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How to Organize Email Inboxes for Lawyers Without Assistants
Assistants and paralegals can make life as a lawyer much easier. And sometimes they can also help make you rich. But for the little things, like organizing your email inbox, assistants can prove invaluable.
Unfortunately, not every firm or solo practitioner can afford one. Sometimes you have to do everything on your own. As a result, organization can occasionally fall to the wayside. And email inboxes are usually the first casualty.
If this sounds like you, try taking the following steps to free yourself from the nightmare of a cluttered inbox.
Step 1: Purge Your Email Inbox
One thing that inboxes in disarray usually all have in common is an obscene amount of unread emails. The first step is to go through and sort the keepers from the ones destined for your recycling bin. It's not a quick job, but it's a necessary one. Set aside a few hours or a weekend (if it's really bad) and go through everything.
Step 2: Ponder and Create Folder Categories
You can't leave all your emails just in your inbox. All email systems, whether free or paid, have folder options. Think about all the areas of law and work that you do and create files that reflect them. It can be a daunting task, but one suggestion is to make it an ongoing project.
You can create a new folder for each new case. You can then add subfolders within each case folder for party information, discovery, responses, case facts, and so forth. Think about what folders would best fit your practice and add them to your inbox.
Step 3: Implement a Priority System
Having tons of folders mean nothing if you can't tell what you should be doing next. Implementing a priority system can solve this problem. Many email clients, like Outlook, allow you to mark emails and set due date alarms.
But if the notion of constant warnings popping up on your screen is too much, try using folders instead. A good rule is to not make more than three of these "priority" folders. Have one for emails that need to be address by the end of the day, one for end of the week, and one for long-term deadlines. And when you're done with an email, delete it or file it.
Step 4: Follow Through
Now that you've cleaned out everything and set up your new filing system, the most important last step is keeping it all together. It's easy to fall back into old habits. Don't start jamming everything into one folder or neglect your filing duties. Yes, you're a lawyer, but you also need to keep your email inbox organized. So set aside at least 10 or 20 minutes at the beginning or end of your day to file.
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THE PHYSICS OF FORAGING: AN INTRODUCTION TO RANDOM SEARCHES AND BIOLOGICAL ENCOUNTERS
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Unfortunately, Pakistan's actual record on minority rights stands in sharp contrast to the symbolism reflected on the Pakistani flag.
Last year, a minority rights group ranked Pakistan as the sixth-most-dangerous country in the world for minorities. While the rights of minorities, including minority Muslim sects, are under near-constant threat in Pakistan, the most captivating and underreported story about minorities in Pakistan pivots around the Jewish community, which has virtually disappeared from Pakistani society.
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K-12 science educators across the U.S. and Canada can access numerous resources when they participate in the 2001 National Science Teachers Associations (NSTA) Teacher Award Programs (TAP). The 14 programs, administered by NSTA and funded by various corporations and organizations, award more than half a million dollars to instructors who are committed to making a difference in science teaching and learning. The TAPs recognize science teachers, principals and others who demonstrate their passion for science education in many different ways. Many of the awards recognize teachers for their development and implementation of unique science programs and curricula, while others honor individuals who show outstanding leadership and dedication to the profession. National Science Teachers Association, Arlington, VA, _PHONE_, _URL_.
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Konopinski, DI; Hudziak, S; Morgan, RM; Bull, PA; Kenyon, AJ; (2012) Investigation of quartz grain surface textures by atomic force microscopy for forensic analysis. Forensic Sci Int, 223 (1-3) 245 - 255. 10.1016/j.forsciint.2012.09.011.
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This paper presents a study of quartz sand grain surface textures using atomic force microscopy (AFM) to image the surface. Until now scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has provided the primary technique used in the forensic surface texture analysis of quartz sand grains as a means of establishing the provenance of the grains for forensic reconstructions. The ability to independently corroborate the grain type classifications is desirable and provides additional weight to the findings of SEM analysis of the textures of quartz grains identified in forensic soil/sediment samples. AFM offers a quantitative means of analysis that complements SEM examination, and is a non-destructive technique that requires no sample preparation prior to scanning. It therefore has great potential to be used for forensic analysis where sample preservation is highly valuable. By taking quantitative topography scans, it is possible to produce 3D representations of microscopic surface textures and diagnostic features for examination. Furthermore, various empirical measures can be obtained from analysing the topography scans, including arithmetic average roughness, root-mean-square surface roughness, skewness, kurtosis, and multiple gaussian fits to height distributions. These empirical measures, combined with qualitative examination of the surfaces can help to discriminate between grain types and provide independent analysis that can corroborate the morphological grain typing based on the surface textures assigned using SEM. Furthermore, the findings from this study also demonstrate that quartz sand grain surfaces exhibit a statistically self-similar fractal nature that remains unchanged across scales. This indicates the potential for a further quantitative measure that could be utilised in the discrimination of quartz grains based on their provenance for forensic investigations.
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Who are professional bettors and what bookmakers do they use?
Professional Bettors vs. Gamblers
For the select few who can call themselves professional bettors, betting has evolved past gambling to become a primary source of income. Most professional bettors do not consider betting to be gambling, but rather an investment.
It may come as no surprise then, that many professional bettors started out in the financial and banking industries. Using custom built computer programs, they place bets carefully based on statistical analysis.
Whilst most are passionate about their chosen sport, they try to minimise the effect of emotion or personal feelings on the decision-making process. This contrasts with the gambler, who might bet on their favourite team winning the league, or try to recoup losing bets with riskier, larger bets.
Professional Bankroll Management
Another distinguishing factor is that professional bettors set realistic long term goals, which are achieved through strict bankroll management.
For example: a professional might start with a bankroll of £100,000, bet 1% of this every game, and expect to end the year up 25% on £125,000.
A gambler might start with £1000, bet £200 on a 4/1 chance and double their money, then bet £2000 on a 'sure bet' and loose everything. For many gamblers, this cycle of winning and losing is repeated. Whilst some might be lucky and win over time, the majority loose.
It is the consistent and measurable approach of professional bettors, that is the most likely to return a profit.
How Do Professional Bettors Choose a Bet?
Professional bettors look for small advantages which can be found by comparing the probability of an outcome to the odds of a market. This method of selecting bets is commonly referred to as handicapping.
Using a mathematical approach, the probability of an outcome is calculated and theoretical odds can thus be determined. These odds can then be compared to the odds offered by the bookmakers.
Where there is a difference between the odds offered and the handicapped odds we find an advantage. Here is a very simplified example:
The bettor calculates that Team A should be 2/1 to beat Team B, but the bookies are offering odds of 4/1. Clearly the bookies are offering better odds than Team A are worth. Provided the handicapping is accurate, this is a good opportunity for a bet.
The reality is that bookmakers are usually very good at choosing odds. Professional bettors are often looking at very small advantages. To minimise the risk and maximise profit, the best odds available must be chosen. So, where do professional bettors place their money?
Professional Bookmakers in Asia vs. European Bookmakers
Professional bettors rarely bet with common high-street or European bookmakers online. There has been a clear shift towards the use of Asian bookmakers, who offer several distinct advantages; most importantly better odds. Asian bookmakers work on much lower margins than European bookmakers, meaning odds tend to be better.
Often criticised by the betting community, European bookmakers tend to ban winning players very quickly. If a bookmaker predicts a player will win money in the long run, they will often be banned, sometimes within one or two bets being placed.
Asian bookmakers on the other hand allow winning players to continue betting. Additionally, Asian bookmakers allow bettors to place much higher bets on a single game, whereas European bookmakers often limit bets to ~£10,000.
Further benefits of Asian bookmakers are increased anonymity and faster pay-out times.
Professional Strategy: The Asian Handicap
Favoured by many professional bettors, the Asian Handicap, in addition to the benefits mentioned above, marks Asian bookmakers as more professionally focused. Essentially, the Asian Handicap eliminates the draw. It also levels the playing field, by giving the weaker team goals before the game starts.
This may seem complicated to the average gambler, but professional bettors have an advantage using this system, because they use mathematical models to predict the score. For anyone willing to put a lot of time and effort into handicapping games, Asian handicap bets probably offer the best risk-reward ratio.


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In 2022, the Centre analyzed the media landscape of Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico based on the monitoring conducted by the Ukrainian social startup LetsData from September 12 to 25 to find out what Russian narratives are common in the media space of Latin America.
The Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security continues to monitor the global media landscape to identify Russian narratives and the level of influence of Kremlin propaganda on the foreign information space.
This year, the Centre, in collaboration with LetsData, continued to analyze the media landscape of Argentina and Brazil for 2 months (January-February 2023) to track the main trends and changes in the spread of Russian narratives in Latin America.
Methodology: using machine learning, publications were collected with at least one mention of Ukraine and/or the war in Ukraine in the online media of the countries studied. For each country, the most visited online media sites (also considering those that share pro-Russian rhetoric), TV channels, and newspapers that have an online version were selected. Data collection and analysis were conducted in the original language. Preparation and processing of data was conducted in the Python programming language. Text processing was based on content analysis.
The study presents only those narratives and messages that reproduce Russian propaganda, which does not exclude the presence of productive and neutral narratives in the media of the analyzed countries.
Common Russian messages in Argentina and Brazil
In the Centre's 2022 study, among the main Russian narratives in the media landscape of Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina, were those related to the nuclear threat, Russophobia, calls for peace negotiations, and support for China in the Russian war against Ukraine.
During the monitoring of the media landscape in 2023, a number of Russian narratives were also noted in the online media of Argentina and Brazil.
For example, until now, messages about the blackmail of the use of nuclear weapons by Russia were spread: "Medvedev warns NATO of a nuclear war if Russia is defeated in Ukraine," "NATO's participation in Russia's war against Ukraine may increase the risk of a nuclear war." Calls for peace talks have not lost their relevance on the agenda of online media in Argentina and Brazil.
The messages spread also justified Russia's war against Ukraine and assured foreign audiences that "the Russian military in Ukraine protects the interests of the Russian nation, the future, and its children."
In addition, the detected messages actively discredited the Ukrainian army, such as: "Russia guarantees compliance with the ceasefire, despite the Ukrainian bombing" and "Ukraine threatens the civilian population."
The noted Russian narratives covered the involvement of NATO, the United States in the war of Russia against Ukraine. In particular, in January-February, the media space of Argentina and Brazil reported that "Russia is not at war with Ukraine, but with NATO," "Washington and Brussels used the Minsk agreements to prepare a conflict against Russia," and "they are pressing Ukraine to launch a counteroffensive that will calm NATO."
A number of reports continued to promote statements of Ukraine "being under control" of the United States, such as: "Ukraine is the cannon fodder for the US elites, necessary for the realization of their geopolitical ambitions," "Ukraine has become a private NATO military company, ready to perform all tasks."
Threats of "escalation of the conflict" in the event of continued military assistance to Ukraine from the West remained a separate leading topic: "The provision of British tanks to Ukraine will only aggravate the war," "Ukraine will receive more heavy weapons from NATO, and Russia warns of an escalation of the conflict," and "the Kremlin says that the Ukrainians will suffer if the West sends fighters to Ukraine."
The impact of sanctions on Russia and the West was also on the agenda. In particular, reports noted in the online media of Argentina and Brazil assured of "negative consequences for the West" from EU sanctions: "the West's attitude towards Putin caused a major energy crisis in Europe, since the main source of energy for many countries was Russian gas."
During January-February, there were also messages on the agenda that corresponded to other common Russian narratives. For example, about "Ukraine's allies being tired of the war."
During the monitoring, online media published messages about Crimea, but so far, they have reproduced the following Russian messages, such as: "The Russian authorities reject the idea of returning Crimea to Ukraine."
Situational Messages Noted in Online Media of Brazil and Argentina
In January-February 2023, during the monitoring, separate messages were also noted in the context of certain events during the military operations of Russia on the territory of Ukraine.
For example, when a missile hit a residential building in Dnipro on January 14 — the online media of Argentina and Brazil spread the message that "Russia denies a deliberate attack on a residential building in Dnipro and blames Ukraine's air defence systems for the 'tragedy'."
In addition, Russia's "accusation" of Ukraine in the alleged "use of chemical weapons near Artemivsk and Vuhledar" was spread, but no evidence of this fact was provided. Transliteration of toponyms in Russian indicates that the regional news repeats Russian sources that deliberately disseminate false information about the troops of Ukraine. Russia tends to falsely accuse its opponents of arranging "provocations" that either did not happen at all, or were subsequently carried out by themselves or their allies.
Regional Messages Reproducing Narratives of Russian Propaganda
In addition to universal messages and narratives that reproduce the discourse of Russian propaganda, the monitoring also noted those that directly cover the context of the studied countries.
According to the analysis of the media landscape, Brazil has the position of a "country of peace." For example, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva explains the refusal to provide weapons to Ukraine by saying that "Brazil is not interested in transferring ammunition so that it can be used in the war between Ukraine and Russia and does not want to participate in this war, even indirectly."
In addition, the Brazilian president always makes other similar statements, which are replicated by local media, and in this way, there is support for the ideas of some narratives of Russian propaganda. For example, "Lula: This war is a mistake, but Ukraine must seek peace with Russia," "Brazil is waging a war against poverty, not against Russia."
Expressing this position, Brazil seeks to maintain a certain independence from the United States and European states, but in this situation, to distance itself from Ukraine's allies means to side with Russia. This trend is quite dangerous, as Brazil is a model for other countries in the region to follow.
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The narratives presented in the study are undoubtedly present in the media and society of Argentina and Brazil. However, I should note that of the whole region, it is Argentina that is still showing the greatest interest in the events in Ukraine, which cannot be said about Brazil. The largest Argentine TV channels and radio stations (radio in Argentina is extremely popular) have adequately and carefully covered the Russian invasion of Ukraine so far. Nevertheless, the mentioned Kremlin narratives appear from time to time in the reports and in the comments of the audience. There are several reasons for this.
First of all, in Argentina and Brazil, many journalists and invited experts have a frankly bad understanding of the situation, not to mention detailed knowledge of the cause of this war, events until 2022, Russia's motives, etc. Because of this, false narratives about "loyalty of Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine to Russia," "fraternal ties between Ukraine and Russia," "historical lands," etc. appear in the media. Similar ignorance is the result of Ukraine's lack of communication and the result of countries' lack of interest in each other for many years.
Moreover, please remember that Argentina and Brazil have a rather peculiar relationship with the West. The populist government and Argentine society are still reflecting on the lost Falklands War, which many people see as a war with NATO and the West, which is true at certain points. Brazil considers itself a regional leader, an alternative force, and this provokes a clash with the United States. No wonder that the active involvement of NATO countries in the war in Ukraine and Kyiv's rapprochement with the West is perceived critically in both countries. And as a result, such Kremlin narratives as "Ukraine being controlled by the United States," "Western provocations against Russia," "Moscow's war with NATO, not with Ukraine" are easily perceived there.
Ukraine should not focus on relations with Western partners or emphasize our close cooperation and dependence when communicating with Argentine and Brazilian colleagues. On the contrary, we need to look for common interests of Ukraine, Argentina, and Brazil as separate entities of international relations, considering the interests of the parties.
Nuclear threat narratives are among the most popular in the media. This topic is used by both pro-Russian and adequate media. The main reasons remain "hype" and a sincere misunderstanding of the nuclear factor in this war. Neither Argentinians nor Brazilians are afraid of a nuclear war in Europe, but there is a constant narrative that Ukraine "needs to agree to avoid escalation." Most of the Argentine and Brazilian media broadcast the nuclear threat as something real in the case of Russia's defeat and "Putin being cornered." Kyiv should promote the narrative that the nuclear threat is Russian blackmail and an unlikely scenario due to the gradual loss of legitimacy of the Russian authorities and the disadvantage of a nuclear war for Russia itself.
Heavy battles in Bakhmut for a long time remain a newsbreak. Indeed, we record narratives that "the war has come to a standstill," "Ukraine cannot win because of lack of resources," "Russia will push the situation in its favour at all costs." Sometimes it seems that the audiences of Argentina and Brazil still have


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A firm can vary all productive resources in the long run, but at least one resource is fixed in the short run. Linkages between inputs and outputs are formalized in production functions.
Production functions summarize relationships between combinations of inputs and the maximum outputs that each combination can produce.
Output = f(inputs) is an example of a production function, and is read as "output is a function f of inputs." The function f summarizes how current technology translates various combinations of inputs into specific amounts of output. In this context, technology encompasses current knowledge about production techniques, as well as such things as government regulations, weather, and the laws of physics and chemistry.
Production functions are commonly written q = f(K, L) where q equals output, K equals capital services, and L equals labor services used per production period. (For simplicity, land and entrepreneurship are ignored for now.) Suppose that production engineers indicate that 1,000 swimsuits can be sewn daily using 600 machine hours (75 sewing machines per 8-hour shift) and 800 labor hours (100 workers each 8-hour shift). The function f summarizes a production relationship of this type. Technological advances boosting productivity 50 percent would require switching from the f production function to, say, g. Now, q= g(K, L), and 600 machine hours plus 800 labor hours yield 1,500 swimsuits. Complete production functions identify output possibilities in the long run, when a firm can vary all resources. In the short run, however, at least one resource is fixed.


Why Your Marketing Mix Needs To Incorprate Paid Search
Before Pantone and the eyedropper tool, artists and designers had to create color the old-fashioned way – mixing primary colors to create new shades to use in their work. Starting from a few choice pigments, a painter can mix never-before-seen colors to his or her heart's content using just a brush and palette. Picture if you will, then, an artist approaching a
Paid vs. Organic Search: What's the difference?
Search engines are a wonderful, powerful tool for discovery. Type in what you want to know, and within a fraction of a second, you've got a wealth of information at your fingertips, awaiting further exploration. Search engines are practically a staple of everyday life online. Think about it. How often do you use the phrase "Google it"? Upon closer examination, you'll likely


Earlier this month, OIG issued a Special Fraud Alert on Speaker Programs warning drug and device companies and health care providers that it has significant concerns about payments for "speaker programs." Based on recent investigations and enforcement activity, the OIG has found that a number of speaker programs sponsored by drug and device manufacturers violate the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). OIG is skeptical about the educational value of speaker programs provided under circumstances that are not conducive to learning and to audience members who have no legitimate reason to attend. Additionally, OIG questions the value of such events given that health care providers can access the same or similar information online, on the product's package insert, third-party educational conferences, medical journals, and more. Because all of this material is already available, OIG warns "that at least one purpose of remuneration associated with speaker programs is often to induce or reward referrals" in violation of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS).
OIG defined speaker programs as drug or device "company-sponsored events at which a [outside] physician or other health care professional (collectively, "HCP") makes a speech or presentation to other [outside] HCPs about a drug or device product or a disease state on behalf of the company" using a presentation developed and approved by the company. HCPs are paid an honorarium and attendees are paid generally through free meals and drinks, for example.
Based on its investigations to date, OIG provided an illustrative list of speaker program characteristics that result in higher level of scrutiny with respect to AKS violations:
 - Little or no substantive information is actually presented by the speaker;
 - Alcohol (especially if for free) or a meal exceeding modest value is provided;
 - Large number of speaker programs sponsored on the same or substantially the same topic or product (especially if no recent substantive change in relevant information or applicable law/regulation) and repeat attendees or attendees are past speaker on the same or substantially the same topic;
 - Attendees without a legitimate business reason or use for the information attend the program;
 - HCP speakers or attendees selected based on past or on expected revenue from prescribing or ordering the company's product(s) (e.g., a return on investment analysis is considered in identifying participants);
 - Higher than fair market value honorarium paid for the speaking service or compensation that takes into account the volume or value of past business generated or potential future business generated by the HCPs.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, OIG recognizes that the speaker activity may have slowed. But OIG fully anticipates that once in person meetings are back in full swing, it will be paying attention to any drug or device company that organizes or pays remuneration associated with the program, any HCP who is paid to speak, and any HCP attendees who receive remuneration from the company (e.g., free food and drink).
The OIG acknowledged that speaker programs sponsored by manufacturers are not per se illegal. Yet, this alert is a warning to all manufacturers that they should scrutinize their speaker programs to ensure that they serve a legitimate purpose and avoid the areas of warning from the OIG. This Alert is also notable, in that the OIG not only used experience from their enforcement actions to inform this statement, they also used data from CMS's Open Payments program that requires reporting of financial relationship data between manufacturers and physicians and academic medical centers. It will be interesting to see if the OIG continues to mine this financial data to provide additional alerts in the future. Finally, while the OIG has not focused on speaker programs sponsored by other healthcare providers like durable medical equipment suppliers or laboratories, the same warnings in this fraud alert can apply. Therefore, all providers should evaluate their speaker programs to mitigate risks that are raised under the AKS.


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0compile: Developers
This page explains how to publish source code using Zero Install. Publishing source this way means that:
 - Users can compile it easily using 0compile.
 - Build dependencies, such as header files and build tools, can be downloaded automatically.
 - 0release can automatically compile binaries for your software during the release process.
Making source available
There are two common situations:
 - You already have a source tarball somewhere and you want to publish an XML feed saying how to download and compile it (ideally, no changes should be needed to support 0install). For this, you should first read the Guide to packaging binaries.
 - You have a development checkout (e.g. a Git clone or similar) and you want to say how to compile it. For this, you should first read the page about local feeds.
To make source code available for others to use you need to add source implementations to the program's feed file. This is almost exactly the same as adding binaries, except that you give src as the machine (CPU) type:
Adding a source implementation
(if you want to script this process, take a look at 0template)
You can also edit the XML directly, which gives more control. A minimal source implementation might look like this:

You only need to use arch='*-src' to publish implementations for things that need to be compiled. Shell scripts, etc should not be marked as source code; use arch="*-*" instead (which is the default anyway if arch is not given). For header files (-dev packages), there will often be a source implementation that generates the header files, but the resulting headers are not source (and will often be architecture-specific, e.g. Linux-i386).
The job of the compile command is to call the actual build system. It is executed inside the build directory ($BUILDDIR). It must compile the source in $SRCDIR, putting the final result (ready for distribution) in $DISTDIR. The path to the generated feed for the new binary is $BINARYFEED, if you need it during the build.
Instead of giving a , you may prefer to use a shell command. This is useful if you need to run more than one command. However, if the command starts to get complicated, you should move it to a script, either inside the main source archive or in a separate dependency, and just set this attribute to the command to run the script):

Starting with 0compile 1.1, this even works on Windows (it uses win-bash).
There are also some extra attributes you can add to the implementation element:
Deprecated. Use instead (see below).
Some programs insist on creating files in their source directory, which is typically a read-only directory when using Zero Install. In this case, set compile:dup-src='../img/true' and 0compile will copy everything in $SRCDIR into build before building.
compile:binary-lib-mappings (binary library major mappings)
This is needed if you want to use 0install to compile a -dev package (containing header files) that works with a distribution-provided runtime package; see MakeHeaders for details.
Customising the binary implementation
You can specify a template for the binary using . You can use this, for example, to add elements to it. Here's a more complex example for a Java program:
 ... xmlns:compile=""...

The interesting bits here are:
tells us that the root describes some source code.
this is the template for the implementation that will be created by the compile.
indicates that the generated binary is platform independent (Java bytecode).
says how to run the resulting binary (by using the Java runtime).
The dependencies are:
graphviz and openjdk-jre
only used at run-time (since they occur inside the ).
only used at compile-time (occurs directly inside the source ).
used at compile-time and at run-time (has compile:include-binary attribute).
Finally, there is a compile:if-0install-version attribute that you can place on any element in the template. 0compile will convert this to a plain if-0install-version in the generated output (you can't use if-0install-version directly because 0install would strip them out as appropriate for its version before 0compile saw them).
Pinning version ranges
Sometimes, you have a build time dependency with a wide range of possible versions, but the generated binary will have a runtime dependency on whichever version was used to compile it. The compile:pin-components attribute on a element in the template will expand into before and after attributes that require the binary version to match the first n components of the version used to compile it. For example, if this program is compiled using Python 2.7.3, then the binary will have :

(added in 0compile 1.4)
Using a separate source feed
You can keep the source implementations in a separate file (MyProg-src.xml) and add a feed from the main feed, e.g.:

The arch attribute lets the injector know that it doesn't need to fetch this file unless it's looking for source code.
Making library headers available (-dev packages)
See Make-headers for information about publishing library source and -dev packages.
Python distutils
You should use the --build-base option to make distutils build to 0compile's build directory, not under the source code (which is read-only). Unfortunately, this option isn't available with the install command, so you have to do the build in two steps. A typical command is:
cd "$SRCDIR" &&
python build --build-base="$BUILDDIR/build" &&
cd "$BUILDDIR" &&
python "$SRCDIR"/ install --home="$DISTDIR" --skip-build
There are some template projects which can be used as a starting point for publishing your own software for various languages and build systems.
Further reading
Example: SCons
This example shows how to compile a simple "Hello world" program using the SCons build system. Both the source and SCons are fetched using Zero Install.


The AxesOff Command
Command Summary
Disables the X- and Y- axes on the graph screen.
Command Syntax
Menu Location
 1. 2nd FORMAT to access the format menu.
 2. Use arrows and ENTER to select AxesOff.
Calculator Compatibility
Token Size
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The AxesOff command disables the X and Y axes on the graph screen, so that they aren't drawn. They can be enabled again with the AxesOn command.
(the y=x line that is drawn when both Seq and Web modes are enabled is also controlled by this command)
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PERNI, S., READ, E.S. and SHAMA, G., 2008. Detachment of Listeria innocua and Pantoea agglomerans from cylinders of agar and potato tissue under conditions of Couette flow. Journal of food engineering, 89 (3), pp. 355-359
Cylinders of raw potato or agar were contacted with suspensions of Listeria innocua and Pantoea agglomerans and then used as replacement rotors in a rheometer in order to investigate detachment under the influence of known shear forces. These shear forces were functions solely of the rotational speed of the rotor and the fluid (glycerol) in which the cylinders were caused to rotate. With this system surface shear forces ranging from 1.3 to 125 Pa could be generated corresponding to rotational speeds of 12.5 to 775 rpm. Under these conditions detachment phenomena were quite rapid with in most cases complete detachment being achieved over timescales of the order of 30 s. In general, lower shear forces were required to detach L. innocua from both agar and potato. For agar cylinders an applied shear force of only 1.3 Pa was sufficient to achieve 98 % detachment of L. innocua after 20 s. By contrast, relatively high shear forces were required to detach P. agglomerans particularly from potato; under an applied shear force of 2.8 Pa only 9.5 % detachment was achieved after 30 s. The results obtained at the highest shear forces studied here (125 Pa) with potato cylinders were suggestive of mass transfer into glycerol of one or more constituents present in potatoes that caused detached cells to aggregate causing an apparent decrease in percentage detachment. The data obtained could be used as a basis for the rational design of washing processes for fresh ready to eat food products.


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Game play can be rather swift, as turns move quickly. Each player's turn consists of four basic phases:
Take a Sacrifice card. This step is optional. A player may purchase one of the four types of sacrifice cards. However, there is a cost, which is five stones minus the number of farmers of that type they have present in their display (which is zero at the start of the game). So, until a player begins generating stones, purchasing a sacrifice card is usually not an option.
Sacrifice cards are important as they will likely score victory points at game's end. Plus, they are needed for, of course, sacrifices! More on this in a bit.
Play cards. The player must play at least one card into his display. However, a player may play up to three farmers of the same type, provided he pays the stone cost. Playing one stonemason, priest or farmer has no cost, but playing multiple farmers cost one or two stones.
Stonemasons earn the player stones when triggered, while farmers reduce the cost of sacrifice cards. Priests earn victory points.
Shrines are a bit different. Playing one costs seven stones and triggers a "Sacrifice" phase. When played, the normal game phases are interrupted and each player must place one of their sacrifice cards face-up onto the altar, with the player triggering this phase placing an additional one of his choice taken from the decks of sacrifice cards. Sacrificing cards is important, as this will determine the value of each of the commodities at game's end. Erecting shrines is also important as each is worth four points at game's end, which can be substantial.
Take cards. The player must take cards from the Offer columns, filling his hand back to three cards. Cards taken must come from the bottom of a column, and the final card revealed after a player finishes taking cards triggers a scoring. Players determine the number of cards they have in their display that matches this revealed card, and they will reap the benefits accordingly.
Depending upon which card is revealed, players will receive sacrifice cards (farmers), stones (stonemason) or victory points (priests). Shrines give the players a choice between victory points or stones. Possessing a majority of these types will yield additional benefits, so that is certainly a worthy goal.
The game ends rather abruptly when the deck of cards is exhausted, which happens rather quickly. At this point, the cards that have been sacrificed on the altar are separated by type to determine the top three commodities. Players will earn 3, 2 or 1 point for each matching card they have in their possession. For example, if there were more peanuts sacrificed than any other type, each peanut card a player possesses is worth three points. Players also earn four point per shrine they constructed, a point for every five stones they possess, as well as the victory point tokens they collected during the game. The player with the most points is victorious.
There are two variants included in the game. The Oracle adds eight "oracle" cards to the deck. When oracles appear in the Offer, they are discarded and the active player may look at the top four cards on the altar and keep one. The Demon places the demon token atop one of the Offer columns and prevents players from taking cards from that column. It is moved when a priest card is played. Both of these are minor variants and do not greatly affect the play of the game.
The central mechanism / choice in Bali is one that is present in numerous other games. That is, players must collect cards for victory points, but then must spend some of those cards to insure that those cards earn as most points possible. So, the tough choice is balancing this need to collect and conserve cards versus the need to spend some of those to optimize the points they will earn. This can be a tough choice, and finding that balance point is the challenge.
Gaining majorities of various types can prove lucrative, and one should possess numerous stonemasons since stone is a valuable commodity used to construct shrines and purchase sacrifice cards. Thus, choosing which cards to take from the Offer columns is quite important. However, one must also consider which card will be last to be revealed, as that card will trigger a payout. These choices factor into a player's overall strategy.
As mentioned, the game tends to flow quickly and player turns are usually fast. That is a positive. My big negative, however, is that the game seems to end too quickly. 16 of the 58 cards are set out in the offering, leaving only 42 cards remaining in the deck. This expires quickly as players take 1 – 3 cards per turn from the Offer. This usually means that a player will only have 8 – 10 turns per game, which really isn't enough to create a properly honed engine. Further, the game ends immediately when the deck expires, making it likely that not everyone will have an equal number of turns. I tend to dislike this in a game, as it is usually a sizeable disadvantage for those players who did not get their fair share of turns.
For me, Bali is an enjoyable game. I enjoy the choices and balancing acts it forces players to make, and I think the theme works reasonably well. However, I do think it has a few issues, particularly those mentioned above. Perhaps these could be fixed with the addition of more cards to the deck and allowing each player to have an equal number of turns. As is, however, it doesn't offer enough shine, cleverness or originality to give it a long shelf life.
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There are many dimensions to systemic change. The following aspects of systemic change are considered important in the Vincentian Family
- Involving the poor themselves, including women and young people, at all stages: the identification of needs, planning, implementation, evaluation and revision;
- Having a holistic vision — addressing a series of basic human needs: individual and social, spiritual and physical, especially jobs, health care, housing, education, and spiritual growth — with an integral approach toward prevention and sustainable development;
- Placing particular emphasis on self-help and self-sustaining programs, with a special view toward addressing the root causes of poverty.
Articles at the Vincentian Encyclopedia about Systemic Change
- Systemic Change, an Introduction by Robert P. Maloney, CM - provides background to the general concept of systems analysis, looks at how systemic change fits within the context of Vincentian values, clarifies terminology, and offers criteria.
- Systemic Change: Seeds of Change - strategies for systemic change presented in twenty articles by members of the Vincentian Family's Commission for Promoting Systemic Change
- Systemic Change and the Vincentian Family - the report of May 31, 2007 from a meeting of Vincentian Family Leaders, where they called for a focus on systemic change.
- Systemic Change - Vincentian Study Guides - prepared by leaders of the Vincentian Family; situates the idea of systemic change in Vincentian tradition; political engagement; more
- Systemic Change Award - recognizes and supports systemic change projects within the Congregation of the Mission.
The concept is embodied in various movements and concepts.
- Community Development Corporations - Google search
- Community Investment - Google search
- Corporate Responsibility - Google search
- Micro-finance - Google search
- Social Change - Google search
- Social Empowerment - Google search
- Social Enterprise - Google. search
- Social Investment - Google search
- Social Entrepreneur - Google search
- Socially Responsible Investing - Google search
- Visionary Leaders - Google Search
- Systemic change - Google search
- See also Changemakers Google search
Examples of Systemic Change
The Systemic Change Award established by the Congregation of the Mission in October, 2005 provides examples in the awards made in 2006 and following years.
We welcome posting of examples of other systemic change efforts by the followers of Vincent and Louise.
- D.R.E.A.M.: a program for combating AIDS in Africa, which is jointly sponsored by the Daughters of Charity and the Community of Saint'Egidio. Drug Resources Enhancement against Aids and Malnutrition
- Pedro Opeka, CM - The transformation of slums in Madagascar
- Norberto Carcellar CM - Improving conditions of the people who live in the Payatas garbage dump outside Manila
- Daughters of Charity - Helping Ethiopian Women Sew Their Way Out of Poverty
Non-Vincentian stories of systemic change
- See section below on "Media Resources"
- Sharing Stories of Social Change PBS site
Not every aid project exemplifies systemic change. (see "Concept" section above for ways it is being understood in the Vincentian Family.)
OneWorld "Indian Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2007" offers some criteria for examples of systemic change that could be adapted for the projects in the Vincentian Family.
- 1. Innovation
- You have brought about social change by transforming traditional practice. Such transformation has been achieved through
- • An innovative product or service
- • The development of a different approach, or
- • A more determined or rigorous application of known technologies, ideas and approaches.
- A salient characteristic of a social entrepreneur is developing a pattern-changing idea and implementing it successfully.
- 2. Sustainability
- Your innovation has generated the social conditions and/or institutions needed to sustain the initiative and you are dedicating all of your time to it.
- • If set up as a non-profit entity, your organization is achieving some degree of financial self-sustainability through fees or revenues or is engaged in creating mutually beneficial partnerships with business and/or the public sector. Where possible, economic incentives are embraced. In any case, there is a clear difference from traditional charity and a move towards community-based empowerment and sustainability. There is also a difference with traditional business.
- • If set up as a for-profit entity, the orientation toward social and environmental value creation predominates, with financial return treated as a secondary means to an end, rather than an end in itself.
- 3. Direct social impact
- You have founded, developed and implemented the entrepreneurial initiative directly, together with poor or marginalized beneficiaries and stakeholders. The Impact of your work manifests itself in quantifiable results and testimonials and is well documented. There are no significant negative externalities.
- 4. Reach and Scope
- The initiative has spread beyond its initial context and has been adapted successfully to other settings in the country or internationally, either by your organization, or through others who have replicated or adapted elements of it.
- 5. Replicability
- The initiative can be adapted to other regions of the world to solve similar problems. As an entrepreneur you are open to sharing with others the tools, approaches and techniques that are critical to the adaptation of the initiative.
Full length films
- Pay It Forward The film
- The film is about one boy's homework, and how that assignment changes the world.
- The assignment in question is extra credit, an assignment that Social Studies teacher Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey) gives every year.Think Of An Idea To Change Our World–And Put It Into Action. When Mr. Simonet asks for their responses, they tell him the assignment's 'weird' and 'hard.' Mr. Simonet suggests another word: Possible. It is from this simple but potentially complex assignment that many different lives are affected.
- A simple yet profound example of involving people in solutions.
- Susan Retik and Patti Quigley were two ordinary soccer moms. Over the course of two years, as they cope with loss and struggle to raise their families as single mothers, these extraordinary women dedicate themselves to empowering Afghan widows whose lives have been ravaged by decades of war, poverty and oppression - factors they consider to be the root causes of terrorism.
Using YouTube for International Development Examples of how other groups are using this wildly popular site to get their message out.
- Overview of Ashoka 11 minutes, 27 seconds
- Ashoka Video Series Introduction to 16-program DVD series, some of the world's greatest social entrepreneurs share their inspiring stories and strategies – in their own words.
- Clinton at Global Philanthropy Program 2 minutes, 7 seconds
- Youth Inspired to Solve Social Problems 5 minutes 42 seconds
- Empowering Women In Rural India 9 minutes 7 seconds
This is but a sample of the many videos in this series.
Grameen Foundation 16 minutes
- Empowering People; Changing Lives; Innovating for the World's Poor
- Recycling in the Bronx
- Columbia, MissisippiIn this virtual walking tour, Columbia activist and evangelist Charlotte Keys, founder of Jesus People Against Pollution, describes life near the plant and her fight to win justice for her community.
KIVA Kiva - Loans that Change Lives
- Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can "sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates from the business you've sponsored. As loans are repaid, you get your loan money back.
- NY Times Video - Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times visits his loan recipient: a baker in Kabul.
- Burrito Project - Burrito Project website
- Skate4Cancer - Skate4Cancer website
- Invisible Children - Invisible Children Website
This is but a sample of award winning sites in various categories of social impact
- The New Heroes tells the dramatic stories of 14 daring people from all corners of the globe who, against all odds, are successfully alleviating poverty and illness, combating unemployment and violence, and bringing education, light, opportunity and freedom to poor and marginalized people around the world.
- Schwab Foundation Introduction 10 minutes, 20 seconds
- Rural Development Institute 10 minutes, 40 seconds
- Dentistry Helping Poor Get Jobs 6 minutes, 37 seconds
- Operation Kickstart Developing Entrepreneurs in Africa 7 minutes 12 seconds
- Health Care for the Poor 5 minutes, 5 seconds
- Recycling 7 minutes,5 seconds
- Argentinian Social Entrepreneur 2007 8 minutes 18 seconds
- Drug Rehabilitation 5 minutes, 31 seconds
- Micro-finance 11 minutes, 05 seconds
- Providing Children With Books 7 minutes, 19 seconds
- Day Care 6 minutes, 55 seconds
- Medical in the Amazon 9 minutes 5 seconds
- Motorcycles deliver health care 5 minutes, 20 seconds
Games for Systemic Change
Changemakers.net for more information on using games for social change and the source of the list below.
- Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century - By Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, et al
- Serious Games Initiative
- Games for Change
- Games for Health
- GAME MASTER: A profile of Will Wright - By JOHN SEABROOK, The New Yorker: November 6, 2006
- Dream Machines by Will Wright
- The Long Zoom by Stephen Johnson
- Climate Challenge: the BBC-funded online game
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Adolphe Crémieux, original name Isaäc Moïse (born April 30, 1796, Nîmes, Fr.—died Feb. 10, 1880, Paris), French political figure and Jewish leader active in the Revolution of 1848 and the Paris Commune (1871).
After a distinguished legal career in Nîmes, he was appointed advocate of the Court of Appeals in Paris (1830), where he gained further renown for his legal skill and oratory.
In 1842 Crémieux was elected to the Chamber of Deputies from the Indre-et-Loire département and quickly emerged as a leading member of the radical left. He played a prominent role in the revolutionary movements of 1848 and served as minister of justice in the provisional government of 1848–49. He voted for the presidential candidacy of Louis-Napoléon, but, when he withdrew his support, he was imprisoned. After his release, he returned to the bar and left-wing politics. He returned to the Chamber in 1869, representing a Parisian district, and, when the Second Empire collapsed, he joined the Government of National Defense (1870–71) as minister of justice. Subsequently, he served as a deputy from Algiers (1871–75) and then senator (1875–80).
Crémieux was an important leader of the French Jewish community. He lent his prestige and political influence to numerous campaigns for the normalization of Jewish life in France and Algeria, backing the enfranchisement of North African Jews. He was a founder of the influential Universal Israelite Alliance and was its president from 1863 to 1880.
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Power Pick Global warehouse management software can now implement different picking methods in horizontal carousel applications to improve efficiencies. Speed picking does not have to be complicated, overwhelming or cumbersome. Horizontal carousel systems integrated with Power Pick Global warehouse management software can increase productivity by 2/3, increase throughput by 500% and increase accuracy up to 99.9% all within a smaller footprint.
Incorporating software within a standalone horizontal carousel system allows for light directed picking, making the work flow at a much faster pace. Power Pick Global warehouse management software can control just one horizontal carousel or a pod of carousels, which consists of two or more carousels next to each other or stacked on top of the other. The software manages the bin locations for each part stored within the carousel. With the touch of a button, the carousel spins into place to present the part to the operator for picking. Light towers mounted in between carousels direct the operator to the exact pick location within the carousel and displays the quantity to pick – increasing picking productivity and improving pick accuracy.
Operations picking one order at a time can increase throughput with batch picking. A batch picking station can be integrated into the horizontal carousel workstation. Orders are loaded into the Power Pick Global software and are sorted for the worker, each order is segregated into a tote on the batch station. The carousels spin to fulfill multiple orders at once. For example, if two orders require the same part, the carousels will spin to that location, the light towers will direct the worker to pick the appropriate quantity for both orders. After picking the required parts from the carousel, the worker simply turns to the batch station and batch lights indicate the correct quantity for each order. Fulfilling multiple orders with one pick increases throughput. With higher throughput, operations can often extend order cutoff times.
Power Pick Global can also increase productivity using pick banding. Pick banding applies when the carousels are too tall for a worker to pick from the top bin location. For example, if the horizontal carousels are 14' tall, the worker would require a lift table (lift platform) to pick from the upper portion of the carousel. Using a pick banding strategy the carousel would present parts for picking from the top band of the carousel which require use of the lift table, then move down to the bottom band to complete the picking. Pick banding eliminates moving the lift table up and down in between picks, increasing picking speeds and efficiencies.
Integrating Power Pick Global software with a horizontal carousels can increase productivity by 2/3, increase throughput by 500% and increase accuracy up to 99.9%. Power Pick Global can manage horizontal carousels allowing operations to reach the fullest picking potential.
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This module implements the A* pathfinding algorithm. It acts as a base class from which a custom map object can be derived. It requires from the map object a subroutine named getSurrounding (described below) and provides to the object two routines called findPath and findPathIncr (also described below.) It should also be noted that AI::Pathfinding::AStar defines two other subs (calcF and calcG) which are used only by the findPath routines.
AI::Pathfinding::AStar requires that the map object define a routine named getSurrounding which accepts the starting and target node ids for which you are calculating the path. In return it should provide an array reference containing the following details about each of the immediately surrounding nodes:
Basically you should return an array reference like this: [ [$node1, $cost1, $h1], [$node2, $cost2, $h2], [...],...]; For more information on heuristics and the best ways to calculate them, visit the links listed in the SEE ALSO section below. For a very brief idea of how to write a getSurrounding routine, refer to the included tests.
As mentioned earlier, AI::Pathfinding::AStar provides two routines named findPath and findPathIncr. findPath requires as input the starting and target node identifiers. It is unimportant what format you choose for your node IDs. As long as they are unique, and can be distinguished by Perl's exists $hash{$nodeid}, then they will work. findPath then returns an array (or reference) of node identifiers representing the least expensive path to your target node. An empty array means that the target node is entirely unreacheable from the given source. findPathIncr on the other hand allows you to calculate a particularly long path in chunks. findPathIncr also takes the starting and target node identifiers but also accepts a state variable and a maxiumum number of nodes to calculate before returning. findPathIncr then returns a hash representing the current state that can then be passed back in for further processing later. The current path can be found in $state-{path}>.
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A combustion and propulsion test cell contains a 300-hp eddy current dynamometer linked to either the FSAE engine or a DC motor/battery-electric powertrain. A custom-built 7-hp AC dynamometer allows students to research the combustion stability limits of a homogeneous charge compression ignition engine. In this lab, students get the chance to disassemble, analyze, and reassemble a series of Briggs & Stratton engines; a small gas turbine engine has also been under development for several years. Fundamental combustion studies are performed in fume hoods to determine the effects of fuel-air flow rate and equivalence ratio on laminar flame speed. A research engine outfitted with a quartz cylinder liner gives students the ability to watch the combustion process of a running engine while taking in-cylinder pressure data in real-time.


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The Importance of Knowing St. Joseph | Fr. Benedict Groeschel, C.F.R. | The Introduction to "The Mystery of Joseph" by Marie-Dominique Philippe, O.P. | Ignatius Insight
The Importance of Knowing St. Joseph | Fr. Benedict Groeschel, C.F.R. | The Introduction to The Mystery of Joseph by
Marie-Dominique Philippe, O.P. | Ignatius Insight
The publication of this serious, even profound study of a
person intimately joined to the life of the Messiah and written by one of the
most respected figures in our contemporary Catholic scene should cause serious
attention to be paid to the often neglected figure of Saint Joseph.
Father Marie-Dominique Philippe, O.P., an important French theologian who died only in
2006, was a man whose thought was of great influence and depth. He was also a
man greatly devoted to the Church who founded the Community of Saint John.
This new community is now recognized in several countries as a very successful
attempt to restore a vibrant spirituality to the religious life, which in many
places has seemed moribund for years.
The Brothers and Sisters of Saint John
are a cause of hope to those who look ahead to the restoration of the authentic
and powerful traditions of the religious life that have gotten lost in recent
times. The Franciscan Friars and Sisters of the Renewal have welcomed them
Father Philippe's book on Saint Joseph is very consistent
with the new biblical theology called for by Pope Benedict XVI. The author very
impressively examines the sparse facts that we have concerning the life of
Saint Joseph, teasing from them material that connects easily and well with a
very impressive structure of theological teaching. This then becomes a means
of providing a firm foundation for devotion to the Foster Father and Guardian
of the Son of God.
Except for Christ and Saint Paul, New Testament figures
attract little attention from the secular world and especially the secular
media – even when they are in a kindly mood. Occasionally a small amount
of attention is shown to the figure of the Blessed Mother but rarely is Saint
Joseph or any of the Apostles mentioned. Even in cities named Saint Joseph or
San Jose are the inhabitants really conscious of the fact that their hometown
is actually named for a person – a person who played a role of immense
importance in God's plan of redemption for humankind. This apparent obscurity
finds at its root a kind of Protestantism that is focused intensely on the
figure Christ and on the writings of Saint Paul, but which seems barely
acquainted with Saint Joseph and even the Mother of God, herself.
theology, which takes a less constricted view of such things, opened up a world
of devotion to Saint Joseph the humble carpenter of Nazareth as well as to the
Mother of God. How could it be otherwise? These are the figures who stood at
the manger on the first Christmas; they are the ones to whom the care of the
Word Incarnate was entrusted by God.
In recent years there has been a gradual but very welcome
return to biblical theology and a simultaneous turning away from the overly
exclusive use of the historical-critical method. In the wake of such changes
there has also come a resurgence of interest in the figure of Saint Joseph. When
we place the few facts that we have of him in the context of his personal
responsibilities for the Messiah, we begin to move away from the shadowy figure
presented in Scripture and discover a multi-dimensional person – one
still wrapped in mystery, but one of great importance.
Young Catholics seeking
more solid theological food than what is generally being fed to them through
the historical-critical school alone will find in Father Philippe's book much
to feed their spiritual lives and inspire their devotion.
Father Philippe has profoundly moved many of these
intelligent and well educated young men and women, and quite a few of them have
joined the community he founded.
The Community of Saint John
now includes not only members from France but also from many parts of the
world. The same spirit and insight that led Father Philippe to such success in
the founding of this congregation can be found in his writings, which I
recommend to all. The Mystery of Joseph is a wonderful place to begin your appreciation of Father Philippe. His way of
looking into Scripture and finding in it an inexhaustible theological reservoir
is an inspiration to all. Read and enjoy and pray. Father Philippe will teach
you much about Saint Joseph and much about your faith. When you're all
finished you will be quite surprised to see how your vision of this great saint
may have changed. Even if you've been devoted to St. Joseph for many years, I
feel safe in saying that in The Mystery of Saint Joseph you will learn a great deal about Jesus' Foster
Father's true and undying importance.
The Mystery of Joseph
By Fr. Marie-Dominique Philippe, O.P.
Foreword By Fr. Benedict Groeschel
Although the greatest of saints, after Mary, St. Joseph is perhaps the least well understood. What Scripture teaches is compelling, but mysterious: he moves quietly and thoughtfully through its
pages, almost unobserved in his humility and silence.
And yet Pope Paul VI has said: "If we look carefully into this life that was apparently so unremarkable, we shall find that it was greater and more adventurous, more full of exciting events, than we
are accustomed to assume in our hasty perusal of the Gospel."
In this illuminating book, Fr. Philippe leads you deep into the beautiful mystery of St. Joseph - revealing the greatness of the apparently unremarkable man who was the guardian of Jesus and Mary,
and who is now the Guardian of the Church, "overflowing with immeasurable wisdom and power."
Weaving together the many different strands of the Church's ever-deepening understanding of St. Joseph, along with his own profound insights, here is a warm and moving portrait of the humble, heroic
carpenter of Bethlehem - a great man who became, by God's grace, a great saint. After reading this book, you will never see St. Joseph (and perhaps yourself) in quite the same way again.
"This is an amazing book on a crucial (but neglected) topic,
written by one of the greatest Catholic theologians of recent times. Profound
and deep, clear and practical, grounded in Scripture and illumined by the
brilliance of St. Thomas Aquinas — I know of no other book like it."
— Dr. Scott Hahn
"In this beautiful book one of the great men of the Church
of recent times helps us to contemplate the face of St. Joseph in all its
chivalrous nobility, and to understand how the mystery of Our Lady's'spouse
most chaste' supplies the Church with a light in which she can move forward on
her pilgrimage 'with a new surge of life and love.' " — Fr. John Saward,
author Cradle of Redeeming Love
"In recent times, St. Joseph seems to have fallen out of
favor in the conscious minds of believers. These deep meditations are a
wonderful antidote for that. I highly recommend The Mystery of Joseph." — Archbishop John J. Myers
"If St Joseph has a role in the Incarnation and its
consequences – and he does – then he is an essential figure within
our religion. The silence of St. Joseph in the New Testament can lead us to
neglect him or see his role as minor. Fr. Philippe's book brings out the
significance of the events of Joseph's life, and shows us his hidden
greatness." — Cardinal George Pell
"In these gentle meditations, Fr. Philippe draws out of the
Gospels a mystical theology of who St. Joseph is, and what he represents."
— Aidan Nichols, O.P., author of Rome and the Eastern Churches
Fr. Marie-Dominique Philippe, O.P. (_PHONE_) was the founder of the Community of St. John. A prolific author, he is increasingly recognized as an
important theologian of the later 20th century.
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Two years of supporting activists in the Sunni-majority country's capital city resulted in projects that championed diversity and countered Covid-related disinformation.
Young Cities began its programming in Pakistan in 2019 through its Youth Civil Activism Network (YouthCAN) initiative. trained 26 activists and supported the launch of three projects that each took on the challenge of promoting diverse narratives and empowering religious minorities in a country where around 91% of its population is Sunni Muslim.
In 2020, the Covid pandemic led to the rise of harmful misinformation and disinformation that spread quickly and unabated, often targeting the country's women and minorities especially. Young Cities adapted its programme to be delivered entirely remotely, and supported four teams of activists to develop a single campaign that addressed different forms of this disinformation.


Multidrop generic framing procedure (GFP-MD)
In metropolitan areas there is a diverse set of requirements for a new network concept: it is desired that a single transport network should serve all legacy networks as well as new datacom networks. The former type of networks requires efficient support for low bit-rate real-time connection oriented services while the latter one would benefit from packet based statistical multiplexing at transport layer. These contradictory requirements make it difficult to develop a single integrated (or converged) network concept serving all the services. The sheer capacity is not a problem today as higher and higher bit-rates and more and more wavelengths can be used. The challenging question is how to share the resources and manage the network in a cost-efficient manner if plain over-provisioning is not acceptable. Furthermore, protecting the existing investments is a real concern for the operators that should not be overlooked. In recent years SDH/SONET based transport networks are considered to be too inflexible, inefficient, and over-complex for the needs of data communications. As the importance of data communications has been increasing, it has been quite natural to search for a replacement for SDH. However, it has turned out that developing such replacement is not a very easy and straightforward task. On the contrary, many useful functions provided by the SDH seem to be complicated to reinvent in other ways. Furthermore, the motivation for replacing SDH is eroding: the recent developments in advanced SDH like Virtual concatenation (VC), Link capacity adjustment scheme (LCAS), and Generic framing procedure (GFP) have made SDH much more suitable for today's requirements. In this paper a novel multidrop network scheme based on GFP is proposed. The multidrop GFP (GFP-MD) is targeted for metropolitan area networks serving various access and virtual private networks. It is primarily designed to be used in limited complexity resilient networks such as dual rings. However, it supports arbitrary network topologies as well. The GFP-MD gives an efficient way to share network resources between slow and medium speed data streams at metropolitan area while providing a seamless interconnection into SDH/SONET based core networks. Furthermore, GFP-MD can be used to support efficient multicast and broadcast for distribution services.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education, e-Science, e-Medicine on the Internet, SSGRR 2002s
Number of pages7
Publication statusPublished - 2002
MoE publication typeNot Eligible
EventInternational Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education, e-Science, e-Medicine on the Internet - L'Aquila, Italy
Duration: 29 Jul 20024 Aug 2002
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Key Methods for Identifying Hospital Staff
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In hospitals and other healthcare organisations, it's vital that patients are able to identify members of staff. It's also necessary for staff members to be able to identify each other and their roles. Different methods can be used to identify staff so that the people who need to know who they are can easily recognize them. Employees can use lots of visual cues that tell people about their role, their name, and which hospital they work for. These are some of the ways you can make sure your staff members are easily recognizable to anyone who needs to know who they are.
Uniforms are a great way to identify the staff in a hospital and to distinguish between people working in different roles. They are essential in hospitals for hygiene purposes, but they also serve an important purpose when it comes to making employees recognizable and trustworthy. Different uniforms help your staff to see who works in what role, and this can also be useful for patients, especially those who are staying long-term. Using different colors, patterns, and designs for different roles is helpful. You might also have logos or extra information printed or embroidered onto uniforms to provide further help.
Name Badges
It's not just roles that are important for patients and staff members to know. People should also be able to identify employees at a hospital by name. Name badges are an easy way to do this, putting names and roles in a visible place. Name badges should be easy to clean so that they can be wiped clean regularly. They might not always be appropriate to wear, but it depends on the environment and the duties of the person. Although name badges can be a quick way to identify someone, they shouldn't replace employees introducing themselves.
Official ID for Security
Security is another reason staff members may need to identify themselves. They will need to show identification when they enter the hospital and will likely need to use it to access certain areas of the hospital. When you provide ID for hospital staff, you also need to offer solutions for carrying and displaying it. A lanyard can make it easy for a member of staff to have their ID visible at all times. Some people might prefer to pin or clip their IDs to their clothing instead, especially if they don't want to have something hanging around their neck.
Identifying Information
It can also be useful to provide information that helps patients to identify staff members. This could include providing materials that tell them how to identify people in different roles. You can provide them with a guide to what doctors, nurses, and other members of staff wear. It's also helpful to explain what different roles mean. It's not very useful for a patient to know which uniform a phlebotomist wears if they don't know what a phlebotomist does.
Help your patients to identify hospital staff and your employees to identify each other by providing visual cues and useful information.
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Chronic Pain: How To Regain Control Over Your Life Naturally
Chronic pain is estimated to affect over 50 million Americans and is becoming an even more popular condition. Due to our lifestyles, posture, exercise level, and diet, an increasing number of people have started to suffer from chronic pain. In some cases, pain can be minimal and only represent a minor inconvenience. However, in some other cases, chronic pain can take over your life and be so overwhelming that it might prevent you from enjoying even the easiest daily tasks. Depending on the cause behind it, chronic pain can develop from mild to severe. Therefore, while there is no definitive cure, chronic pain needs to be addressed. Here are five non-invasive ways to find chronic pain relief naturally.
Understand the Underlying Causes
Firstly, it is crucial to understand what are the causes behind your chronic pain. You might have been the victim of an accident, or you might have reported injuries that haven't healed. Alternatively, an inactive lifestyle and bad posture can also lead to lower back, sciatica, and leg pain.
In some cases, some chronic diseases such as cancer and arthritis might be the cause behind the pain. Before trying to find a solution for your pain, it is crucial to understand what is the underlying cause. This will help you avoid unnecessary painkillers and move towards a longer-lasting solution.
Use Meditation and Breathing Techniques
One of the main factors that can worsen your chronic pain is stress. Indeed, stress causes damage to cells and leads to increased free radicals. In turn, these can worsen inflammation and prevent your body from healing.
Breathing techniques and meditation are mindfulness practices that allow you to focus on your breath, repeat a mantra, or focus your attention inward. This can allow you to avoid additional stress and reduce inflammation.
Aim To Move Your Body Regularly
Regular exercise is essential to allow your body to release endorphins – the happiness hormone! These compounds are the ones responsible for the famous "runner's high" and act as mood regulators. In turn, this can reduce stress levels and allow you to feel more balanced. Exercise is also essential to help you get rid of any extra weight you might be carrying. By doing so, you can lighten up your body, which takes pressure away from your muscles, joints, and bones. And of course, it can help you reduce the risk of conditions such as heart disease.
Consider a Plant-Based Lifestyle
Studies have proven that whole grain, plant-based lifestyle can reduce fatigue and chronic pain. Indeed, fruits and vegetables are famously filled with the antioxidants your body needs to reduce inflammation and the damaging effects of free radicals. Speaking to your nutritionist allows you to get started in the right way.
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Unconventional Ways to Boost Your Health
With health tips and diets around every corner, it can be hard to know what the best course is going to be for your body. Between fad diets and finding the best workout gear, it can be overwhelming. Finding the specific rhythm to support what your body needs is going to be a lifelong journey, but there are things that you can do to get off to a good start.
Establish a Baseline
In order to know what specific health goals you need to have, you first need to establish a baseline. It is important to start with the basics and make sure that you are making generally healthy choices before you can start getting more specific.
Even though each person is different and will require different health goals, there are some things that are in common across all bodies. You need to be getting enough sleep. Not getting enough sleep can mess with your health in surprising ways. You also need to be drinking enough water each day. Most people are not drinking enough water. Being dehydrated can cause you to overeat and to be fatigued during the day. You may be surprised to see how just changing your sleep and water intake patterns can give you an extra boost.
You should also make healthy eating choices and try to get some exercise. If you are just starting on your wellness journey, then you should take small steps. If you try to take on too much at once, you will likely not be able to sustain the change.
You can start by adding more vegetables to your meals instead of trying to change what you eat. Even if you continue to eat like normal, but add in more vegetables, you will eventually be able to change your diet more drastically. You can also try switching to only drinking water instead of any other kind of beverage with your meals. This will also help with your water intake.
For exercise, you don't have to go running, even though that is probably what pops into your head first. You can start by just doing stretches before bed or going for a walk during your lunch break. Start where you are and then build on that.
Talk to Your Doctor
You should make sure that you go to your regular checkups with your doctor. If you have concerns about specific health issues, then discuss them with your doctor. If you are looking for advice in general, you can ask what their biggest concerns are and where your focus should be for improvements. They have insights into your health that can help you on your path to wellness.
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There may be changes you need to make to your environment in order to be functioning at one hundred percent. You should have your home tested for toxins and hazardous gases to make sure that you are not breathing in anything that may be harmful to you. You may also want to be asking questions like, What is the Safe Distance From Wifi Router? Or, does my electrical wiring need to be updated. Making these changes can improve your health if there is something happening that shouldn't be happening. You may be surprised to find out how your health can change when these silent issues get resolved.
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How To Stay Positive During the Extended Lockdown
The most recent months have been overwhelming for countless individuals, with millions worldwide dealing with stress, grief, job losses, financial challenges, and the need to isolate all due to the coronavirus pandemic. As in the UK and US, there's a potential lockdown in several countries due to the recent surge in covid-19 cases. This may heighten your anxiety levels surrounding the pandemic. How do you cope? With limited access to your loved ones and outdoor places, you should consider these five ways to


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The gravity in ZDoom works as normal in the Doom engine: it corresponds to a value which is added to a thing's vertical velocity linearly each tic. During the first tic of free fall, that value is added twice.
However, ZDoom offers multiple ways in which the gravity value is affected, instead of being a constant as in vanilla Doom. An actor's gravity factor is the product of the following factors:
- The level's overall gravity, as defined in MAPINFO with the gravity map property. Note that this value is set on a scale of 800.
- The sector's own gravity, as defined in UDMF with the gravity sector property and in Hexen format with the Static_Init special; possibly modified with Sector_SetGravity.
- The actor's own Gravity property in DECORATE, possibly modified through ACS with the APROP_Gravity property.
Internally, the default values are all 1.0, so a fall lasting one second (35 tics) gives an accumulated speed of 36 in the default conditions.
In addition, being underwater also affects gravity depending on the depth of immersion: a waterlevel of 1 divides it by 16; a waterlevel of 2 or 3 divides it by 8.
Although you are advised to use MAPINFO for it, level gravity can also be affected with FraggleScript with either gravity on a scale of 100 or with consolecmd gravity on a scale of 1.


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ILE RPG and SQL are both powerful and useful languages. I'm sure many of you use one or both of these languages, but did you know that they can be used together? By using the SQL precompiler—the Create Structured Query Language ILE RPG Object (CRTSQLRPGI) command—you can embed SQL statements right in your RPG source. You can also call your RPG source from an SQL statement by creating SQL external functions and procedures. This blog will focus on embedding SQL statements in your RPG source.
SQL statements can be written in both fixed and free format RPG. When you compile your source, you use the CRTSQLRPGI command. The precompiler finds the SQL statements and converts them to RPG source code. The precompiler generates a new source member, which is used as input to the RPG compiler.
In fixed format, the SQL statement starts with EXEC SQL and ends with END-EXEC.
 C+ SET MGRNO = :MGR_NUM
In free format, the SQL statement starts with EXEC SQL and ends with a semicolon.
The free format support was added in IBM i 5.3. Since the same precompiler gets called no matter what value is specified on the target release parameter (TGTRLS), SQL statements in free format will be allowed with any valid value specified on the TGTRLS parameter.
RPG has the control-specification (H-Spec) that tells the compiler how to deal with devices and how certain types of information will be represented, as well as including keywords that will override parameters specified on the command. The SQL precompiler has a similar feature—the SQL SET OPTION statement.
 NAMING = *SQL,
 CLOSQLCSR = *ENDMOD,
 COMMIT = *NONE,
 DATFMT = *ISO,
 COMPILEOPT = 'DBGVIEW(*LIST)';
The SET OPTION statement must be the first SQL statement in the source. I really like this statement since it lets me not have to remember to specify certain parameters on the CRTSQLRPGI command. But the coolest part of the statement is that you can specify compiler parameters that aren't allowed in the H spec. Yeah, you read that right. You just need to specify the parameters in the COMPILEOPT string. This string is added to the compiler command that's built by the precompiler. The only thing you need to remember is to not use any of the parameters that the precompiler already passes to the compiler. This will cause the compiler command to fail because of duplicate parameters. There's also a compiler options (COMPILEOPT) parameter on the CRTSQLRPGI command. COMPILEOPT was added in IBM i 5.3 and is allowed to be specified with any valid value specified on the TGTRLS parameter.
Speaking of parameters, the RPG preprocessor options (RPGPPOPT) parameter on the CRTSQLRPGI command is one that you really want to know about. The precompiler only handles the /COPY directive and is restricted to only one level, so you can't have nested /COPY. Since the other directives are not handled, the precompiler scans the source that's in both the /IF and /ELSE. Specifying *LVL1 or *LVL2 on the RPGPPOPT parameter will tell the precompiler to call the compiler to have it preprocess the source. The compiler will handle all the directives and generate a new source member for the precompiler to use as input. The only difference between *LVL1 and *LVL2 is that *LVL1 doesn't expand the /INCLUDE directive. The /INCLUDE directive was originally created as a way to hide code from the precompiler. The RPGPPOPT parameter is valid on IBM i 5.3, but not for previous releases.
The precompiler now has variable scoping. This enhancement is in the base of IBM i 6.1 and PTFed in IBM i 5.4 (product 5722SS1: SI34160 and SI34161 and product 5722ST1: SI34384 or database group PTF SF99504, #20). Before this support was added, all variables in the entire source needed to be unique to be used by SQL. Now the precompiler recognizes procedures and scopes the variables to the procedure they're defined in.
In IBM i 6.1, the precompiler added the support to take an IFS source stream file as input. The source stream file (SRCSTMF) parameter is used to specify the path name of the IFS source stream file to be compiled. The SQL include directory (INCDIR) parameter is used for the SQL include statement. If you want to have an INCDIR parameter on the compiler command, you'll need to use the COMPILEOPT parameter. Another thing to remember when your source is in IFS is that the precompiler won't expand /COPY statements. If you have SQL statements in your /COPY files, you'll need to specify a value other than *NONE on the RPGPPOPT parameter. One benefit of having your source in IFS is that it gives you more flexibility with your source code management than the traditional file system.
Other IBM i 6.1 enhancements to the SQL precompiler include: the capability to do a LIKE on the SQLCA variables, increased LOB variable limits and the new file enhancements (EXTNAME enhancement, LIKEFILE, EXTDESC and QUALIFIED).
Using the SQL precompiler lets you bring two powerful languages together. As you can see, there have been a lot of enhancements to make it even easier. Here's a quick review:
EnhancementReleaseCan TGTRLS(*PRV) be specified?
SQL in free format5.3Yes
Variable scoping5.4Yes
Source in IFS6.1Yes
LIKE on the SQLCA variables6.1Yes
Increased LOB variable limit6.1No
New file enhancements6.1No
Two great places to go for help with embedding SQL in RPG are the RPG Café and the RPG400-L mailing list. The RPG Cafe is the place for RPG developers and IBM developers to mingle and discuss RPG. Subscribing to RPG400-L lets you use the list to e-mail other RPG developers. The e-mails are archived so you have the capability to search past posts.
There is also a precompiler manual, Embedded SQL programming, in the IBM i Knowledge center.
Gina Whitney wrote this week's blog. Gina is a member of the SQL development team for Db2 for IBM i in Rochester, Minn. She's responsible for the SQL precompilers. Thanks, Gina!
This blog post was edited to update links on January 26, 2020.


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Coda (Italian for "tail", plural code) is a term used in music in a number of different senses, primarily to designate a passage that brings a piece (or one movement thereof) to a conclusion. "Technically an expanded cadence. Occurs at the end of a composition and traditionally brings the composition to a convincing conclusion. May consist of a few measures or an entire subdivision in itself.".
Coda as a section of a movement
Sonata form as a dramatic pyramid
. For example, the coda may follow the recapitulation (and thus come after the pyramid), or may be the last part of the recapitulation (and thus would be like the point of the arrow).
The presence of a coda as a structural element in a music movement is especially clear in works written in particular musical forms. In a sonata form movement, the recapitulation section will, in general, follow the exposition in its thematic content, while adhering to the home key. The recapitulation often ends with a passage that sounds like a termination, paralleling the music that ended the exposition; thus, any music coming after this termination will be perceived as extra material, i.e., as a coda. In works in variation form, the coda occurs following the last variation and will be very noticeable as the first music not based on the theme.
Codas were commonly used in both sonata form and variation movements during the Classical era. One of the ways that Beethoven extended and intensified Classical practice was to expand the coda sections, producing a final section sometimes of equal musical weight to the foregoing exposition, development, and recapitulation sections and completing the musical argument. For one famous example, see Symphony No. 8 (Beethoven).
The musical function of codas
Charles Burkhart suggests that the reason codas are common, even necessary, is that, in the climax of the main body of a piece, a "particularly effortful passage", often an expanded phrase, is often created by "working an idea through to its structural conclusions" and that, after all this momentum is created, a coda is required to "look back" on the main body, allow listeners to "take it all in", and "create a sense of balance."
In music notation
In music notation, the coda symbol, which resembles a set of crosshairs, is used as a navigation marker, similar to the dal Segno sign. It is used where the exit from a repeated section is within that section rather than at the end. The instruction "To Coda" indicates that, upon reaching that point during the final repetition, the performer is to jump immediately to the separate section headed with the coda symbol. For example, this can be used to provide a special ending for the final verse of a song.
This symbol is encountered mainly in modern music, not works by classical composers such as Haydn or Mozart.
Cauda, the Latin root of coda, is used in the study of conductus of the 12th and 13th centuries. The cauda was a long melisma on one of the last syllables of the text, repeated in each strophe. Conducti were traditionally divided into two groups, conductus cum cauda and conductus sine cauda (Latin: "conductus with cauda", "conductus without cauda"), based on the presence of the melisma. Thus, the cauda provided a conclusionary role, also similar to the modern coda.
Codetta (Italian for "little tail," the diminutive form) has a similar purpose to the coda, but on a smaller scale, concluding a section of a work instead of the work as a whole. A typical codetta concludes the exposition and recapitulation sections of a work in sonata form, following the second (modulated) theme, or the closing theme (if there is one). Thus, in the exposition, it usually appears in the secondary key, but, in the recapitulation, in the primary key. The codetta ordinarily closes with a perfect cadence in the appropriate key, confirming the tonality. If the exposition is repeated, the codetta is also, but sometimes it has its ending slightly changed, depending on whether it leads back to the exposition or into the development sections.
Codas in popular music
Many songs in rock and other genres of popular music have sections identifiable as codas. A coda in these genres is sometimes referred to as an outro and in jazz and modern church music as a tag. See also fade out.
- ^ Benward & Saker (2009). Music in Theory and Practice: Volume II, p.151. Eighth Edition. ISBN 978-0-07-310188-0.
- ^ Benward & Saker (2009), p.355.
- ^ For discussion of this coda, and of codas in general, see Rosen, Charles (1988) Sonata Forms, 2nd edition. New York: Norton.
- ^ Burkhart, Charles. "The Phrase Rhythm of Chopin's A-flat Major Mazurka, Op. 59, No. 2" in Stein, Deborah (2005). Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis, p.12. New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-517010-5.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press.


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To unextend your IIS hierarchy from a system:
- From the LifeKeeper GUI menu, select Edit then Resource. From the drop down menu, select Unextend Resource Hierarchy.
- Select the Target Server where you want to unextend the IIS resource. It cannot be the server where the IIS resource is currently in service.
Note: The dialog to select the target server will not appear if you selected the Unextend task by right-clicking from the right pane on an individual resource instance.
- Click Next to proceed to the next dialog box.
- Select the IIS resource hierarchy to unextend. Click Next to proceed to the next dialog box.
Note: This dialog will not appear if you selected the Unextend task by right-clicking on a global resource in the left pane or an individual resource instance in the right pane.
- An information box appears confirming the target server and the IIS resource hierarchy you have chosen to unextend. Click Unextend.
- Another information box appears confirming that the IIS resource was unextended successfully. Click Done to exit.