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Frank Oz was the voice of the wise and beloved Yoda and, more than 30 years after the character's debut, not a month goes by without a fan approaching Oz with a simple request — but the answer is always the same: Do the impression he won't.
The 68-year-old Hollywood Renaissance man — Muppet puppeteer, movie director and the voice behind the pint-sized Jedi master — holds his characters too sacred for such tripe.
"You wouldn't parade your kids around like that, would you?" he said. "They're part of me. I won't use them as a party favor to impress people."
Oz, who lives in Manhattan, will return to Los Angeles on Thursday to accept a lifetime achievement honor at the 38th annual Saturn Awards, which are presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.
He'll don a crisp black suit, walk down a red carpet with his wife, Victoria, visit his three sons (who live in and near Hollywood) and stay at the Four Seasons — the same L.A. hotel he has booked for decades, his "second home." Still, this trip west is a little uncomfortable for Oz. He is honored, delighted even, to be recognized for a body of work spanning five decades. But, he explains: "When I first found out, I said, 'I'm too young for this.' It's strange to accept an award for a 'lifetime' of work. I'm too young to have had a lifetime. I feel like I have so much more to do."
Oz launched his career as a teenager, working at a puppetry theater in Oakland after his parents, Frances and Isadore Oznowicz, relocated from England. At 17, he met his great mentor, Jim Henson, who hired him two years later. The rest is Muppet history.
"I learned a huge, huge amount from Jim," Oz said, recalling his years on the sets of "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show."
"I learned how to film from him, how to direct. We were like brothers working with each other."After nearly 10 years, Oz started "owning" principal characters, crafting distinct personalities for America's most beloved fuzzy figures. Miss Piggy, Bert (of "Bert and Ernie" fame), Animal and the Cookie Monster top his all-star roster.
"I can't tell you where I got Miss Piggy," he said. "She's so incredibly layered. It's an organic process, I think. Experiences from my own life filtered into my comedic vision. Animal came from mud in my soul."
Henson, who died in 1990, was always supportive, Oz said. "My fondest memories are the hundreds and hundreds of Bert and Ernie [scenes] with Jim. Years of joy."
When Oz took on the role of Yoda in "The Empire Strikes Back," Henson offered advice. He shared puppet technology with George Lucas and weighed in on the sage creature's inverted diction.
The Jedi universe and the creative chemistry bred magic. "With Yoda, it was right away — I picked him up and immediately knew who he was," Oz said. "I have no idea why."
Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, found the perfect costar in Yoda.
"Frank is an absolute genius," said Hamill, adding that he would received "encouraging telegrams" from Oz on movie sets. "At first, I was intimidated to act with a puppet. I wasn't sure how it would work. But Frank made me so comfortable. He really brought Yoda to life. It was much more impressive than any computer-generated effect."
Hamill, eight years Oz's junior, said he looked up to the puppeteer: "He has a great heart and is, obviously, hysterically funny. I learned a lot from Frank."
Oz's own Hollywood journey took him down the filmmaker path. Again, Henson was there at the beginning and at his side.
The pair shared directing credit on "The Dark Crystal," which arrived at theaters in 1982 as the most ambitious puppetry film in Hollywood history.
Oz was the sole director of 1984's "The Muppets Take Manhattan" and the directing credits that followed included "Bowfinger," "HouseSitter," "Indian in the Cupboard" and "What About Bob?"
The voice work has never gone silent, however, and Oz has even returned to the green serenity of old Yoda with voice contributions to "Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith" in 2005 and for Star Tours: The Adventures Continue, the theme-park attraction at Disneyland. Most recently, Oz veered into the digital realm, lending vocals to the bright red, bean-shaped Mr. Fungus in Pixar's "Monsters University," the "Monsters, Inc." sequel scheduled to reach theaters next summer. Oz said he would approach the next voice job with the same spirit that he learned from Henson.
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Diocese of Los Angeles and the West (Antiochian)
The Diocese of Los Angeles and the West of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America was established as the Western Region of the archdiocese on May 5, 1964 by the then Bishop Antony (Bashir). Upon the granting of self-rule to the archdiocese by the Patriarchate of Antioch in 2001, the Western Region was raised to the dignity of a diocese. The diocese encompasses eight western states of the United States and three western provinces of Canada. His Grace Bishop Joseph (Al-Zehlaoui), formerly the auxiliary bishop of the Western Region, was enthroned as bishop of the new diocese at St. Nicholas Cathedral, Los Angeles, California on Sunday, September 12, 2004, by Metropolitan Philip, the ruling hierarch of the archdiocese.
When he first stepped onto American soil in 1920, little did Archdeacon Antony Bashir know that he would plant the seeds that would blossom into the Diocese of Los Angeles and the West. That year, the future Metropolitan-Archbishop of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America came to Portland, Oregon on a visit with Metropolitan Gerasimos (Messara). Shortly thereafter, Archdeacon Antony was secured to minister to the Antiochian flocks yearning for Jesus Christ throughout the United States and Canada as a priest and hierarch. As the latter, Metropolitan Antony (Bashir), organized and established the collection of parishes in the west as the Western Region, the predecessor of the Diocese of Los Angeles and the West.
Founding of the First Parish in the Western Region
It was in Portland, Oregon, that those seeds of Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church in the western United States bore the initial fruit with the establishment of St. George Church in 1930. This was soon followed by the founding of the community of St. George in Los Angeles, California in 1933 (which later gave way to St. Nicholas in 1950). St. Nicholas in San Francisco, California was established in 1938, followed by the birth of St. George in Phoenix, Arizona in 1949, thus giving the region four parishes in three western states. The Orthodox Church in the west continued to grow as the faithful continued to establish parishes for the purpose of worship and fellowship.
Cathedral Established
On May 5, 1964, Metropolitan Antony declared St. Nicholas of Los Angeles to be the Cathedral of the Western Region, the see of the metropolitan (and later, the diocesan bishop) for the western United States and Canada. Its pastor, Father Paul Romley, was named the first dean of the cathedral and exarch of the Western Region clergy.
New Leadership
Though the passing of Metropolitan Antony in 1966 was indeed a sad one, a new hierarch took charge of the flock in the west and throughout all of North America. Metropolitan Philip (Saliba)) was consecrated in Lebanon on August 14, 1966. His first visit to the flock was in the Western Region, as he returned to preside over the Archdiocese Convention hosted by St. Nicholas of San Francisco. Metropolitan Philip then visited the western churches before heading for New York to be enthroned on October 13, 1966.
By 1975, with the joyful reunification of the Archdioceses of New York and Toledo, Ohio, the number of parishes grew to ten and now included the state of Nevada. Though small in stature at this point, the Orthodox Christian witness and ministry shone brightly out west. We shared in the joy of the "Antiochian Holy Year" in 1977 when we welcomed Patriarch ELIAS IV (Muawad) to the Western Region Parish and Family Life Conference, hosted by St. Nicholas Cathedral in Los Angeles.
Patriarchal Visits
By 1985, the Western Region had grown to a total of 15 churches. Also declared an "Antiochian Holy Year
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Soft and cute baby chicks and ducklings are offered for sale online and in feed stores this time of year and raising chicks can be rewarding, but live poultry (chicks, chickens, ducks, ducklings, geese, turkeys) can also be a source of human Salmonella infections, especially for children.
Since 1990, more than 35 outbreaks of human Salmonella infections associated with live poultry have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These outbreaks included more than 1,300 illnesses, many of them in young children.
Interest in raising chickens has increased over the years and so have the number of outbreaks reported. In 2012, eight outbreaks were investigated nationally, the most ever in a year.
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"When live baby poultry carry Salmonella they don't appear to be sick, but they can still spread germs to people," said Erica Berl, an infectious disease epidemiologist with the Vermont Department of Health. "Live poultry may have Salmonella bacteria in their droppings and on their bodies (feathers, feet, and beaks) even when they appear healthy and clean. "
The germs can also get on cages, coops and other objects in the area where birds live and roam. People can be exposed to Salmonella by holding, cuddling or kissing the birds and by touching objects where the birds live, such as cages or feed and water bowls. People become infected with Salmonella when they touch something that is contaminated with Salmonella bacteria and then touch their mouth or eat with their hands.
Illness from Salmonella typically causes diarrhea, vomiting, fever and abdominal cramps. Illness can be severe and require hospitalization. Young children, elderly people, and those with weakened immune systems are more likely to develop severe illness.
Young children are especially at risk for illness because their immune systems are still developing and they are more likely to put their fingers or other items into their mouths.
To reduce the risk of Salmonella infection from live poultry:
• Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water right after touching live baby poultry or anything in the area where they live and roam. Use hand sanitizer if soap and water are not readily available. Supervise hand washing for young children.
• Don't let younger children, especially those less than 5 years of age, handle or touch chicks, ducklings, or other live poultry.
• Don't snuggle or kiss the birds and touch your mouth.
• Don't eat or drink in the area where the birds live or roam.
• Keep live poultry outside. Don't let live baby poultry inside the house, in bathrooms, or especially in areas where food or drink is prepared, served or stored, such as kitchens or outdoor patios.
• Don't clean any equipment or materials associated with raising or caring for live poultry (such as cages or feed or water containers) inside the house.
• Don't give live baby poultry as gifts to young children.
For more information about Salmonella, visit healthvermont.gov. For more information on poultry management, contact the Animal Health Office at the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets (802)828-2421.
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THE Newcastle Jets recorded a third straight clean sheet as the Central Coast Mariners discovered life without wonder boy Tomas Rogic is not going to be easy.
The Jets and Mariners fought out a scoreless stalemate at a rain-drenched Bluetongue Stadium on Saturday night that threw up more questions than answers for the league leaders.
For the Mariners all eyes were on debutant Anthony Caceres, who was this week anointed as the successor to Celtic-bound Tomas Rojic.
The Marconi junior worked hard but struggled to make an impact and was replaced after 55 minutes by veteran Nick Montgomery.
Kiwi international Michael McGlinchey was the most likely for a Mariners outfit unable to break down a Jets defence that has been transformed from a leaky boat into brick wall in recent weeks.
After giving up 28 goals in the opening 14 rounds, the Jets have not conceded a goal in five-and-a-half-hours of football.
The point moved the Mariners to 35 points and extended their lead to three from Adelaide, who were stunned 2-0 by Melbourne Heart on Friday night.
The Jets progressed to 21 points, but slipped a place to sixth, courtesy of the Heart's win.
Referee Alan Milliner issued four yellow cards in a derby that, though providing plenty of tension, lacked the fire of previous encounters.
As the scoreline suggests, there was very little between the teams. Possession was shared 50-50, the Jets had 13 shots to the Mariners 10 and the visitors won the corners 8-7. Both keepers made three saves.
Jets coach Gary van Egmond opted against exposing Andrew Hoole to the pressure of a derby, despite the 19-year-old's outstanding debut at right back in the 1-0 win over the Roar.
Scott Neville earned a recall in his place, Emile Heskey returned to lead the attack and Josh Mitchell was called up for Taylor Regan (strained calf).
Confirmation of Rojic's departure capped a tumultuous week for the home side.
Bernie Ibini is also overseas on trial at Club Brugge and coach Graham Arnold was forced to watch the game from John Singleton's suite in the western grandstand after receiving a one-match ban for abusing match officials during the 1-all draw with Melbourne Victory.
The heat wave which melted most of NSW and had the state on bushfire alert was replaced by rain and cold conditions more akin to an English winter.
After receiving a welcome challenge in the back from Jets defender Josh Mitchell, Caceres had the Mariners' first half chance, but nodded his header straight into the ground and was easily kept by Mark Birighitti.
At the other end, Heskey got on the end of two headers, which he flicked on the far post but they fell safely.
Even with the changes to the back four, the Jets are more resilient than they were a month ago.
The Mariners attacked down both flanks but had little joy until the 40th minute when Michael McGlinchey skipped inside two defenders on the right and lifted a shot form 10 metres but couldn't beat Birighitti who flew high and tipped the ball over the bar.
The closest the Jets went to breaking the deadlock was a long-range effort from Josh Brillante four minutes from the break which Matt Ryan knocked over the bar to safety.
The Jets continued to force the issue and had two golden chances to go ahead inside four minutes of the second half. Craig Goodwin hit the side netting and James Brown lifted a shot over the bar when he had Ryan Griffiths and Emile Heskey unmarked in the six-yard box.
While the Jets rued missed chances van Egmond was pleased with the way his side has continued to improve their defence.
"If you play the team that is coming first on their home turf and you come away without conceding and you get something out of the game, that is a positive," he said.
Looking for a spark, van Egmond replaced Heskey with James Virgili and pushed Griffiths to the point of the attack, where he scored the match-winner against the Roar.
A relatively tame derby threatened to erupt in the 63rd minute when Josh Mitchell cut down Montgomery. Players from both camps converged by Mitchell was the only one booked.
Both sides pushed and probed searching for a winner.
The winner did not come but Mariners assistant coach Phil Moss, who deputised for Graham Arnold, said the clean sheet was a positive out of a tense F3 battle.
"Arnies' philosophy from day one has been to keep cleans sheets and be hard to beat and hard to break down, " Moss said last night.
"I thought we did well on that front tonight. It was a scrap and it wasn't the prettiest game of football.
"I could have gone either way and I thought our players determination to keep a clean sheet was fantastic."
"The fight and determination not to give the game away had Graham Arnold written all over it.
As part of Arnold's suspension, he was not permitted to interact with the team from two hours before kick-off until an hour after full-time.
His assistant Phil Moss took the reins and gave instructions from the sideline.
However the Jets suspicions were raised when they noticed that one of the Mariners assistants on the bench had an earpiece in and was talking on a walkie talkie and approached the fourth official to investigate
"I was wondering who they were talking to,' van Egmond said.
"Apparently it was Adrian Pellegrino.
"If I was the fourth official and I saw one of the assistant coaches with an ear piece and talking. You now the coach is not on the bench, what would you think?."
Moss flatly rejected any suggestion that Arnold had been communicating with the bench.
"I can put that straight to bed. I didn't hear from Arnie once during the game. There was no communication at all," he said.
When asked if he would take the matter further, Van Egmond said "That is for the league, that is not for me to decided. If you are going to make rules and see something like that, I thought the fourth official could have been a bit more switched on.
"He may well have done."


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16698?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15580983#comment-15580983 ] Allan Yang commented on HBASE-16698: ------------------------------------ Yes, I know sync operation will batch as many as possible. When you wait for the latch, it is actually waiting for sync as well, so in my analysis, waiting for sync and waiting for latch should take the same time. Have no idea why waiting for sync is fast, the only difference is that if choose to wait for sync, step 5 and step 6 in {{doMiniBatchMutation}} is done without any blocking. > Performance issue: handlers stuck waiting for CountDownLatch inside WALKey#getWriteEntry under high writing workload > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-16698 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16698 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Performance > Affects Versions: 1.2.3 > Reporter: Yu Li > Assignee: Yu Li > Fix For: 2.0.0 > > Attachments: HBASE-16698.branch-1.patch, HBASE-16698.branch-1.v2.patch, HBASE-16698.patch, HBASE-16698.v2.patch, hadoop0495.et2.jstack > > > As titled, on our production environment we observed 98 out of 128 handlers get stuck waiting for the CountDownLatch {{seqNumAssignedLatch}} inside {{WALKey#getWriteEntry}} under a high writing workload. > After digging into the problem, we found that the problem is mainly caused by advancing mvcc in the append logic. Below is some detailed analysis: > Under current branch-1 code logic, all batch puts will call {{WALKey#getWriteEntry}} after appending edit to WAL, and {{seqNumAssignedLatch}} is only released when the relative append call is handled by RingBufferEventHandler (see {{FSWALEntry#stampRegionSequenceId}}). Because currently we're using a single event handler for the ringbuffer, the append calls are handled one by one (actually lot's of our current logic depending on this sequential dealing logic), and this becomes a bottleneck under high writing workload. > The worst part is that by default we only use one WAL per RS, so appends on all regions are dealt with in sequential, which causes contention among different regions... > To fix this, we could also take use of the "sequential appends" mechanism, that we could grab the WriteEntry before publishing append onto ringbuffer and use it as sequence id, only that we need to add a lock to make "grab WriteEntry" and "append edit" a transaction. This will still cause contention inside a region but could avoid contention between different regions. This solution is already verified in our online environment and proved to be effective. > Notice that for master (2.0) branch since we already change the write pipeline to sync before writing memstore (HBASE-15158), this issue only exists for the ASYNC_WAL writes scenario. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)
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- 1 Agenda & Attendee List
- 2 Presentations
- 3 Minutes - Thursday TM session
- 4 Minutes - Friday TM session
- 5 Action Items
Agenda & Attendee List
- Dave McKnight - RSE for TM
- Martin O - Component-Based Launching
- Peter L - Target Connection Adapter Update
Minutes - Thursday TM session
See DD Meeting Notes for the Joint Session:
- Doug G - Update on DSDP, Plans for EclipseCon
- Hobson Bullman - Introduction to SPIRIT
- Doug G - WR's data file standards
- Aaron Spear - Hardware Descriptions at Mentor / SPIRIT Requirements for DSDP
Symbian TM Demo
- Presentation to be posted
- Test Automation Tool (STAT), with an FTP Proxy on the host (for translation)
- Browse / Send / Execute / Install / Restart; FTP Proxy supporting multiple PC clients (and 1 target) - with semaphore: only 1 client allowed at any time.
- New system: multiple services on the target (STAT broken up) - SMDCP: Simple Multiplexed Device Control Protocol, Symbian specific
- TM Daemon: Based on proposal from Pierre-Alexandre: query availability of ServiceTypes, TM UI to display available ones
- Planning to contribute the "yellow" parts in Open Source (the interfaces) ; "green" implementation to remain proprietory at Symbian.
- Debugging TBD as just another service
- FileZilla: Raw FTP commands for installing and launching
- Future: Want services like install, uninstall, process list ... defined and available in TM system.
RSE Demo and Architecture
- Presentation by Dave McKnight
- RSE Demo
- Ability to cancel shell commands?
- RSE Files View: Contextmenu, Run > Host C/C++ Application
- Remote Source Locator integrated with Remote Launch
- "Attach" Launches directly from the RSE View:
- Re-uses existing Launch with same properties (potentially overwrite old "similar" launch)
- Same for Remote Java Launches
- Classifying remote files: dstore running a "file" command on the remote in order to find out the file type
- Seamless File Transfer: need conflict detection on multi-user machines (if file is simultaneously modified while edited on client)
- RSE Architecture
- IHostFile: the simple data
- Connector Service: Manage passwords etc.
- As long as no subsystem extension for Files exists, the Subsystem definition won't be loaded
- Pete Nicholls: Can bundle RSE in Rich Client Platform?
- Should be possible.. no more strong dependencies
- Persistence: Persistence Providers can be registered to persist the RSE DOM.
- DOM is everything above the actual RSE objects: connections, filters, actions, ...
- FelixB: Use Persistence Providers to auto-discover remote systems?
- MartinO: Looking at use-cases, detecting a new remote system is an explicit step that can be done via an import wizard. There is littel use in automiatically populating the list of local connections ("my favorites") with automatically detected connections.
- System Registry API
- Used by the Persistence Provider to create RSE objects, read them and persist them.
- Persistence Provider is called whenever something is modified
- Creating the FTP Subsystem
- Subclass AbstractFileService, implementing IFileService
- Subclass FileSubsystemConfiguration and register it as SubSystemConfiguration extension
- Reason for layering: Once filters etc. are defined for a subsystem, these shold remain available when you switch protocols
- Most of the work in FTP was the parsers for directory listings etc. (which depend on the host system type with the Sun FTP client)
- Contributing a brand-new subsystem type
- Doing the layering (subystem - service) is possible, but not required. Vendor can choose to make the separation or not (in practice, the separationg might make sense... in case it turns out that the original choice of protocol is to be revised at some later time
- Shared Protocol is possible: a single service can be used to populate multiple subsystems
- Subsystem is providing a lot of re-usable code... e.g. integration with the Eclipse Jobs model
- Debugging / Attaching: Is Debugging a Service?
- So far, more used it as an Action (making use of the Files / Processes subsystem) and not a service
- Pete Nicholls created a Debug Subsystem, allowing to register various things there
- Martin O: Two usage models - (a) launching a debugger, (b) using a debugger to retrieve system info or manipulate the remote system (to populate a subsystem)
- Tom Hochstein: Want to use (reference) connection data in the Launches - Martin O: That's already there (referencing a connection by dropdown)
- File Export / Import: can take a list of local files and transfer them to the remote system, and save the configuration information (about the list of files) in a configuration -- very much like the JAR export
- External Tools > Remote Build, Remoe Command
- Associate a local project with RSE connections (such that local changes are automatically synced to the remote system)?
- Creating a new SubSystem:
- Extend abstract SubSystem
- Methods to override: connect(), disconnect(),
- Every query (expansion) comes down to resolveFilterString()
- Initial List of Objects need to adapt to SystemViewElementAdapter; these adapters define what should happen when they are further expanded. That way, the elements (objects) can decide if they want to do caching etc.
- The master implementation of SubSystem implements resolveFilterString() itself, in order to create Jobs for retrieving the information -- subsystems only need to implement InternalResolveFilterString()
- See IBM "Universal Sample"
- getObjectWithAbsoluteName()
- AaronS: It might make sense to even have a dummy server on some port , just for showing how the subsystem works
- Extend abstract SubSystem
- MartinO: How are events from the target handled?
- RSE allows asynchronous retrieval of information: when a large directory (e.g. lib) is expanded, DataStore first returns the list of file names and forks off a job for analyzing the type of files. Decorartors are create later, in response to a DataStore Event from the target
- Dstore should be able to transfer any classes (miners) to the remote system and execute them there - but this has not really been explored so far
- Aaron: Relation to TPTP?
- RSE works in User Space, whereas the TPTP agent lives in System space
- FelixB: The new Debug Model with its Flexible Hierarchy - might it make sense using this for the RSE Tree?
- Since the RSE view is totally Adapter diven, it is pretty flexible already now, so there is probably no need for adopting the Debug Model
- Pawel P: Performance Issues?
- Yes, there can exist queries that are extremely large or extremely costly to run...
- UI Rendering can get pretty expensive, though not seen a very expensive rendering for a long time
- MartinO: Yes rendering Search Results can be expensive when it's 10000s of results
- As long as the query is cancelable (in a job) and the UI isnt blocked, it's OK
- AaronS: People want to just monitor remote systems (e.g. with TPTP) without attaching a debugger... RSE should allow to select a particular context, and choose "Attach Profiler" from the contextmenu, such that profiling information is recorded...
- Mentor already have an adaptor for their proprietory protocol to what TPTP expects (the adapter runs on the host) - TPPT thinks it connects to the localhost
- TPTP also talking to BIRT folks for getting reports
Component-Based Launching
- Presentation by Martin O
- KenRyall: Better decouple the Launch Action Framework from RSE, such that it can be used independently of RSE
- KenRyall: What script to use? - A slippery slope... would like to script debuggers, or the whole Eclipse IDE
- MartinO: yes -- perhaps best keep the Launch scripts extremely simple though it is tempting to make them more complex
- PawelP: Expect that the Generic Launch UI would not be exposed to the user, but specialized Launch UIs would make use of the component framework
- JohnCortell: Consider using ANT for the Launch scripts
- Darian Wong, Felix Burton: will need Target Groups to execute same action on a list of targets
- Paul Gingrich: Suggest scripts to be stored-away components of their own: users tend having to execute the same sequence of steps again and again, with different parameters
- Martin O: might use Eclipse Variables in order to make actions (and scripts) configurable; create "super Actions" that just reference other actions. Doing that in the UI is difficult.
Minutes - Friday TM session
TM Project Plan
- See the Plan on the main website
- Discussions:
- What does testing mean?
- In the minimal case, it means a developer working actively with the product on that OS / VM combination
- The next level, is that automated (nightly) tests run on that OS / VM combination
- We will need more automated test scripts! Who can help out here?
- The third level is that some defined test scripts are executed manually by a tester
- TBD: Automated UI testing (at WR) ?
- Internationalization (Externalized Strings) in all RSE - using a Message Framework that goes beyond what Eclipse does in the Platform
- Who can help out with working on RSE?
- API Review, Doc Review - Symbian (1/2 Engineer)
- API Review, Extension Verification - Wind River (3/4 Engineer)
- What does testing mean?
Target Connection Adapter Update
- Presentation by Peter L
- Paul G: OS Vendor and Silicon Vendor both supplying a debugger: have 2 debug sessions, or how would they cooperate?
- PL: That depends. Might have OS-aware debugging through the JTAG connection; might have both debuggers in parallel
- MartinO: Have both scenarios in the WR Workbench.
- Hardware Debugger running in parallel to a software debugger; when HW suspends the system, it looks to the software as if the connection were dropped. There is a need for the debuggers to communicate, such that this can be handled gracefully.
- Hardware Debugger providing a virtual network / communication link for the software debugger ("Transparent Mode"); this would refer to the "adaptor talking to another adaptor" scenario
- Pawel P: Where would the adapters run? Inside the Eclipse IDE or outside?
- PL: No fixed opinion
- Pawel P: Will the CDI meet these needs?
- PL: CDI is interface to the debug engine. Connectors are below the Debug Engine.
- Aaron S: Would the API be flat asynchronous, or how would that work?
- PL: Need to work on the APIs, need community help
- Neil T: How does this low-level functionality relate to the RSE high-level functionality?
- PL: Connectors may be the connection to the RSE
- Neil T: How can we get sort of a hierarchy, RSE being the tool and connectors below?
- Need to create a workgroup
- Felix B:
- Confused: Proposing to define some specific interfaces for specific purposes (like file browsing, debugging, ...).... or proposing a generic method for discovering services and connection methods / communication channels?
- PL: Mainly looking at Debugging: Hardware debugging and OS-Aware debugging
- Felix: There are lots of more applications than debugging... tracing, profiling, redirecting I/O, file transfer, ... want a generic infrastructure for putting in applications that nobody thought about so far, that's open for the future
- Felix: Part of Multi-Core association trying to define a generic debug interface. Which is important, but it does not belong to Target Management -- TM should go beyond debugging only... TM is more of a broker than actually implementing the various pieces
- Paul G: If we were not from different companies, but different divisions in one company, we'd probably do what TI has done - one target access method that's being used by multiple different groups / applications
- Abstracting debuggers is hard. If WR were to create a debugger for the TI DSP's they'd still have to re-implement lots of the low-level debugging stuff, this cannot be abstracted easily ... have to share more than just the connection! For instance, the DSP vendor would have to supply a pluggable disassembler (or data-driven disassembler?)
- PL: We are not talking about the debug engine; just talking about the target connection part.
- FelixB: CDI is too big
- Aaron S: Chaining Things Together for Kernel Awareness in their product now, and works OK; the painful point is, that when chaining things together you get dependencies both ways. Layer X needs symbol information from upper layer Y; which makes implementation in the various layers more complex; an object interface for that kind of layering is a bad idea
- PaulG: Its a good idea to have standard interfaces for the various connectors; people would use the standard interfaces, it would make things easier - people would implement against the standard interfaces
- PL: Already have an approach similar to the list of interfaces on the slide in their commercial product
- How are we moving forward?
- PaulG: Interested in attending, not leading; want generic interfaces first, specific ones later
- WR-MOB: Interested in the generic part; but no resources short term;
- WR-Felix: interested in generic part; probably need to learn with generic interfaces; when doing the Debug Interfaces, not be blind - reach out to other parts of the world (WR Targetserver; TI targetserver; Interfaces at JTAG Vendors; Multicore initiative; OS vendors [depending on the interface]);
- Aaron: Mentor Debug Engine is Native, not in Java - Java based interfaces would be useless. Perhaps better define protocols than Java interfaces?
- MartinO: Adapters can be programs, C/C++ modules, Java programs, even hardware devices. We need a generic description of
- What an adapter provides and what it requires
- The protocols
- How to start it up and configure it
- Felix: Agree, it would be good if Target Manager could start up target servers (and other daemons, executables, ...) without knowing them specifically:
- MartinO: Adapters can be programs, C/C++ modules, Java programs, even hardware devices. We need a generic description of
- Working Group:
- led by Peter Lachner
- Contribute: Paul G, Felix B, Aaron S, Tom H
- Martin O wants that Peter L has committer rights in order to update the Website, such that information can be published - AI Doug find out what Eclipse Foundation thinks about that
Connection Properties and Wizards in RSE
- First Page is generic - everybody inherits this for creating the new connection
- Some remote systems do not necessarily have a name; want to be able to get rid of the first wizard completely
- First page when Remote System Type has not been selected yet: want to split up the current page in two - first page just for selecting the system type, second like when the system type was selected initially
- DMK: Should be possible to provide an extension point where an entire wizard can be contributed (instead of just
- PeteN: Perhaps get rid of the "New Connection..." abilities in the tree?
- Martin O: Everybody he talked to found it weird
- DaveD: These are a legacy; Preference to get rid of it already exists; when they are not in the tree, "New > Connection" can be done from the generic New... menu -- problem is labelling, since "Connection" is used in a variety of contexts
- KenR: Likes the "New..." Tree
- Interfaces for storing connection properties
- IRSEModelObject: Hierarchy - IHost
- IPropertySetContainer - gets persisted automatically in the RSE DOM
- Validators are in the UI, not in the model
- Relation of Property Pages to Wizard Pages
- Switching the Service while the subsystem is alive is problematic - different PropertyPages would be associated with the different services... DaveMcK wants to potentially get rid of the specialized PropertyPages, in favor of the generic ones
- MartinO wants to have two separate file subsystems for the two different services of same subsystem; e.g. Flash Filesystem plus NFS Mounted Filesystem; mark them as Files [dstore] vs Files[ftp]
- DMK thinks that some users want to re-use filters they have defined for a subsystem with the other service (e.g. depending on how the dstore server has been launched only); MartinO questions whether re-using the filters make sense in all cases
- Separate Subsystem per service can be done by doing another SubSystemConfiguration, and hardcoding the list of Services (or the only service) that's allowed for it
- PropertySetContainer has String values; more complex objects would choose themselves how they want to persist themselves in the PropertySetContainer
Technology Subgroups and Future Plans
- Reviewing the Brainstorming Notes from Chicago
- New Working Groups are boldface, below
- Short Term (Sept. 2006)
- ECF (For Filesharing) - IBM, WR
- Hardware Descriptions - Mentor, ARM?
- Related to Inter-Debugger Communications
- Component-Based Launching - WR, Nokia, Freescale
- CDT Launch - Nokia, PalmSource
- Associations (Connection / Project / Build ) - WR, Mentor
- Connectors (Flexible Pluggable Target Connection Adapters) - Intel, TI (Paul), WR (Felix), Freescale (Tom), Mentor (Aaron)
- Middle Term (June 2007 - next TM major release to be aligned with Eclipse Platform)
- Inter-Debugger Communications - Freescale
- Events; Related to HW Descriptions
- Are Events just another service (between TM-aware tools)?
- At what level should events be exchanged?
- Is this just a debugger API issue?
- Allow Services to provide not only host-target communications, but also host-host communications (among tools registered to the same TM)
- More explicit Analysis, Requirements, Workflow documents
- For next release: create as "Living Documents" on the TM Homepage
- Shared Board Labs - WR, Mentor, Freescale
- Related to Autodetect
- Connection Groups (Mentor, Freescale, Curtiss-Wright)
- Synchronous Run-Control
- Downloads to multiple targets (not synchronous; parallel; sequential)
- Multi-Language Debugging (coordinated Java / JNI debuggers; related to inter-debugger events)
- Autodetect - WR, Freescale
- Autodetect boards on the local network or in a lab
- Autodetect connection mechanisms to a board (connectors)
- Autodetect services on a remote system
- Inter-Debugger Communications - Freescale
- Long Term
- Drop into Hardware Debugging (Re-use current context in another debugger in case of an exception)
- Related to Inter-debugger communications, connection groups/multi-language debugging
- Security
- Authentication to the target
- tunneling: through connectors
- DSM (e.g. tracking kernel versions, installed software, automatic software updates, ...)
- TM is just a broker for various services
- Drop into Hardware Debugging (Re-use current context in another debugger in case of an exception)
Action Items
- Aaron Spear: Be TM's advocate on SPIRIT / Hardware Descriptions (collaborating with the DD group on Hardware Descriptions)
- Doug Gaff: Contribute WR's cleanroom telnet implementation
- Everybody: Get RSE, prototyping, bugzilla's


text: News & Events / Brooklyn Law Notes print Back to Features Engaging with Excellence: Page 1 2 3 Next Current Issue : Winter 2007-2008 At the heart of any great law school are stellar teachers and scholars who readily share their ideas and experiences with students. In the fall, Brooklyn Law School welcomed eight new additions to its extraordinarily talented faculty. Ranging from established authorities to promising young scholars, they bring to the classroom a depth of experience in the areas of torts, family law, securities law, constitutional law, legal writing, and professional development. Senior Faculty Members Focus on Torts Aaron Twerski Aaron Twerski, the Irwin and Jill Cohen Professor of Law, is a preeminent authority in the areas of products liability and tort law, with many awards, honors and casebooks to his name, but he is "first and foremost a teacher," he says. "Almost all of my scholarship has come out of my teaching. I can't teach it if I don't understand it." He delights in hosting brown-bag lunches in his office for his students, who he says make up "the strongest class I've ever taught here." Twerski, who began teaching at Brooklyn Law School in 1986, returned to the School in the fall semester after serving as dean of Hofstra University School of Law. A staunch advocate of the idea that academics should learn to produce scholarship that helps lawyers and judges better understand the law, Twerski welcomes new trends in the law such as interdisciplinary scholarship and empirical research. But he warned in a recent editorial in The National Law Journal that "the idea that the legal academy is a closed club that speaks only to each other and not to the bench and bar is decidedly not healthy." He says his goal is to improve the law, make it clearer and more predictable, adding, "The abandonment of doctrinal scholarship is a mistake, because courts need the guidance of academia." Twerski has produced an impressive array of scholarship read widely by judges and practitioners alike. He is the author of leading textbooks and numerous law review articles, two of which were cited recently by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York. Twerski was the eighth most cited law professor in the area of torts and products liability in scholarly articles published from 2000 to 2007, according to the influential Leiter Report. Along with co-author Cornell University Law School Professor James Henderson, Jr., he recently submitted manuscripts for new editions of two widely used casebooks: Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts (Aspen 2nd ed.), forthcoming in February 2008; and Products Liability: Problems and Process (Aspen 6th ed.), forthcoming in March 2008. Twerski was named the R. Ammi Cutter Reporter for his outstanding work as co-reporter for the American Law Institute's 1998 Restatement of the Law (Third) Torts: Products Liability, which widely influenced the development of the law in this area. He is currently planning a symposium in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Restatement, to be held at Brooklyn Law School in November 2008. Looking forward to a lively debate among academics, judges and the trial bar, who often have very different opinions on the Restatement, Twerski's eyes sparkle: "At the symposium, we'll go at it," he predicts. Twerski's preeminence in the field was tapped again last year, when he was appointed, along with Henderson, as special master of a major 9/11 case against New York City known as In re World Trade Center Disaster Litigation. They will oversee an extensive discovery process and the appointment of expert panels to review the medical aspects of this mass tort case, which will be heard in federal court in the Eastern District of New York. The American Bar Association's Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section in August 2007 honored Twerski with the prestigious Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award, in recognition of his commitment to the advancement of justice, scholarship and the legal profession in the fields of tort and insurance law. In his address to the ABA (see page 46) at the award presentation, Twerski said he felt "a sense of awe" because, as he explained, "The scholars who preceded me in this award shaped the discourse in tort law for the last half-century." Anita Bernstein "Aaron Twerski was one reason I wanted to come here," says Anita Bernstein, the Anita and Stuart Subotnick Professor of Law. Like Twerski, she is a nationally recognized expert in tort law. Bernstein held tenure simultaneously on two law faculties — an endowed chair at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta and a named professorship at New York Law School — prior to joining Brooklyn Law School. With a focus on feminist jurisprudence, professional responsibility, and products liability, she is a prolific author whose works include books such as Marriage Proposals: Questioning a Legal Status (ed., New York University Press 2006), and Torts: Questions & Answers (Lexis Publishing 2004) (with D. Leonard). Bernstein is a member of the American Law Institute, where she serves on the members consultative group for the Restatement of Torts. She is also a past chair of the Association of American Law Schools' Executive Committee on Torts and Compensation Systems. She was awarded the first Fulbright research award in European Union affairs given to a law professor to study the effects of products liability reform in the EU. A graduate of Yale Law School, she clerked for U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein of the Eastern District of New York and practiced at Debevoise & Plimpton before entering academia. Bernstein says her early interest in literature — specifically 19th century novels — likely gave rise to her attraction to studying "conflicts between people at the private level" rather than between people and governments. "I'm interested in private lives as the law changes and shapes them, and also in the converse — how private lives change the law," Bernstein explains. She also focuses on plaintiffs' claims against other private actors for physical and dignitary injuries, the agreements that come along with marriage, and ordinary citizens' complaints in general. Her recent publications and presentations cover topics such as how personal injury suits can increase the efficacy of pharmaceuticals, and the intersection of lawyers' professional responsibility with other fields, including torts and disability law. An article in the works will present a feminist analysis of asbestos litigation. "Men have been favored as plaintiffs in the asbestos cases in ways that plaintiffs in other tort cases have not," she says. "Courts seem more inclined to grant relief to these men for things like fear of cancer and medical monitoring. And asbestos plaintiffs do extra well on questions of procedure." Bernstein plans to spend more time in the future focused on researching and writing about professional responsibility, taking particular interest in the overlap between legal ethics and tort litigation. She hopes to use her own materials for her professional responsibility course in the spring. "We'll see if there's a casebook growing in there," she says. "Almost all of my scholarship has come out of my teaching. I can't teach it if I don't understand it."—Aaron Twerski "I'm interested in private lives as the law changes and shapes them, and also in the converse—how private lives change the law."—Anita Bernstein Back to top Engaging with Excellence: Page 1 2 3 Next


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WOCCU-Afghanistan Project Expands
October 24, 2006
Madison, WI—World Council of Credit Unions, Inc. is set to expand its work in Afghanistan by $11.1 million with $8.2 million funding from the Microfinance Investment and Support Facility for Afghanistan (MISFA) and an obligation of $2.9 million from from the Academy for Educational Development (AED) under its United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Agriculture, Rural Investment and Enterprise Strengthening (ARIES) Program.
In northern Afghanistan with MISFA funding, World Council intends to start five additional credit unions and points of service, designed as investment and finance cooperatives (IFCs), in order to be compliant with Islamic law. World Council will also provide continued technical support to two established IFCs in Sheberghan and Mazar-e-Shariff.
World Council will establish and support up to 20 IFCs and points of service in the northern, southern and eastern regions of Afghanistan with funding from AED. As part of its ARIES Program, USAID has granted AED $80 million.
Though Afghanistan once boasted a strong agricultural export of livestock and horticultural products, private capital investment has dropped in recent years and many farmers have turned to illicit opium production to make ends meet. The three-year ARIES program aims to support people who have shifted away from this business by strengthening the agricultural sector with innovative agricultural lending and micro-entrepreneurial loans.
"The people of Afghanistan are proud and hardworking. They need nothing more than a bit of assistance from the rest of the world to help sort out their lives," said Randall Spears, World Council project director for Afghanistan. "The farmer wants to farm, and the trader wants to trade," he pointed out.
"Although there are multiple challenges to be faced—language, tribal loyalties, even the recent influx of anti-governmental forces—one still gets the sense that these are a people that are on the move toward a better future," Spears continued. "We hope that this project will be one of those vehicles that will help drive them to that better future. In a land that is primarily cash and carry, World Council is superbly placed to assist in the development of a microfinance structure for this region of the world."
World Council's work in Afghanistan began in 2004 with financial support from MISFA. Credit unions were a new concept in the war-torn country, so World Council program staff worked with communities at the grassroots level to educate staff and potential members. At the end of 2005, almost 3,000 Afghans belonged to the two credit unions in Sheberghan and Mazar-e-Shariff in northern Afghanistan.
"We've been planting seed the past two years, and it's bearing fruit," World Council deputy project director Edgar Comeros said. "The idea we've planted is still very new," he continued, emphasizing Afghanistan's fragile state. "And because it's new, we need to nurture it, be there and be with them."
Spears has extensive experience directing program implementation in conflict-affected environments, making him uniquely qualified to serve as World Council's project director in the more difficult and dangerous regions of Kandahar, Helmund and Nangarhar Provinces. Comeros has more than 30 years of credit union development experience, including two years as World Council's project director during the first phase of the MISFA program in northern Afghanistan. USAID administers the US foreign assistance program providing economic and humanitarian assistance in more than 80 countries worldwide.
World Council of Credit Unions is the global trade association and development platform for credit unions. World Council promotes the sustainable development of credit unions and other financial cooperatives around the world to empower people through access to high quality and affordable financial services. World Council advocates on behalf of the global credit union system before international organizations and works with national governments to improve legislation and regulation. Its technical assistance programs introduce new tools and technologies to strengthen credit unions' financial performance and increase their outreach.
World Council has implemented 300+ technical assistance programs in 89 countries. Worldwide, 89,026 credit unions in 117 countries serve 260 million people. Learn more about World Council's impact around the world at www.woccu.org.


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Airstream's Brand Breeds Consumer Allegiance
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At Airstream Inc., rivets symbolize a certain way of doing things.
As reported by the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, each travel trailer made at the Shelby County plant has hundreds of the metal fasteners, installed one at a time across the bullet-shaped exterior.
The handmade tradition is part of a look and feel that have made Airstream a unique brand in the recreational-vehicle industry, one that can command a premium price and maintain a devoted customer base. And, after tough times during the economic downturn, the brand had record sales last year.
Founded in California in 1931, Airstream moved to the rural village of Jackson Center in 1952 and has been there since. It has about 340 employees.
Almost everything in the trailer is made at the factory, including the furniture, bathroom fixtures and flooring. In a typical week, the plant ships about 50 trailers.
The executive offices occupy a mezzanine that looks out on the floor. Bob Wheeler, the president and CEO, needs to take only a few steps from his desk to see the production line below.
"The brand's power overrides any fear of imitation," he said.
Competitors have tried to imitate aspects of the Airstream design, from the aluminum siding to the rivets, but they didn't last, he said. Among the casualties have been the Silver Streak and Avian brands.
In this way, he thinks Airstream is similar to Harley-Davidson motorcycles, with both names having dedicated and demanding fans.
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Why Marco Rubio Cannot Believe In Science
Florida Senator Marco Rubio has clearly learned a thing or two from Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock when it comes to qualifying public statements. Reminding us that a comprehensive understanding of the earth's history is reserved for only the most seasoned of sages and alchemists, with many glowing astrolabes, he told GQ that the true age of the planet is "one of the great mysteries" of our time. It seems fairly clear, however, that in suggesting parents teach their children about the formation and development of the planet using either "what science says" or "what their faith says" where he lands on science.
You may, of course, already know that Rubio has been referred to more than once as the Crown Prince of the Tea Party movement, but did you know this is an actual inherited position that comes with numerous attendant responsibilities and obligations (probably)?
As heir apparent to the Throne of Tea, Rubio alone controls the levels of the sea as Master of the Tides, protecting former President Reagan's twelve thousand unborn crab children, clinging to the drowned and frigid rocks of coastal Maine as they await their terrible hatching. He must reject the idea that government spending can have possibly stimulate the economy and he must also believe that market forces are what led to the extinction of the great auk.
He may neither believe in science nor gaze upon the dead; he cannot be in the same room as a bird of any kind or a copy of the Articles of Confederation. He cannot die and he cannot enter the threshold of a public library without shedding human blood. He must believe with complete and perfect faith that the second season of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest was superior to the first, even though this is demonstrably untrue. Also, he can summon a chariot capable of taking him anywhere in the nine known worlds, drawn by a team of eyeless bears, merely by touching snow.
Yes, the beliefs of Marco Rubio are manifold and terrifying, like the plot of a V.C. Andrews novel. He does not choose them himself but merely acts as a vessel, transmitting the sacred thoughts of our forebears to succeeding generations. Had the interviewer from GQ taken a bit more time to ask questions, we might have gotten to hear a few more of them:
Marco Rubio Gets Asked About Welfare
"Listen, I'm not some kind of welfare expert. I can tell you what stamps are. I can tell you what food is, generally. It's my understanding - it's my belief that you can just take any old stamp - a common postage stamp, maybe still attached to the envelope, maybe not - and demand food from any nearby American citizen. Is that fair? I don't know. I've never mailed a letter; I can't speak to that controversy. Food is regularly dispensed to hungry citizens through mailboxes, though, I do know that much. Four, sometimes five times a day."
Marco Rubio Gets Asked About Foreign Policy
"Not being a cartographer, I don't feel comfortable making claims about whether Afghanistan is held aloft above the swirling, eternal darkness by a series of tigers or turtles. I'm not willing to rule out the possibility of other animals being involved, either. Could be pigeons - either some sort of enormous pigeon, or a thousand normal-sized pigeons. Which, if I had to estimate, would be about a foot in length. Body or wingspan, either way. But again, I'm not an expert. I don't even own a sextant. I can tell you how many angels can dance on a pin; I can tell you the names of most of the Kings of Judah and the primary exports of Belarus, if that helps."
Marco Rubio Gets Asked About The Ending of The Sopranos
"I think Tony ends up okay. I really do. I really and truly believe that and to be honest with you, I don't have anything else to say about the matter."
Marco Rubio Gets Asked About The Ending of 1990s Sitcom Dinosaurs
"I thought we agreed in advance you weren't going to bring that up. All I'll say is that I think it's a terrible way to treat the devoted fans who followed the Sinclair family through four seasons. They deserved better. We all deserved better"


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Read these instructions carefully before filling out Form 3015. This form is not used for day care licensing credentialing.
A resume does not substitute for any information required on Form 3015. To apply, you must submit all of the following:
According to Chapter 43 of the Human Resources Code, and Title 40 of the Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 745, Subchapter N, a person may not serve as an administrator of a child-placing agency without a child-placing agency administrator license, and may not serve as an administrator of a general residential operation (GRO) or residential treatment center (RTC) without a child-care administrator license.
To be eligible for a child-care administrator license or a child-placing agency administrator license, you must do as follows:handwritten
Provide verification of your managerial experience by asking a present or former supervisor to submit one of the following reference forms, as applicable. Note : Under no circumstances does experience with a child-placing agency count toward meeting this requirement, if you are applying for a child-care administrator license; nor does institutional experience count toward meeting this requirement, if you are applying for a child-placing agency administrator license. Under no circumstances does experience as a foster parent or caregiver in a foster home count toward either license.
Pass an examination. The exam is multiple choice and includes questions covering the following topics:
The only study guide available for the exam is the current minimum standards, accessible through the DFPS website or by calling any local licensing office to request a copy.
If you intend to apply for both licenses, you must pay the appropriate fees for each license, meet the minimum qualifications for each license, and pass each of the separate exams.If you intend to apply for both licenses,
All required documents must be received before your application can be approved or denied.before
If you have questions about the eligibility requirements or applying for a license, contact the Child Care Licensing Administrator Licensing Program at 713-696-7119.
Now that we are feeling comfortable with just about everything built into Atom, let's look at how to tweak it. Perhaps there is a keybinding that you use a lot but feels wrong or a color that isn't quite right for you. Atom is amazingly flexible, so let's go over some of the simpler flexes it can do.
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Just like the more common JSON, CSON's keys can only be repeated once per object. If there are duplicate keys, then the last usage of that key overwrites all others, as if they weren't there. The same holds true for Atom's config files.
Don't do this:
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If you want to apply quick-and-dirty personal styling changes without creating an entire theme that you intend to publish, you can add styles to the
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The easiest way to see what classes are available to style is to inspect the DOM manually via the Developer Tools. We'll go over the Developer Tools in great detail in the next chapter, but for now let's take a simple look. You can open the Developer Tools by pressing Alt+Cmd+I Ctrl+Shift+I , which will bring up the Chromium Developer Tools panel.
With the Developer Tools, you can inspect all the elements in Atom. If you want to update the style of something, you can figure out what classes it has and add a Less rule to your stylesheet to modify it.
Our previous study of childhood leukaemia and distance to high-voltage overhead power lines in the UK has been included in an international pooled analysis. That pooled analysis used different distance categories to those we did, which has focussed attention on the effect of that choice. We re-analyse our previous subjects, using finer distance categories. In the 1960s and 1970s, when we principally found an elevated risk, the risk did not fall monotonically with distance from the power line but had a maximum at 100–200 m. This weakens the evidence that any elevated risks are related to magnetic fields, and slightly strengthens the evidence for a possible effect involving residential mobility or other socioeconomic factors.
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The present work explores challenges when assessing organ dose and effective dose concerning image-guided treatments. During these treatments considerable x-ray imaging is employed using technically advanced angiographic x-ray equipment. Thus, the radiation dose to organs and the related radiation risk are relatively difficult to assess. This has implications on the optimisation process, in which assessing radiation dose is one important part. In this study, endovascular aortic repair treatments were investigated. Organ dose and effective dose were assessed using Monte Carlo calculations together with a detailed specification of the exposure situation and patient size. The resulting normalised organ dose and effective dose with respect to kerma-area product for patient sizes and radiation qualities representative for the patient group were evaluated. The variability and uncertainty were investigated and their possible impact on optimisation of radiation protection was discussed. Exposure parameters, source to detector distances etc varied between treatments and also varied between image acquisitions during one treatment. Thus the derived normalised organ dose and effective dose exhibited a large range of values depending greatly on used exposure parameters and patient configuration. The derived normalised values for effective dose varied approximately between 0.05 and 0.30 mSv per Gy·cm when taking patient sizes and exposure parameters into consideration, the values for organ doses exhibited even larger variation. The study shows a possible systematic error for derived organ doses and effective dose up to a factor of 7 if detailed exposure or patient characteristics are not known and/or not taken into consideration. The intra-treatment variability was also substantial and the normalised dose values varied up to a factor of 2 between image acquisitions during one treatment. The study shows that the use of conversion factors that are not adapted to the clinic can cause the radiation dose to be exaggerated or underestimated considerably. A conclusion from the present study is that the systematic error could be large and should be estimated together with random errors. A large uncertainty makes it difficult to detect true differences in radiation dose between methods and technology—a prerequisite for optimising radiation protection for image-guided treatments.
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