Small victory this morning: managed to set up -
in PowewrupTest - my Powerup tile to only show up
in a conditional situation. Below; the screen is blank
until user presses the 'u' key.
In Powerup, class definition:
In main, where things happen:
And now the render function in Powerup class looks like this:
Getting access to a level reading; this will become uself when
I want to set conditiions for the appearance of my Powerup:
Tedious, I know; but I need to understand how
things work through.
* * *
A falling powerup symbol, (including a Powerup class):
So friend Amberlynn Reid needs to get back on
track with her food intake. Here is what I would
suggest to get over the hump of having regained.
Do not start dieting with a diet day; start with a maintenance
day. Weigh yourself the next morning: that is your true
beginning weight.
Planning makes it happen: write down what your are
going to have that day in the morning. Meal1, Meal2, Meal3.
Try to eat on schedule, but it is not serious if - for whatever
reason - you go beyond a planned mealtime.
if you feel a compulsion to eat, have a maintenance meal at the
next turn. That is as much 'off the wagon' as it should get.
(Keep a few wrapped amd frozen you can microwave)
By all means, go to Uber Eats. You are 30 years old, and that is
appropriate for you. Order Sushi, Chiken Salad, whatever. You are
an adult.
Keep track of what days work best for you; work from those items
to expand your diet choices. Salad? Vegetarian? You already know
what the trigger ones are. Go sparse on seasoning, no salt or sugar
parties. Use fruit juices and herbs to season food.
Stop complaining; everybody who is normal weight is on a diet,
a healthy one for them. Try to think in terms of one main meal,
and two auxiliary ones (if not ancillary). Allocate from food groups.
That's how it is taugh in schools where I live.
Good Luck with it!
source: Le Devoir, 1:53 p.m.
author: Marco Belair-Cirino
tranlation : GoogleTranslate/doxa-louise
Prime Minister François Legault during a press briefing at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal.
People aged 85 and over will be vaccinated against COVID-19 starting next week, Premier François Legault announced Tuesday afternoon.
“This is very good news. […] You cannot know how pleased I am […] that we are going to move on to the population in general! ”He said in the Olympic Stadium in Montreal where one of the largest vaccination centers has been set up. “Hope is here. "
The head of government invited those eligible to reserve by Internet ( quebec.ca/vaccincovid ) or by phone at 1-877-644-4545 starting Thursday. "People who were born after 1936, don't call, don't go on the Internet," asked Mr. Legault, fearing that the circuits would be overloaded.
“Subsequently, all will fall into place,” promised Mr. Legault.
The COVID-19 vaccine will then be offered, in order, to people aged 80 to 85, then to the 768,000 aged 70 to 79 ... and to the 1,158,000 aged 60 to 69 .
The Quebec government had not opted for the quickest route by choosing, on the advice of the Committee on Immunization of Quebec (CIQ), to first vaccinate 75% of the 40,000 residents of residential centers and long-term care (CHSLD) - which is now done - indicated the director of the vaccination campaign, Daniel Paré, in an interview with Le Devoir last December.
To date, some 200,000 of the 325,000 workers in the health and social services network have received a vaccine against COVID-19.
The vaccination team will be faced with its "real test" in the spring when containers of vaccines and Quebeckers under the age of 60, who are not among the "priority groups", flock to vaccination clinics in all four corners of Quebec, also mentioned Mr. Paré to Le Devoir.
Further details will follow.
Benn looking at metatables, in lua, this morning. These are
tables that afect the behavior of an earlier table. (I am thinking
od the color of my blouse over the workweek, to illustrate
the examples!)
Below, it is possible to change a value on the table; but a new
key forcément belongs to the metatable...
Been working without positive results all morning on the Breakout
problem. Aftr working pointlessly on it all day yesterday, I now know
where the roblem is. In an enigmatic file under lib which defines the notion
of clas. So no I know it is absolutely crucial to putting my balls in play in
the game, from the ground up.
Progress, I guess...
source: La Presse
author: Mélanie Marquis
translation: MicrosoftEdge/doxa-louise
Production slowdowns
(Ottawa) The "turbulence" of February is a thing of the past, as Pfizer's plant in Puurs, Belgium, has increased its production capacity. However, Canada will remain at the mercy of this plant because "in the short term" the company does not "anticipate" the manufacture of vaccines in Canada. Interview with Fabien Paquette, Managing Director and Head of Vaccines at Pfizer Canada.
The timing was not ideal. An upgrade of the facilities in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, when all the countries of the world were awaiting vaccines? "Certainly there's never a good time," he says. In doing so, however, Puurs is now able to manufacture 2 billion doses rather than 1.3 billion doses for 2021.
But yes, "in Canada, what it meant was a two- or three-week slowdown in February," says Paquette. "It's not just Canada that has been affected by the slowdown, every country in the world has been affected"; the impacts were "pretty similar," but variable according to timetable, and now "the disturbances are behind us," he says.
For the immediate future, no manufacturing prospect in this country, however. "In the short term, we don't anticipate that this will happen," he says. Building a production plant takes years. On the other hand, a dialogue has begun between the company and the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, François-Philippe Champagne. "We're in talks," Paquette said, without providing further details.
Pfizer vaccines prepared in Puurs, Belgium
No patent infringement
In Europe, the pharmaceutical company has partnered with Sanofi and Novartis to help it manufacture the vaccine in the final stage. "We send the product to them and they put it in the vials and encapsulate it," explains Fabien Paquette. But from there to give the "recipe" to others and to give up intellectual property, there is a step that the company is not ready to take, ensuring displeasure from NGOs that demand it.
'What needs to be appreciated is that intellectual protection, patents, is a guarantee of innovation. We have to be able to keep that.' -Fabien Paquette, Managing Director and Head of Vaccines at Pfizer Canada
"Pfizer and BioNTech have invested billions of dollars to develop the COVID-19 vaccine, and if these investments have been made, it is thanks to the innovation of previous products. And the revenue we're going to generate with this vaccine will allow us to discover the next vaccine against cancer or other diseases," he continues.
Faster, more expensive?
In the meantime, the pace of Pfizer-BioNTech's deliveries to Canada is accelerating. By the end of June, we will receive 10.8 million doses instead of 8 million. By the end of September, 40 million doses will arrive. Did Ottawa pay more to get them faster? Contracts are confidential, Paquette replies. The government is paying 'the fair price,' he says.
Nor will it be said whether the doses delivered last December were delivered more quickly than expected. According to a preliminary analysis by Statistics Canada, the federal government spent $16 million on Pfizer and Moderna vaccines at an average price of $37.70 per dose. The figures circulating elsewhere, however, tend to show that Moderna's offeringss are more expensive.
In vitro studies conducted in recent weeks have shown that there is good protection against South African and British variants. Efficiency data for the Brazilian variant are expected to be released soon. "This is the advantage of messenger RNA vaccines for variants: you can make a genetic modification quickly," says Fabien Paquette.
On Tuesday, the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada,Der Theresa Tam, expressed serious concerns about the variants. There have been more than 540 cases of British (B117) contamination in the country, 33 of the South African variant (B1351) and one for the Brazilian variant (P1). Most worrying is that community-based spread has been observed in at least four provinces, as well as an increase in outbreaks, she noted.
source: Libération
author: Lucien Jacques, Moscow correspondent
translation: GoogleTranslate/doxa-louise
RUSSIA
Alexei Navalny on February 12, in front of the Babushkinsky court in Moscow. (AP)
This Tuesday, the Babushkinsky court in Moscow looks like a building under siege, surrounded by police cords, police parked nearby, ready to embark at the least disturbance... The everyday of yet another trial involving Alexeï Navalny . It is inside the building that the fight is taking place: “Navalny against the veteran” Ignat Artemenko, 94 years old, former World War II. Tuesday, the third hearing Tuesday was cut short, like the previous two, February 5 and 12, which had turned into chaos and interrupted at the end of the day.
The case defies understanding, even by the standards of Russian justice, never stingy for a Kafkaesque trial against opponents of the Kremlin. It dates back to the summer of 2020, during the campaign which led to the adoption by referendum of a constitutional reform allowing Vladimir Putin to remain in power until 2036. At the time, the pro-Kremlin channel Russia Today broadcast a clip in which different personalities called to vote yes: actors, singers ... Among them, Ignat Artemenko, one of those old men with a chest covered with medals who are the object of a real cult in Russia. At the time, Alexeï Navalny spotted the video and made a sharp comment about the participants, whom he called “traitors” and “lackeys”.The message could have gone unnoticed, but Ignat Artemenko filed a complaint against the opponent for defamation. It is this case, diluted by his poisoning in August , followed by his spectacular return to Russia in January, which brings Navalny before the Babushkinsky court in Moscow.
"Selling Grandfather "
The context is paradoxical: unlike his other cases, where prison sentences have been requested or pronounced against him, Navalny risks at most a heavy fine. But for once, the accusation against him finds an echo in Russian society, very attached to respect for veterans. It also strikes directly at the opponent's weak point: his divisive personality, which prevents many Russians from supporting him. And if the objective was to attract Navalny, very comfortable when it comes to transforming a courtroom into a political platform, in a mud fight, the Kremlin propagandists can rejoice: he rushed headlong into the trap. From the start of the first hearing, on February 5, the trial degenerated into a spectacle where the absurd disputes it with sadness, the chaotic with the revolting.
During his testimony by videoconference, Artemenko does not hear the questions put to him and ends up falling ill. Navalny argues that the former soldier is reading, without understanding anything, a text written in advance, shouts that judges and prosecutors "will burn in hell" for having helped Putin "to hide behind an old man to whom [they have] stuck medals ”. The questioning of witnesses turns into a farce, the judge canceling one by one all the questions asked by the defense and systematically declining the lawyers' requests. Then the trial turns into a screaming match between the grandson of the veteran, called to the bar, and Alexeï Navalny, who, from the accused's box, calls him a "grandfather salesman"and accuses him of having been paid to file a complaint. The prosecutor ostensibly bursts into tears as she reads in detail the veteran's service records and, in her indictment, accuses Navalny of participating in a " campaign to discredit the victory in the great patriotic war ". Since then, each audience has added elements to the ongoing circus. Tuesday, Alexeï Navalny apostrophized the prosecutor, throwing him a provoking: "You want to shoot me?"
"Against the foundations of the Russian nation"
“ The goal is to demean Navalny on the moral plane,” advances columnist Mikhail Shevchuk. To show that he is not fighting against corruption, but against the very foundations of the Russian nation. The verdict could have been announced at the first hearing, it has certainly been ready for a long time, but the sponsors of this trial have an interest in keeping Navalny there as long as possible. Let him get angry and slip up. " In the state media , selected excerpts from this long deposition have been blown out to present Navalny as a provocateur and a negationist, a "Führer in boxers," quipped the presenter Vladimir Soloviev.
The next session has therefore been scheduled for Saturday February 20. The judge will read the verdict then, probably a fine of around ten thousand euros, the maximum penalty for defamation, required this Tuesday by the prosecutor. But the filth of this trial will stick for a long time: to Navalny, to the Russian justice system and to the Kremlin propagandists, who will have once again demonstrated, if necessary again, that no means are too base for them.
For those of us en attente for restaurants to re-open,
today is Shrove Tuesday i.e. Pancake Day. My favorite:
add maple syrup; or again, add whipped cream; but not together
or there will be a nasty surprise on the scales tomorrow morning.
Won't be making any this year; but I will share what I have been
enjoying from Bakery atHome these past days: a quick bread
with cranberries and pecan pieces. Nothing really special
about it, but the sweetness level is perfect, sweet and not sweet,
and it can be eaten with butter, cookie butter, whatever. The
secret: I sweetened it with light brown sugar and nothing else,
and splashed in some vanilla. 3/4 cup sugar for 2 cups of flour.
I was inspired to do this by the below YouTube from Chef
John, which made me appreciate that grain size does make a
difference, be it for salt or sugar.
Bon Appétit!
It's noon, -20 °C outside and I'm about to jump bail and
go for a friggin walk. Can't stand being cooped up inside, that morning
outing has become necessary for my equilibrium, physical and mental.
Ola!
Found what needed to be done on Expression Blend.
On the second disconnect (the bottom of the heart), one
calls cmd + alt to stay in the pen tool(with the little plus.
One then moves to close the heart, but the arms need to
be extended in keeping with the symmetry of the figure.
Working on a grid helps...
Wonderful video on the pen tool! I was so confused
and this cleared things up for me 😀
Read the Buzzfeed piece below, on eating disorders in men.
Yes, men are equally affected as women; just better at controlling
the buzz around it.
In particular surprised by the young man who reached anorexia to keep
looking 'in shape'; only realized as an adult that all that restriction
had stopped him from growing past 5"8 when he could have been
5'10!!
That's mind-bending. In an age of abundance, we have become the architects
of our growing bodies with confusion and shame on all sides...
* * *
This whole discussion about the usefulness of various vaccines is
getting rather byzantine. During clinical trials, different age groups
were more or less tested - without regard if subjects already had natural
immunity - and the results varied. Yeah...
Reflecting on the matter, we might be taking about how capable one's system
is capable of producing an immune reaction, which tends to be less with the elderly
but not absolutely so. This is why the elderly are more susceptible to the virus to
begin with.
As for the get vaccinated if you can approach, hard to argue against it. For us
older folk, anyway!
Finally cracked it: one creates a Ball class which is declared
as a metatable (look-up table) or prototype for ball instances.
One can then change behaviours on the various balls.
Just thought I would share this unpretentious little YouTube
presentation on city life.
In point of fact, I am engaged in much more nefarious activity;
I have finally broken down and found a YouTube vid that has code
for the Breakout assignment. A girl can only suffer incomprehension
so long...
Later, on how that goes.
https://www.lua.org/pil/13.4.1.html
In this scenario, Account gets refused if there are
insufficient funds and by extension, anything calling
account.withdraw will as well...
That is because Account is the prototype for the class-like structure I have
created with Lua.
A further twist below: I can as well keep the features of the prototype but
add another feature that will act on the one instance. Account 2 has a withdrawl
limit. Even with sufficient funds, it will be refused if over the limit.
In the midst of it all, something new from Moscow inventors:
an electric flying taxi, which goes from one parking space to another
autonomously.
