" player for the Bucs?
The fate of Tampa Bay's defensive line this year may not even rest on the team's new additions. One of Buckner's main missions will be to get more out of the players he inherited when he became a Buccaneer back in February.
Bucs DE William Gholston – Photo by: Getty Images
Having more talent around McCoy should help his sack total, which has slid each of the past three years from 8.5 in 2015 to just six this past season. But can Buckner help the 30-year old McCoy finally turn into the double-digit sacker he could before he's out of his prime?
Perhaps more importantly, what can Buckner do for Gholston and Spence, two holdover defensive ends that figure prominently into the team's plans after two disappointing seasons?
Coming off two really good seasons in which he posted a combined 116 tackles to go along with three sacks in each of those years, the 26-year old Gholston signed a five-year, $27.5 million that included $13.5 million in guaranteed money. As the team's strongside defensive end, Gholston is instrumental in run defense, yet had only 36 tackles last year, which was his fewest total since recording 30 his rookie season in 2013. Perhaps more disappointing, Gholston failed to record a sack or a takeaway for the first time in his five-year NFL career.
"Will was the first to admit that he didn't have a good year last year," Licht said. "He's had a great attitude this year and he looks really good. He's changed his body quite a bit. He looks better and is moving around a lot better. He's lost some weight. He looks a lot leaner, which is good for him.
"In 2016, he was one of our better defensive players. Even our new D-line coach felt like when he watched him in Arizona he was one of the better six-techniques that he saw that year. I'm pretty excited that we have him along with Vinny, JPP and Noah."
As for Spence and his surgically repaired right shoulder, Licht is eager to see what type of player he can become as a situational pass rusher with Buckner's help now that he's healthy.
"We still have a long way to go, but he could be a big factor for us in that role," Licht said. "I'm not counting him out whatsoever. He looks great. He's 257 pounds right now. He looks much thicker and is still moving around the same as he did around this time. "Knock on wood – we think the surgery worked this time. It was a little bit different surgery. Hopefully it's fixed for good – for the long run. I hate to use clichés – you've heard iron sharpens iron a thousand times – but that's the type of attitude he has right now. I do know that a healthy Noah Spence is going to make an impact for us in some way shape or form."
Bucs DL coach Brentson Buckner – Photo by: Arizona Cardinals
Licht has seen Buckner's work first hand in 2013 when the two were with the Arizona Cardinals organization. Licht's good friends – former head coach Bruce Arians and current general manager Steve Keim – raved about the job Buckner did for the past five years before Arians' retirement promoted a coaching change and a new staff.
"We've got some guys he can work with," Licht said. "I've seen Buck firsthand take guys like Darnell Dockett in his last year in the league and have one of his best years. Jacksonville got the most of out Calais Campbell's ability last year, but at the time, I saw Buck turn Calais into the player that he has become. John Abraham – he was a castoff for the last couple of years of his career and have one of his better years in Arizona. Buck has also taken undrafted free agents and waiver claim guys and got the best out of them. He's the happiest guy in this building right now with all of his new players."
Vea, the newest defensive lineman, is in great hands as not only has Buckner coached defensive line at the NFL for the past five years, he played nose tackle in the league for 12 years, including five years in Carolina where he helped lead the Panthers to Super Bowl XXXVIII.
"With Vita, Buck can speak from experience and he is not the kind of guy to sugarcoat anything," Licht said. "He's been at all ends of the spectrum as a player, and that's invaluable. It doesn't always have to work that way. You don't have to have played to be a coach, but the fact that he has played and is a very good coach is a bonus to our guys, especially Vita."
Although the Bucs have yet to hit the practice field for the first OTA yet, head coach Dirk Koetter has marveled at Buckner's energy.
Bucs DE Noah Spence and DL coach Brentson Buckner – Photo courtesy of the Buccaneers
"Buck is off to a fast start," Koetter said. "It's well documented that he did a great job [in free agency recruiting] with Vinny Curry. I love his energy. He's a very upbeat guy. He's definitely brought something to our building and our coaching staff. Jason had worked with him before in Arizona. We did our research when we were talking with other coaches he had worked with around the league. So far, it's been all positive."
Licht shares Koetter's excitement about Buckner, and the mission that lies ahead in revitalizing the play of Tampa Bay's defensive line.
"It's going to be a little different this year with Buck here," Licht said. "I'm really excited about Buck. I'm not comparing him to Jay or wanting to take a shot at Jay, but the fresh voice, the fresh face and his style – it's going to be fun to watch."
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Buc 1976 May. 11, 2018 at 10:10 am
I like the energy and experience Buckner has!
On a unrelated subject can anyone tell me what to do with PR I CAN NOT give thumbs up or down. I have emailed them 2 times no response and called no response.
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SDBucfan May. 11, 2018 at 11:08 am
You called them over that?? In addition to 2 emails? It's such a trivial thing.
Buc 1976 May. 13, 2018 at 1:38 pm
Your Opinion is your Opinion.
Scott Reynolds May. 12, 2018 at 10:47 am
We are working on it.
Brooks Dunn-Winston May. 11, 2018 at 10:29 am
Is Buckner the DC in waiting, and, if so, how long do the Bucs wait?
Eric May. 11, 2018 at 12:56 pm
I believe he is but I don't know how long they wait. Depends what the defensive production is outside of the d-line!
Cody May. 11, 2018 at 1:20 pm
Buckner may need to be HC in waiting.
Timbuc2 May. 11, 2018 at 10:40 am
I know one thing, those are some big boys up front now!
Honey Bear May. 11, 2018 at 10:58 am
It's interesting to hear Licht talk about taking guys off the board for character issues, yet he drafted Jordan Whitehead. Whitehead was suspended for three games by Pitt last season for an undisclosed violation of team policy. Also interesting is that there were consensus higher ranked safeties still on the board. I really hope that pick pans out!
On your podcast last week, Mark and Trevor were adamant that Derwin James would have been the better pick. They kept calling Vea a "complementary" player because he would be on the field less than James. My response: so what? Even though a starting safety is on the field more often, what percentage of plays do they actually affect? Meanwhile, Vea will affect things just about every play he is on the field. Also, James didn't impress last year. FSU defense was soft and weak, where was James? That's the reason he slipped to 17.
macabee May. 11, 2018 at 11:27 am
Are we there yet? No! But we are pretty close. We've had the offensive skill pieces in place and with the addition of a quality RB or two, they have the table set to be a complete offense. A couple of questions remain on the O-Line, but I think those questions will be answered in training camp. The defense on paper looks to be significantly improved – and as Scott opined, the depth is substantial. The secondary is a work in progress, but the draft pieces added will be an upgrade and should benefit from the improvements in the D-Line.
So what's left? All eyes should be on the coaching. GM Licht went all out to give them the pieces to be successful. Now it's incumbent on the coaches to mold and shape this team into a contender. On this front I should be more optimistic, but we shall see. No excuses! Bucs win!
Horse May. 11, 2018 at 12:01 pm
Good Article Scott! I've got a concern as to the third backup QB? Why Griffin and a small guy like Allen? I believe this will force us to use a 3rd or 4th round pick for our back up. We obviously won't know our answers as to where we stand at CB until a couple games into the regular season. Still not sure where we will actually stand in game wins, but it's better than last year for sure. Go Bucs!
Buc-Up May. 11, 2018 at 1:08 pm
David Logan deserves consideration for RoH.
76Buc May. 11, 2018 at 8:48 pm
I agree!!!
BUC-ASS-BOB May. 11, 2018 at 3:26 pm
There comes a time when mistakes bite you and paying JJP so much money cost Bucs a shot at Dez Bryant .
Jamies could have used Dez more than any other QB in league .
Dave May. 11, 2018 at 4:26 pm
Did you really just say that? So the Bucs, who had one of the worst pass rushes in NFL history last year, should have not signed JPP, to have a chance to sign a WR Dez Bryant(not a position of need) who's a complete head case with basically no playoff experience. You realize that Jameis if you just take the games he started and finished, was on a 16 game pace of almost 5000 yards, 30 total TD's, 64.5%, at 8.2 YPA and a QB Rating of over 100. The Bucs had a top 5 passing offense, as the absolute worst pass rush I've seen in a long long time. So yeah let's take Dez Bryant, over JPP. You're a clown
Could of wood should does not count in NFL his average rating 88 over three years 92 last year
I know it not what blind fans want here , you need back out yardage for lost Fumbles and INTs Dammm
Jamies loses 70% of games he starts because of INT and lost fumbles ,
You can not bring Defense tired back on field 2 times a game and still have functional Defense and win games . He needs stop throwing INT if Bucs want win.
Bryant is nothing but trouble.
Brooks Dunn-Winston May. 11, 2018 at 3:34 pm
Dez Bryant!? Are you high?
The Defense needs stay on sidelines more this year , JJP is not the same as he once was Giants dumped him for a reason . Does not seem any one in Bucs land get it
Giants would have keep him if he was worth the money, they not total stupnickles . New style defense at Giants has nothing to do with it. He was sent to Bucs so Giants could use money get better players.
Maybe Perter fans think Giants sent him here to make the Bucs a better team cause they are such nice guys.
Randy H. May. 12, 2018 at 1:47 pm
Who the heck is JJP?
69	catches for 838 yards is 2017 must be pretty bad in your book
geno711 May. 11, 2018 at 6:58 pm
Looks like an over the hill guy to me.
133 targets were the 12th most in the league and he was the 36th rated receiver in yards.
Other comparisons.
Rishard Matthews with 87 targets and 837 yards
Julio Jones with 148 targets and 1639 yards
Devasher May. 11, 2018 at 5:20 pm
Licht is talking out of both sides of his mouth when he discusses how important character is in the locker room while spending a 4th round pick on a guy in Jordan Whitehead who was suspended, not 1, not 2, but 3 games THIS year due to a violation of team rules.
Does Whitehead interview well? Sure. So did ASJ. As PR knows all to well, ASJ is great about telling you what he thinks you want to hear. I'm not sure how he is that different from Whitehead, who used questionable judgment in declaring for the Draft early, despite a less than stellar season and multiple week suspension on his resume.
Don't forget that MJ Stewart was suspended along with Mike Hughes as a Soph in UNC for punching a guy If you're going the character route, Licht passed on Shaquem Griffin and A&M Captain and 4-year starter Armani Watts, neither of whom were ever suspended.
There's certainly a gray area when it comes to off-the-field problems; you have your busts like Johnny Manziel, Justin Blackmon and Randy Gregory. You also have some all-time good players like Randy Moss, Terrell Owens, Lawrence Taylor, Cris Carter, Dez Bryant, Aquib Talib and many others who more than panned out for their teams despite their personal problems.
Charlie May. 11, 2018 at 6:10 pm
Great piece Scott, love your ring of honor rankings! And see it just made me revisit the moment they let Warrick Dunn go and how upset I really was over it lol. I'm excited to see what coach Buck can get out of the guys this year. Should be fun to watch!
JJ May. 11, 2018 at 6:50 pm
Buc ass Bob, you literally have no idea what you're talking about.
I think he's a Cowboy ass.
Darin May. 11, 2018 at 10:49 pm
I literally have no clue how the way the Dline plays is up to the Dline coach and not the defensive coordinator. So Smith let Hayes have them stunt the majority, yet Buck will have them going straight. That stuff affects the whole defense. The fact that Smith didnt stop that nonsense last year is mind boggling to me. He left it to the position coach. He says the 10 yard cushion is up to the DB. Unreal. I just dont get it. The guy had better get it together this year. He needs to make the rules for all the positions or its not gona get better. Get all the different players you want but if theyre not all doing the best thing to complement each other it aint working. Cmon Smitty get it together.
seanbassak May. 12, 2018 at 9:30 am
Great insight as always, Scott. I always look forward to the Fab 5 and the cover 3.
owlykat May. 12, 2018 at 6:42 pm
Great insight as always, Scott!
plopes808 May. 14, 2018 at 12:06 am
I'm excited to see this defense this year! It's far too early to be sure but right now DL is looking like it'll give the LB group some competition for strongest unit on the team.
Hopefully our DC will get together with the position coaches and figure out how to play to the players' strengths rather than trying to put square pegs in circle holes as he did last year. Smith had a good year in 2016 so if he can get back to that we will be dangerous!
jp414 May. 17, 2018 at 9:25 am
Can't wait to see that 3,206-pound Syracuse try-out safety get onto the field. I bet he can redirect the route of any receiver in the league.
Fab 5 is an entertaining read, as always. Man, NFL off-season goes on too long!
jp414 May. 17, 2018 at 10:09 am
The Ring of Honor selection process has as much to do with the popularity of the guys selected as it is about the perceived magnitude of their actual contribution to the team, don't you think, Scott?
How else do you explain the fact that Alstott and Lynch are already enshrined? They were both very good players, but certainly not great players. They were both popular as hell with the fans, though.
The fact that Wilder has been forgotten by so many fans is a real shame. I think it comes down to him playing during a time when the Bucs just absolutely sucked! For several years, Wilder was the only real offense the Bucs had.
As for McKay – I don't see how you can even begin to compare his 'worthiness' of inclusion into the Ring with Dungy's. They coached in two completely different eras, for two completely different owners. McKay had to deal with an expansion franchise, no free agency, and cheap-ass owner Culverhouse signing (or NOT signing) the checks. McKay built that mess into a conference contender in four years. Dungy faced his own hurdles, but you can't say he was worthy of earlier inclusion in the Ring. McKay was here first, so McKay was honored first. Both McKay and Dungy deserve to be in the Ring, and both will be, now.
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3D shooting is an awesome way to prepare for hunting season. Photo: Author.
For me, as well a large majority of the archery community, 3D shooting is a way to stay "tuned" up for hunting season. It is also a way to get together with friends who I may only see during archery tournament season or in the field: Where did you hunt, who did you go with, did you draw anything, do you have max points, and how far was the shot. These are all just samples of what I've heard while standing in line registering for an archery event, so I know I am not the only one with hunting on my mind all the time. It also marks another season in the year of the sportsman. I know in time, I will be deep in the high mountain timber chasing deer and then on top of steep ridge lines waiting for that first bugle from a bull elk to cut the morning silence. Either way, 3D archery has its place in the preparation for hunting season. It just depends on how you look at it!
So, with the above information, we should look into why 3D archery is important in preparation for hunting and why should everyone that is capable of doing it, challenge themselves before chasing after living breathing targets.
First and probably foremost, like any activity from hitting a baseball to typing this document, the human body recognizes and responds to repetition very well. So well in fact that from senses alone, I can make words, sentences, and phrases out of a large variety of buttons on this keypad even without looking at it. This same repetition applies to 3D archery as well. For example, if I were to try and go straight into the field and hunt without target practicing first, I could probably hit my target. But, there is a very high likelihood that I would hit my target in a spot that I was definitely not aiming for. This comes from the disconnect that my mind, muscles, and eyesight are all trying to figure out at the same time. With practice, all of these motions and senses come together. They do this so well that after repeatedly drawing my bow back, I can come to the same anchor point, look through my peep the same, get the pressure on my release the same, and hopefully execute the shot the same. 3D archery allows for all of this repetition plus other invaluable features which later result in hunting attributes that people in general possess without even thinking about it.
The author takes aim at the Western Classic in Redding, CA. Photo: Author.
Secondly, in most circumstances 3D archery lets you aim at life size animals. So, not only are you aiming at a spot on the animal, you also have the animal silhouetted in the background of your sight picture. This causes two things to happen. One, you are forced to aim at a small spot on a larger animal background, and two, your mind is constantly telling you to aim at that spot but there is a bear you are aiming at, or an elk, or a raccoon etc. Even though the painted spot may not be in the position you would actually try to put your arrow into an animal for a quick clean kill, you are still aiming at an animal that resembles the real thing. So in the field with practice on 3D targets, you will subconsciously feel more comfortable drawing back on the animal you are hunting if you have had experience drawing back on it before. This experience is what will set the stage to allow for everything else to fall into place.
Third, 3D archery is usually competitive in nature and most humans when competing try to do their best. Don't get me wrong, it is a very friendly sport that is great for exercise and just plain good for your soul. But, there are awards offered at these events, some people compete to take a cash prize home with them, and even friendly shooting usually turns to some mild form of competition. More importantly, this competition equates to success in the field. Sure, if you are lucky enough to find an animal to shoot at, you have to draw your bow back, aim, and release the arrow. The difference between eating tasty elk back straps or consuming cold "tag soup" for the remainder of the year can come down to the most minute detail of your shot sequence. 3D archery forces you to constantly practice these intricacies which in turn you will take with you into the field when hunting.
Everything from your stance, the way your bow is gripped, controlling your breathing, and visualizing your shot on the target are just a few of those small things that can push you just outside of the spot, or just outside of the vital kill zone on an animal. As if this wasn't enough to deal with, some people find 3D archery puts pressure on that shot sequence. Not only are your peers or competitors watching you, some of these events can be drawn out over the course of the whole day or weekend. This constant process of trying to do your best wears on both your mind and body. Throw in a bit of extreme weather be it hot or cold and now try to perform your best! 3D archery and bow hunting both demand that you pay great attention to every detail if you strive to be successful.
Lastly, 3D archery forces you to shoot at close ranges and sometimes out to extreme distances as well. During local tournaments which I shoot in northern California, I have shot at a target from as close as 2 yards all the way out to 113 yards. Your gear should be set up to enable you to shoot anywhere in between those ranges. Obviously different shooting styles apply. With today's bows, most top end compounds can easily scream arrows out to 100 yards. Most traditional shooters would not shoot this far or even attempt it at an animal. Shooting at these targets also plays with your sight picture. Sometimes there is too much light coming into your peep making your sight or pins harder to acquire.
Skills honed at 3D shoots can translate into success and helped take this mature high country blacktail. Photo: Author.
Shooting at 3D events also forces you to hold in the wind much like hunting situations. The most important thing that I find amazing is my ability to pay attention to my bubble while 3D shooting. Most courses are not at all flat. Some have extreme up hills while others may have extreme side hills. Paying attention to your bubble while out on the 3D course will allow you to quickly "feel" a side hill in a real life hunting situation. Your pin(s) may be a touch high or low and at most yardages if you do everything else correctly you still have a chance at filling your tag. If your bubble is even a little out, especially the further the shot is, the trajectory of the arrow away from the intended target only compounds and that animal you worked so hard for, has left only dust, tracks and if you're lucky, a sampling of fur or hair behind.
So with that being said, grab your bow, round up some friends, and hit up your local archery club to find out when the next 3D archery tournament in your area will be held. Not only will you have a great time, but your skills will be "honed" as well. The next time you are in a hunting situation, your mind and body will be forced to get into that repetition mode without you knowing and hopefully you will be rewarded on the back end.
….Good luck, shoot straight, and happy hunting!
Micah Brown is a longtime First Lite Pro Staffer from California. He shoots competitively in the offseason and chases backcountry blacktails and Idaho elk in the Fall.


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