The elders of Beira-Mar say that the cast-iron sill at the entrance to the Farmácia Central existed at the beginning of the 20th century. Mr. Roque, who is already in his seventies, tells us that it was Dr. Augusto Góis who founded the house, maintained by him until the late 70's, when one of the employees bought the space, Mr. Valentim Pereira, father of the current Technical Director, Dr. Mário Pereira.
Around Roque there are perhaps a dozen or so cagaréus, around fifty and eighty, in street chat, frank and genuine, just as they had done and for decades, the parents or even the grandfathers, in this same place , in front of Porta 26 of Rua dos Mercadores. It is said that hot topics were often discussed inside the pharmacy, fueling the idea of freedom and democracy. The pharmacy is still known today as a central space of the life of Aveiro, a neighborly and familiar place, confident and dedicated in serving the population.
In the 1940s, the young Valentim Pereira de Castro D'Aire was leaving for Vila Franca das Naves to fulfill his dream of working in a pharmacy. Shortly thereafter he moved to Meda, taking advantage of a vacancy at the pharmacy 'Pereira', in Rua Guiné in Lisbon, followed by another in Queluz, a land of palaces and princesses, where he met the girl Adelaide Júlia, with whom he would marry and constitute family. In the late fifties, he moved with his wife to Aveiro and joined the technical team of the Farmácia Central of Dr. Augusto Góis. Shortly afterwards, the first son of the couple, baptized as Mário in the Church of Vera Cruz, is born in Beira-Mar, in Rua António Rodrigues.
The childhood was passed between the intricate streets of the seaside, the old streets of the North, the Dogs and the Wind, among many others forgotten, opposed by the imagery of the manuals and utensils of apothecary, feeding the young Mário a deep conviction, to continue the family profession. At age 19, he joined the Faculty of pharmacy of Porto, where he graduated in 1985, followed by a Bromatology Monitoring position, interrupted by a two-year military service in Lisbon, at the pharmacy of Hospital da Marinha. He returns to Aveiro to take over the Technical Direction of the Farmácia Central.
Over the last three decades, under the direction of Dr. Mário Pereira, the Farmácia Central has made an effort to update and improve the technical working environment. It was one of the first Aveiro pharmacies to have a computerized system and currently has three graduates in pharmaceutical sciences and a technical assistant. The modernization went hand in hand with the preservation of the proximity service. The reading of weight and measurement of blood pressure continues, as always, free of charge. A way of thinking that reflects a passion for the profession and the community, expressed in the new logo designed by Dr. Mario, inspired by the beauty and neighborhood of Beira-Mar, having the bow of the Moliceiro in the aegis of a neighborhood pharmacy, central in the life of thousands of aveirenses.


Each week, a new athlete will share their weekly diet and diet tips on For The Win. Up this week? IndyCar driver Charlie Kimball, who sent in his food diary on behalf of Novo Nordisk on the Race with Insulin campaign.


Recent use of netting by developers and local authorities has received media coverage and today Natural England welcomes the government's statement on the use of nets.
Natural England's Director of Operations James Diamond provides a further update on wild bird licensing, covering red kites, buzzards and cormorants.
Natural England Director of Operations James Diamond writes about the licence that has been issued to reintroduce white-tailed eagles to the Isle of Wight.
Natural England has awarded farmers and land managers from across the West Midlands area with a prestigious Conservation Award.
Natural England's Director of Operations, James Diamond provides an update on the latest wild bird licensing.
David Lowe,Team Leader, Ecology, Historic Environment & Landscape at Warwickshire County Council, writes a guest blog about how the council is improving biodiversity.
For World Wetlands Day, we look at the work of Natural England on restoring peatlands and blanket bogs in the UK and how the work could be making a contribution to tackling climate change.
Mathew Frith, Director of Conservation at London Wildlife Trust, writes a guest blog about work to ensure a new development in Kidbrooke supports nature conservation.
Outgoing Natural England chair Andrew Sells writes about his highlights over five years at Natural England.


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package org.apache.storm.druid;

import org.apache.storm.Config;
import org.apache.storm.task.TopologyContext;
import org.apache.storm.trident.operation.TridentCollector;
import org.apache.storm.trident.spout.IBatchSpout;
import org.apache.storm.tuple.Fields;
import org.joda.time.DateTime;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * BatchSpout implementation for event batch  generation.
 */
public class SimpleBatchSpout implements IBatchSpout {

    private int batchSize;
    private final Map<Long, List<List<Object>>> batches = new HashMap<>();

    public SimpleBatchSpout(int batchSize) {
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    @Override
    public void open(Map conf, TopologyContext context) {
    }

    @Override
    public void emitBatch(long batchId, TridentCollector collector) {
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            values = batches.get(batchId);
        } else {
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                event.put("timestamp", new DateTime().toString());
                event.put("publisher", "foo.com");
                event.put("advertiser", "google.com");
                event.put("click", i);
                value.add(event);
                values.add(value);
            }
            batches.put(batchId, values);
        }
        for (List<Object> value : values) {
            collector.emit(value);
        }

    }

    @Override
    public void ack(long batchId) {
        batches.remove(batchId);
    }

    @Override
    public void close() {
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, Object> getComponentConfiguration() {
        Config conf = new Config();
        conf.setMaxTaskParallelism(1);
        return conf;
    }

    @Override
    public Fields getOutputFields() {
        return SimpleSpout.DEFAULT_FIELDS;
    }
}

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The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), a "charitable cultural organization with a mission to transform the way people see the world through film", hosts one of the largest publicly-attended festivals in the world, attracting nearly half a million visitors worldwide. During the TIFF Kids International Film Festival, TIFF hosts digiPlaySpace, a children's exhibition showcasing digital interactive installations created by international artists and developers with new works introduced each year.
Inspiration for all ages with Cubelets!
Ask Brandy Ray for her favorite Cubelets moment, and she'll tell you about watching three- and four-year-olds using Cubelets to explore robotics.
When I met my new third graders last August, I had a student with severe special needs… I would only get a shy smile from her occasionally. She felt overwhelmed in our regular classroom and would not make eye contact or interact with the students when she was in our room. My teammate and her daughters had a wonderful time playing with Cubelets at the Denver Museum of Science and Nature. She told me to check them out. My first thought was not for my after-school STEAM class, but for this student. Here would be a way for her to equally participate with classmates. I wrote a grant through Donor's Choose for Cubelets. In the meantime, I saw her and two girls belly laughing while coloring! That was a quite a breakthrough! But none of our activities required enough interaction, or were too difficult for her, and we didn't seem to make much more progress. She still would not talk to us even though she could now say a few simple sentences. Then the Cubelets arrived. A boy and girl explored the Cubelets with her for several days. Then she started talking to them in complete sentences to help her accomplish what she was trying to get the Cubelets to do! The adults cried and the class cheered when we learned what had taken place. I now get big smiles, sometimes hugs, and an occasional word from her. During our Morning Meeting she will now whisper the information she wants to share to the person sitting next to her. In our current economics unit, one of our students chose her for a business partner and they are making products to sell on our third grade Market Day. This is a newfound engagement with the whole world!
Cubelets have helped build bridges between her students in other ways, as well.
Recently, a new 5th-grade student enrolled in my STEAM class. She does not speak any English and I do not speak any Spanish. Knowing the power of the collaboration possible with the Cubelets, I had her try to figure out how to use them. I had purchased extra battery cubes so more than one child at a time could work with them. After two classes using the Cubelets and getting comfortable with us, she was ready to take on other more complicated activities like building in Minecraft EDU. It was the excitement and success of working with others with the Cubelets that helped her transition and take risks.
Ms. Grindle admits that she has not even begun to scratch the surface of what is possible with Cubelets.
The impact of the Cubelets constantly exceeds my expectations. I want a way to level the playing field for students to collaborate. I want to extend the concept of coding on a very concrete level by offering a range of coding devices. This one is unique. I want to expose my students to a variety of technology in order to help them become flexible thinkers, problem solvers, innovators, and collaborators. I want to engage struggling students and have them know that learning can be fun and exciting. The Cubelets have helped with all of these. Last night, I sent the Cubelets home with a staff member and her family. She complained, jokingly, that her husband would not put them down. Then she showed me a movie on her phone of how the Cubelets were being controlled by their wall dimmer switch! And he sent me a challenge to do having separate robots interact! I have not begun to scratch the surface of what is possible yet. So I know the impact will end up being much bigger than I can imagine!
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Now, it's easier than ever to take STEM education to the next level. Students love Cubelets — and it doesn't take much to start teaching with tiny robots. But for many students, as they reach more advanced lessons, they need a bigger challenge. The new Wonder Ed Expansion pack comes with a mix of Cubelets® robot blocks not commonly found in our smaller kits that will allow you to enhance your Cubelets lessons and provide your students with a more advanced hands-on experience. This expansion pack is the perfect way to explore computational thinking and uncover a deeper understanding of how Cubelets operate. The Cubelets included in this pack are key to understanding concepts such as variables, logic, and conditionals that are essential to coding and using the Cubelets Blockly Application. One of the lesson plans you can complete with the addition of this expansion pack is the Data Flow lesson plan, designed for grades 4-6 and 7-12. This lesson introduces students to the Threshold, Maximum, and Minimum Cubelets. It also teaches them about coding, value, and data transfer as they relate to robotics. Lessons such as Sensing and Magnitude, Building Different Robots, and Cause and Effect utilize the Knob Cubelet. The Bar Graph can be found in lessons related to the engineering design process: Engineering Problem-Solving, Criteria and Constraints, and Amusement Park Ride among them. The Blocker can be used in larger, more complex robot constructions to allow you to control two separate senses at one time. Plus, the Temperature block is an extra SENSE Cubelet your students can work into their robot creations, creating a construction that reacts to changes in temperature. Check out the Getting Started Guide and our free lesson plans for a better understanding of how this expansion pack can augment your curriculum.


Since his tragic passing in November 2013, Paul Walker's brother Cody is still learning new things about him to this day.
In a new interview with People, Paul's 26-year-old brother -- who filled in for him to complete his Furious 7 scenes -- talks about the late actor's legacy.
"Paul was a huge movie star, and I think really what I didn't realize about Paul that I've since learned, is how loved Paul was to this scale," Cody says. "Everyone that ever encountered him, he had a way of just talking to people and just making everyone -- regardless of whether he just met you or not -- feel like you were the most important person in the world."
He stresses that the Fast & Furious star was much more than "just the car guy."
"He loved cars, but he had so many different passions, so many different loves," he explains. "[He was] multi-faceted, [an] adventurer, spontaneous, obsessive-compulsive. He was a really great example for me."
Cody, a paramedic, is now a brand manager for Paul's disaster relief organization Reach Out Worldwide (ROWW). He shares that the organization is definitely struggling without its generous leader.
"[It] will never, ever be the same," Cody says. "After Paul passed, there were a lot of unknowns … because Paul was such a huge factor behind it. He was the sole contributor. He just paid for everything."
However, Paul's fans all around the world -- and even hisFast & Furious co-stars like Michelle Williams and Tyrese Gibson -- have stepped it up. A recent fundraiser, where the two stars made a surprise appearance, resulted in more than $100,000 for the charity.
"It's worldwide support," Cody says. "It's incredible."


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MUNICH, Germany, Oct. 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GTC Europe—NVIDIA today announced a GPU-acceleration platform for data science and machine learning, with broad adoption from industry leaders, that enables even the largest companies to analyze massive amounts of data and make accurate business predictions at unprecedented speed.
RAPIDS™ open-source software gives data scientists a giant performance boost as they address highly complex business challenges, such as predicting credit card fraud, forecasting retail inventory and understanding customer buying behavior. Reflecting the growing consensus about the GPU's importance in data analytics, an array of companies is supporting RAPIDS — from pioneers in the open-source community, such as Databricks and Anaconda, to tech leaders like Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM and Oracle.
Analysts estimate the server market for data science and machine learning at $20 billion annually, which — together with scientific analysis and deep learning — pushes up the value of the high performance computing market to approximately $36 billion.
"Data analytics and machine learning are the largest segments of the high performance computing market that have not been accelerated — until now," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, who revealed RAPIDS in his keynote address at the GPU Technology Conference. "The world's largest industries run algorithms written by machine learning on a sea of servers to sense complex patterns in their market and environment, and make fast, accurate predictions that directly impact their bottom line.
"Building on CUDA and its global ecosystem, and working closely with the open-source community, we have created the RAPIDS GPU-acceleration platform. It integrates seamlessly into the world's most popular data science libraries and workflows to speed up machine learning. We are turbocharging machine learning like we have done with deep learning," he said.
RAPIDS offers a suite of open-source libraries for GPU-accelerated analytics, machine learning and, soon, data visualization. It has been developed over the past two years by NVIDIA engineers in close collaboration with key open-source contributors.
For the first time, it gives scientists the tools they need to run the entire data science pipeline on GPUs. Initial RAPIDS benchmarking, using the XGBoost machine learning algorithm for training on an NVIDIA DGX-2™ system, shows 50x speedups compared with CPU-only systems. This allows data scientists to reduce typical training times from days to hours, or from hours to minutes, depending on the size of their dataset.
RAPIDS builds on popular open-source projects — including Apache Arrow, pandas and scikit-learn — by adding GPU acceleration to the most popular Python data science toolchain. To bring additional machine learning libraries and capabilities to RAPIDS, NVIDIA is collaborating with such open-source ecosystem contributors as Anaconda, BlazingDB, Databricks, Quansight and scikit-learn, as well as Wes McKinney, head of Ursa Labs and creator of Apache Arrow and pandas, the fastest-growing Python data science library.
To facilitate broad adoption, NVIDIA is integrating RAPIDS into Apache Spark, the leading open-source framework for analytics and data science.
Tech-leading enterprises across a broad range of industries are early adopters of NVIDIA's GPU-acceleration platform and RAPIDS.
Support from other leading innvators — including Cisco, Dell EMC, Lenovo, NERSC, NetApp, Pure Storage, SAP and SAS, as well as a wide range of data science pioneers — is appended to this press release.
Access to the RAPIDS open-source suite of libraries is immediately available at http://www.rapids.ai, where the code is being released under the Apache license. Containerized versions of RAPIDS will be available this week on the NVIDIA GPU Cloud container registry.
"The RAPIDS open-source project launched by NVIDIA is going to revolutionize the data science pipeline. At FASTDATA.io, we're excited that our Plasma Engine — the first software to fully leverage NVIDIA GPUs for real-time processing of infinite data in motion — will play a part in that revolution."
"Graphistry, one of the first GPU cloud startups, has been quietly bringing new levels of visibility to sensitive F500 and federal teams that must comb through records in finance, cybersecurity, operations, and sales. As an early contributor to RAPIDS and a force behind Apache Arrow, Graphistry has taken a big bet on RAPIDS. The firm is already known for having redefined the visual compute fabric to be a real-time blending of browser and cloud GPUs, and is working with the RAPIDS team to add next-level tabular analytics to its existing graph GPU visual analytics core."
"Machine learning is transforming businesses and NVIDIA GPUs are speeding them up. With the support of the open source communities and customers, H2O.ai made machine learning on GPUs mainstream and won recognition as a leader in data science and machine learning platforms by Gartner. NVIDIA's support of the GPU machine learning community with RAPIDS, its open-source data science libraries, is a timely effort to grow the GPU data science ecosystem and an endorsement of our common mission to bring AI to the data center. Thanks to our partnership, H2O Driverless AI powered by NVIDIA GPUs has been on an exponential adoption curve — making AI faster, cheaper and easier."
"NVIDIA is demonstrating real progress in accelerating data science with new productivity tools such as RAPIDS. Combining very fast computation in a high-language is a game changer for data-analytics teams. We are excited that NVIDIA has chosen to make RAPIDS compatible with scikit-learn. We believe that it can benefit our community and look forward to collaborating with NVIDIA."
"NERSC supports more than 7,000 researchers at universities, national labs and in industry. They increasingly want productive, high-performance ways of interacting with their data from complex science simulations or experimental and observational facilities like particle accelerators and telescopes. We look forward to working with NVIDIA to put new high-performance Python data analytics tools like RAPIDS in the hands of our users to accelerate their pace of discovery across many scientific disciplines."
"NVIDIA's support of NumFOCUS represents an investment to the community. As two leaders in data science, we feel our work together will bring better tools to science and business alike."
"NVIDIA has long been a leader in accelerated tools for advanced analytics and has consistently offered freely available high-speed libraries for use by developers in the data-science community. I am thrilled to see their expanded open-source framework for data-science and their commitment to an end-to-end software and hardware solution. These innovations will enable a dramatic speed-up of the entire data-science workflow and unleash innovation across the broader open-source ecosystem."
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the benefits, impact, performance, and availability of the RAPIDS GPU-acceleration platform; the sizes of the server market for data science and machine learning and of the high performance computing market; the benefits and impact of NVIDIA's collaboration with Ursa Labs; and Walmart's relationship plans with NVIDIA are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our partners' products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems; as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the most recent reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company's website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.
© 2018 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, DGX and RAPIDS are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. Features, pricing, availability and specifications are subject to change without notice.


On and off the field, three simple rules define success for Dillon High coach Jackie Hayes.
It's a warm fall night in Dillon—perfect football weather—and what seems like the entire town is packed into the home-team bleachers, cheering as the Dillon High School Wildcats charge onto the field through a tunnel of cheerleaders.
Fireworks explode in the night sky, and fans in Wildcats T-shirts and hats lean over the fence to get closer to the team. Outside the stadium, storefront signs up and down Main Street wish the players well, and traffic is backed up for a mile. Anyone still hoping for a good seat to watch Dillon play its Class 2-A rival, Marlboro High School, is an hour too late.
The man most responsible for stoking that community spirit—head football coach Jackie E. "Coach" Hayes—skips the grand entrance, happy to let his players take all the limelight. While his team stampedes onto the field, he slowly walks the sideline, head mostly down, his impenetrable "game face" firmly affixed.
Dillon High School has been a part of Jackie Hayes' life since he arrived there as a freshman in 1977, playing quarterback for the junior varsity.
But the town Hayes returned to in 1984 was fundamentally different from the one he left. Dillon County's psyche was in tatters as a result of a highly publicized vote-buying scandal that tagged the region with a reputation for corrupt politics. The tobacco industry, the region's economic mainstay, was in sharp decline, and jobs were vanishing at an alarming rate.
On the football field, things weren't much brighter. The varsity Wildcats posted just two wins in as many seasons before Hayes—at the age of 29— took over as head coach in 1992. Today, Dillon High School is a football powerhouse with four state titles to its credit, and Hayes is in the record books as the youngest coach in state history to win 200 games.
The head coach of a high-school football team is part taskmaster, motivator, punisher and consoler.
In Dillon County, where one out of every three kids under the age of 18 is raised in poverty, that obligation can be staggering.
Jackie Hayes is hard to read. His neutral expression almost never changes. When the Wildcats score, he claps a couple of times, adjusts his headset and starts talking to his assistants about the next play.
Polite yet intense, Hayes works 80-hour weeks during the football season. When football ends, he pours his energy into his second job: representing House District 55 in the S.C. General Assembly. His decision to enter politics in 1998 sprang from a desire to enact change beyond Dillon High School.
"I thought, instead of sitting around complaining about things, I'd actually get up and try to change them," he says.
Through the years, he's steadily gained influence at the Statehouse, where he's affectionately known as "Coach" and serves on several influential committees.
As a member of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Education, Hayes serves with three others to allocate public-school funding, and he is steadfast in his mission to improve education in South Carolina's poorest counties.
With the Wildcats racking up wins on the field and his influence growing in the General Assembly, Hayes has no intention of leaving either job anytime soon.
When it comes to coaching, "it's still fun watching these young men develop, watching teams grow together," says Hayes. "If you win championships, that's great. But that's not the bottom line here. We want to make sure we're doing right by these kids, because we owe them that.
Jackie Hayes will coach the South Squad in the 2014 Touchstone Energy Cooperatives Bowl. Darryl Page, head coach at Lower Richland High School, will lead the North Squad.
WHEN: Dec. 13. Pregame festivities start at noon.
WHERE: Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium, 705 33rd Ave. North, Myrtle Beach.
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Before the dust settles on South Carolina's 2014 high-school football season, the state's top players will gather in Myrtle Beach on Dec. 13 to play in the Touchstone Energy Cooperatives Bowl.
The all-star game for graduating seniors is organized by the South Carolina Athletic Coaches Association, a project they've maintained every season since 1947. Proceeds are directed to a scholarship fund that assists the children of coaches.
During halftime, the association will also announce the winner of South Carolina's 2014 Mr. Football award. Recent winners include standouts Jadeveon Clowney, Marcus Lattimore and Stephon Gilmore—all of whom are now playing in the National Football League.
Last year's Mr. Football recipient, Jacob Park of Goose Creek High School, is now a freshman quarterback at the University of Georgia.
Who is the next Mr. Football? – Check out five of the state's best athletes in the running for the prestigious title, and vote for your favorite.
The legend of Roscoe Crosby – Learn how tragedy and misfortune shaped his career in sports and likely saved his life.


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Q: How do I generate RDOC for (all of) Rails? I can do
sudo gem rdoc activerecord --no-ri

and
sudo gem rdoc actionpack --no-ri

both of which give me good docs.
But
sudo gem rdoc rails --no-ri

gives me pretty much nothing, as the Rails gem itself is really just a holder for the others. How can I generate the equivalent of http://api.rubyonrails.org/?

A: If you installed rails with the rdoc (sudo gem install rails)
You can access it via
gem server

A: Below is my attempt to clarify the steps a bit on how to get the rails 3.1 docs downloaded locally to your machine as the equivalent of http://api.rubyonrails.org/

*

*Go to the sdoc project at https://github.com/voloko/sdoc and get the project (or just do gem install sdoc)

*Visit the rails project at https://github.com/rails/rails and git clone it to your local machine

*Go into the rails clone and run sdoc -N rails

*This will take a while. When it is done you will have a new directory called doc

*You can move the doc directory anywhere you like and open the index.html file in a browser.  Note that you do not need a web server for this to work.

As a side note it looks like sdoc has officially become the docs for the Ruby on Rails API (see http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/29/the-rails-api-switches-to-sdoc)

A: You can freeze Rails in an app and run rake doc:rails to get the docs.
rails doc_project
cd doc_project
rake rails:freeze
rake doc:rails

The RDocs should be located in doc/api directory. You can use rake rails:freeze:edge to get documentation for Edge Rails.
Alternatively you can download the docs from a site like Rails Brain to get a searchable template with it as well.
If you are wanting the docs to show up in gem server then the easiest thing may be to re-install the rails gem with the rdoc option.
sudo gem install rails --rdoc

A: Run the command bundle exec rdoc on command line.
It will generate all documentation of your code.

A: sudo gem rdoc --all --overwrite

A: The easiest I found was to just download them from railsapi.com and unpack the file into /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/doc/rails-2.3.3/rdoc/

A: From the Rails project Rakefile
desc "Generate documentation for the Rails framework"
Rake::RDocTask.new do |rdoc|
  rdoc.rdoc_dir = 'doc/rdoc'
  rdoc.title = "Ruby on Rails Documentation"

  rdoc.options << '--line-numbers' << '--inline-source'
  rdoc.options << '-A cattr_accessor=object'
  rdoc.options << '--charset' << 'utf-8'

  rdoc.template = ENV['template'] ? "#{ENV['template']}.rb" : './doc/template/horo'

  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('railties/CHANGELOG')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('railties/MIT-LICENSE')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('railties/README')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('railties/lib/{*.rb,commands/*.rb,rails/*.rb,rails_generator/*.rb}')

  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('activerecord/README')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('activerecord/CHANGELOG')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('activerecord/lib/active_record/**/*.rb')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.exclude('activerecord/lib/active_record/vendor/*')

  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('activeresource/README')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('activeresource/CHANGELOG')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('activeresource/lib/active_resource.rb')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('activeresource/lib/active_resource/*')

  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('actionpack/README')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('actionpack/CHANGELOG')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('actionpack/lib/action_controller/**/*.rb')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('actionpack/lib/action_view/**/*.rb')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.exclude('actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/*')

  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('actionmailer/README')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('actionmailer/CHANGELOG')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/base.rb')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.exclude('actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/vendor/*')

  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('activesupport/README')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('activesupport/CHANGELOG')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('activesupport/lib/active_support/**/*.rb')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.exclude('activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor/*')
end

# Enhance rdoc task to copy referenced images also
task :rdoc do
  FileUtils.mkdir_p "doc/rdoc/files/examples/"
  FileUtils.copy "activerecord/examples/associations.png", "doc/rdoc/files/examples/associations.png"
end

A: If you need to generate edge docs, you can perform something like this
git clone git://github.com/rails/rails.git ~/rails
# or if you have repo, just checkout interested branch
cd ~
ruby ~/rails/railties/bin/rails docapp
cd docapp
ln -s ~/rails vendor/rails
rake doc:rerails
rake doc:guides

A: $ rake rails:freeze:gems
$ rake doc:rails
$ rake rails:unfreeze
$ sudo mv doc/api/* /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/doc/rails-2.3.5/rdoc
$ gem server

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Author's Notes: In the Spirit of Lammas, this poem offers up a call to look more carefully about how your efforts and focus are directed. The First Harvest brings us to a place of sacrificing what is not viable yield and gathering to ourselves what will nourish and sustain us throughout the months ahead. What hope and potential was fed at Imbolc is now manifest and what choices we make to cut away to reach the ripeness of that potential will impart their wisdom on the next Turn of the Wheel.


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The new Mercedes-AMG CLA 35
When iconic design meets strength and intelligence
Sporty, stylish, intelligent and dynamic: The new CLA 35 is the latest point of entry to the world of Mercedes-AMG. The four- door coupe shares the progressive technology with the A-Class, but is even bolder with its iconic design and the intelligent MBUX interior assistant. The high torque, AMG-enhanced 2.0L Inline-4 turbo engine delivers 302 hp, distributed to all four wheels via the 7-speed dual-clutch transmission and variable all-wheel drive. Sporty driving performance (acceleration from 0-60 mph in 4.6 seconds est.) is combined with a range of versatile driving experiences - from very sporty to refined and comfortable on long journeys.
"With its iconic design and agile driving dynamics, the new CLA 35 is an attractive offer for a young, active and lifestyle-conscious target group. These customers define their requirements very clearly: They expect exciting design from their vehicle alongside superior performance and inspiring handling characteristics. The new CLA 35 embodies just this attitude to life – and enables stepping in to the fascinating world of AMG Driving Performance in a particularly emotional way,"says Tobias Moers, CEO of Mercedes-AMG GmbH.
Icon with a sporty design: the exterior
The unique design of the CLA Coupe is one of the new model's key purchase reasons. The AMG designers therefore aimed to maintain its basic form with wide wheel arches and a slim profile. The two power domes on the hood were also adopted as sporty details. The new radiator grille with classic twin louvers and an AMG front bumper with flics on the air inlets are distinctive features of the CLA 35. Other distinguishing characteristics include silver chrome trim elements in the outer air inlets. From a side view, the aerodynamically optimized 18-inch light-alloy wheels in twin-spoke design (19-inch wheels are optionally available) and the accentuated side sills catch the eye. The rear bumper with a new diffuser insert, the small spoiler lip on the trunk and the two round tailpipes on the left and right dominate the rear view. The two-piece, narrow tail lamps and the license plate housing placed low in the bumper add to the CLA's wide rear appearance.
Sporty interior featuring MBUX infotainment system
Frameless doors open to an interior with a high-tech ambience, where quality and elegance meet digital displays. The interior scene can be catered to specific tastes thanks to the standard 64 color ambient lighting. The distinctive interior design is evident with the available MB-Tex and microfiber DINAMICA in black with red contrasting stitching and red seat belts, as well as in the available combination of MB-Tex in black/digital grey. Red piping on the microfiber DINAMICA trim elements and ventilation outlets with a red ring are additional unique accents.
The combination of a sporty design with sophisticated details is also evident in the MBUX infotainment system with its innovative operation and display. In the new CLA 35, MBUX replaces the previous COMAND systems and creates an even closer connection between the vehicle, driver and passengers.Appealing presentations underline the clear control structure and feature brilliant maximum-resolution 3D graphics. Visually, the two displays under one shared glass cover blend into a Widescreen Cockpit, and consequently emphasize the horizontal orientation of the interior design.
With the newly available MBUX interior assistant, select infotainment functions can be operated without touch, along with switching the reading light on or off. The assistant differentiates between driver and passenger interaction and recognizes certain hand positions and movements. The interaction area for the MBUX interior assistant is in front of the media display up to the center console, including the touchpad between the driver and front-seat passenger.
The MBUX interior assistant recognizes movement toward the various operating elements of the infotainment system. The operator's seat is enlarged on the media display if one's hand moves toward the touchscreen. The most suitable operating elements are automatically pre-selected. In the radio and media menu, the MBUX interior assistant reduces the number of operating steps. In the navigation menu, the system fades in the display as soon as the hand moves to operate the touchscreen or touchpad, so that a symbol is selected directly. When displaying the camera image, as soon as the hand moves toward the touchscreen the MBUX interior assistant enables the four camera operating symbols from the 360-degree camera to be faded in. This means that the front, rear, right or left camera view can be selected directly.
The CLA 35 also comes with our new trailblazing voice control, activated with the words "Hey Mercedes". Thanks to artificial intelligence, MBUX recognizes and understands nearly all sentences from the fields of infotainment and vehicle operation, even if they are expressed indirectly.
Fully digital instrument cluster with three AMG display styles
Customers can choose between three AMG display styles for the instrument cluster: "Classic", "Sport"and "Supersport". The "Supersport"mode is particularly striking, with a central, round rev counter and additional information presented in the form of bars to the left and right. Via the AMG menu, the driver can call up various special displays such as Warm-up, Set-up, G-Force and Engine Data.
Touchscreen multimedia display and new center console
The 10.25 inch touchscreen multimedia display also emphasizes the dynamic character with individual AMG displays, such as visualization of the driving programs, AMG TRACK PACE and telemetry data.
The AMG-specific center console in piano black finish with standard touchpad has additional buttons that control the functions of ESP®, manual transmission mode and the Adaptive Damping System. When combined with the optional leather package, it also features a silver chrome surround.
New AMG steering wheel generation with optional steering wheel buttons
The next generation of AMG steering wheels provide the perfect link between the driver and the vehicle. The steering wheel rim with a flat-bottom, perforated leather in the grip area and red contrasting topstitching is both attractive and pleasant to the touch. The galvanized steering wheel gearshift paddles allow an even sportier driving style with manual gear shifting.
The built-in Touch Control buttons, familiar from some of our other models, are a new feature. The Active Distance Assist DISTRONIC and cruise control can be adjusted on the control panels on the left. The control panels on the right activate the voice control and telephone, and regulate the sound volume, music selection and other functions of the infotainment system.
The steering wheel with innovative AMG steering wheel buttons is available as an option. These consist of a round controller with an integrated display beneath the right-hand steering-wheel spoke, plus two vertically positioned color display buttons with switches beneath the left-hand steering-wheel spoke. The AMG drive programs are actuated directly via the controller. With the two configurable display buttons and the additional switches, further AMG functions can be controlled within easy reach directly on the steering wheel.
Reinforced body-in-white with increased torsional rigidity
Specific measures to strengthen the front section of the bodyshell help enable the precise turn-in ability and the toe and camber stability of the chassis, even when driving at speed. A "shear panel", a bolted aluminum plate under the engine, also increases the torsional stiffness of the front section of the CLA 35. Two additional diagonal braces at the front of the underbody also reduce torsion and increase rigidity.
New four-cylinder turbo engine with 302 hp
The 2.0L Inline-4 turbo engine is a new development and is based on the M260 four-cylinder engine in the new A-Class. The new drive boasts a quick response to accelerator pedal commands, high torque (295 lb-ft max. torque from 3,000 rpm), a lively response and an emotional engine sound. The crankcase made of high-strength, lightweight die-cast aluminum reduces the vehicle weight where it matters most for driving dynamics.
The twin-scroll turbocharger combines optimum responsiveness at low engine speeds with a significant power increase at higher engine speeds. The housing of the twin-scroll turbocharger is divided into two parallel ducts. Together with two separate ducts in the exhaust manifold, this makes it possible to channel the exhaust gases separately on the turbine wheel.
This results in a further advantage of twin-scroll technology -- minimization of the mutually adverse effects of the individual cylinders on the gas cycle. The exhaust gas backpressure is reduced and gas exchange and engine efficiency are improved.
Numerous engine measures increase efficiency
The high technological standards of the new four-cylinder engine are also underscored by numerous efficiency-enhancing measures. These include CAMTRONIC variable valve control, intelligent thermal management for engine and oil, high-precision piezo injectors and multi-spark ignition. In production, the patented CONICSHAPE® cylinder honing reduces internal engine friction and also increases efficiency.
Agile gear ratios: AMG SPEEDSHIFT DCT 7-Speed Transmission
The AMG SPEEDSHIFT DCT 7-Speed Transmission also contributes to the agile and dynamic character of the new CLA 35. The gear ratios are configured so that the driver experiences very responsive acceleration in all speed ranges, combined with fast shifting and optimum connections when upshifting.
The standard RACE-START function allows maximum acceleration from a stationary position and is a high performance experience. The functions of the AMG SPEEDSHIFT DCT 7-Speed transmission also include a temporary manual shift mode activated by operating the steering wheel shift paddles in any driving mode, and with the manual transmission mode "M"for manual gear changes with the shift paddles.
AMG Performance 4MATIC variable all-wheel drive
Dynamism, agility and performance – these three attributes characterize the standard all-wheel drive of the new Mercedes-AMG CLA 35. The variable AMG 4MATIC combines the best possible traction with driving pleasure. The torque distribution is variable to suit the dynamic handling requirements. The spectrum ranges from front-wheel drive only to a 50:50 percent distribution to the front and rear axles.
A multi-disc clutch that is integrated in the rear axle transmission is responsible for the variable torque distribution between the front and rear axles. It is controlled electro-mechanically. The influencing factors for torque distribution are the driving speed, the lateral and longitudinal acceleration and the steering angle, and the difference in rotational speed between the individual wheels, the gear selected and the accelerator position.
The main advantages of electro-mechanical control over an electro-hydraulic system relate to more refined driving dynamics – primarily due to the significantly faster response and speed-independent actuation of the discs over the entire adjustment range.
As long as ESP® is activated, the 4MATIC system stays in "Comfort"mode. As soon as the driver presses the "ESP® SPORT Handling"or "ESP® OFF"button, the 4MATIC system switches to "Sport"mode – for even more agile handling and even higher stability limits.
Five driving programs: vehicle characteristics with a wide spread
The five AMG DYNAMIC SELECT drive programs "Slippery,""Comfort,""Sport,""Sport +"and "Individual"enable a wide range of vehicle characteristics from comfortable to dynamic. They change relevant parameters, such as the responsiveness of the engine and transmission.
The new "Slippery"drive program is optimized for low-grip, icy road conditions, with reduced power and a flat torque curve. Smooth gear changes and earlier upshifts support a more stable driving character.
The "Comfort"program stands for comfortable and fuel-efficient driving, for example, thanks to early upshifts. Suspension and steering are set up for an emphasis on comfort.
"Sport"and "Sport+"place the focus on agility and driving pleasure with sporty engine and transmission tuning. The sound of the turbo engine is more striking. "Sport+"is particularly exciting with double-declutching during downshifts and partial cylinder cut-off via a brief and precisely defined retardation of ignition and injection at full load.
The "Individual"drive program enables specific parameters to be selected and saved according to personal preferences. In addition, the gliding function is available in the "Reduced"and "Moderate"drive settings.
AMG DYNAMICS: more agility with high stability
As a new feature in the AMG DYNAMIC SELECT drive programs, the new CLA 35 comes with AMG DYNAMICS. This integrated dynamic handling control system extends the stabilizing functions of ESP® with responsive interventions according to the driver's wishes. During dynamic cornering, imperceptible braking intervention on the rear inside wheel creates a defined yawing moment about the vertical axis. The effect: the CLA 35 steers quickly and very precisely.
The different modes of AMG DYNAMICS are called "Basic"and "Advanced."When a drive program is selected on the multimedia display, the new AMG DYNAMICS symbol is displayed with the corresponding additional information.
"Basic"is assigned to the "Slippery"and "Comfort"drive programs. In this case, the CLA 35 shows very stable handling with a high damping of the yaw rate.
"Advanced"is activated in the programs "Sport"and "Sport+."The CLA 35 remains neutrally balanced. The lower yaw damping, lower steering angle requirement and enhanced agility support dynamic maneuvers, such as driving on winding country roads.
In the "Individual"drive program the driver can set the AMG DYNAMICS levels individually.
AMG RIDE CONTROL suspension
The layout of the AMG RIDE CONTROL suspension provides solid straight-line stability and highly dynamic cornering performance. The longitudinal and transverse dynamics are optimally coordinated.
A McPherson strut construction is fitted on the front axle. The suspension is comprised of one wishbone below the wheel center, one spring strut and one tie rod. The special axle geometry reduces the influence of the drive on the steering – for high comfort and agile handling. The new wishbone in aluminum reduces unsprung mass, enabling a more sensitive response from the springs. The AMG-specific front steering knuckle has a radially bolted brake calliper – a technology originating from motorsport.
The 4-link rear axle is connected with the body via a subframe. Three transverse arms and the trailing arm, the wheel carrier and the bearings from the proven A 45 are used on each rear wheel. This ensures maximum driving stability and agility.
Adaptive damping system with three modes
The optional Adaptive Damping System enables the driver to choose between three different suspension control modes. The spectrum ranges from comfort- focused to sporty. The system operates fully automatically, adapting the damping forces for each wheel according to the driving situation and road conditions. This happens within milliseconds and is infinitely variable, with a wide spread of damping characteristics. The result is that ride comfort and agility are both enhanced.
Robust high-performance brake system
The high-performance braking system enables fade-resistant deceleration and short braking distances. The front axle is fitted with new 4-piston monoblock fixed callipers and 13.8 inch brake discs, while the rear axle is equipped with 1-piston sliding callipers and 13.0 inch brake discs. The discs are ventilated and perforated to dissipate heat and reduce brake fading, even with heavy use. The silver-painted brake callipers have black AMG lettering.
Steering with special rack and variable ratio
The speed-sensitive, electro-mechanical power steering supports a sporty driving style with its direct turn-in ability. It has a special rack with variable ratio and two characteristic curves: depending on the drive program the driver has selected, it provides taut and sporty or more comfortable steering feedback. The rigid mounting in the integral carrier connects the steering with the body and thus increases steering precision.
AMG exhaust system with exhaust flap for sound modulation
The exhaust system features an automatically controlled exhaust flap as standard. Depending on the drive program selected, it modulates the sound from balanced to powerful.
AMG TRACK PACE data log
AMG TRACK PACE is also available as an option for the new CLA 35. The virtual race engineer is part of the MBUX infotainment system and permanently records more than 80 vehicle-specific data measures (e.g. speed, acceleration). On top of this, lap and sector times are displayed, as well as the respective difference to a reference time. Because specific display elements are shown in green or red, the driver is able to see at a glance without reading numbers whether they are currently faster or slower than the best time.
After putting in some fast laps, the driver can use the data to analyze and, if necessary, improve their driving skills. In addition, acceleration and deceleration values (e.g. 0-60 mph, ¼ mile, 60-0 mph) can be measured and saved. Thanks to a newly developed algorithm which determines the vehicle position as precisely as possible, AMG TRACK PACE even detects when the track has been left or if it has been shortened. This is possible using GPS data as well as the sensors available in the vehicle (acceleration, gyroscope, steering angle, wheel speeds).
The logged data is displayed on the multimedia display, in the instrument cluster and on the optional head-up display. Well-known racetracks like, for example, the Nürburgring or Spa Francorchamps, are already stored.Furthermore, it is also possible to record one's own circuits. The map display can be switched from 2D to 3D and be updated online.
The MBUX Augmented Reality function also allows the ideal line of a stored racetrack to be displayed on the multimedia display or on the optional head-up display, allowing the driver to improve lap times with a virtual instructor on board.
The new Mercedes-AMG CLA 35 celebrates its world premiere as part of the New York International Auto Show on April 16, 2019 and will be available in U.S. dealerships starting late 2019.
2020 Mercedes-AMG CLA 35
2.0L Inline-4 turbo
Max. output
302 hp at 5800 rpm
AMG Performance 4MATIC all-wheel drive
AMG SPEEDSHIFT DCT 7-Speed Transmission
4.6 s (est)
TBA*
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Q: RDLC Reporting : How to display another rdlc report when I click on a row in a tablix? I am working on my project in c #, I need to display a report with in a report.
I am using MySQL as my database and I am creating the project on windows forms.
Let's say I have my parent report that contains the transaction id and other information of a customer record. Then what I want is that when the user clicks on a row/column in the table displayed on the report viewer, another report will show containing other details of the transaction and the items purchased by the customer.
I have tried searching about drillthrough in RDLC but I am not that lucky to find a tutorial that I can easily understand. I am just new to RDLC and in C#.
I hope someone could give me some idea, advice, help or even a tutorial on where/how to start. Thank you in advance!


Here it is, straight from the Watcher's mouth. Oh, wait a sec! Before I get there, let me remind you to check out the Watcher's Council forum, in which you can read interesting opinions from Council members about the Super Bowl. I got overwhelmed by family matters and didn't respond to the forum but, if I had, I would have said I'll probably watch. I like football (it's very American in its single-minded press down the field), so that's an incentive. The disincentive is that I don't like either of the teams playing. I dislike Seattle so much I normally would root for the Patriots, but I'm less than thrilled by the probability that the Patriots had a little help with their footballs.
Oooh! One more sec before I get to the Council results: Be sure to check out this week's nominations for "Weasel of the Week." As always, it's a tough fight, with weasly people the world over trying desperately to out-weasel the competition.
" "I came from the United States of America to stand for freedom, with all free people, against the forces of oppression and darkness which you are representing. … You are fighting for the most radically intolerant and hateful ideology on the planet. … You are already subjugated! You are already their useful idiots. You are already their tools. " – Robert Spencer, speaking to a Left wing audience in Europe, June 2, 2011.
In our non-Council category, the winner was Victor Davis Hanson – Muslims And Islamists submitted by Joshuapundit. I'm a huge fan of VDH, even when I disagree with him. In this particular case, I think he is spot on, and all I'll say is that what he wrote here deserves your utmost attention.
Fourth place *t* with 2/3 votes –American Thinker – Eric Cantor Lectures On How to Win Elections? submitted by VA Right!


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Daily Service Report for Monday, November 19, 2018
5:21 a.m. A Glenmont-bound Red Line train at Fort Totten was delayed 9 minutes due to an operational problem.
6:07 a.m. A Vienna-bound Orange Line train at New Carrollton was delayed 8 minutes due to an equipment problem.
7:26 a.m. A Branch Avenue-bound Green Line train at Shaw-Howard University was offloaded due to a brake problem. Passengers experienced a 14-minute delay.
9:04 a.m. A Largo Town Center-bound Blue Line train at Federal Center SW was offloaded due to a door problem. Passengers experienced a 4-minute delay.
5:06 p.m. A New Carrollton-bound Orange Line train at Landover was delayed 7 minutes due to striking a deer.
5:13 p.m. A Vienna-bound Orange Line train at New Carrollton did not operate, resulting in a 4-minute gap in service.
6:39 p.m. A Franconia-Springfield-bound Blue Line train at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was delayed 14 minutes due to a signal problem.
6:45 p.m. A Branch Avenue-bound Green Line train at Shaw-Howard University was delayed due to a small fire on the right-of-way outside Mt Vernon Sq. Customers experienced delays up to 60 minutes.
9:36 p.m. A Greenbelt-bound Green Line train at Prince George's Plaza was offloaded due to striking a deer. Passengers experienced a 20-minute delay.


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Adult Language Adult Situations Brief Nudity Not For Children Violence
Black Gunn (1972)
Directed by Robert Hartford-Davis
Genres - Action, Drama | Sub-Genres - Blaxploitation | Release Date - Nov 20, 1972 (USA - Unknown) | Run Time - 94 min. | Countries - United Kingdom , United States | MPAA Rating - R
Synopsis by Robert Firsching
This violent blaxploitation film stars Jim Brown as the owner of a Los Angeles nightclub. When his brother, a Vietnam veteran, is murdered by gangsters, Brown gathers some of his brother's fellow veterans and an assortment of ex-convicts to get brutal revenge. Martin Landau, Luciana Paluzzi, and Jeannie Bell head the cast, along with genre regulars Bruce Glover, Bernie Casey, and Gary Conway. Director Robert Hartford-Davis is best known for horror films like Incense of the Damned and Corruption, while Brown went on to more successful genre fare in Slaughter and Slaughter's Big Rip-Off.
Fighting the System | Vigilantes
bad-guy, battle [war], bookie, brother, chase, explosion, family-member, gangster, good-guy, leader, loot, revenge, robbery, syndicate, weapons
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South Sudan's President Kiir sacks judges over strike
Author: ReutersThu, 2017-07-13 11:42ID: 1499959029515197500JUBA: South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked several judges who had been on strike over poor pay and living conditions for the last two months, officials said on Thursday.The world's youngest country plunged into civil war in 2013 just two years after gaining independence after Kiir fired his deputy, triggering a conflict fought largely along ethnic lines.The conflict has slashed oil revenues and paralyzed agriculture. Civil servants and soldiers go unpaid for months and hyperinflation renders money almost worthless.On Wednesday evening, Kiir issued a decree that dismissed a group of 12 judges who went on strike in a bid to force reform in the judicial system, Deputy Information Minister Akol Paul Kordit told Reuters."These judges who were supposed to deliver justice obstructed justice themselves. They denied our people justice for reasons that could be resolved through administrative channels," he said.The group comprised of appeals court judges who demanded that the chief justice resigned on grounds that he obstructed the judicial system, as well as more judges be appointed and promoted."These were the demands we put forward. Now the complainers have been sacked," said Guri Raymondo, a spokesman for the judges' union."We will seat down and hear from the general assembly what is the next step," he told Reuters.Junior judges receive a salary of 4,000 South Sudan pounds ($25) a month in the country of 12 million people, where a kilo of rice costs 130 pounds. There are 150 pounds to the dollar on the black market.South Sudan had only 274 judges on its payroll in its last budget, some of whom have since resigned.War in the country has forced more than a quarter of its entire population to flee their homes and plunged parts of it into famine, creating Africa's biggest refugee crisis since the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
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Maya Angelou - obituary
Maya Angelou was a black American author whose chronicle of her dirt-poor upbringing became a literary sensation
Maya Angelou speaking during a ceremony to honour Desmond Tutu in 2008 Photo: REUTERS
Maya Angelou, who has died aged 86, was a poet, playwright, film-maker, journalist, editor, lyricist, teacher, singer, dancer, black activist, professor and holder of some 50 honorary degrees; she was principally famous, however, for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, a memoir of her dirt-poor upbringing in Arkansas.
When the book was published in 1969 it was a revelation. Narrated in the pulpit-influenced cadences of the black American South, it described a world completely alien to its mainly white, metropolitan readership.
It told how, after her parents divorced, Maya's father sent her and her elder brother, Bailey, from their home in St Louis to live with their paternal grandmother in the small town of Stamps, Arkansas. Aged three and four, the two children arrived at the station wearing wrist tags reading: "To Whom It May Concern".
Maya Angelou in 2002
Maya Angelou taught young women to love their bodies
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During a brief return to St Louis to live with their mother, at the age of seven Maya was raped by her mother's boyfriend. Soon after she had identified him as the rapist in court, he was murdered — kicked to death — by some of her uncles. For the next five years the young Maya became a voluntary mute, believing that her voice had killed him and that if she spoke again she might kill someone else.
Coaxed out of silence by a teacher who encouraged her love of reading with Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Dickens, Poe and the Brontes, as well as black writers such as Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Langston Hughes, she eventually joined her mother in California, won a scholarship to study drama and dance, and at the age of 17 became an unmarried mother.
Freshly and vividly written, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings became the first non-fiction work by a black woman to make the US national bestseller lists. Other volumes of autobiography followed, charting Maya Angelou's career as a waitress, brothel madam, prostitute, singer, bus conductress, actress and black activist; as a dancer in Paris; an editor in Egypt; and a journalist and university administrator in Ghana.
As a woman and as a black American who had surmounted oppression to live the American Dream, Maya Angelou became a symbol for the post-segregation era, and a celebrity on the lecture circuit who drew huge crowds wherever she went. Her name appeared on everything from bookends to pillows and mugs, and her rhymes on Hallmark greetings cards. In 1993 she was chosen by President Clinton to recite her poem On the Pulse of the Morning at his inauguration.
Maya Angelou reading a poem at Bill Clinton's presidential inauguration
Yet nothing ever equalled her first book. As she became more and more famous, her memoirs became increasingly self-congratulatory in tone; and critics noted that she had adopted all the clichés of her friend Oprah Winfrey's aspirational narrative of "healing" and "empowerment". The "diva", one reviewer observed, had "come to believe her own hype".
She was born Marguerite Ann Johnson (Maya was her brother Bailey's diminutive) in St Louis, Missouri, on April 4 1928. Her father was a doorman and US Navy dietitian, her mother a nurse and card dealer.
After living with their grandmother in Arkansas, Maya and her brother returned to live, in Oakland, California, with their mother, a tiny, forthright woman with a colourful turn of phrase ("I'd rather be bitten on the rear by a snaggle-toothed mule than take that shit" was one of her sayings). During the Second World War, Maya attended George Washington High School in Oakland and studied dance and drama at the California Labor School. Before leaving school, she worked as the first black female streetcar conductor in San Francisco.
Her son Guy, born in California when she was 17, was the result of her first sexual experiment, prompted by a desire to clarify her sexuality after she had convinced herself, from reading The Well of Loneliness, that she was becoming a lesbian. Her second book of memoirs, Gather Together in My Name (1974), described her life as an unemployed single mother in California, embarking on brief affairs and transient jobs, before she descended into poverty and the fringes of crime and prostitution.
In Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976) she described her brief marriage to "Tosh" (Enistasious Angelos), a jazz-loving white man of Greek descent. After the marriage ended in 1954 she continued to dance and sing calypso professionally, touring in Porgy and Bess and changing her stage name from Marguerite Johnson to Maya Angelou. In 1957 she recorded an album, Miss Calypso, and appeared in an off-Broadway revue that inspired the film Calypso Heat Wave (1957), in which she sang and performed her own compositions.
Maya Angelou in a 1957 portrait taken for the Caribbean Calypso Festival
In 1959 Maya Angelou met the novelist James Killens, who suggested she move to New York to concentrate on her writing career. In The Heart of a Woman (1981) she described her immersion in the Harlem world of black writers and artists, and her work with Martin Luther King (she and Killens organised the Cabaret for Freedom in aid of his Southern Christian Leadership Conference). She also described her relationship with the South African rights activist Vusumzi Make — a man, by her account, of unlimited sex appeal who tried, but failed, to possess her, body and soul, and with whom she moved to Cairo, where she became the associate editor of the English-language Arab Observer.
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986) charted her three-year stay in Accra, Ghana, after the break-up of her relationship with Make. She was an administrator at the University of Ghana, and was active in the African-American expatriate community, becoming a features editor for The African Review and a freelance writer, broadcaster and actress.
In A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002), the sixth episode of the Angelou saga, she recounted her return to America; her attempts to help Malcolm X build a new civil rights organisation, the Organisation of Afro-American Unity ; her devastation after his assassination; her return to life as a nightclub chanteuse in Hawaii; and her decision to write her first memoir.
Maya Angelou's account of her time in Hawaii contains a passage which, to one reviewer, seemed to epitomise all that had gone wrong between the publication of her first and last books.
Worried about dwindling audiences at the nightclub, she decides, for her swansong performance, not to sing, but to dance: "I asked for the music, then invited it to enter my body and find the broken and sore places and restore them. That it would blow through my mind and dispel the fogs... I danced for the African I had loved and lost in Africa. I danced for bad judgments and good fortune. For moonlight lying like rich white silk on the sand before the great pyramids in Egypt and for the sound on ceremonial fontonfrom drums waking the morning air in Takoradi.... The dance was over, and the audience was standing and applauding."
"With relief, perhaps?" suggested the reviewer.
But by this time Maya Angelou had become such an institution she could afford not to be bothered by jibes, often quoting a Ghanaian saying: "An elephant is rarely seriously bothered by a flea" .
She also wrote five books of essays and several collections of poetry, one of which — Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie — was nominated for a Pulitzer. Like her prose, her poetry ranged from the vivid and original to a sort of black American version of Pam Ayres .
Maya Angelou's 1972 screenplay, Georgia, Georgia, was the first original script by a black woman to be produced, and she also published two cookery books. In 1977 she appeared in a supporting role as Kunta Kinte's grandmother in the television miniseries of Alex Haley's Roots.
Maya Angelou embraced some unpredictable political standpoints over the years. There was surprise when, in 1995 she spoke at the "Million Man March", supporting Louis Farrakhan, whom she had previously branded as "dangerous". In 2008 she backed Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama — who in 2010 presented Maya Angelou with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
From 1991 she taught at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she held the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies. Until she was well into her eighties she made around 80 appearances a year on the lecture circuit. Mom & Me & Mom, an overview of her life, was published last year.
Maya Angelou never clarified the number of times she had been married, "for fear of sounding frivolous", although it was at least twice. One of her essays told of the end of her marriage, in 1973, to Paul du Feu, "a builder from London, a graduate of the London School of Economics, the first near-nude centrefold for Cosmopolitan magazine, formerly husband of Germaine Greer".
Maya Angelou is survived by her son.
Maya Angelou, born April 4 1928, died May 28 2014
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LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Thursday that the opposition was weighing different options, including an in-house change, to "rid" the country of "inefficient" Imran Khan-led government.
"All opposition parties are on the same page to get rid of the 'inept' and 'selected' Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government. Whichever way is adopted for this purpose, we have to send this 'illegal and unconstitutional' government home very soon. Options like an in-house change and mid-term polls are under consideration," he said while talking to reporters at the residence of PPP leader Samina Ghurki here.
At the same time, Mr Bhutto-Zardari drew the attention of the "selector" to the poor performance of Imran-led government, saying that enough time had been given to it to deliver.
Earlier, Shahbaz Sharif, president of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N), another major opposition party, had also supported the idea of in-house change, saying the sooner the nation got rid of PM Khan, the better it was for the country.ARTICLE CONTINUES AFTER AD
Tells 'selector' that enough time has been given to PTI's 'inefficient' govt to deliver
Mr Bhutto-Zardari said that Mr Sharif would return from London soon, indicating that on his return the joint opposition may show its cards regarding a joint strategy to launch anti-government protest. According to PML-N Punjab president Rana Sanaullah, the opposition leader in the National Assembly would return next month.
Asked whether the joint opposition would be in a position to bring an in-house change in the wake of what had happened in the Senate when a no-confidence motion was tabled against its chairman last year, the PPP chief said: "This will not happen in the National Assembly. If a no-confidence motion is tabled in the National Assembly against the prime minister, the opposition lawmakers under the law will have to vote in accordance with the party line. This [no-confidence move in the NA] should not be equated with the Senate episode."
In an indirect reference to the establishment, he said: "If we go for an in-house change, there will be a problem for it and it may not repeat what it had done in the Senate polls."
Mr Bhutto-Zardari recalled how some opposition senators had defied party policy and voted against a no-confidence motion against Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani. "The way some votes of the opposition, which has a majority in the Senate, went missing shows that the PTI regime has been imposed on us forcibly," he said.
Interestingly, the opposition, particularly the PML-N and PPP leadership, had vowed to take action against such senators but later it changed its mind because of "political compulsions".
Mr Bhutto-Zardari said there were two reasons for immediately getting rid of this government — first, it was "unconstitutional" and had been installed through "massively rigged elections" and second, the poor could no longer face the brunt of the "fascist regime's" policies.
He said the PPP was the only party that had come to power without the blessing of the establishment in the past. "In the future too it will come to power with the people's mandate," he declared.
"Today people are asking the 'selector' [a reference to the establishment] to take notice of what its selected government has done. It has made their lives miserable," he said and added that during the one-and-a-half year of its tenure, the PTI government could not fulfil a single promise it had made to the people.
The PPP leader demanded scrapping of the PTI government's "anti-people" agreement with the International Monetary Fund and said that the government had made the country food-insecure. "The PTI government has taken more loans as compared to the previous government showing that PM Khan is corrupt, inept and incompetent."
He said the government had committed economic murder of the masses. "The people have drowned in the tsunami of inflation and price hike," he added.
Replying to a question, the PPP leader said he had no issue in meeting with PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz, daughter of former premier Nawaz Sharif.
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d. assign meaning to notation, accurately interpreting the notation in a given problem and across different contexts.
— AP® Calculus AB and AP® Calculus BC Course and Exam Description Effective Fall 2016, The College Board, New York © 2016. Full text is here.
The use of symbols is, not only what everyone thinks of when they think of mathematics, but quite rightly its great tool. Notation has made the abstraction of diverse mathematical concepts possible and revealed the connections between disparate parts of mathematics. Each notation is defined somewhere; the new notations of the calculus are defined during the course (MPAC 5b). Students often do not realize that notation is simply a shorthand. Symbols seem to have a magical quality and do things on their own. It is up to the teach to demystify all this by making the connections listed in this MPAC for the students and making sure students use the notation properly.
How/where can you make sure students use these ideas in your classes.
The variety of notations and often their redundancy are confusing to students and therefore need to be carefully explained and properly used. This does not begin in calculus, but rather from the first days of students' mathematical life: the plus sign, +, is notation. Even earlier, 1, 2, 3, are notations. We hope that by the time students get to the calculus they have had a lot of experience with notation and that their teachers have insisted on using notation correctly. The fact that there is often more than one notation for the same thing is recognized in MPAC 5a.
Notation often has meaning related to graphs. For instance, a horizontal asymptote at y = 3 is the graphical manifestation of the expression .
Notation speeds up communicating (MPAC 6) about what students are doing. For example, given the velocity expression of a moving object and asked to find the acceleration at t = 5.432, all student need to write is a(5.432) = v'(5.432) = their answer. This not only identifies the answer, but also explains (justifies) what they are doing.
Notation sometimes serves as directions on how to do some process. The Product rule, the Quotient rule and the Chain rule all help us remember what to do when finding derivatives.
But student often misuse notation. A common misuse of notation is to string their computations together with equal signs where that is neither appropriate nor true. They will calculate the integral needed to find the average value over [0,8] and get a decimal answer, say 1034, and then write 1034 = 1034/8 is the average value – correct answer, poor notation, a point lost. Another common mistake is to calculate an area by unwittingly subtracting the upper curve from the lower and get an answer, say –10 and then write –10 = 10. This loses one point for the wrong integrand and another point for the lie –10 = 10. Likewise, saying this integral = |-10| is not correct.
They not only earn the answer point, but regain (recoup in "reader talk") the point they lost for the wrong integrand, and earn full credit.
The accurate and precise use of notation is also mentioned in MPAC 6.
When AP exam questions are written the writers reference them to the LOs, EKs and MPACs. The released 2016 Practice Exam given out at summer institutes this summer is in the new format and contains very detailed solutions for both the multiple-choice and free-response questions that include these references. (This version is not available online as far as I know.) A little more than 1/3 of the multiple-choice and all six free-response questions on both AB and BC exam reference MPAC 5.
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San Pietro ist eine katholische Kirche und ein Kloster am südlichen Rand der Stadt Perugia in der italienischen Region Umbrien.

Die Kirche ist in mehrfacher Weise ungewöhnlich. An dieser Stelle wurde bereits seit dem 10. Jahrhundert gebaut. Die jetzige Kirche wurde um 1600 (1593–1611) als Teil eines Benediktinerklosters neu errichtet.

Im Innern wurden antike Säulen von einem heidnischen Tempel übernommen, die Struktur des Langhauses ist immer noch frühchristlich (oder vorromanisch und stammt möglicherweise aus dem 6. Jahrhundert), die Choranlage ist dagegen gotisch und die reiche Ausstattung entstand in der Spät-Renaissance. Sie ist im venezianischen Stil gehalten. Wir haben hier also eine ganze Reihe verschiedener Stilformen zusammengemischt vor uns.

Über den frühchristlichen Arkaden liegt kein Fenstergeschoß, sondern eine Bildergalerie von Ölgemälden, also keine Fresken, wie es eigentlich üblich wäre. Die 1593 gemalten Obergadenbilder stammen von Antonio Vassilacchi, gen. Aliense, einem Schüler Veroneses, der unter dem starken Einfluss Tintorettos stand. Von diesem hatte er auch die Idee des Zyklus von großen Leinwandbildern übernommen, die Tintoretto in Venedig in der Scuola Grande di San Rocco ausgeführt hatte. Auch hier in Perugia sind das Thema der Bilder Szenen aus dem Leben Jesu. Durch diese Kombination verschiedener Kunstformen ist ein sehr malerischer Innenraum entstanden.

Ebenfalls ungewöhnlich ist der Eingang. Hier sind vor der heutigen Fassade von der ehemals romanischen Fassade einige Teile freigelegt worden und damit auch die Fresken des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts.

Literatur
 Francesco Federico Mancini, Giovanna Casagrande: Perugia. Kunst- und Geschichtsführer. Pellegrini, Perugia 1985.
 Klaus Zimmermanns: Umbrien. Eine Landschaft im Herzen Italiens. (= DuMont-Dokumente. DuMont Kunst-Reiseführer). DuMont, Köln 1987, ISBN 3-7701-1684-4, S. 96, Abb. 27.

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