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Pinning! What's so Special About Windows Phone
Smartphones … It all began with the BlackBerry phone in 2003. Or perhaps with PDA devices earlier. But it with was the introduction of the iPhone in 2007 (was it really only seven years ago?) that the smartphone began to evolve into what it has become today—mini computer powerhouses with hi-res screens and an explosion of features and capabilities.
Today, BlackBerry is all but extinct, and there are three major players on the smartphone scene: Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone, with the latter being a distant third in terms of popularity. iOS and Android systems have a very similar look and feel. Windows Phone, on the other hand, is something different. All these systems have many, many capabilities in common, so what do I think makes Windows Phone special?
Live Tiles and the Start Screen
Here are screen shots of the the iPhone 5 home screen, the Android Samsung Galaxy 4S home screen, and a screen shot of my very own Windows Phone's start screen. The iPhone and the Android basically present you with static icons with which to launch you into various apps. It works fine, but the screen itself is rather uninteresting. Windows Phone, uses tiles instead of icons. These tiles are "live" with activity, receiving updated information and presenting that information before you ever have to open the app. The calender, weather, and to-do list apps are great examples of the usefulness of this function. It makes the start screen itself useful, in addition to being a launching point to get to the other useful stuff. It's dynamic and beautiful. And in fact, the screen shot does not wholly communicate what sets the Start screen apart from the other two home screens because the Start screen is busy with motion–tiles changing, animating, or flipping around with relevant bits of data for you to see at a glance.
The second thing that's special about Windows Phone is the ability to "pin" almost anything to the start screen. Obviously, you can "pin" or position app tiles on the start screen. But different apps will allow you to pin other things so you can get at them quickly and directly. It's hard to describe this without showing it, but for example, OneDrive lets me pin a particular folder to my start screen. Spotify lets me pin a favorite playlist to the start screen. Maps lets me pin a particular destination, which is really nice. Facebook lets me pin a Facebook group. Several sports apps let me pin favorite teams to the start screen. My timer app lets me pin a particular preset timer. The weather app, cities. My YouTube app, videos. I could go and on. Basically, any app can allow you to pin elements within the app directly to start screen so you don't have to dig for them in the app any more. You can go straight to them. It's really cool.
Windows Phone still only represents a small percentage of all smartphone usage, and it has done better outside the U.S. than in its own home country. But that's too bad, because Microsoft has built something unique here, with a fantastic user interface that is quick and dynamic and easy to navigate.
Politics, Worldview
Legislating Morality
Apparently, some people think it's improper for the government to impose moral standards on citizens. After all, whose moral standards would be imposed? Who would get to decide which standards everyone else should live by? And would this be fair? Because not everyone individually adheres to or believes in the same set of ethical rights and wrongs, how can the government of a society that is supposed to respect individual rights and liberty choose a particular set of moral standards and demand that everyone live by them?
Well, I've got news for you: almost all legislation legislates morality … and we're all okay with that.
Intent vs. Motive
This tweet from @ImusZero was a reaction to a headline in Reason Magazine (a libertarian political journal) that Pat Robertson had changed his mind about legalizing marijuana. He had supported it, but recently came out against it, saying that "little kids are getting high." ImusZero says we should stop legislating morality and let God be our judge.
God is our judge, which is no light matter. It's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. But we have human judges too. And these human judges are appointed by God for the time being to carry out his work of promoting justice. But what about this stuff about not legislating morality? I responded that almost all legislation legislates morality. She later "liked" my tweet, making me think she misunderstood me as agreeing with her and saying that almost all legislation should be done away with.
What I really meant is that she had no clue what she was saying. Laws against rape, embezzlement, kidnapping, dog fighting, dumping toxic chemicals in the river, and drunk driving all legislate morality. They impose certain moral standards on everyone. But these are obvious laws to have, you might say. Clearly, these things cannot be allowed, and they're not like a personal choice to smoke a joint. They may not be like the choice to smoke a joint*, but they are all matters of morality. Whether rape or polluting the river are wrong are moral questions. Even whether they are "bad for society" is a moral question, for what is "bad" is a moral question. Is the spread of disease bad? Why? On what grounds do you say so? Are peace and order good? That's self-evident to most, but it is also a moral question, and ultimately, one must ask whether one's foundational beliefs can provide the scaffolding for such assertions. They may be called goods because they promote happiness, but why is happiness good? And if happiness is the basis for morality, that leads to conflicts, as someone may derive happiness from doing that which hurts someone else.
In the end, some general moral principles must be reached, moral judgments must be made, and those, through the law, must be imposed upon everyone. We can argue legitimately about what should and what should not be enforced. But to make the general claim that we should stop legislating morality is utter nonsense.
* There is a difference between "mutual acts" in which everyone involved is involved voluntarily, and acts in which there are willing and unwilling parties involved. ImusZero may believe everything in the first category should be allowed, though not all those things are necessarily good. My saying that they're not all good is itself a moral judgement that she may not agree with, depending on her definition of good.
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Exploring the Intersection of Science and Faith in the Spirit of John Ray
Integrating Science and Faith
Faith Seeking Understanding
Informing the Reforming
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. (Eph 6:12 ESV)
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"If I'd pulled the poem then I would have been denying that I was consciously and deliberately seeking to address past racial, cultural, social, and aesthetic injustices in the poetry world.
My own experiences as a queer woman and my friendships with people of a variety of races and nationalities have sensitized me to the issue of cultural appropriation. So what is cultural appropriation? It's overwriting the voices of the voiceless with narrative constructed outside of the lived experience of a person who is a member of an oppressed class. Since there are many kinds of oppressed classes and since one person can belong to more than one of them, the issue can become complicated. The litmus test for me goes back to the question of lived experience. Does the person telling the story have the right to tell it? Is it his story to tell? As with many questions, there is no one right answer, but there are definitely some wrong ones.
Mark Doty read a poem at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival in the late 1990s that has stayed with me for almost 20 years. While Doty made a name for himself chronicling his lived experience as a gay man living through the AIDS crisis, the poem in question had a very different subject matter. In it he recounted graphic details of the experiences of children in a mental institution where he was working – stories of trauma and abuse. As an abuse survivor myself, I'm intimately familiar with how difficult it can be to claim this kind of story: to believe that the abuse really happened, and to walk through the fire as one retells it. The glib way in which Doty claimed them and juxtaposed them with a field trip to a sunlit meadow seemed a violation and a theft to me.
At some level, all oppressed peoples have a history of trauma. So I can identify with the rage and disbelief with which members of the Asian community responded to Hudson's implicit claim of reverse racism. Reverse racism is not a thing. The power differential is what makes it not a thing. When you have been oppressed, abused, and silenced, it is not cool for someone else to come along and claim your experience as their own.
I brought this question to my workshop students in the days following the Yi-Fen Chou/Hudson controversy. Because I didn't yet have a copy of Hudson's poem, we did a close reading of "After Alaska," by contemporary poet Therese Halscheid. After we made note of the skillful way in which Halscheid invokes earth, ocean, wind, and sky, I put this question to them: By writing about Eskimo experience – indeed by using the word Eskimo itself – is Halscheid committing cultural appropriation? We looked at the text. "After Alaska" is dedicated to a woman named Lisa, and the speaker of the poem refers to "this white woman" and "the tribe she roamed with." The speaker's experience of the native experience itself is therefore twice removed, but the text itself makes note of that fact. The poem describes an internal landscape informed by this white woman's experience with a native tribe who then passes on this information to the speaker. Clearly, the information had a powerful effect. "She lives in me now, in the north of my chest, where it is all dark, all winter," she says, and later "she was arranging my ribs, arching them, same as the shelters she spoke of … where they shape whalebone over driftwood…" (3).
The white woman in the poem draws her knees to her chest, "as in the ways of the Eskimo." That she uses this term is in itself problematic. Sources vary on whether the term "Eskimo" is derogatory. According to Wikipedia, it's considered pejorative in Canada and Greenland but still used commonly in Alaska where it refers to more than one native tribe (4). Problematic nomenclature aside, the larger question here is whether this internalization of a landscape not experienced directly by the speaker of the poem – and transmitted to her by another white woman – constitutes cultural appropriation. According to one of my students, it does not because the line of communication is clearly stated as coming from the "Eskimo" themselves – rather like a properly attributed source in an academic article. But does it pass the smell test?
Let's compare Halscheid's poem to "Songline of Dawn" by Joy Harjo, an enrolled member of the Muscogee tribe and well-known poet (the Academy of American poets just awarded her the Wallace Stevens Prize for lifetime achievement). Harjo's poem also inhabits a landscape, however it is one both internal and external at once. She says she can see her children's house, "a refuge in the dark near the university," which places it squarely in the physical world. Yet both the speaker and her children "fly over the valley of monster bones / left scattered in the dirty that remind us that breathing / is rooted somewhere other than the lungs." With her invocation of "the gods of scarlet light" and the sun, which "leans on one elbow after making love / savoring the wetlands just off the freeway," she places divinity squarely at the crux of the physical and the spiritual (5). This notion of divinity as immanent rather than transcendent is common in pre-Abrahamic religions. One finds evidence of it in the religious practices of native peoples in the Americas and Africa, as well as in the modern neopagan movement which attempts to reconstruct European religions that existed before the rise of Christianity.
Harjo's relationship to her landscape is very different than Halscheid's, whose "north of the chest, where it is all dark, all winter" (6) comes to her twice removed, recounted by her friend who lived among its native people. The difference in the lived experience of the two poets informs the way they write about these landscapes.
While a close reading of Halscheid's poem may disprove the idea that it's appropriating native Alaskan culture, it remains a problematic example of the pitfalls of creative expression in post-colonial society.
Best American Poetry. "Sherman Alexie Speaks Out on Best American Poetry 2015." Best American Poetry Blog, September 7, 2015. Web. September 14, 2015. http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2015/09/like-most-every-poet-i-have-viewed-the-publication-of-each-years-best-american-poetry-with-happiness-i-love-that-poem-je-1.html.
Harjo, Joy. "Songline of Dawn." A Map to the Next World: Poems & Tales. Harjo, Joy. New York: Norton, 2000. p. 13. Print.
Halscheid, Therese. "After Alaska." Ibid.


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Sound and robust solid modeling via exact real arithmetic and continuity
Distinguished Paper
Benjamin Sherman, Jesse Michel, Michael Carbin
ICFP 2019 Research Papers
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Tue 20 Aug 2019 14:37 - 15:00 at Aurora Borealis - The Real World Chair(s): Robert Atkey
Algorithms for solid modeling, i.e., Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and computer graphics, are often specified on real numbers and then implemented with finite-precision arithmetic, such as floating-point. The result is that these implementations do not soundly compute the results that are expected from their specifications.
We present a new library, StoneWorks, that provides sound and robust solid modeling primitives. We have implemented this library in MarshallB, a language we have developed as an extension of Marshall. Marshall is a language for exact real arithmetic in which types denote topological spaces and functions denote continuous maps, ensuring that all programs are sound and robust.
We also define a new shape representation, compact representation (K-rep), that enables a user of our library to perform constructions such as Minkowski sum and analyses such as Hausdorff distance that are not possible with traditional representations.
With our library, language, and representation together, we show that short StoneWorks programs can specify and execute sound and robust solid modeling algorithms and tasks.
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Benjamin Sherman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Jesse Michel
Michael Carbin
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Demystifying Differentiable Programming: Shift/Reset the Penultimate Backpropagator
Fei Wang, Dan ZhengPurdue University, Google Brain, James Decker, Xilun WuPurdue University, Gregory EssertelPurdue University, Tiark RompfPurdue University
Efficient Differentiable Programming in a Functional Array-Processing Language
Amir ShaikhhaUniversity of Oxford, Andrew FitzgibbonMicrosoft Research, Cambridge, Dimitrios VytiniotisDeepMind, Simon Peyton JonesMicrosoft, UK
From high-level inference algorithms to efficient code
Rajan WaliaIndiana University, Praveen NarayananIndiana University, USA, Jacques CaretteMcMaster University, Sam Tobin-HochstadtIndiana University, Chung-chieh ShanIndiana University, USA
Sound and robust solid modeling via exact real arithmetic and continuityDistinguished Paper
Benjamin ShermanMassachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Jesse MichelMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Michael CarbinMassachusetts Institute of Technology
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18-month-old boy who nearly drowned welcomed home with police escort
Logan Olson was found in a retention pond in Stewartville on April 7.
Melissa Turtinen
Go Fund Me
An 18-month-old boy who nearly drowned in a retention pond in Stewartville earlier this month was welcomed home with a police escort.
Logan Olson was found unresponsive in the pond on April 7 and was placed in a medically induced coma. He was awake as of April 15, and after nearly two weeks, Logan was released from the hospital on Monday.
His mom, Erin Olson, posted a video of the family walking out of the hospital Monday.
And then Logan was welcomed home with a surprise police escort and cheering community members. Here's video from the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office:
Erin Olson also shared photos and videos from the escort, saying in a Facebook post they had no idea it was happening.
"We got 'pulled over' just past Cycle City. Then we got to catch up to the parade of emergency vehicles. So awesome and overwhelming," she wrote.
Erin Olson added, "Such an amazing homecoming! Thank you to all the medical personnel who was there for him that day and today."
According to the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Logan was being babysat by a family friend when he fell into a retention pond behind homes on the 700 block of Willow Green Court Northeast in Stewartville around 4:11 p.m. on April 7.
The family friend had lost sight of Logan and called his dad, who was on his way to the home. Logan's dad found him floating in the pond and he and/or bystanders began CPR.
It is estimated Logan was in the water for no longer than 5 minutes.
Logan was brought to St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester and was in critical condition, in a medically induced coma with "some strong signs of organ function," the sheriff's office said on April 8.
A Go Fund Me page has been set up for the family.
Logan will have to do outpatient physical therapy twice a week for a while to make sure he's walking and moving correctly, but he's otherwise fine, KTTC says.
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Charges: Driver threw 'large rocks' at police car during highway chase
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Minnesota's COVID-19 update for Friday, January 21
Hospitalizations dipped from 1,629 Jan. 19 to 1,571 on Jan. 20.
Shooting near University of Minnesota kills 1, injures 2
The victims were all in a parked car when the shooting happened, police said.
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St. Paul native, comedian Louie Anderson dead at 68
He died of complications with cancer.
Florida man charged with human smuggling after 4 die, 5 rescued near border
A baby and an teenage boy were among those who were found dead feet from the U.S. border.
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Shelley Rae Kephart went missing from Hennepin County more than 28 years ago.
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The governor wants to use $700 million of the state's surplus to fund the payments.
Walz, Flanagan call on Hennepin Co. sheriff to resign
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Watch: Community's big welcome home to 11-year-old after heart transplant
Andrew Iseminger has been away from his Minnesota home for more than six months.
Minnesota toddler in a coma after being found in a pond Thursday
A caregiver lost sight of the child, the sheriff's office said.
18-month-old boy bitten by relative's dog in Olmsted County
The dog will be euthanized.
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The truck apparently collided with the bicyclist near an intersection.
13-year-old who drowned in Eagan lake is identified
Jeylon Holloway was bringing his dog for a walk when he fell into the lake.
Hockey community rallies around player who's fighting cancer
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Giant light show will illuminate St. Paul Cathedral next month
The drive-by light show will be set to music.
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The 26-year-old bear was found orphaned under a home in Alaska.


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Constraints Lifted on Port Operations
30 October 2019 13 September 2020 Press
Port response ~ "normal commercial relationships with customers."
Port of Newcastle welcomes the Australian Competition Tribunal's (ACT) decision about navigation and wharf pricing.
The Tribunal noted that prices should "provide an incentive to a service provider to efficiently (and in a timely fashion) invest in maintaining and improving infrastructure necessary to provide facilities at the Port".
Prices that are too low can lead to non-investment or delayed investment, or the non-provision of some infrastructure services," the Tribunal said.
Port of Newcastle (PON) CEO Craig Carmody said:
We have long said that port pricing should remain subject to an appropriate and efficient commercial relationship between the port and its customers."
Following on from the Australian Government's announcement in September regarding the revocation of the declaration of service at the Port of Newcastle, a period of unnecessary uncertainty for all parties has hopefully now been concluded.
We look forward to sitting down with all our customers to discuss our services and pricing as part of a return to a normal commercial relationship."
Common sense decision on Newcastle port
In September, Port of Newcastle CEO Craig Carmody supported Newcastle council's stance on the revocation of the declaration of service at the Port of Newcastle.
PON has long maintained the view that the Port should never have been declared and that the NCC's original position in 2015 was sound.
The NCC's recommendation was founded on robust legal and economic arguments for its position, and the NCC stuck to its guns in the face of some considerable pressure from other parties.
This is a victory for a common-sense approach to regulation. The outcome is consistent with the intent of the legislation as originally envisaged by the Productivity Commission and re-endorsed by the Australian Parliament in 2017."


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                                Log.i("Check List", user.getmFavorite());
                                Context context = getActivity();
                                fav = true;
                                toast = Toast.makeText(context, "This user is already favorite", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
                                toast.show();
                            }
                            else {
                                Log.i("Number331", "Numer331");
                                Log.i("Check List", user.getmFavorite());
                                String fav2 = favorites + "," + newFav;
                                user.setmFavorite(fav2);
                                Context context = getActivity();
                                fav = true;
                                toast = Toast.makeText(context, "Successfully Favorited", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
                                toast.show();
                                Log.i("Check List2", user.getmFavorite());
                                db.userDao().Update(user);
                            }
                        }

                    }
                })

Hello I want to change the color of Button when I click the Negative button.
So if Negative Button was red , and I click it it should change to Blue, and If I click Positive Button change Negative Button's color to red. I dont know how to do this ....

A: If I got it straight, you simply want to change the button's colour from red to blue and vice-versa each time someone presses the button. You were kind of ambiguous in the objective.
The easiest way I know of doing that is using a flag to see which colour is supposed to be on the button. You also have the setBackgroundColor method that programmatically changes the color.
So I would do something like
if(!isRed)
btn.setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.red));
else
btn.setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.blue));

being that red and blue are custom colours. You can make them in your colors.xml file.
You need to have the setBackground method inside onClick to make sure it's triggered.

A: You can try this -
alertDialog.setOnShowListener(new DialogInterface.OnShowListener() {
        @Override
        public void onShow(DialogInterface dialog) {
            if(clicked)
            alertDialog.getButton(AlertDialog.BUTTON_NEGATIVE).setTextColor(context.getResources().getColor(R.color.YOUR_COLOR_NAME));
        }
    });

A: try this:
public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(getActivity());
View alertDialog= View.inflate(this.getActivity(), R.layout.alert_dialog,
                                        null);

builder.setTitle(getLocalizedString("Message"))
        .setView(eventEditDialogView)
        .setPositiveButton(getLocalizedString("Ok"), new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
            }
        })
        .setNegativeButton(getLocalizedString("Cancel"), new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
            }
        })
return builder.create();
 }

 @Override
 public void onStart() {
    super.onStart();
 Button positive = ((AlertDialog) getDialog()).getButton(AlertDialog.BUTTON_POSITIVE);
 positive.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);
 positive.setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.GrayBGColor));
 }

it helps you

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