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Q: Finding the shortest item in an array? How would you go about finding the shortest item stored in an array?? This is what I have so far but I am lost at what to do next. I have tried a few type of loops with no luck. I feel like there is a simpler way of doing this.
Here is what I am suppose to do, I am not looking for you to do my homework, just to guide me.
For this Homework, you will be writing an application which determines which of all the strings the user enters is the shortest.   The application will start with the welcome message followed by instructions to use the "." character when they are finished entering strings.   The application is to continue to prompt the user to enter strings as long as "." is not entered. Every time a string is entered, the application will store it in an ArrayList object.  When the user is done entering strings, the ArrayList object will be passed to a method named printShortestString.  This method will determine which of all the strings the user entered is the shortest and print that string along with its length. Finally the application exists with the good-bye message.
package hartman;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class ShortestString {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.printf("WELCOME TO SHORTEST STRING\n\n");
    System.out.printf("Type \".\" when done entering data.\n\n");

    ArrayList<String> myArray = new ArrayList<>();

    Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);

    boolean keepAsking = true;
    while (keepAsking) {
        System.out.printf("Enter string: ");
        String userInput = keyboard.nextLine();

        if (userInput.equals(".")) {
            keepAsking = false;
        } else {
            myArray.add(userInput);
        }
    }

    printShortestString(myArray);

    System.out.printf("\n\nGOODBYE!\n");

    keyboard.close();
}

public static void printShortestString(ArrayList<String> myArray) {
    int count;
    int index = 0;
    boolean endLoop = false;
    while (endLoop = !true) {
        for (count = 0; count < myArray.get(index).length(); count++) {
            if (count == myArray.get(index).length()) {
                System.out.printf("\nShortest string is %s with length %d",
                        myArray.get(index).toString(), myArray.get(index)
                                .length());
                endLoop = true;
            } else

                index++;

        }
    }
}
}

A: Well, to do it very simply I would iterrate over the array, keeping the shortest answer found in a variable... Quite like this :
if (!arrayWithAllValues.isEmpty()) {
    String shortestValue = arrayWithAllValues.get(0);
    for ( String current : arrayWithAllValues ) {
        if ( current.length() < shortestValue.length() ) {
            shortestValue = current;
        }
    }
}

It's not the best way nor the fastest way, but it is the simplest way in my opinion.

A: A simple (but not the most efficient) way is to sort the array by length, and just output the first item which is then the shortest;
public static void printShortestString(ArrayList<String> myArray) {

    if(myArray.size() == 0)
        return;                  // No output on empty array

    Collections.sort(myArray, new Comparator<String>() {
        public int compare(String s1, String s2) {
            return s1.length() - s2.length();
        }
    });

    System.out.printf("\nShortest string is %s with length %d",
      myArray.get(0), myArray.get(0).length());
}

A: This is how I would do it. It's VERY easy to follow. Simply print the returned String. Also, in the context used, a null will never be passed.
private static String getShortestString(ArrayList<String> stringArrayList)
{
    int shortestIndex = 0;
    int index = 0;

    for (String currentString : stringArrayList)
    {
        if (currentString.length() < stringArrayList.get(shortestIndex).length())
        {
            shortestIndex = index;
        }
        index++;
    }
    return stringArrayList.get(shortestIndex);
}


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Always Covid, Never Christmas
The latest set of regulations from the UK bring to mind the line from CS Lewis about Narnia, where it was "Always Winter but never Christmas". C.S. Lewis was writing in a time of growing authoritarianism and at some point we are going to have to recognise that this is no longer about public health, but about a reluctance to relinquish power, once seized. Moreover, for investors it signals an important battle between Common Law and Napoleonic law principles that has long term consequences for growth and financial markets.
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The behaviour by governments over Covid increasingly appears to be less about Public Health and more about control. Take the example of mask wearing; the declaration by the WHO in the summer that mask wearing was 'a good thing' was not only a reversal of their previous view but came without any scientific evidence to back it up. There are as many studies saying they don't work as there are those saying that they do and none of them suggest wearing masks outside works at all. And yet, two places I spend a lot of time, Hong Kong and France, both moved to make the wearing of masks compulsory outdoors back in the summer and in Hong Kong they even closed the beaches.
Masks are a Gateway Drug
The reality is that Covid has brought forth society's natural killjoys and puritans and they are reluctant to give up their powers. For many of them, there is a degree of 'China Envy', not of its recent track record of bringing hundred of millions of people out of poverty, but of its ability to control the population. The forced wearing of masks has thus become something of a gateway drug for these authoritarians and has also brought forth those in favour of a surveillance state in terms of permanently tracking and tracing the population as well as those in favour of things like digital ID cards, health passports and other bio-security measures.
Despite almost no deaths in Hong Kong – a total of 108 this year and only 3 since September – the authorities show no sign of letting up. Indeed, last week, on the same day that a Danish study on mask wearing was finally published – its delay seemingly being a function of its uncomfortable conclusion (that they don't work) – the gyms in Hong Kong were forced to make mask wearing compulsory while doing exercise. As a result most customers simply stopped going. Bars in Hong Kong were also closed as were some schools. This was on account of a cluster of positive test results in 'dance classes' in the New Territories frequented by middle aged ladies and younger ballroom dancing gentlemen. To date almost all Hong Kong deaths have been in care homes and yet the 8 million population remains 'under control'.
Similarly in the UK, after one month of lockdown, all but 1 million of the 23 million people who were previously in tier 1 (lowest level) are to be put into tier 2, with seemingly no justification whatsoever, a move that effectively closes all pubs not serving 'substantial meals'. Every twitch in the statistics and an unspoken (and unachievable) zero covid strategy demands any enjoyable activity be stopped. It's as if the temperance league have returned.
Meanwhile in France, the Ski resorts are said not to be opening for Christmas and the New Year. Well not exactly, they can open, but the lifts can not. Too dangerous. Presumably healthy people already likely wearing masks in a ski lift are somehow more risky that the Metro in Paris? Bars and restaurants remain closed as well. Another, even more ridiculous statement was that the inevitable ski accidents might overwhelm the health system (!) It goes without saying of course that protests about government policy are strictly clamped down upon 'for health reasons' in France, UK and Hong Kong (as well as most other places in lockdown).
There is also the Medical Industrial Complex, the Merchants of Health who are encouraging the concept of a permanent test and Vax state. The recent announcements on Vaccines have tended to dilute some of the frustration with 'Never Christmas' in a 'light at the end of the tunnel' kind of way and certainly the strong performance of markets in November appears to suggest a belief that Vaccines are going to 'save us all'. However, one important thing that might have slipped by relatively unnoticed was the announcement by AstraZeneca that it is going to do more trials on its vaccine, as the 90% efficacy rate that it claimed only occurred in a sub group where the initial dosage had been incorrect. This statement, just after the UK market shut on Thursday and with the US closed for Thanksgiving, suggests that they are concerned they won't get FDA approval. Aside from the share price implications it suggests that the euphoria over the wonder vaccines might fade rapidly as it dawns on the public (and the politicians) that they might not actually work in the way they thought.
More generally, we are seeing a deliberate attempt to shift away from Common Law to Napoleonic law. This is bad for Growth and Innovation.
More importantly perhaps for markets and investors is this deliberate attempt to shift away from Common Law principles to Napoleonic or Justinian Law. The former – common to most Anglo Saxon nations – can be best summed up by the statement "Anything is allowed, unless it is forbidden", while the latter – found in most of Europe, South America, Russia, China and Japan – is expressed as "Everything is forbidden, unless it is allowed". A moment's reflection shows how this affects attitudes to risk and innovation. If you have to ask permission to do anything, usually from an official or lawyer who has no upside in your achieving anything, it is more than likely that they will say no.
Institutions understand this and recognise that it is usually more practical and efficient to allow things to run on more of a bottom up rather than a top down basis, indeed the British Army have an expression that it is "always better to apologise than ask permission". It is also likely no coincidence that the Anglo Saxon countries tend to have much more of an Equity/Risk culture and that those people with more of a risk attitude tend to migrate and congregate there. The most dynamic and creative places tend to be where no permission is required and individuals are free to make their own judgment on risk.
Part of the persistent irritation between the UK and the rest of the EU that ultimately led to Brexit was this difference in institutional approach which led to multiple restrictions being imposed in order to allow control by the European authorities. Things were banned or heavily regulated to suit producer interest groups or so they could be subsequently be 'allowed' and thus controlled. The Napoleonic system also explains the different approach to lobbying in, say, the EU, where companies are as likely to be lobbying for permission to do something as they are for officials to block their competition (the US approach).
This permission culture has led to very weak growth in the Eurozone and also places like Japan, save that which came from centrally planned infrastructure spending and in Europe has led to situations such as high labour costs but huge youth unemployment. Not surprisingly a large number of younger Europeans migrated to the more open labour markets and gig economy in the UK. Now that the UK is finally leaving (which would have been the big story of 2020 had it not been for Covid) it is not surprising that the EU is trying hard to ensure the so called level playing field, i.e. it doesn't want any competitive forces unleashed on its protected producer groups. Those fearful of a no deal Brexit might consider that this could be very bad for some of those protected groups.
Government interference in markets makes them less efficient and protects inefficient producers with powerful lobby groups. Fixing prices of things such as labour means markets fail to clear and also encourages political patronage. Not surprisingly then, the governing classes prefer the Napoleonic law approach and in Anglo Saxon countries have moved aggressively to try and impose it on the back of Covid. Whether or not they succeed will determine whether or not trend growth in Anglo Saxon economies returns to 'normal' or whether we all become like Old Europe and Japan.
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Andew Sullivan says:
Nicely put and interesting to see despite lock downs and masks; covid is still evolving, as seen in a rising number of re-infection cases with different strains. Also our lack of understanding asymptomatic cases and how they influence the spread is troubling.
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Should Utah have a full-time Legislature?
To date, the Utah Legislature has seen requests for 1,500 new bills for the session that began Monday.
I have neighbors who ask me, with arched eyebrows, why we need any more laws at all. They just don't see the need. Society seems to be conducting itself in an orderly fashion. Most of us have jobs, drive on decent roads and understand the basic rules. Why not elect a Legislature that is basically on call, kind of like a volunteer fire
department, ready to pass a new law if we happen to think of one?
That's actually easy to answer. Conditions change, entire new industries are born or technologies developed (think self-driving cars) that require new laws and requirements in order to protect people. Washington tries to meddle in state affairs, sometimes attaching rules to federal funding. And, of course, lawmakers and the governor have to pass a yearly balanced budget to keep everything moving. The amount of money raised from taxes varies from year to year, and certain pressures — growing public schools, air pollution along the Wasatch Front, an obvious downtown homeless problem, etc. — require compromises and difficult choices.
But I have a hard time answering why we would need 1,500 of them in a year.
In truth, we're not going to get anywhere near that many new laws. Senate leadership said Monday they may end up passing 450 to 500 bills, but perhaps only because the state constitution limits the time they can be in session.
"We just can't get to that many bills in 45 days," Senate President Wayne Niederhauser said.
That doesn't mean there aren't good ideas getting lost in all those requests no one can get to. All of which raises a question. How much longer will Utah be able to get by with a part-time "citizen" Legislature?
As the population grows, will this model continue to serve the state well? Will a growing full-time executive branch begin to outpace a part-time group of representatives and senators who have to worry about making a living in addition to serving the people?
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Utah is one of only six states with a limited, part-time Legislature. With a population of just more than 3 million, it is larger than the other five — Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and New Hampshire. It also is larger than many of the states in the next level up, with part-time legislatures but larger staffs.
Ask that question on Capitol Hill right now and you get an impassioned answer. We're doing just fine, thank you, and even if the state continues to add significantly to its population, the part-time "citizen" Legislature will continue to serve the state well.
Niederhauser talks about "going home after a short session and facing the voters, and actually having a job that you work in." The idea is that lawmakers have to live with the laws they pass just like everyone else. "Having that experience, that commitment to community and to the workforce really benefits us."
Earlier this month I asked Steve Kroes, president of the non-partisan Utah Foundation, the same question. He was a little less certain about the future, but still a fan of the current system.
The downside to Utah's system, he said, is that "it tends to be privileged people who can serve." Not many typical workers can take 45 days off each year to serve on Capitol Hill, not to mention regular interim meetings and special sessions during the rest of the year.
But you won't change anything by paying for a full-time Legislature, except incurring a bigger bill for salaries and staff. "Having been in a state with a full-time Legislature — California — those are privileged people (in that Legislature), too," he said.
The longer you look at representative government and legislative models, the more you tend to conclude there is no perfect system. If, like my neighbors, you believe less is better, a 45-day session with mostly regular folks is about as good as it can get.
Whether that will be good enough for a state of 5 million or more people some day remains to be seen.


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Three men have been identified and booked for allegedly gangraping an 18-year-old woman, whom they had kidnapped and held hostage for seven months in Rajasthan, Gujrat and later Gurugram, the police said on Saturday.
The woman has been sent for medical examination and efforts are on to nab the accused, the police said. The accused—Mukesh, Shiva, and Darbar—have been booked under IPC sections 376D (gangrape), 506 (threat to life) and 34, the police said.
Initially, an FIR was registered against the accused at the women's police station, but was later referred to Odiya Khera police station in Bhilwara.
According to the complainant, the three men kidnapped her at knifepoint in December from Odiya Khera village of Rajasthan. She had gone there to pay off her father's debt, the police said.
"The woman said she was taken to Gujarat and allegedly held hostage in a remote area where the accused took turns to rape her everyday. She was gangraped for seven months," Rajbala, station house officer, women's police station, said.
The police, however, have found no record of any missing person's complaint lodged by the woman's parents.
From Gujarat, she was taken to Rajasthan where she was again kept locked in a room and the three accused raped her repeatedly. She was later taken to Wazirabad in Haryana, where she reportedly saw her mother on the street. She managed to escape and narrated the incident to her family, following which a complaint was lodged, the police said.
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The vampire William the Bloody or "Spike" as he became known on Buffy the Vampire Slayer was one of those characters in television history that could have fizzled depending on the casting of the role. Spike could have been one of those characters killed off after a few episodes, but James Marsters' unique voice for the character and his own take on the dark and brooding opposite David Boreanaz's own dark and brooding character Angel was a standout that allowed him to survive all seven seasons of the series, and reprise the role on Angel. Plus, Spike's Brit-punk style was always just plain cool.
Dark Horse Comics signed Marsters to pen his own take on Spike and the result is Spike: Into the Light, a graphic novel to be released July 16, 2014. With nicely rendered images of Marsters as Spike by artist Derlis Santacruz, inks by Andy Owens and colors by Dan Jackson, Spike fans will find Spike: Into the Light as a lost episode that never otherwise could have been–since no single episode told a solo story with no other cast members. Marsters and Santacruz paint a trip through familiar lanscape during the last season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Marsters gives us a voice and story only he could provide, considering he spent more time than anyone literally in the boots of the character. The problem? Vampire Spike has a soul, and he's trying to make good on it by being a good guy, despite the pull toward killing to get blood or to break into an old store where he once buried loot from a past heist. Spike also wants a girlfriend, but can he keep from turning vampire long enough to get to know her?
Here's a preview of Spike: Into the Light courtesy of Dark Horse Comics:
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Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic degenerative endocrine and metabolic disease with high mortality and morbidity, yet lacks effective therapeutics. We recently generated a novel fusion peptide INSR-IgG4Fc, Yiminsu (YMS), to facilitate the high-affinity binding and transportation of insulin. Thus, the aim of the present study was to determine whether the novel recombinant peptide, YMS, could contribute to restoring insulin sensitivity and glycaemic control in insulin resistance models and revealing its underlying mechanism. Palmitic acid (PA)-treated LO2 cells and high fat diet (HFD)-fed mice were treated with YMS. Therapeutic effects of YMS were measured using Western blotting, ELISA, qPCR, Histology and transmission electron microscopy. We observed that YMS treatment effectively improved insulin signaling in PA-treated LO2 cells and HFD-fed mice. Notably, YMS could significantly reduce serum levels of glucose, triglycerides, fatty acids and cholesterol without affecting the serum insulin levels. Moreover, our data demonstrated that YMS could restore glucose and lipid homeostasis via facilitating insulin transportation and reactivating PI3K/Akt signaling in both PA-treated cells and liver, gastrocnemius and brown fat of HFD-fed mice. Additionally, we noticed that the therapeutic effects of YMS was similar as rosiglitazone, a well-recognized insulin sensitizer. Our findings suggested that YMS is a potentially candidate for pharmacotherapy for metabolic disorders associated with insulin resistance, particularly in T2DM.
Wang, Jing ; Shi, Zhe ; Zou, Tao ; Zou, Min Xu ; Yang, Hui Xian ; Zhang, Cai Ping ; Xiang, De Biao ; Lin, Li Mei ; Liu, Hui Yu ; Fang, Deyu ; Liao, Duan Fang. / A novel recombinant peptide INSR-IgG4Fc (Yiminsu) restores insulin sensitivity in experimental insulin resistance models. In: Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy. 2019 ; Vol. 109. pp. 1276-1286.
A novel recombinant peptide INSR-IgG4Fc (Yiminsu) restores insulin sensitivity in experimental insulin resistance models. / Wang, Jing; Shi, Zhe; Zou, Tao; Zou, Min Xu; Yang, Hui Xian; Zhang, Cai Ping; Xiang, De Biao; Lin, Li Mei; Liu, Hui Yu; Fang, Deyu; Liao, Duan Fang.
In: Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy, Vol. 109, 01.01.2019, p. 1276-1286.
N2 - Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic degenerative endocrine and metabolic disease with high mortality and morbidity, yet lacks effective therapeutics. We recently generated a novel fusion peptide INSR-IgG4Fc, Yiminsu (YMS), to facilitate the high-affinity binding and transportation of insulin. Thus, the aim of the present study was to determine whether the novel recombinant peptide, YMS, could contribute to restoring insulin sensitivity and glycaemic control in insulin resistance models and revealing its underlying mechanism. Palmitic acid (PA)-treated LO2 cells and high fat diet (HFD)-fed mice were treated with YMS. Therapeutic effects of YMS were measured using Western blotting, ELISA, qPCR, Histology and transmission electron microscopy. We observed that YMS treatment effectively improved insulin signaling in PA-treated LO2 cells and HFD-fed mice. Notably, YMS could significantly reduce serum levels of glucose, triglycerides, fatty acids and cholesterol without affecting the serum insulin levels. Moreover, our data demonstrated that YMS could restore glucose and lipid homeostasis via facilitating insulin transportation and reactivating PI3K/Akt signaling in both PA-treated cells and liver, gastrocnemius and brown fat of HFD-fed mice. Additionally, we noticed that the therapeutic effects of YMS was similar as rosiglitazone, a well-recognized insulin sensitizer. Our findings suggested that YMS is a potentially candidate for pharmacotherapy for metabolic disorders associated with insulin resistance, particularly in T2DM.
AB - Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic degenerative endocrine and metabolic disease with high mortality and morbidity, yet lacks effective therapeutics. We recently generated a novel fusion peptide INSR-IgG4Fc, Yiminsu (YMS), to facilitate the high-affinity binding and transportation of insulin. Thus, the aim of the present study was to determine whether the novel recombinant peptide, YMS, could contribute to restoring insulin sensitivity and glycaemic control in insulin resistance models and revealing its underlying mechanism. Palmitic acid (PA)-treated LO2 cells and high fat diet (HFD)-fed mice were treated with YMS. Therapeutic effects of YMS were measured using Western blotting, ELISA, qPCR, Histology and transmission electron microscopy. We observed that YMS treatment effectively improved insulin signaling in PA-treated LO2 cells and HFD-fed mice. Notably, YMS could significantly reduce serum levels of glucose, triglycerides, fatty acids and cholesterol without affecting the serum insulin levels. Moreover, our data demonstrated that YMS could restore glucose and lipid homeostasis via facilitating insulin transportation and reactivating PI3K/Akt signaling in both PA-treated cells and liver, gastrocnemius and brown fat of HFD-fed mice. Additionally, we noticed that the therapeutic effects of YMS was similar as rosiglitazone, a well-recognized insulin sensitizer. Our findings suggested that YMS is a potentially candidate for pharmacotherapy for metabolic disorders associated with insulin resistance, particularly in T2DM.


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What do you talk about in a law personal statement?
What do you talk about in a law personal statement? December 20, 2021	cresouterap
Writing a law personal statement Law school personal statement themes include career ambitions, motivation, interests, skillsets and achievements. Give examples to evidence each claim you make about yourself – whether it's to do with grades, extra-curricular clubs, part-time jobs or hobbies.
How do you end a personal statement for a teacher?
End with your objective. Your conclusion in the personal statement should clearly articulate why you are applying for the teaching position and what you want to accomplish. Share your vision for what you would like to achieve in your next teaching position, possibly touching on learning, teaching styles and strategies….
How many times LAT test is conducted in a year 2020?
Sharing is Caring 134/2012. The admission in Public and Private sector universities and their valid affiliated law colleges henceforth will be subject to passing the Law Admission Test (LAT) which will be held twice a year. The LAT will be conducted by the Higher Education Commission (HEC).
How much is the LAT?
On-time registration for the 2021 LAT is $189 (GST inclusive). The registration fee covers online registration, materials required for the test and provision of test results. Registration during the late period incurs an additional $50 late fee.
How do I submit LAT fees?
Fee for LAT Test 2021 Applicants are required to send a copy of Fee Deposit Slip/ ATM/ Online Transfer or Original Bank Draft through courier at the address: 13-209, 2nd Floor, HRD Building, HEC, Sector H-8, Islamabad on or before the last date of registration. The Test Fee is non-refundable and non-transferable….
How do you use LAT test?
How to Register for HEC Law Admission Test LAT. Please visit the following link: http://etc.hec.gov.pk for online registration. Applicants are required to submit a copy of the fee deposit slip/bank draft through courier or personally at Room No-212, 2nd Floor, HRD Building….
Why do you want a law personal statement?
What Is a Law School Personal Statement? A law personal statement is your chance to make a good impression on admissions tutors at your chosen law school. In it, you need to be able to successfully articulate why you would be suited for a career in the legal field.
What is a LAT essay?
Literary Analysis Task (LAT) Essays.
What qualities are law schools looking for?
Understanding the types of qualities required for successful law school applicants is critical to becoming an accepted law student.
Love of Learning.
Well-Rounded.
Ethical Responsibility.
Perseverance.
What is personal statement in Lat test?
Law Admission Test (LAT) Personal Statement is an overview of your own ideas. Personal Statement can have many uses, its purpose is always based around selling yourself to the reader.


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Documentary features have become one of the most competitive categories at the Academy Awards. If the trend continues, entries in the running for the 2022 shortlist could exceed last year's record of 238. Here are quick looks at three contenders vying for a spot on the list, which will be announced Dec. 21. The films explore the life of a groundbreaking chef and television personality, a deadly prison rebellion and the chaotic fight to save lives amid a world-changing pandemic.
'Julia'
Julia Child is flanked by collaborators, Simone Beck, left, and Louisette Bertholle as they peel vegetables. From the documentary "Julia."
(Paul Child/Sony Pictures Classics.)
This has been a busy year for documentaries about singular cultural figures who also became television pioneers, with subjects including undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau and conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein. The most colorful, however, is Julia Child, whose public television show "The French Chef" first showed a Spam-happy 1960s America how to pronounce — and cook — boeuf bourguignon, among many other classic dishes.
In "Julia," a Sony Pictures Classic release, filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West, whose 2018 Ruth Bader Ginsburg doc "RBG" was nominated for an Academy Award, celebrate another revolutionary woman who broke with norms and changed her times. "She was tall, she was loud, she knew what she was talking about and she wasn't afraid to talk about it," Cohen said. " From the minute she showed up on television, audiences just loved her for being her authentic self. She wasn't young. This was a woman who was already 50 years old."
Child, who died in 2004 at age 91, is renowned for co-authoring the 12-years-in-the-making cookbook "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" (1961). The filmmakers take time to map Child's life before that turning point, sparked by her globe-hopping wartime romance with Paul Child, whom she met when they both worked for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Archival letters, diary entries and photographs bring passion to life, along with a score by English composer Rachel Portman. "If people choose to see our movie as a date movie, that's good," Cohen said.
Paul Child's photography also was a boon, offering comic behind the scenes shots of the early TV productions as well as some surprisingly intimate glimpses. "We didn't expect we would find a nude photo of Julia Child, but there it is," West said, "along with a lot of other very sensual shots of a person who doesn't automatically make you think she was a sex symbol. But to Paul Child she was."
'Attica'
A scene from "Attica" shows dozens of prisoners lying face-down on the ground.
(SHOWTIME)
Its release coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York, "Attica" posed a chronological urgency to its filmmakers, Stanley Nelson and Traci Curry. "The people that were survivors of Attica, that had clear memories of being there, they were getting older," said Nelson, a triple Emmy Award winner whose documentaries include "Freedom Riders" and "Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution." "It was a real push to get it done now to include them while they were still vibrant."
Those subjects, who include not only the former prisoners but reporters, prison guards, observers, family members and residents of Attica village, are the heart of the film. "It became apparent early on this was going to be a story told by the people that experienced it," said Curry, who conducted the interviews. After armed state police stormed into the prison on the order of New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, 43 people were killed — including prisoners, correctional officers and prison employees. "This is a profound trauma for everybody that experienced it, every single person. … There were a lot of tears, a lot of rage at the injustice of it on all sides."
The Showtime film makes extensive use of television news footage, a reminder that the Attica uprising was a major media event, but digs deeper for often shocking imagery previously obscured and emotional firsthand accounts from John Johnson, an ABC News correspondent who was on the scene. "What happens with these films is people use the same film over and over again," Nelson said. "We had to constantly go back [to archival sources] and say, 'No, we want to see everything. We want to see every single thing that you've got.'"
'The First Wave'
Matthew Heineman's "The First Wave" follows medical staff and patients inside a Queens hospital in 2020.
(National Geographic)
Danger zones are familiar turf to filmmaker Matthew Heineman, who has turned his camera to Mexican drug cartels (the Academy Award-nominated "Cartel Land"), the opioid crisis ("The Trade" docuseries) and Syrian journalists documenting ISIS atrocities ("City of Ghosts"). His latest film, made inside a hospital in Queens as the COVID-19 pandemic hammered New York City in 2020, proved more forbidding than any of his previous projects.
"This was by far the most terrifying thing I've made," Heineman said, "because we were living the same thing we were documenting." Embedded for months at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, the filmmaker and his small crew shot for as many as 18 hours a day inside cramped, hectic spaces as health providers struggled desperately to get a grip on the deadly and mysterious virus.
"The First Wave," a Neon theatrical release in partnership with National Geographic, joins a growing category of pandemic-themed documentaries, including "76 Days," "In the Same Breath" and "Totally Under Control." This vérité account, however, zeroes in on a handful of subjects, including impassioned physician Natalie Dougé and a New York Police Department school safety officer named Ahmed Ellis, a family man whose struggle for life becomes a rallying point..
Dougé, who becomes the film's driving spirit, also opened the story into the broader social implications of the pandemic, which paralleled the most explosive moments of the Black Lives Matter protests. "She was so clearly able to articulate the fear of the moment but also was just opening herself up emotionally," Heineman said. "We got quite close, and through that trust and through that bond we were able to explore a lot of other issues that emerged over these four months."
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This month, I hope to call your attention to something that means a lot to me: the fates of millions of people with disabilities and injuries caught up in the Syrian crisis. March 15 marked the 5th anniversary of the conflict, which has injured more than 1 million civilians, leaving thousands of them with a disability for life as a result of the loss of limbs or spinal cord injuries. Countless people who already had a disability or illness are left in a desperate situation.
People with disabilities already have inherent obstacles to overcome in order to live a normal life. I, myself, have struggled to overcome challenges like getting dressed and earning a driver's license. How much more difficult must it be to live with a disability when daily life includes bombings, persecution, displacement, and a dearth of health services.
I'm very proud that HI, the organization I represent as a Goodwill Ambassador, has dedicated enormous resources—tens of millions of dollars in 2015—to helping Syrians with disabilities and disabling injuries in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq. They've provided more than 600,000 Syrians with support like physical therapy, prosthetic limbs and mobility devices, trauma counseling, lessons about staying safe amid weapons, and access to financial support or even kits to meet their basic needs.
From the following photos, you can see children receiving physical therapy with the help of HI staff. Both my mother and I have benefited from physical therapy—I, as a toddler learning to walk, and my mom, as she recovered from a debilitating stroke. Physical therapy is critical for people with mobility issues to gain independence, which directly affects their quality of life. For these children, physical therapy gives them the hope they need to look forward to each new day.
When I see this picture of 3-year-old Huda, who has cerebral palsy, I remember the struggles I went through as a little girl learning how to walk without having arms for balance. Huda looks a little unsure of herself, but she's trying! In time, her uncertain expression will turn to confidence. Here, Qusay, 14, who lost both of his legs due a bombing, is learning how to walk with prosthetic legs. This inspiring picture gives me such gratitude for the work of HI. This young man might have been confined in bed for years without their intervention.
HI Physical Therapist Noor reminds me of some of the physical therapists I've known who have go above and beyond their job to bring out smiles and laughter during the intensity of rehabilitation. Here she works siblings Aboud, 4, and Hala, 6, who both have cerebral palsy. These tiny orthotic devices at a workshop in Amman, Jordan, remind me of years I spent visiting Shriners Hospital to be fitted with prosthetic arms. The children who will use these devices are carefully measured to ensure that their orthotic or prosthetic limb fits them perfectly. Bayan's expression, smiling through pain, reveals the hard work involved in rehabilitation. While it might not always look like it, physical therapy can be exhausting and frustrating at times. However, the results are life changing, so HI staff push their clients to stay motivated.
With all that's going on in the world and in the U.S., it's difficult to take the time to think about those effected by the Syria crisis, but we must. Because if we don't, who will?
If you'd like to learn more about HI's work and see pictures of other Syrian refugees they support, watch this video about their Jordan projects.


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Q: Reset Ubuntu server password remotely my friend is hosting a Minecraft Server for me. I wanted to update some plugins, I SSH into the server. But then I relieved I forgot the root password. I asked my friend, and he forgot too! I was wondering how I could reset it remotely.

A: Of course you can fortunately not log in remotely to a server without knowing the account password (or having SSH-keys set up).
Just imagine what happened if there was a way to bypass authentication on any arbitrary server connected to the internet and log in as root (or admin account with sudo permissions, doesn't matter). Looking at the issue this way makes it clear that such a thing may not be possible.
You can only reset a forgotten root password if you have physical access, which gives you the option to boot the system in recovery mode and drop to a root shell, as described in How do I reset a lost administrative password?


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Rs 231m EU aid for Bhutanese refugees
The European Union has contributed 2 million Euro (approx Rs231 million) for protection of and sustainable solutions for Bhutanese refugees in Nepal through UN's refugee agency, the UNHCR.
Published at : January 14, 2016
According to the UNHCR, the funds will be used over the next three years to resettle Bhutanese refugees to third countries and to care for those who opt to remain in Nepal. The latter support will include physical and legal protection as well as services including shelter, education, health, sanitation, access to sustainable energy and support in addressing psychosocial and other specific needs, the UNHCR said.
"The European Union is more than delighted to make this contribution that will go into meeting the basic needs of the 17,000 Bhutanese refugees in eastern Nepal," said EU Ambassador to Nepal Rensje Teerink. "I hope
that the assistance will enable a congenial living environment for the refugees who have been receiving the support from the EU for many years now."
UNHCR Representative in Nepal Craig Sanders said that the donation has arrived in time to fill funding gaps
and believed that this would boost efforts to find durable solutions for Bhutanese
refugees living in Beldangi and Sanischare camps in
eastern Nepal.
More than 101,000 Bhutanese refugees have
been resettled in eight countries since the launch of the resettlement programme in late 2007.
Nepal currently hosts over 17,000 Bhutanese refugees in the two camps. It is estimated that around 12,000 refugees will remain in these camps when the resettlement operation concludes.
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Cloud computing involves a single computer where multiple server computers over a network are combined together. Here the cloud acts as a virtualization of resources– networks, servers, applications, data storage and services – where the end user can access on demand. These resources are managed and provided by service providers.
The term cloud refers to Internet, but when computing is added the meaning gets bigger and blurred. Cloud computing is a way to increase capability without investing in new structure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. Cloud computing offers service like subscription-based or pay-per-use that, in real time over the Internet which extends IT existing capabilities.
Yahoo email, Gmail, or Hot mail etc. are the examples of cloud computing where you can store data in your personal folders, sent these data in the form of emails and can access these data and applications on any computers. The only thing you need is an internet connection. Cloud computing technology provides efficient computing by centralizing storage, memory, processing and bandwidth.
Application, storage and connectivity are the three segments of cloud computing and this each segment serves or offers a different purpose for businesses and individuals.
The main benefit of cloud computing to the end users or consumers is to get the benefits of using software or hardware like sending emails etc. Instead of buying software and hardware, server and email management software is all on the cloud (internet) and is totally managed by the cloud service providers yahoo, Google etc.
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REI Impact Survey Report
By: Rohitha Edara, MSU REI, Graduate intern, edararoh@msu.edu
The Impact Survey was conducted in the first quarter of 2017 to record and report the impact of MSU EDA University Center for Regional Economic Innovation (REI). The survey was sent to a total of 640 REI partners who previously engaged in REI projects and/or events including, but not limited to, writing a colearning plan, attending the Innovate Michigan! Summit, being a part of the REI Consultative Panel or attending an REI webinar. The survey asked them to report the nature of their involvement and the impact generated due to their participation in REI projects and/or events. As of April 19, 2017, the survey received 41 responses. The respondents were a blend of public and private sector employees, academicians and practitioners, from various places across Michigan. The survey respondents reported an overwhelmingly positive impact of REI.
Key findings of the survey include:
Rate of participation in REI projects and activities increased on average from 2011 to 2016.
74.29 % of respondents reported that they found the work of REI useful while the rest reported that they found the work 'mostly' or 'somewhat' useful. No one reported that they did not find the work of REI useful.
67.65 % of the respondents reported that they applied or implemented the knowledge, ideas and solutions received from REI projects and events.
Estimate of investments gained through another survey indicate that public investments of $8,288,000 and other investments of $505,500 were generated through REI.
Private investments of $50,675,806 are reported to have been generated from REI Projects.
A total of 154 individuals have received 8 or more hours of technical assistance from REI. In addition, REI partners believe the most important impacts of our projects and events are the opportunities to gain knowledge about issues pertinent to their work and to network with people who were resourceful for collaborations. It was reported that the knowledge disseminated from REI helped its partners connect to their communities too. "We learned how to ask better questions and become partners, not an outside organization looking in," said one respondent. In some cases, our partners were also able to secure additional funding through their work at REI. Northern Initiatives reported that they were able to secure over $200,000 from various sources. Northern Initiatives was also "selected as one of three nationwide organizations to participate in the Corporate for Enterprise Development learning cluster, a human-centered design project for the online learning portal," an achievement that, they report, has stemmed from their project with REI. Hailing REI as "a guiding and envisioned model," many REI partners also implemented the knowledge and ideas received from REI events. From expanding their projects' reach into different communities to presenting at conferences and from implementing social innovation projects to continuing research in community development, REI partners have done it all.
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The Big Trouble In Small Loans
Rafael Llosa's company has been lending money to some of the poorest people in Peru for 30 years. It used to be a fairly lonely endeavor. Giving tiny loans to impoverished women to make ceramics or to farmers to buy milk cows was hardly seen as a great business.
Except that it was.
In 1998 the organization Llosa runs, now called Mibanco, converted from a nonprofit into a bank, demonstrating what other microfinance institutions around the world knew too: that the poor are good risks who repay loans on time; get enough of them together, you can not only chip away at poverty but also turn a profit.
Today Llosa has a very different marketplace to contend with. Success at Mibanco has piqued the interest of the commercial banks, which historically have shunned the 45% of Peruvians below the poverty line. Now big banks are going after Mibanco's clients with low-rate loans and–realizing it takes special know-how to work with the unbanked–hiring away Mibanco's employees as well. "They are very good competitors," says Llosa.
And he's getting more of them, from directions he never could have anticipated. Last year the Spanish multinational BBVA raised some $300 million to invest in microfinance, then reached across the Atlantic to snap up two Peruvian firms. "Everyone wants to do this now," says Llosa. "And it's not only Peru. This change is everywhere. Everywhere microfinance is working, it's happening."
What's happening? To be blunt about it: the pinstripes are chasing the poor. Microfinance, once a relative cottage industry championed by antipoverty activists and development wonks, is on the verge of a revolution, with billions of dollars from big banks, private-equity shops and pension funds pouring in, driving growth of 30% to 40% a year. Financiers are convinced that there's huge money to be made in microfinance.
That would seem to be a fantastic turn of events, transforming microfinance institutions into more sophisticated operations that can reach millions more people. In the dusty Indian village of Veeravelly, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, for example, loans from SKS Microfinance have led to a spate of small businesses and, in turn, money for onetime luxuries like refrigerators and solid roofs. A more competitive, more developed industry means lower loan rates and new services like savings accounts, mortgages and insurance. "Clients are coming into our offices and saying, 'O.K., if I go to another microfinance institution, I can get a longer term or a lower interest rate,'" says Braco Erceg, assistant director of Mikrofin in Bosnia, one of the world's most competitive microlending markets.
But alarm bells are going off too. The emergence of players who are out purely for profit has raised the possibility that, far from nurturing the poor, microfinance schemes could end up milking them, especially in countries where lenders don't have to clearly disclose interest rates. When the Mexican microfinancier Banco Compartamos went public last year, revealing its loans carried rates of about 86% annually, the development consortium Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) and others scorned it for having put shareholders ahead of clients. Says Elizabeth Littlefield, CEO of CGAP: "There is some risk that the mainstreaming of microfinance will threaten the very essence of microfinance's core mission: to help poor people lead better lives." At a time when governments, financial institutions and investors are paying more attention to the developing world, the microfinance revolution illustrates the benefits and costs of marrying profitmaking with poverty relief.
The Case for Big Banks
Vikram Akula, for one, thinks money-making and good works can be mutually beneficial. Akula runs SKS Microfinance, India's largest microfinancier, which is at the forefront of the new-money trend. Last year SKS sold an $11.5 million stake to the private-equity shop Sequoia Capital in a first-of-its-kind deal. Talk of a projected 23% return on equity snapped many financiers to attention.
This year SKS plans to reach 4 million customers like those in the village of Veeravelly, who have been using loans for projects like buying buffalo and opening a welding shop. "Unless we have capital markets interested in microfinance, there's no way we could get to that many borrowers," says Akula. A deal in which Citigroup will buy $44 million in loans off SKS's books, for instance, is expected to help SKS reach 200,000 people across 7,000 villages. Among the beneficiaries are women like Parajata, a widow in Veeravelly who was working as a day laborer and barely earning enough to feed her children before a 50,000-rupee ($1,200) loan let her open a grocery shop and start earning enough to periodically buy her kids new clothes. "There has been a dramatic change in my life," she says.
Yet as money floods in, Akula has tales of brewing conflict. Consider the time a bank chairman asked if SKS could raise its interest rates. Akula said yes (in most markets it has a monopoly) but that SKS wouldn't do so because it would be exploitative. The banker scoffed that Akula didn't understand economics. Akula shot back that the banker didn't understand customers, who would turn on SKS if they felt abused. "We're maintaining a loyal customer base that will stay with us as they get out of poverty," says Akula.
As long as investors have a long-term view, Akula argues, the social and financial missions of microfinance intertwine. "We're not giving away money here; we expect a return," says Gary Hattem, a managing director of Deutsche Bank, which runs four microfinance funds. "But we do keep our eye on the social-impact side of this. It's very humbling when you go to places where the people coming in to borrow smell like the cows they're raising."
Yet the pressure to turn a profit often forces microfinanciers to change their business models in ways that depart from the industry's original purposes. As Al Amana, Morocco's largest outfit, has shifted from grants to commercial funding, its average loan size has roughly tripled; smaller loans to the most desperate borrowers are costlier to service. One consequence of commercialization is that a lower percentage of loans go to women because they tend to take out smaller sums, according to a recent study by Women's World Banking.
Continue reading "The Big Trouble In Small Loans"
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From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; Baylor University Medical Center and Southwest Transplant Alliance, Dallas, Texas; and Las Palmas Medical Center, El Paso, Texas.
* For a list of the members of the Microsporidia Transplant Transmission Investigation Team, see the Appendix.
Acknowledgment: The authors thank all members of the clinical care teams involved in treatment of the patients, the organ procurement organization staff, and the organ donor's family.
Potential Conflicts of Interest: Disclosures can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M13-2226.
Requests for Single Reprints: Susan N. Hocevar, MD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS A35, Atlanta, GA 30333; e-mail, Igc7@cdc.gov.
Current Author Addresses: Dr. Hocevar: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS A35, Atlanta, GA 30333.
Drs. Paddock, Blau, and Zaki and Ms. Goldsmith: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS G32, Atlanta, GA 30333.
Drs. Spak and Rosenblatt and Ms. Peterson: Baylor University Medical Center, 621 North Hall Street, Dallas, TX 75226.
Drs. Diaz-Luna, Friedman, and Antony; Ms. Castillo; and Mr. Luna: Las Palmas Medical Center, 1700 North Oregon Street, Suite 680, El Paso, TX 79902.
Dr. Stoddard and Ms. Tiller: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS G34, Atlanta, GA 30333.
Ms. Sriram and Dr. Visvesvara: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS D66, Atlanta, GA 30333.
Drs. da Silva and de Almeida and Ms. Benedict: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS D64, Atlanta, GA 30333.
Dr. Kuehnert: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS A07, Atlanta, GA 30333.
Author Contributions: Conception and design: S.N. Hocevar, C.D. Paddock, A. da Silva, S.R. Zaki, M.J. Kuehnert.
Analysis and interpretation of the data: S.N. Hocevar, C.D. Paddock, R. Rosenblatt, S. Antony, R.A. Stoddard, R.V. Tiller, D.M. Blau, A. da Silva, M. de Almeida, S.R. Zaki, G.S. Visvesvara, M.J. Kuehnert.
Drafting of the article: S.N. Hocevar, C.D. Paddock, R. Rosenblatt, S. Antony, R.V. Tiller, A. da Silva, S.R. Zaki, G.S. Visvesvara, M.J. Kuehnert.
Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: S.N. Hocevar, C.D. Paddock, C.W. Spak, H. Diaz-Luna, S. Antony, R.A. Stoddard, D.M. Blau, A. da Silva, M. de Almeida, S.R. Zaki, G.S. Visvesvara, M.J. Kuehnert.
Final approval of the article: S.N. Hocevar, C.D. Paddock, C.W. Spak, R. Rosenblatt, H. Diaz-Luna, G.C. Friedman, S. Antony, R.A. Stoddard, A. da Silva, S.R. Zaki, G.S. Visvesvara, M.J. Kuehnert.
Provision of study materials or patients: C.W. Spak, R. Rosenblatt, H. Diaz-Luna, G.C. Friedman, T. Peterson, S.R. Zaki, G.S. Visvesvara.
Administrative, technical, or logistic support: S.N. Hocevar, C.D. Paddock, R.R. Sriram, A. da Silva, T. Benedict, S.R. Zaki, G.S. Visvesvara.
Collection and assembly of data: S.N. Hocevar, C.D. Paddock, C.W. Spak, R. Rosenblatt, H. Diaz-Luna, I. Castillo, S. Luna, G.C. Friedman, R.A. Stoddard, R.V. Tiller, T. Peterson, D.M. Blau, A. da Silva, M. de Almeida, C.S. Goldsmith, S.R. Zaki, M.J. Kuehnert.
Encephalitozoon cuniculi, a microsporidial species most commonly recognized as a cause of renal, respiratory, and central nervous system infections in immunosuppressed patients, was identified as the cause of a temporally associated cluster of febrile illness among 3 solid organ transplant recipients from a common donor.
To confirm the source of the illness, assess donor and recipient risk factors, and provide therapy recommendations for ill recipients.
Two transplant hospitals and community interview with the deceased donor's family.
Three transplant recipients and the organ donor.
Specimens were tested for microsporidia by using culture, immunofluorescent antibody, polymerase chain reaction, immunohistochemistry, and electron microscopy. Donor medical records were reviewed and a questionnaire was developed to assess for microsporidial infection.
Kidneys and lungs were procured from the deceased donor and transplanted to 3 recipients who became ill with fever 7 to 10 weeks after the transplant. Results of urine culture, serologic, and polymerase chain reaction testing were positive for E. cuniculi of genotype III in each recipient; the organism was also identified in biopsy or autopsy specimens in all recipients. The donor had positive serologic test results for E. cuniculi. Surviving recipients received albendazole. Donor assessment did not identify factors for suspected E. cuniculi infection.
Inability to detect organism by culture or polymerase chain reaction in donor due to lack of autopsy specimens.
Microsporidiosis is now recognized as an emerging transplant-associated disease and should be considered in febrile transplant recipients when tests for routinely encountered agents are unrevealing. Donor-derived disease is critical to assess when multiple recipients from a common donor are ill.
Published: Ann Intern Med. 2014;160(4):213-220.


Last one, y'all. On Sunday I was feeling good enough that I finally raised my arms above my head with no pain, saw a few friends and ventured out of the house for dinner. Lupita was now a distant memory.
I figured this would be the last day that I'd be able to play damsel in distress and get E to lift heavy things for me and make the bed, much less entertain him with the easy hummus-and-pita snack sandwiches. Since I was flitting around the house with full mobility–sweeping the floors, cleaning the bathrooms and doing laundry–it wouldn't be long before E demanded something a bit more robust to eat.
For my last hummus trick, I found a peanut butter variety that made for a great light snack. It's a variety of a sandwich I'd done before–the peanut butter and apples on toasted wheat bread. But this one was creamier and more savory, with a bit of kick thanks to that cayenne.
Yup, everything's back to normal. Onward and upward.
Peanut Butter Hummus? BLASPHEMY! I had never thought such a thing was possible. It is. It's fantastic.
Combine everything but the cayenne in a food processor. Grind. Add pinches of cayenne to taste (I found the perfect blend after adding a teaspoon).
Toast pita and slice apples. Sprinkle cinnamon on the apple slices. Cut pitas into fourths. Then spread pumpkin hummus inside each pita fourth. Add a slice of apple inside. Serves four mini sandwiches.


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Q: How to play sound remotely using Text to Speech converter in python Text to speech convertor is working fine with local machine but sound is not coming with live server
I have used both library (pyttsx3 ,gtts) separately

A: ## Code ##
now = datetime.now()
dt_string = now.strftime("%d_%m_%Y_%H_%M_%S")
#Using pyttsx3
def texttospeech():
test = request.form.get('data')
engine = pyttsx3.init()
engine.setProperty('rate', 150)
en_voice_id = "com.apple.speech.synthesis.voice.Alex"
engine.setProperty('voice', en_voice_id)
engine.say(test)
engine.runAndWait()

#Using gTTS
def texttospeechmp3():
mytext = request.form.get('data')
language = 'en'
myobj = gTTS(text=mytext, lang=language, slow=False)
filename = "../static/"+dt_string+"_welcome.mp3"
myobj.save(filename)
return filename

It works with mp3


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Q: Flink - multiple job managers in jobmanager.rpc.address I'm trying to configure Flink with two job managers for HA. Should I specify both of them in flink-conf.yaml / jobmanager.rpc.address ?
If yes how?

A: You don't need to. In HA mode the rpc.address is chosen automatically by default. Have a look at docs.

By default, the job manager will pick a random port for inter process
  communication. You can change this via the
  high-availability.jobmanager.port key. This key accepts single ports
  (e.g. 50010), ranges (50000-50025), or a combination of both
  (50010,50011,50020-50025,50050-50075).


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PRESENTATION OF AEHT
Presidium of the AEHT
Council of Elders
The AEHT's statutes
EQF levels offered by AEHT member schools
Training hotels and restaurants of AEHT member schools
23rd Annual Conference
9th Christmas in Europe
Teacher Placement
Seminars & Congresses
Prize-giving
Prize giving and closing ceremony of the 21st annual conference
The moment when the prize-winners are announced is always the high point of each year's annual conference: the students who have taken part in the competitions await this moment as if it were a result in the Olympic Games; and the results are awaited with a tinge of anxiety by the teachers and directors of the schools concerned.
In the Kuressaare Sports Hall humming with a thousand conversations, the closing ceremony went off with the same precision as the opening ceremony. The scenery was the same, and once again Süur Töll together and his wife Piret acted as master – and mistress – of ceremonies.
With his now familiar conciseness, Neeme Rand summed up the conference: 'We have reached the end of the conference, we have had a marvellous time, the conference has passed off without too many problems. Many thanks to all my colleagues for all their hard work. You have seen one season in Kuressaare, but there are four of them, and I would urge you and your families to come back to see the other three. The atmosphere has been amazingly positive and I do hope that you will come back.'
Neeme's speech was followed by a performance from the Boys and Girls Choir from Saaremaa, singing a selection of traditional Estonian songs. This was another of those rare moments of freshness and beauty.
Mrs Mailis Reps, vice-president of the Cultural Affairs Committee of the Estonian Parliament, was obviously delighted to be there, and her pleasure was evident. She emphasised the point that the school had changed a lot, and that nowadays in Estonia public and private projects worked well side by side. She praised the 'marvellous work put in by the teachers and students in the organisation of this Conference. Continue your efforts', she went on, aiming her remarks at the entire audience, 'Here in Kuressaare you have achieved a lot of different things. Keep your fond memories, and come back to see us again!
AEHT President Louis Robert also made a point of warmly thanking all those who had made this Conference possible, and especially Neeme Rand, to whom he handed a present as a token of his gratitude. But Louis also seized the opportunity to emphasise a few points about the competitions. He reminded the audience that 'When the AEHT was founded 20 years ago in Strasbourg/Illkirch, there were 150 participants (including the present translator John Rees Smith) from 30 member schools in 15 countries. Today there are 430 schools located in 40 countries. There are rules and statutes as well as a set of house rules. On taking up membership, each member implicitly agrees to abide by these rules, but equally they are free to leave the AEHT. The same applies to the competitions. Over the last four years a special committee consisting of Romana Bauer, Helena Cvikl and Asdis Vatensdal has been working on the competitions regulations. It is vital to play by the rules, otherwise the committee members and the organisers are likely to become demoralised.' Louis finished his speech, very much focussed on the need to follow the rules, by thanking the Vice-presidents, the General Secretary and the 'eternal' Translator. He extended his thanks to our sponsors for their generous support.
But before moving on to the prize-giving, the President made a point – and this was a first for the AEHT – of honouring the judges who had worked so hard during the competitions. The members of the competitions committee had the pleasure of presenting each and every judge with a certificate, as the audience applauded.
the three members of the competitions committee
The judges involved in the eight different contests
Then came the eagerly awaited moment of the announcement of the three best teams in each of the competitions. There was a specially constructed podium, the results were projected onto a giant screen, and for once there was no chaos!
The last part of the ceremony was the handing over of the AEHT flag from Kuressaare to Dubrovnik. Anton Perusina, director of the Dubrovnik school, received the AEHT symbol from Neeme Rand, to the thunderous applause of the audience. This time it is indeed Dubrovnik which undertakes the task of organising the 22nd Annual Conference in 2009. So see you soon ...
the AEHT flag is handed from Kuressaare to Dubrovnik !


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Le Championnat d'Europe féminin de handball réunit tous les deux ans depuis 1994 les meilleures équipes féminines d'Europe de handball.

La Norvège, nonuple championne depuis sa victoire en 2022, est la sélection la plus titrée. Elle devance le Danemark et ses trois couronnes européennes. La France, vainqueur à domicile de l'édition 2018, n'est ainsi que la cinquième nation titrée dans la compétition, la Hongrie ayant remporté l'Euro 2000 et le Monténégro l'Euro 2012.

Historique

1994 - le Danemark premier vainqueur
Trois mois après le lancement du Championnat d'Europe masculin de handball 1994 au Portugal, la première édition du Championnat d'Europe féminin a lieu du 17 au 25 septembre 1994 en Allemagne, auquel participent 12 nations. Le Danemark devient le premier champion d'Europe après sa victoire en finale sur le pays hôte à Berlin, par 27 à 23, devant 4000 spectateurs. La Norvège décroche sa première médaille en remportant la petite finale 24 à 19 face à la Hongrie. Avec 48 buts marqués, la Hongroise Ágnes Farkas est la meilleure marqueuse.

1996 - doublé danois à domicile
Le Danemark accueille la  de la compétition dont il est le favori logique. Dirigées par le célèbre entraîneur Ulrik Wilbek, les Danoises réalisent un sans-faute, remportant ses cinq matchs de poules avant d'écarter l'Allemagne 22 à 20 en demi-finale puis la Norvège 25 à 23. Dans la petite finale, l'Allemagne ne parvient pas à se défaire d'une équipe autrichienne survoltée (30-23) qui obtient à cette occasion le meilleur résultat de son histoire. La Danoise Anja Andersen se voit décerner le titre de meilleure joueuse de la compétition tandis que la Norvégienne Kjersti Grini termine meilleure marqueuse avec 48 buts.

1998 - la Norvège prend sa revanche
Ce sont toujours 12 équipes qui sont en lice pour décrocher la couronne européenne remise en jeu tous les deux ans. Aux Pays-Bas, le Danemark a tenu son rang jusqu'en finale où la Norvège s'impose 24 à 16 et prend ainsi sa revanche des finales de l'Euro 1996 et du mondial 1997. Marit Breivik, l'emblématique coach norvégienne, obtient là son premier succès international. La Hongrie, malheureuse quatrième en 1994, décroche la médaille de bronze aux dépens de l'Autriche (30-24) à nouveau présente dans le dernier carré grâce notamment aux 68 buts de la meilleure buteuse de la compétition, Ausra Fridrikas. Le titre de meilleure joueuse revient à la Norvégienne Trine Haltvik.

2000 - les cartes redistribuées
Pour la première fois, l'EHF EURO quitte le nord de l'Europe et rejoint la Roumanie. Cette quatrième édition est marquée par la faillite des favorites danoises et norvégiennes, respectivement sixièmes et dixièmes de la compétition. Elles sont mêmes devancées par l'équipe de France d'Olivier Krumbholz, classée cinquième pour sa première participation. La Hongrie s'impose en finale face à l'Ukraine, après prolongations (32-30, 26-26 à la fin du temps réglementaire) tandis que la Russie d'Ievgueni Trefilov domine le pays hôte pour s'emparer du bronze (21-16). La Hongroise Beáta Siti est désignée MVP tandis que la Roumaine Simona Gogîrlă égale le record de buts (68) établi deux ans plus tôt par Fridrikas.

2002 - le Danemark reprend son bien
Premier championnat d'Europe organisé avec 16 équipes, l'EHF EURO 2002 est de retour au Danemark, six ans après la deuxième édition. Avec un tour préliminaire et un tour principal puis le dernier carré, cette formule sportive instaurée en 2002 est toujours de mise en 2018. Le Danemark et la Norvège se défient une troisième fois en finale et le titre tombe dans l'escarcelle danoise (25-22). L'équipe de France remporte sa première médaille européenne, le bronze, face à la Russie (27-22). Pour la première fois une Française, Stéphanie Cano, apparaît dans l'équipe type, en tant que meilleure ailière droite tandis que la Danoise Karin Mortensen est sacrée MVP. Avec 58 buts marqués, le Hongroise Ágnes Farkas termine meilleure marqueuse pour la seconde fois.

2004 - la Norvège commence sa série
Quelques mois plus tôt, les Norvégiennes ont manqué le rendez-vous olympique et ont assisté devant leur TV, au troisième sacre olympique consécutif des Danoises ! Ce sont pourtant Gro Hammerseng, élue MVP, et ses partenaires, qui vont triompher du Danemark en finale, par 27 à 25. Dix ans après son lancement, l'EHF EURO 2004 marque le début d'une invraisemblable série de 4 titres consécutifs pour la Norvège, dominatrice jusqu'en 2010. Les Hongroises portées par la meilleure buteuse dans l'histoire de la compétition, Bojana Radulovics et ses 72 buts, se contentent du bronze au profit de la Russie (29-25).

2006 - le Danemark s'enfonce
À Stockholm, Gro Hammerseng et sa troupe récidivent : la Norvège s'impose en finale contre la Russie (27-24) pour s'emparer d'une troisième couronne et rejoindre au palmarès le Danemark qui termine en Suède à une étonnante onzième place. La France accueille le mondial l'année suivante : la mobilisation des Tricolores porte ses fruits avec une médaille de bronze obtenue aux dépens de l'Allemagne (29-25). La Messine Isabelle Wendling est élue meilleure défenseuse dans l'équipe type incarnée encore par Gro Hammerseng. La Suède termine seulement sixième mais a réussi son pari d'organiser un évènement féminin de handball de portée internationale.

2008 - la percée espagnole
Depuis son indépendance en 1991, la Macédoine reçoit le plus grand événement jamais organisé sur son territoire. À Skopje, l'Espagne, qui n'avait jamais fait mieux qu'une huitième place (en 2004), atteint la finale. La Norvège remporte toutefois son quatrième titre avec le plus large écart en nombre de buts dans l'histoire des finales de l'EHF EURO féminin : 34 à 21. Marta Mangué, devenue depuis une des icônes de la sélection espagnole, remporte sa première médaille internationale tandis que la demi-centre norvégienne Kristine Lunde est consacrée MVP. La Russie, double championne du monde en titre et vice-championne olympique à Pékin est à nouveau présente dans le dernier carré mais doit se contenter du bronze face à l'Allemagne (24-21).

2010 - la première double organisation
Pour la première fois de l'histoire de l'EHF EURO, la compétition est organisée par deux nations : le Danemark et la Norvège ont allié leur force pour organiser un événement à dimension internationale. À Herning, la Jyske Bank Boxen fait le plein mais les Danoises plient sous la pression dans la petite finale remportée par la Roumanie dans un match fermé (16-15). Peu après, les 11000 spectateurs assistent au cinquième sacre des Norvégiennes face aux Suédoises de Linnea Torstenson (MVP), 25 à 20.

2012 - l'exploit du Monténégro
Initialement organisateurs de l'EHF EURO 2012, les Pays-Bas ont renoncé et c'est la Serbie qui accueille finalement l'événement continental. Après 4 succès de rang, la Norvège finit par tomber face à une incroyable escouade monténégrine revancharde après sa défaite en finale des Jeux olympiques de Londres, face à cette même Norvège. Porté par sa sérial-buteuse Katarina Bulatović et sa star Bojana Popović, le Monténégro remporte la finale la plus indécise de l'histoire, après 2 prolongations (24-24, 28-28, 34-31 a.p.). La Norvégienne Anja Hammerseng-Edin est tout de même élue MVP. Le pays hôte, la Serbie, lutte jusqu'à la prolongation mais finit par céder face à la Hongrie (33-33, 41-38 a.p.) qui décroche le bronze.

2014 - la Norvège reprend son bien
Pour la deuxième fois, deux nations accueillent le grand rendez-vous continental : la Croatie et la Hongrie reçoivent les 16 nations qualifiées. La finale de cette onzième édition de l'EHF EURO offre un remake de la finale 2008. Bien que menées à la mi-temps (10-12), les Norvégiennes prennent finalement le dessus sur l'Espagne (28-25). La brillante suédoise Isabelle Gulldén devance les étoiles norvégiennes, Heidi Løke et Nora Mørk, avec la récompense de MVP en plus du titre de meilleure marqueuse (58 réalisations) et de la médaille de bronze décrochée face au Monténégro, 25 à 23.

2016 - la Norvège évidemment
Dix ans après l'édition de 2006, la Suède accueille l'EHF EURO mais cette douzième levée ne sourit pas plus aux partenaires d'Isabelle Gulldén. Si la finale est inédite entre la Norvège et les Pays-Bas, elle tient toutes ses promesses : l'expérience scandinave fait basculer le titre dans le money time pour un court succès 30 à 29. Battues en demi-finales par le futur lauréat, les Bleues rééditent leur performance réalisée 10 ans plus tôt à Stockholm : à Göteborg, elles s'imposent 25 à 22 face aux Danoises pour remporter leur troisième médaille de bronze dans la compétition. La Néerlandaise Nycke Groot est désignée meilleure joueuse.

2018 - la France confirme à domicile
La France accueille pour la première fois un championnat d'Europe de handball. Un an après son deuxième titre mondial, la France remporte son premier titre dans la compétition en disposant en finale de la Russie qui l'avait battue lors du match d'ouverture et en finale des Jeux olympiques en 2016. Les Pays-Bas, demi-finaliste des quatre précédentes compétitions internationales, confirme son statut en remportant la médaille de bronze aux dépens de la Roumanie qui a perdu sur blessure en cours de compétition sa star Cristina Neagu. Quant à la Norvège, vainqueur de 6 des 7 dernières éditions de l'Euro, elle doit se contenter de la cinquième place. Le prix de la meilleure joueuse a été décerné à la Russe Anna Viakhireva.

2020 - un Euro face au Covid-19
Comme tout le continent européen, la pandémie de Covid-19 perturbe fortement cet Euro 2020 puisque la Norvège a dû renoncer au dernier moment à co-organiser la compétition qui se tient malgré tout au Danemark. Finalement, si toutes les équipes doivent observer un strict respect des conditions sanitaires et si la compétition se joue sans spectateurs, elle n'est pas fortement affectée par la pandémie puisqu'un seul match du premier tour a été reporté et joué le lendemain.

La France, tenante du titre, est battue en finale par la Norvège qui remporte ainsi son huitième titre européen en quatorze éditions. Troisième, la Croatie glane quant à elle sa première médaille internationale en battant le Danemark, pays organisateur. À l'opposé, les Pays-Bas, qui avaient remporté quatre médailles lors des quatre précédentes compétitions internationales, s'inclinent lors de ses deux premiers matchs mais parviennent finalement à se classer à la sixième place derrière la Russie.

2022 - la Norvège, encore
La Norvège remporte son neuvième titre européen en quinze éditions en battant en finale le Danemark qui obtient à cette occasion sa première médaille européenne depuis l'argent, déjà, en 2004. Le Monténégro, pays organisateur, glane la médaille de bronze en battant après prolongation la France, qui avait remporté sept médailles lors de ses huit précédentes compétitions internationales.

Palmarès du championnat d'Europe

Bilan par édition

Tableau des médailles

Bilan par équipe

 Légende :    Pays hôte ; Q : Pays qualifié

Bilan par joueuse
Les joueuses les plus titrées sont :

Remarque : en gras, les joueuses toujours en activité.

Statistiques

Meilleures joueuses et meilleures marqueuses par édition

Remarques :
 avec 72 buts marqués en 2004, Bojana Radulovics détient le record du plus grand nombre de buts marqués lors d'un championnat d'Europe. À noter qu'elle détient également le record du plus grand nombre de buts marqués lors d'un championnat du monde avec 97 buts.
 avec 17 buts marqués en 2006 face à la Macédoine, la polonaise Karolina Kudłacz-Gloc bat le record du nombre de buts marqués en un match. Elle est rejointe en 2018 par la suédoise Nathalie Hagman qui a également marqué 17 buts face à la Russie

Statistiques cumulées
Le , la roumaine Cristina Neagu est devenue la meilleure buteuse de tous les temps de la compétition, battant le record détenu auparavant par la hongroise Ágnes Farkas et ses 205 buts inscrits en quatre tournois entre 1994 et 2002.

Au terme de l'Euro 2022, les meilleures buteuses sont :

Remarque : en italiques, les joueuses toujours en activité.

Logos des différentes éditions

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Liens internes
 Handball aux Jeux olympiques
 Championnat du monde féminin de handball
 Championnat d'Europe masculin de handball

Liens externes
 Site officiel des championnats d'Europe féminin et masculin
 Site officiel de la Fédération européenne de handball (EHF)

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For the week ending 31 December 2022 / 7 Cheshvan 5783
Perek Shira: The Song of the Fly
The Fly says, at a time when the Jewish people are not engaged in Torah study: A voice says "Call!" and I said, "What shall I call? All of flesh is like grass and all its kindness like the sprouts of the field. The grass will have dried up and the sprout will have withered, but the word of our G-d will stand forever." (Yeshayah 40:6, 8)
"I create speech of lips that brings peace to the far and the near," says Hashem, "and I have healed him." (ibid., 57:19)
The ever-buzzing, pestering, and relentless fly symbolizes the yetzer hara. Just as a fly is attracted to rotten matter, the yetzer hara sits by the entrance of the heart and advises it to commit repulsive acts. It flies from impulse to impulse and from thought to thought, and it may go so far as to convince a person that a sin is a mitzvah. Since the yetzer hara uses a person's intellect against him, even the wise are vulnerable to its wiles. In the same way that a few insignificant flies can fall in and ruin the finest perfumed oils, the yetzer hara can topple even the greatest of people.
The yetzer hara cannot be defeated by the mere desire to avoid sin. The very definitions of "good" and "evil" are subjective, and even truly virtuous deeds are often fueled by selfish motives. Hashem's one prescribed antidote for the yetzer hara is the study of Torah, which clearly teaches right from wrong and purifies the mind. If its study is abandoned, the fly returns.
The fly's song is about how Hashem told the prophet Yeshayah to call out to the nation about the redemption. Yeshayah responds, "Why shall I call? All flesh are like grass, and all its kindness are like the sprouts of the field." That is, the people are feeble of spirit, and even their kindness are influenced ulterior motives. With accomplishes that are like "a withering sprout," they are undeserving of the redemption. The song concludes that Hashem's promised redemption will come when we are engaged in the study of His Torah, whose "speech brings healing." Until that promised time, flies intrude everywhere, not letting us forget their message.
Sources: Koheles 10:1 with Rashi ad loc. (see also Targum and Tikunei Zohar 30); Berachos 61a; Yerushalmi Berachos 5:5; Nefesh HaChaim; Shir HaChaim; Chafetz Chaim al HaTorah (p. 46); Ksav Sofer (Inyanei Teshuvah); Ta'ama D'Kra to Yeshayah 40; see also Perek B'Shir.
*In loving memory of Harav Zeev Shlomo ben Zecharia Leib
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