Dedicated Servers vs Virtual Servers: What's The Difference?
How many types of server can you name in a minute? This is my list: cloud servers, dedicated servers, bare metal servers, bare metal cloud servers, virtual servers, virtual private servers, hybrid servers, infrastructure-as-a-service, metal-as—a-service. It's a bewildering list for anyone who isn't a server hosting insider, and I'm sure I've missed a few. Each captures something important about the product on offer, but in reality most are variations on a simpler distinction, that of dedicated servers and virtualized servers.
Managed Dedicated Servers Are The Right Choice For SaaS Hosting. Here's Why.
Software-as-a-Service has become the preferred way to deliver applications over the last few years. It's easy to understand why. SaaS applications offer greater control and flexibility than their native equivalents. Development teams can more easily build a minimal viable product using web technology, and the subscription payment model is well-established in the SaaS world — something that smaller companies have struggled with for native applications.
There are three basic hosting options for the server-side component of SaaS applications: colocation of owned hardware, dedicated server hosting, and the cloud. Each has its advantages, but there's a tendency for SaaS developers to turn to cloud platforms without giving much consideration to using bare metal.
A couple of months ago, I wrote about the dangers of using old versions of PHP. Web hosting companies that provide customers with out-of-date software are a liability, both to themselves and the web. My focus was on hacked web applications, but it can get much worse than that. In June, a story broke that shows exactly why web hosting customers should make sure their hosting company provides an up-to-date software stack.
Korean web hosting company Nayana has agreed to pay attackers $1 million to retrieve the data of 34,000 web hosting clients on 153 Linux servers that were attacked by ransomware. Although it's not yet clear how the attackers compromised the servers, it appears likely that ancient versions of the Linux kernel, the Apache web server, and other software may be to blame.
If you're starting a small eCommerce store, website, or content business, you have two options for hosting: shared hosting and virtual private servers. There are many other forms of hosting, but it's unlikely you'll need the power of a dedicated server or the complexity of a cloud platform until your business grows considerably.
Your decision can affect the future of your business, so it's worth taking some time to think about the implications of choosing shared hosting or a VPS.
Update: We've added four more cool things you can do with a VPS!
A virtual private server is a great platform for web hosting, but it's also useful for many other things. A VPS is an always-on always-connected server capable of running anything that can be run on a standard Linux box (provided it doesn't need a GUI). That makes it useful for any number of projects.
Let's take a look at some of the things you might consider doing with yours – any of which can be done in addition to hosting a website.
The open-source nature of Linux means that there exists a downright staggering selection of different distributions, each one designed with a slightly different purpose in mind. While one of the platform's greatest strengths, it could also be considered one of its most glaring weaknesses, as new users might feel somewhat overwhelmed by the sheer volume of choices available to them. This holds particularly true when you're trying to select a Linux distro for your server, as choosing the wrong one could have dire consequences.
Picking between the various Java application servers can be a challenge for developers who are new to developing online Java apps and Java-based sites. The big three are Tomcat, Glassfish, and JBoss. All of them are excellent platforms upon which develop and deploy applications, but they have different strengths. Making the wrong choice can result in more work than necessary, so we're going to cut through the confusion with a quick guide to which application server will best suit your needs.
In 2013, JBoss received a name change and is now known as WildFly, but the old name is still widely used, especially by those using the older versions, so, we'll stick to calling it JBoss for the moment.
What Is The Difference Between CentOS And Ubuntu Server?
Those choosing a Linux distribution for their virtual private server or dedicated server have an almost limitless number of options. Because the Linux ecosystem is open source, anyone with the necessary skills can build and release their own distribution. There's even a distribution called Linux from Scratch, which is a set of instructions for putting together a distribution from source — although I wouldn't recommend anyone uses it for their web hosting server.
In spite of the number of Linux distributions, two are dominant on servers: CentOS and Ubuntu Server. They are both excellent choices, but when choosing between them it's useful to know the ways in which they are different. I want to have a quick look at the origins of each and the differences between them.
We're offering a $50 per month reduction in the price of one of our most popular dedicated server plans. The E5-2420 dedicated server will be available to new clients for just $100 a month from November 29th using coupon code HEXCORE50.
Only 300 servers are available as part of the promotion, and we expect them to sell like hotcakes.
When I say "content marketing," most small business owners hear "blog". A blog is often the foundation of content marketing strategies. Blogging has a low barrier to entry, and, over time, can prove an excellent search engine optimization, audience building, and social media marketing resource. But blogging is far from the only content marketing strategy within reach of small businesses. Ebooks have also proven enormously successful for businesses of all sizes.
Should Web Hosting Clients Be Worried About The Recent Linux Vulnerability?
If you've been following the tech news of late, you'll have heard about a serious vulnerability in the Linux kernel that could allow an attacker to gain root access. The media has treated the story with its usual restraint: headlines abound about the vulnerability of millions of servers and Android phones. I'd like to take a more level-headed look at the vulnerability and the impact it might have on web hosting clients.
One can't help but notice the irony here.
As one of the most popular image hosting sites on the web, Imgur's got everything from movie screenshots to unusual thrift store purchases to how-to guides to awesome scenery. There's plenty of NSFW content there too, of course (no, we aren't going to link to it). Mostly, though, it's pictures of cats.
So many pictures of cats.
Turns out, however, that for a short time, there was something else on the platform too: malicious code.
When you're dealing with sensitive information in the digital realm, you encrypt it. That's one of the most basic facts of security, right up there with controlling access and running regular audits. Sending unencrypted data between two points would be tantamount to walking through a windstorm bearing an open briefcase filled with privileged documents.
Unfortunately, while traditional encryption methods are perfectly capable of protecting our information, they're anything but perfect. There are glitches. There are flaws, exploits, and backdoors. As the recent Heartbleed scandal so-unnervingly revealed to us, our information may not be quite as safe and secure as we think it is.
Cloud Vs. Dedicated Server: Which Is Right For Your Site?
Over the last few years "the cloud" industry has been on a serious marketing blitz. The basic aim of cloud marketing is to convince consumers that whatever their question, the cloud is the right answer. That makes sense for cloud vendors, but it's not clear that the cloud is always the right choice for site owners. In this article, I want to think about whether the cloud is the right solution for a moderate to high-traffic websites and eCommerce stores. I'll lay my cards on the table: for the vast majority of websites of the type we're talking about, I think a dedicated server is a much better choice. Here's why.
If you're new to the world of web hosting, selecting the right plan for your business can be more than a little overwhelming. There are many factors that go into determining which hosting option is best for an organization, and they vary by the client. Confronted with an overwhelming array of choices, how does one avoid making an incorrect – and costly – mistake?
At the end of the day, it's ultimately about understanding what your business needs. What are you planning to use your hosting plan for? And just as important, what sort of budget is available to you?
If you're running an unmanaged VPS instance that deals with sensitive data or private information, it goes without saying that you want to keep it as secure as possible. As a server administrator, there are a few basic measures you should take to ensure the information you're dealing with stays securely in your hands. Ignore these procedures at your own peril, as they are the key to protecting your VPS.
One of the most significant challenges in web hosting is calculating how much bandwidth your website needs. Give yourself too little, and your website's performance will drag down to a crawl under heavy load. Too much, and you're unnecessarily funneling away money that could be going elsewhere. Accurate estimation of your bandwidth requirements is a must if you're to strike a balance between cost and performance.
Thankfully, this isn't all that difficult to do…provided you know which questions to ask.
Given the number of hosting options available, it's no surprise that some organizations have a bit of difficulty choosing the one that's right for them. How can one tell which choice is best-suited for their needs? How can one avoid an incorrect choice, and a costly mistake?
It's all about knowing what your business's needs are. If you're a small to mid-sized business with a fairly well-trafficked website, there's a good chance that shared hosting isn't for you – and an equally good chance that you aren't quite large enough to justify a dedicated server hosting plan. Unless you're running a series of incredibly resource-intensive web apps, it's quite likely that a virtual private server is the perfect choice.
Given that there's not exactly a dearth of hosting options available, it can sometimes be difficult to determine which is the best choice. While making the wrong choice probably won't cause an business to collapse, it could still result in a lost revenue. Knowing the difference between the different breeds of hosting is the first step towards making the right one.
In theory, every site on the Internet is accessible to every user. Packets flow across networks from server to browser unhindered — although it won't be like that for long if some companies have their way. Every point on the network is connected to every other point, so in principle it shouldn't matter where a site is hosted: London, Novgorod, and Cape Town are just as reachable from Chicago as anywhere else with a connection.
Unfortunately, physics, and technical and economic realities get in the way of the Utopian view of the Internet. We all know that site speed is important. Slow sites are ineffective, regardless of their purpose. Conversion rates are eroded by poor performance, bounce rates increase, time-on-site takes a dive, and even SEO takes a hit.
Who Actually Owns Your Site's Domain Name?
The Domain Name System is one of the most important components of the Internet's infrastructure. It's what allows websites to use human-readable web addresses rather than hard-to-remember and unbrandable IP numbers. The DNS is responsible for translating domain names into IP addresses, which are then used by machines to route packets of information around the Internet. Site owners are frequently under the impression that they "own" their domain name, but that's not really the case. No one owns domain names; they merely pay for the use of them for a while.
The public deals with domain name registrars, which often take the form of web hosting providers or other entities that provide online services. Users pay registries to register their domain names, but who do they register them with?
Today, I'd like to start with a story. Bill is a website owner whose site is experiencing a period of unprecedented traffic. Unfortunately, his servers were ill-prepared for such a spike; unable to withstand the strain, they've come grinding to a halt. Suddenly, all those users who were discovering or visiting his website are instead being directed to an error page.
It's a catastrophe. Bill knows full well that this has the potential to severely damage his site's reputation; a fact made all the worse by the disheartening knowledge that this whole fiasco was entirely preventable. If he'd made the necessary preparations, he could have weathered the storm and enjoyed his newfound popularity – even if it was only temporary.
So, the next question is clear: how can you prevent this from happening to you? How can you prepare yourself for traffic spikes, while adequately predicting your average required capacity in the process?
Web hosting affiliate programs are a method of revenue generation that allows webmasters to easily generate income from their site.
Even successful sites have trouble generating revenue. Advertising is the most popular monetization strategy, but unless a site generates a large amount of traffic, advertising revenues can be pitiful.
Subscription is an option and it's proven successful for some solo bloggers, Shawn Blanc and Andrew Sullivan are good examples. If a site has a committed community, is home to a popular writer, or provides information of considerable value to a niche audience, then subscription may be a better option than advertising, but it isn't a model that will work for the majority of sites.
Cloud Server vs. Virtual Private Server: Which Is Right For Your Business?
If you're starting a business that isn't in the tech space, you probably don't have a lot of experience with web hosting. In recent years the industry has fragmented, with many new product categories coming to market — a process driven by the advent of the cloud.
There are true cloud solutions, cloud washing: presenting traditional hosting products as if they were cloud products, various sorts of virtualized servers, and of course good old fashioned shared hosting and dedicated servers.
If you don't have a lot of experience with web hosting, it can be tricky to navigate the strengths and weaknesses of various products, separate the genuine benefits from the marketing hype, and make a choice that is right for your business.
If any of you have ever ventured in the basement of a small or medium business over the past couple of decades, you'll have no doubt noticed a creaky old piece of equipment lurking down there, faithfully — or quite often, not faithfully — managing telephony for the business.
Anyone who has ever used Skype knows what VoIP is. Instead of sending phone calls directly over the lines, conversations are converted into data packets and transmitted over the Internet. The result is a much more flexible, economical, and reliable way to manage a business's telephony infrastructure.
It's a nightmare scenario for webmasters. You wake up one morning to an inbox full of worried users complaining that Google Chrome is showing them a big red malware warning when they try to visit your site or an email from Google itself via Webmaster Tools letting you know that they've identified malicious code on some of your pages.
Obviously, that can be bad for site's reputation and it can seriously impact traffic as Google stops sending search users. But, the biggest concern is ridding the site of malware and removing the vulnerability that allowed hackers to place malicious code on the site in the first place. I've heard many stories of frantic webmasters trying to clean out their site, only to be told again and again that they have failed to remove the malware.
DropBox is an enormously useful service that has all sorts of different uses for businesses and individuals alike. In principle, what it does is fairly simple, syncing one or more folders to a cloud service and from there to as many devices as users choose to connect. That ability, coupled with the ubiquity of mobile devices and the need to share data between numerous different people has made DropBox one of the cornerstones of the cloud computing revolution.
However, not everyone is satisfied with the idea of sharing their data with a third-party service and relying on that service to keep it safe. While DropBox is relatively secure, that's often not good enough for businesses who have to adhere to regulatory requirements, who want to keep their data private, or who just dislike the idea of putting all their eggs in one basket under the control of someone else.
BitTorrent Sync is a new service from the minds that created the BitTorrent file sharing protocol that implements a way to sync folders without the need for a third-party service. One drawback of BitTorrent Sync is that, although it is capable of syncing data between multiple devices, without the cloud component, if those devices are lost, stolen, or simply turned off, there's no way to continue to sync the data. However, if you set up BitTorrent sync on a Virtual Private Server, you get the best of both worlds: a private, always-on syncing service over which you have complete control.
The technology works similarly to the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol, with each of the connected devices acting as both server and a client to efficiently transfer data. One of the most important aspects of the Sync protocol is its security. BitTorrent Sync encrypts all transfers between devices with an AES cipher and a secure 256 bit key. BitTorrent Sync works very well on a Linux VPS and has client software for Linux, Windows, Android, and iOS.
In addition to straightforward syncing of data between multiple devices, the service also has some handy additional features for security conscious users, including read-only access where data will sync to a device, but changes on that device will not affect other devices, and one-time secrets, which provide single use access to a folder.
If you want to set-up your own DropBox replacement, you'll need a Linux Virtual Private Server with the appropriate version of BitTorrent Sync installed. There's a great tutorial for setting up Sync with Linux, and you can find full instructions for using the service on the BittTorrent Sync site.
For most modern businesses, data is either their product or an essential component in the design, creation, sale, and marketing of their products. Catastrophic data loss almost always means lost revenue. Every system administrator, IT technician, and executive knows that maintaining regular backups is strictly necessary for ensuring business continuity.
A recent study found that data loss accounted $400 million in lost revenues annually, and troublingly showed that much of that data loss was preventable. A survey conducted by Carbonite revealed that half of small businesses are hit by data loss, with inadequate backups being the most frequently cited cause. Furthermore, many of the businesses that suffer irretrievable data loss are immediately put out of business, with a significant proportion failing after two years. Having adequate and well-tested backups is a crucial part of business continuity planning.
However, backups come in various different forms. Traditionally, backups have been made daily, weekly, or even monthly. In the even of a hardware failure, data in the period between backups can be lost, and frequently that means work that was done in that period is rendered worthless. Lost data equates to lost man-hours and lost opportunities for revenue.
There is an alternative to atomic periodic backups: continuous data protection. Unlike with traditional backups, continuous data protection (CDP) strategies use an approach that results in much more finely grained backups.
CDP works by incrementally capturing changes to data as they are made, rather than gathering the sum of those changes and creating a copy of the original data. Capturing just the deltas results in numerous benefits, including the ability to roll-back to a previous state, lower bandwidth requirements, and more efficient use of backup storage — there's no need to replicate 1 GB if only 1 Byte has changed on the disk.
Continuous data protection is often usefully used with MySQL to prevent data loss. CDP for MySQL is an effective method for preventing data loss because of hardware failure and it ensures that there is minimal business interruption even in the case of a catastrophic failure.
CDP is not a replacement for atomic backups and should not be relied on as a business's sole backup method. There should always be multiple backups of important data, including on-site and off-site backups in concert with continuous data protection, but CDP provides an additional level of protection and the assurance that data loss can be limited to a very small period of time.
Future Hosting's Future Protect automated backup solution uses continuous data protection technology to ensure that client's data is always available and up-to-date in the case of a node failure.
Shared Hosting vs. VPS: Which Is Right For Your Business?
Choosing a hosting plan is one of the most important decisions that a new business can make. It can have an impact on both short- and long-term online strategy, investment, scalability, and agility. Those looking for new hosting have a number of fundamental plan types to choose from: shared hosting, virtual private servers, dedicated servers, and cloud hosting. Each has specific benefits and limitations, so it's important to make the right choice.
Small and medium business that don't expect the sort of site load that would require dedicated servers often choose between shared hosting and a virtual private server for their initial site development and launch. Both provide an excellent hosting platform in specific circumstances, and choosing between them is not always easy, so we'd like to help you to make the right decision.
Suppose there was a single strand of perfect fiber optic cable that stretched all the way around the world and ended up back where it started. How long would it take a signal to circumnavigate the world through the cable and end up back at its point of origin?
Light is very fast. In a vacuum it travels at about 186,282 miles per second. In fiber optic cable, because of the refractive index of the material, it travels more slowly: approximately 124,188 miles per second. The Earth's circumference is 24,901 miles. So, in our world-spanning cable, light would complete its journey in about 0.2 seconds. In a perfect world, you could transmit a signal to the other side of the world and back again in a fifth of a second. Unfortunately, reality does not match the theory, and on the real Internet, there are many obstacles through which a signal has to pass before it gets to where it's going and back again.
Future Hosting (futurehosting.com), a web services provider renowned for their virtual and dedicated hosting services, has announced a partnership with InterWorx (interworx.com) web hosting control panel. Through this alliance, Future Hosting adds a unique new option for virtual, hybrid, and dedicated servers pre-loaded and licensed with the Internet's most popular web-based solution for instant server clustering.
With the immediate ability to license InterWorx, Future Hosting's administrators, resellers, and clients are given access to an extensive array of features that automate otherwise difficult and tedious tasks. At the forefront of this feature set is the software's unique ability to scale out high-performance server clusters, and manage servers via powerful web-based, command-line, and API interfaces.
InterWorx Control Panel is to be made available effective immediately with all Future Hosting server products. For InterWorx server hosting options at Future Hosting, visit http://www.futurehosting.com.
Founded in 2001, Future Hosting is a privately held leading Internet solutions provider specializing in managed hosting, including Dedicated Servers, Virtual Private Servers, and Hybrid Virtual Private Servers. The company has built a strong reputation for its high-quality service, innovative pricing models, and 3-hour Service Level Agreement. Future Hosting is based in Novi, Mich. For more information, visit http://www.futurehosting.com.
InterWorx, LLC is a Pittsburgh, PA-based software development company celebrated for authoring the InterWorx Control Panel. The InterWorx Control Panel is a powerful web-based solution for managing web hosting servers, equipped with unique features such as load-balanced server clustering, dense real-time reporting, maintenance of system services, customer account management, and much more. For more details, and a demo of what the InterWorx Control Panel can do for your organization, visit http://www.interworx.com.
Future Hosting Grows Global Footprint with Hybrid Servers in Chicago, Washington, D.C.
NOVI, Mich. (July 26, 2010) – Future Hosting, an Internet solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises internationally and developer of Future Engineer™, today introduced Hybrid Servers in Chicago and Washington, D.C., further expanding the company's global footprint. Hybrid Servers are also available in London and Dallas, allowing clients to now choose from four international cities.
Hybrid Servers from Future Hosting are unique, high-end Virtual Private Servers that deliver full management, high-availability, premium bandwidth, and access to either the cPanel or Plesk hosting control panel. Unlike standard Virtual Private Servers, Hybrid Servers offer an average of 1 CPU core per Hybrid Server and high-performance RAM, disk storage, and network connectivity.
"Offering truly global solutions for our clients remains a strategic goal for Future Hosting. In the past two years alone, we have more than quadrupled our international presence, and created the ability to offer full-service hosting solutions for companies based in the United States and abroad. By adding Hybrid Servers to two new major American cities, we are fulfilling our commitment to continuously build geographic diversity in our services and open the door to even further expansion in the months ahead. This is one more step in our march to globalization," said Future Hosting Chief Strategy Officer Stephen Kowalski.
Hybrid Servers from Future Hosting are automatically backed up by the company's next-generation Future Protect™ data protection service, which delivers the ultimate in protection against data loss. Starting Hybrid Server plans offer 80GB of disk space, 2GB of RAM, and 2000GB of premium bandwidth. All Hybrid Servers include SLA uptime of at least 99.9%.
In early July, Future Hosting added complete DNS management functionality to the Future Hosting Management Portal (FHMP), which provides dedicated server clients with complete control of their servers. FHMP is slated to eventually incorporate Hybrid servers, further enhancing user control.
For more information about Hybrid Servers from Future Hosting, please visit http://www.futurehosting.com/managed-hybrid-servers.
Founded in 2001, Future Hosting is a privately held leading Internet solutions provider specializing in managed hosting, including Dedicated Servers, Virtual Private Servers, and Hybrid Virtual Private Servers. The company has built a strong reputation for its high-quality service, innovative pricing models, and value-added features. Future Hosting is based in Novi, Mich.


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Q: How can I access properties of Java Objects passed to scriptEngine? I am passing an object to a scriptEngine using the engine.put() method, and am attempting to retrieve a property of said object using the engine.eval() method. However I can't seem to access them as the object seems to lose its methods when put in the engine, and the get() method I'd normally use in Javascript also seems to fail.
try {
   ScriptEngine engine = new ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName("graal.js");
   engine.put("transformContext",transformContext);
   engine.put("dataRecordsByName",transformContext.getDataRecordsByName());

   //These three all return what I'm expecting - 2x the whole object and then just dataRecordsByName property
   System.out.println(engine.get(transformContext));
   System.out.println(engine.eval("print(transformContext"));
   System.out.println(engine.get(dataRecordsByName));

   //These throw errors get() and getDataRecordsByName() seemingly do not exist for transformContext in the engine
   System.out.println(engine.eval("print(transformContext.getDataRecordsByName())"));
   System.out.println(engine.eval("print(transformContext.get('dataRecordsByName'))"));

}catch(Exception e){
   System.err.println("Error evaluating script: "+e.getMessage());
}

I have read that scriptEngine only imports public methods from public classes. In this case though TransformContext is public as are all its methods, so that should be fine?
Any help understanding this or a solution would be appreciated.

A: After some further research it seems that graal.js does not map properties as you may expect by default, but can do so if you run it in nashorn compatability mode.
System.setProperty("polyglot.js.nashorn-compat", "true");
After doing this, you can retrieve the object properties as you normally would in JavaScript:
engine.eval("console.log(transformContext.dataRecordsByName)");
Thanks to the guys on this thread:
https://github.com/oracle/graaljs/issues/169

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Frazer Automobile History
Greg Zyla
Q: How about telling me what you thought of the Frazer automobiles? My friend has one that allowed the trunk to turn into a spacious cargo area. I know they weren't in business long. Fred L., happily retired in Massachusetts.
A: As for those Frazer cars, the company came into existence thanks to Joseph Washington Frazer, a noted descendent of the original "Washington" family from Virginia (yes, President George was related!)
Frazer had previous successful experience with Pierce Arrow, Packard, Chrysler and General Motors. He met Henry J. Kaiser in the early 1940s and the two formed a new car company called Kaiser-Frazer in July of 1945.
Since the war was still going on and the car companies were building tanks, Jeeps and other major war components, the duo decided to introduce the first post WWII vehicle in 1947 called the Frazer, while a less expensive model, called Kaiser, would also be available in similar design with less trimmings.
The 123.5-inch wheelbase Frazer models came in upscale Manhattan and the entry Frazer, which only had Frazer badges for identification. Frazers received power from a 226-inch flathead six cylinder producing 110 or 112 horses.
Kaisers, meanwhile, had to make a quick u-turn during production. They were supposed to come in a front drive, 117-inch wheelbase motif with an 85-horse flathead six (see advertisement). However, the idea was scrapped when costs became unsustainable and the Kaiser mirrored the Frazer mechanically when it arrived in 1947.
Overall, the exterior design was, for the day, impressive with the all-new fender design that interacted with the hood instead of differentiating. Some of the car's appearance work came from noted Kaiser Darrin sports car stylist Howard Darrin, who many hold in the same "design esteem class" as GM's noted creator Harley Earl. The interior featured the widest front seat to date in the industry.
At about $2,695 for the Manhattan and $2,295 for the regular Frazer, the cars were in no way cheap. In comparison, Kaiser's entry level Special initially cost $1,868, but the price quickly went to $2,105 due to manufacture price demands. The Kaiser Custom upgrade model cost $2,456, which was far from an entry level 1947 Chevy Town Sedan, which cost only $1,219 to park in your driveway.
Surprisingly, sales were great for both Frazer and Kaiser in 1947, and the company made an estimated $72-million on total sales of 68,700 for the Frazer and 70,500 for the Kaiser.
Sadly, the two principals parted ways in 1949 following Kaiser's demands not to implement Frazer's ideas for a new vehicle with more aerodynamics and Darrin's influence. By 1951, the Henry J was in production as "the new small Kaiser brainstorm," while the final Frazer was sold in 1951. (See my previous column on the company's "First Ever Hatchback").
Thanks for your question and may God bless you in your retirement.
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My sons recently started talking about being cool, and I recalled my own teenage years and the need to be cool.
That driving desire dictated the clothes I wore, the music I listened to, and what subjects I became conversant in. And, yet despite all my motivation and effort, it remained elusive.
I met her when my friend Tony started dating Becky, the wildest of her children, and I dated Becky's best friend. It was while Tony and I waited for our dates to get ready that I learned what an amazing conversationalist Mrs. Healan was. She would talk of her family and friends, of movies and novels. Pleasant stories that had no impact on my life or the world, and yet they were irresistibly soothing and peaceful. Meanwhile, with five rambunctious kids and their friends, hers was the house on the street where everything happened. It was a tumultuous environment of laughter one moment and tears the next as young personalities came together and clashed. Nothing ever seemed to rattle Mrs. Healan, she was always calm and relaxed.
Tony and Becky didn't last very long, but I refused to give up those wonderful conversations and started showing up just to hang out. Over the years, I realized that whenever my own life got a little stressed, I was drawn to the Healan household. Once there, I would just sit and listen to Mrs. Healan's stories and absorb her serene energy. I was rejuvenated by her presence.
A few years ago she died of lung cancer. Frances was never a smoker, but a critical spot on her lung was missed on a routine chest xray. Her oncologist said that if he'd seen the xray when it was taken he could have saved her life. Despite that Frances Healan was never bitter.
Even though I had not seen her in years, her children called me to visit on her last day. When I arrived, her daughter Judy said, "Look Mama, it's Bobby Wilson." Mrs. Healan raised her head and said, "Bobby Wilson! Who's dying?" We all laughed. That moment sums up her life for me.
Facing death she maintained her sense of humor. She was quite simply the coolest person I've ever known.


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Delta-8 THC Causes Regulation Revisions in Multiple States
Delta-8-THC has been popping up in headlines as states respond to murky legalities in the cannabis and hemp industries. The average cannabis user may be more familiar with Delta-9-THC, the infamous psychoactive component of the cannabis plant. Similar in molecular structure to Delta-9, Delta-8-THC is another cannabinoid in the cannabis plant, normally found in trace amounts. However, with the advanced lab capabilities of our standardized industry, manufacturers have discovered a way to convert hemp-derived CBD isolate and create large amounts of Delta-8-THC and other THC isomers. This has boomed a huge revenue stream for industrial hemp farmers, who isolate these various cannabinoids and sell them in bulk to the wholesale market.
Under a microscope, Delta-8-THC and Delta-9-THC are identical cannabinoids just arranged in a different order. They both contain a double bond on their carbon chain, making them both psychoactive. The effects they produce, overall, are similar. Some small studies have suggested that Delta-8-THC is slightly less potent than Delta-9, but further research needs to be conducted in this area to be conclusive. While some have referred to Delta-8 as the cousin of Delta-9, it seems on a microscopic level they are more like fraternal twins. With much to still be discovered about the effects of Delta-8 and other THC isomers, many States have begun creating and revising regulations.
The current Farm Bill, written to legalize the growth and use of hemp products in 2018, states that hemp products can be cultivated and sold as long as they contain less than .3% Delta-9-THC. This Delta-9 specification paved the way for the Delta-8-THC loophole, allowing many hemp manufacturers to begin creating and wholesaling Delta-8-THC isolate on a massive scale. While Delta-9-THC was under strict federal regulation, these other THC isomers were not on the radar.
In May 2021, the Department of Public Health and Environment in Colorado provided a notice stating, "converting any naturally occurring cannabinoids from industrial hemp is non-compliant with the statutory definition of "industrial hemp product." The State Department made the argument that the "Delta-8 loophole" was not a loophole at all but rather a misunderstanding of the law. Hemp-derived Delta-8 THC and other isomers of Delta-9 are currently banned from production in Colorado, with some hemp farmers fighting back and taking the argument to Washington D.C.
New York, a newly legalized state, is also revising their current regulation to prohibit the creation of synthetic THC isomers derived from hemp products. The new proposed rule has raised many questions around the parameters of the prohibition, leaving many current Delta-8 retailers wondering what the next move is. The proposed update is open for public comment until July 19, after which it will be revised and officially adopted into regulation.
Ohio also takes action, with the Department of Commerce issuing new guidance that all licensed cannabis products must list on the label if Delta-8-THC content is present. Processors will have to be transparent to the State and the consumer about how Delta-8 is being used and which products contain it. This transparency, however, does not apply to the plethora of other hemp CBD products sold in smoke shops and gas stations that have already begun to incorporate Delta-8-THC into their ingredients. Instead of mirroring Colorado and New York, the Ohio Department of Agriculture states it will wait for the DEA before making any major prohibition moves against the hemp industry.
It is still unclear whether we will see sweeping federal regulation over these THC isomers. Demanding more clarification from Washington D.C. surrounding the Farm Bill will either halt Delta-8-THC production immediately for hemp farmers or prove the loophole to hold weight. New research into the specific effects of these THC isomers will also shed light on how they could be used, but if we follow historical trends, with psycho-activity comes regulation.
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Everything We Know About Britney Spears' 'Glory' Album So Far, Besides The Title
By Amy Roberts
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If, like me, the wondrous back catalogue of Britney Spears is your music of choice after a few too many glasses of white wine, then the fact that Britney announced the release date of her new album, along with its title and artwork, on Twitter, is as amazing news to you as it is to me. Bearing the spirited name of Glory, Spears' new album is scheduled for release on August 26, and, if the glowing, alluring cover art for the album is anything to go by, it's going to be hot. In the lead up to the release, information concerning the track list and its overall sound has been hinted at and teased via interviews with several people involved in the production. So what can fans expect from Britney's new album? Do we know anything about it at all?
Why yes, yes we do. In fact, we probably know more about it at this point than you'd think. With the first track from the album, "Make Me" having been released in July, it's comforting to know that Spears hasn't changed her overall sound at all. The song brings some seductive summer vibes and sex positive empowerment to the table, and I can only hope that Glory will be just as sumptuous and poppy as her previous works (and perhaps twice as fierce).
But what else can we expect? Here's everything we know about Glory so far:
1. The Album Will Feature The Song "Private Show"
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In July, Spears released the commercial for her new perfume, Private Show, which featured (you guessed it) a teasing glimpse at the song. Speaking exclusively to Entertainment Tonight, the singer confirmed that the song will feature on Glory,
'Private Show' is inevitably a sexy song and it promotes feeling sexy and girls feeling alive and I think that's fun for girls.
Considering that "Make Me" is also undoubtedly a song which celebrates women owning and celebrating their sexuality, it could be that Glory is an album built around this concept. After all, what's more glorious than feeling comfortable with your sexuality and having fun with it?
2. It May Take Inspiration From The Weeknd
In an interview with the Las Vegas Sun podcast, Spears' longtime manager Larry Rudolph implied that her new album might sound like The Weeknd, by stepping up its musical vibes to deliver the same seductive R&B and poppy nuances,
It's different, it's a turn. The last few albums have been pretty straightforward pop. This is almost like if you can imagine Britney meets The Weeknd. It's got a really interesting vibe, it's a lot of really cool stuff.
I can totally hear it in my head, and it sounds amazing. If Glory does happen to sound anything like The Weeknd, then Spears' vocals will perfectly slay that sound.
3. Britney Thinks Glory Features The Best Music She's Made In A Long Time
Back in March, Spears gave an insightful interview with V Magazine in which she discussed the development of her upcoming album, and how it might defy expectations of her — in a good way. Stating that she wasn't "rushing anything" and wanted it "to be done right," specifically to please her fans, she elaborated:
Honestly, I'm just particular with this record. It's my baby, and so I really want it done right. I would much rather have it be completely how I want it to be, whether that takes another year for me to do, or two months. I have no idea at this point. But I just know that the direction I'm going in is so good. It's the best thing I've done in a long time. I'm proud of the work, and it's very different; it's not what you would think at all.
4. DJ Mustard Has Produced A Song For It (And It Sounds Cinematic)
Back in 2015, R&B and Hip Hop music producer DJ Mustard (who produced several songs on Rihanna's Anti), announced to ThisIsMax that he'd been collaborating on a song with Spears for her new album. In the interview, he described the process as being, "Harder than hard. It's a movie." A later interview with Billboard saw him describing the track as being "a super big hit" and a "motion picture." Color me intrigued, fella. With all these terms being thrown around comparing the song to some kind of cinematic oeuvre, I can't help but wonder whether such a tune has been developed for the endgame of a massive music video release. Anything that will allow us to enjoy throwback vibes to Crossroads, I beg of you.
5. The Album May Feature Some Supreme Songwriting Talents
Back in July 2015, Idolator announced a studio session between Britney and the esteemed songwriters Ian Kirkpatrick, Simon Wilcox, and Chantal Kreviazuk. Kirkpatrick is notable for having worked on some of Jason Derulo's biggest hits (like "Want to Want Me"), Wilcox was a contributing songwriter on Nick Jonas' colossal hit "Jealous," and Kreviazuk has co-written songs with artists like Jennifer Lopez and Gwen Stefani. So far, so very pop perfection right? But it gets better.
In October 2015, Spears also collaborated with hit British songwriter Burns (who has written for Ellie Goulding) and the amazing Mischke (who has worked with Little Mix and, astoundingly, Michael Jackson). Then, just to throw an entire box of damn cherries on top of that already perfect cake, the pop star sent fans hearts racing when she posted a picture to Twitter of her in the studio with hit makers Justin Tranter and Julia Michaels.
If you're currently sat there bellowing, who? at your screen, then let me explain them in terms you'll definitely understand: Justin Bieber's "Sorry", Gwen Stefani's "Make Me Like You" and Selena Gomez's "Hands to Myself." That's right: they're the unstoppable songwriting duo behind those songs. I think it's safe to say that Spears is in safe hands with all these guys, right?
Like, let's just be honest about this right now — Glory is going to be phenomenal, right guys? I believe in Spears, first and foremost, but, if all of the buzz, production details, and the first few glimpses of songs are anything to go by, then this album is going to be something else. I'm definitely getting a few bottles of white wine in for August 26 in preparation of its arrival.
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'When a supplier let our client down at the last minute, we were delighted to be able to help. Producing a supply of highly technical blister-pack booklets in just seven days from the first contact meant that the trial could go ahead as planned.'
The subject of this study is a well-known company which conducts clinical trials.
They came to Piroto with a specific problem that needed to be resolved in a very tight timescale as their existing label supplier had let them down badly.
The Customer's Challenge
With an important clinical study imminent, our customer's existing booklet label supplier admitted that they were unable to deliver promised supplies as they did not have the technical capability to meet the customer's exacting specification.
The customer required a multi-page label that could be applied directly to a blister pack of pills. Importantly, the label had to stay fixed to the blister pack throughout its useable life, regardless of how many pills had been dispensed, and had to be capable of carrying a standard booklet label.
Piroto despatched two members of our specialist technical team to the customer's site the next day and, together with the customer, drew up a clear and precise brief for the label.
Under considerable time pressure our team were able to redesign the label to meet the customer's requirements, produce mock-ups and proofs which were quickly approved by the customer, and manufacture the labels. The finished product was delivered on site within seven days of the first call!
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Today is Friday the 13th. Even though, it is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition, it's been a good one for us! ISH is almost over and we couldn't be more excited with all the happenings in Frankfurt. After longs days and a ton of hard work from all our team, it's safe to say it was a success.
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Q: Count how many time each Char is in a txt file in C# I have a school homework, where I need to count how many times each letter is in a txt file, I can't use a dictionary and can't use LinQ, I then need to put it in order alphabetically, and in order of iterations.
string = "hello world"

output =

D=1
E=1
H=1
L=3
O=2
R=1
W=1

L=3
O=2
D=1
E=1
H=1
R=1
W=1

What I have so far works just for the order alphabetically , not for the itterations.
public void testChar() {

  string text = File.ReadAllText(@ "C:\Ecole\Session 2\Prog\Bloc 4\test.txt")?.ToUpper();

  text = Regex.Replace(text, @ "[^a-zA-Z]", "");

  List < char > listChar = new List < char > ();

  foreach(char lettre in text) {
    listChar.Add(lettre);
  }

  int countPosition = 0;

  List < int > position = new List < int > ();

  listOfChar.Add(listChar[0]);

  listOfRepetitions.Add(1);

  position.Add(countPosition);

  int jumpFirstItteration = 0;

  foreach(var item in listChar) {
    if (jumpFirstItteration == 0) {
      jumpFirstItteration++;

    }

    if (listOfChar.Contains(item)) {
      int pos = listOfChar.IndexOf(item);
      listOfRepetitions[pos] += 1;

    } else if (!listOfChar.Contains(item)) {

      listOfChar.Add(item);
      listOfRepetitions.Add(1);

      countPosition++;
      position.Add(countPosition);

    }

  }

}

Please help :D

A: The canonical way of computing a concordance is to use an array of integers for counting the letters, the same size as the number of different letters in the text - in this case, just the normal uppercase alphabetic characters A-Z.
Then you iterate through the uppercased letters and if they are in range, increment the count corresponding to that letter.
To simplify this you can make two observations:

*

*To convert a letter to an index, just subtract 'A' from the character code.

*To convert an index to a letter, just add 'A' to the index and cast the result back to a char. (The cast is necessary because the result of adding an int to a char is an int, not a char.)

Once you've done that, you'll have all the counts for the characters in alphabetical order. However, you also need the  letters in order of frequency of occurrence. To compute that, you can use an overload of Array.Sort() that takes two arrays: The first parameter is an array to sort, and the second parameter is an array to sort in the same way as the first array.
If you pass the array of counts as the first array, and an array of all the letters being counted in alphabetical order as the second array (i.e. the letters A..Z) then after sorting the second array will give you the letters in the correct order to display with the first array.
Putting all that together:
public void testChar()
{
    string filename    = @"C:\Ecole\Session 2\Prog\Bloc 4\test.txt";
    string text        = File.ReadAllText(filename).ToUpper();
    int[]  concordance = new int[26]; // 26 different letters of the alphabet to count.

    foreach (char c in text)
    {
        int index = c - 'A';  // A..Z will convert to 0..25; other chars will be outside that range.

        if (index >= 0 && index < 26)
            ++concordance[index];
    }

    // Display frequency in alphabetic order, omitting chars with 0 occurances.
    for (int i = 0; i < concordance.Length; ++i)
    {
        if (concordance[i] > 0)
            Console.WriteLine($"{(char)('A'+i)} = {concordance[i]}");
    }

    Console.WriteLine();

    // For sorting by frequency we need another array of chars A..Z in alphabetical order.
    char[] aToZ = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ".ToCharArray();
    Array.Sort(concordance, aToZ);

    // Display frequency in occurance order, omitting chars with 0 occurances.
    for (int i = 0; i < concordance.Length; ++i)
    {
        if (concordance[i] > 0)
            Console.WriteLine($"{aToZ[i]} = {concordance[i]}");
    }
}

A: maybe add something like a sort function?
    position.sort((a,b)=> if a < b return 1; if a > b return -1; return 0;)

This would be a normal sorting function based on their integer value, but since you are dealing with a list, it becomes a little more tedious.
    position.sort((a,b)=> if a[i] < b[i] return 1; if a[i] > b[i] return -1; return 0;)

where i the index of integers to be compared
Forgive me, I come from java

A: A few suggestions that may come in handy.
You could build a container (the CharInfo class object here), to store the information you collect about each char found, it's position and how many times it's found in your text file.
This class container implements IComparable (the comparer just tests the char value, as an integer, against the char value of another object).
This makes it simple to sort a List<CharInfo>, just calling its Sort() method:
public class CharInfo : IComparable<CharInfo>
{
    public CharInfo(char letter, int position) {
        Character = letter;
        Positions.Add(position);
    }

    public char Character { get; }
    public int Occurrences { get; set; } = 1;
    public List<int> Positions { get; } = new List<int>();
    public static List<string> CharsFound { get; } = new List<string>();

    public int CompareTo(CharInfo other) => this.Character - other.Character;
}

Since you can use the Regex class, you can then use Regex.Matches() to return all characters in the [a-zA-Z] range. Each Match object also stores the position where the character was found.
(As a note, you could just use the Matches collection and GroupBy() the results, but you cannot use LINQ and the other suggestions would just be mute :)
Looping the Matches collection, you test whether a char is already present in the list; if it is, add 1 to the Occurrences Property and add its position to the Positions Property.
If it's not already there, add a new CharInfo object to the collection. The constructor of the class takes a char and a position. The Occurrences Property defaults to 1 (you create a new CharInfo because you have found a new char, which is occurrence n° 1).
In the end, just Sort() the collection using its custom comparer. Sort() will call the IComparable.CompareTo() method of the class.
string text = File.ReadAllText([File Path]);
var matches = Regex.Matches(text, @"[a-zA-Z]", RegexOptions.Multiline);
var charsInfo = new List<CharInfo>();

foreach (Match m in matches) {
    int pos = CharInfo.CharsFound.IndexOf(m.Value);
    if (pos >= 0) {
        charsInfo[pos].Occurrences += 1;
        charsInfo[pos].Positions.Add(m.Index);
    }
    else {
        CharInfo.CharsFound.Add(m.Value);
        charsInfo.Add(new CharInfo(m.Value[0], m.Index));
    }
}

// Sort the List<CharInfo> using the provided comparer
charsInfo.Sort();

*

*Call CharInfo.CharsFound.Clear() before you search another text file.

You can then print the results as:
foreach (var chInfo in charsInfo) {
    Console.WriteLine(
        $"Char: {chInfo.Character} " +
        $"Occurrences: {chInfo.Occurrences} " +
        $"Positions: {string.Join(",", chInfo.Positions)}");
}

Note that upper and lower case chars are treated as distinct elements.
Modify as required.

A: Not necessarilly the most efficient, but works.
First, a simple letter class thant can compare its properies.
 public class Letter
    {
        public char Symbole { get; set; }
        public int Frequency { get; set; }

        public int CompareLetter(object obj)
        {
            Letter other = obj as Letter;

            if (other == null) return 1;

            return this.Symbole.CompareTo(other.Symbole);
        }
        public int CompareFrequency(object obj)
        {
            Letter other = obj as Letter;

            if (other == null) return 1;

            return this.Frequency.CompareTo(other.Frequency);
        }
    }

Then a method to populate a List of Letter
 public static List<Letter> ReturnLettersCount(string fileName)
        {
            string text;
            List<Letter> letters = new List<Letter>();

            using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(fileName))
            {
                text = sr.ReadToEnd().ToLower();
            }

            foreach (char c in text)
            {
                if (char.IsLetter(c))
                {
                    Letter letter = letters.Find((letter) => letter.Symbole == c);
                    if (letter == null)
                    {
                        letters.Add(new Letter() { Symbole = c, Frequency = 1 });
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        letter.Frequency++;
                    }
                }
            }

            return letters;
        }

And a user code
static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string fileName = @"path\to\your\textFile.txt";

            List<Letter> letters = ReturnLettersCount(fileName);

            letters.Sort( (a, b) => a.CompareLetter(b) );
            foreach(Letter letter in letters)
            {
                Console.WriteLine($"{letter.Symbole}: {letter.Frequency}");
            }

            Console.WriteLine("--------------------------");

            letters.Sort((b, a) => a.CompareFrequency(b));
            foreach (Letter letter in letters)
            {
                Console.WriteLine($"{letter.Symbole}: {letter.Frequency}");
            }

        }

A: Without Linq and Dictionary it's like walking by foot to the grocery 20 miles away. ;)
//C# vs >= 8.0
using System;
using Entry = System.Collections.Generic.KeyValuePair<char, int>;

   // class header ...
    public static void Sort() {

        var text    = "hello world";
        var contest = new System.Collections.Generic.List<Entry>(text.Length);

        foreach (var c in text) {
            if (!char.IsLetter(c)) {
                continue;
            }
            var i = contest.FindIndex(kv => kv.Key == c);
            if (i < 0) {
                contest.Add(new(c, 1));
            }
            else {
                contest[i] = new(c, contest[i].Value + 1);
            }
        }

        contest.Sort((e1, e2) => e1.Key - e2.Key);
        Console.Write("\n{0}\n\n", string.Join('\n', contest));

        contest.Sort((e1, e2) => e2.Value - e1.Value);
        Console.Write("\n{0}\n\n", string.Join('\n', contest));
    }


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When people first look at Larson's publications concerning the Reciprocal System (RS), they find a conceptually different model from what they've been taught all their life and think it is something new and outrageous. But, when you take a detailed look at what Larson proposes for his theory, it is actually nothing more than an ancient philosophy--that of yin-yang--using modern, scientific terms. Yang is replaced by space and yin by time. One of the elementary principles of yin-yang is that yin can never be separated from yang (hence, the taijitu symbol). Larson says the same thing, but with a more mathematical jargon: space and time are the aspects of the ratio of motion--you can't have a ratio without BOTH a numerator and denominator!
A universe based on the concept of motion, is the Tao of Larson.
The yin-yang symbol has four distinct regions separated by three boundaries within its circle of completeness (7 parts). White represents yang and therefore space, black is time. So just looking at the symbol, one can see that there are both macroscopic and microscopic versions of each of these aspects that interpenetrate each other. Larson does exactly the same thing, four regions defining where motion takes place, contained by three boundaries, to create his "completeness" of the universe of motion.
The design, itself, indicates the interaction between the two aspects (yin-yang, space/time) is dynamic and appears to be spinning--suggesting that the idea of rotational cycles are at the heart of everything. Scalar rotation defines all structure (particles and atoms) in the Reciprocal System.
Also, the boundary between yin-yang is not straight but curved like a wave, suggesting that when space and time rotate, waveforms are being produced (in much the same way that air and water interact to produce surface waves).
The Reciprocal System breaks the universe into two halves, or sectors. This boundary, that wavy line between the yin (time) and yang (space) aspects is called the unit speed boundary and is known to modern science as the speed of light, 299,792,458 meters per second. Larson, however, does not use conventional units like meters and seconds, he uses natural units and that unit speed boundary, the speed of light in natural units, is 1 natural unit of space per natural unit of time, unity.
This unit speed boundary forms the reference speed from which ALL other speeds are measured, whether they be less than unity (sub-light speed) and part of the material sector, or greater than unity (faster-than-light speed) and part of the cosmic sector. Unity is the natural datum of the Reciprocal System--the end of the tape measure that you hook on things, to determine distances--or in the case of the RS, a displacement from unit speed.
Just splitting one, big empty universe up into two, empty halves of space and time does not really accomplish a lot, since neither half has any structure. This is where the other two boundaries come in, and the smaller, opposite-aspect circles with each aspect of yin and yang. When the microcosm of one aspect intrudes into the macrocosm of the other, something happens--we get structure in the form of photons, particles and atoms.
Larson expresses the differences between the macrocosm and microcosm as geometry, separated from each other by a spherical, unit boundary (circular on the 2D drawing of yin-yang).
The macrocosm is translational--it moves in 1-dimensional, straight lines, just as Sir Isaac Newton observed. Translational (linear) motion is unbounded, in that there is no fixed end point--it can go on and on to infinity. It is defined by the first power of speed, velocity (v1).
The microcosm is rotational--it moves in a circle like a satellite orbiting the Earth. Rotational motion is bounded--there IS a fixed end point, which coincides with the start point. It can go round-and-round for an eternity (the time concept of infinity), but always follows the same path. It is defined by the second power of speed (v2), orbital speed.
When a yang (spatial) macrocosm contains a yin (temporal) microcosm, Larson calls that boundary the unit space boundary, because with a natural datum of unity, you cannot have less than 1 unit of space--but you can have more than 1 unit of time in the other aspect--so even though you can have more "time" in that region, you can only have a single unit of space. Hence, "unit space." This is represented by the small, black yin circle within the larger, white region. This defines the structure of matter.
The opposite is also true; yin (temporal) macrocosm can contain yang (spatial) microcosm, separated by the unit time boundary; the small white circle in the larger, black field. This defines the structure of antimatter, or what Larson calls cosmic matter (c-matter).
In conclusion, the taijitu symbol is a complete description of a universe of motion. The little round, rotational microcosm contains bounded structure, present at a location in the translational macrocosm of the opposite aspect. Together, these four regions with three boundaries define the physical universe, by the Tao of Larson.
An excellent summary and a nice refresher, thanks very much!
Thank you very much, this analogy gives an easier approach for understanding it all.
I pass you some related images, food for tought!
If you break those arcs down properly, what you have there is an image of the Periodic Table (Walter Russell style, but pairs well with the RS).
Keely's diagram is very similar, with the "vibration" taking on an independent role.
woww thanks for sharing those!! i'm happy... so let me tell a couple of (bad) jokes, no meant for taking rigouristy away.


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Karin Kneissl, född 18 januari 1965 i Wien i Österrike, är en österrikisk diplomat, politiker och expert på Mellanöstern. Hon var Österrikes utrikes-, Europa- och integrationsminister från 18 december 2017 till  3 juni 2019.

Utbildning
Kneissl tillbringade en del av sin barndom i Jordaniens huvudstad Amman, där hennes far arbetade som pilot åt kung Hussein och deltog i uppbyggandet av det jordanska flygbolaget Alia Airlines.

Åren 1983–1987 studerade hon juridik och arabistik vid Wiens universitet, en utbildning som hon avslutade med juridisk magisterexamen. Under sin ungdoms- och studenttid var hon bland annat aktiv i Amnesty International och understödde även andra internationella miljö- och människorättsorganisationer.

Under arbetet med sin doktorsavhandling i folkrätt om gränsbegreppet i Mellanösternkonflikten gjorde hon efterforskningar vid Hebreiska universitetet i Jerusalem och ett universitet i Amman i Jordanien. Under tiden arbetade hon som volontär på St. Louis French Hospital i Jerusalem och på en bank i Amman. Med ett stipendium studerade hon 1989–1991 på Center for Contemporary Arab Studies vid Georgetown University i Washington. Därefter studerade hon 1991–1992 vid École nationale d'administration i Paris. År 1992 lade hon fram sin avhandling vid universitetet i Wien och promoverades till Doctor iuris.

Kneissl talar förutom sitt modersmål tyska även engelska, franska, arabiska, spanska och italienska. Hon har också grundläggande kunskaper i hebreiska och ungerska.

Yrkesliv
År 1990 inträdde hon i diplomatisk tjänst i Bundesministerium für auswärtige Angelegenheiten (utrikesministeriet). Från 1990 till 1998 var hon bland annat verksam i utrikesministerns kansli, i byrån för folkrätt och på utlandsposteringar i Paris och Madrid.

Efter att ha lämnat den diplomatiska tjänsten på hösten 1998 var hon till 2003 verksam som frilansjournalist i tysk- och engelskspråkiga tidningar. Bland annat var hon korrespondent i Slovenien för Die Presse och skrev artiklar för Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Från 2002 bidrog hon med politiska analyser inom områdena Mellanöstern och energipolitik i Österreichischer Rundfunk.

Samtidigt undervisade Kneissl från 1995 till 2004 vid Institut für Politikwissenschaft vid universitetet i Wien. Från 2000 undervisade hon parallellt vid Diplomatische Akademie Wien och höll även gästföreläsningar vid Landesverteidigungsakademie ("Försvarshögskolan") och Theresianische Militärakademie i Wiener Neustadt. Hon hade också uppdrag som lärare vid det katolska, franskspråkiga Université Saint-Joseph i Beirut och vid Centre international des sciences de l'homme (CISH) i Byblos i Libanon och från 2007 vid EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht i Oestrich-Winkel i Hessen. Tyngdpunkter i hennes undervisningsverksamhet är folkrätt, Mellanösterns historia och energimarknaden. Hon har därtill författat en rad fackböcker, bland annat i dessa ämnen.

Kneissl har varit vice president i österrikiska Gesellschaft für Politisch-Strategische Studien och styrelseledamot i den av henne medgrundade organisationen Whistleblowing Austria.

Politisk verksamhet
Åren 2005–2010 var Karin Kneissl ledamot av kommunfullmäktige i Seibersdorf (som partipolitiskt obunden, men invald på listan för Österreichische Volkspartei).

Inom ramen för sin publicistiska verksamhet har Kneissl flera gånger deltagit i samhällsdebatten. Exempelvis yttrande hon sig 2012 positivt rörande självständighetssträvandena i Katalonien.

Kneissl är i grunden positiv till Europeiska Unionen (EU), men har likväl utövat skarp kritik mot hur EU-samarbetet drivs. I juli 2016 kritiserade hon exempelvis Europeiska kommissionens ordförande Jean-Claude Juncker och betecknade honom som "maktcyniker", "brysselsk kejsare", "knölaktig" och "arrogant" och anklagade honom för att "bryta överenskommelser när det föreföll honom användbart". Hon har också konstaterat att den från Tyskland initierade utopistiska politiken med öppna gränser gjort att Brexit-rörelsen fick vind i seglen och att en del humoristiska britter kallade Tysklands förbundsregering för "the Hippie government". "Att det med det okontrollerade tillflödet av flyktingar och migranter också skulle följa med terrorister till Europa var förväntat. Varje terrordåd och det europeiska manövrerandet – från knäfallet i Ankara till höga straff för icke uppfyllda mottagandekvoter – bekräftar EU-kritikerna i sina positioner och ökar bifallet till utträdesomröstningen. Trotsigt klandrar Merkel de andra för att vara osolidariska. Också den forna hippierörelsen såg världen genom rosa glasögon och sig själv som moraliskt överlägsen."

Hon har också väckt uppmärksamhet med yttranden rörande migrationskrisen i Europa. Härvid kritiserade hon den tyska förbundskanslern Angela Merkels agerande och karakteriserade det som "grovt vårdslöst". Hon anklagade flera gånger EU för att ha misslyckats i migrationsfrågan och betvivlade över huvud taget EU:s linje och huruvida det är meningsfullt med en gemensam europeisk lösning. Överenskommelsen mellan EU och Turkiet den 18 mars 2016 betecknade hon som Unfug (ungefär dumheter). "Därmed erhåller Erdoğan fria händer med sin förföljelsemani och Bryssel står i farligt beroende." Kneissl påpekade också att migranterna till större delen utgjordes av ekonomiska migranter och till 80 procent unga män mellan 20 och 30 års ålder. Påven Franciskus predikningar "indikerar gång på gång ignorans och en farlig naivitet" påtalade hon efter att påven hade jämfört migrantlägren i Grekland med koncentrationsläger.

Den 18 december 2017 tillträdde Karin Kneissl som utrikes-, Europa- och integrationsminister. Hon nominerades till posten av Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ) under regeringsförhandlingarna, men är partipolitiskt obunden. FPÖ:s partiledare Heinz-Christian Strache lovprisade henne som "en storartad personlighet, kanske en kvinnlig [motsvarighet till] Bruno Kreisky i framtiden, när det gäller medling, acceptans och också marknadsföring av Österrike i utlandet". Redan 2016 hade Strache övervägt att nominera Kneissl som förbundspresident, men hon avböjde kandidatur. Hon avgick som minister den 3 juni 2019.

Under sin tid som utrikesminister gifte sig Kneissl med en österrikisk affärsman. Till bröllopet, som firades i augusti 2018 i en liten ort i södra Steiermark, fanns bland de inbjudna gästerna även Rysslands president Vladimir Putin, som uppvaktade med gåvor och även medförde en kosackkör. Händelsen väckte en bred internationell uppmärksamhet och kritik.

Bibliografi i urval
 Der Grenzbegriff der Konfliktparteien im Nahen Osten, avhandling (Universität Wien, Wien 1991).
 Hizbollah. Libanesische Widerstandsbewegung, islamische Terrorgruppe oder bloss eine politische Partei? Eine Untersuchung der schiitischen Massenbewegung Hizbollah im libanesischen und regionalen Kontext (Landesverteidigungsakademie, Wien 2002).
 Der Energiepoker. Wie Erdöl und Erdgas die Weltwirtschaft beeinflussen (FinanzBuch, München 2006), andra reviderade upplagan 2008.
 Die Gewaltspirale. Warum Orient und Okzident nicht miteinander können (Ecowin, Salzburg 2007).
 Testosteron macht Politik (Braumüller, Wien 2012).
 Die zersplitterte Welt. Was von der Globalisierung bleibt (Braumüller, Wien 2013).
 Mein Naher Osten (Braumüller, Wien 2014).
 Prinz Eugen. Vom Außenseiter zum Genie Europas (Belvedere, Wien 2014).
 Wachablöse. Auf dem Weg in eine chinesische Weltordnung (Frank & Frei, Wien 2017).

Externa länkar

 Karin Kneissls webbplats.
 Intervju i december 2017.

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Keeping in mind the vision to develop football in the city and promote the game amongst the youth, Mumbai FC and Colaba Super League (CSL) will be conducting a Grassroots Festival at Cooperage Backgarden Football Ground on Friday - 15th May, 2015 to celebrate the AFC Grassroots Day.
The Backgarden Ground is the venue where the CSL in association with Mumbai FC is being held and will see over a 100 kids of the age group 6 to 12 years old participate in the festival.
Football equipment for this event will be provided by Nivia.
CSL's Chairman, Krishna Pawle said, "The Festival is being conducted in accordance to our vision to develop football in Mumbai. The CSL started last month and we also held a CSL women's tournament where over 40 girls participated. The Grassroots Festival will see over 100+ kids participate which only defines how popular football is becoming."
The festival will be supervised by Mumbai FC's Head of Youth Development - Kundan Chandra – who will also have 10 Grassroots Leaders (Coaches) working alongwith him.
Chandra explained the importance of conducting Grassroots festivals, "Mumbai FC have been conducting Grassroots Festival across the city. It is important to give the children football education. Not only does it help raise football's popularity but it sets a base to maybe even carve a career out of football. We aim to create 'Young-stars' in Indian football."


CHADRON – The theme for Chadron State College's 2012 homecoming was "Zombie Apocalypse," which was fitting because it took until the fourth quarter for the Eagles' offense to come alive.
Tailback Michael Madkins scored two touchdowns on the ground, Nathan Ross added a 32-yard touchdown reception and the Eagles' defense stopped the high-flying Western New Mexico offense three times, including once on a goal line stand, in the fourth quarter to earn a gritty 41-23 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference victory Saturday.
Glen Clinton rushed for a career-high 245 yards, including scampers of 63, 48 and 27 yards, and quarterbackJonn McLain completed 20 of 29 passes for 236 yards and three touchdowns as the Eagles, ranked 24th in the current D2football.com Top 25 poll and third in Super Region Four, shook off a shaky start to improve to 7-2 overall and 6-1 in the conference.
Western New Mexico, which has lost to Chadron State seven straight years since joining the RMAC, falls to 4-5 and 3-4 in the league.
Neither team led by more than a touchdown until the fourth quarter and it appeared as if Western New Mexico could spoil the Eagles' homecoming. However, the tide started to turn in Chadron State's favor after Western New Mexico kicker Josh McIntire's third field goal of the day – a 27 yarder – that put the Mustangs up, 23-20.
On the Eagles' ensuing drive, they marched 86 yards in 11 plays and converted three third downs when McLain found three different receivers. Following a 27-yard pass to Clinton and a 14-yard rush from Chapman Ham, Madkins, who ran for 59 yards in the game, put the Eagles up 27-23 with an 11-yard burst up the middle.
The Mustangs came right back, though, and drove into CSC territory, eventually having a first and goal from the Eagles' 9-yard line. The CSC defense stood tall and on fourth and goal from the three, Tau Ho Ching and Kevin Lindholm, who had a game-high 17 tackles, stood up John De La Rosa at the one.
Chadron State then needed just three plays to find the end zone again. Clinton gave the Eagles' offense some breathing room with a 4-yard run up the middle and then he followed with a season-high 63-yard gain. On the next play, McLain found Ross open along the sideline for a 32-yard TD and the Eagles were in firm control, leading 34-23 with just eight minutes to play.
On the Mustangs' next drive, quarterback Mitch Glasmann, who completed 22 of 41 passes for 271 yards and a touchdown, was intercepted by Trelan Taylor. The Eagles capitalized five plays later when Madkins raced 38 yards and somersaulted into the end zone to put CSC up, 41-23 with three minutes remaining.
Despite the fourth quarter dominance – CSC outgained Western New Mexico, 225 to 101 yards – a majority of the game was nip and tuck. Western New Mexico led three different times and were looking to add more late in the first quarter until linebacker Dylan Furrier forced a fumble that Lindholm, who also had 5.5 tackles for loss, recovered.
Two plays later, McLain found a wide-open Ham for a 58-yard TD that put CSC up 20-17 at halftime.
Western New Mexico scored the only six points in the third quarter and led 23-20 heading into the fourth.
The Eagles rushed for 313 yards in the game and finished with 539 yards of total offense. It was the third time in nine games Chadron State has eclipsed the 500-yard mark.
Chadron State will play at Fort Lewis Saturday. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m.


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CASC Brings Awareness to Stand-up Comedy September 9th to 15th all across Canada.
The Canadian Association of Stand-up Comedians is very excited to announce their first national event. We're holding a Stand-up Awareness Week from September 9th to 15th 2018 all over the country. Our goal is to create a thriving and dynamic stand-up industry that celebrates diverse voices, both aspiring and legendary.
We are incredibly proud of Canada's rich comedy legacy and are committed to expanding on that success. We held our first stand-up marathon in Toronto in June and it was an incredible success. We want to continue to build the momentum and awareness about what we're up to and raise funds for CASC. We are asking comedy producers across the country to support our cause and donate proceeds earned during this week to CASC so that we can continue to lobby the government and the private sector to build an industry in Canada.
One of the fun events we're planning is a Comedy Fashion show on September 16th to close off the week. Comedians will model local designer fashions and then do a stand-up set at the end of the runway.
The reason this is happening is that the fashion industry faces the same issues as the stand-up industry. They do not receive any funding and many fashion advocates have been tirelessly working over the last couple of decades to have that changed.
The show will be hosted by Zoe Brownstone and Anjelica Scannura will feature members of the CASC Executive Committee and many more. Click here for more details.
Stand-up Awareness Week will be going on across Canada from September 9th to 15th. Please go to canadianstandup.ca to see what shows/venues will be involved.
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Chocoholics Envying Swiss Chocolate Kitchen
Master pastry chef Alain Roby has used 2000 lbs of chocolate and sugar to built a replica of his home kitchen in Geneva.
Alain Roby, the man who previously built a 20-foot chocolate skyscraper and a 22-foot-tall Christmas tree made of chocolate, began work on his unique replica last year when he received a chocolate donation from Belgian chocolaterie Callebaut.
He started out by melting the chocolate into molds and connected the parts using more chocolate. The dishes were made from sugar, and the tiles were glazed and sculpted into the desired shape.
The whole project took months to complete, and Alain still finds ways to improve it, every now and then.
The chocolate artist admits that the artistry of the kitchen is a big challenge, but that it is actually the engineering part which is the most complicated.
He had to put in many hours of hard work and had to come up with a lot of ingenious ideas. This drive allowed him to finish this sweet replica of his home kitchen in Geneva, and the response has been fantastic!
Complete with cabinets, a stove, a sink, a tiled backsplash, teapots and dishes, Alain Roby's chocolate kitchen has become a temporary local attraction in downtown Geneva...
Would you want to have a chocolate kitchen, or rather a chocolate bedroom?
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Nonsense, I grew up watching the Hollywood cartoons and I'm not even close to be pro-Western.
This is insane! I usually show the kids Cheburashka, so they are properly manipulated - I saw Masha i Medved always as a decadent distraction from building a true lenininst spirit. And now this...it's nationalist Russian propaganda! I am confused.