Brereton C Jones' Proud Spell demolished a field of 10 classy three-year-old fillies by powering to a five-length victory in the 134th running of the $581,650 Kentucky Oaks (Grade I) for 3-year-old fillies at Churchill Downs on a rainy Friday afternoon before a crowd of 100,046.
Ridden by Gabriel Saez, Proud Spell tracked the pace set by Bsharpsonata, who led the field through fractions of :23.73, :48.86 and 1:12.95 under Eric Camacho. Saez made his move at the head of lane, grabbing the lead from Bsharpsonata at the three-sixteenths pole and kicking away from her pursuers for a dominating victory, completing the mile and one-eighth over a "sloppy" track in 1:50.01.
Trained by Larry Jones, Proud Spell increased her record to 8-5-2-1 and with the winner's share of $342,592 boosted her earnings to $1,281,362.
Bred by Brereton Jones, Proud Spell is a daughter of 2002 Kentucky Derby runner-up Proud Citizen out of the Langfuhr mare Pacific Spell.
Proud Spell had run on a sloppy track once before, finishing second in last fall's Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (GI) at Monmouth Park.
The victory, the first in the race for Saez and Larry Jones, gave the jockey and trainer a shot at a rare Kentucky Oaks-Kentucky Derby double.
Saez will ride Fox Hill Farms' Eight Belles in the Kentucky Derby for Larry Jones. Eight Belles scratched out of the Oaks to run in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands.
The most recent rider to win both races the same year was Jerry Bailey in 1993 aboard Dispute in the Oaks and Sea Hero in the Derby.
Trainer Ben Jones saddled Real Delight to win the 1952 Oaks and came back the next afternoon to win the Derby with Hill Gail.
Elusive Lady was a mid-afternoon scratch from the Oaks because of track condition by trainer John Kimmel.
Going off as the favorite, Proud Spell returned mutuels of $8.80, $4.80 and $3.20.
Darley Stable's Little Belle, ridden by Rajiv Maragh, took advantage of a ground-saving trip to run second and return $6.40 and $4. IEAH Stable, Lewis Lakin and Pegasus Holding Group Stables' Pure Clan rallied for third under Julien Leparoux to finish three-quarters of a length back in third and return $3.80.
Completing the field in order were Golden Doc A, Bsharpsonata, Country Star, A to the Croft, Rasierra, Awesome Chic and Absolutely Cindy.


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Kate Middleton fans can pick up a dupe of her sapphire engagement ring from M&S for £19.50
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Updated: 10:23, 17 Aug 2019
KATE Middleton's sapphire engagement ring is one of the most famous pieces of jewellery in the world.
It's estimated to be worth £300,000 - but if you don't have that kind of money lying around, you can get an affordable dupe at Marks & Spencer.
Kate Middleton's sapphire engagement ring is reported to be worth £300,000Credit: Rex Features
Kate's stunning blue jewel is surrounded by 14 solitaire diamonds, while the setting consists of 18-carat white gold.
M&S's £19.50 piece boasts a similar circular gem, with a number of pretty faux diamonds dotted around it.
Instead of real gold, it's made of platinum plating.
It's available in sizes small, medium and large, but you'll have to snap it up soon - it's already selling out.
Marks & Spencer's offering is a near-identical dupe - and it costs less than £20Credit: M&S
It's just as much of a statement piece as the Duchess of Cambridge'sCredit: M&S
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Prince William proposed to Kate with the statement piece - which once belonged to his mother Princess Diana - back in 2010.
He popped the question in Kenya, and chose the ring as a way of "making sure my mother didn't miss out on today and the excitement".
Kate, now 37, unveiled the band in her and William's official engagement interview, and high street stores have been selling their own versions since.
Kate debuted the piece when she and William announced their engagement in 2010Credit: Richard Pohle - The Times
This isn't the first time that Marks & Spencer has released this particular copy, but you'd previously have been hard-pressed to find it in stock.
Worried you'll miss out again? The retailer is also selling a newer Kate-inspired ring.
Its Platinum Plated Cocktail Ring has a thinner jewel and quirky prong-set stones, and is also priced at £19.50.
We'd be quick if we were you.
Marks & Spencer's other option has a prong settingCredit: M&S
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I developed drugs for diseases - now I take each month as it comes with cancer
In more royal news, Princess Beatrice doesn't need The Queen's permission to get married - unlike Prince William and Prince Harry.
The Queen's "favourite film is Shirley Valentine", the story of a bored, working-class housewife who runs off to Greece to find love, playwright claims.
And this is how Princess Anne STILL fits into clothes she wore 38 years ago.
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Henri Chantavoine (6 de agosto de 1850 - 25 de agosto de 1918) fue un escritor francés.

Biografía
Chantavoine nació en Montpellier y estudió en la Escuela Normal Superior de Francia. Tras completar sus estudios se trasladó en 1876 al Lycée Charlemagne de París, y posteriormente ejerció como profesor de retórica en el Lycée Henri IV y como maître de conférences en la École Normale de Sèvres. Estuvo asociado a la Nouvelle Revue desde su fundación en 1879, y se unió al Journal des débats en 1884.

Entre sus poemas se encuentran Poèmes sincères (1877), Satires contemporaines (1881), Ad memoriam (1884) y Au fil des jours (1889).

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Poetas de Francia del siglo XIX
Poetas de Francia del siglo XX
Nacidos en Montpellier

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I did want to add one thing to the cost issue, it really doesn't cost me that much to copyright my poetry. The money that can come in per royalties, is much greater than the copyright fee. Thirteen dollars or so a poem, depending on how many lines there are. I don't feel as though I'm feeding into any government hungerfest with that kind of economics. However as far as copyrights are concerned in other arenas, I haven't a clue (there may be some truth to the mentioned problems in other situations) and submit information from my perspective only towards copyrights, as a poet.


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Senator stands up to Republicans in passionate speech for canceling votes only when Democrats show up (VIDEO)
On Thursday, North Carolina Republicans in the state Senate refused to hold a vote to override a budget veto for a novel reason: All the legislators were present.
Republicans do not have the votes to override the governor's veto if a vote is taken with all senators present, so they have repeatedly refused to do so.
On Thursday, state Sen. Jeff Jackson (D-Mecklenburg County) made a passionate speech demanding Republicans hold the vote.
"You need to call the vote," Jackson said. "All 50 of us are here," he added, noting all the state senators were present in the room. "It's been on the calendar the last three days. You've canceled it the last three days for one reason — not because people are absent, but people are present."
Jackson questioned the integrity of the Republican majority.
"The fair vote is the one with everybody present," Jackson said. You're maneuvering to try — and you're hoping — to get an unfair vote. Don't you see that's an integrity issue?"
After Jackson repeatedly asked the Republican majority to call the vote, Sen. Jerry Tillman (R-Guilford County) seemed to concede Jackson's point.
"We'll call [the vote] at the right time," Tillman said. "I hope you'll miss it, but nevertheless we'll call it."
On a Friday phone call, Jackson said the Republicans in the Senate are "still running the same play" as House Republicans. In early September, House Republicans sprung a surprise vote to override the veto on September 11, when several Democrats were not present and at least one was attending a 9-11 memorial service.
Senate Republicans are seeking to replicate the "overtly dishonest and corrupt" behavior of their House colleagues, according to Jackson. On Thursday, Republicans called "six or seven" 30-minute recesses, hoping Democrats would not return to the chamber. Each time, every Democrat returned, and Republicans eventually canceled the vote.
The same pattern was repeated on Friday morning, according to Jackson. The North Carolina Republican Party did not respond to a request for comment about the veto override vote.
The two major sticking points are education funding levels and a Medicaid expansion. The Medicaid expansion, an option states can implement under the Affordable Care Act that was rejected by the state's Republicans, would help 500,000 to 600,000 North Carolinians obtain health insurance, according to Jackson. The expansion would also add 40,000 jobs, with a disproportionate number of jobs in rural districts mostly represented by Republicans.
The Medicaid expansion would also help combat the opioid epidemic in the state. Jackson chastised Republicans who "rhetorically pledge to combat the opioid crisis, but then don't do the one thing experts say would help the most."
The Republicans are opting for an override strategy and rejecting any attempt to negotiate.
"We're willing to negotiate," Jackson said, acknowledging that the Democrats will not get everything the party wants.
In early July, a few weeks after he vetoed the budget, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper sent Republicans a compromise budget.
"I don't think they [Republicans] even read it," Jackson said.
The underhanded way the House overrode the veto has only led to increased entrenchment by both political parties, Jackson lamented. For Democrats, there is a strong sense that caving to a Republican veto vote would "reward" the bad behavior of the House Republicans.
Senate Republicans are under immense pressure to find a way to veto the budget because House Republicans "got torched" by local and national media after their September surprise vote, and those members don't want to see those antics be all for naught.
Jackson is confident the Senate Democrats will remain united. It would only take one Democrat voting with Republicans to override the veto, or two Democrats to be absent, in order to the GOP to succeed.
Jackson cautioned that any Democrat who sided with the Republicans would "end their political career" in the state.
The legislative session in North Carolina normally ends in July. This year's session is now the second-longest in the state's history, and Jackson worries that Republican intransigence could mean they continue to schedule and cancel votes through the holiday season.
"We should have been done in July," Jackson said.
Published with permission of The American Independent. Attribution: Dan Desai Martin.


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Live Review - Blaze Bayley / Absolva - Piano, Dortmund - 08/18/22
I have to confess that I never was a huge fan of Blaze Bayley and don't own the two Maiden albums with him on the vocals but I took the chance to see him live this evening nevertheless. Arriving at the location I was first of all pretty impressed about this building. The Piano is a bar where once you enter you go into this huge 1900-style hall with a fantastic stage with a lot of stucco art above and a really historical atmosphere. And in the room between (and that surprised me even more) Blaze Bayley was sitting, giving autographs very patiently until the show started.
The band that played before Blaze was Absolva. This means that the four musicians who would also play with Blaze did a gig before the main gig. Quite amazing, especially in hindsight because the temperature in the hall was pretty warm and playing almost three hours must have been very challenging for the guys. But coming back to Absolva – they played pretty nice classic heavy metal in the style of some well-known NWoBHM heroes. The performance was pretty tight and they had a convincing gig here. Guitarist / vocalist Chris Appleton did a fantastic job and didn't appear to get tired playing some stunning solos and doing a lot of crazy grimaces. I wonder why the guys from Manchester aren't more popular because the music and the gig was very entertaining and not too much over.
Setlist Absolva: Fire In The Sky / Burn Inside / Addiction / What Does God Know? / Never A Good Day To Die / Legion / Burning Star / Rise Again / Code Red / Refuse To Die / From Beyond The Light
After a ten minute break to cool down a little bit Blaze Bayley entered the stage to open his European tour right here. He already played at this location and as far as I've heard, he must have fallen in love with it instantly.
I must say that I was pretty surprised to see how old he became through these years after being part of Iron Maiden. He looked a little bit like a metal version of Charles Darwin that evening. Nevertheless he started with full power and knew how to interact with the audience. Telling a lot of stories, always being humble and grateful about the fans and their support he (and the other guys) appeared very down-to-earth, authentic and charismatic. It seems that he considered the audience as a real part of the band because he always demanded some shouts, raised arms and even divided the crowd into two parts and performed a screaming competition. That was pretty much fun and the band really enjoyed it, too. About the music- the band played about two (!!!) hours and performed a lot of the classic Blaze Bayley songs and even 'The Man On The Edge' from The X-Factor by Iron Maiden. A lot of people were pretty much surprised about that and celebrated that. But also songs like 'The Man That Would Not Die', '1000 Years' or 'Witches Night' were highly welcomed in Dortmund. Apropos Dortmund, it was pretty cool to see that people from pretty far away also took part in that event – a French father with his maybe 6-year-old son was in the audience just like some Dutch guys standing next to me. Maybe this is some better way of international understanding than threatening and bombing other nations……so well, around 11.30 PM the concert was over and I have to say that my opinion about Blaze Bayley has radically changed. Maybe I will try the two Maiden albums again now! But I will for sure attend the next time he is somewhere around the Ruhr Area.
Setlist Blaze Bayley: Ten Seconds / Kill & Destroy / Watching The Night Sky / War Within Me / Pull Yourself Up / Warrior / The Power Of Nikola Tesla / Virus / Witches Night / 18 Flights (+ Solos) / Silicon Messiah / The Man Who Would Not Die / Man On The Edge / Futurea l / Blood And Belief / 1000 Years
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The Democratic Party is spotlighting bills prioritized by Senators in the Unicameral. Over the next few weeks, we will provide information about Senator's priority bills and ask that you call and write your Senator asking them to vote YES for these bills!
Senator Crawford prioritized LB225 to continue our alternative response child welfare pilot project and to require a report from the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that we have good information about whether this approach keeps our children safer and make families stronger than our traditional child welfare programs as we decide whether to adopt this approach permanently. The bill now includes a package of bills to strengthen our services to serve and protect our children. The bill includes a provision to pull together a plan that will allow data analysis of outcomes for our children across our various systems so that we can do a better job of knowing how to best invest our resources to improve outcomes for our children.
Our next bill will be on Friday!
State Senator Carol Blood's priority bill LB 88 provides temporary credentials in over 30 specialties under the Uniform Credentialing Act for military spouses. The bill will make it easier for military spouses moving to Nebraska to get jobs that require state licenses, such as those required for nurses, therapists, and other professionals. It will also make Nebraska a more military-friendly state and improve the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) score of Offutt Air Force Base. Offutt is one of Nebraska's largest employers, with 8,000 military and civilian personnel. The base generates another 4,400 in secondary jobs and has an economic impact of nearly 2.7 billion.
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Q: Can't paste files onto Android phone OS – Ubuntu 16.04, 64-bit.
I just bought a Moto G4. I plug the USB cable into my computer, then I go to Apps > Play Music, and it says, "Copy music to your phone with a USB cable." Suddenly, my computer recognizes the Moto G4 as an external drive, and opens a Nautilus window for it.
However, there appears to be nothing in /media/jps ("jps" being my user name). Screenshot. Also, when I try to hover over the folder name in Nautilus, it just gives the file directory for the location as "mtp://[usb:003,022]/.
When I try to copy-paste some .mp3 files onto the device, the paste option is grayed out on the right-click context menu. It's as though it thinks there's nothing on my clipboard. And of course, I can't just use cp in the terminal, because the device directory above is not actually a real directory on my computer that the terminal can recognize.
What's going on?

A: I touched the bar on the top of my smart phone screen, and it gave me the option of switching between USB modes – "charging", "file transfers (MTP)", "photo transfer (PTP)", and "MIDI". I switched from MTP to PTP, and suddenly I was able to paste files onto the device! So problem solved, I guess.

A: I got the same problem and in particular I wasn't able to paste files in the internal memory.
I solved in this way ( remember to set MTP mode )

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*Go to "settings" and find "about device"

*Tap on build number few times until you see
"Developer Mode Has Been Turned On"

*then go to "developer options", make sure the USB debugging checkbox is ticked.

Now you should be able to copy files in the internal memory.

A: Just open destination folder on phone and  source folder on your PC.then drag from PC folder and drop into phone folder and voila.that worked for me

A: I do not have SD card in my tablet and I was needed to copy files/folder from PC to tablet's internal memory. I was able to copy everything I needed just to root directory of my internal memory (Next to Android, DCIM, documents and other folders). Also I could create folders/sub-folders but could not copy anything to them. Root directory in my case was enough - then using internal Android file manager it was possible to cut/paste files/folder from root directory to anywhere else.
I could do it using MTP mode. Developer mode not required.

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Initially, we created exceptional loudspeakers of extremely high efficiency. This means only a few watts are needed to create the same level of sound that could take a hundred watts with a conventional loudspeaker. It also means that an amplifier must have a great deal of sonic purity because such speakers magnify the first few watts the amplifier produces. We found that no company today producing tube amplifiers were making products which communicated the musical experience we sought.
We furthermore wanted to create a seamless, bespoke experience for OMA customers who would never have to worry again about the compatibility and coherence of their electronics with their speakers. Our amplifiers are designed to be used with our extremely high efficiency speakers, as they are designed and voiced using those speakers.
OMA amplifiers are designed as integrated units which do not require separate preamplifiers, which further increase the complexity of an audio system, and can create a host of problems. We simply build the preamplifier into our amplifiers. Every OMA amplifier design has a gain control and source selector- say goodbye to needing a separate preamplifier. Our PD1 phonostage will drive any of our amplifiers to full output, as will most digital sources.
OMA makes only triode or triode connected tube amplifiers, because triodes sound better, even though they have much less power than pentode or tetrode tube types which account for the vast majority of tube amplifiers built today. We also use tubes that are unusual- many of our designs are the only commercially available amplifiers using a given tube, like the EL862, or even the triode connected 807, which was commonly used as a radio transmitting tube during WW2. Our amplifier designs use these tubes because we believe them to have the best sound quality for a given power output. Because virtually no other companies use the same tubes we do, NOS (new old stock) vintage tubes are readily, and reasonably, available when replacements are necessary. Tubes manufactured today almost never sound as good as vintage ones. OMA maintains a large inventory of NOS tubes for all of our amplifiers.
Putting together a complete OMA system avoids the pitfalls of mixing and matching components from various manufacturers hoping it all works together. OMA is the only company in the world producing its own line of high efficiency speakers and a line of matching electronics. Because of that, you can rest assured your audio system is perfectly matched from signal to speaker.


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Home The BLADE Blogs Joe Kertzman's Blog Spartan Blades Sets Up New Knife Shop
Spartan Blades Sets Up New Knife Shop
Joe Kertzman
An article posted Tuesday, April 1, 2014, on www.thepilot.com, an online news site serving Moore County, North Carolina, detailed Spartan Blades' knife manufacturing facility move to a historic restaurant, now closed of course—the LobSteer on U.S. 1 in Southern Pines, North Carolina.
Ted M. Natt Jr., of www.thepilot.com, details:
The sign outside the former LobSteer restaurant on U.S. 1 in Southern Pines proclaims that Spartan Blades is coming soon.
"We've had people coming in and asking about being short-order cooks and waitresses," Spartan Blades co-owner Curtis Iovito said with a laugh last week, "so we're telling people it's going to be a Greek-Japanese fusion restaurant."
The confusion is understandable, given that the LobSteer operated on the site for 44 years until closing last year.
But Spartan Blades manufactures finely crafted tactical and field knives for the military, law enforcement, outdoor enthusiasts and collectors. The knives are sold in gun shops, cutlery shops and specialty stores in 30 states and 20 countries through a network of 120 authorized dealers.
"We've gained quite a bit of notoriety in the past few years," Iovito said. "We had over $1 million in sales for the first time last year."
Iovito and business partner Mark Carey, who met while serving in the U.S. Army Special Forces, currently produce 2,500 knives a year in less than 1,000 square feet of space in what used to be the mule barn at Malcolm Blue Farm in Aberdeen.
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Hector, meaning holding fast, appeared on the charts for the first time in 1911 on position #516. In this article you'll learn the history of this name, statistics, see famous people named Hector and more.
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With that position 1 in 1,267 baby boys were given this name - making this a very unique male name according to our Popularity Score algorithm. Hector peaked in popularity 29 years ago in 1990 on position 157.
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Despite collecting booking amount from customers since its launch in 2012, Premia Corporate City in Greater Noida (West), is yet to see the start of construction. Tired of the delay and scared for the future of their investments, customers have now finally started raising their voices. In-order to find out why the project site still remains barren, The Pioneer investigated into the customer complains and stumbled upon some startling facts.
Gupta has been travelling back and forth to the developer's office and project site and says that the developer is non-committal about giving him his unit number or the final date of possession. "I once saw some documents from the Noida authority which states that the developer has not received building plan approvals for the studio apartment," Gupta further added. While raising an important question, Gupta asked that how could the developer sell studio apartments without the proper building approvals?
To find the answers to these customer complaints, The Pioneer tried to approach Tarun Shienh, Chairman and Managing Director of the Premia Group through various means. When we tried to call the numbers given on the websites of the projects, the promoter was either not available or the staff had no clue about how to reach him. We even sent a request for an interview of Shienh on his personal website but till the time of filing the story, neither did the Group respond nor anyone from Shienh's office.
While investigating the customer complains, many interesting facts came up. With almost two years gone, it is quite alarming to know that the construction work on the project is far from the start while the Group launched its commercial project Crown of Noida, Premia Corporate City 2 in Noida Sector 62. Just like its predecessor, the commercial project site is also barren with no signs of construction.
As per an insider from the real estate industry, "Till now Premia Group has raised almost Rs 1,750 crore as booking amounts from brokers and investors for two of its projects." Even after ample money has been raised, the construction sites still remain barren. The biggest question at this point is, why hasn't the construction started even after two year from its launch?
As per the insider, it seems the money is going everywhere except in the place which should have been the top most priority. While the Group has been spending heavily to erect hoarding across the capital and running advertisement campaigns on leading radio stations, they have not invested anything towards actually building the proposed project.
"Tarun Shienh has spent a good amount of money on himself. He got a Lamborghini for himself and almost daily travels in a convoy of expensive luxury cars. He is spending more money on his image than on the projects," the insider further added.
As we dug deeper, another fascinating factor came up about the project. Premia Corporate City 2 on paper looks quite lucrative to customers as the group is offering assured returns on their investments. As per the project brochure, customers are promised a return of 12.5 per cent on their investments but with construction not even started, it is not clear how the Group would keep its promise.
Currently, home loans given by major banks lie in a range of 10.10 per cent to 10.50 per cent. So basically, Premia Group is offering customers an avenue of investment wherein they can take a home loan and repay it through the assured return which is almost 2 per cent higher. Normally, returns start to come once the customer has his house or shop which he then can put out on rent. With the construction not even started, customers investing in Premia Corporate City 2, might have to wait for a long time to even see if the project reaches delivery stage.
Normally, credibility of a real estate developer lies in the number of years he has been in the industry and how strong has been his delivery line. It seems on the front of experience, there are a lot of discrepancies on the side of Premia Group. While the broachers prominently highlight 21 years of experience in the industry, Tarun Shienh himself only has nearly four years of experience in the real estate sector.
As per Shienh's profile on a leading professional networking site, he has a total work experience of almost 15 years that too mostly in sales and services. As far as delivery line is concerned, there is not much that can be talked about. Since the projects are far away from construction, completion and delivery seems a farfetched dream.
On paper and in front of public, Premia Group is quite vocal about transparency. Be it CMD's profile or the group's website, transparency has been given a lot of importance. But on the other side, The Pioneer has documents taken out from the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), which points out that Tarun Shienh is holding top positions in most of the 40 companies.
What is more interesting is that all these companies have the same registered office. As per the MCA, registered address of all these companies is a flat on the third floor in a residential colony of Patel Nagar, Delhi. One would wonder that this small flat would be jam packed with officials from all these companies but in reality, just like the construction sites, the registered office is almost always closed. We inquired by neighbours around this address, it turns out that in every few days someone comes and collects all the letters left on the front door.
This, real estate industry experts say, not just puts a question mark on overall credibility of Premia Group's promoters but also highlights a leak in the monitoring of MCA on companies.
In the span of just three years, Tarun Shienh, now the Chairman and Managing Director of the Premia Group has created a lot of buzz in the real estate sector of Noida. Coming from a desk managing operations of the National Capital Region for HDFC Standard Life Insurance, Shienh now sits with a crown of "Property Guru" on his head. But the facts when investigated, raises multiple questions on this young business man's credibility and transparency.


This feels like a silly question, but here it goes.
Our app will end up downloading PDFs (And other attachments). To open it I tried making a webview, which failed and gave me tons of errors. I then decided to go native and wrote some Android/iOS code to open up the PDF on the targets themselves.
What happened is I got an error on both platforms saying they couldn't find my filepath. This lead me to google where to store resources (I've been doing in in the Resource folder with images). From my googling it seems that you can call images by filename instead of path name, but not other file types?
I guess my question is, where SHOULD I be storing .pdf's and other files that are not images if I plan to call upon them and view them while the app is running?
This seems so basic but when I googled it I couldn't find a good answer.
in the forum there are codes to open pdf and other docs in Android and iOS.
Sorry but that does not help me. Xamarin Studio is saying Path.GetTempPath() does not exist, and running through what does exist in this context of Path had lead me to learn nothing.
I just want to know where I should store files that are not images in Xamarin, and what is the path name for when I want to access it.
Sorry, you have talk about "download " and I have thought you would download files from the web.
I know you can use an SQLite database, and I will be using one at a later date with the app. I just wanted to know how to reference files stored in the resource folder in Xamarin forms so that I can test that my PDFViewer is actually working without having to set up an entire database.
I guess I'll just put off testing it until we're at the point in development where the database is coming into play, and just test it then.
I have post that link because you can use your pdf document as the SQLite described in the link.
In Android, for example, you can add the PDF to Assets, then, with a code like that used to "copy" the SQLite db from Assets to a directory, you can copy your pdf from assets to a directory.


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Education, Psychology, recent
The Other Crisis in Psychology
written by April L. Bleske-Rechek
In July 2019, Christopher Ferguson published an article in Quillette on the replication crisis in psychology. As an academic psychologist, I appreciated his clear and concise discussion of some of the difficult issues facing psychology's growth as a science, including publication bias and the sensationalizing of weak effects. I believe a related, but perhaps less-recognized, illness plagues psychology and related disciplines (including the health sciences, family studies, sociology, and education). That illness is the conflation of correlation with causation, and the latest research suggests that scientists, and not lay people and the media, are the underlying culprits.
We have probably all heard the cliché "Correlation is not causation." Of the criteria for documenting that one variable causes a change in another variable, correlation is just the first of three.
That is, the first criterion for documenting that one variable causes a change in another variable is evidence that the two variables covary together: as one goes up, the other tends to, too (a positive correlation; for example, students who score high on the SAT tend to also have a higher GPA in college),1 or as one variable goes up, the other tends to go down (a negative correlation; for example, people who have a stronger interest in working with people vs. things are less likely to major in inorganic disciplines such as computer science and physics).
The second criterion is that of temporal precedence: the presumed cause must come before the presumed effect. For example, people who are spanked during childhood tend to score lower on IQ tests during adolescence.2 Descriptions of temporal precedence tend to evoke cause and effect interpretations. For example, in the context of spanking and IQ, it is tempting to infer that spanking causes lower IQ. However, temporal precedence is necessary but not sufficient for inferring causality. As Steven Pinker described in The Blank Slate, if you set two alarms when you go to bed, one for 6:00am and the other for 6:15am, and the first alarm reliably goes off before the second alarm, you will have evidence of systematic covariance and temporal precedence, but that doesn't mean that the first alarm caused the second alarm to go off. Likewise, spanking in childhood occurs before the measurement of IQ in adolescence, but that doesn't provide evidence that spanking causes lower IQ. The tendency to infer causality from temporal precedence appears to underly belief in the well-refuted myth that vaccines cause autism3: Because vaccines are given before symptoms of autism reveal themselves, people are quick to mistakenly assume that the vaccines cause autism. By this logic, everything from crawling to walking is a cause of autism.
The third criterion is of utmost importance. To infer causality, researchers must address potential confounding variables—variables other than the presumed cause that could account for the association between the presumed cause and effect. In the case of spanking and IQ, for example, one can entertain all kinds of potential (and non-mutually exclusive) confounds: living in a high-stress, poverty-stricken environment could lead to both being spanked and suboptimal development of cognitive ability; lower parental IQ could be accounting for both the use of corporal punishment and children's lower IQ scores; pre-existing low IQ scores in children could lead to both being spanked and continued lower IQ scores into adolescence; etc. To make the case for a specific cause (such as spanking), the cause must be isolated and then, via random assignment, imposed upon some individuals and not others (or varying levels of the cause must be imposed on different groups of individuals). Generally, this is accomplished through experimental design that includes manipulation of the presumed cause followed by measurement of the variable that is predicted to be affected by the manipulation.
No ethical researcher plans on randomly assigning parents to engage in varying degrees of corporal punishment to assess its isolated effects on children's IQ. But other questions about humans can be tackled with experiments. For example, researchers who want to test the hypothesis that playing violent games increases aggression have used experimental designs4 in which some individuals are randomly assigned to play a violent video game for a specified period of time and others are assigned to play a similarly arousing but non-violent video game; after imposing the manipulation, individuals' aggression is measured.
A controlled experiment—in which a specific causal variable is manipulated by the researcher, participants are randomly assigned to experience different levels of that manipulated variable, everything else is held constant, and the effects of that manipulation are then measured objectively—is the "gold standard" for documenting causality. Notably, documenting that a variable has a causal impact on another variable does not mean that it determines that other variable. In the case of violent video games and aggression, there may be evidence that exposure to violent video games has short-term influence on aggressive thoughts,5 but exposure to violent video games doesn't determine how aggressive people are; it is just one of many variables that influence aggression.
Perhaps the distinction between correlation and causation makes perfect sense to you. Lucky you, because you are not in the majority. The tendency to conflate correlation and causation is well-known and discussed widely in books on logical thinking (such as Keith Stanovich's What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought) and biases in thinking (such as Michael Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things).
Several years ago, my students and I published systematic evidence that the tendency to conflate correlation with causation occurs regardless of how educated people are. In one study, for example, we gave a group of community adults a hypothetical research vignette that described a correlational study of students' self-esteem and academic performance, in which both variables were measured (observed) and neither was manipulated. To another group of participants, we gave a hypothetical research vignette that described an experimental study in which students' self-esteem was manipulated (that is, by random assignment some students received self-esteem promoting messages and some students did not) and then the students' academic performance was measured. For both groups of participants, the research vignette concluded with a statement that the study revealed a positive correlation between self-esteem and academic performance. Then, we asked the participants what inferences they could draw from the finding.
The participants in the two groups were equally likely to conclude that self-esteem leads to academic success, even though participants who read about the correlational study should not have drawn that conclusion. Moreover, participants who read about the correlational study were similarly likely to draw an erroneous causal inference regardless of how educated they were! (The inference that self-esteem enhances academic performance, by the way, actually goes against the latest science, which shows quite clearly that if self-esteem and academic success are causally connected, it is academic success that precedes self-esteem, not the reverse!)6
The Language of Causality
As a likely manifestation of the human bias toward inferring cause and effect, there are far more ways to describe cause and effect associations than there are ways to describe non-causal associations. When my colleagues and I pored through several hundred journal articles in psychology, we found more than 100 different words and phrases that were used to denote cause-and-effect relationships. These are shown in the word cloud below, with the most commonly used words in large font.
There are probably hundreds of ways of denoting cause and effect relationships, and the reason this is important is that people don't really know what does and does not qualify as causal language,7 nor (as I described above) do they recognize the conditions under which causal language is warranted. So, if a description of research findings uses causal language without justification, the reader is unlikely to realize it, and hence they will be misled without having a clue they are being misled.
Scholars have repeatedly blamed the media for inappropriate use of causal language. In 2016, when Brian Resnick of Vox asked famous psychologists and social scientists what journalists get wrong when writing about research, conflating correlation and causation topped the list. Indeed, unwarranted causal inferences abound in the media. A quick search on nearly any news site will reveal headlines like "How Student Alcohol Consumption Affects GPA" and "Sincere Smiling Promotes Longevity" and "For Teens, Online Bullying Worsens Sleep and Depression," all of which are causal claims made on the basis of non-causal (correlational) research with measured variables.
Recently, though, several studies have shown that unwarranted causal language begins with scientists themselves. For example, in medicine, one extensive review showed that over half of articles about correlational studies included cause and effect interpretations of the findings.8 And in education, a review of articles published in teaching and learning journals found that over a third of articles about correlational studies included causal statements.9 In psychology, my colleagues and I conducted two studies that reinforced the ubiquity of the problem. First, we reviewed a random sample of poster abstracts that had been accepted for presentation at an annual convention of the premier professional organization in psychology, the Association for Psychological Science. We were disappointed to find that over half of the abstracts that included cause and effect language did so without warrant (i.e., the research was correlational). Of course, poster presentations are held to a less rigorous standard than are formal talks or published journal articles, so in a follow-up study, we reviewed 660 articles from 11 different well-known journals in the discipline. Our findings replicated: over half of the articles with cause and effect language described studies that were actually correlational; in other words, the causal language was not warranted.
When I submitted our analysis of unwarranted causal language to a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science, the journal editor dismissed the submission, saying the human tendency to conflate correlation with causation is already well-known. Well, it may be a well-known bias, but it is obviously not easy to address if it is rampant in the poster presentations of one of psychology's most popular professional conventions and just as prevalent in highly respected journals in the discipline. (We did proceed to publish our findings in a different journal whose editor asked us to submit to them.)
Failing to Consider Confounds
The failure to consider confounds and to erroneously infer causality from correlational data inhibits us from developing optimally effective solutions to the problems we face in society. Consider, for example, the massive variation among young children in their early language acquisition and subsequent school achievement. One of the most commonly referenced studies in early childhood development and education is Hart & Risley's 1995 longitudinal study that demonstrated that children raised in low socioeconomic status homes had parents who spoke far fewer words to them than did children raised in high socioeconomic status homes, and these early differences in language experience predicted subsequent disparities between children in their vocabularies and school achievement.10 This link was interpreted as causal—that the verbal environment parents provide to their children is a key influence on their children's verbal development—and it spurred many intensive and expensive programs that teach and support verbal interaction between parents and infants. However, Hart and Risley's data were correlational. That is, the researchers did not manipulate the quantity and quality of verbal interactions that parents had with their young children; they did not randomly assign some parents to provide one form of language experience and other parents to provide another and then measure any change in children's development as a result of the manipulation. To suggest that differences in early language experiences cause differences in children's vocabularies and school achievement requires the elimination of confounds—that is, variables that could account for the correlation because they lead to both strong verbal interaction from parents and strong verbal ability in children.
Shared genetics is one potential confound. Parents of higher socioeconomic status tend to have higher cognitive ability than parents of lower socioeconomic status, and socioeconomic status and cognitive ability are both heritable.11 So, shared genes could be a third variable that influences both the quality of language experiences that parents provide and children's verbal ability. To test this possibility, behavioral geneticists have taken advantage of "experiments of nature" in which some children are raised by their biological parents (sharing both genes and environment) and some children are raised by adoptive parents (sharing only environment). In typical families (like those in Hart and Risley's study), how similar are children to their parents, with whom they share both genes and a rearing environment? In adoptive families, how similar are children to their parents, with whom they share only a rearing environment?
In fact, the answers to these questions were first documented in the 1920s12 and have replicated on multiple occasions by myriad researchers13: In biological families, children resemble their parents in vocabulary and verbal ability; in adoptive families, they do not. The key implication is that Hart and Risley's finding of a link between parents' verbal behavior and their children's verbal ability does not warrant an inference that parents' verbal behavior influences their children's verbal ability. The link is better explained by shared genes, because the association only reveals itself when parents and children are genetic relatives. Stated another way, the findings imply that the type of parents who provide high-quality language experiences to their children differ systematically from those who provide lower-quality experiences; and children who evoke high-quality verbal reactions from their parents differ systematically from those who do not. Because developmental psychologists and educators continue to interpret correlational data like Hart and Risley's as evidence of the causal impact of early language experiences on verbal ability, they continue to push interventions that, in the end, are likely to be relatively less effective than interventions that acknowledge and address both environmental and genetic differences between individuals and families.
Another domain in which conflation of correlation with causation may be leading us astray is with microaggressions. In the article that popularized this term, microaggressions were defined as "brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color."14 The term was initially applied in the context of race and ethnicity but is now applied much more broadly. One key finding from correlational research on microaggressions is that individuals who self-report being microaggressed against are more likely than others to struggle with mental health issues.15 The data are correlational, yet have been interpreted as causal: that is, that being microaggressed against causes mental health issues.16 As such, it is now common in both the academic and corporate world to offer or require employee training on the various phrases, words, and actions that might qualify as microaggressions. I am not suggesting that being microaggressed against does not actually have a negative effect on individuals' well-being; the causal path is certainly plausible. However, the causal inference is not valid in the absence of true experimental research that imposes microaggressions on some individuals and not others, with subsequent measurement of pre-specified outcomes. To say otherwise is telling more than we know.
As Scott Lilienfeld pointed out in his article17 calling for more rigorous research on microaggressions, a glaring confound is the personality trait of negative emotionality (neuroticism): Individuals who are high in negative emotionality are particularly likely to perceive themselves as microaggressed against and individuals who are high in negative emotionality are susceptible to mental health issues. The possibility that negative emotionality underlies both experiencing microaggressions and mental health concerns is quite reasonable given that microaggressions have no precise definition but rather are defined entirely in terms of the listener's interpretation. I propose that microaggression workshops, to the degree that they are motivated by unwarranted assumptions of the causal impact of microaggressions on mental health, might actually backfire by making at-risk individuals more likely to perceive themselves as microaggressed against.
Indeed, in research that my colleagues and I presented last year, when we primed college students with the note that "people say all kinds of things, and sometimes they say things that can be harmful without even realizing it," the students who scored higher in negative emotionality subsequently rated ambiguous statements like "You should take up running" to be more harmful than did students who scored low in negative emotionality. As Lukianoff and Haidt argued in The Coddling of the American Mind, microaggression training may not be preparing people to engage with each other respectfully (as it presumably aspires to), but rather to look for opportunities to take offense in others' words.
Psychology Can Do Better
In the same way that psychological scientists have responded to the replication crisis by holding ourselves accountable for engaging in more responsible research and data analysis practices, I hope that psychological scientists can work together to overcome our tendency to infer causality from correlational data. How we overcome this tendency may depend on why, how, when, and to whom it happens. It is possible that, just like anyone else, psychologists have a difficult time distinguishing between correlation and causation; if that is the case, we need to supplement our scientific training to include more pointed practice with causal language and criteria for demonstrating causality.
Another possibility is that psychological scientists recognize unwarranted causal inferences when evaluating others' research but miss it in their own, perhaps because of ideological and self-serving biases. If that is the case, we need to encourage individuals with competing viewpoints to provide constructive review of each other's research, with correlation versus causation front of mind. It is also posible that scientists use unwarranted causal language intentionally, in an effort to draw more attention to their work. Luckily, recent research suggests that engaging in such causal "spin" is unnecessary, because press releases that are crafted with causal language and press releases that are crafted with non-causal language are picked up by news outlets at similar rates.
Regardless, it is up to psychological scientists to hold one another—and themselves—to a higher standard of (1) recognizing a causal statement when they see it, and (2) identifying whether or not the three criteria have been met for making that causal statement. In the scientific pursuit of truth, psychology must do better.
April L. Bleske-Rechek earned her BA in Psychology and Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1996) and her PhD in Individual Differences and Evolutionary Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin (2001). She is currently a Psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
1 Sackett, P. R., Borneman, M. J., & Connelly, B. S. (2008). High-stakes testing in higher education and employment: Appraising the evidence for validity and fairness. American Psychologist, 63, 215-227. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.63.4.215
2 Straus, M. A., & Paschall, M. J. (2009). Corporal punishment by mothers and development of children's cognitive ability: A longitudinal study of two nationally representative age cohorts. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 18, 459-583. doi:10.1080/10926770903035168
3 Madsen, K. M., Hviid, A., Vestergaard, M., Schendel, D., Wolfhart, J. et al. (2002). A population-based study of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination and autism. The New England Journal of Medicine, 347, 1477-1482. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa021134
Honda, H., Shimizu, Y., & Rutter, M. (2005). No effect of MMR withdrawal on the incidence of autism: A total population study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 46, 572-579. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2005.01425.x
4 Anderson, C. A., & Bushman, B. J. (2001). Effects of violent video games on aggressive behavior, aggressive cognition, aggressive affect, physiological arousal, and prosocial behavior: A meta-analytic review of the scientific literature. Psychological Science, 12, 353-359. doi:10.1111/1467-9280.00366
6 Baumeister, R. F., Campbell, J. D., Krueger, J. J., & Vohs, K. D. (2008). Exploding the self-esteem myth. In S. O. Lilienfeld, J. Ruscio, & S. J. Lynn (eds.), Navigating the mindfield: A user's guide to distinguishing science from pseudoscience in mental health, pp. 575-587. Amherst, NY, US: Prometheus Books.
7 Adams, R. C., Sumner, P., Vivian-Griffiths, S., Barrington, A., Williams, A., Boivin, J., Chambers, C. D.,& Bott, l. (2017). How readers understand causal and correlational expressions used in news headlines. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 23, 1-14. doi:10.1037/xap0000100
Mueller, J. F., & Coon, H. M. (2013). Undergraduates' ability to recognize correlational and causal language before and after explicit instruction. Teaching of Psychology, 40, 288-293. doi:10.1177/0098628313501038
8 Lazarus, C., Haneef, R., Ravaud, P., & Boutron, I. (2015). Classification and prevalence of spin in abstracts of non-randomized studies evaluating an intervention. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 15, 85. doi:10.1186/s12874-015-0079-x
9 Robinson, D. H., Levin, J. R., Thomas, G. D., Pituch, K. A., & Vaugh, S. (2007). The incidence of 'causal' statements in teaching-and-learning research journals. American Educational Research Journal, 44, 400–413. doi:10.3102/0002831207302174
10 Hart, B., & Risley, T. R. (1995). Meaningful differences in the everyday experience of young American children. Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.
11 Marioni, R. E., Davies, G., Hayward, C., Liewald, D., Kerr, S. M., Campbell, A.,…Deary, I. J. (2014). Molecular genetic contributions to socioeconomic status and intelligence. Intelligence, 44, 26-32. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2014.02.006
Trzaskowski, M., Harlaar, N., Arden, R., Krapohl, E., Rimfeld, K., McMillan, A.,…Plomin, R. (2014). Genetic influence on family socioeconomic status and children's intelligence. Intelligence, 42, 83-88. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2013.11.002
12 Burks, B. S. (1928). The relative influence of nature and nurture upon mental development; a comparative study of foster parent-foster child resemblance and true parent-true child resemblance. Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Pt. I, 219-316.
13 Leahy, A. M. (1935). A study of adopted children as a method of investigating nature-nurture. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 30, 281-287. doi:10.1080/01621459.1935.10504170
Neiss, M., & Rowe, D. C. (2000). Parental education and child's verbal IQ in adoptive and biological families in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Behavior Genetics, 30, 487-495.
Wadsworth, S. J., Corley, R. P., Hewitt, J. K., Plomin, R., & DeFries, J. C. (2002). Parent-offspring resemblance for reading performance at 7, 12 and 16 years of age in the Colorado Adoption Project. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 43, 769-774. doi:10.1111/1469-7610.00085
14 Sue, D. W., Capodilupo, C. M., Torino, G. C., Bucceri, J. M., Holder, A. M. B., Nadal, K. L., & Esquilin, M. (2007). Racial microaggressions in everyday life: Implications for clinical practice. American Psychologist, 62, 271-286. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.62.4.271
15 Nadal, K. L., Griffin, K. E., Wong, Y., Hamit, S., & Rasmus, M. (2014). The impact of racial microaggressions on mental health: Counseling implications for clients of color. Journal of Counseling & Development, 92, 57-66. doi:10.1002/j.1556-6676.2014.00130.x
16 Note the causal language in the title of the article: Nadal, K. L., Griffin, K. E., Wong, Y., Hamit, S., & Rasmus, M. (2014). The impact of racial microaggressions on mental health: Counseling implications for clients of color. Journal of Counseling & Development, 92, 57-66. doi:10.1002/j.1556-6676.2014.00130.x
17 Lilienfeld, S. (2017). Microaggressions: Strong claims, inadequate evidence. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12, 138–169. doi:10.1177/1745691616659391
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    void        operator-=(const iterator& other) {p_ -= other.p_;}
    iterator    operator- (const std::size_t& n)  {iterator tmp(*this); tmp -= n; return tmp;}
    std::size_t operator- (const iterator& other) {return p_ - other.p_;}

    bool operator==(const iterator& other) {return  p_ == other.p_; }
    bool operator!=(const iterator& other) {return  p_ != other.p_; }

    T& operator[](const int& n) {return (p_+n)->component;}
    T& operator*() {return  p_->component;}
    T* operator->(){return &p_->component;}

    uint64_t getEntityID() const {return p_->sequence;}

  private:
    typename ComponentContainer<T>::ComponentItem* p_;

    friend class const_iterator;
  };

  class const_iterator//: public std::iterator<std::random_access_iterator_tag, T>
  {
  public:
    const_iterator(): p_(nullptr) {}
    const_iterator(const typename ComponentContainer<T>::ComponentItem* p): p_(p) {}
    const_iterator(const iterator& other): p_(other.p_) {}
    const_iterator(const const_iterator& other): p_(other.p_) {}
    const const_iterator& operator=(const const_iterator& other) {p_ = other.p_; return other;}
    const const_iterator& operator=(const iterator& other) {p_ = other.p_; return other;}

    const_iterator& operator++()    {p_++; return *this;} // prefix++
    const_iterator  operator++(int) {const_iterator tmp(*this); ++(*this); return tmp;} // postfix++
    const_iterator& operator--()    {p_--; return *this;} // prefix--
    const_iterator  operator--(int) {const_iterator tmp(*this); --(*this); return tmp;} // postfix--

    void           operator+=(const std::size_t& n)              {p_ += n;}
    void           operator+=(const const_iterator& other)       {p_ += other.p_;}
    const_iterator operator+ (const std::size_t& n)        const {const_iterator tmp(*this); tmp += n; return tmp;}
    const_iterator operator+ (const const_iterator& other) const {const_iterator tmp(*this); tmp += other; return tmp;}

    void           operator-=(const std::size_t& n)              {p_ -= n;}
    void           operator-=(const const_iterator& other)       {p_ -= other.p_;}
    const_iterator operator- (const std::size_t& n)        const {const_iterator tmp(*this); tmp -= n; return tmp;}
    std::size_t    operator- (const const_iterator& other) const {return p_ - other.p_;}

    bool operator==(const const_iterator& other) const {return p_ == other.p_; }
    bool operator!=(const const_iterator& other) const {return p_ != other.p_; }

    const T& operator[](const int& n) const {return (p_+n)->component;}
    const T& operator*()  const {return p_->component;}
    const T* operator->() const {return  &p_->component;}

    uint64_t getEntityID() const {return p_->sequence;}

  private:
    const typename ComponentContainer<T>::ComponentItem* p_;
  };

  const T& operator[](std::size_t idx) const {return components[idx];}
  //T& operator[](std::size_t& idx) {return component[idx];}
  std::size_t size() const {return numComponents;}

  iterator begin() { return iterator(components); }
  iterator end()   { return iterator(components+numComponents); }
  const_iterator begin() const{ return const_iterator(components); }
  const_iterator end() const  { return const_iterator(components+numComponents);}

  const T& front() const
  {
    if (numComponents != 0)
    {
      return components->component;
    }
    else
    {
      std::cerr << "Attempt made to access front of empty ComponentGroup." << std::endl;
      throw std::runtime_error("Attempt made to access front of empty ComponentGroup.");
    }
  }
  const T& back() const
  {
    if (numComponents != 0)
    {
      return components[numComponents - 1].component;
    }
    else
    {
      std::cerr << "Attempt made to access back of empty ComponentGroup." << std::endl;
      throw std::runtime_error("Attempt made to access back of empty ComponentGroup.");
    }
  }

  // Should be able to override the equality operator to perform this function,
  // but I want modification to be explicit.
  void modify(const T& val, size_t componentNum = 0, int priority = 1) const
  {
    // Modify value by storing index, in raw array, to modified component.
    // This index will be used when re-integrating changes made at the end
    // of the frame.
    if (container != nullptr)
    {
      container->modifyIndex(val, containerIndex + componentNum, priority);
    }
    else
    {
      std::cerr << "Attempted to modify non-existante container!" << std::endl;
    }
  }

  //void modify(T&& val, size_t componentNum = 0, int priority = 1) const
  //{
  //  // Modify value by storing index, in raw array, to modified component.
  //  // This index will be used when re-integrating changes made at the end
  //  // of the frame.
  //  if (container != nullptr)
  //  {
  //    container->modifyIndex(std::move(val), containerIndex + componentNum, priority);
  //  }
  //  else
  //  {
  //    std::cerr << "Attempted to modify non-existante container!" << std::endl;
  //  }
  //}

  std::size_t numComponents;
  typename ComponentContainer<T>::ComponentItem* components;

  // The following two variables are only used when modify is called. Used
  // to modify the value of the component.
  size_t containerIndex;
  ComponentContainer<T>* container; // Can be a nullptr.
};

} // namespace spire

#endif


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K. D. Lang Quotes
"If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch."
K. D. Lang
Kathryn Dawn Lang OC AOE (born November 2, 1961), known by her stylized stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional...
Name K. D. Lang
Profession Musician
I'm an athlete rep, so I'll be available if they need me for anything.
Shannon Miller, Athlete
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"You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself."
"Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go."
"The older I get, the more I embrace who I am."
"My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted."
"When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society."
"I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly."
"Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside."
"I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling."
"I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards."
"I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of."
"I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine."
"I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer."
"I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all."
"As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it."
"I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering."
"I don't sing anything that hurts my voice."
"I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice."
"I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved."
"There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure."
"Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss."
"The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there."
"I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away."
"I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing."
"I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars."
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from test import CollectorTestCase
from test import get_collector_config
from test import run_only

from mock import call, Mock, patch
from unittest import TestCase

from portcheck import get_port_stats, PortCheckCollector

def run_only_if_netuitive_is_available(func):
    try:
        import netuitive
    except ImportError:
        netuitive = None
    return run_only(func, lambda: netuitive is not None)

class PortCheckCollectorTestCase(CollectorTestCase):

    TEST_CONFIG = {
        'hostname' : 'localhost',
        'netuitive_url': 'http://localhost',
        'netuitive_api_key': "1234567890",
        'ttl': 120,
        'port': {
            'something1': {
                'number': 5222,
            },
            'something2': {
                'number': 8888,
            }
        }
    }

    def setUp(self):
        config = get_collector_config('PortCheckCollector',
                                      self.TEST_CONFIG)

        self.collector = PortCheckCollector(config, None)

    def test_import(self):
        self.assertTrue(PortCheckCollector)

    @run_only_if_netuitive_is_available
    @patch('netuitive.Check')
    @patch('netuitive.Client.post_check')
    @patch('portcheck.get_port_stats')
    def test_collect(self, get_port_stats_mock, netuitive_client_post_check_mock, netuitive_check_mock):

        get_port_stats_mock.return_value = {'listen': 1}

        self.collector.collect()
        get_port_stats_mock.assert_has_calls([call(5222), call(8888)],
                                             any_order=True)
        netuitive_check_mock.assert_has_calls([call('something1.5222', 'localhost', 120), call('something2.8888', 'localhost', 120)],
                                              any_order=True)

class GetPortChecksTestCase(TestCase):

    @patch('portcheck.psutil.net_connections')
    def test_get_port_stats(self, net_connections_mock):

        ports = [Mock() for _ in range(5)]

        ports[0].laddr = (None, 5222)
        ports[0].status = 'ok'
        ports[1].laddr = ports[2].laddr = ports[3].laddr = (None, 8888)
        ports[1].status = 'ok'
        ports[2].status = 'OK'
        ports[3].status = 'bad'
        ports[4].laddr = (None, 9999)

        net_connections_mock.return_value = ports

        cnts = get_port_stats(5222)

        self.assertEqual(net_connections_mock.call_count, 1)
        self.assertEqual(cnts, {'ok': 1})

        cnts = get_port_stats(8888)

        self.assertEqual(net_connections_mock.call_count, 2)
        self.assertEqual(cnts, {'ok': 2, 'bad': 1})


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Old Salem is our city's historic district established in 1766, featuring a living history museum, and is only footsteps away from our property! We thank Old Salem Museums & Gardens for their support of the Historic Brookstown Inn and for being a favorite destination for our guests. Check our our hotel package page for seasonal getaways to Old Salem.
Winston-Salem is the home of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Texas Pete, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, and RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company. Its vast Arts District includes MESDA, Piedmont Opera, Milton Rhodes Art Center, and SECCA just to name a few.
If you're hungry the city's local restaurants will please every taste bud! Our variety of eateries range from Mexican to Asian Fusion and from Hotdogs to BBQ; the city is filled with bars and breweries such as Foothills and nearby is the abundant Yadkin Valley Wineries. For your sweet tooth experience Moravian Sugar Cake, or try the thinnest Moravian sugar cookies at Winkler's Bakery or grab a slice of cake from Dewey's Bakery.
The Historic Brookstown Inn is located next-door to Meridian Restaurant and across the street from Di Lisio's Italian Restaurant, Twin City Hive Coffee Lounge, and Senor Bravo Mexican Restaurant. If you're looking for coffee and a treat, we are right down the street from Camino Brookstown!
Want to try them all? Check out Tour De Food. Enjoy a gourmet food tour of multiple local restaurants in Winston-Salem. Eat. Drink. Walk.
Our local baseball team the Winston-Salem Dash could be a hit or go shopping in one of the multiple shopping areas such as Reynolda Village and Thruway Shopping Center.
Children can enjoy the Kaleideum Downtown (formerly Children's Museum), ARTivity on the Green, North Kaleideum (formerly Sciworks), Winston Waterworks, or the many parks that are peppered throughout the city.
Winston-Salem has 25 miles of greenways, incorporating paved and unpaved trails, boardwalks, and bridges. Some of our greenways connect to each other, enabling longer excursions. The Downtown Winston-Salem Strollway runs from Fourth Street to the Old Salem Visitors Center and Salem Avenue, which you can conveniently hop on from Brookstown Avenue! Click for here maps and information.
Winston-Salem is vastly growing and changing every day. Its character will please any age!
Check out the Winston-Salem's Visitors Center website for more local information, including specific places to visit and a restaurant guide.
Love for beer runs deep in Winston-Salem. North Carolina's first microbrewery was established in 1774 in Old Salem at the Single Brother's House. Winston-Salem is now home to 6 local brewing companies.
Winston-Salem is proud to be home to five colleges/universities and the Historic Brookstown Inn is located right in the center of them all. We welcome you to stay with us during family weekend, college tours, or when you are missing your college student!


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Q: Can't resolve dependency, refering to root project - next@"^9.5.6-canary.13, next-routes@"^1.4.2" I am trying for hours to resolve this issue, running from one error to the next one…
Trying everything from --legacy-peer-deps, --force npm audit fix, at this point I am not even able to install my packages without running into errors, and I don't understand what that error is saying:
npm ERR! Found: next@9.5.6-canary.18
npm ERR! node_modules/next
npm ERR!   next@"^9.5.6-canary.13" from the root project
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Could not resolve dependency:
npm ERR! peer next@">=2" from next-routes@1.4.2
npm ERR! node_modules/next-routes
npm ERR!   next-routes@"^1.4.2" from the root project

My package.json:
{
  "name": "project-name",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "private": true,
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "next dev",
    "dev": "node server.js",
    "build": "next build",
    "start": "next start"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "@apollo/client": "^3.3.19",
    "apollo-boost": "^0.4.9",
    "babel-loader": "^8.2.2",
    "babel-register": "^6.26.0",
    "dotenv": "^8.2.0",
    "framer-motion": "^4.0.0",
    "fs": "0.0.1-security",
    "graphql": "^15.5.0",
    "https": "^1.0.0",
    "ignore-loader": "^0.1.2",
    "lazysizes": "^5.3.2",
    "next": "^9.5.6-canary.13",
    "next-routes": "^1.4.2",
    "node-webvtt": "^1.9.3",
    "path": "^0.12.7",
    "react": "^16.14.0",
    "react-dom": "^16.14.0",
    "sass": "^1.32.6",
    "storyblok-js-client": "^4.0.5",
    "url": "^0.11.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@babel/register": "^7.12.13",
    "@types/node": "^14.14.37",
    "@types/react": "^17.0.3",
    "dotenv-webpack": "^6.0.0",
    "typescript": "^4.2.4"
  }
}

I am guessing some of the longer list of packages are not playing along with each other, but how can I investigate this further? The error is not very helpful. Also the similar combinations of packages and version seem to work fine in other projects …
The error originally complained about graphql packages I am using, after updating some versions it is now complaining about the next and next-routes packages …
Any ideas?


afrol News, 9 February - Botswana's President, Ian Khama has come under fire again for disregarding the rights of the Kalahari Bushmen.
Mr Khama has allegedly ignored the pleas of the San communities in his country and continues to trample on their basic human rights.
Survival International reported today that hundreds of Bushmen were left angry and frustrated after the Botswana president refused to enter into discussions with them during a meeting on Thursday last week.
President Khama, accompanied by four government ministers, reportedly met with Bushmen at the New Xade resettlement camp where they were dumped after being evicted from their lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in 2002. Despite a three year-old High Court ruling that they have the right to live in the reserve, the rights body said many still languish in the camps.
Since the ruling, the government has banned the Bushmen from accessing a water borehole on their lands; without it, they struggle to find enough water. Since attempts to negotiate with the government failed, the Bushmen have launched legal proceedings to gain access to their borehole, the report also said.
It continued that instead of addressing the questions by the community, President Khama has ignored the new litigation, choosing instead to talk about upgrades to the New Xade site. When Roy Sesana, founder of the Bushmen's organisation, First People of the Kalahari, asked a question about the failed negotiations, he was told by the minister for wildlife and national parks that the President 'doesn't have to listen to this'.
The group said while at the same time denying Bushmen their right to water, President Khama, who is on the board of Conservation International, has drilled new boreholes for wildlife in the reserve, and has given the go ahead for a safari lodge, now open, complete with swimming pool.


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Central African Republic Under Scrutiny By IMF Following Bitcoin Adoption
The Central African Republic is under scrutiny from financial analysts, entrepreneurs, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), drawing unfavorable comparisons with El Salvador's bitcoin project.
Academics and businessmen have questioned the Central African Republic's government's decision to make bitcoin legal tender alongside the CFA in an announcement back in April.
"While bitcoin may facilitate some transactions, it is a strange choice as a regular means of payment," said Jacques Mandeng of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
At the same time, an entrepreneur from Bangui, the country's capital city, believes that other priorities are necessary, such as security, energy, internet, and roads, to name a few.
"The adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender in CAR raises major legal, transparency, and economic policy challenges. IMF staff are assisting the regional and Central African Republic's authorities in addressing the concerns posed by the new law," the IMF said on Wednesday.
Government legalizes crypto
The country's national assembly unanimously voted on a bill legalizing crypto, offered a regulatory framework, and made bitcoin legal tender earlier this year, hoping that cryptocurrencies and related digitization could boost an ailing $2.3 billion economy.
Opposition parties criticized the decision to make bitcoin legal tender, which was done without the knowledge of the central bank, which services six nations, including the Central African Republic.
CAR has one of the least-developed economies globally due to a decade of armed conflict. The financial sector struggles to fight economic stagnation amidst weak market, legal and judicial frameworks. The country ranks second-last in the United NATIONS Development Programme's Human Development Index.
What about the man on the street?
Data from the world bank suggests that only 10% (557,000 out of 4.8 million) of the population has internet access, while some people haven't even heard of cryptocurrencies.
"What is it?" asks Sylvain, a thirty-something citizen waiting in an ATM queue in CAR.
"I don't know what cryptocurrencies are, I don't even have internet," says Joelle, an informal vegetable vendor in the same queue. However, a government spokesperson appears unconcerned.
"We will educate the population and soon move to fiber optics, and a weak internet connection is enough to buy cryptocurrency," said Serge Ghislain Djorie.
No plan has yet been released on scheduling the proposed rollout of fiber connectivity.
Other African countries have been more inclined towards central bank digital currencies. However, the Kenyan central bank says it is being held back by full adoption and limited adoption of smartphones.
Last year, El Salvador became the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. Protests have taken place in the Latin American country following the introduction of its bitcoin law. The country has since faced criticism from the IMF.
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Q: Group by DATEPART and DATEDIFF in LINQ .netcore 3.1 This SQL query works fine:
SET DATEFIRST 7

select DATEPART(YEAR, e.LogDate) Year,
    DATEPART(MONTH, e.LogDate) Month,
    DATEPART(DAY, e.LogDate) Day,
    DATENAME(WEEKDAY, e.LogDate) DayName,
    DATEDIFF(WEEK, 0, e.LogDate) - (DATEDIFF(WEEK, 0, DATEADD(DD, -DAY(e.LogDate) + 1, e.LogDate)) - 1) AS WeekNumber,
    e.Client,
    e.Status,
    COUNT(*) TotalCount from EmployeeProcessLogs as e
where e.Client = 'COUPA' and e.LogDate >= CAST('2020-1-1' AS datetimeoffset) and e.LogDate <= CAST('2021-1-1' AS datetimeoffset)
group by
    DATEPART(YEAR, e.LogDate),
    DATEPART(MONTH, e.LogDate),
    DATEPART(DAY, e.LogDate),
    DATENAME(WEEKDAY, e.LogDate),
    DATEDIFF(WEEK, 0, e.LogDate) - (DATEDIFF(WEEK, 0, DATEADD(DD, -DAY(e.LogDate) + 1, e.LogDate)) - 1),
    e.Client,
    e.Status

which give a result of:

How can I get the same result with LinQ?
This is what I've come up so far but it is giving me an error:
            var query = from l in _db.EmployeeProcessLogs
                        where l.Client == client &&
                              l.LogDate >= fromDate &&
                              l.LogDate <= toDate
                        let year = l.LogDate.Year
                        let month = l.LogDate.Month
                        let day = l.LogDate.Day
                        let dayName = l.LogDate.ToString("dddd")
                        let weekNumber = _.GetWeekNumber(l.LogDate.DateTime)
                        let clientType = l.Client
                        let status = l.Status
                        group l by new
                        {
                            Year = year,
                            Month = month,
                            Day = day,
                            DayName = dayName,
                            WeekNumer = weekNumber,
                            Client = clientType,
                            Status = status
                        } into g
                        select new
                        {
                            Info = g.Key,
                            Count = g.Count()
                        };

            var hh = query.ToList();

The error says:
The LINQ expression 'DbSet<EmployeeProcessLog>
    .Where(e => e.Client == __client_0 && e.LogDate >= __fromDate_1 && e.LogDate <= __toDate_2)
    .GroupBy(
        source: e => new {
            Year = e.LogDate.Year,
            Month = e.LogDate.Month,
            Day = e.LogDate.Day,
            DayName = e.LogDate.ToString("dddd"),
            WeekNumer = ____3.GetWeekNumber(e.LogDate.DateTime),
            Client = e.Client,
            Status = e.Status
         },
        keySelector: e => e)' could not be translated. Either rewrite the query in a form that can be translated, or switch to client evaluation explicitly by inserting a call to either AsEnumerable(), AsAsyncEnumerable(), ToList(), or ToListAsync(). See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2101038 for more information.

This is the code for GetWeekNumber
        public int GetWeekNumber(DateTime date)
        {
            var gc = new GregorianCalendar();
            var firstDate = new DateTime(date.Year, date.Month, 1);
            var weekOfYear = gc.GetWeekOfYear(date, CalendarWeekRule.FirstDay, DayOfWeek.Sunday);
            var firstWeekOfYear = gc.GetWeekOfYear(firstDate, CalendarWeekRule.FirstDay, DayOfWeek.Sunday);
            return weekOfYear - firstWeekOfYear + 1;
        }


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Mercedes Vila, (1975) és una científica espanyola, llicenciada en Físiques i des de 2003 doctora per la Universitat Autònoma de Madrid. Treballa en el departament de Química Inorgànica i Bioinorgánica d'aquesta magteixa universitat, on desenvolupa materials per a la reconstrucció de la pèrdua de massa òssia, amb el que es pretén millorar la qualitat de vida de malalts de certes lesions (en millorar el seu tractament) i patologies, com són el càncer ossi o l'osteoporosi.
La recerca de Mercedes Vila se centra en la producció de biomaterials que poden contribuir a la rehabilitació i tractament de malalties que porten una pèrdua parcial de massa òssia, tals com el Càncer d'Os o l'Osteoporosi.

Mercedes Vila ha passat cinc anys com a investigadora en la Facultat de Farmàcia (Universitat Complutense de Madrid, Espanya), en un dels grups europeus més destacats de Nanomedicina i Medicina Regenerativa.

Els seus treballs se centren en el disseny i aplicacions de les nanopartícules com a vectors per a la formació d'imatges i la hipertèrmia de tumors, la comprensió de nanopartícules-cèl·lules interaccionis, i l'estudi de l'estimulació del creixement cel·lular mitjançant la utilització d'estímuls físics externs.

Al novembre de 2010 va ser guardonada, al costat de quatre científiques més (Isabel Lastres Becker, Ana Briones Alonso, Elena Ramírez Parra i María Antonia Herrero), amb el Premi L'oreal – UNESCO "Per les dones en la Ciència", amb una dotació de 15000 € amb la qual es vol premiar la labor de recerca que realitzen dones de menys de 40 anys per recolzar el paper de la dona en la ciència, reconèixer-ho i ajudar a la conciliació de la vida laboral i familiar.

En 2013 va començar a investigar a la Universitat d'Aveiro (Portugal) com a Investigador Principal, exercint el càrrec de coordinadora del laboratori per a aplicacions de grafeno en Nanomedicina.

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Físics madrilenys
Alumnes de la Universitat Autònoma de Madrid