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Premutation Carriers
Premutation Carriers 2018-11-02T10:38:43+00:00
Premutation Carriers
When you or someone in your family are told you are a “carrier” for a Fragile X mutation, many questions arise. Do you have a premutation or full mutation? What does it mean for your health, your family, and your future? Does the size of your FMR1 gene matter?
Three members enjoying learing about premutation carriers.A carrier has an altered form of a gene that can lead to having a child or grandchild with a genetic disorder. We are all carriers of gene mutations, many of which are “silent.” This means we can pass the gene on but suffer no ill effects from it ourselves. It is only through genetic testing that we know which ones we carry. Some genes are on the non-sex chromosomes (numbered 1-22), which are the same in males and females, and some are on the sex chromosomes, which are the X and Y chromosomes.
Traditionally, a carrier of a genetic mutation is defined as a person who inherits an altered form of a gene but shows no effects of that mutation. However, in Fragile X this definition does not exactly fit, as carriers of a premutation are at risk to develop Fragile X-associated disorders including Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) and Fragile X-associated primary ovarian insufficiency (FXPOI).
CGG Repeat Ranges
A premutation carrier is an individual, male or female, who has between 55-200 CGG repeats in the Fragile X
(FMR1) gene. The full mutation is defined as over 200 CGG repeats. (A normal FMR1 gene has 6-54 CGG repeats.) Occasionally a female with a full mutation shows little or no effect of the full mutation and is sometimes referred to as a “full mutation carrier.” However, most of the time, the term “carrier” is used for those with a premutation.
Intermediate or “Grey Area” Alleles
An allele is a term to describe one’s gene, like green apples are a specific form of an apple. Some individuals have what is called an “intermediate” or “grey area” sized allele. These are alleles with 45-54 CGG repeats. They are not considered to be mutations and do not appear to be associated with any clinical or medical issues, developmental disabilities, or social/emotional difficulties. These alleles are identified as such because there is a small chance that they are mildly unstable and may expand to a premutation in future generations. There is no reported risk for an individual with an intermediate sized allele to have a child with a full mutation. Generally, we don’t use the term “carrier” for those with an intermediate allele.
Both Females and Males Can Be Fragile X Carriers
The gene for Fragile X (the FMR1 gene) is on the X chromosome, which is why Fragile X syndrome is called an X-linked disorder. Often in these disorders, only females are carriers and only males are affected. However, in Fragile X, both males and females can be carriers, and both can be affected by the condition.
This occurs because the changes in the FMR1 gene go through stages as it is passed down in a family. These stages start with the normal gene and then proceed to the premutation and then the full mutation. The differences in the stages are determined by the number of “CGG repeats” (repeats of a DNA pattern). In most other X-linked conditions, there is no middle “premutation” state, so males with the mutation are either affected or non-carriers.
Issues for Females
Females with a premutation are at risk to have a child, male or female, with Fragile X syndrome. The magnitude of this risk is related to the number of CGG repeats identified in her FMR1 gene. The larger the number, the higher the risk for expansion from a premutation to a full mutation if it is passed on.
Physical Effects
Among the first effects reported in premutation carriers were an increased rate of twin births and of premature ovarian failure (POI).
Premutation: We now know that approximately 20-25% of women with a premutation experience FXPOI, which is characterized by infertility, decreased ovarian function, early menopause, or irregular cycles. FXTAS is another medical effect of the premutation. It is more common in male carriers, but has been reported in about 5-8% of female carriers over the age of 50.
Full mutation: Women with the full mutation do not experience FXPOI or increased twinning rates.
Social-Emotional Effects
Given the stresses and emotional aspects of parenting a child with disabilities, along with stresses that can accompany the various reproductive issues associated with having a premutation (risks for an affected child, fertility and prenatal issues), researchers find it difficult to establish emotional effects that are a direct biological result of the premutation. Though most women with a premutation show no significant mental health issues, some have reported increased general anxiety, shyness, and social anxiety. In addition, there is evidence that women with the premutation are at increased risk for depression. It is therefore recommended that any premutation carrier who is concerned about depression seek the services of a mental health professional.
Issues for Males
Males can also carry the Fragile X premutation. A male carrier will pass his premutation (as a premutation, not a full mutation) on to all of his daughters and none of his sons. There is no reported risk for a male premutation carrier to have a daughter with Fragile X syndrome. However, there is a risk for Fragile X syndrome in his grandchildren through his daughters.
The most significant issue for males with a premutation is the risk for FXTAS.
Other than the FXTAS risk in older males, the vast majority of males with the premutation are clinically unaffected. There have been reports of a small subset of boys with a premutation who have an additional diagnosis of autism, ADHD, or other learning/behavioral disorders. It is possible that in a small subset of boys, these developmental disorders may be caused by an interaction of various genetic and non-genetic factors, one of which may be the FMR1 premutation. Research regarding this possible association is ongoing.
Research opportunity: Males over the age of 67 who are premutation carrier but do not have symptoms of FXTAS, or didn’t until after the age of 67, can help advance understanding and treatments by participating in this Emory University study on men with the premutation.
How many individuals are carriers of the FMR1 premutation? According to a 2012 study by the CDC, the frequency of Fragile X premutation in the U.S. is as follows:
• 1 in 151 females, or about 1 million women.
• 1 in 468 males, or about 320,000 men.
These statistics are important because both men and women are at risk for having symptoms linked to Fragile X-associated disorders.
Women with a premutation reported their last menstrual cycle at an earlier age than women without a premutation (48 vs. 51 years).
Men and women with a premutation were more than four times as likely to report dizziness or fainting as people without a premutation (18% vs. 4%). Men and women with a premutation were more than twice as likely to report numbness as people without a premutation (29% vs. 13%).
This study of 6,747 older adults in Wisconsin found 30 people with a change in the FMR1 gene. Based on this relatively small number of people, the results should be interpreted with caution. These findings may not reflect all people in the United States with an FMR1 premutation. For example, a large Israeli study found approximately 1 in 130 women were FMR1 carriers.
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Harvest Lane AM Absolute Return Fund
Harvest Lane Asset Management Absolute Return Fund (The Fund) ARSN: 614 662 627
The Fund aims to deliver consistent positive rates of return, with low or no correlation to equity markets regardless of underlying market and economic conditions.
The Fund invests selectively when the potential exists to generate outsized rewards relative to the risk being incurred. Historically, the Manager has found many such opportunities have existed within the ‘event’ space and as such regularly invests in merger arbitrage situations, along with select capital raisings and other corporate actions.
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• no one position (defined as exposure to the same group) risks more than 4% of the Fund’s capital when the position is established. This can increase to no more than 10% over the life of the investment (although it will typically be much less than 10%). Importantly, please note that none of these risk measures and limits mean that your monies are capital protected in any way.
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The Fund will invest in listed equities and derivatives, as well as cash. Harvest Lane may, in its discretion, invest in derivatives to gain an intended exposure or manage a particular risk.
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Learn Data Science, Machine and Deep Learning with Python
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PSPP for Beginners
Entering Data
The PSPP file is now ready for data entry. A simple grade book is used for illustration. The data are fictitious. This data file is available with the data in case you want to play around with it: psppFile.sav.
An example PSPP file with data entered for five students.
The easiest way to enter data is to click upon an empty field, enter the number or letters, then press the tab key to move to the next empty field to the right.
The Sex variable is coded so 1 = Male and 2 = Female. Be sure to use numbers in this field to speed up the data entry.
Each row has a case number at the left that represents a particular person. The general principle of SPSS data entry is that variables are in columns and individual people are in the rows. Each row represents one person. Work from left to right along the row as you enter data for each person.
Be sure to save your work when you are done.
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Microfiber Madness Crazy bag
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The Microfiber Madness Crazy Bag is a compact detailing mitt with a one size fits all form-fitting wrist cuff. It's made from the same ridiculously soft, mentally deep 75:25 (polyester:polyamide) microfibre material that made its debut in the original Microfiber Madness Crazy Pile Towel, and is thus ideal for final wipe down duties and quick detailing. Furthermore, due to its extreme softness, it's also ideal for dusting down delicate interior surfaces, including high gloss piano black trims and satnav screens. Yes, you could just a use a Microfiber Madness Crazy Pile Towel for such tasks, but the wearable nature of the Crazy Bag makes it easier to hold (with no risk of dropping it) and quicker to use (unlike the towel, it doesn't try to unfold itself as you sweep it over more heavily textured, grabbier sections of trim).
Weight: 500g/m²
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Pop quiz! Which Jameis Winston accusation does the following statement from Florida State University Athletic Director Stan Wilcox refer to?
A) The 2012 rape allegations and the intentionally botched police investigation that followed
B) The allegations that Winston profited from selling his autograph on "hundreds" of items, which is against NCAA rules
The answer is A!
Just kidding. This is college football. Of course it's B!
Another fun fact. Today, the FSU Seminoles played Notre Dame. Both of those universities had women accuse football players of sexual assault, and both of those universities dragged their feet on the issue.
But you know what motivated Notre Dame to hire a private investigator when one of its football players ran into serious relationship problems? A fake girlfriend.
Notre Dame: where being an imaginary woman is safer than being a real one.
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Giant nixie panel from USSR
dittoheaddittohead wrote 03/28/2017 at 20:24 • 4 min read • Like
Once in Internet I found photos of giant soviet panel named IGG1 (ИГГ1). It was looking stunning!
This panel made in two versions:
IGG1–32x32 with 32x32 dots resolution
IGG1–64x64 with 64x64 dots resolution
Some technical data:
Brighntness: 150–300 kd\m2;
Minimal anode voltage: 210–240v;
Working voltage: 400v
Working voltage range: 370–420v
Current per dot: 25 uA;
Refresh frequency: 1000 Hz;
Maximum cathode duty cycle: 64;
Anode duty cycle: 32;
Dimensions: 193x193mm;
Weight: about 1 kilo.
64 version have two alternates dots colors: green and orange
Made at late 1980x — beginning 1990x at “Gazotron” factory (Rivne, Ukraine)
Today I got one IGG-64 for test. Maybe do some table clock with Wi-Fi sync:)
On photos it looks more smaller than in real life.
Original packaging
Compare with Arduino board
Compare with iPhone 6S
Serial number
Original datasheet
Muth wrote 02/03/2018 at 11:09 point
For convenience I've created a project page to log what I've found so far :
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Supercrab wrote 01/28/2018 at 12:25 point
I’d love to know if you get this working too. I’d love to use one of these but the supply voltage is beyond my skills 😪
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jondaddio wrote 01/27/2018 at 03:11 point
Can't read the Russian datasheet, and looking through the tech info on eBay I have a question. How do you select between the red and green colors for a pixel ?? Do the pixels alternate in color (red, green, red green, etc), such that you can only get 32 red and 32 green across or down ??? So that would make it a 32x32 for red or 32x32 for green, but not 64x64 for all red or green.....
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Muth wrote 01/27/2018 at 14:48 point
Yes you're right, it is 64x64 pixels, but 2 times a 32x32 specific color matrix. Red (orange) and green alternate on a chessboard way
It is shown at the second page of the datasheet, I don't read Russian neither, but I searched green (зеленый) and red (красный) with google translate.
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jondaddio wrote 01/27/2018 at 17:18 point
Thanks for confirming what I was thinking.
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Muth wrote 01/18/2018 at 14:19 point
I think I start to have the idea of how the anode driver works:
Except the 10Kohm values visible on the video, the others resistor values are stupid guesses.
When input (V1) is at 0v, Q2 is 'closed', charging C1 and Q1 is 'open'. So output is at 180v (~V2)
When input (V1) is at 5v, Q2 is open, Q1 is closed, putting C1 in series to the 180v, out is at 360v (~V2 + Vc1).
Transistors might be high voltage BJT NPN such as the MPSA42.
As I don't have yet these transistors, however I've tested 'manually' to charge a tiny capacitor (10nF) at 180v, then placed it in series with the 180v power supply and one anode. One cathode at ground. And yes, a pixel is flashing :)
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Mike Szczys wrote 01/17/2018 at 15:57 point
These panels are inexpensive and available on eBay. I'd love to see you (or anyone else) get one up and running. The video @Muth linked to has a bit of a demo and the pixels have a really striking appearance!
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Muth wrote 01/17/2018 at 13:14 point
The DIP packages should be shift register of some sort.
I don't know the types of the transistors, npn, pnp, fet or... So far I can only see something such as :
I'm not enough advanced in this kind of electronic to really 'see' how it's working yet.
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Muth wrote 01/17/2018 at 11:57 point
I found this video on youtube :
Apparently it is possible to drive the anodes at 300-400V from a ~180V source, using a capacitor discharge.
I'm trying to figure out the schematics, not easy but doable.
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a.k.ranjithkumar wrote 09/11/2017 at 19:36 point
Did you get this working? Just curious.
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dittohead wrote 06/12/2018 at 11:47 point
Unfotunatley no, I dont have time to have fun with it:(
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• I love you Angel Wing Halo Ring
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Permission Customization forms
Version A – For Permissions NOT Dependent on Staff Having Courses
Version B - For Permissions Dependent on Staff Having Courses
What is this and How does it relate to PowerSchool Assessment
• Staff/permission groups are created to each district’s specifications. When a district wishes to add a new group or edit an existing group, the applicable form (from the 2 attached) needs to be completed and returned via email.
Associated Protocol
• Only Liaisons can request changes to staff/permission groups
Associated Communication/Suggested Responses
• To make changes to an existing group or to create a new group, a Liaison will need to complete the customization form and return it to us via email. Once we receive the completed form, it will be sent to the Account Maintenance Team. That team will send an email once the edits are complete.
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Targetinfopanel unit gardenofterror merc flower melee.png
Monster Information
Base Health 800
Base Damage 100
Attack Speed 1.5
Attack Range 0.5
Map Garden of Terror
Shamblers are plant-like monsters in the Garden of Terror battleground.
Starting at 2:30, a seed spawns in one of the four “corner” spawn locations of the map. Protecting the seed are four Shamblers with medium-high hit points and medium-low DPS. Once the shamblers are killed or distracted, a hero must channel the seed for 5 seconds to capture it. Once a seed is captured, it's a random time between 50-80 seconds until the next Shamblers spawn.
When the third seed is gathered, three Garden Terrors will immediately spawn and burrow to the front line of the winning team's lanes, bolstering their pushing efforts.
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Warcraft: Orcs & Humans logo
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Warcraft is a franchise of video games, novels, and other media originally created by Blizzard Entertainment. The series is made up of three real-time strategy (RTS) games where opposing players command virtual armies in battle against each other or a computer-controlled enemy and includes, Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness and its expansion Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal and Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and its expansion Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. The last and best selling title of the franchise is the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft and its seven expansions, The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria, Warlords of Draenor, Legion and Battle for Azeroth. A spin off online card game, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, was released which features elements from World of Warcraft; it was later renamed to just Hearthstone.
The series also resulted in the publishing of several books relevant to the Warcraft universe setting, covering a wide range of the timelines of the universe. A collectable card game was also published, which offered those who bought booster packs a chance to gain access codes to limited in-game content in World of Warcraft. An upcoming film adaptation is planned. A number of comics have also been released alongside the books, further covering parts of the universe's storyline. A short-lived, online-subscription only magazine was also available, but later ceased publication after just 5 issues.
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All games in the series have been set in and around the world of Azeroth, a high fantasy setting. The series initially focused on the invasion of the Human Kingdom of Azeroth by the Orcish Horde which arrived in Azeroth via a dark portal, from another world, referred to as Draenor. In Warcraft II the war is brought on to most of the Eastern Kingdoms and expends the conflict, with Trolls, Goblins and Ogres joining the Orcs and Dwarves, Gnomes and High Elves joining the Humans. At the end of the expansion the Orcish home world is shattered into pieces by demonic magics and becomes known as Outland. Warcraft III expanded the world of Azeroth, revealing the continent of Kalimdor, the new races of Night Elves and Taurens and a new major threat, The Burning Legion. World of Warcraft expended the world of Azeroth even more by introducing the continents of Northrend and Pandaria, forming two major factions, The Horde which includes the Orcs, Trolls, Tauren, Goblins, Blood Elves and Forsaken and The Alliance which includes the Humans, Dwarves, Gnomes, Night Elves, Worgen and Draenei with both factions having representatives of the Pandaren race. Major elements introduced to the world included the Titans, Old Gods and Elemental Lords.
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There are currently 40 Warcraft heroes in the game, including 17 Assassins, 12 Warriors, 8 Supports, and 4 Specialists.
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ONLINE DISPATCH: Veiled Illusion
Fellows Spring 2003
By Sarah Wildman
June 05, 2009
Paris, France -- If you find yourself in the twentieth arrondissement of Paris this year, you'll see a broad banner stretched across the front of the Marie--the city hall for the district--proclaiming 2004 to be the "Year of Laicité," that difficult-to-translate French concept of secularity. But beneath it, as residents of the district rush past the building, you might find women wearing the hijab, the Muslim headscarf, blithely ignoring the banner's appeal. And should you find yourself there this coming Saturday, you will surely see thousands of such women on their way to a demonstration.
That's because earlier this week the French National Assembly passed, by an overwhelming majority, a law banning the headscarf and other "conspicuous symbols" of religiosity in French public schools. The French government believes that banning the headscarf will reduce radicalism and facilitate the integration of the Muslim population of France into the public school system. But the reason that Muslims aren't better integrated into French society has little to do with the headscarf. And, if anything, the ban will only make France's "Muslim problem" worse.
Probably the chief accomplishment of the uproar over the veil has been to obscure the socioeconomic problems--such as astronomical unemployment, miserable housing conditions, and entrenched racism--that are the true obstacles to Muslim integration in France. Since the early 1990s, Islam has drawn strength from the problems of the banlieue, the gritty urban suburbs that house the poor outside French cities. The unemployment rate in the banlieue hovers above 25 percent, and reaches as high as 40 percent in some areas. Only four percent of the beur--French slang for "Arab"--boys who grow up there reach university. For most, job prospects are dim. As one Tunisian Muslim woman told me recently, young Arab men turn to Islam because it is the only thing that gives them a sense of pride or honor. The future seems bleak, and the laws of the cite, as the housing projects are called, seem unrelated to life in Paris or Lyon. We won't find jobs, boys complain, so why look for them?
"The problem is integration, and it is socioeconomic," says Olivier Roy, senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), a government-funded institute in Paris. Roy argues that after the anti-veil law takes effect--following it's expected approval by the French senate next month--"the problems [of the community] will remain the same: the problems of joblessness, the ghettoization of schools in poor neighborhoods, and so on."
Actually, those problems could get much worse. Unlike Americans, Europeans (the French are by no means alone in this regard) have traditionally viewed cultural identity as inextricably linked to national identity. "What is painful to French society is to accept the fact that one can be French without being totally assimilated," says Farhad Khosrokhavar, a sociologist at Paris's prestigious L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales (EHESS). "That there can be integration without assimilation--that is the new model that people have difficulty embracing."
Yet prior to the current headscarf debate, many French Muslims believed that they could at least strive to maintain a dual identity. Moderate Muslim leaders encouraged the youth of the banlieue to see themselves as simultaneously Muslim and French. And, to some extent, it worked. Perhaps the most prominent example is Muslim soccer star Zinedine Zidane, the child of Algerian immigrants, who was chosen in a recent national poll as the most "respected" Frenchman in the country. Salman Rushdie has said that Zidane "has done more to improve France's attitude toward its Muslim minority ... than a thousand political speeches."
Once the ban goes into effect, the dual identity Zidane symbolizes will be much more difficult to maintain. Young Muslim girls will be forced to make a decision between their headscarves and their public school, and they're unlikely to choose the latter. As Nibelle Belkadi, a bare-headed student from Drancy marching against the government told the French daily Liberation on the day of the last major rally: "This law will create radicalism. Veiled girls will now go to Koranic schools."
Naziha Mayoufi is a 25-year-old masters student in American studies, and an English teacher in France. She is quite modern and stylish in that way that only French women are. She also wears the headscarf, although not when she teaches school. We met last year at the Mosque of Paris and spoke Wednesday by telephone. Mayoufi, too, fears that the law will cause Arabs to drift further from mainstream French culture. "Islamist radicals," she says, "will tell [Muslims who] were trying to work with others, with non-Muslims, who were trying to have a dialogue with them--they will tell them, 'We told you, there is no way possible with [the secular French]. There is only Islam. Islam is the unique path to take.' And things like that."
Of course, it's worth pointing out that the law doesn't directly affect that many girls. Khosrokhavar places the number of girls who insist upon on wearing the veil in school at 1,200, although many times that number wear it in the street. The problem, he says, is that "there is a self-consciousness that is being built that didn't exist [before], among girls and women, even those who do not wear the scarf. And among Muslims generally--a feeling of being rejected." This can only lead to further resentment and alienation, as it did in 1989, after three Muslim girls were banned from school in Creil, outside Paris, for wearing the headscarf. The "veil affair," as it became known, divided the country and bolstered the influence of fundamentalist Muslim groups, who sought to make it a referendum on the place of Islam in France. As prominent French political scientist Gilles Kepel wrote in his 1997 book Allah in the West, "from the autumn of 1989 ... the veil affair allowed the Islamist movements to extend their influence beyond their traditional circles and attract young, educated Muslims."
The great irony of the current episode is that most of those who wear the headscarf do truly want to be a part of French society. One of the original three girls from Creil, interviewed in Le Monde just two days ago, expressed regret at having been forced to leave her public school 15 years ago. And some of the girls protesting the law recently have gone so far as to wear the French tri-color flag wrapped about their heads as a hijab. "These girls demonstrate as French girls, with Muslim principles and Muslim beliefs, but are French above all," Mayoufi says. If only the French themselves could see that.
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Looking at this issue of E:CO, I am struck by the incredible diversity of topics and discussions proposed. In this current issue, for example, we have such topics as: Lifecycle Assessment of biofuels; How people’s mental models can affect organizational outcomes; Citizen trust and distrust and how AI might mimic cognitive functions in humans; Dynamical organizations theory, considering openness, synthesis and emergence; Dealing with a drone ecosystem; The paradoxical “Hispanic Paradox”; Leadership and Steinbeck’s ‘non-teleological thinking’, in embodying emergence in visioning; New poetic-scientific research instruments; Towards a plausible framework for cosmic evolution; Envisioning the future of work. This represents a remarkable spread of thought and of reflection.
This comes about because the underlying ideas arising from our deeper understanding of complexity and emergence are a really enormous step forward in our understanding of the universe, and also in the limits and possible transience of such knowledge.
When the ideas of self-organization and complexity first emerged, it was something of a surprise. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry had been given to Onsager in 1968, for extending thermodynamics from equilibrium situations to situations that were close to, but not at, equilibrium. Prigogine wanted to extend thermodynamics to situations further from equilibrium, which were subject to significant flows of energy and materials. In other words, move away from the science of systems that were isolated (no exchanges of external energy or matter) or closed (no exchanges of materials) to Open systems driven by material flows and temperature gradients. But, it proved difficult to establish clearly the behavior of a non-equilibrium open system. Eventually, faced with this seeming impossibility of predicting the precise trajectory into the future, the idea emerged that, if you couldn’t show what MUST happen from the equations, then somehow the system had attained some freedom in its possible behaviors! Different possible spatial and temporal patterns could emerge and entirely unexpected regimes of organized behavior could arise spontaneously. He initially called this ‘order through fluctuation’, as the precise forms and organizations that emerged depended on which fluctuation – non-average behavior – happened to occur, at the moment of instability.
This meant that a system subject to flows of matter and energy could take different possible paths of organizational evolution as a result of the creative dialogue between the macro and micro levels of the system.
But, despite the incredible interest and research that these ideas have led to, many people, trained in the ‘mechanical school of thought’ still do not grasp the open, evolutionary nature of all this. When we hear the word ‘system’ we automatically see a set of ‘variables’ within a border that marks their contact with the ‘environment’. But for Open Systems, which can exchange matter and energy with their environment, the physical separation of system and environment is not clear at all. An Open System is NOT necessarily in a box, with carefully controlled channels of flow in and out – as in the original chemical experiments and models. In our evolved and messy world, models and understanding comes from the decisions made as to which types of element interact strongly and may be the principle cause of the phenomena that we are examining. The ‘system elements’ and the elements that are considered as the ‘environment’ may be freely floating together. It is the person wishing to ‘understand’ what can happen that chooses which type of elements constitute ‘system’ variables and which define the ‘environment’ – which are variables and which are parameters? However, there is not necessarily ANY border. When looking at a problem in non-linear chemistry, it is fairly natural to think of a chemical reactor with controllable inputs. But in many physical and engineering domains, and in biology, ecology or in social interactions, the system and environmental variables may not be physically separated. Most ‘systems’ may need to be seen as subsystems of a larger world – depending on the problem considered and its timescale. Clearly, when trying to ‘explain’ what is going on somewhere, and what might happen, some factors may seem constant or slow moving, while others are changing more rapidly.
When a system is subject to flows of energy and materials (any living system for example) there can be ‘reaction chains’ that lead to self-organization – emergent spatial patterns or structures. These forms are both created by the reactions involved, and at the same time shape the reactions that are occurring. In the short term this can either lead to a stationary spatial structure, or to an oscillating pattern.
Prigogine called this idea ‘order by fluctuation’, meaning that the non-average local values of variables were ‘testing’ the stability of the patterns that were present, and could ‘tip’ them into new ones. Of course, this could not only be true of the ‘system variables’, but also of the variables that had not been considered as part of the system. Some new type of element can also ‘test’ the stability of the pre-existing patterns, and potentially grow. This constitutes an evolutionary mechanism, as some novel elements initially absent or rare may grow in the system and change it qualitatively. Also, elements with new folded structure may occur that offer some emergent functionality, which not only change the ‘system variables’ but also may change the environment. This means that the open system will change qualitatively over time, as new type of element, with new emergent behaviors will characterize the evolving open system.
This is how system dynamics of open systems is radically different from the ‘mechanical’ view that has been traditional. Indeed, much of system modelling has been about the need to predict behavior and study how to improve performance. But, once we examine a system operating in the real inhomogeneous and diverse world, we see that some systems will evolve qualitatively, while others may stagnate and disappear. New variables will emerge as important and new environmental factors may emerge as being vital. New morphologies will occur in elements of the system, with emergent functionalities and impacts. So systemic ‘learning’ occurs as a result of the co-evolution of sub-systems and their environments. This will defy precise prediction – and it is important to realize that Darwin did not use evolutionary theories to PREDICT what precisely would occur!
So, across a vast range of subjects of concern and importance, complexity offers us a new vision and understanding of how the universe operates, and how emergence is not a spectacular rarity, but in fact a basic mechanism of our creative universe. It has great importance of many areas of interest and also shows us the limits to the predictive mechanical model that was built by struggling competitors in the economic and commercial world we had developed. Instead, we have to embrace the creative, co-evolutionary processes and face up to the need to keep learning and evolving our understanding in a never-ending pursuit of emerging reality.
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An autosomal disorder of the peripheral and autonomic nervous systems limited to individuals of Ashkenazic Jewish descent. Clinical manifestations are present at birth and include diminished lacrimation, defective thermoregulation, orthostatic hypotension (hypotension, orthostatic), fixed pupils, excessive sweating, loss of pain and temperature sensation, and absent reflexes. Pathologic features include reduced numbers of small diameter peripheral nerve fibers and autonomic ganglion neurons. (From Adams et al., Principles of neurology, 6th ed, p1348; Nat Genet 1993;4(2):160-4)
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[Python-Dev] PEP 484 wishes
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon May 18 17:05:14 CEST 2015
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm at nextday.fi>
> 18.05.2015, 02:50, Guido van Rossum kirjoitti:
> On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm at nextday.fi>
> wrote:
>> Looking at PEP 484, I came up with two use cases that I felt were not
>> catered for:
>> 1. Specifying that a parameter should be a subclass of another
>> (example: Type[dict] would match dict or OrderedDict; plain "Type" would
>> equal "type" from builtins)
> I don't understand. What is "Type"? Can you work this out in a full
> example? This code is already okay:
> def foo(a: dict):
> ...
> foo(OrderedDict())
> This code is passing an *instance* of OrderedDict. But how can I specify
> that foo() accepts a *subclass* of dict, and not an instance thereof?
> A full example:
> def foo(a: Type[dict]):
> ...
> foo(dict) # ok
> foo(OrderedDict) # ok
> foo({'x': 1}) # error
You want the argument to be a *class*. We currently don't support that
beyond using 'type' as the annotation. We may get to this in a future
version; it is relatively uncommon. As to what notation to use, perhaps it
would make more sense to use Class and Class[dict], since in the world of
PEP 484, a class is a concrete thing that you can instantiate, while a type
is an abstraction used to describe the possible values of a
Also, what you gave is still not a full example, since you don't show what
you are going to do with that type. Not every class can be easily
instantiated (without knowing the specific signature). So if you were
planning to instantiate it, perhaps you should use Callable[..., dict] as
the type instead. (The ellipsis is not yet supported by mypy --
https://github.com/JukkaL/mypy/issues/393 -- but it is allowed by the PEP.)
>> 1. Specifying that a callable should take at least the specified
>> arguments but would not be limited to them: Callable[[str, int, ...], Any]
>> Case #2 works already (Callable[[str, int], Any] if the unspecified
>> arguments are optional, but not if they're mandatory. Any thoughts?
> For #2 we explicitly debated this and found that there aren't use cases
> known that are strong enough to need additional flexibility in the args of
> a callable. (How is the code calling the callable going to know what
> arguments are safe to pass?) If there really is a need we can address in a
> future revision.
> Consider a framework where a request handler always takes a Request object
> as its first argument, but the rest of the arguments could be anything. If
> you want to only allow registration of such callables, you could do this:
> def calculate_sum(request: Request, *values):
> return sum(values)
> def register_request_handler(handler: Callable[[Request, ...], Any]):
> ...
Hm... Yeah, you'd be stuck with using Callable[..., Any] for now. Maybe in
a future version of the PEP. (We can't boil the ocean of typing in one PEP.
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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#define in Java
Matt Gerrans mgerrans at mindspring.com
Thu Aug 15 17:10:21 CEST 2002
> 1. #define is not a variable, it's a preprocessor directive.
I think he really meant "How can I have a #defined variable in Java that
works like C/C++?"
> 2. comp.lang.python is not an appropriate forum in which to ask this
> question.
Actually, maybe it is; since Java doesn't have preprocessing, if you wanted
to add it, using Python might be the easiest way. However, the fact that
Java doesn't have preprocessing isn't an oversight, it is intentional. I
personally hate #defines and macros because they really make a mess out of
C/C++ code and make it harder to debug. But, if you insist on adding
C/C++'s obfuscating technology to Java, writing the preprocessor in Python
would be a snap (although, in keeping with the spirit of the project, you
might prefer Perl).
Python is great for code generation (in any language), too!
> > How to have a #define variable in Java that work like C/C++??
Why?!? And what do you mean by "works like?" Do you mean you want a
variable you can't see in the debugger? Whose type is very difficult to
determine? One which will give you compiler errors with line numbers from
a file you didn't even know you were compiling? One that will have strange
side effects that you may never understand? One which compiles as a
variable one day and an expression the next? Etc.
Okay, enough pontification, already; If you are looking for const, then in
Java you'd just use final, or static final. If you really want conditional
preprocessors, search google (I remember seeing a page for a project that
added preprocessor directives to Java, I don't remember if that was on
sourceforge, or elsewhere). Projects like Parc's aspect oriented
programming pre-process the Java to add their tricks.
If you are trying to avoid runtime checks (such as a platform-specific
behavior), because they supposedly hurt performance, then I would do the
following: get the code working with runtime checks, then do some profiling
and discover that these checks really don't affect performance at all. Then
you are finished ahead of schedule.
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Interview with Hajime Isayama, creator of Attack on Titan: “Better to have memorable art, even memorably bad art, and stand out.”
81IAG7cUoiLMen’s culture magazine Brutus recently did a special issue on Attack on Titan that included a lengthy interview with the manga’s creator, Hajime Isayama, in which he talks about such topics as how it feels to have produced an ultramega hit, how he came to be interested in manga, his inspiration behind the characters he’s created, and his thoughts on recent kaiju films, among a lot of other things. You may notice that the interviewer talks to Isayama almost like a psychologist; this is because he, in fact, is.
The magazine went on sale in November 2014, so the interview presumably took place sometime not long after volume 14 went on sale.
–Pleasure to make your acquaintance. I’ve been reading Attack on Titan since the first volume came out, but it’s since become such a smash hit that now you can find it at convenience stores. Do you ever feel pressure knowing that?
Hajime Isayama: Not really, I guess.
–The reality of it hasn’t hit you yet?
Isayama: It feels like reality is getting farther and father away. People say things say things like my dreams have become reality, but ever since I won that first prize back when I was nineteen, it’s felt more like reality has been growing distant.
–Did you not dream about finding this kind of success back before starting out as a manga artist?
Isayama: I knew that making a living from drawing manga is extremely tough, so my dream back then was just to make enough to feed myself with my manga, even if it never became a big hit — let alone the idea of becoming a millionaire.
–I’ve read in a previous interview that you didn’t originally think the idea for Attack on Titan would make for a popular manga.
Isayama: I thought it was great personally, but I figured that most aspiring manga artists must feel that way, and that I was just another kid underestimating how tough the industry really is. Continue reading
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Rumors: Nokia 8.1 to be announced on 28th November in India; Priced competitively
Tech site reports that HMD upcoming device from the Nokia 8 Series of the device will be announced in India on 28th November. The rumored Nokia 8.1 is not expected to be a direct Nokia 8 successor, but rather make the Nokia 8 line more affordable.
It is rumored to use the Snapdragon 710 as the SoC, and entries to the Geekbench database revealed 4GB of RAM and Android 9 Pie out of the box. It is also speculated that Nokia 8.1 will be the global variant of the already announced Nokia X7 in China. In one hand, that will make sense because Nokia 7 plus was announced in February and calling the device Nokia 7.1 Plus will cause additional confusion. On the other hand, it degrades the Nokia 8 Series from flagship SoC to a higher midrange SoC.
Nokia X7
In India, the device is rumored to cost 23,999 rupees, or 293 euros, which is an excellent price for the specs of the X7 (if the 8.1 is indeed the X7), and it is less than the price of Nokia 7 plus and Nokia 8 when they were launched in India. Considering that the Nokia 7.1, priced from 250 to 400 euros depending on the market and memory configuration, was recently launched in many markets, Nokia 8.1’s price in these market will probably be around 100 or more euros on the 7.1’s price, but that’s just speculation from my side. Let’s wait and see.
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Understanding Chronic Pain: Are You One Of The Millions Of Sufferers?
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If you have never dealt with chronic pain – or taken care of a loved one who suffers from it – it can be a challenging concept to understand. Whether you are afraid that you are dealing with chronic pain or you are already facing it and want to help your friends and family understand what it’s like, an overview of what chronic pain is and how it works can be helpful.
What is chronic pain?
Chronic pain is any type of pain that lasts longer than six months. It is the opposite of acute pain, which occurs after a disease or an injury that affects tissues in your body. While acute pain comes on suddenly and can be diagnosed or treated, chronic pain is persistent. In some cases, acute pain can develop into chronic pain.
What is living with chronic pain like?
The manifestation of chronic pain is as different as the individuals affected by it. Two people who have the same exact condition can experience the pain very differently. Chronic pain can be mild or severe. It can simply inconvenience your daily life, or make it impossible for you to do regular activities such as housework, driving, or working. The pain can be shooting, burning, aching, or stabbing. Individuals with chronic pain often experience stiffness and tightness in their body as well.
Chronic pain can take a toll on the rest of the body. It can result in depression, trouble sleeping, and anxiety. Once your body becomes fatigued as a result of living with chronic pain, your body can become so tense that it makes the pain worse. The emotional affects that chronic pain has can be almost as difficult as the physical struggles.
What are the causes of chronic pain?
The causes of chronic pain are varied. Common conditions that cause chronic pain are fibromyalgia and endometriosis. Headaches, back pain, and pain in the joints are frequent locations. While pain can affect a specific area, like the shoulder or the neck, it can also be a general muscle or nerve pain felt over the entire body.
How is it treated?
The most effective way to treat chronic pain is to treat the condition that is causing it. Pain can be a complex process. In general, pain signals are sent from somewhere on your body to the brain via your spinal cord. An effective way to manage chronic pain is to block or modify pain signals by manipulating the nerves near the spinal cord through injections or other means.
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Shadow Ops: Red Mercury Walkthrough In Sheeps Clothing
Home > Games > Shadow Ops: Red Mercury In Sheeps Clothing
I would suggest using the MP7, it has a good rate of fire and you can cancel the reload with a melee attack which is also rather quick as soon as he puts the magazine in (the counter will show 20 again)
Look for explosives, you can't really miss them
Be careful because this ones will fight from cover
And be careful here, if he pushes that over you it will instantly kill you, so just take a few steps back here
When you get to hear you will need to turn around and unlock the door
Just click "F" and go back to killing
After you went through the entire train, you will need to come back here and use the brakes to stop the train
After that go up the ladder
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Why should students learn to give speeches? Chapter 1 Do you feel nervous, does your heart beat faster and louder, do you get butterflies?
Many people forget public speaking and communication skills are important in most jobs. Are you one that has forgotten? LITTLE BUDDY!! sARAH DESTINY DENISE (cc) photo by twicepix on Flickr (cc) photo by tudor on Flickr Vocabulary Fun!! Adrenalin-a secretion released by the adrenal glands into the bloodstream that acts as a stimulant for the heart: usually produced in situations involving fear Communication apprehension- being fearful about participating in some form of communication Democracy-a government in which the people
are free to govern themselves, usually through elected representatives Stage fright-being fearful about participating in some form of communication, especially public speaking or stage performances One day you will have to give speeches and to listen actively while others give speeches. Since this is speech class, that shouldn't surprise you. But you might be surprised by the numbers of opportunities you'll have outside of class to give and to listen to speeches. One Two Three (cc) photo by medhead on Flickr Opportunities for Public Speaking The coach who explains and demonstrates the right way to make a lay-up is giving a speech The police officer who speaks to second graders about not talker to strangers The parent who reports to the PTA on an upcoming school fundraiser is also giving a speech Opportunities at school You have been in school long enough to know that school provides many opportunities to speak in public Many students who take advantage pf speaking opportunities become school leaders and achievers because of their ability to communicate their ideas to others If you go to college you'll find out that some courses rely heavily on oral reports Opportunities on the Job Several recent studies have revealed that businesses want workers who not only know their field but can also communicate The number of speaking opportunities in business and industry shows why speech training is so important When a crew chief or a supervisor meets with a ten-person crew that is an opportunity for public speaking Regardless of the type of
job you have after leaving
school, you will communicate with others The Benefits of Public Speaking Organizational Skills Writing Skills Critical Thinking Skills Research Skills Listening Skills Self-Confidence Organizational Skills Organizational Skills are an important part of composing a speech The organizational skills so necessary in composing speeches carry over to other areas that require outlining and planning, such as organizing notes or reporting on science experiments Writing Skills Many of the principles you use to compose good speeches are the same as those you need to write well The practice you gain preparing speeches will improve your ability to express your ideas on paper You will learn how to get your audience's attention, how to organize clearly, and how to support your ideas These skills will benefit you when you write compositions in English class, essay questions on tests, and reports on the job Critical Thinking Skills Public speaking skills and related listening skills provide valuable tools for the critical analysis of ideas By studying the use of supportive materials and persuasive strategies, you'll learn how to find and argument's weak points You will learn to ask questions about the claims speakers make By learning to to think critically, you will be better able to solve job-related problems and to fulfill your duties as a citizen Often, when students are asked to prepare a report, they go to an encyclopedia and summarize the contents of an article Research Skills As a public speaking student, you will be introduced to a variety of research materials. Knowing how to conduct research will be useful to you in a wide range of school and job-related activities Speaking an listening go hand and hand Listening Skills By learning good speaking techniques, you'll prepare speeches that are easier for an audience to listen to and understand By sharpening your listening skills as you analyze your classmates' speeches, you'll better improve your listening skills Giving a speech to a group of people involves a great deal of risk Self-Confidence As you become more confident as a public speaker, you'll gain confidence in your ability to communicate in general It will become easier to speak out in class or in small groups Interviews will become easier because you have learned techniques to prepare and present information about yourself To a large extent, success in life depends on your ability to feel good about yourself Succeeding as a public speaker can give your self-confidence a tremendous boost and will carry over to other classes on the job Speakers have some real concerns-fear of failure, forgetting what to say, being rejected, or having their ideas rejected by an audience The Risks of Public speaking Communication Apprehension Causes of Communication Apprehension Controlling Your Fears CA or stage fright in being fearful about participating in some form of communication with others Communication Apprehension The degree to which people experience apprehension ranges from mild nervousness before beginning to speak to a total inability to say anything Even experienced speakers and actors get "butterflies" before a presentation If you are a musician or an athlete you have probably experienced nervousness before a concert or game You also know that once you begin performing or playing, your forget your fears and lose yourself in what you are doing Causes of Communication Apprehension Do you feel nervous and does your heart beat louder? You can understand these sensations if your remember how an animal responds to a frightening situation. The animal has two responses- flight or fight Either action requires great physical energy, and the animal's body prepares itself A substance called adrenaline is released into the bloodstream and stimulates the heart The heart rate goes up. Breathing rate increases. Perspiration increases. The animal's senses are heightened because the flight-or-fight response has changed its body chemistry to prepare it for whatever happens The same thing happens to you when you feel fear The best solution for overcoming fear of speaking is preparation Controlling Your Fears
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Hybrid Bioinspired Algorithm of 1.5 Dimensional Bin-Packing
• Boris K. Lebedev
• Oleg B. Lebedev
• Ekaterina O. Lebedeva
Conference paper
The paper deals with the problem of 1.5 dimensional bin packing. As a data structure carrying information about packaging, a sequence of numbers of rectangles is used, representing the order of their packing. An essential role in obtaining the solution is played by a decoder, which performs the laying of rectangles according to the rules laid down in it. New methods for solving the packing problem are proposed, using mathematical methods in which the principles of natural decision-making mechanisms are laid. Unlike the canonical paradigm ant algorithm to find solutions to the graph G = (X, U) is constructed with a partition on the route of the formation and on the tops within each part, subgraphs whose edges are delayed pheromone. The structure of the solution search graph, the procedure for finding solutions on the graph, the methods of deposition and evaporation of pheromone are described. The time complexity of the algorithm, experimentally obtained, practically coincides with the theoretical studies and for the considered test problems is O(n2). In comparison with existing algorithms, the improvement of results is achieved by 2–3%.
Swarm intelligence Ant colony Adaptive behavior 1.5 dimensional bin packing Optimization
This research is supported by grants of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research of the Russian Federation, the project № 17-07-00997.
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Rob Hunter
Abolish the States
Abolish the States,” my polemic against federalism and “states’ rights,” is up at Jacobin. I’ve written before about how federalism frustrates freedom rather than promoting it. Federalism – the fragmentation of political authority and the preference for subsidiarity over national political equality – inhibits the consolidation of centralized political institutions and thwarts mass movements seeking comprehensive political change.
As a sort of colloquy on the topic, here are some choice quotes on federalism. Note that they’re all from what would properly be called a progressive bourgeois perspective rather than a radically democratic one, but I don’t think that diminishes their force:
They were defending their freedom to neutralize the king; they were defending their freedom to keep the newly built towns subservient to their country areas; they were defending most strongly their freedom to keep their peasants in a state of perpetual serfdom as opposed to the liberties which were being grudgingly won in the western parts of Europe; and they were doing everything reactionary within their power to preserve the advantages they had against the legitimate aspirations of the growing gentry. The Golden Freedom which the magnates defended with every bit of chicanery and power they commanded was the freedom of the few to oppress the many, the freedom of a few grasping magnates to prevent a strong king from arising.
If one approves of the goals and values of the privileged minority, one should approve of federalism. Thus, if in the United States one approves of Southern white racists, then one should approve of American federalism. If, on the other hand, one disapproves of the values of the privileged minority, one should disapprove of federalism. Thus, if in the United States one disapproves of racism, one should disapprove of federalism.
As always, if you like what they’re doing at Jacobin, I urge you to subscribe.
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A Gentle Philosophy of Success
by Daniel Thejus and Jacob Cheriyan In the modern world, people are driven by the need to Succeed. How do we define a successful person? Does success lie only in the hands of an individual? Can a person be successful in all areas of life? These are some of the questions that Daniel Thejus and Jacob Cheriyan try to answer as they dialogue to gain a better understanding of a very misunderstood, but absolutely important word.
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Get followed links & traffic from sites in the S3X Porn network
If you have any of the following type of content we want it included on sites in our S3X_Porn network
If you have that type of content it can be featured on pornstar profile pages (e.g. see how news was integrated into our page on Rocco Steele), and on our pornsite pages. All of the links are followed (not nofollowed or put through a jump script) so they pass PageRank. And the most recent links show up on the main pages for pornstars and porn sites which are powerful second-level pages on most of our sites.
We are only accepting links for high-quality sites with good reputations within the industry. Your site must follow all Google guidelines (e.g. all affiliate/paid links through robots-excluded jump scripts). Additionally, we do not allow links from Zack Sire's "Str8Up", or from any page that links to Str8Up.
And to be clear – this is one-way linking. You do not have to link to our sites to be included in this program.
If you're interested in having your links included, just send an email.
Get rewarded for promoting Studio 3X sites!
We're looking to form partnerships with people who can help build the membership on our S3X Connect sites once they launch. If you send friends or website visitors to any of the sites that are part of the S3X Connect network or the S3X Porn network and someone joins as a new member, then we'd like to say thanks in the following ways…
Bronze Level
Refer your friends and website visitors to one or more of the S3X Connect sites and you'll receive special promotions – free promotional items, enhanced memberships on the site, etc.
If you link to one of the S3X Connect sites you can add your username to the URL to ensure you get credit for the referral. Just add ?referrer=YourUserName to the end of the URL. And please add rel=nofollow to the link to ensure that you comply with Google's guidelines on "paid links". Your link should look something like this:
<a href="http://bbbh.com?referrer=YourUserName" rel="nofollow">#BBBH</a>
Silver Level
Can you refer 100+ active users (guys who use the site at least once a month)? If so we're willing to share ad revenue with you. If you maintain 100+ active referrals you'll get to control the bottom banner on your referrals' profile pages. If you maintain 500+ active referrals you'll get to control all ads on your referrals' profile pages. The more active and visible the guys are that you refer, the more exposure your ads will get, and the more money you'll make.
Silver Level partners will also have access to details about the members they refer - such as email address, last login, social media profiles, etc.
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Do you have a well-known brand that's compatible with one of the S3X Connect sites? If so, then we can work with you to build a branded version of that site for you. To qualify for Gold Level your name should be commonly known and respected and you should have an established community of active users.
You will get roughly half the ad space on your branded site. All signups via your branded site will be considered referrals and you will get the same referral benefits as Silver Level partners.
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The first song from C Prem Kumar’s upcoming Tamil movie 96, starring Vijay Sethupathi and Trisha Krishnan, is out. Kaathalae Kaathalae, sung by Chinmayi and with lyrics by Karthik Netha, is from the perspective of Trisha’s character, who beckons love to come into her life and stay with her till the end of her journey. “Kaathalale kaathalae, thani perunthunaiye koodava koodava pothum pothum,” (Love, life’s best companion, come with me, enough now), goes the haunting refrain. The film’s soundtrack is by Govind Vasantha.
96 is reportedly a romantic drama and also stars Janagaraj and S Janaki. A release date is yet to be announced.
96 (2018).
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Fall 2018
The cover of the Winter 2018 edition of Shelterforce magazine.Rarely are abandoned buildings and dumped-on lots counted in the asset category. And yet, thinking of abandoned properties as merely problems we wish would go away, rather than opportunities that we need better tools to access, feeds into some of the less productive ways vacant properties have been handled over the years. Scroll down to read more, plus other features and columns from this issue, or purchase a copy to hold in your hands.
The cover of the Winter 2018 edition of Shelterforce magazine.
There’s Opportunity in Vacancy
Thinking of abandoned properties as merely problems we wish would go away feeds into some of the less productive ways vacant properties have been handled.
The Two Vacancy Crises in America’s Cities
State Policies Play a Central Role in the Fight Against Vacant Property
Making a Pipeline for Vacant Building Rehab
How to Fight Vacancy? Do It All
Condemning Asthma, Not Homes in North Carolina
Transforming Vacant Land Into Community Assets
How to Fund Land Banks
A once-vacant lot in Philadelphia that has been cleaned.
Greening Vacant Lots: Low Cost, Big Effect in Philly
The Mission: End Childhood Lead Poisoning in Rochester
In the 1990s, Rochester, New York, had an alarmingly large number of children who had elevated lead levels in their blood. Decades later, the rate has decreased by 85 percent. This is how a local coalition made it happen.
Public Land Should be Used for Public Good
The third installment of Shelterforce's Health and Community Development supplement.
Fall 2018 — Health and Community Development Supplement
In our third supplement, we focus on a coalition's work to lower the number of asthma-related hospital visits from an apartment complex, and how sitting on a porch can be good for your health. Click on the photo to download a copy.
Q: Can Nonprofits Get Out the Vote?
A. Yes! Nonprofits are often uncertain about what they can legally do, but they can get out the vote among their residents, clients, and staff.
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Sitting on a Porch Can Be Good for Your Health
A Review of The Fight for Fair Housing
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Sideways Portfolio - CFDA
Sideways worked with the CFDA for over five years transforming the into a cutting edge trade organization energizing their members, fans, sponsors and the industry at large.
Our work spans the CFDA.com, NYFW and many other industry initiatives.
Transforming the Masters of Fashion Week
New York Fashion Week: four words that define an entire culture. When the Council of Fashion Designers of America acquired the famous fashion calendar, they hired us to create the first ever digital NYFW scheduling app – formerly known as Ruth's List. For this pivotal transformation (and many others over the last four years), we worked with the CFDA to create digital experiences worthy of the illustrious organization and its members.
New York Fashion Week App
For the Fashion Calendar, designers and fashion lovers needed a hub to get organized and fully immerse themselves in NYFW. And for the website, CFDA needed a user-friendly experience to interact with each other.
Content-first was our strategic recommendation to CFDA. To maintain a fresh look, we suggested features such as the custom Instagram feed which pulls in user-generated photos based on hashtags to keep visitors engaged.
CFDA Website
In creating key design elements, we stayed true to the industry and used a lush fabric-like pattern to echo folds and pattern assembly, giving an elegant yet accessible feel to the CFDA's digital presence. Seamlessly integrated videos let Fashion Week live forever in the notoriously competitive New York minute. Through rich, easy-to-discover content and a brand new mobile app, we gave the CFDA a glamorous experience that reflected the brand.
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Very odd spike [May. 13th, 2002|02:12 pm]
Kurt Onstad
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[Current Music |Bother - Corey Taylor - Spider-Man soundtrack]
The past few weeks at work have been pretty calm. Everything's working as its supposed to be, and so we've been at one or two chats per person at a time. I get into work today, and my supervisor tells me "Get online as quickly as you can." No one's absent or anything, none of our servers are broken, but for some reason, everyone decided that today was the day to fix all of their little issues with the internet. Everyone's at 4, 5, or 6 chats at a time, and there are more waiting in the queue. It was like that consistently for the next two hours or so. It's calmed down somewhat, but it's still busier than it's been in a while, and no one can find a reason why. Just strange...
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Design Philosophy
Sure. Now what.
No wait, this is special. This is audio, man ! aha.
OK, let's try to be serious now.
Everything, really everything we do is massively exaggerated. Need 100mA ? then we make it 1000. Bandwidth is 100KHz ? then better make it 10MHz. Capacitors live 5 years at 100 degrees celcius ? then we cause the environmental temperature to be 30 degrees. Now they live 500 years. Ha !
But dear people, this is how our hobby "audio" really excels. Not in unproven snake oil applications but in over-sizing where over-sizing is allowed. And mind you, increasing bandwidth as an example is really not always working out. Your audio system is a concept. It is a sheer strategy.
We at Phasure help you to create that strategy. Or to follow one where otherwise nothing but subjectivity would be there.
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WordPress uses cookies for authentication. Clear your browser cookies and cache and make sure that your browser has cookies enabled. After doing that restart your browser and then try to log in. This should fix the issue right away.
Switch off the plugins one by one by renaming them in your File Manager. Navigate to wp-content>plugins. After each rename reload the site.
It could also be caused by a coding error in the theme that you are using. You should try replacing your current theme with a default twenty ten theme. You can then select a new theme. Opt for themes that have recently been updated and has more than 100 000 downloads.
For more advanced users you can try to debug your site. Switch the debugging option on through your wp-config file.
define( 'WP_DEBUG', true);
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Top 10 Reasons To Use Live Chat On Your Website
We live in a world where customers want instant communication. Live chat is the key to this. But are you leveraging it properly? Check out the top reasons to have Live Chat on your website.
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Branding a WordPress Blog #2 The Gravatar
This is in response to feedback from my post Branding a WordPress Blog. A special thanks to Being Spontaneous and Gazzart for taking the time to give some advice and feedback.
I think I have a winner!
Sorry, I can’t keep it simple! 🙂
I liked the idea of the acronym TRG to shorten The Random G but having 3 letters in an icon that sometimes appears very small makes it impossible to read. So, I had to take the decision to just use the G which is my initial. This has allowed me to still chuck a pretty busy logo together but still have it fairly easy to read. I am glad that I could fit a Cross in. Crosses are cool!
If you read my last article, I mentioned that you should use a transparent .png file which will work well for branding you photos and illustrations.
Here is a photo I took while holding $20 000. The money is long gone but I still have the photo 🙂 I have added my Logo to the bottom right corner seems to look pretty good?
Must admit it was pretty cool to have 200 000ZAR in my hand, even though I spent it that same day.
As always
Love and Respect
3 thoughts on “Branding a WordPress Blog #2 The Gravatar”
1. Thank you gazzart!
It was a fun project, I got all the components for this from a single vector file. The process involved separating the elements in order to move them and create individual effects to each.
2. Hey G… G sounds better than TRG and I think I’ve already told you that the current logo is cool.
And idea of putting your logo at a corner of each photo taken by you sounds good too.
PS- you need to do a little updating of this post as the url of my blog has changed, 😀
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Microsoft Developing New Ethereum Based PoA Algorithm for Azure
Microsoft Developing New Ethereum Based PoA Algorithm for Azure
It would seem that software giant Microsoft is making some strides in adopting decentralized technologies, as its cloud computing service Azure is now delving further into the world of decentralized computing.
More accurately, this news came in a recent blog post, which expanded on the series of benefits being brought to Azure through this most recent venture. Specifically, it will see an Ethereum network algorithm used in a Proof-of-Authority product.
In the public statement, a software engineer for Microsoft Azure – Cody Born – argued that Azure and Microsoft have already had “great traction with our support of Azure”.
This comment refers to Microsoft’s development of an Ethereum-powered Azure platform, which the Redmond-based firm initially revealed in October of 2015.
In this latest statement, Born went on to detail how extensive feedback from the community has allowed Microsoft to design and develop its next Ethereum ledger product.
More specifically, this refers to the Ethereum Proof-of-Authority on Azure. Born notes that Proof-of-Authority protocols are especially suitable for so-called “permission networks”, where all participants are already known and trusted.
In addition to this, Azure’s new Ethereum-based Proof-of-Authority is said to be developed with businesses in mind – effectively making it enterprise-ready from the onset of the network.
Azure also reports that they have designed the network to have a highly available network presence in order to be less susceptible to have nodes go down on the network with disadvantageous consequences.
Furthermore, Azure has announced that they will include support for Parity’s web-assembly, meaning that developers will be able to code and program smart contracts in either C, C++, or Rust.
This new Proof-of-Authority algorithm should also allow developers to construct decentralized applications (dApps) in a more effective manner.
Nonetheless, it should be stressed that these dApps will likely nearly exclusively be used in a consortium or private networks.
The post is fairly technical, but it goes on to detail how the product will also include Azure Monitor, which will be used to track statistics relating to relevant nodes and networks.
Azure also revealed that the Proof-of-Authority deployment will be accompanied by a governance dApp, which is intended to ease voting and validate delegation.
In summary, the addition of Ethereum-based technology to the popular Azure service is a notable milestone in the adoption of blockchain-related technology.
Ledger Nano S - The secure hardware wallet
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Ledger Nano S - The secure hardware wallet
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A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
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You are the (Poke)Monster! (Ludum Dare #33)
You're a growing monster baby. You need to eat to survive. You also need to hide from the damn humans to survive. Your cover also happens to be your food. Uh-oh!
As a newly hatched Magicrap, floundering about, minding your own business, working damn hard just not to starve to death and scraping up just enough money for your family to get by, it's absolutely insult to injury when some capped kids stomps into your personal space, and starts throwing these bloody things at you.
Looks like you gotta keep your wits about you to outsmart these abominable kids! Who the hell do they think they are??
*So* many features that I wanted to include but didn't make it in. But despite that it's all actually pretty fun! What I did manage to squeeze in:
> Stealth system where you have to eat your cover to stay alive.
> 5 Levels.
> You can 3 star each level by completing them "perfectly".
> Audio! (Making time for sound is among the best decisions you can make for a jam game)
> Not nearly as many bugs as I thought there'd be!
> A beginning and an end! (of sorts)
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Acquiring the 'OAuth token secret' for authorized REST api call
While trying to calculate the signature for an authorized request on the REST api we wonder where do we get the ‘OAuth token secret’ from.
Our implementation is based on the documentation listed as Authorizing a request.
Our client app is a mobile native application, allowing the end user to login using his twitter account.
The client app then pass the access token acquired during the login process to our server.
The server implementation is then calling the twitter REST API (on behalf of the end user) in order to get a list of users that the end user is following.
Does the value of ‘OAuth token secret’ available during the login process and if so - can it be passed to the server?
Is this a proper flow?
The level of integration does seem to be a little too complicated for such a simple API call.
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Da whe da gial Aria seh? by Fayemarie Anderson Carter
Bernie Toucan is sitting on her perch high in the tree when Doo Doo Chickadee calls to her from her perch on the electricity wires crisscrossing the road.
“Hey Bernie…yu heah bout di new blog whe suh gial name Aria something write bout dem politicians?”
“Yeah gial…what bout it?” answered Bernie Toucan.
“Well, shi talk bout all a deh…suh ah nuh really andastand whe shi di try do. Ah midi hope u coulda explain it bettah to mi?” asked Doo Doo Chickadee.
Just then, Buster and Paulie Piam Piam, the twins, landed next to Doo Doo.
”Happy New Year’s Bernie and Dodes. Whe di go awn?”
Doo Doo looked at Buster and said, “Well, ah midi ask Bernie if she know whe dis gial Aria di talk bout pan dis new blog bout di politicians dem. She talk bout all a dem so ah nuh know whe shi di try seh.” Doo Doo Chickadee shook her head with a look of true consternation.
Buster put his arms akimbo and looked up and down at Doo Doo, “Whe deh fi know Doo Doo?” and then in a sing song voice he bellowed, “Times haaad fi true!”
“Don’t give a damn; don’t give a damn, “ chorused Paulie Piam Piam. The twins busted into a fit of giggles and nearly fell off the wire laughing at their own joke.
“Aye uno two,” said Bernie Toucan. “Well, mek a si di blog Dodes. Ah could go through it wid u and si if we come up wid something.”
Bernie reads quietly for a bit and then says as she continues to read, Well di fus paat look like shi just di seh dat neither one a di paaty dem do whe dey promise fi do. Hmmm, shi seh dat dem liad and tief and dat wi all tyad ah the same shit, different liar approach.”
At this the twins start to giggle again.
“Shi tell di PUP basically dat dey di fight like sum two year olds and dat deh nuh have no leadership, no direction…den shi tell di UDP dat dey no do when dey seh dey miya do but dey still di blame PUP fuh eviting and how dey da big cover artists and dey need fi fix dis shit and be mo responsible”
“Ooooooooooooh,” sing songed the twins.
“Hmmm, Bernie gial. Da who dis Aria person? Dey wa fire fi shi rass quick ting fi di seh alla dat stuff inuh?” said Paulie Piam Piam.
“Well u know dat da tru if shi mi live ya but shi deh da faren soh ah tink shi wa be ok. Shi family? Ah nuh know bout deh!” said Buster Piam Piam.
“Si dis da di rass ret deh!” exclaimed Bernie. “Evibady tu gaddamn fraid fi seh what needs to be said rung dese parts.” She shakes her head with indignation. “Da why uno so damn coward fa? If evibady tell dey rass off like dis, maybe dey wouldn’t do stupidness!”
Silence settles for a second or two as the birds shake their heads in agreement.
“Shi seh anyting bout VIP, Bernie?” asked Buster quietly.
“Well…no much inuh. Shi just seh dat dey got a good grip a di situation wid di corruption and ting but shi ask if dey religious. Ah wanda why shi seh dat?”
Just then Charles “Charlie” Crow sat next to Bernie and injected his usually highly respected opinion.
Well I think that that is a very valid question. We have to be very careful how we allow religious agendas to infiltrate our politics and consequently our laws.”
“But den Mr. Charles, we da wa Christian nation. How we nuh wa bring God into di convasation?” asked Dodes. “Look pan di United States. Dey gat gay people inna di army and now dey cud get married! Dat ciant be right? Ah mean, I nuh gat nuttin genst gay people…do whe uno want inna di privacy ah yu own bed but ah nuh wa my pickney di si dat. Wat if my pickney decide he gay tu?”
Paulie Piam Piam snickered and looked at Dodes like he could kick her off the wire. “Now dat just stupid Dodes. And ah surprised at u. U, whe goh da church evi Sunday and talk bout acceptance for all. “
“Nuh get mi wrong Paul. I nuh want dey get hurt or nutting but really…ih jus gross mi out mein” Doo Doo made a shivering noise and ruffeled her feathers.
“Well but si. Da pipple like u allow dey cracked ones fi do whe dey do! Cas u turn wa blind eye and pretend dat dey one whe seh dey religious jus really di spread hate and fear. Come on Dodes. You bettah dan dat!” Paulie hawked and spat as if to emphasize his point. “Anyway Bernie, what else shi seh?”
“You really wa continue? Dis bloody depressin inuh,” asked Bernie.
The friends look down but they all shake their heads yes.
“Well, shi jus seh dat di media nuh di help cas dey belong to di diffrant paaties dem so how wi fi know what da what?”
“Tru ting mein. Ah hafi turn it off sumtimes. And wuss di newspapahs dem. Ah tink ah rather read ‘The Enquirer’!” chuckled Buster Piam Piam.
“It looks pretty dire,” said Charles. “I’m not sure what to say or think about our future as a nation.”
The friends looked out towards the setting sun as they each pondered Charlie’s heavy words.
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I am trying to install veritas volume manager on Centos 6.5 while running the script its throwing me Cannot find perl to execute
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Have you installed Perl? What does head installsf | od -t x1 show? – Gilles Oct 11 '14 at 22:56
Sounds like you just need to install the Perl RPMs.
$ sudo yum install perl
You might need additional Perl modules, these can typically be installed via RPM as well, assuming they're in the standard YUM repos. If so you can search for them like so:
$ sudo yum search perl-<module name>
Where <module-name> would be of the form: "XML-Simple" if the Perl module was called "XML::Simple".
You can typically install Perl modules like this too:
$ sudo yum install "perl(XML::Simple)"
Simply put the name of the Perl module inside of "perl(...)".
NOTE: You cannot search for them using that notation, only to install/remove them.
There is a perl folder in dvd3 folder try to copy the folder in /opt/vx(i dont' remind correct place but i can found easy with more installer) Or change the path to your perl editing installer(is a script) with vim
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ROTH Chapter 209 (1)
Chapter 209 Axia Mist
Western Continent, Genesis guild
The Genesis guild had been farming equipment for their members.. When the dungeon had been cleared, Absalom commented on the performance of his members. “ You guys did a good job today. Axia Mist, great job with interrupting the BOSS’s skill. Your Backstab was timed nicely as well.” he then began looting the BOSS that had just been defeated. A Purple quality Rogue’s dagger was among the loot. “Hmm… Axia Mist seems to have a bit worse than the average equipment in the party. I think this dagger…”
Axia Mist spoke up before Absalom could finish his sentence, “Guild leader, I don’t need that equipment. Can you give me some gold instead?”
This was not the first time Axia Mist refused to receive an equipment after a dungeon raid, and Absalom had turned a blind eye to Axia Mist’s behavior beforehand. “Mist, you do know that your equipment contributes to the overall strength of the guild. You are part of the guild, and the quality of your equipment will affect the guild’s combat power. Shouldn’t you show some team spirit?”
“Guild leader, I know that. But I’m still going to ask for gold instead. I don’t want that dagger.” Axie Mist shook his head.
Absalom wordlessly handed the dagger to another Rogue, while taking 100,000 gold coins from the Rogue to Axia Mist. As Absalom traded the gold coins to Axia Mist, he stared at his young face and said in a serious tone, “Mist, I have to ask, did something happen in real lif-”
“It’s nothing, guild leader. You don’t have to keep guessing. I’ll give you an answer when the time comes.” Absalom was cut off mid sentence by Axia Mist, who accepted the gold coins.
Absalom nodded at Axia Mist, and dismissed the party. He cast a glance at Axia Mist, and walked towards Fleeting Time, who was harvesting meat from the fallen monsters. “Say, do you really need to do this every time you see the carcass of a dead animal? Do you really need that many meat?” said Absalom as he knelt down beside Fleeting Time.
Fleeting Time cast a glance sideways, “Someone who does not have a gluttonous pet has no rights to talk to me about this.”
Absalom could only offer him a smile. He knew the hardships of being a Hunter. Almost every Hunter he knew was doing the same thing. They would scrounge for every ounce of meat they could get their hands on, so that their pets could enjoy better food. Even a God-tier player like Fleeting Time could not escape from such a fate.
“Fine! Can I ask a favor from you?” Absalom knew that this was not a topic that he could have a debate with Fleeting Time, and immediately shifted the conversation.
Fleeting Time did not even stop his movement when he spoke up softly, “If you want me to go have a talk with Axia Mist, then the answer is no.”
“Oi oi oi…” even after his intention was seen through and rejected by Fleeting Time, Absalom did not give up, “Fleeting Time, have you ever been kind?”
“I’m a nice guy! I’ve always been kind.” Fleeting Time did not even look at Absalom as he spoke out the words.
“If you’re kind, you wouldn’t have rejected my request!”
When his words created a silence, Absalom unleashed his inner monk, and began nagging at Fleeting Time, slowly chipping away his mental resistance. Fleeting Time was quite impressed by Absalom. The man could spout streams after streams of nonsense when he was trying to persuade a person or give someone a moral lesson. What impressed Fleeting Time was that he never repeated himself, even while talking about pointless things. He was doing the same thing to Fleeting Time, starting from how God created the world and how it was a sin for Fleeting Time to not help him out.
Even Fleeting Time began to doubt himself after listening to Absalom’s words. Am I really a bad person?
After 20 minutes of nonstop jabbering, Fleeting Time’s will was finally broken. He felt his life slowly seeping away under Absalom’s psychological attack. His life was going to end there and then, and he was slowly heading towards his grave, skipping the part of his life where he could get married and have children.
For the sake of his life, Fleeting Time was forced to agree to Absalom’s request despite his reluctance. He was very fond of the idea of staying alive.
“Fine, fine! Stop the nonsense! What do you want?”
A victorious smile appeared appeared on Absalom’s face when he noticed Fleeting Time’s impatient expression. He was saying the following to Fleeting Time with his smile: Hehe… It wouldn’t have come to this if you just listened to me from the beginning~~ Fleeting Time could feel his anger and the urge to include Absalom into his blacklist slowly rising when he saw that wicked smile.
“It’s actually very simple. I want you to talk to Axia Mist and…”
“You want me to find out why he kept refusing to receive equipment and share the gossip with you am I right?” Fleeting Time cut Absalom off mid sentence and finished the sentence for him.
“Why are you like this? I’m just worried! What do you mean gossip? Do I look like someone who loves gossipping?” Absalom shook his head as a sign of protest.
Fleeting Time snorted with clear disdain, “Is there any difference at all?”
“Whatever! Just go already. I’ll be waiting for you in the conference room.” Absalom immediately urged Fleeting Time to go do his bidding.
“Can’t you do it yourself? I’m not the most suitable person to have a heart-to-heart talk with someone. Don’t you think you’re forcing me to do something very difficult?” Fleeting Time stared at Absalom’s expression, feeling that this face was asking for a beating.
“I’ll give you a bonus this month. A month’s worth of bonus! How bout that?”
Fleeting Time shot him a disdainful glance, “I’m not interested in money lately.”
“So where do your interests lie?” Absalom inched closer to Fleeting Time when he heard his words. Despite his close friendship with Fleeting Time, Absalom knew that his friend hated anything to do with guild administration. He would need to offer some benefits in return for making Fleeting Time to run errands for him.
“Picking up girls.” Fleeting Time narrowed his eyes and stared at Absalom with a glint of mischief in his gaze.
“Ahhhhh!!!” Absalom exploded with excitement. He has known Fleeting Time for more than 12 years, and this man has never shown any interest in the opposite gender at all. He had even began to suspect his friend of being homosexual. The words that left Fleeting Time’s mouth were like red rain pouring down from the sky. “Really? Is that for real? Why do I feel like I’m dreaming?”
Fleeting Time’s mood improved when he saw Absalom’s expression. He secretly enjoyed looking at a person’s crazy expression.
“Dear Lord! Just what the hell is going on with today? Why did I suddenly receive such shocking news? What should I do?” Absalom tore at his hair as he paced back and forth in front of Fleeting Time, basking in his own excitement. He did not even notice the mischievous grin on Fleeting Time’s face. Without warning, Absalom stopped in front of Fleeting Time and rested his hands on Fleeting Time’s shoulders, “Brother, tell me, since when have you become so enlightened?”
Fleeting Time raised his eyebrows.
Absalom then shook his head, “No no no… This is not important. The more important thing is: What sort of girls do you like? Those with big boobs? Those who are flirty? Or those who are young and cute? Or maybe even those girl-next-door types? Just tell me which girl you like and I’ll make sure that I’ll find you a girlfriend like that! We have a lot of beautiful ladies in our guild, and I’m sure that they’re very willing to be your girlfriend. So, which type of girl do you like?”
Fleeting Time held back his laughter and stared deadpan at Absalom. He had always felt that Absalom was the real life embodiment of busybody. It was a shame that he was born with the wrong gender. Absalom would have made a good female guidance counselor. Despite his reluctance to run errands for Absalom, it was very worth to see such a rare expression on his friend.
“Are you sure you want to know?” Fleeting Time raised his eyebrows and let out a sigh, showing a rare sign of hesitance.
“Of course, of course!” Absalom’s head was bobbing up and down enthusiastically.
Fleeting Time narrowed his eyes at Absalom, and for some unknown reasons, a name left his mouth, “I want Gongzi You.”
“Eh?” Absalom was dumbfounded.
Even Fleeting Time himself was surprised by the answer. He had never thought that he would speak of that name. He was simply joking around with Absalom. However, for some reason, the name slipped out of his mouth when he was questioned by Absalom.
Fleeting Time lost interest in making fun of the dumbfounded Absalom. There was a ripple in his heart. A question began to surface in his mind. It was a question that he had no answer for.
Why her? Why did I say her name?
However, when Fleeting Time thought of Gongzi You’s intense and ambitious expression, a smile appeared on his face. When he imagined the face of Gongzi You who was provoked into anger by him, his mouth curved into a cheeky grin. All of a sudden, Fleeting Time’s question was solved. There’s no “why”.
Yup… Gongzi You is definitely the one.
Fleeting Time was never someone to ponder too much on a question. As long as he had an answer that he believed in, he would no longer care about anything else. He would see it as the only answer, and would never have a change of heart.
Absalom could not believe the answer he heard from Fleeting Time. He poke his pinky finger into his ears, digging around. The earwax must have affected my hearing. “Did you just say ‘Gongzi You’?”
“You must be kidding?”
“Then… Do you think it’ll be better if the name that I said is yours?” Fleeting Time narrowed his eyes, with warning clear in his voice.
“Gongzi You it is then.” Absalom rubbed the bridge of his nose. Although he had always suspected that his friend was not interested in women, he never felt that he could arouse Fleeting Time’s interest.
“Aren’t you going to play mediator? You can go try contacting her for me.” Fleeting Time enjoyed watching Absalom’s shocked expression, and decided to make fun of his friend as he packed the meat up.
“Oi, oi… Are you really talking about that Gongzi You from the Eastern Continent?”
“Isn’t there only one Gongzi You?”
“You can’t be serious!”
“Why can’t I be serious about it?”
“I thought that you were just teasing her for fun! Don’t scare me like that!” Absalom could not bring himself to believe Fleeting Time’s words.
“Have you seen me teasing any other girl before.” said Fleeting Time with a voice full of confidence. He had even almost managed to convince himself.
“But… But…” Absalom knew the truth behind Fleeting Time’s words, but he could not fathom the thoughts of his friend, “Why would you take an interest in someone like Gongzi You? She’s a female player who is crowned as a God-tier player. People like this are either very lascivious or very capable…” Absalom immediately corrected his words when he noticed a glare from Fleeting Time, “Of course, Gongzi You is one of the latter. Why would you like a strong woman like her? Shouldn’t guys like cute and helpless-looking girls?”
“What if I like queens?”
Absalom was lost for words. He could feel liquid flowing in his nose. He felt as if blood was about to burst from his nostrils, “Fleeting Time, you have quite a heavy taste…”
Fleeting Time narrowed his eyes once again. He had a sudden urge to beat Absalom up. Why have he not noticed that his friend of so many years is such a busybody and a pervert?
Paying Fleeting Time no heed, Absalom continued, “Then again… I don’t think Gongzi You has the body figure of a queen. She’s too flat…” before Absalom could finish sentence, he felt a stabbing pain on his face, and he stumbled backwards before falling onto the ground.
“Fleeting Time, you’re crazy!” Absalom sat up a few seconds later, clutching at his nose. This time, it was bleeding for you.
“If you have any inappropriate thoughts about the woman I like, I’ll beat the shit out of you.” Fleeting Time knelt in front of Absalom with a cold smile on his face, “In real life.” he said with a warning tone.
Being beaten up… In real life… Absalom was completely stunned.
By the time he recovered from the shock, Fleeting Time had already stood up and left the dungeon, ignoring the cries from Absalom.
Hiya minna-san! Here’s another awesome chapter of the awesomesauce novel translated by an awesomtacular translator (JIMMINX!!!!)! Hope you people enjoy!!
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Agent Targius
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Agent Targius is a Whisper's Agent working with Agent Zildi, Agent Korrin and Agent Caerys to prevent the Legendary Chak Gerent from reaching the cannon in the Nuhoch Lane lane and destroying it.
Event involvement[edit]
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[Group Event] Release fungal spores to lure out the gerent and control lesser chaks' minds (80)
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[Group Event] Destroy the chak gerent before it reaches the cannon (80)
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[Group Event] Stop the chak from reaching the cannon (80)
Before the Chak Gerent
I'm pretty sure these spores will do the trick. I hear the Nuhoch use them in some pretty powerful alchemy.
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Can you start from the beginning? What are we doing?
We're going to defend our cannon from the chak! These spores should calm them and turn them into temporary allies if we can get enough of them in the area.
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How do you even know this?
Tizlak and I go way back. I met him at the beginning of this ordeal. He told me all I need to know...except how to gather them. This is going to take forever...
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Any ideas besides just picking them up?
Well, I'm guessing jostling them really hard will dislodge them faster. But that requires more climbing than I want to do right now. If it comes to it, that's not a bad plan, though.
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Nothing can go wrong!
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Well, it's a plan.
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All right, then.
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All right!
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User talk:Rafcha
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Hello, Rafcha! Welcome to Wikitravel.
I see you have been doing a lot of really great work with a bunch of Colombian and Central American articles—please keep it up! --Peter Talk 16:43, 11 September 2009 (EDT)
I'd just like to reiterate how appreciated your work is. Wikitravel's Latin American coverage is, in my opinion, fairly weak. It's great to get the structure better organized, to lay the base for further contributions! --Peter Talk 22:28, 27 October 2009 (EDT)
Nicaragua regions[edit]
I'm inclined to think that 15 regions for Nicaragua might be a few too many. Care to comment here? --Peter Talk 16:38, 20 October 2009 (EDT)
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Posts tagged ‘Trader Joe’s’
OMG OMG OMG Trader Joe’s is open!
Yes, this line is about 20 people long.
But you probably knew that, if you’re even a casual reader of the Lincoln Journal Star — which by my count has published no less than 10 stories mentioning the possible, impending and actual Coming of Joe since mid-summer.
Sigh. This is called newsroom love. Certain people in the newsroom are overly excited about a certain store they love, and so the paper writes and writes and writes about it. Granted, readers seemed pretty excited about Trader Joe’s too, given the number of breathless comments each two-paragraph update would generate.
I even got into trouble once when Trader Joe’s liquor license was approved by the Lincoln City Council, and I didn’t write about it. I very rarely wrote about liquor licenses being approved, and didn’t think it was newsworthy.
I have to wonder what all the other grocery stores in Lincoln think about all those Trader Joe stories the Journal Star is writing, given that they (the existing stores) are the paper’s bread and butter. And something tells me Trader Joe’s is not going to be a big Journal Star advertiser, since I got my first ad from them in the mail yesterday.
Not that that should influence the editors’ decisions about how much coverage is appropriate for the opening of a “quirky” (their words) California-based store.
Anyway, I ventured into Trader Joe’s today to see what all the fuss was about, and a line stretched from the first checkout counter to halfway down the first aisle. No lie.
I snapped a picture and left. I’ll check it out again when the mobs leave. In the meantime, I’m going to stick to my favorite neighborhood grocery store, Leon’s. Whenever even two people stack up in a line, they call in more checkers. And the money they make goes to local owners. They’re not as hip and trendy as Trader Joe’s, but they’re mine.
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Specialists in Migration, Visas, and Overseas Recruitment
Posts tagged ‘Skilled Occupation List’
The Skills in High Demand in Australia
Whether it’s calling one of the world’s most liveable cities home (hello Melbourne), exploring some of the most famous skylines (hi Sydney) or losing yourself (not literally we hope) in the stunning job opportunities in the outback, Australia offers a lot to potential new Aussies.
If you’ve got the skills and experience Australia needs then you could be moving, living, working and playing there soon. See if your skills are in demand in Australia.
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About the Skilled Occupation List (SOL)
The SOL is updated regularly to reflect the changing needs of Australia. You need to nominate an occupation on the SOL if you’re applying for:
• Independent points-based skilled migration and you’re not nominated by a state or territory government agency – this is SkillSelect
• A Family Sponsored Points Tested visa
• A Temporary Graduate visa (subclass 485) – Graduate Work stream
About SkillSelect
SkillSelect is how Australia chooses which applicants to invite to apply for a visa. To apply you submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) online. You’ll then go into a pool of other applicants where you’ll be ranked on things like your work experience, skills, age and language abilities.
Depending on your ranking in the pool of applicants, you may then be invited to apply for a visa.
Find out more about SkillSelect.
The skills on the SOL
There are currently 191 occupations on the SOL. If you need a skills assessment as part of your visa application, you need to contact the assessing authority directly to get this. They will provide all the necessary forms and information you need and there will be a cost for this.
View the SOL, along with details of the relevant assessing authorities.
The Consolidated Sponsored Occupation List (CSOL)
If you’re applying for a visa under these programs:
• Points-based skilled migration and you’re nominated by a state or territory government agency under a State Migration Plan
• The Employer Nomination Scheme (ENS), and you’ve been nominated by an Australian employer to fill a position in an occupation that appears in the CSOL
• The Temporary Work (Skilled) visa – subclass 457
• The Training and Research visa (subclass 402)
You need to find your occupation on the CSOL, not the SOL.
View the current CSOL.
Get help with your Australian visa
To help you through the Australian visa process, you can:
You can also start searching for your new job today – good luck!
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Web-map mash-ups with ActivityInfo and Leaflet
ActivityInfo is a great tool for collecting and managing project results from across many partners and offices. You can further leverage your ActivityInfo database by integrating your data into web applications.
In this post, we'll walk through integrating ActivityInfo sites into a Leaflet map. Leaflet is a great lightweight JavaScript mapping library that also works well on mobile devices.
First, you'll need the ID of the activity you want to include. You can find this in the Design tab:
Where to find the activity identifier in the Design tab of ActivityInfo
Here we can see that our Water Point Construction has an id of 1076. We also need to make sure that the activity is set to "All are published" so that the data will be publicly exposed.
With the ID of the activity, you can access the list of sites in GeoJSON format at the URL http://www.activityinfo.org/resources/sites/points?activity=1076. Note that this will only return sites that have been mapped.
Now, let's add these points as a layer to a Leaflet map. If you're not familiar with Leaflet, take a look at their Quick Start Guide.
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A simple solution – wear your badge today
In the Spring 1996 issue of the Phoenix of Alpha Sigma Alpha, Past National President Nora M. Ten Broeck, BK, wrote an article titled, “A Simple Solution — Wear Your Membership Badge Today.” The article described her personal experience of wearing her sorority […]
March 5, 2014
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Technology Vision - Apex TeamCollaborate™
Apex TeamCollaborate™ Roadmap
Apex TeamCollaborate™ is intended to provide human-directed workflows, with particular support for data reconciliation in a world of disparate sources of truth. It is oriented from the ground up around the notion of a service encounter and therefore ideally suited for complex domains like healthcare and finance.
TeamCollaborate is a next-generation workflow engine highly attuned to the problems of the coming Age of Interoperability. There are as yet few standards to guide how teams should react in a world governed by systems suddenly able to interoperate with each other, and the hydra-like challenges real interoperability poses.
For example, what do you do when two or more sources of truth differ about a particularly consequential fact that, depending on its value today and just as importantly how it came to be what it is, may affect a life/death decision? These are hard questions and current workflow tooling is not prepared for this category of problems. But TeamCollaborate was built for this very kind of challenge.
In short, TeamCollaborate is a critical component of Apex Unify! in that it provides a method for manual workflows when there are no clear automation heuristics for solving certain kinds of discrepancies. These are deeply integrated into Unify!'s concept of truth and dataflow rules.
But you can use TeamCollaborate in traditional workflow contexts involving service-oriented verticals as a standalone solution as well. It is highly configurable and will play nice with existing workflow technologies like BPMN.
• Initial GA Release
The first GA download release made available.
• Usability enhancements
Based on your feedback, our focus on usability and accessibility will be the primary focus of our 2nd release.
• Advanced Integration features
Integration with enterprise business process tools outside the Unify! stack will be improved.
• Enterprise reporting features
Advanced reporting features focusing on regulatory compliance will be available per vertical as add-ons, including domain-specific workflow templates you can modify to improve compliance reporting.
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In today’s business environment, GS1-128 (formerly known as UCC-128) labels have become a necessary part of the criteria for large format retailers in automating the supply chain with their suppliers.
The labels are an outer label affixed to each carton and/or pallet and provide information about a particular shipment. This label will alert the trading partner about shipment information such as who the vendor/supplier is, carton content, store ship to location, etc., and is a mix of both human readable as well as scan-able information.
The label on every carton is scanned at its destination location (e.g. trading partner central warehouse) and information usually is tied to an Advance Ship Notice (ASN) that has already been transmitted via EDI to the trading partner from the supplier.
GS1-128 Label
• The ASN and GS1-128 label will provide a link to the original PO sent by your trading partner(s).
• Implementing these labels with your trading partner(s) is not just seen as best business practice, but it will also speed up all shipping and receiving procedures, in turn leading to a faster ‘Order to Payment’ cycle for your organization.
• The automation of the supply chain with the introduction of ASN and GS1-128 labels will help decrease your manual labor costs and help reduce errors.
• All ASN and GS1-128 label standards are global – this alleviates confusion from global suppliers with regard to product details, weights and quantities.
• The ASN and GS1-128 label standards apply throughout the entire supply chain, from raw materials supplier to manufacturer to distributor/wholesaler to end user/retailer.
• These labels can be used for both inter and intra-company transactions.
*Please note GS1-128 (also known as UCC-128) are outer case barcode labels that are used to let the receiver know what items are in the case/box. They should not be confused with shipping labels.
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Lysanias - Biblical Cyclopedia
Lysa'nias (Λυσανίας, a common Greek name) is mentioned by Luke, in chapter 3:1, as tetrarch of Abilene, on the eastern slope of the anti-Lebanon, near Damascus, at the time when John the Baptist began his ministry, A.D. 25. SEE ABILA. It happens, however, that Josephus speaks of a prince named Lysanias who ruled over a territory in the neighborhood of Lebanon in the time of Antony and Cleopatra, and that he also mentions Abilene as associated with the name of a tetrarch Lysanias, while recounting events of the reigns of Caligula and Claudius. These circumstances have given to Strauss and others an opportunity for accusing the evangelist of confusion and error, but we shall see that this accusation rests on a groundless assumption.
(a.) What Josephus says of the Lysanias who was contemporary with Antony and Cleopatra (i.e., who lived sixty years before the time referred to by Luke) is, that he succeeded his father Ptolemy, the son of Mennleus, in the government of Chalcis, under Mt. Lebanon (War, 1:13,1; Ant. 14:7, 4), and that he was put to death at the instance of Cleopatra (Ant. 15:4,1), who seems to have received a good part of his territory. It is to be observed that Abila is not specified here at all, and that Lysanias is not called tetrarch.
(b.) What Josephus says of Abila and the tetrarchy in the reigns of Caligula and Claudius (i.e., about twenty years after the time mentioned in Luke's Gospel) is, that the former emperor promised the "tetrarchy of Lysanias" to Agrippa (Ant. 18:6,10), and that the latter actually gave to him "Abila of Lysanias" and the territory near Lebanon (Ant. 19:5, 1; comp. War, 2:12, 8).
Bible concordance for LYSANIAS.
Amid the obscurity which surrounds this name, several conjectures have been indulged in, which we will here notice.
1. According to Eusebius (whom others have followed, such as Bede and Adrichomius; see Corn. a Lapid. in Luc. 3:1), Lysanias was a son of Herod the Great. This opinion (the untenableness of which is shown by Valesius, on Eusebius, Hist. Esccles. 1:9, and by Scaliger, Animadver. on Euseb. Chron. page 178) has no other foundation than the fact that the evangelist mentions Lysanias with Herod Antipas and Philip.
See also the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
2. To the older commentators, such as Casaubon (On Baronius, Ann. 31, Num. 4), Scaliger (loc. cit.), and others (see Corn. a Lap. and Grotius, ad loc.), this difference of dates presented no difficulty. Allowing historical credit to Luke (on which subject see Dr. Mill, Pantheistic Princip. part 2, page 16 sq.), no less than to Josephus, they at once concluded that two different princes of the same name, and possibly of the same family, were referred to by the two writers. (See also Kuinol, On Luke 3:1; Krebsius, Observ. page 110-113; and Robinson, Biblioth. Sacr. 5:81).
3. This reasonable solution, however, was unsatisfactory to the restless critics of Germany. Strauss and others (whose names are mentioned by Bleek, Synopt. Erkl. 1:156, and Meyer, Komment. 2:289) charge the evangelist with "a gross chronological error;" a charge which they found on the assumption that the Lysanias of Chalcis mentioned by Josephus is, identical with the Lysanias of Abilene, whom Luke mentions. This assumption is supported by a hypothesis which is incapable of proof, namely, that Abilene, being contiguous to Chalcis, was united to the latter under the rule of Lysanias, the son of Ptolemy. It must. however, be borne in mind that Josephus nowhere speaks of Abilene in connection with this Lysanias; nor, indeed, does he mention it at all until many years after the notice by Luke. He calls Antony's victim simply ruler of Chalcis. Moreover, it is of importance to observe that the tetrarchical division of Palestine and neighboring districts was not made until after the death of Herod the Great; so that, in his haste to inculpate the evangelist, Strauss in effect, attributes to the historian, whom he invidiously opposes to Luke as a better authority, an amount of inaccurate statement which, if true, would destroy all reliance on his history; for we have already seen that Josephus more than once speaks of a "tetrarchy of Lysanias," whereas there were no "tetrarchies" until some thirty years after the death of Ptolemy's son Lysanias. It is, therefore, a juster criticism to conclude (against Strauss, and with the earlier commentators) that in such passages as we have quoted above, wherein the historian speaks of "Abila of Lysanias" and "the tetrarchy of Lysanias," that a later Lysanias is certainly meant: and that Josephus is not only accurate himself, but a voucher also for the veracity of Luke. But there is yet stronger evidence to be found in Josephus of the untenableness of Strauss's objection and theory. In his Jewish War (2:12, 8) the historian tells us that the emperor Claudius "removed Agrippa [the second] from Chalcis [the kingdom, be it remembered, of Strauss's Lysanias] to a greater kingdom, giving him in addition the kingdom of Lysanias" (ἐκ δὲ τῆς Χαλκίδος Α᾿γρίππαν εἰς μείζονα βασιλείαν μετατίθησι... προσέθηνκε δὲ τήν το Λυσανίου βασιλείαν). Ebrard exposes the absurdity of Strauss's argument by drawing from these words of Josephus the following conclusion-inevitable, indeed, on the terms of Strauss — that Agrippa was deprived of Chalcis, receiving in exchange a larger kingdom, and also Chalcis! (See Ebrard's Gospel Hist. [Clark], pages 145, 146 ) The effect of this reductio ad absurdum is well put by Dr. Lee (Inspiration [lst ed.], page 394, note], "Hence, therefore, Josephus does make mention of a later Lysanias [on the denial of which Strauss has founded his assault on Luke], and, by doing so, fully corroborates the fact of the evangelist's intimate acquaintance with the tangled details of Jewish history in his day." Many eminent writers have expressly accepted Ebrard's conclusion, including Meyer (loc. cit.) and Bleek (loc. cit.). Patritius concludes an elaborate examination of the entire case with the discovery that "the later Lysanias, whom Luke mentions, was known to Josephus also, and that, so far from any difficulty accruing out of Josephus to the evangelist's chronology,. as alleged by objectors to his veracity, the historian's statements rather confirm and strengthen it" (De Evangeliis, 3:42, 25). It is interesting, also, to remark that, if the sacred writer gains illustration from the Jewish historian in this matter, he also repays him the favor, by helping to clear up what would otherwise be unintelligible in his statements; for instance, when Josephus (Ant. 17:17, 4) mentions "Batanaea, with Trachonitis and Auranitis, and a certain part of what was called 'the house of Zenodorus, as paying a certain tribute to Philip" (σύν τινι μέρει οἴκου τοῦ Ζηνοδώρουλεγομένου); and when it is remembered that "the house of Zenodorus" included other territory besides Abilene (comp. Ant. 15:10, 3, with War, 1:20, 4), we cannot but admit the force of the opinion advanced by Grotius (as quoted by Dr. Hudson, On the Antiq. 17:11, 4), that "when Josephus says some part of the house or possession of Zenodorus was allotted to Philip, he thereby declares that the larger part of it belonged to another. This other was Lysanias, whom Luke mentions" (see also Krebsius, Observat. page 112).
4. It is not irrelevant to state that other writers besides Strauss and his party have held the identity of Luke's Lysanias with Josephus's son of Ptolemy, and have also believed that Josephus mentioned but one Lysanias. But (unlike Strauss) they resorted to a great shift rather than assail the veracity of the evangelist. Valesius (on Eusebius, Hist. Eccles. 1:10), and, more recently, Paulus (Comment. ad loc.), suggested an alteration of Luke's text, either by an erasure of τετραρχαῦντος after Α᾿βιληνῆς, or retaining the participle and making it agree with Φιλίππου as its subject (getting rid of Λυσανίου as a leading word by reducing it to a mere genitive of designation by its transposition with τῆς — q.d. τῆς Δυσανίου Α᾿βιληνῆς τετραρχοῦντος), as if Philip had been called by the evangelist "tetrarch of Ituroea, Trachonitis, and the Abilene of Lysanias." This expedient, however, of saving Luke's veracity by the mutilation of his words is untenable, not having any support from MS. authority.
5. Still others think it probable that the Lysanias mentioned by Josephus in the second instance is actually the prince referred to by Luke. Thus, instead of a contradiction, we obtain from the Jewish historian a confirmation of the evangelist; and the argument becomes very decisive if, as some think, Abilene is to be excluded from the territory mentioned in the story which has reference to Cleopatra.
In conclusion, it is worth adding, that in modern times a coin has been discovered bearing the inscription Λυσαᾷίου τετράρχου καί ἀρχιερέως, and Pococke also found an inscription on the remains of a Doric temple, called Nebi Abel, the ancient Abila, fifteen English miles from Damascus, which makes mention of Lysanias, tetrarch of Abileze. Both the coin and the inscription refer to a period subsequent to the death of Herod (Pococke's Description of the East, II, 1:115, 116; and Sestini, Lettere et Dissertationi numismatiche, 6:101, tab. 2, as quoted by Wieseler, Chronolog. Synops. page 183). Similarly, the geographer Ptolemy mentions an " Abila which bears the surname of Lysanias," ῎ Α῾βιλα έπικληθεῖσα Δυσαᾷίου (5:18). See Davidson's Introduct. to N.T. page 218. SEE ABILENE.
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[Solved]Can't replace texture at material slot.
27 September 2018 13:32
HI, devs.
I want to know how to replace texture in material and material slot at runtime.
I want to replace texture assign on texture node(include material slot).
I use this code now.
var Obj= m_scenes.get_object_by_name("Object");
var image = new Image();
image.onload = function() {
m_tex.replace_image(Obj, "environment", image);
image.src = TEX_ASSETS_PATH + "new Texture...";
This code isn't complitly working.
This source unable to override material slot data. That is only overriding texture path to assigned material.
I want to replace all the material environment texture node on a selected object.
What should I do?
28 September 2018 13:29
Finally, I figure out a solution.
I have to drop off that approach.
First We shouldn't use m_tex when using much texture at each material.
That behavior is able to only replace texture on assign material without inside material slot.
If you want to replaced texture at materials (include mt on material slot) you should use only a material.
When I tried that My problem disappears.
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Hina Khan matches with Anushka Sharma’s bridal look
‘Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata’ actress Hina Khan walked the ramp at the Dubai fashion show in a splendid gold-and-red Kanjeevaram sari. Hina was styled and wore saree similar to Anushka Sharma which the latter wore at her wedding reception. Deepika Padukone also couple of times, styled in that manner. It seems Hina is very impressed with their style statement.
Hina tied her hair in a bun and beautified it with gajra. Hina, who mostly walks out in a modern outfit looked very graceful in an Indian traditional attire.
With Kanjeevaram sari, she wore heavy jewellery comprising gold polki choker, matching jhumkis (ear danglers) and a bracelet. Minimal make-up and smokey eyes gave an altogether new look.
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As well as having our book stall at the 2009 Bristol Anarchist Book Fair some members of the BRHG mob gave a series of talks in conjunction with Bristol Indymedia.
From Peterloo to Captain Swing: Victims or Insurgents? – Roger
A BRHG talk on the hidden history of struggle in the 19th century. It focuses on how and why major struggles have been ignored or distorted by the left as well as the right.
A Brief History of Corporations – Dan Bennett
A talk/discussion by Bristol Radical History Group member and expert on the Corporation, Dan Bennett. Dan will answer the questions ‘What are Corporations?’, ‘Where do they come from? and ‘How do they derive their power?’
Social crime – who makes the law, and who is it for? – Steve Mills
A talk followed by discussion, about the history of crime and the formation of the British legal system. Steve Mills takes in social crime, the moral economy, smuggling, poaching, shoplifting and riots!
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How a North Korean soldier crashed a vehicle, got shot 5 times, and dashed across the border to South Korea
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The American-led United Nations Command has released the much-anticipated footage of the defection of a Korean People's Army (KPA) soldier.
The soldier made his move around 3 p.m. local time on November 13.
The footage shows how the soldier drove at high speed to the Joint Security Area (JSA) at Panmunjom, crashed his vehicle, sprinted across the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) underfire, and was rescued by South Korean Army personnel after being shot at least four or five times.
The footage also shows the exact moment a KPA soldier violated the six-decade old armistice agreement that has temporarily halted open hostilities between the North and the South.
See the important moments here:
The video begins with the KPA soldier driving a vehicle at a high rate of speed towards a bridge.
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The vehicle passes a KPA checkpoint and drives over the bridge.
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The vehicle passes the Kim Il Sung signature monument, which is where North Korean tours of the JSA begin.
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The KPA soldier then turns and drives toward the MDL, presumably to drive across it and into South Korea.
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The soldier unexpectedly hits an obstruction while underneath some trees (headlight slightly visible near the center), just feet away from the MDL.
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As the vehicle runs into the obstruction, KPA guards start running towards the defector to try and stop him from crossing the MDL. The shot on the right is near the Kim Il Sung signature memorial, where the defector just drove through.
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Realizing the vehicle cannot go any further, the defector makes a break for it and sprints towards the MDL.
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Almost immediately after the defector gets out, four KPA soldiers (one is in a prone position underneath the second man from the right) begin shooting at him.
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The soldier in the prone position is armed with an AK-47 rifle, while the other three soldiers are armed with pistols.
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A side-by-side shot showing the defector on the South Korean side of the MDL, while KPA soldiers get into position to shoot at him
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After the defector crosses the MDL, a KPA soldier momentarily gives chase and crosses the MDL before turning around. By crossing the MDL, the North Korean soldier likely violated the armistice agreement signed in 1953.
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Three minutes after the defection, fourteen KPA soldiers, part of a reaction force, gather at the Kim Il Sung signature memorial
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The defector, now wounded after being shot at least four times, lies against a retaining wall on the South Korean side of the MDL, still partially in view of the North Korean guards.
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A thermal camera captures the heat signatures of the defector (circled) being retrieved by two South Korean non-commissioned officers (arrows). The officers, worried about possible sniper fire, had to crawl over to him, and drag him to safety.
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The defector was medevaced by American forces to a hospital in South Korea, where he was operated on.
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ROI Revolution: Highlights & Webinar Recording
Are you still counting Likes and Followers? Feel like the more effort you put into social media, the less you get out? If so, you are hardly alone. Many marketers are frustrated with the lack of ROI from their social campaigns. But the truth is, social media can really pay off – if done correctly. In our latest webinar, “ROI Revolution: 5 New Rules to Maximize Social Media Return” featuring Kieley Taylor, Catalyst’s Head of Paid Social, we provided five key rules to help you maximize business results from social channels:
1. Social Media Is Paid Media And Should Drive Business Results
2. Integrated Strategy: Plan With Your Audience In Mind
3. Fill The Marketing Funnel, Not The Newsfeed
4. Shift From Reactive Real-Time Content To Proactive Right-Time Messaging
5. Take Social Out Of A Silo
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Google Alleged Code Copying Is a Huge Management Problem
The legal feud between Oracle (ORCL) and Google (GOOG) over alleged copyright and patent infringement has just taken an interesting turn. Oracle amended its complaint to include alleged examples of directly copied code. The comparison looks exact, which is bad news for Google's defense. Things could get far worse, as well, should this example be just the first of many.
However, for a moment, put aside whether Google has to pay a large sum of cash to Oracle. There is a far bigger issue of whether Google has the management systems in place to properly direct what the company does and how it manages risk. Given what has come out even so far in this case and in the turmoil over Google's sampling private data from Wi-Fi hot spots around the world, the answer would seem to be no. That raises the question of whether CEO Eric Schmidt and his top executive team are performing some of the most basic management functions that any corporation needs.
As you can see in these side-by-side comparisons, the examples of code from Oracle and from Google look identical
Here's one example that our sister site ZDNet pulled out of the documents (click on the image for a larger view):
Even if these are the only examples Oracle can find of identical code -- not likely, I think, but posit it for now -- the damage done to Google's defense is enormous. One of the points Google made in answering the complaint was that the company developed a so-called clean room version of Java. In other words, Google says that it put developers into a vacuum. Without reference to how Sun Microsystems, acquired by Oracle, coded Java software, Google's development team was supposed to work backwards from what the software was supposed to do and create its own version.
Might some code realistically look similar? Absolutely, as engineers could easily reach for similar approaches to solving problems. But completely identical, down to variable names? Ha!
Now Google has some serious explaining to do. In the early days of the Wi-Fi data grabbing tumult, the explanation was that the whole multi-year-long episode was one big error, as a company statement suggested:
At the time, I walked through a six-step analysis of why this was so much unprocessed, bovine-delivered plant fertilizer:
1. As developers wrote code, either they documented their work or not.
2. Either the project had supervision or not.
3. If the project had supervision, either people did their jobs and knew what was going in or not.
4. If the people knew what was happening, then they either competently ensured that code was documented or not.
5. If supervisors did their jobs, either communication allowed management to know of the data, or the communications necessary to properly running a company was absent and the whole effort was for naught.
6. If management knew, then it lied and then did an about face in public.
Change the word "documented" to "copied" and you could reuse the same thread of logic.
Clean room development does not result in sections of identical code any more than putting six monkeys on typewriters in a room for a few months will give you pages of Shakespeare. So either management knew what was going on, in which case it acted in a completely irresponsible manner, or the company didn't have the checks and balances in place to be sure that everything was done as it should be to avoid a problem with the pugilistic Oracle, in which case management acted in a completely irresponsible manner.
The conclusion is the same, and that raises yet another question: Can Google ever achieve its potential when those who run it seem unable to exert meaningful control when it counts most?
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Prison Calls | The Straight Dope | Salt Lake City | Salt Lake City Weekly
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Do jails and prisons allow video-conferencing with inmates?
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Heck of an idea you've got there, Filmore. Know who else is a fan of video visitation, as it's called? Good old Joe Arpaio, late of the Maricopa County, Ariz., sheriff's department, where he gained a reputation for ghastly human rights abuses before being voted out of office and convicted of contempt (and subsequently pardoned by Donald Trump). Arpaio called video visitation "a win for everyone involved," and while we live in a complex world with few easy answers, I'd suggest you couldn't find a more reliable rule of thumb than: If Sheriff Joe's for it, be wary.
And indeed, video visitation is far from the simple convenience it might appear to be. Let's thumb through Screening Out Family Time, a 2015 report by the nonprofit think tank Prison Policy Initiative, which elucidates some objections to what the organization calls the "for-profit video visitation industry":
This ain't Skype. Or FaceTime, either. If you're picturing high-quality video service, forget it—this is "poorly designed" technology, according to the report's authors, plagued with complaints about crappy connections. That's particularly a problem for friends and relatives trying to connect from home: Video visitation is typically free when using dedicated visitor terminals at correctional facilities, but anyone logging on remotely is paying handsomely for the terrible service
Even if the tech were to get sorted out on the provider's end, consider the customer. PPI cites a Bureau of Justice Statistics survey of previously incarcerated people in which 86 percent of respondents reported an income of less than $25,000—in other words, folks from families unlikely to have access to the decent computers and reliable bandwidth a good video link requires.
In-person visits work. Most of these video schemes have been implemented at county jails, rather than prisons, which seems exactly backward: Unlike state prisons, jails aren't the kinds of places that generally require loved ones to travel long distances for a visit. And video visitation isn't supplementing in-person visits, as ideally it should; it's replacing it altogether. In 74 percent of jails, PPI found, in-person visits were no longer permitted after video visits were implemented—in at least some cases, at the request of the contractor responsible for the video technology.
Why does this matter? Because "family contact," PPI writes, "is one of the surest ways to reduce the likelihood that an individual will re-offend," so it's something that jails and prisons should want to facilitate, not discourage. (Unlike jails, prisons seem to recognize this: PPI found "virtually no state prisons" that had eliminated in-person visitation.) Even a single visit to an incarcerated offender has been shown to reduce the chance of recidivism by 13 percent. And beyond any technical challenges, video makes visitation difficult because ...
This is of a piece with how all sorts of carceral services have been privatized, and at great cost to inmates and their families. It's a tremendous racket: The companies make piles of money, the facilities get a kickback and the fees can be set at extortionate levels while the services provided are lousy—after all, the contractors have a literally captive consumer base and in many cases a near lock on the market. Sending money to an incarcerated pal? That's another way these companies make a buck. The Center for Public Integrity found transmission fees of up to 45 percent in some states; they mention one Tennessee woman who pays a total of $70 just to send $50 to her son in the clink. And remember, that's money inmates' relatives don't typically have; more than a third of families with an incarcerated loved one go into debt paying for visits and phone calls alone.
As you might guess, those calls aren't cheap either. In fact, in 2013 the Federal Communications Commission announced rules capping inmate phone fees, citing, for instance, charges up to $17 for a 15-minute call. Who would argue against sensible government regulation like that, right? Well, one commissioner did dissent from the ruling: Ajit Pai, who (you can't make this up) now leads the agency, promoted to the chairman's job by Donald Trump. The companies levying the sky-high fees sued, of course, and earlier this year, with Pai in charge, the FCC ceased its legal defense of the rate caps. In June, an appeals court ruled that the FCC didn't have the authority to regulate inmate phone charges, which could go on being exorbitant. So sure, video conferencing's a great service, just like inmate phone calls—provided you're the one hooking up the cables.
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Amazing illusion: Watch water flow like never before
This is real, but there's a catch. Screenshot by Christopher MacManus/CNET
Water can be a solid, liquid, or gas -- and one heck of a dazzling science experiment when you pump up the volume.
A mind-bending video by YouTube user Brusspup shows how falling water can take on a zigzag pattern after two influencing factors: a nearby device emitting a 24Hz sine wave noise and a camera recording at 24 frames per second.
"The speaker is vibrating 24 times per second, which causes the water hose to vibrate 24 times per second," said Brusspup about the water video in an e-mail interview with Crave. "The camera is filming at 24 frames per second, so since both the camera and water are moving at the same rate, you see no change in what's happening; hence, the water appears to be frozen in air."
Unfortunately, before you try to replicate this at your next social soiree, you should know that it's not quite possible to see the zigzag waterfall in real life. Brusspup also informed us how he achieved the reverse motion effect seen toward the end of the video.
"If you adjust the frequency to 23Hz but the camera is still recording at 24 frames per second, now there is a slight difference between each frame and the position of the water, causing the effect of the water moving backward," said Brusspup.
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CCLP/PAMELA GRANT - SCA member Joe Simmons taught a class on medieval table manners. The class was held in the library meeting room.
Group hosts class on medieval table manners
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Movies often depict medieval mealtimes as barbaric affairs. They show men tearing off great chunks of meat, talking with their mouths full, and tossing their unwanted food aside. However, this is far from reality.
A local medieval group, known as the Society of Creative Anachronism, or SCA, taught a class on historical table manners. The class was held Wednesday night in the meeting room of the Copperas Cove Public Library. Joe Simmons (known in the SCA as Lord Eric Bentbow) led the class and sought to dispel common myths and shine some light on how things actually were.
Simmons began the class by showing an old movie clip showing how medieval table manners are often depicted in Hollywood. The lord in the movie ate in the stereotypical manner and was generally crude and unrefined.
“I want to try and give people an idea of how they actually ate in the Middle Ages rather than how they were led to believe for years,” said Simmons.
Historically, a diner was to be quiet and polite. There were several rules and regulations that followed during public feasting events. Rules included things like: “Do not lean on the table”, “Eat quietly at all times”, “Do not stare about, wiggle or waggle, or scratch the head”, “Do not speak with your mouth full”, and while waiting for everyone to be served and the meal to begin, “One should look about pleasantly and not stare incessantly at the food or people”.
It was also very important to keep the tablecloth clean. Spilling, wiping one’s mouth on the tablecloth, and other means of dirtying the cloth were highly frowned upon.
In medieval times, they ate in a groups called a “mess” which was a meal with enough food to feed four people. Depending on rank, people would eat in groups ranging in size from five to one. Regardless of the group size, the amount of food remained the same.
Eating utensils included a knife, a trencher or dish (in the earliest days, the trench would be made from four day old bread, but after the 1500s, they were replaced with wood or metal dishes), a spoon, a tankard or drinking vessel, and a voider. The voider was used to place trash items into to be taken away. It was normal for them to share one or two drinking vessels. Because they shared drinking vessels, they would wipe their mouth before drinking, and wipe off the vessel after drinking.
Another rule was that “Food eaten should be in small bits and eaten with the fingers of courtesy”. The fingers of courtesy were the thumb and middle finger. This meant that the mouth would be covered even while eating.
While the SCA does work to recreate medieval times, there are changes that have been made with regards to table manners. For example, they don’t use a communal bowl, and they eat and drink from their own individual plates and drinking vessels rather than sharing.
“This was very informative for me,” said Colin Darby (known in the SCA as Sigurd Hrafnsson). “The entire concept of appearance is everything applies pretty much everywhere in period…Manners count for quite a bit if you want to impress other people, and the conspicuous display of wealth is normal.”
Darby said that he resisted joining the SCA from 2000 until February of this year when he finally gave in and joined.
“I honestly thought the medieval customs, titles, and extra names were silly,” said Darby. “But it so happened that I hung out with some friends in January [at an SCA event]…and I looked around and realized that, for once in my life, no matter who I looked at…I fit in.”
Darby said that he enjoys being in the SCA and said that he enjoys participating in armored combat.
The SCA is a medieval group that works to recreate the most enjoyable aspects of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Activities include, but are not limited to armored combat, weaving, brewing, leather work, shoemaking, and cooking.
Those interested in joining the SCA or learning more about the group are welcome to join one of the SCA’s future events. The group meets every Thursday at 7 p.m. in Harker Heights at Carl Levin Park. They also meet at the Copperas Cove Library every third Wednesday of the month at 8 p.m.
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Posted by Jake at Sat Apr 12 2008 19:56
Your research is correct--copyright-wise, if you're just reproducing copies of material in the public domain, you should be fine. So buying replicas, then scanning them, then putting them online, is fine. The edited versions you're talking about are only copyrightable in terms of the editorial choices made--as long as you aren't reproducing the organization and omissions exactly from the replica works, I don't think you have anything to worry about.
The CD full of scans is another matter, however; in all likelihood, it'll be sold with a user agreement forbidding you from putting the stuff online. If you break the terms of that agreement, you can be found liable of breach of contract. There's a case more or less about this exact issue--Pro CD v. Zeidenberg. So if you want to buy scans, keep an eye out for TOS.
Posted by Riana at Sat Apr 12 2008 19:56
Editorial work - choosing what to leave in and what to leave out, and in what order to put things - is a big part of determining the copyrightability of collections, lists, and stuff that otherwise would just be uncopyrightable facts. Editorial choices display the minimum modicum of creativity that is crucial to copyrightability. See The Trade-Mark Cases.
A compilation of works can be given a copyright quite apart from the individual copyrights on the works or the individual works' uncopyrightability in themselves, although the copyright may be "thin." See Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Services.
This situation is a little odd to me since you're talking about recopyrighting stuff that's fallen into the public domain (are the catalogs all pre-1923?) by picking and choosing how to reassemble them as facsimiles. I'm sure it's not that odd and happens all the time, but it's just a little new to me. So, being ignorant of the happens-all-the-time instances, I'm going to say yes, you can get a copyright by assembling public domain items into a new compilation, but it'll be a "thin" copyright and you can't stop people from using the public domain elements; you can only stop them from reproducing the compilation you made, exactly as you made it, since they're copying the fruits of your editorial decisions.
It doesn't matter that it's a derivative work: the copyright owner has the sole right to make derivative works, but since the copyright expired, it's okay to make the facsimile. So anybody can make a "derivative work" of public domain stuff. Like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, or Clueless, or Jesus Christ Superstar, etc. etc. etc.
So uh, in sum, I think you could copyright old, public domain stuff by sticking them into a compilation and exercising a modicum of creativity through your editorial decisions about what to include and in what arrangement.
And since "you" here is whoever already made the facsimile, I'm thinking it might not be okay for you to buy a facsimile, scan the pages, and put the scans online, faithfully reproducing the facsimile. The person who made the facsimile may have a copyright, albeit thin, in the compilation, so reproducing the facsimile through online scans might infringe the facsimile maker's right to make derivative works.
But then again, it might be okay so long as you're not copying the fruits of the editorial decisions. The individual bits are public domain, and you can do whatever you want with those. You just can't copy the whole thing just the way the facsimile maker decided to assemble it. Since the copyright is going to be thin, I think you can get away with making individual scans and arranging them some other way. This will be tricky, though, if the pages of the catalog are meant to be presented in a certain order, and your mixing them up screws up that order. But it sounds like they at least to some extent can stand on their own since the facsimiles are already incomplete, and it's that incompleteness that might give the facsimile maker a copyright.
That would be different from New York Times v. Tasini, which held that removing individually-copyrighted works from their context as part of a collective work, in which a separate copyright was held by NYT, and placing them into searchable databases as separate files goes beyond the collective copyright owner's 17 U.S.C. § 201(c) privilege. The difference is that the individual works in the collection are public domain, not under copyright.
Just plain leaving stuff out might actually not be enough to get even a thin copyright. I'm not sure about that one, actually. Usually editorial work entails more than just cutting. There's the rub.
ObDisclaimer: I could be totally wrong about every single thing I've said, and none of this is legal advice anyway.
Posted by Riana at Sat Apr 12 2008 19:58
Thanks, Jake.
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Posted by Jake at Sat Apr 12 2008 23:27
Arranging the pages in the original order would be legal in TWO ways. 1) It would be emulating the editorial choices of the original, public domain work; and 2) editing choices that don't have a modicum of creativity, e.g., in regular page order, aren't copyrightable.
So in my (nonprofessional, non-liable-for-malpractice!) opinion, that ought to be perfectly fine.
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TMZ captured this shot of the new torta burger
TMZ captured this shot of the new torta burger
Nick Rallo
Torta Burger Discovered in the Wild at Le Taco Cantina, and It's Really Good
There's something terrifying about food hybrids. For example: When Pizza Hut human-centipeded a hot dog into a pizza crust, the entire planet cringed. When food scientist Guy Fieri announces new creations, like tater tot ravioli and hot donkey nachos, it's fair to experience bouts of night terrors. A torta and a burger, as one, sounds like a terrifying amalgamation. It sounds like something that might be captured on blurry 16mm footage, deep in the forest. Torta Burger. Say its name, and be not afraid!
The torta burger at Le Taco Cantina probably shouldn't work, but it does. I discovered this recently, nestled into the very dim bar (hence the photo quality) at the restaurant formerly known as Scotch and Sausage, where I pored over the menu of tacos. Behind me, the place was alive. Long, communal tables were dotted with cocktail glasses holding dancing candlelight. Music was throbbing, and the new neon sign out front looked like a Miami Vice prop. A bartender quickly put a label-less tequila bottle (it looks like Patron) in front of me, along with a shot glass.
Mind = officially confused by this presentation
Mind = officially confused by this presentation
Nick Rallo
Because I'm the world's smartest human, I was actually under the impression, for several minutes, that they had provided me free tequila with my meal. I stared at the bottle for a hilariously long amount of time, contemplating the dangers of free, pre-dinner tequila, before realizing it was actually my water and water glass. I did an "I'm an idiot" water shot, and ordered the "le torta." What new devilry was this?
Le torta is a short rib patty, with melted swiss, carnitas, avocado, lettuce, crema and a blanket of umami-rich sauce that's the most addictive I've had on a torta burger this year.
The torta burger arrived on a long, appetizer-y plate. It wasn't as Sasquatch-huge as expected (the last torta I experienced literally eclipsed my face). The first bite set off a soy-sauce firework. The short rib patty was seared to a light crunch and big on flavor. Torta burger good. Torta burger have flavor punch.
Stacked high atop the hearty patty were carnitas that ranged from succulent to rubbery (around 60-40), crisp shards of lettuce, avocado and a little bit of crema. Creamy Swiss brought the flavors together and caused massive jolts of happy. Good bun too: It showed up shiny-faced and toasted, keeping its integrity throughout the burger-eating process.
Despite the uneven carnitas, the burger had such bold and earthy flavors that I think it'd be totally fine if you Hulk-screamed and tore at your garments before eating it. Also, that umami-rich sauce was a nice thunder clap. I was tempted to order an extra bun just to sop up the leftover sauce.
Often burgers with added "specialty" ingredients soar over 10 bucks. This one was mercifully under 10, and it wasn't a Frankenstein-esque, nightmare hybrid. This was a bizarre food amalgam done well.
Le Taco Cantina is a 2808 Oak Lawn Ave., Dallas, TX, which was once the great halls of Scotch and Sausage.
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Hart Technologies of Provo, parent company of Hart Scientific Inc., manufacturer of scientific instrumentation, has signed an agreement to acquire Rich Automation Inc., a Salt Lake company manufacturing automation equipment used in many parts of the United States.
Subject to the final terms and certain stipulations of the agreement, Rich will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Hart Technologies. The acquisition means the number of Hart employees now totals 100.
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Sony's 11-inch VAIO TT: world's lightest Blu-ray laptop
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It took a few days hours longer than expected, but Sony's VAIO TT is here. And it's sexy. This 11.1-inch beauty features a sub-1-inch thick, 2.87-pound chassis made from carbon-fiber, and Sony claims it's the lightest notebook on the planet to pack Blu-ray capabilities. Arriving in a variety of configurations, the VAIO TT is available with an XBRITE-DuraView LCD, Intel's Centrino 2 technology, an HDMI output, dual channel 256GB (128GB x 2) SSD setup with RAID, Sprint WWAN (EV-DO Rev. A) and Windows Vista running the show. The Fall-bound TT -- which will arrive in premium carbon black, silk black, champagne gold and crimson red outfits -- will start at around two large, with the Blu-ray model going for $2,700 and the SSD edition demanding $2,750. There's no direct mention of a battery life figure, which scares us just a tad, but you can dig into the full release just after the break.
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Magento – 2 Upgrade from Magento 1
There are four things you need to go through in order to migrate your website from Magento 1 to Magento 2,
1. Theme Migration
2. Extension Migration
3. Code Migration
4. Data Migration
Before following any of the steps, it’s always better to take a backup of database and coding files. You also need to make sure that, server hardware, modules, and configurations are compatible with Magento 2.
Here is the preferred requirement/configuration needed.
• Operating systems (Linux x86-64) (Preferable)
• Minimum 2 GB RAM
• Composer
• Apache 2.2 or 2.4 / Nginx 1.x
• MySQL 5.5, 5.6
• PHP 7.1.X
• PHP Extensions
1. bc-math
2. ctype
3. curl
4. dom
5. gd, ImageMagick 6.3.7 (or later) or both
6. intl
7. mbstring
8. mcrypt
9. hash
10. openssl
11. PDO/MySQL
12. SimpleXML
13. soap
14. spl
15. libxml
16. xsl
17. zip
18. json
19. iconv
• SSL (Optional)
• Mail Server
• Redis (Optional)
• Varnish (Optional)
• OPcache (Optional)
Once Magento 2 is installed and set-up, you can proceed with below four types of migrations.
1. Theme Migration
You cannot directly migrate your Magento 1 theme into Magento 2. There is no such automatic tool or something which will do that for you. You need to either purchase new Magento 2 theme which will be similar to your current theme and get frontend developer to do some minor changes if needed.
You can also have built it from scratch by using the reference of default Luma theme by having frontend developer.
2. Extension Migration
Once you have migrated your theme next step is to migrate installed extension from your existing magento1 site to new version. Extensions can generally be of two types. One is by purchasing from the third party and other is by getting it customized by local in-house developers.For the first type, the best approach is to contact the same third-party company and check for the upgraded extension, download/repurchase it and install it.
For the second type, you need to get it migrated with the developer who has developed it.
Normally Magento 1 extensions are most likely not compatible with Magento 2. There are some tools available in the market which will do the migration to 40% ~ 60%, however, rest need to redevelop it.
You can also check if some similar plugins are available in market and purchase that and get minor customization/modification needed.
3. Code Migration
Most of the time custom code used by your Magento 1 store is compatible with Magento 2. Magento offers a Code Migration Toolkit which helps you in this process.
Note that due to structural differences in Magento 1 and Magento 2, migration may require some additional work and testing to make sure that the custom code successfully integrates with the Magento 2. Make sure that you follow the Magento 2 coding standard and methods while upgrading yours customize the code.
4. Data Migration
This is a very crucial and important part to handle. This involves all of your results, registered clients, various store configurations, custom-made promotions, and much more. Follow the below steps,
• Make sure that the Data Migration Tools has a network access to connect to Magento 1 and Magento 2 databases. Open ports in your firewall.
Stop all activity in the Magento 1.x Admin Panel (except for order management, such as shipping, creating an invoice, credit memos etc.)
NOTE: Activity cannot resume until your Magento 2 store goes live.
• Finish all Magento 1.x cron jobs.
• Utilize the migration tool to relocate settings and websites.
• Copy your Magento 1.x media files to Magento 2.0. (You must copy these manually from /media to /pub/media.
• Handle Data Migration Tool to migrate your information from Magento 1 database to Magento 2 database. If any of your extensions have data you require to migrate, you might require to install these extensions accustomed for Magento 2. In case the extensions have a complex structure in Magento 2 database, utilize the mapping files presented with the Data Migration Tool.
• Practice the Magento indexer:reindex command to reindex all indexers.
• Fully test your Magento 2.0 web development.
Now that your Magento 2 site is up-to-date with Magento 1 and is functioning commonly, do the following to make over to the current site:
• Insert your Magento 1 system in maintenance mode (DOWNTIME STARTS).
• Click Control+C in the migration tool command window to finish incremental updates.
• Begin your Magento 2 cron jobs.
• In your Magento 2 system, reindex the stock indexer practicing the command Magento indexer:reindex cataloginventory_stock.
• Applying a tool of your preference, responded pages in your Magento 2 system to cache pages in the approach of clients applying your storefront.
• Do any ultimate verification of your Magento 2 site.
• Modify DNS, load balancers, and so on to designate to distinct production hardware (DOWNTIME ENDS)
• Magento 2 store is ready to practice. You and your clients can continue all actions.
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Quick Look at Ionic App Development
Mobile Application
Ionic is an open source project, licensed under MIT and powered by a huge worldwide community. To build cross-platform, robust and responsive, mobile and web applications, we have developers for PhoneGap, Xamarin, React Native, and Ionic developers. With the help of Cordova and AngularJS ionic provide a way to build a native application and web applications. So, you can have a common language and framework by which a hybrid application can be built.
Recently, it also provides support to Progressive Web Application, which are web-based applications but behave alike native applications.
To install Ionic and Cordova globally on your machine run below command.
$ npm install -g ionic cordova
Let’s create a new ionic application using the ionic command-line interface. Go to the directory where you want to store the source code of the application, then run below command to create a blank ionic application.
$ ionic start yourappname blank
• start will update the command-line interface to create a new application.
• yourappname is the directory name or application name of the project.
• blank will be the starter template of the application.
Ionic has few more templates as mentioned below:
• Tabs: a simple 3 tab layout (Default)
• Side Menu: a layout with a swipe menu on the side
• Blank: a bare starter with a single page
• Super: starter project with over 14 ready to use page designs
• Tutorial: a guided starter project
After this, Open the project directory in Text Editor. When you open the project in the text editor, you can see a file structure like below:
Ionic text editor
Focus on the src directory to proceed for any changes.
app/app.component.ts: An application component is created here, where other sub-components are loaded as child components. Even, constructor of it can be used to do configurations in the application, if required.
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { Platform } from 'ionic-angular';
templateUrl: 'app.html'
export class MyApp {
rootPage:any = HomePage;
platform.ready().then(() => {
app/app.html: This is basically the HTML file that is loaded by the application component. It is defined in the @Component block in the app/app.component.ts file.
app/app.module.ts: This is root module that tells Angular how to assemble the application. This is where the application module is defined. The application module can also import other modules.
import { MyApp } from './app.component';
declarations: [
imports: [
bootstrap: [IonicApp],
entryComponents: [
providers: [
{provide: ErrorHandler, useClass: IonicErrorHandler}
export class AppModule {}
• @NgModule — It takes a metadata object that tells Angular how to compile and launch the application.
• Imports — The BrowserModule prerequisites for every application to run in a browser.
• Declarations — The component of application.
• Bootstrap — A root component that decides which component to run first.
app/app.scss: Every module can have their individual and specific registered scss file. It also cascades down to all sub-modules, even though it is registered to the application module. scss file is considered as a global scss as it possesses all modules.
app/main.ts: main.ts is the entry point of the application, compiles the application with just-in-time and bootstrap’s the application. Angular can be bootstrapped in multiple environments all we need is to import a module specific to the environment, in which Angular looks for which module would run first.
// The browser platform with a compiler
// The app module
import { AppModule } from './app.module';
// Compile and launch the module
Now to start your ionic application, go to the root of the project and then run the command below:
$ ionic serve
When you execute above command you will find below screen in your command prompt.
Command prompt
And when you see the browser with the link http://localhost:8100/ you will find below the screen as Landing/Home Page.
Ionic Blank
Ionic framework let ionic app developers create hybrid mobile apps by using Web technologies like CSS, HTML5, and JavaScript. So, developers experienced in above mentioned technologies can easily develop self-contained ionic apps very similar to Android and iOS apps collectively in one framework.
Beyond it, the powerful command-line interface of Ionic let ionic programmers start their project with a simple command and still, they can add Cordova plugins and additional front-end packages, along with Push Notification, Splash screens, app icons and native binaries.
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Image Optimization
Quick Overview
Images are very important for online stores, but unnecessarily large images can slow down the user experience and reduce search engine rankings. Image Optimization will optimize your images and reduce their size without sacrificing image quality, so that your site images are faster loading.
Your risk-free investment: $79.00
Magento Image Optimization will reduce image sizes without reducing image quality, which will make your pages faster to download and reduce bandwidth. A slow loading store can reduce search engine rankings 1 and even sales. Optimizing images is especially important because it affects every request as every request will have different images which means the browser cache will not work effectively. Optimize your store's images so your store can be graded better in Google page speed:
Note: This extension works great with our Magento Minify Javascript extension and our Magento Page Cache extension.
• Optimize Images Without Losing Image Quality
Image quality is very important in order to sell products online. As a result, all image optimization will ensure no image quality is lost.
• No Need to Install Server Software New!
The smushit online API is used (not yahoo which is shutdown, but resmushit which is available) so you do not need to install any server software. You can of course continue to optimize on your server if you want or need to.
• Optimize Catalog Product Images
Optimize product images and add forever expiries to them to better use the browser cache.
• Search Engine Optimize Catalog Product Images New!
Make the name of the product image the same as the product name to improve search engine rank.
• Optimize Skin Images
Optimize skin images and add forever expiries to them to better use the browser cache.
• Optimize Media Images
Optimize media images and add forever expiries to them to better use the browser cache.
• Optimize Images in Any Directory New!
Easily add any directory of images you want to optimize and all the images in the directory will be optimized.
• Compatible With Almost All CDNs
Image optmization is compatible even if you use a content delivery network.
• Improve the Browser Cache Management of Images Files
Your catalog and CSS images will be rewritten and cached in a similar way as the Javascript and CSS. This means that once a user downloads an image, they never have to request that image on your server again. This can save dozens of server requests per page load and save hundreds of kilobytes per page load. On a default Magento Commerce install, this saves 20 web requests per page load just for the CSS images alone.
• Reduce Bandwidth
Image optimization will reduce bandwidth requirements for your store which can save money.
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Reasons To Choose Extendware
• Risk-free purchase
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After the third quarter, I pointed out that Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) should be grateful for its early-2006 purchase of Guidant. In the fourth quarter? Not so much.
The pacemakers and defibrillators that Guidant contributed are still growing strong -- they were up 5% year over year -- but the company had to take a whopping $2.7 billion goodwill writedown because the value of what it purchased has changed. That's 10% of the purchase price wiped away. Boston Scientific blamed changes in market demand for the implantable devices and disruptions in the credit and equity markets.
In the end though, it's just an accounting issue, like the monster charge Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) took after it merged with AOL or, more recently, the $3.3 billion charge SUPERVALU (NYSE:SVU) was forced to take. This charge doesn't affect today's cash flow statement, which is good because Boston Scientific can use all the cash it can get -- it still has $6.7 billion in long-term debt after the Guidant acquisition.
Sales of stents -- the company's other major product line -- fell 4% for the quarter and 8.6% for the year as Abbott Labs' (NYSE:ABT) new drug-eluting stent, Xience, managed to grab 30% of the U.S. market in the quarter. Boston Scientific sells the exact same stent with a different name on the box -- Promus -- but it doesn't get as much from those sales because Abbott gets some royalties. Still, Promus is certainly saving Boston Scientific -- just look at how hard sales of Johnson & Johnson's (NYSE:JNJ) stents fell. Sales of Promus now essentially equal that of Boston Scientific’s older Taxus stent in the U.S., and I expect that the Xience/Promus combination will continue to eat into the market share of Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic (NYSE:MDT).
For this year, Boston Scientific is expecting to have sales growth of negative 1% to positive 6%, as reported. Lowered costs should help the bottom line increase more, with a 7% to 20% increase in adjusted earnings per share this year to $0.80 to $0.90. That gives it a forward price-to-earnings ratio of right around 10, which seems reasonable given the turnaround that it looks like Boston Scientific might just pull off.
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JavaScript Jabber starting from episode 1 (part 1: 2012)
JavaScript Jabber starting from episode 1 (part 1: 2012)
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I recently started listening to the podcast JavaScript Jabber a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it. I noticed that there were episodes dating back to 2012 so I decided that it would be very informational and insightful for me (someone who didn’t start learning JS until late 2016) to here what people where talking about in the past 6 years of JavaScript, and i’m very glad I made this decision. So i’m just going to make some comments about what I picked up in a broad overview of the first 40 episodes of JavaScript Jabber, the episodes from 2012. Note this is a second hand impression of someone who wasn’t “there” so it may not be completely accurate, I just found this experience really interesting and wanted to write about it.
General State of JavaScript:
It seems like in 2012 the JavaScript ecosystem was much more tumultuous than now with less agreement on how JavaScript should be used in general. Douglas Crawford is mentioned as a great influencer who has great insight but the people on the show always say to take him with a grain of salt because he was so dogmatic and opinionated (JShint had already been forked from JSlint). The guest on the podcast often can’t really agree on the best resources and thought leaders in the JavaScript world so it was really I pioneering time. Many of the discussions lead to conversations about the conflict of different programming communities, and novice developers all being lumped in to the usage of JavaScript, and how that led to an essential wild west of practices.
Framework Ecosystem:
While non framework web development just using Jquery and other libraries seems to be the most prevalent during this period, there are many great episodes that cover some of the emerging frameworks at the time and how they differ, namely Backbone.js, Ember.js, Knockout.js, and to a lessor extent Angular.js (I guess at this point it hadn’t gained the momentum we all know it got later). There are a lot of great discussions about the differences between different interpretations of MVC, MVVM, and MVP patterns and how to solve the problem of managing the dom in complex UIs. It’s really interesting to hear these discussions in a pre Flux Architecture world.
Things i’m surprised already existed (or were in the pipeline) in 2012:
What really surprised me is how many things that I feel like are often spoken about like they’re super new already existed in 2012. Most surprising to me was when some Google people were on the show they spoke about the shadow dom and web component spec, which I thought was cutting edge in 2018. Some other things that where already around that surprised me were: express, Microsoft using Node.js, Jasmine, Mocha, Cassandra, Mongo.db, Redis, and Go lang.
Things that didn’t exist yet (or wasn’t mentioned):
Most notable to me was that Babel and Webpack didn’t exist yet and there is still a big sentiment of not wanting to have a build step in the development process by some of the people on the podcast.
There was a lot of discussion about CoffeeScript in these episodes which had many syntax sugar features that were eventually implemented in ES6 (the proposal pipeline for ES6 was mentioned once in these first 40 episodes saying that class would be a reserved keyword but not much else). Also there was an episode entirely on the Promise pattern which at this time was done through libraries which was also to be later added to JavaScript in ES6.
Unexciting things of today used to be exciting:
I just have two examples of this from the podcast but this article which I had recently read: Worst Languages to learn in 2018 made them stand out to me. 1. Dart, there was an entire episode where Google devs talked about the language and it was back referenced a lot in later episodes. 2. CoffeeScript, this one is less surprising because CoffeeScript was essentially made obsolete by many of it’s appreciated features being added to regular JavaScript in in ES6.
A note on the actual podcast:
The format is great, it’s very casual and easy to listen to but at the same time there are great guests that have a lot of deep knowledge on interesting topics (this holds true in 2018). I especially like the personal touch the “picks” section adds: at the end of every podcast each person is asked to recommend something (either programming related or not) to the listeners and a lot of the recommendations are quite helpful. If you want to listen to a JavaScript specific podcast I highly recommend listening to this one.
I plan on continuing on with 2013-2018 to learn what the JavaScript ecosystem was like up until now and am interested in what I will end up learning from here.
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Canine Rabies
Canine Rabies has been eliminated in the United Kingdom. No cases of the disease have been found in the UK since 1902 and the last reported case from animals being brought into the country was in 1946.
The very word "rabies" fills one with fear. Because I live in the UK, I have never seen a real live case of this disease, but I do know that it will turn a normally placid and gentle dog into a killer.
Most countries, though, still have to be careful of their dogs catching the disease, which is almost always fatal and can be spread between dogs and other species, including humans.
The disease is spread by the bite or saliva of an infected animal. Early symptoms include irritation of the affected area, fever, change in behaviour and dilated pupils. However symptoms will not begin to show for at least four weeks after infection. The second phase of the infection causes aggression, disorientation and sensivity to light.
The final phase is paralysis, respiratory failure, hydrophobia (fear of water) and death.
Rabies is a killer, both of animals and humans. Any mammal can contract the disease, but it is normally carried by wild animals such as bats, racoons and wolves.
If you do not live in one of the countries which have eliminated this disease, be sure that your puppy is vaccinated.
From Canine Rabies to Newfoundland Dog Health
From Canine Rabies to Gentle Newfoundland Dogs
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Gary Ewan Park - Introducing the Chocolatey VS Code Extension
Introducing the Chocolatey VS Code Extension
Published on 25 November 2018
This announcement blog post is a "little" late. The first version of this VS Code Extension was created back in January 2016, however, it is only recently that it has been given a new lease of life, with some additional functionality around executing Chocolatey commands from within VS Code. As a result, I thought this was a good time to introduce it properly.
What is it?
The Chocolatey Extension for VS Code brings with it a number of commands and snippets to help with the creation and packaging of Chocolatey packages. There are plans for adding more commands into the extension as time permits, and if you are interested in helping out with adding more functionality, please feel free to get in touch.
Why is this needed?
When getting started with Chocolatey, it can be a little daunting to get up to speed with the various commands that are required to create, pack and push, Chocolatey packages. While there is extensive documentation to guide you through this process, it can be a little overwhelming. This extension is an attempt to help with some of these tasks, to help guide you through this process, via the use of snippets, and most recently, commands.
Installing the Chocolatey Extension for VS Code is simple, it installs in the same way as any other extension. Open Extensions from the left hand side section of VS Code, or select View | Extensions. Then do a search for "chocolatey" and the extension with an author of "Gary Ewan Park" should be returned. Go ahead and install the extension:
Chocolatey Extension Install
When prompted, click the Reload button.
Chocolatey Extension Reload
While you are editing your Chocolatey Packaging scripts, you can begin typing the word choco and it will bring up some snippets to help with the creation of some of the Chocolatey Helper methods, as shown here:
Chocolatey Snippets
After selecting one, you will then have the option of pressing the tab key on your keyboard, to start stepping through the various parameters, filling in the ones that are required.
Chocolatey Snippet Output
The snippets that are generated are based on the Chocolatey Best Practices from the output of the default template from the choco new command.
If you open the command palette for VS Code, and type choco, you will be met with two commands:
• Create new Chocolatey Package
• Pack Chocolatey Package(s)
Chocolatey Commands
The first will take as an input the name of the Chocolatey Package that you want to create, and it will then execute the choco new command, placing the output into the root of the current workspace which is open in VS Code. You can see the output here:
Chocolatey New Output
The second command will look through the current workspace, and find any *.nuspec files that are contained with it. Then, you can either select an individual nuspec file, or all of them, to then execute the choco pack command on them. You will be prompted for any additional arguments that you would like to pass into this command. For example, you might want to pass something like the following:
To have the generated *.nupkg files placed into a different directory, rather than being generated next to the nuspec file.
While you can install this extension in VS Code running on other operating systems, it will only work in its entirity on a Windows Machine. Attempting to run the commands on another operating system, will result in the following:
Chocolatey Not Installed
You can find additional documentation for this extension here:
NOTE: At the time of writing this blog post, there is little to no documentation, but the scaffolding is there to get some added, so if you are interested, please feel free to jump in and help.
If you are interested in hear about new functions that are being added into the Extension, I have a YouTube Playlist here, where I will push short videos of the new functionality as each version is released.
Source Code
The source code for this Extension can be found here:
Chat Room
If you have any questions about this Extension, then please feel to drop into the Gitter Chat room:
Join the chat at https://gitter.im/gep13/chocolatey-vscode
The execution of the Chocolatey commands in this extension would not have been possible without the amazing work of the Ember CLI VS Code extension, as this was used as the basis for creating this feature in this extension. Huge thanks to Felix Rieseberg.
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Ankit is a software engineer with a proven ability to utilize best design patterns and architecture-centered development processes. He likes to lead by example, making him skilled in various technologies that include Django, Android, React & Kubernetes.He loves experimenting with bleeding edge technologies & is easily brain-washed by the tech talks at various conferences. He has been working at Veris as a Platform Engineer since inception.
Prior to joining Veris, he led the team at CodeMyMobile, delivering products like QwickAccess. No doubt, he is on a righteous path to build a suite of softwares that enable a smart digital workplace.
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The Office (2005) - S03E14 Ben Franklin
if you don't already have one.
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Toy Story (1995)
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Legion (2017) - S01E01 Drama
If you could... if you could buy one and, like,
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The Departed (2006)
If they don't do their jobs, you don't have one.
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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
You don't have one.
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Lilo & Stitch (2002)
You don't have one.
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Trespass (2011) Drama
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The Color of Money (1986)
Buy you one?
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Downton Abbey (2010) - S06E08 Family
Can you buy one?
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Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
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Workaholics (2011) - S01E07 Straight Up Juggahos
You mind if I buy one off of you guys?
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Watch Free Higher Learning (1995) Watch for Free Romance
If you don't have the information, one cannot seize power.
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The Office (2005) - S09E15 Couples Discount
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Seinfeld (1989) - S06E02 The Big Salad
That's why it's embarrassing if you don't have one.
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Game of Thrones (2011) - S05E07
If you don't have one in your library,
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The Hunger Games (2012)
If they don't have a bow, then you make one.
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Archer (2009) - S01E05 Animation
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The Amazing World of Gumball (2011) - S04E25 The Parasite
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you don't actually have one.
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The Notebook (2004)
You don't have one thought?
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Prof. Drs. Bernhard Zeller presenting the award.
Jury citation for the 1994 prize
In 1994, the Hermann-Hesse-Preis for literary periodicals was awarded to the magazine Schreibheft in recognition of the editors' ongoing dedication to a progressive aesthetic that gives prominence to literature's own inherent momentum, stripping monolinear translatability of its superficial reality. In recent years, discoveries made in foreign-language literatures have been a frequent source of inspiration for literary discussion in the German-speaking countries, and today these provide the impetus for attempts to confront intra-German perceptions with experiences from outside the country, thus exposing the multilayered meanings of all literary endeavours.
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3 Steps to a Better Sex Life
This was my family doctor's idea for a marketing slogan when I told him about my sleep-coaching business. He's a funny dude (and thankfully a top-notch doctor).
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He was speaking from experience of course.
There's nothing like a little person in your house waking up every few hours, or a not-so-little person insisting you lie down with them in order to fall asleep twice a night, to send your libido into the basement and totally kill your marital sex life.
I remember feeling like I finally understood what it was like to be a man, thinking about sex every 10 seconds; in the initial post-partum months, all I ever thought about was sleep. It became an obsessive, invasive thought that would cast a glaze over my eyes whenever someone spoke to me. I would nod and say an appropriate number of "mm-hmm's", but would be really thinking, "When can I sleep? When's the next nap time? I hope she sleeps in her crib so I can nap.... I need more sleep. I'm soooooo tired. Mm-hmm."
Now, there's no avoiding this bleary-eyed sleep obsession in the earliest stage of your baby's life. Your sex life will (and probably should) take a hit; there is a pretty significant physical recovery that has to happen for Mom, not to mention your top priority is keeping a new little human alive. But often months and even years can go by without that shift back; couples can drift apart in the absence of intimacy when their child isn't sleeping through the night.
Those precious hours between 7 and 10 p.m., when a healthy, happy baby or young child is fast asleep, give Mom and Dad time both for themselves and each other, and that time can save a marriage.
I've had more than a few moms who've called to ask for my help tell me they haven't shared a bed with their partner in months or years. One mom of three said the extent of the quality time she and her husband have is "high-fiving each other" when they meet in the hallway. Another mom told me she finally understood why so many of her friends got divorced when their kids were two and three years old (at the time, she and her husband were in marriage counselling).
Intimacy isn't a luxury. And it isn't something we can afford to sacrifice after having children. Yes, our children need us and sometimes their needs outweigh everything else, but a wise friend told me years ago (several years after her own divorce), that children need parents who love each other. I would add that they also need parents in love with each other. A healthy, happy relationship between a child's parents gives them security and a happy home environment, not to mention a shining example for their own future relationships - these little people are modelling us in every moment and will continue to throughout their lives.
Now I'm not talking about neglecting your baby's needs for your own or your spouse's. This is about keeping your whole family thriving. There's just no question that a healthy sex life is one of the cornerstones of a healthy, happy marriage. (If in doubt, ask your spouse.) When we're too tired and too busy and we let intimacy slip - the same intimacy that brought you together to create this beautiful family in the first place - everyone suffers: one or both partners aren't feeling happy or fulfilled, tension builds and dissatisfaction seeps in.
And your children will pick up on the tension; they always do.
Now, back to my doctor's idea: so what are the three steps to a better sex life? I'm fumbling through the early parenting years with two kids myself, but let me take a stab at it:
1. Decide that your marriage / partnership is a priority and a critical part of your whole family's happiness.
2. Help everyone in the family develop healthy, independent sleep habits so you actually have the time, privacy and energy for sex.
3. Once your child is consistently, happily fast asleep at 7:30 p.m., carve out time for each other, and bring back those connections that brought you together in the first place. Then settle down for your own 8 hours of sleep.
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It is very similar to a dot store top-level domain. It sets up the same expectation of there being an eCommerce website, and is often used by startups, smaller companies, middle and larger companies to host a website that allows viewers to buy items and services. Some companies also use the dot shop TLD to host websites where niche items may be bought and sold by the website users. The word “shop” implies that goods and services may be sold, so it does not take much to convince a viewer that they too may sell on the dot shop website. It is the same as if a website was called .auction, as website viewers may assume they may sell things via such a website.
Who should use the .Shop Top Level Domain?
Some English-speaking countries prefer the word shop to store, which is why some websites have .shop as their top-level domain. Countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia may have citizens that prefer the word shop to store, and companies that wish to exploit that fact may use the .shop TLD instead of the dot store version. Typically, a .shop top-level domain is used for eCommerce websites. Big and small companies may set up a website with the dot shop TLD for that very same reason.
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Anastasia: The Mystery Is Over, But the Songs Go On
By all accounts, the relationship that Rasputin had with the young duchesses was a warm and innocent one. They often wrote each other, and the girls were visibly upset upon hearing that he had been murdered. Nonetheless, there was a great deal of nasty propaganda that accused the Empress and her daughters of having sexual relationships with the Mad Monk.
In 1917, Russia entered the Bolshevik Revolution, in which Anastasia and her entire family were captured and later executed. Despite reports to the contrary, it was rumored that Anastasia had somehow survived.
In the early 1920s, a woman named Anna Anderson started wandering around saying she was Anastasia. Even though she wasn't even Russian -- to be fair, there wasn't actually a whole lot of real Russian blood left in the dynasty by this point -- Ingrid Bergman won an Oscar for playing Anderson in a 1956 film.
Various other charlatans have capitalized on the mystery over the years because the Soviet Union wouldn't tell anyone where the royal family had been buried. Finally, on this day in 2008, remains that had been unearthed near Ekaterinburg, Russia, were confirmed through DNA testing to be those of the long-lost princess.
So a million Disney-esque dreams were shattered, and pretty much everyone who ever claimed to be Anastasia was lying or mentally ill. Nonetheless, for almost 100 years she was an enduring figure of mystery, and in her honor I dedicated this week's playlist to her.
Liz Callaway, "Once Upon a December":
I've never liked the 1997 animated film
, despite being an advocate for all things Don Bluth. I'm a big fan of Rasputin's and the idea that he was somehow a bad guy during the murder of the princess's family is laughable. Still, the soundtrack has stood the test of time.
Voltaire, "Anastasia": According to one fan who asked Voltaire about the meaning of this song, it is indeed inspired by the Russian princess, but written from the perspective of a dead father in the afterlife sadly waiting for his still-living daughter. Whether or not that's Voltaire's real meaning, or just something the poster made up, is open to opinion, but it's definitely an interpretation that could fit.
Sponge, "I Am Anastasia": If you asked me what the most underrated album of the 1990s was, I would answer without hesitation Sponge's Wax Ecstatic. It's a masterpiece of rock experimentation that should be lauded for the genius it is, but is sadly forgotten. I suspect "I Am Anastasia" is a leftover from when the record was going to be a concept album about the death of a drag queen, and it bears little resemblance to the life of the historical Anastasia.
Nonetheless, its message of becoming enamored with a girl known only from books, and wanting to become that tragic figure, rings true in the many people that attempted it over the last century.
Guns n' Roses, "Sympathy for the Devil": Yes, I like the Guns version better than the original, and I don't care who that pisses off. The murder of Anastasia is mentioned among the many places that Lucifer claims to have been present at through the course of history.
Considering the whole of Russian history following the death of the royal family, the idea that the devil had something to do with the whole thing isn't that far-fetched.
Tori Amos, "Yes, Anastasia": I'll let Tori tell it herself...
"It's a journey. Anastasia Romanov... it's not like I've read loads of books on her. I was aware of the family and that's about it. So I'm in Virginia, and I had crabs...I keep saying that! I had crab sickness, I had eaten bad crabs in Maryland!
"But I couldn't cancel the show. I was at soundcheck, and needless to say, when you are very, very ill, it is easier to communicate with your source... you are fragile and vulnerable.
"Well, her presence came. Now I have only heard of her in history, I've got no point to make. She comes and goes, 'You've got to write my tune.' I go, 'Ohhh, now's not really a good time.' She says, 'No, you've got to understand something from this, there's something here that you've got to come to terms with.' And that night came," as she softly sings the line "'We'll see how brave you are,' and that was really about the whole record.
"That came just about before everything. And whenever I sing that chorus, 'We'll see how brave you are,' it means so many different things to me. It's part of my self, my spirit self saying to the rest of myself, 'If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.'
"The funny thing is that Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Anastasia, died very close to where I was playing, an hour or so from there in the '80s. The feeling I got that Anna Anderson was Anastasia Romanov. She always tried to prove it and a lot of people believed her and some people didn't want to believe her, because of what that would have meant.
"And again, it's really working through being a victim. 'Counting the tears from 10,000 men, and gathered them all, but my feet are slipping.' You can't blame the men anymore; there's always you. It comes back to us; it comes back to me."
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Climate Change and the Migration of Infectious Disease
04/20/2016 10:05 pm ET Updated Apr 21, 2017
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The World Health Organization notes that infectious diseases are emerging at a greater pace and spreading faster than ever before. There are at least 40 new infectious diseases that have emerged that were unknown only a generation or two ago. For example, Zika was first identified in the 1950s and was initially confined to a narrow band of equatorial Africa and Asia. Monkeys were its primary host. Abruptly, it appeared in humans in Polynesia in 2013. Thereafter, it is suspected to have arrived in the Americas by plane, appearing in Brazil in that same year. Now it demonstrates pandemic spread throughout the Americas and the Caribbean. It is a flexible virus, too. It can be transmitted by mosquito bites, from mother to child, by sexual contact, or blood transfusions.
Chikungunya virus is also a newly emerging threat. Chikungunya is characterized by the sudden onset of fever accompanied by joint pains. It has a low mortality but is associated with a high frequency of chronic medical disabilities, some of which can be devastating. First identified in 1952 and initially confined to small outbreaks in West Africa, it has spread worldwide with millions of cases across Africa, India, and Asia. Only recently, it has appeared in the Caribbean and South America, and recently, there have been hundreds of cases in the US.
Each of these are examples of new enemies. However, there are also consequential old players whose distribution can also be affected by climate and global travel. For example, dengue fever is a mosquito-borne virus first described in China in about 200 A.D. For centuries, there were only sporadic epidemics. Yet, it surged dramatically after World War II and is now a major factor in childhood mortality in the Pacific and the Americas. Only recently, it achieved a toehold in the US. Worldwide, it affects tens of millions on an annual basis. Even malaria, an old and persistent scourge, is demonstrating an increasing speed of transmission attributed to socioeconomic factors that include land use, population growth and urbanization, migration changes and travel.
The spread of disease through travel is not itself new. For example, in the Middle Ages, bubonic plague originated in China and arrived by trading ships to Europe. That briskly led to a series of devastating epidemics in the 14th Century that is estimated to have killed one-third of the European population.
Yet, even these horrific results are not the limit of epidemic disease. 12,000 years ago, there were abundant giant mammals on the North American continent such as mammoths, saber-tooth tigers, and giant sloths. Suddenly, they all disappeared. The exact cause is not known.
However, 'hyper-disease' is one prominent theory. It is believed by some scientists that migrating humans or their companion animals inadvertently spread novel diseases from Asia when they crossed to the Americas and the indigenous megafauna had no natural immunity. In fact, extinction on the basis of infectious epidemics may not be rare. For example, the world's amphibians are threatened by Chytrid fungus and the extinction of several amphibian species has been attributed to this pathogen.
If this is our current reality, what is the appropriate response? Expensive carbon projects are proposed by many climate enthusiasts. Those disputed schemes should be put aside. Instead, our scant resources should be directed towards relatively inexpensive ends with large rewards.
That best means would be to concentrate on the remediation of infectious disease. This can be accomplished by mosquito nets, removal of standing water sources in endemic regions, research into improved treatments and vaccines, and a deeper understanding of the reproductive cycle of vector insects or other intermediary hosts. Clearly, our concerns about climate should emphasize coping with and conquering infectious disease as the truest common denominator of human health and welfare and proper planetary stewardship.
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5 things you didn't know about ...
Java 10
Local-variable type inference is the controversial headliner, but Java 10 brings welcome changes to garbage collection and container awareness in the JVM
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Java™ developers are accustomed to waiting years for a new Java release, but the new, high frequency release cadence changes all of that. It's been just six short months since Java 9 emerged, and now Java 10 is already knocking at the door. In six more months we'll be welcoming Java 11. Some developers might find such a rapid releases overkill, but the new cadence marks a long-needed change.
True to its number, Java 10 offers 10 new features, and this article offers the five that I find most significant (you can view them all on the Open JDK 10 project page).
1. Java's new release cadence
Historically, the JDK release cadence has been driven by big, new features. As recent examples, Java 8 introduced functional programming in the form of lambdas and streams, and Java 9 introduced the modular Java system. Each new version was hotly anticipated, but minor fixes were often left on the shelf, waiting for larger components to be finalized. Java’s evolution lagged behind other languages.
The new high-frequency cadence pushes Java forward in smaller increments. Features that are ready by the release date will be included, and those that aren't can be scheduled for the next release, just six months away. The first Java version under this new cycle was Java 9, which came out in October 2017. Java 10 was released in March 2018, and Java 11 is anticipated in September 2018.
As part of the new cadence, Oracle has said that it will only support each major release until the next major one comes out. When Java 11 is released, Oracle will stop supporting Java 10. Developers wanting to ensure their Java version is supported will have to migrate to a major release every 6 months. Developers who don't want or need such frequent migrations can utilize the LTS (long-term support) release, which is updated every three years. The current LTS release, Java 8, will be supported until Java 11 comes out this fall.
2. Local-variable type inference
Local-variable type inference is by far the most visible feature in Java 10. Strongly debated before finding its way into JDK 10, this feature allows the compiler to infer the type of a local variable, rather than requiring that the programmer explicitly specify it.
Listing 1 shows how a String variable type would be defined before Java 10.
Listing 1. Declare and assign a String variable
String name = "Alex";
Listing 2 shows the same String variable defined in Java 10.
Listing 2. A String variable defined using local-variable type inference
var name = "Alex";
As you can see, the only difference is the use of the var reserved type name. Using the expression to the right, the compiler can infer the type of the variable name as String.
That seems a bit easy, so let’s look at a more complex example. What if the variable was assigned to the return value of a method call? In this case it's possible for the compiler to infer the variable type from the return type of a method, as shown in Listing 3.
Listing 3. A String variable inferred from return type
var name = getName();
String getName(){
return "Alex";
Using local variable types
As the name suggests, the local-variable type inference feature is only available to local variables. It can't be used to define instance or class variables, nor can it be used in method parameters or return types. However, you can use var in classic and enhanced for-loops where the type can be inferred from the iterator, as shown in Listing 4.
Listing 4. Use var in loops
for(var book : books){}
The most obvious reason to use this type is to reduce verbosity in your code. Take a look at the example in Listing 5.
Listing 5. Long type names make long code
String message = "Incy wincy spider...";
StringReader reader = new StringReader(message);
StreamTokenizer tokenizer = new StreamTokenizer(reader);
Note what happens when we re-write Listing 5 using the var reserved type name.
Listing 6. The var type reduces code verbosity
var message = "Incy wincy spider...";
var reader = new StringReader(message);
var tokenizer = new StreamTokenizer(reader);
The type declarations in Listing 6 line up vertically and the type is mentioned once in each statement, to the right of the constructor call. Imagine the benefits of using this type for the long class names common in some Java frameworks.
Issues with local variable types
1. var obscures type
You've seen how var can improve code readability, but on the flipside it can also obscure it. Take a look at the example in Listing 7.
Listing 7. The return type is unclear
var result = searchService.retrieveTopResult();
In Listing 7 we have to guess at the return type. Code that makes the reader guess what is happening is harder to maintain.
2. var doesn't mix with lambdas
Type inference does not work well when used with lambdas, mainly due to the lack of type information available to the compiler. The lambda expression in Listing 8 will not compile.
Listing 8. Insufficient type information
Function<String, String> quotify = m -> "'" + message + "'";
var quotify = m -> "'" + message + "'";
In Listing 8 there isn't enough type information in the right-hand expression for the compiler to infer the variable type. Lambda statements must always declare an explicit type.
3. var doesn't mix with the diamond operator
Type inference also doesn't work well when used with the diamond operator. Take a look at the example in Listing 9.
Listing 9. Using the diamond operator with var
var books = new ArrayList<>();
In Listing 9, what is the parameter type of the ArrayList referenced by books? You might know that you want the ArrayList to store a list of books, but the compiler can't infer that. Instead, the compiler will do the only thing it can do, which is to infer an ArrayList parameterized by the Object type: ArrayList<Object>().
The alternative is to specify the type in the diamond operator in the right-hand expression. You can then let the compiler infer the variable type from that, as shown in Listing 10. Otherwise, you must explicitly declare the variable in the traditional way: List<Book> books. In truth, you might prefer this option because it allows you to specify an abstract type and program to the List interface:
Listing 10. Specify the type
var books = new ArrayList<Book>();
3. Additions, removals, and deprecations
Java 10 removes a number of tools:
• The command-line tool javah, but you can use javac -h instead.
• The command-line option -X:prof, though you can use the jmap tool to access profiling information.
• The policytool.
Some APIs that have been marked as deprecated since Java 1.2 have also been permanently removed. These include the java.lang.SecurityManager.inCheck field and the following methods:
• java.lang.SecurityManager.classDepth(java.lang.String)
• java.lang.SecurityManager.classLoaderDepth()
• java.lang.SecurityManager.currentClassLoader()
• java.lang.SecurityManager.currentLoadedClass()
• java.lang.SecurityManager.getInCheck()
• java.lang.SecurityManager.inClass(java.lang.String)
• java.lang.SecurityManager.inClassLoader()
• java.lang.Runtime.getLocalizedInputStream(
• java.lang.Runtime.getLocalizedOutputStream(
JDK 10 also deprecates some APIs. The package has been marked as deprecated, and so have various related classes (Certificate, Identity, IdentityScope, Singer, auth.Policy) in the package. Also, the CREDENTIAL_TYPES in the class is marked deprecated. The finalize() methods in and have been marked as deprecated. So has the finalize() method in the classes.
Additions and inclusions
As part of the ongoing alignment of the Oracle JDK and Open JDK, Open JDK now includes a subset of the root certificates authority that are available in the Oracle JDK. These include Java Flight Recorder and Java Mission Control. Additionally JDK 10 has added enhanced support for Unicode extensions of BCP 47 language tags where appropriate in the java.text, java.time, and java.util packages. Another new feature allows the execution of a callback on threads without performing a global VM safepoint. This makes it both feasible and inexpensive to halt individual threads, rather than requiring that you halt all threads or none.
4. Improved container awareness
If you deploy to containers like Docker then this feature is especially for you. The JVM is now aware that it is running in a container, and will query the container for the number of processors available for use, rather than querying the host operating system. It's also possible to externally attach to a Java process running in a container, which makes monitoring JVM processes easier.
Previously, the JVM was unaware of its container and would ask the host operating system for the number of active CPUs. In some cases this led to over-reporting resources to the JVM, causing problems when multiple containers were running on the same operating system. In Java 10, you can configure a container to use a subset of the host operating system's CPUs, and the JVM will be able to determine the number of CPUs in use. You also can explicitly specify the number of processors the containerized JVM is able to see, using the -XX:ActiveProcessorCount flag.
5. Application class data sharing
The objective of this feature is to improve JVM startup times between runs and with multiple JVMs running the same code, while also reducing the memory footprint. This is achieved through sharing metadata about classes among JVMs. The first run of the JVM collects and files data about the classes it has loaded. It then makes the data file available to other JVMs and subsequent runs of that JVM, saving time and resources in the JVM initialization process. Class data sharing has actually been available for some time, but restricted to system classes only. Now this feature has been extended to include all application classes.
The headline feature in Java 10 is clearly the new var reserved type name. It has the power to clarify and simplify code, though if used carelessly it can also obscure meaning and intent. An IDE may be able to help identify types when it is not clear, but not all code is read in an IDE. Often we read code online in a GitHub repository, in a debugger, or in code-review tools. Developers using this new feature are advised to be mindful of code readability for future readers and maintainers.
Java's new, high frequency release cadence is a welcome change. It forces the release of features that are ready at the release date, and gives delayed features a shorter turnaround to the next release. The new cycle will hasten Java's progress, and developers won’t have to wait years for features already developed and living on the shelf. There is some reasonable concern about the shorter support lifespan from one major release to the next, but the LTS should help buffer that issue. Another risk is release fatigue, as developers tire of constant migrations. Still, overall, I think this is a positive move that will help keep Java alive and evolving for some time to come.
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We assessed ichthyofaunal diversity within offshore mangrove cays in Belize during three, 2-wk surveys (2003, 2004, 2005). Nine sampling gears were deployed in pre-defined micro-habitats: fringe, transition, dwarf red mangrove, internal creeks, ponds, and sinkholes. Water quality data (temperature, salinity, DO) were taken during most collections. A total of 2586 gear sets was completed and 8131 individuals collected, comprising 75 taxa. Minnow trap data from the various micro-habitats tested indicates some overlap in assemblages. Significant differences in water quality were also noted, with the fringe representing the most benign and the sink-hole the most harsh microhabitats, respectively. We also conducted extensive visual surveys around the fringe at a number of cays, tallying an additional 67 taxa. The fringe is the most diverse (128 taxa) and sinkhole least (12 species). An overall total of 142 taxa from 55 families has therefore been documented from the cays, and all but eight were found on Twin Cays alone. This figure is among the highest reported for oceanic mangroves in this biogeographic realm. Our comprehensive approach with a variety of gear-types in a wide range of micro-habitats, combined with visual observation, lends credence to the conclusion that most ichthyological species inventories for the mangal are commonly underestimates.
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What would the tax consequences be if my father distributes $25,000 to each of his three children from his 401(k) when he passes?
My father is 81 years old and his only income is from Social Security and approximately $2,000 per year as a required minimum distribution from his 401(k). His total income is approximately $30,000.00 annually. When he passes, he wishes to leave each of his three children $25,000.00 each. What are the tax consequences of the three $25,000 distributions?
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Depending on what state you each live in, then each of you might have to pay state inheritance tax. On the federal level, you will not owe individual income tax on the amount.
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August 18: 'Other things'
What "other things" took higher priority than strategic and logistical planning for an attack by an enemy?
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'Other things' Sir, - Re "Lipkin-Shahak to head probe on handling of the war" (August 17): I find worrying the response by OC Planning Directorate Maj.-Gen. Yitzhak Harel to questions regarding our preparedenss for the war: "We were prepared. We could have prepared more, but we were busy with other things." I am extremely interested in hearing what "other things" took higher priority than strategic and logistical planning for an attack by an enemy that has consistently expressed its wish to annihilate us, an enemy with a known connection to a country holding large financial and weapons resources. CAROLYN TAL Haifa Sumsum of money Sir, - It's always good to see attempts being made to know "the other" and Rehov Sumsum starts at the right age - but isn't it a shame that only those children whose families can afford pay TV can benefit from it? ("New kids on the block," Arts and Entertainment, August 17) JULIE SMERLING KEREM Tzur Hadassah Ban the Beeb? Sir, - If, as Stephen Pollard writes in "Don't boycott the BBC" (August 15), the BBC's reporting is indistinguishable from that of al-Manar, Hizbullah's own TV station, what is the rationale for not treating BBC reporters and broadcasts the same way al-Manar reporters and broadcasts are treated - by prohibiting their access to American news outlets and banning broadcasts in Europe? Why the double standard? MLADEN ANDRIJASEVIC Beersheba Sir, - The BBC's biased reportage of the war has contributed to anti-Semitic attitudes in the UK. Al-Jazeera's UK proxy? GERALD SIMENSON Perth, Australia From a friend Sir, - To the people of Israel: I and my friends here in California would like you to know that you have our full support during these stressful times. I am a Gentile, yet I have experienced the love of the Jewish people. When I started kindergarten at age five, I asked my mother about the strange marks on my teacher's arm. Mrs. Brooks, my teacher, had lost almost all of her family in the Holocaust. Yet I remember her loving face as she reached out to embrace me. As I listen to the terrorists and hear them twist words and try to create a fog of wrong and right I become angry, yet I suppose there is nothing new under the sun. I am happy to remember my Jewish friend who taught me how to live and that "to have a friend, you must be a friend." Thank you to all the wonderful Jewish people I have known. I will do my best to be a friend now, or anytime you need me. VAN LITTLE Reseda, California 'Lie' & 'will' Sir, - Like Judy Montagu I cringe when I hear educated Hebrew speakers with quite good English say, "If he will come, I will tell him." "Lie" and "will" will always be a problem. Usage by many doesn't mean it is correct. I get annoyed when my computer corrects my English-English. But thanks, Judy, for a bit of fun ("It's a sad, bad time for purists," August 14). JOYCE WHITE Jerusalem
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The Chamber of Auditors of the Czech Republic is a standard setter in the area of assurance standards. As an IFAC member the Chamber has adopted all pronouncements issued by the IAASB. These pronouncements cover almost all engagements and can be found here (see lower part of the page).
Besides, there are few standards that cover specific engagements that auditors carry out according to specific Czech law. These standards are marked with prefix "AS" and can be found here (Czech text only).
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Wedding Jewellery - The Maharashtrian Bride
The full rivers, the deep sea and the tall mountains have all shaped the cultural and visual aesthetics of Maharashtra. So much so that the Maharashtrian bride, has a distinct style that pays homage to her heritage.
Dressed in a nine-yard Paithani sari the Maharashtrian bride looks radiant like Goddess Parvati . When it comes to jewellery, both pearls and gold are an integral aspect of her bridal trousseau.
The Mangalsutra or the ‘holy thread’ made of black beads and gold spun together, is the most important piece of jewellery for the bride. The groom ties the Mangalsutra around the bride’s neck during the marriage ceremony. The pendant is made of gold beads and one or two inverted gold bowls called vatis. The Kolhapuri Saaj is akin to the Mangalsutra in Kolhapur and Southern parts of Maharashtra. It is a signature piece of Maharashtrian jewellery, unique in its design.
It consists of an inner part made of gold beads or Jav Mani interspersed with 21 leaf shaped motifs. Ten of these motifs are engraved with the figures of 10 avatars of Lord Vishnu. Eight are engraved with 'Ashtamangal' or 8 auspicious signs. The outer part consists of a thread woven through these leaves and contains the pendant called Kirti Mukh which typically contains a red ruby in the centre. It’s the good luck charm to ward off evil.
The Dorla Mangalsutra is made of several strings of black beads attached to a large gold pendant with a ruby in the centre. The pendant is attached via gold beads of 'Jav Mani'. The nose ring or Nath is distinctive as it combines gold, pearls, rubies, emeralds and other precious stones. The Brahmhani Nath is paisley shaped and is saliently Maharashtrian. The Karwari Nath is crescent shaped and has a South Indian influence.
Both the bride and the groom tie the Mundavlya on their forehead. It consists of two strands of pearl tied horizontally to the forehead and two strands hanging to the chin from either side. The hair is neatly tied into a tight bun which is then bedecked with jasmine flowers. The hair bun is also decorated with a hairpin called Ambada Veni Phool. It is a crescent-shaped gold ornament in floral designs, studded with rubies, diamonds and other precious stones
The traditional Thushi choker, is unique to Maharashtra and is exclusively crafted in Kolhapur following the same design principles of the Peshwa Dynasty that ruled region. Tiny gold beads are fed into multiple strings that are joined together. The strings are then twisted and turned to form a close-packed structure of gold beads which forms the choker. Thushi is often interpreted in many ways – the ones with a ruby, emerald or a diamond in the center or as a long or short necklace and sometimes made exclusively from pearls, and known as the Moti Thushi .
There is another kind of Thushi – one which uses long golden pipe like hollow instead of beads. This choker is called the Hasli or Chandrakor Pipe Thushi. It usually has a pendant in the centre decorated with coloured gemstones and diamonds.
Earrings called Kudya are traditionally pearls arranged in a flower pattern with a gold base, although hanging jhumka earrings are also quite popular. Parijat Kudi is another traditional ear stud with a red ruby encased in a gold base in a floral pattern. Bugadi is an ear clip made of gold and pearls or embellished with precious gemstones in floral designs. It is clipped to the Helix or upper part of the ear. Some brides wear a Kaan chain which is made of strings of small pearls attached to the earring, and the other end is latched onto the hair.
The bride wears armlets called Vaaki on both the arms. It is made of gold and studded with red ruby, diamonds and other gemstones. The bangles or Choodas consists of green glass bangles worn in odd numbers on each hand. It symbolises fertility and hence is considered auspicious. Two kadas of solid gold called Tode, in elaborate designs, sometimes adorned with diamonds or coloured gemstones, are gifted to the bride by the groom. Moti Tode are made of pearls and gemstones. Patlya are broad and flat bangles in intricate designs. Pichodi bangles are made in the Pichodi pattern which consists of one smooth round edge and another elaborately carved one.
Bangles in contemporary designs and white gold are also quite popular. Silver anklets called Painjan adorn the bride’s feet decorated with henna. Silver toe-ring called Jodvi is gifted to the bride by her mother-in-law as a sign of blessing and acceptance. Chinchpeti is a pearl choker necklace interspersed with several decorated pendants. The Kolhapuri Belpan Tik is another choker made with motifs of the Bel leaves and usually has a ruby or a pink stone in the central motif. The Bel leaves are considered sacred, and so this necklace has a spiritual significance.
Surya Haar is another choker made of pointed motifs resembling the rays of the sun. The Champakali Haar is a flower necklace made of elongated motifs resembling jasmine buds. Another favourite is the Lakshmi haar or Putli haar made up of gold coins each with the motif of goddess Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. Tanmani is a choker or long chain made of several strings of pearl attached to a broad gold pendant with multicoloured stones. Bor Maal is made of single or double strings of oval gold beads. Mohan Maal is made of several strings of round gold beads.
Jav Mani Saaj is made of jav mani or big striped gold beads of varying sizes and a large gold pendant with a ruby in the centre. The Rani Haar or queen's necklace is a long chain made of several strands of pearl or gold beads and has a large pendant studded with rubies, diamonds and emeralds. Jondhale Haar is made of small gold beads resembling the jowar grains. Sari is a unique Maharashtrian necklace made of thin gold wires which are fabricated into intricate designs by twisting and bending these wires. The Dholki necklace is made of elongated bicone beads called 'Dholki beads' which loosely resemble the Maharashtrian hand drum called Dholki.
Moongachi maal, Kothameerechi maal and Rudraksha maal each with different shapes of gold beads is also quite popular. Although gold and pearls along with diamonds and precious gemstones are traditional, the millennial brides favour more contemporary styles such as Kundan and Polki made with uncut diamonds and antique gold. Yellow gold and diamond jewellery are also in vogue.
You can find all this and more at Kalyan Jewellers, Muhurat floor. An entire floor dedicated to bridal jewellery from different regions of India.
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{Saying Yes} Cruising with Friends
I'm notorious for saying no when people invite me out. Though most people assume I'm an extrovert, I'm not. I can turn "it" on when I have to (like at work), but it's emotionally draining for me when I have to be "on."
The older I get, the harder it is for me to venture out of my comfort zone. I'm happiest at home with my family. I'd rather read or paint than go out. So when I get offers to meet up with friends I often want to say no. I have to talk myself into saying yes. And no wins out a lot more than yes does.
This summer I got an email from my book club inviting me (and the other club members) to take a cruise in October. I didn't respond to the email. I read it and said no in my head ... and forgot about the invitation. A few weeks later I got a text from my friend Melissa, who is also in my book club, asking me if o was going to cruise with them. I'm not sure why, but I quickly said yes.
I'll be honest, as soon as I said yes I wished I hadn't. I had all sorts of anxiety like: would my snoring be a problem; would I have fun; would it be worth it to be away from my family; would I be able to fit a cruise into my crazy schedule; would I have things to talk to the other ladies about ... and the list goes on. But I already committed to going, so there was no backing out.
Man. I'm so glad I did. I had an awesome time and was reminded (over and over again) that if I take one little step toward connection, people will step toward me and close the gap.
I had so much fun. We talked about serious things. We laughed (a lot). We drank wine. We soaked up the sun. We kayaked in the ocean (crazy awesome). We took a ton of silly photos. We giggled until our bellies hurt. We sipped tea. All the anxiety I had before the cruise was for not.
Saying yes to this experience was so worth any angst I felt in the process. And I hope it helps me say yes to more adventures just like this.
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Vosges Haut-Chocolat
Food & Drinks in Lincoln Park & Old Town
Owner-chocolatier Katrina Markoff has earned a national reputation for her brand by blending exotic ingredients such as curry powder, chilies and wasabi into her truffles, ice cream and candy bars. They sound weird but taste great, as the samples lurking around prove.
The dark-chocolate blends are the sweets to beat, dressed up with sea salt, ‘enchanted mushrooms’ and bacon. Wine, beer and coffee are available at the back counter in the chichi boutique.
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Biochemistry Multiple Choice Questions and Answers 34 PDF Download
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2018 Honda Civic Hatchback Review
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For a long time, the idea of a hatchback was associated with a sort of nerdy aesthetic—a boxy, smaller version of a station wagon. Those days are long gone. Never mind that “nerdy” is chic these days; hatchbacks have actually become the new answer to “sporty” and fun. Among the leaders in sleek and drivable hatchbacks on the roads of Centennial, Denver, and Aurora is the Honda Civic.
2018 Honda Civic Hatchback ReviewIt’s a new model year, and that means an exciting new model year debut. While the new Civic hatchback is largely the same as it was last year, it still sets the standard for hatchback vehicles in the sector. Discover how the 2018 Honda Civic Hatchback takes the concept of a hatchback to a whole new level, and why you’ll love driving this sleek and fun car.
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Honda Civic Hatchback Specs
This year, the biggest changes to the 2018 Honda Civic Hatchback are simple tweaks to certain features and available packages. It’s still largely the same sedan you love, with outstanding fuel economy and drive in its 1.5L turbocharged inline four-cylinder engine that puts out 174 horsepower and gets 167 lb-ft of torque.
There’s also an upgraded version of the engine that gives you 180 horsepower with 177 lb-ft, while at the range-topping Civic Type R trim you can get a massive 2.0L four cylinder which gets a walloping 306 horsepower with 285 lb-ft of torque and can really tear up the roads, paired to a six-speed manual transmission.
Features and Options
The trick with the 2018 Honda Civic Hatchback is separating it from the other configurations (sedan or coupe). At the base level, you get a ton of equipment, including automatic climate control, rearview camera, infotainment system with 5-inch center display, four speakers, Bluetooth® integration, USB port and optional features like Adaptive Cruise Control, Lane Departure Warning and Keeping, and front crash prevention and warning systems, including emergency braking.
The Sport trim is hatchback only, and nets you all the above plus fog lights and a number of luxury trappings in the cabin, as well as central dual exhaust. The Sport-Touring hatchback adds LED headlights, power and heated driver and passenger seats, heated back seats, 12-speaker audio, automatic wipers and an upgraded 12-speaker sound system.
2018 Honda Civic Hatchback ReviewFinally, the top of the line Honda Civic Type R gives you performance tires, beefier brakes, sport-tuned adaptive dampening suspension, and a number of unique styling touches.
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Cargo space is one of the biggest reasons to buy a hatchback, and the Civic doesn’t disappoint. It offers a full 25.7 ft3 of space behind the back seats, and with the seats folded down, this expands to 46.2 ft3, plenty of room to carry whatever you need.
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Breeding objectives and selection
A breeding objective defines the 'ideal' animal a producer aims to breed and selection is the method by which the producer identifies that animal.
All breeding enterprises should establish breeding objectives and goals and implement selection processes to meet those objectives as part of the overall business planning process.
Breeding objectives
A breeding objective describes characteristics that affect profit the most, as well as how important each trait is to profit. A breeding objective should be specific, measureable and attainable.
When developing breeding objectives consider:
• A breeding objective is generally specific to a particular market, therefore it is important to understand customer and market requirements.
• Depending on the target market, some traits or characteristics have greater economic importance than others eg growth rate as an influencer of live weight at sale.
• Monitoring the current herd or flock performance against customer or market requirements and considering how this performance and the requirements might change over time.
• Some traits are highly heritable or readily passed on from one generation to another. Greater progress towards breeding objectives can be achieved by targeting traits that are highly heritable.
• Focus on traits of economic importance rather than traits that have more to do with 'tradition' or 'personal preference'.
A breeding objective can be simple eg breed, or more sophisticated eg fat depth.
Regardless of the level of sophistication, it is important to record or list the desired animal traits that impact on enterprise profitability and estimate the relevant importance of each trait. From here the economic impact of changing each important trait can be calculated from financial and production data.
Tools exist to help producers develop breeding objectives:
• A number of breed societies have generic, market-based breeding information available on their respective websites.
• BreedObject is a software package that helps producers establish breeding objectives.
Once producers understand the requirements of the target market and have developed breeding objectives that are aligned to these requirements, they can begin selecting livestock that meet the breeding objectives.
Selection describes the process of choosing animals that meet the requirements of the breeding objective and will, in a breeding enterprise, pass particular traits onto their progeny. Selection should consider both subjectively measured traits (visual assessment) and objectively measured traits (genetic assessment).
Subjective, visual assessment
Visual assessment is an assessment of an animal based on what can be physically seen. While the requirements will vary depending on the enterprise's breeding objectives, traits to look for when visually assessing livestock include:
• The conformation or shape of the animal eg muscling.
• Structure of the animal eg whether the mouth is overshot or undershot.
Objective, genetic assessment
Objective assessment uses actual measurements to assess the relative worth of an animal to an enterprise. One form of objective assessment is genetic evaluation which provides an insight into the genetic makeup of animals. This is particularly useful when sires are being acquired to improve a herd or flock according to the enterprises breeding objectives.
The difficult task of selecting breeding stock based on genetic assessment has been made easier and more precise through estimated breeding values (EBVs) (cattle and goats) and Australian sheep breeding values (ASBVs) (sheep).
Breeding values are calculated using information from each animal's own performance and from the performance of its relatives. This information can help select and breed livestock that will achieve performance targets and improve profitability.
Breeding, classing and culling
Classing and culling play an important role in improving the average genetic merit of a herd or flock.
Producers can class livestock and cull where necessary to achieve market specifications and the enterprises breeding objectives. This may occur prior to selling and be based on factors such as condition score, or prior to breeding and consider more fundamental conformational or genetic traits.
Regardless of when classing occurs, target market specifications should play a major role in the process.
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Large parts of Ealing, Hillingdon and Harrow remain in a "red zone" meaning that people are at a higher risk of catching flu.
The up-to-the-minute findings on FluSurvey shows the UB and HA postcode areas - which includes Harmondsworth, Hayes, Ruislip, Northolt, Harrow, Wembley, Pinner, Stanmore, Northwood and Harefield - is still placed in the red zone.
People living in areas that come under TW (such as Feltham and Hounslow), W (such as Ealing, Hammersmith and Kensington) and SW (such as Earl's Court, South Kensington, Chelsea and Fuham) postcodes have reported less instances of influenza like illness (ILI).
The latest results are shown on FluSurvey, an online survey where people can register their flu-like symptoms in order for the data to be used by Public Health England and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Its map shows the number of active users and people reporting ILI in the past three weeks, and is updated every three minutes.
Its findings on Tuesday (January 16) show the UB postcode with 26 active users in the past three weeks and 10 reporting an ILI (38%).
HA postcodes show 23 ILI with 64 active users (36%).
The TW area reports 14 ILI out of 80 (18%), W is 15 out of 89 (17%), and SW 24 out of 134 (18%).
Among the types affecting the UK this winter is a strain known called H3N2, otherwise known as Aussie flu.
The UK is experiencing two strains of influenza, type A and type B, in which H3N2 is a sub-type of A.
What are the symptoms?
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It can also lead to much more serious complications like pneumonia.
How can you protect yourself?
Flu symptoms can include sudden fever, aches, exhaustion, a dry chesty cough, headaches, sore throats, diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting and trouble sleeping
You can have the jab at your GP and some pharmacies.
Serious side effects of the vaccine are rare.
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To obtain a licence and permit to import a medicine containing a controlled substance approved, or notified, under the Special Access Scheme, the medical practitioner must complete the following:
Note: Each consignment of goods requires a separate permit to import.
All applications for a licence/permit to import an unapproved medicine containing a controlled substance under the SAS must include either:
• a completed notification form (SAS Category A); or
• the decision letter from the TGA confirming that a particular course of drug treatment has been approved (SAS Category B).
An Authorised Prescriber wishing to import unregistered medicines directly or importers importing for clinical trials should refer to the page on Import of controlled substances and complete, as appropriate:
Importer's responsibilities
As the importer, it is your responsibility to:
• ensure that the triplicate copy of the permit is endorsed by:
• Australian Border Force, and
• the importer or agent for the importer
• return the endorsed triplicate copy to the Office of Drug Control no later than 14 days after the importation has occurred.
Failure to comply with this, or any other condition, could result in the cancellation of import licences.
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Second / Rear Curtain Sync in Flash Photography
1 Mar 2013
This is a very powerful function of flash photography and when used correctly and in the right situations can produce you some spectacular and unique images, but may photographers don’t fully understand its function and how it works, I hope the following will help shed some light on this and enable you to use it to your advantage.
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Now your camera’s shutter consists of two curtains or actions is the easiest way to explain it. These are called the 1st or front curtain and the 2nd or rear curtain. When taking a picture, you typically press the shutter release button, then what happens is that the shutter opens to expose the sensor to light and thus record your image, the shutter then closes at the end of the exposure, your picture has now been recorded and the camera is ready for the next shot.
2nd curtain sync or rear sync is a flash photography technique that is usually used when shooting in low light conditions, with a slow shutter speed and obviously using flash, this can be both a built in flash or an external speedlight.
When you’re shooting with one of these flashes, the flash can fire at two different positions of the action of the shutter, either it will fire right after the shutter opens or it will fire just before the shutter starts to close. If the flash fires right after the shutter opens, this is called 1st curtain sync (or front sync). If the flash fires right before the shutter starts to close to end the exposure, this is called 2nd curtain sync (or rear sync).
Now many of you at this point may be saying ok but now how do I change between the flash sync modes and when would I use 2nd curtain sync as opposed to 1st curtain and how would this influence the result of my image. You will find these answers below.
How to switch your camera/flash between flash sync modes.
Most cameras are set to 1st curtain sync by default. You can of course change your flash sync mode from the camera’s menu and custom settings or on the speedlight itself depending on make and model. Now I will briefly describe how to do this on the two major camera brands that I am familiar with, Canon and Nikon.
Now most canon cameras will allow you to set curtain sync mode either from the camera settings menu or from the back of the speedlight itself. With Nikon, you can only set sync modes from your camera’s settings menu.
To switch between sync modes from the camera menu using a built in flash, go to the custom functions menu, from there go to the image/flash exp/disp option, now scroll through until you get to the shutter curtain sync option here you will see the two options of 1st curtain sync and 2nd curtain sync.
To set an external speedlight from the camera menu, go to the external speedlight control option when you enter this option you will see a number of settings you can make and one of them will be the shutter sync.
To set directly on the speedlight itself press the button on the flash that looks like a fast forward button with 3 arrows in a row, press this a number of times until the corresponding picture shows in the flash LCD display.
To switch between sync modes from the cameras menu using a built in flash or an external speedlight:
Now the functionality will be slightly different from model to model but there are 2 main positions of the activation button. The first being on the front of the camera on the flash housing there is a button with a lightening bolt on it, the second option is the button with lightening bolt is on top of the command dial on the top left of the camera, press and hold this while looking at the top LCD Panel on the camera, you will see a rectangle with a lightening bolt on the side, now turn the rear mode wheel to scroll through the available options.
So now when would you want to set your camera to 2nd curtain sync and what would the difference be in the result of the image?
2nd curtain sync is useful when shooting flash with slow shutter speeds. Imagine shooting a subject that is moving rapidly. When the shutter opens any motion of the subject will be recorded as a blur, now just before the shutter closes the flash fires freezing the motion at a point and then the shutter immediately closes completely. In the final image the result would show the moving subject with blurred trails following the subject showing its movement and direction of movement but still maintaining sharpness having been frozen at the end of the exposure by the firing of the flash.
Now lets use the same scenario but with 1st curtain sync. Imagine the same rapidly moving subject but what happens now is this. The shutter opens and immediately the flash fires freezing the motion of your subject at that point, but now because you are using a slow shutter speed the camera continues to record the motion of the subject as blurry after the flash has fired, then the shutter closes ending the exposure. The result in the image is as with the 2nd curtain sync, the subject is sharp and frozen at a point but this time the blur is in front of the subject creating a confusing image as if the subject was moving backwards, this may be interesting to you and you may even like the result in this case that’s great. But logically the result of the image with 2nd curtain sync makes for a more realistic interesting image showing motion in the correct direction of movement, making the image more pleasing to the eye.
So to sum this all up, what do you do to get your subject’s blurred trails of motion behind them? You set your flash or camera to fire in 2nd curtain sync mode using a slow shutter speed. When you set your camera to 2nd curtain sync, the shutter opens and all the movement in the scene will be recorded as a blur in the direction of the movement. As the exposure comes to an end, and just before the shutter closes the flash will fire, the shutter will close ending the exposure. In the final image, you would have recorded all the motion blur trails, and then at the end of your exposure the flash fired freezing your subject at a point, resulting in a motion blur behind the subject instead of in front of it.
Well I hope this longwinded post on 2nd curtain sync makes sense to you all and if you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
Article and Photographs by Brendon Cremer
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[Design] Symmetry
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The strongest principle of graphic design is balance, which means that the strongest visual property of any element or design is symmetry. On the other hand, there’s balance achieved through other properties – such as colour or weight – which we call asymmetry. Both have their advantages and disadvantages, and I’ll try to help you choose which one to use for your project in this chapter.
I have to remind you, though, that symmetry or asymmetry can be at many places; it can be within an element, between multiple elements or areas of a design, or across a complete design.
Symmetry can be found everywhere in nature, and is inherently balanced and harmonious. Symmetric objects are easy to see and identify, because they are simpler to understand, and are automatically perceived as groups (as seen with the Gestalt principles). They are typically seen as figure, and not ground, which allows them to get more attention and be more memorable. Symmetry of (positive) shapes also has the additional effect that the negative space is symmetric as well.
This makes them seem like the ideal candidate for every design, but symmetrical designs are also often static, stationary, formal, or even dull.
Types of Symmetry
Three types of symmetry can be distinguished:
• Reflection: Mirroring an element along a mirror line. This could be a central axis, essentially flipping the element, or it could be a line somewhere else. This mirror line can best be horizontal or vertical, but diagonal mirror lines are not unheard of.
• Rotation: Rotating elements around a common centre point. Again, this can be the centre of the element itself, or some point way outside of it. Any angle and frequency can be used, but regular intervals and a medium angle often work best. Small angles would seem like you made a mistake, while irregular intervals kind of destroys the symmetry.
• Translation: Locating an equivalent element at another position within the design; a symmetry occurs between two elements, but it’s not a reflection, because both elements are oriented the same way.
Reflection along a diagonal line and rotation are perhaps the most adventurous and playful, while regular reflection or translation is a little more formal and ordinary.
Symmetry is an especially helpful tool in creating patterns. By copying one or two elements, yet performing a symmetry on them, beautiful patterns automatically start to emerge.
Theoretically, asymmetry is everything that’s not symmetry. But, that means total chaos and cluttered design is also included in the definition, which is never what we want. Instead, we want to focus on asymmetrical balance (informal balance), the opposite of symmetry. Instead of balancing elements with the same element, only reflected/rotated/translated, we balance elements with other things. This could be anything; balancing a colour with its complementary colour, balancing an area of heavy weight with areas containing lots of space, balancing lots of sharp shapes with soft, organic shapes, and so on.
Asymmetry fixes all the bad things about symmetry, as it’s inherently active, informal, dynamic, and organic. It’s a non-systematic and more creative way to achieve balance. Now asymmetry seems like the best thing to do with any design, but there’s a big disadvantage: it’s much more complex and difficult to achieve. When an asymmetrical composition is disturbingly off balance, the result is automatically jarring and disorienting. That’s why it’s recommended to start with a little symmetry (such as a grid), and then try to transform parts of the design to asymmetry.
Think of it this way: nature mostly consists of symmetry, but there’s also something going on called “handedness”. We, humans, have symmetrical bodies, yet strongly prefer using one hand over the other. Symmetry makes everyone a little beautiful, handedness makes everyone a little special and unique.
Types of Asymmetry
There aren’t really any clear-cut types of asymmetry you can employ. The whole idea is that you find your most important, big, dominant element, and then balance or contrast it with lots of smaller, lighter elements.
The process is best visualized as a literal balance scale. Place your focal point or biggest part of the design on one end, and see what amount and what type of elements you need on the other end to balance it out. You could assign a high value to a red element, for example, and low values to blue and purple ones (as they are cooler colours). Similarly, you could assign higher values to sharp shapes than to organic shapes, as the first attracts attention more. Again, contrast is key here.
To make the concept more clear, I want to introduce a very effective and popular compositional principle that relies on asymmetry; the rule of thirds.
By dividing an area into 9 equal blocks, by drawing three horizontal and three vertical lines, you essentially get 4 intersections around the centre. If you place your dominant element on one of these intersections, you can balance it out by placing contrasting elements (counterpoints) at the opposite intersection.
Of course, this only works if your dominant element isn’t too big or strong; if that’s the case, centre it and go for more symmetry.
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Parity 1.0 is here!
Image Afri Schoedon
Software developer @ Parity Technologies
March 24, 2016 in Releases, Parity Ethereum
So it has been around 7 weeks since the 0.9 prerelease of Parity, which demonstrated the fastest and lightest fully compliant Ethereum block processing engine available. Now, about a week after expected, I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Parity 1.0 (perhaps a little surprising given the quality of the snow here on the current Parity team retreat).
As the name suggests, this release is mainly about matching the common features of existing clients. As such it brings all requisite functionality to run a functional Ethereum Homestead node, in particular:
• Fully-compliant Ethereum JSONRPC implementation;
• zero-configuration compatibility with ethminer for easy solo mining;
• full compatibility with geth over key files and CLI options.
In addition, we've added a few important features:
• State-trie pruning support, reducing the overall burden on your disk by an order of magnitude;
• Ethereum chain-specification file support, so you can quickly and easily configure and deploy private chains;
• hierarchical mip-mapped log-blooming, for near-instantaneous log querying (~100ms for querying 106 blocks).
It's completely open source (under the GPL licence), so you can build and hack on it with ease and needs no dependencies outside of Rust's Cargo; simply clone the repository, cargo build and you're good to go.
There are binaries for Ubuntu and Docker, as well as Homebrew support for Mac. If there's enough desire out there for a Windows build, we'll get to it.
Though the release version is 1.0, this is only to mark that we have achieved our feature goals for the milestone: we still consider this to be beta quality.
For those who care, this follows the Rust compiler release convention, which pipelines releases from master (the unstable development branch) first into beta and then, after a whole additional release cycle, into stable. In this way, we'll be calling our 1.0.x release "stable" in 6-7 weeks' time, when we next shunt everything along one.
With 1.0 out, we're already busy getting on with Civility, the next release in the Parity series, planned for 6-7 weeks from now. This will be mostly back-end improvements rather than being feature-heavy, so we'll be putting in substantial efforts for further CPU optimisation and control over memory usage. In addition, it will include:
• A move to a hypervisor-style architecture, with fully process-isolated modules;
• additional API bindings for interacting with the block chain, including for Rust and JSONRPC-over-IPC;
• a revamped chain synchronisation engine.
Additionally, we hope to get it building on both Windows and ARM, unleashing the magic of a low-footprint Ethereum client on the Raspberry Pi.
We also have a few other stretch-goals in case we manage to get all that done sooner than expected, so hopefully there will be one or two Easter eggs in there by the time of release :)
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