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Q: Reload other page when clicking button "refresh" On the current page, add button "Refresh".
Process: when the user clicks this button "Refresh", then this page link "https://abc.io/123" refreshes and do not open this link (not new page), still stay on the current page.
My code doesn't work:

 Refresh

How can I do it?

A: First of all onClick should be onclick. This will reload the page, except if the DOMException gets thrown, which blocks the reload. You can read more about it here.
By default, the page gets reloaded from the browser cache. To force reload it from the server, pass true to window.location.reload().

 Refresh

If you intend to open the link as well, return true from the onclick function.

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Council offers a way of communicating that encourages attentive listening, as well as honest and compassionate expression. It makes room for new insights and understandings, wisdom in decision making, and healing. As a personal practice, a group process and a life-pathway, council is an intrinsic ingredient of our education at any age and especially important for families, guides, teachers, therapists, caregivers or any anyone whose work involves groups.
We have been drawn to the practice of council out of appreciation and respect for the wisdom tradition of First Nations and indigenous cultures that invariably included strong circle practices that were a seamless part of their life and relationship to the earth functionally, culturally and spiritually. We have been drawn to council because of its roots in these cultures, and the magic and healing that non-hierarchical circle communication can bring when practiced devoutly. In addition to appreciation for council's timeless roots, we are drawn to council because it works. Speaking and listening from the heart can connect people authentically in a way that strengthens relationships, actually deepens relational consciousness and builds stronger communities. We have found that conflict exploration, co-visioning and decision making flow more productively in the council environment. Communication between intimate partners and in families flourishes more readily when council practice is embraced.
We have introduced and gradually expanded the use of council in a variety of settings—intentional communities, educational settings from kindergarten through university, business organizations, hospitals, professional groups, prisons and restorative justice settings, municipal organizations, inter-and intra-cultural settings, rites of passage, intimate relationship, clans and family groups. As the need for authentic and heartfelt communication has grown in our heterogeneous world, the invitation to implement council has grown with it, more rapidly in recent years. Council practitioners steeped in The Ojai Foundation council practice are now active in many parts of the US, Europe, the UK, the Middle East, Africa and Australia.
"I remember sitting in circle out in the woods when I was a child, talking with everything around me. I remember bringing special objects to first grade and passing one around for all to hold in "show and tell." I remember how only then did my peers listen with the ears and heart of my grandmother. I remember praying with tobacco as a teenager, because the plant told me to use it in prayer to turn into my fear of cancer. I remember fasting in the wilderness and thinking that the connection and sense of belonging we long for as human beings is quite similar, what we learn in a relational world with nature tends toward common ground, similar feelings arise, similar healings emerge, and council ways are available to all of us if we open and listen.
My discovery over the past 40 years has been a coming together of both ancient and new ways, whether sitting within a co-existence project in Israel or with a family exploring reconciliation. The spirit and intention of council always holds steady, healing, communicating, learning, leading through the wisdom of the whole, growing in trust with the sacredness of all life.
I remember having the sense of "coming home" during my first council in the wilderness. It was as if my very beingness knew the practice and honored the devout listening that council inspires.


It would not be exaggerated if we say your Holi celebration is incomplete without this 'Rang Barse' song. It was sung by none other than Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan. There is no better song than this one to begin your celebration, especially on Holi. It is written by Harivansh Rai Bachchan.
If you do not want to attend your friend's dance party on Holi, we are pretty sure this will change your mind as it is filled with fun. This song is from the film Bollywood film 'Mere Brother Ki Dulhan' and one of the most famous Holi number. It will make girls go crazy.
After watching this song, you will say no one can dance better than Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on this song. It shows the vide of the 1970s. It was filmed for a Hindi film 'Action Replay' which featured Amitabh Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Akshay Kumar and Shefali Shah in lead roles. It's a must watch song for Holi.
If you remember Amitabh Bachchan starrer film 'Baghban', then you would not ever forget to include this song in your playlist on Holi. Apart from Bachchan, there is a dancing queen which make this more beautiful. It's been over a decade still this song is one of the most popular songs for Holi celebration in India.
Without this Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan song, Holi celebration is incomplete. It has amazing lyrics of Anand Bakshi. The song was sung by singers Sonali Bhatawdekar, Ishaan Dev, Pritha Mazumdar, Udit Narayan, Jaspinder Narula. The film 'Mohabbatein' was Aditya Chopra's second directorial venture after 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge' and was shot in India and the United Kingdom.
It has been more than three decades since the song was released. However, it is still played on Holi celebration across the country. It is from Bollywood's famous film 'Sholay' which was released in 1975. Holi Ke Din is an energetic song that you should download for this festival.
In 2017, we have got yet another Holi video song, from Akshay Kumar starrer Jolly LLB. The film was produced by Fox Star Studios and directed by Subhash Kapoor. The song shows amazing chemistry between Akshay Kumar and Huma Qureshi. The lyrics of the song was written by Manj Musik and Raftaar. The song was sung by Raftaar and Nindy Kaur.
This Holi song was filmed for Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz's film 'Aap Ki Kasam'. It was released in 1974. The beautiful song was sung in a melodious voice of Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar. You can download this video song from YouTube for offline mode. If we talking about the best Holi songs, how can we miss this one?
Yes, we are talking about Ali Fazal's latest film Milan Talkies. The film has recently released on the theatres. The beautiful song was sung by Mika Singh and Shreya Ghosal. It is filled with colours, fun and joys. Don't forget to add this song in your Holi playlist. The film was written by Tigmanshu Dhulia and Kamal Pandey.
As we have mentioned in the beginning that this list also has a song in the Bhojpuri language. This Bhojpuri song Range Ke Bhukhael Bani has gone viral on social media. Film actor and producer Adarsh Lal Yadav and Dream Girl Shubhi Sharma have collaborated with many films. On the public's demand, they have reunited for the first time for Holi Song.


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Ealing cyclist knocked off bike by lorry swims 150 miles to raise money for paramedics who saved her
Nicky Defries, from Ealing, was seriously injured when she was knocked off her bike by a 42-tonne lorry
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A woman from Ealing who was seriously injured when she was knocked off her bike by a lorry last year has swam more than 150 miles to raise money for the paramedics who saved her.
Nicky Defries was cycling towards her home in Acton on July 12 last year, when she was knocked off her bike by a 42-tonne lorry in Scrubs Lane, which ran over her right leg and left foot.
The Acton resident was treated on the pavement by a medic from London's Air Ambulance and then transferred to hospital, where she spent the next four-and-a-half weeks.
Nicky was left reliant on crutches and unable to do many forms of exercise after the crash, but after being given the all-clear for swimming, she vowed to raise funds for London's Air Ambulance.
Nicky swam more than 150 miles to raise money for London's Air Ambulance (Image: Everyone Active)
Speaking before embarking on the mammoth task, Nicky said she wanted to give something back to the charity which helped her in her hour of need.
"I am still on crutches, I can't run or hike," she said. "However, I am and always have been a swimmer and the day my doctors told me I could swim again was a celebratory day for me.
"I have never done anything like this before, but I want to give back to this amazing service that was there when I needed it."
Woman seriously hurt in crash to swim 100 miles to raise vital funds for London Air Ambulance
London's Air Ambulance is a charity providing pre-hospital care at the time of critical, life-threatening situations, such as serious traffic collisions.
It serves ten million people who live, work and commute within the M25 .
Nicky after completing the mammoth challenge (Image: Everyone Active)
Nicky swam three times a week, up to 200 lengths at a time, to swim more than 150 miles at Everyone Active leisure centre in Acton.
Her efforts meant she raised £5,238 for London's Air Ambulance.
The keen swimmer managed to complete the challenge despite being in "constant pain" until February this year, after undergoing seven separate operations in less than a year.
"I have been overwhelmed by people's continuing generosity," Nicky said after completing 150 miles.
"I am thrilled to be able to give back to such a worthwhile charity that do incredible work every day."
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Michael Thomas, manager at Everyone Active Acton, added: "It has been fantastic to be part of this incredible journey and a joy to see Nicky go from strength to strength.
"Members like Nicky are what help make our centre the vibrant community it is, and we congratulate her on reaching her goal."
If you'd like to donate, visit Nicky's London Air Ambulance fundraising page .

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Pakistan unveils schedule for sending first ever astronaut to space
ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Fawad Hussain Sunday said Pakistan was committed to send its first astronaut to space by 2022.
China would collaborate with Pakistan in its space mission, he said, adding the selection process for the astronaut would start in 2020. Initially, 50 persons would be selected and then the list would come down to 25 in 2022, out of them only one would be sent to the space, he told a private news channel.
The Pakistani Air Force, he said, would play an important role in the astronaut's selection.
To a question, the minister said the debris of India's first space mission namely 'Shakti', which had failed, was even posing dangers to the space missions of other countries.
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What Carte Blanche Can Do
October 13, 2014 by CJ
Tammy * (out of five)
These days it seems more and more films get released straight to DVD and VOD, and not even because they're so bad as to be unreleasable. Marketing is crazy expensive and if a studio or distributor thinks a film won't cover its costs, straight to the shelf it can go.
Of course, if a film is so bad as to be unreleasable – say, if an intended comedy is not at all funny – then it makes sense to put it out of its misery, as it were, not just for economic reasons, but for the sake of "face". A truly appalling film embarrasses all associated with it, and an unfunny comedy, forcing its cast to mug, shtick and galumph their way through an appallingly unfunny script, is the most embarrassing of all. It's even embarrassing for the audience.
Tammy should have been given this humane euthanasia. Instead, it is being thrust, kicking and screaming (and screaming and screaming) into our theatres. Don't follow it in.
Melissa McCarthy – who also wrote the script, with the first-time director, Ben Falcone (her husband) – plays the titular Tammy, an unbelievably inconsiderate, childish dolt who, upon getting (absolutely justifiably) fired from her fast-food job, splits her hometown in her grandmother's car, with her grandmother (Susan Sarandon), who also brings along six thousand eight hundred dollars in cash. What are meant to be high jinks ensue.
A disaster as a comedy from the first frame to the last, the film is also unbelievably, smotheringly cloying, heaping more unearned sentimentality, false pathos and super-saccherinated schmaltz onto its "odd couple" than any adult should ever have to endure. McCarthy and Falcone want us to weep, but this effort is as horrendously misguided as the supposed comedy, and the music score Falcone lays on thick is almost a parody of terrible, schmaltzy movie music.
The story goes that the primary investor for Tammy saw Melissa McCarthy's performance in Bridesmaids and gave her carte blanche to make whatever film she wanted, with whomever she wanted as director ("Hey, husband!") The lack of any sort of script development – and the painfully knock-kneed direction – are up on the screen for all to see. The worst film thus far this year, by far. Avoid.
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Convenience trumps health in ongoing over-the-counter birth control debate
I was recently floored after reading an editorial about a group of doctors and reproductive rights activists who waged a lobbying war urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow over-the-counter oral contraception. The activists' mission? To make oral contraceptives as convenient and affordable as alternative forms of birth control. Their pitch? That almost anyone can walk into a local drug store and purchase a value-pack of condoms for around $30, so why shouldn't oral contraceptives, which are far more effective, be just as affordable and easy to get?
The editorial praised oral-contraceptives such as "the pill" for being safer than ever and belittled health concerns surrounding hormonal contraceptives by surmising that, because birth-control pills are available only by prescription, people have a misconception that they are dangerous drugs.
The "misconceptions" here are misplaced. Personal and political opinions aside, there are significant health concerns associated with hormonal birth controls, and, contrary to popular belief, they are not low-risk medications.
In 2011, an FDA-funded study of more than 800,000 women found that those who took drospirenone-containing birth-control pills such as Yaz®, Yasmin® and Ocella® were significantly more likely to develop venous thromboembolism (VTE) compared to women taking alternative forms of hormonal contraceptives. VTE can be life-threatening and adds to the already existing potentially dangerous side effects, including blood clots, deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. The initial results of the FDA's research suggest an approximately 1.5-fold increase in the risk of blood clots for women who use drospirenone-containing birth-control pills.
It upsets me to see a false sense of security presented in reference to hormonal birth control. Yaz and Yasmin, for example, have been cited in more than 1,000 lawsuits filed in the United States by patients who claim to have suffered serious injuries while taking the contraceptives.
Yes, I think over-the-counter hormonal contraceptives are a bad idea. However, I should add that I do believe access to hormonal contraceptives should be available when accompanied by ADEQUATE warnings and thorough discussions about potential risks with a physician.
The article did make one point I can agree with – birth-control prescriptions rarely require a medical diagnosis and are usually the woman's choice. Therefore, she determines her need for a contraceptive and assesses the risks associated with her options. Ladies, I urge you to do your homework, and speak with your physician about the pros and cons associated with various kinds of hormonal contraceptives.
Convenience should never trump your health.
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Moving along- Part One " A Gypsy heart".
Moving along Part 2- Somewhere on a farm in Iowa, hold your breath.
Follow, Follow, Follow, Follow the yellow brick road.
That was the song my Mom was singing, as she held my hand and the hand of my brother that fall as we skipped along in the grass near silver lake. A huge contrast to the Mother I was forced to leave behind half a year ago…but I was a child at the time, I knew nothing and asked no questions, it just was. The last time I saw her, she was sad and crying and now? I have been plopped back in to the life of the Mother I knew best. Outgoing, gregarious, social, funny, beautiful. I would have followed whatever road she sang about or invited me on, as long as she was on it.
She was back. Mind you I didn't know at that age that my Mother had a nervous breakdown, nobody ever talked about it, nobody ever explained it to me , I never even heard the word escape from her mouth until I was well in to my thirties.
At that age you are sort of like a bubble…stay with me here while I try to explain.
Imagine you are blowing bubbles and one forms and floats above you, and it just stays there, and sort of floats with the wind. As a 9-year-old you are in that bubble, you have no say, you don't know what questions to ask nor do you even have the ability to comprehend what questions you should be asking. So , you just float whichever way the adults in your life push you and try not to pop, ending up splattered all over in your own life.
My Mother and younger brother and I lived in a garden level apartment with large egress windows that held hundreds and hundreds of salamander's after it rained. We would take ice cream buckets and poke holes in the tops, fill them up with grass and happily head out in the damp of the day after a good rain to collect them. Of course we always heard Mom's warning " If even ONE of those things ends up loose in this apartment, I will throw you in the window well to swim with the rest of them." We would giggle and shake our heads. Gross Mom, that would be so, well….. slimy. And off we would go, spending often entire days filling our buckets up with the slimy little monsters.
We came home after school to an empty apartment with snacks on the table , we locked the door behind us and called our Mother- just like we had been doing since I was five. I don't ever remember being afraid of being alone. I would turn on the TV and watch Little house on the prairie , or do my homework, or play with my brother. It was something people did back then, especially single working Mothers. Daycare- Daycare ? I never knew anyone that was in daycare. Our Mom's were either stay at home mom's , or we were latch key kids, that's just the way it was. We were all responsible for ourselves and our safety from a very very young age, so we better figure it out pretty damn quick.
There were years that passed by uneventful, until one day , when I was about 9 years old.
My Mother came home and told us they were building new apartment buildings across the street, they were big and beautiful and had a pond in the backyard that we could skate on in the winter, it boasted game rooms on every floor , Community rooms where you could host party's, everyone got their own garage, there were elevators and a security system.. and the best part? We could afford it, the price of rent was established by your income and family size!
I could feel almost a vibration off of her about how excited she was. She said she was one of the first ten people to sign up for one of the apartments in a building that hosted over one hundred and fifty individual units.
Our Salamander chasing days were over, but the memories that awaited us on BeeBee road would be sometimes life changing, sometimes life threatening , and filled with more than the walls of a teeny two bedroom apartment could hold .


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PAWARUMi at Gamescom 2016
by Kelfecil · Published August 20, 2016 · Updated August 20, 2016
During Gamescom 2016, we had the chance to try out PAWARUMi by Manufacture 43. We found Daniel Borges at his booth at the Indie Arena Booth and also had a chat with him.
Daniel explained the game to us as a shoot 'em up with an old style and lots of enemies. The background settings are all made to look epic and the camera work is meant to make it even more epic. The game is boasting the trinity system which follows the basic rules of crushing, boosting or draining your enemies. By using different colours, you can do either of those 3 to your enemies, so you need to always be careful as to what kind of weaponry you are using against them.
Pawarumi is set in an alternate reality where the native american civilizations never went extinct, but instead developed light and gravity technologies, through which they managed to build incredible structures and even came in contact with three gods, the Cougar, the Serpent and the Jaguar, who blessed them with their powers. We control a ship named Chukaru, armed with three different weapons, each granted from one of the gods. We must learn to use the right weapon for every occasion and even combine them to launch a super attack!
Manufacture 43 is comprised of three people and it is based in Bordeaux, France. The development for the game started in 2016 and full release is planned for somewhere in the beginning of 2017. "We are not looking to add any DLC but instead any updates we come out with will be for free and will provide more content for the game," explained Daniel.
With 10 years experience on the backs of each of the team's members, the developers did not really find many challenges in making the game, but rather in promoting it. "We could do everything but that, because were not used to doing that or had never done it before." The company is self-publishing its game.
Pawarumi is set to be released in 2017 on Steam for Windows, Mac and Linux. You can also track the game's developement on its official website, as well as on its Indiedb page and on the Twitter and Facebook pages of Manufacture 43.
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Iran Holds Trial of Ringleader of Separatist Terrorist Group
The hearing session of the trial of Habib Asyud, a ringleader of Al-Ahwaziya separatist and terrorist group, a Saudi-sponsored outfit that carried out the 2018 deadly terrorist attack in Ahvaz city in Southwestern Iran, was held in Tehran on Tuesday.
Habib Farajollah Chaab, also known as Habib Asyud, the ringleader of the SMLA terrorist group, appeared in court at branch 26 of Tehran's Islamic Revolution Court for the first time since his arrest.
Based on an indictment, he is charged with "leading and heading the SMLA terrorist group as well as planning and carrying out numerous bombing and terrorist operations in Khuzestan Province and destroying public property in order to counter the Islamic Republic of Iran's establishment".
He is also charged with bombing operations at the Housing and Urban Development Office, Planning and Budget Organization, and Department of Environment in Ahvaz.
Chaab's other charges include bombing operations targeting the governorates of Dezful and Abadan and oil pipelines in the cities of Abadan, Ahvaz, and Mahshahr, and also planning a bombing attack against Ahvaz's Judiciary office.
In September 2018, the SMLA claimed responsibility for an attack on a military parade in Ahvaz that killed 25 people, including members of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and civilian bystanders, and injured 70 others.
During Tuesday's hearing, the prosecutor's representative said the SMLA's operations are designed with the Saudi backing in Sweden and Denmark, where the group's ringleaders are residing.
European and Arab countries have failed to extradite the terrorists to the Islamic Republic despite a red notice issued against them, he noted.
"In addition to intimidating and threatening Iranian citizens, SMLA elements call for violence in their accounts on social networks."
Chaab was arrested in November 2020 on the back of a set of "specialized and combined measures" by Iranian intelligence forces.
The SMLA, which is directly supported by foreign intelligence agencies, has been pushing to separate Khuzestan — home to the country's Arab population — from the rest of Iran through engaging in an armed conflict against the Iranian government.
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Amoretta Morris leads the Foundation's national community change strategies, outside of its hometowns of Baltimore and Atlanta. Her team works with local partners to improve the neighborhoods where kids and families live by promoting access to good schools, affordable homes and job opportunities and strengthening community safety.
Morris has more than a decade of experience shaping policies and programs to improve the lives of youth and families. She has moved between the nonprofit and government sectors, either organizing for social change from the outside or reforming institutions from the inside. She brings deep experience in education policy, youth development, civic engagement, interagency collaboration and nonprofit management.
Before joining the Foundation, Morris served as director of student attendance for the District of Columbia Public Schools. She led a continuum of activities ranging from chronic absence intervention and dropout prevention to support services for homeless students. Previously, she was a youth and education policy adviser in the Executive Office of the Mayor in the Anthony Williams and Adrian Fenty administrations. She joined local government after serving as the founding director and lead organizer for the Justice 4 DC Youth! Coalition, an advocacy group that mobilized youth and adults to promote juvenile justice reform.
Morris has served on several nonprofit boards and local commissions, including her current membership on the boards of the Neighborhood Funders Group and the Harvard Kennedy School Black Alumni Association. She is also a lay leader in the spiritual community at Unity of Washington, D.C. and a member of Black Benefactors, a local giving circle that leverages the resources of grassroots philanthropists to advance social change in the D.C. metropolitan area. Morris earned a bachelor's degree in economics and African studies from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's in public policy from Harvard University.


There is a trend in customer experience circles to focus on emotion. To be sure, emotion is essential to a brand's customer experience, but focusing on emotion is a little like obsessing over the score of a sporting event. Yes, our team wants more points, but you get there by executing on the mechanics of the game, not concentrating on the scoreboard.
Emotion isn't a tactic in customer experience; it is an outcome. You cannot manufacture emotion; you can only change what you do to evoke a shift in perception. This is why, as we point out at Gartner, customer experience is owned by the customer--it is their perceptions and related feelings--while customer experience management is the responsibility of the marketer.
The distinction is subtle and one of perspective--outside-in rather than inside-out. Marketers can attempt to manufacture emotion by changing website copy to sound friendlier or posting a touching video to YouTube, but we evoke stronger, relationship-building emotions by altering the product or service experience to meet customers' expectations. The former focuses on what the brand wants; the latter on what customers want.
Think of your personal relationship with brands. Do the brands to which you are the most loyal win that loyalty by telling you you're important or by making you feel important? Do they share emotional stories or do they evoke strong emotions through a customer experience that creates value?
What are the emotions you associate with those loyalty-building brands? Does your iPhone pull your heartstrings? Does Costco make you verklempt? Customers do not need brands to manufacture emotions of joy or sadness through stories and scripts but instead to foster feelings of trust, confidence, pride, security, protection, and serenity. Those are the emotions you likely feel toward your favorite brands, and those are the emotions your brand must evoke through its customer experience.
To read more about the difference between manufactured and evoked emotions and how this made a customer experience difference in categories as diverse as ride-hailing applications and banking, please continue reading on my Gartner blog.
Innovation has become a way of life in marketing, particularly in social media, as marketers jump from one strategy (fan accumulation) to another (SoLoMo) to another (six-second videos) to another (messenger bots), hoping to find the right innovative strategy to improve brand health. The social networks continue to innovate as well, striving to earn more consumer attention and marketing dollars with live video, algorithmic timelines and buy buttons.
But even though consumer adoption of social media remains strong, brands still struggle to put social media to good use that drives demonstrable results. This is because marketers have approached social media innovation from the wrong perspective–they have embraced idea-centered innovation rather than need-centered innovation.
Social media is an inherently consumer-oriented and -controlled channel, and this suggests brands need a different approach—a customer experience approach. The best innovation for brands' social media right now is to return to basics: Understand your important audience segments, probe their needs and social behaviors, identify how your brand is performing and innovate in a way that satisfies customer expectations.
To read more about how customer experience methodologies can drive better social media innovation, along with some examples of how an ideas-focused approach to advocacy failed while a needs-centric approach succeeded, please continue reading on my Gartner blog.


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Here we put impedance in the spotlight. More accurately, we should refer to it as Electrical Impedance as other kinds do exist. In fact, the word itself is derived from the verb "impede" which means to restrict or obstruct.
Electrical impedance is often mistaken for electrical resistance but differs insofar as it relates to alternating current or a voltage waveform that changes from one state to another as in audio signals. As resistance is directly proportional to voltage, this is not a reliable measure in an audio circuit where the voltage is changing all of the time.
Electrical impedance is crucial when matching speakers to amplifiers. Unlike other specifications we have spoken about in the last few months, it does not necessarily say anything at all about quality of reproduction it simply determines whether a combination of equipment will work together. In a speaker system, impedance is important to system designers. Many a young DIY installer has fallen into the trap of connecting two or more subwoofers together to obtain more noise. This is of course possible but the manner in which they are connected will ultimately affect the impedance of the load presented to the amplifier.
A quick analogy might be helpful here. If you imagine trying to push a small car a short distanced along a flat road, wearing your normal day shoes. It will take effort to get the car moving. You will need traction so that your effort goes into moving the car. Now imagine doing the same thing wearing roller skates. In this case, the high impedance offered by the vehicle will overcome the relatively low impedance offered by the roller skate wearer. The opposite would also be true so, if the car is very, very light, and four people are employed to push it, they will probably all fall on their noses while the car flies forward at a rate of knots.
In this case, the two 8 Ohm speakers connected in parallel offer a load of 4 Ohms to the amplifier. If the amplifier is capable of coping with a 4 Ohm load then all will be well and more output will be realised from the amplifier. If not, it will most likely get too hot and switch off. If not properly protected against such eventualities it could even catch fire!
In this instance, the impedance of one speaker is added to the other. The result will be a larger impedance to the amplifier and reduced output – Like trying to push our car above, with the handbrake on!
Both of these methods are employed on a regular basis but there are pitfalls. Although it would be acceptable to wire multiple speakers in either configuration, this can only be achieved in a safe way with speakers of the same impedance. Close matching is also recommended as even minor variations can lead to the load not being shared equally between speakers. This may detract from performance.
These days, the sheer breadth of available equipment should allow systems to be designed that optimise an amplifier's output with the load presented by the speaker. This is not only a safer approach, but will often result in higher fidelity.
As always, we recommend you consult with your local FOUR MASTER and preferably have them help design and install your system for you.


Max Verstappen fastest in the third free practice in Mexico.
Max Verstappen recorded the best time in Saturday's free practice in Mexico. Max did 16 laps and his best time for a lap was	1:19.137. Second after him came Mercedes AMG's driver Lewis Hamilton. The third time was recorded by Daniel Ricciardo.


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Los Angeles County Takes Steps to Address Omicron Variant, As Cases Among People Experiencing Homelessness Decline for the Second Month in a Row - 17 New Deaths and 1,942 New Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 in Los Angeles County
Public Health is reporting that COVID-19 cases among people experiencing homelessness decreased for the second month in a row. These results are likely to reflect increases in vaccination coverage. As of Nov. 17th, 33,907 homeless individuals have been fully vaccinated and 1,686 have received a booster or additional dose. Of the total doses administered, 86% were mRNA (Pfizer or Moderna,) and of those starting an mRNA dose, 80% have already completed their second dose.
For the week ending Nov. 14th, there were 44 confirmed cases, down from the 63 cases reported the week of Oct.11th.
Today, Public Health confirmed 17 additional deaths and 1,942 new cases of COVID-19. Of the 17 new deaths reported today, seven people who passed away were over the age of 80, five people who died were between the ages of 65 and 79, three people who died were between the ages of 50 and 64, and two people who died were between the ages of 30 and 49 and all had underlying conditions. To date, Public Health has identified 1,532,430 positive cases of COVID-19 across all areas of L.A. County and a total of 27,225 deaths.
There are 569 people with COVID-19 currently hospitalized. Testing results are available for more than 9,468,226 individuals, with 15% of people testing positive. Today's test positivity rate is 1%.
This past week, Public Health has been tracking the emergence and spread of Omicron, labeled a variant of concern by both the WHO and the CDC. Yesterday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) received confirmation of its first case of COVID-19 with mutations consistent with the new Omicron variant (B.1.1.529). The individual returned to Los Angeles County after travel to South Africa via London on 11/22/2021. This infection is most likely travel-related.
Getting vaccinated or boosted remains critical as holiday traveling and gatherings begin. The vaccines are effective against the Delta variant and earlier strains of the virus, which allows us to remain hopeful that the approved vaccines will also provide some protection against Omicron. All residents across LA County should continue adhering to the masking requirements and wear a mask when indoors or at large outdoor mega events - regardless of vaccination status. Individuals should also wear a mask when at any crowded indoor or outdoor events.
Testing is an important tool in early detection of infection to reduce spread and Public Health encourages residents who have traveled for the holidays to get tested if they traveled internationally or to locations in this country with high transmission rates. Beginning today, international travelers arriving at the LAX international terminal are being offered free rapid COVID-19 tests and information on federal recommendations for quarantining and testing.
Residents should also get tested if they participated at gatherings and events with large numbers of people, some of which may be unvaccinated. Residents are reminded that they are legally required to be isolated if they have a positive COVID test result and that vaccinated close contacts with symptoms and unvaccinated close contacts need to be quarantined.
"I send my heartfelt condolences to everyone mourning the loss of a loved one to COVID-19," said Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd, Director of Public Health. "As we enter winter and face the Omicron variant, using what we have learned over the past 2 years will make a big difference for friends and families preparing to gather for the holidays and those most at-risk. We are grateful to our partners for the encouraging trends, as at least 80% of people experiencing homelessness have received their second dose of Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, and appreciate the continued efforts to improve coverage."
COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective and are recommended for everyone 5 years old and older to help protect against COVID-19. Vaccinations are always free and open to eligible residents and workers regardless of immigration status. Appointments are not needed at all Public Health vaccination sites and many community sites where first, second, and third doses are available.
To find a vaccination site near you, or to make an appointment, please visit:
www.VaccinateLACounty.com (English) or www.VacunateLosAngeles.com (Spanish).
If you need assistance you can also call 1-833-540-0473 for help:
Finding an appointment
Connect to free transportation to and from a vaccination site, or
Schedule a home-visit if you are homebound.
For more information regarding COVID-19 in LA County you can also visit the Public Health website at www.publichealth.lacounty.gov here you will find information on:
COVID-19 sector protocols & best practices,
COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboards, and
COVID-19 Surveillance Interactive and, Recovery Dashboards
Cases through 6:00pm 12/2/2021
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Laura Ganci
MFA '18 Fine Arts Low-Residency
Laura Ganci's work with sound installation began when she was helping her father convert family VHS tapes to DVD, in an effort to preserve before inevitable decay. Having replayed these videos, she started to notice ways her father's presence was evident in the things he decided to capture. She recognized that the medium echoed the sentiment in that just as stories lose their sharp edges over time, so too does the technology we entrust to encapsulate them. Her layered and immersive narrative sound and video installations center on themes of story-telling and memory, as well as the intersubjectivity of human relationships. Voices in space become single stories, and when mixed the abstraction of a single narrative causes visitors to turn inward and recount their own memories. Her viewer/listener must enlist some level of aural hierarchy which aligns with their own lived experience to pull words and meanings. This medium seemed the appropriate way to honor the memory of her father, whom she lost to Covid on March 21, 2020. Ironically, sound was her only means of communicating with him in his last days in the hospital. This piece, titled "I'm Still Here," is meant to create a space for celebration of life and collective grief.
The Hour of Lead
Laura Ganci is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician born in Hartford, Connecticut. Her visual, installation, and performance works explore vulnerability, proximity, personal history, and the human relationship to sound. Her work with sound informs her 2D art practice, and often she bounds back and forth between them in the studio.. Laura plays guitar and co-leads Providence-based band Echoes. She works full time as the beverage director for Courtland Club, a non-profit cocktail bar nestled in Providence.
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Lovely Chalets in Samoens, Sixt area, French Alps. Ski Chalets to rent. Great skiing, fab food, fantastic scenery.
"Welcome" Let's talk about: Local Knowledge, Equipment Hire, Lift Passes & Lessons.
One of the most important things when you arrive and begin your ski holiday is to sort out your equipment hire, if required, and lift passes. This can be quite a worry to some and can also take precious moments out of your ski time, all too short when you might only have a week. It is very important to us to assist you with this, making everything very simple and stress free enabling you to get out onto that beautiful snow as soon as possible.
On arrival at the chalets your host, Will G, will sit and enjoy a relaxing drink and discuss your invidual requirements with you. He can advise about coaching, guiding, equipment and lift passes and get a feel for the sort of things you might like to do whilst staying at Chalet L'Oreade.
When you are ready he will take you to the local ski hire shop to meet Sebastian or another member of the Deffayet family who own and run Chez Narcisse. They are one of the main families in the area and have run the equipment business for many years if not generations. His sister is one of the ESF ski instructors in Sixt and you will receive an expert and very friendly personalised service. Snowboards are also available for hire from Will through our sponsorship with Ride.
With his knowledge of the mountain and professional coaching background, Will is able to guide you through your thought processes and requirements about coaching and what you want out of your ski holiday. Although not born to the mountain, Will G has skied most of his life and became a professional snowboard coach in 2001. We also have no hesitation in recommending several of the ski schools on the mountain ESF (Ski and Snowboard school) 360 International (Ski and Snowboard school) ZigZag (Ski and Snowboard school) - click here for our link.
Snowboard lessons and a half day or day with your host (Will G) on the mountain can be prebooked and paid for in the UK in advance.
The next step is to sort out the lift passes and we are fortunate in that one of the main lift pass offices "Caisse" is only 50 meters from our base at Chalet L'Oreade opposite the nursery slopes and right next to the ski bus stop. So, the choice is yours, you can be on the slopes within an hour of your arrival at the Chalets, having unpacked and relaxed for a moment if, of course, you are a quick unpacker!!.
2016/2017 prices are on the Grand Massif Website"
Grand Massif - this covers the whole area (265 kms of piste)including Flaine and is recommended for all but beginners, there is nothing worse than being denied a run when you find yourself in a different ski area. Adult 242.40 € for 6 days. 45.50 €/day for 2 - 5 days. Junior (5-15 years) 181.80 € for 6 days. 34.10 €/day for 2 - 5 days.
Massif - (145 kms of piste) Les Carroz, Morillon, Samoens, Sixt, Combe de Vernant, Les Grand Vans. Adult 213 € for 6 days. 40.00 €/day for 2 - 5 days. Junior (5-15 years) 159.60 € 30.00 € for 2 - 5 days.
Beginners - Adults from 8.90 € (Sixt), 16.60 € (Morillon) 22.00 € (Samoens) per four hours. Juniors (5 - 15 years) 8.90 €(Sixt) 12.40 €(Morillon) 16.50 €(Samoens). It is advisable to check depending which area you intend to ski with beginners. The instructors will advise when it is necessary to purchase other types of lift passes.
Cross Country Ski Trails have separate passes and you should talk to the local Tourist Information Office, who will advise you of the areas available and the best places to go.
Lift passes can be preordered on line.
Passport photos are no longer required.
Ski/Lift Passes give free access to all ski bus routes from Salvagny,Sixt to Verchaix through Samoens, Vercland and Morillon. They do not all go the full route, so be sure to check you get on the right one. Timetables are kept at Chalet L'Oreade, so please ask if you would like one.


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Vypočítat hustotu

The Calculate Density tool creates a density map from point features by spreading known quantities of some phenomenon (represented as attributes of the points) across the map. The result is a layer of areas classified from least dense to most dense.

For point input, each point should represent the location of some event or incident, and the result layer represents a count of the incident per unit area.  A higher density value in a new location means that there are more points near that location.  In many cases, the result layer can be interpreted as a risk surface for future events. For example, if the input points represent locations of lightning strikes, the result layer can be interpreted as a risk surface for future lightning strikes.

Other use cases of this tool include the following:

Creating crime-density maps to help police departments properly allocate resources to high crime areas.

Calculating densities of hospitals within a county.  The result layer will show areas with high and low accessibility to hospitals, and this information can be used to decide where new hospitals should be built.

Identifying areas that are at high risk of forest fires based on historical locations of forest fires.

Locating communities that are far from major highways in order to plan where new roads should be constructed.

Zvolit bodovou vrstvu, ze které bude vypočítána hustota

The point layer on which the density will be calculated.

Kromě výběru vrstvy z mapy můžete také zvolit položku  Procházet vrstvy která se nachází v dolní části rozbalovací nabídky, abyste ve svém obsahu mohli najít vrstvu prvků nebo datovou sadu sdílených souborů velkých dat.

Zvolit jedno nebo více polí, u kterých bude vypočítána hustota (volitelné)

Provide  one or more fields specifying the number of incidents at each location.  For example, if you have points that represent cities, you can use a field representing the population of the city as the count field, and the resulting population density layer will calculate larger population densities near cities with larger populations.

The density for the count of points will always be calculated.   If no fields are selected, each location will be assumed to represent a single count.

Zvolit tvar zásobníku

The shape of bins that points are aggregated into and used for the density calculation.

Analýza s použitím  čtvercových nebo šestiúhelníkových bloků vyžaduje rovinný souřadnicový systém. Můžete nastavit Souřadnicový systém pro zpracování v Prostředí analýzy. Pokud váš souřadnicový systém pro zpracování není nastaven na rovinný souřadnicový systém, budete vyzváni k jeho nastavení při Spuštění analýzy.

Vybrat velikost zásobníku k seskupení

The size of the bins generated. For a square bin, the size represents the height of the square. For hexagon, the size represents the height of the hexagon (from parallel sides).

Vybrat váhu hustoty pro použití

The type of weighting applied to the density calculation. There are two options:

 Uniform—This calculates a magnitude per area.

 Kernel—Applies a kernel function to fit a smooth tapered surface to each point.

Vybrat velikost sousedství

The size of the area used to calculate the density. The neighborhood size must be larger than the bin size.

Zvolit výstupní jednotky hustoty

The desired output units of the density values. By default, this is set to square kilometers or square miles based on the default units specified in your profile. If density values are very small, you can increase the size of the area units (for example, square meters to square kilometers) to return larger values. The values only scale the result.

Vypočítat hustotu s využitím časových kroků (volitelné)

Pokud vstupní bodová vrstva obsahuje časová data, ve formátu okamžitých dat, můžete provádět analýzu pomocí krokování času. Při použití času můžete nastavit tři parametry:

 Interval časového kroku

 Jak často se má časový krok opakovat

 Čas ke srovnání časových kroků

Představte si, že máte data reprezentující rok v čase a chcete provést analýzu pomocí týdenních kroků. Abyste tak učinili, nastavíte  Interval časového kroku na 1 týden.

Představte si, že máte data reprezentující rok v čase a chcete provést analýzu pomocí prvního týdne v měsíci. Abyste tak učinili, nastavíte  Interval časového kroku na 1 týden, Jak často se má časový krok opakovat na 1 měsíc a Čas ke srovnání časových kroků na 1. leden ve 12:00.

Interval časového kroku

Časový interval použitý ke generování časových kroků. Interval časového kroku může být použit samostatně nebo společně s parametry  Jak často se má časový krok opakovat nebo Čas ke srovnání časových kroků.

Pokud chcete vytvořit časové díly, které se konají každé pondělí od 9 do 10 hodin,  Interval časového kroku nastavíte na 1 hodinu, Jak často se má časový krok opakovat na 1 týden a Čas ke srovnání časových kroků na 9:00:00 v pondělí.

Jak často se má časový krok opakovat

 Krok použitý pro výpočet časového úseku. Parametr Jak často se má časový krok opakovat se může použít samostatně nebo s parametry Interval časového kroku, Referenční čas nebo Interval časového kroku a Čas ke srovnání časových kroků.

 Pokud chcete vytvořit časové díly, které se konají každé pondělí od 9 do 10 hodin, Interval časového kroku nastavíte na 1 hodinu, Jak často se má časový krok opakovat na 1 týden a Čas ke srovnání časových kroků na 9:00:00 v pondělí.

Čas ke srovnání časových kroků

Datum a čas použité pro srovnání dělení času. Časové kroky začnou v tento čas a budou pokračovat do minulosti. Pokud není vybrán žádný referenční čas, časové kroky se srovnají k 1. lednu 1970.

 Pokud chcete vytvořit časové díly, které se konají každé pondělí od 9 do 10 hodin, Interval časového kroku nastavíte na 1 hodinu, Jak často se má časový krok opakovat na 1 týden a Čas ke srovnání časových kroků na 9:00:00 v pondělí.

SpatialReference (wkid)

Jedná se o dočasný parametr pro předčasné vydání pro nastavení souřadnicového systému zpracování. Mnoho nástrojů pro velká data vyžaduje, aby byl jako souřadnicový systém pro zpracování použit rovinný souřadnicový systém. Ve výchozím nastavení nástroj použije vstupní souřadnicový systém, ale pokud se jedná o zeměpisný souřadnicový systém, nástroj selže. Pro nastavení rovinného souřadnicového systému zadejte WKID. Například  Web Mercator zadáte jako 3857.

Zvolit datové úložiště

Výsledky GeoAnalytics jsou ukládány do ArcGIS Data Store a jsou zobrazeny jako vrstva prvků v  Portal for ArcGIS. Ve většině případů by výsledky měly být uloženy do časoprostorového datového úložiště a toto je výchozí nastavení. V některých případech je vhodné uložit výsledky do relačního datového úložiště. Důvody k uložení výsledků do relačního datového úložiště:

Použití výsledků mezi spolupracujícími portály.

Povolení funkcí synchronizace s výsledky.

Relační datové úložiště byste používat neměli, pokud očekáváte nárůst výsledků GeoAnalytics a potřebujete využít výhod časoprostorového úložiště Big Data ke zpracování velkých objemů dat.

Název výsledné vrstvy

 Toto je název vrstvy, která se vytvoří ve složce Můj obsah a přidá do mapy.  Výchozí název se řídí názvem nástroje a názvem vstupní vrstvy. Pokud vrstva již existuje, nástroj selže.

V rozbalovacím seznamu  Uložit výsledek do můžete zadat název složky ve složce Můj obsah, do které se má výsledek uložit.

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Fab Planet Honoree: Seth Holmes
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Fab Planet Summit Honoree: Dr. Seth M. Holmes
Dr. Seth M. Holmes is a cultural anthropologist and physician whose work focuses broadly on social hierarchies, health inequalities, and the ways in which such inequalities are naturalized and normalized in society and in health care. Holmes completed his PhD in Anthropology at UC Berkeley, his MD at UC San Francisco, his Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Pennsylvania and his Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program at Columbia University. An article from his research won the Rudolf Virchow Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology and his book won the Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Award and the New Millennium Book Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology. Holmes is Assistant Professor in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and the Graduate Program in Medical Anthropology. He is Co-Director of the MD/PhD Track in Medical Anthropology coordinated between UCSF and UC Berkeley and Director of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine.
ABOUT FAB PLANET:
The first annual Fab Planet Summit is the first LGBTQ conference on the intersectionality of environment, society and LGBTQ identity. We'll have speakers, workshops and an awards party, all with tasty snacks and drinks, and a diverse range of voices. Join us September 13th, 2014 in Seattle, WA for this deep and broad look at LGBTQ sustainability!
Registration and more information here.
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Fab Planet Speaker: Zachary Pullin
Fab Planet Speaker: Rick Sakow


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El municipi de Commerce () és un municipi de la carta (charter township) del comtat d'Oakland de l'estat estatunidenc de Michigan. Segons el cens del 2010, la seva població era de 40.186 habitants.

Comunitats
 Commerce es troba a Commerce i Sleeth Roads (; Elevació: 288 m.  Fou classificat el 1836.
 Glengary es troba a Benstein Road entre Oakley Park i Glengary Roads (; Elevació: 281 m.
 Oakley Park es troba a (; Elevació: 284 m.
 Union Lake és una comunitat no incorporada unida a la part nord-est del municipi que uneix els municipis de West Bloomfield, Waterford i White Lake.
 Wolverine Lake és un poble incorporat al municipi.

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Geografia de Michigan


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Join us on a Magical Journey this Christmas ìn Lovely Listowel - the Tidiest Town in Ireland 2018!!!
Join Santa's Helpers at the Lartigue Monorail in Lovely Listowel this Christmas. We are so excited to welcome all the boys and girls to our Magical train, where our Storyteller awaits before the elves call "all aboard the Listowel North Pole Express" to take you on an unforgettable train ride all the way to the North Pole!!! On the way you'll have a chance to post your letter to Santa Claus! When you arrive you'll be taken to our festive craft workshop where the Elves will help you create beautiful ornaments that you can treasure for years to come! All this and so much more before a very special visit with Santa!


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Q: Is the proof of $\lim_{\theta\to 0} \frac{\sin \theta}{\theta}=1$ in some high school textbooks circular? I was taught the following proof in high school.

By constructing triangles with $0<\theta<\pi/2$ and a circle with radius $r$ and by comparing the areas, we have
$$\frac{1}{2}r^2\sin\theta\cos\theta \le \frac{1}{2}r^2\theta\le\frac{1}{2}r^2\tan\theta$$
Hence
$$\cos\theta\le\frac{\theta}{\sin\theta}\le\frac{1}{\cos\theta}$$
Then by squeeze theorem, we have the result.
My question is, the middle term in the above inequality comes from the fact that the area of the circle is $\pi r^2$, which in my textbooks, is later proved by integration. But the integration requires results in calculus which comes from the fact that
$$\lim_{\theta\to 0}\frac{\sin\theta}{\theta}=1$$

A: Usual proofs can be circular, but there is a simple way for proving such inequality.
Let $\theta$ be an acute angle and let $O,A,B,C,D,C'$ as in the following diagram:

We may show that:
$$ CD \stackrel{(1)}{ \geq }\;\stackrel{\large\frown}{CB}\; \stackrel{(2)}{\geq } CB\;\stackrel{(3)}{\geq} AB $$
$(1)$: The quadrilateral $OCDC'$ and the circle sector delimited by $O,C,C'$ are two convex sets. Since the circle sector is a subset of the quadrilateral, the perimeter of the circle sector is less than the perimeter of the quadrilateral.
$(2)$: the $CB$ segment is the shortest path between $B$ and $C$.
$(3)$ $CAB$ is a right triangle, hence $CB\geq AB$ by the Pythagorean theorem.
In terms of $\theta$ we get:
$$ \tan\theta \geq \theta \geq 2\sin\frac{\theta}{2} \geq \sin\theta $$
for any $\theta\in\left[0,\frac{\pi}{2}\right)$. Since the involved functions are odd functions the reverse inequality holds over $\left(-\frac{\pi}{2},0\right)]$, and $\lim_{\theta\to 0}\frac{\sin\theta}{\theta}=1$ follows by squeezing.

A slightly different approach might be the following one: let us assume $\theta\in\left(0,\frac{\pi}{2}\right)$. By $(2)$ and $(3)$ we have
$$ \theta \geq 2\sin\frac{\theta}{2}\geq \sin\theta $$
hence the sequence $\{a_n\}_{n\geq 0}$ defined by $a_n = 2^n \sin\frac{\theta}{2^n}$ is increasing and bounded by $\theta$. Any increasing and bounded sequence is convergent, and we actually have $\lim_{n\to +\infty}a_n=\theta$ since $\stackrel{\large\frown}{BC}$ is a rectifiable curve and for every $n\geq 1$ the $a_n$ term is the length of a polygonal approximation of $\stackrel{\large\frown}{BC}$ through $2^{n-1}$ equal segments. In particular
$$ \forall \theta\in\left(0,\frac{\pi}{2}\right), \qquad \lim_{n\to +\infty}\frac{\sin\left(\frac{\theta}{2^n}\right)}{\frac{\theta}{2^n}} = 1 $$
and this grants that if the limit $\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin x}{x}$ exists, it is $1$. By $\sin x\leq x$ we get $\limsup_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin x}{x}\leq 1$, hence it is enough to show that $\liminf_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin x}{x}\geq 1$. We already know that for any $x$ close enough to the origin the sequence $\frac{\sin x}{x},\frac{\sin(x/2)}{x/2},\frac{\sin(x/4)}{x/4},\ldots$ is convergent to $1$, hence we are done.
Long story short: $\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin x}{x}=1$ follows from the fact that a circle is a rectifiable curve, and a circle is a rectifiable curve because it is the boundary of a convex, bounded subset of $\mathbb{R}^2$. The convexity of the disk follows from the triangle inequality: a disk is a closed ball for the euclidean distance.

$(1)$ relies on this powerful Lemma:

Lemma. If $A,B$ are convex bounded sets in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and $A\subsetneq B$, the perimeter of $A$ is less than the perimeter of $B$.

Proof: by boundedness and convexity, $\partial A$ and $\partial B$ are rectifiable, with lengths $L(A)=\mu(\partial A),\,L(B)=\mu(\partial B)$. Always by convexity, there is some chord in $B$ that does not meet the interior of $A$ (a tangent to $\partial A$ at a smooth point does the job, for instance). Assume that such chord has endpoints $B_1, B_2 \in \partial B$ and perform a cut along $B_1 B_2$: both the area and the perimeter of $B$ decrease, but $B$ remains a bounded convex set enclosing $A$. Since $A$ can be approximated through a sequence of consecutive cuts, $L(A)<L(B)$ follows.
Late addendum: this is also a consequence of Crofton formula.

A: Step right up here! A high school level demonstration of a fascinating mathematical truth will now be given.
There will be no sleight of hand here - the truth will laid bare for all to witness.
Now, hold on to your seats; for what follows -
No calculus is required!
It isn't even necessary to know the area of circle!.
All that is required for a thrilling experience are the following:
High School Trigonometry and Geometry
Exposure to Archimedes' Method of Deriving the Circumference of a Circle
(see Business Insider: The beautifully simple method Archimedes used to find the first digits of $\pi$)
Exposure to Limits
And now without further ado, introducing the main truth statement of our show,
$\lim_{\theta\to 0} \frac{\sin \theta}{\theta}=1\;\;\;\;$ (1)
The following is a demonstration with a sprinkling of statements meant to make it more accessible. The formal part will be highlighted and stands on its own as the proof chain.
The following is the analytical starting point for Archimedes' circle analysis:

Proposition 1: Let S and T be two different convex polygon regions in
$\Bbb R \times \Bbb R$. If S ⊂ T, S ≠ T. Then P(S) < P(T), where P
is the perimeter.   Proof: Perimeters of Convex Polygons, One within
the Other \ Cut the Knot

Of course Archimedes was not using our coordinate system, but no harm will be done by expressing ancient theorems in a modern framework. Using this Proposition, he proved the following:

Theorem 2: The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter
is $\pi$.

So a circle of radius $1$ had a circumference of $2 \pi$, and instead of degrees, for analysis it is more natural to  measure angles with the radian system, so that $90^\circ = 2 \pi /4 = \pi /2$,  $60^\circ = 2 \pi /6 = \pi /3$, etc.
Our proof starts with the following picture:

This is a picture of chord connecting two points on a circle; the arc length $s$ is equal to the central angle $\theta$ by the definition of a radian.
Here we are interested in comparing the arc length $s(\theta)$ in yellow to the chord length $a(\theta)$ in red. What Archimedes realized is that as the angle gets very small, $a(\theta)$ is a better and better approximation to the arc length $s(\theta) = \theta$. The following provides some insight

If we bisect a chord, the sagitta of the two new chords are approximately ¼ of the the starting chord 'distance' to the circle, $d' \approx d/4$.
In the analysis that follows we will always be working on the unit circle and using radians; also, angles will be positive. It is left for the reader to justify (1) for negative $x$.
We appreciate the technique of quickly determining the arc length of an angle subtended from the center of our unit circle (click here for more on this). But for our work here the following is important:

Theorem 3: The arc length $\theta$ of a circle segment less than or
equal to $\pi$ can be obtained as as the limit of an increasing
sequence,
$a(\theta), 2 a(\theta/2), 4 a(\theta/4) ,8 a(\theta/8), \dots $
This sequence is term by term identical to
$2 sin (\theta/ 2 ), 4 sin (\theta/4)  , 8 sin (\theta/ 8) , 16 sin (\theta/16), \dots $   Proof: This follows from the work of Archimedes
and that the sine function is the same as the the half-chord
function used in ancient times. We also have  Proposition 4: For any
$\theta$ in the interval $(0, \pi/2]$,  $0 \lt a/s \lt 1$
Proof: Exercise   Proposition 5: The function $a/s$ is decreasing on
$(0, \pi/2]$. Proof: Exercise (hint - use Theorem 3).
Proposition 6: As $\theta \gt 0$ approaches $0$, $a/s$ has a limit
$\le 1$. Proof: Use the above and properties of the real numbers.

Consider the picture

where $a(\theta)$ is the length of, say, the red chord.
Following Archimedes, $2^n a(\frac{2 \pi}{2^n})$ approaches $2 \pi$ as $n$ goes to infinity. Rearranging terms, this can be stated as follows:
$\lim_{n \to \infty}\, \frac {a(\frac{2\pi}{2^n})} {\frac{2 \pi}{2^n}} = 1\;\;\;\;$ (2)

Theorem 7: $\lim_{\theta\to 0^+} a/s = 1 \;\;\;\;$ (3) Proof:
Follows from Proposition 6 and (2).

To motivate what we are going to do, since $a(\theta)=2\sin\frac{\theta}{2}$, we can rewrite (2) as
$\lim_{n \to \infty}\, \frac {a(\frac{2\pi}{2^n})} {\frac{2 \pi}{2^n}} = \frac {2 sin(\frac{2\pi}{2^{n+1}})} {\frac{2 \pi}{2^n}} = \frac {sin(\frac{2\pi}{2^{n+1}})} {\frac{2 \pi}{2^{n+1}}} = 1\;\;\;\;$
I stated that you don't need calculus to follow this argument. There is however a technique used there that we need to use here, in a simple way. It is the change of variable method.

Theorem 8: The cosine function is a bijective decreasing mapping from
$[0, \pi/2] $ to $[0, 1]$. Proof: Exercise.

Using (8) and (13) from Wolfram: Circular Segment, we see that our function $a/s$ can be expressed as
$\frac{\sqrt{(1-r^2)}}{arcsin(\sqrt{(1-r^2)}}\;\;\;\;\;\;(4)$
If you substitute $r = cos(\psi)$ into (4) you get this final result, proving that (1) is true:

Theorem 9: $\lim_{\psi\to 0} \frac{\sin \psi}{\psi}=1\;\;\;\;$

We should give Archimedes credit for (1) as it falls out from his circumference calculations. Interestingly, using Theorem 9 you can calculate the area of a circle in a natural way.

Note: I would like to thank Jack D'Aurizio who encouraged me to refine my work and to pin things down in a rigorous fashion (no hand waving).

A: A comment on the geometry:
From the fact that
a straight line
is the shortest distance
between two points,
I can see why
$\sin(\theta)
\le \theta$.
But,
considering that the arc is curved,
I do not see how we can deduce
from the drawing that
$\theta
\le \tan(\theta)$.
How do we know that
the arc doesn't wiggle enough
so that
the opposite inequality occurs?

A: This has been discussed earlier and I will post link if I find it. To simplify the proof we can just work with circle of unit radius. And instead of dealing with arc lengths we deal with area of sectors. This avoids the problem of dealing with comparison of arc lengths which requires notions of convexity of curves (like done in Jack d'Aurizio's answer here).
The following theorem holds:

If $L$ is the length of an arc of unit circle and $A$ the area of corresponding sector then $L=2A$.

The proof follows not via the use of circular functions as many believe but simply via integration by parts. Note that we have $$\int_{a} ^{1}\sqrt{1-x^{2}}\,dx=-\frac{a\sqrt{1-a^{2}}}{2}+\frac{1}{2}\int_{a}^{1}\frac{dx}{\sqrt{1-x^{2}}}$$ or $$\int_{a}^{1}\frac{dx}{\sqrt{1-x^{2}}}=2\left(\frac{a\sqrt{1-a^{2}}}{2}+\int_{a}^{1}\sqrt{1-x^{2}}\,dx\right)$$ which is the desired relation $L=2A$ for an arc with end points $(1,0)$ and $(a, \sqrt{1-a^{2}})$ (with $a\in(0,1)$) of the unit circle. Once we have this relation we immediately get the following inequality (as mentioned in question) via comparison of areas: $$\sin\theta<\theta<\tan\theta$$ for all $\theta\in(0,\pi/2)$.

Update: If one translates the geometrical definition into analysis we get the the following link between $x$ and $\sin x$ which is valid for $x\in(-\pi/2,\pi/2)$: $$x=\int_{0}^{\sin x} \frac{dt} {\sqrt{1-t^{2}}}$$ and dealing with positive values of $x$ we see that the integrand in the integral on right of above equation lies between $1$ and $1/\sqrt{1-\sin^{2}x}$ and thus we get the inequalities $$\sin x< x< \frac{\sin x} {\sqrt{1-\sin^{2}x}}=\tan x$$ so all that argument from geometry about arc-length of convex curves is not needed. The traditional proof avoids usage of direct formula for length of arc of a circle in terms of integrals and the argument becomes unnecessarily complex. This is done because the proof is presented at a stage when one is learning limits and is totally unaware of the concept of an integral.

A: Hint

For a high school level you can use the lenght of the arc.
$$\sin \theta \le\theta\le \tan \theta\to 1\le \frac{\theta}{\sin \theta}\le \frac{1}{\cos \theta}$$
In order to see that, we can use a know result from Euclidian Geometry:
Theorem: In a triangle the bigger angle is always apposite to the bigger side.
So, from the right triangle $ACE$ we get
$$\sin \theta \le EC$$
and from the obtuse triangle $EFC$ we get
$$EC\le \tan \theta$$
and then
$$\sin \theta \le EC\le \tan \theta$$
when $\theta $ is very small we have $EC \approx \theta$.


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package scamell.michael.amulet;

import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.util.Log;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.StatusLine;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class RetrieveHTTPDataAsync extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {

    private final OnRetrieveHttpData listener;

    public RetrieveHTTPDataAsync(OnRetrieveHttpData listener) {
        this.listener = listener;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String httpData) {
        listener.onRetrieveTaskCompleted(httpData);
    }

    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(String... urls) {
        String responseData = null;
        if (urls.length > 0) {
            responseData = getHTTPData(urls[0]);
        }
        return responseData;
    }

    protected String getHTTPData(String urls) {
        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
        HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(urls);
        try {
            HttpResponse response = client.execute(httpGet);
            StatusLine statusLine = response.getStatusLine();
            int statusCode = statusLine.getStatusCode();
            if (statusCode == 200) {
                HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
                InputStream content = entity.getContent();
                BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(content));
                String line;
                while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                    builder.append(line);
                }
            } else {
                return "SERVER_ERROR_RESPONSE";
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            Log.e("getHTTPData", "Couldn't get data");
            return "ERROR_CONTACTING_SERVER";
        }
        return builder.toString();
    }
}


Light bulbs are not the cheapest but worth the price. They shine bright, have a pleasant color of light.
It seems to emit much less than 1200Lm (maybe 800 Lm). Otherwise everything ok.
laMpadas led de boa qualidade. luz forte e visual bonito.


How to make pizza with an easy garlic and black bean spread, cheese and a salad on top. Jump to the Easy Black Bean Pizza Recipe or read on to see our tips for making it.
Have you ever been to California Pizza Kitchen? It was a ritual when I was in high school many years ago. There were two pizzas I would order: the Thai Chicken Pizza and the Tostada Pizza. It's the Tostada pizza that is the inspiration for this black bean pizza. Pizza crust is topped with a creamy black bean spread and lots of cheese. After baking, it is served with crisp lettuce, tomatoes and a drizzle of ranch dressing. I love it.
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: Here's a quick and easy pizza recipe with an herbed crust, cheese and topped with fresh Caesar salad. Jump to the Quick and Easy Caesar Salad Pizza Recipe.
We used Pillsbury pizza dough, but using a pre-baked dough, homemade dough or refrigerated dough from another brand/store are all excellent options. This would also be fantastic if you replaced the pizza dough all together with flour tortillas.
If you are using Pillsbury, we found pre-baking for a few minutes before adding our toppings helped with a crispier crust. While the dough pre-bakes, get the black bean spread ready. Add minced garlic to some olive oil and cook until it starts to brown. Add oregano as well as a can of black beans that have been drained and rinsed.
When the beans are heated through, add a few dashes of hot sauce and a little water. When the water has reduced by half, use a potato masher to mash the beans into a chunky paste.
Spread the black beans all over the pre-baked pizza dough, and then top with cheese. After baking the pizza, top it with lots of crisp lettuce, cherry tomato halves and your favorite salad dressing. I love ranch with this.
This recipe was originally developed and shared on Pillsbury.com.
We use a Pillsbury refrigerated pizza dough in the recipe below. If you prefer to use a pre-baked crust, skip the first step below and do not pre-bake. Or use your favorite store-bought/homemade dough. When you open the can of black beans, be sure to drain and rinse them, the liquid they are stored in can be salty.
Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Spray or grease a 15×10-inch or larger dark or nonstick cookie sheet. Unroll the dough on the cookie sheet; starting at the center, press the dough into a 15×10-inch rectangle. Pre-bake the crust for 5 minutes and remove from oven.
Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the garlic and oregano then cook 30 seconds. Stir in the black beans and hot sauce. Pour in the water and cook until reduced by half. Use a potato masher or fork to mash the black beans into a chunky paste.
Taste for seasoning, and then add salt or additional hot sauce as necessary. Spread black beans evenly onto the pre-baked pizza crust, top with cheese and bake another 8 to 10 minutes or until the crust is golden brown and the cheese has melted.
Slice pizza into 12 squares and top with shredded lettuce, tomatoes and a drizzle of ranch dressing.
I like to use flour tortilla the black bean, avocado, tomato, and cheese. Top with fresh basil.
yeah…this is amazing…I absolutely have to make this soon. So clever!!
WOOOOW. I love this. So so much. Making it NOW! okay….later.


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Netflix Says 'House of Cards' Ending Is "Not Related" to Kevin Spacey Allegations
By Anna Menta On 10/30/17 at 4:52 PM EDT
Kevin Spacey is facing sexual misconduct allegations. Netflix
Culture Kevin Spacey House of Cards Netflix Anthony rapp
Netflix is ending House of Cards, but not because of sexual misconduct allegations against the show's star, Kevin Spacey.
Following disturbing accusations from RENT and Star Wars: Discovery star Anthony Rapp—that Spacey made sexual advances at him when Rapp was 14, as well as a controversial apology from Spacey—TVLine reported that House of Cards' forthcoming sixth season would be the show's last. However, the report states the decision to end it was made months ago, and a Netflix rep confirmed to Newsweek that the show's close and Spacey's allegations are "not related."
Netflix did issue a joint statement with Media Rights Capital (the independent production company behind House of Cards) regarding Rapp's claims. "Media Rights Capital and Netflix are deeply troubled by last night's news concerning Kevin Spacey. In response to last night's revelations, executives from both of our companies arrived in Baltimore this afternoon to meet with our cast and crew to ensure that they continue to feel safe and supported. As previously scheduled, Kevin Spacey is not working on set at this time."
At the end of season five, Spacey's Frank Underwood has seemingly ceded political control to his wife, Claire (Robin Wright), who has assumed the presidency. So should Netflix choose to downplay Spacey's role, Wright could potentially take over as the show's lead. (Wright did not respond to Newsweek's request for comment.)
Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) declared it "her turn" at the end of "House of Cards" Season 5. Netflix
In a piece published Sunday, Rapp spoke to BuzzFeed about an incident in which an inebriated Spacey climbed on top of him in bed at a party, when Rapp was a minor. "He was trying to seduce me," said the actor. "I don't know if I would have used that language. But I was aware that he was trying to get with me sexually." Rapp said he didn't fully comprehend what was happening at the time, and is grateful nothing worse happened. At the same time, he said, "I could never imagine [that] anyone else I know would do something like that to a 14-year-old boy."
Spacey responded with a statement Monday morning in which he claims he does not remember the incident, but apologized nonetheless. In the same statement, he also came out as a gay man, a decision many LGBT activists have criticized. "But if I did behave then as he describes," Spacey wrote in the statement posted on Twitter, "I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years."
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Kevin Spacey: Past Sexual Misconduct Allegations
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The Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Monday signed a joint-statement to cooperate on civil space and aviation activities, VnExpress reported.
The agreement, which was signed after two years of negotiations, addresses space technology's applications in social development, responses to natural disasters and climate change, according to the newswire.
Exchanges of space observation data, human resources development and programs to educate Vietnamese youth about space technology applications are also included, the newswire added.
Professor Chau Van Minh, chairman of VAST, said based on the joint-statement, the agencies will launch detailed cooperation programs.
Vietnam is the 122nd country to sign such a joint-statement with NASA, he added.
Minh said because space matters are universal, not belonging to any country or region alone, Vietnam and NASA have an "interactive relationship" to cooperate and support in data exchanges to help NASA issue warnings about climate change for regions around the world, and as accurately as possible.
Pham Anh Tuan, director of Vietnam National Space Center, also said in VnExpress that signing the agreement with NASA means that Vietnam will join global space programs.
Vietnam is in need of global information about space, considering that its government approved a national space program just five years ago, while NASA has led the world's space industry for more than 50 years, Tuan added.
Meanwhile, NASA's representative said the US agency is willing to share information with Vietnamese scientists so the latter can apply it toward scientific activities and developing its economy and society, VnExpress reported.
The news agency quoted Michael F. O'Brien, who is in charge of NASA external relations, as saying that the under the joint-statement, his agency will help Vietnam access space technologies to control natural disasters such as tsunamis, landslides and sea environment pollution, especially cooperation in human resources training.


Jean's Quilting Page: More eye candy!
Cindy finished her quilt from our small group challenge recently. I love how it turned out! The story of mine, plus Cindy's is here.
Pat is finished with her last Sampler quilt and brought it last night for Cindy to quilt. It's gorgeous and definitely out of her color box....she usually used more muted colors.
We had a few people missing last night at Sampler Club, but several put their blocks on the wall for a photo op (or maybe I just took it as one!). Cindy made all of her center blocks a different set of colors for an interesting look. They worked on a paper pieced block last night. It always takes them a bit to get back in the groove of pp when I throw one in the mix, but I like to incorporate them in the samplers for the practice...plus there are some awesome blocks you just can't make any other way!
Dianne chose some pinks for her block last night. She has her setting triangles cut too.
Pat's all caught up on her blocks, with her block from last night almost finished. I forgot to snap a pic, though.
Rose was busy catching up on her multiple blocks last night, and I didn't get a picture of what she does have finished.
I haven't had time to do much sewing lately. I spent Saturday in the garden and cleaning, and then went to my hometown on Sunday and spent Sunday and Monday visiting there. School will be out next Wednesday, so I will catch up then!
Looking great! Amazing how the different colors seem to change the look of the quilt.
Beautiful quilts and I like the variety in the sampler blocks.


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PARAMNESIA
11 June 2014 4 September 2018 Bosj 1029 Views 2014, Black Metal, Paramnesia
Band: Paramnesia
Pierre Perichaud – Drums
Antonin Gerard – Guitars
Simon Barth – Bass
Thibault Bapst – Vocals
Here we are with Antonin Gerard, guitarist and (probably) founder of the French act Paramnesia, which latest split and self-titled debut we reviewed a few weeks ago. Let's see what he told us in this brief, essential talk…
First of all: who hides behind Paramnesia? It is very difficult to find reliable information on the web, would you like to clarify what happens behind this mysterious monicker?
Antonin: We simply don't think about releasing that much information I guess. We're really just four musicians, not much more about it. It might also come from our choice to not host a Facebook page. Thankfully people can still easily find a way to contact us, so we're not that far behind when it comes to communication. After all, we've spent years playing and recording music for ourselves, so this public thing is still pretty new to us.
Black metal in its rawest, angriest form, with more than a touch of atmosphere: what message lies behind your music? What themes do you deal with? Nature, religion, mankind, the universe, none of these…?
Emotion is the core of it all, for us Paramnesia is a catalyst, we use it to express ourselves and how we feel, be it about mankind, nature or religion… Although lyrics are involved in the creation process, we do not convey our message through words. Most of it is up to the listeners interpretation. Of course when a feeling as primal as anger is involved, you can easily hear it.
What brings a black metal band in 2014 to choose the "old school" approach (i.e. no info on the web, no details about the music, etc)? [NOTE: at the time this interview was written there was no indication of the band lineup on the Internet]
It's both part of who we are and the way we create music. We do not feel the need to expose our personal lives, or our everyday actions. The music is what's important to us, so it's all we really focus on. It doesn't necessarily mean we're hostile when it comes to communication, answering an interview being proof of that. As for the music we try our best to give an atmosphere people can read through the music and the artwork (which is done by our drummer), I feel like further details are unnecessary, as they don't add that much to the experience.
Given this aforementioned approach of yours, how do you relate with the whole extreme metal world both personally and as Paramnesia? I do not have a precise answer in my mind, just say what you feel about the whole thing.
As Paramnesia, we evolve in an alternative scene rather than a strictly metal scene, as do many bands that don't follow a traditional approach. Personally i'm completely out of touch with the metal scene now, I just don't relate to most of it. I've always enjoyed the most twisted forms of metal, and tend to think of bands as particular entities rather than being a part of a larger picture. There's many music genres out there that deserve recognition, therefore I don't feel at home with fanatics of a single genre. However in the last years many extreme metal bands produced material far beyond traditional black-death-doom metal. Those are the kind of people I wish to meet on the road with Paramnesia.
An overview on the current black metal scene: what would you change, what would you keep, what are you most satisfied with and what do you despise the most?
Even the most terrible things are needed for the genre to advance, so I wouldn't change anything. A lot of people despised myspace bedroom black metal when it was a thing, but i'm sure great bands actually came out of that. I'm really satisfied with the way black metal evolved those last years, I loathe stagnation, and some real gems popped up. What I despise the most is music relying solely on nostalgic feelings, for some reason it truly irks me.
One last, silly question: would you list a bunch of albums you could not live without, if there are?
There's a lot, but I'll pick a few out of my all time favorites in the black metal genre to stay relevant, that I can wholeheartedly recommend :
Paysage D'Hiver – "Schattengang"
Leviathan – "The Speed Of Darkness"
Manes – "Under Ein Blodraud Maane"
Urfaust – "Geist Ist Teufel"
Weakling – "Dead As Dreams"
I think this can be enough, thank you for your time and, please, if you want to add anything, this is the moment.
Thank you for this interview. And thanks to all the kind people that have supported us so far, it is truly appreciated.
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Q: How to return the result of a Alamofire POST request from within a method without it being nil? I'm making an app, with UIKit-Storyboard, that simulates a login screen:
The moment the user enters the login data (username and password) and then clicks the login button, a class responsible for encapsulating requests with Alamofire invokes a method whose return is the result of the POST request (I use in this project the Clean Swift Architecture, so in this case the Interactor delegates this function to a Worker and it returns an object).
My problem is that I need to use the return of this method (the result of the POST request) to display some data on the screen. However, since the requests with Alamofire are asynchronous, the function returns nil before the request fills the object.
My classes looks like this:

Class LoginInteractor (where I expect the result of the request but always returns nil):

class LoginInteractor: LoginBusinessLogic {
    var httpRequestWorker: LoginHTTPRequestWorker!

    func applyBusinessLogic(request: Login.Login.Request) {
        let user = User(username: request.fields.username,
                        password: request.fields.password)
        // (1)
        if let userData = self.doLoginInEndpoint(with: user) {
            // NEVER FALLS HERE BECAUSE userData IS ALWAYS NIL

            var userAccount: UserAccount?
            var errorMessage: ErrorMessage?

            if let _ = userData.userAccount.userId {
                userAccount = UserAccount(extractedFrom: userData)
            }
            if let _ = userData.error.code {
                errorMessage = ErrorMessage(extractedFrom: userData)
            }

            // Do some work with userData and delegates to presenter
            ....
        }
    }

    // (2)
    private func doLoginInEndpoint(with user: User) -> UserData? {
        httpRequestWorker = LoginHTTPRequestWorker()
        return httpRequestWorker.doLogin(with: user)
    }
}

Class LoginHTTPRequestWorker:

class LoginHTTPRequestWorker {
    private let group = DispatchGroup()

    // (3)
    func doLogin(with user: User) -> UserData? {
        var userData: UserData?

        makeRequest(with: user) { data in
            userData = data

            print(userData)
            self.group.leave()
        }

        return userData
    }

    // (4)
    private func makeRequest(with user: User, completion: @escaping (UserData) -> ()) {
        let endpoint = // "a string representing an endpoint"
        let headers: HTTPHeaders = [.contentType("application/json; charset=utf-8")]

        let request = AF.request(endpoint,
                                 method: .post,
                                 parameters: UserParameters(user: user.username,
                                                            password: user.password),
                                 encoder: JSONParameterEncoder.default,
                                 headers: headers)
        group.enter()

        request.responseDecodable(of: UserData.self) { response in
            self.group.notify(queue: DispatchQueue.main) {
                completion(response.value!)
            }
        }
    }
}

Struct UserParameters (represents the parameters of the body POST request):

struct UserParameters: Encodable {
    let user: String
    let password: String
}

Struct UserData (represents the data from JSON response):

struct UserData: Decodable {
    // some var declarations such as id, name etc
}

Enum Login (represents the objects passed between ViewController, Interactor and Presenter):

enum Login {
    struct LoginFields {
        var username: String
        var password: String
    }

    enum Login {
        struct Request {
            var fields: LoginFields
        }

        struct Response {
            var user: UserAccount?
            var error: ErrorMessage?
        }

        struct ViewModel {
            var user: UserAccount?
            var error: ErrorMessage?
        }
    }
}

Is there a way to return an object after the POST request is over? Or is there a better way to do this task?
I searched around here, and found some solutions like: using DispatchGroup.wait(), DispatchGroup.notify(queue: DispatchMain), and using closures, but these solutions didn't work for me.
I apologize in advance as I am new to Swift and Stack Overflow but I would be very happy if someone could at least point me in a direction. Thanks!


LG to announce new tablet device next month?
LG will launch a new Android tablet at CES 2011 according to Korean sources, as it attempts to keep up with neighbours Samsung.
The Korea Times is reporting that the new tablet will be a 8.9-inch offering and will be running Honeycomb/Android 3.0.
The paper is citing 'industry sources' for the leak, which would be impressive given we've heard very little of the new tablet for a while now.
LG announced it would bring an Android 2.2 tablet in time for Christmas back in July, but it seems the company is waiting for a more tablet-friendly OS to drop before it releases its first tablet.
The company is apparently also going to show off auto-stereoscopic 3D mobile displays as well at the show which would allow even those moving at fast pace to watch 3D video - namely drivers looking at 3D-enabled billboards.
We've already seen the Motorola Everest running the next-gen Android interface, and that looks set to be debuted at CES 2011 too - so if LG and possibly Samsung step up as well, it could be a slate-filled Vegas trip for TechRadar this year.


Pressure is a process variable that is relevant in many applications.
By its nature, Pressure can be used to infer other process variables.
The same process pressure is being applied to each gauge. Each gauge has a different scale calibration.
This scale is used to measure small pressures.
The properties of water are known and constant and can be used as a primary standard.
Pressure depends only on the depth of water above the point in question (not on the water surface area).
Pressure increases in direct proportion to the depth of water.
Pressure in a continuous volume of water is the same at all points that are at the same depth or elevation.
Pressure at any point in the water acts in all directions at the same magnitude.
Used for very small pressure measurements. Very sensitive, often used to measure room pressures.
The standard and most common pressure measurement is referenced to atmospheric pressure and is called gauge pressure.
Absolute Pressure Gauges are used to measure vacuum pressures.
Question: What would an absolute pressure gauge sitting on a shelf read?


This chapter describes the tasks that are required to display and change the most common system information.
This chapter does not cover information about resource management that enables you to allocate, monitor, and control system resources in a flexible way. For information about managing system resources with resource management, see Chapter 1, Introduction to Resource Management, in Oracle Solaris Administration: Oracle Solaris Zones, Oracle Solaris 10 Zones, and Resource Management.


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