Mongameli Mabona
His Life and Work
Ernst Wolff
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The life and work of a remarkably versatile and pioneering South African thinker
Mongameli Anthony Mabona (1929) is a singular South African scholar with an exceptional life path. Yet, he is a wrongly forgotten figure today. British imperialism and apartheid shaped the world into which he was born and, to a large extent, these powers carved out his destiny for him. Nevertheless, a curious set of coincidences enabled him to obtain a tertiary education as a priest, to pursue his doctoral studies in Italy and to befriend Alioune Diop. He is one of the first published philosophers of Anglophone Africa and holds doctorates in theology and anthropology. His opposition to institutionalized racism – an opposition which included his co-authoring the 1970 "Black Priests' Manifesto" – eventually led to his exile. This book is the first study of any kind devoted to Mabona. It documents his life and offers a synoptic reading of his scholarly and poetic work.
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1. Xhosaland: A history of confrontations
1. A snapshot of Xhosa life in the mid eighteenth century
2. Accelerated change: A typology of mounting conflict
3. A changing region in a changing world
3.1 Spread of Boers and British expansion
3.2 British domination and its effects on Xhosaland and beyond
3.3 Changes from the Xhosaland perspective
3.4 Changes from the broader South African perspective
2. (Dis)Union: The world of Mabona's youth (1910 to the mid 1950s)
1. International and Union politics
2. The economy
3. Separation – reserves – labour
4. Transkei: Culture, religion, education
5. Resistance nationally and in the Transkei
3. Enter Mongameli
1. Birth and first years
2. Early childhood in Qombolo
3. Life in Zigudu – Catholic background (1)
4. Ixopo – Catholic background (2)
5. Pevensey – Catholic background (3)
6. Early priesthood
4. Italy
1. Italian society after World War II
2. Everyday life in Rome
3. Mabona, the student and researcher
4. Further intellectual work
5. Second Congress of Black Writers and Artists: Alioune Diop and Présence Africaine
Excursion: The journal Présence Africaine
6. Preparing for Vatican II
5. Back home? Apartheid, St. Peter's, SPOBA
1. Apartheid
2. Apartheid education
3. The South African economy in the 1960s
4. Resistance
4.1 The ANC and the PAC
5. Life back in South Africa
5.1 Lumko
5.2 Independent ethnographic studies
5.3 Poetry
5.4 Lecturer at St. Peter's in Hammanskraal
6. London and Switzerland: Politics or anthropology?
1. SOAS
2. The Azanian People's Liberation Front and other politics
3. Family life
4. Continued research
1. Lux: The first impetus
2. Présence Africaine: Writing for a wide public
3. "The depths of African philosophy" and The outlines of African philosophy
3.1 General appraisal: South Africa's first African philosopher? 1
4. Dissertatio ad lauream in Facultate Juris Canonici apud Pontificiam
Universitatem Urbanianam
5. "The nuclear blast of spring": Poetry
6. Writings of a South African priest
7. Anthropology and religion
8. Interlude: The publication spurt of 1996
9. Diviners and prophets: The last, incomplete, work
9.1 Final appraisal
Mabona primary bibliography
Notes on the sources for interviews and biography
Format: Edited volume - free ebook - ePUB
202 pages
ISBN: 9789461663627
Publication: January 05, 2021
Languages: English
Ernst Wolff is professor of philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven.


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Also in the MVVM pattern, UI objects should avoid interacting with each other! Instead they interact with the viewmodels. For instance a TextBox would not ask a nearby ListBox which item is selected; instead the listbox would save a reference to the currently selected item somewhere in the viewmodel layer, and the TextBox would query the viewmodel layer to find out what is selected right now. This solves your problem about finding out which button was pushed in one form from within a different form. You just share a Navigation Model object (which is part of the application's viewmodel layer) between the two forms and put a property in that object that represents which button was pushed.
WinForms itself doesn't support the MVVM pattern very well, but Update Controls provides its own unique approach MVVM as a library that sits on top of WinForms.
In my opinion, this approach to program design works very well and I plan to use it on future projects. The reasons it works so well are (1) that Update Controls manages dependencies automatically, and (2) that it is usually very clear how you should structure your code: all code that interacts with UI objects belongs in the View, all code that is UI-related but does not HAVE to interact with UI objects belongs in the ViewModel. Quite often you will split your code into two parts, one part for the View and another part for the ViewModel. I had some difficulty designing context menus in my system, but eventually I came up with a design for that too.
I have raving about Update Controls on my blog too. This approach does take a lot of getting used to, though, and in large-scale apps (e.g. if your listboxes contain thousands of items) you may encounter performance problems due to current limitations of automatic dependency management.
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As others have pointed out, I do not understand why you had to use anything static; this sounds like you have been doing something very wrongly.
Anyway, I have had the same problem as you: in my WinForms application I have several forms that share some functionality and some controls. Also, all of my forms already derive from a base form (let's call it "MyForm") which adds framework-level functionality (irrespective of application.) The Forms Designer of Visual Studio supposedly supports editing forms that inherit from other forms, but in practice it works only as long as your forms do nothing more than "Hello, world! -- OK -- Cancel".
What I ended up doing is this: I keep my common base class "MyForm", which is quite complex, and I continue to derive all of my application's forms from it. However, I do absolutely nothing in these forms, so the VS Forms Designer has no problems editing them. These forms consist solely of the code that the Forms Designer generates for them. Then, I have a separate parallel hierarchy of objects that I call "Surrogates" which contain all the application-specific functionality, like initializing the controls, handling events generated by the form and the controls, etc. There is a one-to-one correspondence between surrogate classes and dialogs in my application: there is a base surrogate class which corresponds to "MyForm", then another surrogate class is derived which corresponds to "MyApplicationForm", and then a whole bunch of other surrogate classes are derived, which correspond to each and every different form that my application displays.
Each surrogate accepts as a construction-time parameter a specific type of form, and it attaches itself to it by registering for its events. It also delegates to base, all the way to "MySurrogate" which accepts a "MyForm". That surrogate registers with the "Disposed" event of the form, so that when the form gets destroyed, the surrogate invokes an overridable on itself so that it, and all of its descendants, can perform cleanup. (Deregister from events, etc.)
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Distributed algorithms for delay bounded minimum energy wireless broadcasting
Çiftlikli, Serkan and Öztoprak, Figen and Erçetin, Özgür and Bülbül, Kerem (2007) Distributed algorithms for delay bounded minimum energy wireless broadcasting. [Working Paper / Technical Report] Sabanci University ID:SU_FENS_2007/0006
In many network applications, broadcasting is an important part of the operation where data generated by a source is disseminated to all users in the network. Judicious use of limited energy resources in wireless networks typically requires routing packets along the branches of a tree spanning the source and the destination nodes. In addition, networks that support real-time traffic are also required to provide certain quality of service (QoS) guarantees in terms of the end-to-end delay along the individual paths from the source to each of the destination nodes. Therefore, in this paper we focus on constructing a minimum power broadcast tree with a maximum depth D which corresponds to the maximum tolerable end-to-end delay in the network. We investigate two different distributed algorithms for this purpose: Distributed Tree Expansion (DTE) and Distributed Link Substitution (DLS). DTE is based on an implementation of a distributed minimum spanning tree algorithm in which the tree grows at each iteration by adding a node that can cover the maximum number of currently uncovered nodes in the network with minimum incremental transmission power and without violating the delay constraint. In DLS, we begin with a feasible broadcast tree, and then improve that solution by replacing expensive transmissions by transmissions at lower power levels while preserving the feasibility of the tree with respect to the delay bound. Hence, DTE is constructive in nature while DLS is an improvement algorithm. Although DTE increases the message complexity to O(n^3) from O(n^2) in a network of size n, it provides up to 50% improvement in total expended power compared to DLS.
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The cobalt complexes of meso-aryl substituted porphycenes were synthesized and characterized. The reduction potentials of the complexes were shifted to the positive side depending on the strength of the electron-withdrawing properties of the meso-substituents, while the optical properties, such as the absorption spectra of these complexes, were similar. This suggests that the energy levels of the molecular orbitals of the complexes were changed by the meso-substituents while the gaps of the orbitals were not significantly changed. The one-electron reduction of the complex did not afford the Co(I) species, but the ligand-reduced radical anion, which was characterized by electrospectrochemistry. The generated ligand-reduced species reacted with alkyl halides to form the Co(III)-alkyl complex. As a result, the reduction potential of the electrolytic reaction could be directly controlled by the substituents of the porphycene. The catalytic reaction with trichloromethylbenzene was also performed and it was found that the ratio of the obtained products was changed by the reduction potentials of the catalyst, i.e. the cobalt porphycenes.
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SSA will suspend a PASS when the PASS is not terminated pursuant to the criteria discussed below and the criteria for extending a PASS are not met. A PASS may be suspended for up to 12 consecutive months. If not resumed, within this period it will be terminated.
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March 11, 2009 While the thought of rocketing into space might make some people want to soil themselves, going to the toilet in zero gravity is a very real problem for space faring astronauts. Until now the solution has been to strap themselves onto a toilet that is similar to traditional western style toilets but employs a vacuum cleaner like machine to suck the wastes away – doesn't sound too pleasant does it. Now it seems the Japanese are approaching the problem from a different tack with Pink Tentacle reporting that the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has teamed up with engineers from the private sector to develop a next-generation space toilet that is designed to be worn like a diaper.
The proposed toilet is designed to be worn by the astronauts at all times with sensors detecting when the wearer relieves himself or herself. This will automatically trigger a rear-mounted suction unit to draw the wastes away through tubes to a separate container and the device will wash and dry the wearer afterwards. For astronauts who have been indulging in space curry the unit will also incorporate features to eliminate unwanted sound and odor. The research group hopes to develop the next generation space toilet within the next five years with plans to test working prototypes in Japan's Kibo lab aboard the International Space Station (ISS) – hands up for that job. The team believes the new toilet could also have earthbound uses such as in hospitals for bedridden patients.
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Phase separation into percolated Si nanostructures in SiO2
Fig. 1. Cross-sectional TEM bright-field image of a Si-SiOx nano-composite layer deposited onto single-crystalline silicon.
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An optical drive is usually a CD drive or DVD drive. Optical means it uses lenses. The drive uses a light called a laser. A laser is the most exact and powerful sort of light but the laser in the drive is very, very small. The CD or DVD disk is similar to a mirror and the laser light reflects off it. The disk has very small () codes written on it. The drive has a very small camera lens beside the laser which can read the codes. Another part of the drive is plugged in to the computer by a wire (inside) and the code goes through the wire as a signal to the computer.


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Planning During the Internship: A Study of the Planning Practices of Preservice English Teachers
Hessong Grove, Rebecca M.
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This collective case study investigated the planning practices of six English education interns during the full time internship, including planning for edTPA. Research and professional standards emphasize the importance of planning, as it undergirds every aspect of what happens in a classroom. By understanding how interns learn to plan, teacher educators can better facilitate interns' development of planning skills. Using activity theory as a theoretical framework, this study describes how interns' planning practices changed over the course of the internship and identifies factors that influenced changes. Data sources included lesson plans, interviews with interns and mentors, and edTPA lesson plans. Findings showed most interns did not write detailed daily plans, but those who did experienced fewer planning and teaching struggles. Communication and feedback from the mentor were major factors in creating successful plans and planning routines. Three of the interns began writing more detailed plans to improve their teaching, motivated by a desire to be more organized and effective. All interns wrote detailed, formal plans for edTPA, and these plans included elements that were not part of typical written plans, such as differentiation and formative assessment. Other areas of change included increased planning for scaffolding and addressing students' confusion. Graduate interns expressed increased confidence in planning student-centered lessons. Factors that influenced such changes included experience, mentor guidance, and support from a methods course. Interns also drew on their increasing knowledge of students and district curriculum to plan relevant lessons. Interns consistently planned at the whole-class level, with little evidence of planning for individual learning. This study has implications for teacher educators aiming to strengthen candidates' planning practices. Programs must facilitate proactive mentoring and structured co-planning. Pre-service coursework should help candidates integrate student-centered pedagogy, formative assessment, and differentiation into lesson plans. The impact of internship length and undergraduate vs. graduate program structures must be investigated further. Finally, this study indicates that planning for edTPA was educative for interns. This, along with other findings, suggests that more formal planning can improve intern learning and program coherence.


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Penetrating Keratoplasty (PK)
PK is a full-thickness transplant procedure, in which a trephine of an appropriate diameter is used to make a full-thickness resection of the patient's cornea, followed by placement of a full-thickness donor corneal graft. Interrupted and/or running sutures are placed in radial fashion at equal tension to minimize post-operative astigmatism (Figure 2). Later, the sutures are removed selectively to reduce the amount of astigmatism present. A transplant can last decades with proper care (Figure 3). While once the most prominent type of corneal transplant, PK has been supplanted by partial thickness techniques for endothelial dysfunction without significant stromal scarring. PKs are performed primarily for visually significant stromal scarring, opacities with an uncertain status of the endothelium or significant posterior corneal involvement, corneal ectasia (such as keratoconus and pellucid marginal degeneration, especially if there is history of hydrops), combined stromal and epithelial disease (such as Peters anomaly), and infectious or non-infectious corneal ulcerations or perforations (1, 14). A variant of the procedure, the mini-PK, can be used to treat more focal defects in the cornea (Figure 4).
PK grants the ability to treat disease in the epithelial, stromal, and endothelial layers. A full-thickness graft also eliminates optical interface related visual problems that may exist with lamellar transplants with a stroma-stroma interface.
However, postoperative recovery time is relatively long, sometimes taking years to achieve best-corrected visual acuity. Frequently, there is substantial postoperative refractive error due to high regular or irregular astigmatism of the graft, and a higher chance of requiring rigid gas permeable contact lens wear to correct astigmatic error. There is a higher risk of allograft rejection compared with other keratoplasty types. Additionally, PKs carry a higher lifetime risk of wound dehiscence due to the compromised tectonic strength that comes from a full-thickness wound.
Basic procedure steps (Video 1)
- Mark the center of the host cornea with a Sinskey hook. Use calipers to measure the corneal diameter to determine the appropriate size for donor trephine.
- Trephinate the donor tissue, typically aiming for 0.25 or 0.5 mm larger than the planned host trephination.
- Trephinate the host cornea to approximately 90% depth.
- Create a paracentesis in the trephination groove or the corneal periphery, and inject Healon into the anterior chamber to preserve anterior chamber depth and stability.
- After using a blade to enter the eye through the trephination groove, resect the host cornea tissue using curved corneal scissors.
- Secure the donor graft to the host corneal tissue using interrupted and/or running 10-0 nylon sutures.
- Rotate the sutures to bury the knots, assess the astigmatism using an intraoperative keratometer, and consider placing additional sutures to reduce astigmatic error.


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A tree surgeon has many responsibilities related to tree safety and management, including planting, pruning, felling and offering general treatment to care for and maintain trees. Depending on the services a tree surgeon is offering, they should be proficient with a range of tools, be able to work outside in all weather conditions and be physically fit.
A tree surgeon will offer professional advice on how you should take care of hedges, trees and other vegetation in your property. They have a responsibility for safety and care and can get into a lot of trouble for neglecting or failing to fulfil their responsibilities. Besides having an overgrown hedge on your property, there are a number of worse things that can happen:
- Do you need permission from the council?
- Do you live in a conservation area?
- What is the level of risk to you, neighbours and passersby for tree surgery on your property?
- Are there relevant Tree Preservation Orders (TPO)?
If you ignore any of these things, you might end up in a lot of trouble especially when you break the law. You don't have to hire anybody who owns a chainsaw or claims to be a tree surgeon without the right qualifications. The services might be affordable at first, but they can be very costly in the long run. Therefore, it is advisable to hire a professional tree surgeon to help you determine the right course of action.
It is the responsibility of a tree surgeon to carry out hazard assessments and inspections with the aim of assessing the health of trees and if there are any potential dangers. When tree surveys are conducted, they help a tree surgeon to determine the amount of work that needs to be done, how long will the work take and how will the work affect the public (if applicable). If the tree surgeons are handling private work, the survey will determine what's need to be done, what the client needs, the cost, amount of disruption and estimated time.
Tree felling is considered a dangerous activity as can lead to damages and causalities. It is the tree surgeon's responsibility to ensure that they consider all the factors before they fell a tree. This job is very technical because the equipment to be used and the process of felling the tree should be determined before everything commences. Here are some of the things a tree surgeon must consider before making a final decision:
- The location of the tree
- Where it will fall when it is finally felled?
- The best way of felling the tree?
- The manpower required
- Equipment and tools to be used
Depending on the location, trees that need to be felled might be very challenging and only accumulated knowledge and skills could be of help. Ensure you hire a professional tree surgeon if you need any of the services we have discussed above.


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Enabling Greater Risk Awareness Through EHS Mobile Apps
Establishing Greater Visibility into Frontline Operations
About 7,200 workers at Lendlease actively use the Enablon Go Safety app to report observations, and 1,100 users have already downloaded the Enablon Go Inspection app so far, allowing them to perform inspections in the field. Both apps are native, can be used offline, and support action plans. These massive numbers of users produce immediate benefits, including: 1) A large amount of observational data, and 2) significant time savings in reporting observations and conducting inspections. They also contribute to enable a greater risk awareness by extending visibility into frontline operations. At Lendlease, contractors can also use the mobile apps, which allows the company to look at all work projects, whether performed by employees or contractors.
Enabling a Risk Mitigation Cycle
Establishing greater visibility into work performed throughout all operations, even in remote or offline locations, allows an organization to see where the risks are, and react more quickly by generating action plans. Thus a risk mitigation cycle is enabled through the following sequence:
1) Capture a large amount of observations in real-time through mobile devices.
2) Identify risks by using the data from step 1.
3) Determine the behaviors and conditions that need to be encouraged to mitigate risks.
4) Verify whether behaviors/conditions captured and documented through mobile devices conform to the safe behaviors/conditions identified in step 3.
5) Analyze results from inspections conducted using mobile devices, to determine whether other control measures are also effective.
6) Define action plans to improve controls and better mitigate risks, based on the results from steps 4 and 5.
7) Assign action plans and tasks to workers and contractors, and alert them on their mobile devices so they complete action plans and tasks promptly.
8) Go back to step 1.
Now imagine the sequence above without the words "mobile devices" (in steps 1, 4, 5 and 7). Do you think the process would be faster or more efficient? Would there be greater or lesser risk awareness and mitigation?
Faster Implementation of Control Measures Further Reduces Risks
Having greater risk awareness of what's going on in the field also means implementing control measures quicker, and therefore reducing incidents. A workplace injury caused by an unknown risk is bad enough. Imagine a workplace injury caused by a risk that was known, but that was taking days or weeks to make it through the process before controls were put in place. EHS mobile apps accelerate the identification of risks (through observations), the implementation of control measures (through action plans), and the verification of control measures (through inspections).
If you're convinced of the benefits of EHS mobile apps, be sure to follow our blog as we will publish a post in the upcoming weeks about lessons learned from the roll out of mobile apps, and which were shared at the same SPF EMEA 2017 session featuring Anglo American and Lendlease.
View the recording of our webinar "From Compliance to Pro-Active Safety with Mobility" to learn how Lendlease, a global leader in construction and real estate, is leveraging mobility to encourage workers to report observations.


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Kaus Australis - ε Sagittarii (epsilon Sagittarii)
Kaus Australis, also designated as ε Sagittarii (epsilon Sagittarii), is a double giant star in the constellation of Sagittarius.
Kaus Australis visual magnitude is 1.85, making it the 36th brightest star in the sky. Thanks to its high brightness, Kaus Australis is clearly visible when observed from locations with dark skyes, and should be also quite easily visible from light polluted areas.
The table below summarizes the key facts about Kaus Australis:
Celestial coordinates and finder chart of Kaus Australis
Kaus Australis is situated south of the celestial equator, as such, it is more easily visible from the southern emisphere. Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox as well as galactic coordinates of Kaus Australis are provided in the following table:
The simplified sky map below shows the position of Kaus Australis in the sky:
Visibility of Kaus Australis from your location
Today's Kaus Australis - ε Sagittarii (epsilon Sagittarii) rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, United Kingdom [change] are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):
Digitized Sky Survey image of Kaus Australis
The image below is a photograph of Kaus Australis from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5x0.5 degrees (30x30 arcmins). The proper motion of Kaus Australis is -0.038 arcsec per year in Right Ascension and -0.124 arcsec per year in Declination and the associated displacement for the next 1000 years is represented with the red arrow.
Distance of Kaus Australis from the Sun and relative movement
Kaus Australis is distant 144.57 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 15 kilometers per second.
Spectral properties of Kaus Australis
Kaus Australis belongs to spectral class B9 and has a luminosity class of III corresponding to a giant star.
The red dot in the diagram below shows where Kaus Australis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.
Kaus Australis star system properties
Kaus Australis is a visual double star which can be observed only with the help of very large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the Kaus Australis double sysyem:


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Women's figure skating is the most popular figure skating event at the Winter Olympics. There are "queens and princesses of the ice" who have left their mark on the figure skating world. There are also many famous people who have been a part of ice skating history.
Do you want to get an idea of what's involved in becoming a figure skater? Before you begin to skate, there are things you should know.
- Ice Skating Is Fun!
- Step-by-Step Beginning Ice Skating Lesson
- Register for Ice Skating Lessons
- Learn to Figure Skate
- Dress Like a Figure Skater
- Buy Skates
- How to Lace Figure Skates
- Take Some Private Figure Skating Lessons
- Set a Practice, Lesson, and Training Schedule
- Join a Figure Skating Club
- Take Figure Skating Tests
- Compete in Figure Skating Competitions
Understanding the Steps, Turns, and Footwork That Olympic Figure Skaters Perform
Every step or turn a figure skater does has a name. Can you identify the figure skating turns that are done on one foot? Next time you watch an elite ice skater do a step sequence, try to recognize at least one three turn, one bracket, one counter, and one rocker.
A new kind of scoring replaced the old 6.0 figure skating judging system and was created in response to the 2002 Olympic figure skating scandal. The idea was to attempt to make figure skating competitions more objective and fair.
Competitors are given two scores: a technical score and a program component score. The technical score is added together to the program component score and the result is the segment score. The sum of all the segment scores (the short program and the free skate) becomes the total competition score. The skater with the highest score wins.
- How to Understand Figure Skating Scores
- Why Does a Triple Jump Get Scored Only As a Double?
- Why Do Figure Skaters Fall Down and Still Place High?
- Ladies singles
- Men's singles
- Pair skating
- Ice Dance
- Team Trophy Event
At the Olympic Games, at least two different phases of a competition take place. This means that Olympic figure skaters do more than one performance before a champion is crowned. The winner of the first phase of an Olympic event may win an Olympic title, but there is a chance that someone else can "pull up" and become the Olympic Figure Skating Champion. In the final phase of Olympic figure skating competition, the skaters who place in the top four after the initial phase, compete last, so the last part of an Olympic figure skating event is the most exciting to watch!


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|Using the 1948 Universal Declaration as a point of departure, HUMAN RIGHTS HUMAN WRONGS examines whether images of political struggle, suffering and victims of violence work for or against humanitarian objectives, especially when considering questions of race, representation, ethical responsibility and the cultural position of the photographer.|
Featuring more than 300 original prints from the prestigious Black Star Collection, HUMAN RIGHTS HUMAN WRONGS begins circa 1945 and includes photographs of well-known Civil Rights Movement events such as the Selma to Montgomery March and Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. The exhibition also features images of the independence movements in many African countries, a selection of portraits of Nobel Peace Prize winners, and photographs, magazines and books which document protests, war and conflict from the Vietnam War to the Rwandan Genocide in 1994.
The exhibition functions as a catalytic enquiry into photojournalistic practice, addressing the legacy of how photographs have historically functioned in raising awareness of international conflict. It critically considers the cultural meaning these photographs produce, how inhumane acts are rendered photographically for us to look at, and the visual legacy they leave behind. We see the wide dissemination of photographic images of humankind in abject, euphoric or violently explicit conditions. How do these images assist us in understanding the case for civil and human rights?
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Can Dogs Eat Apple Pears?
Some fruits are so delicious that you cannot stop yourself from offering some to your dog. Is that the case with apple pears? If yes, you might have the question of whether they can healthily digest this fruit or they will have some stomach problems. So, can dogs eat apple pears a.k.a. Asian pears?
To briefly answer that question: dogs can eat apple pears only in moderation. It is not toxic. However, you should be careful about the seeds and the sugar content that most fruits naturally have high amounts of.
It might be true that some fruits and vegetables have amazing effects on dogs. But not all of them. As you know, some human food is toxic to dogs. So, it is always a wise idea to check what your dog is feeding on. The same goes for the apple pears. It does not matter if your dog accidentally ate them, or you are planning to offer him some.
Many dog owners have thought of giving food to their furry friends, myself included. It might be really tempting to share some delicious food, but do they really need it? If you are wondering if canine friends can eat apple pears, read on to learn everything you need to know.
Nutritional Value of Apple Pears
Apple pear is a fruit coming from a tree called Pyrus Pyrifolia in science. It is native to Asian countries, and you might also hear people call it nashi pear, sand pear or Asian pear. It is a really delicious type of pear with a high water level and a more complex texture when you compare it to the common pear we have at our homes.
A standard apple-pear would be around 50 kcals. 47 kcals of apple pears, almost most of it, comes from the carbs and sugar. That is around %7 of a 30lbs dogs' daily intake. Apple pears have 13 grams of sugar, where 9 grams of it is sugar. The rest is fiber.
Among beneficial things that apple pears have, we can list vitamin C, beta-carotene, thiamin (vitamin B1), riboflavin (vitamin B2), niacin (vitamin B3), pyridoxine (vitamin B6), and folate (vitamin B9). Apple pears also have minerals such as magnesium, sodium, potassium, calcium, and iron.
Can Dogs Actually Eat Fruits?
A balanced diet for dogs works in the same way that it works for humans: it needs to have carbohydrates, protein, water, vitamins, and minerals. Most of the dog owners stick with the classic packed dog food, and some want to try different food and discover new possible diet options for their dogs.
Fruits have shown to be a great source of vitamins and fiber for them. Actually, it would not be a bad idea to give your dog fruits as treats to make up for the vitamin and fiber needs in his body. You know, maybe he will love it.
Apple Pears
Seeds of Apple Pears Might be Toxic
Apple pears are not toxic to dogs, but you should not let your dog eat it without any supervision. Because, even though they are not toxic, the seeds might be dangerous for the dogs.
There is only a small concern, and that is the seeds of apple pears. They contain a small amount of cyanide, and that substance is dangerous for dogs to consume. If the seeds are swallowed without being crushed, the cyanide will stay inside the seed, and it will be dumped with the stool.
However, if your dog ended up crushing the seeds while chewing, they will absorb some cyanide. People say that it is very unlikely to cause any harm, but it is never a bad idea to be extra cautious with your furry friend.
He will most likely be gassy and have diarrhea after consuming the seeds that have cyanide, but you should know that any fruit will have these side effects.
Apple pears are very less likely to cause serious damage to dogs. If your dog is finding some apple pears that have been fallen to the ground and eating it, make sure that you clean that place so you can control how and how much he is eating this fruit.
What Will Happen If My Dog Eats too Many Apple Pears?
Apple pears are delicious, and your dog might be a big fan of it, too. However, more than half of one apple pear is too much for a dog, and it will cause stomach problems if consumed more than that.
Eating too much apple pears can cause diarrhea and vomiting in dogs. If you think your pooch had a little too much of this delicious fruit, contact your vet right away to be safe.
Conclusion: Can Dogs Eat Apple Pears?
It is very tempting to resist watching your dog look at you with his puppy eyes while you cook or eat. And you might be wondering if he can eat some delicious apple pears or not. Most of the fruits are a very great way to supply your dog's vitamin, fiber, and mineral need because they are full of them.
Yes, we can say that dogs can eat apple pears, but dogs can eat apple pears only in moderation. Because so much of any human food will have some unwanted consequences when consumed by our canine friends.
Another thing to look out for when giving apple pears to your dog is the seeds of this fruit. We already mentioned that the seeds of apple pears contain a small amount of cyanide, which is toxic to dogs.
We hope that you have the answer you have been looking for. Do not forget that moderation is the key when feeding your dog with the same food you are eating.
Gummy Bears
Can Dogs Eat Gummy Bears?
We hope that most of the adults know how unhealthy gummy bears are. So, willingly giving it to your dog is not an option. However, let's say that your dog accidentally ate a bunch of gummy bears or a kid unknowingly gave it to your furry friend. In that case, you have to know the answer to the question of whether dogs can eat gummy bears.
The short answer is, dogs can't eat gummy bears. Gummy bears have a substance called xylitol in them, and that is what makes it problematic food for dogs. This chemical is seriously toxic if eaten by dogs. In fact, gummy bears are the most dangerous thing to give to a canine.
Let's admit that regardless of age, everyone loves gummy bears. So, you might think that it can be a good snack to offer your pup Or, your dog might have done some counter surfing, who knows.
Let's look at what can happen if your dog consumes gummy bears and their effects on dogs to avoid any potential problems.
What Happens If My Dog Consumes Gummy Bears?
Gummy bears have a huge amount of a toxic substance called xylitol. It is a sweetener and is a chemical substitute for sugar. Yes, it does not affect humans if you have not consumed lots and lots of it. However, it is seriously risky for dogs to even eat the tiniest bit of it.
Just a few grams of xylitol can cause death to a 60lbs dog. As you might know, the chocolate has the same effect. So, what do you do if your dog eats too much of gummy bears?
The first thing to do should be watching for signs of poisoning. Just a couple of gummy bears are unlikely to cause big of a problem. However, you should still look out for symptoms such as tremors, vomiting, increased heart rate, and diarrhea.
It is always a good idea to call a vet while observing your dog for further help and support. If your dog ate more than a couple, you have to induce vomiting. This process is an extreme one, and it will probably be messy. So, at least make sure you have your dog in the shower or bathtub, or maybe somewhere that you can clean easily.
Give your dog 2 to 3 tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide to cause vomiting. If your dog does not react in three minutes, send him two or three more tablespoons. When doing so, make sure that someone is in touch with your vet or medical pet care facility in your city.
Symptoms of Xylitol Toxicity
If you are not sure that your dog has eaten enough gummy bears to be poisoned, you should always look for the symptoms listed to act immediately: seizures or shaking, lethargy, abnormal stool, not walking normally, falling or collapsing, vomiting, increased heart rate, diarrhea.
If your furry friend has just eaten gummy bears and you are aware of the problem, keep a very close eye on your canine and check his behaviors for any of the mentioned signs, or anything else that is odd. Because this is not exactly an accurate interpretation of what he can suffer.
Please notify your vet immediately if you find something odd about your dog's actions, behavior, or health, and call your vet if your dog eats xylitol-containing gummy bears. Although your dog may be treated for xylitol poisoning, it is important to detect the symptom early to improve your dog's chances of survival.
Gummy Bears
Effects of Xylitol
Even though xylitol is safe for humans to consume, it is not the same case for dogs. Xylitol is as sweet and dangerous as refined sugar. If we do not consider the toxic effects, we can also say that it is very high in calories. That is why it can make your dog extra active for a short amount of time.
If your dog gains weight, this can bring unwanted health complications. Obesity and heart diseases are only a couple of them. Among


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Past, Present and Future of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
Summary: Past, Present and Future of Ambient
Intelligence and Smart Environments
Juan Carlos Augusto1
University of Ulster, Jordanstown, United Kingdom _EMAIL_
Summary. We are gradually making a transition to a new era where computers
become truly intertwined with our daily lives. Up to not so long ago, we were able
to know clearly where computers were and in which way they affected our lives.
This has been gradually blurred and now computing devices of various types are
all around us, embedded in different objects we interact with and in that way they
influence our lives. There are indications that this trend is irreversible and that
computing and society will now interact with each other in far richer ways than
before, to the point that computing will become transparent to humans and still
intrinsically involved in our daily living. This paper provides a brief overview of the
evolution of these fields, describes some of the current developments, and points at
some of the immediate challenges that researchers in these area face.
1 The Past
For centuries humans have witnessed scientific and technological leaps that
changed the lives of their generation, and those to come, forever. We are no
exception. In fact so much of those advances are occurring now, in a more or
less unperceived way. Slowly and silently technology is becoming interwoven
Source: Augusto, Juan Carlos - School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster at Jordanstown
Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences


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Definition - What does Acomoclitic mean?
Acomoclitic is a term for a person who prefers bare or hairless genitals. Acomoclitics may look for hairless genitals in a partner, remove the hair from their own genitals, or both.
Acomocliticism is the opposite of pubephilia where people become aroused by the feel or sight of human public hair.
In the naturist community, where acomocliticism is common, an acomoclitic may be known as a smoothie.
Kinkly explains Acomoclitic
Acomoclitics may spend an excessive amount of time thinking about hairless genitals and have recurring fantasies surrounding this part of the anatomy. They may also exclusively choose partners who remove their genital hair. Acomoclitics typically enjoy both the look and feel of hairless genitals. Many acomoclitics also feel that hairless genitals are more hygienic.
Acomoclitics may remove their pubic hair using razors, hot waxes, or sugaring methods. Some acomoclitic couples find hair removal arousing and make this part of their foreplay.
While hairless genitals are often associated with prepubescent individuals, most acomoclitics insist they do not have a preference for very young partners. Instead, many feel that adults who remove their public hair appear more confident after taking control of their own bodies.
Acomocliticism may be simply defined as a preference like that for curvy women or tattooed men. In other cases, it is a clear fetish. Acomocliticism does not generally require treatment unless it begins to interfere with an individual's day-to-day life. Psychoanalysis, hypnosis, and behavioral and cognitive therapies are some methods for effectively treating acomocliticism.
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produced from stem cells
By Tina Hesman Saey
Scientists have grown a mouse pituitary
gland for the first time from embryonic
stem cells. Or rather, the gland grew
itself after researchers coaxed embryonic stem cells to form the type of tissues that normally surround the gland.
The feat, reported online November 9
in Nature, could be the first step toward
replacement pituitaries for people.
Glands grown in lab dishes may also
help researchers learn how the organs
develop in the body.
"There's a lot in it to be excited
about, whether you're a developmental
biologist or interested in clinical applications," says Sally Camper, a developmental geneticist at the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor. Camper has
tried, and failed, to coax embryonic stem
cells to form pituitary glands.
Precursors of hormone-producing pituitary endocrine cells (red) form among
more primitive cells (blue-green).
complete with the five different types
of hormone-producing cells found in a
naturally formed gland. The dish-grown
gland secretes one of those hormones,
adrenocorticotropic hormone, both in a
lab dish and when transplanted in mice.
Sasai says his group is testing to see if
lab-grown glands can make other pituitary hormones.
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Strategic Management Accountant And Managerial Decision Making Accounting Essay
Jessup Ltd an advertising hub being booming with its core competencies can turn up with the flying colors by adding one more head to their Key Management Personnel, so that they can efficiently and economically embark upon the cutting edge scenario in the market.
Strategic Management Accountant are well placed to contribute by playing pivotal roles in Managerial decisions however their characteristics make it desirable for non accountants to involve themselves as well.
Management Accountants through the aid of Activity-based costing as a tool, enables to move a complex, expensive financial systems implementation which provides meaningful and actionable data, quickly and inexpensively, to managers.
Strategic management accountant is considered a key part of effective management, as it provides a structure for action and a source upon which to assess the organization's performance, thus ensuring accountability for results. This movement towards results-based management forms part of a wider attempt to improve and achieve the economies of scale in order to cope more efficiently with local and international pressures.
This can be a comprehensive programme of change designed to enhance the delivery of advertising services. The overarching objectives are:
– Improved effectiveness;
– Improved service delivery;
– Improved accountability; and
– Greater cooperation.
An entrepreneur starts with a plan or a budget for resources for initiating operations. He has to compete on low cost, on-time delivery, volume and product flexibility, quality, proactive corporate structure, innovation and ultimate customer satisfaction.
Strategic Management accountants are natural participants in the benchmarking process. Not only does their background suit them to the task, but also benchmarking itself can play an increasingly important part in performing their roles as management accountants. Management accountants should:
- become part of their organization's value-added team
- participate in the formulation and execution of strategy
- transform strategic intent and capabilities into operational and managerial
- Move away from being scorekeepers of the past to become the designers of
the organization's critical management information systems
While management accountants may not have primary responsibility for providing the physical information, only they can provide the relevant, accurate, and timely financial information to employees. This financial information, however, is unlikely to be the standard costs and variance from the organization's traditional accounting system. The new financial and cost information must be derived from intimate knowledge of the underlying technologies, capabilities, markets and strategy of the organization.
Key Roles that a Strategic Management Accountant would undertake in respect of an advertising concern like Jessup Ltd.:
Provide management accounting services and systems
Manage management accounting staff
Assure the quality of services and system
Plan and arrange finance
Utilize intelligence from external sources
Provide planning services
Guide management decisions
Analyse, report and interpret the organization's performance to management
Present reports and accounts for investors.
A management accountant can execute their action plan in several ways. Some simple conducts to make the efficient effort are:
Accept the learning curve – living within a budget is an educational curve for any new entrepreneur.
Be prepared to miss your estimates.
Work flexibly.
Watch the cash flow
Always err on the side of being conservative
Nurture a cash cushion
Check the budget frequently and at least once in every month.
Strategic Management Accountant should apply their wisdom to know the difference while making the managerial decisions. There may be situations like –
There is a need but no market,
There is a market but no customer,
There is a customer but no salesman, all the above exist but there is no capacity to deliver the product or service to the customer. The entrepreneur has to be prepared for the pit consequences of the action to be taken.
Relevant and irrelevant costs:
Relevant costs are those estimated future costs which are essential to a decision. The two key aspects of these costs are as follows:
They must be expected future costs.
They must be different among the alternative courses of action.
For example, in a decision concerning to the replacement of an old machine, the written down value of the existing machine is not relevant but its sale price is relevant.
Relevant Costs helps in drawing the attention of managers to those elements of costs which are relevant for the decision. Two common pitfalls in relevant cost analysis are: First Pitfalls in relevant cost is that it assumes that all variable costs are relevant:
All variable costs are not relevant. Even among future costs, those variable costs which will not differ under various alternatives are irrelevant.
Second Pitfalls is to assume that all fixed costs are irrelevant:
All fixed costs are not irrelevant. If fixed expense remains unchanged under different alternatives such expenses are only irrelevant to the decision at hand but if they are expected to be altered they should be considered as relevant.
Irrelevant Costs are those costs which does not relate to situation requiring managerial decisions. Further, these costs may be irrelevant for some situations but relevant for others. Examples of irrelevant costs are fixed overheads, sunk costs and book values.
The management accounting in a business can be divided into two broad categories:
(1) basic features and (2) basic assumptions.
Basic Features
The business firm or enterprise is an organizational structure in which the basic activities are departmentalized as line and staff. There are three primary line functions: marketing, production, and finance. The organization is run or controlled by individuals collectively called management. The staff or advisory functions include accounting, personnel, and purchasing and receiving. The organization has a communication or reporting system (e.g. budgeting) to coordinate the interaction of the various staff and line departmental functions. The environment in which the organization operates includes investors, suppliers, governments (state and federal), bankers, accountants, lawyers, competitors, etc.) The basic purpose is to classify management into three levels: Top management, middle management, and lower level management. The significance of a hierarchy of management is that decision-making occurs at three levels.
Basic Assumptions in Management Accounting
The framework of management accounting is based on a number of implied assumptions. Although no single work has attempted to identify all of the assumptions, the major assumptions are listed as under:
1. Basic goals
2. Role of management
3. Nature of Decision‑making
4. Role of the accounting department
5. Nature of accounting information
Basic Goal Assumptions - The basic goals or objectives the business enterprise may be multiple. For example, the goal may be to maximize net income. Other goals could be to maximize sales, ROI, or earnings per share. Management accounting does not require a specific type of goal. However, whatever form the goal takes, management will at all times try to achieve a satisfactory level of profit. A less than satisfactory level of profit may signify a change in management.
Role of Management Assumptions - The success of the business depends primarily upon the skill and abilities of management– which skills can vary widely among different managers. The business is not completely at the mercy of market forces. Management can through its actions (decisions) influence and control events within limits. In order to achieve desired results, management makes use of specific planning and control concepts and techniques. Planning and control techniques which management may use include business budgeting, cost-volume-profit analysis, incremental analysis, flexible budgeting, inventory models, and capital budgeting models. Management, in order to improve decision-making and operating results, will evaluate performance through the use of flexible budgets and variance analysis.
Decision-making Assumptions - A critical managerial function is decision-making. Decisions which management must make may be classified as marketing, production, and financial. Decisions may also be classified as strategic and tactical and long run and short run. A primary objective of decision-making is to achieve optimum utilization of the business's capital or resources. Effective decision-making requires relevant information and special analysis of data.
Accounting Department Assumptions - The accounting department is a primary source of information necessary in making decisions. The accounting department is expected to provide information to all levels of management. Management will consider the accounting department capable of providing data useful in making marketing, production, and financial decisions.
Nature of Accounting Information - The accounting department for making meaningful analysis of data, it is necessary to distinguish between fixed and variable costs and other types of costs that are not important in the recording of business transactions. Some but not all of the information needed by management can be provided from financial statements and historical accounting records. In addition to historical data, management will expect the management accountant to provide other types of data, such as estimates, forecasts, future data, and standards. The accounting department will be expected to provide the information required by a specific tool. The management accountant need not provide information beyond the relevant range of activity.
Implications of the Basic Assumptions
The assumption that there are three types of decisions, (marketing, production, and financial) requires that management identify the specific decisions under each category. The identification of specific decisions is critical because only then can the appropriate managerial accounting technique be properly used. In management accounting, decision-making may be simply defined as choosing a course of action from among alternatives. If there are no alternatives, then no decision is required. A basic assumption is that the best decision is the one that involves the most revenue or the least amount of cost. The task of management with the help of the management accountant is to find the best alternative. The process of making decisions is generally considered to involve the following steps:
1 Identify the various alternatives for a given type of decision.
2. Obtain the necessary data necessary to evaluate the various alternatives.
3. Analyze and determine the consequences of each alternative.
4. Select the alternative that appears to best achieve the desired goals or
5. Implement the chosen alternative.
6. At an appropriate time, evaluate the results of the decisions against
standards or other desired results.
The concept of decision-making is a complex subject with a huge amount of organization literature behind it. In management accounting


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Sometimes science is a hands-on kind of job.
In this edition of DNews, Julian Huguet courageously navigates a sticky situation by asking: Why do scientists stimulate animals to orgasm?
Well, it's the quest for knowledge, really. No, really. Orgasms are a critical component of reproductive process for many species, but we just don't know that much about them. In fact, relative to the history of general biological research, we've only recently begun studying human orgasms in earnest, never mind animals.
Getting humans to orgasm on the record, as it were, is a tricky business in itself. Just ask Masters and Johnson. Getting animals there presents a whole other set of problems. Since researchers can't instruct animals to achieve orgasm themselves, other means must be applied.
As such, researchers have been stimulating animals to orgasm for several decades now, all in the interest of science. The biological purpose of orgasms is fairly clear, for half the world's population, anyway. Male orgasm usually involves the ejaculation of sperm. But females can conceive with or without orgasm.
RELATED: Orgasm in Your Foot!
Researchers naturally began to wonder whether and why female animals orgasm at all. In 1981, graduate student Mel Allen of the Institute for Primate Studies earned his thesis in a most curious fashion, by manually stimulating female chimps to document their sexual responses.
Allen's published, peer-reviewed conclusion? Female chimpanzees do indeed experience orgasm, as evidenced by spasms, vocalizations, secretions and clitoral tumescence. Science!
In another study, Patricia Brennan of Yale University studied the mating habits of ducks. Male ducks, it seems, have corkscrew-shaped penises. Meanwhile, female ducks have vaginas that corkscrew in the opposite direction. Cruel, but true. Brennan's research explores how the weird specifics of duck orgasm and ejaculation actually allow females to be more selective about their mates.
So yes, stimulating animals to orgasm may be a little squirmy, topic-of-conversation-wise, but it's legitimate science. Anyway, the animals aren't complaining.
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Changes to SQL Server CXPACKET Wait Types
In many OLTP systems, parallelism is only truly useful on a subset of queries. Most of the typical workload is comprised of quick queries that affect a small number of rows and, in turn, consume very little in terms of resources. When queries do end up using parallelism, the end result can range from mildly beneficial, to downright disastrous, depending on a variety of factors.
Now, when parallelism is working well, work is distributed evenly across all of the "producer" threads, and they all finish around the same time, handing their results off to the "consumer" threads. While the consumer threads (and the controller thread) are waiting for all of the producers to finish, CXPACKET waits are accumulating (the "good" kind). When parallelism is not working well, for example when one producer thread is doing most of the work because of poor estimates, the producer threads that have finished their work sit around and wait, also accumulating CXPACKET waits (the "bad" kind). So in both of these scenarios – whether the query employs "good" or "bad" use of parallelism – SQL Server surfaces wait statistics in the same way: using the dreaded CXPACKET wait.
As you can imagine, and probably already know, this makes troubleshooting "bad" parallelism very hard, because all queries are reporting CXPACKET waits. In most cases, this simply indicates that parallelism is happening, which is usually a good thing. But because there are cases where we see skewed parallelism, you get all kinds of knee-jerk reactions to a system with high CXPACKET waits. The most common is to turn off parallelism at the server level (server MAXDOP = 1), and this is often deemed successful because, hey, look at our waits, we no longer see CXPACKET at the top. Often this just means two things: (1) the queries that were making good use of parallelism are now taking at least as long, and possibly longer; and (2) those waits are just surfacing in other places.
In SQL Server 2016 SP2, SQL Server 2017 CU3, and Azure SQL Database, you are going to see a huge change in the way CXPACKET waits are reported. The "bad" type of wait, where work amongst threads is distributed unevenly, will continue to be reported as CXPACKET waits. But the "good" type of wait, where the consumer threads are just waiting for all the producer threads to do their work, will now be reported under a new wait called CXCONSUMER.
The benefit of this change is that you can continue to monitor CXPACKET waits, and when you have high waits there, you know there is something relevant and actionable that's being reported. In most optimal systems, you should see the CXPACKET numbers dwindle, and the CXCONSUMER waits increase. CXPACKET waits will stay high if you have skewed parallelism, either due to the most common case of outdated statistics, or less common cases like intra-query blocking.
It is important not to suddenly have knee-jerk reactions to this new CXCONSUMER wait type because, as mentioned above, this wait simply means that parallelism is occurring. In fact, Microsoft recently added the ability to view wait statistics in a query's showplan output, and they ignored CXPACKET because of how often it really is a red herring; with this new change, CXPACKET will now be reported in the showplan output, but CXCONSUMER will be filtered out because it is benign.
That's the good news. Unfortunately, there is some bad news, and that is that you have to change the way you monitor, report, and react to high CXPACKET waits, depending on whether the current instance has the new behavior. Essentially, your scripts and other tools will have to be able to differentiate between CXPACKET waits that might be a problem, and CXPACKET waits that are most likely a problem, which changes with the build of SQL Server.
SQL Server CXPAKET Wait Type Example
Borrowing from Paul Randal's examples in his post, "More on CXPACKET Waits: Skewed Parallelism," it is easy to demonstrate what can happen to CXPACKET waits and thread workload distribution when estimates are inaccurate. On a SQL Server 2016 SP1 system, I built the following table, and faked out the statistics on the table:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Test; GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Test ( [RowID] int IDENTITY, ParentID int, CurrentValue nvarchar(100), CONSTRAINT [PK_Test] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ([RowID]) ); GO INSERT INTO dbo.Test (ParentID, CurrentValue) SELECT CASE WHEN (number % 3 = 0) THEN number - number % 6 ELSE number END, N'Test' + CAST (number % 2 AS Nvarchar(11)) FROM master.dbo.spt_values WHERE [type] = 'P'; GO UPDATE STATISTICS dbo.Test (PK_Test) WITH ROWCOUNT = _PHONE_, PAGECOUNT = _PHONE_;
Then I ran the following code in a different window, observing the session_id (SPID):
SET NOCOUNT ON; GO BEGIN DECLARE _USER_ nvarchar(100); SELECT _USER_ = [CurrentValue] FROM dbo.Test ORDER BY NEWID() DESC; END GO 20000
Then I watched the waits in another window, by refreshing these results frequently while the original loop was running:
DECLARE _USER_ int = 55; SELECT Wait_Type = wait_type, Waiting_Tasks = waiting_tasks_count, Wait_Time_ms = wait_time_ms FROM sys.dm_exec_session_wait_stats WHERE session_id = _USER_ ORDER BY wait_time_ms DESC; SELECT spid = session_id, Thread = exec_context_id, Wait_Time_ms = wait_duration_ms, Wait_Type = wait_type, Blocker = blocking_session_id, Resource = resource_description FROM sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks WHERE session_id = _USER_ ORDER BY exec_context_id;
Here were the results shortly into the start of the script (note that we caught some intra-query blocking, intermittently):
And here were just the waits after the script was finished:
Notice that CXPACKET waits are highest.
Then I applied Service Pack 2 (I had early access to a preview build), restarted the instance, and made sure the statistics were still inaccurate. I ran the loop in a new window, and here were the waits and blocking activity a few moments in:
And here were just the waits after the script finished:
CXCONSUMER isn't a huge portion of the wait profile, but at a little over 10% of the CXPACKET waits, you can see how it's already separating the good parallelism from the bad parallelism. This is of course a contrived test, and SQL Server is employing parallelism poorly because it still incorrectly thinks the table is huge. When you have a real workload against a big table that can implement parallelism properly and effectively, you'll see that CXCONSUMER becomes a much larger part of the picture, and CXPACKET waits will dwindle. Which means you'll spend less time troubleshooting benign parallelism waits (just make sure to add CXCONSUMER to the wait types ignored by your scripts or monitoring tools).
What To Do with CXPACKET Wait Types in SQL Server
If you can't get to the latest builds of SQL Server, you have to continue monitoring and troubleshooting CXPACKET waits the old way. Paul has some great advice in his two posts, "Knee-Jerk Wait Statistics : CXPACKET," and, "More on CXPACKET Waits: Skewed Parallelism."
In either case, typically, if you determine that some of your queries are suffering from the "bad" type of parallelism, the solution will involve re-writing the query, changing indexes, or coming up with a better strategy for keeping statistics up to date. If the system is too volatile for that, you may look at other avenues, such as reducing MAXDOP. But be careful – don't just automatically assume that 1 is the best answer; typically it will be something like 4 or 8. This will still allow some parallelism but it will reduce what I call "swarming" – where a bunch of query processes fight over consuming all of the cores. Another option (which you might do in conjunction) is to increase the Cost Threshold for Parallelism, from the default of 5, to a more reasonable number like 40 or 50. What this essentially does is tells SQL Server not to consider parallelism unless the estimated cost of a query is above a certain threshold. Pedro Lopes talks a bit about these (and provides links to other resources) in his recent post, "Making parallelism waits actionable."
Have a look at these tips and other resources involving SQL Server parallelism and CXPACKET wait types:
- A closer look at CXPACKET wait type in SQL Server
- What MAXDOP setting should be used for SQL Server
- How to Force a Parallel Execution Plan in SQL Server 2016
- Tracking Query Statistics on Memory Grants and Parallelism in SQL Server 2016
- Testing SQL Server Query Performance Using Different Levels of Parallelism
- SQL Server Performance Tuning Tips
- Knee-Jerk Wait Statistics : CXPACKET
- More on CXPACKET Waits: Skewed Parallelism
- Making parallelism waits actionable
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In this paper in will provide details on how scientific methods can be used in the Human services. Explaining the steps of scientific methods, and how it serves as an important key to Human services professionals. Each steps will be included on how they are define and what purpose it serves will scientific methods are applied. Human services professionals use the scientific methods to gain information on the client as well as how to approach the clients issues. Also researching other resources to meet the needs of the client to ensure the client is receiving accurate
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After researching articles that concerns Human services professionals and scientific methods, Academic integrity in action research by Mortin Levin was found. The article demonstrates on how to focus on solving pertinent problems. Details in the article reveals how to solve problems by using research skills to help determine what to be the right solution and what is determined to be not helpful in solving problems. According to the text book "Academic integrity is introduced as the issue that is essential for shaping research of high rigor from AR, and it is conceptualized as the combination of formal (substantive and methodological) research skills, strategic political capacity, and the ethical and moral stature necessary to argue and act for seeking the best possible understanding (truth)" (Mortin Levin (AR) 2013). This article demonstrates how scientific methods is applied to when it concerns researching how to solve problems. Finding out first what the topic, meaning what is the problem. Finding the right resource that pertains to the problem and how can they be used to identify the problem. The article also identifies why problem solving is important and how it can produced positive results. The article used communication, and writing skills to help with


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Plack::Middleware::Negotiate - Apply HTTP content negotiation as Plack middleware
version 0.10
 builder {
 enable 'Negotiate',
 formats => {
 xml => {
 type => 'application/xml',
 charset => 'utf-8',
 html => { type => 'text/html', language => 'en' },
 _ => { size => 0 } # default values for all formats
 parameter => 'format', # e.g. _URL_
 extension =>'strip'; # e.g. _URL_
Plack::Middleware::Negotiate applies HTTP content negotiation to a PSGI request. In addition to normal content negotiation from a list of defined formats one may enable explicit format selection with a path extension or query parameter. In summary, the following methods are tried in this order to negotiate a known format:
HTTP GET format parameter (if enabled with option parameter)
HTTP POST format parameter (if enabled with option paramater)
URL path extension (if enabled with option extension)
HTTP Accept Header (unless disabled with option explicit)
The PSGI environment key negotiate.format is set to the chosen format name after negotiation. The PSGI response is enriched with corresponding HTTP headers Content-Type and Content-Language unless these headers already exist.
If used as pure application, this middleware returns a HTTP status code 406 if no format could be negotiated.
new( formats => {... } [, %options ] )
Creates a new negotiation middleware with a given set of formats.
negotiate( $env )
Chooses a format based on a PSGI request. The request is first checked for explicit format selection via parameter and extension (if configured) and then passed to HTTP::Negotiate. On success the method returns a format name. The method may modify the PSGI request environment keys PATH_INFO and SCRIPT_NAME if format was selected by extension set to strip, and strips the format HTTP GET query parameter from QUERY_STRING if parameter is set to a format. If format was selected by HTTP POST body parameter, the parameter it is not stripped from the request.
known( $format )
Tells whether a format name is known. By default this is the case if the format name exists in the list of formats.
about( $format )
If the format was specified, this method returns a hash with quality, type, encoding, charset, and language. Missing values are set to the default.
Returns a list of content variants to be used in HTTP::Negotiate. The return value is an array reference of array references, each with seven elements: format name, source quality, type, encoding, charset, language, and size. The size is always zero.
add_headers( \_USER_, $format )
Add apropriate HTTP response headers for a format unless the headers are already given.
A list of formats to choose among. Each format can be defined with type, quality (defaults to 1), encoding, charset, and language. The special format name _ (underscore) is reserved to define default values for all formats.
Formats can also be used to directly route the request to a PSGI application:
 my $app = Plack::Middleware::Negotiate->new(
 formats => {
 json => {
 type => 'application/json',
 app => $json_app,
 html => {
 type => 'text/html',
 app => $html_app,
Enables explicit format selection with a query paramater, for instance format. Both HTTP GET and HTTP POST body parameters are supported.
Enables explicit format selection with a virtual file extension. The value strip strips a known format name from the request path. The value keep keeps the format name extension after format selection.
The middleware takes care for rewriting and restoring PATH_INFO if it is configured to detect and strip a format extension.
Disables content negotiation based on HTTP headers.
Plack::Middleware::Negotiate uses Log::Contextual to emit a logging message during content negotiation on logging level trace. Just set:
The Content-Encoding HTTP response header is not automatically set on a response and content negotiation based on size is not supported. Feel free to comment on whether and how this middleware should support both.
Content negotiation in this module is based on HTTP::Negotiate. See HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::ContentNegotiation for an alternative approach. This module has some overlap with Plack::Middleware::SetAccept.
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WXP Resources 1
What are Resources?
Resources are used to set parameters for WXP programs. Each WXP program has a list of resources that can be used to change input file parameters to output graphics characteristics. Each resources has a default value compiled into the program. Some of these resources default to a user prompt often with a menu of possible values.
You could just prompt the user for all of the resources but some WXP programs have over 30 available resources. This would make it to difficult to run the program. As a result, many of the resources are not visible (menus or prompts) but can be set either on the command line, through environment variables or with the resource file.
What are some typical Resources?
WXP has over 50 resources available. Each resource has a resource name and a value which can either be a number, string or a list of values separated by commas. Here is a list of typical resources used in WXP and a brief explanation of what information they contain:
File Resources
Date Resources
Data Analysis Parameters
Database Parameters
Plotting Parameters
Attribute/Color Parameters
Device/Window Parameters
Miscellaneous Parameters
How to set WXP Resources
WXP has several methods for accessing and modifying resources. Not every resource is called into a WXP program. For example, a decoder won't need color resources so it is set up to ignore these resources even if they are modified. We will now discuss each method in a bit more detail:
WXP Program Defaults
Each WXP program sets a default value for each of the resources that program needs. These are hardcoded into the program but often these are modified. For example, the data_path resource defaults to the current directory. Of course you would rarely store data in the current working directory so this resource is usually set to some other value. Some program defaults, allow the user to enter the value of the resource through a menu and prompt. An example of this is the plot_domain resource. As we saw in the previous tutorial, this resource is usually left to a user prompt and a menu of possible choices is display.
WXP Resource File
Resources that rarely change should be listed in the resource file. This file essentially contains WXP's default settings. The file can contain both global as well as program specific resource values. Generally, at the top of the resource file are all global resource values. An example of a global resource is:
 *data_path: /noaaport/nwstg/data
If a resource needs to be specifically set for a program, you can place the program name in place of the asterisk:
 grbcalc.data_path: /noaaport/nwstg/model
There are also named resources where a name is used in place of the program:
 nids.data_path: /noaaport/nwstg/nids
The concept of a named resource will be discussed later.
The default resource file is.wxpdef (wxp.def for DOS/Windows). The default location is the current working directory. If this file is located in a different directory, the directory must be listed in the wxpdefault environment variable:
 setenv wxpdefault /home/wxp/etc
This is usually set up by the system administator and added to your shell initialization script.
NOTE: WXP uses a license file whose location is dependent on the file_path resource. If this is not set, you may get "invalid license to use WXP".
Environment Variables
WXP offers a complete set of environment variables for setting WXP resources. In general, these will be used to set resources that will have the same value over a WXP session. A good example of this is if you want to use the latest available file for every program. To do this, you set the environment variable associated with the current resource. The name of the environment variable is just "wxp" + the resource name. So the current resource has an associated environment variable named "wxpcurrent". Now returning to the example, you would set the environment variable as such:
 setenv wxpcurrent la
which is the way to specify the latest (la) available. Now each WXP program will use the latest file and it won't prompt you for the file name.
All WXP resources have named environment variables as well. This works just like the resource file by specifying "wxp" + program name + "." + resource. So if you want color_data resource for only uacalplt to be red, then you would specify:
 setenv wxpuacalplt.color_data red
Environment variables can be unset at any time to return WXP to its default setup:
 unsetenv wxpuacalplt.color_data
So this makes a convenient mechanism for setting temporary values. The other place that environment values are useful are in scripts, which will be discussed later. If these settings are used often, you may want to add them to the resource file as named resources.
Command Line
As expected, each resource can be specified on the command line. Most WXP programs will prompt the user for critical information needed to run the program. But prompting for everything would make WXP impossible to use. Thus command line parameters/resource offer additional tailoring capabilities. Command line resources only affect the WXP program that you are invoking. If you want resources to carry over to other WXP programs, consider using environment variables. Using environment variables for common resources will often reduce the number of resources you need to specify on the command line.
The syntax for the command line is very similar to the to that for other methods. Most of the WXP resources are keyed resources. This means that the resource must be listed first and then the value. To specify that the resource is a keyed resource, the resource name is preceded by a "-". The syntax is "-" + resource name + "=" (optional) + its value.
 sfcwx -plot_domain=at
In many cases it would be nice to not list the entire resource name in the key. WXP provides two shortcuts. First, each resource has a 2 (sometimes 3) letter abbreviation associated with it. Here is a sample list of abbreviations:
Resource Abbr Resource Abbr Resource Abbr Resource Abbr
name_conv nc file_path fp data_path dp con_path cp
grid_path gp raw_path rp file_param pf in_file if
out_file of current cu num_hour nh hour ho
decode_hour dh plot_domain pd region re time ft
level le variable va identifier id stat_prior pr
object_param oa parameter pa city_file cf map_file mf
plot_type pl draw dr con_interval in con_base cb
plot_scale sc plot_param pp font_list fl color_table ct
color_text cot color_map com color_cmap cocm color_line coln
color_data cod color_wind cowd color_cloud cocd color_cont coco
color_fill cof color_front cofr device de geometry ge
title ti icon ic background bg default df
name na help h batch ba message me
Command Line Resource Abbreviations
So to simplify the plot_domain resource, you need to only specify:
 sfcwx -pd=at
The term keyed resource means that since each value is keyed, many resources can be set, each with its key and entered onto the command line in any order. For example:
 sfcwx -de=d -pd=us -me=none -va=all -ti=US_PLOT -cu=la
This will plot a surface map with:
Most WXP programs allow positional (non-keyed) resources. In most cases, this is the filename resource. A positional parameter does not need to have the resource specified and ONLY its value is listed:
 sfcwx 01062022
Some programs like wxploop allow you to specify more than one file:
 wxploop sfc1.gif sfc2.gif sfc3.gif sfc4.gif
The term positional means that they are order dependent. For wxploop, it uses this list of files to load GIF images into the program for animation or looping. They are loaded in the order they appear.
Keyed and Positional resources can be intermixed on the command line:
 sfcwx -re=us -va=all 01062022 -de=d -me=none -ti=US_PLOT
In this case, we use the positional file parameter instead of the current resource (-cu=la).
NOTE: Keyed resources can be listed more than once on a command line. The LAST occurrence of a keyed resource is the value taken. All other occurrences are ignored.
To get help on available resources, you can specify the help resource:
 % sfcwx -help
 sfcwx: This program plots various types of surface data
 sfcwx syntax (version:5.0-X11)
 sfcwx [options...]
 Keyed options...
 -df file Resource/defaults file name
 -na name Program name
 -h Print this help
 -ba Run program in batch mode
 -me level Message level to be displayed:
 -ic Open window iconified
 -bg clr Background color
 -ge wxh+x+y Window geometry
 Positional options...
 file Input


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MileTracker is a power tool that makes tracking your mileage the easiest available. Its elegant user interface and full features makes it an essential tool for every iPhone or iPad user wishing to track their mileage.
 1. Super easy to use!
 2. Once enabled, you can leave the app, turn off your phone, or keep the app open. Its up to you. Regardless the app will still keep track of your mileage.
 3. VERY accurate, within 1/10 of a mile over a 50 mile trip.
IMPORTANT: Our competition (rhymes with "MileJug") has been found to be extremely in accurate short changing you miles each time it is used. This costs you serious money! It has been found to be 10% and sometimes more off. That is 5 miles on a 50 mile trip. Ouch!! If you are getting $.565 per mile than that is the cost of the app every time you travel 50 miles.
 1. if you wish to record your odometer readings to track your mileage, it is easy within MileTracker.
 2. If you already know the mileage and want to enter it, you can do that too.
 3. Change the allowance if necessary.
 4. Convenient large keyboard with decimal point.
 1. Keep track of each leg of your travels
 2. Save the location either by
 3. 1.Using your current location
 4. 2.Getting the address from your Contacts list
 5. 3.Enter the address if you know it
 6. Assign a "nickname" to any location you save so it is easily recognized by you.
Optional Location Awareness add-on that will detect your current location and compare it with your list of frequent locations. If there is a match, it will pre-fill the start location if you create a new entry. If the entry already has a start location, the app will prompt you to and allow you to enter the stop location.
MileTracker allows several different ways to record your mileage. You can:
 1. Track your every move via your current GPS location
 (even when you are within another app or your device is off)
 1. Enter a start and stop location
 (enter an address or use your current GPS location)
 1. Enter a start and stop odometer reading
 2. Enter the total mileage if you already know it
Once you are done recording all of your mileage, the app does not stop there. You can easily email or export the information in either an Excel friendly format (CSV) or an attractive, finished PDF report. The app offers numerous report templates to create the report you need.
 1. Organize your mileage and expense entries in logs. Easily keeps everything nicely filed and easy to find.
 2. Create as many logs as you wish. Create a log for each week, each month, each year, you choose! Create a log for each trip if that is how you wish to organize your time records. Its all up to you.
MileTracker is the best choice among mileage tracking apps because:
 1. It has the MOST accurate LIVE tracking available.
Many other apps short change the mileage you have traveled by 10% and even more. MileTracker has been tested to calculate a 50 mile trip within 1/10 of a mile. Click here to check out our help video on our live mileage tracking feature.
 1. It is the most flexible of the mileage tracking app's allowing you to track mileage the way you prefer.
In addition to the high tech methods of tracking mileage, you can use your odometer readings if you wish. Click here to check out our help video on the different ways to tracking mileage here.
 1. It allows you to build a list of frequent used locations. Noting where you have visited is as easy as selected the location from a list.
 1. The app offers an easy to use method to organize your entries into "Logs."
 1. MileTracker is chock full of different preferences allowing to make it "your own.
You can choose to hide fields you to do now wish to use or show those not included by default. These extra fields include:
Client, Merchant, Project, plus more.
 1. The absolute most attractive PDF mileage reports available. Choose from one of many templates to create the report you need.
 1. Backup up your data to iCloud
Live Mileage Tracking
Mileage tracking and reporting
Keeping Track of the Places you Visit
(another way to track your mileage)
Enter your Odometer reading
(if that is how you wish to track your mileage)
 1. The app will remember the last stop odometer reading and will pre-fill that value for the new entry's start reading.
 2. Supports Multiple Vehicles and remembers the last stop odometer for each of your vehicles if you have more than one.
 3. Note: By default the Multiple Vehicle support is disabled but can be easily enabled in the MileTracker Prefs screen).
Sort Bar
Tap to toggle between total mileage and total $
Customize what appears on the 2nd line
(even enable optional 3rd line too)
Optional Multiple Vehicle Support
Indicate if it is
one-way or round trip
Optional Field
Flag as Business or Personal
Optional Fields
Hide or Show as you wish
Link files from your email
Over a dozen different PDF templates to choose from


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Within a single-page application, routers direct URLs to client-side methods rather than passing an HTTP request to the server. All routers contain a
routes property that maps between a partial URL and a method defined within the router. Methods within the router perform different functions including initializing views, models, and collections.
For example, the Address.Router contains the following routes property:
, 'addressbook/new': 'newAddress'
, 'addressbook/:id': 'addressDetailed'
When a user clicks on the Address Book menu item in the My Account application, the router of the Address module intercepts the partial URL (addressbook) and calls the
addressBook method. The
addressBook method is responsible for initializing the collection containing the list of addresses and initializing the view that displays them. Depending on the module, routers may initialize properties and variables required by the module. They may also contain methods that define the behavior and logic of the module.