***1/2 out of ****
Year: 1999. Starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Nora Dunn, Jamie Kennedy, Mykelti Williamson, Cliff Curtis, Said Taghmaoui. Written by John Ridley (story) and David O. Russell (screenplay). Directed by David O. Russell. Rated R.
If someone had told me five years ago that George Clooney, Marky Mark, and Ice Cube were going to make a war movie together, I'd have assumed it would be a farce. If someone had told me it was going to be a serious war movie, I 'd have laughed in his face. I'd have been wrong. Surprising as it may be, the Georgey-Marky-Icey war movie, entitled "Three Kings," is most definitely a serious movie. What's more surprising is that it's good. Damn good. I don' t know when these three made the transition from being sitcom and rap music stars into being serious actors, but it happened, and the results are astounding.
Clooney stars as Sergeant Major Archie Gates, an aging soldier, close to retirement, who is dissatisfied with the relatively unimportant role he played in the recently-ended Gulf War. While the other American soldiers celebrate the war's completion, he and three other soldiers, Sgt. Troy Barlow (Mark Wahlberg), Chief Elgin (Ice Cube), and Conrad Vig (Spike Jonze), stumble upon a map while searching an Iraqi prisoner. Thanks to Sgt. Gates' special forces training, they discover that the map actually details the location of an Iraqi bunker where several bundles of Kuwaiti gold are stored. The four (not three, as the title might have you believe) soldiers decide to go AWOL from the army and collect the gold for themselves. Their mission is simple: get the gold, get out, and go home rich as kings (get it?). When they get to the town, however, they find that the residents there are being starved and slaughtered because they tried to rebel against Saddam Hussein's rule and are no longer being offered help by the U.S. military because of the peace treaty.
George Clooney gives the performance of his life here, and it's to his credit that he takes a pressure-filled role and runs with it. He's confident, assured, and best of all, he doesn't shake his head back and forth constantly! It seems old George has dropped the nervous head-wagging tick that irritated me throughout the duration of "Batman & Robin," and he's way better off for it. Mark Wahlberg (OK, I'll stop calling him Marky Mark now) gives a fine performance and becomes the idealistic center of the film. When he is kidnapped and subjected to torture in a strange interrogation sequence, we see his innocence destroyed, and it's difficult to watch because of Wahlberg's sympathetic portrayal. As for Ice Cube, I'll give him this: He made me forget I was watching a rapper on screen. Give credit to all three lead actors. They are able to successfully shed their former identities and not only give us three believable soldiers to follow around, but also three guys we might actually want to follow around. Heck, add in Spike Jonze, a music video director who does a good job despite being given the most clichéd role in the film, and you've actually got four actors who shed their former identities to create likable characters (which is why it probably should have been called "Four Kings," but why complain?).
Director David O. Russell tells a wacky kind of story, one that's both straightforward and disjointed at the same time. (Bear with me here . . .) It has a fairly simple underlying plot, about four soldiers off to steal gold, but Russell throws in so much that "Three Kings" ends up discussing anything and everything you could've imagined about the Gulf War. The film's politics are all over the place, and I loved it all the more for its craziness. This is a Hollywood release, so "Three Kings" has its share of sentimentality, but the film is still a challenging work, and it's willing to take chances even at the risk of offending people. For example, we don't get the cliché of the "evil Arab," which seems to have come out of American moviemakers' desire to always have some ethnic group or nationality branded as the enemy.
Considering that it's an American film starring almost nothing but American actors, "Three Kings" remains remarkably even-handed. As is often the case in war, morals become muddled and confused, which is exactly what Russell does here. There are no good guys or bad guys, just people, ones with families and emotions. It's kind of refreshing to see a film that doesn't paint an idealistic picture of soldiers, but instead attempts to show how a war affects not only the men fighting it, but also civilians, women and children alike. Special care has been taken to make sure "Three Kings" doesn 't become a gung-ho action flick, and though there is enough action to please those looking for it, the film clearly has a greater purpose. "Three Kings" is a film that resonates with the viewer, and the MTV-style editing, unlike that of the woeful "Stigmata," actually serves that purpose. Russell takes his camera inside a human body to show the effects of a bullet wound, as ducts fill up with bile and a lung deflates. A particularly jarring sequence involves the initial gun battle in the Iraqi village. Russell films this in almost painfully slow fashion, following each individual bullet fired by both the Iraqis and the Americans. The result is not only a stylistically fascinating sequence, but a clear illustration of how a bunch of guys holding guns will eventually snap and trigger a shoot-out, though nobody is really at fault. Russell includes these stylistic touches throughout the film, and though he may go overboard at times, it never feels terribly unnecessary.
The script, aside from being admirably even-handed, provides a good mix of humor and drama. For every emotionally rending scene (and there are plenty of them, complete with crying children), there is a funny "slow-down" scene to counter it. This structure can be annoying if the funny scenes don't work, but fortunately, "Three Kings" has humor that hits more often than it misses. A particularly amusing sequence involves a desperate reporter (Nora Dunn) who thinks she's getting the story of her life, but has actually been led on a wild goose chase by Clooney. The opening scenes, with soldiers partying, contain several deft touches of comedy, and director Russell demonstrates a certain dry wit here that is very welcome. His script is also able to juggle discussions of several different issues, many of which come out during Wahlberg's interrogation. The Iraqi captor questions Wahlberg on several different topics, including Michael Jackson's skin color and George Bush. The conversation has a sort of twisted, Tarantino-esque quality to it, and it is strangely intriguing, despite ending up on a topic that's wildly different from the one it started with. Unfortunately, the film's only real problem comes up in political discussions such as this one, and it's the same problem that comes up with his stylistic camera work: he goes to far. The interrogation scene is a perfect example of this, as Wahlberg's questioner asks what the war was about, and then proceeds to pour oil down Marky's throat to illustrate his point. First of all, does it have to be this obvious what the director's political message is? Can't Russell trust us to understand his ideas without (in a very apt metaphor) cramming it down our throats? Furthermore, exactly who doesn't know that the Gulf War was about protecting American oil interests in Kuwait? There are several scenes in which the political commentary reaches the point of overkill, and the film's ending is just a little too happy, but these are relatively minor complaints when compared to the film as a whole.
"Three Kings" is an important film, if only because we hadn't had one like this made about the Gulf War yet. (I know, it technically takes place after the war, but you know what I mean, dammit!) It's remarkable for the relatively unbiased view it takes of the war, and for the non-stereotypical nature of the villains. A quick word of warning: Please don't believe the movie trailers for "Three Kings," which would have you believe the film is a comedy. It has some humor, and it's certainly satirical, but it's more of a drama than a comedy. Many of the film's scenes will seem entirely too violent if one expects a laugh-out-loud farce, and much of "Three Kings" is downright disturbing. The film intends to shock, but not, I think, without good reason. After all, war is hell, for both sides, and "Three Kings" doesn 't shy away from that fact.
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Buying power models (also known as margin models) control how much buying power (leverage) your algorithm has to make trades. Buying power calculations can be very complex and depend on many factors, including the brokerage or even time of day.
Buying power models implement the $[IBuyingPowerModel, T:QuantConnect.Securities.IBuyingPowerModel] interface and default to the $[BuyingPowerModel, T:QuantConnect.Securities.BuyingPowerModel] class. If you wish to implement your own buying power model, you can start with the default and override methods you wish to change.
We also provide the $[PatternDayTradingMarginModel,T:QuantConnect.Securities.PatternDayTradingMarginModel] to model intraday pattern day trading for US equities, which provides 4x intraday leverage and 2x overnight leverage.
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SpecSeq
Author : Bernard Schutz
Version : 1.0
Input Types : ComplexSpectrumSpectrum
Output Types : MatrixType
Date : 30 Dec 2000
Contents
Description of SpecSeq
The unit called SpecSeq assembles a sequence of spectra arriving at its
input node into a matrix, each row of which is a spectrum. This matrix
is output as a TimeFrequency data set. The user can choose the number of
sets to accumulate. The user can also choose whether to have the unit make
one output every time-step or to wait until the entire set is accumulated
before making an output. If output once per time-step is chosen, then the
output matrix is changed so that it contains only the most recent data.
In this way it can provide a rolling view of the data.
Using SpecSeq
SpecSeq's parameter window (double-click on the unit) looks like this.
The first parameter is an integer slider to choose the number of data
sets to accumulate, which is the number of rows in the matrix. The second
parameter is a checkbox to select whether the data should be output
every time-step (a rolling list of spectra) or only once after an entire
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Let's return to our guiding question for this module: What makes a “fair” district map? We have learned some mathematical tools to analyze various components of maps: their shapes, the level of partisan advantage, the presence of racially polarized voting, and the concept of outliers to see how a district plan compares to other potential plans. The next step is to put all of these ideas together to create your own district plan and advocate for fair maps in a state!
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SMD (0603) 20k Ohm Resistor - R6203
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Name: SMD (0603) 20k Ohm Resistor
ID: RESE-0603-X-O203-01
Hex ID: R6203
WebPage: https://github.com/oomlout/oomlout-OOMP/wiki/RESE-0603-X-O203-01
Short URL: http://oom.lt/R6203
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In 1983, we had an idea. We wanted to do research on humans and see how they responded to colors. Late Russian scientist Alexei I. Ivanov helped out with our experimentation. Ivanov is part of the reason why our company exists today.
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Our tests had generally positive results, so we started planning to make a true location and make our technology readily available to customers. David Miller, CEO of the company at the time, was cruetial in the planning stage and helped develop blueprints for our first location
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In 2013, we built our very first location in Stamford, Connecticut. We are thankful to have discovered this technology and make it readily available to those who need it.


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The Twang, If Confronted Just Go Mad - album review
Fans of Birmingham's The Twang have waited a long time to hear the words "new album", and boy was it worth the wait.
by Leigh SandersRecord number five, If Confronted Just Go Mad is the first full-length we've heard from the gang since 2014's exciting Neon Twang.
Five years - five years - they've left their devotees waiting.
More coverage:
- The Twang announce second Birmingham Christmas show
- Birmingham's The Twang finally preparing new album
- The Twang, O2 Academy, Birmingham - review
- The Twang drop new single before Shed Seven support tour
- The Twang added to Birmingham Innercity Live
And one soundbite from a spokesperson summed it up perfectly when they said: "It is a reminiscent throwback to times gone by and youthful love in the 1990s."
It definitely does have that feel of yesteryear. The summery, reminiscent guitars; Phil Etheridge's softly delivered vocals; Ash Sheehan's hopeful and positive-thinking drumming.
Nearly everything here shouts of summertime beer garden slurps, happy times shared with friends full of laughter.
It Feels Like (You're Wasting My Time) might not sound like what we described above, but wait for those jangling care-free guitars from Stu Hartland. It's a breezy, flighty romp through these guys' back catalogue.
The almost-Springsteen-esque Tinseltown In The Rain might hold a little more atmospherics deep in its soul, but there's something still open armed and welcoming about how the versus weave together before a piano-led chorus opens up to hold court.
One of the best recent additions to The Twang is the backing vocals from Cat Mctigue - most notably in opening number Everytime. She bounces off Etheridge as their deliveries wrestle to and fro, and the dualling guitars in the interlude sound more than a little like that reverberating refrain throughout Stardust's dance anthem Music Sounds Better With You.
There's a disgustingly likeable swagger to the scratching and abrasive Dream. Here, there's all sorts being thrown into the mixing bowl, including the kind of wah-wah guitars that city mates Ocean Colour Scene would be proud of. Again, Mctigue and Etheridge combine to great effect.
The electronic atmospherics in Izal showcase the other vocal addition - Rio Hellyer. Compressed, lo-fi dance vibes accompany the breezy lyrics throughout, waiting for the guitars to step in and carry the track onwards.
Pick it up and have a gander. There's something you'll notice differently on each listen. It's possibly one to listen through twice before making a decision, but give it the time to fester in your mind and you'll beam from ear to ear.
Rating: 8/10
The Twang are playing two editions of their annual hometown Christmas show this year, headlining the O2 Academy on both December 22 and 23


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This is an important cruise ship and ferry port as well as a centre for the North Sea Oil industry. It provides a useful departure point for the crossing to Scotland.
Located at 58°58'N, 05°4'E.
This is a Port of Entry.
There are now three marinas here, The Vagen which is exclusively for visitors, another on the north side, just before the bridge and the new one by the Oil museum.
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Challenge 16
Percentage Calculator (Lesson 11 - Functions Practical)
This program is a percentage calculator that takes a number and % and returns the percentage value.
The result is:
The final coded used for the function is listed below you can review chg16-percentageCalculator.js for all the code iterations.
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Pairing:
>What was it like to pair with others to solve challenges?
I had a great time pairing with others. I love collaborating with people, and so working on a problem together with others is fun for me. It was a great learning experience as well, because I can sometimes fill the gaps in my knowledge with what my partner knows.
>Was something particularly fun or rewarding?
It was rewarding to find a good solution to the problems. The problems weren't super hard, so far, but it was nice to research and implement code that I wasn't super familiar with.
>Was something frustrating and difficult for you?
Nope, not so far.
Feedback:
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I didn't get any feedback yet :(.
>Was the feedback you received helpful to your learning?
Not yet.
>Based on the feedback you've received, what are you going to do to improve next time you
pair?
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>How was it to write feedback?
Writing feedback has not been very difficult because I've had great partners!
>What was most difficult for you when writing feedback for your pair?
I didn't feel like I could really critique anything about the pair because everything went so smoothly.
>Overall, what do you think of using pairing and feedback to guide your learning?
Great idea, especially for people that like to collaborate creatively. I don't think it always works super well, but when two people are on the same page it's a great use of time.


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- This environment is different than the website. There is only one, shared, account that is used for logging in. Do NOT change the Email or the Password.
- In this tutorial the Navagational Bar is referred to as the navbar.
- Every website has a navbar. It normally appears at the top of the page or on the left side of the page. As a user clicks links in the navbar to go to different pages within the website, the navbar retains its position making it easy for the user to navigate to other pages within the website.
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• Maintenance website and database files on cPanel
• Solve multiple fatal errors that occurred to the company website
• Improve website function and operation through WordPress and WooCommerce
• Develop multi-platform advertising campaigns
• Create and maintenance multiple social media pages
• Use PPC (pay per click) strategy to get more market share
• Analyze company's financial data and operation function to estimate profit range of company and lowere cost budget of next year by 37%
• Manage a team of 5 and help company to pass government inspection within a few weeks
• Maintain relationship with over 50 clients
• Consult with client of financial plans and increase average extra income of clients by over 40%
• Associate with over 30 clients and make over 1,500,000 RMB contracts for company within one month
• Manage a team of 3 to hold a marketing event and gain over 200 potential customers from it
GPA: 3.8
Awarded $12,500 merit – based scholarship
Coursework: Financial Econometric, Public Finance, International Trade, Game Theory
To be done


Allows for a distinction between failing tests and failing configuration methods. Failing tests can be seen as an unstable build whereas failing configuration methods are a failed build


abstract val providers: Map<String, Provider>
The map of initialized security providers where the key is the provider name.


Who's Winning The Bond War?
by Brad ZiglerSummary
- It's tough being a leveraged ETF portfolio.
- Leveraged bond ETFs got nosebleeds from the altitudes they attained while interest rates were ratcheted down over the past year.
- Among the top five performers on a year-to-date basis, three come from the ProShares stable and two hail from the Direxion family.
Look beyond a leveraged fund's gross return.
It's tough being a leveraged ETF portfolio. You're likely to be both loved and reviled, often at the same time. Scorn is heaped upon you when your value sinks faster than a deep sea anchor, but you're adored as your share price soars stratospherically. Now that the Fed has signaled its willingness to hit the pause button on further rate cuts, it's a good time to look back to measure leverage's impact.
Leveraged bond ETFs got nosebleeds from the altitudes they attained while interest rates were ratcheted down over the past year. Positively leveraged funds, that is.
US Treasury Yield Curve
Who's done the best? Well, among the top five performers on a year-to-date basis, three come from the ProShares stable and two hail from the Direxion family.
At the top of the table is the triple-leveraged Direxion Daily 20+ Year Treasury Bull 3x Shares (NYSEARCA:TMF) portfolio with a whopping 55-year duration. Exquisitely sensitive to interest rate shifts at the long end of the yield curve, TMF was rocket-fueled this year, earning a 1.32 information ratio. The quotient of an investment's excess return over its tracking error, a positive IR is the ultimate justification for active risk.
The ProShares Ultra 20+ Year Treasury (NYSEARCA:UBT) tracks the same index as TMF, but at just 200 percent of the benchmark's daily returns. Not surprisingly, UBT's year-to-date return significantly lags TMF's, but the ProShares fund is a more cost-efficient producer of excess returns.
The table's shortest duration belongs to the ProShares Ultra High Yield (NYSEARCA:UJB) fund. The lightly traded ETF aims to produce double the daily return of the Markit iBoxx USD Liquid High Yield Index, a market-value-weighted assortment of so-called "junk" bonds with remaining maturities of 3 to 15 years.
Exposure to intermediate-term Treasurys is offered by the Direxion Daily 7-10 Year Treasury Bull 3x Shares (NYSEARCA:TYD) fund and the ProShares Ultra 7-10 Year Treasury (NYSEARCA:UST) portfolio.
The Direxion product is treble-leveraged while the ProShares fund aims for a daily double of benchmark returns.
Intermediate-Term Treasury ETFs
Daily compounding: A good thing?
Because of their daily resets, leveraged funds are normally considered as tactical weapons, not strategic holdings. Recently, though, positive compounding has made longer holds of these funds irresistible to many investors and advisors. How so? Consider an index that cranks out 5 percent returns for five straight days. A treble-leveraged fund tracking that index would rise by 15 percent daily, leaving it at the end of Day Five with a 101 percent gain, more than four times the concomitant index return.
Of course, no market relentlessly rises without some degree of volatility, but there's been enough upside in bonds this year to tamp down normal trepidations about downside deviance.
This won't last forever. We've, in fact, already seen some slowing in the funds' momentum. It's pictured in the chart above. At this point, portfolio managers have to consider the deleterious effect of daily compounding in a flat-to-downtrending market. Dithering is corrosive; a downtrend could be disastrous.
Think back to our hypothetical index. What if it declined 5 percent on Day One, then rose 5 percent the in next trading session? The index would then be close to breakeven, but an ETF offering three times the benchmark's daily return would be more than 2 percentage points underwater on Day Two.
You can just imagine the effect of several consecutive days of index losses on a leveraged portfolio.
Who wins?
So, who comes out on top? That depends on your point of view. On the basis of gross returns, the nod goes to TMF, but adjusting the active risk payback for holding costs over the past year gives UST the edge. The ProShares fund's 1.82 information ratio is earned for a comparatively cheap 95 basis points.
Editor's Note: The summary bullets for this article were chosen by Seeking Alpha editors.


Issues
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| 590 |
REQUEST: Option not to send out Growl notifications if iTunes is focused |
Synergy | open | feature request | |
| 589 |
REQUEST: last.fm "Loved Tracks" feature |
Synergy | open | feature request | |
| 588 |
synergy vs. last.fm - scrobbling conflicts |
Synergy | open | bug | |
| 587 |
REQUEST: Full-screen mode for Floater |
Synergy | open | feature request | Created , updated |
| 586 |
REQUEST: stop-after-current-track |
Synergy | open | feature request | Created , updated |
| 585 |
REQUEST: Auto-switch to login window after period of inactivity |
WinSwitch | closed | feature request | Created , updated |
| 584 |
Dropdown menus don't work in IE7 |
wincent.com | closed | bug | Created , updated |
| 583 |
REQUEST: Auto-pause when screensaver activates |
Synergy Advance | open | feature request | Created , updated |
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REQUEST: Exclude certain users (admins, test accounts) from WinSwitch menu |
WinSwitch | closed | feature request | Created , updated |
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Track info in menu bar |
Synergy | closed | bug | Created , updated |


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var e = Event.new|; function watchEvent() { at (e?) lobby.echoEach(Job.current.backtrace); }|; function sendEvent() { e!; }|; watchEvent; sendEvent; [00008208] *** file.u:5.20-42: backtrace [00008208] *** file.u:9.3: emit [00008208] *** file.u:12.1-9: sendEvent [00008208] *** ---- event handler backtrace: [00008208] *** file.u:4.3-5.43: onEvent [00008208] *** file.u:11.1-10: watchEventOn the same example, Urbi 2.7.1 displays:
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The CEO’s Reading List: November 16, 2019
Missed all the important economic news this week because you were jet-setting? It’s been a busy week for the economy. Here’s a curated reading list of BL’s top stories on the economy over the week.
Covered up
After the earlier controversy about withholding the NSSO Labour Survey showing a spike in unemployment, the Centre has stirred up a new one about the NSSO’s critical Consumer Expenditure Survey, which provides insights on the changes in spending patterns of Indian consumers. The Centre has cited data quality issues with the Survey, which showed a fall in rural consumption.
Also read: Consumer expenditure survey 2017-18 not to be released due to data quality issues
Record losses
Airtel and Vodafone-Idea broke the wrong kind of records, reporting combined losses of over Rs 73,000 crore for the latest September quarter after the Supreme Court’s AGR ruling.
Also read: Airtel, Voda-Idea report combined loss of ₹73,000 cr
How they did it
How did the Indian telcos get into this soup? This Think story traces the history.
Also read: How to untangle India’s telecom mess
Consumption gloom
The RBI, however, predicted a sharp fall in private final consumption expenditure in its latest survey of professional forecasters who feel that PFCE growth would fall by 250 bps from 8 per cent.
Also read: RBI sees sharp fall in consumption
Food price spike
Seasonal spikes in vegetable and egg prices seem to have propelled the October 2019 CPI inflation to 4.62 per cent above RBI’s comfort zone of 4 per cent, for the first time in 14 months. Core inflation remains low, while food prices have spiked.
Also read: Pricier foods push retail inflation to 16-month high
Path to resolution
NBFCs, which lacked a formal distress resolution process, may now come under the ambit of IBC, with the Centre introducing a few special provisions for systemically important financial service providers.
Also read: Insolvency process can now be undertaken against systemically important financial service providers


Birth control for mosquitoes to cut spread of diseases
by HALIMA ABDALLAHIn Summary
- Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes such as malaria, dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever account for about 17 per cent of all infectious diseases globally, claiming more than 700,000 lives each year.
The World Health Organisation is testing a radiation-based birth control method for mosquitoes, known as Sterile Insect Technique, to control dengue fever, Zika and chikungunya diseases.
Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes such as malaria, dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever account for about 17 per cent of all infectious diseases globally, claiming more than 700,000 lives each year.
Even though there have been no Zika cases in Uganda—where Zika forest is located—the country suffers a heavy burden of malaria, which is spread by anopheles species of mosquito.
In a news release on November 14, the WHO said that the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) involves rearing large quantities of sterilised male mosquitoes of the aedes species in special facilities, and then releasing them to mate with females in the wild.
As the sterilised males do not produce any offspring, the mosquito population declines over time, the WHO statement explains.
Because the technique uses radiation, organisations that approve scientific innovations meant for public use—Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations and the WHO—to develop guidelines for countries interested in testing the SIT.
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“Half the world’s population is now at risk of dengue,” said Dr Soumya Swaminathan, WHO chief scientist.
“Despite our best efforts, current efforts to control it are falling short. We desperately need new approaches and this initiative is both promising and exciting.”
The guidelines on using the technique to control diseases in humans recommends adopting a phased approach that allows time to test the efficacy of the sterilised insects.
The SIT was first developed by the US Department of Agriculture and has been used successfully to target insect pests that attack crops and livestock, such as the Mediterranean fruit fly and the New World screw worm fly. It is currently in use globally in the agriculture sector.


The Vector Class constructor
(getter/setter) The y value of the vector.
(getter/setter) The x value of the vector.
(getter/setter) The y value of the vector.
(getter/setter) The y value of the vector.
(getter) Vector area.
(getter) Returns the basic array representation of this vector.
(getter/setter) Vector height. Alias of {@link Vector#x x}
(getter/setter) Vector height. Alias of {@link Vector#x x}
(getter/setter) Vector height. Alias of {@link Vector#x x}
(getter/setter) Vector height. Alias of {@link Vector#x x}
(getter/setter) The length of the vector
(getter/setter) The length of the vector
(getter/setter) The length of the vector presented as a square. If you're using length for comparison, this is quicker.
(getter/setter) The length of the vector presented as a square. If you're using length for comparison, this is quicker.
(getter/setter) Vector width. Alias of {@link Vector#x x}
(getter/setter) Vector width.
The vector to add to this one
Returns itself, modified
Clones the vector and adds the vector to it instead
The vector to add to this one
Returns the clone of itself, modified
Adds a scalar to the vector, modifying both the x and y
The scalar to add to the vector
Returns itself, modified
Clones the vector and adds the scalar to it instead
The scalar to add to the vector
Returns the clone of itself, modified
Clones the vector
The cloned vector
Calculates the cross product between this and two other supplied vectors
The cross product of the two vectors
Calculates the distance between this and the supplied vector
The vector to calculate the distance from
The distance between this and the supplied vector
Calculated the distance on the W axis between this and the supplied vector
The vector to calculate the distance from
The distance, along the y axis, between this and the supplied vector
Calculates the distance on the X axis between this and the supplied vector
The vector to calculate the distance from
The distance, along the x axis, between this and the supplied vector
Calculated the distance on the Y axis between this and the supplied vector
The vector to calculate the distance from
The distance, along the y axis, between this and the supplied vector
Calculated the distance on the Z axis between this and the supplied vector
The vector to calculate the distance from
The distance, along the y axis, between this and the supplied vector
Divides one vector by another.
The vector to divide this by
Returns itself, modified
Clones the vector and divides it by the vector instead
The vector to divide the clone by
Returns the clone of itself, modified
Divides the vector by a scalar.
The scalar to divide both x and y by
Returns itself, modified
Clones the vector and divides it by the provided scalar.
The scalar to divide both x and y by
Returns the clone of itself, modified
Calculates the dot product between this and a supplied vector
The vector object against which to calculate the dot product
The dot product of the two vectors
Inverses the vector.
Returns itself, modified
Clones the vector and then inverses it.
Returns itself, modified
Multiplies one vector by another.
The vector to multiply this by
Returns itself, modified
Clones the vector and multiplies it by the vector instead
Returns the clone of itself, modified
Multiplies the vector by a scalar.
The scalar to multiply both x and y by
Returns itself, modified
Clones the vector and multiplies it by the provided scalar.
The scalar to multiply both x and y by
Returns the clone of itself, modified
Negates the vector.
Returns itself, modified
Clones the vector and negates it.
Returns itself, modified
Normalises the vector down to a length of 1 unit
Returns itself, modified
Clones the vector and normalises it
Returns a clone of itself, modified
Resets the vector coordinates
Resets the vector coordinates to another vector object
The vector object to use to reset the coordinates
Alias of {@link Vector#multiplyScalar__anchor multiplyScalar}
Alias of {@link Vector#multiplyScalarNew__anchor multiplyScalarNew}
Subtracts one vector from another.
The vector to subtract from this one
Returns itself, modified
Clones the vector and subtracts the vector from it instead
The vector to subtract from this one
Returns the clone of itself, modified
Subtracts a scalar from the vector, modifying both the x and y
The scalar to subtract from the vector
Returns itself, modified
Clones the vector and subtracts the scalar from it instead
The scalar to add to the vector
Returns the clone of itself, modified
Iterpolates a provided anonymous value into a vew Vec4
The value to interpolate
out
Performs a linear interpolation between two Vec4's
the first operand
the second operand
interpolation amount in the range of 0 - 1
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A basic 3D Vector class that provides simple algebraic functionality in the form of 3D Vectors.
We use Getters/setters for both principle properties (x & y) as well as virtual properties (rotation, length etc.).
Liam Egan<EMAIL_ADDRESS>1.0.0
Jan 07, 2020


Link everything – Linker
About Linker
Linker is an open source Discord bot that automatically generates links for you.
You want to link a website in a conversation?
Concentrate on the important things and let Linker do the work.
How does it work?
If you want Linker to generate a link to an article in a MediaWiki such as Wikipedia or Fandom, you only have to specify your Wiki and you are ready to go. By bracketing a word with { and }, for example {Earth}, the bot automatically generates the link and sends it directly below your message.
You want to give someone a summary on a topic? No problem.
Just put a $ in front of your article.


simple configuration tool for os x
osxc installs software on your mac and configures it automatically, just by writing a few lines of code.
--- # my mac: roles: - role: dashboard disabled: YES - role: brew_package package_name: node - role: cask_package package_name: minecraft
lost everything on your hard drive?
osxc got your back, don't waste your time reinstalling your dev environment.
want to experiment new configuration?
just try it, your configuration repository is versioned.
osxc is still young and has not been tested intensively for now.
just be careful when you use it on your existing environment!
of course, if your os x starts fresh, go on! try it and enjoy!
xc-custom will be your main configuration repository, unless you want to change a fundamental behavior in osxc, you'll always change xc-custom.
xc-boot is a very simple script to get you started with osxc.
for now, as the software is not really stable, and especially this script, you should do the following:
git clone https://github.com/osxc/xc-boot.git ~/src/github.com/osxc/xc-boot cd ~/src/github.com/osxc/xc-boot sh boot.sh github.com/{your github username}/xc-custom
we don't want to hide ansible so it will be very straightforward if you already know ansible
cd ~/src/github.com/{your github username}/xc-custom ansible-playbook all.yml -K
we just installed a few things for you, but now it's time to get your hands dirty!
don't worry, for most of the things you'll want to do, you'll just need to add a few lines in all.yml
never "drag to install" anymore or forget your software configuration.
just repeat steps 4 and 3.
osxc is an ansible-based set of tools.
if you know bash, you already know ansible! unlike chef or puppet, ansible's language, the playbooks are really easy to learn.
we just provide you a set of tools targeted for os x on top of ansible to get started more easily.
osxc is mainly a set of playbook roles made for os x configuration
it handles for example:
osxc is opiniated on the way you should work
first, osxc wants to be accessible on your home directory so you can tweak it:
~/src/github.com/osxc/
then, osxc wants almost everything to be accessible through git:
~/src/github.com/mxcl/homebrew/
of course, you should do like him!
~/src/github.com/{your github username}/
as said before, just start with simple tricks in all.yml (see my custom all.yml)
then, when you understand how ansible works, you'll be able to create new roles just for you! (see my custom roles)
you can contribute your best roles by submitting a pull-request to xc-common
feel free to submit an issue when anything goes wrong!
created by rricard, under mit licence


Present address: NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey 08540-6649, USA
The discovery of planets orbiting double stars at close distances has sparked increasing scientific interest in determining whether Earth-analogues can remain habitable in such environments and how their atmospheric dynamics is influenced by the rapidly changing insolation. In this work we present results of the first three-dimensional numerical experiments of a water-rich planet orbiting a double star. We find that the periodic forcing of the atmosphere has a noticeable impact on the planet's climate. Signatures of the forcing frequencies related to the planet's as well as to the binary's orbital periods are present in a variety of climate indicators such as temperature and precipitation, making the interpretation of potential observables challenging. However, for Earth-like greenhouse gas concentrations, the variable forcing does not change the range of insolation values allowing for habitable climates substantially.
Large variations in insolation experienced by circumbinary planets raise the question of the habitability of such planets. Here, the authors show that while the changing insolation does not radically affect habitability, it does impact on the planet's climate and on the interpretation of future observations.


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This game was designed for the HTML5 & JavaScript Game Programming module of the University of West of Scotland (UWS).
The aim of this course was to create a basic playable browser game. However, this game must include few gameplay mechanics in order to discover and understand how a javascript game is working.
As it was only a 2 months project, all student used a free library framework 'Phaser' to help him to design his game.
Being a great amateur of Rogue-Like game (as Rogue Legacy, The Binding of Isaac,...), I decided to design a Rogue-Like game for this project : Scogue, my scottish rogue ! .
In this part I will introduce the main gameplay mechanics.
HealthPoint : This features able to know if the player is alive or not. It is based on 2 points, the maximum HealthPoint Pool and the current life (which obviously can't be more important than the maximum HealthPoint pool)
When the HealthPoint of the player reach 0, you lose the life and also all of your progression...
However, as the main design of the game is based on 'Rogue Like' you will be able to use the collected resources (coins, score) to upgrade your current stats for the next life ! Be carrefull to spend the maximum of your resources, because you will lose of all it by starting a new life.
Damage : This features correspond to the based amount of damage you will inflict to your opponents This value will be changing in function of the weapon used, there are 4 differents weapons gameplay available (hammer, bow, axe, sword). The direction of you attack is depending of the player direction.
Armor : The player have an amount of armor. This armor is used to calculate a percentage of armor reduction (logarithmic function) which will be able to prevent the player against important damage.
Coins : Is a resource of the game using to buy new stuff providing more amor, damage, hp.. but also to acquire some spells (as double jump, dash..). You will gather it from monsters and interactive object of the game (as chest...)
Speed : Define the movement speed of the player, this can be modificated when the player is walking on some kind of ground (as for example ice, mud, ...)
Invulnerability : Is used to prevent the player and the monsters to take to much damage in a short time. The sprite will be blinking if the character is actually invulnerable.
Jump : Is based on 2 main points. Firstly the Height of the jump, in order to limit the direct access to some platform. And the Delay which fix the time between 2 jumps. It can be modificated with items
Score / Time elapsed : Both of this mechanics are working together.  Whereas the time elapsed is just depending of the time played. When you are die, you will receive an amount of "Glory" depending of the score realised and the time elapsed (less you have played more it will be important). The Glory is used as the resouces to upgrade your main characteristic (HealthPoint, Armor...), and it will be reset when you are starting a new life.
If you want are interested to do some trick/cheat in the game, you can use the few of the command available below.
...............


BurzeDzisNet example application
= MY_LOCATION ?> located at = $point ?>
Change the current location and monitoring radius in application file 'index.php'
Storm report
| Parameter |
Value |
| Monitoring radius (km) |
= $storm->getRadius() ?> |
| Registred lightnings |
">
= $storm->getLightnings() ?>
|
| Distance (km) |
= $storm->getDistance() ? : "-" ?> |
| Direction |
= $storm->getDirection() ? : "-" ?> |
| Time period |
= $storm->getTimePeriod() ?> |
Weather alert
| Name |
Level |
Starts |
Ends |
"glyphicon glyphicon-asterisk",
"heat" => "glyphicon glyphicon-fire",
"wind" => "glyphicon glyphicon-flag",
"storm" => "glyphicon glyphicon-cloud-download",
"tornado" => "glyphicon glyphicon-refresh",
"precipitation" => "glyphicon glyphicon-cloud"
];
foreach($weatherAlert as $name => $alert) { ?>
getlevel() > 0) echo 'class="danger"' ?>">
| = \ucfirst($name) ?> |
= $alert->getLevel() ? : "-" ?> |
= $alert->getStartDate() ? : "-" ?> |
= $alert->getEndDate() ? : "-" ?> |
Source: www.burze.dzis.net


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Where does it come from?
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The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.
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| Name: SMT PALLAVI | Reg No: 4-6SMMHC18 |
|---|---|
| Age / Sex:33 YRS/F | Contact No:7081663463 |
| Marital Status:ML – 3 YRS | Date:10/6/18 |
Occupation:BANKER- BANK OF BARODA BTECH IN ECE |
Dr. PJFP |
Address: NATIVE OF LUCKNOW UP. IN BLORE SINCE 1.5 YRS |
DIAGNOSIS- |
MILD PINCHING PAIN B/L BREASTS. SINCE 1 YR. OR SO
BLOATING ABD, FEELS GASSY. MORE FLATUS. SINCE 1.5 YRS.OR SO. NO MODALITY.
AT TIMES CONSTIPATION.
SKIN SENSITIVE DRY EASILY TANNED.
PAST H/O:
3 YRS BACK – CONSTIPATION PILES AND TOOK HOMOEO MED THEN.
SKIN RASHES TO MUSTARD OIL
USE TO PLAY IN SWIMMING POOLS A LOT IN CHILDHOOD.
6 MONTHS OF AGE HAD MEASLES
CHICKEN POX 2012 BEFORE DADS DEATH.
PERSONAL H/O:
EGGETARIAN, EARLIER USE TO HAVE NON VEG. NOW LOST INTEREST. AVOIDS THE SOLID PART. CANT TAKE TOO SPICY FOOD.
THIRST NOT MUCH – MORNING SHE IS HABITUAL TO DRINK 2 GLASSES. AGAIN TILL 2 SHE DOESN’T DRINK MUST THINK CONSTANTLY TO DRINK WATER.
CONSTIPATION IS FOUND < LESS WATER, FRUITS LESS. CANT FEEL VERY CLEAR WITH MOTION. MUCH BE ELAXED THEN ONLY FEELS BETTER WITH MOTION.
FAMILY H/O:
MOM: 62 YEARS – ARTHRITIS, HEART ATTACKS, DM BEGAN NOW.
DAD : DM, KIDNEY STONES, GALL STONES, CRF, DIED AT THE AGE OF 64 YRS. 2013.
DM RUNS IN FAMILY PATERNAL SIDE.
I DON’T FEEL MY GASTRITIS NORMAL. SAID MANY TIMES.
2015 WENT TO US 2.5 MONTHS- HAPPIEST MOMENTS.
WHEN WITH MOTHER ALWAYS GOOD NO MATTER WHAT.
MOST SADDEST MOMENT WHEN LOST FATHER.
ARRANGED MARRIAGE.
WANTS HYGEINE WITH CLOTHES AND WASHROOMS.
PERIODS ARE REGULAR.
NO H/O CONTRACEPTIVE PILLS.
WILL SHOW OUT THEIR ANGER.
WEARS MORE PADDED WIRED BRAS.
SWEAT IS MILDLY OFFENSIVE. USES DEO.
SLEEPS MORE ON LEFT SIDE. HAS SOME LUMPS HERE AND THERE ON THE LEFT ARM, LEFT THIGH. AND RT. BUTTOCK REGION.
HAD SOME URTICARIA 2 EPISODES LAST 2-3 YEARS.
USE TO HAVE MANY SKIN ALLERGIES.
HER BIRTH WAS PREMATURE –
FEARS SNAKES AVOIDS TELEVISION. IN OLD HOUSE USE TO GET SNAKES. DREAMS ALSO GETS SCARED. ANY CREEPY THING GETS SCARED.
RX:
THUJA 200 -1 DOSE
AMN 6C – DISC 4-0-4.
RUB 15 - NT B/FOOD.


'What's the point of that?': Lorraine Kelly lashes out during Jennifer Arcuri interview – video
TV presenter Lorraine Kelly has criticised Jennifer Arcuri for 'not saying anything' as the US businesswoman was questioned about her relationship with Boris Johnson during an interview on ITV's Good Morning Britain.
Aside from suggesting she was 'heartbroken' when he ignored her calls, Arcuri refused to give details about their relationship, prompting Kelly to say: 'What's the point of that, coming on and not answering any questions?'


s6-linux-utils
Software
skarnet.org
What has changed in s6-linux-utils
in <IP_ADDRESS>
- skalibs
dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>.
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- skalibs
dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>.
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- skalibs
dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>.
- s6-fillurandompool has been replaced with the new
rngseed program.
in <IP_ADDRESS>
- skalibs
dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>.
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- skalibs
dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>.
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dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>.
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dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>.
in <IP_ADDRESS>
- skalibs
dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>.
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- skalibs
dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>.
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- skalibs
dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>.
in <IP_ADDRESS>
- skalibs
dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>.
in <IP_ADDRESS>
- skalibs
dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>.
- Everything now builds as PIC by default no matter
the toolchain's settings. Use the --disable-all-pic configure
option to build executables and static libraries as non-PIC.
in <IP_ADDRESS>
- skalibs dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>.
- Optional nsss support added.
- s6-devd, s6-uevent-listener and s6-uevent-spawner
have been removed: mdevd obsoletes
them.
in <IP_ADDRESS>
- skalibs dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>.
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- skalibs dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>.
in <IP_ADDRESS>
- skalibs dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>.
- s6-halt, s6-poweroff and s6-reboot are not provided
by this package anymore: they're now a part of the
s6-linux-init
package.
- The s6-fillurandompool
program has been added.
in <IP_ADDRESS>
- skalibs dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>
- s6-halt,
s6-poweroff and
s6-reboot have changed behaviours.
They now send a signal to process 1 by default; to make them
perform a hard shutdown, add the -f option.
in <IP_ADDRESS>
- GNU make dependency pushed back to 3.81.
- skalibs dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>
in <IP_ADDRESS>
- skalibs dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>
in <IP_ADDRESS>
- skalibs dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>
in <IP_ADDRESS>
in <IP_ADDRESS>
- skalibs dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>
- s6-hiercopy removed. (Moved to s6-portable-utils.)
in <IP_ADDRESS>
- skalibs dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>
in <IP_ADDRESS>
- The build system has completely changed. It is now a standard
./configure && make && sudo make install
build system. See the enclosed INSTALL file for details.
- slashpackage is not activated by default.
- shared libraries are not used by default.
- skalibs dependency bumped to <IP_ADDRESS>