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Identity Vault
Identity Vault is an all-in-one frontend identity management system that combines security best practices and the latest in biometric authentication options for Ionic apps running on iOS and Android.
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The Vault manages secure user identity and session tokens, ensuring sensitive data is encrypted at rest, stored only in secure locations on the device, and unlocked only with biometric identity (TouchID/FaceID). Always-on Session Management safeguards data even when not using your app, with background screen protection for sensitive data and apps, and automatic logout based on inactivity time.
Identity Vault is built and supported by the Ionic's native mobile experts and includes ongoing updates and maintenance, including new API features, patches, updates, and compatibility upgrades for new iOS & Android releases.
Why Identity Vault?#
Many frontend authentication workflows use unsecure practices like storing tokens unencrypted or using weak authentication logic that is easily compromised. In the past, Ionic developers have resorted to combining third party Cordova plugins, often resulting in insecure setups due to the lack of correct implementation of biometric and at-rest encryption strategies.
Common security mistakes include:
 - Not implementing Apple and Google's mobile security best practices. Guidelines often change with each major operating system release.
 - Combining disparate Cordova plugins together. While the code is open source, it's challenging to know if the latest security best practices are in place, and whether the plugin developer will keep them up to date.
 - Leaking data. Storing tokens unencrypted in localstorage is common but data is easily accessible.
 - Not clearing tokens after user inactivity or when new fingerprints are added. Removing tokens protects users in the event of a lost or stolen device.
 - Displaying data when app is in the background. Highly sensitive data should be protected from shoulder surfing, especially if the mobile app is commonly used in public places.
Identity Vault handles all of the above and more, reducing your team's development time from weeks to minutes while eliminating the need to learn complex native APIs. Instead, they can focus on delivering business critical app features.
How It Works#
Among Identity Vault's many features is the secure management of user identity and session tokens. The Vault ensures sensitive data is encrypted at rest, stored only in secure locations on the device, and unlocked only with biometric identity (TouchID/FaceID). Here's how it works in practice, in a typical authentication workflow.
An app user logs into your mobile app and the backend authentication system verifies their credentials. If valid, the system sends back a session token representing the user's identity and permissions. Since this token represents the ability to make changes on behalf of the user, it's crucial to secure it so that malicious persons or apps cannot access it.
Identity Vault workflow
Your app must store the token somewhere so the user can continue to use it over time, as the token will be sent back to your server to retrieve and modify data at any time. This is where Identity Vault comes in. The token is encrypted and stored at-rest securely on a physical hardware chip - the Secure Enclave on iOS devices. The enclave is isolated from all other system components in order to ensure sensitive user data remains secure.
Later, when an attempt is made to retrieve the user token, the app prompts the user to authenticate using Touch ID or Face ID. After verification, it's permitted to get the token from the Secure Enclave and use it for subsequent data requests.
In addition to secure identity management, Identity Vault fully configurable session management. While in use, the auth tokens will be in-memory of your app, so for an additional layer of protection, the Vault will automatically lock based on the specified inactivity time. It also comes with screen protection, hiding your app's data when put into the background. On iOS, it uses your app's splash screen and the native hide system on Android. Finally, you can use Identity Vault's user service to add the auth token to every backend system request using a HTTP interceptor.
Reference Apps#
While implementing Idenitity Vault, refer to these reference apps for examples showcasing all available security features.
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Haven't we all felt the urge to throw our laptop against the wall when the screen goes blank at 3 am, and totally wipes hours of hard work?
To prevent those frustrating computer crashes, scientists at University College London (UCL) have created a self-healing computer. The "systemic" machine, according to a report in the New Scientist, can instantly recover corrupted data.
The invention is expected to have far-reaching consequences for physicians and the military: it could allow drones to recover from combat damage in a matter of seconds, or create a more realistic model of the human brain.
The team behind the "systemic computer" built it to be able to respond to random and unpredictable events. Computers were originally built to follow a linear set of instructions, and can only consider one thing at a time.
"Even when it feels like your computer is running all your software at the same time, it is just pretending to do that, flicking its attention very quickly between each program," Peter Bentley, a computer scientist at UCL, said in an interview with the New Scientist.
Together with his colleague Christos Sakellariou, Bentley re-engineered a new computer that thinks more like the human brain.
It's all about safety in numbers: the new computer contains multiple copies of its instructions across its individual systems, so if one fails, it can access clean copy and repair itself. In the future, the scientists are working to incorporate machine learning, so if you're sitting outside working and the temperature gets too high, the computer will respond to preemptively prevent a crash.
The next generation of school kids may need to come up with a more creative excuse for failing to turn in work on time!
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Five Takeaways from the Inaugural Foundations for Employment and Housing Meeting in Houston, TX
In March, Funders Together's Foundations for Employment and Housing community members came together in Houston to learn about how the city integrated its homeless services system with the public workforce system to ensure all people receiving homeless services can access both employment and housing. In addition to learning from our hosts, community members spent time getting to know one another and sharing their current work – including opportunities and challenges.
At the end of the three days, the group started a process that will ultimately help members identify collective action they will take in Year 2 of the community. The first step in this process was defining the current state and problem. The following statement was what attendees agreed would serve as the problem statement, ultimately helping to determine the group's collective action.
Later this year, community members will meet in-person again to identify possible solutions that could address this problem and serve as an action item for the community.
In addition to the collective problem statement the group createdcommunity members named five items as their biggest takeaways from the visit.
1. It is possible.
While it may be difficult, and sometimes seem impossible, it is possible for the public workforce system to work with the homeless services system to serve individuals experiencing homelessness.
Public workforce systems are already serving individuals experiencing homelessness, albeit not always well. We, the homeless services system, can work with the workforce system to help them better serve individuals experiencing homelessness that are already entering their system. Stronger relationships and partnership will also allow us to connect individuals in the homeless services system to support and opportunities through the public workforce system.
Houston's homeless services system has an income assessment and triage tool to ensure all people receiving homeless services can access both employment and housing.
They have also led the charge to ensure that homeless services and workforce development stakeholders understand how employment can help prevent and end homelessness and that they are well-equipped to connect homeless jobseekers to work.
2. Working with your CoC AND Workforce Boards is imperative.
To be successful, the Continuum oCare (CoC) and workforce boards must have the right makeup and be willing to listen and learn. These boards will have the ultimate power to make or break this work. Boards that are educated and understand both how employment can help prevent and end homelessness and how stable housing can improve employment outcomes will be able to better support effective partnerships.
In Houston, Mike Temple, Director of Workforce Matters is also the Chair of the CoC Board. Mike joined the CoC Governance Committee and saw the need for more targeted support for individuals experiencing homelessness. He was also in a position to help facilitate partnerships and make changes to both systems.
Our hosts in Houston pointed out that it must be the right board to ask someone like Mike to join. The board must already be strong and coordinated. They must also have the right members. People who are ready to do the work and have the power to make it happen.
3. Just Try It! You have to start somewhere.
While it is important for the systems to be ready, you have to start somewhere. This can mean different things for different communities, but success will depend on relationships between systems and the data and information to make the case.
In Houston, they started by creating an effective homeless response system and identified employment and income as key components. Once they could show the importance of work and employment, they brought in the right people from the public workforce system to help make changes and be successful.
While they still have work to do, they started by trying. Along the way they continue to make changes based on what they learn. Their message: stop talking and planning and start!
Data is essential to any work. The right data can help make the case for partnership or investment and help identify effective models and programs. The intersection between the homeless services system and workforce system is an area where there is room for improvement in every community.
To really understand how your system works, you need to know how many people are entering the homeless services system and asking for employment and how many people are entering the workforce system that are not stability housed. Then, you need to know how many people are referred and if they actually follow-up on that referral. By collecting and evaluating data, we can design more effective systems and better serve job seekers experiencing homelessness.
In Houston, they are collecting new data, and starting evaluation. While they still have work to do, they now know how many people are referred to the workforce system from the homeless services system and how many of those people find employment. As they continue to collect and evaluate data they hope to have a better understanding of what services people are receiving and outcomes based on those services.
5. Funders can play an important role in both preparing and connecting systems.
We know that in addition to funding, philanthropy can help with education and advocacy, support coordination and collaboration, and serve as conveners. All of these things can help workforce and homeless services systems work together and better serve individuals experiencing homelessness.
In Houston, private funders were leaders and influencers that helped move this work forward and change the mindset of other funders, both public and private. Big funders being part of the leadership group gave the work credibility and brought other funders and partners to the table. Private funders also aligned their funding with public dollars which helped eliminate duplication and support the creation of one, more effective system.
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Medieval Writing
The History of f
The letter f could be somewhat variable in the early scripts, but became more standardised over time. One of the most noticeable variations does not show up so well in this particular style of presentation, as f is sometimes tall with a long ascender, and sometimes sits lower on the line with a descender. In some scripts it extends both above and below the smaller letters as a very tall letter.
square capital F In the Old Roman square capitals, F has a familiar right angled open form. In this script, all letters are of equal height.
rustic capital F In the rustic capital script, it is much the same, but wit the slight curve to the lines typical of this script.
uncial F The uncial F is similar in general form, but sits lower on the line, with a tail hanging down and slightly curved.
New Roman cursive f In this example of New Roman cursive, the minuscule f is tall, extending above and below the other letters, and curved.
In the pre-Carolingian minuscule scripts or National Hands, f varies somewhat between the uncial form and that derived from New Roman cursive, with a few eccentric variations. Where the letter is very tall, it is generally only distinguished from s by the cross bar, as both letters tend to have very similar vertical elements.
half uncial f In a 6th century half uncial script it sits low, as in the uncial form, although in this example the top has bee simplified from three strokes to two.
Corbie ab f In the specialised book script Corbie ab it extends above and below, with a curved ascender and straight descender.
old Italian f An old northern Italian book hand of the 8th century displays a form closer to the uncial, with a split top.
Germanic f This example of Merovingian minuscule or Germanic book hand shows a clean and simple example of the New Roman cursive type.
Luxeuil f The other named special Merovingian book hand, Luxeuil minuscule, has a quite peculiar form, with a curved split back and a closed loop rather than a curved top and crossbar. This is a unique form of the letter.
Visigothic f In the Visigothic script, it is simple and straight.
insular half uncial f The formal script known as known as insular half uncial employs a form closely related to the uncial. In this example the descender is short, even though the letter sits low on the line. It is slightly split at the back.
insular minuscule f This 10th century example of insular minuscule is very similar, with a more markedly split back.
Beneventan f In Beneventan minuscule the letter is tall extending above and below the others.
Merovingian chancery f The tendency for vertical extension and horizontal compaction in Merovingian chancery script has made f into a very tall skinny letter.
old curialis f In the old curialis of the papal chancery, it is twisted into a loop rather than equipped with a crossbar.
The Carolingian scripts generally adopted a fairly standardised form of f.
Caroline minuscule f In a formal rounded version of Caroline minuscule it has become simple and open with a curved ascender. It extends only a very small amount below the baseline.
Caroline minuscule f A sample from a forged 12th century monastic charter shows a similar form.
later curialis f The later papal curialis of the 11th century has adopted this standard letter f.
papal f By the 12th century the diplomatic minuscule of the papal chancery has produced a very tall narrow letter with a closed loop at the top, but it does not extend far below the baseline.
Imperial f The 12th century diplomatic minuscule of the Imperial German chancery has added a few of its trademark squiggles to the top of a straight ascender.
In the formal Gothic book hands, the Carolingian f does not change its essential form, varying only in details and degree of angularity.
protogothic f This protogothic f from a 12th century French book hand entirely resembles a Caroline minuscule f.
rotunda f The 14th century Gothic rotunda version of the letter is much the same.
textura f This 13th century Gothic textura f of medium grade is somewhat wider.
prescissa f The very formal Gothic prescissa, displays neat angles rather than a curve on the ascender.
textura f A relatively informally written late 15th or early 16th Gothic textura script fits the same general pattern.
textura f A 15th century Dutch language formal Gothic textura has added a tiny angular hairline to the base.
The standard and quite recognisable f develops a few variants in the later cursive scripts.
more about f
Histories of Individual Letters
History of Scripts
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Aeta people: the wandering men of the philippines
Aeta People: The wandering men of the Philippines
I am born and raised in Pampanga, Philippines until I was 16 years old and migrated here in Canada. The Philippines has three main island regions; Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Luzon being at the northern part, the Visayas at the center and Mindanao at the southern part. Both of my parents are from the Visayas region but moved to Pampanga in their late teens. My mother has a Chinese and Spanish lineage while my father is of Spanish descent. Pampanga is part of the Central Luzon region that has its own dialect similar to its neighboring provinces. This paper is about the Indigenous group Aetas or Aeta People that populate some parts of the Northern Luzon but mostly the provinces of Central Luzon which includes, Aurora, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac, and Zambales. Aside from the fact that Aeta People occupies Pampanga, the reason why I chose to do my paper about them is because I saw firsthand how Aeta people were mistreated and discriminated by non-Aetas. Upon doing this paper, I hope to gain more knowledge about their history and the present struggles of the Aeta People in the country where they are the first inhabitants.
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I have learned about Aeta People through my parents at a young age. Aetas in my region were commonly called 'Negritos' and 'Negritas' due to their dark complexion and afro-hair. My parents warned me about the use of that word because some Aetas are not keen with being called names other than Aeta. I grew up hearing the phrase, "basta kulot, salot" which translate to "curly-haired people are pests" which I thought was a stupid and useless insult. Why would they care about someone else's hair texture? Then it dawned on me that this phrase specifically targets the Aeta People who have tight curls, like an afro hair. My knowledge about them continues to progress when I was in elementary school. My history class for the first five years was heavily focused on teaching the different prominent Indigenous groups in my country. They taught us their origin, religions, culture, and traditions. The curriculum, however, did not include how Indigenous People in the Philippines are heavily discriminated and marginalized.
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I can still vividly remember my first encounter with an Aeta People, it was with an Aeta mother and her children with one infant wrapped onto her back with a blanket. They were all barefooted. I saw them on the streets begging for money and food. I saw them carrying plastic bags with recycled cans and plastics that can be sold to a "junk shop" for some quarters. My older relatives told me that Aetas live in the mountains and only comes down to the mainland to beg for money and food. My second encounter with Aeta people was on a field trip to a zoo and a butterfly sanctuary that was located at the foot of Mount Arayat Pampanga. I saw Aeta People begging for money from people passing by, all barefooted. The tour guide of my group told us that we should treat Aetas with respect as they are one of the first people to inhabit the country. As a nine-year-old, I did not have an opinion of my own yet. I was still on the process of gaining as much knowledge and wisdom to cultivate my own opinions and beliefs. During that time, it was, and it still is, especially interesting to me how my older relatives and this tour guide; who probably knows more about the history and the indigenous people in the Philippines, have an opposing opinion towards Aeta People.
As I grow older, I learned that Aeta people did not want to live in the mainland to avoid conflicts with other non-Aetas. I also found that they are passive people who do not like to engage with conflicts that when threatened with invasion or violence, they will flee and run to the deepest part of the mountains. However, this changed on June 15, 1991, when Mount Pinatubo erupted that ultimately threatened their safety and had forced them to live in the urban and rural areas of the Luzon region.
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The Beacon
Is Sea Life Worth It?
Divers were willing to pay the most on average for healthy corals, at around $55 per dive, but they were also willing to pay an average of $35 for sharks and $30 for sea turtles.
As Suzanne Garrett, our dive program coordinator (ScubaSuz here on the blog) put it, "Divers are personally invested in the oceans and truly understand the importance of safeguarding marine wildlife and habitats."
For all you divers out there -- what would you pay to see, and how much?
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node" to use multiple machines while also running multiple John processes per machine. For example, to use two similar 8-core machines you may run "--fork=8 --node=1-8/16" on one of the machines and "--fork=8 --node=9-16/16" on the other. For a more complicated example, if you have an 8-core machine and a 64-core machine with similar per-core performance, you could run an OpenMP-enabled build on both of them and use "--node=1/9" (without "--fork") on the first machine (8 threads in 1 process) and "--fork=8 --node=2-9/9" on the 64-core machine (8 threads in 8 processes, for 64 threads total on this machine). With the current implementation, the node numbers range assigned to each John invocation must match the "--fork" process count.
When running with "--fork", multiple ".rec" files are created, which are then read back by "--status" and "--restore" if you use those options. Just like with other options, you must not specify "--fork" along with "--status" or "--restore", because these read the main (unnumbered) ".rec" file first, which contains the right "--fork" option in it, resulting in further (numbered) ".rec" files being read as appropriate.
Under the hood, "--fork" makes use of the same functionality that "--node" does, so the same efficiency and scalability limitations apply. Despite of those, "--fork" is often much more efficient than OpenMP - especially for fast to compute hash types (such as LM hashes), where OpenMP overhead is often unacceptable.
Similarly to "--node", there's almost no communication between the processes with "--fork". Hashes successfully cracked by one process continue being cracked by other processes. Just like with "--node", this is mostly OK for saltless hash types or when there's just one salt, but it is a serious drawback when many different salts are present and their number could potentially be decreasing as some hashes get cracked. To have the cracked hashes (and possibly salts) removed from all processes, you may interrupt and restore the session once in a while.
--format=NAME force hash type NAME
Allows you to override the hash type detection. As of John the Ripper version 1.8.0, valid "format names" are descrypt, bsdicrypt, md5crypt, bcrypt, LM, AFS, tripcode, dummy, and crypt (and many more are added in jumbo). You can use this option when you're starting a cracking session or along with one of: "--test", "--show", "--make-charset". Note that John can't crack hashes of different types at the same time. If you happen to get a password file that uses more than one hash type, then you have to invoke John once for each hash type and you need to use this option to make John crack hashes of types other than the one it would autodetect by default.
"--format=crypt" may or may not be supported in a given build of John. In default builds of John, this support is currently only included on Linux and Solaris. When specified (and supported), this option makes John use the system's crypt(3) or crypt_r(3) function. This may be needed to audit password hashes supported by the system, but not yet supported by John's own optimized cryptographic routines. Currently, this is the case for glibc 2.7+ SHA-crypt hashes as used by recent versions of Fedora and Ubuntu, and for SunMD5 hashes supported (but not used by default) on recent versions of Solaris. In fact, you do not have to explicitly specify "--format=crypt" for hashes of these specific types unless you have other hash types (those supported by John natively) in the password file(s) as well (in which case another hash type may get detected unless you specify this option).
"--format=crypt" is also a way to make John crack crypt(3) hashes of different types at the same time, but doing so results in poor performance and in unnecessarily poor results (in terms of passwords cracked) for hashes of the "faster" types (as compared to the "slower" ones loaded for cracking at the same time). So you are advised to use separate invocations of John, one per hash type.
Additional utilities (compiled/installed along with John).
There are some related utilities in John's run directory. (Depending on platform, these may be symlinks to the main John program binary.)
Combines the "passwd" and "shadow" files (when you already have access to both) for use with John. You might need this since if you only used your shadow file, the "Full Name" or "GECOS" information wouldn't be used by the "single crack" mode (thus reducing its efficiency) and you wouldn't be able to use the "--groups" and "--shells" options and to select by UID with "--users". You probably also want to see all of the passwd file fields with "--show".
You'll usually want to redirect the output of "unshadow" to a file which you then pass to John.
Gets password hashes out of the binary AFS database and produces output usable by John (you should redirect the output to a file).
Removes duplicates from a wordlist (read from stdin) without changing the order of entries. You might want to use this with John's "--stdout" option if you've got a lot of disk space to trade for the reduced cracking time (on possibly trying some duplicates as they might be produced with word mangling rules).
There are also some related scripts supplied in John's run directory. (Binary packages of John may choose to install these along with the documentation instead.)
relbench is a Perl script to compare two "john --test" benchmark runs, such as for different machines, "make" targets, C compilers, optimization options, or/and versions of John the Ripper. To use it, redirect the output of each "john --test" run to a file, then run the script on the two files. Most values output by the script indicate relative performance seen on the second benchmark run as compared to the first one, with the value of 1.0 indicating no change, values higher than 1.0 indicating speedup, and values lower than 1.0 indicating slowdown. Specifically, the script outputs the minimum, maximum, median, and geometric mean for the speedup (or slowdown) seen across the many individual benchmarks that "john --test" performs. It also outputs the median absolute deviation (relative to the median) and geometric standard deviation (relative to the geometric mean). Of these two, a median absolute deviation of 0.0 would indicate that no deviation from the median is prevalent, whereas a geometric standard deviation of 1.0 would indicate that all benchmarks were sped up or slowed down by the exact same ratio or their speed remained unchanged. In practice, these values will tend to deviate from 0.0 and 1.0, respectively.
A shell script to send mail to all users whose passwords got cracked. This is not always a good idea, though, since lots of people do not check their e-mail or ignore such messages, and the messages can be a hint for crackers.
You should probably deploy proactive password strength checking, such as with passwdqc, before you ask users to change their passwords - whether using this script or otherwise. And you should edit the message inside the script before possibly using it.
This is a script to (re-)generate the.chr files using passwords in john.pot and applying all of the defined external mode filters. To speed it up on a sufficiently large computer (RAM and CPUs), "&" may be added after the John invocation inside the script (to run all of them in parallel).
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key with Shift held down.
CJL The minimal example of this mildly unexpected behaviour is to switch Caps Lock on, then in a Wish console (I'm talking Windoze here) type something, highlight it and press Ctrl-C. Now try to paste your text somewhere else (e.g. Notepad) using Ctrl-V - you'll discover that the copy didn't happen, but even though Caps Lock is still on, Notepad will quite happily obey the paste request (by pasting whatever was already in the clipboard). To me 'Ctrl-C' means "the physical key labelled with a 'C' was pressed while ctrl was down", and should have nothing to do with the state of Caps Lock, only the combination of keys pressed.
WHD: On both Windows and Mac OS X, normal apps accept both and ( and ) as the Paste key. For Tk, it appears that you need to bind both. On the other hand, if you bind both you'll find that all of the following combinations will paste:
 -
 -
 -
 -
If you want to support Shift-Control sequences in your keyset, you need to bind both and . Here's a simple solution that results in CapsLock-independent letter key bindings:
proc bindletterkey {tag modifier letter binding} {
 set upper [string toupper $letter]
 set lower [string tolower $letter]
 bind $tag <$modifier-$upper> $binding
 bind $tag <$modifier-$lower> $binding
bindletterkey.text Control F {puts Control-F}
bindletterkey.text Shift-Control F {puts Shift-Control-F}
Case Insensitive Binding edit
MG 2005-06-06: And, where the bindings already exist (ie, for the Text widget) and you want to make them case-insensitive, something like this will help.
proc mirror {class {dir 1}} {
 if {$dir eq {1}} {
 set range a-z
 set case toupper
 } else {
 set range A-Z
 set case tolower
 foreach x [bind $class] {
 if {[regexp "^<(.+-)?\[$range]>$" $x]} {
 set y [string range $x end-1 end-1]
 set y [string range $x 0 end-2][string $case $y]>
 if {[bind $class $y] ne {}} {
 bind $class $y [bind $class $x]
};# mirror
Then run, for instance:
mirror Text 1; # copy all lower-class bindings for the Text widget to upper-class versions
mirror Text 0; # copy all upper-class bindings for the Text widget to lower-class versions
mirror Entry 1; # copy all lower-class bindings for the Entry widget to upper-class versions
It's also careful not to overwrite bindings - if you have an and an binding for the Text widget, and run mirror Text 1, will be left as it is, rather than being overwritten with 's binding.
This raises one question for me, though - what's better practice? Should you bind to
bind Text [bind Text ]
and copy the binding, or use something like
bind Text {event generate %W }
to mirror 's state at the time the event happens?
Unbound bind edit
Some of the best bind coding doesn't involve bind at all. DKF, for example, astutely remarked that
event add <>
bind $class [bind $type <>]
bind $class [bind $type <>]
... [Correct; elaborate]
bind to a plain keystroke only (not modified by Ctrl or Alt) edit
proc bind'plainkey {tag key script} {
 bind $tag {}
 bind $tag {}
 bind $tag $key $script
bind'plainkey all x {puts Hello}
RUJ: If bind leave command to main window it is not (bindings) grabbing to its associated widgets. e.g.:
toplevel $wa -bd 1 -relief ridge
wm geometry $wa 600x40+$mousex+$mousey
wm resizable $wa 0 0
wm overrideredirect $wa yes
wm iconname $wa "menu"
wm group $wa.
focus $wa
grab set $wa
entry $wa.ent01 -width 6 -background white
bind $wa <1> [list after cancel destroy.base]
bind $wa [list destroy.base]
But it is destroying base if cursor goes near to entry. Can anybody solve the problem.
Disable Pasting edit
2008-03-17: How can I disable pasting into a text widget? I tried the following:
bind $theText <> {tk_messageBox -message {Paste Attempt}}
bind $theText {tk_messageBox -message {Paste Attempt}}
bind $theText {tk_messageBox -message {Paste Attempt}}
bind $theText {tk_messageBox -message {Paste Attempt}}
The message boxes are shown, so the event handling works. But after the message box has been clicked away, the pasting takes place anyway - at least for Shift-Insert.
Answer: You are adding bindings to the widget but aren't addressing the bindings associated with the widget class. Read up on bindtags. One solution is to add ;break to each binding to prevent the class bindings from firing:
bind $theText <> {tk_messageBox -message "Paste Attempt"; break}
Of course, you can also just set the -state option to "disabled".
Class binding, do they work?
[Janic]: 2009-07-01T09:48:17:
I tried to set a class binding but it never works. For example:
checkbutton.a -text test
pack.a
bind.a break
works fine (the widget is still active but you can't check it anymore), but if write
bind Checkbutton break
it doesn't work. Did I miss something in the class binding behavior?
MG: Many different bindings are checked for a widget, based on its bindtags. The default order for a widget is: bindings on the widget itself, bindings on its class, its toplevel, and then on all. Also, bindings are checked from most specific match to least specific (so if you press the 'a' key, it checks for KeyPress-a before a more generic KeyPress, etc).
That's why you're seeing what you see; first the widget's own bindings are checked, and the generic binding matches and is run; break stops further bindings being checked.
When you bind that on the Checkbutton class, though, the default binding is more specific, and gets used instead of your binding. (You can see all the default bindings with bind Checkbutton, then see what a specific one does with bind Checkbutton $binding.) So, to override the default binding, you'd need to either replace the Button-1 binding, or add something higher up the bindtags chain.
DKF: You are advised to be very careful with changing bindings of widget classes, as that affects all widgets of that type in the application. (It's most useful if you're adding more editing keys to the text widget, or are making your own megawidget class.) It's far better to adjust the bindtags for the specific widgets in question as the results are a lot more predictable.
wdb: Here an example: button.b has new binding tag, Button1 instead of Button. Bindings are copied from Button to lButton1, then binding of <1> is modified:
% package require Tk
% pack [button.b -text Howdy]
% # button appears
% bindtags.b
.b Button. all
% bindtags.b {.b Button1. all}
% apply {{old new} {
 foreach p [bind $old] {
 bind $new $p [bind $old $p]
}} Button Button1
% bind Button1 <1> "+puts yep!"
% # now clicking on.b:
% yep!
From now on, you can change arbitrary buttons without side-effects to "normal" buttons.
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On a Mac [OSX 10.6.4] I have a program with a text widget, and the binding
bind. {
I also have a menu item that calls Find
$Test add command -label Find -accel Command-F -command Find
Find puts up a dialox box, but involves some sorting. However, it still takes less than a second to generate the data. Here it is:
proc Find {} {
 global body dict t
 set t1 [clock clicks -milliseconds]
 set f.dictdisplay
 _TAG_ if we want to restrict display
 set target {}
 if {[$t tag ranges sel] ne {}}


text: A late 19th-century Boston photographer, A.H. Folsom, captured this amazing picture of a sixth-grade class with almost every student examining a small desk globe. This image is part of a photographic survey commissioned by the Boston Public Schools in 1892-93. A number of these photographs were included in an album displayed at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900. While most certainly posed, the photograph speaks to the importance of geography and an understanding of global issues in the late-19th-century Boston Public School curriculum. In the same vein, the photograph can serve as an icon for the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center's mission of making the Boston Public Library's map collection available to Bostonians of all ages, particularly, the city's school children. The children portrayed in this photograph attended the George Putnam Grammar School which was located at 2025 Columbus Avenue. Today, the site of the Putnam school is across the street from the Eggleston Square Branch of the Boston Public Library. The school was named for Dr. George Putnam, the long-time pastor of First Church in Roxbury. He also served as a member of Boston Public Library's Board of Trustees from _PHONE_.


Truffle News
10 Reasons Why White Truffles Are So Expensive!
by 22/08/2019
"White Truffle Sold for 300.000 Euros!!"
These kind of headlines do two things – they drive truffle hunters insane and they warp the public's perception of the value of a white truffle (tuber magnatum pico). In real life the cost of white truffles is nowhere near so exorbitant. Consumers can expect to pay a much more reasonable price of between three and six thousand euros per kilo, depending on where the truffle is purchased (how far from Italy) and the year (prices fluctuate annually).Wherever the place and whatever the year though, you can be sure that white truffles will be one of the most expensive foods you ever buy. We're going to look at ten reasons why this fungus costs so much money.
1. White truffles don't grow everywhere
 The areas where white truffles grow are few and far between. Unlike their black counterparts, they have yet to be cultivated which means they are only found in the wild by hunters with specially trained dogs. Most of the white truffles are hunted in five or six regions of northern Italy, the most famous being Alba in Piedmont. A little known fact is that the majority of Italy's truffles grow in Le Marche,with around two-thirds of the national crop (which is around 60 tonnes annually) originating in the regions around Acqualagna. White truffles have also been unearthed in countries such as Romania, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia. Although the species found abroad is identical, most connoisseurs would agree that the Italian climate and terrain produce a superior truffle.However this is something of a hot topic to be discussed in another post.
2. The places where truffles grow are very difficult to access
In our area, the majority of places where white truffles grow are quite literally dark, damp ditches in an unforgiving forest in the middle of nowhere surrounded by thick brambles. White truffles are very unique hence they only develop in a very specific, unusual microclimate. When I went on my first truffle hunt I was expecting something akin to a pleasant hike in the forest and had even packed some sandwiches for the trip. I got a very rude awakening that cold winter's morning as I went sliding down a precariously steep embankment on my backside, ending up in an icy stagnant pool with my arms entangled in the undergrowth and a spaniel sitting nonchalantly on my head. Great times. More often than not you will spend 5 or 6 hours trekking through these delightful picnic spots only to come out scratched to hell and caked in mud with perhaps 15 grams of truffle or even nothing at all to show for it. You get in the car wet and miserable, eat your stale panini and drive home to face the scorn. Then the irony is that you can't wait to get up the next day and do it all over again.
3.Truffles are only available for a short period of the year.
The white truffle season does not last very long at all. Peak condition white truffles are available from early – mid October to the end of December. Truffles grow from early September and can be found in January (sometimes all the way to early February) but the quality is generally so poor that they should be avoided. Besides the fact that these truffles will be a poor imitation of the beautiful peak season specimens,we should also mention that it is illegal to hunt for truffles outside of the season designated by the regional Forestry Corps.. Please truffle fans, let's try and preserve the species!
4. They don't keep for long.
 Truffles are only fresh for about a week and from the moment the hunter digs them up, they begin to lose their unique perfume. This means they have to be transported quickly using the most expensive means available in order to be eaten as soon as possible. As the white truffle is highly sensitive, any variations in temperature or problems such as a flight delay can result in the loss of thousands of euros worth of product and sadly this happens on a regular basis.
5. Only specially trained dogs can find them.
One of the hardest parts of being a truffle hunter is training your dog. Yes, you can buy a trained truffle dog starting at around 4000 euros but you may not know what kind of dog you are getting and what methods have been used in its training. There are a lot of advantages to teaching your dog yourself from when it is a pup.This means that hunters can spend years working with their dogs to bring them up to scratch. The animals need to be trained lovingly and good hunters realise that there are no short cuts. Training your own dog requires charisma, effort and above all patience as some dogs (especially males) won't start sniffing out truffles till they are about two and a half years of age. And even then as my uncle Alberto says 'Some dogs hunt, some dogs piss on the tree.' A lot of animal lovers worry that truffle dogs are being exploited. My advice would be to try to see the dogs in action even if it is just a video. It makes sense for hunters to choose breeds which seemingly have an innate love for what they do. Athletic dogs which are never happier than when they are out on the hunt. There are exceptions, of course but the majority of hunters value their dogs almost to the point of worship. They are proud of them and take great care of the dogs. Probably the hunters' biggest fear is that anything should happen to their canine partner. In our family, the dogs work really hard with us and in return they are treated like royalty.
6.Big truffles cost more per gram.
The price of white truffles is calculated per gram and varies according to at least 4 categories of weight. So a truffle in the range of 1-15 grams might sell for 1 euro per gram, whereas truffles over 15 grams and under 50 will be more expensive. A white truffle which weighs over 50 grams will cost even more, say 3 euros a gram. Then there is the giant category, the showpiece which can often fetch a very high price especially if it's also a good shape, undamaged and attractive in colour. On an average day, we usually find small truffles in small quantities, Finding a giant truffle (over 100 grams) is quite rare and might happen once or twice a week so a lot of the time you could be out truffling and coming home with 100 grams of small truffles untill you finally hit the jackpot. In addition, damaged truffles are worth a lot less. This means we need to be very careful not to let the dogs scratch the truffle when they are digging. Also the hunter works as delicately as an archeologist so as not to break the truffle during the tricky unearthing process. As an aside, I remember when I was a little boy, maybe 5 or 6 and my uncle Donatello wanted to tease me. The hunters were sitting in our kitchen drinking wine and that day Donatello had found a perfectly round, golden-coloured truffle that was completely intact. He held it out to me and said "Look Giorgino, I found a potato!". I took it from his hand and threw it to the kitchen floor where it broke into three or four worthless pieces to the sound of a collective groan. Luckily they all saw the funny side later after a few more glasses of wine. Of course, Italian families being what they are, I have never been allowed to forget this incident!
7. Truffle prices vary according to the weather.
Weather conditions are the most important factor in regard to the development of the tuber magnatum pico in its prefruited form. This means that some years truffles are even pricier than usual as there are fewer truffles due to that year's temperatures and amount of rainfall. The ideal weather conditions for optimum development of truffles is rain in the months of March and April and more wet weather later on in the summer months. The reason being that summers in Italy can be so warm that if there isn't enough rain in these months the truffle will either never grow to its full potential or never grow at all.In other words, truffles are hyper-sensitive. Rain can also affect the availability and thus price in the autumn months. Truffle hunters are usually sturdy types who are not put off by a bit of bad weather. However November is the wettest month of the year in Italy with total precipitation often surpassing 100 millimeters. This means that there will often be days or even weeks when there are no fresh truffles on the market because all the hunters are at home going crazy waiting for the downpour to stop.
8. Climate change is real and it is affecting white truffles.
The effects of climate change on white truffles are yet to be fully understood, but Ulf Büntgen, professor of Environmental Systems Analysis at Cambridge University has come up with some very compelling data. It shows that since the 1970's summer rain patterns have altered significantly, droughts are occuring more frequently and temperatures are steadily increasing and that these weather conditions result in a corresponding decline in the number of truffles.The fragile natural system needed in order for truffles to thrive is under threat which means that they are getting scarcer.
9. Basic Economics
There is a great demand and a limited supply. In fact only 65% of the demand for white truffle can be met.
10.Their taste and aroma is incomparable.
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. The only thing that matters is being first in the door to confess. So why listen to the Antitrust Division's opinions on upgrading programs? When the Criminal Division says x, y and z should be in a program, we have reason to listen. When the Antitrust Division says this, why would their statements about something they ignore make any difference?
Healing the antitrust division
So how do we heal the antitrust division and have one government with one policy that encourages and recognizes diligent compliance and ethics programs? The answers are simple:
 1. Remove the antitrust carve-out in the Sentencing Guidelines. It never made sense and deserves an urgent demise.
 2. Require all those entering the Antitrust Division's immunity program to institute effective compliance and ethics programs along the lines of the Sentencing Guidelines standards.
 3. Remove the absurdly inconsistent antitrust exception in the U.S. Attorneys Manual, so all corporate crime is treated with the same seriousness and sense of moral outrage and not treated as a game.
 4. The Antitrust Division should follow the Criminal Division in its approach to settling cases and use the Sentencing Guidelines standards in requiring compliance programs in settlement agreements. It can help raise the bar in antitrust programs through this vehicle, as the Criminal Division has done in other compliance areas.
 5. The Antitrust Division should actively promote compliance and ethics programs and not just its immunity program. It should recognize, consistent with modern American law, that no program will prevent or detect all violations, no matter how effective it is.
Citizens in a democracy have certain rights and expectations. They should not have to deal with parts of the same government advocating directly contradictory approaches to important public policy issues. The Department of Justice certainly is free to separate itself into functioning divisions that increase its efficiency and effectiveness. But in the case of promoting effective compliance and ethics programs to protect our citizens from corporate crime, there is simply no justification for the antitrust division.
Joe Murphy, CCEP, is the Director of Public Policy for the Society of Corporate Compliance and _EMAIL_
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Question 1
(a) Determine the time complexity of the function binary min (arr) below, based on the number of comparisons mini < min2 in line 8.
def binary_min(arr):
if len(arr) == 1:
return arr[0]
mid = len(arr)//2
min1 = binary_min(arr[0:mid))
min2 = binary min(arr(midden(arr)))
if minl < min2:
return minl
return min2
(b) What is the time complexity of binary_min(arr) in Big-0 notation? Show your derivation steps clearly.
Question 2
 - Discuss how a stack can be implemented using two queues. Provide the push, pop, peek, and count algorithms in terms of the queue's enqueue, dequeue, peek, and count operations. Determine the Big-0 time complexity in each case.
 - Are you able to implement a stack using just one queue, If Yes, please provide the Pop(only) algorithm to simulate the stack operations with just one queue. If no, explain.
Question 3
(a) Design a non-recursive algorithm print_kth_level_leaves (root, k) that will take in the root of a binary tree and a positive integer k and print out the values of all the leaf nodes at level k of the tree. Note that the root is at level 1 and its child nodes are at level 2 and so on.
As an illustration, for the given binary tree t in figure 1:
 - print_kth_level_leaves (t. root, 3) will print D and G
 - print_kth_level_leaves (t. root, 4) will print F
 - print_kth_level_leaves (t. root, k) will print nothing for k = land 2 since there is no leaf nodes at level 1 and 2.
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Quick Answer: Does Tile Adhesive Colour Matter?
How long after adhesive can I grout?
24 hoursYou should wait at least 24 hours before grouting the tiles.
Don't be fooled by this.
Can I use tile adhesive instead of mortar?
Which cement is best for floor tiles?
but OPC 53 cement have high strength comparison to 43 grade of cement but it is used in RCC work. For tile fixing like flooring tile and wall tiles I recommended go through the use of 43 grade of cement.
Does ready mixed tile adhesive go off?
The shelf life on tile adhesives is usually around 6-12 months, depending on the type of adhesive you are using (ready-mixed or powder). … The reason adhesive has a shelf life is because it might begin to set over time (whether opened or not).
What is the best tile adhesive for large tiles?
Simple! choose a good quality powdered adhesive, preferably a polymer modified one such as granfix fastset flexible. To explain the advice above consider that in general, tile adhesive can be split into 2 types; ready mixed and powdered.
What is the difference between white and GREY tile adhesive?
For this reason white tile adhesive is usually used for fixing wall tiles, as it's more often than not subsequently grouted in a light colour. Using a grey mortar, with possible contaminants, is liable to cause unsightly discolouration to either the porous natural stone or the grouting itself.
How thick should the tile adhesive be?
1. Apply the adhesive to the surface with an appropriate notch trowel: as a general guide use a 6mm notch trowel to achieve a 1mm bed thickness for walls; 10mm notch to achieve an approximate 1.5mm bed thickness for concrete floors; 12mm notch trowel to achieve a 2.5mm bed thickness for timber floors.
Can you put adhesive on tile?
Try not to work on more than one square metre at a time, as the adhesive could start hardening before you've put all the tiles in place. Choose a suitable tile adhesive for your tiles: for ceramic tiles use a ready-mixed tile adhesive or powder adhesive and a powder tile adhesive for porcelain tiles.
What is the difference between tile adhesive and grout?
Tile adhesive and grout is used for bonding and sealing tiles. Tile adhesive is applied first to fix tiles to wall or floor surfaces. Grout, also known as grout sealer, is applied afterwards to fill in gaps and seal tiles by affectively forming a fluid concrete.
Can we mix cement with tile adhesive?
Cement can be used as an adhesive and is used as a base material in many commercial tile adhesive products. Tiles can be laid bonded with adhesive, so cement can be used, however mixing cement and adhesive, as implied in the question, is a matter of trial and error and has questionable merit.
Which adhesive is best for tiles?
MYK LATICRETEMYK LATICRETE® Tile Adhesive is a factory made cementitious dry powder which is mixed with water or special liquid additive to form a paste, providing problem-free, full bedding tile/stone installation. MYK LATICRETE® thin-set adhesives have high bonding strength allowing the tiles to directly fixed to the substrate.
Can I use tile adhesive to level floor?
Thick Bed FlexiRapid is a pourable and flexible rapid setting cement based floor tile adhesive. … It is ideal for fixing tiles of uneven thicknesses, for fixing to uneven surfaces and it can also be used to level uneven floors.
Should you wet tiles before laying?
Why Tiles Are Soaked In Water Before Installation The purpose of soaking tile before laying is to make the pores fully absorb water, so as not to cause hollowing, shedding, or even cracks. … Especially for the wall paving, before the wall tiles laying, it is necessary to sprinkle water on the wall.
How long does tile adhesive take to set?
approximately 24 hoursTile adhesive dries in a way that is very similar to concrete. The substance starts out as a powder and then, when mixed with water, it becomes a substance with a thick consistency. Under normal circumstances, you will need to let it dry for approximately 24 hours after installation before you can walk on the tile.
What is the difference between floor adhesive and wall adhesive?
Although it has worked well for some people, the real answer to this question is no. Unlike floor tile adhesives, you can only use wall tile adhesives for holding tiles on a vertical surface. The floor tile adhesive is strong and can withstand horizontal pressure as people move.
What adhesive will stick to ceramic tile?
Is ready mixed tile adhesive any good?
Ready-mixed is generally easier to use, but it has limitations attached to it. Here at Dunlop, we would never recommend using a ready-mixed product when using porcelain, large-format tiles and tiling floors, or wet areas.
Which is better tile adhesive or cement?
Laying tiles by using tile adhesive with notched trowel requires less amount of material. Adhesive layer is a lot thinner than the mixture of sand-cement, and this leads to lighter load to building structure. A bag of 20 kg tile adhesive can be used to lay tiles on the average area of 4 – 5 m2.
Can I use adhesive instead of grout?
Dispersion adhesive will not be fine used as a grout it will let water pass through it and offer no resistance. the water will then pass in to the sub-straight and start to damage it. if you leave it uncorrected in 6 months time you will have big problems so remove the adhesive and use grout.
Can you lay tile and grout in the same day?
You should wait at least 24 hours before grouting the tiles. You may notice that the edges of the thinset or the thinset showing through the grout lines looks dry. The thinset under the tiles isn't receiving as much air as the edges and is therefor not fully cured.


Question: What Does Beneficial Mean?
What does it mean to be beneficial to someone?
(sometimes foll by to) causing a good result; advantageous.
law entitling a person to receive the profits or proceeds of propertya beneficial interest in land..
What does not beneficial mean?
: not beneficial : harmful.
What is the root of beneficial?
It comes straight from Latin, and Italians use it as often as we use "good;" it can mean "fine," "okay," "yummy," or "kind and well behaved." Bene gives us beneficial, but also benefit, beneficent, benevolent and more well-meaning words.
What is a beneficial friend?
A beneficial friend is some one u can make-out wiht and still have a boyfriend/girlfriend and youv can conifined in them with stuff but you also have to trust them! Beneficial friend today is used among us teenagers and some times with adults! Its practicly a boyfriend but not really!
What does beneficial mean in a sentence?
Definition of Beneficial. helpful or good to something or someone. Examples of Beneficial in a sentence. 1. The vitamins he took were beneficial to his health.
Does beneficial mean good?
Helpful or good to something or someone. Recycling and reusing garbage can be beneficial to the environment. The definition of beneficial is something that has a positive effect or achieves a good result. … Producing or promoting a favorable result; advantageous.
Is beneficial to or for?
"For" as a preposition answers "for what", while "to" answers "to whom," so if you have an object of a preposition like Jane or something like that, you'll probably use "to" (e.g., it's beneficial to Jane VS it's beneficial for the building).
How do you use the word beneficial?
Beneficial sentence examplesRolling the land is beneficial to young crops. … The ladybugs were beneficial insects, eating the pesky aphids. … These results would prove to be beneficial to the community. … The doctor said it was beneficial bacteria. … They were beneficial organisms and were allowing pathogens to thrive.More items…
What is beneficial owner?
What is another word for not beneficial?
What is another word for not beneficial?nonpayingprofitlessunsuccessfulunprofitableworthlessunproductivefutileuselessvainfruitless13 more rows
How do you identify a beneficial owner?
The test to identify beneficial ownership You must determine who owns more than 25 percent of the customer and who has effective control of the customer, and also those persons on whose behalf a transaction is conducted.
Who are not beneficial owners?
What does beneficial mean in a relationship?
Mutually beneficial relationships mean you both enjoy the perks of such a relationship without a long list of commitments.
Is more beneficial grammatically correct?
much more beneficial vs much beneficial. A complete search of the internet has found these results: much more beneficial is the most popular phrase on the web.
Is a CEO a beneficial owner?


Book Industry, Books, Fables, Fantasy, literary fiction, Publishers, Reading, Reviews
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
piranesiTitle: Piranesi
Author: Susanna Clarke
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 15th September 2020
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Price: $27.99
Synopsis: The long-awaited return from the author of the multi-million copy bestselling Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has?
Piranesi loves in a House in another World, writing in his diary, marking the time in an unusual way. He does not know what day, month or year it is, and we are given few hints at first as to why he is there. Piranesi is visited by the Other every so often, yet as the story unfolds and Piranesi uncovers the truth, the narrative moves in and out of the fantasy world we first meet Piranesi in, and our world.
Two worlds, one we know, and one we don't, come together to create an unusual story that must be read in a linear way–I found that this ensured it made the most sense, and worked the best. From page one, you need to pay attention, as clues are slowly revealed through each entry.
It is a mix of reality and magical realism, with a hint at the world of antiquity and Ancient Greece. The descriptions of the world Piranesi lives in at the beginning of the book make it feel like the ancient world, until something hints at it being in the contemporary world. This gives it a sense of mythology as well.
The mix of reality, magical realism and a sense of mythology and the oral tradition gives Susanna's new novel that sense of whimsy and intrigue needed to explore Piranesi's journey that begins with a sense of isolation–something we are all feeling to differing degrees during this pandemic.
This is an unusual novel, quite literary but that's why it works. Going in without knowing what is to come is disorienting and confusing yet it cleverly brings the reader around to the way the characters think and act, creating a unique world that sometimes leaves you with more questions than answers. Perhaps this is what makes it work. We don't need to know all the answers, and Piranesi could be said to be an unreliable narrator–we're never clear on whether we can believe him or not. His journey informs the narrative, and allows us to explore a world we may never experience ourselves, but that is extraordinary in its own way.
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by Suzanne Labry
Maya Embroidered Patchwork
In 1566, a Spanish bishop in the Yucatán Peninsula in southeastern Mexico named Fray Diego de Landa, wrote a book about the region in which he stated that Maya women "wove with curiosity works of the pen to adorn their garments."
The "pen" he was referring to was the thorn of the maguey plant, a type of agave native to Mexico. Indians used the plant not only to make needles, but also to make thread and textiles. And archeological digs indicate that Maya women have been employing embroidery as a decorative technique since prehistoric times. Today, they continue to apply these ancient skills not only to adorn garments, but also to produce patchwork quilts for the tourist trade.
The Spanish Conquest eventually saw the introduction of metal needles to the Yucatán, and Conceptionist nuns established schools and taught European embroidery techniques, such as the herringbone stitch and cross-stitch (known as "xocbichuy" which means "to count" in the Maya language), to native girls.
Another popular technique known as "manicté" or deshilado, is a type of open work similar to Hardanger embroidery in which threads are drawn out and tied in an intricate design of figures or flowers.
Among the indigenous embroiderers, interest in European patterns apparently would come and go at different times in different times in different communities, with traditional designs or a combination of the two gaining in prominence.
Traditional Maya embroidery designs draw from nature, religious symbols and icons, everyday life, ancestry, Mayan mythology, and even from dreams. The vibrant palette—bright reds, greens, blues, purples, yellows, and oranges—reflect the exotic flowers of the tropics. Maya embroidery is a riot of color.
Although the chief purpose of the centuries-old tradition of Maya embroidery was to decorate clothing, it is now common to see patchwork quilts made from embroidered squares. It is my understanding that these are made primarily as a means of earning income rather than as an item that the maker would use for herself and her family.
This apparently, is not a new practice. However, as during the Colonial period it is said that Europeans developed a passion for Maya embroidered textiles. The appeal of these delightful items has not lessened these many years later.


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MPhil in Fine Art
Burren College of Art
2 - 3 years
Full time, Part time
EUR 18,650 / per year
Earliest start date
The MPhil (Fine Art) is a practice-based postgraduate research programme. The aim of the programme is the generation of a contribution to knowledge and understanding in the discipline of Fine Art.
Students will undertake a programme of enquiry conducted through a combination of practice-based research and other research methods as appropriate. Students undertaking the programme are required to produce a significant body of work supported by a written thesis with a word count of approximately 20,000, providing a critical account of the research process undertaken. The student's work will be presented in the form of a final exhibition of work at Burren College of Art.
The MPhil (Fine Art) provides a similar experience to years 1 and 2 of the PhD fulltime programme, providing the opportunity to undertake an extended body of research through fine art practice supported by a written text. It will also allow students to progress to the PhD (Studio Art), where the research being undertaken is adjudged to be sufficiently robust to meet the requirements for a PhD programme. Alternatively, it can also provide an exit route from the PhD programme, which provides recognition for the research completed in situations where a student is unable to complete the requirements of the PhD programme through personal or other circumstances.
Assessment & Examination
Assessment is conducted at the end of each semester by an Internal Examination Board, who is the Dean and faculty teaching on the programme. At the end of each academic year, and in the final examination, they are joined by an External Examiner, an independent academic appointed by NUI Galway, to assure critical distance and objectivity in the examination process. Upon completion of the external examination process, an Examination Board meeting is convened, comprising of the Dean, External Examiner and a representative from the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies at NUI Galway, who formally approve final marks.
The final examination comprises:
- the submission of a body of work that embodies a contribution to knowledge and understanding, normally by exhibition;
- a written reflective analysis of the theoretical and historical context of the research subject to a maximum word count of 10,000 words and a minimum of 5,000 words;
- a written critical review of the process of the research subject to a maximum word count of 10,000 words and a minimum of 6,000 words;
- a 500-word summary of the contribution to knowledge and understanding together with documentation of the work;
All elements of the examination must be passed. The submission is examined with reference to the initial aims of the research project.
Please note that in the event of a failure to progress, or a voluntary withdrawal from the program, tuition is non-refundable.
Award of the MPhil
The MPhil is awarded by the National University of Ireland, Galway, within the regulations and terms for the MPhil degree and subject to the guidelines and protocols of the University, as published in the General Calendar of the University and other sources as may be in place from time to time.
The objective of the programme is to allow students to undertake practice-based research related to the following aspects of fine art:
- Drawing and painting as processes of enquiry;
- Art & Ecology;
- Creative methods and methodology in art;
- Public, site-specific, political, social and relational aspects of art;
- Performance and live art, including video;
- Feminism in art;
- Interdisciplinary art research that promotes collaboration across academic boundaries.
Learning Outcomes for the Programme
On the successful completion of this programme, students will be able to:
- Pursue a defined key research question through studio research;
- Investigate cognate studio research undertaken by others internationally;
- Evaluate the practical dimensions of practice-based research;
- Provide a reflective analysis of the process of research in fine art;
- Critique the process of the research and its contribution to the process of creating art.


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[FOM] Permutations and Rearrangements
binarychem at botsnet.bw
Fri May 22 05:13:38 EDT 2009
As far as the Maths Department is concerned, a Permutation IS a
Rearrangement. As the late Prof Niven exclaimed in exasperation, "Why can't
you bloody chemists stick to one convention!"
And yes, I quite understand that you cannot perform the one operation
without implicitly influencing the other isomorph. The problem is that
there are four ways of defining this bijection. It is these defined
non_commutative relationships that are important in the laboratory.
Let me give a History. I am a chemical technician that interfaces between
people and machines, and I carry around a Propositional_Calculus_Toolbox
suitably modified to especially handle non_commutative operations when
solving a variety of problems.
Philosophically this means I am biased in favour of combinatorial and
constructive mathematics. It is simply not good enough to tell me that a
Tool is available to do a Job, but that nobody can supply it. My Universals
are defined in the context of Clausal Form Logic. This limited vision could
be classed as using a microscope in logic.
Of course the question could be raised, "What has this to do with the
Foundations of Mathematics?". The problem arise in the difference between
Ontological_meaning [Chemists and Physicists] and Epistemological_semantics
[Logicians and Mathematicians] when they try to communicate among each
other. In a sense I have rephrased the question with which I began.
More information about the FOM


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Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
The present study is an investigation of the relationship between irrational beliefs and thought suppression in predicting distress in cancer patients. While there is a significant amount of data supporting their role as vulnerability factors for distress, no attempts have been made so far to study the relationships between these two individual characteristics. Our results show that both irrational beliefs and thought suppression are related to distress, and that the impact of irrational beliefs on distress is completely mediated by thought suppression. Potential mechanisms and implications are discussed.
Key words: thought suppression, irrational beliefs, distress


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What References Are
References in PHP are a means to access the same variable content by different names. They are not like C pointers; for instance, you cannot perform pointer arithmetic using them, they are not actual memory addresses, and so on. See What References Are Not for more information. Instead, they are symbol table aliases. Note that in PHP, variable name and variable content are different, so the same content can have different names. The closest analogy is with Unix filenames and files - variable names are directory entries, while variable content is the file itself. References can be likened to hardlinking in Unix filesystem.


Herculano de Carvalho e Araújo, Alexandre
Herculano de Carvalho e Araújo, Alexandre
(əlēshäN'drə ərko͞olä'no͝o thĭ kərvä'lyo͝o ĕ ərou'zho͝o), 1810–77, Portuguese historian. One of the outstanding thinkers of his time, he is considered the first modern Portuguese historian. His great four-volume history of Portugal (1846–53) is notable for its treatment of feudal institutions and of social conditions. He is also known for his history of the Inquisition in Portugal (tr. 1926, repr. 1972).
Herculano de Carvalho e Araújo, Alexandre
Born Mar. 28, 1810, in Lisbon; died Sept. 13, 1877, in Vale de Lobos. Portuguese writer, historian, and political figure.
Herculano held liberal views; he took part in the Miguelist Wars on the side of the enemies of absolutism. His historical works include History of Portugal (vols. 1–4, 1846–53), which covers the period to the end of the 13th century, and History of the Origin and Establishment of the Inquisition in Portugal (vols. 1–3, 1854–59).
Herculano created the Portuguese historical novel and short story. In the novels The Fool (1843), Eurico the Priest (1844), and The Cistercian Monk (1848) and in the collection Legends and Stories (1841), Herculano portrayed the social and political life of Portugal and the daily life and customs of the Middle Ages.
Opusculos, vols. 1–10. Lisbon, 1873–1908
In Russian translation:
Sanlarenskii al'kaid: Rasskazy. [Foreword by E. Golubeva.] Leningrad, 1974.
Nemésio, V. A mocidade de Herculano, vols. 1–2. Lisbon, 1934.
Barradas de Carvalho, J. As ideias políticas e socials de A. Herculano. Lisbon, 1949.


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Twelve months ago, this was one of our images of 2011.
It's a Flame Shell, a 'cryptic' marine species with bright orange feeding tentacles. It is found only in a a very few west coast locations. This one was photographed in 2011 [© SNH] in flame shell beds in Loch Linnhe in Argyll, during one of 15 marine surveys carried out by Scottish Natural Heritage in that year.
The surveys covered 2,000 square miles of Scotland's seabed – a stunning achievement revealing major Flame Shell beds in Loch Fyne as well as Loch Linnhe and other locations.
Now, a year later, the Flame Shell is back in the news, with the discovery of a massive 75 hectare Flame Shell reef in Loch Alsh, estimated to contain over 100 million examples of the species.
This has come from a survey by Heriot Watt University, commissioned by Marine Scotland and will now be subject to special protection.
Note: The image above of a Flame Shell is © SNH and may not be reproduced without permission.


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The Truth About Divorce After Traumatic Brain Injury
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Jeff Kreutzer and Jenny Marwitz, Virginia Commonwealth Model Systems of Care
The Truth About Divorce After Traumatic Brain Injury
Have you heard that the divorce rate after brain injury is really high? Have you read that the divorce rate for couples after brain injury is higher than the divorce rate for the general population? If you are a spouse or survivor of brain injury, you may be wondering whether your marriage is at risk.
Media reports suggest that as many as one half of all marriages in the United States will end in divorce. In fact, recent census data indicates that nearly half of all marriages will end in divorce. Believing that the divorce rate after brain injury is higher than the general divorce rate could be very frightening.
Research has given a mixed picture of divorce rates after brain injury. In the 1970s, researchers began to study post-injury divorce rates and found that 40% of couples were either separated or divorced seven years after injury. A review of studies published after 1980 shows alarmingly high post-injury divorce rates ranging from 48% to 78%.
There is little doubt that brain injury can strain marriages. Spouses often take on many of the injured person's responsibilities, though they may have little experience with their new responsibilities. Unemployment rates after brain injury are relatively high and many insurance companies do not cover the costs of therapy, adding to financial stresses. Brain injury often brings on drastic personality changes which may include irritability, depression, limited awareness of injury-related changes, and argumentativeness. Some spouses have reported, "I'm married, but have no husband" and/or "I'm married to a stranger."
Knowing the importance of marriage and the need to provide families with valid information, Traumatic Brain Injury Model System (TBIMS) researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) looked more closely at research on marriage after brain injury. They found that many of the earlier studies were carried out in Europe where the social and legal system is different than the United States. Furthermore, many of the studies relied on small sample sizes which may not accurately reflect the larger population.
In 2007, Virginia Commonwealth University TBI Model Systems researchers published one of the first comprehensive investigations of marriage after brain injury. The researchers gathered information from 120 people with mild, moderate, and severe injuries who were married at the time of their injury. Survivors three to eight years post-injury, averaging 41 years of age, were asked about their marital status. Results showed that 3 out of 4 (90/120) remained married at the time of follow-up.
As a result of their research, the VCU investigators became concerned that past studies may have produced misleading negative information. In their published research paper, the authors stated, "The present investigation does not [support] the notion that divorce rates for persons with brain injury are higher than those for the general population."
In 2008, VCU investigators led a multicenter research team which investigated marital stability after brain injury. Information on marital status was collected at 16 NIDRR-funded TBI Model Systems around the country. This study was the largest scale study on marriage after brain injury to date and included 977 persons from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The research team found that 85% of survivors remained married for at least two years post injury.
In summary, recent research suggests the rate of divorce after brain injury may, in fact, be much lower than divorce rates for the general population. The news is encouraging. While some spouses report more stresses and marital troubles post-injury, some report connecting with each other in new, positive ways as they face injury-related challenges together.
Marriage is clearly an important part of our culture and a major element of many people's lives. Still, more research is needed to better understand how injury affects marriages and what can be done to preserve and enrich relationships. First, we need to better understand how the quality of relationships is affected in good and bad ways. Second, we must develop strategies to strengthen marriages so that both partners describe the relationship as positive and fulfilling. There is good reason to be hopeful.
 1. Arango, J., Ketchum, J., Dezfulian, T., Kreutzer, J., O'Neil-Pirozzi, Hammond, F., & Jha, A. (2008). Predictors of marital stability two years following brain injury. Brain Injury, 22(7-8), 565-574.
 2. Kreutzer, J., Marwitz, J., Hsu, N., Williams, J., & Riddick, A. (2007). Marital stability after brain injury: An investigation and analysis. NeuroRehabilitation, 22(1), 53-59.
This article was written by the staff of the Virginia Commonwealth Traumatic Brain Injury Model System. For more information about our programs (_URL_) and conferences (_URL_), please vist our websites or email Jenny Marwitz at _EMAIL_. Article used with permission. Updated September 2010.
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My husband had a TBI a little over 5 yrs. ago. We have been married 21 years. He was in the hospital for 6 months. I never knew if he would recover or if he would be able to be home. He eventually came home & went through so many different therapist. Im happy he is doing better but at the same time I never been so miserable. Like so many others have said "I'm living with a stranger." His personality is so different & he just sits on the couch all day watching tv. He never has any incentive to do anything but watch TV & eat. He will go with me to do grocery shopping but never suggests what we should buy or eat or what to do. He is verbally abusive & when I try to confront him about things he says to people that is embarrassing & rude he acts like he doesn't do anything wrong & gets furious with me. I can never have a decent conversation with him. He can hurt my feelings & he acts like he's mr. wonderful. I know he can't help having a brain injury but I feel depressed & guilty that at my age I'm insecure in the relationship & don't feel like I'm in love anymore with him. I feel totally helpless.
Aug 19th, 2016 2:38am
To the woman who's husband can have conversations with others but not her without fighting: I am a wife and the TBI and also seem to have conversations with others just fine and yet argue with my husband terrifically. I don't understand exactly what is happening, although I know it's usually that I am severely overstimulated and looking to him to help me vs to be a spouse for me. He has given me sound proof headphones which helps and I try to have a brain break before heading about his day so that I'm fresh for his and my relationship time. Also I find driving helps us as I sit in the passenger seat and can listen to him without taking in all the nonverbal information when sitting face to face. Maybe things like that could help you and your husband. Also I asked my husband to ask me questions to help me think like: do you think you need a brain break? Is this store environment overstimulating you? Do you need to go shut our light and sound for sheiks and then listen to me talk about my day? Things like this seem to help us. I hope that helps. Hang in there, he loves you and needs you and it will get better. Brain breaks are key! Also has he looked into yoked prism glasses and vision therapy? It's been the ONLY things after 4-5 years that has started my husband telling me he sees his wife coming back. Something called the MIT device or 'fixation' has been a huge success with me and you might look into it with your vision therapy Doctor. Good luck and find things that aren't stimulating that you can do together. Best! ~JK=)
Aug 9th, 2016 4:10am
My husband had a TBI in 2010. He is rude. Can't handle crowds or traffic. He is ocd about everything. Physically he is fine. They did surgery on the left frontal lobe. He is so impatient and everything that happens is my fault in his eyes. He is controlling and verbally abusive. As long as his daily routine goes uninterrupted life is fine. He can't have a normal conversation with me without yelling..but he can manage to work with others without yelling. I have felt bad because I want to leave and I know he can't help the state he is in.. But he believes he is fine and says I am the one with the problem... Help me..to make him see he needs help
Jul 24th, 2016 3:55pm
I suffered a severe TBI in 1993 at the age of 21, my wife and I were only married for 3 months and pregnant with our first child at the time. Nothing in my life is the same as before, everything has changed, I never recovered fully but learned how to cope, manage and hide my injuries. The rehab hospital I was in actually offered to help my wife get a divorce lawyer (because marriages with head injuries don't last) My wife told them to **** off and that we would make it. 24 years later we are still together and I have changed from being a roofer to an IT specialist making 60k/yr. Like I said I


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AEM target detection in geological noise
Andy Green and Don Hunter
ASEG Extended Abstracts
2004(1) 1 - 4
Target selection and ranking is a critical aspect of mineral exploration that is complicated when the host geology either masks or mimics the responses from targets of interest. The approach described here uses statistical signal processing techniques, specifically matched filtering, to help recognise targets in the presence of such confusing effects. The essence of this approach is to assume that the data are composed of noise, generated by the background geology, and signals generated by targets of exploration interest. It is this recognition of the geology as a noise source, which allows traditional signal processing strategies to be applied to the problem. The critical step, absolutely necessary to success, involves pre-whitening the data so that those characteristics of the target that are as different as possible from this ''geological noise' are emphasised. Matched filtering is a well-established technique in fields other than mineral exploration. Work here has shown that, in many instances, it can also be applied successfully to AEM data. It provides a useful way of highlighting targets for further investigation by simplifying the interpretation process and filtering out many complex anomalies that are not feasible targets. This paper presents some of the necessary theory and the results of a number of case studies where the technique has been applied.
Full text doi:10.1071/ASEG2004ab055
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