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It has become very clear that the evolution of structure during supernovae is centrally dependent on the pre-existing structure in the star. Modeling of the pre-existing structure has advanced significantly, leading to improved understanding and to a physically based assessment of the structure that will be present when a star explodes. It remains an open question whether low-mode asymmetries in the explosion process can produce the observed effects or whether the explosion mechanism somehow produces jets of material. In any event, the workhorse processes that produce structure in an exploding star are blast-wave driven instabilities. Laboratory experiments have explored these blast-wave-driven instabilities and specifically their dependence on initial conditions. Theoretical work has shown that the relative importance of Richtmyer–Meshkov and Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities varies with the initial conditions and does so in ways that can make sense of a range of astrophysical observations.
Anomalous energy dissipation of electron current pulses propagating through an inhomogeneous collisionless plasma medium16(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3122939View Description Hide Description
The evolution of fast rising electron current pulses propagating through an inhomogeneous plasma has been studied through electron magnetohydrodynamic fluid simulations. A novel process of anomalous energy dissipation and stopping of the electron pulse in the presence of plasma density inhomogeneity is demonstrated. The electron current essentially dissipates its energy through the process of electromagnetic shock formation in the presence of density inhomogeneity. A direct relevance of this rapid energy dissipation process to the fast ignition concept of laser fusion is shown.
On the physical interpretation of Malyshkin's (2008) model of resistive Hall magnetohydrodynamic reconnection16(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3125819View Description Hide Description
A simple Sweet–Parker-like model for the electron current layer in resistive Hall magnetohydrodynamicreconnection is presented, with the focus on the small-resistivity limit. The derivation readily recovers the main results obtained recently by Malyshkin [Phys. Rev. Lett.101, 225001 (2008)], but is much quicker and more physically transparent. In particular, it highlights the role of resistive drag in determining the electron outflow velocity. The principal limitations of any such approach are discussed.
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Accretion disk dynamics, photoionized plasmas, and stellar opacities16(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3101819View Description Hide Description
We present a brief review on the atomic kinetics, modeling and interpretation of astrophysical observations, and laboratory astrophysics experiments. The emphasis is on benchmarking of opacity calculations relevant for solar structure models, photoionized plasmas research, the magnetohydrodynamic numerical simulation of accretion disk dynamics, and a connection between radiation transport effects and plasma source geometry details. Specific cases of application are discussed with relevance to recent and proposed laboratory astrophysics experiments as well as Chandra and X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission Newton observations.
Intense laser-plasma interactions: New frontiers in high energy density physics16(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3101813View Description Hide Description
A review is presented here of a number of invited papers presented at the 2008 American Physical Society April meeting [held jointly with High Energy Density Physics/High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics (HEDP/HEDLA) Conference] devoted to intense laser-matter interactions. They include new insights gained from wave-kinetic theory into laser-wakefield accelerators and drift wave turbulence interacting with zonal flows in magnetized plasmas; interactions with cluster media for the generation of radiative blast waves; fast electron energy transport in cone-wire targets; numerical investigations into Weibel instability in electron-positron-ion plasmas and the generation of gigabar pressures with thin foil interactions.
Frontiers of the physics of dense plasmas and planetary interiors: Experiments, theory, and applications16(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3101818View Description Hide Description
Recent developments of dynamic x-ray characterization experiments of dense matter are reviewed, with particular emphasis on conditions relevant to interiors of terrestrial and gas giant planets. These studies include characterization of compressed states of matter in light elements by x-ray scattering and imaging of shocked iron by radiography. Several applications of this work are examined. These include the structure of massive "super-Earth" terrestrial planets around other stars, the 40 known extrasolar gas giants with measured masses and radii, and Jupiter itself, which serves as the benchmark for giant planets.
Stellar explosions, instabilities, and turbulence16(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3101816View Description Hide Description
It has become very clear that the evolution of structure during supernovae is centrally dependent on the pre-existing structure in the star. Modeling of the pre-existing structure has advanced significantly, leading to improved understanding and to a physically based assessment of the structure that will be present when a star explodes. It remains an open question whether low-mode asymmetries in the explosion process can produce the observed effects or whether the explosion mechanism somehow produces jets of material. In any event, the workhorse processes that produce structure in an exploding star are blast-wave driven instabilities. Laboratory experiments have explored these blast-wave-driven instabilities and specifically their dependence on initial conditions. Theoretical work has shown that the relative importance of Richtmyer–Meshkov and Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities varies with the initial conditions and does so in ways that can make sense of a range of astrophysical observations.
Astrophysical jets: Observations, numerical simulations, and laboratory experiments16(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3101812View Description Hide Description
This paper provides summaries of ten talks on astrophysical jets given at the HEDP/HEDLA-08 International Conference in St. Louis. The talks are topically divided into the areas of observation, numerical modeling, and laboratory experiment. One essential feature of jets, namely, their filamentary (i.e., collimated) nature, can be reproduced in both numerical models and laboratory experiments. Another essential feature of jets, their scalability, is evident from the large number of astrophysical situations where jets occur. This scalability is the reason why laboratory experiments simulating jets are possible and why the same theoretical models can be used for both observed astrophysical jets and laboratory simulations.
The National Ignition Facility: Ushering in a new age for high energy density science16(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3116505View Description Hide Description
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) [E. I. Moses, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.112, 012003 (2008); https://lasers.llnl.gov/], completed in March 2009, is the highest energy laser ever constructed. The high temperatures and densities achievable at NIF will enable a number of experiments in inertial confinement fusion and stockpile stewardship, as well as access to new regimes in a variety of experiments relevant to x-ray astronomy, laser-plasma interactions, hydrodynamic instabilities, nuclear astrophysics, and planetary science. The experiments will impact research on black holes and other accreting objects, the understanding of stellar evolution and explosions, nuclear reactions in dense plasmas relevant to stellar nucleosynthesis, properties of warm dense matter in planetary interiors, molecular cloud dynamics and star formation, and fusion energy generation.
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The Weibel instability inside the electron-positron Harris sheet16(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3097474View Description Hide Description
Recent full-particle simulations of electron-positron reconnection revealed that the Weibel instability plays an active role in controlling the dynamics of the current layer and maintaining fast reconnection. A four-beam model is developed to explore the development of the instability within a narrow current layer characteristic of reconnection. The problem is reduced to two coupled second-order differential equations, whose growing eigenmodes are obtained via both asymptotic approximations and finite difference methods. Full particle simulations confirm the linear theory and help probe the nonlinear development of the instability. The current layer broadening in the reconnection outflow jet is linked to the scattering of high-velocity streaming particles in the Weibel-generated, out-of-plane magnetic field.
Effects of line tying on resistive tearing instability in slab geometry16(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3103789View Description Hide Description
The effects of line tying on resistivetearing instability in slab geometry are studied within the framework of reduced magnetohydrodynamics [B. B. Kadomtsev and O. P. Pogutse, Sov. Phys. JETP38, 283 (1974); H. R. Strauss, Phys. Fluids19, 134 (1976)]. It is found that line tying has a stabilizing effect. The tearing mode is stabilized when the system length is shorter than a critical length , which is independent of the resistivity. When is not too much longer than , the growth rate is proportional to . When is sufficiently long, the tearing mode scaling is recovered. The transition from to occurs at a transition length .
Fast magnetic reconnection in a kinked current sheet16(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3106685View Description Hide Description
Magnetic reconnection processes in a kinked current sheet are investigated using three-dimensional electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulations in a large system where both the tearing and kink modes are able to be captured. The spatial resolution is efficiently enhanced using the adaptive mesh refinement and particle splitting-coalescence method. The kink mode scaled by the current sheet width such as is driven by the ions that are accelerated due to the reconnectionelectric field in the ion-scale diffusion region. Although the kink mode deforms the current sheet structure drastically, the gross rate of reconnection is almost identical to the case without the kink mode and fast magnetic reconnection is achieved. The magnetic dissipation mechanism is, however, found very different between the cases with and without the kink mode. The kink mode broadens the current sheet width and reduces the electron flow velocity, so that the electron inertia resistivity is decreased. Nevertheless, anomalous dissipation through the electron thermalization compensates the decrease in the inertia resistivity so as to keep a high reconnection rate. This suggests that the electron dynamics in the electron diffusion region is automatically adjusted so as to generate sufficient dissipation for fast magnetic reconnection. The electron thermalization occurs effectively because the electron meandering scale along the current sheet is comparable to the wavelength of the kink mode. On the other hand, two-dimensional simulations in the plane orthogonal to the magnetic field shows that in higher mass ratio cases with the electron thermalization is caused due to a hybrid-scale mode with wavelength intermediate between the ion and electron inertia lengths rather than the large-scale kink mode with , because the electron meandering scale is shortened as the mass ratio increases.
Fluctuations in electron-positron plasmas: Linear theory and implications for turbulence16(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3106686View Description Hide Description
Linear kinetic theory of electromagnetic fluctuations in a homogeneous, magnetized, collisionless electron-positron plasma predicts two lightly damped modes propagate at relatively long wavelengths: an Alfvén-like mode with dispersion and a magnetosonic-like mode with dispersion if . Here is the Alfvén speed in an electron-positron plasma and refers to the direction relative to the background magnetic field . Both modes have phase speeds which monotonically decrease with increasing wavenumber. The Alfvén-like fluctuations are almost incompressible, but the magnetosonic-like fluctuations become strongly compressible at short wavelengths and propagation sufficiently oblique to . Using the linear dispersion properties of these modes, scaling relations are derived which predict that turbulence of both modes should be relatively anisotropic, with fluctuating magnetic energy preferentially cascading in directions perpendicular to . Turbulent spectra in the solar wind show two distinct power-law regimes separated by a distinct breakpoint in observed frequency; this characteristic should not be present in electron-positron turbulence because of the absence of whistler-likedispersion. Linear theory properties of the cyclotron and mirror instabilities driven by either electron or positron temperature anisotropies are generally analogous to those of the corresponding instabilities in electron-proton plasmas.
Persistent subplasma-frequency kinetic electrostatic electron nonlinear waves16(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3094061View Description Hide Description
Driving a one-dimensional collisionless Maxwellian (Vlasov) plasma with a sufficiently strong longitudinal ponderomotive driver for a sufficiently long time results in a self-sustaining nonsinusoidal wave train with well-trapped electrons even for frequencies well below the plasma frequency, i.e., in the plasma wave spectral gap. Typical phase velocities of these waves are somewhat above the electron thermal velocity. This new nonlinear wave is being termed a kinetic electrostatic electron nonlinear (KEEN) wave. The drive duration must exceed the bounce period of the trapped electrons subject to the drive, as calculated from the drive force and the linear plasma response to the drive. For a given wavenumber a wide range of KEEN wave frequencies can be readily excited. The basic KEEN structure is essentially kinetic, with the trapped electron density variation being almost completely shielded by the free electrons, leaving just enough net charge to support the wave.
Tearing modes with pressure gradient effect in pair plasmas16(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3103787View Description Hide Description
The general dispersion relation of tearing mode with pressure gradient effect in pair plasmas is derived analytically. If the pressure gradients of positron and electron are not identical in pair plasmas, the pressure gradient has significant influence at tearing mode in both collisionless and collisional regimes. In collisionless regime, the effects of pressure gradient depend on its magnitude. For small pressure gradient, the growth rate of tearing mode is enhanced by pressure gradient. For large pressure gradient, the growth rate is reduced by pressure gradient. The tearing mode can even be stabilized if pressure gradient is large enough. In collisional regime, the growth rate of tearing mode is reduced by the pressure gradient. While the positron and electron have equal pressure gradient, tearing mode is not affected by pressure gradient in pair plasmas.
Lower-hybrid drift instability in a thin current sheet with velocity distribution16(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3116643View Description Hide Description
The lower-hybrid drift instability (LHDI) in a thin current sheet in the intermediate-wavelength (, where , , and are the wave vector and the electron and ion gyroradii, respectively) regime for particles with velocity distribution is studied. The latter is more suitable for describing nonthermal distributions with an enhanced high-energy tail and includes the Maxwellian as a limiting case. It is shown that linear electromagnetic LHDI can be excited near the center of the current sheet. The growth rate decreases, but the electromagnetic component of the LHD mode increases with increase in hot particles.
Drift ion acoustic shock waves in an inhomogeneous two-dimensional quantum magnetoplasma16(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3109663View Description Hide Description
Linear and nonlinear propagation characteristics of drift ion acoustic waves are investigated in an inhomogeneous quantum plasma with neutrals in the background employing the quantum hydrodynamics (QHD) model. In this regard, a quantum Kadomtsev–Petviashvili–Burgers (KPB) equation is derived for the first time. It is shown that the ion acoustic wave couples with the drift wave if the parallel motion of ions is taken into account. Discrepancies in the earlier works on drift solitons and shocks in inhomogeneous plasmas are also pointed out and a correct theoretical framework is presented to study the one-dimensional as well as the two-dimensional propagation of shock waves in an inhomogeneous quantum plasma. Furthermore, the solution of KPB equation is presented using the tangent hyperbolic (tanh) method. The variation of the shock profile with the quantum Bohm potential, collision frequency, and ratio of drift to shock velocity in the comoving frame, , are also investigated. It is found that increasing the number density and collision frequency enhances the strength of the shock. It is also shown that the fast drift shock (i.e., ) increases, whereas the slow drift shock (i.e., ) decreases the strength of the shock. The relevance of the present investigation with regard to dense astrophysical environments is also pointed out.
Resonant magnetohydrodynamic waves in high-beta plasmas16(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3119689View Description Hide Description
When a global magnetohydrodynamic(MHD)wave propagates in a weakly dissipative inhomogeneous plasma, the resonant interaction of this wave with either local Alfvén or slow MHD waves is possible. This interaction occurs at the resonant position where the phase velocity of the global wave coincides with the phase velocity of either Alfvén or slow MHD waves. As a result of this interaction a dissipative layer embracing the resonant position is formed, its thickness being proportional to , where is the Reynolds number. The wavemotion in the resonant layer is characterized by large amplitudes and large gradients. The presence of large gradients causes strong dissipation of the global wave even in very weakly dissipative plasmas. Very often the global wavemotion is characterized by the presence of both Alfvén and slow resonances. In plasmas with small or moderate plasma beta , the resonance positions corresponding to the Alfvén and slow resonances are well separated, so that the wavemotion in the Alfvén and slow dissipative layers embracing the Alfvén and slow resonant positions, respectively, can be studied separately. However, when , the two resonance positions are so close that the two dissipative layers overlap. In this case, instead of two dissipative layers, there is one mixed Alfvén-slow dissipative layer. In this paper the wavemotion in such a mixed dissipative layer is studied. It is shown that this motion is a linear superposition of two motions, one corresponding to the Alfvén and the other to the slow dissipative layer. The jump of normal velocity across the mixed dissipative layer related to the energy dissipation rate is equal to the sum of two jumps, one that occurs across the Alfvén dissipative layer and the other across the slow dissipative layer.
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Effect of resonant helical magnetic fields on plasma rotation16(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3100236View Description Hide Description
The effect of a resonant helical magnetic field on plasma rotation is investigated numerically based on the two fluid equations. It is found that depending on the frequency and the direction of the original plasma rotation, a static helical field of a small amplitude can either increase or decrease the rotation speed. With increasing the field amplitude, the plasma rotation frequency approaches the electron diamagnetic drift frequency but rotates in the ion drift direction. These results provide a new understanding of the recent experimental observations of TEXTOR [K. H. Finken et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.94, 015003 (2005)].
The truncation model of the derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation16(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3093383View Description Hide Description
The derivative nonlinear Schrödinger (DNLS) equation is explored using a truncation model with three resonant traveling waves. In the conservative case, the system derives from a time-independent Hamiltonian function with only one degree of freedom and the solutions can be written using elliptic functions. In spite of its low dimensional order, the truncation model preserves some features from the DNLS equation. In particular, the modulational instability criterion fits with the existence of two hyperbolic fixed points joined by a heteroclinic orbit that forces the exchange of energy between the three waves. On the other hand, numerical integrations of the DNLS equation show that the truncation model fails when waveenergy is increased or left-hand polarized modulational unstable modes are present. When dissipative and growth terms are added the system exhibits a very complex dynamics including appearance of several attractors, period doubling bifurcations leading to chaos as well as other nonlinear phenomenon. In this case, the validity of the truncation model depends on the strength of the dissipation and the kind of attractor investigated.


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Salman Rushdie is the author of several novels, including "Grimus, Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury", and "Shalimar the Clown". He has written collections of short stories, including "East, West", and co-edited with Elizabeth West a collection of Indian literature in English, "Mirrorwork". He has also published several works of nonfiction, among them T"he Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, The Wizard of Oz, " and "Joseph Anton", a memoir of his life under the fatwa issued after the publication of "The Satanic Verses".
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Professional mourning or paid mourning is a mostly historical occupation practiced in Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultures and many other parts of the world. Professional mourners, also called moirologists,[1] are compensated to lament or deliver a eulogy. Mentioned in the Bible, the occupation is widely invoked in literature, from the Ugaritic epics of early centuries BC to modern poetry. Held in high esteem in some cultures and times, the practice was vilified in others. Female professional mourners also, called as Rudaali, were common in many parts of India, especially in the Western Indian state of Rajasthan. These women were usually from the lower castes, and would be hired by the upper castes on the death of a family member.
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In Honoré de Balzac's landmark 1835 novel Le Père Goriot, the title character's funeral is attended by two professional mourners rather than his daughters.[2] The 1993 Indian film Rudaali, directed by Kalpana Lajmi and set in Rajasthan, is about the life of a professional mourner, or Rudaali.[3]
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Enjoy a virtual tour of spectacular getaways -- cold destinations from the Swiss Alps to the mountains of New Hampshire and warm locations such as the tranquil island of Corfu and exotic, sunny Egypt. "A trip to Egypt, " wrote Alexis Gregory in the Golden Age of Travel, was the most exciting of all the winter activities available to the rich at the turn of the century."
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches, Grand Circle Gallery is featuring a collection of James H. Barker's black and white photographs that document the historic event and subsequent stride forward in the civil rights movement. The exhibit provides a look back into U.S. history and reminds us that the struggle against racial discrimination is still ongoing—and that change can be accomplished when we work together toward a more just society.
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In March of 1965, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference made Selma, Alabama, the focus of its efforts to register southern black voters. Led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., protesters were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities when they attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery. 600 marchers were beaten back with billy clubs, cattle prods, and tear gas, in what came to be known as "Bloody Sunday." It was during the third attempt at a march—with the support of President Johnson and protection of the National Guard—that Dr. King successfully marched with 2,000 protesters for 5 days until they reached the steps of Montgomery's Capitol Building. It was there that he gave a stirring speech in front of 25,000 people, prompting President Johnson to sign the Voting Rights Act, which outlawed barriers to voter registration at state and local levels.
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But White said that the UFC is again interested in landing former Pride heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko. Emelianenko had a very public dalliance with the UFC last year, only to spurn the company in favor of the newly formed M-1 Global.
That sparked a torrent of abuse from White toward Emelianenko.
But M-1 has conceded that Emelianenko never signed the agreed upon contract and that he was a free agent. Elite XC has made no secret of its desire to sign the many man feel is the best fighter in the world.
White said Friday that he would attempt to reach a deal with Emelianenko, who is 27-1 with one no-contest and owns a pair of victories over current UFC interim heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira.
Randy Couture, who holds the UFC heavyweight belt, is in the midst of a lawsuit with the UFC largely because of Couture's desire to fight Emelianenko. The UFC has refused to co-promote an event with another promoter and would only do it if Emelianenko signed a promotional contract with it.
On Friday, White never mentioned Couture by name, but said he would be open to the fight.
"We want to make the fights the people want to see," White said. "If there is a fight that we can make for him that people really want to see, then we'll try the best we can to get that done. We'll see what we can do as far as (signing Emelianenko) goes."
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Oracle Enterprise Architecture Sharing of Enterprise Architect's experience https://blogs.oracle.com/tejas/feed/entries/atom 2015-10-20T09:27:54+00:00 Apache Roller https://blogs.oracle.com/tejas/entry/cloud_integration_is_great_but Cloud Integration is Great ! But What About Data Gravity ? Tejas Joshi-Oracle 2015-10-20T09:27:54+00:00 2015-10-20T09:27:54+00:00
Cloud Integration has opened new avenues to make complex world of Enterprise Application Integration really simple. The hype around Cloud Integration is leading to every organisation pushing Cloud based integration to realise its promise of simplicity, business visibility and agility. But, Is Cloud Integration answer to all types of Integration? As Enterprise Architects We need to sit down and understand some of the key characteristics that influence Application Integration. The Data Gravity is one of the most important characteristic among others like security, transactionality, transport etc.

So What is Data Gravity? In simple terms, Data Gravity is a force that is generated by number of different entities concentrated in single location in context of Integration. Lets take an example to understand this concept, Consider Oracle EBusiness Suite Finance and Siebel CRM implementation in customer's datacentre. Here, if you consider data gravity of entities like Customer, Orders, Purchase Orders, Supplier Contracts, it clearly exists within Data Centre. So in this scenario the data gravity will force use to consider onPrem integration capability. But now, lets consider that this organisation moves some of its capabilities in the Cloud like Marketing, Customer Service. Now the Data Gravity within the context of integrating Cloud applications with Enterprise Application is stretched across Internet. But the question is where do we put the Integration capability for such a scenario? The answer can be drawn from Data Gravity Analysis. Here's the types of Integration required

Customer Record Integration: Feed Customer data changes to Marketing Cloud and Service Cloud from Siebel (Data Gravity for onPrem=1 and Cloud=2)

Customer Service Audit records: Feed Customer service records from Service Cloud to Siebel (Data Gravity onPrep=1, Cloud=1)

 Based on this hypothetical analysis it is clear to us that Data Gravity in context of integrating new SaaS services with Siebel is in Cloud, so best place to put integration capability will be in Cloud.

I hope such analysis will help Architects to arrive at best place to put their Integration capability
 https://blogs.oracle.com/tejas/entry/proximity_marketing_is_new_cx Proximity marketing is new CX in Retail ! Tejas Joshi-Oracle 2015-10-19T10:03:57+00:00 2015-10-19T10:21:28+00:00
With new innovations in customer experience improvements both online and on mobile channels, Retailers are seeing increased footfall in their stores with Millennials using online channels to discover what they wants and where they want to buy it, but then also looking for same personalised experience in real world through store visits.

Retails are waking up to this challenge of increased footfall of Millennials looking for personalised conversation with in-store agents, knowing everything about them and their browsed products as an extension of online shopping experience. Along side this conversation of in-session sale, Agents can also cross-sell/up-sell based on real-time guidance from proximity marketing engine based on customer's profile, where they have been spending most time online and in-store. Check out the Oracle's specialised Retail industry solution to solve this specific challenge by leveraging its PaaS services.
 https://blogs.oracle.com/tejas/entry/cloud_adoption_patterns_for_enterprise Cloud Adoption Patterns for Enterprise Tejas Joshi-Oracle 2015-07-17T21:01:49+00:00 2015-07-17T21:01:49+00:00 By Tejas Joshi, Oracle EA: Cloud adoption has become a main stream strategy for Organisations to deliver innovation, agility, better TCO etc. But there are many big and small enterprises that are struggling with successful cloud adoption even after four years of hype and maturity. One of the primary reasons that some enterprises fail is due to misalignment with its business strategy, market dynamics, lack of appreciation of different types of Cloud adoption patterns . I have come across many Organisations over past four years who have successfully adopted Cloud strategy at the same time improved their competitiveness in the market. After studying these enterprises closely, I concluded that key to their success was identifying Cloud adoption pattern that was clearly aligned to their immediate business priorities supported by time and money required and with greater appreciation of risks. I am listing some of these Cloud patterns here with a view to help many other enterprises that are still looking for their first successful Cloud deployment.
 Cloud Pattern 1: Applications to Cloud (SaaS)

Description: Lines of Business adopting new capabilities in Cloud to solve specific problem quickly, E.g. Marketing Campaigns, Customer Service center, Billing etc. These are tactical moves to SaaS, generally without IT's knowledge

Concerns: Integration challenges is never a concern as it gets dumped on IT, But becomes primary reason for its failure in longer term. Initial integration is based on file import/export

Timeline: Go live in 4 to 12 weeks

Key benefits: Ease of Use, Agility, Instant Go live, Zero customisation, Business feels in Control

Risks: Creates Shadow IT, results in heterogeneous Cloud ecosystem, High Churn rate for Cloud Vendors

 Cloud Pattern 2: ERP to Cloud (SaaS)

Description: Organisations look to transform all or some lines of businesses to move to Opex model along with strategic initiatives like Digital. These are strategic multi year initiatives like Finance, HCM, Supply Chain transformation with focus on outsourcing ERP to SaaS and making its IT nimble

Concerns: Integration is key part of these initiatives with links to other applications and coexistence with on premise ERP during the multi year migration. Integration profile will keep on changing and will require robust technology platform

Timeline: Go live in 2 to 3 years with interim modules go live every quarter

Key benefits: No longer tied to large upgrade projects for ERP without business benefits, OpEx Model, quarterly drops with new business features, focus on Business without IT distractions

Risks: Hard for customer to move out of ERP cloud, smaller cloud provider cannot provide long term assurance, business is required to change from defining requirements to selecting feature available in SaaS ERP. Other risks are lack of MDM, Security, robust integration strategy

 Cloud Pattern 3: Test/Dev to Cloud (IaaS/PaaS)

Description: IT(CIO) led initiative to reduce cost of running infrastructure and providing agility for environment management to Lines of Businesses. Sometimes part of DevOps initiative. Typically. these patterns are seen as a reaction to lines of businesses directly consuming AWS for Dev environments. IT would end-up introducing Test/Dev to cloud initiative with focus on providing PaaS across multivendor ecosystem. IT roles changes to cloud broker

Concerns: Data security, DevOps Maturity are some of the key concerns

Timeline: Go live immediately

Key benefits: Service based approach to environments, instant provisioning of environments, Project pay for what they use, no CapEx, reduced TCO

Risks: IT maturity to act as cloud broker, LoB prefer to pay with their credit card, cloud proliferation without adequate governance

 Cloud Pattern 4: First Attempt to Cloud (SaaS/PaaS)

Description: Organisations in which LoB and IT both want to move Cloud but do not know where to start, They would cloud-enable applications that cost a lot to run and maintain while having limited business impact (e.g. supplier portal, invoice management, markets data platform etc). These applications are most likely built on open source and migrated to SaaS or PaaS.

Concern: Security, availability are not critical issues but can become issues after they are hosted externally

Timeline: Go live in 12 to 18 weeks

Key benefits: low risk strategy to adopt Cloud. It can start small and grow quickly, Lower TCO , benefit from enhanced features in PaaS, introduction of DevOps discipline

Risks: Not easy to identify low risk application as every owner thinks their application is key to business, DevOps not easy to adopt for some enterprises, mis-conception that its easy to move to AWS (IaaS)

 Cloud Pattern 5: Innovations Labs to Cloud (IaaS/PaaS)

Description: Many Organisations are looking to innovate through digital, mobile, IoT, BigData based initiatives. They would normally have task force with budget for these initiatives who are looking to setup technology platform based labs with google labs, AWS or other niche PaaS providers.

Concerns: Most of such initiative start with internal infrastructure on commodity hardware/OpenSource that is hard to setup by internal team but they would like to do it themselves to build CVs

Timeline: Go live in 4 to 12 weeks

Key benefits: Fail fast to create leading innovations, business benefits to get ahead of competition, Not constraint by Brick-n-Motor IT

Risks: High Risk of employee churn and lose of skills, steep learning curve for the team, difficult to get IT sponsorship to make innovations mainstream

 Cloud Pattern 6: Cloud Burst

Description: Organisations always have business peaks that may not last all year long, for example online retailers require 400% of their normal infrastructure for Black Friday. These organisation want to invest in operations efficiency with Cloud bursting technology

Concerns: This patterns attracts a lot of attention, but is only possible with applications engineered to support such a scenario

Timeline: Go live in 12 to 24 weeks for instant cloud burst there after

Key benefits: Lower TCO, Operations Efficiency, Edge of Competition

Risks: Most Applications are not engineered to support this pattern and can create unknown side effects if Vendor does not certify such a pattern

 Cloud Pattern 7: Enterprise to Cloud (Managed Hosting)

Description: Some Organisation especially in Retail & Finance are under immense pressure to reduce their operations cost by 30% within next 6 to 12 months. This is only possible with moving to Opex model based external hosting of their entire or significant IT estate. Providers like Fujitsu, Cap Gemini, Atos, HP and Oracle are some of the players who take as is IT estate to host it in their respective data centers and provide cost saving through operations efficiencies.

Concerns: These are pure TCO based initiatives for lift-n-shift without significant investment in technology like engineered Systems that can provide further operations efficiencies and future proofing

Timeline: Go live in 12 to 20 weeks

Key benefits: Immediate cost savings based on Opex Model, Slimmer IT, Helps New CIOs to establish their credentials

Risks: Higher TCO longer term with add-on services, Moving problem further but not resolving problem, Organisations risk going bust in 2 to 3 years

 I hope you find above classification of Cloud adoption pattern useful. Please share your comments and experiences with me. https://blogs.oracle.com/tejas/entry/solving_eai_with_soa_suite Solving EAI with SOA Suite Tejas Joshi-Oracle 2010-10-18T13:19:31+00:00 2010-10-19T02:09:54+00:00
By Tejas Joshi :Those of us who have been around for a while in IT, would know that we tend to solve same problems with new ways of thinking. I remember hype around EAI and working on number of projects 7 - 8 years ago in solving integration issues for very complex systems.
 Some of the challenges that were dealt with were

Standardize the integration interfaces across business systems

allow for protocol switching

allow for data mapping between source and target systems

Transactional integrity with compensation logic

EAI resulted in very complex solutions. These solutions were not only brittle but also costly to manage as they were based on proprietary technology. But it did the job for providing businesses with integrated systems.
 Some of the pattern in EAI were

Hub-and-Spoke: example of hub and spoke concept refers to a parent or holding company that uses one business software system (the hub), which is integrated with the systems used business units within its fod.

Bus: Example of Message Bus is a combination of a common data model, a common command set, and a messaging infrastructure to allow different systems to communicate through a shared set of interfaces.

 But we ended up with following disadvantages

High initial development costs, especially for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs)

Require a fair amount of up front business design, which many managers are not able to envision or not willing to invest in.

Most EAI projects usually start off as point-to-point efforts, very soon becoming unmanageable as the number of applications increase

Costly and time-consuming to maintain tightly coupled point-to-point integrations

Service premiums for evolving proprietary integration broker implementations

Static data integrations with proprietary interfaces are difficult to extend to the web

 With advent of SOA, a new way of thinking evolved which allowed us to look at integration as not just IT challenge but a business challenge. This forced us in thinking for business benefits, allowed us to priorities integration across systems that were business critical versus everything. We looked at building business functionality through reuse or service enablement rather than point integration between systems.
 Recently, I was involved in migration project of an old EAI based Hub-n-Spoke systems to SOA Suite. It became quite apparent that even though our mandate was a clear migration from proprietary EAI system to SOA Suite, we could simplify a very complex solution using principles of SOA and SOA based tooling.
 We had to migrate over 200 integration points across 15 systems with SOA Suite. While the requirements were captured as system behaviour, during analysis phase we realised that there were distinct integration patterns emerging around two principles
 a) protocol used and message type
 b) System data structure mapping from source to target
 We were able to map a single integration pattern with 4 high level components
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 The pattern focused on four reusable services that formed the core of the solution.

Inbound Reader Service: This service would accept inbound messages using required messaging protocol and type. Oracle Service bus is best placed to implement such services, which could be configure to read inputs across multitude of protocols in forms of proxy services.

Structural Validator Service: This service would validate the messages to be structurally correct. This will ensure that the message processor service will only process valid messages. Example of such validation could be schema validation, file structure validation etc.

Message processor Service: This service would be detailed business logic based orchestration to run business validation and transformation. SOA Suite based SCA could be used to implement this in BPEL. To make this process generic BPEL XPATH functions could be used to dynamic transformation.

Message Publisher: This service would use dynamic content based routing to publish message to target system. This could be either implemented in SCA (mediator) or OSB.

 The proposed solution based on SOA Suite can replace EAI for fraction of the original project cost and still maintain the essence of Hub-n-Spoke pattern
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House is off to a slow start.
That would be Gregory House, the TV doctor, of course. The show "House" is just one of many shows to halt production because of the Hollywood writers' strike. Eddie House, of the Boston Celtics, though, is flourishing. And "Open House," as he was dubbed in a recent Boston Herald headline, apparently has answered the question of which unheralded Celtic will boost his fantasy value while Boston opponents pay fevered attention to Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen.
Look for him to crank it up yet another notch this week, as the Celtics' schedule includes an intriguing assortment of defensive perimeter-phobic competition.
If you've missed out on House, fear not; there's much more to watch this week. Half of the teams in the NBA play four games, and six clubs play four times in five nights. Fantasy favorites, courtesy of this NBA Fantasy Forecaster, who is not on strike, follow:
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Teams with four games
Boston Celtics (@ IND, NJ, MIA, @ ORL)
Lineup locks: Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen
Outlook: OK, I'm done hammering the metaphor. Get Eddie House and play him this week. Each of Boston's opponents is allowing at least 6.7 3-pointers per night, with Indiana and Miami yielding more than eight 3's per game. Indiana and New Jersey also have been fairly turnover-prone, which is a good reason to play Rajon Rondo.
Detroit Pistons (@ POR, @ GS, @ LAL, @ SAC)
Lineup locks: Chauncey Billups, Richard Hamilton, Rasheed Wallace
Outlook: Antonio McDyess has been up and down minutes-wise, but this is as good a week as any to activate him. Portland, Sacramento and Golden State are three of the league's five worst teams in rebound differential. The Warriors, in fact, are getting out-rebounded to the tune of 12 boards per night. That could bode well for Jason Maxiell, too, although he has played just 29 minutes the past two games.
Houston Rockets (@ MEM, LAL, @ SA, PHO)
Lineup locks: Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady
Outlook: Bonzi Wells might be the third fantasy wheel on this team, but he has totaled 32 points and 22 rebounds in his past two games. When the Rockets are winning, we can expect Wells to keep rebounding at a nice pace. But this schedule isn't as attractive as it appears. Memphis is allowing 110 points a game, but the Grizzlies have been OK at defending the 3-pointer. And Phoenix actually is holding its opposition to fewer than 100 points on average so far.
Indiana Pacers (BOS, @ WAS, @ TOR, Utah)
Lineup locks: Jermaine O'Neal, Danny Granger, Mike Dunleavy
Outlook: These four games come in a five-day span. For what it's worth, O'Neal held up pretty well in the second of back-to-back games last year. His scoring declined only a hair (from 19.4 points per game to 17.8), and his numbers in a few other key categories actually were slightly better than his full-season averages. Schedule aside, Troy Murphy's return could be a nice boost for the Pacers.
Los Angeles Lakers (@ SA, @ HOU, DET, CHI)
Lineup locks: Kobe Bryant, Lamar Odom
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Memphis Grizzlies (HOU, @ MIL, NO, @ DAL)
Lineup locks: Pau Gasol, Mike Miller, Rudy Gay
Outlook: Another team facing the four-games-in-five-nights challenge. I'll call them four-in-fivers for short, and I bet it catches on. Somewhat surprising tidbit: Last season, Miller actually was more productive across the board in the second of back-to-back games. Second somewhat surprising tidbit: Of these four Grizzlies opponents, Dallas is allowing the most points so far.
Miami Heat (@ CHA, SEA, @ BOS, @ NJ)
Lineup locks: Ricky Davis, Jason Williams
Outlook: Again, a four-in-fiver team. (See? It is catchy, no?) After an injury-plagued 2006-07 season, Williams is just starting to find his stroke. I really like him this season and especially this week. Bobcats and Sonics opponents are shooting better than 45 percent, and Nets opponents are draining almost eight 3-pointers a night.
New Jersey Nets (NO, @ BOS, ORL, MIA)
Lineup locks: Jason Kidd, Vince Carter, Richard Jefferson
Outlook: Can you name the top three Nets scorers? Hint: The list includes only two of the three names listed above. New Jersey's current No. 3 scorer is reserve Antoine Wright, who is averaging almost 12 points a game. Wright is looking good in the hustle categories, and he also is hitting 3's. It might not be that easy early this week, though; the Hornets and Celtics are two of the top seven teams at defending the 3-pointer.
New Orleans Hornets (@ NJ, PHI, @ MEM, @ MIN)
Lineup locks: Chris Paul, David West, Tyson Chandler, Peja Stojakovic
Outlook: After burying 10 3-pointers against the Lakers, Stojakovic did absolutely nothing in subsequent games against the Blazers and Spurs. In truth, he has been very inconsistent so far; he has had three good games (19, 18 and 36 points) mixed with three bad ones (five, five and two). Memphis and Minnesota have been decent at defending the 3, so this could be another frustrating week for Peja owners.
New York Knicks (@ PHO, @ LAC, @ SAC, @ DEN)
Lineup locks: Zach Randolph, Jamal Crawford
Outlook: Four-in-fiver. David Lee should be all over the glass in these games. The Suns, Kings and Nuggets all are forcing a lot of turnovers, so expect to be extra-annoyed by Eddy Curry, Stephon Marbury, Z-Bo (Randolph) and Crawford.
Orlando Magic (SEA, @ CLE, @ NJ, BOS)
Lineup locks: Dwight Howard, Rashard Lewis, Hedo Turkoglu
Outlook: Speaking of annoying, there's Jameer Nelson. Given that Nelson has done all right against bad teams (Wizards and Knicks) so far, he could be in for a good night against the Sonics. However, if you need a reason to sit the enigmatic point guard, note that the Nets and Celtics currently are fourth and first, respectively, in the NBA in opponents' field goal percentage.
Portland Trail Blazers (DET, @ DEN, @ PHI, @ WAS)
Lineup locks: Brandon Roy, LaMarcus Aldridge
Outlook: Four-in-fiver. Martell Webster hit double figures in his first five games until turning in a two-point clinker against Dallas on Nov. 10. The good news for Webster is that the Wizards allow the most 3-pointers in the league, with more than nine per game. But the 76ers actually are third-best in scoring defense. The Pistons, as you might have figured, lead the way in that category.
Sacramento Kings (@ UTA, @ MIN, NY, DET)
Lineup locks: Kevin Martin, John Salmons
Outlook: The Kings have four games without any back-to-back contests. Brad Miller has three straight games of double-digit rebounds but is struggling with his shot. Perhaps that will change this week, since the Jazz, Timberwolves and Knicks are three of the NBA's eight worst teams in opponents' field goal percentage.
Seattle SuperSonics (@ ORL, @ MIA, @ ATL, @ CHA)
Lineup locks: Chris Wilcox, Kevin Durant
Outlook: The Sonics are the final team in this listing with four games in five days (thus giving my new term a rest). Damien Wilkins is third on the team in per-game scoring. If you play him this week, though, don't expect great things. The Magic, Hawks and Bobcats are three of the better teams in terms of opponents' 3-point field goal percentage.
Utah Jazz (SAC, @ TOR, @ CLE, @ IND)
Lineup locks: Deron Williams, Carlos Boozer, Mehmet Okur, Ronnie Brewer, Andrei Kirilenko
Outlook: Okur is averaging just 10 points and 31 percent from the field over his past four games. But with the Kings, Raptors and Pacers all allowing around eight 3-pointers per game, perhaps he will get it going.
Teams with three games
For teams playing three and two games this week, stick to your locks (unless otherwise noted).
Atlanta Hawks (CHA, SEA, @ MIL)
Lineup locks: Joe Johnson, Josh Smith, Marvin Williams
Outlook: Williams has reached double figures in every game and is shooting 61.5 percent for the season. The Bobcats and Sonics, in particular, should do little to change this.
Charlotte Bobcats (MIA, @ ATL, SEA)
Lineup locks: Gerald Wallace, Raymond Felton, Emeka Okafor
Outlook: Perhaps the Heat (8.6 3-pointers allowed per game) and Sonics (7.5) have the cure for Jason Richardson's recent ills. J-Rich is just 8-of-36 (22 percent) from the floor in his past three games.
Chicago Bulls (@ PHO, @ LAC, @ LAL)
Lineup lock: Luol Deng
Outlook: Kirk Hinrich might be the one guy struggling more than Richardson. Don't assume he gets well against the Suns, who, with the exception of Miami's Jason Williams, have contained opposing point guards so far.
Cleveland Cavaliers (@ DEN, ORL, Utah)
Lineup locks: LeBron James, Zydrunas Ilgauskas
Outlook: Monday's game in Denver is the last of a six-game western road trip. Hard as it is to bench a guy who's shooting 56.3 percent from beyond the arc, there will be better weeks to play Daniel Gibson.
Dallas Mavericks (PHI, SA, MEM)
Lineup locks: Dirk Nowitzki, Josh Howard
Denver Nuggets (CLE, POR, NY)
Lineup locks: Carmelo Anthony, Allen Iverson, Marcus Camby
Golden State Warriors (DET, LAC, @ TOR)
Lineup locks: Baron Davis, Al Harrington, Andris Biedrins
Outlook: The currently suspended Stephen Jackson will be eligible to play Nov. 18 in Toronto.
Los Angeles Clippers (NY, @ GS, CHI)
Lineup locks: Corey Maggette, Chris Kaman
Outlook: Probably the week's most favorable three-game schedule. Unfortunately, Cuttino Mobley has a groin problem. But I'd play Tim Thomas. Only the Pistons have held him down to this point.
Minnesota Timberwolves (SAC, WAS, NO)
Lineup lock: Al Jefferson
Philadelphia 76ers (@ DAL, @ NO, POR)
Lineup locks: Andre Iguodala, Andre Miller, Samuel Dalembert
Phoenix Suns (NY, CHI, @ HOU)
Lineup locks: Steve Nash, Amare Stoudemire, Shawn Marion, Leandro Barbosa
San Antonio Spurs (LAL, @ DAL, HOU)
Lineup locks: Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili
Toronto Raptors (UTA, IND, GS)
Lineup locks: Chris Bosh, T.J. Ford
Outlook: Andrea Bargnani is coming off the bench now, but don't let that keep you from starting him this week. Go with Anthony Parker, too.
Washington Wizards (IND, @ MIN, POR)
Lineup locks: Gilbert Arenas, Antawn Jamison, Caron Butler
Team with two games
Milwaukee Bucks (MEM, ATL)
Lineup locks: Michael Redd, Mo Williams
Outlook: Pass on Williams in weekly leagues, even with the Grizzlies allowing 110 points a night.
Neil Tardy is a fantasy basketball writer for ESPN.com.


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I upgraded from 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 last night, and now when I'm using "press this", when I try to send it says:
Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /home/{user edited}/public_html/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 260
It sends the post empty with only the title. Also the photos are not showing in the pressthis window.
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I've googled and read, and I'm trying to find a "correct" way to do it, but every question I read on SO seems to have completely different answers.
Here is the gist of my problem. files has the type signature of a seq of a triple (a:string, b:string,c:Int64). Being new to f# I'm still not fluent in expressing type signatures (or for that matter understanding them). a is a filename, b is an internal identifier, and c is a value representing the length (size) of the file. baseconfig is a string from earlier in the code.
|> Seq.filter( fun(x,y,z) -> y = baseconfig) // used to filter only files we want
|> Seq.fold( fun f n ->
if( (fun (_,_,z) -> z) n > 50L*1024L*1024L) then
zipfilex.Add((fun (z:string, _, _) -> z) n)
printfn("Adding 50mb to zip")
zipfilex.Add((fun (z, _, _) -> z) n)
("", "", (fun (_, _, z:Int64) -> z) n + (fun (_, _, z:Int64) -> z) f)
What this chunk of code is supposed to do, is iterate through each file in
files, add it to a zip archive (but not really, it just goes on a list to be committed later), and when the files exceed 50MB, commit the currently pending files to the zip archive. Adding a file is cheap, committing is expensive, so I try to mitigate the cost by batching it.
So far the code kinda works... Except for the ObjectDisposedException I got when it approached 150MB of committed files. But I'm not sure this is the right way to do such an operation. It feels like I'm using
Seq.fold in a unconventional way, but yet, I don't know of a better way to do it.
Bonus question: Is there a better way to snipe values out of tuples? fst and snd only work for 2 valued tuples, and I realize you can define your own functions instead of inline them like I did, but it seems there should be a better way.
Update: My previous attempts at fold, I couldn't understand why I couldn't just use an Int64 as an accumulator. Turns out I was missing some critical parenthesis. Little simpler version below. Also eliminates all the crazy tuple extraction.
|> Seq.filter( fun (x,y,z) -> y = baseconfig)
|> Seq.fold( fun (a) (f,g,j) ->
zipfilex.Add( f)
if( a > 50L*1024L*1024L) then
printfn("Adding 50mb to zip")
a + j
Update 2: I'm going to have to go with an imperative solution, F# is somehow re-entering this block of code, after the zip file is closed in the statement which follows it. Which explains the ObjectDisposedException. No idea how that works or why.


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No no no! The Republican Party is NOT homophobic!
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August 30, 2012 at 3:48 pm
hahahaha, epic!
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In this case, I think autocorrect was right! Just ask Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Ted Haggard, Bob Allen, James West, Bob Bauman, Jon Hinson, Paul Babeau...........
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Bang them damn gays...I KNEW IT.
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It was correct the first time.
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Sounds about right the first time...
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Following thirty-six years of bloody civil war in Guatemala-during which 1 million Guatemalans were displaced domestically, 250,000 fled abroad, 100,000 were killed, and 40,000 still remain unaccounted for-a UN-brokered peace was finally signed in December 1996 between the government of President Alvaro Arzu and rebel forces known as the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca.
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he made progress towards an ideal which the trammels of tradition never allowed him to attain
restraint, constraint, curb, check, impediment, obstacle, barrier, handicap, bar, block, hindrance, encumbrance, disadvantage, drawback, snag, stumbling block;
(trammels) shackles, fetters, bonds
[Antonyms] help, assistance
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