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Image: Unsplash – Abigail Keenan [Aimone Sharif | Sports Manager] “I felt angry! I was frustrated with everything! Nothing would fill in the hole I had inside of me; I just wanted to get back into the game as soon as possible.” Those are the words Jaide Garcia used when … |
(function(){
'use strict';
angular
.module('app.shared')
.factory('FriendsResource', FriendsResource)
.factory('BlocksResource', BlocksResource);
function FriendsResource(resourceExtension) {
return resourceExtension('friends/:id', { id: '@id' });
}
function BlocksResource(resourceExtension) {
return resourceExtension('blocked/:id', { id: '@id' });
}
})();
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Dystonia is a movement disorder characterized by sustained muscle contractions, frequently causing twisting and repetitive movements, or abnormal postures. Despite the recent progress in understanding how movements are controlled, the neural mechanisms of dystonia remain largely a mystery, and an adequate model is currently lacking. Potential mechanisms include abnormalities in dopamine metabolism, cholinergic function, and striatal dopamine/glutamate interactions. Mutations of the TOR1A gene cause DYT1 dystonia, a common early onset dystonia. This gene encodes torsinA, a member of the "AAA+" proteins. In studies conducted under the previous period of support, we have found that the mRNA for torsinA is expressed by neurons in several regions of normal adult human brain, including the dopamine neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta. The expression of the encoded protein is widespread, but is found in presynaptic, putatively dopaminergic terminals in the striatum. In postmortem tissue from individuals with the DYT1 mutation, there are abnormalities of dopamine metabolism suggestive of a defect in dopamine release. We seek funding to extend our anatomical studies, and to investigate the localization and function of torsinA in genetically engineered rodent models. This data is essential to the construction of mechanistic models of the dysfunction, which produces dystonia in general, and DYT1 dystonia in particular. |
Throughout the natural world, organisms have responded to predators, inadequate resources, or inclement conditions by forming ongoing mutually beneficial partnerships--or symbioses--with different species. Symbiosis is the foundation for major evolutionary events, such as the emergence of eukaryotes and plant eating among vertebrates, and is also a crucial factor in shaping many ecological communities. The Symbiotic Habit provides an accessible and authoritative introduction to symbiosis, describing how symbioses are established, function, and persist in evolutionary and ecological time.
Angela Douglas explains the evolutionary origins and development of symbiosis, and illustrates the principles of symbiosis using a variety of examples of symbiotic relationships as well as nonsymbiotic ones, such as parasitic or fleeting mutualistic associations. Although the reciprocal exchange of benefit is the key feature of symbioses, the benefits are often costly to provide, causing conflict among the partners. Douglas shows how these conflicts can be managed by a single controlling organism that may selectively reward cooperative partners, control partner transmission, and employ recognition mechanisms that discriminate between beneficial and potentially harmful or ineffective partners.
The Symbiotic Habit reveals the broad uniformity of symbiotic process across many different symbioses among organisms with diverse evolutionary histories, and demonstrates how symbioses can be used to manage ecosystems, enhance food production, and promote human health.
Angela E. Douglas is the Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria Professor of Insect Physiology and Toxicology at Cornell University. She is the author of Symbiotic Interactions and the coauthor of The Biology of Symbiosis.
Reviews:
"Douglas, an established symbiosis authority, revisits the subject with new research data on the evolutionary origins of the well-studied mutualistic symbioses. . . . She convincingly illustrates the impact of symbiosis on evolutionary diversification, coevolution and cospeciation, and speciation. The book correctly highlights harnessing symbioses for human benefits including novel bioactive compounds and strategies for pest control management; it also discusses the role of microbiota in human health."--Choice
"In The Symbiotic Habit, the reader will find an authoritative glimpse into the fascinating world of symbiosis and the concepts that are emerging from recent advances."--John J. Stachowicz, BioScience
"The Symbiotic Habit is a masterpiece of decisive empirical studies covering a wide range of symbioses. . . . The beauty of the Symbiotic Habit is that the book focuses on big questions, even if the answers are not yet clear. . . . Douglas' newest book is helping to create a research environment that asks all the right questions."--Toby Kiers, Ecology
"Angela Douglas raises questions and issues which are common to all or nearly all symbioses and so her book should be read by symbiologists and also by those interested in ecology or evolution. The wide range of topics discussed should provoke researchers in all these fields to look at their own pet system in a new light."--D. H. S. Richardson, Symbiosis
"I would recommend The Symbiotic Habit to any ecologist wanting to widen their understanding of the complexity of species interactions and the ecosystems, which are made up of these interdependent species."--Sapphire McMullan-Fisher, Austral Ecology
"I would recommend this book as a very good summary of modern symbiosis research."--Klaus Hövemeyer, Basic and Applied Ecology |
Design!
Tape clothes can be stylish, wacky or practical. You can create a tape copy of your favorite sweatshirt, or design and make a completely original outfit. Go all out and add zippers, buttons, or anything else that gives your clothing a finishing touch. |
Implementing psychiatric advance directives: service provider issues and answers.
Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are an emerging method for adults with serious and persistent mental illness to document treatment preferences in advance of periods of incapacity. This article presents and responds to issues most frequently raised by service providers when planning for implementation of PADs. Issues discussed include access to PADs; competency to execute PADs; the relationship of PADs to standards of care, resource availability, and involuntary treatment; roles of service providers and others in execution of PADs; timeliness and redundancy of PAD information; consumer expectations of PADs; complexity of PADs; revocation and "activation"; legal enforceability of PADs; the role and powers of agents; liability for honoring and not honoring PADs; and use of PADs to consent for release of health care information. Recommendations are made for training staff and consumers, consideration of statute development, and methods to reduce logistical, attitudinal, and system barriers to effective use of PADs. |
The role of cytokine DNAs as vaccine adjuvants for optimizing cellular immune responses.
Cytokines represent a diverse group of immunologic effector and regulatory proteins that are critical components of the host response to invading pathogens. They have also been utilized as adjuvants to enhance immune responses to vaccines. In particular, plasmid cytokines have been studied extensively as candidate adjuvants for DNA vaccines in preclinical models and are now entering early-phase clinical trials. Here, we review recent advances in our understanding of cytokine biology, T-lymphocyte differentiation, and potential applications of plasmid cytokines in the rational design of improved vaccines. |
(a) Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling a compressor, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for controlling a compressor and expanding an operation range of the compressor to improve fuel efficiency of a vehicle.
(b) Description of the Related Art
Recently, exhaust regulations and fuel efficiency regulations have become more stringent to retard progress of global warming and to mitigation potential depletion of petroleum resources. To enhance fuel efficiency, improvement of auxiliary machinery such as an air conditioning system is required. The air conditioning system includes a compressor, an evaporator, and a condenser. The compressor is configured to compress a refrigerant that flows in from the evaporator, and then discharge the compressed refrigerant to the condenser. The compressor is further configured to receive power of an engine.
According the related art, the compressor is operated by a heater controller based on an external air temperature of a vehicle. Since a substantial amount of power of the engine is consumed when a position value of an accelerator pedal is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, an engine controller stops operation of the compressor. In other words, the engine controller has a priority related to a stopping operation of the compressor.
According to the related art, even when the external air temperature is high, the compressor may be stopped, and thus cooling performance of the air conditioning system may deteriorate. In addition, when the position value of the accelerator pedal is less than the predetermined value, the heater controller is configured to operate the compressor based only the external air temperature without considering the position value of the accelerator pedal, and thus power of the engine for driving the vehicle may become insufficient.
The above information disclosed in this section is merely for enhancement of understanding of the background of the invention and therefore it may contain information that does not form the prior art that is already known in this country to a person of ordinary skill in the art. |
The SlackBuilds.org project is maintained by a small group of people, but we want the scripts in our repository to be representative of the entire Slackware user community. There's no way that the few of us can possibly write scripts for all of the extra applications that users want to have, so we depend on YOU to help us out. If there's some application that you use, and we don't have it in our repository already, please consider writing a build script for it and submitting it to us for possible inclusion - see the Submissions page.
One of the frequent criticisms of Slackware is the lack of official packages available. While the official package set provides a good, stable, and flexible operating system (and is quite adequate for many individuals), the fact remains that many users want/need quite a few additional applications in order for it to meet their needs. There are a few well-known third party package repositories, but many users justifiably do not want to install untrusted packages on their systems. For those users, the traditional solution has been to download the source code for desired applications and compile them manually. This works, but introduces another set of problems associated with managing those applications; version updates and such require more of the admin's time than precompiled packages, and lack of notes will often mean that the admin forgot which configure flags were used earlier (as well as any other special issues encountered).
In our opinion, the best solution to this problem is for the admin to automate the compile process using a SlackBuild script. Patrick Volkerding, the maintainer of Slackware, uses SlackBuild scripts to compile the official packages, so it makes sense for us to use the same idea for extra applications we want to add.
Our goal is to have the largest collection of SlackBuild scripts available while still ensuring that they are of the highest quality - we test every submission prior to inclusion in the repository. We do not now nor will we ever provide precompiled packages for any of the applications for which we have SlackBuild scripts - instead, we want the system administrator (that's you) to be responsible for building the packages. |
using Abp.Collections;
namespace Abp.Configuration.Startup
{
/// <summary>
/// Used to configure setting system.
/// </summary>
public interface ISettingsConfiguration
{
/// <summary>
/// List of settings providers.
/// </summary>
ITypeList<SettingProvider> Providers { get; }
/// <summary>
/// Setting encryption configuration
/// </summary>
SettingEncryptionConfiguration SettingEncryptionConfiguration { get; }
}
}
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Q:
How do I generate an array from a string representation of that array?
I want to generate the array $result_array. There is no error at the page, but not works!
that not works !
//BOF: Result Array
$result_array = '';
$result_array .= '"messages" => "' . $errors .'",';
$result_array .= '"this_addr_type" => "' . (int)$_REQUEST['edit'] .'",';
if (ACCOUNT_GENDER == 'true') {
$result_array .= '"gender_male" => "' . $male .'",';
$result_array .= '"gender_female" => "' . $female .'",';
}
$result_array .= '"firstname" => "' . $entry['entry_firstname'] .'",';
$result_array .= '"lastname" => "' . $entry['entry_lastname'] .'",';
if (ACCOUNT_COMPANY == 'true') {
$result_array .= '"company" => "' . $entry['entry_company'] .'",';
}
$result_array .= '"street_address" => "' . $entry['entry_street_address'] .'",';
if (ACCOUNT_SUBURB == 'true') {
$result_array .= '"suburb" => "' . $entry['entry_suburb'] .'",';
}
$result_array .= '"postcode" => "' . $entry['entry_postcode'] .'",';
$result_array .= '"city" => "' . $entry['entry_city'] .'",';
if (ACCOUNT_STATE == 'true') {
$result_array .= '"state" => "' . $entry['entry_state'] .'",';
}
$result_array .= '"country" => "' . $entry['entry_country_id'] .'"';
//EOF: Result Array
$_RESULT = array($result_array);
that works
$_RESULT = array(
"this_addr_type" => (int)$_REQUEST['edit'],
"gender_male" => $male,
"gender_female" => $female,
"firstname" => $entry["entry_firstname"],
"lastname" => $entry["entry_lastname"],
"company" => $entry["entry_company"],
"street_address" => $entry["entry_street_address"],
"suburb" => $entry["entry_suburb"],
"postcode" => $entry["entry_postcode"],
"city" => $entry["entry_city"],
"state" => $entry["entry_state"],
"country" => $entry["entry_country_id"]
);
A:
Because you're trying to get PHP to treat a string as code. My question would be "why" - but if you MUST do it, you're looking for eval : http://php.net/manual/en/function.eval.php
// untested
$_RESULT = eval("return " . "array($result_array)" . ";");
Will probably give you the result you're loking for.
The real qusetion is why aren't you just doing this:
if (ACCOUNT_GENDER == 'true') {
$result_array['gender_male'] = $male;
$result_array['gender_female'] = $female;
}
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With dramatic increase of enterprise digital data, a scale-up approach of improving performance and capacity of a system by upgrading hardware has not been able to meet increasing demands of customers due to limitations of a hardware update speed. Therefore, there is proposed a scale-out approach of dynamically upgrading the system by increasing the number of physical or virtual devices. The term “physical device” used herein refers to a physical entity such as a workstation, a blade, a mainframe, a desktop computer or a portable computer. The term “virtual device” refers to a logical device, such as a virtual machine, running on the physical entity through virtualization technologies. Compared with the scale-up approach, advantages of the scaling out are very apparent in timeliness.
In the scale-out approach, for example, a cluster composed of a plurality of physical devices may be used in place of a single physical device to provide services. Then, further improvement of the performance, the capacity and the like may be enabled by adding new devices into the cluster. However, such a cluster composed of physical devices currently lacks core cluster architecture features for cluster management, such as cluster membership management, messaging, failover and the like.
In addition to the scaling out of the physical devices, there is also provided scaling out of virtual devices. For example, a common software definition data center (SDDC) is usually deployed on a type of virtual machines (VMs). In the context of the present disclosure, a type of VMs refers to VMs based on a type of virtualization platform and framework and associated with a type of virtual machine hypervisors. Correspondingly, different types of VMs are based on different virtualization platforms and frameworks and associated with different virtual machine hypervisors. When a system needs to be upgraded, this type of VMs may be added to the SDDC to implement the scaling out. However, in such a system, the physical devices running the VMs are usually separated. Data cannot move between different physical devices and therefore cannot implement load balance. In addition, when a certain VM is failed, another VM can be restarted only on a certain physical machine, which causes interruption of services in a longer period of time. |
Onesies and Jumpsuit
Baby Shortie romper Sunflowers by Maxomorra is a simple yet stylish ss romper to add to their everyday wardrobe, perfect for family days out. This organic romper suit has short sleeves and legs, is perfect for warm weather but you just have to add a jumper to stay cosy all year round. Popper fastenings on the legs to help with nappy changing This shortie...
Baby beanie Sunflowers by Maxomorra Baby beanie made with cotton and super soft velour printed with cute sunflowers by Swedish brand Maxomorra. The outside is organic green cotton with yellow sunflowers The inside is made with a purple soft velour. Babys beanies are great to keep babies temperature perfect!
Dribble Bib Sunflowers from the Swedish brand Maxomorra. Bandeau bib made of green organic cotton on one side and soft purple velour on the other. This bandana has a cute print of colorfull yellow sunflowers. Perfect to keep your baby's clothes always dry!
Baby Shortie romper Owls by Maxomorra is a simple yet stylish ss romper to add to their everyday wardrobe, perfect for family days out. This organic romper suit has short sleeves and legs, is perfect for warm weather but you just have to add a jumper to stay cosy all year round. Popper fastenings on the legs to help with nappy changing This shortie...
Baby beanie owls by Maxomorra Baby beanie made with cotton and super soft velour printed with owls by Swedish brand Maxomorra. The outside is organic cream cotton with owls in brown The inside is made with a turquoise soft velour. Babys beanies are great to keep babies temperature perfect! |
Low back schools. A critical review.
The purpose of this article is to review and evaluate the empirical literature concerning low back schools. Although the low back school is a popular method of dealing with the growing number of patients with back pain, a general lack of studies exists of the effectiveness of this intervention technique. The studies that have been conducted, moreover, often lack control conditions and appropriate measurement techniques. The goal of most schools is to increase "self-care" behaviors and thereby decrease other related problems, such as pain intensity and absenteeism. The literature, however, provides limited support for the idea that a low back school can influence variables such as the number of health care contacts, sick leave, work status, pain intensity or duration, activity level, or medication consumption. Whether the patient's level of knowledge improves as a result of attending the low back school is unclear. Some evidence suggests that patients' attitudes toward back care do change. We conclude, therefore, that more information is needed about the effects of low back schools so that they may be improved. A central concept of low back school programs that should be examined is patient compliance. How well patients comprehend the material presented in the low back school or whether the school results in behavioral changes in the participants remains to be determined. |
package org.nativescript.staticbindinggenerator.generating.writing;
import java.util.List;
public interface ClassWriter extends JavaCodeWriter {
void writeBeginningOfChildClass(String className, String extendedClassName, List<String> implementedInterfacesNames);
void writeBeginningOfNamedChildClass(String className, String jsFileName, String extendedClassName, List<String> implementedInterfacesNames);
void writeClassEnd();
}
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Q:
Unable to run php artisan migrate:refresh command in Php Storm Terminal
Unable to run the php artisan migrate:refresh & php artisan migrate command in the terminal.
I created the Migration File in the directory, and then deleted it manually from the sidebar rather than make it drop through Drop command. Now, I am unable to run the migrate commands plus the raw sql queries.
Anyone, who can help me out? Can I restore the file which I deleted?
A:
You apparently deleted a migration called 'Add Column' and now migrate is searching for it, but can't find it. Delete this particular row manually in the migrations table in your database and the migrate should run.
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Q:
Get value returned from another method
In a Template helper, is it possible to get from a method a value returned by another method?
In example
Template.postsList.helpers({
posts: function () {
return Posts.find({});
},
nextPath: function () {
// how to return here the number of posts from the query
// in the posts method?
}
});
A:
You can just refactor the code so you have a shared way to obtain the posts cursor:
var postsCursor = function() {
return Posts.find();
};
Template.postsList.helpers
posts: postsCursor,
nextPath: function () {
var count = postsCursor().count();
// do something with count
}
});
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Q:
copy constructor of a class which has self-pointer to itself in C++?
I wanted to ask that how will we implement a copy constructor of a class which has self pointer to itself as its data member, i want to implement a deep copy,
class City
{
string name;
City* parent;
public:
City(string nam, double dcov);
City(string nam, double dcov, City* c);
City(const City& obj)
{
this-> name = obj.name;
// how to assign parent
parent = new City(??)
}
~City();
void setName(string name1);
void setDistanceCovered(int dist);
string getName();
double getDistanceCovered();
City* getParent(){return parent;}
};
I am confused that this line // how to assign parent
parent = new City(??)will call constructor again instead of deep copy?
Regards.
A:
How about
if (obj.parent != NULL)
parent = new City(*obj.parent)
else
parent = NULL;
This should work unless you have cycles in the parent hierarchy.
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The shifting politics of patient activism: From bio-sociality to bio-digital citizenship.
Digital media provide novel tools for patient activists from disease- and condition-specific communities. While those with debilitating conditions or disabilities have long recognised the value of collective action for advancing their interests, digital media offer activists unparalleled opportunities to fulfil their goals. This article explores the shifting politics of 'activism' in the increasingly digitally mediated, commercialised context of healthcare, asking: what role have digital media played in the repertoire of activists' strategies? And, to what extent and how has the use of such media impacted the very concept of activism? Building on sociological ideas on emergent forms of 'biological citizenship' and drawing on findings from an analysis of available media, including television and print news reportage, online communications, published histories and campaign material and other information produced by activists in HIV/AIDS and breast cancer communities, we argue that digital media have profoundly shaped how 'activism' is enacted, both the goals pursued and the strategies adopted, which serve to broadly align contemporary patient communities' interests with those of science and business. This alignment, which we characterise as 'bio-digital citizenship', has involved a fundamental reorientation of 'activism' from less of a struggle for rights to more of a striving to achieve a public profile and attract funding. We conclude by calling for a reconceptualisation of 'activism' to more adequately reflect the workings of power in the digital age, whereby the agency and hopes of citizens are central to the workings of political rule. |
Microgranular promyelocytic leukemia: a multiparameter examination.
Six cases of microgranular variant acute promyelocytic leukemia (M3v) were studied by use of a multiparameter approach including morphology, cytochemistry, flow cytochemistry, flow cytometry, cytogenetics, and gene rearrangement. Three of six cases demonstrated both myeloid and monocytoid associated surface markers by flow cytometry. One of six cases had strong alpha-naphthyl-butyrate esterase (alpha-NBE) activity in addition to myeloperoxidase activity. There was no correlation between percentage of positive monocytoid surface markers and intensity of cytoplasmic alpha-NBE activity. Four of six cases also had a T-cell-associated surface antigen. Further studies indicated that the T-cell markers appeared to be on the promyelocytes and that the T-B receptor gene was not rearranged. Similarly, cytogenetics studies indicated only one clonal abnormality t(15q+; 17q-). Whether these cases represent true "lineage infidelity" remains to be answered. Future important studies are needed on normal hematopoietic progenitor cells at early stages of development and childhood to study lineage-specific characteristics and to determine whether co-expression normally exists during early development. |
The Present Disclosure relates, generally, to optical fiber assemblies and, more particularly, to an optical fiber assembly having a ferrule carrier removable without the use of tools.
Systems for interconnecting optical fibers typically utilize mating optical fiber connector or interconnect assemblies to facilitate handling and accurate positioning of the optical fibers. The individual optical fibers may be secured within a ferrule of each connector assembly, and the mating ferrules align the axis of each mating pair of optical fibers.
The optical interfaces of the optical fibers sometimes become contaminated with dirt, dust and other debris such that the optical interfaces require cleaning. In some instances, it may be possible to clean the optical interfaces with the connectors in place. In other instances, it may be necessary to remove the optical fiber connectors from their operating environment to perform such a cleaning operation.
Optical fiber connectors may be mounted on a substrate or board such as a backplane or daughter card through the use of screws and other mounting hardware. In addition, other components may be mounted on the substrate in close proximity to the connector. When removing an optical fiber connector from a substrate, such other components may interfere with access to the mounting hardware of the optical fiber connector or interfere with the ability of an operator to position a tool in the desired position to easily remove the mounting hardware that secures the optical fiber connector to the substrate. Such interference may substantially increase the difficulty and thus the time required to remove and replace optical fiber connectors mounted on a substrate.
The foregoing background discussion is intended solely to aid the reader. It is not intended to limit the innovations described herein, nor to limit or expand the conventional state of the art, as discussed. Thus, the foregoing discussion should not be taken to indicate that any particular element of a conventional system is unsuitable for use with the innovations described herein, nor is it intended to indicate that any element is essential in implementing the innovations described herein. The implementations and application of the innovations described herein are defined by the appended Claims. |
Can molecular and cellular neuroprotection be translated into therapies for patients?: yes, but not the way we tried it before.
The concept of neuroprotection is based on sound scientific data derived in preclinical studies. However, candidate neuroprotectants have never been successfully translated to patients. A review of past approaches to cellular and molecular neuroprotection, preclinical neuroprotection studies, and clinical approaches was undertaken. Although there is no evidence for fundamental barriers in biological principles that limit the translation of promising therapies to humans, ample evidence exists as to a lack of rigor in preclinical studies, obstacles posed by the complexities of acute ischemic stroke syndromes, and regulatory barriers. Alternative methods to translating stroke drugs may require trials in restricted stroke indications in well-defined patient populations. The translational gap between cellular and molecular neuroscience and patient therapy may be bridged by first developing therapies for narrow stroke indications. A single success may stimulate further research, funding, and a capacity to generalize initial results to broader stroke populations. |
Robbins lemma
In statistics, the Robbins lemma, named after Herbert Robbins, states that if X is a random variable having a Poisson distribution with parameter λ, and f is any function for which the expected value E(f(X)) exists, then
Robbins introduced this proposition while developing empirical Bayes methods.
References
Category:Statistical theorems
Category:Lemmas
Category:Poisson distribution |
Brief Intro!
A Web Developer, Graphic Designer and a User Experience Architect, almost completed with Masters in Cloud Computing from University of Leicester, with four years of Industrial Experience from a Multinational Company's Research wing.
I work on web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and also during my free time, I create web applications in PHP & MySQL, or one of Classic ASP & Access, ASP.NET & MSSQL, J2EE & Oracle, and Ruby on Rails & PostgreSQL. I love working on Microsoft products as well as dedicating to the Open Source Community! |
<%#
Custom action.
Available local variables:
url
icon
html_options: custom html options
-%>
<%= link_to_if(action_if, content_tag(:span, '', :class => icon, :title => title), url, html_options) %>
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Q:
Using setNdefPushMessage in loop in Android
Can I send multiple NDEF messages using setNdefPushMessageCallback or setNdefPushMessage like in a loop from one activity in Android?
A:
You can use those methods wherever and as often as you want within your activity's code. However, only the last message set before any peer-to-peer (Beam) communication will be transfered by Android. Messages that you previously set will simply be dropped.
So you can only send one NDEF message over a peer-to-peer connection.
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apiversion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Kustomization
namespace: sample
bases:
- ../../base
patchesStrategicMerge:
- greeting.yaml
resources:
- greeting-deployment.yaml
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/* -*- mode: C; c-file-style: "gnu"; indent-tabs-mode: nil; -*- */
#ifndef __SHELL_EMBEDDED_WINDOW_H__
#define __SHELL_EMBEDDED_WINDOW_H__
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#include <clutter/clutter.h>
#define SHELL_TYPE_EMBEDDED_WINDOW (shell_embedded_window_get_type ())
G_DECLARE_DERIVABLE_TYPE (ShellEmbeddedWindow, shell_embedded_window,
SHELL, EMBEDDED_WINDOW, GtkWindow)
struct _ShellEmbeddedWindowClass
{
GtkWindowClass parent_class;
};
GtkWidget *shell_embedded_window_new (void);
#endif /* __SHELL_EMBEDDED_WINDOW_H__ */
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In many known vacuum cleaners a motor powered either by a mains electricity supply or a battery pack, which may be rechargeable, rotatingly drives a fan. The fan generates an airflow within which particles of dust and debris to be collected by the vacuum cleaner become entrained. The airflow generally enters the vacuum cleaner via an inlet nozzle and passes through a filter so that particles of dust and debris entrained in the airflow are removed from the airflow by the filter and are collected in a collecting chamber. A problem with this type of vacuum cleaner is that after some use the pores of the filter can become blocked by particles of dust and debris which tend to bind together to form relatively large conglomerations. Once the filter becomes blocked the airflow through it is reduced and the suction power of the vacuum cleaner is reduced.
In its simplest form the filter can be a piece of woven polyester material supported in a frame and located between a collecting chamber and the fan. Such a simple filter will filter out the majority of particles of dust and debris from the airflow drawn into the fan, some of which particles then drop into the collecting chamber. However, such simple filters do tend to become blocked relatively quickly and can be ineffective to filter out smaller particles of dust and debris from the airflow.
Improved filters are known in which the filter comprises an accordian-like or “concertina” of filter material, in order to increase the surface area of the filter while not taking up too much space within the vacuum cleaner. However, these can also become blocked through use and the folds in the concertina of filter material provide crevices in which conglomerations of particles of dust and debris can accumulate. In such filters the filter material has to be made of materials which maintain their shape once folded, which can increase the expense of the filter material used, particularly if a fine filter is required.
It is important that the filter arrangement used in the vacuum cleaner is effectively sealed within the housing of the vacuum cleaner so that none of the airflow within which dust and debris is entrained leaks around the sides of the filter. It is desirable that all the airflow through the fan passes through the filter so that all the particles of dust and debris entrained in the airflow are filtered out and collected in a collecting chamber. Such a seal for a filter will have to be effective throughout the lifetime of the vacuum cleaner and may have to withstand regular disassembly of the parts of the vacuum cleaner surrounding it in order that the collecting chamber can be emptied, and possibly so that the filter itself can be cleaned.
In some vacuum cleaners the filter is regularly removed from the housing of the vacuum cleaner so that it can be cleaned. In such vacuum cleaners it is desirable to be able to remove and replace the filter easily and without reducing the strength of any seal between the filter and components of the vacuum cleaner surrounding it. However, the need for the user to physically handle the filter element to clean same is a drawback.
A first aspect of the present invention seeks to overcome some of the problems discussed above by providing a filter arrangement for a vacuum cleaner which is less vulnerable to blocking by particles of dust and debris. A second aspect of the present invention seeks to overcome some of the disadvantages discussed above by providing a high surface area and low volume filter in which relatively inexpensive, flexible, fine filter material can be used. A third aspect of the present invention seeks to overcome some of the problems discussed above by providing a filter arrangement with improved sealing to adjacent components. A fourth aspect of the present invention seeks to overcome some of the disadvantages discussed above by providing a releasable fixing arrangement for a filter arrangement within a vacuum cleaner which is easy to operate and maintains a good seal around the filter arrangement when the arrangement is fixed within the vacuum cleaner. |
Q:
CheckAndDownloadUpdateAsync doesn't work
Can you guys tell me how it should be done? I have out of browser app with a button. The Button does this:
Application.Current.CheckAndDownloadUpdateCompleted
+= (object sender, CheckAndDownloadUpdateCompletedEventArgs e)
=> MessageBox.Show(e.UpdateAvailable.ToString());
Application.Current.CheckAndDownloadUpdateAsync();
I run the app, add something, rebuild the app, click on the button - it says false.
What could be wrong with that?
UPD: BTW... it's OOB App
UPD2: I tested with Fiddler. It get's the xap, but still doesn't update
A:
There is an Error member on the EventArgs, maybe you should check it?
For instance:
if (e.Error != null)
{
if (e.Error is PlatformNotSupportedException)
{
// Require a Silverlight plugin update
}
else if (e.Error is SecurityException)
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Another trick to try to get mainstream media articles deindexed by Google
I’ve been blogging over the past several months about people using various tactics to try to get Google to “deindex” Web pages — remove them from Google indexes, so that Google users won’t see them in search results. If you send Google a court order finding the material on some pages to be defamatory, Google will consider deindexing those pages, on the theory that the court order is fairly reliable evidence that the pages are indeed inaccurate and libelous. But the consequence is that people have been using various stratagems to deindex material even when there’s little reason for such confidence.
Here’s another twist, which some people have used to try to deindex mainstream news articles (though without any success, to my knowledge, because Google seems skeptical of these particular requests) — they (a) sue the people quoted in the articles, (b) get stipulations from the people recanting their allegations, (c) get court orders based on those recantations and then (d) try to use those court orders to deindex an entire article.
Now, if a media organization gets such a recantation from one of the sources they quote, the editors would reasonably ask: Was the source lying then, or is he lying now? If the editors are persuaded that the recantation is accurate, they might well publish a correction, or revise or even take down the original article. But if they think that the original report was accurate, and the recantation was coerced using a lawsuit, they might stand by their story.
When a plaintiff sues the source, though, gets a stipulation and submits the order to Google with a deindexing request, the plaintiff is trying to short-circuit the news organization’s review of the matter. Instead, the plaintiff wants to just get the original story hidden, with no independent evaluation of whether the story was and continues to be correct.
Consider, for example, Ball v. Saurman. A Ventura County Star article had quoted Sandee Saurman as sharply criticizing J. Kiely Ball’s hearing aid company. Ball sued Saurman, who eventually agreed to a stipulation in which she stated that her original allegations were false. A court then issued an injunction, which was submitted to Google for deindexing of the newspaper article. If the Court of Appeal decision were upheld, Google would have had to deindex the Ventura County Star article even though neither the Star nor Google had an opportunity to independently examine Saurman’s recantation.
Or consider Welter v. Does, an Arizona case filed by Kelly/Warner, a law firm I’ve written about before. Megan Welter made the national news as an Iraq War veteran who became an Arizona Cardinals cheerleader, but then made the news again when she was arrested for allegedly beating her boyfriend, Ryan McMahon. Two years later, Welter filed a defamation lawsuit against McMahon, and McMahon submitted a stipulation saying that his original allegations were false. (It is impossible to tell from the record whether the signer of the stipulation was indeed the real Ryan McMahon, but let us assume that he was.)
Welter then got an injunction stating that McMahon’s allegedly defamatory statements were posted on ABC News, Fox Sports, CBS News and USA Today, presumably because articles on those sites were based on those statements. And the injunction stated that defendant must take all actions, “including requesting removal of the URLs from all internet search engines … to remove all such webpages and cache from the Internet, such that the Content is rendered unsearchable.” Again, because this was a stipulated judgment, there was no factual determination of whether McMahon’s statements were actually defamatory. For a similar example, see Desert Palm Surgical Group v. Petta, which was used to try to deindex a CNN Money article.
As I mentioned, fortunately today Google (and other search engines to which these orders are submitted) can decline to implement such deindexing requests, taking the view that a stipulated judgment based on a source’s recanting (under legal pressure) is no reason to vanish a news story that relied on the source. A California Court of Appeal decision last year (Hassell v. Bird) suggested that Internet companies may have a legal duty to enforce such orders, but the California Supreme Court is reviewing that decision.
[Note that part of this post is based on an item that my students Alex Gianelli, Kristin Halsing and Ashford Kneitel, and I cowrote.]
Eugene Volokh teaches free speech law, religious freedom law, church-state relations law, a First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic, and an intensive editing workshop at UCLA School of Law, where he has also often taught copyright law, criminal law, tort law, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy. |
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Security and data access in Salesforce are controlled via a powerful and difficult-to-master set of tools. Profiles, permission sets, roles, role hierarchy, sharing settings, and page layouts are all part of the toolbox. They offer different capabilities, but also overlap and interact in ways that can be difficult to wrap your head around.
As part of my work to simplify the permissions and security regime for a forty-seat nonprofit organization, I put together this basic primer on these tools, in hopes of offering ways into this intimidating and mystifying terrain. This guide is written with the small-to-medium sized nonprofit in mind.
Keep It Simple, Sys Admin
If you are planning a data security regime, keep your system as simple and as open as you can. When plotting data access, only restrict access to information that absolutely can’t be available to all staff.
The simplest data security regime is based on two types of users – one being system administrators, allowing access to all the administrative goodies like setting up new users and adding new fields, and the other providing access to all data but without administrative privileges.
You are unlikely to end up with this degree of simplicity. You will encounter solid organizational reasons for restricting access to some data, noting that “solid” in this case can mean either sound or immovable. There can also be legal or compliance reasons for restricting data access, particularly if your organization provides health or social services.
But still, fight bravely for all the openness you can manage. The problem is that with so many layers and settings, understanding and maintaining a regime quickly becomes unwieldy. As even a moderately complex setup gets handed from consultant, to in-house admin, to in-house caretaker, and around again, the original justifications and thought-processes get lost. It can take many valuable hours to understand and update your settings.
So cajole and wheedle your colleagues when they insist that their data can’t be shared. Weaponize the phrase “data silo.” Ask hard questions, and demand solid answers. If there is data that is too sensitive to give all staff access to, ask whether you should be storing and collecting this data at all.
Record Sharing vs. Field and Object Access
The difference between record sharing and field and object access is fundamental in setting up and understanding your data security regime. This concept divides the security tools into two neat piles, greatly simplifying the overall task of understanding.
Field and object access determines what objects (opportunities, for instance, where donations, grants and proposals often reside) and fields (phone number, estimated net worth, etc.) a user can see, create, or edit. Field and object access are primarily controlled through profiles and permission sets.
Record sharing allows you to control your users’ read and edit access to specific existing records on an object that they can otherwise access. Typically, this means restricting access to contacts and/or accounts based on their record type. For instance, your development department may insist that staff outside the department be prevented from seeing major donor contact records, whereas all staff can see volunteers’ records. Record sharing is controlled via sharing settings, roles, and hierarchy.
Sharing is caring
Salesforce is at its heart a sales tool, assuming an environment where sales staff are given a set of people or companies to sell to, information which is not shared with other salespeople, though it is available to sales managers and others higher up in the organization. (When I explain this to clients, I always have to stop myself from quoting Glengarry Glen Ross at this point, because no one typically understands me, and because of all the swear words. But it’s what I picture — a highly competitive, charged sales environment.)
As a result, the presumptive sharing model in Salesforce is based on the ownership of a given record, that owner’s role in the organization, and the hierarchy of those roles. This model probably doesn’t apply to most nonprofits, though it might apply, for instance, to direct service organizations managing client’s medical data. If your organization isn’t sharing records based on ownership and a tiered organizational chart, I have great news – you can completely ignore the role and role hierarchy sections of your toolbox.
In a nonprofit environment, it is more common that access to some contact and account types will be based on departments or teams within the organization. Donor records would be made available for editing to a public group called ‘Development Department,’ but might be read-only for other staff. Job applicants’ records would be available to human resources and upper management, but invisible to others. These requirements are implemented via sharing rules and public groups.
Restricting access to fields on those contacts, such as estimated net worth, would be handled via their profile or permissions, not via sharing. Access to related objects, like the opportunities records could be handled via permission sets, profile, or sharing settings. Note, though, that access to objects can be granted, intentionally or not, via the sharing rules on their related objects.
If you can have an entirely open organization, where all types of records are available to all staff (though perhaps not all objects or fields), you can ignore the sharing section of your toolbox entirely, opening access via profiles or permissions set to ‘Modify All’ or ‘View All.’
Field and object access: Profiles and Permission Sets
Profiles and permission sets are tools that control what fields and objects users have access to, and what sort of access they have: read only, edit, create, and/or delete.
Every user must have a profile. The profile controls access to almost every aspect of Salesforce – administrative privileges, the ability to create reports, access to chatter, password and login policies, and available apps, among many many others. The profile also includes settings for every standard and custom object and field in Salesforce. In addition to basic access, the settings offer a section of checkboxes for object record type. These settings control what record types a user with that profile can create, and the default record type for new records, but do not control the user’s ability to view or edit existing records with those types – for that, you must use sharing settings. The object settings also allow you to control what page layout is presented to users with that profile for each record type on that object.
Permission sets allow you to add *but never subtract* field and object permissions to those provided to a user via their profile. This includes the ability to create additional record types beyond those provided by the user’s profile. A user can have multiple permission sets assigned to them, but only one profile.
Salesforce offers a number of standard profiles. This, combined with the fact that admins are required to select a profile when setting up a user, tends to steer new admins towards profiles as the major tool for providing user permissions. It is common to see an organization with a dozen different profiles in use, one for each department or job title, regardless of whether there are functional differences in the access granted by these profiles. There is a downside to proliferating profiles — it is difficult to set profiles side by side to understand what if any differences exist.
It is easier to maintain a scheme that relies on a small number number of profiles, with permission sets used to add specific access for a group of users. Since permission sets can only add access, a well-set up permission set contains only the specific permissions that it adds to a foundation profile. For instance, a permission set for the development department will only contain settings allowing field access to sensitive development related fields, to the opportunity object, and other development-specific data. It is a simple matter to understand the difference between a basic profile, and that profile with a permission set added.
Some admins advocate using only one basic profile in addition to the administrator, and assembling all needed combinations of access by adding permission sets. This can add a lot clarity on the administrative side, but there are important trade-offs to understand when taking this approach:
Profiles assign a default record type for new records created by a user, and permission sets cannot override this. If you have a single profile that assigns a default contact record type of ‘Standard Contact,’ you can give your development staff the ability to create record types of ‘Donor’ and ‘Prospect,’ but their new records will still default to ‘Standard,’ which they will need to remember to change. In most organizations, record types will be key drivers for reports, record sharing, and page layouts, so the single-profile model creates the risk of bad data disrupting key processes. You should consider a separate profile for positions that do a lot of data entry. You can also address this challenge using validation rules or workflows to check or change record types, though that creates additional systems that need to be understood and maintained.
Similarly, profiles allow the admin to assign page layouts based on record type, and this can’t be overridden by permission sets. In the interests of simplicity, I advocate for a single page layout for any given record type, not varying depending on the user, but there will be situations that favor a profile-based determination of page layout.
When you create new objects and fields, Salesforce asks you to set access by profile. If your new object or field is to be accessed only by holders of certain permission sets, extra clicks are required to complete your set-up.
What’s Page Layout got to do with it?
Page layouts are primarily a tool for improving your users’ experience, allowing you to show the fields and related records that are most important for a given record type, and leave off those that are less important or unpopulated for that record type. Page layouts can be assigned for every combination of profile and record type, though admins should think hard about the justification for changing page layouts from profile to profile – does it add enough value to outweigh the additional complexity?
Page layouts offer the ability to make certain fields read-only or required, and you can leave sensitive data off entirely, though the user may still be able to access this data via reports. If a user lacks read access to a field that is set as a part of the page layout they are viewing, that field and its label will not appear, and other fields will flow up to fill the space that it occupied.
Example
Here are the specifics of setting up Salesforce for a situation like what I’ve described above. We will focus on the Contact object. In this nonprofit organization, there are two types of contacts that need special handling: Donors may be viewed, but not edited by all staff users. The Opportunity object (where donations are recorded) and the Total Donations field on the contact may only be seen by the Development department, who are also allowed to edit contacts with record type “Donor.” Contacts of type “Applicant” and the custom object “Job Applications” may only be viewed by Human Resources and the Management Team. “Standard”-type contacts may be viewed and edited by all staff. We will set up this access using a single profile for all staff, and add permission sets and sharing rules to provide the access to applicants and donors.
This should provide the basics of a security regime for a small-to-medium sized nonprofit organization. These concepts could be carried over to Leads and Accounts, and other objects and fields that need to be restricted in your organization.
Object and Field Access
Set up a Staff profile. It is usually easiest to clone an existing profile, like Standard. (Setup>Manage User>Profiles). Under Object Settings, disable access to Opportunities and Job Applications. Under the Contact object, disable all access to the field Total Donations, and unclick all Record Types except ‘Standard,’ which will also be the default record type. Check to make sure other object settings match your organization’s needs.
Set up a permission set for Development, and edit the Object Settings to give read/edit/create/delete access to the Opportunity Object, as well as read access to the Total Donations field (assuming it is a roll-up, and cannot be edited.) Use the description field to document the access provided by this permission set. It’s a hassle now, sure, but it will save time later.
Set up a permission set for Hiring, and edit the Object Settings to give read/edit/create/delete access to the Job Application object. Be sure to add a description.
Sharing Settings
Set up four public groups: Development, Human Resources, Upper Management, and All Staff. All Staff will contain all staff members, and will be used for providing read-only access to Donors to staffers outside of Development. Public Groups are found under Setup>Manage Users>Public Groups
Set the organization-wide sharing setting for Contacts to Private, under Setup>Security Controls> Sharing Settings.
Still working under Sharing Settings, we’ll set up several contact sharing rules. If Contacts was not previously set to Private, it may take a few minutes for the related list for Contact Sharing Rules to appear.
Create a New Contact Sharing Rule, and give it a name. Select Rule Type Based on Criteria, then set the criteria to Contact Record Type equals Standard, then Share with > Public Group > All Staff, and change Contact Access to Read/Write
Repeat this process to give Read Access to Contact Record Type equals Donor to all staff, Read/Write Access for Contact Record Type equals Donor to Development, Read/Write Access for Contact Record Type equals Applicant to Human Resources, and Read/Write Access for Contact Record Type equals Applicant to Upper Management
Set Up Users
New users will need to be assigned the basic Staff profile, added to All Staff and other relevant groups, and have permission sets added. You should log in as each user type and check access by searching for Contacts of the various types.
Document user setup, including the public groups and permission sets for new users from each team. |
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Q:
Loading Blacklist of IPs from a file into IPTABLES
In a separate file I'm creating a list of IP addresses to be blocked. This file will have IPs added in or removed on a daily basis. I want to "reference" this IP File into /etc/sysconfig/iptables, but I'm not sure if that is possible. If yes, please describe how to do that (ie: ExternalList=/var/tmp/myblacklist.txt) ???
If that type of reference isn't possible in IPTABLES, what would be a good script to add entries from myblacklist.txt into iptables and remove entries from iptables which no longer appear in the myblacklist.txt file?
I'm honestly looking for a simple bash script that might utilize sed. Otherwise, I think I'll trend down the road of putting all the IPs I want to allow/block into an MySQL table and just setting up a script to compile a new iptable on a daily basis. This way mods can be done in the sql DB and the iptables will just print whatever is in the DB. But before I choose that option, could I get away with some simple bash script?
A:
You should investigate using the ipset module for this:
http://ipset.netfilter.org/
Simply add all the IP addresses into a set, and then setup a single iptables rule which drops/rejects packets against that set.
Also easy to manage as you can add, remove and empty the set easily, and generally modify it "on the fly", as and when required.
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The story revolves around Rin Okumura, a teenager possessing abnormal strength and endurance who, along with his twin brother Yukio, was raised by Father Shiro Fujimoto, an Exorcist. One day, Rin learns that he and Yukio are the sons of Satan, the strongest of all demons. Witnessing Shiro dying to protect him, Rin ends up doing what his guardian asked him never to do: draw the demon-slaying blade Kurikara, which restrains his demonic powers, from its scabbard. From that moment on, Rin not only gains permanent demonic features like fangs, pointed ears, and a tail, but also the power to ignite himself into blue flames that can destroy almost anything they touch.
At Fujimoto's funeral, Rin has an encounter with Fujimoto's friend Mephisto Pheles, who agrees with Rin's wish to become an Exorcist like his guardian to become stronger and to defeat Satan. Rin enrolls at the prestigious True Cross Academy, which is actually the Japanese branch of an international organization dedicated to protect the human realm, Assiah, from demons and other creatures from the demonic realm, Gehenna. Rin takes part in a special Exorcist course, the existence of which is known only by a few. Much to his surprise, he finds that his brother, Yukio, is already a veteran exorcist and becomes one of his teachers. Thus Rin's journey to become an Exorcist begins, accompanied by his brother and his fellow students who quickly become his friends and comrades-in-arms. |
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It may seem like humanity has been taking a lot of hits from artificial intelligence lately — from the AI that recently defeated world champion Lee Sedol in the game of Go, to the AI that consistently beats us on "Jeopardy," to the AI that is currently out-trumping Donald Trump on Twitter.
Artificial intelligence can help make humanity better, not just by winning games or driving cars, but also by addressing some of the not-so-great aspects of human nature.
But it’s not all doom and gloom for humanity. In fact, building smarter AI means we’re getting smarter ourselves. Take Fan Hui, the European champion who lost five matches of Go earlier this year to the same AI Lee Sedol played against last month. When Fan Hui first played the AlphaGo AI, he was ranked 633rd in the world. Now he is ranked in the 300s. Studying the AI’s game inspired Fan Hui to change his game, and ultimately made him a better player. Extend that to the real world and you’ll recognize the potential for AI to teach us to be better drivers, better teachers, better writers and overall better people.
Today, AI is pervasive in many of our daily routines, from shopping online to driving cars to organizing our photos. AI is not only more efficient, but often tackles problems in new and interesting ways that differ from the established norms that human experts have developed.
As AI continues to get even smarter, we’ll see computer "intuition" helping with even more real-world problems — problems that we, as humans, have a tough time solving precisely because we’re human. Here are a few big issues we’re starting to address right now in the budding field of visual-recognition AI:
Racism, sexism and discrimination
Diversity in tech has been a big issue these days, with studies showing that the job market and workplace have a cultural bias against females and minorities. To combat an enormous social problem, we first have to document and understand how and when discrimination occurs, and raise awareness about the issue.
Some social media companies are using visual-recognition AI to do just that. A social network for young professionals automatically analyzes user-uploaded photos to see if there is a correlation between traits that aren’t listed in users’ text profiles (e.g., skin color, gender, weight, etc.) and the number of recruiters who pass over them. By understanding and proving these linkages, the company is able to help raise awareness and consciously combat these subconscious biases.
Online harassment
The Internet is not a civilized place. It is a place where trolls roam free, hiding behind relative anonymity and the safety of impersonal interactions to justify online harassment, threats and general bad behavior. And until online trolls and bullies reform, it’s up to AI to help make the Internet a safer space for both free speech and human beings.
A popular dating app on the market uses AI technology to filter out nudity and potentially offensive images from its users’ photos. Say goodbye to unsolicited dick pics, ladies! The neat thing about AI is you don’t have to tell it what’s "offensive" — the algorithm learns from examples and makes determinations based on feedback from users. So if enough women flag men wearing fedoras as offensive, the AI learns to recognize that concept in the future.
Black market
With the black-market size estimated at trillions of dollars a year, and the fact that it’s easier to buy a gun than a book in some places, the subject of how we keep society safe has been top of mind lately.
It will take thoughtful and ethical humans to create computer understanding that can elevate the rest of humanity.
For marketplaces on the internet, AI is playing a large role in moderating what users put up for sale — whether it’s guns, drugs, live exotic animals or other illegal items. Several online auction sites use AI to identify when users upload photos of contraband, and prevent them from making a listing. This filtering has a huge impact, because people tend to upload pictures of the real items, but list inaccurate and innocuous text descriptions like "vase of flowers" to avoid traditional text-moderation filters.
These examples are proof that AI can help make humanity better, not just by winning games or driving cars, but also by addressing some of the not-so-great aspects of human nature. But what people often forget is that AI is only able to operate in response to instructions and examples provided by humans, at least for now. So it will take thoughtful and ethical humans to create computer understanding that can elevate the rest of humanity. The choice is ours to make between planting the seeds of the robot apocalypse or the robot renaissance.
Matthew Zeiler is the founder and CEO of Clarifai, an artificial intelligence company that excels in visual recognition, solving real-world problems for businesses and developers alike. Matthew received a PhD in machine learning and image recognition with the pioneers of deep learning and convolutional neural networks. Reach him @mattzeiler. |
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accessing user attributes with a has_many and belongs_to association
Not sure why i can figure this out but would appreciate some assistance. I am trying to access the attribute name from my user model when displaying search results using ransack.
My recipe controller is like so
def index
@q = Recipe.search(params[:q])
@searchresults = @q.result(:distinct => true)
@q.build_condition
end
def search
index
end
so when i output the results in my search page i can select attributes from the recipe model but cant get anything returned from the user model (I guess this has to do with the fact that in my index i have Recipe.search ? )
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<% @searchresults.each do |r| %>
<%= image_tag r.avatar.url(:thumb)%>
<%= r.user.name%>
<%= r.dish_name %>
<%= r.difficulty %>
<%= r.preperation_time %>
<% end %>
I get undefined method name with this
Recipe model
belongs_to :user
User Model
has_many :recipes
What am i missing, something simple im guessing?
Thank you
A:
Generally you don't want to chain association methods together, as it makes dealing with nil associations much more difficult (I assume that's what is happening here: r.user is nil, and nil.name is an undefined method).
Rails has a built-in delegator you can use to sidestep this:
class Recipe < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
delegate :name, :to => :user, :prefix => :user, :allow_nil => true
end
This will define a recipe instance method called r.user_name which returns the name if the user exists and nil if it doesn't.
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We study a chaotic ratchet system under the influence of a thermal environment. By direct integration of the Lindblad equation we are able to analyze its behavior for a wide range of couplings with the environment, and for different finite temperatures. We observe that the enhancement of the classical and quantum currents due to temperature depend strongly on the specific properties of the system. This makes it difficult to extract universal behaviors. We have also found that there is an analogy between the effects of the classical thermal noise and those of the finite h size. These results open many possibilities for their testing and implementation in kicked Bose-Einstein condensates and cold atoms experiments. |
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As of the New Year, Iowans can go just over the Mississippi River into neighboring Illinois to buy recreational marijuana. Now that sales are legal in the Prairie State, some officials in Iowa are warning residents to be mindful of state law.
Despite the law change in Illinois, it is still illegal to transport the drug across state lines or to drive impaired.
Sergeant Alex Dinkla of the Iowa State Patrol says officers will likely be keeping an eye out for potentially impaired drivers, especially in the eastern part of the state.
“There’s gonna be probably a little extra awareness on that side of the state as they are working," he said. "But as the state as a whole, we take a very strong stance against it that, if you have any marijuana in your vehicle, on your person, you will be charged with that.”
A bridge from Illinois leads right into downtown Dubuque and County Sheriff Joe Kennedy says his deputies are well aware of the changes across the river.
“We just want people to understand, when they go over to Illinois and they buy it, even if they may buy it legally over there, as soon as they cross the state line it is no longer legal and we are going to enforce it as such,” Kennedy said.
The marijuana legal landscape is changing across the Midwest and Mountain West. Iowa has approved limited access to medical marijuana for certain qualified patients. Meanwhile, in Michigan, Illinois and Colorado the substance is now fully legal.
Despite the patchwork of regulations in the region, Kennedy says residents should be aware of Iowa law.
"Our deputies have stopped people from say, Colorado. And we stop them and the deputy detects marijuana in the vehicle or we get a canine or whatever, and end up finding marijuana in the vehicle. And the first thing they say is, 'well, it's legal in Colorado," he said. "Well, that's fine, but you're not in Colorado."
When it comes to driving under the influence, it can be difficult to test for marijuana impairment because of how the drug stays in a person’s system. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, there’s no national standard for drugged driving like there is for drunk driving. |
Update on mycobacterial issues for the acquired immune deficiency syndrome era.
Patients with immunosuppression are especially susceptible to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium avium-intracellularae, (also known as Mycobacterium avium Complex). Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the causative agent of pulmonary and extrapulmonary manifestations of tuberculosis, whereas the M. avium-intracellularae group has become recognized as a significant pathogen. Treatment problems center on multiresistant bacteria and poor patient compliance with prolonged treatment regimens. Lengthy multidrug treatment plans and special precautions against nosocomial transmission of these pathogens to patients and health care workers are necessary to limit the spread of these pathogens. |
A primary goal of data distribution design in a massively parallel processing (MPP) database is even distribution of data among separate nodes of the system. In particular, multiple processors, each having independent operating systems and memory resources, are coordinated in order to process a program in parallel. Such a system may be referred to as “shared-nothing,” where tables of database(s) are partitioned into segments and distributed amongst different processing nodes, with no data sharing occurring between processing nodes. Data is partitioned across processing nodes such that each processing node has a subset of rows from tables in the database. Each processing node processes only the rows on its own disks. The MPP database includes a coordinator system, which hosts the database but does not itself store database records, but rather metadata about the database. The coordinator system is able to host a database engine, the controlling entity of a MPP system, and can generate query plans, coordinate query execution by the processing nodes, and aggregate data system-wide. A common messaging interface interconnect is used by all processing nodes and the coordinator system for communication amongst the processing nodes and the coordinator.
When a database query arrives at the coordinator (e.g., from a client system), the query is divided and assigned to processing nodes according to a data distribution plan and an optimized execution plan. The processing entities in each processing node manage only their portion of the data. However, these processing entities may communicate with one another to exchange any needed information during execution. A query may be divided into multiple sub-queries, and the sub-queries may be executed in parallel or in some optimal order in some or all of the processing nodes. The results of the sub-queries may be aggregated and further processed, and subsequently additional sub-queries may the executed according to the results.
In a conventional MPP database system entries of a table are generally distributed using one of the following methods: hash; random (e.g., round-robin); range; or, list. Currently, many MPP databases distribute data using hash distribution. In hash distribution the key values of records are hashed into buckets, and the buckets are assigned to processing nodes. With hash distribution, data can be directly located through the key with minimum consumption of system resources. This provides a high performance characteristic for hash distribution, since lookup of a value by the key is straightforward, merely requiring calculation of the hash value to determine which node hosts that particular hash bucket. The query is sent to only that processing node, without involving other processing nodes. Another common method of distribution for a MPP database is a round-robin distribution. With round-robin distribution data is distributed around all processing nodes of the MPP database, which is useful for distributing records evenly into the nodes in the system. However, a disadvantage of round-robin distribution is in the area of looking up data records. In general, during a lookup of a record many (if not all) of the nodes in the system must be visited in order to locate the particular record. Thus, system resource utilization is less efficient for a MPP database using a conventional round-robin distribution scheme, as compared to a lookup on an MPP database using a hash distribution scheme.
One potential problem for MPP databases utilizing distribution by hash (as well as range or list) is the occurrence of skew. In cases where the distribution of the key value is not skewed, typically some buckets will be large while others are small. In most cases it is possible to place several large and small buckets together and to assign them to one processing node, the general goal being that every node has roughly equivalent size of overall data. However, in some cases the data distribution may be skewed, and records with a single key value may not fit in the storage of the designated processing node, while other processing nodes may have an abundance of remaining space. Simply adjusting the function by which the hash distribution is made will not address this issue and additional measures are needed to address the skew, particularly in the storage of the processing node. Data skew can also lead to an increase in the processing time required for executing a query, especially for that of a table join. |
Wireless communication systems and, specifically, wireless dispatch systems are known. Such wireless dispatch systems provide dispatch services that allow groups of mobile users to communicate spontaneously as a group without the need for arranging a conference call. In today's wireless dispatch systems, each group member must carry a radiophone device, and remain within the coverage area of the dispatch system to maintain communication with the group.
With the recent proliferation of Internet technologies and the ubiquitous nature of Internet access today, a great variety of existing technologies are integrating with and exploiting the Internet. Integration of wireless dispatch systems with the Internet, could enable dispatch users to maintain dispatch communication using a computer connected to the Internet, for example, in place of a radio-telephone device that must remain within the coverage area of the dispatch system. Thus, a group of users, some with radio-telephones and others, dispatch clients, with computers connected to the Internet from anywhere in the world, could communicate as a group just as groups of radio-telephone users do today.
Therefore, a need exists for an apparatus and method for providing dispatch service to dispatch clients via a packet-switched network such as the Internet. |
Coordinating Collections
These coordinated collections help Distinguish your Lifestyle by pulling your look together. Ceiling lights, flush mounts and semi-flush mounts with coordinating sconces and bath and vanity lights that help you to both layer your lighting and enable you to carry your look from room to room. |
Integrating molecular design resources within modern drug discovery research: the Roche experience.
Various computational disciplines, such as cheminformatics, ADME modeling, virtual screening, chemogenomics search strategies and classic structure-based design, should be seen as one multifaceted discipline contributing to the early drug discovery process. Although significant resources enabling these activities have been established, their true integration into daily research should not be taken for granted. This article reviews value-adding activities from target assessment to lead optimization, and highlights the technical and process-related aspects that can be considered essential for performance and alignment within the research organization. |
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the web
by uzwi
Deep cold air. Triangular spiderweb, curved like a sail, attached at two points to the house & at the third to an old dry poppy head in a pot on the balcony. Most of it invisible, but the edges & all the rigging picked out with frost. One patch of frost, about three inches in from the leading edge, minutely cross-hatched in the shape of a section through an ammonite. I can’t see if the spider’s part of that little structure. The effect is of a journey in a different regime to ours. Whatever medium is inflating the sail–whatever medium, conversely, is rushing past it–is not a property of our universe & cannot be defined by our way of relating to things. That’s why we have a duty of care to the spider. She’s sailing into an idea of winter we can’t have. Her perception, acted out as this structure, is a valuable resource. I’ve watched her mother & grandmother make webs there, and their mothers and grandmothers, right back into the historical times. They all built ships but none of them built quite like this. |
The latest outrage, a video recording of an Israeli army medic (!) casually executing a Palestinian man, has been seized upon by people who are sympathetic to Israel. They quickly began to write things like: What have we become? What about our values? This fight is about the battle over the soul of the “Jewish state.” And remarkably: Thanks to the dead Palestinian for forcing us to face what we’ve become.
As usual, the real victims – like the man whose brain is exploded in the video, or the young girl in the other video, or the black guy in the lynch video – get lost in the solipsistic mix. It’s as if the Jewish-Israeli navel has projected itself four feet outwards before flexing back, splitting in two, and glomming onto Jewish-Israeli eyeballs.
Small wonder they can only see one small piece of what they actually are. Of what the whole picture is.
It’s normal for members of a community – imagined or not – to attend to the facts and stories of their daily lives and the lives of people who are like them. The broadening and fragmentation of the media landscape enables and encourages the phenomenon. Sites like this one even help drive the development of new communities.
Yet, one consistent and durable criticism of the Jewish-Israeli left goes to its bewilderingly myopic perspective. It’s not so much an inability to see other people. Rather, it’s the tendency to see others as objects (or rarely, agents), situated within a narrative of self. A preening egoism adorns every “humane” pronouncement about the need to end the occupation. Don’t you see? Apartheid undermines the very essence of our whatever and etc…
Fine, one group of people is painfully self-involved and grandiose. Why is that important?
In other circumstances it wouldn’t matter: like a whole culture dedicated to bathroom selfies. But in the apartheid context it matters a lot. The dehumanization of other people occurs through the extraordinary status we afford ourselves or through the denigration of others. For the Jewish-Israeli left it’s the former, for the right it’s both.
The truth of course, is that there’s nothing exceptional about Jewish-Israelis, or Palestinians for that matter. God didn’t choose anyone, and Palestine/Israel is one more ugly mess in a world that’s seen thousands of them at least. Ethnic conflict is ordinary and the Banality of Evil is as persistent a truism as any other. Even, apartheid, the chosen government of the Jewish-Israeli people, isn’t very exceptional. It’s only very offensive.
The whole claim of religious or secular exceptionalism (so many Nobel prizes, after all) informs apartheid and justifies it. Even a high-minded theory of exceptionalism will always lead to a striking lack of self-awareness and sense of superiority in the best of cases. In Palestine, it’s the source of our daily calamity.
My unsolicited (and likely unheeded) advice to “liberal” Jewish-Israelis is to forget about being exceptional, either as people or as a people. Approach your role in apartheid from the perspective of someone who believes in true equality. When a Palestinian is executed by a racist – a true exceptionalist – in your midst, don’t worry about how it’ll make you look. Don’t ask what the murder means for “Jewish morality.” Instead ask things like, What was the dead guy’s favorite football team? Did he play a musical instrument? What was his favorite memory? |
[Mechanisms and cofactors of hepatitis C fibrosis].
The development of quantitative methods to measure the degree of necrosis, inflammation and fibrosis in liver biopsies favored the knowledge of the natural course of liver fibrosis. Two of the most important methods are the Knodell index and the Metavir index. These indexes are also useful to monitor the effects of the diverse therapeutic alternatives. There are no satisfactory studies that confirm why progression of fibrosis is slower in women, or why it's faster when the diagnosis is made at an older age. All the therapeutic schemes decrease the progression of fibrosis, in at least one degree compared with the degree of fibrosis before the treatment. Moreover, combination therapy with pegylated interferon and ribavirin reduces the progression of fibrosis even more in patients with hepatitis C. |
The pathogenesis of hypertension-induced target organ damage is related to long-term changes in vessel function and structure. This maladaptive process of vascular remodeling is determined by genetic programs governing cell growth, programmed cell death, inflammation and matrix modulation. The set of genes that are actively expressed by the genome, the transcriptome, is a dynamic determinant of the cellular phenotype and tissue function. The proposed project will test the central hypothesis that target organ damage in hypertension is mediated by the selective up-regulation of a "vasculopathic" gene profile induced by the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) and is counterbalanced by an intrinsic set of "vasculo-protective" genes activated by the nuclear receptor PPAR-gamma. Our experimental strategy will incorporate transgenic animals and classic pharmacologic approaches as well as DNA microarray and serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) technologies. These analytical tools will enable us to define the vascular transcriptome during the pathogenesis of hypertension-induced target organ damage. One outcome of these studies will be the characterization of a common "pharmacogenomic" profile of genes shared by therapeutic strategies that prevent target organ damage that are selectively targeted at modulating the activation of the angiotensin type I receptor, the mineralocorticoid receptor and the PPAR-gamma receptor/transcription factor. The specific aims of the project are to: Define the vascular transcriptome associated with hypertension-induced target organ damage by establishing vascular SAGE libraries in both murine and human primary hypertension. Define the mediator role of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system as a "vasculo-pathic" determinant of the vascular transcriptome during hypertension-induced target organ damage. Define the mediator role of PPAR-gamma as a "vasculo-protective" determinant of the vascular transcriptome during hypertension-induced target organ damage. |
Food makes you a target: disentangling genetic, physiological, and behavioral effects determining susceptibility to infection.
Genetics, physiology, and behavior are all expected to influence the susceptibility of hosts to parasites. Furthermore, interactions between genetic and other factors are suggested to contribute to the maintenance of genetic polymorphism in resistance when the relative susceptibility of host genotypes is context dependent. We used a maternal sibship design and long- and short-term food deprivation treatments to test the role of family-level genetic variation, body condition, physiological state, and foraging behavior on the susceptibility of Lymnaea stagnalis snails to infection by a trematode parasite that uses chemical cues to locate its hosts. In experimental exposures, we found that snails in the long-term food deprivation treatment contracted fewer parasites than snails that were continuously well-fed, possibly because well-fed snails grew larger and attracted more transmission stages. When we kept the long-term feeding rates the same, but manipulated the physiological state and foraging behavior of the snails with short-term food deprivation treatment, we found that snails that were fed before the exposure contracted more parasites than snails that were fed during the exposure. This suggests that direct physiological effects of food processing, but not foraging behavior, predisposed snails to infection. Feeding treatments also affected the family-level variation in snail susceptibility, suggesting that the relative susceptibility of host genotypes was context dependent. |
Discovery and development of the complement inhibitor eculizumab for the treatment of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.
The complement system provides critical immunoprotective and immunoregulatory functions but uncontrolled complement activation can lead to severe pathology. In the rare hemolytic disease paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), somatic mutations result in a deficiency of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked surface proteins, including the terminal complement inhibitor CD59, on hematopoietic stem cells. In a dysfunctional bone marrow background, these mutated progenitor blood cells expand and populate the periphery. Deficiency of CD59 on PNH red blood cells results in chronic complement-mediated intravascular hemolysis, a process central to the morbidity and mortality of PNH. A recently developed, humanized monoclonal antibody directed against complement component C5, eculizumab (Soliris; Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cheshire, CT, USA), blocks the proinflammatory and cytolytic effects of terminal complement activation. The recent approval of eculizumab as a first-in-class complement inhibitor for the treatment of PNH validates the concept of complement inhibition as an effective therapy and provides rationale for investigation of other indications in which complement plays a role. |
Bad or Changed Breath
Bad breath is breath which has unpleasant odor. It is also called as halitosis. It can be temporary or long lasting. There are millions of bacteria in the mouth mainly in the back of the tongue. This bacterial growth requires mouth?s warm and moist conditions.
Bad breaths are in most cases caused by problems in the mouth.
Causes
Poor dental hygiene: Improper brushing, flossing and bad breath is caused due to food decay in the mouth. |
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The objective of the proposed studies is to ascertain the separate and combined regulatory effects of endocrine and neural factors on the production and metabolism of calcitonin (CT) and its biosynthetic precursors--procalcitonin (proCT) and a putative prepolcalcitonin (preproCT). For these studies we will employ in vitro preparations of functional C-cells, including organ cultures, suspension cultures, and long-lived monolayer cultures. Our preliminary investigations have shown these C-cell preparations to be exceptionally well suited for regulatory studies of both production and secretion of CT. For instance, we have noted regulatory actions and interactions of enteric polypeptide hormones and vitamin D metabolites and adrenergic and cholinergic agonists on CT production and secretion. Our studies will characterize the separate and combined effects of many neural and endocrine factors on CT secretion and production. We will determine the acute and/or chronic effects of individual and combined regulatory factors on the rates of synthesis, of cleavage, and of degradation of CT, proCT, and preproCT. Relative changes in the rates of these processes will be studied by pulse, pulse-chase, and double-label radioisotopic techniques. Immunoextracted radiolabeled CT moieties chromatography. Regulatory effects on the concentrations of specific CT moieties will be assessed by radioimmunoassay. Effects on the rates of production, cleavage, and/or degradation of CT, proCT, and preproCT will be assessed by incorporation and by decay of radioactivity in specific CT moieties. Understanding the individual and combined regulatory effects of endocrine and neural factors on the rates of synthesis and proteolysis of specific CT moieties will illuminate the metabolic basis for the multifactorial regulation of polypeptide biosynthesis and secretion in eukaryotic cells. |
Featured Blogger: Emily Michael
This article challenges the idea that a literary crisis is looming over the younger generations. Which is funny considering that each generation does this as they get older, as the author, Bronwyn T. Williams points out. Why do we have this tendency to reminisce about the good ol’ days? Williams breaks it down into cause, reason, cultural capital, and solution.
So, what is the cause to this doomsday feeling for reading and writing? Of course, people always want to blame the teachers. People seem to be critical of anything innovative. Anything new and unfamiliar is like so scary! Pop culture is one of those things that the young people are into that make more seasoned individuals shake their heads. Yet Williams makes a really good point…the generation before them had the same drama about their own children’s literacy. Whaddya know, each generation sparks a new unseen fear of a failing in the education department. And of course, they turned out just fine, duh. Otherwise, they probably wouldn’t have the skills to be complaining about it in the first place. The author seems to think that the adult generation just wants something to cry about. Williams points out that a lot of this crying has to do with anecdotal evidence from the selective memory of the superior adult. I thought it was interesting that popular media likes to stoke the fire of literacy crisis. There are also flaws in these systems such as standardized testing that are poor portrayals of a student’s ability…go figure. So, it seems like the cause of this crisis has more to do with people’s groundless fears. We clearly have some anxieties about the younger generation’s ability to meet our level of literacy and exceed them.
The reason for these anxieties? Competitiveness in the market, status, and privilege. As a society, we somehow fear that we will fail the economic market if our children do not do exactly what we did. Yet, as the author points out, the economy has done nothing but thrive. So who exactly has these anxieties? Of course, it would be the middle class. They’re the ones who think they have the most to lose. Like yeah, rich people don’t have to worry about anything. They will private tutor the crap out of their kids because they can afford it. Unfortunately, the “poor” don’t usually get much say in any matter so the complaining isn’t from their end. Yet, why does the middle class want to see students as struggling? How does this perception of students affect the way we teach them?
It all comes down to dun dun dun CULTURAL CAPITAL. You might be wondering what the hell that is. Well, if literacy is more or less perceived as power in the eyes of the middle class, then a loss of literacy is like losing power. Literacy is a tool to be used to gain access to different classes. Yet, it’s interesting that only certain literacies are considered valuable in our culture. Those that are used in middle and upper classes are what matter…apparently. It is no secret that students these days are great at communicating in other ways such as online or through text messaging. For some reason those don’t count though? The whole agenda is very elitist in my opinion. Why is it that literacy only consist of the reading of “great books” and how does that make them a better person? Because being cultured equals status for the middle class. The middle class has the most to lose because they know that they need this edge for a white collar job. Williams makes an interesting point in saying that the middle class does not want to necessarily inherit MORE wealth but simply imitate the behavior of the upper class. Unfortunately having speech or language that is not considered “conventional” is considered to be of the lower class and thus anyone who uses it loses economic opportunities??? Wack. So, if someone uses unconventional language then they could potentially fall into the lower class though I’m not sure that’s how it works but cool. I thought it was surprising when Williams said, “Middle class identity is not primarily about economic status. Middle class identity…is the ability to display certain kinds of cultural capital.” Again, we go back to this fear of the unfamiliar. Language that is not within the conventional is considered a threat to this capital we’ve been talking about. What even is grammar and who decides how it is used? Is language not constantly changing anyway? But really it’s how you use it in a given situation. The context is what is important. It is less about grammar and more about how you convey meaning in a clear and structured manner.
The solution to this madness? It is really important to just teach students how language, culture, and identity work as a unit. That way a student can pull from their learning experiences to utilize them in any context. In this sense, knowledge really is power.
In a small group discussion, we wondered why students and instructors have different views of what reading should be. We wondered why there was a disconnect and whose fault is it? The educators? The system itself? The government?
Then we started to ask ourselves, why don’t we like reading? Perhaps we don’t like taking notes on EVERYTHING we read. It takes the fun out of it. We like reading for the pleasure of it not picking it apart until there is nothing left but the bone. Because there is a difference between article reading and novel reading. Reading an article is technical reading, reading for direct information. Novels are meant to be read for the pleasure, the thrill, the adventure.
But when we thought about it…aren’t BuzzFeed articles meant to do both? Scrolling through Facebook, we come across articles that pique our interest and we read them because we want to, not because we have to.
But what do the professors want exactly? They want us to read and analyze a text but can’t we do that in genres we enjoy? We all have books we want to read, but the difference is the teachers don’t want us to read that. We thought that while we want to read one thing, teachers want to read another so we can talk about it.
One classmate suggested that, growing up, we are not told that reading is important. The thing we thought was interesting is that we are not explicitly told we will be reading our whole life. Books are shoved down students throat without making books enjoyable and we aren’t taught how to read just anything for fun.
Another classmate reflected on teachers from their past who assigned books that were not comprehensible to them either. We wondered why a teacher would pick a book that they don’t enjoy either. If they don’t enjoy teaching it, neither will the students enjoy learning it. It is important to not only to be taught reading but to enjoy reading. Sadly, school doesn’t teach you how to want to read on your own. Is there really a purpose to reading canonical texts? It seems to be more about the school district wanting to assign something because it’s what they think they are “supposed to” rather than pick up books you can learn from and enjoy.
This tangent made us think of Accelerated Reading. Like good god what is that even? Whose genius idea was that? Reading as a point system and then taking a quiz to prove you read it…yeah, I remember finding ways to cheat on those tests. When we talked about it it made me wonder how they decided how much a book was worth. From the beginning, we are taught that books have a certain worth. And some books are worth more than others. But why??? Really. Why is some reading worth more than others?
In a class discussion we literacy as a skill versus a practice. And that was sooooo confusing. Why is a book club literary practice and not a skill? If practice is when you apply your skill…then just reading in general and learning the alphabet is the skill. But isn’t reading a practice of the alphabet and phonics? This brought us back to cultural capital. What is it?? Is it about respectability? If we read certain books are we going to be more respected. Or maybe it’s about how useful you can be to a group of people…how much knowledge can be exchanged? We realized this could be related to performance value, which interestingly enough led to a discussion about Sparknotes because…because it just did so try and follow:
Why does it matter if we use Sparknotes and can basically fake cultural capital? It is a text that helps you do work with other texts. What’s wrong with that? When thinking about the exchange value, Sparknotes is a form of literacy with value of exchange. You can obtain textual information and finish multiple books by having it broken down into the most important components. However, we realized that most text simply cannot be replaced with this medium. Some works such as Shakespeare are poorly translated. You can use Sparknotes to have the plot but what makes Shakespeare, Shakespeare is his language. That cannot be conveyed through Sparknotes.
When we think of education nowadays where we spit out any paper for a grade, it sucks the freakin’ joy out of reading! The class is being overwhelmed with the sheer amount of reading material. How can we be expected to read X novels at the same time? Unfortunately, Sparknotes only gives you one version of the text and that is the Sparknotes version. Each person brings their own flavor or pizazz to their reading. Actually reading the text changes your relationship to with that text.
Of course this leads to many more questions. Why not just watch the movie? Why don’t we let students choose in high school and then introduce canonical novels in college? Will these kinds of questions ever have answers? I don’t think there is a right answer. But if we want to encourage students to enjoy reading, things will have to change.
Author Bio: Emily is a fourth year English Studies major at Chico State working towards her bachelor’s degree. She transferred to Chico State from Merced Community College with an Associate of Arts degree in Communication Studies. Traveling and exploring new ideas are important to her, which is why she studied abroad in London for a month in a faculty-led program. She also enjoys reading “trashy” novels, drinking coffee, hiking new trails, and cuddling with her dog. |
Internet, mobile communications, navigation, online gaming, sensing technologies and large scale computing infrastructures have produced large amounts of data sets every day. Big Data is data that is beyond the processing capacity of conventional database systems and analyzing capacity of traditional analyzing methods due to its large volume and fast moving and growing speed. More companies now rely on Big Data to make real-time decisions to solve various problems. Current methods involve utilizing a lot of computational resources, which are very costly, yet still may not satisfy the needs of real-time decision making based on the newest information, especially in the financial industry. How to efficiently, promptly and cost-effectively process and analyze Big Data presents a difficult challenge to data analysts and computer scientists.
Processing Big Data can include performing calculations on multiple data elements. When performing statistical calculations on Big Data, the number of data elements to be accessed may be quite large. For example, when calculating simple linear regression coefficients a (potentially large) number of data elements may need to be accessed.
The difference between processing live data stream and streamed Big Data is that when processing streamed Big Data, all historical data elements are accessible, and thus it may not need to create a separate buffer to store newly received data elements.
Further, some statistical calculations are recalculated after some data changes in a Big Data set. Thus, the (potentially large) number of data elements may be repeatedly accessed. For example, it may be that simple linear regression coefficients are calculated for a computation set and the computation set includes n pairs of data elements of a Big Data set stored in storage media. As such, every time an existing pair of data elements (one data element from an independent variable and the other from a dependent variable) to be removed from the computation set and a pair of data elements to be added to the computation set are accessed or received, the to-be-removed pair of data elements is removed from the computation set and the to-be-added pair of data elements is added to the computation set. All 2n data elements in the computation set are then accessed to re-estimate simple linear regression coefficients.
As such, each pair of data elements remains in the computation set for n simple linear regression coefficient calculations before it is aged out of the computation set. Accordingly, each pair of data elements is read from the buffer and used n times. Performing statistical calculations on streamed data elements this way is time consuming and is an inefficient use of resources. When performing simple linear regression coefficient calculation on all 2n data elements all the 2n data elements in the computation set will be visited and used.
Depending on necessity, the computation set size n may be extremely large, so the data elements in a computation set may be distributed over a cloud comprising hundreds of thousands of computing devices. Re-performing simple linear regression coefficient calculation in traditional ways on a Big Data set after some data changes results in slow response and significant waste of computing resources. |
By Arab News
By Rashid Hassan
Saudi Arabia and Greece ushered in a new era of relations as King Salman and Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos held bilateral talks to enhance cooperation.
“I consider this a historic visit,” Greek Ambassador Polychronis Polychroniou told Arab News on the final day of the visit. “Our two people enjoy friendly relations and share the same principles on almost every issue.”
He added: “During this visit, the president met the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques as well as many senior officials, and the meetings were very productive, paving the way for a new era in our already close relations.”
However, he pointed out that visits at the top level are needed to further enhance cooperation and “specify certain areas where we can work together even more closely.”
The envoy said: “We signed two agreements, one on technological and scientific cooperation, and the other in the field of satellite technology and its applications.”
In addition, a joint ministerial committee between the two governments was convened, giving the two sides the opportunity to agree on many pending issues, he said.
Ilias Andronikos Klouvatos, deputy head of mission at the Greek Embassy, told Arab News that on Wednesday, the president met Gulf Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary-General Abdullatif Al-Zayani. The two leaders discussed relations with Greece and various ways to enhance cooperation between the EU and the GCC.
The president and his accompanying delegation also visited the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), where he met KACST President Prince Turki bin Saud bin Mohammed. The president was briefed on activities and research projects.
An agreement on satellite applications was signed between Prince Turki and Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikolaos Kotzias. Prince Turki and George Katrojals, Greek minister of state for international economic relations and foreign trade, signed another accord for scientific and technical cooperation. |
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A perspective on sympathetic renal denervation in chronic congestive heart failure.
Medical therapy has indisputably been the mainstay of management for chronic congestive heart failure. However, a significant percentage of patients continue to experience worsening heart failure (HF) symptoms despite treatment with multiple therapeutic agents. Recently, catheter-based interventional strategies that interrupt the renal sympathetic nervous system have shown promising results in providing better symptom control in patients with HF. In this article, we will review the pathophysiology of HF for better understanding of the interplay between the cardiovascular system and the kidney. Subsequently, we will briefly discuss pivotal renal denervation (RDN) therapy trials in patients with resistant hypertension and then present the available evidence on the role of RDN in HF therapy. |
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Shenzhen, Nanshan intro.In the south of China, just a short way to the north of Hong Kong, is the city of Shenzhen. It is a modern, booming coastal city which is a popular stop off for people travelling around China and into Hong Kong. There are a number of districts in the city, each with its own characteristics, and one of the favourite districts among visitors is Nanshan. Hotels in Shenzhen Nanshan are close to many family-focused attractions including the Window of the World, which is filled with scaled down models of the world’s most famous landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall of China and Mount Rushmore. As well as the Window of the World, Nanshan offers good restaurants and shops, as well as the Hong Kong border, the cultural centre and the Happy Valley Theme Park, which is home to a water park and various themed areas including Cartoon City. |
There has long existed a need for a simple, portable device, operable by one man, to pull submersible deep well pumps from the wells to permit servicing, repair, or replacement. Such a pump, when installed, is suspended from the end of cable permitting the pump to be lowered into the casing to the bottom of a deep water well and later pulled up for servicing. Conventional procedures usually require more than one man and the use of expensive hoisting equipment which is moved to a position over the well. |
module Xcodeproj
class Project
module Object
# Contains the information about the build settings of a file used by an
# {AbstractBuildPhase}.
#
class PBXBuildFile < AbstractObject
# @!group Attributes
# @return [Hash] the list of build settings for this file.
#
# @note The contents of this array depend on the phase of the build
# file.
#
# For PBXHeadersBuildPhase is `{ "ATTRIBUTES" => [:value] }`
# where `:value` can be `Public`, `Private`, or nil
# (Protected).
#
attribute :settings, Hash
# @return [PBXFileReference] the file that to build.
#
# @todo I think that is possible to add any kind of group (for
# example folders linked to a path).
#
has_one :file_ref, [
PBXFileReference,
PBXGroup,
PBXVariantGroup,
XCVersionGroup,
PBXReferenceProxy,
]
#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
public
# @!group AbstractObject Hooks
# @return [String] A name suitable for displaying the object to the
# user.
#
def display_name
if file_ref
file_ref.display_name
else
super
end
end
# @return [Hash{String => Hash}, String] A hash suitable to display the
# object to the user.
#
def pretty_print
if settings.nil? || settings.empty?
display_name
else
{ display_name => settings }
end
end
def ascii_plist_annotation
" #{display_name} in #{GroupableHelper.parent(self).display_name} "
end
#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
end
end
end
end
|
Rodgers And Hammerstein — Lonely Room lyrics
The floor creaks,
The door squeaks,
There's a field mouse a-nibblin' on a broom,
And I set by myself
Like a cobweb on a shelf,
By myself in a lonely room.
But when there's a moon in my winder
And it slants down a beam 'crost my bed,
Then the shadder of a tree starts a-dancin' on the wall
And a dream starts a-dancin' in my head.
And all the things that I wish fer
Turn out like I want them to be,
And I'm better'n that smart-aleck cowhand
Who thinks he is better'n me,
And the girl I want
Ain't afraid of my arms,
And her own soft arms keep me warm.
And her long, yeller hair
Falls across my face
Jist like the rain in a storm...
The floor creaks,
The door squeaks,
And the mouse starts a-nibblin' on the broom.
And the sun flicks my eyes-
It was all a pack o' lies!
I'm awake in a lonely room[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsty.com/rodgers-and-hammerstein-lonely-room-lyrics.html ] |
Love across cultures.
Love across cultures.
I was never very good at feeling guilty, so the concept of “white guilt” was always for someone else who was responsible for something that happened somewhere else to someone else. It was an entirely “other”-ly concept, stemming in no small part in the way that I was raised. It played out in small ways, like the times I was told, “You should do this” or “you need to do that.” My deeply ingrained response was, I actually don’t have to do shit. In obligation, I managed to identify an extra step of choice. That is, I choose to be obligated to a person or some community commitment. There was no automatic compassion. Simply, my selfishness was exposed and entrenched early on, justified, and equally hard to move. When I heard about the Native Americans’ plight throughout American history, ongoing, my elementary school self could not connect that these… |
include $(top_srcdir)/buildutils/config.mk
noinst_HEADERS = lib_site.h
DIST_SUBDIRS =
CLEANFILES = *.gcda *.gcno *.gcov
AM_CPPFLAGS += -I$(top_srcdir)/src/resmom/@PBS_MACH@
noinst_LIBRARIES = libsite.a
libsite_a_SOURCES = site_allow_u.c site_alt_rte.c site_check_u.c \
site_map_usr.c site_mom_chu.c site_mom_ckp.c \
site_mom_jst.c
|
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Nusra Front Confirms Death of Top Commander
Al-Qaida’s Syrian affiliate confirmed on Friday that its top field commander was killed in an airstrike that targeted a meeting of the group’s senior leadership.
Abu Anas al-Shami, the spokesman for the Nusra Front, was quoted by ABC News as saying that Thursday’s airstrike in the western Syrian province of Idlib killed Abu Hommam al-Shami, described as the group’s “military commander.”
Abu Hommam’s death was first reported a day earlier by Syria’s SANA state news agency and by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Observatory, which relies on a network of activists inside Syria, said that other senior Nusra Front leaders were also killed in the attack.
The two al-Shamis — Abu Hommam and Abu Anas — are not related. Their shared name in Arabic means “the Syrian.”
The fate of the Nusra group’s overall leader, Abu Mohammad al-Golani, was not clear, the Observatory said, although there were reports that he had been in the area of the attack. Three others were reportedly killed in Thursday’s airstrike, including two of Abu Hommam’s bodyguards.
It also remained unclear who conducted the airstrike. SANA claimed it was the Syrian military while activists and Nusra said it was the US-led coalition. Both the coalition and the Syrian government routinely target Nusra positions.
The attack deals a blow to the Nusra Front at a time when the militant Islamic faction has been aggressively confronting other Syrian militant groups and consolidating control over parts of northern Syria. Most recently, Nusra Front fighters overran encampments belonging to the US-backed Hazm Movement rebel group and seized what it claimed were American weapons and supplies. In the aftermath of that defeat, the Hazm Movement dissolved itself.
The Nusra Front is also a bitter rival of the Islamic State group, which controls about a third of Iraq and Syria. However, the two militant groups also occasionally cooperate on limited operations — including a joint cross-border raid last year that took more than a dozen Lebanese soldiers and policemen hostage. |
Q:
Installer for copy-files-only possible?
We need an installer to copy or upload some files to some places without install any files to the os. So we do not need any uninstaller or updater or any stored file to an installation directory. We only want to use install4j to pack some files we want to unpack/copy/upload to some location during "installation". Therefore we also need some user input like storage location (not installation directory because could also be an url) or user credential for a server-upload-interface. The installer should be released as a cd with a structure like:
cd-root
|-- installer.exe
|-- files
|-- file1.txt
|-- file2.txt
|....
Is such an installer possible with install4j? We used install4j for other "normal" installer projects and would be happy to use it for this scenario too.
A:
The "Install files" action has a "Install runtime" property that can be deselected, so no .install4j directory or bundled JRE is installed into the installation directory.
The Uninstaller can be disabled on the "Screens & Actions" step.
After the "Install files action", the files can by transferred to another location with a "Copy files or directories" action.
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Semicarbazide: occurrence in food products and state-of-the-art in analytical methods used for its determination.
This review provides an overview of the information currently available about the presence of semicarbazide (SEM) in food. Likely sources of SEM in food matrices are summarised and discussed. Detailed information is given about the analytical methods used to determine SEM; features and drawbacks associated with them are carefully evaluated. Performance criteria characterising the analytical methods discussed are also given. |
"Albert Y. C. Lai" <trebla at vex.net> writes:
>> While we are kind of on this topic, what makes the characters ħ þ
>> prefix operator by default, while º and most other odd ones infix?
> alphanumeric vs non-alphanumeric
Testing this, I find that isAlpha is True also for 'º', but as the OP
claims, Haskell will use it as a(n infix) symbol. Neither does
isSymbol (all False), isLetter (all True), isMark (False), nor
isPunctuation (Fals) help to separate these.
The HR defines
uniSymbol -> any Unicode symbol or punctuation
but I couldn't find any clear way to identify of these.
-k
--
If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants |
Q:
How to add css files using PHP inside the tag?
Ok, let me explain:
I have a some files, something basic like this:
index.php
<html>
<head>
<title>Simple page</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php include 'home.php'; ?>
</body>
</html>
home.php
<div class="thisWillBeBlue">Still not blue</div>
style.css
.thisWillBeBlue {background: blue}
Now the question: Using php I want to insert the style.css inside the head tag, calling it from the file home.php. Well, I came out with a solution, but it was not very effective:
index.php
<?php $css = array();
$css[] = 'linktothecss.css'
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>Simple page</title>
<?php
foreach($css as $item){
echo "<link rel='stylesheet' href='".$item."' />";
}
?>
</head>
<body>
<?php include 'home.php'; ?>
</body>
</html>
But the problem it is, If I call the css from home.php it will be added to the array later, therefore it will not be echoed inside the head tag. Any ideas?
A:
You could do it using ob_start() and ob_end_flush() functions
e.g.
index.php
<?php
$csspage = "default.css";
function loadCSS($buffer) {
global $csspage;
return (str_replace('{{ css }}', $csspage, $buffer));
}
ob_start("loadCSS"); ?>
<html>
<head>
<!-- the string {{ css }} is just a placeholder that will be replaced
with the new value of $csspage defined later in the code, otherwise
it will replaced with its initial value (default.css)
-->
<link href="{{ css }}" />
</head>
<body>
<?php include 'home.php'; ?>
</body>
</html>
<?php ob_end_flush(); ?>
home.php
<?php $csspage = "custom_style.css"; ?>
<div class="thisWillBeBlue">blue</div>
Further reference: http://it1.php.net/ob_start
|
This invention relates generally to air conditioning systems and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus for reducing liquid carry over from an evaporator.
In a refrigeration circuit, wherein refrigerant vapor passes from the evaporator to the compressor, to the extent that the refrigerant isn""t completely evaporated, liquid refrigerant may be passed on to the compressor as liquid carry over, which affects both the performance and the life of the compressor.
There are generally two types of evaporator applications in which liquid carry over is a particular problem: flooded evaporators and falling film evaporators. In a flooded evaporator, wherein liquid refrigerant is introduced in the lower part of the evaporator shell, liquid droplets tend to be entrained in the refrigerant vapor flow leaving at the top of the heat exchanger tube bank. Similarly, in a falling film evaporator arrangement, wherein two phase refrigerant is introduced at the top of the tube bank, there tends to be a significant amount of liquid refrigerant that is entrained into the compressor suction.
One approach to solving this problem is to provide a liquid/vapor separator, either internally or externally of the evaporator. While these are effective, they add substantial expense to the system.
Another approach has been to provide sufficient vertical space between the top of the tube bank and the suction nozzle at the top of the shell such that droplets will be caused to flow downwardly by the force of gravity before they reach the suction nozzle. This, of course, requires the use of a larger shell, which in turn is costly because of the added materials and space that it occupies.
Yet another approach has been to provide a so called xe2x80x9celiminatorxe2x80x9d in the form of a wire mesh, between the top of the tube bank and the compressor suction. Such an eliminator tends to interrupt the flow of the liquid droplets, allowing them to collect on the eliminator and to eventually fall by the force of gravity. This approach is somewhat effective in controlling liquid carry over and, while it requires less space then the approach described hereinabove, it does require some additional space for the eliminator and also involves the cost of the eliminator. Further it is recognized as being passive in the sense that it simply turns back the droplets which, again, will tend to be entrained in the flow of refrigerant vapor as before.
In addition to the commonly used flooded evaporator and falling film evaporator applications discussed hereinabove, the present invention may be applicable to increase the system efficiency such that other applications become feasible. For example, in air conditioning systems in which the refrigerant is driven by reciprocating or scroll compressors, direct expansion evaporators, rather then flooded evaporators, are used because flooded evaporators do not provide sufficient suction super heat for use with such compressors. However, the use of flooded evaporators would be preferred if this problem can be overcome.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an improved evaporator arrangement for reducing liquid carry over.
Another object of the present invention is the provision in an evaporator for effectively using the space within the evaporator shell.
Yet another object of the present invention is the provision for using a flooded evaporator in a system with reciprocating or scroll compressors.
Still another object of the present invention is the provision for an evaporator that is efficient and effective in use.
These objects and other features and advantages become more readily apparent in reference to the following description when taken in conjunction with the appended drawings.
Briefly, in accordance with one aspect to the invention, a baffle is located above the tube banks for interrupting the upward flow of liquid refrigerant droplets that would otherwise tend to flow to the compressor along with the refrigerant vapor. Heat is added to the baffle to cause an evaporation of the liquid droplets such that the resulting vapor passes to the compressor.
In accordance with another aspect of the invention, the baffle structure comprises a heat exchange having a fluid flowing therethrough, with a temperature of the fluid being warmer that the refrigerant such that sufficient heat is transferred to the refrigerant droplets to bring about the desired vaporization.
By yet another aspect of the invention, the fluid passing through the baffle heat exchanger can be warm water diverted from the entering the first pass of the cooler or it may be liquid refrigerant leaving the condenser before entering the expansion device.
In the drawings it is hereinafter described, a preferred embodiment is depicted; however, various other modifications and alternate constructions can be made thereto without departing from the true spirit and scope of the invention. |
TecShell
TecSHELL™ fabrics are light, packable and highly wind resistant. Their densely woven construction means they are durable and extremely down-proof. TecSHELL™ fabrics also have a DWR coating for added water resistance making them ideal in changeable conditions. |
Q:
Spark: Concatenating lists?
How to concatenate all lists in:
org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD[List[Record]]
to get a single collection:
val values: org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD[Record]
Any ideas?
A:
flatMap that!
val rdd : org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD[List[Record]] = ???
val flattened = rdd.flatMap(identity)
Where identity is the identity function f(x) => x
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This paper investigates the sources of macrofinancial fluctuations and turbulence within
the framework of an approximate linear dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of
the world economy, augmented with stru...
This paper investigates the sources of macrofinancial fluctuations and turbulence within
the framework of an approximate linear dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of
the world economy, augmented with stru... |
A conventional apparatus operating a hydraulic actuator for opening and closing a valve has employed a hydraulic power pack.
However, in the valve opening/closing system which uses the hydraulic power pack for operating the hydraulic actuator for opening and closing the valve, when power is cut off by a stoppage of power supply and the like, the hydraulic actuator for opening and closing the valve can not be operated. Further, there is a disadvantage that a separate power supplying device should be provided to operate the hydraulic actuator. |
The Devil in the Details
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The Christian is engaged in a three-front war. The Bible, replete with martial language, bears this out. The great evil trinity against which we fight is the world, the flesh, and the Devil. In our day we have made friends with the world, and we have reduced our flesh down to a few psychological crossed wires. We have lost sight of these two battlefields precisely because we have lost sight of the third. In other words, we miss that we are at war with the world and our flesh because the Devil has defeated us in battle — we have forgotten that he exists.
C.S. Lewis, in the preface to his great work The Screwtape Letters, posits this nugget of wisdom: “There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors, and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.” As wise as Lewis and this particular quote may be, I do have a quibble. No doubt the Devil is able to accomplish a great deal of mischief among those who see him as some sort of evil god, those with a morbid interest in him and his minions. That said, I would suggest that he is able to cause far greater damage among those who give him no thought at all. That is to say, both the materialist and the magician are bad, but the materialist is worse.
We have much the same problem within the Christian subculture, and for much the same reasons. On one side of the spectrum are the extreme wing of the charismatic movement. These folks claim to see a demon behind every bush. They don’t catch colds; they are under attack by the sniffle demon. They don’t have wandering eyes, but are at war with the lust demon. Often those in this camp are looking for demons behind every bush, because they can prove quite useful for excusing our sin — as Flip Wilson used to say, “The Devil made me do it.”
This is not the danger we face in Reformed circles. We are on the other side of the spectrum. Unlike the materialist, we do indeed believe in the demonic realm. The Bible, after all, talks about such things. But we tend to believe that demons exited the human stage at the same time that miracles ceased. Demons exist, we are willing to confess, but they have been sitting on the celestial sidelines since the apostolic age. What drives this, I’m afraid, is less a careful exegetical study of the matter, and more an embracing of the modernist worldview. We look down our noses at our brothers who pay attention to the spiritual realm not because we find such to be unbiblical, but because we find it unsophisticated. We think Martin Luther’s habit of shouting at the Devil, of throwing his ink well at him, is a sign that Martin was on the psychological brink, when perhaps we ought instead to conclude that he exhibited here the same wisdom that led him to declare, “Here I stand!” It may be that Luther mined the truth that our God is a mighty fortress from the same source where he discerned that this world is with devils filled, namely, the Bible.
That we rarely give the Devil a thought, let alone his due, ought to confirm for us this important spiritual reality — that the Devil is sitting on our shoulder, whispering folly into our ears. He is active not only in the dark corners of Africa, but in the dark corners of our hearts and minds. If we would seek first the kingdom of God, we will have to come to grips with the reality that he is trying to stop us.
His forces, we ought also to remember, are not only arrayed in the political and cultural battlefields. He does not have his hand in the Democratic National Committee only, nor does he work his magic only in Hollywood. He is also about the business of growing in us his diabolical fruit. He is at work when we are filled with envy, malice, fear, selfishness. He is waging war when he encourages us to spend our energies not pursuing the kingdom, but pursuing personal peace and affluence. He is practicing his dark magic when he encourages us to defend not the honor of Christ, but our own reputation and dignity. He is at work in the details of our lives, how we speak to our children, how we listen to our spouse. And sadly, he is winning great victories.
The war between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman is not the exact same thing as the culture war. They intersect, but they are not one. Instead, the war between the seed and the serpent is the same thing as our war with the world, the flesh, and the Devil. May God give us the grace to win great victories in the little battles we fight each day. May He grant us the eyes to see the epoch-changing battles in our very ordinary lives.
Dr. R.C. Sproul Jr. has served previously as a pastor, professor, and teacher. He is author of numerous books, including Tearing Down Strongholds and A Call to Wonder. |
Thought about it
"I don't believe in god
because I've thought about it."
— Sean Lock
— You can support me by wearing one of my Atheism Shirts!
— Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram
Done |
Advances in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
Allogeneic and autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) has become a therapeutic option for an increasing number of patients with otherwise incurable leukemias, solid tumors, immunodeficiencies, hemoglobinopathies and metabolic diseases. For patients requiring an allogeneic transplant, the addition of unrelated cord blood units and partially matched family member donors as alternate stem cell sources has increased the chances that an appropriate donor can be identified. In addition, new approaches to stem cell graft engineering are yielding insights into potential cellular immune therapies, which may decrease the adverse effects of HSCT such as graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) and harness the alloimmune graft-versus-leukemia effect. Novel conditioning regimens, primarily reduced intensity and non-myeloablative regimens, allow patients with significant co-morbidities to undergo transplantation with reduced morbidity and mortality. Combinations of immune-modulatory cytokines and monoclonal antibodies with autologous and allogeneic transplantation are among the advances being explored in contemporary HSCT. |
* If you're playing Gold, it's completely standalone from Philip, so deleting your copy of Philip from Steam isn't going to affect Gold.* There seems to be a problem with Steam not removing the demo when you purchase the full version. I've emailed Steam about it, and I'm pretty sure it was just a minor oversight, so it'll probably be fixed shortly. |
it("should handle the css loader correctly", function() {
expect(require("!css-loader!../_css/stylesheet.css") + "").toContain(
".rule-direct"
);
expect(require("!css-loader!../_css/stylesheet.css") + "").toContain(
".rule-import1"
);
expect(require("!css-loader!../_css/stylesheet.css") + "").toContain(
".rule-import2"
);
});
|
Pathological laughter as an obsessive-compulsive phenomenon.
Pathological laughter has been known to occur in organic and functional psychotic disorders and is sometimes seen in hysteria. Though it is an important phenomenon, its significance in other psychiatric disorders has been negligible. This case report highlights the phenomenology of pathological laughter as an obsessive-compulsive phenomenon in an adolescent girl. The girl was brought by her parents with a history of laughing without reason, but on detail evaluation, it was found that her laughing was an irrational and ego-dystonic phenomenon. She also showed resistance to her symptom. A family history of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the parental grandfather, the habit of smiling in her father and her childhood emotional trauma and sexual abuse could have contributed to the formation of the symptom. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor drugs and behavior therapy showed good improvement in this case. Pathological laughter, though common in organic and psychotic disorders, can present primarily as an obsessive-compulsive phenomenon as well. This case suggests that each and every patient with a history of pathological laughter in a psychiatry clinic should not be labeled as psychotic unless he or she is assessed in detail. |
For journalists, danger lurking in your email
This week, Morgan Marquis-Boire and Bill
Marczak of the University of
Toronto's Citizen Lab provided a disturbing
look into the likely use of a commercial surveillance program, FinFisher,
to remotely invade and control the computers of Bahraini activists. After the
software installs itself onto unsuspecting users' computer, it can record and
relay emails, screenshots, and Skype audio conversations. It was deployed
against Bahraini users after being concealed in seemingly innocent emails.
In one example decoded by Marquis-Boire's team, the message was
crafted to appear to be from Melissa Chan,
a journalist working for Al-Jazeera English. The attackers were using Chan's
reputation as a journalist to trick their victims into opening the document.
Chan now works for Al-Jazeera in Jerusalem, but when she was
a correspondent in China she was the target
of email attacks herself. In an attempt to take control of her real Gmail
address, a message was sent to her from someone implying they were connected to
China's "Jasmine revolution." The independent Bahraini newspaper Al-Wasat said it has been targeted with fake
messages from sources as well--not to deliver malware, but to trick
it into running false stories the government then used to try to discredit the
paper.
Fake email sources are relatively easy to imitate. The
"From" address used in the Bahraini attack was not Chan's own email
address, but a throwaway Gmail account that looked like an address
("[email protected]") Chan might conceivably use.
Broad caution with unknown correspondents is a defense: If
you don't download attachments and don't click on links in strange emails, you
aren't vulnerable to the hacking attacks these emails are designed to allow.
When I spoke to Chan about the attacks in her name, she noted that "many
people do not look at the email address, but just the 'Last Name, First Name.' ...
There were one or two times when I wasn't sure about the sender and I wrote
back asking them to identify themselves in a way I'd know was definitely
him/her."
That's a good technique, but it's even better if you can use
an alternative medium for your fact-checking. Use a phone call or instant
messaging to confirm a message before opening any attachment. If an attacker
has already used malware to take control of another users' computer, they may
have access to private information. They can also act as a "man in the
middle" online, relaying email questions and answers between two
unsuspecting correspondents--but able to spy or add their own fabrications. A
live phone call is harder to fake.
In terms of sophistication, it's hard to know what to think
of the Bahraini espionage revealed by Citizen Lab. In some ways, the masquerade
was clumsy--but, then, if it had been more convincing, it may have gone
unnoticed. We only see the results of unsuccessful espionage. Still, even that is
enough to see the damage being caused to the reputations of journalists and the
safety of their communications. Security services faking messages from real
journalists in order to spy on activists is a grave danger to press freedom.
Citizen Lab's analysis demonstrates that spyware supposedly
made for law enforcement purposes by the UK company Gamma International is
now being used in ways that no democratic society can tolerate. Gamma should
immediately reveal whether they have been selling this technology to the
Bahraini authorities and what it intends to do to prevent abuses from recurring.
San Francisco-based CPJ Internet Advocacy Coordinator Danny O’Brien has worked globally as a journalist and activist covering technology and digital rights. Follow him on Twitter @danny_at_cpj. |
Q:
Java - process image while reading it
I'm designing a server-side application that takes an image from a user, processes it, and sends it back over the network. Since the network connection might be quite slow, I'd like to speed things up by starting to process parts of the image while it is still being sent over the network and send parts of the processed image back to the client while other parts are still being processed.
Is this possible, preferably using the javax.imageio classes?
EDIT: I am mostly interested in writing PNGfiles. Wikipedia says: "IDAT contains the image, which may be split among multiple IDAT chunks. Doing so increases filesize slightly, but makes it possible to generate a PNG in a streaming manner."
A:
This strongly depends on the encoding of the image. Some image formats require the whole file to be available before you can decode it. Others - like GIF and some PNG encodings (as far as I remember) decode to indvidual blocks which can then be processed.
You most likely need to write custom decoders, which may be quite a bit of work if you are not intimately familiar with the formats, and you need to support several.
I think you perhaps should work on an upload bar instead?
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Q:
Replace Image with Text
I would like to know if it is possible to replace an image with a simplte text string when the image isn't displaying and how can I do it on vb.net.
A:
I found the answer i needed and that worked for me here in stack overflow in another topic.
The link to the answer that solved my issue is: Answer
If you wish to see the code directly without browsing to the link, here it is:
Dim input As String = "test<img>" ' your data here
Dim imgRegex As New Regex("<img[^>]*>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)
Dim output As String = imgRegex.Replace(input, "")
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