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The First Crusade, 1095-99
In this course, Dr Nicholas Morton (Nottingham Trent University) explores the First Crusade, a massive military campaign in the Near East which ended with the Crusaders' capture of Jerusalem in 1099. The course begins by considering the nature of the sources at our disposal when thinking about the Crusades: in the first module, we consider the Western sources, and in the second, the non-Western ones. After that, we consider the motivations of the Crusaders for making the long and extremely dangerous journey to the East, before moving on in the fourth module to think about what the situation was in the Near East in the years immediately before the Crusaders' arrival. In the fifth module, we think about why it was that the First Crusade was a success, despite the apparently overwhelming odds against it, before turning in the sixth and final module to consider whether the First Crusade should be thought of as a conflict between Christians and Muslims, as has commonly been supposed.
About the Lecturer
Dr Nicholas Morton is a specialist in the history of crusading and the Medieval Mediterranean between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. More recently he has begun to focus specifically upon the theme of inter-faith relations between Christianity and Islam in this region. He has published extensively on topics connected to this subject area, writing a range of monographs and scholarly articles. He is also an editor for the Ashgate series Rulers of the Latin East.
Currently Dr Morton is completing a monograph exploring the First Crusaders' attitudes and behaviour towards the various non-Christian peoples they encountered during their campaign. This will be a highly revisionist work addressing many key scholarly and public orthodoxies surrounding the nature of Christian/Islamic interaction during the crusade.
1. The Western Sources (10:46)
2. Other Sources (11:54)
3. Motivations (14:27)
4. The Situation in the Near East (09:53)
5. Why did the First Crusade Succeed? (13:55)
6. Was the First Crusade a War Betwee... (12:40)
After this course, you might like:
The Founding of the Crusader States, 1099-1124
The Second Crusade, 1144-48
The Crusader States and the Fall of Jerusalem, c.1160-87
The Third Crusade, 1189-92
The Fourth Crusade, 1202-04
The Templars and Hospitallers in the Crusader States, 1119-1187
The First Crusade, 1095-99: Essay Questions
The Second Crusade, 1147-49: Essay Questions


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The new research reports from Fundamental Markets, available for free download at the links above, examine Steelcase Inc. (NYSE:SCS), Acco Brands Corporation (NYSE:ACCO), PRGX Global, Inc. (NASDAQ:PRGX), Bandwidth Inc. (NASDAQ:BAND), Solar Senior Capital Ltd. (NASDAQ:SUNS), and NCS Multistage Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:NCSM) on a fundamental level and outlines the overall demand for their products and services in addition to an in-depth review of the business strategy, management discussion, and overall direction going forward. Several excerpts from the recently released reports are available to today's readers below.
For the three months ended November 30th, 2018 vs November 30th, 2017, Steelcase reported revenue of $901.00MM vs $772.10MM (up 16.69%) and analysts estimated basic earnings per share $0.31 vs $0.22 (up 40.91%). For the twelve months ended February 28th, 2018 vs February 28th, 2017, Steelcase reported revenue of $3,055.50MM vs $3,032.40MM (up 0.76%) and analysts estimated basic earnings per share $0.68 vs $1.03 (down 33.98%). Analysts expect earnings to be released on June 19th, 2019. The report will be for the fiscal period ending May 31st, 2019. The reported EPS for the same quarter last year was $0.14. The estimated EPS forecast for the next fiscal year is $1.49 and is expected to report on March 17th, 2020.
For the three months ended December 31st, 2018 vs December 31st, 2017, Acco Brands reported revenue of $529.30MM vs $566.80MM (down 6.62%) and analysts estimated basic earnings per share $0.34 vs $0.70 (down 51.43%). For the twelve months ended December 31st, 2018 vs December 31st, 2017, Acco Brands reported revenue of $1,941.20MM vs $1,948.80MM (down 0.39%) and analysts estimated basic earnings per share $1.02 vs $1.22 (down 16.39%). Analysts expect earnings to be released on May 2nd, 2019. The report will be for the fiscal period ending March 31st, 2019. Reported EPS for the same quarter last year was $0.08. The estimated EPS forecast for the next fiscal year is $1.29 and is expected to report on February 12th, 2020.
For the three months ended December 31st, 2018 vs December 31st, 2017, PRGX Global reported revenue of $49.63MM vs $47.07MM (up 5.44%) and analysts estimated basic earnings per share $0.34 vs $0.25 (up 36.00%). For the twelve months ended December 31st, 2018 vs December 31st, 2017, PRGX Global reported revenue of $171.78MM vs $161.62MM (up 6.28%) and analysts estimated basic earnings per share $0.20 vs $0.15 (up 33.33%). Analysts expect earnings to be released on May 7th, 2019. The report will be for the fiscal period ending March 31st, 2019. Reported EPS for the same quarter last year was -$0.10. The estimated EPS forecast for the next fiscal year is $0.36 and is expected to report on March 5th, 2020.
For the three months ended December 31st, 2018 vs December 31st, 2017, Bandwidth reported revenue of $52.34MM vs $42.47MM (up 23.26%) and basic earnings per share -$0.10 vs -$0.06. For the twelve months ended December 31st, 2018 vs December 31st, 2017, Bandwidth reported revenue of $204.11MM vs $162.96MM (up 25.26%) and analysts estimated basic earnings per share $0.96 vs $0.42 (up 128.57%). Analysts expect earnings to be released on May 1st, 2019. The report will be for the fiscal period ending March 31st, 2019. The reported EPS for the same quarter last year was $0.09. The estimated EPS forecast for the next fiscal year is -$0.67 and is expected to report on February 12th, 2020.
For the three months ended December 31st, 2018 vs December 31st, 2017, Solar Senior Capital reported revenue of $9.98MM vs $9.05MM (up 10.36%) and analysts estimated basic earnings per share -$0.16 vs $0.39. For the twelve months ended December 31st, 2018 vs December 31st, 2017, Solar Senior Capital reported revenue of $39.81MM vs $32.17MM (up 23.76%) and analysts estimated basic earnings per share $0.86 vs $1.46 (down 41.10%). Analysts expect earnings to be released on May 6th, 2019. The report will be for the fiscal period ending March 31st, 2019. The reported EPS for the same quarter last year was $0.35. The estimated EPS forecast for the next fiscal year is $1.44 and is expected to report on February 20th, 2020.
For the three months ended December 31st, 2018 vs December 31st, 2017, NCS Multistage reported revenue of $50.19MM vs $50.18MM (up 0.01%) and analysts estimated basic earnings per share -$4.54 vs -$0.09. For the twelve months ended December 31st, 2018 vs December 31st, 2017, NCS Multistage reported revenue of $226.96MM vs $201.63MM (up 12.56%) and analysts estimated basic earnings per share -$4.25 vs $0.05. Analysts expect earnings to be released on May 6th, 2019. The report will be for the fiscal period ending March 31st, 2019. The reported EPS for the same quarter last year was $0.21. The estimated EPS forecast for the next fiscal year is $0.33 and is expected to report on March 5th, 2020.


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The 2012–13 season of the Women's 2nd Fußball-Bundesliga was the ninth season of Germany's second-tier women's football league.

BV Cloppenburg and 1899 Hoffenheim gained promotion to the 2013–14 Fußball-Bundesliga (women) season, by respectively winning the North and South groups. 1. FFC Recklinghausen and BW Hohen Neuendorf played each other as they finished in the tenth position from each groups, for the playoff match to determine the fifth team that was relegated.

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Relegation play-off
Blau-Weiß Hohen Neuendorf won the play-off 6–3 on aggregate and remained in the second division.

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Q: Finding an admissible control such that $(0,0) \to (1,e^2)$ Verify the controllability of the system $(A,B)$, for
$$A=\begin{pmatrix}1&0\\1&-1\end{pmatrix}, \; B=\begin{pmatrix}1\\1\end{pmatrix}$$
Find a control $u \in L([0,1];R)$ such that $(0,0)\xrightarrow{u}(1,e^2)$.
My attempt My doubt is about the second part. First, I've tried to suppose that the system starts on $(0,0)$. In this case, we have a solution of the form
$$x(t)=\int_0^t e^{(t-s)A}Bu(s)ds$$
I've calculated the exponential matrix as
$$e^{(t-s)A} = \begin{pmatrix} e^{(t-s)} & 0 \\ \sinh (t-s) & e^{-(t-s)}\end{pmatrix}$$
Substituting this and multiplying by $B$, I couldn't see a good form for the integrals so that a function $u$ looked obvious. Probably there is a better way of doing it.
Thanks in advance!

A: If $W(0,T)=\int_0^Te^{sA}BB^te^{sA^t}ds$ is the gremian of controllability, since the system is controllable the control
$$u(s)=B^te^{(T-s)A^t}W(0,T)^{-1}x(T)$$
for $x(T)=(1,e^2)$ do what we want.

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How Banner Ads Work
Banner Ad Objectives
Advertisers generally hope a banner ad will do one of two things. Ideally, a visitor to the publisher site, the Web site that posts the banner ad, will click on the banner ad and go to the advertiser's Web site. In this case the banner ad has brought the advertiser a visitor they would not have had otherwise. The banner ad is a real success if the visitor not only comes to the site but also buys something. Failing a click-through, advertisers hope that a publisher site visitor will see the banner ad and will somehow register it in their heads. This could mean the visitor consciously notes the content of a banner ad and decides to visit the advertiser's site at some time in the future, or it might mean that the visitor only peripherally picks up on the ad but is made aware of the advertiser's product or service.
This second effect of advertising is known as branding. We've all experienced the effects of branding before. Say you see ads on television for Brand X glue all the time. The ads don't seem to particularly affect you -- you don't leap from your couch to go buy glue -- but down the road, when you're at the store shopping for glue, they may affect the decision you make. If you don't have any other reason to choose one type of glue over the others, you'll probably choose the one you're most familiar with, Brand X, even if you're only familiar with it because of advertising.
So there are several ways a banner ad can be successful. Consequently, there are several ways advertisers measure banner ad success. Advertisers look at:
Clicks/Click-throughs: The number of visitors who click on the banner ad linking to the advertiser's Web site. Publisher sites often sell banner ad space on a cost-per-click (CPC) basis.
Page views: Also called page impressions, this is the number of times a particular Web page has been requested from the server. Advertisers are interested in page views because they indicate the number of visitors who could have seen the banner ad. Although they don't measure the effectiveness of a branding campaign, they do measure how many visitors were exposed to it. The most common way to sell banner ad space is cost per thousand impressions, or CPM (In roman numerals, M equals a thousand).
Click-through rate (CTR): This describes the ratio of page views to clicks. It is expressed as the percentage of total visitors to a particular page who actually clicked on the banner ad. The typical click-through-rate is something under 1 percent, and click-through rates significantly higher than that are very rare.
Cost per sale: This is the measure of how much advertising money is spent on making one sale. Advertisers use different means to calculate this, depending on the ad and the product or service. Many advertisers keep track of visitor activity using Internet cookies. This technology allows the site to combine shopping history with information about how the visitor originally came to the site.
Different measures are more important to different advertisers, but most advertisers consider all of these elements when judging the effectiveness of a banner ad.
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Q: Autoloading em Classes PHP O que seria o Autoloading de Classes em PHP?
Vejo pessoas usando __autoload e spl_autoload_register existe diferença?
Que associação existe entre o autoloader do composer e o autoloading convencional?
São estas duas funções que estão a ser usadas debaixo dos panos no autoloader do composer?


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Q: Timeout on recvfrom ( winsock2 & udp ) I'm trying to implement a timeout on the recvfrom() function.
To do so, I use the select() function. I take the code from the great Internet, but don't know why, my program crash when I use it.
I launch this server in athread if that coudl help.
Here's what I try to do :
...
        // Setup timeval variable
        timeval timeout;
        timeout.tv_sec = 5;
        timeout.tv_usec = 0;

        // Setup fd_set structure
        fd_set fds;
        FD_ZERO(&fds);
        FD_SET(id_de_la_socket, &fds);

        // Return value:
        // -1: error occurred
        // 0: timed out
        // > 0: data ready to be read
        int retval = select(id_de_la_socket+1, &fds, NULL, NULL, &timeout);
        if(retval == -1){
            printf("Error");
            return NULL;
        }
        else if(retval == 0){
            printf("Timeout");
            return NULL;
        }
        else{
            nombre_de_caractere=recvfrom(id_de_la_socket,buffer,1515,/*MSG_PARTIAL*/0,(struct sockaddr*)&information_sur_la_source,&tempo);
...

Before trying to implement the timeout, everything works fine, my recvfrom() was in block mode. So I think the problem come from this code that I add. Maybe it's a parameter of a function that I don't understand well.
Thanks for your help.
EDIT : Full code :
#include "serveur.h"
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
serveur::serveur()
{
}

StructureSupervision::T_StructureSupervision* serveur::receiveDataUDP(){
    WSADATA initialisation_win32;
    int erreur;
    int tempo;
    int nombre_de_caractere;
    char buffer[65535];
    SOCKET id_de_la_socket;
    SOCKADDR_IN information_sur_la_source;

    erreur=WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,2),&initialisation_win32);
    if (erreur!=0)
        printf("\nDesole, je ne peux pas initialiser Winsock du a l'erreur : %d %d",erreur,WSAGetLastError());
    else
        printf("\nWSAStartup  : OK");

    id_de_la_socket=socket(AF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM,0);
    if (id_de_la_socket==INVALID_SOCKET)
        printf("\nDesole, je ne peux pas creer la socket du a l'erreur : %d",WSAGetLastError());
    else
        printf("\nsocket      : OK");

    information_sur_la_source.sin_family=AF_INET;
    information_sur_la_source.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("10.100.13.129"); // Ecoute sur toutes les IP locales
    information_sur_la_source.sin_port=htons(4000); // Ecoute sur le port 4000
    erreur=bind(id_de_la_socket,(struct sockaddr*)&information_sur_la_source,sizeof(information_sur_la_source));
    if (erreur!=0)
        printf("\nDesole, je ne peux pas ecouter ce port : %d %d",erreur,WSAGetLastError());
    else
        printf("\nbind        : OK \n");

    tempo=sizeof(information_sur_la_source); // Passe par une variable afin d'utiliser un pointeur

    // Setup timeval variable
    timeval timeout;
    timeout.tv_sec = 5;
    timeout.tv_usec = 0;
    // Setup fd_set structure
    fd_set fds;
    FD_ZERO(&fds);
    FD_SET(id_de_la_socket, &fds);
    // Return value:
    // -1: error occurred
    // 0: timed out
    // > 0: data ready to be read
    ULONG NonBlock = 1; ioctlsocket(id_de_la_socket, FIONBIO, &NonBlock);
    int retval = select(id_de_la_socket+1, &fds, NULL, NULL, &timeout);
    if(retval == -1){
        printf("Error");
        return NULL;
    }
    else if(retval == 0){
        printf("Timeout");
        return NULL;
    }
    else{
    nombre_de_caractere=recvfrom(id_de_la_socket,buffer,1515,/*MSG_PARTIAL*/0,(struct sockaddr*)&information_sur_la_source,&tempo);
    buffer[nombre_de_caractere]=0; // Permet de fermer le tableau apr�s le contenu des data, car la fonction recvfrom ne le fait pas
    //printf("\nVoici les donnees : %s",buffer);
    StructureSupervision::T_StructureSupervision *structureReception = (StructureSupervision::T_StructureSupervision *) buffer;
    std::cout << "Voici le numero de Statut Ground Flight : " << structureReception->SystemData._statutGroundFlight;

    erreur=closesocket(id_de_la_socket);
    if (erreur!=0)
        printf("\nDesole, je ne peux pas liberer la socket du a l'erreur : %d %d",erreur,WSAGetLastError());
    else
        printf("\nclosesocket : OK");

    // ********************************************************
    // Quitte proprement le winsock ouvert avec la commande WSAStartup
    // ********************************************************
    erreur=WSACleanup(); // A appeler autant de fois qu'il a �t� ouvert.
    if (erreur!=0)
        printf("\nDesole, je ne peux pas liberer winsock du a l'erreur : %d %d",erreur,WSAGetLastError());
    else
        printf("\nWSACleanup  : OK");

    return structureReception;
    }
}

A: Thanks for your help, the problem was : This program runs in a loop, so I was opening and closing the socket at the wrong time.


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Voices & Votes: Democracy in America
Date and Time: May 13, 2023
Location: Mid-America All-Indian Museum, 650 N Seneca St, Wichita
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When American revolutionaries waged a war for independence, they took a leap of faith that sent ripple effects across generations. They embraced a radical idea of establishing a government that entrusted the power of the nation not in a monarchy, but in its citizens. Explore that leap of faith in the Smithsonian traveling exhibition, Voices and Votes: Democracy in America! Now open through June 25.
For exhibition and event details, contact Mid-America All-Indian Museum directly.
Voices and Votes has been made possible in Kansas by Humanities Kansas with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the following partners: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation; Kansas Tourism; ITC Great Plains; Mariah Fund; and Humanities Kansas Friends of the Humanities. Special thanks to the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum, and Boyhood Home.
Sponsored by: Mid-America All-Indian Museum
For more information about this event, please contact:
Erin Raux
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What You Need to Know About the GMO Food-Labeling Bill
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On Thursday, July 14, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 306-117 on a bill that would require any food with genetically modified ingredients to be labeled as such, and provide consumers with easy access to a list of which ingredients are genetically modified.
This comes after a 63-30 vote by the U.S. Senate on Thursday, July 7. The White House is reporting that President Barack Obama will sign the bill into law.
The new legislation will require most food labels to use words, pictures or a barcode that can be scanned with a smartphone to indicate genetically modified ingredients.
Those In Favor
Proponents of the bill (including many lawmakers from rural states and the food industry) believe that national food-labeling laws will decrease costs for labeling and distribution as there will not be differences in labeling requirements in each individual state. Additionally, the labels will make it easier for consumers to learn more about the ingredients in their food.
Those Against
Those criticizing the new legislation believe that the bill is not specific enough and will create confusion for consumers when purchasing food, citing electronic labels as the main source of potential confusion. This includes representatives from Vermont, where labeling laws required products that contained GMOs to be labeled with the phrase "produced with genetic engineering" in an effort to make it quick and easy for consumers to know which items they are purchasing contain genetically modified ingredients. The new legislation will override the current labeling laws in Vermont.
Additionally, opponents of the new bill argue that the new standard is weaker than the current standards in Vermont and that it has too many loopholes that food manufacturers can take advantage of. Specifically, food products (like corn, soybean and sugar products) that are made from genetically engineered crops but contain no genetic material after processing will not fall under the law's definition of genetically modified ingredients.
In response, the USDA said it would include commercially grown GMO corn, soybeans, sugar and canola crops. The USDA is also responsible for deciding which ingredients are genetically modified. The rules must be completed within two years of the bill becoming a law. Until then, we won't know exactly what food products will need to have the new label.
Farmers who were against the Vermont law have advocated and applauded the new legislation, as it reduces the stigmatization of GMOs and provides certainty when it comes to labeling their produce. Changes to current labels will not need to be made until the USDA has indicated how much genetically modified material must be present to require GMO labeling.
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Phil Anselmo Calls Metallica's 'Load' a 'Terrible Record'
Phil Anselmo named Metallica's sixth album Load as an LP that should never have been made.
The former Pantera frontman slammed the 1996 release in an interview about "the music that made him the man he is," soon after Lars Ulrich had said its artwork was one of his personal favorites.
Asked to name "the album that should not be," Anselmo told Metal Hammer: "I would have to say Load by Metallica. I mean, it's a terrible record, man. I just don't get it. If you're gonna put out a record like that, just do a fucking side-project or something, ya know?"
Meanwhile, he revealed Kiss's Alive! was the first album he'd bought, and said it was an underrated work. "When people listen to Kiss's body of work and reflect on their 40-plus years, it can be a little embarrassing," he explained, "but honestly that first live recording is a very powerful rock album that should not be overlooked." He went on to say Judas Priest's British Steel was an LP that defines heavy metal. "Case in point, listen to 'Rapid Fire' and the way Rob Halford delivers, the lyrics, the riffs… it's the epitome and blueprint for what Slayer would bring later. You can't go wrong with that one!"
Anselmo listed Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power as the work he was most proud of, and said he wanted U2 played at his funeral – "something as gothic and tragic as possible… something like 'Drowning Man,' which is on War."
Metallica's Ulrich last week hailed artist Andres Serrano's sleeve art for Load and its 1997 companion Reload, works titled "Semen And Blood III" and "Piss And Blood XXVI" respectively. "They will always hold a special place in my heart," the drummer told Maxim. "I love him as an artist. I love the imagery. I love the fact that we saw Serrano through as the cover art for those two records. Those are probably my two favorites."
In 2017, frontman James Hetfield described Load and Reload as compromises that "didn't pan out as good as I was hoping," although he said he had no regrets about going along with his colleagues' vision for the albums.
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R.D. Scinto, Inc. | Top Workplace 2014!
On Friday, September 12, Bob Scinto was presented with the award for R.D. Scinto Inc, as Top Workplace in CT for 2014. This is the third year in a row that R.D. Scinto has won #1 Top Workplace, in the small company category. Click here to read the full story.
Above: Bob Scinto with president of Hearst Connecticut Media Group, Henry Haitz.
Bob proudly shows his award.


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Q: My stack frames are different from the legacy one Here's how a stack frame should look:
(high memory addresses)
    -function arguments
    -return address
    -saved frame pointer
    -local variables
(low memory addresses)

The question is why my stack frames look like that:
(high memory addresses)
    -return address
    -saved frame pointer
    -local variables
    -function arguments
(low memory addresses)

I noticed it while debugging in gdb.
I code in C and compile with gcc 5.4.0 on Kali Linux x86_64(intel core i7).
C code:
void test_function(int a, int b, int c, int d) {
    int flag;
    char buffer[10];
    flag = 31337;
    buffer[0] = 'A';
}

int main() {
    test_function(1, 2, 3, 4);
    return 0;
}

Value of rbp in main:
0x7fffffffe260

Assembly instruction after test_functtion call address:
0x00000000004004e1

Result of x command on rsp while being in the test_function frame:
0x7fffffffe240: 0x00000004  0x00000003  0x00000002  0x00000001
0x7fffffffe250: 0x00400441  0x00000000  0x004003b0  0x00007a69
0x7fffffffe260: 0xffffe270  0x00007fff  0x004004e1  0x00000000
0x7fffffffe270: 0x004004f0  0x00000000  0xf7a575f0  0x00007fff

A: It looks like the specification of a stack frame has changed significantly between x86 and x86_64. You are correct for a x86 stack frame (Intel386 Processor Supplement). The x86_64 spec (AMD64 Architecture Support Supplement) however passes integer arguments in registers (paragraph 3.2.3). Item #2 below:

*

*If the class is MEMORY, pass the argument on the stack.

*If the class is INTEGER, the next available register of the sequence rdi, %rsi, %rdx, %rcx, %r8 and %r9 is used 13 .

*If the class is SSE, the next available vector register is used, the registers are taken in the order from %xmm0 to %xmm7.

*If the class is SSEUP, the eightbyte is passed in the next available eightbyte chunk of the last used vector register.

*If the class is X87, X87UP or COMPLEX_X87, it is passed in memory.

The stack frame now looks like this:

If you look at the stack frame, the return address in main is 8[%rbp] or 0x004005be and the arguments are in the correct registers:
(gdb) x/32 $rbp
0x7fffffffe040: 0xffffe050  0x00007fff  0x004005be  0x00000000
0x7fffffffe050: 0x00000000  0x00000000  0xf7a36f45  0x00007fff
0x7fffffffe060: 0x00000000  0x00000000  0xffffe138  0x00007fff
0x7fffffffe070: 0x00000000  0x00000001  0x004005a1  0x00000000
0x7fffffffe080: 0x00000000  0x00000000  0xdf5e7534  0x8acdbc8c
0x7fffffffe090: 0x00400470  0x00000000  0xffffe130  0x00007fff
0x7fffffffe0a0: 0x00000000  0x00000000  0x00000000  0x00000000
0x7fffffffe0b0: 0x1f9e7534  0x75324373  0x02a47534  0x753253ca
(gdb) info registers
rax            0x4005a1 4195745
rbx            0x0  0
rcx            0x4  4
rdx            0x3  3
rsi            0x2  2
rdi            0x1  1
....


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FDA Approves Lipiodol® (Ethiodized Oil) Injection for Imaging of Tumors in Adults With Known Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)
In Press Release by Cameron April 11, 2014
Guerbet, a pioneer in the field of contrast agents for medical imaging announced that Lipiodol® was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration pursuant to section 505(b)(2) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act indicated for selective hepatic intra-arterial use for imaging tumors in adults with known hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). HCC is the most common primary liver tumor and represents the third-leading cause of cancer-related death in the world, with prevalence in US estimated to affect in the range of 35,000 U.S. patients in 2013.
As previously announced in October 2013, Lipiodol has received an orphan-drug designation for management of patients with known HCC.
"Guerbet is pleased to have been granted approval for use of Lipiodol in patients with known HCC. This product has been supplied during the past three years under a temporary importation program. Guerbet's efforts to improve the availability of Lipiodol in the USA are in line with our company mission offering reliable and innovative solutions to improve the efficacy of Interventional Radiology procedures," commented Massimo Carrara, Guerbet US General Manager.
This approval was received shortly after FDA granted approval to a new site to manufacture Lipiodol, validated for US distribution only (Jubilant HollisterStier, Canada).
"The additional indication approved by FDA is a major milestone on the ambitious approach taken by the company to keep the product accessible for US patients to assist in the management of this devastating disease. We are pleased to receive FDA authorization which assures continuous accessibility to this drug to many HCC patients across America," said Corina Harper, Guerbet Director of North America Medical and Regulatory Affairs.
Guerbet plans to transition from the temporary importation program as soon as product from the newly approved manufacturing plant will be available in the US. For more information about the temporary importation program, please see the Dear Healthcare Professional Letter.
Lipiodol is contraindicated in patients with hypersensitivity to Lipiodol, hyperthyroidism, traumatic injuries, recent hemorrhage or bleeding.


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module Rack
  class GetData
    def initialize(app)
      @app=app
    end

    def call(env)
      if env['PATH_INFO'] == '/getData'
        request = Rack::Request.new(env)
        if request.params['jsonString'] != ""
          error_code = Ss2.send_js_request request, request.params
        end
        [200, {"Content-Type" => 'text/plain'},["error_code: #{error_code}"]]
      else
        @app.call(env)
      end
    end
  end
end

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Do you remember the email address you used to purchase Office 365?
Please Click Here and then Click the Buy Now button.
After you click the Buy Now button, the site will ask you to sign in using your email address.
Once you are signed in, please provide the information and follow steps shown on screen.
Let me know if there are any problems in doing this.
I have 4 charges on my bank card for 11/4/13: $5, $4, $33, $38.
I was led to believe this was a free service. Please notify me that these charges have been removed from my bank card or what I need to do to get the charges removed.
When I gave you my credit card info, I thought it was to purchase my Microsoft package and it was not. Thanks for your timely attention to this matter.
I installed Office 365 business premium and can't login.
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Ohio State University's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences will kick off its 2013 Agricultural Policy and Outlook series on Monday, December 3, 2012 with a special preview meeting hosted by Bruce A. McPheron, Vice President for Agricultural Administration and Dean of the College.
On Monday, November 5, 2012 AEDE welcomed Noah Dormady, Assistant Professor in the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University, to present his research titled "Emissions Markets, Power Markets and Market Power: An Experimental Approach" as part of the AEDE Seminar Series.
A new major focusing on sustainability will be available to undergraduate students beginning this fall. To read about the Environment, Economy, Development and Sustainability (EEDS) major, click here. For more information, or to enroll, visit http://eeds.osu.edu/.
Brent Sohngen will present "Nutrient BMPs: Voluntary Incentives, Regulation, Free Markets - What Will It Take to Keep Ohio's Waters Clean?" on July 6 at 10 a.m. at the MORPC offices, 111 Liberty St., Suite 100, in Columbus. To read more click here.
The Voluntary Pollution Control (VPC) Workshop will be held at The Ohio State University's Blackwell Hotel on May 20 and 21, 2012. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for businesses, local governments, researchers in environmental economics and environmental policy-related disciplines to assess current knowledge and debate the latest research on the determinants, effects, and effectiveness of VPC programs. Abdoul Sam of AEDE and Carmen Carrion-Flores of Binghamton University organized the event.


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package javax.el;

import java.util.List;

import javax.el.TesterEvaluationListener.Pair;

import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;

public class TestELContext {

    /**
     * Tests that a null key results in an NPE as per EL Javadoc.
     */
    @Test(expected = NullPointerException.class)
    public void testGetContext() {
        ELContext elContext = new TesterELContext();
        elContext.getContext(null);
    }

    /**
     * Tests that a null key results in an NPE as per EL Javadoc.
     */
    @Test(expected = NullPointerException.class)
    public void testPutContext01() {
        ELContext elContext = new TesterELContext();
        elContext.putContext(null, new Object());
    }

    /**
     * Tests that a null context results in an NPE as per EL Javadoc.
     */
    @Test(expected = NullPointerException.class)
    public void testPutContext02() {
        ELContext elContext = new TesterELContext();
        elContext.putContext(Object.class, null);
    }

    /**
     * Tests that the context object will be added to the map with context
     * objects. The key is used as unique identifier of the context object in
     * the map.
     */
    @Test
    public void testPutContext03() {
        ELContext elContext = new TesterELContext();
        Assert.assertNull(elContext.getContext(String.class));
        elContext.putContext(String.class, "test");
        Assert.assertEquals("test", elContext.getContext(String.class));
        elContext.putContext(String.class, "test1");
        Assert.assertEquals("test1", elContext.getContext(String.class));
    }

    /**
     * Tests that propertyResolved will be set to true and the corresponding
     * listeners will be notified.
     */
    @Test
    public void testSetPropertyResolved() {
        ELContext elContext = new TesterELContext();

        TesterEvaluationListener listener = new TesterEvaluationListener();
        elContext.addEvaluationListener(listener);

        TesterBean bean = new TesterBean("test");

        elContext.setPropertyResolved(bean, "name");

        Assert.assertTrue(elContext.isPropertyResolved());

        List<Pair> events = listener.getResolvedProperties();
        Assert.assertEquals(1, events.size());
        Pair p = events.get(0);
        Assert.assertEquals(bean, p.getBase());
        Assert.assertEquals("name", p.getProperty());
    }

    /**
     * Tests that the corresponding listeners will be notified.
     */
    @Test
    public void testNotifyBeforeEvaluation() {
        ELContext elContext = new TesterELContext();

        TesterEvaluationListener listener = new TesterEvaluationListener();
        elContext.addEvaluationListener(listener);

        elContext.notifyBeforeEvaluation("before");

        List<String> events = listener.getBeforeEvaluationExpressions();
        Assert.assertEquals(1, events.size());
        Assert.assertEquals("before", events.get(0));
    }

    /**
     * Tests that the corresponding listeners will be notified.
     */
    @Test
    public void testNotifyAfterEvaluation() {
        ELContext elContext = new TesterELContext();

        TesterEvaluationListener listener = new TesterEvaluationListener();
        elContext.addEvaluationListener(listener);

        elContext.notifyAfterEvaluation("after");

        List<String> events = listener.getAfterEvaluationExpressions();
        Assert.assertEquals(1, events.size());
        Assert.assertEquals("after", events.get(0));
    }

    /**
     * Tests not compatible object and type.
     */
    @Test(expected = ELException.class)
    public void testConvertToType01() {
        ELContext elContext = new TesterELContext();
        elContext.convertToType("test", Integer.class);
    }

    /**
     * Tests that if there is no ELResolver the standard coercions will be
     * invoked.
     */
    @Test
    public void testConvertToType02() {
        ELContext elContext = new TesterELContext();
        boolean originalPropertyResolved = false;
        elContext.setPropertyResolved(originalPropertyResolved);

        Object result = elContext.convertToType("test", String.class);
        Assert.assertEquals("test", result);

        Assert.assertTrue(originalPropertyResolved == elContext
                .isPropertyResolved());
    }

    /**
     * Tests that if there is ELResolver it will handle the conversion. If this
     * resolver cannot return a result the standard coercions will be invoked.
     */
    @Test
    public void testConvertToType03() {
        ELContext elContext = new TesterELContext(new TesterELResolverOne());

        boolean originalPropertyResolved = false;
        elContext.setPropertyResolved(originalPropertyResolved);

        Object result = elContext.convertToType("1", String.class);
        Assert.assertEquals("ONE", result);
        Assert.assertTrue(originalPropertyResolved == elContext
                .isPropertyResolved());

        result = elContext.convertToType("test", String.class);
        Assert.assertEquals("test", result);
        Assert.assertTrue(originalPropertyResolved == elContext
                .isPropertyResolved());
    }
}


Jiro-style from vegan friendly Soranoiro? What has the world come to?
The Soranoiro group gained fame for their excellent flagship shop's chukasoba as well as their veggiesoba, a bowl of vegetable-rich ramen that can be made with minimal or no meat.
Jiro-style is about as meat as you can get. Intense pork soup covered in rendered pork back fat.
ベジ郎, bejiro, takes the word for veggie and combines it with jiro. Fun! The concept here is unique. You get 400g of food. Customize that how you like; 200g noodles and 200g veggie is the normal choice. I'm trying to limit my carbohydrate intake, so 100g of noodles with 300g of vegetables sounds about perfect.
Plenty of ramen reading available.
But I brought my own! Ramen at Home. Did you buy your copy yet?
Met up with my friend Michael and his daughter for this one.
This bowl is great. I'm not a fan of Jiro in general, but a version with a variety of fresh vegetables really did me over. Usually Jiro is only bean sprouts and a few pieces of leaves. Bejiro has carrots, okra, and more than enough crisp cabbage.
You probably won't crush this one, but you'll definitely enjoy it.


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Home KC Baby Magazine Our Baby Story: An up close look at one couple's adoption journey
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Our Baby Story: An up close look at one couple's adoption journey
by Rick & Mary Beth Hengst
"Who would choose a 40-year-old woman to be the mother of their child," I sadly asked myself after leaving the adoption agency. My husband and I had attended the introductory meeting to investigate agency adoption.
Married eleven years and unable to conceive, we had already attempted to privately adopt two children but were unsuccessful. We came to the conclusion that perhaps parenting was just not meant to be for us, and we resigned ourselves to remain childless, investing instead in the lives of children belonging to our friends.
About two years after our discouraging visit to the adoption agency, we received an e-mail from our pastor. He described a family on the East Coast desiring to give up a baby for adoption. Were we interested? Reluctant because of our past attempts, we nonetheless decided to respond to the e-mail. We sent a brief note telling a little about ourselves and our desire for children. We then sent off the e-mail and went away on a previously planned vacation. Little did we know what awaited us when we returned home from our trip.
A day or so after returning home, we received a phone call from the pastor of the birth mother. He asked if we were still interested in adopting this baby. I remember holding onto the chair next to me, bracing myself for the next statement out of his mouth. To our utter amazement, he told us that this pregnant teen and her parents chose us to be the adoptive parents of the soon-to-be-born baby boy. What we had previously felt was an increasingly impossible situation (we were now 42 and 43 years old) was coming about! We agreed to proceed with the adoption.
I was at once excited and terrified! Could I love an adopted child as my own? Would I feel as though I were babysitting for the next 18 years?! Did I have what it took to be a wise, nurturing and loving parent?
The mid-January due date came and went, and two weeks later we made plans to travel to the East Coast on a Saturday morning to wait for the induced birth on Monday. Friday evening before we left, we received the call that labor had begun! Before we could fly out the next morning, our son Luke had been born.
After arriving at the hospital later that day, we were met by the grandparents and taken to the nursery. Grandma handed us our baby and with tears streaming down both of our faces, all apprehensions about loving this baby were gone. Our fears were unfounded. The moment we set our eyes on him, our hearts were touched with a deep and lasting love for this little boy.
It was a bittersweet moment. This was the grandparents' first grandchild, and they were giving it up, knowing in their hearts it was God's plan for all of us. They had experienced our joy themselves because their daughter, our son's birth mother, had also been adopted. Our son's birth mom opted not to see him or meet us personally but affirmed her decision to give him up through her parents.
We spent several weeks on the East Coast as legal requirements were satisfied. We finally returned home with our long-awaited treasure. What a joy to finally see the fruit of much labor! True, we had no physical contractions; but through many prayers and tears, we were now the blessed parents of a precious child.
Would I trade our adoption experience for a naturally born child? That is like asking which of your children you love more. Adoption was God's choice for our family. We are thankful He chose our son Luke for us – and us for Luke!


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Q: JQuery select all decendant li in ul? If I have an hierarchical UL / LI list, is it possible to fetch all decendant LI's from the root UL using JQuery?
Currently I do recursion from within UL.children('li').each(...)
(function foo($ul) {
    $ul.children("li").each(function () {
        var $li = $(this);
        tabMap[$li.find('a').attr('href')] = $li;
        $li.children("ul").each(function () {
            foo($(this));
        });
    });
})($ul);

Which works fine, but I it would be nice if it was possible to do this in one go so to say.
Also, would it be possible to do the same but for parents?
e.g. find all parent,grandparent,grandgrand* of type LI from another LI ?

A: You can get all the descendent UL elements with .find():
$ul.find("li")

You can get all the ancestors with .parents():
$li.parents("li");

You can find all the jQuery tree traversal methods here.

A: To collect all href's of anchor links which are direct children of list-items within some root list, start from the root, find all such links, then put them in the map and associate them with their parent.
var tabMap = {};
$("ul#root").find("li > a").each(function() {
    var link = $(this).attr("href");
    var $li = $(this).parent("li");
    tabMap[link] = $li;
});

Note that the filter parameter in the call to parent isn't necessary, but it helps make it clear what you're expecting to find there. Additionally ul#root is overly-specific since the ID is unique; I only added the ul here to make it obvious that this is your top-level list, and you should put the correct for that element based on your HTML.


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biased
Obama official Ben Rhodes admits Biden camp is already working with foreign leaders: Exactly what Flynn did
In late 2016, the FBI investigated Gen. Michael Flynn when he was a transition official for the possible "crime" of talking to Russia about foreign policy. Why can Biden do this?
(Article by Glenn Greenwald republished from Greenwald.Substack.com)
Two weeks after Donald Trump won the 2016 election, the President-elect named Gen. Michael Flynn to be his National Security Advisor in both the transition and the new administration. Flynn, who had previously served as President Obama's Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and then campaigned for Trump, quickly got to work in his new position by reaching out to his counterparts in foreign governments, as is customary for national security transition team officials.
One of the calls Flynn made, in late December, was to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, after the Obama administration has imposed a series of sanctions on Moscow in response to pressure to punish the Russians for interference in the 2016 election, including the expulsion of diplomats. Gen. Flynn — fearful of an excessively retaliatory response from Moscow that could provoke what he saw as unnecessary confrontation, particularly given the growing anti-Russian sentiment in the U.S. — sought to persuade the Russians that there was no need for them to retaliate because the new administration, which was only three weeks away from taking over, would reset its relations with Moscow and try to forge a more constructive engagement. Flynn's efforts were successful: Russian president Vladimir Putin announced on December 30 that they would not expel diplomats in response.
It is customary for post-election transition officials to work with their counterparts in foreign governments to lay the groundwork for relations with the new administration. As The Washington Post said about Flynn's call: "it would not be uncommon for incoming administrations to interface with foreign governments with whom they will soon have to work."
Despite its normalcy, Flynn's call, which was recorded by the National Security Agency that had been targeting Russian officials, prompted the FBI — under the leadership of then-Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe — to decide to criminally investigate Flynn's conversations with Kislyak.
Although the mid-2016 FBI investigation into Flynn's possible corrupt connections to Moscow had been ordered closed for lack of evidence, the FBI manufactured a possible ground of criminality to justify its investigation of Flynn for this call: namely, possible violations of the Logan Act, a 150-year-old law that purports to criminalize attempts by a private citizen to conduct foreign policy at odds with official U.S. foreign policy which (a) has never been used to prosecute anyone; (b) is almost certainly unconstitutional; and (c) has been ignored — properly so — in countless more blatant cases, such as when then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi undermined Bush administration policy to isolate Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for helping Iraqi insurgents kill U.S. troops in Iraq by visiting Assad in 2007, infuriating the Bush White House and leading to frivolous calls from fringe right-wing voices for Pelosi's prosecution under the Logan Act.
But Flynn's ordinary call with the Russian ambassador became the pretext for further abuse of FBI and NSA powers as part of the security state's ongoing efforts to interfere in the 2016 election and then sabotage the Trump administration before it even began. One way this corrupt agenda was carried out was by attempting to criminalize officials of the Trump campaign and then the new government with blatantly political motives.
First, agents within the security state committed the most serious leaking crimes that exist under U.S. law — revealing the contents of intercepted communications with foreign officials — by leaking the contents of Flynn's calls to The Washington Post's long-time CIA spokesman David Ignatius, which Ignatius reported on January 12. Two weeks later, on January 24, McCabe — acting on Comey's orders but without notifying the White House Counsel, angering outgoing Acting Attorney General Sally Yates — called Flynn and told him that FBI agents would visit him to interrogate him about this call.
Documents finally made public earlier this year show that the FBI agents who visited Flynn did not believe he was lying to them, and that they openly discussed their intent to entrap Flynn into lying so that they could concoct a crime. Although Flynn said he could not remember having spoken to Kislyak about sanctions, the FBI agents, as well as FBI Director Comey himself, said that they believed this might have been by-product of honest lack of recollection, not an intent to deceive. After all, what motive would Flynn have for concealing a perfectly normal, customary and legal call as a transition official with this Russian counterpart other than, perhaps, a desire to avoid triggering what had became the insanely intense anti-Russian political obsession in the Democratic-friendly press?
Despite doubts by the FBI itself that Flynn had lied when saying he did not recall talking with Kislyak about sanctions, the Mueller team negotiated a deal with Flynn in which he would plead guilty to one count of lying to the FBI about his call with Kislyak. Mueller recommended no jail time for Flynn. Like so many guilty pleas that prosecutors coerce, it seems that Flynn pled guilty in large part due to threats by the Mueller team to prosecute his son if he refused.
One irony of the Flynn prosecution was that — while authoritarian liberals now insist that of course lying to the FBI is and should be a crime without any other underlying crime required — it has long been a steadfast view in liberal jurisprudence that it should not be a crime to lie to the FBI at all absent some underlying crime, so as to prevent the FBI from having the power to convert people into criminals through interrogations.
The seminal opinion on that was written by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who now resides in heaven. Writing in dissent in the the 1997 case Brogan v. The United States, Justice Ginsburg insisted that federal law does not criminalize a false denial of a crime to the FBI — because people have the right to try to exculpate themselves rather than comply with some non-existent duty to confess crimes to agents of the state. The then-Justice Ginsburg, now a heavenly angel, also warned of "the dubious propriety of bringing felony prosecutions for bare exculpatory denials informally made to Government agents" (two other liberal justices, Stevens and Breyer, wrote separately to warn of the dangers that "an overzealous prosecutor or investigator — aware that a person has committed some suspicious acts, but unable to make a criminal case — will create a crime by surprising the suspect, asking about those acts, and receiving a false denial."
Once the new documents were released earlier this year showing that even FBI agents had doubts that Flynn was lying and that the interrogation seemed designed to entrap him, the DOJ moved to dismiss the criminal case, infuriating law-and-order liberals who are morally outraged that a citizen would fail to obediently confess non-existent crimes to the FBI. As a result of the release of those new documents, I produced a 90-minute video program exploring all the reasons why the Flynn prosecution is such a profound abuse of power and sham.
One of the primary arguments I made there was that there should never have been an FBI interrogation of Flynn about his completely proper call with the Russian ambassador in the first place:
There was no valid reason for the FBI to have interrogated Flynn about his conversations with Kislyak in the first place. There is nothing remotely untoward or unusual — let alone criminal — about an incoming senior national security official, three weeks away from taking over, reaching out to a counterpart in a foreign government to try to tamp down tensions.
That was always the most shocking part of this abusive prosecution by a radically politicized FBI: the blatantly improper attempt to convert a normal conversation by a transition official into a form of treason.
Any doubts about how customary it is for such calls to be made by transition officials were unintentionally obliterated on Monday night by former Obama national security official Ben Rhodes, who is almost certain to occupy a high-level national security position in a Biden administration. Speaking on MSNBC — of course — Rhodes, while amicably chatting with former Bush/Cheney Communications Director turned-beloved-by-liberals-MSNBC-host Nicolle Wallace, admitted in passing that "foreign leaders are already having phone calls with Joe Biden talking about the agenda they're going to pursue January 20," all to ensure "as seamless a transition as possible," adding: "the center of political gravity in this country and the world is shifting to Joe Biden."
.@brhodes: Biden is already "having phone calls" with foreign leaders about "the agenda they're going to pursue January 20th" pic.twitter.com/ynHspaEDxE
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 9, 2020
That Joe Biden — despite Donald Trump still being the only U.S. President — is "already having phone calls" with foreign officials to "talk about the agenda they're going to pursue January 20" is completely normal: something we should want a President-elect and his transition team to do. That's what made the FBI's attempt to convert Gen. Flynn's identical transition activities in 2016 into a crime so corrupt: just one more instance of the abuse of power that plagued the security state throughout the 2016 election and into the new administration.
Read more at: Greenwald.Substack.com and JoeBiden.news.
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