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Provinces to maintain wheat price at Rs1,200 this year
Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 November 1999 05:00	Written by Administrator	Thursday, 16 January 2014 13:27
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on National Food Security on Wednesday witnessed disagreement among provinces over the issue of fixing wheat support price for 2014, with Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan agreeing to maintain last year�s price while Sindh proposing an increase in the price. However, after a debate on the single-item agenda � support price for wheat � the committee built the consensus that the government should maintain last year�s price of Rs1200 per 40kg.
Pir Shafqat Hussain Jilani, a PPPP MNA from Sindh told �Dawn� that Sindh had wanted to raise the wheat support price to Rs1350 per 40kg instead of Rs1200 per 40kg in view of rising cost of inputs but had to join ranks of other provinces to keep last year�s support price.
The committee members had asked the Ministry of National Food Security to announce the wheat support price for 2014 sowing season. During the meeting, the members agreed with Minister for National Food Security Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan that announcement of price at this stage, when sowing of wheat has already been completed, will benefit the middlemen and not the farmers.
Mr Bosan informed the committee that sufficient stock of wheat is available with the government to meet the requirement till the arrival of the new crop in the market.
The committee which met under the chairmanship of Malik Shakir Awan, recommended to the government to save growers from losses due to high rates of fertilisers, electricity and diesel, and to give subsidy to them as being given in neighbouring countries.
On the issue of strengthening the Ministry of National Food Security, the committee members unanimously expressed deep concern over the reduction in PSDP of the ministry from Rs24 billion to Rs750 million after the devolution.
The committee recommended that the departments of federal government like Sugar Board and Cotton Commissionerate which were previously part of the ministry should be merged with the ministry in order to streamline the working and performance of the ministry.
The committee was pleased over the award of GSP Plus status to Pakistan, and in this regard noted that the rates of cotton in the country are comparatively less than other countries. The anti-dumping duty and other taxes should be reduced to achieve the maximum benefit from GSP, it said.
The committee was of the opinion that cotton support price cannot be announced but calculated every year. Cotton cultivation area is insufficient, and the government should take measures to enhance the area under cotton cultivation in order to increase cotton production to meet the local and international requirements, the committee recommended.
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Chapter 40 - Breaking Sword Peak's Young Master
Chapter Ch40 - Breaking Sword Peak's Young Master
Han Yuran suppressed the unease he felt and continued receiving his guests. The guests arrived at the Han residence through various means of transportation.
Suddenly, the announcer shouted at the top of his lungs, "Profound Sky Sect's Breaking Sword peak's young master Yuan Tianwen has arrived!"
"Profound Sky Sect's Breaking Sword peak's young master?!"
"Did I hear that wrong, someone from Profound Sky Sect actually came!"
"I've heard of that Yuan Tianwen. Even though he's only 23 years old, he's already a Foundation Stage fifth layer cultivator. He's only a step away from becoming a Hardened Body stage cultivator. People call him the leader of his generation in Profound Sky Sect!"
"And Yuan Tianwen's so handsome too! He's apparently really modest and would never be stingy with giving advice to his junior brothers and sisters."
"And he's the Breaking Sword peak's young master. Breaking Sword peak is the number one peak in the whole of Profound Sky Sect, it even ranks above Broken Sword peak and Sinking Sword peak!"
"Also, core disciples of Profound Sky Sect rarely leave the mountain just to attend this kind of event. Looks like the Han family's young master really does have some godsend talent to be looked upon so favourably by Profound Sky Sect."
"Well that's a given, but more importantly, Yuan Tianwen is the East Continent mainland's top Yuan family's eldest son! That kind of status would be second to none even in Profound Sky Sect!"
"I've also heard that Profound Sky Sect has already reserved a spot for Han Yuran, if it wasn't because the Han family couldn't bear to part with him and because he had to take care of the good-for-nothing Lin Xuanzhi he's engaged to, he should've ascended the mountain a year ago."
"Speaking of the Lin Xuanzhi he's engaged to………did any of you see the Lin family send anyone over yet?"
"Looks like they haven't arrived."
"Profound Sky Sect's young peak master is the last person to have arrived. It's already past the timing for receiving guests, looks like Lin Xuanzhi really isn't planning on coming."
"Haha, he doesn't plan to, or can't even if he wants to? I heard that he was beaten up quite badly at the Tyrant Martial Hall recently, and even wasted at least 10 000 gold there!"
"Ai, it's really such a pity for Han Yuran. If I were him, I would've broken off the engagement a long time ago. I wouldn't even bother taking care of that trash and delay the huge opportunity to enter Profound Sky Sect."
"That's true. Just based on the Lin family's attitude, even if Han young master were to announce his annulment of the engagement today, I'll have to stand on his side."
"Who wouldn't."
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As the discussion heated up, the gossipers instantly had a better impression and valuation of Han Yuran.
There's a phrase that says "when someone achieves Dao, his poultry and dogs would ascend as well"1. For Han Yuran to be acquainted with someone of Yuan Tianwen's level, it would imply that he has similar capabilities. If someone wants to curry favour with Yuan Tianwen, they would naturally want to curry favour with Han Yuran as well.
Yuan Tianwen jumped off from a penta-coloured crane that had a beautiful, shiny plumage and lightly landed at the center of the Han family's entrance.
Yuan Tianwen wore a full body Jade Wind Mianzhu armour. His long hair was tied up with an amethyst headgear crafted from Amethyst Jade at the top of his head while the rest of his hair flowed freely behind him. He had sword eyebrows, eagle eyes, and an upright posture; the moment he appeared, he had immediately attracted the gazes of everyone who was present.
The head of the Han family, Han Wuyun's face brightened up; he personally led his wife and a few of his sons to welcome their guest.
"For Yuan young master to personally show up really brings much honour to my Han family!" Han Wuyun laughed loudly.
Even though Yuan Tianwen wasn't even half Han Wuyun's age, his status had far exceeded that of Han Wuyun, so he only nodded slightly and said, "Han family head need not be so courteous, I have a close relationship with Yuran, so naturally I would make the trip down myself to congratulate him on his birthday."
As he spoke, the boy who carries Yuan Tianwen's sword by his side walked up, then handed over a box made out of Submerged Sacred Wood to the attendant by Han Wuyun's side.
The boy said in a clear voice, "This is the present that my family's young master is giving Han young master for his 18th birthday — 1000 primary level top-grade forged stones!"
"Si–" someone sucked in a breath of cold air.
"How generous, no wonder he's Yuan family's young master!"
"One primary level top-grade forged stone already costs 1000 gold, 1000 stones……isn't that equivalent to a million gold!"
"The one million gold isn't what's important, the main thing is, these 1000 high-grade primary level forged stones aren't easily found in the first place! Its cost is probably even higher than a million gold!"
"Generous, it really is generous!"
"Looks like the Breaking Sword peak's young master and Han young master don't just have an ordinary relationship."
One must know, this world's magic tools are categorised into five types — treasure tools, spiritual tools, celestial tools sand sacred tools; it's not that there weren't any tools of a higher level, but no one had ever seen those before.
And these magic treasures are further partitioned into four different grades — low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade and top-grade.
The effectiveness of the magic tools can have a distinction akin to that between the heavens and earth depending on its level.
And forged stones to crafting is like what spiritual plants is to alchemy; forged stones that have an abundance of spiritual Qi stored within them can be used to craft more magic tools, and similarly, it would have a stronger influence on the grade of the magic tool that is crafted.
Cultivators separate forged stones into four main levels – primary level, profound level, earth level and sky level; and at the same time, they can craft magic tools of different grades which are classified as — low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade and top-grade.
Low-grade primary level forged stones are at most able to craft low-grade magic tools; mid-grade primary level forged stones can craft mid-grade magic tools at most, and so on, so if one wants to craft a top-grade magic tools, then one would need to use top-grade primary level forged stones as materials.
Top-grade forged stones are extremely sparse, and its price is a hundred to a thousand times more expensive than the high-grade forged stones of a similar level. But if one wants to craft a high or top-grade magic tool that would attract everyone's attention, then you can't try to scrimp on forged stones of a higher grade, so, it is unlikely for craftsmen to appear in places other than the large sects or families that can withstand the huge expenditure on forged stones.
You can saw that behind every craftsman is a path paved from gold.
These 1000 high-grade primary level forged stones had undoubtedly become the most outstanding present in today's birthday banquet.
Han Wuyun has such a big grin on his face you could barely see his eyes. This guy actually handed over 1000 top-grade primary level forged stones at one shot, you must know, his entire Duan family wouldn't even be able to afford even 50 of them!
Han Yanran's eyes had also widened in surprise, she grabbed onto Han Yuran's sleeves with her life and almost shrieked. Though she did her best in holding it in, she still looked like she was suffering from asphyxiation due to her excitement as she repeated non-stop, "Dage, 1000 top-grade primary level forged stones ah! 1000 top-grade forged stones! Oh my god, Yuan Dage is really so good and generous towards you, Dage hurry and annul your engagement and get together with him!"
Han Yuran was also insanely excited on the inside. This wasn't just about the value of the present, but it's more because from this moment onwards, he, Han Yuran, had completely become the entire Qing city's number one cultivator of his generation. What Lin Xuanzhi, what Duan Yuhao, no matter how amazing they are, their reputation definitely wouldn't be as resounding as his!
However, Han Yuran maintained a tranquil expression on his face. He only casted a quick glance at the box that was of similar value to the stones, then shifted his eyes away, as if he wasn't at all interested in what was inside the box. But, he still looked straight through the few Han family's elders who were standing in front of him and smiled at the Yuan Tianwen whose eyes had been on him from the start, then slightly nodded to express his thanks.
Han Yuran said to Han Yanran, "Ah Mei, no matter what present it is, it's all a show of our guests' goodwill, you can't compare their worth by their monetary value alone."
Han Yanran stuck her tongue out. She knew that Han Yuran was just putting up a front in front of Yuan Tianwen, so she blinked her eyes and cooperatively said, "Dage is right, Xiao Mei has learned her lesson."
As he took in this whole sight, Yuan Tianwen showed a look of satisfaction. The person he had set his sights on was perfect inside and out, and very much to his liking afterall.
What do these forged stones amount to? As long as it's something Han Yuran wants, even if it's profound level top-grade forged stones, he'll definitely get it for him!
Yuan Tianwen's clear and handsome face revealed a few traces of a smile.
Yuan Tianwen was invited in, and many cultivators began to gather around. The others stood their ground and greeted Yuan Tianwen with a bow, while Yuan Tianwen returned their greetings with half a bow.
However, because Yuan Tianwen's was already at least of a Foundation Stage fifth layer level and was thus considered a true cultivator, other cultivators who were below his level all moved aside to avoid his greeting; they didn't dare receive it.
As for the tyrannical ones who were above his level, they still returned his greeting after considering his status.
It was only when he arrived in front of the Duan family's second elder table where Yuan Tianwen formally completed a full bow.
And the second elder didn't avoid it; he fully accepted his bow.
However, the second elder was obviously unhappy and only returned Yuan Tianwen a hng before he closed his eyes again and pretended like he didn't see him. Not only that, he even turned his cheek and obviously showed his displeasure with Yuan Tianwen.
Well, this was embarrassing.
From the moment Yuan Tianwen appeared, everyone's eyes had already locked onto him, and at this moment, under the gazes of all the attendees, Duan family's second elder actually showed Yuan Tianwen a long face……what happened between them?
Yuan Tianwen was also baffled. He only remembered that in the past, this Duan second elder would still show him a smiley face when they met each other.
Yuan Tianwen thus opened his mouth and spoke, "Senior Duan, before I came to Qing City, my elders specially instructed me to greet Duan family's second elder properly if I were to see you. Does Duan second elder still remember Tianwen?"
Second elder opened his eyes and gave him a smile that didn't reach his eyes as he said, "Old me can't afford to accept Profound Sky Sect Breaking Sword peak's young master's bow, old me's afraid that my life will be shortened if I do!"
The Duan family is considered to be the leading family amongst the three big families in Qing city. It's classified as a first-class cultivator family within the entire Five Continents, so naturally a second-class family like the Han family can't compare to them.
However, at this moment Han Wuyun's heart was completely inclined towards Yuan Tianwen, so he furrowed his brows and said, "Duan second elder, today is my son's birthday banquet, no matter what kind of misgivings you may have you shouldn't be so publicly discourteous."
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T/N: …… I got so confused myself while I was translating all the levels/grades cuz i was trying not to mix them up……….the author uses the terms grades and levels way too interchangeably…….. I will be uploading a glossary soon once I've cleared some doubts.

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Brigid O'Shaughnessy asks Spade if the Falcon had been real, and he'd
  gotten the entire $10,000, would it have made a difference.

What is the meaning of difference in this sentence ?

A: "Would it have made a difference" here could be translated simply into "would it have changed anything about the situation".

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Bruno Dumont – P'tit Quinquin AKA L'il Quinquin (2014)
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A clueless police inspector stumbles his way through a provincial murder investigation, in this shocking — and shockingly funny — change of pace from premier French auteur Bruno Dumont (L'humanité, Hadewijch).
Originally conceived and broadcast as a four-part miniseries, Bruno Dumont's P'tit Quinquin works seamlessly when screened in its cinematic version.
Dumont has again chosen to shoot his new film against the countryside of his birthplace, the Boulonnais region around Calais; apart from that, the film marks a notable change in tone for this immensely creative filmmaker. (Well, it does share one other thing in common with his earlier films: like L'Humanite, the film centres on a police detective investigating a murder.)
P'tit Quinquin is — believe it or not for those who have been following Dumont's career — a comedy. Little prepares you for the adventure, rollicking and slapstick, in this idiosyncratic screwball of a film. Chuckles abound — at times you can't quite believe what you are seeing — but, not surprisingly in the hands of a director who has always managed to keep a firm, controlling hand on his material, the film never spirals into silliness. Wit and intelligence prevail. Read More »
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Q: How to Save / Restore nested fragments in android? The layout file of my main activity contains a  in wich I'm loading
fragments dinamically using NavigationDrawer.
To achive this I use a FragmentPagerAdapter:
@Override
public Fragment getItem(int index) {

    switch (index) {
    case 0:
        return new FragmentA();
    case 1:
        return new FragmentB();
    case 2:
        return new FragmentC();
    }

    return null;
}

In FragmentA there is a ViewPager + another FragmentPagerAdapter, so you can swipe
between three other fragments. (Frament1, Fragment2, Fragment3).
It works like this:
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http://62.165.232.86:1991/images/fragments.png

When I swap between Frament1, Fragment2 and Fragment3, it works fine.
(I set the ViewPager's offScreenPageLimit high enough.)
The problem occures when I navigate to FragmentB or FragmentC and then FragmentA gets destroyed and I dont know how to save its instance and recover it, becaues I dont have
reference to Fragment1.
EDIT 1:
I swap between FragmentA and FragmentB like this:
    FragmentTransaction tx = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
    tx.replace(R.id.main, mAdapter.getItem(0));
    tx.commit();

Im a bit confused. I should save the instances of Fragment1, 2, 3 and Fragment A,
and recover them all when I navigate back to Fragment A but I don't know how because I dont have reference to the child fragments.
Can you help me?
Thanks for your answers,
Daneel Olivaw

A: Idea (I not sure at 100%):
Fragment fragment = getFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag("yourtag");
if (fragment==null) {
   fragment = mAdapter.getItem(0)
}
FragmentTransaction tx = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
tx.add(R.id.main, fragment, "yourtag");
tx.commit();


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We were on our way West for a camp/surf mission with a bush pilot named Blair, and began crossing the Southern Alps just after midnight.
As we chugged through the pass, the vibe in the Land Rover was high as its revs. It had been a big first day - 2 hours in the surf and 14 hours on the road.
With Parker behind the wheel, tunes pumping on the stereo, and cold Speights flowing to those of us who'd finished our stint of driving, we talked story and caught up on each other's lives. Somewhere on the pass, I started spinning a yarn about hitting a Kangaroo in my ute - next minute, a head flashed into the light by the edge of the Land Rover's bullbar, "What the fuck was that?" Parker yelled, "surely not a Kangaroo."
All we'd seen was two big white eyes.
Up ahead, a bloke in a long coat and Wellingtons waved us down by the hazard lights of his truck, "Cattle on the road lads, watch for more cars while I go back to round up the one you almost hit." We got out of the car with phone torches and noticed twenty black cattle strewn across the road.
Sure enough, the only distinguishable feature was the whites of their eyes.
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namespace Test\TestTwoBundle\Tests\Form;

use Test\TestStoreBundle\Form\PersonalType;
use Test\TestStoreBundle\Entity\Personal;

use Symfony\Component\Form\Test\TypeTestCase;

/**
 * The tests in this class only test the ability of the form to compile, to receive and
 * set data into the associated doctrine entity and to render all fields correctly in a
 * view.
 *
 * These tests DO NOT persist the data to a test database..
 */
class PersonalTypeTest extends TypeTestCase
{

    private $formData = array(  'age'      => 31,
                                'weight'   => 80,
                                'height'   => 180,
                                'hair'     => 'brown'
                                );

    /**
     * Check form compiles correctly
     */
    public function testFormCompiles()
    {
        // Build the form
        $type = new PersonalType();
        $form = $this->factory->create($type);

        $this->assertTrue(isset($form));
    }

    /**
     * Test that data set via the form is the same as that set directly in the underlying
     * enitity
     */
    public function testUserFormDataComparison()
    {

        // Build the form with empty All() class
        $type = new PersonalType();
        $form = $this->factory->create($type);

        // Create comparison object
        $entity = new Personal();
        $entity->fromArray($this->formData);
        // $entity->setFirstname = 'Andrew';

        // submit the data to the form directly
        $form->submit($this->formData);

        //  Checks that non of the data transformers used by the form failed
        //  isSynchonized() retruns false if an exception is thrown
        $this->assertTrue($form->isSynchronized());

        // Check that the data processed by the form is equal to that set manually
        $this->assertEquals($entity, $form->getData());
    }

    /**
     * Test that the form includes correct input widgets when rendered in a view
     */
    public function testUserFormView()
    {

        // Build the form with empty All() class
        $type = new PersonalType();
        $form = $this->factory->create($type);

        // submit the data to the form directly
        $form->submit($this->formData);

        //  Render the form in a view and fetch its input components
        $view = $form->createView();
        $children = $view->children;

        // Check that each key supplied in the input data is found in amongst the
        // rendered forms inputs.
        foreach (array_keys($this->formData) as $key) {
            $this->assertArrayHasKey($key, $children);
        }
    }
}

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When Will My Loved One Make An Amends To Me?
We can hold a lot of expectations of our loved ones in recovery. We want to know when they're going to change, we want to know they're never going to go back to the way they used to be, and we want to know when they'll finally apologize for all the damage they did in our lives. When our loved one starts attending twelve step groups, we do some research. Most of it seems great. Powerlessness, surrender, moral inventory…then we see it. "Made direct amends to such people whenever possible except when to do so would injure them or others." Our hearts light up and our egos flare. One day, we're going to get what we deserve- an apology.
First, you have to understand that an amends is different from an apology. An apology includes excuses and justifications in just a simple statement. Apologies are communication that a wrong was done, and all the reasons that wrong was done. Most often, we don't want to hear an apology. We don't want the excuses and justifications. In our hearts, we know they were doing their best and if they could have, they would have done better; but, they didn't. Often, apologies are followed with a statement by the person receiving the apology which looks something like "Actions speak louder than words." Therein lies the difference between an apology and an amends. Apologies are just words. An amends is about action. To make an amends means to right a wrong, not just explain why the wrong happened and ask for forgiveness. In an amends situation, the person making an amends asks what they can do to make up for the harm they have caused toward you.
Amends take time. Your loved one has to go through a process of coming to a place of humility to realize that they need to make an amends to someone. Sometimes, this process is easier said than done. However, many working the twelve steps quickly realize that a sitting amends is just a sitting resentment. It's best to do it and close the chapter.
Have patience for your loved one and continue to support their endeavours in recovery.
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This Day In Astros History: April 29, 1980
By David Coleman Updated Apr 29, 2011, 7:00am CDT
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We're looking at the first divisional champs today, way back in 1980, when they beat the last dregs of the Big Red Machine 3-0 and moved a half-game back of the self-same Reds for the division lead.
Houston got a big game out of Ken Forsch, who twirled a three-hitter, walking three and striking out two in nine innings of work. It was Forsch's third victory of the season in his second year back as a regular starter. Forsch had been a regular starter in '71-'73, but never won 10 games in a season. He went to the bullpen, where he had some success over the next five seasons before ducking back into the rotation with 24 starts in 1979. This year, Forsch went 12-13, which was the second-highest win total of his career.
He also entered a stretch, starting in the 1978 season where he just racked up complete games and shutouts like they were nothing. After his Age 31 season in 1978 (when he threw four complete games and two shutouts), Forsch totaled 10, 6, 10, 12 and 11 complete games and 2, 3, 4, 4 and 1 shutouts in the next five seasons. Talk about a late-career turnaround. Forsch won 68 of his 114 career victories in that stretch, but only played for Houston two of those seasons. He at least brought a little value in return when he was traded to the Angels after the 1980 season for Dickie Thon.
Back to the game at hand, though. The Astros leadoff man and starting shortstop may join my All-Time Best Name team. Rafael Landestoy was 1 for 4, stole a base and has a very fun name to say. It virtually rolls of the tongue. Cesar Cedeno provided the offensive spark in this one, hitting a two-run home run to drive in Jose Cruz. Joe Morgan also scored a run for Houston in his return with the Astros. Cedeno also stole his seventh base of the season in his last big steals year. He finished the 1980 season with 48 steals in 63 attempts. It feels like that should have been the twilight of his career (and it sadly was), but Cedeno was just 29 years old in 1980. He only played one more year in Houston before being traded to the Reds for Mark Jackson. One day, we'll spend a good deal of time breaking down Cesar Cedeno's career, but this post is already running long. Let's just cut to the graphic replay of the game, thanks to Back to Baseball.


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Wild Dolphin seeks diver's help to free itself of restrictive fishing line and hook in pectoral fin.
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Smart PArrot
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Compassion is evidence of HIGH intelligence.
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Rescue has gone to the dogs!
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Hippo rescues wildebeest and baby zebra from strong currents.
This extraordinarily helpful hippo in Tanzania's Mara river saved both a wildebeest and a baby zebra from being swept away by the strong currents as they began their migration to the southern Serengeti. The hippo would position himself downriver of the animals and nudge them along to the other side. After the hippo helped the baby zebra make her way to a little river island, he waited until she made it across safely. Says Tom Yule, and expedition guide who filmed the ordeal, "The hippo got out of the water and came up behind the foal and started nudging it and gently biting it on its backside as if to say, 'Come on man, don't give up now, you can do it. Just a hop, skip and a jump and you're there.'"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQbXSl1ReuQ&feature=player_embedded
Rottweiler saves his chihuahua friend from a hungry coyote intruder.
When Trixxie the chihuahua was left alone for a moment in her driveway one morning, a coyote thought she looked like a pretty tasty snack. It would have been curtains for the little dog had Happy, her Rottweiler neighbor, not intervened. Luckily, the coyote saw the big dog and made for the hills, leaving Trixxie free to run back to her home.
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"A herd of elephants stayed in silence for two days after the death of Lawrence Anthony – the man who saved them. Exactly one year after his death, to the day, the herd marched to his house again. It is something that science cannot explain."
Yep. Science is WOEFULLY anthropocentric in its bias towards animals. IOW, "science" is NOT objective in rating animal intelligence, empathy and memory BECAUSE it has been sold on the "apex predator = clever, scheming, conscience free plunderer for resources" world view that Darwin's Standard Theory of Evolution (SET) pushes.
Gentle, social animals are NOT considered that "intelligent". That is a huge mistake. Maybe someday, science will get its head out of its Darwinian predator worshipping ass.
For as much as we empathize with our canines, we have been stingy about recognizing empathy elsewhere in the animal kingdom, reserving it as a human trait.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-animals-feel-empathy/
Crows are very smart.
An 8-year-old girl receives gifts from the crows she feeds
By Walter Einenkel for weinenkel
Daily Kos staff Tue Mar 03, 2015 at 01:17 PM PST
Eight-year-old Gabi Mann has been feeding crows in her family's Seattle backyard garden for about four years now. It started as an accident:
Gabi's relationship with the neighborhood crows began accidentally in 2011. She was four years old, and prone to dropping food. She'd get out of the car, and a chicken nugget would tumble off her lap. A crow would rush in to recover it. Soon, the crows were watching for her, hoping for another bite.
As she got older, she rewarded their attention, by sharing her packed lunch on the way to the bus stop. Her brother joined in. Soon, crows were lining up in the afternoon to greet Gabi's bus, hoping for another feeding session.
A couple of years later, Gabi and her sister began setting out food for the crows on a daily basis. It was after this ritual began that gifts started to appear.
The crows would clear the feeder of peanuts, and leave shiny trinkets on the empty tray; an earring, a hinge, a polished rock. There wasn't a pattern. Gifts showed up sporadically - anything shiny and small enough to fit in a crow's mouth.
One time it was a tiny piece of metal with the word "best" printed on it. "I don't know if they still have the part that says 'friend'," Gabi laughs, amused by the thought of a crow wearing a matching necklace.
There has been ample research done over the past few decades that show that birds, specifically crows, are considerably more intelligent than first thought. As for Gabi's gifts?
No doubt, Gabi's collection is quite impressive. She considers them her treasures, and she meticulously stores, labels, and categorizes each object in a bead storage container. One bag contains a broken light bulb with the caption, "Black table by feeder. 2:30 p.m. 09 Nov 2014." Other objects include paperclips, buttons, earrings, and worn glass. One trinket, a screw, is marked as "third favorite," because as Gabi puts it, "You don't see a crow carrying around a screw that much. Unless it's trying to build its house."
Pictures of Gabi and Grateful Crow Gifts at link:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/03/1368072/-An-8-year-old-girl-receives-gifts-from-the-crows-she-feeds
This dog is so smart he has figured out a way to train his trainer to be nice.
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Amazing Octopus - Most Intelligent Animal on Earth?
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An incredible exploration of one of the ocean's most complex and enigmatic creatures, and a reminder why these beautiful animals should be protected and studied, not served at Sushi restaurants.
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How has the octopus become so intelligent and capable of thinking in the abstract? Watch fascinating and often hilarious experiments to see just how smart they are.
After this video, you'll never think about the octopus the same.
In this fascinating documentary we get to see how octopuses behave in the wild too. Off the coast of Vancouver Island, underwater divers are watched by a huge octopus - a ghost like creature that lurks until it feels it's safe to emerge and be seen. It's an eerie encounter.
The octopus uses cognitive reasoning to make deductions and understand its environment. It can shape shift, change color and texture on the fly to blend in with its surroundings to become either predator or defend itself from becoming prey.
In one experiment we see an octopus wrap its tentacles around a screw-top jar that has a crab inside it. In slow but determined fashion, the octopus successfully opens the jar to get to its prey. The jar is unlike anything it would encounter in the wild - the octopus has used cognitive reasoning, not instinct, to catch its well-deserved lunch.
The octopus has lived side-by-side with humankind from our earliest days. But it's only now that we're beginning to unravel the animal's secrets, and the extent of its formidable brain-power.
Watch as an octopus slips out of its tank and slithers casually across a concrete floor. Is it making a break for freedom? Not at all. It knows that its prey is just a short distance away in another tank.
As we learn, the octopus can move on land as well as underwater and the little round trip it has taken is not just to get from point A to point B. It's also taking this little detour because it's curious about the world it is living in.
It's hard to believe that this animal is simply a mollusk. As far as his family tree goes, the octopus is more closely related to an oyster or a snail than to any other species of animal.
And yet, as octopuses behave like shape shifters, moving in and out of tiny openings to get their reward, they are working out solutions the way humans do.
They are able to think in the abstract.
Amazingly, with all its powerful traits, the octopus has never become king of the sea. Researchers think that it's because of the female's short life span.
They give up everything, including their life, for their eggs.
Just how has an animal that is so different from humans become so intelligent?
From Spain to Vancouver Island and finally to Capri, Italy, follow scientists as they try to understand how the octopus has evolved to have such intelligence, even by our standards.
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Agelbert NOTE: The high intelligence of the Octopus, a cephalopod, makes a mockery of the Phenetics (overall similarities) based taxonomy that evolutionist Darwin worshipping scientists have relegated it to in the mollusk family. The claim that the short life span has limited its intellectual development is pure speculation. Another cephalopod called the Chambered Nautilus, known as a "living fossil" because it, uh, hasn't "evolved" for millions and millions of years , is VERY LONG LIVED.
A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda such as a squid, octopus or nautilus.
The Chambered Nautilus has not gotten any smarter, despite its longevity.
Unlike most other cephalopods that have a short life span, the chambered nautilus can live 16 or more years.
Chambered nautili are known as living fossils because they have remained virtually unchanged for millions of years.In 1997-98 paleontologists used DNA techniques to compare tissues from today's animals to those of millions-of-years-old fossil nautiloids, dating to the time when California and Washington State were under the ocean. These studies confirmed the belief that the species Nautilus pompilius is a living fossil. The chambered nautilus (Allonautilus and Nautilus species) is the only living descendent of a group of ocean creatures that thrived in the seas 500 million years ago when the earth's continents were still forming. It is even older than the dinosaurs!
http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/onlinelearningcenter/species/chambered_nautilus
Quote from: Palloy2 on June 03, 2018, 08:55:56 pm
AG: The high intelligence of the Octopus, a cephalopod, makes a mockery of the Phenetics (overall similarities) based taxonomy that evolutionist Darwin worshipping scientists have relegated it to in the mollusk family.
"Relegated" is your disparaging word, not the words used by "Darwinian worshiping scientists". Grouping creatures by overall similarities was a good idea, proposed by Linnaeus in 1735 and still in use today. No one embarrassed if the Linnean taxonomy has to be revised. At the time the mechanism for HOW offspring came to be like their parents was unknown, but was later shown to be by the mixing of genes in DNA. Techniques for gene mapping have shown the octopus shares a great many genes with other members of the mollusc family, even more with squids and even more amongst the various species of octopus. No one is embarrassed about the mollusc linkage, and the outrage over Homo being closely related to Pongo, Pan and Gorilla as proposed by Darwin was overcome by the weight of evidence in favour of it, as opposed to the hubris of religious teachings.
Humans don't know (yet) how we acquired curiosity, so obviously we don't know how octopuses acquired it. But whatever the mechanism, we would expect to find it in both Homo and Octopoda. It will involve DNA, no doubt.
I am painfully familiar with the incredibly simple minded and reductionist Linnaeus system of Taxonomy, Mr. Pedant. I had "discussions" with my Zoology teacher about the classification of arachnids versus the insects, something I won't go into now. A "good idea" needs to be ejected when it is proven erroneous in many areas. The fact that it is still, largely (the DNA studies have shown many species to be wrongly classified ) in use today is a testament, not to its importance and validity, but to the rigidity of the ivory tower academics backing it. Of course, you are most certain that they know what they are talking about and rushed to the defense of these "paragons of honesty and scientific acumen".
Your comment is interesting. I am allegedly unreasonably "disparaging" in my comment but you, by repeatedly expressing gross general assumptions about taxonomy and species lineage with "no one is embarrassed" or thinks this or that but those mentally stunted by "hubris" filled religious teachings is, of course, not offensive or disparaging. It is clear you did not watch the entire video. If you had, you would not be making such statements.
On the one hand you are "humble" enough to admit that humans "don't know" how we acquired curiosity, but finish your display of "humility" with the professorially pedantic, "no doubt". It must be nice to live in a pretzel world logic of such amazing asurrance about what is, and what is not "known". So, DNA will give us the answer, will it? Deoxyribonucleic acid is in every single cell of living organisms, so I would beg to differ. The answer, if and when they find it, will probably be in the signaling and storage biochemistry of Cephalopod neurons in which a similar matrix pattern to human thought exists, but I'm sure they will check with you first before publishing the paper to make sure Darwininan worship of Evolution Theory is not compromised.
Palloy, you are an amazing fellow. Have a nice day and try watching the full video when you get a chance.
AG: So, DNA will give us the answer, will it? Deoxyribonucleic acid is in every single cell of living organisms, so I would beg to differ. The answer, if and when they find it, will probably be in the signaling and storage biochemistry of Cephalopod neurons in which a similar matrix pattern to human thought exists, ...
That doesn't make sense.
DNA controls how all cells develop and work, so if the answer is to be found in octopus neurons' networks, then of course it is going to be due to DNA.
Perhaps it doesn't make sense to YOU because you are fixated on nature instead of environment in regard to the development of intelligence. Of course the code of the genetics will produce the general pattern, BUT, the pattern must be observed biochemically BEFORE embryology studies to find out exactly WHICH Gene coding sequence is involved in the process of commanding the manufacture of the neuronic network. It is quite possible that only a certain ENVIRONMENT will stimulate latent intelligence activity while the absence of said environment will not in two genetically identical octopus cephalods. THAT was what the neuroscientist was suspecting in the video.
https://youtu.be/GJor1sk_JDI
The octopus is apparently ADAPTING to new environmental conditions from a PRE-EXISTING genetic code. THAT is NOT "evolution". There is NO NEW DNA. That is ADAPTATION.
Evolutionists have a penchant for deliberately confusing adaptation with evolution. That is understandable. They have great difficulties with DNA sequences that just SAT THERE (they used to be called them "nonsence or junk" DNA until they were embarrassed into no longer calling this fully functional, though not always protein coding, DNA as an integral part of the original organism) for no reason. This previously silent DNA suddenly begins coding up some adaptation when triggered by the environment.
"Dormant" DNA is anathema to evolutionists for obvious reasons. If there is no CHANGE in DNA = no
mutation = no evolution = a package NOT the result of small mutations = intelligent design) the evolutionists would have to stop being atheists. We can't have that, now can we?
Quote from: Palloy2 on June 04, 2018, 03:42:15 am
I watched the video, I had seen something like it before anyway, and I don't remember anything like that being discussed. Adaptation to change, with the existing DNA, is not evolution. The intelligence was always potentially there. So there was no "development of intelligence". Since all octopuses were found to have this intelligence, there would be no relatively successful smart octopuses to have a new generation of smarter octopuses.
I think the answer is that no environment has turned up which makes smartness more successful, so evolution hasn't had anything to work with.
Well, you have a bad memory.
Adaptation to change, with the existing DNA, is not evolution.
Yeah, that's what I said. Is there an echo in here?
The intelligence was always potentially there. So there was no "development of intelligence".
Yes there was . Octopuses living in groups are learning from older octopuses. The experiments proved tey ARE getting smarter. But, I can understand your Neo-Darwinian standard for "smarter" REQUIRES new DNA passed on to a subsequent generation for that to be the "real deal", so to speak. You refuse to accept the SAME DNA package can produce smarter octpopuses. So, you come up with the following Syllogistic statement to defend your "evolution is the only solution" Procrustean Bed.
Since all octopuses were found to have this intelligence, there would be no relatively successful smart octopuses to have a new generation of smarter octopuses.
A Procrustean bed is an arbitrary standard to which exact conformity is forced. In Edgar Allan Poe's influential crime story "The Purloined Letter" (1844), the private detective Dupin uses the metaphor of a Procrustean bed to describe the Parisian police's overly rigid method of looking for clues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes
Again, you missed the entire point of the observations in the video. Octopuses are typically loners. The octopuses observed are NOW living in grooups, something they never have been previously observed to do. This enables the young octopuses to learn from the older, more experienced ones, something that has hitherto not been possible because a female octopus dies as soon as her brood can swim. Thus they have ALWAYS relied totally on instinct to hunt and hide.
NOW, things are changing. NOW the young octopuses, which are GENETICALLY IDENTICAL to the previous ones that did not live in groups, are showing EVIDENCE of increased intelligence in prey seeking ability.
Tell me, Palloy, why do you have such difficulty grasping non-evolutionary adaptation concepts?
Palloy: ... evolution hasn't had anything to work with
Poor Mr. "Evolution". Your god hasn't had "anything to work with". How amazingly presumptive, as well as reductionist, of you to ASS-U-ME that the only possible explanation for a new "evolutionary" advantage a species obtains, such as added intelligence, is "evolution".
Sir, you are STUCK in a neo-Darwinian mental straight jacket that refuses to accept that a pre-existing functional bit of DNA coding can be activated by new environmental stresses.   
As usual, you are parroting the "evolution solution" mantra that will not accept a new advantage is real unless said advantage has been proven to be passed onto the offspring in the form of a mutation. It is simply impossible for you to accept that a new advantage DOES NOT have to be "passed on", because it was latently THERE and ALREADY being passed on, in the original DNA package.
Your tired "the ones who don't have it die off and the ones who have it dominate" does not apply here simply because the less social octopuses that don't learn from the more experienced octopuses are genetically identical to the ones that DO learn and dominate.
I remember when my Zoology Prof calmly stated that a crocodile having two penises was an "evolutionary advantage". That was the best joke I had heard in a long time. But, you probably cannot figure out why I think that is so funny, can you?
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Hearst's King Features Syndicate is expanding its global licensing reach this year and actively looking for new IP.
The Oneida Group sells most of its tabletop foodservice division, which markets flatware, dinnerware, and barware, to Crown Brands. The company recently brought the Oneida retail flatware business back into the fold, ending a licensing arrangement with Robinson Home Products that existed since 2009.
The Zippo Manufacturing Co. acquires substantially all of the assets of Northern Lights Enterprises, a designer of luxury candles and artisan-made accessories sold across the U.S.
Walmart signs a deal with Fanatics to bring licensed sports apparel and merchandise to the chain's online platform. Fan Shop by Fanatics will sell hundreds of thousands of items featuring professional sports leagues such as the NFL, NBA, and MLB.
United Talent Agency (UTA) acquires influencer firm Digital Brand Architects (DBA), bringing DBA's roster of fashion, beauty, and lifestyle clients into its fold. Included in the deal are DBA's subsidiary Digital Brand Products, which makes and markets licensed products for DBA's clients, and Dear Media, DBA's female-forward podcast studio. DBA will continue to operate as an independent company under CEO Raina Penchansky, Partner & EVP Brand Partnerships Reesa Lake, and Partner & EVP Talent Management Vanessa Flaherty who lead a team of more than 50 employees.
Ithaca Holdings, a media holding company led by SB Projects founder Scooter Braun who counts Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Zac Brown Band, Dan & Shay and Tori Kelly as clients, acquires Richard Stumpf's Atlas Music Publishing, home to songs by artists Ed Sheeran, Drake, Nicki Minaj, John Legend, and Van Halen, among others.
Former Sears Holdings Chairman Eddie Lampert emerges as the final owner of the embattled retailer. An affiliate of his hedge fund, ESL Investments, acquired for $5.2 billion substantially all go-forward assets including 223 Sears and 202 Kmart stores along with the Kenmore, DieHard, and Craftsman brands and the Sears Home Services, Sears Auto Centers, and Innovel businesses. The new Sears has roughly $400 million in excess funds that it will use to pay off liabilities, invest in small store formats, and foster new partnerships among other things. The company is looking for a CEO; in the meantime, the operation is being led by a management team that includes CFO Robert Riecker, Chief Digital Officer Leena Munjal, and President Softlines Greg Ladley.
Former Toys"R"Us executives are reviving the toy chain. Former TRU chief merchant Richard Barry is the President & CEO of a new firm called Tru Kids Inc., which holds ownership rights to the Toys"R"Us, Babies"R"Us, and Geoffrey the Giraffe marks, as well as over 20 (formerly private label) consumer brands. The company is now wholesaling brands like Imaginarium, Journey Girls, Avigo, Koala Baby, Fast Lane, True Heroes, Animal Zone, You & Me, Bruin, and Just Like Home. Toys"R"Us and Babies"R"Us generated over $3 billion in global retail sales in 2018 through more than 900 stores and ecommerce businesses across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
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Fantasy football game www.oulala.com have revealed the Premier League's top ten players to have completed the most successful passes this season and a surprise player currently leads the pack.
Bournemouth's Andrew Surman has completed 1,073 successful passes in the Premier League, the most by any player in English football's top flight. The 29-year-old is currently outperforming the likes of Cesc Fàbregas, Mesut Özil and Yaya Touré.
The South African-born midfielder has registered a healthy 86 per cent pass completion, created 24 chances and registered one assist for the Cherries this term.
Everton's Gareth Barry sits second in the table having completed 1,055 successful passes.
Last season's top passer in the Premier League, Cesc Fàbregas, finds himself third this season. At this stage in the 2014/15 season, the Spaniard had successfully completed 1,373 passes. However, after the opening 20 games this term, the 28-year-old has only managed to register 1,048 successful passes.
Arsenal boast three players to feature in the top ten. Mesut Özil and Santi Cazorla claim fifth and sixth, while Aaron Ramsey takes tenth spot.
The top ten is heavily dominated by midfielders, however two defenders make the grade. Swansea City captain Ashley Williams finds himself seventh having made 996 successful passes, while Daley Blind is the Premier League's ninth best passer.
You have to go all the way down to eighty-third spot to find a forward. Alexis Sánchez has completed 522 successful passes in the Premier League this season, the most by any striker.


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Technological and business innovations require a single thing – staying always up-to-date. In the modern world, where there are over 600 exclusive programming languages, and choosing the one that will bring success to your project may be quite difficult. Therefore, before you make a certain decision, you need to learn the list of the most popular programming languages, their specifications, advantages, and drawbacks.
IT specialists should be very careful while choosing the one to learn in 2019-2020. The newest tendencies, functionality, and perspectives should be taken into account. Following the statistics, there are several most successful and effective programming languages that gained popularity and became widely used. No matter if you are a successful and experienced software developer who is in search of new ideas or just a beginner, you need to consider several important factors that may influence the choice of which programming language to learn:
The high salary a developer may get;
Comparative simplicity of use and learning;
Competition, which means IT specialists may be more in demand;
The popularity that will open new doors and guarantee a better perspective.
#1. Swift
This is one of the most popular and widely-used programming languages for the development of Mac OS and iOS apps. Despite it is relatively new, it has the highest potential for reshaping the future. Released in 2014, it became an immediate hit and was considered to be a significant improvement, especially in terms of performance and usability if compared with the previously offered languages.
Native applications can outperform usual cross-platform hybrid apps while building 2D games became even easier. Basically, Swift is based on the success of Objective-C and C, but without any constraints of compatibility. Besides, the language was seriously influenced by Python and Ruby, so it incorporates all the positive features of both, especially user-friendliness and simplicity of use.
Generally, Swift is simple to maintain, and it operates as a top-level solution. So, if you work mainly with Apple products, this is the exact coding language you need to learn and practice. Automatic reference counting is one of the most important and innovative features of Swift, which tracks down and controls the memory usage of the application in real time. Consequently, applications and programs created in this language will not take much memory. Actually, Swift is preferred by programmers, and it is in the top 5 list of languages mainly appreciated by mobile app developers.
Source: https://medium.com/@mindfiresolutions.usa/the-evolution-of-swift-29e7a89f1a0c
It's good to know that Swift is used to develop the newest, coolest and most useful applications, among which are WordPress and Firefox for iOS, SoundCloud client, PixPic (photo editing tool), Charter (open-source mailing list), Swift radio, Artsy (art auction app) and Silence music app – best music sync application, which allows listening to music on the mobile device with friends just at the same time. Search for various tracks and listen to them completely for free. Silence music app allows watching any videos from YouTube, disable video stream to save up on data, play music even if you lock phone's screen. Besides, you can connect to a Bluetooth speaker and make the immersive sound even louder.
#2. Typescript
Typescript is an object-oriented, compiled and strongly typed language that was designed by Microsoft. Striving to understand its key features, it is important to mention that it is a superset of JavaScript. These coding languages are similar, while Typescript has a range of new functions and extra features. It offers lots of up-to-date opportunities, as it is both a language and a set of excellent tools that are not only easy to learn but also convenient to use. The main advantages of Typescript specified by professionals include strong static typing, compilation, the support of object-oriented programming and type definitions. It is widely used for the development of web applications, and the most popular one written in Typescript is Microsoft Visual Studio.
#3. Python
Looking for programming languages to learn in 2019-2020, due attention should be paid to the general purpose one that has gained ultimate popularity and can be found literally everywhere today. Python is an appreciated, simple and quality language used for the development of desktop applications, machine learning, web applications, network servers, and media tools.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/8pwfih/ive_only_just_realized_the_two_snakes_in_the/
Python features a readable, neat and well-structured code that is used by big players, such as Google and NASA. BitTorrent, Blender and a range of other famous applications were written in it. It is also impossible to forget about a diversity of data analyses and machine learning libraries Python is equipped with.
#4. Kotlin
This comparatively new but highly functional programming language combines the excellence of technical and functional spheres. Being greatly influenced by Java and JavaScript, this language will be a great promotion for web-developers, who already work with two mentioned languages. The specific features of Kotlin influence code safety, clarity to the developers and interoperability. Generally, it is easy to learn, and it seems to have a bright and successful future. Swift Cleaner is one of the first applications that were written in Kotlin.
#5. NodeJS/Javascript
Following the statistics, Javascript is an ultimate hit and the most popular programming language ever existing on the IT market. Over 60% of respondents claimed they were using it. Irrespective of certain programming language trends, NodeJS, also known as JavaScript, remains the dominant one. Learning Javascript can open a whole range of programming perspectives and web-development alternatives. A range of world-known applications and web platforms are written in JavaScript, with the most popular being Netflix, Uber, PayPal, eBay, and many others.
#6. Java
Contrary to other programming languages, Java is one of the top practical choices that can be used for the creation of useful and highly functional programs and platforms. Along with JavaScript, it is one of the most demanded languages, with over 90% of Fortune 500 companies using it to develop desktop apps and backend systems.
Source: https://www.javatpoint.com/features-of-java
It is exceptionally useful for those, who are in search of promotion in the sphere of data developing, system engineering, Android development, and similar niches. There is a constant flow of Java job positions, which means that learning Java in 2019-2020 is a perfect decision for a prosperous career. IntelliJ Idea, Poseidon, Aqua Data Studio and a whole range of other applications were written in Java.
#7. C#
Striving to specify a single one from the list of best programming language to learn in the upcoming years, it is necessary to realize all the possible difficulties. Each one of them has its specifications and can be useful for certain types of web developers. Considering C#, it's inevitable to mention that it is a well-known and highly-used coding language designed by Microsoft. The multi-paradigm and general purpose solution was used for the development of a great number of applications on the Microsoft platform. Simplicity and ease of use were the main priorities of C# developers, and it reads close to English. Learning the coding language will not be very difficult and will not take much time, while a whole range of new opportunities will be opened, ranging from mobile apps up to web services. Angry Birds, the popular game known and played all around the world, is one of the brightest examples of the application programmed in C#.
#8. PHP
Thanks to WordPress, PHP remains exceptionally popular and widely used. Around 80% of the top 10 million social media and other websites use PHP as the programming language. Facebook, Yahoo, and Wikipedia are examples of the excellent use of PHP for the development of huge search engines and social networking websites.
Source: https://www.atharvasystem.com/php-web-development-services.html
This language doesn't presuppose strict rules on how to build certain features; instead, it is characterized by high flexibility in the process of problem-solving. PHP is one of the top programming languages used by freelancers to create quality content. Thus, if you are a web developer, learning PHP is obligatory for a successful career.
#9. Go
This open source programming language is supported by Google. Go was released in 2011, and since then it has gained great popularity among web developers. The main peculiarities of Go that are appreciated by the vast majority of people include speed, safety, and simplicity of programming. It may become a perfect language to learn, as it is appreciated by such famous companies as Intel, Adobe, IBM, and Medium. A range of famous applications was written in Go. Generally, the language is modern, easy to work with, highly functional and safe. The only guarantee you can get is the fast result of your hard work.
#10. Ruby
Being one of the most loved and appreciated coding languages around, Ruby features user-friendliness and ultimate simplicity of use. A well-written Ruby programming code looks similar to a traditional English sentence, though its functionality and efficiency are much better. The career as Ruby developer is a great choice, as it is well-paid and satisfying for a programmer. A web developer gets an opportunity to unveil real hits like Amarok and other programs already written in Ruby.
#11. SQL
SQL is an important language that helps to operate databases, and it features fetching rows, database creation, modifying rows, deletion, and other functions. Basically, SQL is a standard language that is used for storing, manipulation and retrieving data within the database. Microsoft SQL Server is, probably, the best example of successful language use.
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#12. C and C++
Original C and C++ as its developed version remain popular and highly functional, irrespective of the great number of quality alternatives on the modern market. If you know these languages, you are ready to prosper in the field of web development. eBay, Spotify, and Dropbox are only several examples of successful programs developed in C, while Adobe and Oracle were created in C++.
The Most Popular Hybrid Mobile App Frameworks for UI/UX Designers
Anders Jackson
First, enumerate programming languages is hard. So a good try. But... 1) NodeJS isn't JavaScript, as it could be understood by the text. It is a framework written for JavaScript. 2) SQL isn't a programming language. It doesn't have the features needed by a programming language, like integrations. It is a query languages. Except for those, a good article.


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Q: Cannot get a BSTR in VB6 dll from a referenced C++ dll Let me start off by saying that VB is not my strong suit.
I am developing a C++ dll to be used in a VB6 application's dll.
I have successfully instantiated the (C++) classes in VB. I am trying to access data members of the class using this syntax: "vbCppObj.dataMemberName".
I can confirm that this works for boolean and enum types and it invokes the getter methods defined in my class.
I have to access a string from the (C++) class as well.
The getter function for the string is given below:
class MyCPPClass
{
private:
WCHAR* CPPErrorString = L"This is a string";

public:
HRESULT __stdcall get_CPPErrorString(BSTR* pVal)
{
BSTR str = ::SysAllocString(CPPErrorString);
if(str)
*pVal = str;
return S_OK;
}
};

I am unable to debug the C++ dll right now.
I access this value in the VB6 code as follows:
ErrorString = vbCppObj.CPPErrorString
Logger.log "[Log]:" & ErrorString

"ErrorString" is a String type in VB. When this line executes, the "ErrorString" object shows "<Out of memory>" (when I hover over it). If I step further, to the logging code, it gives me a "Error 14: Out of string space".
Also, I have typed this code in the browser so, it may not be 100% correct.

A: As it turns out, I had to convert the string into a "_b_str" and then to a "BSTR". That worked for me.
I had tried it earlier but I don't know why it didn't work at that time.

A: Why you just don't use LPCTSTR?
I'm not an advanced C/C++ programmer, but this should work
class MyCPPClass
{
    private:
        LPCTSTR CPPErrorString = "This is a string";

    public:
        HRESULT __stdcall get_CPPErrorString(LPCTSTR * pVal)
        {
            // copy the value
            *pVal = CPPErrorString;

            // return
            return S_OK;
        }
}


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52 Ancestors, No. 26: Aunt Ceil, and the Life of a Family Photo
tags: 52 Ancestors, consumption, Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Family History, genealogy, GIMP, Jewish, Photo Restoration, Photohop, tuberculosis
As a young girl, my mother discovered in a closet a plaque that eerily bore her own name, Celia Anflick, along with birth and death dates. It was a metal plaque that my mother described as the sort of thing one might see hung in a mausoleum. Of course, the plaque was not my mother's memorial from a past life. Rather, it was a memorial to an aunt whom my mother would never meet.
Later on, my mother would salvage the photo above from among the possessions of her Aunt Rose, who had lived with my mother's family for a short time and kept a lot of sundries there. My mother kept the photo in a special place because she appreciated having a relative who shared her name. The name Celia is actually common, traditional name for girls in my mother's family. In addition to his sister, my grandfather had two cousins who went by that name. My grandfather kept this tradition by naming my mother Celia, but he always called her by her full given name, Celia Ellen. Nobody called my mother Ceil until she met my father, who called her by that name. In my mother's childhood household, the name Ceil referred to Aunt Ceil, that is, my grandfather's sister.
The Celias of generations past kept Simbria as a Hebrew name, and this Ceil appears that way in the 1920 census and also in her father's naturalization papers. Inexplicably, Ceil's name appears as Lottie on her birth certificate, and, in Hebrew, as Zlata on her gravestone monument.
I believe this is now the only picture I've seen of Aunt Ceil, although my mother's cousin, Melodee, might have others. Like many Anflick family photos I've seen, this photo was at one time glued into a photo album of black pages and later torn from that album by unknown agents. I suspect that some of the damage to the photo resulted from that trauma, and remnants of the black paper remain on the back of the photo. The ravaged and unbound remains of that album are now in a tin box Melodee's possession. I imagine that the album was compiled while my grandfather's family was all together. As siblings moved away, I imagine they each took parts of the album with them. As my grandfather's siblings each passed on, I imagine many of the photos have reverted to that album. The result of this imagined process is a tin box containing a tattered photo album together with a plethora of loose, well-loved, and well-traveled family photos, many with glue and bits of black paper on the back.
A common sight on the backs of Anflick family photos.
Aunt Rose ostensibly claimed the photo of Ceil above, which remained in my mother's possession and therefore never reverted to the album. The photo appears to have been manipulated in two separate events. First, Ceil is swaddled in a splotchiness that obscures both of her arms. Although it looks to me like someone carelessly slathered dark paint on the photo, those splotches are, in fact, a part of the print. I have no idea who arranged that, or how, or why. I may in the future attempt to restore arms of some kind to this photo, but that risks potentially misrepresenting history.
Aunt Ceil suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis, otherwise known as consumption, and spent some time at the Deborah Sanitarium in Browns Mills, New Jersey, now better known as the Deborah Heart and Lung Center. This was a retreat of sorts, as Deboah's history page explains:
Legend has it that Deborah's rural Burlington County location was key to recovery because of therapeutic pine barren air. In reality, thousands of TB patients were medically treated and successfully cured by Deborah physicians.
Her disease was called consumption on account of its tendency to consume its victims. The result is often an emaciated look that you can see illustrated here. I hear that the photo above may have been taken while Ceil was in treatment at the sanitarium. I can't know, but the splotches might have been placed intentionally to hide an unhealthy appearance. Although she spent most of her time in treatment at the Deborah Sanitarium in New Jersey, Ceil returned to Philadelphia for her final days. She died at Philadelphia general Hospital at the age of twenty-one on the April 26, 1936. She is buried at Montifiore Cemetery in Rockledge.
Beyond the splotches, the photo had been drawn upon with pencil by another unknown agent, possibly Aunt Rose. The original photograph is quite blurry, and the pencil marks add detail in some places, such as the spaces between Ceil's fingers and the pupils of her eyes. I left these added details in my restoration. In other places, the pencil marks serve no apparent purpose. On the left side of the picture, for example, some lighter portions of the picture had been colored in dark. I removed these markings when I could.
I don't know much about Aunt Ceil's personality. My mother said that her father would never talk about her. He was thirteen years old when Ceil died. My mother's Aunt Perri was two years younger than my grandfather. According to my mother's cousin, Melodee, Perri remembered Ceil dancing around the house in a top hat, so it seems like Ceil had some of the Anflick performers' genes.
My mother told me that her father had a compulsion toward killing germs. This might have resulted from losing Ceil and another older sibling, Albert, to tuberculosis. My grandfather would bathe at least twice a day, and often three. He insisted on opening the window curtains and shades all the time, to promote good health by letting as much sunlight as possible into the house. Lastly, he sternly admonished his children to get their faces off of the floor when laying around the house. To this day my mother gets perturbed when my nieces and nephew lay on the floor with their faces on it. Get your faces off the floor, kids!
Celia's monument at Montefiore Cemetery. The Hebrew text reads: Here lies Miss Zlata, daughter of Isaac, died on the day [Hebrew date]. may her soul be bound up in the bond of eternal life (abbreviated).
Many thanks to my mother and cousin Melodee for the photographs and memories, and also to Miss Ariel Gornizky for her help translating the monument.
UPDATES, 7/4/2014: On the condition of her mother's photo album, Melodee writes,
the history of the scrap book is not quite as good a story as you imagined. My mother kept that book from the time she was a child. It was destroyed by someone I no longer have contact with who took it apart to videotape it, and carelessly gave it back to me in pieces. My mother was not happy and neither was I… thus the tin to keep the pieces together.
I like my imagination better.
Furthermore, my uncle Ishaq clarified over the telephone that Sembria is more likely a variant of a Ukranian regional name with origins in the Cimmerians. I didn't quite catch how he discovered that nugget, but he'll let me know, I'm sure. It makes sense, because Zlata is surely a Hebrew name. That name is, after all, written in Hebrew on her gravestone. So let's say this: Zlata was her Hebrew name, Sembria was her Ukranian name, and Celia was her american name. Got it?
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