With barely time for the dust to settle on the emphatic 2015 MotoGP season, today the 2016 season commenced in Valencia, Spain.
Repsol Honda's Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa began this first day of testing aboard the 2015 RC213V machine, with the new specification 2016 Michelin tyres and HRC software. As the day progressed, they began to carry out a comparison between the 2015 bike fitted with the Magneti Marelli ECU and the new 2016 prototype machine equipped with the new Honda engine and same software.
It was a productive first day and Marc finished fastest with his time of 1'31.551 on lap 10 of 47. Dani was just 0.130 seconds off his teammate with 1'31.681 on lap 11 of 49, placing him third for the day.
Testing continues tomorrow at 10am local time.
"We went out on track and on the opening laps I lost the front. I realised that the Michelin tyres may have worked well for us in testing at Aragon, but they react differently on every type of asphalt. From that moment we started again, doing a run with the same bike we used during the weekend. Then we changed to the new software and we saw that there is definitely some work ahead for us. It's only the first day and we have to adjust many things. At the end of the day we tried the new engine together with the Magneti Marelli software, but in order to draw any conclusions we first have to finish setting up the electronics and when we have a good base, then we will be able to evaluate the engine properly."
"Today was a rather different day. We have done a lot of work, but it is also important to take things slowly. We had the new tyres, so at first we were careful with in order to progressively get a feel for them and understand their reaction with the asphalt at this track. Later on we tried the new Magneti Marelli electronics and the first feeling we have is that they are very much in the preliminary stage and certainly a step backwards. Right now the electronics are still giving us a lot of problems and are difficult to use. We have to work hard to understand it and see what parameters we should concentrate on more. It's also a job for the rider, because you must gain experience in order to understand what you have and what you don't, compared with the previous version."


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American Ice Company, located at 917 V St, NW, had a preview opening on Tuesday night and as I suspected it is absolutely ridiculously amazing. All I can I say is that the attention to detail is among the best I've ever seen. The beer (I had a wheat beer called 321) was perfect and the bbq was smoky goodness.


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After Coast Guard chase, Pakistani boat explodes, sinks
• January 2, 2015 • Uncategorized
New Delhi, Jan 2 (IANS) A suspicious Pakistani fishing boat exploded into a ball of fire off the Gujarat coast and sank after it was intercepted by the Coast Guard, the government said Friday.
The dramatic incident took place on the night of Dec 31-Jan 1, and the Coast Guard's Deputy Director General K.R. Nautiyal said he suspected "something serious".
He told the media that the boat first tried to get away after a Coast Guard ship asked it to halt for a check of its crew and goods. After six hours, it switched off its lights early Thursday just inside the Indian waters.
The crew members, four of whom were spotted, then went to the deck below. It then blew up, indicating it may have been carrying explosives.
A defence ministry statement said the Pakistani boat, which had set off from near Karachi, Pakistan's southern port city, was planning "some illicit transaction". Its destination was unknown.
The Coast Guard and the navy got into the act following an intelligence tip about a suspicious Pakistani boast.
The boat was spotted by a Dornier aircraft and intercepted by Coast Guard ships near the India-Pakistan maritime boundary, 365 km from Porbandar in Gujarat, shortly before the onset of New Year.
A Coast Guard ship warned the boat to stop for investigation but it increased speed and tried to get away.
"(A) hot pursuit continued for nearly one hour, and the Coast Guard ship managed to stop the fishing boat after firing warning shots," the statement said.
"Four persons were seen on the boat who disregarded all warnings by the Coast Guard ship to stop and cooperate with investigation."
The suspicious crew then hid themselves below the deck and set the vessel on fire, resulting in an explosion and a major fire.
"Due to darkness, bad weather and strong winds, the boat and persons on board could not be saved or recovered. The boat burnt and sank in the same position in early hours of Jan 1," the statement said.
The Coast Guard's Nautiyal said the boat sank at 6.33 a.m. after being cornered in the sea.
"There must be something serious," he said. "Otherwise there was no reason to try to escape… or to switch off the lights."
He said the Coast Guard will connect the dots when the Coast Guard ship which cornered the suspicious boat returns to base.
When the boat exploded and sank, an Indian Dornier was in the air.
Nautiyal called the incident the outcome of "good coordination between the intelligence and forces".
According to military officials, vigil has been increased along India's maritime boundaries for the last two months due to several inputs on possible threats from the sea.
The Indian Navy chief has last month warned of increased threats from the sea.
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Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera speaks to reporters Sunday after his meeting with the governor of Saga Prefecture. | KYODO
SAGA – Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Sunday it is too early to say whether last week's crash of a Japanese military helicopter in a residential area of Saga will affect the government's plan to base Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft in the prefecture.
"Under the current circumstances, I cannot comment on the matter," Onodera told reporters after he visited a government office to apologize for the incident last Monday.
Two Ground Self-Defense Force members died when the AH-64D attack helicopter crashed into a house in Kanzaki, injuring one person on the ground.
In the meeting with Saga Gov. Yoshinori Yamaguchi, Onodera vowed to take every possible measure to ensure safe operation of SDF aircraft and determine the cause of the incident.
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The Last Name 'Lynch' Was Dropped from School Names for Being Too Offensive
Alberto LuperonAug 10th, 2017, 1:03 pm
Three schools in Portland, Oregon are getting a name change because parents complained their names evoked the practice of lynching. Lynch Meadows Elementary School and Lynch Wood Elementary School are dropping the name "Lynch" completely, while Lynch View Elementary will now be called Patrick Lynch Elementary. The Centennial School Board voted for the name change Wednesday, according to a KGW report.
"We have an equity plan in place in Centennial and we are doing what we believe is right for our children," board chair Sharlene Giard told the outlet. "We have children of color and we want to make sure they can cross the threshold of those three schools and be comfortable in their surroundings."
The names didn't come from the lynching, a practice of extrajudicial murder, but from Catherine and Patrick Lynch, a couple who donated land to the district in 1900.
"I think my grandfather would have liked me to stand up for the family name a little bit," great-great-grandson David Hayes told KGW. He said the schools "are in the business of education so they should be able to educate people that a name and history have a certain meaning versus what other people have tried to turn it into."
The origin of the term lynching is pretty murky. The only thing people agree on that it came from someone named Lynch. Was it from an Irish mayor in the 15th century? Did it come from a Revolutionary War colonel? That's been up for debate. Safe to the say it has nothing to do with the couple linked to these schools.
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Q: Use Flask XML-RPC with HTTPAuth? I am using the Flask XML-RPC extension and everything is working well. Now I want to protect the XML-RPC endpoint with a basic HTTP authentication using Flask HTTPAuth extension.
This extension is usually used with routes, but the XML-RPC endpoint is not defined as a route:
handler = XMLRPCHandler('xmlrpc')
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def hello_word():
    return "Hello"

handler.register_function(hello_world)

How can I use HTTP authentication with Flask-XML-RPC so that any caller of /xml-rpc has to authenticate?

A: You'll have to subclass the XMLRPCHandler() class; each call through /xml-rpc is handled by the XMLRPCHandler.handle_request() method, you can decorate that to handle authentication:
class HTTPAuthXMLRPCHandler(XMLRPCHandler):
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I Love São Paulo
Read the original story in Portuguese! | Read the translated version in Spanish
All I remember is that we said good-bye when he was about to get in the taxi cab that would take him to the airport. We had spent the night drinking and snorting coke, talking about marginal writers, punk rock, our old town, and sex. Sometimes we were silent, listening to the humming coming from the neon sign of the hotel across the street from the room I was renting. The red light would shine on the blue walls painted with oil-based paint. It was a pigsty, but I had everything I needed there: an old computer to save what I was writing, a record player and over 80 records from Elvis to Nirvana, a library card and some change to buy a few bottles of wine and cigarettes. Oh, yeah, I also had three capsules of cocaine.
Not much was happening outside and we didn't give a damn about the rest of the world. He loosened up his tie and took his shoes off. Soon I realized he had stripped down to his underwear and was by the window, yelling.
"All you rats should burn in hell! Imbecile bureaucrats wearing ties, whores charging 1,000 bucks for a fuck, old decrepit academics, journalists who can't even spell, grotesque syphilitic teenagers, spoiled obese brats stuffing their faces at McDonald's, and guys that like pumping the iron, but can't get their dicks up and like taking it up the ass! Your diseased bodies should burn in hell, so there's not gonna be any of you left to keep this damn city going!"
I was rolling on the bed, laughing. It reminded me of our childhood in a little town, when he would do the exact same thing after taking his clothes off, climbing up a tree, and shouting blasphemies targeted at different groups.
He sat by my side. He was sweating and laughing like a maniac. We drained the fourth wine bottle and cut the second capsule of cocaine, making lines on top of the album cover for "Out Of Time" by R.E.M. "Near Wild Heaven" was playing and burning our hearts while he recited something about old Buck.
"Do you use that litter box often?"
"I don't see any cats around... Is it some sort of superstition, having a litter box in the bedroom?"
"The cat must have jumped out of the window... Maybe someone stole it. How the hell should I know? It was a black cat that picked its own name."
"Really? How did he do that? Did he write it on your ass?"
"No, you idiot! After I found it in the streets, I was sitting here with it in my lap and asking, 'What should your name be?' Then it jumped and started rubbing itself against James Joyce. I swear, that's how it picked its own fucking name!"
"James Joyce? That's probably why it jumped out of the window!"
"Stop fucking around!"
"This damn city... Even cats commit suicide!"
"Why did you come then?"
"I needed to find out some things about my life."
"Oh, so that's what you call pussies nowadays?"
We both started laughing.
"One of the things I've learned in this fucking place is that you always need someone you can trust and a little bit of money on the side to post bail. That's all because you can't touch a sixteen-year-old broad. Fuck, fifteen-year-olds are already screwing their classmates in the bathroom. How come they can't learn how to do it right with people like us? It's a crime to just lose your virginity to a fifteen-year-old boy! Do you remember how stupid we were back then? Holy shit... Another thing I learned is that if a girl smiles too much at you on a Friday night, when you didn't even bother to shave and clean up, it's because she's probably a whore and thinks you're full of money. Lastly, the third thing I learned is that if you don't get shot, die on a flood, get trampled to death, or get a lung disease, but your actual greatest accomplishment is dying in your sleep, then you're a lucky motherfucker who ended up being saved by the Creator, who came to rescue you from this shit. In person, you know? Maybe it'll happen to you. You look like that could happen to you."
"Shut the fuck up! Do you know how many times my heart started racing because of this shit? I snort three times a day, man. I don't give a shit about dying in my sleep. Dying is always horrible and, at the same time, it's a blessing in disguise."
"You're high..."
He put his pants back on and sat on the floor, looking through my last short story. It was damn hot and I had sold my fan to an Arabic that was selling kibbeh in a decaying food stall at Avenida São João.
"This shit you wrote... It embarrassed me. This thing about the little girl that is forced by her own father to prostitute herself at night while he's drunk. This girl that would steal some change from his wallet to go buy a doll she had seen at the mall. That's crazy! That's fucking crazy, man! How many kids in this city are sniffing glue, selling candy by a traffic light? And, sometimes, we forget that they're just kids, you know, like our nieces and nephews, sons and daughters, younger cousins... You gave me something to think about... Or is it this dope that's making me emotional?"
"Fuck, this shit is happening all over the place. How come you have to read it on a piece of paper to feel emotional or angry about it? Just look around! I don't understand it, you know, these people who go to an art gallery to see pictures of ragamuffins and, when they see these kids during the day, they just rolled up the window so they won't be bothered. They're all hypocrites! They're only moved when art imitates life, which is almost always done in a superficial way."
"Calm down, bro! I didn't want to offend you with my interpretation! You know what? You need another line and another glass. Let's go get more wine. And fuck art!"
"Let's rock!"
On the streets, anything would become the subject of another discussion: homeless people sleeping on the sidewalk right in front of expensive stores, whores using flyers as fans to cool themselves off, and nightclubs with their perverse symphony of lights, smiles, and blood. Everything was crumbling down. Everything was about to happen. However, everything stayed the same. Post-everything.
We walked under the army of pigeons at Sé Square.
"My flight leaves in a couple of hours... Let's look for a taxi cab. Don't forget what I told you."
"What was that?"
"You need to have someone you trust."
Then he went away, leaving me with a full capsule of cocaine, a smelly room, and half a bottle of cheap wine on a sleepy October morning.
GUI NASCIMENTO was born September 1st, 1988 in Diadema City, State of São Paulo.
Besides trying his hand at writing, he also goes to Journalism school and has a band called Jack's Revenge, in which he's the lead singer and guitar player.
He entered one of his stories at the 7th Arts Exhibit of Diadema and was soon invited to participate at the São Paulo Cultural Map.
He is currently working on a book of short stories influenced by marginal and beat literature, rock 'n' roll and alternative movies.


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The right role for parliament in public appointments
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The Institute for Government's report studies the role of parliament in the process of making major public appointments such as the Governor of the Bank of England, the Chair of the BBC Trust and the Chief Inspector of Schools.
Based on over 30 interviews with MPs, officials and experts, it sets out a package of 15 recommendations for reform of the current systems, proposing in particular an "effective veto power" of around 25 top-tier public appointments.
Balancing Act proposes that if a select committee has concerns about a government appointment, the minister should be required to appear in front of them to explain his or her decision. If still dissatisfied, the committee could then refer the issue to the House for resolution.
We also suggest that committees should be consulted over the job specifications of major public jobs before the recruitment process commences, and that they should be given the opportunity to question nominees for chairs of major public inquiries.
Launching the report, the Institute's Director, Andrew Adonis, said, "The credibility and authority of these positions depends on their distance from ministers. In a parliamentary democracy, effective parliamentary scrutiny and accountability are vital to the legitimacy of government. Our proposals, which build on existing good practice, will serve to enhance that legitimacy."
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The 4th Gorgany Half Marathon will take place on Sunday 18th of May 2014 in Lviv. A half marathon is a road running event of 21 kilometers which is half the distance of a marathon. Participation in half marathons has grown steadily during last years as one of the main reasons for this is that it is a challenging distance, but does not require the same level of training that a marathon requires. In 2008, Running USA reported that the half marathon is the fastest growing type of race.
Especially for the period of Easter celebrations "Twice as much Lviv" event's organizers promise discounts at a multitude of stores, hotels, restaurants and tourist agencies. The "Twice as much Lviv" will launch a series of events aiming to showcase the city's potential for tourism.
On May 19th, 2014 Lviv's Philharmonic Concert Hall will host concert by TNMK. Tanok na Maidani Kongo (or TNMK, meaning Dance in the Square of Congo), is a popular Ukrainian hip-hop/rock group, founded in the early 1990's by Oleh Mykhailiuta (Fagot) and Oleksandr Sidorenko (Fozzi).
In April Lviv traditionally welcomes French art, exciting meetings, exhibitions and warm feelings. This year is no exception, as the 11th French Spring Festival, is already in the air. This year's festival will be jam-packed with unique French projects showcasing the best of cinema, music, literature as well gourmet food.
Ukraine's iconic P. Virsky National Folk Dance Ensemble will be wowing audiences across Ukraine in Spring 2014 while touring across Ukraine including stops in Western cities such as Lutsk, Rivne, Uzhgorod, Ivano-Frankivsk, and right here in Lviv.
May is a big month for Leopolitan lovers of Austrian cinema. The festival's program is sure to delight the palate of even the most demanding cinematic gourmets as it includes selections of recent Austrian blockbusters that are sure to be hugely popular among Lviv's cinema lovers.
Lviv is set to host the 13th season of the popular Lviv Fashion Week from May 7-11. The event will be held in a totally distinctive location – the Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport. For five days in May Leopolitan fashionistas and fashionados, as well as guests of the city, will be assessing many collections from leading Ukrainian and foreign designers.
The 'Flugery Lvova' Festival has improved every year since it was launched in 2003 by adding to its programme with new literary events, presentations, performances, and multimedia projects. Over its 12 years of existence, Flugery has involved over 150 bands (over 500 musicians) from across Europe and Scandinavia, North America, and the Middle East.
The main focus of this year's Spring Business Forum will be "Challenges of Ukraine: The Fight for European Integration". Key issues that are set to be tackled during the sessions include: analyzing the evolving infrastructure of the Ukrainian economy (including investment approaches, priorities, and sources for financing); examining the current real estate and real estate development markets; and evaluating the investment perspectives from eight Western Ukrainian regions (Volyn, Zakarpattya, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Ternopil, Hmelnytsk, and Chernivtsi).
The City of Lviv, in 2014, celebrates 758 years since its foundation. Festivities are set to take place from May 1-4 and are already now full-speed ahead with preparations. The program, as usual for Lviv Day celebrations, is extensive and varied. The holiday has great entertainment traditions, including an impressive street parade, theatre performances, concerts, and festivals to fit any taste.
Ukrainian Easter, a national holiday in Ukraine, falls on April 20th this year (with Easter Monday on April 21st). The majority of Leopolitans belong to the Greek Catholic Church and typical Easter activities in Lviv include Easter bread (paska) blessing, which is usually done on the Saturday before Easter Sunday, the Easter Sunday mass, and various concerts following mass that continue into Monday and even Tuesday.
Lviv's 'Picasso' nightclub is proud to present The HARDKISS – an up-and-coming Ukrainian band – live in concert on May 10th. The group, founded in 2011 and fronted by Yulia Sanina and Valery Bebko, is already a two-time winner of the YUNA musical awards (Discovery of the Year & Best Video). They expect to release their debut album in Autumn 2014.
The International Children's Festival 'SLONiYA', a children's literature festival, will be held at the Lviv Art Palace from May 15-18. The festival began in 2002 as the Children's Reading Festival at the annual Publisher's Forum and quickly became one of the few festivals that worked together educational, entertainment, and cultural activities in an effort to popularize the development of children's book publishing. Starting from 2014 the festival was rebranded to its current name: the 'SLONiYa' International Children's Festival.
On May 07th 2014, the Lviv Opera and Ballet Theatre will host the grand finale show of the "Miss Lviv 2014" beauty contest. The annual contest is expected to bring together prominent businessmen, politicians, media representatives, fashion designers, artists, and those who would decide who will represent Lviv at Miss Ukraine-2014 in Kiev at the national beauty competition.
Follow up the latest results for FC "Karpaty, Karpaty Alumni Match Played to Honour an "Indivisible Ukraine", get update on Lviv's BC "Polytekhnika-Halychyna" results of the season and admire Olympic finalist Andriy Kotelnik's 'AK Box Promotion' youth boxing school progress.
Take Your time to get acquainted with Lviv's fashion trends starting from the end of the 19th century, a period when the entire world was driven by a passion for beauty, the arts, and novelties in everything.
Choirs and orchestras performed Beethoven's classic "Ode to Joy" in flashmobs at airports across Ukraine on March 30th in tribute to those who gave their life during the EuroMaidan revolution. The coordinated performances took place at 13:00 at the airports, which included Lviv's new terminal, as well as in Odessa, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and at both Kyiv's Boryspil and Zhulyany airports.
The "2014 Prospects for the Ukrainian Real Estate & Construction Markets" seminar, hosted by HD Partners legal and "Aspect" construction companies, was held in Lviv on March 27th. Over the course of the seminar, participants learned about the development tendencies of Ukraine's real estate and construction markets in 2014.
"The Japanese Spring", a festival designed to introduce Japanese culture and traditions to Leopolitans and guests of the city, was held in Lviv from April 4-6.
The "Dearest Image for the Heart" icon exhibition opened at Lviv's Museum of History & Religion on April 4th. The exhibition showcases 50 different icons from the Gorka Castle Museum's collection in Szamotuly, Poland.
Celebrated Ukrainian fashion designer Roksolana Bogutska, in cooperation with the "Ya Ne Odyn" (I Am Not Alone) Foundation, presented her newest collection on April 4th. All proceeds from the event were directed to the medical treatment of children.
The Lviv Polytechnic University hosted their 7th engineering job fair on March 19th, organized by student organization BEST. Representatives from 12 companies in the information technology (IT), electronics, auditing, education, and engineering fields attended the event.


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Q: Electric potential energy of a charge Potential energy is the work done by the particle against a conservative force. Isn't it?
when a charge is fixed on a free space and then when we bring another charge from infinity to a distance r from the first charge a work was done against electric field force so it gains some potential energy. But as of now the first particle also has a potential energy. Since no work was done on the first charge against the electric field force which was given by the 2nd charge as it didn't move how can we tell that the 1st charge also got a potential energy?

A: In your first case you said you were bringing a charge B to the first charge lets say A. Here your reference is A thats why u say you are bringing it to A.
Think of it the other way, put you reference on B then your perception would be you are bringing A to B and now A will have a Potential energy.
Thats how it works both ways.
And Finally i would like to correct you, all this while you were talking about Potential Difference and not potential energy check out the difference for yourself.

A: The potential energy is related to a system not to an individual charge.  So when you bring one charge towards another charge the system of two charges gains potential energy.
What this means is that any work which is done by either or both of the charges will result in the loss of potential energy of the system (both charges).


Graduate Support Program has been busy providing two Application and Financial Aid nights this year to offer support its current students and graduates. Parents from the 8th grade class dropped in to get support with applying to high schools and filling out financial aid applications.
Every year the 8th grade class applies to at least ten high schools. They first start with their top five public school high schools within the city of the Philadelphia. Ms. Holiday first pushes for our students to attend to the city's special admission and citywide admission schools. The summer after their seventh-grade year, they also begin working on their high school essays, and have them completed by the start of the school year.
So far, our current 8th graders have gotten acceptances from Saul Agricultural High School, George Washington Carver High School of Engineering and Science, Lankenau High School, Bodine High School for International Affairs, St. Basil's Academy, Neumann Goretti High School, Holy Ghost Prep, Roman Catholic High School, and many more.
Hope's graduates from the Class of 2015 also came by to get help with applying to their colleges. It's so hard to believe that just four years ago they were graduating from Hope! Our seniors have been working hard, taking their SATs, applying for the FAFSA, and visiting different college and universities. Ms. Sarah, the Graduate Support Program Associate, has also been instrumental in assisting students with their personal statements and interview preparation. This upcoming Tuesday will be the next college tour trip, and alumni will have a private tour of St. Joseph's University.
Many of our students also attend various other charter and private schools throughout the area including Little Flower Catholic High School, Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School, The Philadelphia High School for Girls, Science Leadership Academy, The Academy at Palumbo, Franklin Learning Center, and Constitution High, Imhotep Charter, Freire Charter, and Mathematics, Civics, and Sciences Charter High School.
Our students and families have worked so hard to prepare for the next steps in their educational journeys. We are so excited for where the future will lead them! As a reward for their hard work, we'll be headed to Skyzone again for their 5th annual alumni trip in February. We can't wait to have some time to relax and reflect on all our accomplishments thus far!


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Q: java Safe a snapshot of an Object thread safe I am having a Server storing data from clients.
Every Client works in his own Thread and is having one Data-Object.
This Data-Object is a custom class, lets call is Data.java containing unspezific data, this could be some bytes but normally from around 100kb < Data < 2mb.
Now i have a backup-thread, iterating through the list of clients, parsing their data-object to xml using Xstream and storing this in a database.
But is this safe?
If the client is doing operations altering the Data while it is backed up (Assuming that clients send requests around every 0,1 seconds and that some request could endure around seconds altering the Data at all time in the process) this data could be corrupt.
What would be a good way to do it?

A: You can lock the object with synchronized or a Lock whenever you change or read the objects.  I would also use a boolean dirty; flag which is set to true whenever you alter it.  That way your background thread only needs to save the objects which have changed.
Since the client might be altering the data for a long period of time, I would consider using lock.tryLock() which allows you to try and get the lock without blocking so the thread can still "backup" objects which are not locked.  You can always re-try on the next cycle.
An example
class Data{
    final Lock lock = new ReentrantLock();
    boolean dirty = false;

    public void setSomething(String a) {
        lock.lock();
        try {
            // modify the Data
            dirty = true;
        } finally {
            lock.unlock();
        }
    }

    public void backupData(Backup backup) {
       if (!lock.tryLock()) return;
       try {
           if (!dirty) return;

           backup.for(this);

           dirty = false;
       } finally {
           lock.unlock();
       }
    }


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Throughout the region, the talk today is about the prospect the Middle East may be on the brink of compromise and peace, instead of embroiled in bloodshed and terrorism. The flurry of optimism has been triggered by Egypt's dramatic release of the Israeli Druze citizen Azam Azam. But there are other moves afoot and David Essing has this analysis of why and where things may be headed.
Azam Azam
Azam Azam, an Israeli Druze Arab, an Israeli textile manufacturer was arrested, convicted and served half of his sixteen year sentence for espionage in Egypt. He was convicted of sending coded information by invisible ink written on women's underwear from Egypt to Israel. In a highly unusual development, Israeli Prime Ministers and a Mossad Director gave their word that Azam Azam was not an Israeli spy: but to no avail. Moreover, Egypt recalled its ambassador years ago. Question#1 - Is it conceivable the Mossad would send an Israeli Druze on an espionage mission to Egypt where he would obviously be under surveillance from the word go? Possible, but highly improbable.Question#2 - What secret information could an underwear manufacturer have possibly garnered for the Mossad?So, why did the Egyptians decide to lower the boom on Azam Azam? There are different versions. One is the Egyptians wanted to send a message to Israel's Druze Community. The Druze, Arabic speaking with a secretative offshoot religion from Islam, serve in combat units of the Israel Defense Forces. Or maybe his incarceration was a signal of Egypt's displeasure with Israel over the breakdown of the Oslo process and the last four years of intifada. If the whole Azam Azam affair was political, so then is his release. Apparently one reason for the change of heart by President Mubarak is that he now believes Prime Minister Sharon is on the level about the Gaza withdrawal. Mubarak has just said so and publicly. Egypt then is now on board even ready to play a role in sending Egyptian Border Guards to stem the flow of explosives and weapons being smuggled from Egyptian controlled Sinai into Gaza. Moreover, the Egyptians are also training a Palestinian security force which will try and rein in the terrorists. Also in the pipe line: bilateral trade agreements and the return of an Egyptian ambassador. But what has made such moves possible is the departure of Yasser Arafat. Arafat's role of 'spoiler' in the region cannot be overestimated. While Arafat praised Shahied suicide bombers, new leaders like Muhmoud Abbas and Ahmed Queira, are now telling the Palestinian people that terrorism doesn't pay. For the first time, a real Palestinian peace partner may be emerging and Sharon and other Israeli leaders are saying 'Give peace a chance'. If Sharon had declared a unilateral evacuation from Gaza, because there was no serious Palestinian partner, he's now ready for co-ordination.The other side of the triangle is the re-election of U.S. President George W. Bush and his pledge to give priority to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. If Arab leaders and Britain's Tony Blair are saying the road to a solution in Baghdad leads through Jerusalem and Ramallah, Bush now concurs. All these developments have a spin-off effect throughout the region. Arab countries, which warmed up to Israel after Oslo and then turned a cold shoulder, are now following Egypt's lead. Look for developments all the way from Morocco to some of the Gulf states.Now is the time to get serious, that's the message written on the wall throughout the Middle East. Bush is, Sharon is, and the Palestinian leaders say they want to be. And if the road to Baghdad leads through Jerusalem and Gaza, regional leaders, who are faced with the threat of radical Islam in their own backyards, may be thinking twice about now getting on the stability bandwagon. Political and economic instability is one of the breeding grounds of radical Islam.Even Syrian President Bashar Assad has seen the light. Under pressure from the U.S. over Iraq and the U.N. on Lebanon, Assad has turned to Israel for his escape hatch. However, Sharon and other government leaders say Assad has 'yet to pay his dues'. It's not enough for Syria to agree to return to peace talks; Israeli officials are demanding a halt to Syria's support for both Palestinian terrorism based in Damascus and the Hizballah threat deployed in south Lebanon.
To close the circle, Israeli officials see President Mubarak's release of Azam Azam not only as a personal gesture to Prime Minister Sharon but also as a signal to the Arab world. It could not have come at a better time for the Prime Minister - just before the crucial vote by the Likud convention on Sharon's proposal to bring Labor into a new government coalition. Without Labor, Sharon will probably not be able to implement the Gaza withdrawal and that would bring the current move to a new Middle East to a screeching halt.Footnote - On Tuesday, December 07, Finance Minister Bibi Netanyahu informed Sharon he will support Labor's inclusion. This will: 1. Apparently guarantee a Likud convention vote in favor of Labor joining the coalition. 2. Indicate that Netanyahu will probably not challenge Sharon for the Likud party leadership in the foreseeable future.
There is an inverse symmetry between Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon. Arafat not only poisoned relations between Palestinians and Israelis but also through the entire region. In Israel, the whole process of withdrawal and compromise now weighs on the shoulders of one leader, Ariel Sharon. The common wisdom is that only Sharon will be able to pull it off.
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All co-workers are invited to join the vice-chancellor in a dialogue on strategy. The final date for registration is 8 December. Please, register now!
The aims of these dialogues are to provide information about LiU's objectives and high-priority areas, and to describe their backgrounds. A further aim is to hear the views of co-workers concerning future challenges and opportunities, as part of the on-going planning of LiU's operations.
It may be necessary to move to alternative rooms, depending on how many register.
Register at the following link: http://bit.ly/2h9pdac The final date for registration is 8 December 2017. Please, bring a portable computer or tablet computer with you. The participants will be assigned to small groups and we will ask one member of each group to take notes.
1: The vice-chancellor will describe the critical decisions made at LiU in advance of the coming three-year period, and the areas given priority. She will describe the background against which these have been made.
2: A workshop discussing internal and external changes. What challenges and opportunites do these changes bring for operations at LiU? What initiatives should we take to ensure positive development?
Background material will be distributed to prepare for the dialogues.
It is possible that strategy dialogues will be arranged also in English.
Please contact lotta.lofgren-markor@liu.se if you have any questions about the strategy dialogues.


Holy cow! What a rocking day at the library today!
Decorating, tons of patrons, school facilities guy, more decorating, organizing and setting up new items for the auction… refreshed the 6th graders on research methods… opening packages, updating library facebook and emailing photos… answering questions, a few moments of dusting, rearranging and cleaning up the bulletin board… oh, Story Time was in there (thanks for sharing the gingerbread men!)… more book research, copying, and maybe you get the idea. The list of things I DIDN'T get to had five items on it still… Whew!
Our Friends of the Library wreath (version 2.0) for tomorrow's Festival of Trees Auction in Worland.
Then some of my decorations.
TKU for the display idea for Christmas Carol. Our adult SS class has an Advent study based on A Christmas Carol. I had a doll-sized chair, made a top hat, crutch, painted a thread spool black for the candlestick and had extra damper chain from a furnace. Couldn't come up with a small violin. It's the centerpiece for our coffee time between church and SS.
Enjoy your blogs, photos, etc.
Now, the chain… what a great addition! Good thinking!
Everything looks very nice. I have a question though. Why is Tiny Tim's crutch so long? He was, after all, …tiny.
I wish, I wish, I wish I could see this in person. Boy Howdy!!
Wow! all that special decorating took a LOT of time! I really like the Dickens theme and the Victorian Christmas card display – well, EVERYTHING!
Beautiful work! Love all of it but especially your display case.
You are so talented! It looks beautiful!
Wow!!! What a lot of work (& love) went into those decorations. A great work environment for cold December days.


Share your talents. Be a role model. Make a difference in a child's life today! At the YMCA of Central Florida you have the opportunity to do just that!
The premier Dr. P. Phillips YMCA Family Center, located in the heart of the Dr. Phillips community in Orlando is seeking energetic and cause driven youth leaders as Co-Teachers.
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Hidden History at Storm King Mountain Hidden History at Storm King Mountain
Along the Hudson River at Cornwall-on-Hudson, nature has been healing the wounds of an embattled past. There is history hidden by the shore, but to discover it necessitates a short journey back to a bygone era. An old, dirt-covered school bus turnaround stands along Bay View Avenue (Route 218) just before the Storm King Highway's southward ascent up the mountain. The turnaround provides entry onto—not a hiking trail, but the remains of an abandoned public street that once was an extension of Bay View Avenue leading down to the Hudson River's shore.
This road, long deserted by traffic and neglected of human care, is scarcely accessible except to the adventurous. Shaded by dense tree growth, it descends deep into the woods, following the edge of a drop-off, until the roadbed largely disappears into a dirt path strewn with leaves and pebbly rock. Along this path, unkempt from natural washout, holes, and many fallen trees, a natural wonder- land almost fifty years in the making reveals itself. Autumn is a particularly picturesque time here, as golden leaves float gently down to earth and carpet the landscape with their bronze hue. Deer, wild turkeys, and an occasional coyote make a crackling sound as they scurry across this landscape.
As the steep slope levels off, the path begins to vanish underneath thick overgrowth. The old avenue almost disappears, but through the brush ahead a small, unnamed meadow comes into view. The sudden glare of sunshine stuns the eyes with brightness. The meadow is easily traversed as the terrain becomes flat and clear of rocks. The size of the meadow is apparent; its perimeter is lined with lofty trees probably planted by nature long ago. A wisp of breeze rustles the leaves to create the only audible sounds to be heard in such a beautiful yet isolated place. In the end, nature won, reclaiming for the present a mountainside of untouched beauty.
In 1873, writer-historian Lewis Beach described the beauty of Bay View Avenue:
This is a most beautiful Drive. It appears to the best advantage at sun-set. Commanding a fine view of the water its whole length, it needs the quiet, subdued shadows of evening to bring out the beauties of the scene in their full force… The road is pleasantly winding and unpleasantly short. No one that ever tried it but complained of its limited extent. It leads to the point of Storm-king and is not over a mile in length…1
Today the thick tree growth along old Bay View Avenue obscures clear vistas of the river. However, beyond the meadow and through the trees the first glimpses of it come into view. The now undetectable Briggs Road once intersected with Bay View2; today there is no longer a clear path to finish the trip to the shoreline. The terrain offers space to roam among the tall trees and to explore near the rocks and see the river.
At the Hudson's shoreline can be found a clue that history dwells here. Hidden across the railroad tracks, imbedded into rock and washed by the river tides, is a metal geodetic marker inscribed "Hubbard 2." 3 The U.S. Geological Survey's Earth Science Information Center says it has no information concerning the inscription. However, maps, land records, and census records show that a man named Edward Hubbard lived in this area. The marker may indicate one of the points on his property.
Hubbard was a Hudson River steamboat pilot who moved from Newburgh to settle in Cornwall with his family sometime between 1848 and 1850.4 An ordinary working man, his life was filled with pain and sorrow. He lost his first wife, Sarah, in 1848, most likely in childbirth; his infant daughter died three months later.5 He was destined to lose another wife and several more of his young children during his lifetime.
In 1852, during his residence in Cornwall, Hubbard suffered still more grief. While piloting the new and very popular steamboat Henry Clay downriver on July 28, the craft suddenly burst into flames near Yonkers. Fires raged onboard as more than eighty people perished. Shortly after the disaster, Hubbard and the ship's other officers were charged with manslaughter.6
The criminal charge hung heavy over Hubbard's head. If convicted, he faced ten years in prison, leaving his second wife, several children, and many extended family members without his support. As a result of witness testimony at the trial, held in New York City in October 1853, Hubbard was completely exonerated of any wrongdoing. He returned to Cornwall a hero, the result of his life-saving actions at the time of the disaster.7 However, Hubbard did not live the life of a hero. He maintained an unassuming existence, providing for his large family by continuing to pilot Hudson River steamboats.
With the cloud of the trial lifted and a future seemingly more certain, Hubbard and his second wife, Laneretta, purchased ten acres of land at the base of Storm King Mountain.8 The seller was Christopher Miller, a partner of Hubbard's in a ferry service running between Cornwall and Cold Spring. Their relationship was so solid that Hubbard named one of his sons after Miller.9
Located an easy distance from Cornwall Landing, a frequent steamboat stop, Hubbard's property was one of several homesteads in the area. For recreation in the mid-nineteenth century, these neighbors watched the never-ending stream of steamboats filled with eager passengers bound for far-off places like New York City or Albany. Nearer to home, a regatta could fill a summer's day. Local young men from both the Hubbard and Ward families were known to enjoy scull races10 on the river, while their families and friends watched from shore. The elder Hubbard enjoyed a row on the river himself, but at a more leisurely pace. Nathaniel P. Willis, the noted writer who resided in Cornwall (and the man who renamed Butter Hill to the more ominous Storm King), reminisced:
Our boatman was Hubbard, the renowned ferryman between Cornwall and Cold Spring and the indispensable guide to the Highlands and their histories and mysteries…Hubbard telling us something we wanted to know at every dip of his oar… pointed out a fine eagle, swooping around the shoulder of Storm King, as we glided slowly through the water at the monarch's feet…Hubbard, as you know, has been the pilot on the river through trying scenes…" 11
Those trying scenes had been tempered for the pilot by his family and his home on land bordered by Storm King Mountain on one side and washed by the waters of the Hudson River on the other. Jutting out a bit into the river, the property was known for years as Hubbard's Point. An old map of Orange County clearly indicates the name "E. Hubbard" at a spot along the Hudson's Cornwall shore.12
The remains of a stone foundation near the end of old Bay View Avenue may possibly mark the location of Hubbard's house. Over the years the precise location of his property has been lost; poring through land records proved a formidable task. It must be noted that the method of surveying during that time did not aid in the search. Markers and landmarks were often living pieces of landscape or moveable objects. Such practices were evident in the land records of Hubbard's purchase, in which cedar trees and piles of rocks were employed as boundary markers:
All that certain lot piece or parcel of land situated in the town of Cornwall county of Orange bounded as follows beginning at a cedar tree on the bank of the Hudson river…running thence up the river as the river runs ten chains to a stone heap near a rock at or by the river thence…to a small cedar marked then south…to a stake + stone heap…" 13
Piles of stones are still clearly visible, but there is no way to confirm with certainty that these mark Hubbard's land, or if they were actually official markers. However, Hubbard did live on this land and became father to several more children here.
The simple joys in Hubbard's life turned to grief again in 1860 when he lost his second wife.14 Shortly afterward, Christopher Miller, who held the mortgage on Hubbard's property, also died. Hubbard was forced to sell his home.15 He purchased a house on Cornwall's Hudson Street and moved there with his third wife, Sarah Jane.16 By this time, his older children were grown; some had 100 The Hudson River Valley Review married and set off to start their own lives. During the remainder of his life, Hubbard was known simply as "Captain." When he died in 1893, The New York Times published a simple obituary: "Capt. Edward Hubbard, one of the oldest of Hudson River pilots, died at his home, in Cornwall, Thursday." 17
The land once known as Hubbard's Point experienced many changes in later years. It eventually made its way into the hands of a man named Dean; for a time, it became known as Dean's Point. (Local residents still refer to it as such.) The fact that it was previously known as Hubbard's Point had been lost to history.
Sometime after the mid-nineteenth century the community at the fringe of Storm King Mountain became home to a vibrant summer-resort industry. Hudson River School paintings and the writings of N.P. Willis enticed vacationers from New York City to flock to Cornwall for a sojourn far from the steaming metropolis. Grand Victorian homes that graced the Hudson River along the length of Bay View Avenue were converted to boarding houses or hotels.18 In time, properties such as Hubbard's were sold, divided into smaller parcels, and resold several times over.
In the 1880s, the railroad cut around Storm King Mountain along the river's edge and across the former Hubbard's Point.19 Miles of track were laid, making it possible for freight trains to make their way through the Hudson Highlands. Chugging engines sliced through the mountain silence, bringing soot and smoke. Opportunities were lost and found. A new boat landing by Hubbard's Point never came to pass,20 perhaps a sign of times to come. However, a new railroad depot was constructed at Cornwall-on-Hudson (which had separated from Cornwall). It was so popular that it eventually was expanded.21 Soon, Cornwall Landing became a railroad hub for the shipment of Pennsylvania coal.22
In the early twentieth century, the land at the base of Storm King Mountain, especially around Hubbard's Point, experienced another change. Plans were drawn to bring the New York City Aqueduct through Cornwall by way of Bay View Avenue, passing directly down to the old Hubbard's Point property and then across the Hudson River by tunnel. Excavation and drilling, shafts and tunnels, and tracks for a narrow-gauge rail line peppered the landscape with the debris of demolition. Curious onlookers came to check on the progress.23
During the 1920s the new Storm King Highway was completed, offering improved transportation in the Hudson Highlands.24 However, this modern venture could not stop what was perhaps inevitable—the area around old Bay View Avenue ultimately fell into ruin. Any remaining homes, vacation hotels, and boarding houses were demolished in what became the final insult to this mountainside community.
In the 1960s, Consolidated Edison planned to install an 800-foot-long powerhouse at Storm King Mountain, with a huge reservoir atop it.25 The company brought in roaring bulldozers whose hungry blades tore into the once pastoral mountainside, altering the landscape forever. Old survey markers were consumed by massive earth-moving machinery as cedar trees fell to the earth and piles of rocks were turned over into the dirt. The sounds of destruction rang through the Highlands as more of Bay View Avenue history was erased.
Following seventeen years of litigation this land was returned to the people. Con Edison was forced to stop its project. Unfortunately, what remained at the base of Storm King was a desecrated and severely altered landscape. Some of this land fell under the stewardship of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission (PIPC)26, which designated it as Storm King State Park. The rest of the land along the old section of Bay View Avenue remained a part of Cornwall-on-Hudson.
During subsequent decades, nature worked to reclaim its place on the mountain. New growth and trees sprung up on the awkward piles of earth that were left to rest where they had been moved by machinery. Animals returned to make their homes or to win back their migration paths. Slowly a living forest emerged.
The meadow that was crossed to arrive at the old Hubbard property is unnamed. However, its location could invoke such a name as "Hubbard's Point Meadow." North of this meadow, in plain sight, is a huge rock. Driven into its top is an old iron property stake. At some point, this evidently marked the boundary of one of the land parcels along Bay View Avenue. This rock sits just below another quiet meadow, which could fittingly be called "Bay View Meadow" because of its proximity to old Bay View Avenue.
Between the meadows, there is no easy path to follow, since much of what was easily traversed long ago is now overgrown with brush and trees. A few prickly bushes seem ready to inflict pain upon those who dare to enter; patches of poison ivy in some spots add to a trekker's challenge. The meadows do not appear to be naturally created but manmade, most likely due to the bulldozing that had been done in the area.
On the north side of "Bay View Meadow" there is an entrance to another abandoned thoroughfare, Shore Road. Through the thick brush, it becomes evident that this road nearly paralleled the railroad tracks. Old stone and brick foundations, a rusted fire hydrant, a fallen telephone pole, and vestiges of what may have been an icehouse sit by the road, serving as reminders that this land once was populated. Beyond the steep ridge along the roadside, sunlight glints off a small pond near the railroad tracks.
For a brief section, Shore Road comes clearly into view, its edges lined with tall shade trees forming a canopy that allows just enough daylight to flicker through to illuminate the way. The gloom makes it easier to envision the time when families like the Hubbards, Wards, and Clarks walked down the road into Cornwall Landing, itself a mere memory.
There is one more meadow to cross, conceivably called "Shore Road Meadow." Wild grass, some shrubs, and a handful of young cedar trees dot its landscape. Shortly after exiting this meadow to the north, caution must be exercised. Shore Road ends abruptly right at the railroad tracks, where long freight trains often can be seen. A white stone marker next to the tracks reads "N.Y. 52," indicating that this spot is exactly fifty-two miles north of New York City. Located south of this marker is the tract once known as Hubbard's Point.
Today, the land at the base of Storm King Mountain holds little resemblance to a time gone by and a life-long past. Although it is impossible to know where the old property lines had been drawn, it is probable that some of Hubbard's Point and neighboring parcels near the old abandoned Bay View Avenue now sit safely for posterity in the north end of Storm King State Park. Although these lands have been extensively altered by man, history remains there.
To learn about Storm King State Park, visit www.nynjtc.org/index.html or contact the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, Bear Mountain, NY at 845-786-2701.
Kris A. Hansen is a native of the Hudson Highlands and the author of the book Death Passage on the Hudson: The Wreck of the Henry Clay, (Fleischmanns, N.Y.:Purple Mountain Press, Ltd, 2004).
1. Lewis Beach, "Town of Cornwall: Bay-View Avenue," in Cornwall (Newburgh: Ruttenbur & Sons Printers, 1873), 98-99. (Courtesy of Janet Dempsey, Cornwall Town Historian)
2. The locations of Bay View Avenue, Shore Road, and Briggs Road are found in land records for the Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson, section 109-1-1, dated 9-11-67.
3. Geodetic marker at Designation: Hubbard 2 Reset, LX 1302, www.ngs.noaa.gov.
4. Federal Census records for 1840 Newburgh, Orange County, New York, and for 1850 Cornwall, Orange County, New York.
5. "Vital Records Taken from the Newburgh Gazette," Orange County Genealogical Society.
6. Kris A. Hansen, Death Passage on the Hudson: The Wreck of the Henry Clay (Fleischmanns: Purple Mountain Press, Ltd, 2004), 39-40, 112, 167.
7. Ibid., 135-136, 138, 163.
8. Land records for Orange County, New York, Year 1853, Liber 126, p. 29.
10. Erene Ward Norsen, Ward Brothers: Champion of the World (Vantage, 1958), 17. (Courtesy of
Janet Dempsey, Cornwall Town Historian)
11. Nathaniel P. Willis, "The Convalescent," in Out-Doors at Idlewild (New York:Charles Scribner, 1855), letter 11 written July 1855 to Morris, printed Home Journal. (Courtesy of Janet Dempsey, Cornwall Town Historian)
12. The name "E. Hubbard" can be found noted on a map presently on display at the Newburgh Free Library Local History Room, Newburgh, NY: Map of Orange County, New York, 1850/1851, from actual surveys by J.C. Sidney C.E. author of Twelve Miles Around New York (Newburgh, NY: Newell S. Brown, Publisher), map submitted 1851, entered according to an Act of Congress in the year 1850/1851 by Robert P. Smith in the clerk's office in the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Also Hubbard's Point is mentioned in a news item of the The Cornwall Times, 13 March 1880.
13. Land records, Orange County, New York, Year 1853, Liber 126, p. 29.
14. Old Town Cemetery records, North Section, No. 1, Newburgh, NY.
15. Land records Orange County, New York, Year 1866, Liber 193, p. 470-473.
16. Land records Orange County, New York, Year 1867, Liber 198, p. 368-369 and Federal Census
records for 1870 and 1880 Cornwall, New York.
17. "Obituary Notes," The New-York Times, 14 January 1893.
18. Janet Dempsey, with Colette C. Fulton and James I. O'Neill, "Bay View Villa," Cornwall, New York: Images From The Past 1788-1920 (Cornwall: Friends of the Cornwall Library, 1994), 84.
19. Janet Dempsey, with Colette C. Fulton and James I. O'Neill, "West Shore Depot," Cornwall, New York: Images From The Past 1788-1920 (Cornwall: Friends of the Cornwall Library, 1994), 70.
20. The Cornwall Times, 13 March 1880.
22. Janet Dempsey, with Colette C. Fulton and James I. O'Neill, "The Coal Docks," Cornwall, New York: Images From The Past 1788-1920 (Cornwall: Friends of the Cornwall Library, 1994), 71.
23. Janet Dempsey, with Colette C. Fulton and James I. O'Neill, "The New York City Aqueduct," Cornwall, New York: Images From The Past 1788-1920 (Cornwall: Friends of the Cornwall Library,
1994), 131.
24. Janet Dempsey, with Colette C. Fulton and James I. O'Neill, "The Storm King Highway" Cornwall, New York: Images From The Past 1788-1920 (Cornwall: Friends of the Cornwall Library, 1994), 138-140.
25. "The Scenic Hudson Decision: Timeline," Marist Environmental History Project http://library.marist.edu/archives/mehp/scenicdecision.html.
26. Land records Orange County New York, Year 1981, Liber 2218, p. 132-137.
The writer extends sincere thanks to:
Janet Dempsey, the Cornwall Town Historian, for providing historical and location information regarding Cornwall, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Hubbard's Point, Bay View Avenue, and Shore Drive. Tim Sullivan of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission for historical and map information concerning Storm King Mountain, Storm King State Park, Bay View Avenue, and Shore Drive. John Ansley, head of Special Collections and Archives, Marist College, for access to aerial photos regarding the Con Edison Storm King Mountain project. Kim Bloomer of Hudson Highlands Cruises, Inc. for physically locating the "Hubbard 2" geodetic marker using GPS. Rita Forrester of the Newburgh Free Library's Local History Room for information regarding the 1850/51 Map of Orange County.


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True Transformation Needed to Avoid a Big Blue Enron
I recently read an outstanding article by Gregory D. Foster, "True Transformation: America's Military is Overdue for a Dramatic Overhaul," printed in the Armed Forces Journal in December 2009. I believe in just the first two of his several points, he has accurately identified the most important challenge in our military, the one entrenched flaw that stands to bring our nation to its knees and invite our enemies to trample us, as Enron executives invited bankruptcy. I've reproduced Mr. Foster's first two points below:
1. From dutiful followership to assertive leadership. The future, considering its expected complexity, ambiguity and turbulence, will demand extraordinary leadership — especially strategic leadership — throughout the military. This wouldn't be an issue if the prevailing mythology that the military is in the business of producing leaders coincided with reality. But the reality is that what the military actually nurtures and rewards is dutiful followership. Those who succeed in the military, who make it to higher rank, are those who show themselves to be the most dutiful — silent, compliant, unquestioning, can-do — followers. Mavericks, iconoclasts and renegades who challenge established orthodoxy and authority, or impede stoic execution, need not apply. The generals and admirals who, by virtue of rank and position, command a measure of public attention are typically assumed by the public to be leaders, even when, as is often the case, they actually aren't. The problem is that those who are thoroughly socialized over time to follow dutifully, to invariably seek direction (and approval) from higher authority before acting, eventually lose the capacity and the inclination for boldness, vision, initiative and moral courage — the stuff of true leadership. Moreover, those who are inculcated only with the transactional, superior-subordinate, tactical leadership the military emphasizes, similarly lose the capacity to exercise the transformative, predominantly intellectual, strategic leadership required at senior levels, where the name of the game is motivating equals with minds of their own, not directing submissive subordinates.
2. From blind obedience to responsible dissent. Inherent in the leadership the future will demand of the military will be the concomitant need for responsible dissent from those in uniform. This imperative for dissent of course flies in the face of the military's deeply ingrained ethos of obedience to authority. The ethos of obedience underlies and reflects the enlistment oath and the officer's commissioning oath — both of which bind those in uniform to support and defend the Constitution, and, either explicitly (in the case of the enlistment oath) or implicitly (in the case of the commissioning oath), to obey the lawful orders of their superiors in the chain of command. From this constitutional commitment come the implicit requirements for civilian control of the military — the expectation that uniformed personnel must necessarily defer to properly constituted civilian authority — and political neutrality — the associated principle that the military must eschew involvement in partisan political affairs (even to the extent, many think, of desisting from openly opposing policy, though not, paradoxically, from openly supporting policy). These conjoined imperatives, almost universally internalized and embraced, frequently serve as justification (or rationalization) and moral cover for those in uniform not to speak out, even when circumstances demand that they do so. They also suppress the equally important, but constitutionally unspecified, responsibility of the military to act as an institutional check and balance against the strategic illiteracy and ineptitude, militaristic impetuosity and arrogance, and ulterior partisan political motives of civilian authorities who display such traits.
The ethos of obedience also is born of the primacy of command in military culture and the military's largely unquestioning and unquestioned conflation of command and leadership. Though the two should be essentially synonymous, they often aren't — command frequently taking the form of unilateral, authoritarian edicts from commanders who expect their orders to be obeyed unquestioningly. Just as the military conflates command and leadership, so too does it correspondingly conflate dissent and disobedience. Few in uniform, if they are to avoid sanction and thereby succeed, can (or care to) resist the slippery slope from obedience to unquestioning obedience to blind obedience. The result of perpetual obedience, like the crippling effect of perpetual followership, is that those who bear responsibility for speaking up to those in authority and when necessary speaking out in public, are robbed of their ability and willingness to do so.
What an outstanding article, and he has a great deal more to say beyond these two points. I suggest every service member read this article, and every civilian who pays them.
His diagnosis explains, in my opinion, why the Air Force recently botched its VSP program, and followed it up a few days ago with an amazing Reduction in Force (RIF) - ie booting out highly qualified officers who sacrificed a decade or more during war time. It is really the only way to explain such behavior by leadership, to cut the people who get the mission done during a time when the mission suffers and the force is severely undermanned. But anything to lower the number on a Power Point slide, I suppose. I literally would not be shocked to see Air Force airplanes being sold to the highest bidder on Ebay next week. The insanity has no end, and I truly fear the United States Air Force will go the way of Enron, and for essentially the same reasons.
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Assassinating the Constitution
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Q: Detect an attached DependencyProperty from code-behind in WPF I have a class named MenuItemHelper which attach a GroupName property to my MenuItems in WPF (I get this from here).
How do I set or get it's value from code-behind?

A: The methods for doing it should be in the MenuItemHelper class:
MenuItemHelper.SetGroupName(someMenuItem, "a group name");
string groupName = MenuItemHelper.GetGroupName(someMenuItem);


One of the hottest country artists in the world right now, the award winning Luke Bryan, has just announced a second date bringing his Kick the Dust Up Tour to Farm Bureau Live on Wednesday 24th June! The superstar and Georgia-native will be storming the stage with special guests and fellow country acts Randy Houser and Dustin Lynch, for a night of toe-tappin' singalong fun!
Luke Bryan cut his teeth in the industry in the early 2000′s writing music for other country artists such as Travis Tritt and Billy Currington. He released his debut album I'll Stay Me in 2007 to wide critical and public acclaim, establishing him as a country star in his own right and earning him numerous awards including: Top New Solo Vocalist and Top New Artist at the Academy of Country Music Awards, USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year (for "Do I") at the CMT Music Awards, and New Artist of the Year at the Country Music Association Awards. His subsequent albums and EPs have achieved similar success both commercially and critically, earning him both the Academy of Country Music Awards & Country Music Association Awards "Entertainer of the Year" award. 2015 sees Bryan slated to release his fifth studio album, as well as his last Spring Break album, Spring Break…Checkin' Out.


At Cherished Companions, our top priority is delivering quality, compassionate care for each one of our clients. Last month, our founder and CEO, Douglas Wilber, had the opportunity to share that vision on New Cleveland Radio during the Senior Moments Podcast. In this local podcast, hosts Bradley and Heather Greene shine the spotlight on senior care in the Cleveland area and regularly interview leaders in the industry who are making a difference through their organizations.
The podcast delves into Doug's inspiration for starting Cherished Companions and what makes this company so different. Growing up in a family that included four generations of doctors, and later working in the healthcare division of Procter & Gamble, Doug gained a unique perspective on care. Based on his mother's advice to be a professional in whatever career he chose, Doug pursued excellence and integrity in creating a home care company that would make a tangible difference in people's lives.
Doug's vision for Cherished Companions was to create a unique business model that took the approach of a good doctor's practice: focused on providing excellent care first. As the Baby Boomer generation is growing older, the need for senior care is rising. Doug realized that families will need customized care in the home that can meet a variety of needs, from companionship and light housekeeping to Alzheimer's and dementia care.
We're thrilled that Doug had this opportunity to spread the word about Cherished Companions, and we hope you'll take the opportunity to listen to the podcast for the full story!
At Cherished Companions, home care is not just a job. It's a calling. The heart of our agency is cherishing people and their need for independence, and our mission is to provide loving, affordable, quality care at an outstanding value. Our caregivers specialize in helping seniors thrive at home by providing the assistance they need to achieve independence.
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Образование
Греческая система образования начала складываться ещё в архаическую эпоху Древней Греции и своей вершины достигла в VI в. до н. э., прежде всего в Афинах. Уже в V в. до н. э. в Афинах среди свободных афинян не было неграмотных людей. Обучение начинали примерно с двенадцати лет, к обучению допускались только мальчики, а девочек обучали их родственники домашнему хозяйству, мальчики учились писать, читать, считать; также преподавалась музыка, танцы, гимнастика — такие школы назывались палестрами. Затем по достижении восемнадцатилетнего возраста все юноши, или эфебы, как их называли, собирались со всей Аттики под городом Пирей, где в течение года под руководством специальных учителей обучались фехтованию, стрельбе из лука, метанию копья, обращению с осадными орудиями и так далее; в течение следующего года они несли военную службу на границе, после чего становились полноправными гражданами.

Кроме этого существовали учебные заведения более высокого уровня — гимнасий. В них преподавался цикл наук — грамматика, арифметика, риторика и теория музыки, к которым в ряде случаев добавлялись диалектика, геометрия и астрономия (астрология); на более высоком уровне, чем в элементарных школах, велись занятия по гимнастике.

Основными дисциплинами были грамматика и риторика; грамматика включала в себя уроки литературы, где изучали тексты величайших авторов, таких, как Гомер, Еврипид, Демосфен и Менандр; в курс риторики входили теория красноречия, заучивание риторических примеров и декламация (практические упражнения).

В IV в. до н. э. в Афинах возникает и высшее образование. Знаменитые философы за плату обучали желающих (в форме лекций или бесед) искусству красноречия, логике и истории философии.

Совершенно иначе строилось образование в Спарте. Юных спартанцев обучали письму, счёту, пению, игре на музыкальных инструментах, военному делу.

Вообще, мнение о зарождении науки в Древней Греции спорно. Скорее можно говорить о появлении рационального мышления в виде философии и преднауке.

Ученые и философы Древней Греции

Сократ
Сократ (др.-греч. Σωκράτης, ок. 469 г. до н. э., Афины — 399 г. до н. э., там же) — один из родоначальников диалектики как метода поиска и познания истины. Главный принцип — «Познай самого себя и ты познаешь весь мир», то есть убеждение в том, что самопознание — путь к постижению истинного блага. В этике добродетель равна знанию, следовательно, разум толкает человека на добрые поступки. Человек знающий не станет поступать дурно. Сократ излагал своё учение устно, передавая знания в виде диалогов своим ученикам, из сочинений которых мы и узнали о Сократе.

Создав «сократический» метод ведения спора, Сократ утверждал, что истина рождается только в споре, в котором мудрец при помощи ряда наводящих вопросов заставляет своих противников признать сначала неправильность собственных позиций, а затем справедливость взглядов их оппонента. Мудрец, по мнению Сократа, приходит к истине путём самопознания, а затем познания объективно существующего духа, объективно существующей истины. Важнейшее значение в общеполитических взглядах Сократа занимала идея профессионального знания, из которой делались выводы, что человек, не занимающийся политической деятельностью профессионально, не имеет права на суждение о ней. Это было вызовом основным принципам афинской демократии.

Платон
Учение Платона (др.-греч. Πλάτων, 428 или 427 до н. э., Афины — 348 или 347 до н. э., там же) — первая классическая форма объективного идеализма. Идеи (среди них высшая — идея блага) — вечные и неизменные прообразы вещей, всего приходящего и изменчивого бытия. Вещи — подобие и отражение идей. Эти положения изложены в сочинениях Платона «Пир», «Федр», «Государство» и др. В диалогах Платона мы находим многогранную характеристику прекрасного. При ответе на вопрос: «Что есть прекрасное?» он пытался охарактеризовать саму сущность красоты. В конечном счёте, красота для Платона есть эстетически своеобразная идея. Познать её человек может, только находясь в состоянии особого вдохновения. Концепция красоты у Платона идеалистична. Рациональна в его учении мысль о специфичности эстетического переживания. Платон выделял математику как ключ к познанию всех вещей, но, в отличие от Архимеда, практически ею не интересовался.

Аристотель
Ученик Платона — Аристотель (др.-греч. Ἀριστοτέλης; 384 до н. э., Стагира, Фракия — 322 до н. э., Халкида, остров Эвбея), был воспитателем Александра Македонского. Он является основоположником научной философии, логики, учения об основных принципах бытия (возможности и осуществления, форме и материи, причине и цели). Основные области его интересов — человек, этика, политика, искусство. Аристотель — автор книг «Метафизика», «Физика», «О душе», «Поэтика». В отличие от Платона для Аристотеля прекрасное не объективная идея, а объективное качество вещей. Величина, пропорции, порядок, симметрия — свойства прекрасного.

Красота, по Аристотелю, заключена в математических пропорциях вещей "поэтому для её постижения следует заниматься математикой. Аристотель выдвинул принцип соразмерности человека и прекрасного предмета. Красота у Аристотеля выступает как мера, а мерой всего является сам человек. В сравнении с ним прекрасный предмет не должен быть «чрезмерным». В этих рассуждениях Аристотеля о подлинно прекрасном содержится тот же гуманистический принцип, который выражен и в самом античном искусстве. Философия отвечала потребности человеческой ориентации человека, порвавшего с традиционными ценностями и обратившегося к разуму как к способу уяснения проблем.

Пифагор
В математике выделяется фигура Пифагора (др.-греч. Πυθαγόρας ὁ Σάμιος, лат. Pythagoras; 570—490 гг. до н. э.), создавшего таблицу умножения и теорему, носящую его имя, изучавшего свойства целых чисел и пропорций. Пифагорейцы развивали учение о «гармонии сфер». Для них мир — это стройный космос. Они связывают понятие прекрасного не только всеобщей картиной мира, но и в соответствии с морально-религиозной направленностью своей философии с понятием блага. Разрабатывая вопросы музыкальной акустики, пифагорейцы поставили проблему соотношения тонов и попытались дать его математическое выражение: отношение октавы к основному тону равно 1:2, квинты — 2:3, кварты — 3:4 и т. д. Отсюда следует вывод, что красота гармонична.

Там, где основные противоположности находятся в «соразмерной смеси», там содержится благо, здоровье человека. Равное и непротиворечивое в гармонии не нуждается. Гармония выступает там, где есть неравенство, единство и взаимодополнение многообразного. Музыкальная гармония — частный случай гармонии мировой, её звуковое выражение. «Всё небо — гармония и число», планеты окружены воздухом и прикреплены к прозрачным сферам. Интервалы между сферами строго гармонически соотносятся между Собой как интервалы тонов музыкальной октавы. От этих представлений пифагорейцев и пошло выражение «Музыка Сфер». Планеты движутся, издавая звуки, и высота звука зависит от скорости их движения. Однако наше ухо не способно уловить мировую гармонию сфер. Эти представления пифагорейцев важны как свидетельство их уверенности в том, что Вселенная гармонична.

Демокрит
Демокрит (Δημόκριτος; ок. 460 до н. э., Абдеры — ок. 370 до н. э.), открывший существование атомов, тоже уделял внимание поискам ответа на вопрос: «Что есть красота?» У него эстетика прекрасного сочеталась его этическими взглядами и с принципом утилитаризма. Он считал, что человек должен стремиться к блаженству и благодушию. По его мнению, «не следует стремиться ко всякому наслаждению, но только к такому, которое связано с прекрасным». В определения красоты Демокрит подчёркивает такое свойство, как мера, соразмерность. Тому, кто их преступает, «самое приятное может стать неприятным».

Гераклит
У Гераклита (др.-греч. Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος, 544—483 гг. до н. э) понимание красоты пронизано диалектикой. Для него гармония не статичное равновесие, как для пифагорейцев, а движущееся, динамичное состояние. Противоречие — созидатель гармонии и условие существования прекрасного: расходящееся сходится, и прекраснейшее согласие происходит из противоположности, и всё происходит в силу раздора. В этом единстве борющихся противоположностей Гераклит видит образец гармонии и сущность прекрасного. Впервые Гераклит поставил вопрос о характере восприятия прекрасного: оно непостижимо с помощью вычисления или отвлечённого мышления, оно познается интуитивно, путём созерцания.

Гиппократ
Известны труды Гиппократа (др.-греч. Ἱπποκράτης, лат. Hippocrates, около 460 года до н. э., остров Кос — между 377 и 356 годами до н. э., Ларисса) в области медицины и этики. Он — основатель научной медицины, автор учения о целостности организма человека, теории индивидуального подхода к больному, традиции ведения истории болезни, трудов по врачебной этике, в которых особое внимание обращал на высокий моральный облик врача, автор знаменитой профессиональной клятвы, которую дают все, получающие врачебный диплом. До наших дней дошло его бессмертное правило для врачей: не навреди пациенту.

С медициной Гиппократа завершился переход от религиозно-мистических представлений о всех процессах, связанных со здоровьем и болезнями человека, к начатому ионийскими натурфилософами их рациональному объяснению. Медицина жрецов сменилась медициной врачей, основанной на точных наблюдениях. Врачи школы Гиппократа также были философами.

Архимед
Архимед (Ἀρχιμήδης; 287 до н. э. — 212 до н. э.) был древнегреческим математиком, физиком и инженером. Наибольшую известность принёс Архимеду  открытый им закон, согласно которому на тело в жидкости воздействует выталкивающая сила, равная весу вытесняемой жидкости.

Для измерения длины кривых и для определения площадей и объёмов тел Архимед применял геометрию. Он разработал различные конструкции, к примеру водоподъёмный винт. Принцип Архимедова винта используется и до сих пор. В частности, его применяют для откачки воды из судов, получивших пробоину.

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