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Re: (Lisp is Crisp!)^4
>Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept. Ann Arbor
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Apoorva Muralidhara) writes:
>
>Any fellow applicativists out there?
> --Apoorva/Applicativist Revolutionary Underground
>
>[Death to the side effects!]
Applicativity has its advantages, but it needs
1) a more humanly-comprehensible syntax than LISP; Miranda (TM) is excellent
in this respect, but the (TM) will probably doom it, as apparently was the
case with COMIT (TM).
2) Some syntactic means for preventing argumentsfrom getting unreadably
numerous just to pass something down to where it's finally used.
3) a public domain portable optimizing implementation (though all three of
these attributes together is perhaps too much to hope for.) The thing
that made Pascal fly was the availability of the Zurich P-compiler
initially, then Turbo. What the world needs now is GNU Miranda or (ok,
I'll be more reasonable) GNU ML. (Richard is probably too busy, though...)
Turbo ML?
-David West [email protected]
[Nested parentheses - just say no] | {
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Sanbahttp://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Sanba/Latest updates for this comic.en-usThu, 19 May 2011 22:00:00 -0700Back Pagehttp://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Sanba/5334314/Just a little abstract lotus. :3Thu, 19 May 2011 22:00:00 -0700http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Sanba/5334314/End...?http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Sanba/5333802/And the comic ends here...?
Really. I also thought this was a bit too quick.
But I originally planned this to be a one-shot manga.
Will I make a sequel?
Someday. Maybe someday. :3Mon, 16 May 2011 22:00:00 -0700http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Sanba/5333802/Memorial Planhttp://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Sanba/5332719/Funeral service not included. xDWed, 11 May 2011 22:00:00 -0700http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Sanba/5332719/Failed Dramahttp://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Sanba/5332000/Please excuse the swearing on this page. xDDD
Thanks to DarkGesen for telling me about the other pages that were lost on the server crash. :3Sat, 07 May 2011 22:00:00 -0700http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Sanba/5332000/Crying Lotushttp://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Sanba/5331072/Tue, 03 May 2011 22:00:00 -0700http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Sanba/5331072/ | {
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Author: hash17devlog
I want to talk about a interesting video that I watched other day that gave me very insightful info about how to design the puzzles for the game. And here’s a little more about the video and what i learned from it:
The video talked about two different parts of our brains: the fast part and the slow part. The fast part is responsible for aswering easy questions quickly; while the slow part is responsible for focusing and thinking about the answer.
This is very important for this game, because I want the commands to be on the fast part, so that the player don’t have to think about typing commands or remembering which command do what; And at the same time I want the player to be focused on the puzzle that they are solving.
Another interesting fact is that the slow part can only work with 4 chunks of information at a any given time. So every puzzle has to have at most 4 elements to it (4 files, 4 person of interest, 4 necessary commands, etc).
I’ll be designing the puzzles and missions of the game keeping all that in mind. I’ll also try to design the game in such a way that the player is being trained without realizing it, so that commands will eventually be on their “muscle memory” but the puzzle they are solving will be on the slow and thinkful part of their brain.
How am I gonna do that?
I’ll build a box with some limitations: every puzzle has to have at most 4 elements to it. So every puzzle will have no more than 4 images, folders, people, passwords, files, etc. I can have more than 4 elements for the whole puzzle, but at most 4 at any given moment.
Another thing I’ll do is make the player repeat the same command lots of times, but not pointlessly. I’ll have to find a way to repeat command in such a way that everytime the player runs them, they are doing so for a reason. So the player always gets a stimulus after running a command and getting so, they are actually being rewarded for that. Simple action-reaction system to imprint in the player’s mind what a command do and how to run them.
I’ll also make everything that it’s crucial to the puzzle really hard to understand. You may think that this is a bad idea, why would i want to make things harder to understand? Well, research shows that when a question is harder to read (because it was hand-written for example), the reader has to pay more attention to it, thus reducing the risk of the fast part of their brain answering the question.
When something is really clear and seems obvious at first sight, the fast part of your brain thinks it knows the answer and gives you what it thinks is right. The problem is that this is almost never accurate. Since this is a game where the player is doing things that they don’t do on their day-to-day life, these automatic answers will be wrong most of the time. I need to make the player think about the problem before answering. And making the problem harder to understand actually makes it easier to solve with less mistakes. And we want to avoid mistakes as much as possible, since they only frustrates the player and makes them feel stupid, which is exactly the opposite of what I am trying to accomplish.
So, just to organize my thoughts:
Make puzzles that have no more than 4 elements at a time. The slow part of the brain can only work with 4 chunks of information at any given moment.
Make important part of puzzles hard to understand so players will have to use the slow part of the brain to solve it.
Make so that the players will have to run the same command multiple times – but always with a clear purpose and result – so that they keep this commands on the muscle memory.
Make commands be processed on the fast part of the brain- so that players don’t have to think about how to execute a program, but rather think about what program to execute.
These are the four points that I’ll build my puzzles upon. I don’t actually know how I’ll apply them, but I’ll find a way to do so.
For the third entry in the dev log, i think i should write about the design and concept behind this game.
Before i go further, i would like to clarify that i am not a designer. I am a programmer. I’m trying my best to become a good designer though.
When i think about design, i think about manipulation. For me, at least to this day, design is the art of manipulating the player into doing – and feeling – the way you want them to.
I want people who play HASH17 to feel like hackers. To feel in control. To feel that behind that terminal, they can do anything and they fear nothing. I also want them to feel like the action they take in the world of the game have an impact. I want to give the player the chance to change the world – at least the game’s world.
In order to accomplish that, i am taking a few things as guide-lines, to put myself into a creative box and focus my feeble creativity:
Everything the player do in the game has to be grounded on reality – every program, device, technology, hacking, everything that the player sees and does – has to be possible in the real life. The player may not know that it’s possible, but the fact that it’s makes it more easy to create something believable.
Every happening in the game is a consequence of a player’s action. Even the first dialog is triggered only after the player types help. The player has the option of delaying the dialog or just refusing it. (In the end the dialog will happen anyway, but the player still feels like they had control over it). The player needs to feel in control of the world. This opens opportunity to create moments that they are not in control, which will create a panic feeling that may be useful for some puzzle/decision.
All the images on the game have to be real photos – not art assets. That’s because i want the player to feel like they are still on the real world. They are not on some game, they are sit behind a computer, typing stuff on the keyboard – much like they do everyday – but at the same time they are in another place. They are at a place where they can change the world, where they can hack into computers, crack encrypted files and do things that they cannot do on real life.
No tutorials. No directions. Drop players into a box and let them explore the box. If they hit a wall, tell them that they hit a wall. Do not turn them to the right direction. They will get there, eventually. This way the player feels like it’s them doing all the work, figuring out how to do something that they never did before. They feel smart. And they are.
The first dialog – and probably all of them – have to be almost surreal. That’s because i want players to feel like something so amazing is happening to them that it’s almost unbelievable. I want them to feel like Neo on the first Matrix. When he is scaping the office and say “Why me? I am nobody.”. And a surreal dialog communicates that feeling. Who doesn’t want to be called and told: “I can give you a chance to change the world?”. And what are the changes of that happening in real life?
Every action the player takes has to be rewarded in some way. I am still figuring this one out.
I read an article on Gamasutra that said “The player is the one supposed to do cool stuff, the NPCs have to watch the player do cool stuff”. And i am taking this very seriously. The player is the one doing the hacking and breaking and all that. The NPC is just watching.
These items above are my design guide line s ofar. They might change in the future. And they might not even work at all. But i am sticking with them so far.
I would also like to do a exercise here and answer some questions found on this article about the development of Deus Ex:
What’s the core idea? Can you describe the core of the game in 2-3 sentences?
You are a hacker choosen to be part of the most notorious and dangerous group of hackers there is. Being part of this group comes with difficult moral decisions and responsibilities, but with the potention to change the world.
Why do this game?
Because i see a lack of story-focused hacking games. Most hacking games are focused on hacking and getting money and game. I want a hacking game that is not about hacking, but rather about the impact your actions have on the world and on people. The hacking is just the tool you use to impact the world.
What are the development challenges?
Time, which i don’t have much. Experience, wich i also don’t have much. And the usual: design, story telling, etc…
How well-suited to games is the idea?
Very, i think. The idea is that your actions and choises shape the world you live in. Games are the only media that the consumer has the ability to choose and do things that change the flow of the experience.
What’s the player fantasy? (If the fantasy and goals aren’t there, it’s probably a bad idea)
The player fantasy is to be a powerful hacker. To be someone that can do anything as long as they have a computer (a common object in most places). To feel like they can change the world. (Who doesn’t want to change the world?).
What does the player do? (What are the “verbs” of the game?)
Hack. Kill. Sabotage. Talk. Save. Discover. Choose.
Has anyone done this before?
There’s a few hacking games out there. But none of them is a totaly text-based, story driven game.
What’s the one new thing? (“You can always find one thing that hasn’t been done before [in games], even if you’re making a My Little Pony game.”)
Meshup between story/choise-driven gameplay and hacking gameplay.
Do you have something to say? (“In Deus Ex I wanted to explore all sorts of big issues,” said Spector. “And I wanted players to explore those things in ways that only games could do.”)
I want to say that anyone can change the world – if they have the opportunity do so.
Just to finish: i want to say that i have no idea of what i am doing. I never designed a comercial game before, so all i said here might just be garbage. So, please, if you’re reading this and know something i don’t know, disagrees with me or wants to say i am right, please do so through comment or contact me on the contact page.
Hello, Matheus here. For the second entry on the dev log i’m going to talk about the tech and approuch i’ve been taken on the development so far. Hope you enjoy and take something out of this long, but hopefully, worthy reading.
Since this is a dev log, i figure i would put something about the technology used to build the game.
The tech
I am currently using Unity 5.5.1f and Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition. My language of choise is C#.
I started using SVN because i heard it handles binary files better than Git, but i end up going back to Git because merging in SVN seems a bit more complicated, at least for me. And this project won’t have huge ammounts of binary files anyway. I’m hosting on Microsoft’s Visual Studio thing that i don’t know the name.
I’m also using Trello as a task tracker and Yodiz as a bug tracker.
I wasn’t going to use Unity for this game at first. I considered using SFML (C++), libGDX (Java) and Mono (C#). I end up using Unity because of NGUI. This game has a lot of images, text, a window system, and more GUI-releated stuff, so the GUI system has to be powerful, simple and complete. And there’s no better GUI system (that i know of) than NGUI.
The philosophy
In this project i used a different approch to the way i handle some things code-wise. In my day job we also use Unity with C#. And we use a lot of OOP (object oriented programming). And that works fine for the most part, but it gets complicated to handle very big projects with lots and lots of inheritance and method overriding.
That’s because in OOP we tend to use inheritance excessively and that’s no good. No good for performance, for maintainability, for clarity. For nothing. Or at least that’s what i heard the important people saying.
I had never actually thought about inheritance and OOP in that way. I had never actually noticed all these problems – because i knew no different.
With this game, since it’s just me building it – programming, designing and all – i realized that i could do whatever i wanted to do. So i decided that i would go with a more procedural approach. I would also try to be as data-oriented as possible, but that’s not so easy when you’re using a garbage collected language like C# (because you don’t have total control over the memory – yes, i know you can use pointers in C#, but if i were to use pointers in C# i would go to C++).
So for every system in the game (the terminal, windows, file system, programs, devices, etc), i have the entity class (Terminal.cs, File.cs, Folder.cs, Program.cs, etc) and a utility class (FileSystemUtil.cs, TerminalUtil.cs, etc).
The entity class have no inheritance whatsoever – except for very few MonoBehavious (the Unity class that we need to inhert from in order to attach code to GameObjects). The entity classes have almost no behavious as well. It’s all centralized on the utility classes.
So, if i want to find the a file path, insted of doing file.GetPath(), i will go FileSystemUtil.GetFilePath(file). This may seem more complicated than the OOP approach, but it’s acctually a lot simpler to maintain and to change. Because if i want a certain type of file (like image files, for example) to have its path handled differently, i would just call FileSystemUtil.GetImageFilePath(file). If i were on the OOP approach, i would have to put an if inside the GetPath method to make this work – or even worse: override the method on the ImageFile class. When you have overrides, you just make debugging and bug tracking much more difficult than already is.
This is a completelly different approach than the previous prototype of the game – if you don’t know what i am talking about, see __init__ . In the first prototype i did all OOP. And it was just a mess. Maybe i am just too dumb and can’t write good code, but nevertheless, this new approach is working much better.
If you have worked with Unity before you may be wondering: if you don’t have inheritance, how do you talk with Unity, handles specific properties and stuff like that.
Let me use the Program class to aswer that question. Every program has a very different set of funcionallity and properties. In order to maintain the Program entity without inheritance, what i do is create additional classes that have these specific properties. So, for example, the Open program (the program that opens files on the game) needs to know two prefabs. But the OpenRunner (the class that actually runs the behavious of the Open program) has no base class, nor is a MonoBehaviour, so how did i manage to get the reference for these two prefabs?
I created an OpenAdicionalData class that is a ScriptableObject (the class that we inhert from in order to create assets in Unity) and put the prefab references in there. So when the OpenRunner needs those prefabs, it goes to the GameplayReferenceHolder – the class that has references to these aditional classes – and find the references. Simple as that. Much cleaner and simpler than inheriting from a Program class and adding additional properties to it. That’s simpler because it’s very modular, i can add or remove properties from the OpenAditionalData without affecting the whole game. Without messing my ProgramList serialization. Without having to write a custom inspector for the Open program and, best of all, avoiding inheritance.
You now maybe asking yourself why do i want to avoid inheritance so much. That’s because when you have inheritance, your objects have multiple sizes, have different properties, different virtual tables, may or may not override base methods, etc. So the compiler has to do a lot more work figuring out casting, dynamic dispatch, and a lot of other issues.
And this is not even considering the mess of debugging derived methods, problems with stack traces with no useful data and so on.
And, specifically for working with Unity: Unity do NOT serialize inheritance for non-UnityEngine.Object classes. So you either inherts from ScriptableObject/MonoBehaviours or you don’t serialize child classes.
Another point that i want to explain is how do i call the programs behavious if they do NOT inhert from Program.
If the player types in “open file.txt” what i do is i first interpret this command, take out the “open” (the name of the program) and “file.txt” (the parameter). After i have that, i will iterate though my list of available programs matching the name of the program with the name in the element of the array.
Once i have the program entity that represents which program the player wants to run, i just do a switch-case using the ProgramType enum (that has all possible program types – Open, Cd, Cypher, Clear, etc) and call the respective runner (the actual behaviour of the program):
Hello. My name is Matheus, i am a brazillian game developper by day and a indie game developper by night and weekends. Games is all i do.
I am currently the only person working on the HASH17. But i’ll probably find someone to do artwork for the game.
The first idea for the game came to me on setember of 2016. On november i built a prototype. I left alone for a few weeks and this past month i rebuilt the game from scratch.
And now i am setting this dev log to register and share the development of this game with whoever wants to know about. Thank you for being here. Here’s the my first entry on here:
This is the first of, hopefully, many logs about the development of the HASH17.
Today i uploaded the first decent build of the game to GameJolt and Itch.
so that i can collect feedback and criticism and try to build a better game.
I have no idea how am i gonna pull this off, since this would be my first comercial release from A to Z. I have been making games for about 2-3 years now but never something like what i want HASH17 to be.
I will be working on the game on weekends and evenings. I am setting up milestones for every first wednesday of every month – which is when Spin (a game dev gattering in São Paulo) happens – but hopefully i’ll be able to update this dev log – and the game – every two weeks.
About the game:
HASH17 is a text-based puzzle game with a rich story. At least that’s what i am aiming at.
I love the hacking/cyberpunk culture and want to create something about it. Since i am a very good programmer, create a hacking game was the easyest – and most fun – path to take.
I first built a very bad prototype of what i wanted to do and didn’t thought it was any good, so i left it alone for a few weeks. That’s when Allan, a friend and coworker at FireHorse Studios, won a grant to build his game. Knowing that he had won and considering we always talked about making games on our free time (on top of being full time game developpers), i was inspired to start a new game.
That’s when i remembered i already had a idea that i liked with a prototype that i didn’t like, so i decided i would show the prototype to Allan and see what he thought about the game.He actually liked it. So i sent to a few more friends and they all seemed to like it. They had a lot of criticism of course, but the important thing was that they thought the game had potencial.That was probably around november/dezember of 2016.
I kept the idea of actually making this game for a few weeks untill i decided that i would give it a try.So i rebuilt the prototype from scratch. This new prototype – which is now actually the first mission of the game – is what i uploaded to itch and gamejolt today. I hope people play it and give me feedback and criticism so that i can improve the game and myself.
I really want people to be honest about their thoughts on the game, even if they hate it.It’s only when other people play your game that you know if it’s any good. Because we’re just too involved in our projects to see the true potencial – or lack of.
So, that’s it for the first entry. My hope is to make the best game possible for me and for the people who will played it. | {
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MIKES HARD CRANBERRY PASSIONFRUIT
Mike's Hard Lemonade Co.'is a Canadian-owned beverage manufacturer based in the United States. The company produces a family of products based on its original'Mike's Hard Lemonade, first introduced in Canada in 1996, a mix of vodka, natural flavors and carbonated water. | {
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March 14, 2003, was the day the world changed forever. A wave of energy slammed into North America and devastated the continent. The U.S. military, poised to invade Baghdad, was left without a commander in chief. Global order spiraled into chaos. Now, three years later, a skeleton U.S. government headquartered in Seattle directs the reconstruction of an entire nation—and the battle for New York City has begun.
Pirates and foreign militias are swarming the East Coast, taking everything they can. The president comes to the Declared Security Zone of New York and barely survives the visit. The enemy—whoever they are—controls Manhattan’s concrete canyons and the abandoned flatlands of Long Island. The U.S. military, struggling with sketchy communications and a lack of supplies, is mired in a nightmare of urban combat.
Caught up in the violence is a Polish-born sergeant who watches the carnage through the eyes of an intellectual and with the heart of a warrior. Two smugglers, the highborn Lady Julianne Balwyn and her brawny partner Rhino, search for a treasure whose key lies inside an Upper East Side Manhattan apartment. Thousands of miles away, a rogue general leads the secession of Texas and a brutal campaign against immigrants, while Miguel Pieraro, a Mexican-born rancher, fights back. And in England, a U.S. special ops agent is called into a violent shadow war against an enemy that has come after her and her family.
The president is a stranger to the military mindset, but now this mild-mannered city engineer from the Pacific Northwest needs to make a soldier’s choice. With New York clutched in the grip of thousands of heavily armed predators, is an all-out attack on the city the only way to save it?
From the geopolitics of post-American dominance to the fallout of Israel’s nuclear strike, After America provides a gripping, intelligent, and harrowing chronicle of a world in the maw of chaos—and lives lived in the dangerous dawn of a strange new future. | {
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Welcome to GGA Packaging - A Division of George Gordon Associates
GGA Packaging designs and manufactures packaging and converting machinery in four general categories:
• wrappers,
• wrapper in-feeds with positioning,
• pouch filling and handling, and
• converting equipment
Our equipment ranges from basic machines to full wash-down food-grade systems. GGA takes full responsibility, providing turnkey systems with an extensive level of integration, all with GGA equipment. This includes film and desiccant supplies as well as machinery. Your benefit is trouble-free startup, efficient production, and a cost-effective full service packaging resource to increase your profits. | {
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Sri Lanka’s parliament has passed a no-confidence motion against the country’s purported prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, according to opposition lawmakers, deepening the political crisis gripping the country.
There were chaotic scenes on the floor of the country’s parliament for the vote on Wednesday morning, with reports Rajapaksa stormed out of the house and that some legislators from his party tried to halt the vote.
At least four lawmakers have said the parliamentary speaker, Karu Jayasuriya, took a voice vote and declared Rajapaksa’s government had no majority – effectively dissolving it.
But it is unclear if Rajapaksa and his allies accept the result. One supporter, Anura Priyadarsjana Yapa, said his side had no opportunity to see the no-confidence motion and that according to parliamentary rules they need five days’ notice for the vote.
Parliament has been adjourned until 10am on Thursday, but there are fears the assembly could be suspended before then.
At least five MPs who had previous expressed support for Rajapaksa crossed over on Wednesday morning to his opponent, Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Both men claim to be the lawful prime minister. The country’s president, Maithripala Sirisena, has been trying to sack Wickremesinghe and replace him with Rajapaksa. | {
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A winner of the WonderWitch (an official homebrew development kit for the WonderSwan) Development Competition in 2001 Judgement Silversword is a vertically scrolling bullet hell shoot em up. Your spaceship is equipped with three weapons that you can cycle through at will. A wide angle spread, a powerful forward shot and a shield which forms a bubble at the front of the ship that can also do damage if held against enemies. There are 30 levels and 3 difficulty settings. | {
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Danilo Krivokapic
Danilo Krivokapic graduated from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law. After working in Belgrade City Administration for 5 years, he passed the bar exam and joined SHARE Foundation, where he works as a Coordinator for privacy and data protection. He lead “Personal Data in the Public Sector” Project during 2015-2016. His research is also focused on topics such as implementation of new privacy and data protection regulations and policies in domestic legal framework, data economy and its impact on privacy, new types of cybercrime etc.
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Is a network of of journalists, bloggers, media lawyers, academics and internet activists from 14 South-Eastern and Central European countries. Discussing freedom of expression in the digital environment | {
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In A Try For Transparency, Mormon Church Releases Historical Documents
Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been saying they want to be more open about their religion's origin. Well, today, they took a step in that direction. The Book of Mormon, the church's official Scripture, is said to come from an ancient text inscribed on golden plates discovered by founder Joseph Smith. As NPR's Tom Gjelten reports, the account of how those plates were interpreted had been shrouded in mystery until now.
TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE: Mormon Church historians say Joseph Smith was visited by an angel in the 1820s and told where golden tablets were buried. He is said to have been able to translate the ancient text on the tablets with the help of a magic stone. The hand-written text was then set in print. Beyond that, details of the Scripture story have been murky, but church historian Steven Snow announced today that the church is now publishing the printer's manuscript.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
STEVEN SNOW: It's presented in high-quality, full-color photographs along with the transcript on the facing page so that you can follow along and not have to strain your eyes with the old cursive style of writing from the 19th century.
GJELTEN: With the manuscript, a detailed account of how Smith is said to have translated the ancient text by use of a seer stone.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
SNOW: This volume contains images of a brown seer stone likely used by Joseph in his translation of The Book of Mormon. This is the first time that the church has published images of this seer stone.
GJELTEN: Mormon leaders have until now been reluctant to discuss Joseph Smith's magic translating stones, says Matthew Bowman, a religion historian at Henderson State University. Perhaps, he says, from a desire to achieve cultural respectability for their church.
MATTHEW BOWMAN: I suspect that the stones were left out of popular media in part simply because modern Americans find it kind of strange. This sort of folk magical milieu that was so popular in the 19th century which made this seem not that abnormal in the 19th century has faded.
GJELTEN: Many religions have their own historical explanations for how their scriptures came to be. With today's announcements, The Mormon Church has become more open about its own early scriptural history. Tom Gjelten, NPR news, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | {
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Miracle Surgery Mends Cambodian Orphan
View the original article here: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/miracle-surgery-mends-cambodian-orphan/
When Scott Neeson first laid eyes on Lyda, the 13-year-old orphan was clambering over a mountain of garbage in a Phnom Penh, Cambodia slum. She was moving slowly and painfully because of a spinal deformity that left her with a severe hunchback. Still, she persevered.
Neeson and Lyda were truly from opposite ends of the world: He was a former film executive nicknamed “Mr. Hollywood” who gave up his home and Porche in exchange for a life in Phnom Penh and occasional head lice. “I’ve gone from Hollywood to the garbage dump, and I’m so much happier today,” he explained.
Lyda “is such a loving girl,” he told Early Show correspondent Hattie Kauffman. “She was living in the garbage dump. She was left there by her parents when she was five. She was fending for herself, basically.”
Neeson resolved to get Lyda the medical help she needed through the charity he founded to fund three orphanages he’s opened in Cambodia. But the surgery that could give her a pain-free and mobile life would cost dearly, and needed to be performed in an American hospital. Lyda needed an angel in her corner.
Enter Sumner Redstone, the chairman of Viacom and CBS Corporation, and a major philanthropist. “I had no idea how the children live in Cambodia. I mean, little girls being put out for prostitution, children living in dumps, scrounging for something to eat. The story really got to me,” he told Kauffman.
“No one else would do the operation, it’s such an intricate operation,” Neeson said in explaining how Lyda ended up at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in his old hometown, Los Angeles. “It was just too complex, and Sumner was like, ‘Ha! Not too complex,’ the whole curmudgeon thing, and starts barking in these orders and, the next thing you know, Lyda is getting the best medical treatment in the whole world.” The surgery cost upwards of $250,000.
Her surgeon, Dr. Robert Bernstein, feels that, without the surgery, Lyda would eventually have been paralyzed, because her bones were pressing against her spinal cord.
Since her arrival, Redstone has visited with Lyda and wants to continue helping Cambodian orphans. “All of these children need a lot of help,” he said. | {
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The scholar's touch
The Islamic scholar Angelika Neuwirth has had a greater impact on Koranic research in Germany than anyone else in recent decades. What she has to say is revolutionary – not only for Muslims, but also for Europe. Salafists, in particular, could learn a great deal from her. By Navid Kermani
Some time ago, a group of devout Muslims announced that they intended to give every German a generally-intelligible edition of the Koran. To invite their fellow citizens to read the Koran, these devout Muslims planned to stand about in pedestrian precincts and go around ringing people′s doorbells. At the same time, they also intended to run a poster campaign bearing the slogan: ′Read!′ – Read!
In the generally-intelligible translation that was to be distributed in the pedestrian precincts, this constituted both the opening of Sura 96 and also, according to these devout believers, the very first word God said to the Prophet: iqra` bismi rabbika lladhi chalaq / chalaqa l-insana min 'alaq – Read! in the name of your Lord, who created / Created man from a clot of blood′.
Their announcement caused quite a stir and indeed disquiet, among the German public. The devout Muslims were the top story on the television news; they found themselves on the front pages of national newspapers and were invited onto talk shows on the main public TV channels. The German Interior Minister also expressed his concern and the security services declared that they were keeping a very close eye on these people.
The devout Muslims themselves firmly rejected any suggestions that they had extremist sympathies, pointing out that the Bible was also given away for free in generally-intelligible translations. Their campaign should not, they said, be seen as a mission – there is no such term in Islam – but simply as dacwa, an invitation. Why shouldn′t one read the Koran just as one reads the Bible?
Yes – why not?
Like so many debates that are whipped up into minor hysteria by the constant noise from all sides that constitutes the shaping of public opinion nowadays, the one about handing out Korans also died down quickly. The devout Muslims didn′t have enough money to print eighty million or fifty million or even one million copies of their Koran, nor were there enough volunteers all over the country to invite people to read it.
It eventually emerged that the Koran had only been distributed in those pedestrian precincts that were also furnished with television cameras. And yet the question remained, hanging in the air and in the press, as well: why shouldn′t one read the Koran just as one reads the Bible? The newspapers and talkshows, the interior minister and the security services all provided answers.
But philology can give answers that are more exciting, more logical, even more politically relevant – that is, exemplary philology like that of Angelika Neuwirth. If one wished to reduce her research to a single denominator, a single statement, a fundamental theme, it would be this: the Koran itself is the reason why it shouldn′t be read like a Bible.
It begins with the dating of Sura 96, which, if one examines it closely, can hardly be the first, and it continues with the simple Arabic wording that the devout Muslims obviously failed to understand. In Koranic Arabic, iqra` means not ′Read!′ but ′Declaim!′, ′Recite!′ or even ′Repeat!′ The Koran itself explicitly denies that the Prophet was presented with a written document, comparable to Moses′ Decalogue.
The modus of revelation is repeatedly given as the spoken word: spoken aloud, recited like a cantilena, or even sung – rattili l-Qur`ana tartila, as it says elsewhere in the Koran. The poet Friedrich Ruckert translated this section into German more beautifully and more precisely than any devout Muslim: ′Singe den Koran sangweise,′ he wrote. ′Sing the Koran like a song.′
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Countless cultural assets have been destroyed by the Syrian Civil War. The Syrian Heritage Archive Project in Berlin contributes to preserving their memory with an exhibition showing what has been lost — and what remains. By Christina Kufner | {
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BY LAUREN LANGLOIS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BATON ROUGE, La. -- A dozen states including Florida still have anti-sodomy laws on the books 10 years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled they are unconstitutional.
One such state is Louisiana, where gay rights groups contend police have used anti-sodomy laws to target gay men. But state lawmakers sided with religious and conservative groups in refusing to repeal the law last week.
Of 14 states that had anti-sodomy laws, only Montana and Virginia have repealed theirs since the Supreme Court ruling, said Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay rights organization.
Warbelow says that in addition to Louisiana, anti-sodomy laws remain on the books in Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Utah.
The Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence v. Texas in 2003 that it is unconstitutional to bar consensual sex between adults, calling it a violation of the 14th Amendment.
BY AMY TAXIN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES -- An Australian man widowed by his American husband of more than three decades made a renewed pitch Monday for a green card after the Obama administration eased policies on gay marriage.
Anthony Sullivan, 72, asked federal immigration authorities in Los Angeles to reopen a 1975 petition filed by his late husband Richard Adams so Sullivan can be awarded residency as the surviving spouse of a U.S. citizen, immigration attorney Lavi Soloway said.
The request came decades after the couple sued and lost an early effort to win immigration benefits for same-sex married couples, and less than a year after the Obama administration started issuing green cards to gay couples who marry. Adams died in 2012 in the couple's Hollywood home.
"It doesn't matter how much time has passed and it doesn't matter how long it took to figure it out," Soloway said. "He and Richard sustained a constitutional injury for 40 years, and that should be corrected."
BY PHUONG LE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE -- The Boy Scouts of America has revoked its charter agreement with a Seattle church that refused to remove a gay troop leader after the organization withdrew his membership.
A Boy Scouts attorney told Rainier Beach United Methodist Church last week that it no longer could host troops under the Boy Scouts name.
The church has stood by Geoff McGrath, 49, a Seattle software engineer and Eagle Scout, after his membership in the organization was revoked last month, setting off an impasse between the church and one of the country's most popular youth organizations.
The Boy Scouts of America told McGrath in a March letter that it "no choice" but to revoke his registration after he said he was gay while being profiled by NBC News.
Boy Scouts of America officials said McGrath violated the group's leadership qualifications. They also said he "deliberately injected his sexuality" into the scouting program when he made statements to the media and the organization about his sexual orientation. | {
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Allan Williams, the Beatles’ First Manager, Dies
Allan Williams, who served as the first manager of the Beatles, has died. He was 86.
The news was broken yesterday by the Jacaranda, the Liverpool club he had owned during the Beatles’ early years. “Today is one of the saddest days in our history,” they wrote on Facebook. “The Jacaranda's original owner and the man who discovered The Beatles, Allan Williams, has sadly passed away at the age of 86. All of our thoughts and wishes go to his family and his wife Beryl. His legacy has allowed us to remain at the heart of the Liverpool music scene for almost 60 years and his memory will live on through every band that plays our famous stage. Allan, you will be missed.”
Born in Liverpool on March 17, 1930, Williams opened the Jacaranda, then a coffee bar that featured live music, in 1958, where it was frequented by John Lennon and Stu Sutcliffe, who were then students at Liverpool College of Art, and their bandmate Paul McCartney. Famously, they had asked Williams if their band could perform and instead he hired them to paint a mural for the ladies room. But he eventually let them play, both at the Jac and the Blue Angel, which he also owned. By 1960, he became their booking agent and manager, finding gigs for them throughout the city and booked them on a tour of Scotland as the backing band for Jimmy Gentle, a Liverpudlian singer.
During this time, he also formed a working relationship with Bruno Koschmider to send local bands to play residencies at Koschmider’s clubs in Hamburg, Germany. Williams offered up the Beatles, and Koschmider agreed, but on the condition that the band become a quintet. Needing a drummer — McCartney often filled in behind the kit when they couldn’t find someone — they auditioned Pete Best at the Jac and hired him a few days before departing for Hamburg. Williams would often speak about how the more established bands he sent to Hamburg didn’t want the upstart Beatles to go for fear of ruining it for them.
His tenure as manager came to an end less than a year later when the group negotiated a residency at Hamburg’s Top Ten Club, which began in April 1961, without him to avoid paying him a fee. According to Beatles Bible, when Brian Epstein first considered managing the Beatles, he asked Williams if there were any outstanding contracts between the two parties. Still hurt, Williams said, "Don't touch them with a f---ing bargepole; they will let you down."
However, Williams helped stage Beatles conventions in Liverpool in the ‘70s, and published a memoir called The Man Who Gave the Beatles Away in 1975. Two years later, a tape he owned of one of their performances in Hamburg was released as Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962, even though he was no longer their manager when it was recorded. | {
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eduMap widget
This 100% SVG-based widget lets you learn the location of countries, states and capitals around the world. It currently doesn’t work in Opera 9.5 for some reason (weird, since that’s where I tested it on most!), but I hope to resolve that shortly Fixed in latest versions.
Inspiration for this widget came from the excellent website purposegames.com, which has the same basic premise. However, all its games are Flash, and I wanted to make an SVG version. Also, I wanted to add more modes and options to the games (for example, where the country is highlighted and you select its name from a list).
Basic knowledge of the location of other countries seems to be sadly lacking in the United States, and I believe this may be a small, but great way to help change that. As an added bonus, it might help inspire other developers to use SVG over Flash.
Feel free to leave any feedback and bug reports on the widget’s page, and stay tuned for updates.
I did check initially if someone had already made a widget of this kind, since SVG is ideally suited for interacting with maps. It’s fun stuff.
As for the slowness, I’m trying to see how to improve that further. Did you try one of the latest versions? (1.3 or 1.4) I removed some of the special effects by default on them, hoping to make it faster. Please let me know where the speed issue is most problematic.
Hello!This widget is fantastic.
I really love this one.
But the flag of Taiwan displayed on the widget is not the one we are using now.It is one of flags of Taiwanese party,not recognized by most of Taiwanese people. | {
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The New York Times bestseller about a noted tech venture capitalist, early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, and Facebook investor, who wakes up to the serious damage Facebook is doing to our society – and sets out to try to stop it.
If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying our democracy, he would have howled with laughter. He had mentored many tech leaders in his illustrious career as an investor, but few things had made him prouder, or been better for his fund’s bottom line, than his early service to Mark Zuckerberg. Still a large shareholder in Facebook, he had every good reason to stay on the bright side. Until he simply couldn’t.
ZUCKED is McNamee’s intimate reckoning with the catastrophic failure of the head of one of the world’s most powerful companies to face up to the damage he is doing. It’s a story that begins with a series of rude awakenings. First there is the author’s dawning realization that the platform is being manipulated by some very bad actors. Then there is the even more unsettling realization that Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are unable or unwilling to share his concerns, polite as they may be to his face.
And then comes the election of Donald Trump, and the emergence of one horrific piece of news after another about the malign ends to which the Facebook platform has been put. To McNamee’s shock, even still Facebook’s leaders duck and dissemble, viewing the matter as a public relations problem. Now thoroughly alienated, McNamee digs into the issue, and fortuitously meets up with some fellow travelers who share his concern, and help him sharpen its focus. Soon he and a dream team of Silicon Valley technologists are charging into the fray, to raise consciousness about the existential threat of Facebook, and the persuasion architecture of the attention economy more broadly — to our public health and to our political order.
Zucked is both an enthralling personal narrative and a masterful explication of the forces that have conspired to place us all on the horns of this dilemma. This is the story of a company and its leadership, but it’s also a larger tale of a business sector unmoored from normal constraints, just at a moment of political and cultural crisis, the worst possible time to be given new tools for summoning the darker angels of our nature and whipping them into a frenzy. Like Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window, Roger McNamee happened to be in the right place to witness a crime, and it took him some time to make sense of what he was seeing and what we ought to do about it. The result of that effort is a wise, hard-hitting, and urgently necessary account that crystallizes the issue definitively for the rest of us.
ABOUT ROGER MCNAMEE
Roger McNamee has been a Silicon Valley investor for 35 years. He co-founded successful funds in venture, crossover and private equity. His most recent fund, Elevation, included U2’s Bono as a co-founder. He holds a B.A. from Yale University ...
“A candid and highly entertaining explanation of how and why a man who spent decades picking tech winners and cheering his industry on has been carried to the shore of social activism.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A timely reckoning with Facebook’s growth and data-obsessed culture. . . [Zucked] is the first narrative tale of Facebook’s unravelling over the past two years . . . McNamee excels at grounding Facebook in the historical context of the technology industry.” — Financial Times
“[An] excellent new book . . . [McNamee] is one of the social network’s biggest critics. He’s a canny and persuasive one too. In “Zucked,” McNamee lays out an argument why it and other tech giants have grown into a monstrous threat to democracy. Better still he offers tangible solutions . . . What makes McNamee so credible is his status as a Silicon Valley insider. He also has a knack for distilling often complex or meandering TED Talks and Medium posts about the ills of social media into something comprehensible, not least for those inside the D.C. Beltway . . . McNamee doesn’t just scream fire, though. He also provides a reasonable framework for solving some of the issues . . . For anyone looking for a primer on what’s wrong with social media and what to do about it, the book is well worth the read.” —Reuters
“Think of Zucked as the story after Social Network’s credits roll. McNamee, an early Facebook investor and Zuckerberg mentor, weaves together a story of failed leadership, bad actors and algorithms against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential election.” — Hollywood Reporter
“McNamee’s work is both a first-rate history of social media and a cautionary manifesto protesting their often overlooked and still growing dangers to human society.” — Booklist
“Regardless of where you stand on the issue, you’ll want to see why one of Facebook’s biggest champions became one of its fiercest critics.” — Business Insider
“A comprehensible primer on the political pitfalls of big tech.” — Publishers Weekly
“Part memoir, part indictment, Zucked chronicles Facebook’s history to demonstrate that its practices of ‘invasive surveillance, careless sharing of private data, and behavior modification in pursuit of unprecedented scale and influence,’ far from being a series of accidental oversights, were in fact foundational to the company’s astronomical success. This historical approach allows McNamee to draw valuable connections between present-day troubles and the company’s philosophical source code.” — Bookforum
“Roger McNamee’s Zucked fully captures the disastrous consequences that occur when people running companies wielding enormous power don’t listen deeply to their stakeholders, fail to exercise their ethical responsibilities and don’t make trust their number one value.” — Marc Benioff, chariman and co-CEO of Salesforce
“McNamee puts his finger on serious problems in online environments, especially social networking platforms. I consider this book to be a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the societal impact of cyberspace.” — Vint Cerf, internet pioneer
“Roger McNamee is an investor with the nose of an investigator. This unafraid and unapologetic critique is enhanced by McNamee’s personal association with Facebook’s leaders and his long career in the industry. Whether you believe technology is the problem or the solution, one has no choice but to listen. It’s only democracy at stake.” — Emily Chang, author of Brotopia
“Roger McNamee is truly the most interesting man in the world — legendary investor, virtuoso guitarist, and damn lucid writer. He’s written a terrific book that is both soulful memoir and muckracking exposé of social media. Everyone who spends their day staring into screens needs to read his impassioned tale. — Franklin Foer, author of World Without Mind
“A frightening view behind the scenes of how absolute power and panoptic technologies can corrupt our politics and civic commons in this age of increasing-returns monopolies. Complementing Jaron Lanier’s recent warnings with a clear-eyed view of politics, antitrust, and the law, this is essential reading for activists and policy makers as we work to preserve privacy and decency and a civil society in the internet age.” — Bill Joy, cofounder of Sun Microsystems,creator of the Berkeley Unix operating system
“Zucked is the mesmerizing and often hilarious story of how Facebook went from young darling to adolescent menace, not to mention a serious danger to democracy. With revelations on every page, you won’t know whether to laugh or weep.” — Tim Wu, author of The Attention Merchants and The Curse of Bigness
I’ve received two notifications by text that my Facebook account has been flagged for violations. I have a limited time to answer before I’m banned. I find this interesting because I’ve never opened a Facebook account. Could someone that has an account let me know if I am the victim ofIdentity theft? | {
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DNR wavering on canned hunts
September 03, 2006
If you thought the canned hunting controversy was over, think again. Since taking over as Department of Natural Resources Director in January 2005, Kyle Hupfer has stood steadfast on his crusade to rid Indiana of high-fence hunting. He's taken on legislators and the canned hunt industry with more determination than most directors. And he was successful. Last March, Hupfer convinced the Indiana Natural Resources Commission to ban canned hunting in Indiana, immediately, joining 17 other states that prohibit similar practices of trophy hunting in fenced areas. The Attorney General approved the new rule and Gov. Mitch Daniels signed off on it in June. Case closed, right? Not anymore. A lawsuit filed by one high fence operator apparently has called the DNR's bluff. Hupfer has negotiated a proposal that would permit some high fence ranchers to stay in business for at least another 10 years. "I've said all along that I wanted to eliminate this practice in the state of Indiana," Hupfer said Friday. "But I'm not willing to risk the financial well being of the Division of Fish and Wildlife when I can end it all in 10 years." Hupfer pointed out that the rule still prevents growth in high fence operations and exempts the dozen or so specified hunting ranches that were operating prior to the rule. Strangely enough, the lawsuit filed against the DNR is based on a 1999 letter from a conservation officer to the rancher telling him he could sell off trophy hunts on his property. But that was long before the DNR's new rule banned the practice. Needless to say, some sportsmen and conservation groups are aghast and feel betrayed by Hupfer and the DNR. The Indiana Wildlife Federation has sent a letter to Gov. Daniels urging him to reject the proposed settlement and defend the rule he signed two months ago. The Federation asks its constituency to bombard the Governor's office with similar pleas. The first question in everyone's mind is how could the DNR's legal team -- and Hupfer, who is an attorney by trade -- overlook the potential of a lawsuit that could derail a rule that the agency has been fighting for several years? Well, here's part of the reason. Powerful Farm Bureau lobbyists have jumped in behind canned hunt operations. That's because operators purchase many of their trophy animals from deer farmers, many of whom are Farm Bureau members. Raising deer as a livestock is legal, and banning canned hunts would adversely affect deer farmers. Without a settlement, Hupfer said, nothing could prevent the legislature from legalizing canned hunting altogether. "The House already has shown its support for high-fence hunting and the Senate could easily get behind it if we don't get a settlement before the legislature convenes," he said. "And if we lose this lawsuit, we lose control over all wildlife. The result is we wind up with proliferation of canned hunts throughout the state." IWF Executive Director John Goss wants the DNR to fight the lawsuit, and if a settlement is deemed necessary, shorten the extension and tighten the restrictions. Goss, you may recall, was Hupfer's predecessor and one of the best DNR Directors Indiana had seen in years. "Let's enforce this rule into the fall, and if we're going to allow canned hunts, at least regulate them with strict guidelines," Goss offered. Conservationists fear the proposed settlement allows the grand fathered hunting operations to do just about anything they want to do inside their gates. Some insist political pressure from the governor's office has forced Hupfer to back down from the rule he defended so adamantly a year ago. He denies it. "As a hunter, I think (canned hunting) is a loathsome, unethical practice," said Hupfer. "But it's a tough issue with people on both sides. The Farm Bureau, some hunters and citizens are fine with it. I'm just not willing to risk the Fish and Wildlife Fund over an ethical issue." Louie Stout Commentary | {
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Martinez Confident and Ready
As he has done in the past, Jose Martinez returned home this off-season to play winter ball in his home of Venezuela. But this year had a twist.
“It was fun because I actually got the chance to play with my brother on the same team,” shared Martinez. “But other than that I actually rested. I’ve been playing for 10 years straight. It went well. I spent a lot of time with the family.”
Fun as the experience of having his little brother in the outfield was, Martinez did have a speedbump as he suffered a pulled quadriceps sprinting to first base while trying to beat a throw.
“I was trying to go faster,” he explained. “You know when you go body, yeah, go faster now. No, he gone. The season was the groin. On the other side. Same leg. I didn’t realize that. It’s fine now.”
Playing in 15-20 games, Martinez manned first base in all of them.
“Actually was getting there early, and I just worked with that and met with guys who helped me with that position,” said Martinez. “Not even at the field. Situations and whatever the game dictates. I feel like I’m getting much better with that. There’s more to come. I think I have to put some more work. But I feel a little confidence in in it.”
Speaking of confidence, after hitting .309 in 272 at-bats and appearing in 106 games last season, Martinez enters 2018 with a stronger faith in his ability and sense that he belongs in the big leagues.
“It was a great opportunity, first of all, I have to thank the Cardinals for the opportunity they gave me,” said Jose. “Last year, it was fun. For the other side, I learned a lot because we were trying to win, we were trying to win every day. I was talking to Yadi and we’re going to do it this year too. We’re going to be more hungry about the game, about winning, about doing the stuff right about getting wins every day. Even though we’re not going to win every day, we’re going to try to do it. Everybody is thinking like that, too.”
As for whether or not he plays first base or the outfield, Martinez doesn’t have a preference.
I’m going to actually go there and work with the trainers a little more, and work on all the positions. I’m actually going to try (whatever positions) to go through the season. Like I said I don’t know what is going to happen. I want to be ready for the opportunity.
“Whatever,” he stated. So does his reference to “all the positions” included catching?
“Whatever. I’ll do it too,” smiled the 6’6 Martinez. “I got Yadi. He’ll teach me. Like I said, the most important thing for me is to break to New York with the team. I don’t care about positions or hitting. I just want to be on the team.
“I think that mentality I’m just going to take the same one. It gets me more motivated with how I’m going to get to the spot I want to be. You know what I’m saying. I think that’s the goal. To go out there and compete. Show up and be ready to go.”
Besides speaking with Molina during the off-season, the two actually got together as Yadi visited Venezuela to work with some youth players.
“Give them some advice on catching and it was pretty special,” shared Martinez. “It was actually, a lot of Venezuela – they don’t want to go to Venezuela right now. And for him to come it was pretty special because it shows that you cannot forget where you come from.
“He wanted to come. He told me ‘I want to go to Venezuela’. No you’re not going to Venezuela. No chance. He said that that night, and the next day he just told me, ‘I’m serious. I’m coming to Venezuela.’ As soon as he landed, I was like, ‘Yeah, you came. Now, I believe you.’ It was a lift for the people. He was three days there. Everything was special. My city treated him well. He liked it. I’m trying to get him back too to get him more time with the kids. He likes – it’s a small town. Everybody knows everybody. It’s like we grew up in the same area. For him to come to Venezuela it was pretty special for the kids and everything. It was good.”
Martinez was proud to share he rented a home for Molina to stay in over the visit.
“The kids are trying to get signed with professional baseball,” continued Martinez. “The situation is so hard that everybody wants to get out of Venezuela somehow. The kids are like 13, 14 – they’re practicing trying to get better a situation for their family. It’s a great experience for him just to talk and not give up and think of your family and work hard for it.”
Last season, Martinez lent perspective on just how dire the circumstances were in his native Venezuela. Unfortunately, things have not improved.
“Stuff is getting worse right now,” said Martinez. “My family is good. I know people is getting really sad about stuff. Kidnapping went up. Stuff in the street went up. Killing went up. Hope everything gets better. It’s really sad to say this. I think the only thing that you’ve got to do is get out of Venezuela. That’s the only solution that you can make.”
Martinez was unable to make a visa appointment with his young son, so unfortunately he has to continue efforts to get him into the United States. Martinez is keeping his fingers crossed to work something out for Spring Training. | {
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One of McDonald’s recent responses to slumping sales was the launch of a line of salads in Canada, which they announced last year. The new caesar salad, called the “Keep Calm and Caesar On,” offers “a nutrient-rich lettuce blend with baby kale.” The only problem? The caloric and sodium content in this new ‘healthy’ option exceed those of a Big Mac. And a Double Big Mac.
Though the salad’s packaging invites the consumer to “get [their] greens on with eight different kinds of lettuce,” the meal also includes parmesan cheese, bacon, croutons, chicken, and a Kraft-made dressing. McDonald’s Canadian website informs consumers that even with the “crispy chicken” option, the salad has 530 calories — but this figure excludes the dressing. As the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) noted, once it’s added, “the salad tops up at 730 calories, 53 grams of fat, and 1,400 milligrams of salt.”
“Health-wise, I think it’s fat and sodium overload,” Toronto registered dietitian, Shauna Lindzon, told CBC. The maximum recommended sodium intake in Canada is 2300 mg per day, though Health Canada, the government’s health department, says 1500 mg is ideal. This means eating a ‘healthy’ caesar salad fills up the vast majority of the ‘healthy’ sodium limit. Lindzon says that “By eating that salad, you’re getting your sodium for the day,” while CBC points out that “average adult women would also be getting about one third their recommended daily calories.”
By comparison, the classic Big Mac has 530 calories and 950 milligrams of sodium. Even the Double Big Mac has ‘only’ 680 calories and contains ‘just’ 1340 milligrams of sodium. McDonald’s new, ‘healthier’ option also surpasses the calorie content of not just the Big Mac and variations thereof, but the regular cheeseburger, the double cheeseburger, the Filet-o-Fish, the Double Filet-o-Fish, the Bacon McDouble Sandwich, the Quarter Pounder with Cheese, and the Quarter Pounder B.L.T. — to name a few.
The caesar salad’s drawbacks, however, are not limited to its caloric and sodium content. A cursory glance at the ingredients reveals questionable contents. Though McDonald’s hinted it might offer organic options back in 2014, it has not made any widespread changes to that effect. The caesar salad is not listed as organic, which likely means the lettuce and kale have been sprayed with pesticides, which are linked to a variety of health problems. The bacon includes sodium nitrite, which the International Agency for Research on Cancer has deemed “probably carcinogenic” — to say nothing of the conditions factory farm animals are subject to.
While other salads on the menu, including the “I’m Greek-ing Out” option, have fewer calories, they are still not necessarily healthy. As Lindzon said of the salad, “Combined with the Greek Feta Dressing, the ‘I’m Greek-ing Out‘ salad with grilled chicken amounts to: 420 calories, 26 grams of fat, and 1,080 milligrams of sodium. That’s almost the same calorie, fat and salt content as a Double Cheeseburger.”
These so-called healthier options were largely developed in response to McDonald’s shrinking sales worldwide, though the company initially fought the change. As the Associated Pressnoted last year when the company announced its new line of salads in Canada, “The embrace of kale may seem odd to some, considering McDonald’s recently ran an ad that celebrated the Big Mac and mocked trendy ingredients like soy, quinoa, Greek yogurt — and kale.”
However, facing decreasing profits and growing apprehension towards its products, CEO Steve Easterbrook announced last year his intention to turn the company into a “modern, progressive burger company.”
If by modern and progressive Easterbrook means riddled with obscene levels of sodium and calories, then by all means, he is on the right track.
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Instead of resorting to delaying tactics, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) must look for ways to deliver the government’s obligation to increase salary of its workers, according to Sen. Bam Aquino.
“Kung ayaw may dahilan, kung gusto may paraan,” said Sen. Bam as renewed his call to the DBM to use the Miscellaneous Personnel Benefits Fund (MPBF) for the salary hike of government workers.
“Delay is not an option. The Budget Department should find ways to deliver on its duty to implement the fourth tranche of salary increase for public servants,” added Sen. Bam.
Sen. Bam contended that the MPBF is enough to cover the first month of the fourth and final part of the salary increase for government workers under the Salary Standardization Law (SSL).
In the 2018 budget, the MPBF is close to P100 billion while the salary increase requirement for January 2019 is less than P5 billion. | {
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Ishqbaaz 29th October 2018 Written Episode Update
Om says the doctor is here. Doctor treats Anika. Bhavya asks Shivaye are you also hurt, how did you both get hurt. Shivaye says we were going to Sahil’s school and met with an accident. Om asks who was driving the car. Gauri asks were you driving the car? Gauri says you know your condition isn’t fine, you didn’t sleep since four days, your wife is your responsibility, you didn’t think for her, she is your wife, she did a lot for you, she fulfilled all her duties, you are responsible for this. Shivaye cries. Bhavya says calm down, he is hurt too.
Gauri says no Bhavya, if anything happens to my sister, I won’t forgive Shivaye. Om hugs Gauri. Doctor says she has deep wound, she will need time to recover, be thankful that she didn’t get much injured, else she would have died. They get
shocked. Shivaye goes out and says Anika could have died because of me, she trusted me, what did I give her in return, just sorrow and pain, her safety was my responsibility, I failed in it as well, she can never be happy with me, I have to send her away from me, its possible only when I create hatred in her heart for me, this will happen when I become old Tadibaaz Shivaye. Anika gets conscious and says Shivaye….. Gauri asks how are you feeling now. Bhavya asks her to have water. Anika asks where is Shivaye. Shivaye gets ready. Gauri says don’t take stress. Anika asks is he fine. Shivaye leaves. Anika says please call Shivaye, I want to go to him. Bhavya says you shouldn’t get walking. Shivaye comes there and sees Anika. They look at him surprised. Anika smiles and holds him. She says my old Tadibaaz Shivaye is back, I m so happy. Shivaye makes a call. She asks are you going somewhere, you can’t drive, we just met with an accident. He says I know what I can do and what I can’t, take rest. He goes.
Anika asks what happened to you. He says I have to go to settle a business deal. She says you met with an accident. He says I m fine. He says you were scared to go office and today you want to manage business. He says this accident revived the old Shivaye, I need to look ahead and move on, its time to tell the world that Shivaye is back.
Omru get messages and get shocked. Rudra asks how did the board meeting get scheduled without our permission. Om says I don’t understand who has done this. Shivaye says I did… They look at him shocked. Shivaye walks to them and says I did this, I should take the control of this company, you are running the company since the last five years, now I will run it, its imp for people to know that Shivaye is back, come for the meeting on time, because I don’t like to wait for anybody. He goes. Om asks what happened to him. Anika says I don’t know. She asks Shivaye what’s wrong with him. He attends a work call. She says please talk to me, you can go to office. He answers another call. She asks what has happened to you, why are you behaving strange. He says this is my normal behavior, you know it, what do you want, you want me to be a scared man who has been released from jail, now I m trying to move on, you have a problem with it. She says no, I didn’t mean that. He gets angry and throws his phone.
Anika says I know you are upset about something, please tell me what is it. He says I can’t give justification for my every action, I don’t have time to convince you, I wasted a lot of time on useless things. He leaves. Gauri asks what happened to him. Anika says there is something which he isn’t telling me, but I will find out. Shivaye gets in his car. He thinks how shall I tell you that I m doing this to keep you away, you will get burnt if you stay close to fire, you have to go away from me. Anika gets in and asks what are you thinking, you don’t drive, take a driver along. He says you mean I don’t know driving, just go. She says I won’t go anywhere, I will go with you. He says I hate people who force themselves on me. She asks do you think I m forcing myself on you, fine, you may think so, I won’t go. He says okay fine and gets driving. She asks him to slow down. He races the car to some cliff area and pulls hand brakes. He says now you are sure that I can drive, right? Or do you want any more proof. Anika says I have understood you are doing this to keep me away from you. He asks her to get down the car. She says you can try, but you can’t make me away. He says I will make this car fall down the cliff, if you don’t get down. He asks her to get out of the house. She gets down the car. He drives to the edge of the cliff. She shouts Shivaye. He stops near the edge. She runs to him. She hugs him and cries.
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She asks what’s this madness. He says now you would be sure that I can drive. He makes a call. He says car will be here in ten mins, go home and take care, I m not used to justifying myself to anyone. He leaves. He gets panicking on the way and says I have to get over my fears, if Anika sees me in this condition, she will never leave me. Anika is at home. Bhavya asks what’s the matter, you look tense. Anika says Shivaye is not answering my calls. Bhavya says he would be busy in work. Anika says no, he can see everything, but he can’t see me in pain, he is doing this in guilt, he is making me away, this has happened even before. Bhavya says you are overthinking, he has gone to office after many years, you wanted him to manage his responsibilities, you should be happy. Anika says ice melts slowly, not at once, if he was changing gradually, I would be happy but he changed at once, I don’t know but there is something wrong, how can someone change so soon. Shivaye comes home with a lady. Anika looks on.
Precap:Anika asks were you you, who is this girl. The lady says we shall go somewhere where we get some privacy. Shivaye says don’t worry Tara, its my house and we will have a lot of privacy. Shivaye insults Anika. She cries and leaves. | {
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This is a reply to Tyler Durden’s ZeroHedge article regarding Argentina and the latest IMF loan given to the country. In the aforementioned article some incorrect assumptions are made about Argentina, particularly in regards to the country’s future and the international economy. I intend to dispel these erroneous views. Hopefully, when the facts change, Durden will change his mind… Continue reading “IMF deal is bad for Argentina, not good”
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Wednesday the 14th makes the most sense to me. Seeing as Apple is off for Thanksgiving, from the 19th to the 23rd, I just can't see them taking off an entire week right before the launch (if it were to actually launch the last week of November). That strategy would just seem odd. My bet is that they're aiming for release sometime during the middle of next week, will have a couple days after the launch to see what, if any, issues arise, and then be able to go into the week-long break without a launch looming over their heads.
Wednesday the 14th makes the most sense to me. Seeing as though Apple is off for Thanksgiving, from the 19th to the 23rd, I just can't see them taking off an entire week right before the week launch (if it were to actually launch the last of November). That strategy would just seem odd. My bet is that they're aiming for release sometime during the middle of next week, will have a couple days after the launch to see what, if any, issues arrive, and then be able to go into the week-long break without a launch looming over their heads.
wouldnt it make sense to release it this week so, if any issues arise, they have at least a week to sort them out?
they easily could release it the week after apple goes on vacation.. work on it till the last minute they release it on the 28th and make sure things go smoothly from the 28th and on to december.
although i hope its before the holidays. i agree releasing next week would be a horrible idea as well because if there are bugs that need to be monitored and then apple goes on vacation :\ big no no!
Everyone getting their hopes up they release iTunes 11 before thanksgiving week will lead to disappointment like people thinking apple was going to release iTunes at the end of October to meet the "coming in October" deadline
The question now is, what has been holding them back? Bugs? The rumored streaming service?
think its just bugs tbh. because the streaming service would be a massive feature, they would announce that at a media event, so its probably coming with the next version of iTunes, after this one.
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So by the end of October, they knew they were going to have to delay it which would make them look bad.
Don't you think if they needed more time they would have delayed it beyond November instead of delaying it twice?
Probably but then again, they thought it would have been ready by october, but waited til the last minute to delay it. fingers crossed it does come out in november and there is no more shoddy time management issues, that mean they push it back til December. Hopefully now the company shake up has settled down a little, it might get people back on focus.
I wish they'd just release it already. I'm starting to get pissed off with this 'new' Apple
i dont think they need to delay it any further, there is going to be bugs anyway. all software has some bugs, no matter what it is. wont there also be a iTunes 11.0.1 eventually anyway to get rid of more bugs, add features, etc?
they could have released in october with iTunes 11 and than in November released 11.0.1 with whatever bugs did not get fixed. probably will be the case with 11 in November and 11.0.1 in December.
i dont think they need to delay it any further, there is going to be bugs anyway. all software has some bugs, no matter what it is. wont there also be a iTunes 11.0.1 eventually anyway to get rid of more bugs, add features, etc?
they could have released in october with iTunes 11 and than in November released 11.0.1 with whatever bugs did not get fixed. probably will be the case with 11 in November and 11.0.1 in December.
i dont think they need to delay it any further, there is going to be bugs anyway. all software has some bugs, no matter what it is. wont there also be a iTunes 11.0.1 eventually anyway to get rid of more bugs, add features, etc?
they could have released in october with iTunes 11 and than in November released 11.0.1 with whatever bugs did not get fixed. probably will be the case with 11 in November and 11.0.1 in December.
I'd rather they release it without "known" bugs.
This forum would be in meltdown if they released an unfinished product.
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The aurora borealis, or northern lights, hangs like a fluorescent curtain over the village of Ersfjordbotn, near Tromso in northern Norway.
The atmospheric phenomenon is caused by streams of electrically charged particles from the Sun, which are funnelled to the polar regions by the Earth's magnetic field. As the particles hit atoms in the upper atmosphere they excite them to higher energy levels, and this energy is then released in the form of light. This aurora is caused by the excitation of oxygen atoms, which emit a characteristic green coloration. | {
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I was standing on the back piorch with some friends and we saw something. We thought we did. We blew it off and thought nuthin of it. But then there were 4 crafts. The craft behind the first one shot blue and red beams the at the first one. It was at night so I wasn't aware of the colors of the crafts. We didn't know what to do. They had to be UFOs. | {
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Trump signs $1.8B autism law championed by NJ lawmakers
President Donald Trump this week signed into law the Autism Cares Act of 2019, which authorizes $1.8 billion over five years to help children and adults with autism by funding research, early detection and treatments.
Suzanne Buchanan, executive director of Autism New Jersey, said The Autism Cares Act is a continuation of the federal government's response to the needs of the autism community throughout the country.
Children with autism have a federal right to a free and appropriate public education which ends at age 21. That's where the adult service delivery system picks up. The problems is that this system is underfunded and under resourced in terms of the number of providers and programs, Buchanan said. Some parents describe it as falling off a services cliff.
The $1.8 billion funding includes spending for The National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which does the prevalent studies, and the Health Resources and Services Administration. The law also reauthorizes and expands the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee.
"I think the intent of this law is to explore the needs of adults with autism, document them, and then try to look to the professional literature to see what best practices we should be doing in everyday life. There's a huge gap between what we know in the research and everyday service delivery," said Buchanan.
According to the CDC, New Jersey has the highest rate of autism in the country with 1 in 34 children identified with ASD. Nationally, 1 in 59 children have it. That's a 15% jump since the previous study conducted in 2016.
Two New Jersey leaders who co-sponsored the act include U.S. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., 4th District. | {
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I'm not sure if it has already been discussed or if hobbes even reads the boards but we should see what we can do to get a chat room on here - mainly for in-game discussions and big events like the new ownership. I could provide the script for it, since i just had to make a chat room for a customer's site last week.
JayPat wrote:Like it fsho. Maybe another player to the right of the text? Just an idea.
I can't think of anyone to be next to Curry. Well, okay David Lee is a good one. Perhaps, including Lacob/Guber is a possibility? Yay or nay?
Kidding?
The answer is obvious.
Reggie Williams:Listed height = 6'6"Actual height = 5'10"
But seriously...
I really like dsigns' idea but think it should be Curry & Lee only. Those two, in combination with the new owners, represent the biggest changes to come to the Warriors. I just don't really want to see a picture of Guber and Lacob. They should be heard and not seen | {
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Buy it... if you rejoice in the challenging sounds of technical
experimentation in music, Benjamin Wallfisch pushing the boundaries of
post-processing to new levels in his attempt to surpass expectations for
a favorite horror tale.
Avoid it... if you still believe that subtlety can achieve greater
thrills than brute force, though Wallfisch may still appease you with a
decent countering of softly lyrical, dramatic interludes for the mystery
of the location and its children.
EDITORIAL REVIEW
FILMTRACKS TRAFFIC RANK: #1,833
WRITTEN
12/26/17
BUY IT
It: (Benjamin Wallfisch) After realized with
tremendous success in an Emmy-winning 1990 television adaptation,
Stephen King's "It" suffered an arduously long journey to the big screen
in the 2010's, burning through several crews and casts before director
Andy Muschietti triumphed in transforming the concept into a phenomenal
moneymaker for Warner. The project was met with widespread critical and
popular acclaim, spurring immediate plans for a sequel to continue the
exploration of the troll-like demon clown that terrorizes a small Maine
city every 27 years, as told by legend and experienced by local
children. Oblivious and abusive adults are equal villains in It,
a group of outcast children forming an alliance to investigate and save
one another from the sewer-dwelling "Pennywise the Dancing Clown" that
terrorizes them with realistic, life-threatening nightmares preying upon
their individual fears. It is because of movies like this (and including
Tim Curry's outstanding performance in the 1990 version) that clowns
have become the subject of ridicule and suspicion in pop culture, and
2017's It must only further this shift in perception. The
depictions of child dismemberment and death are horrific in this film,
earning its 'R' rating by aiming solely at adult audiences reliving the
angst of their teenage years. Thrown into the equation is a hint of
1980's mystery and adventure of a Steven Spielberg nature, It
attempting to straddle both worlds as it takes the wonderment of a
child's perseverance and forces it into battle against adult-oriented
horror thrills that include body mutilation and sexual assault. It's
amazing that audiences willingly embrace such disturbing material, but
if it makes them feel better about the comparatively tame misery in
their real lives, then so be it. The relatively even balance between
wondrous mystery, character depth, and outright horror in It
necessitated a hybrid soundtrack that pulls at the heart strings with
orchestral benevolence befitting 1980's nostalgia while also striving
for new methods of achieving the otherwise predictable horror element.
English composer Benjamin Wallfisch has used his association with Hans
Zimmer's Remote Control Productions as a springboard into a robust
career in the horror and thriller genres during 2016 and 2017, cranking
out a slew of such efforts, many of which pushing the limits of
processing technologies in the execution.
Regardless of your tolerance for the horror film score
genre in general, It supplies you with much to consider in its
highly developed methods. Even if you are not the type of person to
appreciate horror music in all its thrashing, dissonant glory, Wallfisch
at least provides you an interesting experience in how he achieves this
end. A strong argument can be made that there is gratuitous violence in
the music's extreme processing that could have been rendered unnecessary
by a more nuanced approach. Some listeners will rightfully claim that
during an age when visual effects struggle to continue dazzling viewers
when expectations have run so high, the ability of music to terrify
suffers from the same temptation by producers and composers to simply
add more processing and more layers to a cue in order to supply the same
additive thrill. What at one time soloists with a bassoon or muted
trumpet accomplished in the genre decades before is now supplanted by
dozens of layers of noise processed to make "music" that sufficiently
impresses modern studio executives and tired audiences. If you seek
subtlety in the distinctions between character warmth and suspenseful
thrills, It will disappoint you, but at least its textures in the
suspenseful variations on the character half will prove intriguingly
unsettling. A standard orchestra is joined by a small group of young
children singing an old English nursery rhyme, though that song is
distorted and chopped to bits in the process of the score's creation.
Some (sampled?) mature vocal chanting effects late in the work are a bit
eye-rolling in their grasping at faint Jerry Goldsmith/The Final
Conflict glory. Some listeners may believe a synthetic edge inhabits
the outright atonal horror sequences, especially in the cues that offer
loudly slashing and pounding metallic percussion effects, but the
recording sounds closer to a processing of mostly the symphonic
performance shrieks into insufferable combinations of noise. The scenes
involving Pennywise's infliction of nightmares (or actual harm) on the
children are typically met with a cacophonous wall of sound that
sometimes overlays shouted lyrics from the child singers for an
experience as unpleasant as any in the history of film music. Occasional
"cheap trick" manipulations, as in artificial crescendos with abruptly
edited conclusions plague a cue like "Deadlights," and moments like this
in It, even with creative strains of mixing around the edges, may
strain the patience of most listeners. Such material is truly impossible
to "enjoy" apart from context in any normal sense of that word.
The more lyrical, dramatic half of It is, not
surprisingly, where Wallfisch prevails, if only in brief interludes.
Being that this film's story is one of character bonding and coming of
age, not to mention the mystery of the town's legend, it makes sense to
hear some development of tonal ideas. The actual melodic structures of
these sequences are shy enough to avoid obvious memorability, but their
tone is the more important component to their success. A solo piano
performed by Wallfisch himself is joined by conventional strings,
rhythmic woodwind figures, and harp accents to convey the themes for the
town, the dead boy that starts the group on its crusade, and, finally,
the bond those children form together. Opening and closing the score is
a light waltz on piano in "Every 27 Years" for the legend of the tale,
laced in the first cue by children's vocalizations that waft back and
forth in the left and right channels. Slightly optimistic woodwind and
choral tones, yearning to achieve the warmth of a James Horner character
theme, establish false hope in "Paper Boat," and related material is a
similarly soft and tonal attraction in "Derry," "Beverly," and
"Georgie's Theme." More urgent development of those ideas in "Derry
History" and "Return to Neibolt" offer accessible determination and
gravity to the music. One nice red herring along this journey is
"Georgie Found," which is intentionally non-descript in its avoidance of
the character's prior theme. The trio of "Yellow Raincoat," "Blood
Oath," and "Kiss" nicely wrap the character development with the score's
most heart-warming ensemble moments. Meanwhile, as the film progresses,
Wallfisch seems tentative about how to handle Pennywise thematically,
ranging from outright carnival manipulation in "Epilogue" to the choral
fantasy awe of "Pennywise's Tower." Overall, the score for It is
technologically impressive, its mix highly commendable not only for the
boisterous explosions of sound during the fright sequences, but for the
clarity of the ensemble lines throughout. The harp in particular shines
despite all the surrounding chaos. But those explosions of ear-shredding
manipulation are truly unlistenable, begging further questions about
whether "louder" and "more complex" are really the answer to horror
music innovation. The tonal portions could be assembled into quite a
solid presentation given that 87 minutes of music were released for the
soundtrack, but even here, Wallfisch does not enunciate any of his
melodies (with the exception of one striking brass sequence at 0:49 into
"He Didn't Stutter Once") with enough clarity for audiences to be able
to identify anything suitable as a "franchise theme" for a concept that
was ripe for such connections. It's smart music that didn't quite
achieve its aim. Cautiously approach its long album with realistic
expectations. ***@Amazon.com: CD or
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Newcastle defender Dummett receives death threat over Suarez tackle
NEWCASTLE defender Paul Dummett was the subject of an online death threat on Thursday after Uruguay fans blamed him for the injury that has dealt Luis Suarez a World Cup scare.
The Uruguay Football Association announced that 27-year-old Suarez had undergone minor knee surgery, suggesting he damaged the meniscus in Liverpool's final match of the season against Newcastle.
Suarez's arthroscopic surgery lasted about 30 minutes and he is likely to be sidelined for at least a couple of weeks but Uruguay officials remain confident he will be fit for the World Cup. Uruguay's first match is against Costa Rica on June 15 before they face England in Sao Paolo on June 19.
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The assurances were not enough to prevent a furious reaction from several Uruguay supporters on Twitter, including menacing warnings for 22-year-old full-back Dummett, who collided with Suarez towards the end of Liverpool's victory at Anfield.
Dummett was sent off after catching Suarez in what looked an accidental collision, and his red card was later rescinded.
One Twitter user, Federico Gonzalez, posting on @FicoGonzalez13, wrote: "Hi @PaulDummett, from Uruguay we hope someday u come here to have a nice time w/ friends. We have things for you, like a bullet in the head."
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There had been no report of an injury for Suarez as a result of the challenge, but he complained of pains at the start of Uruguay's training camp and was sent for an MRI scan.
"Yesterday, Wednesday 21st of May, Luis Suarez suffered an intense pain in his left knee after an undergoing a normal warm-up," said a statement from the Uruguay Football Association (AUF).
"He had an MRI scan which confirmed a partial lesion of the external meniscus of his left knee.
"On Thursday morning, he underwent an arthroscopic partial resection of his meniscus in the Medica Uruguaya hospital (Montevideo).
"There was no evidence of any further damage to the knee.
"His participation in the World Cup in Brazil has not been ruled out.
"It is worth noting the player received a blunt trauma to his left knee in the final game of the Premier League season against Liverpool on Sunday 11.5.14 which provoked a pain that subsided due to rest at the end of the season."
Uruguay FA president Wilmar Valdez suggested if Suarez's recovery went to plan he could return to training in just over a fortnight.
"We know the surgery was a success and that the injury is not serious. We have to wait and see how he recovers," he told Uruguayan newspaper La Ovacion.
"We had very little time to react and without knowing the extent of the injury, we didn't want to raise the alarm to the public.
"These are injuries that, considering Suarez's fitness and if the recovery is good, will not take long for him to return to play.
"We have to calculate if he will arrive for the first, second or third (group game at the World Cup).
"We know that normally the recovery period, if all goes well, is around 15 days to return to training.
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"We all know what Luis represents to the national team and more so, considering the great form he was in.
"Considering how valuable he is to the national team, it is a big concern for us."
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Published: May 03, 2015 at midnight
Updated: Sep 30, 2017 at 12:05 a.m.
<p>Emily Yatsynovich gets a hug from her teacher Pam Power after becoming the provincial winner of the Nova Scotia Recycles Contest for the Grades 4 to 6 age category. Power is shown holding the A.G. Baillie student’s winning lunch bag design. SUBMITTED PHOTO</p>
<p>Northumberland Regional High School students Hannah Facey, Foroozan Keshavarzi, Ally MacKenzie, Jeni Armin-Pereda and Jill Morrison were the Eastern Region winners of the Grades 10 to 12 film in the Nova Scotia Recycles Contest. SUBMITTED PHOTO</p>
ANTIGONISH – A.G. Baillie student Emily Yatsynovich was the provincial winner in her age category for the Nova Scotia Recycles Contest, hosted by the Resource Recovery Fund Board Nova Scotia.
The Grade 6 student’s lunch bag design won in the Grades 4 to 6 group.
Several other Pictou County students were announced as Eastern Region winners in the contest, at an event held at the Keating Millennium Centre in Antigonish last week. The Eastern region is comprised of three counties – Pictou, Antigonish and Guysborough.
A team from Northumberland Regional High School - Jill Morrison, Ally MacKenzie, Foroozan Keshavarzi, Hannah Facey and Jeni Armin-Pereda -- was the winner in the Grades 10 to 12 film category for their video about recycling textiles. Watch the winning video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP-a3YoYtBE
In the Primary and Grade 1 age group (colouring sheet), Sharon Lumsden’s class at Trenton Elementary was the winner, with Mrs. Manning’s class at St. Joseph Academy taking the runner-up spot.
In the Grades 2 and 3 group (bookmark design), two local students were the runners-up – Olivia Wilson from Frank H. MacDonald Elementary School and Andrew Bond from Pictou Elementary.
Each year, RRFB Nova Scotia hosts the Nova Scotia Recycles Contest. From September to February, Grade Primary to 12 students across the province participate in various activities from colouring contests to short films to promote participation in waste reduction.
Seven regional celebrations took place, giving away more than $55,000 in cash, prizes and scholarships for students and schools.
“Nova Scotia is a world leader in diverting waste from landfills. A big part of that success is due to our youth who take an interest in recycling, composting and preserving our environment,” says Jeff MacCallum, CEO of RRFB Nova Scotia.
“It is great to experience their enthusiasm; it reminds me why waste management is so very important to our province and future generations.”
The RRFB’s goal is to work with Nova Scotians to improve the environment, economy and quality of life by reducing, reusing, recycling and recovering resources.
The Grade 6 student’s lunch bag design won in the Grades 4 to 6 group.
Several other Pictou County students were announced as Eastern Region winners in the contest, at an event held at the Keating Millennium Centre in Antigonish last week. The Eastern region is comprised of three counties – Pictou, Antigonish and Guysborough.
A team from Northumberland Regional High School - Jill Morrison, Ally MacKenzie, Foroozan Keshavarzi, Hannah Facey and Jeni Armin-Pereda -- was the winner in the Grades 10 to 12 film category for their video about recycling textiles. Watch the winning video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP-a3YoYtBE
In the Primary and Grade 1 age group (colouring sheet), Sharon Lumsden’s class at Trenton Elementary was the winner, with Mrs. Manning’s class at St. Joseph Academy taking the runner-up spot.
In the Grades 2 and 3 group (bookmark design), two local students were the runners-up – Olivia Wilson from Frank H. MacDonald Elementary School and Andrew Bond from Pictou Elementary.
Each year, RRFB Nova Scotia hosts the Nova Scotia Recycles Contest. From September to February, Grade Primary to 12 students across the province participate in various activities from colouring contests to short films to promote participation in waste reduction.
Seven regional celebrations took place, giving away more than $55,000 in cash, prizes and scholarships for students and schools.
“Nova Scotia is a world leader in diverting waste from landfills. A big part of that success is due to our youth who take an interest in recycling, composting and preserving our environment,” says Jeff MacCallum, CEO of RRFB Nova Scotia.
“It is great to experience their enthusiasm; it reminds me why waste management is so very important to our province and future generations.”
The RRFB’s goal is to work with Nova Scotians to improve the environment, economy and quality of life by reducing, reusing, recycling and recovering resources. | {
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From The Kingdom to The Killing
BACKGROUND.
TV series like "The Killing" and "Borgen" leave Danish streets deserted, they are regularly nominated for Emmys and they have convinced the British that it's cool to be Danish. A radical change of course in the drama department at the national broadcaster DR, including cross-pollination with the movies, laid the foundation for the current golden age of Danish TV drama.
It was an experiment in itself when the Danish film director Rumle Hammerich became head of drama at DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, in 1994: tapping a film director to head TV production.
"Borgen is about someone who gains political power but has to cede power at home. The story of women juggling work and family is familiar across the Western world." Ingolf Gabold, DR
"Borgen is about someone who gains political power but has to cede power at home. The story of women juggling work and family is familiar across the Western world." Ingolf Gabold, DR
Something had to be done. Danish TV drama was stuck in a rut of stilted, high-culture teleplays. Hammerich's answer to the stagnation was "Operation Morning Breeze" – a plan to modernise Danish TV drama. Taking inspiration from the US, TV drama would now be taken seriously precisely as TV drama, not filmed theatre.
But, is it even possible to structure your way to national artistic and popular success in the area of TV drama?
It sure looks like it. Titles like "The Kingdom", "Taxi", "Unit One", "The Eagle", "Better Times", "The Killing" and "Borgen" have left Danish streets deserted on Sunday nights at 8. The current record was set by the tenth episode of "Better Times" (Danish title "Krøniken"). It was viewed by 2.7 million people, almost half of the population.
Meanwhile, these series have also put Denmark on the world map. Since 2002, DR's productions have won several Emmy Awards and two Prix Italia for best drama series. "Borgen" and "The Killing" have both won a BAFTA, and even Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, has been spotted wearing a knitted Sarah Lund sweater.
Double stories
The main element in Hammerich’s original plan – which was later developed by Ingolf Gabold, until recently the undisputed leader of DR Drama – was combining entertaining, American-style storytelling with Scandinavian depth.
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Viewers are happy to take their vitamins when they are wrapped in thrills, says Gabold who was head of drama at DR from 1999 to April 2012. He dubs the concept "the double story." That is, a drama series should always have two layers. The first layer is a "good story," consisting of a well-crafted plot, characters we can identify with, a fascinating arena, good acting, etc. Then comes another story, which is socio-ethical or socio-psychological in nature.
"As a public service station, we demand 'added value,'" Gabold says. He points to "The Killing II" as his proudest achievement: a thrilling crime plot involving a series of murders and political intrigue, over which lies a societal debate about democracy, anti-terror laws and Denmark's participation in the war in Afghanistan.
"You all of a sudden realise that the overarching story isn't just about whodunit but also about a much more political question: How much of our democracy are we willing to sacrifice, by way of anti-terror legislation and surveillance, in order to preserve it?"
Gabold considers this extra dimension to be the main reason for the international success of DR's drama series. "It's what sets us apart from a commercial TV station's demand for drama. Internationally, I think we're really on to something with this double storytelling. The immediate story or plot isn't enough. The overlying story, which goes across national borders, is what makes it. "Borgen", for example, is about someone who gains political power but has to cede power at home. The story of women juggling work and family is familiar across the Western world. The fascination is in the local – the prime minister rides a bicycle, Danish is spoken – but the identification is in the global."
Lack of money led to Dogme 95
"Operation Morning Breeze" is named after Dr. Moesgaard's campaign to promote cooperation in the department of neurosurgery in Lars von Trier's breakthrough mini-series "The Kingdom". No coincidence, obviously. The series was a huge, unexpected hit in 1994 and kicked off the current golden age of Danish drama series. Back then, TV series were largely frowned upon by the Danish film industry. But Zentropa was in a tight spot financially and as they waited for the money to make "Breaking the Waves", von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen came up with the idea of producing a TV series with DR. Simply to get a salary. Their plan was to produce the series quickly and on the cheap.
"'The Kingdom' was a production that was just supposed to make us a little money. But as it turns out, being broke makes you creative," Aalbæk says. "Because we didn't have time to do anything else but come up with some cheap production methods, the series got a pretty fresh approach. The lights were fluorescent tubes screwed into the ceiling by the local carpenter and we used a handheld camera so we could shoot faster. By not bothering with aesthetics, 'The Kingdom' is a precursor to Dogme95."
To his mind, "The Kingdom" liberated von Trier artistically, especially as a director of actors.
"Lars' first films were very storyboarded. He wasn't particularly interested in the actors. He saw them as game pieces that had to move exactly as he had planned months before. "The Kingdom" opened his eyes to directing actors, and I'll have you know, "Breaking the Waves" was a lot better for it."
Crossover
As Aalbæk sees it, "The Kingdom" was also important in raising the status of TV series in the Danish film industry, which soon afterwards started working very closely with the TV industry.
"At the time, the Danish film industry was too hoity-toity to do TV series. But when Lars von Trier could do it successfully, suddenly it was okay. I like to think that 'The Kingdom' paved the way for the later successful union of the TV and film industries in Denmark."
An important element of the DR's modernisation strategy in the '90s was to produce TV drama in a cinematic style, with dynamic visuals and storytelling. DR started recruiting people from the film industry and inviting film directors, cinematographers, editors, etc., into the TV studio. Directors like Anders Refn, Ole Christian Madsen, Annette K. Olesen, Lone Scherfig, Ole Bornedal, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Henrik Ruben Genz, Per Fly, Katrine Windfeld and Niels Arden Oplev all accepted the invitation and have worked in TV ever since, alongside their film careers.
"It's a pretty unique thing to have film directors and DPs working in both media with the greatest of ease," Aalbæk says. As he sees it, the two industries can considerably enrich each other. For instance, doing episodes of a TV series can give young directors valuable experience.
"Once a director has done 10 episodes of 'Borgen', I can assure you he is a lot more confident in the driver's seat when he goes out and makes a feature," Aalbæk says.
The same goes for a lot of Danish actors. Anders W. Berthelsen, Trine Dyrholm, Sofie Gråbøl, Mads Mikkelsen and Peter Gantzler, among the most notable actors in the Dogme films, all got their big breakthrough on TV. Veteran directors, too, benefit from working in TV, because they get to try out new forms and partnerships. Case in point: Lone Scherfig directed Anders W. Berthelsen and Peter Gantzler in the TV series "Taxi" and continued her collaboration with them in her Silver Bear-winning Dogme film "Italian for Beginners".
This story originally appeared in the May issue of the Danish Film Institute's festival magazine, FILM#75.
"Let's Get Lost" Photo: Anders Askegaard. Sidse Babett Knudsen, who first broke through in the pre-Dogme film "Let's Get Lost" in 1997, became a household name when she starred in Susanne Bier's romantic comedy "The One and Only" in 1999. Like most women today, Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg in "Borgen" has to juggle work and family. Starting out idealistic, with a nice husband and adorable kids, she eventually has to face the fact that power doesn't come cheap. "Borgen" has been Knudsen's big comeback. Season three airs in 2013.
Sofie Gråbøl as Sarah Lund in The Killing Photo: Tine Harden. Who Killed Nanna Birk Larsen? Sarah Lund was the woman for the job, leading the investigation in the series that left Danish streets deserted over 20 Sundays and convinced the British that it's cool to be Danish. Lund was back in season two to solve a series of murders of war veterans. Season three, airing this fall, revolves around the financial crisis and the apparently random killing of a sailor. "The Killing I" won a BAFTA in 2011 and season two is nominated this year, as is "Borgen". Concept director is Kristoffer Nyholm.Birgitte Hjort Sørensen in "Borgen" Photo: Mike Kollöffel, DR. "Borgen" has produced several new stars. Birgitte Hjort Sørensen got her breakthrough playing the idealistic reporter Katrine Fønsmark. Now Hjort Sørensen is playing the title role in Bille August's "Marie Krøyer". "Borgen" is sold to five continents and among the major TV channels are British BBC and French-German ARTE. The series received good reviews in the UK and won a BAFTA for Best International TV series, competing against "The Killing II". "Borgen"'s concept director is Søren Kragh-Jacobsen.
Mads Mikkelsen in "Unit One" Photo: Ulla Voigt.The nation first fell in love with Mads Mikkelsen in the Emmy awarded crime series "Unit One" (2000-03) where he plays the hard-boiled detective Allan Fischer, member of an elite mobile task force that helps local police solve hard to-crack cases. Niels Arden Oplev is the series' concept director.
Kim Bodnia and Sofia Helin in "The Bridge" Photo: Nimbus Film. "Saturday nights are taken care of, again," a Huffington Post critic delights. The Bridge, a murky Scandinavian noir, recently premiered on BBC4 which had unexpected hits with "The Killing" and "Borgen". "The Bridge" follows a maverick Swedish homicide detective (Sofia Helin) and a good-natured Dane (Kim Bodnia) teaming up after a female body is found in the middle of the Oresund Bridge, exactly on the border between Denmark and Sweden. "The Bridge" is produced by Filmlance and Nimbus Film for SVT, DR, ZDF, NRK and Nelonen Charlotte. Sieling is concept director. | {
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DENVER -- More than five years after his death, Boulder photographer William Corey's wish to build a cultural bridge between the United States and Japan is coming true in a way he probably never imagined.
A dozen of Corey's large-format prints of Japanese gardens will officially open to the public inside Denver International Airport on Saturday. The exhibit is designed to celebrate the June 10 launch of United Airlines' long-awaited Denver-to-Tokyo route aboard Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, a debut that was delayed after the Federal Aviation Administration grounded the new lightweight carbon composite aircraft following onboard battery fires.
With the Dreamliner taking to the skies last week for the first time since January, workers on Thursday and Friday mounted Corey's photographs -- images of ancient Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines framed by resplendent autumn leaves and elegantly curved footbridges -- around the north security screening checkpoint and international arrivals door. They will remain there through the end of the year.
"This is our first direct flight to Asia so it's definitely a milestone for the airport," DIA spokeswoman Laura Coale said. "We now have a gateway to Asia."
The airport estimates that nearly 2 million people will pass through the north screening area from now until the end of the year.
"In a day, more people will see these than in any gallery," said Matt Chasansky, director of the Arts and Culture Program at DIA.
And, he said, there probably isn't a better place in which to hang photographs that capture an entirely different mood and tone from what is typically found in an airport.
"It gets to the psyche of what people need when they're standing in these TSA lines," he said, motioning to a seemingly endless line of Memorial Day weekend travelers at the security checkpoint Friday. "These are carefully constructed compositions. William was a technician in the way he was able to master the camera."
Erin Mulrooney, DIA's temporary exhibit curator and coordinator, said she had already been approached by a number of travelers and airport employees asking about Corey's works, which come in sizes 4 feet by 5 feet and 8 feet by 3 feet. She said the photos lend a certain calm to a space typically filled with nervous and irascible fliers.
Corey, who succumbed to cancer at 58 in April 2008, fell in love with photographing Japanese gardens in the 1970s -- around the time he moved from New Jersey to Boulder. For 30 years, he used a bulky, accordion-style Korona Panoramic View camera -- built a century ago from brass, leather and wood and equipped with a Kodak 18-inch wide-field copy lens and 8-by-20-inch film -- to capture the quiet beauty of Japanese gardens, mostly in and around Kyoto.
William Corey
Taking days to familiarize himself with every shadow and angle of a garden and using a single exposure that might last for 30 minutes or more, Corey used patience and a Zen-like focus to get his image. He became so adept at capturing the delicate interplay of color and light in the finely tended gardens that he was the only western photographer invited to photograph the gardens of the Japanese emperor.
His wife of 18 years, Reimi Adachi, who Corey met on a bus in Kyoto in 1990, said she contacted the Consulate-General of Japan in Denver after hearing about United's plans for a direct flight from DIA to Tokyo. That led to calls to the Denver mayor's office and the airport.
"I'm very honored to have this opportunity," said Adachi, who is lending the airport her husband's photographs. "This flight is very important to Colorado. I hope these photographs will energize people to be more curious about Japan."
She was asked how she imagines her late husband would feel were he here to see his beloved photographs on display in such a prominent venue and as part of such a binational event.
"He would be so happy because it's one step closer to realizing his dream of becoming a bridge between the United States and Japan," Adachi said.
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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg gets a bitter taste of his own medicine
Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old CEO of Facebook, took on a Warholian idea—that anybody could be famous—and created a Website that allows users to be stars of their own lives. Never again would the line between what is public and what is private be clearly understood. By allowing private citizens to reinvent themselves as public figures, Facebook signaled the end of privacy.
And now, the architect of the most powerful social media tool of his generation can’t handle his own spotlight. Turns out, public scrutiny is not so fun.
Now that Zuckerberg is the subject of a big Hollywood movie, “The Social Network,” – which aptly touts the tagline “You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies”—he is unhappy with the way his image has been cast. Over the weekend, reports at TheWrap.com depicted the young CEO on the verge of a meltdown; and an article in The New York Times detailed fraught negotiations between Facebook and the filmmakers.
“I started Facebook to improve the world, and make it a more transparent place,” Zuckerberg told TheWrap.com’s Sharon Waxman last month at a media conference in Sun Valley. “This movie portrays me as someone who built Facebook so I could meet girls.”
Imagine that.
Whether Zuckerberg is peeved at the perceived misinterpretation, or if he’s just irked at being subject to interpretation, either way, he isn’t handling it well.
Earlier this summer, at the AllThingsD conference on digital media, Zuckerberg made his usual hoodie-adorned appearance, but seemed tense. Waxman wrote on her blog, Waxword, that Zuckerberg seemed “nervous”; during his presentation, he “stammered” and “sweated” a lot. Not exactly the picture of Facebook’s calculated cool. In real media, Zuckerberg is learning, you can’t “untag” yourself from an unflattering photo.
Zuckerberg is hardly the first anxious Jew. But barely pushing 30, and running the world’s most popular social network site under the fishbowl scrutiny of the larger media, Zuckerberg is contending with massive—and massively unique—pressures to perform. He is the Julius Caesar of the Internet, presiding over an illusory empire of 540 million.
From this vantage point, it appears he doesn’t much like the attention. He doesn’t like being exposed. Privacy, he’s learning, is a rare and precious thing. It’s something the creators of “The Social Network” didn’t grant him. The director David Fincher and the writer Aaron Sorkin—two of Hollywood’s most powerful filmmakers—chose to base their movie on a more lurid account of Zuckerberg’s rise than the official version Zuckerberg would have preferred.
According to TheWrap.com, “Facebook negotiated for months with Sony to get them to rely on an authorized history of the company written by New York Times writer David Kirkpatrick, instead of a more rollicking, sexy account by Ben Mezrich, ‘The Accidental Billionaires.’”
“Behind the scenes,” The New York Times reported, “Mr. Zuckerberg and his colleagues have been locked in a tense standoff with the filmmakers, who portray Facebook as founded on a series of betrayals, then fueled by the unappeasable craving of almost everyone for ‘friends’ — the Facebook term for those who connect on its online pages — that they will never really have.”
According to the Times, Facebook “fretted for months” over how to respond to their PR crisis, deciding, in the end, to simply ignore it. Biding his time before his millions of friends get a glimpse of their wearied leader and his motives, Zuckerberg is railing against the film, trying to discredit it with spiteful comments and hoping upon hope that it doesn’t become a cult classic.
Zuckerberg’s fast rise and flimsy footing is an object lesson in the limits of power. What happens when the world you create is not the world you want to live in? Where good intentions give way to troubling results, and friends are “friends” only so long as you deteriorate enough to interest them.
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Hot, steamy and now downloadable: Aural sex shimmies into the podcast as 'podnography' trend takes off
Daniel King, Chronicle Staff Writer
Published 4:00 am, Thursday, August 11, 2005
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Also known as "podnography," sexcasts are audio clips that anyone can record by using a computer. Chronicle illustration by Matt Petty
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It didn't take long for sex to rear its heavy-breathing head in the nascent world of podcasting. Now, in addition to free audio shows on music, politics and sports available for downloading onto your handy-dandy MP3 players, you can access old-fashioned -- or not so old-fashioned -- sexcasts as well, for repeated aural pleasure.
"Is it surprising? Absolutely not. It's inevitable," says Mike McGuire, a technology analyst at GartnerG2 in San Jose. Anytime a new technology emerges, he says, sex quickly gets in on the action.
Also known as "podnography," sexcasts are audio clips that anyone can record by using a computer. To listen, visit any number of free Web sites, including www.podcastdirectory.com and www.podcastalley.com. You can download the files onto your MP3 player, cell phone or computer, and listen as often as you'd like. Along with shows on music and politics, you can now hear porn reviews, kinky storytelling sessions and interviews with porn writers. Each episode lasts from 2 to 30 minutes and features one or two speakers in sometimes steamy dialogue.
A recent Google search for the phrase "adult podcast" showed 6,850 results. Compare that to the category "rock podcast," which had only 3,890. In one sexcast -- available at www.podcastdirectory.com -- a San Francisco man describes a lurid rendezvous with a "gorgeous" woman he meets on Craigslist. He calls it "The Trist from Craigslist," spelling "tryst" with an "i".
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To begin, he sets the scene. "I went ahead and met her at a coffee shop," he says. His voice is matter-of-fact and sedated. "I could see her -- uh, the little points of her nipples poking through her red T-shirt."
From there, they walk to her place and close the door. "It was a little awkward," he says. "She got us a couple of glasses of wine, and we're sitting there drinking." Then he stands up and plants a kiss. "And she kissed back -- a very, very eager kiss." His lips become dry, and quickly, his voice gains speed: "I started kissing her again ... sliding my tongue in her mouth."
At this point, we'll resort to the old-movie gimmick of crashing waves and setting suns. For the rest, go online.
"It's really a blast," says Susie Bright, another popular sexcaster and well-known author from Santa Cruz. "I get to say all the things I could never say on FCC-controlled radio."
Another big appeal of sexcasts, she says, is voyeurism, which sometimes is juicier than actual physical connection: "Some people like to eavesdrop, as if you're in a motel room and somebody's screwing in the next room."
Anonymity, too, is a big factor in sexcasts' popularity. Listeners' identities are hidden from podcasters. In fact, that's the major difference between sexcasts and pay-per-minute phone sex. With sexcasts, you don't have to sit up nights worrying that the phone-sex operator has caller ID and will sell your number to marketers or call you the following day and speak to your parents or significant other.
"The Internet," Bright says, "has become the great anonymous leveler."
At the same time, she says, sexcasters have built a well-connected community, and everyone's invited.
Another top sexcaster is Porno Jim Graham, who records from his apartment in New York City. Graham, 42, interviews porn makers and many of his close female friends, all to "encourage the industry to make better pornography," he says.
"It's good to have a following," says Gray Dancer, a popular sexcaster in Madison, Wis., who prefers not to disclose his given name. Gray Dancer, 36, serves up weekly bondage tips on his podcast, "Rope Weekly," available at www.graydancer.com. Since February, he says, his podcast has attracted more than 500 regular listeners.
On many episodes, he discusses roping techniques, including useful knots for tying your partner's legs, torso, butt and face. He also describes the "performance art" of Japanese shibari, a "decorative" practice centuries old that derives from hojojutsu, which originally was used for torture and humiliation in Japan. Gray Dancer offers plenty of safety tips, including methods for avoiding hurt feelings and nerve compression injury.
"Communication," he says on one podcast, is the path to compassion. But like many sexcasters, he makes no money doing it. "It's a labor of love."
In June, when Apple Computer Inc. launched its newest version of iTunes - - which includes an online music store -- Gray Dancer's podcasts were among those listed. "I was very concerned," he says, "because ('Rope Weekly') was not listed as 'explicit.' ... You know, it's frank discussion."
As he says, iTunes requires all podcasters to mark erotic content as "explicit." But, you might ask, what happens if a podcaster targets young ears? Perhaps a podcaster will name an episode "Harry PotterDoes Dallas." The kids would flock.
If a podcast "sounds explicit" but isn't labeled that way, Apple's staff will quickly mark it "explicit," said spokeswoman Natalie Kerris.
The new medium apparently has public support. After all, Violet Blue -- a top sexcaster -- has a hugely popular podcast that last month became iTunes' third-most downloaded podcast, well above ESPN's, the New York Times' and ex-MTV personality Adam Curry's.
The Bay Area's Violet Blue, according to Gray Dancer, is "the goddess of sex podcasting." On each installment, she reviews porn, laughs it up with guests in the sex-ed community, reads in a cool, salacious voice from erotic novels and sometimes tries "to be as indecent as possible," she says.
In one podcast from Duboce Park in San Francisco, she reads from an essay about her first on-set porn experience. Dogs, buses and birds can be heard in the background.
To hear excerpts from these shows, download
Daniel King
's podcast at sfgate.com/blogs/podcasts. Due to its sexual nature, this podcast may not be suitable for children. | {
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Oxford police to crack down on cyclists
OXFORD — The Oxford Police Department is going to enforce those traffic laws affecting cyclists, motorcyclists and other means of alternative transportation.
Assistant Police Chief Kevin Stark tells the Oxford Eagle that cyclists are expected to follow the same rules of the road as any other vehicle, even though the vehicle doesn’t have four wheels.
“We’re going to have to take a proactive stance on rules and regulations involving cyclists,” Stark said. “We have been getting an increased amount of complaints from walkers and drivers about bicycles.”
Complaints include cyclists running through red lights, passing cars on the right in an intersection and not stopping at stop signs.
“The rules of the road apply to bicycles as well as motor vehicles,” Stark said. “We want to make sure the road is safe for everyone.”
Cyclists can get traffic violations for just about anything a motor vehicle can and some of these tickets come with hefty fines.
Mississippi state law requires all drivers, bicycles, motorcycles and automobiles to follow the same laws and Stark said Oxford police will just be enforcing the laws that are, and have been, on the books.
“But we don’t want to just go out there and write a bunch of tickets without educating people first,” he said. “That’s out first goal — just to inform and educate the public so everyone is safer on the roads.” | {
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The midfielder picked out the Argentine's strength, Ferna's stamina and El Mago's left foot to generate the perfect player and kick off CityTV's latest series.
There was space for his old Borussia Dortmund colleagues too, with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s speed, Marco Reus’ right foot, Sven Bender’s stamina and Adrian Ramos’ heading ability hypothetically merged to create what would be a frightening prospect for any opponent.
Ilkay also opted for fellow Premier League midfielder and international teammate Mesut Ozil’s vision, as we found out the two hail from the same town.
He had kind words for his current teammates, describing Silva as world class and explaining – from personal experience – just how hard it is to get the ball off strongman Aguero. | {
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If you want an actual book from which you can quote in a paper you could also read "WHITEOUT The C.I.A, Drugs and the Press" by Alexander Cockburn.
There are many many books out there regarding the C.I.A and it's involvement in drug trafficking which can be cited and do get cited in academic papers.
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These speakers require 120v standard power for each speaker. They each have 2 build in power amps so you do not need an external power amp. If you are looking to use an external power amp you should get passive speakers (without built in amplifiers).
If I'm feeding the unbalanced 1/4" inputs, do they want -10db consumer level, or +4db pro level signals? That is, can I simply run a cord from a 3.5 stereo output on a computer, laptop, or whatever, to two 1/4" TS plugs and get good level, or should I use a level convertor box or DI to bump up the signal and or convert to XLR balanced signal?
I recently bought a pair of Monoprice 8 inch studio monitors and I consider myself an Audiophile person but I am not a sound engineer. I use my studio monitors for casual listening. I have a total of 3 pairs of studio monitors and 2 subwoofers. (2 pairs of studio monitors and 2 subwoofers connected at a time, kinda crazy though). 8-inch woofers should give you enough bass but I really need a subwoofer in my music system. I am using a high-quality (with balanced and unbalanced outputs) USB desktop headphone amplifier with DAC which is connected to the Monoprice equalizer with XLRs, then XLRs to the Monoprice studio monitors. The source makes a lot of difference. I use my computer and my digital library has only FLAC and DSD audio files. The result is very satisfactory. Unbalanced RCA connection will too sound good and loud because of the built-in amplifiers in the studio monitors, but it's almost never a good idea to use the computer's built-in sound card directly (based on my experiences and my ears). I fix computers for living. Usually, the built-in sound chip on the motherboard has low-quality DAC and amp chips because of the cost and will result in hearing some unwanted noise if you use the 3.5mm headphone connection. I recommend using a USB sound card (even a cheap one). Either way, the output level will be loud enough to enjoy rich and clear sound for casual listening. True balanced headphone amplifier will definitely give you a better clarity and more control on sound levels. IMO.
Though I run my pair via a mixer with balanced outputs and connections you can connect consumer gear directly via 1/4" TS connectors, a.k.a. "instrument" connections on one end, and either phono RCA pair or your typical 3.5mm stereo connection from phone on the other. The gain control on the back allows considerable range so you will almost certainly find with your source device turned up, that you will get adequate levels provided the gain controls are set relatively near their maximums.
I did that very thing- connected two 1/4” TS plugs to a 3.5 and ran them on my 2010 MacBook Pro. Plenty of “level”. They sounded great to me. That being said, I just received an up sampling digital to analogue converter as a gift, and am really impressed with the enhanced sound . I am not a pro audio person, but I have been in the performing arts for over 30 years.
If you want these babies to perform the way they're meant to use a reputable interface. I might have misunderstood the question slightly but i can confirm the quality of these in comparison to JBL's are on par if not superior. I run these through a Steinberg ur22 interface, the sound quality is Magnificent.
It will work with a consumer level signal from my desktop but I get a buzz unless I use a cheater plug to remove the speaker grounds. Not sure if this is an issue with a laptop on battery but balanced inputs eliminate it all together so I'd say that's the ideal way to connect them whenever possible.
BEST ANSWER:These will not work directly with USB. You will need a USB audio interface in order to use you laptop with this or you can use the right audio cables to use the headphone jack on your laptop. I recommend a USB interface, as it can be more useful and give better control of these monitors. Keep in mind that that the only cables that ship with these monitors are power cables, so you will need to purchase either 1/4 inch or XLR to hook them up, depending on what interface you choose.
BEST ANSWER:These will not work directly with USB. You will need a USB audio interface in order to use you laptop with this or you can use the right audio cables to use the headphone jack on your laptop. I recommend a USB interface, as it can be more useful and give better control of these monitors. Keep in mind that that the only cables that ship with these monitors are power cables, so you will need to purchase either 1/4 inch or XLR to hook them up, depending on what interface you choose.
It has TRS (1/4 inch) and XLR jacks for input, so if your computer already has a stereo output (typically 1/8 inch/3.5mm), then all you need is the proper cable or combination of cable and audio adapter. Monoprice also has these.
I am looking for speakers through which I can play my electronic drums and keyboard ("live" or "in real-time"). I have tried this previously through a home theater receiver (connected to passive speakers), but the receiver/amp had too much latency to play through it in "real-time" (it really throws off your rhythm). Has anyone tried playing an electronic musical instrument through these speakers in "real-time"? When doing this, is there noticeable latency? Thank you in advance.
BEST ANSWER:The latency was probably coming from the DSP in the receiver. These Studio Monitors do not have any DSP functions so there is no latency at all. These will be an excellent choice for playing digital drums live.
BEST ANSWER:The latency was probably coming from the DSP in the receiver. These Studio Monitors do not have any DSP functions so there is no latency at all. These will be an excellent choice for playing digital drums live.
Hi, Matthew. I don't know what other components you have in your setup. The latency that you had experienced would not have been caused by an amp or receiver- or the speakers. These are studio monitor speakers and are not suitable for sound reinforcement - which is what you need to play live. Yes, these speakers go loud and sound good, but you should be considering another type of powered speaker system like the Monoprice Stage Right Series. These are much more suitable for live sound. Hope this answers you query. Henry K
I have them hooked up to a synth keyboard, and I don't notice any kind of input lag/latency whatsoever. I don't have any experience with an electronic drumset yet, but I've been considering adding that next. Honestly, I can't imagine it would be any different than my experience with my keyboard. They work perfectly, and sound great (and I'm somewhat picky...). Hope that helps.
RobTek: I hear that these monitors have a Popping sound when you turn them off. have you guys addressed this issue as to why the sound ?
A shopper
on Oct 16, 2018
BEST ANSWER:They do indeed thump/pop a bit when turned off. The 12” sub thumps when turned on, fyi. To me, this is normal behavior, especially for a budget piece of gear. It’s not that loud, no big deal imo, but there are lots of more refined designs out there with soft on and off features, but at the price, these are great monitors, and I’m happy to live with a little thump, or just not turn them off. They do get quite warm, so I don’t let them sit idle. Enjoy!
BEST ANSWER:They do indeed thump/pop a bit when turned off. The 12” sub thumps when turned on, fyi. To me, this is normal behavior, especially for a budget piece of gear. It’s not that loud, no big deal imo, but there are lots of more refined designs out there with soft on and off features, but at the price, these are great monitors, and I’m happy to live with a little thump, or just not turn them off. They do get quite warm, so I don’t let them sit idle. Enjoy!
Yes they pop when turning off even when speaker is turned down via volume knob however I have (2) pairs of these monitors ( daily use) different sizes for a year now & they still work & sound great . Hope this helps .
BEST ANSWER:Yes and no... I am running these with a Sunfire TrueSub. I have the RCA's going from the unit, to the inputs on the sub, then from the sub to the speaker's. As long as your sub has low level inputs, you should be good. And the sound is incredible alone, and even better with the sub!
BEST ANSWER:Yes and no... I am running these with a Sunfire TrueSub. I have the RCA's going from the unit, to the inputs on the sub, then from the sub to the speaker's. As long as your sub has low level inputs, you should be good. And the sound is incredible alone, and even better with the sub!
BEST ANSWER:You will need an adapter cord that has a stereo 1/8' plug on one end, and splits into 2 cords with either an XLR male plug, or a 1/4" TRS phone plug on this end. You will control the volume with your iPod. These are very nice speakers and i use them to mix songs in my recording studio
BEST ANSWER:You will need an adapter cord that has a stereo 1/8' plug on one end, and splits into 2 cords with either an XLR male plug, or a 1/4" TRS phone plug on this end. You will control the volume with your iPod. These are very nice speakers and i use them to mix songs in my recording studio
BEST ANSWER:If you use both consider that the active device playing music is also trying to deliver signal voltage INTO the inactive music source and may suffer in terms of signal voltage (i.e. low volume) and/or signal quality (i.e. bass and treble imbalance). There are auto-sensing switchers available that keep one source on until the alternate source becomes active and then switches over to that source - or just get an inexpensive stereo preamp with the usual Selector, Volume, Bass & Treble controls. Try eBay if you don't want to spend too much money.
BEST ANSWER:If you use both consider that the active device playing music is also trying to deliver signal voltage INTO the inactive music source and may suffer in terms of signal voltage (i.e. low volume) and/or signal quality (i.e. bass and treble imbalance). There are auto-sensing switchers available that keep one source on until the alternate source becomes active and then switches over to that source - or just get an inexpensive stereo preamp with the usual Selector, Volume, Bass & Treble controls. Try eBay if you don't want to spend too much money.
BEST ANSWER:Unless you have a mount that can clamp or strap on to the monitor no I wouldn't suggest putting any holes in the cabinet as these monitors pound and you may compromise the strength / integrity of the cabinet
BEST ANSWER:Unless you have a mount that can clamp or strap on to the monitor no I wouldn't suggest putting any holes in the cabinet as these monitors pound and you may compromise the strength / integrity of the cabinet
Does anyone have experience with these stands and the Monoprice 8" studio monitors? The weight load seems correct, but the base dimensions seems a bit small. I would be using these stands next to my control desk. Presumably, I could attach something to extend the base, if needed, say a piece of iron or ceramic.
Can I use these without having a crossover to a sub? in other words running them full range, no cut off(without risk of high / extreme excursion and possibly damaging the speaker), OR - Is it recommened to set a crossover? - Also what's this LOUD POPPING NOISE people are talking about(when shutting the speakers off), would lowering the volume control on an separate control prevent this from happening?
Video of unboxing and first impressions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz2t5QBITig
First off, these were much larger than I was expecting... but that's my own fault.
PROS
Solid construction with high-quality hardware and switchesClean amplifier with no discernible distortion at higher volumesOption for balanced XLR OR unbalanced TRS inputPower light isn't blinding and the badge is subtle. Very nice.
NEGATIVEBox was beat to hell during shipping. The speakers survived but... seriously?I haven't broken them in fully yet, but initially the tweeter is a bit harsh and a bit hotter than it should be. Time will tell on that.Included foot pads aren't gonna win any awards, but most folks will use stands or mounts anyway.
All in all, if you're in the market for a good first set of monitors that won't color your sound too much I think if you can snag these on sale you'll be very happy. I moved up to these from my first set, which were small Alesis Elevate 3's so a hell of an upgrade! But Monoprice, please have a talk with your couriers *cough*FEDEX*cough* because my last several shipments have been utterly beaten to hell, whereas boxes from other vendors arrive fine. For some reason they're beating your boxes to hell...
Hello to all,First before you buy, go watch the ONLY in-depth review of these monitors on my YouTube channel here:
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Subscribes, hit the bell, and ask me questions. These monitors are great for the price. You will not find, and i repeat, you will not find any 8inch monitors that sound good and budget friendly as these. They are very versatile. you can use them as studio monitors for mixing and mastering, you can use them in your living room, gaming room and many more. they have a very balance sound. they are not overly bassy, mid-range are punchy, and you have control of the top end frequencies with a knob in the back. checkout my review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUZG9uRQVIo&t=570s
I recommend these speakers to anyone who are just starting in music production (beginner to mid-level), to anyone with a home studio, to anyone on a budget, anyone looking for great speakers for office, bedroom. If you are an audiophile with critical listening, these are not for you.... enough talking, just go check my review on them now. Thanks: | {
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AMD reveals potent parallel processing breakthrough
AMD has released details on its implementation of The Next Big Thing in processor evolution, and in the process has unleashed the TNBT of acronyms: the AMD APU (CPU+GPU) HSA hUMA.
Before your eyes glaze over and you click away from this page, know that if this scheme is widely adopted, it could be of great benefit to both processor performance and developer convenience – and to you.
Simply put, what AMD's heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access (hUMA) does is allow central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) – which AMD places on a single die in their accelerated processing units (APUs) – to seamlessly share the same memory in a heterogeneous system architecture (HSA). And that's a very big deal, indeed.
Why? Simple. CPUs are quite clever, speedy, and versatile when performing complex tasks with myriad branches, but are less well-suited for the massively parallel tasks at which GPUs excel. Unfortunately, they can't currently share the same data in memory.
In today's CPU-GPU computing schemes, when a CPU senses that a process upon which it is working might benefit from a GPU's muscle, it has to copy the relevant data from its own reservoir of memory into the GPU's – and when the GPU is finished with its tasks, the results need to be copied back into the CPU's memory stash before the CPU can complete its work.
Needless to say, that back-and-forthing can consume a wasteful amount of clock cycles – and that's the limitation that AMD's upcoming Kaveri APU, scheduled to appear in the second half of this year, will overcome.
With hUMA, CPU and GPU memory is united in one cache-coherent space (click to enlarge)
The secret sauce that Kaveri will bring to the computing party is hUMA, a scheme in which both CPU and GPU can share the same memory stash and the data within it, saving all those nasty copying cycles. hUMA is cache-coherent, as well – both CPU and GPU have identical pictures of what's what in both physical memory and cache, so if the CPU changes something, the GPU knows it's been changed.
Importantly, hUMA's shared memory pool extends to virtual memory, as well, which resides far away – relatively speaking – on a system's hard drive or SSD. The GPU does need to ask the CPU to tell the system's operating system to fetch the required data from virtual memory, but at least it can get what it wants, when it wants.
In a hUMA system, the GPU can access the entire memory space, virtual memory included (click to enlarge)
At this point, you might well be asking, "All well and good, but what's in it for me?" Glad you asked.
From a user's point of view, hUMA will make CPU-GPU mashups – in AMD parlance, APUs – more efficient and snappier. Better efficiency should improve battery life and make hUMA-compliant processors more amenable to tablets and handsets. Snappier performance means, well, snappier performance.
From a developer's point of view, hUMA should make it significantly easier to create apps that can exploit the individual powers of CPUs and GPUs – and, for that matter, other specialized cores such as video accelerators and DSPs, since there's no compelling reason that they should be forever locked out of hUMA's heterogeneous system architecture party.
Developers shouldn't have much trouble – if any – exploiting hUMA, since AMD says it will be compatible with "mainstream programming languages," meaning Python, C++, and Java, "with no need for special APIs."
Also, it's important to note that although AMD was the company to make the hUMA announcement and will be the first to release a hUMA-compatible chip with Kaveri, the specification will be published by the HSA Foundation, of which AMD is merely one of many members along with fellow cofounders ARM, Imagination Technologies, Samsung, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, and MediaTek. Should some – all? – of these HSA Foundation members adopt the shared-memory architecture, hUMA goodness could spread far and wide.
In fact, hUMAfication already appears to be on the way – and not necessarily where you might have first expected. AMD is supplying a custom processor for Sony's upcoming PlayStation 4, and in an interview this week with Gamasutra, PS4 chief architect Mark Cerny said that the console would have a "supercharged PC achitecture," and that "a lot of that comes from the use of the single unified pool of high-speed memory" available to both the CPU and GPU. | {
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Miami Dolphins CEO Mike Dee hinted Thursday the franchise might consider pursuing a new stadium in Palm Beach County after failing to get tax-dollar support for renovations to Sun Life Stadium.
At a brief meeting with reporters, Dee was asked directly if the team would consider moving to Palm Beach County, if a stadium was built for them there.
“We’re open minded to all long-term solutions,” Dee responded.
He later said: “You can’t close the door on anything. I wouldn’t say it’s a priority to evaluate that and march down that road at this time, by any means, but the simple fact is we have to address a long-term issue with the venue. All ideas – good, bad, indifferent – should be considered.”
Even after last week’s defeat in Tallahassee, the team intends to improve its stadium situation, either by making improvements to the current facility, or as Dee acknowledged Thursday, moving into a new venue.
Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, who owns a home in Palm Beach, pledged to keep the team in town, even if his bid for state and county funding for renovations failed. It is unclear if that pledge meant just Miami-Dade, or anywhere in the tri-county area.
“What we said the other day was that the future of this venue is certainly uncertain,” Dee said. “At this point, there’s no Plan B that includes another venue. But down the road, who knows?”
In the short term, however, the Dolphins appear stuck with Sun Life Stadium, where they drew their smallest home attendance in more than two decades in 2012.
Those empty seats – along with tens of millions of dollars in bonuses paid to recently signed free agents – has the franchise working at a loss. The Dolphins told Miami-Dade County Commissioners they expect to lose $41 million this year.
However, Dee said that – unlike the Marlins, who infamously gutted their payroll after just one season at their new ballpark – the team will not cut corners when it comes to the on-field product.
“The outcome of the stadium will have no impact on the way we address the needs of the football team,” Dee said. “Absolutely none.”
I agree with Rich. Having a consistent contender is the key. We have been consistent in just being mediocre at best. The other key is a consistency in coaching. Hopefully we have found that in Philbin.
With all the player/coaching changes we have made over the past 10 plus years, the best we ever got was a bandaid here and there. Are we still gonna miss from time to time on players? Absolutely... Even the best teams and coaches do. But, I do believe that the system on both sides of the ball has to be believed in. All Ireland can do is try to put the right type players on the team that fit.
It's always going to be a chess match when it comes to money. Put a Winner on the field and things start to fix themselves.
I wouldn't blame Ross for moving the team if he's able to get funding for a new stadium elsewhere (still in the Miami metro area). To be honest, I wasn't a big fan of renovations in the first place. You fix the place up, spend $400M, and then less than ten years later you're building something else to keep up.What Rich said makes a lot of sense. Win games, get fans into the seats, prove you can make money, and then ask for public funds to build a new stadium.
Actually moving to the Boca area wouldn't be a bad idea at all versus moving the team off to California, so IF this is what it takes to build a brand new state of the art stadium, I am personally all for it and getting to stay within the Miami area. Now I wonder how serious an option like this could be.
Dont think Boca would want a stadium. To upity there. Plus every inch of land there has already been zoned. Not sure about the Delray / Boynton area either. There is a ton of new building coming to Delray (the corner of Linton & Federal will look very different soon) & everything out west in Boynton is farmed our being bought up by Bethesda Medical. A few years ago High Ridge Road off of Gateway in Boynton was rumored to be getting a spring training baseball facility so maybe over there. Jupiter in the northern part of the county seems to have alot of empty land. If it is coming to Delray / Boynton area I will know sooner than later as both those cities are printing accounts of mine. Maybe up by the old Palm Beach Mall would be a good spot.Honestly though I see them where they are now for quite awhile. | {
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How to Create an Online Bitcoin Wallet?
Cryptocurrencies are turning out to be the most expensive currencies throughout the world. Out of these varied cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin is the one which has garnered the highest reputation and acceptance worldwide. As the value of Bitcoin is growing day by day, it has made people curious about having a Bitcoin wallet of their own. So, if you are one of the Cryptocurrency ardent who wishes to create an online Bitcoin Wallet, follow the instructions provided below to create your own Bitcoin wallet.
Steps to Create an Online Bitcoin Wallet
Basically, there are two types of Bitcoin wallets – A Software wallet and a Web Wallet. While both wallets have their own advantages and disadvantages, the decision of choosing either of them depends on the user’s requirement for Bitcoin wallet.
To Create a Software Wallet
1.) Go Through The Available Options Thoroughly
The actual Bitcoin wallet created was the software wallet. While there are varied types of software wallets and you have the complete control over the safety of your coins with the software, the biggest concern about the software wallet is its installation and maintenance.
Block Chain, which is a public database of all the transactions taking place on the server is used for almost all servers for record and authentication purposes.
2.) Make Sure to Download the Original One
Bitcoin Core is considered to be original and the best Bitcoin wallet by a lot of people. Since its formation, it has been analyzed and evolved extensively. To download the application, you will need to visit the Bitcoin’s website – https://bitcoin.org/en/. The program works fine on major operating systems such as Mac, PC, and Linux servers. Once you would have installed the software on your device, the Bitcoin client will try to set up a network and start downloading the Bitcoin block chain. However, make sure that you have all the blocks in chain before you start sending or receiving any transactions.
3.) Other Wallets
Apart from the above-mentioned one, there are many other similar wallets that have their own merits and demerits. For example, Hive is only available for Mac and comprises an app store which links to other Bitcoin services. On the other hand, Armory is a wallet which is developed specifically for enhanced security. Therefore, consider your requirements before creating a Bitcoin Wallet.
4.) Go for a Lightweight Wallet
There are certain wallets which use less space of your storage and yet perform at a faster speed as they don’t need to download the entire block chain to function. These wallets use just a fraction of the block chain at a time, resulting in faster performance. Multibit and Electrum are two popular lightweight wallets. However, such wallets are less secure as compared to wallets which need the complete block chain.
To Set Up a Web Wallet
1.) Know about Web Wallets
Web-based wallets are known for storing your private keys online on a server which is managed and controlled by an admin group. As some of these wallets easily connect between your mobile and software wallets, you can access them easily from anywhere. However, the website has complete control of your keys and can gain control of your Bitcoins anytime. So, be aware of the investment risk as many web-based wallets have suffered from security breaches in the past.
2.) Select a Web-Based Wallet
You may find a lot of wallets claiming to provide security for their customers. Some of them are Coinbase, Xapo, and Circle that are active for a while now.
Coinbase functions globally and allows exchange services between the US and Europe.
Xapo is an easy-to-use wallet that offers an extra security method known as the cold-storage
Circle allows only US citizens to connect their bank accounts to deposit money. For users in other countries, Debit and Credit Cards are the options provided.
3.) Going for an Anonymous Wallet
For different reasons, Bitcoin has also attracted anonymous users to its Cryptocurrency world. Some of these types of wallets are less secure and doesn’t have much to offer in terms of insurance. One of the most popular anonymous wallets is Dark Wallet, which operates as a chrome extension. While some of the features of the anonymous wallet are useful such as fast cash out module, however, such types of servers vary in the stability of your coins and this makes them vulnerable to becoming hacked.
To Use a Hardware Wallet
1.) Know About Hardware Wallet
If you wish to have a more security and protection for your finances, you can go for a hardware wallet. A hardware wallet is a physical device which stores private keys electronically and carries out payments. One can easily carry out these wallets and doesn’t need to rely on storing funds in a third-party’s storage. Moreover, these wallets are safe against viruses and Trojans which infect software wallet.
2.) Buy a Hardware Wallet
There are numerous hardware wallets that vary according to price and quality. Some of the popular premier hardware wallets are listed below.
Pi Wallet is known for using cold storage but does not offer wireless capabilities. It uses Armory’s client, making it secure without any need of setting everything by yourself. Pi is considered to be safe and easy-to-use hardware wallet.
Similar to Pi, Trezor includes a small screen for interaction and the private keys generated on this device are secure and safe against malware.
3.) Device Encrypting
Most of the Hardware wallets need an encryption code or password when initializing. In case your device doesn’t include an encryption, you can always add it to secure your wallet. However, each hardware wallet has a relevant protocol for setting up a secure encryption.
So, this is how you can create an Online Bitcoin wallet. For more information, you can visit the Bitcoin’s website – https://bitcoin.org/en/. | {
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CONN LT & PWR $1.90 - CNLTL
STOCK SYMBOL: CNLTL
CONN LT & PWR $1.90 (OTCBB:CNLTL) reached today (8/24/2017) a price of $46.252 with a total volume of 0.
Today's high was $ and Today's low was $. A no change $0 or 0%
from the previous day of ($46.252). The company's 200-day MA (Moving Average) was 48.676 and a 50-day MA of 46.635.
Stock Overview
Name: CONN LT & PWR $1.90
Stock Symbol: CNLTL
Price: $46.252
Volume: 0
Day High: $
Day Low: $
Prev Close: $46.252
Change %: 0
Change $: $0
52 Week High: $36.156
52 Week Low: $30.094
50-MA: 46.635
200 Day MA: 48.676
Market Cap:
Book Value: 0
ES:
EPS Current:
EPS Next Year:
PE Ration:
Dividend Pay Date: 8/1/2011
Dividend $/Share: $
Ex Dividend Date: 7/6/2017
Yield:
Category: OTCBB
CONN LT & PWR $1.90 (OTCBB:CNLTL) has a Market Cap of and a book value of common share of 0, and an Earning/Share (EPS) of . The 52-week high was $36.156, while the 52-week low was $30.094.
To make any decision of buying or selling or holding you need to consider the company's situation today as well as its history and future prospect.
Based on the information above and relying on your own research you can determine if it is a good or crazy idea to buy/sell CONN LT & PWR $1.90 (CNLTL) stocks.
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Howard Beck of the New York Times reports that Sunday night, the owners and players will meet to try and salvage the season. I am very optimistic that progress will be made in this meeting. It seems like in order to get this meeting the players would have had to agree to the 50/50 split but it is unknown whether they have or not. Also it is possible that the sides are going to discuss either things in order to make progress. The season may or may not be saved tonight but I think this could be the miracle that all NBA fans needed. I feel like if the players and owners are going to call this emergency meeting then some breakthrough must have been reached. I am probably wrong but I am keeping my fingers crossed that a miracle happens tonight. | {
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Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama, David Mamet (1998)
“What comes from the head is perceived by the audience, the child, the electorate, as manipulative. And we may succumb to the manipulative for a moment because it makes us feel good to side with the powerful. But finally we understand we’re being manipulated. And we resent it. Tragedy is a celebration not of our eventual triumph but of the truth–it is not a victory but a resignation. Much of its calmative power comes from that operation described by Shakespeare: when remedy is exhausted, so is grief.”
“Drama doesn’t need to affect people’s behavior. There’s a great and very, very effective tool that changes people’s attitudes and makes them see the world in a new way. It’s called a gun.”
“The purpose of art is not to change but to delight. I don’t think its purpose is to enlighten us. I don’t think it’s to change us. I don’t think it’s to teach us. The purpose of art is to delight us: certain men and women (no smarter than you or I) whose art can delight us have been given dispensation from going out and fetching water and carrying wood. It’s no more elaborate than that.”
“I don’t believe reaching people is the purpose of art. In fact, I don’t know what ‘reaching people’ means. I know what Hazlitt said: It’s easy to get the mob to agree with you; all you have to do is agree with the mob.”
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“The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense. And the warm glow of fashion on the left and patriotism on the right evidence individuals’ comfort in their power to elect themselves members of a group superior to reason.” | {
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Overdrawn & in The Red
Friday, September 8, 2017
Overdrawn & in The Red
Looking back it seems very trivial, but its impact set the tone for the rest of my working life.
It was just after I started my first ever, real job. I’d moved out of the family home for the first time to take on the job, but after only two weeks into it, my bank statement arrived & I was overdrawn. I’d only had the account for a month! How could I possibly be in the red already? It was the very expensive, luxuriously fluffy towels that I really wanted, rather than needed that pushed me over my limit.
I had been brought up to believe that you saved for what you wanted & did not spend money you didn’t have. Two weeks into independence & I was a FAILURE – all because of fluffy towels!
The value of the towels suddenly dropped & I couldn’t get the same pleasure out of using them because I used money I didn’t have. I soon topped the account up, but the towels never gave me the same pleasure & comfort they gave before I knew I was in the red.
Are you caught up in the UK’s current debt problem?
The fluffy towels taught me a big lesson & I have rarely been in debt since thanks to careful planning, foresight & hard work. The rise of personal debt is, once again, on the in the increase; in the past year (June 2016 - June 2017) personal debt increased by 10% while household incomes rose by only 1.5%*. Even I can see that doesn’t balance & it’s all too easy to slip into debt (or further into it) by repeating old habits of buying what you want instead of what you need. If you don’t want to be part of the problem, you need to start new saving & spending habits.
Creating new habits
A financial adviser I was talking to recently had re-visited her saving/spending habits & was amazed at how much money she was wasting because she was spending her left over cash on trivial things (another fluffy towel habit) instead of saving it for more important things. She now has some wiser, financially healthier habits.
Changing habits isn’t easy, that’s why many of us don’t do it. It’s easier to carry on doing what we’ve always done even if that leads us down a path to Debt. Here are a few (fairly obvious) tips to get you started. Remember, the obvious isn’t always that easy to spot when it’s a habit – something you do every day without thinking!
1. Examine your spending habits. That does not mean take a quick look when you’ve got 5 mins. It means scrutinise in detail.
2. Identify at least 3 areas where you can reduce your spending.
3. Make a plan of how you are going to make the reductions to include how much & when.
4. Carry out that plan. The reductions won’t happen unless you take action.
5. Examine your saving habits. If you haven’t got any, time to make them even if it’s saving pennies. It’s the habit that’s important here, not the amount.
What’s the price of investing in a good habit?
Time to consider the RIO (Return on Investment). Often it’s not the cost of something, but the value of it that dictates how much pleasure we get out of something. The financial cost of my last trip to the supermarket was over £100 – that’s easy as the receipt itemised everything bought & provided a total. What was on the list?
Purchases made included a bag of kale & a box of Magnums. The kale provided more nutritional value than the box of Magnums, BUT, the practise of eating kale for psychological comfort is ridiculous! Under such circumstances, the box of Magnums has more value – to me.
The values placed on any item or experience varies greatly from person to person. When there is a conflict of values, there are always compromises to be made. What’s the cost to you personally, how are you going to pay for it & what with?
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The Program prepares students for a variety of museum related occupations, including: collections managers, registrars, museum educators, exhibit developers, park interpreters, curators, and administrators. The Museum Studies Program also is valuable to students who wish to become outdoor educators, interpreters, or naturalists. Some graduates may choose to pursue a Ph.D. to prepare for advanced curatorial work in museums.
The Museum Studies Program brings together a unique consortium of UNM Museums, courses, laboratories, researchers, museum professionals, and educators in a statewide and national network to train qualified students for teaching, research, curation, and public service in museum contexts.
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It was bought for a princely sum of £1 but now a historic building is welcoming royal visitors as Rosie Sanderson reports...
Six years after she first gazed at Flounders Folly while rambling through the Shropshire countryside Sula Rayska has finally achieved her dream.
The ancient tower which became a subject of fascination for her was once owned by screen goddess Julie Christie but had been left to crumble.
Now restored, the folly, which towers over Callow Hill near Craven Arms, will welcome the Princess Royal later this month.
"It's a beautiful building with so much character but sadly it had no one to care for it. I couldn't bear to see it just fall apart," said Ms Rayska who lives in Meole Brace, Shrewsbury, half an hour's drive from the ancient tower, with her husband George Baugh.
Julie Christie owned the folly from 1985 until 1995 but by the summer of 1999 the grad two listed landmark was an overgrown refuge for birds and bats.
After months of detective work Ms Rayska, aged 56, tracked down the person who bought the 80ft tower from Ms Christie and the anonymous purchaser offered it to her for just £1.
"The high liability costs meant that no one wanted to take responsibility for it. It was such a waste leaving it in disrepair as the views are fantastic from the top," said Ms Rayska, a restoration project consultant who formed The Flounders Folly Trust in 2000.
The trust was given a grant of £15,000 by the Local Heritage Initiative, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and administered by the Countryside Agency, with additional support from the Nationwide Building Society.
The Heritage Lottery fund gave £281,000 and many individuals and charitable trusts also contributed to save the ancient tower, including the brewery Wood's.
When the beer company learned of the folly's deterioration, it brewed Sheer Folly ale and gave four pence to the trust from every pint sold.
Residents then gave their time, clearing the site from overgrown scrub, planting hedges and carrying out historical research.
"We began the restoration in 2004 and the community has really pulled together to achieve our dream.
"Everyone has donated so much time and energy we can't wait for the public to see the transformation," said Ms Rayska who has two children in their twenties.
The folly, which offers views across the Malverns, the Black Mountains, Skirrid, Cader Idris, the Long Mynd and the Wrekin, was built by Benjamin Flounders, a Quaker from Yorkshire, in 1838 to celebrate his 70th birthday, according to local legend.
Flounders was born in Yarm, Yorkshire on June 17, 1768.
He inherited the Culmington estate in Shropshire from his uncle Gideon Bickerdike, who had intended leaving it to the Quaker Ackworth School near Pontefract, but changed his mind and left it to Flounders with £200,000 in 1807.
"We're thrilled that the folly is going to get the royal recognition it deserves," said Ms Rayska.
"It has taken years of hard work and determination to restore to its former splendour and, while we're all very proud of what we've achieved.
"At last everyone will be able to enjoy this beautiful folly and the spectacular panoramic views of the countryside it offers." | {
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Anti-depressants and psychiatric drugs can lead to 'long-term harm'
Danish expert blames psychiatric drugs and anti-depressants for over half a million deaths in people aged 65 and over in the western world.Getty Images
A Danish expert on clinical trials has claimed that psychiatric drugs often prescribed to help patients suffering from depression do more harm than good.
According to Professor Peter Gøtzsche, research director at the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen, pharmaceuticals mostly exaggerate the "minimal" benefits of psychiatric drugs in clinical trials overlooking their side effects.
Psychotropic drugs are immensely harmful when used long-term, they should almost exclusively be used in acute situations and always with a firm plan for tapering off, which can be difficult for many patients.
- Peter Gøtzsche, Research director, Nordic Cochrane Centre
These drugs have often lead to several many suicides that remain under reported, said Gøtzsche in an article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
As per Gøtzsche's claims, the suicide rate amongst people on these drugs is 15 times more than reported, with drugs such as antipsychotics, benzodiazepines, and antidepressants believed to have resulted in 3,693 annual deaths in Denmark.
"Given their lack of benefit, I estimate we could stop almost all psychotropic drugs without causing harm - by dropping all antidepressants, ADHD drugs, and dementia drugs and using only a fraction of the antipsychotics and benzodiazepines we currently use," said Gøtzsche, reported The Independent.
"This would lead to healthier and more long lived populations. Because psychotropic drugs are immensely harmful when used long-term, they should almost exclusively be used in acute situations and always with a firm plan for tapering off, which can be difficult for many patients."
Critics of antidepressants and dementia drugs will agree with Gøtzsche claiming these drugs are often used to numb the patients' agitated behavior, without helping them overcome the disease in the long-term.
Gøtzsche claims over half a million people across the western world aged 65 and over die due to such medications.
The "short-term relief" is weighed over the "long-term harm" of these drugs, claims Gøtzsche.
"Animal studies strongly suggest that these drugs can produce brain damage, which is probably the case for all psychotropic drugs," said Gøtzsche. | {
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Pretty Links for Squarespace? I have an even better solution. Read why using Squarespace URL Mapping to make shortlinks is the affiliate marketer's dream.
*This post may contain an affiliate link, view my disclosure for more information
Are you thinking about switching to Squarespace but worried that it won't have the "Pretty Links" feature? Are you currently a Squarespace blogger and are frustrated that you can't shorten and simplify your links the way that some of your fellow bloggers can?
Then you have come to the right place.
To the surprise of many, Squarespace has the "Pretty Links" feature built right into its platform. It's called URL Mapping and it can be found in the settings tab of your dashboard.
I've created a video on how exactly to do it below; however, if you can't listen to the video, or prefer a text walkthrough, be sure to keep reading!
Although Squarespace URL mapping may look confusing at first, it's actually very easy to use. In a matter of seconds, you will be able to make beautiful affiliate links that will be easy to share with your friends and followers.
Of course, the more you share, the more potential money you can make.
AFFILIATES
Here is a quick rundown of affiliates and why you want them.
Affiliate links are specific links, given to you by a brand or business, that will track your recommendations (or referrals to their site). This results in a commission paid to you. This is one of the BEST ways to make money as a blogger. It's very passive and requires nothing more than a link.
STEP ONE
On the home page of your Squarespace website find the tab that says settings. Click on it as seen below.
STEP TWO
Next you will want to find the Advanced tab. It will be under the heading labeled "WEBSITE".
STEP THREE
Once you click on the "Advanced" tab you will see a tab called "URL Mappings". That's the tab you want!
STEP FOUR
You've finally made it! Now you can make all of the "Pretty Links" AKA shortlinks you could possibly need.
It may seem confusing at first but it's actually quite simple.
First, simply enter the ending of your desired URL. In this case, I want it to be "nicolestone.com/picmonkey" so as you can see, I simply put "/picmonkey".
When you make the link, don't add the domain (i.e. nicolestone.com). Just add the path /picmonkey (or whatever you want to call it).
Then you will add an "arrow" pointing to your affiliate. "->".
Then you will add the actual affiliate link. As you can see, my affiliate is through Shareasale. Therefore, I copied that exact link to the right side of the arrow.
Then I finished with the "302" redirect. You only need 302 when working with affiliates. The 302 stands for "temporary" redirect.
They have their own explanation below, if that helps you out.
Just remember you are redirecting a URL to a different page.
I can't stress how important Affiliate Marketing is to making money online. If you want to learn more about it, make sure to check out Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing (includes a built in Pinterest course) and Master Affiliate Marketing. Both are great resources for building your online business and making loads of income... like so many bloggers do!
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Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump this week doled out money for his 2016 presidential campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" after a radio host indicated he would give Trump the trademark phrase.
Radio host Bobby Estell, better known as Bobby Bones, was the first to file a trademark application for the "Make America Great Again" slogan, TMZ reported in August. At the time, he requested a one-on-one with the celebrity businessman and a $100,000 donation to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
On Thursday, the host tweeted, "can't say how much the check was for. but thanks Donald Trump. This check goes to St Jude. have your slogan back."
He included a photo of a signed check, with the fund amount whited out. It showed the description of funds as “transfer of trademark.” He also showed an envelop emblazoned with the Trump Organization logo.
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (born February 11, 1953) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is currently a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Bush, who grew up in Houston, is the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, and a brother of former President George W. Bush. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and attended the University of Texas, where he earned a degree in Latin American affairs. In 1980, he moved to Florida
and pursued a career in real estate development, and in 1986 became Florida’s Secretary of Commerce until 1988. At that time, he joined his father’s successful campaign for the Presidency.
Lindsey Olin Graham (born July 9, 1955) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who has served as a United States Senator from South Carolina since 2003, and has been the senior Senator from South Carolina since 2005.
Born in Central, South Carolina, Graham graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1977. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1981. He served in the United States Air Force from 1982 to 1988 and served as a Guardsman first in the South Carolina Air National Guard then in the Air Force Reserves,
attaining the rank of colonel. He worked as a lawyer in private practice before he was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1992, serving one term from 1993 to 1995. He then served in the United States House of Representatives, representing South Carolina’s 3rd congressional district from 1995 to 2003. He was elected to four terms, receiving at least 60% of the vote each time.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is shifting his focus back toward the key GOP issue of immigration amid a slide in polls from Iowa.
Trump said in an interview broadcast Sunday that retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who took the lead in the first-in-the-nation caucus last week, is “very, very weak on immigration” and “believes in amnesty strongly.” “He’s very, very weak on immigration, and I’m very strong on immigration,” Trump said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“He believes in amnesty strong. He believes in citizenship – he’s going to give citizenship to people here illegally, and you can’t do that.”
Donald Trump brought his brash, unapologetic presidential campaign to New Hampshire on Monday for a "pancakes and politics" town hall meeting with voters, hosted by TODAY's Matt Lauer. Trump was asked about a segment in his book, "The Art of the Deal," where he said he would do nearly anything within legal bounds to secure victory. Asked if he would be willing to make campaign promises that he couldn't keep as president, Trump said he wouldn't need to.
"I don't think I have to do that. Everything I say, I can do. Everything I say, I will abide by," he said. He said his promises, after a four-year term in office, would be legitimate. It won't be like a "Bergdahl swap," where the U.S. government secured the release of an American prisoner of war in exchange for releasing five Taliban prisoners."I will abide by everything that I'm saying on the campaign trail." One undecided voter told Trump she and others like her would vote for him "if only you would eat a piece of humble pie once in a while." Asked if Trump could share what weaknesses he had, the candidate declined because "then I'd expose the weaknesses to Putin and then everybody else and we don't want to do that, right?
He said “I have weaknesses, I really believe I have weaknesses. I don’t like exposing them because if I expose them then the enemy knows.”
GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Monday that he despises the way most journalists cover his 2016 campaign.
“The press has a lower approval rating than Congress,” he said at a morning rally in Atkinson, N.H.
“They’re scum,” Trump said. “They’re horrible people. They are so illegitimate. They are just terrible people.” “Some of the people in the press are honorable,” the New York business mogul added. “But you’ve got 50 percent who are terrible people.”
Trump then argued the only group he dislikes more than the media are the career politicians in Washington, D.C.
“The other thing I’ve learned is how stupid our politicians are,” he said.
“If [President] Obama did a great job, I’d love him,” Trump said. “I wouldn’t be running. “This isn’t so easy,” the outspoken billionaire added. “I can be at other places at 7 in the morning, not on live television all over the world.”
Robert Kiyosaki: "In 2012, a 5-star hotel near our home in Phoneix was sold to the government of Singapore, purchased via the Singapore Sovereign Wealth Fund. Where did that money come from? The money came from Americans who used their dollars to buy TVs, computers, iPhones and other products made in Asia-products that lose value over time. Those dollars then return to the United States to buy our wealth, assets that increase in value over time. Today, the employees who work for the hotel are now employees of the country of Singapore, assisted by financing from international banks."
This article is from Robert Kiyosaki’s best-seller book:’Why ‘A’ Students Work for ‘C’ Students and Why ‘B’ Students Work for the Government: Rich Dad’s Guide to Financial Education for Parents’.
Marco Antonio Rubio (born May 28, 1971) is the junior United States Senator from Florida, serving since January 2011. He previously served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, and is currently a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Rubio is a Cuban American native of Miami. He graduated from the University of Florida and the University of Miami School of Law. In the late 1990s, he served as a City Commissioner for West Miami and was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2000, representing the 111th House district. He was elected Speaker in September 2005.
Rubio announced a run for U.S. Senate in May 2009 after incumbent Republican Mel Martínez announced that he would not be seeking reelection. Initially trailing by double-digits against the incumbent Republican Governor Charlie Crist, Rubio eventually surpassed him in polling for the Republican nomination. Crist then opted instead to run with no party affiliation, and Rubio went on to win the Republican nomination, and then won the general election in November 2010 with 49 percent of the vote. | {
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Incredible Concurrent Events At CHINAPLAS 2019
12.3.2019 02:00:00 CET | Business Wire
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The operating environment for most industries became increasingly
complex. It is more vital than ever for enterprising businesses to
master technological innovation. CHINAPLAS,
the Asia’s No. 1 plastics and rubber trade fair, offers an international
platform for the release and exchange of advanced new technologies. The
show will not only feature more than 3,500 exhibitors but will also
organize a series of exciting concurrent events to address those
industries’ needs.
CHINAPLAS has firmly staked its claim as one of the world’s leading plastics and rubber trade fairs. This technology-oriented exhibition provides a platform for global and regional companies to showcase their latest products and services, to include materials, machinery, and smart and green technologies. (Photo: Business Wire)
Plastics Recycling & Circular Economy Conference and Showcase
To foster circular economy is a global consensus to achieve sustainable
development. Great potential and bounteous market opportunities arise
with it. More and more big brands have announced environmental
protection policies of recycling. In 2017, Adidas sold 1 million pairs
of running shoes made of ocean plastic waste. How can plastics
contribute to sustainable development? Focusing on the concerns of the
industry, a “Plastics
Recycling & Circular Economy Conference and Showcase”, will be
held with the themes of “Material Science for Sustainability”,
“Recycling Technology” and “Environmental Packaging”.
Industry 4.0 Factory of the Future
Industry practitioners can visit the “Industry
4.0 Factory of the Future” at CHINAPLAS 2019. There will be two
themed areas, “Manufacturing Intelligence Control Room” and “Smart
Factory”, to demonstrate implementable intelligent solutions. The
control room will display operational data recorded at both the on-site
machines and a remote smart factory, while the “Smart Factory” will
simulate the future manufacturing environment.
Design x Innovation
Recognizing the key role of design in product development, CHINAPLAS
2019 will organize the event “Design
x Innovation”, comprising three parts.
CHINAPLAS, the Asia’s No.
1 plastics and rubber trade fair, will be held in Guangzhou, PR China,
from May 21-24, 2019. An estimated total of over 3,500 exhibitors from
all over the world will be presenting to more than 180,000 professional
visitors from 150 countries and regions. For more information and
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ProDNS
Large scale DNS server
We focused on performance, security and support
with the aim of reducing operating costs that are too high for overseas products
ProDNS is a large-scale cache server such as ISP, cable TV, etc. developed by Nippon Cydnea with full scratch. We focused on performance, security and support with the aim of reducing operating costs that are too high for overseas products
In addition, because of its feature and vulnerability that is easy to intrude, it tends to be attacked. There are two kinds of attack methods: DOS type and injection type, and ProDNS minimizes the effect of attack by taking various countermeasures.
Performance
ProDNS is a simple structure that focuses on large systems that handle large numbers of DNS queries and implements only necessary functions. It simplifies the configuration and reduces operational costs. Beside narrowing down functions, it improves performance, and when compared with BIND, its processing power is 3 times to 7 times more (see paragraph).
Function · Security measures
Resource limit
Maximum values of various resources such as memory size, number of ports, number of connections, etc. can be set to prevent the operation from being unstable due to resource exhaustion even under high intensity.
Access control
Connection refused setting is possible by setting in a range or individually the IP of the source that has unauthorized access or mass access.
Statistical information
Detailed statistical information can be obtained from the command line. You can also obtain statistical information via SNMP using Net-SNMP.
Security countermeasures（Slow query）
This is a problem when resources are exhausted due to the large amount of queries that take time to respond. ProDNS takes new requests even when the load is high by interrupting slow requests at a certain rate and processing new requests in priority.
Security countermeasures（Water torture）
It put a heavy load on the authority server by accessing to the same server which concentrated in a short period of time. After the authority server goes down, requests that can not return responses are accumulated in the cache server, and the cache server is also loaded. By setting Rate Limit, short-term requests to the same domain are restricted and the problem is solved.
Security countermeasures（Birthday Attack）
It is an attack which raises the entropy matching rate by sending the same request multiple times from the client. When multiple requests are sent, ProDNS deals with birthday attacks by collectively sending them to the authority server.
Security countermeasures（Entropy）
Increase entropy by randomizing the source port for authority with its own algorithm
Security countermeasures（Transfer notifications injection）
If the NS information of the authority from the parent authority server is cached in the setting, transfer notifications injection can be avoided by not overwriting the child's Authority NS information.
（※Plan to implement）
Security countermeasures (ghost domain)
It is an attack that leaves impersonation information forcibly by preventing TTL run out of cache information of a specific domain.
when acquiring an NS record that is the same as the cache from the authority server but different only in TTL, or when acquiring an NS record that is the same in cache and domain name but different only in RDATA, you can avoid ghost domains by using the shorter TTL of cache and acquired records.
In addition, by giving an upper limit to the cache TTL, we try not to cache it for an unnecessarily long period. | {
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Glyde Gamestop Protest
Glyde.com, an online market where people buy and sell used games, phones, tablets and books, has taken on the perceived competition, Gamestop, with a protest video featuring crotch kicks. A man sets up a booth at an actual county fair and allows people to kick him in the crotch for $8, the price he’s likely to get for a used game at Gamestop. After he’s kicked squarely in the crotch, he recovers, and yells to the crowd: “Still better than GameStop.”
Click on the image below to play the viral video (October 2011) in YouTube
Click on the image below to play the edited TV commercial (January 2012) in YouTube
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Facebook rolls out its downvote button to more users
Earlier this year, Facebook confirmed it was trialling Reddit-style upvote and downvote buttons on public posts, with the aim of improving the quality of discourse on the platform. Now, it appears the feature is rolling out to a greater number of users.
With its downvote button, Facebook is putting a lot of faith into its users. It wants people to use it to flag what Facebook calls “bad comments,” which it defines as having “bad intentions or is disrespectful.” It’s making great pains to emphasize that this isn’t a dislike button. That said, it’ll almost certainly be used that way.
You really can’t fault Facebook’s optimism though. It’s launching this feature when most people are intimately familiar with Reddit, where a downvote is frequently used as a signifier for disagreement and dislike.
Facebook will struggle to change that mindset, especially when the upvote button works identically to Reddit, and is used to highlight comments that are “helpful or insightful.”
This feature isn’t rolling out to every user. From what I can tell from Twitter, the majority of people who’ve gained access to the new upvote and downvote system are based in Australia and New Zealand.
We’ve reached out to Facebook to ask about their plans for its new Reddit-style comment feedback system, particularly as they relate to its roll-out. We will update this post if we hear back. | {
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Welcome to Warren Truss, a privately owned and operated building component manufacturer supplying Delaware, Southern New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania and Eastern Maryland developers, builders, contractors and homeowners with high quality products for over forty years.
Warren Truss has been serving the housing and building industry since 1967. We specialize in the design and manufacturing of custom wood floor and roof trusses for commercial, residential and agricultural projects.
What makes us different - Our experience, our commitment to quality and detail, and our time proven record of excellent service and support. From start to finish, design to delivery, we are committed to being your manufacturer of choice.
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13.1 About Updating Component Configurations
You can update, or modify, the configuration of some Content Server components with the Advanced Component Manager or the Configure for Instance screen, whether the component is enabled or disabled. The Advanced Component Manager has a list of the components whose configuration you can modify in the Update component configuration field. From the Configure for Instance screen, the Update Component Configuration screen is displayed for the specified component if you can modify its configuration, or if you cannot modify it, a message is displayed.
Content Server has Update Component Configuration screens for these components:
Folders_g
PDF Watermark
Content Tracker
Content Tracker Reports
Site Studio
DesktopIntegrationSuite
DesktopTag
EmailMetadata
13.2 Updating a Component Configuration with the Advanced Component Manager | {
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Local Sounds: Jason Isbell captures the spirit of Nashville in latest release
Jul 06 2017
Posted by: Staff
By: Tyler Kes
I suppose if you’re going to title your latest album The Nashville Sound, you better be pretty sure that what you’re producing is the sound of Nashville.
That’s not something that Jason Isbell, formerly of the beloved Drive-By Truckers, has to worry about.
Isbell’s latest release captures the spirit of the Nashville singer-songwriter, with all of its despair, grit and seemingly required substance abuse, and does it in a way that not a lot of other artists can.
It is one of my favorite things about the album – the way that Isbell really makes you feel the emotions he’s going for when he sings about some of these topics.
It is clear that they weigh heavily on Isbell; many of the songs deal with things like being an outsider, the struggle with addiction and rural politics.
Of course, not everything Isbell has to say on the subjects is particularly illuminating or thought-provoking.
The song “White Man’s World,” for example, is a very well-meaning song about white privilege and the way it affects the world, but it comes across as a little trite and flat.
Things overall work better when Isbell keeps it a little closer to home, like on the song “Cumberland Gap,” about the way small towns and the bars within them have a way of sucking you in and keeping their grasp on you.
“There’s an answer here, if I look hard enough/There’s a reason I always reach for the harder stuff.”
This is typical singer-songwriter stuff, but it sounds really nice. A lot of that is due to the gruff vocals Isbell provides, but a lot of credit is due to the 400 Units, Isbell’s backing group that features, among others, his wife, Amanda Shires, who plays the fiddle.
The pair is featured on the song “If We Were Vampires,” a delightful ballad and an ode to true love.
Delightful might be a bit of a misnomer, as the song deals with appreciating the time you have with that special someone, all the while knowing that eventually one of you will die, leaving the other alone for a while.
“Maybe we’ll get 40 years together, but one day I’ll be gone/ and you’ll be gone.”
This is a grittier sound (though not as gritty as his Drive-By-Truckers days) than the majority of country stars are producing these days, so if you think the genre needs a little more Johnny Cash and less Blake Shelton, then you’ll probably enjoy this a lot.
Personally, I liked the overall vibe the record gives than most of the songs in general.
It’s definitely something I would throw on while visiting family in West Virginia, just because of the way it captures a simpler, more blue collar existence that increasingly gets pushed to the margins. | {
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Yankees outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury is expected to start the regular season on the disabled list because of an oblique injury that has kept him out of exhibition games since March 1....
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December 6, 2017
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Hi there!
I hope you're having a wonderful week so far. I've been super busy, well not too busy yesterday, I procrastinated most of the day! My plans are to not procrastinate today and get something done so I can be here and watch more Christmas movies more often. Tomorrow is my last day of classes so I will have a lot more time to make posts and stuff - even though I'm finishing up finals (which I've been nervous about - but have gotten A's on major assignments). I am glad the semester is just about over. I am so ready for Christmas, especially after listening to this amazing song. "Do You Hear What I Hear?" by Bing Crosby. It's really an amazing song that, in my opinion, sings about the true meaning of Christmas. | {
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On TV: The Crisis Crisis
Ally McBeal, Xena, Veronica's Closet. Even the sitcoms are overloaded with fear, exhaustion, and despair. It's enough to make you wish for a little good old-fashioned tragedy.
TV review, October 24, 1997
People always say TV is unoriginal, but that can't be right--or how could it keep discovering new ways of poisoning your soul? You might think American mass culture is a changeless swamp of cynicism, creative exhaustion, and corporate-enforced synthetic cheer, but there are deep currents of fresh unpleasantness beneath the surface. This year's gimmick is particularly trying: all the new shows are about people who hate their lives. God knows I'm past expecting any show to lighten my spirits, but after sampling premiere week I just don't see how TV characters find the strength to endure. You can barely hear yourself think with all the wailing and gnashing of teeth.
The keynote is set by Fox's new series Ally McBeal. In the first 15 minutes of the premiere episode our frail, tremulous heroine was buried under an avalanche of problems that would have broken the will of Margaret Thatcher. She was fired from her job at a law firm, she became embroiled in a squalid sexual harassment suit, she hired on impulsively at a new firm only to find that it already employed her newly married ex-boyfriend. Succeeding episodes amplified the desolation by giving her a lousy new relationship and touring by flashback her nerve-rackingly unfulfilled romantic past. Evidently the sole form of dramatic suspense will be tuning in to see if this is the episode where Ally finally crumbles.
Maybe I'm just a dreamer, but during the sexual harassment scenes--Ally fending off the disgusting advances of a porcine jerk invulnerable to retribution because of his seniority--I found myself wondering how this kind of situation would have been handled on a show with a more positive outlook on life. Xena: Warrior Princess, say. Xena has to deal with sexual harassment all the time. The highways of her hallucinatory version of ancient Greece are so thick with roving bands of slobbering thugs that I've started to think they're a roadside franchise, the proto-Hellenic equivalent of Stuckey's; there should be signs advertising Five Miles to the Next Thugs. And how does Xena handle these miscreants? The old-fashioned way: she stomps them into the ground and then sneers at them for being unmanly. It would make my TV viewing season to see Ally do that just once.
But Ally is a warrior princess compared to the rest of this year's crop of heroes. By the first half-hour break on ABC's Nothing Sacred, the hip young priest had had to contend with concatenating disasters involving abortion, priestly celibacy, declining church attendance, violence in the classroom, and the sanctity of the confessional. It was like a CNN Crossfire edition of the Book of Job. At the wrap-up, our hero roused himself to deliver a nervous sermon, the drift of which was that he wondered whether his ever-shakier faith in God was strong enough to support him in his travails. Of course this is just what you want to hear from the pulpit on Sunday morning; it might be preferable to overhear your doctor muttering about whether he should have gone to med school.
Still, that was nothing compared to the woe crushing the hero of the show immediately afterward, Cracker, about a shrink who tracks down serial killers. Five minutes in and he was revealed as a burnt-out case, with a bad job, bad marriage, stacks of unpaid bills--oh, and a serial killer targeting his family. The show's star, Robert Pastorelli, drifted through it all with the aplomb of a down-at-the-heels gambler having another lousy day at the track, but by the episode's end you wondered why he didn't chuck it all, move to Encino, and try hawking real estate.
And then there's The Visitor--a Fox show demonstrating that priests aren't the only ones this season with extraterrestrial connections who still can't buy themselves a break. The hero (I think I have this right) was kidnapped by aliens in the Bermuda Triangle 50 years ago and has now escaped to warn the human race of some imminent but unspecified global catastrophe. Naturally his every waking moment is an agony of dread, because the FBI and the military are moving heaven and earth to hunt him down and kill him. But that's not his main problem; he's more bummed about how his decades of imprisonment by aliens caused him to miss his son's childhood. At first I figured this was supposed to be some sort of compensatory fantasy for divorced dads--I mean, you can't blame him for skipping his son's birthday party--but I'm now convinced that the premise has a darker edge: it gives the hero an unappeasable sorrow. Even if he manages to evade his pursuers and save the whole world, he'll still never make up for being a bad father.
But my candidate for the downer of the year has to be Veronica's Closet, on NBC. Its bad vibes began even before the premiere. Its haughty lead-in, Seinfeld--a show that normally passes through the TV year as oblivious to its schedule mates as an aristocrat riding through the streets of prerevolutionary Paris--deigned to take notice of its dismal companion and was inspired to begin its own season with a brutal put-down. Seinfeld's first episode had a running gag about a hack comic who'd found the formula for instant success: all he had to do was go onstage right after Jerry, and he could coast on Jerry's laboriously cultivated goodwill. "He's nothing but a time-slot hit!" Seinfeld sneered--graciously preparing his vast audience for what was in store for them when Veronica's Closet started unspooling.
He needn't have bothered. The show would have been a nightmare anyway. The premise was more complicated and farfetched than that of The Visitor--Veronica is a world-famous retired supermodel who runs her own fabulously successful Victoria's Secret-style lingerie company--and it wasn't worth trying to follow anyway, since it served solely as a springboard for relentless jokes about how much our heroine loathed everything in her life: her job, her age, her weight, her looks, her philandering husband. Kirstie Alley deepened the gloom by playing the whole show in a daze of misery--in every shot she looked as though she'd just had a crying jag off camera. But the funereal pall didn't settle into place until the concluding scenes, when Veronica and her husband had dinner at a glam restaurant while a swarm of paparazzi pressed against the window; after Veronica left, she jumped into the back of a limo to flee the photographers--and as the limo sped away, the chauffeur started calling her "princess." Now there was cutting-edge entertainment; not even the Daily Show was doing Princess Di jokes.
Of course it was merely a ghastly coincidence; the show had to have been in the can months before. But it did set me wondering about how sour and irrelevant Veronica's Closet seemed on the subject of celebrity--particularly when compared with the ceaseless Princess Di coverage overflowing from every cable news channel. All those jokes about paparazzi, the ostentatious weariness with fame, the knowing allusions to photo shoots and supermodel neuroses played like a watery diet Coke version of the news about the royals.
I think that if the last ten million hours of Princess Di coverage prove anything, it's that the mass audience has a hunger for an experience it's not getting from the standard outlets of mass culture--it wants tragedy. And why not? Tragedy was once upon a time a popular form, before corporate-generated American pop took over the marketplace. People were deeply moved by Princess Di's death the way they used to be moved by The Duchess of Malfi or Lucia di Lammermoor. But tragedy is exactly what TV series are failing to provide. They're instead offering up every possible variety of resignation and defeat; even the sitcoms are overloaded with fear, whininess, exhaustion, and despair. Yet you still can't beat the old-time blast of cathartic energy at seeing goodness betrayed, the proud laid low, beauty destroyed before its time.
Consider what was on display in the one TV episode everybody in America tuned in to watch: ER live. ER has been trying to do tragedy, I think--at least it's been more consistently desolate about American urban life than anything on TV since The Honeymooners. You've got to give the show credit: it's succeeded in making Chicago out to be worse than it is--our city comes off as a perpetually wintry landscape of lonely apartments interspersed with wreckage, a battle zone in a meaningless war where the best you can hope for is triage. Even King Lear was more upbeat. And yet the show doesn't play as tragic, because that's just the fashionably bleak surface. What it's really about is the dazzle of high-tech kinetic energy. Fresh cases of maimed and ruined flesh come gliding through the doors every few moments, and our heroes have to respond in an ever-accelerating ecstasy of intricate skill. The gore and urban blight are there only for the sake of the greater rush.
The live episode was billed as a way of massively upping the adrenaline--which, given how the ER people get their thrills, merely meant taking a lot of technical risks. The episode was almost wholly about executing a lot of fantastically complicated camera moves and reciting a lot of doctor gibberish at breakneck speed without making any mistakes--and, big surprise, it all came off with contemptuous ease. Even the bits that seemed for one heart-stopping instant to be honest mistakes--a blown line, a near collision in the corridor, the video camera running out of batteries--turned out to be planned, like Michael Jordan pretending to bobble the ball before stuffing it into the basket. The only discordant effect in the entire episode was the hushed moment of seriousness at the end, when sweet Dr. Greene, reflecting on the coarsening of his worldview since the savage beating he took last season, said the ER used to be a "safe" place but it didn't feel that way anymore.
Safe? Hey pal, I've seen your show. I'd feel safer in a Mexican jail. What were all those shootings and stabbings and riots erupting in the waiting room over the past couple of seasons--mirages? Ah, but all those things happened to the guest stars. Greene's survival is guaranteed by contract, and he knows it. He moves through the show the way all series characters do--invulnerably. They can vanish overnight in a contract dispute, or they can depart after months of hype in a "very special episode," but the heights of direct engagement with the world--where tragedy might become possible--are barred by definition. They all follow implicitly the advice Lisa once offered Bart in the midst of a particularly convoluted crisis in the Simpson household: "Do what I do. Just ride it out. It'll all be back to normal next week."
Apparently, the only form of tragedy open to a series character is job burnout. Or so I gather from the only series on TV that's actively trying to be darker than ER: Millennium. This show cultivates an air of impending doom the way other shows use a laugh track, and its sole subject is job burnout elevated to a form of metaphysical horror.
The hero, one Frank Black--a name that seems intended to sound like a designer shade of paint--tracks down serial killers at the behest of a mysterious bunch calling itself the Millennium group. They're evidently the hippest insiders in the whole serial-killer-tracking scene; they sail into police stations and FBI offices with the commanding ease of celebrities cutting in line at fashionable clubs. I don't quite have a handle on what they're about, but evidently they believe that the proliferation of serial killers throughout America is a sign of the approaching apocalypse (rather than of laziness and incompetence among TV scriptwriters), and they have cast themselves as civilization's last line of defense.
But Frank, who's chased serial killers so long his face is a permanent mask of morbid exhaustion, doesn't quite buy into the Millennium group's weltanschauung. He has no faith that he's saving civilization; his home life is a fragile illusion of innocence that just barely prevents a tide of despair from crashing in on him. He goes on the hunt each week not because he wants to, but because he's jabbed into action by involuntary flashes of horrifying quasi-psychic insight--I haven't figured these out either, but I think he's like an electrician who can't help diagnosing a blown circuit board even when he's on vacation.
Millennium was easily the big downer of last season, but the competition is so stiff this time around that the producers had to come up with a new gimmick. Their solution is a bold one: they've pretended to lighten up. Not that Frank finds faith or even a reason to smile; he still drags himself through every episode like a midnight traveler at O'Hare who's just learned his luggage is lost. But now the Millennium group has started throwing him curveball assignments that poach on Mulder and Scully territory, out there in the trackless depths of the heartland where towns are terrorized by packs of rabid dogs and the local doctors go in for mind-control experiments. Meanwhile he's been surrounded by a new crew of comic-relief assistants--serial-killer buffs and computer nerds who specialize in dreary pop-cult esoterica (in one particularly imponderable touch, they reprogrammed his computer so he has to use the password "Soylent Green is people").
The effect is bloodcurdling; a man who's clinging to his trade as a last refuge against suicide is now being pestered by goofball slacker harpies who are into the apocalypse for cheap laughs. You scarcely need the serial killers. The series plays like the opening round in a final global showdown: exhausted professionalism versus the massed imps of cultural insincerity. I'll give the show this much--the showdown really does seem like a prospect worth dreading. But then, judging by the rest of the new TV season, that millennium has already arrived. | {
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Homemade Schezwan Sauce Recipe / Homemade Schezwan Chutney Recipe
There is something very special about the Indo-Chinese cuisine. We Indians swear by it. It’s so tangy and zesty that no matter what, you can’t say no to a platter of well-made Schezwan Rice or a bowl of piping hot Manchow Soup. Recently, I have shared the recipe of Chicken Schezwan Noodles and Veg Hakka Noodles. Earlier before that, I had shared the recipe of Vegetable Manchurian. To top it, I tried a fusion recipe of Schezwan Bread Pakora.
I always prefer using homemade sauces and spice-mixes. The schezwan sauce-based recipes that I just mentioned used homemade schezwan sauce. Who knows what goes into those store-bought schezwan sauces? Stabilizers, emulsifiers, added colors and preservatives etc.
Homemade schezwan sauce, on the other hand, is fresh and tastier, with minimal artificial things going into it. Moreover, you can alter it according to your taste; how spicy you want it, or how sweet or sour. Making sauces at home is one of the most enjoyable things ever.
So I made this schezwan sauce with 3 kinds of dried red chilies. I just didn’t want heat, but also flavor and color. Hence, I used 3 kinds of chilies. I promise this will yield you great results. Your schezwan sauce would be just enough hot, zesty and brightly colored.
Now let’s start with the recipe. It uses considerable amount of oil. But don’t be alarmed. This sauce will be used several times and you can reduce the amount of oil while you make the recipes using this sauce. The flavorful oil in this sauce will compensate for it.
For the purpose of measurement, 1 cup = 250 ml. Now let’s get started.
NOTE
Make sure you make this sauce on low flame for best results. It’s all about love and patience here.
Also, I made this sauce in an iron skillet. But I removed it into glass bowl as soon as I finished making it, since I have heard things going bad if kept in iron skillets for too long. You can make it in non-stick saucepan or the usual kadhais as well.
Ingredients
Byadgi mirchi – 8
Rasgulla mirchi – 8
Chapata mirchi – 8
Hot water – 3/4 cup
Shallots – 3, finely chopped
Garlic – 30 cloves, finely crushed
Ginger – 2 inch piece, finely crushed
Sichuan peppers – 1 tsp, freshly ground
Salt – to taste
Ajinomoto – 1/2 tsp (Optional)
Brown Sugar – 1 tbsp
Vinegar – 1 tbsp
Soy sauce – 1 tbsp
Tomato ketchup – 1/2 tbsp
Oil – 1/2 cup
Water – 1 and 1/2 cup
How to Make Schezwan Sauce
Ready the ingredients.
Boil the three chilies together in 1 and 1/2 cup or just enough water for about 10-12 minutes.
Allow them to cool down. Then drain the chilies thereafter and remove their stems. Reserve the water. I did not deseed the chilies because they aren’t extremely hot.
Grind the chilies to a smooth paste using very little water you reserved. Set it aside.
Heat oil in a saucepan or a heavy bottom skillet. Add in the chopped shallots and sauté them on low flame till they begin to turn golden.
Add in the chopped garlic and sauté for about 2 minutes.
Add in the ginger and sauté for another 1 minute till the raw smell disappears.
Add in the red chili paste.
Add about 2 tbsp of the reserved water and let it cook on low flame for about 2 minutes.
Add in the soya sauce, vinegar, salt, Sichuan peppers, sugar, and ketchup. Allow the sauce to simmer for 2-3 minutes and stir it every now and then.
Most of the oil will have been absorbed by the sauce. Switch off the flame.
Allow the sauce to completely cool off.
Pour the hot sauce in a clean sterilized glass jar and pack it.
Schezwan sauce is ready to be used. It stays good in the refrigerator for about 8 – 10 days. Use as needed. | {
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Part I of this technical report covered Network-Layer Encryption background information and basic Network-Layer Encryption configuration. This part of the document covers IP Security (IPSec) and Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP).
IPSec was introduced in Cisco IOS® Software Release 11.3T. It provides a mechanism for secure data transmission and consists of ISAKMP/Oakley and IPSec.
The information in this document is based on the software and hardware versions:
Cisco IOS Software Release 11.3(T) and later
The information in this document was created from the devices in a specific lab environment. All of the devices used in this document started with a cleared (default) configuration. If your network is live, make sure that you understand the potential impact of any command.
Authentication: The property of knowing that the data received is actually sent by the claimed sender.
Confidentiality: The property of communicating so that the intended recipients know what is being sent but unintended parties cannot determine what is sent.
Data Encryption Standard (DES): The DES utilizes a symmetric key method, also known as a secret key method. This means that if a block of data is encrypted with the key, the encrypted block must be decrypted with the same key, so both the encryptor and the decrypter must use the same key. Even though the encryption method is known and well published, the best publicly known attack method is through brute force. Keys must be tested against the encrypted blocks to see if they can correctly resolve them. As processors become more powerful, the natural life of DES is nearing its end. For instance, a coordinated effort using spare processing power from thousands of computers across the Internet is able to find the 56-bit key to a DES encoded message in 21 days.
DES is validated every five years by the US National Security Agency (NSA) for meeting the purposes of the US Government. The current approval expires in 1998 and the NSA has indicated that they will not re-certify DES. Moving beyond DES, there are other encryption algorithms which also do not have any known weaknesses other than brute force attacks. For additional information, see DES FIPS 46-2 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Decryption: The reverse application of an encryption algorithm to encrypted data, thereby restoring that data to its original, unencrypted state.
DSS and Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA): The DSA was published by the NIST in the Digital Signature Standard (DSS), which is a part of the U.S. government's Capstone project. DSS was selected by NIST, in cooperation with the NSA, to be the digital authentication standard of the U.S. government. The standard was issued on May 19, 1994.
Encryption: The application of a specific algorithm to data so as to alter the appearance of the data making it incomprehensible to those who are not authorized to see the information.
Integrity: The property of ensuring that data is transmitted from source to destination without undetected alteration.
Non-repudiation: The property of a receiver being able to prove that the sender of some data did in fact send the data even though the sender might later desire to deny ever having sent that data.
Public Key Cryptography: Traditional cryptography is based on the sender and receiver of a message knowing and using the same secret key. The sender uses the secret key to encrypt the message, and the receiver uses the same secret key to decrypt the message. This method is known as "secret-key" or "symmetric cryptography." The main issue is getting the sender and receiver to agree on the secret key without anyone else finding out. If they are in separate physical locations, they must trust a courier, or a phone system, or some other transmission medium to prevent the disclosure of the secret key being communicated. Anyone who overhears or intercepts the key in transit can later read, modify, and forge all messages encrypted or authenticated using that key. The generation, transmission, and storage of keys is called key management; all cryptosystems must deal with key management issues. Because all keys in a secret-key cryptosystem must remain secret, secret-key cryptography often has difficulty providing secure key management, especially in open systems with a large number of users.
The concept of public-key cryptography was introduced in 1976 by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in order to solve the key management problem. In their concept, each person gets a pair of keys, one called the public key and the other called the private key. Each person's public key is published while the private key is kept secret. The need for the sender and receiver to share secret information is eliminated and all communications involve only public keys, and no private key is ever transmitted or shared. No longer is it necessary to trust some communications channel to be secure against eavesdropping or betrayal. The only requirement is that public keys are associated with their users in a trusted (authenticated) manner (for instance, in a trusted directory). Anyone can send a confidential message simply by using public information, but the message can only be decrypted with a private key, which is in the sole possession of the intended recipient. Furthermore, public-key cryptography can be used not only for privacy (encryption), but for authentication (digital signatures) as well.
Public Key Digital Signatures: To sign a message, a person performs a computation involving both their private key and the message itself. The output is called the digital signature and is attached to the message, which is then sent. A second person verifies the signature by performing a computation involving the message, the purported signature, and the first person's public key. If the result properly holds in a simple mathematical relation, the signature is verified as being genuine. Otherwise, the signature may be fraudulent or the message might have been altered.
Public Key Encryption: When one person wishes to send a secret message to another person, the first person looks up the second person's public key in a directory, uses it to encrypt the message and sends it off. The second person then uses their private key to decrypt the message and read it. No one listening in can decrypt the message. Anyone can send an encrypted message to the second person but only the second person can read it. Clearly, one requirement is that no one can figure out the private key from the corresponding public key.
Traffic Analysis: The analysis of network traffic flow for the purpose of deducing information that is useful to an adversary. Examples of such information are frequency of transmission, the identities of the conversing parties, sizes of packets, Flow Identifiers used, and so on.
IPSec protocol (RFC 1825) provides IP network-layer encryption and defines a new set of headers to be added to IP datagrams. These new headers are placed after the IP header and before the Layer 4 protocol (typically TCP or UDP). They provide information for securing the payload of the IP packet, as described below:
The Authentication Header (AH) and Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) can be used independently or together, although for most applications just one of them is sufficient. For both of these protocols, IPSec does not define the specific security algorithms to use, but rather, provides an open framework for implementing industry-standard algorithms. Initially, most implementations of IPSec support MD5 from RSA Data Security or the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) as defined by the US government for integrity and authentication. The DES is currently the most commonly offered bulk encryption algorithm, although RFCs are available that define how to use many other encryption systems, including IDEA, Blowfish, and RC4.
The AH is a mechanism for providing strong integrity and authentication for IP datagrams. It can also provide non-repudiation, depending on which cryptographic algorithm is used and how keying is performed. For example, use of an asymmetric digital signature algorithm, such as RSA, could provide non- repudiation. Confidentiality and protection from traffic analysis are not provided by the AH. Users who need confidentiality should consider using the IP ESP, either in lieu of or in conjunction with the AH. The AH may appear after any other headers that are examined at each hop, and before any other headers that are not examined at an intermediate hop. The IPv4 or IPv6 header immediately preceding the AH will contain the value 51 in its Next Header (or Protocol) field.
The ESP can appear anywhere after the IP header and before the final transport-layer protocol. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority has assigned Protocol Number 50 to ESP. The header immediately preceding an ESP header always contains the value 50 in its Next Header (IPv6) or Protocol (IPv4) field. ESP consists of an unencrypted header followed by encrypted data. The encrypted data includes both the protected ESP header fields and the protected user data, which is either an entire IP datagram or an upper-layer protocol frame (such as TCP or UDP).
IP ESP seeks to provide confidentiality and integrity by encrypting data to be protected and placing the encrypted data in the data portion of the IP ESP. Depending on the user's security requirements, this mechanism can be used to encrypt either a transport-layer segment (such as TCP, UDP, ICMP, IGMP) or an entire IP datagram. Encapsulating the protected data is necessary to provide confidentiality for the entire original datagram. Use of this specification will increase the IP protocol processing costs in participating systems and will also increase the communications latency. The increased latency is primarily due to the encryption and decryption required for each IP datagram containing an ESP.
In Tunnel Mode ESP, the original IP datagram is placed in the encrypted portion of the ESP and that entire ESP frame is placed within a datagram having unencrypted IP headers. The information in the unencrypted IP headers is used to route the secure datagram from origin to destination. An unencrypted IP Routing Header might be included between the IP Header and the ESP.
This mode allows a network device, such as a router, to act as an IPSec proxy. That is, the router performs encryption on behalf of the hosts. The source's router encrypts packets and forwards them along the IPSec tunnel. The destination's router decrypts the original IP datagram and forwards it on to the destination system. The major advantage of tunnel mode is that the end systems do not need to be modified to enjoy the benefits of IP Security. Tunnel mode also protects against traffic analysis; with tunnel mode an attacker can only determine the tunnel endpoints and not the true source and destination of the tunneled packets, even if they are the same as the tunnel endpoints. As defined by the IETF, IPSec transport mode can only be used when both the source and the destination systems understand IPSec. In most cases, you deploy IPSec with tunnel mode. Doing so allows you to implement IPSec in the network architecture without modifying the operating system or any applications on your PCs, servers, and hosts.
In Transport Mode ESP, the ESP header is inserted into the IP datagram immediately prior to the transport-layer protocol header (such as TCP, UDP, or ICMP). In this mode, bandwidth is conserved because there are no encrypted IP headers or IP options.
Only the IP payload is encrypted, and the original IP headers are left intact. This mode has the advantage of adding only a few bytes to each packet. It also allows devices on the public network to see the final source and destination of the packet. This capability allows you to enable special processing (for example, quality of service) in the intermediate network based on the information on the IP header. However, the Layer 4 header will be encrypted, limiting the examination of the packet. Unfortunately, by passing the IP header in the clear, transport mode allows an attacker to perform some traffic analysis. For example, an attacker could see when one CEO sent a lot of packets to another CEO. However, the attacker would only know that IP packets were sent; the attacker would not be able to determine if they were e-mail or another application.
While IPSec is the actual protocol that protects the IP datagrams, ISAKMP is the protocol that negotiates policy and provides a common framework for generating keys that IPSec peers share. It does not specify any details of key management or key exchange and is not bound to any key generation technique. Inside of ISAKMP, Cisco uses Oakley for the key exchange protocol. Oakley allows you to choose between five "well-known" groups. Cisco IOS supports group 1 (a 768 bit key) and group 2 (a 1024 bit key). Support for group 5 (a 1536 bit key) was introduced in Cisco IOS Software Release 12.1(3)T.
ISAKMP/Oakley creates an authenticated, secure tunnel between two entities, then negotiates the security association for IPSec. This process requires that the two entities authenticate themselves to each other and establish shared keys.
Both parties must be authenticated to each other. ISAKMP/Oakley supports multiple authentication methods. The two entities must agree on a common authentication protocol through a negotiation process using either RSA signatures, RSA encrypted nonces, or pre-shared keys.
Both parties must have a shared session key in order to encrypt the ISAKMP/Oakley tunnel. The Diffie-Hellman protocol is used to agree on a common session key. The exchange is authenticated as described above to guard against "man-in-the-middle" attacks.
These two steps, authentication and key exchanges, create the ISAKMP/Oakley session association (SA), which is a secure tunnel between the two devices. One side of the tunnel offers a set of algorithms; the other side must then accept one of the offers or reject the entire connection. When the two sides have agreed on which algorithms to use, they must derive key material to use for IPSec with AH, ESP, or both.
IPSec uses a different shared key than ISAKMP/Oakley. The IPSec shared key can be derived by using Diffie-Hellman again to ensure perfect forward secrecy, or by refreshing the shared secret derived from the original Diffie-Hellman exchange that generated the ISAKMP/Oakley SA by hashing it with pseudo-random numbers (nonces). The first method provides greater security but is slower. In most implementations, a combination of the two methods is used. That is, Diffie-Hellman is used for the first key exchange, and then local policy dictates when to use Diffie-Hellman or merely a key refresh. After this is complete, the IPSec SA is established.
Both RSA signatures and RSA encrypted nonces require the public key of the remote peer and they also require the remote peer to have your local public key. Public keys are exchanged in ISAKMP in the form of certificates. These certificates are obtained by enrolling in the Certificate Authority (CA). Currently, if there is no certificate in the router, ISAKMP does not negotiate the protection suite RSA signatures.
Cisco routers do not create certificates. Routers create keys, and request certificates for those keys. The certificates, which bind the routers' keys to their identities, are created and signed by certificate authorities. This is an administrative function, and the certificate authority always requires some sort of verification that the users are who they say they are. This means you cannot just create new certificates on the fly.
The communicating machines exchange preexisting certificates that they have obtained from certificate authorities. The certificates themselves are public information, but the corresponding private keys must be available to anybody who wants to use a certificate to prove identity. But they also must be kept secret from anybody who should not be able to use that identity.
A certificate may identify a user or a machine. It depends on the implementation. Most early systems probably use a certificate to identify a machine. If a certificate identifies a user, the private key corresponding to that certificate has to be stored in such a way that another user on the same machine cannot use it. That generally means that either the key is kept encrypted, or that the key is kept in a smart card. The encrypted-key case is likely to be more common in early implementations. In either case, the user generally has to enter a pass phrase whenever a key is activated.
Note: ISAKMP/Oakley uses UDP port 500 for negotiation. The AH contains 51 in the Protocol Field and ESP contains 50 in the Protocol Field. Make sure you are not filtering these.
For more information on the terminology used in this technical report, refer to the Definitions section.
The working sample Cisco IOS configurations in this document came directly from lab routers. The only alteration made to them was the removal of unrelated interface configurations. All of the material here came from freely available resources on the Internet or in the Related Information section at the end of this document.
Authentication via pre-shared keys is a non-public key alternative. Using this method, each peer shares a secret key that has been exchanged out-of-band and configured into the router. The ability for each side to demonstrate knowledge of this secret (without explicitly mentioning it) authenticates the exchange. This method is adequate for small installations but does have scaling problems. A pre-shared key of "sharedkey" is used below. If hosts share address-based preshared keys, they must use their address identity, which is the default in Cisco IOS Software, so it does not show in the configuration:
crypto isakmp identity address
Note: There are situations where ISAKMP cannot establish policy and keys for IPSec. If there is no certificate defined in the router and there are only public key-based authentication methods in ISAKMP policy, or if there is no certificate and no pre-shared keys for the peer (either shared directly by address or by a hostname that has been configured with that address), then ISAKMP cannot negotiate with the peer and IPSec does not work.
The following graphic represents the network diagram for this configuration.
Here are configurations for two routers (a Cisco 2511 and a Cisco 2516) back-to-back doing IPSec and ISAKMP authentication based on a preshared key. Comment lines are indicated by an exclamation point as the first character and are ignored if entered into the router. In the configuration below, comments precede certain configuration lines in order to describe them.
In this scenario, a shared secret key is not created. Each router generates its own RSA key. Then each router needs to configure the peer's RSA public key. This is a manual process and has obvious scaling limitations. In other words, a router needs to have a public RSA key for each peer with which it wishes to have a security association.
The following document represents the network diagram for this sample cofiguration.
In this example, each router generates an RSA key pair (you never see the RSA private key you generate) and configures the remote peers' public RSA key.
This example uses RSA signatures, which require the use of a CA server. Each peer obtains certificates from the CA server (this is usually a workstation that is configured to issue certificates). When both peers have valid CA certificates, they automatically exchange RSA public keys with each other as part of ISAKMP negotiation. All that is required in this scenario is for each peer to have registered with a CA and obtained a certificate. A peer no longer needs to keep public RSA keys of all the peers in a network.
Also, notice that an ISAKMP policy is not specified because you are using the default policy, which is shown below:
test1-isdn(config)#ip host cert-author 10.19.54.46
test1-isdn(config)#crypto key gen rsa usage
The name for the keys will be: test1-isdn.cisco.com
Choose the size of the key modulus in the range of 360 to 2048 for your
Signature Keys. Choosing a key modulus greater than 512 may take
a few minutes.
How many bits in the modulus [512]:
Generating RSA keys ...
[OK]
Choose the size of the key modulus in the range of 360 to 2048 for your
Encryption Keys. Choosing a key modulus greater than 512 may take
a few minutes.
How many bits in the modulus [512]:
Generating RSA keys ...
[OK]
Next, the CA configuration is defined with a tag called "test1-isdn-ultra" and defines the CA name URL. Then, authenticate with the CA server and obtain a certificate. Finally, keep checking to make sure you have received "Available" certificates for use.
The following graphic represents the network diagram for this sample configuration.
The sample configuration below is taken from two Cisco 1600 routers that have previously obtained CA certificates (as shown above) and intend to do ISAKMP with "rsa-sig" as the authentication policy. Only traffic between the two remote Ethernet LANs is encrypted. | {
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No7 Boots Middlesbrough Event
Wednesday night I was lucky enough to attend a Boots event which was based out of the Middlesbrough store. This event was set up to introduce us to the full range of No7 make-up and skin care products. I have always loved the foundation from the No7 range but have never ventured further into there products than this, after last night I can't help but ask myself why?
The event started with meeting the wonderful staff and other bloggers along with home made brownies and cake *yummy* - in my eyes this is the best way to start anything! After stuffing our faces we went down stairs onto the shop floor; with one to ones from the lovely, most wonderful, beauty counter ladies we were able to understand what products we should and shouldn't be wearing, along with how best to care for our skin types! I would highly recommend the Middlesbrough Boots No7 make up ladies if you have any questions or queries - I can find myself been slightly intimidated by make up counter staff, if you work on a make up counter this is nothing personal; just my own insecurities, yet the ladies on the No 7 counter were so friendly and welcoming they were a breath of fresh air.
After having my skin color matched, which I must say is a great piece of technology, I was able to select a foundation that suited my skin perfectly. With the help of the No.7 ladies I selected the Protect & Perfect Foundation. I have used it twice since the event and I must say I made the perfect choice, wearing a foundation that matches your skin really makes a massive difference. I also picked up the Beautiful Skin, Overnight Radiance Boost which I am yet to try but I am super excited about.
Overall, I had a fabulous night and I cannot wait to return and treat myself to some more goodies! I especially have my eye on the Pop & Glow Cream Blush Stick! | {
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A daring holdup in the Jewelry store of Abraham Edson, 135 Bowery, near Grand Street, was frustrated last night when Henry H. Edson, son of the proprietor, opened fire with an automatic pistol on two swarthy-skinned, undersized robbers and put them to flight. View Full Article in Timesmachine »
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After billionaire ex-client testifies, man who sold $20M in fake French wine gets 10 years
Many of the super-rich who collectively spent over $30 million on fake wine vintages sold to them by a single individual don’t want the publicity involved in admitting they were cheated.
But billionaire William Koch isn’t among them. An avid wine collector, he has spent millions in efforts to collect what is likely a fraction of that amount in civil damages from Rudy Kurniawan and at least one other seller of bogus bottles. And, when he got the chance, Koch didn’t hesitate to testify in a criminal trial against Kurniawan, who was convicted of mail and wire fraud in December by a federal jury in Manhattan.
On Thursday, Kurniawan was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Prosecutors say he sold Koch and others more than $20 million in fake French wine vintages that he created in his home kitchen, and, as more victims came forward during the case, prosecutors now tally Kurniawan’s total take at over $30 million, reports Bloomberg.
At sentencing, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman also required Kurniawan to forfeit millions of dollars in assets. The defendant’s lawyer, who says Kurniawan now has nothing left, had sought a lesser prison term to allow him to try to settle with those he has defrauded.
Koch had also pursued civil litigation against Kurniawan in California state court, which was settled last month. Bloomberg doesn’t report the settlement terms.
Part of his concern reportedly is cleaning up the top wine-selling industry rather than simply recouping his losses. Like fake art, bogus bottles are hard to eliminate and have a tendency to be resold, the article notes.
Additional and related coverage:
ABAJournal.com: “Elated billionaire wins $380K in federal suit over fake wine; he may have spent $10M in legal fees”
ABAJournal.com: “‘Rothko’ painting bought for $7.2M was a fake painted in a garage, purchaser says in lawsuit” | {
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5 Tips to Make Your Website More User-Friendly
With so many websites and companies selling similar products or services, one company’s weakness can be another one’s gain. This is especially true for websites, which are often the first line of introduction a potential customer or client has to a business. Websites that are user-friendly, along with fresh and updated content are likely to draw in a higher number of customers, in comparison to a website that is not user friendly, or a site that appears to be outdated. Creating a user-friendly layout is quite simple, and can be just what your business needs for future success.
So why is a user-friendly website so important?
A user-friendly website is an essential part of any successful business. For a large number of visitors, a company’s website is what can make or break its image. A website can be thought of as the first step in making a statement to the online world. You only get a few seconds to make that impression, so make it the best.
Just as you would not want to make a bad first impression in-person, a website that is not user friendly can be just as harmful. There are a number of steps you can take to determine whether your website is user-friendly, and how to make the necessary corrections if you think that your website is lagging behind.
Use a clean layout – a clean layout is an essential part of any website. If you are not sure whether your website has a clean layout, take a close look at the content, as well as the links and navigation. A website that is jumbled with links or text can be confusing and off-putting to potential customers. With too many words or links cluttering the page, the reader may get discouraged and ultimately leave the website for a more user-friendly site. Make sure that your navigation is clean and concise, and that visitors can easily find the information they are likely looking for.
Make content easily accessible – keep in mind that many people do not have time to sit down and read all of the information on your website. For this reason, it is crucial to keep paragraphs, and text in general, to a minimum. Instead of writing in paragraphs, try adding in a few sentences at a time. You can make the page more exciting and break up any wordy areas by including pictures or links.
Ensure that your site is mobile-friendly – many consumers have access to the internet – and your website – through a mobile device. Keep this in mind when you are determining how you can make your website more user-friendly. Consumers on the go will appreciate having access to your website at all times, which can help to enhance your business.
Make the website visually appealing – the more attractive your website, the more likely it is to lure in customers. Although dedicated customers may put up with an unattractive website, potential customers will likely go elsewhere to do business. You can avoid this problem by incorporating a simple, yet stylish layout, with a soothing color scheme. Avoid crowding the site with graphics or using distracting images and animations.
Clear and distinct calls-to-action. You do not want people hunting to find your contact information or details about the services you provide. Make your calls-to-action prominent and distinct from everything else on your page. You want them to be the most important aspect of the page so users don’t have to guess about what to do next. When a user has to guess, they’ll likely end up leaving your site.
These are some very basic prinicples and a great first step in creating a site that will deliver results. If your website is not user-friendly, you may be losing clients and forcing potential customers to go elsewhere, which is the exact opposite of what you want to do. Of course, if you need help, we’re here for you. | {
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Chapter 2960
Part 2960.0700
2960.0700 STANDARDS FOR TREATMENT IN LOCKED SETTING.
Subpart 1.
Limitations on admissions; treatment in locked setting.
A residential mental health program offering treatment in a locked setting must address the use of a locked setting in its statement of intended use. Before accepting a resident for admission to a locked setting in a residential mental health program, the license holder must meet the criteria in items A and B.
A.
The resident's record must include a written statement that a diagnostic assessment conducted according to Minnesota Statutes, section 245.4871, subdivision 11, has established that a persistent pattern of the resident's mental health presents a likely threat of harm to the resident's self or others that would best be treated in a locked setting.
(4)
(5)
includes a plan for discharge from treatment in a locked setting to a less restrictive treatment environment when it is consistent with the resident's ability to be in a less restrictive environment; and
(6)
is reviewed weekly by the program director to determine the level of treatment needed, unless the resident's individual treatment plan specifically states that the resident's prognosis or court-imposed conditions merit review of the individual treatment plan at less frequent intervals. In any case, the interval for the review of the individual treatment plan may not exceed 90 days.
Subp. 2.
Prohibited placements.
The license holder must not admit a child for treatment in a locked setting as a disposition resulting from adjudication of an offense under the juvenile code without meeting the diagnostic assessment requirements of subpart 1, item A, nor transfer a resident from an unlocked part of a residential facility to a locked part of the same facility solely as a disciplinary measure for violating the rules of conduct of the treatment facility.
Subp. 3.
Staff ratio.
During waking hours, the part of the facility providing treatment in a locked setting must provide at least a ratio of one treatment staff person to three residents. The staff-to-resident ratio for treatment in a locked facility does not apply during waking hours when residents are attending school out of that part of the facility. During sleeping hours, the part of the facility providing treatment in a locked setting must provide at least two treatment staff persons to nine residents. At least one of the two treatment staff persons required during sleeping hours must be awake and present in that part of the facility. If the required second staff person is not awake and present in the locked setting, the program must ensure that the second staff person is in the immediate vicinity and may be readily contacted either by telephone, radio, or alarm to come to the immediate assistance of the staff person in the locked part of the facility.
Subp. 4.
Additional staff training.
In addition to the training required in part 2960.0660, staff providing treatment in a locked setting must have at least eight hours of additional training annually in subjects that will improve the staff's ability to deal with residents who present a risk of harm to themselves or others.
Subp. 5.
Compliance with codes.
A facility must, prior to offering mental health treatment in a locked setting, comply with additional health, fire, or building code requirements that the commissioner of human services, state fire marshal, or Department of Health requires. | {
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Communities are always changing. ArtPlace America is attempting to influence the course of change in a positive way through creative placemaking.
Arts-related activity plays a key role in contributing to the kind of quality of place that attracts and retains talented people and enables people to put all of their talent to work. These kinds of flourishing places generate additional innovation and economic activity, which broadly benefits the entire community. ArtPlace is investing nationally in a range of arts projects that explore different ways to promote creative placemaking. And ArtPlace America has developed the Vibrancy Indicators to measure change in the places it invests and to provide a vehicle for others interested in creative placemaking to explore their impact.
The Vibrancy Indicators were selected to provide a nationally available and consistent set of measures, available at the neighborhood level. The Vibrancy Indicators will be used to measure changes in the communities in which ArtPlace America invests and will made publicly available for use by others interested in measuring community vibrancy. The indicators were developed in consultation with a panel of national experts on placemaking and community development.
We expect to use the Vibrancy Indicators for two different purposes. First, we’ll use the Vibrancy Indicators to measure the change in people, activity and value in the communities in which ArtPlace America invests and assess the overall impact of the ArtPlace America portfolio on these neighborhoods. We aim to develop a better understanding of the kinds of projects and contextual factors which seem to affect creative placemaking. Second, we will make the Vibrancy Indicators widely available to others as a way of stimulating further discussion and exploration of this topic.
The Indicators
The indicators are divided into three broad areas: People, Activity and Value. For the initial version of the Indicators, we have developed both the people and activity indicators. We are still gathering data on appropriate value indicators, which will be added later. The following table summarizes the ten indicators, their data sources, and their underlying geographic detail.
People Indicators
1. Population Density
Population measures the number of persons living in a neighborhood.
Rationale: Vibrant neighborhoods contain a density of local population. Increasing population is an indicator of increasing vibrancy.
Source: Census 2010
Geographic Detail: Census Block/block
2. Employment Rate
The employment-population ratio measures the economic well-being and engagement of the local population. It is constructed by counting the number of employed residents living in a particular geography (Census Block) and dividing that number by the working age persons living on that same block. The employment population ratio is computed as the number of employed local residents divided by 2010 working age population (18 to 64).
Rationale: Vibrant neighborhoods have a high fraction of their residents of working age who are employed. Increases in vibrancy are evidenced by increases in the fraction of the working age population who are employed.
3. Percentage of Workers in Creative Occupations
This measure counts the fraction of working neighborhood residents who report that their occupation is either in the category “artists, writers, entertainers” or the category “architects, engineers and designers.” These data are collected by place of residence, not place of work, and include self-employed persons.
Rationale: Vibrant neighborhoods have higher than average concentrations of residents who are employed in the arts, writing, performing and other similar occupations.
Source: American Community Survey
Geographic Detail: Census Tract
Activity Indicators
4. Number of Indicator Businesses
Indicator businesses are those businesses most associated with vibrancy. They are businesses that represent destinations of choice for cultural, recreational, consumption or social activity. Indicator business density is a count of the number of indicator businesses in each cell.
Rationale: Vibrant areas have high concentrations of indicator businesses.
Indicator businesses include firms in 45 selected industry codes including eating and drinking places, shops, personal service establishments and other businesses that cater to consumers.
5. Number of Jobs in the Community
Our employment measure counts the number of jobs at businesses in a neighborhood. Jobs are measured by place of employment, not by place of residence, and job holders may or may not be neighborhood residents.
Rationale: Vibrant neighborhoods have abundant local job opportunities. Increases in employment are an indicator of improving vibrancy.
Definition: Number of jobs in each cell, by place of work
Source: LEHD
Geographic Detail: Census Bock
6. Walkability (Walk Score)
Walk Score measures the walkability of a neighborhood, based on the presence and proximity of walkable destinations.
Rationale: Vibrant neighborhoods have many destinations within walking distance.
Our measure looks at the pervasiveness and distribution of walkability throughout an area by computing the Walk Score for a number of points in the neighborhood.
Source: FrontSeat
Geographic Detail: Points (Street addresses).
7. Number of Mixed Use Blocks
The Mixed Use Indicator measures the extent to which a particular area is dominated by residential activity or employment activity or whether it is a balance of the two.
Rationale: Vibrant neighborhoods contain a mix of jobs and residences.
The mixed use measure is computed as the fraction of Census blocks with non-zero levels of reported employment and resident population.
8. Cell Phone Activity
This measure captures the relative level of cell phone activity in an area on nights and weekends.
Rationale: Vibrant neighborhoods have relatively high levels of activity on nights and weekends and are places people congregate away from home and outside of regular 9 to 5 business hours.
Our underlying data scores each 100-meter square cell in every metropolitan area on a scale of 1 to 10 based on the level of cell phone activity for each of 168 hours in a given week. Our indicator will be the average score for hours after 5pm on Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday. This will indicate the amount of activity occurring outside regular workday hours hours.
Source: SpotRank
Geographic Detail: 100-meter cells
9. Percentage of Independent Businesses
The independent business measure computes the number and share of local businesses that are not part of national chains.
This measure is calculated by examining the ownership of eating places. Eating places (restaurants, fast food establishments and similar businesses) are the most numerous and widespread indicator businesses. We identified the 200 largest national eating place chains and treated all other businesses as locally owned.
10. Number of Creative Industry Jobs
This measure estimates the number of persons employed at businesses in arts, entertainment, media, and related industries. These data are computed by place of work, not by place of residence, and include wage and salary workers for firms with a payroll, but not self-employed persons and businesses with no taxable payroll.
Rationale: Vibrant neighborhoods have higher than average concentrations of workers employed in businesses that involve information, media, arts and creative endeavors.
Source: Zip Business Patterns
Geographic Detail: Zip Code
Data Aggregation
Data for the vibrancy indicators are available in a variety of different geographies. Some data are points (business addresses); others are grouped by a standardized area, such as Census Tract or Zip Code area. For some purposes, we will report data in their native geography, but for other purposes—to make consistent evaluations across space—we’ll use GIS tools to aggregate these data into other units. For example, for ArtPlace projects, we’ll prepare standardized data reports analyzing data for a selected one-half mile (800 meter radius). To make comparisons across metropolitan areas, we’ll aggregate data into half-mile square cells.
Other Indicators
We will extend and complement these Vibrancy Indicators in two ways. First, we will develop measures of value, which capture changes in rental and ownership values related to neighborhood change. We expect that over time, the market will capitalize improved livability into observable value.
Also, to measure the extent and nature of demographic change within neighborhoods, ArtPlace has also developed two measures of the economic and racial diversity of the nation’s neighborhoods. These measures are the racial and ethnic diversity index and the mixed-income, middle income index. A recurring issue in creative placemaking is whether the process of neighborhood change leads to places becoming less economically and racially diverse. ArtPlace will use these two measures to track diversity over time. There is strong evidence that social and economic outcomes for disadvantaged populations are better in more economically integrated communities.
Finally, we want to explore the relationship between vibrancy and the arts in more detail. So in addition to the Vibrancy Indicators, we have developed other specific measures of the level of arts-related businesses and non-profit arts activity at the neighborhood level. Here we measure the number of business establishments in specific arts-related categories and the number of registered non-profit organizations primarily engaged in arts related activities, taken from data compiled by the National Center for Charitable Statistics.
The Vibrancy Indicators were developed by Impresa’s Joe Cortright and Dillon Mahmoudi in collaboration with the ArtPlace team. In developing the indicators, we benefited from the advice and counsel of a diverse team of national experts that shared their insights about creative placemaking.
For answers to frequently asked questions about the Vibrancy Indicators and how they will be used, read our FAQ page. | {
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Dependent Care Travel Fund
Funds are available to support faculty attending academic conferences and/or conducting research away from campus who have child care responsibilities which may make this difficult. Awards of up to $750 per academic year (July 1- June 30) are available to assist regular faculty (Lecturers, Senior Lecturers, Assistant Professors, Associate Professors and Professors), with expenses incurred in association with professional travel. Examples of expenses that may be supported include additional, above-the-ordinary, hours of care for dependents at home; contracting for childcare at a conference or research site; or transporting a dependent and/or professional caregiver to a conference location or research site. Spouses, partners, and other family members are not normally eligible for travel expenses or compensation. To apply for funding please complete this online form, or send a written application to Dean of the Faculty, Box 1857, attention Anne Windham. Applications must be received at least two weeks in advance of travel, and should include details of the conference or other event, an explanation of its importance for professional development, the name and age of the dependent requiring care, a description of the arrangements for which support is requested, and a budget. Please note that under current tax law, this is treated as a taxable benefit and is subject to tax withholding. | {
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Re: Favorite hobby?
Playing with my two beautiful dogs, sleeping, reading, eating, taking pictures with my oh-so-beautiful camera, hanging with friends, going to youth group, watching movies.... posting with the oh-so-cool people on the BFFC! *shameless brown-nosing*
Re: Favorite hobby?
my hobbies are Darts, writting and playing music, listening to music (preferably punk rock), trying to use my mac to its full potential, shopping for star wars toys and reading (anything by Asimov, Tolkien or Hunter S. Thompson). Mabey fishing should be in here too............and watching Buffy!
Re: Favorite hobby?
I get little free time so when I get a moment I like to either sit and do nothing (LOL when you are so busy you appreciate doing nothing at times ) I also like sewing and reading.
Devil boy and I have started getting Games workshop stuff so when we move into a bigger place we will be able to start playing that again. We will be playing Warhammer, Mordheim and Necromunda as well as the battle at skull pass box set that we got recently. LOL it is a shame that I no longer work for them as I could have got a nice discount on the stuff
Jedi photographer - May the focus be with me.[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/devil_girl/]Photographs[/url] | {
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A recent blast from a dying star has left astronomers, gaping in awe at the sheer magnitude. A distant eruption, classified now as a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) and named GRB 130427A, has now set the record for the brightest GRB ever. NASA’s Swift satellite and Fermi-LAT, both specialized for the gamma ray part of the spectrum, have recorded this mind-boggling event. Julie McEnery, project scientist for NASA’s Fermi-LAT, said that this was a “shockingly, eye-wateringly bright” burst.
An artist’s impression of a GRB. Note the strong jets on either side of the collapsing star. (Courtesy: wikimedia commons)
What are GRBs?
Gamma Ray Bursts are the most powerful explosions known to mankind that occur in the Universe, ranked second right after the Big Bang itself. GRBs occur when an extremely massive star collapses into a massive black hole, and the material falling into the black hole heats up so much that it radiates in the gamma ray region of the spectrum. These jets of gamma rays puncture the material envelope of the dying star and can be detected from a long distance. Unlike smaller supernova (which happen for moderately large stars), GRBs are responsible for throwing out a large amount of energy in the surrounding space, often energizing the gas around and making it glow. The duration for such a burst might last from a few milliseconds to minutes or even hours and the burning embers can often be seen for days and months. We generally count the time for which the radiation energy exceeds the GeV (giga-electron volt) threshold, which is about a billion times more energetic than visible light.
Our GRB
For our present GRB, the GeV radiation lasted for hours and it was observed by Fermi-LAT, a space based gamma ray telescope, for a long time. Even ground based telescopes caught more than a glimpse of the GRB. The Swift satellite caught the first glimpse, as it is designated to do, during one of its rounds. Energetic emissions were recorded by Fermi-LAT, with one of the gamma ray lines having an energy of 94 GeV.
This animation is made by stacking a large number of images taken by the Fermi-LAT satellite from 3 minutes before the burst to 14 hours later. You can clearly see the burst and then the radiation flux drops and plateaus off. The burst then rose in flux again and stayed bright (GeV energy lines were abundant) over several hours. (Courtesy: NASA/DOE/Fermi-LAT collaboration)
Apart from the strong gamma emission lines in the spectrum, there are also lines present in the infrared, visible and radio wavelengths. These were detected by ground-based telescopes. The distance of the burst was estimated to be 3.6 billion light years away, which is actually quite small when it comes to GRBs. This falls within the 5% of the closest GRBs ever recorded.
This is exciting and a lot of backup measurements will follow this initial detection.
Is a science geek, currently pursuing some sort of a degree (called a PhD) in Physics at TIFR, Mumbai. An enthusiastic but useless amateur photographer, his most favourite activity is simply lazing around. He is interested in all things interesting and scientific.
Debjyoti Bardhan has written
425 articles for us and can be contacted at
[email protected]. | {
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I recently ran a little competition for Loreos members of Lands of Classic Castle entitled Thirst! Entrants had to create a build showing their LCC character somehow quenching their thirst in the arid desert. Nine people entered and I would appreciate your opinion in choosing a winner. If you’d like to cast a vote details of how to do so are hereVoting is open until Sunday 4th November 2012 12pm GMT. | {
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He was a Taliban commander captured by the United States and held at Guantanamo Bay. But he was let go and returned to Afghanistan. Mullah Abdul Rauf went on to become a recruiter for ISIS in Afghanistan.
With news that several prominent New York museums have banned the use of selfie sticks -- those loved/hated devices that allow you to take photos of yourself without your arm being in the photo -- hitting headlines last week, one could be forgiven for asking "do people actually take selfies in museums?" | {
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Monday, September 15, 2008
Descending
All, we have had a second descending accident in the past few weeks. First our mega-mile friend Steve Roberts and now this note (emailed from John Barrett):
"Good morning!
Many of you know Derek and Kelly Kazlowksi from the Cancun ride on Wednesday and other rides. Derek was coming down Hogback Saturday solo, had a flat in a turn, and went down hard. He got quite a bit of road rash, cracked three ribs, fractured his scapula, and had a partially collapsed lung. He lay in the middle of the road, unable to move because he could hardly breath (from the collapsed lung). He used one foot to drag his bike to him, get his phone out of the seat bag, and called 911. A kind resident, coming down the mountain, stayed with him until the ambulance arrived. (Fortunately, they stopped since Derek was still in the middle of the road!) After the ambulance took him down the mountain to Harmon Field, he was airlifted to Spartanburg Regional. He is home this morning and I’m sure would appreciate any e-mails. | {
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A Reluctant Pantheism: Discovering the Divine in Nature
A RELUCTANT PANTHEISM is one man’s lifelong attempt to understand the relationship between God and nature. The conclusions that he draws from his direct encounters with the wild conflict with most of the belief systems he explores along the way. While considering thousands of years of religion, philosophy and science, as well as his own experiences, the author looks for a common thread running through all nature-based worldviews with regard to what is real. Is there a driving force in nature that creates order out of chaos? For some of those who ask this question the door remains wide open to the infinite possibilities of the great unknown. | {
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Trendy Gourmet Restaurant in Padstow
ABOUT
Burgers & Fish is a trendy concept 60 seater gourmet restaurant in the heart of Padstow, North Cornwall. The atmosphere in our restaurant is friendly and relaxed with it’s large and comfortable leather booths and seating, making it the perfect place for lunch or dinner any day of the week. It’s one of the top Padstow restaurants.
FOOD
Here at Burgers & Fish food is cooked barbeque style on an open fire charcoal grill. Our range of mouth-watering gourmet burgers includes favourites like The American, Full English, Piggy & Matador with a gluten free bun option available. There is a great range of fish dishes as well as meat specials like overnight cooked beef brisket in Winter season, or fresh local lobster grilled on the barbeque in Summer time. We make our own tomato sauce, picalilli and other preserves that are available to buy at the restaurant. Have a sweet tooth? Pop in for a cream tea or a cake. Kid’s menu is also available with a range of mini burgers, desserts and milkshakes. At Burgers & Fish we have something for everyone to enjoy. Takeway is also available.
CELEBRATIONS
Book your party with us. We have seating for up to 60 people and if your group is large we can offer a separate room for your celebrations. It’s a great place to celebrate your hen party, anniversary, special birthday or hold a meeting .Give us a call and we will be happy to discuss your requirements.
LOCATION
We are in the heart of picturesque Padstow, a fishing village on the North Coast of Cornwall situated on the West Bank of the river Camel Estuary. Padstow is the start and end point for the Camel Cycle Trail, it also makes a good base for exploring the South West Coastal footpath.
Burgers & Fish can be found close to the harbour on the First Floor, at 1A The Strand, PL28 8AJ, Padstow. | {
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MALACCA: The state is going ahead with plans to build a revolving tower within the buffer zone in Bandar Hilir.
Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam said the tower project costing RM15mil would be built opposite the tourist police station near the Studthuys.
"We are doing tests for piling work now. The project will begin once TNB, TM and Syarikat Air Melaka have shifted their underground pipes and cables," he told reporters after the state government meeting Thursday.
Mohd Ali said he had directed the three companies to complete their pipe and cable relocation within one month.
"The work to shift the pipes and cables has held back the project," he said, adding that the tower was expected to be completed in a year.
yeah, I saw that construction too. As u said, hopefully it's the five star hotel that u mentioned. But my father said it is going to be a waterfront project, hopefully that is a false statement.
What I was told is going to be a water front project as well.If it is,i hope they will build a proper project rather than those built and abandoned projects+_+ However,it could also be the new low rise Four seasons hotel
What I was told is going to be a water front project as well.If it is,i hope they will build a proper project rather than those built and abandoned projects+_+ However,it could also be the new low rise Four seasons hotel
Another hotel project ?
actually wat to U think? are the hotels in Malacca over supply ? or still in demand ?
The below news stated that there is a 24 hours shopping complex planned near ayer keroh toll. Not sure whether it is a government owned complex. Government owned shopping complexes like Melaka Sentral Bazaar are not my favourite place to shop normally. | {
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Engineers from the Military Traffic Management Command Transportation Engineering Agency (MTMCTEA) recently participated in a Center for the Commercial Deployment of Transportation Technologies (CCDoTT) evaluation of the feasibility of commercial high speed sealift (HSS) during future deployments. The evaluation was conducted in cooperation with the Military Sealift Command, the U.S. Maritime Administration, U.S. Transportation Command, U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff – Operations and Plans, Naval Surface Weapons Center (NSWC) Carderock, and the Logistics Management Institute (LMI). CCDoTT, acting on the behalf of and under the direction of USTRANSCOM and MARAD, was responsible for the planning, coordination, and execution of the FY98 HSS evaluation. This article is intended to provide a brief summary of our participation and the future military potential of HSS.
The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) is conducting broad studies projecting to the year 2025 to frame issues vital to the Army’s development after 2010. Studies and war games show that the Army’s present firepower-centered approach may introduce unnecessary future risk, since a future enemy will have time to (a) become hardened to our firepower, (b) learn to lessen effects by deception, and (c) husband its military strength in preparation for the expected military assault. A recent example is Iraq’s dispersal and hoarding of Scuds during DESERT STORM. Pre-STORM estimates indicated Iraq possessed only 18 launchers; however, the estimates were later increased to 225. Even though Iraq’s Scuds were more of a political rather than a military threat, a significant percentage of F-15E sorties were diverted from infrastructure strikes to "Scud chasing". As we tighten our purse strings and shrink the force, battlefield economics will not allow the Army After Next (AAN) such diversions. Future conflicts will place greater emphasis on rapid deployment, reduced logistic requirements, precise directed lethality, joint battlefield integration, and rapid information distribution. HSS is a futuristic concept that may provide a means to meet such an end, but several things must fall into place to realize its potential.
First, the military must partner with commercial industry to leverage state-of-the-art technology, such as HSS, for military use to meet these aggressive demands. To achieve rapid strategic deployment, the Department of Defense continues to investigate several commercial HSS application vessels for possible future military deployment. For example, the Danish high speed ferry Cat-Link V set an Atlantic crossing speed record on 20 July 1998 of two days, 20 hours and nine minutes at an average speed of 40 knots, the first Atlantic crossing in under three days. HSS technology is an expanding market that is gaining visibility and popularity in the United States. Our ultimate objective is to determine whether existing and emerging HSS technologies have a viable military application that can solve future strategic mobility and logistic problems.
Just what is it that makes HSS so special? Well, the FY98 evaluation vessel (the INCAT 046 CAT) was designed and built by INCAT Inc., of Australia. It is a combined passenger/vehicle high-speed ferry originally designed for commercial freight/passenger service across the Bass Strait between Australia and Tasmania, the longest non-stop open-sea fast ferry route in the world (227 miles). With a surface piercing catamaran hull of 91 meters long and a beam of 23 meters, the CAT is capable of cruising at 43 knots (50 mph) with a rated load of 900 passengers and 240 privately owned vehicles. The ship’s transom-mounted waterjet propulsors are driven by four 9,500 horsepower diesel engines. By using vectored thrust from her propulsors, it is capable of precise maneuvering and docking without using tugboats. In addition, it demonstrated the capability of performing a "crashback" (i.e., coming to a dead stop) from 46 knots in just a third of a mile. This is amazing for a vessel of this size, especially compared to a modern aircraft carrier that requires approximately 2 miles to stop. With these credentials, the CAT was sure to warrant a closer look, especially with respect to the dynamic loads that such a vessel could impose on its cargo.
After completing a season of passenger runs in Australia, Bay Ferries of Canada Inc., purchased the CAT for commercial service between Bar Harbor, Maine, and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The CAT departed Hobart, Australia, on 26 April 1998 and arrived in Yarmouth on 20 May 1998. This stop provided an excellent chance for us to instrument the CAT to measure transportability data that would characterize the environment that military equipment would be required to endure. Prior to departure from Hobart, a representative from NSWC Carderock installed wave height instrumentation and engineering data recorders (EDRs) provided by MTMCTEA to measure acceleration levels at various cargo stowage locations on the vessel. Although instrumentation recovery and a military load evaluation was originally scheduled at Fort Eustis, VA, on 18 May 98, transit delays in Tahiti and the Panama Canal Zone forced cancellation of these activities. Nevertheless, the NSWC Carderock representative recovered the test instrumentation at Yarmouth for data reduction and evaluation. The data is being evaluated by Carderock and MTMCTEA to develop future HSS response models and vehicle restraint load factors for future military system design and HSS applications.
In addition to test instrumentation installation and recovery, a military vehicle loading was scheduled at Fort Eustis, home of the 7th Transportation Group, in Newport News, VA. The loading was scheduled to validate the CAT’s ability to load and transport military vehicles and to demonstrate the potential military applications to a military audience. Although the transit delay cancelled the loading, LMI and MTMCTEA felt strongly that there was valuable information to be gained from this segment. Therefore, LMI coordinated with the ship’s owners and the Maine Army National Guard (MANG) to perform a vehicle load and transit during a normal commercial operation. The MANG cooperated by providing seven military vehicles (four HMMWV ambulances, two HMMWV soft-tops, and a 5-ton truck) along with the appropriate soldier support. MTMCTEA sent three engineers/analysts to participate in the loading, combining experience in transportability engineering, operational exercises, and shipload planning. As planned, the shiploading and transit between Bar Harbor and Yarmouth was performed on 9 June 1998. The vehicles were successfully loaded and restrained during the transit, demonstrating the viability of loading light vehicles aboard this commercial ferry.
The purpose of this evaluation, the first of many planned evaluations, was to evaluate whether existing HSS technology has potential for present and future military applications. Based on our personal CAT observations and instrumentation analysis, we concluded:
1. The vessel can be used as a viable intratheater tactical marine transport.
2. Stronger decks and larger tiedown provisions would be needed to secure larger military vehicles and equipment.
3. A redesign in deck heights would be desirable as well. Available deck height on the majority of the vehicle decks was only 77-84 inches.
4. Currently there are no ISO sockets on the ship. ISO sockets and electrical outlets (for ISO containers) would be desirable.
5. The vessel would require an integral loading ramp for unimproved ports or in-stream LOTS operations.
The CAT clearly demonstrated the future potential of HSS, and it could lead to bigger and better things if expanded.
By using composite materials, new drag-reducing hull forms, digital controls, and improved engines with increased fuel efficiency, it may be possible to build a high speed strategic sealift vessel capable of transporting vehicles and materiel at speed in excess of 60 knots up to Sea State 7. If such a vessel included a troop berthing area, the reduced transit time could be used for preparation, training, and vehicle maintenance. Complete force packages could be delivered directly to the theater, reducing reception, staging, onward movement, and integration (RSOI) requirements. This would dramatically reduce the time required to transport troops and equipment from "fort to foxhole".
Furthermore, the viability of designing and building a tactical HSS vessel today is a reality. Combining existing HSS technology with passive sensors, composite materials, and reduced radar cross section (RCS), a high-speed (45 knots plus) tactical marine transport can be built to deliver small force packages within a theater of operations, i.e. a maritime equivalent of the USAF’s C-130. Such a scenario could include loading a small force package at Ad Damman, Saudi Arabia, in the afternoon, departing after dusk, and arriving in the Strait of Hormuz by dawn regardless of sea state. Both natural and man-made obstacles could be avoided using passive means such as global positioning system (GPS) navigation and downlinked data from JSTARS, unmanned aerial vehicles, and space-based reconnaissance. In keeping with the AAN philosophy, all of these options present viable considerations.
Clearly, the INCAT CAT evaluation is a good example of "thinking outside the box" to explore potential AAN applications. A joint working group representing potential future military sealift users was able to partner with industry to evaluate emerging commercial technology with an eye to future military applications; in fact, MTMCTEA was able to forge several key relationships. For example, MTMCTEA and LMI worked together to establish the viability of loading military vehicles aboard the CAT; MTMCTEA and NSWC Carderock coordinated vessel test instrumentation and data collection to characterize the dynamics of the transportation environment; and MTMCTEA, LMI, and the MANG jointly validated the capability to load and transport military vehicles aboard the CAT. MTMCTEA continues to work in concert with LMI, TRANSCOM, NSWC Carderock, MARAD, and other interested parties to establish transportability engineering criteria for emerging HSS vessel designs as well as providing HSS analysis results to future AAN analyses and simulations. As always, MTMCTEA’s goal is to optimize force projection by turning today’s visions into tomorrow’s reality.
This article reflects the thoughts and opinions of the author and does not represent the official position of MTMCTEA. We wish to acknowledge Mr. John Newman (MTMCTEA), Mr. Matt Difiore (LMI), Mr. Martin Dipper (NSWC Carderock), and the Maine Army National Guard for their exceptional support toward the successful completion of this evaluation, and Mr. John T.H. Germanos for his guidance on this article.
Author’s biography
Mr. Owen Spivey is a 1981 engineering graduate of North Carolina State University. He worked at Newport News Shipbuilding for eleven years where he was responsible for testing submarine and aircraft carrier reactor plants. He came to MTMCTEA in 1992 where he has applied his practical shipbuilding and operation knowledge to the challenge of global military deployment and transportation. His e-mail address is: [email protected]. | {
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Our top five pre holiday treatments
Zen Lifestyle Edinburgh – Our top five pre holiday treatments.
Here at Zen we thought we would make it nice and easy for you get ready for your holiday. We have made you a list of you top five ‘must have’ treatments to make you feel fab while baring all on the beach.
1. Brazilian wax – At Zen we use hot wax for our Brazilian waxing and all other bikini line waxing making the treatment results better and a lot less painful (hurrah!) A Brazilian is a must before going on any beach holiday. The result will last for weeks meaning no more shaving (and no more embarrassing shaving rashes, yes we’ve all had them!) leaving you free and hair free to enjoy your holiday.
2. Eyelash Extensions – Everyone hates the thought of no mascara during the day on holiday but we all hate the thought of panda eyes even more. Well, having Nouveau Semi Permanent Eyelash Extensions at Zen means you won’t need to think twice about either. Zen Teviot and Zen Bruntsfield both offer the Nouveau Lash Extensions, as they come in various sizes you can subtly enhance your natural lashes or go for a full on ‘Katie Price’ look should you wish!
3. Bio Sculpture 3 Week Manicure/Pedicure – Bio Sculpture Semi Permanent gels will allow to you to have salon perfect nails in either a colour or French polish for up to 3 weeks. No chipping, no smudging and no damage to your own nails – what more can we say! Available for both hands and feet.
4. Tanning treatment– After a long cold winter there’s certain parts of our body that haven’t seen the light of day for a long time. As we all know a bit of colour can hide a few lumps and bumps and make us feel more confident. Our White to Brown Spray Tan will allow to you to feel bronzed, beautiful and more confident in that bikini, while building up a natural colour meaning you have a realistic, healthy glow with no orange tones!
5. Microdermabrasion – The first couple of days on holiday can be a little nerve wracking….no make-up, skin a bit pale form all the work you had to do pre-holiday. Well this treatment could save you! Diamondtome is an advanced Microdemabrasion treatment designed to resurface and rejuvenate skin making skin smoother and fine lines less apparent. Your dead skin will be sloughed off leaving your skin clear and smooth, radiant and with natural luminosity. Perfect! | {
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72137905643243569812018-11-19T14:01:37.147-08:00ToonTricksJust another way to solve your issuesLucky [email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-2700502282110808052018-11-19T14:00:00.000-08:002018-11-19T14:01:36.988-08:00Tutorial :Oracle IDE to visually create views?<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Oracle IDE to visually = wizard (not writing sql) create views? any names? (eg like toad)</p> <p>SQL Server Management Studio = can create views visually for sql server what is same for oracle</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Have you tried <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/sql/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SQL Developer</a>? </p> <p>Once installed and connected - try the following.</p> <p>1) Right click on Views icon</p> <p>2) New View </p> <p>3) Click Advanced check box</p> <p>4) Interface appears which allows you select tables, where clauses etc.</p> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> Just thought I would point out that the above allows the use of a "wizard" type interface to create a view. Not sure if that meets your requirement of "Visual"</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Want a purley visual experience? Try <a href="http://datanamic.com/dezign/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">DeZign for Databases</a> by Datanamic. I haven't purchased the tool, but after an initial evaluation I'm wanting it. It lets you drag and drop items onto a visual designer and then generates the DDL for you.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:3<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>A little late, by here's an online designer - <a href="http://ondras.zarovi.cz/sql/demo/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">WWW SQL Designer</a></p> <p>Its mainly for MySQL but nevertheless pretty useful</p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-42304593342827773422018-11-19T13:59:00.000-08:002018-11-19T14:00:55.923-08:00Tutorial :Hudson job with Gallio tests reports âNo testsâ<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I am using Hudson as a CI server to build a few different .Net 3.5 projects. The actual build stuff works great.</p> <p>However, I run MbUnit v2 tests using Gallio.Echo as part of the build, and while the tests seem to run fine, Hudson claims that there were no tests run.</p> <p>I have the following build step right after the "Build a Visual Studio project or solution using MSBuild" step:</p> <p>Type: Execute Windows batch command Command:</p> <p>"C:\Program Files\Gallio\bin\Gallio.Echo.exe" TestLibrary\bin\Release\TestLibrary.dll /rt:Xml /rnf:mbunit-result /rd:. exit 0</p> <p>When the build is run, this gives the following output in the console log:</p> <pre><code>Gallio Echo - Version 3.1 build 313 Get the latest version at http://www.gallio.org/ Start time: 09:06 Initializing the runtime and loading plugins. Verifying test files. Initializing the test runner. Running the tests. [ignored] Test TestLibrary/ConfigTests/LoadAndSaveTest Generating reports. Disposing the test runner. Stop time: 09:07 (Total execution time: 10,210 seconds) 64 run, 64 passed, 0 failed, 0 inconclusive, 1 skipped (1 ignored) </code></pre> <p>So in my mind there is little doubt that the tests actually run - and the mbunit-result.xml file is in the right place and looking good.</p> <p>I have also configured the project to "Publish Gallio test result report", just specifying the "Test report XMLs" value as "mbunit-result.xml".</p> <p>To try to figure this out, I configured the Gallio plugin (through the jobs' config.xml file) to leave the jUnit files (that the Gallio plugin creates from the MbUnit test results) in place, and I took a look at the junitResult.xml file - the weird thing is that each and every of the "cases" element of each suite is empty. I.e. a suite can look like this:</p> <pre><code><suite> <file>C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.hudson\jobs\TestProject\workspace\temporary-junit-reports\TEST-TestLibrary.Encryption_Tests.xml</file> <name>TestLibrary.Encryption_Tests</name> <duration>0.0</duration> <cases/> </suite> </code></pre> <p>As far as I know, the section is where the individual unit tests should reside. Also, duration shouldn't be 0.0.</p> <p>As you can see above, my Gallio version is 3.1 build 313. Could this be caused by changes in the report format of this Gallio version (just a guess, I don't know of any such changes)?</p> <p>I am running on Hudson v1.323, with the Gallio plugin v0.52. Any insight on how to get Hudson to see the test results would be highly appreciated!</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Yes, it's due to the xml format of gallio 3.1 which changed. Have a look here, where I propose a test file to resolve this problem....</p> <p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/mb-unit/issues/detail?id=399" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://code.google.com/p/mb-unit/issues/detail?id=399</a></p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Is <code>mbunit-result.xml</code> at the root of your workspace? You can check by using the workspace browser. If it is not at the root of the workspace, I would suggest specifying the path in the Gallio plugin config.</p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-8811370804925417482018-11-19T13:39:00.000-08:002018-11-19T13:40:40.951-08:00Tutorial :Editing business objects in Winforms DataGridView<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Is possible to edit properties of business object (one property, one column) binded as BindingList to Winforms DataGridView?</p> <p>Or do I have to use DataSet or DataTable?</p> <p>I'm not able to get a cell to edit mode.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Yes it is possible check out BindingList.</p> <p>Otherwise the book Data Binding in Windows Forms 2.0 by Brian Noyes is an excellent reference book CH9 deals specifically with Binding Custom Business Objects.</p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-55395532469671343532018-11-19T13:19:00.000-08:002018-11-19T13:20:41.758-08:00Tutorial :MVC and JQuery: Best pratice for retrieving form data<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I have some JQuery that uses Ajax to send information back to my controller to be processed</p> <p>I am doing it like this:</p> <pre><code>//Define my controls <%=Html.TextBox("PName", Model.PName, new { id = "pName" })%> ... .... .... //Get the values from my controls var param1= $("#pName").val(); .... .... //Define the return URL. Is this how to send info back? var url = '<%= Url.Content("~/Port/SaveRowAjax") %>/?ID=' + id + "&param1=" + param1 + "&param2=" + param2 + "&param3=" + param3 + "&param4=" + param4 + "&param5=" + param5; $.ajax({ url: url, success: function(html) { alert("Success!"); }, }); //My c# code, that processes the request public void SaveRowAjax(string param1 ....) { ... } </code></pre> <p>Is this the best way of doing it with MVC?<br> It seems a bit messy when i am contructing the URL to post back to the server</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Try using <a href="http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/serializeArray" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SerializeArray</a> for submitting your form items. It'll box all their values into a JSON object.</p> <pre><code>var link = "/Port/SaveRowAjax"; var formData = $(":input").serializeArray(); $.post(link,formData); </code></pre> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>You can try to use such syntax with jQuery</p> <pre><code>$.post(link, {param1: param1, param2: param2 }); </code></pre> </div><h3> <br> Solution:3<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>The way that works for me is this:</p> <pre><code>jQuery.ajax({ url: '@Url.Action("SaveRowAjax", "Port")', type: 'POST', contentType: 'application/json', data: JSON.stringify({ param1: param1, param2: param2, param3: param3 }), success: function (result) { } }); </code></pre> </div><h3> <br> Solution:4<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Theres a few ways to do this. I prefer the method outlined here: </p> <p><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/mikebosch/archive/2008/02/15/asp-net-mvc-submitting-ajax-form-with-jquery.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://weblogs.asp.net/mikebosch/archive/2008/02/15/asp-net-mvc-submitting-ajax-form-with-jquery.aspx</a> </p> <p>Yes, it is based on an older version of MVC but the real beef of the technique is the use of jQuery (which hasnt changed).</p> <p>One limitation of the technique is that it wont work with file uploads, however, there is a jQuery plugin for doing ajax form posts that does support file uploads (I think through a hidden iframe).</p> <p>edit: I think the best reason to use this technique is that if the user has javascript disabled, the form will still work.</p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-76675883945326727912018-11-19T13:02:00.000-08:002018-11-19T13:04:22.569-08:00Tutorial :Splitting of development team [closed]<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I was organizing the team to do parallel development of next version of the product. I grouped the team by </p> <ol> <li>Client specific </li> <li>Feature specific</li> </ol> <p>Handling the cross-functional issues by assigning that task to specific individual.</p> <p>Would like to know what other ways project managers/ leads group teams?</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>It doesn't matter so much how you do your split but there are pitfalls when splitting a development team that you need to be aware of. </p> <p>The level of integration determines how much risk you have. Separate software products that happen to share some libraries have very little risk. Highly integrated runtime components pose significantly more risk.</p> <p>The worst possible situation that you can find yourself in is where there is a dependency between teams to deliver a feature but no clear ownership. For example, team A is waiting on team B for a "back end service" but team B argues that the service is complete. Team A says the service does not meet all the requirements. But team B has moved on to new features. And so on....</p> <p>I've seen this us vs. them attitude literally grinding development to a halt. To combat this behavior, encourage cross team pairing and shared code ownership. Rotate team members from time-to-time. Make sure there is a single responsible person who will make a feature happen end-to-end.</p> <p>A team dedicated to developing reusable modules usually doesn't work. It because a collection of modules of dubious value and a governance nightmare. The best reusable modules comes from teams who deliver similar features and identify overlap themselves.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>We group people by product specific in our organization. Each team writes code for a specific product. When features of a product intersects with another product, sometimes they collaborate on that feature. We do a lot of compartmentalizing, so its possible. </p> <p>Write plenty of reusable modules. Thats the key.</p> <p>My organization also does client specific work only for large clients.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:3<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I am a firm believer of pair programming, I would team such that one pair would manage and write test cases (tdd) while other one would code it. I would build up a team based on the same theme. </p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:4<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <ol> <li>If your product involves more than one technology then, You can group teams techno wise</li> <li>skillsets</li> </ol> </div><h3> <br> Solution:5<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>The key is to allow each team to follow the same standards, but be able to work as independently (decoupled) as possible. </p> <p>If its the same code base across your clients you probably don't want to split the team by client specific needs since it could lead to more overlapping of changes. </p> <p>If features cross system functional (AR, security, reporting, etc.) areas you probably want to split by functional areas. </p> <p>Other ways to split teams:</p> <ol> <li>front end (design implementation) and business logic and database/datastorage</li> <li>new development and maintenance (newer/more jr people on maintenance)</li> <li>core functionality and addon modules (if component based)</li> </ol> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-10995622134610586642018-11-19T12:59:00.000-08:002018-11-19T13:00:57.857-08:00Tutorial :Autocommit false mode java<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I am not very sure about the auto commit mode of java JDBC, I am making a connection whose auto commit mode is set to false. After that I fire a select query on database, which works fine, I am under impression that commit has to be called only for insert, update, delete statements.</p> <p>Now do I need to commit the connection for Select query? If not will that table be locked for other transactions?</p> <p>Thanks, Rohit.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>It depends on your isolation level. If you use <code>READ COMMITTED</code>, the <code>SELECT</code> only creates locks if you specify <code>SELECT FOR UPDATE</code>. If you use <code>REPEATABLE READ</code> or higher, every <code>SELECT</code> could create a lock (depends on your database model).</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <blockquote> <p>I am not very sure about the auto commit mode of java JDBC, I am making a connection whose auto commit mode is set to false. After that I fire a select query on database, which works fine, I am under impression that commit has to be called only for insert, update, delete statements.</p> </blockquote> <p>That's depends of your application. If there are simple updates, inserts, deletes you can leave <em>autocommit=on</em>. Generaly, it's recomended to off autocommit. That configuration gives you more flexibility and power in applicaiton. You can use complex transactions and you can decide when transaction begins and when ends.</p> <blockquote> <p>Now do I need to commit the connection for Select query? If not will that table be locked for other transactions?</p> </blockquote> <p>No, select statment doesn't begin transaction (insert, update, delete does) so there is no need to commit/rollback after select statment. There is one special case of select which lock selected rows and need transaction - <a href="http://www.praetoriate.com/oracle_tips_for_update.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">with <strong>for update</strong> clause</a></p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-22314847347541889962018-11-19T12:39:00.000-08:002018-11-19T12:40:45.359-08:00Tutorial :Rounded corners on images using PHP?<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Does anyone know how to make a image have rounded corners using a PHP script?</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>It can be done using php-gd, but I ended up passing that task to the browser, using CSS:</p> <blockquote> <p><img src="photo.jpg" width="42" height="42" alt="My cool photo" style="border-radius: 15px; -moz-border-radius: 15px;" /></p> </blockquote> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>This script shows <a href="http://salman-w.blogspot.com/2009/05/generate-images-with-round-corners-on.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">how to apply rounded corners to images using PHP and GD Library</a>. It is as simple as drawing four quadrants of a circle over the four corners of the image. The circle itself has to be transparent.</p> <p>This script, on the other hand, <a href="http://salman-w.blogspot.com/2009/10/rounded-corner-graphics-generator.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">generates rounded corner graphics</a> for HTML or CSS based solutions. It generates the four corners that you can overlay over an image using CSS positioning or HTML tables.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:3<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>You will need the GD library for that. There must be a lot of examples on the web. Here is one :</p> <p><a href="http://www.assemblysys.com/dataServices/php_roundedCorners.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.assemblysys.com/dataServices/php_roundedCorners.php</a></p> <pre><code><?php $image_file = $_GET['src']; $corner_radius = isset($_GET['radius']) ? $_GET['radius'] : 20; // The default corner radius is set to 20px $angle = isset($_GET['angle']) ? $_GET['angle'] : 0; // The default angle is set to 0º $topleft = (isset($_GET['topleft']) and $_GET['topleft'] == "no") ? false : true; // Top-left rounded corner is shown by default $bottomleft = (isset($_GET['bottomleft']) and $_GET['bottomleft'] == "no") ? false : true; // Bottom-left rounded corner is shown by default $bottomright = (isset($_GET['bottomright']) and $_GET['bottomright'] == "no") ? false : true; // Bottom-right rounded corner is shown by default $topright = (isset($_GET['topright']) and $_GET['topright'] == "no") ? false : true; // Top-right rounded corner is shown by default $images_dir = 'images/'; $corner_source = imagecreatefrompng('images/rounded_corner.png'); $corner_width = imagesx($corner_source); $corner_height = imagesy($corner_source); $corner_resized = imagecreatetruecolor($corner_radius, $corner_radius); imagecopyresampled($corner_resized, $corner_source, 0, 0, 0, 0, $corner_radius, $corner_radius, $corner_width, $corner_height); $corner_width = imagesx($corner_resized); $corner_height = imagesy($corner_resized); $image = imagecreatetruecolor($corner_width, $corner_height); $image = imagecreatefromjpeg($images_dir . $image_file); // replace filename with $_GET['src'] $size = getimagesize($images_dir . $image_file); // replace filename with $_GET['src'] $white = imagecolorallocate($image,255,255,255); $black = imagecolorallocate($image,0,0,0); // Top-left corner if ($topleft == true) { $dest_x = 0; $dest_y = 0; imagecolortransparent($corner_resized, $black); imagecopymerge($image, $corner_resized, $dest_x, $dest_y, 0, 0, $corner_width, $corner_height, 100); } // Bottom-left corner if ($bottomleft == true) { $dest_x = 0; $dest_y = $size[1] - $corner_height; $rotated = imagerotate($corner_resized, 90, 0); imagecolortransparent($rotated, $black); imagecopymerge($image, $rotated, $dest_x, $dest_y, 0, 0, $corner_width, $corner_height, 100); } // Bottom-right corner if ($bottomright == true) { $dest_x = $size[0] - $corner_width; $dest_y = $size[1] - $corner_height; $rotated = imagerotate($corner_resized, 180, 0); imagecolortransparent($rotated, $black); imagecopymerge($image, $rotated, $dest_x, $dest_y, 0, 0, $corner_width, $corner_height, 100); } // Top-right corner if ($topright == true) { $dest_x = $size[0] - $corner_width; $dest_y = 0; $rotated = imagerotate($corner_resized, 270, 0); imagecolortransparent($rotated, $black); imagecopymerge($image, $rotated, $dest_x, $dest_y, 0, 0, $corner_width, $corner_height, 100); } // Rotate image $image = imagerotate($image, $angle, $white); // Output final image imagejpeg($image); // Remove temp files imagedestroy($image); imagedestroy($corner_source); ?> </code></pre> <p><strong>How to use it?</strong></p> <p>Needless to say, PHP and the GD library needs to be installed on your server. Youâll also need a png file of the corner. You can use one of these corner images if you want: [<a href="http://assemblysys.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/rounded_corners.zip%5D" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://assemblysys.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/rounded_corners.zip]</a></p> <p>Just paste the code above and save it in a .php file. Make the necessary changes to the $images_dir and $corner_source variables (lines 10 and 11). Link the src attribute of your image to that file, using the following URL variables:</p> <pre><code>**src:** name of the image file **radius** (optional): value that represents the radius (in pixels) of the corners; use this to resize the corner image **angle** (optional): value that represents the rotation angle of the full image, in degrees **topleft**=no (optional): do not round the top-left corner **bottomleft**=no (optional): do not round the bottom-left corner **bottomright**=no (optional): do not round the bottom-right corner **topright**=no (optional): do not round the top-right corner </code></pre> <p>Examples</p> <pre><code><img src='roundedCorners.php?src=image.jpg&radius=40' /> <img src='roundedCorners.php?src=image.jpg&radius=40&angle=15' /> <img src='roundedCorners.php?src=image.jpg&radius=40&topleft=no&bottomright=no' /> </code></pre> </div><h3> <br> Solution:4<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>There are a lot of options available, you can find them using Google. The easiest way though is using the <a href="http://freelogic.pl/thumbnailer/demo" rel="nofollow">Thumbnailer</a>. It's as simple as two lines of code:</p> <pre><code>// make an object $th=new Thumbnailer("your-photo.jpg"); // create a 120x90 thumb and round its corners $th->thumbFixed(120,90)->round()->save("your-thumb.jpg"); </code></pre> <p>Fun it is, isn't it? :) There are a lot of other options available. The corners will be antialiased.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:5<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Download easyphpthumbnail.class.php from <a href="http://www.mywebmymail.com/?q=content/easyphpthumbnail-class" rel="nofollow">this link</a> </p> <p>from this you can resize and convert image into rounded image. </p> <p>in below example image is converted into transparent circle image.</p> <pre><code>include_once('easyphpthumbnail.class.php'); $source = 'demo.jpg'; $width = 100; $height = 100; $thumb = new easyphpthumbnail; $thumb -> Thumbheight = $width; $thumb -> Thumbwidth = $height; $thumb -> Backgroundcolor = '#FFFFFF'; $thumb -> Clipcorner = array(2,50,0,1,1,1,1); $thumb -> Maketransparent = array(1,0,'#FFFFFF',10); $thumb -> Createthumb($source); </code></pre> </div><h3> <br> Solution:6<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>You can look at <a href="https://www.phpcontext.com/thumbnailer/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.phpcontext.com/thumbnailer/</a> . There's a script for creating nice rounded corner thumbs with PHP. They are antialiased too.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:7<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Instead of modifying the image, why not just wrap it in some HTML that has images at each corner that overlay the original to provide the appearance of rounded corners?</p> <p>By doing the image editing in your .php script, you're going to put undue load on your web server, and that means your application won't scale well. </p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:8<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>GD is great for image manipulation, but it would be much easier for you and much easier on your server if you used CSS.</p> <p>Here's a great tutorial for some cool image effects using CSS:</p> <p><a href="http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css-decorative-gallery/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css-decorative-gallery/</a></p> <p>For modern browsers, you can do it in pure CSS:</p> <p><a href="http://www.css3.info/preview/rounded-border/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.css3.info/preview/rounded-border/</a></p> <p>A couple of other noteworthy ones:</p> <p><a href="http://www.spiffycorners.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.spiffycorners.com/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.html.it/articoli/niftycube/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.html.it/articoli/niftycube/index.html</a></p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:9<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>its easy to create some <a href="http://www.freelogic.pl/thumbnailer/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">rounded thumbs</a> using php, just use Thumbnailer :)</p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-32054012240277936382018-11-19T12:00:00.000-08:002018-11-19T12:01:35.611-08:00Tutorial :Can we use Extension Methods for building business rule engines?<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I am looking to do something like this</p> <pre><code>public class ProductBiz: BizBase<Product> { public List<String> BrokenRules {get;set;} // Some kind of data + biz operation implementation } public static class ProductBizExtensions{ public ProductBiz Rule1(this ProductBiz prodBiz) {} public ProductBiz Rule2(this ProductBiz prodBiz) {} public bool ApplyRules (this ProductBiz prodBiz, Func<ProductBiz,bool> ruleset){} } </code></pre> <p>Then in client code use it as</p> <pre><code>productBiz.Rule1().Rule2(); productBiz.Rule2().Rule1(); </code></pre> <p>OR</p> <pre><code>// create multicasted delegate of type Func<ProductBiz,bool> say rulesetDelegate productBiz.ApplyRules(rulesetDelegate); </code></pre> <p>Just wanted to ask before i dive deep and drown.</p> <p>What are the potential pitfalls with this approach???</p> <p>Thanks in advance</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I'm not sure what you mean by possible. It's certainly possible to write a rules engine in this way and you've demo'd an outline of how to achieve this.</p> <p>Don't forget that extension methods are just syntactic sugar on top of static methods. Asking if you can do X type of programming with extension methods is no different than asking if you can do X type of programming with static methods. Static methods may not look as nice but they are just as powerful. </p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>If you're looking at changing the rules at run-time then you might want to consider something more like <a href="http://mef.codeplex.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MEF</a> or similar. </p> <p>Your solution is fine up until you compile, then it's set and locked, from the sound of your comments you're looking for run-time flexibility.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:3<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Look at the implementation of business rules in CSLA <a href="http://lhotka.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://lhotka.net/</a> . In that you define a rule w/ a particular signature, and add it into the object's rule store, either at a class level or instance level. The syntax of what you are attempting to do is off-putting, but the method (defining business rules via static methods which are executed at run time) is exactly what CSLA does.</p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-77655298965665942562018-11-19T11:59:00.000-08:002018-11-19T12:00:57.589-08:00Tutorial :iPhone: Data structure choice<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I need to keep track of a bunch of objects that can be identified by two keys (Latitude and longitude actually, but there are some other properties). I need to do things like search for a particular object by those two keys, updating it if it is there and inserting if not. I was thinking. I was looking at NSDictionary and NSSet but thought I would hear what the masses have to say.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I guess the simpler way is to use <code>NSDictionary</code>. You will be able to get your data by just doing <code>[dic objectForKey:key]</code>.</p> <p>Also, a good practice is to create some defines for the keys, so that it's easier to change a key name, and also avoids typo:</p> <pre><code>#define kObjectLatitude @"Latitude" #define kObjectLongitude @"Longitude" [object setObject:lat forKey:kObjectLatitude]; [object setObject:lon forKey:kObjectLongitude]; </code></pre> <p>Don't forget to write the defines in a smart place. If you use it only in one class, just write them at the top of the declaration. If, however, you need them through different part of your code, you might consider moving it to the header file of the main class, or a specific header file for defines :)</p> <p>NS(Mutable)Set will not be useful for you in this case. NSSets are mathematical sets, and you cannot access a specific data with a specific key (aka, you can't ask a set: "Hey, give me the longitude, where-ever you stored it!")</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>This is not a direct answer, but a word of warning. Latitude and longitude are CLLocationDegrees, which is a double precision floating point value. Testing for equality on floats is a risky proposition since floating point math is inexact. You can easily have an equality test fail on two floats that should theoretically be equal. I don't know the requirements of your application, but you may want to test for proximity rather than equality.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:3<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Use NSDictionary. That's what it meant for.</p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-37928507940966742402018-11-19T11:39:00.000-08:002018-11-19T11:40:41.496-08:00Tutorial :Displaying live video from a raw uncompressed byte source in C#: WPF vs. Win forms<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I have a live 16-bit gray-scale video stream that is pushed through a ring-buffer in memory as a raw, uncompressed byte stream (2 bytes per pixel, 2^18 pixels/frame, 32 frames/sec). (This is coming from a scientific grade camera, via a PCI frame-grabber). I would like to do some simple processing on the video (clip dynamic range, colorize, add overlays) and then show it in a window, using C#.</p> <p>I have this working using Windows Forms & GDI (for each frame, build a Bitmap object, write raw 32-bit RGB pixel values based on my post-processing steps, and then draw the frame using the Graphics class). But this uses a significant chunk of CPU that I'd like to use for other things. So I'm interested in using WPF for its GPU-accelerated video display. (I'd also like to start using WPF for its data binding & layout features.) </p> <p>But I've never used WPF before, so I'm unsure how to approach this. Most of what I find online about video & WPF involves reading a compressed video file from disk (e.g. WMV), or getting a stream from a consumer-grade camera using a driver layer that Windows already understands. So it doesn't seem to apply here (but correct me if I'm wrong about this).</p> <p>So, my questions:</p> <ul> <li><p>Is there a straighforward, WPF-based way to play video from raw, uncompressed bytes in memory (even if just as 8-bit grayscale, or 24-bit RGB)?</p></li> <li><p>Will I need to build DirectShow filters (or other DirectShow/Media Foundation-ish things) to get the post-processing working on the GPU? </p></li> </ul> <p>Also, any general advice / suggestions for documentation, examples, blogs, etc that are appropriate to these tasks would be appreciated. Thanks!</p> <hr> <p><strong>Follow-up:</strong> After some experimentation, I found <code>WriteableBitmap</code> to be fast enough for my needs, and extremely easy to use correctly: Simply call <code>WritePixels()</code> and any <code>Image</code> controls bound to it will update themselves. <code>InteropBitmap</code> with memory-mapped sections is noticeably faster, but I had to write p/invokes to kernel32.dll to use it on .NET 3.5.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>My VideoRendererElement, though very efficient, does use some hackery to make it work. You may also want to experiment with the WriteableBitmap in .NET 3.5 SP1.</p> <p>Also the InteropBitmap is very fast too. Much more efficient than the WB as it's not double buffered. Though it can be subject to video tearing.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Some further Google-searching yielded this:</p> <p><a href="http://www.codeplex.com/VideoRendererElement" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.codeplex.com/VideoRendererElement</a></p> <p>which I'm looking into now, but may be the right approach here. Of course further thoughts/suggestions are still very much welcome.</p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-15059891743816723172018-11-19T11:19:00.000-08:002018-11-19T11:20:43.855-08:00Tutorial :How to implement tagging system similar to SO in php/mysql?<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I'm coding a website in PHP/MySQL and I'd like to implement a similar to stackoverflow tagging engine. I have 3 relevant tables in DB: 1. Items 2. Tags 3. ItemTagMap (maps tags to items, n:n mapping)</p> <p>Now, on search page I'd like to show distinct list of all tags for entire search result (not just the current page), so that users can "refine" their search by adding/removing tags from that tag list.</p> <p>The question is that it's a pretty heavy query on the DB and there can be tons of search requests that result in different result sets and thus different tag sets.</p> <p>Does anyone know how to implement this effectively?</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Before we go into <strong>premature optimization</strong> mode, it may be useful to look into the following query template. If nothing else this could be used as a baseline against which the effectiveness of possible optimizations can be measured.</p> <pre class="lang-sql prettyprint-override"><code>SELECT T.Tagid, TagInfo.TagName, COUNT(*) FROM Items I JOIN Tags TagInfo ON TagInfo.TagId = T.TagId JOIN ItemTagMap T ON I.ItemId = T.ItemId --JOIN ItemTagMap T1 ON I.ItemId = T1.ItemId WHERE I.ItemId IN ( SELECT ItemId FROM Items WHERE -- Some typical initial search criteria Title LIKE 'Bug Report%' -- Or some fulltext filter instead... AND ItemDate > '02/22/2008' AND Status = 'C' ) --AND T1.TagId = 'MySql' GROUP BY T.TagId, TagInfo.TagName ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC </code></pre> <p>The subquery is the "driving query", i.e. the one corresponding to the end-user's initial criteria. (see below for details on how this query, required multiple times may fit in an overall optimized flow) Commented is the JOIN on T1 (and possibly T2, T3, when several tags are selected), and, with the WHERE clause, the associated criteria. These are needed when the user selects a particular tag, whether as part of the initial search or by refinement. (It may be more efficient to place these joins and where clauses within the sub-query; more on these below)</p> <p><strong>Discussion...</strong> The "driving query", or a variation thereof is needed for two distinct purposes:</p> <ul> <li><h1>1 to provide the <em>complete</em> list of ItemId which is needed to enumerate all associated tags.</h1></li> <li><h1>2 to provide the first N ItemId values (N being the display page size), for the purpose of looking up Item detail info in the Item table.</h1></li> </ul> <p>Note that the complete list doesn't need to be sorted (or it may benefit from sorting in a different order), whereby the second list needs to be sorted based on the user's choice (say by Date, descending or by Title, alphabetically ascending). Also note that if there is any sort order required, the cost of the query will imply dealing with the complete list (shy of odd optimization by SQL itself, and/or some denormalization, SQL needs to "see" the last records on that list, in case they belong to the top, sort-wise).</p> <p>This latter fact, is in favor of having the very same query for both purposes, the corresponding list can be stored in a temporary table. The general flow would be to quickly lookup the top N Item records with their details and returns this to the application at once. The application can then obtain ajax-fashion the list of Tags for refinements. This list would be produce with a query akin the one above, where the subquery is replaced by a "select * from temporaryTable." The odds are good that the SQL optimizer will decide to sort this list (in some cases), let's let it do that, rather than second guessing it and sorting it explicitly. <br></p> <p>One other point to consider is to maybe bring the join(s) on ItemTagMap table inside the "driving query" rather that as shown above. It is probably best to do so, both for performance, and because it will produce the right list for the #2 purpose (display of a page of items).</p> <p>The query/flow described above will likely scale rather well, even on relatively modest hardware; tentatively into the 1/2 Million+ Items, with sustained user searches maybe up to 10 per second. One of the key factor would be the selectivity of the initial search criteria.</p> <p><strong>Optimization ideas</strong></p> <ul> <li>[Depending on the typical search cases and on the data stats] it may make sense to denormalize by bringing (indeed duplicating) some of Items' fields to the ItemTagMap table. Short fields in particular may be 'welcome' there.</li> <li>As the data grows in the million+ Items, we could exploit the typically strong correlation of some tags (ex: in SO, PHP often comes with MySql, btw often for no good reason...), with various tricks. For example the introduction of "multi-Tag" TagIds could render the input logic a bit more complicated, but could also reduce the Map size significantly. </li> </ul> <p><br> -- 'nough said! --<br> Appropriate architecture and optimizations should be selected in light of the actual requirements and of the effective data statistical profile...</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>You'll want to try to minimize the number of DB calls, putting the heavy work into PHP.</p> <p>First, select all your Items from the DB:</p> <pre><code>select * from items where (conditions); </code></pre> <p>Then, create an array of all id's from the result set.</p> <pre><code>$ids = array(); foreach ($items as $item) { $ids[] = $item['id']; } $ids = implode(',' $ids); </code></pre> <p>Then select all ItemTagMaps and associated tag data for the Item ID's you previously retrieved.</p> <pre><code>select map.item_id, t.id, t.name from tags t, item_tag_maps map where t.id = map.tag_id and map.item_id in ($ids); </code></pre> <p>Now when you loop through your $items array, you can locate all matching tags from the 2nd SQL query you performed as long as it has a matching item_id value.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:3<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Assuming:</p> <ul> <li>Item (id);</li> <li>Tag (id, name) with index on name;</li> <li>ItemTag (item_id, tag_id).</li> </ul> <p>then:</p> <pre class="lang-sql prettyprint-override"><code>SELECT t.name FROM Tag t WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM ItemTag WHERE item_id = 1234) ORDER BY t.name </code></pre> <p>Nothing intensive about that. This is similar but my guess is it would be slower:</p> <pre class="lang-sql prettyprint-override"><code>SELECT t.name FROM Tag t WHERE t.id IN (SELECT tag_id FROM ItemTag WHERE item_id = 1234) ORDER BY t.name </code></pre> <p>This can be done as a join as well:</p> <pre class="lang-sql prettyprint-override"><code>SELECT DISTINCT t.name FROM Tag t JOIN ItemTag i WHERE i.tag_id = t.id WHERE i.item_id = 1234 ORDER BY t.name </code></pre> <p>I think the first one will be faster but as is always the case with SQL, it's worth testing (on a sufficiently sized data set).</p> <p>The above have been done to list the tags for a single item. You want a composite set of tags for search results. That's not difficult from the above but it depends on how you get your search results.</p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-85703200050151234662018-11-19T11:00:00.000-08:002018-11-19T11:01:34.815-08:00Tutorial :Java Orkut Login [closed]<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I want the pagesource of home page of ORKUT (<a href="http://www.ORKUT.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.ORKUT.com</a>) in java.</p> <p>But it needs to be logged in to the ORKUT before accessing any page of it. How can I do it. It should not involve browser in between</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>You should have a look at the <a href="http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Commons HTTP Client</a>. With it you can send a POST request with your login data and then use the session ID for further processing.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>If you don't mind to read C# code:</p> <pre><code> string orkutSite = "http://www.orkut.com/Login.aspx"; // enter correct address string formPage = ""; string afterLoginPage = ""; // Get postback data and cookies CookieContainer cookies = new CookieContainer(); HttpWebRequest getRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(orkutSite); getRequest.CookieContainer = cookies; getRequest.Method = "GET"; HttpWebResponse form = (HttpWebResponse)getRequest.GetResponse(); using (StreamReader response = new StreamReader(form.GetResponseStream(), Encoding.UTF8)) { formPage = response.ReadToEnd(); } Dictionary<string, string> inputs = new Dictionary<string,string>(); inputs.Add("__EVENTTARGET", ""); inputs.Add("__EVENTARGUMENT", ""); foreach (Match input in Regex.Matches(formPage, @"<input.*?name=""(?<name>.*?)"".*?(?:value=""(?<value>.*?)"".*?)? />", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.ECMAScript)) { inputs.Add(input.Groups["name"].Value, input.Groups["value"].Value); } inputs["username"] = "xxxxx"; // *please*, check for \\ inputs["password"] = "yyyyy"; // correct field names \\ byte[] buffer = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes( String.Join("&", Array.ConvertAll<KeyValuePair<string, string>, string>( inputs.ToArray(), delegate(KeyValuePair item) { return item.Key + "=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(item.Value); }))); HttpWebRequest postRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(orkutSite); postRequest.CookieContainer = cookies; postRequest.Method = "POST"; postRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; // send username/password using (Stream stream = postRequest.GetRequestStream()) { stream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length); } // get response from login page using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader( postRequest.GetResponse().GetResponseStream(), Encoding.UTF8)) { afterLoginPage = reader.ReadToEnd(); } </code></pre> </div><h3> <br> Solution:3<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Two ways of doing that:</p> <p>1) Buy Octazen that will do that for you and keep the library updated every time Orkut changes something.</p> <p>2) Use watir to hijack the browser.</p> <p>Doing with HTTP Client is like fixing a watch with boxing gloves under the water. It does not support JS, you have to work your way through the cookies, parsing, etc.</p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-32263482103472011092018-11-19T10:59:00.000-08:002018-11-19T11:00:58.175-08:00Tutorial :Garbage values when C++ Operator Overloading<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Im just getting garbage values. And it is wierd the debugger shows the correct values. But its printing weird stuff insted...</p> <p>this frist part is fine. Essentially, It just takes me to my problem. I have what I need to print inside that h.hashtable[hashIndex] array.</p> <pre><code>ostream& operator<<(ostream& out, const hashmap& h) { const char *getSymbol = NULL; for ( int hashIndex = 0; hashIndex < maxSize; hashIndex++ ) { getSymbol = h.hashTable[hashIndex].getSymbol(); if ( getSymbol ) // Find the one I added. { h.hashTable->display(out); return out << h.hashTable[hashIndex]; } } return out; } </code></pre> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Make sure the stream is set to print in decimal</p> <pre><code>out << dec << s.m_sharePrice; </code></pre> <p>(<code>m_sharePrice</code> is a non-pointer type, right?)</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Is the values at line:</p> <pre><code>getSymbol = h.hashTable[hashIndex].getSymbol(); </code></pre> <p>fine, but crap afterwards?</p> <p>You could be having a case where you have a const char* to something inside an anonymous variable, which gets deleted when the line is done.</p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-2310310427941259612018-11-19T10:39:00.000-08:002018-11-19T10:40:43.703-08:00Tutorial :Why is the .NET Colors class not static?<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I was browsing the colors class's source in reflector and it's just a sealed class. But all members are static. So why would anyone create a copy of the Colors class?</p> <p>It lies inside:</p> <pre><code>System.Windows.Media.Colors </code></pre> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>A static class is just a sealed <strong>abstract</strong> class with <s>private constructor</s> no constructors (as in, no constructors at any accessibility level, not even ones generated by the compiler) [fixed per Eric's comment]. The C# keyword <code>static</code> is simply a shorthand for that, and also forces you to make all members static, but for API clients it's exact same thing.</p> <p>Given that work on WPF (then Avalon) began before .NET 2.0 was released, it could be that this particular class was written before <code>static class</code> appeared. Or perhaps the author was simply unaware of that language feature.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>For me, <code>Colors.AliceBlue</code> and <code>Colors.AntiqueWhite</code> (the first and the second static property of Colors class :)) should be difference instances of Color objects instead of different types. </p> <p><code>public static Color AliceBlue {get;}</code> </p> <p>Please note that a static class is a sealed class that contains only static members and <em>cannot be instantiated using the <strong>new</strong> keyword</em> as it can only have a private default constructor (at least in C#).</p> <p>Imagine you are creating an API that takes Color as an argument, what will it look like if the Color is a static class? </p> <p>One can argue that different colors should be different types (arguably static as well) instead of different instances of the Color class. Even with this case, Color should not be a static class because you want to have a base Color class for individual Color classes and making the base Color class static automatically makes it sealed. </p> <p>One may still want to argue that Color should be a namespace and individual colors should be static classes. I will simply ask them to imagine what the API will look like again :)</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:3<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Because a <code>sealed</code> class with all static members and private constructor constitutes certain performance enhancements because of the way the <code>IL</code> is formed for the use of the <code>static</code> class versus the <code>sealed</code> class, in-fact the static class gets the <code>abstract</code> modifier in IL to prevent new from being called where as the <code>sealed</code> class does not.</p> <p>See.. <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/br/csharplanguage/thread/7f0b56ca-fc61-4b64-ae31-3581398996e8" rel="nofollow">This post on msdn social</a> </p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-77435903405771049022018-11-19T10:19:00.000-08:002018-11-19T10:20:43.912-08:00Tutorial :Excel VBA âAutofill Method of Range Class Failedâ<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>The following VBA code (Excel 2007) is failing with Error 1004, "Autofill Method of Range Class Failed.". Can anyone tell me how to fix it?</p> <pre><code>Dim src As Range, out As Range, wks As Worksheet Set wks = Me Set out = wks.Range("B:U") Set src = wks.Range("A6") src.AutoFill Destination:=out </code></pre> <p>(note: I have Googled, etc. for this. It comes up fairly often, but all of the responses that I saw had to do with malformed range addresses, which AFAIK is not my problem.</p> <hr> <p>At someone's suggestion I tried replacing the autofill line with the following:</p> <pre><code>src.Copy out </code></pre> <p>This had the effect of throwing my Excel session into an apparent infinite loop consuming 100% CPU and then just hanging forever.</p> <hr> <p>OK, apparently the source has to be part of the destination range for autofill. So my code now looks like this:</p> <pre><code>Dim src As Range, out As Range, wks As Worksheet Set wks = Me Set out = wks.Range("B1") Set src = wks.Range("A6") src.Copy out Set out = wks.Range("B:U") Set src = wks.Range("B1") src.AutoFill Destination:=out, Type:=xlFillCopy </code></pre> <p>Same error on the last line.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>From <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb209671.aspx" rel="noreferrer">MSDN</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The destination must include the source range.</p> </blockquote> <p><code>B:U</code> does not contain <code>A6</code> and thus there is an error. I believe that you probably want <code>out</code> to be set to <code>A6:U6</code>.</p> <p>Specifiying just the column name means that you want to fill every row in that column which is unlikely to be the desired behvaiour</p> <hr> <p><strong>Update</strong></p> <p>Further to the OP's comment below and update to the original answer, this might do the trick:</p> <pre><code>Dim src As Range, out As Range, wks As Worksheet Set wks = Me Set out = wks.Range("B1") Set src = wks.Range("A6") src.Copy out Set out = wks.Range("B1:U1") Set src = wks.Range("B1") src.AutoFill Destination:=out, Type:=xlFillCopy Set out = wks.Range("B:U") Set src = wks.Range("B1:U1") src.AutoFill Destination:=out, Type:=xlFillCopy </code></pre> <p><code>AutoFill</code> is constrained to a single direction (i.e. horizontal or vertical) at once. To fill a two-dimensional area from a single cell you first have to auto-fill a line along one edge of that area and then stretch that line across the area</p> <p>For the specific case of copying the formatting and clearing the contents (by virtue of the source cell being empty), this is better:</p> <pre><code>Dim src As Range, out As Range, wks As Worksheet Set wks = Sheet1 Set out = wks.Range("B:U") Set src = wks.Range("A6") src.Copy out </code></pre> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>To make <code>AutoFill</code> work, you need to make the range of <code>AutoFill</code> more than the <em>source range</em>. If the AutoFill range is same as of Source range then there is nothing to AutoFill in that range and hence you would get an error </p> <blockquote> <p>1004: AutoFill method of Range class failed.</p> </blockquote> <p>So make AutoFill range more than the source range and error will gone. </p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:3<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>If you want to autofill you just do something like...</p> <pre><code>Private Sub Autofill() 'Select the cell which has the value you want to autofill Range("Q2").Select 'Do an autofill down to the amount of values returned by the update Selection.AutoFill Destination:=Range("Q2:Q10") End Sub </code></pre> <p>This would autofill down to the specified range.</p> <p>Does ths help?</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:4<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Not sure if this helps anyone, but I needed something similar. Selecting the cells as destination works;</p> <pre><code>dim rowcount as integer Sheets("IssueTemplate").Select ' Whatever your sheet is rowcount = 0 rowcount = Application.CountA(Range("A:A"))'get end range Cells(4, 3).Select 'select the start cell 'autofill to rowcount Selection.AutoFill Destination:=Range("C4:C" & rowcount), Type:=xlFillDefault </code></pre> <p>in my example I had to auto-generate a list of folder names from OA100 to OA###?, and this worked fine. </p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-21815130122512592202018-11-19T09:59:00.000-08:002018-11-19T10:00:57.793-08:00Tutorial :Django Vote Up/Down method [closed]<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I am making a small app that lets users vote items either up or down. I'm using Django (and new to it!).</p> <p>I am just wondering, what is the best way to present the upvote link to the user. As a link, button or something else?</p> <p>I have already done something like this in php with a different framework but I'm not sure if I can do it the same way. Should I have a method for up/down vote and then display a link to the user to click. When they click it, it performs the method and refreshes the page?</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Just plug and play: </p> <blockquote> <p>RedditStyleVoting<br> Implementing reddit style voting for any Model with django-voting<br><a href="http://code.google.com/p/django-voting/wiki/RedditStyleVoting" rel="noreferrer">http://code.google.com/p/django-voting/wiki/RedditStyleVoting</a></p> </blockquote> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Here's the gist of my solution. I use images with jQuery/AJAX to handle clicks. Strongly influenced by this site. There's some stuff that could use some work (error handling in the client, for example -- and much of it could probably be refactored) but hopefully the code is useful to you.</p> <p>The HTML:</p> <pre><code> <div class="vote-buttons"> {% ifequal thisUserUpVote 0 %} <img class="vote-up" src = "images/vote-up-off.png" title="Vote this thread UP. (click again to undo)" /> {% else %} <img class="vote-up selected" src = "images/vote-up-on.png" title="Vote this thread UP. (click again to undo)" /> {% endifequal %} {% ifequal thisUserDownVote 0 %} <img class="vote-down" src = "images/vote-down-off.png" title="Vote this thread DOWN if it is innapropriate or incorrect. (click again to undo)" /> {% else %} <img class="vote-down selected" src = "images/vote-down-on.png" title="Vote this thread DOWN if it is innapropriate or incorrect. (click again to undo)" /> {% endifequal %} </div> <!-- .votebuttons --> </code></pre> <p>The jQuery:</p> <pre><code>$(document).ready(function() { $('div.vote-buttons img.vote-up').click(function() { var id = {{ thread.id }}; var vote_type = 'up'; if ($(this).hasClass('selected')) { var vote_action = 'recall-vote' $.post('/ajax/thread/vote', {id:id, type:vote_type, action:vote_action}, function(response) { if (isInt(response)) { $('img.vote-up').removeAttr('src') .attr('src', 'images/vote-up-off.png') .removeClass('selected'); $('div.vote-tally span.num').html(response); } }); } else { var vote_action = 'vote' $.post('/ajax/thread/vote', {id:id, type:vote_type, action:vote_action}, function(response) { if (isInt(response)) { $('img.vote-up').removeAttr('src') .attr('src', 'images/vote-up-on.png') .addClass('selected'); $('div.vote-tally span.num').html(response); } }); } }); </code></pre> <p>The Django view that handles the AJAX request:</p> <pre><code>def vote(request): thread_id = int(request.POST.get('id')) vote_type = request.POST.get('type') vote_action = request.POST.get('action') thread = get_object_or_404(Thread, pk=thread_id) thisUserUpVote = thread.userUpVotes.filter(id = request.user.id).count() thisUserDownVote = thread.userDownVotes.filter(id = request.user.id).count() if (vote_action == 'vote'): if (thisUserUpVote == 0) and (thisUserDownVote == 0): if (vote_type == 'up'): thread.userUpVotes.add(request.user) elif (vote_type == 'down'): thread.userDownVotes.add(request.user) else: return HttpResponse('error-unknown vote type') else: return HttpResponse('error - already voted', thisUserUpVote, thisUserDownVote) elif (vote_action == 'recall-vote'): if (vote_type == 'up') and (thisUserUpVote == 1): thread.userUpVotes.remove(request.user) elif (vote_type == 'down') and (thisUserDownVote ==1): thread.userDownVotes.remove(request.user) else: return HttpResponse('error - unknown vote type or no vote to recall') else: return HttpResponse('error - bad action') num_votes = thread.userUpVotes.count() - thread.userDownVotes.count() return HttpResponse(num_votes) </code></pre> <p>And the relevant parts of the Thread model:</p> <pre><code>class Thread(models.Model): # ... userUpVotes = models.ManyToManyField(User, blank=True, related_name='threadUpVotes') userDownVotes = models.ManyToManyField(User, blank=True, related_name='threadDownVotes') </code></pre> </div><h3> <br> Solution:3<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Whatever you do, make sure that it's submitted by POST and not GET; GET requests should <em>never</em> alter database information.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:4<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <blockquote> <p><em>As a link, button or something else?</em></p> </blockquote> <p>Something else, what about an image?</p> <blockquote> <p><em>When they click it, it performs the method and refreshes the page?</em></p> </blockquote> <p>Perhaps you could better use ajax to invoke a method to save the vote, and not refresh anything at all.</p> <p>This is what comes to my mind.</p> <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/b4IiR.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/b4IiR.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-67165826462558805152018-11-19T09:39:00.000-08:002018-11-19T09:40:41.921-08:00Tutorial :Make a window topmost using a window handle<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>After launching an application using the Process class I'd like to make that window topmost. Currently, my app is the topmost window so when i launch the other app it doesn't display. One thing that came to mind is that I could set topmost = false for my application before launching the process, the problem with this is I want to give the process ample time to load up before displaying it to the user, so I'd like more control over when I switch the other application to the topmost.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>You need to use <a href="http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32.SetWindowPos" rel="noreferrer">P/Invoke with SetWindowPos</a> to accopmlish this:</p> <pre><code>[DllImport("user32.dll")] static extern bool SetWindowPos(IntPtr hWnd, IntPtr hWndInsertAfter, int X, int Y, int cx, int cy, uint uFlags); static readonly IntPtr HWND_TOPMOST = new IntPtr(-1); const UInt32 SWP_NOSIZE = 0x0001; const UInt32 SWP_NOMOVE = 0x0002; const UInt32 SWP_SHOWWINDOW = 0x0040; // Call this way: SetWindowPos(theWindowHandle, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_SHOWWINDOW); </code></pre> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-25096950800042401662018-11-19T09:19:00.000-08:002018-11-19T09:20:43.353-08:00Tutorial :What is âOrthogonalityâ?<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>What does "orthogonality" mean when talking about programming languages? </p> <p>What are some examples of Orthogonality?</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal" rel="noreferrer">Orthogonality</a> is the property that means "Changing A does not change B". An example of an orthogonal system would be a radio, where changing the station does not change the volume and vice-versa. </p> <p>A non-orthogonal system would be like a helicopter where changing the speed can change the direction.</p> <p>In programming languages this means that when you execute an instruction, nothing but that instruction happens (very important for debugging).</p> <p>There is also a specific meaning when referring to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_instruction_set" rel="noreferrer">instruction sets</a>.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>From Eric S. Raymond's <a href="http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/" rel="noreferrer">"Art of UNIX programming"</a></p> <blockquote> <p>Orthogonality is one of the most important properties that can help make even complex designs compact. In a purely orthogonal design, operations do not have side effects; each action (whether it's an API call, a macro invocation, or a language operation) changes just one thing without affecting others. There is one and only one way to change each property of whatever system you are controlling.</p> </blockquote> </div><h3> <br> Solution:3<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Think of it has being able to change one thing without having an unseen affect on another part.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:4<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Broadly, orthogonality is a relationship between two things such that they have minimal effect on each other.</p> <p>The term comes from mathematics, where two vectors are orthogonal if they intersect at right angles.</p> <p>Think about a typical 2 dimensional cartesian space (you typical grid with X/Y axes). Plot two lines: x=1 and y=1. The two lines are orthogonal. You can change x=1 by changing x, and this will have no effect on the other line, and vice versa.</p> <p>In software, the term can be appropriately used in situations where you're talking about two parts of a system which behave independently of each other.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:5<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>If you have a set of constructs. A langauge is said to be <em>orthogonal</em> if it allows the programmer to mix these constructs freely. For example, in C you can't return an array(static array), C is said to be unorthognal in this case:</p> <pre><code>int[] fun(); // you can't return a static array. // Of course you can return a pointer, but the langauge allows passing arrays. // So, it is unorthognal in case. </code></pre> </div><h3> <br> Solution:6<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Most of the answers are very long-winded, and even obscure. The point is: if a tool is orthogonal, it can be added, replaced, or removed, in favor of better tools, without screwing everything else up.</p> <p>It's the difference between a carpenter having a hammer and a saw, which can be used for hammering or sawing, or having some new-fangled hammer/saw combo, which is designed to saw wood, then hammer it together. Either will work for sawing and then hammering together, but if you get some task that requires sawing, but not hammering, then only the orthogonal tools will work. Likewise, if you need to screw instead of hammering, you won't need to throw away your saw, if it's orthogonal (not mixed up with) your hammer.</p> <p>The classic example is unix command line tools: you have one tool for getting the contents of a disk (dd), another for filtering lines from the file (grep), another for writing those lines to a file (cat), etc. These can all be mixed and matched at will.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:7<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal" rel="nofollow noreferrer">wikipedia</a>:</p> <p>Computer science</p> <p>Orthogonality is a system design property facilitating feasibility and compactness of complex designs. Orthogonality guarantees that modifying the technical effect produced by a component of a system neither creates nor propagates side effects to other components of the system. The emergent behavior of a system consisting of components should be controlled strictly by formal definitions of its logic and not by side effects resulting from poor integration, i.e. non-orthogonal design of modules and interfaces. Orthogonality reduces testing and development time because it is easier to verify designs that neither cause side effects nor depend on them.</p> <p>For example, a car has orthogonal components and controls (e.g. accelerating the vehicle does not influence anything else but the components involved exclusively with the acceleration function). On the other hand, a non-orthogonal design might have its steering influence its braking (e.g. electronic stability control), or its speed tweak its suspension.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal" rel="nofollow noreferrer">1</a> Consequently, this usage is seen to be derived from the use of orthogonal in mathematics: One may project a vector onto a subspace by projecting it onto each member of a set of basis vectors separately and adding the projections if and only if the basis vectors are mutually orthogonal.</p> <p>An instruction set is said to be orthogonal if any instruction can use any register in any addressing mode. This terminology results from considering an instruction as a vector whose components are the instruction fields. One field identifies the registers to be operated upon, and another specifies the addressing mode. An orthogonal instruction set uniquely encodes all combinations of registers and addressing modes.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:8<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonality#Computer_science" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wikipedia</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Orthogonality is a system design property facilitating feasibility and compactness of complex designs. Orthogonality guarantees that modifying the technical effect produced by a component of a system neither creates nor propagates side effects to other components of the system. The emergent behavior of a system consisting of components should be controlled strictly by formal definitions of its logic and not by side effects resulting from poor integration, i.e. non-orthogonal design of modules and interfaces. Orthogonality reduces testing and development time because it is easier to verify designs that neither cause side effects nor depend on them.</p> <p>For example, a car has orthogonal components and controls (e.g. accelerating the vehicle does not influence anything else but the components involved exclusively with the acceleration function). On the other hand, a non-orthogonal design might have its steering influence its braking (e.g. electronic stability control), or its speed tweak its suspension.[1] Consequently, this usage is seen to be derived from the use of orthogonal in mathematics: One may project a vector onto a subspace by projecting it onto each member of a set of basis vectors separately and adding the projections if and only if the basis vectors are mutually orthogonal.</p> <p>An instruction set is said to be orthogonal if any instruction can use any register in any addressing mode. This terminology results from considering an instruction as a vector whose components are the instruction fields. One field identifies the registers to be operated upon, and another specifies the addressing mode. An orthogonal instruction set uniquely encodes all combinations of registers and addressing modes.</p> </blockquote> <p>To put it in the simplest terms possible, two things are orthogonal if changing one has no effect upon the other.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:9<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>While talking about project decisions on programming languages, orthogonality may be seen as how easy is for you to predict other things about that language for what you've seen in the past.</p> <p>For instance, in one language you can have:</p> <blockquote> <p>str.split</p> </blockquote> <p>for splitting a string and</p> <blockquote> <p>len(str)</p> </blockquote> <p>for getting the lenght.</p> <p>On a language more orthogonal, you would always use str.x or x(str).</p> <p>When you would clone an object or do anything else, you would know whether to use</p> <blockquote> <p>clone(obj)</p> </blockquote> <p>or</p> <blockquote> <p>obj.clone</p> </blockquote> <p>That's one of the main points on programming languages being orthogonal. That avoids you to consult the manual or ask someone.</p> <p>The wikipedia article talks more about orthogonality on complex designs or low level languages. As someone suggested above on a comment, the Sebesta book talks cleanly about orthogonality.</p> <p>If I would use only one sentence, I would say that a programming language is orthogonal when its unknown parts act as expected based on what you've seen. Or... no surprises.</p> <p>;)</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:10<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p><strong>Orthogonality in Programming:</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>Orthogonality is an important concept, addressing how a relatively small number of components can be combined in a relatively small number of ways to get the desired results. It is associated with simplicity; the more orthogonal the design, the fewer exceptions. This makes it easier to learn, read and write programs in a programming language. The meaning of an orthogonal feature is independent of context; the key parameters are symmetry and consistency (for example, a pointer is an orthogonal concept).</p> </blockquote> <p>from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonality_%28programming%29" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a></p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:11<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>In programming languages a programming language feature is said to be orthogonal if it is bounded with no restrictions (or exceptions). For example, in Pascal functions can't return structured types. This is a restriction on returning values from a function. Therefore we it is considered as a non-orthogonal feature. ;)</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:12<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>As examples of the lack of orthogonality in a high-level language, consider the following rules and exceptions in C. Although C has two kinds of structured data types, arrays and records (structs), records can be returned from functions but arrays cannot. A member of a structure can be any data type except void or a structure of the same type. An array element can be any data type except void or a function. Parameters are passed by value, unless they are arrays, in which case they are, in effect, passed by reference (because the appearance of an array name without a subscript in a C program is interpreted to be the address of the arrayâs first element)</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:13<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Orthogonality means the degree to which language consists of a set of independent primitive constructs that can be combined as necessary to express a program. Features are orthogonal if there are no restrictions on how they may be combined</p> <pre><code>Example : non-orthogonality </code></pre> <p>PASCAL: functions can't return structured types. Functional Languages are highly orthogonal.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:14<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>The basic idea of orthogonality is that things that are not related conceptually should not be related in the system. Parts of the architecture that really have nothing to do with the other, such as the database and the UI, should not need to be changed together. A change to one should not cause a change to the other. </p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:15<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Orthogonality in a programming language means that a relatively small set of primitive constructs can be combined in a relatively small number of ways to build the control and data structures of the language. Furthermore, every pos- sible combination of primitives is legal and meaningful. For example, consider data types. Suppose a language has four primitive data types (integer, float, double, and character) and two type operators (array and pointer). If the two type operators can be applied to themselves and the four primitive data types, a large number of data structures can be defined. The meaning of an orthogonal language feature is independent of the context of its appearance in a program. (the word orthogonal comes from the mathematical concept of orthogonal vectors, which are independent of each other.) Orthogonality follows from a symmetry of relationships among primi- tives. A lack of orthogonality leads to exceptions to the rules of the language. For example, in a programming language that supports pointers, it should be possible to define a pointer to point to any specific type defined in the language. However, if pointers are not allowed to point to arrays, many potentially useful user-defined data structures cannot be defined. We can illustrate the use of orthogonality as a design concept by compar- ing one aspect of the assembly languages of the IBM mainframe computers and the VAX series of minicomputers. We consider a single simple situation: adding two 32-bit integer values that reside in either memory or registers and replacing one of the two values with the sum. The IBM mainframes have two instructions for this purpose, which have the forms </p> <pre><code>A Reg1, memory_cell AR Reg1, Reg2 </code></pre> <p>where Reg1 and Reg2 represent registers. The semantics of these are</p> <pre><code>Reg1 â contents(Reg1) + contents(memory_cell) Reg1 â contents(Reg1) + contents(Reg2) </code></pre> <p>The VAX addition instruction for 32-bit integer values is</p> <pre><code>ADDL operand_1, operand_2 </code></pre> <p>whose semantics is</p> <pre><code>operand_2 â contents(operand_1) + contents(operand_2) </code></pre> <p>In this case, either operand can be a register or a memory cell. The VAX instruction design is orthogonal in that a single instruction can use either registers or memory cells as the operands. There are two ways to specify operands, which can be combined in all possible ways. The IBM design is not orthogonal. Only two out of four operand combinations possibilities are legal, and the two require different instructions, A and AR . The IBM design is more restricted and therefore less writable. For example, you cannot add two values and store the sum in a memory location. Furthermore, the IBM design is more difficult to learn because of the restrictions and the additional instruction. Orthogonality is closely related to simplicity: The more orthogonal the design of a language, the fewer exceptions the language rules require. Fewer exceptions mean a higher degree of regularity in the design, which makes the language easier to learn, read, and understand. Anyone who has learned a sig- nificant part of the English language can testify to the difficulty of learning its many rule exceptions (for example, i before e except after c).</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:16<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Check orthogonality of matrices:</p> <p>Orthogonality can also be with respect to matrices, </p> <pre><code>Matrix *(transpose of matrix)= identity matrix. </code></pre> <p>Click the below link to view a YouTube video on Orthogonality.<br><a href="https://youtu.be/tNekLaxnfW8" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/tNekLaxnfW8</a></p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-12178623623758884862018-11-19T09:02:00.000-08:002018-11-19T09:04:28.881-08:00Tutorial :List of valid resolutions for a given Screen?<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Is there a way to get ALL valid resolutions for a given screen?</p> <p>I currently have a dropdown that is populated with all valid screens (using <strong><em>Screen.AllScreens</em></strong>). When the user selects a screen, I'd like to present them with a second dropdown listing <em>all</em> valid resolutions for that display (<em>not</em> just the current resolution).</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I think it should be possible to get the information using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Management_Instrumentation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)</a>. WMI is accessible from .NET using the classes from them <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.management.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">System.Management</a> namespace.</p> <p>A solution will look similar to the following. I don't know WMI well and could not immediately find the information you are looking for, but I found the WMI class for the resolutions supported by the video card. The code requires referencing System.Management.dll and importing the System.Management namespace.</p> <pre><code>var scope = new ManagementScope(); var query = new ObjectQuery("SELECT * FROM CIM_VideoControllerResolution"); using (var searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(scope, query)) { var results = searcher.Get(); foreach (var result in results) { Console.WriteLine( "caption={0}, description={1} resolution={2}x{3} " + "colors={4} refresh rate={5}|{6}|{7} scan mode={8}", result["Caption"], result["Description"], result["HorizontalResolution"], result["VerticalResolution"], result["NumberOfColors"], result["MinRefreshRate"], result["RefreshRate"], result["MaxRefreshRate"], result["ScanMode"]); } } </code></pre> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>The following link contains detailed code examples for this:</p> <p><strong>Task 2: Changing the Display Resolution</strong> <br><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa719104(VS.71).aspx#docum_topic2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa719104(VS.71).aspx#docum_topic2</a></p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:3<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>The accepted answer doesn't seem to work on Windows 8.1, at least on my machine. The query runs fine but there are 0 entries in the results. And considering Bijoy K Jose's comment I suppose that I am not the only one.</p> <p>However the validated answer for the following question worked out just fine : <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/744541/how-to-list-available-video-modes-using-c">How to list available video modes using C#?</a></p> <p>Thanks to Vimvq1987</p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-6653753453959960292018-11-19T08:59:00.000-08:002018-11-19T09:01:03.063-08:00Tutorial :RESTful API response status code disambiguation<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I'm developing a RESTful API and have a question about the most appropriate response status codes for certain scenarios.</p> <p>Consider the case where the client makes a GET request for a resource. How can I disambiguate a "not found" response for the case where the resource legitimately does not exist, vs. the case where there may be a minor service interruption (during deployment, etc).</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>The W3C defines <a href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html" rel="noreferrer">very specific status codes</a> for nearly all cases you can think of. For your specific needs:</p> <ul> <li>Not Found: 404</li> <li>Service Unavailable: 503</li> </ul> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Send a 404 status code for "Not found"</p> <p>Send some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#5xx_Server_Error" rel="nofollow noreferrer">500-series error</a> for error conditions on the server-side.</p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-57306209276486522082018-11-19T08:39:00.000-08:002018-11-19T08:40:43.501-08:00Tutorial :If I have some massive process running in response to a users click will it keep running if they close the page?<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>If they close the browser page out after a process has started via a button on the page, will the process keep running until completion or will it die? How will I allow it to die safely if so?</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>The page will keep processing. If you want to terminate the processing you can check the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httpresponse.isclientconnected.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">HttpResponse.IsClientConnected</a> property and end processing if the client is no longer connected. </p> <p>The example from MSDN:</p> <pre><code>private void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { // Check whether the browser remains // connected to the server. if (Response.IsClientConnected) { // If still connected, redirect // to another page. Response.Redirect("Page2CS.aspx", false); } else { // If the browser is not connected // stop all response processing. Response.End(); } } </code></pre> <p><br> However that assumes that are able to check the property. If you make a long running synchronous call then you wouldn't be able to check the property. If that is the case you can either execute it asynchronously or break the long running call into separate smaller calls where you can check the status before processing further.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I would say, off hand, that that depends entirely on the process and how you've coded your solution.</p> <p>In my experience, however, there's no direct connection between the browser and the server. It's simulated through the use of session state. So once that process starts, I'd say yes, it will keep going until it sends the response back to the client. Whether or not the client is there to receive it is another matter altogether.</p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-36463296261011883702018-11-19T08:19:00.000-08:002018-11-19T08:20:42.676-08:00Tutorial :C# - Windows ACL - Applying Inherited Permissions<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I've been having problems programatically assigning permissions to Folders / Registry entries. I have managed to assign inheriting permissions using the following code:</p> <pre><code>FileSystemAccessRule rule = new FileSystemAccessRule(LOGON_USER_NAME, FileSystemRights.FullControl, InheritanceFlags.ContainerInherit | InheritanceFlags.ObjectInherit, PropagationFlags.InheritOnly, AccessControlType.Allow); DirectorySecurity security = new DirectorySecurity(); security.SetAccessRule(rule); Directory.CreateDirectory(dir); Directory.SetAccessControl(dir, security); </code></pre> <p>This correctly sets my file permissions on all the child folders i create as an administrator. However, it does not set the permissions on the <code>dir</code> folder itself. I've played around with a fair few permutations for inheritance and propogation, but not had any joy.</p> <p>For example, I have:</p> <pre><code>dir = %programfiles%\Test </code></pre> <p>If i have created a folder in test (<code>%programfiles%\Test\SubFolder</code>), I have full permissions assigned to it for my user, but I do not have full permissions on <code>%programfiles%\Test</code>. This is really annoying, as I would like to give my user full permissions to do whatever with the Test directory as well.</p> <p>I am having similar problems with registry permissions, but I believe that if i can solve one, i can solve both of the outstanding issues.</p> <p>Does anyone know how this can be resolved?</p> <p>Regards<br> Tris</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>For the folder:</p> <pre><code>FileSystemAccessRule rule = new FileSystemAccessRule(LOGON_USER_NAME, FileSystemRights.FullControl, AccessControlType.Allow); </code></pre> <p>For subfolders and files:</p> <pre><code>FileSystemAccessRule rule = new FileSystemAccessRule(LOGON_USER_NAME, FileSystemRights.FullControl, InheritanceFlags.ContainerInherit | InheritanceFlags.ObjectInherit, PropagationFlags.InheritOnly, AccessControlType.Allow); </code></pre> <p>both lines need to be in your project. then you get acls that apply to this folder, subfolders and files</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I'm hardly an expert here, but after having to figure this out for my own purposes, I believe that Dave's answer, although functional, is overly complicated. You should be able to achieve this with just one rule:</p> <pre><code>FileSystemAccessRule rule = new FileSystemAccessRule(LOGON_USER_NAME, FileSystemRights.FullControl, InheritanceFlags.ContainerInherit | InheritanceFlags.ObjectInherit, PropagationFlags.None, AccessControlType.Allow); </code></pre> <p>The <code>PropagationFlags.InheritOnly</code> parameter used by the OP in their original code is what prevents the access rule from applying to the object itself.</p> <p>Also, you might as well set the directory's security as you're creating it, since .NET provides an overload for just that purpose:</p> <pre><code>Directory.CreateDirectory(dir, security); </code></pre> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-50042210494540282572018-11-19T08:00:00.000-08:002018-11-19T08:01:48.294-08:00Tutorial :Hosting images on separate sub domains<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>My company hosts about 30 web sites all sharing the same code base and reusing many of the same images. Right now, the images for all of the sites are hosted on the one domain, and then every other site has to link to those images.</p> <p>i.e., www.example.com/images/hello.jpg</p> <p>and on www.example2.com we have something like: <code><img src="http://www.example.com/images/hello.jpg" /></code></p> <p>Recently someone told me that I should be putting all of these shared/static images on a subdomain, but I don't see the advantages to this. I have heard that there might be a slight speed increase, but I've also heard that it can complicate things. Can someone elaborate?</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>A couple advantages to it:</p> <ul> <li>A separate domain prevents your domain's cookies from being sent for every image request, where they're not needed. Reduces the bandwidth overhead for each request.</li> <li>Most browsers will only make a certain number of HTTP requests at one time to a particular domain, so serving images and other static content off a second domain potentially doubles the number of HTTP requests at one time.</li> <li>You can conceivably use a different, lighter weight webserver like nginx/lighttpd to serve the static content.</li> </ul> <p>Downsides:</p> <ul> <li>Managing it.</li> <li>Two DNS lookups instead of one.</li> </ul> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>When a browser is requesting static files like CSS and Javascript, it often limits the number of connections to a given server/sub-domain. Putting static files under a different domain allows more simultaneous downloads.</p> <p>If set up correctly, the different sub-domain may just be a directory on your webserver. Depends on your config-file-fu.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:3<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>This is covered in a couple of the Stackoverflow podcasts.</p> <p>One concern - if you are serving an https page the user may get a warning about a mix of secure and insecure items.</p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-56526267260380458422018-11-19T07:59:00.000-08:002018-11-19T08:00:56.602-08:00Tutorial :Skipping css file mentioned under asp.net App_themes folder<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I've an asp.net web application which uses App_themes feature. Application has aspx pages which refer to master pages. Master pages apply css file (for eg. A.css) present in App_themes folder to all the aspx pages.</p> <p>For some of the aspx pages, I want to skip this A.css file and apply a new one called B.css instead.How do i achieve this?</p> <p>Note: A.css and B.css both have hundreds of classes.Ids for each class are same in both of them but have different attributes.</p> <p>Thanks for reading.</p> <hr> <p>Thanks a ton Martin and o.k.w. all for ur valuable inputs...can i use the approach mentioned at: <a href="http://www.joeaudette.com/overriding-the-location-for-app_themes.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.joeaudette.com/overriding-the-location-for-app_themes.aspx</a> </p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Maybe you can create two themes (one containing A.css, the other containing B.css) and switch the currently used theme in your master page (depending on the currently requested page).</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Once you assigned the theme, the ASPX pages automatically link to all the CSS files found within the assigned theme folder. If there's a need to totally skip one CSS for another, I realy think you should relook at your theming strategy.</p> <p>I can't provide a good answer unless I fully understand you needs/requirements. From what I can assume, you might need to 'normalise' your A.css and place it in the theme folder.</p> <p>Assuming B.css is used less frequently than A.css, have the css selectors and styles coded within B.css overwrite those of A.css that suit your needs. Assign B.css manually in your ASPX/masterpage markup AFTER that of the automatically assigned A's, for the cascading effect.</p> <p>In B.css, only code in those that needs to overwrite A's and those that A does not have.</p> <p>If both CSS files are used more or less as frequent and you are using masterpages, Martin's solution would be good too.</p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-7213790564324356981.post-3464505152719632232018-11-19T07:39:00.000-08:002018-11-19T07:40:40.891-08:00Tutorial :sin, cos, tan and rounding error<br><img src='https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-te3nq62xJRQ/WIzbeIW_hiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/T9jgUxascMELRPlYee11mkSEA3KFhImRQCLcB/s1600/lucky%2Brathore%2B%2Buser%2Basked%2BQuestion_logo.jpg'/><h3> <br>Question:<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I'm doing some trigonometry calculations in C/C++ and am running into problems with rounding errors. For example, on my Linux system:</p> <pre><code>#include <stdio.h> #include <math.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { printf("%e\n", sin(M_PI)); return 0; } </code></pre> <p>This program gives the following output:</p> <pre><code>1.224647e-16 </code></pre> <p>when the correct answer is of course 0.</p> <p>How much rounding error can I expect when using trig functions? How can I best handle that error? I'm familiar with the Units in Last Place technique for comparing floating point numbers, from Bruce Dawson's <a href="http://www.cygnus-software.com/papers/comparingfloats/comparingfloats.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Comparing Floating Point Numbers</a>, but that doesn't seem to work here, since 0 and 1.22e-16 are quite a few ULPs apart.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:1<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>An IEEE double stores 52 bits of mantissa, with the "implicit leading one" forming a 53 bit number. An error in the bottom bit of a result therefore makes up about 1/2^53 of the scale of the numbers. Your output is of the same order as 1.0, so that comes out to just about exactly one part in 10^16 (because 53*log(2)/log(10) == 15.9).</p> <p>So yes. This is about the limit of the precision you can expect. I'm not sure what the ULP technique you're using is, but I suspect you're applying it wrong.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:2<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>The answer is only 0 for sin(pi) - did you include all the digits of Pi ?</p> <p>-Has anyone else noticed a distinct lack of, irony/sense of humour around here?</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:3<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>@Josh Kelley - ok serious answer.<br> In general you should never compare the results of any operation involving floats or doubles with each other. </p> <p>The only exceptions is assignment.<br> float a=10.0;<br> float b=10.0;<br> then a==b</p> <p>Otherwise you always have to write some function like bool IsClose(float a,float b, float error) to allow you to check if two numbers are within 'error' of each other.<br> Remember to also check signs/use fabs - you could have -1.224647e-16 </p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:4<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Sine of Ï is 0.0.<br> Sine of <code>M_PI</code> is about 1.224647e-16. </p> <p><strong><code>M_PI</code> is not Ï.</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>program gives ... 1.224647e-16 when the correct answer is of course 0.</p> </blockquote> <p>Code gave a correct answer to 7 places.</p> <hr> <p>The following does not print the sine of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ï</a>. It prints the sine of a number close to Ï. See below pic.</p> <pre><code>Ï // 3.1415926535897932384626433832795... printf("%.21\n", M_PI); // 3.141592653589793115998 printf("%.21f\n", sin(M_PI));// 0.000000000000000122465 </code></pre> <p>Note: With the math function <em>sine(x)</em>, the slope of the curve is -1.0 at <em>x = Ï</em>. The difference of Ï and <code>M_PI</code> is about the <code>sin(M_PI)</code> - <em>as expected</em>.</p> <hr> <blockquote> <p>am running into problems with rounding errors</p> </blockquote> <p>The rounding problem occurs when using <code>M_PI</code> to present Ï. <code>M_PI</code> is the <code>double</code> closest to Ï, yet since Ï is irrational and all finite <code>double</code> are rational, they must differ - even by a small amount. So not a direct rounding issue with <code>sin(), cos(), tan()</code>. <code>sin(M_PI)</code> simple exposed the issue started with using an inexact Ï.</p> <hr> <p>This problem, with different non-zero results of <code>sin(M_PI)</code>, occurs if code used a different FP type like <code>float</code>, <code>long double</code> or <code>double</code> with something other than 53 binary bits of precision. This is not a precision issue so much as a irrational/rational one.</p> <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/IcWSd.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/IcWSd.png" alt="Sine(x) near Ï"></a></p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:5<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>There are two sources of error. The sin() function and the approximated value of M_PI. Even if the sin() function were 'perfect', it would not return zero unless the value of M_PI were also perfect - which it is not.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:6<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I rather think that will be system-dependent. I don't think the Standard has anything to say on how accurate the transcendental functions will be. Unfortunately, I don't remember seeing any discussion of function precision, so you'll probably have to figure it out yourself.</p> </div><h3> <br> Solution:7<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>I get the exact same result on my system - I'd say it is close enough</p> <p>I would solve the problem by changing the format string to "%f\n" :)</p> <p>However, this gives you a "better" result, or at least on my system it does give -3.661369e-245</p> <pre><code>#include <stdio.h> #include <math.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { printf("%e\n", (long double)sin(M_PI)); return 0; } </code></pre> </div><h3> <br> Solution:8<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Unless your program requires significant digits out to the 16th decimal place or more, you probably can do the rounding manually. From my experience programming games we always rounded our decimals to a tolerable significant digit. For example:</p> <pre><code>#include <math.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #define HALF 0.5 #define GREATER_EQUAL_HALF(X) (X) >= HALF double const M_PI = 2 * acos(0.0); double round(double val, unsigned places = 1) { val = val * pow(10.0f, (float)places); long longval = (long)val; if ( GREATER_EQUAL_HALF(val - longval) ) { return ceil(val) / pow(10.0f, (float)places); } else { return floor(val) / pow(10.0f, (float)places); } } int main() { printf("\nValue %lf", round(sin(M_PI), 10)); return 0; } </code></pre> </div><h3> <br> Solution:9<br> </h3><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <p>Maybe too low accuracy of implementation</p> <pre><code>M_PI = 3.14159265358979323846 (20 digits) </code></pre> <p><a href="http://fresh2refresh.com/c/c-function/c-math-h-library-functions/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://fresh2refresh.com/c/c-function/c-math-h-library-functions/</a></p> </div><br><b>Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on [email protected]</b> Lucky Rathorehttps://plus.google.com/[email protected] | {
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California is the center of technological innovation. Our state is home to tech companies that are changing people’s lives all over the world. But there is still a small sliver of Californians, about 1.3 percent of the population, who live in areas where there isn’t access to the Internet, according to a recent study.
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