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Q: Complicated comparing sets Consider the open interval $(0, 1)$ and the closed interval $[0, 1]$. We claim that $[0, 1] ≈ (0, 1)$.
We deduced the equipotence $[0, 1] ≈ (0, 1)$ by invoking the Schr¨oder–Bernstein theorem, but we didn't actually construct a bijection $[0, 1] → (0, 1).$

(a) Verify that the function $h$ given by the following scheme is such a bijection: $$0\overset{h}{\longmapsto}\frac12\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\quad\,{}\\\frac1n\longmapsto\frac1{n+2}\qquad\text{for each integer }n\ge 1\\x\longmapsto x\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\quad\;\text{otherwise}$$

(b) The function $h$ in part (a) acts on $[0, 1]$ in a way that resembles the strategy of the hotel manager in the text below. How?

Now imagine that there is a hotel with infinitely many rooms along an unending corridor: a first room, a second room, and so on. Imagine further that there is a person occupying each room; so we can reasonably say that there are exactly as many guests as there are rooms. You arrive at the hotel seeking a room, and the manager tells you, "At the moment the rooms are all occupied, but we always have room for one more." Whereupon she speaks into an intercom connected to all the rooms, saying, "At the sound of the bell, each guest should step out into the corridor and move into the next room in line." This clears out the first room, and you have a place to stay. Notice that although you thought you had enlarged the collection of guests by your presence, there are still as many hotel rooms as there are guests.

My work is below:

We are given function $h$ $$h(x)=\begin{cases}\cfrac1{n+2} & \text{for }x=\cfrac1n,n\ge 1\\\cfrac12 & \text{for }x=0\\x & \text{otherwise}\end{cases}$$
We know that a function from $A$ (the domain) to $B$ (the range) is both one-to-one and onto when no element of $B$ is the image of more than one element of $A,$ and all elements in $B$ are used.
Functions that are both one-to-one and onto are referred to as bijective. Here we can say that $h(x)$ is an identity function as $x,$ in the form of $\frac1n$ and $x\ne0.$
We know that an identity function is bijective.
For $x\ne\frac1n$ and $x\ne 0,$ $h(x)$ is bijective.
Let us consider $x_1=\frac{1}{n_1},x_2=\frac{1}{n_2}$ and assume that $h(x_1)=h(x_2),$ so $h\left(\frac{1}{n_1}\right)=h\left(\frac{1}{n_2}\right).$ Then, $$\frac{1}{n_1+2}=\frac{1}{n_2+2}\iff n_1+2=n_2+2$$
Therefore, $n_1=n_2,$ thus $x_1=x_2$ which proves that $h(x)$ is one-to-one.
For $n\ge 1,$ $\frac{1}{n+2}\ne\frac{1}{2}$
Thus, only $x=0$ maps to $\frac12.$
Let us check identity function for the numbers $y=\frac1n,n>2.$
If we have $y=\frac1n,$ then there exists an element $x$ such that $\frac1n=h\left(\frac{1}{n-2}\right),$ $x=\frac1{n-2}$
Therefore, $h(x)$ is onto, so we conclude that $h(x)$ is bijective.

This question is driving me nuts. Please give me some advice on how to answer it concisely. Thank you so much!

A: Here is how the  construction of that bijection mirrors the freeing of the first two rooms in Hilbert's Hotel.
The function $h$ matches the rational numbers
$$
0, 1/1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, \ldots
$$
in order to the rational numbers
$$
1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/7, \ldots
$$
That says the inverse function $h^{-1}$ creates "rooms" for the extra guests $0$ and $1$ by shifting the guests $1/n$ over two rooms.
All the other real numbers in the interval stay fixed.

A: You haven't quite shown that $h$ is one-to-one or onto, but you're very close! You have shown that two restrictions of $h$ are one-to-one, that no two elements map to $\frac12,$ and that infinitely-many elements of $(0,1)$ are in the range of $h,$ but that's not enough. You've hinted around the rest, but it should be made explicit.
I would proceed in a slightly different way, which I will outline here:

*

*Let $A:=\{0\}\cup\left\{\frac1n:n\in\Bbb Z,n>0\right\},$ $B:=\left\{\frac1n:n\in\Bbb Z,n>1\right\}.$

*Show that $[0,1]\setminus A=(0,1)\setminus B,$ and remark that $h\restriction_{[0,1]\setminus A}$ is an identity function, so bijective.

*Show that $h\restriction_A:A\to B$ is a bijection.

*Use the fact that $A$ and $B$ are both disjoint from $[0,1]\setminus A=(0,1)\setminus B$ to conclude that $h$ is a bijection.

As for the parallel to the infinite hotel (if you want to look into it further, see "Hilbert's hotel"), I would say that it is similar, but not quite the same. I'd argue that it would be more accurate to imagine that the hotel had two wings, one with a countable infinity of rooms, the other with as many rooms as there are real numbers. Then along come two new guests who want rooms (corresponding to $0$ and $1$). The manager announces on the PA in the countable wing: "At the sound of the bell, all guests in the countable wing please step out of your rooms and move two rooms down." Do you see the parallel when put in those terms?


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Oscar Carl Holderer (November 4, 1919 – May 5, 2015) was an engineer who worked for Nazi Germany during World War II before coming to the United States and working in the Apollo space program.

Early life
Oscar Carl Holderer was born on November 4, 1919, in Prüm, Germany to parents Richard and Helene Grawe Holderer.  He has a brother, Erich Joseph, and sister Doris (Pape).

Career
During World War II, Holderer worked for the German military as a low-level engineer under Wernher von Braun.  When the war ended, the United States selected 100 of von Braun's men to help improve the United States' rocket technology as part of Operation Paperclip.  Shortly thereafter, another 20 were selected.  Holderer was part of the second 20, arriving in 1945 as part of the second group.  After a few years in White Sands, New Mexico, the Paperclip team moved to Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, in 1950.

When Holderer arrived at Redstone Arsenal, he rented a home from Milton K. Cummings' sister for two months.  That allowed him time to design and start building a house.  Unlike the rest of von Braun's team, he did not build his house on Monte Sano, but instead selected a country spot in northwest Huntsville.  He continued to expand his residence over time; by 2008, the property included a house, guest house, large machine shop, and small swimming pool.  He would end up living there the rest of his life.  In 1955, Holderer became an American citizen.

Holderer's area of expertise was aerodynamics. According to Space Historian and former NASA publicist Ed Buckbee, Holderer personally brought America's first rocket wind tunnel from Germany and set it up for early testing.  At Redstone Arsenal, he worked as a mechanical engineer, designer, and fabricator.  He designed the wind tunnel used for Saturn V testing and oversaw the tunnel's construction at the Marshall Space Flight Center. The Saturn V later powered Apollo 11 on its successful Moon landing.  Describing the project many years later, Holderer said the historical significance of the project was not felt at the time, but that he "was amazed when [he] heard what they had in mind."  The same wind tunnel is still used by NASA for testing as of 2015.

Holderer was promoted several times and found he did not like management. "I'm a hands-on man," he said. "I had been promoted .. [had] too many people under [me]."  He retired in 1974, but continued to design space-mission related equipment.  He designed multi-axis trainer, 5DF, a one-sixth gravity chair, and other training equipment for the U.S. Space & Rocket Center's Space Camp.  As of 2015, the equipment is still in use.  He also converted the tail of a jetliner into a movie theater for the center's museum.  When Alabama decided to erect a Saturn IB at the I-65 welcome center in 1979, Holderer was asked to facilitate.  "NASA said, 'If Oscar says it's OK, it's OK,'" recalled Buckbee. He remained active with the Space & Rocket Center until his death.

Death and legacy
Holderer died in Huntsville on May 5, 2015, at the age of 95, a few days after suffering a stroke.  He was survived by his second wife, Jan Smith Dunlap Holderer, with whom he had two stepchildren: Clifford Dunlap and Mary Gaither.  He had two sons with his first wife Inge Spors Holderer, to whom he was married for 50 years: Thomas and Michael.  Holderer had four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren at the time of his death.  He was the last known surviving member of the original Operation Paperclip team.  Georg von Tiesenhausen, who emigrated later, was still alive. Upon his death, Buckabee described Holderer as "a very talented man, not only an aeroballistics expert but very accomplished in design and fabrication"

Holderer received 19 patents during his life.  He was inducted into the Space Camp Hall of Fame in 2008.

References

External links
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Packers Free Agency 2020
Packers & WR Devin Funchess agree to terms on contract, per report
The Packers landed a veteran receiver after all, though it's not a big name and it's not one that will move the needle much.
By Evan "Tex" Western@TexWestern Mar 24, 2020, 7:10pm CDT
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On the same day that free agent wide receiver Robby Anderson agreed to a two-year, $20 million contract with the Carolina Panthers, the Green Bay Packers landed a free agent wide receiver of their own.
That player is Devin Funchess, a former Panther himself. Funchess and the Packers have reportedly agreed to a contract, according to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network. Funchess was originally a second-round draft pick of the Panthers' in 2015, going 41st overall, and he recorded 161 receptions for 2,233 yards and 21 touchdowns in his four years in Charlotte.
However, last season Funchess signed a one-year, $10 million contract with the Indianapolis Colts only to see his season end abruptly and early. He started just one game, the Colts' opener, but broke his collarbone in that contest and missed the remainder of the season. Coming off a year lost to injury, any contract for Funchess will likely be short — probably for just one year — and with little to no guaranteed money. The Packers could also incorporate heavy incentives and per-game active roster bonuses as a way of keeping Funchess' cap number lower.
A big body at 6-foot-4 and 225 pounds, Funchess is neither a true deep threat nor a consistent possession receiver. He has caught just 52 percent of his career pass targets as a pro, never exceeding 60% for a single season, and has a career yards per catch average of 13.8. However, he has some significant athletic limitations, as illustrated by his 40 time of 4.70 seconds from the 2015 NFL Combine. He improved that to 4.48 seconds at Michigan's Pro Day that year, but reportedly had a particularly slow 4.48-second shuttle run to go with it.
An outside receiver only due to those less-than-stellar change-of-direction skills, Funchess does fit the size mold of the Packers' receiving corps, becoming the fifth wideout on the roster who stands at least 6-foot-4. The difference between him and the others, however, is in their speed: Marquez Valdes-Scantling ran the 40 in 4.37 seconds at the Combine, with Allen Lazard running 4.55 and Equanimeous St. Brown going 4.48. Jake Kumerow, the other such receiver, did not attend the Combine in his draft year (also in 2015) but reportedly ran a 4.54 at his Pro Day that year.
One factor working in Funchess' favor is his age. As a player who entered the NFL at 21 after his true junior year, Funchess will turn 26 years old in May. If he is fully recovered from his injury, he would at least provide a fairly established veteran presence opposite Davante Adams, and he should at least be a low-risk signing. Neither is he a dynamic playmaker, however, which is arguably the quality that the Packers most strongly need on offense in 2020.
Funchess has played in two games against the Packers in his career, both Panthers wins. He caught three of four targets for 71 yards and a score in a 37-29 Panthers win back in 2015, then was held to just one reception on four targets for 19 yards in a 31-24 victory in 2017.
Stay tuned for contract details and more news about the impending signing.

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Japan is steering a path through the challenges of a maturing economy with a human-centric brand of innovation. Fujitsu's Dr Martin Schulz outlines what business leaders — and other Asian economies — can learn from its experience.
For more than a decade now, Japan has been working through a tricky set of economic conditions. Redefining the hallmarks of a mature economy, the country has come to terms with consistently low growth levels, persistent deflation, relentless urbanization and the consequences of a rapidly aging society.
But while many business leaders in the West have looked at Japan's 'lost decades' and decided there is little to learn from them, Dr Martin Schulz, from the Fujitsu Research Institute, argues that they ignore such challenges at their peril. The renowned economist, who has been based at the privately funded think-tank since 2000, believes that the experiences of Japan present some clear pointers as to what can be expected in Asia in the not too distant future — and indeed in much of Europe as well.
"In the kind of emerging economies we're seeing in Asia, we usually first have raw growth trends, urbanization, the copying of technologies and investing at extreme levels. That usually lasts for two decades — maybe even three, as in China's case — but it runs its course." What comes next has been playing out in Japan since the mid-1990s.
"Japan is the forerunner of basically all the growth and technology trends evident across Asia," says Dr Schulz, from China and Vietnam to Malaysia and South Korea. "Japan has done that [maturing phase] a long time ago and is now at the next frontier." That next frontier, he highlights in I-CIO's exclusive video interview, has one key characteristic: a demographic time-bomb and the natural cap that that puts on economic growth.
In Japan, the percentage of the working-age population peaked at 69% in the mid-1990s. Since then it has tumbled precipitously to around 56%, and will sink below 50% towards 2040, according to UN figures. But Japan is just the forerunner of such trends in Asia, Dr Schulz observes. When China's working-age proportion peaks at around the same level over the next few years, the decline will become even steeper as it heads for the 50% point towards 2050. South Korea, Thailand and others in the region are all moving in the same direction too.
This is not just an Asian phenomenon. Countries across Western Europe — from Spain and Germany to the UK and Italy — will also need to face up to falls in the working-age of populations.
The drivers of such a new reality are different, argues Dr Schulz. They are about efficiency and productivity implemented in a way that is no longer oriented towards generating growth but towards supporting wellbeing — the creation of better services in areas such as healthcare, social infrastructure, mobility and communications.
"When we look at how technology is evolving in areas such as education and healthcare, we see completely new levels of caring, of focusing technologies on people and their wellbeing," Dr Schulz observes.


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Forget the First Amendment, SEC May Force Disclosure of Political Expenditures
Nothing is beyond the reach of regulators
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission quietly announced last month that it's considering forcing publicly traded companies to disclose political contributions. Such a regulation could transform the way money gets spent on elections, so it's no surprise that two opposing camps are already preparing to try influence the agency's decision.
On one side are such trade associations as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which spent nearly $30 million trying to defeat Democratic candidates during the 2012 election cycle. Because of their tax-exempt status with the IRS, trade associations aren't required to reveal their donors. That essentially gives companies a free pass to donate to trade associations and influence elections without having to face public backlash. But the Chamber is arguing that investors don't need to know about political donations because they're too small to have a significant effect on a company's bottom line. This may be the case, but right now investors have no way to confirm it because the amounts don't have to be disclosed.
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Big game could mean big cash for Giants-Jets stadium naming rights
Published: May 26, 2010 at 07:59 AM
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Landing the 2014 Super Bowlshould help the New York Giants and New York Jets finally put a name on their new $1.6 billion stadium.
Speaking at a news conference Wednesday, the owners of the two NFL teams said the selection of the stadium for the NFL championship game in roughly 3½ years is bound to attract sponsors interested in seeing their company's name on the 82,500-seat facility.
Whether the Super Bowl association boosts the price of the naming rights is uncertain.
Some experts believe the naming rights for the stadium located less than five miles from New York might fetch $20 million annually for the teams to split.
"It can't hurt," Giants co-owner John Mara said at the press conference at the stadium on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after NFL owners awarded the New York-New Jersey area the Super Bowl. "This is a positive factor. It makes it an even more attractive package, the potential naming rights part, but that will come."
Until the naming rights are sold, the stadium will continue to be called the New Stadium at the Meadowlands. It was scheduled to officially open Wednesday night with a Bon Jovi concert.
The Giants and Jets had naming rights negotiations with a German insurance company in September 2008, but talks ended when it was disclosed that Allianz once had ties to the Nazis. The deal could have been worth an estimated $30 million annually.
Jets owner Woody Johnson said the stadium will be in the spotlight for a long time.
"Look at it this way, between now and 3½ years, a lot of eyeballs will be on that spot," Johnson said. "So if you are in a business like carpets or anything else you are selling that has to be helpful rather than hurtful, you're going to gain two billion eyes."
Giants co-owner Steve Tisch said the teams haven't established a naming rights price or a price they would like to have. However, having the affiliation with the Super Bowl is a big plus.
"It becomes an attractive additional component to a naming rights partner," Tisch said. "They will get a lot of exposure for a long time prior to that Sunday in February."
Steven Korenblat, a partner in the St. Louis law firm of Bryan Cave, said landing the Super Bowl might accelerate any current sponsorship talks, including naming rights. Korenblat noted that because of the weak economy some sponsors might seek shorter deals now, and longer ones when the economy improves.
"I wouldn't say (the teams) are in the driver's seat," said Korenblat, who helped negotiate Citigroup's deal to put its name on the New York Mets' new stadium last year. "This looks still like a buyer's market very much so now. But on the other hand, if they have multiple suitors considering these rights, someone may be motivated to grab the deal first."
Mara said the Jets and Giants are thinking about bidding on future Super Bowls, if the league will let them. The NFL allowed a special exception for the teams to bid on the 2014 game.
The Jets and Giants owners also disclosed that they have to raise $40 million to run the events surrounding the Super Bowl.
"John Tisch and Woody have some heavy lifting to do in terms of raising the type of money needed to make this pay off," Mara said. "Someone asked before what the economic benefit is? You do not make any money hosting the Super Bowl. You are lucky if you break even."
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. David Paterson downplayed the possibility of snow and the cold spoiling what is the first Super Bowl to be awarded to a northern open-air stadium in the middle of winter.
Paterson said that bad weather has made some football games special, like the Ice Bowl in 1967 or the Colts-Giants title game in 1958.
"We will now have a game with many unanticipated moments," Paterson said. "It's the unanticipated moments we remember."


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Detection of malaria parasites in mosquitoes from the malaria-endemic area of Chakaria, Bangladesh
Akter Tangin, Yuka Komichi, Yukiko Wagatsuma, Haque Rashidul, Yusuke Wataya, Hye Sook Kim
Malaria is one of the major public health problems of Bangladesh. We investigated the mosquito populations infected with malaria parasites in a malaria-endemic area Chakaria, Bangladesh, where Anopheles dirus and Anopheles minimus are the principal vectors. Anopheles mosquitoes were collected with a CDC miniature light trap from inside households in June 2007. A total of 868 mosquitoes were collected, among which females numbered 669 (77.1%). The species of female Anopheles mosquitoes were identified morphologically, and 651 were A. minimus and the remaining 18 were other Anopheles species. Malaria parasite DNA from individual female mosquitoes was extracted and distinguished using the microtiter plate hybridization (MPH) technique targeting the 18S rRNA of human malaria parasites. Nineteen mosquitoes were malaria parasite positive: 12 for Plasmodium falciparum, 1 for Plasmodium vivax, and 6 for both P. falciparum and P. vivax. This is the first time that the MPH technique was used for distinguishing malaria parasites in mosquitoes and the first report from Chakaria. Our results may contribute to planning and assessing malaria control strategies in Chakaria.
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Border guard convicted of failing to help pregnant refugee in distress
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A border guard in Switzerland has been convicted of charges relating to the stillbirth of a baby born to a refugee who was sent back to Italy.
A military court on Wednesday convicted the guard of causing bodily harm through negligence, attempting to abort a pregnancy and repeatedly failing in his duties, reported news agency ATS.
The guard received a six month prison sentence and a fine, both suspended.
The case dates back to July 2014 when a family of Syrian refugees were attempting to travel to France from Italy on a train through Switzerland.
Among the group was a 22-year-old woman who was seven months pregnant.
After being stopped at a Franco-Swiss border point, they were loaded into buses by border guards and ordered back to Italy. On the return journey, the woman began to bleed, but despite repeated calls for help, Swiss authorities did not respond, according to her husband.
He claimed they and their two-year-old son were then detained in a "cell" at Brig station for four hours with no medical assistance, Swiss media reported at the time.
They were subsequently put on a train from Brig to the Italian border town of Domodossola, where the woman was hospitalized, but her baby was later stillborn.
The prosecution demanded a prison sentence of up to seven years for the border guard, saying he "lacked all humanity".
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Q: Setting new value in select2 in javascript I am using a bootstrap plugin 'select2'. Creating a custom value in select2 dropdown using the following code.
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$("#purchase_page_select").select2({
    placeholder: 'Select type',
    theme: "bootstrap",
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Everything is working fine but the line .val(newval); is replacing the previous all tags from the select2 field and setting a new value. I want to add a new tag with out removing the previous tags.

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It's a big week for The Ford Institute! First, we launched the Integrity Movement. Come join! And now comes huge news from Debbie Ford's sister Arielle that a previously unpublished manuscript by Debbie will be published March 6th, 2018! (Of course Debbie gets a book deal even on the other side!) Read this incredible story below and be sure to take advantage of the 24-hour sale on the e-book today only!
My friend (and my sister Debbie's dear friend), world-famous medium James Van Praagh called last December to invite me, Bri, and my Mom to visit his new home here in San Diego and he offered us a reading with my sister in heaven, Debbie. This was an irresistible offer, as it's now impossible to get private readings with James.
During the reading, Debbie kept asking me if I would write a prayer book with her. I politely declined. How in the world would we do that? We couldn't possibly impose on James to be a daily intermediary and I didn't have any desire to figure it out.
During the "reading" lots and lots of relatives from the other side came through and in between these lovely visits, Debbie would pop in, insisting we write a prayer book together.
Eventually, I gave in and said yes, clueless as to how this would happen.
On the drive home, Brian mentioned that he recalled Debbie talking about some prayers she had written and suggested I contact the amazing Julie Stroud, (who to this day runs The Ford Institute along with Kelly Kosow) to see if she had any of these prayers.
Julie, who was Debbie's right hand everything for years, immediately wrote back and said not only did she have the prayers, she had an entire unpublished manuscript entitled Your Holiness: Discover the Light Within, and it was attached to the email.
Debbie wrote a prayer book and I never knew?
I immediately read the book - astounded at the wisdom, the beauty, and the brilliance of it.
And, then I called her editor at Harper One, who admitted that he had been feeling guilty for the past several years because he knew that she always wanted to write a prayer book but he talked her out of it.
He bought the book and it will be published on March 6th with an introduction from Marianne Williamson.
"Debbie Ford was a spiritual sister, colleague and teacher to me . This book, discovered as her writings after her passing is an extraordinary journey to higher consciousness . Read it, absorb her insights and you may see the world fresh, vibrant and holy and as if for the first time."
"What you are seeking at the deepest level exists inside of you, in the quietude of your own inner world, in the privacy of your own sweet heart. So now it's your responsibility, your holy responsibility, to encode your consciousness with thoughts, feelings, and images that will support you in creating the perfect internal environment to cultivate a deep and intimate relationship with the one you call God. This is the force that loves you, cheers for you, and wants it all for you. In a world where love leaves as quickly as it comes, you can rest now, knowing that you have found a love that will never leave you, never misguide you, and never ever let you down. My advice, dear friend, is take great care of that Love. It will give you everything you've been looking for."


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Shawna Nelson's crime takes toll on her kids
By 9News
May 1, 2008 at 5:07 p.m.
Even though Ken Nelson says he's known since the night Heather Garraus died that his wife, Shawna, killed her, he still tells his children that their mother will always love them.
"They know what she's been convicted of. I don't think either one of them grasps the finality of that or believes it," Nelson said in an interview with 9Wants to Know.
For the first time since his wife was convicted in the first-degree murder of her lover's wife, Heather Garraus, Ken Nelson is speaking publicly.
Shawna Nelson had a four-year affair with a married man, former Greeley police Officer Ignacio Garraus, and gave birth to his child.
On Jan. 23, 2007, Shawna drove to the bank where Heather Garraus worked, waited outside in the dark and shot Garraus twice, ending her life.
Ken Nelson said that's the moment his kids' childhoods ended too.
"They're not the same kids," he said. "They don't play the same way with 8- and 10-year-olds. They know way too much for any 8- and 10-year-old and have been exposed way too much for any 8- and 10-year-old should be."
When asked how he explains to the children why their mother will be spending the rest of her life in prison,Nelson said he tells them their mother has "made some bad choices that she's going to have to live with and unfortunately we're going to have to live with."
Shawna Nelson hasn't seen her three children since the day of the murder. Ken Nelson said he is trying to make arrangements for her to see the children at Colorado Women's Prison in Cañon City, where she's imprisoned.
Ken has filed for divorce, and it is expected to be final by the end of May.
Shawna Nelson shot Garraus the day before Ken Nelson's birthday.
Ken Nelson now believes his wife was trying to set him up.
"Why else would she be wearing my underwear, wearing my socks, my baseball cap, and drive my truck that she hated?" Ken asked rhetorically. "Is there any other explanation for that? I can't think of one."
Nelson said he thinks his wife almost got what she wanted. "Heather would have been out of the way. I would have been out of the way," he said.
Even after the affairs, the lies and the murder, Ken Nelson said he doesn't hate his wife. He said he married Shawna because she was sweet. But now, "I think she is where she needs to be," he said.
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I'm using TCMD11x64 on a 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium.
I usually have a TCMD open with three or four TCC tabs, all of them at the prompt. CPU usage is normal.
After coming back from suspend, continuous CPU usage for svchost.exe is about 25%. It only stops when I exit TCMD.
> I'm using TCMD11x64 on a 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium.
> the prompt. CPU usage is normal.
> about 25%. It only stops when I exit TCMD.
and cannot affect a separate svchost.exe process.
I'd recommend reporting this to Microsoft as a Windows 7 bug.
Which svchost.exe is showing CPU usage of about 25%?
TASKLIST /L shows the startup command line for each process, including all of the SVCHOST processes.
TASKLIST svchost /L will list all svchost processes that are running.
You can also use the @PIDCOMMAND to determine the startup command line for a specific process ID.
While I am running TCC 11 on Windows XP, I had a similar problem which, upon investigation, turned out to be a printer driver causing all the CPU usage.
> including all of the SVCHOST processes.
okay in TCC32, shows nothing but the PID and Process name in TCC64.
No difference mentioned in the help file.
> > including all of the SVCHOST processes.
> okay in TCC32, shows nothing but the PID and Process name in TCC64.
> No difference mentioned in the help file.
Anyway, I think it stopped happening a while ago. If it ever happens again, I'll try to get more info about the svchost.exe process.


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ABIR hires Bermuda College business administration student as intern
Kace Wales, Bermuda College
ABIR appoints BDA veteran to public policy role
ABIR hosts US regulators
Albo joins ABIR board
ABIR unveils senior executive appointments
ABIR elects new executives for two year term
The Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers (ABIR) has hired a new intern.
Kace Wales is a 17-year-old from Sandys who is studying on the associate of arts (business administration) programme at Bermuda College. He is a graduate of CedarBridge Academy, where he was a junior student leader and prefect, and previously attended Sandys Secondary Middle School where he was deputy head boy. He studied for his International Baccalaureate at the United World College in Pune, India, having earned a full scholarship from the school as the top Bermudian candidate.
Wales, who aspires to a career in the insurance industry, will remain with the ABIR team until early September. During his internship, he will learn about Bermuda's international re/insurance market, spend time with member companies, help organise an intern event and provide member services and operations support.
Kace has already gained some insurance knowledge by attending the Special Topics in Insurance: Foundations of Bermuda's International Re/Insurance Sector lecture series earlier this year. That free, virtual event was jointly hosted by ABIR, Bermuda College, and St. John's University, with attendance surpassing expectations.
John Huff, president and chief executive officer at ABIR, said: "Kace is an impressive young man, who is already showing great enthusiasm. He is eager, responsible and has a genuine interest in the industry."
Kace said his interest in insurance has grown over the last two years. "I was advised to take this Special Topics in Insurance course. I wasn't sure about it beforehand, but ended up really loving it," he said.
"Many teens look at the industry and think you need to be a mathematician to work in insurance, as an actuary or an underwriter. What I learned from the course is that there are different kinds of jobs available – the industry needs attorneys, marketing agents and human resources teams."
Kace enjoys photography and videography, and before the pandemic enjoyed cricket and volunteered at the Lorraine Rest Home in Warwick, preparing meals, reading to residents and conversing with them.
Kace will complete his Bermuda College course next spring and is considering his options for further education.
Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers, ABIR, Kace Wales, John Huff


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The Week in Light & Sound
Recovery Grants - Twenty-eight performing arts organisations have been awarded a share of £75m in the latest round of Culture Recovery Grants. Theatres including London's Old Vic, Manchester's Royal Exchange, Northampton Royal and Derngate and Shakespeare's Globe have all been granted between £1m and £3m each in the first of two rounds for this strand. Six museums and one visual arts organisation were also awarded grants as part of the scheme.
Recipients include: Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre Trust - £3,000,000; English National Ballet - £3,000,000; Newcastle Theatre Royal Trust - £3,000,000; The Old Vic Theatre Trust - £3,000,000; Shakespeare's Globe - £2,985,707; Sadler's Wells - £2,975,000; Adlib Audio - £1,650,356; Fabric Life - £1,514,262; Lights Control Rigging Productions - £1,076,179 and The Octagon Theatre Trust - £620,232.
Virtual Awards - The Olivier Awards 2020, held virtually for the first time because of the pandemic, saw three shows lead the field, with three accolades each, while Matthew Bourne made history, having now won the most Oliviers ever by one person, and Sonia Friedman Productions picked up the best new play prize for the fourth year running.
The most awards won by a single show, shared equally by & Juliet, Dear Evan Hansen and Emilia. & Juliet won three out of the four musical performance categories – which went to Miriam-Teak Lee, Cassidy Janson and David Bedella – while Dear Evan Hansen's Sam Tutty picked up the fourth.
Death of a Salesman went home with two awards, for leading actress Sharon D Clarke and its co-directors Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell. Mary Poppins' choreographers Matthew Bourne and Stephen Mear, and set designer Bob Crowley also won.
Best set design went to Bob Crowley for Mary Poppins. Paule Constable won the Best lighting category for The Ocean At The End Of The Lane; Best sound design went to Emma Laxton for Emilia.
The Duchess of Cornwall made an impassioned speech in support of theatre as she presented a special award to lyricist Don Black. "Those of us who believe in the theatre also believe in its resilience," she said. "It is a cornerstone of a fertile cultural life, a forum for debate, and a powerful means of building community.
"I should like to thank those of you whose profession is in the theatre for your determination and your flexibility. Please remain resilient - we need you and we have missed you."
In The Saleroom - A David Hockney painting put up for auction by the Royal Opera House to raise crucial funds for its survival has been sold for nearly £13m. The painting, of its former chief executive David Webster, went under the hammer at Christie's in London on 22 October. The painting had an estimate of £11-18m, achieving £12.8m on the night. It is understood that the proceeds will go some way to lessening the impact of the coronavirus crisis on the ROH, which has described the pandemic as "the biggest crisis in its history".
Taylor Swift's latest album Folklore has returned to number one in America, becoming the first record to sell more than a million copies in 2020.
The star's low-key eighth album was recorded during lockdown and released in August.
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Alan Kronhaus, MD – Doctors Making Housecalls
Dr. Kronhaus is nationally prominent as a medical entrepreneur, management guru and health policy maven who specializes in creating innovative ways of providing better care to underserved populations.
After graduating AOA from the Six Year Medical Program at Boston University, Kronhaus did two years of internal medicine residency at the University of Utah before leaving the program to fulfill his long-time fantasy of becoming a ski bum. To get the necessary funding, he took a job as a solo practitioner in a small mining town in the northern Nevada desert — the first community involved in an innovative rural health care program designed to attract good doctors into isolated rural areas. Kronhaus became hooked on rural health care.
During his five years with Health Systems Research Institute, Kronhaus progressed from practicing physician to the company's first medical director. As a member of the non-profit's top management team, he helped setup and manage 30 rural health clinics, and recruited scores of physicians to staff them. His largest single project was the creation in 1975 of a healthcare delivery system for Yellowstone National Park, where he served as Chief of Staff for Lake Hospital, 3 busy outpatient clinics and the Park's emergency medical service, which included a formal linkage with the Dept. of Surgery at the University of Utah.
In 1979, Kronhaus was recruited to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, giving him the opportunity to complete his formal clinical training and further his academic credentials. As a Clinical Scholar, Kronhaus concentrated on finding better ways to provide care to underserved populations. His focus on the geographic maldistribution of physicians lead Kronhaus to create the country's first organized, nationwide temporary staffing firm for physicians.
The concept of providing physician services on a temporary basis, formally known as locum tenens, emerged from the spare bedroom of Kronhaus's home — a "commercialization" of his work as a Clinical Scholar. The company he started to implement the idea, KRON Medical Corporation, catapulted Kronhaus to national prominence as the driving force behind what is now a 4 billion dollar industry.
Dr. Kronhaus sold KRON Medical in 1993, and retired two years later at the age of 46 to become a stay-at-home dad. His wife coaxed him out of retirement in the summer of 2002 to help implement her vision of a medical group practice devoted exclusively to making housecalls. The organization that emerged from their efforts, Doctors Making Housecalls, has become the country's largest, closely held private housecall practice.
In addition to his successful ventures as a medical entrepreneur, Kronhaus has published several papers in peer-reviewed academic journals, and has presented scholarly papers at innumerable conferences and conventions nationwide. He was the sole author of Choosing Your Practice, a book published by Springer-Verlag in 1990 to wide acclaim, which has become the career counseling standard for physicians.
Kronhaus remains passionate about finding creative ways of providing better care to underserved populations, and pursuing the applications of home-based primary care that stand the best chance of improving the quality of care while reducing the cost of care.
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                         timeout_changed_(false), tbb_awake_timer_(NULL) { }

    bool StartTbbKeepAwakeTask(TaskScheduler *ts, EventManager *event_mgr,
                               const std::string task_name,
                               uint32_t tbbKeepawakeTimeout = 1000) {
        uint32_t task_id = ts->GetTaskId(task_name);
        tbb_awake_timer_ = TimerManager::CreateTimer(*event_mgr->io_service(),
                                                     "TBB Keep Awake",
                                                     task_id, 0);
        tbb_awake_val_ = tbbKeepawakeTimeout;
        bool ret = tbb_awake_timer_->Start(tbbKeepawakeTimeout,
                       boost::bind(&TaskTbbKeepAwake::TbbKeepAwake, this));
        return ret;
    }

    void ModifyTbbKeepAwakeTimeout(uint32_t timeout) {
        tbb::mutex::scoped_lock lock(mutex_);
        if (tbb_awake_val_ != timeout) {
            timeout_changed_ = true;
            tbb_awake_val_ = timeout;
        }
    }

    bool TbbKeepAwake() {
        tbb_awake_count_++;
        if (timeout_changed_) {
            tbb_awake_timer_->Reschedule(tbb_awake_val_);
            timeout_changed_ = false;
        }
        return true;
    }

    void ShutTbbKeepAwakeTask() {
        if (tbb_awake_timer_) {
            tbb_awake_timer_->Cancel();
            TimerManager::DeleteTimer(tbb_awake_timer_);
        }
    }

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Carlos Velasco
D.Phil.
"The essence of the sensory intuitive lies not in what separates the senses but in what unites them—with each other, with all even the non-sensory aspects of our experience, and with everything without us which is there to be experienced"
– Erich M. von Hornbostel
Hei! I'm an Associate Professor at BI Norwegian Business School (Norway), where I co-founded the Centre for Multisensory Marketing. In this website, I present some information about my interests, my academic and professional experience, and some of my work. Below, you'll see my short bio.
I obtained my D.Phil. in Experimental Psychology at Oxford University (Crossmodal Research Laboratory). Following that, I worked as a Research Fellow at the SCHI Lab, Sussex University (UK), the Imagineering Institute (Malaysia), and the Institute on Asian Consumer Insight, hosted by Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). Currently, I'm once again a Research Fellow at the SCHI Lab.
My work is at the intersection between Psychology, Marketing, and Human–Computer Interaction, and focuses on understanding,
and capitalizing on, our multisensory experiences and their guiding principles (see Research, for more details). Me and my colleagues have presented our research in conferences such as Pangborn, SXSW, ICMI, SenseAsia, CHI, TVX, and ESOMAR. We have also published it in journals such as Food Quality and Preference, PeerJ, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Journal of Business Research, Motivation and Emotion, and Frontiers in Psychology. Our research has been covered by several media outlets (e.g., Aftenposten, New Yorker, Wired, The Guardian, IFT, Science Daily, El Tiempo). I have co-edited two books: Multisensory Human-Food Interaction and Multisensory Packaging.
I've worked with a number of companies from different countries such as Symrise, Asahi Breweries, Asian Institute on Consumer Insight, Seguros Bolívar, Colombina, Sea Tech, and Terpel. This work has focused on a variety of topics including multisensory experience design, HCI, food and drink, packaging, branding, consumer research, marketing, research, and innovation. I'm also one of the co-founders of Neurosketch (Colombia). See Consulting for more information.
I'm from Bogotá (Colombia), but have also lived in Calgary (Canada), Oxford and Brighton (UK), Boston (USA), Malaysia (Iskandar Puteri), Singapore, and Oslo (Norway). I enjoy nature, travels, experimental music (e.g., progressive rock/metal), guitar playing, stargazing, Korean BBQs (and Bokbunja-ju), and Japanese whisky. I have an awesome cat whose name is Juno.


I am a home proprietor dwelling in Delaware Metropolis. Over the past 12 months, 2018, I've had my county taxes improve, my metropolis taxes improve, my school district had two referendums to maneuver a school tax improve and the topper was my water worth from Artesian has moreover elevated.
The 12 months is not over, and I am not sure how so much, if any, the state non-public income tax will improve.
Expensive politicians and other people working, that's adequate for a while, OK!
James Robbins, in his column on October 29, purports to redefine the phrase "nationalism" as straightforward love of nation and notion in its inherent goodness and manifest greatness. He states that to question that view is to willfully misunderstand the phrase and be unaware of its historic previous.
Clearly, it is Mr. Robbins who's being willfully and disingenuously ignorant. Nationalism is broadly outlined as placing the pursuits and welfare of the nation-state above all totally different specific particular person and group pursuits; and whereas that phrase has been used some methods over quite a few centuries of worldwide political turmoil, on this nation it is intently acknowledged with white superiority and xenophobia.
This extensively documented and painful actuality — one its adherents reject, in spite of everything — has prolonged been expert by these on the bottom of American society: the poor, people of coloration, and other people whose cultural or religious traditions do not match a slim mould.
Mr. Robbins' true beliefs and agenda are betrayed inside the descriptors and slurs he hurls at liberals, progressives, and Democrats, his chosen opponents: haters of America who solely criticize, revisionists, and promoters of "tribalism," "grievance ideology," "alleged oppression," and on and on.
Exactly, Mr. Robbins. Nonetheless your overheated and abusive rhetoric, like that of the president, is exactly what's stopping us from shifting in that course.
Many Delawareans may be unaware that lung most cancers is the principle most cancers killer of men and women inside the U.S., accounting for about one in four most cancers deaths. It's estimated that, in 2018 alone, higher than 890 people in Delaware will doubtless be recognized with lung most cancers and 580 will succumb to the deadly sickness.
In my 25 years as nurse, I've seen first-hand the outcomes lung most cancers causes on my victims and their households — from prolonged, exhaustive effectively being battles, time missed from work and family events, to the big financial strain and treatment boundaries they might encounter.
With the power to surrender smoking is the 1st step to being proactive about your lung effectively being. Nonetheless, some additional step should be taken – equivalent to lung most cancers screening.
Too a variety of my victims have been recognized with lung most cancers at a later stage. That's what makes this newly on the market screening such a sport changer – if we'll catch the sickness earlier, we'll save lives.
Lung most cancers screening by low-dose CT scan is a sturdy software program. Eight million Individuals qualify as high-risk for lung most cancers and are actually helpful to acquire screening with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT). If all people at extreme risk had been screened, about 25,000 lives could be saved.
I am turning into a member of the American Lung Affiliation to ask former individuals who smoke to take a lung most cancers screening eligibility quiz at SavedByTheScan.org. It merely might save a life.
It baffles me how Pat Carter, the $130,000 Director of Finance for the Metropolis Of Wilmington can't uncover the time nor property to assemble Trippi Congo's delinquent taxes and totally different metropolis expenses. It is not a priority, he says.
What message does that ship to the good paying taxpayers of the Metropolis?
I hope that Bob Williams, who represents the seventh councilmatic district, will introduce legal guidelines prohibiting people to serve on council who owe delinquent metropolis expenses.
Congo owns 5 properties. He is a repeat offender. He could be on the excessive of my itemizing to revive people's faith in authorities.
The mayor must step forward, adequate is adequate. City is closing fireside properties, and the director can't accumulate the monies owed. Merely one different occasion of why individuals are disgusted with authorities: Two models of tips, one for the peons, one for the ruling class.
I not keep in Wilmington. Did for 45 years, served on Council for 12. It's a disgrace and should not be tolerated.
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Virat Kohli sole Indian in Forbes list of highest paid athletes
Posted Date : Thursday 8/06/2017
Virat Kohli sole Indian in Forbes list of highest paid athletes Jun 8, 2017,
NEW YORK: Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli is the sole sportsperson from the country to feature among the world's 100 highest paid athletes in the latest Forbes list topped by soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo.
Kohli, 28, has been ranked 89th on the 2017 Forbes list of 'The World's highest paid athletes' with a total pay of USD 22 million that includes USD three million from salary and winnings and another 19 million from endorsements.
Describing Kohli as the "Indian cricket phenom", Forbes said the sports star has "for good reason" already drawn comparisons to all-time great Sachin Tendulkar.
It added that Kohli has continuously shattered batting records and in 2015 was named the captain of the Indian national team, making him one of the youngest players to ever hold the job.
It noted that last year Kohli made nearly USD 1 million in salary and match fees from his national team play, and he's also among the Indian Premier League's highest-paid players thanks to a USD 2.3 million salary from the Royal Challengers Bangalore.
"The vast majority of his income, however, comes from one of the sports world's most impressive sponsorships portfolios," Forbes said.
The list has been topped by Ronaldo with a total pay of 93 million dollars. American basketball star LeBron James comes in at the second spot with USD 86.2 million, followed by Argentine footballer Lionel Messi (3) with 80 million, tennis star Roger Federer (4) with 64 million and American basketball player Kevin Durant.
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5 ways Master Yun Long Zi turns feng shui into radiant visual art
by Theresa Belle
24K gold, glow-in-the-dark paint, sacred wild herb paper… these are just some of Master Yun's special touches that bring his feng shui exhibition 'The Colours of Prosperity and Elegance' to life.
Master Yun hosted members of the Cambodian royal family at his exhibition launch, including Princess Buppha Devi (left) and Prince Tesso Sisowath (right).
Feng shui was brought to life in the form of vivid visual art last weekend, at the Bangkok leg of The Colours of Prosperity and Elegance exhibition at Emporium Gallery. Singaporean feng shui Emeritus Master Yun Long Zi presented 108 pieces inspired by one of nature's most elegant animals: the peacock.
This Malaysian-born feng shui master paints every day, describing it as not only therapeutic, but in line with his generational practices. "When we appreciate and create art, we are connected with God. The Chinese call it the union of heaven, earth, and human. This happens both in feng shui and art, so I believe feng shui should be done in a beautiful manner," he shares.
Combining visual, spiritual, material and metaphysical worlds, here are five ways Master Yun Long Zi turns his feng shui teachings into visual art.
Multilayered sacred paper
"All my paintings begin with three layers of colour splashes," Master Yun divulges. Each painting consists of 8 to 18 layers, which can be a lengthy process as each layer must be left to dry. Symbolic to the colours of life, his paintings represent the vibrant canvas of life, even from birth.
Besides rice paper, Master Yun paints on dong ba paper from the shamanic tribe of Lijiang. The shamans have their ways steeped in feng shui. They hand-make this paper with wild herbs, which slows down its biodegradability for up to a thousand years. The language and paper of these shamans are considered sacred, which leads Master Yun to believe, "Whatever we write is sacred. Are we going to prophesise positivity or negativity?"
His choice is clear in the poetry he calligraphs onto his paintings. Deviating from the traditional tone of ancient Chinese poems, Master Yun only incorporates positive poetry that elevates the value of his paintings.
Peacock as the 'I'
The Colours of Prosperity and Elegance largely features peacocks painted into themes of happiness, love, prosperity, and hope. Only after the layers of colour splashes does Master Yun decide where to place the peacock, which represents the 'I' or 'self'.
"With the given situation and conditions, where am I going to place myself so that I can put myself in the best light?" he explains. It also serves as a reminder to live life artistically, bringing beauty and peace wherever you go.
One of the standout aspects of this collection is the use of phosphorescent acrylic paint that glows in the dark. It emits absorbed light over extended periods, glowing intensely under UV radiation.
"The peacocks in my paintings become living metaphors for attraction. Their feathers glitter gold under bright lights, but when the lights are turned off and ultraviolet light shone on them through the darkness, you will see celestial stars," shares Master Yun.
Precious natural materials
The rich tapestry of his paintings embody prosperity quite literally, featuring precious natural materials like 18K and 24K gold, silver, and bronze. Each of these bear significance in traditional Chinese feng shui beliefs.
"Gold is lasting – it doesn't fade under the sun, lose weight in fire, or rust in water. Feng shui is supposed to help attain beauty, rarity, and durability," Master Yun explains. Similarly, silver is believed to ward off evil, while bronze and copper were used in ancient weaponry, thus representing control over one's life. Together, these rare elements lend a subdued yet powerful touch of prosperity in elegance.
Prosperity in elegance
Master Yun combines his knowledge and experience of Eastern and Western art in his own expression; the former informed by his lifelong commitment to feng shui, and the latter from his boundless exploration of the artistic universe from a young age.
Through his paintings, crystals, and pure jadeite, Master Yun seeks to educate his clients on creating wealth through down-to-earth, metaphysical means. A scholar of Chinese language and cultural studies, he was also mentored by a Chinese etymologist.
"Prosperity is possible and we can achieve it in the most elegant way. Ultimately we do not live for prosperity, it lives for us," he says, illustrating how this ties back to finding meaning in a life we can be proud of.
Master Yun dusting gold off an exquisite piece – a performance that calls for him to face a challenge with unknown outcome in front of the guests at his exhibition launch. "I draw focus from uncertainty," he says.
"Be like lotus on water"
Master Yuns often speaks in metaphors, and seems comfortable in a long Manchurian frock that I've frankly not seen outside Eastern dynasty shows. His commitment to his calling could even give skeptics something to ponder on.
"What is higher than a goal?" he inquires back when asked about the next game-plan for his art. "It is purpose – with this you may achieve a goal that you have never expected before. I do things I really have conviction in, and it makes my life meaningful."
In Master Yun's words, this is living like lotus on water – receiving the sun, emitting fragrance, and showing off colour to make the world that much brighter. "Some are poor and stuck in their ways – they are like lotus in the mud. Others may practice feng shui but hide it – this is lotus in water. Be like lotus on water because that is real wealth," he advises.
Master Yun Long Zi is proud of Chinese culture and the power of feng shui, and has made it his life's work to share through various platforms – like a lotus blossoming on water, its beauty radiant for all to see.
Pieces from The Colours of Prosperity and Elegance are available at Lotus on Water's Singapore gallery. For more information, visit the official site of this award-winning feng shui brand.
Images: Flame Communications


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Q: Node-oracledb invalid ELF header on linux I'm using a dockerized setup of node-oracledb (based on docker-node-oracle) together with Node 10 but this error keeps popping up when I start the container:
backend_1  | /app/node_modules/oracledb/lib/oracledb.js:68
backend_1  |       throw new Error(nodbUtil.getErrorMessage('NJS-045', nodeInfo));
backend_1  |       ^
backend_1  |
backend_1  | Error: NJS-045: cannot load the oracledb add-on binary for Node.js 10.4.1 (linux, x64)
backend_1  | Cannot load /app/node_modules/oracledb/build/Release/oracledb.node
backend_1  | /app/node_modules/oracledb/build/Release/oracledb.node: invalid ELF header
backend_1  | Node-oracledb installation instructions: https://oracle.github.io/node-oracledb/INSTALL.html
backend_1  | You must have 64-bit Oracle client libraries in LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or configured with ldconfig.
backend_1  | If you do not have Oracle Database on this computer, then install the Instant Client Basic or Basic Light package from
backend_1  | http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/linuxx86-64soft-092277.html
backend_1  |
backend_1  |     at Object.<anonymous> (/app/node_modules/oracledb/lib/oracledb.js:68:13)
backend_1  |     at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:702:30)
backend_1  |     at Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:713:10)
backend_1  |     at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .js] (/app/node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:152:7)
backend_1  |     at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:612:32)
backend_1  |     at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:551:12)
backend_1  |     at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:543:3)
backend_1  |     at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:650:17)
backend_1  |     at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:20:18)
backend_1  |     at Object.<anonymous> (/app/node_modules/oracledb/index.js:1:18)

I've tried it with different node versions (8 and 9) but the same error keeps popping up which indicates that there might be a problem with the setup of my image but I can't figure out what. Here's the dockerfile:
# INSTALL UBUNTU
FROM node:10

#INSTALL LIBAIO1 & UNZIP (NEEDED FOR STRONG-ORACLE)
RUN apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y libaio1 \
    && apt-get install -y build-essential \
    && apt-get install -y unzip \
    && apt-get install -y curl

#ADD ORACLE INSTANT CLIENT
RUN mkdir -p opt/oracle
ADD ./oracle/linux/ .

# 12.2
RUN unzip instantclient-basic-linux.x64-12.2.0.1.0 -d /opt/oracle \
    && mv /opt/oracle/instantclient_12_2 /opt/oracle/instantclient

RUN cd /opt/oracle/instantclient \
    && ln -s libclntsh.so.12.1 libclntsh.so \
    && ln -s libocci.so.12.1 libocci.so

RUN echo /opt/oracle/instantclient > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/oracle-instantclient.conf

ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/oracle/instantclient"

WORKDIR app

ARG NODE_ENV
ENV NODE_ENV $NODE_ENV

COPY package.json .

RUN npm install

COPY . .
RUN ./build.sh

CMD [ "./up.sh" ]

Anyone who knows/had this problem with node-oracledb?

A: After help from Christopher at the above mentioned post I got it working. Together with his Dockerfile and a clean slate (deleting all Docker images/containers, restarting pc,...) I got it working. Thx for the help!

A: You need to add node_modules to .dockerignore then remove it node_modules


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Time for India to set priorities in South Asia
August 29, 2014 August 29, 2014 - by N Sathiya Moorthy | N Sathiya Moorthy
After visualising India as the 'net-provider' of security in and for South Asia, as then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had mentioned, the nation may now face the dilemma of defining and designing it to the satisfaction of its neighbours. It's not without reason, cause or worry, either.
The expectations from individual South Asian nations from India in matters of strategic security and accompanying politico-diplomatic backing are different. They are at times contradictory and self-defeating, too. They may also be different from India's perception of their requirements and its own ability in turn – not to mention expectations in return.
Afghanistan is a case in point. More than possibly Afghanistan per se, it's the US that looked like wanting India to take up or at least share the security responsibilities in that country after the withdrawal of American troops. After decades of propping up Islamabad, the US does not trust the Pakistani neighbour of Afghanistan, nor does Afghanistan trusts Pakistan. But Pakistan does not trust India, either.
A security role for India in post-withdrawal Afghanistan should go beyond possible American perceptions about the current leadership-change in India. It should also go beyond the perception of some sections in the Indian strategic community. The fighting man decides. His decision will be dictated by the 'larger national interests' and also the ability to deliver and keep, as well – whichever way it turns out to be. The nation went through this discourse a decade and more earlier, in the context of Iraq, but not in the context of South Asia as a whole.
Leveraging India's soft-power
In other South Asian capitals, there is a greater expectation, if not outright demand, for India to 'secure' them from the vagaries of western policies. Some see it as the West wanting to destroy their sovereignty and/or territorial integrity. Others see it also as an attempt to neturalise India in its 'traditional sphere of influence'. To them, India is under trial and test – at times by both sides. India has to pass the/their test for them to repose full 'faith' in India.
To them, India as the 'net-provider' of security figures not in traditional terms, but in political and diplomatic terms. Nations like Sri Lanka and maybe Myanmar, too, for instance, would want India to leverage its political clout, economic might and diplomatic reach, to protect them the national, international – and at times notional — manifestations of what they perceive as a West-driven agenda.
Winning their politico-diplomatic wars in the international arena, for them, would be proof of India having the kind of 'soft-power' that is being talked about in the post-Cold War, post-reforms era. India's willingness to 'join' those wars will in turn be proof for them that India would 'leverage' its soft-power at the very least in their favour. India winning those wars for them would make India a dependable ally/leader in the region. But India will be called upon to prove itself in the case of each one of them separately, and at times in quick succession.
'R2P'
To them all, 'R2P', or the UN-sponsored 'Responsibility to Protect' has an additional, if not outrightly different connotation altogether. The UN 'R2P' of 2006 confers on the international community, the 'responsibility to protect' innocent people affected by their respective governments and the State structure. But some of India's neighbours – and at times, India included – would want India to 'protect' South Asian nations from what some, if not all of them consider as the selective application of international norms and regulations, to the detriment either of individual nations or individual leaderships in any or many of these nations.
In the context of the March 2005 US visa-denial to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at that time the Chief Minister of Gujarat State, the question would now arise: Who is bigger in the American eyes just now – India or PM Modi? Or, is it the western geo-strategic perceptions in which the US in particular wants 'middle powers' like India to take on their security concerns in the Indian Ocean in particular, and extending it however to the nations that dot the IOR.
Why no annual summits?
Nowhere else is the Indian dilemma in the South Asian context more pronounced than in the inability or unwillingness of successive Prime Ministers to undertake periodic bilateral visits to each and every nation in the immediate neighbourhood. In most cases, prime ministerial visits from India has often marked attendance at the bi-annual SAARC Summit. If the year, venue or both are changed, the gap gets widened.
Modi's successful recent visit was the first one by an Indian Prime Minister to Nepal in 17 long years. In the case of Sri Lanka, an Indian bialteral summit visit has not happened since Rajiv Gandhi went there in 1987 – or, 27 years ago. In the case of other South Asian/SAARC neighbours, there are no annual summits, as has become the case with far-away countries like the US, Russia, Japan and even adversarial non-South Asian neighbour in China.
India has suffered from an inevitable apprehension that the South Asian neighbours, smaller than India in every which way, were 'ganging up' against India – at times in the company or even possibly at the instance of the Pakistani adversary. If PM-elect Modi invited SAARC Heads of Government for his inauguration in May, it reflected a new-found Indian confidence in itself and the rest, entirely in the South Asian context, to begin with.
It is all about how India works on this equation to use – and be of use to – South Asia in geo-strategic and politico-economic terms, globally, in the years and decades to come. For reaching there, India has to be more demonstrative and even more consistent in its approach(es) to neighbours, or when approached by neighbours.
Conflicting domestic situations create adversaries against India in these nations. Whether it's the party or leader in power, or the political Opposition, "If India is not with us, it is against us." So when India works with the government of the day, as has been the norm mostly since Independence, the Opposition in the particular neighbour sees India in an adversarial role.
Given the dynamics of internal politics in these countries, they have to carry the burden of being adversarial to India even after coming to power. They are either apprehenisve about losing the carefully-cultivated 'anti-India constituency' nearer home and in the regional/global arena someone else, invariably either from within the party or the coalition of which it is a part. Bangladesh is a case in point, but possibly no neighbourhood nation is exempt.
At the same time, nations like the US and even China cannot be seen as 'ditching' Pakistan, for instance, if only to be seen exclusively in Indian company. Nor can Pakistan or China end up resolving bilateral problems with India, to the exclusion of the other. The 'border dispute' is a case in point, but there are other issues, too.
If smaller neighbours end up thinking that India was speaking up for someone else, and not for them – and not even for itself – they might choose to talk to that someone else themselves, or go to an alternative regional/global power-centre. It is already happening, or that has been the perception of the Indian strategic community. India, rather than being the 'net-provider' of regional security, could end up being the 'net loser' in geo-strategic and politico-diplomatic – and at times socio-economic terms.
Where does all this leave India with – and, in? Not only China – and the US — but also other 'friends of India' like Japan, EU nations and at times Australia are all over South Asia. India having customarily 'tired out' the US in the region against the latter's expectations of a quick-fix solution to problems that America had perceived in and for India, Washington is out here in the open, in India's 'traditional sphere of influence'.
India does not have much time left to set its priorities right, whatever they be. If nothing else, it cannot afford to 'tire out' its neighbours, who can then choose their own, individual course. They all have competition waiting at their door-steps to choose from or play against each other, or one another. After all, it is the first time that they are all looking at and up to India with new hope and expectations, after the 'Gujral Doctrine' had once failed them in the formative years of India's post-Cold War foreign and geo-strategic policy. India cannot fail itself again!
The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author.
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N Sathiya Moorthy
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