Why is it so difficult to let go? How do I make peace with being a virtual stranger to my grandkids? Why, even in the face of indefensible abuse, can't I make a clean break?
Recently, I vowed to 'walk away' from the insanity of my son's and his wife's unreasonable and offensive demands. I've been working on letting go cognitively, emotionally and spiritually. Some days I feel strong and I'm able to put my son and his family out of my thoughts. Other days, without warning, grief will suddenly puncture my heart.
This situation isn't black or white. For example, I'm told that I may communicate electronically with the kids. This makes no sense to me, since I'm not allowed to see them in person, but I do it because it's all I've got. I occasionally receive texts from my son and/or a grandchild. When that happens, I am heartened by their communication and cautiously optimistic that things might be changing. Inevitably, though, I realize that my optimism is misguided, because I find myself accepting only bittersweet crumbs.
This is an intermittent reinforcement system. Like playing a slot machine, I'm allowing myself to be manipulated..
When my son contacted me in the past, it wasn't with the intention of healing our fractured relationship, but to satisfy some other agenda. I used to knock myself out analyzing his and his wife's behaviors and possible motives, but, ultimately, I gave up trying to read their minds or rationalize their actions. It was a pointless exercise and only made me crazy.
It would never have occurred to me to treat my parents or any elders with the disrespect that I have received from my son and daughter-in-law. What the hell happened to my son? Where did I fail him when teaching the importance of respect and kindness?
Taking my grandchildren away from me was an appalling and unholy act. There are no winners in this dysfunctional dynamic. Even though my daughter-in-law got what she wanted by rendering me powerless, she also loses because she has been unkind and unforgiving. I'm convinced that, in his heart of hearts, my son isn't proud of his part in all this and is upset by it. And, the kids are being cheated out of a relationship with their grandmother. No one wins, everyone loses.
I believe that it would be best to detach, let go and walk away, but it's difficult because there is no closure on this sort of thing. Estrangement just keeps going on and on, with no funeral, no eulogy, no burial. It's so damned ambiguous and heart-rending.
ALL expressed just what I am going thru & feeling. IF it were not for grand c's–the joys of my life, I could close the door for self-preservation, but this is torture. Peace & blessings to all.
This is beyond uncanny – I literally could have written this and I'm going thru the same hell on earth. I'm so encouraged by your advice and I am making progress as time goes by. My therapist likened my situation to a funeral – I miss my grandson more than words can describe and I worry about his little heart and how this is affecting him. He is 5 and I have been a constant in his world since birth. We were completely and beautifully bonded and my daughter decided after she got sober a year ago that I'm not fit to be in their lives – she says she's ending the "codependent" relationship. All I ever did was love her unconditionally and lavish my grandson with a loving and nurturing environment.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings. I'm so sorry that you are going through this as well. It's a very heart wrenching experience, not only because of the obvious losses but because it just keeps going on and on without any resolution or healing.
Surround yourself with positive,loving people and know that your life is important and you have worth.
You're in my prayers, also.
Thank you for writing and thank you for your prayers. I will also send prayers for improvement in your situation.


Having drawn both inspiration and funding from Airbnb's founder, the three 18-year-olds behind FlightCar are now facing Airbnb-style problems, too. On Wednesday, the airport car-sharing startup launched a new app and service at Los Angeles Airport, just a day after the Millbrae, Calif., City Council voted to revoke the company's permit and shut down its San Francisco-area headquarters.
Still, the vote illustrates the friction that peer-to-peer companies such as FlightCar, Airbnb, and RelayRides face in helping people rent out their cars and homes or offer paid rides to strangers. San Francisco is also suing FlightCar over lost fees, taxes, and practices such as curb-side drop-off that seem to give it an edge. The startup also operates at Boston's Logan Airport, where officials say they're watching how events unfold in San Francisco. Airbnb faces similar scrutiny from regulators, who say the site enables consumers to run illegal hotels while depriving the government of tax revenue.
Meanwhile, insurers say the people who use FlightCar's car-sharing services may discover they're not covered when something goes wrong. FlightCar, for one, had three cars stolen by users; they were later recovered.
For FlightCar fans, that's a small risk next to its promise of free parking, cleaning, and a ride to the airport in exchange for allowing access to your car as a low-cost rental. The company guarantees fees ranging from $150 to $400 for owners who leave their cars for a month. Even so, Petrovic says three-quarters of the vehicles come from people dropping them off for shorter stints in return for 5¢ to 20¢ per mile. If the car isn't rented, the owner just gets the free parking and spruce-up.
To renters, the lure is lower rates, free GPS and infant seats, and free insurance. The combination clearly appeals to such backers as Ryan Seacrest, Reddit's Alex Ohanian, and Airbnb's Brian Chesky. San Francisco, where FlightCar gets 65 percent of its revenue, has been decidedly less enthusiastic. Less than four months after three teenagers launched the service, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Hererra sued the company for violating airport regulations around pickups and refusing to pay appropriate fees. While the company actively promotes its association with the airport, it allegedly set up shop without obtaining the appropriate permits before moving to Millbrae.


woahh so many vegetarians @Birdeye @lokifish @May_ but it's true being vegetarian you generally eat healthier in my perspective.
Thanks everyone it's been a great chat! Goodnight!!
I'm also heading off now... it's been such an incredibly insightful, entertaining chat! Thanks so much everyone for joining in - we've had so many posters tonight!
Thanks everyone for a great GR!


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polish insomniac: The Best of my Halloween Link Party!
Thank you to everyone who participated in my Link Party! I tried to visit each and every one of your sites, I hope I didn't miss anyone! Without further ado, here are the Top 3 Posts that were submitted. You can click on each of the pictures to go directly to the post.
I am in love with this mani by Amy, aka @GothamPolish!
This is by a new-to-me blogger, Fingers! I love the colors she used.
The splatter mani has been done before, but for some reason Pauline's take on it blows me away!


Two of my favorite yoga teachers, Krissy Jones and Chloe Kernaghan from Yoga Vida opened their own studio in Chinatown and it's totally worth the trek through Canal Street. The studio as gorgeous as they are. I went to the Saturday morning class taught by both Krissy and Chloe and I cannot recommend it enough! They have a new student, two week unlimited membership for $20.
Although the studio is at the mouth of the Manhattan Bridge and pretty inconvenient for everyone I've talked to, it's worth it! At least, you aren't in Brooklyn. As an added bonus, you are close to healthy food spot Dimes.
The best part is even with all this fabulous press and awesome studio, Krissy & Chloe haven't lost their down-to-earth style of teaching. They are funny, sticklers for technique, and always have a good playlist.


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In Bid To Present New Avatar, Congress Fields 70% Fresh Faces In UP Polls
Congress's Priyanka Gandhi has hand-picked over 70% new faces among 166 candidates in UP
Lucknow:
Making a conscious effort to shun the old baggage and present her party in a 'new avatar' in Uttar Pradesh, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has hand-picked over 70 per cent new faces among the total 166 candidates for the high-stakes state assembly election.
Besides sticking to her promise of 40 per cent women candidates, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has overwhelmingly given a chance to debutants with an aim to build a new leadership in the Hindi heartland, which had slipped from the party hands in recent years.
Uttar Pradesh is scheduled to have seven-phase polls for the 403 assembly constituencies beginning from February 10. The results will be out on March 10.
Of the total 166 names declared so far by the Congress, 119 candidates will be making their electoral debut, party spokesman Anshu Awasthi told news agency PTI.
With the candidature of Sangeeta Tyagi, wife of party leader late Rajiv Tyagi, from Sahibabad seat, Ms Gandhi Vadra has made an earnest effort to break the mould and create new leadership in the century-old party which has faded into political oblivion.
"Priyanka Gandhi has made an attempt to bring all those fighting on people's issues, be it regarding women, youth, farmers, backwards or dalits, to the forefront," Mr Awasthi said.
He said the list of candidates gives a clear vision of the party's effort to give a new direction to the state politics which has been suffering from caste and religion-based politics for years.
"Party tickets have been given to youth and those who are working strongly in their respective fields," the Congress spokesman said, adding that in the first list of 125 names, 26 candidates are those who are up to 35 years of age.
He said 55-year-old Asha Singh, mother of the Unnao rape victim; anti-CAA activist and party spokesperson Sadaf Jafar; ASHA worker and activist Poonam Pandey who fought for the rights of ASHA workers and was attacked at Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's programme at Shahjahanpur; Ram Raj Gond who fought for the rights of Adivasis in Sonbhadra; are all making their debut this election.
Similarly, Bhawana Valmiki, social activist from Hapur; Yasmin Rana from Charthawal; Salma Agha Ansari from Thakurdwara; Kalpana Singh from Bilari; Nafees Saifi from Meerut South; Sukhvinder Kaur from Saharanpur are among those who will be contesting for the first time.
Other women candidates in the Congress list are Ritu Singh from Mohammadi in Lakhimpur Kheri who was manhandled during the recent panchayat elections; Poonam Pandit from Syana who was an international shooter before working as a bouncer to Haryanvi dancer Sapna Chaudhari and later got associated with the farmers agitation.
Archana Gautam, who won Miss bikini 2018 and worked in south Indian films, from Hastinapur; and Avanish Kajala from Meerut Cantt are also in this list. Kajala is also the district unit president of the party.
The Congress had released the first list of 125 names on January 13 and the second list of 41 names on January 20.
Another party leader said fielding new faces will not only infuse fresh energy into the party, but also help tide over internal bickering which had been plaguing the organisation since long.
Releasing the first list, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had stated that the party has chosen such candidates who have struggled for seeking justice in Uttar Pradesh and the party wants them to come to the forefront and be a part of power in the state.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who has made it clear that she would be the party face in Uttar Pradesh, is faced with a daunting task to regain the party's lost glory.
The Congress had bagged only seven seats in the 2017 assembly polls, with two of the winning candidates having ditched the party for the BJP.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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A new Silent Hill or Metal Gear at E3 2019? Konami teasing "special announcement" and we are daring to dream
By Josh West 11 June 2019
Could Castlevania, Silent Hill or Metal Gear be revived at E3 2019? We have everything crossed
Konami is teasing a "special announcement" today, which could point to the legendary publisher getting back to the business of making games that we all want to play. It's been a bit quiet on the Konami front since Kojima Productions developed Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain released back in 2015 and Silent Hills was cancelled shortly thereafter, but we're hopeful that E3 2019 will change all of that.
While the company has been keeping up with the annual releases of Pro Evolution Soccer and has been quietly pumping out mobile titles, the recently release of a suite of Anniversary Collections could point to a publisher eager to get back to creating games for a core audience. Konami will be appearing on an E3 Twitch stream to make its "special announcement" at 5:30pm PDT / 8:30pm EST June 11 / 1:00am BST, June 12.
Of course, it could be anything but we are quietly hopeful that Konami could dive into its mountain of IPs and revive Castlevania, Metal Gear, or Silent Hill. It's about time too, given that sequels for all of these franchises are long overdue. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 released back in 2014 and Silent Hill: Downpour back in 2012. Metal Gear Survive did of course release in 2018, but the less said about that spin-off the better.
We'll know for certain later today and while we are trying our best not to get our hopes up, we do have everything crossed that this announcement will give fans what they have been asking after for so many years now – for Konami to return to doing what it does best, making bloody brilliant video games.
For more games announced this week, be sure to check out our list of the best E3 2019 games.
Josh West
Hello there! I'm the Features Editor for GamesRadar.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2


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Gov. to Be Paid $8 Million by Fitness Magazines
By Peter Nicholas and Robert Salladay
Times Staff Writers
SACRAMENTO —
Two days before he was sworn into office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger accepted a consulting job paying an estimated $8 million over five years to "further the business objectives" of a national publisher of health and bodybuilding magazines.
The contract pays Schwarzenegger 1% of the magazines' advertising revenue, much of which comes from makers of nutritional supplements. Last year, the governor vetoed legislation that would have imposed government regulations on the supplement industry.
According to records filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Schwarzenegger entered into the agreement with a subsidiary of American Media Inc. on Nov. 15, 2003. The Boca Raton, Fla.-based company publishes Muscle & Fitness and Flex magazines, among others.
Watchdog groups and state lawmakers called the contract -- which refers to Schwarzenegger as "Mr. S" -- a conflict of interest.
Larry Noble, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington, D.C., said: "This is one of the most egregious apparent conflicts of interest that I have seen. This calls into question his judgment as to who he is working for, and it calls into question what he thinks he owes the public."
He added: "For a governor to have ... contracted his decision-making and judgment to a company is a real conflict of interest."
The law allows governors and other elected officials to keep outside jobs. Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez (D-Los Angeles) has been paid $35,000 a year by the Voter Improvement Program in Los Angeles, a nonprofit organization created by the former president of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor.
A Schwarzenegger spokeswoman, Margita Thompson, said that his financial holdings were "probably the most complicated of any governor" and that he had complied with all laws for disclosing his income. She said the consulting contract presented "no conflict of interest" because Schwarzenegger did not solicit any advertising.
"The governor did not direct sales or marketing activities of American Media and did not have personal contact with any advertisers to generate the advertising revenue," Thompson said.
The contract calls for the governor to help the company through his own suggestions and by "being responsive to the reasonable requests" of Weider Publications, a subsidiary of American Media.
In a concession to Schwarzenegger's job as California governor, the agreement says that he is not compelled to work for the company during "normal business hours on business days."
"Mr. S shall seek in good faith to make himself available from time to time to Weider" -- after the workday or on weekends, the filing says.
As recently as a few days ago, American Media refused to say anything about Schwarzenegger's pay. The company filed an 83-page annual financial statement with the SEC last month that, in one paragraph, mentioned a consulting agreement with an unnamed "third party." Stuart Zakim, an American Media spokesman, refused to say whether the third party was Schwarzenegger.
American Media, which also owns the National Enquirer, the Globe and the Star tabloids, made public the terms of Schwarzenegger's contract in a separate SEC filing Wednesday.
The governor announced last year that he had agreed to become executive editor of Muscle & Fitness and Flex. He writes monthly columns for both, dictating them to the editorial staff of the magazines. The governor's office had declined to reveal his salary.
The SEC filing by American Media, which followed repeated inquiries by The Times, is the first public indication of the size of the contract. Schwarzenegger's financial disclosure statement covering 2004 shows that he received an undisclosed amount of income from American Media. But the state form calls for little specificity, requiring only that public officials report income in excess of $10,000. The statement offered no more detail. And unlike past governors, he has declined to make his tax returns public.
The contract shows that Schwarzenegger's firm, Oak Productions, gets 1% of the subsidiary's annual advertising revenue. It holds that "in no event" will payment be less than $1 million a year.
The agreement estimates that the governor's company will receive $2.15 million in fiscal year 2006; the same amounts in '07 and '08; and $1.7 million in '09. Those sums exceed the salary of the chairman and CEO of American Media, David J. Pecker, whose base pay this year is listed at $1.5 million.
American Media has also agreed to contribute $1.5 million over six years to one of the governor's tax-exempt groups: a physical fitness council launched this summer at Disney's California Adventure theme park. The chairman of the council is Austin M. Beutner, a director of American Media.
As a consultant, Schwarzenegger's role includes "advising on the direction of the" magazines and "otherwise helping in various ways to further the business objectives of the Weider business," the contract shows.
Weider Publications was started by longtime bodybuilding promoter and Schwarzenegger patron Joe Weider, who brought Schwarzenegger to the U.S. in 1968. Weider sold his magazines to AMI in 2003.
Schwarzenegger's two muscle magazines are crammed with ads for performance-enhancing dietary supplements promising chiseled bodies and surges of energy. The 257-page August issue of Muscle & Fitness contains 110 pages of ads for supplements, from creatine ethyl ester to anabolic/androgenic "absorption technology."
The governor used his regular column in the June issue of Muscle & Fitness to defend the supplement industry. He vowed to oppose any effort to restrict sales of the products in California, writing that he is "so energized to fight any attempt to limit the availability of nutritional supplements."
An article in the August issue of Muscle & Fitness said Schwarzenegger had "lent his support" to a new lobbying group that would work to promote nutritional supplements. "The governor also made it clear that he will remain a phone call away as the coalition progresses," the magazine said.
Schwarzenegger's office characterized the article as "hyperbole."
Last year, the governor vetoed a bill by state Sen. Jackie Speier (D-Hillsborough) that would have required coaches to take a course in performance-enhancing supplements, created a list of banned substances for interscholastic sports and barred supplement manufacturers from sponsoring school events. In his veto message, the governor said that most dietary supplements were safe and that Speier's bill would have been difficult to implement. He also said the bill unfairly focused on "performance-enhancing dietary supplements (PEDS) instead of focusing on ensuring that students participating in high school sports are not engaged in steroids use."
Speier said in an interview Wednesday: "I have got to believe the electorate will be incensed that he has this relationship, that he has not been upfront in disclosing it, that he has taken action on legislation that has an impact on the very industry from which he is indirectly receiving financial support."
Thompson said Schwarzenegger is committed full time to his job as governor: "We just signed a budget, and the governor has a reform agenda. I don't think anyone could dispute that he has been absolutely focused on his agenda and the state, from the media perspective, from the institutional perspective and from a civic perspective."
American Media's publications have been Schwarzenegger boosters since he formed a partnership with the company.
That wasn't always the case. The National Enquirer published an article in 2001 alleging that Schwarzenegger had had an extramarital affair. Two years later, just before Schwarzenegger signed the contract, American Media produced a 120-page glossy magazine called "Arnold, the American Dream."
In a new book about Schwarzenegger, author Laurence Leamer said the governor was aware that his contract with AMI would prompt the publisher to end any negative coverage of him. In the book, Schwarzenegger is quoted as saying: "Do you want to work with someone who you are attacking?"
For his pay, the governor's most public role is his monthly columns. A seven-time Mr. Olympia winner, he speaks with the magazine editors by phone every few weeks. They take notes, draft a column and send it to him for review, said Vincent Scalisi, editor-in-chief of Muscle & Fitness.
"Obviously, we know that he has a busy, full-time job," Scalisi said in an interview in recent months. "And we don't want to be a drain. But the reality is ... what a wonderful resource we have access to."


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Against The Odds, Bunkr Raises $1.4 Million For Its PowerPoint Killer
Romain Dillet	@romaindillet / 5 years
French startup Bunkr raised $1.4 million (€1 million) from Idinvest Partners, Deezer co-founder Daniel Marhely and Free founder Xavier Niel. When I first covered the online presentation service in August 2013, the company told me that it was about to begin raising a seed round. It took a while because French VCs didn't make it easy for the Rouen-based team.
"Idinvest rarely invests in seed rounds. It's relatively unusual for them, but they believe in the project," co-founder and CMO Édouard Petit told me in a phone interview. "In 15 months, we will know for sure what the perfect product experience and use case are. We will be able to continue the adventure at a bigger scale."
Yet, it wasn't what French VCs were looking for.
This is probably the most interesting part of the seed round — finding a VC firm that was willing to invest in Bunkr was nearly impossible. The company is part of startup accelerator TheFamily, and I dubbed Bunkr as "the PowerPoint killer we've all been waiting for" in my first profile.
Yet, it wasn't what French VCs were looking for. At the end of 2013, the team had pitched every single VC firm in France. Some of them waited a few weeks before saying no. One of them got as far as conducting a due diligence review — eventually the deal fell through. In another one, two partners fought in front of Bunkr.
In some way, seeing Bunkr struggling is very relevant and shows how French VCs shouldn't behave. It's perfectly fine that none of them wanted to invest. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against that. But VCs should give a clear answer after a couple of weeks, and do whatever is necessary within this relatively short time frame (multiple meetings, partner meetings, etc.). A few firms failed to do that.
In January 2014, when the team was ready to give up, an unexpected fund finally said yes — Idinvest. The fund doesn't focus on seed rounds, but participates in a round like that from time to time, for example with Criteo, Webedia or Talend. Due to legal contraints, it took a few extra months before signing the deal. Everything is done now.
You're in front of an audience when you make a presentation — it makes Bunkr intrinsically viral
To be fair, Bunkr didn't have sexy numbers with a clear path toward profitability — the company bet on its product, vision and team. Idinvest was the only one to buy it. According to the firm, Bunkr should now focus on attracting millions of users before building a clear business model. Incidentally, the startup is also launching a brand new version today.
Now, you can create public presentations for free, meaning that as long as you share your presentation on your Bunkr profile, it doens't count toward your quota. In some way, the new model is very similar to GitHub's plans. After your free quota, you will have to pay €5 to create private presentations.
"Now, we have a few presentations that nearly got a million views. People share their presentations more than we thought," Petit said. "That's why it makes sense to push public presentations. You're in front of an audience when you make a presentation — it makes Bunkr intrinsically viral."
Moreover, as Bunkr presentations are very visual HTML5 presentations, Google will index this content. When you open a presentation, you don't have to use Flash in your browser, you don't have to install an app on your smartphone. You can just click on a link, and it will work in whatever browser you are using.
It doesn't mean that Bunkr is becoming a presentation sharing platform like Slideshare. Bunkr remains a creation tool. You still amass content in your Bunkr account and create presentations from your browser. On this front, there are now new features, including the ability to add tweet embeds in your presentation, with retweet or follow buttons.
Thanks to the funding round, 10 people are now working on Bunkr. The service now has 50,000 registered users and 1,000 paid clients. A year ago, the service was much less usable than it is today. It is still not enough to uninstall PowerPoint from your computer, but let's hope that everyone will be able to do just that in 12 months.


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    -- Shuffle indices
    idxs = idxs:index(1,torch.randperm(idxs:size(1)):long())
    -- Map indices to training/validation/test split
    idxs = opt.idxRef[self.split]:index(1,idxs:long())

    local n, idx, sample = 0, 1, nil
    local function enqueue()
        while idx <= size and threads:acceptsjob() do
            local indices = idxs:narrow(1, idx, math.min(self.batchsize, size - idx + 1))
            threads:addjob(
                function(indices)
                    local inp,out = _G.loadData(_G.split, indices)
                    collectgarbage()
                    return {inp,out,indices}
                end,
                function(_sample_) sample = _sample_ end, indices
            )
            idx = idx + self.batchsize
        end
    end

    local function loop()
        enqueue()
        if not threads:hasjob() then return nil end
        threads:dojob()
        if threads:haserror() then threads:synchronize() end
        enqueue()
        n = n + 1
        return n, sample
    end

    return loop
end

return M.DataLoader

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The VICE Guide to Right Now
A Student Was Accused of Being a Terrorist for Reading a Book About How to Counter Terrorism
Because if you want to find a terrorist, all you need to do is go to your local library.
af Sirin Kale
This is not where you will find terrorists hanging out. Image via Wiki.
Just a week after a Muslim kid got arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school, The Guardian reports that a student of counter-terrorism has been accused of being a terrorist for reading a book in his university library about how to… counter terrorism.
Mohammed Umar Farooq, a student on the terrorism, crime and global security master's degree at Staffordshire University, was questioned by the university authorities after being seen reading a textbook called Terrorism Studies in the college library.
The incident took place back in March, but has come to light after the university apologised to Farooq, stating that the official who questioned him in the university library had only been trained for a few hours. Farooq was asked for his views on ISIS throwing gay men out of buildings, as well as his general opinion on Islam and Al-Qaeda.
Cage, the UK advocacy group, claims this is part of a broader problem. "Since October 2014, Cage has received almost 100 cases [like this]. What this case displays is something we have seen frequently: most notably the over-reporting of normative behaviour, and a fear-based approach that alienates and antagonises communities."
A spokesperson for the university said, "We have apologised to Mr Farooq and are in dialogue with him on how we can support him to continue his studies with us. In light of recent legislation, we are ensuring all staff at the university have the right guidance and training."
Tagged:NewsterrorismextremismCOLLEGEUniversitystudentCounterterrorismIslamic Radicalism


This is an affordable way to earn money online within days of launching. It works like a charm. Create a retargeting ad for your online store. You can use an app like Shoelace if you don't know how to create one. At the same time, you need to pump out a ton of blog content. Write blog posts over 1500 words. In each article, you'll want to mention an influencer. You could do a quotes article such as '15 Quotes from [influencer]' or a tips article like '15 [niche] Experts Share their best [niche] tips.' Stick to influencers with medium sized audiences. Influencers with millions of fans probably won't share your link. However, someone with a smaller audience may love being featured and share it. You can even post a request for experts on HARO and ask them to share your article since you'll have their contact information. The retargeting ad is much cheaper than a standard product ad. However, to achieve success, you'll need the traffic from the relevant niche influencers. When retargeting your audience, you need to create an ad of your best selling product or a really attention grabbing one. You'll want to have the ad running before you do outreach so you don't miss any of the traffic from the shares.
While this takes a significant amount of money up front, it can be very profitable for relatively little work. Purchasing a website can be done on several different online marketplaces, allowing you to tweak the site to your liking in order to increase revenue or traffic. Re-selling the same website for more than your original buying price (plus the standard 10% marketplace commission) gives you a chance to make money both on the sale, and on any ad revenue the website brings in while it is in your possession.


Sean Price as "Seanwuar" interviews Pharoahe Monch in Brownsville, Brooklyn, NY, USA before his gig at SOBs. Sean P. is my "Man" this parody is actual kind of funny..!!
Sean Price 'Mic Tyson' album out October 30th. Fans can pre-order at iTunes today: bit.ly/mictyson.
Haha, nice! Not as good as the original dude but still entertaining haha.


As the long-awaited warmer weather arrives, the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH), Michigan State Police (MSP) and Secretary of State Ruth Johnson are reminding parents and caregivers to be diligent and never leave children alone in vehicles. Last year, at least 44 children died from heatstroke in vehicles across the country. Three of these deaths happened in Michigan alone.
It doesn't have to be the middle of the summer for a child to get overheated. Even with mild temperatures outside, the temperatures inside a car can rise 20 degrees in as little as 10 minutes. A child's body heats up three to five times faster than an adult's, making them more susceptible to heatstroke. Temperatures inside a car can easily be double the temperature outside.
A: Avoid heatstroke-related injury and death by never leaving your child alone in a car, not even for a minute. And make sure to keep your car locked when not using it so kids don't get in on their own. C: Create reminders by putting something in the back of your car next to your child such as a briefcase, a purse or a cell phone. This is especially important if you're not following your normal routine. T: Take action. If you see or hear a child alone in a car, call 911. Emergency personnel are trained to respond to these situations. One call could save a life.
The MDCH, MSP, Secretary of State Ruth Johnson and additional agencies have come together to raise awareness of this issue. The MSP is reinforcing this message through the outreach efforts of their community service troopers, and Safe Kids Coalitions across the state are working in their communities to increase awareness. For more information and safety tips about preventing child heatstroke deaths, visit www.safekids.org/heatstroke.
One more thing to think about with this article. Leaving a child alone in a car is considered neglect. Mandated reporters by law have to call the police if they see a child left alone. Mandated reporters can get in trouble if they don't report it.


Our Burntwood based client is recruiting for a Purchasing Administrator to join them on a 12 week Temporary to Permanent basis.
Ideally someone who has experience with orderwise, who has proven record in the purchasing department.
Obtaining pricing for ah hoc and contractual purchasing requests.
Completing purchase orders in line with company procedure and approvals process.
Collating & storing prospective supplier information / data.
Chase late, absent deliveries from suppliers.
Assist in delivering & analysing information accurately in a timely manner supporting the purchasing manager.
Support and assist buyer with maintenance of preferred supplier list and supplier audits.
Assist in reviewing operational 'day to day' supplier performance.
Be Target driven & ambitious, with excellent time management.
Have worked in a purchasing administrator role previously or to be proficient in administration with interest to progress in procurement / purchasing.


Finding the right candidate for available positions at your mining or construction company is an ongoing challenge.
The costs you incur hiring niche management and technical personnel goes well beyond the financial expenses for flying top talent to your operations for an on-site interview. Your time - and..
The mining industry has a serious shortage of employees in their 40's and 50's. In many cases, these individuals are not being hired and often are overlooked in an effort to make room for younger..


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Yvonne Henriette Renée Boudin puis Cosima, connue sous le nom de scène de Renée Cosima, née le  à Neuilly-sur-Seine (Seine) et morte le  à Ergué-Gabéric (Finistère), est une actrice française.

Biographie

Renée Cosima fut actrice de cinéma et de théâtre, et productrice de courts métrages documentaires.

Elle avait épousé, en 1957, l'homme d'affaires Gwenn-Aël Bolloré.

Souffrant de longue date de problèmes de santé, Renée Cosima est morte d'une crise cardiaque en .

Filmographie
 1949 : La Vie tragique d'Utrillo de Pierre Gaspard-Huit (court métrage) : Suzanne Valadon
 1949 : Le Secret de Mayerling de Jean Delannoy
 1949 : Au royaume des cieux de Julien Duvivier : Camille
 1950 : Le Miracle de Sainte Anne d'Orson Welles (court métrage) : une estropiée
 1950 : Orphée de Jean Cocteau : une bacchante
 1950 : Les Enfants terribles de Jean-Pierre Melville : Dargelos / Agathe
 1951 : L'Herbe à la Reyne de Pierre Gaspard-Huit (moyen métrage)
 1951 : Gibier de potence de Roger Richebé : Ginette
 1952 : Adieu Paris de Claude Heymann : Juliette
 1953 : Un trésor de femme de Jean Stelli : Isabelle Villiers-Boulard
 1957 : Marchands de filles de Maurice Cloche :  de Carnoule
 1959 : Les Naufrageurs de Charles Brabant : Moïra - la sorcière
 1961 : Cause toujours, mon lapin de Guy Lefranc : Françoise
 1964 : L'assassin viendra ce soir de Jean Maley : Catherine Muller

Notes et références

Liens externes

 Renée Cosima sur cinememorial.com
 Photos dans Les Enfants terribles

Actrice française de cinéma
Actrice française de théâtre
Actrice française du XXe siècle
Nom de scène
Famille Bolloré
Naissance en septembre 1922
Naissance à Neuilly-sur-Seine
Naissance dans le département de la Seine
Décès en juillet 1981
Décès à Ergué-Gabéric
Décès à 58 ans
Mort d'une crise cardiaque

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Q: Cordova localStorage phone backup Does the Cordova localStorage get backed up with a local iTunes phone backup?
Meaning, if I restore a phone from backup in iTunes, will the localStorage be restored as well for the app?
Reason I ask is for when I register push notifications in the app, I'd like to present a dialog, and save in localStorage that I did show this dialog, which explains what types of push notifications a user could expect from my app, instead of blindly registering the app with push.  This way the user could see some benefits of keeping push enabled on the device or choose not to have push notifications.
Thank you in advance.

A: Yes it will.
Lets try a simple App first and save some values in localstorage and then sync with iTunes and then re-store.
Normally when using localstorage it saves data in NSLibraryDirectory or NSDocumentDirectory which should be available after restore or upgrade.
Plus as described below that iTunes does restore Web App cache/databases i.e. local storage.
What iTunes backs up

*

*Autofill for webpages.

*Offline web app cache/database.
Full listing: http://support.apple.com/en-us/ht4946

A: It depends.
In general iOS won't backup caches.
However, iCloud and iTunes do not back up the contents of the following directories:

<Application_Home>/AppName.app
<Application_Data>/Library/Caches
<Application_Data>/tmp

From Apple documentation
But since Cordova 3.0. Cordova has had the key BackupWebStorage.

Set to cloud to allow web storage data to backup via iCloud. Set to
  local to allow only local backups via iTunes sync. Set to none prevent
  web storage backups.

From Cordova 4.0 iOS Configuration

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CLEMSON,S.C. – Clemson defeated Ohio 9-4 in the first of two games at Doug Kingsmore Stadium. Scott Berney (5-0) picked up the win despite having his 32.2 scoreless innings pitched streak end.
Complete game stories will follow after the conclusion of game 2.


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Possibly Colonel Tawse and Messrs Hall, 1936. Single storey and 2-storey with attic, 6-bay, terraced, Art Deco style former Co-operative building adjoining separately listed Carron Restaurant, Cameron Street. Fine decoratively-astragalled top-lights, coloured glass medallions and original shop doors with brass door furniture. Granite ashlar shop fronts, with crenellated, crowstepped darker ashlar 1st floor bays; harl and coursed rubble to side. Oversized stylised keystone and capitals.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3 single storey bays to right of centre incorporating stepped moulded shop front at outer right with large centre keystone, deep-set centre door with margined glazing and original handle, flanking fixed display windows and 3-part decorative top light with coloured glass medallion depicting grocery basket over entrance. Paired smaller shops to left with deep-set outer doors (that to right as above), inner display windows and dividing pillar, shop to right with coloured glass medallion depicting cow's head and that to left with wheatsheaf (see Notes). Further pillar to outer left adjoining 2-storey building with 2 similar (but altered) shops, that to centre with decorative top light with pestle and mortar medallion. Broader shop at outer left comprising 2-part fixed display window, boarded top light and doorway to outer angle with metal roller giving way to deeply in-canted door, mosaic-tiled floor with monogrammed 'NCSL' and flanking display windows. 1st floor with 3 wide-centre tripartite windows and 4-light window to outer left angle, later out-of-character flat-roofed dormer to left.
E (ANN STREET) ELEVATION: shop front with 2-part fixed display window and huge centre keystone to right, 2 doors to left and asymmetrical fenestration at 1st floor; small roundheaded window in gablehead.
Original Art Deco glazing combining horizontal patterning with Deco symbols in metal windows to all shop fronts (some obscured by modern fascias); modern glazing above ground. Grey slates, single storey bays with piended roof and large horizontal rooflight to W. Coped ashlar gablehead stacks with cans.
Listed for its prominent corner position, unusual and largely intact façade with fine shop fronts, and historic significance of the former Northern Co-operative Society. Each shop unit was readily identified by its individual medallion for butcher, baker, grocery and pharmacy. Unfortunately the draper and shoemaker medallions cannot be seen but remain in place. The former bakery department links internally with, and remains a part of, the category 'B' listed Carron Restaurant in Cameron Street. The Art Deco glazing is repeated in the Carron Restaurant, and is described by McKean as 'the finest Art Deco patterned glazing surviving '.. in Scotland'.


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Q: Will the following F# .NET code be evaluated at runtime? I have put together a basic command line application to understand the workings of the .NET runtime better. In particular, I want to know whether certain code that is declared prior to a branching statement will actually run if the subsequent branching statement renders it unnecessary for the program's output?
My F# code for a simple Console Application (with comments) below:
[<EntryPoint>]
let main argv =

    // I have given the input "2" at the command line
    let (status, result) =  System.Int32.TryParse argv.[0]

    let a = 1
    let b = 2000 * 5 + 9    // Will this ever be evaluated at runtime ??

    let fa x = x + 1
    let fb x = x + 200      // In a similar vein, will this need to be declared at RUNTIME

    let answer =
        if result > 1 then
            fa a            // the path it will take at RUNTIME
        else
            fb b            // the path it will NOT take at RUNTIME

    printfn "%d" answer

    System.Console.ReadLine() |> ignore
    0 // return an integer exit code

In summary: b and fb will certainly be compiled into the executable BUT will they actually be evaluated for the purposes of this running program or will the runtime optimize them away at runtime?


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by Judy G. Russell | Dec 1, 2015 | General | 4 comments
One of these, please…
Today is Giving Tuesday.
A day not to get like Black Friday or Cyber Monday, but a day to give — to support a program or a group that is near and dear to our hearts.
It's described as
a global day dedicated to giving back. On Tuesday, December 1, 2015, charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world will come together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and to give.
It's a simple idea. Just find a way for your family, your community, your company or your organization to come together to give something more. Then tell everyone you can about how you are giving. Join us and be a part of a global celebration of a new tradition of generosity.1
And oh… there are so many worthy programs and groups in the genealogical community that so much need our help and our support.
I could write for hours and not begin to catalog them all.
But I'm only going to highlight two.
Two that are very special to me and that I can unhesitatingly say will benefit the entire genealogical community if you join me in supporting either — or both! — of them.
First and foremost, and this will come as no surprise — Preserve the Pensions.
I've written about this before,2 and I'll keep writing about this until every last one of these precious documents has been digitized and put online. The War of 1812 pension files are among the most requested and used records at the National Archives here in the United States.
They are rich in details of military service, chock full of original records evidencing births, marriages and deaths, and among the best genealogical treasures that our National Archives has to offer. In part because of their age, in part because they are so often requested by researchers, however, these are also among the most fragile genealogical treasures that our National Archives has to offer — and in desperate need of permanent preservation.
That's where Preserve the Pensions comes in — it's crowdsourcing the digitization of these records in glorious full color scans that will then be available online — forever — free.
Every page costs about 45 cents to digitize. So every dollar we contribute to Preserve the Pensions pays for a bit more that two pages. But that dollar is matched by Ancestry.com, so that we're really getting close to four and a half pages for every dollar.
This is one of the worthiest causes in all of genealogy and it's one I'm choosing to support today. You can just click on the image above and it'll take you right to the donation page.
Second, with tears in my eyes but a smile on my face, I'm choosing to donate to the memory of John Martino, one of the very best of our community, whose death yesterday came as a blow not just to those of us fortunate enough to have met John but to all of us.
Let me quote from Terry Koch-Bostic, president of the New York Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists and a trustee of the National Genealogical Society:
John's … enthusiasm, sense of humor and special brand of warmth will be missed by all who knew him. … (He) is a hero of mine. He had a great love of history and genealogy, as well as spunk, conviction and vision. Leading the charge, John along with Don Eckerle and Bob Boeckle, motivated thousands of volunteers from (the German Genealogy Group, the Italian Genealogy Group), the Long Island Genealogy Federation and beyond to create the free, digitized indexes to databases for New York City (1847 to 1948) and Long Island vital records and naturalizations (over 16 million records). This monumental project is still ongoing after more than ten years. These indexes have given family historians all over the United States and the World much needed clues to find their family's records.
In 2014, John, Don and Bob were recognized for their work by the National Genealogical Society. They were presented the NGS 2014 Award of Merit at the NGS Family History Conference in Richmond, Virginia.
Right up to his last days, John wanted to be involved in his team's ongoing projects. He wouldn't rest, always thinking of all the work to be done.3
And, Terry writes: "Please consider making a donation in John's name … to continue the work he loved and we have greatly benefited from."4
Oh yeah. Absolutely. Clicking on the image above here will take you to the donation page for the German Genealogy Group and continue the work in which John was so instrumental.
Let's go out on a high note, of giving and sharing. A real high note for the year — maybe even a C note!5
And, by the way, if things are just too tight financially at this time of year, consider giving a little of your time. One option: volunteering to help with one of those New York database projects by contacting Don Eckerle through the German Genealogy Group.
It's #GivingTuesday.
Let's do this.
"What is #GIVINGTUESDAY?," #GivingTuesday (http://www.givingtuesday.org/ : accessed 30 Nov 2015). ↩
See most recently Judy G. Russell, "The last quarter mile," The Legal Genealogist, posted 19 Sep 2015 (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : accessed 30 Nov 2015). ↩
Terry Koch-Bostic to NY APG members, email, 1 Dec 2015. ↩
That's $100, by the way — C stands for "centum," the Latin word for 100. Yeah, I know, I know, getting old… But that's what I'm committing today, to each of these. ↩
Candace J Gray on December 1, 2015 at 12:57 pm
Wow, that was easy…pension donation, done !! Thanks for the reminder Judy.
Excellent, thank you!
Janice Haynes on December 1, 2015 at 4:19 pm
Remember, if you give through the Illinois State Genealogical Society, your donation will be matched.
Good to know, Janice! Thank you!


Taught them (edidasken). Inchoative imperfect, began to teach. He sat down on the mountain side as the Jewish rabbis did instead of standing. It was a most impressive scene as Jesus opened his mouth wide and spoke loud enough for the great throng to hear him. The newly chosen twelve apostles were there, "a great number of disciples and a great number of the people" ( Luke 6:17 ).


This Impala Catalog Server health test checks that the Impala Catalog Server has not recently exited unexpectedly. The test returns "Bad" health if the number of unexpected exits goes above a critical threshold. For example, if this test is configured with a critical threshold of 1, this test would return "Good" health if there have been no unexpected exits recently. If there has been 1 or more unexpected exits recently, this test would return "Bad" health. This test can be configured using the Unexpected Exits Thresholds and Unexpected Exits Monitoring Period Impala Catalog Server monitoring settings.
This health test checks that the role's web server is responding quickly to requests by the Cloudera Manager Agent, and that the Cloudera Manager Agent can collect metrics from the web server. Failure of this health test may indicate a problem with the web server of the Impala Catalog Server, a misconfiguration of the Impala Catalog Server or a problem with the Cloudera Manager Agent. Consult the Cloudera Manager Agent logs and the logs of the Impala Catalog Server for more detail. If the test's failure message indicates a communication problem, the Cloudera Manager Agent's HTTP requests to the Impala Catalog Server's web server are failing or timing out. If the test's failure message indicates an unexpected response, the Impala Catalog Server's web server responded to the Cloudera Manager Agent's request, but the response could not be interpreted for some reason. This test can be configured using the Web Metric Collection Impala Catalog Server monitoring setting.


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Jon Maguire
About Jon Maguire
Jon Maguire is a songwriter and record producer. He has appeared on over ten UK top 40 records, three international number ones. He is best known for writing You Are The Reason with Calum Scott which has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and has been streamed over 4 billion times. Jon has written with artists including Sam Feldt, Kodaline, Scouting For Girls, Calum Scott, Leona Lewis, Kumi Koda, Tom Chaplin, Dan Smith, The Vamps, and Catherine McGrath.
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In this article we're going to look at how to use the Elasticsearch perl module to connect to our Compose Elasticsearch deployment and report on the status of our cluster.
If Perl is your thing and you haven't already started using the Search::Elasticsearch perl module, you should definitely install it to get your Elasticsearch project going. Even if you're only a little familiar with Perl and want to start an Elasticsearch project, you might want to try using Perl with the Elasticsearch module for your project.
In a series of articles, we'll explore the power of this module for making the most of the functionality of Elasticsearch.
The Elasticsearch perl module supports all the Elasticsearch APIs and gives you the features you're used to with Perl.
The Search::Elasticsearch module has many dependencies so it might take a while to troubleshoot and get installed. In particular, on Windows, I had difficulty with the Test::TCP dependency and related modules.
You can install the Search::Elasticsearch perl module from CPAN or MetaCPAN. For our examples here, we installed the 2.00 version on the strawberry perl 5.22.0.1 distribution on Windows. Elastic has written an overview for using the module with Elasticsearch that you can use as a quick reference.
Using the new() method, we can create a client object that connects to our cluster. We're storing ours in the object variable called $es. Since we have two haproxy portals in our Compose cluster, we're going to list both of them using the nodes parameter so we can automatically switch our requests back and forth between them (via the HTTP::Tiny module by default).
In our example we're not specifying a cxn_pool parameter because we're going to just use the default one, which is static, since our app and our Elasticsearch instance are not on the same servers. We are, however, using the log_to and trace_to parameters (part of the Log::Any module) for logging our server interactions and HTTP requests and responses. This can be helpful for any debugging needs that might arise. We're using them to easily check the connection success and the server responses. If you log to a file, like we are in our example, the file will be appended each time the script is run.
We see the two connection nodes and the notes that they will each be pinged before the next request is made to ensure the connections are still live. This means that we are connected. We'll refer to our two nodes in shorthand below as "portal10" and "portal7".
If you want to use SSH for a more secure connection than HTTPS, check out our article about digging an SSH tunnel to your deployment. Even though this article uses RethinkDB as the example, the process is the same for Elasticsearch. Your perl script would then implement the Net::SSH module to connect (instead of the HTTP::Tiny one as mentioned above). To learn more about the Compose security options for Elasticsearch, have a look at Keeping Elasticsearch Secure.
We're using the index() method on our client object to name the index, specify what type of document it is, set the document id, and then populate the document using "body". You can see that we're adding a few different fields in "body": a title, a summary, and a date. Because Elasticsearch uses JSON natively, our documents can be constructed flexibly. In this particular example, we've also escaped our in-text apostrophes with a backslash.
"summary" : "We\u0027re giving away shirts for signing up for Compose."
Don't be fooled by the curl line that has the host and port listed as "localhost:9200"; that is just the default notation used by the logger. We don't have Elasticsearch running locally. The request was made to our "portal10" node.
We see that our "portal10" node was used for this request. It got pinged, marked as "live", and then the index request was sent via POST. The URL string contains the name of the index, the type, and the field details for document id 1.
In the next section, we see the response from the server. We get a 201 ("created") response and can see that it took 629 millisecond to complete. The response is commented by the logger with hash symbols so that we can easily spot it as the response. Our index did not previously exist so it was created with this request. Also, we can see that the document with id 1 was indexed and that this is version 1 of the indexed document.
Now that we're connected and we've got a document indexed in our Elasticsearch cluster, let's see how our cluster is doing.
There are a couple methods we'll look at here. The first is for information about the version of Elasticsearch running on the cluster and the other one tells us about the overall health of the cluster. We're storing the response from each in an object variable named for the method to help us keep things straight: $info and $health. We could later parse these objects for specific data to use for alerts or some other purpose. For our example here, though, we're not going to do anything with the response objects. We'll just use the logfile to see what they contain.
As we see the requests and responses below for each method, notice how the request switches back and forth between our "portal7" and our "portal10" nodes.
We see our Compose cluster name, that we're running version 1.7.3 of Elasticsearch with version 4.10.4 of Lucene under the hood, and that we're getting a 200 ("ok") response status from the cluster.
In the response above, you can see that there are 5 primary shards. By default, each index is allocated 5 shards and 2 replicas in the Compose cluster since there are three nodes in the cluster.
Now, if we want more information, we can use many other methods which return an extensive amount of detail about the cluster. CPAN has more about cluster requests if you want to delve into additional settings and methods that can be used.
state() returns information about the cluster state from the master node. The response tells us about the nodes, including which one is currently the master node, about our index and how it's sharded and the number of replicas available, and how routing among the cluster is working. We have the option to limit our request to only specific metrics and even for specific indexes. The default setting is everything, however, so we kept it in the logfile rather than displaying it all for you here since it's a lot of data.
stats() returns information about cluster performance and settings. It can be limited by specifying a particular node. Again, we didn't put the data here from the logfile since it's quite extensive.
We've opted to put everything into a logfile for this example, but you may decide that it's better for your situation to parse responses from your Elasticsearch cluster instead, so they can be used in other ways.
Now that you know how to connect to your Elasticsearch cluster and monitor how it's doing using the Search::Elasticsearch perl module, you're probably ready to dive into getting your Elasticsearch project further underway. In the next parts of this series, we'll get into some basics of indexing, then some more advanced indexing options. In the final part of the series, we'll look at querying. Each part in the series will walk you through how you can use Elasticsearch.pm to get your Elasticsearch project up and running.


So, you're hungry at work and it's not quite lunchtime. You could reach for the potato chips in the vending machine to hold you over. Or you could head for a healthier (and arguably tastier) option: walnuts.
Walnuts are extremely rich in polyphenols, important chemicals that help your body ward off diseases like cancer, Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease and more. They're also packed with plenty of protein and fiber.
Dr. Lenore Arab, a professor of medicine and disease prevention at UCLA, says, "It isn't every day that research results in such simple advice — eating a handful of walnuts daily as a snack, or as part of a meal, can help improve your cognitive health."
A tasty snack and a work performance enhancer? Sounds like a win-win.


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New Smiths Detection High-Speed Checked Baggage Scanner Incorporating Analogic CT Technology Receives European Standard 3 Approval
PEABODY, Mass., Sept. 6, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Analogic Corporation (Nasdaq:ALOG), enabling the world's medical imaging and aviation security technology, today highlighted an announcement by its customer, Smiths Detection. Smiths Detection has announced that its new HI-SCAN 10080 XCT high-speed checked baggage scanner, which incorporates Analogic's advanced computed tomography (CT) imaging technology, has successfully gained European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) Standard 3 approval. Standard 3 approval is mandatory for new aviation explosive detection system (EDS) applications beginning in September 2014. More information on the new HI-SCAN 10080 XCT system and the Smiths announcement can be found at www.smithsdetection.com/HI-SCAN_10080_XCT.
Jim Green, Analogic's president and CEO, commented, "We are pleased to see that Smiths Detection's new checked baggage system has achieved ECAC Standard 3 approval, the culmination of a multi-year development effort. In addition to new opportunities, Smiths has a strong incumbent position in airports worldwide that are expected to adopt systems meeting the more stringent Standard 3 performance requirements."
Capable of screening up to 1800 bags per hour in its approved configuration, the HI-SCAN 10080 XCT system offers a large 1 meter wide tunnel that meets the requirements of high speed in-line baggage handling systems, and allows rapid, efficient scanning of larger items.
Analogic's CT technology meets the highest TSA and ECAC standards for threat detection. Over the past fifteen years, Analogic has developed and deployed more than 1100 state-of-the-art threat-detection systems and subsystems for use in airports around the world. Analogic provides innovative solutions for a wide spectrum of customers ranging from small regional airports to large international hubs.
Analogic (Nasdaq:ALOG) provides leading-edge healthcare and security technology solutions to advance the practice of medicine and save lives. We are recognized around the world for advanced imaging systems and technology that enable computed tomography, ultrasound, digital mammography, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), as well as automated threat detection for aviation security. Our CT, MRI, digital mammography, and ultrasound transducer products are sold to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), providing state-of-the-art capability and enabling them to enter new markets and expand their existing market presence. Our market-leading BK Medical branded ultrasound systems, used in procedure-driven markets such as urology, surgery, and anesthesia, are sold to clinical end users through our direct sales force. For over 40 years we've enabled customers to thrive, improving the health
and enhancing the safety of people around the world. Analogic is headquartered just north of Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.analogic.com.
About Smiths Detection
Smiths Detection offers advanced security solutions in civil and military markets worldwide, developing and manufacturing government-regulated technology products that help detect and identify explosives, chemical and biological agents, radiological and nuclear threats, weapons, narcotics and contraband. It is part of Smiths Group, a global leader in applying integrated, advanced technologies to markets in threat and contraband detection, energy, medical devices, communications and engineered components. Smiths Group employs around 23,000 people in more than 50 countries.
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Kolyma Stories
作者 / Varlam Shalamov
譯者 / Donald Rayfield
出版社 / New York Review of Books
出版日期 / 2018/04/10
商品語言 / 英文
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Varlam Shalamov
作品: Kolyma Stories
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Life in a Russian gulag, based on the author's own years in the Gulag, chronicled in an epic masterpiece.
Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, composed of short fictional tales based on Russian writer Varlam Shalamov's fifteen years in the Gulag. This NYRB Classics edition (and an accompanying second volume forthcoming in 2019) is the first complete English translation of Shalamov's stories, based on the definitive edition of his collected works, published in Russia in 2013.
Shalamov spent six years as a slave in the gold mines of Kolyma, a far northeast region of the USSR and one of the coldest and most inhospitable places on Earth, before finding a less intolerable life as a paramedic in the prison camps. He began writing his account of life in Kolyma after Stalin's death in 1953 and continued until his own physical and mental decline in the late 1970s.
In Kolyma Stories, the line between autobiography and fiction is indistinct: Everything in these stories was experienced or witnessed by Shalamov. His work records the real names of prisoners and their oppressors; he himself appears simply as "I" or "Shalamov," or at times under a pseudonym, such as Andreyev or Krist. These collected stories form the biography of a rare survivor, a historical record of the Gulag, and, because the stories have more than documentary value, a literary work of creative power and conviction. This new complete translation of Kolyma Stories will fill a significant gap in the English-language library of Russian literature.
Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982) was born in Vologda, a small city outside of Moscow, to a teacher and a Russian Orthodox priest. Shalamov attended the Moscow State University in the Department of Soviet Law, and during his years as a student joined a group of Trotskyites. In 1929, he was arrested and sentenced to three years of hard labor and sent to a camp north of the Ural Mountains. After his release, he returned to Moscow, where he married, had a daughter, and worked as a journalist, and wrote poetry and short stories. In 1937, Shalamov was arrested again and spent the next seventeen years in the labor camps of the Kolyma River basin, a period that he would describe in his Kolyma Stories. He was released in the 1950s and allowed publish some of his poetry, though in the 1970s, when he was dependent on the Soviet Writers' Union for money, was forced to denounce his work abroad in a public letter.
Donald Rayfield is emeritus professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary, University of London. He introduced and translated Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls from the Russian for NYRB Classics.
誠品26碼 /2681536973006
ISBN 13 /9781681372143
ISBN 10 /1681372142
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頁數 / 776
尺寸 / 20.3X12.7CM
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Sirius Black is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, played by Gary Oldman. Black, also known as Padfoot or Snuffles (in his Animagus form) was a pure-blood wizard. He was born on 3rd November, 1959 and is the eldest son of Orion and Walburga Black. He is heir of the Ancient and Noble house of Black and brother to Regulus. His cousin's are Bellatrix Lestrange (née Black), Andromeda Tonks (née Black) and Narcissa Malfoy (née Black). He was Harry Potter's godfather. He was best friends with James Potter, along with Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew. These four were known as the Marauders in their school days, and created the Marauder's Map.
He, along with his three friends, belonged to Gryffindor house when at Hogwarts, unlike the rest of his family, who had belonged to the house of Slytherin. He did not like his family, and ran away from home to James Potter's house when he was 16. The Potters took Sirius in as their own son. His prized possession during childhood was his flying motorbike.
Sirius was an animagus and was able to transform into a big black dog, (a Grim) which is an omen of death, at will. He, along with James Potter and Peter Pettigrew became Animagus to help Remus Lupin with his transformations. He was the first wizard to escape Azkaban prison, after being kept there twelve years for a crime that he did not commit. The betrayal of James and Lily Potter, the murder of Peter Pettigrew and 12 muggles with an unknown curse. Harry found out, after a year of believing otherwise, that Sirius was an innocent man, and helped him evade capture from the Ministry of Magic. Sirius went on the run before returning to his (empty) childhood home, 12 Grimmauld Place, and offered it up as headquarters for the Order of the Phoenix upon Voldemort's return. He was killed in a battle at the Ministry of Magic by his cousin, a Death Eater, Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry's ( his Godson's )5th year at Hogwarts. He returned during Harry's 7th year along with James, Lily and Remus, after being resurrected with the help of the Resurrection stone in a hazy form.
He was the only remaining "true" heir of the House of Black. 12 Grimmauld Place was gifted to Harry Potter, Sirius' godson. In which case, Harry or Draco Malfoy (related to the House of Black through his mother Narcissa) would've likely inherited the title of Head of House. Possibly even Andromeda Tonks or her grandson, Edward "Teddy" Remus Lupin.
As he has said before, "almost all pure-bloods are somehow related, and he's no exception". He's related to the Weasleys by way of Cedrella Weasley (née Black), whom married Septimus Weasley. Together they're the paternal grandparents of the Weasley children. He's related to the Malfoys through Narcissa Malfoy (nee Black) who married into the Malfoy family, and is Sirius' cousin. He's even related to his godson, Harry Potter, through Dorea Potter (née Black) who is a distant relative to Harry and James Potter.
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
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Q: how to delete a pointer to an element in an array java I am new at java and I am trying to write an array Stack
now I want to avoid loitering in pop () function,
public class Stack {
private int[] s;
private int N=0;

public Stack(int capacity)
{
    s= new int [capacity];
}

public boolean IsEmpty ()
{
    return N==0;
}

public void push (int x)
{
    s[N++]=x;
}

public int pop ()
{
    int x=s[--N];
    s[N]=null;
    return x;
}

when it decrements that value in, there is still pointer
to the element that has been took off the stack now I tried to set the removed item to null
but the compiler gives me exception
what can I do in order to delete the pointer of the removed item?!

A: Your array stores int values which are not references, and null is not a valid value for type int.  The trick your are using is handy when you deal with values of reference types, such as Object or String.  In your case you can assign 0 or -1 or Integer.MIN_VALUE to the empty elements, but not null.  Moreover, I think in your case you could just leave value as is:
public int pop ()
{
    return s [--N];
}

A: Use an ArrayList instead of an array. There you can remove objects at specified position, which will be always the last, in case of a stack.

A: Arrays of primitives store values, not pointers, so you there is no memory leak you have to worry about.
This line:
s[N]=null;

is not required in java (and does not compile anyway because null is not a valid primitive value).
Java ain't C.


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Westport Cultural Council awards $34,000 for 24 community projects
WESTPORT - The Westport Cultural Council has awarded $34,000 in grant funds to 24 community projects. All money awarded will help to bring a wide array of activities and programs throughout the year, and provide support for seniors, educational programs in local schools, and the many nonprofit organizations serving Westport.
Funds for these awards are from a grant from the Helen E. Ellis Charitable Trust, administered by the Bank of America. The Helen E. Ellis Charitable Trust was established to carry on the life work of Helen Ellis, a sculptor, artist and writer known throughout the community as a strong supporter of artistic talent who endeavored to enrich her community in the arts. As assistant curator of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, she organized and promoted exhibitions that would foster public participation in the museum.
The Helen E. Ellis Charitable Trust strives to continue her work through grants that support cultural experiences for children and adults in the Westport, Dartmouth and New Bedford areas. The Helen E. Ellis Charitable Trust provides grants to organizations that create programs relating to arts, music, crafts, conservation, wildlife and history preservation.
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Westport Economic Development, Music at Westport Farmers' Market, $1200
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Westport Council on Aging, Bringing Seniors Together programs, $750
Westport Land Conservation Trust, Summer Concert, $1500
Round the Bend Farm, Garlic and Arts Festival, $250
Gail Roderigues, Women of Westport children's book production, $1000
Spinner Publications, Paul Cuffe book, $3000
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'Brain blobs' lurk in lake water
By OLIVER GOOD
Strange "blobs" linger in the waters of Marion County Lake, gobbling up things unseen.
Marion resident Rick LeShure encountered some with 4-year-old son, Lucas, and girlfriend Brandi Bosley on Aug. 8 at the swimming area.
"I grew up messing around in creeks and I've seen a lot of weird stuff, but I've never seen anything like that before," LeShure said. "The first one I saw was all messed up looking. I thought it was a steak that someone dropped in the lake a few weeks before, so I pitched it up on the bank. It kinda broke and looked like it bled a little. "
Then he saw another. It was about the size of a small meatloaf, but this time LeShure knew he wasn't dealing with a hunk of inanimate beef.
It was alive.
"It felt nasty and slimy and kinda twitched a little in my hands," he said. "It was just an all around weird critter."
Marion resident Twila Legg also has encountered multiple "jelly blobs."
"They're everywhere," she said. "You see them on windy days when they break away from their anchors."
Legg discovered a blob that was "roughly the size of a laundry basket" attached to the northwestern corner of the heated dock. It detached and drifted away Friday.
She said the blobs look like "bad B movie special effects."
Lake Superintendent Steve Hudson has come across many a blob, the biggest of which was basketball-sized. He said anglers find blobs stuck to snagged tree branches or suction-cupped to docks, rocks, or other submerged debris, or see them floating. Inquisitive children bring blobs to Hudson, too.
"They come running up from the swimming area (to the county lake office) to ask about them," Hudson said. "The things look like human brains. We tell them that the blobs are safe and give the kids a little history."
Hudson confirmed that the mysterious "blobs" are actually a species of invertebrate animal similar to a sponge, known as bryozoans.
"They suck in the dark or brackish water and take out its impurities before they spit fresh water back out," he said. "They're natural water filters."
These blobish sieves are nothing new. Actually, with a fossil record that dates back millions of years, bryozoans are ancient.
According to multiple online sources, most bryozoans live in salt water. There are only about 50 kinds of freshwater bryozoans.
Generally, bryozoans are a collection of miniature identical organisms, called zooids, form colonies in warm water like these found in the lake. Each zooid secretes a slimy but firm gelatinous layer for protective purposes.
"Bryozoans' bodies take on the color of what they filter," Hudson said. "The ones that I have seen out here are mostly a brownish or darkish color."
Though bryozoans have peculiar and somewhat alien appearance, Hudson said they're harmless.
"I would encourage anyone who finds one to put it back in the water and let it do its thing," he said. "They're good for the lake."


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Lady Bullldogs have talent, and hope for better season this year
Gunnison Valley junior guard Rilee Dyreng nets two of her 17 points against Freedom Prep Academy last season.
GUNNISON—For the Gunnison girls' basketball team, the road to success this season will not be a smooth one.
The Lady Bulldogs have plenty of talent as senior Raven Pickett and junior Rilee Dyreng make their return as starters. A senior class of Pickett, Gracey Mickelson and Kalie Whitlock will provide the leadership for a team that was extremely young in 2020 and is only slightly older this season.
"We are returning some experience because so many sophomores and juniors saw playing time last year," Coach Melissa Sorensen said. "Hopefully, that year of experience playing at the varsity level speeds up the process of implementing things."
Dyreng averaged 10.55 points per game for the Lady Bulldogs last season, the only Sanpete County girls' basketball player not from Wasatch Academy to average double-figures in scoring.
"Even though Rilee was our leading scorer last year, we hope to have a balanced scoring attack," Sorensen said. "The more players who get involved and score for us, the harder it is on other teams to focus on one player. We will work at generating the type of shots that we feel like all players can make and be successful."
Gunnison finished last season 7-14 overall and lost their last six games of the regular season. They won in the first round on the playoffs but fell to North Summit in the second round.
This season, the Lady Bulldogs are getting tested right out of the gate with a trip to Juab last Tuesday. They'll be on the road for their first four games of the season before their home opener against North Sanpete on Dec. 2.
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