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Why we say "Different Struggle, Same Fight"
Distinctions between the Civil Rights Movement and the LGBTQ Human Rights Movement An illustration that may help in understanding why there are persons in the African American commmunity who resist and resent comparisons of the LGBTQ community quest for human rights to the Civil Rights Movement's efforts to promote racial justice.
Rachel Maddow in her MSNBC show (1/20/2011) said of Cohen's comments; "There should be no comparison with Goebbels or the holocaust". (paraphrase). Maddow and many of us may be bothered by the continuing effots to distort the truth about the Health Care legislation, but inept and inaccurate comparisons of those distortions with the age-old struggles of Jews are inappropriate.
I, as a black clergy ally/advocate of LGBTQ human rights, have sought to be a bridge between the black community and the Gay Human Rights Movement. But, I have understood why often in the black community, my efforts to encourage advocacy for Gay rights have been met with resistance because some outside that community suggest that there is equivalency between the two struggles and movements.
Remembering Rachel Maddow's words about Goebbels and the Holocaust, I say what my colleague Marilyn Bennett and I know (Truthinprogress.com), "There is no comparison between the slavery of Africans and the racial segregation of African Americans and the struggles of LGBTQ persons."
I had no reservations about "partnering" with my white Lesbian "younger sister" Marilyn in our Truth in Progress effort almost 10 years ago. I was able to do this because she understood as much as any white person I have known, that nothing can be compared to the black experience of slavery and segregation.
Gil Caldwell, aka "Elder Brother"
| 2019-04-23T18:45:58 |
http://www.truthinprogress.com/truth-in-progress1/2011/01/why-we-say-different-struggle-same-fight
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Why can't I delete animator parameters?
I don't know why I can't delete the parameters. I've tried right clicking, pressing the delete key, pressing command and delete, and when I click 'Edit' on the top menu, "Delete" is grayed out. I was always able to do it with no issues but now nothing's working.
Right-click on the text of the animation parameter (e.g., isRunning) and then select Delete.
I tried. It's not working for me.
270 People are following this question.
| 2019-04-22T10:06:06 |
https://answers.unity.com/questions/1485670/why-cant-i-delete-animator-parameters.html
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Hva skal avstandene mellom tønnene egentlig være, pluss avstanden fra start til første, og fra siste til mål?
Eneste jeg vet er at om du skal bruke de riktige målene med tre tønner så er en vanlig 20/40 ridebane litt for liten.
Man kan da bruke to tønner i stedet.
Hva er barrel race da? Hva brukes tønnene til?
Ble litt nyskjerri her jeg nå!
90 feet between barrel 1 and 2.
105 feet between barrel 1 and 3 and between 2 and 3.
60 feet from barrels 1 and 2 to score line.
Note: In a standard WPRA pattern, the score line begins at the plane of arena, meaning from fence to fence regardless of the position of the electric eye or timer.
In larger arenas, there is a maximum allowable distance of 105 feet between barrels 1 and 2; and a maximum distance of 120 feet between barrels 2 and 3, and 1 and 3. Barrels 1 and 2 must be at least 18 feet from the sides of the arena--in smaller arenas this distance may be less, but in no instance should the barrels be any closer than 15 feet from the sides of the arena.
Barrel 3 should be no closer than 25 feet to the end of the arena, and should be set no more than 15 feet longer than the first and second barrel. If arena size permits, barrels must be set 60 feet or further apart. In small arenas it is recommended the pattern be reduced proportionately to a standard barrel pattern.
The above pattern is the set pattern for the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA), and The National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA).
A minimum of 15 feet between each of the first two barrels and the side fence.
A minimum of 30 feet between the third barrel and the back fence.
A minimum of 30 feet between the time line and the first barrel.
| 2019-04-24T13:59:06 |
http://www.hestene.no/forum/archive/index.php/t-32356.html?s=0cc100b65954ed0d59ddeb7859d89a3d
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I am sure that the article did not state - Microsoft Hotmail is the only thing stopping Firefox going into RC / Release - just seems a few people have drawn that conclusion. Is there not only one conclusion to this story - Firefox is not ready for RC and has bugs remaining, some a fault of the program and others a fault or poor sites?
I think it is perfectly acceptable for a grace period to apply before an SP becomes mandatory. Microsoft has a support policy and rolling service pack levels are part of that policy. 1 year should also be enough time to test how a service pack upgrade will affect services.
That there will not be many comments on here. I think it's a good piece of news but as it's not iNEWS no one will bother.
As out AC post before points out - Sony and such own shares in Spotify. With this new joined up wizardry will there be anymore information being sent back to the servers about your local 'previously untouched by spotify' collection. It would be really hard to resist getting all that information so easily.
I don't see the massive reasoning behind this software - it is clever but where will it generate benefits?
Technet and MSDN have been running within this hypervisor for a little while now from accounts - suggests it can be as datacenter capable as you wish to employ - in the same vein as other hypervisors really.
I've read the comments and only a few people seem to understand that IE is the most popular browser accessing web pages and for various reasons non standard code has been required to ensure IE renders correctly. Microsoft are providing developers with a 1 line solution to keep these sites rendered while potentially allowing all new sites to be 1 fit all code. To all those who are harping on about standards only and Microsoft can go kiss....you have misunderstood the intention completely but as always with the register you make comments - I guess you have to have to fill your comment quota for the day.
| 2019-04-18T13:05:45 |
https://forums.theregister.co.uk/user/19935/
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Social Media app f...app for students to access a live map of their school campus where it will show all the events taking place: study groups, TA/Prof office hours, meet ups, parties, textbook selling/exchanges, food, etc. The app will also match you with other students who share similar interests as you, are in the same class, or who want to study.
I need a new website. I need you to design and build my online store. I am needing a website build for blogging, selling on ecommerce, able to take specialized orders and credit cards, and email.
We need to rebuild our online store that drop-ships silver jewelry. We supply our jewelry from a manufacturer in China. We launched two months ago but had difficulty selling the products. Our goal is to sell products world to most developed countries. We had some traffic through promotions on social media; however, our conversion rate was bad.
Translate from English into Spanish 8 pages of a magazine article entitled "Why Free Money Could be the Future Work"
We are selling printed T-shirts. Need freelancers who can do work on cps and earn money on the amount of T-shirts you sell.
WEMS is looking to hire commission sales consultants on a nationwide campa...commercial buildings, schools, supermarkets, property management, hotels and hospitals. The ideal candidate is energy and technology savvy and is willing to be trained in our EMS. Selling, auditing/assessing of facility and coordinating with WEMS headquarters on installation.
I need some help with selling something. GST Inventory Management and Billing software. Require someone in Jalandhar, Punjab area to do field marketing.
I need some help with selling something. I want a freelancer to sell clothes that I manufacture in my factory such as tops, kurtis, sarees,shirts etc.I m ready to pay any amount as per the number of sales he can do as there is no limit of my production factory.
I need some help with selling "Food processor + Mixer (2 in 1)".
I need some help with selling led wall panels. Material is P5, used Samsung chipset and Texas instrument flight Case , Power & Signal Cable Included.
I need some help with selling something. Hello, I have a wholesale business of plastic products and bathroom fittings. Like Upvc pipe fittings, C.P bathroom fittings, P.P ropes, tarpaulin etc. I need help to sale my product with in West Bengal, Assam and Bihar.
...years now and do not have the time to do it. I would like to outsource this to someone who is very experienced. Send your CV and show how you can help. We are selling a music/ tech / artifical intelligence related product pricing ranges from $ 300/mo. to $ 900/mo. Thank you. * IF you dont send examples, I will ignore your bid.
| 2019-04-24T06:20:20 |
https://www.fi.freelancer.com/job-search/money-selling-script/449/
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What is a Client Relations Manager?
1 What Is a Director of Owner Relations?
A client relations manager serves as a liaison with a company's clients and customers, developing relationships, providing guidance and advice and ensuring all of the customer's needs are being met. The client relations manager may service the client's account, make recommendations for service plans, track metrics and analytics or otherwise serve as an intermediary between the customer and the company.
The role of client relations manager varies based on industry. For example, a client relations manager for an advertising agency might present a marketing plan, outline the approach and act as the go-between, providing an overview of options for branding, advertising or community outreach, taking the customer's feedback to the agency and helping refine services to meet the client's needs. In the banking industry, a client relations manager for a commercial customer might offer advice for various financial products and services, personally handle business transactions and arrange for loan serving as needed. In the retail industry, a client relations manager would likely be a vendor representative, making product recommendation to the client, providing guidance on merchandising and promotional avenues. In short, a client relations manager helps ensure every client is happy with the relationship they have with his company, and takes action to improve relations and trouble-shoot issues if problems arise.
While there is no specific type of education or degree necessary for becoming a client relations manager, exceptional people skills are a necessity. Training or education in business management, interpersonal communications or public relations can help provide background and knowledge on the best ways to effectively interact with clients. Education related to the field being serviced can also be beneficial. For example, a client relations manager who works for a pool service company would be well-served to have knowledge of general pool care, maintenance and common issues. As in most professions, higher degrees of education and professional certifications typically result in higher paying jobs, or the potential for management roles.
Client relations managers are found in nearly every industry, but specifically, they're sought after in lines of business in which repeat or contract business is conducted. For example, a fast-food restaurant that primarily serves individuals wouldn't necessarily need a client relations manager because the transactions are relatively quick and operate on a volume basis. On the other hand, a commercial food catering company would utilize the services of a client relations manager to establish and build relationships with party planning companies, business organizations and other entities that generate high-dollar repeat business.
Client relations managers span the range in terms of salary. Professional services industries, such as financial and corporate entities, typically pay at the higher end of the scale, while smaller non-profits that utilize the role for fundraising purposes pay at the lower end.
It's anticipated that the field of client relationship management will grow at a slightly above-average pace of about five percent through 2026. The field encompasses all customer service related roles, which are expected to be in high demand, due to the increasingly competitive nature of businesses nationwide.
McQuerrey, Lisa. "What is a Client Relations Manager?" Work - Chron.com, http://work.chron.com/client-relations-manager-11330.html. 30 June 2018.
What Kind of Job Can You Get With an Advertising and Marketing Communications Degree?
| 2019-04-26T12:15:11 |
https://work.chron.com/client-relations-manager-11330.html
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I am a Logos 4 user. I have never used Accordance, although I have seen some video tutorial about Accordance and I have heard good thing about the program. Unfortunately I cannot afford to have two Bible Softwares. My questions is about Hebrew and Greek root search in Accordance. Is it possible?
Logos 4 can do only Lemma search. Many users are asking for this feature on Logos 4 and I was wondering if there is any Bible Software that offers this feature. I work mostly with the Hebrew text, but for a sound research such features should be available at least to Hebrew and Greek.
I thank in advance for any help.
Yes, Accordance is able to conduct root and lemma searches. As is usually the case with Accordance, you can go about this task in a variety of ways. The easiest is simply to control+click on a Greek or Hebrew word in a tagged text and select Search For: Lemma (or Root or Inflected) from the contextual menu. Accordance will run the search, and you'll instantly have the results (Accordance is very fast).
Alternatively, a root search just includes a + symbol before the root and can be done directly from any normal search entry. Comparatively, a lemma search is just done without the + symbol.
I'd like to add how to do a root search using the construct window (since that's my favorite method for all searches). The screenshot below shows how easy it is.
The search shows a simple ROOT search (see the ROOT item on the menu to the far right -- simply drag it into the first column (Hebrew order: 1st = rightmost) and then a menu pops up with a list of all roots in the Hebrew Bible. Choose your root and hit the search button. I chose KHN to illustrate how such a search can illustrate how the agentive noun/Qal participle form "priest" is the only one that occurs in that stem, while all the verbal uses, "to act as a priest," are in the Piel.
The search took a bare second.
First of all, thank you all who replied to this post, for the information.
See that in Gen 37:9 we have the verb HLM (Qal, wayyiqtol), and the noun HALOM. So, it would be possible then to do a root search and have the two words retrieved in the search, right?
If so, then we go to the next step. I would like to do a syntax search where the predicate has the same root of the object of the clause (searching for cognates). Can we do it with Accordance?
David beat me to it -- yes, this is an easy search in Accordance.
Below is the specific construct set-up for your request, using Genesis. Note that it shouldn't matter which column you add the actual ROOT to, since AGREE=ROOT will force the identity in both columns. Also note that "search both directions" is checked, since otherwise the results will catch only the order you've built the syntax search in, and this would exclude the final hit, in which the complement precedes the verb.
Thank you David and Robert.
That is awesome. It is good to know that there is a Bible Software for that. So, the solution to my problems are only limited to some 300 bucks. Since I use Bible Software searching for a sound theology, the prosperity theology is not an option for this matter.
Actually, a bit less. You can purchase the Scholar's Introductory Level for $149 (10% less if you're a minister or full time student). This includes tagged copies of the Nestle-Aland 27th edition of the Greek New Testament (GNT) and Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS). With this modest investment, you'll be able to perform morphological searches to your heart's content.
If you want the ability to run syntactical searches, you'll need to add the syntax add-ons for either or both the GNT ($50) and the BHS ($60). Again, if you're a minister or full time student, you can receive a 10% discount on these prices.
That's a grand total of $259 ($233 if you're eligible for the discount). And during the month of April, you can receive 25% off two products. If you apply this discount to the Scholar's Introductory Level and the BHS Syntax add-on, your total drops to just $207.
I will certainly consider acquiring Accordance. The price with discount is really good. By the way, I am a minister and a full time student. Could I get a 20% discount? Just kidding!!!
I would like not to buy another Bible Software because I already have Logos 4. It is a very good program, and I have been able to do good researches with the syntax search the way it is now on Logos, but I am limited just to 'lemma' search sometimes. Many users are asking for 'root' tagging in original languages resources and apparently Logos is working on that. But, as for as I can see, it will take quite a while to be running on Logos 4. Because of that, maybe using buying Accordance will be a good investment.
Just one more question: What about Accordance on PC? I saw that there is an emulator for that. Does it work fine? Does the program have the same capabilities and performance? Does any one have answer to that? I thank in advance for any information.
Finally, Sean, I saw that you have a website/blog where you evaluate Bible Softwares. Thats is great. I have bookmarked your site. Apparently you are in the beginning of this project right? I look forward for your reviews.
If you decide to purchase Accordance, I think you'll be quite pleased. As for its performance on a PC using the provided emulator, most of Accordance's functionality is preserved and performance is, generally, pretty good (at least that's what others have said; I've not used Accordance on a PC via the emulator).
As for my website, www.bibsoft.org., yes, it's in the beginning stages. While I've already written a fairly in-depth review of Accordance (available on my site and the Accordance site), I've not yet been able to complete the Logos and BibleWorks reviews. I'm in the middle of finishing up a graduate degree, and my time has been at a premium. You should note, however, some more activity on my site beginning in a couple months (once my wife and I move, the baby is born, and we settle into my new pastoral position).
If you want to take advantage of the special 25% discount on two items, you'll need to make your purchase this week. The 25% discount expires at the end of April.
| 2019-04-26T09:44:54 |
https://www.accordancebible.com/forums/topic/6061-root-and-lemma-search-in-hebrew-and-greek/
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Why is '제 머리가 아파요.' not accepted?
why isn't '내 머리가 아파요' accepted?
| 2019-04-22T21:56:25 |
https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/25624217/My-head-hurts
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This article is about the sport derived from rugby league. For the rugby union variant, see Rugby sevens.
Rugby league sevens (or simply sevens) is a seven-a-side derivative of rugby league football, which is usually a thirteen-a-side sport. The game is substantially the same as full rugby league, with some rule changes and shorter games. Sevens is usually played in festivals, as its shorter game play allows for a tournament to be completed in a day or over a single weekend.
As well as being played by club sides, rugby league sevens is particularly popular with social teams, formed in the workplace or from the patrons of a public house for example, as it is often difficult in these places to form a full squad of 13 players and four substitutes of regular players. Some tournaments prefer to play rugby league nines (rugby league with nine players on each side) to distinguish it from rugby union sevens.
The game of rugby sevens dates back to its invention by Ned Haig in Melrose in the Scottish Borders in 1883, just over a decade before the schism in rugby football in 1895, which led to the creation of rugby league and rugby union. However, rugby sevens did not spread outside Scotland before the 1920s. That said, the larger part of Scotland's rugby league players have come from Borders backgrounds.
The record rugby league sevens attendance remains the 80,000 that attended a 1933 match between Australia and England at Roundhay Park in Leeds. This match was also attended by English royalty.
The first rugby league sevens tournament was played in Australia in 1961.
The major tournament was the World Sevens played prior to the beginning of the National Rugby League season in Sydney, Australia. That tournament has been suspended but sevens is played around the world at different levels from junior teams to international ones. Sevens is considered to be a good tool to increase the skills of players and to help emerging rugby league nations.
Sevens is played on a standard rugby league playing field as defined in Section 1 of the International Laws of the Game.
Teams are composed of three forwards, one half and three backs.
Sevens follows the rules of 13-a-side rugby league with exceptions. Each rugby league nation is at liberty to adopt a modified version of international rugby league rules for their own domestic competitions; as a result the rules of rugby league sevens can vary too, even before changes implemented by competition organisers.
Matches have two halves of seven minutes. Unlimited substitutions are allowed from a squad totalling 12 players. In sevens, smaller scrums, formed from the three forwards on each team, are formed. All kicks for goal should be drop kicks in sevens. After points have been scored a tap kick restart is taken by the non-scoring side.
The World Sevens, the world's premier sevens event while it operated, had two 7 minute halves up to and including the semi-finals with extra time played in the event of tie at the end normal time. The final was longer with two 10-minute halves. In 2004, the World Sevens tackle limit was reduced from 6 to 4.
World Sevens is currently suspended but in 2008 it emerged that the World Sevens could make a comeback by 2010.
Actor Russell Crowe hosts the Orara Valley Axemen Sevens Tournament at Coffs Harbour on the New South Wales North Coast. This tournament is participated in by teams representing countries of the world, local clubs and a few clubs from Brisbane, Australia. In 2005 the Souths Logan Magpies from the Queensland Wizard Cup and the Gold Coast Titans, who entered the NRL in 2007, were two well known clubs that participated.
↑ "The history of rugby league". centenaryofrugbyleague.com. Archived from the original on 2009-08-28. Retrieved 2009-06-15.
1 2 Josh King (2008-03-09). "Return of the Rugby League World Sevens?". nrlnews.com. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
↑ RLIF. "The International Laws of the Game and Notes on the Laws" (PDF). Rugby League International Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
1 2 3 4 5 6 AUS. "Rugby League 7s (Men)" (PDF). Australian University Sport. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 22, 2008. Retrieved 2009-06-15.
↑ Sean Fagan. "The Harlem Kangaroos are coming". rl1908.com. Archived from the original on 2011-05-17. Retrieved 2009-06-15.
↑ Production company: Twenty Twenty Television; Director: Stuart Goodman; Producer: Martin Short; Series Producer: Claudia Milne (1992). "Simply the best". Up 'n' Under. BBC.
1 2 Geoff Stevenson (2007-02-19). "Why aren't we in Sevens heaven?". leagueunlimited.com. Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2009-06-13.
| 2019-04-24T14:17:04 |
http://library.kiwix.org/wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2018-09/A/Rugby_league_sevens.html
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What makes a master's performance stand out from that of ordinary practitioners? There are many factors, and an important one is known in Chinese as “hei sai” (or “qi shi” in Mandarin pronunciation), which may be roughly translated as “spirit of energy”.
A master and a student may perform the same forms, but the energy issuing from their performance is visibly different. Not only a master's forms are flowing and graceful, but they also radiate an invisible but perceptible force. This is “hei sai” or “spirit of energy”.
Is Grandmaster Wong linking combat sequences into a set like what the course participants do? No, he is performing some patterns as an example of how they should not be performed. Do you know what mistakes or weaknesses there are in Grandmaster Wong's performance in this video clip?
Grandmaster Wong now demonstrates how a sequence should be performed. He explains that one should be solid and agile at the same time as he sinks into a poise pattern. Notice the difference between the performance here and that in the previous video clip.
Grandmaster Wong shows how one should not execute a combat sequence. This is what we call “opium smoking”, not Shaolin Kungfu. Lessons in our school are full of fun and laughter.
This is how Shaolin Kungfu should be performed. In Chinese (Cantonese) terms, there is “yow ying yow sai”, which means there is form as well as spirit in the performance. The patterns in this and the previous video clip are the same, but the performance is clearly different. Can you tell the different aspects?
Grandmaster Wong highlights the difference. There is force and flow in good Shaolin Kungfu, whereas in “opium smoking” there is form but no spirit. And the form lacks force and flow. It is referred to as “yow zi sai mou shet chai” n Chinese, which means the forms are empty without combat utility.
Participants at the course are fast learners. Steve performs his sequence with “form and spirit”, or “yow ying yow sai” in Chinese, like what Grandmaster Wong has just explained. The internal force is visible, and Steve's movements are fluid.
In the past a kungfu master could have a good idea of his opponent's attainment by merely observing his movements. Even before the actual combat, he would know his chances of beating his opponent. One tell-tale sign is “hei sai”, or “spirit of chi”.
Notice the “spirit of chi” as revealed in the forceful and fluid movements of both Steve and Eugene in this sparring.
Hei Sai or the Spirit of Energy of Shaolin Kungfu from Wong Kiew Kit on Vimeo.
| 2019-04-25T22:25:17 |
https://shaolin.org/video-clips-3/shaolin/special-10/special81.html
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Can racing games improve driving?
I am a road racer in the heart. I love racing games too as well as my children. Do playing racing games more helps in better racing? Or do they help at least in improving the driving?
This is a wrong notion for us to say that it is going to help one improve on driving. The best way that we can improve our driving experience is simply by going to driving school and practicing.
@Henrywrites I personally learnt how to drive through playing racing video games like Need for speed. I can tell you vehemently that till today, I never went to car learning driving school.
Yes! You will get at least some information about throttle, gear, brake etc. But I don't think you can get handle balance or steering balance from a racing game.
To some extend it is helpful to improve the racing skills in someone. When you play a game you will be able to learn simple skills such as breaking and negotiating a corner with the right speed. Though the racing games should not give someones illusion that they can race in real life with thought proper training.
Of course YES, it is arguable that such people are bound to be good drivers naturally, but just as pilots train in simulators, a sufficient realistic game should test or build up your reactions, and also reflexes that can translate to actual driving. In more truthful games like the Gran Turismo series, you will learn much more about how to pick a racing line as well and in general get a better grasp on how cars react to steering, braking etc .and changes if tractions. Though there will be more life things that simulators won't be able to emulate. That and alot of many racers and others with much experience in real race cars have often spoken highly of the realism of some games like iRacing and GT. In fact, iRacing claims some racers even use it sometimes to get a feel of a track before they can actually drive there car.
Gaming serves a lot of needs for those who pay attention and participate in the gaming act. Some games have been said to have physical, emotional and psychological effects on those who play them. So, it's very possible that racing games can influence one's driving either in a positive or negative manner depending on the personality of the individual involved in playing the game.
Now, I'm going to share with you my own personal life experience with playing racing games and how it influenced my driving skills. Racing games was actually the first game franchise that I got used to before any other games like soccer games or mission games. I got so addicted to playing racing games to the extent that it gave me huge confidence to pick up my father's car keys one day and drove it off. This is exactly how I started driving and never went to any driving school.
What is difference between Racing and driving simulators ?
Why do people scream while watching their favorite games?
| 2019-04-20T16:12:35 |
https://www.answeree.com/116/can-racing-games-improve-driving
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Arthur Baker (born April 22 1955, Boston, Massachusetts is an American record producer and DJ best known for his work with hip hop artists like Afrika Bambaataa, Planet Patrol and the British group New Order.
Baker's career began as a club DJ in Boston in the early 1970s, where he was known for playing crowd-pleasing soul and Philly soul. Nonetheless, he had little patience for DJ'ing, saying in an interview: "[If] I didn't get a good reaction on a record, I'd just rip it off, break it up and throw it on the dancefloor."
In 1981, Baker moved to New York, where he continued to DJ whilst pursuing a career as a producer. His first successful single was "Happy Days", which he released under the name North End on Emergency Records in 1981.
In the early eighties Baker and his contemporaries, lacking the inexpensive digital recording equipment that would emerge a decade later were known for using tape for remixes. In this area he worked with closely with the premiere duo of the tape edit, The Latin Rascals, who themselves had been influenced by the earlier work of Tom Moulton, John Morales (see M and M), and Walter Gibbons (the creator of the first commercially available twelve-inch version of a song in Double Exposure's "Ten Percent". The Latin Rascals would eventually edit the work of every major United States dance music producer active in the 1980's, but in the early days they were part of Baker's circle.
He went on to work for hip-hop label Tommy Boy Records, where he produced Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force's "Planet Rock" single, which was a hit in the summer of 1982. The record combined elements from two Kraftwerk recordings, "Trans Europe Express" and "Numbers", which were imitated by studio musicians, rather than sampled. Then later on he produced Planet Patrol "Plat At Your Own Risk" single in 1982, another group with a hit Album in 1983.
In 1983 Baker found work in doing dance remixes of pop and rock hits, first with Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", then with Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark", "Cover Me", and "Born in the U.S.A." from his mega-hit Born in the U.S.A. album.
Following these successes, Baker came to the attention of Manchester pop group New Order, who asked him to produce their songs "Confusion" and "Thieves Like Us." The 12" single of "Confusion" was a crossover hit on the U.S. dance charts, and established a relationship between Baker and the band which has continued for more than twenty years. This also set a precedent for rock-style bands to produce dance records and remixes, which have now become commonplace.
Narrowly missing out on signing the Beastie Boys to his Streetwise label, Baker did manage to sign New Edition, who had a huge success with their Jackson 5-style single "Candy Girl".
In 1984, the New York-based Baker worked with fellow New Yorkers Hall & Oates as "mix consultant" for their album Big Bam Boom, and the result was a markedly urban and electronic sound for the duo. Baker co-wrote with Daryl Hall the opening instrumental, "Dance On Your Knees." He also remixed that song and the album's other three chart hits --"Out Of Touch," "Method Of Modern Love" and "Possession Obsession."
In 1985, Baker helped Bob Dylan complete his Empire Burlesque album as mixer & arranger, and also along with Little Steven Van Zant organised and produced the anti-apartheid anthem "Sun City" by Artists United Against Apartheid. He was later honored by the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid for "high valuable contribution to the international campaign for the elimination of apartheid and the establishment of a non-racial and democratic society in South Africa".
In the late 1980s and later into the 1990s, Baker worked with Soul star Al Green, writing and producing the international hit "The Message Is Love" and the anti-handgun song "Leave The Guns At Home". He also was the music supervisor of the films "Fried Green Tomatoes" and "Listen Up- The Lives Of Quincy Jones".
In the 1990s, following a break from production for some years, Baker moved to London, and established a chain of successful bars—The Elbow Rooms—across the city. He also owns two soul-food restaurants in London called "Harlem," located in Brixton and Notting Hill. He continues to work as a DJ and producer and recently produced "Part-A" for the genre-busting London Electro Metal band, Monsta.
In 2006, the financial services company Visa used a Baker-produced track from Afrika Bambaataa's "Looking For the Perfect Beat" as the backing music of a Visa Check Card commercial. In the ad, an animated worm drawn on the pages of a checkbook does the 1980s dance "the worm."
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Climate Seal Acoustic Series Insert vs soundproofwindows.com for my needs?
We live in a 2-story house, and there are two windows in our master bedroom that we'd like to do soundproofing on, so we don't get woken up in the morning by noise (dog barking, birds chirping, train track nearby, lawn mower, leaf blower, motorcycle, next door neighbor working out and doing dead lifts).
I attached a photo of our bedroom, and as you can see, there are two windows (measuring 38 10/16 x 58 8/16). The space from the window frame to the wall (sill) is 2.75 inches. We never open those two windows so we don't need a solution that's movable at all. In case of emergency, we have a drop-down rolled up ladder next to our master bathroom window.
I've researched soundproof windows (http://www.soundproofwindows.com/) and they are quite expensive. I even had a guy come out and measure my windows and is going to charge me $2,100 total for two soundproof windows ($1,980 for the product, and $233 for shipping).
Climate Seal Acoustic Series Window Inserts (http://www.acousticalsurfaces.com/window-inserts/acoustical_window_inserts.htm) cost a lot less (it's basically one of those magnetic acrylic panes, and I was quoted $670 for the two windows, not including shipping), but based on STC ratings alone (STC 37 for double hung windows), it doesn't compare to soundproofwindows.com (which they claim is about 48~54 STC).
However, because I only have 2.75 inches of sill space to create air cushion, I'm not sure if I will reach past diminishing returns by going with the more expensive laminated glass. The soundproofwindows guy said if I go up to 5/8" thickness (instead of 1/4"), it'll help increase the STC a little and help with the low-frequency noises a bit more.
So what I'm wondering, is if the cheaper solution is already effective enough for my needs (considering the 2.75" of sill space), or despite not having a lot of air cushion space, the more expensive solution is still going to be a lot better than the cheaper solution? The $1,310 difference in price is pretty steep, so I'm really struggling with the choices here.
Re: Climate Seal Acoustic Series Insert vs soundproofwindows.com for my needs?
Ok, lets keep this simple..
This is the science behind soundproofing windows.. the larger the gap with a value of mass on both sides in an air tight installation is the goal.
Yes there are diminishing points of return but depending on the the value of reduction you need or budget will dictate whether or not you get there..
2.75" gap is good, so based on 1/4" laminate glass on both sides of the system would achieve STC 43.
now always remember that lower frequencies are harder to reduce. In the end the soundproof window system you build will only be as good as the wall is.
The links you posted are basically the same approach just with some aesthetics.
Here is a DIY system that would be cheaper and achieve the same value.
If you have further question you can contact me direct.
If I get the Magetseal frame and then buy the acrylic panels, wouldn't the final cost add up to about the same as the Climate Seal Acoustic series Window Inserts (they basically include the acrylic panels and magnet strips, thus the overall cost)? So what's the advantage of choosing Magnetseal over the Climate Seal Acoustic Series? Also, isn't laminated glass superior to acrylic panels? So why use the Magnetseal over soundproofwindows.com (aside from the price) if the 5/8" laminated glass will provide better performance?
That would all depend on the cost of the acrylic in your area, the kit for those windows would be $63 each window not including shipping.
the number one system is just to install a second operable window in the same window box...but again its down to cost vs. reduction.
You will never achieve a 100% reduction and the value of overall reduction will be based on the walls anyway.
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Irreversible process related to age or heredity depending on the case, osteoarthritis causes the dog to suffer and impairs his movements. However, it is possible to relieve it in various ways.
Aging and genetic predispositions can promote the development of osteoarthritis in dogs , just as in humans. When this disease appears and progresses, it prevents the animal from moving normally. It is also accompanied by painful sensations and may progress to an advanced stage that prevents it from performing certain movements.
If osteoarthritis does not heal, the process of cartilage degradation can not be reversed, it is possible to relieve the affected dog and allow him to regain much of his mobility . What characterizes osteoarthritis? What are the different types? How to establish the diagnosis and treat the animal?
Osteoarthritis is the progressive breakdown of articular cartilage covering the bone tissues of the joints. This cartilage helps absorb shocks and protect the joints. By being destroyed, it can no longer fulfill its protective function , which generates painful sensations for the affected animal. Pain is not the only direct consequence of osteoarthritis: the affected dog also loses some of its mobility. His gait becomes difficult and irregular. Some of these movements become even impossible to perform.
As it progresses, osteoarthritis also promotes the appearance of abnormal bone formations on the joints, which lose their flexibility . In addition, the dog reduces his movements because of the pain and thus contributes to the atrophy of part of his musculature.
Osteoarthritis mainly affects the joints that support the body of the animal, namely the shoulders, elbows, hips and knees. There are two types of osteoarthritis in dogs: primary osteoarthritis and secondary osteoarthritis.
The so-called primitive osteoarthritis is that which appears in the old dog . Over the years, the used articular cartilage is not renewed fast enough. As a result, it gradually disappears and the joints no longer have this natural shock absorber.
In general, several joints suffer simultaneously.
Secondary osteoarthritis can also be caused by trauma . It is indeed possible that a fracture favors the appearance of such a phenomenon.
Like the manifestations of osteoarthritis, the examination can also be painful for the dog, because the joints must be examined to establish the diagnosis . These manipulations are supplemented by X - rays which make it possible to evaluate the degree of the affection.
Once the diagnosis is made, the veterinarian will put in place the most appropriate treatment . It reduces the symptoms of osteoarthritis, but not its origin, because the damage is irreversible . It is simply possible to relieve pain and, in some cases, slow the destruction of cartilage.
The specialist will first recommend a readjustment of the physical exercise of the dog, which should become moderate not to wear more joints (without removing it, which could weaken his muscles and make the problem worse). For this same purpose, he will also advise to fight overweight if it exists by monitoring the feeding of the animal.
With regard to drug management, anti-inflammatory drugs are generally administered to reduce pain. The veterinarian may recommend an injection of ARA 3000 Beta, a combination of essential fatty acid copolymers that appears to have worked satisfactorily.
If it is an old osteoarthritis, associated with ankylosis (blocked joint), a surgical intervention called arthrodesis can be considered. Finally, corrective surgery can be undertaken in subjects who may have osteoarthritis due to malformation.
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It's safe to say that moviegoers have been waiting for a Wonder Woman film for quite some time. But while we're now counting down the months, weeks and days until Gal Gadot's origin story as the superhero is finally released, it turns out that it could have been here much sooner, as Wonder Woman's director Patty Jenkins actually pursued making the blockbuster a decade ago.
I met with Warner Bros. right after I made Monster [her only previous feature, the indie hit] more than 10 years ago, and I said, 'I want to make Wonder Woman.' I've always been moved by the idea of movies that are personal but still have a huge reach. Superman had that effect on me when I was a kid --- it rocked my world. That kind of movie was always the brass ring of what I wanted to do with my career.
Obviously things stalled regarding Wonder Woman. Meanwhile Patty Jenkins went on to focus more on television work rather than film, as she directed episodes of Arrested Development, Entourage, The Sarah Silverman Program, The Killing, and Betrayal. This is only her second feature film as a director, though. Monster, which she wrote and directed, was a huge hit both critically and financially, as it went on to gross $60.4 million from just an $8 million budget and won Charlize Theron the Academy Award For Best Actress, while Patty Jenkins also directed a segment of 2011's made-for-television film Five.
Meanwhile, Wonder Woman has undergone many different guises ever since it was originally developed back in 1996. Directors Ivan Reitman, Nicholas Winding Refn, Joss Whedon, producer Joel Silver, and actresses Sandra Bullock, Angelina Jolie, Catherina Zeta-Jones and Lucy Lawless have each been linked to the film. Eventually Patty Jenkins and Wonder Woman came full circle, though, and she recently completed directing Gal Gadot's Diana Prince from a script by Allan Heinberg and Geoff Johns. It looks rather spectacular, too.
Of course, there's an awful lot riding on Wonder Woman. Not just because it is the first summer tentpole superhero film to be led by a female character in a long time or because it's the first of such ilk to be directed by a woman, but because Warner Bros. and DC are in dire need of a critical hit.
Man Of Steel is seen as the most impressive installment from the DC Extended Universe yet, and even that was met with more mixed than positive reviews, as fans criticized its conclusion that showed Superman killing General Zod. But Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice and Suicide Squad were critically walloped when they were released earlier this year, and even though all three have made a combined total of $2.286 billion at the box office, Wonder Woman needs to impress critics in order to stem the tide of criticism coming the DCEU's way.
We'll see if it can do just that when Wonder Woman is released on June 2, 2017.
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https://www.cinemablend.com/news/1598470/how-patty-jenkins-was-involved-with-a-wonder-woman-movie-over-10-years-ago
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After a futile midnight effort to stop Pakistan's nuclear tests, President Clinton grimly denounced them today as dangerously destabilizing and imposed penalties that could cost the Pakistanis billions.
The tests came less than seven hours after Mr. Clinton telephoned Pakistan's Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, and all but begged him not to detonate a weapon. Administration officials described their half-hour conversation, which ended around midnight, as anguished and impassioned.
The talk, the fourth between the President and the Prime Minister since the first Indian tests on May 11, began with Mr. Clinton offering ''a changed relationship'' with Pakistan if Mr. Sharif canceled the nuclear tests, an Administration official said.
Mr. Clinton pledged to try to deliver 28 F-16 fighter jets that Pakistan has paid for, but never received, and to try ''to cut through the knot'' of laws blocking military and economic aid to Pakistan, said the official, who insisted on anonymity.
Pakistan received $500 million to $600 million a year in cash and high-tech weapons from the United States during the 1980's, when it provided invaluable help to the Central Intelligence Agency by smuggling billions of dollars worth of weapons to guerrillas fighting off Soviet invaders in Afghanistan. But when that cold war battle ended in 1989, so did the aid. In 1990 the United States openly declared what it had known for a decade: Pakistan was building a nuclear bomb, and was thus ineligible for American assistance.
The two leaders, resigned to take political acts against their personal wishes, signed off. While Mr. Clinton slept, Mr. Sharif gave the go-ahead for the nuclear explosions.
This morning, three hours after the tests, Mr. Clinton said they had cost Pakistan ''a truly priceless opportunity to strengthen its own security, to improve its political standing in the eyes of the world.'' Because of the tests, the United States will try to delay any future loans to Pakistan by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and will cut off loans by private United States banks to the Pakistani Government. Similar measures were taken against India after its tests.
The dangers of the tests were underscored by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the New York Democrat and a former Ambassador to India. He said he feared that the Islamic republic of Pakistan might share its nuclear technology with Middle East nations hostile to Israel. ''We now have an Islamic bomb,'' he said.
United States intelligence officials said today that Pakistan had probably not exploded five nuclear weapons, as Mr. Sharif announced, but as few as two, both in the range of 5 to 10 kilotons, according to preliminary estimates. The bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945 was 12 kiloton.
Mr. Sharif's announcement of ''five successful nuclear explosions,'' leveling the score with India, was probably propaganda intended for domestic consumption, the officials said. They said the same was true of his warning that Pakistan was already mounting nuclear warheads on its new medium-range Ghauri missiles, which can strike India's biggest cities. And so were statements by Pakistani officials that India was threatening to attack Pakistan's nuclear test site hours before the detonations, they said.
They also said more tests by Pakistan were possible.
United States officials were well aware of what Secretary of State Madeline K. Albright today called the ''overwhelming domestic pressures and regional dynamics'' forcing Mr. Sharif's hand. The pressures were so intense that Mr. Sharif's Government might have fallen had he not tested, said Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, who spoke with the Prime Minister twice in the last 10 days.
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https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/29/world/nuclear-anxiety-washington-after-anguished-phone-call-clinton-penalizes.html
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This article is about the film. For the software concept, see Source code. For "source coding", see Data compression.
Source Code is a 2011 science-fiction action thriller film directed by Duncan Jones and written by Ben Ripley. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a U.S. Army captain who is sent into a computed reality to find a bomber. Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, and Jeffrey Wright play supporting roles. The film had its world premiere on March 11, 2011 at South by Southwest, and was released by Summit Entertainment on April 1, 2011 in North America and Europe.
The film received favorable reviews from critics and became a box office success, grossing over $147.3 million worldwide. Plans for a television adaptation at CBS were announced shortly after the film was released. However, these plans were scrapped in December 2014 in favor of a film sequel. The sequel is in development with Mark Gordon returning as producer and Anna Foerster added as director.
U.S. Army pilot Captain Colter Stevens wakes up on a Metra commuter train headed to Chicago. Stevens is disoriented, his last memory was flying on a mission in Afghanistan. However, to the world around him – including his friend Christina Warren and his reflections in the passenger window and in the restroom mirror – he appears to be Sean Fentress, a school teacher. As he expresses his confusion to Christina, the train explodes, killing everyone aboard.
Stevens regains consciousness inside a dimly lit cockpit. Communicating through a video screen, Air Force Captain Colleen Goodwin verifies Stevens' identity and tells him of his mission to find the train bomber before sending him back to the beginning. Believing he is being tested in a simulation, Stevens finds the bomb, but is unable to identify the bomber before the train explodes again.
Stevens reawakens in his capsule and, after demanding to be briefed, learns that the train explosion actually happened, and that it was the first attack of a series. He is sent back again, eight minutes before the explosion, to identify the bomber. This time, he disembarks the train (with Christina) before it explodes to follow a suspect, but is killed by a freight train when he falls on the tracks. Noteworthily, Stevens survived for more than eight minutes, since he witnessed the explosion, while Christina did not die at all in the simulation.
The capsule power supply malfunctions as Stevens reawakens, likely due to being in the “simulation” longer than its eight-minute stream. He claims to have saved Christina, but is told by Dr. Rutledge that she was saved only inside the “Source Code”, an experimental machine that enables someone to take control of a compatible person’s body in a parallel reality eight minutes before their death. Thus, Christina is still officially reported killed in their original timeline.
With the second attack imminent, Stevens repeatedly re-enters the Source Code to find the bomber. On one occasion, he attempts to contact Rutledge using a cell phone to show that the past can be changed. But since he called in a different reality, “it [was] received by a different Rutledge entirely”; the continuum of the original reality cannot be altered. Furthermore, Stevens also learns that he has been with them for two months since being reported killed in action. He is actually comatose, missing most of his body, and on life support while hooked up to neural sensors. The cockpit capsule is a manifestation, as his mind attempts to make sense of its environment. Angry at his forced imprisonment, Stevens asks to be terminated after the mission and Rutledge accepts.
Eventually, Stevens catches the bomber, an anarchist named Derek Frost. Stevens memorizes Frost’s license and vehicle registration plates but is unable to stop the train explosion. The police in the original reality subsequently arrest Frost, preventing the second attack. Stevens is congratulated for completing his mission, but requests to go back in the Source Code to stop the train bombing despite Rutledge insisting “it doesn’t work that way”.
While the other workers celebrate, Goodwin sends Stevens back one last time, promising to disconnect his life support at the end of the eight-minute stream. This time, he sets a date with Christina, defuses the bomb, handcuffs Frost, and reports him to the police. He then emails Goodwin a coded message and then calls his father, reconciling with him under the guise of a fellow soldier. Meanwhile, Rutledge breaks his promise and orders Goodwin to wipe Stevens’ memory for a future mission. Goodwin disobeys and terminates Stevens’ life support precisely when the Source Code stream ends.
Stevens and Christina kiss, and their alternate-reality universe continues. They are seen happily walking through downtown Chicago to the Cloud Gate, where Stevens experiences déjà vu, as every time he exited the Source Code, he had visions / “vivid dreams” of himself and Christina at the Cloud Gate, which prompts him to question whether this was his fate. The alternate-reality-Goodwin receives the coded email from Stevens as she arrives to work in the morning, informing her how they have changed history, as well as the true capabilities of Source Code, and a request to help the alternate-reality version of him that is still in a coma.
Ripley first came up with the idea for Source Code, in which government operative Colter Stevens repeatedly relives the eight minutes leading up to a terrorist train bombing in hopes of finding the bomber, he had no intention of writing it on spec. Having established himself in Hollywood largely doing "studio rewrites on horror movies," he felt a solid pitch would do the trick. Unfortunately, it didn't. "I sat down with a few producers, and the first couple just looked at me like I was nuts," confesses Ripley. "Ultimately, I had to put it on the page to make my case."
After seeing Moon, Gyllenhaal lobbied for Jones to direct Source Code; Jones liked the fast-paced script; as he later said: "There were all sorts of challenges and puzzles and I kind of like solving puzzles, so it was kind of fun for me to work out how to achieve all these difficult things that were set up in the script."
In the ending scene, Jake Gyllenhaal's and Michelle Monaghan's characters are seen walking through Millennium Park, and make their way to the Cloud Gate. In a 2011 interview, Gyllenhaal discussed how director Duncan Jones felt the structure was a metaphor for the movie's subject matter, and aimed for it to feature at the beginning and end of the movie.
Principal photography began on March 1, 2010, in Montreal, Quebec, and ended on April 29, 2010. Several scenes were shot in Chicago, Illinois, specifically at Millennium Park and the Main Building at the Illinois Institute of Technology, although the sign showing the name of the latter, in the intersection of 31st Street and S LaSalle Street, was edited out.
Initially, some filming was scheduled at the Ottawa Train Station in Ottawa, Ontario, but was cancelled for lack of an agreement with VIA Rail.
Editing took place in Los Angeles. In July 2010, the film was in the visual effects stage of post-production. Most of the VFX work was handled by Montreal studios, including Modus FX, Rodeo FX, Oblique FX, and Fly Studio. Jones had confirmed that the film's soundtrack would be composed by Clint Mansell, in his second collaboration with the composer. However, it was later announced that Mansell would no longer score the soundtrack due to time constraints.
The film received its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 11, 2011. Summit Entertainment released the film to theaters in the United States and Canada on April 1, 2011. In France, the film was released on April 20, 2011.
Source Code was released on DVD and Blu-ray simultaneously in the United States on July 26, 2011, with the United Kingdom release on DVD and Blu-ray (as well as a combined DVD/Blu-ray package) on August 15, 2011. In the UK, there was also a DVD released featuring a 3D cover.
Source Code was released in theaters on April 1, 2011. In the United States and Canada, Source Code was released theatrically in 2,961 conventional theaters. The film grossed $54,712,227 during its run with midnight screenings in 2,961 locations. Overall the film made $14,812,094 and debuted at #2 on its opening weekend.
Source Code received acclaim from critics. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 91% approval rating, based on an aggregation of 247 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The site's consensus reads, "Finding the human story amidst the action, director Duncan Jones and charming Jake Gyllenhaal craft a smart, satisfying sci-fi thriller." Metacritic awarded the film an average score of 74/100, based on 41 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Critics have compared Source Code with both the 1993 film Groundhog Day, and British film director Tony Scott's 2006 time-altering science fiction film Déjà Vu: in the latter case, the similarity of plotline in the protagonist's determination to change the past was highlighted, and his emotional commitment to save the victim, rather than simply try to discover the identity of the perpetrator of the crime. Alternatively, it has been described as a "cross between Groundhog Day and Murder on the Orient Express," while The Arizona Republic film critic Bill Goodykoontz says that comparing Source Code to Groundhog Day is doing a disservice to Source Code's enthralling "mind game."
Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times called the film, "Confounding, exhilarating, challenging – and the best movie I've seen so far in 2011." Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, calling it "an ingenious thriller" where "you forgive the preposterous because it takes you to the perplexing." Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called Ben Ripley's script "cleverly constructed" and a film "crisply directed by Duncan Jones." He also praised the "cast with the determination and ability to really sell its story." CNN called Ripley's script "ingenious" and the film "as authoritative an exercise in fractured storytelling as Christopher Nolan's Memento." He also commented that Gyllenhaal is "more compelling here than he's been in a long time."
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Just how big of a TV do you need?! The task at hand asks individuals to compare the area of 80-inch and 55-inch TVs. The length of the TV is given and learners must use the Pythagorean Theorem to determine the width to calculate the areas.
Roll out the red carpet for an exemplary lesson. Using the dimensions of a rolled piece of carpet, learners calculate the dimensions of the flat sample. Pictures provide individuals with the information they need to make a valid conclusion.
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Our most successful custom software projects are the ones that are developed "at the pull of the customer, and at the speed of engagement". What do I mean by "successful"? Successful to our customers (in its simplest definition) is software that supports their business processes in a manner which enables them to get the most work accomplished per unit of time with the least amount of effort. Successful to us is software that has gained such a wide acceptance by the users that they become evangelists of the software. They recognize so much value in the software and how effectively it enables them to continuously improve their business processes that they encourage others to use the software and they would actively lobby for the software if some outside force attempts to discontinue or replace it with something else.
How do we as a software development company ensure that our software will be successful as defined above?
We make sure that software (virtual environment) matches the real environment as much as possible. The software process must match the real world conditions as closely as possible. The software process should not just match an ideal workflow, it should match the actual workflow. This provides a clear path for improvement.
We work directly with the people that will use the software. The software users effectively become software designers. They are much more likely to support and use the software if they are involved in the design. It virtually guarantees success.
We either learn everything possible about the business process the software will support, or ideally, we participate in the design of the business process itself.
We keep the software as simple as possible, excluding all features that are not completely necessary.
We add features and functionality at the pull of the customer. By customer I am referring to the entire user base that will be using the software, not just a customer champion. It is very important that the majority of the users are ready and requesting new functionality to get the maximum benefit. Unnecessary features and functionality is wasteful. It takes valuable time (to the developer) to create, maintain, and test features that are not immediately useful. It adds unnecessary complication for the user when they are presented with more functionality than they need. It just slows the learning curve. Our typical customers use about 85-95% of the features that are present in our software. That is an exceptionally high percentage when compared to typical off-the-shelf software.
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Nobody's allowed on my property without my permission! Actually, that's not always true.
Misplaced things: if your neighbour's dog wanders into your courtyard, your neighbour may access your property in order to retrieve his dog. You can prohibit the neighbour from accessing your property, but only if you immediately give him his dog. The same applies to other things the owner (or possessor) claims back from your property.
Necessary construction works on a neighbouring house: if access and use of your property are needed for construction works on a neighbouring property and you deny access, the neighbour may sue you (and win). Nevertheless, you are entitled to compensation for the use of your property and the neighbour must remedy any damages caused due to such use.
Necessary passage: if there is no alternative access to the neighbouring property other than over your property, the owner of the neighbouring property is entitled to use your property for such passage. Such use is limited to the necessary minimum and has to be formally established (servitude).
Placement, access and repair of utilities (eg sewerage pipeline): if it is in the interests of the state, it can be done on your property without your consent.
Interventions by authorities (police, firefighters, etc): in special situations (eg criminal acts, immediate danger), authorities may access your property without your approval.
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The following essay is from the first of a series of Lectures on Poetry that Bryant delivered to the New York Athenaeum in April, 1825. It was published in the Prose Writings of William Cullen Bryant (1884).
Of the nature of poetry different ideas have been entertained. The ancient critics seemed to suppose that they did something toward giving a tolerable notion of it by calling it a mimetic or imitative art, and classing it with sculpture and painting. Of its affinity with these arts there can be no doubt; but that affinity seems to me to consist almost wholly in the principles by which they all produce their effect, and not in the manner in which those principles are reduced to practice. There is no propriety in applying to poetry the term imitative in a literal and philosophical sense, as there is in applying it to painting and sculpture. The latter speak to the senses; poetry speaks directly to the mind. They reproduce sensible objects, and, by means of these, suggest the feeling or sentiment connected with them; poetry, by the symbols of words, suggests both the sensible object and the association. I should be glad to learn how a poem descriptive of a scene or an event is any more an imitation of that scene or that event than a prose description would be. A prose composition giving an account of the proportions and dimensions of a building, and the materials of which it is constructed, is certainly, so far as mere exactness is concerned, a better imitation of it than the finest poem that could be written about it. Yet who, after all, ever thought of giving such a composition the name of an imitation? The truth is, painting and sculpture are, literally, imitative arts, while poetry is only metaphorically so. The epithet as applied to poetry may be well enough, perhaps, as a figure of speech, but to make a metaphor the foundation of a philosophical classification is putting it to a service in which it is sure to confuse what it professes to make clear.
The imagination of the reader is stimulated by the hints in this powerful passage to form to itself an idea of the features in which reside this strong expression of malignity and dejection—the brow, the cheek, the eye of the fallen angel, bespeaking courage, pride, the settled purpose of revenge, anxiety, sorrow for the fate of his followers, and fearfully marked with the wrath of the Almighty. There can be no doubt that the picture which this passage calls up in the minds of different individuals will vary accordingly as the imagination is more or less vivid, or more or less excited in the perusal. It will vary, also, accordingly as the individual is more or less experienced in the visible expression of strong passion, and as he is in the habit of associating the idea of certain emotions with certain configurations of the countenance.
There is no question that one prin cipal office of poetry is to excite the imagination, but this is not its sole, nor perhaps its chief, province; another of its ends is to touch the heart, and, as I expect to show in this lecture, it has something to do with the understanding. I know that some critics have made poetry to consist solely in the exercise of the imagination. They distinguish poetry from pathos. They talk of pure poetry, and by this phrase they mean passages of mere imagery, with the least possible infusion of human emotion. I do not know by what authority these gentlemen take the term poetry from the people, and thus limit its meaning.
In its ordinary acceptation, it has, in all ages and all countries, included something more. When we speak of a poem, we do not mean merely a tissue of striking images. The most beautiful poetry is that which takes the strongest hold of the feelings, and, if it is really the most beautiful, then it is poetry in the highest sense. Poetry is constantly resorting to the language of the passions to heighten the effect of her pictures; and, if this be not enough to entitle that language to the appellation of poetical, I am not aware of the meaning of the term. Is there no poetry in the wrath of Achilles? Is there no poetry in the passage where Lear, in the tent of Cordelia, just recovered from hisfrenzy, his senses yet infirm and unassured, addresses his daughter as she kneels to ask his blessing?
this touching sentence, addressed merely to our sympathy, strongly excites the imagination. It sets before us the days when she knew sorrow only by name, before her father was slain by the hand of her lover, and before her lover was estranged, and makes us feel the heaviness of that affliction which crushed a being so gentleand innocent and happy.
Those poems, however, as I have already hinted, which are apparently the most affluent of imagery, are not always those which most kindle the reader's imagination. It is because the ornaments with which they abound are not naturally suggested by the subject, not poured forth from a mind warmed and occupied by it; but a forced fruit of the fancy, produced by labor, without spontaneity or excitement.
The language of passion is naturally figurative, but its figures are only employed to heighten the intensity of the expression; they are never introduced for their own sake. Important, therefore, as may be the office of the imagination in poetry, the great spring of poetry is emotion. It is this power that holds the key of the storehouse where the mind has laid up its images, and that alone can open it without violence. All the forms of fancy stand ever in its sight, ready to execute its bidding. Indeed, I doubt not that most of the offences against good taste in this kind of composition are to be traced to the absence of emotion. A desire to treat agreeably or impressively a subject by which the writer is himself little moved, leads him into great mistakes about the means of effecting his purpose. This is the origin of cold conceits, of prosing reflections, of the minute painting of uninteresting circumstances, and of the opposite extremes of tameness and extravagance. On the other hand, strong feeling is always a sure guide. It rarely offends against good taste, because it instinctively chooses the most effectual means of communicating itself to others. It gives a variety to the composition it inspires, with which the severest taste is delighted. It may sometimes transgress arbitrary rules, or offend against local associations, but it speaks a language which reaches the heart in all countries and all times. Everywhere are the sentiments of fortitude and magnanimity uttered in strains that brace our own nerves, and the dead mourned in accents that draw our tears.
But poetry not only addresses the passions and the imagination; it appeals to the understanding also. So far as this position relates to the principles of taste which lie at the foundation of all poetry, and by which its merits are tried, I believe its truth will not be doubted. These principles have their origin in the reason of things, and are investigated and applied by the judgment. True it is that they may be observed by one who has never speculated about them, but it is no less true that their observance always gratifies the understanding with the fitness, the symmetry, and the congruity it produces. To write fine poetry requires intellectual faculties of the highest order, and among these, not the least important, is the faculty of reason. Poetry is the worst mask in the world behind which folly and stupidity could attempt to hide their features. Fitter, safer, and more congenial to them is the solemn discussion of unprofitable questions. Any obtuseness of apprehension or incapacity for drawing conclusions, which shows a deficiency or want of cultivation of the reasoning power, is sure to expose the unfortunate poet to contempt and ridicule.
I call these passages poetry, because the mind instantly acknowledges their truth and feels their force, and is moved and filled and elevated by them. Nor does poetry refuse to carry on a sort of process of reasoning by deducing one truth from another. Her demonstrations differ, however, |from ordinary ones by requiring that each step should be in itself beautiful or striking, and that they all should carry the mind to the final conclusion without the consciousness of labor.
bosoms, are his property as well as of the poet. It is true that in the ornaments of style the poet is allowed a greater license, but there are many excellent poems which are not distinguished by any liberal use of the figures of speech from prose writings composed with the same degree of excitement. What, then, is the groundof the distinction between prose and poetry? This is a question about which there has been much debate,but one which seems to me of easy solution to those who are not too ambitious of distinguishing themselves by profound researches into things alreadysufficiently clear. I supposethat poetry differs from prose, in the firstplace, by the employment ofmetrical harmony. It differs from it, in the next place, by excluding all thatdisgusts, all that tasks and fatigues the understanding, and all matters which are too trivial and common to excite any emotion whatever. Some these, verse cannot raise into dignity; to others, verse is an encumbrance: they are, therefore, all unfit for poetry; put them into verse, andthey are prose still.
A distinction has been attempted to be made between poetry and eloquence, and I acknowledge that thereis one; but it seems to me that it consists solely in metrical arrangement.Eloquence is the poetry of prose; poetry is the eloquence of verse. Themaxim that the poet is born and the orator made is a pretty antithesis, but a moment’s reflection will convince usthat one can become neither withoutnatural gifts improved by cultivation. By eloquence I do not mean mere persuasiveness: there are many processes of argument that are not susceptible of eloquence, because they require close and painful attention. But by eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. It is in these that the orator is himself affected with the feelings he would communicate, that his eyes moisten, and his frame seems to dilate, and his voice acquires an unwonted melody, and his sentences arrange themselves into a sort of measure and harmony, and the listener is chained in involuntary and breathless attention. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry.
In conclusion, I will observe that the elements of poetry make a part of our natures, and that every individual is more or less a poet. In this “bank-note world,” as it has been happily denominated, we sometimes meet with individuals who declare that they have no taste for poetry. But by their leave I will assert they are mistaken; they have it, although they may have never cultivated it. Is there any one among them who will confess himself insensible to the beauty of order or to the pleasure of variety—two principles, the happy mingling of which makes the perfection of poetic numbers? Is there any one whose eye is undelighted with beautiful forms and colors, whose ear is not charmed by sweet sounds, and who sees no loveliness in the returns of light and darkness, and the changes of the seasons? Is there any one for whom the Works of Nature have no associations but such as relate to his animal wants? Is there any one to whom her great courses and operations show no majesty, to whom they impart no knowledge, and from whom they hide no secrets? Is there any one who is attached by no ties to his fellow-beings, who has no hopes for the future, and no memory of the past? Have they all forgotten the days and the friends of their childhood, and do they all shut their eyes to the advances of age? Have they nothing to desire and nothing to lament, and are their minds never darkened with the shadows of fear? Is it, in short, for these men that life has no pleasures and no pains, the grave no solemnity and the world to come no mysterites? All these things are the sources of poetry, and they are not only part of ourselves, but of the universe, and will expire only with the last of the creatures of God.
The following is Edgar Allan Poe’s review of The Complete Poetical Works of W. C. Bryant, published in Godey’s Lady’s Book, April 1846: 182-186.
COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. Illustrated edition.
Mr. Bryant's position in the poetical world is, perhaps, better settled than that of any American. There is less difference of opinion about his rank; but, as usual, the agreement is more decided in private literary circles than in what appears to be the public expression of sentiment as gleaned from the press. I may as well observe here, too, that this coincidence of opinion in private circles is in all cases very noticeable when compared with the discrepancy of the apparent public opinion. In private it is quite a rare thing to find any strongly-marked disagreement — I mean, of course, about mere autorial merit. The author accustomed to seclusion, and mingling for the first time freely with the literary people about him, is invariably startled and delighted to find that the decisions of his own unbiased judgment — decisions to which he has refrained from giving voice on account of their broad contradiction to the decision of the press — are sustained and considered quite as matters of course by almost every person with whom he converses. The fact is, that when brought face to face with each other we are constrained to a certain amount of honesty by the sheer trouble it causes us to mould the countenance to a lie. We put on paper with a grave air what we could not for our lives assert personally to a friend without either blushing or laughing outright. That the opinion of the press is not an honest opinion, that necessarily it is impossible that it should be an honest opinion, is never denied by the members of the press themselves. Individual presses, of course, are now and then honest, but I speak of the combined effect. Indeed, it would be difficult for those conversant with the modus operandi of public journals to deny the general falsity of impression conveyed. Let in America a book be published by an unknown, careless or uninfluential author; if he publishes it "on his own account," he will be confounded at finding that no notice of it is taken at all. If it has been entrusted to a publisher of caste, there will appear forthwith in each of the leading business papers a variously-phrased critique to the extent of three or four lines, and to the effect that "we have received, from the fertile press of So and So, a volume entitled This and That, which appears to be well worthy perusal, and which is `got up' in the customary neat style of the enterprising firm of So and So." On the other hand, let our author have acquired influence, experience, or (what will stand him in good stead of either) effrontery, on the issue of his book he will obtain from his publisher a hundred copies (or more, as the case may be,) "for distribution among friends connected with the press." Armed with these, he will call personally either at the office or (if he understands his game) at the private residence of every editor within his reach, enter into conversation, compliment the journalist, interest him, as if incidentally, in the subject of the book, and finally, watching an opportunity, beg leave to hand him "a volume which, quite opportunely, is on the very matter now under discussion." If the editor seems sufficiently interested, the rest is left to fate; but if there is any lukewarmness, (usually indicated by a polite regret on the editor's part that he really has "no time to render the work that justice which its importance demands,") then our author is prepared to understand and to sympathize; has, luckily, a friend thoroughly conversant with the topic, and who (perhaps) could be persuaded to write some account of the volume — provided that the editor would be kind enough just to glance over the critique and amend it in accordance with his own particular views. Glad to fill half a column or so of his editorial space, and still more glad to get rid of his visitor, the journalist assents. The author retires, consults the friend, instructs him touching the strong points of the volume, and insinuating in some shape a quid pro quo , gets an elaborate critique written, (or, what is more usual and far more simple, writes it himself,) and his business in this individual quarter is accomplished. Nothing more than sheer impudence is requisite to accomplish it in all.
Now the effect of this system (for it has really grown to be such) is obvious. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, men of genius, too indolent and careless about worldly concerns to bestir themselves after this fashion, have also that pride of intellect which would prevent them, under any circumstances, from even insinuating, by the presentation of a book to a member of the press, a desire to have that book reviewed. They, consequently, and their works, are utterly overwhelmed and extinguished in the flood of the apparent public adulation upon which in gilded barges are borne triumphant the ingenious toady and the diligent quack.
In general, the books of the toadies and quacks, not being read at all, are safe from any contradiction of this self-bestowed praise; but now and then it happens that the excess of the laudation works out in part its own remedy. Men of leisure, hearing one of the toady works commended, look at it, read its preface and a few pages of its body, and throw it aside with disgust, wondering at the ill taste of the editors who extol it. But there is an iteration, and then a continuous reiteration of the panegyric, till these men of leisure begin to suspect themselves in the wrong, to fancy that there may really be something good lying perdu in the volume. In a fit of desperate curiosity they read it through critically, their indignation growing hotter at each succeeding page till it gets the better even of contempt. The result is, that reviews now appear in various quarters entirely at variance with the opinions so generally expressed, and which, but for these indignation reviews, would have passed universally current as the opinion of the public. It is in this manner that those gross seeming discrepancies arise which so often astonish us, but which vanish instantaneously in private society.
But although it may be said, in general, that Mr. Bryant's position is comparatively well settled, still for some time past there has been a growing tendency to under-estimate him. The new licentious "schools" of poetry — I do not now speak of the transcendentalists, who are the merest nobodies, fatiguing even themselves — but the Tennysonian and Barrettian schools, having, in their rashness of spirit, much in accordance with the whole spirit of the age, thrown into the shade necessarily all that seems akin to the conservatism of half a century ago. The conventionalities, even the most justifiable decora of composition, are regarded, per se, with a suspicious eye. When I say per se, I mean that, from finding them so long in connection with conservatism of thought, we have come at last to dislike them, not merely as the outward visible signs of that conservatism, but as things evil in themselves. It is very clear that those accuracies and elegancies of style, and of general manner, which in the time of Pope were considered as primâ facie and indispensable indications of genius, are now conversely regarded. How few are willing to admit the possibility of reconciling genius with artistic skill! Yet this reconciliation is not only possible, but an absolute necessity. It is a mere prejudice which has hitherto prevented the union, by studiously insisting upon a natural repulsion which not only does not exist, but which is at war with all the analogies of nature. The greatest poems will not be written until this prejudice is annihilated; and I mean to express a very exalted opinion of Mr. Bryant when I say that his works in time to come will do much towards the annihilation.
I have never disbelieved in the perfect consistency, and even congeniality, of the highest genius and the profoundest art; but in the case of the author of "The Ages," I have fallen into the general error of undervaluing his poetic ability on account of the mere "elegances and accuracies" to which allusion has already been made. I confess that, with an absolute abstraction from all personal feelings, and with the most sincere intention to do justice, I was at one period beguiled into this popular error; there can be no difficulty, therefore, on my part, in excusing the inadvertence in others.
It will never do to claim for Bryant a genius of the loftiest order, but there has been latterly, since the days of Mr. Longfellow and Mr. Lowell, a growing disposition to deny him genius in any respect. He is now commonly spoken of as "a man of high poetical talent, very ` correct,' with a warm appreciation of the beauty of nature and great descriptive powers, but rather too much of the old-school manner of Cowper, Goldsmith and Young." This is the truth, but not the whole truth. Mr. Bryant has genius, and that of a marked character, but it has been overlooked by modern schools, because deficient in those externals which have become in a measure symbolical of those schools.
Dr. Griswold, in summing up his comments on Bryant, has the following significant objections. "His genius is not versatile; he has related no history; he has not sung of the passion of love; he has not described artificial life. Still the tenderness and feeling in ‘The Death of the Flowers,’ ‘Rizpah,’ ‘The Indian Girl's Lament,’ and other pieces, show that he might have excelled in delineations of the gentler passions had he made them his study."
Now, in describing no artificial life, in relating no history, in not singing the passion of love, the poet has merely shown himself the profound artist, has merely evinced a proper consciousness that such are not the legitimate themes of poetry. That they are not, I have repeatedly shown, or attempted to show, and to go over the demonstration now would be foreign to the gossiping and desultory nature of the present article. What Dr. Griswold means by "the gentler passions" is, I presume, not very clear to himself; but it is possible that he employs the phrase in consequence of the gentle, unpassionate emotion induced by the poems of which he quotes the titles. It is precisely this "unpassionate emotion" which is the limit of the true poetical art. Passion proper and poesy are discordant. Poetry, in elevating, tranquilizes the soul. With the heart it has nothing to do. For a fuller explanation of these views I refer the reader to an analysis of a poem by Mrs. Welby — an analysis contained in an article called "Marginalia," and published about a year ago in "The Democratic Review."
The editor of "The Poets and Poetry of America" thinks the literary precocity of Bryant remarkable. "There are few recorded more remarkable," he says. The first edition of "The Embargo" was in 1808, and the poet was born in 1794; he was more than thirteen, then, when the satire was printed — although it is reported to have been written a year earlier. I quote a few lines.
Chase Error's mist and break her magic spell!
Of hoarse applause from yonder shed proceed.
And sues successful for each blockhead's vote."
This is a fair specimen of the whole, both as regards its satirical and rhythmical power. A satire is, of course, no poem. I have known boys of an earlier age do better things, although the case is rare. All depends upon the course of education. Bryant's father "was familiar with the best English literature, and perceiving in his son indications of superior genius, attended carefully to his instruction, taught him the art of composition, and guided his literary taste." This being understood, the marvel of such verse as I have quoted ceases at once, even admitting it to be thoroughly the boy's own work; but it is difficult to make any such admission. The father must have suggested, revised, retouched.
The longest poem of Bryant is "The Ages" — thirty-five Spenserian stanzas. It is the one improper theme of its author. The design is, "from a survey of the past ages of the world, and of the successive advances of mankind in knowledge and virtue, to justify and confirm the hopes of the philanthropist for the future destinies of the human race." All this would have been more rationally, because more effectually, accomplished in prose. Dismissing it as a poem, (which in its general tendency it is not,) one might commend the force of its argumentation but for the radical error of deducing a hope of progression from the cycles of physical nature.
The sixth stanza is a specimen of noble versification (within the narrow limits of the Iambic Pentameter).
The cadences here at page, swarms and surge, cannot be surpassed. There are comparatively few consonants. Liquids and the softer vowels abound, and the partial line after the pause at "surge," with the stately march of the succeeding Alexandrine, is one of the finest conceivable finales.
Sky-mingling mountains that o'erlook the cloud!
And whose far-stretching shadow awed our own."
But we look in vain for anything more worthy commendation.
"Thanatopsis" is the poem by which its author is best known, but is by no means his best poem. It owes the extent of its celebrity to its nearly absolute freedom from defect, in the ordinary understanding of the term. I mean to say that its negative merit recommends it to the public attention. It is a thoughtful, well phrased, well constructed, well versified poem. The concluding thought is exceedingly noble, and has done wonders for the success of the whole composition.
"The Waterfowl" is very beautiful, but like "Thanatopsis," owes a great deal to its completeness and pointed termination.
"Oh, Fairest of the Rural Maids!" will strike every poet as the truest poem written by Bryant. It is richly ideal.
"June" is sweet and perfectly well modulated in its rhythm, and inexpressibly pathetic. It serves well to illustrate my previous remarks about passion in its connection with poetry. In "June" there is, very properly, nothing of the intense passion of grief, but the subdued sorrow which comes up, as if perforce, to the surface of the poet's gay sayings about his grave, we find thrilling us to the soul, while there is yet a spiritual elevation in the thrill.
Should keep them lingering by my tomb."
The thoughts here belong to the highest class of poetry, the imaginative-natural, and are of themselves sufficient to stamp their author a man of genius. I copy at random a few passages of similar cast, inducing a similar conviction.
Than that which bends above the eastern hills."
Gave the soft winds a voice."
Flaps his broad wings, yet moves not."
Into the night — a melancholy sound!"
Nod gayly to each other."
There is a fine "echo of sound to sense" in "the borders of the brook," etc.; and in the same poem from which these lines are taken, ("The Summer Wind,") may be found two other equally happy examples, e.g.
I resume the imaginative extracts.
To where life shrinks from the fierce Alpine air."
Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last."
The nations silent in the shade."
That guard the enchanted ground."
Lone, wandering, but not lost."
And 'twixt the o'ershadowing branches and the grass."
He hears the rustling leaf and running stream."
Sealed in a sleep which knows no waking.
Till the slow plague shall bring the fatal hour.
And we will trust in God to see thee yet again."
he happiest finale to these brief extracts will be the magnificent conclusion of "Thanatopsis."
About him and lies down to pleasant dreams."
"As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps the cool clear sky."
That bloomed and smiled in the court of Saul."
"Kind influence. Lo! their orbs burn more bright."
which can only be read metrically by drawing out "influence" into three marked syllables, shortening the long monosyllable "Lo!" and lengthening the short one "their."
and the gray old men that passed;"
And from the gray old trunks that high in heaven,"
etc. etc. etc. These duplicates occur so frequently as to excite a smile upon each repetition.
Is shivered to be worn no more."
What shall be worn no more? The chain, of course — but the link is implied. It will be understood that I pick these flaws only with difficulty from the poems of Bryant. He is, in the "minor morals," the most generally correct of our poets.
He is now fifty-two years of age. In height, he is, perhaps, five feet nine. His frame is rather robust. His features are large but thin. His countenance is sallow, nearly bloodless. His eyes are piercing gray, deep set, with large projecting eyebrows. His mouth is wide and massive, the expression of the smile hard, cold — even sardonic. The forehead is broad, with prominent organs of ideality; a good deal bald; the hair thin and grayish, as are also the whiskers, which he wears in a simple style. His bearing is quite distinguished, full of the aristocracy of intellect. In general, he looks in better health than before his last visit to England. He seems active — physically and morally — energetic. His dress is plain to the extreme of simplicity, although of late there is a certain degree of Anglicism about it.
In character no man stands more loftily than Bryant. The peculiarly melancholy expression of his countenance has caused him to be accused of harshness, or coldness of heart. Never was there a greater mistake. His soul is charity itself, in all respects generous and noble. His manners are undoubtedly reserved.
Of late days he has nearly, if not altogether abandoned literary pursuits, although still editing, with unabated vigour, "The New York Evening Post." He is married, (Mrs. Bryant still living,) has two daughters, (one of them Mrs. Parke Godwin,) and is residing for the present at Vice-Chancelor McCown's, near the junction of Warren and Church streets. — I have thought that these brief personal details of one of the most justly celebrated men in America, might not prove uninteresting to some of the readers of "The Lady's Book."
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While individual human beings can conceive of "big" long-term, global goals, it's difficult to act directly on those big goals. Part of the problem is psychological: "small" short-term local goals have a lot more psychological motivating force. Hence, when people conceive of big personal goals, they usually break those goals down into a set of small goals. (Hence, for example, most task tracking software will actually show the stricken-out description of task when it is completed, rather than simply delete it; we get a small internal reward from seeing that task completed.) Big goals are harder to act directly on because we usually can't just tell what activity at the moment will efficiently achieve the goal. So, for example, if a group of people want to build a spacecraft to travel to the moon, they have to coordinate among themselves to figure out what each person should do; now, each person has a small goal, and the aggregate of those small goals will (hopefully) result in a person standing on the Moon.
Thus, human beings create institutions to achieve long-term, global goals by implementing short-term local incentives for individual people to do specific things.
An institution can be something concrete, such as a named, physically aggregated organization, such as Apple Computer, NASA, the Catholic Church; something semi-concrete, a part of an organization, such as the enlisted men and women of an army, or something abstract, such as capitalism or the (more-or-less) free press.
What makes something, concrete or abstract, an institution, then is that there are small, short-term, local incentives that map to big, long-term, global goals.
Most institutions use a combination of short-term incentives. For example, almost every institution has some rules that have to be followed precisely; thus, they have some bureaucratic incentives. Institutions often interact with each other, and this interaction can be institutional, and follow one or more of the patterns noted above. Some institutions, such as the relation of a military general staff (a collection of generals) to the field officers (colonels to captains) is often 50-50 creative and military (with a lot of bureaucracy). Sometimes, creative institutions are also deliberative.
Basically, individuals in an institution are rewarded or punished based on the small incentives. A functional institution is one in which the aggregate of small incentives achieves the big goal. A dysfunctional institution is one where the small incentives do not achieve the big goal.
So, for example, the Allied military 1939-1945 as an institution (consisting of a collection of collection of institutions) was healthy, because they won the Second Imperialist War. The US Military in Iraq was/is dysfunctional.
One feature of institutions is that they reproduce themselves. They are not simply the aggregate of the character of the individuals comprising them; the institution exerts considerable force changing the character of the individuals who participate in the institution. Thus, it is not just that the police recruit only people in whom the police mindset is already fully formed; individual police officers become socialized into the institutional police mindset.
Many social problems, therefore, come from three sources. First, the pattern of organization of an institution may no longer be well-adapted to the long-term goal. For example, capitalism is organized by self-interest, but this self-interest (IMnsHO) is no longer well-adapted to the long-term goal of economic growth.
Second, a poorly-adapted pattern of organization may be imposed on an institution. The most egregious examples are trying to turn creative pattern institutions, such as education and engineering, into bureaucracies. Bureaucracies are well-adapted to well-defined and well-understood goals, but education is poorly-defined, and both try to achieve poorly-understood objectives. For example, we do not yet have a good grasp on what it even means to be educated, much less how to educate people. For another example, even though landing a person on the Moon was a well-defined objective, we did not understand very well precisely how to do so. We cannot break down either of these objectives into precise instructions; at best, we can break the big problem into little problems. How do I educate this particular class of students in this particular subject? How do I keep a human being alive standing on the Moon? One reason I left software development was that the profession was becoming increasingly bureaucratized; I don't have a problem with bureaucracy per se, but software development is not well-adapted to bureaucracy.
Finally, the big goals of an organization may be something we don't like and don't want. The welfare and disability institutions, for example, usually fail to achieve efficiently providing benefits to as many people as possible, but their covert big goal is to actually deny benefits to as many people as possible, which they do in fact achieve. The big goal of capitalism (again, IMnsHO) has changed from providing economic growth to maintaining the power and privileged of the capitalist ruling class. And bureaucracies without external control on their goals simply become sinecures, with policies and procedures growing without rationale, because, why not? The goal becomes just to grow the bureaucracy.
Because we act intentionally to organize society, this theoretical framework helps, I think, to understand the nature and structure of institutions and their role in society.
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To answer this question, one could begin with a philosophical quandary: are beliefs of any sort causes of human action? I expect that most would answer this question with a resounding “of course,” but it is not entirely moot. Without regressing into the metaphysics of free will, the issue has to do with the basic agents of human action and societal development. Marx, for example, placed the locus of social change and indeed all of history not primarily in the hands of individual actors, motivated by core beliefs, but in social structures and material infrastructures. It is not hard to conceive of cases in which actions are not primarily motivated by beliefs, much less fundamental ones.
For example, human beings have sets of nearly automatic reflex behaviours. In these cases, beliefs are not necessary causes of action, unless we take a very broad view of what constitutes a belief. Of course, the kinds of actions that are ostensibly the result of beliefs are more complex than, say, jumping at a loud unexpected sound. But reams of empirical studies show that things like patterns of consumption, movement, diet, health, and so forth, are determined by infrastructural and economic factors, among others. And even here it is not clear if beliefs are a necessary cause for action (again depending on how we define beliefs) and they are almost certainly not sufficient in themselves.
Reciprocally, one could begin with a similarly abstract question: what are the causes of beliefs? Sociological and psychological research firmly establishes that beliefs are demographically predictable, and thus, determined in part by a wide variety of “social” (for lack of a better word) processes. The social determinism need not be due to overt forces like coercion or propaganda; the subtle cultural workings of everyday life have a discernable effect on people’s world views. In short, no matter how rational and well-established your beliefs, they are, in a sense, not entirely your own. So even if beliefs are subsidiary causes of action, the beliefs themselves might have “external” causes, so to speak.
In ever-lasting tension with these views of human belief and action is a taken-for-granted assumption that underlies nearly every extant society: human beings are capable of independent, rational thought; beliefs are at least in part a result of thought processes; beliefs cause actions; thus, people are responsible for their own actions. This is the fundamental basis for virtually all legal systems and democratic political systems. It not only expects responsibility, but garners reward: meritocracies require the assumption that success is in large part the result of individual thought and action.
This philosophical dilemma sets the stage to go about answering the title question, and indeed, why it should even be asked in the first place.
In a variety of contexts, the question is being answered in the negative. But I won’t beat around the bush; here I am specifically concerned with the causal efficacy of religious beliefs for terrorist acts.
A growing number of voices are challenging the narrative that religious beliefs are the motivation behind terrorism. To paraphrase a step above a strawman, the argument goes thus: horrendous acts carried out by so-called religious extremists are not really motivated by core religious beliefs, but rather are the product of some other set of social, political, economic, etc. factors. Terrorist attacks against infidels ostensibly in response for a perceived insult or blasphemy against Islam are better explained as a political grievance against longstanding imperialist policies of the West in Muslim countries, for example.
It seems to me that there is a false dichotomy at work in these arguments.
Reductionism doesn’t need to be ontological, just expedient: you break down phenomena into separate cooperating causes to make your analysis more simple. A plausible but imprecise answer is to accept that many causes can act concurrently, or that beliefs are not discrete things, but multi-dimensional. Why can’t beliefs be simultaneously political and religious? After all, politics and religion aren’t reducible. Politics can be a means for religion, or religion can be a means for politics. In many cases they are indistinguishable.
This Jacobin piece exhibits in many ways these problematic kinds of structuralist or reductionist arguments. It takes aim at anti-religious movements that suppose that critiquing religious beliefs (and in particular theism) is a means to reducing atrocious religiously-motivated acts. The Jacobins dismiss these attempts as wrong-headed because, apparently, religions are not motivated by core theistic beliefs, but various other contextual social and cultural factors. And so-called religious acts of terror are really just political, anyway.
Despite degrading into some really sophomoric anti-foundational philosophy and strawmen, the piece is right in that religion manifests in a multitude of ways depending on contexts. For example, some people create evangelical empires, others appeal to religious beliefs to capture political followers. Powerful hierarchical systems based on religion are formed. Some occupy their highest echelons to the end of great personal wealth and power, while others appeal to religion to give meaning to impoverished lives. Some abuse children and gain protection from powerful religious sects. Others blow themselves up because those with political grievances can successfully appeal to religious arguments to convince desperate fanatics to commit suicide. But this is merely to say that beliefs manifest themselves differently in different contexts, not that the beliefs themselves are ineffectual.
But the chief problem with these kinds of arguments is that the real causes to which they reduce religiously-motivated acts looks suspiciously like beliefs. So, is there a peculiar trend here to see religious beliefs as somehow less casually effectual than others?
Religion itself functions as a system of power and control over personal freedom. It dictates behaviours and morals. It exploits wealth and perpetuates class systems and structural inequalities. It often acts in concert with other economic, political, nationalistic, ethnic, and social systems of inequality. Challenging the logics – the beliefs – that underlie various manifestations of religious thought is no different than challenging the logic of ideologies that uphold racial, nationalistic, gender, etc. inequalities.
Some people find deep guiding identity in notions of race or ethnicity. Race and ethnicity is open to interpretation. Even people who claim the same ethnicity will create different meanings out of their notions of ethnicity. It is interpretative. But when real, actual, racists couch their belief in racial inequality in pseudoscience or specious arguments, are we to say that pointing out the flaws in their logic is wrong-headed, because race is interpretative? Because racism is really a function of some other structure or process? That racist beliefs are not actual causes of action?
It seems that most who doubt the efficacy (and thus the culpability) of religious beliefs don’t actually hold that beliefs in general are incapable of motivating action. They are not structural determinists, nor fatalists. Indeed, the same people who reject religious beliefs as causes will just cite other equally ethereal beliefs – imperialistic political beliefs, or capitalistic economic beliefs – as causes for the current state of affairs.
Or is it that we are merely interested in efficacious strategies, not principles? Is this why many people are so reticent to target religious belief itself as a cause of horrible acts? That it is merely ineffectual? That we should focus on other causes instead? But I simply don’t understand the need for a dichotomy. One can be concerned about many things concurrently.
But the explanation for this reticence is more complex than false dichotomies. Part of the issue surrounds questions of blame. Indeed, the possibility for religiously-motivated oppression and violence to flourish is the result of a long history of imperialism, perpetuated in large part by Western governments. For example, it is accepted in many policy circles that the so-called “War on Terror,” far from fulfilling its goals, has increased political unrest, religious zealotry, and the risk of terrorism. There are competing politics of solidarity at play, for example, in prioritizing concerns of rising Islamophobia over concerns of rising Islamist fundamentalist ideologies. And these competing concerns reveals some of the absurd consequences of reductionism. Islamophobes are critiqued explicitly for their beliefs. But how could anti-Islamic bigotry motivate violence if the Islamist beliefs themselves are incapable of such a thing?
This is a politically charged and heavily contested arena, and if for no reason other than that, one needs to be critical of their own sensitivities and political motivations. I am more concerned with the ill consequences of religious beliefs than others. But I certainly don’t deny the structural factors at play, and recognize that reductionism of all kinds need be avoided. However, why should we pretend that religious beliefs are not capable of motivating horrendous acts? And this is putting it as timidly as possible. I am as concerned with sociological explanations as anyone, but sociological explanations inevitably become normative. They can, as in this case, imbue some grievances with more moral urgency than others. Or they can serve to shield certain cherished beliefs from criticism. But I, for one, am perplexed by what religious fanatics might think of such sociological explanations, who would likely be surprised to learn that their deepest beliefs are really just the product of someone else’s political machinations.
| 2019-04-26T12:01:22 |
https://hearsayandbacktalk.com/2015/03/26/are-religious-beliefs-causes/
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Are there any negative interactions between Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen and Hyoscyamine Sulfate?
Is it Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen and Hyoscyamine Sulfate.
Using Hydrocodone together with hyoscyamine can increase the effects of either medication. This can commonly cause dizziness, drowsiness, difficulty concentrating, dry mouth, abdominal cramping, and constipation.
Hyoscine and acetaminophen, does not produce clinically significant interaction.
I'll be glad to answer if you have any doubts.
Does Ambien interact with Hyoscyamine?
Yes can I take ambien and hyoscyamine sulf together..
How does hyoscyamine help to cure irritable bowel syndrome?
I have been diagnosed with irritable bowl syndrome. I would like to know how this medication works with this diagnosis. The medication hyoscyamine has been prescribed for me. I don t have constipation or diarrhea. Nor do I very little gas, that cause me to be uncomfortable. At times I have pain when I first get up in the morning. I m sure you must need much more information than I have provided.
Can CAT scan show twisted bowel and cancerous polyps?
Hi, I just had a colonoscopy this past Friday. The Gastronologist removed 5 polyps 3 large which he said would be cancerous in 2 - 3 months and he would not be able to help me, tge other 2 were smaller and would become cancerous.. the biopsy was not available yet. I had a colonoscopy 4 years ago and everything was okay at that time. I went to my family doctor because of deep side pain liken to a stabbing pain, and was refered to a Gastronologist After the colonoscopy the doctor said the pain I experienced is coming from a twisted bowel, and I was given the prescription HYOSCYAMINE to put one under my tongue 3 x a day My question is ... can this twisted bowel be seen with a contrast cat scan ? I had one at the end of April when I was hospitalized for gallstones and pancreaitis and if cancer could be detected if there is cancer? I am wondering too if a twisted bowel can strangle like a hernia can?
What causes difficulty in passing stools post a gall bladder surgery?
My husband just had surgery for bladder cancer and he feels that he can t go to the bathroom as he has a catheter in bladder. He doesn t want to put any pressure on bladder trying to go. he has been given prescription for hyoscyamine and is reluctant to take it as he does not know if it is the right thing to use.
Is it safe to smoke marijuana for pain relief?
I was given .4mg of atropine with a fluid iv. I smoke marijuana to help other pain and gostrointestinal issue. Is it ok to smoke? I saw that atropine was derived from a a poisonous marijuana plant called deadly night shade b/c of the atropine mixed with hyoscyamine and scopolamine.
| 2019-04-25T22:42:35 |
https://www.healthcaremagic.com/premiumquestions/Are-there-any-negative-interactions-between-Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen-and-Hyoscyamine-Sulfate/210282
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When chlorine is added to water in the swimming pool, it dissolves.______ change will take place.
When jelly cubes are heated, they melt.
When wood is left in water, it rots.
When petrol is burned, it powers a car.
Take 100 ml of water and some amount of salt. Gradually add the salt to the liquid until it has completely dissolved and a saturated solution is formed. Take four saucers and put about 30 ml of this saturated solution in each one. Place one saucer (a) on a sunny window sill, (b) one near the heated and (c) one on a shelf away from the sunlight. Cover the fourth saucer with a plate and place it anywhere in the room. Answer the following questions on the basis of observation after one week.
In which saucer water has evaporated completely?
In which saucer most of the liquid is remaining?
In the saucers where the liquid is evaporated completely, what is left behind?
Is the salt left behind different from the salt you mixed into water?
The liquid in the saucer kept on a sunny window sill evaporated completely and the salt remained stuck to the saucer.
The solution in the saucer furthest from the heat evaporated least.
No, it is not different from the salt we mixed with water.
| 2019-04-20T22:10:35 |
http://www.learnersplanet.com/class-6-science-changes-around-us-class-6-questions-and-answers
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'The Walking Dead' Clip Features Carol and Rick's Final Conversation?
A new clip from The Walking Dead's upcoming episode may feature the last conversation between Rick and Carol.
The two survivors have been together since the earliest days of the apocalypse and now will be parting ways for good, be it by Rick's death or sendoff to a faraway land. In it the clip above, Rick asks Carol if she is leaving the camp and her post as leader of the Sanctuary, and she informs him she is. "Yeah, taking my people home, to the Kingdom," she tells him. "You've seen it out there Rick."
"What about the Sanctuary?" Ricks asks, puzzled about what to do next.
"I sent Alden to head off the group and lead them back," Carol tells him. "They need to try standing on their own."
"What if they can't?" Rick responds. "What if it goes down the same way it did here? Then what?"
The fault of failure, however, will rest on no one other than the Saviors according to Carol. "Then, that's on them," she says. "They don't want us there anymore but I know they don't want Negan anymore, either. Most of them, anyway, so it's up to them to decide who they want to be."
With a long history, Rick brings it up in what might be his last exchange with her. "Like you did?" he says, acknowledging the evolution of Carol through the years.
"Like we all did," she affirms.
"I don't know if we're doing the right thing here," Rick admits. "I really don't but if anyone gives me hope for how things can turn out? It's you."
Whether or not the conversation continues or ends there will be seen on Sunday night. The possibility of this being their last exchange, however, is very real considering Carol is leaving the camp. Andrew Lincoln's last outing as Rick Grimes will come in the form of Episode 9x05, which airs on November 4, directly following the episode which the above clip is pulled from. There is also a chance the AMC show revealed how Rick will make his exit, fueling theories that it won't kill Rick Grimes.
The Walking Dead Episode 9x04 is titled, "The Obliged." The official synopsis for The Obliged reads, "Rick’s vision of a civilized future is threatened by a sudden reckoning with past sins that remain unavenged and unforgiven."
| 2019-04-22T12:28:47 |
https://comicbook.com/thewalkingdead/2018/10/24/the-walking-dead-rick-carol-904-clip-goodbye-conversation/
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Horse Betting: What is a Pick Four?
You must select the correct first place finisher in each of the four consecutive races that make up the Pick Four. The bet must be placed before the first race on the Pick Four.
| 2019-04-25T18:40:08 |
https://www.usracing.com/horse-betting/pick-four
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Experimental design and Data Analysis: My class is Animal Behavior. It is a lecture/lab combo and I want to focus on exerimental design. Below I listed the Learning Objectives and tried to place them in the appropriate categories from Bloom's taxonomy so that I can see how they breakdown (just to make sure that no one category is overloaded). I have tried to unpack the component parts of experimental design as I approach it in the course. This would be a semester long objective and I would focus on the elements below one at a time in directed activities.
Context: Throughout the semester, I show clips of animals going through various novel behavioral displays. Most of the objectives below address how students use their observations to address experimental approaches measuring the behavior.
| 2019-04-19T05:10:55 |
http://wiki.biologyscholars.org/1Assessment_Residency/2011_Assessment_Cohort/2011_Assessment_Scholars/Hosler%2C_Jay/Learning_Objectives
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I think my dog ate two chocolate chip cookies from McDonald's and I don't really have money to take her to a vet. She was really hyper last night but she usually is when no one's home with her for a certain amount of time. What do I do?
Veterinarian's Assistant: Is there anything else important you think the Veterinarian should know about Maile?
Experience: I've been practicing quality veterinary medicine for 18 years.
Hello, my name is***** I'm a veterinarian with 19 years of experience.
There's no need to worry! 2 chocolate chip cookies from McDonald's won't hurt Maile at all. There is not enough chocolate in the cookies to be toxic. She could likely be hyper from the sugar, or she could vomit or have diarrhea from eating something she's not used to, but there's no harm in the cookies.
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Thank you for the reassurance and help! I was really freaking out. It means a lot. I appreciate how responsive you are, im sure you're busy! Thank you so so much!!
I'm glad I could help! Take care.
My dog just ate a tray of semi-sweet chocolate chip cookies.
| 2019-04-19T08:44:53 |
https://www.justanswer.com/dog-health/c78si-think-dog-ate-two-chocolate-chip-cookies.html
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What is IBNS, and what are its advantages?
It does this by decoupling intent from implementation.
In this model, intent becomes the bedrock of policies and controls, and implementation serves as the device-specific enforcement of the declared security goal.
Basically, you are navigating to a place that’s much less about writing rules and much more about automating processes rooted in the desired intent of a device or path.
Obviously, this is a large undertaking for any organization, because it’s drastically different from current-state thinking. In reality, though, intent has always been the bedrock of data protection.
The question becomes how do you turn an intention into something that’s technically enforceable.
Begin with Assets: Recursive Network Indexing helps you to have a good understanding of your inventory of assets, and then Traffic Flow Analysis and Access Path Analysis help you to see how these assets are behaving in the context of the network.
Example: “This web server has historically only received traffic from these sources, only on these protocols, and only under these circumstances.” Now, all the rules in my network’s rulebase have a new character and aspect. They reveal to you the statistically likely intent that was originally planned.
Classify communications protocols: There can be particular protocols (e.g. SMB, Telnet), that we never want to see on our network or between certain assets. We can classify these and determine if those protocols are in current operation. When spotted, we now know that the original security intent was lost.
Using this classification, we can pair the protocols with the assets and judge their history in context of a reasonable security profile for the asset, i.e. “this asset class is never permitted to use this kind of protocol.” If you then see that protocol in use with the asset in question, you have the photographic negative of the security intent.
Overlay context: When deducing the existing security intent, we need context. Without this context, we simply have data points plopped down on a screen without any real knowledge of how they relate.
It is important to first define what a security policy means with regard to an organization, or in other words, how much security is needed. A security policy should be designed around the critical [assets] that are identified. An effective security program is not event-driven; it is a life cycle approach that calls for a continuous “hands and eyes” approach. A security program will only be successful if continuous risk reviews start the life cycle.
Yep. Identify the assets, remain asset-centric when designing policy, determine the whole life cycle and constantly examine risks. When this is the guiding principle, any security team can easily see the process as something they practice every day.
Once we have determined what our security intent should be (our global, declarative policy), then we have the opportunity to remove our hands from the keyboard, stop writing rules and start commanding intent to every stitch of the enterprise network. To do this, we must start with translating that intent.
There are multiple factors that go into this algorithm, including but not limited to compliance standards, business requirement, and security mandates.
Compliance: Compliance standards – regulatory and internal – are written in human language, not code. To reach a state of intent-based security, we must translate the desired compliance requirements into relevant rules and access controls that conform to the security intent.
Business requirements: As with compliance standards, these business goals are written in plain English. In the old method, security and engineering teams would take such business goals and transform these into syntactical strings of rules conforming to a machine’s specific demands. With intent-based security, we use the machine learning to do the translation. You’re literally not writing rules anymore.
Security mandates: Security mandates begin with a particular risk that has been uncovered or was previously underappreciated. When security mandates shift, it determines what needs to be translated from intent to implementation.
FireMon’s Policy Compute Engine serves as the machine translator to your security intent. This helps organizations realize intent-based security by offloading the grind of constructing the rules to machines and leaving the strategic thinking to the humans who do it best. Now that we have our intentions codified and machines obeying those intentions by translating to the right rules, we are ready to automate our implementation.
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| 2019-04-26T00:25:29 |
https://securesense.ca/embracing-security-intent-ibns/
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25 years later, the United States finds itself in the regional quandary it hoped to avoid back in 1991.
AP - The 1991 Gulf War saw only 100 hours of ground fighting as U.S. forces entered Kuwait to end the Iraqi occupation but echoes of that conflict have lingered on for decades in the Mideast.
The war pushed America into opening military bases in the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia, drawing the anger of an upstart militant named Osama bin Laden and laying the groundwork for Al-Qaida attacks leading up to Sept. 11, 2001. Saddam Hussein, demonized as being worse than Adolf Hitler by President George H.W. Bush, would outlast his American rival in power until Bush's son launched the 2003 American-led invasion that toppled the Iraqi dictator.
"Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like the dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs for that occupation," the late U.S. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of Desert Storm, wrote in his memoirs.
America's Arab allies also footed much of the bill for the $61-billion war, with both Saudi Arabia and Kuwait contributing some $16 billion while the United Arab Emirates offered $4 billion, according to U.S. congressional reports. Japan and Germany together contributed another $16 billion, while South Korea gave $251 million. The U.S. covered the rest.
Saudi King Fahd died in 2005. A popular uprising toppled Egyptian autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Syria's totalitarian ruler Hafez Assad, a longtime U.S. foe who joined the Gulf War effort to reap billions in aid and diplomatic benefits, died in 2000. His son, President Bashar Assad, still clings to power amid a five-year civil war that has killed more than 250,000 people and flooded Europe with those fleeing violence across the region.
"I miscalculated," Bush said in a December 1995 interview. "I thought he'd be gone."
It would take President George W. Bush's 2003 invasion to end Saddam's reign, coming amid the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan. In its aftermath, Al-Qaida in Iraq would arise and be put down by a U.S. military surge, coupled with the support of Sunni tribesmen. But as the U.S. withdrew from Iraq and Baghdad stopped supporting the Sunni tribesmen, the Islamic State group emerged from the ashes of Al-Qaida in Iraq and in 2014, took control of about a third of both Iraq and neighboring Syria.
Today, the U.S. finds itself mired in a long war feared by Schwarzkopf and others who oversaw Operation Desert Storm. Oil prices, which sparked Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, have dropped to under $30 a barrel from more than $100 in just a year and a half.
| 2019-04-22T20:23:41 |
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/echoes-of-1991-gulf-war-linger-throughout-middle-east-1.5407839
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etc...where (a,b,c...) are coefficients of the independent variables.
Does anyone know of a method that I can use to do this? I'm not looking for software specific things, I'm just wondering if this is possible with basic multiple regression?
This will give you the coefficients a and c that you are interested in.
| 2019-04-21T16:55:21 |
http://talkstats.com/threads/mutliple-regression-with-a-known-coefficient.2328/
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Full list of airports in Canada includes both the international airports in Canada, the largest airports, large airports, and a small civil airports in Canada.
The list of airports includes: airport codes in Canada (iata codes, icao codes), airport names in Canada, the name of the city in which or near which the airport is located.
How many airports in the Canada?
To see a full list of airports in the Canada, you can look at the list of airports in the country listed in the table above or find out the answer in the next sentence.
The total number of airports in the country is 542 airports.
| 2019-04-20T19:25:59 |
https://airports-list.com/country/canada
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Intel unveiled a new iteration of its Classmate PC today, featuring a touch screen with tablet mode, a new wedge design, and motion-sensing internal hardware. According to Intel's press release,“Our ethnographic research has shown us that students responded well to tablet and touch screen technology,” Ibrahim added.
What does that boil down to? We all like touch screens and they really help mitigate the shortcomings of traditional keyboard/mouse input for students, especially in math and science.
This version of the Classmate supplements, rather than replaces, the second-generation Classmate already in use and available from several OEMs (again, according to Intel, "Intel-powered classmate PCs are being sold to end-users under OEMs’ brand. Examples of these OEM-branded classmate PCs include: HCL MiLeap (India), Olidata’s JumPC (Italy), FTEC’s SmartBook (Malaysia), Neo’s eXplore (Philippines), and CTL’s 2Go PC (United States)."). The second-gen machines now feature both Intel Celeron M and Atom processors. Click here for a review of the second-generation machine.
I had a chance to speak with Intel spokesperson, Agnes Kwan, and one of the Classmate engineers, Jeff Galinovsky, today about the new models. A video highlighting some of its features is embedded above later this evening, but here's the key points from our conversation.
The tablet-enabled Classmates will be available to OEMs at the end of the year; several OEMs around the world are already onboard to launch the latest incarnation of the Classmate. Of note is MPC's (formerly Gateway) announcement Monday of its distribution of the second-generation Classmates under the name of "TXTBook".
The touch-enabled Classmate will feature an 8.9" screen with a built-in webcam that can swivel 180 degrees. It will also feature the latest Atom processor from Intel, allowing the Classmates to see a 50% performance increase over previous generations with Celeron M processors and up to 6.5 hours of battery life (the Celeron model is being phased out across the board as supplies of Atom processors increase).
I asked about the durability of the new models, given the introduction of the touch screen (previous iterations were really rugged). While Intel is still in a prototyping phase, Jeff Galinovsky assured me that serious durability was still one of the design parameters. While the touch screen might represent a minor compromise, the extra functionality at a similar pricepoint (they expect pricing to be competitive with existing models) is probably worth it. However, for applications where durability is of the highest concern, the regular "clamshell," non-touch model will still be available and developed in parallel. Intel did note, however, that their research in the classroom with existing deployments suggests that kids naturally move around, collaborate, and huddle with their computers in a way that can really be facilitated with a touch interface.
The touch interface itself is appropriate for single-finger or stylus input. It also features palm-reject, so that kids can write and draw naturally with their palms resting on the screen without experiencing the problems associated with most tablets (that tend to require a fairly unnatural hand position). As might be expected, the screen does not use multitouch, as this technology simply isn't mature enough to be accessible at this pricepoint.
Intel also just launched its "Ecosystem Vendor Alliance Program," bringing together software and operating system developers, hardware developers, etc. (Vernier, for example, to integrate support for their scientific probes) Since Classmate strives to be "OS-agnostic," it will continue to support open source operating systems as well as Windows XP on both second-generation and touch-enabled Classmates. In particular, Intel expects support for Edubuntu on the new Classmate by the time it launches. By the way, Sugar has been ported to the Classmate, according to OLPCNews.
They have also provided an API to software vendors for the integrated accelerometer. The accelerometer is designed to rotate the screen when the laptop is switched to tablet mode and allow both landscape and portrait input. However, by opening up the API, Intel has enabled physics experiments, science games, and even gesture-controlled actions (a tilt of the laptop to transfer a file, for example).
This diversification of the platform (netbook and touch-enabled, different screen sizes, etc.) is great news for both mature and emerging markets. The touch-enabled Classmates are probably going to be high on my wish list for next year and certainly on my younger kids Christmas lists.
| 2019-04-22T14:21:33 |
https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-touch-screen-classmates-unveiled-today/
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While eating healthy for good skin is a known fact, did you know that your hair can also reap the benefits?
1. Salmon - Packed with vitamin D and protein, which make your hair stronger, the omega-3 fatty acids found in salmon help your body grow hair. Other sources of essential fatty acids include sardines, trout, avocado and pumpkin seeds.
2. Walnuts - Walnuts have good amounts of omega-3 fatty acids, biotin and vitamin E, that help protect your cells from DNA damage. And since your hair is rarely covered, walnuts are great protection. Very little biotin leads to hair loss. Walnuts also contain copper, which helps you keep your natural hair color rich.
3. Spinach - Spinach contains iron, beta carotene, folate and vitamin C, which are known to keep hair follicles healthy and also ensure that scalp oils are circulated well.
4. Eggs - The protein in eggs plus minerals like zinc, selenium, sulphur and iron are good for your hair. Iron helps cells carry oxygen to the hair follicles. When one is anaemic (inadequate iron), it causes hair loss. Other iron sources include chicken and fish.
5. Blueberries - Blueberries contain vitamin C, which is an essential nutrient for hair. It helps circulation to the scalp and also supports the blood vessels that feed the follicles. When your body doesn't get enough vitamin C, it leads to hair breakage. Other options include kiwis, tomatoes and strawberries.
6. Sweet Potatoes - Sweet potatoes helps produce vitamin A, and produce oils that sustain your scalp. Inadequate vitamin A levels can result in an itchy scalp and dandruff problems. Other foods that help include carrots, cantaloupe, mangoes, pumpkin and apricots.
| 2019-04-25T10:02:46 |
https://food.yadachef.com/2019/04/six-foods-for-healthy-hair.html
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One of the age old retirement questions is, how much money do I need to have saved for a successful retirement? Is it $1 million? $2 million? Or even more? However, there is no magic retirement savings number. While it is important to accumulate assets and wealth over your working years, it is not always about how much you have saved for retirement but how much income you will have in retirement that matters.
That means you need to be able to turn your savings into income to meet your needs in retirement, which can involve extremely complex retirement income planning in order to address a number of unknown retirement variables like how long you will live, the impact of inflation, and market returns. So how can you simplify complex retirement income planning into an easier to digest strategy that fits your individualized needs? The answer might rest with using mental accounting to better envision what a secure retirement looks like for you.
Splitting up expenses into different buckets, also allows the individual to prioritize their retirement goals and objectives. For most people, necessities, health care costs, and emergency funds are the highest priority, followed by fun, legacy, and luxury items. The next task is to identity which expenses fall into each of these categories. For instance, for some people golf might fall into the luxury item bucket, for others into the fun bucket, and for true golf enthusiasts it might even feel like a necessity. As such, there is no set amount of money that needs to be directed towards any specific bucket, as the buckets will be determined based on the individual situation of the retiree.
The next step is determining how to fund each of these ‘buckets’. Diane notes that you should take care of them in order of priority and match up more secure income streams for the expenses with the highest priority. As such, you should not leave your essential expense bucket to chance. This means aligning secure lifetime income streams, like Social Security and pensions, to match up with the required expenses you expect to have throughout your life. However, if your pension or Social Security payment is not enough income to meet your essential expenses, you can consider purchasing an annuity to provide you with a fixed lifetime income product to match up with your necessities. By funding your necessities with a secure income stream can help retirees sleep better at night and feel more financial security in retirement. Similarly, health care expenses and emergency funds are high level priorities that also need secure sources of income.
But, how do you determine when you fund each bucket? According to Diane, “successful retirement outcomes can be achieved with one simple Mental Accounting change. Rather than allocate a small portion of each paycheck to many buckets, fully fund one bucket before moving on to the next.” By setting aside specific assets for each goal or bucket, you are able to move onto the next goal and actually spend the money guilt free. For example, if you highly value a bequest motive, making sure that this is taken care of first is necessary to feel comfortable with spending any of your savings for fun or luxury items in retirement. If you are not secure in knowing that expenses are covered, you may find yourself holding back on their spending. This can leave a person feeling unsatisfied in retirement because they are not spending what they could afford to spend if they had a better plan in place.
So when you get to retirement, make sure you understand how your retirement plan works. Know where your retirement income is going to come from and prioritize your spending goals. This can help you better understand the role of guaranteed income streams and can help you live a more enjoyable and financially secure retirement. By prioritizing expenses, it also allows you to use riskier assets that have the potential for higher returns, for lower level priorities. In which case, good market performance can mean more resources for those lower level priorities. Using the right strategy for your situation can help you rewire your mental accounting and retire with ‘buckets’ of money to meet your goals.
| 2019-04-21T07:18:41 |
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiehopkins/2017/03/13/how-to-retire-with-buckets-of-money/
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| 2019-04-19T08:33:34 |
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Cuba's relations with Albania and China - Soviet-Empire.com U.S.S.R.
Did Cuba have good relations with Hoxha's Albania, and Mao's China? I'm guessing not because Cuba worked with the soviets.
Not necessarily. Having worked with the Soviets does not mean necessarily having sided with the Soviets. The same goes for North Korea, where they maintained relations with both the USSR and the PRC during the Cold War. I admit I don't know a whole lot about this, but in China, people don't really have negative impressions of Cuba (and better impressions toward Cuba than Russia, though people have warmer feelings toward Russia, in spite of the history of the Sino-Soviet Split).
Not sure about Albania, but probably not as close, since Hoxha had a tendency of accusing everyone of being a revisionist and isolating his country.
I also feel that there was most likely an unhealthy, if not non-existant relation between Cuba and Albania.
Cuba had and does still have good relations with Vietnam. And seeing as Vietnam and China did not have good relations during the latter half of the Cold War leads me to believe that China and Cuba relations were lukewarm at best. However, I do recall Mao being displeased at the Soviets backing down over the Missile Crisis, suppose there was some early support for Cuba.
Edit: Sorry, didn't realize this was an old thread!
Che Guevara sympathized with the line of the Chinese and Albanians, calling the latter "our brothers" when refusing an attempt by the USSR and Czechoslovakia to economically pressure Albania in 1961, an attempt which they tried to involve the Cubans in. Despite this Che's "foco" theory was attacked as anti-Marxist, and the slavish adherence of the Castro leadership to the Soviet Union likewise harmed relations between Albania and China on one hand and Cuba on the other. Still, trade relations and whatnot did exist between Cuba and both states.
| 2019-04-21T18:12:42 |
http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/viewtopic.php?p=858076&
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Episode Review: THE GLEE PROJECT, "The Final 14"
Last summer, Oxygen decided to get into the Glee game by airing the reality series, The Glee Project, which aimed at finding the next big gleek. The results are debatable since Samuel Larsen and Damian McGinty, Jr. failed to make much of an impact on the mothership series, but the ratings were good enough to convince the network to bring it back for a second season.
I checked out the show more out of curiosity than anything else, and while season 1 of The Glee Project was extremely flawed, I did find myself getting wrapped up in the entire process, so I decided to come back for another go around. Unfortunately, I missed out on last year's casting special, and I made it my mission to not let that happen again. This time around, Robert Ulrich headed to three cities (New York, Nashville and Chicago) to hold open auditions on top of all of the online submissions.
Now, I'll admit that I'm not a big fan of the reality competition series genre to begin with, and the auditions have always been the least interesting part of these types of shows because they tend to rely too heavily on train-wrecks who just want to get on television. Thankfully, this process was condensed into a few minutes, and we got to see mostly talented people show what they've got, but no one really stood out since we only got a glimpse of so many contestants. Boiling the auditions down to a few soundbites made for easier viewing, but it would have been nice to see more from some of the hopefuls as a way to connect with them. It also became obvious who was moving on based on the amount of time that was paid to certain people, so there was not any reason to invest in anyone at this stage in the game. It also would've been nice to get more from Season 1's winners and Alex Newell.
After the auditions, Robert and his staff whittled the number down to the top eighty who would move on to the Los Angeles round where they would preform for him, Zach Woodlee and Nikki Anders. From there, the three judges would come up with a list of thirty who would then audition for Ryan Murphy, and he along with the others would decide on the final fourteen (which started out as twelve, but we all know Ryan cannot make up his mind). The later audition rounds did allow the viewers to get to know more about some of the contestants, but again we only got to see either the clear favorites or the sob stories, which made sense to an extent but didn't give the entire process its due. Oh well. The top eighty suddenly became the final fourteen, and it was a somewhat surprising crop of finalists because none of them really blew me away with dynamic voices, but they were a pretty diverse group of contestants, which should make for a different kind of season.
What was even more interesting was the fact that the boys were clearly more captivating than the girls. For example, Blake from Miami has the classic leading man look, and he could easily step in to play a Finn-type role. Charlie from Chicago's not traditionally handsome, but he was by far the most musically talented, and he could be the odds on favorite to win it all. Abraham has the most Glee-ready look, and I'd could see him bringing an AZN flair to the show. Maxfield, the country boy from Tennessee, has a unique enough voice for a show that's so pop-heavy, and I can see him be a strong dark horse, but I'm rooting against him since we already have Chord Overstreet and I don't want him to be replaced...again. Even Tyler and Mario have interesting enough backstories that are tailor made for Glee, but I don't know what else they can bring to the table.
On the flip side, none of the ladies really wowed me. I suppose New York's Ali could win it, but part of me wonders how much her wheelchair will play into how far she goes. Dani from Orlando could also have a long run in her, but her Justin Bieber look's just odd to me, but I'm sure I can learn to power past that. Out of all of the females, the one who made the biggest impression on me was Aylin from Chicago, but that had little to do with her talent and more to do with her story and the fact that I'd like to see someone with her background on Glee.
Overall, I was both intrigued and underwhelmed by the finalists, which has me a little indifferent going into the rest of the show, but what was even more disconcerting was the fact that Ryan Murphy once again gave the impression that he's only looking for stories to steal for Glee. From the get go, it felt like he's only interested in contenders whose backstories excite him enough to incorporate them into the show instead of finding a talented individual who he can create a new character for. This was one of the major drawbacks of Season 1 and it looks like nothing's really changed, but Murphy's always looking for creative shortcuts, so we shouldn't be shocked.
While I wasn't immediately impressed with most of the final fourteen, and I can't automatically see any of them adding much to Glee, I'm still going to be checking in on The Glee Project for the same reasons why I watch the original show; I'm a sucker for underdogs striving towards their dreams. Let's just hope Season 2 does a better job of keep itself on track than Season 1 did, but that doesn't look to be in the cards based on this first episode. Then again, it's Glee so it's to be expected.
| 2019-04-26T07:50:23 |
http://www.smallscreenhappenings.com/2012/06/episode-review-glee-project-final-14.html
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Still trying to find the perfect homemade toothpaste recipe?
If you're trying to live self-sufficiently, you've probably attempted to make your own toothpaste before (or it's on your list of things to do). Toothpaste is just one of those things we can't seem to live without when we're striving to be self-reliant. But has it been hard to find a good recipe you're willing to stick with? Keep reading, because today you're about to discover something new!
For me, making my own toothpaste was a necessity, as I kept having allergic reactions to the every-day brands. And no wonder! Commercial toothpastes are loaded with industrial chemicals (such as sodium lauryl sulfate) that should never touch the inside of a person's mouth! Even many "healthy" brands that cost double the price still contain questionable ingredients.
I set to work. First, I tried recipes with a coconut oil base and baking soda (but they turned watery in my mouth and left a nasty mess in my sink and drain). Then I tried clay based recipes (but they tasted bitter and aggravated sensitive teeth and gums). So I started experimenting.
I wanted my homemade toothpaste to perform the way I'd come to expect of toothpaste. It had to taste good. Not oily, not watery, not bitter, not salty. I wanted my toothpaste to foam, but with something natural, not an industrial detergent. My toothpaste had to contain only truly healthful ingredients. It had to feel like toothpaste in my mouth, and work effectively to clean. Now here's the good news: I believe today's recipe does all that! Even the bubbly foaming thing, thanks to a simple, completely natural "secret" ingredient. Now I'm going to share my recipe with you.
Also note, once you buy these ingredients, you will have enough to make approximately 4 batches of toothpaste (with several ingredients lasting much longer than that for future use in more toothpaste, or other products).
1/2 tablespoon arrow root (Find it HERE) (This is the secret to smooth-textured, foaming toothpaste)!
STAGE 1: Prepare the "secret ingredient": Arrowroot. Arrowroot is the magic that makes this homemade toothpaste steal the show! It's what gives the paste a smooth texture and consistency, and makes it foam just enough to feel the way we expect toothpaste to feel.
In a small sauce pan, heat the arrowroot and water over medium-high heat, stirring constantly until thick and smooth.
When done, pour into a small glass dish and place in the freezer to cool while you prepare the rest of the ingredients (or for about 10 minutes, but not long enough to freeze). Move to stage 2 while the arrowroot cools.
STAGE 2: Prepare the paste.
Place the first 4 dry ingredients in a medium bowl, and stir to combine.
Measure the sweet almond oil and essential oils into a dish (in the photo below, I used a measuring cup because it was handy). Add the water to the oils.
Now add the water and oil mixture to the dry mix, stirring as you pour. Mix with quick strokes until a stiff paste forms that looks like very thick butter-cream frosting. At first, the mix will appear very dry, and you may wonder how that small bit of moisture will ever make your paste wet enough. Don't worry. Just put some muscle into it, it will work. I use a rubber spatula to press and sort of knead the moisture into the mix, until it forms a stiff paste. When you add the arrowroot (next) your paste will turn out just right.
Remove the dish of arrowroot from the freezer. Add it to the stiff paste, stirring briskly with whisking motions until smooth, sticky and slightly fluffy. Now it looks like toothpaste doesn't it! Smells good too. Put some on a toothbrush and give it a try!
3. Add the water and oils.
4. Stir to a stiff paste.
5. Add the arrowroot mixture.
6. Stir until a smooth and sticky paste forms.
Any of these containers will work. It's up to you, based on your preferences. I'll offer a word of caution about using any kind of plastic storage, however. Having a squeezable container is nice and very convenient with toothpaste, but storing something made with essential oil in plastic could be risky. Over time, essential oils can leach chemicals from plastic into your product. I don't know how quickly this can happen, or if you would use your toothpaste up before this became a problem. For me, once I learned of this potential risk, I've since gone back to using glass jelly jars. Squeezing my toothpaste wasn't as important to me as keeping it toxin-free.
Disclaimer: The information shared in this post is for educational purposes only, and is not meant to take the place of your dentist's professional care and advice. If you use this toothpaste recipe, it is with the understanding that you do so at your own risk.
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Thanks, Candy. Glad you stopped by to check it out! Hope you'll let us know how it goes.
More and more people are becoming concerned with how white their teeth are. Some may choose specific toothpaste brands to have their teeth whitened to remove discoloration, stains and spots from their teeth.
Tried your recepie an LOVE it! I have sensitive teeth problems and so I'm experimenting with how much clove to put in. If I want it to foam more, can I increase the arrowroot to say one tablespoon and the water to one third cup? I assume that would not change the relationship to the other ingredients?
Hello! I'm so glad you love this recipe and that you took the time to comment. Thanks! Regarding your question: Feel free to experiment, however, you may find that adding that much moisture to the thick paste may make it more runny than you'd like. I played around a lot with the moisture ratio when creating this recipe. If you do try it, and you like it, please comment back. I'd like to know how it works out. Good luck!
Hi Melody,, Just getting ready to make a batch of this sounds like just what I've been looking for!! Would like to know tho, with the water in it, should the bulk of it be kept in the fridge? Or does it still have a pretty good shelf life?
Chocolate and onions can also kills dogs and cats. The point is that not everything that humans like is good for animals. Xylitol is a natural sweetener, which is actually good for your teeth. It is a better alternative to sugar or aspartame. It is an ingredient in many commercial gums and mints, so keep these out of reach of pets.
I am pretty sure this is a post to direct people to you page. Just to be clear though, do not give Farm Girl's recipe for homemade toothpaste to dogs or cats, since it does have xylitol in it.
I have a question: Can I leave the baking soda out (I cannot stand the taste) and do you know how I'd adjust the recipe if I did leave out the baking soda?
So glad to find this recipe! I was starting to think coconut oil and/clay were the only options out there!
Hi Christen. I think I would use more calcium carbonate instead of salt. Let me know how it works! Melody Joy.
I did put in about 1/2 tsp sea salt, though.
I'm very pleased with my first batch of toothpaste. I used oils of vanilla, cinnamon leaf, nutmeg and peppermint. I used aloe Vera juice in place of the water and would've added a bit of colloidal silver if I wasn't out. I subbed Castor for the 1/2 oil. Tasty and my mouth feels so clean!
I was thinking about adding a few drops of trace minerals. Think it would be ok? Or should I stick to my regular regime of simply adding it to my drinking water? Also, can I just add sea salt (Himalayan) or would I need to take something out?
Hi- my daughter is allergic to nuts, so I would not be able to use the almond oil...would it matter if I use another carrier oil like avocado or apricot kernel oil?
Hi! No it wouldn't matter. Any oil will work. I would choose one that is mild in flavor and then go for it!
It is perfect! I used sunflower oil. Do you know what this costs, before I push the numbers?
Thank you so much for the information about Xylitol and pets (dogs)!
Thank you so much for that information. Sad outcome but hopefully this post will keep others from going through that pain of losing a loving pet!
Now foods brand xylitol is not made from birch trees, it is made from corn.
Not something I would use!
Hi Melody, I have been using your toothpaste for over a year and I love it! It is my absolute favorite recipe and my dentist says its working well too :) I have a blog of my own as well, and was wondering if I could share this great post on it. Obviously I would explicitly state that it is yours and make sure everything is ok with you before sharing, but please let me know. Either way, thank you very much for this recipe!
Thanks so much ! Even though not yet made and tried it. It sounds great ! I have been searching a recipe without greasy coconut oil or odd taste clay for years. So reluctantly I'm still using my own tooth powder recipe. I definitely will try it out. Thanks again, you are my sunshine !
You're welcome! Hope you will, many people like it very much. Thanks for your comment.
Hi, I'm so glad I found this. I've got a corn allergy and from what I understand Xylitol is made from corn cobs. Could I substitute Stevia? Would it be a 1:1 replacement?
Hi! I think you could substitute Stevia for Xylitol, though I'm not sure what the ratio would be. I think they make concentrated drops and also granulated. Just try it to taste and see what happens. Good luck!
I made this exactly to the recipe, but it didn't foam at all. I've been sing natural expensive toothpastes for the past 18 months which foam a little. I'd like to achieve some foam with my homemade paste. Do you think adding a teaspoon of glycerine or unscented Castile soap might give some foam?
I put my 2 tubes back into my measuring glas today and adjusted my xylitol, I'd used powdered and it wasn't the same weight as the granulated 5.5 TBSP. I also added 1/2 TBSP vegetable glycerin and 3/4 teaspoon liquid peppermint Castile soap plus another 1/2 TBSP calcium carbonate to keep consistency. Now my toothpaste foams just enough to make it feel right to me. Thanks for the original non cocoanut recipe!
Do you think this paste will be too thick for a glass serum bottle? Or perhaps a glass bottle with a lotion pump? I'd love for my kiddos to use this natural toothpaste, but I think the jelly jars with a spatula would be too messy for them.
I scored 2oz pet jars on Amazon. My 4yo has no issues scooping a bit with the tip of her (dry) toothbrush. I'm all for reusable glass jars, but not in bathrooms where bare feet hang out.
Hi, I have tried the pump idea, but you end up wasting a lot of the products that sticks to the sides and bottom and pump inside the container.
Thank you sooo much for developing this recipe. I just made some and am very happy. So nice not to feel a slave to the store bought stuff!
I made this and LOVE it!!!! I had to substitute Grapeseed oil, and I split the contents in half after I made it. That way I can use different essential oils, and I can wash the jar sooner than later. (Since I am dipping my toothbrush in the paste) I added 15 drops of Peppermint and 10 drops of Cinnamon Bark to half the amount. It tastes really good, kinda like Big Red gum. Thank you for sharing the recipe!
I made it as per the recipe and found that within a couple days the mixture went from being toothpaste like to liquid. What happened?
Hi Christine, I'm not sure why this happened. This has not happened with mine, and I've made it many times. How much essential oil did you use? My only suggestion would be to make sure the tablespoon of powder ingredients is packed firm each time, and maybe use 1/2 teaspoon less of water, only adding it if the mix is too stiff when stirring.
This happened to me, too. I've made it twice, and packed the dry ingredients while measuring, made sure not to use any more water than stated, but it's been very liquid-y both times. This time I added another tablespoon of the calcium carbonate to try to thicken it up but that didn't work. It still tastes great and works well.
Is there a xylitol alternative?
Hi, yes, you could try Stevia. I haven't tried it, but I've heard from others that is works. Good luck!
Is it possible to make it without water? What would be the formula? I don't want to use preservatives.
Hi this recipe works well but I'm wondering about the arrowroot. It's a starch and starches are broken down into sugars by saliva. I'm not sure that toothpaste that turns into sugar is a good idea? What non carbohydrate substitute could be used? Agar is also a carb..
This is what immediately struck me about this misguided concoction. There are going to be pockets and crevices and areas where the carbohydrates are going to remain, and it only takes a few micrograms for the bacteria to start cracking party-favors.
Thus, after brushing, you'll have to rebrush with water to get everything flushed out. But this negates one of the major virtues of baking soda: a residual anti-bacterial pH.
What is really needed in a dentifrice, and you can't buy anywhere, is a least-foaming, most pasty, mix that does not encourage salivation and watering-down, which exactly what is made worse by essential oils, sweeteners (forget Xylitol in toothpaste: its advantages apply better to gum and mints), etc. Soda already makes your mouth water, I'd want something that would counteract that.
So, I'll have to look elsewhere for a formula.
Is this toothpaste abrasive? I have caps and I'm not supposed to use abrasive or whitening toothpastes because it will scratch their reflective coatings. Thanks!
Hi! You should check with your dentist for this question. Your dentist should be able to tell you if this toothpaste is a good match for your needs based on the ingredients.
Hi Melody, Can't wait to try your toothpaste recipe. I'm wondering if one could substitute Stevia in place of the Xylitol? Your view on this would be greatly appreciated.
Do you need to store this in the refrigerator? It not, how long do you think it would last on the bathroom counter? Thanks!
Can it be used on bridges? I also have a fake tooth. Thanks!
Hi Melody, I've come to your post after trying numerous types of coconut oil-based recipes for toothpaste, but miss the foamy action and taste of toothpaste. Your recipe seems sound, but I only had a couple of questions, please. For instance, I was wondering what is the reason for using calcium carbonate. Would this be a substitute for the clay, to thicken, perhaps? Also, I'm assuming the sweet almond oil is to help with consistency? But why did you choose sweet almond oil?
I was considering adding natural organic Castile soap made of coconut for the foamy action. Considering people use Sodium Lauryl Sulfate-containing toothpastes, I suppose Castile soap might be a good substitute. Have you ever tried doing this?
Many thanks for this post!
I’m trying to find a non-scented toothpaste. Are there tooth benificial properties to any of the essentials oils or the coconut oil? Could you recommend a good substitute for the coconut oil? Something with less of a scent?
I noticed that the calcium carbonate leves a thick residue on the tongue should that be?
Want to know what makes natural toothpastes so great? It's the ingredients. Natural toothpastes are made mostly from mint oils, which are completely natural and provide superior bacteria killing capabilities.
I'm all for all natural toothpaste. Do they all taste the same or some better than the others?
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The arrowroot powder can be a real problem. It's a starch, and anytime you add water and heat it up, even a little, you're going to make it into a sugar. Brush your teeth with sugar, and you'll get a lot of cavities. The way to test this for yourself is to mix some arrowroot (1 tsp is fine) with twice the amount of water. Heat it up a little (15 seconds or so in the microwave) so that it thickens a bit. Add a drop of iodine. If the iodine turns black, you have a sugar.
I did this with a couple of different temperatures to be sure, and even used just warm water from the tap. It took a few seconds longer, but it did change to black. Obviously only using warm or cold water from the tap keeps it from changing into sugar right away, but you also won't have the thick substance that's supposed to act as a foaming agent.
Very very useful article for the Dental care, I this this toothpaste is very useful for our teeth, Thanks for sharing your informative article.
| 2019-04-20T08:31:44 |
https://www.joyelick.com/2015/04/diy-all-natural-toothpaste-so-good-you.html?showComment=1527205259870
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We (Instagram users) can't just pick up and go somewhere else, and we aren't using Instagram because we like "filtered mobile pics". We are a community, and each individual in this community has spent time, effort and parts of themselves building it. This community and the relationships within it matter. Statements like the above, marginalize and degrade the value of our experiences and set a stage that allows companies like Facebook to continue to take advantage of us. Until the true value services like these are realized and acknowledged as something more than a fun thing to do or a method for companies to advertise to us, we will never be given the right (yes I said right) to own our communities, experiences and content.
Is it crazy to think about a day when online communities begin to have rights. When the value of the relationships we create on these platforms are validated and acknowledged as an important part of society and that they can not be destroyed at the whim of the platform owners?
I don't want to leave Instagram. I especially don't want to leave because the rug was pulled out from under me*. Instagram has value to me that is way beyond the feature set. I've spend over 2 years documenting and sharing my life with a curated group of people from all over the world.
- I look forward to opening the app during the down times of my day and getting lost in the beautiful glimpses into other's lives. - I look forward to sharing the daily events of my life, both big and small. - I value feeling connected to the greater world as people express how they relate to what I've shared. - I've made friends that I see in person through the app. - I keep up in with the people I love through the app (in a way, more intimate and personal than Twitter or FB can provide) - The people in my community give me encouragement and praise, they laugh at my jokes, they invest in my story. - The people in my community show me by example every hour of everyday, to see life for what it is. Beautiful, complicated, short, inspiring, and broad.
It's a lot more than looking at some "filtered mobile photos".
I don't have the answer and it's obvious that we as a society don't either. We may not have even started the conversation, but I hope we do, it's important. Too important to just let case after case start to add up to a precedence devoid of critical thought and human judgement.
I will stay with Instagram for the time being and I hope that the value of my relationships there continue to out way my discomfort with the policies. If you are sticking it out too you can can join my community @tyesha.
*Changing the rules midstream is another issue we need to take up as a society. Is it ok to gain the trust of millions of people through a set of rules of conduct then just change them without any due process?
| 2019-04-25T14:27:12 |
http://tyeshasnow.com/tyesha-snow/2012/12/18/value-and-communities-in-the-digital-age
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Garfield :: FOOD! - That's this? - I appears to be of the crescent roll family. - A true gourmet never shies away from a new taste treat. - (smack) A bit dry, but palatable. - Garfield, have you seen my sweat socks?
FOOD! - That's this? - I appears to be of the crescent roll family. - A true gourmet never shies away from a new taste treat. - (smack) A bit dry, but palatable. - Garfield, have you seen my sweat socks?
| 2019-04-25T04:59:36 |
https://garfield.dale.ro/garfield-1979-july-8.html
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Just to be sure, the climate will probably not be "quite" the #1 topic in the elections but it will come close. The more important topic will be the sustainability of their welfare, pension, healthcare systems.
The mainstream press doesn't hide its hostility but hasn't hidden the expected good aspect of today's polls, either. The Financial Times wrote Finland’s populists find favour with anti-green agenda. The Finns Party is painted as clones of the French yellow vests which seems extremely inaccurate to me. Why? For example, the Finns Party's chairman – who became anti-left due to trips to the Soviet Union as a kid – is a scholar who has taught Old Church Slavonic, no kidding, show me the French yellow vests who speak that 9th century Slavic language. ;-) The hot blonde woman who is the Finns' presidential candidate is a trained teacher of a sort.
The New York Times admitted the Finns Party's strong enough support in the article The Right's New Rallying Cry in Finland: 'Climate Hysteria'. A pretty nice title. The Times reveal that the Finns Party were strengthened by others – who foolishly decided it was a good idea to brag about the climate panic. When this topic was made important by the alarmists, the Finns Party naturally became the recipient of most of the skeptical votes. I think that if the topic were made "really primary", which it's not, the Finns Party could approach 50% in this way.
Reports indicate that the Finnish media actually haven't demonized or ostracized the Finns Party and its position towards the climate etc.
Except for the Finns Party, all the Finnish politicians are more or less drowning in the mud of the climate change propaganda. The Green League wants to ban carbon by 2030, others by 2045, ... you can imagine that the rhetoric of numerous politicians is somewhere in between "insane" and "faded away insane". The Finns Party is the only exception and they mostly care about the increases of prices – of food and other things (I've read that Northern Finns need to travel a lot and are worried about all restrictions on transportation) – that would follow from any "climate targets". Yes, in this sense, their primary motivation to be skeptics is analogous to the Yellow Vests'.
But opinions and passions don't necessary copy the material interests too accurately. The Finns Party have the chance to be the silver winners – but it's even possible that they will turn to the strongest party, assuming that the right-wing gains are being artificially suppressed in the surveys, as we have seen in the U.S., U.K., and elsewhere.
The Heavy Pochondriac's parody of "Volare Cantare" is about Czech gypsies who fly to Helsinki to apply for asylum – probably relevant for the elections today.
There's some material common sense about many Finns' climate skepticism: the cold weather. The average annual temperature in Helsinki is 5 °C, it's worse elsewhere, and some 15 °C of global warming would clearly be good news for Finland if possible. Even lots of regular workers are sane enough to understand that the painting of 1.5 °C of a hypothetical warming as the end of the world is just a silly fairy-tale.
Finland is obviously a rich enough, full-blown capitalist country, with over $45,000 of GDP per capita etc. At some point, Nokia was a global giant in the tech industry – these days it's a rather small $40 bilion company but it (plus HMD) may become a giant again. (Nokia has announced some violation of rules done by Alcatel-Lucent that the firm acquired a few years ago and a big fine or other trouble may arrive; some HMD Nokia phones were also sending some data to China, due to a mistake (?) in firmware update.) It runs trade surpluses and has other healthy traits. But the strength of the Finns Party indicates some kind of a spirit that makes the Finns close to the post-communist countries like mine.
This has some reasons. First, linguistically, Finns are closest to Estonia which has been a part of the Soviet Union, and they belong to the Finno-Ugric linguistic family along with the Hungarians (although Finnish and Hungarian are not mutually intelligible). But Finland itself, while a non-Germanic "province of Sweden" for a very long time (which made Finland a bit analogous to Czechia), was also one of the capitalist countries that were keeping the most peaceful relationships with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
While the Soviet Union allowed the normal, full-blown capitalist system in Finland during the Cold War, Finland appreciated the ease with which the Soviet Union could conquer Finland, and they sort of cooperated and also had a significant trade with the Soviet bloc. I remember some softly propagandist articles in my favorite science-and-technology-for-youth (VTM) journal that was praising Finns for that approach in the 1980s. Note that like Sweden, Finland is still outside NATO even today. But in the past, Finland was way more pro-Soviet than Sweden, despite the latter's being a "prototype of the Western socialism".
I think that the people who are worried about the ideological transformations of the contemporary West should learn much more European geography. That's true especially for the Americans who often imagine Europe to be one homogeneous chunk – or at most a collection of two chunks, the Western and Eastern Europe. But there are many more subtleties you should know. Some countries, like Norway and Switzerland, are outside the European Union which has some consequences. Others, inside the EU, have various reasons to resemble Central European post-communist countries in various ways. That includes Finland, Austria, and perhaps Denmark – but the character of the proximity is different in each case. And the post-communist countries significantly differ from each other as well.
Good luck to the Finns who are choosing their Parliament today.
| 2019-04-20T16:13:26 |
https://motls.blogspot.com/2019/04/finland-first-elections-co-decided-by.html?m=1
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As far as hangover cures go, having some Бhair of the dogБ appears to be one of the more reliable, at least in the short-term. For those that have never experienced the practice, it is combating a hangover by getting right back on the booze and having a healthy swig of alcohol the morning after the night before. It is not always an option (hangovers after drinking on a school night canБt really be fixed like this) but many will partake in some hair of the dog when it is available to them, and will invariably feel better as a result. But where does the phrase come from? The full phrase is actually Бhair of the dog that bit youБ and goes back to an ancient belief that if you were bitten by a dog with rabies you should put one of the dogБs hairs in the wound to help cure it. There has never been any scientific evidence to suggest this theory has any basis in fact, but it was a something people were willing to try hundreds of years ago. It has been transferred into the context of drinking as alcohol is represented as the dog that bites and you should take a little bit of it in a way to cure what it has done to you. Mature man drinking traditional pint of real ale beer. It is not known where the original belief came from, but the idea of the cause of the problem producing the cure goes back to the time ofб Hippocrates (460-370 BC) when the Latin phrase Бsimilia similibus curanturБ was coined, meaning Бlike cures likeБ.
References to the hair of the dog in terms of drinking date back to John HeywoodБs Б A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the Englishe tongueБ. БAnd bitten were we both to the brain aright. БWe saw each other drunk in the good ale glass. Б Get back on it! (Picture: Getty) Randle CotgraveБs БA dictionarie of the French and English tonguesБ in б 1611 also mentioned the drinking version: БOur Ale-knights [habitual drinkers] often use this phrase, and say, Give us a haire of the dog that last bit us. Б So the phrase and the general advice has been around a long time but does it actually work? Well, yes and no. Undoubtedly having an alcoholic drink on a hangover makes you feel better, but only temporarily, it will help the symptoms of a hangover, but it will just delay the problem till later. Alcohol numbs pain and senses, which will help deal with the unwelcome issues of a hangover, it also causes a blood sugar spike which will make you feel better. However, a hangover is partly down to the crash in blood sugar levels after the spike, so you will still have to deal with that in the future. Hungover? (Picture: Getty) Lauren Owen, a member of the б said: БAlcohol acts on a number of chemicals in the brain to increase feelings of pleasure. БReduction of hangover symptoms by Бhair of the dogБ may also be due to the activity of alcohol on neurotransmitter systems.
Б The NHS website says of the БcureБ: ББHair of the dogБ Б drinking more alcohol Б does not help. Drinking in the morning is a risky habit, and you may simply be delaying the appearance of symptoms until the alcohol wears off again. БIf youБve had a heavy drinking episode, hangover or not, doctors advise that you wait at least 48 hours before drinking any more alcohol to give your body time to recover. Б So if you want that quick fix, then grab a beer, but be ready for it to get a whole lot worse in the near future. From Dennis J Hudson, London : A Sunday newspaper article recently claimed that hangover has nothing to do with alcohol but refers to Victorian workhouses, in which inmates slept by draping their arms over a stretched-out rope which they hung over as it supported them. Is there any truth in this? None whatsoever, but it s yet another good example of people jumping to completely the wrong conclusion on the basis of knowing a bit of esoteric information. There really was once a sleeping system like that. The principal reference I have for it is George Orwell s Down and Out in Paris and London of 1933: At the Twopenny Hangover, the lodgers sit in a row on a bench; there is a rope in front of them, and they lean on this as though leaning over a fence. A man, humorously called the valet, cuts the rope at five in the morning.
I have never been there myself, but Bozo had been there often. I asked him whether anyone could possibly sleep in such an attitude, and he said that it was more comfortable than it sounded at any rate, better than bare floor. It s mentioned in a work of a century earlier, The Magic Skin by Honorй de Balzac, which was translated into English by Ellen Marriage in 1895: We. made it a point of honour to find out whether you were roosting in a tree in the Champs-Elysйes, or in one of those philanthropic abodes where the beggars sleep on a twopenny rope. The connection sounds pretty convincing, with Orwell actually using hangover to describe the method. But the historical evidence for the word in the alcoholic sense shows that it s from the idea of something that remains or is left over a remainder or survival or after-effect not of a person literally being hung over anything. Several subscribers have since told me that the same story has also been advanced as the supposed origin of to be able to sleep on a clothesline, meaning to be so utterly tired one could sleep anywhere. There might be an association here, though it s impossible to be sure. But the image behind sleeping on a clothesline is that one lies along it, as in a very thin hammock, being too dead tired to move about and so fall off. It seems not to fit the situation. More folk etymologies vanquished!
| 2019-04-20T15:02:38 |
http://xautoman.com/1368-whyisahangovercalledahangover.html
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The first step in learning to play electric guitar is to buy a quality guitar. Buy the best one you can afford. After doing weeks of research and talking to several friends who play, I learned to avoid cheap guitars like the plague. The cheap ones look just as nice, but the necks are made from cheaper wood so they'll warp over time. The hardware isn't as good so they go out of tune faster. Finally, the electronics aren't as good so you might not sound like you'd want. If you can't afford a brand new quality guitar, get a quality used one. A high quality used guitar beats a brand new cheap guitar in every way (provided it hasn't been abused. For me, the choice was easy - my guitar idol is K.K. Downing so I bought a Gibson Flying V.
The Flying V is an awesome guitar - it looks great when you're on stage in front of thousands of screaming fans. Unfortunately, that doesn't make it a good beginner's electric guitar. It's shape makes it kind of hard to hold if you play sitting down - which I do when I practice. Also it's just too dang nice to bang around on while you're learning - at least it is for me. So I decided to get something more practical. I didn't go cheap - I found a nice Fender Stratocaster on craigslist. It's already scratched up a bit (one less thing to worry about) but it sounds great and you don't need to be standing up to play it.
I love this book. You can pretty much skip the first chapter unless you're interested in the history of electric guitars. I am but I want to learn so I skipped to chapter 2. I really like this book because it starts right off teaching you to read notes. I know a lot of people like learning tabs first, but that's only helpful if the songs you want to play are available in tab notation. I'll take notes, thank you:) Lessons are broken up into 1 week exercises and start out very simple - the first few only use your picking hand. Some of them are easy to master in about a half hour so it's tempting to move on to the next one right away, but I've found it's a lot better to stay on the same one for the whole week - this builds muscle memory which is very important as you get into the more complex exercises. I love that this is a hard cover book, printed on high quality paper with a spiral binding so it lays flat while your using it. I'd even go so far as to say that any manual on playing guitar that doesn't have a spiral binding would be practically useless.
Learning To Play Guitar, Step 4 - Guitar Lessons or not???
So you're going to learn how to play electric guitar and you got everything you need... now what? Well, the first thing you need to decide is if you're going to teach yourself or get instruction. The main advantage to teaching yourself is cost - lessons cost money, and these days lots of people don't have extra money to spend on silly things like music lessons. There's also the hassle of scheduling, getting you and your guitar to the lessons, and besides lots of awesome guitarists were self taught, so why not me?
On the other hand, a good instructor can show you things that will make learning a lot easier (and more fun), keep you from developing bad playing habits, and help with technical issues like tuning your guitar. I tried teaching myself with tutorials I found online for about 2 weeks and wasn't making any progress, so I decided to try an instructor. In just one session I learned more than I had in two weeks of trying to teach myself. I plan to keep going and I consider it money well spent.
Should you sign up for lessons?
You've inspired me to give it a try!
| 2019-04-21T20:22:52 |
https://hubpages.com/technology/electric-guitar-play
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Marco is the type of bioinformatician who can do SPARQL. Note about target users: we should expect two types of users in the genomics domain: ?(i) genomics users who use what bioinformaticians provide them, (ii) bioinformaticians who are capable of SPARQL or willing to learn. At this time, the majority of bioinformaticians in the genomics field cannot do SPARQL, but this number is growing.
Previous runs, when they were run, who ran them, summary of results and comments on the run.
Can I do this with SPARQL?
In this part I am using the WINGS example RDF provided via the endpoint http://wind.isi.edu:10035/catalogs/java-catalog/repositories/WINGSTemplatesAndResults, because this was the reference to an endpoint that I found first on the Showcase 22 page. Initially, I looked only at what I could find at this SPARQL endpoint and did not consult further documentation on the Showcase 22 page. or elsewhere. In part II, I did consult more information, e.g. I found out that there is a second end point used by showcase 22, that contains the wf4ever model artefacts. This obsoletes questions 1,2,4,5 in my notes below.
Objective 1: Find previous runs of a workflow.
Assuming that the sample data will contain one workflow, I expect to find the URL for one run of one workflow.
My first steps is to try to find the reference for the workflow run. I cannot find 'run' somewhere directly, so I have started with a result (as that must be a result of a run). I found an instance of the class SMAPComparisonResults, and used that as my starting point. It wasGeneratedBy the ProcessInstance COMPARELIGANDBINDINGSITESV211332778615941, which hasProcessTemplate ABSTRACTSUBWFLIGANDBINDINGSITESCOMPARISON_COMPARELIGANDBINDINGSITESV21. This is an instance of ProcessTemplate with label "Process template CompareLigandBindingSitesV21".
1. The name of the Process Template instances suggest that these are (sub)workflows. Do classes for workflow templates/instances exist?
Now I wish to find out of what workflow template ProcessTemplate ABSTRACTSUBWFLIGANDBINDINGSITESCOMPARISON_COMPARELIGANDBINDINGSITESV21 is a component of, such that I can find the overall workflow.
Apparently, ABSTRACTSUBWFLIGANDBINDINGSITESCOMPARISON_COMPARELIGANDBINDINGSITESV21 is not a TemplateComponent of anything. I conclude that this must have been the workflow that was run to produce the SMAPComparisonResults that I started with.
3. wasGeneratedBy is apparently used as a predicate of ProcessInstances as well as ProcessTemplates. Is this correct?
4. I find that Results are results of ProcessInstances, which are instantiations (~runs?) of ProcessTemplates. Is it anywhere explicit that something is a run of something?
produces the same list of 38 items, showing that the range of hasProcessTemplate was limited to ProcessInstances in this repository.
5. Apparently, the content of the Allegrograph repository has not been mapped to wfprov/wfdesc.
Indeed it seems that the example queries run here. Unfortunately, the endpoint does not seem to have a simple UI for its results. I saved and displayed each query result manually.
The results are saved in the files associated with this blog. At first glance, the repository indeed contains the results of the Allegrograph repository. I would like to check that more specifically: can I find Process Instance COMPARELIGANDBINDINGSITESV211332778615941 and its Process Template?
query 6 gives a quite extensive report of what is associated with this ProcessInstance, including the relation that this ProcessInstance wfprov:wasPartOfWorkflowRun of http://wings.isi.edu/opmexport/resource/Account/ACCOUNT1332778615941 (one of the wfRuns reported by query 3).
The type information from query 6 tells me that COMPARELIGANDBINDINGSITESV211332778615941 is a ro:Resource, wfprov:Process, and wfprov:Artifact. This seems a little high level.
6. Is ro:Resource, wfprov:Process, and wfprov:Artifact sufficient type information for something that has predicate wfprov:wasPartOfWorkflowRun?
Looking at the names, I suspect that ABSTRACTGLOBALWORKFLOW2 has ABSTRACTSUBWFLIGANDBINDINGSITESCOMPARISON, ABSTRACTSUBWFDOCKING as components. Possibly all three were returned by query 8 by inference. ABSTRACTGLOBALWORKFLOW2 should be the overall workflow that I was looking for.
Unfortunately, I did not find timestamps, or relations that point to timestamps. Similarly, I did not see the relations to people. NB to my surprise I saw that the type of the workflow run is wfprov:WorkflowRun and wfdesc:Workflow.
8. Can a workflow run (type wfprov:WorkflowRun) have type wfdesc:Workflow?
9. Where are the timestamp and credit properties? Which wf4ever RO model artefacts should I look for for these?
It seems that for the WINGS workflow these annotations were not applied.
Many references to wf74, but no reference with 'wings' in the uri.
To my surprise it appears that no resources in the repository are annotated with the Annotation Ontology.
10. Where are the Annotation Ontology annotations? Who creates them, where, and how? Could this relate to Annotation=Notebook keeping, and checklist showcases?
In general I am happy with the results so far. The RDF of the workflows that I looked at seems pretty ok, both in the Allegrograph KB and the wf4ever KB. The mapping between the RDF produced from the WINGS workflow seems to have worked. Getting to workflow templates, their results and runs or 'process instances' via their interrelationships was not difficult using the lists of predicates and classes provided by the endpoints (as self-explanatory as one may expect from RDF triples).
Some information appears to be missing or items may not have been mapped to the wf4ever models yet (see questions below).
I could not answer the first user provenance question of the user view on provenance fully (timestamps, credit).
I did not check how exhaustive the annotations are, e.g. with respect to the user view on provenance|wiki/display/docs/User+view+on+Provenance|||\. This would require going through all examples there.
The knowledge base endpoints were not highly visible on the showcase 22 report. Because I wanted to do the validation as naive as possible going straight from driving user question to querying the endpoint, I started on the wrong KB.
wasGeneratedBy is apparently used as a predicate of ProcessInstances as well as ProcessTemplates. Is this correct? I don't see where is that relation ....not sure what are u refering to.
Is ro:Resource, wfprov:Process, and wfprov:Artifact sufficient type information for something that has predicate wfprov:wasPartOfWorkflowRun?
Can one workflow run be described by multiple workflow templates?
Can a workflow run have type wfdesc:Workflow?
In order to acquire some hands-on experience with a tangible RDF RO artefact, I am trying to link references for the materials that Kristina added to the RO using the RO tools as instances in the ontologies suggested for the RO. The immediate motivation is the Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Science (SWAT4LS) workshop, where we would like to present our project on a poster. I would like to show a tiny prototype Semantic Web example of a RO.
* I cannot find the property that links a workflow file to a workflow instance: what is the recommended way of instantiating a particular workflow?
* Datatype properties for Artifacts (documents, files etc.): how do I add a reference to file on my harddisc? It is not common practice to use such references directly for the identifiers of these intances, is it?
* Warning: using (file) names for identifiers may lead to ambiguity problems later on. I suggest that if we have no better ID, we use uuids, and the names in labels.
* Artifact is used in three different vocabularies (opmv, wfdesc, wfprov); are they all different? Are their relations defined?
* What do we use the Annotation ontology for exactly? This question is partly because the annotation classes are not very clearly annotated (ironically). I can imagine that some Semantic Links can be regarded annotations. Do we then use these to define that certain classes are annotations?
* I see that we previously took a different modelling decision regarding process and workflow. We did not define a workflow as a process directly. Instead we defined the following pattern: a (Text mining) process /has_implementation/ workflow, a process /is_run_by/ a process_run, a process_run /is_performed_by/ a workflow_run. Not sure about the consequences in practice, but I am not sure if we can define workflow as a description as well as a process. I guess process would have to be described as a process *description*.
* I am curious about 'WorkflowInstance'. If scufl2 can contain these extra things, then I guess a workflow description could indeed be a WorkflowInstance as defined. Otherwise I would probably create relations between the workflow and its parameters etc.. In that case it would make sense to define this class as a defined class: a workflow with parameter properties is a (directly runnable) WorkflowInstance. As an experiment (poc) I defined this in the wf4ever_experiment ontology.
* Could 'hasArtifact' also apply to files that represent e.g. the workflow. Currently, I used the reference from the manifest.rdf file (which reads like a file reference) as the identifier for the workflow. This seems to be a discrepancy: I use a different pattern for the inputs and outputs: I/O Files (Artifacts) are linked to workflow runs by usedInput and wasOuputFrom.
* Added one example output and two inputs as file instances. Linked them to the workflow run.
* Aggregated all my instances in the RO instance.
* To link the workflow to its hypothesis, I used the hasContent relation based on this relation's domain and range. The relation is not further defined, so I cannot know if this is its purpose (its name suggests something different).
*** More options are welcome, because these do not seem to be well maintained; their URIs do not resolve on the web.
* I find two 'Documents' (wf4ever and foaf) with insufficient information to understand their relation.
* Classes from imported ontologies often have poor or no labels, and no comments. For classes/properties that are important to our purposes I suggest we provide labels and comments (in a separate owl file).
* Out of curiosity: How is a Person a 'spatial thing'?
* Inputs and outputs are defined as types of parameters. Some would consider these different things I think?
* Not many classes are defined by properties; should we try to increase that?
* Also for ontologies I find examples (in comments) highly useful. For instance, I would like more information on how the annotation classes/properties should be used.
Expectations from an RO model towards submission, archival, and dissemination for the Metabolic Syndrome case and epigentics-Huntington's Disease case.
We consider that our efforts towards a good archive should be inspired by how we expect/would like that the archive will be used (to prevent creating a dead archive).
In this sense, are we missing the perspective of personal use (we also archive for ourselves), or even usage as an explicit perspective? Do 'archival' or 'dissemination' cover these?
It might be interesting to compare our archives with 'implicit' archives; for instance: the 'Leiden Open Variation Database' (LOVD) is developed as a dynamic resource for genetic information; the archiving aspect is more-or-less a side effect. I think myExperiment, BioCatalogue, or Galaxy 'toolsheds' were also originally built with usage as primary objective. I would like to think that archiving infrastructure could be used as backbone for such resources, adding the value of proper archiving (including provenance).
For comparison: when genetic variants are submitted to an archive and as part of a paper, we can suggest the proper encoding for genetic variants (this is non-trivial). This semantically links the papers mentioning the variant to one another and to any database using the same encoding for variants.
For workflows I imagine that submission would be the moment of matching a workflow with the RO model. When mismatches occur, we can ask the user to disambiguate or add missing information.
This may come with some 'pain', because it may require a mapping for existing resources.
The process is facilitated by publishing the RO model.1 The RO model would give developers and users a reference.
NB: I would like to see these in the context of helping users keep a proper notebook. In my vision, the notebook creates the archive (or prepares for archival). Every submission of an artefact+notes comes with storing provenance information, that a user can later use to look up information before publishing. So for instance, when a workflow produces an output that we wish to keep, we don't have to worry about its timestamp and metadata remaining linked to it.
Taking Eleni's case as an example. She is producing a workflow from the compendium of R scripts that she used to explore the effect of so-called CpG islands (specific sequences often found in front of genes; their locations taken from an on line data source) on the change of gene expression in brain regions affected by Huntington's Disease. She has done several analyses for different kind of statistical plots (we assume these are in the living RO4), and now wishes to fix the workflow (in Taverna) and select the results for publication.
1Note: within our department we are developing a tool for generating interfaces for command line tools; the underlying model is in RDF. For each tool (e.g. Galaxy tools) a mapping is made in a template language. This is a bottleneck, but the RDF part facilitates interoperability.
2It may be worthwhile to align with Study Capture frameworks here. I suggest to try to use the same semantic models under the hood as much as possible.
3Note that biologists are used to quite strict rules when submitting papers and submitting some types of data to data repositories.
4In reality, Eleni is not using the BioRO folder to its fullest. One reason is that the data set is large; the other is that Eleni is not yet used to the idea. Apart from learning to use this, we can use it as a requirement: It may help if living RO's seem entirely personal, until a user is ready to share. Eleni is a typical PhD student/scientist; feeling uncomfortable sharing until she is entirely confident about the result. NB, following the wet-lab analogy this is not acceptable; notebooks are in principle property of the department and open to it (in practice this is not nastily adhered to though).
What to do with never published but valuable Working ROs?
Should we do something special for working ROs that will never make it to publication, but have valuable components? For simplicity I stated that I would like lower ambitions for archiving working ROs, compared to published ROs. However, it would be a shame if we have nothing for discontinued unpublished ROs that are however valuable enough to archive for the long term.
I would still plea to first pay attention to the working and published ROs, but we should perhaps not forget about these.
Tool version dependencies and ROs?
I just had an interesting conversation with one of my colleagues Jeroen Laross. I imagine that this could have a translation into what we are doing.
Jeroen and colleagues are building a bioinformatics pipeline out of command line tools. When a tool is updated and they build that in, the behaviour of the pipeline could change. Therefore they keep track of the tools' version numbers (e.g. by doing --version or if there is no version information do a MD5 checksum - do I spell that right?). If a tool's version has changed, they change the version number of the pipeline.
Would we be able to have something similar for workflows? I guess that including an update of a command line tool is always a deliberate step; for remote Web Services this is automatic and unseen. The workflow would not be changed, but its functionality might have. Perhaps a RO can have an additional version number reflecting underlying changes? I would argue we would need the facility first, regardless of whether it is easy to find out if underlying services were updated.
This may seem to make published ROs mutable. However, a published RO should have time stamps all over the place: it only makes guarantees for the time of publication (analogues to paper publications). It is a best practice to keep everything working after publication.
Still, is 'version dependency' somehow a requirement for working and published ROs?
PhD student Eleni Mina (LUMC) has produced a 'table of contents' for us that conveys what components she would expect to put in a Research Object for her upcoming experiment. She is at the planning stage of the experiment, which means that the references and plans are all real, but she hasn't performed the experiment yet. The file is in the experimental RObox DropBox folder 'BioRO'. Below is a short description.
I expect that Eleni's TOC would eventually map to the RO model and the RObox interface, and that the RO model would provide the structure and interlinking of the components, while the RO model is used to help structure the RObox interface (a consequence of defining the structure of a RO).
RO component types: Datasets, Scripts, Web Services, Workflows, Documentation; on my request she added Hypothesis as a component too.
RO component attributes: Name, Description, Type, Version; on my request Eleni added 'Role in experiment' which otherwise ended up in the Description.
Datatype: GEO series datafile (NB this also conveys the origin of the datafile).
Input: data matrix, tab delimited.
This dynamic RO will evolve as Eleni is designing and executing her experiment. I expect this to lead to more annotations/notes and more detail.
This follows on the plea I made to think about services on top of Semantic Web / Linked Data resources. Carole called them 'top-middleware' services I think.
Combination of exposed RO-model (RDF) and generic RDF interface would do the trick already; RO-services make it convenient and allow us to control access.
RO-box would be one of the applications; Taverna, myExperiment, etcetera could be others, use for annotation?
The RO-services hide (SPARQL) details and are RO-specific.
| 2019-04-20T16:51:49 |
https://confluence.man.poznan.pl/community/pages/viewrecentblogposts.action?key=docs
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Converting Chinese cùn to Chinese háo value in the length units scale.
TOGGLE : from Chinese háo into Chinese cùn in the other way around.
Convert length measuring units between Chinese cùn (市寸) and Chinese háo (毫) but in the other reverse direction from Chinese háo into Chinese cùn.
This online length from 市寸 into 毫 converter is a handy tool not just for certified or experienced professionals.
1,000.00 毫 is converted to 1 of what?
The Chinese háo unit number 1,000.00 毫 converts to 1 市寸, one Chinese cùn. It is the EQUAL length value of 1 Chinese cùn but in the Chinese háo length unit alternative.
How to convert 2 Chinese cùn (市寸) into Chinese háo (毫)? Is there a calculation formula?
1. in practicing Chinese cùn and Chinese háo ( 市寸 vs. 毫 ) values exchange.
How many Chinese háo of length are in 1 Chinese cùn? The answer is: The change of 1 市寸 ( Chinese cùn ) unit of length measure equals = to 1,000.00 毫 ( Chinese háo ) as the equivalent measure for the same length type.
In principle with any measuring task, switched on professional people always ensure, and their success depends on, they get the most precise conversion results everywhere and every-time. Not only whenever possible, it's always so. Often having only a good idea ( or more ideas ) might not be perfect nor good enough solution. If there is an exact known measure in 市寸 - Chinese cùn for length amount, the rule is that the Chinese cùn number gets converted into 毫 - Chinese háo or any other length unit absolutely exactly.
Conversion for how many Chinese háo ( 毫 ) of length are contained in a Chinese cùn ( 1 市寸 ). Or, how much in Chinese háo of length is in 1 Chinese cùn? To link to this length Chinese cùn to Chinese háo online converter simply cut and paste the following.
The link to this tool will appear as: length from Chinese cùn (市寸) to Chinese háo (毫) conversion.
The length converter from 市寸 ( Chinese cùn ) measure to 毫 ( Chinese háo ) equivalent.
| 2019-04-21T18:40:20 |
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A.) The home phone numbers of it's owners, managers, and employees.
Constant calls from Cardholder Services in violation of National and your state's DO NOT CALL LISTS?
Here's the some info to help.
Company: DHC Financial Services out of Florida.
1.) DHC Financial Services LLC was incorporated in Florida by Michael S. Finn on 4/1/9, along with another company, EVOCON.
2.) EVOCON is a marketing company, and Mr. Finn’s career appears to revolve around marketing schemes and Florida Real Estate.
3.) DHC Financial charges $2,000 for credit repair services.
4.) The area code for the call back number has changed to 825.
5.) The 877-debtok2 number is administered by Lightyear Network Solutions,(https://www.lightyear.net) a VOIP Services company.
1.) Mr. Finn and his associates are listed as registered agents, members or officers of numerous "Active and Dissolved" Florida based companies.
| 2019-04-21T16:20:52 |
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| 2019-04-25T02:55:16 |
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Meanwhile, lawmakers from both government and opposition parties are trying to wrest control of the Brexit process from a paralyzed government, so that lawmakers can direct planning for Britain's departure from the EU.
The Labour's leader's motion of no confidence failed to win support from any Conservative rebels, falling by 325 votes to 306. The result handed Ms.
The UK's political process gives the executive unique powers to control how parliament does business, and at the same time Brexit has been such a divisive issue in the UK that alternatives have been hard to advance - enabling her to set the agenda unopposed.
British Prime Minister Theresa May won a vital confidence vote in the House of Commons Wednesday, averting a snap general election that could have ushered in a Labour government. In a televised statement later outside 10 Downing St., Ms.
If parliament forces the issue, the next question will be how the referendum question is phrased (e.g., options for May's deal, another deal, or no Brexit).
"What Jeremy Corbyn wants to do is disrupt government and disrupt the nation at a crucial time by seeking a general election", Leadsom told BBC Radio.
EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said the bloc is stepping up preparations for a "no-deal" departure by Britain after Parliament's actions left the bloc "fearing more than ever that there is a risk" of a chaotic departure. May and the MPs will get isn't clear.
While there are a number of options, some are more realistic than others.
Companies warned of catastrophic job losses and chaos at ports if there was a no-deal Brexit that would see trade with the European Union switch to World Trade Organization rules, which many argue could disrupt supply chains relying on friction-free trade.
May has ruled out both staying in the EU's customs union and the single market in the wake referendum, under pressure from hardline Brexiteers in her Conservative party.
"I don't think the people in this country would rejoice at the prospect tonight if a general election were to be called", said Nigel Dodds, the DUP's leader in Parliament.
The precedent for the government in 2019 is not a good one.
Staring directly at Corbyn, May said that everyone who thought they could go to Brussels and get a better deal was deluding themselves. "This increases the possibility that Britain will ask for an extension to Article 50 - i.e., a delay of Brexit past the official 29 March date - while it tries to figure out something that they can all agree on", said Marshall Gittler, chief strategist at ACLS Global, in a note to clients. May has ruled out such an extension, but the European Union is already reportedly preparing for the possibility of a months-long Brexit delay.
She has until Monday to return with a plan B. Her office has been tight-lipped about what alternatives she might offer. Not everyone believes her, it would seem, but the view from Brussels is solid.
Wednesday's result has led to a growing belief a Norway-style model would win a majority of MPs over.
As the uncertainty escalated, business leaders lashed out over the political chaos.
While some European Union leaders and many British lawmakers have suggested that Britain might want to change its mind, Britain's leaders are concerned that to stop Brexit could alienate the 17.4 million people who voted to leave.
"Please, please, tell us finally what you want to achieve", Weber said.
It's an optimistic and risky strategy, given the looming Brexit deadline. Mr.de Ruyter said the centre had been tracking the auto industry and its approach to Brexit.
How do you think the United Kingdom will most likely proceed in the Brexit process? "So a lot, of course, are panicking now". "Nothing about how, or even if it intends to honor the decision the British people took in a referendum Parliament chose to hold", May said to loud jeers from opposing MPs.
| 2019-04-26T04:19:42 |
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Q: Can you suggest -- can you mention some of those new ideas?
A: No, why should I do it before the election?
The Herald reports most people are willing to forget Menino's mistakes, which it helpfully lists. The Herald also reports on a poll that shows Menino winning - but not necessarily in a landslide - and predicts the winners of the at-large council races.
A list of candidates and their Web sites.
| 2019-04-24T02:51:10 |
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This course is designed to focus on health issues resulting from age-related changes in human functioning. It will include a study of the aging process, epidemiology of aging, as well as health and social policies relevant to the aging population. Disease processes, particularly prevalent in elderly persons and related therapeutic measures will also be discussed. (3 lecture hours).
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to analyze selected health issues and their impact on both the elderly and their caregivers (C4).
1. describe the aging process (C2).
2. discuss the epidemiology of aging (C2).
4. analyze health and social policies relevant to the aging population (C4).
5. explain select biopsychosocial disease processes and their impact on the elderly population (C2).
6. discuss therapeutic measures that enhance the health status of the elderly population (C2).
7. analyze the impact of health issues on the quality of life of the elderly population (C4).
In addition, the student is expected to refer to published literature and research articles as required. The following are examples of relevant journals.
1. Students missing tests, without informing the professor or without valid reason, will not be permitted to write the test at a later date.
2. Late submission of papers, without professor's consent, will result in 5% per day deduction. After five days, the paper will receive zero.
3. Anyone demonstrating dishonesty, cheating or unethical behaviour in relation to any aspect of 63-245 will receive an F grade.
4. The use of recording devices is not allowed without permission of the professor.
5. Please consult professor for any questions, assistance or guidance you require.
Choose a health care issue from the list provided or negotiate a mutually agreed upon issue with the professor.
1. Choose a minimum of 5 research or theory based articles on the issue you have selected.
2. Analyze the literature and prepare three (3) open-ended questions that you plan to use to interview two people (one an older adult and the other a care giver or policy maker). The questions should be directed toward major areas of concern identified in the literature. You may wish to list some subheadings for elaboration under each question.
3. Submit the questions for review and put in final paper as an appendix.
4. Interview the two people. Do not use names, just demographic data.
3. Use and cite references including original research articles (5 marks).
5. The paper excluding title page and bibliography must not exceed six pages.
6. Submit the original and maintain a copy of yourself.
| 2019-04-26T15:38:56 |
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For the burgers: In a large pan, heat 1 tablespoon oil over medium heat. Add the onion and cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the mushrooms, carrot and celery and cook, stirring occasionally, until the liquid from the mushrooms has evaporated, about 10 minutes. Transfer to a large bowl and let cool about 10 minutes. Stir in the rice, oats, walnuts, flour and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Transfer to a food processor and pulse until coarsely combined and the mixture just holds its shape when pressed, adding water, 1 tablespoon at a time, if necessary. Shape the mixture into 4 patties.
Stir together the ketchup with 2 tablespoons of the pomegranate molasses and set aside. Heat the remaining tablespoon olive oil in a large pan over medium-high heat and cook the patties until golden, turning once, about 8 minutes total. Arrange 4 English muffin halves on plates, if using, and top with some pomegranate ketchup, the patties, spinach leaves, carrots, pomegranate seeds, more ketchup and the remaining English muffin halves.
| 2019-04-21T03:41:17 |
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Does space complexity analysis usually include output space?
Since most examples of complexity analysis I've seen involve functions that return either nothing (e.g. in-place sort) or a single value (e.g. computation, lookup), I haven't been able to figure this out just by reading examples.
If a function returns a new list, should the space complexity analysis of the function include the space required for the output? There seem to be clear reasons to want to exclude the input from the analysis, but it's less clear if the output should be excluded. Does the architecture of the system matter (e.g. multi-tape turing machine vs modern RAM-based computer)?
Consider the example functions below. They all use O(1) auxiliary space but different output space (relative to the input space), so the overall space complexity changes based on whether or not you include the output space.
however many read-write working tapes you want.
Obviously, we don't want to count input space since, then, every algorithm would have to use linear space. Likewise, we don't want to count output space as that stops us from distinguishing between problems that are hard simply because the output is big (e.g., given an integer $n$, write the list $1, 2, \dots, n$) and problems that are hard because even computing a single output is hard (e.g., output a list of all $3$-colourings of the input graph).
On the other hand, not all authors do this. Sipser defines space usage as just the number of tape cells read by an ordinary Turing machine (Section 8) and the says, more or less, "Oops but that doesn't let us consider any kind of sublinear space, so we'd better redefine it not to include the input" (Section 8.4; he's only considering decision problems, so there's no output to worry about).
I'm not a fan of the redefinition approach but, either way, we need to exclude the input and output if we want to talk about any kind of sublinear space bound.
C.H. Papadimitriou, Computational Complexity. Addison–Wesley, 1992.
M. Sipser, Introduction to the Theory of Computation (3rd edition). Cengage Learning, 2013.
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| 2019-04-19T08:27:15 |
https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/83574/does-space-complexity-analysis-usually-include-output-space
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I'm a bit thick when it comes to all this techno stuff. I have a piece of video on my computer. Done in Windows Media Player, but not sure how to link it to this site. Yes I know there is a media player button on tool bar, but what data do I copy and put there. Does that make sense? Please spell it out in the most simple of terms. He He.
You should get yourself an YouTube account (http://www.youtube.com) and then use YouTube's features to upload your Windows Media Player video there. Once the upload is concluded, you will know the link to use for that video and you can use it here with our new video tags.
If it makes it any easier for you, once you get the link, you post it here and I'll tell you how to use it with our tags.
Got you tube account, but when I tried to upload from media player I couldn't do it. Told me that it was wrong format.
What format is your video in (what is the file extension - wmv, something else)?
Don't know will have to look. If I can find it that is. He He.
Says video.wmv Does that mean anything to you.
That seems to be a Windows Media Video file. It should be supported by YouTube.
How big is that file, can you tell me?
With that size it's hard for me to get the file from you and try to upload it myself... Do you have any other place where you try upload the file? Myspace, a personal web site or something from where I could download it?
Not at the mo, but will see what I can sort in the next day or so. Going to bed now.
Ok. I find strange that YouTube fails to accept the file, but will see if we can overcome that.
I'm having the same problem to I've only just uploaded my video to my flickr account and youtube won't except the file. Is there a way we could upload straight from flickr???
..... as if you haven't got enough to do!!
What file type are you using? wmv as well?
sorry I started a new topic by accident! I hit the wrong button!
No problem. I'll reply there.
ps- it just failed loading onto u tube it said unable to convert video file I made it in windows media maker so I don't know why it wouldnt load onto there, how do I go about it using flikr instead? Do I need to pay to use videos on flikr?
Once the video is uploaded, you just need to use our video tags and post the link inside. When you use the Reply to Topic link, there is a row of video buttons above the message are, and you just choose the one that suits your video. The buttons will add a pair of tags and the link is posted inside.
Once you have the link, either try to use it as explained or post the link and I'll show it how to use it.
Regarding the video upload, what file extension has your video, wmv?
I'm having problems with the video altogether because i have made it is windows movie maker but i've just found out that it won't play in windows media player which I think s strange so although it has been made it won't play anywhere apart from in the set up program I made it in, i'm not sure what file extension it is.
What is the file name? You must have saved it somewhere, so have a look and let me know.
when i try to open it is windows media player it says that it does not support the extension, .mswmm does this help?
Thanks Rui, I'll have a go at that and see if i can get it working altho i'm not that confident I'll try before asking again tho!
Sorry I have a more basic question first, in windows movie maker do you know how to cut some of the timeline? I thought that it would only include the photos I had added however in total the video is around ten minutes long whereas the real video is only around 2mins, i've looked in the help opinion and tried a few things but not been able to do it!
I am sorry, I have never used Windows movie maker.
| 2019-04-22T22:47:30 |
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She skipped the fourth grade.
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definition: a skipping step, or bounce.
He crossed the room in three skips.
| 2019-04-20T06:43:52 |
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What is 'The Lottery Ticket'? The lottery ticket is a novel by Jules Verne published in 1886, published serially in Store for Education and Recreation from January to November, then as a volume in November of that year. The action takes place in Norway in the county of Telemark. The plot of the novel goes as follows. Hulda Hansen's fiance is missing, he was aboard a fishing boat wrecked off the coast of Newfoundland, the only trace that remains of him is a lottery ticket he had left in a bottle thrown at water when it sank. The lottery will be drawn a few months later. Hulda and her brother save MP Sylvius Hogg from drowning in the river Rjukan. Hulda's mother has huge debts to the very unpleasant Sandgoist. The lottery ticket is a huge financial value as the incredible story associated with it made the headlines and wealthy collectors want to acquire it like a book by Aristotle, believing there is some luck attached to it. The bride is torn between the desire to keep the last trace of her beloved and a desire to help his mother. Torn, she is forced to sell the lottery ticket. When the draw of the lottery, just take a happy ending: Sylvius had found the fiance convalescing and had bought the lottery ticket, which obviously is a winner. Yes like the titan poker bonus code this was guaranteed to be a winning proposition. The wicked Sandgoist is furious not to have won so much money that was within his reach. The characters are Dame Hansen, an innkeeper in the village of Dal, 50, uncommunicative; Hulda Hansen, daughter of Dame Hansen, 18, engaged to Ole Kamp; Joel Hansen, son of Dame Hansen, 25, a guide in the bailiwick of Telemark; Ole Kamp, 23, a Marine, cousin of Hansen; Sylvius Hogg, 60, professor of law at Christiana; Sandgoist over 60 years, moneylender, pawnbroker and casino owner, who came from Drammen; Helmboe, farmer Bamble; Helmboe Siegfried, 18, farmer's daughter, engaged to Joel Hansen; Help, Junior, 60, owner of Bergen, a leader of the house "Help brothers"; Andresen, pastor of Dal; Lengling, foreman of the sawmill at Dal; Bennett, a businessman from Christiana; Harald Hansen, husband of Dame Hansen, who died eighteen months before the story; Mosselman, commander of the Christian; The young guys, which makes the job of skydskarl, bringing a message from Joel. What are the sources of the novel? The first source is obviously a journey that Verne was in 1861 in Scandinavia with Aristide and Emile Hignard Lorois and notes that he established during his stay. But it was the publication of the test Jules Leclercq Travel in Northern Europe twenty-two years later, which revives the memories of Verne. Therefore, he began writing the novel. Starting to write 'The lottery ticket' in 1885, Verne consults his notes again and reads two tales of travel in the Nordic countries, which appeared in the Tour of the world under the same title: Travels in Scandinavian countries, the first Riant, Paul, the second of M. de Saint-Blaise. Moreover, he pointed to his publisher illustrations articles for George Roux to get inspiration: the Norwegian landscape, costumes and games of dice and chance. For the characters, Verne get inspired by Riant, talking about Ole Torgensen and his daughter, the charming Aasta, from which follows the Hulda's novel. It also pulls the legend of the Maristien, who seems to take his heart. At M. de Saint-Blaise, he discovers a brave man named Sandgoist, who gives each of us a fresh straw bed sheet. Verne's character transforms into a "nasty" one, adding an umlaut in its name, so that it rhymes with selfish in French. In this novel Verne uses chance to support the right against the bad, so obviously this is a bit of an idealistic novel, unlike most of his work.
| 2019-04-23T18:31:24 |
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An initial request for a reference to a data container is sent to a distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of a distributed virtual machine in response to receiving an initial request from a remote execution container for the reference to the data container at a distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of the distributed virtual machine. A data minor data structure including immutable data and the reference to the data container received from the distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component is stored within a local memory storage area. A reference to the locally-stored data minor data structure is returned to the remote execution container in response to the initial request for the reference to the data container.
1. A method, comprising: at a distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of a distributed virtual machine: sending, in response to an initial request for a reference to a data container from a remote execution container, the initial request for the reference to the data container to a distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of the distributed virtual machine; storing a data mirror data structure comprising immutable data and the reference to the data container received from the distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component within a local memory storage area; and returning a reference to the locally-stored data minor data structure to the remote execution container in response to the initial request for the reference to the data container.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising processing a request from the remote execution container for an additional item of data associated with the data container using the locally-stored data mirror data structure.
3. The method of claim 2, where processing the request from the remote execution container for the additional item of data associated with the data container using the locally-stored data mirror data structure comprises: determining that the request from the remote execution container for the additional item of data associated with the data container comprises a request for immutable data that is available within the locally-stored data mirror data structure; extracting the requested immutable data from the locally-stored data minor data structure; and returning the requested immutable data to the remote execution container in response to the request for the additional item of data.
4. The method of claim 2, where processing the request from the remote execution container for the additional item of data associated with the data container using the locally-stored data minor data structure comprises: determining that the request from the remote execution container for the additional item of data associated with the data container comprises a request for additional immutable data that is not available within the locally-stored data mirror data structure; sending a request for the additional immutable data that is not available within the locally-stored data minor data structure to the distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of the distributed virtual machine; storing the additional immutable data in the locally-stored data minor data structure in response to receiving the additional immutable data from the distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of the distributed virtual machine; and returning the additional immutable data to the remote execution container in response to the request for the additional item of data.
5. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing lifetime management of the locally-stored data mirror data structure.
6. The method of claim 5, where performing the lifetime management of the locally-stored data mirror data structure comprises: detecting an invocation of a call to a NewGlobalReference routine comprising a reference to the locally-stored data minor data structure as a parameter; and creating a new locally-stored global data mirror data structure in response to the invocation of the call to the NewGlobalReference routine using the reference to the locally-stored data minor data structure.
7. The method of claim 6, where creating the new locally-stored global data mirror data structure in response to the invocation of the call to the NewGlobalReference routine using the reference to the locally-stored data minor data structure comprises: obtaining a new global reference from the distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of the distributed virtual machine; and creating the new locally-stored global data minor data structure from the locally-stored data minor data structure in response to receipt of the new global reference from the distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of the distributed virtual machine.
8. The method of claim 7, where creating the new locally-stored global data mirror data structure from the locally-stored data mirror data structure in response to receipt of the new global reference from the distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of the distributed virtual machine comprises: promoting the locally-stored data minor data structure to the new locally-stored global data mirror data structure; and replacing the reference to the locally-stored data minor data structure with the new global reference.
9. A computer readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed on one or more programmed processors, carry out the method according to claim 1, where the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se.
10. A method, comprising: at a distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of a distributed virtual machine: identifying immutable data within a data container in response to an initial request for a reference to the data container from a distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of the distributed virtual machine; constructing a data mirror data structure that comprises the identified immutable data and the requested reference to the data container; and returning the data mirror data structure comprising the identified immutable data and the requested reference to the data container to the distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of the distributed virtual machine.
11. The method of claim 10, where constructing the data minor data structure that comprises the identified immutable data and the requested reference to the data container comprises constructing the data mirror data structure with a portion of the immutable data.
12. The method of claim 10, further comprising: receiving a request for an additional item of data from the data container; extracting the requested additional item of data from the data container; and returning the requested additional item of data in response to the request for the additional item of data from the data container.
13. The method of claim 12, where returning the requested additional item of data in response to the request for the additional item of data from the data container comprises returning one of an additional item of non-immutable data from the data container and an additional item of immutable data.
14. A computer readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed on one or more programmed processors, carry out the method according to claim 10, where the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se.
15. A system, comprising: a memory; and a processor programmed to execute a distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of a distributed virtual machine configured to: send, in response to an initial request for a reference to a data container from a remote execution container, the initial request for the reference to the data container to a distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of the distributed virtual machine; store a data mirror data structure comprising immutable data and the reference to the data container received from the distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component locally within the memory; and return a reference to the locally-stored data minor data structure to the remote execution container in response to the initial request for the reference to the data container.
16. The system of claim 15, where the processor is further programmed to process a request from the remote execution container for an additional item of data associated with the data container using the locally-stored data mirror data structure.
17. The system of claim 15, where the processor is further programmed to perform lifetime management of the locally-stored data mirror data structure.
18. A system, comprising: a communication module; and a processor programmed to execute a distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of a distributed virtual machine configured to: identify immutable data within a data container in response to an initial request for a reference to the data container from a distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of the distributed virtual machine,; construct a data mirror data structure that comprises the identified immutable data and the requested reference to the data container; and return, via the communication module, the data minor data structure comprising the identified immutable data and the requested reference to the data container to the distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of the distributed virtual machine.
19. The system of claim 18, where, in being programmed to construct the data minor data structure that comprises the identified immutable data and the requested reference to the data container, the processor is programmed to construct the data mirror data structure with a portion of the immutable data.
20. The system of claim 18, where the processor is further programmed to: receive a request for an additional item of data from the data container; extract the requested additional item of data from the data container; and return the requested additional item of data in response to the request for the additional item of data from the data container.
The present invention relates to distributed virtual machines. More particularly, the present invention relates to hidden automated data mirroring for native interfaces in distributed virtual machines.
Java® Virtual Machine (JVM®) implementations support the Java® Native Interface (JNI). The JNI allows Java® programming language code to call methods written in the C and C++ (native code) programming languages and vice versa. Both the code written in the Java® programming language and the native code may be executed in the same process and by the same thread as execution transitions between the two code sections.
A method includes, at a distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of a distributed virtual machine: sending, in response to receipt of an initial request for a reference to a data container from a remote execution container, the initial request for the reference to the data container to a distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of the distributed virtual machine; receiving a data minor data structure comprising immutable data and the reference to the data container in response to the initial request for the reference to the data container; storing the received data minor data structure comprising the immutable data and the reference to the data container within a local memory storage area; and returning a reference to the locally-stored data minor data structure to the remote execution container in response to the initial request for the reference to the data container.
An alternative method includes, at a distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of a distributed virtual machine: receiving, from a distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of the distributed virtual machine, an initial request for a reference to a data container; identifying immutable data within the data container in response to receipt of the initial request for the reference to the data container; constructing a data minor data structure that comprises the identified immutable data and the requested reference to the data container; and sending the data minor data structure comprising the identified immutable data and the requested reference to the data container in response to the initial request for the reference to the data container to the distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of the distributed virtual machine.
A system includes a memory and a processor programmed to execute a distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of a distributed virtual machine configured to: send, in response to receipt of an initial request for a reference to a data container from a remote execution container, the initial request for the reference to the data container to a distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of the distributed virtual machine; receive a data mirror data structure comprising immutable data and the reference to the data container in response to the initial request for the reference to the data container; store the received data mirror data structure comprising the immutable data and the reference to the data container within a local memory storage area of the memory; and return a reference to the locally-stored data mirror data structure to the remote execution container in response to the initial request for the reference to the data container.
An alternative system includes a communication module and a processor programmed to execute a distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of a distributed virtual machine configured to: receive, via the communication module, an initial request for a reference to a data container from a distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of the distributed virtual machine; identify immutable data within the data container in response to receipt of the initial request for the reference to the data container; construct a data mirror data structure that comprises the identified immutable data and the requested reference to the data container; and send, via the communication module, the data minor data structure comprising the identified immutable data and the requested reference to the data container in response to the initial request for the reference to the data container to the distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of the distributed virtual machine.
FIG. 8 is a flow chart of an example of an implementation of a process for hidden automated data minoring for native interfaces in distributed virtual machines at a distributed enhanced virtual machine (VM) Java® Native Interface (JNI) module according to an embodiment of the present subject matter.
The subject matter described herein provides hidden automated data minoring for native interfaces in distributed virtual machines. A native interface of a distributed virtual machine is split into an enhanced remote execution container (REC) native interface component and an enhanced virtual machine (VM) native interface component. The distributed enhanced REC native interface component interfaces with a remote execution container module of the distributed virtual machine. The distributed enhanced VM native interface component interfaces with a virtual machine module of the distributed virtual machine. These distributed native interface components are executed in separate processes, either on the same or on different devices, with the remote execution container and the virtual machine, respectively. In response to requests originating in the remote execution container, the distributed enhanced REC native interface component generates initial requests to the distributed enhanced VM native interface component for references to data containers (e.g., classes). The distributed enhanced VM native interface component responds to the initial requests for references to data containers by providing the requested reference and immutable data associated with the data container encapsulated within a data minor data structure that represents the data container. For purposes of the present description, "immutable data" includes data that does not change (e.g., method identifiers (IDs) and/or names, field identifiers (IDs) and/or names, and static final field identifiers (IDs) and/or field values that are marked as "final" data values). The enhanced remote execution container native interface component stores the data mirror data structure and responds to requests for immutable data by retrieving the requested immutable data from the data minor data structure. As such, additional inter-process communications to retrieve immutable data may be eliminated. Additionally, portions of available immutable data may be initially encapsulated within the data mirror data structure and the immutable data may be augmented over time. As such, the interactive processing between the two enhanced native interface components operates to improve efficiency of inter-process communications.
The present subject matter is applicable, for example, to a distributed Java® Native Interface (JNI) in a distributed Java® Virtual Machine (JVM®). However, the present subject matter may be applied to any native interface in any distributed virtual machine as appropriate for a given implementation. It is understood that the JNI is an application programming interface (API), and as such the JNI may be referred to herein as a "JNI client" or a "JNI application" interchangeably, and may be referred to for brevity as "JNI" within the context of this understanding and the distributed nature of the interfaces described herein.
The present subject matter utilizes patterns that occur between the Java® Native Interface (JNI) client and a Java® Virtual Machine (JVM®) in distributed virtual machines to improve efficiency of inter-process communications. For example, the present subject matter applies to situations such as where a JNI issues a first request to a JVM® for a reference (reference request) to a data container, and issues a subsequent request for data (data request) within that data container using the reference returned from the JVM® in response to the initial reference request. In cases such as these, the device/process executing the JVM® portion of the distributed virtual machine operates in response to the initial reference request to identify immutable data related to the data container (e.g., all immutable data or a portion as described in more detail below) and returns the immutable data to the device/process executing the remote execution container portion of the distributed virtual machine in response to the reference request. The immutable data is stored within local storage associated with the device/process executing the remote execution container portion of the distributed virtual machine as a data minor data structure and the locally-stored data of the data mirror data structure is made available for subsequent requests directed to the data container of the other distributed process. When subsequent requests are made for data using the reference returned in response to the initial request, if that data is immutable, it is returned from the data mirror data structure within the local storage. As such, delays, processing, and bandwidth associated with round-trip inter-process communications to retrieve the immutable data may be eliminated.
Because immutable data is used within JNI constructs and multiple immutable values may be requested from a single container, the number of remote calls that are eliminated may be significant. The present technique utilizes recognition of the lifecycles of the references returned through the JNI interface without requiring complicated cache management for the data that is mirrored for the remote execution container process.
The JNI returns opaque handles for many of the data elements that are returned in the sequences requiring multiple remote calls. For purposes of the present description, "opaque handles" represent a contract in the application programming interface (API), such that whatever the handle points to is not visible to call directly and a reference has to be handed back in a subsequent call. For example, if a "jclass" is handed back, the jclass cannot be treated like a pointer and the data within the object/class cannot be inspected directly. For such a situation, the reference to the jclass is handed to another function to retrieve the requested data. As such, an opaque handle may be viewed as an indirect reference for purposes of the present description. These opaque handles allow a reference to be returned to the JNI that includes more information than that which is returned in a traditional JVM® without affecting the operation of existing applications. The present subject matter leverages the use of opaque handles to improve distributed JVM® operations, as described above and in more detail below.
The opaque handles are "local references" that have a lifetime limited to the current JNI method call. Further, there is a defined procedure for upgrading opaque handles to "global references" that have a lifetime beyond the single call. Given the reference returned in the first call, the present technology identifies a set of immutable data related to that reference that may be requested in subsequent calls. The cost of getting/returning more data than was requested in the first call may be considerably lower, perhaps by one or more orders of magnitude depending upon the implementation, than incurring even one additional round trip between the JVM® and the remote execution container.
Two examples of container objects to which the present technology may be applied are "jclass" and "jobject" containers. However, it should be noted that other container objects exist and the present subject matter may be applied to any such container without departure from the scope of the present subject matter.
A "jclass" represents a Java® programming language-implemented class. Once a reference to the jclass is obtained, subsequent calls may be made to obtain data that does not change for the life of the class (i.e., immutable data). Examples of such data that does not change for the life of the class that may be obtained in subsequent calls include method identifiers (IDs) and/or names, field identifiers (IDs) and/or names, and static final field identifiers (IDs) and/or field values.
A "jobject" represents a Java® programming language-implemented object instantiated using a jclass. Once a reference to the jobject is obtained, subsequent calls may be made to obtain data that does not change for the life of the object (i.e., immutable data). Examples of such data that does not change for the life of the object that may be obtained in subsequent calls include final field values (e.g., data values).
It should be noted that for purposes of certain debugging platforms, such as Java® virtual machine tool interface (JVMTI), some of this data may not be immutable when the JVMTI is enabled for a JVM®. In such cases, the optimization may be disabled for data that would otherwise be immutable during normal operations. As such, the operations described herein may further be configurable based upon whether the immutable data remains immutable during debug operations to allow flexibility of use for debugging purposes, while preserving efficiency during normal operational mode for the JVM®.
The present technology includes three techniques that improve efficiency of native interfaces in distributed virtual machines. Initially, when the first call is made to obtain an initial reference to a data container, as the JNI call is processed in the JVM®, instead of returning the reference alone, an additional operation is performed to also extract the immutable data (all or a portion as a configuration option) from the data container and package this immutable data together with the reference into a data mirror (DataMirror). The data minor is then returned to the remote execution container and a reference to the data mirror is returned to the JNI instead of the reference returned by the JNI call in the JVM®.
Second, an inspection is performed within the JNI implementation (transparent to JNI clients) for all cases were a reference is passed in for processing through the JNI by a native interface to determine whether the references are regular references or references to a data minor. This may be performed, for example, using low bit tagging or other techniques as appropriate for a given implementation. In cases were the call is passed over to the remote execution container, such as where the request was for non-immutable data or for a non-data related request, the reference is extracted and returned in the data minor so that it may be used in the request forwarded to the JVM®. In cases were the data that is requested is immutable and stored within the data minor, the immutable data is extracted from the data minor and returned without making a call back to the remote execution container.
As noted above and described in more detail below, immutable data may be obtained over time, such as in response to a first request for each item of immutable data, to reduce processing loads associated with collection of immutable data that is not requested. Other configuration options are possible to configure a collection of immutable data within a data minor other than at the initial reference request and all such options are considered within the scope of the present subject matter.
A third aspect of the present technology is data minor lifetime management. The lifetime of immutable data within a data minor may also be configured and managed. For example, if a method/procedure called "DeleteLocalReference" is called with a reference to a data minor passed in as a parameter, the memory for the entire data minor may be freed independently of a lifetime of the respective data in the JVM® object. Additionally, in response to completion and return of a JNI method, the memory for all remaining non-global data mirrors may be freed. Further, if a method/procedure called "NewGlobalRef" is called and a reference to a data minor is passed in as a parameter, a new "global" data minor may be created that encapsulates the global reference returned from the remote execution container and the information from the original data mirror. As an additional example, if a method/procedure called "DeleteGlobalRef" is called and a reference to a data minor is passed in as a parameter, the global reference may be extracted and a call to the remote execution container may be made to delete the global reference and then free the memory for the global data minor. Many other possibilities exist for lifetime management and all are considered within the scope of the present subject matter.
The techniques described herein may be further optimized in several ways. For example, instead of sending all of the immutable data back with the first request for the reference, the data requested over time may be recorded so that the system learns what data to include within the data minor initially returned. As such, the most-used data or a subset of the most-used data may be included within the initial data minor. Additionally, a data mirror may be built over time by only sending back a portion of the immutable data on the first call, with subsequent calls filling in the data minor as appropriate for a given implementation. The amount of data sent for each request may be based on available data space within a packet on the given network to utilize the available payload area without requiring an additional transmission initially. Then on subsequent requests, an additional packet may be filled to capacity and the data minor may be built over time while efficiently utilizing packet payloads and network bandwidth. Further, instead of sending all of the data back on the first call, an empty or only partially-filled in data minor may be initially sent and populated as subsequent calls for immutable data are made such that on the second request for any piece of immutable data, the data request may be satisfied locally from the data mirror. This may be particularly useful if the original reference is upgraded to a global reference and cached, which may be used, for example, with frequently used classes. Many other optimizations to the present subject matter are possible and all are considered within the scope of the present subject matter.
It should be noted that conception of the present subject matter resulted from recognition of certain limitations associated with native interfaces in distributed virtual machines. For example, it was observed that it is possible to construct a distributed virtual machine (e.g., a distributed JVM®) such that the native code (e.g., code writing in the C or C++ programming languages) is executed in one or more remote execution containers that may be hosted in separate processes on the same or different computing devices from where the Java® programming language code is executed (e.g., a split virtual machine). It was further observed that for a split virtual machine, the native code is unaware that it is executing separately from the JVM® and that this separation prevents misbehaved native code from destabilizing the JVM® and enables execution of the native code in a different environment (e.g., security context, pointer width, endian, etc.) from the main JVM®. However, it was also observed that in such a split virtual machine, the cost of the method/procedure calls between the Java® programming language code and the native code (e.g., cross-process/cross-machine calls) have greater overhead and latency relative to non-distributed virtual machines, of a potential one or more orders of magnitude depending upon the implementation, and round-trip communications between the distributed code sections consumed time, consumed bandwidth, and delayed processing. It was also observed that with the standardized Java® Native Interface (JNI), an application often has to make multiple calls to get the information needed to complete an action. For example, in order to get the contents of a field within an object, the application first makes a call to get the class for the object, then makes a call to get an identifier (ID) for the field of the class, and then makes the call to get the contents of the field itself, resulting in six (6) inter-process messages. It was additionally observed that in a distributed JVM®, each of these six messages/steps will incur a time-consuming round trip. In view of these several observations, it was recognized that data minoring may be used to reduce communication latency, bandwidth, and processing time, and that the data minoring may be hidden from application-level constructs without requiring a change to the application programming interface (API) for an application to make the data minoring transparent to future and existing applications that utilize such an API. The present subject matter improves overhead and latency associated with such processing within distributed virtual machines by providing hidden automated data mirroring for native interfaces in distributed virtual machines, as described above and in more detail below. As such, improved operations for distributed virtual machines may be obtained through use of the technology described herein.
The hidden automated data minoring for native interfaces in distributed virtual machines described herein may be performed in real time to allow prompt data minoring between distributed processes of virtual machines. For purposes of the present description, real time shall include any time frame of sufficiently short duration as to provide reasonable response time for information processing acceptable to a user of the subject matter described. Additionally, the term "real time" shall include what is commonly termed "near real time"--generally meaning any time frame of sufficiently short duration as to provide reasonable response time for on-demand information processing acceptable to a user of the subject matter described (e.g., within a portion of a second or within a few seconds). These terms, while difficult to precisely define are well understood by those skilled in the art.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an example of an implementation of a system 100 for hidden automated data mirroring for native interfaces in distributed virtual machines. A computing device_1 102 communicates via a network 104 with a computing device_2 106 through a computing device_N 108. The computing device_1 102 executes a remote execution container 110 that interfaces with a virtual machine 112 executed by one of the computing device_1 102 through the computing device_N 108 to form a distributed virtual machine. The virtual machine 112 may include, for example, a Java® Virtual Machine (JVM®) or other Java® programming language process, as appropriate for a given implementation. The remote execution container 110 and the virtual machine 112 are operated by different processes/threads, whether collocated within the single computing device_1 102 or physically distributed across different computing devices.
The remote execution container 110 includes native code (e.g., C and/or C++ programming language code) executing in one process/thread that interfaces with Java® programming language code within the virtual machine 112 executing in a different process/thread (or device as appropriate for a given implementation). It should be noted that code written in any language that may support C/C++ programming language calling conventions may be utilized for native code implementation. As such, C and C++ are used for ease of reference herein and any references herein to native code, including any to the C and/or C++ programming language, are considered to include references to any such other language(s). It should also be noted that the virtual machine 112 within each of the computing device_2 106 through the computing device_N 108 is illustrated with dashed-lines to illustrate flexibility with respect to location of the virtual machine 112. It should also be noted that the remote execution container 110 may also be operated within one or more of the computing device_2 106 through the computing device_N 108 without departure from the scope of the present subject matter.
It should be noted that the respective computing devices 102 through 108 may be portable computing devices, either by a user's ability to move the computing devices to different locations, or by the respective computing device's association with a portable platform, such as a plane, train, automobile, or other moving vehicle. It should also be noted that the respective computing devices may be any computing device capable of processing information as described above and in more detail below. For example, the computing devices may include devices such as a personal computer (e.g., desktop, laptop, etc.) or a handheld device (e.g., cellular telephone, personal digital assistant (PDA), email device, music recording or playback device, watch, etc.), server devices, or any other device capable of processing information as described in more detail below.
The network 104 may include any form of interconnection suitable for the intended purpose, including a private or public network such as an intranet or the Internet, respectively, direct inter-module interconnection, dial-up, wireless, or any other interconnection mechanism capable of interconnecting the respective devices.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an example of an implementation of a core processing module 200 capable of performing hidden automated data mirroring for native interfaces in distributed virtual machines. The core processing module 200 may be associated with each of the computing device_1 102 through the computing device_N 108, as appropriate for a given implementation. Further, the core processing module 200 may provide different and complementary processing of data mirroring in association with each implementation, as described in more detail below.
As such, for any of the examples below, it is understood that any aspect of functionality described with respect to any one device that is described in conjunction with another device (e.g., sends/sending, etc.) is to be understood to concurrently describe the functionality of the other respective device (e.g., receives/receiving, etc.). Further, for a distributed virtual machine implementation using different processes/threads on a single device, the sending and receiving is understood to operate between processes/threads.
A central processing unit (CPU) 202 provides computer instruction execution, computation, and other capabilities within the core processing module 200. A display 204 provides visual information to a user of the core processing module 200 and an input device 206 provides input capabilities for the user.
The display 204 may include any display device, such as a cathode ray tube (CRT), liquid crystal display (LCD), light emitting diode (LED), electronic ink displays, projection, touchscreen, or other display element or panel. The input device 206 may include a computer keyboard, a keypad, a mouse, a pen, a joystick, or any other type of input device by which the user may interact with and respond to information on the display 204.
It should be noted that the display 204 and the input device 206 are illustrated with a dashed-line representation within FIG. 2 to indicate that they may be optional components for the core processing module 200 for certain implementations. Accordingly, the core processing module 200 may operate as a completely automated embedded device without direct user configurability or feedback. However, the core processing module 200 may also provide user feedback and configurability via the display 204 and the input device 206, respectively.
A communication module 208 provides interconnection capabilities that allow the core processing module 200 to communicate with other modules within the system 100. The communication module 208 may include any electrical, protocol, and protocol conversion capabilities useable to provide the interconnection capabilities. Though the communication module 208 is illustrated as a component-level module for ease of illustration and description purposes, it should be noted that the communication module 208 may include any hardware, programmed processor(s), and memory used to carry out the functions of the communication module 208 as described above and in more detail below. For example, the communication module 208 may include additional controller circuitry in the form of application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), processors, antennas, and/or discrete integrated circuits and components for performing communication and electrical control activities associated with the communication module 208. Additionally, the communication module 208 may include interrupt-level, stack-level, and application-level modules as appropriate. Furthermore, the communication module 208 may include any memory components used for storage, execution, and data processing for performing processing activities associated with the communication module 208. The communication module 208 may also form a portion of other circuitry described without departure from the scope of the present subject matter.
A memory 210 includes the remote execution container 110 and the virtual machine 112. Each of the remote execution container 110 and the virtual machine 112 interface with a distributed enhanced Java® Native Interface (JNI) module 212. The distributed enhanced Java® Native Interface (JNI) module 212 includes two interface components, a distributed enhanced remote execution container (REC) JNI component 214 and a distributed enhanced virtual machine (VM) JNI component 216, that interact with one another to provide the functionality of the distributed enhanced JNI module 212. The distributed enhanced REC JNI component 214 further interfaces with the remote execution container 110, and the distributed enhanced VM JNI component 216 further interfaces with the virtual machine 112.
The distributed enhanced JNI module 212 operates to implement the present subject matter by responding to reference and/or data requests with additional immutable data. The distributed enhanced JNI module 212 operates to implement the present subject matter by creating a data mirror for immutable data to reduce communication interactions between the remote execution container 110 and the virtual machine 112. A data mirror storage area 218 stores created data mirrors, as described above and in more detail below.
It is understood that the memory 210 may include any combination of volatile and non-volatile memory suitable for the intended purpose, distributed or localized as appropriate, and may include other memory segments not illustrated within the present example for ease of illustration purposes. For example, the memory 210 may include a code storage area, an operating system storage area, a code execution area, and a data area without departure from the scope of the present subject matter.
A distributed enhanced JNI module 220 is also illustrated as an alternative implementation of the distributed enhanced JNI functionality described herein. The distributed enhanced JNI module 220 represents a hardware module implementation of the distributed enhanced JNI module 212. As such, the remote execution container 110 and the virtual machine 112 may interface via the distributed enhanced JNI module 220 to perform the respective processing associated with each of the respective modules, or the distributed enhanced JNI module 212 may be implemented at the process level without departure from the scope of the present subject matter.
The distributed enhanced JNI module 220 may implement both the distributed enhanced REC JNI component 214 and the distributed enhanced VM JNI component 216 for single platform implementations. Alternatively, multiple and complementary distributed enhanced JNI modules 220 that each implement one of the distributed enhanced REC JNI component 214 and the distributed enhanced VM JNI component 216 may be utilized on different devices to implement the distributed enhanced JNI module 220 across multiple platforms.
Though the distributed enhanced JNI module 220 is illustrated as a component-level module for ease of illustration and description purposes, it should be noted that the distributed enhanced JNI module 220 may include any hardware, programmed processor(s), and memory used to carry out the functions of this module as described above and in more detail below. For example, the distributed enhanced JNI module 220 may include additional controller circuitry in the form of application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), processors, and/or discrete integrated circuits and components for performing communication and electrical control activities associated with the respective devices. Additionally, the distributed enhanced JNI module 220 may include interrupt-level, stack-level, and application-level modules as appropriate. Furthermore, the distributed enhanced JNI module 220 may include any memory components used for storage, execution, and data processing for performing processing activities associated with the module.
It should also be noted that the distributed enhanced JNI module 220 may form a portion of other circuitry described without departure from the scope of the present subject matter. Further, the distributed enhanced JNI module 220 may alternatively be implemented as an application stored within the memory 210, such as described above. In such an implementation, the distributed enhanced JNI module 220 may include instructions executed by the CPU 202 for performing the functionality described herein. The CPU 202 may execute these instructions to provide the processing capabilities described above and in more detail below for the core processing module 200. The distributed enhanced JNI module 220 may form a portion of an interrupt service routine (ISR), a portion of an operating system, a portion of a browser application, or a portion of a separate application without departure from the scope of the present subject matter.
The CPU 202, the display 204, the input device 206, the communication module 208, the memory 210, and the distributed enhanced JNI module 220 are interconnected via an interconnection 222. The interconnection 222 may include a system bus, a network, or any other interconnection capable of providing the respective components with suitable interconnection for the respective purpose.
While the core processing module 200 is illustrated with and has certain components described, other modules and components may be associated with the core processing module 200 without departure from the scope of the present subject matter. Additionally, it should be noted that, while the core processing module 200 is described as a single device for ease of illustration purposes, the components within the core processing module 200 may be co-located or distributed and interconnected via a network without departure from the scope of the present subject matter. For a distributed arrangement, the display 204 and the input device 206 may be located at a point of sale device, kiosk, or other location, while the CPU 202 and memory 210 may be located at a local or remote server. Many other possible arrangements for components of the core processing module 200 are possible and all are considered within the scope of the present subject matter. Accordingly, the core processing module 200 may take many forms and may be associated with many platforms.
For purposes of the present description, the following pseudo code examples represent actions originating at a native interface, such as the distributed enhanced JNI module 212 or the distributed enhanced JNI module 220, operating in conjunction with a remote execution container, such as the remote execution container 110. The first example pseudo code below represents a query to a virtual machine from a remote execution container to find a class associated with the virtual machine.
This first example pseudo code may be used to retrieve a class reference to a class named "TestClass." The variable "cls" is assigned the class reference.
The following second example pseudo code represents a request to obtain a field identifier (ID) associated with a data element of the class referenced by the "cls" variable.
This second example pseudo code may be used to retrieve a field identifier (ID) of a data element of the class referenced in the "cls" variable. As described above, a field identifier (ID) is considered immutable data as it will not change over a given instantiation of a class. Within the present example, it is assumed that the data element referenced by the field identifier (ID) is of type integer and has not been marked "final," such that the value of the actual data element is not immutable and may change over time.
The following third example pseudo code represents a request to obtain a value assigned to the integer data element represented by the obtained field identifier.
As described above, based upon the observations that lead to the conception of the present subject matter, each of these three operations would result in one round-trip communication between the remote execution container and the virtual machine. However, based upon the present subject matter, the number of round-trip communications may be reduced, as described in association with FIG. 3 below.
FIG. 3 is a message flow diagram of an example of an implementation of a message flow 300 for hidden automated data minoring for native interfaces in distributed virtual machines with a data mirror constructed at a distributed virtual machine component in response to a request for a class reference. The distributed enhanced JNI module 212 (or the distributed enhanced JNI module 220 as appropriate for a give implementation) is shown to include the distributed enhanced REC JNI component 214 and the distributed enhanced VM JNI component 216 that operate to allow the remote execution container 110 to interact with the virtual machine 112, respectively.
Due to crowding within the drawing figure, certain interface communications are described without explicit depiction. However, it is understood that these interface communications form a part of the drawing figure. For purposes of the present examples, it is assumed that a processing sequence, such as the sequence described above in the example pseudo code segments, is processed by the respective elements depicted within FIG. 3. It is further assumed that processing within FIG. 3 is initiated by native code in the remote execution container 110 issuing a request to identify a class (e.g., a "FindClass" request) associated with the virtual machine 112 to the distributed enhanced REC JNI component 214 as described above in association with the first example pseudo code.
At block 302, the distributed enhanced REC JNI component 214 associated with the remote execution container 110 receives a request from the remote execution container 110 for a reference to a class associated with the virtual machine 112 (e.g., a "Find Class" or "FindClass" request) and initiates processing to issue a query to identify a class associated with the virtual machine 112. As described above, the virtual machine 112 may be distributed either within a separate process on the same computing device or as a separate process executing on a different computing device from the remote execution container 110.
The distributed enhanced REC JNI component 214 issues a "Find Class" request (line 1). The distributed enhanced VM JNI component 216 associated with the virtual machine 112 receives the request and identifies the class, and additionally retrieves immutable data associated with the class at block 304. At block 306, the distributed enhanced VM JNI 216 builds a data minor data structure for the class referenced within the request within a memory, such as the data mirror storage area 218 of the memory 210 associated with a device that is executing the distributed enhanced VM JNI 216, that includes all immutable data identified and retrieved from the identified class. The data minor storage area 218 may form a portion of a packet processing area associated with inter-process or inter-device communications. The distributed enhanced VM JNI component 216 returns the data mirror data structure with the immutable data and the class reference (line 2) to the distributed enhanced REC JNI component 214 associated with the remote execution container 110.
It should be noted that the distributed enhanced VM JNI component 216 may alternatively use data packet payload filling to return a data mirror data structure that includes a portion of the immutable data, as appropriate for the given implementation, and a data minor data structure may be built to include more data over time as additional data is requested. Within the present example, it is assumed that at least the field identifiers for data elements of the class are returned within the data mirror with the reference to the class. For example, method names/identifiers, field names/identifiers, and static final field values/field identifiers may be returned.
In response to receipt of the data mirror data structure, the data mirror data structure is stored by the distributed enhanced REC JNI component 214, such as within the data mirror storage area 218 of the memory 210. A reference to the data mirror is returned to the remote execution container 110 (not shown).
At block 308, the distributed enhanced REC JNI component 214 receives a request from the remote execution container 110 for a data field identifier (e.g., "Get Field Identifier") associated the class for which the data mirror data structure was previously received and stored. However, instead of directly issuing a request to the distributed enhanced VM JNI component 216 associated with the virtual machine 112, the distributed enhanced REC JNI component 214 looks into the stored data minor data structure for the class to determine whether the field identifier associated with the request is already stored within the data minor data structure. Within the present example, as described above, all field identifiers were returned and stored to the data minor data structure in response to the initial request. As such, the data field identifier (ID) is identified within and extracted from the stored local data mirror data structure and returned to the remote execution container 110 at block 310. Accordingly, the distributed enhanced REC JNI component 214 uses the local data mirror data structure to eliminate a request to the distributed enhanced VM JNI component 216 associated with the virtual machine 112 and to eliminate an entire round-trip delay associated with the request for the field identifier.
For purposes of the present example, it is assumed that the requested field ID represents an integer value and that the integer was not marked "final" at a time of the initial request for the reference to the class. As such, the integer value was not immutable data and was not returned within the data mirror created by the distributed enhanced VM JNI component 216. However, it should be noted that any values or identifiers that are marked "final" may be considered immutable and may be added to the data minor data structure to reduce inter-process communications associated with requests for these final values or identifiers.
At block 312, the distributed enhanced REC JNI component 214 receives a request from the remote execution container 110 for the integer field value (e.g., "Get Integer Field") associated with the field identifier retrieved from the stored local data minor data structure. The distributed enhanced REC JNI component 214 issues a "Get Integer Field" request to the distributed enhanced VM JNI component 216 associated with the virtual machine 112 (line 3). The distributed enhanced VM JNI component 216 processes the request for the integer value and retrieves the integer data value at block 314. The distributed enhanced VM JNI component 216 returns the integer data to the distributed enhanced REC JNI component 214 (line 4). The distributed enhanced REC JNI component 214 returns the integer data to the requesting remote execution container 110 at block 316.
As such, the message flow diagram 300 shows that immutable data may be returned within a data minor data structure in response to a first request for a class reference and that subsequent request for immutable data may be processed from the locally-stored data mirror data structure. Accordingly, separate inter-process requests for immutable data may be eliminated. As described above, a data minor may be filled in over time to optimize inter-process bandwidth usage, such as for example, as data identifiers are requested and/or data values are finalized.
FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an example of an implementation of a data minor data structure 400 stored within the data minor storage area 218 of the memory 210. The data mirror data structure 400 includes a local class reference 402 that references the class associated with the particular data mirror data structure represented by the data mirror data structure 400. A field identifier (ID_1) 404 through a field identifier (ID_N) 406 each include a field identifier and field name/type data pair that represent data fields within the referenced class. A method identifier (ID_1) 408 through a method identifier (ID_N) 410 each include a method identifier and method name/type data pair that represent methods within the referenced class. As described above, additional immutable data values may be stored within a data mirror data structure and all such fields are considered within the scope of the present subject matter. The data minor data structure 400 may be used, as described above and in more detail below, to access immutable data locally and to reduce round-trip communications between processes.
FIG. 5 through FIG. 8 described below represent example processes that may be executed by devices, such as the core processing module 200, to perform the hidden automated data minoring for native interfaces in distributed virtual machines associated with the present subject matter. Many other variations on the example processes are possible and all are considered within the scope of the present subject matter. The example processes may be performed by modules, such as the distributed enhanced JNI module 220 and/or executed by the CPU 202 or one or both of the subcomponents of the distributed enhanced JNI module 212, associated with such devices. It should be noted that time out procedures and other error control procedures are not illustrated within the example processes described below for ease of illustration purposes. However, it is understood that all such procedures are considered to be within the scope of the present subject matter. Further, the described processes may be combined, sequences of the processing described may be changed, and additional processing may be added without departure from the scope of the present subject matter.
FIG. 5 is a flow chart of an example of an implementation of a process 500 for hidden automated data minoring for native interfaces in distributed virtual machines at a distributed enhanced remote execution container (REC) native interface module. At block 502, the process 500 sends, from a distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of a distributed virtual machine in response to receipt of an initial request for a reference to a data container from a remote execution container, the initial request for the reference to the data container to a distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of the distributed virtual machine. At block 504, the process 500 receives a data minor data structure comprising immutable data and the reference to the data container in response to the initial request for the reference to the data container. At block 506, the process 500 stores the received data minor data structure comprising the immutable data and the reference to the data container within a local memory storage area. At block 508, the process 500 returns a reference to the locally-stored data mirror data structure to the remote execution container in response to the initial request for the reference to the data container.
FIG. 6 is a flow chart of an example of an implementation of a process 600 for hidden automated data minoring for native interfaces in distributed virtual machines at a distributed enhanced virtual machine (VM) native interface module. At block 602, the process 600 receives, at a distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of a distributed virtual machine from a distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of the distributed virtual machine, an initial request for a reference to a data container. At block 604, the process 600 identifies immutable data within the data container in response to receipt of the initial request for the reference to the data container. At block 606, the process 600 constructs a data minor data structure that comprises the identified immutable data and the requested reference to the data container. At block 608, the process 600 sends the data minor data structure comprising the identified immutable data and the requested reference to the data container in response to the initial request for the reference to the data container to the distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of the distributed virtual machine.
FIGS. 7A-7B illustrate a flow chart of an example of an implementation of a process 700 for hidden automated data mirroring for native interfaces in distributed virtual machines at a distributed enhanced remote execution container (REC) Java® Native Interface (JNI) module, such as the distributed enhanced REC JNI component 214. FIG. 7A illustrates initial processing within the process 700. It should be noted that, as described above, processing of immutable data may be disabled during certain debugging operations, such as in association with the Java® virtual machine tool interface (JVMTI). Due to crowding within the drawing space of FIGS. 7A and 7B, this debugging determination for enablement and disablement of immutable data processing has been omitted from the drawing figures. However, it is understood that this processing forms a portion of the process 700. Example processing for debug enablement determination is described below in association with FIG. 8 for reference.
At decision point 702, the process 700 makes a determination as to whether an initial request for a reference to a data container has been detected as being received from a remote execution container, such as from the remote execution container 110. The initial request may be, for example, an initial request for a class reference (e.g., a Find Class request as described above). In response to determining that an initial request for a reference to a data container has been detected, the process 700 sends the initial request for the reference to the data container to a distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of the distributed virtual machine, such as the distributed enhanced VM JNI component 216, at block 704.
At block 706, the process 700 receives a data minor data structure including immutable data and the reference to the data container in response to the initial request for the reference to the data container. It should be noted that the reference to the data container may be embedded within the data mirror data structure. Additionally, as described above, the data minor data structure may include all immutable data or the initial response may be optimized for bandwidth consumption by the distributed enhanced virtual machine component to use packet payload filling to send as much immutable data as may be delivered within a single packet, for example, to build the data mirror data structure over time without consuming partial packet payloads. As such, if certain portions of immutable data are not requested and are not initially sent by the distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component, then these portions are not sent or stored within the locally-stored data mirror data structure.
At block 708, the process 700 stores the received data mirror data structure including the immutable data and the reference to the data container within a local memory storage area, such as the data minor storage area 218 of the memory 210. At block 710, the process 700 returns a reference to the locally-stored data mirror data structure to the remote execution container in response to the initial request for the reference to the data container. As such, the remote execution container now has a reference to the locally-stored data mirror data structure that may be used for subsequent requests for data associated with the data container and any immutable data within the data mirror data structure may be retrieved from local storage without requiring an additional round-trip communication to retrieve the immutable data from the data container.
Returning to the description of decision point 702, in response to determining that an initial request for a reference to a data container has not been detected as being received from a remote execution container or in response to completion of returning the reference to the locally-stored data minor data structure to the remote execution container at block 710, the process 700 makes a determination at decision point 712 as to whether a request from the remote execution container for an additional item of data associated with the data container has been detected. In response to determining that a request from the remote execution container for the additional item of data associated with the data container has been detected, the process 700 begins processing the request for the additional item of data associated with the data container and makes a determination at decision point 714 as to whether the requested additional item of data is for immutable data. In response to determining that the requested additional item of data is a request for immutable data, the process 700 makes a determination at decision point 716 as to whether the requested immutable data is available within the locally-stored data minor data structure.
In response to determining that the request for the additional item of data associated with the data container comprises a request for immutable data that is available within the locally-stored data mirror data structure at decision point 716, the process 700 extracts the requested immutable data from the locally-stored data minor data structure at block 718. It should be noted that this immutable data is extracted from the locally-stored data mirror data structure without making a call back to the distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component when the requested data is immutable and the immutable data is stored in the data minor data structure. At block 720, the process 700 returns the requested immutable data to the remote execution container in response to the request for the additional item of data. Additional processing within the process 700 after block 720 is described in more detail below.
Returning to the description of decision point 714, in response to determining that the requested additional item of data is not a request for immutable data or in response to determining at decision point 716 that the requested immutable data is not available within the locally-stored data mirror data structure, the process 700 extracts the reference to the data container returned with the data mirror data structure from the locally-stored data mirror data structure at block 722. At block 724, the process 700 sends the request for the additional item of data associated with the data container with the extracted reference to the data container to the distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of the distributed virtual machine. At block 726, the process 700 receives the requested additional item of data and additional immutable data from the distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of the distributed virtual machine. The additional immutable data may include immutable data that was not initially received with the data minor data structure and may also include other immutable data items, such as variables that have been marked as "final" data values.
At block 728, the process 700 stores the additional immutable data to the locally-stored data mirror data structure. At block 730, the process 700 returns the requested additional item of data to the remote execution container. It should be noted that the requested additional item of data may be immutable or non-immutable data, but that the response bandwidth may be utilized to send additional immutable data to fill in the locally-stored data mirror data structure if all immutable data was not initially sent with the initial data mirror data structure.
Returning to the description of decision point 712, in response to determining that a request from the remote execution container for an additional item of data associated with the data container has not been detected, or in response to returning the requested additional item of data to the remote execution container at blocks 720 and/or 730, the process 700 makes a determination at decision point 732 as to whether a request to perform lifetime management of any locally-stored data mirror data structure has been detected, such as via a detection of a procedure, routine, or method call invocation. In response to determining that a request to perform lifetime management of any locally-stored data minor data structure has been not detected, the process 700 returns to decision point 702 and iterates as described above. In response to determining that a request to perform lifetime management of any locally-stored data minor data structure has been detected, the process 700 transitions to the processing shown and described in association with FIG. 7B to begin performing the requested lifetime management of the locally-stored data minor data structure.
FIG. 7B illustrates additional processing associated with the process 700 for hidden automated data mirroring for native interfaces in distributed virtual machines at a distributed enhanced REC JNI module. At decision point 734, the process 700 makes a determination as to whether the detected request to perform lifetime management was a detection of an invocation of a call to a DeleteLocalReference routine that includes a reference to the locally-stored data minor data structure as a parameter. In response to determining that an invocation of a call to a DeleteLocalReference routine has been detected, the process 700 frees memory allocated to the data mirror data structure using the reference to the data minor data structure at block 736. The process 700 returns to the processing described in association with FIG. 7A at decision point 702 and iterates as described above.
Returning to the description of decision point 734, in response to determining that the detected request to perform lifetime management was not an invocation of a DeleteLocalReference routine, the process 700 makes a determination at decision point 738 as to whether the detected request to perform lifetime management was a detection of completion of execution of a native method in the remote execution container. In response to determining that completion of execution of the native method in the remote execution container was detected, the process 700 frees memory for all remaining non-global locally-stored data mirror data structures in the scope of that method at block 740. The process 700 returns to the processing described in association with FIG. 7A at decision point 702 and iterates as described above.
Returning to the description of decision point 738, in response to determining that the detected request to perform lifetime management was not a detection of completion of execution of the native method in the remote execution container, the process 700 makes a determination at decision point 742 as to whether the detected request to perform lifetime management was detection of an invocation of a call to a NewGlobalRef routine including a reference to the locally-stored data minor data structure as a parameter. In response to determining that an invocation of a call to a NewGlobalRef routine was detected, the process 700 creates a new global data minor data structure within the local memory storage area at block 744. Creation of the new global data minor data structure involves several sub-steps that are represented within block 744 due to space limitations in the drawing figure. These sub-steps include a remote call to the virtual machine (VM) side of the distributed virtual machine (via the distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface) to obtain/get a global reference, and creating the new global data mirror data structure in response to receipt of the new global reference from the VM side. This remote call may be added to other JNI traffic, which may remove a round-trip communication between the respective processes. Further, this processing to create the new global data mirror data structure includes creating the new global data minor data structure from the local data minor data structure. Several alternatives exist for creating the global data mirror data structure from the local data mirror data structure. For example, the local data mirror data structure may be copied to the newly-created global data minor data structure. Alternatively, the local data mirror data structure may be promoted to a global data mirror data structure, such as by replacing the local reference with the global reference. Additionally, the promoted global data minor data structure may be moved to a global list in association with replacing the local reference with the global reference to create the global data minor data structure. As such, many alternatives exist and all are considered within the scope of the present subject matter. Regardless of implementation, it is understood that the created global data mirror data structure encapsulates the reference to the data container returned from the distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of the distributed virtual machine and the immutable data from the locally-stored data minor data structure. At block 746, the process 700 returns a global reference to the new locally-stored global data mirror data structure to the remote execution container. The process 700 returns to the processing described in association with FIG. 7A at decision point 702 and iterates as described above.
Returning to the description of decision point 742, in response to determining that the detected request to perform lifetime management was not detection of an invocation of a call to a NewGlobalRef routine, the process 700 makes a determination at decision point 748 as to whether the detected request to perform lifetime management was detection of an invocation of a call to a DeleteGlobalRef routine, including a reference to the new locally-stored global data minor data structure as a parameter. In response to determining that an invocation of a call to a DeleteGlobalRef routine was detected, the process 700 extracts the global reference from the new locally-stored global data minor data structure at block 750. At block 752, the process 700 makes a call to the virtual machine to delete the global reference and deletes the locally-stored global data minor data structure. At block 754, the process 700 frees memory allocated to the locally-stored global data minor data structure. The process 700 returns to the processing described in association with FIG. 7A at decision point 702 and iterates as described above. It is assumed for purposes of the present example that at least one of the described lifetime management actions will result in an affirmative determination and processing. As such, it is assumed that the negative branch of decision point 748 may not be executed, but in the event that the determination at decision point 748 is negative, the process 700 also returns to the processing described in association with FIG. 7A at decision point 702 and iterates as described above.
As such, the process 700 receives and locally stores data mirror data structures in response to sending initial requests for references to data containers to a distributed enhanced virtual machine native interface component of the distributed virtual machine. The process 700 also examines the locally-stored data mirror data structure in response to subsequent requests for immutable data and retrieves the requested immutable data from the locally-stored data mirror data structure if the data is locally available. Accordingly, the process 700 may reduce round-trip communications for immutable data. The process 700 also performs lifetime management of locally-stored data mirror data structures to manage local memory allocations.
FIG. 8 is a flow chart of an example of an implementation of a process 800 for hidden automated data minoring for native interfaces in distributed virtual machines at a distributed enhanced virtual machine (VM) Java® Native Interface (JNI) module, such as the distributed enhanced VM JNI component 216. At decision point 802, the process 800 makes a determination as to whether an initial request for a reference to a data container has been detected as being received from a distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of the distributed virtual machine, such as the distributed enhanced REC JNI component 214. The initial request may be, for example, an initial request for a class reference (e.g., a Find Class request as described above). In response to determining that an initial request for a reference to a data container has been detected, the process 800 makes a determination at decision point 804 as to whether debugging, such as via a Java® virtual machine tool interface (JVMTI), is enabled. As noted above, this example processing is shown within FIG. 8 for reference in only one location at decision point 804. However, such processing may be implemented at any appropriate location associated with the processing as appropriate for the given implementation. In response to determining that debugging is enabled, the process 800 extracts and sends the requested reference at block 806. Additional processing associated with the process 800 after completion of sending the requested reference is deferred and described in detail further below.
Returning to the description of decision point 804, in response to determining that debugging is not enabled, the process 800 identifies immutable data within the data container at block 808. At decision point 810, the process 800 makes a determination as to whether to send all available immutable data or whether to send a portion of the available immutable data, such as for packet payload filling to conserve bandwidth. As such, the portion of the immutable data may include an amount of the immutable data selected based upon inter-process data packet payload size. In response to determining to send a portion of the available immutable data, the process 800 determines an available inter-process data packet payload size at block 812. At block 814, the process 800 selects immutable data to fill as much of the available payload as possible with minimal empty payload space to improve bandwidth usage. This processing may be performed, for example, in consideration of data type sizes. In situations with larger arrays or data structures within data containers, multiple packets may be used to send the data minor data structure. In such situations, a second or subsequent packet may be processed to send additional immutable data to fill the available payload within the last packet to be sent with minimal empty payload space.
In response to completion of selecting the immutable data to be sent at block 814 or in response to determining to send all immutable data at decision point 810, the process 800 constructs a data minor data structure that includes the identified/selected immutable data and the requested reference to the data container at block 816. This processing may include constructing the data minor data structure of a size sufficient to fill the available inter-process data packet payload size of one or more data packets with minimal empty payload space. Additionally, the reference to the data container may be included/embedded within the data minor data structure or may be packaged with the data mirror data structure for transmission. At block 818, the process 800 sends the data mirror data structure including the identified/selected immutable data and the requested reference to the data container to the requesting distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of the distributed virtual machine.
In response to completion of sending the data minor data structure to the requesting distributed enhanced remote execution container component at block 818, in response to determining that an initial request for a reference to a data container has not be detected at decision point 802, or in response to extracting and sending the requested reference at block 806 (if in debug mode), the process 800 makes a determination at decision point 820 as to whether a request for an additional item of data within the data container has been detected. It should be noted that an additional determination regarding debug enablement may be made in response to an affirmative determination at decision point 820 and that this additional determination has been omitted from the drawing figure due to space limitations within the drawing sheet. In response to determining that a request for an additional item of data within the data container has not been detected, the process 800 returns to decision point 802 and iterates as described above.
In response to determining at decision point 820 that a request for an additional item of data within the data container has been detected, the process 800 extracts the requested additional item of data from the data container at block 822. It should be noted that the requested additional item of data from the data container may be immutable or non-immutable data.
At decision point 824, the process 800 makes a determination as to whether additional immutable data is available to send with the requested additional item of data from the data container. The additional immutable data may include, for example, immutable data that was not sent in response to the request for the initial reference to the data container, immutable data that was not sent in response to a previous request for additional data from the data container (e.g., due to packet payload optimizations), data variables that have been marked as "final" data values, and other forms of immutable data.
In response to determining that additional immutable data is available to send with the requested additional item of data, the process 800 identifies the additional immutable data and extracts the additional immutable data from the data container at block 826. In response to determining that no additional immutable data is available to send with the requested item of additional data at decision point 824, or in response to identifying and extracting the additional immutable data at block 826, the process 800 sends the requested additional item of data and any extracted additional immutable data to the distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of the distributed virtual machine in response to the request for the additional item of data within the data container at block 828. The process 800 returns to decision point 802 and iterates as described above.
As such, the process 800 responds to initial requests for references to a data container by identifying immutable data associated with the data container, generating a data minor data structure, and sending the data minor data structure with the reference to the data container to the requesting distributed enhanced remote execution container native interface component of the distributed virtual machine. The process 800 may package a portion of the available immutable data and may send any remaining immutable data in response to one or more requests for additional data items from the data container.
As described above in association with FIG. 1 through FIG. 8, the example systems and processes provide hidden automated data minoring for native interfaces in distributed virtual machines. Many other variations and additional activities associated with hidden automated data mirroring for native interfaces in distributed virtual machines are possible and all are considered within the scope of the present subject matter.
Those skilled in the art will recognize, upon consideration of the above teachings, that certain of the above examples are based upon use of a programmed processor, such as the CPU 202. However, the invention is not limited to such example embodiments, since other embodiments could be implemented using hardware component equivalents such as special purpose hardware and/or dedicated processors. Similarly, general purpose computers, microprocessor based computers, micro-controllers, optical computers, analog computers, dedicated processors, application specific circuits and/or dedicated hard wired logic may be used to construct alternative equivalent embodiments.
Any combination of one or more computer readable medium(s) may be utilized. The computer readable medium may be a computer readable signal medium or a computer readable storage medium. A computer readable storage medium may be, for example, but not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the computer readable storage medium would include the following: an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory), a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. In the context of this document, a computer readable storage medium may be any tangible medium that can contain, or store a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.
Computer program code for carrying out operations for aspects of the present invention may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object oriented programming language such as Java®, Smalltalk, C++ or the like and conventional procedural programming languages, such as the "C" programming language or similar programming languages. The program code may execute entirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computer and partly on a remote computer or entirely on the remote computer or server. In the latter scenario, the remote computer may be connected to the user's computer through any type of network, including a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), or the connection may be made to an external computer (for example, through the Internet using an Internet Service Provider).
Aspects of the present invention have been described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems) and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each block of the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of blocks in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable storage medium that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable storage medium produce an article of manufacture including instructions which implement the function/act specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
Input/output or 110 devices (including but not limited to keyboards, displays, pointing devices, etc.) can be coupled to the system either directly or through intervening 110 controllers.
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AMI Project, exploring the beauty of simplicity, line and space.
The revelation of AMI was a magical moment. Such a rare event, happens only when all the right things fall into place. AMI is art.
The AMI shape appeared in my imagination fully formed. I knew immediately that it was important and unique. It even had a name! Sometime later, I realized that ami is a French word for friend.
I understood, almost immediately, that the biomorphic AMI was a perfect form for a group of paintings. Later, I realized it could have other uses.
I lived with it and experimented with it for more than ten years. I never tired of it. I always knew it was special and unique. I gradually understood its value and its place in the evolution of art.
AMI does not have direct ties to any movement but the influences of Hard-Edge painting and Minimalism are self-evident. Additional conceptual influences, include eastern aesthetics and a mix of impressions gathered and developed over a lifetime.
In spite of its murky pedigree, or perhaps because of it, AMI is a significant contribution, a milepost, in the complicated evolutionary process of making visual art.
I ask myself: How efficiently can I express maximum complexity?
AMI is minimalistic but it rejects the parameters of Minimalism. It is definitely western but it includes eastern influences.
AMI is at once, simple and complex, familiar and strange. AMI is a riddle with no solution. AMI is not an abstraction. It represents nothing. AMI is an object with its own integrity. It is what it is.
AMI demonstrates mastery of the curved line in space. The AMI shape is outlined by a single, continuous, changing-radius, curved, hard-edge line, resulting in an asymmetrical biomorphic shape, reminiscent of biological objects but not representing any particular object.
AMI seeks to be a perfect expression of painting as a minimal object. With its limited palette, custom frame and unique mounting system, each painting presents itself as a precious object and a meaningful entity.
AMI has no top or bottom. It may be displayed with any side up.
Viewers bring their own unique abilities, emotions and experiences to the meeting with AMI. Every viewer will have a different experience; and the same viewer may have different experiences on different occasions.
After receiving the AMI vision, I sketched it, scaled it up, and refined it by cutting heavy paper patterns. The final shape was used for eight paintings and a number of graphic projects.
The AMI project is a series of eight (2cm x 61cm x 98cm) acrylic on canvas paintings. The canvas is stretched over a plywood panel with integral stretcher bars and carefully folded corners that minimize folds and lines. Signatures on two edges, maintain a clean front surface and make the signature visible when the painting is hanging with any side up. Each canvas is mounted on a custom flat panel frame with (1cm) stand-off spacers made of extruded aluminum. Brass hardware is installed to facilitate hanging with any side up. The artist prefers exposed brass hanging hardware but it may be hidden. Frame, hardware and unique standoff mounting are all part of the original design and should remain intact.
Masking tape was often used in the construction of the lines. The line width of AMI 4 was particularly difficult. It is not exactly constant width and it was reworked many times. After AMI 4, I experimented with CHARTPAK graphic tape seeking a perfect constant width line; AMI 5, 6, 8 and 92 were made using graphic tape.
In its simplest version, AMI 4, the shape is defined by a single constant width line. This seems, to me, to be the best depiction of the minimalist concept. AMI 7 has no lines at all: the white AMI shape is surrounded by a gray field. AMI 1, 2 and 3 have outlines that vary in width. AMI 5 and 6 have two overlapping shapes and constant width lines made with graphic tape. AMI 8 is dark gray with white constant width contour lines. AMI 9 is a digital graphic design with varying width stripes. AMI 92 is acrylic and graphic tape on canvas. AMI17 is a digital graphic of seventeen AMI shapes in four different orientations and sixteen different overlapping relationships.
CC21 AMI Outline digital graphic of the AMI shape. This shape first appeared in my sketches in 2008 or 2009. It was drawn and redrawn as I explored different uses for it. It was refined by drawing on heavy paper and cutting. The first paintings using the AMI shape were completed in 2009. I believe it is an important original shape. It has no straight line segments and no constant radius curves. It does not refer to or represent anything. It is original and unique. It continues to be a basis for new experiments.
Acrylic and drafting tape on canvas.
CC21 AMI6 Version Two outline. AMI6 repainted.
Acrylic and drafting tape on canvas. This is the first version. It is currently being repainted. When the revised version is finished, a new photo will be added here.
CC21 AMI8 Red Blue Black, graphic design. I love to play with optical art. This is pretty excessive. It hurts to see it on a big screen. I am fascinated by the relationship between certain reds and blues.
CC21 AMI8 Four Brown Coffee Colors plus Red, graphic design, version one.
CC21 AMI9 graphic design with stripes adapted from the stripe pattern MK12L001. This version experiments with visual effects of blue and red.
CC2101 AMI9 graphic design with red stripes adapted from the pattern MK12L00101.
CC2106 AMI9 graphic design with red, blue, black and white stripes similar to the MK12L00106 design. The color order has been changed for the AMI shape.
CC2108 AMI9 graphic design with coral, turquoise. beige and brown stripes from the MK12L00108 design.
CC2111 AMI9 graphic design with gray, gray, black and white stripe pattern adapted from MK12L00111.
CC2120 AMI9 graphic design with turquoise stripes from the MK12L00120 design.
CC2122 AMI9 graphic design with yellow stripes from the MK12L00122 pattern design.
CC21 AMI17 Line graphic of seventeen AMI shapes in four individual orientations and sixteen different one to one relationships. This graphic evolved from a project that explored ways to use one object. The project produced several ideas that were used in patterns. This version is black outlines with a transparent background. I enjoy the lines and shapes; and the whimsy always makes me smile..
CC21 AMI17 Line graphic of seventeen AMI shapes in four individual orientations and sixteen different one to one relationships. This version fills some areas with primary colors, red, yellow, blue and black; and over-lapping areas with secondary colors .
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A self-powered, portable weather alert radio can be a very important part of your overall survival plan. Having one that also combines other features like a flashlight and the ability to provide USB charging makes it even more useful in your prepping.
The Midland ER310 purports to be a portable weather alert radio with a lot of additional functionality that makes it a good choice in many emergency situations. Does it deliver? Based on the testing I did for this review: yes, it does.
Midland’s ER310 is a lightweight weather radio with a respectable range of features that make it useful in circumstances beyond alerting you to a bad storm.
At its core, the ER310 is a radio that offers AM, FM and weather channels with an emergency weather alert function. The radio is powered by a variety of sources including solar and crank power, and it can be used to charge external devices. The radio also has a built in flashlight and dog whistle.
The suggested retail price of this radio is $69.99, and you can click here to buy it on Amazon for less. Let’s take a look at some of the features of this radio.
The fundamental purpose of this device is to receive weather alerts and information through the NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards network (NWR). The NWR is a web of continuously broadcasting radio stations organized around the United States and its territories.
The ER310 has a three band radio: FM, AM and the NWR (which is an FM band that is not part of the normal FM receiver band.) You can listen to the closest weather channel by tuning it just as you would any other radio channel.
A weather alert function allows you to turn the emergency activations on and off. When turned on, the radio will activate whenever an emergency broadcast is detected. In modern times, these activations can be for other hazards, such as an Amber Alert or man-made disaster, in addition to weather.
Midland builds in a simple telescoping antenna that collapses entirely into the body of the radio when not in use. For comparison purposes, I matched the ER310 against my Sangean CL-100 table top weather radio.
For radio reception, the Midland was slightly better at pulling in the local weather station than the Sangean using the built in antennas. Both were usable indoors, though placement was key as I live a fairly good distance from the closest station.
The sound quality of the ER310 was good for the spoken word of the weather channel and the local talk radio stations. For music, the sound quality was acceptable. Compared to the Sangean, the ER310’s sound quality was inferior. However, keep this in perspective: the Midland is designed to be portable and can be carried into the field while the Sangean is designed to be a base station for the home or office. One would expect the Sangean to have better sound since it is not a portable unit.
In an emergency, the electrical grid may be one of the first things you lose. A tornado, storm, hurricane, terrorist attack and numerous other things may take a power plant or regional substation offline. In these cases, you need to provide your own power to operate electronics and communication gear.
Included with the ER310 is a rechargeable 18650 lithium ion battery that is rated for 2,600 mAh. A fully charged 18650 battery should power the radio for a long period of time.
On the top of the radio is a solar cell that can charge the Li-ion battery. Based on my testing, the solar cell will not run the radio without the Li-ion battery installed. This is a potential problem in a long-term power loss situation (I would guess weeks or months of regular use,) but should not impact the vast majority of people in most emergency situations.
A second way of powering the ER310 is through a crank generator located on the back of the radio. The crank folds flat and stays out of the way when not being used.
The crank is easy to turn and is an easy way to quickly get enough juice to operate the radio when the sun is not available. According to Midland, one minute of cranking will give you about nine minutes of radio power.
Cranking for a little longer will give you enough stored power to operate the flashlight. Fully charging the battery is doable, but will take a while.
Prior to the lights going out in your home, you can charge the internal battery with a USB cable. On the handle end of the radio is a weather resistant rubber flap that covers three ports and a switch. One of the ports is a micro-USB port that takes electricity in to charge the Li-ion battery. It takes about 5.5 hours to charge a completely drained battery through the USB port.
The final way to operate the system is through standard AA batteries. The radio takes six AA batteries to operate. If you look under that rubber flap that covers the charging port, you will see a switch right next to it. To operate the weather radio on AA batteries, move the switch to the “AA” setting. If you want to go back to the rechargeable battery, slide it to “Li”.
When the internal battery is charging, there are two ways the radio lets you know. First, and most obvious, there is a red LED light just above the “band” control on the front panel. When this is lit, the battery is being charged. Secondly, on the LCD screen, when the battery charge level is blinking, the battery is charging.
Since the ER310 has an inexhaustible supply of power, it makes for a great charging station for other devices, like your phone or flashlights. A standard sized USB output is located on the handle end of the radio. This output can be plugged into any USB capable device and automatically charged.
Using a simple power monitor, I determined that my iPhone 6s Plus pulled about 3.2 watts through the port. While this is not as powerful as other battery packs I have tested (like the Streamlight EPU-5200,) it is more than enough to charge most devices. High power devices like an iPad will likely take a long time to reach a full charge.
In a situation where there is a lack of power, the ER310 can use the solar array to keep other devices charged throughout the day while human power (cranking) will provide juice when the sun is down.
The flashlight has three modes: low, high and SOS. The low power mode is ample light for most tasks and navigation, while the high power mode seems to double the output. The beam is more of a spot than a flood. According to Midland, the total light output is 130 lumens.
Do not expect the ER310 to replace a dedicated flashlight for tactical use, but it can provide light in the absence of a lantern or flashlight. Since the unit has the benefit of charging through winding or solar, the light can be a great benefit any time the lights are out for more than just a few hours.
The SOS function modulates the light output to blinks that spell out SOS in Morse code. Even for people who do not know Morse code, the blinking can certainly catch their attention. If you are in a bad way and are trying to get help, the flashing light may help bring in rescuers.
Built into the ER310 is an electronic dog whistle. When activated, it emits an ultrasonic sound that dogs can hear. In theory, this may help rescuers using dogs to locate you. I have not worked with S&R dogs, so I don’t know if this is something that would help or not.
A weather alert radio should be considered an essential piece of gear for everyone. While I mostly talk about firearms on this site, you are more likely to encounter a severe weather emergency than need to use your firearm in self-defense. From this perspective, I find the acquisition of a weather radio to be high on the list of priorities when it comes to protecting your family.
The ER310 is a great little radio. It had very good reception and the weather alert function worked correctly. With a built in rechargeable battery, it can run indefinitely on solar and winding power. If you kept it in a sunny window, you would probably never have to do anything more to it.
I really like the fact that the unit has the ability to charge other electronic devices. In a tight situation, being able to charge a cell phone or USB rechargeable flashlight can be a big help.
While the flashlight and dog whistle functions are potentially useful, my main interests in this unit are the radio and charging functionality.
Midland is a radio manufacturer that has been around for a long time. I’ve used the company’s radios in many different applications, and I have always found them to be very good – especially considering how reasonable the company’s prices are.
Bottom line: I recommend the Midland ER310 for anyone: both for the house and when traveling. You can click here to buy one on Amazon.
As with all of my reviews, I provide a complete disclosure of any biases that may impact my articles so you can properly judge my evaluation of the gear.
The Midland ER310 was provided to me by the manufacturer for the specific purpose of testing and review. No monies or other consideration were offered, asked for or exchanged for this review. Midland is not an advertiser, nor are we in any talks for them to be one.
I do not have any financial interest in Midland or other outdoors or firearms manufacturers.
Some of the links on this page and site are affiliate links to Amazon and Brownells. These links are how I earn money on this site to provide for my family. I provide all of my reviews and content for free with the hope that if you find value in my work you will use one of these links to make a purchase. I do not get to see what any individual buys nor does my commission (typically 4-8%) alter your price at all.
The Midland ER310 is a multi-purpose radio with weather alerts, AM/FM reception, a flashlight and the ability to charge other electronics devices such as your phone. It has an internal rechargeable battery and can be powered by AA batteries as well. The internal battery can be charged via included solar panel, crank (dynamo) or USB. The radio performed very well in my testing, and you can click here to buy it on Amazon.
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L'édition 2014 du congrès annuel de la Société Canadienne d'Astronomie, organisé par le Groupe de recherche en astrophysique de l'Université Laval, aura lieu à Québec du 8 au 12 juin 2014, à l'hôtel Château Laurier.
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How and when did the cosmic dark ages end? I present simulations of the formation of the first stars and galaxies, discuss their feedback on the intergalactic medium, and describe ways to probe their signature with next generation facilities. I will identify the key processes and outline the major remaining uncertainties.
One of the exciting frontiers in astronomy is the era of the formation of the first stars. Since the Universe was filled with hydrogen atoms at that time, the most promising method for observing this epoch is via the prominent 21-cm line of hydrogen. Several international groups have begun operating new arrays of radio telescopes, hoping to open this new observational window on the early Universe. The common view has been that they can only search for cosmic reionization (in which radiation from stars broke up the intergalactic hydrogen atoms), while other cosmic events occurred too early to see. However, we recently overturned this long-held view, arguing for a late and uniform heating given the hard spectrum expected for the sources of X-ray heating (most likely some of the first black-hole binaries). Cosmic heating therefore imprints a clear, previously unexpected signature in radio waves, perhaps within reach of current arrays (and certainly the SKA).
Throughout the history of the universe, shocks and large-scale gas flows have moulded the arms of spiral galaxies, formed the bulges of the most massive galaxies in the universe, fed supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies, fuelled generation upon generation of new stars, and enriched the intergalactic medium with metals. I will discuss our current understanding of the relationship between galactic-scale outflows, star-formation, and active galactic nuclei. I will present the latest results from our large integral field surveys of nearby and high redshift galaxies which aim to reveal the relationship between galactic-scale outflows, star-formation, and active galactic nuclei in galaxies as a function of environment and redshift.
For almost a century, galaxy morphology and classification have been considered an essential step in understanding how galaxies formed and have evolved over time. Galaxy morphology is rich in details that are clues to the internal and external physical processes that have molded their shapes. It is non-trivial to determine exactly what a given morphology actually implies about the history of a galaxy, because we only see what is basically a snapshot of any galaxy. Only by examining the collective morphology of galaxies, the full range of types both near and far, in conjunction with physical data can we hope to piece together the general evolutionary paths of different classes of galaxies.
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The most metal-poor star yet found was announced in Feb 2014, with a metallicity that is 100 times lower than previously known, and 10 million times lower than in the Sun. These jewels are thought to be related to the earliest stages of the formation and evolution of the Universe, and therefore studies of their properties complement analyses of the high redshift Universe.
How do Galactic disks form?
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An author and activist talks about the atrocities committed in Guatemala, the people too frightened to speak of it and America's shameful support of the perpetrators.
On Sept. 11, 1990, a Guatemalan anthropologist named Myrna Mack was stabbed to death by a Guatemalan army sergeant. Mack had been studying the suffering of rural indigenous communities at the hands of Guatemala's brutal military regime. That day, Mack became just another casualty of the 36-year civil war that claimed 200,000 Guatemalans, many of them noncombatants.
This September, 12 years after her death and six years since the end of the war, Mack's murder went to trial again. Of the three high-ranking officers charged -- considered authors of this and other human rights violations committed in Guatemala -- one, Col. Juan Valencia Osorio, was convicted of ordering the assassination of Mack. But what's missing from many news reports about the trial is the role of a third party in Guatemala's tragic past. In 1954, a CIA-orchestrated coup installed a military regime that proceeded to intimidate and kill communists and leftist reformers. The U.S. funded this government throughout the Cold War with full knowledge of the atrocities taking place there.
Guatemalans themselves are just beginning -- slowly, painfully, fearfully -- to talk about what they witnessed. To them, it's no secret that the U.S. is responsible for the destabilization of their country. But just a decade ago, silence ruled Guatemala. Daniel Wilkinson was a young human rights worker in the early 1990s when he first visited that country. Nobody talked about the war. Nobody talked about the period of reform before the war. In Wilkinson's "Silence on the Mountain," a beautiful, harrowing and comprehensive narrative history of Guatemala's coffee-producing region, he explores what happens to citizens when terror wins and provides a chilling chronicle of how America's anticommunist Cold War policies destroyed the democratic fabric of Guatemala.
Wilkinson is a lawyer for Human Rights Watch. He spoke to Salon from his office in New York.
In your book, you try to give Americans a sense of what the collective amnesia was like in Guatemala. You write: "It was as if everyone in a small town in 1950s America had told you with a straight face that nothing had happened during the New Deal and that World War II had been a nonevent." Can you explain? Were you talking about the Agrarian Reform period in Guatemala or the 35 years of war that followed?
I went into this coffee-producing region where the war had played out. I had reason to believe that some pretty momentous and horrible things had taken place in the area. I assumed people would want to tell these stories. But people said nothing happened. I could understand why they might be uncomfortable speaking with a stranger about things related to the war because the war wasn't over. But what struck me was that when I tried to talk about the history of the country that preceded the war -- the Agrarian Reform in the 1950s, the formation of the plantations at the beginning of the century -- people didn't want to talk about that either.
The Agrarian Reform was in some ways bigger than the New Deal. It was a reform that affected pretty much all aspects of economic, social and political life in the countryside. The years of political violence that targeted individuals who were in any way associated with the political left had left a mark. The mark was that if you harbored any sympathies for the left, you could be a target, not just being blackballed, but actually being tortured to death. People didn't want to talk about politics or anything that would contaminate them.
What struck me was that you also explain how these plantation workers -- mostly Mayan Indians from the highlands -- traditionally passed along their histories orally. So it seemed especially cruel that their method of keeping their history was shut down.
At first, I thought that maybe this part of the country wasn't affected. But I knew certain things had happened. The [leftist] guerrillas had burned down this plantation house so I knew that the war was taking place there. Then I had a good friend who was a university activist and had grown up on a plantation nearby. He told me about his childhood memories. So already I had reason to doubt people who said nothing had happened.
My other indication that they weren't telling me the truth about the war was that they said that the Agrarian Reform didn't take place. I met this former mayor of the town who had written a history of his hometown. He omitted the years of that Agrarian Reform. He basically wrote himself out of his history. Later on, I met this other leader who had been a mayor during the war years. He acted like a clown until he took me aside, totally serious, and explained to me that during the height of the violence of the war, he had worked to help the people. He had a lot of information. He would warn people when they were in trouble. But having information was dangerous so the way to survive was to act like a fool.
How long was the Agrarian Reform period?
Ten years. There was a 10-year period of democratic rule that began in 1944 when the dictator was overthrown. Then there was an election in 1950 and that man, President Arbenz, carried out the Agrarian Reform in 1952. It was really the culmination of 10 years of democratic reform.
Just to make this clear: Were there communists involved in this reform? What was America so afraid of?
There were communists involved and that's what the U.S. government was afraid of. There was a communist party that was pretty small -- about 5,000 members -- but very influential with President Arbenz. The president wasn't a member of the party but some of his closest advisors were and they played a role in designing this agrarian reform.
Can you explain what the reform did?
Basically, it was dealing with extreme inequality in terms of property. It was creating a labor market. Before, there was a semi-feudal relationship where the owners of the plantations owned the homes that the workers lived in. The workers couldn't go work at another plantation. If they did, they'd be kicked out of their home. They're often paid in kind -- given food or a little land to farm. They couldn't demand minimum wage because the plantation owner has the ability to dispossess them.
The reform was giving the workers ownership of their houses and a little bit of land. But it wasn't touching any of the coffee. Now, the workers could sell their labor and once you had a labor market, wages would start to go up.
So this was all about free markets. We know from looking at declassified documents that the CIA, and the people analyzing this reform in the U.S., thought it was a good reform.
And they knew that the communists in Guatemala weren't directly tied to the Soviets, right?
Well, I wouldn't say that. In the lens of the time -- the 1950s, the height of the Cold War, McCarthyism -- maybe some of them actually believed that everything that was [called a] communist party was being directed by the Soviet Union. But the point is that the people from the U.S. who pursued this policy of overthrowing the government thought that the Agrarian Reform was sensible. In fact, the U.S. government advocated similar reforms in other countries. The reform itself wasn't the problem for the U.S. government.
The problem was that if the reform succeeded the people who were going to get the credit for the success were the members of the communist party who were then going to increase their influence.
And a few people say that this reform really would have worked.
Ultimately, it's a hypothetical. You never know. Before the reform, the development of a Guatemalan market economy was hindered. It seemed like a sensible reform. But it did produce political unrest and this reaction from the U.S.
Here's more to the point: I can't predict what would have happened had the U.S. not intervened, because the U.S. did. And it wasn't accidental. This was how the U.S. conducted its foreign policy in the region. What's very clear is that with this democratic reform process aborted in this very drastic way with intervention from abroad, the country was denied an alternative. That helped radicalize people politically. People knew what was taken away from them, and they blame that military regime that was put in place and they blame the U.S.
Where did the plantation owners stand? Once the war broke out and they realized how terrible things were, did they change their ideas about the reform?
The owners for the most part were opposed to the reform. They were generally with the government. This polarization in the Cold War played out locally. Guatemala had one of the most politically reactionary agricultural elites.
And the U.S. came in and created this Guatemalan army and taught them terror tactics. How did far did the CIA go in training them for this war? And what did they authorize them to do?
In 1954, when they carried out the coup, they relied on massive propaganda and bought off the Guatemalan military. There was a Plan B which involved the assassinations. We now have the declassified documents that show there was a list of 50-something political leaders to be assassinated if Plan A didn't work. There was a handbook teaching people the pros and cons of the different ways of killing people.
Basically, the U.S. government's policy in the region was seeing the world in terms of democracy vs. communism. In Guatemala, in the struggle against communism, they forgot about democracy. That produced a polarization. They overthrew this democratically elected government and [installed] a military regime that squashed all political opposition. After 1954, reformists who hadn't been communists joined the clandestine communist party because it was the only type of opposition available. A decade later you have this pattern repeat itself. You still have a military regime and now the opposition is divided into those who want to push for political reform to restore democracy and a group advocating guerrilla warfare.
The ironic thing is that the moderates who were pushing for political reform were in the communist party. Then, in a series of lightning strikes, the U.S.-trained security forces abducted the 28 leaders of the communist party and killed them all. So who was left? Those who believed that the only way to change Guatemala was through armed struggle -- a generation of Guatemalans who were convinced that the U.S. was the enemy.
The radicalization of Nayito that you describe in the book is this process in capsule.
Nayito's father had been a national peasant leader in the '50s but not a communist. After the 1954 coup, he joined the communists because his own organization had been outlawed. [Nayito's father] is one of these 28 people who gets abducted and killed. That helps convince Nayito and his peers that the only way to change the country is through armed struggle. Then two years later, in 1968, Nayito's girlfriend, who was a student activist and also Miss Guatemala, is abducted by the police. Her body is found in a ravine a few days later. This is too much for Nayito to handle. How does he seek revenge? By murdering the top two U.S. officers in the country. So you can see how this radicalization convinces the Guatemalans that the U.S. is their enemy.
So people knew that the U.S. was behind this. But how did we keep the press out of Guatemala? You say that the New York Times really didn't report on this until the 1990s.
There was some coverage of Guatemala through the years. In terms of the 1954 coup, the New York Times pulled its correspondent.
According to the truth commission there was something like 200,000 people killed in Guatemala. In many ways it was the most underreported conflict in the region. The U.S. government did not tell the world what it knew about what was taking place there. This was most pronounced in the early '80s when the government carried out a scorched-earth campaign. The truth commission determined it was genocide. And we know from declassified documents that the U.S. government knew what was going on.
So what was going on? You tell the story of a village called Sacuchum. You were the first person to talk to them?
At the coffee plantations, if people didn't want to talk about the war, they would say something bad happened at Sacuchum. I managed to connect with someone from there and went up to the community. I expected people there to be as reluctant to speak as everywhere else. Instead, they arranged this open community meeting so people could recount what had occurred. Basically, the army had arrived one day and rounded up over 40 people and taken them off into the woods and killed them without firing a bullet -- meaning that they strangled them, they cut them up.
At first people were hesitant to speak but once they started, it was an outpouring of really horrible details. I asked, "Have you been given the chance to denounce this publicly?" and they said no.
Why did they decide to speak to you?
I think most people who suffer these sorts of abuses feel a strong need to denounce them publicly. The difference here was that the people in Sacuchum weren't paralyzed by fear the way the people in the plantations were. And I think the reason for this was that in the village, unlike in the plantations, there still existed the sort of community institutions and support networks that could help people process their fear and trauma.
Why did the army pick this village?
This village had supplied guerrillas with food. There were a lot of collaborators in this village. In 1980 and '81 the guerrilla movement had been growing in numbers and the military government had been losing its credibility throughout the country. It seemed like there might actually be a revolution. At some point, the Guatemalan army realized that the only way to stop the guerrillas was to go after their supporters. Sacuchum was one of hundreds of examples of massacres where the army just went in and rounded up the people they suspected and killed them.
And it was very brutal and bloodthirsty. Where did this army's hatred come from?
I don't think you understand it in terms of hatred. It was pretty systematic. What the army engaged in was a massive campaign of terror.
Was killing them in that manner part of their psy-war tactics?
I'd assume. They don't leave a paper trail saying, "this is the way to terrorize people." Look, 200,000 people were killed and there were never more than 10,00 or 15,000 guerrillas. Why did they kill so many people? The army's target was the civilian population.
This is the thing about terror. What distinguishes terror from other types of violence is that the principle target is not the person who is killed but rather the ones who survive. The purpose of this type of violence is to instill this intense and overwhelming fear in people. That's clearly what happened in Guatemala.
And so how do you measure fear? How do you explain its impact on people's lives? You can't do it through a body count. You need to gauge what's going on inside people's heads. One measure is to look at what they say and what they don't say. Or look at a local historian who can't talk about what happened in the 1950s because it turns out that his own son was tortured by the army. That's the legacy.
Once I got closer to people the emotions would come out. Now that the war's over people are starting to open up. People were facing this really terrible heart-wrenching conflict -- they'd been carrying around this rage, sorrow and need for denunciation for years, but they were still scared. Some still can't talk even though the war's over.
Now, the guerrillas were terrorizing people as well. Who did they target mostly?
There were several guerrilla organizations and they changed over the years. For the most part, when the guerrilla movement got strong in the early '80s, their method was to attack military targets. But as the army succeeded in isolating them from the local population and their supporters, they became increasingly desperate. I described the incident in the book where they burned down the plantation house, an act aimed at generating fear among the plantation owners. In that sense, it's an act of violence aimed at generating fear. Different guerrilla organizations committed human rights violations and there were a few massacres committed by the guerrillas. Some pretty awful things. Early on in the 1960s there were assassinations.
But the U.N. truth commission documented tens of thousands of violations and it found that 93 percent of them had been committed by the state, either by the army or security forces.
Where are the guerrillas now? Have they formed political parties?
There is a political party of the guerrillas that signed the peace accords. It's a pretty weak party. Many of the former combatants put down their guns at the end of war and got a little bit of help reestablishing themselves. I don't think they're doing very well.
I wanted to ask you about the role of human rights organizations. You implied that during the '90s there was a growing general awareness of human rights violations. In the current climate, do you think that something like what happened in Guatemala could happen again? And how much of a role do human rights organizations have in bringing these tragedies to light?
It would be more difficult for this sort of thing to happen but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen. One of the few positive things that came out of the Central American experience was that it helped to galvanize an international human rights movement as people struggled to respond to what was going on in countries like Guatemala, El Salvador, Argentina and Chile. At the time, the human rights movement was still made up of fledgling organizations and a lot of the obstacles were daunting.
Chief among them in Guatemala was that you had the U.S. government presenting a very rosy picture of what was taking place there. The U.S. actually defended the Guatemalan government. There's a moment in the book when Ronald Reagan meets with [former president] General Rios Montt. Reagan described Montt as this man of great personal integrity at the same moment that Montt's elite group of soldiers was marching off to kill an entire village. Most of the people were buried alive in the village well. Children were killed by being grabbed by their ankles and slammed against walls, women were raped over the course of three days.
Meanwhile, Ronald Reagan told the press that Rios Montt was committed to democracy and was receiving a bum rap. This is something else that continued during the Reagan administration: You had human rights organizations trying to tell the world what was happening and their accounts were being refuted. We now know that the U.S. government knew full well the extent of the violence and who was responsible for it.
Despite the fact that the CIA sanitized a lot of the documents?
We don't know everything. We don't know everything they know or everything they did. It's like one document I include in the book. The whole text has been blacked out except for two words: "entire population." You flip to the page before it and you see that [it says] there was a massacre. The massacre wasn't crossed out. And you think, "OK, if they left the massacre in, what is it that they're covering up?"
Just a humorous but sad side note -- wasn't that also the time when Reagan also said that he was surprised to find that they had separate countries in Central America?
Reagan said something like, "You'd be amazed. They're all separate countries in Central America." And then there was some scrambling about whether he meant that he actually didn't know whether they were individual countries. Reagan did it in his wonderful, affable way and he had this vision of the Cold War that appealed to a lot of people.
Did every administration's support for Guatemala continue at pretty much the same level until President Clinton?
It varied a little bit. With the end of the Cold War things started to change under Bush. There were cases of U.S. citizens who had been killed and there was some response. Basically what we're talking about here is what happened during the Cold War.
But things have changed. The U.S. government actually helped finance that truth commission and the U.S. government recently, under the leadership of [former] Ambassador Prudence Bushnell, supported the local human rights groups who have been working to press charges against people who have committed these atrocities. The U.S. Agency for International Development has been helping to support excavation teams that are digging up clandestine cemeteries. So there has been very important support coming from the U.S. government in Guatemala in recent years.
But it's only a fraction of the resources that were poured into that 1954 coup and into supporting and sustaining the military regime over the years.
You say that terror won in Guatemala. I'm wondering if now they're just starting to deal with those effects and fight terrorism on that psychological level.
For the last 10 years, the local human rights movement has been struggling to roll back the victory to the extent it can but it's been very difficult. It's been done at some cost. Just in the last few months there's been this wave of acts of violence against human rights groups -- people being killed, receiving death threats, being assaulted because they're working on efforts to prosecute people who carried out those abuses 20 years ago.
There was an unofficial truth commission sponsored by the Catholic Church that paved the way for the official one sponsored by the U.N. I was going around with local leaders trying to help convince people that it was safe to talk now. We really believed it. Then we started receiving threats. Two months after that, the Catholic Church published its report for its truth commission entitled "Never Again." Two days after the bishop presented it in the National Cathedral he was bludgeoned to death with a cement block.
But both those truth commissions were very important as processes of helping thousands of families denounce what had taken place for the first time. And now there are these efforts under way to press charges in the courts.
There was a suit against Gramajo in a federal court in Massachusetts. He was ordered to pay $47 million in damages. After that, he was disinvited by the U.S. to this annual conference that's held for people from militaries throughout the region in the U.S. He was irate. He said, "They're going to make me pay $47 million for what I did in my country, but how much are they going to make McNamara pay for what his troops did in Vietnam or Cheney for what his troops did in Panama?"
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In general, Figure 1 and Table 1 shows that all CPI items decreased from Jan 2018 to Feb 2018. The CPI was 100.7 percent in Jan 2018 and it decreased to 98.2 percent in Feb 2018. However, the CPI for food items was 97.6 percent in Jan which changed to 98.8 percent in Feb. While the CPI for non-food items was 101.6 percent in Jan and it converted to 98.0 percent in Feb.
The monthly inflation rate for all items was -2.5 percent in Feb 2018, down from 4.7 percent in Jan 2018. The inflation rate for food items was -1.7 percent in Jan and it increased to 1.3 percent in Feb while non-food items was 6.6 percent in Jan and it changed to -3.5 percent in Feb. It indicates that there is a big change for monthly inflation rate in non-food items than food and all items.
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We regularly see militaries seize power from Democratic governments (Egypt). In some countries, military ruled for decades (Spain), in some countries military has considerable influnce on the decision making process (Pakistan). In some countries military becomes savior(zimbabwe). In other words, military's influence is either a probability, or a reality.
Why don't countries keep provision of the military to become 4th pillar of the state (other three being: executive, legislative, judiciary)?
In that way, a civilian government's power could be checked. For instance, Bangladesh is suffering from the side effect of democracy.
It can also be a fail safe measure in case of emergency and crisis. For instance, Bangladesh suffered several crises in the democracy regarding the caretaker government.
First consider the other three pillars and how they link with each other. Each of the three pillars has defined roles with limited or very specific powers (or lack of) over the other ones, they are also civilian based and therefore would lack the resources to overthrow the other pillars with force. Any constitutional power given to the military would be backed up with force potentially giving dominance over other pillars (leader X rules at the pleasure of the military).
Giving the military a day to day role in the running of the nation is rather difficult i.e. there is no obvious role for them in making most legislation such as tax reform etc. Whereas the other pillars have well-defined roles in these situations.
Writing the military into the constitution legitimises any unofficial power they may have had and this may undermine attempts for a country to be democratic.
Military commanders should be appointed based on their skill and experience as a commander, not their politics. Obviously this does not prevent appointments from being political anyway, but involving the commanders in politics would encourage it more.
The military needs to have a top-down structure that issues clear orders. Having multiple politicians arguing over what commands to issue will cause miscommunication and possibly sow dissent ("well, I agreed with the command that got voted down").
There are probably more, but this should give an idea of why having a political military command is not advantageous. If the idea is only to keep the military as a "check" on the power of the government, than this introduces other issues.
The military is unelected. The core principal of democracy is that the government is formed via the people's vote (whether by voting for representatives or laws). Why should a largely autonomous, unelected group have final say in whether the government is doing its job? This may also lead to the military having even more leverage over the legislature to get funding and benefits.
In the US, members of the military are legally required not to obey unlawful orders, I would assume in other countries it is the same way. So, if they are issued an unlawful order by the Executive, they are already allowed to disobey it.
If a government is already tyrannical, it's unlikely that the military's intervention will change it, at least on its own. Governmental corruption is systemic, and does not only involve the people that are currently in power. According to this answer, in the example of Zimbabwe, it appears that the military's intervention is unlikely to change the direction of the country; they just happen to support one bad leader over another.
As Phillip noted in comments, the military can overthrow the government in most cases, if it were united in its desire to do so. The US may be the only developed country where the civilian population would possibly be able to resist a united military junta without outside help. Also note the word united - even if some sort of contingency were put in the constitution to allow the military to overthrow the government legally, this kind of action will fracture the military into factions and encourage USSR-style purges. Really, this is the reason we try to use law rather than force to effect change in a country - it leads to fewer dead.
Are there ways to keep the majority in check in a unicameral legislative system?
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Is Gaelscoil í Coláiste Mhuire. Ar an mbonn sin is í an Ghaeilge an ghnáththeanga theagaisc sa rang agus an ghnáththeanga chumarsáide i ngach gnéith de shaol na scoile – sna pasáistí, sa halla, sa chlós agus ag imeachtaí a eagraítear laistigh agus lasmuigh den scoil. Bíonn ról láidir ag scoláirí a bhíonn mar bhaill de Coiste na Gaeilge (An Captaen Gaeilge agus na Cinnirí Gaeilge) an Ghaeilge a chur chun cinn i measc a gcomhleacaithe féin. Eagraítear imeachtaí éagsúla laistigh agus lasmuigh den scoil chun ár scoláirí a spreagadh i leith labhairt na Gaeilge. Sa bhreis air seo, eagraítear turais Ghaeltachta do scolairí na Céad Bliana, na Ceathrú Bliana agus na Cúigiú Bliana gach bliain.
Cuirtear an-bhéim ar chultúr agus oidhreacht na hÉireann i gColáiste Mhuire chomh maith leis an teanga – ar na cluichí Gaelacha agus ar an gceol ach go háirithe. Tá nascanna déanta ag an scoil le hinstitiúidí lasmuigh den scoil agus is ábhar bróid dúinn go mbíonn ár gcuid scoláirí ag seinm ceoil i gColáistí tríú leibhéil i rith Seachtain na Gaeilge mar shampla.
Coláiste Mhuire is a Gaeilscoil. Consequently, Irish is the standard language of teaching in all our classes and the standard language of communication in every aspect of school life – in the corridors, in the hall, in the yard and at events organised both within and outside the school. Students, who are members of Coiste na Gaeilge (The Irish Committee) i.e. our Captaen Gaeilge (Irish Captain) agus na Cinnirí Gaeilge (Irish Prefects), play a key role in promoting the Irish language amongst their fellow students. Various events are organised within and outside the school to encourage our students in gaining an appreciation of the speaking of Irish. Gaeltacht trips are also organised for 1st, 4th and 5th Year on an annual basis.
Irish culture and heritage are strongly promoted in Coláiste Mhuire as well as the spoken language – our traditional games and music especially. Our college has created links with outside institutions and it is a source of pride that our students have been performing in third level colleges during Seachtain na Gaeilge for many years for example.
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What kind of evidence should you include to prove you point? You will have to decide what you want to tell. Even if you think that the event, place, and other aspects are important, try to provide readers with disadvantages as well as advantages. Then your answer to that question is your thesis. This is what you want! Your question above will be the start, and then your answer to the question will be the thesis statement. Last, a conclusion wraps up your evaluation and provides closure for your reader. What is an evaluation essay? Then after writing your list, try to put those items into groups.
If you are writing an evaluation essay, you should always be objective with the content that you are presenting. Is the acting well done and are the actors well chosen for their roles? However, if there are discrepancies, human resource may set an appointment to clear out matters and why certain differences have occurred. When drafting evaluation essays, the body of your essay should address the effectiveness or ineffective qualities of each set of criteria. Your conclusion should be your final idea about what should be done. It is impossible to become an experienced writer by reading tips on how to become a writer. Here is how I would organize the paper with the questions: Introduction: describe what the problem was, or what the situation with the patient is that made you feel this was a good activity. It is true that every evaluation will involve the inclusion of some sort of opinion, in order to be done correctly, the evaluation should not read as though it is opinionated.
How does your topic compare to the best of this sort of thing? You may take a look at our. Evaluate your favorite Mexican restaurant and tell what makes this dining experience unique. Transitional Phrase — Next, Then, Furthermore, Also, Moreover, Thirdly, Lastly B. Does this place offer something new and unique? Come up with a highly-usable and effective evaluation essay by directly providing the needs of your readers. Your conclusion should do two main things: restate the main evidence that supports your point and leave the reader with a feeling of sympathy to your point of view. Those elements would be the criteria for your evaluation.
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Is dining room decorating a dying art?
If it is, the reason is simple.
So the dining room was specifically for that purpose - dining, the room where you ate your meals.
This affected how you would go about your dining room decorating.
In our modern homes we may not even have a room set aside for meals. 'Kitchen diners' are a way for the house builder to avoid making a separate room and saves space.
In our modern appointment-driven way of life we would rather grab a bite to eat and rush off to the next deadline rather than waste precious moments sitting down in a separate room and taking our time over a meal.
In many instances the dining room has become a disposable luxury, and we have learned to make do without it. So decorating this sort of room has taken a back seat.
Dual purpose or separate room?
So now comes the first decision. Do you have a separate room for your dining room, or does one of your rooms have a dual function?
If you are in the fortunate position of having a separate room which can serve as your dining room, what features should it have?
Close as possible to the kitchen. You don't want the food to get cold while it's being transported.
Large enough. Packing people into a room which isn't really big enough doesn't make for a pleasant experience.
Attractive enough. No one wants to sit in an ugly room. But dining rooms give you the opportunity to decorate in ways you wouldn't attempt in other rooms.
Once you know which room will be your dining room you can begin to think about decorating in earnest.
There are many different styles from which to choose for your dining room.
A room set apart for meals will give an opportunity for relaxation and time to catch up with family members.
We tend to take more time over meals if they are in a separate room, which makes the whole process more enjoyable.
In fact, your kitchen may provide a more than adequate area for dining. It's often the warmest room in the house, the cooking facilities are close by, and family members can meet one another as (and when) they arrive.
So a kitchen diner is actually a very practical solution for eating.
If the room is large enough, you may want your dining room decorating to separate the area from the kitchen - a softer look, perhaps, with more comfort.
Other alternatives would be to use a section of your living room, part of a hallway if it's large enough, a study or conservatory. In each case your dining room decorating would have to be sympathetic to the rest of the room or area.
A section of this open plan home is used for the dining area. The color of the dining furniture is in keeping with the color scheme used throughout.
As with any room, it's best if you think in a practical way about your dining room decorating. How you're going to use it, where it's situated, how you'd like it to look. By analyzing your needs and aspirations your dining room decor will fulfill all your requirements.
There are many different way of making the most of your room, and these dining room ideas will give you more suggestions.
The most basic requirement for your room is seating. This information on dining room design will give some guidelines on how to arrange your seating. Round tables have some advantages over rectangular ones, and some features you need to be aware of.
There's a wide choice of dining room furniture available today.
Whether your preference is for traditional or modern you can always find a suitable combination of tables and chairs.
Here the simple white and plain lines of the furniture fits in perfectly with the open plan design of this house.
As with any room you'll need to carefully plan your lighting. How you arrange it will depend on the size of the room, where the main dining table is situated, the style of room and decor you choose, and other factors.
Correctly lighting your dining room will make a big difference to its warmth and character. You may wish to make your room really special, in which case using a chandelier is one option.
With so much available in your choice of furniture, it's easy to forget the obvious.
A traditional reproduction table and chairs will always be successful. This is a standard way of dining room decorating, using a central rug under the table and chairs.
The color scheme you use for your dining room will depend on many factors. Because of the way the rooms are used, dining room decorating can be done in ways which would not be appropriate for other rooms in the home.
What sort of ways? Here are some suggestions for your dining room colors, and some guidelines as to how you can arrive at the best solution.
You can also use any window treatments you like. You could leave the windows completely free of treatments. If you prefer plain effects, then simple shades would do the job. Elaborate curtains and drapes with opulent top treatments are another option. If you want to give your room some style, dining room curtains could be the way to go.
If you want to keep it simple, there's no reason why you can't make your dining area as informal as you want. You only need a table and some chairs.
Many homes have an informal area such as this one for everyday use, and keep a more formal dining room for entertaining guests.
Sometimes your chairs will look great just as they are.
But often you'll want to improve their looks as well as their comfort. Using chair covers is one way of doing this. Or you may consider adding chair cushions. Your choice of fabrics for these options gives you a great deal of control over your color scheme.
| 2019-04-25T04:51:09 |
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I haven't been able to find a good way to approximate the amount of caffeine in the coffee I make. Googling yields information like this Mayo Clinic article that mixes serving sizes and brewing methods, and it reports one 8 oz coffee contains "95-200 mg" of caffeine, which is a huge range. If I have three cups of coffee in a day, is that 300 or 600 mg of caffeine?
There are so many variables in prepared coffee, different extraction methods, beans, roasts, serving sizes, mixed with different amounts of water or milk.
Is there a general method for calculating the caffeine in prepared coffee? Something like "most brewing methods extract X mg of caffeine from each Y grams of ground coffee"?
Or more specifically, what method would I use to accurately estimate how much caffeine is in an 8oz serving from my 10 oz french press, made with medium- (not course-) ground medium-roast arabica beans, brewed 4 minutes before decanting?
I read everyone's answer and did some of my own research to find an estimation method that satisfies me and might be helpful to others too. I think it should be roughly ±20% accurate.
For any amount of "good strength" American-style coffee by any brew method, weigh the dry coffee in grams and multiply by 0.008, or 80mg of caffeine for each 10g of dry coffee.
Weakly extracted coffee might yield 0.6% of its weight in caffeine and very strongly extracted coffee might get close to 1% caffeine.
These numbers are for typical 100% Arabica or mostly Arabica blends. 100% Robusta beans (uncommon) could be about double the caffeine.
Typical premium roasted Arabica coffee beans like mine contain close to 1% caffeine by mass when measured by spectrophotometer (p 311) though Robusta (less common and usually blended with Arabica in cheaper coffees) has roughly twice that much.
If you have a health concern like wanting to stay under the 300 mg guideline for pregnant women, you should be able to use this as the upper limit: each 10g of Arabica coffee contains about 100mg of caffeine.
I use a 2 Tbsp scoop to measure beans before I grind them. One scoop of beans weighs about 12 grams (yes I tared the scoop, but I did only weigh once and am not comparing light or dark roasts which will vary in weight and volume).
So if I eat that scoop of beans or grind them finely and drink them with any amount of water I will be consuming the 120 mg (1% of 12g) of caffeine present in them. That should be an upper limit to this estimation exercise. The strongest or biggest/weakest cup of coffee I can brew with that scoop of beans will have no more than 120mg caffeine.
How strong is my cup?
So 1 fl oz of brewed coffee or espresso weighs almost the same as water (29.57 g) and contains 1-2% coffee solids (so about 300-600mg, or 380mg solids for optimal brewed coffee and 600mg solids for espresso). That would be the upper limit if the coffee solids were pure caffeine, but they can't be.
On the other hand,the caffeine is probably more soluble than the other parts of the bean,so even though it's only 1% of the mass of the beans it's probably more than 1% of the dissolved solids. That's the hard part. Coffeechemistry.com says brewed coffee ends up with 8-15 mg caffeine per oz and espresso 30-50 mg caffeine per oz. That's a pretty huge range. It means caffeine is 2.5-4.0% of the solids (380 mg) in an ounce of "optimal" brewed coffee or 5.0-8.3% of the solids (600 mg) in an ounce of espresso.
So: I typically make a nice strong 10 oz cup of coffee with my 12g of beans containing a maximum of 120mg (or 1% of the coffee mass) caffeine. So let's say this maximum 12 mg caffeine per each oz of coffee corresponds to 1.65% or 500 mg solids (1.65% of 29.57 gr = 500 mg). In this case the 12 mg caffeine is 2.4% of the solids. If I brew it "too weak" and it ends up 1% solids (or 300 mg per oz) I would guess I'd proportionally get no more than 60% of the max caffeine, 7.2 mg (again 2.4% of the solids) per oz or 72 mg for a 10oz cup. So that narrows the range to 72-120 mg of caffeine in my cup depending on the brew strength.
I'm guessing a good cup ends up somewhere in the middle, so I'm going to estimate my typical cup contains around 100 mg of caffeine from its 12g dry coffee, or about 80% of the maximum caffeine present in the beans. From this I would suggest a decent rule of thumb for "optimal" strength American-style brewed coffee is around 0.8% (or 0.008) of the mass of the beans used, or 80mg of caffeine for each 10g of dry coffee.
Using the same method, a shot of espresso made with 7g of ground coffee maxes out around 70mg caffeine (77mg if 10% Robusta sometimes typical for Espresso blends), but the serving size and strength are more standardized than brewed coffee, so the 64mg/shot reported by the USDA and others also ends up being 80-90% of the caffeine present in the beans.
Estimation is all well and good, but if you really want to know exactly how much caffeine is in your cup, you're going to have to measure it!
You can get caffeine testing strips that you can dip into coffee, and they'll give you an idea of how much caffeine is in the brew.
The strips have a couple of lines on them, marked D and C. Decaffeinated beverages will only rise to the D line, caffeinated beverages will rise above it.
You do have a problem that you're going to have to bust out some science to calibrate this thing yourself - out of the box it will not actually measure the amount of caffeine in a drink, but if you try it on some drinks with known amounts of caffeine you should be able to work out a system of measurement.
Get yourself a Mass Spectrometer.
There will be caffeine intake of other drinks as well.
Sourced from Google which pulls its data from this USDA link - Basic Report: 14221, Beverages, OCEAN SPRAY, Diet Cranberry Juice. Tinker around and you'll find the other types.
The values are for 100 grams. This is best because g can be directly derived from an SI unit.
Measure the amount of pulp. If your grounds are already wet, you have coffee pulp. Figure out how much you have by weighing it on a scale; it will help if you keep the pulp in the filter so that it does not spread and create a mess.
Convert the pulp into dry measurements. Do this by subtracting the amount of water you added. You can find this amount by calculating exactly how much coffee you initially put into the coffee maker, minus the amount of coffee that was produced. This amount will be very small, but it will affect the mass of the final pulp. Measure out an equivalent amount of water (which is usually measured by volume rather than weight) and weight it on your scale, being sure to subtract the weight of the container from your final measurement. Subtract the weight of the water from the weight of the pulp.
Multiply the dry measurement by the amount of caffeine in that type of coffee. If you made instant coffee and have 2 grams of dry instant, for instance, you will multiply this into 3,142 and divide by 100 for a final answer of 62.84 milligrams of caffeine in the coffee pulp.
It really varies by size, bean origin, roast method and other factors.
To be honest, with all of the variability in coffee, if you want completely accurate numbers, you'd have to prepare multiple samples of your coffee brewed the same exact way (preferable 3 or 4 samples to be sure of consistency), and send this off to an analytical chemistry lab, where they will use a Mass Spec instrument (maybe GC-MS) to determine content. The reason you don't see more cafes displaying numbers for their caffeine content is because this testing can get expensive.
Your specific example of brewing with a french press will also have trouble being determined because we don't know your grind size (exposed surface area), and we don't know your dose. Caffeine yield is directly related to dose.
Also that Mayo Clinic study is very, very, poorly cited because it just gives names of journals and years, not specific studies, issues, or authors. I based on there being no direct trace to it's source, like just listing multiple sources that are properly cited, I would say that that article is not a reliable source of information.
This should help you arrive at a more accurate number.
standard drip brew yeilds an average of 145mg of caffeine per 8 fl. oz.
french press yeilds an average of 107.5mg of caffeine per 8 fl. oz.
The difference is a 58 to 43 ratio.
Now, assuming most of the coffee brands listed on their caffeine database are brewed using the standard drip method, you could calculate the average french press ammount of caffeine per brand of coffee by taking the 58/43 ratio of depreciation into consideration.
According to here, there is 180mg of caffeine in an 8 oz. cup of Starbucks brewed coffee.
of caffeine in an 8 oz. cup of french press regular Starbucks coffee brewed at home.
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Help Online - Quick Help - FAQ-982 I see an error when trying to use LaTex App. What should I do?
5.70 FAQ-982 I see an error when trying to use LaTex App. What should I do?
4 Method 4. Install MiKTeX as "This User Only" instead of "All Users"
Open the Set System Variables dailog by Preferences: System Variable. Enter LTXTP' to Variable column (no preceding "@") and set its Value to 600 or 1000, or even bigger. This increases the timeout to connect to server and download the MiKTeX packages when clicking the Retry button if Origin fails to detect it.
Locate the MiKTeX installation folder. For a 64bit Windows OS, the default path is C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\.
It should output a message: "Package url is correctly installed."
Open Origin's User Files Folder and delete OLaTex.ini if any.
LaTex App would fail if multiple TeX packages are installed.
In the System Properties dialog, go to Advanced tab and click Environment Variables button.
Choose Path from the upper box and click Edit button. Try to find "C:\CTEX\MiKTeX\miktex\bin;" and delete it (if other software, find the corresponding installation path). Therefore the remined MiKTeX path will serve as the correct link to Origin.
Right click on MiKTeX Console and run it as Administrator. Select Packages in the left panel and click Change button.
In the Package Source dialog, choose Remote package repository(Internet) and click Next.
In Remote Package Repository, select as Country: US, Host: ctan.mirrors.hoobly.com at the last part.
Method 4. Install MiKTeX as "This User Only" instead of "All Users"
In the dialog, choose Remote package repository(Internet) and click Next.
In Remote Package Repository, select country:US, Host:ctan.mirrors.hoobly.com.
Open Command Prompt window as Administrator. Direct to the path of MiKTeX installation folder, like C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\miktex\bin\x64\.
| 2019-04-26T16:43:46 |
https://www.originlab.com/doc/Quick-Help/LaTeX-APP-Error-Troubleshoot
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In my last post, titled Verizon No Longer Concerned With Telephones Connected With Wires, I described an interview Ivan Seidenberg, chief executive of Verizon Communications, did at a Goldman Sachs investor conference on Thursday. In the inteview Seidenberg described how, by using the decentralized structure of the Internet rather than the traditional design of phone systems, Verizon had a new opportunity to cut costs sharply.
This summer I spent some time reading Martin Sauter's excellent new book Beyond 3G, Bringing Networks, Terminals and the Web Together. In the book Martin describes the movement in the wireless/cellular world away from circuit-switched telephony technologies like 2G, 2.5G (EDGE) and even 3G to 4G based technologies like LTE and WiMAX.
What does wireless technology have to do with copper wires? Like these wireless technologies, the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) uses circuit-switched telephony technology designed around voice. Even DSL (a technology basically designed to extend the life of the copper wire based network by a few years) is a circuit-switched service - Internet based traffic goes to the Internet and voice traffic goes - you guessed it - right to the PSTN.
Circuit-switch based networks have made a lot of sense for the past 100 years or so. They work well for voice calls because by nature they are deterministic. If a circuit is available a connection is made. If a circuit is not available the call attempt gets rejected and the customer gets some kind of message back from the busy switch. Once a connection is made (phone-to-phone) the connection is also deterministic - each call is independent and cannot influence any other calls. A great design for voice communications - whether it be with copper wires or over wireless frequencies.
The problem with these circuit-switch based networks though is they were designed for voice. Sauter argues correctly that when networks are designed for specific applications, there is no separation between the network and the applications which ultimately prevents evolution. In addition, tight integration of applications and networks also prevents the evolution of an application because changing the applications also requires changes to the network itself. The PSTN basically cannot evolve beyond where it is now - it's been tweaked-up to the point where it cannot be tweaked-up any more.
Internet (TCP/IP based) technologies work using exactly the opposite approach. A neutral transport layer carries packets and any kind of application (voice, video, data, etc) can efficiently send high and low volumes of data through the network. For applications the connection process is transparent - the device operating system establishes an Internet connection before the application is even launched. The network and any applications running that use the network are independent of each other.
Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint, etc are all moving to non-circuit-switched IP based 4G technologies like WiMAX and LTE to handle voice, video and data traffic. It is inevitable that Verizon's landline division (along with other landline carriers) move in this same direction.
According to the New York Times, that's what Ivan Seidenberg, the chief executive of Verizon Communications said at a Goldman Sachs investor conference on Thursday.
Why? Traditional landline customer numbers have been shrinking and not just for Verizon. Earlier at the conference according to the same Times article, Randall Stephenson, chief executive of AT&T, and Ed Mueller, head of Qwest Communications, both talked about seeing a day when their landline businesses would stop shrinking.
By converting most of its landline operation to FiOS, Mr. Seidenberg said Verizon had a new opportunity to cut costs sharply. FiOS uses the decentralized structure of the Internet rather than the traditional design of phone systems, which route all traffic through a tree of regional, then local offices.
The article finishes with Seidenberg talking of the psychological lift he had gotten when he finally escaped from the shadow of the legendary Alexander Graham Bell and his copper wires. “Once I shed myself of the burden of chasing the inflection point in access lines and say ‘I don’t care about that anymore,’ I am actually liberated,” he said.
A Report on Internet Speeds In The U.S.
The United States ranks 28th in average Internet connection speeds.
The average download speed for the nation was 5.1 megabits per second (Mbps) and increased from 4.2 Mbps last year.
The average upload speed for the nation was 1.1 mbps and increased from 873 kilobits per second (Kbps) last year.
The U.S. average upload speed is far too slow for patient monitoring or transmitting large files such as medical records.
In South Korea, the average download speed is 20.4 Mbps.
In Japan, the average download speed is 15.8 Mbps.
In Sweden, the average download speed is 12.8 Mbps.
In the Netherlands, the average download speed is 11 Mbps.
90% of Japanese households have access to fiber-to-the-home networks capable of 100 Mbps.
The average advertised download speeds offered by broadband providers in Japan was 92.8 Mbps and in South Korea was 80.8 Mbps.
18% of those who ran the speed test on the Speed Matters website recorded download speeds slower than 768 Kbps which does not even qualify as basic broadband according to the new(er) Federal Communications Commission definition.
64% of speed test participants connected at less than 10 Mbps downstream which is not enough bandwidth for high-definition video.
Only 19% connected at speeds greater than 10 Mbps and only 2% of those exceeded 25 Mbps downstream.
In the United States, Delaware was ranked number one with an average download speed of 9.906 Mbps and an average upload speed of 2.310 Mbps. Puerto Rico was ranked last (53rd) with average download speeds of 1.043 Mbps and average upload speeds of 383 Mbps.
Some will argue about the way the data was collected and things like sample sizes, etc. In the end though we are performing incredibly poorly when compared with the rest of the world.
The Speed Matters website has the full free report that includes a state-by-state breakdown along with the option of viewing and downloading individual state specific reports. Be sure to check it out and see how your state did.
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In the workshops I offer teachers about fostering student self-esteem, I pose the following questions: "Do you believe you have a long-lasting impact on the lives of your students? Five, ten, twenty years from now, will your students remember you or experiences from your class? And if so, what do you hope they will remember?"
I ask these questions because I have spoken with many teachers who wonder if they truly have an impact on the children and adolescents in their classrooms. Doubts about their possible influence are often more pronounced when teachers talk about students who are burdened with learning difficulties -- students who frequently experience school as the environment in which their deficits rather than their strengths are displayed.
Obviously, whether teachers believe they have an impact on the lives of their students is linked to their own self-esteem and their own sense of competence. When people believe that what they are doing is of little consequence, their motivation and energy will be minimal, and they cannot help but convey this to others. When those others are students, what will result is a school environment devoid of excitement and learning and filled with boredom and perhaps anger.
In attempting to examine teacher impact, I have asked teachers to think about one teacher whom they really liked when they were students. I then ask them to describe that teacher, which prompts such words as "demanding but supportive," "caring," "was interested in us," "was excited about what she taught," "had a good sense of humor." Next, I ask the audience if they ever recall being overjoyed, when they were students, upon learning that one of their teachers was out sick. The question typically evokes some laughter. When asked for descriptions of this teacher, I have heard "intimidating," "demeaning," "boring," "dull," "never seemed interested in us."
Next, I say, "imagine for a moment that I ask all of you to leave and bring in your students and ask them to describe you, what words would you hope they use? What words do you think they would use? Just as when you were a student, you had an image of your teachers, what is the image that your students have of you? What do you want that image to be?"
In addition to this exercise, in my all-day workshops I have requested teachers to complete an anonymous questionnaire. The first question asks, "Please describe briefly one experience that you had with an educator when you were a student that reinforced your self-esteem. What grade were you in at the time?" The second question asks, "Please describe, briefly, one experience that you had with an educator, when you were a student, that lessened your self-esteem. What grade were you in at the time?"
Similar to the first exercise, I have been impressed with the strong emotions that these questions trigger. Teachers eagerly want to talk about their own childhood memories of school (the conversations at lunch during my all-day workshops are typically dominated by discussions of positive and negative memories of teachers), sharing with me how recent the memories seem, even though for some these memories are more than 50 years old. I became convinced that these memories of teachers persist, continuing to influence our lives years later -- they are indeed indelible memories, indicative of the lifelong influence that a teacher can have.
This conviction is shared by others. Psychologist Julius Segal, in looking at what helps children overcome adversity, wrote that "one factor turns out to be the presence in their lives of a charismatic adult -- a person from whom they gather strength. And in a surprising number of cases, that person turns out to be a teacher." Similarly, a Massachusetts Department of Education report about at-risk students noted, "Possible the most critical element to success within school is a student developing a close and nurturing relationship with at least one caring adult. Students need to feel that there is someone within school whom they know, to whom they can turn, and who will act as an advocate for them."
Teachers' responses to my workshop exercises and to my questionnaire reinforced my belief about the significant impact teachers have on students. However, I have also been curious about what the nature of this impact might be, about what are the specific kinds of memories my questionnaire would call forth. My curiosity is not simply academic, for I think that if we discover certain themes emerging from these vivid memories, these same themes might be equally relevant for students in today's world. I reason that teachers' memories might serve as helpful guides in their attempts to provide positive experiences and avoid negative experiences for current students. What is done in the classroom today becomes the indelible memories of tomorrow.
"I remember an exceptional American history teacher in high school during my junior year. I was impressed with his love of the subject and his teaching talent. He went out of his way throughout the year to encourage me to speak up in class. He sensed that I was shy, so, in measured steps and with great skill he asked more and more of me in terms of participating and projecting in discussions. He believed in me and gently pushed me to face what I found hardest to do -- speak in the public arena. I will never forget him."
"In the third grade, I was chosen to help get the milk and straws. In the fifth grade, I was given a major part in a school show."
"In the fourth grade, my teacher let me run the film projector (tread, rewind, etc.). I was otherwise very rambunctious during films."
"I had a teacher in junior high who knew that I was particularly shy. She would never challenge me and ask me to answer publicly, but instead took me aside and said, 'I can tell by your facial expressions that you are participating silently and that you know the answers.'"
In eleventh grade I was struggling with composition. A new English teacher took the time to point out that there were some good things in my writing. It motivated me to work harder on my themes, and before the year was out I received my first 'A minus' on a composition. I still have that composition.
"In sixth grade, I had trouble understanding science terms worded other than as glossary meanings. A teacher told me I could still know the answers if explained to me the way I understood them. She took time to give an oral science test. It boosted my confidence, and I was able to do written tests from thereafter."
These positive memories were filled with feelings of respect for the individuality of each student, and with the belief that students are valuable members of the school community and have much to offer.
Now, let's turn to the negative memories and reflect upon what they teach us.
"It was grade eleven. Math was hard for me. I don't remember this lady's name, but she had a way of making me feel like a second class citizen because I didn't understand things the first time. I think it wasn't specific words, but the subtle things in her tone of voice and body language that indicated how frustrated she was with my slowness."
"I was told by a grade school teacher that my answer was stupid."
"My algebra teacher accused me of asking questions to disrupt the class, when in truth I was seeking understanding."
"In the tenth grade, my geometry teacher asked if I was dumb because I didn't understand some point he was making."
"In elementary school, I asked a question and the teacher said, 'Weren't you listening? I just answered that!' I rarely asked questions after that."
Teachers have a very significant, lifelong impact on all of their students.
This impact involves not only the teaching of particular academic skills, but as importantly, the fostering of student self-esteem. Reinforcing self-esteem in the classroom is associated with increased motivation and learning.
The use of strategies to foster self-esteem can go hand-in-glove with teaching academic skills, and needs not require additional time from teachers. If anything, a focus on self-esteem can create a more exciting, satisfying teaching environment.
Self-esteem strategies do not require financial costs or a budget, but rather the sensitivity, respect, and caring of teachers.
As the memories of teachers suggest, self-esteem strategies involve helping students feel they belong and are welcome in the school setting, providing them with responsibilities through which they perceive themselves as contributing and making a difference (e.g., tutoring younger children, helping to take care of school plants), offering them opportunities to make choices and decisions and solve problems, and communicating encouragement and positive feedback. While these kinds of positive interventions are important for all students, they are particularly relevant for students who find learning problematic.
Many of the teachers' negative memories captured situations in which they felt that teachers demeaned, belittled, or accused them of being disruptive as they struggled to understand what was being taught. Children with learning difficulties are especially vulnerable to this kink of treatment and unfortunately, even today, continue to hear accusations that they are lazy and unmotivated or that they should pay closer attention so that they wouldn't have to ask so many questions. Teachers must constantly communicate to students that mistakes are part of the learning process and that no student should ever feel embarrassed to ask questions if they do not understand something.
To minimize student fear of making mistakes and feeling humiliated, I advocate that during the first or second day of the new school year teachers ask students, "who feels they will probably made a mistake in class this year or not understand something the first time?" and before anyone can respond, teachers raise their own hands. Teachers can then ask the class why they thought this question about mistakes was posed and use student replies as a launching pad to discuss how fears of not knowing something and making mistakes interfere with offering opinions and answers, and learning. To acknowledge openly the fear of failure renders it less powerful and less destructive.
Teachers should never minimize the role they play in influencing students' lives. Hopefully, that role will be positive, possessing the qualities of a "charismatic adult" who not only touches students' minds but also their spirits -- the way they see and feel about themselves for the rest of their lives. Such influence is truly a rare privilege that should be prized and nurtured.
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http://www.ldonline.org/article/6155
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add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/$(. /etc/os-release; echo "$ID") $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
We can pull the image by its name so that we have it locally.
To run the web server we need to use the run command.
The name we will give this web server is website.
| 2019-04-25T18:03:05 |
https://mysuperweb.co.uk/server/docker/
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To unpack this complicated plot are Stephen Kinzer, author of "Reset: Iran, Turkey and America's Future," and Mohsen Asgari, correspondent for the BBC in Iran.
Twenty years ago, Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court confirmation seemed controversial but likely, until a young law professor named Anita Hill changed him with sexual harassment. The Hill-Thomas hearings riveted the nation.
Natalie Jeremijenko is an environmental designer and a professor at New York University. She's concerned about how the environment affects health and her transportation initiatives seek to address these problems.
For the third day, millions of BlackBerry users around the world have been unable to use messaging and browsing services. The BBC's Rory Clellan Jones has the latest on the story.
Nadeem Mazen, a graduate of MIT and an owner of two small businesses, rejects the narrative that the protesters are "anti-capitalist."
Todd Zwillich, The Takeaway's Washington correspondent, and Ron Christie, former special assistant to President George W. Bush and fellow at Harvard University's Institute of Politics, analyze last night's debate.
People in Iran and Iranian-Americans are reacting to news of the United States's accusation that the Iranian government backed a plan to assassinate a Saudi ambassador on U.S. soil. We talk with Siamak Kalhour and Dr. Mohammad Marandi.
David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, gives more details on the foiled plot. Sanger can be heard on WQXR's weekly program, The Washington Report.
The latest Republican presidential debate was held in New Hampshire on Tuesday night. Anna Sale, reporter for WNYC's It's a Free Country, shares some conversations she had with New Hampshire voters.
Top E.U. officials have today been urging the country to ratify the bill swiftly – and a new vote on the fund is likely by the end of this week.
| 2019-04-23T02:34:50 |
https://www.pri.org/people/celeste-headlee
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How can I convert my client's account into a reseller account?
1. Select the Client's option from the sidebar.
2. Now click on more at the right-hand side of the screen.
3. Go through the settings option, here change the status from user to reseller and click on change.
| 2019-04-24T00:07:15 |
https://help.msg91.com/article/83-how-can-i-convert-my-clients-account-into-a-reseller-account
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"Think of me ... think of me sleeping."
Those of us who love musicals will not be thrilled with the new big-screen version of "The Phantom of the Opera" -- not because it's a terrible film (though it is), but because of the bad name it gives movie musicals. "Chicago" revived the genre and brought in audiences consisting largely of people for whom musicals aren't usually their "thing." Some of those people, having been eased into the genre by the swinging razzle-dazzle of "Chicago," might wander into "Phantom," too, only to be numbed, annoyed and confused. "See?!" they'll say as they stagger out of the film 143 minutes later. "I told you I didn't like musicals!"
Which is a shame, because on stage, "Phantom" is a good way of introducing people to the art of the musical. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's lavish spectacle has catchy tunes and is not overly complicated or intellectual. It is accessible and ordinary, and since it is almost entirely sung (with very little dialogue), there are none of those awkward "they were just talking, then all of a sudden they started singing" transitions that can be so off-putting to newbies.
Nearly everything that is good about the stage version is lost in the movie version, which was adapted by Lloyd Webber and Joel Schumacher and directed by Schumacher. The man has directed good films, including "Phone Booth" and "Tigerland," but when he directs bad ones, he directs the hell out of them. I'm thinking of the loud bombast of "Batman & Robin," or the braying idiocy of "Bad Company." All of his worst impulses -- from bad casting to bad camera angles -- are brought to bear in "Phantom."
Take, for example, the role of the Phantom himself, the mad, disfigured genius who lives beneath the Opera Populaire in 1870s Paris, where the story is set. Schumacher has cast Gerard Butler, bland star of such loud, dumb films as "Dracula 2000," "Timeline," "Reign of Fire" and "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life." Where in all of that did Schumacher see in Butler the potential to play a sensitive, wounded man who obsesses over a singer?
Butler may have been cast because he is handsome -- which is actually a liability for this role, since the Phantom is supposed to be disfigured to the point of being shunned by all society. The way Schumacher and his makeup artists have rendered him, the Phantom has three-fourths of a perfectly good, enviably attractive face, marred only by what appears to be a burn scar around his right eye. For this he was put in a circus freak show? He ought to be uglier. But of course, people wouldn't go see a movie with an ugly man as the romantic lead.
The object of the Phantom's affections is Christine Daae (Emmy Rossum), a young member of the chorus to whom he has been giving covert vocal lessons. He ensures her chance at stardom by antagonizing the prima donna, Carlotta (Minnie Driver, hilarious and underused), who storms off the stage after the latest in a series of mysterious accidents for which the operahouse is infamous. Christine's audition for the company managers is a song called "Think of Me," which we are told comes from the third act of the opera they are rehearsing. It has always amused me that in the middle of some 18th- or 19th-century opera is a cheesy pop-musical love song that, by the sound of it, can only have been written in the 1980s. It doesn't even approximate "opera," nor is it a particularly impressive number. But of course, people wouldn't go see a show that had TOO much opera in it. Setting one in an operahouse is risky enough.
Emmy Rossum's voice is lovely, as is she, but she is devoid of passion. When she sings, her face is expressionless. Matching her in this regard is Patrick Wilson, the Broadway actor who plays Raoul, Christine's non-Phantom paramour. For a fun drinking game, watch him closely and any time his eyes or eyebrows move, take a shot. By the time the film is over, you will have taken two shots. But of course, no one wants to see a movie in which characters' faces register emotion. No, wait. That's wrong.
A Phantom who can't sing and who isn't even hideous, other characters who sing with great enthusiasm yet who do not match it with their faces -- it's as though Schumacher hates musicals and is trying to sabotage every musical element of the film. This theory is borne out by the way he stages the songs. He seldom keeps the camera on a singer's face for more than a couple seconds while he or she is singing, constantly cutting away or giving us long shots instead, thus destroying any hope we have of feeling the sentiments behind the lyrics. There is too much random motion, too much unfocused energy. I note that "Moulin Rouge" had a good deal of choppy editing, too, yet Baz Luhrmann was also not afraid to show us the singers' faces for several seconds at a time. A film musical needn't be "stagy." There just needs to be purpose to the movement, and when a song feels like it needs less movement, the director needs to be willing to restrain himself.
Schumacher seems to have had no idea, when he was filming, that there would be music added later, or what kind of music it might be, or what sort of emotions it would be expressing. He just goes right on swooping the cameras around, showing us expensive set pieces and vibrant costumes, regardless of what the texture of the music would suggest he ought to do.
There is a very funny song called "Prima Donna," sung by the opera managers Firmin (Ciaran Hinds) and Andre (Simon Callow) to Carlotta in an attempt to woo her back to the stage, the Phantom's insistence that she not perform notwithstanding. Schumacher does not seem to know that this song is funny, for he directs the scene the same way he directs everything else, i.e., chaotically and peripatetically. At every turn, he convinces me he is absolutely the wrong man to direct any musical.
Some of my colleagues have said that a director as shallow as Schumacher is the perfect fit for a musical as shallow as "Phantom of the Opera," but I think the finished product proves otherwise. On stage, "Phantom" can be a pleasure, even if it is a guilty one. On screen, what passion and excitement there is in the work has been sucked out; it has become boring, which is something the stage version could never be accused of. It is shallow, yes, but even shallow works need competent directors.
| 2019-04-20T20:39:56 |
http://www.efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=11360&reviewer=247
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Search engine optimizers spend a lot of time on link building instead of focussing on some other area like social media marketing and working towards increasing the value of the site by making it more user friendly; this is what Matt Cutts is saying. There are certain misconceptions in the seo industry that - working only on link building helps a site to rank higher up on the search results. But, this does not holds true in all the cases. A majority of search engine optimizers follow Google Webmasters guidelines and work towards creating a user friendly site instead of focussing only on link building.
What aspect of Google updates, Seo industry won't get?
Matt indicates that Seo industry still don't know the difference between data refresh and algorithmic change. A data refresh happens when the algorithm remains the same while on algorithm updates, the whole ranking algorithm gets changed.
Where are SEO's spending too much energy?
To this Matt indicated that SEO's are spending too much time on link building, instead of focussing more on creating a user friendly site that stands the long run.
1- Do not concentrate merely on link building.
2- Create a website for the user and update it on a regular basis as per the recent technological trends.
3- Use social media marketing as a main strategy.
4- Create compelling content which the people will share.
5- Understand the difference between a data refresh and an algorithmic update.
| 2019-04-21T20:15:49 |
https://www.seosandwitch.com/2013/06/seos-spending-too-much-time-on-link.html
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Both franchises movies are compared often, but what about their shows?
Most people in tune to the world of pop culture have probably heard the infamous debate before: Marvel or DC Comics? The question has been the spark of many heated debates for years on end, and still continues to cause arguments today in the year 2019. Lately with releases like Avengers: Infinity War and Aquaman, it’s only natural for such debates to rise again about the quality of each franchise’s respective films, but what about the shows under Marvel and DC Comics belt? How do shows like Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D and Jessica Jones compare to the likes of The Flash and Arrow?
In 2013, Marvel Television launched its first television series set in the Marvel universe, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. From there on, an onslaught of Marvel shows were produced, and in the year of 2019 Marvel Television have now released eleven shows, each with a unique premise and cast of characters. The general consensus on which series is the best show Marvel Universe has to offer based off of ratings and reviews online seems to be Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, but Marvels other hit show Daredevil gives it a run for its money, which is surprising considering the fact that the two shows are very notably different from each other in terms of plot and tone. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D had a slow and somewhat disappointing beginning, but it quickly picked up and became quickly intriguing when it brought up plotlines like S.H.I.E.L.D being taken over by Hydra, and other new and interesting story arcs. Daredevil, on the other hand, is an action packed show known for it’s impressive fighting scenes and interesting villain. While these two shows tend to be the main breadwinners when it comes to Marvels TV series’, other shows to note that also have gained popularity include Agent Carter, which follows agent Peggy Carter’s story after World War II and the events in Captain America : The First Avenger, and Jessica Jones, a Netflix original series that follows superhero Jessica Jones and explores what hardships outside of crime fighting heroes routinely face.
While DC Comics have technically been making TV series’ based off of its comics since the 1950’s with the production of shows like Adventures of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, only somewhat recent works that are still relevant by today’s standards will be discussed. DC Comics’ most popular shows seems to be The Flash,which follows the adventures of speedster superhero Barry Allen and has been commended for its sense of humor and great cast of characters, and Arrow, an enjoyable series that moves at a fast pace and always keeps the viewer invested. Other popular titles that have come from the franchize include Black Lightning, a show that provides both large amounts of humour and action, and Supergirl, a series that managed to excel despite a rough start.
In the end, Judging off of numbers and ratings alone, it seems that DC Comics wins against Marvel. When Marvels eleven shows are pitted against DC Comics’ nine shows, the results show that DC Comics shows tend rank better compared to most Marvel shows. This, however, doesn’t automatically make every show produced by DC better than Marvel. It really does all come down to preference and what you’re looking to see in each individual piece of work. Although one branch of television shows may be rated higher by critics than the other, both franchises have produced some pretty impressive content thus far, and it’s up to you personally to decide which universe is the most attractive to you content wise.
| 2019-04-23T10:17:44 |
https://oaktonoutlook.com/9958/ae/marvel-shows-vs-dc-shows/
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Give Angela Merkel credit. For all her rhetoric to the contrary, Germany's Chancellor has not always been an ardent supporter of international pressure on Iran. In fact, over the past half-decade, her government has perpetuated Germany's historic Janus-faced policy toward the Islamic Republic, supporting UN and European sanctions against Iran's ayatollahs while simultaneously nurturing a thriving economic partnership with them. Of late, however, Merkel and her administration seem to have had a change of heart. In recent days, Germany has signaled its willingness to sign on to a European Union effort to sanction the European-Iranian Trade Bank, or EIH. (A formal designation by the EU is expected on Monday).
The move is deeply significant. The Iranian-controlled, Hamburg-based bank is widely known to be a key financial conduit for the Islamic Republic, facilitating billions of dollars in trade between Iran and Europe—and contributing substantially to Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs in the process. According to U.S. and international intelligence assessments, EIH serves as a pass-through for arms deals involving Iran's acquisition of WMD-related components; as a financial lifeline for Iran's feared clerical army, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps; and as an economic conduit which has facilitated the transfer of millions of dollars in ballistic missile technology to the Islamic Republic in recent years. This role led the U.S. Treasury Department to formally blacklist EIH in September of 2010.
Until recently, however, Germany has been reluctant to follow America's lead. For years, the Merkel government has dragged its feet on similarly proscribing EIH, citing its potential financial liability to investors that could be disadvantaged if the bank were shuttered. It has also nixed proposals to do so put forth by other nations; as recently as February, Berlin reportedly blocked a French bid to designate EIH as a potential target for future EU sanctions.
The hesitance is understandable. The partnership that has developed between Berlin and Tehran over the past three decades isn't just politically expedient, it's highly lucrative. Germany represents Iran's top trade partner in the European Union. And, according to official data from the German Federal Statistics Office, bilateral trade between Berlin and Tehran last year actually rose by some five percent (to just over $4.17 billion), despite multilateral efforts to economically isolate the Islamic Republic. German firms have gotten the message; although some (like Siemens) have at least pledged to curtail their trade with Iran, a great many—including ThyussenKrupp and Daimler—still do a booming business with, and within, the Islamic Republic.
Germany is helping Iran in other ways as well. By some estimates, the country provides as much as 60 percent of the critical technology used by Iran to exploit its massive natural gas reserves. With U.S. sanctions now beginning to squeeze Iran's oil industry, such assistance is nothing short of a lifeline for Iran's beleaguered energy economy. It also puts Berlin very much on the wrong side of the widening international effort to derail Iran's march toward the bomb.
Perhaps this realization has contributed to the Merkel government's more critical stance. But timing likely plays a large role as well. Germany's hardening of policy against EIH comes amid new movement within the European Union for sanctions aimed both at Iran's atomic endeavor and its repressive domestic conduct. And it precedes Merkel's early-June visit to Washington, where the global drive to frustrate Iran's nuclear ambitions is sure to take center stage in her discussions with White House officials.
Still, the German-Iranian alliance is liable to prove resilient. The economic bonds between Berlin and Tehran run deep, and there is bound to be no shortage of German companies agitating for a return to "business as usual" in bilateral trade with the Islamic Republic in the months ahead. Indeed, Germany's recent (and distinctly unhelpful) role in temporarily helping India circumvent international restrictions on oil trade with Iran suggests that its status as an enabler of the Iranian regime is far from a thing from the past.
Nevertheless, Germany's support of sanctions against EIH should be seen for what it is: a significant evolution in Berlin's Iran policy, and a major step forward for international efforts to cut off a critical conduit for Iran's burgeoning strategic arsenal. When she comes to Washington, American policymakers should commend Chancellor Merkel for facilitating both. But they also should make clear that they expect these changes to be more than simply temporary.
| 2019-04-22T10:18:06 |
http://www.ilanberman.com/9641/germany-gets-serious-about-squeezing-iran
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Are There Countries With Non Rectangular Flags?
There are three countries that have non-rectangular flags.
The flag of Nepal is not rectangular.
There are 193 sovereign states that are recognized by the United Nations. Each state has its own government, constitution, and national symbol. Countries can have flags with similar colors but different arrangements or symbols. Other countries such as Indonesia and Monaco have similar flags but with different width-length ratio. Of the 193 sovereign flags, 190 are rectangular; three are non-rectangular. Nepal, Vatican City, and Switzerland are the only three countries that defied the norm of the rectangular flag.
The official flag of Nepal is the only non-quadrilateral flag in the world. The flags take the shape of two triangular pennants. It has a crimson red background with blue edges. The upper pennant has a stylized white moon at the center while the lower pennant has a white twelve-pointed sun. The flag was adopted on December 16, 1962, and resembles the flag used in the 19th and 20th centuries. The colors and design of the flag are described in the Nepalese constitution. The crimson red color represents the bravery of the Nepalese people while the blue color represents peace and harmony. The flags triangular shape represents the country’s relation with the Himalayas. The celestial bodies symbolize the sovereignty and permanence of the country just like the sun and the moon. The moon also represents the purity of spirit and the calm demeanor of the people.
The flag of Switzerland is a square shaped. It consists of a white cross on a red background. It is one of the only two square-shaped sovereign flags in the world, the other being the flag of Vatican City. The flag was adopted in December 1889. The national flag is sometimes confused with the flag (red cross on a white background) of the International Red Cross which is headquartered in the country’s capital. The citizenry is allowed to flag the flag in private and commercial buildings throughout the year. The “Swissness” fashion of the 21st century has integrated the flag in most of its designs. It is uncommon to meet people in Switzerland wearing clothes with the national flag. It is unlawful to remove, destroy, or desecrate the flag that has been installed by the government or the local authority but people are allowed to privately destroy private flags.
On February 11, 1929, Pope Pius XI and the Kingdom of Italy signed the Treaty of Lateran. The treaty officially established the state of Vatican City that would be governed by the Holy See. On June 7, 1929, the Vatican adopted a new flag as is required of every new state. The flag of the Vatican is one of the two square-shaped flags in the world. It consists of a yellow/gold band on the hoist side, and a white band on the fly side. The Papal Tiara and the crossed golden and silver keys of Saint Peter lie at the center of the white band. The keys as considered the Key of Heaven as proclaimed by the Gospel of Matthew 16:19. The gold key symbolize spiritual power while the silver symbolizes earthly power.
This page was last updated on May 28, 2018.
Flags Of Which Countries Feature A Cross In Their Design?
| 2019-04-20T10:15:38 |
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/are-there-countries-with-non-rectangular-flags.html
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+1: 1.00000 Item specific learning. Lexical decision task determining word or non-word on visually presented either plain text or mirror-reversed text. WOEXP: 46.
+2: 0.62642 Photographs of houses versus faces and chairs. Conjunction between passive viewing and delayed match-to sample of gray-scale photographs versus scrambled pictures and house versus faces and chairs, with matching choice indicated by pressing a button with the right or left thumb. WOEXP: 90.
+3: 0.59538 Photographs and line drawings of houses versus faces and chairs. Conjunction between delayed match-to sample of gray-scale photographs and line drawings versus scrambled pictures and house versus faces and chairs, with matching choice indicated by pressing a button with the right of left thumb. WOEXP: 93.
+4: 0.58215 Mirror-reversed text reading versus plain text reading. Lexical decision task determining word or non-word on visually presented either plain text or mirror-reversed text. WOEXP: 44.
+5: 0.55278 Visual change. Change between two simple abstract shapes, one red and one blue visually presented on a screen versus change in auditory or tactile stimuli. WOEXP: 453.
+6: 0.54702 Speech rate negative correlation. Negative correlation with word rate during overt fluent speech about whatever come to mind when viewing Rorschach inkblot plates. WOEXP: 578.
+7: 0.50317 Visual exploration versus saccades. Visual search exploration versus saccade eye movement. WOEXP: 6.
+8: 0.50029 Resting (group II). Awake resting state with eyes closed versus goal-directed task. WOEXP: 179.
+9: 0.49577 Regions correlating with superior colliculus activity. Regions correlating with superior colliculus activity under the condition of visual search but not saccadic eye movements. WOEXP: 8.
+10: 0.49468 Photographs and line drawings of chairs versus houses and faces. Conjunction between delayed match-to sample of gray-scale photographs and line drawings versus scrambled pictures and chairs versus houses and faces, with matching choice indicated by pressing a button with the right of left thumb. WOEXP: 95.
+11: 0.48907 Skill learning: Early mirror-reading versus late mirror-reading. Lexical decision task determining word or non-word on visually presented either plain text or mirror-reversed text. WOEXP: 45.
+12: 0.47444 Stage 1 sleep increases. Increases during stage 1 sleep with and without hypnagogic hallucinations versus awake. WOEXP: 385.
+13: 0.46334 Cursor movement with joystick. Movement of a cursor controlled with right hand through a joystick from the center of the screen to one of eight positions arranged radially and further to a new position at the same angle but further away from the center. WOEXP: 148.
+14: 0.46215 Color vision. Color vision by viewing a Mondrian-like with a collage of colored squares and rectangles of different shapes and colors versus colorless Mondrian image with isoluminant gray values. WOEXP: 429.
+15: 0.45183 Photographs of chairs versus houses and faces. Conjunction between passive viewing and delayed match-to sample of gray-scale photographs versus scrambled pictures and chairs versus houses and faces, with matching choice indicated by pressing a button with the right of left thumb. WOEXP: 92.
+16: 0.44468 Color perception during free viewing. Subjective experience of color intensity during free viewing of a James Bond movie. WOEXP: 381.
+17: 0.42283 Difficult color matching. Difficult color matching with low discriminable colored random polygons presented serially in pairs on a screen with response on a right or left hand mouse button versus easy color matching. WOEXP: 255.
+18: 0.39920 Saccade versus central contrast. Saccadic eye movement versus central contrast. WOEXP: 7.
+19: 0.39631 Alzheimer's disease versus healthy. Patients with Alzheimer's disease in mental resting state versus matched healthy controls. WOEXP: 291.
+20: 0.37150 Resting (group I). Awake resting state with eyes closed versus goal-directed task. WOEXP: 178.
+21: 0.36854 Saccades. Reflexive saccades to a peripheral visual stimuli with return to center versus central fixation with no peripheral distraction. WOEXP: 418.
+22: 0.35408 Visuospatial stimulus, pooled data. Viewing of dots in one of four displayed boxes versus rest. WOEXP: 351.
+23: 0.35246 Robbery re-experience. Viewing of video showing a previously experienced bank-robbery versus viewing a neutral video with people walking in a park. WOEXP: 321.
+24: 0.35187 Silent reading of proper words and pseudowords. Silent reading of visually presented proper and psudowords versus resting. WOEXP: 394.
+25: 0.34500 Positive age-citalopram dependence. Positive correlation with age of 40mg citalopram administration. WOEXP: 425.
-1: -0.15245 Semantic versus pseudoword syllable counting via case judgment. Decision whether a visually presented word is abstract or concrete with right hand response button press versus syllable counting of peudowords with case judgment as double subtracted. WOEXP: 560.
-2: -0.14047 Semantic versus case. Decision whether a visually presented word is abstract or concrete with right hand response button press versus decision based on the case of the letters in the word. WOEXP: 550.
-3: -0.12343 Semantic versus syllable counting via case judgment. Decision whether a visually presented word is abstract or concrete with right hand response button press versus syllable counting with case judgment as double subtracted. WOEXP: 558.
-4: -0.11859 Syllable counting versus semantic judgment. Syllable counting of visually presented words and button press with right hand versus decision whether a visually presented word is abstract or concrete. WOEXP: 555.
-5: -0.11775 Pseudoword syllable counting versus case judgment. Counting the number of syllables in a visually presented pseudoword versus decision based on the case of the letters in the word. WOEXP: 556.
| 2019-04-21T21:15:43 |
http://neuro.imm.dtu.dk/services/jerne/brede/WOEXP_46.html
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The author's conclusion: Earth is the sole abode of intelligent life in the galaxy, the product of a profoundly improbable sequence of cosmic, geologic and climatic events—some thoroughly documented, some inferable from fragmentary evidence—that allowed our planet to become a unique refuge where life could develop to its full potential.
Chief among these, paradoxically, was a near-cataclysmic planetary collision during Earth's infancy, which gave birth to the moon. Such encounters were relatively common in the harum-scarum chaos of an early solar system that teemed with veering planets and asteroids. In its suicidal blow against our world, the Mars-size impactor generated enough heat to liquefy both itself and Earth's exterior. Its dense, metallic core plunged inward to join our planet's existing metallic center, while the rest swept up part of the fiery terrestrial shell to form the moon.
Mr. Gribbin admits the possibility —even probability—that elementary life forms have arisen elsewhere in the galaxy. But the object of his scientific and statistical scrutiny is intelligent extraterrestrial life. While he cannot prove a galaxy-wide absence of other civilizations, he presents an array of modern, research-based evidence that renders that conclusion eminently reasonable.
I agree with this. Between science fiction stories and astronomy news, most people probably have the view that the scientific evidence favors the increased likelihood of sentient life on other planets. But there is a lot of evidence to the contrary, and I believe that it is likely that we are the only intelligent life in the Milky Way galaxy.
There are many other galaxies, and this leaves the possibility of sentient life in other galaxies. But even those science fiction stories do not suggest communication with other galaxies.
| 2019-04-24T22:48:51 |
http://blog.darkbuzz.com/2012/01/no-other-sentient-life.html
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Indie filmmaker Dustin Guy Defa makes his return to the SXSW festival six years after his directorial debut, Bad Fever, premiered there. This time around he returns with a larger and more prominent cast in the hilarious new comedy, Person to Person. This thoughtful examination of human interactions is wrapped within a bright comedic shell that highlights the everyday humor in life and personal connection.
Set throughout the course of one day in the lives of various New York City residents, Person to Person follows a vinyl record collector (Bene Coopersmith) who stumbles across a rare find, a pair of magazine reporters (Michael Cera and Broad City's Abbi Jacobson) struggling to uncover the truth behind a murder (or was it a suicide?), a computer illiterate romantic (George Sample III) who does the unthinkable to the love of his life, and a cynical teen (Tavi Gevinson) unsure of her own sexuality. These mostly non-intersecting storylines tackle a wide array of personal issues and human connection with a hilariously tender approach.
Endearing and genuine, Person to Person captures the true essence of indie filmmaking with raw performances and modest city settings. Yet, even through its minimalist backdrop, Dustin Guy Defa crafts an assortment of enriched characters that are brought to life with skilled actors and actresses. You'll recognize some of the talent involved such as Michael Cera, Philip Baker Hall, Abbi Jacobson and Isiah Whitlock Jr., but it's a whole host of other unknowns that truly steal the show. Bene Coopersmith proves to be a naturally gifted source of laughs and the heartfelt performances of both Tavi Gevinson and George Sample III propel their complex characters to the forefront of the film. Person to Person lacks an all-encompassing message, but the film brings levity and originality to its dissection of human connection.
| 2019-04-25T13:47:47 |
http://www.moviecriticdave.com/review/persontoperson
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What is the purpose of a liquid diet when dealing with Inflammatory Bowel Disease? I have gotten this question quite frequently in dealing with the nutritional aspects of this disease. In the traditional usage a liquid diet is prescribed to provide time for the bowels to rest. The bowels may need this type of rest after surgery or a particularly bad flare up.
One of the common liquid diets used in medical nutrition therapy is the Clear Liquid Diet. This diet consists of all non-caffeinated clear liquids. It also can include Jello, popsicles, and broth. It is meant to be used for very short periods of time because it does not meet the nutritional needs of adults or children.
The next step up from the Clear Liquid Diet is called the Full Liquid. This diet includes everything listed above and adds juices, ice cream, milk, pudding, cooked refined cereal and strained soups. Some people also add protein shakes to this diet but this is not part of the traditional definition of Full Liquid diet.
Some of the research does indicate that patients can benefit from the use of liquid diets during recovery periods. However, the long term use of such diets is not recommended. These diets do not provide enough of the essential nutrients the body needs to function properly. In the end it could end up weakening the body's defenses to use this type of diet in a way other than what it was intended for. This is especially true for people with IBD who may have absorption issues adding to the problem.
If you are on a liquid diet that was prescribed by your physician you probably received instructions on how long to remain on the diet and when to transition to more normal foods. If you have problems with the diet or transition discuss them with your doctor or dietitian.
Frequently placing yourself on a liquid diet may also indicate to your physician that your IBD is not under control. They may want to take a closer look at your overall treatment plan. Try using our journals to keep close track of your symptoms and nutritional habits and bring them to your doctor appointments.
Dietary changes can seem so benign but can make a huge difference in your overall health. A healthy diet can dramatically improve the quality of life for many patients I have spoken with. Should you choose to place yourself on any form of liquid diet be sure your physician has been informed. They may need to watch you more closely for nutritional deficiencies.
| 2019-04-24T17:59:52 |
https://www.healthcentral.com/article/proper-use-of-liquid-diets
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To make copper sulfate in a science lab, start by pouring sulfuric acid into a glass beaker and heating it until it's almost boiling. Then, carefully add small pieces of copper oxide to the hot solution, stirring the mixture lightly for 30 seconds after each addition.
Making 1.0M solution of CuSO4 . 5H2O --> When calculating mass of solid to add to water, do I use the molar ma? do I use the molar mass of CuSO4 . H2O or CuSO4 in my calculations? Does it matter? Source(s): making 1 0m solution cuso4 5h2o gt calculating mass solid add water molar ma: https://biturl.im/dQfku .
Best Answer: The usual form of copper sulphate in the laboratory is the blue pentahydrate. Molar mass CuSO4.5H2O = 249.68 g/mol (pentahydrate) To make 100ml of 1.0M solutiuon weigh out 24.968g CuSO5.5H2O and dissolve in water, making final volume 100mL.
Copper sulfate crystals are among the most beautiful crystals you can grow, but you might not have access to a chemistry lab or want to order the copper sulfate from a chemical supply company. That's okay because you can make copper sulfate yourself using readily-available materials.
Make a Saturated Copper Sulfate Solution Stir copper sulfate into very hot water until no more will dissolve. You can just pour the solution into a jar and wait a few days for crystals to grow, but if you grow a seed crystal , you can get much larger and better-shaped crystals.
| 2019-04-19T06:30:31 |
https://www.reference.com/web?q=how+to+make+cuso4&qo=contentPageRelatedSearch&o=600605&l=dir
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If Egyptian unrest turns into an Egyptian revolution, the implications for the Arab world - and for Western policy in the Middle East - will be immense.
Egypt matters, in a way that tiny Tunisia - key catalyst that it has been in the current wave of protest - does not.
Egypt, the most populous Arab state, can help determine the thrust of Arab policies - whether towards Israel or Iran or in the perennial quest for Arab consensus on issues that matter.
Above all, the Egyptian state has traditionally had a strength and solidity that made its collapse seem unthinkable.
Even now, with so much that is uncertain, that state and its basic structures may survive - with or without Hosni Mubarak, the country's president for the last three decades.
If there is a power vacuum, who is likely to fill it?
Will the powerful military intervene to restore stability?
If they did, would the protesters accept such a scenario - or would they, like their Tunisian counterparts, keep up the pressure for radical change?
And - the wild card that troubles Western policy-makers most - could the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's Islamist opposition movement, somehow exploit the protests to come to power?
Right now, that scenario seems far-fetched. The Brotherhood is trying to jump on the bandwagon of a youthful and largely leaderless protest movement.
They are not in front. They are trying to catch up.
But the situation is volatile. New leaders - nationalist or Islamist, civilian or military - could emerge if the country is engulfed in chaos.
If the Mubarak regime were to collapse - which is still a big "if" - the fall-out would affect virtually every key player in the region and every key issue.
•For Arab autocrats, it would signify the writing on the wall in a far more dramatic way than the fall of the Ben Ali regime in Tunisia.
•For Arab protesters, it would be a great boost, fuelling the idea that the region has entered a new era of "people power".
•It would deal a blow to an already enfeebled Middle East peace process. Egypt was the first Arab state to sign a peace treaty with Israel, back in the 1970s. A change of regime would alarm Israeli leaders and deepen the siege mentality among many Israelis.
•It would affect business confidence, regionally and even globally, especially if oil prices shot up.
•Finally, it would pose painful dilemmas for Western policy-makers who have long favoured gradual political reform in the region, fearful that the alternative could be the breakdown of stability and the rise of extremism.
Right now, Arab rulers and Arab citizens are glued to their TV screens, computers and mobile phones for news of how the drama is unfolding.
It will be some time before the smoke and tear gas settle, and the new face of this troubled region begins to come into focus.
| 2019-04-19T18:35:03 |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12311889
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Seeking to promote the cooperation between the higher education institutions in the region, the TICAL community calls the interested to submit, until April 15th, proposals for interinstitutional projects that address the themes of the Conference 2015 (described in the thematic axes) and that could be benefited and empowered by the collaboration between different academic institutions in Latin America. An author of each selected proposal will receive the airfare as an incentive to participate in TICAL 2015 and present its project at the conference.
The collaborative projects searched by the TICAL Community should convene the members of the higher education institutions in the region to actively participate in them. In addition, it should address some of the themes included within the thematic axes of TICAL2015 Conference.
A general description of the solution, its technological and methodological aspects, among others.
Justification: Why this is a project that requires the support or appreciates been held by various institutions in the region?
Profile Definition: In terms of competence, what is the profile that must have the people who are interested in being incorporated to the project?
Benefits: What are the benefits obtained through the collaboration among the participating institutions?
Interaction: What kind of collaboration is expected by each of the participating institutions?
Articulation: What are the proposed dynamics for the project to be successful and implemented?
Necessary resources for its implementation.
Strategies and feasibility evaluation for implementing the latin-american interinstitutional MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses).
Create, share or improve a technological platform to support any of the areas of the University, teaching, research, administration, strategic management, to be used between various institutions in the region.
Develop a project that, on the base of the identity federation, allows sharing services or applications between different universities.
Preparation of standards on specific topics should have a time and a defined deliverable.
Identify and evaluate ICT services that could be offered in a federated scheme between institutions of the region.
Generate Centers of Reporting of Issues of Regional Security, composed by a network of university centers (It can starts by seeking alliance with the agencies that already exists and seeing collaboration points).
Make a software or applications registration that can be used within the TICAL Community. In this case it is essential to define the classification criteria and the strategies to capture the information.
The Program Committee of TICAL2015 will evaluate the received projects and will choose one (or various) to be presented in TICAL2015. In order to encourage and ensure the presentation of each selected project, the author of the same - or one of them, in case of a collective work - will receive the flight tickets to attend the Conference. The presentation made by the head of the project must motivate other institutions to participate in it, in order to get partners for its implementation. The project does not need to be in course, but the institution responsible for it should be able to move forward on its development.
| 2019-04-24T02:20:01 |
http://tical2015.redclara.net/index.php/en/noticias-y-eventos/destacados/3148-tical2015-busca-proyectos-de-colaboracion-interinstitucional-para-ser-presentados-en-sesion-de-comunidad-tical
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Can the U.S. tell when its assistance in planning an operation, or whether its weapons are being used, impacted specific strikes?
During a recent interview with Defense News, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, the outgoing head of U.S. Air Forces Central Command, acknowledged that the issue of tracking weapons needs to be addressed for lawmakers.
But he stressed that the complicated nature of these strikes means getting clarity on these issues will take time.
“As you peel the onion back, where is the U.S. involvement? I think that's what at the higher levels they're working through right now to try to sort that out in terms of how much, as you look into this, can we fully understand,” Harrigian said.
“Depending upon where you're talking about in the specifics of uncovering or discovering a target, to when a weapon is dropped, if you were to dig in, there's going to be some areas that it will be crystal clear where we're not involved at all,” Harrigian added.
The issue of how the Saudi-led coalition is using American arms and assistance for its airstrikes in Yemen reemerged as an issue earlier this month, following a strike that reportedly killed 51 innocent people, 40 of them children.
On Monday, CNN reported that U.S. officials have issued a warning to Saudi Arabia that America is prepared to reduce its support for the Yemen campaign, both militarily and in terms of intelligence, if the Gulf power does not show it is taking steps to avoid civilian casualties in the future.
On Capitol Hill, there is mounting pressure to account for U.S. aid to the Saudi-led bombing campaign, given the growing toll of civilian casualties. However, the Senate’s Republican leadership last week rejected an amendment to the chamber’s defense appropriations bill to cut off U.S. support.
The amendment, from Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., would have made American support contingent on the U.S. defense secretary certifying the coalition air campaign is not violating international law and U.S. policy related to the protection of civilians.
Murphy cited United Nations data: Up to one-third of all Saudi-led coalition airstrikes hit civilian targets. Data shows there has been a 37 percent increase in civilian casualties from airstrikes in 2018 compared to 2017, up to 778 from 567.
To those who question the U.S. involvement in Yemen, Harrigian points out that al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula continues to operate out of the region — and argued that the militant group remains a “pretty significant threat” to the American public.
“It’s important we keep a lid on that and keep an understanding of what’s going on down there so that we preclude any type of attack making its way back to the homeland,” he said.
| 2019-04-22T18:25:52 |
https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2018/08/27/can-the-us-tell-when-its-weapons-are-used-in-yemen-its-complicated/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EBB%208/28/18&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief
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Write a funny speech. The best wedding speeches I've heard are funny, pulling together key stories of a person's life that provide insight into who they are, while also being amusing.
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The best wedding speeches I've heard are funny, pulling together key stories of a person's life that provide insight into who they are, while also being amusing.
If you happen to know things someone did as a toddler or a young child that are supposedly indicative of their current personality it helps to throw some of that in there.
Stumbles the person has had that can be framed in an endearing light are also excellent fodder for this sort of thing.
You need to quiz everyone who knows this person to help put together a solid stream of embarrassing stories - with a compliment or two thrown in for the appearance of balance.
You want to a paint a picture of this person as infant, such that it becomes obvious what they are like, and carry that narrative forward, perhaps accentuating a few flaws and positive traits, really painting more of a caricature of them more than anything else.
Emphasize how they are infinitely better now that their significant other is around and able to compensate for their many flaws. Emphasize that they are lucky to have found this person, without whom they would likely be relatively helpless - and mention they would have trouble adequately fending for themselves without their spouse.
Emphasize that they have struggled and stumbled numerous times in their life, and they finally have gotten it all together quite recently and that this is symbolized and best epitomized by their spousal selection.
Make sure to spotlight the spouse's positive traits, and thank her profusely for putting up with whatever she might encounter.
On the other hand, you can also play it straight and give a comprehensive tour de force on just how awesome both people are who are getting married and throw in only a modicum of teasing just for good measure and to show you care.
Funny speeches are good, but keep the humor directed at the groom, and, depending on the size of he wedding, the humor needs to be PG-level in terms of family friendliness. You're probably being taped and they'll be watching this for years to come... have to keep it classy.
Anecdotal stories from the past are always pleasing to relate. Most of the folks at larger weddings may not know the groom at all, or not know him well. You want to be funny but also show that person's positive qualities. People want to know that the bride has made a good decision and is marrying a good guy.
Do NOT forget the bride. It is a best man speech, but it is her wedding. If you know the bride (and as you're the best man you probably do) tell some funny stories about when they first met. Do not embarrass her. Easy stories to tell is how beautiful/enchanting she is and some of the goofy stuff the groom did as he was falling in love with her.
Honor the parents and/or hosts of the wedding. They more than likely shelling out a lot of cash and spent a lot of time helping the couple prepare, they should be noticed.
(If applicable) Honor a deceased parent. When my best friend got married, his mother had passed away about 4 years before. I was able to mention her and how proud she would've been to see him getting married. It went over very well and many people thanked me for speaking of her as that sort of thing is hard to introduce into casual conversation.
Practice a bit. I'm not the type to memorize my speech beforehand, but I will keep cards will bullet points at the ready to make sure you don't miss a certain anecdote.
Be sincere and warm. It is a wedding and it is OK to let down your "man-guard" and express affection for the groom.
Make sure the groom doesn't get too drunk the night BEFORE the wedding, as well as while getting ready.
You yourself should not get hammered either- enjoy yourself, yes, but get wasted- no.
Be the ringleader of the groomsmen: Make sure they all have your number, and make sure at least one bridesmaid has your number as well. Be the point of contact for the day for any vendors that might need to speak with the groom. Help to wrangle bridal party members for photos, announcements, dances, and other key events during the wedding.
Put together an awesome toast. But keep it to 5-10 minutes MAX!
For the bachelor party, ask the GROOM what HE wants to do. Don't do what YOU or the other groomsmen want to do!
Weddings: To whom do I address my best man speech?
Weddings: What are some great tips for preparing a best man speech?
Wedding Etiquette: Is it acceptable not to ask your brother to be the best man at your wedding?
| 2019-04-19T05:18:38 |
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-to-be-the-best-best-m_n_5863362
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What was deleted? If just the config (deleted from Hyper-V Manager), then the VHD(x) is still there. You can create a new VM with the same configuration, then when you get to step Connect Virtual Hard Disk choose Use an existing and point to the existing VHD(x).
But you can create a new VM and attach the .vhd/.vhdx files and you will have your VM up and running once again.
If you are deleting the VM completely by going to the directory where the Hyper-V virtual machine is located and delete the files from there, then you will not be able to restore it, unless you're using a backup software.
I think the question was related to how snapshots (actually 'checkpoints' nowadays) work.
you have no VM anymore where you could select 'apply checkpoint'.
As Dave pointed out, deleting a VM does not delete the virtual disk files, so of course you could still create a new VM and attach the existing disks. (It would create new NIC GUIDs though, so the NIC configuration inside the VM would be lost.) And if there was a checkpoint, you probably could use only the VHDX file (= the state where the first checkpoint was taken). All changes after taking the checkpoint would be in the AVHDX file, and I don't know if it is possible at all to attach this to a new VM (at least it's not so easy).
| 2019-04-19T16:43:02 |
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/1bcc5c81-3661-46ed-bbd8-3c8b9d4e1a7c/can-you-store-an-deleted-vm-in-hyperv-if-you-have-a-snap?forum=winserverhyperv
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Is it time for a gospel house revival?
Last year, Kanye West signed Kacy Hill to his G.O.O.D Music imprint, based on the strength of one single - Experience.
Featuring a dreamy, fractured vocal over a deep electric beat, it was an impressive introduction - and one that extolled the virtues of a stimulant-free life ("drink is a soft kind prison," she trilled).
The song was a comment "on society's inability to function without mind-altering substances," she explained to BlahBlahBlahScience. "I think there's something really lovely in being able to be a human and be nervous and weird and be okay with it. Everyone wants to be sold a lifestyle but no one wants to honestly feel what it is to be consciously alive."
In another interview, with Pigeons and Planes, the singer said it was one of the first songs she had written, after being encouraged by a photographer who discovered Kacy singing to herself on a shoot.
As someone whose first song was about a two-headed robot, colour me impressed.
Kacy grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and began modelling as a teenager. She moved to LA aged 16 after graduating from High School and was cast in a string of commercials for American Apparel. Perhaps more importantly for her future career, she landed the job of backing dancer on Kanye's Yeezus tour last year.
But the 21-year-old has been silent since signing her deal last December... until now.
Foreign Fields - a gorgeous, swelling electronic epic - is her G.O.O.D. Music debut; calling to mind the minimalism of James Blake and the melodies of Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagano. Others have compared Kacy to Jamie Woon and FKA Twigs - so you get the picture.
Lyrically, the song is about "finding people in your life that help you progress and move you forward," Kacy told Hunger TV. It exemplifies the "sweet spot between classic pop and 'cool' music," that she's trying to capture on her forthcoming debut album.
Watch the unsettling, Rankin-directed video below.
Fun fact: Kacy can lick her elbow.
| 2019-04-18T13:00:02 |
http://blog.discopop.co.uk/2015/09/meet-kanye-wests-new-favourite-artist.html
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New user here exploring HTML Editor, but with lots of experience with other editors. I've been looking for some time at a way to enter new tags or to edit existing ones such that all the possible tag attributes are revealed, including the ones not yet used in a particular tag.
Coffee Cup lets me insert the simple <br> tag, for example, into my page by double-clicking it from the Code tab. How could I discover that I could insert the clear attribute, for example <br clear=right>, but using Coffee Cup?
A wizard-like form would be ideal, but I would accept anything better than going off to an HTML resource to look up a particular tag, and then coming back to type attributes into Coffee Cup's source code view.
If you look along the left side of the open programme, you will see a tab 'code'. There you'll find all the tags for html, css and more. Where there is a + you find the various attributes.
As to the <br> it has no attributes, the clear has to be done in css.
Yes, the code list does include some attributes under their + listings, but not all. I prefer to use css for page-wide statements, not for one particular element as in the case of <br clear=right> for that one break. But I'm very close to finding a workaround.
Under the main menu's Edit button, I clicked "Add/Edit HTML Tag Markup", selected HTML, clicked br from the elements list, and added the "clear" text attribute. If I could have enabled the "Selected Attribute Values" to the right to list left, right, and all, then my problem would be solved. But everything there stayed greyed out.
This did add a + under br with the clear="" attribute, an improvement, but not great until I can list the 3 allowable values. Any thoughts on how to do that?
I just took a step closer to my objective. On the above "Add/Edit HTML Tag Markup", I picked the "Attribute Type" to be Array, and then was allowed to enter the 3 text attributes "left", "right", and "all". This should have worked but the Code list still shows the + item below <br> as clear="" without its array list. Likewise when I double-click it to insert it into a page, I'm not shown the array. So close.
Although it doesn't help in training ("discovering all the attributes"), one can set up whatever one wishes in Snippets (tab just below the code tab).
Actually, 'clear' is not a html tag, it belongs in the css tab. You'll find it there with all the properties: left, right, both (not 'all'), inherit and none.
| 2019-04-21T10:34:10 |
https://www.coffeecup.com/forums/html-editor/discovering-all-the-attributes-of-a-tag/?post_id=270393
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I feel I can give an honest Algebrator review because I've personally used it for a few of my math related courses. Algebrator has its pros and cons, just as any math software, but it does an excellent job on a wide variety of different types of math - without having to pay extra for different math sub-topics.
What Can the Algebrator Do?
The Algebrator, along with any math software, has a learning curve. It will take a while to figure out how to input the data for advanced calculations. Just play around with it for a an hour or so to get the hang of it.
Finding the GCF and LCM - No problems. Does the job perfectly every time.
Factoring and Expanding Expressions - Again, does an awesome job.
Complex Numbers - Took me a while to figure out a little i button in their interface that represents complex numbers, but does a fairly good job with this.
Graphing Curves - Parabolas, lines, circles and more. The graphing part is perfect for the most part; however one gripe I have about the software is that it doesn't clearly label all the lines on the graph. This leaves you to sometimes guess where the exact position of plots are.
Geometry and Trig - Never used these functions so I can't vouch for them.
Logarithms - Algebrator was a big help with Log functions; however I never really understood logarithms so it could of been from my errors.
Linear Algebra - If you're taking a class in finite math it solves matrix problems fairly well.
Algebrator's interface looks like a notepad - set up exactly how you would do it on paper. Some math problems you can do just by typing it into the main interface; however, when completing upper level math problems you will have to run it through the "wizard". The wizard will open up a whole slew of different types of problem templates for you.
The first class I used with Algebrator was an Algebra I, which my school offered online. I have to admit when I started using this software I abused it a bit. When taking online classes it is very easy to just type in the problem and magically get an answer. This way though, you don't learn much for any upcoming math classes.
Obviously if you are taking math in-seat, you can't take your laptop and start plugging away at questions during a test; however one of the nice things about the software is that it will show you a step-by-step rundown of how it got to an answer. This way you can review every step of the process to see where you messed up. You can even control how much information it gives you; a low setting would skip many easy steps, while high shows you every little step the Algebrator took to solve a problem.
I sent two emails to customer service and I was very impressed with how fast they were at getting back to me. In the first email, I asked them how the Algebrator could help me with a certain problem. Not only did they email back within 24 hours stating how to do it on Algebrator, but they also gave me a TON of detailed information on the problem free of charge.
The Algebrator can do anything a TI calculator can do, and for roughly half the price. The benefits fully outweigh the cost of the Algebrator, which is at its lowest price ever. While you might need a calculator for tests, you might be able to get away with not buying a big fancy one if you have the Algebrator handy.
When I used Algebrator, 95% of the problems I inputted were exactly correct (the remaining 5% could of been my error from entering in the data). There is a learning curve that you will have to pass in order to get the most out of the software, but nothing too complicated. I fully recommend the Algebrator to anyone that struggles with math, especially those who have to go no further than Algebra I and II. If you don't struggle with math, I have no idea why you're reading this Web page =).
| 2019-04-23T10:47:51 |
https://www.collegestudentnecessities.com/algebrator-review.html
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After the better part of a day's wait, the first close-up pictures of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, have finally made it back to Earth, revealing to scientists and the public alike active, dynamic worlds that were anything but what was realistically expected. So, what has New Horizons found?
On Pluto, New Horizons revealed geology that very few scientists had the audacity to expect. Pluto is a member of the Kuiper Belt, which is made up of mostly comets and a few larger bodies, such as Pluto. Comets, at least on the surface, are known qualities, characterized by battered surfaces of mostly ice and some rock. Going into the mission, many expected Pluto to be like a comet, albeit much, much larger.
How were the experts wrong!
The first close-ups of Pluto snapped by New Horizons have revealed a world of mountains (over 10,000 feet tall), valleys, plains, and even what seems to be a polar ice cap. As exciting as these features are, it's the complete absence of craters in some areas that really has scientists talking. Pluto and the rest of the solar system formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago. In the early history of the solar system, there was far more debris flying around than now, most of which was eventually absorbed into the still-forming planets. Evidence for these objects? Just train a pair of moderately-powerful binoculars on the Moon to reveal all of its craters: a 4.5 billion year record of violent impacts. The absence of craters on some areas of Pluto can only mean one thing: the dwarf planet's surface is much newer than the solar system, with many scientists offering a 100 million year age at most, meaning that Pluto was geologically active at some point in its recent (in geological terms) past. The mechanisms that caused this resurfacing will undoubtedly occupy scientists for years, if not decades to come as, unlike geologically active moons in the outer solar system, Pluto has no giant parent planet tugging on it to warm its interior.
Then there's Charon, Pluto's largest Moon.
Like Pluto, Charon displays a wide variety of geological features, evidence of recent geologic activity, and two massive canyons, the larger of which is over 600 miles long and over 6 miles deep. Another feature that is sure to spark investigation is the color contrasts visible on both Pluto and Charon and the possible causes for them.
Needless to say, even with just these first few pictures, mission scientists have already have a lot to talk about and routes of study to pursue. With the data still coming back (NASA estimates it will take 16 months to get all the data captured during the last week back to Earth), who knows what further surprises will await us Earthlings courtesy of the former 9th planet over 3 billion miles distant.
| 2019-04-19T20:32:52 |
http://bodzashphotoastro.blogspot.com/2015/07/theyre-here-first-close-ups-of-pluto.html
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Definition at line 240 of file FileCheck.h.
Definition at line 254 of file FileCheck.h.
References Check(), llvm::Check::CheckNext, llvm::Check::CheckNot, and CheckSame().
Definition at line 1029 of file FileCheck.cpp.
References assert(), llvm::Check::CheckNext, llvm::Check::CheckNot, CheckSame(), llvm::FileCheckDiag::MatchFoundButWrongLine, llvm::StringRef::npos, PrintMatch(), PrintNoMatch(), ProcessMatchResult(), llvm::StringRef::substr(), llvm::FileCheckRequest::Verbose, and llvm::FileCheckRequest::VerboseVerbose.
Definition at line 1200 of file FileCheck.cpp.
Definition at line 1110 of file FileCheck.cpp.
References llvm::Check::CheckEmpty, llvm::Check::CheckNext, CountNumNewlinesBetween(), llvm::StringRef::data(), llvm::SourceMgr::DK_Error, llvm::SourceMgr::DK_Note, llvm::StringRef::end(), llvm::SMLoc::getFromPointer(), llvm::cl::Prefix, and llvm::SourceMgr::PrintMessage().
Verify there's no "not strings" in the given buffer.
Definition at line 1173 of file FileCheck.cpp.
References assert(), llvm::Check::CheckNot, llvm::StringRef::npos, llvm::cl::Prefix, PrintMatch(), PrintNoMatch(), and llvm::FileCheckRequest::VerboseVerbose.
Definition at line 1150 of file FileCheck.cpp.
References llvm::Check::CheckSame, CountNumNewlinesBetween(), llvm::StringRef::data(), llvm::SourceMgr::DK_Error, llvm::SourceMgr::DK_Note, llvm::StringRef::end(), llvm::SMLoc::getFromPointer(), llvm::cl::Prefix, and llvm::SourceMgr::PrintMessage().
All of the strings that are disallowed from occurring between this match string and the previous one (or start of file).
Definition at line 252 of file FileCheck.h.
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Referenced by llvm::FileCheck::CheckInput(), PrintMatch(), and PrintNoMatch().
Definition at line 245 of file FileCheck.h.
| 2019-04-24T02:35:13 |
http://www.llvm.org/doxygen/structllvm_1_1FileCheckString.html
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These may well be the two most confounding three-letter words in all the language. The use of lay where lie is indicated has been a major problem for generations. To lay is to put or place: I will lay my cards on the table. To lie is to rest or recline: The cards lie on the table. But lie also means "to tell an untruth." Maybe because of the word's negative double meaning, people shy away from saying lie.
All of the following are incorrect: I'm going to lay on the couch. Your wallet is laying on the dresser. He wants to lay down. Make it lie, lying, lie, respectively.
Lie: You lie down today; you lay down yesterday; you have lain down before.
Lay: Please lay the book down now; you laid the book down yesterday; you have laid that book down before.
Most people would guess laid on the bed, but the correct answer is lay.
I have often lied/laid/lain/lay on the bed.
Again, most people would guess laid, but lain is correct.
I have often lied/laid/lain/lay my wallet on the dresser.
This time, laid is correct.
Examples in the present tense: I like to lie down for a nap at 2 p.m.
Please lay the book down.
I am laying the book down.
Examples in the past tense: I lay down for a nap yesterday at 2 p.m.
I laid the book down yesterday.
Examples with a helping verb (has, have): I have lain down for a nap every day this week.
I have laid the book down for the last time.
| 2019-04-22T10:37:36 |
https://grammarbook.com/homonyms/lay-lie.asp
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Article Correction: The Aug. 15 article misinterpreted the words of the Committee of the Khmer Rouge Victims. Marie-Felicite Sambath, who is 73, prepared a complaint that so far has not been accepted by the Khmer Rouge tribunal.These corrections have been entered into the text of the story.
The Committee of the Khmer Rouge Victims is pushing the Khmer Rouge tribunal to accept a complaint prepared by one of Cambodia's highest-profile victims, the group said Wednesday.
Marie-Felicite Sambath, 73, has prepared a complaint against the leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime for suffering the loss of her husband—an ambassador for former prince Norodom Sihnaouk's government—daughter, mother and sister.
Sambath has so far been unable to convince the tribunal to formally accept the complaint, opening questions on how individual victims should seek justice for suffering on such a mass scale.
Sambath claims her husband was killed in the infamous torture prison, Tuol Sleng, which was overseen by Kaing Khev Iev, alias Duch, the only person to so far be indicted by special courts of the tribunal.
The prosecutor's office has so far not accepted Sambath's complaint, said Chhay Hok Pheng, a member of the Committee of the Khmer Rouge Victims who led a delegation to Cambodia recently. The Committee has been unable to file the complaint.
He would like to file up to 45 similar suits, he said.
"This push is to find justice for the victims, and they will be able to express their pain and make their demands legally," he said. "We would like to see immediate trial."
The rules of the Khmer Rouge tribunal do allow for so-called "civil party actions," in which victims are entitled to file such suits.
A special Victim's Unit was created on paper when the rules were adopted earlier this year, allowing victims as a unit to receive "moral reparations."
So far, however, the Victim's Unit has not been formed.
UN prosecutor Robert Petit said that under Cambodian law, when any individual officially files a complaint, the prosecutor has a duty to respond on whether they will act on it.
| 2019-04-19T01:22:25 |
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/a-40-2007-08-15-voa2-90151137/1360098.html
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Will The Conservatives Please Attempt An Argument?
President Obama has taken a cautious tone toward the demonstrators in Iran, with his stated reason being that more open support would discredit their cause. This strikes me as a sensible position. The revealed preferences of both sides suggest a mutual belief that an American embrace would hurt the protestors. The regime is trying (so far, without much success) to tie the demonstrators to the U.S., and the demonstrators are embracing the symbolism of the Iranian revolution (the color green, chants of "Alluah Akbar," and so on) in order to demonstrate their patriotism and mainstream cultural status.
Still, this kind of judgment about an unfamiliar country's internal politics is just a guess, and it's a rebuttable proposition. What's remarkable to me is that those on the other side refuses to rebut it. Today's Washington Post op-ed page has two more columns lambasting Obama for failing to embrace the demonstrators. Today's offerings are by Charles Krauthammer and Paul Wolfowitz. Neither one of them even mentions, let alone answers, Obama's argument for why embracing the demonstrators would be counterproductive.
I don't understand how you could write a column without ever once addressing the primary argument for the proposition you're arguing against. The low quality of argument on this topic from the right is striking.
| 2019-04-24T06:29:10 |
https://newrepublic.com/article/50362/will-the-conservatives-please-attempt-argument
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The network's description: "AMC announced today it has greenlit the dramatic series Rubicon. From writer and executive producer Jason Horwitch (Pentagon Papers, Medical Investigation), Rubicon is a conspiracy thriller that follows an analyst at a New York City think-tank whose work leads him to uncover a hidden clue that points to an unfolding global conspiracy. The one-hour, 12-episode weekly series will be produced by Warner Horizon Television. Rubicon marks the third series order from AMC. The first two series that the network developed were Mad Men and Breaking Bad."
What did they leave out? Co-star Lili Taylor, as far as I can tell, doesn't turn up in the pilot.
The plot in a nutshell: It's Will Travers's (James Badge Dale) birthday. He however doesn't have much reason to celebrate. As an analyst for the American Policy Institute in New York City, Will spends his days coming up with ways to stabilize - and destabilize - the country's interests around the world. And because of the sensitive nature of his job, he cannot speak of his efforts to anyone outside the company, making him something of hermit as a result. That all changes when a co-worker (Lauren Hodges) innocuously asks for his help on a crossword puzzle. The clue: "Lucky lepidoptera larvae eat this." The answer: "Marsilea quadrifolia" (Latin for a four-leaf clover). Later that day he takes a stab at another crossword from a different paper and the same clue turns up: "Lucky lepidoptera larvae eat this." And another, and another. And the connections go deeper than that, all of the intersecting words involve the same thing: the three branches of government (legislative, executive and judicial). So what then is this fourth branch that the clover refers to?
Will runs it up the flagpole to his superstitious boss David (Peter Gerety - he, among other things, won't go near the number 13) who dismisses it as tomfoolery on the part of the crossword editors. After Will leaves however it's obvious he was onto something as David takes it to his boss Kale (Arliss Howard) where he inexplicably decides to take credit for the discovery. Shortly thereafter David is killed in a (seemingly) unrelated train accident, leaving his job, his prized motorcycle and a message to Will: "Drive away. Don't look back. It's time." This causes Will to launch his own investigation into David's death, where he stumbles across Ed Bancroft (Paul Butler), a chess-playing shut-in who warns him "they" hide in plain sight. Along the way we meet Will's other blink-and-you'll-miss co-workers: the sharply dressed Grant (Christopher Evan Welch), the nicotine addicted Miles (Dallas Roberts) and the kindly single mother Maggie (Jessica Collins). We're also privy to brief glimpse at an ominous conversation between six old white people (including the always great Roger Rees) as well as a storyline involving the newly widowed Katherine (Miranda Richardson) whose husband (Harris Yulin) killed himself after spotting an actual clover in his morning paper. In the end Will must decide whether to fight this apparent cabal from the inside or simply run away.
The bottom line: ...let's hope this incarnation gets more entertaining, not to mention picks up the pace, as it goes on.
| 2019-04-25T10:11:02 |
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/reviews/2009/07/22/the-futons-first-look-rubicon-amc-32075/20090722_rubicon/
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1. How many daughters did the royal couple have?
The royal couple had nine daughters.
2. Why were they named after the months of the year?
They were named after the months of the year because the King and the Queen had many daughters, and it confused the Queen to have to remember so many names.
3. The King had a peculiar habit. What was it? Why is it called peculiar?
The King’s peculiar habit was that instead of receiving gifts on his birthday, he gave them. It is called peculiar because usually, people receive gifts on their birthdays.
4. (i) What was Princess September’s reaction to the loss of her parrot?
(i) Princess September burst into a flood of tears at the loss of her parrot. She kept crying and nothing comforted her.
5. What pulled the Princess out of her gloom?
When the Princess was lying on her bed crying, she saw a little bird hop into her room. She wiped her tears and heard the beautiful song that the bird sang. This brought the Princess out of her gloom.
6. How did the Maids of Honour come to know that the Princess and the bird had become intimate friends?
When the Maids of Honour brought in the princess’ breakfast, they saw the bird eat rice out of her hand, and have its bath in her saucer. This showed them that the princess and the bird had become intimate friends.
7. The new bird was full of new songs but the old parrots always repeated themselves. What did they say?
All the old parrots could say ‘God save the king’ and some of them could even say ‘Pretty Polly’ in seven languages.
8. What is the King’s opinion about his Councillors? Why did he form that opinion?
The King said that the parrots repeating ‘Pretty Polly’ in seven different languages reminded him of his Councillors who said the same thing in seven different ways, and meant nothing whichever way they said it. This was similar to the way the parrots kept repeating what they had learnt, without knowing the meaning of what they said.
9. (i) The eight Princesses made an offer to Princess September. What was it?
(i) The eight princesses offered to buy a lovely green and yellow parrot for Princess September by putting in all their pocket money.
10. What did the sisters advise the Princess to do about her bird?
The sisters advised the Princess to keep her bird in a cage so that she could be sure of where it was.
1. In the following sentence elaborate the parts given in bold. Under the circumstances it was a very unfortunate remark for the bird to make.
After what her sisters advised her to do, the Princess was worried about the bird. She feared that the bird might forget her or start liking someone else. She felt that in such a circumstance, she would lose her little pet.
2. (i) What did Princess September do to ensure the safety of her pet?
(ii) How did the bird react to it?
(i) To ensure the safety of her pet, Princess September put it in the cage.
(ii) Bird reacted to it sharply. He didn’t want to be in cage. He wanted full freedom. He did not like it.
3. Why did the bird refuse to be taken out in her cage?
The bird refused to be taken out in her cage because it was not the same thing as flying. It said that the rice fields, the lake and the willow trees looked quite different when seen through the bars of a cage.
4.(i) What persuaded Princess September to give the bird his freedom again?
(i) The Princess found the bird nearly dead in the next morning. He had stopped taking anything. He had stopped singing at all. This persuaded the Princess to give the bird freedom again.
(ii) The bird was filled with happiness. He flew away to the far lands promising that he would come back and sing for her whenever she wanted.
5. Princess September kept her window open day and night.
(i) Princess September kept her window open day and night. This helped the bird as it could come into her room and leave whenever it felt like.
6. The eight sisters kept their windows shut. How did it affect them?
The eight sisters grew extremely ugly and disagreeable. This was because they kept their windows shut.
1. Are the sisters unkind and cruel? Find evidence in the text to support your idea.
Yes, the sisters were unkind and cruel. When they saw that Princess September’s bird could sing and their parrots could only repeat two lines, they became distressed. They even offered to buy a green and yellow parrot for her. When she denied their offer, they talked her into putting her bird in the cage. After she had put the bird into the cage, it stopped eating and singing. When she consulted her sisters, they said it would soon get used to the cage. They even said that she should be firm, and if it died, then it would be very ungrateful of it. If it was obstinate and died, then it would serve it right. When she set the bird free, they mocked her and said that the bird would never return. All these instances show that they were very unkind and cruel.
2.Which, to you, is the most important idea in this story, and why?
The most important idea in the story is the value of freedom. No one should be denied his freedom. Absence of freedom suffocates a person, and prevents him from enjoying the beauty of life in its fullness. The bird in the story was happy flying. It sang beautifully and ate well. However, when it was caged, it became sad, and did not eat or sing. It said that to sing, it required its freedom, and if it could not sing, it would die. This indicates that the beauty of life is in freedom, and not in captivity.
| 2019-04-18T12:36:13 |
https://indiashines.in/cbse/ncert-solutions-for-class-8th-chapter-5-princess-september/
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