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The first section of Hegyalja Road was completed 90 years ago
Nowadays, Hegyalja Road is one of the most important traffic routes in Buda, as it connects Budaörsi Road with Erzsébet Bridge. Its existence is natural to everyone now, many people get to Lake Balaton this way, but when the original Erzsébet Bridge was built, the road was not yet ready: its first section, which was built by public workers during the economic crisis, was handed over 90 years ago. The investment caused controversy, some feared for the silence of the Tabán.
The death of Ábrahám Ganz caused a shock - He was the godfather of 64 factory workers' children, who all inherited
Ábrahám Ganz, the respected manufacturer from Buda, committed suicide 155 years ago, on 15 December 1867. The Ganz Factory, barely more than 20 years old, was at the peak of its success, and Ganz himself was a recognised citizen of Buda. With his death, he left a huge void, as he had no heir who could have taken over the family business. However, the factory survived and rose to incredible heights.
Constructions in Pest 150 years ago, before the unification of the city
Pest and Buda already prepared for the unification of the cities in 1872, a large-scale urban development plan was adopted in Pest, and large investments were decided upon. However, other buildings also rose in the city. Take a look at how the city developed and how much did it cost to build a residential building.
The new experimental reactor in Csillebérc was commissioned fifty years ago
On 5 December 1972, several physicists gathered in Budapest to celebrate the launch of a series of experiments that would last for 18 years. That is when the new reactor was inaugurated in Csillebérc, at the KFKI (Central Research Institute for Physics), where the physics research base of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences operated.
The first tram in Budapest - 135 years ago, the new vehicle appeared on the Outer Ring Road
At the end of November 1887, the people of Budapest could see a miracle that had not been seen before. A carriage moved by itself, it was not pulled by a horse or a steam locomotive. Although this vehicle ran on rails, the cars were pulled by horses in the city and huge steam locomotives on the railways. The first tram had a lower pantograph and travelled at a speed of 10 kilometres per hour, and was accompanied by a police officer at Oktogon.
This was the Kis-Dzsumbuj - There was only one water tap per three apartments in the workers' flats built 125 years ago
Thirty-six square metre flats with a room and kitchen, into which families of 4-5 people moved, there was only one water tap per three apartments in the corridor. This was provided by the Kén Street model workers' housing estate, handed over 125 years ago, in 1897. Compared to the housing conditions of the time, a new home here really represented progress, but the 96 flats handed over at that time remained a drop in the sea of misery. The microdistrict, later known as Kis-Dzsumbuj, was demolished a few years ago.
The rebuilt Petőfi Bridge was handed over 70 years ago
When the predecessor of today's Petőfi Bridge was completed in 1937, there was hardly any traffic on it, as the Buda side was largely undeveloped. It was only given a short time as it was destroyed eight years later along with the other Danube crossings in Budapest. When the reconstruction of the bridges began, it was preceded by the restoration of several crossings, then it was finally handed over only in 1952. The new structure was three metres wider, and it also had a bicycle track, which was also important at the time because many people used it to go to work since cars were not allowed for private use.
The Trianon flight ban was lifted 100 years ago
Aviation became available to civilians after World War I. New flights appeared one after another in the passenger and mail traffic of European countries, and more and more cities were connected by aeroplanes. However, Budapest could only join air traffic later, because the ban on flights that hit Hungary based on the Treaty of Trianon remained in force until 17 November 1922.
The exploded Margit Bridge: the half-reconstructed crossing was handed over 75 years ago
The elegant arches of Margit Bridge are one of Budapest's jewels. This graceful and beautiful structure was also destroyed by the Germans in World War II. The bridge was rebuilt in two parts, the southern side was handed over 75 years ago: it was open to the public from 16 November 1947.
Wooden blocks, small stone blocks, asphalt - All about the roads of the Chain Bridge
The asphalt track of the Chain Bridge has been completed in the past few days, and the load testing has already been carried out. This is the umpteenth roadway of the bridge, and it has probably changed the most in the last nearly 175 years.
Our everyday heat - Gas heating began to spread in Budapest 50 years ago
Gas heating in Budapest was only built en masse in the 1970s, and after that, it became so popular that it was much easier to sell such apartments than those with electric or district heating. Due to the significant increase in energy prices, the way of heating apartments in the capital will likely have to be changed again. But take a look at what they used to light and how our ancestors heated in the past century and a half.
The speeches would have lasted four weeks if everyone had had the floor at the inauguration of the Kossuth Statue
Sixty thousand people showed up at the inauguration of the Kossuth Statue that day, wreaths were laid by the country's top leaders, representatives of Hungarian settlements, the delegation of the United States and the city of Turin, representatives of countless foreign countries, but the Catholic Church was left out, and members of the Czechoslovak, Yugoslav, and Romanian embassy did not participate either. The monument was inaugurated 95 years ago today, on 6 November 1927, but the event was accompanied by huge controversies.
Bauxite concrete panic in Budapest - All affected houses were inspected 55 years ago
In the 1960s, experts assumed with horror that a time bomb was ticking in the buildings of Budapest. A hotel ceiling crashed in, an apartment building began to crack incredibly fast right in front of an architecture professor. Bauxite concrete was responsible, so they searched and examined all the affected buildings in the capital. All this happened 55 years ago.
The railway station that was cut in two
By the beginning of the 1870s, the first railway station in Pest - the predecessor of Nyugati (Western), then known as Pest Station Building - was no longer able to handle the ever-increasing railway traffic smoothly. The owner railway company started the expansion, but then it turned out that the building stood in the way of the planned Outer Ring Road. Therefore, the old hall was "halved" and a new railway station was built over its northern part. The Nyugati Railway Station, as it is known today, was handed over on 28 October 1877, i.e., 145 years ago.
Trains have been able to cross between Pest and Buda for 145 years
The most important Hungarian railway bridge was handed over on 23 October 1877 on the southern border of Budapest at the time. It served railway traffic for only 36 years. The construction of the original structure was accompanied by many disputes, and several lawsuits were started after the investment was completed.
Budapest acquired two hated buildings 125 years ago
Several well-known symbols of oppression of Hungary and Budapest stood in the centre of the capital even in the decades after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise. One is the Citadella fortress built to intimidate the city after the defeat of the War of Independence on top of Gellért Hill, and the other is the huge New Building, also known as the prison of soldiers of the 1848 national army, with a bad memory, on the site of today's Szabadság Square. Budapest acquired these two military facilities in October 1897. The New Building was demolished in a short time, but they could not do anything with the Citadella for decades.
Frigyes Podmaniczky, who managed the development of Budapest, died 115 years ago
He was one of the most important figures in the history of Budapest, who devoted all his energy to the development of the capital. Baron Frigyes Podmaniczky managed the Public Works Council for more than thirty years, essentially everything that we now consider Budapest's architectural and cultural heritage was built during his time. He played a decisive role not only in the development of the city but also in the theatre world. Perhaps the most popular person in Budapest, who worked for the city until his death, died 115 years ago.
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Man Utd and Liverpool could trigger £105m release clause of player labelled "spectacular" by Messi
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Man Utd and Liverpool are reportedly considering a move for Benfica midfielder Enzo Fernandez - and he has already been given the seal of approval by Lionel Messi.
Fernandez and Messi are team-mates on the international stage, and will hope to guide Argentina to World Cup success in Qatar.
The 21-year-old midfielder is regarded as one of the country's brightest prospects, and although he didn't start Tuesday's shock 2-1 defeat to Saudi Arabia, he did make an appearance as a 59th-minute substitute.
For River, he netted seven goals and provided five assists in 15 games during Argentina's Copa de la Liga Professional competition last season.
Fernandez then signed for Benfica in the summer, and has already made a major impression in Portugal.
Primarily a central playmaker, passing is one of the midfielder's key strengths, and he also possesses quality in both boxes.
His potential is such that he was recently described as 'spectacular' by Messi.
Speaking about Fernandez and fellow Argentina starlet Thiago Almada, the football legend said (quotes via La Pagina Millionaria): "They are two kids that we already knew; both with a big future.
"Enzo is very intelligent. They are both very good. [Enzo] is a player with a lot of personality, a good pass. I think they are two spectacular players."
Now, both United and Liverpool have been linked with making a move for the midfielder.
Man Utd, Liverpool keen on Enzo Fernandez
According to Record Portugal, United are 'crazy' about Fernandez ahead of the January transfer window, suggesting they will launch a bid for his services.
In addition, the same outlet claims, as per CaughtOffside, that Liverpool and Man City are the other clubs who have expressed an interest in signing the player.
But they will be required to pay a big fee, as Fernandez's release clause at Benfica stands at £105 million.
Therefore, a deal would break the incoming transfer record of all three clubs - and it remains to be seen whether any of them are willing to take that step to secure one of football's most talented young players.
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Lifting Gear Hire (LGH) has seized an opportunity to consume the previous rental fleet of fellow UK company Straightpoint (SP), as the load cell manufacturer leaves the hire market.
LGH, a provider of lifting, rigging, and safety equipment has taken delivery of SP's entire range, previously made available for short-term usage, which includes 100t+ capacity versions of its most popular product, the Radiolink plus load cell, and compression load cells up to 300t capacity. The transfer immediately gives existing and prospective LGH customers access to a greater breadth of state-of-the-art force measurement technology.
Colin Naylor, managing director at LGH, said: "The SP range of load cells is world-renowned for its pioneering technology, durability, and general standout quality. SP's decision to exit the rental business presented us with a huge opportunity to exploit new markets and target a wider demographic of customer. Furthermore, in entrusting LGH with the legacy of its rental fleet, SP has endorsed that we are uniquely equipped to oversee supply of the range as a specialist provider of lifting and other equipment."
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Q: Best practice for organizing symfony2 project services/classes Some information for the beginning. I'm using 2.7.0-BETA1, but the following questions are more about Best-Practice with Symfony2.
I read the Best Practice guide from Symfony. For the basics they are good, but some things seems to be unclear to me.
We're migrating from a non-framework application to symfony2. The core part we're going to put into one bundle. (I know that there are different opinions about that.) Plugins will be under Test\plugin\FooblaPluginBundle
Every user can set some settings in his profile, which are saved in a table (conf) (Fields: id, category, key, value, accountid)
I just began to write a service. (Just began, because I got unsure about the right way)
<?php
namespace Test\CoreBundle\core;
use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager;

class Configuration {

    private $em;

    public function __construct(EntityManager $em)
    {
        $this->em = $em;
    }

    public function loadAll($accountid = '1') {
         $conf = $this->em->getRepository('TestCoreBundle:Conf')->findAllByAccount('1');
         dump($conf);
    }
}

In the end the Controller would to something like
$conf = $this->get('test.conf');
$conf->setCategory('foobla');
$conf->get('keyname');

Just to complete the code: (services.yml)
services:
test.conf:
    class: Test\CoreBundle\core\Configuration
    arguments: [ @doctrine.orm.entity_manager  ]

Is this the right way to do it like that?
The Keys/Settings which are used will be (again) hardcoded in the code with default values and possible options, which the user can set. On the registration the default values will be set for the user.
These information will be in some other classes which i would put into Test\CoreBundle\Core\Configuration\{category}
The second "base" question:
We have some classes which can stay alone. (For example there is a Date/Time class, which do some calculations on the given timestamps) But I don't know where to put it.
If I put them e.g. in "Services" it would be sooner or later chaotic.
Putting them in different (based on their functions) in different folders  would be better.
Please let me know any thoughts about the idea and my thoughts. I would love to hear from you.
Update: last thought: Would it be totally wrong to put the classes directly in the namespacefolder "test" ?

A: I think the first question is asking if your have your Conf service properly setup and the answer is yes.  At some point you should learn how to define a repository as a service and just inject the repository instead of the complete entity manager.  But that is just a refinement.
The second questions seems to be talking about standalone components.  Make a Test\Component directory and put them under there.  Eventually you may want to put them in their very own repository and use composer to load them.  But that again is a refinement.
If you have not done so already, invest the time to write some automated tests for your migration.  That will give you the power to re-factor as things progress and the design becomes clearer.

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THE MAIN EVENT today comes at 10:30 a.m. Eastern time, when House Speaker NANCY PELOSI and Senate Minority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER, along with a few top committee chairs, are due to meet with the president to talk about … at long last! … infrastructure.
Democrats laid out their bargaining position on the matter in a letter Monday, but meetings with Trump have a tendency to, er, roam. Will the president bring up any other topics that have been on his mind lately?
A House leadership staffer emails this reminder: "Last time Trump brought up impeachment in one of the White House meetings in January, Pelosi ... pivoted back to the original topic."
Both parties say they want a deal -- though given Dems' aggressive demands and Senate Majority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL'S skepticism about infrastructure spending, it could take a while. Plus, it's always hard to predict what this president will do.
-- THE STAKES … HEATHER CAYGLE and BURGESS EVERETT: "The last time Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer met with Donald Trump it was an unequivocal disaster, culminating in the longest government shutdown in history. … [T]he White House meeting Tuesday morning is likely to reveal whether anything at all can get done in Washington over the next 18 months." POLITICO
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BARR FIGHT -- House Democrats are still wrangling with Attorney General BILL BARR over the format of his scheduled hearing before JERRY NADLER'S Judiciary Committee. The status as of last night, via Darren Samuelsohn and Andrew Desiderio:
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"DOJ officials have objected to committee staff questioning Barr in public about the Mueller report, setting the stage for an explosive hearing Thursday. Democrats have threatened to issue a subpoena if Barr refuses to show up on Thursday."
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"As of Dec. 31, the Taiwanese manufacturing giant, famous as an Apple Inc. supplier, had spent only $99 million, 1% of its pledged investment, according to its latest state filings. The company projected as many as 2,080 in-state employees by the end of 2019 but had fewer than 200 at last year's end, state filings show. The village is still awaiting factory building plans for review. Locals said Foxconn contractors have recently been scarce on the site." WSJ
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MONMOUTH POLL: "Only 12% of Americans say that their family has benefited a great deal from recent growth in the U.S. economy and another 31% say they have received some benefit from the economic upturn. A majority, though, say they have been helped either not much (27%) or not at all (27%) from the nation's macroeconomic growth." Monmouth … PDF
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VALLEY TALK -- "Uber and Lyft stop accepting new drivers in New York City," by Dana Rubinstein: "The move suggests New York City's new driver pay regulations are having some of their desired effect, by restricting the growth of the driver pool and limiting what many driver advocates characterize as an over-saturated market.
"The wage regulations that went into effect Feb. 1 use a novel approach to ensure drivers for companies like Uber and Lyft earn at least $17.22 an hour after expenses. The rules penalize companies for running too many cars without passengers on city streets. The higher a company's utilization rate, the less it has to pay drivers to meet the new wage floor requirement." POLITICO
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-- Larry King, 85, is recuperating in the hospital after undergoing a heart procedure: USA Today
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TRANSITIONS -- Andrew Weissmann, late of the special counsel's office, returns to NYU Law on May 1 as a distinguished senior fellow with the Law School's Center on the Administration of Criminal Law. As for his former boss, Robert Mueller, special counsel spokesperson Peter Carr confirms: "Mr. Mueller has not completed his service." (hat tip: Darren Samuelsohn) …
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The United States has the only health system in the world that relies on market competition, saving the government and seniors a total of $132 billion from 2005 to 2017 in Part B medicine spending. That's because Part B's market-based reimbursement system, which was implemented in 2005, incorporates discounts, rebates and price concessions negotiated across the U.S. market, providing millions of seniors with access to medicines that are used to treat some of the most complex diseases like cancer and autoimmune conditions. Some in Washington want to end this and instead set payment based on the prices mandated by foreign governments that seriously restrict patient access to medicines. Why would we take that risk here in the United States? Any changes to Medicare should help patients, not hurt them. Limiting seniors' access to lifesaving treatments based on the choices of foreign countries is the wrong prescription for Medicare. Learn more.
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We expected something more epic, but this will do for now. Luckily the five-minute that leaked a few months back has us still interested in the Marvel film. The official trailer will be available at 7 p.m. is available now courtesy of Yahoo Movies. That's a mighty hammer he has there.
Transformers: The Dark of the Moon Teaser Trailer!
Michael Bay looks to make up for the disappointing Revenge of the Fallen with the third installment of the Transformers film series: The Dark of the Moon. Judging by the first teaser, things are looking good. Let's just hope there's a story here. Check it out.
What a tease. It's the same Samuel L. Jackson narrated teaser from Comic-Con 2010. They could of at least thrown some flash scenes from the previous Marvel films to add some hype; especially from "Thor" and "Captain America." Fail of the day!
Hello! With all that hoopla about the "Thor" film being a disaster, the trailer begs to differ. Looks good to us for now. You be the judge!
Norton Replaced by Phoenix as Hulk in The Avengers?
In an interview with US Today, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura mentions that Transformers 3 will be in 3D, plus spills on the main nemesis for the Autobots. Transformers fans, you'll love this.


ONE PORTFOLIO FOR STUDENT | O MUNDO VIRTUAL É BEM REAL !!!
It was published today (14/06/2010) in the Official Gazette the resolution establishing rules and guidelines for municipalities, states and the Federal District to enable the program One Laptop per Student (Prouca) for the years 2010 and 2011.
This program will allow the purchase of new laptop computers with educational content for networks of public education.
According to the resolution, the equipment will be used for the development of teaching and learning in public networks. They may be purchased through funding from the National Bank of Economic and Social Development (BNDES) or their own resources.
Only computers registered in the Registration of Manufacturers Computerized may be financed by BNDES. There is also the possibility of computers being purchased from other sources, provided that upon accession to the record price of records from the National Education Development (ENDF).
The report Education for All, released by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) shows that the low quality of education in Brazilian schools still leaves thousands of children back and is directly responsible for keeping the country in 88th position in the Educational Development Index (FDI), behind poorer countries such as Paraguay, Ecuador and Bolivia.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, the repetition rate average for all grades of primary school is 4.4%. But in Brazil, the index is 18, 7%.
local public school in the village soaps, Courtesy of a Teacher's Village.
With this "quality standard" is impossible for our country get better results in international indicators, being always playing the latest positions with the poorest countries in the world.
Would schools like the pictures above really need a computer for each student? Given this disparity, proposed by the government, throwing on twitter campaign "ONE PER STUDENT PORTFOLIO.
Logically that this campaign is only the tip of the iceberg of problems and difficulties still exist in Brazil and shamefully.


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Q: Pandas datetimes with different formats in the same column I have a pandas data frame which has datetimes with 2 different formats e.g.:
3/14/2019 5:15:32 AM
2019-08-03 05:15:35
2019-01-03 05:15:33
2019-01-03 05:15:33
2/28/2019 5:15:31 AM
2/27/2019 11:18:39 AM

...
I have tried various formats but get errors like ValueError: unconverted data remains:  AM
I would like to get the format as 2019-02-28 and have the time removed

A: Assume that the column name in your DataFrame is DatStr.
The key to success is a proper conversion function, to be
applied to each date string:
def datCnv(src):
    return pd.to_datetime(src)

Then all you should do to create a true date column is to call:
df['Dat'] = df.DatStr.apply(datCnv)

When you print the DataFrame, the result is:
                  DatStr                 Dat
0   3/14/2019 5:15:32 AM 2019-03-14 05:15:32
1    2019-08-03 05:15:35 2019-08-03 05:15:35
2    2019-01-03 05:15:33 2019-01-03 05:15:33
3    2019-01-03 05:15:33 2019-01-03 05:15:33
4   2/28/2019 5:15:31 AM 2019-02-28 05:15:31
5  2/27/2019 11:18:39 AM 2019-02-27 11:18:39

Note that to_datetime function is clever enough to recognize the
actual date format used in each case.

A: You can use pd.to_datetime().dt.strftime() to efficienty convert the entire column to a datetime object and then to a string with Pandas intelligently guessing the date formatting:
df = pd.Series('''3/14/2019 5:15:32 AM
2019-08-03 05:15:35
2019-01-03 05:15:33
2019-01-03 05:15:33
2/28/2019 5:15:31 AM
2/27/2019 11:18:39 AM'''.split('\n'), name='date', dtype=str).to_frame()

print(pd.to_datetime(df.date).dt.strftime('%Y-%m-%d'))

0    2019-03-14
1    2019-08-03
2    2019-01-03
3    2019-01-03
4    2019-02-28
5    2019-02-27
Name: date, dtype: object

If that doesn't give you what you want, you will need to identify the different kinds of formats and apply different settings when you convert them to datetime objects:
# Classify date column by format type
df['format'] = 1
df.loc[df.date.str.contains('/'), 'format'] = 2
df['new_date'] = pd.to_datetime(df.date)

# Convert to datetime with two different format settings
df.loc[df.format == 1, 'new_date'] = pd.to_datetime(df.loc[df.format == 1, 'date'], format = '%Y-%d-%m %H:%M:%S').dt.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
df.loc[df.format == 2, 'new_date'] = pd.to_datetime(df.loc[df.format == 2, 'date'], format = '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S %p').dt.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
print(df)

                    date  format    new_date
0   3/14/2019 5:15:32 AM       2  2019-03-14
1    2019-08-03 05:15:35       1  2019-03-08
2    2019-01-03 05:15:33       1  2019-03-01
3    2019-01-03 05:15:33       1  2019-03-01
4   2/28/2019 5:15:31 AM       2  2019-02-28
5  2/27/2019 11:18:39 AM       2  2019-02-27

A: I had a similar issue. Luckily for me the different format occurred every other row. Therefore I could easily do a slice with .iloc. Howevery you could also slice the Series with .loc and a filter (detecting each format).
Then you can combine the rows with pd.concat. The order will be the same as for the rest of the DataFrame (if you assign it). If there are missing indices they will become NaN, if there are duplicated indices pandas will raise an error.
df["datetime"] = pd.concat([
    pd.to_datetime(df["Time"].str.slice(1).iloc[1::2], format="%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f"),
    pd.to_datetime(df["Time"].str.slice(1).iloc[::2], format="%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"),
])

A: I think is a little bit late for the answer but I discover a simplier way to do the same
df["date"] = pd.to_datetime(df["date"], format='%Y-%d-%m %H:%M:%S', errors='ignore').astype('datetime64[D]')
df["date"] = pd.to_datetime(df["date"], format='%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S %p', errors='ignore').astype('datetime64[D]')


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Baltimore Ravens Partner For Blood Drive At M&T Bank Stadium
By CBS Baltimore Staff February 28, 2021 at 7:24 pm
Filed Under:Baltimore, Baltimore News, Blood Bank of Delmarva, Blood Drives, Coronavirus Outbreak In Maryland: WJZ Complete Coverage, Health, M&T Bank Stadium
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Baltimore Ravens partnered with the Blood Bank of Delmarva and other health organizations Sunday to host a blood drive at M&T Bank Stadium.
Before the pandemic, donors could stop by community blood drives at convenient locations like high schools and offices. But community groups have had to cancel them due to the coronavirus.
The Blood Bank of Delmarva said mobile blood bank donations are at just 43% of pre-pandemic levels.
Officials said plasma donations are also in need. The blood bank said they hoped to collect at least 100 units of blood by the end of Sunday.
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A Rod Rosenstein Resignation Would Be a Disaster for Mueller and the Rule of Law
By Jonathan Chait@jonathanchait
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
President Trump has been itching for months to fire Rod Rosenstein, the Department of Justice official overseeing the Mueller investigation, but has been held back by the apparent reluctance of some leading Republicans. The New York Times has handed Trump his pretext: an explosive story alleging that Rosenstein proposed wearing a wire to secretly surveil Trump, and that he discussed recruiting officials to remove Trump from office via the 25th Amendment of the Constitution.
It is difficult to evaluate this story outside the context of an impending threat to the rule of law and the crisis it may well trigger. Numerous sources have described Rosenstein as having been engaged in idle black humor. "I remember this meeting and remember the wire comment. The statement was sarcastic and was never discussed with any intention of recording a conversation with the president," one source tells Politico.
The Washington Post has even more detail that seems to cast doubt on the earnestness of the remark: "That person said the wire comment came in response to McCabe's own pushing for the Justice Department to open an investigation into the president. To that, Rosenstein responded with what this person described as a sarcastic comment along the lines of, 'What do you want to do, Andy, wire the president?'" The Post also notes that another FBI official, Lisa Page, attended the meeting and did not record the 25th Amendment remark, suggesting it was in jest.
The Times has been spun by sources before — most infamously, in its 2016 preelection report declaring that the FBI saw no link between Russia and Trump, and that Russia was not trying to help Trump win. It is the greatest newspaper in the world, and I would urge everybody to subscribe, but its reporters are fallible. And because of its prestige, its errors have potentially world-changing consequences.
It is also possible the Times' framing is accurate, that Rosenstein actually intended the absurdities he proposed in earnest, and that the sources pushing back so hard are spinning precisely because they fear the consequences of Rosenstein being fired. This story, as well as previous ones, have depicted him as distraught in the face of Trump's bizarre behavior. It is not unimaginable that Rosenstein has been pushed at times into irrationality.
In ordinary circumstances, a report like this would constitute a legitimate firing offense, regardless of how seriously the remarks were intended. But these are not ordinary circumstances. Normal presidents do not habitually inspire members of their administration, including ones they appointed, to whisper about declaring them mentally unfit for office and removing them through the 25th Amendment (as an anonymous official revealed.)
Most importantly, Trump has made his intention perfectly plain. He believes he is entitled to start or stop any federal investigation at his own whim, and he has recruited a large segment of the conservative movement — crucially including Fox News and most of his base — to that belief. Fox News luminaries who have Trump's ear, such as Laura Ingraham and Jeanine Pirro, are calling for the president to terminate Rosenstein immediately. If Rosenstein is fired, there is little to stop Trump from bringing his dream to fruition.
Rosenstein is nobody's conception of a hero chosen by history. He erred by helping justify Trump's firing of James Comey, and at some level he erred by at least joking about taking wild steps against the president. He has not acted from the outset with the cautiousness and seriousness of purpose required of a person tasked with his awesome responsibility. But Rosenstein is what we have right now, and with the rule of law hanging by a thread, his defense is vital.
Rosenstein Resignation Would Be Disaster for the Rule of Law
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A secret email from the US ambassador in London addressed to President Donald Trump describes Tory leadership hopeful Boris Johnson as "the greatest man on earth".
The confidential communication was apparently intercepted by a hacker who passed it on to the Beano and Viz comics in what appears to be a politically motivated move that will deeply embarrass both US and UK governments. Ambassador Jedediah Jones claims that Boris Johnson will without a doubt become Britain's next prime minister because ninety per cent of the population already believe that he is their saviour.
"The British have a name for the average person – it is the Man on the Clapham omnibus – and the last man I spoke to on a bus in Clapham told me that without a doubt BJ will lead the British people in their historic fight against Europe" Jones confided to Trump.
"No one is better suited to fight the Brussels hordes on the beaches, on the landing grounds and in the hills as far as the average Brit is concerned" Jones went on.
"When he has done that he will conclude a historic trade deal with the US and re-establish as much of the British empire as the White House will allow. Not forgetting the important role such a leader has in entertaining his people he will also star in a popular tv show. However rumours that he will appear in Celebrity Come Dancing have been quashed by insiders who claim that something called University Challenge is more his style. Here he intends to play single handed with no team mates!"
So far president Trump has not commented on the ambassador's views although he has said that Jones still has his full confidence.
British PM Theresa May has said that she is glad that her imminent departure means that she "will no longer have to talk to Jones and people like that".
"It's a pity that we cannot rely on the confidentiality of diplomatic communications because if this kind of thing were kept secret the average person could well be led into believing that those who attain high office are somehow saner than the rest of us. As it is we are all likely to be tarnished as a bunch of nutters"
Posted: Jul 10th, 2019 by Terry Bunn
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Tagged: ambassador, Boris Jognson, satire, Trump, uk, US


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import uuid

import wsme
from wsme.rest import json as wjson
from wsme import types as wtypes

from solum.api.controllers.v1.datamodel import types as api_types

class Requirement(wtypes.Base):

    requirement_type = wtypes.text
    "Type of requirement."

    fulfillment = wtypes.text
    "The ID of the service."

class ServiceReference(wtypes.Base):

    name = wtypes.text
    "The name of the service to be used."

    id = wtypes.text
    "The ID of the service to be used."

    characteristics = [wtypes.text]
    "A list of characteristics required from the service."

class Artifact(wtypes.Base):
    """Artifact."""

    name = wtypes.text
    "Name of the artifact."

    artifact_type = wtypes.text
    "Type of artifact."

    content = {wtypes.text: wtypes.text}
    "Type specific content as a flat dict."

    language_pack = wtypes.text
    "The Language pack required for this artifact."

    requirements = [Requirement]
    "List of requirements for the artifact."

    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        if 'requirements' in kwargs:
            kwargs['requirements'] = [Requirement(**re)
                                      for re in kwargs.get('requirements', [])]
        super(Artifact, self).__init__(**kwargs)

class Plan(api_types.Base):
    """Representation of an Plan file.

    The Plan resource is a representation of a Plan file. Plans are used to
    create Assembly resources. A Plan resource may be used to create an
    arbitrary number of Assembly instances. They use artifacts and services
    to indicate what will be used to generate the plan, and what services
    Solum can use to satisfy them. Note: Plan files are YAML and Plan resources
    are the REST representation of the Plan file after services have been
    matched to ones offered by Solum.
    """

    artifacts = [Artifact]
    """List of artifacts defining the plan."""

    services = [ServiceReference]
    """List of services needed by the plan."""

    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        if 'artifacts' in kwargs:
            kwargs['artifacts'] = [Artifact(**art)
                                   for art in kwargs.get('artifacts', [])]
        if 'services' in kwargs:
            kwargs['services'] = [ServiceReference(**sr)
                                  for sr in kwargs.get('services', [])]
        super(Plan, self).__init__(**kwargs)

    @classmethod
    def sample(cls):
        return cls(uri='http://example.com/v1/plans/x1',
                   name='Example-plan',
                   type='plan',
                   tags=['small'],
                   artifacts=[{
                       'name': 'My-python-app',
                       'artifact_type': 'git_pull',
                       'content': {'href': 'git://example.com/project.git'},
                       'language_pack': str(uuid.uuid4()),
                       'requirements': [{
                           'requirement_type': 'git_pull',
                           'fulfillment': 'id:build'}]}],
                   services=[{
                       'name': 'Build-Service',
                       'id': 'build',
                       'characteristics': ['python_build_service']}],
                   project_id='1dae5a09ef2b4d8cbf3594b0eb4f6b94',
                   user_id='55f41cf46df74320b9486a35f5d28a11',
                   description='A plan with no services or artifacts shown')

    @classmethod
    def from_db_model(cls, m, host_url):
        return cls(**(m.raw_content))

    def as_dict(self, db_model):
        base = super(Plan, self).as_dict_from_keys(['name', 'description'])
        if self.artifacts is not wsme.Unset:
            base.update({'artifacts': [wjson.tojson(Artifact, art)
                                       for art in self.artifacts]})
        if self.services is not wsme.Unset:
            base.update({'services': [wjson.tojson(ServiceReference, ref)
                                      for ref in self.services]})
        return base

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Community developer Lennar Homes lawsuit against drywall manufacturers reminds me of the old Mother Goose nursery rhyme, "for the want of a nail." The rhyme begins with a nail that was not available to affix a shoe to the hoof of a horse. The loss of the nail loses the shoe, which loses the horse, which loses the rider, which loses the battle, which loses the war, which loses the king which loses the kingdom. For the want of a nail is an instructive tale of how seemingly insignificant or minute events can create consequences that escalate into a catastrophic incident that impacts and endangers many.
The Lennar lawsuit is yet another egregious example of supply chain contamination that has recently come to light. The discovery of toxic substances within drywall manufactured in China and used in the construction of Florida homes has prompted the lawsuit against manufacturers and a number of installation subcontractors that purchased the contaminated drywall on behalf of Lennar.
Lennar's lawsuit alleges that subcontractors it employed to install dry wall, substituted high quality domestic brands with the less expensive contaminated drywall. The subcontractors imported the contaminated drywall from China to save on costs of materials in an attempt to boost profits for their contracted work. The drywall was discovered to contain toxic substances after a number of homeowners began to complain of foul odors, product deterioration and in some cases sickness due to exposure to the contaminated product.
It is believed that the Chinese drywall was found to contain a quantity of dry ash which was used as a filler substance in the manufacturing process. Dry ash is a waste by product of coal fired power plants that are so prevalent in China. The dry ash is known to contain concentrations of heavy metals that are considered dangerous to humans.
This event is certainly unwelcome news for the beleaguered construction and real estate industries. Particularly so in deeply distressed markets like southern Florida. It has heightened the risk profile of all parties involved and could spell catastrophic consequences for some of the involved manufacturers, homeowners, and contractors. This event can also impact the profitability of banks that may be forced to write off non-performing mortgages and construction loans sold to affected homeowners and contractors. Insurance companies may be required to pay off clams for product liability and homeowner policies. Municipalities are also at risk due to this event. Tax ratables and property values are threatened due to property abandonment and the suspicion that toxins have been introduced into the community.
This risk event will require the drywall manufacturers to face severe legal liability. It will impact profitability due to the financial stress of remediation expenses. Most significantly these types of events do severe damage to the company brand and reputation. A great deal of company and product branding is about trust. This types of events compromise the trust of brand consumers. Once that trust is violated it is very difficult to win it back.
Lennar violated its customers trust by allowing its supply chain to be contaminated. This violation of trust will result in financial loss and may create a long term health risk for Lennars customers and their families.
The municipalities that welcomed Lennar with the anticipation that development will serve the citizens of their communities have now been scarred by an ecological hazard. This will continue to haunt the reputation of these towns for many years because it threatens the value of both contaminated and non contaminated homes.
The drywall installation contractors face a high probability of bankruptcy and potential criminal prosecution. This event will fire a deepening distrust of Chinese manufactured products. It will certainly add stress to the delicate political balance of the highly codependent China USA trade relationship. Instigating calls for more protectionism and "Buy America" mantra by American based manufacturers. The prospect of added strain with China is particularly delicate due to China's important roll in financing government spending through its large purchases of US government bonds. All because some subcontractors wanted to realize a little more profit margin. For the want of a nail indeed.
The unfortunate realization is that this risk could have been prevented. Master contractors need to put in place service and supply level agreements that prohibit the use of substituted materials. Master contractors need to manage supply chains by insisting that all materials used by subcontractors meet quality specifications and are sourced from trusted and thoroughly vetted providers. Adherence to international product quality and testing standards must be ascertained before those are accepted into the supply chain. This is just one aspect of ascertaining weather a supplier meets acceptance criteria into a company supply chain.
The Profit|Optimizer helps manufacturers, developers, contractors and lenders conduct a risk assessment of their supply chain. It is something that many businesses often take for granted yet holds the potential to become one of the most dangerous risks to the financial health and stability of the business enterprise.
Sum2 sells nails. The Profit|Optimizer helps business nail down risks that can deconstruct your business. It is a great set of tools to build profits and construct a healthy sustainable business.
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John Harris is Associate Dean Research in the Glasgow School for Business and Society at Glasgow Caledonian University. Prior to joining GCU in 2011 he was a tenured Associate Professor at Kent State University, USA.
John has an eclectic research profile and works with scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. He is author of Rugby Union and Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan), co-editor of Football and Migration (Routledge), and his work has been published in a number of journals including National Identities, Management Research Review, International Journal of Tourism Research, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, and Geographical Research.
Harris is Leisure & Events Subject Editor for the Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education (JoHLSTE) and also serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Sport Communication and the Journal of Sport & Tourism.
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CCs and followers – Tickets replied to by a CC get no SLA
Zendesk automation/integration notifier
The new CCs and Followers feature is great, but has one major downside: when a ticket is reopened because a CC'd end-user replies, that update does not reset the "next reply time" SLA clock.
With the new feature, if a CC hits "reply" instead of "reply all" (so not including the requester), that reply becomes a private comment. See this article.
The problem is, we order our queue by the "next SLA breach," based on the "next reply time" SLA. This is what we use to approximate a "first in, first out" workflow (which Zendesk doesn't support natively). But now, tickets reopened by a private comment from a CC get no SLA time. This means they get stuck at the bottom of our queue.
When a customer gets an SLA guarantee, they don't have the expectation that it only applies when the initial requester of the ticket is the one doing the replying. Customers frequently collaborate on tickets with colleagues, or even themselves at different email addresses. Regardless of who replies, they should get the SLA.
My improvement request is that the SLA clock should start any time any end-user replies to a ticket, regardless of if they're the requester or not.
Scott Allison
Zendesk Product Manager
Hey Everyone. Thanks for your patience on this while we figured out a solution. I have some good news to share! This will now work, as long as you have the "Make email comments from CCed end users public" setting checked to on. (Default is off). This can be found in Tickets / Settings. Highlighted below in blue:
Cameron Dunn
Seconded — I understand that another party who isn't on the ticket (perhaps the requester forwarded) would be flagged and might not reset the SLA, but internal notes from CCs who used Reply instead of Reply All keeps tickets at the very back of our queue.
Damien Messe
We are having the same issue as we are sorting tickets by SLA.
If you receive + 1000 tickets / day, those tickets will always stay at the back of the queue without any possibility to put them back in the queue with an SLA.
Do you plan to do something for this ?
Ed Ball
5 juin 2020 21:17
This still seems to be an issue. We have customers writing in from one address and using CC to include another of their addresses. When they reply or update the ticket from the CCd address it loses the SLA and is dropped to the bottom of the view. Without someone watching that for this to happen it will just sit at the bottom.
This should be fixed.
Devan - Community Manager
Zendesk Community Manager
So we would need a bit more information on how you have set this up. Could you share what SLA target you have configured and any other information on how you have this running on your end so we can troubleshoot this further for you?
Stephen Belleau
@... This is about the "Next Reply Time" SLA target which fails to update when a private comment is added to a ticket. It's problematic that CCed end-users who respond aren't counted as a public comment. I think Zack explained it quite clearly in the original post.
Nicole Saunders
Thanks for alerting us, Ed, and Stephen, thank you for clarifying for Devan. We'll share these comments with the appropriate product manager.
Nina Olding
Hi all, thanks so much for your feedback. We don't currently have any plans to implement this in the near term, but we'll continue to evaluate and consider it as we prioritize our roadmap. Thanks again for raising this, it's always helpful to understand more detail from the community about how you're using Zendesk.
John Smith (Test account DAW)
@... +1, we're having the exact same issue and organise queues by SLA for the same reason. I'd be interested to hear how many others have a similar issue. Additionally, I cannot understand why Zendesk doesn't support any other options to sort a queue if your workflow is based on first in, first out.
Ilya Gook
+1, honestly, treating such comments as internal notes and not public comments looks like a real crutch to me
Mark Leci
This has also been a significant problem for us since changing to the new agent experience. We weren't aware of it up front as a limitation, which is unfortunate but since our priorities and metrics are based on the next reply SLA, this has definitely caused some issues. We've attempted to manage this by having a single point of contact on tickets but this is just not practical in many cases. There's a number of options that would work for us to address this:
Allow a ticket comment to be public if the cc is a registered user/is added to the ticket by an agent/is part of the same organization
Allow internal comments from ccd users to trigger SLAs
Allow ZD admins the ability to set up a trigger that would apply either of the above actions (so it would not necessarily have to be global)
Nicky Clark
We have this issue even when the CC'd user is included in the ticket CCs and their comment comes in as a valid public reply.
Only responses from the original requester are accounted for in SLAs and the 'Last updated by requester' metric. There doesn't appear to be any metric we can use to properly sort our views based on the time passed since the most recent response from an external party.
This is especially problematic with large organisations who very commonly CC in several people on each ticket, and different people will reply as needed. It's something we're really struggling with for ensuring tickets are being prioritised effectively and clients aren't sitting at the bottom of the queue.
BTW this is the best workaround we've managed to find so far: Creating a notification to identify tickets that are stuck at the back of the queue due to no SLA being applied
Charlie Volow
This specific issue, and more broadly, the absurdly challenging (maybe impossible) task of trying to ensure that all of our open tickets get SLA targets, is forcing me to advocate for a change of support platform for our company. SLAs should be a central feature - why are they treated like an afterthought?
Hi @...,
Thanks for looking into this. There's still one case that's not accounted for: when an end user who was not part of the original conversation (i.e. wasn't the requester and wasn't cc'd, but was forwarded the ticket thread separately) responds on the ticket thread, their comment populates as an internal note. This is true whether or not the "Make email comments from CCed end users public" setting is checked. Can we please add an option to change this behavior? We need all end user comments to be public replies in order for our SLA policies to work.
Thanks Charlie, you're right. Our fix doesn't address that behaviour. We're looking into that and whether it makes sense to count that in the same way. I'd be interested to hear what others think of that.
Zachary Hanes
5 octobre 2021 21:31
Hi @..., original poster here. I have joined a new company and run into this exact same issue. I've looked at the solution here, and I'm disappointed. The core of the problem is that tickets frequently end up with no SLA. The issue Charlie describes above is maybe the most common cause of the missing SLA problem, and this solution does nothing to fix it.
The real silver bullet solution would be an option to make all SLA's treat any end user comment the same as a public comment. Regardless of whether it's public or private, it's still a person who now has to wait in line, and the SLA's should apply.
If that's not possible, then we should be able to make a reply from any end user be public, regardless of whether they are CC'd.
To give more context on the use case where someone replies who is not a CC:
I represent a company that signed up for an app using a shared address, e.g. hello@company.com. This address is an alias that distributes messages to myself and two of my colleagues. When I submit support tickets, this is the address that is used as the requester.
I submit a ticket under this address. A support agent replies, and the message is distributed to my address, zach@company.com. I reply to the message, forgetting that I submitted under the hello@ address or unaware that it makes a difference what address I reply from. The ticket has no record of zach@company.com being a requester or a CC, so my reply becomes a private comment and the ticket reopens with no "next reply" SLA.
This may sound like a rare situation, but we get 1,000+ of tickets per day, so this happens many times a day, enough to make SLA-based routing unworkable for us.
@... seconding the last comments from Zach: this "Make email comments from CCed end users public" setting is not new, and it's not a proper fix for the problem, more of a temporary workaround. It's explicitly said "not recommended" as one risks exposing comments from end-users who might send them in reply-to mode intentionally
@... Gook @Zach Hanes (and all) - Good news from our Zendesk success rep: this particular behavior (end user who was not part of conversation replies to ticket, comment populates as internal note) can be disabled by Zendesk upon request from the account owner. We just put in our request, so yet to confirm that it'll work as expected, but wanted to let you know.
To mitigate the security risk, I just added a big disclaimer to our email template along the lines of "All replies to this email will be visible to the ticket requester. To initiate a new request, please send a separate email to [support email]"
I have a strong suspicion that the current proposed solution would not make it past our legal team. It's reasonable to expect that when you reply to an email, it's only going to the addresses included in the "to" line.
If it's from a user who is not CC'd on the ticket, and they do include the requester in the "to" line, I would expect it to be a public comment (not the current behavior).
If it's from a user who is CC'd on the ticket, but their reply doesn't include the requester in the "to" line, I would expect it to be a private comment.
But in both of these cases, there has been a reply by an end user, who is now waiting for our team to engage again, so the ticket should get an SLA. It seems likely that this logic (SLA's not running after private comments) was designed when private comments were only made by internal users, but that's not the case anymore. The SLA feature needs updating to account for this.
I've been asked to put a feedback post together about having an SLA that runs on any end-user comment, but I've discovered that one has already been made here. I would encourage everyone on this thread to follow and comment on that one.
I'd like to add our use case to this thread.
We have all of the same issues as the above users, but for us it's also crucial that we do not turn on the "Make email comments from CCed end users public" setting. We deal with a high volume of sensitive payroll and employment information in our company, so presenting the wrong info to someone it's not intended for would be a massive breach of our clients' trust.
As a result, the workaround above doesn't work for us at any level - users who respond to a ticket they weren't originally on or users who were CCd in can not be handled within SLA rules for our business at the moment, which is creating a lot of manual effort monitoring for tickets that are floundering at the bottom of our queues.
We would love to see an improvement to the functionality that's so central to the way we use Zendesk.
Edit: further to this, our Sales team often forward client enquiries to us. As they are Zendesk Sell agents, these tickets come in as internal notes without an SLA. These enquiries are usually from newly registered clients who should be 'Urgent' priority, but they sit a the bottom of our queues.
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Jan Aleksander Myszkowski herbu Jastrzębiec (zm. w 1687 roku) – kasztelan bełski w latach 1676-1687, podkomorzy bełski w latach 1662-1674, rotmistrz i pułkownik królewski, starosta tyszowiecki, sędzia deputat wojewódzki bełski w konfederacji gołąbskiej, rotmistrz wojska powiatowego województwa bełskiego w 1667 roku.

Poseł sejmiku bełskiego na sejm 1664/1665 roku. W 1666 roku był deputatem województwa bełskiego na Trybunał Główny Koronny w Lublinie. Jako deputat podpisał pacta conventa Michała Korybuta Wiśniowieckiego w 1669 roku. Poseł na sejm nadzwyczajny 1670 roku z województwa bełskiego. Jako komisarz województwa bełskiego i deputat do consilium bellicum był elektorem Jana III Sobieskiego z województwa bełskiego w 1674 roku. Poseł sejmiku bełskiego na sejm koronacyjny 1676 roku.

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Deputaci świeccy Trybunału Głównego Koronnego (województwo bełskie)
Elektorzy Jana III Sobieskiego
Elektorzy władców Polski (województwo bełskie)
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Jan Aleksander
Podkomorzowie bełscy
Rotmistrzowie królewscy
Posłowie na sejm zwyczajny 1664/1665
Posłowie na sejm nadzwyczajny 1670
Posłowie na sejm koronacyjny 1676
Posłowie na Sejm I Rzeczypospolitej (województwo bełskie)
Pułkownicy królewscy
Rotmistrzowie  wojsk powiatowych (województwo bełskie)
Sędziowie konfederacji gołąbskiej (1672)
Urzędnicy ziemscy I Rzeczypospolitej
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WORCESTER CaraDonna, Nicholas M., 92. Funeral service 12 noon Friday, February 29, 2008, St. Joan of Arc Church, 570 Lincoln St. Funeral Home: Kelly Funeral Home, 154 Lincoln St.
WORCESTER Daigneault, Doris F. (Marcotte), 81. Funeral service 10 a.m. Friday, February 29, 2008, Mass in St. Joseph Church, 189 Oxford St. Funeral Home: Mercadante Funeral Home & Chapel, 370 Plantation St.
WORCESTER Lawton, Barbara A. (Gibney), 72. Funeral service 11 a.m. Friday, February 29, 2008, At the funeral home with a Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel-St. Ann Church, 24 Mulberry St. Funeral Home: Mercadante Funeral Home & Chapel, 370 Plantation St., Worcester.
AUBURN Haigh, Doris M. (O'Connor), 90. Funeral service 12:30 p.m Friday, February 29, 2008, North American Martyrs Church, 8 Wyoma Dr., Auburn. Funeral Home: Britton-Wallace Funeral Home, 91 Central St., Auburn.
AUBURN Letendre, Lucien A., 75. Funeral service 9 a.m Friday, February 29, 2008, from the funeral home a Mass at 10 a.m in North American Martyrs Church, 8 Wyoma Dr. Funeral Home: Britton-Wallace Funeral Home, 91 Central St., Auburn.
GRAFTON Hawes, Madeline R. (Harnois), 89. Funeral service 11 a.m. Friday, February 29, 2008, The Baptist Church of Grafton, 1 South St., Grafton Center. Funeral Home: Roney Funeral Homes of Grafton.
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WHITINSVILLE Killeen, Helen Rita (Watts), 89. Funeral service 10 a.m. Friday, February 29, 2008, St. Patrick's Church, Cross St. Funeral Home: Jackman Funeral Home, 12 Spring St., Whitinsville.
OAKLAND, ME. Duplisea, Ruth M., 83. Funeral service 2 p.m. Friday, February 29, 2008, First Baptist Church, Park St., Waterville. Funeral Home: Wheeler Funeral Home, 26 Church St., Oakland, ME.
LITTLETON, NH. Hills-Hazard, Madeline H. (Hazard), 97. Funeral service 11 a.m Friday, February 29, 2008, at the funeral home. Funeral Home: Mercadante Funeral Home & Chapel, 370 Plantation St., Worcester.


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Q: Does the system() function belong to C or C++? #include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
void main ()
{
   system("dir");
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I have read in many C++ books where system() is used to execute command line programs. But when I tried the same command in C, it worked perfectly. So my question is whether its a standard C or C++ function? Please be liberal as I am new to C programming.

A: As system function is declared in stdlib.h, it can be considered a C function. But in C++, stdlib.h is merged into the std namespace and is located in the cstdlib include in this form. So the correct answer is "both".

A: It is both C and C++.

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*system : http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/program/system

*std::system: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/program/system

A: Both: it's defined by the standard C library, and the standard C++ library contains the C library.
In C++, you should include the C++ style header, <cstdlib>, and refer to it as std::system. Including C headers directly is deprecated.

A: It's both. C defines many functions. C++ defines many functions that are exactly the same as in C, some that are subtly different from how they are in C, and a lot of functions and classes that aren't part of C at all. Knowing that a function is part of standard C++ says nothing about whether it is part of standard C, and knowing that a function is part of standard C says little about whether it is part of standard C++.

A: Both c and cpp support the function system as they have support for the stdlib.h that contains the prototype of system() function.


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Mikhail Kalashnikov's funeral most likely to take place on Dec 26
Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle who died on December 23 at the age of 94, will most likely be buried at a cemetery in Izhevsk on December 26, Viktor Chulkov, spokesman for the head of Russia's Republic of Udmurtia, told Interfax on Tuesday.
Video: Kalashnikov TM - more than just a legendary brand
"[The funeral] will most likely be conducted on December 26 because it is believed that foreign guests will be able to arrive by that date," Chulkov said.
"A cemetery is currently being selected in Izhevsk," he said.
Chulkov, however, did not confirm earlier reports claiming that Kalashnikov could be buried on the premises at St. Michael's Cathedral in Izhevsk.
Udmurtia's Health Minister Vladimir Muzlov told Interfax that Kalashnikov died at the republic's Clinical and Diagnostic Center at 7:14 p.m. on December 23.
It was the third time Kalashnikov had been hospitalized in the past six months, Muzlov said.
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Famous arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov died in Izhevsk at the age of 93, head of the Udmurtia presidential and governmental press office Viktor Chulkov posted in a social network on December 23. Read more>>>
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Kevin Blue Johnson (born September 7, 1979) is an American professional boxer. He has challenged once for the WBC heavyweight title in 2009. He holds notable wins over former world champions Bruce Seldon and Yoan Pablo Hernández.

Amateur career
Johnson started boxing at the age of 18. He was an unheralded amateur with only a 14–2 record but won the New Jersey Golden Gloves.

Professional career
He turned pro in 2002. After only three fights the lanky counterpuncher was thrown in with an undefeated Olympian in Timor Ibragimov, who already had 13 victories. To the great surprise of the audience, Johnson held Ibragimov to a draw. Three fights later in 2004 he handily beat well-known clubfighter Robert Wiggins, who was 19–3–1 at the time. After being somewhat inactive in 2005 he had another good win over a clubfighter in Robert Hawkins 2006 against whom he won a shutout decision. He was regarded by some as America's best heavyweight prospect largely to his dominant jab.

On April 18, 2008, at the Buffalo Run Casino in Miami, Oklahoma, Johnson defeated Terry Smith by unanimous decision. Johnson used his long jab and hand speed to maneuver his way around the aggression of Smith. Johnson scored the biggest win of his career with a TKO victory over a badly faded Bruce Seldon in September 2008 in Atlantic City. Johnson defeated Devin Vargas on May 15, 2009. Johnson was declared winner by technical knockout after Vargas's corner threw in the towel early in the sixth round. With the win, Johnson earned a shot at the world title.

On 12 December 2009 Johnson took on Vitali Klitschko for the WBC Heavyweight title in Bern, Switzerland. Klitschko was never troubled by Johnson in front of an 18,000-strong crowd. The previously unbeaten Johnson was unable to land his trademark jab on the 6 ft 7in Vitali, and went on to lose every round of the contest to the Ukrainian. Johnson injured his shoulder 2 weeks prior to the fight.

After the loss to Klitschko, Johnson racked up victories against Charles Davis and Julius Long before signing up for in Eddie Hearn's Prizefighter tournament in the UK. Johnson would lose in the final against Tor Hamer. Johnson would settle in a gatekeeper role after the tournament, dropping decisions to Tyson Fury, Christian Hammer, Manuel Charr, and Derek Chisora, but beating Solomon Haumono.

On Saturday May 30, 2015, Johnson lost to undefeated Anthony Joshua by second-round knockout, after having been knocked down twice in the first round. This was Johnson's first stoppage loss. Johnson announced his retirement from boxing after the loss to Joshua.

He returned in 2017 with a points win over journeyman Jamal Woods and later challenged Kubrat Pulev for the WBA Inter-Continental title. Despite being outboxed from the start, he managed to take Pulev 12 rounds. Johnson lost a unanimous decision 120–108, 120–108, and 119–109.

On October 14, 2017, Johnson beat Francesco Pianeta via TKO in the seventh round.

After three consecutive losses following his Pianeta victory, Johnson recorded his 33rd and 34th wins against Haris Radmilovic, with a pair of third-round technical knockout victories both coming against Radmilovic in December 2018.

Five consecutive losses later, Johnson scored a seventh-round knockout victory against former IBF and The Ring cruiserweight champion Yoan Pablo Hernández on August 22, 2020.

The following year, Johnson returned to the ring on June 5, 2021 to face undefeated Agit Kabayel. Johnson suffered the 18th loss of his career, losing a unanimous decision with scores of 118–111, 118–111, and 119–110.

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Meet Some Unlikely Animal Friends
BUNNIES THAT ARE BESTIES WITH A LEOPARD;
A DOLPHIN AND A DOG SWIMMING IN HARMONY;
AN ELDERLY ORANGUTAN BEFRIENDING A KITTY
THIS THANKSGIVING WEEKEND, NAT GEO WILD INVITES YOU
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NATURE'S MOST IMPROBABLE (BUT ADORABLE) BFFs!
Four episodes of Unlikely Animal Friends premiere
Friday, November 23, and Saturday, November 24, from
8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on Nat Geo WILD
Unlikely Animal Friends 2
(Washington, D.C. – December 22, 2010) Yankees and Red Sox. Leno and Conan. Rosie and Donald Trump. While some rivals may never get along, life occasionally throws us for a loop and unlikely species form amicable bonds. In the animal kingdon. there are some relationships that truly defy the natural order and demonstrate an "evolution" that might astound Darwin himself.
On Friday, January 7, 2010 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, the National Geographic Channel celebrates peace in the new year by traveling the world in search of nature's oddest couples in a gresh installment of Unlikely Animal Friends 2. We'll take a fun-filled look at the astonishing relationships forged by otherwise rival species and find out how they came to be friends. The stories are rare, amazing…and often adorable!
At a wildlife rehabilitation center outside of Atlanta, Ga., a lion, tiger and even a bear live harmoniously together. The trio of animals were rescued as cubs and raised as brothers. While each has his own dynamic personality and his own set of lethal weapons, the three eat, play and sleep together. The situation doesn't go without concern. As Craig Saffoe, acting curator of lions and tigers at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, explains, "I wouldn't advocate sticking a bear in the middle of a group of big cats. However, for these individuals, it certainly seems like the most responsible action for them and their welfare, their quality of life, would be to leave them as the are; they're bonded."
Dangerous Encounters
(Washington, D.C. – December 22, 2010) From the bizarre to the elusive to the downright deadly, throughout his career herpetologist Dr. Brady Burr has risked life and limb to study some of the fiercest creatures on the planet – but never with technology like this. Armed with new technology, Brady is back with a new season, on a new network, as his Dangerous Encounters take him around the globe in the name of science and conservation.
Moving to Nat Geo WILD beginning Tuesday, January 4 at p p.m. ET/PT, Dangerous Encounters returns with five all-new episodes. Brady gets up close and personal with a monster fish's lethal snout, puts three of the most aggressive shark species to the test to find out which has the deadliest bite and takes on one of the world's deadliest snakes using a high-tech robot. And later in the season, Brady captures a massive croc that has terrorized a village in Africa, possibly killing dozens of people, and employs a powerful net gun to capture a two-ton hippo.
My Dog Ate What?
My Dog Ate What? has returned to Nat Geo Wild.
My Dog Ate What? Rat Poison, a Zipper and Tennis Balls
Wednesday, November 10, 2010, at 9 PM ET/PT
Frannie-Lou the Westie ate a mango pit that stayed in her system for about 11 months before it was detected. Pointing lab Primo learns that some plants are better left rooted after he swallows a dieffenbachia plant, which is toxic to dogs. He faces a lifesaving tracheostomy. Later, Maddie the beagle swallows a large piece of carpet and speaker wire after suffering an allergic reaction to chicken and undergoes a complicated hospital visit. Mastiff Elvis swallows not one but three tennis balls, and the situation proves no ballgame, as the third ball requires a procedure that could be deadly. And, when beloved cockatoo Hoppee ingests 75 zipper teeth, his vet must find a creative way to remove them.
Fable of the Porcupine
I received an email from a dear friend with The "Fable of the Porcupine" and some adorable pictures of a baby porcupine. Not knowing very much about porcupines I searched the internet to learn more. I was very curious if they also could be a pet. Much to my amazement there was a vast array of information on porcupines.
Of course National Geographic has a wonderful informative description of the porcupine. We all know that they are a prickly rodent, but did you know the Latin name means "quill pig"? There are about two dozen species that all have a coat of needle-like quills. Considering there are only two species of beaver, twenty-four porcupine species surprised me.
And Man Created Dog Premieres August 8 on NatGeo
Immense Great Danes and diminutive Chihuahuas. Curly-haired poodles and streamlined greyhounds. Dogs are in fact the most diverse mammals on the planet. For comparison, if humans were as varied as dogs, we would range in height up to 22 feet tall and could weight more than 1,000 pounds. It's no accident that dogs evolved this way, as humans have been selectively breeding them to serve our needs as laborer, companion, hunter, herder and warrior, as well as to suit our aesthetic fancy.
Catch Unlikely Animal Friends Tonight on NatGEO
NatGEO's got another show airing this weekend. I haven't seen this one, so this isn't a review – it's just a quick note with some video previews and an invitation to join me in watching this show at 8pm (EST) tonight. You may already be familiar with Christian the Lion, the YouTube celeb. NatGEO's Unlikely Animal Friends will be featuring the story of John and Ace and their unlikely friendship
It's a Cruel, Cruel World on Rescue Ink Unleashed – Tonight at 10
What a "cruel, cruel world" animals live in. Pit bulls have a hard time in the Bronx, chickens are not city animals, and cats are not welcome at all houses. You'll travel all over New York City, the Bronx, and even Rhode Island in It's a Cruel, Cruel World, the first
Rescue Ink Unleashed Premieres Friday
MORE THAN 1,700 POUNDS OF MUSCLE. OVER 80 TATTOOS.
ONE UNLIKELY MISSION: TO RESCUE HELPLESS, ABANDONED AND ABUSED ANIMALS
Ride Along with Rescue Ink Friday at 10pm EST – They're tough guys who aren't afraid to go anywhere or confront anyone to save animals in danger . . .
If you don't like us from the way we look, we can't help that. But if you're not part of
Tonight on Dogtown
Two homeless dogs named Haley and Hana are rescued from an underground cave in Ethiopia, where it is believed they survived for more than two months after being dumped there by locals… Hugo, a 100-pound bloodhound, is returned to DogTown after seriously biting a family member… And a golden retriever, Ava, has just arrived with a paw ripped apart by a coyote trap…