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Starting with iOS 10 and Cisco wireless controller release 8.3, you can use adaptive 802.11r and QoS Fastlane. Any iOS 10 or later compatible device supports QoS Fastlane. Find more information about iOS compatibility for your specific iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch model.
These devices support adaptive 802.11r:
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About adaptive 802.11r
802.11r offers wireless clients the ability to quickly roam between APs on the same network. Fast Basic Service Set Transition (FT) allows clients to roam between APs without taking the time to re-authenticate to each new AP.
Adaptive 802.11r allows you to set up a network without choosing Enable for Fast Transition. This configuration still grants the option of FT to iOS clients. iOS devices and Cisco APs mutually signal that adaptive 802.11r is supported by the network and that FT can be used. Legacy wireless clients that don't support 802.11r can still join the same network but won't benefit from faster FT roaming.
About QoS Fastlane
Wireless application traffic in enterprise environments often needs to be prioritized by its type. For example, due to real time application constraints, voiceover Wi-Fi traffic needs a higher priority than Safari web traffic.
Various standards exist to help network devices agree on how different types of traffic are marked to make sure they are prioritized. QoS Fastlane greatly simplifies this agreement process so that network congestion is minimized and time sensitive traffic (like voice or video) is delivered on time.
To choose which iOS apps have their traffic prioritized by QoS Fastlane, you must configure the network with a configuration profile.
Learn about configuration profiles payloads and application whitelisting for iOS.
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Cisco wireless controller models compatible with release 8.3 support adaptive 802.11r and QoS Fastlane. Cisco APs compatible with 802.11n and 802.11ac support adaptive 802.11r and QoS Fastlane.
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08 July 2013 | Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Episurf Medical's Episealer Femoral Condyle treats cartilage damage in the knee, restoring movement and reducing pain
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This morning we showed you a breathtaking photo of the Space Shuttle Endeavour docked with the ISS for the very last time. Now here's a beautiful picture of the Space Shuttle Atlantis being rolled out for her last launch.
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Indirectly (I think) this blog led me to the works of James Boyd White, and, through him, Milner Ball.
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:52 am
Post subject: bringing liquids back from paris?
As I was thinking about my upcoming trip to Paris, I started to think about the calvados, olive oils, mustards, jams, etc. that I'll want to bring home and I suddenly remembered this new *no liquids* provision at airports! Yikes. How can one get around this? Advice is welcome!
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 4:36 am
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am pretty sure the restrictions are for CARRY ON only pack it in your checked, albiet CAREFULLY!!! and you should be ok!!
I would like a gin martini, straight up, olives on the side, as dry as my wit, as clean as my conscience.
and... as cold as my heart!!!!
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 4:39 am
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Yes, it is just for carry-on, but how can I pack all my goodies in bottles and jars and entrust them to those luggage goons? Oy. what a mess travel has become. Comment dites-on "bubble wrap"?
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I recently brought home a bottle of wine from a trip to New Zealand. I didn't really think about packing it in any special way, and let's just say that it arrived home in more pieces than it was meant to.
I don't know that bubblewrap would really protect it (and I'm speaking as a person who has used over 300 metres of bubblewrap in the last 12 months .... for other packing purposes). How about polystyrene bottle protectors - are they available, suzy? We can buy them here at our post office to post single wine bottles.
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:32 pm
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That's an interesting idea, Judy. Thanks. I can check into this and maybe go to Paris prepared to pack stuff up. Alternatively, I could restrict my shopping to the duty free store in the airport on the way home, but that's not an appealing solution. I'm actually more concerned about jams, mustards, oils, etc. Surely someone else has dealt with this in the last six months since the new restrictions were placed on us.
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:42 pm
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Yes, we have had to deal with this problem.
Firstly bubble wrap is essential. You can buy it at BHV near Hotel de Ville in the art and framing section on the first floor (I think... might be second floor). They also have a sort of corrugated cardboard which worked very well around wine bottles for us recently.
Small jars are wrapped in bubble wrap and then put into a sock and then into a shoe. Shoe is packed into the centre layer of suitcase. Small bottles can be done same and into boots if you are taking them.
Any bottles, jars etc that you think you don't want to pack like this can be posted home. Ask for the economy post which will take longer, but is much cheaper - especially if items are heavy. Pack them yourself and if going to the USA, remember that cognac and other spirits cannot be posted. Wine is ok though.
Another option is to buy cardboard boxes that fit into your suitcase and pack the goodies in them (using bubble wrap) and then into the centre of the suitcase. That way they will not move around in your luggage and will stay in the centre..
Good luck!
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Thanks, Debbie.
Our dirty clothes will come in handy, as well, when it comes to insulating precious jars of things. I appreciate the tip on where to buy bubble wrap and cardboard.
I imagine that some wine shops are also prepared to help tourists with this problem, and sell styrofoam wine packers. At least I hope they are. Mailing stuff home might be complicated for the likes of me. My French is pitiful. Perhaps my son (a budding cook) will be sufficiently motivated to help out if need be. At least he's sat through 8 semesters of college French....
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 4:50 pm
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welcome to paris !
well, I recently flew to Great Britain to visit friends, who are great "amateurs" of french food. Accordingly, I brought them some foie gras in tins, some marrons glacés and calissons (in cardboard boxes) and some tapenade and mustard in glass jars. I wrapped those glass containers in many layers of newspaper, and I must say evrything was intac when it arrived at Birmingham airport.
the friend I was with brought them a bottle of port similarly wrpped up, and it was in good shape too....
when are you coming to Paris ? iF you need linguistic help, you can PM me, I'll be glad to help !
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:23 pm
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Bubblewrap is pronouced "boo-blé-rap" en Francais - with the accent on the first syllable!
When we were in Quimper buying faience at the Henriot factory, they used "booblerap" to wrap our purchases. And so it shall ever be pronounced in my head!!!
It is now our official family pronunciation!
I agree with what everyone has said. If you pack carefully, in among your clothes, glass containers will be fine! I NEVER bring home anything but food from France - and I hate lugging 40 pounds of carry-on, so it always goes in the luggage and we've never had an incident. I did pray a lot the time we brought the salt packed anchovies back from Provence!
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Donna wrote:
Bubblewrap is pronouced "boo-blé-rap" en Francais - with the accent on the first syllable!
When we were in Quimper buying faience at the Henriot factory, they used "booblerap" to wrap our purchases. And so it shall ever be pronounced in my head!!!
It is now our official family pronunciation!
never ever heard this pronunciation... ask for "papier bulle".
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Well, I had never heard it either - and I'm certain it wouldn't pass muster with l'Academie Francaise, but it tickled my funny bone to hear it and we use it all the time now! I'm glad to hear there's a real French word for it!
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I have no intention of letting these silly restrictions inhibit my ability from hauling back tons of nut oils and mustard. In fact, theres a part of me that is almost excited about NOT hauling 500 pounds of bottles around an airport.
From past experience, I concurr with packing as close to the center of the suitcase as possible and putting the dirty clothes to good use. If you have fleece items---jackets and the like---those are stellar replacements for bubble wrap and you won't need the fleece on the plane anyway.
We have older heavy suitcases from Travelsmith that do very well for these purposes because they have stiff framing on the sides. We try to create a cocoon of dirty clothes and then fill the middle with nice soft fleece. I suppose tucking stuff in shoes might work but mine are never really big enough.
good Luck!
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I guess that's the up side: no heavy carry one to schlepp. I'm quite sure that we'll figure out a way to bring back our goodies! I pm'd you on the other forum, Jenn. So looking forward to the trip...
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That was the title of a recently completed pilot program at TCAUP. The program is tentatively called "Visiting Experts" and consisted of an intensive week-long workshop effort lead by an outside guest and involving, at least this time around, the entire 2nd year graduate student body. For the program's first workshop the school invited Alexander D'Hooghe, Associate Professor in Architectural Urbanism at MIT.
Here are some of the workshops goals and ambitions:
"This Masterclass assigns to the field of Architecture the responsibility of ordering a generic American landscape. By ordering is meant a durable, civic structure composed of hard objects that are unambiguous about their potential to orient citizens, order the space into legible sectors and define the most important moments of intermodal transition.
This Masterclass aims to achieve: FIRST and most important - we try to objectify infrastructure: that is, we do not treat it as systems but as architectural elements. The result of which should be a language of 3D-hieroglyphs, elements of a post-urban typology for America. We re-define elements of architectural language so that they can re-gain their confident role as elements to structure our cities.
SECOND, we deal with aging America: its landscape has lost its innocence. We address the aging of such landscape and realize that every bold move is just another layer, liberating our work to become more formally extreme and urbanistically definitive for the current moment."
After hitting the pause button on all other classes for the week, all 96 students were broken up into 14 teams of about 7 and given a 1-square mile plot of land in a "generic american landscape." Each plot had to negotiate various layers of infrastructure including highways, railroads, canals and the Jeffersonian 1x1 road grid. In addition, each group was given an "infrastructural object" to work with (Interchange, Big Box Urban Center, Plants and assembly lines, Cemetery, and Blue/Green Energy as Spectacle). At the end of the week, all plots would be stitched together to create the new american landscape.
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Project team: Adrian Avilez, Charles Gurrey, Dieneke Alicia Kniffin, Xiang Liu, Christian Newman, Ho Man Ting, Harold-Sprague Solie (me)
My group was given "Blue/Green Energy as Spectacle" which we translated into a series of windmill farms. Responding to Alexander's encouragement to make "big" gestures and create "monuments" out of infrastructure, we designed a massive wind tunnel which would harvest all surrounding wind into it and through to our windmill farms. The wind tunnel itself was given enough thickness to allow for program to exist on its periphery. A tower was also added as a vertical element to counter-balance the long horizontal, but also to allow for viewing platforms to lookout across the new american landscape. These elements all congregated around a highway infrastructure which ran through our site.
Lastly, in thinking about a physical manifestation of wind and the energy created through its harvesting, we created a series of bubble structures which would either inflate or deflate based on the availibility of excess energy. The idea was that the availability of program and event space (within the bubbles) would be directly associated with how much energy was being harvested...
more energy = more inflated structures = more programmable space
These structures would in essence be "living batteries" for the storage of excess wind energy, while at the same time using that energy to generate program.
"The aim of this project is energy generation through wind. The grid of wind turbines reflects the existing infrastructure; they are further informed by the wind tunnel sited to prevailing winds. The thickness of the tunnel provides program space for education and research. The observation tower is itself a series of horizontal wind turbines. It captures visitors directly from the interstate and provides parking for all users. The excess energy generated by the turbines inflates bubble structures scattered throughout the landscape. These spaces are dynamic, occupiable, and always changing."
- Project brief written by Dieneke Kniffin
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Could the League of Women Voters be working against itself? Last week, members of several local chapters hosted a forum on "sensible laws for gun violence prevention" at the Wheaton City Hall. But by having police officers remove people who were considered disruptive, the League made itself look foolish.
Could the League of Women Voters be working against itself?
Last week, members of several local chapters hosted a forum on "sensible laws for gun violence prevention" at the Wheaton City Hall. Michelle Jordan, an issues specialist with the Illinois League of Women Voters and state counsel for the Illinois Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, moderated the program.
The LWV attempts to broaden people's involvement in the democratic process. Though it doesn't endorse candidates, it advocates for various public policy issues.
Organizers said the forum held April 21 in Wheaton's City Council chambers was originally designed for students at Wheaton North High School. But word about the event spread, and the chambers quickly filled with nearly 200 people opposed to gun-control measures.
In her opening remarks, Jordan said that the people were welcome to attend the forum but that organizers would not tolerate any disruptions. Anyone who disrupts the event would be asked to leave, and those who refuse to leave would be escorted out by police officers, Jordan said.
This was a tactical mistake by organizers. It set the tone right away that dissent would be quelled by police action.
If members of the LWV wanted to hold a private event for students, they should have held it at the high school. Members of the public are not allowed on school property unless authorized, and officials could have turned away those not invited to the forum. Even in staging the event at City Hall, they could have refused entry to nonparticipants.
But once they decided to allow community members in, they turned the event into a public forum. Someone at City Hall told me beforehand that the group had the room for two hours. Organizers ended the forum after about 40 minutes.
They should have used the remaining time to address comments from audience members. But they made it clear that they weren't interested in any debate. An elderly woman was removed from the room by officers for urging audience members to speak their minds.
For a group dedicated to enhancing democracy, the LWV made itself look foolish. Debating public policy issues is at the heart of the democratic process, and using police officers to silence opponents runs contrary to the group's mission.
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Latest news of interest.
Sep 10, 2009 : Minutes MMBase developers meeting September 10, 2009
Jun 4, 2009 :
MMBase 1.9.1 released
The first bug fix release of 1.9 with several improvements and new features.
Apr 28, 2009 :
MMBase is migrating to SVN
We are planning to migrate the MMBase CVS repository to Subversion. We tested how that would go, and it went well. The migration is planned for the 1st of May.
Nov 4, 2008 :
MMCF released with MMBase 1.9.0
This release includes the long awaited MMBase Component Framework designed to make sharing applications and other functionality build upon MMBase easier.
Aug 5, 2008 :
MMBase 1.8.6 released
Again more new features en bugfixes.
Apr 26, 2008 :
MMBase 1.8.6 release candidate
Besides the MMBase 1.9 beta release we are very proud of, the development team also created a release candidate of MMBase 1.8.6.
Apr 25, 2008 :
MMBase 1.9 beta release is now available
Today a completely new MMBase release was made ready to be tested.
Feb 22, 2008 :
The last six MMCF-days ;)
The MMCF projectteam is working hard on finishing the MMBase Component Framework ...
Jan 25, 2008 :
MMCF-day January 25, 2008
The MMCF projectteam is working hard to get ready for the 1.9 release. The release date is now planned at the beginning of May 2008.
Jan 1, 2008 :
2008 the year of MMBase 1.9
2008 will be the year in which MMBase 1.9 will be released. To celebrate this, there was a new-years-drink on January the 25-th.


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When Warner Bros. was first trying to put a LEGO movie together, one of the groups it approached was Blur Studios. Sadly, their vision of a coming-of-age quest didn't get the nod. But you know what, that's OK. Because what we've got instead might be just as good.
Variety reports that the actual and upcoming movie, called LEGO: The Piece of Resistance, will be directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs). So far, so OK. But some of the actors involved include Parks & Rec's Chris Pratt, who will voice the film's star, while Arrested Development's Will Arnett will play...LEGO Batman. There are also whispers that Channing Tatum will be playing LEGO Superman.
While the news the film will be combination of live-action footage and CG effects is a bit of a bummer, the prospect of LEGO Batman and Superman turning up in this thing together just about makes up for it.
PRATT, ARNETT UNITE AS 'LEGO' HEROES [Variety]


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The Band Perry , Dierks Bentley and Hunter Hayes will perform at a new, outdoor music festival in Las Vegas in early April, leading up to the ACM Awards.
Kix Brooks , the Eli Young Band , Florida Georgia Line , Brantley Gilbert and Justin Moore will also appear at the festival, scheduled for April 5-6 at the Orleans Hotel and Casino.
As previously announced, Brad Paisley will perform at the ACM Fan Jam inside the Orleans Arena on April 7. The music festival and Fan Jam are part of the three-day ACM Experience event which will also feature country-themed shopping and eating options.
The Band Perry, Florida Georgia Line, Gilbert and Moore are set for April 5, while Bentley, Brooks, the Eli Young Band and Hayes are booked for April 6. The ACM Fan Jam will be held in conjunction with the ACM Awards taking place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The awards show will feature live performances from the Orleans via remote broadcast.
The outdoor music festival is a ticketed event and does not replace the entertainment held annually on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas, an ACM spokesperson has confirmed. Paisley's Fan Jam concert is also a ticketed event.
Select tickets will be available on Wednesday (Jan. 23), while tickets to the general public will be available on Jan. 25.


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Sounds about right. That's why I don't use foils in winter here, our winds like that too.
I'm guessing you left it at the zenith? Get it over to the side, and get moving on the water!
I bet you're on an inland lake...? The gusts are a lot more brutal than they are at the ocean here. IMO 12's are pretty twitchy anyway, so everything you describe is par for the course in crap weather. Smaller foils are so easy to over-power too, I don't like my 12 for that reason.coffeeking wrote: ↑Mon May 15, 2017 4:01 pmNah, I got un-expectedly lifted with it at ~10 oclock (still a bit high, but if I put it lower it was folding lower tip in the lulls and losing controlability, pulling me sideways in gusts and dropping out in lulls). When I kept it low it was pulling enough to stop me getting the board on, you might think I should depower it but in the lulls it just did it's own thing with slack back lines. The lack of bar feedback makes it hard to judge correct bar pressure so I'm guessing I need a bit more practice and when it was in a sweet spot for a 30 second stretch it felt great, then a gust came and it over-flew me before I could react.
Genuinely walked off the beach wanting to sell it. Took a few hours to calm down.
Flatter kite, higher AR... Just different.coffeeking wrote: ↑Wed May 17, 2017 3:33 pmNormally wouldn't have even considered it "be wary" weather with something like the waroo, I'd just rig and go!


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Prentice-Hall Publishing, a subsidiary of Pearson Education, has announced the publication of a new textbook authored by Dr. Rodney Boyer, who is the Drs. Edward and Elizabeth Hofma Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Hope College.
The new book, "Biochemistry Laboratory: Modern Theory and Techniques," second edition, is designed for use in undergraduate biochemistry and molecular biology teaching and research laboratories. The book focuses on detailed descriptions of modern techniques in experimental biochemistry and discusses the theory behind important techniques. The extensive range of techniques includes computer internet biochemical databases, chromatography, electrophoresis, spectroscopy, measurements of ligand-binding interactions, and recombinant DNA procedures such as molecular cloning and polymerase chain reaction. It is expected that students will use the book as a supplement and guide to their laboratory procedures.
The book will have a companion website with information for instructors on how to design and teach a biochemistry/molecular biology lab course. The highlight of the website is a listing of more than 250 experimental projects in all areas of biochemistry and molecular biology and appropriate for use at the undergraduate level. The list of experiments on the website will be updated on a periodic basis.
Boyer served on the Hope faculty for 26 years, from 1974 until retiring in 2000, teaching, conducting research and writing biochemistry. He was also chairperson of the department for six years.
He earned his B.A. in chemistry at Westmar College (Iowa) and his Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry at ColoradoStateUniversity. He joined the Hope chemistry faculty after three years as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow with M.J. Coon in the Department of Biological Chemistry at the University of Michigan Medical School.
While at Hope, he directed the work of more than 75 undergraduate students in research supported by the NIH, NSF, Dreyfus Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Petroleum Research Fund (ACS). With his students, he published numerous journal articles on the storage of iron in the protein ferritin, and in biochemical education. He spent a sabbatical year as an American Cancer Society Scholar in the lab of Nobel laureate Tom Cech at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Boyer is also the author of "Modern Experimental Biochemistry" (third edition, 2000, Benjamin-Cummings) and "Concepts in Biochemistry" (third edition, 2006, John Wiley & Sons), and serves as an associate editor for the journal "Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education" (BAMBED). He is a member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) and a former member of its Education and Professional Development Committee that recently designed the undergraduate biochemistry degree recommended by the ASBMB. He now resides in Bozeman, Mont., where he continues to write and consult in biochemical education.


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It's always great when you open your front door and a package filled with comics falls back into your home. For the most part, I'm happy with the book but just like anything I do, I see all the flaws and things I wish I would have done better. But that's the best part of this job, you can take your shortcomings, work hard at them, and come back better and stronger on your next project. Technically I've only been doing this job for little over a year and it's crazy to believe what I've worked on so far. I'm very thankful.
I also finished issue 5 this weekend and just looking at this book compared to what I did on issue 5, I can see that I made improvements and took my critiques to heart. It's now time for a little vacation. My wife sacrifices so much in order to allow me to get these books done on time, so now it's time for a week dedicated to her. I love her very much.
I've also got some emails asking for pages for issue 4 and 5. Once I get some of the inked pages back, I'll post them here with a price guide.
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MUFON have the full report that you can download here on the Stephenville, Texas radar report.
Also from the media star-telegraph (july 12th 2008 ) "Radar tracked unidentified craft from Crawford, groups report says"
Pegasus news (july 12th 2008 ) "MUFON radar evaluations show UFOs aimed at Bush's Crawford ranch"
This therefore asks some serious questions? the larry King live latest show (aired 11th july, 2008 ) also touches on this, among other things to do with Stephenville, proving this is still not going away…. please see the link https://dandare.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/larry-king-live-stephenville-ufo-aired-july-11th-2008/ which was put on here earlier for the videos from you tube.
interesting indeed.
Also Abovetopsecret.com has a thread on this here


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MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- The American Auto Racing Writers & Broadcasters Association has announced its annual All America Team, which the group has done every year since the conclusion of the 1970 season.
A unique team of special drivers representing multiple forms of professional motorsports is elected each year by AARWBA. The association's members vote on drivers within their participating categories of racing and the top two from each discipline are elected to the first team.
This is the 2012 All-America team:
In the Open Wheel Division, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Will Power were the leading choices. Driving for Andretti Autosport, Hunter-Reay claimed his first IZOD Indy Car Series Champion this year, and Verizon Team Penske's Will Power sat on five pole positions and won three races in the series on his way to second place in 2012 points for the third consecutive season.
Two-person teams were the selections for Road Racing: Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas who drove their Telmex BMW-Riley for Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, and Klaus Graf/Lucas Luhr who drove for Muscle Milk Pickett Racing. Pruett and Rojas are the 2012 Grand-Am Champs, giving owner Chip Ganassi his third straight and sixth overall Prototype title since 2004. Graf and Luhr were the ALMS 2012 LMP1 driver champions scoring six wins this season.
A USAC Sprint Car Championship and seven feature victories earned Bryan Clauson a slot on the All America Team's Short Track division. Clauson also started the Indianapolis 500 as the 2011 USAC National Champion. Donny Schatz is the other Short Track Division representative on the strength of his fifth World of Outlaws Sprint Car title. In 2012 Schatz claimed 11 A-Main victories, 39 top-five, and 60 top-ten finishes.
Brad Keselowski led the All American First Team voting in the Stock Car category as well as all divisions across the ballot. The 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion earned the most votes of any driver during the voting process. Jimmie Johnson fills out the other position with a third-place Sprint Cup standings finish, five points-paying wins, and the All Star Race win.
Antron Brown and Jack Beckman are the Drag Racing Category representatives. Brown piloted Don Schumacher Racing's Matco Tools Dragster to six wins in 11 Final Round appearances and earned his first NHRA Top Fuel crown. Beckman made it a sweep for DSR as he won the NHRA Funny Car title with three Final Round triumphs.
In the Touring Series, James Buescher is recognized for his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Championship. Driving for Turner Motorsports, Buescher visited Victory Lane four times in the series following his dramatic last-lap win in the Daytona NASCAR Nationwide Series race. The driving duo of Emil Assentato and Jeff Segal won the 2012 Rolex Grand Am Series /GT Class in the AIM Autosport Team FXDD with Ferrari. They claimed wins in Miami, New Jersey, and Road America.
Johnny O'Connell and Tristan Vautier were the At Large category's top vote earners. O'Connell chauffeured Cadillac Racing's machine to a win in St. Petersburg and two wins in Detroit on his way to the Pirelli World Challenge GT Championship. San Schmidt Motorsports enjoyed the 2012 Indy Lights crown with Vautier leading them to four wins, five poles, and leading over half of the laps contested during the entire series.
NHRA Funny Car driver Courtney Force was voted the Rising Star award after finishing fifth in the Championship Countdown. She also won the NHRA's Road to the Future Award with four final-round appearances, two number-one qualifying awards, and a win in the Northwest Nationals.
One other tradition that AARWBA has followed is to elect a Second Team to be honored along with the above All-America winners. Here are the categories and names of that illustrious group of drivers:
Open Wheel: Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon/Helio Castroneves (tie)
The country's top forms of professional motorsports are represented in this championship group voted on by AARWBA members as the 2012 All America Team.
Founded in 1955 AARWBA is a motorsports organization comprised of writers, broadcasters, photographers, and other media-related professionals. The organization's charter is aimed at providing not only proper recognition for members of the motorsports media, but to recognize their work as well as the work of the competitors that they follow in print, on the air, and on film. www.aarwba.org


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here is some compiled information for you.
1. Tata Consultancy Services
The Indian software industry is set to keep up its growth rate despite the slowdown in the economy. The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) has forecast a strong outlook for FY08-09 strong with software and services revenue seen growing by 21-24 per cent. The software and services exports are set to hit the $50 billion-mark.
The software and services exports segment grew by 29 per cent (in USD) to register revenues of $40.4 billion in FY07-08, up from $31.4 billion in FY06-07. The domestic segment grew by 26 per cent (in INR) to register revenues of $ 11.6 billion in FY07-08. According to the latest Nasscom rankings, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Infosys Technologies Ltd. and Wipro Technologies Ltd are the top 3 revenue generators in India. Check out the top ten players in the Indian IT industry.
Founded in 1968, TCS is one of India's largest corporate houses. It is also India's largest IT employer with a staff strength of 111,000 employees.
The company began as a division of the Tata Group, called the Tata Computer Centre. Its main business was to offer computer services to other group companies. Soon the company was spun off as Tata Consultancy Services after it realised the huge potential of the booming IT services.
The company posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 1,290.61 crore (Rs 12.90 billion) for the first quarter ended June 30, 2008, an increase of 7.3 per cent compared to the year-ago period.
Its annual sales worldwide stands at $5.7 billion for the fiscal year ending March 2008. During the year 2007-08,TCS' consolidated revenues grew by 22 per cent to Rs 22,863 crore ($5.7 billion). S. Ramadorai, is the chief executive officer and managing director of TCS.
TCS is IDC-Dataquest IT best employer in IT services in 2007. TCS also topped DataQuest DQTop 20 list of IT service providers in 2007.
2. Wipro
What started off as a hydrogenated cooking fat company, Wipro is today is a $5 billion revenue generating IT, BPO and R&D services organisation with presence in over 50 countries.
Premji started Wipro with the 'idea of building an organisation which was deeply committed to values, in the firm belief that success in business would be its inevitable, eventual outcome'. The company has over 72,000 employees.
Wipro's revenues grew by 33 per cent to Rs 19,957 crore (Rs 200 billion) for the year ended March 31, 2008. The net profit grew by 12 per cent to Rs. 3,283 crore (Rs. 32.83 billion). The revenues of the combined IT businesses was $4.3 billion with 43 per cent YoY growth.
Wipro was the only Indian company to be ranked among the top 10 global outsourcing providers in IAOP's 2006 Global Outsourcing 100 listing. Wipro has also won the International Institute for Software Testing's Software Testing Best Practice Award.
3. Infosys
Infosys Technologies Ltd was started in 1981 by seven people with $250. Today, the company boasts of revenues of over $ 4 billion and 94,379 employees.
Under the leadership of N R Narayana Murthy, the company has become a global brand. The company is now headed by Kris Gopalakrishnan. The income for the quarter ended June 30 2008 was Rs 4,854 crore (Rs 48.54 billion). The net profit stood at Rs 1,302 crore (Rs 13.02 billion).
Forbes magazine named Infosys in its list of Global High Performers. Waters magazine rated Infosys as the Best Outsourcing Partner. The Banker magazine conferred two Banker Technology Awards on Infosys to acclaim its work in wholesale and capital markets in two categories – Payments and Treasury Services, and Offshoring and Outsourcing.
The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) ranked Infosys at No. 3 in its '2008 Global Outsourcing 100'.
4. Satyam Computer Services
Established in 1987 by Ramalinga Raju, Satyam has a staff strength of 51,000 employees. In 2008, the company's revenues crossed the $ 2-billion mark.
'A simple, yet extensive management model to create value, which promotes entrepreneurship, a focus on the customer, and the constant pursuit of excellence,' is the company's mantra for success. In FY2008, its revenues saw a growth of 30.7 per cent to Rs 8,473.49 crore (Rs 84.73 billion) compared to fiscal 2007.
The net profit stood at Rs 1,687.89 crore (Rs 16.87 billion), a growth of 20.2 per cent over fiscal 2007. Satyam is among the youngest IT service companies to reach $1 billion in annual revenues. It is ranked No. 1 in the ASTD (American Society for Training and Development) BEST Award, 2007.
5. HCL Technologies
HCL is a leading global technology player with annual revenues of $4.9 billion. The HCL Enterprise comprises two companies listed in India, HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of 'India's original IT garage start ups'.
The HCL team comprises 53,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, operating across 18 countries. At a time when India had a total of 250 computers, Shiv Nadar led a young team which passionately believed in the growth of the IT industry.
Three decades later, he succeeded in creating a $ 4.9 billion global enterprise. The company has reported consolidated revenue of Rs 3017.5 crore (Rs 30.17 billion) during the quarter ended March 31, 2008. The profit after tax stood at Rs. 81.5 crore (Rs 815 million).
6. Tech Mahindra
Tech Mahindra was incorporated as a joint venture between Mahindra & Mahindra and BT plc in 1986 under the name of 'Mahindra-British Telecom'.
Later, the name was changed to 'Tech Mahindra', in order to reflect the diversification and growth of the client base and service offerings. The company was incorporated in 1986. Tech Mahindra is a global systems integrator and business transformation consulting firm focused on the communications industry. At the helm of the fast expanding organisation is Vineet Nayyar.
In a career spanning over 40 years, he has worked with the government, international multilateral agencies and the corporate sector. Tech Mahindra's net profit rose 8.57 per cent to Rs 196.4 crore (Rs 1.96 billion) on 6.09 per cent growth in net sale to Rs 911.6 crore (Rs 9.11 billion) in Q3 December 2007 over Q2 September 2007.
7. Patni Computer Systems
Patni Computer Systems Ltd one of the leading global providers of information technology services and business solutions. The company has clients across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific locations.
The company has serviced more than 400 Fortune 1000 companies, for over two decades. Patni Computer Systems Limited was incorporated on 10 February 1978 under the Companies Act, 1956. On 18 September 2003, the Company converted itself from a private limited company into a public limited company.
The company headed founded by Narendra K Patni by has a staff strength of over 14,000 professionals. The revenues for the quarter ended March 2008 stood at $ 176.4 million (Rs. 7,061.2 million) up 13.1% YoY from $ 156.0 million (Rs. 6,724.1 million). The net income for the quarter at US$ 18.1 million (Rs. 724.6 million) down 35.0 per cent YoY from $ 27.8 million (Rs. 1,200.3 million).Frost & Sullivan ranked Patni 1st among 'Top 5 Engineering Service Providers'.
8. i-flex Solutions
iflex started as a division of Citicorp (now Citigroup), wholly owned subsidiary called Citicorp Overseas Software Ltd. (COSL) in 1991. Later, a separate company Citicorp Information Technologies Industries Ltd. (CITIL) was formed and Rajesh Hukku was appointed as its head.
CITIL started off with the universal banking product, MicroBanker which became very successful. In the mid-90s, CITIL developed Flexcube at its Bangalore development centre. After the launch of Flexcube, all of CITIL's transactional banking products were brought under a common brand umbrella. CITIL changed its name to i-flex solutions to reflect its growing independence from Citicorp and to strengthen its Flexcube brand.
In 2006, i-flex became a majority-owned subsidiary of Oracle Corporation i-flex posted a top line growth of 8 per cent QoQ with revenue for the quarter ended March 31, 2008 at Rs 672 crore (Rs 6.72 billion) as compared to Rs 601 crore (Rs 6.01 billion) for the corresponding quarter during the previous year representing a 12 per cent YoY growth.
The net income for quarter stood at Rs 185 crore (Rs 1.85 billion) representing 73 per cent growth QoQ. The revenue for the full year ended March 31, 2008 stood at Rs 2,380 crore (Rs 23.80 billion), up 15 per cent as compared to the previous year.
9. MphasiS
MphasiS Limited was formed in June 2000 after the merger of the US-based IT consulting company MphasiS Corporation (founded in 1998 and the Indian IT services company BFL Software Limited (founded in 1993).
Jeya Kumar is CEO of MphasiS, which has a staff strength of 27,000 people. For the year ended 31 March 2008, the MphasiS Group recorded revenues of Rs 2,423 crore (Rs 24.23 billion), a growth of Rs 662 crore, which is 38 per cent over the previous year.
The net profit increased by 42 per cent from Rs 180 crore (Rs 1.8 billion) to Rs 255 crore (Rs 2.55 billion) during the year ended 31 March 2008. MphasiS was named among amongst the Top 100 Companies in Global Outsourcing.
10. L&T Infotech
L&T Infotech is a global IT services and solutions provider. It is a subsidiary company of is Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (L&T), an engineering, manufacturing and construction conglomerate, with global operations.
A M Naik is the chairman of the company. Originally founded as L&T Information Technology Ltd (LTITL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Ltd (L&T), the company changed its name to L&T Infotech on 1st April, 1997. In 2004, it tied up with Fidelity Information Services, a division of Fidelity National Financial to provide banking solutions for the Indian banking industry. In 2007-08, L&T had recorded revenues of Rs 29,600 crore (Rs 296 billion).
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The Bay Area is once again well represented on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Several Bay Area notables, including Palo Alto's Jeremy Lin, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg.
The magazine's annual list is a whose who in the world of politics, sports, entertainment, business and more.
"They are the people who inspire us, entertain us, challenge us and change our world," the magazine wrote. "Meet the breakouts, pioneers, moguls, leaders and icons who make up this year's TIME 100."
The Bay Area's tech sector is always well represented. In the past it has been dominated by the likes of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg.
Apple's current CEO joins the list less than a year after the passing of Jobs.
Former vice president and current Apple board member Al Gore wrote in the magazine that part of what makes Cook so great is that he is "fiercely protective of Jobs' legacy."
"It is difficult to imagine a harder challenge than following the legendary Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple," Gore wrote. "Yet Tim Cook, a soft-spoken, genuinely humble and quietly intense son of an Alabama shipyard worker and a homemaker, hasn't missed a single beat."
Jobs' presence is felt in other places on the list. The late Apple co-founder's biographer, Walter Isaacson, also was listed as one of the most influential people in the world for the first time.
Former secretary of state Madeline Albright wrote in the magazine that Isaacson should be commended for making all of us read biographies again.
"One indication of influence is the ability to stand boldly against hostile trends and thereby alter them," she wrote. "The age of landmark biographies had, we might assume, long since passed, replaced by one of short attention spans, interactive gadgets and fewer bookstores. Enter Walter Isaacson and his trio of brilliant works about men of genius — Franklin, Einstein and Jobs."
Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg has quickly ascended amongst the powerful elite of Silicon Valley.
The Menlo Park-based social-networking site's second-in-charge is preparing to lead her company into an expected $100 billion IPO later this year.
The Bay Area luminaries are joined on the list this year by the likes of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, hacking collective Anonymous, Warren Buffett and more.
Tim Cook, Sheryl Sandberg Highlight Time 100
The Bay Area is once again well represented on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.


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This is Michael Finke's first appearance on the IA 25. Click here to view the complete list and Special Report schedule for extended profiles for each of the 2013 IA 25 honorees.
The traditional 4% withdrawal rule is fine in a static world, but when was the last time the world was static?
For this reason, Dr. Michael Finke, professor of personal financial planning at Texas Tech and frequent contributor to our sister publication, Research magazine, called the success of the traditional 4% rule a "historical anomaly" in a working paper published in mid-January.
"The 4% rule was based on the historical asset return in a market environment that doesn't look like the one that exists today," Finke told Investment Advisor in March.
It's caused something of a stir.
"Our intention with the paper was to acknowledge the reality of lower returns moving forward," Finke recently explained, which in and of itself isn't controversial (see PIMCO's New Normal). But the methodology used and the conclusions he and his co-authors arrived at started a healthy debate over the best way to ensure clients' money lasts.
"Asset returns are a random walk. No one knows what bond returns will be in the future, but the market believes they will be negative," he said. "TIPS for instance are already negative. Nominal returns might go up, but real returns will be negative. It will either be a situation where they will be 0% for 20 years or slightly negative for 10 years."
So how did he arrive at such a bleak outlook? Not how one would think.
"We used the same methodology as others, but we did it to prove a point," Finke added. "The point was that we don't think the traditional withdrawal rates will address retirement income shortfalls; the supposedly safe methodology isn't as safe as it was in the past. Withdrawal rates will need to be modified and more dynamic to coincide with expected longevity and provide protection and income should retirees live for longer than 30 years."
With P/E ratios currently around 23, he argued, most people expect 2% real returns in equities.
"We believe it will be twice as high, which might be seen as optimistic, but it's actually pessimistic had you used traditional stock and bond returns. We used bonds in our calculations and even then, if you used stocks, the results would be even more pessimistic."
So after shaking up the advisory world, what's next? Shake it up again, apparently.
Finke and his colleagues' latest study, which they plan to release this summer, takes a close look at retiree behavior during, and in the immediate aftermath of, the 2008 economic crisis. Specifically, it seeks to identify the type of retirees that went to cash as a result of the turmoil.
"What we found was that at an advanced age, there was almost a direct correlation between the amount of decline in cognitive ability a person was experiencing, and the amount of money they withdrew from the market."
What it reveals, he concluded, is that relying on financial advisors for guidance might be even more important to prevent investors, especially older investors, from making this type of mistake as they age.


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The Liberal American Legion and Legion Auxillary are once again planning Memorial Day Services at The Liberal Cemetery and Restlawn Memorial Gardens north of Liberal. Services at Restlawn Memorial Gardens will start at 9:00am withe services at the Liberal Cemetary taking place at 11:00am just inside the west gate of the cemetery at the World War I Memorial The ceremonies will include the posting of the colors, National Anthem, poems, readings, songs, speeches, and the Echo, honoring all those missing in action from Kansas, with Taps also being played. These services are to honor the soldiers who have passed on, either while serving, or later in life, and are open to the public.


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To be tottaly correct the kuran says to cover up your private parts(men and woman)and to wear loosefitting clothes also for men and woman,for women specific it says to cover your"jewels"(breasts)so they wont show when a women stamps the earth with her feet(dancing).Iam from morroco,to be more specific berberdescendent and in our villages women never have covered there faces,my grandmother wears a scarf,but i think that was more for practical reasons.I often read that it is to get respect from men,but schould men not always respect women(they all hade a mother,and muhamed said to respect mothers the most)and should they not have more selfcontrol.?to many muslimmen forget that the prophet himself was very emancipated,he even helped in the household,he washed his own clothes,milked the goats and so on,his first wife was a busnisswoman,and the second one leader of a political movement,he gave women a lot of rights.
further the bible was not written in english but in arameens,translated to greek,latin andso on.And yes there are a lot of different bibletranslations and a lot of gnostic readings like the nag hammadi text,but there are also a lot of different interpretatons on the kuran to.I encourage you to study the kuran and other sacred books,you soon notice that the basic message is the same.There is one God,but there are a lot of roads towards him,or as jesus/issa said my fathers house has many rooms.If you feel better when you are covered up then do so.One thing i like about islam is that everyone has a direct connection to God/Allah,so its all between you and Him,
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A number of Hollywood's leading men and women have made their way onto the Time 100, the magazine's annual list of the year's most influential people.
Amongst them was Lady Gaga, whose music – and record-breaking YouTube videos – have taken the world by storm.
"When I see somebody like Gaga, I sit back in admiration," Cyndi Lauper wrote of the already iconic singer in the new issue, which hits newsstands on Friday. "I'm inspired to pick up the torch again myself. I did an interview with her once, and she showed up with a sculpture on her head. I thought, 'How awesome.'"
Besides Gaga, a number of musicians made the list, including Prince, Elton John and Taylor Swift, who earned kudos from Fleetwood Mac legend Stevie Nicks, who performed with Taylor at this year's Grammy Awards.
"Taylor reminds me of myself in her determination and her childlike nature. It's an innocence that's so special and so rare," Stevie wrote. "This girl writes the songs that make the whole world sing, like Neil Diamond or Elton John. I still walk around singing her song 'Today Was a Fairytale.'"
On the film and television side, the mag included stars such as "How I Met Your Mother's" Neil Patrick Harris, "Glee" star Lea Michele, "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell, "Lost" writer-producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, "District 9" director Neil Blomkamp, "Avatar" helmer James Cameron, "The Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow, TV talker Oprah Winfrey, comedian Ricky Gervais and "Twilight Saga" heartthrob Robert Pattinson.
"We haven't seen a tenth of what he can do onscreen," "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" director Chris Weitz wrote of his star. "I love you, Rob! Call me!"
Also on the list was new mom Sandra Bullock, finally an Oscar winner this year for her role in "The Blind Side."
"She puts you at ease; there's no movie star there at all. Well, she happens to be a bit beautiful, I'll grant, and a bit built, but the human being inside all that gorgeousness is just a delight," "The Proposal" co-star Betty White wrote of Sandra. "She's been labeled America's Sweetheart, which sounds soft and sweet. Sandra is both of those things, but she also has a strength of her own. She never lets a scene get away from her. She's never just there going through her paces. And you can't take your eyes off of her. America, you wish she were your sweetheart."
Conan O'Brien, who gave up his spot at "The Tonight Show" (and is now heading for a new show on TBS) after unprecedented drama in the comedy-minded world of late night, joined the top 100 as well.
"He wasn't a performer; he was a writer," George Lopez, Conan's soon-to-be TBS colleague, wrote of the comedian's early days in late night. "But then I watched, and I recognized his unique perspective. He said things that made me laugh, and I started to feel him. He kept fighting — and I started to respect him. In the world of comedy, his was a Cinderella story in size 15 shoes."
Even a Twitter star made the list – Ashton Kutcher, the social network site's most popular person, as well as a longtime film and TV star.
"Most people use it to promote themselves, but he uses Twitter to connect, to strike up conversations, to send positive messages to the millions of people who read his words. This guy will show us the future. And it's gonna be a blast," Sean "Diddy" Combs, a friend of Ashton since his "Punk'd" days, wrote.
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DEPENDENCE ANALYSIS FOR DISTRIBUTED EVENT-BASED SYSTEMS by Daniel Popescu A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Ful llment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPUTER SCIENCE) December 2011 Copyright 2011 Daniel Popescu
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|In recent years, distributed event-based (DEB) systems that have been developed using message-oriented middleware platforms have become widespread. In DEB systems, a software component does not directly call other software components via explicit references, but instead implicitly invokes other software components by publishing messages. Consequently, DEB components are highly decoupled and enable highly scalable, easy-to-evolve, concurrent, distributed, heterogeneous applications. ❧ At the same time, implicit invocations render more difficult the analysis of the impact of a particular change to a system. Software engineers who perform impact analysis investigate a software system's dependencies, in order to determine how a proposed change to a component affects other components. In the absence of explicit references between DEB components, an engineer has to assume that any component in the system may potentially interact with, and thus depend on, any other component. Thus, investigating the impact of proposed changes in DEB systems becomes especially hard and time-consuming. ❧ Existing automated dependence analysis techniques inadequately facilitate impact analysis of DEB systems because the dependencies that these techniques extract are too imprecise and incomplete. Therefore, the research of this dissertation devises techniques that extract more precise dependencies with a significantly higher degree of completeness from the implementations of DEB systems. ❧ The results of this dissertation research are the identification of the specific obstacles that make dependence analysis challenging for DEB systems, and the development of two novel dependence analysis techniques, named Message Dependency Analyzer (MDA) and Rapid Message Dependency Analyzer (RMDA), that extract more precise and complete dependencies from DEB system than existing techniques. MDA and RMDA analyze the source code of a DEB system, in order to identify the types of messages each component may consume and publish, as well as how published and consumed messages depend on each other. The two techniques make different tradeoffs between speed, precision, completeness, and applicability. While MDA is aimed at extracting control-flow-based dependencies from a broad range of existing implemented DEB systems, RMDA defines a set of implementation constraints and extracts control-flow-based and data-flow-based dependencies only from DEB systems that are compliant to these constraints. RMDA's implementation constraints enable RMDA to extract significantly faster precise and complete dependencies than MDA. The dissertation evaluates the degree of precision and completeness that MDA and RMDA achieve in the analysis of existing DEB systems. Overall, the evaluation demonstrates that MDA and RMDA extract more precise and complete dependencies from DEB systems than existing techniques.
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1940 : Japanese set up puppet regime at Nanking1940 : Japanese set up puppet regime at Nanking
On this day, Japan establishes its own government in conquered Nanking, the former capital of Nationalist China.
In 1937, Japan drummed up a rationale for war against Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist China (claiming Chinese troops attacked Japanese troops on maneuvers in a so-called "autonomous" region of China) and invaded northeastern China, bombing Shanghai and carving out a new state, Manchukuo.
Money and supplies poured into Free China from the United States, Britain, and France, until the Burma Road, which permitted free passage of goods into China from the West, was closed after a Japanese invasion of Indochina. Making matters more difficult, Chiang was forced to fight on two fronts: one against the Japanese (with U.S. help in the person of Gen. Joseph Stillwell, Chiang's chief of staff), and another against his ongoing political nemesis, the Chinese Communists, led by Mao Tse-tung. (Although the United States advised concentrating on the Japanese first as the pre-eminent threat, Chiang was slow to listen.)
The Japanese proceeded to prosecute a war of terror in Manchukuo. With the capture of Nanking (formerly the Nationalist Chinese capital, which was now relocated to Chungking) by the Central China Front Army in December 1937, atrocities virtually unparalleled commenced. The army, under orders of its commander, Gen. Matsui Iwane, carried out the mass execution of more than 50,000 civilians, as well as tens of thousands of rapes. Nanking and surrounding areas were burned and looted, with one-third of its buildings utterly destroyed. The "Rape of Nanking" galvanized Western animus against the Japanese.
On March 30, 1940, Nanking was declared by the Japanese to be the center of a new Chinese government, a regime controlled by Wang Ching-wei, a defector from the Nationalist cause and now a Japanese puppet.
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Although the Romans controlled most of the Iberian Peninsula from about 218 BC, it took them close to two centuries to fully subjugate the region. This map was issued as part of Delisle de Sales' Histoire des Hommes. Partie de l'Histoire Moderne. This volume is exceedingly rare as most of Sales' work was burnt under the censorship of heresy.
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales or Jean-Baptiste Isoard de Lisle (1741–1816) was a French philosopher, historian, and accused heretic active in the late 18th century. Sales is best known for his publication of the multi-volume opus The Philosophy of Nature: Treatise on Human Moral Nature. The work, among other ideas, challenged the Biblical theory that the earth was created in 4004 BC. Instead, Sales put forth the theory based upon astronomical observations, that the earth was 140,000 years old. Sales' revolutionary ideas caused him to be declared a heretic by the Catholic Church. His publications were subsequently censored and, for the most part, destroyed. As a consequence all of his works are today extremely rare. Sales was also, notably, a close friend of Voltaire who in 1777 visited him in prison, gifting him 500 pounds towards his release. Delisle de Sales is unrelated to the more famous De L'Isle family of cartographers.