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to evoke within the game. We hope that the game evokes a sense of nostalgia by encouraging players to discuss the plentiful conditions of the early game. Players take on the role of a haenyeo family and "live" through the 20th century, making decisions about their family's future. The different eras serve as a framework for players to view the history of the divers. Linda Hutcheon, in reflecting on the tension of power and irony in nostalgia, describes the irreplicable feeling of longing and an emotional response to "deprivation, loss, and mourning."24 Nostalgia for something that our players have never experienced, in our case, would resemble the bittersweet feelings of a family divided across generations and a sense of serene tragedy. Although the sea is a space of work, the haenyeo's profession extends far inland. In preparing the catch and making food for the family, there is an inter-generational connection deeply rooted in being a haenyeo. While some haenyeo continued their work out a simple love for the sea, others emphasized the practical rewards of their work. For example, fishing was simply a practical way to provide a better future for their children.25 We tried to recreate inter-generational tensions by highlighting how diving was both a means to economic advancement, yet also a path of planned obsolescence.
The story of the haenyeo and South Korean history is not a happy one. In South Korea, this sense of impending tragedy has been characterized by the conception of han, the thorough and deep awareness of sadness. Perhaps the board game version of This War of Mine(2017)26 best captures the emotion of tragic serenity we aimed to evoke. Players familiar with the video game of This War of Mine (2014)27 expect a journey of hard ethical decisions that always inevitably ends in doom. When we played the board game, having this narrative expectation instilled a kind of serenity and acceptance. We as players knew, even when we were making the best available decisions, that we were headed for defeat. Mermaids of Iedo seeks to address a similar sentiment: the precarious nature of cultural practices.
We really wanted the game to evoke a sense of fracture with how it presented the generational divide. In developing the family tree layout, we looked to Crusader Kings II (2012)28 as an exemplar. In Crusader Kings II players take on the role of dynastic families rising and falling in the ranks of European empires in the Middle Ages. Players balance the immediate concerns of their character against the larger health of the family across centuries of time. While for much of the game, the player makes choices based on what they want for their current character, the play objective necessarily shifts at some point to making decisions that will establish an effective dynasty for the player's family. At some point, the unrelenting progression of time requires that the current character make sacrifices in service of their enduring legacy. In Mermaids of Iedo, player choices during shore phase affect their lives and their family members' lives.
Nostalgia is a difficult emotion to capture. Although we attempted to capture it by evoking a sense of generational character development in our game, the game's larger goal of telling the story of the haenyeo may ultimately draw an audience that is unfamiliar and therefore not nostalgic about the story told.
History and Context
Finally, and arguably most important to the design of the game, was the sense of family and history as a fundamental part of the haenyeo's experience. The social effects of the history of Jeju impacted all citizens. While the time inside the water was a period of meditative slowness and uniformity of experience for the haenyeo practitioners, their lives ashore included the everyday struggles of child rearing, family dynamics, and community political gossip. Haenyeo were not only colleagues in the water, but a community of women who talked while farming or preparing food ashore.
Captured primarily through the event cards in each shore phase, the historical context has been integrated as a primary storytelling and framing aspect of the game. We envisioned this in a two phase time-spatialization, where activities on shore furthered the timeline. The constancy of the sea phase creates a uniformity of experience for the haenyeo practitioners, and drives events and opportunities resolved in the shore phase. Meanwhile, the daily happenings of shore phase influence which characters participated in the sea phase. Both everyday life events and larger historical movements had to be captured within these storytelling mechanics–balancing these elements has been an ongoing struggle.
In the process of creating a history of the haenyeo, we were heavily influenced by how Crusader Kings II and Freedom: The Underground Railroad (2012)29 represent different historical periods. In Crusader Kings II, the duality of current individual needs and longer term family needs helped us develop how players in Mermaids of Iedo must also balance the present and the future of their families and community. Freedom, set during the Abolitionist movement of the American Antebellum era, inspired us to deviate from the calendar's typical decade interval and to design around uneven periods instead. In escaping the uniformity of time, the game was able to focus on the events that created family and cultural bonds, as evidenced by those living through the Japanese Colonial period, the Korean War, or the Korean Democracy movement. For players this means that events are placed in the context of family members who lived through these times as opposed to living between marks on a calendar. Our goal in telling this histroy was to capture the emotions behind influential events in haenyeo history and situate this within larger events affecting the South Korean nation and peninsula as a whole.
Mermaids of Iedo is a game still in development. In this essay we have focused discussing how we approached the design of intangible things like, environmentalism, temporality, nostalgia, and history in the the mechanics of the game. Mermaids of Iedo attempts to capture a cultural experience. While the game does not depict the experience of every family living on Jeju, or perhaps even the experience of a single one, it does capture a facsimile of the experience of being a haenyeo family in the 1900s. And while the qualitative experience of designing and iterating through versions of the game cannot be fully and concisely transmitted, the process of designing emotional experiences in games by documenting the intentions, inspirations and decisions of this particular game design experience can. We hope that our work allows others interested in serious games to glean some of what we have learned about the game the design process.
As researchers, our goal was to explore the process of developing a serious game and how designer choices create emotional experiences as well as educational outcomes. As designers, our goal was to create a game that celebrated the haenyeo of Jeju Island while drawing attention to the fragility of their practices. As we worked through incorporating our selected themes, we discovered that various aspects of design, such as periods of silence, can emphasize emotional connections. Attempting to capture the essence of this cultural practice required a much broader interaction with the history and community that the haenyeo lived in. While we could have made a game that focused on the mechanics of the diving women, that game would have been bereft of the emotional richness behind the practice. Meanwhile, characteristics that we presumed at first to be important could be reasonably abstracted–details such as how seasons influenced the resources of the sea faded in comparison to the unfolding of how larger historical events impacted the family. We hope our serious game is hopefully able to represent historical narratives and provide an awareness of how the precarity of the environment affected the livelihood of families. Other thematic goals, such as a meditative slowness and a nostalgic affect, were unfortunately more difficult to implement.
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This essay was written by William Dunkel and Minerva Wu.
William Dunkel is a PhD student in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. He is interested in how games can be designed to further informal learning, globalization and play, as well as media ventriloquism. His past work has looked at sonic representation in Overwatch, temporal constructions of play, and the state of the Korean game industry. William earned his MA in Korean Studies from Korea University, and is currently revisiting the Warring States period of Japan by playing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.
Minerva Wu is an Informatics doctoral student at the University of California, Irvine interested in what happens to players cognitively during gameplay, and how design elements make games fun and conducive to learning. Current projects investigate student learning of academic and social-emotional content in games and game communities.


Women for child bearing, boys for pleasure: The ugly side of Afghanistan
Updated Jun 26, 2017 | 13:19 IST | AFP
The lack of contact with women in gender-segregated Afghanistan has contributed to the spread of bacha bazi, rights groups say.
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Kabul: AFP has traced three former victims of "bacha bazi", or the sexual exploitation of boys, whose testimonies lay bare one of Afghanistan's most egregious human rights violations.
Here are some key answers about the abusive practice.
What is it?
"Bachas" are boy sex slaves, often kept by powerful warlords, commanders, politicians and other members of the elite as a symbol of authority and affluence.
Sometimes dressed as women, they are often sexually exploited. They can also be used as dancers at private parties.
Bacha bazi, or "boy play", is not widely seen as homosexual behaviour, which is popularly demonised and perceived as prohibited in Islam. Instead it is largely accepted as a cultural practice.
How common is it?
How has it been allowed to flourish?
Other factors such as an absence of the rule of law, corruption, limited access to justice, illiteracy, poverty, insecurity, and the existence of armed groups have also helped the practice spread, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) said in a report in 2014.
AIHRC points out that Afghanistan's criminal law prohibits rape and pederasty, but so far there are no clear provisions on bacha bazi.
Where do the boys come from?
Bachas are typically aged between 10 and 18. Many of them are kidnapped, and sometimes desperate poverty drives their families to sell them to abusers.
"Such victims suffer from stress and a sort of distrust, hopelessness and pessimistic feeling. Bacha bazi results in fear among the children and feelings of revenge and hostility develop in their mind."
Many victims are said to grow up to take bachas of their own, repeating the cycle of abuse.
What is being done about it?
This year Afghanistan moved to criminalise bacha bazi for the first time, laying out penalties up to capital punishment in a revised penal code -- but it has given no time frame over when they will be enforced.
Afghanistan also has a poor record of enforcing such provisions, especially when the perpetrators are powerful.
Many have connections with the security institutions, and use influence and bribes to get exempted from punishment.
The lack of enforcement means "the government is sending a very clear message: protection of children is a low priority," said Charu Lata Hogg, a London-based fellow at Chatham House think tank.
The international community's failure to act means it is "similarly prioritising security over the wellbeing of children," she said.
How is bacha bazi impacting Afghan security?
AFP reported last year how the practice, institutionalised in security ranks, was helping the Taliban to infiltrate provinces such as Uruzgan, using bachas desperate for escape to kill hundreds of police.
The abusive tradition undermines support for NATO-trained Afghan forces, who had received more than $60 billion in assistance from the US as of 2015, according to Congress.
"Predatory sexual behaviour by Afghan soldiers and police could undermine US and Afghan public support for (Afghan forces), and put our enormous investment at risk," Congress has stated.
Bacha bazi also helps fuels support for the austere Taliban and their bid to reassert sharia law in Afghanistan.
Such abuses by the mujahideen forces in the early 1990s are part of what helped sweep the Taliban to power, a Western official in Kabul told AFP.
"Similar behaviour of the government forces after 2001 is also helping to inspire the insurgency."
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 Like all organisms, the human species naturally strives against extinction. Though your countries have borders and your languages have barriers. All people in all places are members of the same biological family. All humans are pieces of a collective that keeps humanity in existence.
Though you are merely a speck on the back of a grain of sand when compared to the vast number of humans born and decomposed for millennia, you are as important to your species' survival as the greatest kings and queens.
But by nature, the human is affected by instinct, emotion, and imbalance.
 A human will turn on one of its own species for reasons that will never matter in a thousand years, and likely not matter in even a hundred or ten. While you have seen the Light in the distance and chosen to follow it. Even if from mere curiosity. There are millions more whose backs are turned against its glow.
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Sarah Colt on Why 2021 Is the Right Time for a Film About Billy Graham
Tenacious and tireless, Billy Graham was blessed with what more than one observer called animal magnetism. When he died at age 99 in 20...
Tenacious and tireless, Billy Graham was blessed with what more than one observer called animal magnetism. When he died at age 99 in 2008, he was estimated to have preached in person to 210 million people.
He was also a savvy political player, and that's the focus of the new PBS "American Experience" documentary, "Billy Graham." Premiering Monday, the two-hour film, directed by Sarah Colt ("The Disrupted"), portrays a preacher drawn to power like a moth to a flame. After getting the cold shoulder from Harry Truman, a staunch believer in the separation of church and state, Graham went on to become a living, breathing seal of approval sought by every U.S. president until his death.
"He became an incredibly, tremendously powerful figure, a figurehead of the evangelical movement," Colt said by phone from her New York office. "But it really was the intersection between him and political life, in particular the presidency, that was our focal point. We wanted to understand better what happened there, and what he did."
Riding the anti-Communist fervor of the 1940s and '50s, endorsed by the media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, Graham found himself preaching his distinctly American and capitalistic brand of Christianity to thousands, in venues from rural America to Madison Square Garden. He sought and won converts among secular audiences. He desegregated his events, which he called crusades, and invited a young Martin Luther King Jr. to appear with him in New York.
But as the civil rights movement picked up steam, he was largely silent. From an early stage, he knew it was conservatives who buttered his bread.
Colt discussed Graham's promotional savvy, his political maneuverings and the U.S. president who broke his heart. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.
What set Graham apart from other public religious figures?
There are lots of evangelists in American history, and there are famous ones who attracted big crowds. But Graham was in a class of his own very, very early, and very quickly. His sense was, the more you can be part of the mainstream, and take advantage of print and radio and television and any kind of media, as well as politicians, then you're spreading this message as far and wide as you can.
How did timing help him?
I think he was born at the right moment in the right body. He was tall. He fit a certain stereotype that was very popular, the majority vision of what a good-looking man is. And he had this kind of aura about him. He had the same qualities as a politician or a movie star. He's from a dairy farm near Charlotte, N.C. He wasn't poor growing up, but he wasn't from a wealthy family. And he finds himself rubbing shoulders with the wealthiest people in the United States and with the Queen of England and Winston Churchill. He's just mixing with society at the highest level, and he likes it. He's good at it. He understands how to do it.
What makes Graham an important figure in 2021?
We're always thinking about how history reflects on where we are today. That seems really relevant when you think about the power of the evangelical vote in presidential elections, and no election is more important to that than the election of 2016.
Was Graham of the religious right, or did he just influence its creation?
He was asked to join [the Rev. Jerry Falwell's] Moral Majority, and he declined. But his fundamentalist religious beliefs remained. His theology never changed over the course of his career. He was preaching a message of Jesus Christ as your Savior from the beginning to the end, and he absolutely believed in that. But I think it became more nuanced for him.
He had a public image of nonpartisanship. He sought the approval of Democratic presidents as well as Republican. But the film seems to argue that he was, in fact, partisan.
He really comes onto the stage in the late '40s with a very, very strong anti-communist message. That wasn't necessarily partisan, but it was political. He was saying, We really need, as a country, to fight this communist scourge.
Then, he finds in Eisenhower a kind of partner. He and Eisenhower saw things very similarly in terms of their politics, and Graham was quite comfortable with saying he was nonpartisan in front of cameras but doing a lot of things behind the scenes that were quite partisan. So it's an interesting sort of public-private thing that he did.
With Nixon it seems like there was more than a mere political alliance.
In some ways Graham and Nixon grew up together in politics and in the public eye. Just at the moment that Nixon becomes vice president to Eisenhower in '52, Graham is emerging as this very, very famous American religious figure. By the mid '50s, as the journalist Nancy Gibbs says in our film, Billy Graham is arguably the most famous man in the world.
So Nixon is vice president, and Graham is this evangelist that people recognize on the street, and they swarm him, he's like a movie star. He and Nixon are figuring out this world of prominent national fame together, and they become friends. They really liked each other, and their politics did align. And when Nixon runs in '68 and wins, that's everything Billy Graham has been working toward, which is both to be close with the president and feel that he can influence the president.
Then Watergate sort of broke Graham's heart.
Graham was one of the last people to see that Nixon was double-dealing and wasn't who he appeared to be. He really got sucked in. He got kind of blinded by the whole thing. He made a big mistake staying so close with Nixon, right to the bitter end when other allies of Nixon knew that there was a major problem. And he stayed very close, and they remained friends. But Graham learned from the experience. Watergate changed how he saw his role as a religious figure and the power that he had and what he should do with it.
What did Graham do differently after Watergate?
He started doing more international crusades after that. And he made some very clear public speeches where he said he had made a mistake, and that religious people should not be publicly partisan. In 1980, he definitely wanted Reagan to win the presidency, but he supported him privately rather than publicly. He always said he didn't endorse Nixon, but he really did.
How did he modernize fundamentalism?
In the beginning, he was part of the Youth for Christ group [founded in 1944]. They weren't so strident, even though they were fundamentalists in how they saw the Bible. They were more inclusive, and they embraced youth culture. They had light-up bow ties and Olympic athletes at their events. They had a talking horse.
Why all the fun and games?
They did all this stuff to attract young people and make it more appealing. It was like: "Yes, you can wear makeup and you can be part of the world and get your hair done and wear nice, flashy clothes. And you can still believe in Jesus Christ." And Billy Graham really becomes the figurehead of that movement because he's so good at it. The modern evangelical movement sort of begins with that.
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Nowadays it is quite hard to imagine everyday life without the use of technologies. On a daily basis, we use gadgets and the Internet for many purposes, including also educational ones. When it comes to language learning, technologies are of great help, especially voice recording tools.
Benefits of Voice Recording
- In cases when teachers lack sufficient time to refine students' pronunciation, accuracy, and fluency in the classroom, they can assign some speaking tasks as homework. Ask your students to do the speaking task from the course book at home and send you the recording. Evaluate the task performance and conduct face-to-face oral or written feedback. What is more, the most powerful features of voice-recording discussions are the ability to evaluate student understanding and to self-reflect. Teachers can teach how to self assess the recording in the lesson then ask to do that at home – play the part of the audio for the class. Show learners how to transcribe by playing parts of the audio and pausing it to write a sentence at a time on the board. Then, give learners a correction key:
- ww = wrong word
- pr= preposition
- t = wrong tense
- Voice recording can encourage work on pronunciation and accuracy since students have the chance to record, re-record the task for as many times as necessary to feel confident with it. Besides if the speaking task is set as homework it will provide the learners with the possibility to practice speaking at home and not be limited to the classroom speaking time only. For more timid and shy students it is a great chance to gain confidence and the feeling of accomplishment as they can record the task countless time until they are happy with it. Voice recording tools can be used not only as individual speaking tasks but also as pair-work or group work.
- Both teachers and learners get a recording database which tracks the learners progress through a certain period of time and enables to reflect back on what has been done and what has been improved, which aspects of their speech still need further work. Furthermore, the teacher may prepare a task based on common errors.
- Unlimited access to the completion of tasks in terms of the time of the day or the place. Students can record themselves whenever and wherever they want.
- Look at the conversation below. Does it look familiar?
Voice recording tools appeal greatly not only to adults but also to teens and young learners. Nowadays teens often record their voices to vlog, send voice messages, make screencasts and so on. There is a much more communicative purpose to voice recording now. If you work with teenagers, voice recording can help to make your lessons even more engaging as almost every task can be adapted and made more meaningful with voice recording. For example, when working on narrative structures, teenagers may enjoy recording themselves narrating short stories in small groups. These can be swapped with other groups and they can take notes on the usage of some tenses, target vocabulary or storytelling devices. After having covered presentation language and having practiced some in-classroom presentations, teens may be assigned homework presentations and upload them in a class blog or even in a simple Facebook chatting group. Each learner can choose a peer presentation and grade it according to the template provided by the teacher. While grading they must record themselves.
- Young learners enjoy recording them reading a book or a story. Teachers may organize reading competitions. Learners are divided into pairs and asked to read the target material in the given timeframe. When the time is over they stop reading and send the recording to the teacher. The latter chooses the winner. Furthermore, teachers may focus on some pronunciation errors. Moreover, young learners very often forget to write down the homework. In these cases, voice recording may help. Ask them to record you as you set the homework (the moment needed for the students take out their phones to record your instructions may even provide a point of focus). Similarly, write the homework on the board and ask them to record themselves describing the task in their own words.
- Look at the picture below. What do you think voice recording is used for?
Voice recording tools are of great help while preparing students for exams, like TOEFL, OGE, EGE speaking sections. As in these exams, the speaking part is done in the format of recording and not with the real speaker, students get some speaking practice in the exam format, feel the upcoming exam spirit of talking to a machine and not the real person. While preparing my students for the mentioned exams sometimes I assign the speaking tasks which were done during the lesson as homework the aim of which is to speak on the same topic implementing the feedback which I gave to them during the lesson. However, sometimes they record themselves on the topics which haven't been discussed in the classroom. If the learners feel ok with the peer feedback, they can share their homework recordings with their peers and get structured feedback from them using the grading templates designed for the exam. In this way, the exam taking tension will be lowered.
Useful online and offline tools:
- Online voice recording tools – SpeakPipe, Vocaroo, Freetech – allow to record yourself online and share the recording via email, Facebook, Google Plus, or embed the link in word documents. The recording time is not limited.
- Offline voice recording tools which mainly include applications for computers and mobile phones (CloudRecorder, Top 3 Voice Recorders) as well as voice recorders which every smartphone has. With the help of CloudRecorder you can record any audio material offline, upload them to the cloud when you're online and access your recordings anywhere.
Voice recording tools will upgrade and bring your Lesson into the 21st Century. It is a great way of having learners fully indulged in the learning process and undertake the role of active learners.

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Become an EMS Firefighter and Improve Your Odds of Finding Employment
If you have always dreamed of becoming a firefighter, then you will want to do everything that you can to ensure that your dream becomes a reality. One of the ways that you can do that is by Become an EMS Firefighterenrolling in a fire science school to learn more about fire, firefighting, and investigation, even before you try to become a firefighter. Another thing that you will likely want to do is to take paramedic courses so you can become an EMS firefighter. Firefighters who have emergency medical service skills are in demand, and it can help improve your chance of finding employment. When you are considering a career as an EMS firefighter, you have to understand that it is going to take quite a bit of dedication and study to do so. Becoming a firefighter isn't easy, and it takes mental and physical prowess to do well. Make sure that you keep up a consistent training regimen before you enter the academy, and take steps to improve your education. By finishing a course in fire science and by obtaining first aid and lifesaving training as a paramedic, it will better prepare you for the reality of becoming an EMS firefighter. The more training you have the better off you are going to be.
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An EMS firefighter is going to be responsible for more than just driving the truck or helping to put out fires. Those who have this training will also need to be able to administer medical help that encompasses a wide range of different possibilities. While you may have to tend to burn victims and those suffering from smoke inhalation, many other types of medical emergencies could crop up as well. Someone could have a heart attack or a stroke. Perhaps someone has been shot or stabbed.
…firefighters who have emergency medical service skills are in demand"When arriving at the scene, you never know what you can expect. Having more training is going to ensure that you have preparation to handle just about anything the world can throw at you though. Take a step in the right direction and start looking for schooling in fire science and emergency medical training that will be able to give you more skills and more education. Train now so you can do a better job later, and so you can increase your odds of finding a job or getting a promotion. You will be glad that you have these skills under your belt.


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Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)
A Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) is the information system designated by the Continuum of Care to comply with HUD's data collection, management, and reporting standards and used to collect client-level data and data on the provision of housing and services to homeless individuals and families and persons at risk of homelessness.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and other planners and policymakers at the federal, state and local levels use aggregate HMIS data to obtain better information about the extent and nature of homelessness over time. Specifically, an HMIS can be used to produce an unduplicated count of homeless persons, understand patterns of service use, and measure the effectiveness of homeless programs.
Proposed Rule for HMIS Requirements
HUD was required by the HEARTH Act to establish standards related to HMIS, including standards related to encryption of the data collected and the rights of persons receiving services under the McKinney-Vento Act. As a result, HUD published the proposed rule for HMIS Requirements in the Federal Register on December 9, 2011. This proposed rule provides for: 1) uniform technical requirements of HMIS; 2) proper collection of data and maintenance of the database; and 3) confidentiality of the information in the database. The public comment period closed on February 7, 2012.
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use IGeometricEffects to get the results for individual dash or offset effects but not both. However, you can use IGeometricEffect to get the result of applying a combination of dash and offset effects as a single effect.
 The RepresentationRule class does not implement IGraphicAttributes. Thus, when IGeometricEffect is used to reference a RepresentationRule to retrieve the chain of effects on this rule as a single effect, IGraphicAttributes must not be used to get back the graphic attributes present for these effects.
 The following table lists the available geometric effects along with their valid input and output geometry types and graphic attributes:
 Geometric effect
 Input geometry : Output geometry
 Graphic attributes
 AddControlPoints Line : Line, Polygon : Polygon Tolerance
 Buffer Point : Polygon, Line : Polygon, Polygon : Polygon Size
 Cut Line : Line, Polygon : Line Begin, End, Invert
 Dashes Line : Line, Polygon : Line Pattern, Endings
 Donut Polygon : Polygon Width, Simple, Method
 EnclosingPolygon Line : Polygon, Polygon : Polygon Method
 Line : Line, Polygon : Polygon
 X Offset, Y Offset
 OffsetCurve Line : Line, Polygon : Polygon Offset, Method, Simple
 Radial Point : Line Angle, Length
 Point : Polygon
 Radius, Edges, Angle
 Reverse Line : Line Reverse
 Line : Line, Polygon : Polygon
 Simplify Line : Line, Polygon : Polygon Tolerance
 Line : Line, Polygon : Polygon
 X Factor, Y Factor
 SmoothCurve Line : Line, Polygon : Polygon Tolerance
 Line : Polygon
 From width, To width, Length
 Line : Line, Polygon : Polygon
 Period, Width, Style
 Graphic attributes and graphic attribute types
 Graphic attributes are attributes used to define graphical properties for marker placements and geometric effects, and BasicMarkerSymbol, LineStroke, GradientPattern, LinePattern, and SolidColorPattern objects. RepresentationClass also has a single graphic attribute for controlling its visibility property. All graphic attributes are enumerated into esriGraphicAttribute, esriGeometricEffectAttributes, and esriMarkerPlacementAttributes enumerations.
 IGraphicAttributes is the basic interface that a class must implement to have a list of its own graphic attributes. Use the ClassName property on this interface in conjunction with either IGeometricEffect or IMarkerPlacement to determine which geometric effect or marker placement object is currently used. The esriGraphicAttributeType enumeration has the following attribute types:
 - Boolean
 - Color
 - Dash
 - Double
 - Enum
 - Integer
 - Marker
 - Size
 - Text
 The BasicMarkerSymbol modifying graphic attributes, color, angle, size, and transparency are shown in the following illustration:
 MapContext and OutputContext
 The following reference frames are used for data translation among geographic, map, and output display contexts:
 - Geographic reference frame - A feature layer represents geographic data and can be reprojected prior to drawing the features on a map.
 - Map reference frame (MRF) - An intermediate frame introduced to define a clear context in which geometric effects and on-the-fly processing work. This frame is similar to the map sheet frame that is used with a 72 dpi graphic resolution centered at the geographic spatial reference. The advantage of having the MRF is to provide a stable context for geometric effects and marker placement properties as this is in a graphic frame but independent of zoom levels and pan positions. Linear attributes (distance and length) are relative to this frame. For example, a 12 point offset is a 12 unit displacement in MRF. Effects store these attributes in MRF units and use them without any transformation.
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Few FAQ on pension payment to pensioners
As the grant or receipt of pension by the beneficiary or government servant involves a process as a whole it has several facets to it. So, here is an attempt made to clarify some of the queries concerning pension payment for eligible beneficiaries.
Who is the pension sanctioning authority?
The last ministry or department or office where the pensioner served is authorized to sanction the pension amount. At first, the concerned dept. or ministry or office fixes the pension amount for the pensioner and thereafter any refixation in pension payment amount is executed by the bank paying the pension amount.
Can banks be approached for drawing pension amount?
Yes, designated bank branches can even by approached by pensioners who earlier drew their pension from a post office or a treasury for pension payment.
Do pensioner need to open and maintain a separate pension account for credit of pension?
No, separate account is not required to be maintained for the purpose and pension amount can be credited in the existing current or savings account held by the pensioner in the authorized bank branch. Also, all central government pensioners and few state government pensioners are allowed to maintain joint account with their spouse and the account can be operated as 'Either or Survior' or 'Former or Survivor'.
What is the minimum balance requirement in case of pension account with the banks?
Banks on their own discretion have stipulated rules in this regard and some of the banks are also allowing zero balance pension account.
When is the pension amount credited into the account of the pensioner?
The pension amount in the pensioner's account is credited by the authorized bank branch at any time during the last 4 working days of the month based on the convenience of the bank branch. However, in March, the amount is credited on or after the 1st working day of April.
Is pensioners presence carrying the requisite documents essential before the commencement of pension?
Before the initiation of pension payment, the paying branch requires the pensioner to be present at the branch with the required documents for identification.
What is the compensation amount paid by the pension paying branch in case of delayed payment?
In case the authorized bank branch delays in pension payment, a compensation @ 8% is automatically credited in the pensioner's bank account on the day when the bank credits delayed pension or arrears.
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International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism
The International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism —or Ligue Internationale Contre le Racisme et l'Antisémitisme (LICRA) in French— has existed for 75 years battling the evils of intolerance, xenophobia and exclusion. In 1927, French journalist Bernard Lecache created "The League Against the Pogroms." Originally, a Committee of Honor was formed by a number of notable scholars of the day including, Edward Herriot, Léon Blum, Léon Jouhaux, Albert Einstein, Séverine, Maxim Gorky, Edouard Benes, Thomas G. Mazaryck, Romain Rolland, André Malraux, and Anne de Noailles. Joseph Kessel was one of the first to sign a membership.
It soon changed its name to the International League Against Anti-Semitism (LICA) that evolved to LICRA in 1979.
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The Language of Protest The language of political protest and pressure has taken many forms. I shall try to show this range and variety by analyzing four examples that have very different historical contexts and which take very different approaches: Martin Luther King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech; Jonathan Swift's satire 'A Modest Proposal'; and contemporary tests from New Internationalist magazine and from a Friends of the Earth advertisement. King's speech shows all the oratorical mastery than made him so indispensable to the US Civil Rights movement of the sixties. The language is that of the Baptist preacher, often biblical in tone, rich with metaphor and a great array of rhetorical techniques. It is appropriate to the circumstances: the charismatic leader heading a great crusade. Although the text appears to have been fully written - every phrase is carefully crafted - the sense of the audience is evident throughout, above all in the way that King contrives to build fervour and excitement. It is not so much intended to persuade (he was addressing supporters) but to inspire. King initiates his speech by uniting his audience by using noble abstract nouns and dignified words. He carefully calculates the emotions of his audience as he speaks, and in doing so he milks cheers from them, thus showing their support for the cause. King begins: "I am happy to join with you today in what will go down as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation." The abstract nouns such as ''freedom' and 'history', attach great importance to the cause. Right from the outset, King sets this powerful tone which prevails throughout much of his speech. Dignified words such as 'nation' also add impetus to his speech. However, more importantly, King utilizes the possessive pro-noun 'our' in front of the word 'nation'. Therefore, King is deliberately saying that this demonstration will not just go down in the history of America, but more essentially of 'our nation'....read more.
Unlike King's speech, 'A Modest Proposal' there is only one tone throughout the passage. Swift amusingly his target by the parody of political and economical language. One of these targets was the economists. Swift uses this language when he is calculating the number of children that can be used for food in Ireland. He deliberately de-humanises people, with his attention to figures and facts. As Swift uses sound mathematical reasoning to justify his claims, the poor people loose their humanity and become facts and figures. Swift is using the force of satire, which makes his argument seem reasonable. Swift writes, "The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couples whose wives are breeders; from which I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children... there will remain and hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year." The effect of using this language is to label the poor as useless and therefore Swift proposes to use the poor as an economic resource i.e. to feed the rich. By doing so, the two main problems of famine and overpopulation can be resolved. Thus, Swift is having fun at the expense of economists. He maybe directly referring to the famous economist called Malthus. Malthus said that populations grow geometrically, whereas food supply only grows arithmetically, and therefore, the supply of food in the world will one day be insufficient to feed the population. Regardless of whether Malthus' theory is true or not, Swift may not have liked it because it sounds very de-humanising and this is a characteristic flaw in the way economists generally talk. Furthermore, throughout the proposal, there are two languages in progress. There is a moral one....read more.
It was the timber cutter, Oscar Branco, with 16 hired gunmen. Te men got out and shouted that they had come to kill everyone. They started firing... Fourteen Indians, including children were killed. Twenty-two more were injured... Everyone knew who the killers were... Yet four years have passed and no one has been prosecuted. Those Indians and their children - their deaths didn't count." In addition to the short sentences, all of what we read is just factual. The narrator doesn't on any occasion reveal to us his or her feelings to what has happened. The narrator simply tells us the incidents that occurred. Therefore, the reader is expected to react independently to what read. Therefore, reaction to the cruelty of the gunmen from the reader, and not the narrator, making it more effective. In the concluding the section, the narrator intensifies her story by blaming the reader for what has happened. From being an ill - informed audience, the reader becomes a secondary oppressor to the woodcutters. The narrator uses extremely strong language to evoke a sense of guilt in the reader so that the reader would help. It states: "Your greed for mahogany. You in Britain buy more then half the mahogany Brazil produces. Look! That deep red glow in your mahogany dinner table is the blood of murdered Indians. Listen! The clatter of your mahogany luxuries is the gunfire that killed Indian children" It is very forceful language. It ties together common images such as the 'dinner table' with the 'blood' and dead children. It finishes by demanding help and uses repetition in the conclusion where it states, 'Please join us. Please do it now.' Therefore, by bringing the reader into the situation, the narration hopes to make the reader feel that they have a responsibility to help as they own mahogany goods. Constantly, throughout the piece, the tone switches. It begins as informative by telling us about the mahogany trees and the wood-cutters. It then becomes very factual and concludes with forceful language and an emotive plea....read more.
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Location: Kimmel Center for University Life, Washington Square South, New York, NY, USA
This offering is designed to provide behavioral health providers with an understanding of and tools to address racial and cultural differences in therapeutic settings. Cultural competence and knowledge of effective approaches to addressing difference can improve the therapeutic alliance between providers and participants. All training attendees will examine the impact of implicit biases on their work, and practice addressing racial and cultural differences through role play exercises. At the end of the series, we expect clinicians to have learned new approaches that they can apply within their own clinical work.


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How Bridges Work and Fall Apart
This course covers the basics of bridge design. The fundamental forces that bridges resist, tension, compression and bending, will be explained via hands-on demonstrations and real bridge parts, old and new. These elements will then be applied to model bridges made by the students calculating the efficiency of their design...and then break them! Through these bridge failures, the students will learn of the strengths and weaknesses of various bridge designs.
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This is the Amorphous Computing HomePage.
A colony of cells cooperates to form a multicellular organism under the direction of a genetic program shared by the members of the colony. A swarm of bees cooperates to construct a hive. Humans group together to build towns, cities, and nations. These examples raise fundamental questions for the organization of computing systems:
These questions have been recognized as fundamental for generations. Now is an opportune time to tackle the engineering of emergent order: to identify the engineering principles and languages that can be used to observe, control, organize, and exploit the behavior of programmable multitudes.
We call this effort the study of amorphous computing.
The objective of this research is to create the system-architectural, algorithmic, and technological foundations for exploiting programmable materials. These are materials that incorporate vast numbers of programmable elements that react to each other and to their environment. Such materials can be fabricated economically, provided that the computing elements are amassed in bulk without arranging for precision interconnect and testing. In order to exploit programmable materials we must identify engineering principles for organizing and instructing myriad programmable entities to cooperate to achieve pre-established goals, even though the individual entities are unreliable and interconnected in unknown, irregular, and time-varying ways.
Infrastructure for an Amorphous Environment
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HLSIM is a simulator for an ensemble of 'gunk' processors which allows programs to be written in (nearly) Scheme. The gunk processor is distinguished by having no input or output other than a short-range radio-like communications device, and possibly some local physical sensors and actuators. The need for HLSIM arises out of the desire to simulate thousands of identically-programmed processors running in parallel at a fine grained level of interleaving, without having to worry about the details of the interleaving.


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A photographic story on Decades old Manauli Fort, originally built by the Mughal Nawab Kapoor Singh in 1793, located near Mohali, Punjab. In 2001, the Punjab Government has declared the place as prote
The century old monument is still crying on its situation. It is dying every single minute. In 2001, the Punjab Government has declared the place as protected place and recently, ASI (Archeological Survey of India) visited the place to see the possibilities.
Though, the "efforts" of saving the history has started but they seem literally of no use as the present situation do not need reports but need a strict and immediate action.
The "quila" (fort) was won by Nawab Kapoor Singh in 1793 from Mughals. It is made of small bricks commonly known as Sirhind Bricks. As per the native people, the fort had a huge gate and a small Gurudwara was there inside the fort. Nearly 400 acres of land was controlled by the people who lived in the fort but now everything has changed into miserable picture. There is no proper place to stand, no engraved stones, nothing.
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Editing a Machine Generated Captions File in Kaltura
Once your machine captions have been added to your video, you will need to review and edit the captions. To access the caption editor:
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- Progress bar - the progress bar shows the time that the video is currently at, and also displays how far you are into the particular video snippet you're editing.
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- Editing pane - Edit the video captions in the editing pane. You can also click above and below the editing pane to jump to the previous or next sentence. Any time you click into the editing pane, the video will auto pause so you can edit the captions.
- Save Button - Save the current edits and return to the file at a later point to continue editing.
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Battling child abuse
Organizations across the country are taking action in the aftermath of the Pennsylvania State University sex scandal.
One such organization, the Chicago Children's Advocacy Center, is attempting to raise awareness of how to prevent child sexual abuse. The nonprofit organization is conducting bi-monthly media receptions in hopes of gaining support for CCAC's mission.
The Penn State scandal has reminded people that sexual abuse against kids is not unusual, and that perpetrators are commonly people who have a close relationship with the child, such as a neighbor or family member, said CCAC's Executive Director Char Rivette.
"I don't want people to be afraid of everybody, but you do have to make sure your kids feel 100 percent comfortable telling you anything about what's going on in their lives," Rivette said. "This is a teachable moment."
According to a report study distributed by CCAC, there were 19,699 reports of abuse in Chicago last year and the numbers remain consistently high, Rivette said.
This year, the organization has had a 20 percent increase in the number of children in need of help. It has not been confirmed whether the rise in reported sexual abuse cases is because of increased awareness of the issue or if it is simply a blip, so workers plan to keep a close eye on the trend, Rivette said.
It can be difficult to recognize when a child has undergone sexual abuse, according to Rivette. The signs vary from child to child.
Typical things to look for include changes in behavioral patterns. If a child begins to act anxious, develops unusual fears, displays changes in sleeping patterns or acts in ways that are not age appropriate, it is time to start asking questions, Rivette said.
"Ask kids questions when [they] start to talk about things, like secrets and special relationships with certain adults and alone time with adults [who] aren't their parents," Rivette said.
Sometimes kids refrain from telling an adult because they fear that no one will believe them, as proven by the length of time it took for the Penn State case to reach authorities.
Stop It Now! is another resource for reporting sexual abuse. The nationwide organization distributes information and guidance to adults so that they can effectively help others confronted with sexual abuse.
According to Deborah Donovan Rice, executive director of Stop It Now, people sometimes report abuse that happened up to 30 years ago.
"We have a lot of people who call us and tell us that this is the first time that they had ever talked to anybody about having been abused," Rice said. "For the first time, they get unconditional support for what they went through and get to hear about resources that could possibly be helpful in dealing with the aftereffects of having been sexually abused."
This year marks the CCAC's 10th anniversary of providing services to Chicago-area children who were sexually abused and their families. Founded by former mayor Richard M. Daley in 1998, the organization opened its doors in 2001 to provide a coordinated investigation of abuse reports, as well as medical examinations, mental health services, referrals to other services and general support.
In the past, abused children were forced to relive what happened to them multiple times while telling their story to parents, social workers, police, investigators, doctors and counselors.
CCAC simplified the process by coordinating forensic interviews with the child and a medical exam in a single location to put the kids at ease, Rivette said.
Ana Correa, CCAC family advocate manager, works directly with the kids to ensure that they are comfortable and understand what is going on.
Some kids come in feeling like they are in trouble while parents come in feeling like they did not do enough to protect their kids, Correa said. "They are in a better place by the time they leave," she said.
If you see any signs of possible abuse, call the Chicago Police Department or the Child Abuse Hotline at _PHONE_. CCAC receives every allegation of sexual abuse in the city.


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The Jade Quarry
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|Region||The Jade Sea|
- 1 Access
- 2 Mission information
- 3 Description
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- 9 Notes
- 10 Trivia
Control the jade quarries.
- Be the first team to score 10 points, or score more points than your opponent before 15 minutes have elapsed.
- Claim quarries to begin collecting jade.
- Protect your team's jade carriers.
- [No one controls / Kurzicks control / Luxons control] the Green quarry.
- [No one controls / Kurzicks control / Luxons control] the Purple quarry.
- [No one controls / Kurzicks control / Luxons control] the Yellow quarry.
- Imperial faction that is awarded at the end of a match:
- Each team receives 300 for each jade slab collected.
- The winning side receives an additional 1,000.
- Players receive 10 Imperial faction plus 10 Balthazar faction per kill in real time.
The Jade Quarry is a resource control arena that is fought between the Luxons and Kurzicks. There are three resource points known as quarries, from where jade is carried back to the base of Luxons or Kurzicks. Carrying the Jade is done by a Hauler Turtle if the Luxons are in control, or by a Carrier Juggernaut if the Kurzicks are in control.
- The first team to bring ten jade slabs to their base or which has the most jade when the time runs out wins the match.
- Each team consists of eight players that are randomly assembled by those entering from the Jade Quarry (Kurzick) and the Jade Quarry (Luxon) staging areas of all districts.
- The map is balanced so that neither side has an advantage over the other. The three quarries are positioned (and colored) as follows: Purple quarry is closest to the Kurzicks, Green quarry is closest to the Luxons, and Yellow quarry is of equal distance from either side. There are a number of guard posts that are situated on the map which may be taken to hinder the passage of opposing players and carriers.
- All players resurrect automatically in their base and do not receive Death Penalty. Each base has three one way teleporters that are labeled for each quarry. These teleporters will take you to a location that is somewhat close to the quarry for which it is labeled.
Quarries start unclaimed : the first side that gets a player stand on the stone platform gains control. The yellow quarry is the only one which is at the same distance from the two sides. The purple quarry is close to the kurzick base while the green quarry is close to the luxon base.
- Five NPCs protect a quarry: one Ranger (Kurzick Far Shot or Luxon Longbow), two Mesmers (Luxon Wizard or Kurzick Illusionist) and two Elementalists (Luxon Storm Caller or Kurzick Thunder). As long as one of them is alive, the quarry belongs to the faction.
The guard posts start either luxon or kurzick. They are only composed of rangers :
- Two if near enemy base.
- Four if near ally base.
- Three otherwise.
In order to gain control over a quarry or a guard post, NPCs occupying that area must be killed. Then, allied NPCs will spawn and guard that area for your side.
Strategies by objectives
Generally speaking, there are three ways you can help your team to win : capturing (usually by nuking quarriers, guard posts), intercepting (opposing players, carriers), defending (allied NPCs, players).
Capturing quarries and guard posts is vital. Without quarries your team cannot score any point. Killing the defending NPCs (and to a lesser extent jade carriers) should be your team's top priority.
- Always focus on the closest quarry to your base. Purple for Kurzick/Green for Luxons is usually the easiest one to control and the fastest to retake. Ensuring also control of yellow is usually enough to ensure victory.
- Due to the high number of NPCs, their low health and the fact that they are bunched up together, Area of effect (AoE) damage and health degeneration are extremely effective.
- Bear in mind that elemental damage is less efficient against the numerous rangers due to their high armor against it. If you plan on using it anyway, armor-piercing effects such as cracked armor and armor penetration (Air Magic, Earth Magic and Channeling notably) or health degeneration such as burning (Fire Magic notably) can help you kill more easily.
- NPCs will not heal themselves and also not scatter too far from their spot, at least not enough to avoid most of the area of effect damage.
- NPCs at a quarry spawn in a "V" shape. When using area of effect skills, target the central NPC for better efficiency. If already dispersed by previous attacks, they may be arranged differently.
- Against quarries : quarry mesmers can remove enchantments with Drain Enchantment, interrupt spells with Power Spike and interrupt attacks with Clumsiness (usually twice with Echo, so up to 4 times with the two mesmers), while quarry elementalists can inflict a high amount of damage with Air Magic skills and knock down with Lightning Surge. That's why one or two spells will usually be as much as you can cast if engaging the quarry on your own, and any strategy including melee attacks will be very difficult to use.
- Against guard posts :
- If using spells which doesn't require a clean line of sight, hide next to walls with an obstructed line of view so that ranged NPCs won't hit you.
- If possible, try to attack from a higher point than the rangers so that you'll stay out of range of the bow attacks but still be able to attack with range weapons/spells.
- Being primarly composed of rangers, standard PvE farming builds such as those based on Vow of Strength, Hundred Blades, Whirling Defense, Sliver Armor, possibly combined with a shadow step skill such as Death's Charge can allow for a quick capture.
- If possible, kite the rangers' arrows and beware not to get crippled
- Capture guard posts between the quarries and the opposing base, as two rangers are enough to take down a carrier if not hindered.
- If a quarry or a guard post is heavily defended and you and your team are unable to capture it, go to another point to avoid wasting too much time.
- To keep track of your side's status use the U map as it extends enough to see all arena flags.
- Don't attack opposing players unless they are directly impeding your ability to capture a quarry, a guard post or a carrier.
- Shadow step skills can allow you to move regardless of height difference.
- Carriers will not use any skill unless attacked in melee, making them an easy target for skills such as Wastrel's Worry or Wastrel's Demise. They will also always follow the same route, making traps effective in intercepting them. On the contrary, players will not always be able to retaliate if attacked in melee and will usually use skills to escape/heal.
- Carriers and players will almost always be on the move so skills requiring a moving target, such as Melandru's Shot, or more effective against moving foes, such as Lightning Bolt, are very effective.
- Do not kill carriers when they are not holding a jade slab (for example when they are on their way to their quarry to take a new one) and focus on capping the quarry instead, as if you capture the quarry before they reach it they will simply return to base and waste time. If on the contrary they are killed and the quarry is still under opposing control, a new carrier will "spawn" a few moments later at the quarry, making your efforts go to waste.
- Snares, especially crippled, are effective to hinder carriers and players and can give your team a small time advantage to retake a carrier/score more points than the opposing team/kill a carrier holding a jade slab. Knockdowns are valuable against players, since it will slow them down and make them unable to reply to your attacks for a short period of time.
- Shadow Steps skills such as Shadow Prison or Wastrel's Collapse can allow you to quickly get to an unwary player and spike it before it deals any harm to your NPCs or team members. This is especially true for Assassins. Bear however in mind that the player you just killed will be resurrected soon enough.
- Because this is a large map where timing matters, speed boosts are vey valuable to intercept several carriers/players.
- Minions and spirits can be used to bodyblock foes. However, keep in mind that minions are highly vulnerable to Wastrel skills and Ray of Judgment which are very common in the Jade Quarry.
- Focus first on keeping jade carriers safe, as your team will not score if they don't arrive at the base. Escort them on the way back unless you are 100% sure they will not be attacked.
- Ensure quarries and guard posts NPCs stay alive with skills such as Heal Area. At least one must survive for your team to maintain control over the area. Ritualists can use their spirits to bodyblock foes while also protecting the NPCs.
- Even bow users can't reach a character in the back of a quarry, allowing you to heal and protect from a safe location.
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Let $X$ be a complex manifold and $g$ a hermitian metric on $X$. Consider the Riemannian exponential $\exp_p: T_p X \to X$.
If $\exp_p$ is holomorphic for every $p \in X$, then $(\exp_p)^{-1}$, suitably restricted, provide holomorphic normal coordinates near $p$, with respect to which the metric osculates to order 2 to the standard metric at the origin. This shows that $g$ is a Kähler metric.
However, Kähler is not sufficient to ensure that $\exp_p$ is holomorphic: take $X$ a curve of genus $g \geq 2$. If $\exp_p:T_pX \to X$ is holomorphic, then it lifts to a holomorphic map from $T_pX$ to the universal cover $\widetilde{X} = \Delta$, giving a holomorphic map $T_pX \simeq \mathbb{C} \to \Delta$, which must be constant by Liouville's theorem. In fact, one can see that $\exp$ cannot be holomorphic if $X$ is Kobayashi hyperbolic.
This leaves the question: What are the hermitian manifolds/metrics whose exponential map is holomorphic?
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In the $1$ complex dimension case this forces the metric to be locally isomorphic to the standard metric. The exponential map preserves length in the radial direction, so if it is conformal then it must also preserve length in the other direction. – Tom Goodwillie Jun 16 '11 at 3:52
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NB: I've had a little time to think about this and can now improve my answer, in particular, removing the real-analytic assumption, which, as I suspected, was not necessary. Here is the improved answer:
If the metric $g$ is Kähler, then having the exponential map from a point $p\in M$ be holomorphic makes it flat in a neighborhood of $p$.
Suppose that $\exp_p:T_pM\to M$ is holomorphic near $0_p\in T_pM$ (where we use the natural holomorphic structure on the complex vector space $T_pM$). Let $z:T_pM\to\mathbb{C}^n$ be a complex linear isometry, so that the hermitian metric on $T_pM$ is just $|z|^2$ in the usual sense. Let $Z$ be the holomorphic 'radial' vector field on $\mathbb{C}^n$, whose real part is the standard radial vector field on $\mathbb{C}^n$.
Then $$ {\exp_p}^*g = g_{i\bar j}(z)\ dz^i\ d\overline{z}^j $$ for some functions $g_{i\bar j}$ on a neighborhood of $0\in\mathbb{C}^n$. Since $g$ is Kähler, there is a function $f$ defined on a neighborhood of $0\in\mathbb{C}^n$ such that $$ g_{i\bar j} = \frac{\partial^2f}{\partial z^i\ \partial\overline{z}^j}. $$
Now, the condition that $z$ furnish Gauss normal coordinates for ${\exp_p}^*g$ is easily seen to be that
$$ \mathcal{L}_Z\bigl(\bar\partial f\bigr) = \bar\partial\bigl(|z|^2\bigr). $$ In particular, $ \bar\partial\bigl(\mathcal{L}_Z(f - |z|^2)\bigr) = 0$, so $\mathcal{L}_Z(f - |z|^2) = h$ for some holomorphic function $h$ on a neighborhood of $0$. This $h$ must vanish at $0$, so it is easy, by adding the real part of the appropriate holomorphic function to $f$ (which won't change $g$) to arrange that $h\equiv0$ and, moreover, that $f(0) = 0$. But this now implies that the real-valued function $f-|z|^2$ vanishes at the origin and also is constant along the radial vector field. Thus, $f = |z|^2$, and the metric $g$ is flat in these coordinates.
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I do not like complex numbers and can make a mistake easily...
Let $L_p$ be a complex line in a tangent space $T_pX$. It is easy to see that $\exp_p$ gives an isometric embedding $L_p\hookrightarrow X$ which is also star-shaped with center at $p$; set $L=\exp_p(L_p)$
Take any other point $q\in L$, and let $L_q\subset T_q$ be the tangent subspace to $L$. Note that the maps $\exp_p$ and $\exp_q$ coinside (up to a shift) on the geodesic $(pq)$. [Here I use that if two holomorphic maps coincide on the real line then they coincide in the complex plane.] It follows that $L=\exp_q(L_q)$. Therefore $L$ is totally geodesic.
In other words: For any complex sectional direction in $X$, there is a tangent totally geodesic surface which is isometric to complex plane.
In particular, the sectional curvature in all complex sectional directions is zero and therefore the curvature of $X$ is identically zero; the later stated in Kobayashi--Nomizu, Foundations of differential geometry, Volume 2 IX, Prop. 7.1. (thanks to RdN).
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I don't quite understand your arguement for exp of a complex line to be totally geodesic. But if so there is a lemma in vol II of Kobayashi Nomizu (Prop. 7.1) that says if two tensors with the symmetry and J invariance of a Kahler curvature tensor agree on complex lines they must be equal. It's clear curves have to be flat by Gauss lemma and totally geodesic would mean the second fundamental vanishes, so we can measure R of the ambient space from such curves. Thus the Prop. says total curvature must vanish. – RdN Jun 25 '11 at 16:43
_USER_, Thank you, I will include it in the answer – Anton Petrunin Jun 28 '11 at 10:30
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If you create a Delegate around a function protected by security Demand, and then somebody invokes that Delegate, the following Security checks will happen in that simple scenario:
1. At Delegate creation time, LinkDemands on method passed to delegate constructor ["Target"] are evaluated against grant set of creating assembly ["Creator"]. If they fail, Security exception is thrown.
2. At Delegate creation time, various pieces of Security-related Assembly identity of the Creator are captured and stored in the Delegate.
3. At Delegate invocation time:
3.1. Creator's identity is evaluated to produce the grant set of the Creator.
 3.2. Permission set demanded by the Target is compared to Creator's grant set. If it's found to be not a subset of that grant, Security Exception is thrown.
 3.3. Normal Demand against Delegate caller is initiated. If it fails, Security exception is thrown, too.
These Security checks can be viewed in a simpler form: when an assembly creates a delegate to a method in another assembly, this is treated as though it created the delegate to a method in its own assembly which in turn called out to the other assembly. This guarantees that the code creating the delegate is always seen in any Security stack walks that take place while executing code called through the delegate.
Steps 2, 3.1, and 3.2 are marked with bold green because they are new as compared to.NET 1.0 and 1.1. Before 2.0, there was no Security check against Delegate Creator performed at invocation time.
Why this change has been made? The short answer is: to enable easy implementation of secure coding practices around Delegates. And if you want the longer story, here it is with some extra details.
The model which existed in 1.x times permitted untrusted code to create Delegates around virtually any code, and then to inject them into other fully trusted code, staying at the same time outside of the Security checks. At some cases, this is dangerous, since it potentially allows low-trusted code to trick higher trusted one into calling other highly trusted methods which it did not intend to invoke. While this usually does not cause Security holes per se if proper mitigating techniques are used, it certainly makes difficult to implement good Security solution in scenarios where Delegates are involved.
Consider the following pattern [note that it will work only in 1.0 or 1.1] which shows how easy it was to accidentally introduce Security issue in 1.x if some specific guidelines [explained below] were not followed:
1. SystemLib is a highly trusted library exposing methods that could be potentially dangerous if all callers are allowed to invoke them. It could be one of existing.NET APIs, or some third party plug-in which performs low-level system actions, etc. Full Trust is required to call methods of this library; for that reason, they are protected by proper Demands:
public class SystemLib
 // It has the Declarative form of protection:
 [method:PermissionSetAttribute(SecurityAction.Demand, Unrestricted = true)]
 public static void DoDangerousThing()
 // Restarts the computer, or erases system files, etc.
Then you, as a developer, define in your code the following highly trusted classes:
2.1. Assembly B is fully trusted but accepting delegates from the low-trust side. This does not represent ideal Security practices, but sometimes is needed:
public delegate void BDelegate();
public class B
 public event BDelegate mOnButtonClick;
 // This is the method called by other classes to notify B that it's time to execute its' delegates:
 public void RunEVentDelegates()
 // We can even add an extra Security check to this place, just to ensure
 // that only fully trusted callers invoke mOnButtonClick() code:
 (new PermissionSet(PermissionState.Unrestricted)).Demand();
 if (null!= mOnButtonClick) mOnButtonClick();
2.2. Assembly C is simply the caller of B, and it is highly trusted, too. This can be the code of yours, or of somebody else, doesn't matter.
public class C
 public static void PingB(B pB)
At this point, everything looks safe. System method DoDangerousThing has Security Demand on it, so only fully trusted callers can invoke it. RunEventDelegates is protected by Demand, too. It seems like nobody without Full Trust grant can do anything bad. Unfortunately, that's not enough. A smart attacker can create a code which will trick one part of your [highly trusted] code to call into another fully trusted code -- by manipulating Delegates:
Evil assembly has low trust. It wants to invoke the method SystemLib::DoDangerousThing(), but can't since it does not have required permissions. So it takes different approach: it creates a delegate around desired System code, passes it for storage to highly trusted class B and then waits 'till highly trusted class C fires the event that would invoke the delegate.
public class Evil
 public static void Main()
 // Here we create B explicitly for demo purposes. In real life it is possible that
 // an existing instance of B will be accessible for Evil:
 B mB = new B();
 // Then Evil "infects" class B with the system method:
 mB.mOnButtonClick += new BDelegate(L.DoDangerousThing);
Evil's job is done at this point. Now it just wait's 'till something happens what will make C to call B.RunEventDelegates, which in turn will call into SystemLib.DoDangerousThing(). At the moment of the call, Security Demand will be initiated. However, it will check only B and C classes, not the Evil one, and the call will succeed, resulting in computer restart, or in whatever DoDangerousThing was programmed to do.
This looks scary, and may represent one of the common coding mistakes in 1.x.NET. What can you do to ensure your code doesn't fall a victim of Delegates injection attack described above?
In order to exploit the aforementioned scenario, Evil code needs to enjoy the coincidence of three quite unlikely conditions. If you deprive it of one [or better all] of them, it won't succeed. What are those conditions?
First, Evil needs to be able to link to dangerous System method, in order to pass it to the Delegate constructor. So if DoDangerousThing is protected by a LinkDemand, Evil will not be able to access it directly and very likely won't be able to access it at all. This protection corresponds to Step 1 of Security checks outlined at the beginning of this post.
OK, this may work if you own SystemLib class and can modify it accordingly, but what if not?
The second and very important is that Evil code needs to find a publicly exposed Event with the signature exactly matching the signature of the System function. In the example above that was easy: DoDangerousThing was "void (void)" function, as well as mOnButtonClick event. If you change the signature of your Event and BDelegate to accept and/or return the instance of privately defined class, it will never match any system's code function. Therefore, such function won't be able to be passed as an argument for Delegate creation, and attack will fail.
Overall, if you work with highly trusted publicly accessible Delegates/Events in 1.x, it is critical that their signatures are unique, so they can't accept anything which it not explicitly designed to match them.
This rule applies to.NET 1.x itself. A big effort was made to ensure that all publicly exposed events of powerful.NET code have unique signatures. As an example, take a look at the AssemblyLoad Event of System.AppDomain class. Its' signature is
public delegate void AssemblyLoadEventHandler(
 object sender,
 AssemblyLoadEventArgs args
-- which is quite impossible to wrap around something like void File.Delete(string).
Finally, Evil code needs the Event to be accessible, too. So if you can put a Demand or LinkDemand on the Events of your class, it should prevent low-trusted code from adding Delegates to them.
The above seems like enough protection. Then why Secure Delegates were introduced?
The primary reason was the relaxation of Delegate signatures matching rules. In 2.0, you can create a Delegate over method with signature not strictly the same as the Delegate's one. Some restrictions [which I won't list here as being not really an expert in the area] still apply there, but the resulting effect is that now everyone can create Delegates over much broader set of targets than before. This significantly reduces the protection offered by rule #2. To compensate on that, Delegates Security was added to the game, so people are still able to create secure and robust Delegates solutions in easy and straightforward manner. Thus now, when every Delegate Creator is automatically put on the Security stack and checked against target method Security requirements, you don't need to worry about injection attack..NET will do the checks.
As a final note please keep in mind that if Delegate creator and caller live in the same assembly no Security checks are applied against Delegate creator at calling time. This is reasonable, since in this situation Creator most likely can invoke the target method directly without bothering with Delegates.


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All versions of Windows, thankfully come with the option of creating a recovery disc so that the OS can be restored in case it gets corrupted, or damaged via malware, trojans and/or viruses. Recovery Disk is a very important feature of Windows 8 Consumer Preview, which allows you to create a custom recovery disk to restore your Windows in case something goes wrong.
Here is a simple method on how to create a system repair disc for Windows 8:
1. StepGo to Control Panel
2. StepClick Windows 7 File Recovery
3. StepClick Create a System repair disc
4. StepClick Create Disc when you have selected the Drive.
5. StepIn the next process, you would see the system generating the disc for you. This would only be possible if you have inserted a blank new CD or DVD in your DVD drive so that the creation of disc is successful.


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