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Where the Wild Things Came From
by Naomi Pfefferman
September 19, 2002 | 8:00 pm
Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak
"I was afraid they might eat me," said the celebrated children's author and illustrator, the subject of a new exhibit, "Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendak in His Own Words and Pictures," at the Skirball Cultural Center. "I saw them as fiendish creatures. They ate raw onions, and they stank, and they pinched you. They screamed at each other in a foreign language, Yiddish. They had bad teeth."
When Sendak, 74, describes the greenhorns, he sounds a bit like Max, the irreverent paskuvnyak who's sent to bed without his supper in his 1963 classic, "Where the Wild Things Are." So it's not surprising that the Wild Things -- adorable monsters with bad teeth -- are actually based on his relatives. "I didn't have an uncle who looked like a bull with [fangs,] but he looked that way to me," he said. "I seem to have been blessed, or cursed, with a vivid memory of childhood."
Sendak's knack for accessing early angst has helped him transform children's literature.
"He was groundbreaking in the way he dealt with the reality of children's psychological experiences," said Barbara Gilbert, the Skirball's curator of fine arts. "He emphasized kids' anxieties and fears in a way that had never been done before. And he did so by using his own background as a first-generation American Jew."
In the interactive exhibit, which includes original drawings, letters and photographs, children can slide into a giant version of the soup bowl -- complete with rubber chicken -- from his 1962 "Chicken Soup With Rice."
"I wrote it to poke fun at my mother," he told The Journal via phone from his Connecticut home. "She was convinced chicken soup was the cure-all for everything. "If you had hydrophobia, she'd rub it on your chest. She'd wash your ears out with it. She'd give you an enema with it. Needless to say, I rather disliked chicken soup."
If the Jewish panacea was a minor annoyance during his childhood, the Holocaust was a major source of pain, Sendak said. It's the proverbial "monster in the closet" behind the dark motifs that haunt even his cheeriest work.
When Sendak's parents emigrated from Poland to New York City around 1911, their assignment was to save money to bring the rest of the family to America. But they weren't entirely successful. While some of Sendak's mother's family escaped Nazi-occupied Europe, all of his father's relatives remained behind and perished in the Shoah.
"A landsman would come to the house and tell us someone else had died, upon which my mother would scream and pull her hair and fall down on the floor," Sendak said.
The worst news came the day of his bar mitzvah. "My father learned that his shtetl had been razed, and he was just prostrate," the author recalled. "I have such a vivid, terrible memory of him standing at the reception, green-faced, while everyone sang 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow.'"
Soon thereafter, Sendak became obsessed with photographs of the murdered relatives that he found in a shoebox. "Some of the children were exactly my age, which gave me this hopeless feeling of insecurity," said Sendak, who used the portraits to illustrate books such as I. B. Singer's 1966 "Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories." "By a mere flip of the coin, I was on this side of the ocean, and they were on that side. It was completely arbitrary that they didn't get bar mitzvahed and I did, and that they got burned to death and I didn't."
Sendak, who's now working on a Holocaust-themed children's book and opera, "Brundibar," added: "When you have monsters early on, they dominate your life forever. If you don't control them, you end up taking drugs or in the nuthouse. If you try to control them, you become a children's book author."
Not that publishers were initially enamored of Sendak's work. When he shlepped his portfolio around New York as a teenager in the late 1940s, they told him his characters weren't "American" enough. He needed to study popular children's books, they said.
"So I did -- and I saw goyim," the author recalled. "The books were filled with blond children with little turned-up noses, who all bounced about in poppy fields. And my drawings were of naughty, bug-eyed immigrant kids who looked like me."
Sendak got his first break when his high school physics teacher, Hyman Ruchlis, offered him $100 and a passing grade (he was failing) to illustrate a book he'd written on the atomic bomb. He received an even more important break when the popular children's author, Ruth Krauss, selected him to illustrate her 1952 book, "A Hole Is to Dig."
"I drew a bunch of bug-headed Yid kids," he said.
Over the next decade, Sendak illustrated more than 50 volumes -- including "Kenny's Window," (1956) the first book he wrote and illustrated -- gaining the experience that enabled him to create the masterpiece "Where the Wild Things Are." "Things" won the prestigious Caldecott Medal and is now one of the top 10 children's bestsellers of all time.
Sendak said his most personal book is the award-winning "In the Night Kitchen" (1970), which he wrote and illustrated during another traumatic time in his life. In the late 1960s, his parents died, he suffered a massive coronary at age 39 and he continued to be tormented by images of his murdered relatives.
In the surreal book, a dreaming boy named Mickey says goodbye to his mama and papa through a closed bedroom door; he falls into a kitchen, where three jolly bakers put him in an oven before he escapes to the Milky Way.
It's no accident the identical-looking bakers resemble Oliver Hardy, complete with Hitlerian mustache: "I intended them as a stand-in for Hitler, the happy baker [of children]," Sendak said. "Some people were offended I didn't include Laurel, but Laurel was useless to me. College students have written papers on how Mickey [metaphorically] survives the camps, and goes on to the land of milk and honey, Israel."
Sendak turns mischievous again when describing how his dark, subversive work has earned the ire of some critics. Libraries have pulled "Night Kitchen" off the shelves because it's scary (and because Mickey is depicted in his birthday suit). Child psychologist Dr. Bruno Bettleheim once denounced Sendak in a two-page spread in a woman's magazine: "He said, 'Don't leave "Wild Things" in your child's room at night,'" the author said. "So I've decided to change his name: It's Dr. Benno Brutal-heim."
When fans ask what Max is doing today, Sendak is irreverent as Max himself. "I say he's still wearing that idiotic wolf suit, so his mother won't let him out of the house," the author said. "He's unmarried and in therapy."
"I like to be politically incorrect," Sendak added. "Otherwise, things get boring."
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
BIRT: BIRT Report Item Extensions Released by Innovent Solutions
As part of its commitment and involvement with the BIRT project Innovent Solutions, the company I work for, has created a project that offers a few graphical controls to illustrate BIRTs report item extension point. There are two extensions offered in these libraries. The first one is a Dot Bar. The Dot bar provides a quick visual representation of numeric values. This is useful for a quick, at a glance, representation, rather than overwhelm users with numbers everywhere in a report. The second is a Rotating Text graphic element, based off the original rotating text example illustrated in "Integrating and Extending BIRT". The rotating text is useful when you are trying to conserve space on a report.
These extension elements are available at
Installation instructions are provided on the above link, but we will cover this real quick. There are two components necessary to install these into the BIRT Report Designer. There is a, and a The UI component is necessary for the BIRT report designer to show these new elements in the palette. The other jar contains the necessary runtime libraries for BIRT to know how to use these elements in a report.
The easiest installation method is to use the update site. The update site is provided in the instructions.
Once installed, you will have the two new components available on the Palette.
So, lets say I want to demonstrate these. In the following example, I will create a simple report that will show the offices and employee count for the Classic Cars sample database. Assume I already have the above components installed, and I am using BIRT 2.5.1.
1. Create a new report called newComponentTest.rptDesign.
2. Create a new Data Source using the Classic Cars example database.
3. Create a new dataset from the following query:
(select count('1') from employees where officecode = CLASSICMODELS.OFFICES.OFFICECODE) officecount
4. Right-mouse click on the data set, and choose Insert in Layout.
The report will look like so:
5. Now, select the OfficeCount detail data component, and delete it.
6. Insert a DotBar in the OfficeCount detail cell.
7. In the DotBar dialog, use the following details:
8. Now, remove the OfficeCode column (1st column).
9. In the City Detail cell, remove the City data component.
10. Insert a Rotated Text component into the cell.
11. Use the following properties:
The final report will look something like this:
And when you run the report, it should look like so:
The source for these components are available to be extended as well from the above linked Google Code site.
Khruse said...
BIRT report designer I think it's really a very great tool for reporting. I just wanna to use this quickly. More...
Maurice said...
I have a question related to a talk you gave way back in 2008 at EclipseCon, about using BIRT with GWT. Do you happen to have slides or any reading material on this? I'd love to check it out for a project I'm involved in.
John Ward said...
Unfortunatly, I don't have anything except some basic UML diagrams we used to explain some high level design ideas.
I'd be happy to answer any questions you have though, as we have kind changed how we would implement this having gone through the process a few times now, and it would be different than what we did in 2008 :)
SaS said...
I also have been looking for your EclipseCom slides.
The UML would be interesting. Also, s there an example program built with your method?
I want to get field click events and turn them into links to other graphs.


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Debt counselling is the best way to ensure your financial wellbeing if you struggle to repay your monthly debt. Take care of your financial wellbeing this festive season.
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Financial wellbeing is the overall health of your finances. This is the interaction between your finances and your physical, spiritual, and social wellbeing. Research shows that when you are concerned about your finances, it affects your productivity, adds strain on your relationships and can lead to depression. It is your relationship with money and your finances and the influence it has on your everyday life.
When is one financially healthy?
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Debt counselling ONLY deals with debt!! What you need to do is review all those inflationary increases on your "policies!" Many people have policies that go up by 10% (15% older policies.) They get a 2 % raise if any at all.So if you die, get a dreaded disease. or become disabled you are covered. If you don't get this stuff (death inevitable) YOU ARE BROKE! Now we have hospital cover, animal insurance etc… How about divorce insurance?????????? No one has thought of that yet????? Why does your life cover payment go up every year and the cover DOES NOT??????? Why does your car insurance go up every year and your car gets older? Why does your house contents insurance go up and your "stuff" gets older?????????????? Educate yourself!! Dr. Debt
Basically, no one will write off your debt.
Taking on debt to finance consumer goods takes the borrower down the following path.
One man's debt is another man's asset. If you haven't got your own plan, you are part of someone else's plan. This financial mechanism called debt is a conduit that syphons off the value of your labour, into the pocket of someone with a plan. Debt is a mechanism that takes the future value of your labour to build another person's assets now.
Debt is the modern form of feudalism. The debtor is a wiling serf to the lender Barron. This financial mechanism allows people who do not understand compound growth to enslave themselves to people who do.
Compound interest. "Those who understand them earn them, and those who do not understand, pay them." — Albert Einstein.
Then, on the flip side, we find productive debt, also known as financial gearing or leverage. Borrowing to fund education, a house, or a cheap secondhand car to take you to work, can be seen as good debt. If the value of the debt rises faster than the value of the assets, the equity goes down to the point of bankruptcy.
The South African government borrows to finance consumption, not productive assets. The ANC forces the entire nation to work for European and American pension funds. The average citizen voted himself into serfdom. A government bond is a new form of colonialism.
No army or oppressor forces it upon them. They use the financial system to invite the new colonialist to exploit the assets of the nation. The average voter pawns the future of his children to support the pension of a European retiree. The entire South African GDP has already been transferred to local and foreign pension funds. Our economy belongs to the new colonialists – the lender Barrons, and the average voter fights in the streets to support this process.
It is clear which group has a plan, and which group is clueless.
Very well articulated. Your ability to stretch one's perspective is something i do not take for granted. Thank you for your comment. Keep well!
Much appreciated King Khan. Best wishes for the Festive Season.
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The modeling of residual stresses induced by drilling remains an issue. Indeed, even if some models are under development, their validation is limited by the absence of universal characterization method of residual stresses inside the hole. This paper aims at presenting a procedure to characterize the residual stress profile induced by drilling. The principle is based on the preparation of a reference sample that has been pre-heat treated in order to remove bulk residual stresses without modifying the microstructure. Then the sample is instrumented with strain gauges before being cut in two parts. This enables on one hand to estimate the elastic recovery after the cut and on the other hand to provide an easy access to the investigated surface. Finally a standard X-Ray diffractometer and an electropolishing technique are combined to estimate residual stresses profiles in two directions (circumferential and axial directions). Some numerical analyses are also performed to estimate stress relaxation during thermal treatment and during sample cutting to give a better interpretation of measurements.
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The primary tool to capture detailed level information about individual transactions is SQL Profiler. Profiler...
has can be configured to capture all of the transactions on a server or only a subset based on filtering by application name, host, etc. The information captured by Profiler can be stored in a SQL Server table or a flat file for future reference. This image shows a snippet of Profiler's results.
Process-related information can also be captured by the following commands:
- Sp_monitor: Snapshot of SQL Server statistics
- Sp_who: Snapshot of SQL Server processes
- Master.dbo.sysprocesses: System table storing the SQL Server process-related information
- DBCC OPENTRAN:Open transactions internal to SQL Server
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Making the Switch
Monday, June 1, 2020
This six-step audit process will help you convert in-person training to a virtual course.
Beware of creating a webinar when convert-ing an instructor-led training (ILT) program to the virtual classroom. Oftentimes talent development professionals make that mistake because of an innocent assumption: We can simply deliver the instructor-led content in the exact same way in the virtual classroom.
Some instructional designers spend hours upon hours making sure an ILT course's key learning points are all addressed in the time allocated for the virtual classroom; however, they put little to no thought into how the course will translate to learners seated at their computers. The end result is extremely presentation-heavy and unengaging—something that looks more like a webinar than a virtual classroom course.
A webinar is primarily used to present or share information, and most of the time, the communication flows one way—from the presenter to the attendees. In contrast, a virtual classroom course allows for two-way communication between the facilitator and the learners and includes plenty of opportunities for learners to practice the skills and knowledge the facilitator presents to them. In addition, participants receive feedback after each application exercise or activity, so they know what they've done well and how they can improve.
With a goal of creating interactive, performance-based virtual classroom training, the instructional design team at Langevin Learning Services worked together to develop a conversion process that would ensure our virtual classroom courses cover the original ILT content; are visually appealing, interactive, and engaging to participants; and include application and practice methods conducive to the virtual environment.
Central to the conversion process is a course audit—a method that ensures the result of a conversion is an effective virtual classroom course aligned with the objectives and content of the ILT course.
To complete the audit, we use a worksheet that helps guide the process and enables us to document the findings. The audit takes six steps.
Step 1: Identify the ILT course's tasks and subtasks
The best place to start the audit is to refer to the ILT course's lesson plan or outline to pinpoint the tasks and subtasks. At a high level, think of them as the whats and how-tos.
A task is defined as what someone does on the job. For example, if grocery store clerks are responsible for processing a grocery order, that is what they do. A task is a collection of subtasks, and each subtask is a logical grouping of five to nine how-to steps. In our example of processing a grocery order, the subtasks are greet customer, process payment, and bag groceries.
When identifying the tasks within the ILT lesson plan, look at the course objectives. Objectives are usually written as verbs followed by nouns such as operate a forklift or plan a project. The tasks and objectives may not be identical, but you should use similar wording in both. Likewise, you should write subtasks in the same verb-noun format.
Step 2: Identify the presentation and application methods
Presentation and application are two crucial components of a performance-based training program, regardless of the strategy. Instructors use presentation methods to deliver the content, and application methods enable learners to practice what they've learned. The methods are fairly easy to identify in an ILT lesson plan by answering two questions:
 - How is the content being delivered?
 - How are learners practicing?
For instance, when training grocery store clerks on how to greet customers, an instructor may deliver the content using a discussion method: As a group, participants discuss the correct format, tone of voice, and facial expressions required to ensure customers feel welcome from the moment they step up to the register. Then, when it's time to practice what they discussed, participants take turns role-playing how to greet customers correctly.
Ideally, the ILT lesson plan includes both a presentation and application method for each subtask. However, if you notice a subtask without either method, view it as an opportunity to design something new and unique for the virtual classroom.
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Step 3: Document supplemental materials
Add to the course audit worksheet any documents or files that contain relevant content pertaining to a subtask. If, for example, the ILT participants receive a job aid when learning how to greet customers, write that down. It's important for you to note that the job aid already exists so you can potentially repurpose it for the virtual classroom course.
It's also necessary to validate whether supplemental materials such as videos, audio clips, or games are compatible with the virtual classroom platform you'll be using to deliver the training (for example, if a video is saved in a.flv format, ensure the virtual platform can read that type of file).
Step 4: Determine how long it takes to deliver the subtasks
A common misconception about converting ILT to the virtual classroom is that instructors can deliver the course content in less time in the virtual classroom. Although this may be the case for some activities, other exercises may take more time to deliver effectively in a virtual environment.
Consider a role-play exercise in the traditional classroom. It is easy to set up because participants can quickly group themselves by moving their chairs. But in a virtual course, setting up a role play takes longer because the facilitator will need to provide instructions on such factors as what participants can expect when moving to a breakout room and how the audio will work.
Calculating how long it takes to deliver a subtask in the traditional classroom aids in determining how much time should be allocated in the virtual classroom and whether any time-consuming chunks of content may require more effort to convert.
Once you've completed steps 1–4, it's time to make design decisions that will determine the content delivery methods for the virtual classroom.
Step 5: Select the presentation and application methods
The primary goal in converting an ILT course to the virtual classroom is to align the virtual training as closely as possible to the in-person training. Thus, you must figure out whether you can repurpose any ILT methods. To help you decide, think about how the method will be implemented in the virtual classroom.
 - How long will it take to deliver the method in the virtual classroom?
 - Is there a way to make it interactive?
 - Will the tools available in the virtual platform enable the instructor to effectively deliver the method?
 - Can you repurpose the speaking points, as written, from the ILT content?
If you can envision how to successfully implement the ILT method in the virtual classroom, then you can repurpose it. However, if you decide that it won't work in a virtual environment, you'll need to come up with an alternative. For instance, if time constraints make using a discussion unwieldy, choose a method that requires less time to deliver in a virtual classroom. Consider using a graphic association lecturette or assigning some reading for participants to do as intersession work. Of importance is choosing a variety of methods to ensure the course is an engaging and interactive experience for learners.
Notice in the sample course audit worksheet (Figure 2) the difference in methods for the task of processing a grocery order. The presentation method for the third subtask, bag groceries, is a lecture in the ILT version, but we chose a discussion for the virtual version of the course. Why? Because lectures can be monotonous and boring. They can be a risky choice for a virtual course, because learners can easily check out and do other things.
Given that, using a discussion over a lecture is a better choice because it involves the learners, engages them, and enables everyone to contribute. In addition, there are different options when it comes to how a discussion unfolds in the virtual classroom—it could take place as one large group or in several smaller groups using breakout rooms.
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Step 6: Select a delivery tool
After you've chosen a method, determine which of your available virtual platform tools is best suited to implement it. When choosing a tool, consider how long it will take to deliver the method using that tool. If you are limited to five minutes for a discussion, it may be better to have participants discuss the content using the chat function instead of having each participant respond verbally.
The exciting part is that you have myriad options—this is where your creativity comes into play. Once you know what the platform is capable of, you can start choosing the tools and features that will bring the content to life. Remember: Aim for variety. That ensures you are maximizing participant engagement by having them use different tools throughout the course.
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For those who are new to the conversion process, selecting the right tool can seem a bit overwhelming at first. Which tools work best with the methods you've chosen? What should you do if there are constraints regarding the tools available within the platform?
We've taken some of the guesswork out of that by creating Figure 3. Listed vertically along the left side of the chart are the most common presentation and application methods, and the more common tools (across most virtual classroom platforms) are along the top. The dots represent which tools work best for each method.
Every method has at least three different tools that instructors can use to implement it. For example, if the course entails using a demonstration as a presentation method, seven options are available; if a role play is the chosen application method, consider using one of the six listed tool options.
Set yourself up for success with all your conversion projects by taking the time to learn what tools and functionalities are available in your organization's virtual platform. Doing so will help you choose the most appropriate tools to make your methods come alive and help you create an engaging virtual learning experience for your participants. A bonus is that you may convince naysayers that


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The students of the University of Wrocław pursue their passions in 170 student organisations, artistic or sports teams and scientific clubs. Each year the Student Research Groups and Organisations' Fair gets underway at the University of Wrocław. It's a perfect opportunity to watch fascinating experiments and presentations, talk to young scientists and scholars, get to know their everyday work – and see which degree programme would be worth pursuing. Many of our student research groups are open for new members. If you'd like to creatively spend your free time, pick one of them – and start acting. By joining a society, you can meet people with similar interests, outlooks, cultures or backgrounds.
Societies can be related to:
- a course or subject area, such as a Law Society or Spanish Society
- an interest, such as a Film Society or Rock Music Society
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|The Victoria & Albert Museum|
This delicate jewel of marine coral and African gold depicts intricately carved flowers emerging from a woven basket. This sort of naturalistic jewelry became especially popular in the mid-Nineteenth Century, especially in Italy where this bracelet was made. Coral's softness allowed for easy carving, but it could also be used in its natural form, taking advantage of the appeal of its natural branches in styles reminiscent of those from Asia and Africa.
Most of the coral used in Europe came from the sea near Naples, Italy, and the medium quickly became a favorite symbol of world travel around 1815.

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Scripts are about as close to programming Doom 3 as you can possibly get without having to purchase Visual C++. The language is similar to C++, but is arguably a bit easier to learn and use.
There are three major components in Doom 3 that are controlled by scripts:
The scritping system is based around the idea of objects and events.
Objects are referenced with $name where "name" is the name of the object in DOOMEdit.
Events look like C++ member function calls, and you can really think of them that way. To send the 'hide' event to speaker_280, you'd write $speaker_280.hide();
There is a special object known as'sys' which is where all the system calls (like print)
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Ohio's dairy industry is about more than just cows and milk -- it is about contributions to the state's economy, the preservation of the environment, the well-being of animals and the health and safety of all Ohioans.
In Ohio, dairy is big business. Ohio ranks first in Swiss cheese production, fifth in the number of dairy manufacturing plants and 11th in milk production. In Ohio, 3,490 farms with 274,000 dairy cows produce almost 5 billion pounds of milk annually.
Dairy farms also are vital parts of the communities in which they operate. The dairy industry contributes $5.2 billion annually to the state economy and provides approximately 14,500 jobs. Most milk only travels about 100 miles to get from the dairy farm to the local grocery store, which means jobs typically remain in the surrounding area, specifically benefiting the local economy.
Because of their connection to the local community, dairy farmers across Ohio are committed to taking proactive measures to protect the environment, including the water supply and air and soil quality. Not only do dairy farmers rely on our limited natural resources for the success of their farm, but they also typically live on or near the farm, and therefore drink the water and breathe the air themselves.
A wide range of environmentally sound practices are used on Ohio's dairy farms, including manure-management plans, water-recycling systems, conservation tillage, grass, waterways and routine water testing. Farmers work with experts at both the state and federal levels to continually develop new ways to preserve the environment and enhance the quality of life of the farm family and surrounding neighbors.
Environmental stewardship is a key element of successful dairy farming, and so are healthy and happy cows. To ensure the health and welfare of their dairy cows -- and in turn, the success of their business -- Ohio's dairy farmers make significant investments in housing, feeding and veterinary care.
Cows are provided with a nutritious diet, quality medical care and healthy living conditions. Dairy cows receive regular medical check-ups and vaccinations, and any illness is quickly treated. Cows always have access to fresh, clean water and strictly-monitored feed.
Dairy farmers are committed to protect the environment and provide quality care to their animals, with the final outcome being wholesome, quality milk and dairy products for Ohio's consumers. Dairy products offer a powerful package of calcium and eight other essential nutrients for just pennies per ounce, making them a nutritious and economical choice for all families.
Clearly, dairy farmers are doing more than ever before to produce wholesome, quality milk, while utilizing new technology to both preserve the environment and care for animals. With so much controversy about preserving the environment, June is the perfect month to celebrate the dairy industry and the proactive steps its members are taking to be environmental stewards.
Visit _URL_ to learn more about Ohio's dairy industry, or to learn more about dairy products, go to _URL_.
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What Are Neutron Stars?
What happens at the end of the life cycle of a star? A lesson in the Socratica Astronomy playlist shows three ways a star dies: white dwarf, black hole, and neutron star. Each ending depends on the mass of the original star.
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First U.S. Image of the Moon
Date: 31 Jul 1964
Ranger 7 took this image, the first picture of the moon by a U.S. spacecraft, about 17 minutes before impacting the lunar surface. The large crater at center right is the 108 km diameter Alphonsus. Above it is Ptolemaeus and below it Arzachel. Mare Nubium is at center and left. The Ranger 7 impact site is off the frame, to the left of the upper left corner.
Ranger spacecraft were designed solely to take high-quality pictures of the moon for scientific study and to scout landing sites for Apollo astronauts. Ranger 7 was the first true success in the series and represents a turning point in the American space program. It transmitted 4,308 high-quality images in its final 17 minutes of flight.
Ranger 7 was launched 28 July 1964 and arrived at the moon on 31 July 1964.


Friday, 30 May 2008
How to look up the EPSG code for a CoordinateReferenceSystem
A CoordinateReferenceSystem generated from "raw" WKT:
Here is how to look up an "official" CoordinateReferenceSystem.
 1. Construct a CoordinateReferenceSystem based on what you have.
 String name = "ED50";
 String wkt =
 CoordianteReferenceSystem example = CRS.parseWKT(wkt);
 2. Find the Identifier for your CoordinateReferenceSystem
 3. Look up the official definition for that Identifier
 CoordinateReferenceSystem crs = CRS.decode( code );
CoordianteReferenceSystem wsg84 = CRS.decode( "EPSG:4326" );
MathTransform transform = CRS.findMathTransform(crs, wsg84, true);
Geometry targetGeometry = JTS.transform( sourceGeometry, transform );
CoordianteReferenceSystem wsg84 = CRS.decode( "EPSG:4326" );
MathTransform transform = CRS.findMathTransform(example, wsg84, false );
Geometry targetGeometry = JTS.transform( sourceGeometry, transform );
Documentation harmed in the making of this post:
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Which class is used to repsent a bounding box?
Today we have a great question:
I noticed in the GeoTools Javadoc (2.5 branch) the following 5 classes that could be used to represent an envelope: Envelope, Envelope2D, EnvelopeExample, org.geotools.geometry.iso.coordinate.EnvelopeImpl, org.geometry.jts.spatialschema.geometry.EnvelopeImpl
Is it possible these different envelope classes are represented by a
single interface that I could reference in my code, or do I need to
pick one? Could we refactor these 5 different classes into a single
Envelope2D class/interface?
The answer is a bit of a pain; but it does go a long way toward explaining what we are about with a spatial library, and why GeoTools may be considered difficult to learn.
Is it possible to have a single interface?
In short there is one interface that represents an "Rectangle" well:
- Envelope - this is a GeoAPI interface defined according to the the ISO 19107 Geometry specification
The Envelope interface stores a CRS and a range of valid values for each axis mentioned by the CRS. If you are really sure you are working with a 2D CRS you can make use of a BoundingBox subclass.
But in actual fact you will need to consider a couple other interfaces:
- When working with Java you will need to use a Rectangle, specifically Rectangle2D.Double
- When working with the JTS Topology Suite you will need to use an Envelope class (defined according to the Simple Features for SQL Specification)
- If you are working with Java3D you will find it has its own Bounds and BoundingBox (and BoundingSphere) classes
- And so on....
Do I need to pick one?
So yes you need to pick one for your application; the GeoTools library will do its best to work with your needs.
Could we refactor these into a single Envelope2D class/interface?
Internally GeoTools often makes use of a single implementation:
- ReferencedEnvelope
The ReferencedEnvelope is one of the first GeoTools specific classes documented in our user guide, and is an example of something that makes the library unique.
Literally RefernecedEnvelope is a compromise:
- ReferencedEnvelope extends JTS Envelope
- RefernecedEnvelope implements GeoAPI BoundingBox
This gives you the best of both worlds; access bounds in a form acceptable to the JTS Geometry classes (which only wory about the numbers), that also address the need of the GeoTools library to track the Coordinate Refernece System (so we know what the number mean).
Documentation Link
Here is the user guide page that talks about this stuff.
How hard can it be?
How hard can that be?
 - Exporting to a PDF can be done...
Lessons learned:
- PDF really needs its own wizard.
Documentation harmed in the making of this post:
- Map to Image Wizard
Welcome to How 2 Map
This is a continuation of my blog over at While is a great way to contact the Java crowd the set up is a little too formal, clunky and language specific for a lot of what I talk about. The recent deluge of spam comments has finally pushed me to move on.
I have kept a blog very in-frequently; but I have been doing a lot of writing. To start off this blog I wanted to cover the kind of writing I am willing to do on the web; and see if I could work that into a useful article / publication / web-log thing that would be interesting enough for others to follow.
 - Email: I write a lot of email, sometimes very detailed and researched, sometimes quick (and in my limited opinion funny).
 Email can occasionally be turned into a good blog post, but usually they make a good topic for an article (since you need to fill is so much context
 - Documentation: I have taken to writing documentation, and sending email links, rather than directly taking part in the geotools user list or udig user list.
 Problem is it seems only I know what has been written, in fact the best way for me to tell if the documentation is successful is to watch what kind of questions are asked on the user list. Last year at this time all the questions were about connecting to WFS or opening a Shapefile, this year there are lots of questions about drawing maps. Looks like the documentation on working with data is starting to work...
What I am not going to do is write big long articles; while these can be very valuable - the time is better spent on coding or documentation.


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Time to Celebrate
Identity, diversity and belief
Author: Mark and Olga Fox
Format: 96 pp book
ISBN: 9781863667036 SCIS No: _PHONE_
Publisher: Wizard Ideas 2006
Audience: Teacher and student resource
Audience year level
Time to Celebrate offers an introduction to some of the world's cultures by examining festivals and associated cultural events. It features a rich background to many of the world's important festivals, as well as practical ideas and activities that link to learning areas including SOSE/HSIE, Literacy, The Arts, LOTE and Civics and Citizenship Education. The book has a particular focus on celebrations in Australia and the Asian region so that students come to better understand themselves and their closest neighbours.
Festivals provide students with an opportunity to explore issues such as diversity, identity and belief. By studying festivals, students will begin to understand more about the multicultural world in which they live and to examine their own attitudes in respect to values such as tolerance, inclusion, respect and freedom.


Artificial Intelligence in Primary Care
The scope of conversations in a primary care setting is massive. There are ~1,500 conditions primary care physicians typically diagnose and manage, but you've always got to be aware of and on the lookout for the other 10,000 or so conditions that are diagnosed and managed by specialists. To put it another way, PCPs manage the common, less complex conditions and specialists manage the more complicated common conditions plus the long tail of diseases that require more experienced specialized testing and procedures.
But there's a reason why Google, when demoing their new AI-powered voice assistant chose to schedule an appointment. An appointment has two components:
 - Why (a hair cut, hair coloring, etc.)
 - When (Monday at 4pm)
With two variables, it's a sexy demo that's hard to screw up.
But what about when there are 10,000 variables with 10,000 outcomes?
This becomes infinitely complex.
Or what about when an answer is a spectrum of possibilities rather than a discreet answer?
Because that's what happens often in primary care. There are countless times where even an experienced, talented doctor asks all the right questions and there really is no definitive diagnosis. It's a bet you have with yourself. There's an 80% chance it's x, a 19% chance is y, and god help us if it's that 1% chance it's z. Asking more questions won't solve this riddle. The only thing you as a doctor can do is treat what your guts says and wait it out and see how things evolve. And this is when relationships truly matter. You don't want a new doctor every time you visit an exam room.
Or maybe the correct answer is one answer today, and another answer tomorrow?
There are common situations in primary care where you see a person with a set of complaints and findings but they don't meet criteria for a certain diagnosis but, literally, tomorrow they will meet criteria. This means diagnoses are very much moving targets. And this is something lay people don't understand. Sometimes they feel like they were misdiagnosed when they saw a doctor on Monday for a cough, but then on Thursday they see another doctor who diagnoses pneumonia.
The concept of time is a critical component of a diagnosis because we don't really have diagnoses, we have stories.
A health condition is a story that plays out over time. Today's cold is tomorrow's pneumonia. And that's why AI in general primary care is such a massively complex thing to tackle. It's not only the answer to the question, it's the answer to the question yesterday vs. the answer to the question today. Humans don't really have a challenge understanding this concept, but machines currently do. And if Google isn't yet ready to tackle this problem with their massive amounts of cash and almost infinite data, it's perplexing why a little startup with $200M of VC money will be able to solve this problem, without malpractice, in the very short time frame necessary to return 10x on this investment.
So how should AI be used in primary care for the foreseeable future?
The most realistic and responsible thing to do is massively limit a patient's options when taking a patient's history. For example, Lemonaid limits a patient's options to 13 conditions (and thank god doesn't claim to be AI), whereas Babylon says "Ask Babylon" for anything and Babylon's super smart AI will diagnose anything! This is setting that $200M Babylon Health up for a massive failure as it overpromises and significantly under-delivers putting every single patient user at risk.
Over the last 7 years, Sherpaa's doctors have built ~300 standardized question sets to ask each patient who uses Sherpaa for the top 300 most common primary care symptoms. There's no AI involved at all. It's just a set of ~20-25 questions around, say, "Cough," optimized for readability designed to cover all bases, rule out anything rare and serious, and help our real human doctors understand which rabbit hole to go down. With every standardized question set Sherpaa uses, we always ask one final question:
"What do you think you have?"
We do this because we know people have been googling and we want to understand their mindset and how best to talk with them about what we think you have. And I would guess the patient is right greater than 90% of the time. So…if you want to try to tackle anything like Babylon, start backwards. Tell me what you think you have…and my AI will disprove you. At least you're starting with the likelihood that the patient will be 90% right. And, of course, this also proves that patients are the most underutilized resource in healthcare. They're a lot smarter than most doctors think.


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Relations between Portugal and France go far back in time. To avoid people living in one of the countries, but receiving income from the other, having to pay double the taxes, there's a tax treaty between France and Portugal on dual taxation. This tax treaty between France and Portugal dates to 1971 but was reformulated in 2017.
So, if you are French and your salary or pension is paid through France, but you live in Portugal, you should be aware that there is a tax treaty between Portugal and France which helps you avoid dual taxation. This treaty saves you from paying income tax twice if you've already paid in one of the two countries. The first tax treaty between Portugal and France was published in 1971 but underwent some changes in 2017.
The tax treaty between Portugal and Spain to avoid dual taxation stipulates that income paid by "one of the Contracting States, or by a political or administrative subdivision, or by local or territorial government, or by a legal person under public law to an individual, for services rendered to that state, or subdivision, or local government or legal person, can only be taxed in that State". As for pensions, they can only be taxed in the country where they are paid.
Nonetheless, in both cases the pension or worker's income "are taxable exclusively in the other Contracting State if the services are rendered in that state and if the individual is a national and does not also have the nationality of the former State", decree 105/71 goes on to explain. If this treaty did not exist, then the State of residence could tax income even if it had already been taxed in the other country.
Taxes covered by the tax treaty between France and Portugal
This treaty covers the following taxes:
- Income Tax (l'impôt sur le revenu);
- Corporate Tax (l'impôt sur les sociétés);
- Corporate Tax surcharge (les contributions sur l'impôt sur les sociétés);
- General Social Contributions (les contributions sociales généralisées);
- Social Debt Repayment Contribution (les contributions pour le remboursement de la dette sociale); including withheld taxes (retenues à la source and précomptes) and advances (avances) deducted from these taxes; (hereafter referred to as 'French tax');
- Income Tax (IRS);
- Corporate Tax (IRC);
The tax treaty between France and Portugal also stipulates that there be exchange of information between both countries, as well as provision of "mutual aid to the effect of collecting respective tax credits".
Better tax regime for dividends
Besides salaries and other income, the treaty between Portugal and France to avoid dual taxation also covers capital income, such as distribution of stock dividends and interest received outside of the country of origin.


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As a ham radio operator, you might hear something from another operator like "I have you three eight in Omaha," "your signal report is five seven in southern Ohio," or "copy you five by nine." What would that mean?
Amateur radio operators, also known as ham radio operators, don't hear the signal they send out, but to get a message out clearly, it is important to know how they sound on the air. In 1934 Arthur Braaten developed the RST code as a systematic way to give feedback. The RST codes provide a nuanced report in just two or three numbers.
A complete RST report describes three characteristics: Readability, Strength, and Tone. Readability is rated on a scale of one to five, while Strength and Tone is rated on scales of one to nine, as follows:
R = Readability:
- R1 – Unreadable
- R2 – Barely readable, some words occasionally distinguishable
- R3 – Readable, but with considerable difficulty
- R4 – Readable with practically no difficulty
- R5 – Perfectly readable
S = Signal Strength
- S1 – Faint signal, barely perceptible
- S2 – Very weak signal
- S3 – Weak signal
- S4 – Fair signal
- S5 – Fairly good signal
- S6 – Good signal
- S7 – Moderately strong signal
- S8 – Strong signal
- S9 – Extremely strong signal
T = CW Tone
- T1 – 50/60 hertz a.c., very rough & broad
- T2 – Very rough a.c., harsh & broad
- T3 – Rough a.c. tone, rectified but not filtered
- T4 – Rough note, some trace of filtering
- T5 – Filtered rectified a.c. but strongly ripple-modulated
- T6 – Filtered tone, definite trace of ripple modulation
- T7 – Near pure tone, a trace of ripple modulation
- T8 – Near perfect tone, slight trace of modulation
- T9 – Pure Tone, no trace of ripple or modulation of any kind
A perfect score is "599," the highest rating in each category. However, the third category, Tone, is a quality that only applies to continuous wave (CW) transmissions – that is, Morse code. So if you're operating in voice mode (i.e., AM, SSB or FM), that third number is meaningless. It gets dropped, and you have a two-digit RS report. In that case, "59" is the perfect score.
So "three eight in Omaha" would indicate "readable with some difficulty, with a fairly strong signal." "Copy you five by nine" means "perfectly readable with full signal strength."
How to Understand RST Codes
"Readability" assesses how easy it is to copy the information being sent during the transmission, whether it's a series of characters in Morse code or spoken words. Things that affect readability include atmospheric noise (static), interference, or fading (signal fades up and down).
Most transceivers have an S meter, so you could just read your S meter to get your Strength number. However, S meters are not calibrated to a specific standard, so the same meter reading means different things on different sets. A perfectly audible signal might barely move your S meter. Therefore, you might adjust the number you report based on how loud a signal you actually hear.
Exceptionally strong signals can pass the S9 reading on the S meter. "You're 20 over 9" means "your signal's 20 decibels over S9."
The Tone report goes back to the early days of radio when most hams were building their own transmitters for Morse code, from spare parts – with varying results. The science of radio was still poorly understood, and RST reports helped radio operators significantly.
Old radios (and some modern ones) suffered from "ripple" (from ineffective capacitors in the power supply, which are used to filter the rectified AC sine wave into a DC voltage). This was heard in the transmitted CW tone. Ripple might cause a "brrrrring" instead of a clean "beep."
"Key click," "hum," and "chirp" also describe problems caused by power supply. Occasionally, suffixes indicate these issues. For example, 599K indicates a clear, strong signal, but with bothersome key clicks. 599C indicates chirp.
Nowadays, most radios are well-built commercial equipment producing a clean tone, always worth nine on the scale, so Tone simply gets dropped from RST reports.
Ham radio operators use the RST code whenever they communicate with each other. However, a competition's pressure for speed influences its use.
Modern ham radio contestants using Morse code often abbreviate the "nines" in the RST to "Ns," like "5NN." Typing "N" in Morse code is faster than typing "9." Using letters to stand for numbers is called "cut numbers."
During contests, hams are trying to reach as many contacts as possible in a given time. They often don't bother to really assess the actual signal quality and instead send hasty, meaningless reports of 59 (phone) or 599 (CW) just to move on.
This practice has become a gripe of ham operators who truly want an accurate picture of their signal. Some feel the rush of a contest makes accurate reports so unlikely that signal reports shouldn't even be part of the exchange.
Things to keep in mind
In general, give accurate reports. Don't write what you think the ham wants to hear. It's helpful to tell someone if their signal isn't coming through clearly. In turn, if you receive a three for readability, you might decide to repeat important things, like your location, or spell out your name to help folks understand you.
If you receive a low S number, you might note the time of day, what frequency you're using, and the space weather. Space weather, like solar flares and radiation storms, changes the density and structure of the Earth's ionosphere and can disrupt (even block) the transmission of radio signals in the High-Frequency range, which includes the range hams use.
Along with learning about the conditions affecting your signal quality, you can use an accurate report to decide whether to linger. If either party has poor signal quality, contact (or QSO) is best kept brief. But if both hams have good signals, you can converse comfortably and confidently.


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The Speed of a Moth
Which is faster? A small moth or a songbird? The answer does surprise. A study published in March 2011 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B by researchers at Rothamsted Research, and the universities of Lund (Sweden), Greenwich and York, reports the surprising finding that night-flying moths are able to match their songbird counterparts for travel speed and direction during their annual migrations but they use quite different strategies to do so - information that adds to our understanding of the lifestyle of such insects, which are important for maintaining biodiversity and food security. This new international study of moth migration over the UK, and songbird migration over Sweden, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Swedish Research Council, shows that songbirds (mainly Willow Warblers) and moths (Silver Y moths) have very similar migration speeds — between 30 kilometers and 65 kilometers per hour — and both travel approximately northwards in the spring and southwards in the autumn.
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order. Most species of moth are nocturnal
A songbird is a bird belonging to the suborder Passeri of the perching birds. This group contains some 4000 species, in which the vocal organ typically is developed in such a way as to produce a diverse and elaborate bird song.
Dr Jason Chapman, Rothamsted Research, one of the lead authors on the paper said "Songbirds such as warblers and thrushes are able to fly unassisted about four times faster than migratory moths, which might appear to be largely at the mercy of the winds. So we had assumed that songbirds would travel much faster over the same distance. It was a great surprise when we found out the degree of overlap between the travel speeds - the mean values are almost identical, which is really remarkable."
The discovery gives fresh insight into exactly how moths are able to travel in their billions from summer breeding grounds in the UK and elsewhere in northern Europe to their winter quarters in the Mediterranean region and sub-Saharan Africa, thousands of miles away. This is important information in the context of declining moth populations and a critical need for pollinating insects to ensure maximum yields of food crops in the face of a potential food crisis — the more we understand about the life cycle and lifestyle of these insects, the better we can understand and mitigate the challenges they face for survival.
The team used specially-designed radars to track the travel speeds and directions of many thousands of individual Silver Y moths and songbirds on their night-time spring and autumn migrations.
The similarity in speed results from differing strategies: moths fly only when tailwinds are favorable, so gaining the maximum degree of wind assistance; whereas birds fly on winds from a variety of directions, and consequently receive less assistance.
Moths are therefore more efficient in their flight as opposed to the birds who fly when they want to.
The findings therefore demonstrate that moths and songbirds have evolved very different behavioral solutions to the challenge of moving great distances in a seasonally-beneficial direction in a short period of time.
Moths, and particularly their caterpillars, are a major agricultural pest in many parts of the world. Examples include corn borers and bollworms. The caterpillar of the gypsy moth causes severe damage to forests in the northeast United States, where it is an invasive species. In temperate climates, the codling moth causes extensive damage, especially to fruit farms.
Some moths are farmed. The most notable of these is the silkworm, the larva of the domesticated moth Bombyx mori. It is farmed for the silk with which it builds its cocoon.
Knowing how the moth moves about will lead to a better understanding of their world wide ecological role.
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DNS ChrisPC Switch can increase security when using online sites to help protect user data and positively affect the performance of the Internet connection. Switch DNS addresses can accelerate startup website.
Among the DNS servers of Google Public DNS, DynDNS, Norton ConnectSafe, Public-Root DNS or OpenHome.
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- Change your computer DNS with just 1 click.
- Set your favorite DNS or select one from the software's DNS Database.
- The DNS Database contains presets grouped by type: Regular DNS, Secure DNS, Family Safe DNS, Anonymous DNS and Custom DNS.
- DNS Benchmark lets you find the fastest DNS with one click.
- Protect your online experience by using a Secure DNS server that filters out websites that are potentially threats to your PC (avoiding viruses, malware, trojans etc.)
- Block adult websites or those that encourage violence, drugs and/or indecent behavior by selecting a Family Safe DNS.
- Import DNS server lists from text file.
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For many modern day applications, their backend is configured using a distributed database. Data is stored and processed using an arrangement, or cluster of database servers, instead of relying on a single database server. The distributed model can ensure that data is still accessible even if one of the database servers suffers a failure. However, the distributed approach introduces the issue of making sure that all of the actors in the distributed system are up to date with the information that the end user is expecting to have returned to them. This introduces us to the topic of this guide: database replication.
In this guide, we will cover what database replication is and discuss the main benefits of having a database replication process in place for your distributed system.
Database replication is the process of maintaining a copy of data on multiple machines that are connected via a network. The process can be visualized like the following, where a lead database is sending its information to followers to replicate:
This image displays a specific kind of database replication architecture, but replication can also be done in different ways. The main goal is always the same, and that goal is to keep multiple, identical copies of up to date data in different places.
As briefly alluded to in the introduction, there are several reasons why one would want to have a distributed database and therefore implement database replication. Some of the most common benefits include the following:
- improve the availability of data
- increase the speed of data access
- enhance server performance
- accomplish preparation for disaster recovery
- improve analytics
Replication improves the availability of data because it prevents relying on a single point of failure and losing database access. If there were some sort of technical glitch, power outage, or any number of different occurrences that affected that single point, then your application would not be able to access the data needed for its proper function.
Data replication enhances the resiliency and reliability of systems by storing data across multiple nodes. If one node goes down, there is another one to step up with the exact same data on it to keep operations running smoothly.
For organizations both large and small, there may be users located globally. Geographically distributed database replication helps ensure that for any given user in the organization that needs particular data that they can get it in a timely manner and without too much delay.
Replicating data to local servers in the locations near to where it is being accessed provides users with faster data access and queries. If a organization had a single node in the USA, then a user trying to pull data in Europe could experience latency when trying to access it. A organization with a cluster in the USA as well as a replicated cluster in Europe would ensure that this user can work efficiently with the data that they need when they need it.
Database replication also reduces the load on the primary server of the database. If data was only able to be accessed on a single server, that server would be handling every request coming to the database. With replication, that load can be dispersed among other nodes in the distributed system. Because all of the nodes have identical replicas of the data, some queries could get handled by secondary nodes and leave the primary to handle only certain reads or only writes.
Saving the primary for handling write operations can prove to be beneficial because if it were handling all reads and writes that may put unwanted strain on the server's resources. Reading from the primary may make sense for a situation where there are not many operations coming in to the database. However, in times of scaling and growth, it is best practice to delegate tasks across a distributed system rather than putting all the load on a single node's plate.
In the case of a catastrophe, replication also secures recovery of what gets lost or corrupted. While replicas are not backups themselves because they continuously apply changes, they can be a target for your database backups.
For instance, if you want to back up your data, you can turn replication off briefly on one of the secondaries to get data in a consistent state, back up the data when there are no more write operations incoming, and then restart replication to catch back up on new updates. The replica gives you a snapshot of consistent data to target for disaster recovery without interrupting operations.
An additional way replication facilitates preparation for disaster recovery is by explicitly configuring a replica to be a lagging follower. This replica would apply operations with a delay of a defined time. This delay allows the database monitoring team to notice an issue and avoid applying changes to the replica from a corrupted primary. They then can turn off the replication and have a mostly up-to-date server ready and running to keep operations going.
These methods add a level of enhanced data protection that would not be present without database replication.
Similar to the benefits mentioned from enhancing server performance, replication allows for the dedication of nodes specifically for analytics. By having exact replicas of data available outside of a single site/node, there is now the option to have a secondary that is specifically used only for running analytics on the data.
This makes it so any nodes handling write operations or other heavy reads are not strained also by handling analytics queries from database users. For example, your analytics team that is pulling data to put together user growth reports for the past quarter will have a dedicated node to work with and not strain any of the core nodes. This improves the performance experienced by the analytics team as well as keeping unnecesary load off the primary — all with data that is completely the same and up to date.
Database replication is an important process to implement for a successful distributed data system. In this article we briefly introduced what database replication is and the benefits it adds to your new or already existing application.
Database replication is not a one size fits all process, so it is important to know what benefits are most important to your team when configuring. We'll take the learned benefits and discuss the most common database replication architectures, methods, and types in additional guides.


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May 23, 2012
Empoasca sp. is not a typical pest of wild tobacco (Nicotiana attenuata). When this plant grows in its natural habitats in North America, however, it is attacked by tobacco hornworm larvae (Manduca sexta). This specialist insect is resistant to the toxic nicotine, which the plant produces as a defence against its enemies. When researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology used particular transgenic plants in field experiments, they noticed that these plants were heavily infested with Empoasca leafhoppers in comparison to wild-type plants. In the particular transgenic plants used in this study, a certain gene, lox3, had been switched off which is essential for the production of jasmonic acid. Due to their inability to produce jasmonates, the plants could not activate their defences against herbivores, because their hormonal signalling cascades were interrupted. The result of this deficiency was visible and had been expected: a heavy infestation by tobacco hornworm larvae. The occurrence of leafhoppers, however, was a surprise, because these insects are not a part of the plant's normal herbivore community. The scientists speculated that these insects which are common pests of agricultural crops may have been able to evaluate the defensive potential of their host plants before the plants could activate the production of their defences.
To test this hypothesis, the scientists produced different transgenic tobacco lines and used them in field experiments. In six lines, the expression of specific enzymes involved in jasmonate production was blocked or the perception of the jasmonate signal was inhibited, and in three lines the production of jasmonate-elicited toxins was interrupted. The individual genes were switched off by using the inverted-repeat gene-silencing technique. Together with control plants, all lines were grown in their natural habitat, the Great Basin Desert in Utah, USA.
Leafhoppers were attracted by growing alfalfa (Medicago sativa), one of their favourite host plants. When the alfalfa plants were highly infested, they were cut down to motivate the leafhoppers to move into the tobacco field, which was adjacent to the alfalfa field. The following parameters were recorded: The prevalence and intensity of leaf damage on the individual lines and control plants, the corresponding jasmonate levels, the concentration and the occurrence of defence toxins, and finally the release of specific volatiles to indirectly fend off herbivores. Experiments conducted in the glasshouse back in Jena, Germany, were designed to quantify Empoasca leaf damage on transgenic plants, whose inability to produce jasmonate had been compensated for by applying jasmonate on their leaves. "We were able to demonstrate that leafhoppers' preferred to feed on plants that were incapable of jasmonate signalling. Whether other defence substances, such as the toxin, nicotine, or digestion inhibitors, were present or not, was entirely irrelevant," says Mario Kallenbach, who carried out these experiments.
These results demonstrated that Empoasca leafhoppers select their food plants after probing the leaves using their mouthparts to find out whether plants are ready for defence. Or more precisely: whether the jasmonate-based hormonal system responsible for signalling herbivory and initiating defences is functional or even present. If this is the case, the insect leaves the plant and causes no further damage (see picture in the middle). If jasmonate-signalling is defective, the plant is selected for feeding (see picture on the right). Interestingly, like prostaglandins, jasmonates belong to the family of oxygenated fatty acid derivatives and the leafhoppers' behaviour resembles that of blood-sucking mosquitoes which explore their potential hosts' functional or non-functional prostaglandin-regulated defence signals after they bite but before they start to take a blood meal. It is still unclear, however, what leafhoppers exactly detect when they probe the plants.
Hence, Empoasca feeding damage to individual plants in native plant populations could be an indicator of natural genetic variation in defence responses. Therefore, the scientists studied three different naturally grown Nicotiana attenuata populations − a total of about 700 plants −.over a period of two field seasons. They examined Empoasca damage in every single plant and found six infested plants. These plants were treated with oral secretions of the tobacco specialist Manduca sexta (tobacco hornworm), a treatment which triggers jasmonate-signalling. As a result, these plants showed a significantly lower jasmonate accumulation than uninfested control plants. Seeds of these plants were germinated and the offspring were again tested − with the same result. "Empoasca has identified for us valuable natural mutants for further experiments," says Ian Baldwin, leader of the study.
Because Nicotiana attenuata uses fires to synchronize its germination from long-lived seed banks to grow in dense populations characterized by intense intraspecific competition and variable herbivore pressures, the scientists hypothesize that growth-defence tradeoffs are likely severe for this plant species, and these tradeoffs likely provide the selective pressure to maintain these JA-signalling mutants occurring in native populations − despite the clear disadvantages of being defence-impaired. "Once we have completed the sequencing of the Nicotiana attenuata genome, we will characterize in greater detail these JA-signalling mutants and are excited to see which genetic variations we will find", Ian Baldwin continued.
The native tobacco plant Nicotiana attenuata is a model system studied in the Department of Molecular Ecology to scrutinize ecological interactions. By studying how this native plant has adapted to life in its ecological niche, the scientists hope to find means of increasing the ecological sophistication of our agricultural crops and develop lower input and more sustainable agricultural practices. The study presented here shows that the use of transgenic plants in field experiments is crucial for gaining new insights in the complexity of chemical and ecological interactions.


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Template metaprogramming (also template meta-programming, or just TMP) is a metaprogramming technique that involves the use of templates. It essentially works by generating temporary code as compile-time, and it is able to do work then instead of at run time. TMP is turing complete, so literally any run time instructions can be shifted to compile-time, enhancing performance.
Simple Examples Edit
A common example used to demonstrate TMP, is the 'Factorial Snippet'. It is presented here:
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using namespace std;
template
struct FACTORIAL {
 static const int value = N * FACTORIAL::value;
template <>
struct FACTORIAL<0> {
 static const int value = 1;
int main() {
 cout << FACTORIAL<4>::value << '\n'; // == 24
What happens in this example, is that the template FACTORIAL will be instantiated, and it's member value is accessed. To properly set value, it will instantiate itself with its value minus one. This continues until a instantiation of 0 is encountered. The template specialization handles 0 specifically, ending any infinite loops.
More Elaborate Examples Edit
Loop Unrolling Edit
By using recursion, TMP can hard-write the code of any loop into an executable. This means things such as for loops can be rewritten in a faster way (They are faster because there is no run time expression checking). For example, the song '99 bottle of beer' is commonly coded using a loop to count. This can be easily achieved in TMP:
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using namespace std;
typedef unsigned int uint;
const string x = " bottles of beer";
const string a = " on the wall. ";
const string v = "Take one down, pass it around! ";
const string e = "No more bottles of beer on the wall. No more bottles of beer. Go to the store, buy some more! 99 bottles of beer on the wall :)";
template
void bottles() {
 cout << num << x << a << num << x << ". " << v << num-1 << x << '\n';
void bottles<0>() {
 cout << e;
int main() {
 return 0;
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Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the book. It briefly summarises the main findings of Combatting Child Abuse: International Perspectives and Trends (Gilbert, 1997) including the main dimensions of the child protection and family service orientations and their possible relationship with the different welfare state regimes identified by Esping-Anderson. In order to locate the analysis of the ten different countries child welfare systems within this broader context the chapter also analyzes the different levels of social expenditure on family policy from 1980 onwards drawing on a range of different OECD data. The data compares the individual levels of spending for each of the ten countries and the average rates of spending for the countries grouped within the welfare state typology.
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Before the Fall : German and Austrian Art in the 1930s
A fascinating book all about the modern art movement in Germany in the 1930s
The 1930s in Germany and Austria were marked by economic crisis, political disintegration, and social chaos. This beautifully illustrated catalogue accompanying an exhibition at the Neue Galerie surveys the development of the arts in these two countries between the two world wars. Presenting nearly 150 paintings and works on paper, this book reveals artistic developments that foreshadowed, reflected, and accompanied the beginning of World War II.
Works by Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Max Ernst, Oskar Kokoschka, and Alfred Kubin are presented alongside pieces by lesser-known artists such as Friedl DickerBrandeis, Albert Paris Gutersloh, Karl Hubbuch, Richard Oelze, Josef Scharl, Franz Sedlacek, and Rudolf Wacker. This book features essays about the appropriation of artistic idioms, the reactions of artists toward their historical circumstances, and major political events that shaped the era.
- Author: Olaf Peters
- Hardcover: 288 pages | 200 illustrations
- Date published: March 2018
- Language: English
- ISBN: 978-_PHONE_
- Product Dimensions: 29.6 x 24.7 cm


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HP OpenVMS Systems
HP Advanced Server for OpenVMS
To simplify administration of access permissions, you define groups of users. The members of a group are users and other groups. Groups provide an easy way to grant common capabilities to several users; group permissions are provided to all its members.
A group can be either global or local. A global group is a collection of user accounts allowed to access resources in one domain. It can also be assigned permissions to use resources in a trusting domain. A global group:
If a trust relationship has been established between two domains, you can grant access to resources for groups from the trusted domain. To grant permissions to the members of a group from another domain, include the domain name when you specify the group name.
You create the master security accounts database for the domain when you configure the primary domain controller. This database is automatically copied to the backup domain controllers in the domain that are running the NetLogon service. You do not have to create user accounts separately on each server. All the servers in the domain that run the NetLogon service use identical copies of the same domainwide security accounts database.
Through external authentication, specified OpenVMS users are
automatically validated on the network when they log in to the OpenVMS
system running the Advanced Server. This pass-through style of
authentication ensures password synchronization between OpenVMS user
accounts and their corresponding Advanced Server network account. It
eliminates the need for users to maintain a separate password for their
OpenVMS and domain (network) user accounts. For more information about
external authentication, see Section 3.1.17, External Authentication.
1.2.6 Logon Scripts
As the network administrator, you can use logon scripts to configure
the working environments of your users by allowing them to
automatically make network connections and start applications. The
network administrator can create logon scripts and then assign a
different logon script to each user, or create a logon script for
multiple users. A logon script runs automatically whenever a user logs
on at a workstation running Windows NT, Windows XP or Windows 2000.
1.2.7 Home Directories
As the network administrator, you may want to assign a user a home
directory on a server. Users can store private data in their home
directories and have access control over these directories to restrict
or grant access to other users. If users have home directories on
computers other than their own, connections can be made automatically
to home directories whenever users log on. Depending on the client
operating system, you may need to specify the home directory in a logon
script. For information about how to specify a logon script and home
directory for a user account, see Section 3.1.3, User Account Attributes.
1.2.8 Advanced Server Licensing
To access the Advanced Server, clients must be properly licensed with a
valid Client Access license. A client may obtain a client-based license
to access an unlimited number of HP Advanced Servers, or an unlicensed
client may be assigned a server-based license while accessing resources
on a single HP Advanced Server. The Advanced Server includes the
Advanced Server License Server, which distributes client-based licenses
to clients during client startup. The Advanced Server License Registrar
validates client-based licenses when the client establishes a session,
and it allocates server-based licenses. The HP Advanced Server for OpenVMS Server Installation and Configuration Guide describes how
to install the License Server. Refer to the HP Advanced Server for OpenVMS Guide to Managing Advanced Server Licenses for more
information about Advanced Server licensing.
1.3 Resource Sharing
Sharing is the process of making resources (printers, directories, and files) available to users. As the network administrator, you make a resource available to clients who access the printer or directory, by specifying a share name and permissions to control access to the share.
Users gain access to a shared resource by:
As the network administrator, you define which resources to share,
which users and groups can access them, and the type of access each
user and group can have.
1.3.1 Disk Directories
The Advanced Server automatically shares the root directory of all disk devices connected to the server that are mounted when you start the server process. This type of share is called an autoshare. It is accessible by Administrators only.
Advanced Server lets you audit user attempts to access shared files or directories. You specify the types of access attempts to be audited. When one of those events occurs, the Advanced Server records an entry in the Security event log.
For information about setting permissions and auditing for individual files and directories, see Chapter 4, Managing Directory and File Sharing.
The OpenVMS system supports two file systems:
By default, you manage Advanced Server printers and print shares on the server using the ADMINISTER command interface. However, you can configure the server so that you can manage its printers remotely with a Windows NT system.
For information about managing print shares and queues, see
Chapter 5, Managing Printers, Print Queues, and Print Shares.
1.4 Monitoring Events and Troubleshooting
The event log records client and server events. It contains the following information about each event:
You can establish an audit policy for event types on a server and set auditing for individual directories or files. The audit policy defines the types of events to be logged. Auditing also allows you to record server resource use. It can provide the following information about each access attempt:
You can administer the Advanced Server, another server, or a workstation in the network, from either a HP OpenVMS server or from another computer, using one of the interfaces listed in Table 1-1, Network Administration Interfaces.
|Advanced Server for OpenVMS and PATHWORKS V6 for OpenVMS (Advanced Server)||
Includes the following:
|Windows NT Server||Windows NT server administration tools (Windows-based interfaces, including Server Manager, Print Manager, User Manager for Domains, and Event Viewer).|
|PATHWORKS (LAN Manager)||ADMIN/PATH utility (a character-cell user interface), or Net commands (a command-line interface).|
|Advanced Server for UNIX||pwadmin commands (a command-line interface), or net commands (limited functions).|
|DOS client||Net commands (a command-line interface).|
|Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows 2003 client||MS-DOS Net interface (a command-line interface), Windows NT server administration tools (Windows-based user interfaces).|
You can control most aspects of the Advanced Server using the Advanced Server ADMINISTER command-line interface. You invoke the Advanced Server ADMINISTER command-line interface by entering the ADMINISTER command at the OpenVMS system prompt. The Advanced Server command-line interface prompts you with the name of the domain and the name of the server you are currently administering. For example:
$ ADMINISTER LANDOFOZ\\TINMAN>
In this example, you are managing a domain called LANDOFOZ and a server called TINMAN. You can enter ADMINISTER commands at the prompt.
You can also execute ADMINISTER commands on the DCL command line in the following way:
$ ADMINISTER SET PASSWORD SCARECROW "YellowRoad" "EmeraldCity" %PWRK-S-PSWCHANGED, password changed for user "SCARECROW" in domain "LANDOFOZ" $
In this example, the command-line interface executes a single command and returns to the OpenVMS system prompt.
The ADMINISTER command-line interface prompts you for any required information that you did not supply on the command line. For example, you can log on to the network using the LOGON command, as follows. Note that the password is required, so the software prompts you for it. When type the password, it is not displayed on the screen.
$ ADMINISTER LANDOFOZ\\TINMAN> LOGON ADMINISTRATOR Password: The server \\TINMAN successfully logged you on as Administrator. Your privilege level on domain LANDOFOZ is ADMIN. The last time you logged on was 07/19/00 06:41 PM. LANDOFOZ\\TINMAN>
The Advanced Server ADMINISTER command-line interface has online help that describes command syntax, options, and qualifiers. It also explains each command and gives examples of command use. The Help facility for the ADMINISTER command-line interface has the same structure as OpenVMS DCL help.
To use online help, enter one of the following commands at the DCL prompt ($):
|ADMINISTER HELP||A list of help topics|
|ADMINISTER HELP command||The description, syntax, qualifiers, and examples for the specified ADMINISTER command|
domain\\ server> HELP
|A list of help topics|
For complete information about ADMINISTER commands and their syntax,
refer to the HP Advanced Server for OpenVMS Commands Reference Manual or to the ADMINISTER command-line interface
1.6.2 Administering Domains and Servers
By default, you are set up to administer the local server and the domain to which it belongs. The default domain remains in effect for the duration of the current OpenVMS login session, or until you log off the domain or change the default domain. Commands are executed on the domain and server indicated by the ADMINISTER command-line interface prompt. For example, the following prompt indicates that the domain currently being administered is LANDOFOZ, and the server is TINMAN:
You can use the SET ADMINISTRATION command to administer resources, services, and server operation in another domain or server, if you have been validated for a user account that is a member of the Administrators group. For more information, see Section