Have you ever wanted to get inside the head of a young-earth creationist or an evolutionary creationist and hear what they are thinking about each other? What about their fears and concerns, what makes them hold on so strongly to what they believe, what do they think about conflict and can they find any common ground? Well, I've just read the book for you.
I recently received a copy of the book, "The Fool and the Heretic: How two scientists moved beyond labels to a Christian dialogue about creation and evolution." The "fool" is Dr. Todd Wood, a devoted young-earth creationist with a PhD in evolutionary biochemistry from the University of Virginia. Dr. Wood has written multiple creation science books and published many articles in creationist and secular journals. The "heretic" is Dr. Darrel Falk, a PhD in genetic from University of Alberta, former president of the evolutionary creationist ministry, BioLogos, and professor emeritus at Point Loma Nazarene University.
The Fool and the Heretic. By, Todd Wood and Darrel Falk.
Todd Wood is no fool nor is Darrel Falk a heretic, but these are labels that many would apply to them. Either or both of them could be very wrong about how God made the world, but they do have something in common: an earnest desire to see God glorified and for others to come to know Him as they do. It is this central desire that accentuates their angst about the other's perceived error.
These two Christian scientists began dialoguing several years ago with the assistance of The Colossian Forum whose mission is to "equip leaders to transform cultural conflicts into opportunities for spiritual growth and witness" as a "Christian community that acts Christian, especially in the face of conflict." One of the fruits of taking this road less traveled is this book which recounts the personal story of how each of these scientist's willingness to learn about the "enemy," find out where common ground may exist, and discover how to model Christian love in dialogue when common ground on a valued doctrine doesn't exist.
Both are devoted Christians but have opposing views on evolution and the age of the earth and each is not afraid to tell the other he is wrong and that he is a danger to the church. How can these two speak in love and humility? Could the path to working through conflict offer Christians an opportunity to grow their love for God and for each other? This book explores these questions.
Todd Wood and Darrel Falk take turns authoring alternating chapters. However, almost one-quarter of the pages are devoted to prologue, epilogue and a set of interludes all written by Rob Barrett of The Colossian Forum. Wood and Falk's chapters are great but Barrett's material is pure gold as he provides the glue that binds the diverse threads of the book together. He sets the stage, provides the connections between the chapters and puts the exposed inner thoughts of Wood and Falk into perspective at the end. He may also be responsible for the questions which conclude each chapter. I found them all to be thoughtful and probing questions that should invite a significant degree of personal introspection and act as excellent conversation starters for group discussion.
Wood and Falk get straight into the weeds as they author paired introductory chapters with evocative and honest titles: "Why Darrel's Wrong and Why it Matters" and "Why Todd is Wrong and Why it Matters" The writing is palpably honest as they passionately plead their case to each other and to us why the other is wrong and why their errant views are damaging to the Church. There isn't any sugar-coating the depth of their disagreement.
With such different views what else can be said? How can the conversation proceed if each party views the other as a tool of the devil within the church? In all likelihood every reader can place themselves in the shoes of Wood and Falk even if creation and evolution is not a particular issue for them. Maybe its politics, maybe another social issue or even strong views of eschatology or the order of salvation. In any case, Wood and Falk show us a path for developing relationships and meaningful dialogue with those for whom we have an opposing view.
Subsequent chapters delve deeper into each author's views of scripture and its relationship to science. They each present their case for their own view while at the same time critiquing the other. In chapter nine and ten they each present the scientific evidence they believe support their view. Although these are scientists talking about the evidence for and against evolutionary theory I found these chapters the least interesting and compelling. However, this isn't a book about the scientific evidence even though it is written by two PhD biologists.
We see the fruit of the authors deepening dialogue in the final two chapters of the book provocatively entitled: "Is Darrell a Heretic?" and "Is Todd a Fool?" Both authors agree that the answer is no but that doesn't mean that they agree on the age of the Earth and evolution. The conversation about origins isn't over. Maybe, for these authors, it is now possible for that conversation to begin. I would suggest that there is hope for some reconciliation on this topic. The ingredients for edifying dialogue are present and, in my opinion, there are different pathways, both theological and scientific, that neither have fully explored in the creation/evolution landscape offering the opportunity for both to find further common ground.
While I strongly recommend the book I must warn you it is a difficult read. If you have any attachment to the origins debate among Christians, and likely you do if you are reading this review, you will not be able to read it without having a strong emotional reaction. If you find yourself disappointed that your hero in the book didn't "win the battle" you probably have missed the point. However, if you feel tension while reading the book then you are ready to ask yourself, how can I engage with others with whom I feel this same tension?
Yes, we—myself included—must do better. This book helps us toward that goal.
In a future post I will explore the author's positions in more detail and provide my thoughts about where I think the discussion of origins needlessly breaks down.
Disclaimer: I (Joel Duff) was provided with a copy of the book for review by the publisher. I was not required to give any specific kind of feedback whatsoever.
Interesting review. i'm surprised at the positive review, i think, about this.
It seems like a cool book for thoughtful thinkers.
Yet to this YEC it all comes down to a conclusion about whether the bible is gods word and so accurate and so accurate onb origins. Any attempt to say science defeats genesis is just humans ability claims that it has defeated genesis.
on invisible matters like origin stuff evidence is invisible too. Which makes the science difficult.
Its about bible being true verses mans intellectual opposition or proposition to the claims of the bible.
It might be clearer to say "It's about man's interpretation of the Word (and which one?) being true versus man's interpretation of the World being true." At the most fundamental level, they can't truly be in contradiction, but both as we know them are the actions of human intellects – no reason for one in particular to be considered more fallible than the other.
I'm pretty sure that science makes it clear that magic doesn't work. You, or anyone else, can say "Let there be light" and nothing will happen as a result of that incantation, even if you add the correct pronunciation of the divine name.
Thanks for the review; it sounds like an interesting read! I'm saved by grace, a scientist/pathologist, and love digging into views on Genesis. The Bible means exactly what God intended it to communicate to the original audience and we should be wise to use all available evidence to derive His intent. Considering the needs of the original audience, God's non-lying nature, and data from several fields of science, the progressive creationists seem most convincing. But, as a Molinist, I'm sure God could have alternatively pre-loaded his plan for biology into the universe's initial conditions to lead to the creatures and people he chose to create based on creatures he desired and his foreknowledge of the freewill choices of any humanity he providentially considered creating.
Great review of what sounds like a great book.
I've been pondering recently about how those people who talk about the bible being "God's word" as Robert does above, or "God's non lying nature", as D. Belote does, with reference to what God intended to "communicate to the original audience", envisage this perfect transmission of the content of the various books of the Old and NewTestament from God to the humans who wrote them down being achieved. More specifically than just " miraculously", I mean. Moses, we are told, got the Ten Commandments direct, inscribed on tablets of stone, from the Almighty on Mount Sinai, but what about all the rest? Did the writers go into a sort of trance, as some mediums do at seances, and God guided their hands without them even being conscious of what they wrote till after? Did God speak to them in a vision and they wrote the words from His dictation? ( I think that is how Moslems, or some of them, envisage Mohammed writing the Koran.) Do you/they imagine that Noah and his family were literate, and one of them wrote an account of their adventures that was later incorporated into Genesis, or did they hand it down orally from generation to generation, with God constantly steering minds and memories to ensure perfectly accurate transmission? What about the events of the first chapter of Genesis? To whom did God first entrust the history of what happened before the existence of humans? And what about the later progress of the various texts and their compilation into the bible as we now know it, with many other potentially scriptural writings either excluded entirely, or relegated to the halfway house of Apocryphal status? Were all the rejected texts telling different stories of Jesus and his words, or purporting to be written by various apostles, false inventions, designed by the devil to mislead early Christians, or what? What about the thousands of translations over the last couple of thousand years into various languages, including of course our own English? Did God ensure perfect transmission and a hundred per cent accuracy for all of them? Only some? None of them? And by what method? We know of one printed edition of the King James Bible that was sent out with the misprint "Thou shalt commit adultery", whether by accident or mischievous intent, and undiscovered till quite widely disseminated. Why did God allow this to happen, and how, seeing that it demonstrably did, can we be confident that there were no copying errors, UNdiscovered, in the many times hand copied biblical texts in the hundreds of years before they, in their original languages and in translation, were first printed?
Sally, zou have so many questions…luckily there is this book of Bill Cooper. It answers all your questions and you will understand that Modernism is wrong, Genesis is right.
I admire your optimism, Peer, in supposing that if I were only to read this book I should understand that Modernism is wrong and Genesis right, but, on the strength of my own knowledge of myself, and of my education in the widest sense, my personal history, and my opinions and interests and thought processes, things which naturally you can know almost nothing of, since I'm only known to you from a few posts, I can assure you with the utmost sincerity that it is more likely that pigs can fly than that I should be persuaded by reading any book whatsoever that Genesis is "right", if what you mean by that is that Genesis in its opening chapters gives a completely and literally accurate account of the formation of our planet and the universe, the origins of living things, including humans, and their history, up to and including the Noah narrative.
There's no likelihood of the situation arising anyway, since I've several bookshelves' worth of books Queuing up to be read, as and when I can find the time. The one I'm two thirds of the way through at the moment is "God's Funeral" by A. N. Wilson, a fascinating and readable account of the loss of traditional religious faith among the vast majority of the intellectual classes in Europe, especially Britain, over the last few hundred years, and especially the nineteenth century, and the specific and very different courses, charted in detail, that this took with hundreds of different distinguished intellectuals, in the arts, sciences and indeed the churches. (The title, in case you were wondering, comes from a poem by Thomas Hardy.) Wilson does write about Modernism at various points, and there are occasional brief references to present day biblical literalism and young earth creationism, but at no length, since he is, he says, of the opinion that this is nowadays not an intellectually respectable position that an honest and intelligent searcher after truth could conscientiously adhere to. But I am not optimistic enough to suppose that in the unlikely event that you were to read the book you would instantly come to the understanding that your current views on Genesis and the bible were totally wrong.😊 Nor is that Wilson's intention. He is not out to persuade anyone to share his own religious/philosophical opinions or anyone else's, but rather to sympathetically detail and examine the thoughts on religion of his many subjects, what caused them or altered them, how this impacted on their lives, and what their influence on others was. His book is about the history of ideas. And possibly if you were to read it you might find a deeper understanding of what was going on in the heads of those who don't possess your own cast iron religious convictions.
I myself want to understand the thought processes of biblical fundamentalists and literalists, which is why I asked those questions. And although the author is only one man, I suppose the book you recommend would give some insight into this. For that reason, therefore, I will promise to read it, but if and only if you will send me a copy, free of charge. Otherwise, I'll continue to rely on what's freely available on the net, like this comment thread, to enlighten me as to the extraordinary workings of we humans' mysterious, inconsistent and contradictory, and very fitfully logical minds.
So, does that book that the pagan gods depicted on the cover are real. How about the pagan god god (El) addresses in Psalm 82? Are they real, or just Yahweh?
I made a lengthy post on Woods' blog once challenging him to give an account of how the tower of Babel could be squared with what we know of historical linguistics, but he didn't bite.
I disagree with your comment " I must warn you it is a difficult read." I just finished the book and found it to be a very easy and interesting read, mainly because the writing was so personal. I already pretty much knew Darrel Falk's position via his own book ("Coming to Peace with Science") and BioLogos, but was less familiar with Todd Wood's position and how and why he maintains it. While I believe that Todd Wood is wrong, I have a better understanding of where he is coming from.
I don't think the book itself will change anyone's mind, nor was it intended to, although the "For Study and Reflections" questions at the end of each chapter are the most relevant discussion questions I've ever seen.
Thanks so much for your thoughts. yeah, I could definitely see your side there. I didn't find it a difficult read personally but i was more putting myself in the shoes of someone not as familiar with the two sides.
So what approximate reading level do you think it would be – advanced high school, university, any age if they have some background knowledge of evolutionary theory?
I have high-school students with strong opinions on the topic already (I don't think they know enough to be so certain, but I'm not a teenager, so… :), and they can't imagine why anybody would take the other side seriously. I'm wondering if this might be useful for them?
This is definitely a high-school reading level. The discussion of the scientific evidence is limited to two chapters and very much written in an accessible way. I think the book will leave some feeling short-changed if they are looking for scientific arguments for one side or the other but I do think that it will provide a good appreciation for why both sides believe they are right with reasons from both theology and science presented.


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A Man, a Van, a Plan - Moving Magnate Is the Impresario Behind Mana Contemporary
New York Times - July 20, 2014
JERSEY CITY — A year after its opening, the Mana Contemporary arts complex, on 35 acres here, remains largely unknown to the artgoing public. So does the man for whom it's named.
"So Moishe's the man with a van and a plan?" asked Lisa Dennison, the chairwoman of Sotheby's North and South America, who was impressed by the ambition of the space on a recent visit.
The Mana is for Moishe Mana. He owns Moishe's Moving and Storage, a nationwide company, and when he suggested to Eugene Lemay, his trusted right hand of 30 years, that he wanted to get into the art storage business, Mr. Lemay insisted that art couldn't be handled like furniture. But when he looked into it, he noticed that collectors were keeping millions of dollars' worth of art in dungeonlike storage spaces. Why not build an entire arts complex where work would be stored so collectors could visit it and show it off?
Mr. Mana has since spent tens of millions of dollars building his conglomeration of profit and nonprofit spaces in a former factory and warehouse area near Journal Square. The complex occupies almost a million square feet — more than five Walmarts — and growing. It includes studios, galleries, a rehearsal space, a Middle Eastern art center and a museum of Richard Meier's architectural models. Marina Abramovic will lead a performance piece using crowds there in October, and Jeffrey Deitch will organize an exhibition with the choreographer and dancer Karole Armitage in December.
But because Mr. Lemay is the chief executive of Mana Contemporary, he is the one who is photographed and quoted at the organization's many public events, not Mr. Mana, who is impish with a sunny spirit that may be a little unchecked for the art world.
"But I did study some art history in college in Tel Aviv," he likes to tell people. "And I'm learning more and more about it every day. I just have to do more listening."
And so, when Mr. Lemay speaks, Mr. Mana is all ears. Mr. Lemay is an artist. He became one in the early 1990s, about a decade after he started working for Mr. Mana, and his big, brooding canvases now show around the world. Mr. Mana is as proud as he is surprised that his associate is a creative success.
"I remember moving artists in the early days," he was telling Mr. Lemay as he drove a black Mercedes sedan from Manhattan into the Holland Tunnel toward Jersey City for a recent art opening. "And when they said they couldn't afford my rate, I told them if they couldn't make a living from their art, then they should find real jobs and keep art as a hobby."
Mr. Lemay, a pale man with a serious countenance, winced then laughed.
"Gene, you did exactly what I said," Mr. Mana continued as he sat in tunnel traffic with the sanguine air of a man who has driven in far more stressful circumstances. "You couldn't afford being an artist when you came to work for me, but you worked hard and now you can."
Although Moishe's Moving doesn't air its financials, the company, the umbrella for a double octopus of 15 businesses — including real estate development; media; and wine, fashion and document storage — has an estimable net worth. Mana Contemporary has the added draw of both a foundry (it recently manufactured a Richard Serra model) and a high-end silk-screening operation, and Mr. Mana now has a similar venture in Chicago. In Miami, where Mr. Mana invested in a group of buildings covering five blocks, Mana will host an art fair to coincide with Art Basel in December.
"Gene is a person who takes on a lot," Mr. Mana said. "And he never complains."
Their company's rough-and-tumble birth story involves, according to Mr. Mana, incidents like having a gun held to his head by the suspicious neighbor of a client and sleeping in a warehouse with a guard dog to keep it from being burned down by competitors.
"When John Gotti called, I told him to come and shoot me now," said Mr. Mana, who at 56 still has smooth olive skin and a youthful stride. He arrived from Israel as a law school dropout. "For years," he said, "it was only about survival."
In Mr. Lemay, who shared an Israeli background, he found someone akin to a brother to help move furniture and then build a far-reaching empire.
"Our whole life we are one with each other," Mr. Mana said.
For him, an art mecca is a lure for drawing inhabitants from across state lines to residences that he plans to develop into what he calls "TriBeCa West." "New Jersey still has a stigma, but that is going to change," he said.
Their storage clients already include two of Manhattan's most important art museums, the collection of the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, and others. The complex typically shows several exhibitions at once, free to the public. Shows of Judy Chicago and Resnick are among those currently on display.
"If you build it, they will come," Mr. Mana said as he pulled into his art center.
A chic crowd of 80 had gathered for an exposition of artists organized by Ray Smith, a resident artist, at Mana's new Glass Gallery, one of the largest exhibition spaces in the country with 50,000 square feet of open space (nearly the size of a football field), with its interior designed by Mr. Meier. Guests for a private dinner at a mirrored banquet table roamed around looking at works for sale by artists including Julian Schnabel, Ai Weiwei and Alex Katz.
Most did not know the man behind the Mana was Moishe.
"That's just beautiful," said Yvonne Force Villareal, of the Art Production Fund.
And now, Ms. Dennison of Sotheby's said, "all he has to do is figure out the Holland Tunnel traffic." (The Journal Square PATH station is a 10-minute walk.)
Just before a speech by Ms. Abramovic about her fall 72-hour performance with 10,000 participants (moved in and out of six-hour sessions), and an announcement about Mr. Deitch's exhibition from the archive of the in-residence Armitage Gone! Dance company, Mr. Mana stared at Mr. Lemay's looming black canvas. It was about Mr. Lemay's time in the Israeli Army. Under the canvas, a pile of rubble added to the feeling of devastation.
"It's so dark and sad," Mr. Mana said.
"I lost a lot of friends when I was in the military," Mr. Lemay replied.
A silence passed between them. Then a smile lifted Mr. Mana's face.
"I bet your next work will have flowers growing from all this darkness," he said.
"Actually, I'm already doing that," Mr. Lemay said.
Mr. Mana put his arm around Mr. Lemay and sighed
"See? We always think alike," he said. "We are one."
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80 years ago, they yelled to boycott the Jews, and then to kill the Jews, and they did.
Today, they are smarter and are re-marketing their genocide-call to say 'kill the ZIONISTS' or Israelis.
YET, their actions don't stop there, as they kill Jews around the world. They attack Jews in Argentina in community centers, in liberal PARIS, at kosher markets, and in other places in Europe as well.
Something went wrong with the Sundays podcast. Instead of Shifra Hoffman coming on, the show started again from the beginning.


Every day, Google is taking steps to try and make our lives as 'search engine users' easier, by providing answers more quickly, more accurately and in the right format. But imagine if you found the exact answer to your query, without having to click, not even once. It's already happening. Ask for a temperature conversion, the time in another country or perhaps when Valentine's Day is and you're likely to see the answer right there, with no clicks required; if you trust what Google is telling you. This is a zero click search result.
Core features on a Google search results page (SERP) include paid ads, image/video (media) results and featured snippets, all of which have taken over the top spots and can provide a definitive answer to a question. A featured snippet works by pulling a short answer from a webpage directly into the SERP, whereas a Knowledge Card block or a Google Instant Answer, are database entries featuring facts and data that are pulled in. These results make clicking on other more traditional types of search results redundant. This is brilliant UX, but for an SEO, the situation is not quite so brilliant. Both because a zero-click result is hard to achieve but also, it's unlikely to deliver web traffic to the site being optimised and traffic is usually the main objective of SEO. But if you are wanting that top spot, that position zero so to speak, how do you optimise for zero click searches?
Database-style searches: Search queries based on dates, times, names and ages of famous people, currency conversions etc.
Encyclopedia and dictionary-style searches: Search queries around "synonym for", "what is", "definition of" etc.
Up until fairly recently, keyword (or keyphrase) research has included search volume, keyword difficulty and current position figures. From now on, the clicks per search (CPS) figure should also be part of your keyword research process. The benefit of this is it helps you consider actual traffic potential, not just search volumes on their own. The higher the CPS, the more chance there is that you can receive some web traffic even if you're ranking in a lower position like 4 or 5. By looking at the click per search, you'll see if a key phrase already a large search volume figure but a low or zero click potential figure.
There are three main types of featured snippets; paragraph, list and table. Run a ranking report on your long tail target phrases and look for those that are already ranking in the top 10 positions. Remove the phrases that already have a featured snippet result appearing on the SERP and the rest of the list are usually opportunities for you. Some SEO tools like Serpstat and SEMRush have a feature to help with this. And if you are seeking new ideas, use the People Also Ask feature at the bottom of a Google SERP – there will be other keyphrases that you might be able to rank for and achieve a snippet for.
Ensure the web page you are trying to rank for with a paragraph featured snippet contains a short and accurate answer to the search query question that totals or is below 55 words. Place it as near to the top of your content page as possible.
Ensure list content that you want to rank for is organised clearly. Use headings such as Step 1, Step 2, etc (more than 8 steps will be truncated and a 'More' link added by Google). And again keep below the 55 words mark in total.
Ensure that if you are aiming to rank with a table, include the content in table format high up on your page and also mark it up using the <table> tag.
Be sure about which content you want to rank for zero click searches, because at the end of the day, users are unlikely to be clicking through to your site via that zero position result. Keywords with a high CTR can also rank more content on the first page, so plan comprehensively for rankings, not solely for snippets.
Your site needs to already perform well and serve users with in-depth content.
The vast majority of web searches are simply never going to have one definitive answer and some queries aren't even traditionally formed questions.
Featured snippets don't come with any guarantees. Once you've earnt one, it doesn't mean you will keep it because another website might come along in a few weeks or months with a better answer than yours.
If you have any questions, please give us a call or let us know in the comments below.


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Release Date and Bonus Features for Batman: Assault on Arkham Revealed
Spencer PerryWednesday, May 07, 2014
Earlier today, we posted a behind-the-scenes featurette for the upcoming Batman: Assault on Arkham which gave viewers a better idea of what to expect from the film. Now, DC Animation has revealed some new announcements for the film including that it will be arriving on Digital, DVD, and Blu-ray combo pack on August 12. You can read the press release on the title below which includes a brief synopsis of the film as well as the bonus features you'll find.
Gotham is in great danger when the government assembles a group of villains — code named the Suicide Squad — and forces them to break into Arkham Asylum to retrieve top secret information stolen by the Riddler. Things take a turn for the worse when one of the Squad members (Harley Quinn) frees the Joker, who is intent on blowing up Arkham Asylum and Gotham City. Batman must use his super hero wits and strength to thwart the wicked plans of the Joker and the Suicide Squad.
"Batman: Assault on Arkham is a thrill-ride with everything a fan would want — a courageous super hero, depraved villains, and suspenseful plot twists," said Mary Ellen Thomas, WBHE Vice President, Family & Animation Marketing. "Featuring voice talent from some of today's hottest television actors, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is proud to release this as the next DC Universe Original Movie."
"Working on a new Batman story is always exciting," said Sam Register, President, Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Digital Series. "As a fan of the Arkham video games, I know this movie is going to entertain all Batman groups, from comic book and super hero fans to the most dedicated gamer."
Kevin Conroy (Batman: The Animated Series) voices Batman, and joins forces with several Hollywood greats to bring the legendary characters to life. Adding to the celebrity-laden cast is Neal McDonough (Justified, Desperate Housewives) as Deadshot, Troy Baker (The Last of Us) as Joker, Matthew Gray Gubler (Criminal Minds) as Riddler, CCH Pounder (The Shield, Warehouse 13) as Amanda Waller, Greg Ellis (24) as Captain Boomerang, and Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad, Revolution) as Black Spider.
Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment, Batman: Assault on Arkham is directed by Jay Oliva (Man of Steel, Justice League: War) and Ethan Spaulding (Son of Batman) from a script written by Heath Corson (Justice League: War). Sam Register (Beware the Batman, Teen Titans Go!), Benjamin Melniker (The Dark Knight Rises) and Michael Uslan (The Dark Knight Rises) serve as executive producers. James Tucker (Son of Batman) is Supervising Producer.
Batman: Assault on Arkham has tons of exciting enhanced content. The Blu-ray Combo Pack will include:
Arkham Analyzed: The Secrets Behind the Asylum – This is the documentary that traces the strange, demonic history of the location where horror is mixed with the extremities of the criminally insane. A place where Batman must keep his watchful gaze, to insure that what goes in does not come out …. ever.
The Joker's Queen: Harley Quinn – If The Joker were to have a girlfriend, what would she be like? This featurette covers the story of the deviancy and often provocative side to The Joker's greatest ally, Harley Quinn.
An advance look into the next DC animated feature film with the creators and cast.
Four episodes from the DC Comics Vault.
Tags: Batman, batman: assault on arkham


The boreal forest is one of the North's most valuable natural resources. Its animals and plants have sustained Indigenous people for thousands of years.
Under the right weather and forest fuel moisture conditions, forests in the Northwest Territories (NWT) support high-intensity wildland fires that are virtually unstoppable. These fires are often naturally occurring with the potential to spread quickly over great distances and to place people and community infrastructure at risk.
The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) is responsible for wildland fire management, prevention and protection in the NWT.
Managing wildland fire is important for protecting the ecological integrity and economic potential of the boreal forest.
The NWT wildland fire season begins May 1st and ends September 30th. During this time, fires can start, spread, and cause risk to human life, property and important natural and cultural resources.


A veteran AD carry has hit the open market heading into the summer season of professional League of Legends.
Former H2K ADC Konstantinos-Napoleon "FORG1VEN" Tzortziou revealed today that he'll complete his mandatory military service on April 3—making him a free agent for the rest of the 2019 season.
The last time League fans saw FORG1VEN on the Rift was in April 2018 at the EU Masters tournament—he joined a superstar lineup on Origen that swept IlluminaR in the grand finals.
Before he started his mandatory military service, FORG1VEN was often considered to be one of the best ADCs in the world. Many League fans will be curious to see if any teams are willing to take a chance by signing this talented veteran for the rest of the year.


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Вінсент () — місто () в США, в окрузі Вебстер штату Айова. Населення — 174 особи (2010).

Географія
Вінсент розташований за координатами  (42.591830, -94.018863).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році місто мало площу 0,66 км², уся площа — суходіл.

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у місті мешкали 174 особи в 73 домогосподарствах у складі 47 родин. Густота населення становила 264 особи/км².  Було 73 помешкання (111/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 2,3 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 6,3 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 23,0 % — особи молодші 18 років, 62,1 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 14,9 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 40,0 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у місті припадало 120,3 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 112,7 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  доларів США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  доларів (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  доларів для чоловіків та  доларів для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 4,8 % осіб, у тому числі 14,7 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 6,5 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило 88 осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: сільське господарство, лісництво, риболовля — 22,7 %, освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 12,5 %, роздрібна торгівля — 10,2 %, виробництво — 9,1 %.

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JustSystems is continuing its growth strategy to expand across North America and Europe by designing new partnership levels designed to recruit more value-add partners to sell and integrate their software into organizations. Their focus is to recruit experienced vendors and system integrators in the areas of structured authoring and dynamic publishing. JustSystems, as you know, is a provider of document management solutions that implement DITA. So it only makes sense they would be looking for new partnerships with companies experienced in this area. They have defined three new partner participation levels that will enable potential partners to grow their relationship with JustSystems slowly. These include: * Associate - initial commitment and basic support * Authorized - More formalized and predictable sales of JustSystems products * Premier - Designed for system integrators who want to build a solution offering around their technology The higher up you go in the partnership levels, the more marketing, sales and technical support you get. In addition JustSystems will product discounts and sales opportunities to higher level partnerships. If think you have what it takes to become a value-add partner for JustSystems, go to their site and read more details.


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USPTO Registers the Word "THE" as a Trademark for Ohio State
07/05/2022 Jane D. Tucker Intellectual Property
The trademark THE has just been registered by the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") to The Ohio State University ("OSU") for t-shirts, ballcaps, and hats. Yikes! What does this mean for others wanting to use the word "The"? The trademark registration gives OSU the exclusive right to use the word "The" by itself as a brand name for the clothing listed in the ...
The New Copyright Claims Board
Copyright infringement cases are costly and time-consuming, but there is now an alternative for smaller claims - a new small claims tribunal for copyright matters involving less than $30,000. In December 2020, Congress passed the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020 which directed the Copyright Office to establish the Copyright Claims Board (the "CCB"). What To Know About Copyright Claims Board The CCB ...
The Trademark Modernization Act – Greater Protections for Trademark Owners
The Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 ("TMA"), signed into law on December 27, 2020, provides trademark owners with additional tools to challenge registered marks that are no longer in use or have never been used on the goods or services claimed in the registration. It also establishes a rebuttable presumption of irreparable harm in trademark actions for injunctive relief. The TMA is hailed as one ...
Ownership and Use of Architectural Plans and Drawings
Who has the right to use architectural plans and drawings prepared by an architect for a specific project? What happens if the project on which the architect was working and the architect both leave one firm and move to another firm? What happens if one architect is retained to prepare preliminary plans and then another architect is retained to prepare final plans based on the ...
Expedited Trademark Registration For COVID-19 Products and Services
08/07/2020 Jane D. Tucker COVID-19 Task Force, Intellectual Property
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, and the need to quickly develop medical products and services to fight the virus, the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") is allowing the trademark examination process for marks used to identify qualifying COVID-19 medical products and services to be expedited. This program expedites the review of qualifying applications by two months. The USPTO will also waive the ...
Copyright Issues With Livestreaming Worship Services During COVID-19 Pandemic
Religious organizations around the world are searching for ways to continue offering religious services in light of the COVID-19 prohibitions against physically gathering in places of worship. This is particularly true right now as people seek to worship during Easter, Passover, and Ramadan, all of which occur in April. Not being able to gather and worship in person for the foreseeable future has forced religious ...
Patent Trolls – What Businesses Need To Know
01/17/2019 Jonathan Gallo Corporate & Business, CyberSecurity & Data Privacy, Intellectual Property
One day, you receive a letter from a company or law firm accusing your business of patent infringement. The letter states that in order to avoid a costly lawsuit, you must pay the company a licensing fee. You ask yourself whether this is some type of scam and you consider simply throwing the letter away because you have never heard of this company and you ...
Trade Secrets And Proprietary Information – Recent Changes To Virginia Law
06/24/2018 Michael L. Sterling Intellectual Property
The Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) provides access to various public records, subject to certain exemptions included directly in FOIA or in other statutes, such as the Virginia Public Procurement Act (VPPA). A recent bill amended VPPA §2.2-4342, to prohibit bidders, offerors, or contractors from designating as trade secrets or proprietary information: (1) entire bids, proposals, or prequalification applications; (2) portions of bids, proposals, ...
Department of Justice Releases Cyber Security Best Practices
07/16/2015 Vandeventer Black CyberSecurity & Data Privacy, Intellectual Property
Authored by summer associate Paul Hawkins Cyber security is a hot topic in today's news cycle. Whether it was the much-publicized Sony hack, or the very recent compromise of enormous amounts of highly sensitive U.S. government information, these types of incidents have been shown to be extremely costly to organizations. Today, private companies, large and small, cannot afford to fail to take the proper precautions ...
Protect Your Trademark from Cybersquatters
04/30/2015 Jane D. Tucker CyberSecurity & Data Privacy, Intellectual Property
Authored by attorney Jane Tucker What can you do if someone is using your trademark as a domain name without any legitimate rights to that name (i.e. a cybersquatter)? Filing suit for trademark infringement can be impractical (for example, registrant is in a foreign country) and/or cost-prohibitive (trademark infringement litigation, whether in U.S. or in a foreign country, can be expensive). As an alternative, you ...
Protect Your Brand Name from Infringing Domain Names by Registering With the New Trademark Clearing House
Authored by attorney Jane D. Tucker On March 26, 2013 the Trademark Clearinghouse ("TMCH") was launched by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"). Owners of registered trademarks can register those trademarks with TMCH. The TMCH trademark registration system is designed to prevent the unauthorized use of registered trademarks in the new generic top-level domains ("gTLD") being made available to the public this year. ...
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Port Moresby Stock Exchange (POMSoX) continuous to experience solid growth across major sectors of the market. The increase in market activity together with sound development in market structure has continued to attract international investors.
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"Hisanohamasaurus" ("lagarto Hisano-hama") es el nombre informal dado a un género de dinosaurio saurópodo titanosauriano que vivió a finales del  período Cretácico, hace 70 millones de años en el Maastrichtiense. Considerado inválido, se lo conoce solo por un diente que apareció por primera vez en el libro de 1990 de David Lambert. Ha sido identificado como pariente del Nemegtosaurus, a partir del diente con corona estrecha. Fue encontrado en Japón, concretamente en Iwaki, Fukushima.

Referencias
 Lambert, D., and the Diagram Group. (1990). The Dinosaur Data Book. Facts on File:Oxford, England, 320 p.

Enlaces externos
Hisanohamasaurio en la Dinosaur Encyclopaedia de Dino Russ's Lair (en inglés)
Hisanohamasaurio dentro de Stegosauria en The Thescelsosaurus (en inglés)

Dinosaurios inválidos


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The 2016 Singapore Grand Prix (formally known as the 2016 Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 18 September 2016 at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Marina Bay, Singapore. It was the fifteenth round of the 2016 Formula One World Championship, and marked the seventeenth running of the Singapore Grand Prix and the ninth time the race had been held at Marina Bay.

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the race leading the World Drivers' Championship by two points, ahead of teammate Nico Rosberg. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes held a lead of 208 points. Red Bull Racing was placed second and Ferrari third. Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel was the defending race winner.

Rosberg started the race from pole position and led throughout, holding off a late challenge by Daniel Ricciardo to win by less than half a second in his 200th race in Formula One. Sebastian Vettel was awarded the Driver of the Day award after moving 17 spots to claim 5th position.

Qualifying

Notes:
 – Sergio Pérez received a five-place grid penalty for failing to slow for yellow flags and an additional three-place grid penalty for passing Esteban Gutiérrez under yellows.
 – Romain Grosjean received a five-place grid penalty for a new gearbox.
 – Sebastian Vettel received a five-place grid penalty for unscheduled gearbox changes, and a twenty-place grid penalty for using additional power unit elements.

Race
Romain Grosjean was unable to start the race due to brake problems. At the start Nico Rosberg got away in the lead and Fernando Alonso made a strong start up to 5th. Carlos Sainz collided with Nico Hülkenberg sending the latter into the pit wall and out of the race, while Sainz was able to continue. The safety car was deployed while Hülkenberg's car was cleared. As the safety car came in and the race resumed a Marshall was still on the track still picking up debris from the accident. After the restart Lewis Hamilton could not overtake Rosberg and Daniel Ricciardo ahead of him. Jenson Button retired from the race at two-thirds distance with a brake issue. Rosberg won the race after having to withstand late race pressure from Ricciardo with Lewis Hamilton driving a steady race to 3rd. Kimi Räikkönen came home 4th ahead of his teammate Sebastian Vettel while Max Verstappen was able to take 6th with Fernando Alonso falling back to 7th.

Race classification

Championship standings after the race
Bold text indicates who still had a theoretical chance of becoming World Champion.

Drivers' Championship standings

Constructors' Championship standings

 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

Footnotes

References

External links

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Q: How to change the color of a selected tab in android tab host? I already have a tab widget which can change its child tab color when it was selected. But this is buggy, border lines from my android tab widget is not consistently working well. sometimes the borders lines turns to color white when I am selecting another tab to make it clear, this is my code for my activity. Im sorry if I can't provide images because I haven't earned a lot of reputations here at stack overflow
@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
public class TabHostActivity extends TabActivity {

    private TabHost tabHost;
    private int currentTab = 0;
    private int lastTab = 0;

    @Override
        protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

            requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
            getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
                WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);

            setContentView(R.layout.activity_tabhost);
            UserAccount userAccount = new UserAccount();

            tabHost = (TabHost) findViewById(android.R.id.tabhost);

            TabSpec tab1 = tabHost.newTabSpec("First Tab");
            tab1.setContent(new Intent(this, HomeActivity.class));
            tab1.setIndicator("",getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.home_icon));
            tabHost.addTab(tab1);

            TabSpec tab2 = tabHost.newTabSpec("Second Tab");
            tab2.setContent(new Intent(this, About.class));
            tab2.setIndicator("",getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.about_icon));
            tabHost.addTab(tab2);

            TabSpec tab3 = tabHost.newTabSpec("Third Tab");
            tab3.setContent(new Intent(this, GridViewActivity.class));
            tab3.setIndicator("",getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.gallery_icon));
            tabHost.addTab(tab3);

            getTabHost().setOnTabChangedListener(new OnTabChangeListener() {
                 public void onTabChanged(String tabId)
                 {
                        currentTab = getTabHost().getCurrentTab();

                        setCurrentTabColor();

                        lastTab =currentTab;
                 }
            });

            getTabWidget().getChildAt(lastTab).setBackgroundColor(Color.GRAY);
        }

        public void setCurrentTabColor(){
            getTabWidget().getChildAt(currentTab).setBackgroundColor(Color.GRAY);
            getTabWidget().getChildAt(lastTab).setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#FCAFA6"));
        }
}

this is my xml for tabhost which is set the background color of my tab widget to pink
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TabHost xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@android:id/tabhost"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" >

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/LinearLayout01"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical">

        <FrameLayout
            android:id="@android:id/tabcontent"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            android:layout_weight="1" >
        </FrameLayout>

        <TabWidget
            android:id="@android:id/tabs"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="0"
            android:background="#FCAFA6" >
        </TabWidget>
    </LinearLayout>

</TabHost>

A: first, in my activity, I instantiated my tab host
tabHost = (FragmentTabHost) findViewById(R.id.tabContainer);
tabHost.setup(this, getSupportFragmentManager(), R.id.tabContent);
    tabHost.addTab(tabHost.newTabSpec("1").setIndicator("New Tab"),
            PageFragment.class, null);

I wrote a method to update my tabs's color based on whether or not it was selected
protected void updateTabs() {

    for (int i = 0; i < tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildCount(); i++) {

        if (tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(i).isSelected()) {
            SessionState.getSelectedIndex().setSelectedPage(i);
            tabHost.getTabWidget()
                    .getChildAt(i)
                    .setBackgroundResource(
                            R.drawable.tab_selected_background);
        } else {

            tabHost.getTabWidget()
                    .getChildAt(i)
                    .setBackgroundResource(
                            R.drawable.tab_unselected_background);

        }
    }

}

then I called that method every time the tab changed
tabhost.setOnTabChangedListener(new OnTabChangeListener() {

        @Override
        public void onTabChanged(String tabId) {
            updateTabs();
        }
    });

I hope this helps

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Q: C++ virtual function behavior I am doing some exercise on my understanding. on compiling below code I get Derived::disp() called and which in turn calls non-virtual function "Print".
My question is why Derived class "Print"version is called instead of Base print version even "Print" is not virtual.
class Base
{
public:
     void print(){
        cout<<"Base::Print()\n";
    }
 virtual void disp(){
    cout<<"Base::Disp()\n";
    }
};

class Derived: public Base
{
public:
    void print(){
        cout<<"Derived::Print()\n";
    }
    void disp(){
    cout<<"Derived::Disp()\n";
    print();
    }
};

void main()
{
    Base *pB = new Derived();

    pB->disp();
}

output:
Derived::Disp()
Derived::Print()

A: If you have a call to a NON-virtual function inside a (virtual or non-virtual) member function, the member function of that class is called.
If you were to call pB->print() in main, it would call Base::Print. But as it stands, the pB->Disp() calls Derived::Disp() which calls Derived::Print on the basis that it is called from inside the Derived class.

A: Within the body of a non-static member function the keyword this has the type of pointer to the object of the class type for which the function is called.
If a virtual function is called for a derived class then this has the type of the pointer of this class.
Inside member functions access to class members looks for example in the context of your program like
( *this ).print();

where this  has type Derived *.
Thus member function print of this class is called.


Tonight I finally caved and installed American Conquest – Divided Nations on my laptop so we could battle it out over our LAN. His little brother kept running back and forth and being quite the informant. It was a pretty fun little game, but I forgot how long it takes to play strategy games.
I've been short on time lately for the doodles, so I might have to start putting up more work without inking it.


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'Domain on demand' part of Air Force future
By Marcia L. Klein
25th Air Force Public Affairs
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas (AFNS) -- Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein told members of 25th and 24th Air Force that the future of the service is "domain on demand."
"What you're doing here is exactly what we need. Multi-domain is the coin of the realm and will be key to the future development of combined arms. You're already executing multi-domain, you're on the right path, so keep running hard the way you're going," Goldfein told Maj. Gen. B.J. Shwedo and Maj. Gen. Burke Wilson, the commanders of the 25th and 24th, respectively.
Goldfein visited the two Numbered Air Forces for a firsthand look at the advances they've accomplished together in building multi-domain synergy between Air Force intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; and cyber forces.
A day full of intense briefings demonstrated that synergy to the general, who commented that his visit was very timely.
"I'm hugely optimistic about the next decade for the Air Force. We just completed a very robust, two-year process to build our future operating concept, leading to our 2030 strategic plan that lays out exactly where we need to go as an Air Force," he said. "That strategic plan puts us in complete alignment with the Secretary of Defense's vision for a third offset strategy."
He explained that we first used nuclear deterrence as an offset strategy to protect our national security during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The second offset strategy was stealth and precision, capably demonstrated during the first Gulf War.
"The secretary of defense has begun talking about our nation's third strategy to offset peer and near-peer adversarial capabilities, and it's what you're talking about now – multi-domain operations, big data, human-machine teaming and the fusion of technology," Goldfein said. "As we build our networks and apply them to the future of warfare – no service thinks about that more than we do – and it will help lead the joint team for network warfare. So thank you for everything you're doing to move us to our future and protect our national security."
During his visit to the 25th Air Force, Goldfein took time to "coin" three outstanding Airmen: Capt. Andrew, a flight commander assigned to the 70th ISR Wing; Staff Sgt. Elizabeth, a unit deployment manager assigned to the 363rd ISR WG; and Staff Sgt. Salvatore Guerriero, an executive communications technician, assigned to headquarters 25th Air Force.
The captain was recognized for a new deployable technology that he personally fielded within a small, multi-service team while deployed. According to his wing commander, the success of that cutting-edge, quick reaction capability during combat operations earned him a Bronze Star.
Elizabeth successfully brought an electronic warfare integrated reprogramming function to maturity in less than half of the two-year allotted schedule. Because of her consistent success, not only in her job but also as a leader and mentor to her subordinates, her wing commander personally selected her as the UDM for a new squadron to build its deployment program from scratch.
Guerriero received recognition for his actions during an attack on his combat outpost during a deployment to Afghanistan, where he was assigned to provide secure communications for the 101st Airborne Division. Support personnel had been directed to stay undercover during the attack, but Guerriero voluntarily resupplied ammunition to perimeter positions under attack, directly engaged the enemy with his M-16, and provided direct medical help to one of the Afghanistan National Army soldiers critically wounded during the attack. His deeds earned him the Air Force Combat Action Medal.
(Editor's note: Last names of some individuals were removed for safety and security reasons.)
VCSAF 25th Air Force 24th Air Force Joint Base San Antonio - Lackland


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Atom-Tunneling in Chemistry
Atom-Tunneling in Chemistry (TUNNELCHEM)
Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2020 PROJECT ONGOING
Quantum mechanical tunneling of atoms is emerging as an ubiquitous phenomenon in chemistry. Every chemical reaction that includes a hydrogen transfer can be expected to be influenced by tunneling at room temperature. While simulations can monitor tunneling directly, experimental approaches can only detect the consequences. Theoretical investigations, as planned in TUNNELCHEM, have to keep up in order to aid the rational interpretation. We build on significant algorithmic breakthroughs recently achieved in the applicant's group, which allow accurate predictions of tunneling rates in larger systems than previously possible. These possibilities are to be exploited, which requires a big, combined project that can afford high-risk components.In TUNNELCHEM, we will investigate aspects of tunneling in several different areas of chemistry: biochemistry, astrochemistry, catalysis and algorithmic development. The investigation of tunneling contributions to enzymatic reactions will allow to plan modifications which increase the selectivity and efficiency. Several astrochemical processes can only be understood if their tunneling contributions are properly accounted for. Accurate tunneling rates will significantly improve the predictive power of models of the interstellar medium. Many processes in homogenous and heterogenous catalysis involve tunneling. A fundamental understanding of the principles involved allows for the design of improved catalysts. Further development of methods and algorithms in accordance with the demands of the applications is required. TUNNELCHEM will shift the present paradigm from descriptive investigations to a rational design of catalysts enabled by a mechanistic understanding of atom tunneling processes.Only such a combined effort may allow us to understand the principles of tunneling in chemistry and to develop concepts to exploit the tunnel effect for optimizing reactivity and selectivity of chemical reactions in biochemistry and catalysis.
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Who needs cheerleaders when you have umpires like Mo Lahyani?
It was another bizarre chapter Thursday in the career of Nick Kyrgios, who was playing spaced-out and lackadaisical tennis when Lahyani stepped down from his umpire chair to give him an animated pep talk.
The enigmatic Kyrgios had dropped the first set and was trailing 3-0 in the second when Lahyani transformed into his coach. Kyrgios almost immediately flipped a switch and, over an hour later, he left Court 17 with a 4-6, 7-6, 6-3, 6-0 victory over Pierre-Hugues Herbert. It sets up a high-profile fourth-round matchup between Kyrgios and Roger Federer.
Herbert was justifiably upset and said Kyrgios' game and attitude changed.
"I don't know what to think. I don't know if something would've changed if Mohamed didn't say anything to him. I cannot tell you. I just can tell you from that point Nick was playing much better," Herbert said. "Actually, the umpire doesn't have to talk to him at all. The only thing he can tell him is, 'Yeah, pay attention, because if you continue like this, I'm going to give you a warning,' something like that.
Although many in the media were calling for punishment of Lahyani — including John McEnroe suggesting a suspension on ESPN – Tournament Referee Brian Earley excused the actions of the veteran umpire from Sweden.
"He left his chair to check on the condition of Nick Kyrgios," Earley said in a statement. "He came out of the chair because of the noise level in the Stadium during the changeover to make sure he could communicate effectively.
Herbert had a different theory, saying the umpire wanted to jolt Kyrgios' performance to appease the fans. He also released a statement saying the USTA "is clearly taking us as fools" with its excuse for Lahyani.
Kyrgios handled it immaturely, predictably. In his press conference he dismissed the notion that Lahyani acted inappropriately or should be punished. When female tennis player Donna Vekic tweeted the video of Lahyani's pom-pom display and called it a "pep talk," Kyrgios responded on his account before, "Don't be salty that you are out of the US Open." (The tweet was later deleted).
But Krygios seemed to be alone on the island of Lahyani defense. Federer, who will face Krygios on Sunday, declared such an exchange will not – and should not – happen again.
Kyrgios claimed Lahyani had no effect on his mood or game.
"I'm not sure it was encouragement," he said. "He said he liked me. I'm not sure if that was encouragement. He just said that it's not a good look (for me to be playing so poorly).


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Starts With A Bang — April 16, 2020
Earth Is Spiraling Away From The Sun For Now, But Will Eventually Crash Into It
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There are three factors all competing to determine the fate of the Earth, and the one that's winning now won't win in the end.
If you could measure the average distance from the Earth to the Sun over the course of an entire year, you'd discover something unsettling. With each passing year that you made that measurement, you'd find the Earth was a little bit farther away from the Sun — about 1.5 centimeters (0.6 inches) more distant — than the year prior. For billions of years, Earth has been migrating outward in its orbit, a trend that should continue for billions of years to come.
But this is only a temporary situation. Eventually, the Earth will lose its orbital energy and spiral into the Sun, even in the event that the Sun doesn't engulf the Earth in its red giant phase. A whole lot of factors will come into play in the Solar System's far future, but in the end, Einstein himself will have the last say. Here's how the Earth's orbit will evolve, right up until the bitter end.
An artist's impression of HD 189733 b, a planet getting devoured by its parent star. When the Sun begins to swell into a red giant, it will almost certainly swallow Mercury and then Venus, but the fate of the Earth is far from certain. (NASA / GSFC)
For most people, the idea that Earth would change its orbit over time is a bizarre and confusing one. After all, planetary motion has been very well understood since the time of Kepler, more than 400 years ago. His first law of planetary motion — that planets move in elliptical orbits with the Sun at one focus — is exactly true in Newtonian gravity.
This is even more impressive when you consider that Newton's law of gravitation itself wasn't even derived until more than 60 years after Kepler laid out his laws. And yet, both Kepler's and Newton's laws are only approximately true in reality, with six separate effects all potentially playing the "spoiler" role to what would otherwise be an exact, perfectly stable solution. Here's a rundown of each one, along with the effects they induce.
This cutaway showcases the various regions of the surface and interior of the Sun, including the core, which is where nuclear fusion occurs. As time goes on, the helium-containing region in the core expands and the maximum temperature increases, causing the Sun's energy output to increase. When our Sun runs out of hydrogen fuel in the core, it will contract and heat up to a sufficient degree that helium fusion can begin. (WIKIMEDIA COMMONS USER KELVINSONG)
1.) Nuclear fusion in the Sun. With every second that goes by, a significant amount of the light atomic nuclei inside the Sun are transformed into heavier elements and isotopes through the process of nuclear fusion. When you fuse light elements into heavier ones, the heavier nuclei wind up more tightly bound, which requires the emission of energy. The end product of the Sun's fusion, helium-4, is actually 0.7% lighter than the four protons that came together through a chain reaction to produce it.
All told, the Sun loses a total of 4 million tons of mass via Einstein's E = mc² with each new second that passes. This mass loss, however small it is, adds up over time. With each year that goes by, the loss of this mass due to nuclear fusion causes the Earth's orbit to outspiral by 1.5 cm (0.6 inches) per year. Over its lifetime so far, the Sun has lost the equivalent of the mass of Saturn due to nuclear fusion.
The protostar IM Lup has a protoplanetary disk around it that exhibits not only rings, but a spiral feature towards the center. There is likely a very massive planet causing these spiral features, but that has yet to be definitively confirmed. In the early stages of a solar system's formation, these protoplanetary disks cause dynamical friction, causing young planets to spiral inwards rather than complete perfect, closed ellipses. (S. M. ANDREWS ET AL. AND THE DSHARP COLLABORATION, ARXIV:1812.04040)
2.) The Earth smashes into particles as it orbits the Sun. This was an enormous effect in the early days of the Solar System: back when we still had a protoplanetary disk of material surrounding our Sun. It will be an enormous effect once again when the Sun enters the red giant phase of its life, as copious amounts of matter — about 33% of the Sun's total mass — will be ejected some 7.6 billion years from now.
In both cases, as this material collides with Earth, our orbit will change, with the exact changes dependent on the speed of the material relative to Earth: an inward migration when the Solar System forms and an outward migration at the Sun's end-of-life. But right now, we're mostly struck only by solar wind particles: at the paltry clip of about 18,000 tons per year. This is completely negligible right now, changing Earth's orbit by only about a proton's width every million years or so.
The planets move in the orbits that they do, stably, because of the conservation of angular momentum. With no way to gain or lose angular momentum, they remain in their elliptical orbits arbitrarily far into the future. However, if they exert mutual forces on each other and the Sun takes up a finite volume, the gravitational and tidal forces exerted could lead to evolutionary scenarios so chaotic that one or more of these planets may eventually get ejected. (NASA / JPL)
3.) The gravitational effects of the other massive objects in our Solar System. This one might matter, and it also might not. In our Solar System, we have many objects that orbit the Sun or other bodies. They all have finite, non-negligible sizes and masses, and they mutually exert gravitational forces on one another. Whenever this occurs, there the chance that these orbits will become chaotic and evolve with time.
According to the latest research, there's approximately a 1% chance that one or more of the four inner planets in our Solar System today — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars — will become orbitally unstable over the next few billion years. If that occurs, Earth's orbit could change significantly, possibly even hurling our planet into the Sun or ejecting it from the Solar System entirely. This is the most unpredictable component of our planetary orbit.
As the Sun becomes a true red giant, the Earth itself may be swallowed or engulfed, but will definitely be roasted as never before. The Sun's outer layers will swell to more than 100 times their present diameter, but the exact details of its evolution, and how those changes will affect the orbits of the planets, still have large uncertainties in them. (WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/FSGREGS)
4.) The Sun swells into a red giant star. We know this is coming, and we also know roughly what it's going to look like. The inner core will contract and heat up; the outer layers will puff outwards and grow tremendously; helium fusion will ignite in the star's core; a large fraction of the overall mass will wind up ejected. But most importantly, especially for our purposes, the inner planets will be consumed by the now-expanded red giant star that our Sun evolves into.
Mercury will be gone. Venus will be swallowed as well. And Earth, unless it can spiral outwards to more than 15% its current radius — something only questionably likely to happen, possibly requiring an orbital instability between now and then — will be gone as well. Assuming Earth survives, however, and it may, surviving the red giant phase implies that the outspiraling phase will now end.
A plot of how frequently stars within the Milky Way are likely to pass within a certain distance of our Sun. This is a log-log plot, with distance on the y-axis and how long you typically need to wait for such an event to happen on the x-axis. (E. SIEGEL)
5.) Other objects in the galaxy. Every so often, a large mass such as a star, brown dwarf, or rogue planet will pass close to our Solar System. Although it's exceedingly unlikely that such an object will pass closely enough to perturb the Earth's orbit before the Sun becomes a red giant, there's a lot of time ahead of us once that phase passes. By the time the Universe is about 100,000 times its current age, a close gravitational encounter becomes likely.
With Mercury and Venus gone, Earth will be the innermost planet to our Sun. When that inevitable encounter occurs, one of two things is likely to happen. Either the interloping mass will severely perturb the Earth, causing its orbit to become unstable, or the Sun-Earth system (with possibly Mars, Jupiter, and potentially other planets remaining as well) will be ejected from our host galaxy entirely. This is a chaotic and unpredictable process, and literally anything can occur if we wait long enough.
An animated look at how spacetime responds as a mass moves through it helps showcase exactly how, qualitatively, it isn't merely a sheet of fabric. Instead all of 3D space itself gets curved by the presence and properties of the matter and energy within the Universe. Multiple masses in orbit around one another will cause the emission of gravitational waves. (LUCASVB)
6.) Gravitational radiation. But if the Earth remains bound to the Sun — something very likely to occur if the remnant of our Solar System is ejected from the galaxy — gravitational radiation will cause the Earth to slowly spiral into the Sun. Whenever two masses orbit one another in Einstein's theory of gravity, General Relativity, gravitational waves are emitted.
Given the current masses and positions of the Sun and Earth, this only amounts to an orbital change of 1.5 attometers per year, meaning that it takes about a millennium for Earth to inspiral by the width of a single proton. But if there are no other remaining effects at play, this will become the only one that will matter on cosmic timescales. If nothing else interferes with this, the Earth will spiral into the Sun after a whopping 1026 years pass: 10 quadrillion times the present age of the Universe.
When you have two gravitational sources (i.e., masses) orbiting one another, the motion of each mass through the curved spacetime caused by the other one leads to the emission of gravitational waves. Because these waves carry energy, all orbits will eventually decay. (NASA, ESA, AND A. FEILD (STSCI))
All six of these effects are very real, and they all contribute to the Earth's changing orbit. Each one of them, individually, has the opportunity to be the most important at different epochs.
In the earliest stages of the Solar System, when the planets and moons are still forming, collisions from early planets and planetesimals dominate how Earth's/proto-Earth's orbit changes.
Today, mass loss due to nuclear fusion dominates the Earth's present outspiraling.
If gravitational instabilities occur, the influence of the other planets could alter or even ruin the Earth's orbit before we become a red giant.
During the Sun's transformation into a red giant, everything depends on whether the Earth is swallowed or not; if it is, that's the end-of-the-line for our planet.
After the Sun becomes a white dwarf, a cosmic game of gravitational pinball will ensue; either Earth will come unbound from the Sun or the entire remaining Solar System, with Earth intact, will be ejected.
But if Earth survives for this long, it will continue to gravitationally inspiral until, at last, it's finally consumed by the black dwarf our star eventually becomes.
After the Sun becomes a black dwarf, if nothing ejects or collides with the remnants of Earth, eventually gravitational radiation will cause us to spiral in and be swallowed by the remnant of our Sun. (IMAGE COURTESY OF JEFF BRYANT)
Right now, the Earth is slowly drifting away from the Sun, driven by the relentless effect of nuclear fusion on the Sun. As time goes on, the Sun burns through more and more of its fuel, losing mass in the process and loosening its gravitational grip on the Earth. Assuming this continues until the red giant phase arrives, either our planet will be consumed by the Sun at this time, or it will survive to see the Sun become a white dwarf.
At that point, gravitational radiation will cause our planet's orbit to slowly decay, whereupon it will begin to inspiral into the Sun. Unless a rogue object passes through our Solar System and ejects the Earth, this inspiral will continue, eventually leading the Earth to fall into our Sun's stellar corpse when the Universe is some ten quadrillion times its current age. The Earth may be drifting away from the Sun for now, but if we remain bound to our parent star, gravitational infall remains our inevitable long-term fate.
Ethan Siegel is the author of Beyond the Galaxy and Treknology. You can pre-order his third book, currently in development: the Encyclopaedia Cosmologica.
As the inventor of copy and paste dies, here are other computing innovations we take for granted
He's also credited by some as having coined the phrase "user-friendly."


Stage of life played a large impact on these average numbers in 2017. Young, beginning farmers (those 31 years of age and younger) spent $39,482 annually on family living expenses for their 2.5 family members in 2017. Those middle-aged farmers, likely with active families, spent more than double this in 2017. Farmers aged 41-50 years of age, with an average family size of 4.1 people, spent $81,303 on family living last year. When including income taxes paid and personal capital purchases, total cash consumed rose to just under $95,000 for this group. Young farmers, aged 31 and less, expended just over $48,000 on family living, income taxes, and personal capital purchases. As farmers age, they may spend less on cash family living expenses, but consume approximately $95,000 when including income taxes, non-farm capital purchases, and personal living expenditures. For farmers older than age 50, the amount of taxes paid increases. When looking at the 5 year average of these same expenditures, based on age of operator, the same trend holds true.
Over the last 5 years, total family living costs have trended downward. In 2013, as farm profitability was just beginning to tighten, total family uses of cash for living, income taxes paid, and personal capital purchases exceeded $101,000. Of this about $67,500 was for cash family living expenses and the remaining $33,500 was for income taxes and nonfarm capital purchases. The average cash family living cost has averaged $64,620 over the last 5 years for a family of 3.1.
The cost to feed, clothe and care for a family has certainly increased over time. Twenty years ago family living expense totaled $30,726. This over a 200% increase during this time! Technology evolution and increasing expenses over time definitely add up. Health insurance, utilities, and recreation expenses are few that have grown tremendously during this time period.
As you prepare cash flow projections for this renewal season, what's the appropriate family living expense to include? Yes, each family is different, but have you considered all costs related to raising a family and maintaining a home? Today the cash expenses a farm (or small business) incurs to maintain a family of three averages almost $64,000 before paying income taxes or making other nonfarm capital purchases and investments.


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"""Google Cloud Speech API sample that demonstrates multichannel recognition.

Example usage:
    python transcribe_multichannel.py resources/multi.wav
    python transcribe_multichannel.py \
        gs://cloud-samples-tests/speech/multi.wav
"""

import argparse

def transcribe_file_with_multichannel(speech_file):
    """Transcribe the given audio file synchronously with
    multi channel."""
    # [START speech_transcribe_multichannel]
    from google.cloud import speech

    client = speech.SpeechClient()

    with open(speech_file, "rb") as audio_file:
        content = audio_file.read()

    audio = speech.RecognitionAudio(content=content)

    config = speech.RecognitionConfig(
        encoding=speech.RecognitionConfig.AudioEncoding.LINEAR16,
        sample_rate_hertz=44100,
        language_code="en-US",
        audio_channel_count=2,
        enable_separate_recognition_per_channel=True,
    )

    response = client.recognize(config=config, audio=audio)

    for i, result in enumerate(response.results):
        alternative = result.alternatives[0]
        print("-" * 20)
        print("First alternative of result {}".format(i))
        print(u"Transcript: {}".format(alternative.transcript))
        print(u"Channel Tag: {}".format(result.channel_tag))
    # [END speech_transcribe_multichannel]

def transcribe_gcs_with_multichannel(gcs_uri):
    """Transcribe the given audio file on GCS with
    multi channel."""
    # [START speech_transcribe_multichannel_gcs]
    from google.cloud import speech

    client = speech.SpeechClient()

    audio = speech.RecognitionAudio(uri=gcs_uri)

    config = speech.RecognitionConfig(
        encoding=speech.RecognitionConfig.AudioEncoding.LINEAR16,
        sample_rate_hertz=44100,
        language_code="en-US",
        audio_channel_count=2,
        enable_separate_recognition_per_channel=True,
    )

    response = client.recognize(config=config, audio=audio)

    for i, result in enumerate(response.results):
        alternative = result.alternatives[0]
        print("-" * 20)
        print("First alternative of result {}".format(i))
        print(u"Transcript: {}".format(alternative.transcript))
        print(u"Channel Tag: {}".format(result.channel_tag))
    # [END speech_transcribe_multichannel_gcs]

if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
        description=__doc__, formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter
    )
    parser.add_argument("path", help="File or GCS path for audio file to be recognized")
    args = parser.parse_args()
    if args.path.startswith("gs://"):
        transcribe_gcs_with_multichannel(args.path)
    else:
        transcribe_file_with_multichannel(args.path)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


So... Cubone is a Kangiskan's child after the Kangiskan died? That's why there's hardly any Kangiskan.
cubone is originally the product of it's mother's death and wears its skull.
Oh come on not again.
Hmmm somebody knows how to photoshop sprites. Big deal.
Why did sara fall out of the tree?


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Let's Write an Omnibus Bill to End Omnibus Bills
How else to purge years of toxic policymaking? Here's the first draft, amendments welcome!
Cam Sylvester 29 Oct 2015TheTyee.ca
Cam Sylvester is a journalist, political studies professor at Capilano University and director of the Global Stewardship Program at Capilano University.
Save time, get it done. Parliament photo via Shutterstock.
Since the election, PM-designate Justin Trudeau has been inundated with personal letters from citizens across the country requesting a variety of top 10 issues for him to deal with immediately. This is bad strategy on the part of Canadians.
Bill C-38: the Environmental Destruction Act
Instead, I propose we focus our efforts and begin the process of crafting one -- and only one -- omnibus bill that we can all sign off on and ask PMJT to present to Parliament in December.
It's a chance to purge the country of 10 years of toxic policy-making, if you will. Here's the first draft. Tyee readers are invited to add their own amendments to the bill before we send it on.
First Session, Forty-Second Parliament,
63-64 Elizabeth II, 2015-2016
BILL PRE-C-1 (Yep, we're talking a bill even before the traditional Pro Forma C-1 at the beginning of every session)
Title of the Act: The Strengthening Canadian Democracy by Repealing a Decade of Omnishambolic Policy Making Imposed on Parliament by He Who Shall Not be Named with Little or No Debate, Even Less Budgetary Information, and Only the Teeniest Interest in the Common Good, but Merely to Secure Votes for HWSNBN by Micro-Wedging the Canadian Electorate into Tinier and Tinier Bits... Oh, and to Try and Scare the Bejeezus Out of All of Us Too, as a Form of Political Manipulation Act.
Short Title of the Act: Yub Nub! A allay loo tu nuv!!!
First Reading: December 2015
Summary: Sorry. No summary. Not enough time. But Gerry Butts has offered to read it out loud, very slowly to Pierre Poilievre, if that would help.
Enactment: Something like 20 different Acts (and counting) are either amended or created by this Bill.
The Repeal C-51 Entirely Act: Yes, we had to avoid getting outflanked by the Cons on the whole "security" foofaraw during the election. But we're in government now. We'll do the right thing and start from scratch.
Bring Back the Long-form Census Act: Sorry you three grumpy rapeseed farmers in Saskatchewan who wrote Vic Toews and told him you "just didn't like it" -- you're going to have to sit an extra hour in Timmy's next spring, buy a second double-double, and fill it in.
Rename the Cabinet Act: By this we mean the closet in the government caucus room. It will now be officially designated the "Harper Hidey Hole."
Repeal all changes by the previous government to the Navigable Waters Protection Act: Goes without saying.
Repeal all changes by the previous government to the Fisheries Act: Ditto.
The Get Naheed Nenshi to Rewrite the Copyright Act Act: This in recognition of the Mayor's visionary understanding of how to use the Internet for the common good.
Repeal all mandatory jail sentences for drug trafficking offences in the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act: We already have judges to make those types of decisions, for pete's sake.
The Free Dean Del Mastro Act: Just kidding. We'll repeal the Fair Elections Act instead.
Reset the Age of Eligibility to Receive Old Age Security Benefits Back to 65 Act.
Rescind the bogus Clean Air and Climate Change Act.
Restore Funding to the CBC Act: And we'll double their funding if they drop The Next Chapter.
The Fumigate for Any Remaining Signs of Jason Kenney and Chris Alexander in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act: Their droppings carry the horrible can't-do-that virus, deadly to refugees.
The Act Like We're Adults Again on the International Stage Act: Increase international development funding to 0.7 per cent of GNI; draw Africa back in on all world maps hung in the Pearson Building; rescind John Baird's directive to Foreign Affairs employees to spit on the ground whenever they say the words "Pearson Building."
The Reinstate Katimavik Act.
The Remind Some Folks They Live in Canada and the Second Amendment Really Doesn't Apply Here, While We Actually Listen to What Police Chiefs Have to Say about the Registering Guns Act.
The Get the Canada Revenue Agency Off the Backs of Non-profits and Left-wing Think Tanks Act.
The Sic the Canada Revenue Agency on the Fraser Institute and the Canadian Taxpayers' Association Act.
The Instruct the Canada Revenue Agency to Cut Cam Sylvester's Income Tax Rate by 30% Act.
The De-muzzle Government Scientists and Restore Scientific Research Funding Act: $200,000 will be allocated immediately to develop instruments sensitive enough to detect the trace amounts of ministerial effectiveness left by Rona Ambrose.
The Get Rid of Omnibus Bills by Limiting the Length of Any Future Bill to Three Pages Act.
Amendment to the Standing Orders: We of course encourage a fulsome debate on this Bill, but will invoke closure the moment the first Conservative MP leaves for a bathroom break. We would remind the honourable members of the House's long-established convention discouraging MPs from peeing in Parliamentary coffee cups.
There you have it. The one, and only one, omnibus bill our Parliament will ever face again. If I've left anything out, please feel free to add your amendments below.
In particular, I would like to include in this legislation the ways and means to slap Tony Clement with a $50-million bill for that fancy gazebo he had built with APEC money. The Tyee will pass on the results to Justin Trudeau once he is sworn as prime minister next week.
Read more: Politics, Election 2015
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An accompanying catalogue for a joint exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia (Goose Lane Editions) surveys the iconic artist's work from the 1890s to the 1940s, in particular her connections to First Nations culture. Co-editors art critic Sarah Milroy and Dulwich director Ian Dejardin provide contextualizations alongside contributions from artists, scholars, and anthropologists.
Written before his grandson Tamo Campos was arrested at the B.C. Kinder Morgan pipeline protest, David Suzuki's Letters to My Grandchildren (Greystone Books) offers personal anecdotes and words of wisdom for a younger generation. Salt Spring Island writer Briony Penn's The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan (Rocky Mountain Books) is the first official biography of the nature-television pioneer, who, among his many accomplishments, was responsible for hiring a young scientist named David Suzuki.


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package ciir.jfoley.chai.coders.data;

import ciir.jfoley.chai.IntMath;
import ciir.jfoley.chai.coders.Coder;
import ciir.jfoley.chai.collections.util.ArrayFns;
import ciir.jfoley.chai.io.IO;
import ciir.jfoley.chai.jvm.MemoryNotifier;
import ciir.jfoley.chai.lang.annotations.EmergencyUseOnly;

import java.io.*;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.channels.WritableByteChannel;

/**
 * The SmartDataChunk is either backed by a {@link BufferList} or a {@link TmpFileDataChunk}
 * If the size exceeds a given amount, it will move out of memory and onto disk.
 * Also, if you call flush(), or if the {@link MemoryNotifier} does, it forces the data to disk.
 *
 * Call flush() before you do any reading, or MemoryNotifier might do it for you while you're reading :(
 *
 * @see BufferList
 * @see TmpFileDataChunk
 * @see MemoryNotifier
 * @author jfoley
 */
public class SmartDataChunk implements MutableDataChunk, Flushable {
  private ByteBuilder bufferList;
  private TmpFileDataChunk tmpFile;
  private final long minFlushAmount;
  private final long defaultFlushAmount;

  /**
   * Default, don't flush if less than 16KiB, flush automatically when you reach 16MiB
   */
  public SmartDataChunk() {
    this(16L << 10, 16L << 20);
  }
  public SmartDataChunk(long minFlushAmount, long defaultFlushAmount) {
    this.minFlushAmount = minFlushAmount;
    this.defaultFlushAmount = defaultFlushAmount;
    MemoryNotifier.register(this);
    bufferList = new ByteBuilder();
    tmpFile = null;
  }

  @Override
  public synchronized <T> void add(Coder<T> coder, T obj) {
    bufferList.add(coder, obj);
    checkSize();
  }

  @Override
  public synchronized void add(ByteBuffer data) {
    bufferList.add(data);
    checkSize();
  }

  @Override
  public synchronized void add(byte[] data) {
    bufferList.add(data);
    checkSize();
  }

  @Override
  public synchronized void add(DataChunk data) {
    bufferList.add(data);
    checkSize();
  }

  public synchronized void checkSize() {
    if(bufferList.byteCount() >= defaultFlushAmount) {
      try {
        flush();
      } catch (IOException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
      }
    }
  }

  @Override
  public synchronized int getByte(int index) {
    if(tmpFile != null) {
      if(index < tmpFile.byteCount()) {
        return tmpFile.getByte(index);
      } else {
        return bufferList.getByte(IntMath.fromLong(index - tmpFile.byteCount()));
      }
    }
    return bufferList.getByte(index);
  }

  @Override
  public synchronized long byteCount() {
    long tfbc = (tmpFile == null) ? 0 : tmpFile.byteCount();
    return tfbc + bufferList.byteCount();
  }

  @EmergencyUseOnly
  @Override
  public ByteBuffer asByteBuffer() {
    return ByteBuffer.wrap(asByteArray());
  }

  @EmergencyUseOnly
  @Override
  public synchronized byte[] asByteArray() {
    if(tmpFile != null) {
      return ArrayFns.concat(tmpFile.asByteArray(), bufferList.asByteArray());
    } else {
      return bufferList.asByteArray();
    }
  }

  @Override
  public synchronized InputStream asInputStream() {
    if(tmpFile!=null) {
      return new SequenceInputStream(tmpFile.asInputStream(), bufferList.asInputStream());
    } else {
      return bufferList.asInputStream();
    }
  }

  @Override
  public synchronized void write(OutputStream out) throws IOException {
    if(tmpFile != null) {
      tmpFile.write(out);
    }
    bufferList.write(out);
  }

  @Override
  public synchronized void write(WritableByteChannel out) throws IOException {
    if(tmpFile != null) {
      tmpFile.write(out);
    }
    bufferList.write(out);
  }

  @Override
  public void close() throws IOException {
    MemoryNotifier.unregister(this);
    bufferList.close();
    IO.close(tmpFile);
  }

  @Override
  public synchronized void flush() throws IOException {
    // Only flush if above a reasonable point.
    if(bufferList.byteCount() < minFlushAmount) {
      return;
    }

    if (tmpFile == null) {
      tmpFile = new TmpFileDataChunk();
    }
    if (!bufferList.isEmpty()) {
      tmpFile.add(bufferList);
      bufferList.clear();
    }
  }
}


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Is TCP a routing protocol?
Since TCP/IP is the protocol used for the Internet, it is a necessity that the protocol supports the immense size. TCP/IP must support routing capabilities, if not, information sent out to the Internet may never be delivered to its proper destination.
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