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package org.elasticsearch.ingest;

import org.elasticsearch.ingest.core.IngestDocument;
import org.elasticsearch.ingest.core.Processor;
import org.elasticsearch.test.ESTestCase;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Map;

import static org.elasticsearch.ingest.ConvertProcessor.Type;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.containsString;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.sameInstance;

public class ConvertProcessorTests extends ESTestCase {

    public void testConvertInt() throws Exception {
        IngestDocument ingestDocument = RandomDocumentPicks.randomIngestDocument(random());
        int randomInt = randomInt();
        String fieldName = RandomDocumentPicks.addRandomField(random(), ingestDocument, randomInt);
        Processor processor = new ConvertProcessor(randomAsciiOfLength(10), fieldName, fieldName, Type.INTEGER);
        processor.execute(ingestDocument);
        assertThat(ingestDocument.getFieldValue(fieldName, Integer.class), equalTo(randomInt));
    }

    public void testConvertIntList() throws Exception {
        IngestDocument ingestDocument = RandomDocumentPicks.randomIngestDocument(random());
        int numItems = randomIntBetween(1, 10);
        List<String> fieldValue = new ArrayList<>();
        List<Integer> expectedList = new ArrayList<>();
        for (int j = 0; j < numItems; j++) {
            int randomInt = randomInt();
            fieldValue.add(Integer.toString(randomInt));
            expectedList.add(randomInt);
        }
        String fieldName = RandomDocumentPicks.addRandomField(random(), ingestDocument, fieldValue);
        Processor processor = new ConvertProcessor(randomAsciiOfLength(10), fieldName, fieldName, Type.INTEGER);
        processor.execute(ingestDocument);
        assertThat(ingestDocument.getFieldValue(fieldName, List.class), equalTo(expectedList));
    }

    public void testConvertIntError() throws Exception {
        IngestDocument ingestDocument = RandomDocumentPicks.randomIngestDocument(random(), new HashMap<>());
        String fieldName = RandomDocumentPicks.randomFieldName(random());
        String value = "string-" + randomAsciiOfLengthBetween(1, 10);
        ingestDocument.setFieldValue(fieldName, value);

        Processor processor = new ConvertProcessor(randomAsciiOfLength(10), fieldName, fieldName, Type.INTEGER);
        try {
            processor.execute(ingestDocument);
            fail("processor execute should have failed");
        } catch(IllegalArgumentException e) {
            assertThat(e.getMessage(), equalTo("unable to convert [" + value + "] to integer"));
        }
    }

    public void testConvertFloat() throws Exception {
        IngestDocument ingestDocument = RandomDocumentPicks.randomIngestDocument(random());
        Map<String, Float> expectedResult = new HashMap<>();
        float randomFloat = randomFloat();
        String fieldName = RandomDocumentPicks.addRandomField(random(), ingestDocument, randomFloat);
        expectedResult.put(fieldName, randomFloat);

        Processor processor = new ConvertProcessor(randomAsciiOfLength(10), fieldName, fieldName, Type.FLOAT);
        processor.execute(ingestDocument);
        assertThat(ingestDocument.getFieldValue(fieldName, Float.class), equalTo(randomFloat));
    }

    public void testConvertFloatList() throws Exception {
        IngestDocument ingestDocument = RandomDocumentPicks.randomIngestDocument(random());
        int numItems = randomIntBetween(1, 10);
        List<String> fieldValue = new ArrayList<>();
        List<Float> expectedList = new ArrayList<>();
        for (int j = 0; j < numItems; j++) {
            float randomFloat = randomFloat();
            fieldValue.add(Float.toString(randomFloat));
            expectedList.add(randomFloat);
        }
        String fieldName = RandomDocumentPicks.addRandomField(random(), ingestDocument, fieldValue);
        Processor processor = new ConvertProcessor(randomAsciiOfLength(10), fieldName, fieldName, Type.FLOAT);
        processor.execute(ingestDocument);
        assertThat(ingestDocument.getFieldValue(fieldName, List.class), equalTo(expectedList));
    }

    public void testConvertFloatError() throws Exception {
        IngestDocument ingestDocument = RandomDocumentPicks.randomIngestDocument(random(), new HashMap<>());
        String fieldName = RandomDocumentPicks.randomFieldName(random());
        String value = "string-" + randomAsciiOfLengthBetween(1, 10);
        ingestDocument.setFieldValue(fieldName, value);

        Processor processor = new ConvertProcessor(randomAsciiOfLength(10), fieldName, fieldName, Type.FLOAT);
        try {
            processor.execute(ingestDocument);
            fail("processor execute should have failed");
        } catch(IllegalArgumentException e) {
            assertThat(e.getMessage(), equalTo("unable to convert [" + value + "] to float"));
        }
    }

    public void testConvertBoolean() throws Exception {
        IngestDocument ingestDocument = RandomDocumentPicks.randomIngestDocument(random());
        boolean randomBoolean = randomBoolean();
        String booleanString = Boolean.toString(randomBoolean);
        if (randomBoolean) {
            booleanString = booleanString.toUpperCase(Locale.ROOT);
        }
        String fieldName = RandomDocumentPicks.addRandomField(random(), ingestDocument, booleanString);

        Processor processor = new ConvertProcessor(randomAsciiOfLength(10), fieldName, fieldName, Type.BOOLEAN);
        processor.execute(ingestDocument);
        assertThat(ingestDocument.getFieldValue(fieldName, Boolean.class), equalTo(randomBoolean));
    }

    public void testConvertBooleanList() throws Exception {
        IngestDocument ingestDocument = RandomDocumentPicks.randomIngestDocument(random());
        int numItems = randomIntBetween(1, 10);
        List<String> fieldValue = new ArrayList<>();
        List<Boolean> expectedList = new ArrayList<>();
        for (int j = 0; j < numItems; j++) {
            boolean randomBoolean = randomBoolean();
            String booleanString = Boolean.toString(randomBoolean);
            if (randomBoolean) {
                booleanString = booleanString.toUpperCase(Locale.ROOT);
            }
            fieldValue.add(booleanString);
            expectedList.add(randomBoolean);
        }
        String fieldName = RandomDocumentPicks.addRandomField(random(), ingestDocument, fieldValue);
        Processor processor = new ConvertProcessor(randomAsciiOfLength(10), fieldName, fieldName, Type.BOOLEAN);
        processor.execute(ingestDocument);
        assertThat(ingestDocument.getFieldValue(fieldName, List.class), equalTo(expectedList));
    }

    public void testConvertBooleanError() throws Exception {
        IngestDocument ingestDocument = RandomDocumentPicks.randomIngestDocument(random(), new HashMap<>());
        String fieldName = RandomDocumentPicks.randomFieldName(random());
        String fieldValue;
        if (randomBoolean()) {
            fieldValue = "string-" + randomAsciiOfLengthBetween(1, 10);
        } else {
            //verify that only proper boolean values are supported and we are strict about it
            fieldValue = randomFrom("on", "off", "yes", "no", "0", "1");
        }
        ingestDocument.setFieldValue(fieldName, fieldValue);

        Processor processor = new ConvertProcessor(randomAsciiOfLength(10), fieldName, fieldName, Type.BOOLEAN);
        try {
            processor.execute(ingestDocument);
            fail("processor execute should have failed");
        } catch(Exception e) {
            assertThat(e.getMessage(), equalTo("[" + fieldValue + "] is not a boolean value, cannot convert to boolean"));
        }
    }

    public void testConvertString() throws Exception {
        IngestDocument ingestDocument = RandomDocumentPicks.randomIngestDocument(random());
        Object fieldValue;
        String expectedFieldValue;
        switch(randomIntBetween(0, 2)) {
            case 0:
                float randomFloat = randomFloat();
                fieldValue = randomFloat;
                expectedFieldValue = Float.toString(randomFloat);
                break;
            case 1:
                int randomInt = randomInt();
                fieldValue = randomInt;
                expectedFieldValue = Integer.toString(randomInt);
                break;
            case 2:
                boolean randomBoolean = randomBoolean();
                fieldValue = randomBoolean;
                expectedFieldValue = Boolean.toString(randomBoolean);
                break;
            default:
                throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
        }
        String fieldName = RandomDocumentPicks.addRandomField(random(), ingestDocument, fieldValue);

        Processor processor = new ConvertProcessor(randomAsciiOfLength(10), fieldName, fieldName, Type.STRING);
        processor.execute(ingestDocument);
        assertThat(ingestDocument.getFieldValue(fieldName, String.class), equalTo(expectedFieldValue));
    }

    public void testConvertStringList() throws Exception {
        IngestDocument ingestDocument = RandomDocumentPicks.randomIngestDocument(random());
        int numItems = randomIntBetween(1, 10);
        List<Object> fieldValue = new ArrayList<>();
        List<String> expectedList = new ArrayList<>();
        for (int j = 0; j < numItems; j++) {
            Object randomValue;
            String randomValueString;
            switch(randomIntBetween(0, 2)) {
                case 0:
                    float randomFloat = randomFloat();
                    randomValue = randomFloat;
                    randomValueString = Float.toString(randomFloat);
                    break;
                case 1:
                    int randomInt = randomInt();
                    randomValue = randomInt;
                    randomValueString = Integer.toString(randomInt);
                    break;
                case 2:
                    boolean randomBoolean = randomBoolean();
                    randomValue = randomBoolean;
                    randomValueString = Boolean.toString(randomBoolean);
                    break;
                default:
                    throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
            }
            fieldValue.add(randomValue);
            expectedList.add(randomValueString);
        }
        String fieldName = RandomDocumentPicks.addRandomField(random(), ingestDocument, fieldValue);
        Processor processor = new ConvertProcessor(randomAsciiOfLength(10), fieldName, fieldName, Type.STRING);
        processor.execute(ingestDocument);
        assertThat(ingestDocument.getFieldValue(fieldName, List.class), equalTo(expectedList));
    }

    public void testConvertNonExistingField() throws Exception {
        IngestDocument ingestDocument = RandomDocumentPicks.randomIngestDocument(random(), new HashMap<>());
        String fieldName = RandomDocumentPicks.randomFieldName(random());
        Type type = randomFrom(Type.values());
        Processor processor = new ConvertProcessor(randomAsciiOfLength(10), fieldName, fieldName, type);
        try {
            processor.execute(ingestDocument);
            fail("processor execute should have failed");
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
            assertThat(e.getMessage(), containsString("not present as part of path [" + fieldName + "]"));
        }
    }

    public void testConvertNullField() throws Exception {
        IngestDocument ingestDocument = RandomDocumentPicks.randomIngestDocument(random(), Collections.singletonMap("field", null));
        Type type = randomFrom(Type.values());
        Processor processor = new ConvertProcessor(randomAsciiOfLength(10), "field", "field", type);
        try {
            processor.execute(ingestDocument);
            fail("processor execute should have failed");
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
            assertThat(e.getMessage(), equalTo("Field [field] is null, cannot be converted to type [" + type + "]"));
        }
    }

    public void testAutoConvertNotString() throws Exception {
        Object randomValue;
        switch(randomIntBetween(0, 2)) {
            case 0:
                float randomFloat = randomFloat();
                randomValue = randomFloat;
                break;
            case 1:
                int randomInt = randomInt();
                randomValue = randomInt;
                break;
            case 2:
                boolean randomBoolean = randomBoolean();
                randomValue = randomBoolean;
                break;
            default:
                throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
        }
        IngestDocument ingestDocument = RandomDocumentPicks.randomIngestDocument(random(), Collections.singletonMap("field", randomValue));
        Processor processor = new ConvertProcessor(randomAsciiOfLength(10), "field", "field", Type.AUTO);
        processor.execute(ingestDocument);
        Object convertedValue = ingestDocument.getFieldValue("field", Object.class);
        assertThat(convertedValue, sameInstance(randomValue));
    }

    public void testAutoConvertStringNotMatched() throws Exception {
        String value = "notAnIntFloatOrBool";
        IngestDocument ingestDocument = RandomDocumentPicks.randomIngestDocument(random(), Collections.singletonMap("field", value));
        Processor processor = new ConvertProcessor(randomAsciiOfLength(10), "field", "field", Type.AUTO);
        processor.execute(ingestDocument);
        Object convertedValue = ingestDocument.getFieldValue("field", Object.class);
        assertThat(convertedValue, sameInstance(value));
    }

    public void testAutoConvertMatchBoolean() throws Exception {
        boolean randomBoolean = randomBoolean();
        String booleanString = Boolean.toString(randomBoolean);
        IngestDocument ingestDocument = RandomDocumentPicks.randomIngestDocument(random(),
            Collections.singletonMap("field", booleanString));
        Processor processor = new ConvertProcessor(randomAsciiOfLength(10), "field", "field", Type.AUTO);
        processor.execute(ingestDocument);
        Object convertedValue = ingestDocument.getFieldValue("field", Object.class);
        assertThat(convertedValue, equalTo(randomBoolean));
    }

    public void testAutoConvertMatchInteger() throws Exception {
        int randomInt = randomInt();
        String randomString = Integer.toString(randomInt);
        IngestDocument ingestDocument = RandomDocumentPicks.randomIngestDocument(random(), Collections.singletonMap("field", randomString));
        Processor processor = new ConvertProcessor(randomAsciiOfLength(10), "field", "field", Type.AUTO);
        processor.execute(ingestDocument);
        Object convertedValue = ingestDocument.getFieldValue("field", Object.class);
        assertThat(convertedValue, equalTo(randomInt));
    }

    public void testAutoConvertMatchFloat() throws Exception {
        float randomFloat = randomFloat();
        String randomString = Float.toString(randomFloat);
        IngestDocument ingestDocument = RandomDocumentPicks.randomIngestDocument(random(), Collections.singletonMap("field", randomString));
        Processor processor = new ConvertProcessor(randomAsciiOfLength(10), "field", "field", Type.AUTO);
        processor.execute(ingestDocument);
        Object convertedValue = ingestDocument.getFieldValue("field", Object.class);
        assertThat(convertedValue, equalTo(randomFloat));
    }

    public void testTargetField() throws Exception {
        IngestDocument ingestDocument = new IngestDocument(new HashMap<>(), new HashMap<>());
        int randomInt = randomInt();
        String fieldName = RandomDocumentPicks.addRandomField(random(), ingestDocument, String.valueOf(randomInt));
        String targetField = fieldName + randomAsciiOfLength(5);
        Processor processor = new ConvertProcessor(randomAsciiOfLength(10), fieldName, targetField, Type.INTEGER);
        processor.execute(ingestDocument);
        assertThat(ingestDocument.getFieldValue(fieldName, String.class), equalTo(String.valueOf(randomInt)));
        assertThat(ingestDocument.getFieldValue(targetField, Integer.class), equalTo(randomInt));

    }
}


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Q: Setting a timestamp in a batch file while using xcopy (pretty new to cmd/batch) My script so far:
@ECHO OFF
XCOPY   C:\Users\Jeremy\Documents\* I:\Jeremy's%1Desktop\My%~1Documents /s /i /h

Trying to create a "backup script" that will transfer all of the files from my entire "Jeremy" directory to my external harddrive. (Want to not transfer some hidden files in some folders but do transfer hidden files in another folder) so I don't know how to accomplish that either.
Anyway I want to instead of having it prompt me everytime to overwrite a file, i'd like to set it to overwrite if larger or if newer (hence the timestamp). I am unsure of how to set this and set overwrite if timestamp say's newer. Thank you for your help, as you can see two lines in I'm having a hard time.
Thanks!

A: See ROBOCOPY for advanced copy-options (e.g. /XO = exclude older files).
With COPY or XCOPY, you will have to loop through the files manually and copy them individually after performing your tests.
Loop (recursively) through files in a folder:
for /r "%directory%" %%f in (*.*) do (
  rem ... do sth with file %%f
)

You can also get for example the names/directories of the files with %~nf or %~df
Get date/time of file:
for /f %f in ("%file%") do (
   set timestamp=%~tf
   set day=%timestamp:~0,2%"
   set month=%timestamp:~3,2%"
   rem ... etc.
)

Get current date/time:
echo Date: %date% rem (or: set currentdate=%date%)
echo Time: %time%

You would have to implement the comparison yourself (first compare year, then compare month, then... etc.) This could be a little tricky, or a lot of work at least.
To check if a file is hidden:
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('attrib "%file%"') do (
    set attribs=%%a
    if "!attribs:~4,1!"=="H" rem ... file is hidden
)

Don't forget to set this at the beginning of your batch:
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

This ensures that you can set/read variables within a loop. Use !variable! instead of %variable% then.
These are just the basic tools, there's still a lot of work to do and some pitfalls to work around. You should really consider using ROBOCOPY.

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Rathan Subramaniam, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., FRANZCR, FACNM, is Professor of Radiology, Chief of the Nuclear Medicine Division, and Medical Director of the Cyclotron and Molecular Imaging Program at UT Southwestern. He also is affiliated with the Biomedical Engineering Program in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. His clinical interests include molecular imaging in cancer.
I love delivering quality patient care, mentoring and building careers of young people and doing scientific research that will make a difference to patient management and health systems.
Dr. Subramaniam holds a medical degree (M.B.B.S.) from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Melbourne (Australia); a master's degree in clinical education from the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia); a master's degree in public health from the Harvard University; and a doctoral degree in radiology and anatomy from the University of Auckland (New Zealand). He completed his radiology residency training at Waikato Hospital (Hamilton, New Zealand), and then received advanced training in clinical trials of imaging through a fellowship program with the American College of Radiology Imaging Network, in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) through a fellowship program at Canberra Hospital (Australia) and in nuclear radiology and neuroradiology through fellowship programs at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.
Before becoming Chief of the Nuclear Medicine Division, Dr. Subramaniam was as an Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, with secondary faculty appointments in Oncology, Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, and Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins University, where he also served as the director of the PET/CT clinical center and the program director of PET/CT fellowships.
Dr. Subramaniam focuses his research on linking imaging biomarkers to patient quality of life and survival outcomes; quantitative imaging using positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT); single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT/CT); and MRI for human translational oncologic imaging.
Dr. Subramaniam serves as a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency's Human Health Division and has also served on World Health Organization Advisory Experts Committee for the Priority Medical Devices for Cancer Management Project (Health Systems and Innovation Cluster). He is a fellow of the American College of Nuclear Medicine and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, and a recipient of the Fulbright Travel Award and the Mayo Brothers Distinguished Fellowship Award. He is past president of the Radiology Research Alliance and the American College of Nuclear Medicine.
Dr. Subramaniam participates in numerous national and international societies, including his role as a member of the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute steering committee for head and neck cancer. He is the vice chair of the American College of Radiology commission on nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, co chair of the Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Alliance's FDG PET biomarker committee, track chair for emerging technology refresher courses of the Radiological Society of North America, a member of the board of directors for the Association of University Radiologists, and a member of the board of directors for the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging's PET Center of Excellence and Therapy Center of Excellence.
In addition to authoring more than 140 articles, five books and nine book chapters, Dr. Subramaniam conducts peer reviews for multiple academic journals, including the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Radiology, Clinical Cancer Research, and the Journal of American College of Radiology, while also holding positions as administrative editor of Practical Reviews in Nuclear Medicine and a member of the editorial boards of the American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, and American Journal of Roentgenology.
Dr. Subramaniam is an avid badminton player who enjoys smooth jazz and classical music, and long walks.


I just spent the last 3 and a half hours searching for the best instant waffle mix and doughnuts in town. But sadly, after driving and walking around, I ended up going home empty-handed.
After leaving the office, I had in mind the specific brands of waffle mix and doughnuts that I wanted to buy for tomorrow. I wanted to treat my officemates with extra snacks like crisp waffles and delicious doughnuts (since it was my birthday yesterday). I dropped by the supermarket near our house because I thought that they were selling the brand of waffle mix that I wanted, considering that it is quite a huge store. However, when I got there, the customer service informed me that they didn't have stock.
I panicked because I already told my officemates that I would bring the waffle mix to the office tomorrow. I then started to call two other supermarkets near our place and asked if they were selling the brand that I wanted. I even used the payphone in the grocery store to call the other supermarkets. (Talk about effort!) But, somehow, God didn't allow me to purchase that specific brand. None of the supermarkets near our house were selling it.
I bought the next best waffle mix and left the supermarket. I then decided to go to the mall instead because I thought that even if I didn't get to buy "the best waffle mix", I would at least get to buy the best doughnut treats before going home.
I briskly walked towards the doughnut shop after parking in the mall and eagerly lined up. When I was already near the cashier, one of the staff members suddenly announced that there were no original glazed doughnuts anymore. "WHAAAT??? You must be kidding me." I thought to myself.
My spirit was crushed because I wanted to buy those doughnuts. I "needed" to buy those doughnuts.
Because I was already desperate, I decided to search for the next best doughnut store in the mall. However, since I didn't know where it was located exactly, I ended up going back and forth, and up and down the different floors in the mall. Also, the directions that I got from the different guards I talked to just made it worse, since they contradicted each other.
When I finally saw the next best doughnut store for me, they didn't have much doughnuts left. At that time, it was already 9:30 in the evening; my body was tired and sleepy; and my heart was very much discouraged. I decided to drop by the food court before going home and got myself an order of siomai and bola-bola siopao (my dinner).
I realized that God could have easily provided the doughnuts and waffle mix that I wanted today, but he didn't. And I guess it's his way of reminding me to remember who He is in my life even if He doesn't give me what I prayed for. I think that it's His way of encouraging me to seek Him more than the things that He can give to me.
Many times, I find myself being tempted to get frustrated or disappointed with God especially when He doesn't answer my prayer requests or give the things that I ask for. But, God gently rebuked me tonight and encouraged me to trust in Him as I find satisfaction in WHO He is and not in WHAT I have (e.g. material things, achievements, relationships, etc.).
Before leaving the food court, I read Psalm 17 and was encouraged by verse 15.
Even without having "the best doughnuts" and "the best waffle mix", I went home with peace and joy in my heart. God knew exactly how to comfort me tonight and I praise Him for His grace.
Hey Darren! :D Praise God and thank you!


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Q: Solving a limit with L'hospital rule or without it So I have a limit that I want to solve:
$$\lim_{x\to0}\bigg(\frac{1+\ln(1-x^2)}{2x+1-\sin(x)}\bigg)^{\frac{1}{x^2}}$$
So I thought of using L'Hospital's rule, but it's not the $\displaystyle\frac{0}{0}$ situation.
Or Can it go for a different L'Hospital's rule situation, like it's $\displaystyle\frac{\infty}{\infty}$ but i get $1$ at the numerator?
Can I still use it or should I first manipulate the fraction somehow that it's plausible for using that rule, or is there another trick to use?
Any help would be appreciated.

A: You may do an expansion in power series (use $\log(1+z)=z-O(z^2)$ and $\sin(x)=x+O(x^3)$):
$$ \frac{1+\log(1-x^2)}{2x+1-\sin x} = \frac{1-x^2+O(x^4)}{1+x+O(x^3)} =1-x+O(x^3)$$
Now, taking log of your expression we may write it as
$$ \frac{\log(1-x+O(x^3))}{x^2}=\frac{-1}{x}+O(1)$$
which goes to $\mp \infty$ as $x\rightarrow \pm 0$.
So the limit is zero or infinity depending on how $x$ goes to zero.

A: Hint it's of the form $1^{\infty}$ so write we can write it as $e^{g(x)(f(x)-1)}$ (which can be proved using basic results of limits ) where $f(x)=base ,G(x)=index)$ then you have a form where both numerator,denominator tend to $0$ and thus you can use Lhospital or Taylor expansions for $ln,sin$

A: First of all, notice that a two-sided limit does not exist.

*

*Use Taylor series (at $x=0$):
$$\left(\frac{1+\ln(1-x^2)}{2x+1-\sin(x)}\right)^{\frac{1}{x^2}}=\exp\left[-\frac{1}{x}-\frac{1}{2}-\frac{x}{2}-\frac{7x^2}{12}-\frac{43x^3}{120}-\frac{149x^4}{180}+O(x^5)\right]$$

*Using l'Hôpital's rule:
$$\lim_{x\to0^-}\left(\frac{1+\ln(1-x^2)}{2x+1-\sin(x)}\right)^{\frac{1}{x^2}}=\exp\left[\lim_{x\to0^-}\frac{\ln\left(\frac{1+\ln(1-x^2)}{2x+1-\sin(x)}\right)}{x^2}\right]=\exp\left[-\frac{\lim_{x\to0^-}\frac{1}{x}}{2}\right]\to\infty$$

*Using l'Hôpital's rule:
$$\lim_{x\to0^+}\left(\frac{1+\ln(1-x^2)}{2x+1-\sin(x)}\right)^{\frac{1}{x^2}}=\exp\left[\lim_{x\to0^+}\frac{\ln\left(\frac{1+\ln(1-x^2)}{2x+1-\sin(x)}\right)}{x^2}\right]=\exp\left[-\frac{\lim_{x\to0^+}\frac{1}{x}}{2}\right]=0$$

A: As others have said, find the limit of the log of your expression.  But take advantage of the log:
$$\lim_{x\rightarrow 0} \frac{\ln(1+\ln(1-x^2)) - \ln(2x+1-\sin x)}{x^2}.$$
Apply L'hospital once to get
$$\lim_{x\rightarrow 0} \frac{ \frac{1}{1+\ln(1-x^2)}\frac{1}{1-x^2}(-2x) - \frac{1}{2x+1-\sin x}(2-\cos x)}{2x}.$$
Then  the numerator goes to $-1$ and the denominator goes to $0.$  So the left hand limit is $+\infty$ and the right hand limit is $-\infty$.  So for your original expression, the left hand limit is $e^{+\infty} = +\infty$ and the right hand limit is $e^{-\infty} = 0$.


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VOL. 126 | NO. 203 | Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Touring NC, Obama Seeks Jobs Votes, Piece by Piece
JULIE PACE | Associated Press
FLETCHER, N.C. (AP) – Railing against Republicans, President Barack Obama on Monday pushed for a jobs package that Congress is splintering into pieces, with Senate Democrats planning to start with a plan to help states hire teachers, police and firefighters. In campaign mode on the road, Obama accused Republicans senators of saying no to helping Americans.
With the president's plan for one big bill now dead, the Senate began moving to take up parts of it. Yet given that the Senate is likely to be consumed this week with an overdue spending bill – and then is taking a vacation next week – any votes on portions of the jobs legislation may not take place until November.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid planned to announce on Monday that the chamber would move first on the aid to states. Obama, on a bus tour through the politically crucial states of North Carolina and Virginia, made a coordinated push for that part of his bill and mocked Republicans for forcing a piece-by-piece approach to his jobs legislation.
Republicans in the Senate rejected consideration of his whole $447 billion plan last week.
"Maybe they just couldn't understand the whole thing at once, so we're going to break it up into bite-size pieces," Obama said from his first stop in western North Carolina before getting on his black-tinted bus and heading east across the state.
Obama is pitching a $35 billion proposal of aid to states, and spokesman Jay Carney said the White House anticipates action "very soon."
But the state aid package faces long odds on Capitol Hill.
It is a non-starter in the GOP-controlled House and is sure to face a vote-blocking filibuster in the Senate, which would require 60 votes to overcome. Last year, when Senate Democrats controlled 59 votes, moderate Republicans Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine voted with Democrats to pass a $26 billion state aid package. But with their numbers down to 53, Democrats appear stuck.
Outside Asheville, N.C., a supportive crowd broke into a chant of "four more years" for Obama. Said the president in response: "I appreciate the four more years, but right now I'm thinking about the next thirteen months."
Republicans denounced the bus trip as nothing more than a taxpayer-funded campaign trip through two must-win states to try to bolster Obama's standing for the 2012 election.
The president kept up his strategy of taking his case to voters, saying a recent poll showed public backing for his proposals.
He told his audience that when Republicans in the Senate voted against his bill, "essentially, they said no to you."
Obama spoke from an airport outside Asheville that he said could benefit from his $50 billion proposal to help fix airports, roads, bridges and other infrastructure.
After his remarks and a round of hand-shakes, Obama headed east on Interstate 40, but soon turned off to have lunch at a barbecue restaurant in Marion, population 8,075, where he ordered takeout and chatted with patrons about plans to boost U.S. exports.
From Marion, the bus caravan route took Obama uphill through Blue Ridge foothills dappled with fall reds and oranges. At a general store in Boone, near Appalachian State University, he shopped for Halloween candy, loading up on peppermint patties and candy corn. "On Halloween, the first lady doesn't mind," he explained.
Obama was traveling on the all-black touring bus he first used on a similar road trip in August, rolling through Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. The Secret Service purchased it for $1.1 million.
House Republicans also touted legislation due for a vote next week to repeal a law that would require the withholding of 3 percent of payments to government contractors. The measure was enacted in 2005 by a GOP-controlled Congress to try to ensure that contractors couldn't duck their taxes.
While Obama has pledged to travel the country pitching his plans to get Americans back to work, his stops have focused heavily on political swing states, underscoring the degree to which what happens with the economy is tied to Obama's re-election prospects.
Despite Obama's calls for urgency, it appears the lawmakers may not take up individual components of the president's bill until November, at the earliest. The Senate is set to debate appropriations bills this week, and lawmakers have a scheduled break at the end of the month.
The president will also speak at community colleges, high schools and a firehouse as he travels through North Carolina and Virginia this week.
Both North Carolina and Virginia are traditionally Republican leaning, but changing demographics and a boost in voter turnout among young people and African-Americans helped Obama carry them in 2008.
But nearly three years after his historic election, the president's approval ratings in both states are sagging, in line with the national trend.
A Quinnipiac University poll out earlier this month put Obama's approval rating in Virginia at 45 percent, with 52 percent disapproving. The same poll showed 83 percent of Virginians were dissatisfied with the direction of the country. In North Carolina, Obama has a 42 percent approval rating, according to an Elon University poll conducted this month. Most national polls put Obama's approval rating in the mid- to low-40s.
The conservative advocacy group American Crossroads planned to run television ads in both states during Obama's trip, criticizing the president's jobs proposals as a second round of stimulus spending.
Associated Press writers Ken Thomas, Andrew Taylor and Ben Feller in Washington, Bob Lewis in Richmond, Va., and Tom Breen in Raleigh, N.C., contributed to this report.

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Vidofludimus je imunosupresivně působící látka, která inhibuje dihydroorotát dehydrogenázu (DHODH; hodnota IC50 je 134 nM pro redukci DCIP zprostředkovanou DHODH).Tato látka inhibuje proliferaci mononukleárních buněk periferní krve (PBMC) stimulovaných pomocí fytohemaglutininu-L a sekrece IL-17 z mononukleárních buněk lidské periferní krve v závislosti na dávce a nezávisle na proliferaci lymfocytů (inhibicí STAT3 a aktivací nF-κB).

Využití v medicíně

IBD (nespecifické střevní záněty)
Perorální podání vidofludimu zlepšuje jak chronickou (dextran-sulfát-sodnou indukovanou), tak akutní (TNBS-indukovanou) kolitidu u myší. Byly provedeny také klinické zkoušky na použití vidofludimu u lidí s IBD. Studie byla provedena v Německu, Bulharsku a Rumunsku. Pacienti s diagnózou Crohnovy nemoci (CD) nebo ulcerózní kolitidy (UC), kterým byli podávány steroidy, byli léčeni vidofludimem. Podávání steroidů bylo postupně omezeno. Lék byl v tomto případě velmi dobře snášen, jevil se jako velmi účinný a nebyly prokázány žádné závažné vedlejší účinky.

Transplantační medicína

V budoucnu by mohl vidofludimus najít uplatnění také v transplantační medicíně. Studie zkoumala potkany, kterým byly ortotopicky transplantované ledviny. Příjemcům alotransplantátů byl podáván vidofludimus v různých koncentracích a bylo sledováno, jak přežijí. Po několika dnech po transplantaci byla stanovena diagnóza štěpu. Bylo zjištěno, že vidofludimus prodlužuje dobu přežití po transplantaci ledvin a současně dochází k omezení příznaků akutní rejekce. Kromě toho při klinické studii nebyly prokázány žádné zhoršující se účinky na funkci ledvin u modelu zbytkových ledvin a také došlo ke zpomalení progrese proteinurie a fibrózy ledvin.

Lupusová nefritida a jiné
Také byly provedeny klinické testy použití vidofludimu při léčbě autoimunitních onemocnění a lupusové nefritidy. Vedlejším účinkem imunosupresivní léčby systémového lupusu (SLE) zůstává toxicita, proto bylo testováno použití vidofludimu, který má lepší profil toxicity. Mechanismem reakce byla inhibice DHODH s leflunomidem, která se jeví jako účinná u různých autoimunitních onemocnění. Byla porovnávána léčba vidofludimu s léčbou cyklofosfamidu (CYC) v různých koncentracích. V obou případech bylo dosaženo deplece autoreaktivních T buněk sleziny, B lymfocytů a plazmatických buněk, stejně jako příslušných DNA a RNA sérových autoprotilátek. Došlo také ke zlepšení renálních, dermálních a plicních projevů SLE. Rozdíl mezi těmito typy léčby byl u počtu neutrofilů v kostní dřeni. Zatímco při léčbě CYC bylo množství výrazně sníženo, léčba vidofludimem byla bez efektu. Vidofludimus je tedy stejně účinný jako CYC při léčbě SLE a způsobuje méně vedlejších účinků.
Vidofludimus účinně snižuje makroskopické a histologické patologie a také počet CD3+ T buněk.

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Barbarian Nurseries (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
By Héctor Tobar (Author), Reyna Grande (Contribution by), Sean McDonald (Editor)
Winner of the California Book Award for Fiction
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
Named a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Boston Globe
With The Barbarian Nurseries, Héctor Tobar gives our most misunderstood metropolis its great contemporary novel, taking us beyond the glimmer of Hollywood and deeper than camera-ready crime stories to reveal Southern California life as it really is, across its vast, sunshiny sprawl of classes, languages, dreams, and ambitions.
Scott and Maureen Torres-Thompson have always relied on others to run their Orange County home. But when bad investments crater their bank account, it all comes down to Araceli, their somewhat prickly Mexican maid. One night, an argument between the couple turns physical, and a misunderstanding leaves the children in Araceli's care. Their parents unreachable, she takes them to central Los Angeles in the hopes of finding Scott's estranged Mexican father--an earnest quest that soon becomes a colossal misadventure, with consequences that ripple through every stratum of the sprawling city. Héctor Tobar's The Barbarian Nurseries is a masterful tale of contemporary Los Angeles, a novel as alive as the city itself.


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Biografia
Eric V era figlio del duca Eric IV di Sassonia-Lauenburg e di Sofia di Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1358–c. 28 maggio 1416), figlia del duca Magnus II di Brunswick-Lüneburg. Eric V e suo fratello Giovanni IV succedettero insieme al loro padre nel 1412 come duchi di Sassonia-Lauenburg. Dopo la morte di Giovanni IV nel 1414, Eric rimase solo sul trono sino alla propria morte.

Quando gli Ascanidi si estinsero nell'elettorato di Sassonia, l'area venne suddivisa in differenti ducati minori che vennero divisi tra i diversi rami della famiglia, ma Eric V aveva l'ambizione di riunire tutta la Sassonia sotto il proprio comando. Egli, in particolar modo, fece pressione durante gli anni del suo governo per ottenere il privilegio elettorale nella dieta imperiale, che disputava con la linea dei Wittenberg sin dal tempo di Giovanni I di Sassonia nel 1285. Ad ogni modo nel 1356 l'imperatore Carlo IV accettò unicamente la prerogativa di principe elettore per la casata dei Sassonia-Wittenberg, rifiutando la richiesta dei Sassonia-Lauenburg.

Ad ogni modo l'imperatore Sigismondo aveva già garantito a Federico IV il margraviato di Meissen che era difatti una premessa per la prerogativa elettorale, di modo da remunerare adeguatamente il suo supporto militare a favore della causa imperiale. Il 1º agosto 1425 Sigismondo infeudò Federico di Sassonia come principe-elettore di Sassonia, malgrado le continue proteste dell'ascanide Enrico V.

In quanto l'unico suo figlio gli era premorto, alla morte di Eric V salì sul trono di Sassonia-Lauenburg suo fratello minore Bernardo III.

Matrimonio e figli
Nel 1404 Eric V sposò Elisabetta di Schauenburg-Holstein-Rendsburg (1384 – 28 maggio 1416), figlia di Nicola di Holstein-Rendsburg e già vedova del duca Alberto IV di Meclemburgo (prima del 1363– tra il 24 e il 31 dicembre 1388). La coppia non ebbe figli.

Prima del 1422, Eric V sposò Elisabetta di Weinsberg (1397–dopo il 26 gennaio 1498), figlia di Corrado IX di Weinsberg. La coppia ebbe un solo figlio:
 Enrico (?–1437).

Bibliografia
 Otto von Heinemann: Erich V., Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 6. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, S. 211 f.
 Joachim Leuschner: Erich V., Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 4. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, S. 588 f.

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Situated in Via Tasso, just few steps away from the Coliseum, the Forum Romanum and the St. John Lateran's Archbasilica, this luxury apartment, recently renewed by the architect Alessandra Morelli, is located on the 4th floor of an ancient building with lift and courtyard, dating back to 1875. It is made up of a comfortable double bedroom, a living room with dining area, a fully equipped kitchen and a bathroom with bathtub. Furthermore, a/c in all rooms, washing machine, dish washer, satellite tv, computer, internet connection and a HI-FI system are included. Thanks to the excellent furniture and its design, as well as to the central location next to the metro (the subway stop MANZONI - line A, is only 150mt away from the apartment), this accommodation is the perfect solution for a nice stay in the Italian capital city.
* Security deposit: € 300.00-After completing the reservation you will be required to leave a credit card number.


I only got into GCC because someone mentioned free beer.
Michelangelo reportedly said that he could see a statue in a block of marble, and that his goal as a sculptor was to carve away everything which wasn't part of the statue. Some programmers appear to similarly believe that programming means starting with a block of code, and carving away everything which isn't part of the program. This is also known as programming by debugging. It's a bad idea. Don't do it.
A language feature that looks like a compiler bug is not something you want.


Dale Rooks was not just a great photographer of the 1940s and 50s; he wrote the book on photography and taught it at Kent State University. This book improved over 10 years shows how complicated and difficult film and paper photography really was. The book is still valuable today for teaching scene lighting and composition.
The following is the Forward to "Everybody's Photo Course" (1945 Hard Cover) published by U. S. Camera. U. S. Camera magazine began its simplified photo course, the editors little realized how popular a feature they were introducing. Nothing in the magazine has created more interest than this series.
The first book, published in 1944, had 15 lessons, the second (1945 hard cover) had 20 and the 1954 issue had 25 lessons. Since the 1954 photo book was published, more editions were published up to 1966 and 67 editions. The digital republished version here is the 1954 paperback version. Each page measures 5.5 x 7.5 in.
The last U.S. Camera books were the last three editions of, Everybody's Photo Course, issued in 1961, 1966, and 1967. It was first released in 1944. (From U.S. Camera: A Thomas J. Maloney Chronology by Gary D. Saretzky who also gave permission for this digital reprint.) The personal reasons for publishing Dale' s book are that his wife and my mother appear in the book 22 times on pages, 19, 29, 43 – 47, 75-77, 85, 87, 99 and 100. I appear 9 time on pages 17, 38 (with Dale), 99-101. The photographic equipment shown in the book was still used by Rooks Advertising Photography in the late 50s when I worked there.


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Пол Ванден Буйнантс () е белгийски политик от Социалхристиянската партия.

Биография
Той е роден на 22 май 1919 година във Форе край Брюксел в семейството на месар, преселил се от Мехелен. В навечерието на Втората световна война основава месопреработвателно предприятие. От 1949 до 1979 година е депутат от Социалхристиянската партия, която оглавява през 1961 – 1966 и 1979 – 1981 година. През 1966 – 1968 и 1978 – 1979 година е министър-председател. През 1986 година е осъден на 3 години пробация за данъчна измама, а през 1989 година е отвлечен за откуп от бандата на Патрик Хамерс.

Пол Ванден Буйнантс умира на 9 януари 2001 година в Алст.

Белгийски политици
Хора от Брюксел
Министър-председатели на Белгия
Християндемократи


In the globalised connected world of information, there is a surge of data, the constant need for new experiences and different stimulations. Yet nothing beats travelling across different continents to discover new places, spaces and customs. A relief from the daily routine of home. Yet, prolonged periods of disconnection from home brings forth new found anxieties, and the overhead announcement by the Singapore Girl, welcoming Singaporeans home always does the trick to calm those apprehensions.
Sojourn makes that return after a showcase in London last year as part of the Pop-Up Singapore House festival during the 2012 Olympics. This joint exhibition features ceramics and photography by 2 Singaporeans, Dr. Wee Hong Ling, a celebrated ceramicist, the other Yap Lay Bee, a local urban designer. The former translates intent and experiences into form and objects while the latter invites viewers to see form and space through a moment in time, on a two dimensional plane. Juxtaposed in a single space, the common thread of place between the 2 works spark off a dialogue and conversation on the occupation of space, the creation of place and of home.
Wee's "Lulang Town," features a collection of coloured capped ceramic houses. Inspired by travels to Tibet, the architecture is reminiscent of the Hakka "Tulou" or Earthen Houses. With its slender doors and tiny fenestrations, one wonders who resides in these elusive fortresses. What is the community that lies behind what appears to be thick walls and guarded homes.
Yap's monochromatic photographs peel those walls away, as we peer into urban spaces spanning across Beijing, Singapore, Oslo and New York. An openness that inverts the heaviness of Wee's objects, one is invited to look beyond the walls and see the traces of occupants. An emphasis on form, light and shadow brings common, everyday subjects to the foreground. The framing of details, fleeting occurrences and moments of life are captured on film.
Both artists have spent a great deal of time traveling and living abroad. Sojourn documents that sentiment. Through the contrast of colour, of light and heavy, of guardedness and openness, envelop and container, past and present, the notions of place, home and space are brought to light.
There is a banality to the Global Citizen. Where they transpose and adapt readily in a new context. Place them home and you see the roots of their sentiments.


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Go west, Southern Baptists
ib2newseditor — May 8, 2017
When Baptists gather in Phoenix next month, they'll address the challenges of taking the gospel to a world that seems less inclined to hear the message, and doing so with fewer resources to get the job done.
Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention June 13-14 will also meet against a very different political backdrop than a year ago, and could contend with the fallout of recent debate fueled by a raucous and divisive U.S. presidential election.
Recent calls for Convention-wide unity—and similar statements by SBC leaders—could rule the day in Phoenix, where Baptists will focus on prayer, evangelism, and financial stewardship, said SBC President Steve Gaines.
"I believe Southern Baptists can be used of God to spark a mighty movement of prayer, evangelism, and discipleship across our nation and around the world," said Gaines, pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in metro Memphis, Tenn., in announcing the meeting's theme. "Pray! For such a time as this" is based on Luke 18:1 and Esther 4:14.
"If we will pray and abandon ourselves to the Lord, he will use us exponentially to take the gospel to people," Gaines said.
Similar to the previous few annual meetings, Gaines said the 2017 gathering will include seasons of prayer, as well as a personal evangelism emphasis on Tuesday evening led by Greg Laurie.
The California evangelist also will lead a Harvest Crusade Sunday, June 11, as part of the annual Crossover evangelistic effort that precedes the Southern Baptist Convention (see Nate Adams's column on page 2 for more information). Organizers say the event at University of Phoenix Stadium, which holds 65,000 people, promises to be the largest single gospel presentation in Arizona history.
Focus on stewardship
Following the example of previous annual meetings, the gathering in Phoenix will include a panel discussion with SBC leaders. This year's topic: financial stewardship.
Gaines told Baptist Press Southern Baptist churches cannot give more to SBC missions and ministries than church members give through their local congregations.
"The solution for increased funding for world missions begins in the heart of every individual believer in Christ," he said. "Southern Baptists need to get our financial houses in order.
The Cooperative Program—Southern Baptists' unified giving channel for supporting missions and ministry around the world—is likely to be a topic of conversation in Phoenix as well. In February, Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, pastored by former SBC President Jack Graham, announced they would temporarily escrow their CP giving because of positions taken by the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.
ERLC President Russell Moore, a vocal critic of now-President Donald Trump during the campaign, has apologized for comments that seemed directed at all evangelicals who supported Trump, and the ERLC's executive board released a statement in April pledging their support for Moore. The statement also called for unity in the SBC despite differences, a sentiment echoed by Gaines.
"I believe all of us who are recipients of grace and forgiveness should grant him the same forgiveness that we desire from the Lord," Gaines said after Moore and the ERLC executive board released the statement. "It is high time that we put all of this behind us….It is time to move ahead and work together to double our efforts to take the gospel to our nation and the nations."
If the recent controversy surrounding the ERLC does make an appearance at the SBC, it could be in the form of a motion from the floor, or during the Q&A time following Moore's report, which is the final item on the meeting schedule. International Mission Board President David Platt could also face questions about the IMB's support of a Muslim group's fight to build a mosque in New Jersey. (Like the ERLC, the IMB also signed on to a friend of the court brief in support of the group.)
In February, Platt apologized for how "distracting and divisive" the brief was, and pledged that in the future, the IMB "will have a process in place to keep us focused on our primary mission." Still, the mosque debate could spark a religious liberty conversation in Phoenix, as could President Trump's controversial travel ban for people from some majority Muslim countries into the U.S.
Online pre-registration for the Phoenix meeting is now open at sbcannualmeeting/sbc17. Messengers and guests are required to be registered and properly badged in order to enter the general sessions June 13-14.
For more information about the Southern Baptist Convention's June meeting in Phoenix, go to sbcannualmeeting.net.
– With info from Baptist Press
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What is SRI - System of Rice Intensification?
Lalo, Corinne. 2008 (November 6). Systéme de Riziculture Intensive- Cambodge: Le riz du l'espoir. French language video on Tefy Saina website.
Mithranikethan, Vellanad and Trivandrum. 2008 (Sept 26). Paddy cultivation using SRI Technology. Kissan Media Division of Kissan Kerala (on YouTube) 15:20 min.
2008 (Aug.11). System of Rice Intensification. Umagenes channel on YouTube. 4:42 min.
2008. (Aug 6). Power Weeder for Rice SRI Cultivation. anushamlakshmi collection on YouTube. 0:33 min.
2008 (July 14). SRI Implementation in Pitchavaram Village, Tamil Nadu.(on YouTube) Post-Tsunami Health, Education and Livelihood Project (HELP), Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India. 2:49 min.
2008 (Nov. 13) Vietnamese language video about SRI in Vietnam. (30.05 minutes). Available from the SRI Vietnam website, which provides information about a collaborative SRI initiative by Oxfam Quebec, the Plant Protection Department (PPD), and the Centre for Sustainable Rural Development (SRD) with funding from Oxfam America.


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Haiti: Fun Fact
January 15, 2010 Hunter Wallace Haiti, History 40
The U.S. didn't extend diplomatic recognition to Haiti until 1862. The memory of the extermination of the White population by the negro rebels lingered on for generations. If the Southern states hadn't seceded from the Union, the U.S. probably wouldn't have recognized Haiti until the twentieth century.
The Current Frozen State and Ctl-Alt-Del
Review: Empire of Liberty
If the CSA had been successful they wouldn't be recognized by us anyway.
Care for a mud cookie?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4hvio_haiti-starvation-mud-cookies_news
Gee, for a propaganda piece intended to get Whites to feel guilty enough to send money, there's an awful lot of well-developed-well-nourished-looking, obese, even, black people that accidently got filmed in that video.
Geez, is there no quality control anywhere, anymore?
Steve in the Swamps
"The memory of the extermination of the White population by the negro rebels lingered on for generations."
The memory still lingers in my mind. That's for sure!
It is fair to say that the same thing is in store for American Whites in the not so distant future. If you can get rid of Whites, you can get their money. Negro logic.
Ross Perot Jr.
Who gives a * about Haiti? Poor niggaz are dying and shit.
What is the Jew Media saying?
Crypto-Aryan
I read William Pierce's essay on early Haitian history, which I frankly found a lot less mean-spirited than many of the comments I've been reading on the earlier OD posting "Haiti Earthquake," and at other WN sites. I am interested in learning more about the black massacres of whites…can anyone link to some good articles beyond the Pierce one?
I, for one, certainly do feel bad about what is happening in Haiti, just like I feel bad when I see a stray, hungry or injured pet walking the streets. Compassion for living beings different from us is a trait very much associated with whites. What's wrong with you guys? Not for the first time, several of you sound like a bunch of West Bank settlers.
This is not to disagree with the view that demographics explain nearly everything about Haiti over the long term. Look no farther than here for explanation of disparities between Dominican Republic and Haiti, each sharing the same island, geography and climate: the Dominican Republic is 75% mixed, 15% white and 10% black; while Haiti is 95% black.
Robert Reis
Kenneth Roberts' novel Lydia Bailey is set in Haiti during the bloodbath.
Amazing what a difference some European blood and a small White Minority of 15% can make.
Not that DR is a very good country to live in or anything, but compared to Haiti it's basically paradise.
Of course the alternative explanation is that the Haitians have it bad because God is punishing them for selling their souls to The Devil.
We should give Robertson some credit, at least he's trying to come up an explanation for what he sees with his eyes, and that makes him better than the self-blinding Liberals.
It is better to see at all, and poorly, than to not see at all.
ATBOTL
The percentage of Dominicans who are white by American standards is close to zero. Most Dominicans would be considered black in the US, although they are actually mixed. A recent DNA study placed the purely European descended population of Puerto Rico at 2% of the total population. Dominicans are much darker and there are far fewer of them who look even vaguely white. What this shows is that even some white admixture can greatly improve a black population's capacity for civilization. Even so, the DR is a third world country.
Well, the brainiac Crypto considers quadroons "white" so obviously anything he says needs to be taken with a bucket of salt.
Wikitopian
Crypto-Aryan,
The ADL should really pay us for doing their job for them. I believe Billy Roper won the grand prize for tastelessness with his SPLC-featured joke about starting a "Neuter for Nutrition" charity. Personnally, I'm supportive of the kind of help the international community is offering in the wake of this terrible episode.
To Robertson's credit, he wasn't actually being rude. He was being a warped and confused old man. His nurses should really do something about televising him in that condition. It kind of reminds me of having Dick Clark doing the New Year's show.
One bright spot in all this is that Limbaugh tried to exploit the episode for cheap partisan points and Pat Buchanan called him out on it. I wouldn't remind men like Limbaugh who get all high 'n mighty about racism when it suits them (Harry Reid's negro remark) but kick earthquake victims when they're down to chew their food thoroughly.
Why should we feel sympathy for people who descend from those who revolted against and massacred whites, who would probably do it again if the situation were the same and they had the opportunity, who are incredibly dysfunctional and criminal and show no sign of improvement?
If you went to Haiti you would be in danger of being kidnapped, mugged, assaulted, raped and/or killed. A stray animal could never do any of this to you. I feel more sympathy towards a stray animal than I do for these people.
Bureau of Consular Affairs:There are no "safe" areas in Haiti. There is a persistent danger of violent crime, which can be subject to periodic surges sometimes not obviously explained by other events or conditions. Haiti is among the four most important countries for drug transit to the United States. Law and order in Haiti has steadily deteriorated as a result. Kidnapping, death threats, murders, drug-related shootouts, armed robberies, home break-ins and car-jacking are common in Haiti.
Andrew Andrew
Even the Marxist historian CLR James documented the unbelievably savage atrocities committed against Whites by Negroes in the so-called Haitian revolution. According to James' account in his book "The Black Jacobins," Blacks would capture and gut White men so they would slowly bleed out and then rape and murder their wives and daughters on top of their dying bodies. It was animalistic butchery even by primitive Negro standards.
I find it funny that the Dominicans, claim they are Puerto Ricans to gain illegal entry, or to stay in the United States once they have entered through some means. LOL.
They rebelled against slavemasters hundreds of years ago. The majority of Haitians, the majority of humans, are generally harmless and sympathetic. I'm not asking you to rank Haitians one way or another. Such comparisons are silly. I'm not arguing about crime rates or whether they're functional. I'm not advertising it as a vacation destination or even suggesting we should help.
As a side note, we Great Apes are all inclined to inexcusably savage behavior. If your hypothetical "stray animal" were to be a chimpanzee, it might very well assault, rape, or kill you. We Whites are more intelligent and happen to be more domesticated at this point in time, but don't delude yourself into thinking we're less violent than Haitians. Under the right circumstances, in the right context, we're capable of more violent and terrifying behavior than they are.
Wiki,
I'm beginning to worry about you. First a black hairdresser, and now defending Haiti. Don't give in to the dark side.
I'm an advocate for my people, White Americans. I'm not a "hater" in the conventional sense. If White Americans are my family, then Haitians are some rowdy and illiterate people who live on the other side of town. I don't care for them and I don't care about them. But I don't see the need to stomp on their glasses when they fall down.
I can be staunchly opposed to Haitian immigration to the US and fully aware of Haitian criminality without getting all nasty about Haitians acting like Haitians while they're in Haiti. I hope every single Haitian has a fantastic life IN HAITI. Nations are great like that. People can do whatever the hell they want…in THEIR nation. Same goes for Jews, too.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I should declare that I grew up with an adopted Haitian refugee in my class. She was (and remains) very kind and soft-spoken. She never once kidnapped me, car-jacked me, or put a tire around my neck and set it on fire.
Must say that the Haitians I've been around seemed far too dopey and earnest to be harmful. Never been to Little Haiti at night, but I reckon I wouldn't be anymore afraid than I was in San Diego or Paris at the same hour. Haitiennes are usually very sweet.
Sam Davidson
Wikitopian,
The sad thing is that most of the massacred Whites in Haiti probably thought the same as yourself before they were betrayed by France and killed.
The sad thing is that the sort of dehumanization going on here is what lulled the French into enslaving the Haitians in the first place AND what drove the Haitians to slaughter far more than just the plantation owners. They're humans. They're fully human. I want nothing to do with them. Am I contradicting myself?
I'm watching those happy Roman Catholic Haitians' singing, and, dancing in unison on the streets of Haiti. Clap your hands. Shake your butt….
What Haiti would really need is a full-scale, long-term recolonization. I don't suppose anyone of any political stripe has the stomach for that.
Regarding Dominican Republic, those Dominicans, whatever their shade, seem to be a rather racially conscious bunch:
http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/06/25/haitians-in-dominican-republic-face-racism-discrimination/5998/
Once again, racial consciousness grows directly proportional to the degree to which people are made to feel threatened and uncomfortable in and around their living space. Your "jew free White ethnostate" will be full of limp-wristed anti-racists within a generation or two.
As far as I can tell, Whites are the only race that doesn't regard Blacks as being akin to animals, and Whites are the only ones on the planet who put up with Blacks raping and general thuggery. I think another race is likely to wipe them out or bring back slavery if Whites ever go extinct or get completely marginalized. Whites haven't always treated Blacks fairly, humanely, or decently, but Whites have still done more for Blacks than any other race by a mile. It's happening again in Haiti right now.
TabuLa Raza
". . .Whites are the only ones on the planet who put up with Blacks raping and general thuggery. . ."
Then why was there ever segregation or lynching?
Of the aid groups that go to Haiti et el- how many get government monies?
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/mundo/ult94u679672.shtml
that's the link for a video and article – in portuguese – of the Haitian Consul in Sao Paulo, Brazil, saying things that would make Wikitopian tremble
He says that "every place that has Africans is fucked (fudida)", "Africans are themselves cursed" and so on
That was pure James Watson, the raw truth fully exposed. He has recanted by now, saying that he mis-represented himself due to difficulties with Portuguese language. Believe in what a Portuguese speaker says, that guy has no trouble at all with this language.
As I said in other blog, refined and sophisticated people may be offended when someone writes that "voodoo caused the Earthquake". But remembr that a society of believers in voodoo cannot be a society able to build reliable buildings. In this sense, Pat Robertson is absolutely correct
"They rebelled against slavemasters hundreds of years ago."
And they killed innocent children, no?
These people who bark all these crude and hateful things never accomplish anything. They pride themselves on being more "hardcore" than people who are less crude and hateful than they are. When they do act, it's typically in some blowback-inducing act of impotent rage. When they speak like that in public, they strike decent people as sinister and pathetic, because they are.
You can pretend that I'm some kind of trembling coward because I'm not as bigoted as thou. I'm not. White Advocate is as White Advocate does, and I'm working very hard for my people. My failure to spew bile all over a country that was just devastated by a severe natural disaster isn't due to a lack of courage and it implies nothing about my commitment to our cause.
Steve in the Swamps,
Yes. They killed innocent White children…hundreds of years ago.
It should be noted, I don't want to harm the Haitians. I just don't want to bring them into our nations, and/or give them high amounts of foreign aid when we are in a massive debt ourselves.
I can't wait to see that heart-wrenching drama put to film with top-notch actors. Unfortunately I think I'll be waiting a very long time…
100,000 less white-killing Negroes. Cry me a river.
I'm afraid you're right, Mark.
According to (Jew) Dave Zirin, (Jew) Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" is being put into televised form with an all-star Hollywood cast. It's going to show how American Indians, African-Americans, and other groups bravely resisted the horrible encroachment of White civilization. "It's must-see-TV" says Zirin.
http://socialistworker.org/2009/12/11/revolution-will-be-televised
The cast:
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1156524/
31Yosemite
Good one, that got my funny bone. Leonard Pitts eat your heart out. In Haiti they actually would, Voodoo and all.
White people died too. Like this beautiful young girl, who gave all at 22, doing what she wanted to do:
http://mollyinhaiti.blogspot.com/
I know many of you wish whites, when it comes to caring about non-whites, would behave more like Orthodox Jews at Purim. But this sort of altruistic behavior is something that comes very naturally to many whites. And to many non-orthodox Jews, as well. Much less so to other races.
Hunter Wallace
Molly here wasn't the first (and won't be the last) Christian to choose to live and die among non-Whites.
Molly did the right thing, she should be a model for all do-gooder liberals, move to the third world and don't burden the rest of us with your pathological egalitarianism by importing them to our countries.
My condolences to her family, but frankly I don't see why they are so proud that their daughter perished at the age of 22, in her prime, in some third world cesspool, helping people that will continue to live in abject poverty. She could have had a beautiful white family and children to carry on her heritage.
15 Jan 2010 at 6:24 pm20Wikitopian
" They're ( the Haitians ) humans. They're fully human. "
Nope, they're not fully humans.
ASPM and MCPH1 are absent in negroes.
Then read: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091221212732.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily:+Latest+Science+News)&utm_content=Google+Reader
Google: ASPM
Google MCPH1
39 weeks gestation period for negroes. http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/33/1/107
Right. The thing is, going down to Haiti for a year before graduate school to work in an orphanage seems more rewarding than hanging out with one's spoiled white friends in Portland Oregon, doing whatever crass, stupid things 22 year old white college graduates do today in America, while getting ready to go back to school to join "the professional class." It is hard to find a good outlet for one's idealism here among fat spoiled whites shopping in their insipid malls and dancing in their insipid clubs. This whole nation — white and non-white — is full of vanity, indolence and body fat. Thank God for this recession, wish it was worse!
I recall Revilo Oliver, in his NYA promotional film "After 50 Years," made the same point, that he could understand why college students of the late sixties weren't eager to embrace the empty materialism, careerism and hedonism embraced by their parent's generation. I believed he mentioned "martini lunches and wife-swapping."
Also, I noticed a few nasty comments at this girl Molly's website, including one about niggers needing to die. I really hope it wasn't some WN jerk who first heard about her here in my comment last night. I don't think the regulars here would have sunk that low.
whodareswings
I'm interested in holocaust diaspora demographics because I think we've been lied to about how many Jews actually entered the USA
before, during, and after WWII. Undocumented Mexicans pouring in today while the gov't looks the other way is just like falsely documented East European Jews slipping into the country with the aid The Joint Distribution Committee and hardcore dispensationalist Christian Zionist churches like The Christadelphians back in the day.
One entry point for these refugees was The Dominican Republic. Notice that Productos Sosua still provides the country with most of it's meat and dairy products. Do you think the Jews that started it handed it over to the Dominicans as they moved on to NYC? Also, wasn't the Dominican Republic, like pre-Castro Cuba, colonized by Kosher Nostra crime boss Meyer Lansky?
The Dominican Republic's Haven
for Jewish Refugees
By Lauren Levy
In 1938, when no other nation would welcome Jewish refugees, Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican Republic strongman, offered to take in 100,000. Between 1940 and 1945, 5,000 Dominican visas were issued, but only 645 Jews actually made their way to the Dominican Republic. The refugees settled in the tiny seacoast town of Sosua, then just jungle land, that Trujillo had established with funding provided by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Upon arrival, every new Jewish settler was given 80 acres of land, 10 cows, a mule and a horse. Although most of the settlers were German or Austrian Jews and had professional or craftsmen's backgrounds, they quickly picked up the agricultural life offered by Sosua and established a successful Jewish cooperative—Productos Sosua—that today produces most of the county's meat and dairy produce.
Trujillo's generosity probably stemmed mainly from his eagerness to have the Western nations overlook his brutal massacre of 25,000 Haitians in 1937, and his desire to "whiten" his race. He believed that the young European men would marry Dominican women and produce light-skinned offspring. He was correct in this in that most settlers were single young men who did marry Dominican women. The children usually considered themselves Jewish and many stayed in Sosua.
Today, only about 30 of the original Jewish families remain in Sosua. By the 1940's, most of the nearly 700 inhabitants had moved to either New York or Miami. Although no longer in the Dominican Republic, the Sosua Jews have maintained a tight-knit community. Until 1980, the town was still entirely Jewish; however, with the opening of the international Puerto Plata airport four miles west of Sosua, the village has turned into a major beach resort.
Today the town has 3,000 full-time residents, with about 70 Jews. Those who did remain in Sosua and held onto their land, have made a fortune. Erik Hauser, an original settler from Vienna, now owns an entire block of the lucrative downtown area, where hotels and restaurants were built on his original 80 acres. He is Sosua's wealthiest resident.
Sosua has one functioning synagogue that holds services every other Shabbat and on the High Holidays. Passover Seders are held in community members homes and an annual Purim carnival is a major community event. The small Jewish community also has a museum dedicated to preserving the history and story of the town's original Jewish settlers.
Remember,
those whites killed by blacks, brought them there to do "jobs Americans wont do" in a sense.
Blacks back to Africa, and no more injustice to either race.


Starting his Career in the late 70's as a Design Engineer, Mark progressed to General Manager with a major Christchurch Engineering firm before deciding to change vocation in 1998. As a keen investor Mark identified that there was a definite lack of skilled professionals offering advice on setting up the best finance structures for long term investing. With 2011 came major changes in regulation both in New Zealand and Australia. The New Zealand government created a new qualification, which is now the benchmark requirement for all advisors who give specific types of personalized investment advice. Mark has obtained this new qualification and is now an Authorized Financial Advisor in New Zealand allowing him to continue providing financial plans for all his clients. It also means that we believe he is the only individual in NZ holding an Australian Credit Licence. Mark's wealth of financial knowledge, years of experience and his dedication to the strong belief that forming long-term relationships, in order to help client's achieve their financial goals, is key to their success.
Kristina has worked as Mark's PA since 2006. In this time she has played an integral part in assisting hundreds of client's with their financial goals and heavily supports Mark with the research and property selection process. Kristina regularly attends trainings and lender events to ensure she stays up to date with the state of the current market and latest financial products available. Kristina's experience in the industry and her professional manner has made her an indispensable asset to the team.
After 4 years of working for a catering company, Judith decided she wanted to be her own boss and so started her own catering business which she ran for 5 years. Being keen on property investment herself she joined with Mark in 1998 to start their own mortgage broking company specialising in investment property finance and advice. Judith's role has been invaluable supporting the administration for the entire team.


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==============================
Highly available Telemetry API
==============================

`Telemetry service
<http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide/common/get-started-telemetry.html`>_
provides data collection service and alarming service.

Telemetry central agent
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Telemetry central agent can be configured to partition its polling
workload between multiple agents, enabling high availability.

Both the central and the compute agent can run in an HA deployment,
which means that multiple instances of these services can run in
parallel with workload partitioning among these running instances.

The `Tooz <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tooz>`__ library provides
the coordination within the groups of service instances.
It provides an API above several back ends that can be used for building
distributed applications.

Tooz supports
`various drivers <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tooz/drivers.html>`__
including the following back end solutions:

* `Zookeeper <http://zookeeper.apache.org/>`__.
    Recommended solution by the Tooz project.

* `Redis <http://redis.io/>`__.
    Recommended solution by the Tooz project.

* `Memcached <http://memcached.org/>`__.
    Recommended for testing.

You must configure a supported Tooz driver for the HA deployment of
the Telemetry services.

For information about the required configuration options that have
to be set in the :file:`ceilometer.conf` configuration file for both
the central and compute agents, see the `coordination section
<http://docs.openstack.org/liberty/config-reference/content/
ch_configuring-openstack-telemetry.html>`__
in the OpenStack Configuration Reference.

.. note:: Without the ``backend_url`` option being set only one
   instance of both the central and compute agent service is able to run
   and function correctly.

The availability check of the instances is provided by heartbeat messages.
When the connection with an instance is lost, the workload will be
reassigned within the remained instances in the next polling cycle.

.. note:: Memcached uses a timeout value, which should always be set to
   a value that is higher than the heartbeat value set for Telemetry.

For backward compatibility and supporting existing deployments, the central
agent configuration also supports using different configuration files for
groups of service instances of this type that are running in parallel.
For enabling this configuration, set a value for the partitioning_group_prefix
option in the `central section <http://docs.openstack.org/liberty/
config-reference/content/ch_configuring-openstack-telemetry.html>`__
in the OpenStack Configuration Reference.

.. warning:: For each sub-group of the central agent pool with the same
   ``partitioning_group_prefix`` a disjoint subset of meters must be polled --
   otherwise samples may be missing or duplicated. The list of meters to poll
   can be set in the :file:`/etc/ceilometer/pipeline.yaml` configuration file.
   For more information about pipelines see the `Data collection and
   processing
   <http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide/telemetry-data-collection.html#data-collection-and-processing>`__
   section.

To enable the compute agent to run multiple instances simultaneously with
workload partitioning, the workload_partitioning option has to be set to
``True`` under the `compute section <http://docs.openstack.org/liberty/
config-reference/content/ch_configuring-openstack-telemetry.html>`__
in the :file:`ceilometer.conf` configuration file.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Neighbourhood Citizenship Participation in Environmental Planning and Management in Lagos State: The Estate Surveyor's View.
Sound environmental planning is in the interest of the society and as such those whose neighborhoods are being planned must be carried along through intensive participation as provided for in the existing environmental planning legislations.
Oloyede, S. A., Ajibola, M. O. and O. D. Durodola.
Real Estate Investment Trust: An Attractive Vehicle for Real Estate Development in Nigeria.
Data Sharing: A Critical Factor for Estate Surveying and Valuation Practice in Nigeria.
Valuation Inaccuracy: An Examination of Causes in Lagos Metropolis.
Analysis of Tenure Preferences of Socio-Economic Groups in Lagos Metropolis.
Impacts of Gated Communities on Residential Property Values: A Comparison of Onipetesi Estate and its Neighbourhoods in Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria.
Assessment of Accuracy of Valuation in the Property Market in Lagos Metropolis.
Importance of Accessibility to Reliable Data for Real Estate Practice.
Issues Facing the Estate Surveying and Valuation Profession in Nigeria.
Estate Surveyors and Valuers' Perception and Methods of Wetland Valuation in Lagos Metropolis.
Assessing the Effects of Flooding on Residential Property Values in Lekki Phase I, Lagos, Nigeria.
An Examination of Contemporary Methods for Assessing Compensation in Nigeria.
Assessing the Effects of Urban Planning on Residential Property Values in Agege, Lagos.
Effects of Urbanisation on Lagos Wetlands.
A Comparison of Wetland Valuation Purposes in Lagos Metropolis and the Niger Delta, Nigeria.
Examining the Factors Contributing to Affordable Housing in Kosofe Local Government Council Area, Lagos, Nigeria.
Challenges of Valuing Wetland Resources for Compensation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria.
Adequacy of Legal Provisions on Valuation of Wetland for Compensation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria.
Effects of Infrastructure on Property Values in Unity Estate, Lagos, Nigeria.
Assessment of Wetland Valuation Processes for Compensation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria.
Factors Influencing the Choice of Wetland Valuation Methods in the Niger Delta, Nigeria.
Militant Activities and Property Values in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
An Examination of the Basis and Methods of Wetland Valuation for Compensation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria.
Rent Control and Residential Property Values in Lagos State.


on wednesday, i headed to plaza singapura to get craftholic soft toys for my ex boss's newborn girl before catching up with him over coffee at marina bay sands. at the same time, dropped off my scholarship cheque that i had to pay back before mid june. phew. that evening, as watsons was having members sales the whole day, marc and i stopped by the outlet at tiong bahru. omg cray cray prices! best part, my mom did her shopping too through me over whatsapp. i picked up a maybelline cinnamon stick lipstick, making this my 4th lipstick from maybelline! really like the colors though i find it a little too dry at times.
ok thats all from me on this quiet friday evening. have a great weekend!
Hi where's the blue rope necklace from? So pretty!


Getting from project conceptualization to completion takes experienced leadership.
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Alcanhões es una freguesia portuguesa del concelho de Santarén, con 11,44 km² de superficie y 1.615 habitantes (2001). Su densidad de población es de 141,2 hab/km².

Enlaces externos

 Alcanhões en freguesiasdeportugal.com (en portugués)
 Gobierno civil e información administrativa (en portugués)

Freguesias de Santarén


For over forty years, Eurocamping has been a manufacturer of gas cylinders and accessories for camping and leisure, gas cylinders for technical gases and compressed air tanks. The long experience and high professionalism have enabled them to become industry leaders and to satisfy new industrial markets.
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SME Bulletin
SME business news & features
August 11, 2017 Jenny Marks
UK government to overhaul data protection laws giving consumers more powers
New proposals that have been outlined by the government and announced by the queen indicate that the people of the UK could have more say over what happens to their personal information. Sensitive information is everywhere, in the form of cookies, social media posts, and more.
Citizens of the UK will be able to ask for personal data, and even things that they posted on social media when they were children to be deleted. Watchdog says that the businesses and organisations that ignore these laws can be fined more than ever before – as much as 4% of their global turnover. It is crucial that businesses both big and small take heed of these new proposals and put measures in place to avoid being hit with fines.
An Overhaul Of UK Data Protection
The proposals are part of an overhaul of UK data protection laws drafted under our Digital Minister, Matt Hancock. General Data Protection Regulation: Call for Views. The bill was first announced in July as part of the Queen's Speech, and will be the biggest overhaul of regulations governing personal data for more than two decades.
Mr Hancock put an emphasis on the quality of data science that we have, and said that this change would help it to thrive. He explained that we will now have the most robust and dynamic set of data laws in the world, which will help UK citizens in numerous ways. The overhaul will give people more control over data, require more consent for companies to use data, and help us to prepare for Brexit. It will also help to give people confidence that their data will be protected, and if it isn't, appropriate action will be taken.
More than 80 per cent of people who were surveyed feel that they do not have complete control over their data online, so this is good news for them and anybody who is concerned about what happens to their data currently; according to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
Everybody will have a say over what happens to their data. From social media users to employees, bank account owners to insurance customers, smartphone owners to home owners; everyone will have more power over the way their data is processed, handled, and stored than ever before.
The new bills proposals include the following:
Make re-identifying people from anonymised or pseudonymised data a criminal offence.
Let people access the information that firms have on them more freely.
Expand personal data to include IP addresses, DNA, and cookies (small text files).
Let people request that data be deleted under the 'right to be forgotten'.
Make it easier for people to take away consent for their data to be used.
Larger Fines Incurred If Businesses Flout The Rules
This new bill gives firms more of a responsibility to protect data and will incur large fines if the rules are flouted. The fine is currently up to £500,000, however, this can rise to a huge £17 million, or 4 percent of global turnover depending on which one is more. This could be devastating for businesses both big and small. Measures must be put in place to ensure that firms are not liable.
Social Media And Your Right To Be Forgotten
Some people worry about embarrassing social media posts staying online for years to come, but it will soon be far easier to ask for them to be removed. You will also be able to ask any firm that holds data on you, from your name to your DNA, to get rid of it as outlined under a "right to be forgotten". This means social media giant Facebook will be forced to comply with the new rules, or face huge fines. However, the social media site has said that they are already in alignment with EU data protection laws, and that it would be ready for the implementation of the new data sharing framework when it begins. Let's hope that the likes of Twitter, Instagram, and other popular social media sites are following suit.
Many smaller companies are still at a loss as to what this change means for them, and the changes in fines could mean the end of a business that doesn't comply. It's more important than ever for businesses to ensure that they are handling and storing data safely and securely.
Members of the public reportedly find it difficult to understand how firms handle data currently, but this new bill should give everybody peace of mind and a feeling of having more control over their personal information.
Jenny Marks
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Q: Simple Image Upload from Unity to Firebase not working I am working on an IOS App which I create with Unity in C# (Unity 2018.2.5f1). Now I'm trying to upload an image to Firebase Storage to get familiar with it. Unfortunately this doesn't work.
I assume there is a problem with the path to the local file. I get the following error in XCode when running the app.
Firebase.Storage.Storage.StorageException: There is no object at the desired reference.
The file swift.jpg definitively exists on the iPhone.
Your help is very welcome.
using UnityEngine;
using Firebase.Storage;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

public class Upload : MonoBehaviour {

    FirebaseStorage storage;
    StorageReference storage_ref;

    // Use this for initialization
    void Start () {
        storage = FirebaseStorage.DefaultInstance;
        storage_ref = storage.GetReferenceFromUrl("gs://[My Storage URL]");

        // File located on disk
        string local_file = Application.persistentDataPath + "/" + "swift.jpg";

        // Create a reference to the file you want to upload
        StorageReference image_ref = storage_ref.Child("images/swift.jpeg");

        // Upload the file to the path
        image_ref.PutFileAsync(local_file)
          .ContinueWith((Task<StorageMetadata> task) => {
              if (task.IsFaulted || task.IsCanceled) {
                  Debug.Log(task.Exception.ToString());
                  // Uh-oh, an error occurred!
              }
              else {
                  // Metadata contains file metadata such as size, content-type, and download URL.
                  // StorageMetadata metadata = task.Result;
                  // string download_url = metadata.DownloadUrl.ToString();
                  // Debug.Log("Finished uploading...");
                  // Debug.Log("download url = " + download_url);
              }
          });
    }

}

A: Try
string local_file = "file:///" + Application.persistentDataPath + "/" + "swift.jpg";

Or
string local_file = "file://" + Application.persistentDataPath + "/" + "swift.jpg";

Or
string local_file = "file:\\" + Application.persistentDataPath + "/" + "swift.jpg";

Hope one of these will work.