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Delta Dental
We are proud to be America’s largest, most experienced dental benefits carrier. Made up of independent, affiliated member companies, Delta Dental Plans Association is a not-for-profit organization with some for-profit affiliates. We offer a nationwide package of dental health benefits for a wide range of employers both large and small. Delta Dental member companies administer programs and reporting systems that provide employees with quality, cost-effective dental benefits programs and services.
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In English-----------Hail holy queen, mother of mercy,Hail our life, our sweetness and our hope.To you do we cry poor banished children of Eve,To you do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.Turn then, most gracious advocateyour eyes of mercy toward us.And after this, our exile,Show us the fruit of your womb, Jesus.O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
All gifts, virtues, and graces of the Holy Spirit are administered by the hands of the Blessed Virgin Mary to whomsoever she desires, when she desires, and in the manner she desires, and to whatever degree she desires.
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Yes, but that's missing my point. If you wanted a folder sync-ed from your local machine then either drop it in the skydrive folder, or create a link or junction while we wait to see if they will add "Sync this folder"
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Artist and philosopher. The discovery of Next Nature has been the most profound experience in my life so far. It is my aim to better understand our co-evolutionary relationship with technology and help set out a track towards a future that is rewarding for both humankind and the planet at large.
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Rather than growing whole steaks in bio-reactors, Knitted Meat assumes that it is more feasible to create thin threads of protein. Supermarkets sell balls of meat fiber seasoned with various spices and vegetable flavors. New kitchen appliances enable consumers to weave meat according to preset preferences. Texture, taste and tenderness can be controlled to create a personal, multisensory eating experience. Groups of diners can even knit their own sections of a protein scarf, enabling multiple people to share a unique moment.
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Here’s a video for the tiny niche of Dutch-speaking-long-attention-span-visitors of this website. Some months ago the Rotterdam Think Café organized a Next Nature night featuring your dearest long-standing nextnature connoisseur. Rather than a lecture, the event was an improvised conversation on next nature in response to images selected by the organizers. Slow video alert!
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Today, shoes have been naturalized to the extend that we hardly can imagine life without them. Yet, shoes didn’t exist in old nature, hence there must have been a day when footwear was a radical new technology people had to get attuned to. At that time, some ten-thousand of years ago, one had to decide whether to embrace or decline the emerging footwear technology, similar to mobile technology in our time.
Over the years, footwear moved from being an unfamiliar to an accepted phenomenon, from a second nature to a first nature. Like the mobile phones we carry only more recently, we can still decide to take off our shoes and experience life without them today. Indeed almost no one ever does that for a longer period, but at least we can.
The unidentified wearer of the Converse Sneaker Tattoo apparently decided he didn’t want to experience any shoe-less moments in life anymore? Or he just wanted to get his feet on a blog? In any case, he got what he wanted. Peculiar image of the week. Via BoingBong.
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Here’s one for the retro-trendwatchers. This 24-minute self-directed film was made in 1996 by artist-writer Douglas Coupland as a portrait of postmodern culture. Soon after it was abandoned and forgotten, yet if you watch it now it is striking how the film anticipates contemporary phenomena like social media and self-branding. You may want to spend 24-minutes on this Close Personal Friend.
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The Kitchen Meat Incubator does for home cooking what the electronic synthesizer did for the home musician. It provides its users with a set of pre-programmed samples that can be remixed and combined to their liking. Besides the preparation of traditional styles like steak, sausage or meatballs, consumers can bring their own imagination to the meat preparation process. The handy sliders on the device control size, shape and texture. More expensive models of the Kitchen Meat Incubator also come with a wireless link that allows you to download meat recipes from the internet or share them with friends.
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Another step in the fusion of the made & the born: Biological physicist Gabor Forgacs envisions to “print” new organs for use in clinical trials. Similar to an inkjet printer, Forgacs and his team use bio-ink particles to print living cells that sequentially organize themselves into a more complex tissue structures. Since the organ is printed from your own cells, chances of rejection should be minimal.
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Magic Meatballs are designed to playfully familiarize children with lab-grown meat. Young people are more prone to overconsumption of proteins and fats, and are more sensitive to the hormones and antibiotics used in conventional meat production. Luckily, lab-grown Magic Meatballs can be tailored precisely to a child’s individual needs.
The basic meat consists solely of animal protein, and the combination of fats, omega-3s and vitamins is completely customizable. Colors and flavors can also be added to the neutral base to make the meat change color or crackle in your mouth. Magic Meatballs actively involve kids with the meat they eat, so that future generations will more readily accept protein grown in labs.
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As the planet’s population speeds towards 9 billion, it’s becomes impossible to continue consuming meat like we do today. Will we all be eating rice and beans? Grasshoppers perhaps? Scientists hope to keep us eating vertebrate protein with in vitro meat. Grown in bioreactors from animal cells, in vitro meat could be a sustainable and humane alternative to raising a whole animal from birth to slaughter. The first lab-grown hamburger is expected within the next few months.
But why should lab-grown meat look like the meat we consume today? Growing protein in bioreactors could lead to entirely new forms of meat with radically different aesthetics, materials and eating rituals. While these new products might seem unfamiliar and artificial, much of the meat we already consume is divorced from the animal’s natural form: Ground beef, smoked sausages, and chicken nuggets.
A selection of these future in-vitro meat scenarios is currently shown at the highly recommended Food Culture: Eating by Design exhibition at the Design Huis in Eindhoven (NL). As you might not happen to be in the neighborhood, we will also publish them online over the next few weeks. The projects were coached by Menno Stoffelsen, Koert van Mensvoort, Cor van der Weele, Daisy van der Schaft and Ronald van Tienhoven. Illustration by K. Cheng.
Do you want to know more about the future of meat? We are writing a speculative cookbook of in-vitro meat dishes, join us on www.bistro-invitro.com.
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Unsure whether this tank escaped from an 8-bit videogame or the general that ordered the pixelated camouflage pattern didn’t quite quite understand what digital warfare is all about. Anyhow, it is our peculiar image of the week.
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Design by planning vs design by doing. Desire paths are unplanned paths grown by the erosion of its use. They emerge as shortcuts where constructed pathways take a circuitous route. Perhaps one day, all our roads will be desire paths.
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Imagine what you could do if you had one million Twitter followers. You would be so rich! Now seriously: Are followers becoming an alternative currency? Perhaps, although we are still awaiting the day that you can walk into a bakery and routinely buy a loaf of bread with your Twitter following. Scratch to win. Or if you don’t believe in lotteries, you can simply buy one million twitter followers for only $8295.
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As advances in nanotechnology bring us increasingly energy efficient products, plant life such as algae could become attractive sources for tapping energy. The Latro lamp by designer Mike Thompson is a speculative product responding to this potential future market. It utilizes living algae as its power source.
The idea was inspired by a scientific breakthrough by scientists from Yansei and Stanford University that allows a small electrical current to be drawn from algae during photosynthesis. Placing the lamp outside in the daylight, the algae use sunlight to synthesize foods from CO2 and water.
According to the ingredients list the drink does indeed contains both strawberry and dragonfruit substrates. The bats are missing, however, they’re merely added to the marketing mix to metaphorically enforce the association with night live.
Bacardi furthermore recommends to enjoy the drink with ginger ale for a quadruple biomimicmarketing mix of Dragons, Berries, Bats, Ginger and Headaches. Image consumption in the overdrive. Cheers folks!
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After being denied permission to reproduce the famed Little Mermaid statue from Copenhagen, the authorities of the modern town Vancouver (Canada) decided to go for something more realistic. The “Girl in a Wetsuit” was created by Elek Imredy.
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‘Everything is an event on the skin,’ wrote 19th-century scientist and philosopher Hermann von Helmholtz. This quote inspired body-architect & powershow speakerLucy McRae to create Morphē, a vibrant short film exploring the human body as a point of rendezvous for the made & the born.
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For those of you who didn’t attend the recent American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA) annual meeting, you missed a great opportunity to network and hear about a number of issues that are and will affect the gear industry here and around the world.
One of other major takeaways from the meeting was that many of the gear manufacturers are buying equipment — mostly new — to modernize their shops and help them compete for work. I’m sure that some of you are thinking, “ I can’t afford to buy a new or even used machine.” Well, I contend the opposite. You can’t afford not to.
New and used gear equipment is some of the most expensive on the machine tool market. A new, basic, entry-level CNC hobber can cost $350,000. Adding options and additional capabilities like skiving, loaders, high-precision or high-speed hob heads, 90-degree hob heads, etc., can add on tens of thousands of dollars quickly. Add in the work holding and cutting tooling and well, the sky is truly the limit. However, these machines can be very productive and make higher quality parts than machines made even 10–15 years ago.
As an example of what new machines are capable of, when my company purchased it’s first CNC shaper from Fellows, we had some jobs that we were cutting approximately five to eight pieces-per-hour. In addition, tool life was bad — only five pieces-per-grind due to excessive rubbing. After purchasing the new shaper, we were cutting nearly 25 pieces-per-hour and tool life was about 35 pieces-per-sharpening. What were the benefits you ask? Obviously, lower costs that allowed us lower the price to customer and still make more money per hour. The cutters lasted longer allowing us to ship parts quicker (fewer shutdowns for sharpening) and clearly the increase in piece rate helped as well. The first machine purchase helped us pay for the second.
Another key thought here is that while you can “gamble” and get a machine that has some features that you don’t currently have on other machines, you must have at least a base book of business to support the machine. While trite, machines only make money when the spindles are turning (or going up and down). With the prices of machines at the levels they are, they must run the maximum amount possible. You cannot afford to buy a machine on a “build it and they will come” basis.
Now that I’ve got you convinced to modernize your shop, do you buy new or used equipment? This decision depends on what the use is going to be and what you can afford. If your backlog of work for this machine is thin, or if your quality requirements are not super high, used machines may get the job done. On the other hand, if you need high quality and have a ton of work, a new machine with a loader might be the ticket. New or used, your best bet is to deal with reputable OEMs and used machine dealers. Just make sure you get the right machine sized for your work. Tooling and initial setups should also be discussed.
New machines normally carry a warranty of a year of parts and labor. Used machines are generally as sold as-is with no warranties expressed or implied. This is where dealing with a used machine dealer with a history in the gear industry is the only sure way to get maximum value.
There is another alternative to buying new or used. You can contract with manufacturers who specialize in re-building or re-manufacturing machines. You can send them one of your machines to put through the process, buy a used machine yourself and send to them, or just buy the machine completely done from the manufacturer. A good re-manufacturer will completely strip the machine to the casting and start there to replace wear items and add additional components such as CNC, loaders etc. The approximate cost for this process is about 60-70 percent of a new machine, but you are getting a warranty and a lot more functionality.
Now, here comes the hard part — how to pay for the machine. Obviously, if you’ve got the cash, you may want to consider paying for it out right. Talk to your accountant about this as they may suggest you take out a loan or lease the machine instead. According to David Bolt of SBG Capital in Chandler, Arizona, there is really no difference in the amount of the payment between a lease and a loan. Leases normally carry a one -dollar buyout at the end, but the monthly check is the same. Most leases and loans are for five years and companies with stronger credit will receive the best terms and rates. And, just so you know, all banks and other lenders will put liens on the machines to protect the asset until it is paid off.
Used equipment as well as re-building and re-manufacturing costs can also be leased or put on a loan. Again, talk to a well-established bank or machine finance company to avoid any problems. In all cases, make sure your accounting firm is in the loop to help you make the right choice and also to insure how they will treat your purchase on your financial statements.
As I indicated earlier, you’ve got to stay current with your machine and process technology. If you don’t, your competition surely will.
is the president of TopGun Consulting, a manufacturing consultancy with a focus on helping companies improve their practices and processes to increase the profitability and satisfaction of the owners of those companies. David has over 30 years of experience in manufacturing, more specifically in the gear industry. Using his experience, David is able to quickly assess difficulties and recommend simple, yet effective, solutions to those issues. For more information, contact David Senkfor at david@topgunconsulting.net or (602) 510-5998, or visit Top Gun’s website at www.topgunconsulting.com.
Gear Solutions is designed to shine a spotlight on the multi-faceted gear industry. Through editorial contributions from industry experts, we explore elements of the gear production process, including raw materials, design, costs, heat treat, quality control, workflow, and more.
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A TEENAGER'S penis was "degloved" and his scrotum inverted after a horror bike crash.
The 14-year-old had been cycling along a pavement one-handed while holding a drink when he smashed into a parked car and his handlebars impaled his groin.
1 A 14-year-old boy suffered a horror groin injury after cycling along one-handed Credit: Getty - Contributor
He was taken to A&E at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, in a pelvic binder and the wound packed, according to an article published in BMJ Case Reports.
When he arrived, doctors found the handlebars had sliced through his pubic area leaving a 14cm-long wound across and a 10cm cut down into his perineum.
This had inverted his left scrotum and partially degloved the penis - meaning the skin and tissue is ripped away, exposing muscle or bone.
He was put under general anaesthetic so the wound could be washed out and the damaged tissue removed.
Post-op
They noted that some of the deeper layers of tissue that protect the penis and testicles had been exposed but were able to close the wound up after inspecting the area for foreign bodies and neurovascular damage.
At his post-operation follow up four weeks later, doctors said the boy had no significant vascular damage and normal sensation.
They were unable to say what impact the injury would have on his sexual function in the future.
He was discharged the next day with a course of antibiotics and support dressings.
Unusual case
Dr Hannah Thompson, professor of Paediatric Surgery, University of Oxford and John Radcliffe Hospital, said: "This case is unusual in both mechanism and resulting injury.
"Handlebar injuries causing blunt abdominal trauma are well described in the literature, however, reports of impalement or degloving injuries are spars.
This unusual case demonstrates the potential damage resulting from handlebar injuries even at low velocity Dr Hannah Thompson
"Most bicycle-associated injuries are skin abrasions, however, extensive morbidity has been described in association with bicycle injuries, especially handlebar injuries, due to the low surface area of the bare metal end of the handlebar."
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Dr Thompson continued: "It is important to note that impalement, as well as severe blunt intra-abdominal injuries may occur due to the small surface area at the edges of handlebars acting in a spear-like fashion.
"A prospective study of 813 bicycle-related injuries in children found 21 handlebar injuries, 10 of whom had life-threatening intra-abdominal trauma. In all 10, the bicycle handlebars had no plastic covering on the end of the handle."
She added: "This unusual case demonstrates the potential forces involved, and potential damage resulting from handlebar injuries even at low velocity."
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Is the living of life an axiom? (Part Two)
Is the living of life an axiom? (Part Two)
Life is an axiom, as established in Part One of this post. It concluded by showing ‘when law courts falsely assert citizenship to be the ruling axiom, all attempts are futile to assert the superiority of life .’ Here’s a reminder concerning axioms—
An axiom is a proposition that defeats its opponents by the fact that they have to accept it and use it in the process of any attempt to deny it. —Ayn Rand; Galt’s Speech, For the New Intellectual, 155
Exposing the flaw
It is the attempt by authoritarian governments to make citizenship axiomatic that necessitates ‘citizen status’ must be used in law courts to refute life’s legitimacy. Did you spot the oxymoron? It is the attempt to render life as useless when every voice and action in law courts depends on life. Life must be used in every attempt to deny it, whereby every denial is self-cancelled. Q would say ‘these people are stupid,’ but such stupidity is much worse; it’s tragic
A monarchy is a system in which one person is supposed to be the ruling principle or first cause of every legal action, every other person being no more than an obedient subject of the monarch. In an oligarchy a few persons (the oligarchs), acting in concert but without a fixed hierarchy among them, are thought to be the source of all legal actions. In the modern system of parliamentary sovereignty, for example, the members of parliament constitute an oligarchy. All members have equal standing within the parliament. However, the results of their deliberations and decisions are supposed to bind all people who, because of their citizenship or residence, are assumed to be subject to the authority of the state. —Frank van Dun
False Assumptions
That assumption must be challenged, and ‘life’ is the only tool that can do that — not life in general, not human life, but the life of every individual. Anna Von Reitz has her finger on the pulse—
You will note that the exact verbiage of the Maxim is– “Truth in commerce is established in the form of an Affidavit”.
Thus, when you wish to act in the capacity of a Living Man in a commercial court, you do not offer an Affidavit — because in the current scenario that allows them to ignore every word you say or write.
Instead, you offer “Living Testimony in the Form of an Affidavit”. — Anna Von Reitz
Life prevails
Do you see the difference? Life is the first word uttered by your testimony.
You follow the “form” of an affidavit which is to swear or affirm for the Public and Private Record and from without the United States that your testimony is true, correct, and not misleading – and then you enumerate your facts: 1, 2, 3, 4…
This allows the Court to hear your facts and gives de facto rebuttal to the presumption that you are acting in the capacity of a corporate franchise. And since your opponent is a corporation, it has no ability to answer your ‘Living Testimony in the Form of an Affidavit’ with any countering Affidavit – and your facts stand as Truth in Commerce by default. — Anna Von Reitz
“Inasmuch as every government is an artificial person, an abstraction, and a creature of the MIND ONLY with other artificial persons. The imaginary, having neither actuality nor substance, is foreclosed from creating and attaining parity with the tangible. The legal manifestation of this is that NO government, as well as any law agency, aspect, court, etc., can concern itself with anything other than Corporate, Artificial Persons and the Contracts between them.” — Anna Von Reitz
Life is preeminent
It dispossesses all contrary. There is no parity between living and artificial beings, nor can there ever be. Moreover, since your life as an independent being began, nothing having your life and given names existed to which an artificial entity could be attached. Until you gained independent life nothing could claim it; no claim possible thereafter.
The distinctive characteristic of a kritarchy is therefore that it is a political system without the institution of political rule. If one thinks of it as ‘the rule of judges’, one should remember that these judges enjoy no particular privileges or special powers. It is ‘the rule of law’, not the rule of legislators, judges or any other category of privileged officials. —Frank van Dun
That difference needs to be fully understood if we are to establish society as Creator intended. Individual life is the key element. The notion that citizenship is to be prized above life itself is abhorrent in the extreme, the source of the greatest and most tragic fraud in human history. If you want more, then study of Conscious Dynamics and natural law must go on your ‘to-do’ list.
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Hi, I'm Saša Jurić, a software developer with 10+ years of professional experience in programming of web and desktop applications using various languages, such as Elixir, Erlang, Ruby, JavaScript, C# and C++. I'm also the author of the Elixir in Action book. In this blog you can read about Elixir, Erlang, and other programming related topics. You can subscribe to the feed, follow me on Twitter or fork me on GitHub.
Phoenix is modular
2016-02-22
A few days ago I saw this question on #elixir-lang channel:
Have any of you had the initial cringe at the number of moving parts Phoenix needs to get you to just “Hello World” ?
Coincidentally, on that same day I received a mail where a developer briefly touched on Phoenix:
I really like Elixir, but can’t seem to find happiness with Phoenix. Too much magic happening there and lots of DSL syntax, diverts from the simplicity of Elixir while not really giving a clear picture of how things work under the hood. For instance, they have endpoints, routers, pipelines, controllers. Can we not simplify endpoints, pipelines and controllers into one thing - say controllers…
I can sympathize with such sentiments. When I first looked at Phoenix, I was myself overwhelmed by the amount of concepts one needs to grasp. But after spending some time with the framework, it started making sense to me, and I began to see the purpose of all these concepts. I quickly became convinced that Phoenix provides reasonable building blocks which should satisfy most typical needs.
Furthermore, I’ve learned that Phoenix is actually quite modular. This is nice because we can trim it down to our own preferences (though in my opinion that’s usually not needed). In fact, it is possible to run a Phoenix powered server without a router, controller, view, and template. In this article I’ll show you how, and then I’ll provide some tips on learning Phoenix. But first, I’ll briefly touch on the relationship between Phoenix and Plug.
Phoenix and Plug
Phoenix owes its modularity to Plug. Many Phoenix abstractions, such as endpoint, router, or controller, are implemented as plugs, so let’s quickly recap the idea of Plug.
When a request arrives, the Plug library will create a Plug.Conn struct (aka conn). This struct bundles various fields describing the request (e.g. the IP address of the client, the path, headers, cookies) together with the fields describing the response (e.g. status, body, headers). Once the conn struct is initialized, Plug will call our function to handle the request. The task of our code is to take the conn struct and return the transformed version of it with populated output fields. The Plug library then uses the underlying HTTP library (for example Cowboy) to return the response. There are some fine-print variations to this concept, but they’re not relevant for this discussion.
So essentially, our request handler is a function that takes a conn and transforms it. In particular, each function that takes two arguments (a conn and arbitrary options) is called a plug. Additionally, a plug can be a module that implements two functions init/1 which provides the options, and call/2 which takes a conn and options, and returns the transformed conn.
Request handlers can be implemented as a chain of such plugs, with the help of Plug.Builder. Since a plug is basically a function, your request handler boils down to a chain of functions threading the conn struct. Each function takes a conn, does it’s own processing, and produces a transformed version of it. Then the next function in the chain is invoked to do its job.
Each plug in the chain can do various tasks, such as logging (Plug.Logger), converting the input (for example Plug.Head which transforms a HEAD request into GET), or producing the output (e.g. Plug.Static which serves files from the disk). It is also easy to write your own plugs, for example to authenticate users, or to perform some other custom action. For example, for this site I implemented a plug which counts visits, measures the processing time, and sends stats to graphite. Typically, the last function in the chain will be the “core” handler which performs some request-specific processing, such as data manipulation, or some computation, and produces the response.
When it comes to Phoenix, endpoint, router, and controllers are all plugs. Your request arrives to the endpoint which specifies some common plugs (e.g. serving of static files, logging, session handling). By default, the last plug listed in the endpoint is the router where request path is mapped to some controller, which is itself yet another plug in the chain.
Trimming down Phoenix
Since all the pieces in Phoenix are plugs, and plugs are basically functions, nothing stops you from removing any part out of the chain. The only thing you need for a basic Phoenix web app is the endpoint. Let’s see an example. I’ll create a simple “Hello World” web server based on Phoenix. This server won’t rely on router, controllers, views, and templates.
First, I need to generate a new Phoenix project with mix phoenix.new simple_server --no-ecto --no-brunch --no-html. The options specify I want to omit Ecto, Brunch, and HTML views from the generated project. This already makes the generated code thinner than the default version.
There are still some pieces that can be removed, and I’ve done that in this commit. The most important change is that I’ve purged all the plugs from the endpoint, reducing it to:
defmodule SimpleServer.Endpoint do
use Phoenix.Endpoint, otp_app: :simple_server
end
All requests will end up in an endpoint which does nothing, so every request will result in a 500 error. This is a consequence of removing all the default stuff. There are no routers, controllers, views, or templates anymore, and there’s no default behaviour. The “magic” has disappeared and it’s up to us to recreate it manually.
And that’s it! The output is now rendered through a precompiled EEx template. And still, no router, controller, or Phoenix view has been used. You can find the complete solution here.
It’s worth noting that by throwing most of the default stuff out, we also lost many benefits of Phoenix. This simple server doesn’t serve static files, log requests, handle sessions, or parse the request body. Live reload also won’t work. You can of course reintroduce these features if you need them.
What’s the point?
To be honest, I usually wouldn’t recommend this fully sliced-down approach. My impression is that the default code generated with mix phoenix.new is a sensible start for most web projects. Sure, you have to spend some time understanding the flow of a request, and roles of endpoint, router, view, and template, but I think it will be worth the effort. At the end of the day, as Chris frequently said, Phoenix aims to provide the “batteries included” experience, so the framework is bound to have some inherent complexity. I wouldn’t say it’s super complex though. You need to take some time to let it sink in, and you’re good to go. It’s a one off investment, and not a very expensive one.
That being said, if you have simpler needs, or you’re overwhelmed by many different Phoenix concepts, throwing some stuff out might help. Hopefully it’s now obvious that Phoenix is quite tunable. Once you understand Plug it’s fairly easy to grasp how a request is handled in Phoenix. Tweaking the server to your own needs is just a matter of removing the plugs you don’t want. In my opinion, this is the evidence of a good and flexible design. All the steps are spelled out for you in your project’s code, so everything is explicit and you can tweak it as you please.
Learning tips
Learning Phoenix is still not a small task, especially if you’re new to Elixir and OTP. If your Elixir journey starts with Phoenix, you’ll need to learn the new language, adapt to functional programming, understand BEAM concurrency, become familiar with OTP, and learn Plug, Phoenix, and probably Ecto. While none of these tasks is a “rocket science”, there’s obviously quite a lot of ground to cover. Taking so many new things at once can overwhelm even the best of us.
So what can be done about it?
One possible approach is a full “bottom-up”, where you focus first on Elixir, learn its building blocks and familiarize yourself with functional programming. Then you can move to vanilla processes, then to OTP behaviours (most notably GenServer and Supervisor), and finally OTP applications. Once you gain some confidence there, you “only” need to understand Plug and Phoenix specifics, which should be easier if you built solid foundations. I’m not suggesting you need to fully master one phase before moving to the next one. But I do think that building some solid understanding of basic concepts will make it easier to focus on the next stage.
The benefit of this approach is that you get a steady incremental progress. Understanding concurrency is easier if you don’t have to wrestle with the language. Grasping Phoenix is easier if you’re already confident with Elixir, OTP, and Plug. The downside is that you’ll reach the final goal at the very end. You’re probably interested in Phoenix because you want to build scalable, distributed, real-time web servers, but you’ll spend a lot of time transforming lists with plain recursion, or passing messages between processes, before you’re even able to handle a basic request. It takes some commitment to endure this first period.
If you prefer to see some tangible results immediately, you could consider a “two-pass bottom-up” approach. In this version, you could first go through excellent official getting started guides on Elixir and Phoenix sites. These should get you up to speed more swiftly than reading a few hundred pages book(s), though you won’t get as much depth. On the plus side, you’ll be able to experiment and prototype much earlier in the learning process. Then you can start refining your knowledge in the second pass, perhaps by reading some books, watching videos, or reading the official docs.
There are of course many other strategies you can take, so it’s up to you to choose what works best for you. Whichever way you choose, don’t be overwhelmed by the amount of material. Try to somehow split the learning path into smaller steps, and take new topics gradually. It’s hard if not impossible to learn everything at once. It’s a process that takes some time, but in my opinion, the effort is definitely worth the gain. I’m a very happy customer of Erlang/OTP/Elixir/Phoenix, and I don’t think any other stack can give me the same benefits.
Where is the comments section?
Until I figure out the GDPR implications, the comments are disabled. In the meantime, if you have some questions, you can find me at the Elixir Forum. Either tag me in a public post, or send me a DM, and I'll do my best to respond in a timely manner :-)
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Some of the country's leading veterinarians say pets could potentially be receiving better medical care than their owners.
In the prosthetics world in particular, veterinary surgeries are making huge strides and, in some cases, human surgeries could be falling behind.
Dr Ignacio Calvo, senior lecturer in small animal orthopaedics at the Royal Veterinary College, says it is "easier to make the jump into clinical trials when you are dealing with an animal rather than a person".
The reason for increased innovation in animal medicine can be put down to the fact that all pet care is private and, unlike the NHS, fairly well-funded per patient.
Dr Calvo said it could also be down to the patients themselves.
"We are gathering quite a bit of information regarding endoprosthesis as an alternative to full amputation in legs," he said.
"And, now that we have clinical experience, we know what happens when the animal is actually walking."
There are now calls for doctors and vets to work more closely to learn from one another.
Orthopaedic surgeon Dr Viquar Quarashi from Russel Hall Hospital told Sky News that innovations in the pet world can translate to new treatments from humans.
"A few of these prosthetic ideas have definitely come from vets," he said.
"There is always innovation because there is nothing stopping them going to whatever limit they want. Yes, we should start learning from them, there's no hesitation about it."
However, there are some in the industry who are less keen on the explosion of innovation in veterinary science.
Jasper Gale, from Kirks Vets, does not "think it's the job of a vet GP to have a go and see what they can achieve just by trying it out".
He added: "I don't think we should or have in recent years been experimenting on people's pets just to push new techniques and push the boundaries."
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---------------
Custom Commands
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``xse trip``
show last Trip value
``xse recu up``
``xse recu down``
set Rekuperation up or down.
Works only if Rekuperation is enabled in car
``xse charge``
set charge and leave Time.
Example:
``xse charge 7 15 off``
set Time at 7:15 clock with pre climate off
``xse charge 9 55 on``
set Time at 9:55 clock with pre climate on
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/*
* Copyright 2019 The Error Prone Authors.
*
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* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
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* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
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package com.google.errorprone.bugpatterns;
import static com.google.errorprone.BugPattern.SeverityLevel.ERROR;
import static com.google.errorprone.matchers.Description.NO_MATCH;
import static com.google.errorprone.matchers.JUnitMatchers.hasJUnit4TestRunner;
import static com.google.errorprone.util.ASTHelpers.getAnnotationWithSimpleName;
import static com.google.errorprone.util.ASTHelpers.hasAnnotation;
import com.google.errorprone.BugPattern;
import com.google.errorprone.VisitorState;
import com.google.errorprone.bugpatterns.BugChecker.ClassTreeMatcher;
import com.google.errorprone.fixes.SuggestedFix;
import com.google.errorprone.fixes.SuggestedFixes;
import com.google.errorprone.matchers.Description;
import com.sun.source.tree.AnnotationTree;
import com.sun.source.tree.ClassTree;
/** Flags uses of parameters in non-parameterized tests. */
@BugPattern(
name = "ParametersButNotParameterized",
summary =
"This test has @Parameters but is using the default JUnit4 runner. The parameters will"
+ " have no effect.",
severity = ERROR)
public final class ParametersButNotParameterized extends BugChecker implements ClassTreeMatcher {
private static final String PARAMETERIZED = "org.junit.runners.Parameterized";
private static final String PARAMETER = "org.junit.runners.Parameterized.Parameter";
private static final String PARAMETERS = "org.junit.runners.Parameterized.Parameters";
@Override
public Description matchClass(ClassTree tree, VisitorState state) {
if (!hasJUnit4TestRunner.matches(tree, state)) {
return NO_MATCH;
}
if (tree.getMembers().stream()
.noneMatch(
m -> hasAnnotation(m, PARAMETER, state) || hasAnnotation(m, PARAMETERS, state))) {
return NO_MATCH;
}
AnnotationTree annotation =
getAnnotationWithSimpleName(tree.getModifiers().getAnnotations(), "RunWith");
SuggestedFix.Builder fix = SuggestedFix.builder();
fix.replace(
annotation,
String.format("@RunWith(%s.class)", SuggestedFixes.qualifyType(state, fix, PARAMETERIZED)));
return describeMatch(tree, fix.build());
}
}
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206 Ga. 477 (1950)
57 S.E.2d 578
CAPITOL DISTRIBUTING COMPANY et al
v.
REDWINE, Revenue Commissioner; et vice versa.
16887, 16901.
Supreme Court of Georgia.
January 12, 1950.
Rehearing Denied February 17, 24, 1950.
*483 MacDougald, Troutman, Sams & Schroder, and Dan MacDougald Jr., for plaintiffs.
Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, and M. H. Blackshear Jr., Assistant Attorney-General, for defendant.
CANDLER, Justice.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) 1. There is set out above a copy of the enrolled act as attached to and made a part of the petition as amended. As enrolled the act shows on its face that taxation on wines is included in the title and in the body. The plaintiffs in error contend that there were irregularities during the process of the legislation such as to controvert any valid reference to wines in the title. A portion of the petition as amended alleges in substance that the words, "to increase the excise taxes upon domestic wines, foreign wines, and domestic and foreign fortified wines," were neither read before nor voted on by the legislature nor did they appear in the title when the bill was before the legislature. Instead, it is contended that those words were composed and inserted by some agency or method other than the joint action of the two houses after the bill was voted on and passed. Further, it is contended that the words, "and that the caption be amended accordingly," were written underneath the body of the amendment, but that the same were not constitutionally sufficient to authorize the first above-quoted words which were written into the title. The petition as amended attempts to show the facts relied on by photostatic copies of the bill, its amendment during process of passage, and Legislative Journal entries. Involved in these contentions there are several provisions of the *484 State Constitution, alleged to be violated, as follows: article III, section 1, paragraph 1 (Code, Ann. § 2-1301), reading: "The legislative power of the State shall be vested in a General Assembly which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives," the contention being that the alleged new matter inserted in the manner alleged constitutes an unlawful delegation of legislative authority in violation thereof; article III, section VII, paragraph VII (Code, Ann. § 2-1907), reading: "Every bill, before it shall pass, shall be read three times, and on three separate days, in each House, unless in cases of actual invasion, or insurrection, but the first and second reading of each local bill, shall consist of the reading of the title only, unless said bill is ordered to be engrossed," it being contended that, the entire act not being read, this clause was violated; article III, section VII, paragraph VII (Code, Ann. § 2-1908), reading: "No law shall pass which refers to more than one subject matter, or contains matter different from what is expressed in the title thereof," the contention in this connection being that the act having made reference in the body to wines, without having reference to the same in the title, is in violation of this provision; and article I, section I, paragraph III (Code, Ann. § 2-103), reading: "No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, except by due process of law," it being contended that the legislature undertook to have the caption changed after the act passed and did so in terms so vague, uncertain, and indefinite as not to apprise anyone thereof.
Before a determination of the questions above presented, it is obvious that consideration must be given to the effect thereon of the decisions of this court on the principle commonly known as the conclusive presumption of an enrolled act. In Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. State, 135 Ga. 545 (69 S. E. 725), it was held: "A duly enrolled act properly authenticated by the regular presiding officers of both houses of the General Assembly, approved by the Governor, and deposited with the Secretary of State as an existing law, will be conclusively presumed to have been enacted in accordance with the constitutional requirements; and it is not permissible to show, by the legislative journals or other records, that it did not receive on its passage a majority vote of all the members elected to each house, or that there was *485 any irregularity in its enactment." See also DeLoach v. Newton, 134 Ga. 739 (68 S. E. 708), and Williams v. MacFeeley, 186 Ga. 145 (197 S. E. 225). A case cited and relied on by the plaintiffs in error is Solomon v. Commissioners of Cartersville, 41 Ga. 157. It held that an act of the General Assembly signed by Rufus B. Bullock, Governor, May 26, 1869, was invalid because it was not signed within the time prescribed by the Constitution. The Solomon case, supra, was cited in DeLoach v. Newton, supra, and the court, after discussing the possible uses of the legislative journals, said: "A possible use for them might arise on the construction of an act. In Solomon v. Commissioners of Cartersville, 41 Ga. 157, the journals of the General Assembly were consulted to ascertain when the legislature adjourned. In Gormley v. Taylor, 44 Ga. 76, a query was put on this subject." Evidently the court in DeLoach v. Newton, supra, did not consider the case of Solomon v. Commissioners of Cartersville, supra, any obstacle to reaching its decision. Neither do we, in this case, find anything in it to prevent us from following DeLoach v. Newton, Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. State, and Williams v. MacFeeley (supra), in circumstances where, as in the present case, the attempt is to impeach a legislative act in reference to matters alleged to have transpired before the signing of the bill by the Governor, and where the issue is not whether or not the Governor did actually sign the bill within the time required by the Constitution. The plaintiffs in error argue that the decided cases in this State on the question of conclusive presumption of an enrolled act do not, as to any of them, embrace a situation exactly like that presented by the facts in the instant case. If not in exact detail with the facts here involved, the principles in the cited cases upholding the conclusive presumption doctrine are sufficiently controlling for us to adhere to the same rule in this case. Thus, we reach the conclusion that where, as in this case, a copy of an enrolled act purporting to contain the signatures of the Speaker of the House, Clerk of the House, President of the Senate, Secretary of the Senate, and the Governor, is set out and made a part of the amended petition, which seeks to show invalidity upon the contention that a portion of the title was composed and inserted by some method or agency in an irregular manner during the process of its passage, neither the *486 legislative journals nor photostatic copies of the bill are permissible to impeach the act, because of the conclusive presumption against any irregularity in its enactment; and, accordingly, this court cannot consider violations of the State Constitution that are dependent on being so shown.
2. The act is assailed as being in violation of article III, section VII, paragraph VIII of the State Constitution (Code, Ann. § 2-1908), particularly the portion thereof reading, "No law shall pass which refers to more than one subject matter," because, as the plaintiffs in error contend, it embraces legislation on "malt beverages" and "wines." Specifically it is contended that the regulation, control, and taxation of malt beverages is a separate subject-matter from that of wines. Seeking to illustrate, it is insisted that they have been dealt with as a separate series of legislation; that in certain court decisions the term "malt beverages" has been held not to include "wines"; that legislative declarations in the wine act of 1935, to the effect that the same was to promote temperance and prosperity of the people of Georgia and foster the growing of grapes, fruits, and berries on Georgia farms, indicate that wines are recognized by the legislature as being in a different subject-matter category from that of malt beverages; and that executive and administrative treatment has recognized them as separate. The "subject" of an act, within the meaning of the constitutional provision that no act shall contain more than one subject, is regarded as the matter or thing forming the groundwork of the act. Lloyd v. Richardson, 158 Ga. 633 (124 S. E. 37); 50 Am. Jr. 172, § 191; Mayes v. Daniel, 186 Ga. 345, 353 (198 S. E. 535). In Whitley v. State, 134 Ga. 758 (68 S. E. 716), involving an act of 1907 to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and other things relating to various named forms of alcoholic liquors or drinks, the dual subject-matter provision of the State Constitution was invoked and held not to be applicable, it being pointed out that "all these things were germane to and formed a part of the general purpose of the act. They were not so entirely distinct and different as to constitute different subject-matters within the meaning of the paragraph of the constitution." See also Carroll v. Wright, 131 Ga. 728 (63 S. E. 260). Looking to the language of the act in the instant case, the general purpose is illustrated by words and figures *487 that unmistakably stand out as indicating that an increase in excise taxes is the thing chiefly sought. Whatever may have been the reasons prompting the legislature in the year 1935 to deal separately with malt beverages (Ga. L. 1935, pp. 73-81) and wines (Ga. L. 1935, pp. 492-4), or amending the same separately afterwards, it does not appear to us that the terms, "malt beverages" and "wines" are so incongruous per se that they could not be dealt with in a single act for a purpose that was applicable. Although the original wine act of 1935 legalized the making of domestic wines and exempted from taxation wine made from Georgia grapes, fruits, and berries, the tax-free provision was eliminated by an act approved March 30, 1937 (Ga. L. 1937, p. 851), and a tax was prescribed to be levied and collected on domestic wines and foreign wines graduated on alcoholic content. Since that time the amended act has contained levies of taxes upon wines of all classes, and the original theory of tax exemption on wine made from Georgia grapes, fruits, and berries has no longer obtained. It is true that the levies against wines made from Georgia products have been at a lower rate than other wines. Rationally, however, the declarations in the original wine act of 1935, to the effect that promotion of temperance and prosperity for Georgia people and to foster and encourage the growing of grapes, fruits, and berries in Georgia, were more in harmony with the act when it first legalized domestic wines with a limited alcoholic content, without taxes, than now apply since the amendments letting in foreign as well as domestic wines and permitting an increased alcoholic content. The question in McKown v. Atlanta, 184 Ga. 221 (190 S. E. 571), and McCaffrey v. State, 183 Ga. 827 (189 S. E. 825), was whether a law or ordinance pertaining to "malt beverages" comprehended "wines" within that term. No such issue is involved here, and those cases are not applicable. In view of the foregoing, the act now under consideration does not contain a dual subject-matter within the meaning of the constitutional provision that no act shall contain more than one subject.
3. The plaintiffs in error contend that section 2-a of the act unconstitutionally discriminates against them, in that a tax of $1 per gallon is levied on wine manufactured in Georgia from out-of-State grapes as against a ten-cents-per-gallon levy on *488 wine of the same class manufactured from Georgia raw materials. The constitutional provisions alleged to be violated are as follows: denial of due process and equal protection as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, especially that portion thereof reading, "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law"; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws"; and burdening interstate commerce, as forbidden by article 1, section 8, paragraph 3, especially the portion reading: "The Congress shall have Power . . . To regulate commerce . . among the several States." It is insisted that the definition of foreign wines, making applicable the taxation, illustrates the unconstitutionality claimed. The definition reads: "Foreign wines are hereby defined and declared to be wines which are imported in whole or in part in the State of Georgia or manufactured in the State of Georgia from products imported in whole or in part from without the State and produced by natural fermentation." The United States Supreme Court has held in State Board of Equalization v. Young's Market Co., 299 U. S. 57 (57 Sup. Ct. 77, 81 L. ed. 38), Mahoney v. Joseph Triner Corp., 304 U. S. 401 (58 Sup. Ct. 952, 82 L. ed. 1424), and Indianapolis Brewing Co. v. Liquor Control Commission of the State of Michigan, 305 U. S. 391 (59 Sup. Ct. 254, 83 L. ed. 243), that the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution of the United States renders inoperative asserted violations of such provisions as due process, equal protection, and interstate commerce, where State action within the subject-matter of the Twenty-first Amendment is involved. Beer and beer dealers were involved in the alleged discrimination in the Indianapolis Brewing Co. case, supra.
Upon the basis of the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, this court in Scott v. State, 187 Ga. 702 (2 S. E. 2d, 65), held that a statute imposing a tax on distilled spirits imported into the State and making it a misdemeanor to possess unstamped liquor did not violate the commerce clause of the Federal Constitution on the ground that it prohibited purchase of distilled spirits outside of the State for the purchaser's own use. The plaintiffs in error cite U. S. v. Frankfort Distilleries, 324 U. S. 293 (65 Sup. Ct. 661, 89 L. ed. 951), *489 and Jatros v. Bowles, 143 Fed. 2d, 453, and claim the same as authority for their contention that the Twenty-first Amendment does not immunize the portion of the act involved from the effect of the commerce clause. The Frankfort Distilleries case, supra, involved an alleged conspiracy in fixing prices in violation of the Sherman Act, and it was pointed out that it was not being enforced in that case in such manner as to conflict with the law of Colorado. Jatros v. Bowles, supra, involved Emergency War Price controls which rested under the war powers. Neither of the two last-mentioned cases conflicts with the right of the State's authority to determine conditions upon which liquor can come into its territory and what will be done with it after it gets there. Therefore, they are not applicable to the question here. Mason v. State, 1 Ga. App. 534 (5) (58 S. E. 139), holds that "wine" is included in the definition of the term "intoxicating liquors." The Twenty-first Amendment embraces "wine" such as is the subject-matter dealt with in the portion of the act under attack in this case. If the portion of the act is discriminatory, it is outside the pale of protection of the due-process and equal-protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment and the commerce clause of the Federal Constitution by reason of the Twenty-first Amendment thereof. Therefore, we cannot consider the grounds of discrimination and unconstitutionality which are raised by the plaintiffs in error and discussed in this division of the opinion.
(a) Likewise, there is no merit in the contention here made that section 2-a of the act of 1949 (Ga. L. 1949, Ex. Sess. p. 5) offends article 1, section 1, paragraph 2 of the Constitution of 1945 (Code, Ann., § 2-102), which declares "Protection to person and property is the paramount duty of government, and shall be impartial and complete."
4. In view of the above rulings, there was no error in sustaining the general demurrers, which attacked the petition as amended on grounds that no cause of action was set out, nor did the allegations warrant the granting of the equitable relief prayed. Because of said rulings on these general demurrers, it becomes unnecessary to pass on the special demurrers brought up by the cross-bill of exceptions.
Judgment affirmed on the main bill of exceptions. All the *490 Justices concur, except Wyatt and Head, JJ., who dissent from division 2 of the opinion and the judgment of affirmance, Duckworth, C. J., and Almand J., concur specially. Cross-bill of exceptions dismissed. All the Justices concur.
ALMAND, Justice. I concur in the ruling in division 1 of the opinion only because of prior unanimous decisions of this court, cited in the opinion. I think that these previous decisions are wrong and should be overruled, but since a sufficient number of members of the present court to overrule these cases do not agree with me, I am bound by these prior rulings. I am authorized to say that Chief Justice Duckworth concurs in this special concurrence.
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We consider a pencil-shaped active medium consisting of two- level initially excited atoms and described by 1D Maxwell- Bloch equations. With the help of these equations solution without slowly varying envelope approximation we shown, that internal field reflections from the ends of the sample transform the so-called 'lethargic' regime of super-radiance (SR) pulse amplification to the amplification regime similar to usual exponential law. iT can lead to the pulse development acceleration and counter-propagating waves synchronization. A simple formula for SR pulse delay time evaluation is presented. The criterion of the counter- propagating waves synchronization is discussed.
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Cage Warriors 64 took place at The Forum in London, and the organization’s 2014 debut card featured a host of local talent. In the headliner, fast-rising bantamweight Cory Tait took on fellow Englishman James Pennington.
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// Copyright (C) 2017-2019 Jonathan Müller <jonathanmueller.dev@gmail.com>
// This file is subject to the license terms in the LICENSE file
// found in the top-level directory of this distribution.
#include <cppast/cpp_template_parameter.hpp>
#include <cppast/cpp_entity_kind.hpp>
using namespace cppast;
const char* cppast::to_string(cpp_template_keyword kw) noexcept
{
switch (kw)
{
case cpp_template_keyword::keyword_class:
return "class";
case cpp_template_keyword::keyword_typename:
return "typename";
}
return "should not get here";
}
std::unique_ptr<cpp_template_type_parameter> cpp_template_type_parameter::build(
const cpp_entity_index& idx, cpp_entity_id id, std::string name, cpp_template_keyword kw,
bool variadic, std::unique_ptr<cpp_type> default_type)
{
std::unique_ptr<cpp_template_type_parameter> result(
new cpp_template_type_parameter(std::move(name), kw, variadic, std::move(default_type)));
idx.register_definition(std::move(id), type_safe::cref(*result));
return result;
}
cpp_entity_kind cpp_template_type_parameter::kind() noexcept
{
return cpp_entity_kind::template_type_parameter_t;
}
cpp_entity_kind cpp_template_type_parameter::do_get_entity_kind() const noexcept
{
return kind();
}
bool detail::cpp_template_parameter_ref_predicate::operator()(const cpp_entity& e)
{
return e.kind() == cpp_entity_kind::template_type_parameter_t;
}
std::unique_ptr<cpp_non_type_template_parameter> cpp_non_type_template_parameter::build(
const cpp_entity_index& idx, cpp_entity_id id, std::string name, std::unique_ptr<cpp_type> type,
bool is_variadic, std::unique_ptr<cpp_expression> default_value)
{
std::unique_ptr<cpp_non_type_template_parameter> result(
new cpp_non_type_template_parameter(std::move(name), std::move(type), is_variadic,
std::move(default_value)));
idx.register_definition(std::move(id), type_safe::cref(*result));
return result;
}
cpp_entity_kind cpp_non_type_template_parameter::kind() noexcept
{
return cpp_entity_kind::non_type_template_parameter_t;
}
cpp_entity_kind cpp_non_type_template_parameter::do_get_entity_kind() const noexcept
{
return kind();
}
bool detail::cpp_template_ref_predicate::operator()(const cpp_entity& e)
{
return is_template(e.kind()) || e.kind() == cpp_entity_kind::template_template_parameter_t;
}
cpp_entity_kind cpp_template_template_parameter::kind() noexcept
{
return cpp_entity_kind::template_template_parameter_t;
}
cpp_entity_kind cpp_template_template_parameter::do_get_entity_kind() const noexcept
{
return kind();
}
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i can't get around digital downloads, would rather just buy something physical and tangible.
And i'm going to look at it this way...if a band's releases are for sale digitally but not physically...this is not a band worth hearing, especially when so many amazing bands are putting out physical albums still, and even more so there's enough physical music currently in existence that i wouldn't even be able to listen to it all, so there will always be another band to get.
I buy mp3s from bands if 1) I don't know their output well and don't feel like paying good money to something I may not love or 2) it's unavailable for purchase from another format.
So, I actually appreciate albums available via bandcamp and frequently throw a couple of bucks to the band to d/l the album, even if a physical copy is available. I have limited space in my apartment and I only want hard copies if I feel the release is essential or I can't get it any other way._________________Old dudes watched nothing but Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street. That's how you start a proper path to misanthropy and hate. -- Goldenbull
As someone who has never downloaded a single piece of music form the intra-webbers, I've found Bandcamp to be great. I tend to buy most releases that include an immediate download as well as physical copy and it's an added plus that the music goes right to the artist.
And i'm going to look at it this way...if a band's releases are for sale digitally but not physically...this is not a band worth hearing, especially when so many amazing bands are putting out physical albums still, and even more so there's enough physical music currently in existence that i wouldn't even be able to listen to it all, so there will always be another band to get.
This is more true in underground metal, where bands and fans tend to be fetishistic about physical releases, than in many other genres. Digital is where things have been heading for a long time now and some other genres of music have just beaten us there. I have bought very few metal releases as digital-only, but some other stuff I listen to, quite a bit more of it will never see a physical release - especially other niche genres._________________http://unspeakableaxerecords.com
It amazes me to see stuff on Amazon where the album on MP3 costs £7.99 and the cd can be bought "new and used from" £2 or something ridiculous
THIS.
I found mp3s of the band of a friend at amazon last week (that price for the full album). He wasn't informed that the label (metalhit if I recall correctly) would not only make physical copies but also upload them tracks as paid mp3.
Funny he has the album listed for free on bandcamp, and the CD can be purchased for 5 usd He won't take any actions about this though, because he couldn't care less about how his music is spread (and also he thinks if anyone is idiotic enough to pay for that, he deserves to be charged), but I still think is unfair for the artist._________________
It works like that because most people don't give a shit about a full album and would rather download single songs, so at the end it's still cheaper to pay 1 or 2 bucks for the songs they care about than 5 for the whole album.
It amazes me to see stuff on Amazon where the album on MP3 costs £7.99 and the cd can be bought "new and used from" £2 or something ridiculous
THIS.
I found mp3s of the band of a friend at amazon last week (that price for the full album). He wasn't informed that the label (metalhit if I recall correctly) would not only make physical copies but also upload them tracks as paid mp3.
Funny he has the album listed for free on bandcamp, and the CD can be purchased for 5 usd He won't take any actions about this though, because he couldn't care less about how his music is spread (and also he thinks if anyone is idiotic enough to pay for that, he deserves to be charged), but I still think is unfair for the artist.
It amazes me to see stuff on Amazon where the album on MP3 costs £7.99 and the cd can be bought "new and used from" £2 or something ridiculous
THIS.
I found mp3s of the band of a friend at amazon last week (that price for the full album). He wasn't informed that the label (metalhit if I recall correctly) would not only make physical copies but also upload them tracks as paid mp3.
Funny he has the album listed for free on bandcamp, and the CD can be purchased for 5 usd He won't take any actions about this though, because he couldn't care less about how his music is spread (and also he thinks if anyone is idiotic enough to pay for that, he deserves to be charged), but I still think is unfair for the artist.
Did you Make up that story? Digital distribution is what metalhit do.
True story, I was told they arranged for a cd version. He never got a copy either. Feel free to believe whatever you want _________________
It amazes me to see stuff on Amazon where the album on MP3 costs £7.99 and the cd can be bought "new and used from" £2 or something ridiculous
THIS.
I found mp3s of the band of a friend at amazon last week (that price for the full album). He wasn't informed that the label (metalhit if I recall correctly) would not only make physical copies but also upload them tracks as paid mp3.
Funny he has the album listed for free on bandcamp, and the CD can be purchased for 5 usd He won't take any actions about this though, because he couldn't care less about how his music is spread (and also he thinks if anyone is idiotic enough to pay for that, he deserves to be charged), but I still think is unfair for the artist.
Did you Make up that story? Digital distribution is what metalhit do.
True story, I was told they arranged for a cd version. He never got a copy either. Feel free to believe whatever you want
So in conclusion, he thought that Metalhit would do CDs only, whereas they did digital too. Furthermore they are selling the CD for 5 usd and haven't given him any, but he doesn't really care about that and won't take action.
Maybe it's just being stubborn but a digital copy of an album means absolutely nothing to me. I can find a digital copy of almost anything I'd want in under 10 minutes for free, why would I voluntarily pay for that? I buy plenty of physical releases and rarely if ever dowload anything these days, but there's simply no way I'll spend money for a digital album.
In my opinion, the legitimate digital release market is merely a reaction to the success and prevalence of its illegitimate counterpart rather than a symptom of a supposed trajectory. Eh, it's definitely debatable.
Maybe it's just being stubborn but a digital copy of an album means absolutely nothing to me. I can find a digital copy of almost anything I'd want in under 10 minutes for free, why would I voluntarily pay for that?
1. To support the band/label
2. For convenience (with so many legal options, it's now easier to buy than to illegally download, in many cases; at the very least you're a lot less likely to waste time clicking on dead links, and/or end up with a virus or adware)
That's why most people do it. Personally my emphasis is on #1. Like I said I prefer hard copies, but if I can't get that I'd rather put a few bucks in the musician's pocket than steal his stuff. However, I do believe that digital releases should be priced accordingly; if they cost the same as a new CD I'm not buying, 9 times out of 10. There's so much less cost and overhead, it's just not right to charge the same amount.
astralvesl wrote:
In my opinion, the legitimate digital release market is merely a reaction to the success and prevalence of its illegitimate counterpart rather than a symptom of a supposed trajectory.
The truth is actually both, I think. It was DEFINITELY a reaction, but on the other hand, that illegitimate channel was doing such a good job of choking the life out of the record business because younger listeners were fine with downloading music and not owning a CD. The illegal option created a market direction which legitimate channels are now reacting to._________________http://unspeakableaxerecords.com
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“I thought I couldn’t do it,” Maria admitted. “Before I joined BIG, I didn’t understand how I could actually do it.” To a perspective applicant, Barton International Group often seems quite intimidating. For Maria, she was sure that she did not have adequate experience or understanding of the business world to perform successfully in BIG’s professional setting. However, once she joined Barton International Group, Maria quickly learned that, even with her lack of experience, everyone in the group was there to help her gain the knowledge and experience that she needed.
Being an international student, Maria was unable to work outside of campus – making BIG the perfect opportunity to “get the same experience” as the students who were able to work off campus. She first discovered the group in her junior year, and proceeded to join in the fall of that same year. Prior to this discovery, she hadn’t found any other organization that would allow her to work with actual companies while still being a student, and thought BIG would be “a great experience” and “a great part of [her] resume.” Although she joined late into her college career, everyone was welcoming and helped her to become acclimated to the new environment.
Maria has spent her time in Barton International Group in the Business Development Department, where she contacts potential clients, attends meetings with company executives, and frequents networking events. She is currently working on a project with NIAR, which has so far given her “the experience of working in a fast paced environment”, but also allowed her to learn “how long it takes to understand a company.” Through her work with market research on this project, she told me that it is really “not as easy as everyone thinks.”
Like many other members of BIG, Maria wasn’t an incredibly confident person prior to joining the organization. Moreover, she initially felt isolated as a result of being the only international student of the group. However, through her work within the group as well as the connections she made during her years in Barton International Group, Maria gained “the confidence [she] needed to launch her career.” “Nothing is too big for me now,” she told me. “I’m ready for a big career.”
After she graduates, Maria will return to her home in Bolivia for a period of time before beginning to search for a job – preferably one where she can do market research or manage a company’s social media. However, this should be relatively simple considering the skills and confidence she learned from being in Barton International Group.
When the interview ended, I asked Maria if she had any final comments to make. She sat back and thought for a moment before grinning and enthusiastically blurting out “join BIG!” – one final promotion for the place that molded her into the person she is now.
Barton International Group is a student run consulting organization who strives to develop educational enrichment opportunities for our members and provide our clients with exceptional, diverse, and creative business solutions.
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/* ***** BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK *****
* Version: MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
*
* The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version
* 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
* the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
* http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
*
* Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis,
* WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
* for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the
* License.
*
* The Original Code is part of dcm4che, an implementation of DICOM(TM) in
* Java(TM), hosted at https://github.com/dcm4che.
*
* The Initial Developer of the Original Code is
* Agfa Healthcare.
* Portions created by the Initial Developer are Copyright (C) 2012
* the Initial Developer. All Rights Reserved.
*
* Contributor(s):
* See @authors listed below
*
* Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms of
* either the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later (the "GPL"), or
* the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1 or later (the "LGPL"),
* in which case the provisions of the GPL or the LGPL are applicable instead
* of those above. If you wish to allow use of your version of this file only
* under the terms of either the GPL or the LGPL, and not to allow others to
* use your version of this file under the terms of the MPL, indicate your
* decision by deleting the provisions above and replace them with the notice
* and other provisions required by the GPL or the LGPL. If you do not delete
* the provisions above, a recipient may use your version of this file under
* the terms of any one of the MPL, the GPL or the LGPL.
*
* ***** END LICENSE BLOCK ***** */
package org.dcm4che3.net;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledExecutorService;
/**
* @author Gunter Zeilinger <gunterze@gmail.com>
*
*/
public class DeviceService implements DeviceServiceInterface
{
protected Device device;
protected ExecutorService executor;
protected ScheduledExecutorService scheduledExecutor;
protected void init(Device device) {
setDevice(device);
}
public void setDevice(Device device) {
this.device = device;
}
public Device getDevice() {
return device;
}
public boolean isRunning() {
return executor != null;
}
public void start() throws Exception {
if (device == null)
throw new IllegalStateException("Not initialized");
if (executor != null)
throw new IllegalStateException("Already started");
executor = executerService();
scheduledExecutor = scheduledExecuterService();
try {
device.setExecutor(executor);
device.setScheduledExecutor(scheduledExecutor);
device.bindConnections();
} catch (Exception e) {
stop();
throw e;
}
}
public void stop() {
if (device != null)
device.unbindConnections();
if (scheduledExecutor != null)
scheduledExecutor.shutdown();
if (executor != null)
executor.shutdown();
executor = null;
scheduledExecutor = null;
}
protected ExecutorService executerService() {
return Executors.newCachedThreadPool();
}
protected ScheduledExecutorService scheduledExecuterService() {
return Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor();
}
}
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<?php
/**
* Zend Framework
*
* LICENSE
*
* This source file is subject to the new BSD license that is bundled
* with this package in the file LICENSE.txt.
* It is also available through the world-wide-web at this URL:
* http://framework.zend.com/license/new-bsd
* If you did not receive a copy of the license and are unable to
* obtain it through the world-wide-web, please send an email
* to license@zend.com so we can send you a copy immediately.
*
* @category Zend
* @package Zend_Pdf
* @copyright Copyright (c) 2005-2010 Zend Technologies USA Inc. (http://www.zend.com)
* @license http://framework.zend.com/license/new-bsd New BSD License
* @version $Id: Png.php 22655 2010-07-22 18:47:20Z mabe $
*/
/** Internally used classes */
require_once 'Zend/Pdf/Element/Array.php';
require_once 'Zend/Pdf/Element/Dictionary.php';
require_once 'Zend/Pdf/Element/Name.php';
require_once 'Zend/Pdf/Element/Numeric.php';
require_once 'Zend/Pdf/Element/String/Binary.php';
/** Zend_Pdf_Resource_Image */
require_once 'Zend/Pdf/Resource/Image.php';
/**
* PNG image
*
* @package Zend_Pdf
* @copyright Copyright (c) 2005-2010 Zend Technologies USA Inc. (http://www.zend.com)
* @license http://framework.zend.com/license/new-bsd New BSD License
*/
class Zend_Pdf_Resource_Image_Png extends Zend_Pdf_Resource_Image
{
const PNG_COMPRESSION_DEFAULT_STRATEGY = 0;
const PNG_COMPRESSION_FILTERED = 1;
const PNG_COMPRESSION_HUFFMAN_ONLY = 2;
const PNG_COMPRESSION_RLE = 3;
const PNG_FILTER_NONE = 0;
const PNG_FILTER_SUB = 1;
const PNG_FILTER_UP = 2;
const PNG_FILTER_AVERAGE = 3;
const PNG_FILTER_PAETH = 4;
const PNG_INTERLACING_DISABLED = 0;
const PNG_INTERLACING_ENABLED = 1;
const PNG_CHANNEL_GRAY = 0;
const PNG_CHANNEL_RGB = 2;
const PNG_CHANNEL_INDEXED = 3;
const PNG_CHANNEL_GRAY_ALPHA = 4;
const PNG_CHANNEL_RGB_ALPHA = 6;
protected $_width;
protected $_height;
protected $_imageProperties;
/**
* Object constructor
*
* @param string $imageFileName
* @throws Zend_Pdf_Exception
* @todo Add compression conversions to support compression strategys other than PNG_COMPRESSION_DEFAULT_STRATEGY.
* @todo Add pre-compression filtering.
* @todo Add interlaced image handling.
* @todo Add support for 16-bit images. Requires PDF version bump to 1.5 at least.
* @todo Add processing for all PNG chunks defined in the spec. gAMA etc.
* @todo Fix tRNS chunk support for Indexed Images to a SMask.
*/
public function __construct($imageFileName)
{
if (($imageFile = @fopen($imageFileName, 'rb')) === false ) {
require_once 'Zend/Pdf/Exception.php';
throw new Zend_Pdf_Exception( "Can not open '$imageFileName' file for reading." );
}
parent::__construct();
//Check if the file is a PNG
fseek($imageFile, 1, SEEK_CUR); //First signature byte (%)
if ('PNG' != fread($imageFile, 3)) {
require_once 'Zend/Pdf/Exception.php';
throw new Zend_Pdf_Exception('Image is not a PNG');
}
fseek($imageFile, 12, SEEK_CUR); //Signature bytes (Includes the IHDR chunk) IHDR processed linerarly because it doesnt contain a variable chunk length
$wtmp = unpack('Ni',fread($imageFile, 4)); //Unpack a 4-Byte Long
$width = $wtmp['i'];
$htmp = unpack('Ni',fread($imageFile, 4));
$height = $htmp['i'];
$bits = ord(fread($imageFile, 1)); //Higher than 8 bit depths are only supported in later versions of PDF.
$color = ord(fread($imageFile, 1));
$compression = ord(fread($imageFile, 1));
$prefilter = ord(fread($imageFile,1));
if (($interlacing = ord(fread($imageFile,1))) != Zend_Pdf_Resource_Image_Png::PNG_INTERLACING_DISABLED) {
require_once 'Zend/Pdf/Exception.php';
throw new Zend_Pdf_Exception( "Only non-interlaced images are currently supported." );
}
$this->_width = $width;
$this->_height = $height;
$this->_imageProperties = array();
$this->_imageProperties['bitDepth'] = $bits;
$this->_imageProperties['pngColorType'] = $color;
$this->_imageProperties['pngFilterType'] = $prefilter;
$this->_imageProperties['pngCompressionType'] = $compression;
$this->_imageProperties['pngInterlacingType'] = $interlacing;
fseek($imageFile, 4, SEEK_CUR); //4 Byte Ending Sequence
$imageData = '';
/*
* The following loop processes PNG chunks. 4 Byte Longs are packed first give the chunk length
* followed by the chunk signature, a four byte code. IDAT and IEND are manditory in any PNG.
*/
while(($chunkLengthBytes = fread($imageFile, 4)) !== false) {
$chunkLengthtmp = unpack('Ni', $chunkLengthBytes);
$chunkLength = $chunkLengthtmp['i'];
$chunkType = fread($imageFile, 4);
switch($chunkType) {
case 'IDAT': //Image Data
/*
* Reads the actual image data from the PNG file. Since we know at this point that the compression
* strategy is the default strategy, we also know that this data is Zip compressed. We will either copy
* the data directly to the PDF and provide the correct FlateDecode predictor, or decompress the data
* decode the filters and output the data as a raw pixel map.
*/
$imageData .= fread($imageFile, $chunkLength);
fseek($imageFile, 4, SEEK_CUR);
break;
case 'PLTE': //Palette
$paletteData = fread($imageFile, $chunkLength);
fseek($imageFile, 4, SEEK_CUR);
break;
case 'tRNS': //Basic (non-alpha channel) transparency.
$trnsData = fread($imageFile, $chunkLength);
switch ($color) {
case Zend_Pdf_Resource_Image_Png::PNG_CHANNEL_GRAY:
$baseColor = ord(substr($trnsData, 1, 1));
$transparencyData = array(new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($baseColor),
new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($baseColor));
break;
case Zend_Pdf_Resource_Image_Png::PNG_CHANNEL_RGB:
$red = ord(substr($trnsData,1,1));
$green = ord(substr($trnsData,3,1));
$blue = ord(substr($trnsData,5,1));
$transparencyData = array(new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($red),
new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($red),
new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($green),
new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($green),
new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($blue),
new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($blue));
break;
case Zend_Pdf_Resource_Image_Png::PNG_CHANNEL_INDEXED:
//Find the first transparent color in the index, we will mask that. (This is a bit of a hack. This should be a SMask and mask all entries values).
if(($trnsIdx = strpos($trnsData, "\0")) !== false) {
$transparencyData = array(new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($trnsIdx),
new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($trnsIdx));
}
break;
case Zend_Pdf_Resource_Image_Png::PNG_CHANNEL_GRAY_ALPHA:
// Fall through to the next case
case Zend_Pdf_Resource_Image_Png::PNG_CHANNEL_RGB_ALPHA:
require_once 'Zend/Pdf/Exception.php';
throw new Zend_Pdf_Exception( "tRNS chunk illegal for Alpha Channel Images" );
break;
}
fseek($imageFile, 4, SEEK_CUR); //4 Byte Ending Sequence
break;
case 'IEND';
break 2; //End the loop too
default:
fseek($imageFile, $chunkLength + 4, SEEK_CUR); //Skip the section
break;
}
}
fclose($imageFile);
$compressed = true;
$imageDataTmp = '';
$smaskData = '';
switch ($color) {
case Zend_Pdf_Resource_Image_Png::PNG_CHANNEL_RGB:
$colorSpace = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Name('DeviceRGB');
break;
case Zend_Pdf_Resource_Image_Png::PNG_CHANNEL_GRAY:
$colorSpace = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Name('DeviceGray');
break;
case Zend_Pdf_Resource_Image_Png::PNG_CHANNEL_INDEXED:
if(empty($paletteData)) {
require_once 'Zend/Pdf/Exception.php';
throw new Zend_Pdf_Exception( "PNG Corruption: No palette data read for indexed type PNG." );
}
$colorSpace = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Array();
$colorSpace->items[] = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Name('Indexed');
$colorSpace->items[] = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Name('DeviceRGB');
$colorSpace->items[] = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric((strlen($paletteData)/3-1));
$paletteObject = $this->_objectFactory->newObject(new Zend_Pdf_Element_String_Binary($paletteData));
$colorSpace->items[] = $paletteObject;
break;
case Zend_Pdf_Resource_Image_Png::PNG_CHANNEL_GRAY_ALPHA:
/*
* To decode PNG's with alpha data we must create two images from one. One image will contain the Gray data
* the other will contain the Gray transparency overlay data. The former will become the object data and the latter
* will become the Shadow Mask (SMask).
*/
if($bits > 8) {
require_once 'Zend/Pdf/Exception.php';
throw new Zend_Pdf_Exception("Alpha PNGs with bit depth > 8 are not yet supported");
}
$colorSpace = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Name('DeviceGray');
require_once 'Zend/Pdf/ElementFactory.php';
$decodingObjFactory = Zend_Pdf_ElementFactory::createFactory(1);
$decodingStream = $decodingObjFactory->newStreamObject($imageData);
$decodingStream->dictionary->Filter = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Name('FlateDecode');
$decodingStream->dictionary->DecodeParms = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Dictionary();
$decodingStream->dictionary->DecodeParms->Predictor = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric(15);
$decodingStream->dictionary->DecodeParms->Columns = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($width);
$decodingStream->dictionary->DecodeParms->Colors = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric(2); //GreyAlpha
$decodingStream->dictionary->DecodeParms->BitsPerComponent = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($bits);
$decodingStream->skipFilters();
$pngDataRawDecoded = $decodingStream->value;
//Iterate every pixel and copy out gray data and alpha channel (this will be slow)
for($pixel = 0, $pixelcount = ($width * $height); $pixel < $pixelcount; $pixel++) {
$imageDataTmp .= $pngDataRawDecoded[($pixel*2)];
$smaskData .= $pngDataRawDecoded[($pixel*2)+1];
}
$compressed = false;
$imageData = $imageDataTmp; //Overwrite image data with the gray channel without alpha
break;
case Zend_Pdf_Resource_Image_Png::PNG_CHANNEL_RGB_ALPHA:
/*
* To decode PNG's with alpha data we must create two images from one. One image will contain the RGB data
* the other will contain the Gray transparency overlay data. The former will become the object data and the latter
* will become the Shadow Mask (SMask).
*/
if($bits > 8) {
require_once 'Zend/Pdf/Exception.php';
throw new Zend_Pdf_Exception("Alpha PNGs with bit depth > 8 are not yet supported");
}
$colorSpace = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Name('DeviceRGB');
require_once 'Zend/Pdf/ElementFactory.php';
$decodingObjFactory = Zend_Pdf_ElementFactory::createFactory(1);
$decodingStream = $decodingObjFactory->newStreamObject($imageData);
$decodingStream->dictionary->Filter = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Name('FlateDecode');
$decodingStream->dictionary->DecodeParms = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Dictionary();
$decodingStream->dictionary->DecodeParms->Predictor = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric(15);
$decodingStream->dictionary->DecodeParms->Columns = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($width);
$decodingStream->dictionary->DecodeParms->Colors = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric(4); //RGBA
$decodingStream->dictionary->DecodeParms->BitsPerComponent = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($bits);
$decodingStream->skipFilters();
$pngDataRawDecoded = $decodingStream->value;
//Iterate every pixel and copy out rgb data and alpha channel (this will be slow)
for($pixel = 0, $pixelcount = ($width * $height); $pixel < $pixelcount; $pixel++) {
$imageDataTmp .= $pngDataRawDecoded[($pixel*4)+0] . $pngDataRawDecoded[($pixel*4)+1] . $pngDataRawDecoded[($pixel*4)+2];
$smaskData .= $pngDataRawDecoded[($pixel*4)+3];
}
$compressed = false;
$imageData = $imageDataTmp; //Overwrite image data with the RGB channel without alpha
break;
default:
require_once 'Zend/Pdf/Exception.php';
throw new Zend_Pdf_Exception( "PNG Corruption: Invalid color space." );
}
if(empty($imageData)) {
require_once 'Zend/Pdf/Exception.php';
throw new Zend_Pdf_Exception( "Corrupt PNG Image. Mandatory IDAT chunk not found." );
}
$imageDictionary = $this->_resource->dictionary;
if(!empty($smaskData)) {
/*
* Includes the Alpha transparency data as a Gray Image, then assigns the image as the Shadow Mask for the main image data.
*/
$smaskStream = $this->_objectFactory->newStreamObject($smaskData);
$smaskStream->dictionary->Type = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Name('XObject');
$smaskStream->dictionary->Subtype = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Name('Image');
$smaskStream->dictionary->Width = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($width);
$smaskStream->dictionary->Height = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($height);
$smaskStream->dictionary->ColorSpace = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Name('DeviceGray');
$smaskStream->dictionary->BitsPerComponent = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($bits);
$imageDictionary->SMask = $smaskStream;
// Encode stream with FlateDecode filter
$smaskStreamDecodeParms = array();
$smaskStreamDecodeParms['Predictor'] = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric(15);
$smaskStreamDecodeParms['Columns'] = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($width);
$smaskStreamDecodeParms['Colors'] = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric(1);
$smaskStreamDecodeParms['BitsPerComponent'] = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric(8);
$smaskStream->dictionary->DecodeParms = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Dictionary($smaskStreamDecodeParms);
$smaskStream->dictionary->Filter = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Name('FlateDecode');
}
if(!empty($transparencyData)) {
//This is experimental and not properly tested.
$imageDictionary->Mask = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Array($transparencyData);
}
$imageDictionary->Width = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($width);
$imageDictionary->Height = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($height);
$imageDictionary->ColorSpace = $colorSpace;
$imageDictionary->BitsPerComponent = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($bits);
$imageDictionary->Filter = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Name('FlateDecode');
$decodeParms = array();
$decodeParms['Predictor'] = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric(15); // Optimal prediction
$decodeParms['Columns'] = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($width);
$decodeParms['Colors'] = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric((($color==Zend_Pdf_Resource_Image_Png::PNG_CHANNEL_RGB || $color==Zend_Pdf_Resource_Image_Png::PNG_CHANNEL_RGB_ALPHA)?(3):(1)));
$decodeParms['BitsPerComponent'] = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Numeric($bits);
$imageDictionary->DecodeParms = new Zend_Pdf_Element_Dictionary($decodeParms);
//Include only the image IDAT section data.
$this->_resource->value = $imageData;
//Skip double compression
if ($compressed) {
$this->_resource->skipFilters();
}
}
/**
* Image width
*/
public function getPixelWidth() {
return $this->_width;
}
/**
* Image height
*/
public function getPixelHeight() {
return $this->_height;
}
/**
* Image properties
*/
public function getProperties() {
return $this->_imageProperties;
}
}
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The Wonder Years' Danica McKellar Is Teaching Her Baby The Qaudratic Formula
The Wonder Years' Danica McKellar really likes math. She found the niche after ending her stint on the popular coming-of-age show, eventually even publishing several math books. Her most recent title, Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape, was written to help young women get pumped about shapes and numbers. Now a new mommy, McKeller is hoping to inspire a love for math in her own child.
McKellar recently came out to talk about her 23-month-old boy’s current math abilities. Apparently, little Draco likes to name geometric shapes and count the number of toes on his feet, although McKellar recently told People, his numbers don’t always add up.
“We’re working on some things. He knows his colors and his shapes. He still gets seven when he counts the toes on one foot — he really likes seven right now!”
Next on her list, however, the mom plans to work with Draco until he has some formulas down pat. If she manages what she is attempting, her little tyke will be way ahead of the linear curve.
“He likes it when I recite Pi. And I’m trying to teach him the quadratic formula, he hasn’t quite gotten it yet. It’s sung to the tune of ‘Pop Goes the Weasel’.”
McKeller most recently made headlines when she filed for divorce from her longterm partner, Mike Verta. Despite the recent stressors, it is good to see the 37-year-old mom so keenly devoted to her little one. Pop Blend would like to wish her the best in her quadratic equation efforts. A mom with brains and the willingness to put in time certainly deserves it.
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#include <rose.h>
class SgVarSubstCopy : public SgCopyHelp
{
SgVariableSymbol *sourceSymbol;
SgExpression *replacementExpression;
public:
SgVarSubstCopy(SgVariableSymbol *sourceSymbol, SgExpression *replacementExpression)
: sourceSymbol(sourceSymbol), replacementExpression(replacementExpression)
{}
SgNode *copyAst(const SgNode *n)
{
if (const SgVarRefExp *vr = isSgVarRefExp(const_cast<SgNode *>(n)))
{
if (vr->get_symbol() == sourceSymbol)
{
return replacementExpression->copy(*this);
}
}
return n->copy(*this);
}
};
#define SgNULL_FILE Sg_File_Info::generateDefaultFileInfoForTransformationNode()
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
// Initialize and check compatibility. See Rose::initialize
ROSE_INITIALIZE;
// Build the AST used by ROSE
SgProject *project = frontend(argc, argv);
// Find the exampleFunction function
SgGlobal *global = project->get_file(0).get_globalScope();
SgFunctionSymbol *exampleFunctionSym = global->lookup_function_symbol("exampleFunction");
ROSE_ASSERT(exampleFunctionSym != NULL);
SgFunctionDeclaration *exampleFunctionDecl = exampleFunctionSym->get_declaration();
ROSE_ASSERT(exampleFunctionDecl != NULL);
SgFunctionDefinition *exampleFunctionDef = exampleFunctionDecl->get_definition();
ROSE_ASSERT(exampleFunctionDef != NULL);
// Find its first parameter
SgInitializedName *firstParamName = exampleFunctionDecl->get_args().front();
ROSE_ASSERT(firstParamName != NULL);
SgVariableSymbol *firstParamSym = exampleFunctionDef->lookup_var_symbol(firstParamName->get_name());
ROSE_ASSERT(firstParamSym != NULL);
// Construct the expression to substitute for
SgIntVal *twenty = new SgIntVal(SgNULL_FILE, 20);
// Create our copy help mechanism with the required parameters
SgVarSubstCopy ourCopyHelp(firstParamSym, twenty);
// Do the copy
SgNode *exampleFunctionDeclCopyNode = exampleFunctionDecl->copy(ourCopyHelp);
ROSE_ASSERT(exampleFunctionDeclCopyNode != NULL);
SgFunctionDeclaration *exampleFunctionDeclCopy = isSgFunctionDeclaration(exampleFunctionDeclCopyNode);
ROSE_ASSERT(exampleFunctionDeclCopy != NULL);
// Change the name of the new function
exampleFunctionDeclCopy->set_name("exampleFunction20");
global->get_symbol_table()->insert(exampleFunctionDeclCopy->get_name(), new SgFunctionSymbol(exampleFunctionDeclCopy));
// Add function to global scope
global->append_declaration(exampleFunctionDeclCopy);
// Generate source code from AST and call the vendor's compiler
return backend(project);
}
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Description
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Egy olvasónk hívta fel a figyelmünket egy hibára a Revolut rendszerében, ami sokakat érinthet. A szolgáltatás használata nem százszázalékosan fájdalommentes (melyiké az?), és a mostani hiba az alkalmazás telefonkönyv-turkálós funkciójának pontatlanságából ered.
Olvasónk három hete regisztrált a szolgáltatásra, el is kezdte tesztelni, mit tud a Revolut. Beleegyezett, hogy az alkalmazás átnézze a telefonkönyvét, amiből kiemeli a kontaktokat, akik szintén használják a szolgáltatást. Meglepetten látta, hogy egy olyan ismerőse – nevezzük Katinak – is szerepel a listán, aki nem szokott élni ilyen high-tech szerekkel. Gondolta, teszteli a dolgot, és küldött Katinak 15 forintot. Az utalás át is ment probléma nélkül, de azért csak felhívta Katit, hogy megjött-e a pénz Revoluton.
Mi az a Revolut?
– kérdezett vissza Kati.
A kérdésre olvasónk megnézte a tranzakció részleteit, ahol már a kedvezményezett neve sem egyezett, Kati helyett egy bizonyos Jolánnak ment a pénz. A képen jól látható, hogy a két személy telefonszáma majdnem ugyanaz, gyakorlatilag csak az országkód különbözik (Jolánnak angol száma van, ami +44-el kezdődik). Ez azt jelenti, hogy a Revolut nem számol azzal, hogy a különböző országokban előfordulhatnak hasonló számkombinációk a telefonszámok között, amit pont országkóddal próbál a nemzetközi telefonszámok rendszere orvosolni. Ezt viszont pont nem nézi a Revolut.
Fotó: Olvasói fotó / Index
Olvasónk lelkiismeretesen írt is a Revolut ügyfélszolgálatának, hogy a hibát javítani kéne. Több kört is futott, több emberrel is csetelt, de a végeredmény mindig az lett, hogy ne aggódjon, vissza fogják szerezni a 15 forintját.
Ebből a telefonszámos kavarásból ered az is, hogy néhányan, akik regisztrálni próbálnak, azt az üzenetet kapják, hogy a számuk már használatban van.
Ilyenkor az történik, hogy más országban, más országkód mögött ugyanaz a telefonszáma valakinek, mint a miénk.
Mi is megkerestük a Revolutot az alkalmazáson belüli cseten keresztül. Az ügyintéző azt írta, hogy tudnak a problémáról, és dolgoznak azon, hogy kijavítsák. Azt javasolják, hogy amíg a bug nincs kijavítva, mindenki kérdezzen rá előre a kedvezményezettől, utalásnál hogy van-e Revolutja. Peches esetben előfordulhat, hogy nem annak megy a pénz, akinek küldenénk, hanem valaki másnak, akinek hasonlít a telefonszáma a mi címzettünkére.
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// This file is part of Substrate.
// Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Parity Technologies (UK) Ltd.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
// GNU General Public License for more details.
// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
// along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
//! Communication streams for the polite-grandpa networking protocol.
//!
//! GRANDPA nodes communicate over a gossip network, where messages are not sent to
//! peers until they have reached a given round.
//!
//! Rather than expressing protocol rules,
//! polite-grandpa just carries a notion of impoliteness. Nodes which pass some arbitrary
//! threshold of impoliteness are removed. Messages are either costly, or beneficial.
//!
//! For instance, it is _impolite_ to send the same message more than once.
//! In the future, there will be a fallback for allowing sending the same message
//! under certain conditions that are used to un-stick the protocol.
use futures::{prelude::*, channel::mpsc};
use log::{debug, trace};
use parking_lot::Mutex;
use prometheus_endpoint::Registry;
use std::{pin::Pin, sync::Arc, task::{Context, Poll}};
use sp_core::traits::BareCryptoStorePtr;
use finality_grandpa::Message::{Prevote, Precommit, PrimaryPropose};
use finality_grandpa::{voter, voter_set::VoterSet};
use sc_network::{NetworkService, ReputationChange};
use sc_network_gossip::{GossipEngine, Network as GossipNetwork};
use parity_scale_codec::{Encode, Decode};
use sp_runtime::traits::{Block as BlockT, Hash as HashT, Header as HeaderT, NumberFor};
use sc_telemetry::{telemetry, CONSENSUS_DEBUG, CONSENSUS_INFO};
use crate::{
CatchUp, Commit, CommunicationIn, CommunicationOutH,
CompactCommit, Error, Message, SignedMessage,
};
use crate::environment::HasVoted;
use gossip::{
FullCatchUpMessage,
FullCommitMessage,
GossipMessage,
GossipValidator,
PeerReport,
VoteMessage,
};
use sp_finality_grandpa::{
AuthorityId, AuthoritySignature, SetId as SetIdNumber, RoundNumber,
};
use sp_utils::mpsc::TracingUnboundedReceiver;
pub mod gossip;
mod periodic;
#[cfg(test)]
pub(crate) mod tests;
pub use sp_finality_grandpa::GRANDPA_ENGINE_ID;
pub const GRANDPA_PROTOCOL_NAME: &'static str = "/paritytech/grandpa/1";
// cost scalars for reporting peers.
mod cost {
use sc_network::ReputationChange as Rep;
pub(super) const PAST_REJECTION: Rep = Rep::new(-50, "Grandpa: Past message");
pub(super) const BAD_SIGNATURE: Rep = Rep::new(-100, "Grandpa: Bad signature");
pub(super) const MALFORMED_CATCH_UP: Rep = Rep::new(-1000, "Grandpa: Malformed cath-up");
pub(super) const MALFORMED_COMMIT: Rep = Rep::new(-1000, "Grandpa: Malformed commit");
pub(super) const FUTURE_MESSAGE: Rep = Rep::new(-500, "Grandpa: Future message");
pub(super) const UNKNOWN_VOTER: Rep = Rep::new(-150, "Grandpa: Unknown voter");
pub(super) const INVALID_VIEW_CHANGE: Rep = Rep::new(-500, "Grandpa: Invalid view change");
pub(super) const PER_UNDECODABLE_BYTE: i32 = -5;
pub(super) const PER_SIGNATURE_CHECKED: i32 = -25;
pub(super) const PER_BLOCK_LOADED: i32 = -10;
pub(super) const INVALID_CATCH_UP: Rep = Rep::new(-5000, "Grandpa: Invalid catch-up");
pub(super) const INVALID_COMMIT: Rep = Rep::new(-5000, "Grandpa: Invalid commit");
pub(super) const OUT_OF_SCOPE_MESSAGE: Rep = Rep::new(-500, "Grandpa: Out-of-scope message");
pub(super) const CATCH_UP_REQUEST_TIMEOUT: Rep = Rep::new(-200, "Grandpa: Catch-up request timeout");
// cost of answering a catch up request
pub(super) const CATCH_UP_REPLY: Rep = Rep::new(-200, "Grandpa: Catch-up reply");
pub(super) const HONEST_OUT_OF_SCOPE_CATCH_UP: Rep = Rep::new(-200, "Grandpa: Out-of-scope catch-up");
}
// benefit scalars for reporting peers.
mod benefit {
use sc_network::ReputationChange as Rep;
pub(super) const NEIGHBOR_MESSAGE: Rep = Rep::new(100, "Grandpa: Neighbor message");
pub(super) const ROUND_MESSAGE: Rep = Rep::new(100, "Grandpa: Round message");
pub(super) const BASIC_VALIDATED_CATCH_UP: Rep = Rep::new(200, "Grandpa: Catch-up message");
pub(super) const BASIC_VALIDATED_COMMIT: Rep = Rep::new(100, "Grandpa: Commit");
pub(super) const PER_EQUIVOCATION: i32 = 10;
}
/// A type that ties together our local authority id and a keystore where it is
/// available for signing.
pub struct LocalIdKeystore((AuthorityId, BareCryptoStorePtr));
impl LocalIdKeystore {
/// Returns a reference to our local authority id.
fn local_id(&self) -> &AuthorityId {
&(self.0).0
}
/// Returns a reference to the keystore.
fn keystore(&self) -> &BareCryptoStorePtr {
&(self.0).1
}
}
impl AsRef<BareCryptoStorePtr> for LocalIdKeystore {
fn as_ref(&self) -> &BareCryptoStorePtr {
self.keystore()
}
}
impl From<(AuthorityId, BareCryptoStorePtr)> for LocalIdKeystore {
fn from(inner: (AuthorityId, BareCryptoStorePtr)) -> LocalIdKeystore {
LocalIdKeystore(inner)
}
}
/// If the voter set is larger than this value some telemetry events are not
/// sent to avoid increasing usage resource on the node and flooding the
/// telemetry server (e.g. received votes, received commits.)
const TELEMETRY_VOTERS_LIMIT: usize = 10;
/// A handle to the network.
///
/// Something that provides both the capabilities needed for the `gossip_network::Network` trait as
/// well as the ability to set a fork sync request for a particular block.
pub trait Network<Block: BlockT>: GossipNetwork<Block> + Clone + Send + 'static {
/// Notifies the sync service to try and sync the given block from the given
/// peers.
///
/// If the given vector of peers is empty then the underlying implementation
/// should make a best effort to fetch the block from any peers it is
/// connected to (NOTE: this assumption will change in the future #3629).
fn set_sync_fork_request(&self, peers: Vec<sc_network::PeerId>, hash: Block::Hash, number: NumberFor<Block>);
}
impl<B, H> Network<B> for Arc<NetworkService<B, H>> where
B: BlockT,
H: sc_network::ExHashT,
{
fn set_sync_fork_request(&self, peers: Vec<sc_network::PeerId>, hash: B::Hash, number: NumberFor<B>) {
NetworkService::set_sync_fork_request(self, peers, hash, number)
}
}
/// Create a unique topic for a round and set-id combo.
pub(crate) fn round_topic<B: BlockT>(round: RoundNumber, set_id: SetIdNumber) -> B::Hash {
<<B::Header as HeaderT>::Hashing as HashT>::hash(format!("{}-{}", set_id, round).as_bytes())
}
/// Create a unique topic for global messages on a set ID.
pub(crate) fn global_topic<B: BlockT>(set_id: SetIdNumber) -> B::Hash {
<<B::Header as HeaderT>::Hashing as HashT>::hash(format!("{}-GLOBAL", set_id).as_bytes())
}
/// Bridge between the underlying network service, gossiping consensus messages and Grandpa
pub(crate) struct NetworkBridge<B: BlockT, N: Network<B>> {
service: N,
gossip_engine: Arc<Mutex<GossipEngine<B>>>,
validator: Arc<GossipValidator<B>>,
/// Sender side of the neighbor packet channel.
///
/// Packets sent into this channel are processed by the `NeighborPacketWorker` and passed on to
/// the underlying `GossipEngine`.
neighbor_sender: periodic::NeighborPacketSender<B>,
/// `NeighborPacketWorker` processing packets sent through the `NeighborPacketSender`.
//
// `NetworkBridge` is required to be cloneable, thus one needs to be able to clone its children,
// thus one has to wrap `neighbor_packet_worker` with an `Arc` `Mutex`.
neighbor_packet_worker: Arc<Mutex<periodic::NeighborPacketWorker<B>>>,
/// Receiver side of the peer report stream populated by the gossip validator, forwarded to the
/// gossip engine.
//
// `NetworkBridge` is required to be cloneable, thus one needs to be able to clone its children,
// thus one has to wrap gossip_validator_report_stream with an `Arc` `Mutex`. Given that it is
// just an `UnboundedReceiver`, one could also switch to a multi-producer-*multi*-consumer
// channel implementation.
gossip_validator_report_stream: Arc<Mutex<TracingUnboundedReceiver<PeerReport>>>,
}
impl<B: BlockT, N: Network<B>> Unpin for NetworkBridge<B, N> {}
impl<B: BlockT, N: Network<B>> NetworkBridge<B, N> {
/// Create a new NetworkBridge to the given NetworkService. Returns the service
/// handle.
/// On creation it will register previous rounds' votes with the gossip
/// service taken from the VoterSetState.
pub(crate) fn new(
service: N,
config: crate::Config,
set_state: crate::environment::SharedVoterSetState<B>,
prometheus_registry: Option<&Registry>,
) -> Self {
let (validator, report_stream) = GossipValidator::new(
config,
set_state.clone(),
prometheus_registry,
);
let validator = Arc::new(validator);
let gossip_engine = Arc::new(Mutex::new(GossipEngine::new(
service.clone(),
GRANDPA_ENGINE_ID,
GRANDPA_PROTOCOL_NAME,
validator.clone()
)));
{
// register all previous votes with the gossip service so that they're
// available to peers potentially stuck on a previous round.
let completed = set_state.read().completed_rounds();
let (set_id, voters) = completed.set_info();
validator.note_set(SetId(set_id), voters.to_vec(), |_, _| {});
for round in completed.iter() {
let topic = round_topic::<B>(round.number, set_id);
// we need to note the round with the gossip validator otherwise
// messages will be ignored.
validator.note_round(Round(round.number), |_, _| {});
for signed in round.votes.iter() {
let message = gossip::GossipMessage::Vote(
gossip::VoteMessage::<B> {
message: signed.clone(),
round: Round(round.number),
set_id: SetId(set_id),
}
);
gossip_engine.lock().register_gossip_message(
topic,
message.encode(),
);
}
trace!(target: "afg",
"Registered {} messages for topic {:?} (round: {}, set_id: {})",
round.votes.len(),
topic,
round.number,
set_id,
);
}
}
let (neighbor_packet_worker, neighbor_packet_sender) = periodic::NeighborPacketWorker::new();
NetworkBridge {
service,
gossip_engine,
validator,
neighbor_sender: neighbor_packet_sender,
neighbor_packet_worker: Arc::new(Mutex::new(neighbor_packet_worker)),
gossip_validator_report_stream: Arc::new(Mutex::new(report_stream)),
}
}
/// Note the beginning of a new round to the `GossipValidator`.
pub(crate) fn note_round(
&self,
round: Round,
set_id: SetId,
voters: &VoterSet<AuthorityId>,
) {
// is a no-op if currently in that set.
self.validator.note_set(
set_id,
voters.iter().map(|(v, _)| v.clone()).collect(),
|to, neighbor| self.neighbor_sender.send(to, neighbor),
);
self.validator.note_round(
round,
|to, neighbor| self.neighbor_sender.send(to, neighbor),
);
}
/// Get a stream of signature-checked round messages from the network as well as a sink for round messages to the
/// network all within the current set.
pub(crate) fn round_communication(
&self,
keystore: Option<LocalIdKeystore>,
round: Round,
set_id: SetId,
voters: Arc<VoterSet<AuthorityId>>,
has_voted: HasVoted<B>,
) -> (
impl Stream<Item = SignedMessage<B>> + Unpin,
OutgoingMessages<B>,
) {
self.note_round(
round,
set_id,
&*voters,
);
let keystore = keystore.and_then(|ks| {
let id = ks.local_id();
if voters.contains(id) {
Some(ks)
} else {
None
}
});
let topic = round_topic::<B>(round.0, set_id.0);
let incoming = self.gossip_engine.lock().messages_for(topic)
.filter_map(move |notification| {
let decoded = GossipMessage::<B>::decode(&mut ¬ification.message[..]);
match decoded {
Err(ref e) => {
debug!(target: "afg", "Skipping malformed message {:?}: {}", notification, e);
future::ready(None)
}
Ok(GossipMessage::Vote(msg)) => {
// check signature.
if !voters.contains(&msg.message.id) {
debug!(target: "afg", "Skipping message from unknown voter {}", msg.message.id);
return future::ready(None);
}
if voters.len().get() <= TELEMETRY_VOTERS_LIMIT {
match &msg.message.message {
PrimaryPropose(propose) => {
telemetry!(CONSENSUS_INFO; "afg.received_propose";
"voter" => ?format!("{}", msg.message.id),
"target_number" => ?propose.target_number,
"target_hash" => ?propose.target_hash,
);
},
Prevote(prevote) => {
telemetry!(CONSENSUS_INFO; "afg.received_prevote";
"voter" => ?format!("{}", msg.message.id),
"target_number" => ?prevote.target_number,
"target_hash" => ?prevote.target_hash,
);
},
Precommit(precommit) => {
telemetry!(CONSENSUS_INFO; "afg.received_precommit";
"voter" => ?format!("{}", msg.message.id),
"target_number" => ?precommit.target_number,
"target_hash" => ?precommit.target_hash,
);
},
};
}
future::ready(Some(msg.message))
}
_ => {
debug!(target: "afg", "Skipping unknown message type");
future::ready(None)
}
}
});
let (tx, out_rx) = mpsc::channel(0);
let outgoing = OutgoingMessages::<B> {
keystore,
round: round.0,
set_id: set_id.0,
network: self.gossip_engine.clone(),
sender: tx,
has_voted,
};
// Combine incoming votes from external GRANDPA nodes with outgoing
// votes from our own GRANDPA voter to have a single
// vote-import-pipeline.
let incoming = stream::select(incoming, out_rx);
(incoming, outgoing)
}
/// Set up the global communication streams.
pub(crate) fn global_communication(
&self,
set_id: SetId,
voters: Arc<VoterSet<AuthorityId>>,
is_voter: bool,
) -> (
impl Stream<Item = CommunicationIn<B>>,
impl Sink<CommunicationOutH<B, B::Hash>, Error = Error> + Unpin,
) {
self.validator.note_set(
set_id,
voters.iter().map(|(v, _)| v.clone()).collect(),
|to, neighbor| self.neighbor_sender.send(to, neighbor),
);
let topic = global_topic::<B>(set_id.0);
let incoming = incoming_global(
self.gossip_engine.clone(),
topic,
voters,
self.validator.clone(),
self.neighbor_sender.clone(),
);
let outgoing = CommitsOut::<B>::new(
self.gossip_engine.clone(),
set_id.0,
is_voter,
self.validator.clone(),
self.neighbor_sender.clone(),
);
let outgoing = outgoing.with(|out| {
let voter::CommunicationOut::Commit(round, commit) = out;
future::ok((round, commit))
});
(incoming, outgoing)
}
/// Notifies the sync service to try and sync the given block from the given
/// peers.
///
/// If the given vector of peers is empty then the underlying implementation
/// should make a best effort to fetch the block from any peers it is
/// connected to (NOTE: this assumption will change in the future #3629).
pub(crate) fn set_sync_fork_request(
&self,
peers: Vec<sc_network::PeerId>,
hash: B::Hash,
number: NumberFor<B>
) {
Network::set_sync_fork_request(&self.service, peers, hash, number)
}
}
impl<B: BlockT, N: Network<B>> Future for NetworkBridge<B, N> {
type Output = Result<(), Error>;
fn poll(self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut Context) -> Poll<Self::Output> {
loop {
match self.neighbor_packet_worker.lock().poll_next_unpin(cx) {
Poll::Ready(Some((to, packet))) => {
self.gossip_engine.lock().send_message(to, packet.encode());
},
Poll::Ready(None) => return Poll::Ready(
Err(Error::Network("Neighbor packet worker stream closed.".into()))
),
Poll::Pending => break,
}
}
loop {
match self.gossip_validator_report_stream.lock().poll_next_unpin(cx) {
Poll::Ready(Some(PeerReport { who, cost_benefit })) => {
self.gossip_engine.lock().report(who, cost_benefit);
},
Poll::Ready(None) => return Poll::Ready(
Err(Error::Network("Gossip validator report stream closed.".into()))
),
Poll::Pending => break,
}
}
match self.gossip_engine.lock().poll_unpin(cx) {
Poll::Ready(()) => return Poll::Ready(
Err(Error::Network("Gossip engine future finished.".into()))
),
Poll::Pending => {},
}
Poll::Pending
}
}
fn incoming_global<B: BlockT>(
gossip_engine: Arc<Mutex<GossipEngine<B>>>,
topic: B::Hash,
voters: Arc<VoterSet<AuthorityId>>,
gossip_validator: Arc<GossipValidator<B>>,
neighbor_sender: periodic::NeighborPacketSender<B>,
) -> impl Stream<Item = CommunicationIn<B>> {
let process_commit = move |
msg: FullCommitMessage<B>,
mut notification: sc_network_gossip::TopicNotification,
gossip_engine: &Arc<Mutex<GossipEngine<B>>>,
gossip_validator: &Arc<GossipValidator<B>>,
voters: &VoterSet<AuthorityId>,
| {
if voters.len().get() <= TELEMETRY_VOTERS_LIMIT {
let precommits_signed_by: Vec<String> =
msg.message.auth_data.iter().map(move |(_, a)| {
format!("{}", a)
}).collect();
telemetry!(CONSENSUS_INFO; "afg.received_commit";
"contains_precommits_signed_by" => ?precommits_signed_by,
"target_number" => ?msg.message.target_number.clone(),
"target_hash" => ?msg.message.target_hash.clone(),
);
}
if let Err(cost) = check_compact_commit::<B>(
&msg.message,
voters,
msg.round,
msg.set_id,
) {
if let Some(who) = notification.sender {
gossip_engine.lock().report(who, cost);
}
return None;
}
let round = msg.round;
let set_id = msg.set_id;
let commit = msg.message;
let finalized_number = commit.target_number;
let gossip_validator = gossip_validator.clone();
let gossip_engine = gossip_engine.clone();
let neighbor_sender = neighbor_sender.clone();
let cb = move |outcome| match outcome {
voter::CommitProcessingOutcome::Good(_) => {
// if it checks out, gossip it. not accounting for
// any discrepancy between the actual ghost and the claimed
// finalized number.
gossip_validator.note_commit_finalized(
round,
set_id,
finalized_number,
|to, neighbor| neighbor_sender.send(to, neighbor),
);
gossip_engine.lock().gossip_message(topic, notification.message.clone(), false);
}
voter::CommitProcessingOutcome::Bad(_) => {
// report peer and do not gossip.
if let Some(who) = notification.sender.take() {
gossip_engine.lock().report(who, cost::INVALID_COMMIT);
}
}
};
let cb = voter::Callback::Work(Box::new(cb));
Some(voter::CommunicationIn::Commit(round.0, commit, cb))
};
let process_catch_up = move |
msg: FullCatchUpMessage<B>,
mut notification: sc_network_gossip::TopicNotification,
gossip_engine: &Arc<Mutex<GossipEngine<B>>>,
gossip_validator: &Arc<GossipValidator<B>>,
voters: &VoterSet<AuthorityId>,
| {
let gossip_validator = gossip_validator.clone();
let gossip_engine = gossip_engine.clone();
if let Err(cost) = check_catch_up::<B>(
&msg.message,
voters,
msg.set_id,
) {
if let Some(who) = notification.sender {
gossip_engine.lock().report(who, cost);
}
return None;
}
let cb = move |outcome| {
if let voter::CatchUpProcessingOutcome::Bad(_) = outcome {
// report peer
if let Some(who) = notification.sender.take() {
gossip_engine.lock().report(who, cost::INVALID_CATCH_UP);
}
}
gossip_validator.note_catch_up_message_processed();
};
let cb = voter::Callback::Work(Box::new(cb));
Some(voter::CommunicationIn::CatchUp(msg.message, cb))
};
gossip_engine.clone().lock().messages_for(topic)
.filter_map(|notification| {
// this could be optimized by decoding piecewise.
let decoded = GossipMessage::<B>::decode(&mut ¬ification.message[..]);
if let Err(ref e) = decoded {
trace!(target: "afg", "Skipping malformed commit message {:?}: {}", notification, e);
}
future::ready(decoded.map(move |d| (notification, d)).ok())
})
.filter_map(move |(notification, msg)| {
future::ready(match msg {
GossipMessage::Commit(msg) =>
process_commit(msg, notification, &gossip_engine, &gossip_validator, &*voters),
GossipMessage::CatchUp(msg) =>
process_catch_up(msg, notification, &gossip_engine, &gossip_validator, &*voters),
_ => {
debug!(target: "afg", "Skipping unknown message type");
None
}
})
})
}
impl<B: BlockT, N: Network<B>> Clone for NetworkBridge<B, N> {
fn clone(&self) -> Self {
NetworkBridge {
service: self.service.clone(),
gossip_engine: self.gossip_engine.clone(),
validator: Arc::clone(&self.validator),
neighbor_sender: self.neighbor_sender.clone(),
neighbor_packet_worker: self.neighbor_packet_worker.clone(),
gossip_validator_report_stream: self.gossip_validator_report_stream.clone(),
}
}
}
/// Type-safe wrapper around a round number.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Eq, PartialEq, PartialOrd, Ord, Encode, Decode)]
pub struct Round(pub RoundNumber);
/// Type-safe wrapper around a set ID.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Eq, PartialEq, PartialOrd, Ord, Encode, Decode)]
pub struct SetId(pub SetIdNumber);
/// A sink for outgoing messages to the network. Any messages that are sent will
/// be replaced, as appropriate, according to the given `HasVoted`.
/// NOTE: The votes are stored unsigned, which means that the signatures need to
/// be "stable", i.e. we should end up with the exact same signed message if we
/// use the same raw message and key to sign. This is currently true for
/// `ed25519` and `BLS` signatures (which we might use in the future), care must
/// be taken when switching to different key types.
pub(crate) struct OutgoingMessages<Block: BlockT> {
round: RoundNumber,
set_id: SetIdNumber,
keystore: Option<LocalIdKeystore>,
sender: mpsc::Sender<SignedMessage<Block>>,
network: Arc<Mutex<GossipEngine<Block>>>,
has_voted: HasVoted<Block>,
}
impl<B: BlockT> Unpin for OutgoingMessages<B> {}
impl<Block: BlockT> Sink<Message<Block>> for OutgoingMessages<Block>
{
type Error = Error;
fn poll_ready(mut self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut Context) -> Poll<Result<(), Self::Error>> {
Sink::poll_ready(Pin::new(&mut self.sender), cx)
.map(|elem| { elem.map_err(|e| {
Error::Network(format!("Failed to poll_ready channel sender: {:?}", e))
})})
}
fn start_send(mut self: Pin<&mut Self>, mut msg: Message<Block>) -> Result<(), Self::Error> {
// if we've voted on this round previously under the same key, send that vote instead
match &mut msg {
finality_grandpa::Message::PrimaryPropose(ref mut vote) =>
if let Some(propose) = self.has_voted.propose() {
*vote = propose.clone();
},
finality_grandpa::Message::Prevote(ref mut vote) =>
if let Some(prevote) = self.has_voted.prevote() {
*vote = prevote.clone();
},
finality_grandpa::Message::Precommit(ref mut vote) =>
if let Some(precommit) = self.has_voted.precommit() {
*vote = precommit.clone();
},
}
// when locals exist, sign messages on import
if let Some(ref keystore) = self.keystore {
let target_hash = *(msg.target().0);
let signed = sp_finality_grandpa::sign_message(
keystore.as_ref(),
msg,
keystore.local_id().clone(),
self.round,
self.set_id,
).ok_or_else(
|| Error::Signing(format!(
"Failed to sign GRANDPA vote for round {} targetting {:?}", self.round, target_hash
))
)?;
let message = GossipMessage::Vote(VoteMessage::<Block> {
message: signed.clone(),
round: Round(self.round),
set_id: SetId(self.set_id),
});
debug!(
target: "afg",
"Announcing block {} to peers which we voted on in round {} in set {}",
target_hash,
self.round,
self.set_id,
);
telemetry!(
CONSENSUS_DEBUG; "afg.announcing_blocks_to_voted_peers";
"block" => ?target_hash, "round" => ?self.round, "set_id" => ?self.set_id,
);
// announce the block we voted on to our peers.
self.network.lock().announce(target_hash, Vec::new());
// propagate the message to peers
let topic = round_topic::<Block>(self.round, self.set_id);
self.network.lock().gossip_message(topic, message.encode(), false);
// forward the message to the inner sender.
return self.sender.start_send(signed).map_err(|e| {
Error::Network(format!("Failed to start_send on channel sender: {:?}", e))
});
};
Ok(())
}
fn poll_flush(self: Pin<&mut Self>, _cx: &mut Context) -> Poll<Result<(), Self::Error>> {
Poll::Ready(Ok(()))
}
fn poll_close(mut self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut Context) -> Poll<Result<(), Self::Error>> {
Sink::poll_close(Pin::new(&mut self.sender), cx)
.map(|elem| { elem.map_err(|e| {
Error::Network(format!("Failed to poll_close channel sender: {:?}", e))
})})
}
}
// checks a compact commit. returns the cost associated with processing it if
// the commit was bad.
fn check_compact_commit<Block: BlockT>(
msg: &CompactCommit<Block>,
voters: &VoterSet<AuthorityId>,
round: Round,
set_id: SetId,
) -> Result<(), ReputationChange> {
// 4f + 1 = equivocations from f voters.
let f = voters.total_weight() - voters.threshold();
let full_threshold = (f + voters.total_weight()).0;
// check total weight is not out of range.
let mut total_weight = 0;
for (_, ref id) in &msg.auth_data {
if let Some(weight) = voters.get(id).map(|info| info.weight()) {
total_weight += weight.get();
if total_weight > full_threshold {
return Err(cost::MALFORMED_COMMIT);
}
} else {
debug!(target: "afg", "Skipping commit containing unknown voter {}", id);
return Err(cost::MALFORMED_COMMIT);
}
}
if total_weight < voters.threshold().get() {
return Err(cost::MALFORMED_COMMIT);
}
// check signatures on all contained precommits.
let mut buf = Vec::new();
for (i, (precommit, &(ref sig, ref id))) in msg.precommits.iter()
.zip(&msg.auth_data)
.enumerate()
{
use crate::communication::gossip::Misbehavior;
use finality_grandpa::Message as GrandpaMessage;
if !sp_finality_grandpa::check_message_signature_with_buffer(
&GrandpaMessage::Precommit(precommit.clone()),
id,
sig,
round.0,
set_id.0,
&mut buf,
) {
debug!(target: "afg", "Bad commit message signature {}", id);
telemetry!(CONSENSUS_DEBUG; "afg.bad_commit_msg_signature"; "id" => ?id);
let cost = Misbehavior::BadCommitMessage {
signatures_checked: i as i32,
blocks_loaded: 0,
equivocations_caught: 0,
}.cost();
return Err(cost);
}
}
Ok(())
}
// checks a catch up. returns the cost associated with processing it if
// the catch up was bad.
fn check_catch_up<Block: BlockT>(
msg: &CatchUp<Block>,
voters: &VoterSet<AuthorityId>,
set_id: SetId,
) -> Result<(), ReputationChange> {
// 4f + 1 = equivocations from f voters.
let f = voters.total_weight() - voters.threshold();
let full_threshold = (f + voters.total_weight()).0;
// check total weight is not out of range for a set of votes.
fn check_weight<'a>(
voters: &'a VoterSet<AuthorityId>,
votes: impl Iterator<Item=&'a AuthorityId>,
full_threshold: u64,
) -> Result<(), ReputationChange> {
let mut total_weight = 0;
for id in votes {
if let Some(weight) = voters.get(&id).map(|info| info.weight()) {
total_weight += weight.get();
if total_weight > full_threshold {
return Err(cost::MALFORMED_CATCH_UP);
}
} else {
debug!(target: "afg", "Skipping catch up message containing unknown voter {}", id);
return Err(cost::MALFORMED_CATCH_UP);
}
}
if total_weight < voters.threshold().get() {
return Err(cost::MALFORMED_CATCH_UP);
}
Ok(())
};
check_weight(
voters,
msg.prevotes.iter().map(|vote| &vote.id),
full_threshold,
)?;
check_weight(
voters,
msg.precommits.iter().map(|vote| &vote.id),
full_threshold,
)?;
fn check_signatures<'a, B, I>(
messages: I,
round: RoundNumber,
set_id: SetIdNumber,
mut signatures_checked: usize,
buf: &mut Vec<u8>,
) -> Result<usize, ReputationChange> where
B: BlockT,
I: Iterator<Item=(Message<B>, &'a AuthorityId, &'a AuthoritySignature)>,
{
use crate::communication::gossip::Misbehavior;
for (msg, id, sig) in messages {
signatures_checked += 1;
if !sp_finality_grandpa::check_message_signature_with_buffer(
&msg,
id,
sig,
round,
set_id,
buf,
) {
debug!(target: "afg", "Bad catch up message signature {}", id);
telemetry!(CONSENSUS_DEBUG; "afg.bad_catch_up_msg_signature"; "id" => ?id);
let cost = Misbehavior::BadCatchUpMessage {
signatures_checked: signatures_checked as i32,
}.cost();
return Err(cost);
}
}
Ok(signatures_checked)
}
let mut buf = Vec::new();
// check signatures on all contained prevotes.
let signatures_checked = check_signatures::<Block, _>(
msg.prevotes.iter().map(|vote| {
(finality_grandpa::Message::Prevote(vote.prevote.clone()), &vote.id, &vote.signature)
}),
msg.round_number,
set_id.0,
0,
&mut buf,
)?;
// check signatures on all contained precommits.
let _ = check_signatures::<Block, _>(
msg.precommits.iter().map(|vote| {
(finality_grandpa::Message::Precommit(vote.precommit.clone()), &vote.id, &vote.signature)
}),
msg.round_number,
set_id.0,
signatures_checked,
&mut buf,
)?;
Ok(())
}
/// An output sink for commit messages.
struct CommitsOut<Block: BlockT> {
network: Arc<Mutex<GossipEngine<Block>>>,
set_id: SetId,
is_voter: bool,
gossip_validator: Arc<GossipValidator<Block>>,
neighbor_sender: periodic::NeighborPacketSender<Block>,
}
impl<Block: BlockT> CommitsOut<Block> {
/// Create a new commit output stream.
pub(crate) fn new(
network: Arc<Mutex<GossipEngine<Block>>>,
set_id: SetIdNumber,
is_voter: bool,
gossip_validator: Arc<GossipValidator<Block>>,
neighbor_sender: periodic::NeighborPacketSender<Block>,
) -> Self {
CommitsOut {
network,
set_id: SetId(set_id),
is_voter,
gossip_validator,
neighbor_sender,
}
}
}
impl<Block: BlockT> Sink<(RoundNumber, Commit<Block>)> for CommitsOut<Block> {
type Error = Error;
fn poll_ready(self: Pin<&mut Self>, _: &mut Context) -> Poll<Result<(), Self::Error>> {
Poll::Ready(Ok(()))
}
fn start_send(self: Pin<&mut Self>, input: (RoundNumber, Commit<Block>)) -> Result<(), Self::Error> {
if !self.is_voter {
return Ok(());
}
let (round, commit) = input;
let round = Round(round);
telemetry!(CONSENSUS_DEBUG; "afg.commit_issued";
"target_number" => ?commit.target_number, "target_hash" => ?commit.target_hash,
);
let (precommits, auth_data) = commit.precommits.into_iter()
.map(|signed| (signed.precommit, (signed.signature, signed.id)))
.unzip();
let compact_commit = CompactCommit::<Block> {
target_hash: commit.target_hash,
target_number: commit.target_number,
precommits,
auth_data
};
let message = GossipMessage::Commit(FullCommitMessage::<Block> {
round,
set_id: self.set_id,
message: compact_commit,
});
let topic = global_topic::<Block>(self.set_id.0);
// the gossip validator needs to be made aware of the best commit-height we know of
// before gossiping
self.gossip_validator.note_commit_finalized(
round,
self.set_id,
commit.target_number,
|to, neighbor| self.neighbor_sender.send(to, neighbor),
);
self.network.lock().gossip_message(topic, message.encode(), false);
Ok(())
}
fn poll_close(self: Pin<&mut Self>, _: &mut Context) -> Poll<Result<(), Self::Error>> {
Poll::Ready(Ok(()))
}
fn poll_flush(self: Pin<&mut Self>, _: &mut Context) -> Poll<Result<(), Self::Error>> {
Poll::Ready(Ok(()))
}
}
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console.log (Object.prototype.toString.call([].__proto__));
console.log (Object.prototype.toString.call([].__proto__.__proto__));
console.log (Object.prototype.toString.call([].__proto__.__proto__.__proto__));
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UnPoetia:I am the Calculator
I'm a calculator calculating numerals and fractions,
Although I am a calculator I do no other actions,
Though I am smart and logical,
I'm not at all philosophical,
I do not have the will at all,
To do non-mathematical interactions.
Calculating calculations is my only function,
To use me any other way would be mental interruption,
My only goal is to create,Equations to substantiate,
Polynomials to evaluate,
Or finding electric potential in a p-n junction.
Though many think of me only as a tool for math equations,
Math lovers see me as a bulky box of infatuation,
It's a sin{\displaystyle sin} to feel this way,
We'll stay together come what come may,
We won't add our hearts to nostalgic dismay,
Together in love, no explanation.
Our hearts will intertwine like two parabolas quadratic,
Our affections, they will multiply like pigeons in an attic,
Don't leave me here to die,
If you do I'll pout and cry,
These emotions, I don't know why,
Are causing an unexpectedly incredible panic.
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The Real Housewives of Miami star has called off her engagement to fiancé Romain Zago, E! News confirms.
"We got in a huge fight, and I just pretty much got fed up with it," the 33-year-old model and reality star tells In Touch. "He loves me to death, he wants to be with me, but there's something that's holding him from committing 100 percent."
Krupa and Zago were together for over five years but had not yet set a date to walk down the aisle.
The split isn't exactly a huge surprise for Real Housewives of Miami fans. The couple's rocky romance has been a major plotline throughout the show, with Krupa and Zago often getting into heated arguments.
So how does the now-single Krupa feel about returning for another season of Housewives?
"Despite all the drama, of course I would love to," Krupa told us exclusively this past weekend. "I signed up knowing that it's one of the biggest franchises and there's also a lot of drama. But if you get seven girls in a room, somebody's going to start up something."
"I don't have any regrets," she added. "You live and learn. Miami is just another platform in my career, and I appreciate it."
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Staff / Samantha M. Shal / Lexii Cassell was the lone senior for Holy Innocents’, which finished runner-up in the Class A private school girls’ state basketball tournament after losing to Southwest Atlanta Christian 57-52 in the finals in Macon last Saturday.
What was otherwise a magical season for the Holy Innocents’ girls’ basketball team came to a disappointing end with a 57-52 loss to Southwest Atlanta Christian in the Class A private school championship game in Macon last Saturday.
The loss deprived the Lady Bears (29-1) of both a state championship – which would have been their first since 1999 – and an undefeated season after winning their first 29 games of the 2013-14 campaign.
“We did have an outstanding season and not just with the wins,” Holy Innocents’ coach Tony Watkins said. “We had 11 girls playing for each other. We had outstanding team chemistry. We were very disappointed and I feel like we weren’t just happy to be there. We really played to win and it just didn’t work out for us.”
Holy Innocents’ led most of the way through the first three quarters – leading 16-12 at the end of the first quarter, 27-22 at halftime and 38-33 at the end of the third period.
However, back-to-back 3-pointers by Marquita Daniels ignited what would turn out to be a 15-2 run for SACA, which also was able to take advantage of some Lady Bear turnovers at the end.
“We had a five-point lead going into the fourth quarter and we made a couple of turnovers and Marquita Daniels hit a couple of bombs from NBA range,” Watkins said. “We also gave up a couple of offensive rebounds. We outrebounded them 50-35 for the game and that’s one thing I was worried about, because they’re so athletic. But, they got a couple of [of offensive rebounds] in the fourth quarter, which led to baskets and they made their run late – hats off to them.”
Khayla Pointer scored 13 points, while Erika Cassell added 12 points and 18 rebounds and Sydney Long had 11 points to lead HIES in the finals.
The Lady Bears advanced to the championship game with a 46-20 victory over Darlington in a semifinal contest at Kennesaw State last Monday after having beaten Savannah Country Day 83-29 in the first round Feb. 24 and Mount Paran Christian 72-51 Feb. 26.
With only senior Lexii Cassell – a Murray State signee – departing from this year’s Class A private school girls’ runner-up, Watkins said the future looks bright for his team.
“We return 10 of 11 on that roster and that’s exciting,” Watkins said. “We’re looking forward to the future.”
Meanwhile, St. Pius X (30-3) won its second consecutive Class AAA girls championship with a 48-45 victory over Buford in the title game in Macon last Saturday.
The Golden Bears fell behind 15-3 at the beginning of the game, but came back and took the lead for good towards the end of the first half.
Asia Durr scored 23 points, while Jasmine Carter added 12 points and seven rebounds and Miah Allen had nine points on three 3-pointers and grabbed seven rebounds to lead St. Pius.
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No Retreat, No Surrender, No Compromise: The New GOP?
Something rare and wonderful in politics has happened. It has very little to do with the GOP takeover of the House of Representatives, although that is certainly a side benefit. What is truly remarkable is the massive amount of new blood that has been transfused into the Republican Party as a result of their victory in this election. It makes for a delicious feeling of uncertainty and unpredictability. Anything is going to be possible over the next two years, including a GOP implosion, a Democratic Party explosion, or a presidential meltdown.
About a third of the GOP caucus that is sworn in on January 3, 2011, will never have served in Congress previously. If they organize and stay together, they could affect everything from the battle to repeal health care reform to who becomes speaker of the House. Almost all of them are as conservative as any group of first-termers who have ever been elected. The question being asked by both tea party folk and the GOP establishment is: how wedded to "principle" are the newcomers?
Similar questions were being asked by Democrats in 1974 when the Watergate class of liberal congressmen upended the Democratic establishment and forever after skewed the party to the far left. There were 72 new congressmen in that class (the Democrats gained 49 seats) and they quickly organized themselves into a powerful caucus that changed the committee and seniority system, thus altering the way the Congress did business. Their example may be followed by this new group of freshly minted conservative House members who come to Washington as a result of the GOP tidal wave.
Not all of them have bubbled up from the tea party movement, but most are in sync with its goals: fiscal responsibility and a return to some semblance of prudent government. But what does that mean? We are in a nightmarish economy with slow growth, continuing job losses, and the specter of inflation in the background due to the irresponsible policies of the Federal Reserve. We are also faced with depressing budget deficits and a truly frightening national debt.
Is there no role for government at all in fixing this mess? If there is, the Republicans are not going to be able to accomplish much on their own. They will need to work with the Democrats and the president in order to get something done about the economy and the budget. Spending and tax cuts will have to be negotiated to have any chance of being signed by the president and put into effect. Otherwise, the GOP will simply be posturing, and nothing at all will be accomplished.
But the Republicans have already indicated that there will be no compromise with the Democrats, and the newcomers are completely in tune with that promise. In fact, if a move is made by establishment Republicans to work with the opposition, there is the probability that the tea party caucus will possess the solidarity to shoot down any attempt to reach a bipartisan deal on the budget and taxes with the Democrats. This will deny President Obama and his party any semblance of "victory," but it will also prevent the GOP from achieving anything they can take back home with them to show their constituents how much they care about their suffering in this miserable economy.
Some may believe this is not important. If so, they are out of touch with the vast majority of the American people. And ignoring voters while doing exactly the opposite of what they desire sounds suspiciously like the very same strategy employed by the Democrats recently. The results for the GOP in 2012 are likely to mirror what happened to the Democrats in 2010.
When it comes to compromising with the opposition or "sticking with principles," it's no contest. A Bloomberg poll had it 80-16 for compromise, while a CBS/New York Times poll showed 69-22 in favor of working with the opposition to get something done. With numbers like that, it would seem that the GOP is willing to commit political suicide with their "no compromise" stand, playing right into the hands of President Obama. The president will no doubt make what are reasonable sounding accommodations with the Republicans, knowing full well he can do so safely since they will be rejected and the GOP will get the lion's share of the blame if nothing gets accomplished.
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World Small Animal Veterinary Association World Congress Proceedings, 2003
Ray Butcher, MA, VetMB, MRCVS
The Wylie Veterinary CentreUpminster, Essex, UK
About the speaker
As well as being a Partner in a large companion animal practice near to London, Ray Butcher is a veterinary advisor to the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), and has worked on a number of projects in Eastern Europe, Asia and South America. He has represented WSPA and the World Veterinary Association (WVA) on the World Health Organisation (WHO) "Rabies in Asia working group".
Introduction
I have been very fortunate to have traveled widely and have come to understand that there are often no simple answers to animal welfare problems. We must take account of religious, cultural and economic differences as well as realise that we cannot consider animal welfare in isolation of human welfare issues.
Asia has many cultures and so there are many different solutions to the same challenges. I feel a little embarrassed as a European making this presentation in Asia, but hope that you will accept the observations of an "outsider" as food for thought rather than an attempt to tell you what is right or wrong.
This presentation will use humane stray dog control programmes as an example and suggest challenges for our profession.
Basic concepts
Before discussing the stray dog control programmes in more detail, it is important to outline a number of basic concepts:
1. Human Animal interactions
We interact with animals throughout our daily lives. There are many benefits of owning pets, but when they are not kept in a responsible way or allowed to stray, they may cause significant problems to society as a whole. It is important that all involved realise there must be a balance achieved, and that any control schemes must employ only humane methods.
2. The Five Freedoms
The so-called "Five Freedoms" were introduced by the Farm Animal Welfare Council of the UK to assess the welfare of farm animals kept in intensive husbandry systems. They represent an ideal situation, but still remain a useful guide. Having accepted their value in the agricultural context, it is important that we use the same criteria to assess our programmes for companion animals. Sadly, the examples will show that significant welfare problems can result the actions of well-meaning animal protection groups.
3. Responsible Pet ownership
This is an easy concept when considering a household pet. The owner is responsible for providing adequate care and ensuring that the behaviour of their pet does not adversely affect society in general. In cultures with so-called "community dogs", it is important to educate society to have a degree of corporate responsibility for these dogs.
4. Stakeholders
A stakeholder is anyone (man, animal or association) that is directly or indirectly affected by any proposed programme. The potential stakeholders in stray dog control programmes will be discussed, illustrating the wide range of interests and views that need to be taken note of. Failure to co-ordinate these groups at the start will adversely affect the chances of success.
Stray dog control programmes
The WHO estimate that the worldwide dog population is about 10% of the human population, and of these, 75% can be regarded as strays. These dogs can cause direct injury or disease to humans, livestock and pets and many other indirect costs. In countries with endemic rabies, these costs can become very high. Historically, municipalities have tended to respond using mass slaughter campaigns. These are often inhumane, indiscriminate and ineffective. For this reason in 1991, the WHO and WSPA introduced guidelines on population control programmes. The overall framework required:
1. Legislation
2. Registration and identification
3. Garbage Control
4. Neutering of owned pets
5. Neutering of un-owned dogs
6. Regulation of breeders and sales outlets
7. Education
The specific situation in different countries means that the priorities will vary, but it is important that all factors are considered. It is also essential that all groups involved (municipalities, human health ministries, veterinarians, animal protection societies) work to an agreed coordinated plan.
Before starting a programme it is also important to perform an accurate survey of the population. Potentially a stray dog population can be made up of:
Owned dogs that have accidentally been lost
Owned dogs that are allowed to wander
Owned dogs that have been abandoned
Community dogs
Feral dogs
The priorities of the specific programme will reflect the relative numbers in each group. It is also important that the survey method is to an agreed standard such that data can be compared and the success of the project monitored accurately.
While a "no kill" policy may be the moral ideal, it is probably unrealistic for groups with limited resources in areas with a poor economy. In such cases, failure to face up to difficult decisions may cause more welfare problems.
Neuter and release programmes have been successfully used in some situations where there is a large community or feral population. The requirements for such programmes will be discussed, as well as the potential welfare problems resulting from playing the "numbers game".
A number of projects within Asia will be described that illustrate these points.
WHO and Rabies Control
Although many animal protection societies are involved in stray dog control from a perspective of animal welfare, it is my opinion that the success of any project will be judged by its success at controlling rabies. Although the guidelines described above were produced jointly by WHO and WSPA, it is clear that the lessons are ignored by many human health agencies that still promote mass slaughter. There is also relatively poor communication between those devising strategies and those working in the field. Veterinarians have an important role to play in this connection.
Education
The biggest challenge is perhaps education, and the most responsive group in any society is children. The majority of successful projects have an education component and veterinarians have an important role to play.
To stimulate this progress, it is important that we "educate the educators". It is the policy of WVA to encourage the introduction of Animal Welfare as a core curriculum subject in the veterinary faculties of developing countries, and a WSPA project called "Concepts in Animal Welfare" has been developed to facilitate this. The philosophy of this WSPA project is endorsed by WSAVA.
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We are all incompetent to some capacity. There are two ways to respond to our inadequacies, violence or love. I’ve learned to accept that there are just some poses in yoga that my body, anatomically, just isn’t prepared for yet. It’s really frustrating. My background in competitive sports often clicks in and I want to surpass what others are doing and even what I thought I could do myself. When recently working on flying pigeon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEsJMOW6RKc), I injured my right knee. Everything went fantastic on the left side, but I don’t have as much openness or flexibility in my right hip. The lack of flexibility here also puts strain on my right knee. So in a hurried state of thinking both sides should be equal, I heard a pop in my right knee. It seems to be healing pretty well so far, but all of that could have been avoided if I just decided to not be violent towards myself. There was no reason to throw myself into a pose that I know my body was not prepared for.
I tell the above recent reflection because I do not want you to be discouraged by your practice. Yoga is not a “on to the next level of poses and see what I can do one or two times.” It is a constant communication between your mind, body and the world within and around us. A practice filled with familiar poses and a positive acceptance of the state of your body can do wonders for you mentally and physically. You aren’t powerless … you are quite powerful when you display patience, acceptance and love. Don’t let the anger you hold towards yourself keep you from the beauty of the moment.
Dealing with Powerlessness
Mantra – I love who I am right now.
Whether we respond with anger, withdrawal, frustration, or resignation, there is a way in which our mind shuts down, as if we are riding a train through a dark tunnel and we can’t see anything but darkness and anxiety. Ahimsa, nonviolence, invites us to question the feeling of powerlessness rather than accept it.
There are three ways of thinking that can shift you out of a feeling of powerlessness: practicing gratitude, trust in the moment, and thinking about others. Any sense of powerlessness we are feeling can be traced back to the story we are telling ourselves in the moment about the situation. We all have the choice to tell a different story and grow ourselves up to take responsibility for our lives in a new and fresh way. With this attitude, feelings of powerlessness become opportunities to become competent rather than violent.
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CfnmTV – Among Friends 2
Chris is in possession of some quite racy underwear! Normally he’d keep it as a saucy surprise for his wife Fiona. But tonight, at her insistence, he is to model it for all her friends to see. And she won’t even allow him to leave the room to get changed…
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‘Man Camp’ Development Moratorium Likely for N.Y. Town
As state officials consider allowing a possible shale gas boom in New York, town officials in Campbell, a community southwest of the Finger Lakes Region, are beginning to discuss a related issue – “man camps” that provide a home away from home for out-of-state drilling workers.
On Monday (March 12), the Campbell Town Board is expected to enact a two-year moratorium on establishing or expanding dormitories, campgrounds, RV parks, trailer parks or similar facilities, the Corning Leader reported.
“The goal is to allow time to develop a comprehensive plan without something like a ‘man camp’ moving in,” Tennent said.
“We haven’t had any proposal of a man camp seeking to come here. This is just a precaution and time to develop a comprehensive plan.”
The comprehensive plan will include zoning laws on residential density, water use, sanitation and other issues, Tennent said.
Tennent said the Campbell Town Board will hold a public hearing Monday and then vote to adopt the moratorium.
“I expect it will pass,” Tennent said.
The town currently has several campgrounds, RV parks and trailer parks.
Tennent said the board will begin working on the comprehensive plan soon, with the assistance of the Southern Tier Central Regional Planning and Development Board.
Other local municipalities may soon tackle the “man camp” issue as well.
“We haven’t really discussed it yet,” said Corning Town Supervisor Kim Feehan. “But gas drilling is an issue that we’ll look into all elements of.”
Erwin Town Supervisor Rita McCarthy said her town already has a comprehensive plan in place that includes strict zoning laws.
“Man camps” have opened in Pennsylvania’s Northern Tier, including one in Athens Township that opened in 2010. It’s a dormitory-style facility with a dining hall and other accommodations.
“We haven’t had any problems with them,” said Maurice Fay, chairman of the Athens Town Board of Supervisors. “They run a tight ship. I asked our police (Thursday) if they have had a problem with them, and they said not at all. It’s a well run place.”
Such facilities can be convenient for gas industry workers and may ease the area’s housing shortage that has driven up rent for locals. But concerns have also been raised about the facilities bringing in hard-drinking “roughnecks” who may cause problems.
Local businessman Dan Hurley’s plan to open an RV park for gas industry workers on his property behind Bradley Farms in Southport drew criticism from neighbors before it was put on hold last fall.
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The only method by which people
can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way.
We must not create a deterrent
to hard work. - Robert A. Taft
What Makes a Republican - a REPUBLICAN?
A Long History Opposing the Same Enemy
We have spent the better part of the last half century forgetting the reasons that Republicans are part of
an American First tradition and the real meaning of the GOP. Just what are the principles and policies that separate the platform
of Republicans from that of the Socialists that wear the Democratic label? Sorry to say, not much of a difference presently
exists; let alone a dedication to enact legislation that counters the legacy of FDR. It wasn't like this - once upon a time
. . . For Republicans knew what they were all about and had an example of a true champion of principle in one, Senator
Robert A. Taft.
Taft is most famous for his opposition to Franklin Roosvelt's New Deal Legislation and policies. He has been
called the last "Old Right" political. While some may conclude that this description points out that we have 'moved on', the essential
question remains. Were the policies of Taft the real essence of Republicanism? Principles never die, changing circumstances
only seek out appropriate applications. Liberty of the individual was the hallmark of Taft that earned him the name, Mr Republican.
The New Deal's expansion of federal power at the expense of state and local government is incompatible with the core
bedrock of Republican philosophy. Taft vigorously urged economy in government and restoration of balanced budgets, while supporting
a very limited role in foreign affairs. He voted against NATO, supported strong tariffs, opposed the draft and sponsored legislation
that bears his name, the Taft-Hartley Law.
If Republicanism isn't about opposing the Federal Income Tax and the Federal Reserve System, just what did
the party ever stand for to begin with?
When it comes to foreign policy, the last century is one of "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace". Taft speaks
directly to this point:
"Fundamentally, I believe the ultimate purpose of our foreign policy must be to protect the liberty of the people of the United States. The American Revolution was fought to establish
a nation "conceived in liberty." That liberty has been defended in many wars since that day. That liberty has enabled our
people to increase steadily their material welfare and their spiritual freedom. To achieve that liberty we have gone to war,
and to protect it we would go to war again . . .
Only second to liberty is the maintenance of peace. . . . Our traditional policy of neutrality and non-interference
with other nations was based on the principle that this policy was the best way to avoid disputes with other nations and to
maintain the liberty of this country without war. From the days of George Washington that has been the policy of the United
States. It has never been isolationism; but it has always avoided alliances and interference in foreign quarrels as a preventive
against possible war, and it has always opposed any commitment by the United States, in advance, to take any military action
outside of our territory. It would leave us free to interfere or not according to whether we consider the case of sufficiently
vital interest to the liberty of this country. It was the policy of the free hand."
In his book, Principles Without Program: Senator Robert A. Taft and American Foreign Policy - he conveys his views as core Republican principles that
are as valid today as they were when originally written. So why does the Republican Party work overtime to run in lock step
with the Socialism of the New Frontier, Great Society and New World Order? The answer is obvious, the Republicanism has been
removed from the party and has been replaced with a neo-conservatism sham that is a betrayal of America's tradition.
How many remember the names of these brave leaders that fought so hard to retain the promise of the American
way of life? Just what was their cause and why do most Republicans ignore their heritage? Taft sums up nicely the purpose
of their task:
"There are a good many Americans who talk about an American century in which America will dominate the world.... If we confine our activities to the field of moral leadership we
shall be successful if our philosophy is sound and appeals to the people of the world. The trouble with those who advocate
this policy is that they really do not confine themselves to moral leadership. They are inspired by the same kind of New Deal
planned-control ideas abroad as recent Administrations have desired to enforce at home. In their hearts they want to force
on these foreign people through the use of American money and even, perhaps, arms, the policies which moral leadership is
able to advance only through the sound strength of its principles."
Robert Taft believed in the "Federalism" model of the American Republic. His faith was in basic American values
and the abilities of the people to seek Liberty. Achieving this goal requires that such liberty is founded upon an economic
system based on free enterprise, a political system based on citizen participation, and national independence and sovereignty
for our country.
Internationalist Republicans have become mutants, with the abdication of purpose for their party. Just what
is the point of having two shades of the same color when that hue is one and the same in Socialism. If you say the debate
is over and the future belongs to the most popular collectivist, then America is already deceased.
Even under the great Ronald Reagan, the Departments of Education and Energy continued. Just look at the record!
When was the last time a 'so called' conservative remained ardent in the fight against social democracy? Taft's principles
are timeless because they represent the best chance for the freedom of a free people. Or does that idea scare so many, that
Liberty is no longer our mutual objective? With the dawn of this new century, it is time to remember the common sense of past
generations and devote ourselves to the reinvention of practical policies that apply those principles to our current condition.
Anything short of this reformation, will confirm that the GOP has lost it's way. Rediscover what a Republican really means
. . .
SARTRE - March 10, 2002
I always find that statistics are
hard to swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church
were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable.
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Men’s squash takes on West Point, a matchup they won, 7-2. (Ajon Brodie – The Triangle)
The Drexel University men’s and women’s squash teams suffered losses Jan. 30 when they traveled to the No. 19 and 16, respectively, Middlebury College Panthers. The men fell in a close contest 5-4, while the women lost 6-3. The men’s overall record drops to 4-8 and the women’s overall record drops to 6-8.
The men got wins from Atticus Kelly, Luke Willemse, Michael Thompson and Cillian Dunne in the one, two, four and five spots, respectively. Kelly swept his Panther opponent Andrew Jung in three games. Willemse defeated his opponent in four games after losing the first game of the match. Thompson won in three games, sweeping Harrison Croll. Dunne won in four games after dropping the first game of his set.
Mark Kauf and Sebastian Dangond both forced a five game set but could not come out with a win for the Dragons.
On the women’s side, the Dragons got wins from Hayley Hughes, Ryan Morgan and Kaitlyn Money in the one, two, and four spots, respectively. Hughes beat Panther Saskia Pownall-Gray in a five-game battle. Morgan swept Anne Wymard in three games. Money staged a comeback in five games to secure a third win for the Dragons after being down 2-1 after three games.
Laura Rahauser lost a tough match in five games after putting in a strong effort. She had a 2-1 lead on her opponent Liddy Renner, but Renner was able to battle back and win for Middlebury. The other Dragon losses came in three game sweeps in spots three and six through nine.
The Drexel men and women travelled to Williamstown, Massachusetts, Jan. 31 to take on the No. 15 and 12 ranked Williams College Ephs.
The men earned a 6-3 win, snapping a four game losing streak and improving their record to 5-8 on the season. The women fell to the Ephs 6-3, moving their record to 6-9.
The Dragon men secured wins in spots one through four, seven and nine. Kelly began the competition for the men, winning in four games. Willemse, Ibrahim Bakir and Thompson followed, sweeping their opponents.
Nat Fry also won in four games, while Joey Gingold swept his opponent in the last spot to finish off a victory for the Dragons.
The women got wins in spots one, four and five. Hughes started off with a victory for Drexel, sweeping her opponent Nicole Friedman in three games. Money and Rahauser got the other two wins for the Dragons, fighting it out in five games.
Morgan and Mary Fung-A-Fat both dropped their matches in four games, while the Dragons suffered three game sweeps in spots six through nine.
The Dragons returned home to the Kline & Specter Squash Center Feb. 1 where the men’s team faced off against the Midshipmen of the U.S. Naval Academy. Drexel defeated Navy 7-2, the first win over Navy in program history.
Kelly started the Dragons off with a win over Midshipman Andrew McGuinness in five games in the first spot. Willemse followed with a win in three games. The other Dragon victories came in spots four through seven and spot nine. Dunne swept opponent Randy Beck. Thompson, Fry and Gingold all won their matches in four games, while Kauf battled it out in five games for the win.
Bakir and Dangond dropped their matches in four games, the only two losses for the Dragons during the competition.
The men and women return to action when they welcome the Dickinson College Red Devils Friday, Feb. 6.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Andi Mann is Chief Technology Advocate at Splunk. In this podcast, he discusses some of the ways in which data plays an important role in DevOps. I’ve known Andi for ages since we were both IT industry analysts and we had a chance to sit down at CloudExpo/DevOps Summit/IoT Summit in Santa Clara where Andi was chairing a DevOps track and I was one of the speakers. (We also did a data and DevOps panel together on the main stage but that video doesn’t seem to be up yet. I’ll post once it is.)
Among the topics we tackle are choosing appropriate metrics that align with the business rather than just technical measures, creating feedback loops, using data to promote accountability, and DevSecOps.
Gordon Haff: I'm sitting down here with an old analyst mate of mine, Andi Mann. Also, formally of CA, also the author of some books, and now he is the chief technology advocate with Splunk. What we're going to talk about today is data in DevOps. Welcome, Andi.
Andi Mann: A lot of the customers I talk to, who are doing DevOps in various versions using Splunk...It boils down to three key areas is that they really want to know about, the metrics that matter for them.
The first is really about how fast are they? What's their cycle time? How quick does it take for an idea to get in front of a customer? How long does it take someone in business to come up with something and then basically make money from it, or, in government, they service their citizens with it? That cycle time is really important, the velocity of delivery.
The second key area that people look at is around the quality of what they're delivering. Are they doing good? Are they delivering good applications? Are they creating downtime? Are they having availability issues? Is one release better than another?
The third area is really around what sort of impact do they have? Measuring real business goals, MBOs, things like revenue and customer sign‑up rates, and cart fulfillment, and cart abandonment. These sorts of things. Those are the metrics that my customers, the people I talk to are interested in for DevOps, closing those feedback loops in those three areas.
Gordon: One of the things I find interesting, what you just said, Andi, is that you read these DevOps surveys, DevOps reports, and often the metrics, or at least what they're calling metrics, are framed in much more technical terms. How many releases do we have per year, or per week, per hour?
What's the failure rate? How quickly can we do builds? How quickly can we integrate? Which, I think to your point, are probably worth measuring, but they're really...The ultimate goal of DevOps is not to release software faster.
Andi: Exactly. It's interesting because you do look at these metrics in isolation, and they matter. All this matters. 10 deploys a day, we all know that from 2009 in Velocity. That matters, but 10 deploys a day is no good if they're all bad deploys. You need to measure quality in that.
But even if it's a good quality deploy and you do it quickly, if it's not moving the needle on what your business wants you to be doing, then again, it doesn't matter. I think it's actually really important to connect these together so you really are getting metrics, correlating metrics, that matter across the whole range to really understand whether you're doing good or not.
Gordon: One of my favorite Dilbert cartoons, I don't remember the exact wording but to the effect of...Pointy Hair goes, "We're now going to measure you on the number of lines of you code you write," and Wally says, "I'm going to off to write myself a new car today."
Andi: [laughs] Yeah, exactly. That's one of the things that I actually do measure. We measure it internally. A bunch of our customers do actually measure code volume. There's a couple of interesting reasons for that. Especially in a DevOps and Agile mode, actually delivering too much code can be a signifier that you're doing things badly.
You're writing too much code, you're doing too much in one release rather than doing small, iterative releases. It can also signify that one person has too much of a workload. When you think about DevOps and the concepts around empathy and wanting to make sure that life doesn't suck for everyone, when one person is doing all the work, that sucks for them.
There are actually good things that come out of measuring code volume [laughs] but saying that more code equals better code, equals a bonus? That's a really bad thing. [laughs]
Gordon: I think a lot of people tend to lump data metrics into this one big bucket. As we've had discussions before, there are these business metrics which have to be somehow connected to things.
It's not clear that overall company revenue is necessarily a good DevOps metric. Some of the other things you mentioned certainly are. In many cases, it does make sense to collect a lot of underlying data for data analytics and things like that. Then, you also have alerts.
Andi: Yeah, the business stuff is really interesting. I know one of our customers releases the software-as-a-service. They're a SaaS company, cloud native and all that. Their developers actually do care about who uses specific features.
They'll implement a feature. They do canary releases. They'll implement feature on 10 out of a 1,000 servers, or whatever. Certain volume or percentage of their customers will get access to it. Then they'll measure using Splunk the way that those features are being used or not. They also measure the satisfaction of those customers.
They've got these nice smileys, and tick marks, and stuff that say, "Yes, I enjoyed using this feature." They can correlate that together, and it actually means the next day after doing a commit, after doing a release, they actually know whether the business use cases being satisfied, which is very cool.
I know a television company in the UK that we work with. They actually send reports on a weekly basis, I think it is, to their marketing department, based on whether users are using the website, what they're doing on the website, whether they're clicking through on competitions.
That's actually really important, but obviously mostly what people are doing in using data and the feedback...Closing the feedback loops is what I'm talking about here at DevOps Summit.
They're closing the feedback loop around those technical measurements.
Am I creating more bugs? Am I creating availability issues? Am I creating problems with uptime? Am I closing out the feature set that is in the story or in the epic that I was promising to do? Partially, it's also around this accountability to each other. Am I doing what I'd promised I'd do?
Gordon: Talk a little more about accountability.
Andi: Yeah, that's one of my soapboxes at the moment. I see a lot of the empowerment that DevOps gives developers to make decisions. I think that's great, especially in companies where you've got systems thinking and they understand their role in the organization and what it means to deliver good outputs for their customers.
You give them a lot of responsibility. Their manager is the leader. You give your developers, and your operations team, and those DevOps professionals a lot of responsibility and lot of empowerment to do the right thing.
Also, I think that there's a need for them to be accountable for doing the right thing as well. Especially as DevOps grows in larger organizations and there are more and more people involved. Also, with the concept that DevOps is about helping and making sure that each other is having a good experience at their life and their work.
As a developer, you're not making sure that operators are getting called out late at night, and all this sort of stuff. If DevOps is about helping to work with each other, to collaborate, to communicate better, to make sure each other's lives get better as Dev and Ops professionals, then I think you need to be accountable in two ways.
You need to be accountable to your business, which often means being accountable to your manager for doing the work that you're meant to do, and doing the work you promised you would, within the bounds of the responsibility you've been given.
It's also being accountable to each other, from doing good work, and doing the right work in ways that helps your whole team move forward, and makes everyone else's life positive. I think we talk a lot about empowerment and enablement. We don't really talk much about the flip side of that, which I think is that accountability.
Gordon: I think the culture talk around DevOps, and we did have lots of discussions around culture and some of the ways that it can be overextended and over‑applied. Yeah, it can turn into this "don't fear failure," empathy, transparency, etc. Unicorns farting rainbows. This very touchy feely, everyone's happy and sings "Kumbaya," but you are, at the end of the day, being paid to produce business outcomes.
There does need to be some accountability there. If you crash the SQL server three weekends in a row, and call in Ops, somebody's going to have to talk with you, as they should.
Andi: Exactly. Especially when you talk about the DevOps toolchain and the life cycle of software. It's a very complex and opaque theme to try to see what's going on at every stage, especially if you're a manager who's not necessarily fully fluent in specific tools. They can't dig into the specific tools to have a look at that.
I think reporting up to your management and reporting to each other and saying, "I introduced these bugs and I'm sorry for it. I won't do it again." By the same token, "I introduced these newest features, and they were really successful. We should all celebrate that as a team."
I think that accountability is actually really important. You'll see this in manufacturing as well where we get a lot of our examples from. You'll see that if one person makes the same mistake several times, then they'll get into a training program, or they'll get different mentoring.
Maybe they'll move into a different part of the line where they're better suited, and their skills are better suited. You don't know how to make your team better if you're not being accountable to each other, and to your management.
That's, I think, something we've got to step up to as DevOps professionals for want of a better term, is how do we be accountable to each other, and to the company that pays us as you said to do the job?
Gordon: You just talked about manufacturing. You just mentioned quality, and I think that's a pretty good segue because we often think about DevOps primarily, well, through the lens of developer for one thing, but that's another topic for another day.
We also tend to view DevOps, first and foremost, through the lens of this velocity, business agility, and so forth, but there is a very important quality component there as well. What are some of the ways that data can help to surface that quality component?
Andi: Absolutely. Some of the things we're looking at ‑‑ and our customers are doing a lot of this at the moment ‑‑ is looking at areas like code coverage and tests, number of defects, defect rates per release. Looking at the aggregating and correlating the quality metrics out of multiple test and scanning tools.
Doing static analysis and looking at the defect rates, doing dynamic analysis, and then also looking at the defect rates, as well as application performance and health scores. Looking at the performance in terms of resource utilization, response time, availability, execution failures, and so forth.
Comparing current release in production with next release just about to come forward, and being able to run that over time, so you can see whether you're making quality improvements over time.
If you're able to actually give your application a health score, and then you can measure that not just in production, but also in staging, or pre‑prod, whatever you want to call it, then you can start to make sure that you're getting better with every release. Your quality is going up with every release.
You can do with actual data, real measurements, so coming out of these testing tools, as well as coming out of actually running that in a stood up environment. There's lots of feedback loops you can close there.
Once you start to find problems as you find them especially in production, but also in pre‑prod and staging, feeding those things back into the test cycle so that you never find the same mistake twice, because the first time you find it, the next time you'd test for it.
Gordon: This idea of doing things incrementally in stages, before they hit production, is really important from a security perspective as well. I was just having a conversation with one of my colleagues, or actually several of my colleagues, about this kind of tension between the traditional security guy who is sort of, "Stop. Stop. Don't push it out there," and this idea of whether you like the term or not, DevSecOps, where security gets baked in, and added incrementally.
What we were saying, and what was really coming out as we were having this discussion was that while the reason there's this tension or maybe disconnect is from the security guys' point of view, to a degree, the serious security flaws are pushed out into production.
Well, that is something that simply needs to be stopped to a degree that you can tolerate failures and errors in security that don't hit the actual production environment, because you found them through automated testing, or whatever. Then that makes more sense as this incremental, and sometimes breaking things sort of process.
Andi: Yeah. Absolutely. This is actually something I've done a little bit of work, and most of the work is being done by someone that you probably know well, Ed Haletky of the TVP, @Texiwill on Twitter.
Also using some of those tools like Fortifywhich will do quality of code scanning for security purposes. You can start to shift left in that respect, but also continuing to get inputs from security testing even post release. There's no reason why security testing can't keep going even after you've released.
You can get to a certain coverage rate. This is where data helps. You get to a 90 percent, or a 92 percent, or a 95 percent coverage rate, or confidence level if you will. You go, "OK, I'm ready to release. I know that the remaining five percent is potentially low impact, or low risk. I'll put it out there anyway, but continuing to test."
There's some really interesting work out there that Ed's published about cloud, cloud promotion, and cloud delivery that actually really focuses on using these metrics from security testing, both pre and post release, which I think is actually really important.
Gordon: We're going to be hearing a lot more about this whole security angle everywhere. This is partly an IoT show. We've heard a lot about security. I'm not sure we've heard a lot of solutions, but we've heard a lot about security.
Obviously, it is a big part of the DevOps discussion. It's a big, scary world out there, and it's pretty universally recognized that having an auditor sign off once a year, and then you don't think about security for that application for another six months or whatever, really doesn't work today.
Andi: Yeah. It's not my joke. I saw someone post it the other day. "What did you get owned by? Your toaster or your fridge?" It's so true, especially in IoT, but in a DevOps perspective, or DevOps context, being able to do that continuous security testing, I think, is really important, and bring security a shift left.
We talk about a shift left in all sorts of other areas, and we're doing it with QA which I think is awesome. We need to start doing it more with security, I believe. At Splunk, we do have a whole security practice around incident event monitoring, or unused behavior analytics. Being able to start to apply some of that in the test, and pre‑prod and staging environment I think is really important.
Being able to do some automated audit reporting around what is happening, penetrations, security violations, or passwords, or PII exposure, potential hard coded passwords, stuff like that, there's a bunch of stuff that developers could be, and should be responsible for that actually make security pro's life easier. Not harder. I think there's a lot of work yet to be done on that.
Gordon: Absolutely. I'd go back to DevSecOps. I think there's this school of thought that, well, if you read the Phoenix Project properly, you wouldn't be having to have this discussion. Know security was baked in. Meanwhile in the real world, security has tended to be this separate profession.
We were both at DevOpsDays London. I still remember security professional I guess in his 40s, standing up in an open space, and go, "I'm one of those security guys who's been getting in your way. You know, this is the first time I've ever been to an IT conference that wasn't purely a security conference."
I love that story. Certainly not to pick on that guy. That's quite brave of him, getting up like that. I think that's such a perfect illustration of how security has operated in his own world as this gatekeeper to releasing applications.
Andi: Yeah. People joke about IT being a department of no. Security has that moniker for fear or not. Obviously, security teams are just looking out to protect the business. That's their job. Having them in the tent, I think, is a better option, and we started to bring other teams into the tent of DevOps.
I actually gave a presentation. You can find it online at the Splunk user conference, that was titled something along the lines of "Biz PMO Dev Sec QA Biz Ops," or something crazy like that, about broadening the tent of DevOps.
Security's got to come into this tent. Being a security pro into your team, into your scrum, that's got to be a good start, doesn't it?
Gordon: Right, even if they're not in the meeting in the stand‑up every week, or every day, at least having them be as part of the team. Just like there used to be a business analyst who's a part of the team. Our product and technologies operations, their DevOps story.
I call it the "Banana Pickle Story," because they would get asked for a banana, and as Katrinka describes it, six months later, they deliver this pickle. Really, their DevOps story...Again, the business level, because it's what matters to me.
They used a lot of technology like OpenShift, Platform Service, and Ansible for automation , things like that. But again, they were really focused on the business story of how do we get the stakeholders iterating with us. "Oops, that banana's looking a little green. Let's dial that back to yellow and get on with the other things."
Andi: Yeah, and this is the agile model for development, is getting someone from the business...You're creating an MVP and getting someone from the business to evaluate it, and continue to iterate with their advice.
You know that you're creating the right thing as you're creating it, rather than finding out in six‑months time, that you've created a pickle, instead of banana. [laughs] I love that analogy.
We should be doing that more and more with security. If security is saying no to you all the time, then maybe you're not inviting them to the party as much as you should, so that they can say yes iteratively, rather than one big no at the end.
Gordon: Right. Just to cap off this podcast. In order to prove to security, much less external auditors and to prove to these other stakeholders, you need data.
Andi: Absolutely. Exactly right. This is fundamental to what I believe. We cannot continue making decisions based on "I feel that this is the right thing to do. I think we're going to have good results here." We're living in a society that's driven by data and facts. Especially as developers or IT professionals, we need to have these feedback loops based on real data.
Not just people coming back and saying "I don't feel like you did the right thing. I don't think that this was good. I think our release worked and helped our customers." We need to come back and stop having these back‑and‑forths over opinions.
There's some very crude statements about, "Everyone's got opinions," right? I like to say, "In God we trust. All others bring data." That's how we get these real feedback loop in a system's mode, getting feedback from productions systems, from customer interaction, from the security violations and the passes that we do make.
From the coverage, to know if we are doing the right thing in terms of speed, in terms of quality, in terms of impacting our business, that's where data has a huge role to play. It’s those feedback loops that DevOps depends on.
Wednesday, November 09, 2016
Traditionally, in open source, there was a lot of emphasis on singular projects. Today, it's much more about how multiple communities interact and build on each other. In this podcast recorded at the OpsenShift Commons Gathering and Kubecon in Seattle, Red Hat's Diane Mueller discusses what she's learned as Director for Community Development at OpenShift and what's coming next.
Show notes:
You can find Diane on Twitter @pythondj or email dmueller (at) redhead.com.
Tuesday, November 08, 2016
As DevOps practices have been put into wide use, it's become evident that developers and operations aren't merging to become one discipline. Nor is operations simply going away. Rather, DevOps is leading software development and operations - together with other practices such as security - to collaborate and coexist with less overhead and conflict than in the past.
In my session at @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo, I discussed what modern operational practices look like in a world in which applications are more loosely coupled, are developed using DevOps approaches, and are deployed on software-defined, and often containerized, infrastructures - and where operations itself is increasingly another "as a service" capability from the perspective of developers.
How does the operations tool chest change? How does the required skill set differ? How are the interactions between operations and other IT and business organizations different from in the past? How can operations provide the confidence to the entire organization that this new pipeline is still delivering non-functional requirements such as regulatory compliance and a secure and certified operating environment? How does operations safely consume vendor and upstream dependencies while meeting developer desires for the latest and greatest?
Operations is more important than ever for a business to derive value from its IT organization. But the roles and the goals of operations are significantly different than they were historically.
Tuesday, November 01, 2016
if you're ignoring PaaS because early offerings didn’t meet your needs or because you’re more focused on operations than developers, you should look again. It enables ops to enable developers efficiently and to manage an underlying container infrastructure.
Circulating in drafts beginning in 2009, some variant of the NIST Cloud Computing definition used to be de rigueur in just about every cloud computing presentation. Among other terms, this document defined Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software
-as-a-Service (SaaS) and, even as technology has morphed and advanced, this is the taxonomy that we still largely accept and adhere to today.
That said, PaaS was never as crisply defined as IaaS and SaaS because “platform” was never as crisply defined as infrastructure or (end-user) software. For example, some platforms were specific to a SaaS, such as Salesforce.
Others, specifically the online platforms that were most associated with the PaaS term early on, were typically tied to particular languages and frameworks. These PaaSs were very “opinionated.” For example, the original Google App Engine supported an environment that was just (and just almost) Python and Heroku was all about Ruby. Heroku's twelve-factor app manifesto was an additional type of opinion; write your apps this way or they won’t really be suitable for the platform. These platforms may not have been just for hobbyists, but they were certainly much more suited to developer prototyping and experimentation than production deployments.
At the same time, platform was also used more broadly to cover the integration of a range of middleware, languages, frameworks, other tools, and architecture decisions (such as persistent storage) that a developer might use to create both web-centric and more traditional enterprise applications. Furthermore, such PaaSs as OpenShift remained not only “polyglot” but also allowed for an increasing range of deployment types both on-premise and in multi-tenant and dedicated online environments. (As well as on developer laptops using the upstream open source OpenShift Origin project.)
However, the various approaches to PaaS did have a common thread. They were bundles of technology that were largely framed as appealing to developers.
One of the greatest benefits of a PaaS is its ability to create a bright line between what's "operations" and what's "development". In other words, what's "yours" and what's "theirs".
Things get complicated and expensive when that line blurs: developers demand tweaks to kernel settings, particular hardware, etc. which fly in the face of any standardization or automation effort. Operations, on the other hand, creates inflexible rules for development platforms that prevent developers from doing their jobs. PaaS decouples these two, and permits each group to do what they're good at.
If you've outsourced your operations or development, this problem gets worse because any idiosyncrasies on the ops or the development side create friction when sourcing work to alternate vendors.
By using a PaaS, you make it perfectly clear who's responsible for what: above the PaaS line, developers can do whatever they like in the context of the PaaS platform, and it will automatically comply with operations standards. Below the line, operations can implement whatever they like, choose whatever vendors they like, as long as they're delivering a functional PaaS environment.
We spend a lot of time talking about why PaaS is great for developers. I think it's even better for procurements, architecture, and budget.
Today, with the rise of DevOps on one hand and containers on the other, it’s increasingly clear that a PaaS can be the sum of parts that are of direct interest mostly to developers and parts that are of direct interest mostly to operations.
DevOps both leads to change and reflects change in a couple of areas.
First is the number of tools that organizations are bringing into their DevOps (or DevSecOps if you prefer) software delivery workflow. Most obvious is the continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline, most notably with Jenkins. But there are also any number of testing, source code control, collaboration, and monitoring tools that need to be integrated into the workflow. At the same time, developers still want their self-service provisioning with an overall user experience that’s tailored to how they work. A PaaS is an obvious integration and aggregation point for this tooling.
DevOps is also changing the way that developers and operations work with each other. Early DevOps discussions often focused on breaking down the wall between Dev and Ops. But this isn’t quite right. DevOps does indeed embody cultural elements such as collaboration and cooperation across teams—including Dev and Ops. But there’s also a recognition that the best form of communication is sometimes eliminating the need to communicate at all. To the degree that Ops can build a self-service platform for developers and get out of the way, that can be more effective than improving how dev and ops can work together. I don’t want to communicate more effectively with a bank teller; I want to use an ATM (or skip cash entirely).
Containers have also influenced how some organizations are thinking about PaaS. Many PaaS solutions (including OpenShift) have been based on containers from the beginning. But each platform did their own implementation of containers; in OpenShift it was Gears, in Heroku it was Dynos, in CloudFoundry it was Warden (now Garden) containers.
As the industry moved to a container standard (Docker-format with standardization through the Open Container Initiative (OCI)), OpenShift moved with it. Red Hat has helped drive that movement along with many others though not all PaaS platforms have participated in the shift to standards.
With container formats, runtimes, and orchestration increasingly standardized through the OCI and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (where kubernetes is hosted), there’s increasing interest from many ops teams in deploying a tested and integrated bundle of these technologies outside of any specific development environment initiatives within their companies.
That’s because the huge amount of technological innovation happening around containers and DevOps can be something of a double-edged sword. On the one hand it creates enormous possibilities for new types of applications running on a very dynamic and flexible platform. At the same time, channeling and packaging the rapid change happening across a plethora of open source projects isn’t easy—and can end up being a distraction from the ultimate business goals.
As a result, at Red Hat, we talk to customers who view OpenShift primarily through the lens of a container management platform rather than the more traditional developer-centric PaaS view. There’s still a developer angle of course—a platform isn’t much use unless you’re going to run applications on it. But sometimes there are already developer tooling and workflows in place and the pressing need is to deploy a container platform using Docker-format containers and kubernetes orchestration without having to assemble these from upstream community bits and support them in-house.
An integrated platform leads to real savings. For example, based on a set of interviews, IDC found that:
IT organizations that want to decouple application dependencies from the underlying infrastructure areadopting container technology as a way to migrate and deploy applications across multiple cloud environments and datacenter footprints. OpenShift provides a consistent application development and deployment platform, regardless of the underlying infrastructure, andprovides operations teams with a scalable, secure, and enterprise-grade application platformand unified container and cloud management capabilities.
Among its quantitative findings was 35 percent less IT staff time required per application deployed. [1]
In short, PaaS remains a central part of the cloud computing discussion even if the name is sometimes discarded for something more specific or descriptive such as container platform. What’s perhaps changed the most is the recognition that PaaS isn’t just a tool for developers. It’s also a way for ops to enable developers most efficiently and to manage the underlying container infrastructure.
[1] I’ve got some other good data points and outside perspectives that I’ll share in a future post.
About Me
I'm technology evangelist for Red Hat, the leading provider of commercial open source software. I'm a frequent speaker at customer and industry events. I also write extensively on and develop strategy for Red Hat’s hybrid cloud portfolio.
Prior to Red Hat, as an IT industry analyst, I wrote hundreds of research notes, was frequently quoted in publications such as The New York Times on a wide range of IT topics, and advised clients on product and marketing strategies. Among other hobbies, I do a lot of photography and enjoy the outdoors.
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/*
* Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Christian Plattner. All rights reserved.
* Please refer to the LICENSE.txt for licensing details.
*/
package ch.ethz.ssh2.packets;
import ch.ethz.ssh2.DHGexParameters;
/**
* PacketKexDhGexRequestOld.
*
* @author Christian Plattner
* @version 2.50, 03/15/10
*/
public class PacketKexDhGexRequestOld
{
byte[] payload;
int n;
public PacketKexDhGexRequestOld(DHGexParameters para)
{
this.n = para.getPref_group_len();
}
public byte[] getPayload()
{
if (payload == null)
{
TypesWriter tw = new TypesWriter();
tw.writeByte(Packets.SSH_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST_OLD);
tw.writeUINT32(n);
payload = tw.getBytes();
}
return payload;
}
}
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package crdapps
import (
"testing"
routefake "github.com/openshift/client-go/route/clientset/versioned/fake"
v1alpha1 "github.com/stakater/Forecastle/pkg/apis/forecastle/v1alpha1"
"github.com/stakater/Forecastle/pkg/kube"
"github.com/stakater/Forecastle/pkg/testutil"
metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
kubefake "k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes/fake"
)
func Test_getURL(t *testing.T) {
clients := kube.Clients{
RoutesClient: routefake.NewSimpleClientset(),
KubernetesClient: kubefake.NewSimpleClientset(),
}
type args struct {
clients kube.Clients
forecastleApp v1alpha1.ForecastleApp
}
tests := []struct {
name string
args args
want string
err error
}{
{
name: "TestGetURLWithDefaultURLValue",
args: args{
clients: clients,
forecastleApp: *testutil.CreateForecastleApp("app-1", "https://google.com", "default", "https://icon"),
},
want: "https://google.com",
},
{
name: "TestGetURLWithNoURL",
args: args{
clients: clients,
forecastleApp: *testutil.CreateForecastleApp("app-1", "", "default", "https://icon"),
},
want: "",
},
}
for _, tt := range tests {
t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
if got, err := getURL(tt.args.clients, tt.args.forecastleApp); got != tt.want && err != tt.err {
t.Errorf("getURL() = %v, want %v, err = %v, wantErr = %v", got, tt.want, err, tt.err)
}
})
}
}
func Test_discoverURLFromRefs(t *testing.T) {
clients := kube.Clients{
RoutesClient: routefake.NewSimpleClientset(),
KubernetesClient: kubefake.NewSimpleClientset(),
}
clients.KubernetesClient.ExtensionsV1beta1().Ingresses("").Create(testutil.CreateIngressWithHost("my-app-ingress", "https://ingress-url.com"))
clients.RoutesClient.RouteV1().Routes("").Create(testutil.CreateRouteWithHost("my-app-route", "ingress-url.com"))
type args struct {
clients kube.Clients
forecastleApp v1alpha1.ForecastleApp
}
tests := []struct {
name string
args args
want string
err error
}{
{
name: "TestDiscoverURLFromRefsWithIngressName",
args: args{
clients: clients,
forecastleApp: *testutil.CreateForecastleAppWithURLFromIngress("app-1", "default", "https://icon", "my-app-ingress"),
},
want: "http://https://ingress-url.com",
},
{
name: "TestDiscoverURLFromRefsWithRouteName",
args: args{
clients: clients,
forecastleApp: *testutil.CreateForecastleAppWithURLFromRoute("app-1", "default", "https://icon", "my-app-route"),
},
want: "http://ingress-url.com",
},
}
for _, tt := range tests {
t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
if got, err := discoverURLFromRefs(tt.args.clients, tt.args.forecastleApp); got != tt.want && err != tt.err {
t.Errorf("discoverURLFromRefs() = %v, want %v, err = %v, wantErr = %v", got, tt.want, err, tt.err)
}
})
}
clients.KubernetesClient.ExtensionsV1beta1().Ingresses("").Delete("my-app-ingress", &metav1.DeleteOptions{})
clients.RoutesClient.RouteV1().Routes("").Delete("my-app-route", &metav1.DeleteOptions{})
}
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//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// <auto-generated>
// This code was generated by a tool.
// Runtime Version:4.0.30319.1
//
// Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if
// the code is regenerated.
// </auto-generated>
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
namespace ClearCanvas.ImageServer.Common {
[global::System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CompilerGeneratedAttribute()]
[global::System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("Microsoft.VisualStudio.Editors.SettingsDesigner.SettingsSingleFileGenerator", "10.0.0.0")]
public sealed partial class ProductManifestServiceSettings : global::System.Configuration.ApplicationSettingsBase {
private static ProductManifestServiceSettings defaultInstance = ((ProductManifestServiceSettings)(global::System.Configuration.ApplicationSettingsBase.Synchronized(new ProductManifestServiceSettings())));
public static ProductManifestServiceSettings Default {
get {
return defaultInstance;
}
}
[global::System.Configuration.ApplicationScopedSettingAttribute()]
[global::System.Diagnostics.DebuggerNonUserCodeAttribute()]
[global::System.Configuration.DefaultSettingValueAttribute("http://localhost:9998/")]
public string BaseUrl {
get {
return ((string)(this["BaseUrl"]));
}
}
[global::System.Configuration.ApplicationScopedSettingAttribute()]
[global::System.Diagnostics.DebuggerNonUserCodeAttribute()]
[global::System.Configuration.DefaultSettingValueAttribute("")]
public string FailoverBaseUrl {
get {
return ((string)(this["FailoverBaseUrl"]));
}
}
[global::System.Configuration.ApplicationScopedSettingAttribute()]
[global::System.Diagnostics.DebuggerNonUserCodeAttribute()]
[global::System.Configuration.DefaultSettingValueAttribute("ClearCanvas.ImageServer.Common.ClientWsHttpConfiguration, ClearCanvas.ImageServer" +
".Common")]
public string ConfigurationClass {
get {
return ((string)(this["ConfigurationClass"]));
}
}
[global::System.Configuration.ApplicationScopedSettingAttribute()]
[global::System.Diagnostics.DebuggerNonUserCodeAttribute()]
[global::System.Configuration.DefaultSettingValueAttribute("2000000")]
public int MaxReceivedMessageSize {
get {
return ((int)(this["MaxReceivedMessageSize"]));
}
}
[global::System.Configuration.ApplicationScopedSettingAttribute()]
[global::System.Diagnostics.DebuggerNonUserCodeAttribute()]
[global::System.Configuration.DefaultSettingValueAttribute("None")]
public global::System.ServiceModel.Security.X509CertificateValidationMode CertificateValidationMode {
get {
return ((global::System.ServiceModel.Security.X509CertificateValidationMode)(this["CertificateValidationMode"]));
}
}
[global::System.Configuration.ApplicationScopedSettingAttribute()]
[global::System.Diagnostics.DebuggerNonUserCodeAttribute()]
[global::System.Configuration.DefaultSettingValueAttribute("NoCheck")]
public global::System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509RevocationMode RevocationMode {
get {
return ((global::System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509RevocationMode)(this["RevocationMode"]));
}
}
[global::System.Configuration.ApplicationScopedSettingAttribute()]
[global::System.Diagnostics.DebuggerNonUserCodeAttribute()]
[global::System.Configuration.DefaultSettingValueAttribute("")]
public string UserCredentialsProviderClass {
get {
return ((string)(this["UserCredentialsProviderClass"]));
}
}
}
}
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<?php
/*
* Copyright 2007-2017 Charles du Jeu - Abstrium SAS <team (at) pyd.io>
* This file is part of Pydio.
*
* Pydio is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* Pydio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
* along with Pydio. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*
* The latest code can be found at <https://pydio.com>.
*/
namespace Pydio\Access\Core\Filter;
use Pydio\Access\Core\Model\AJXP_Node;
use Pydio\Access\Core\Model\UserSelection;
use Pydio\Core\Utils\Vars\PathUtils;
defined('AJXP_EXEC') or die( 'Access not allowed');
/**
* Class ContentFilter
*/
class ContentFilter {
public $filters = array();
public $virtualPaths = array();
/**
* @param AJXP_Node[] $nodes
*/
function __construct($nodes){
foreach($nodes as $n){
$virtualPath = $this->getVirtualPath($n->getPath());
$this->filters[$n->getPath()] = $virtualPath;
}
$this->virtualPaths = array_flip($this->filters);
}
/**
* @param $path
* @return string
*/
private function getVirtualPath($path){
return "/".substr(md5($path), 0, 10)."/".basename($path);
}
/**
* @param UserSelection $userSelection
*/
function filterUserSelection( &$userSelection ){
if($userSelection->isEmpty()){
foreach($this->filters as $path => $virtual){
$userSelection->addFile($path);
}
}else{
$newFiles = array();
foreach($userSelection->getFiles() as $f){
if(isSet($this->virtualPaths[$f])){
$newFiles[] = $this->virtualPaths[$f];
}else{
$testB = base64_decode($f);
if(isSet($this->virtualPaths[$testB])){
$newFiles[] = $this->virtualPaths[$testB];
}
}
}
$userSelection->setFiles($newFiles);
}
}
/**
* @return mixed|string
*/
function getBaseDir(){
return PathUtils::forwardSlashDirname(array_keys($this->filters)[0]);
}
/**
* Retrieves the path of the first object
* @return mixed|string
*/
function getUniquePath(){
return PathUtils::forwardSlashBasename(array_keys($this->filters)[0]);
}
/**
* @param AJXP_Node $node
* @return String
*/
function externalPath(AJXP_Node $node){
return $this->getVirtualPath($node->getPath());
}
/**
* @param String $vPath
* @return String mixed
*/
function filterExternalPath($vPath){
if(isSet($this->virtualPaths) && isSet($this->virtualPaths[$vPath])){
return $this->virtualPaths[$vPath];
}
return $vPath;
}
/**
* @param String $oldPath
* @param String $newPath
* @return bool Operation result
*/
public function movePath($oldPath, $newPath){
if(isSet($this->filters[$oldPath])){
$this->filters[$newPath] = $this->getVirtualPath($newPath);
unset($this->filters[$oldPath]);
$this->virtualPaths = array_flip($this->filters);
return true;
}
return false;
}
/**
* @return array public data as array, pre-utf8 encoded
*/
public function toArray(){
$data = array("filters" => array(), "virtualPaths" => array());
foreach($this->filters as $k => $v){
$data["filters"][$k] = $v;
}
foreach($this->virtualPaths as $k => $v){
$data["virtualPaths"][$k] = $v;
}
return $data;
}
/**
* @param $filters
*/
public function fromFilterArray($filters){
$this->filters = $filters;
$this->virtualPaths = array_flip($this->filters);
}
}
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# coding=utf-8
"""Python Arlo setup script."""
from setuptools import setup
def readme():
with open('README.md') as desc:
return desc.read()
setup(
name='arlo',
py_modules=['arlo', 'request', 'eventstream'],
version='1.2.35',
description='Python Arlo is a library written in Python 2.7/3x ' +
'which exposes the Netgear Arlo cameras via the apis that are consumed by their website.',
long_description=readme(),
long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
author='Jeffrey D. Walter',
author_email='jeffreydwalter@gmail.com',
url='https://github.com/jeffreydwalter/arlo',
license='Apache Software License',
include_package_data=True,
install_requires=['monotonic', 'requests', 'sseclient==0.0.22', 'PySocks'],
keywords=[
'arlo',
'camera',
'home automation',
'netgear',
'python',
],
classifiers=[
'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
'Environment :: Other Environment',
'Intended Audience :: Developers',
'License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License',
'Operating System :: OS Independent',
'Programming Language :: Python',
'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6',
'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7',
'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules'
],
)
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A monitoring group has claimed there has been a 'large explosion' near Damascus International Airport early on Thursday morning.
A representantive from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said there had been a blast powerful enough to be heard 25 kilometres away in the main city of Damascus.
There are no reported casualties from the incident, and the explosion is thought to have only caused damage to buildings in the area and resulted in fires.
While the cause is still unclear, local media has pinpointed it as the result of an Israeli airstrike.
An Israeli intelligence officer, Israel Katz, said in a radio interview the incident near Damascus would be "compatible" with Israel's policy to stop Iran's alleged illegal transfer of weapons through Syria.
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THIS IS A VERY LENGTHY UPDATE TO "RIGHT TO REFUSE VACCINES, OUR RIGHT TO LIVE", MY BLOG OF April 20, 2013, http://havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.com/2013/04/right-to-refuse-vaccines-our-right-to.html, AND BEGINS WITH A VERY RECENT ARTICLE BY SAYER JI, FOUNDER OF GREENMEDINFO.COM, WHOSE WEBSITE IS ONE OF THOSE THAT CAME UNDER ASSAULT FROM UNICEF, THE UNITED NATIONS' "CHILDREN'S FUND".THE TEA ROOM IS MOST GRATEFUL FOR MR. JI APPROVING A FULL COPYING OF HIS ARTICLE TO THIS SITE.GREENMEDINFO IS PERHAPS THE MOST EXACTING, IMPECCABLY RESEARCHED AND TRUSTWORTHY WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET TODAY.PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES BACK UP WHAT YOU FIND THERE, AND YOU WILL FIND NO 'CONSPIRACY THEORY', NO 'MODIFIED' TRUTHS THERE, EVER.MR. JI INSISTS ON HONESTY AND INTEGRITY IN REPORTING.
AS YOU WILL SEE, THIS WAS MUCH TOO BIG AN UPDATE TO POST WITHIN MY OLDER BLOG, BUT IT IS AN UPDATE ONLY.
PLEASE, READ MR. JI'S ARTICLE CAREFULLY, AND PLEASE PASS IT ON TO AS MANY AS YOU LOVE OR EVEN CARE FOR.
<<A stunning new report reveals that the United Nations
Children's Fund (UNICEF) has been monitoring independent health sites
and their users in an attempt to identify 'anti-vaccine influencers' and
their effect on lackluster vaccine uptake.
Opening
with the Mark Twain quote: "A lie can travel halfway around the world
while the truth is putting on its shoes," the report lists the following
'anti-vaccine influencers' shaping the online conversation:
UNICEF's
opening reference to the "lie" (misinformation) spread by the
above-mentioned web-based organizations indicates that while the
document purports to be analytical and descriptive, it has proscriptive
and defamatory undertones, and only thinly conceals an agenda to
discredit opposing views and voices.
The report's data-gathering methodology is described as follows:
"Researchers
have selected social media channels, languages and formulated key word
strings for online searches from 1 May till 30 June 2012. Messages from
over 22,300 participants using English, Russian, Romanian and Polish
were monitored by volume (using mentions, views, postings), by channels through which users exchange content, by engagement (how users respond, like, share) and by sentiment analysis to detect positive and negative attitudes."
The authors of the report note 'ethical considerations' in gathering
and analyzing the web usage behavior and data of 22,300 tracked users,
but claim that by not publishing the specific IP data in their report
that their work does not break any laws, even if it may violate 'moral'
codes of those who were subject to uninformed surveillance.
Their main findings are reported:
In all four languages, blogs are the most frequently used channel
followed by Facebook. Twitter is the second largest channel in Russian.
Most of the interactions are taking place in forums. While female
audiences tend to focus on issues such as developmental disabilities,
chemical and toxins, and side effects; men focus on arguments around
conspiracy theories and religious/ethical beliefs. Participants
discussing anti-vaccination sentiments are 56 % female and 44 % male.
During the observed time period, more messages in English are
recorded using key words stemming from conspiracy theories, distrusts
against governments and pharmaceutical industry. Religious and ethical
beliefs, distrust against U.S. and western governments drive the Russian
language discussions.
Anti-vaccination opinion leaders in
the online world show varying characteristics. Some have no college
education while others are in the medical field (such as nurses). Often
they appear well educated in alternative medicine and subscribe to
social channels of homeopaths and alternative medicine advocates.
According to the report: "The study reveals the urgent need to invest
further in analyzing vaccine hesitancy, and immunization partners to
develop joint strategies to tackle with this trend."
The report also makes the following recommendations:
"International
agencies and other partners will need to combine forces and support
governments to reverse this counterproductive trend and develop common
strategies to promote immunization, as one of the most successful and cost-effective health interventions known in the world." [emphasis added]
While
this report appears to have the objectivity and credibility long
associated with world governmental health agencies, UNICEF does little
to conceal its willingness to partner with, and accept money from,
corporations who may have a vested interest in discrediting valid
information about the unintended, adverse health effects of vaccines
and/or their lack of effectiveness, such as
According to the report: "The study reveals the urgent need to invest
further in analyzing vaccine hesitancy, and immunization partners to
develop joint strategies to tackle with this trend."
The report also makes the following recommendations:
"International
agencies and other partners will need to combine forces and support
governments to reverse this counterproductive trend and develop common
strategies to promote immunization, as one of the most successful and cost-effective health interventions known in the world." [emphasis added]
While
this report appears to have the objectivity and credibility long
associated with world governmental health agencies, UNICEF does little
to conceal its willingness to partner with, and accept money from,
corporations who may have a vested interest in discrediting valid
information about the unintended, adverse health effects of vaccines
and/or their lack of effectiveness, such as manufacturers of vaccines
themselves. They openly advertise their willingness
to support national- and multi-national corporation's "cause-marketing
initiatives," a marketing phenomenon widely criticized by public
interest groups, and which in the case of the breast cancer industry has
produced monstrosities such as the Smith and Wesson's Pink Handgun, and KFC's now defunct "Buckets for the Cure."
As
an example of UNICEF's lack of insulation from conflicts of interest,
in June of this year, they partnered with one of the world's largest
vaccine manufacturers, Merck & Co.,
who pledged $500 million "to decrease maternal
mortality, HIV and tuberculosis prevalence in South Africa." President
and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF Caryl Stern was quoted in a June
2012 Vaccine New Daily article as saying, "Merck is a valued
partner that is helping to bring us closer to a day when ZERO children
die of preventable causes."[1]
Merck, while being considered by UNICEF as a "valuable partner," can
hardly be claimed as a credible source of information on the safety and
effectivencess of its products, as exemplified by the 2011 decision by
the U.S. Justice Department that Merck would be forced to pay $950
million to resolve criminal charges and federal civil claims associated
with the fraudulent marketing of its deadly drug Vioxx. This is only
the tip of the iceberg of Merck's many legal problems. Learn more here
Another
organization UNICEF has partnered with and accepted substantial
financial contributions from is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
who has actively supported the online surveillance of so-called
"anti-vaccine" groups, as we documented in an Aug. 29th, 2012, report: "Gates Foundation Funds Surveillance of Anti-Vaccine Groups":
[A]$100K grant was recently disbursed to Seth C. Kalichman, professor at
the Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, for "Establishing an Anti-Vaccine Surveillance and Alert System," which intends to "establish an internet-based global monitoring and rapid alert system for finding, analyzing, and counteracting misinformation communication campaigns regarding vaccines to support global immunization efforts."
The Gates foundation is notorious for focusing its charitable contributions on Global Polio Eradication
initiatives, while neglecting to emphasize with equal fiscal enthusiasm
sustainable solutions to preventing morbidity and mortality associated
with infectious disease vectors, namely, improved nutrition, sanitation
and hygiene.
Ironically, UNICEF's own vaccine-based programs to combat child deaths from disease in West Africa appear to reduce survival relative to areas outside the reach of their programs. According to a 2010 BBC News report,
"Unicef spent $27m (£17m) rolling out vaccinations, vitamin A pills and
bed nets to protect against malaria from 2001 to 2005 in areas of 11
countries. The researchers studied parts of Ghana, Mali and Benin and
said children often survived better outside the UN scheme."
Indeed, the most well-known criticism of UNICEF is that it has done
very little to decrease child mortality (in sub-Saharan Africa it has
actually increased) underscoring why its focus on promoting vaccination,
and now monitoring and perhaps targeting "anti-vaccine" organizations, is profoundly misguided.
Ultimately,
UNICEF's new report is more than an objective analysis of so-called
"anti-vaccine" organizations, but a concerning bit of propaganda aimed
at dissuading the millions who visit alternative health sites daily from
obtaining information that was not underwritten and/or ghostwritten by
the very industries who stand to gain most by hiding the well-known
adverse health effects of their products, and who have managed to
transform many governmental health agencies – and we can see, even
global ones -- into their cheerleading, marketing, liability protection
and now surveillance divisions.
Sayer Ji is an author, researcher, lecturer, and advisory board member of the National Health Federation.
He founded Greenmedinfo.com in 2008 in order to provide the world an
open access, evidence-based resource supporting natural and integrative
modalities. It is widely recognized as the most widely referenced health
resource of its kind.
Disclaimer:
This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or
treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of
GreenMedInfo or its staff.]
<END SAYER JI ARTICLE>
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO CALL ATTENTION TO TWO OTHER ARTICLES BY MR. JI:
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/has-drug-driven-medicine-become-form-human-sacrifice
"Has Drug-Driven Medicine Become A Form of Human Sacrifice?"
ANDhttp://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/why-law-forbids-medicinal-use-natural-substances"Why The Law Forbids The Medicinal Use of Natural Substances"
NOW PLEASE UNDERSTAND, UNICEF IS NOT THE CONCERNED, ALTRUISTIC ORGANIZATION IT CLAIMS TO BE, NEVER WAS, NEVER WILL BE!HERE'S PROOF...<<While
no one can argue with the fact that UNICEF does work to improve living
conditions for some children in need, their assistance goes to those who
already have families. Those without, not so much.This year, if the
spirit moves you to send holiday cards that will make a difference,
there are many other alternatives to supporting UNICEF, which has lost
its moral compass and has turned orphans into collateral damage in
service of a political agenda.>>[Read more:
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/red-thread-adoptive-family-forum/2011/dec/5/why-i-wont-buy-unicef-holiday-cards/#ixzz2dQ3N489P
]
PHYSICIANS,
PEDIATRICIANS IN MANY OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE PROTESTED AGAINST UNICEF'S
VACCINATION POLICIES, AND ALSO SAID THAT CHILD MORTALITY RATES IN
VACCINE-PUSHED NATIONS HAVE DRASTICALLY INCREASED, BUT HAVE WE READ
ABOUT THAT IN OUR NEWS?http://www.whale.to/vaccines/bharati.html<<I
think we have to call for a boycott of the entire vaccination procedure
to make the political mandarins to sit up and take notice. It is a
dastardly and heinous act to continue with the vaccination process
without making provision for informed consent, introducing a physicians
warranty of vaccine safety, compensation in case of adverse effects and
without any long term studies on the effects of vaccines, specially when
the so called "misinformation" about vaccine dangers circulating
amongst dissenters, even within the medical community, is turning out to
be a fact rather than rumour. The issue of heavy metals in vaccines is
yet to be resolved. Countries putting the maximum emphasis on vaccines
have the highest rate of infant mortality. We also do not understand
how the voices of Indian doctors are not being heard and instead
"foreign experts" dictate terms in matters of vaccination policy in
India. Who are these "experts" and what influence do they yield to
dictate terms? What are these "experts" doing to ensure compensation and
treatment for the millions of vaccine damaged children? What are they
doing to educate the public about vaccine dangers?"'You cannot take
the "First do no harm" medical oath and push vaccines at the same time.
This is ludicrous. This is madness. This is utter stupidity.'"- Quoted from "Vaccination: Fact of the Matter" by Jagannath Chatterjee,
http://www.whale.to/v/vaccination89.html>>[SEE also: http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/third-world-duped-on-polio-eradication/]
UNICEF DEVOTED TO POPULATION CONTROL/FEWER CHILDRENhttp://www.all.org/article/index/id/MjQyNg<<UNICEF
is, undoubtedly, the most well known and, probably, the most popular UN
agency among Americans. The organization received $282 million from the
United States alone in 2002. What is not well known, however, is
UNICEF's evolution from a life affirming, child saving and Nobel peace
prize-winning foundation to a contraceptive-distributing,
abortion-performing and sterilization-providing partner of some of the
world's most notorious "family planning" organizations.There was
major controversy in the UN - so much so that the organization's
structure was threatened. The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF
were reluctant to join in the debate. WHO was unsure about the health
effects of the pill and UNICEF did not want to act before WHO.
Controversy within UNICEF itself threatened to split the Executive Board
in the spring of 1966. It was proposed that UNICEF funds would be spent
on providing women with access to family planning in those countries
where the government requested it but that UNICEF would not offer any
advice nor provide supplies or equipment to make them. Opponents argued
"it would be wrong for UNICEF to depart from its original mandate of
saving children in order to engage in activities to prevent them from
being born". The proposal was withdrawn and the issue tabled for a
year.The Population Information Program was the responsibility of
George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. until
July 1, 1978 and then that of John Hopkins University in Baltimore,
Maryland. These Reports clearly outline UNICEF's involvement with
population control throughout that time frame.>>
UNICEF'S DIRTY TRICKSA
Liberian actor has filed a $25 million lawsuit against UNICEF for
alleged child abuse over his starring role aged 13 in a fundraising film
as a murderous child soldier who tortures his victims.March 28 2013, http://www.africareview.com/News/Unicef+sued+for+child+abuse/-/979180/1733062/-/12n1vqjz/-/index.html<<Mike
James, now 28, says he and other cast members have been “stigmatised as
rebels, killers, cannibals and drug addicts” after being recruited for
the 1997 film Soldier Boy and made to act out eating human body
parts.>>UNICEF MADE MILLIONS OFF THAT "DOCUMENTARY, BUT PAID ITS 'STAR' A MEAGER $300!HE WAS AN ACTOR!
UNICEF-DRILLED WELLS HAVE CREATED ARSENIC POISONING PROBLEMUp to 75 million at risk from tainted water. 75 MILLION!<<The
arsenic crisis in Bangladesh was caused by the sinking of over one
million wells by foreign aid agencies and the Bangladeshi government
from the 1970s. The effort - intended to reduce the incidence of
water-borne disease in the region - has instead put millions of
Bangladeshis at risk of poisoning. "Bangladesh makes the Chernobyl
disaster look like a Sunday-school picnic," says Richard Wilson, a
Harvard University expert on arsenic poisoning.The problem was not
noticed until victims began showing external symptoms of arsenic
poisoning: calluses on the palms and soles of feet, leading to skin
cancers.Most of the wells were sunk by UNICEF, the United Nations
Children's Fund, in the 1970s and 1980s. The Bangladeshi government
considered suing UNICEF..."Most hydrogeologists worth their salt would
have known about it," claims John McArthur, a sedimentologist at
University College London, who points out that reports of chronic
arsenic poisoning started to emerge from neighbouring, and geologically
similar, West Bengal in the mid-1980s. >>http://www.nature.com/news/2001/011011/full/news011011-14.htmlUNICEF CLAIMS IT HAD NO IDEA...ETC, ETC.
UNICEF’s collusion with the Guatemalan government and media in their case against Intercountry Adoptions...THEY WON'T ALLOW ADOPTIONS BY "FOREIGNERS" EVEN THOUGH THIS MEANS CHILDREN LANGUISH AND EVEN DIE IN "ORPHANAGES" AND OTHER FACILITIES, OR GROW UP WITHOUT PARENTS OR A REAL HOME. WHEN NO ONE STEPS UP TO ADOPT WITHIN A NATION WHY NOT ALLOW ADOPTIONS BY OTHERS?http://illicittrafficking.wordpress.com/tag/unicef/
UNDER THE GUISE OF VACCINATING NIGERIANS, UNICEF ADMINISTERED CONTAMINATED VACCINE THAT CAUSES STERILIZATIONMarch
2004: <<The UNICEF campaign to vaccinate Nigeria's youth against
polio was found to be a front for sterilizing the nation. Dr. Haruna
Kaita, a pharmaceutical scientist and Dean of the Faculty of
Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, took
samples of the vaccine to labs in India for analysis where evidence was
found of serious contamination. The vaccines contained toxic substances
that have direct effects on the human reproductive system.UNICEF is no friend of children.>>[SOURCES:
"UNICEF Nigerian Polio Vaccine Contaminated with Sterilizing Agents
Scientist Finds", LifeSiteNews.com, Kaduna, Nigeria, March 11, 2004.ANDState
Secret:Thousands Secretly Sterilized, May16, 2005, http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/1280-state-secret-thousands-secretly-sterilized.html ]UNICEF WANTS TO LEGALIZE PROSTITUTIONJune 2003: A
high-ranking official with UNICEF called for the legalization of
prostitution and for UNICEF to make condoms available to "everybody,
everywhere and at all times". Urban Jonsson, UNICEF Eastern and Southern
African Regional Director urged that UNICEF take actions to
"de-criminalize sex-work and facilitate the organization of sex-workers
[since] when sex-workers are organized, they are in a stronger position
to negotiate safer sex with their clients." Mr. Jonsson also stated
"Abstinence is simply not a realistic option for most young people
today."[SOURCE: "Top UNICEF Official Calls for Legalized and Unionized Prostitution", C-Fam/LifeSiteNews.com, New York, June 5, 2003 ]
YEAH, THAT UNICEF!NICE FOLKS, YES?NO!!!SO NOW, THEY ATTACK CREDIBLE, DEDICATED NATURAL HEALTH AND EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES THAT SIMPLY OFFER FACTUAL RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC DATA THAT SHOWS THE REAL DANGERS AND THE TRUTH OF VACCINES?WHY?THERE
IS AMPLE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT PARENTS, OR SINGLE ADULTS, WHO DON'T WANT
VACCINES FOR THEIR CHILDREN OR THEMSELVES ON THE IMPECCABLY DOCUMENTED
GREENMEDINFO.COM WEBSITE. USE THEIR RESEARCH TOOLS AND SEARCH THEIR
ARTICLES, SUPPORT THEM ANY WAY YOU CAN.
ANOTHER PLACE TO TURN TO FOR FACTS IS...http://vactruth.com/2013/08/21/pharmaceutical-spy-tactics/THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS A MUST-READ ON THE ABOVE WEBSITE, I SINCERELY HOPE.<<Pharma Collects Data on Your Vaccine ConcernsAccording
to a recent news article, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) hired a text analytic
software company, called Luminoso, to find out what parents were most
concerned about with vaccines.The news article stated information on
two websites were collected, BabyCenter.com and WhattoExpect.com. In
similar NSA-like-fashion, neither the website owners nor parents were
aware of their information being anonymously collected.However, unlike
the NSA, GlaxoSmithKline and others are probably not doing anything
illegal – even though their behavior is still very chilling.[Reported
on:
http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/05/01/glaxo-mined-online-parent-discussion-boards-for-vaccine-worries/]
>>THINK, PLEASE!WHY, WHY DO PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES SPEND BILLIONS MORE ON ADS THAN ON RESEARCH?WHY THE HARD-SELL?
Are vaccines safe?Do they actually PREVENT people from contracting the diseases they claim to target?We've explored this before, so see my blog linked at the very beginning of this update,and be advised that the answer to both is, in too many cases, NO.
AND WHO IS COMPLICIT WITH BIG PHARMA AND UNSAFE DRUGS AND VACCINES?WHO APPROVES THESE FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ASSURING US ALL IS WELL?THE FDA, AND ONLY THE FDA CAN SIGN-OFF FOR THE RELEASE OF ANY AND ALL DRUGS HERE!WITHOUT THE FDA, THERE WOULD BE NO DRUGS ON THE MARKET, AND NO VACCINES!The
FDA has the supporting research, much done by nations which now BAN
some of the heavily-pushed 'vaccines', some by their OWN scientists,
research that has been peer-reviewed, that has shown to be
FACTUAL...vaccines can KILL, maim, destroy health, and have, and will
continue to.The lawsuits are too numerous for these attacks on
people's health to be "coincidence", to be 'scientifically unproven', to
be wrong!No, what is WRONG is that the FDA long ago subjugated
itself to the pharmaceutical industry, rolled-over for 'Big Pharma',
and even a presidential candidate saw that.I CAN FIND NO MAINSTREAM COVERAGE OF THIS SO...http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-fda-and-big-pharma-are-in-bed-together/
A
2006 survey of 997 FDA scientists revealed that forty percent feared
"retaliation" for voicing safety concerns over prescription drugs in
public. These are ALL scientists CONNECTED to the FDA!Over one-third
of those SAME scientists didn't even feel comfortable expressing safety
concerns inside the agency with colleagues, behind closed doors!What should this tell us?It
has only been the daring courage of a FEW independent FDA scientists
over the years, taking a stand despite what they have described as
intense intimidation and censorship from the FDA's own top officials,
who have stood up and warned the American public about dangerous
prescription drugs... like Vioxx.<<Merck:With a long list of
deaths to its credit, and more than $5.5 billion in judgments and fines
levied against it, it was five years before Merck made its $30-billion
recall of the painkiller Vioxx. After the drug was withdrawn, and 60,000
had already died, Merck picked up the pieces painlessly by getting a
new drug fast-tracked and on the market.That drug is Gardasil, a
vaccine that so far has been linked to thousands of adverse events and
at least 49 unexplained deaths. It's a situation that the FDA and CDC
have been denying repeatedly, even as the adverse reports mount. [SEE MY BLOG: "PROVEN DANGERS OF HPV/GARDASIL AND HEPATITIS B VACCINES", http://havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.com/2013/05/proven-dangers-of-hpvgardasil-and.html]Baxter:
Dozens of recalls of products that caused deaths and injuries, at least
11 different guilty pleas to fraud and illegal sales activity, more
than 200 lawsuits – many of them stemming from selling AIDS-tainted
blood to hemophiliacs – and more than $1.3 billion in criminal fines and
civil penalties.REMEMBER BAXTER'S NAME WHEN THE FLU VACCINE HAD THE WHISTLE BLOWN ON IT?"Baxter To Develop Swine Flu Vaccine Despite Bird Flu
Scandal.
The fox has been given the duty of guarding the henhouse."April 27, 2009<<A
U.S. based pharmaceutical company that just weeks ago was involved
in a scandal involving vaccines tainted with deadly avian flu
virus has been chosen to head up efforts to produce a vaccine
for the Mexican swine flu that has seemingly migrated into the
U.S. and Europe.
Baxter confirmed over the weekend that it is working
with the World Health Organization on a potential vaccine to
curb the deadly swine flu virus that is blamed for scores of
deaths in Mexico and has emerged as a threat in the U.S., reports
the Chicago
Tribune.>>WORKING WITH THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION...SISTER AGENCY TO UNICEF!DARLING OF THE FDA!WE KNOW BAXTER HID FACTS BUT LET'S TRUST THEM AGAIN?INSANITY!
BUT ON THEY GO!
Pfizer: In the largest health care fraud settlement
in history, Pfizer was ordered to pay $2.3 billion to resolve criminal
and civil allegations that the company illegally promoted uses of four
of its drugs, including the painkiller Bextra, the antipsychotic Geodon,
the antibiotic Zyvox, and the anti-epileptic Lyrica. In a study
recently released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMSHA), officials emphasized that people should not
assume there's no risk in prescribed medicines. The truth is, the only
way to avoid all risk, including death, from prescription drugs is to
not take them at all.>>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/10/26/prescription-drugs-number-one-cause-preventable-death-in-us.aspx
Literally
tens of millions of Americans have been harmed by such obvious FDA negligence
over the last decade, and well over one million have been killed by
FDA-approved prescription drugs, some of which were later found to have
been approved based on FRAUDULENT 'scientific' data.The
FDA, like too much of mainstream medicine, or what we erroneously call
'medicine', seems to have abandoned public safety, ethics, and
scientific integrity in favor of MAKING MONEY for shareholders, and
getting more money from our own 'Federal Corporation', WHAT WE CALL our government. We
can sanely and honestly say, given the facts and consumer-won class action
lawsuits before us, that the FDA has become the single greatest threat
to the health and safety of the American people, a greater threat than
any so-called 'terrorist group'! NO 'terrorist organization' has yet
been complicit in the death of a MILLION American citizens, has it?A
shocking 18.4 % of the 997 FDA scientists in the 2006 survey report
that they "...have been asked, for non-scientific reasons, to
inappropriately exclude or alter technical information or their
conclusions in a FDA scientific document."61% of these surveyed
scientists reported that they knew of cases where "Department of Health
and Human Services or FDA political appointees have inappropriately
injected themselves into FDA determinations or actions."Can you imagine that? I can!POLITICIANS
in high places are influencing the FDA, making themselves almost the
same as a criminal gang of thugs, who strong-arm 'legislation', who
interfere with that agency every chance they get. Even when the FDA
has been found negligent, been caught cheating on research results,
their handlers, their pals in political circles have done little but
gently slap their hands with a wink and a nod, and NOTHING GETS
FIXED!If you or I did the SAME things that politicians and Big
Business/Big Pharma are doing to make the FDA their slave agency, we'd
be tried for treason, or for terrorist acts, no doubt about it!Read the entire BUSH2 "Patriot Act" or NDAA of this president's regime if you doubt that. It's IN BOTH! YOU CAN'T "BUY-OUT" A THING LIKE THE FDA, BUT SOME HAVE!53% of surveyed scientists think the FDA sometimes provides INACCURATE information on drugs to the American people! THIS IS JUST INFORMATION "FROM THE HORSES' MOUTHS", AMERICA.
<<Understand
this very clearly, no medical drug in America can be released for
public use until and unless the FDA states it is safe. The FDA is the
agency responsible for every such decision on every drug. The buck stops
there.The revelations of ongoing knowledge to be found at the FDA
website page stagger the mind. Here is yet another implication: what
about all the studies on drugs that are published in prestigious medical
journals, month after month? These studies unequivocally claim the
drugs are safe. What level of fraud must exist for such peer-reviewed
studies to attain the false status of medical fact?
Perhaps this
quote from Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of
Medicine, will clarify that aspect of the scandal:“It is simply no
longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is
published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or
authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion,
which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor
of The New England Journal of Medicine.”>>(Marcia Angell, MD, The New York Review of Books, January 15, 2009)http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/hidden-in-plain-view-fda-murder/
Remember how America responded after the attack on the Twin Towers, the Pentagon on 9/11?The
media whipped us into a frenzy after 9/11, made us demand retribution, got us to
agree to a war in TWO nations that had NOTHING to do with the attack on
America then. We were screaming for heads to roll, patriotism became a
good word once again.There were less than 3,000 lives lost on 9/11,
plus the just under 5,000 American military men and women killed in the 'war' that the
Department of Defense ADMITS to. I'm only mentioning American
citizens because so few care to know how many foreign CIVILIANS have
died, or how many of THEIR military members. The point is, we
SCREAMED for those responsible for the initial loss of the 2,996 to be
captured and killed. Though our government swore they'd get those
responsible, they never did, never will. The hijackers were, all but
four, Saudi nationals, we were told, remember? Have we attacked Saudi
Arabia, or any Saudi except for allegedly hunting for Bin Laden? The
other 4 were from Egypt, Lebanon, and 2 from the United Arab Emirates,
we were told, remember? NONE were from Iraq, Iran, or Afghanistan, not a
one.Yes, we screamed for justice over 9/11, but 9/11 is repeated
almost every week by those that die from drug "treatments" and
"vaccines" here in America!WHY, AMERICA, WHY DON'T YOU SCREAM FOR RETRIBUTION FOR A MILLION DEATHS OF YOUR OWN PEOPLE? IF ANOTHER NATION WAS DOING THIS AND IT WAS MADE KNOWN TO US, WE WOULD CALL IT GENOCIDE, AND HAVE!WHY DON'T WE CALL IT THAT ALOUD, JUST CALL IT WHAT IT IS?OUR MAINSTREAM MEDIA ALMOST NEVER COVER THE DAILY DEATHS BY PRESCRIPTIONS OR VACCINES!WHY
didn't we read more about little 8-weeks-old "Baby Stacy", a premature
twin who died after she was given NINE (9) vaccines in ONE day? Her twin
sister, Lesly, somehow survived.[SEE: "Christina England Vactruth
Baby Dies After 9 Vaccines in One Day" http://vactruth.com/2012/01/19/baby-dies-after-first-shots/ ]
WHY
didn't Americans read in OUR news what the Australian News reported in
August of 2012, that there had been 2,136 reports of adverse events and
ten (10) deaths reported following injection with CSL’s Fluvax and
Fluvax Junior, the vaccine that replaced Panvax in 2010?[The
Australian News: "10 Deaths linked to the anti flu vaccine"
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/deaths-linked-to-anti-flu-vaccines/story-e6frg8y6-1226441791947
]<<‘Fluvax is used for about half the nation’s estimated 6
million flu vaccinations each year. But the number of reported
side-effects for Fluvax is five times higher than the other three most
popular brands of flu vaccines together.’>>
<< In
February, Linda Morin reported that she was suing Merck, the
manufacturers of Gardasil, along with three doctors, pediatrician
Guylaine Larose, neurologist Amelie Nadeau and her family doctor, Lynne
Nadeau for the sum of $197,000. Ms. Morin stated that she had found her
14 year-old daughter Annabelle dead in the bathtub after she had
received her second Gardasil vaccination. [SEE: Thaddeus Baklinski
LifeSiteNews, " Parents sue after Quebec teen dies following Gardasil
vaccination", http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/parents-sue-after-quebec-teen-dies-following-gardasil-vaccination/
]
When people die by the thousands every week from prescription drugs/vaccines, why doesn't mainstream media cover it?The
discovery of a page, on the FDA’s own website from the year 2000, 13
years ago, proves the FDA is fully aware that the drugs it certifies as
safe have been killing Americans, at the rate of 100,000 per year, and
that they knew of OVER 2 MILLION "adverse drug reactions , ADRs, in that
same one year time frame![SEE:http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/DevelopmentResources/DrugInteractionsLabeling/ucm114848.htm ]Don't these deaths matter?Maybe the stories of these senseless deaths just don't sell enough copies, or garner a big enough audience?Maybe they don't think pain, death, or suffering is valid except in combat, or some sort of disaster?I APPLAUD ONE RENSE.COM AUTHOR WHO ASKED:<<I
have to wonder: Would the people demand reform if the FDA actually
conducted nuclear bombing raids on U.S. cities? Would lawmakers finally
stand up and say the FDA should stop bombing our cities? Or would the
FDA brush off the critics and simply slap a black-box warning label on
the side of the B2 stealth bomber that said, "Warning: This bomb may
kill you," and then continue the bombing runs? Why isn't the FBI
conducting armed raids on the [FDA] agency right now and marching these
criminals away in handcuffs?>>In a June 2010 report in the
Journal of General Internal Medicine, study authors said that in looking
over records that spanned from 1979 to 2006 (the most recent year
available) they found that, of 62 million death certificates, almost a
quarter-million deaths were coded as having occurred IN A HOSPITAL
setting due to medication errors. THOSE ARE JUST HOSPITAL DEATHS!Adverse drug reactions cause injuries or death in 1 of 5 hospital patients. WHY NO WAR ON THIS? WE HAVE A WAR ON EVERYTHING ELSE![SEE:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/06/03/are-hospitals-really-more-deadly-in-july-when-novice-doctors-arrive/#.Uh_9g3_hctI ]
"'Meanwhile, the FDA pursues an agenda of attacking
nutritional supplements, and the latest federal regulations classify
these supplements as “potentially dangerous”—despite the fact that
supplements have a record of safety that is astonishing.'" ~ Jon
Rappoport, candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of
California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Worked as an investigative
reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and
health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other
newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe.
I SAW THE QUESTION ASKED OVER AND OVER IN MANY ARTICLES, "WHO HAS EVER DIED FROM A LACK OF VIOXX, OR OTHER DRUG?"PEOPLE DIE FROM DISEASE, DRUGS ONLY TREAT SYMPTOMS OF DISEASE!
I GRADUATED FROM A SMALL-TOWN HIGH SCHOOL IN THE DEEP SOUTH, 78 IN THE SENIOR CLASS.WE WERE ALL GIVEN THOSE FIRST POLIO VACCINES, THEN A FINAL SUGAR CUBE DRENCHED IN THE VIRUS.ONCE I READ ABOUT THE CONTAMINATION OF THOSE EARLY VACCINES WITH CANCER-CAUSING AGENTS, I BEGAN TO INQUIRE OF THE CLASS HISTORIAN ABOUT THE HEALTH OF OUR CLASSMATES. AFTER 15 YEARS FROM THE START OF THAT INQUIRY, WE LEARNED THAT 56 OF US HAD FACED SOME FORM OF CANCER, 5 HAD DIED, MANY OF US HAD MORE THAN ONE TYPE OF CANCER, SOME WERE STILL BATTLING THAT KILLER.YOU TELL ME WHAT THE ODDS OF THAT ARE THAT OVER 3/4ths OF AN ENTIRE CLASS WOULD GET SOME FORM OF CANCER..MY ONLY SON HOVERED BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH FOR WEEKS FOLLOWING ONE TETANUS VACCINE, AS HAD HIS GREAT-GRANDFATHER AND GREAT-UNCLE.AFTER MORE THAN 20 YEARS OF LOOKING INTO THIS, I WILL NEVER AGREE TO BE VACCINATED FOR ANYTHING EVER AGAIN.WE HAVE THAT RIGHT, YOU HAVE THAT RIGHT...FOR NOW.
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Q:
X11 Forwarding for user without home directory
I have a privileged user without home folder with ssh access. I try to do X forwarding but I get the message /usr/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file /home/user/.Xauthority
If I don't have home folder logically .Xauthority doesn't exist.
Is there a way to replace the location or tell xauth to use a different file?
A:
You can change the location of this file by setting the XAUTHORITY environment variable.
$ export XAUTHORITY=/tmp/.Xauthority_$USER
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Rescue for River Runners 6: Rescue PFD Basics
Canoe & Kayak teamed up with open-boat badass Jim Coffey—founder of Quebec-based outfitter Esprit Whitewater Worldwide as well as R3: Rescue for River Runners—and Mike McKay from Five2Nine Productions for a series of whitewater rescue lesson videos we debuted exclusively on CanoeKayak.com a few years ago. The lessons Coffey covers here in Episode Six — principles to keep in mind when using a PFD outfitted with a safety harness — are as important today as ever.
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Respiratory distress syndrome.
Increasing knowledge of the pathophysiology of respiratory distress syndrome has led to improvements in clinical management. Future advances in prevention and therapy, including administration of agents to prevent prematurity or to accelerate lung maturation, provision of surfactant replacement, and new techniques of mechanical ventilation, will further decrease mortality and morbidity.
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Readers will know that this is one of my favorite topics on this blog, how huge investments in showy rail projects that amp up the prestige of government officials tend to cannibalize lower cost bus service and, at the end of the day, actually reduce total transit ridership. The LA Times almost sortof recognizes this, and Randal O'Toole is on the case:
“Billions spent, but fewer people are using public transportation,” declares the Los Angeles Times. The headline might have been more accurate if it read, “Billions spent, so thereforefewer are using public transit,” as the billions were spent on the wrong things.
The L.A. Times article focuses on Los Angeles’ Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), though the same story could be written for many other cities. In Los Angeles, ridership peaked in 1985, fell to 1995, then grew again, and now is falling again. Unmentioned in the story, 1985 is just before Los Angeles transit shifted emphasis from providing low-cost bus service to building expensive rail lines, while 1995 is just before an NAACP lawsuit led to a court order to restore bus service lost since 1985 for ten years.
...
Transit ridership is very sensitive to transit vehicle revenue miles. Metro’s predecessor, the Southern California Rapid Transit District, ran buses for 92.6 million revenue miles in 1985. By 1995, to help pay for rail cost overruns, this had fallen to 78.9 million. Thanks to the court order in the NAACP case, this climbed back up to 92.9 million in 2006. But after the court order lapsed, it declined to 75.7 million in 2014. The riders gained on the multi-billion-dollar rail lines don’t come close to making up for this loss in bus service.
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Los Angeles ridership trends are not unusual: transit agencies building expensive rail infrastructure often can’t afford to keep running the buses that carry the bulk of their riders, so ridership declines.
Ridership in Houston peaked at 102.5 million trips in 2006, falling to 85.9 million in 2014 thanks to cuts in bus service necessitated by the high cost of light rail;
Despite huge job growth, Washington ridership peaked at 494.2 million in 2009 and has since fallen to 470.4 million due at least in part to Metro’s inability to maintain the rail lines;
Atlanta ridership peaked at 170.0 million trips in 2000 and has since fallen nearly 20 percent to 137.5 million and per capita ridership has fallen by two thirds since 1985;
San Francisco Bay Area ridership reached 490.9 million in 1982, but was only 457.0 million in 2014 as BART expansions forced cutbacks in bus service, a one-third decline in per capita ridership;
Pittsburgh transit regularly carried more than 85 million riders per year in the 1980s but is now down to some 65 million;
Austin transit carried 38 million riders in 2000, but after opening a rail line in 2010, ridership is now down to 34 million.
I will add that total transit ridership has been totally flat in Phoenix after construction of a major light rail project. The project's total cost is approaching $2 billion as they slowly add on short extensions, but this amount did nothing but cannibalize bus ridership. In fact, the situation is worse than this, since before light rail was built, Phoenix transit ridership was growing rapidly every single year, so in fact light rail actually likely reduced ridership by about 14 million. The whole story is here. (I will have an update in a moment but they have updated the chart from that article and ridership fell yet again in 2015).
A reader sent me this list at of salaries at BART (via here). The amazing thing is to sort the list by overtime. Pages and pages of people with $50-$100 thousand a year in overtime. This is just insane. Either put these guys on salary or, if it really is a job that is non-exempt and legitimately pays hourly, hire some more freaking people. I can't in my wildest dreams imagine such overtime being paid in my company year in and year out. If it is not for isolated cases, it is a sign of poor management.
Over 700 employees of San Francisco's BART transit agency make over $100,000 just in cash wages. This does not include lucrative benefits that probably add $30,000 or more to total compensation for most employees. (SF Chron, via Thin Green Line)
The Anti-Planner has more on the California high speed rail proposal I wrote about earlier. My guess was that the first $9 billion bond issue, on the ballot this fall, would not get the train out of the LA metro area. Well, I was right and wrong. The smart money thinks the line will start at the other end, in San Francisco. But the betting is that for $9 billion the line won't even get out of the San Francisco metro area, making it perhaps as far as San Jose.
But we have a second data point -- there is a proposal on the table to extend BART from Fremont to Santa Clara for $4.7 billion, a distance (as shown on the map below) about a third of that from San Francisco to San Jose.
I am not sure what high-speed rail technology that they are considering, but a true high-speed line requires special alignments, track, and signaling that should make it FAR more expensive per mile than a BART line (just as an example, a true high-speed line could take miles to make a 90 degree turn, eating up land and reducing alignment flexibility in a very congested and hilly area). And remember, the BART cost estimate is probably low.
No way these guys get to San Jose for $9 billion, much less to LA for $40 billion. Just what Californians need with their massive budget deficit: a brand new white elephant.
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Description:
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Maintainer:
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Overview
In the days when everyone smoked and women always wore aprons – and rode side-saddle on the back of motorbikes – Joe Ivor Davies of Craig-cefn-parc took his camera out and about, recording his community from men at dangerous work in the local colliery (Clydach Merthyr, aka Nixon's) to children in the schoolyard, a woman washing a shop doorstep and a farmer with dog. A very cute kitten and the postman also feature, and a curious incident involving two men and a Christmas cake!
Clydach Merthyr Colliery (known locally as Nixon's), located at Craig-cefn-parc, was unusual for its almost total absence of gas, its underground blacksmithy and the boilers that were used to raise steam for haulage engines. In 1945, it employed almost 600 people. 16 years later, however, coal production ceased but the colliery was kept open until 1978 to provide ventilation and pumping for the nearby Graig Merthyr Colliery. The schoolyard scenes include shots of Alan Jones (b.1938) as a boy – he went on to play for Glamorgan County Cricket Club (1957-83), achieving renown as a phenomenal run-scorer and, later, an excellent coach.
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About the archive
National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales preserves and celebrates the sound and moving image heritage of Wales, making it accessible to a wide range of users for enjoyment and learning. Its film collection reflects every aspect of the nation’s social, cultural and working life across the 20th century, giving a fascinating insight into Welsh filmmaking, both amateur and professional.
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170 S.W.3d 26 (2005)
Conrad STROMBERG, et al., Respondents/Cross-Appellants,
v.
Kevin J. MOORE, et al., Cross/Respondent, and State Bank of Jefferson County, Appellant, and UMB Bank, n.a., and American Family Insurance Company, Respondent.
No. ED 83912.
Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Two.
June 28, 2005.
Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied August 4, 2005.
Application for Transfer Denied September 20, 2005.
*27 Michael A. Campbell, Dawn Ann M. Johnson, St. Louis, MO, for Appellant.
Gregory D. O'Shea, St. Louis, MO, Nicholas G. Gasaway, Jr., Hillsboro, MO, for Respondent.
Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied August 4, 2005.
ROBERT G. DOWD, JR., Judge.
State Bank of Jefferson County (State Bank) appeals from the judgment awarding Conrad Stromberg (Stromberg) $80,000 in damages for negligence and conversion in connection with an $80,000 draft (Draft) issued by American Family Mutual Insurance Company (American Family) in connection with a fire insurance claim. On appeal, State Bank argues the trial court *28 erred in granting judgment in favor of Stromberg because (1) under the election of remedies doctrine, Stromberg is precluded from claiming an interest in the Draft, (2) under Section 400.3-420, RSMo 2000,[1] liability for conversion is limited to the plaintiff's interest in the instrument, and (3) the doctrine of unavoidable consequences and the doctrine of laches prevent Stromberg from making a claim against State Bank. On cross-appeal, Stromberg argues the trial court erred in denying him damages by way of interest in its application of Section 408.040. We affirm in part and reverse and remand in part.
Viewed in the light most favorable to the judgment, the following facts were adduced at trial. Stromberg owned a plot of ground with buildings located in DeSoto, Missouri. In 1997, Stromberg sold this property to Kevin and Lucinda Moore (collectively referred to as the Moores) for a purchase price of $100,000, receiving $7,000 at closing and taking back a note and Deed of Trust for $93,000. Named as beneficiaries on the Deed of Trust were Stromberg, Mary Stromberg, his wife, Shawn Stromberg, his son, and Margaret Stromberg, his daughter (collectively referred to as the Strombergs). The note secured by the Deed of Trust was payable over twenty years with monthly payments of $807.08. Also at the closing, a policy of fire insurance in the amount of $80,000 was issued on the property naming Complete Auto Repair, the Moore's company, as the insured and Stromberg as the mortgagee.[2]
On June 7, 1998, the buildings on the mortgaged property were completely destroyed by fire. On June 8, 1998, American Family received a telephone proof of loss from its insured, the Moores d/b/a Complete Auto Repair. On July 13, 1998, American Family issued the Draft in the amount of $80,000 which was the total amount of coverage under its policy and made the draft payable to Complete Auto Repair and Stromberg. Kevin Moore received the draft by mail. Stromberg and the Moores met in late July or early August to discuss division of the Draft without reaching any agreement as to its division because the amount the Moores owed Stromberg on the Deed of Trust on the date of the fire was approximately $92,000.[3]
On August 11, 1998, Kevin Moore presented the Draft, purportedly endorsed by both payees, for deposit into his business account at State Bank. Stromberg testified he did not endorse the Draft nor did he authorize Kevin Moore or Complete Auto Repair to endorse the Draft for him.
Linda Tucker, teller for State Bank, testified relating to the deposit of the Draft by Kevin Moore. She testified that Kevin Moore came into the bank with the Draft but was not accompanied by Stromberg. Kevin Moore told Linda Tucker that Stromberg was his partner. Linda Tucker testified that she did not know Stromberg and, at the time of deposit, she did not require identification or verification that Stromberg's signature was correct and genuine. She further testified that there was a partnership resolution on file for *29 Complete Auto Repair showing the signature of Kevin Moore but not that of Stromberg. In fact, Stromberg was never a part of the partnership resolution nor was his signature on record anywhere at State Bank.
Richard Francis, president of State Bank, testified that Stromberg was not a customer of the bank and that he would not have received any notice of account activity. Richard Francis also testified that the bank had no relationship with Stromberg nor did he know of or did the bank have a financial interest in the transaction between Stromberg and Kevin Moore. Additionally, Richard Francis testified the teller is required to know the endorser. There was no signature card on file bearing Stromberg's signature.
Handwriting expert, William Storer, testified that it was his opinion the signature of Stromberg was not genuine.
Before discovering the Draft had been deposited, Stromberg foreclosed on the mortgaged property on November 10, 1998. At the time of foreclosure, he was not aware that Kevin Moore had deposited the Draft into State Bank over the forgery of his signature. Stromberg took back the real estate at the foreclosure sale. Stromberg testified he did not know that the Draft was deposited until after the foreclosure. Stromberg was never a customer of State Bank, nor did he have access to any financial information that he could have reviewed to know of the deposit.
After discovering the Draft had been deposited without his consent, Stromberg notified State Bank sometime in November of 1998 of the forgery and later received a phone call from Richard Francis asking why the forgery had not been reported sooner. Stromberg replied that he reported the forgery as soon as he found out about it.[4] Stromberg sent a letter to State Bank after it had been confirmed the Draft was forged. Stromberg demanded return of the Draft proceeds. State Bank, through Richard Francis, denied Stromberg's demand.
This case was presented for trial. After trial, the trial court entered a judgment granting damages for conversion in favor of Stromberg, but denying Stromberg damages by way of interest from the date of conversion. This appeal follows.
On appeal, State Bank argues the trial court erred in granting judgment in favor of Stromberg because under the election of remedies doctrine, Stromberg is precluded from claiming an interest in the Draft. Specifically, State Bank contends that because Stromberg foreclosed on the property as a means of recovering his damages, rather than pursuing a claim against State Bank on the Draft, Stromberg elected his remedy and now cannot pursue a claim for conversion against State Bank. In related points, State Bank argues that liability for conversion is limited to a plaintiff's interest in the instrument, and that the doctrine of unavoidable consequences and the doctrine of laches prevent Stromberg from making a claim against State Bank. We disagree.
In a court-tried case, the judgment of the trial court will be affirmed on appeal unless there is no substantial evidence to support it, it is against the weight of the evidence, or it erroneously declares or applies the law. Murphy v. Carron, 536 S.W.2d 30, 32 (Mo. banc 1976). Id. We accept all evidence and inferences favorable to the judgment, and disregard all *30 contrary inferences. P & K Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc. v. Tusten Townhomes Redevelopment Corp., 877 S.W.2d 121, 123 (Mo.App. E.D.1994). We are bound by the trial court's factual findings if supported by substantial evidence in the record. Id.
The election of remedies doctrine, a doctrine of estoppel, originates from the theory that "where a party has the right to pursue one of two inconsistent remedies and he makes his election, institutes suit, and prosecutes it to final judgment, he cannot thereafter pursue another and inconsistent remedy." Whittom v. Alexander-Richardson Partnership, 851 S.W.2d 504, 506 (Mo. banc 1993)(quoting Tooker, et al., v. Missouri Power & Light Co., 336 Mo. 592, 80 S.W.2d 691, 695 (1935)). The purpose of the election of remedies doctrine is to prevent double redress for a single wrong. Twellman v. Lindell Trust Co., 534 S.W.2d 83, 94 (Mo. App.1976). "Where one elects to pursue one or two or more inconsistent remedies, with full knowledge of all facts, and receives full satisfaction therefrom, he can no longer assert his cause of action." Skandia America Reinsurance Corp. v. Financial Guardian Group, 857 S.W.2d 843, 846 (Mo.App. W.D.1993)(quoting U.S. Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Fidelity Nat. Bank & Trust Co., 232 Mo.App. 412, 109 S.W.2d 47 (1937)). To determine whether remedies are inconsistent, we look at whether one theory alleges what the other denies or whether one theory is repugnant to another. Ellsworth Breihan Bldg. Co. v. Teha Inc., 48 S.W.3d 80, 82 (Mo.App. E.D.2001).
Here, based on the record, there is no election of remedies problem. First, Stromberg did not recover full satisfaction for his losses. While Stromberg recovered his property through foreclosure at a value of $80,000, he was still deprived of the insurance proceeds because of State Bank's conversion. Second, rather than suffering a single wrong, Stromberg suffered a double wrong. The Moores defaulted on their mortgage obligations under the Deed of Trust and, in addition, State Bank negligently accepted a forged endorsement. Stromberg's theory for recovery against the Moores is not repugnant to his theory for recovery against State Bank. Therefore, as a matter of law, Stromberg's foreclosure action against the Moores is not inconsistent with his claim for conversion against State Bank. See Twellman, 534 S.W.2d at 94 (holding that remedy of purchaser of treasurer's check against person who forged the endorsement on the check and remedy against the bank which issued the check and paid it over the forged endorsement were not inconsistent); see also Davis v. Hauschild, 243 S.W.2d 956, 960 (Mo. banc 1951)(holding that claim by plaintiff against defendants for deficiency judgment after foreclosure on the Deed of Trust was not barred by the pursuit in an earlier case of a remedy for breach of covenant in the Deed of Trust because remedies were consistent).
Under the facts of this case, Stromberg had no choice of remedies against State Bank. The only remedy Stromberg had against State Bank was for conversion pursuant to Section 400.3-420. At trial, Stromberg testified he had no way of knowing the Draft had been deposited until he was informed of the deposit by American Family and that information was received in November of 1998 after foreclosure. Stromberg had no choice of remedies because he had no knowledge of the fraud until several months after the act took place in August of 1998. Therefore, at the time of the foreclosure, Stromberg did not have "full knowledge of all facts," as the election of remedies doctrine requires. *31 See Skandia America Reinsurance Corp., 857 S.W.2d at 846.
Similarly, State Bank's argument that Stromberg would receive a "double benefit" by receiving the property by foreclosure in addition to $80,000 resulting from the conversion is unpersuasive.[5] As mentioned earlier, Stromberg suffered two separate wrongs and had a separate remedy for each wrong. Stromberg foreclosed on the property as a result of the Moore's default and, in a separate action, Stromberg pursued State Bank for conversion because State Bank allowed Moore to wrongfully receive payment of the Draft.
Section 400.3-420(a) provides in pertinent part as follows:
An instrument is . . . converted if it is taken by transfer, other than a negotiation, from a person not entitled to enforce the instrument or a bank makes or obtains payment with respect to the instrument for a person not entitled to enforce the instrument or receive payment. [Emphasis added.]
Here, State Bank's acceptance of the Draft outside of Stromberg's presence and without requiring verification that Stromberg's signature was genuine violated the provisions of Section 400.3-420(a). Therefore, under Section 400.3-420(b), which states that "the measure of liability is presumed to be the amount payable on the instrument," Stromberg was entitled to receive the face value of the Draft.
Finally, State Bank's argument that Stromberg's claims against State Bank should be precluded under Section 400.3-406, the doctrine of unavoidable consequences and the doctrine of laches, is equally without merit.[6] Because Stromberg was unaware of the forgery until November, he cannot be charged with failing to take reasonable steps to timely notify State Bank of the wrong. The record reveals Stromberg reported the forgery to State Bank within a day of its discovery. The trial court correctly applied the law. Under the facts of this case, we find there was no election of remedies problem, Stromberg was entitled to the face value of *32 the Draft, and the doctrine of laches and the doctrine of unavoidable consequences are inapplicable. Points one, two, and three are denied.
On cross-appeal, Stromberg argues the trial court erred in denying him an award of damages by way of interest in its application of Section 408.040. Stromberg argues that instead of applying Section 408.040, the trial court should have applied Section Sections 408.020 and 537.520 in awarding damages by way of interest. We agree.
In general, "in actions of trover, or actions in the nature of trover, for the conversion of property, interest or the equivalent of interest on the value of the property converted may be recovered." Independence Flying Service, Inc. v. Ailshire, 409 S.W.2d 628, 632 (Mo.1966). Similarly, "in actions for conversion, in order to give the injured party full indemnity, interest is allowed on the value of the property from the date of its conversion." Id. The rate of interest allowable is that prescribed by Section 408.020. Id.; Southern Missouri Bank v. Fogle, 738 S.W.2d 153, 158 (Mo.App.S.D.1987).
Here, Stromberg challenges that part of the trial court's judgment which states as follows:
No prejudgment interest is awarded since the Plaintiffs did not comply with § 408.040 R.S.Mo. and Uniform Commercial Code does not provide for payment of interest. See §§ 400.3-112(4); 400.3-420. Moreover, there is no evidence that State Bank received a benefit from its conduct.
The seminal case relating to conversion damages is Independence Flying Service v. Ailshire, 409 S.W.2d 628 (Mo.1966). The Independence Flying Service case involved an action for conversion of certain buildings. Id. at 629. As in the present case, the matter was tried without a jury on the issue of damages and the trial court denied interest to the plaintiffs. Id. at 631. In Independence Flying Service, the Missouri Supreme Court reversed the trial court's denial of interest by stating that in actions for conversion, in order to give the injured party full indemnity, interest is allowed from the date of conversion under Section 408.020. Id. at 632.
Moreover, Section 537.520 allows for damages "in the nature of interest, over and above the value of goods at the time of conversion or seizure." Therefore, in a case for conversion, the allowance of interest from the date of conversion is part of the damages element of the case. See Commercial Credit Corp. v. Joplin Auto. Auction Co., 430 S.W.2d 440, 445 (Mo.App. 1968) (holding that award under Section 537.520 in "nature of interest in trover for wrongful conversion is a measurement of damages by the ruling rate of interest, not as interest, but by way of compensatory damages").
State Bank's contention that it received no benefit from the deposits is not relevant to the issue of damages. The loss to Stromberg is the gravamen of the offense and as in Independence Flying Service, good faith or lack of malice is not a sufficient reason for denying the claim for interest. Independence Flying Service, Inc., 409 S.W.2d at 631.
Moreover, we find the trial court misapplied Sections 400.3-112 and 400.3-420[7] in the denial of interest. Section 400.3-112(a) states in part that "[u]nless otherwise provided in the instrument, . . . an *33 instrument is not payable with interest." Here, the trial court improperly relied on Section 400.3-112 in ruling as it did, because the Draft in this case did not provide for interest. Moreover, Section 400.3-112 does not provide for the event of a wrongdoing. When the Draft was presented, there was no interest noted, therefore no interest was paid. However, once the Draft was converted, the law of trover and conversion was applicable because of the language contained in Section 400.3-420, which states that the law of conversion applies to instruments. The law of conversion allows interest from the date of conversion in cases, such as here, where a bank's negligence results in a forged endorsement of an instrument. Hoppe v. First Midwest Bank of Poplar Bluff, 899 S.W.2d 879, 884 (Mo.App. S.D.1995). Therefore, Stromberg is entitled to interest as of the date of conversion under Sections 408.020 and 537.520.
The final issue Stromberg challenges is State Bank's assertion that the trial court properly denied "prejudgment interest" because the notice provision of Section 408.040 was not complied with by Stromberg. Section 408.040 states that if a demand for settlement at a stated figure is made, subject to the notice requirements, and it goes unanswered and the judgment award exceeds that amount demanded, the plaintiff is entitled to prejudgment interest. Section 408.040.2. Section 408.040 does not apply in the instant case because interest is a part of the damages in a conversion case. Stromberg did not seek "prejudgment interest" as defined by Section 408.040, but sought damages for his loss under the law of trover and conversion, Section 400.3-420, which includes interest for the loss of draft proceeds.
The trial court erred in applying the provisions of Section 408.040. Interest in the amount of 9 percent, pursuant to Section 408.020, should be added to the judgment relating back to August 11, 1998, the date of forgery and conversion. The trial court's judgment is affirmed with respect to the award of $80,000 and reversed and remanded for the trial court to add interest pursuant to Sections 408.020 and 537.520.
BOOKER T. SHAW, P.J. and KATHIANNE KNAUP CRANE, J., concur.
NOTES
[1] The U.C.C. has been adopted by the Missouri legislature and is incorporated into the Missouri statutes. See Chapter 400 of the Missouri Statutes. Unless otherwise indicated, all further references are to RSMo 2000.
[2] Originally the fire policy was issued through Custom Insurance but coverage was later changed to American Family for the same amount and with the same loss payees.
[3] The record reveals the last payment Stromberg received from the Moores was in May 1998.
[4] Stromberg testified that he had called American Family after the foreclosure sale on November 10, 1998 and at that time American Family informed him, for the first time, the Draft had been negotiated.
[5] Travers v. Universal Fire & Cas. Ins. Co., 34 S.W.3d 156 (Mo.App. W.D.2000), Fire Ins. Exchange v. Bowers, 994 S.W.2d 110 (Mo. App. S.D.1999), Economy Preferred Ins. v. Schomaker, 900 S.W.2d 249 (Mo.App. E.D. 1995) cited by State Bank are factually distinguishable from the case at bar. As State Bank admits, these cases dealt with a mortgagee's cause of action against the insurance company under the policy following foreclosure and not, as here, against a third-party bank for conversion under the U.C.C. Moreover, in the cases cited by State Bank, when the debt was extinguished following foreclosure, so was the mortgagee's interest. Here, after foreclosure, the amount owed by the Moores was approximately $92,000, $12,000 more than the assessed value of the recovered property. Therefore, Stromberg's debt was not extinguished by the foreclosure.
[6] Section 400.3-406 states as follows:
(a) A person whose failure to exercise ordinary care substantially contributes to an alteration of an instrument or to the making of a forged signature on an instrument is precluded from asserting the alteration or the forgery against a person who, in good faith, pays the instrument or takes it for value or for collection.
(b) Under subsection (a), if the person asserting the preclusion fails to exercise ordinary care in paying or taking the instrument and that failure substantially contributes to loss, the loss is allocated between the person precluded and the person asserting the preclusion according to the extent to which the failure of each to exercise ordinary care contributed to the loss.
(c) Under subsection (a), the burden of proving failure to exercise ordinary care is on the person asserting the preclusion. Under subsection (b), the burden of proving failure to exercise ordinary care is on the person precluded.
[7] Section 400-3.420(a) states the law applicable to conversion also applies to instruments. Section 400-3.420(b) states the measure of liability is presumed to be the amount payable on the instrument, not to exceed the amount of the plaintiff's interest in the instrument.
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export enum NotificationAnimationType {
Fade = 'fade',
FromTop = 'fromTop',
FromRight = 'fromRight',
FromBottom = 'fromBottom',
FromLeft = 'fromLeft',
Scale = 'scale',
Rotate = 'rotate'
}
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/*
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* Copyright 2016-2017 NXP
* All rights reserved.
*
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* that the following conditions are met:
*
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* ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
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* SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
*/
#ifndef _PIN_MUX_H_
#define _PIN_MUX_H_
/*******************************************************************************
* Definitions
******************************************************************************/
/*! @brief Direction type */
typedef enum _pin_mux_direction
{
kPIN_MUX_DirectionInput = 0U, /* Input direction */
kPIN_MUX_DirectionOutput = 1U, /* Output direction */
kPIN_MUX_DirectionInputOrOutput = 2U /* Input or output direction */
} pin_mux_direction_t;
/*!
* @addtogroup pin_mux
* @{
*/
/*******************************************************************************
* API
******************************************************************************/
#if defined(__cplusplus)
extern "C" {
#endif
/* FC0_RXD_SDA_MOSI (number 31), U18[4]/TO_MUX_P0_0-ISP_RX */
#define BOARD_INITPINS_DEBUG_UART_RX_PERIPHERAL FLEXCOMM0 /*!< Device name: FLEXCOMM0 */
#define BOARD_INITPINS_DEBUG_UART_RX_SIGNAL RXD_SDA_MOSI /*!< FLEXCOMM0 signal: RXD_SDA_MOSI */
#define BOARD_INITPINS_DEBUG_UART_RX_PIN_NAME FC0_RXD_SDA_MOSI /*!< Pin name */
#define BOARD_INITPINS_DEBUG_UART_RX_LABEL "U18[4]/TO_MUX_P0_0-ISP_RX" /*!< Label */
#define BOARD_INITPINS_DEBUG_UART_RX_NAME "DEBUG_UART_RX" /*!< Identifier name */
/* FC0_TXD_SCL_MISO (number 32), U6[4]/U22[3]/P0_1-ISP_TX */
#define BOARD_INITPINS_DEBUG_UART_TX_PERIPHERAL FLEXCOMM0 /*!< Device name: FLEXCOMM0 */
#define BOARD_INITPINS_DEBUG_UART_TX_SIGNAL TXD_SCL_MISO /*!< FLEXCOMM0 signal: TXD_SCL_MISO */
#define BOARD_INITPINS_DEBUG_UART_TX_PIN_NAME FC0_TXD_SCL_MISO /*!< Pin name */
#define BOARD_INITPINS_DEBUG_UART_TX_LABEL "U6[4]/U22[3]/P0_1-ISP_TX" /*!< Label */
#define BOARD_INITPINS_DEBUG_UART_TX_NAME "DEBUG_UART_TX" /*!< Identifier name */
/* SWO (number 50), J2[10]/JS30/U4[12]/TDO-SWO_TRGT-SPIFI_IO2 */
#define BOARD_INITPINS_DEBUG_SWD_SWO_PERIPHERAL SWD /*!< Device name: SWD */
#define BOARD_INITPINS_DEBUG_SWD_SWO_SIGNAL SWO /*!< SWD signal: SWO */
#define BOARD_INITPINS_DEBUG_SWD_SWO_PIN_NAME SWO /*!< Pin name */
#define BOARD_INITPINS_DEBUG_SWD_SWO_LABEL "J2[10]/JS30/U4[12]/TDO-SWO_TRGT-SPIFI_IO2" /*!< Label */
#define BOARD_INITPINS_DEBUG_SWD_SWO_NAME "DEBUG_SWD_SWO" /*!< Identifier name */
/*!
* @brief Configures pin routing and optionally pin electrical features.
*
*/
void BOARD_InitPins(void); /* Function assigned for the Cortex-M0P */
#if defined(__cplusplus)
}
#endif
/*!
* @}
*/
#endif /* _PIN_MUX_H_ */
/*******************************************************************************
* EOF
******************************************************************************/
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In a direct response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid on Monday revealed more temporary expansions of telehealth services for Medicare recipients.
“Today, we're announcing that we're going to go even further and we're going to be paying doctors to make phone calls with their patients and provide care over the phone,” CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced at a COVID-19 Task Force press briefing Monday afternoon. “And we're getting rid of long-standing barriers to telehealth in the Medicare program, allowing emergency rooms to use telehealth and eliminating requirements that some visits be provided face-to-face.”
In a larger announcement around new regulatory changes to combat the pandemic, also published Monday, CMS officials said the agency will “now allow for more than 80 additional services to be furnished via telehealth.” The agency also noted that under the expansion “new as well as established patients now may stay at home and have a telehealth visit with their provider,” and providers will have the ability to bill for telehealth visits at the same rate as in-person visits.
On top of several other additions, CMS also said physicians can supervise their clinical staff “using virtual technologies when appropriate, instead of requiring in-person presence.”
The news comes several days after the agency initially announced plans to broaden reimbursements for telehealth services and extend telehealth benefits for Medicare recipients. Further information on the agency's waivers and rule changes related to the COVID-19 pandemic can be found online.
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Obesity may fall under ADA scrutiny
Published
8:00 pm EDT, Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Inquiry: I am having trouble finding a job as a bank teller. It may be because I am way overweight. Although I could do the job, I would need some accommodation from the employer...but no one has offered a job. Do I have any legal rights?
-- Sally, Norwalk
Response: Your legal rights will largely depend on whether your obesity condition will be considered to be a "disability" or not. There are state laws and federal laws (ADA) that prohibit disability discrimination.
The letters "ADA" stand for a federal law: Americans with Disabilities Act. This law took effect on July 26, 1992. It applies to employers with at least fifteen employees. Connecticut state law also prohibits disability discrimination by employers with at least three employees. Its law is similar to the ADA.
Prohibited
As with the other employment discrimination statutes which prohibit age, race, sex, religious and national origin discrimination, the ADA and the state disability laws outlaw discrimination against the handicapped in all employment practices ---- including recruiting, hiring, placement, training, promotion, transfer, benefits and discharge (among others).
Who Is Protected?
The ADA protects applicants or employees who are "qualified individuals with disabilities." Note the word "qualified" ---- just having a disability doesn't mean you are protected by the law. One has a disability under the ADA if he/she is:
1. a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, or
2. a person who has a record of such impairment, or
3. a person who is regarded as having such an impairment.
Individuals with substantial, chronic (on-going) impairments that limit major life activities such as speaking, walking, talking, hearing, seeing, breathing, etc. are individuals with a disability. Various medical conditions such as the following would usually be considered to be a disability: diabetes, epilepsy, AIDS, paralysis, mental retardation, M.S., substantial loss of hearing or vision, etc.
Even individuals who are currently healthy but who have a history of a disabling condition would be considered to be covered by the ADA. An example would be an employee who is currently in remission after having had cancer.
Those employees who are regarded as having a disability by their employer -- but aren't actually disabled -- are also considered to be protected under the statute!
Qualified?
In order to be protected by the ADA one needs to be both disabled (as discussed above) and qualified.
One is qualified if one has the skills, experience and education for the job in question and can perform the "essential functions" of that job with or without reasonable accommodation.
Such essential functions will vary from job to job but should not include marginal job duties. For example, an "essential function" for a secretary would normally include typing but may not include filing ---- depending on the job in question.
A temporary disability, such as pregnancy or a broken leg, are normally not considered to be covered by the ADA because such conditions are generally short in duration as compared to a chronic condition.
Reasonable Accommodation
Reasonable accommodation means any modification or change to a job or work environment that enables a qualified individual with a disability to perform the essential job functions, such as:
* modifying equipment
* restructuring a job
* enabling access to facilities
* purchasing new equipment
Exception
No accommodation is required if it would impose an "undue hardship" on the employer.
"Undue hardship" means substantial expense or difficulty for the employer. Each employer's claim of such an exception is considered in light of the expense or difficulty involved in relation to the employer's size and overall ability to make such reasonable accommodation.
Current Drug Users
Individuals who are now using illegal drugs are not protected by ADA.
Employers' Obligations
Employers are obligated to make employment decisions without regard to whether one has a disability (assuming the person is qualified) ---- just like employers are not supposed to consider one's sex, age, race, national origin or religion in making such employment decisions.
Employers can ask applicants if they can perform certain job functions but should not ask if the applicant has any disabilities until after the employee has been offered and accepted the job. If all new employees are given a physical, the employer can condition the job offer on passing the physical.
Lastly, employers are permitted to hire the most qualified candidate ---- as long as one's disability is not considered; this again assumes that the employee with the disability is qualified as defined above.
Obesity
If one's weight fulfills the definition of a disability, as referenced above, and accommodating such condition would not constitute an "undue hardship", then he/she would usually , in my opinion, have the legal rights provided by the ADA and by state disability laws.
Currently, the court decisions have come down on both sides of the question as to whether such condition is a disability or not.
Stephen P. Horner is an attorney who practices employment and labor law with the Darien firm of Rucci Burnham. Questions for this column may be submitted at shorner@horner-law.com
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Hi, I'm Dr. Jackie, a communication specialist and relationship expert. I would like to try to help, but I am unsure of your question. I'll wait here in chat to see if you come back online and if you want to talk. :-)
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Customer:
Hi
JACUSTOMER-29g2cvk7- :
That was something of an accidental question but I do have one that relates to a recent relationship break down. Do you think you could help?
Customer:
I can certainly try and would be happy to
JACUSTOMER-29g2cvk7- :
It's rather long so my apologies for that
JACUSTOMER-29g2cvk7- :
I have recently experienced the ending of an extremely intense 6 month relationship.
My now ex-girlfriend, 20, and I were involved for 6 months. The relationship was very intense, particularly in the last few months - we went on an amazing holiday, lived together for a few weeks and spent almost every night and many days together.
After around 3 months, she told me that she loved me. I felt a deep connection to her but was unsure that it was love. She would refer to me as her “soulmate", tell me that she wanted to spend her life with me (during particularly emotional times i.e. after sex), wishfully discussed our future lives and said, in all seriousness, that she would want to move to Australia with me after university. She even stated that she would be uncertain about an abortion if she were to become pregnant. She discussed our Christmas together later in the year and our children in ten years.
Now, I was concerned about her suitability for a long-term relationship, given that she cheated on her ex-bf – she explained that they didn’t see one another frequently enough due to university separation and that, after a year of only once monthly visits, she got bored and fell out of love with, and cheated on him.
What compounded my doubts was her saying that she hadn’t felt guilty about this ending because she didn't love him anymore, despite her knowledge that he loved her still. She also said that she often wondered whether he had been the love of her life, but later on in our relationship said that she had never had a connection with him such as we had.
She adored sex (and was highly promiscuous when younger), is a middle adult child of divorce – her father cheated on several partners including her mother – and has gone to university to study drama, with the aim of becoming an actress (not that this is indicative of anything necessarily but could be symptomatic of a need for attention in certain cases).
After 6 incredible months together, we both departed for university. We discussed ending things but agreed that we wanted to try a distance relationship as we couldn’t bear the thought. She did, however, say that she was “terrified of messing things up” and recreating past “self-sabotaging behaviours” but couldn’t imagine doing that to me. She said that she was afraid that I might meet someone, a medic (my course) with whom she could not compete, but trusted me “with her life”.
During our time apart, she initially spoke of her excitement over seeing me in the coming weeks, seeing me for Christmas and passionately expressed her love – “I don’t think you’ll ever understand how much I love you”, “you’re my world”, “I miss your mind, body and soul” – although I think she was made more emotional by alcohol on several of these occasions. I received several drunken phone calls during which she stated that she was desperate for things to work, that she wanted/felt she needed me to be there to reassure her, that she missed me a great deal and loved me intensely. However, when I called during the day, I received the same luke-warm reactions I would upon initial face-to-face encounter. Within days of this, by around 3 weeks of separation, she had stopped making any effort to contact me and I would not receive responses to messages/phone calls for 24 hours.
I visited her days later. She became slightly teary upon seeing me but then proceeded to more or less ignore me, to show next to no enthusiasm for my presence (almost annoyance), to text her new friends in front of me and to say that she didn't have the “emotional capacity” to make our relationship work alongside her time-demanding course. She was largely dispassionate the entire time we discussed this – showing almost no emotion as she suggested a break. After me asking whether something had happened, she admitted that she had been invited back to another guy's house and had slept in his bed, cuddling all night, but swore in an impassioned manner that nothing more intimate had happened. Whether I believe her, I have no idea.
It turned out that she had been flirtatiously texting this guy in front of me the entire time I was there – suggesting she would visit him during the Summer and telling him how awkward things had become with us. Even as we ended things she picked up the phone to text him. Furthermore, the only enthusiasm she showed was when he responded to a message.
She made me promise that we could revisit things at Christmas or at some stage in the near future, we had sex and then I mentioned some of my most treasured memories of our time together, resulting in a great many tears on her part. She couldn’t bring herself to say “goodbye” to me and closed with “I’ll see you soon”. It seemed so odd considering her cold and unconcerned attitude just hours earlier.
During our relationship, she would rarely show great enthusiasm and was extremely laid back, like myself. A typical evening might involve a luke-warm reception (no smile or hug unless instigated by me) and somewhat difficult conversation to which I would contribute the majority of the impetus. Gradually, the level of intimacy and affection would increase – a kiss, cuddling on the sofa, sex and then intimate conversation. If we parted in the morning, the next visit would proceed similarly. We never fought and she rarely showed any anger, hating confrontation. She would show annoyance and impatience but denied ever feeling jealousy.
She seemed to be very loving and affectionate during the right moments i.e. watching a movie/in bed/after sex (particularly during the latter stages) but could also be disinterested and condescending. She could also be quite selfish - "forgetting her wallet", buying expensive items despite owing me money that I was in need of etc.
She said that before she met me she found it very difficult to open up to people emotionally, even to her previous boyfriend of 2 years, and had never discussed her previous issues surrounding eating disorders, her parents’ divorce and her issues with self-image (she was very conscious of her weight and looks and had previously suffered from an eating disorder).
She often said that she thought of herself as an individual, not needing to be part of a group and not wanting to depend on people and made a fierce show of being independent.
She frequently said that she wished we had met after university/that she wanted a future with me, due to her propensity to engage in "self-sabotaging behaviours" – cheating, promiscuity in younger days, drug taking and going out drinking - and was scared of ruining our relationship. She also frequently said that she was afraid that I was going to meet someone at university.
But at the same time, she said that, since being at university, she rarely thought of me. She immediately started “seeing” the guy she shared a bed with after we parted.
How is it that she could have moved on (new partner & seeming so happy)/given up on a relationship of such apparent intensity so quickly?When I received midnight phone calls saying how she "so wanted it to work" and how she was "so afraid" I was going to meet someone, was this an indication that she was grieving for the relationship, subconsciously knowing it wouldn't work, hence her apparent quick recovery?Or is she just finding it very easy to ignore the situation (hence the emotion shown when I was actually present) - she said she rarely thinks of home and doesn't miss it, wouldn't rather be anywhere else than her dream current university etc. – drama, leading to a career in acting.
I’m not sure whether she feels love to a limited extent, hence the quick recovery/loss of interest, or has an ability to just “go cold” on partners? Neither of these seems to explain how she stayed with, and stayed faithful to, her last bf (who she apparently had nothing near the same connection with and doubted her love for) for a year, despite only seeing one another once a month. I believe that we would still be together had it not been for her going to university (even if I had) so could it just be the lack of a familiar support network – new environment, new people, new challenges, new stresses etc. meaning a heightened desire for a new partner?
Does she just like the novel? Is this a grass is greener situation? Or was our relationship just a honeymoon situation? Did she ever actually love me – to a normal extent or to her own capacity for such a feeling?
Customer:
No problem--can you give me a few minutes to read it? Thanks!
JACUSTOMER-29g2cvk7- :
Yes, please take as much time as necessary
Customer:
I am pretty sure that I responded to this before but am unsure you responded. Did something happen last time you posted this?`
JACUSTOMER-29g2cvk7- :
I didnt receive a message or notificaiton unfortunately so i'm not sure if it didn't get through or some such
Customer:
Ok. That is fine. I just remember being familiar with this. And I am so sorry you are going through this
Customer:
It sounds like she may have detachment disorder. Are you familiar with that? I would never begin to diagnose someone who was not seeing me and with whom I never met and never did an intake on. But my gut is telling me that she may have this or something very similar.
JACUSTOMER-29g2cvk7- :
Could you explain detachment disorder to an extent?
JACUSTOMER-29g2cvk7- :
Things have also developed somewhat since - I received a phone call from her last night. I told her that I have been struck and hurt by the sudden ending, by the manner of it. She agreed that she had handled it poorly but didn't do it due to losing her love for me. She told me that she hasn't been seeing anyone and that we would still be together if it wasn't for the considerable time demands of her course. Finally that she felt as though she had succeeded in ignoring what had happened, how she felt until the last month when it had hit her, and that things had consequently been tough for her - missing meetc
Customer:
Sure. It basically means that at an early age -- infancy through young toddler age -- that someone just did not properly bond with the mom/dad/primary care giver. Often times this occurs with orphaned children or children taken away from parents if the parents are incompetent to take care of the child. If a child is shifted from one family guardian to another to another or if the government intercedes and places them in foster care and the child moves from home to home or even if the child does not receive adequate affection from the caregiver(s), this can happen. The child never forms close, emotional bonds. And because of this experience, the child grows into an adult who is incapable of true feelings of affection for a long period of time--because stemming from childhood, affection "comes and goes" and after a period of time, it's off to the next home (or for an adult--the next relationship).
Customer:
I hope that makes sense. I'll now read what you just added.
JACUSTOMER-29g2cvk7- :
As I see it presently, we went away and either she acted the way that she did (lack of communication, favouring someone else, ignoring my presence) either due to a condition such as BPD (out of sight out of mind mentaility) or because she summised that things wouldn't work given the nature of her course. Perhaps to avoid the pain of this she acted in the way that she did - to distract. How she could be so selfish towards someone she claims to have loved, how she can still fail to see how it must have hurt me is still confusing, as is why she wasn't even willing to give it a longer try.
Customer:
I can sense your pain and frustration--I know this is hard. And I agree, she could have BPD. I am sensing at least someone that she has some type of detachment disorder because it seems like she can't stick with a commitment long-term. I am just going by what you have shared about her past as well as her behaviors during your relationship. Obviously again I can't be sure because I haven't met with her. But regardless, the bot***** *****ne (despite what the cause/disorder) is that there is something going on in her mind that has caused these back and forth emotions. It may even be bipolar disorder--medical researchers STILL don't understand everything about that. But again, regardless of the causes of her behaviors, behaviors that we may NEVER truly understand, we have to try to "deal with" what is in front of us. What I mean is...
JACUSTOMER-29g2cvk7- :
In terms of bonding with care givers - she's close to her mum and sisters but dad left under suspicions of cheating at a young age
Customer:
It does seem that her actions are very selfish and hurtful. And maybe "seem" is not strong enough--let's SAY that her actions are such. My response is that what is important is her intent. There is a difference between someone who INTENDS to "play games" and cause her and knows that it is unethical, hurtful, and wrong. We label people like this as sociopaths because on the surface, they seem very likable and even affectionate. But deep down, they truly are incapable of real feelings. They know this is wrong, but they really don't care. Then there are others who suffer from some type of emotional disorder and they really do not INTEND or mean to act in ways that are hurtful to others--they just have no coping strategies and really need some help via counseling/therapy and/or medication perhaps to help replace say a chemical imbalance.
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So what I am trying to do is answer your questions about "Why?" she is like this.
Customer:
Without talking with her, I can't begin to know what is inside her mind. So I am throwing out some plausible causes and explanations.
Customer:
The bot***** *****ne--
Customer:
If you truly care about her and feel she truly cares about you (trust your gut on this--usually your instincts are right; not always but usually you can sense if she truly has real feelings), then you are going to need some help dealing with whatever is going on with her.
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And she will need counseling/therapy to explore what causes these behavioral changes so that she can overcome and try to cope with stress of school, relationship stress, etc. She can't be healthy for YOU in a relationship until she is HEALTHY on her own. Make sense?
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I feel that her feelings were real when we were together, although now she is convinced that she cannot have a relationship in general due to the demands of her college course. I suppose what I am struggling with is, despite the knowledge that she likely has some elements of a peronality disorder or felt that the relationship would be impossible alongside her course, how is it that she doesn't recognise that her actions were hurtful?
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I am still in love with her but I know that it can't work
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I wish I could answer that. Like I said, I'm sorry but it would be unfair for me to label her behaviors or "diagnose" her without talking to her. So I don't know 100% WHY she does not seem to know her behaviors are hurtful. I can only speculate at this point. Given my opinion that she does likely have some type of personality disorder, one of which I mentioned, maybe she just CAN'T understand why her behaviors are hurtful. Our brains are very complex. And due to genetics and many other factors--scientists now think hormones in our food are causing all kinds of things to go "haywire" in our brains--she could have a chemical imbalance or even something else physiological that affects her frontal lobe and/or other parts. So the best I can do (unfortunately) is give you my best guess. Since you are the one with whom I am chatting, helping you be healthy is MY goal.
Customer:
If you "know that it can't work," like you have said, then you will have to figure out some ways to get emotionally healthy again. It must hurt terribly, and I can only imagine that hurt is affecting your studies.
Customer:
But you have to work through this.
JACUSTOMER-29g2cvk7- :
If she does have a personality disorder, why do you think she is contacting me again? Is it genuinely missing me or is it more the way that I make her feel or somesuch?
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And do you think I can believe her when she says that she hasn't been seeing anyone? The thought of this really bothers me
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Well, to answer your first question, she may have genuine feelings. She just may not know how to express them the way most other people do--I mean consistently and not seem to shut them off and on again. This of course would indicate a disorder.
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You're right, the pain is tremendous. This was my first love, the only person I'd ever opened up to about my years of major depression. And it seemed as though I was tossed aside despite these incredible experiences, protestations of affection, and apparent future plans. I'm doing a medicine degree and it's made it an incredibly difficult experience
Customer:
I truly don't know if you can believe her or not. She admitted to cheating before. So of course, there are "red flags" that she may do it again.
Customer:
I don't want to mislead you--but she could "get better" if she would seek therapy. A psychiatrist would be able to better give her an accurate diagnosis and medicine if needed. Then if she became "healthy" emotionally, it may be possible to have a real relationship some day. But right now it doesn't sound like that is a good option because you will be dealing with extreme feelings/lack of feelings like you have experienced. Disorders just do not go away and people just "get rid of disorders" like one gets rid of a cold.
Customer:
So what are your thoughts?
Customer:
I am not sure if this has helped but I hope it has.
Customer:
I am not sure what happened but I'm going to go because I have another customer waiting for me. I'm happy to chat again if you want.
Customer:
Can you rate our conversation when you log off so that I know I am helping? Please let me know if you want to talk again. Best, *****
My apologies for stepping away. I wonder if you might be able to explain the symptoms/consequences of dissociative disorder a little more? And also whether you think it could be the case that she simply acted out due to wanting to avoid feeling the pain of losing me & due to conviction that things wouldn't work? She said at the time that she still loved me, was in fits of tears when we broke up and said again on the phone yesterday that she had loved me when we broke up. But she also said that she had ignored her feelings following the break upuntil about a month ago & clearly her actions were not suggestive of love - do you think this is a fair conclusion - she stopped texting me, although that could have been due to cowardice, spent the night with another guy (platonic apparently) so could have simply been for comfort, then ignored me on my visit (again cowardice?) + she wasn't willing to try for longer than 3 weeks! Those intense feelings which seemed to have vanished whilst we were apart, except for a few occasions, reappeared when I was present
Dissociative disorder is actually a "class" of disorders usually stemming from the main idea of "separating" from oneself. Ex: Dissociative Identity Disorder is what experts used to call "Multiple Personality Disorder." Other types of dissociation include amnesia or partial memory loss due to a traumatic experience--mental or physical or both.I was suggesting Reactive Attachment Disorder where like I mentioned, a child does not form the proper bonds between him/herself and the primary caregiver(s). This absolutely affects healthy mental and emotional development and ultimately causes the inability for the grown adult to form healthy attachments with friends, romantic partners, etc.Only a professional who interacts with the client and who conducts a thorough assessment can diagnose what your partner/ex-partner has. The good news is that any of the above disorders can be treated through therapy and usually medicine to help correct a chemical imbalance. There is definitely hope thanks to advances in medicine. :-)I hope that helps! Please let me know if/when you want to chat again. And if you are satisfied, would you mind rating our chat? I'm here for several more hours this evening and probably off and on tomorrow.Best,--Dr. Jackie
I suppose the way I see it at present is that this situation has resulted form one of two possibilities:
1) PD of some description, although difficult to say which.
2) Our relationship was not based upon love but infatuation, at least on her end. Misinterpreted for love due to strength of feeling elicited. Having arrived at uni, the feelings gradually dissipated/changed for her. She realised that she wanted independence to succeed on her course and enjoy university, without being beholden to anyone else. To distract herself from the situation/prevent any heartache she showed attention to another guy and ignored the situation with me. protestations of love then and now amounted to feelings conjured up in the moment as she remembered the good times. Despite our 6 months together, perhaps it simply takes her a longer time than this to form a lasting connection? Secondly, being an adult child of divorce, she was afraid that I would leave her, as she often said, so, on some level, wanted to end things before this happened.
Conclusion: Regardless of cause, her behaviour was hurtful and selfish. The end was probably inevitable, however. It likely did not reflect upon me as an individual and we would likely have remained together if not for university. She misses me now, as evidenced by phone call etc, and will probably feel that way on occasion for some time to come/will look back with fond memories. Managing to elicit those feelings in her should be taken as a compliment.
Hi there,I had to step away myself last evening--so sorry I couldn't respond sooner.I must say that you have tremendous insight into your own relationship, which is uncommon to the extent you seem to. Are you studying human behavior/psychology or some related field? I commend you on approaching your relationship not just from emotions (we always have our emotions involved in personal relationships) but from a logical/analytic perspective.I also was thinking that you may be interested in what research shows about three types of relationships with regard to how they progress. (There are probably more than 3 categories, but we tend to categorize by 3's to make it easier.) First is the relationship that progresses VERY QUICKLY; the second is the relationship that tends to progress "normally," or what society would typify as normally--not too fast, not too slowly; and the third is the relationship that drags on and on initially and seems to not get off the ground at first.When we look at yours, I think the first category would be appropriate; with the fast progression comes intensity of passion, intimacy, etc. As you may guess, out of the three categories, the group who boasts the highest satisfaction is the group in the middle. It is healthier to go slowly (not so slowly though that it drags on) and really get to know each other; what I find interesting is that those couples reported the highest levels of satisfaction.That said, I definitely agree that the divorce affected her. Obviously divorce affects all children, grown or otherwise. While some people find coping skills to get through it, others let it affect their own romantic relationships, usually via being afraid of being abandoned. So in turn, they often sabotage anything good so that THEY are not rejected (better to be the person doing the rejecting than the person getting rejected).I am so sorry you are grieving now. Do you want to chat? I will send you the info if you want to talk on the phone or via SKYPE. Most importantly, I think you have an amazing capacity to understand this from various angles--certainly through analysis. To me that indicates that despite the pain you are going through now, you will work through this and you will be OK. :-)Let me know if you want to continue.Best,--Dr. Jackie
I agree wholeheartedly with the impact of the divorce and subsequent avoidance of rejection. However, this in my eyes only accounts for her self-sabotaging behaviours and not her apparent withdrawal of interest/affection.
Is it possible that she was simply ignoring the way she felt? Getting lost in all of the new experiences and then it hit her some time later? Can some individuals just turn off their feelings in this way and if so could you explain it to me as I think I would have just missed her too greatly if the situation was reversed.
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The Higgs Boson at Last?
Evidence for a new particle that was detected at the Large Hadron Collider was confirmed in 2012 to be the fabled Higgs. The particle's namesake and another theorist have now received the 2013 Nobel in physics
On December 13, CERN will release the results of a new data analysis in the search for the Higgs boson. at the LHC. As I was reporting my article, which appeared today, on December 7 I spoke on the phone with Joe Lykken, a Fermilab staff theoretical physicist.
Lyn Evans led the design and construction of CERN's Large Hadron Collider They call it “the machine.”Thousands of physicists working at the LHC are looking for the Higgs boson and other new particles, and many of them have contributed to building the gigantic detectors that are taking most of the media limelight these days.But humming 100 meters under the Franco-Swiss border is the apparatus that makes it all possible.
A particle, which might be a Higgs boson, decaying into muons in the ATLAS detector. Credit: ATLAS Experiment/CERN If you've read anything about the Higgs boson, you probably know that this particle is special because it can explain how fundamental particles acquire mass.
So it's finally, probably, maybe, happened. Although they are still hedging a bit, physicists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced this morning that they had found the long-sought Higgs boson.
SSC site “Europe Overtakes U.S. in Physics Pursuing God Particle,” the headline blared.The Bloomberg News story declared that the home of Galileo and Newton has recaptured the lead in physics with its pursuit of the Higgs boson, a place in the scientific firmament that was once indisputably owned by the birthplace of Benjamin Franklin.
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to François Englert and Peter Higgs for the theory of how particles acquire mass, requiring the existence of the Higgs Boson, experimentally confirmed to exist in 2012
October 8, 2013 — Steve Mirsky
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Benjamin Fulford 10-24-16… “Mass arrests and extrajudicial killings going on as part of cabal takedown”
New weekly report from Ben. Wow… extremely fascinating news. I don’t know about anyone else, but I am holding Benjamin (and the planet) strongly in the Light at this time.
“There is serious fighting going on as 43 different national militaries begin a coordinated take-down of the Khazarian mafia, Pentagon sources say. Meanwhile, a source in one of the families that owns the Federal Reserve Board says that all fund “blockages we are experiencing in the USA are due to the Bush/Clinton & Rothchilds & Rockefeller crime families. We were told that they issued a firm threat that the ‘entire family’ would be killed of ANYONE who releases or receives any of the RV, redemption bonds or currency exchanges funds.”
“The fight is also getting personal for this writer. This morning 9 goons from the Tokyo Tax office burst into my home and began seizing property. They work for Yuriko Koike, the Tokyo Governor and Khazarian mafia stooge who was fraudulently elected recently… Gangsters from both factions of the Yamaguchi Gumi yakuza syndicate have also informed me that Rothschild Japan agent Michael Greenberg is trying to hire hitmen to have me killed… The reason for this is because this blog has exposed the Khazarian mafia’s crimes, especially their privately owned central bank fraud scheme.
“There have also been at least 3 honey traps (beautiful women who unnaturally try to make themselves available to me) sent my way in the past week. Other honest journalists and whistleblowers are experiencing similar things and the best advice is to avoid regular hang outs and new friends until this all blows over, presumably by November 8th.
“The battle is expected to intensify over the coming two weeks as the US Presidential election approaches.
“…Pentagon sources keep saying it will be none of the above. Head of US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford met with Korean and Japanese top military brass on October 14th and the military chiefs of 43 nations on October 17th to discuss “the final takedown of the cabal on all continents,” Pentagon sources says… “The Cabal sealed their fate with multiple assassination attempts on Dunford, which in turn sped up mass arrests”
There is serious fighting going on as 43 different national militaries begin a coordinated take-down of the Khazarian mafia, Pentagon sources say. Meanwhile, a source in one of the families that owns the Federal Reserve Board says that all fund “blockages we are experiencing in the USA are due to the Bush/Clinton & Rothchilds & Rockefeller crime families. We were told that they issued a firm threat that the ‘entire family’ would be killed of ANYONE who releases or receives any of the RV, redemption bonds or currency exchanges funds.” The fight is also getting personal for this writer. This morning 9 goons from the Tokyo Tax office burst into my home and began seizing property. They work for Yuriko Koike, the Tokyo Governor and Khazarian mafia stooge who was fraudulently elected recently. All the money in my bank accounts, including that earned from this blog, has also been seized. Anybody with even a remote connection to me is being subjected to similar harassment including whistleblowing lawyers having their law licenses revoked. Gangsters from both factions of the Yamaguchi Gumi yakuza syndicate have also informed me that Rothschild Japan agent Michael Greenberg is trying to hire hitmen to have me killed. My webmaster has also been hit with a cancer causing poison by these same murderous gangsters.
The reason for this is because this blog has exposed the Khazarian mafia’s crimes, especially their privately owned central bank fraud scheme.
There have also been at least 3 honey traps (beautiful women who unnaturally try to make themselves available to me) sent my way in the past week. Other honest journalists and whistleblowers are experiencing similar things and the best advice is to avoid regular hang outs and new friends until this all blows over, presumably by November 8th.
The battle is expected to intensify over the coming two weeks as the US Presidential election approaches. Here NSA and other agency whistleblowers have revealed that Hillary Clinton (or whatever look-alike or clone who is pretending to be her) reports to Evelyn de Rothschild. Donald Trump, for his part, reports to Israeli gangster Roy Cohen, according to CIA and NSA sources. “I would rather have the Israeli Mafia in power than the Bush/Clinton/Rockefeller crime family,” was how one (Jewish) CIA source described the Presidential election battle.
In either case, the fact the US government is threatening to arrest Russian diplomats if they try to verify the upcoming election is free and fair is a clear indication the whole election campaign is a giant fraud.
In any case, Pentagon sources keep saying it will be none of the above. Head of US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford met with Korean and Japanese top military brass on October 14th and the military chiefs of 43 nations on October 17th to discuss “the final takedown of the cabal on all continents,” Pentagon sources says. This is how Pentagon sources describe the situation: “The Cabal sealed their fate with multiple assassination attempts on Dunford, which in turn sped up mass arrests, extrajudicials, GCR [Global Currency Reset] and a new financial system based on…
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Millions of Americans stuck in winter’s deep freeze
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NIAGRA FALLS, NY – Sparkling ice and feathery snow banks may look like a fairy tale, but it may seem more like a “grim” fairy tale for the millions of Americans living in the nation’s deep freeze.
Six winter storms have hit the Northeast since January 25, bringing with them the usual winter woes, and more.
Broken water pipes forced residents to evacuate an apartment complex in Bellingham, MA, while in Baltimore, cars parked on the streets became ice sculptures when water mains broke all over the city.
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, two people ended up in the hospital after being buried under five feet of snow that fell from the roof of a skating rink.
In New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, a man was digging out his driveway when he noticed something crawling in the snow down the road. He thought it was a seal in trouble. It turned out to be his former banker who was lost and had been wandering in the snow for more than an hour.
And in Boston, some people have started to jump out of windows. No, they’re not victims of cabin fever. More likely victims of Boston brew.
It’s called the Boston Blizzard Challenge, where people take photos or videos of themselves leaping out of windows, off of porches, from the top of cars into piles of snow.
Boston’s mayor wants them to stop because snow piles can hide cars, fences and other hidden deadly dangers that can break bones while bustin’ moves.
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ST. LOUIS — Justice was a recurring theme as thousands of mourners packed the mammoth Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church on Monday for the funeral of Michael Brown, a black teen whose fatal shooting in a confrontation with a white police officer set off weeks of sometimes violent protests.
Al Sharpton, among the speakers, called for a "fair and impartial investigation" into the shooting.
"We are not anti-police, we respect police," Sharpton said. "But those police that are wrong need to be dealt with just like those in our community who are wrong need to be dealt with."
Benjamin Crump, a lawyer representing Brown's family, alluded to the "three-fifths" clause in the Constitution for counting slaves (which actually was not a pro-slavery clause) and demanded that Brown get "full justice, not three-fifths justice."
Brown's body was being laid to rest, but the controversy surrounding the shooting Aug. 9 was far from over. Prosecutors have not determined whether Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson, 28, will face charges in Brown's death.
The service began with energy, including songs from a church choir and Scripture readings. A line from the Bible — "If God be for us, who can be against us?" — drew loud applause.
Brown's casket was taken to St. Peter's Cemetery in a white, horse-drawn carriage. As his casket was lowered, family members sobbed loudly. The Rev. Charles Ewing, Brown's great-uncle, led the Lord's Prayer. Brown's father released a single white dove, followed by the release of five more doves.
Ron Davis, father of Jordan Davis, 17, who was gunned down in a Jacksonville gas station two years ago, visited with Brown's parents.
"Don't use a shoot-first mentality," said Davis, who had a button with the photo of his son pinned to the lapel of his dark suit. "We have to start going around the country and having seminars with police departments."
At the funeral, several family members shared stories of Brown, telling how the 18-year-old had promised to make something of himself.
Brown "stated to the family that one day the world would know his name. He did not know he was offering up a divine prophecy," Brown's cousin, Eric Davis, told the crowd. "But we are here today remembering the name of Michael Brown."
Davis encouraged people to express their anger by voting. Brown was shot in Ferguson, Mo., where the population is two-thirds African American, but the mayor and five of the six City Council members are white. The 53-member police force has three African-American officers.
"Every time change has come, it's come through the youth and the young generation," Davis said. "This generation is saying we have had enough of this senseless killing. We have had enough of this."
Michael Brown's family sat at the front of the church as thousands of people who turned out for his funeral filed in, including several civil rights leaders and celebrities. (Aug. 25)
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Michael Brown's stepmother, Cal Brown, shared memories of "Mike-Mike," as he was called. She said he had promised to "shake the world."
He told her he had been dreaming of death and bloody sheets days before he died.
"He pretty much prophesied his own death and didn't realize it," she said. "Mike-Mike is an awesome man. He just wanted to go to college. He wanted to have a family ... but God had different plans."
Brown Sr. urged supporters not to protest Monday out of respect for his son. Sharpton discouraged violent protest, saying people involved in such activity must do so in their own name, not Michael Brown's.
Family members of slain teenager Michael Brown touch the vault containing his casket during his funeral on Aug. 25 in Normandy, Mo. Hundreds of people attended Brown's funeral. The teen was shot and killed by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer on Aug. 9. (Photo: Robert Cohen, St. Louis Post Dispatch, via AP)
People attend the funeral of slain teenager Michael Brown on Aug. 25 at the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis. Brown was shot and killed on Aug. 9 by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo. (Photo: Pool photo by Robert Cohen)
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The request was a hard sell outside the church, where members of the New Black Panther Party and Panthers for Justice started brief "Black Power" chants, fists punching the air.
Bila Mohammad of Panthers for Justice said he wished Michael Brown's family hadn't discouraged protests. "This is the day," he said. "The community needs to come together in a non-violent way."
He said, "There will be more protests. ... In the words of Malcolm X, 'When you tell your people to put their guns down, we'll put ours down, too.' "
At the start of the day, mourners lined up under a blistering sun more than three hours before the funeral.
When the church reached its 2,500-person capacity, police directed visitors to an adjacent auditorium that seats 1,000 people and was set up with giant screens. Soon that room was overflowing. A 300-seat annex also filled quickly.
A few hundred visitors unable to get into the service milled around cordially outside. One woman passed out small green and purple ribbons that people pinned to their shirts.
Anger simmered under the surface.
Quincy Harts, 40, of St. Louis was outside the church wearing a T-shirt with Brown's picture and the words "No Justice, No Peace."
He said he'll respect the family's wishes of no protests — for now.
"Ain't nobody too happy about this," Harts said. "You're going to see more protests until (Wilson) goes to jail."
Still, the atmosphere outside the church was subdued. Johnnie Shegog, 57, of St. Louis knew Brown since he was 4 years old and has known the family for two decades.
"I'm hoping this day lifts us up, turns things around," she said. "Not just for St. Louis but the entire nation."
Angela Jones-Peaks, 43, of nearby Jennings asked her supervisor for a few hours off Monday morning to attend the service. Having two sons of her own motivated her to attend, she said.
"It's scary every time they leave home," Jones-Peaks said. "I wanted to support this family, let them know we're here for them."
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Now, these resorts are not cheap! Depending on the resort, you can expect to pay about $2000-$3000 per person out of Edmonton depending which location you are looking at and the time of year. But that is part of the reason they keep the young spring breakers out. I was worried when I stayed it would be too wild but what I actually found was a ton of people exactly like me – we like to have fun and socialize but don’t like to get black out drunk. A happy medium!
The view from my Balcony
If I had to chose one thing that made Cabo San Lucas Resort extra impressive, it would be the location. The resort is actually made of two buildings, right on the marina and the resort is home to one of the only swimmable beaches in Los Cabos. One is the relaxing building: with the spa, a relaxing pool and the rooms. One is the lively building with the nightclub, rooftop Sky pool and view of the Los Cabos Arch. In order to leave one building and get to the next (about ten steps) you are actually in the middle of downtown Cabo San Lucas. I have already talked MANY times about the vibe of Cabo and why it is one of my favorite places in the world so honestly I was obsessed.
BACHELOR/BACHELORETTE PARTIES
LAST FLING BEFORE THE RING PACKAGE
This package includes:
• Welcome bottle of sparkling wine in room upon arrival
• Spa day – inclusive of mani/pedi, 25 minute massage and access to the spa’s hydrotherapy and relaxation areas
• In-room party – tapas and desserts and sparkling wine will be delivered to the room (one night of stay)
• Group photo shoot – each person will receive a printed copy of the group’s selected photo (additional photos will be available for purchase)
• Reserved table and bottle service at Purple Rooftop Lounge (one night of stay)
• Festive Bachelorette Door Banner on the bride-to-be’s door
• Group dinner arranged at choice of restaurants (reserved table one night of stay)
• Reserved spot on the beach (chairs and palapas, reservation must be made with the concierge)
• Breathless Bachelorette Scavenger Hunt
2018/2019 Selling Price: $135 USD per person
Does this package look like something the bride or groom-to be would love? Email me to chat about group rates and payment plans for your group!
EAT, DRINK AND BE MARRIED WEDDING PACKAGE
• Dedicated wedding coordinator
• Symbolic Ceremony*
• Preparation of the couple’s wedding day attire
• Makeup and hair styling for one member of the wedding party the day of the wedding
• Bouquet(s) and/or boutonniere(s) for the wedding couple
• 2 corsages and 2 boutonnieres for the wedding party
• 1 floral centerpiece arrangement for the ceremonial table
• Ceremony décor — 25 chairs with white covers, ceremonial table and aisle runner
• Wedding cake for up to 25 guests
• Sparkling wine toast for up to 25 guests
• Edited Video of the ceremony (up to 30-minute edited DVD)
• Photo package (24 color photographs taken during the ceremony) and wedding album
• Private Cocktail Hour with hors d’oeuvres for up to 25 guests (Platinum menu)
• Couple’s designed Specialty Cocktail served during cocktail hour (to be planned in advance with wedding coordinator, based on a set selection)
• Private Dinner Reception for up to 25 guests (Platinum menu)
• Seductive Wedding Night Turndown Service
• Breakfast in bed morning after ceremony with Mimosas
• Private dinner on the beach (one evening during stay)
• Reserved table and bottle service for wedding party (up to 10) at Purple Rooftop Lounge one evening of stay
• Couples massage treatment (50 minutes)
• Complimentary access to the spa’s wet areas for the bride(s), maid of honor, mother(s) of bride(s) and/or mother(s) of groom(s) (one day of stay, days may vary)
• Complimentary room upgrade (based on availability)
• Late checkout for the couple (upon request and availability)
• 20% off spa treatments (boutique purchases not included)
• Free Anniversary Nights (stay a minimum of 5 paid nights over first anniversary date and receive 2 additional nights free or stay 4 paid nights over first anniversary date and receive 1 additional night free)
BEYOND MEMORABLE WEDDING PACKAGE
This resort participates in the Beyond Memorable weddings hosted by AMResorts which is the most inclusive all inclusive package I have ever seen! I won’t list all the inclusions but you can read them here. As you can see, it includes A LOT!
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ZX Spectrum - Brought Back to Life
December 2nd, 2014, 14:02
Perhaps not really RPG news, but it is capable of playing quite a bit of RPGs. If you are old enough to have known and used the ZX Spectrum, this might be an opportunity to play some of the 14.000 games again, that were created in the time, by participating in the Indiegogo campaign, which has been started featuring the ZX Spectrum Vega.
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The Vega has been developed by Chris Smith, a former ZX Spectrum games developer who is the world's leading expert on Sinclair Spectrum technology and author of the definitive technical book "The ZX Spectrum ULA: How to design a microcomputer".
Retro Computers Ltd is making arrangements with the owners of the software rights to Spectrum games to donate a combined software royalty to a charity – Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. The company’s Chairman, Dr David Levy, had his life saved by the hospital when he was diagnosed with meningitis as a 3-year-old.
The development of the Sinclair Spectrum Vega is complete, and we have a fully working prototype waiting to go into production within the UK. We are making contact with thousands of the original Spectrum game developers in order to secure their permission to use their games on the Vega, for which a combined software royalty will be donated to charity ‒ Great Ormond Street Hospital for children.
Once the first 1,000 Limited Edition Vegas have been manufactured and shipped, and we move on to the next 3,000 units and thereafter to batches of 10,000 or more, the retail price of the Vega will reduce. But even at £100 the cost of the limited edition Vega, with its 1,000 games built-in, represents a huge saving over the cost of the original product plus the cost of 1,000 of the original Spectrum games. What cost thousands of pounds back in the 1980s is now available for around 1 per cent of that amount.
-- "Mystery is important. To know everything, to know the whole truth, is dull. There is no magic in that. Magic is not knowing, magic is wondering about what and how and where." ~ Cortez, from The Longest Journey
Originally Posted by Arhu
Count yourselves lucky, at the time I didn't even know RPGs existed.
If I recall properly, I don't think they really did; certainly not in the form they do today. It wasn't until I got a Commodore Amiga and played titles like Eye of the Beholder and the first Elder Scrolls game that everything changed.
Originally Posted by Kyrer
If I recall properly, I don't think they really did; certainly not in the form they do today. It wasn't until I got a Commodore Amiga and played titles like Eye of the Beholder and the first Elder Scrolls game that everything changed.
In the early days of ZX Spectrum they didn't, but by the mid 80s SSI strarted to launch a series of AD&D games. I wouldn't call them really RPGs, but they were adaptations of pen & paper games, so…
Originally Posted by MigRib
In the early days of ZX Spectrum they didn't, but by the mid 80s SSI strarted to launch a series of AD&D games. I wouldn't call them really RPGs, but they were adaptations of pen & paper games, so…
The Bard's Tale was on the Speccy. That was a pretty fully fledged RPG.
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Suitcases often look boring and the same as everyone else’s but you can change that with a suitcase cover.
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Recently, I had the good fortune of speaking with Maysoon and I’m so proud to share our discussion with you!
Our discussion runs the gamut, from our experience growing-up “different” to the struggle for “disabled” actors in Hollywood and what can be done to change the landscape, to Maysoon’s work with children in Palestine and her adoration for Michael J. Fox on The Good Wife.
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(Also, toward the end the sound was getting a little wonky…sorry about that!)
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Father of 13 charged after 21-lbs ganja bust
A father of 13 was remanded to prison yesterday after being charged with possession of over 20 pounds of cannabis, which police found in a taxi on Sheriff Street, in Georgetown.
Vendor Rudy Cort, of 327 Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke-Linden High-way, was brought to the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, where he was charged with possession of narcotics for trafficking.
The charge against Cort stated that on May 3rd, he along with taxi driver Lindon Humphrey were caught at Sheriff Street with 9.590 kilogrammes of cannabis, equivalent to 21.1 pounds, in the trunk of a vehicle. The vehicle, HC 9353, is the property of Humphrey.
Prosecutor Sanj Singh said Cort claimed ownership of the cannabis after he and Humphrey were arrested and taken to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters, where statements were given. However, Cort pleaded not guilty yesterday.
Cort’s attorney, Siand Dhurjon, informed the court that his client was on his way to Stabroek Market, where he is a vendor, when the drugs were found and that his client was merely a passenger sitting in the front seat of the vehicle.
Dhurjon further described Cort as a hard working father of 13 and a God fearing man and member of the Assemblies of God church. He also stated that if the marijuana had belonged to Cort, his other possessions might have been in the trunk with it. However, he said Cort was found with a bag of hats and other items, which he sells.
After both the prosecutor and the attorney made their submissions, Senior Magistrate Leron Daly adjourned the matter until Friday and remanded Cort to prison until then.
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You can't do it exactly without a scale but a pretty good approximation is to get the washer legs set and level the washer, then apply my proprietary technique called "rocking the washer along the diagonals." Looking down at the top panel of the washer, place your hands at the ends of one set of diagonals and try to rock the washer. If you get any movement at all, you have a weight distribution problem. Repeat for the other diagonal.
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I've been successfully using XAMPP on Windows XP SP2 to run a local WordPress "Sandbox" since the 1.4.x series. I've recently upgraded from version 1.6.5 to 1.6.6a (full uninstall of 1.6.5 without removing the database or htdocs folder and then ran xampp-win32-1.6.6a-installer) and although everything appears to work fine as always I noticed that 1.6.6a, when starting MySQL and Apache, invokes a second "explorer.exe" process which continues running even after stopping both MySQL and Apache and exiting the XAMPP Control Panel. I have to use the Task Manager to kill the second "explorer.exe" process manually. The 2nd "explorer.exe" process usually is running at approximately half the memory of the actual OS's "explorer.exe.
I'm not that versed in the actual workings of XAMPP but isn't shutting down Apache and MySQL supposed to automatically kill the 2nd "explorer.exe" process?
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An anonymous reader writes "The Pirate Party of New Zealand has issued a strongly-worded (yet satirical) press release, decrying a recently-launched pro Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) website, stating, among other things: 'The use of a masted sailing ship is the most glaring example of the satirical nature of this website and one of our main grounds for offence. The Pirate Ship and all its related depictions are clearly intellectual property of the Pirate Party or at least if not the Party then The Pirate Bay which the Party shares a mutual affinity with for a free and open Internet. In these heady days of lawsuits over patents for rounded corners we can not stand by on the decks of the Internet and allow these cannon shots to go unanswered!'"
There are however serious complaints and actions. The Mana [mana.net.nz] party are a bit more serious about it. Not that the NZPP aren't seriously against this agreement, their satire seems to have at least achieved coverage here, The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement has many of the hallmarks of the various copyright agreements slashdot has been fervently against in the past, such as being negotiated in secret and without consultation or representation. The treaty is much more far reaching in it's consequences than th
It's reasons like this why the various Pirate parties will mostly always not be taken seriously. It's like they do silly things for fun and then expect people to act like they should be treated as a real political party.
I was at the grocery store a while back during an election, and there were two people there dressed in full pirate gear handing out their leaflets. Initially I thought it was a product promotion.
They might as well be the Insane Clown Posse Party if they're just there to do stupid things.
But you would be willing to vote for someone with less integrity, albeit one wearing a sharp suit?
Not on the basis of a sharp suit. But the guy standing outside the grocery store in a pirate suit doesn't immediately make me think "now there's a man I want to represent me".
And the specific issue in TFA about them kvetching about someone using the logo of a sailing vessel? It's a childish, silly publicity stunt that doesn't change my opinion of them -- it makes it seem like one of those farcical parties ins
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package com.yarolegovich.mp.io;
import android.app.Dialog;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.DialogInterface;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.EditText;
import androidx.appcompat.app.AlertDialog;
import androidx.fragment.app.FragmentActivity;
import com.kunzisoft.androidclearchroma.ChromaDialog;
import com.kunzisoft.androidclearchroma.IndicatorMode;
import com.kunzisoft.androidclearchroma.colormode.ColorMode;
import com.kunzisoft.androidclearchroma.listener.OnColorSelectedListener;
import com.yarolegovich.mp.R;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;
/**
* Created by yarolegovich on 06.05.2016.
*/
public class StandardUserInputModule implements UserInputModule {
protected Context context;
public StandardUserInputModule(Context context) {
this.context = context;
}
@Override
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String key,
CharSequence title,
CharSequence defaultValue,
final Listener<String> listener) {
final View view = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.dialog_edittext, null);
final EditText inputField = (EditText) view.findViewById(R.id.mp_text_input);
if (defaultValue != null) {
inputField.setText(defaultValue);
inputField.setSelection(defaultValue.length());
}
final Dialog dialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(context)
.setTitle(title)
.setView(view)
.show();
view.findViewById(R.id.mp_btn_confirm).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
listener.onInput(inputField.getText().toString());
dialog.dismiss();
}
});
}
@Override
public void showSingleChoiceInput(
String key,
CharSequence title,
CharSequence[] displayItems,
final CharSequence[] values,
int selected,
final Listener<String> listener) {
new AlertDialog.Builder(context)
.setTitle(title)
.setSingleChoiceItems(displayItems, selected, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
String selected = values[which].toString();
listener.onInput(selected);
dialog.dismiss();
}
})
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@Override
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
String selected = values[which].toString();
listener.onInput(selected);
}
})*/
.show();
}
@Override
public void showMultiChoiceInput(
String key,
CharSequence title,
CharSequence[] displayItems,
final CharSequence[] values,
final boolean[] itemStates,
final Listener<Set<String>> listener) {
new AlertDialog.Builder(context)
.setTitle(title)
.setMultiChoiceItems(displayItems, itemStates, new DialogInterface.OnMultiChoiceClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which, boolean isChecked) {
itemStates[which] = isChecked;
}
})
.setOnDismissListener(new DialogInterface.OnDismissListener() {
@Override
public void onDismiss(DialogInterface dialog) {
Set<String> result = new HashSet<>();
for (int i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
if (itemStates[i]) {
result.add(values[i].toString());
}
}
listener.onInput(result);
}
})
.show();
}
@Override
public void showColorSelectionInput(
String key,
CharSequence title,
int defaultColor,
final Listener<Integer> colorListener) {
FragmentActivity activity;
try {
activity = (FragmentActivity) context;
} catch (ClassCastException exc) {
throw new AssertionError(context.getString(R.string.exc_not_frag_activity_subclass));
}
final String tag = colorListener.getClass().getSimpleName();
ChromaDialog dialog = new ChromaDialog.Builder()
.initialColor(defaultColor)
.colorMode(ColorMode.ARGB)
.indicatorMode(IndicatorMode.HEX)
.create();
dialog.setOnColorSelectedListener(new OnColorSelectedListener() {
@Override
public void onPositiveButtonClick(int color) {
colorListener.onInput(color);
}
@Override
public void onNegativeButtonClick(int color) {
}
});
dialog.show(activity.getSupportFragmentManager(), tag);
}
}
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A.I + Blockchain = Aiotics
Aiotics is an Intelligent Analytics Platform which is powered by A.I Technology, and designed to deliver advanced analytics for all use cases. Aiotics transforms and predicts automatically for a variety of uses.
Product Features
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Why Aiotics?
Aiotics is geared toward delivering complicated insights in the simplest format possible. Aiotics is powered by A.I and our proprietary AiBlocks ™ models which is an cutting edge method for integrating AI and blockchain into our platform.
How it Works?
Data can be complex, but the experience shouldn’t be, Aiotics provides an intuitive and simple interface so that anyone can just drag and drop data sources to see fully pre-designed "canned" analytics in action with only a few clicks. You don’t have to be a data scientist to gain sophisticated insights.
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Aiotics provides Integration with many software products and platforms, and is simple and easy to integrate.
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Aiotics believes in providing faster implementation improving time to deliver from months to a few days.
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Aiotics has designed and developed the platform to be fully-customizable and flexible to allow you to meet any analytics requirement.
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SEPTA names new assistant general manager of EM&C Division
With this appointment, which is effective immediately, Lund is responsible for all engineering and maintenance related to the authority's stations, buildings, bridges, track, communications and signal and power systems. He also oversees the capital construction of both transit and railroad facilities and right-of-way elements. He will report directly to Jeff Knueppel, deputy general manager.
Lund, an 11-year employee, began his career as a structural engineer with Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation in Cherry Hill, N.J. He worked 19 years for the New York Power Authority in various design and management positions associated with transmission, power generation and infrastructure projects. He joined SEPTA in 2001 as the manager of structural engineering. In 2007, he became the deputy director for the Market Street Elevated Reconstruction Project and was involved with all aspects of the $740-million rebuilding. In 2009, he was named senior director of capital construction and also served as SEPTA's program manager for stimulus (ARRA) projects.
"One of his foremost accomplishments was spearheading the $191-million ARRA program," said General Manager Joseph Casey. "Bob successfully fast tracked 32 projects, awarding 54 individual contracts within one year of the signing of the ARRA bill. We wish him continued success in his new role."
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Abstract
Absolute G values for chemical change when various aqueous solutions are irradiated with $\alpha$-particles from an external polonium source have been determined for different fractions (x) of the $\alpha$-particle track spent within the solution. G(Fe$^{3+}$) for an aerated solution containing 1 mM ferrous ions and 0$\cdot$1 N sulphuric acid decreases from 5$\cdot$0 at x = 0$\cdot$02 through a minimum value 3$\cdot$65 at x = 0$\cdot$11 x 0$\cdot$01 and then increases to 5$\cdot$94 at x = 0$\cdot$525. The local value G(Fe$^{3+}$), defined as G(Fe$^{3+}$) for an element of track length a distance xR from the end of the track, where R is the range of the whole track in water, shows a similar but more pronounced dependence on x which is strongly reminiscent of the inverted Bragg curve for l.e.t. plotted against x in this medium, having a minimum of 3$\cdot$2$_5 \pm$ 0$\cdot$1$_5$ at x = 0$\cdot$08$_5\pm$ 0$\cdot$01$_5$. As x is increased G(Ce$^{3+}$) for an aerated 200 $\mu$M solution of ceric sulphate in 0.1 N sulphuric acid shows no minimum but increases from 1$\cdot$0 at x = 0$\cdot$04 to 3$\cdot$0 at x = 0$\cdot$25 and 4$\cdot$05 at x = 0$\cdot$525. Thallous ions have no effect on G(Ce$^{3+}$) for x $\leqslant$ 0$\cdot$45. G(H$_2$O$_2$) for aerated water was found to be 1$\cdot 22 \pm 0 \cdot$06. It is concluded that very few hydroxyl radicals are available and that the intra-track reactions between H$_2$O$_2$ and H as well as OH are very important and vary in extent as x is varied.
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Predictive factors of outcome in patients transplanted for hepatitis B.
This study aimed to (1) identify the variables that affect graft and patient survival in recipients transplanted for hepatitis B virus (HBV) disease; and (2) assess factors associated with an increased risk of graft cirrhosis at 5 years after liver transplantation (LT). A total of 104 chronically infected HBV patients were considered for this study and all received tacrolimus- or cyclosporine A (CSA)-based immunosuppressive regimens. The overall 5-year patient and graft survival rates were 80% and 73%, respectively. Univariate Cox proportional hazards regression analysis indicated that older recipient age and higher body mass index (BMI) at LT, LT more than or equal to 1998, arterial hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and CSA-based immunosuppression correlated with decreased patient survival. In the multivariate model, advanced recipient age, higher BMI, CSA-based immunosuppressive therapy, and increasing cold ischemia time were associated with worse patient survival. Recipient age and BMI at time of LT and posttransplant hypertriglyceridemia also affected graft survival. Log-rank analysis showed that a viral load of more than 10 copies/mL and antiviral therapy at LT, post-LT biliary complications, HBV recurrence, nucleos(t)ide analogue monoprophylaxis (without hepatitis B immunoglobulin), and short-term (< or = 1 year) mycophenolate mofetil therapy were significant risk factors for graft cirrhosis within 5 years of LT. Various recipient factors at the time of LT and post-LT virological status, antiviral prophylaxis, cholestasis, cardiovascular risk profile, and immunosuppressive regimen affect the outcome of HBV patients after LT. Prospective studies are warranted to define optimal immunosuppression for recipients transplanted for hepatitis B.
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President George Bush has claimed he was told by God to invade Iraq and attack Osama bin Laden's stronghold of Afghanistan as part of a divine mission to bring peace to the Middle East, security for Israel, and a state for the Palestinians.
He told Bob Woodward - whose 2004 book, Plan of Attack, is the definitive account of the administration's road to war in Iraq - that after giving the order to invade in March 2003, he walked in the White House garden, praying "that our troops be safe, be protected by the Almighty". As he went into this critical period, he told Mr Woodward, "I was praying for strength to do the Lord's will.
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Thought Leadership
Evolution of mobile in 2019
I think that all those [mobile] growth rates have come with basically zero instance of header bidding. It’s basically been a very standard process where we’ve been doing that for years, monetizing publisher supply directly, monetizing through partners. But generally speaking more in the PMP and the OMP, but not the header world. I think what’s exciting in 2019 and beyond will be this big opportunity when header moves to server-side. And server side becomes the predominate way that publishers monetize their inventory. That opens up a world of mobile inventory that we don’t even see you today because of the mediation and where we fall in the waterfall. So I think what’s really exciting is when header moves to server, that will have a huge impact on mobile monetization opportunities. I feel we are really well-positioned to take advantage of that and be a leader in that with our involvement in Prebid and our efforts that we’ve already done on the server side.
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This site is a sort of museum in cyberspace full of odds and ends about life in Budleigh Salterton.
It celebrates among other things the connection between our corner of East Devon - birthplace of both Sir Walter Raleigh and Roger Conant, founder of Salem, Massachusetts - and the United States of America.
The site was inspired by the friendship link established in 2001 with the Cape Cod community of Brewster.
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Within three years of opening their vineyard on Dalditch Lane, Budleigh producers Faye and Alan Pratt (pictured left) were delighted to find that their red table wine has been a hit at the South West Vineyards Association's annual blind tasting.
The husband and wife team who run the two-acre Lily Farm Vineyard won trophies for their 2007 vintage at the tastings, held at Kenton Vineyard near Exeter on 4 September.
“Our first vintage has been awarded The John Buchan Agronomy Shield – Best Red Wine from a small scale producer – and also a bronze award in the main red wine category where we competed alongside top wine producers in the UK,” announced Mr and Mrs Pratt, from Moormead in Budleigh. “We are very excited to have received such prestigious recognition of the quality of our wine and we will work to maintain this standard in future vintages.”
Lily Farm Vineyard made national headlines in 2007 when picking of its Rondo grape harvest began a month before anywhere else in the UK.
On a personal note, that advice was borne home to me when I received out of the blue a few days ago an email from Argentina. The writer had contacted me after reading about a sad but inspiring episode during World War Two that I had described in my book Oundle’s War, published in 1995 and featured at http://oundleswar.blogspot.com/
Major Patrick Dudgeon MC (pictured above) had nothing to do with Budleigh Salterton as far as I know. A former pupil of Oundle School in Northamptonshire, he had joined the Royal Corps of Signals at the outbreak of war, and won the Military Cross for ‘gallant and distinguished service in the field.’ Later he was engaged on various secret and dangerous missions by submarine and air in North Africa while serving with the Special Air Service Regiment.
Operation ‘Speedwell’ was Patrick Dudgeon's last mission. The plan was to reduce the rate of German reinforcements to the south of Italy by attacking rail communications between Genoa and Spezia, Bologna and Pistoia, Bologna and Prato, and Florence and Arezzo. Had the operation been properly supported in terms of aircraft and supplies, it has been argued, the strategic advantage gained would have been immense.
On 7 September 1943, two aircraft took off from North Africa carrying two groups of SAS men. By midnight they had landed successfully in the mountains north of Spezia, some hundreds of miles behind the German lines. Patrick Dudgeon set off with his six men to attack the Genoa-Spezia railway. Two members of his group succeeded in blowing up two trains on the Spezia-Bologna line, and finally made their way back to British lines. Patrick Dudgeon, with fellow-soldier Trooper Brunt, then ambushed a German amphibian and succeeded in killing a number of the enemy before being captured near Parma.
It was clear to the Germans from the explosives he was carrying that Patrick Dudgeon had been hoping to reach a further objective, but nothing could make him give any information about the target. In the presence of his staff the German General responsible for the interrogation expressed admiration for the British officer's courage, but gave the order for him and his companion to be shot the next morning on Hitler's orders.
News of Patrick Dudgeon’s capture and death came after the war in the form of a letter to his father from the German army Captain who had acted as interpreter at his interrogation, and who wanted to fulfil his pledge to the person he described as the bravest English officer he had ever met. (Right: Victor Schmit in 1943)
My Argentinian emailer turned out to be the grandson of the German officer who had befriended Captain Dudgeon shortly before he was executed. Attached to his email was a copy of the original letter that his grandfather Victor Schmit had written in 1945. I found it so affecting that I decided to reproduce it here:
Luxembourg
May 11 1945.
Dear Sir,By this letter I fulfil my word pledged to the bravest of English officers I met in all my life. This officer is your son, Captain Dudgeon, who fell for his country in Italy on October 3rd 1943. Before he died I had to promise him to give you information about the circumstances and the spot he was buried.
I was at that time a platoon commander in the 65th Infantry Division of the Germans. My unit lay in the Passo della Cisa about 30 miles west of Parma on the road Parma – La Spezia.
About 0100 o’clock a.m. I was wakened by my men who told me they had captured two English soldiers driving in the direction of Parma, their clothes were smeared with blood, in their bags they had about 40 pounds of explosives. I went down and found in the Guard Room two English soldiers, one of whom a captain. When I asked who they were they gave me their military cards. I reported to the Coy. Comdr. and later to the Division. The Divisional Officer on duty told me that half an hour ago a German Sgt and a private driving towards La Spezia had been shot and the car stolen.
This having happened several hundred miles behind the lines and the two soldiers carrying explosives they had to be treated as Greischarler (? Freischarler) and would probably be shot.
The battalion commander who had arrived in the meantime tried to get out of your son anything about his purposes, where he was coming from etc.etc., I being the interpreter. When the German insisted your son asked me to translate “If you were my prisoner should you betray your country talking about your mission?”
Upon this my captain told him that probably he had to be shot by an existing order of the Fuhrer. Captain Dudgeon took the news, answering something like this - “All right I’ll die for my country”.
When my captain had withdrawn I sat beside your son on the straw and we were speaking together all night long. He told me he knew little of Germany, that he had been during his holidays to Switzerland etc.
In the morning the Divisional Commander, General Von Zielberg, informed the Bn. That he would come and see the English captain before he was to be shot. I told him (your son) that the German officers were scandalized that an enemy who had behaved in so brilliant a manner had to be shot but were mightless against an order of the Fuhrer. To me the behaviour of the young officer of 23 years old had made such an impression that I couldn’t help telling him when we were alone “Your country may be proud of you. If you were not my enemy I should ask you to be my friend”. Captain Dudgeon gave me his hand saying “I thank you for telling me that”.
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The interview with the General was quite resultless. At the end of it (all German officers were present) the General told me to translate to your son the following sentence –“Sagen Sie ihm dass ich vor Seinen Haltung alle Achtung habe. Er wird, mit seinen Kameraden in einer Stunde erschossen.”
Your son saluted militarily and left the General. He asked me to stay with him until it would be over. He gave me your address asking me to inform you. He asked for a protestant priest. Before he died he asked to die with free hands and open eyes. He knelt down for a short while praying with his hands in front of his face.
Then he got up and died like a hero.
I wasnot allowed to give you notice of your son’s death by way of the Red Cross as the enemy was to have no information whatever regarding the efficiency of the parachutists. So I had to wait and keep the address hidden up to now. The grave of Captain Dudgeon is 200 metres South West of the Chapel on the Passo della Cisa going in the direction of La Spezia, 100 metres behind the last of the buildings.
I am, Yours sincerely,
Victor Schmit,
C/o Veura Schmit - ZollerHOSTERTpris de Luxembourg
And perhaps, after all, in my mind there is the vaguest connection with Budleigh. Shortly after settling here two years ago, while sunbathing on the beach, I was struck by the sight of 30 young men jogging along Marine Parade towards the coast path. On a weekday? Suddenly – it must have been the haircuts – I realised that they were marines from nearby Lympstone. Probably on a 30-mile jog, in training for Afghanistan. Possibly some would never return alive. And I thought of all the tragic loss of life of young people which I had described in my book: Patrick Dudgeon was only 23 when he died.
Monday, 28 September 2009
Below:The Rolle Flats on Budleigh’s sea front are now one of the town’s major landmarks, thanks to planners who gave the go-ahead to the demolition of Budleigh’s best known hotel.
The headline may seem sensationalist, and this story may appear nimbyist. But ever since arriving in Budleigh Salterton I’ve been struck by the number of fine old buildings in the town that have been destroyed, to be replaced by architectural eyesores. Budleigh is a lovely town, beautifully situated, with an interesting historic heritage. That has not helped to save it from the greed of developers and the stupidity of planners.
The full story of this desecration is told in a series of 20 or so files kept on a shelf in the town’s excellent Fairlynch Museum. The title of one of the files, 'The Rape of Budleigh Salterton', seemed to me to be highly appropriate.
Right: Clyst Hayes House on Exmouth Road,
Budleigh Salterton. Planners have given the go-ahead to its demolition.
So when I received a letter from East Devon District Council (EDDC) inviting me to comment on the impending demolition of Clyst Hayes House, it seemed only natural to make the following response.
We have already registered our objections to the proposed demolition of the above property in letters to EDDC Planning Service dated 26 March 2008 and 10 October 2008.
Along with many other Budleigh Salterton residents, including the Town Council, we feel that the demolition of Clyst Hayes House would constitute a flagrant disregard for, as our Councillors have already stated, “guidance laid out in the Budleigh Salterton Design Statement.”
The Budleigh Salterton Town Design Statement (TDS) notes in at least three of its sections that the greatest threat to the open rural character of the town is from infill or “backland” development, where large gardens are particularly vulnerable to opportunistic development (4.5.3), quoting examples of large detached houses saved from demolition or “successfully converted to multiple occupancy” (5.6.2), and suggesting that “greater attention should be paid to the sub-division of large houses of distinctive character rather than the soft option of demolition and redevelopment of the site.” (5.9)
Clyst Hayes House is described in the Site Description by EDDC, available on the internet at http://www.eastdevon.gov.uk/dc_report_091208_08-2519-out-central.pdfas “a large slate and render, Edwardian house of attractive proportions.” This description would clearly indicate on the basis of the TDS guidelines that the property should have been considered as a strong candidate for being preserved and restored.
On your website at http://www.eastdevon.gov.uk/planning-budleigh-salterton-town-design-statement East Devon District Council states that “The Town Design Statement was adopted as interim Supplementary Planning Guidance to the emerging East Devon Local Plan on 13th October 2004. It's [sic] guidelines add detail to, and complement, the Local Plan policies and will be used in the determination of planning applications and to guide householders undertaking works not requiring planning permission.”
By approving this demolition, East Devon District Council is making a mockery of its publicly stated policy with regard to such buildings, and demonstrates a lack of integrity which we find hard to understand.
Yours sincerely
Michael and Anthea Downes
Above: Clyst Hayes House garden: a tempting prospect for developers who would like to see it filled with houses.
Friday, 11 September 2009
Coinciding with the launch of Budleigh Salterton’s first Literary Festival http://www.budlitfest.org.uk/ on Friday 18 September the town’s Brook Gallery will be exhibiting until 19 October a wonderful selection of ‘Avian Alphabet’ woodcuts by a renowned artist viewed as a ‘national treasure’ for his skill and craftsmanship.
“His delight in the lines of a bird so elegantly inscribed by the cut of his graver, his skill in varying texture… his palpable pleasure in composing his subjects into joyous designs have brought something new to the portrayal of birds,” comments the celebrated naturalist Sir David Attenborough of Colin See-Paynton. Above: A Gaggle of Geese
Widely regarded as the leading exponent of the art of wood engraving, Colin See-Paynton, with his exhibition ‘Of a Feather: An Avian Alphabet’ brings an elegant vision of our feathery friends to Budleigh Salterton’s renowned gallery this autumn. The series of prints has been produced from a body of fresh new engravings, launching with a talk by the artist at 3.00 pm on 18 September followed later by a private view party at the gallery.
Pictured above: Sir David Attenborough, left, with Colin See-Paynton
Collections of Colin’s work are also held in the UK at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the National Museum of Wales and the National Library of Wales. Worldwide he is also held in many private collections and his work is exhibited at the Berlin Graphotek, the Fremantle Museum and Art Gallery in Australia, the Gaudi Salon in Barcelona and the Yosemite Wildlife Museum in California.
A Fellow of the Cambrian Academy, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and a member of the Society of Wood Engravers, Colin brings a new vigour to the art of printmaking while earning praise as a meticulous observer of the natural world.
Friday, 4 September 2009
Striking images and fascinating memorabilia from a vanished age will be on display at East Budleigh’s Salem Chapel over Heritage Weekend on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September.
Budleigh Salterton’s Nick Loman has been collecting pictures, documents and artifacts for more than 30 years.
Above: A view from the past of Fore Street Hill in Budleigh
The result is an impressive archive giving a unique insight into life as it used to be in Budleigh, Exmouth and the surrounding villages.
Having spent his working life as a fish merchant, Nick, of Swains Road, has a special interest in the local fishing industry, and felt that there was a need to preserve memories of it for posterity. Visitors to Budleigh today wouldn't necessarily realise how much importance the industry had for the town, as there is no real sign of how much fishing went on, he believes.
Above: A map of 1895 showing the hamlet of Kersbrook, north of Budleigh Salterton
“A hundred and seventy people attended my last talk about the history of fishing, which shows the huge interest there is in this area,” he says.
Other subjects which make up Nick Loman’s collection include the railway, Budleigh Salterton’s main street and its hotels, of which there were 15 at one time.
The Nick Loman Collection at Salem Chapel is open from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm each day.
Thursday, 3 September 2009
With one of the important costume collections in the country, Budleigh Salterton’s unique thatched museum is not just a collection of fascinating fossils and other curiosities from the past but a unique opportunity outside London to see how clothing fashion has changed over the centuries. And it’s not just Victorian ball gowns and 19th century Honiton lace underwear. This year has seen a special exhibition of costumes by the designer Zandra Rhodes http://www.zandrarhodes.com/ celebrated as one of the new wave of British designers who put London at the forefront of the international fashion scene in the 1970s.
Visitors to Fairlynch will be admitted free of charge all day on Friday 11 September as part of the Heritage Open Day programme organized by English Heritage.
It’s an amazing building dating from around 1811 in the ‘marine cottage orné’ style so frequently found in Budleigh’s larger Jurassic Coast neighbour Sidmouth. The original owner, ship owner Matthew Lee Yeates, is said to have added the thatched turret so that he could see his ships coming into the bay carrying limestone and coal for the Salterton lime kilns and timber for Exmouth.
Inside there are collections of geological specimens, including radioactive nodules discovered by Budleigh archaeologist George Carter http://budleighbrewsterunited.blogspot.com/2009/07/george-carter-and-archaeology-of-east.html There is also a lace room as well as a costume room, and an exhibition of toys and items for children, souvenir china and model ships. And the shelves of folders in the Local History section testify to the impressive amount of work carried out by Fairlynch volunteers to catalogue all the photographs, documents and artifacts which illustrate the fascinating history of Budleigh Salterton and the surrounding villages.
Outside the Fairlynch building itself there are some curious and interesting features in the surrounding gardens, like this chair.
The gardens themselves deserve a mention, if only because they are a beautiful place to sit in, overlooking the sea. They were lovingly restored to feature plants contemporary with the building.
Heritage Open Days celebrate England’s architecture and culture by allowing visitors free access to interesting properties that are either not usually open, or would normally charge an entrance fee. They are England’s biggest and most popular voluntary cultural event. Last year the Open Days attracted around 1 million visitors.
There’s nothing like a spot of patriotism to cheer you up on a typically British bank holiday. So the bright red, white and blue of our national flag was an effective antidote to the drizzly mist which covered Budleigh Salterton seafront in time for the town’s Lions Club’s Balloon Race.
Lion Peter Mason promotes the event with bell and balloon.
Proceeds from the day went towards the Lions’ campaign to provide Medic Alert pendants and bracelets.
Over 700 balloons went soaring up into the cloud, bearing their greetings messages along with the hopes of many seeking that prize of £100 for the person whose balloon travels the furthest. The winner’s balloon last year was returned from Switzerland.
The weather did nothing to keep the crowds away from the 23 charity stalls which took part in the event. But Budleigh Salterton Carnival Club's Margaret Briggs, pictured left, and her fellow- Club member Julia Meredith are understandably keeping up their spirits with a hot drink. They'd been cheered by the news that the Budleigh float was awarded 2nd prize in Topsham Carnival the previous day.
Budleigh Salterton’s recently founded Film Society will soon have the option of screening a locally-made movie starring one of the area’s well-known theatrical names.
East Budleigh resident Michael Terry, pictured left, has been combining rehearsals for the Salterton Drama Club’s production ‘Murder, Mayhem and the NHS’ at Budleigh’s Playhouse with appearing at Torquay in a surreal comedy docu-drama directed by Exeter-based film maker Tom Austin.
The movie is based loosely on the life of Spanish artist Salvador Dali. “It’s called ‘La Legende~Dali’ and looks at the relationship between Dali and Hitchcock in the making of ‘Spellbound’– I play Alfred Hitchcock,” says Michael.
Set in a boxing ring, the film tells the story, in a dramatic, theatrical way, of Dali’s relationships – with his family (primarily his dead brother, of whom he believed he was a re-incarnation), his nymphomaniac wife, and the canvas. Dali duels in the ring with his ghost brother, who is a Dali figure/alter ego showman. He also travels through the landscapes of some of his paintings.
The 1945 film ‘Spellbound’ is not one of Hitchcock’s best known works, but is notable as the first cinematic example of psychoanalysis being used as a plot device to solve a mystery. Its most celebrated scene is the visually stunning dream sequence, designed by Dali, where the central image is of an oversized pair of scissors cutting through an eye painted on a curtain.
Michael has been a member of the Salterton Drama Club for over 25 years and has appeared in and directed numerous plays, plus around 10 Pantomimes. More recently as a member of the Northcott Community Company http://www.exeternorthcott.co.uk/ he has been seen in ‘Matthew Miller’, ‘Cider with Rosie’ and ‘Cold Comfort Farm’. ‘La Legende~Dali’ is not Michael’s first venture into cinema. Last year he and fellow Northcott Community Company member Jan Hookway were filming in Mumbai, playing a naive English couple who accidentally get caught up in the rivalry between different sets of Indian gangsters in a film called ‘Delhi Belly’ due to be released next year.
Michael has had to juggle the surreal scenes of the Dali film with the very real problem of getting back from Torquay to rehearsals at the Salterton Playhouse in time for the Drama Club production, which opens on Monday 7 September. “In between rehearsals I am filming in Torquay on Saturday and all day Monday, with a quick dash back to Budleigh for the show,” he says.
I reckon he deserves an extra round of applause on the opening night from his Budleigh audience for all his efforts.
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Budleigh Salterton’s Fairlynch Museum (pictured left) and East Budleigh’s Salem Chapel will be among the many historic centres which are celebrating this month with special exhibitions.
Since 1991 Heritage Weekend European Heritage Days have been held annually in September in 49 countries, from the Baltic to the Balkans, from Iceland to the Iberian Peninsular, highlighting not only the dazzling diversity of Europe’s heritage, but also its intercultural links.
Across the Atlantic, interest in heritage is just as strong. This September will see the anniversary of the launch of an exciting new project by the University of Massachusetts at Boston and the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.
Brewster was the first Cape Cod town to be visited by the Mass. Memories Road Show.On the afternoon of September 13th 2008, residents were invited to bring up to three photos or documents that illustrate the early – and and/or – current life of Brewster. The items were scanned onsite and the originals immediately returned to the owners. People were also invited to contribute to an oral history video project and tell the story relevant to their photos or documents – on camera.
Over the next few years the Road Show hopes to visit all 351 communities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Above: Local resident Bill Wibel holding documents at the Brewster Mass. Memories Road Show at the Brewster Ladies Library on September 13, 2008.
The Sept 2008 event was locally sponsored by the Brewster Archives Committee, a town-wide committee which includes members from the Town Clerk’s office, the Brewster Ladies’ Library, the Brewster Historical Society, the First Parish Church and interested Brewster history researchers. The Committee’s mission is to collaboratively and cooperatively identify, preserve, catalogue and provide online databased access to Brewster historical and archival records.
“Everyone who lives here probably has a piece of the history of this town, either in documents or pictures,” explained Brewster-based author Sally Gunning, who has been instrumental in the Committee’s ambitious project. The goal, she says, is to scan all public records for online use, giving “a much better picture of the history of Brewster.” Above: Nina Gregson holding a photo of her house
Brewster Ladies’ Library was already the base for the Brewster Oral History Project, a collection of taped interviews with people who have been part of the town's history. The tapes are arranged alphabetically and each one is accompanied by a transcript.
Subjects include Brewster resident Washington Chase talking about the cranberry industry from the time of the Depression to 1997, when the recording was made; Bob Finch talking about the town’s ghosts; Roz Gage describing how she and her husband found a cache of bootlegged whiskey in the sand on Brewster beach; and Cathy Kroeger relating stories of her great-great-grandfather's seagoing days in the heyday of the Brewster ship captains. Above: Clippings of Brewster and scrapbook of Bernice Hayes
“We are aware our collection is far from complete,” say the project’s organizers. “We are looking for additional interviewees who would like to hand down their memories of Brewster throughout the years, and we are also hoping to recruit volunteers who would act as interviewers to help keep those memories alive.”
Above: Staff, volunteers and contributors pose for a photo at the Brewster Mass. Memories Road Show at the Brewster Ladies Library on September 13, 2008.
[This September sees the launch of Budleigh Salterton’s first-ever literary festival http://www.budlitfest.org.uk/ with a pre-festival event on 5 September, when Michael Morpurgo will be the guest author. The festival proper will take place from 18-20 September.
To mark the occasion I reproduce with acknowledgement to the Boston Globe newspaper a recent feature which highlights the literary debt owed to the landscape and history of Cape Cod by one of its best-known residents.
Sally Gunning writes award-winning historical novels that have won praise for their compelling storylines, thorough research and strong characterization. She is a resident of Budleigh Salterton's sister-town of Brewster.]
Below: Local author Sally Gunning sits at one of her favorite places, at Lower Mill Pond under a willow tree. Photo credit: Bill Greene/Globe staff.
Fact and Fictions
Sally Gunning sets her novels in familiar, favored places that bear the imprint of the town’s history.
The wet sand stretches out as far as our eyes can see, and a mist hides all but a sliver of the homes on a nearby rise. It is low tide on the Brewster flats. No tourists are in sight as Sally Gunning, the historical novelist, shows off the Cape Cod town she loves. “You come out here, and there’s nothing but space,’’ she says.
Spend a day with Gunning and the town she reveals is intimate, quiet, and rugged, with a rich history and unique sights. First stop is this patch of beach just 100 yards from her and her husband Tom Gunning’s home, a 1,200-square-foot cottage once owned by her grandparents. Five of her family members, including her mother, live here in homes on six acres. The nearby nameless beach is accessible to anyone taking a stroll down the shore from Breakwater or Points of Rock beaches.
Gunning, 58, traces her roots back 300 years in this town. “The Cape literally is a part of me,’’ she says, having been barely a month old when she spent her first summer here. In 1977, she moved here from Providence.
As she stands on the flats in late June, she thinks back to the mid-to late 1700s.
“I can picture this beach just covered with these whales. The cry was up. Everybody rushes to the beach, gets into their boats, and drives them in purposely. In those days, it was heaven. They’d just sit there and hack up the blubber, load it into the barrels,’’ she says.
Brewster is the setting for Gunning’s The Widow’s War, published in 2006; Bound, published last year; and, in part, The Seeming Truth, due out next year. All three books are set in the 18th century.
The Widow’s War begins as the main character, Lyddie Berry, hears a shout, “Blackfish in the bay!’’
Writes Gunning of Berry’s view from a hill above the beach: “She leaned into the wind and soon had a clear view of the beach, blackened as far as her eye could see, by the whales, driven ashore by the men’s oars beating against the water. It was a rich sight.’’
Her characters walk around Brewster. We climb into Gunning’s silver Honda CR-V to get to our next destination: Hopkins House Bakery, the setting for the home of character Betsey Hopkins, Berry’s cousin. The house is now a bakery and gift shop.
Mary Beth Baxter, who runs the gift shop while her daughter runs the bakery, greets us as we enter. She chats about the history of the house while she threads wire into signs made of old window shutters, souvenirs for the shop. Baxter says she discovered that it was always known as the Hopkins house because members of that family lived here for at least 200 years.
The building is two structures, linked together, a house built in the late 1600s and a 19th-century home. In the back of the shop, there’s a four-foot-long bed, akin to what Cape Codders used to have because they slept sitting up.
Baxter says Cape Cod book groups visit just to walk in the footsteps of Gunning’s characters. At the bakery, they can purchase Intoxicating Rum Balls or Gunning’s favorite, Georgia peach muffins.
While her husband is at his job as a social worker, Gunning, like her characters, spends much of her time alone, writing or walking. With an index card tucked in her bathing suit in case she wants to jot down a description, she strolls the beaches, reflecting on Brewster’s herring run and the Grist Mill along Stony Brook Road. That spot entrances Alice Cole, the teenage servant on the lam in Bound. [“On the lam” is a popular American slang expression meaning “on the run.”]
Writes Gunning of what Cole sees: “Behind the tavern the millpond shimmered in a slice of newfound sun, its waters somersaulting down the hill into the millstream below. The mill wheel spun under the force of the spring flood waters, churning gobs of spray into the air that the sun turned to minute snowflakes.’’
In June at the mill area, the scene is bucolic. The tavern is replaced by a house. The upper and lower ponds shimmer, but the mill wheel is inert.
Gunning remembers her childhood as she stands on a footbridge overlooking the brook.
“When we were kids, we dropped sticks to see whose would come out first,’’ she says, then grabs a stick, drops it, and darts to the other side of the bridge to watch its path. “I’m having a stick moment.’’
Herrings are nowhere to be seen, though a lone seagull perches on a rock. “He’s hoping,’’ Gunning says.
Only months before, I had stood in the same spot. In late April, the brook was black with fish fighting to jump up the rocky ladders to get to the ponds to spawn. Gulls sat on the ledges, squawking, then dove into the waters to snag a hapless fish. People lined the path and bridges to watch the show.
Gunning points out remnants of the foundation of another mill that burned to the ground, then leads us across the road and sits under a willow tree near the ponds.
“This is one of my favorite spots. It’s peaceful,’’ she says.
Minutes later, we amble along a nearby path so she can show the rock where her character Berry sits pondering her future. Gunning rests on the rock, crossing her jean-clad legs, gazing at the lily pads and a turtle sunbathing on a log.
She advises visitors to consider the history of this place more than just its natural beauty. “You have to think of that as a teeming business center, the mills, the tannery. There was a cobbler’s shop near there,’’ she says. It is hard to think of commerce with the ponds so serene.
Later we head to Wing’s Island, another favorite spot of Gunning’s, accessible on trails behind the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History. Because we underestimate when high tide is over, we have to wade in ankle-deep water on the boardwalk over a marsh and past the resident osprey. We get to a dry path, then take an easy jaunt to the island, seeing a sandpiper, red-winged blackbirds, and once again, with Gunning’s help, the past. In the 1800s, dozens of salt mills dotted the landscape, and the Sauquatuckets, a Wampanoag tribe, camped, fished, and grew crops in an area known as Quivet Creek.
On our return, Gunning picks leaves off a bayberry bush, crumbles them, and holds them near my nose. “Smell,’’ she says. It is the sweet scent of a bayberry candle, the same candles Berry is making when she is burned in a fire. A bird whistles in the trees above. For Gunning, on this island, as on the beaches by her home, history, fiction, and nature collide.
About Me
Born in 1946, in Birmingham UK, of Scottish-Irish parentage, and brought up as a Roman Catholic. Early education may have driven me into teaching, in the belief that schools should offer a more enjoyable experience for children. Studied French at London University, specialising in 16th century literature. Then came 34 years of teaching French, along with red herrings and common sense, at Oundle School, Northamptonshire. Published articles in Etudes Rabelaisiennes, (a long time ago), and a couple of books - one big 'Oundle's War' (1995) - and one small 'The Scientist in The Cottage' (2013) - a biography of Henry Carter FRS (1813-95). Dabbles, and some people say meddles, in many areas. A passionate gardener, moved to Devon partly to grow ericaceous plants more easily. Other interests include family, cycling, walking, photography, reading, music, studying butterflies, chopping wood, DIY, playing on the scaffold tower, and networking for the Greater Good. Married to Anthea for over 40 years. Three children: Emily, Simeon and Rosanna, three granddaughters and two Bengal cats. Like an increasing number of my friends of my generation, I'm a cancer survivor – I hope!
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Russian operations in the West—or rather, alleged Russian operations in the West—are designed in part for deniability. From election meddling in the United States to mysterious poisonings in the United Kingdom, the Russian connection has been visible through hints, happenstance, digital trails, or clear motives, but always hard to prove. Which leaves Western governments in the position of deciding when, and how, to make public accusations.
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May chose the bold course Monday of, essentially, and provisionally, accusing Russia of “unlawful use of force” on British territory. In a remarkable speech to the House of Commons, she addressed the disturbing case of Sergei Skripal, the former Russian spy who was found last week alongside his daughter, Yulia, on a park bench in a catatonic state. The pair, as well as a police officer who responded to the scene, remain in critical condition after being exposed to what May described as a “weapons-grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia.” The case had echoes of the poisoning of another former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, who died in the U.K. in 2006 after drinking tea that was laced with polonium—an assassination that was later traced to Russia, and in retaliation for which Britain expelled some Russian diplomats.
May framed this latest poisoning not as a criminal act, but as something akin to an act of war, leaving open the question of how the British government would respond. (10 Downing Street, when reached for comment, declined to give more specifics on what specifically May meant by characterizing the poisoning as an “unlawful use of force.”) In the directness of its accusation, the speech was reminiscent of the U.S. intelligence community’s January 2017 report formally blaming the Russian government for interference in America’s 2016 presidential election.
May spelled out her own government’s reasoning this way:
Based on the positive identification of this chemical agent by world-leading experts at the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down; our knowledge that Russia has previously produced this agent and would still be capable of doing so; Russia’s record of conducting state-sponsored assassinations; and our assessment that Russia views some defectors as legitimate targets for assassinations; the Government has concluded that it is highly likely that Russia was responsible for the act against Sergei and Yulia Skripal.
She allowed for only two possibilities: Either Russia had directed the attack, or it had somehow “lost control” of the substance used in the crime.
Moscow can be expected to deny involvement (it has already dismissed the prime minister’s statement as a “circus show”). But there are already signs that the U.K.’s tolerance of suspected Russian criminal activities on British soil is waning—British lawmaker Yvette Cooper urged the government to re-examine a string of unexplained deaths in the U.K., which Buzzfeed connected to Russia, citing U.S. intelligence agencies, in a recent investigative report. That report characterized the British response to those cases as tepid, pointing out that “British police have ruled out foul play in every last case” of 14 the news outlet examined.
In the U.S., former President Barack Obama’s response to Russian malfeasance was similarly criticized for its supposed timidity—the administration expelled a number of Russian diplomats and imposed sanctions on the country in response, but by then the election was over. Expulsions and sanctions are among the responses the May government could enact in response to Skripal’s poisoning. Other options floated include a boycott by British ministers and dignitaries of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which will be hosted by Russia this summer.
The British government has, however, given Russia until the end of the day Tuesday to make its case that Skripal’s poisoning was not a state-directed plot. The other alternative outlined—that Russia had manufactured a large volume of nerve agents now turning up abroad without the knowledge or control of the Kremlin—would be a different kind of problem, and plenty horrible in its own way.
(Original post by shawn_o1)
Where's the proof that Russia was responsible? I bet the UK loses on this one. Even if it means their Brexit goes pear shaped.
Well in fairness Russia has a rather explicit history of this - namely in 1978 and 2006.
Personally I withhold judgement on the matter until more information is released but it would be foolish to overlook the similarities.
How about this government decides to grow up, stand up to the menacing pests in Russia and call on the EU and the US to sanction Russia's gas and oil industry.
Then they will care, then they will regret, then Putin will be "quaking in his boots".
(Original post by The PoliticalGuy)
Russia don't actually care what we do because what can we.
How about this government decides to grow up, stand up to the menacing pests in Russia and call on the EU and the US to sanction Russia's gas and oil industry.
Then they will care, then they will regret, then Putin will be "quaking in his boots".
The EU is almost guaranteed not to sanction the energy sector. It has far to much riding on it in terms of imports and investments, us to for that matter.
I also tend to side with the common counter argument here [aside from the cutting off our nose to spite our face approach] what benefit would marginalizing Russia possibly accomplish aside from making the government feel better about themselves? Bugger all aside from pissing off an already truculent neighbor who might well just lash out if we were to declare war in that fashion against them.
Not to mention an act of economic warfare generally requires hard evidence not just suspicions.
It sounds like the government is contemplating a retaliatory attack in the cyber domain. No doubt that GCHQ will take point - I'm curious how the UK's capability stacks up to other nations in this area.
What else can she do? Rules of diplomacy say she can't ignore it, can't just pretend it hasn't happened.
This is how this kind of thing is supposed to be dealt with, it's just we've all got used to the buffoon with Twitter in the round room in the other side of the pond being a colossal numpty that we've forgotten that nation states are supposed to be restrained and kinda silly about this kind of thing.
(Original post by Drewski)
What else can she do? Rules of diplomacy say she can't ignore it, can't just pretend it hasn't happened.
This is how this kind of thing is supposed to be dealt with, it's just we've all got used to the buffoon with Twitter in the round room in the other side of the pond being a colossal numpty that we've forgotten that nation states are supposed to be restrained and kinda silly about this kind of thing.
It has already been suggested that if Putin doesn't comply, then she should consider passing a Magnisky act, increasing the British millitary prescence at military excercises near the Russian border, carry out cyber attacks against the Russians and more diplomats can be expelled.
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Fans plan ‘Arsenal is stale’ Wenger protest
Two of Arsenal’s largest supporters’ groups have announced plans to protest during Saturday’s Premier League clash against Norwich.
The Black Scarf Movement and REDaction both released statements on Tuesday urging fans to hold up placards reading: “Time For Change. Arsenal is stale – fresh approach needed”.
The two respective websites included an image of the banner for supporters to print off and hand out ahead of the match against struggling Norwich, with plans to then hold them aloft on 12 minutes, 78 minutes and at full-time.
The timings are in reference to the 12 years since Arsenal last won the Premier League title, having dropped off the pace this season after leading the table at the turn of the year and the protest comes with Norwich visiting in front of the television cameras for Saturday’s 5:30pm kick-off.
There is also unrest at the lack of money being invested in the team by manager Arsene Wenger, despite the club having plenty of cash in reserve, while once again having the costliest season ticket is another reason for fans’ ire.
“We are seeing the same failures year after year, and amid rumours that Arsene Wenger may be given a new three-year contract there really seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel.
“(Stan) Kroenke and the Board are seemingly content with Champions League cash, so outside of finishing 4th best in the league there is no pressure at all on the manager. This isn’t good enough.”
REDaction called for the club’s supporters to be united in protest this weekend, with their own statement exclaiming: “It’s pretty clear that things aren’t right at Arsenal.
“We have an absentee owner who takes money from the club whilst not engaging with fans. We have a manager who won’t use the resources available to him, to strengthen a squad which everybody can see needs investment.
“Throw in some of the highest ticket prices in world football. And, all of the Groundhog seasons, where it’s clear that the fans’ ambitions are not matched by those in charge.
“Fans are fighting each other over what exactly is wrong and who is to blame – but it’s clear that we are in a rut, and that something needs to change.”
It has been a difficult second-half to the season for the Gunners, who now risk slipping out of the top-four having fallen below Leicester, Tottenham and Manchester City since the beginning of the year.
FA Cup defeat at home to Watford and Champions League elimination at the round of 16 stage for the sixth consecutive campaign has not helped matters – with protests in previous weeks more aimed specifically at Wenger.
Last Thursday’s home victory over West Brom was watched by a reduced crowd as fans stayed away from the Emirates Stadium, while some of those who did attend held up their own signs at full-time calling for Wenger to leave his post.
That was followed by a banner unfurled during Sunday’s goalless draw at Sunderland which declared: “Love the team, hate the regime. Stan & Wenger out.”
Wenger, 66, said last week he would not leave this summer as he will at the very least honour his contract – which expires next year – and also declared before the West Brom game that “judgement from people is something we have to live with.”
After Alexis Sanchez scored twice to give the Gunners just a fourth win in 13 games across all competitions, Wenger called on fans to “come and support the team”.
There has been no suggestion at further non-attendance but Wenger could now face the prospect of casting an eye around a full stadium all holding banners once again imploring the club to make sweeping changes.
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# Copyright (c) Open Enclave SDK contributors.
# Licensed under the MIT License.
add_enclave_library(oehostfs STATIC hostfs.c)
maybe_build_using_clangw(oehostfs)
enclave_include_directories(oehostfs PRIVATE ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/syscall
${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/include/openenclave/corelibc)
enclave_enable_code_coverage(oehostfs)
enclave_link_libraries(oehostfs PRIVATE oesyscall)
install_enclaves(
TARGETS
oehostfs
EXPORT
openenclave-targets
ARCHIVE
DESTINATION
${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/openenclave/enclave)
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810 S.W.2d 515 (1991)
STATE of Missouri, ex rel. Gregory UPCHURCH, Appellant,
v.
Roy D. BLUNT, in his capacity as Secretary of State of the State of Missouri, and William L. Webster, in his capacity as Attorney General of the State of Missouri, Respondents.
No. 73376.
Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.
June 5, 1991.
Gregory Upchurch, pro se.
William L. Webster, Atty. Gen., James B. Deutsch, Deputy Atty. Gen., Simon B. Buckner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondents.
COVINGTON, Judge.
Relator Gregory Upchurch appeals the dismissal by the Circuit Court of Cole County of his petition for a writ of mandamus against the Secretary of State of Missouri and for a judgment of declaration that § 116.332.1, RSMo 1986,[1] is unconstitutional. Reversed.
Relator sought to circulate for signatures an initiative petition to place a proposed amendment to the Missouri Constitution on the ballot for the November 4, 1992, general election. On November 13, 1990, relator submitted a sample petition to Secretary of State Roy D. Blunt. Section 116.332.1 requires that, before a constitutional amendment petition may be circulated for signatures, a sample sheet be submitted to the secretary of state in the form in which the petition will be circulated, for approval by the secretary of state.
On the day of receipt of the sample petition, the secretary of state notified relator that the secretary could not accept the sample petition because "[f]or the November, *516 1992 general election the earliest a sample petition may be submitted for approval is July 3, 1991." The secretary of state relied upon a subsequent requirement of § 116.332.1 that provides: "The sample petition may not be submitted to the secretary of state more than one year prior to the final date for filing the signed petition with the secretary of state."
Relator instituted this proceeding in the circuit court on November 29, 1990. The gravamen of his claim is that the one year limitation of § 116.332.1 is inconsistent with the reservation of the initiative power to the people in Article III, § 49, of the Missouri Constitution.
Respondents moved to dismiss claiming inappropriateness of mandamus to litigate the action, absence of a justiciable controversy, and constitutionality of the subject statutory provision. The trial court dismissed relator's petition. The basis for the dismissal is not evident from the record.[2] This Court reviews the matter as an appeal from the dismissal of relator's petition for declaratory judgment. The case involves the validity of the one year limitation contained in § 116.332.1. This Court has jurisdiction. Mo. Const. art. V, § 3.
Rules employed in construction of constitutional provisions are the same as those employed in construction of statutes. Crucial words must be viewed in context, and courts must assume that words were used purposefully. The selection of words as arranged by the drafters is indicative of the significance of the words employed. Boone County Court v. State, 631 S.W.2d 321, 324 (Mo. banc 1982). This Court is required to give due regard to the primary objectives of the constitutional provision under scrutiny, as viewed in harmony with all related provisions. State ex inf. of Martin v. City of Independence, 518 S.W.2d 63, 66 (Mo.1974). If a statute conflicts with a constitutional provision or provisions, this Court must hold that the statute is invalid. Rekart v. Kirkpatrick, 639 S.W.2d 606, 608 (Mo. banc 1982).
The analysis begins with the people's reservation to themselves of the "power to propose and enact or reject laws and amendments to the constitution by initiative, independent of the general assembly... except as hereinafter provided." Mo. Const. art. III, § 49. Although the constitution first reserves to the people the initiative power, the constitution by subsequent provisions involves the general assembly in the procedure of submitting initiatives. In submitting initiatives to the people, "the secretary of state and all other officers shall be governed by general laws." Mo. Const. art. III, § 53. All amendments proposed by the initiative "shall be submitted to the electors for their approval or rejection by official ballot title as may be provided by law...." Mo. Const. art. XII, § 2(b). These provisions require the application of general law, as enacted by the general assembly, to the process of submitting initiatives to the people. Presumably under authority of these constitutional provisions, the general assembly enacted laws contained in Chapter 116 relating to initiative and referendum, including § 116.332.1, at issue here.
Seeking to sustain the constitutionality of the subject statute, respondents assert that, absent constitutional direction as to the length of time during which proponents of a petition may circulate for signatures, either there is no limitation on the circulation period or the limitation must be supplied from another source. Respondents argue that, since no constitutional direction exists, the general assembly through § 116.332.1 properly supplies a limitation on the circulation period. Respondents appropriately note that a legislative body's power to enact reasonable implementations of a constitutional directive is generally recognized. Respondents also correctly contend that the Missouri General Assembly generally possesses plenary power to enact legislation, and that the legislature *517 frequently enacts time limitations to implement constitutional language. Respondents contend that the Missouri scheme is consistent with that of other states and that the history of the adoption of the initiative procedures reflects that the general assembly was expected to enact implementing legislation.
As respondents forthrightly acknowledge, each of their arguments rests upon their stated premise that the constitution is silent on the question of the period of time in which petitions can be circulated for signatures. That premise is faulty. The constitution does provide a limited period.
Constitutional provisions relating to the period of time during which petitions may be circulated for signatures are clearly framed by reference to general elections and the periods between them. The final date for obtaining signatures is established by Mo. Const. art. III, § 50: Initiative petitions proposing amendments to the constitution must be "filed with the secretary of state not less than four months before the election...." (Emphasis added). Article XII, § 2(b), fixes the date before which signatures may not be obtained: "All amendments proposed by the general assembly or by the initiative shall be submitted to the electors for their approval or rejection by official ballot title as may be provided by law, on a separate ballot without party designation, at the next general election, or at a special election called by the governor prior thereto, at which he may submit any of the amendments." (Emphasis added). Under this provision, unless a special election is called by the governor, an amendment is submitted at the next general election, and the time in which to submit the sample petition is effectively limited only by the period between general elections. Concomitantly, it is clear that the constitution permits submission of sample initiative petitions to the secretary of state from any time after one general election until four months prior to the next general election. Although the authority is not semantically explicit, the constitutional provisions are nonetheless plain in meaning.
Respondents' arguments, therefore, necessarily fail because the constitution does provide a period in which the petitions can be circulated. Any limitation of the period authorized is in conflict and invalid. That part of § 116.332.1 that limits submission to the secretary of state of a sample petition to one year prior to the final date for filing the signed petition with the secretary, and thereby shortens the time authorized by the constitution during which the constitutional amendment petition may be circulated for signatures, is invalid.
The judgment is reversed.
BLACKMAR, C.J., and ROBERTSON, RENDLEN, HIGGINS, HOLSTEIN, JJ., and TURNAGE, Special Judge, concur.
NOTES
[1] All statutory references are to RSMo 1986, unless otherwise indicated.
[2] Respondents contend that the trial court did not decide this case on the merits and declare that they reserve the right to assert additional defenses at a later time. Respondents' position on the merits is ably and comprehensively presented, and this Court is sufficiently prepared to construe the relevant constitutional provisions and the statute at issue.
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50 years later, King assassination remembered as end of 'innocent optimism'
Neal Simpson The Patriot Ledger @nsimpson_ledger
Wednesday
Apr 4, 2018 at 7:00 PMApr 4, 2018 at 8:10 PM
A half-century ago today, Stephen London was at an evening event at a school in Wellesley when a school administrator came onto the stage and shared the news: The man London had traveled to Washington D.C. five years earlier to see, and with whom he'd later worked in the poor neighborhoods of Chicago, had been shot dead on a motel balcony in Memphis.
"For me, there was grieving, but also frustration," London, a Quincy native who went on to have a long career as a sociology professor at Simmons College in Boston, said. "I saw this in a larger context of the failure of the civil rights movement to implement so many of its goals, the hopes and aspirations that King himself had."
The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, was just one shock delivered that year to a nation already reeling from seismic shifts in culture, politics, music and art, as what would later become known as the Baby Boomer generation left the shelter of their parents' homes and entered a world they were eager to change.
More than 16,000 Americans had already died in Vietnam by the start of 1968, and the front pages of The Patriot Ledger regularly carried news of the the deaths of local soldiers, as the war entered a year that would prove to be its bloodiest. And a nation still mourning the loss of its young president in 1963 would soon see his younger brother, Bobby Kennedy, gunned down in a hotel kitchen while King's assassin was still on the run.
For many Baby Boomers engaged in the civil rights movement and other progressive causes of the 1960s, King's death was singularly devastating. For them, King was not only a pioneer of social justice and non-violent resistance, but a moral leader at time when it appeared that America had lost its way. It was, in the words of Weymouth native and retired federal Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent Bill Murphy, the end of "innocent optimism."
"When Dr. King was assassinated, it kind of devastated me," said Murphy, one of four Patriot Ledger readers who met Tuesday for the first in a year-long series of round-table discussions about the defining events and themes of 1968, which Time magazine has declared "the year that shaped a generation."
King was two years into a campaign to desegregate northern cities, including Boston, when he came to Memphis in 1968 to march alongside black sanitation workers who were captured in iconic photographs marching with signs declaring, "I AM A MAN." After a demonstration in March that turned violent, King returned to Memphis on April 3 and delivered what would be his last speech, declaring that, like Moses, he had been "up to the mountain" and seen the promised land.
"I may not get there with you,' he said, prophetically. "But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land."
The following evening, King was preparing to go to the home of a Memphis minister for dinner when he stepped out on the floor of his second-floor balcony at the Lorainne Motel to talk to a group of organizers in the parking lot below. As he did, a single bullet fired from across the street hit the side of King's face and pierced his aorta. He was pronounced dead the following day.
As word of King's death spread, violence erupted in more than 100 cities across the country, leaving 46 people dead, all but five of them black. Property damage was estimated at over $50 million and 28,000 people were arrested. Army troops and the National Guard were mobilized to quell the violence.
In Boston, after a night of scattered violence, city officials convinced singer James Brown to allow his scheduled April 5 concert to be broadcast live on Channel 2 to keep people in their homes and off the street. The city was quiet that night.
Sen. Robert Kennedy, on the fourth day of his campaign for president, appealed for calm in a speech in a black neighborhood of Indianapolis. Kennedy referred to the assassination of his brother, President John F. Kennedy four-and-a-half years earlier, and urged his audience to avoid becoming polarized and filled with hatred.
"Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and to replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand with compassion and love," Kennedy said.
Murphy, then a student at American University in Washington, D.C., found himself trapped in his dormitory with friends visiting from Weymouth as the city erupted in riots. National Guard troops were called in. For several days, Murphy said his friends mostly ate canned spaghetti and barbecue sauce heated up in dormitory kitchenette, as outside DC burned. When they finally left, Murphy remember finding sandbag machine-gun nests stationed on the National Mall.
"I'll never forget it," he said.
ASSASSINATION TIMELINE
March 28, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. leads about 6,000 people in a march in support of black sanitation workers striking in Memphis. King is rushed from the scene after the march descends into looting and violence.
April 3: King flies back to Memphis to lead a second march and delivers what becomes his last speech, known as the "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
April 4: After the march, King steps out onto the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis and is hit by a single bullet fired from across the street.
April 9: King is buried in Atlanta.
June 8: James Earl Ray is arrested at Heathrow Airport in London and charged with King's murder.
But on the South Shore, which then, as now, was home to relatively few black families, the tumult following King's death felt distant to some, compared to the other events that would rock the country that year. Cathy Mahoney, a Quincy native who spent many of those years looking after her young siblings after their father died and left them parentless, said she does not recall King's assassination as clearly as the deaths of President John F. Kennedy five years earlier or Sen. Robert Kennedy several weeks later.
But for Murphy, London and others engaged in the civil rights struggle, King's assassination transformed them. "There’s not a single day that goes by now that I don't think about him," London said.
A half-century later, amid regular reports of unarmed black men being shot by police and persistent wage gaps between whites and blacks, there is a sense among some on the South Shore that King's work is largely unfinished. Some say that those who harbor racist views have only become louder and more emboldened in recent years.
But others, like Quincy resident Sandy Eaton, said they see the legacy of King's dream in movements like Occupy, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and, most recently, the March for Our Lives.
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Dark Commandos
September 25, 2007
Dark Commandos ("DC") is a live-action Internet series about a team of vampires working as an elite covert assassination and special ops unit for the United States government. Naturally this is a highly secret group. Their identities and very existence are known only to a handful of top brass, and their orders come directly from the Oval Office. The group has been active for more than half a century, since their original member -- a then five hundred year old vampire -- was captured from the Nazis, who had first pursued the myth of his existence and finally found him buried in Europe. America's plans for this creature of the night were not unlike Hitler's scheme: to raise an "Undead Brigade" -- a nearly invincible team of soldiers possessing devastating supernatural powers.
NON GAGE: Known simply as "Non", he is the leader of the Undead Brigade. Though he appears to be a man in his early thirties, he is actually over 500 years old. His story has never been told in full, but his file indicates that he was a Knight fighting during the Crusades when he was turned into a vampire. He served the vampire who had turned him for several years, until, sickened by the man's unrelenting brutality, he fled, and survived on the run for the next several centuries. An unexpected meeting with his progenitor -- whose ability to hold a grudge was unparalleled -- resulted in Non being forcefully buried in Austria in the mid 1800s, and left there -- presumably forever. During World War II, forces of the Third Reich discovered Non's amazingly preserved body and brought him to Adolph Hitler's top secret "Theosophic Research" facility. There, Nazi scientists sampled Non's blood and endeavored to use it to create an undead army. Their experiments produced some hideous false starts, but Hitler's vision was still unrealized when Non was "rescued" by a team of American Commandos. Non was brought to the United States, where a deal was offered to him. In exchange for the promise of an anti-vampire "cure" if one could be engineered from his DNA, Non would create and lead a team which would become known as the Dark Commandos...a supposedly more noble American incarnation of the Nazi plan to deploy vampire soldiers. Despite what he is, Non remains a decent and spiritual man, who amazingly continues to practice his Catholic faith. On the one hand, Non would love nothing more than final death, but in the back of his mind is the fear that he would be denied entrance into the Holy Kingdom. The alternative is too frightening to contemplate. Information on additional members of the team, as well as more episodes, will be coming soon.
The Dark Commandos ("DC") are a team of vampires working as an elite covert assassination and special ops unit for the United States government. Naturally this is a highly secret group. Their identities and very existence are known only to a handful of top brass, and their orders come directly from the Oval Office. The group has been active for more than half a century, since their original member -- a then five hundred year old vampire -- was captured from the Nazis, who had first pursued the myth of his existence and finally found him buried in Europe. America's plans for this creature of the night were not unlike Hitler's scheme: to raise an "Undead Brigade" -- a nearly invincible team of soldiers possessing devastating supernatural powers.
NON GAGE: Known simply as "Non", he is the leader of the Undead Brigade. Though he appears to be a man in his early thirties, he is actually over 500 years old. His story has never been told in full, but his file indicates that he was a Knight fighting during the Crusades when he was turned into a vampire. He served the vampire who had turned him for several years, until, sickened by the man's unrelenting brutality, he fled, and survived on the run for the next several centuries. An unexpected meeting with his progenitor -- whose ability to hold a grudge was unparalleled -- resulted in Non being forcefully buried in Austria in the mid 1800s, and left there -- presumably forever. During World War II, forces of the Third Reich discovered Non's amazingly preserved body and brought him to Adolph Hitler's top secret "Theosophic Research" facility. There, Nazi scientists sampled Non's blood and endeavored to use it to create an undead army. Their experiments produced some hideous false starts, but Hitler's vision was still unrealized when Non was "rescued" by a team of American Commandos. Non was brought to the United States, where a deal was offered to him. In exchange for the promise of an anti-vampire "cure" if one could be engineered from his DNA, Non would create and lead a team which would become known as the Dark Commandos...a supposedly more noble American incarnation of the Nazi plan to deploy vampire soldiers. Despite what he is, Non remains a decent and spiritual man, who amazingly continues to practice his Catholic faith. On the one hand, Non would love nothing more than final death, but in the back of his mind is the fear that he would be denied entrance into the Holy Kingdom. The alternative is too frightening to contemplate.
August 04, 2007
Continuing where Episode One left off (and if you haven't seen it, go to the Dark Commandos section of this blog -- we'll wait), the vampire Dreyfuss extracts some information from Dwight regarding the kidnapping of the vice president's daughter. Needless to say, Dreyfuss has some unique tools of extraction at his disposal.
July 23, 2007
Online Entertainment magazine offered up a behind the scenes look at the making of Dark Commandos, tracing the show's origins and interviewing key players. Clicking below will bring you to a pdf version of that article, which is available for downloading.
July 22, 2007
In Episode 1 of Dark Commandos, the kidnapping of the Vice-President's daughter entangles the kidnappers, the police, and the Undead Brigade in a high speed chase. It's wall-to-wall action from the very first frame, as a careening van dodges police cars and helicopters, until -- years before Bruce Willis did it bigger and better (and for about a hundred million dollars more) -- an airborne car actually takes down a helicopter.
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package com.xixiciTest
import com.xixici.P10
import org.scalatest.FunSuite
/**
* Created by xixici
* Date: 2019/3/13
* Project Name: sword-offer-scala-sbt
* Project URL: https://github.com/xixici/sword-offer-scala
**/
class P10Test extends FunSuite {
test("P10Test") {
val Expected = 5
val Actual = P10.RectCover(4)
assert(Expected === Actual)
}
}
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