SAP's Document Management System can help businesses improve their efficiency and streamline decision-making processes, says expert Jawad Akhtar.
Almost every organization contends with a huge amount of information that comes in soft copy as well as hard. That information must be managed and instantly available when needed. Much of it is scattered, which results in wasted time and resources and failed efforts when a business worker is trying to locate the right document. Making matters more difficult is the fact that a large number of documents and other references are not integrated with many of the business processes and transactions that users conduct in SAP on a daily basis.
A vendor delivers raw material to an organization as well as the accompanying quality certificates in the form of hard copy documents. After physical inspection of the material and cross-checking with the details noted in the certificate, the quality inspector files the paperwork. If the company needs to refer to it again in the future, no link or reference of the quality certificate exists in SAP.
Equipment requires maintenance on an urgent basis. Maintenance personnel spend precious time locating the relevant drawings or maintenance manuals in soft or hard copy formats for reference, before the actual maintenance work can begin.
When recording important process data, the production staff needs trouble-shooting and important safely guidelines readily available. Many times, the required information is available either separately indifferent places or on a different system. Unfortunately, sometimes no visible link exists to information about who worked on the requisite documentation.
A company sells its products to a customer according to a sales order and it needs to attach the corresponding MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet). The shipping company's warehouse needs to access a separate document repository and print out and attach the MSDS at the time of shipment.
The procurement department regularly purchases valuable assets that, when delivered, include information about warrantees and guarantees. The user finds no provision or option to link the asset with the accompanying vendor-supplied documents.
The process of integrating SAP's Document Management System (SAP DMS) with core SAP modules can help organizations manage these important sales documents and bring improved organizational efficiency to its business decision-making process.
SAP Document Management System comes as standard functionality when an SAP system is installed. No additional SAP DMS software is needed. It is highly advisable to conduct server sizing, with the involvement of a Basis (Netweaver) resource to assess and evaluate the need to have additional hardware for storing documents in a central repository.
If SAP is already implemented in your company, then you can implement SAP DMS as an independent standalone project. Alternatively, you can implement SAP DMS at the same time, when other core SAP modules are being deployed in your company. SAP Document Management is cross-modular; your company can implement it not only in the supply chain and logistics modules, but also in the Financial and Managerial Accounting (FICO) as well as Human Capital Management (HCM) modules.
Store and retrieve all of a company's important documents in a central repository, which is immediately accessible and completely integrated with the business processes mapped in the SAP system.
Check in and check-out documents as needed.
Have multiple parts .and versions of a single document for tracking purposes.
Index all documents for easy and comprehensive searches.
Search all documents by keywords in a long text of a document.
Organize all documents in a structured and hierarchical way.
Track all documents by their statuses and have document statuses control business functions.
Approve documents by individual digital signatures and also by a series of digital signatures.
Distribute (manually and by SAP Workflow) documents to relevant stakeholders.
Access documents on the Internet (WebDocuments).
Have the option of working with SAP DMS via SAP EasyDMS, a Microsoft Windows Explorer interface.
Control accessibility of documents to only the relevant stakeholders by authorization options.
Jawad Akhtar is an assistant vice president and SAP project manager for AbacusConsulting, where he focuses on SCM issues. AbacusConsulting is based in Pakistan.
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11 Things To Know About The Wild World Of Nicolas Cage
As strange as Nicolas Cage may act in front of the camera, his life away from Hollywood is equally as unusual. Cage is something of an enigma, as he has been nominated for Oscars and won an Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas, and at the same time has been in some of the most ridiculous and mocked films of all time. It feels like Cage stars in every other movie that comes out, especially in the dumping ground of January and February.
Here are 11 things to know about the wild world of Nicolas Cage…
1. Cage proposed to Patricia Arquette on the day he met her in the early 1980s. Arquette thought he was a bit strange but played along with his antics by creating a list of things Cage would have to fulfill to win her. When he started to work his way through the list, Arquette got scared and avoided him. In a strange turn of events, they met again many years later and later went on to marry.
2. Tim Burton cast Cage as Superman in his Superman adaptation that never came to fruition, even fitting him for a costume.
3. Cage is such a big fan of Superman that he named his son Kal-El, Superman's Kryptonian name.
4. He ate a real cockroach in the film Vampire's Kiss, which reportedly took three takes. He once said about the experience, "Every muscle in my body didn't want to do it, but I did it anyway."
5. After his first film role in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, he adopted the stage name of Cage because he wanted to assure himself that any success he had was based on his own merits, not the fame of his uncle, Francis Ford Coppola.
6. When Cage was arrested in New Orleans and charged with alleged domestic violence against his wife, Alice, and disturbing the peace, the $11,000 needed to bail him out was posted by Duane 'Dog' Chapman, better known as "Dog the Bounty Hunter."
7. Cage has a loyal internet culture who follows him devotedly. On Reddit, he has an entire community evoked to his career, where they ironically call him the one true God.
8. One time, Cage woke up in his house at Orange County in the middle of the night to find a naked man eating a fudgesicle in front of his bed. The man was arrested by police, but Cage pressed no charges.
9. Stated that the reason he owned so many pieces of property in the past–including multiple castles, mansions, and an island–was to protect his money without buying stock or relying on a bank, believing that real estate was the most trustworthy way to accomplish this. However, after the real estate bubble collapsed, he sold most of his property at a loss and rescinded on his belief. He now owns a modest amount of property: a house in Las Vegas near his friends and a small cottage near Glastonbury, England.
10. Cage suffers from vertigo.
11. Speaking of his elaborate real estate ventures, in the late 90s Cage lived in a fake castle in California. He wanted to import a real one from overseas, but that never happened.

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Q: Spinnaker Jenkins Integration unable to fetch jobs from Jenkins We have completed all the steps as described in the hello-spinnaker example below.We have used the AWS spinnaker image to directly configure spinnaker in AWS.
www.spinnaker.io/docs/hello-spinnaker.
I am trying to create a sample pipeline as noted in the above example.But while I create trigger in the first step and select jenkins ,the jobs are not getting populated and am getting below error in browser.
GET http://localhost:8084/v2/builds/Jenkins/jobs 429 (Too Many Requests)
The actual issue looks like while retrofit is trying to map the  response from jenkins getjobs into the JobList class its finding an attribute _class in jenkins response xml and which is not present in JobList groovy class.Below is how we tried finding the issue
1)Login to AWS Spinnaker instance
2)Gate service is exposed at port 8084.
curl http://localhost:8084/v2/builds/Jenkins/jobs.
{"failureCause":"retrofit.RetrofitError: 429 Too Many Requests","error":"Too Many Requests","message":"429 Too Many Requests","status":429,"url":"http://localhost:8088/jobs/Jenkins","timestamp":1462793944530}

3)Igor service is exposed at port 8088.
curl http://localhost:8088/jobs/Jenkins
{"fallbackException":"java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: No fallback available.","failureType":"COMMAND_EXCEPTION","failureCause":"retrofit.converter.ConversionException: org.simpleframework.xml.core.AttributeException: Attribute '_class' does not have a match in class com.netflix.spinnaker.igor.jenkins.client.model.JobList at line 1","error":"Hystrix Failure","message":"jenkins-Jenkins-getJobs failed and no fallback available.","status":429,"timestamp":1462793896853}

When I check in the igor logs,there are few exceptions which are occuring during the getprojects by jenkins poll
Caused by: retrofit.converter.ConversionException: org.simpleframework.xml.core.AttributeException: Attribute '_class' does not have a match in class com.netflix.spinnaker.igor.jenkins.client.model.ProjectsList at line 2
at retrofit.converter.SimpleXMLConverter.fromBody(SimpleXMLConverter.java:38)
at retrofit.RestAdapter$RestHandler.invokeRequest(RestAdapter.java:367)
... 39 common frames omitted
Caused by: org.simpleframework.xml.core.AttributeException: Attribute '_class' does not have a match in class com.netflix.spinnaker.igor.jenkins.client.model.ProjectsList at line 2

4)Connect to jenkins and get the jobs as its being done in spinnaker code https://github.com/spinnaker/igor/blob/master/igor-web/src/main/groovy/com/netflix/spinnaker/igor/jenkins/client/JenkinsClient.groovy
resp = requests.get('http://jenkinserverip:8080/api/xml?tree=jobs[name,jobs[name,jobs[name,jobs[name,jobs[name,jobs[name,jobs[name,jobs[name,jobs[name,jobs[name]]]]]]]]]]',auth=('admin','password'))
print resp.text
<hudson _class='hudson.model.Hudson'><job _class='hudson.model.FreeStyleProject'><name>Hello Build</name></job><job _class='hudson.model.FreeStyleProject'><name>Hello Poll</name></job></hudson>

So as the jenkins response is having the _class attribute ,retrofit is throwing an error at this line http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/com.squareup.retrofit/retrofit/1.9.0/retrofit/RestAdapter.java#383
I wanted to see how can we quickly fix this as it looks like some version in compatibility of jenkins.

A: I'm seeing a similar issue in spinnaker 1.8.5. I had to reformat the jenkins url from myjenkins.server.com:8080 to http://myjenkins.server.com/ and it corrected the issue.

A: this is a bug around the jenkins api in later version. I believe 2.2 is the last compatible version, we run 1.6 internally.

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import {
  Bridge,
  hasPluginPermission,
  HookEvents,
  PluginPermission,
  set,
  getPluginDefaultSettings,
  getPluginSettings,
  setPluginSettings
} from '@vue-devtools/shared-utils'
import {
  Hooks,
  HookPayloads,
  App,
  DevtoolsPluginApi,
  ComponentInstance,
  TimelineLayerOptions,
  TimelineEventOptions,
  CustomInspectorOptions,
  EditStatePayload,
  WithId,
  ComponentTreeNode,
  ComponentDevtoolsOptions
} from '@vue/devtools-api'
import { DevtoolsHookable } from './hooks'
import { BackendContext } from './backend-context'
import { Plugin } from './plugin'

let backendOn: DevtoolsHookable
const pluginOn: DevtoolsHookable[] = []

export class DevtoolsApi {
  bridge: Bridge
  ctx: BackendContext

  constructor (bridge: Bridge, ctx: BackendContext) {
    this.bridge = bridge
    this.ctx = ctx
    if (!backendOn) { backendOn = new DevtoolsHookable(ctx) }
  }

  get on () {
    return backendOn
  }

  async callHook<T extends Hooks> (eventType: T, payload: HookPayloads[T], ctx: BackendContext = this.ctx) {
    payload = await backendOn.callHandlers(eventType, payload, ctx)
    for (const on of pluginOn) {
      payload = await on.callHandlers(eventType, payload, ctx)
    }
    return payload
  }

  async transformCall (callName: string, ...args) {
    const payload = await this.callHook(Hooks.TRANSFORM_CALL, {
      callName,
      inArgs: args,
      outArgs: args.slice()
    })
    return payload.outArgs
  }

  async getAppRecordName (app: App, defaultName: string): Promise<string> {
    const payload = await this.callHook(Hooks.GET_APP_RECORD_NAME, {
      app,
      name: null
    })
    if (payload.name) {
      return payload.name
    } else {
      return `App ${defaultName}`
    }
  }

  async getAppRootInstance (app: App) {
    const payload = await this.callHook(Hooks.GET_APP_ROOT_INSTANCE, {
      app,
      root: null
    })
    return payload.root
  }

  async registerApplication (app: App) {
    await this.callHook(Hooks.REGISTER_APPLICATION, {
      app
    })
  }

  async walkComponentTree (instance: ComponentInstance, maxDepth = -1, filter: string = null) {
    const payload = await this.callHook(Hooks.WALK_COMPONENT_TREE, {
      componentInstance: instance,
      componentTreeData: null,
      maxDepth,
      filter
    })
    return payload.componentTreeData
  }

  async visitComponentTree (instance: ComponentInstance, treeNode: ComponentTreeNode, filter: string = null, app: App) {
    const payload = await this.callHook(Hooks.VISIT_COMPONENT_TREE, {
      app,
      componentInstance: instance,
      treeNode,
      filter
    })
    return payload.treeNode
  }

  async walkComponentParents (instance: ComponentInstance) {
    const payload = await this.callHook(Hooks.WALK_COMPONENT_PARENTS, {
      componentInstance: instance,
      parentInstances: []
    })
    return payload.parentInstances
  }

  async inspectComponent (instance: ComponentInstance, app: App) {
    const payload = await this.callHook(Hooks.INSPECT_COMPONENT, {
      app,
      componentInstance: instance,
      instanceData: null
    })
    return payload.instanceData
  }

  async getComponentBounds (instance: ComponentInstance) {
    const payload = await this.callHook(Hooks.GET_COMPONENT_BOUNDS, {
      componentInstance: instance,
      bounds: null
    })
    return payload.bounds
  }

  async getComponentName (instance: ComponentInstance) {
    const payload = await this.callHook(Hooks.GET_COMPONENT_NAME, {
      componentInstance: instance,
      name: null
    })
    return payload.name
  }

  async getComponentInstances (app: App) {
    const payload = await this.callHook(Hooks.GET_COMPONENT_INSTANCES, {
      app,
      componentInstances: []
    })
    return payload.componentInstances
  }

  async getElementComponent (element: HTMLElement | any) {
    const payload = await this.callHook(Hooks.GET_ELEMENT_COMPONENT, {
      element,
      componentInstance: null
    })
    return payload.componentInstance
  }

  async getComponentRootElements (instance: ComponentInstance) {
    const payload = await this.callHook(Hooks.GET_COMPONENT_ROOT_ELEMENTS, {
      componentInstance: instance,
      rootElements: []
    })
    return payload.rootElements
  }

  async editComponentState (instance: ComponentInstance, dotPath: string, type: string, state: EditStatePayload, app: App) {
    const arrayPath = dotPath.split('.')
    const payload = await this.callHook(Hooks.EDIT_COMPONENT_STATE, {
      app,
      componentInstance: instance,
      path: arrayPath,
      type,
      state,
      set: (object, path = arrayPath, value = state.value, cb?) => set(object, path, value, cb || createDefaultSetCallback(state))
    })
    return payload.componentInstance
  }

  async getComponentDevtoolsOptions (instance: ComponentInstance): Promise<ComponentDevtoolsOptions> {
    const payload = await this.callHook(Hooks.GET_COMPONENT_DEVTOOLS_OPTIONS, {
      componentInstance: instance,
      options: null
    })
    return payload.options || {}
  }

  async getComponentRenderCode (instance: ComponentInstance): Promise<{
    code: string
  }> {
    const payload = await this.callHook(Hooks.GET_COMPONENT_RENDER_CODE, {
      componentInstance: instance,
      code: null
    })
    return {
      code: payload.code
    }
  }

  async inspectTimelineEvent (eventData: TimelineEventOptions & WithId, app: App) {
    const payload = await this.callHook(Hooks.INSPECT_TIMELINE_EVENT, {
      event: eventData.event,
      layerId: eventData.layerId,
      app,
      data: eventData.event.data,
      all: eventData.all
    })
    return payload.data
  }

  async clearTimeline () {
    await this.callHook(Hooks.TIMELINE_CLEARED, {})
  }

  async getInspectorTree (inspectorId: string, app: App, filter: string) {
    const payload = await this.callHook(Hooks.GET_INSPECTOR_TREE, {
      inspectorId,
      app,
      filter,
      rootNodes: []
    })
    return payload.rootNodes
  }

  async getInspectorState (inspectorId: string, app: App, nodeId: string) {
    const payload = await this.callHook(Hooks.GET_INSPECTOR_STATE, {
      inspectorId,
      app,
      nodeId,
      state: null
    })
    return payload.state
  }

  async editInspectorState (inspectorId: string, app: App, nodeId: string, dotPath: string, type: string, state: EditStatePayload) {
    const arrayPath = dotPath.split('.')
    await this.callHook(Hooks.EDIT_INSPECTOR_STATE, {
      inspectorId,
      app,
      nodeId,
      path: arrayPath,
      type,
      state,
      set: (object, path = arrayPath, value = state.value, cb?) => set(object, path, value, cb || createDefaultSetCallback(state))
    })
  }
}

function createDefaultSetCallback (state: EditStatePayload) {
  return (obj, field, value) => {
    if (state.remove || state.newKey) {
      if (Array.isArray(obj)) {
        obj.splice(field, 1)
      } else {
        delete obj[field]
      }
    }
    if (!state.remove) {
      obj[state.newKey || field] = value
    }
  }
}

export class DevtoolsPluginApiInstance<TSettings = any> implements DevtoolsPluginApi<TSettings> {
  bridge: Bridge
  ctx: BackendContext
  plugin: Plugin
  on: DevtoolsHookable
  private defaultSettings: TSettings

  constructor (plugin: Plugin, ctx: BackendContext) {
    this.bridge = ctx.bridge
    this.ctx = ctx
    this.plugin = plugin
    this.defaultSettings = getPluginDefaultSettings(plugin.descriptor.settings)
    this.on = new DevtoolsHookable(ctx, plugin)
    pluginOn.push(this.on)
  }

  // Plugin API

  async notifyComponentUpdate (instance: ComponentInstance = null) {
    if (!this.enabled || !this.hasPermission(PluginPermission.COMPONENTS)) return

    if (instance) {
      this.ctx.hook.emit(HookEvents.COMPONENT_UPDATED, ...await this.ctx.api.transformCall(HookEvents.COMPONENT_UPDATED, instance))
    } else {
      this.ctx.hook.emit(HookEvents.COMPONENT_UPDATED)
    }
  }

  addTimelineLayer (options: TimelineLayerOptions) {
    if (!this.enabled || !this.hasPermission(PluginPermission.TIMELINE)) return false

    this.ctx.hook.emit(HookEvents.TIMELINE_LAYER_ADDED, options, this.plugin)
    return true
  }

  addTimelineEvent (options: TimelineEventOptions) {
    if (!this.enabled || !this.hasPermission(PluginPermission.TIMELINE)) return false

    this.ctx.hook.emit(HookEvents.TIMELINE_EVENT_ADDED, options, this.plugin)
    return true
  }

  addInspector (options: CustomInspectorOptions) {
    if (!this.enabled || !this.hasPermission(PluginPermission.CUSTOM_INSPECTOR)) return false

    this.ctx.hook.emit(HookEvents.CUSTOM_INSPECTOR_ADD, options, this.plugin)
    return true
  }

  sendInspectorTree (inspectorId: string) {
    if (!this.enabled || !this.hasPermission(PluginPermission.CUSTOM_INSPECTOR)) return false

    this.ctx.hook.emit(HookEvents.CUSTOM_INSPECTOR_SEND_TREE, inspectorId, this.plugin)
    return true
  }

  sendInspectorState (inspectorId: string) {
    if (!this.enabled || !this.hasPermission(PluginPermission.CUSTOM_INSPECTOR)) return false

    this.ctx.hook.emit(HookEvents.CUSTOM_INSPECTOR_SEND_STATE, inspectorId, this.plugin)
    return true
  }

  selectInspectorNode (inspectorId: string, nodeId: string) {
    if (!this.enabled || !this.hasPermission(PluginPermission.CUSTOM_INSPECTOR)) return false

    this.ctx.hook.emit(HookEvents.CUSTOM_INSPECTOR_SELECT_NODE, inspectorId, nodeId, this.plugin)
    return true
  }

  getComponentBounds (instance: ComponentInstance) {
    return this.ctx.api.getComponentBounds(instance)
  }

  getComponentName (instance: ComponentInstance) {
    return this.ctx.api.getComponentName(instance)
  }

  getComponentInstances (app: App) {
    return this.ctx.api.getComponentInstances(app)
  }

  highlightElement (instance: ComponentInstance) {
    if (!this.enabled || !this.hasPermission(PluginPermission.COMPONENTS)) return false

    this.ctx.hook.emit(HookEvents.COMPONENT_HIGHLIGHT, instance.__VUE_DEVTOOLS_UID__, this.plugin)
    return true
  }

  unhighlightElement () {
    if (!this.enabled || !this.hasPermission(PluginPermission.COMPONENTS)) return false

    this.ctx.hook.emit(HookEvents.COMPONENT_UNHIGHLIGHT, this.plugin)
    return true
  }

  getSettings (pluginId?: string) {
    return getPluginSettings(pluginId ?? this.plugin.descriptor.id, this.defaultSettings)
  }

  setSettings (value: TSettings, pluginId?: string) {
    setPluginSettings(pluginId ?? this.plugin.descriptor.id, value)
  }

  private get enabled () {
    return hasPluginPermission(this.plugin.descriptor.id, PluginPermission.ENABLED)
  }

  private hasPermission (permission: PluginPermission) {
    return hasPluginPermission(this.plugin.descriptor.id, permission)
  }
}

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AMANOTES MARKS ITS JOURNEY OF 8 YEARS AS THE TOP 1 MUSIC GAMING PUBLISHER
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, Dec. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amanotes, a famous Vietnam-based music-tech company, officially marks its 8-year development journey by maintaining its position as the World's Top 1 Music Gaming Publisher on mobile platforms in terms of user volumes. With impressive achievements and relentless creative efforts, Amanotes gradually realizes its ambition to become the world's leading music-tech company.
Pursuing the mission of "Everyone can Music", Amanotes wants everyone to be able to access and interact with music through the best experiences.
According to Global Market Research Company Statista, the music gaming industry is growing by leaps and bounds. By 2026, this global market is expected to reach 10.61 billion USD with an annual growth rate of up to 7.65%. In Vietnam, Amanotes is one of the prominent music gaming publishers with an explosive growth rate. From 2018 to 2022, the total number of Amanotes' app downloads has grown by over 20%/year. At its peak in 2020, Amanotes' revenue was up 100% year-on-year.
Not only keeps up with the development trends of the music gaming industry, but Amanotes also contributes to shaping the complete picture of the entire industry development. After 8 years of establishment, Amanotes has reached more than 2.7 billion downloads globally, thereby continuing to be firmly in the position of the largest downloaded music gaming publisher globally and an App Publisher with the largest downloads in Southeast Asia.
With the ambition to go global, Amanotes has now reached 190 countries, held a large market share in US, the UK, Brazil, etc., and owned an average of 38% of the global market share from 2019 to 2021. It also made its major mark with popular music games such as "Magic Tiles 3", "Tiles Hop", "Dancing Road," etc. Among them, "Magic Tiles 3" and "Tiles Hop" are the most downloaded mobile music games on iTunes and Google Play worldwide, specifically, with the former being on the list of Top 20 Free App Store Games. With these outstanding achievements, Amanotes is currently ranked as the Top 1 Mobile Music Game Publisher worldwide, the Top 1 App Publisher from Southeast Asia by downloads worldwide (2022), the top IT Company in Vietnam in 2022 (According to ITViec), etc.
Mr. Nguyen Tuan Cuong (Silver Nguyen), Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer Production Director of Amanotes affirmed that: "Our mission is "Everyone can Music", which means everyone can access and interact with music through the best experiences. Therefore, Amanotes won't oversleep on our throne as a music game publisher as it is today. Besides maintaining the top position, Amanotes has been building an interactive music ecosystem to improve the user experience and provide them with more musical choices to suit their needs. Furthermore, we will also concentrate on cooperation and strategic investment to expand the market while optimizing the company's resources."
Constantly innovating, Amanotes focuses on enriching users' interactive music experiences. Simultaneously, the Company also aims to foster Music Education to help users learn how to play musical instruments everywhere, in addition to the Music Entertainment Platform where users can interact, connect and socialize. These goals are realized by maximizing the strengths of their sophisticated data processing systems, with deep insights into huge user volumes to manufacture strategic products in the future.
"We are gradually building the world's leading interactive music ecosystem. The company has been looking for potential partners in the field of music technology to accomplish this aim. As a case, Amanotes recently signed the Strategic Investment with Sensor Notes, a famous company with particular strength in musical instrument simulation applications. This is essential in realizing the ambitious ecosystem that we are pursuing." the Co-founder added.
About Amanotes
Founded in Vietnam in 2014 by CEO Vo Tuan Binh (Bill Vo) and co-founder Nguyen Tuan Cuong (Silver Nguyen), Amanotes' mission is to bring interactive music experiences to all users worldwide. From a technology start-up with only 2 members and owning a few mobile games in the early stages, Amanotes has grown into a company with over 200 employees that confidently asserts its position as a leading music gaming publisher in the region and all around the world.
With the mission of "Everyone can Music", Amanotes strives to refresh and diversify users' music experiences, successfully developing an interactive music ecosystem and becoming the world's leading music-tech company.
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Q: Emulate memory-mapping of a game console, access different locations based on the address provided I am implementing an emulator for an old game console, mostly for learning purposes.
This console maps roms, and a lot of other things, to regions within its address space. Certain locations are also mirrored so that multiple addresses can correspond to the same physical location. I would like to emulate this, but I am not sure what would be a good approach to do so (and also have no idea what this process is called, hence this somewhat generic question).
One thing that does work is a simple, unordered map. Have it contain absolute addresses and the corresponding pointers to my data structures. This way, I can easily map everything I need into the system's address space. The problem with this approach is that, it's obviously a memory hog. Even with small roms, I end up with close to ten million entries, thanks to the aforementioned mirroring. Surely, this can't be the rigth thing to do?
Any help is much appreciated.
Edit:
To provide some details as to how exactly I am doing this:
The system in question is, of course, the SNES. Using this wiki as my primary resource, I implemeted what I mentioned above as follows:

*

*Create a std::unordered_map<uint32,uint8_t*> mMemoryMap;

*Check whether the rom is LoRom or HiRom

*For each byte in the rom

*

*Calculate the address where it should be mapped and emplace both the address and a pointer to said byte in the map

*If the section needs to be mirrored somewhere else, repeat the above

*This will be applied to anything else I need to make available, such as video- or system-memory

If I now want to access anything within the address space, I can simply use the address the system would use internally.

A: Rather than use simple maps (which even with ranges can grow to large sizes) you can instead use a more intelligent map.
For instance if the console maps 0x10XXXX through 0x1FXXXX all to the same 0x20XXXX you can design a structure which holds that repetition (start 0x100000 end 0x1FFFFF repeat 0x010000 although you may want to use a bitmask rather than repeat).

A: I'm assuming that for contiguous addresses the physical locations are also contiguous, within certain blocks of memory or "chunks". That is, if the address 0x0000 maps to 0xFF00, then 0x0004 maps to 0xFF04.

If they work like that, then you can make a list that contains the information of those chunks. Say:
struct Chunk
{
   int addressStart, memoryStart, size;
}

The chunks may be ordered by the addressStart, so you can find out the correct chunk you would need for any address. This requires you to iterate the list, but if you have only a few chunks this may be acceptable.

A: I'm currently in the same boat as you and doing an NES emulator for learning purposes. The complete memory map is declared as an array of pointers to bytes. Each pointer can point into another array, which allows me to have pointers to the same data in the case of mirroring.
byte *memoryMap[cpuMemSize];

I iterate over the addresses that repeat and map them to point to the bytes in the following array. The ram array is the memory that gets mapped 4 times across the CPU's memory map.
byte ram[ramSize];

The following code goes through the RAM array and maps it across the CPU memory map 4 times.
// map RAM 4 times to emulate mirroring
mem_address memAddr = 0;
for (int x = 0; x < 4; ++x)
{
    for (mem_address ramAddr = 0; ramAddr < ramSize; ++ramAddr.value)
    {
        memoryMap[memAddr.value++] = &ram[ramAddr.value];
    }
}

You can then write the a value to the 256th byte using something like this, which would of course be propagated to the other parts of the memory map since they point to the same byte in memory:
*memoryMap[0x00ff] = 10;

I haven't really tested this and want to do some more testing with regard to CPU cache use and performance. I was clearly out searching for other ways of doing this when I stumbled on your question and figured I'd put in my (unverified) two cents. Hope this makes sense.


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Not only does Joe Tonge, a hairdresser from Southend in Essex, manage to fit in his cystic fibrosis treatment with full time work, he also manages to find time to compete as a body builder. As one of the CF Trust's 'Activity Unlimited Ambassadors', Joe aims to inspire other people with CF to help manage their condition through being active. Some background of his life can be found in this Activity Unlimited article. Here, we talk more in depth on subjects such as the benefits of bodybuilding for CF, how to start out and diet & supplements.
Martin) As well as keeping you at a good weight, how has weight training helped other aspects of your CF, such as your lungs? Have you noticed a difference in lung function or frequency of IVs since you started?
Joe) The weight training has indeed kept me at a good weight and yes, due to the heavy weight training I definitely see better lung function results. I have to concentrate on my breathing with my reps and with heavy sets we focus on my breathing technique, This not only trains my visible muscles but my organ strength too.
M) Have you completely cut out cardio from your exercise regime?
J) No I have not, at the moment my cardio is at a minimum so I do about 2 to 3 days of cardio. I will normally do roughly 10 to 20 minutes in the morning about 30 to 45 minutes after my breakfast.
At the moment I do fast walking, incline fast paced walking and sprinting on my treadmill or a running track. As I get closer to competition my calories will go up so my training partner/coach will add in more cardio exercises accordingly. This means I keep my body fat to a lean healthy percentage and that I put on pure lean muscle, not fat.
Even if I am tired, it doesn't really effect me, I don't even think about it because I love to train so much. I know that my body needs to have enough energy if I want to give my all to my training session, so I make sure I have the appropriate meals and snacks with me.
M) What supplements do you take (e.g. protein, L-glutamine, vitamins, etc) and how does each one help?
J) I have taken a range of different protein and amino acid supplements over the years and I don't really notice if one works better than the other. I normally just go by whatever flavour I fancy which at the moment is Optimum Nutrition's Banana Whey.
I take protein shakes, BCAAs (Branched chain amino acids) and a range of vitamins.
Your body uses protein to build and repair muscle tissues. You also use protein to make enzymes, hormones, and other body chemicals. Protein is an important building block of bones, muscles, cartilage, skin and blood.
Branched-chain amino acids (particularly leucine) stimulate protein synthesis, and might do so to a greater extent than a normal protein on its own. BCAAs also increase synthesis of the cellular machinery responsible for carrying out the process of protein synthesis.
Vitamin A, a fat-soluble vitamin found as either preformed vitamin A or provitamin A carotenoids in the diet, plays an important role in the growth and development of several systems in the body.
Vitamin D – It does so by helping the body absorb calcium (one of bone's main building blocks) from food and supplements. People who get too little vitamin D may develop soft, thin, and brittle bones.
Vitamin E is a fat-soluble nutrient found in many foods. In the body, it acts as an antioxidant, helping to protect cells from the damage caused by free radicals. Free radicals are compounds formed when our bodies convert the food we eat into energy.
M) As a person with CF, does your bodybuilding training regime differ from people without CF? If so, how?
J) No it doesn't, mine and my training partners workouts are the same.
M) You taught yourself over time the best way to train. Knowing what you know now, can you recommend any resources (videos, books, websites) that would be a good starting point for someone with CF to learn how to train effectively?
There is so much information you can find on weight training, how to train with proper form, powerlifting, cardio exercises. You name it there's a video for it!
M) Diet is a massive part of any healthy living regime. Details of your typical meals can be found in your CF Trust 'Activity Unlimited Ambassadors' article. Do you snack in between meals? If so, what do you snack on?
J) Yes, I snack a lot actually, I generally try and eat as much as I can, I love food! For snacks I normally have nuts, fruit, malt loaf or protein shakes. I try and have snacks that are not time consuming, foods that I can grab quickly in between haircuts while I'm at work.
M) Do you eat healthily all the time or do you allow yourself junk food once in awhile?
J) I'm most definitely not always eating healthily! Yes I am strict with my nutrition, but like I said, I love food, I love to eat out. At the moment I limit myself to one or two cheat meals a week but as I get closer to my competition I'll restructure my meal plans. I'll move onto one cheat meal a week and then eventually none.
M) As a hairdresser you're constantly in close contact with lots of people each day, many of whom will have colds and bugs – do you take any precautions to make sure you don't catch them?
J) Yes I do, I take all my prescribed medication regularly. I normally take my nebuliser and Colobreathe around 6am before my morning cardio session, but unfortunately sometimes you can't always avoid bugs.


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La lingua fon  o fon-gbe (nome locale : Fɔngbè), è una lingua veicolare parlata nel Benin, in Nigeria e nel Togo. È stata fatta oggetto di molti studi linguistici (fonologia, lessico e sintassi).

È la lingua più parlata nel Benin, essendo praticata da circa il 50 % della popolazione, principalmente nel sud e nel centro del paese. Fu la lingua ufficiale dell'antico Regno di Dahomey (Danxome). Oggigiorno viene utilizzata dalle radio e dalle televisioni pubbliche e private del Benin, e viene utilizzata nei programmi di alfabetizzazione e di educazione degli adulti. In Nigeria, viene parlata nel sud-ovest. Nel Togo, è parlata nel centro e nel sud.

La parola di questa lingua più conosciuta sul piano internazionale è vodun, che significa Lo Spirito a parte, e da cui è derivato il termine Vudù, dopo che essa venne portata ad Haiti dagli schiavi.

Pronuncia

Vocali

Consonanti

Scrittura
Il fon viene scritto utilizzando l'alfabeto latino. In Benin, l'Alphabet des langues nationales pubblicato nel 1975, e rieditato nel 1990, definisce le lettere ed i digrammi utilizzati nell'ortografia fon.

Le vocali nasalizzate si scrivono con la lettera della vocale seguita dalla lettera ‹ n ›.

Mesi dell'anno

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Bibliografia
 Rassinoux, Jean, 2000, Dictionnaire Français-Fon, Madrid,Société des Missions Africaines
 Gbéto, Flavien, 2000, Les emprunts linguistiques d'origine européenne en Fon (Nouveau Kwa, Gbe:Bénin), Köln, Rüdiger Köppe. .
 Guédou, Georges A. G., 1985, Xó et gbè, langage et culture chez les Fon (Bénin), Langues et cultures africaines 4 Paris, SELAF, 1985.
 Guillet, Gérard, 1972, Initiation à la tonalité et à la grammaire de la langue fon, 242 p., format 27 x 21 cm, Cotonou, Librairie Notre Dame.
 Höftmann, Hildegard (1993), Grammatik des Fon, Berlin, Langenscheidt Verlag Enzyklopedie, 216 pages, ISBN 3-324-00333-4 (il s'agit de la première grammaire scientifique du fongbe publiée en allemand)
 Höftmann, Hildegard (2003), Dictionnaire fon-français, avec une esquisse grammaticale. En collaboration avec Michel Ahohounkpanzon. (Westafrikanische Studien: Frankfurter Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte, 27.) Köln, Rüdiger Köppe, ISBN 3-89645-463-3, p. 424,
 Höftmann, Hildegard (2012), Dictionnaire Français–Fon. En collaboration avec Michel Ahohounkpanzon et Cécile Boko. Westafrikanische Studien: Frankfurter Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte, 35.) Köln, Rüdiger Köppe, 431 pages. ISBN 978-3-89645-471-3.
 Lefebvre, Claire & Anne-Marie Brousseau (2002), A Grammar of Fongbe, (Mouton Grammar Library, 25.), Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter. <Kwa>.
 Lafage, Suzanne, 1975, Contribution à un inventaire chronologique des publications concernant l'aire culturelle Ewé, (deuxième partie),  Annales de l'Université d'Abidjan, 1975, Série H,  Linguistique, tome VIII, Fascicule I, Pages 159-189, ISBN 2-7166-0134-8
 Akoha, Albert Bienvenu, 2010, Syntaxe et Lexicologie du Fon-Gbe, Bénin, Paris, L'Harmattan.
 Commission nationale de linguistique. Alphabet des langues nationales. République populaire du Benin, Ministère de l'éducation nationale, Commission nationale de linguistique (Porto-Novo), 1975.
 Centre national de linguistique appliquée. Alphabet des langues nationales, 2e éd. CENALA, Cotonou, Bénin, 1990.

Voci correlate
 Linguistica
 Lista delle famiglie linguistiche
 Lingue niger-kordofaniane
 Lingue congo-atlantiche
 Lingue volta-congo
 Lingue kwa
 Lingue gbe
 Lingue africane

Collegamenti esterni

 Manuel dahoméen : grammaire, chrestomathie, dictionnaire français-dahoméen et dahoméen-français, 1894 di Maurice Delafosse

Lingue della Nigeria
Lingue del Togo
Lingue del Benin
Lingue gbe

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Старата бургундска династия е френска благородническа династия, която съществува от 11 век до днес с разклонения. Произлиза от френската кралска династия Капетинги.

История
Основател на дома е принц Роберт I Стари († 1076), който през 1032 г. получава Херцогство Бургундия от по-големия си брат крал Хайнрих I.

Клонове
 Стара бургундска династия (херцог на Бургундия от 1032)
 херцогска главна линия (херцози на Бургундия до 1361)
 Дом Бургундия-Португалия (Алфонсини) (крале на Португалия, 1089–1383)
 Дом Авис (крале на Португалия, 1383–1580)
 Дом Браганса (крале на Португалия, 1640–1853, императори на Бразилия, 1822–1889) – наследници до днес

Вижте също
 Списък на владетелите на Бургундия
 Млада бургундска династия
 Бургундско херцогство


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How many grandchildren? What are their ages? 1 granddaughter. She is four.
What is the best thing about being a grandma? Playing with my granddaughter. When my children was small I often felt to "stressed" to play. I always thought I had to get something done. I've learned that "something" can wait.
What is the most challenging part of being a grandma? Don't know. I can't think of any.
Describe a recent time that one (or more) of your grandchildren made you laugh out loud. My granddaughter found a cord that you attach to your glasses and hang around your neck to keep you from losing them. She wanted me to wear it and she crawled up in my lap and started trying to attach it to my glasses while I was wearing them. Her little nose was only inches from mine and suddenly she stopped, looked at me and said, "Nana, am I driving you crazy?" I burst out laughing!
What is your favorite thing to do with grandchildren who visit your house? In the summer we go to the park and feed the ducks. It's too cold for that now so we stay inside and play. She loves to take a bath. I'll fill up the tub and she'll get in and "play" school. She's the teacher and I have to sit on the stool next to the tub and be her student. She uses a wooden kitchen spoon as her pointer while she teaches me my letters and numbers.
What is your favorite thing to do when visiting grandchildren at their house? Unfortunately my granddaughter's parents are divorced and I don't get to do this.
How do you stay close and in touch with one another between visits? I pray for my granddaughter daily and I take great comfort in knowing God is watching over her.
What do you most want to pass along to your grandchildren? Love of church and family and the knowledge that she is loved beyond measure.
What is one word you hope your grandkids think of when they think of you? Attentive. My grandmother always had time for her grandchildren and she made each of us feel special. I hope I can do that for my grandchildren as well.
Do you have a website or blog? NanaHood and The Nana Blog. NanaHood is the second half of the motherhood journey and The Nana Blogs are something my web designer and I created so that all nanas can blog (at no cost and with help if they need it). I love blogging and I wanted other grandmothers to join in the fun too!


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Der Kuba-Kranich (Antigone cubensis, Syn.: Grus cubensis) ist eine ausgestorbene Kranich-Art, die vom Mittelpleistozän bis zum Beginn des Holozäns auf Kuba vorkam. Das umfangreiche Typusmaterial, das aus über 450 Schädel- und Skelettüberresten besteht, wurde im Sommer 1967 vom deutschen Paläontologen Karlheinz Fischer vom Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und seinen Kollegen von der Universität von Havanna in der Karsthöhle Pío Domingo in der Nähe des Dorfes Sumidero in der westkubanischen Provinz Pinar del Río entdeckt. Weiteres Material stammt aus der Sandoval-Höhle bei Caimito in der Provinz Artemisa, aus der Indio-Höhle bei San José des las Lajas in der Provinz Mayabeque und vom Fundort Las Breas de San Felipe in der Provinz Matanzas.

Merkmale
Der Kuba-Kranich war größer als der Schreikranich (Grus americana), der Kanadakranich (Antigone canadensis) und der ebenfalls ausgestorbene Bermuda-Kranich (Grus latipes). Weitere Unterscheidungsmerkmale sind der viel breitere Schnabel, die stämmigen Unterschenkel und das reduzierte Brust- und Flugskelett, was eine Flugunfähigkeit vermuten lässt. Die Oberarmknochengröße ist im Durchschnitt die gleiche wie bei Grus latipes, aber der Humeruskopf ist niedriger und nicht so hervorstehend. Der Deltoidkamm erscheint niedriger, dafür länger. Der Carpometacarpus ist etwas kürzer und schwächer ausgebildet. Der Tarsometatarsus ist insgesamt größer, länger und stärker. Verglichen mit dem Kranich (Grus grus) ist der Schädel bedeutend größer und der Hirnschädel etwas breiter. Das Brustbein zeigt nur eine mäßige Aushöhlung der Crista für die Luftröhre.

Möglicher Vorfahre
Im Jahr 2001 beschrieben Storrs Lovejoy Olson und Pamela C. Rasmussen die Überreste einer großen Kranich-Art aus den Pliozän-Ablagerungen der Fossillagerstätte Lee Creek Mine in North Carolina. Sie bezeichneten die Art vorläufig als Grus aff. antigone. Die Länge des Tibiotarsus entspricht in etwa der des Saruskranich (Antigone antigone). 1995 beschrieb Steven D. Emslie den Tibiotarsus einer großen Kranichart aus dem Pleistozän der Fossillagerstätte Leisy Shell Pit in Hillsborough County, Florida. Auch dieser Knochen entspricht der Größe des Tibiotarsus vom Saruskranich. Er zeigt jedoch auch Ähnlichkeiten mit dem Tibiotarsus des Kuba-Kranichs. Der kubanische Paläontologe William Suárez vermutet, dass sich ein dem Saruskranich ähnlicher nordamerikanischer Kranich über Florida nach Kuba ausbreitete und dort seine Flugfähigkeit einbüßte.

Verlust der Flugfähigkeit
Kuba war im Pleistozän eine kleinere Insel als in der heutigen Zeit. Die Pluvialzeit schuf in den Sumpfregionen geeignete Lebensbedingungen. Da große Raubsäuger als Fressfeinde fehlten, konnte diese Kranichart ihre Kräfte für Flugleistungen einsparen und verlor somit nach und nach ihre Flugfähigkeit. Gleichzeitig kam es zu einer Zunahme der Körpergröße und des Körpergewichtes.

Aussterben
Der Kuba-Kranich starb möglicherweise im frühen Holozän aus, als die ersten Menschen Kuba besiedelten und flugunfähige Vögel, wie die Rallenart Nesotrochis picapicensis aber auch der Kuba-Kranich eine einfach zu erlegende Beute waren. Heute kommt die Unterart Antigone canadensis nesiotes des Kanadakranichs auf Kuba vor.

Literatur
 Karlheinz Fischer & Burkhard Stephan: Ein flugunfahiger Kranich (Grus cubensis n. sp.) aus dem Pleistozan von Kuba – Eine Osteologie der Familie der Kraniche (Gruidae). Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, Bd. 20, 1971, S. 541–592

 William Suárez: The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba, Zootaxa 4780 (1), 22. Mai 2020, S. 1–53.

Weblinks
 Künstlerische Rekonstruktion des Kuba-Kranichs von Peter Schouten aus dem Buch End of the Megafauna von Ross D. E. MacPhee, 2018

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Kraniche
Ausgestorbener Vogel
Endemischer Vogel Kubas


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How Campus Sexual Assault Became So Politicized
The Trump administration has announced that it's rescinding college-rape policies put in place by President Obama.
Caroline Kitchener
A group of demonstrators protest Betsy DeVos's announcement that she will be overhauling campus sexual-assault policies.Mike Theiler / Reuters
On Friday, the Department of Education officially revoked the Obama administration's guidance on college sexual assault, offering interim guidelines on how universities should handle the issue. Democratic Senator Patty Murray said in a statement the decision could send sexual assault survivors "back into the shadows."
When DeVos gestured at these upcoming plans in a speech earlier this month, many Democrats made similar statements. All 56 Democratic members of Congress who tweeted about the speech criticized it. Democratic Senators Bob Casey and Kristen Gillibrand called DeVos' decision "an insult to survivors of sexual assault" and "[a betrayal of] our students, plain and simple," respectively.
Since her confirmation hearing, DeVos and her staff have largely been depicted as perpetrator-sympathizers with no concern for sexual-assault victims who, in part thanks to Obama's policy changes, now feel empowered to speak out. (This criticism has, at times, been understandable.) But there is serious disconnect between the harsh reaction to DeVos and the substance of what she said—one that underscores the deeply partisan nature of policy-building around college sexual assault.
As Emily Yoffe recently wrote for The Atlantic, DeVos would be "sensible" to change many of Obama's policies on college sexual assault. "If [DeVos's] statements were made by a different official in a different Administration," Jeannie Suk Gersen wrote for The New Yorker, "they would seem rational, uncontroversial, and even banal."
Reactions to the interim guidelines issued on Friday have been mixed. Victims advocates have argued they favor the rights of the accused by, for example, making it easier for such students to appeal a decision, while others have described the interim rules as sensible and necessary. Ultimately, though, they are only temporary—the Education Department will adopt binding regulations after it consults with the public—and they allow universities to maintain many of their existing policies. For instance, the department allows campuses to continue using the controversial adjudication standards put in place by the Obama administration. It also asserts that any agreements Obama-era Education Department reached with universities it had found in violation of Title IX would remain in place.
While colleges have historically neglected student sexual-assault victims by failing to adequately punish perpetrators, many believe the Obama administration may have gone too far with its reforms. In 2011, Obama's Education Department issued what's become known as the "Dear Colleague" letter, advising universities to, among other things, apply a "preponderance of the evidence" standard when adjudicating these cases. In other words, to find a student guilty, the university has to determine that it's "more likely than not" that an assault has taken place (before the Dear Colleague letter, many universities required "clear and convincing" evidence, a much higher bar to meet).* Six years later, approximately 170 accused students have filed lawsuits, accusing their universities of unfair treatment.
Since Obama implemented these new policies, college sexual assault has become a hyper-partisan issue, with Democrats indiscriminately defending the rights of victims—often ignoring the reliability of evidence—and Republicans indiscriminately defending the rights of the accused—at times questioning the existence of the epidemic of sexual violence on college campuses.
The politicization of sexual assault on campus is surprising, even in a hyper-partisan environment. For one, there's evidence of a dramatic shift in how Democrats think about students' rights. Ever since the 1950s and '60s, when the fiercely liberal Warren Court—an era of the Supreme Court during which Justice Earl Warren presided as Chief Justice—dramatically expanded the rights of the accused in landmark decisions like Miranda v. Arizona and Gideon v. Wainwright, defendants' rights have been associated with progressive activism.
Yet that's flipped in recent years, with Democrats overwhelmingly focused on the victims of sexual assault and Republicans overwhelmingly focused on the victimization of those accused of it. There have been a few bipartisan efforts to come to a consensus on how to handle campus sexual assault—most notably a 2014 letter from 28 Harvard Law School professors urging the university to revise Obama-inspired procedures around sexual assault—but policy recommendations remain largely divided along party lines.
This divide is most evident in state legislation. Red states like North Dakota and North Carolina have passed legislation to protect the rights of the accused, requiring that all students have lawyers in disciplinary hearings. The Blue states of California, Connecticut, Illinois, and New York, on the other hand, have all passed "yes means yes" legislation, which strongly favors victims' rights. These latter laws mandate that, in order for sex to be consensual on college campuses, both parties need to explicitly provide consent.
As a national issue, debates over how to handle college sexual assault has always been at least mildly partisan. As Katharine Baker, a professor at the Chicago-Kent School of Law who focuses on sexual violence, pointed out, women's advocacy groups and the Democratic Party have long had a "decent" coalition. "Women's advocacy groups are generally concerned with protecting rape victims, so we see Democrats interested in protecting them, too," she said in an interview.
On the right, Baker notes, many social conservatives see college sexual assault as an unfortunate repercussion of increased sexual freedom. "If a woman gets herself into that position, they think it's her responsibility to get herself out of it." And by extension, according to Baker, that makes them less likely to endorse policies that favor alleged victims over those who've been accused. Republicans are more likely to believe these college cases should be handled exclusively by the criminal-justice system—a stance victims'-rights activists adamantly oppose, as only a tiny fraction of sexual assaults reported to the police are ever taken on by a prosecutor.
When it was introduced, Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex-based discrimination at any education institution that receives government funding, applied primarily to gender discrimination in athletics. It wasn't until 1994 when the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) introduced the idea that the law also applied to college sexual assault, effectively giving it the authority to investigate how universities respond to it. Soon after that, in part because of pressure from feminist activists frustrated by police inaction on the issue, it announced that Title IX required universities to adjudicate sexual-assault cases. But for years, that guidance didn't actually change much on campuses; the Education Department only got involved in a few cases, and no political campaign, including President Obama's in 2008, included the issue in its platform.
"This was still an era in which student crime victims were culturally conditioned to report to the police, not to a campus bureaucrat (if they reported at all)," said KC Johnson, author of The Campus Rape Frenzy, which argues that the Obama-era policies led to unwarranted panic around the issue of college sexual assault. "There were also few accusers' rights organizations pushing the issue at the time, so there was very little public or media awareness."
It wasn't until 2011—after Obama issued the Dear Colleague letter and formed a White House task force to protect students from sexual assault—that college sexual assault became prominent in the national political conversation.Many politicians initially assumed that reforming policies as they pertained to college sexual assault would become a bipartisan issue ("Republican and Democrat parents all want their kids to be safe in college," Congresswoman Speier said in an interview). But as accused students began complaining about unfair adjudication procedures, the parties quickly diverged.
So why did Obama adopt this stance in the first place, effectively bucking traditional Democratic norms by requiring universities to relax their standards for due process?
The answer is likely—and unsurprisingly—political. After a devastating 2010 midterm election, Democrats in Congress looked to Senator Michael Bennet's campaign in Colorado—one of the few bright spots for their party in 2010—as a model. Bennet had relied heavily on identity politics, rallying women, minorities, and millennials. And he had triumphed.
In the lead up to the 2012 presidential election, Obama campaigned hard on a variety of social issues, including gay rights and support for Planned Parenthood. Some conservatives argue that, politically, it made sense for Obama to position himself as a champion for college victims of sexual assault. "Obama and the Democrats played into this narrative of standing up to campus patriarchy and a conservative view of sex," The Campus Rape Frenzy's Johnson said. "The narrative that campuses, which typically are the most gender-progressive institutions in society, were actually indifferent to these rapist animals in their midst was absurd. But there was enough evidence that you could wrap your arms around it."
As Obama moved to make college sexual assault one of his administration's signature causes, Republicans began associating him with the issue.
"When Obama (and Biden) became the symbols of politicians who wanted to take action to combat campus sexual assault, the issue was dragged into the anti-Obama narrative," said Kelly Behre, a lecturer at the UC Davis School of Law who specializes in intimate-partner violence. "For example, in her speech this month, DeVos claimed Obama had 'weaponized' the Office for Civil Rights."
Like many other issues in education, the divisiveness around college-rape policies has become more conspicuous since the 2016 election and the confirmation of DeVos. Throughout the campaign, conservatives, particularly members of Trump's campaign, condemned "elites" and "snowflakes" on college campuses for being too sensitive on a variety of issues. "There is this idea that campuses are out-of-control and run by liberals promoting safe spaces,'" Behre said. From the perspective of many conservatives, colleges across the country reinforced that narrative by rolling out new, expansive policies to protect sexual assault victims under President Obama.
Today, most issues that garner national attention are at least somewhat partisan. But college-sexual-assault policy is a particularly dangerous issue to divide along party lines. Key questions involved—What is consent? Who should be believed?—do not lend themselves to two different answers, one Democratic and one Republican. The process of adjudicating college sexual assault is already incredibly murky. If college sexual assault continues to be a hyper-partisan issue, it will become more and more difficult for everyone involved to remain open to the unique nuance and ambiguity of each case.
It is unlikely that universities, unless forced, will change the Obama-era policies. The interim guidance issued Friday generally allows universities to retain the procedures they adopted after the 2011 Dear Colleague letter, and many institutions have already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on expanding bureaucracies charged with carrying out those procedures.
And as liberal institutions, many college presidents want to avoid aligning with President Trump—particularly on an issue like sexual assault. "These are institutions which, on any gender-related questions, are well to the left of the national norms," said Johnson, the author. "Due-process advocates are not going to stage a campus sit-in in the president's office, but if a president does anything to create a fairer process on this issue, she could be targeted by accuser's rights groups. If the impression is that President X is indifferent to rape, President X is probably going to be out of a job."
When I interviewed Congresswoman Speier, a longtime advocate for victims' rights, for this article, I asked her if she thought DeVos should make any changes to the policies put in place by President Obama."They're adequate—they probably could even be enhanced," she said.
Still, dozens of Republican lawmakers, at least 160 accused students, and countless right-leaning media outlets have called for their overhaul. Even some left-leaning journalists and intellectuals have raised concerns. To ignore that—and to shirk all forms of compromise—will make this issue more partisan than ever.
* This article originally stated that, before the Dear Colleague letter, most universities required a complaint to have "clear and convincing" evidence. We regret the error.
Caroline Kitchener is a former associate editor at The Atlantic, and the author of Post Grad: Five Women and Their First Year Out of College.


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In China, infected people who have only mild or no COVID-19 symptoms are now allowed to return to work in many places. The party-affiliated newspaper "Global Times" names, among other things, metropolises of Chongqing and Guiyang in the southwest or Wuhu in the province of Anhui and the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang, which has 57 million inhabitants. The paper cryptically justifies the government's decision with a "better balance between epidemic prevention and social and economic development".
In the 4.5 million metropolis of Guiyang, workers in supermarkets, delivery services, government agencies, medical facilities and other institutions have been instructed to go to work with appropriate protection if they show no or only slight symptoms of illness and their state of health allows it, like the Global Times continues to write.
In the middle of a new massive corona outbreak, the most populous country in the world suddenly lifted its tough zero-tolerance policy on December 7 after almost three years of lockdowns, weeks of sealing off entire cities, forced quarantines, mass tests and contact tracing.
The reason for the turnaround was that the infections with the new omicron variants were no longer as severe. However, the measures taken up to that point also proved to be less and less effective. In addition, during protests against the government's corona policy, the overthrow of President Xi Jinping was called for for the first time – a process previously unheard of in China.
Internationally, however, there is now growing concern about a gigantic corona wave with countless infected and dead people in the People's Republic with its 1.4 billion people – not least because of the possible effects on the economy and trade. Because the government's easing measures caught the health system completely unprepared. No stocks of medicines had been built up. Fever and cold medicine or rapid corona tests were sold out immediately after the easing.
Cities across the country are working flat out to create additional hospital beds and treatment capacity. In Beijing, the crematoria can no longer keep up with the cremation of the dead. There are no longer any official figures on the infection situation, but according to rough estimates, more than half of the 21 million Beijingers alone are ill.
Experts point out that a large-scale spread of COVID-19 in China could lead to further, dangerous mutations of the virus. The hospitals are currently taking in many newly infected people who are not vaccinated. Many of the 260 million elderly people over the age of 60 are inadequately protected: only 70 percent of those over 60 and 40 percent of those over 80 years of age have received a booster injection in China. Modern foreign vaccines are not approved for political reasons.
"Every new epidemic wave in another country carries the risk of new variants, and this risk is all the higher, the larger the outbreak is," says Alex Cook, public health expert at the National University of Singapore, describing the dangers of the opening also for the world community. "And the current wave in China has what it takes to be big." However, China must inevitably endure a major corona wave if it is to achieve an endemic state of its population and a future without lockdowns for corona outbreaks, Cook said .
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The original of this article "China: Corona infected people are even allowed to work" comes from Deutsche Welle.
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Q: Is it possible to run ML Kit in Robolectric unit tests? I'm curious whether it's possible to run Google ML Kit in Robolectric unit tests. If I try, I get the following error:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: MlKitContext has not been initialized

The same test runs perfectly if I run it as an instrumented test (with AndroidJUnit4).

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Please use androidTest instead.

is the official answer from Google
ref: https://github.com/googlesamples/mlkit/issues/251


There is growing recognition of the severe, adverse long-term effects that bullying behaviors have, on the victims or on bullies. Although there are many existing anti-bullying programs that are designed to counteract both the behaviors and their potential long-term negative effects, forgiveness education programs may also be used to help create a positive school climate in which bullies can take responsibility for their behaviors and begin to reintegrate into the social fabric of the school. The purpose of this research proposal is to examine the effects of the International Forgiveness Institute's (IFI) forgiveness education curriculum in comparison to an anti-bullying program (Steps to Respect). Fourth and fifth grade classes from twelve elementary (K-5) schools will be chosen to participate in this study, and will be randomly assigned to either implement IFI's forgiveness education curriculum, the Steps to Respect program, or serve as a control group. It is hypothesized that the students in schools that implement forgiveness education will display greater increases in forgiveness toward an offender as measured by the Enright Forgiveness Inventory for Children. In addition, it is hypothesized that students who receive the forgiveness education will display greater increases in empathy when compared to the other treatment groups. Finally, it is hypothesized that the forgiveness education group will have a lower rate of investigations into incidents of bullying behavior.
Gregory, Amy, "Promoting bullying prevention and intervention through forgiveness education" (2016). Theses and Dissertations @ UNI. 243.


Here are a few uses for the old smartphones. Great classroom ideas and a cheap source of tech as many have these devices just lying around collecting dust. Gather them up, send a note to the parents. You'll be surprised by how many show up in your classrooms.


Black Walnut Fretwork "Alien Surveillance"
This mid-century piece is made of black walnut wood. It is a fantastic wall piece to hang on the wall of a modern-themed home. The fretwork measures 14 1/2''x9 1/2'' and is 1/2'' thick. Clear coat was applied on the wood for lasting protection and an excellent finish. A bracket is attached on the back of the piece for easy mounting.


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As he was relating to the king how he had restored to life the one who was dead, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and for her field. And Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, this is the woman and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life."
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Nave's Topical Bible - Elisha; Gehazi; Joram; Judge; King; Land; Property;
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gehazi; Easton Bible Dictionary - Shunem; Holman Bible Dictionary - Court Systems; Gehazi; Kings, 1 and 2; Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gehazi; Poverty; Shunem; Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gehazi ; The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Ramothgilead; People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elisha; Gehazi; Smith Bible Dictionary - Geha'zi;
Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel; International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Body; Daniel, Book of; Gehazi; Jehoahaz; Relationships, Family; Shunammite; The Jewish Encyclopedia - Etiquette;
Commentary Critical
Commentary Critical Unabridged
This is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life - This was a very providential occurrence in behalf of the Shunammite. The relation given by Gehazi was now corroborated by the woman herself; the king was duly affected, and gave immediate orders for the restoration of her land.
Clarke, Adam. "Commentary on 2 Kings 8:5". "The Adam Clarke Commentary". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/2-kings-8.html. 1832.
And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life,.... Which was the Shunammite's son:
that, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life cried to the king for her house, and for her land; came and presented her petition to the king at that very instant:
and Gehazi said, my lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life; the very person I am speaking of.
Gill, John. "Commentary on 2 Kings 8:5". "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/geb/2-kings-8.html. 1999.
And it came to pass, as he was telling c the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this [is] the woman, and this [is] her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
(c) God's wonderful providence appears in this, that he caused the king to desire to hear him, whom before he contemned and also hereby prepared an entrance to the poor widows suit.
Beza, Theodore. "Commentary on 2 Kings 8:5". "The 1599 Geneva Study Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/gsb/2-kings-8.html. 1599-1645.
2 Kings 8:5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this [is] the woman, and this [is] her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
Ver. 5. And it came to pass, as he was telling the king.] This telling the king the praises of his severe master so truly, is some argument that he had now repented of that dearly bought lie he once told to Elisha. God maketh our very sins subservient to our salvation; and the horrible sting of Satan to be like a pearl pin to pin upon us the long white robe of Christ, and to dress us with the garment of gladness, as one speaketh.
Trapp, John. "Commentary on 2 Kings 8:5". John Trapp Complete Commentary. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jtc/2-kings-8.html. 1865-1868.
The woman was by God's wonderful and gracious providence brought thither in the most advantageous season.
Poole, Matthew, "Commentary on 2 Kings 8:5". Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mpc/2-kings-8.html. 1685.
restored a dead body. Compare 2 Kings 4:35.
behold. Figure of speech Asterismos.
for . . . for. Hebrew. "al = for [to call attention to].
Bullinger, Ethelbert William. "Commentary on 2 Kings 8:5". "E.W. Bullinger's Companion bible Notes". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bul/2-kings-8.html. 1909-1922.
(5) A dead body.—The dead.
Cried.—Was crying. Literally, the Hebrew runs, And it came to pass, he (emphatic) was telling . . . and behold the woman was crying, &c. The woman came in, and began her prayer to the king, while he was talking with Gehazi about her and her son.
This is her son.—Who was now grown up, and came as his mother's escort.
Ellicott, Charles John. "Commentary on 2 Kings 8:5". "Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ebc/2-kings-8.html. 1905.
And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
he had restored
behold, the woman
Ruth 2:3; Esther 5:14; 6:11,12; Proverbs 16:9; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Matthew 10:29,30; Acts 8:27-40; Romans 8:31
6:12,26; 1 Samuel 26:17; Psalms 145:1
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 4:12 - Gehazi
Torrey, R. A. "Commentary on 2 Kings 8:5". "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tsk/2-kings-8.html.


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Berschauer Group buys Historic Cornerstone Building in Tacoma
March 8, 2017 /in News /by Laurie OBrien
Berschauer Group recently purchased the historic Cornerstone Building in Tacoma's downtown area from Regence Blue Shield. You can read more about the transaction here.
South Sound Business Examiner
Daily Journal of Commerce
Tacoma News Tribune
Regence Blue Shield recently sold the Cornerstone Building at 1148 Broadway in Tacoma's central business district to Berschauer Group from Olympia for $8 million.
Berschauer Group is a construction and development company focused on commercial, health care, industrial and mixed-use projects.
CHI Franciscan Health System has a long term lease on three floors and Charles Schwab has a branch office on the first floor. Neil Walter Co. is the leasing agent and property manager.
The Cornerstone opened in 1892 as a dry goods store and Sears Roebuck & Co. later operated a store there, in what was Tacoma's retail hub.
The space was renovated in 1982 for office space. A skybridge connects it to Franciscan's headquarters and garage.
Berschauer Group owns property in Pierce and Thurston counties. In 2013, the group bought Allenmore Medical Office building on the Multicare Hospital Campus for $10 million from Unico Properties.
Berschauer Group was a co-owner/developer for Union & Madison apartments on Capitol Hill in Seattle.
Pat Berschauer is chairman and CEO of Berschauer Group. He said the company looks for property where it can use its construction expertise to renovate and upgrade.
– Story from Daily Journal of Commerce 3.1.17
Nisqually Tribe names center after Billy Frank Jr.
March 1, 2017 /in Uncategorized /by Laurie OBrien
Berschauer Group was responsible for a $5.1M 25,600 square-foot renovation of the Nisqually Tribe's Community Center.
You can read more about the project in this article published by The Olympian.
http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article53827735.html


Sorting out a memorial for your loved one will leave you with a big list of questions that need to be asked, along with many important decisions that need to be made. Because of this, you will wish to accept all the help that you can get, and when it comes to memorials Newbury is a great place to find this help. There are lots of things that you will need to decide, including the type of stone and anything that you would like to be written on the memorial itself, and one place that is great to ask is the local authority, as they will be able to tell you more about their own guidelines. Although you should find that the majority of memorials that are offered by local stonemasons will be accepted, there is a chance that, depending on where you need to place your memorial, there might be certain restrictions in place when it comes to things like size, shape and colour. The local authority will be able to give you the best possible information about this, so they are the ideal people to get in touch with if you are thinking about a memorial and need to double check that the one you have in mind is perfect. At SPB Stoneworks Ltd, our team are happy to help you with any questions or queries you have about stone memorials and tributes. When you're facing such a difficult time, it's our aim to do everything we can to help you feel as relaxed and calm as possible.


The quirkiest and most addictive campaigns often provide little value for the company and turn out to be fads, whereas marketing efforts on the Web often don't go over as well with the public.
Gartner's research shows that by 2012 fully half of all purchases will have some online component. That could mean searching for product reviews, reading about a new product on a blog, or comparing prices even if the purchase is ultimately made in a store.
So the need to figure out win-win situations for brands and the community are ever more important.
"How not to fail" – wie man zentrale Denkfehler im Marketing vermeiden kann.
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are very sound, simple and to the point.
Can I ask you what do you think of the desire to be right?
and we don't need only religion or politics to be dogmatic. Everything we do or say has a degree of it.
Even in this email here I have the desire to be right or perfectly right even (it sure would make my life easier as I could rest up from thinking then).
Confusing the difference between our opinions and truth is, I guess, my definition of dogma.
I think righteousness is a red line that runs in all of us but effects us in polar ways from the nagging of a woman to the silence of a man, both actions reflecting their desire to be right.
Anyway I would love to hear your thoughts on this if you had a minute.
And as usual, any feedback much appreciated.
Living with the Desire to be Always Right.


Its official! Mission accomplished. Jason has summitted Mt Everest at 7am this morning. Was amazing!! He's back at 8,200 mtrs and very tired so gonna sleep there 4 tonight anddescend again in the morning.
Just headin in2 Mass here now myself so will say one 4 u all now.
Fantastic , bravo Jason !
Fantastic achievement Jason, everyone in Donegal was rooting for ya!
Delighted Sharon.. Ecstasy and relief all round, no doubt!
Delighted and relieved to hear the great news. What a great achievement Jason!!!
Words cannot express our feelings.
God speed your safe return to us all.
Well Done Jason we have been watching Ur progress an having you in our thoughts WELL DONE too you. The sights that you have seen would of been amazing hope to see you when your back in Donegal safe journey home an will see you then. Nigel.
Brilliant news Jason, thanks for giving the county a wee lift on a dull Sunday morning..
Congratulations Jason and well done. Just get home safely now and we all will be happy.
Well done Jason, we are so pleased with your great achievement. Just get home safely now.
Well done you made it to the top of the world!
Amazing achievement , can't wait to see the donegal flag on mount everest.
Absolutely fantastic. Were saying the prayers at 8 mass this morning. Well done we are so so proud of you take care on the way down!
A great day for you Jason & all your family. A great news story of triumph & human resilience. Safe descent & return home.
Really well done Jason, a truly remarkable achievement ! The whole county is so proud of you. Safe return and look forward to hearing the full amazing story.
Congratulations Jason, a fantastic achievement. I'm just heading to mass down in Ards friary , I will say a prayer for a safe return home to Letterkenny. Sharon you and the kids must be over the moon !
Just amazing Jason, congratulations to you, you are inspiring !!!
Fantastic! Congratulations and well done to you Jason! A great achievement. Keeping the prayers going for your safe return all the way home.
Congrats Jason, some achievement, safe home now.
"Because it is there."George Mallory (1886-1924), his answer to the question 'Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest ?'.
This is an epic achievement and a very proud day for Donegal and all of your skiing buddies.
Congratulations Jason. An amazing achievement. Well done. Everyone is very proud of you. Safe home now. LB.
Well done Jason!!! What an amazing achievement!!! Cant imagine how your feeling right now after all the ups and downs of your journey have come to an all mighty high of and ending! 🙂 Safe journey down and back home to your family and friends.
Cant wait to hear all the stories you will have now over a bulmers or two in the downtown.
Congratulations Jason and family. Was thinking of you from Sir Ed Hillary's old neighbourhood, here in Auckland. Donegal people the world over are proud of you!
Well done jason. safe home.
Congrats Jason, unbelievable. been following you on here..looking forward to seeing pics of the flag on top off the world..
Brilliant Jason, Congratulations from the Mortimer family. Get back safe.
Take care and hurry home to a hero's welcome.
Congratulations on an achievement of mammoth proportions. I'll look forward to shaking your hand when I see you next. ….
Now get out that oul tinney's coal bag and slide down the big mountain!!
Many congratulations Jason. We were with you every step of the way. So have a safe decent and we will catch up with you on your return to Letterkenny.
What an accomplishment ! A huge congratulations from all the McCool's in Stranorlar . A truly amazing journey – talk about making Donegal proud not to mention your family and friends! Wishing you a safe journey home to Sharon and all the family.
Hi Jason, Well done you… and awesome achievement. When you said on our Base Camp trip last November you wanted to Summit Everest I never thought it would be so soon. Have a great time celebrating when you return. Whatever next???
Never doubted you for a minute ! CONGRATULATIONS ! Amazing. Concentrate on getting down Safely.
First one is on me.
Praised be Jesus.well done jason.
Congratulations, Jason Black, the first person from Donegal to summit Mount Everest at 8848m, amazing accomplishment! Only being familiar with Irish mountains such as Slieve Donard in the Mournes at 850m I cannot begin to even Imagine what Mount Everest looks like at over 10 x Slieve Donards height! Well Done. Diarmaid.
Congratulations Jason from all in Scouting Ireland. You will be an inspiration for every Scout that starts out and dreams of making it to the top of Everest some day. Hopefully what you learned as a young Scout helped you along the Journey.


An ALIMAK TCL was installed on a Manitowoc Potain tower crane during construction of the ZAC du Pont d'Issy commercial tower in France. The Alimak TCL maximizes crane utilization by providing reliable and smooth crane cab access with easy installation for minimal crane downtime.
Alimak Hek, in association with the globalcrane manufacturer Manitowoc, installed an ALIMAK TCL on a Potain tower crane located at the ZAC du Pontd'Issy commercial tower in Issy les Moulineaux,France.
Scheduled for completion in 2016, ZAC du Pontd'Issyis a 53 m high tower that will comprise 17 floors ofmixed- use commercial and residential space. The ALIMAK TCL was installed on the base of the existing reinforced Potaintower crane mast, and was equipped to service a heightof 30 - 70m.
The ALIMAK TCL is designed with operator safety,comfort and usability in mind. Capable of transporting a maximum of two passengers (200 kg) at a time, the lift provides a fast, ergonomic and all-weather alternative to a traditional crane ladder. With lifting speeds of 24m/minute, the ALIMAK TCL minimizes travel time for crane operators and service personnel, thereby maximizing crane workingtime.
The ALIMAK TCL offers unbeatably simple external installation, and utilizes a compact mast and rack madeof durable galvanized steel. With no modifications tocrane masts required, the ALIMAK TCL is simple to retrofit to the majority of existing tower crane systems and is fully compliant with'EN 81-43: Lifts for Cranes' safety requirements.


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HomeIn the NewsNew Center Console Drives Gallagher's Move to MTI
New Center Console Drives Gallagher's Move to MTI
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With the first consumer-ready, 42-foot-long Marine Technology, Inc., center-console model currently in lamination—the 42-footer showcased at the 2012 Lake of the Ozark Shootout in August was for all intents and purposes a running plug—and slated for its official unveiling at the 2013 Miami International Boat Show, the Wentzville, Mo., company has brought on industry veteran Tim Gallagher as its director of sales. Gallagher will be based in South Florida, where he currently lives and most recently worked as the director of sales and marketing for custom high-performance center console manufacturer Deep Impact Boats.
"The new center console is really what has driven my move to MTI, and I'm excited about it," said Gallagher in a telephone interview this afternoon. "Because of its patented hull design, it rides and handles like no other center console on the market. You have to get into the boat to truly understand it. Because of the hull, it can turn really tight but it stays really flat. It's a V-bottom, but it has a lot of running characteristics of a catamaran. That's why Randy (Scism, the principal of MTI) patented the bottom."
Gallagher, who worked in sales for Cigarette Racing Team for several years before joining Deep Impact, said that working for MTI is a return to his high-performance roots and passion.
"I've always loved the high-performance world," he said. "I lived that life when I working for Cigarette."
While Gallagher will sell all boats in the MTI line, which except for the new center console model are catamarans, he said that his new position will not affect its relationship with the company's existing dealers, most notably Pier 57 Marine.
"Pier 57 is far and away MTI's biggest dealer," he said. "That isn't going to change."
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Sources close to Governor Andrew Cuomo say that his removal of Mayor Byron Brown was based on the Democratic Party's poor local performance.
Senior Democratic operatives close to the newly triumphant Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins are livid that Brown "didn't lift a finger in the 60th or 61st districts," two local Senate seats that they see as the easiest pickup opportunities in the State.
If the Democrats can secure two-thirds majorities in both the Senate and Assembly chamber — something they have very nearly achieved already — then the Republicans would not qualify to participate in reapportionment.
When it became known that Brown had quietly agreed to help Republican Senator Christopher Jacobs retain his Democrat-leaning district, senior party figures were livid — among them the respected operative Curtis Ellis — who insisted that the Mayor be removed from the key strategy post.
Brown was replaced with Suffolk County's Jay Jacobs.


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Kendrick Lamar is a Pulitzer Prize winner
Kendrick Lamar now has a Pulitzer Prize to go with all his Grammy Awards.Lamar's "DAMN" was announced as the r...
Posted: Apr 17, 2018 5:29 AM
Updated: Apr 17, 2018 5:29 AM
Kendrick Lamar now has a Pulitzer Prize to go with all his Grammy Awards.
Lamar's "DAMN" was announced as the recipient of the prestigious award on Monday, a history-making first for a rap artist, as the music award is typically given to classical or jazz works.
The 2017 Pulitzer Prize for music went to "Angel's Bone," an opera by composer Du Yun.
"DAMN" is Lamar's fourth studio album and was released in April 2017.
Lamar's politically charged performance at the Grammy Awards in January won him wide praise.
"DAMN" picked up best rap album at the award show. His song "Humble" also picked up best rap performance, best rap song and best music video.
The New York Times and The New Yorker were also awarded prizes for their reporting on Harvey Weinstein that put the #MeToo movement in the national spotlight.
More on this year's winners can be found here.
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