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"May his memory be eternal" is the traditional Byzantine prayer for the dead. It's the parallel to the Latin prayer, "Eternal rest, O Lord, grant unto him, and let perpetual light shine upon him." In these prayers for the dead we are really at the heart of life.
To never be forgotten, ever, is an astounding thing. It makes me want to become a man who remembers. We too can remember; and our memory too can in a sense give life to people.
Every Ash Wednesday, Christians are exhorted to remember something about ourselves: who we are, and where our life is tending. It is something to remember all year long. My remembering is something I can offer not only to myself, but to those around me. I can remember who they were and who, we pray, they are now.
It will take practice, self-discipline, and sacrifice. I will need to begin by setting aside things that hinder memory. I can learn to remember, just as I also want to be remembered.
John Cuddeback is professor of philosophy at Christendom College. He is the author of True Friendship: Where Virtue Becomes Happiness and has written for Nova et Vetera, The Thomist, and The Review of Metaphysics. He lives with his wife and six children on a farm where they raise heritage breed pigs. "I Want to Remember the Dead" is adapted from his website Bacon From Acorns.


Process excellence and performance turnaround can be regarded as synonyms.
Process Excellence is renowned for its ability to improve business processes and thus company results. Business Process Management (BPM) and Continuous Improvement methodologies, assists companies to increase their process capabilities and innovation success rates.
Process Excellence has entered the realm of business turnaround through it ability to facilitate the development of a clear path to success.
In essence turnaround is about creating a new vision, strategy and aligning the company's processes and resources to deliver on new objectives. Usually the focus with a turnaround is about productivity improvement, cost management, cash generation and facilitating growth.
With Process excellence and performance turnaround a typical first step is to identify and prioritize low hanging fruits for performance improvement , and align scares resources to execute these for speedy results.
Alongside an internal due diligence exercise - Voice of the Business (VOB), when looking at turning around a loss making company, the leadership should seek to understand what their customers' really wants - Voice of the Customer (VOC). We all know that the customer is king and that any successful business knows what its customers' current and future needs are.
Through Process excellence and performance turnaround, highly successful companies have aligned their processes and resources to create value that satisfies those customers needs appropriately. Appropriately meaning not over-doing things and so wasting money, but also never under-doing things which will result in loss market share.
Process excellence and performance turnaround guides the gathering and analysing of the VOC while measuring the company's internal process and its capability to deliver on what the customer wants.
This sets the foundation for a tactical plan that will drive the turnaround efforts.
Through a filtration mechanism, the VOC and associated opportunities, are prioritised.
Once the company's tactics are defined, objectives can be crystallised and several project ideas developed to bring about the desired performance turnaround. These ideas include processes, systems, resources, measures etc.
These ideas are entered into the filtration mechanism and prioritised against the company's key objectives.
Project ideas are typically catagorized into productivity improvement, growth & innovation, and cash generation, for example. Of course, these categories should suite the company and its strategic objectives.
Experienced Process Excellence personnel can assist the leadership team to bring about swift yet sustainable improvement while laying a platform for future growth through the innovation projects.
What makes process excellence so powerful in business turnaround situations is that it drives decisions based on reality. That is, taking what we have (resources) and deploying it to achieve results most efficiently through correctly prioritised interventions. Subjectivity is forgone leaving objectivity to decide the course of action.
Because of its focus on measures, progress can be monitored at various levels within an organization and quick interventions launched when processes, systems or resources stray from course.
Process Excellence not only facilitates improvement or innovation, its control mechanisms and governance system ensures continuous process excellence.
AchieveProcessExcellence.com offers Process excellence and performance turnaround solutions to move businesses into to a higher, more profitable gear.


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Insurers Refusing Bond for Patricks?
Highly placed sources has informed the Daily Observer that almost all of the insurance companies registered with the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) to do bail business are reportedly 'behind time,' or slow (not willing) to do business with the Patricks family, who is making frantic attempts to secure a US$15,000 bond for political activist Vandalark Patricks. The bond would temporarily release him from prison to await trial.
Facing sedition and criminal libel charges against President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Patricks will remain at the Monrovia Central Prison (MCP) until his lawyers can file a credible bond for him to appear in court, the Daily Observer was informed yesterday.
The US$15,000 bond was determined by Criminal Court 'A', where Patricks is expected to stand trial should his lawyers meet the legal requirements.
Up to press time last night, there was no news about the 'activist' being bailed out of jail.
Patricks was indicted immediately a day after he was investigated and charged by officers of the Liberia National Police (LNP) on multiple charges of "Sedition and Criminal Libel against the President."
Last Tuesday, February 23, police invited Patricks in connection to a statement he made on Sunday, February 21, insinuating that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf gave direct orders to shoot at the then Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) standard bearer, Winston Tubman, vice standard bearer, George Weah, and murdered innocent and defenseless citizens on November 7, 2011.
Patricks also said the government hired "assassins to murder the former Liberia Petroleum Refinery (LPRC) Managing Director, Harry A. Greaves Jr., and eliminate other political opponents to maintain state power."
In a statement, the LNP said, "Mr. Patricks was called in to assist security authorities establish facts surrounding his statements," which the police believe, "has the potential to undermine the peace of the state."
The LNP maintains that the statements made by Mr. Patricks are "grave and require the establishment of truthfulness for the common good of the Liberian society."
The LNP also notes that speech that incites violence and maliciously defames the government does not fall under the category of "protected free speech," and as such, emphasizes that "this action ought not to reflect on the enviable record of the government in protecting freedom of speech and the press."
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Dan Shorter, the Star Tribune's president of digital media, has jumped to a vice-president's job with the New York Times regional newspapers.
Still, the question is whether the Strib's new owners and soon-to-be-announced CEO will take this opportunity to pare their bureaucracy. According to bankruptcy filings, Shorter was paid $355,918 in his first year in Minneapolis. For the moment, Digital Executive Director Jason Erdahl heads up the shop, as he did on an interim basis when Shorter's predecessor Ken Riddick left.
Shorter's departure also ends — for the moment, anyway — a curious chapter in the Strib's history.
For a time, three of the paper's top executives maintained their primary residences elsewhere: Harte, in Austin, Texas; former Chief Financial Officer David Montgomery, in Duluth (where he's now that city's chief financial officer); and Shorter, in Florida, where his wife still lives and where he'll be stationed running online operations for 14 Times-owned papers in the South and California.
Hopefully, their successors will want to live here full-time — though given the uncertainty of the Strib's future ownership, you could understand if they rented.


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Watch Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review, Clearwater, FL – April 22, 1976 – 'Just Like A Woman,' 'Like A Rolling Stone' & More
July 9, 2014 audio, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan live, concert, Film, Music, streaming music, Video"The Times They Area A-Changing", April 22 1976, Biltmore hotel, Blowin' in the Wind, Bob Dylan, Clearwater, Diamonds and Rust, Florida, I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine, Isis, Joan Baez, Lay Lady Lay, Like A Rolling Stone, Roger McGuinn, Rolling Thunder Review, Starlight Ballroom, When I Paint My MasterpieceMichael Goldberg
These videos are from a rejected TV special that was shot at the Starlight Ballroom of the Biltmore hotel in Clearwater, Florida on April 22, 1976 during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review tour.
Here's nearly an hour of the Rolling Thunder Review:
And some individual songs:
Bob Dylan, "Lay Lady Lay":
Bob Dylan and Roger McGuinn, "Knocking On Heaven's Door":
Bob Dylan, "Just Like A Woman":
Bob Dylan, "Isis":
Bob Dylan, "Like A Rolling Stone":
Bob Dylan, "The Times They Are A-Changin'":
Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, "Blowin' In The Wind":
Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine":
Joan Baez, "Diamonds and Rust":
Bob Dylan and Bobby Neuwirth, "When I Paint My Masterpiece":
[In August of this year I'll be publishing my rock 'n' roll/ coming-of-age novel, "True Love Scars," which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.
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Bob Dylan's 'The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration' Expanded, Set for DVD, Blu-ray
January 21, 2014 audio, concert, Film, live, Music, news, Video30th Anniversay Concert Celebration, Blu-ray, Bob Dylan, Days of the Crazy-Wild, DVD, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Lou Reed, music, Neil Young, news, Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, videoMichael Goldberg
On October 16, 1992, an amazing group of artists came to Madison Square Garden to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of Bob Dylan's self-titled debut album.
From Bob Dylan's website:
The four hour show, performed for a sold-out audience of more than 18,000 fans and live-cast around the world, brought together an unprecedented roster of artists and icons including Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, Lou Reed, The Clancy Brothers, Richie Havens, Johnny Winter, Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Ron Wood, Chrissie Hynde, The O'Jays, Eddie Vedder, Sinéad O'Connor, Tracy Chapman, George Harrison (then making his first US concert appearance in 18 years) and more. Providing musical backing throughout the show was an ensemble dream team featuring three members of Booker T. & The M.G.'s, G.E. Smith on guitar with Jim Keltner and Anton Fig on drums.
There was a a CD and a VHS tape released in 1993, but now, on March 4, 2014, Columbia Records will release an expanded version of the album, as well as DVD and Blu-ray versions of the video.
Promotional video about the new release:
More from Dylan's website:
Struck from a new High Definition video master with remastered audio, The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration – Deluxe Edition makes this historic all-star musical event available for the first time on DVD and Blu-ray.
The 2DVD and Blu-ray versions of The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration – Deluxe Edition include 40 minutes of previously unreleased material including behind-the-scenes rehearsal footage, interviews and more.
The 2CD audio edition premieres two previously unreleased recordings from the concert's sound check: Sinéad O'Connor singing "I Believe In You" and Eric Clapton's interpretation of "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright."
The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration – Deluxe Edition includes new notes by pop music historian Bill Flanagan.
Here's Rolling Stone's story.
Check out some of the original version of the concert:
Bob Dylan – The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration – Deluxe Edition:
Like A Rolling Stone – John Mellencamp
Blowin' In The Wind – Stevie Wonder
Foot Of Pride – Lou Reed
Masters Of War – Eddie Vedder/Mike McCready
The Times They Are A-Changin' – Tracy Chapman
It Ain't Me Babe – June Carter Cash/Johnny Cash
What Was It You Wanted – Willie Nelson
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight – Kris Kristofferson
Highway 61 Revisited – Johnny Winter
Seven Days – Ron Wood
Just Like A Woman – Richie Havens
When The Ship Comes in – The Clancy Brothers and Robbie O'Connell with special guest Tommy Makem
War – Sinead O'Connor
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues – Neil Young
I Shall Be Released – Chrissie Hynde
Love Minus Zero, No Limit – Eric Clapton (Track Only Available on DVD/Blu-Ray Format)
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright – Eric Clapton
Emotionally Yours – The O'Jays
When I Paint My Masterpiece – The Band
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere – Mary Chapin Carpenter/Rosanne Cash/Shawn Colvin
Absolutely Sweet Marie – George Harrison
License To Kill – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Mr Tambourine Man – Roger McGuinn
It's Alright, Ma – Bob Dylan
My Back Pages – Bob Dylan/Roger McGuinn/Tom Petty/Neil Young/Eric Clapton/George Harrison
Knockin' On Heaven's Door – Everyone
Girl Of The North Country – Bob Dylan
DVD Bonus Tracks:
Leopard-Skin Pill-box Hat – John Mellencamp
Boots Of Spanish Leather – Nancy Griffith with Carolyn Hester
Gotta Serve Somebody – Booker T. & The M.G.'s
DVD Bonus Features:
Behind The Scenes (40 minutes of previously unreleased rehearsal footage, interviews and more)
CD Audio bonus tracks:
Sinéad O'Connor – I Believe In You (from sound check – previously unreleased)
Eric Clapton – Don't Think Twice, It's Alright (from sound check – previously unreleased)
Video: Bob Dylan & The Byrds Sing 'Mr. Tambourine Man'
January 10, 2014 audio, live, Music, news, streaming music, Video1964, 1990, Bob Dylan, David Crosby, Days of the Crazy-Wild, Los Angeles, Mr. Tambourine Man, music, Newport, news, Roger McGuinn, Roy Orbison, streaming music, The Byrds, tribute, videoMichael Goldberg
David Crosby (Left) and Dylan at the tribute concert.
A year after Roy Orbison died, in February 1990, an all-star tribute concert was held for him at the Universal Ampitheater in Los Angeles.
The Byrds reunited for the show and performed "Mr. Tambourine Man" with Bob Dylan.
It's interesting to watch the interaction between Dylan and Roger McGuinn, who pushes Dylan to sing lead, finally joining him at the microphone to get him to sing more.
"Mr. Tambourine Man," live at Newport, 1964):


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Covid Vaccines in Phase III, New Risk Calculators, and More Coronavirus News
More vaccines enter Phase III trials, researchers continue to learn about the long-term impacts of Covid-19, and risk calculation becomes increasingly difficult as the country reopens. Here's your week in coronavirus news:
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The race for a vaccine continues at warp speed
When it comes to vaccine development, there are two big issues on the table, according to WIRED's Adam Rogers. First you need to develop a safe vaccine that works. Then "you need a communications strategy that explains exactly what the drug does and how it does it" so that people trust the vaccine enough to go get it.
This week, there was plenty of hopeful news related to the first issue. New research found that a century-old tuberculosis shot could help protect against Covid-19, though more research is underway and won't be completed until early 2021. Meanwhile, two more vaccines, from Novovax and Johnson & Johnson, entered Phase III trials. Unlike its competitors, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine doesn't need to be frozen and requires only one dose, giving it a leg up. In all likelihood, there will eventually be several viable vaccines, all of which will be necessary to make sure everyone is protected worldwide. Though, as Roxanne Khamsi notes, the fact that most vaccines are being developed in wealthy countries means they might not work as well for people from poorer nations.
Once Americans have a vaccine, how will the public know it's safe? The question is on everyone's mind. A new survey from the Pew Research Center found that just 51 percent of US adults say they would get a Covid-19 vaccine if it were available today, compared to 72 percent in May. Earlier this week, a group of Black physicians as well as New York governor Andrew Cuomo said they intend to independently vet the vaccines that earn government approval. In an attempt to restore public trust, the FDA announced a plan to issue stricter guidelines for vaccine authorization earlier this week, which will effectively eliminate the possibility of a vaccine before November 3. President Trump chalked the move up to politics.
Researchers are learning more about the long-term impact of Covid-19
As the pandemic progresses, researchers continue to better understand the mysterious consequences of Covid-19. Reddit threads, Facebook pages, and other online support groups have proliferated as a resource both for people recovering from the disease and the scientists trying to figure it out. Without the ability to open labs and collect data in person, even the most common symptoms have proven difficult to fully understand. For example, we still know very little about Covid-induced anosmia. Researchers have sent out surveys and created diagnostic tools to help patients track smell loss, but there's a lot that will be difficult to study until people can get in a room together.
On the other hand, all the humans being on lockdown has allowed ecologists to gain unprecedented access to other species. A new study reports that male white-crowned sparrows in the San Francisco Bay Area changed their tune in April and May. Previously, the birds sacrificed song quality for volume, yelling to be heard in a noisy world. But once it quieted down, they switched to a softer, higher-quality call.
New tools aim to help you calculate risk as cases rise and the country reopens
This week, the death toll in the US surpassed 200,000 as weekly new cases rose for the second week in a row. Still, the country's nonlinear path toward reopening continues. In the absence of reliable guidelines, we've all had to figure out how to calculate coronavirus risk for ourselves every time we step outside. Vox's Ezra Klein recently described the equation as follows: "The danger of an act = (the transmission risk of the activity) x (the local prevalence of Covid-19) / (by your area's ability to control a new outbreak)."
Two tech tools aim to make this equation a little clearer. On Wednesday, Google Maps unveiled a Covid-19 overlay, which uses data from Johns Hopkins, The New York Times, and Wikipedia to show the weekly average of confirmed cases in an area, as well as information about whether local cases are trending up or down. Meanwhile, Instagram's cofounders developed a site called rt.live that tracks the velocity of Covid-19's spread at the state level. "If cases are increasing in California, does that mean that things are worse or better, or is it just that we're testing more? We take all of those things together and synthesize or summarize what's actually happening right now," one of them told WIRED's Steven Levy. So far, more than 1 million people have accessed the site, including some officials, who are using it to plan their states' reopenings.
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What's the latest cutting-edge development in machine intelligence? That would be Curly, a robot who just beat two Korean national teams in the fine-tuned sport of curling.
What exactly is QAnon, where did it come from, and how should we be talking about it now that it's here? It bears some resemblance to Pokémon Go, WIRED's Virginia Heffernan writes, except that "QAnon became a holy war, while PoGo remained a game, requiring a willing suspension of disbelief." As both a conspiracy theory and an alternate-reality game, QAnon encourages crowdsourcing and making connections between seemingly unconnected events in a way that epitomizes internet culture. Once a person is drawn in, algorithmically-generated recommendations on platforms like YouTube and TikTok can identify and reinforce the patterns of potential believers with uncanny accuracy. Examining these algorithms is essential to understanding how QAnon grew to what it is today.
If you're running a remote classroom of any kind this fall, you'll know that fostering community through a screen is hard. Setting the mood, assigning group work, and shaking things up are all good places to start.
How will Covid-19 collide with flu and cold season?
As more people start getting common colds and the seasonal flu, whose symptoms can resemble those of Covid-19, testing labs will likely be further strained. Hospitals, too, are preparing for the possibility that coronavirus and influenza will be taking up the same ER space and ventilator beds. And no one knows how these other viruses will interact with coronavirus. All this to say: Stay vigilant, and please get a flu shot.
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Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk 2010 Summer Season Launch Party
As ACE NorCal's Chief Correspondent on everything about the new Haunted Castle at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Nicholas Laschkewitsch was invited to represent ACE at the park's VIP 2010 Summer Season Launch Party. The special event was to include sneak preview rides on the new Haunted Castle attraction. Here is Nicholas' report:
Nicholas at the Boardwalk
I was recently was invited to go to a 2010 VIP Launch Party at the Boardwalk on May 27th. I did not know much about what was going to happen at the event. It ended up being a real blast! According to the agenda I was emailed, there was going to be live entertainment, free lunch (and dessert!), an announcement about the summer events on the beach, and a preview of the NEW Haunted Castle dark ride. All of this happened, except for the preview of the Haunted Castle.
However, there were a few other things to do there that weren't announced on the agenda. In the Boardwalk's Ballroom they had tons of Haunted Castle concept art on display from the new ride -– it was really cool. Some of the pieces were from over two years ago and it turned out that there were at least three different designs that they were considering. They also had a large projector screen set up with the time lapse videos of the construction of the Haunted Castle playing.
After my father and I checked out the awesome concept art, we grabbed something to eat. The food was very delicious. The entertainment that they had was some live Hawaiian music along with Brazilian dancers who came out later during our meal. Kris Reyes, director of community relations for the Santa Cruz Seaside Company, came up to the stage to talk about the upcoming "Bands on the Beach" and about Circo Brazil, a Brazilian circus coming to the beach. We found out later that the Brazilian dancers we had seen earlier were from that show. He then announced that the Haunted Castle ride would NOT be opening that day. I already knew that this was going to be closed. As consolation, they gave everyone free mini-golf and laser tag tickets along with free all-day ride wristbands! Thanks, SCBB! Kris Reyes then said, "Welcome to our 103rd season. Enjoy your lunch!" and we were let free to roam around the Boardwalk. I also checked out the Haunted Castle that day and it was looking fabulous.
I would like to thank Brigid Fuller, Kris Reyes, Ted Whiting, and all of the staff at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and Santa Cruz Seaside Company for making this VIP event so unique and fun. Thanks! And congrats on your 103rd season. How about another 100!
— Nicholas Laschkewitsch
— photos: Brian and Nicholas Laschkewitsch


Pop Music Institute in Dubai is providing instrument courses along with vocals for all ages. We are now conducting Yamaha Guitar classes and Yamaha Piano classes in Dubai for every player and style of music. Yamaha Music Classes are packed with incredible voice features, styles and specifications to help you create, organize, perform and record music in any genre.We are featuring various instrument courses like piano, keyboard, drums, wind instruments, saxophone, etc. Make learning music easy with the only Yamaha Music School in Dubai with wide and versatile range of sounds and functioning.
Vocal Music can make a remarkable difference in the development of a child's social, cognitive, communicative and comprehensive skills. It helps them to discover and develop innate talent. The Popmusic has introduced various courses for different age groups including Vocal Classes in Dubai. The courses are simple and easy for the children to understand better. Enjoy this great opportunity to bond your child with the power of music.
You won't realize your full potential deprived of the first 2 supporters, because they pave the means to express emotion. In order that your vocal is "conceivable", that we feel you, in that you are "convincing" and also it will deliver the song on a bright platter. How do you judge your vocal potential? Even also are you embracing it? Are you close enough? Far? Did you even comprehend you had one?
Last but absolutely not least, don't forget to connect the crowd. It can be as undemanding as starting a conversation with peeps owd in the audience. Even more, you can find a different way to include them in the act. A piece of vocal music grabs the attention of heart of each and everyone around you with the magic of emotions, its flow as well as spirit inside it. Experience the Vocal Music Dubai with the message of sharing your spirit towards others with your lovely voice and your power of music.


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Ground Breaking Day in the Park East
December 6, 2013 by Wangard
Friday was truly a groundbreaking day, as Avenir, the first mixed-use residential development to be built within the footprint of the former Park East Freeway, officially began construction. The first phase of the project is a $20.7 million, 104-unit mixed-use building that will have 7,000 square-feet of first floor retail. According to the BizTimes, a Jimmy John's sub shop and a Great Clips salon have leased a total of 2,500 square-feet within the building. The apartments are planned to open in September 2014. Mayor Tom Barrett spoke of the Millennials finding Milwaukee a good place to live, work, and play and the Avenir helping make that possible. And perhaps he was paying his respects to the soon-to-be-defunct A.V. Club Milwaukee by running through a Make it Now," to Movoto Blog's, "The 10 Most Exciting Cities in America." The significance and complexity of the project was seen in the turnout. Milwaukee County was represented by County Executive Chris Abele, Economic Development Director Teig Whaley-Smith, and Sups. Steve Taylor and Michel Mayo, Sr. The City had a large turnout: Besides Barrett, that included Ald. Nik Kovac, Public Relations Officer Jeff Fleming, Dave Misky from the Redevelopment Authority and four members of the Department of City Development — Commissioner Rocky Marcoux, Greg Patin, Dan Casanova, and Vanessa Koster. Even the State of Wisconsin was represented by Kathryn Berger of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. Read the full article at UrbanMilwaukee.com »


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Asantehene commissions hostel at KNUST.
by admin	,	April 12, 2012
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene has commissioned the first phase of a GHC 3 million hostel which was financed through the contributions of the Students Representive Council (SRC) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).
The 700- bed facility is expected to help solve the accommodation problems facing students at the university.
The project which has been named after Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, started in 1999 and is the brain-child of the then Vice-Chancellor, Prof. J.S.K Ayim and the then president of the SRC, Mr. Andy Osei-Okrah with support from the architect/consultant, Mr. Ben Odame and the president of Friends of Rivers and Water Bodies, an NGO, Nana Dwomoh Sarpong.
Students were levied, while other contributions came from some individuals and organisations to finance the project.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu who is the Chancellor of KNUST expressed worry over the way occultism practice is creeping into students' life at campuses of the university in Kumasi.
"I'm aware of what is going on here" he said and consequently challenged the university authorities to devise strategies to fight the canker.
The Asantehene advised the students of the university to avoid acts that could ruin their future and rather concentrate on their studies to enable them to become useful citizens in future.
He told them again that they should do away with unnecessary politicking on campus, while emphasising the accommodation challenges facing the university, in spite of the efforts by the government, the university management and other organisations to address them.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu gave an assurance that efforts would be made to minimize the situation.
He commended all persons who played various roles in the completion of the first phase of the project.
Responding to Asantehene's concerns, Prof. W. O. Ellis, Vice- Chancellor of KNUST said his administration would not spare any student who fell foul of universitys' rules and regulations.
"If you have to be sacked or rusticated for any offence, it will be carried out without hesitation", he warned.
The Vice – Chancellor noted that with the current student population of 32,198 and staff strength of 3,000, facilities on campus were over stretched.
Prof. Ellis said the successful story of the project was a testimony to the inherent benefits of teamwork and on that score he congratulated the initiators of the project and every individual and group that played a role in its completion.
Later Otumfuo Osei Tutu spent over two hours to inspect a number of projects under construction on campus.
The project included conference rooms, extension works at the university hospital, Lecture Halls and offices of a five story, School of Engineering and Business School Lecture theatre.
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Many of us know the anecdote of the composer with the rebellious son who could always annoy his father by playing an incomplete scale on the piano. No matter what occupied the composer at the time, he would go to the piano and complete the scale himself.
True or not, the story testifies to our need for completeness. Reading Charles Hill's Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order made me think of this story, but with a slight twist. I imagine Hill at the piano playing a complete scale, but with the last note much quieter than the others. It's there, but so faint that one would feel bound to go the piano and play the final note at its proper volume. Meaning and wholeness requires balance, symmetry, and perhaps also, a strong finish.
I put a proposition to you all: we have entered a time of total change in human consciousness of how people look at the world. Reading books requires you to form concepts, to train your mind to relationships. You have to come to grips with who you are. A leader needs these qualities. But now we learn from fragments of facts. A book is a large intellectual construction; you can't hold it all in your mind all at once. You have to struggle mentally to internalize it. Now there is no need to internalize because each fact can be called up instantly on the computer. There is no context, no motive. Information is not knowledge. People are not readers, but researchers, they float on the surface. Churchill understood context. It disaggregates everything. All this makes strategic thinking about the world nearly impossible to achieve.
Hill impressed me with the idea behind his book, and he displays a wide knowledge of western civilization's literary heritage. Many times I marked pages where I gained fresh insight and had my perspective challenged, but in the end the book left me frustrated at the missed opportunities Hill leaves on the table. He conveys the message that great literature helps us understand the world and ourselves, but this note strikes me as far too wimpy and obvious given what the book could have achieved.
As Kissinger mentioned, statesmen should prioritize context. Hill does a good job with this in his section on ancient literature. He weaves in Aristotle's assertion that the family gives the state its foundation, and then looks at the Illiad and the Odyssey, which have marriages at their center. He fans out to Aeschylus, whose Oresteia trilogy has the breakdown of family bonds nearly destroy the state. He traces this up through De Tocqueville, who saw family, and especially women and mothers, as bulwarks of the familial stability needed for any state. But democracies in particular need family stability due to their decisive emphasis on individual rights.
Hill makes the importance of context brilliantly in his section on Walt Whitman. If we know the opening lines of the The Illiad and The Aeneid Whitman's, "I sing the song of myself," suddenly strikes one like a thunderclap. We see that Whitman means to destroy, or perhaps remake, the whole concept of epic literature. His exaltation of the "eternal now" of the individual has an enormous impact on how Americans think of themselves. You, the I, are now the epic, which brings us right up to social media today. But again, to what end? Hill hints at the potentially destructive impact of Whitman's attempts to make the past obsolete, but never draws out the consequences for American diplomacy. Many Europeans argue, for example, that Americans act rashly without proper understanding of context and history, but Hill never addresses this. But now not just Americans, but much of the western world appears ready to formally and radically redefine the concept of marriage and family. What will this mean for our diplomacy as a nation, especially in sensitive areas of the globe that reject this redefinition as blasphemy? Hill compares the hopeful message of the Oresteia with American Eugene O'Neil's recapitulation of the same themes in Mourning Becomes Electra. O'Neill rejects Aeschylus' hopeful conclusion. Why, and to what end? Again, Hill offers us nothing.
For someone so adept at drawing conclusions based on texts, and for someone so experienced in putting forth ideas and proposals, I cannot believe he lacks the ability to make grand strategic pronouncements. But Hill plays it very close to the vest and misses a great opportunity to share whatever wisdom he has. His great specific insights never come full circle.
Similarly, Hill frustrated me by never questioning the logic of the state itself. He has high praise for the Peace of Westphalia, which in his view ended the cycle of violence from religion and clan and created the state. This parallels what happened in the Oresteia and the symmetry appeals to Hill and to myself. But has the state in fact limited violence? Maybe it has, but it should not be assumed. What problems come with the creation of states? Aeschylus assumes the good of the state as almost a given, but that's understandable given his medium. Aeschylus also lived in one of the great golden ages of civilization, and the state no doubt shone brightly in its virtues in his lifetime. Hill has no such restrictions of medium, and has the benefit of the hindsight of history. He should have done more.
Hill tantalizes in doses. The individual notes he strikes promise much. But he fails to deliver on the promise of his title.
Every so often I enjoy switching gears with my reading, and I found my reading of Leonard Mlodinow's Feynman's Rainbow quite pleasant. I got introduced to a few scientific ideas, and some interesting insights into the brilliance and insecurities of the top physicist's in the world.
The Babylonians made western civilization's first great strides in understanding numbers and equations, and in geometry. Yet it was the later Greeks–in particular Thales, Pythagoras, and Euclid–whom we credit inventing mathematics. This is because Babylonians cared only whether or not a method of calculation worked–that is, adequately described a real physical phenomena–and not whether or not it was exact, or fit into any logical system. . . . To put it simply, the Babylonians focused on the phenomena, the Greeks on the underlying order.
Both approaches can be powerful. ["Greek"] physicists are guided by the mathematical beauty of their theories, and it has led to many beautiful applications of mathematics. The Babylonian approach lends itself to a certain freedom of imagination, and allows you to follow your "gut feeling" about nature, without worrying about rigor and justification. In fact, physicists employing this kind of thinking sometimes violate the formal rules of math, or make up a strange new (and unproven) math of their own based on their understanding of experimental data.
In the book, Feynmann occupies our attention and captivates it. Gell-Mann's extraordinary demand for rigor makes him a bit socially awkward, among other things (today would we consider him autistic?). But which is the right approach? I can't say much about either approach in science, but historians come in Babylonians and Greek forms as well. Herodotus, the "Father of History" was "Greek," but subtley so. Thucydides would have been "Greek." Other "Greeks" might include Polybius, St. Augustine, Gibbon, H.G. Wells, Spengler, and Toynbee. But most modern historians react strongly against the "Greeks." I strongly dislike some of the "Greeks" I mentioned (Gibbon for one) and love others. Where to take a stand?
Well, the issue needs settled, and I thought I would write a Socratic dialogue to hash it out, with apologies to Plato.
Babylonian (B): Before we discuss historical knowledge, I suggest that first we discuss the foundation of all knowledge, the knowledge of God.
Greek (G): Agreed! An order of operations! How very Greek of you to suggest it.
B: I concede the point, but we're just getting started. You haven't won yet. I argue that God cannot be systematized, and so knowledge of God will also lack a system.
G: Yes, God cannot be "put in a box," as you say. I agree that God is beyond a system. He is of course, Personal (and Beyond Personality), and so an approach to God that attempts to dissect via a formula will fail.
B: Well if knowledge of the Highest is attained without a system, it follows that knowledge of lesser things, i.e. mankind itself, should also avoid systems. So "systematic" historians like Toynbee err in their approach. Ha!
G: Another great example of Greek logic! I'll have you yet. You would agree, I'm sure that reason has its place in life?
G: No doubt you would also say that knowing God means going beyond our reason.
B: I couldn't have put it better myself. Now you've conceded the victory to me!
G: Not yet . . . Knowledge of God is beyond our reason but is not against our reason. In the same way, God stands above our finite human capacity to fully know everything, but we do know some things.
B: Yes – we know some things. But we have only a few pieces of the puzzle. We're not God, you know, and so can't create the rest of the puzzle out of nothing.
G: Yes, but we're not making it out of nothing. God has given us some things for us to know, and more than "some things." He has given us knowledge of Himself! And He calls us to make sense of what we know.
B: Agreed, but He calls us first to humility. Let us not overreach, let us appreciate the mystery.
G: Let us also not be lazy. How can we make sense of what we know if we don't give it some kind of order in our minds. You would have it so we know nothing besides isolated facts. And if all we know is isolated facts, then we really know nothing, for nothing can be known without context. But always in Scripture the authors draw conclusions based on what they know. One thing leads to another.
B: And what are these conclusions? Are they a system? You said that "we give it some kind of order." Just because "we" give it order doesn't make it true.
G: Ok, Mr. Babylonian, what can we know, then? Out with it!
B: God reveals enough for us not to fall afoul — we have markers and signposts. We can know that we are in the right ocean. But we do not have enough eternal perspective to make systems of the signposts. We can't know where we are in the vast ocean.
G: But God's commands surely make sense! Do not murder, for example. And Jesus "spoke plainly." I once had a professor say that, "Scripture is shallow enough so a baby can wade and deep enough so an elephant to swim." I grant you the elephant, but you throw the baby out. You think, Babylonian, that you're all open and mystical for your approach. But actually, you're more closed than I. I love the part in Chesterton's Orthodoxy (which you know so well), where he describes how fences give us more, not less freedom.
B: Do you suppose there will be such fences in Heaven? They are temporary expedients for finite creatures. The key word there is expedients. They are temporary, not eternal, and thus, not rooted in Truth.
G: You see again that you cannot avoid an order of thinking. You will admit defeat soon, I hope. But if you wish to talk of finite creatures, let us do so, for History is primarily a study of mankind and only indirectly a study of God.
B: Yes, for it here that you will meet your match.
G: Oh? Let us leave aside to what extent God can be known for the moment. But you and I are both men. And we know each other. Finite man can know something about himself, surely?
B: Oh yes, he can know something. He can know enough to know He is a mystery. All this modern talk of "looking within yourself" has given us not just terrible Disney movies, but also a terribly confused generation of people.
G: Don't you try and link me to those wretched movies! But yes, man too is a mystery. But imagine a man driving down the road. He reaches a fork and can turn right or left. He can know why he turns one way or the other, and he can communicate that to us.
B: No — not even he would know all the reasons for his choice. He might delude himself into thinking one thing and it's really another. And if he can't really be sure, what can he tell us? If he can't tell us, how can we know?
G: You confuse the issue again. In a purely individual and isolated case you may be right. But the "Greek" historian never deals with such isolated moments in time in a vacuum. He has a whole field of action at His disposal. Like in physics, each atom has lots of empty space and unpredictability, but if you put a bunch of them together, you can build bridges. Because you can build bridges doesn't mean you know everything about matter, but you enough to consistently build bridges. So too with people. Yes, mystery exists in humanity. But we know something of what it means to be made in His image. We know something of what it means to sin and fall short of the glory of God. We can observe thousands of years of human activity and see that we tend to act in certain ways in certain times.
B: Yes, but you, "Mr. Look at me I'm so Open to Everything," are closing God out of the picture. Supposing God steps in to change something? That alters your equation. And God may intervene and we would not know if He did or not. So how can we really predict? How can we create any system at all with an actual "God in the machine?" What we can do is stand back and admire the mystery.
G: Well how does God work then? His intervention does not make men non-men. God is always there — "in Him we live and move and have our being." But He does not take one thing and make it another. So we are still studying "mankind," in every case, when looking at History. Look at Pharaoh. Yes, God hardened his heart, but He did not fundamentally alter Pharaoh's character.
B: "He does not take one thing and make it another?" How about changing water into wine? How about making a dead man come alive again?
G: Well, water is a vital part of wine. And in raising Lazarus, he raised Lazarus, not some new and different man. The Church rejected gospels where Jesus' miracles seemed random or non-sensical. God gave us brains to use them. If He directly intervenes He will do so to enhance our understanding, not confuse it. This is why we need "Greek" historians.
B: But Greek historians are always wrong at least in part. Toynbee's last volume of A Study of History retracted and corrected parts of his earlier work. You can say, "No one is perfect," but that's the point. No system works perfectly because no man works perfectly. If we know it contains errors, what value can it have as a system?
G: Toynbee showed the very humility you seek in his retractions. But I won't argue for any particular system. Instead I'll claim victory on your own turf by looking at any individual man. In truth, we all practice a form of "Greek" history all the time in our daily lives. We interpret and synthesize from our experience. We must, for we cannot view life as random and seemingly meaningless. Without this continual synthesis, no one would gain any wisdom. And you must concede God calls us to gain wisdom?
B: But wisdom is not a system.
G: Agreed, but . . . it is a form of synthesized and applied general knowledge, and that, my friend, clinches it.
B: And so this means that I've lost?
G: Yes, but you lost right away, as I told you, when you rightly imposed an order of how to think about the question.
G: Victory! I am so smart!
What about Babylonian and Greek science? Shall we debate that?
No. I would look even more silly than usual.
But if I wrote it I would give the victory to the Babylonian, or at least for the moment. Do we even know what matter is? Are we even sure that matter, if we define matter as an irreducibly small and purely physical entity, even exists? Here the Christian may have more caution in imposing a system, at least for now when our knowledge remains quite incomplete about the most basic things. Perhaps I should slightly temper my affection for the "Greek" historian. But in the end, I will side with Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius, St. Augustine, and the like even if it means inviting Gibbon to the party.
In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner changed our study of American history with a speech to the American Historical Association entitled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." His talk helped propel him to national prominence. But naturally all that attention also made him a target for criticism. In his speech Jackson proposed that the concept and reality of the frontier had done more than anything else to shape American history and American consciousness. As the frontier disappeared in the late 19th century, he argued we might expect to see a new phase in our national development.
Jackson begins his speech by defining the frontier as the boundary between "savagery and civilization," and states that the American frontier differentiates itself from other places by lying at "the hither edge of free land." In the days of earliest settlement in the 17th century, the east coast formed the frontier of Europe. Then, as our national identity took shape, areas in the west became our own frontier.
While initially the French rather than the English engaged in the most direct trading with Indians, Turner argues that the trading trails themselves inevitably drew English colonial civilization westward. Trails to sources of salt (used as a preservative) then assumed vital importance, leading to a still more inexorable march of civilization.
The Old Dominion has long been celebrated for producing great orators; the ablest metaphysicians in policy; men that can split hairs in all abstruse questions of political economy. But at home, when they return from Congress, they have negroes to fan them to sleep. But . . . a western Virginia statesman, though far inferior in logic and metaphysics and rhetoric to the old Virginia statesmen, has this advantage, that when he returns home he takes off his coat and takes hold of the plow. This gives him bone and muscle, sir, and preserves his republican principles uncontaminated.
This may give us a clue as to why we never had any success regulating frontier expansion. We attached the frontier so strongly to our national identity that to go without a frontier meant repudiating ourselves. Or perhaps, as Turner suggests, the frontier functioned as a "safety valve" for the landless, the immigrant, the economically distressed. Without this, democracy might tend towards eating itself from within. In the absence of an external threat or safety valve, Turner surmised that democracy might turn into a mere vehicle for discontent. The self-reliant virtues that made us great would weaken us when we turned inward.
Nicias must not divert you from your purpose by preaching indolence, and by trying to set the young against the old; . . . The state, if at rest, like everything else will wear herself out by internal friction. Every pursuit which requires skill will tend to decay, whereas by conflict the city will always be gaining fresh experience and learning to defend herself, not in theory, but in practice. My opinion in short is, that a state used to activity will quickly be ruined by the change to inaction; and that they of all men enjoy the greatest security who are truest to themselves and their institutions even when they are not the best.
There exists however, the opposite theory. Some argue that the rapid expansion of republics, and not their "rest," that leads to a "time of troubles." In the example above, for example, the Athenians did not rest, did attack Sicily, and this led to catastrophic disaster. Or we might bypass the question somewhat and declare that the problems experienced by Rome and Athens are human problems and not particular to democracies.
In any case, this question needs further thought.
The introduction to the essay explained Turner's influence, and also his critics. I have no problem with such a bold idea as Turner's drawing criticism. This is the purpose of bold ideas — to inspire conversation. What I have a problem with is the nature of some of the apparent objections. Some complain that Turner should have devoted more study to the period after the closing of the frontier. But this seems silly. He studied one particular period, and not another. Not studying the time after the closing of the frontier doesn't mean his ideas are false.
I can't stand these kinds of objections.
Turner only claimed that the frontier explained the heart, not the whole body. To say, "You never mentioned southern agrarians" is entirely without meaning, unless one means to say that Southern agrarians form the key to understanding America. Otherwise all you're doing is whining that someone didn't say something about your own pet field of study. It's not an argument.
We should do better than this.
I also mistrust the argument that no "heart" of American history can be found at all. In this vein, Turner's thesis is false by definition, and again, not proved wrong via an argument. This declaration sounds like a rejection of History itself. Such people may be old and grumpy long before their time, or perhaps they resent the mere effort of trying in the first place. For if those that try to find meaning happen to do so, others who reject it might feel threatened. Such people would appreciate Homer Simpson's advice . . .
I think any biographer of Pascal has a difficult task. Brilliant, ill, and aristocratic, Pascal lived much of his life up in his head. The Abbe Jean Steinmann does a passable job with his life, though I found myself bored at times and skipped or glazed over portions of his work.
I do give Steinmann credit, however, for bringing out some of the remarkable aspects of Pascal's mind. The 17th century witnessed an intellectual explosion that has no equal afterwards. A list of intellectuals from that time still should dizzy us — Newton, Descartes, Hume, Hobbes, Galileo, Leeuwenhoek, Boyle — the list could go on and on. We talk flippantly about the "pace of innovation" today and yet surely we can't begin to hold a candle to that era. While I have no familiarity with most of the names on the list of 17th century notables, Pascal stands out to me as the most passionately Christian of the lot, and he was no slouch with math either. He invented the calculator and gets credit for advances in projective geometry and probability theory.
Having not read it all, the book gets no full review, but it did inspire a few thoughts. . .
Euclid had a profound impact on Pascal's early life. One might almost say Euclid "inspired" him. Euclid got Pascal to see the world and use his mind in wholly new ways. I know that Abraham Lincoln also had a similar experience with Euclid. When we consider that every major intellect probably from the Renaissance onwards cut his (or her) teeth on Euclid, we might surmise that perhaps only Plato and Aristotle have had more influence from the ancient world.
Over the last few years I have often heard comments like, "We should learn to read the Bible as literature," or "We must learn to see the poetry in theology." I concur with both sentiments and applaud the drift away from viewing Scripture as a list of isolated proof texts. But I never hear how math or science should impact our theological thinking. Some use science to "prove" aspects of the Bible, but I have yet to hear someone show how thinking "mathematically" can help you think theologically.
This is unfortunate, and perpetuates misperceptions about math and science. If God invented both literary and scientific minds surely both lead to him, not just in the details, but in the "big picture" as well.
Enter Pascal, whose wonderful imagination (good for lots of things besides literature) led him to make theological conclusions based on his genius for math and science. Pascal argued for the idea of vacuums, against much of the establishment of his day. But he took the issue further, arguing for the infinite divisibility of matter, which then became a springboard for the proper place of reason in faith. We see him use math in other ways, such as the "spiritual perfection" of numbers showing the fallenness of the world. For Pascal some things are simply just self-evident and beyond reason, but his "math sense" led him to these ideas.
Whatever we think of some of Pascal's conclusions, if we taught math as Pascal learned it, I think we would see math and science rejuvenated, and our theology enriched.
Pascal's illness meant that he lived only a few short years after starting to take his faith seriously. We need not call it a "conversion experience," but clearly Pascal had some kind of experience in the last few years of his life that intensified his faith and changed his life. Some see Pascal rejecting reason, math, etc. in his latter years. I wouldn't go that far — I would say that Pascal may have been going through a recalibration period that tragically got cut short by his death.
I wrote elsewhere about the concept of dominion and I will try not to repeat myself too much. The Pensees have brilliant insights, but they lack a fullness that you see in more mature Christian thinkers (granted, of course, that it was very much an unfinished work). Pascal's brain (and his heart) burned at fever pitch. I don't blame Pascal for this. Had he lived longer I'm sure he would have written something monumental and deep. As it is, of course, the Pensees are a classic, but Pascal did not have enough distance from math and reason to welcome it back fully into his thought, this time in the proper place. For example, he wrote that, "Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it." Surely this is too harsh. Those who want to talk about their discoveries might do so mainly with the intent of enjoying them further, for enjoyment increases when we share it. Pascal seems a bit too jaded, a bit too sure of himself as a "new convert," and this portrait of him shows that he may not have been at home with himself either.
But all in all Pascal's life should strongly encourage the right brained that yes, they can do more than defend Creation by design. Their mathematical insights can give rise to profound truths about the world.
*Alas, Steinmann fails to mention how Pascal did this, just that it happened. Maybe he expects us to figure it out on our own, like Pascal.
^ Some great quotes from Pascal . . .
When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.
Jesus is a God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.


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using ::testing::_;
using ::testing::Expectation;

namespace mozc {
namespace renderer {
namespace gtk {

TEST(DrawToolTest, SaveTest) {
  DrawTool draw_tool;
  CairoWrapperMock *mock = new CairoWrapperMock();
  draw_tool.Reset(mock);

  EXPECT_CALL(*mock, Save());
  draw_tool.Save();
}

TEST(DrawToolTest, RestoreTest) {
  DrawTool draw_tool;
  CairoWrapperMock *mock = new CairoWrapperMock();
  draw_tool.Reset(mock);

  EXPECT_CALL(*mock, Restore());
  draw_tool.Restore();
}

TEST(DrawToolTest, FillRectTest) {
  DrawTool draw_tool;
  CairoWrapperMock *mock = new CairoWrapperMock();
  draw_tool.Reset(mock);

  const RGBA color = {0x10, 0x20, 0x30, 0x40};
  const Rect rect(10, 20, 30, 40);

  Expectation set_source_rgba_expectation = EXPECT_CALL(*mock, SetSourceRGBA(
      color.red/255.0, color.green/255.0,
      color.blue/255.0, color.alpha/255.0));
  Expectation rectangle_expectation
      = EXPECT_CALL(*mock, Rectangle(rect.origin.x, rect.origin.y,
                                     rect.size.width, rect.size.height));
  EXPECT_CALL(*mock, Fill())
      .After(rectangle_expectation)
      .After(set_source_rgba_expectation);

  draw_tool.FillRect(rect, color);
}

TEST(DrawToolTest, FrameRectTest) {
  DrawTool draw_tool;
  CairoWrapperMock *mock = new CairoWrapperMock();
  draw_tool.Reset(mock);

  const RGBA color = {0x10, 0x20, 0x30, 0x40};
  const Rect rect(10, 20, 30, 40);
  const uint32 line_width = 3;

  Expectation set_source_rgba_expectation = EXPECT_CALL(*mock, SetSourceRGBA(
      color.red/255.0, color.green/255.0,
      color.blue/255.0, color.alpha/255.0));
  Expectation set_line_width_expectation = EXPECT_CALL(
      *mock, SetLineWidth(static_cast<double>(line_width)));
  Expectation rectangle_expectation
      = EXPECT_CALL(*mock, Rectangle(rect.origin.x, rect.origin.y,
                                     rect.size.width, rect.size.height));
  EXPECT_CALL(*mock, Stroke())
      .After(rectangle_expectation)
      .After(set_line_width_expectation)
      .After(set_source_rgba_expectation);

  draw_tool.FrameRect(rect, color, line_width);
}

TEST(DrawToolTest, DrawLineTest) {
  DrawTool draw_tool;
  CairoWrapperMock *mock = new CairoWrapperMock();
  draw_tool.Reset(mock);

  const RGBA color = {0x10, 0x20, 0x30, 0x40};
  const uint32 line_width = 3;
  const Point from(10, 20);
  const Point to(15, 25);

  Expectation set_source_rgba_expectation = EXPECT_CALL(*mock, SetSourceRGBA(
      color.red/255.0, color.green/255.0,
      color.blue/255.0, color.alpha/255.0));
  Expectation set_line_width_expectation = EXPECT_CALL(
      *mock, SetLineWidth(static_cast<double>(line_width)));
  Expectation move_to_expectation = EXPECT_CALL(
      *mock, MoveTo(from.x, from.y));
  Expectation line_to_expectation
      = EXPECT_CALL(*mock, LineTo(to.x, to.y))
          .After(move_to_expectation);
  EXPECT_CALL(*mock, Stroke())
      .After(line_to_expectation)
      .After(set_line_width_expectation)
      .After(set_source_rgba_expectation);

  draw_tool.DrawLine(from, to, color, line_width);
}

}  // namespace gtk
}  // namespace renderer
}  // namespace mozc

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Turbulence is a phenomenon associated with chaotic and stochastic change in properties. At the quantum level, turbulence can be found in quantum fluids also known as super fluids; a friction free state of matter containing charged particles. Super fluidity has recently been observed at the core of neutron stars. These fluids containing also act as superconductors. Studies have found that the remaining protons in the star's core are also in a superfluid state and because they carry a charge also form a superconductor. This study employs the non-linear Schrodinger coupled with Poisson's equation for three dimensional quantum turbulence simulations. These simulations follow Fermi-Dirac statistics. Research has found evidence of soliton solutions to the non-linear Schrodinger. Solitons are self-reinforcing waves in nature that are also symmetric. Evidence of these solitons has been found in quantum turbulence. In order to verify the existence of solitons in this model, we aim to model solutions to the Non Linear Schrodinger in 1D and to obtain data to verify the these solitons.


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Q: How can I trigger a service worker update in Playwright by modifying the HTTP response? I am working on an SPA that I recently added a service worker to, which pre-caches the application shell using a cache-first strategy and caches navigation requests using a network -first strategy.
The SPA contains some logic that displays a "A new version is available!" banner with a "Reload" button at the top of the page when it detects a "waiting" service worker. I would like to write an end-to-end test for this logic and the logic behind the "Reload" button but cannot figure out how to trigger a service worker update in Playwright.
The approach that I have been playing with is modifying the service worker response after the service worker has been installed and a page reload has been triggered. I can modify the response and its response headers but it is not triggering an update event in the browser.
Here is the test code:
test("shows an update button when the service worker file has changed", async ({
  page,
  context
}, testInfo) => {
  const newScriptBytes = "/*test*/"
  const timeout = testInfo.timeout
  await page.goto("/")
  await waitForReadyServiceWorker({ context, page, timeout })

  // change the bytes of all additional service worker requests
  await page.route("/service-worker.js", async route => {
    const serverResponse = await page.request.fetch(serviceWorkerUrl, {
      ignoreHTTPSErrors: true
    })
    let serviceWorkerScript = await serverResponse.text()
    serviceWorkerScript = serviceWorkerScript.concat(newScriptBytes)
    await route.fulfill({
      response: serverResponse,
      body: serviceWorkerScript,
      headers: {
        ...serverResponse.headers(),
        "Etag": "v1",
        "Last-Modified": new Date().toUTCString(),
        "Content-Length": serviceWorkerScript.length.toString()
      }
    })
  })

  await page.reload()

  await expect(
    page.locator(`text=A new version is available!`)
  ).toBeVisible()
})

export async function waitForReadyServiceWorker(args: {
  context: BrowserContext
  page: Page
  timeout?: number
}): Promise<Worker | undefined> {
  const timeoutId = createOperationTimeout(args.timeout)
  const url = await args.page.evaluate(async () => {
    const readySw = await navigator.serviceWorker.ready
    return readySw.active.scriptURL
  })
  clearTimeout(timeoutId)
  return args.context.serviceWorkers().find(worker => worker.url() === url)
}

Here is the initial service worker response

Here is the modified service worker response

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Nation's First Solar-Powered Community-Based Resiliency Hub Serving Baltimore City Public Housing
By Power52January 26, 2019January 13th, 2021No Comments
Power52 Partners with Living Classrooms Partners to Transform Community Centers into Emergency Resources
In 2016, Power52 Foundation, in partnership with Living Classroom Foundation, was awarded a grant from Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) to convert Living Classrooms' three community centers (POWER House, UA House at Fayette, and Patterson Park House) into Resiliency Hubs, serving public housing communities within the Baltimore Target Investment Zone (TIZ) – a 2.5 sq. mi. area in East Baltimore that encompasses some of Baltimore's most disadvantaged areas, whose residents are commonly at the highest risk during emergencies.
Living Classrooms' Resiliency Hubs have been created to provide an immediate resource and assist residents in the recovery from (1) natural emergency events such as high heat, flooding, hurricanes, coastal storms, earthquakes and high wind conditions, (2) man-made disasters such as fires, explosions, or uprisings, or (3) large-scale service outages. Each hub provides access to electricity, fresh food, water, radios, two-way radios, charging stations, snow shovels, blowers, etc.
"Our community centers are trusted resources within the communities that we serve and we are grateful to Power52, the city, and our funders for helping us expand our services so we can make sure that our students and families are safe in the event of an emergency," said James Piper Bond, President and CEO of Living Classrooms Foundation.
The POWER House is the first solar powered, community-based resiliency hub in the nation. Graduates from the Power52 Energy Institute Baltimore City, based at Living Classrooms' UA House at Fayette community center, were contracted through Power52 Energy Solutions to install a grid-tied 12.24KW Solar PV and battery storage system on the POWER House. The system is being used as a resource for the community when the grid fails, creating enough clean energy to provide seventy-two (72) hours of sustainable power to the community center. Funding for this innovative project came from Investment Tax Credit, grants, and debt. The tax equity and debt were provided by Power52 Energy Solutions. Grant funding was provided by The Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) and the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA), the State of Maryland's EARN Maryland Grant Program, administered by the Maryland Department of Labor Licensing and Regulation, and France Merrick Foundation.
"Power52 is excited for our organization and graduates to be a part of bringing resiliency to those most vulnerable in the face of disasters," said Cherie Brooks, Executive Director of Power52 Foundation. "We look forward to expanding our model and footprint to further benefit low-mid income (LMI) communities throughout the country."
Thirteen (13) Living Classrooms staff and community residents have already completed the 2-day Community Emergency Response Training (CERT). Staff developed and administered a community needs assessment to determine how prepared TIZ residents are in dealing with natural or man-made emergency events. The survey asked specific questions about what people do when there is a flood or loss of electricity. The data collected was instrumental during the development of processes, procedures, protocols, and determining critical needs of the community.
"The residents of Perkins Homes have already experienced a situation where their power was out during one of the hottest days of summer and many took refuge at POWER House while electric service was restored. They are already grateful to have such a resource nearby," said Colin Jones, Director of POWER House for Living Classrooms Foundation, who grew up in Perkins Homes.
Power52 and Living Classrooms created a workforce development partnership which allows graduates an opportunity to be included in the installation of the solar panels and battery storage. Living Classrooms combined its experience providing workforce training and case management with Power52 Foundation's solar development experience, accreditations/credentials, and access to a robust energy industry network to provide residents with solar installation training. Funders include ISC and the State of Maryland's EARN Maryland Grant Program, administered by the Maryland Department of Labor Licensing and Regulation. To date, 52 individuals have graduated from the Power52 Energy Institute Baltimore City's 11-week Energy Professional training program, the first Clean Energy Private Career School accredited by the Maryland Higher Education Commission. Living Classrooms career coaches provide work readiness workshops and assist individuals with removing any barriers that could potentially affect their graduating from the training program and securing employment.
"Today we celebrate a critical investment in a community often overlooked when investments are doled out. This investment, which offers the field a scalable model, brings triple bottom-line impact. The trainees' lives have been transformed – given a solid workforce skill in a rapidly growing industry and using those skills to build a resource for their local community – already providing access to power for neighborhood residents, during an outage, and residents and the community at large exposed to new information and new resources. ISC is proud to be a supporter of this tremendous work said," Sarita Turner, Director of Inclusive Communities, Institute for Sustainable Communities.
Living Classrooms has partnered with Baltimore City Department of Planning's Office of Sustainability and the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management to assist with Baltimore's existing Preparedness Plan that identifies the POWER House as a Resiliency Hub for the City of Baltimore. As a designated Resiliency Hub, Living Classrooms' staff will act as facilitators between the community and the City's emergency management team, connecting with individuals in the community who have the knowledge and resources to best assist in the case of an emergency. Staff will also provide feedback to the City regarding services rendered during each emergency activation. The City will alert Living Classrooms of emergency situations, provide Phase I emergency supplies, and conduct Community Emergency Response Training (CERT).
NOTE TO MEDIA: A ribbon cutting ceremony to publicly announce the opening of POWER House as a Resiliency Hub is scheduled for Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 10:00am at 316 S. Caroline Street. The Lt. Governor and local dignitaries, the Executive Director of the Housing Authority, Power52 team (including Ray Lewis), representatives from the Institute of Sustainable Communities, and residents of Perkins Homes will be in attendance. A Media Advisory will be sent as a follow up to this Release with further details of the event.
About Power52 Foundation: In the aftermath of the 2015 riots, a Baltimore-based solar developer, a Real Estate Executive, and an iconic NFL star found themselves talking about how to re-inject hope and pride in underserved, at risk communities across the nation. Over the next year, Rob Wallace, Cherie Brooks and Ray Lewis laid the foundation with three unique and impactful entities and forged Power52 Foundation, a 501(c) 3 non-profit. POWER52 provides career training and job placement opportunities in the renewable energy sector, bringing forth equitable opportunities and inclusion to an underrepresented demographic and population. Like @power52official on Facebook and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. For more information: www.power52.org.
About Living Classrooms Foundation: Living Classrooms Foundation is a Baltimore- Washington, DC-based nonprofit that disrupts the cycle of poverty and makes our community safer, stronger, and healthier by meeting individuals where they are and giving them skills for life. We inspire children, youth, and adults to achieve their potential through hands-on education, workforce development, and health and wellness programming, using urban, natural, and maritime resources as "living classrooms." Living Classrooms Foundation has been proudly serving the community since 1985.
About the Baltimore Target Investment Zone (TIZ): Living Classrooms Foundation has launched the Baltimore Target Investment Zone, a comprehensive strategic community initiative that concentrates core education, workforce development, health and wellness, and violence prevention programs within a 2.5 square mile area of East Baltimore, focused on disrupting a cycle of generational poverty. The TIZ is home to over 40,000 people, 9,100 students in 18 schools, and over 2,200 public housing units that span five communities and 122 acres, including Pleasant View Gardens and Perkins Homes, and neighborhoods surrounding Patterson Park and Johns Hopkins Hospital, Oldtown /Middle East, Fayette Street Corridor, and McElderry Park. These neighborhoods experience high poverty, high-density crime and recidivism rates, chronic health problems, low educational achievement, and high unemployment.
A key strategy of this approach has been the establishment of Community Hubs in East Baltimore including two early childhood education centers, two workforce development centers, a public charter middle school, and three community centers. Living Classrooms has successfully worked with the community to create, renovate, and manage several inviting, accessible neighborhood facilities that are providing comprehensive multigenerational and supportive services to residents of all ages. Living Classrooms uses its performance management system, LivingClassrooms.Stat to measure, monitor, and evaluate the quality and efficacy of all programs and services.
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Sport plays an important role in the culture of Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland. Association football is particularly popular: Glasgow is known for the fierce Old Firm rivalry between Scotland's most successful clubs, Celtic and Rangers. The national stadium, Hampden Park, is located in the city and stages most home matches of the Scotland national team, as well as the finals of the Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup. The Scottish Football Association (SFA) and Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) are both also based at Hampden. The world's first official international match took place in Glasgow in 1872.

Glasgow was the host city for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and was named European Capital of Sport in 2003.

The city also has professional teams in rugby union, basketball, speedway and formerly in American football.

Football

The city is home to Scotland's largest football stadia: Celtic Park (60,411 seats), Ibrox Stadium (50,817 seats) and Hampden Park (51,866 seats), which is Scotland's national football stadium. Hampden Park holds the European record for attendance at a football match: 149,547 saw Scotland beat England 3–1 in 1937, in the days before British stadia became all-seated (though old Wembley had been reputed to hold over 200,000 unofficially).

Glasgow has four professional football clubs: Celtic and Rangers, which together make the Old Firm, Partick Thistle and as of November 2019, Queen's Park, that plays in the Scottish professional league system. Prior to this, Glasgow had other league clubs: Clyde, which moved to Cumbernauld, plus Third Lanark who went bankrupt in 1967, as well as Cowlairs, Clydesdale, Linthouse, Northern and Thistle in the 19th century. Senior teams such as St Mirren, Dumbarton, Hamilton Academical, Clyde, Albion Rovers, Airdrie United and Motherwell are based close to Glasgow.

The history of football in the city, as well as the status of the Old Firm, attracts many visitors to matches throughout the season. Hampden Park has been awarded UEFA 'Category Four' status, meaning that it is capable of hosting the final of the Champions' League. Hampden Park has hosted the final on three occasions, most recently in 2002 and hosted the UEFA Cup Final in 2007 as well as matches in the international 2012 Olympic Games and UEFA Euro 2020 tournaments.

The Scottish Football Association, the national governing body, and the Scottish Football Museum are based in Glasgow, as are the Scottish Professional Football League, Scottish Junior Football Association and Scottish Amateur Football Association. The Glasgow Cup was once a popular tournament in which all professional teams from the city would compete, however, now only their youth teams enter.

Teams in the Scottish Professional Football League are:

Below is a list of active clubs from the Glasgow area which have played in the West Region of the Scottish Junior Football Association since that setup was established in 2002 (several more could be included if the complete Greater Glasgow conurbation was taken into consideration, plus others which had a prominent role in the first half of the 20th century but went defunct long ago):

Ashfield
Benburb F.C.
Glasgow Perthshire F.C.
Maryhill F.C.
Petershill F.C.
Pollok F.C.
Shettleston F.C.
St Anthony's F.C.
St Roch's F.C.
Vale of Clyde F.C.

Rugby

Glasgow also boasts a professional rugby union team, the Glasgow Warriors, which play in the United Rugby Championship alongside teams from Ireland, Italy, Scotland, South Africa and Wales.

In addition, Glasgow is home to several amateur teams who compete at all levels throughout Scottish Rugby.
These include:
 Glasgow Hawks
 West of Scotland
 Glasgow Hutchesons' Aloysians
 Hillhead Jordanhill

Other Sports

Major international sporting arenas include Kelvin Hall and Scotstoun Sports Centre. In 2003 the National Academy for Badminton was completed in Scotstoun. In 2003 Glasgow was also given the title of European Capital of Sport.

Smaller sporting facilities include an abundance of small outdoor football pitches, as well as golf clubs such as Haggs Castle and artificial ski slopes.

Befitting its strong Highland connections as the City of the Gael Baile Mòr nan Gàidheal, Glasgow is also one of five places in Scotland which hosts the final of the Scottish Cup of Shinty, better known as the Camanachd Cup. This is usually held at Old Anniesland. Once home to numerous Shinty clubs, there is now only one senior club in Glasgow, Glasgow Mid-Argyll, as well as two university sides, Strathclyde University and Glasgow University

Glasgow was also the birthplace of Scotland's American football scene, which although not as strong as in its early years continues to the present day. The Glasgow Lions were the first team to be formed in Scotland in 1984. Between 1998 and 2004,the Scottish Claymores played some or all of their home games each season at Hampden and the venue also hosted World Bowl XI.

Glasgow is also host to Scotland's only professional basketball team, the Glasgow Rocks.

Speedway racing is staged at Saracen Park in Hawthorn Street, on the north side of the City. During March to October the Glasgow Tigers race in the British Premier League.

Glasgow Green has been home to Glasgow's rowing clubs since the mid-nineteenth century. Crowds of spectators turned up to watch regattas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Although the crowds now watch football instead, rowing on the Clyde continues to this day. Glasgow University Boat Club thrives alongside other academic and public clubs and there are a number of competitions held on the river every year.

Glasgow bid to host the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics but lost to Buenos Aires in the 4 July 2013 vote.

Venues and Stadiums

Football
Hampden Park
Celtic Park
Firhill Stadium

Athletics
Emirates Arena
Scotstoun Stadium

2014 Commonwealth Games

The 2014 Commonwealth Games were held in Glasgow from 23 July to 3 August 2014. It was the largest multi-sport event ever held in Scotland with around 4,950 athletes from 71 different nations and territories competing in 18 different sports, outranking the 1970 and 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. Over the last 10 years, however, Glasgow and Scotland had staged World, Commonwealth, European, or British events in all sports proposed for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, including the World Badminton Championships in 1997. The Games received acclaim for their organisation, attendance, and the public enthusiasm of the people of Scotland, with Commonwealth Games Federation chief executive Mike Hooper hailing them as "the standout games in the history of the movement". Held in Scotland for the third time, the Games were notable for the successes of the Home Nations of the United Kingdom, with England, Wales and hosts Scotland achieving their largest ever gold medal hauls and overall medal hauls at a Commonwealth Games. England finished top of the medal table for the first time since the 1986 Commonwealth Games, also held in Scotland. Kiribati also won its first ever medal at a Commonwealth Games, a gold in the 105 kg men's weightlifting competition.

ICSEMIS
The International Convention on Science, Education and Medicine in Sport (ICSEMIS) is to 3,000-delegates in Glasgow from 19 to 27 July 2012. The event will generate an economic impact for the city in addition to strengthening Glasgow's credentials for hosting major sporting events in the run up to the Commonwealth Games in 2014.

See also
Sport in Scotland

References

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The easiest way to get the best results as far as tiled floor goes is to use PTGUI and panoweaver. Take a photo of the floor and manually add control points this way you end up with perfect tiles and NO TRIPOD.
Do you need to be on fisheye mode in order to do this?


The star of the show is obviously the palette. It's got a beautiful range of matte and shimmer shades, in tones reminiscent of plums, berries, and of course gingerbread. All of them work really well and blend beautifully. There is a little inconsistency in the formula of the shimmer shades, some of them are a bit more powdery and have more kick back - which is especially noticeable to swatch - but they're still very useable on the eye and I don't have any issues with any shades.
There's also a handful of lipsticks as part of this collection, including Gingerbread Man and Gingerbread Girl. They both smell of gingerbread which is a lovely touch!
There's also the Sweet Smell of Christmas Liquified Lipstick Set, which has four deliciously named shades - and accompanying smells! Too Faced's liquid lipsticks are really underrated in my opinion, they're a really nice formula that dries down to a true matte but it doesn't feel uncomfortable or excessively dry. They're really long wearing too!
Fancy winning a little piece of this collection? Win the Liquid Lipstick in Gingerbread Girl! It's a limited edition shade just for Christmas this year so I thought it'd be a really nice prize!


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Evidence of when the worm first turned
UK: DURING the industrial revolution, speed of production in the workplace was matched only by the consumption of beverage in the public house, and so far as the thirsty labourers were concerned one of the greatest mechanical inventions of the late 19th century was the so-called 'bar-screw'.
The evolution of the humble, hand-held screw focused on the efficacy of cork extraction – in 1795 Samuel Henshall discovered that the cork could be rotated in the bottle neck by attaching a flange to the head of the screw, in 1802 Edward Thomason patented the barrel screw, a model popular among the lazy-armed today, where a cork would simply be removed on the turn of the counter-threaded worm. Later additions to this oeuvre of openers included champagne pliers and the American Screwpull. But it was not until the 1860s, when Charles Hill had developed a machine capable of producing a worm so finely turned and coarsely pitched that it could be driven into the cork without the need to turn a handle, that the fixed bar screw was born.
Many different patents were granted for such idiosyncratic models as 'The Don', 'The Acme', 'The Rotary Eclipse' and also the 'Original Safety', an example of which, right, was consigned to Greenslade Taylor Hunt's sale of collectables in Taunton on August 12. Like many bar-screws, this example had probably pulled dozens of corks every day for many years and its mechanism was not in the best of condition. It sold to a collector at £45 (plus 15 per cent premium).
Greenslade Taylor Hunt


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Auctions November 12, 2010 <January 14, 2021
Qianlong-dynasty vase sets record by fetching $83.2 million
It was a battle of the riches at Bainbridges's recent auction where bidders fought each other to acquire a Qianlong-dynasty vase. The battle among Asian bidders set the final price for the artifact to $83.2 million! The final price far surpassed the vase's pre-sale estimate of 1.2 million pounds by 40 times and creating an auction record for Chinese art. The exquisitely decorated mid-18th century vase was made for the emperor Qianlong and was discovered during a routine house clearance in the suburb of Pinner in London. The winning bidder was a Beijing based agent who refused to comment about the sale. The astonishing price fetched by the vase goes to show the growing community of Asian collectors who are willing to pay millions of dollars for Chinese artifacts associated with emperors.
This sale has brought the growing demand for Chinese art to the forefront and helped Bainbridge make its name among other auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's.
[Bloomberg]
And you thought only Bitcoin gave insane returns – A Chinese vase valued at $612 just auctioned for a mind-boggling $1.84 million
270- year-old Chinese imperial vase touted to fetch at least $807,900 in an auction
After selling for a mere $56 years ago, this exotic Chinese vase was auctioned for a grand $9 million at Sotheby's
Old lady leaves behind a rare English porcelain vase worth $14,263
A closer look at the vase that's opening Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong
Alleged 'art expert' was rightly fired after the Chinese vase he appraised at $2,000 was auctioned for $7.5 million.
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Q: Display Map value in a div tag while onchange event in my JSP I'm having a drop down to list all available departments, when client is selecting a department, by AJAX I'm bringing list of all employees in the next drop down.
For AJAX purpose I'm using a HahMap<Integer, String> and my response file is
<%@ page contentType="text/xml;charset=UTF-8" language="java"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-tld/struts-logic.tld" prefix="logic"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-tld/struts-bean.tld" prefix="bean" %>
<%@page import="java.util.ArrayList" %>
<response>
     <logic:iterate id="map" name="optionMap">
         <option>
            <optionvalue><bean:write name="map" property="key"/></optionvalue>
            <optionlabel><bean:write name="map" property="value"/></optionlabel>
         </option>
    </logic:iterate>
</response>

My Employee drop down code is
<html:select property="employeeId" styleId="employeeId" styleClass="combo" onchange="displayEmployeeName(this.value)">
    <html:option value=""><bean:message key="knowledgepro.admin.select"/></html:option>
    <logic:notEmpty name="hlAdmissionForm" property="employees">
        <html:optionsCollection property="employees" label="value" value="key"/>
    </logic:notEmpty>
</html:select>

So you can see that value of drop down is the id (key of the HashMap) of that Employee and label is his/her name(value of HashMap).
Up to this everything is working fine, but now the requirement is to display the selected Employee name in the next table cell <td>.
You can see in the code for Employee drop down I'm calling a JS function which is
function displayEmployeeName(employeeName) {
    document.getElementById("studentName").innerHTML = employeeName;
}

But because I'm passing this.value at the onchange event of Employee drop down instead of Employee name Employee id is displayed. So can anybody tell me how to get the value of HashMap at the onchange event.

A: You can use this.value to get the employeeId, and then ask for the name using your employee HashMap in your function
function displayEmployeeName(empId) {
    document.getElementById("studentName").innerHTML = myMap[empId];
}

If you don't have your map globally available, have a look at this answer
The reason this.value returns your id is because your map is "Integer,String", which means that value in the map is the employeeName, and the key is employeeId. However, in your select onChange-event you are reffering to the value in the select-element, which you assigned the id of the Employee.

A: I just changed my JS function to this and I was able to get the answer.
function displayEmployeeName(empId) {
      jQuery("#employeeId").find("option[value='" + jQuery("#employeeId").val() + "']").text()
}

Thank you for your responses, I'm sorry that I described the question in the wrong way, this is what I should have asked.
How to get the selected label from a html ?


ESPN's Adam Schefter reports that the seven-year veteran will use the time off to serve a four-game suspension for violating the NFL's policy on performance-enhancing drugs.
The Baltimore Ravens have lost cornerback Jimmy Smith for the rest of the season with an Achilles injury that he suffered during the team's win on Sunday against the Detroit Lions.
No details of the doping violation were released.
If Smith didn't go down with a significant injury, he might have missed the final four regular season games anyway, depending on the outcome of the appeal. He had been dealing with a sore Achilles all season long, but was able to start every game. "If you have the tightness or soreness, it doesn't lead to Achilles (tears)", Harbaugh said on Sunday. The Ravens (7-5) now occupy the AFC's second wild card spot. The two teams meet on Sunday in a crunch divisional clash.
The Ravens are expected to place Smith on injured reserve this week. Smith, who played his collegiate football at the University of Colorado, was originally selected by Baltimore in the first round (27th pick overall) of the 2011 NFL Draft.
Rookie first-round pick Marlon Humphrey will replace Smith in the starting lineup this week when the Ravens (7-5) travel to play the AFC North-leading Pittsburgh Steelers (9-2) in a Sunday night game.