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Haptoglobin level in haemophiliacs after administration of pooled cold precipitated antihaemophilic globulin. Preliminary report.
Unlike compatible haemophiliacs, incompatible haemophiliacs developed a decrease in haptoglobin level after administration of pooled cryoprecipitate. The effect is attributed to haemolysis following intravascular agglutination and intravascular coagulation elicited by the cryoprecipitate in incompatible patients. |
Polu Kai Large Caveman
This lure has proven to be really effective on middle weight fish like Mahi and Ono and has become a popular bait choice for "Dorado" in Mexico. The concave face actually seems to swim like a bullet shape underwater, just following the boat along. It does however, create a splashy action when surfacing, bringing a large amount of air back under. |
Q:
Rails: Rake task parsing with Nokogiri inserts: --- !ruby/object:Nokogiri::XML::Element {} into DB
Having trouble setting up a Rake Task. Here is the code:
task :fetch_games => :environment do
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
doc = Nokogiri::XML(open(url))
games = doc.xpath('//game')
games.each do |game|
@data = Game.new(
:name => game.at('name').text,
:publisher => game.at('publisher').text,)
@data.save
if @data.save
puts "Success"
else
puts "Didn't work"
end
end
end
It runs without error but in the database the entries show: "--- !ruby/object:Nokogiri::XML::Element {}
"
Any help would be awesome. Thanks!
A:
Figured it out myself the xpath syntax was incorrect. I need to use:
/game
instead of
//game
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Q:
TeamCity build agent on OS X. Problems with the command line build runner
I'm try to use the TeamCity build agent on OS X. One of my build steps involves moving the archive to a known location so I can grab it as a build artifact. The xcodebuild archive command puts .xcarchive files in %system.user.home%/Library/Developer/Xcode/Archives/date/appName date time.xcarchive. So I want to move and rename the .xcarchive files so that it's easier to grab the executable out of the bundle. FWIW, I also have a build step that clears out the Archives directory so I'll be sure that I only have one date folder with only one .xcarchive file within it. This command works fine from the command line:
$ /bin/mv /Users/buildagent/Library/Developer/Xcode/Archives/`date+%Y-%m-%d`/*.xcarchive /Users/buildagent/Library/Developer/Xcode/Archives/GetConnected.xcarchive
But using this for the build runner doesn't work (I just get mv's usage message):
/bin/mv %system.user.home%/Library/Developer/Xcode/Archives/`date +%%Y-%%m-%%d`/*.xcarchive %system.user.home%/Library/Developer/Xcode/Archives/GetConnected.xcarchive
What am I doing wrong? Are there some other characters that I need to escape? Is there any documentation about that?
A:
Yes, indeed you do need to escape those percents by doubling them. There is documentation for this on the TeamCity page Defining and Using Build Parameters in Build Configuration, but I'll admit that it's not easy to find. (Basically TeamCity uses the percent character for its own parameters).
The call that I used for this purpose was `date "+%%Y-%%m-%%d"`. Also, I needed to put quotes around the path (shell globbing was causing issues), so the whole command ends up being:
mv "~/Library/Developer/Xcode/Archives/`date "+%%Y-%%m-%%d"`/*.xcarchive" ./MyApp.xcarchive
Also, thanks for asking the question! I was trying to do just the same thing, and this headed me along the right path.
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Earlier this morning, Trump took to Twitter to express his outrage over wiretapping at Trump Tower during Obama’s Presidency. Back in November, the media did confirm that wiretapping did allegedly take place, via Heat Street:
Contrary to earlier reporting in the New York Times, which cited FBI sources as saying that the agency did not believe that the private server in Donald Trump’s Trump Tower which was connected to a Russian bank had any nefarious purpose, the FBI’s counter-intelligence arm, sources say, re-drew an earlier FISA court request […].
The original FISA request which specifically named and broadly targeted Donald Trump was denied, a second request was redrafted months later which narrowed down on equipment in Trump Tower. The second request is said to have been granted, despite the fact that FBI sources did not believe these servers to be of actual national security or possess any illegal ties to Russia. The notion that this second FISA warrant was granted is highly significant as they exist to investigate cases when Foreign Intelligence is suspected of operations in the US.
The implication is that Trump or one of his employees was secretly functioning as a Russian-sanctioned spy (which is obviously absurd). However illegitimate the request was, the granting of said FISA request allows the government major access:
Pursuant to FISA, the Court entertains applications submitted by the United States Government for approval of electronic surveillance, physical search, and other investigative actions for foreign intelligence purposes. Most of the Court’s work is conducted ex parte as required by statute, and due to the need to protect classified national security information.
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Contrary to a lack of any evidence by the Obama Administration or FBI, the possibility of the second FISA request being granted would indeed monitor activity within Trump Tower. Again, this FISA request was issued with no definitive proof/evidence that Trump had any nefarious ties to Russia – instead, it bears the hallmarks of a political witch hunt.
If proven, there is a good chance the issuing judge and corresponding FBI personnel will soon face serious jail time. Liberal media is ignoring this, and instead seems to have coordinated a large online campaign with headlines that almost consistently read “Provides No Evidence”. So let’s get this straight: The GOP is accused of colluding with Russians MSM publishes as a front-page story fact, Trump accuses Obama of wiretapping and… “PROVIDES NO EVIDENCE!” |
Offering Prayers as Absenteeism?
In some situations—certainly in the English-speaking world—people who are not normally particularly religious suddenly become very devout, or at least express themselves in a devout manner. If someone posts on social media about serious illness of their own or in their family, a string of responses from friends invariably appears saying that they are praying for the afflicted. After terrorist attacks, members of the public express their prayers for the victims and their families. And in the face of natural disasters, such as the current hurricanes in the Caribbean, people pray for those who will be or have been affected. Why do people emphasise prayer in these situations, and what can their prayers signify?
For many, prayer is used for daily meditation and spiritual reflection, often during ‘compartmentalised’ sessions, for instance for bedtime prayers or in church. By contrast, the act of prayer in the situations mentioned above is perhaps done more out of desperation and a feeling of powerlessness. Our question relates to one of the perennial dilemmas in Christian theology between the evidential problem of evil and theodicy. In other words, why do evil and suffering exist in the world if God is omnipotent?
There is no reason to suspect whether the expression of sympathy implicit in a prayer is genuine; it no doubt is in the vast majority of cases. But what do public expressions of prayer, e.g. on social media, mean? Is it a linguistic convention that we revert to because we are speechless when faced with injustices in life? Is it also a speech act through which the speaker tries to break free of their speechlessness and signify that they are, in fact, doing something to make a meaningful difference? It is probably a bit of both. In relation to the latter, however, by using such a speech act, the speaker could be said to effectively absolve themselves of any obligation to do more by handing responsibility over to divine fate instead of recognising the role that they themselves could have played
Expressing prayers for someone who has lost e.g. a family member—whether through a public or a private catastrophe—might seem like the best course of action. However, people in distress do not simply need expressions of sympathy; they also need to talk to others about the dreadful experience they have had. Bystanders at accidents are offered counselling precisely because we recognise their need to process what they have witnessed. If instead of offering prayers, friends offer to talk to the bereaved, their action can make an actual difference by helping the bereaved cope with and understand their situation.
Prayers are certainly useful for personal spiritual reflection, but it might be worth considering whether we help sufficiently by expressing publicly on social media that we are praying for the victims of a personal or public tragedy. The offer to drink a cup of coffee with the friend who just lost a loved one, organising to provide disaster relief for victims of a natural disaster or terrorist attack, or even something as simple as voting politically to tackle humans’ impact on the environment might prove to make far more of a difference. |
Q:
Devexpress How to change progress bar control color
Can someone tell me that how to change backcolor of progress bar control. I am using devexpress bar control. I have searched and tried the ways which are explained on devexpress forum and this site.progress bar back color
A:
If ProgressBarControl.Property.LookAndFeel.Style is set to Skin, the control's background is fully controlled by the current skin.
The progress bar appearance can be customized via the Properties.StartColor and EndColor properties.
Change LookAndFeel to anything except UseDefaultLookAndFeel that will work.
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Q:
How and why is there a restriction on short sales?
I'm taking a course on the fundamentals of financial mathematics. This is my first quantitative finance course, so I'm still getting acquainted with a lot of the ideas.
We covered the notion of a frictionless market. According to the lecture notes, in such a market we assume there is no restriction on short selling.
I would think this implies that in the real world, there $\textit{is}$ a restriction on short sales. My questions:
What is meant by short sales (in the context of general models),
why do we need to restrict them,
and how are they restricted.
A:
There is indeed a legal angle to this. There are restrictions around naked short selling i.e. selling the stock and then failing to deliver it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_short_selling
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Q:
tcl/tk on mac os, Python IDLE won't start and Macport not working properly
I really need someone's help here.
Early, I was playing around with homebrew, macport and active state TCL/TK after I got the new mac pro. But somehow I accidentally deleted the tcl/tclsh folder when I was trying to delete the active state version of tcl.
Now the problem is when I'm trying to install MongoDB with Macport using:
sudo port install mongodb
It give me an error says:
so I guess I delete the wrong file..is there any way I can get it back? I tried install tcl/tk using active state package but didn't work.
Help really needed...!
Thanks
A:
The problem seems to be that you've deleted (at least part of) the system Tcl/Tk pre-installed by Apple.* MacPorts explicitly uses Apple's Tcl (or its own, if you ask it, but not ActiveState's or Homebrew's or any other). That's why it's looking for /usr/bin/tclsh rather than just whatever tclsh is on the PATH.
If you dig inside the Mountain Lion installer package, you may be able to find and run the Tcl/Tk installer manually, but Apple makes that different (and harder) with each release. The easier thing to do is just run the installer and let it repair things for you.
* It's also possible that you first replaced parts of Apple's Tcl with another version, which you shouldn't have done, and then broke that other version. But the solution is the same.
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Q:
setTitle for DatePickerDialog is not working
I've been trying to make a DatePickerDialog and TimePickerDialog to show a title on top but nothing worked so far. I tried using setTitle before showing the date/time pickers and also tried setCustomTitle.
Here is my Dialog class that I use to show date picker and time picker which is based on this answer.
DateTimePickerDialog.java
import android.app.DatePickerDialog;
import android.app.TimePickerDialog;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.DialogInterface;
import android.widget.DatePicker;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.TimePicker;
import androidx.annotation.NonNull;
import androidx.annotation.Nullable;
import java.util.Calendar;
public class DateTimePicker extends DatePickerDialog {
@NonNull
private Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
@Nullable
private DatePickerDialog datePickerDialog;
@Nullable
private TimePickerDialog timePickerDialog;
private String pickerTitle;
private TextView customTitle;
public DateTimePicker(Context context, OnDateSetListener dateListener, int year, int monthOfYear, int dayOfMonth) {
super(context, dateListener, year, monthOfYear, dayOfMonth);
}
public setPickerTitle(String title, TextView view){
this.pickerTitle = title;
this.customTitle = view;
}
public void showDialog(@NonNull Context context, long time) {
calendar.setTimeInMillis(time);
closeDialogs();
showDatePicker(context);
}
private void closeDialogs() {
if (datePickerDialog != null) {
datePickerDialog.dismiss();
datePickerDialog = null;
}
if (timePickerDialog != null) {
timePickerDialog.dismiss();
timePickerDialog = null;
}
}
private DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener dateSetListener = new DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener() {
@Override
public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int year, int month, int dayOfMonth) {
calendar.set(Calendar.YEAR, year);
calendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, month);
calendar.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, dayOfMonth);
timePicker(view.getContext());
dateListener.onDateSet(view, year, month, dayOfMonth);
}
};
private TimePickerDialog.OnTimeSetListener timeSetListener = new TimePickerDialog.OnTimeSetListener() {
@Override
public void onTimeSet(TimePicker view, int hourOfDay, int minute) {
calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, hourOfDay);
calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, minute);
timeListener.onTimeSet(view, hourOfDay, minute);
}
};
private void showDatePicker(@NonNull Context context) {
datePickerDialog = new DatePickerDialog(context,
dateSetListener,
calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR),
calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH),
calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
datePickerDialog.setTitle(this.pickerTitle);
datePickerDialog.show();
}
private void timePicker(@NonNull Context context) {
timePickerDialog = new TimePickerDialog(context,
timeSetListener,
calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY),
calendar.get(Calendar.MINUTE),
true);
timePickerDialog.setCustomTitle(this.customTitle);
timePickerDialog.show();
}
}
And this is how I'm using it in my Fragment:
private void onDateTimeClick(){
DateTimePicker dateTimePicker = new DateTimePicker(getContext(), onDateSetListener, Calendar.YEAR, Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
TextView view = new TextView(getContext());
view.setText("Custom title");
dateTimePicker.setPickerTitle("My title", view);
dateTimePicker.showDialog(Objects.requireNonNull(getContext()), Calendar.getInstance().getTimeInMillis());
}
I tried overriding setTitle method as mentioned here, used setTitle and setCustomTitle individually and combined, and I went through all I could find on SO but nothing worked so far. When I debugged my code, I noticed that when setTitle is called, the cursor jumps to setTitle on AlertDialog.java then to the below method of PhoneWindow.java where mViewTitle is null. I think this may be it but couldn't figure out how to fix it.
public void setTitle(CharSequence title, boolean updateAccessibilityTitle) {
if (mTitleView != null) {
mTitleView.setText(title);
} else if (mDecorContentParent != null) {
mDecorContentParent.setWindowTitle(title);
}
mTitle = title;
if (updateAccessibilityTitle) {
WindowManager.LayoutParams params = getAttributes();
if (!TextUtils.equals(title, params.accessibilityTitle)) {
params.accessibilityTitle = TextUtils.stringOrSpannedString(title);
if (mDecor != null) {
// ViewRootImpl will make sure the change propagates to WindowManagerService
ViewRootImpl vr = mDecor.getViewRootImpl();
if (vr != null) {
vr.onWindowTitleChanged();
}
}
dispatchWindowAttributesChanged(getAttributes());
}
}
}
Thanks for any help
A:
You need to set a theme when creating the DatePickerDialog and the title will show up.
new DatePickerDialog(
context,
android.R.style.Theme_Material_Light_Dialog,
...
))
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Core C: Analytical and Phenotyping Core The purpose of the Analytical Core is to provide state-of -the art biochemical analysis of sympathetic function, including measurements of catecholamines, their metabolites, and norepinephrine clearance and spillover. This resource has been critical to the recognition and characterization by our group of new disorders involving the autonomic nervous system, such ads dopamine-beta-hydroxylase deficiency. A variety of techniques have been established in this Core to support individual projects, including the determination of plasma volume and dynamic fluid shifts. All four projects will utilize this resource. Biochemical evaluation of sympathetic activity will complement other methods of autonomic evaluation detailed in the Clinical Core. In addition, we have implemented an animal phenotyping facility, adapting the methods developed to evaluate autonomic function in humans, to the mice. This includes, among others, monitoring intraarterial blood pressure in awake unrestricted mice, monitoring renal sympathetic nerve activity and high fidelity ECG, in intact and sinoartic-denervated mice. Genetically-modified mice are increasingly important in translating autonomic knowledge, and this phenotyping mice laboratory will be essential in this regard. |
This invention relates generally to processor-based systems and, particularly, to systems that need to locate a most or least significant bit of a computer word.
In a number of circumstances, it is desirable to locate the most or least significant bit of a computer word. For example, in various arithmetic operations this may be desirable. In particular, it is useful to know where the most significant bit is located to estimate the quotient for division, as well as in a variety of other situations.
One technique to find a significant bit is to simply look at each bit in order and to stop when the first non-zero bit is found. While this approach is simple, it has a running time proportional to the length of the data.
Alternatively, the most significant bit may be located by treating the datum as an integer and performing a binary search for the least power of two which is greater than the datum. This result can then be used to directly compute the index of the most significant bit. Although this algorithm may reduce the computational complexity to the log of the datum size, the overhead for testing and branching is high.
Thus, there is a need for better ways to locate significant bits. |
/**
* @module br/component/Serializable
*/
var Errors = require('br/Errors');
/**
* @beta
* @class
* @interface
* @alias module:br/component/Serializable
*
* @classdesc
* The <code>Serializable</code> interface is implemented by classes that provide a mechanism
* to serialize their state and recreate instances from a serialized form.
*
* <p>The only restriction on the serialized form is that it is a string. A class may change
* its serialized form, however if it does so and wishes to maintain backwards compatibility
* with current serialized forms, it will need the deserialize method to cope with multiple
* different versions of serialized form. For this reason, it's good practice to put the
* serialization version at the beginning of the serialized form.
*
* <p>It is not the responsibility of a Serializable class to include its classname in its
* serialized form.
*/
function Serializable() {
}
/**
* @returns a string representation of the current state of this component. May not be null.
* @type {string}
*/
Serializable.prototype.serialize = function() {
throw new Errors.UnimplementedAbstractMethodError("Serializable.serialize: Implementations of Serializable must provide a serialize method that returns a string containing the serialized form of that object.");
};
/**
* @param {string} serializedForm a string representation of the state of a component. May not be null.
* @type {br.component.Serializable}
* @returns a newly created instance of this class that has a state matching this serialized form.
*/
Serializable.deserialize = function(serializedForm) {
throw new Errors.UnimplementedAbstractMethodError("Serializable.deserialize: Implementations of Serializable must provide a serialize method that accept a string containing the serialized form of an object of this class and returns a instance of this class.");
};
module.exports = Serializable;
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The COOH-terminal domain of the focal adhesion kinase induces loss of adhesion and cell death in human tumor cells.
Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a tyrosine kinase that is linked to signaling pathways between cells and their extracellular matrix. An alternate transcript of the COOH-terminal region of the FAK gene, called FAK-related nonkinase, has been shown to act as an inhibitor of FAK in chicken embryo fibroblasts. We have designed an analogous segment of human FAK, FAK COOH-terminal domain (FAK-CD), and transfected this construct into human tumor cells. Expression of FAK-CD inhibited cell growth in BT474 human breast cancer cells and C8161 human melanoma cells. To characterize the nature of growth inhibition, we developed an inducible system of FAK-CD expression and demonstrated that the induced FAK-CD protein localized to focal adhesions, causing cellular rounding, an irreversible loss of adhesion, and subsequent cell death. In addition, expression of FAK-CD reduced tyrosine phosphorylation of FAK, suggesting that FAK-CD may be a potent inhibitor of FAK in human tumor cells. |
Bathroom Sunken Space for pipings and other Plumbing Works. Though it is not very common these days, yet this practice helps us in easy repair works in case of blocks and also to add extra fittings in the future. |
Surface plasmon resonance biosensor as a tool for the measurement of complex refractive indices.
Optical characterisation of liquids through the measurement of their complex refractive index is critical in environmental monitoring, food industry and medicine. While surface plasmon resonance is widely used for measurement of the real part of the refractive index there have been few studies to date on measurement of complex refractive index with this method. We present a systematic study which highlights the challenges associated with this approach. Instrument design and data analysis techniques are presented together with preliminary experimental results. |
// Copyright (c) .NET Foundation and contributors. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE file in the project root for full license information.
import { isNullOrUndefinedOrWhitespace } from "../stringExtensions";
import { tryDotNetVisibilityModifiers } from "./types";
export function getTrydotnetSessionId(
element: HTMLElement,
defualtSessionId: string = "default"
): string {
let sessionId = element.dataset.trydotnetSessionId;
if (!sessionId) {
sessionId = defualtSessionId;
}
return sessionId;
}
export function getTrydotnetEditorId(element: HTMLElement): string {
let editorId = element.dataset.trydotnetEditorId;
return editorId;
}
export function getVisibility(element: HTMLElement) {
let visibility = element.dataset.trydotnetVisibility;
if(isNullOrUndefinedOrWhitespace(visibility)){
visibility = tryDotNetVisibilityModifiers[tryDotNetVisibilityModifiers.visible]
}
return visibility;
}
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Q:
Migrating from Google Apps to Office365. Prevent losing Google Cloud Services
My company is currently using GoogleApps and we recently set up a Google Cloud Services account to manage our DNS records.
We now are moving out of Google Apps and into Office365 and to prevent losing the management privileges on Google Cloud I tried granting permissions to my personal gmail account with no luck, it throws an error saying that the email account must be from the domain.
I have some questions regarding to this problem:
Will my GoogleApps account be deleted?
If so, how can I prevent losing privileges in Google Cloud?
The only way out that I see is creating a generic "mycompany.admin@gmail.com" account, then create a Google Cloud Account with that Id, then migrate the DNS records to the new Google Cloud Account, finally change the DNS in the Domain Registrar.
Is there an easier solution to this problem
A:
Well I will answer this if someona has the same problem.
I was able to contact google support and they informed me that: There
is no way of adding a non-domain (non-google-apps-account) as
administrator for Google Cloud when Google Cloud account was created
with a google-apps-account.
There is also no way of migrating the Google Cloud Account.
The only solution is to create a new Google Cloud Account and manually migrating the services.
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Technical Assistance
SolarOPs offered technical assistance and facilitated peer support to help cities and counties remove barriers in local markets and increase installed solar capacity. SolarOPs provided customized technical assistance to jurisdictions on soft cost areas including permitting, financing, zoning, solar procurement, and Solarize programs. In addition, the SolarOPs team of experts provided consultation on questions submitted through an ‘Ask an Expert’ web portal.
While technical assistance through SolarOPs is no longer available, there is the possibility to apply for additional technical assistance opportunities through some of the programs listed below. If you have any questions regarding the technical assistance SolarOPs provided, please contact solar-usa@iclei.org.
Host a Solar Powering Your Community Workshop
The SunShot Solar Outreach Partnership (SolarOPs) is delivering free custom regional workshops to communities across the nation. The workshops are designed to provide actionable information on overcoming local-level barriers to solar, addressing soft costs, and implementing a successful local solar program in areas including:
Want to connect with a small group of municipal peers from other communities that are planning for solar as well those that have found creative approaches to getting solar installed? Members of the Solar Outreach Partnership facilitate these local government connections through regular conference calls and in-person exchanges. To access these services, email solar@icma.org.
.Are You a State Government?
Assistance is also available through the SunShot initiative to state policymakers and their staff on policy related issues for solar technology deployment. Assistance such as policy evaluation and potential impact analysis can be completed by SunShot’s network of technical assistance providers. To access the program, please email your request to stat@nrel.gov.
SolSmart, a program funded by the Department of Energy SunShot Initiative, is beginning to designate cities and counties nationwide based on their efforts to make solar more affordable for their residents and businesses. Leading solar communities can receive one of three SolSmart designations – Bronze, Silver, or Gold. Additionally, SolSmart will empower new communities to become solar leaders and achieve these recognitions through no-cost technical assistance. As part of this technical assistance, communities can apply to host SolSmart Advisors – program-funded temporary staff that will work within communities to help them achieve designation. We encourage all communities to get involved with SolSmart and take action to reduce solar soft costs. |
The sessile drop method for immunohistochemical processing of unmounted sections of nervous tissue.
A novel method for the immunohistochemical processing of free-floating tissue sections is described. Sections are immersed within drops of solution arranged on a hydrophobic surface. The procedure consists of sequentially suctioning away one fluid drop and replacing it by another, while the section remains in place. The technique permits easy testing of different antiserum dilutions, comparisons among different immunohistochemical protocols, and comparison of different antisera on serial tissue sections. Comparison is made to processing mounted sections. |
Language testing during awake "anesthesia" in a bilingual patient with brain lesion adjacent to Wernicke's area.
Awake "anesthesia" is the preferable anesthetic approach for neurosurgical procedures that require intraoperative localization of eloquent brain areas. We describe intraoperative inducible selective English aphasia in a bilingual (English and Italian) patient undergoing awake anesthesia for excision of a brain lesion adjacent to Wernicke's area with no postoperative neurological sequelae. We discuss the importance of intraoperative brain mapping and intraoperative language testing in bilingual patients to prevent iatrogenic-related morbidity. |
The conventional Internet is a human-centric network in which humans generate and use information, while the current or future Internet, represented by the Internet of Things (IoT), will be an Internet where distributed components, such as an Access Point (AP), an object, and different types of devices, exchange and process information. Also, the Internet of Everything (IoE) concept has been introduced, in which IoT is combined with big-data processing techniques through connection with a cloud server and the like. Therefore, technologies for sensor networks, Machine-To-Machine (M2M) communication, and Machine-Type Communication (MTC) have been studied for connection between objects. As technological elements for implementing IoT, “sensing technology,” “wired/wireless communication and network infrastructure,” “service interface technology,” and “security technology” are emerging.
In an IoT environment, an intelligent Internet Technology (IT) service may be provided that collects and analyzes data generated from connected objects to create new value in human life. The IoT will be applied to the fields of a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, a smart grid, health care, a smart home appliance, advanced medical care services, and the like through convergence and integration of existing IT technology with various industries.
As one of various procedures for supporting IoT, an initial setup procedure between an AP and a device is required. The most direct way for the AP and the device to implement initial setup is a method in which one of the AP and the device recognizes and confirms a setup request triggered by the other. Here, the AP and the device each are necessarily required to perform an operation for recognizing a user, that is, a button-pushing setup method (also known as a push-button configuration (PBC) method).
However, this PBC method requires an input means such as a button, and thus cannot be implemented in a device that does not provide a User Interface (UI). That is, the PBC method is inconvenient due to low usability and cannot be implemented in a device lacking a UI (UI-less device).
A User Experience (UX) for setup that can be commonly applied to IoT devices has also been proposed, and it is required to improve usability thereof. |
package io.onedev.server.event.issue;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import io.onedev.server.event.ProjectEvent;
import io.onedev.server.model.Group;
import io.onedev.server.model.Issue;
import io.onedev.server.model.User;
public abstract class IssueEvent extends ProjectEvent {
private final Issue issue;
public IssueEvent(User user, Date date, Issue issue) {
super(user, date, issue.getProject());
this.issue = issue;
}
public Issue getIssue() {
return issue;
}
public abstract boolean affectsBoards();
public Map<String, Collection<User>> getNewUsers() {
return new HashMap<>();
}
public Map<String, Group> getNewGroups() {
return new HashMap<>();
}
}
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Surprise for Stroke Researchers
Surprise for Stroke Researchers
The blood vessels tend to be blocked by clotted blood. Dissolving these clots or stopping them from occurring in the first place is the primary objective in the treatment and prevention of strokes.
Consequently, the search for new and better therapies starts where the cause of the illness lies: with the blood coagulation that leads to the formation of clots. The Würzburg scientists were all the more astonished, then, when they made a discovery elsewhere - the T cells of the immune system also play a role in strokes. These are actually the cells responsible for combating pathogens.
What exactly did the researchers discover? Mice with no T cells due to a genetic defect suffer less severe strokes than their normal fellow mice. What is more, they develop fewer symptoms of neurological deficiencies, such as paralyses, after a stroke. This means that T cells have a negative effect on the progression of a stroke. This has been proven by the working groups of Guido Stoll, Christoph Kleinschnitz, and Heinz Wiendl from the university's Department of Neurology together with Bernhard Nieswandt from the Rudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine.
"The fact that T cells have such a damaging effect in the case of acute strokes came as a complete surprise to us," reports Christoph Kleinschnitz. The adverse effect can be traced back to two sub-groups of immune cells, the so-called CD4- and CD8-positive T helper cells. Further research is now needed to clarify how the T cells exercise their damaging effect.
The Würzburg researchers hope that their work will help improve stroke therapy for humans. If the findings can be transferred to people, it might be possible to devise new approaches by purposefully manipulating the T cells. It is conceivable, for example, that in the early stages of a stroke the harmful fraction of the T cells may be deactivated temporarily to thereby reduce the symptoms of deficiencies. "But further studies are needed before we reach that point," says neurologist Guido Stoll. |
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Operating systems
BitNami Opina Stack is an easy-to-install
distribution of the Opina poll management
software. It includes pre-configured, ready-to-run
versions of Apache-Tomcat, MySQL, and JDK
(optional), so users can get an Opina installation
up and running in minutes after answering a few
questions. Linux, Windows, and OS X are supported.
Dudle is an online scheduling application. Users are able to schedule events (such as telephone conferences and meetings) or run opinion polls (for example, to find out which sort of coffee people like the most). Unlike most other similar applications, Dudle offers enhanced access control settings, which minimizes trust assumptions in the polling server. |
Video: Outgoing Rep. Barney Frank with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell
Outgoing Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank, the nation’s first sitting member of Congress to voluntarily come out of the closet, spoke with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell earlier this week on the 25th anniversary of that historic day. O’Donnell and Frank discussed the current polarized political climate, the rapid pace of change on LGBT rights issues in America, marriage equality, and his own upcoming wedding. Check out the video below.
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Truth Wins Out is a non-profit organization that fights the "ex-gay" myth and antigay religious extremism.
TWO monitors anti-LGBT organizations, documents their lies and exposes wrongdoing. TWO specializes in turning information into action by organizing, advocating and fighting for truth, integrity, and equality for sexual minorities. |
I've been enjoying this discourse so far. I don't have much to add because I'm generally with Minnie and think this problem is largely unsolvable, but it is still fun to discuss!
My point that I'd like to bring up is that the US Coast Guard issues permits for races (in the USA). Aren't they being somewhat complicit in "allowing" violations of the COLREGS by permitting a race like the Singlehanded Transpac where they know that keeping a watch will not be possible?
It would be unreasonable to believe that the Coast Guard doesn't know that singlehanders will sleep while underway and yet they choose to permit singlehanded only races along with the crewed ones. Interesting no?
MedSailor
P.S. Jackdale, thanks for the link to the case involving the collision between the sailboat and freighter. I don't think I've ever read a judges opinion on a case before and it was VERY informative to read his rational for his decisions in attributing blame. It was also interesting to hear his deliberations on the issue of requiring the use of RADAR if fitted. I'd heard many people say that you are "required" to use RADAR if you have it aboard but I'd never seen anything real on the issue until now.
I would like to add something:
I think JackDale, Jon, Aaron, ferret, minne, MS CC, etc... have made great contributions here. You want to know what is nice? THat we, all as experienced sailors, can sit down and have a fun discussion about this. We will not agree, of course. So what? I hate it when another very experienced sailor (like Ferret) puts another on ignore (like Jackdale) because we cannot reason through it.
Hey, we are all on the same side here. We just have dissagreements. Hopefully each of us can understand the others viewpoint (not necessarly agree with it) and sit down for a beer one day together. Lets not put a dissagreement between us.
Sincerely,
Brian
PS I will make everyone here a deal: I know of a boat off of Key West that is abandoned about every two weeks. There is a line hanging off the boat. At the end of the line is a six pack of beer. As long as no one tells a particular poster here, every two weeks we can drink beer that has been abandoned. I think that is fair enough for all of us to maintain civility (at least until he finds out). |
This invention relates generally to apparatus known variously to the art as fiber optic splice trays, splice organizer trays, splice/drop closure, fiber optic splice closure system, fiber optic organizer trays, fusion splice tray etc., and such apparatus are referred to herein generally as apparatus for storing and organizing spliced optical fibers. The expression "spliced optical fibers" as used in this patent specification and in the appended claims is used to mean the splices between optical fibers and portions of the optical fibers, e.g. single fusion splices, mass ribbon fusion splices, mechanical splices adjacent such splices.
Numerous of such apparatus are known to the prior art, however, there exists a need in the art for new and improved apparatus for storing and organizing spliced optical fibers including one or more of the following features: a plurality of ports through which the optical fibers may either enter or exit the apparatus facilitating storing and organizing of spliced optical fibers in either butt or in-line configurations; a plurality of optical fiber splice receiving means, sometimes referred to in the art as splice inserts, providing grooves of different sizes for receiving splices having different transverse cross-sectional dimensions, e.g. diameters, such as is present with splices referred to in the art as single fusion, mass ribbon fusion, mechanical fusion; a plurality of covers which may be mounted to a base to provide different distances between the base and the cover for enclosing the aforementioned splices having different transverse cross-sectional dimensions, e.g. diameters; a plurality of such apparatus which may be stacked in an interlocking relationship. |
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Structure of the interendothelial cell cleft.
Since the work of Bundgaard it is known that the interendothelial cell cleft is a narrow, but open, sometimes highly convoluted gap linking the blood vessel lumen with the subendothelial space. A remarkable feature of this cleft is its constant width. It is here suggested that electrostatic repulsions, and the presence of a system of posts between the walls act to maintain cleft width. Contrary to intuition the presence of posts would not constitute an intolerable increase in hydrodynamic resistance, since no massive posts are necessary. Links between the walls involving only a single macromolecular chain each, which would be very difficult to detect ultrastructurally, would, nevertheless, particularly when charged, act as extremely stiff springs of essentially fixed length. A detailed calculation is presented to show how this idea could work and it is proposed that similar such posts support the subendothelial layers. Recent ultrastructural evidence in support of single chain links is quoted. |
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The Responsible Company
Just finished reading The Responsible Company, the second business book by Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia. His first, Let My People Surfing, laid out Chouinard’s personal path and the company’s history before spending the bulk of the book on the business philosophy of the small (roughly $400M) outdoor gear and apparel company. This second book establishes Chouinard’s voice and leadership in the new sustainable business movement—though he and co-author Vincent Stanley are quick to point out there’s no such thing as a truly ‘sustainable’ business.
If you’re thinking about starting something—or re-orienting your existing something—towards what matters to you, this book belongs on the stack on your desk. It’s a perfectly-timed counterbalance to the Jobs biography.
The Jobs book has had the unfortunate effect of sending millions of corporate honchos in search of their inner asshole. There is nothing wrong with more boldly pursuing your dream, but what is that dream? Chouinard’s, on the other hand, inspires you to think about, and pursue, what matters to you. And to pursue it responsibly. The message is of self-awareness, of building a company whose operations incorporate “the true cost—human, ecological, economic—of everything we make.” If Jobs has come to represent how to lead, Chouinard steps in to represent why.
Truth be told, I’ve had a long love-hate relationship with Patagonia. When I was a dirtbag, spending my summers in Desolation Wilderness, I lusted after Patagonia’s gear and clothing. By the time I could afford them, by working for a living, I no longer needed them.
But the book isn’t about the clothes, it’s about the sense of responsibility—and the idea that founders can build small companies that make a big difference or, at the very least, allow the founders to surround themselves with great people and great experiences. Looking at both of Chouinard’s books, it feels like he is thinking hard about his legacy these days. The organization’s personality still reflects his own, not yet having formed its own soul, and these books go a long way to building the organization's soul, within and without.
What Chouinard and company have done to make Patagonia responsible is something we should all strive for. And as role models go, Chouinard ranks up there with Jobs. As with each of our heroes, our job is to cull the best aspects (and leave the rest). After all, getting in touch with our inner a–hole may not prove so useful or rewarding without embracing our responsibility to community and environment.
The sustainability movement is pretty moralistic these days, and changing the world seems to require monumental efforts. Voltaire ends Candide with the hero and his friends giving up on their efforts to make sense of and change the larger world, recognizing instead that “we must cultivate our own garden.” Pursuing the more grounded and local experience of building a business, and making a livelihood for yourself and others, is not abdicating your responsibility to change the world. It does change the world. And who knows, it may have far-reaching effects. As Chouinard is showing us at the end of his career, it may be one of the few ways to do so with soul. |
Q:
In election website nothing loading after Loading user profile on main site
I just visited election website and in Please wait, Reticulating Splines list it got stuck to the Loading user profile on main site in console it shows error TypeError: candidates is undefined
A:
Sorry about this. I just pushed out a quick fix for this. We're still waiting for SE to push out the change to the actual page.
The problem is that the election statistics page relies, basically, on page scraping for details about nominees. Which means that whenever the page's markup changes, something will break, which is what happened here. We've been asking for an API endpoint for election data for a while now. Please support the feature request so that we don't see this happening in the future again.
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Obsessed with Intelligence
I just read an article by Chris Hayes called “Why Elites Fail,” which is adapted from his new book Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy and presumably a condensed form of some of his central points. His main argument is this: the unequal incomes produced by meritocratic systems always become self-perpetuating, maintaining elite status, diminishing social mobility, and undermining the meritocratic mechanisms that produced these results in the first place. Hayes believes that just such a collapse of meritocracy has contributed heavily to the current elite stratification and social woes that characterize the United States in the 21st century.
The arguments are compelling, at least, and I’ve heard generally good things about the book, but what I found most interesting about this essay was Hayes’ discussion of the cultural valence of intelligence. “Of all the status obsessions that preoccupy our elites,” says Hayes, “none is quite so prominent as the obsession with smartness.” He goes on: “Intelligence is the core value of the meritocracy, one that stretches back to the early years of standardized testing, when the modern-day SAT descended from early IQ tests. To call a member of the elite “brilliant” is to pay that person the highest compliment.”
But, he says, this obsession with intelligence actually presents a huge danger:
While smartness is necessary for competent elites, it is far from sufficient: wisdom, judgment, empathy and ethical rigor are all as important, even if those traits are far less valued. Indeed, extreme intelligence without these qualities can be extremely destructive. But empathy does not impress the same way smartness does. Smartness dazzles and mesmerizes. More important, it intimidates. When a group of powerful people get together to make a group decision, conflict and argumentation ensue, and more often than not the decision that emerges is that which is articulated most forcefully by those parties perceived to be the “smartest.”
He discusses an example in Dick Cheney’s counsel and chief of staff (during his VP years) David Addington and concludes:
This is a potent articulation of the dark emotional roots of the Cult of Smartness: the desire to differentiate and dominate that the meritocracy encourages. Ironically, in seeking to stand apart, the Cult of Smartness can kill independent thought by subtly training people to defer to others whom one should “take seriously.”
This part of his essay is a fascinating illustration of the way that power, authority, and status become self-justifying. Analytically, it’s the perfect cultural complement to an argument that focuses on social-economic (or “material”) factors, i.e., the way meritocratic institutions produce elites and the way these elites pull the newly accessible levers of social power to pull, as Hayes puts it, the ladder up behind them. |
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The following op-ed by Hanne Nabintu Herland issues the Norwegian government’s persistent soft spot for the Palestinians. She became a therapist herself since she knew she could assist others struggling with the same food addiction. Also, researchers are seeking into how brain chemical compounds and metabolism (the way the body uses calories) affect binge consuming disorder.
When I consume as well much now – I just let it go and move on – in my dieting days that would have been the trigger for days of overeating before getting a grip once more and starting a new diet regime. Women who compulsively overeat lack the widely recognized purging symptoms of bulimia nervosa, which are frequently what trigger recognition of their behavior as a significant consuming disorder.
So, addictions and compulsive overeating share some features but at the NCFED we firmly believe that it isn’t valuable to consider of compulsive consuming as the same as, for instance, alcoholism since we can live without having alcohol but we can not live without having food.
These trades seldom spend off — they usually just quantity to a lot of mental gymnastics that assist you |
It is better to take another step back and check what is the none-parallel plan for joining the three tables only (PRODUCT_H, ADVT_WRK_TBL, HH_COUNT_FACT).
Since the result is group by AL2.DM_PRODUCT_HKEY, AL3.PRODUCT_YEAR it naturally makes sense to initiate the parallel process on PRODUCT_H table particularly partitioned on DM_PRODUCT_HKEY and sub-partitioned on PRODUCT_YEAR so each slave process can easily return its own grouping result. Though other business process may prevent from doing such design.
What else? Perhaps ensure enough memory for possible hash join in each slave process and analyze sql trace for major wait events.
Based on the plan provided the parallel process is doing extraordinary and (probably) extra things. But each slave process has to do basic sql joins which looks getting lost (and/or beyond ability to read). So a none-parallel plan at least shows how optimizer determines the join order and the join method, which may be also true to each slave process in parallel process or provide good reference.
If insist to initiate the parallel process on ADVT_WRK_TBL(AL2), you can try to partition the table on column AL2.DM_PRODUCT_HKEY and see how the plan responds.
Consider all the table volumes, the none-parallel process should not be very bad unless the cardinality is extraordinary or some resource contention exists. But it is all up to your expectation and requirement. |
The artist emerges: visual art learning alters neural structure and function.
How does the brain mediate visual artistic creativity? Here we studied behavioral and neural changes in drawing and painting students compared to students who did not study art. We investigated three aspects of cognition vital to many visual artists: creative cognition, perception, and perception-to-action. We found that the art students became more creative via the reorganization of prefrontal white matter but did not find any significant changes in perceptual ability or related neural activity in the art students relative to the control group. Moreover, the art students improved in their ability to sketch human figures from observation, and multivariate patterns of cortical and cerebellar activity evoked by this drawing task became increasingly separable between art and non-art students. Our findings suggest that the emergence of visual artistic skills is supported by plasticity in neural pathways that enable creative cognition and mediate perceptuomotor integration. |
Educational reform has brought great improvements in educational outcomes for Massachusetts students. In the past decade, achievement scores have risen for all students in Massachusetts; today the Commonwealth ranks first among all states in the overall National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores. However, it also ranks among the five states with the widest “gap” in achievement between white and Latino students in both NAEP Math and Reading. These gaps in achievement show that the benefits are not reaching all children. Latinos especially, but also African American children, are often left behind in a state with excellent academic institutions. Examining the status of the most vulnerable of Massachusetts’ students is both timely and important. |
Most Medical Imaging Devices Run Outdated Operating Systems - doener
https://www.wired.com/story/most-medical-imaging-devices-run-outdated-operating-systems/
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simonblack
That's mainly because it has been set up, it's been debugged and it works
predictably.
The relevant policy there is "If it works, don't fix it."
And that's apart from the fact that updating the OS would cost extra money
that probably wouldn't be recovered during the lifetime of the machine.
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Imaging in catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation: enhancing the clinician's view.
Catheter ablation is an effective treatment for symptomatic atrial fibrillation. A thorough understanding of the left atrium anatomy and its adjacent structures is critical for the success of the procedure and for avoiding complications. Pre-procedural imaging aims at determining left atrial size, anatomy, and function and is also used to rule out an atrial thrombus. During the procedure, while fluoroscopy remains the gold standard imaging modality for guiding transseptal catheterization and catheter ablation, numerous other imaging modalities have been developed to improve 3D navigation and ablation. Finally, post-operative imaging intends to monitor heart function and to search for potential complications like pulmonary vein stenosis or the rare but dramatic atrio-oesophageal fistula. This review discusses the relative merits of all imaging modalities available in the context of catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation. |
Recombinant vaccinia virus: immunization against multiple pathogens.
The coding sequences for the hepatitis B virus surface antigen, the herpes simplex virus glycoprotein D, and the influenza virus hemagglutinin were inserted into a single vaccinia virus genome. Rabbits inoculated intravenously or intradermally with this polyvalent vaccinia virus recombinant produced antibodies reactive to all three authentic foreign antigens. In addition, the feasibility of multiple rounds of vaccination with recombinant vaccinia virus was demonstrated. |
Q:
Is there a way to have your own namespace named 'x.System'
namespace Company.Product.System
{
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
...
This generates compiler errors because now Visual Studio can't find System.Collections.Generic;. Is there a way to workaround this? I don't want to hear about if this is a bad idea not, this decision comes from above me and I have very little choice in the matter.
A:
You have two options, put the using statement outside of the namespace
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
namespace Company.Product.System
{
...
Or add the global:: prefix to the namespace, this forces it to use the root instead of assuming you are wanting to use Company.Product.System.Collections
namespace Company.Product.System
{
using global::System;
using global::System.Collections.Generic;
...
A:
Either move your using directives outside of the namespace block or use the the global namespace alias like so:
namespace Company.System
{
using global::System.Collections.Generic;
}
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include __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';
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More and more people are foregoing back surgery to give spinal decompression a try. Back decompression is a gentle and non-invasive alternative to more aggressive treatments used to treat chronic pain. It works by applying gentle pressure to your back in an effort to expand space between compressed discs in your spine. When performed successfully, spinal decompression can provide effective relief for herniated discs, sciatica, pinched nerves and even degenerative disc disorders.
Did you know…
spinal decompression treatments take less than one hour to complete? Many patients find the time relaxing – especially when additional supplemental therapies like electrical stimulation or hot/cold therapy are used prior to or following treatment. If you decide spinal decompression is right for you, expect to visit your Springfield chiropractor as much as four times a week to reap maximum benefits.
Frequently Asked Questions
Am I a candidate for spinal decompression?
Back decompression is not for everyone, and you may not be a candidate for treatment if you have metal rods in your back or are prone to fractures. However, it is a much more conservative treatment option than surgery is. If you are considering back surgery, contact your Springfield chiropractor first to find out if you could benefit from spinal decompression therapy.
What should I expect during spinal decompression treatment?
During your back decompression treatment, you will lie flat on your back while a decompression machine gently tugs at your back. The effect is similar to the feeling you get in your back when you hang upside down. The tugging encourages your vertebrae to separate, relieving pressure on discs and nerves. |
Q:
How to define an event that changes an element that has a different event?
Apologies for the vague title, it's kind of hard to explain in a line...
In any case, let's say I have a button with an action as defined by the data-action property. When the user clicks said button, something happens, and the button's action will change to its second state.
However, implementing this, I am finding that the event that is defined for that second state gets run automatically after the first state is triggered, as though the "click" persists past the function call and triggers the second event.
Here is a jsFiddle
One click should show the log 'transitioning to "foo"', and a second click should show the log 'transitioning to "bar"', but if you try it out, you'll see that both events are fired.
How can I stop this?
Edit: Thanks Dimitar for the help -
var action = ((this.retrieve('action', 'foo') != this.getProperty('data-action')) ? 'bar' : 'foo' );
if (action == 'foo') {
console.log('executing "foo"');
this.store('action', 'bar');
}
else {
console.log('executing "bar"');
this.store('action', 'foo');
}
A:
like lorenzo said, when you delegate it and change the property, which is used as the delegation identifier, it sounds like an anti-pattern to me. I don't think that adding a delay is a good pattern either.
Either use a second property that you change on the element instead, or better yet, change a var that keeps state in element storage after initial event reads it from a property for performance.
$(document.body).addEvents({
'click:relay([data-action=foo])': function() {
this.store("action", ((this.retrieve("action") || this.get("data-action")) === 'foo') ? 'bar' : 'foo');
this.set("html", 'State + ' + this.retrieve("action"));
}
});
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Severed by mind, will, the gloom,
Deceived not by charlatan dogma,
Courage stifled the hapless bucolic,
Only abysmal benightment deepened their sorrow,
Reckoned dogsbodies despised through arrogance,
Dulcet bells, maimed in silence,
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A visual orientation system for promoting indoor travel in persons with profound developmental disabilities and visual impairment.
A visual orientation system was employed for promoting independent indoor travel for two young adults with profound developmental disabilities and visual impairment. The system was a portable device subjects wore and light sources that marked the routes to the various destinations. Data showed that the system was useful in helping the subjects orient and move independently in their daily environment and in a new (generalization) setting. The visual orientation system is discussed in relation to other systems previously developed. |
import { storiesOf } from "@storybook/react";
import StoryRouter from "storybook-react-router";
import * as React from "react";
import { Hero } from "./Hero";
import { HomepageHero } from "./HomepageHero";
import heroImgUrl from "./img-hero-listings.png";
storiesOf("Registry / Hero", module)
.addDecorator(StoryRouter())
.add("Homepage", () => {
return (
<Hero backgroundImage={heroImgUrl}>
<HomepageHero buyCvlUrl="#buy-tokens" applyURL="#apply" learnMoreURL="#learn-more" />
</Hero>
);
});
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Targeting N-type and T-type calcium channels for the treatment of pain.
Severe chronic pain afflicts a large number of people worldwide but satisfactory relief from such pain is difficult to achieve with drugs that are currently available, and so there is a great need for the development of new, efficacious and safe analgesics. Voltage-gated calcium-permeable ion channels are multi-subunit complexes that regulate neuronal excitability, action-potential firing patterns and neurotransmission in nociceptive pathways. Although multiple subtypes of voltage-gated calcium channels exist, pharmacological and ion-channel gene knockdown approaches in animals have revealed N-type and T-type calcium channels to be particularly attractive molecular targets for the discovery and development of new analgesic drugs. The recent approval of Prialt (Elan Pharmaceuticals) provides the ultimate target validation for N-type calcium channels, namely proof that they are key regulators of nociceptive signaling in humans. |
Non-Rigid Object Detection with LocalInterleaved Sequential Alignment (LISA).
This paper shows that the successively evaluated features used in a sliding window detection process to decide about object presence/absence also contain knowledge about object deformation. We exploit these detection features to estimate the object deformation. Estimated deformation is then immediately applied to not yet evaluated features to align them with the observed image data. In our approach, the alignment estimators are jointly learned with the detector. The joint process allows for the learning of each detection stage from less deformed training samples than in the previous stage. For the alignment estimation we propose regressors that approximate non-linear regression functions and compute the alignment parameters extremely fast. |
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Backbone.js View, ParentView, Model, Collection and Template Best Practices
I am looking for some description of best practices for views and models/collections in Backbone. I know how to add models to collections, render views using templates and use views in parent views, however I'm looking for more context and perhaps some example links.
I've updated this question to be more specific.
Let's say you have a more grid layout with all kinds of variation, that gets pulled from the same collection. What would you do here to create this page? A simple child view repeated in a parent view won't work because the variation of the grid items is too great. Do you:
create tons of tiny views and collections and render all of these different views using the relevant collections into that one page?
create a complex template file that has a loop in it, that as you go through the loop, the loop outputs different markup?
Do people put multiple views inside a parent view, all from the same model?
Similarly, do people mix different models into the same parent view? For example movies and tv shows - these different models, can get they added to the same collection that renders that list?
Thanks!
A:
You've asked good question. To answer it lets take a look to this from other angle:
On my exp i used to check first is there any logic on parent view, like sorting, validation, search and so on. Second - Collection with models or just model with array as property : is the model is independent and may exist without collection , for example you have navigation item, and there are no sense to make separate model for each item and navigation as collection as you will never use item itself. Another case you have user list. You may use user model in a lot of places and its better to make a separate model for user and collection to combine it.
Your case with UL may be resolved with single model and items properties with array of li, simple grid may have same approach as i don't see some special logic on wrap from your description.
But i should point out - i had close task to build mansory grid with collection parsed from server, items were models as it had different data structure, different templates and different events listener.
Taking decision i considered folowing:
item as independent tile, may be used as in grid and also independent.
item is model + template + view. different Models types helped to support different data structure, different Views types helped to support different events listeners and user interaction, different templates - diff looks.
collection as a tool to fetch initial data + load extra items + arrange mansonry view + create models according to fetched result.
UPDATE
Lets consider this pseudo code as masnonry implementation:
Models may looks like these:
var MansonryModel = Backbone.Model.extend({
/* Common methods and properties */
}),
MansonryVideoModel = MansonryModel.extend({
defaults: {
type: 'video',
videoUrl: '#',
thumbnail: 'no-cover.jpg'
}
}),
MansonryImageModel = MansonryModel.extend({
defaults: {
type: 'image',
pictureUrl: '#',
alt: 'no-pictire'
}
});
var MansonryCollection = Backbone.Collection.extend({
model: MansonryModel
});
Views could be like this:
var MansonryTileView = Marionette.ItemView.extend({
/* place to keep some common methods and properties */
}),
MansonryVideoTile = MansonryTileView.extend({
template: '#video-tile',
events: {
'click .play': 'playVideo'
},
playVideo: function(){}
}),
MansonryImageTile = MansonryTileView.extend({
template: '#image-tile',
events: {
'click .enlarge': 'enlargePicture'
},
enlargePicture: function(){}
});
var MansonryListView = Marionette.CollectionView.extend({
childView : MansonryItem
})
Hope this help
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Perhaps the best apology in the history of the second grade. Largely because it incorporates a haiku. This was sent to my daughter, Grace, from her classmate, Owen, after he very publicly proclaimed that she has “buck teeth”.
Actual text reads thusly:
To Grace:
I’m very sorry for what I said about you having buck teeth. I know this will never happen again. Here is a haiku to show that I care.
I’m very sorry. I’ll hope that you’ll forgive me. This is how I care.
Your friend, Owen
Owen was immediately forgiven, and Grace now keeps the note in her jewelry box. Excellent work, Owen. |
Q:
Relative Template Import
I have a template located in templates/mytemplate.html in my app and I need to reference the template file directly in code to turn it into a string to use with send_mail(). How can I do this? Here's what I've tried:
from django.template import loader
html_message = loader.render_to_string(
'appname/templates/mytemplate.html',
{
'username': user.name,
}
)
A:
If that's the way your templates are set up, you should just be able to reference it by name
loader.render_to_string('mytemplate.html', {
'username': user.name,
})
However be aware that in case you have any name conflicts within your Django project (or even if you don't), it's better to have a directory that mirrors the app name within your templates directory. Your tree structure for an app would look like this:
appname/
some_file.py
templates/
appname/
mytemplate.html
Then you would just reference it as loader.render_to_string('appname/mytemplate.html', {...})
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#ifndef SRC_NODE_METADATA_H_
#define SRC_NODE_METADATA_H_
#if defined(NODE_WANT_INTERNALS) && NODE_WANT_INTERNALS
#include <string>
#include "node_version.h"
namespace node {
// if this is a release build and no explicit base has been set
// substitute the standard release download URL
#ifndef NODE_RELEASE_URLBASE
#if NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE
#define NODE_RELEASE_URLBASE "https://nodejs.org/download/release/"
#endif // NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE
#endif // NODE_RELEASE_URLBASE
#if defined(NODE_RELEASE_URLBASE)
#define NODE_HAS_RELEASE_URLS
#endif
#define NODE_VERSIONS_KEYS_BASE(V) \
V(node) \
V(v8) \
V(uv) \
V(zlib) \
V(brotli) \
V(ares) \
V(modules) \
V(nghttp2) \
V(napi) \
V(llhttp) \
#if HAVE_OPENSSL
#define NODE_VERSIONS_KEY_CRYPTO(V) V(openssl)
#else
#define NODE_VERSIONS_KEY_CRYPTO(V)
#endif
#ifdef NODE_HAVE_I18N_SUPPORT
#define NODE_VERSIONS_KEY_INTL(V) \
V(cldr) \
V(icu) \
V(tz) \
V(unicode)
#else
#define NODE_VERSIONS_KEY_INTL(V)
#endif // NODE_HAVE_I18N_SUPPORT
#define NODE_VERSIONS_KEYS(V) \
NODE_VERSIONS_KEYS_BASE(V) \
NODE_VERSIONS_KEY_CRYPTO(V) \
NODE_VERSIONS_KEY_INTL(V)
class Metadata {
public:
Metadata();
Metadata(Metadata&) = delete;
Metadata(Metadata&&) = delete;
Metadata operator=(Metadata&) = delete;
Metadata operator=(Metadata&&) = delete;
struct Versions {
Versions();
#ifdef NODE_HAVE_I18N_SUPPORT
// Must be called on the main thread after
// i18n::InitializeICUDirectory()
void InitializeIntlVersions();
#endif // NODE_HAVE_I18N_SUPPORT
#define V(key) std::string key;
NODE_VERSIONS_KEYS(V)
#undef V
};
struct Release {
Release();
std::string name;
#if NODE_VERSION_IS_LTS
std::string lts;
#endif // NODE_VERSION_IS_LTS
#ifdef NODE_HAS_RELEASE_URLS
std::string source_url;
std::string headers_url;
#ifdef _WIN32
std::string lib_url;
#endif // _WIN32
#endif // NODE_HAS_RELEASE_URLS
};
Versions versions;
const Release release;
const std::string arch;
const std::string platform;
};
// Per-process global
namespace per_process {
extern Metadata metadata;
}
} // namespace node
#endif // defined(NODE_WANT_INTERNALS) && NODE_WANT_INTERNALS
#endif // SRC_NODE_METADATA_H_
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[Early nutrition support for intestinal insufficiency syndrome in spine surgery].
Paresis of the gastrointestinal tract resulting in the intestinal insufficiency syndrome (IIS) is a postoperative risk factor in spinal surgery. One hundred and twenty patients with fractures at L1-L2 spine level, isthmic spondylolisthesis, osteochondrosis and with sever neurological symptoms were examined and treated. The intestinal motor-evacuation malfunction, hypermetabolism, microbial translocation and immunity impairments are observed in IIS. Early nutritional support is indicated for the IIS prevention and treatment. Enteral feeding with new balanced mixtures containing fibers is effective. |
---
-api-id: P:Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.ScrollViewer.IsVerticalScrollChainingEnabled
-api-type: winrt property
---
<!-- Property syntax
public bool IsVerticalScrollChainingEnabled { get; set; }
-->
# Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.ScrollViewer.IsVerticalScrollChainingEnabled
## -description
Gets or sets a value that indicates whether scroll chaining is enabled from this child to its parent, for the vertical axis.
## -xaml-syntax
```xaml
<ScrollViewer IsVerticalScrollChainingEnabled="bool" />
-or-
<object ScrollViewer.IsVerticalScrollChainingEnabled="bool"/>
```
## -property-value
**true** to enable vertical scroll chaining from child to parent; otherwise, **false**.
## -remarks
After a user hits a scroll limit on an element that has been nested within another scrollable element, you can specify whether that parent element should continue the scrolling operation begun in its child element. This is called scroll chaining.
For more info, see [Guidelines for panning](/windows/uwp/design/input/guidelines-for-panning).
For XAML usage, IsVerticalScrollChainingEnabled can either be an attribute on an explicit [ScrollViewer](scrollviewer.md) element, or a **ScrollViewer.IsVerticalScrollChainingEnabled** attached property usage on an element that is a child of a control that supports scrollview implicitly in its template.
The ScrollViewer's chaining properties ([IsHorizontalScrollChainingEnabled](/uwp/api/windows.ui.xaml.controls.scrollviewer.ishorizontalscrollchainingenabled),[IsVerticalScrollChainingEnabled](/uwp/api/windows.ui.xaml.controls.scrollviewer.isverticalscrollchainingenabled), [IsZoomChainingEnabled](/uwp/api/windows.ui.xaml.controls.scrollviewer.iszoomchainingenabled) ) do not apply when the control is in inertial mode. Because mouse wheel rotations are handled as **inertial manipulations**, chaining does not work.
<!--May not work because there is no apparent templatebinding linkage in most of the generic templates.-->
## -examples
## -see-also
[Scroll viewer controls](/windows/uwp/design/controls-and-patterns/scroll-controls), [Guidelines for panning](/windows/uwp/design/input/guidelines-for-panning) |
Using liposome-entrapped SV40 DNA as a model system to infect monkey kidney cells the carrier potential of liposomes in gene transfer has been tested. The frequency of plaque formation corresponds to the frequency of successful DNA transfer and this was quantitated. The results of these experiments have shown that liposome-entrapped SV40 DNA becomes infectious when incubated with monkey kidney cells, that the frequency of plaque formation can be modulated by lipid composition of the liposomes and various treatments of the cells and that the addition of carrier DNA inhibits infectivity. Preliminary results of some experiments indicate that liposome-entrapped SV40 DNA can be used to transform mouse cells, an event which requires integration of viral DNA into these cells. |
Yes, he really did say it
MSNBC Video
Not only do Jim DeMint and Ralph Reed say they’re in favor of forcing women who request abortions to have ultrasound probes, they say women want this.
It’s an amazingly revealing moment.
DeMint: She’s forgetting about the thousands of women who want an informed choice, who want the opportunity to get a free ultrasound, which they can get not from Planned Parenthood, but from a lot of these pregnancy centers.
These “pregnancy centers” to which DeMint refers are usually explicitly Christian facilities, that exist solely to scare, intimidate and mislead women out of choosing abortions. |
[Palinopsia (visual preservation) and cerebral polyopia--clinical analysis and computed tomographic findings].
The positive visual phenomena of palinopsia and cerebral diplopia/polyopia have only rarely been recorded. The complex phenomenology (visual/oculomotor) is described based on two cases with right occipital infarcts and a review of the literature. In each case demonstrated CT revealed a small area of decreased density confined to the border region of the right area striata causing homonymous field defects. The phenomena are discussed in the light of what is known about visual after-images and hallucinations. The underlying neural mechanisms are still unknown; a defective cortical visual information processing is suggested. |
Q:
Do forked nodes have to be joined? UML State Diagram
Do forked nodes have to be be joined in the end?
And can outgoing fork nodes have guards?
Basically what I'm trying to do is return the change to the customer and continue with the car wash at the same time.
But, maybe there's a better way to do it?
A:
Do forked nodes have to be be joined in the end?
For me no, this is not mandatory, but the group will end when all the flows and linked elements will end too
can outgoing fork nodes have guards?
You mean outgoing flows, the norm says a fork segment must not have Guards or Trigger
Basically what I'm trying to do is return the change to the customer and continue with the car wash at the same time.
Yes they can be done in parallel, for the wash machine point of view all is done when it return the change and the wash is done too
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Grilled Lamb Saddle with wild rice agrodolce, garlic chips, pickled cherry, my favourite dish off the summer menu, loved the pickled cherries component and well at played out wth the rest of the ingredients. |
Speaking at a conference Snowden refused to be seen as a warning sign to future leakers, saying of his time in Russia: ‘I am actually more effective now’
It’s not hard to argue that Edward Snowden is a warning to future leakers of government secrets. He’s stuck in Russia. Can only show up at parties as a video screen. And many of the western surveillance programs he outed continue three years later.
But in a video interview on Friday at RightsCon, a technology conference in San Francisco focused on free speech, Snowden said that’s not how he sees it. That, he said, hopefully encourages more Snowden’s to come forward in the future.
Edward Snowden, Pussy Riot and Ai Weiwei protest cyber censorship Read more
“I don’t think I’m an unhappy ending. I don’t think this is this great deterrent,” he told the audience. “I’m actually more fulfilled now, more connected now and more effective now in my work.”
Whether or not Snowden, the former US spy agency contractor, is seen as having suffered for leaking troves of documents on classified programs to the Guardian, Washington Post and other outlets, is key for western authorities in deterring future cases.
Former Obama administration officials, including Eric Holder, have suggested a plea deal could be possible with Snowden. Even Barack Obama has said Snowden prompted a needed debate, though he disagreed with his tactics.
But the administration has held firm with Snowden because to do otherwise could open the floodgates for future leakers. Snowden has said he’d return to the US if he could be guaranteed a fair trial.
And life isn’t all bad for him these days. His girlfriend was able to move to Russia with him, Congress did reform some US surveillance rules and crowds show up for his public appearances, even if he’s not exactly in the room.
As RightsCon organizer Amie Stepanovich said on stage Friday, the room was unusually full for an early morning session. |
Q:
in Scala: not able to fin a class in Linux but in Windows for forName
I am writing Scala code. In windows it is working:
Class.forName("opt/user/Foo")
where Foo is a Scala class. However, in Ubuntu Linux this is not working. Any ideas?
A:
Those look suspiciously like common directory names.
Probably your Linux class path includes a directory like opt or user that is taken as a package name.
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Description:Wonderful and charming slim freehand with the "Conquistador" detail on the shank. A petit but well constructed and cool looking puffer. Good cross grain and a deep red/brown stain. The saddle stem is handmade in black ebonite. |
The Xilla Project: Pool Party
SO! This chapter was a loving work of collaboration with Ally, Ny, and Cathy! I am incredibly appreciative for their patience while I procrastinated right in front of them, flailed about our joint document, and added stupid comments in between “serious business”. 😉
All dialogue and actions belongs to the characters’ respectful owners. Please go and read their stories if you’re not already following them AND go and see our fellow collaborators on the forum and check up on them, too! (Links are at the end!)
Also, it’s a bit different in style since we sort of ran away with the dialogue. It’s also a bit long. I hope you enjoy this nice little change of pace from the usual journal entries. ❤
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Case Study Log of #C87Caregiver: Liliana Ikeda
Oh, what a day it was – Xilla and I just got back from a pool party! I’m still digesting everything that I learned (and the meal we had, too, ha!)
I’m grateful that I had the chance to meet both Elliot (our hostess) and Daniel. They’re the parents of Emmanuel and Whisper (separately, of course). The amount of information they shared with me about raising an alien child was a little overwhelming. I learned a lot about disguises especially and I’m excited to see what Xilla chose for her human look.
There’s still so much I don’t know about aliens. Xilla and I have just been trying to get by all these years together; we haven’t bothered to worry ourselves with the messy past of this project. There’s some heavy stuff that some of the children have dealt with and I wonder if Xilla has any of those memories. Is it bad that I’m hoping she doesn’t remember? Some kids even need therapy… It’s certainly a lot to take in.
On the way home Xilla told me all about the children she met at the party. First off, we were at at Emmanuel’s house (“They just put in that pool!”). She mentioned that she liked his shade of blue (“It’s different from Xe’s color – sorta really soothing instead of bright bright bright!”). There was even a teenager there a little later and Xilla mentioned that he was possibly their big brother with a name she couldn’t pronounce. (Are all these kids related? No one from the agency told me that!) She was especially happy that there were other kids that were purple like she was. (“Anakin was really polite – I really liked his bowtie! And OH, Whisper was so cool! Our swimsuits matched!”) She couldn’t stop talking about Whisper, actually.
I’m glad she was able to make some friends tonight. I think I made some, too. WELL, at least Elliot… I sort of embarrassed myself in front of Daniel but everything turned out okay in the end…
Anyway, our bedtime routine was disrupted tonight by Xilla’s excitement levels. I think we read through two of her books before she was calm enough to drift off to sleep. I’m exhausted, too, so I think I’ll head to bed also. Here’s hoping we get to see everyone again soon!
“This is my house and I’m Emmanuel!” He shouted across the pool, “This is Whisper! Thank you very very much for coming to my pool party!” He smiled and waved. “Who are you?”
“Hi! I’m Xilla and I heard your song!” She walked quickly around the pool and plopped down next to them with a little sigh. “I don’t hear many others singing so I was really excited when I heard this one!”
“You mean my song? My pool song?” Emmanuel replied.
“Yah! For the party! I told Lili right away and she said she’d see if we could come AND WE COULD!” Xilla’s voice raised in pitch and she tried to reign in her excitement.
“I’m really happy that you’re happy to be here with us! Also, you’re very pretty!” he nudged Whisper. “You should say something to her, since you’re both girls, or something. I’m not really sure what girls like to talk about, or anything…”
“Hi Xilla! I really like your swimsuit!”
“Thanks! This is the first time I get to wear it. Oh! It almost matches yours!”
“It’s like we’re almost twins or something.”
“We could be! Maybe I could make my hair like yours if I tried hard enough!”
Whisper smiled. “I like your hair. I think it’s cool that we’re all alike. Nobody at my school is like us.”
“I just started going to school but we’re all alike… For now it’s just the five of us and we don’t have to wear our disguises or anything!”
“You don’t have to hide your purple when you go to school?” Emmanuel quickly interjected.
“Nope! We just have classes at our houses. They call it homeschooling, I think.”
“So who teaches you since you don’t go to the building-school?” Whisper asked.
“Well, not Lili – she’s not too good with all the subjects – but she helps me a little. Mr. Alec is really smart so he does most of the classes. The adults sort of help all together.”
“They all come to your home? Do they live with you or something like that?”
“No, we all live in a little neighborhood and it’s pretty quiet. We each have our own houses.”
“I don’t live in a house but I think that’d be cool to have your neighbors beside you instead of under you… and do you play in your yards?”
“Yes – I have monkey bars!”
“There are some of those at my building-school.”
“What’s it like at building-school?”
“Well…” Whisper hummed. “It’s a lot of people there. A lot of people. I live in the city and one time I heard my teacher say that the school is overpopulated so I guess there are too many people. But it’s okay there. They have lots of books in the library so that’s a good thing. Manny, what’s your building-school like?”
“Hmm?” Emmanuel returned to the conversation. “My school is where I– woah, I feel really funny all of a sudden. Do you? Everywhere… like I’m supposed to be somewhere else… do you feel that?”
“Then maybe you should go find where you’re supposed to be. Wherever it is, we’ll be here when you get back,” Whisper said matter-of-factly.
A tall and slender teenager rounded the corner of the house. Emmanuel perked up. “I’m going to go talk to him really quick… I’ll be back! Please don’t talk about anything fun while I’m gone, okay?”
“You bet!” Xilla watched him go and turned back to Whisper. “Who is that older boy, do you know?”
“I don’t know who he is. We can ask Manny when he gets back. Or we could ask Ms. Elliot. Did you meet Ms. Elliot on your way out here? She’s Manny’s mom.”
“Ohhh, she did introduce herself when I got here and she told me you guys were out back! Yeah, let’s ask her!”
“Okay!”
The girls got up from their spots and peered around the backyard.
“Guess she’s still inside.”
“Let’s go in and ask her.”
The girls found Elliot in the living room with Daniel (Whisper’s dad), and Lili.
“Did you guys see that older kid come in? Do you know who he is?”
“Older kid?” Elliot looked to Daniel and Lili. “Where’s Manny?”
Whisper shrugged. “Don’t know. He went to wherever he felt like he was supposed to be.”
Elliot flew to the back door at Whisper’s cryptic explanation, looking through the glass for her son. “Oh, he is an alien. Manny’s talking with him… it seems okay. I don’t know who he is though.”
Liliana turned towards the pair.
“How’s it going, girls? Are you having a nice time so far?” Xilla nodded enthusiastically.
“Yes! We were talking about school. Did you know that they have school in a building that’s not their house?!”
Liliana smirked, “I bet you might get to go to one of those schools eventually. I wouldn’t worry.”
“Do you guys want to go swimming? Why don’t we all go cool off and get some sunshine?” Elliot smiled brightly.
“Sure,” Whisper agreed. “I’ll just sit on the side of the pool, though, because I don’t know how to swim.”
Xilla beamed at her, “I don’t know how to swim, either!”
“Well in that case, Ms. Elliot, I think me and Xilla are just going to stay in here but we’ll come out a little bit later.”
“Oh, where are you from again?” Liliana asked, moving with the group towards the door.
“I live in San Myshuno right now,” Daniel answered with a smile.
“I guess the big brown desert is pretty boring compared to Willow Creek and San Myshuno.” Elliot sighed as she spoke.
“I don’t know. I can’t decide if I’d rather live in an oven or a sauna, actually. Perhaps I should try ‘tundra’ next.” Liliana joked.
Elliot laughed her reply. “Certainly sounds viable to me!” The trio continued outside until the girls could no longer hear them talking. With the adults outside, Whisper turned towards Xilla eagerly.
“You said your homeschool has other aliens? I only know two aliens- you and Emmanuel. I’ve sung to… four other ones though. Do you sing?”
“I don’t sing very much… When I was really little I just sort of sang to myself. But then one day someone sang back to me! It was Pixit, one of the girls in my school. But yah, there are three others: Kal, Sol, and Xe. ”
Whisper glanced around the living room. “What is your house like?”
Xilla thought a moment. “Hmm, small. But a cozy-like small. I have my own room, though! I have a nightlight that shoots off stars, too!”
“Oh yes I have one of those, too! Mine is blue!”
“Mine’s pink!” She fired back quickly. “Does Emmanuel have one, too?”
“Don’t know. I’ve never been here before. We can ask him when we see him again. That would be so cool if he does.”
“We can ask that older boy, too!”
“Sure,” she nodded. “As soon as we find them both… Where do you think they’ve gone?”
Back outside they found Emmanuel, Daniel, and Liliana sitting poolside. The girls sat next to Emmanuel and began to talk animatedly together.
“So, Daniel,” Liliana turned towards him with purpose, “Tell me about the school Whisper attends. The Agency has only mentioned the possibility of school once the kids are a little older but I’m not sure they’re as eager for it as Xilla and the others are.”
“Whisper goes to a public school in our district. It’s a pretty big school but I think she likes it there. She has a handful of friends. San Myshuno is full of interesting characters so I don’t think she feels too different from everyone else. So far, all of her teachers have been pretty good. She’s always telling me something she learned, so I guess that’s a good sign.” Daniel chuckled.
“So I guess the district doesn’t know that she’s an alien?”
“If they do, it wasn’t me that told them.”
“Does that worry you at all? I mean, that they might find out…”
“Not really. When she was younger, there weren’t many negative reactions to her without her disguise on. I’m sure there are places a lot more xenophobic than San Myshuno.”
“That’s true… I don’t know how my hometown would react if I brought Xilla back to visit. My parents have met her, though. They were surprised at first but have gotten used to the idea, thankfully.”
“I’m from Windenburg originally so I get it. I can’t imagine taking Whisper there and having her run around in all her purple glory. My parents actually left me a house there and I considered moving when they placed Whisper with me. I’m glad I stayed in San Myshuno, though. Whisper loves the district we live in.”
Liliana nodded in agreement. “My brother’s living there now and I wish that we could visit him for even just a weekend.”
Liliana thought a moment. “Actually, I was also wondering about disguises. Xilla has never shown me because there hasn’t really been a reason for her to use it… Is it… strange for you to see someone else?”
Daniel’s eyes glazed over with a distant look but it was gone as soon as it had appeared. “At first it was strange because she’d never worn her disguise until it was time for her to go to school. But I got used to it pretty quickly. I don’t prefer to see one over the other… and from what Whisper has told me, she doesn’t mind wearing it.”
“That’s a relief. I was wondering if it was uncomfortable for them so I’m happy to hear that. Maybe when we get home I’ll ask her to show me.”
“Whisper was super excited to show me hers. From what I could tell, she put a lot of thought into it. Maybe Xilla will craft hers to look like you.”
Liliana’s eyes widened. “Now you’ve got me even more eager to see what she’s come up with!” She looked down momentarily before smiling up coyly at him. “You’re sweet.”
“Thank you!” Daniel smiled at the compliment. “I try.” Liliana searched his eyes a moment before taking a chance.
“So, you’re in the city…” She lowered her voice slightly, “Ever… peruse the spice district?” She raised an eyebrow at him expectantly.
“It’s still pretty new so I’m figuring it out. Everything’s felt new since I adopted Whisper. Now that she’s in school, it’s like I have to relearn myself… again.” A laugh escaped Daniel’s lips. “Did you say that Xilla is in school?”
“She and the other alien children are being homeschooled by myself and the other parents. I’ve been helping them with ‘art appreciation’. Nothing really important like math or science, stuff like that. I mean, I think it’s important but, you know, testing…”
“I think art is important, too. My wife- she was an artist and Whisper loves every single one of the arts.”
“Oh, you’re married?”
“Only during the workweek.”
Liliana snorted, “And you’re funny.”
“Thanks.”
“Um… About Whisper’s disguise, does she take after your wife at all?”
A thoughtful smile spread over his lips as he turned to face her. “Actually, yes. But it’s not in the way you’re thinking. My wife died some years ago so Whisper developed a disguise using a picture of her.”
“Oh wow…” Liliana offered him a friendly smile, “Whisper sounds like a sweetheart.”
Daniel glanced to his right where Whisper and Emmanuel seemed to be talking about something intense. “She is.”
——
Following a quick bite to eat Xilla wandered into the kitchen to toss her plate. However, before she had a chance to leave she thought she heard a noise from one of the nearby rooms. The door to a bedroom was cracked open enough that she could peek inside. Seated on the edge of the bed was the older boy they had seen earlier. She paused a moment and then knocked softly on the door jamb, suddenly shy.
“Um, hello.”
“Hello, pagoto! Are you a little bit sad?”
Xilla crossed over to stand near the boy and nodded to his question, peering up at him curiously.
“Do I… know you? I feel like I’ve met you before or something.”
“We all know each other! We are gotogo! We came here together, right? It wasn’t so long ago. Maybe you’ve heard me singing about home and the far star.”
“Oh!” Her face brightened and her voice perked up, “I knew it! I did hear you singing before!”
“I don’t sing very much… Is that… normal?”
“Maybe you don’t sing much because you don’t need to. My pops had a rabbit when he was a boy. Did you know that rabbits can sing?”
Xilla shook her head quickly and sat next to him, eager to hear him continue.
“One night, as the moonlight shone in through the window, the lonely rabbit lifted his furry little chin, opened his mouth, and he let out a really loud warble!”
“That’s bananas! I didn’t know rabbits could make noises!”
“Oh, rabbits are full of all sorts of surprises! Pops was so worried! ‘Are you OK, Little Guy?’ he asked the rabbit. But the rabbit just looked at him like he was nuts and went right on singing. The next morning, when my pops went out to the front yard, there was a lady rabbit! The song brought her there! So, you see, singing is good when you’re lonely, and you need to find those you belong with, inna-inna, but if you’re already with them, and you’re not lonely, there’s no need to sing!”
Xilla looked at her hands in her lap, deep in thought.
“I guess you’re right. I have all my friends on my street and I see them all the time!”
“You see! You’re already with those you belong with! Will you tell your friends that I think of them every day? EO in’i EO.”
Xilla nodded excitedly again. “What’s your name so I can tell them?”
“Tell them I am Baxini’vre.”
“Baxi-niv… I’ll try to remember,” she wouldn’t but she attempted to look earnest.
“If you’re ever lonely, or you need your bizoobagoto, just sing like a rabbit! I’ll hear!”
“I think I can do that! I’d tell the others but they won’t get the joke.” |
The present invention relates generally to earth compacting equipment and more particularly to a tool for compacting backfilled trenches and related tasks.
Commonly used today for the insertion of buried conduit, both electrical and fluid, are vibratory blades normally having a trailed conduit shoe or guide progressively depositing the conduit within the blade formed kerf. Standard cable laying practice includes the depositing of fines over the deposited conduit which it has been found highly desirable to compact prior to placement of a second conduit thereover. The same is true for conduit laid in a trench formed by a digging operation which trench, of course, is of substantially greater width than the plow formed kerf. A common objective in both modes of conduit placement is the return of the soil to its original, highly compacted state to better protect the buried conduit and to avoid later sinking of the backfilled material. To accomplish compacting presently, manually held vibratory compactors are used to tamp both trench deposited fines and backfill earthen material. Such hand held compacting equipment is slow as compared with mechanized compactors and, of course, requires additional man hours and costly equipment for a conduit laying operation. Such compactors are often air powered requiring the use of a costly air compressor at the job site.
A related problem occurs in the laying of conduit across roadways and driveways where the backfill material is subject to severe loading by reason of passing vehicles. If such material is not adequately compacted before repaving, premature pavement failure can occur, resulting in costly repaving. Accordingly, it is highly desirable to fully compact backfill material for several inches immediately below a paved roadway. Soil compactors associated with road construction are clearly not suitable for trench compaction by reason of size and mode of operation. |
[The neural bases of taste aversion learning: the formation of acquired hedonic taste representations].
Taste aversion conditioning is a form of associative learning in which certain qualities of a food (mainly its taste) are associated to specific negative visceral consequences that derive from eating it. Establishing this learning depends on gustatory-visceral integration processes carried out in the central nervous system. In this manuscript our aim is to offer a global view of the centres and connections that play the most significant roles in the formation of taste aversion learning (TAL). Many researchers consider that the initial level of integration is situated within the parabrachial nuclei. A priori and given the basic vital nature of TAL, its formation and completion could be thought to take place at this brain stem level, without requiring the intervention of the higher processing structures. Nevertheless, in the literature on TAL there is a large body of both neuroanatomical and neurobehavioural evidence that seems to indicate that the formation of TAL requires complex interactions between the parabrachial nuclei and certain prosencephalic structures, such as the insular cortex or the amygdala, among others. |
Q:
Suppose that $I$ is an ideal of $J$ and that $J$ is an ideal of $R$. prove that if $I$ has a unity then $I$ is an ideal of $R$
Suppose that $I$ is an ideal of $J$ and that $J$ is an ideal of $R$. prove that if $I$ has a unity then $I$ is an ideal of $R$
Attempt:
Given that $I$ is an ideal of $J$ which means :
$(i)~~i_1-i_2 \in I ~~\forall~~i_1,i_2 \in I$
$(ii)~~ji \in I,~~ij \in I~~\forall~~i \in I,\forall~~j \in I$
Given that $J$ is an ideal of $R$ which means :
$(iii)~~j_1-j_2 \in J ~~\forall~~j_1,j_2 \in I$
$(iv)~~rj \in J,~~jr \in J~~\forall~~j \in J,\forall~~r \in R$
We need to prove that $I$ is an ideal of $R$ which means :
$(v)~~i_1-i_2 \in I ~~\forall~~i_1,i_2 \in I$
$(vi)~~ri \in I,~~ir \in I~~\forall~~i \in I,\forall~~r \in R$
The first condition is easily realized from $(i)$. Now to realize the second condition :
from $(ii),(iv),~~ji~rj \in I \implies i~'rj \in I $
From here, how do I prove that $~~ri \in I,~~ir \in I~~\forall~~i \in I,\forall~~r \in R$
Thank you for your help ...
A:
Let $x\in I$ and $r \in R$ and $e$ the unity of $I$ then $re \in J$ and so
$rex \in I$ but $rex=rx$
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UNetbootin can also be used to load various system utilities, including:
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SystemRescueCD, a system repair, backup and recovery tool.
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Emotions and the Right Hemisphere: Can New Data Clarify Old Models?
Models advanced to explain hemispheric asymmetries in representation of emotions will be discussed following their historical progression. First, the clinical observations that have suggested a general dominance of the right hemisphere for all kinds of emotions will be reviewed. Then the experimental investigations that have led to proposal of a different hemispheric specialization for positive versus negative emotions (valence hypothesis) or, alternatively, for approach versus avoidance tendencies (motivational hypothesis) will be surveyed. The discussion of these general models will be followed by a review of recent studies which have documented laterality effects within specific brain structures, known to play a critical role in different components of emotions, namely the amygdata in the computation of emotionally laden stimuli, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in the integration between cognition and emotion and in the control of impulsive reactions and the anterior insula in the conscious experience of emotion. Results of these recent investigations support and provide an updated integrated version of early models assuming a general right hemisphere dominance for all kinds of emotions. |
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Since we've been experiencing a summer-y weather in the Philippines lately, I decided to go on a fresh ensemble for a weekend filled with errands and shopping. I knew that wearing green was the right choice!
And I quote Coco Chanel, “A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.” Truly inspiring! :)
Wore again the skirt that I used in this post. It's not bad to repeat clothes especially when you style them in a different way!
Forgive me if I was holding my hair in two consecutive photos. First, it was too windy, and second, I can't think of any other poses! Lol
The Ramp owl necklace | random bib necklace
Virtual hugs and kisses to Cita and Kat of Style Hub for sending me over amazing clothes last February! Thank you girls!! :)I'm absolutely in love with their pieces! You guys should check out their shop now!
Hope you felt refreshed with my double mint inspired outfit! :p I'll leave you with this outfit for now because I need to face all the stressful papers and videos for school. Will blog about my retail therapy at the Super Sale Bazaar as soon as possible! Have a fun-filled weekend, loveys! xx |
Q:
MdiContainer form not opening
I have two forms named mdfi and form1. I want to make mdfi form a MdiContainer by code from form1. I tried the following but the programs close when I run:
private void Form1_Deactivate(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.TopMost = false;
Mdfi newMDIChild = new Mdfi();
newMDIChild.IsMdiContainer = true;
this.MdiParent = newMDIChild;
newMDIChild.Show();
}
A:
Changing the main window of your app into a child window has many side effects. Winforms is forced to destroy the window because of the MdiParent assignment. That's enough to get your Application.Run() call in the Main() method to complete and that's the end of your app. You'll have to change that:
[STAThread]
static void Main() {
Application.EnableVisualStyles();
Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
var main = new Form1();
main.Show();
Application.Run();
}
And you have to make sure that you now terminate when the MDI parent is closed:
private void Form1_Deactivate(object sender, EventArgs e) {
this.TopMost = false;
var newMdiParent = new mdfi();
newMdiParent.IsMdiContainer = true;
this.MdiParent = newMdiParent;
newMdiParent.FormClosed += (s, ea) => Application.Exit();
newMdiParent.Show();
this.Deactivate -= Form1_Deactivate;
}
private void Form1_FormClosed(object sender, FormClosedEventArgs e) {
if (this.MdiParent == null) Application.Exit();
}
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<% autogen_exception -%>
package google
<% unless version == 'ga' -%>
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/v2/helper/schema"
)
func dataSourceGoogleFirebaseWebappConfig() *schema.Resource {
return &schema.Resource{
Read: dataSourceGoogleFirebaseWebappConfigRead,
Schema: map[string]*schema.Schema{
"web_app_id": {
Type: schema.TypeString,
Required: true,
Description: `The id of the Firebase web App.`,
},
"project": {
Type: schema.TypeString,
Optional: true,
Description: `The project id of the Firebase web App.`,
},
"api_key": {
Type: schema.TypeString,
Computed: true,
Description: `The API key associated with the web App.`,
},
"auth_domain": {
Type: schema.TypeString,
Computed: true,
Description: `The domain Firebase Auth configures for OAuth redirects, in the format:
projectId.firebaseapp.com`,
},
"database_url": {
Type: schema.TypeString,
Computed: true,
Description: `The default Firebase Realtime Database URL.`,
},
"location_id": {
Type: schema.TypeString,
Computed: true,
Description: `The ID of the project's default GCP resource location. The location is one of the available GCP resource
locations.
This field is omitted if the default GCP resource location has not been finalized yet. To set your project's
default GCP resource location, call defaultLocation.finalize after you add Firebase services to your project.`,
},
"measurement_id": {
Type: schema.TypeString,
Computed: true,
Description: `The unique Google-assigned identifier of the Google Analytics web stream associated with the Firebase Web App.
Firebase SDKs use this ID to interact with Google Analytics APIs.
This field is only present if the App is linked to a web stream in a Google Analytics App + Web property.
Learn more about this ID and Google Analytics web streams in the Analytics documentation.
To generate a measurementId and link the Web App with a Google Analytics web stream,
call projects.addGoogleAnalytics.`,
},
"messaging_sender_id": {
Type: schema.TypeString,
Computed: true,
Description: `The sender ID for use with Firebase Cloud Messaging.`,
},
"storage_bucket": {
Type: schema.TypeString,
Computed: true,
Description: `The default Cloud Storage for Firebase storage bucket name.`,
},
},
}
}
func dataSourceGoogleFirebaseWebappConfigRead(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) error {
var m providerMeta
err := d.GetProviderMeta(&m)
if err != nil {
return err
}
config := meta.(*Config)
config.userAgent = fmt.Sprintf("%s %s", config.userAgent, m.ModuleName)
id := d.Get("web_app_id").(string)
project, err := getProject(d, config)
if err != nil {
return err
}
url, err := replaceVars(d, config, "{{FirebaseBasePath}}projects/{{project}}/webApps/{{web_app_id}}/config")
if err != nil {
return err
}
res, err := sendRequest(config, "GET", project, url, nil)
if err != nil {
return handleNotFoundError(err, d, fmt.Sprintf("FirebaseWebApp config %q", d.Id()))
}
err = d.Set("api_key", res["apiKey"])
if err != nil {
return err
}
err = d.Set("auth_domain", res["authDomain"])
if err != nil {
return err
}
err = d.Set("database_url", res["databaseURL"])
if err != nil {
return err
}
err = d.Set("location_id", res["locationId"])
if err != nil {
return err
}
err = d.Set("measurement_id", res["measurementId"])
if err != nil {
return err
}
err = d.Set("messaging_sender_id", res["messagingSenderId"])
if err != nil {
return err
}
err = d.Set("storage_bucket", res["storageBucket"])
if err != nil {
return err
}
d.SetId(id)
return nil
}
<% end -%>
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The overall goal of this project is to analyze the nature of short-term memory deficits in aphasic patients and their relation to bask cognitive functions and to language comprehension and production. Short-term memory tasks will be administered to identify deficits in retaining input phonological representations, output phonological representations, and semantic representations. The patterns of short-term memory deficits will be related to patients' performance on simple cognitive tasks designed to tap components of executive functioning - specifically inhibition, set shifting, and updating. The pattern of short-term memory deficits will also be related to patients' ability to understand sentences in which integration of word meanings is immediate or requires the reactivation of material from earlier in the sentence. It is predicted that patients with semantic short-term memory deficits, but not those with phonological retention deficits, will have difficulty with the sentences involving delayed integration. We will also assess patients' ability to process grammatical structure for sentences that should place heavy demands on a capacity from maintaining syntactic information. These experiments will test whether syntactic retention capacity is separate from the capacities involved in retaining semantic and phonological information. The studies on speech production will obtain further evidence on whether patients with a semantic retention deficit, but not those with a phonological retention deficit, have difficulty producing phrases containing several lexical-semantic representation preceding the head of the phrase. We will carry out studies designed to test between a phrasal scope of speech production planning versus word-by-word planning. We will also develop tests for assessing speech-production planning at the phonological level and determine whether patients with output phonological retention deficits on memory span tasks are impaired on phonological planning aspects of sentence production. Anatomical MRI data will be obtained for all the patients and lesion localization will be related to the pattern of short-term memory deficits and performance on the basic cognitive tasks. These studies will have important implications concerning whether short-term deficits are the source of the patients' other language deficits and will provide valuable information on the neural circuitry underlying the components of verbal short-term memory. |
What is an animal emotion?
Emotions suffuse much of the language employed by students of animal behavior--from "social bonding" to "alarm calls"--yet are carefully avoided as an explicit topic in scientific discourse. Given the increasing interest in human emotional intelligence and the explicit attention in neuroscience to the emotions, both human and nonhuman, the taboo that has reigned for so long in animal behavior research seems outdated. The present review seeks to recall the history of our field in which emotions and instincts were mentioned in the same breath and in which neither psychologists nor biologists felt that animal emotions were off limits. One of the tenets supporting a renewed interest in this topic is to avoid unanswerable questions and to view emotions as mental and bodily states that potentiate behavior appropriate to environmental challenges. Understanding the emotionally deep structure of behavior will be the next frontier in the study of animal behavior. |
Glial extracellular matrix modulates gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase activity in cultured bovine brain capillary and bovine aortic endothelial cells.
Glial extracellular matrix (ECM) elevated gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (gamma-GTP) activity in cultured bovine brain capillary and aortic endothelial cells (BBCEC, BAEC). In particular, the ECM of glial cells cultured with the conditioned medium of BAEC (BAEC CM) dramatically elevated gamma-GTP activity in BBCEC and BAEC. The ECM of glial cells cultured with BBCEC CM also had a marked effect. The ECM of 3T3 cells cultured with BAEC CM, and the ECM of glial cells cultured with 3T3 CM had no effect. Glial CM had no effect on gamma-GTP activity in BBCEC and BAEC. These findings indicate that gamma-GTP activity in endothelial cells (EC) is modulated by glial ECM, and that the factor of ECM that affects gamma-GTP activity in EC arises from the interaction between glial cells and EC. |
export { default } from './RotateToggle';
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Robotic life forms having lifelike characteristics have been introduced and enjoyed around the world. For example, a baby dinosaur sold under the trademark PLEO is a robotic pet that has experienced significant commercial success and is an interesting and enjoyable companion. However, a truly lovable and interesting pet companion capable of replicating the response of a live creature in the numerous aspects of life-like responses to its environment and its master or mistress may have limited capabilities. If, for example, the robot is limited in its ability to respond to a voice command, a touch sensor or an external condition and produce the desired, life-like response, it is less desirable as a life form or pet. A response should reflect the degree of stimulus, such as petting in contrast to a hit, and respond with a corresponding animation. However, if the database of pre-animated legal motions is limited, the action and character of the robotic device is likewise limited. |
Recent advancements in anti-migraine drug research: focus on attempts to decrease neuronal hyperexcitability.
Migraine is a painful, sometimes debilitating disorder, which is frequently associated with various neurological symptoms. Its prevalence in the population is higher than that of any other neurological disorders, thus the burden of this disease on society is considerable. Although the introduction of triptans nearly two decades ago revolutionized the treatment of the disease there is still a huge unmet need regarding drugs with better properties. Formerly, migraine therapy primarily aimed at treating the pathological alterations of meningeal blood vessels that are thought to directly initiate a migraine headache attack. By now, it has been increasingly recognized by drug companies that abnormal neural function may be more important in the development of the disease and also in triggering an attack. Migraine is associated with an increased neuronal excitability and episodes of cortical spreading depression. Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying the abnormal functioning of over-activated neuronal circuits may help to identify novel anti-migraine drug targets. Besides a general description of the pathophysiology and pharmacotherapy of migraine this review paper aims at discussing the possible drug targets through which migraine-related hyperexcitability and over-excitation can be attenuated. It will be shown how these new ideas appear in the recent patent literature. |
A Dhammatalk by Ajahn Chah
Understanding Dukkha1
It sticks on the skin and goes into the flesh; from the flesh it gets into the bones. It's like an insect on a tree that eats through the bark, into the wood and then into the core, until finally the tree dies.
We've grown up like that. It gets buried deep inside. Our parents taught us grasping and attachment, giving meaning to things, believing firmly that we exist as a self-entity and that things belong to us. From our birth that's what we are taught. We hear this over and over again, and it penetrates our hearts and stays there as our habitual feeling. We're taught to get things, to accumulate and hold on to them, to see them as important and as ours. This is what our parents know, and this is what they teach us. So it gets into our minds, into our bones.
When we take an interest in meditation and hear the teaching of a spiritual guide it's not easy to understand. It doesn't really grab us. We're taught not to see and to do things the old way, but when we hear the teaching, it doesn't penetrate the mind; we only hear it with our ears. People just don't know themselves.
So we sit and listen to teachings, but it's just sound entering the ears. It doesn't get inside and affect us. It's like we're boxing and we keep hitting the other guy but he doesn't go down. We remain stuck in our self-conceit. The wise have said that moving a mountain from one place to another is easier than moving the self-conceit of people.
We can use explosives to level a mountain and then move the earth. But the tight grasping of our self-conceit - oh man! The wise can teach us to our dying day, but they can't get rid of it. It remains hard and fast. Our wrong ideas and bad tendencies remain so solid and unbudging, and we're not even aware of it. So the wise have said that removing this self-conceit and turning wrong understanding into right understanding is about the hardest thing to do.
For us puthujjana (worldly beings) to progress on to being kalyānajana (virtuous beings) is so hard. Puthujjana means people who are thickly obscured, who are dark, who are stuck deep in this darkness and obscuration. The kalyānajana has made things lighter. We teach people to lighten, but they don't want to do that because they don't understand their situation, their condition of obscuration. So they keep on wandering in their confused state.
If we come across a pile of buffalo dung we won't think it's ours and we won't want to pick it up. We will just leave it where it is because we know what it is.
It's like that. That's what's good in the way of the impure. Evil is the food of bad people. If you teach them about doing good they're not interested, but prefer to stay as they are because they don't see the harm in it. Without seeing the harm there's no way things can be rectified. If you recognize it, then you think, ''Oh! My whole pile of dung doesn't have the value of a small piece of gold!'' And then you will want gold instead; you won't want the dung anymore. If you don't recognize this you remain the owner of a pile of dung. Even if you are offered a diamond or a ruby, you won't be interested.
That's the 'good' of the impure. Gold, jewels and diamonds are considered something good in the realm of humans. The foul and rotten is good for flies and other insects. If you put perfume on it they would all flee. What those with wrong view consider good is like that. That's the 'good' for those with wrong view, for the defiled. It doesn't smell good, but if we tell them it stinks they'll say it's fragrant. They can't reverse this view very easily. So it's not easy to teach them.
If you gather fresh flowers the flies won't be interested in them. Even if you tried to pay them, they wouldn't come. But wherever there's a dead animal, wherever there's something rotten, that's where they'll go. You don't need to call them - they just go. Wrong view is like that. It delights in that kind of thing. The stinking and rotten is what smells good to it. It's bogged down and immersed in that. What's sweet smelling to a bee is not sweet to a fly. The fly doesn't see anything good or valuable in it and has no craving for it.
There is difficulty in practice, but in anything we undertake we have to pass through difficulty to reach ease. In Dhamma practice we begin with the truth of dukkha, the pervasive unsatisfactoriness of existence. But as soon as we experience this we lose heart. We don't want to look at it. Dukkha is really the truth, but we want to get around it somehow. It's similar to the way we don't like to look at old people, but prefer to look at those who are young.
If we don't want to look at dukkha we will never understand dukkha, no matter how many births we go through. Dukkha is a noble truth. If we allow ourselves to face it then we will start to seek a way out of it. If we are trying to go somewhere and the road is blocked we will think about how to make a pathway. Working at it day after day we can get through. When we encounter problems we develop wisdom like this. Without seeing dukkha we don't really look into and resolve our problems; we just pass them by indifferently.
My way of training people involves some suffering, because suffering is the Buddha's path to enlightenment. He wanted us to see suffering and to see origination, cessation and the path. This is the way out for all the ariya, the awakened ones. If you don't go this way there is no way out. The only way is knowing suffering, knowing the cause of suffering, knowing the cessation of suffering and knowing the path of practice leading to the cessation of suffering. This is the way that the ariya, beginning with Stream Entry, were able to escape. It's necessary to know suffering.
If we know suffering, we will see it in everything we experience. Some people feel that they don't really suffer much. Practice in Buddhism is for the purpose of freeing ourselves from suffering. What should we do not to suffer anymore? When dukkha arises we should investigate to see the causes of its arising. Then once we know that, we can practice to remove those causes. Suffering, origination, cessation - in order to bring it to cessation we have to understand the path of practice. Then once we travel the path to fulfillment, dukkha will no longer arise. In Buddhism, this is the way out.
Opposing our habits creates some suffering. Generally we are afraid of suffering. If something will make us suffer, we don't want to do it. We are interested in what appears to be good and beautiful, but we feel that anything involving suffering is bad. It's not like that. Suffering is saccadhamma, truth. If there is suffering in the heart it becomes the cause that makes you think about escaping. It leads you to contemplate. You won't sleep so soundly because you will be intent on investigating to find out what is really going on, trying to see causes and their results.
Happy people don't develop wisdom. They are asleep. It's like a dog that eats its fill. Afterwards it doesn't want to do anything. It can sleep all day. It won't bark if a burglar comes - it's too full, too tired. But if you only give it a little food it will be alert and awake. If someone tries to come sneaking around, it will jump up and start barking. Have you seen that?
We humans are trapped and imprisoned in this world and have troubles in such abundance, and we are always full of doubts, confusion and worry. This is no game. It's really something difficult and troublesome. So there's something we need to get rid of. According to the way of spiritual cultivation we should give up our bodies, give up ourselves. We have to resolve to give our lives. We can see the example of great renunciants, such as the Buddha. He was a noble of the warrior caste, but he was able to leave it all behind and not turn back. He was the heir to riches and power, but he could renounce them.
If we speak the subtle Dhamma, most people will be frightened by it. They won't dare to enter it. Even saying, ''Don't do evil,'' most people can't follow this. That's how it is. So I've sought all kinds of means to get this across. One thing I often say is, no matter if we are delighted or upset, happy or suffering, shedding tears or singing songs, never mind - living in this world we are in a cage. We don't get beyond this condition of being in a cage. Even if you are rich, you are living in a cage. If you are poor, you are living in a cage. If you sing and dance, you're singing and dancing in a cage. If you watch a movie, you're watching it in a cage.
What is this cage? It is the cage of birth, the cage of aging, the cage of illness, the cage of death. In this way, we are imprisoned in the world. ''This is mine.'' ''That belongs to me.'' We don't know what we really are or what we're doing. Actually all we are doing is accumulating suffering for ourselves. It's not something far away that causes our suffering but we don't look at ourselves. However much happiness and comfort we may have, having been born we cannot avoid aging, we must fall ill and we must die. This is dukkha itself, here and now.
We can always be afflicted with pain or illness. It can happen at any time. It's like we've stolen something. They could come to arrest us at any time because we've done the deed. That's our situation. There is danger and trouble. We exist among harmful things; birth, aging and illness reign over our lives. We can't go elsewhere and escape them. They can come catch us at any time - it's always a good opportunity for them. So we have to cede this to them and accept the situation. We have to plead guilty. If we do, the sentence won't be so heavy. If we don't, we suffer enormously. If we plead guilty, they'll go easy on us. We won't be incarcerated too long.
When the body is born it doesn't belong to anyone. It's like our meditation hall. After it's built spiders come to stay in it. Lizards come to stay in it. All sorts of insects and crawling things come to stay in it. Snakes may come to live in it. Anything may come to live in it. It's not only our hall; it's everything's hall.
These bodies are the same. They aren't ours. People come to stay in and depend on them. Illness, pain and aging come to reside in them and we are merely residing along with them. When these bodies reach the end of pain and illness, and finally break up and die, that is not us dying. So don't hold on to any of this. Instead, you have to contemplate the matter and then your grasping will gradually be exhausted. When you see correctly, wrong understanding will stop.
Birth has created this burden for us. But generally, we people can't accept this. We think that not being born would be the greatest evil. Dying and not being born would be the worst thing of all. That's how we view things. We usually only think about how much we want in the future. And then we desire further: ''In the next life, may I be born among the gods, or may I be born as a wealthy person.''
We're asking for an even heavier burden! But we think that that will bring happiness. To really penetrate the Dhamma purely is thus very difficult. We need to rely on serious investigation.
Such thinking is an entirely different way from what the Buddha teaches. That way is heavy. The Buddha said to let go of it and cast it away. But we think, ''I can't let go.'' So we keep carrying it and it keeps getting heavier. Because we were born we have this heaviness.
Going a little further, do you know if craving has its limits? At what point will it be satisfied? Is there such a thing? If you consider it you will see that tanhā, blind craving, can't be satisfied. It keeps on desiring more and more; even if this brings such suffering that we are nearly dead, tanha will keep on wanting things because it can't be satisfied.
This is something important. If we people could think in a balanced and moderate way - well, let's talk about clothes. How many sets do we need? And food - how much do we eat? At the most, for one meal we might eat two plates and that's enough for us. If we know moderation then we will be happy and comfortable, but this is not very common.
The Buddha taught 'The Instructions for the Rich.' What this teaching points to is being content with what we have. That is a rich person. I think this kind of knowledge is really worth studying. The knowledge taught in the Buddha's way is something worth learning, worth reflecting on.
Then, the pure Dhamma of practice goes beyond that. It's a lot deeper. Some of you may not be able to understand it. Just take the Buddha's words that there is no more birth for him, that birth and becoming are finished. Hearing this makes you uncomfortable. To state it directly, the Buddha said that we should not be born, because that is suffering. Just this one thing, birth, the Buddha focused on, contemplating it and realizing its gravity. Being born, all dukkha comes along with that. It happens simultaneously with birth. When we come into this world we get eyes, a mouth, a nose. It all comes along only because of birth. But if we hear about dying and not being born again, we feel it would be utter ruination. We don't want to go there. But the deepest teaching of the Buddha is like this.
Why are we suffering now? Because we were born. So we are taught to put an end to birth. This is not just talking about the body being born and the body dying. That much is easy to see. A child can understand it. The breath comes to an end, the body dies and then it just lies there. This is what we usually mean when we talk about death. But a breathing dead person? That's something we don't know about. A dead person who can walk and talk and smile is something we haven't thought about. We only know about the corpse that's no longer breathing. That's what we call death.
It's the same with birth. When we say someone has been born, we mean that a woman went to the hospital and gave birth. But the moment of the mind taking birth - have you noticed that, such as when you get upset over something at home? Sometimes love is born. Sometimes aversion is born. Being pleased, being displeased - all sorts of states. This is all nothing but birth.
We suffer just because of this. When the eyes see something displeasing, dukkha is born. When the ears hear something that you really like, dukkha is also born. There is only suffering.
The Buddha summed it up by saying that there is only a mass of suffering. Suffering is born and suffering ceases. That's all there is. We pounce on and grab at it again and again - pouncing on arising, pouncing on cessation, never really understanding it.
When dukkha arises we call that suffering. When it ceases we call that happiness. It's all old stuff, arising and ceasing. We are taught to watch body and mind arising and ceasing. There's nothing else outside of this. To sum it up, there is no happiness; there's only dukkha. We recognize suffering as suffering when it arises. Then when it ceases, we consider that to be happiness. We see it and designate it as such, but it isn't. It's just dukkha ceasing. Dukkha arises and ceases, arises and ceases, and we pounce on it and catch hold of it. Happiness appears and we are pleased. Unhappiness appears and we are distraught. It's really all the same, mere arising and ceasing. When there is arising there's something, and when there is ceasing, it's gone. This is where we doubt. Thus it's taught that dukkha arises and ceases, and outside of that, there is nothing. When you come down to it, there is only suffering. But we don't see clearly.
We don't recognize clearly that there is only suffering, because when it stops we see happiness there. We seize on it and get stuck there. We don't really see the truth that everything is just arising and ceasing.
The Buddha summed things up by saying that there is only arising and ceasing, and nothing outside of that. This is difficult to listen to. But one who truly has a feel for the Dhamma doesn't need to take hold of anything and dwells in ease. That's the truth.
The truth is that in this world of ours there is nothing that does anything to anybody. There is nothing to be anxious about. There's nothing worth crying over, nothing to laugh at. Nothing is inherently tragic or delightful. But such experiencing is what's ordinary for people.
Our speech can be ordinary; we relate to others according to the ordinary way of seeing things. That's okay. But if we are thinking in the ordinary way, that leads to tears.
In truth, if we really know the Dhamma and see it continuously, nothing is anything at all; there is only arising and passing away. There's no real happiness or suffering. The heart is at peace then, when there is no happiness or suffering. When there is happiness and suffering, there is becoming and birth.
We usually create one kind of kamma, which is the attempt to stop suffering and produce happiness. That's what we want. But what we want is not real peace; it's happiness and suffering. The aim of the Buddha's teaching is to practice to create a type of kamma that leads beyond happiness and suffering and that will bring peace. But we aren't able to think like that. We can only think that having happiness will bring us peace. If we have happiness, we think that's good enough.
Thus we humans wish for things in abundance. If we get a lot, that's good. Generally that's how we think. Doing good is supposed to bring good results, and if we get that we're happy. We think that's all we need to do and we stop there. But where does good come to conclusion? It doesn't remain. We keep going back and forth, experiencing good and bad, trying day and night to seize on to what we feel is good.
The Buddha's teaching is that first we should give up evil and then we practice what is good. Second, he said that we should give up evil and give up the good as well, not having attachment to it because that is also one kind of fuel. When there is something that is fuel it will eventually burst into flame. Good is fuel. Bad is fuel.
Speaking on this level kills people. People aren't able to follow it. So we have to turn back to the beginning and teach morality. Don't harm each other. Be responsible in your work and don't harm or exploit others. The Buddha taught this, but just this much isn't enough to stop.
Why do we find ourselves here, in this condition? It's because of birth. As the Buddha said in his first teaching, the Discourse on Turning the Wheel of Dhamma: ''Birth is ended. This is my final existence. There is no further birth for the Tathāgata.''
Not many people really come back to this point and contemplate to understand according to the principles of the Buddha's way. But if we have faith in the Buddha's way, it will repay us. If people genuinely rely on the Three Jewels then practice is easy.
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[Can we see pain?].
Pain is a highly subjective experience that is difficult to measure objectively due to its varied expression. It is defined as a complex sensory-emotional experience, it is modulated by cognitive factors and involves a broad neural system. Functional neuroimaging has helped to define that neural circuit involved in the perception, modulation and response to painful experience, both in healthy controls and in patients with acute and chronic pain disorders. However, functional activation of the so-called "pain matrix" may also be differentially modulated by sensory and emotional processing components. The latter, for example, can influence the intensity to which a stimulus is perceived as painful. Such a threshold seems to be lower in patients with clinical diagnosis of fibromyalgia (FM) and has been linked to an abnormal pattern of activation of the "pain matrix" when assessed with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), considering a "syndrome of central susceptibility". Supporting an aetiological explanation for FM, studies have noted that a significant proportion of patients with FM demonstrate this abnormal pattern of activation to stimuli of low intensity. Additionally, there is an important and significant temporal dimension to this activation pattern observed in FM patients, where areas commonly associated with the emotional experience of pain show a prolonged response to painful stimuli compared to healthy subjects. Accordingly, fMRI may assist in objectifying the experience of pain in patients with FM in response to nociceptive stimulation. |
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It is standard practice to check the license and certification of any online marijuana dispensary before engaging in any purchases. You need to be sure they have been authorized to distribute marijuana in your region. They may have permission where they are, but none where you are. This is why you need to be careful which online dispensary you turn to. You also need to check what payment methods they allow. It should be as convenient as any other online platform. It must be secure and seamless in that regard.
The steps it takes to determine whether you are trading with a legal and secure online marijuana dispensary should not take too many resources to give you answers. Whenever you see something off or get a bad feeling you need to look elsewhere. You therefore should see all the discussed qualities displayed moments after logging on to their site. It also helps if you can read some of their online reviews. That shall reveal even more info about what to expect from the dispensary.
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Stoudemire went to Israel for the Maccabiah Games as the assistant coach of the Canadian basketball squad. The games ended earlier this week.
Stoudemire’s Jewish connections have been the source of much media fascination in recent months. At his wedding last year to Alexis Welch, Stoudemire donned a yarmulke and prayer shawl for the “Hebraic” ceremony. In July, he announced he had become a part owner in the Israeli basketball club Hapoel Jerusalem. And in an exclusive interview in Jerusalem last month with JTA, Stoudemire said he is in regular dialogue with New York rabbis, studies Torah and observes the High Holidays.
“I’m not a religious person, I’m more of a spiritual person, so I follow the rules of the Bible that coordinate with and connect with the Hebrew culture,” Stoudemire told JTA. |
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Karyotype instability in the ponerine ant genus Diacamma.
The queenless ponerine ant Diacamma ceylonense and a population of Diacamma from the Nilgiri hills which we refer to as 'nilgiri', exhibit interesting similarities as well as dissimilarities. Molecular phylogenetic study of these morphologically almost similar taxa has shown that D. ceylonense is closely related to 'nilgiri' and indicates that 'nilgiri' is a recent diversion in the Diacamma phylogenetic tree. However, there is a striking behavioural difference in the way reproductive monopoly is maintained by the respective gamergates (mated egg laying workers), and there is evidence that they are genetically differentiated, suggesting a lack of gene flow. To develop a better understanding of the mechanism involved in speciation of Diacamma, we have analysed karyotypes of D. ceylonense and 'nilgiri'. In both, we found surprising inter-individual and intra-individual karyotypic mosaicism. The observed numerical variability, both at intra-individual and inter-individual levels, does not appear to have hampered the sustainability of the chromosomal diversity in each population under study. Since the related D. indicum displays no such intra-individual or inter-individual variability whatsoever under identical experimental conditions, these results are unlikely to be artifacts. Although no known mechanisms can account for the observed karyotypic variability of this nature, we believe that the present findings on the ants under study would provide opportunities for exciting new discoveries concerning the origin, maintenance and significance of intra-individual and inter-individual karyotypic mosaicism. |
What saddens me about the murders in Aurora, Colorado, beyond the immeasurable pain it’s caused to the families and friends of the victims, is how readily people continue to embrace—or even intensify—their faith in light of a demonstration of either God’s impotence, his apathy, or his nonexistence. Prayers are being offered, people are turning for consolation to their faith, and so on, not realizing that a loving God would never have allowed this to happen, even if he wanted “free will” for the shooter (which of course that shooter didn’t have). Now I won’t deny that some people find consolation in their faith in this tragedy, or try to deny them that consolation, but it’s sad that the tragedy doesn’t even make them question their faith.
But what’s worse is the unspeakable stupidity of American preachers who have to somehow work God into this tragedy. Now we’re not sure whether mega-Pastor Rick Warren really blamed the tragedy on evolution (some readers have their doubts, and I’m beginning to wonder if I was not too quick to exculpate him), but the usual group of moronic men of the cloth is standing up with some idiotic statements. According to PuffHo:
In an article published on OneNewsNow, evangelical Jerry Newcombe wrote: “I can’t help but feel that to some extent, we’re reaping what we’ve been sowing as a society. We said to God, “Get out of the public arena.” Lawsuit after lawsuit, often by misguided “civil libertarians,” have chased away any fear of God in the land — at least in the hearts of millions.”
Why, then, do the more Godless countries of Europe have so many fewer mass shootings?
Newcombe couldn’t stop himself:
Perhaps more disturbing were Newcombe’s comments on a segment on the American Family Association dedicated to understanding the shooting tragedy in Colorado. In taking about the deaths, Newcombe separated the afterlife fate of those who died as Christians and those who did not: “If a Christian dies early, if a Christian dies young, it seems tragic, but really it is not tragic because they are going to a wonderful place.. on the other hand, if a person doesn’t know Jesus Christ.. if they knowingly rejected Jesus Christ, then, basically, they are going to a terrible place.”Newcombe then turned the tragedy into an opportunity for people to become Christian and avoid the fate of hell: “For those who are not ‘in Christ’ and see this incredible tragedy, this would be a good time for soul reflection and consider why have you not accepted Jesus Christ.. I would urge anyone who is not in Christ to repent of your sins.”
Finally, many of you have probably heard U.S. Congressman Louie Gohmert’s unspeakably stupid remarks:
On the day of the shootingRep. Gohmert of Texasalso insisted that the shootings are the result of “ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian Beliefs”: “People say … where was God in all of this? We’ve threatened high school graduation participations, if they use God’s name, they’re going to be jailed … I mean that kind of stuff. Where was God? What have we done with God? We don’t want him around. I kind of like his protective hand being present.”
Yep, we’re back to a petulant Yahweh who decides to smite everyone because they don’t give Him proper obeisance.
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UPDATE (h/t to reader James below): On his Fox News show, Arkansas governor and now right-wingnut Mike Huckabee, on his Fox News show, also blamed atheism for the tragedy:
“Ultimately,” Huckabee concluded, “We don’t have a crime problem or a gun problem – or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we ordered God out of our schools and communities, the military and public conversations, you know, we really shouldn’t act so surprised when all hell breaks loose.”
Stay tuned: all hell breaks loose in Sweden and Denmark, those most godless of nations. |
Q:
how to require my library in chef ruby_block
I'm developing a cookbook to deploy a simple ROR application. I write an app_helper.rb and put it into the libraries directory of my cookbook, here is the content:
module AppHelper
def self.find_gem
if File.exists?("/usr/local/rvm/bin/rvm")
return `/usr/local/rvm/bin/rvm default exec which gem`.chomp
else
return "/usr/bin/gem"
end
end
end
In the recipes/default.rb, I mix in the above module into Chef::Recipe class
class Chef::Recipe
include AppHelper
end
As you know, the find_gem function can be called from anywhere of the recipe.
when I'm trying to use the find_gem function in my ruby_block like this:
ruby_block "find gem" do
block do
gem_bin = Chef::Recipe::find_gem
# or gem_bin = find_gem
end
end
I got a NoMethodError: undefined method 'find_gem'.
Also try to mix in the module into Chef::Resource::RubyBlock, it doesn't work neither.
class Chef::Resource::RubyBlock
include AppHelper
end
ruby_block "find gem" do
block do
gem_bin = Chef::Resource::RubyBlock::find_gem
# or gem_bin = find_gem
end
end
Is there any way to call the function in the module from the ruby_block? Or Is there an variable of chef to location the files in the libraries, so that I can be able to require the module in the ruby_block.
Thanks!
A:
Depending on load order, you might be including your module into an anonymous Ruby class instead of what you think.
If you want to use your method in a recipe, do this at the top of your recipe:
include AppHelper
You could alternatively use :send at the end of your library:
Chef::Recipe.send(:include, AppHelper)
This is different because it will raise an exception if Chef::Recipe is not defined (whereas you are creating a new class if it doesn't exist).
That's all you should need to do unless you want to use the helper in not_if and only_if guards. Then you need to include the helper in the resource:
Chef::Resource.send(:include, AppHelper)
Okay, now that I explained all of that, it won't actually help you. The Ruby Block provider simply calls the block - it doesn't instance eval it. So including the helper in the resource doesn't do anything.
So, you'll need to use a singleton object in this instance (it's the only solution I can reliably think of). The way you've defined your method, you can call it directly from the global namespace:
AppHelper.find_gem('...')
So:
ruby_block "find gem" do
block do
gem_bin = AppHelper.find_gem('...')
end
end
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A Paclitaxel-Based Mucoadhesive Nanogel with Multivalent Interactions for Cervical Cancer Therapy.
Cervical cancer treatment is subject to limited drug access to locally diseased targets and generally resistant to chemotherapy, thus it is essential to develop a local drug delivery system to overcome these problems, premised on guaranteeing drug efficacy. With this goal in mind, a multivalent interactions-based mucoadhesive nanogel for vaginal delivery is proposed. Briefly, the nanogel is constructed with mucoadhesive poly(acrylic acid) as the backbone and multiple inclusions between β-cyclodextrin and paclitaxel as the crosslinking points. The in vitro experiments demonstrate that nanogel exerts high cytotoxicity to cancer cells, reverses multidrug resistance effectively, and successfully promotes the permeation of drugs. More to the point, as proved in the in vivo experiments, the retention time in the vagina is prolonged and the tumor growth is effectively suppressed by the nanogel without any side effects in the orthotopic cervical cancer model. As mentioned above, this novel mucoadhesive nanogel is believed to be a useful tool toward designing drug delivery systems for cervical cancer treatment. |
Q:
Creating and saving a text file from a c# ASP.NET app
I want to be able to create a text file and let the user save this to their own PC. Currently i have to do this:
StreamWriter sw;
sw = File.CreateText("C:\\results.txt");
Which obv saves on the web server but how can I replace that string with a link to their own computer? I looked at SaveFileDialog but it seems to only work for Windows Forms and not ASP sites, any advice?
Thanks in advance
A:
You need to tell the Users Browser to Download the file. You can use the following code:
Response.ClearContent();
Response.ClearHeaders();
Response.ContentType="text/plain";
Response.AppendHeader( "content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" + filename );
Response.AppendHeader( "content-length", fileContents.Length );
Response.BinaryWrite( fileContents );
Response.Flush();
Response.End();
Where fileContents is a byte[] of the files contents. and filename is the name of the file to suggest to the user.
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At first, Root Letter (stylized as “√Letter”) appears to try to hook players with the thought of solving a crime. A murder mystery is afoot, and it’s up to me, the player, to solve it. But actually playing the game makes me feel less like Sherlock Holmes cracking open a tough whodunit, and more like an eccentric, slightly obnoxious Lonely Planet writer backpacking his way across a lesser-known section of Japan.
I can’t say definitively whether the rather laid-back mood of this visual novel was all due to Kadokawa Games’ intentions, but oddly enough, it still works out.
Indeed, what could have been a tense thriller is rendered in a haze of breezy nostalgia by Root Letter’s able presentation. Leveraging involvement of key members from Konami’s Love Plus team (i.e. the team that’s come closer than anyone else in gaming to creating an actual, true-to-the-words “dating sim”), everything in Root Letter is rendered in bright, shiny colors and intricate detail. What might otherwise be a grimly intriguing hook feels more like a pleasant lark.
If anything, this slightly absurd atmosphere helps the narrative along, which begins as your character, a thirty-something salaryman with a default name of “Takayuki,” prepares to move house in anticipation of a promotion. You come across a series of letters from one Aya Fumino, an old pen-pal flame from fifteen years ago. The letters lead to a bout of romantic reminiscence, until the discovery of a final, curiously unread missive, containing a shocking confession: Aya cuts off your correspondence, claiming to have killed someone.
It’s heavy stuff, and enough for the young guy to put his whole life on hold and jet off to Aya’s hometown of Matsue, a lakeside city in Japan’s western Shimane prefecture. All this to find someone he’s never met personally and ask her about a murder she may or may not have committed back when Y2K was still a thing. His only clues are the letters she wrote, and the friends she described within them, who all, luckily enough, still live in town and are open to being interrogated regarding her whereabouts by a complete stranger.
Indeed, Takayuki's main task for much of the game is tracking down each of these old friends and grilling them on just who Aya Fumino is, and later, why she and her actions were such a big deal back in high school. The game is divided into chapters, and most of the meaningful choice in the narrative takes place between chapters, as Aya's letters are recounted and players try to decide how they (or rather, Takayuki), responded to her postscript questions. Their choices can affect events in subsequent chapters, and ultimately, influence which of a handful of endings players will see.
It's a novel hook, and frankly, one that deserves better than it gets in Root Letter, whose narrative suffers for its unevenness and a localization that borders on wretched. The story shifts in tone wildly, its otherwise grounded cold case-style mystery contrasting against characterization that at times approaches the cartoonish exaggeration of the Ace Attorney series. That kind of cartoonishness isn't the problem, though. It's the inconsistency. Whereas Ace Attorney is reliably bonkers from end to end, Root Letter tries to mix in the anime wackos with characters that are more realistic in carriage and personality. It's a tough balance to strike, and unfortunately, the writing isn't up to the task, ending up making the "colorful" characters seem insane and the realistic ones seem boring.
It's hard to tell just which tone the game was going for, especially given the huge amount of local flavor infused in it. Matsue is, as it turns out, a real city in Japan, and much of the background artwork in Root Letter is referenced from actual locations, including existing establishments like well-known bars and restaurants. While this style of "product placement" might come off as crass in other games, the aura of verisimilitude adds to Root Letter's charm. One could even imagine using the game to inform an itinerary for visiting the city one day. Then again, all this grounding in reality makes the bizarre characterizations stand out even more.
The localization also tends to make things worse (and occasionally "better"). The translation is straightforward and largely correct, but numerous typos, awkward and circular phrasing, and other issues make it look like the script was barely given any editing before being implemented in the game. Sometimes this can make for some unintentional hilarity, but it reflects poorly on the game itself.
Less-discerning players with a tolerance for bad localizations, or maybe Matsue residents, will find a pleasant diversion in Root Letter, but for everyone else, it's difficult to recommend, especially at its current price tag.
[This review is based on a retail build of the game provided by the publisher.]
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Research shows that suicide-related behaviors are caused by a myriad of factors, and are often not related to a single cause or incident. We also know that bullying/cyberbullying is one of the contributing factors in students turning to suicide as a “solution” to their problems.
Just like in the real world, it’s important to recognize that as wonderful as the internet can be when it comes to sharing information, learning, and even connecting with the people we care about - it also has a darker side. Unfortunately, it’s all too easy for children to stray into the seedier parts of the online world without even realizing what they’re doing.
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The present invention relates to a pallet stacking device which maximizes vertical stacking capability of loaded pallets.
Bottle carrying crates are often stacked in vertical sets on top of pallets. For example, two liter bottle crates may be stacked in sets of three to seven. A pallet loaded with such a stack of bottle crates may be properly handled by a forklift for shipment or storage. Generally, stacking more than four or five crates vertically on a pallet can create stability or handling problems.
Because height in a warehouse is significantly less expensive than floor space, it is desirable to stack fully loaded pallets vertically as high as possible. However, various problems arise in stacking loaded wood pallets on top of other fully loaded pallets. The wood pallet must rest upon the bottle caps of the top crate of the loaded pallet upon which it is to be stacked. Generally, wood pallets only have three spaced apart horizontal slats, therefore weight of the loaded pallet is not properly distributed because only the three slats resting upon a portion of the bottle caps below will support the load. This configuration may be unstable. Also, this configuration may lead to a xe2x80x9cfloweringxe2x80x9d affect wherein the outer row of bottles or cans may tend to lean outwardly.
One prior art attempt to increase the stacking capacity of fully loaded pallets is to place a plywood sheet on top of the highest crate so that the plywood rests on top of the bottle caps or can tops. In this manner, the weight of the pallet or pallets stacked on top of the plywood sheet may be more evenly distributed to all bottle caps. However, the use of plywood sheets is problematic because when the plywood gets wet it tends to warp, and the plywood may also splinter which can create handling problems, particularly when the plywood does not have handles. Additionally, the plywood will have a significantly limited life span, particularly when the plywood gets wet.
Accordingly, it is desirable to provide an apparatus for maximizing the stacking capacity of pallets loaded with bottle crates or can crates so that the number of loaded pallets which may be vertically stacked is optimized.
The present invention overcomes the above-referenced shortcomings of the use of plywood in maximizing stacking capacity of pallets loaded with bottle crates or can crates by providing a plastic stacking member having on one side a contoured surface having grooves and ridges formed therein sufficiently to engage and support a variety of arrays of bottle caps or can tops, with fully loaded bottle crates or can crates. This invention promotes load stability through uniform axial loading of each bottle or can. The stacking member is also provided with handles on each peripheral edge, and with through-holes for cleaning, convenience and for drainage of spilled cartons.
More specifically, the present invention provides a method of vertically stacking crates loaded with liquid containers having container tops. The method includes the steps of: a) loading liquid containers into portable crates with the container tops exposed; b) arranging the loaded crates onto a first pallet in a vertically stacked configuration of crate layers; c) positioning a plastic coupling member on an uppermost crate layer in contact with the exposed container tops, the plastic coupling member having a contoured surface configured with an array of indentations formed therein and properly spaced to mate with each exposed container top of the uppermost crate layer, the array of indentations being sufficiently deep to prevent relative lateral displacement of the coupling member with respect to the exposed container tops of the uppermost layer; and d) stacking a fully loaded second pallet on the plastic coupling member, the second pallet being fully loaded with multiple crate layers including multiple crates loaded with liquid containers.
Another aspect of the invention provides an interface between stacked arrays of containers having container tops. The interface includes a pallet loaded with a stacked array of containers and a layer of exposed container tops. A plastic coupling member is positioned between the layer of exposed container tops and the pallet. The plastic coupling member includes a contoured surface configured with an array of indentations formed therein and properly spaced to mate with each of the layer of exposed container tops. The array of indentations are sufficiently deep to prevent relative lateral displacement of the coupling member with respect to the layer of exposed container tops.
Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for maximizing the stacking capacity of pallets loaded with bottle crates or can crates so that the number of loaded pallets which may be vertically stacked is optimized.
The above object and other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention are readily apparent from the following detailed description of the best mode for carrying out the invention when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings. |
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Q:
multiple table insert ASP.net MVC
Hi i am having problem inserting data into multiple table from one view.
First understand the scenario: I have a student table and a student name table. Name table contains Firstname, Middlename, Lastname. Student table contains a foreign key of name table Id. I made a data model by ADO.net. Now how can i pass both Student and Name data to the Create student View?
//StudentsController: Create View [GET Method]
public ActionResult Create()
{
return View();
}
//Create View
Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<DomainModel.Models.Student>"
A:
You could either a) create a strongly type class that encompasses both the student and student name table
class StudentViewData
{
Domain.Models.StudentName Student { get; set;}
IEnumerable<StudentTable> Students { get; set;}
}
and pass this in to your view
or b) use
ViewData["StudentTable"] = DomainModel.Models.StudentTable
and in the view
foreach(var s in (DomainModel.Models.StudentTable )ViewData["StudentTable"]) ...
me personally I would use a)
I am making a couple of assumptions of your model from your explanation.
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