Now that Greg Berlanti and the rest of the DC TV creative team have looped Supergirl into the mix, the sky is the limit for what could happen in the future, and that's not limited to just Earth-1's sky, either. Even before The Flash's trip to National City happened, fans were talking about whether or not Supergirl could head to The Flash's universe in the future. But what about an Earth-1 doppelgänger for Kara Danvers? Here's what executive producer Andrew Kreisberg says.
Any Kara that exists on Earth-1 would also have to have been an alien. It can't just be Kara Danvers from Poughkeepsie.
I'm sure Poughkeepsie residents aren't too pleased to hear that they couldn't be the home of Earth-1 Kara Danvers, but perhaps they're okay with not being the first place in the world where an actual alien has been proven to exist. All those tourists!
Back to Central City. Of all the weirdness that The Flash has given us – and that includes your basic metahumans, your giant animal metahumans, your multiple dimensions, your ghoulish time wraiths and more – the show still hasn't really looked into space for its science fiction angles. And while a visit to Earth-1 from an extraterrestrial wouldn't necessarily have to show anything from space, I kind of wish there were some galactic elements to this show in the future.
A doppelgänger of Kara showing up on Earth-1 would be headline news to the rest of the world, but I'm betting it would happen in such a way that only the S.T.A.R. Labs team would find out about it. I can just see Cisco's face now as he humbly but excitedly asks Kara to do experiments on her with whatever alien-examining device he invented just minutes before she showed up.
When asked by EW, Kreisberg interestingly teases that another world's version of Kara could also have some superpowers.
Sure, different costume, but sure.
Yes, it's likely that another version of Kara wouldn't have the same Kryptonian history, meaning the "S" on her costume wouldn't have the same familial symbolism. Plus, what if capes are not as in vogue on other versions of Earth? I'm pretty sure Cisco would also have a device for that, too, although maybe Caitlin would be better suited for something that's both well-designed and fashionable.
Kevin Smith, who is directing an upcoming episode of The Flash, recently talked about what fans can expect from Supergirl over its final episodes, but he also mentioned that the producers were talking about that Flash crossover being the first of many for the Girl of Steel. I assume these shows' brainstorming sessions are out of this world, literally, and that Berlanti & Co. will eventually figure out a perfect way to get both Supergirl proper and Earth-1 Kara into the narrative before another season has passed.
In the meantime, Flash fans can get ready for a wacky crossover in the coming weeks that ties into Arrow's latest shocker. Find the Scarlet Speedster on Tuesday nights on The CW, while Supergirl airs Monday nights on CBS.


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Human clones: New U.N. analysis lays out world's choices
The world community quickly needs to reach a compromise that outlaws reproductive cloning or prepare to protect the rights of cloned individuals from potential abuse, prejudice and discrimination, according to authors of a new policy analysis by the United Nations University's Institute of Advanced Studies (www.ias.unu.edu).
A legally-binding global ban on work to create a human clone, coupled with freedom for nations to permit strictly controlled therapeutic research, has the greatest political viability of options available to the international community, says the report: Is Human Reproductive Cloning Inevitable: Future Options for UN Governance, released Nov. 12 by A.H. Zakri, Director of UNU-IAS, based in Yokohama, Japan.
Virtually every nation opposes human cloning and more than 50 have legislated bans on such efforts. However, negotiation of an international accord foundered at the UN in 2005 due to disagreement over research cloning (also called therapeutic cloning).
"Human reproductive cloning could profoundly impact humanity," says UN Under-Secretary-General Konrad Osterwalder, Rector of UNU. "This report offers a plain language analysis of the opportunities, challenges and options before us - a firm and thoughtful base from which the international community can revisit the issue before science overtakes policy."
Without an international prohibition, human reproductive cloning accomplished in certain countries could be judged perfectly legal by the International Court of Justice, warn UNU-IAS co-authors Brendan Tobin, Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy, Darryl Macer, Mihaela Serbulea.
"Failure to outlaw reproductive cloning means it is just a matter of time until cloned individuals share the planet," says barrister Mr. Tobin of the Irish Center for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway. "If failure to compromise continues, the world community must accept responsibility and ensure that any cloned individual receives full human rights protection. It will also need to embark on an extensive awareness building and sensitivity program to ensure that the wider society treats clones with respect and ensure they are protected against prejudice, abuse or discrimination."
There is almost universal international consensus on the desirability of banning reproductive cloning based in part on religious and moral grounds, but mostly on concerns about underdeveloped technologies producing clones with serious deformities or degenerative diseases, Mr. Tobin adds. As technologies advance and possibilities of success increase, the current consensus is likely to erode and with it the possibility of securing a ban on reproductive cloning.
According to the UNU report, the widest international consensus would be achieved around an agreement that prevents progress towards full reproductive cloning but authorizes strictly controlled therapeutic cloning to prevent the uncontrolled production and destruction of embryos.
Failure to deal with the cloning issue reflects on "the credibility of the UN institution itself and its capacity to respond to society's need for competent leadership," says the report.
"Whichever path the international community chooses it will need to act soon - either to prevent reproductive cloning or to defend the human rights of cloned individuals," says Dr. Zakri.
The report calls the prospect of human cloning "one of the most emotive and divisive issues to face UN negotiators and the international community in recent years."
Efforts in 2005 to negotiate an international convention fell through over so-called research or therapeutic cloning.
Whereas reproductive cloning is meant to duplicate a person or animal, research cloning is meant to produce tissues that genetically match those of the person or animal whose cells are cloned.
Proponents of research cloning for regenerative medicine say it offers great hope of producing replacement tissue without the fear of immunological rejection, that it offers a potential cure for millions of people suffering common diseases of the industrialized world - diabetes, stroke, spinal injury, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's.
Opponents view research cloning as the unethical production and destruction of living embryos to produce stem cells upon which such therapies are based. The clash of positions led to a compromise non-binding UN Declaration on Cloning.
There have been no substantiated claims of cloned human embryos grown into fetal stages and beyond but such an historic event is not far off, most experts agree.
Clones have been achieved with mice, sheep, pigs, cows and dogs and U.S. researchers last summer accomplished the first cloning of a primate - a rhesus monkey embryo cloned from adult cells and then grown to generate stem cells.
National efforts to outlaw reproductive cloning of humans are easily skirted if researchers can simply move to other jurisdictions. Disgraced South Korean medical researcher Woo Sook Hwang, whose human clone claims were unsubstantiated, reportedly continues his work in Thailand.
The report explores in depth the difficult ethical considerations behind the issue.
"It is frequently argued, for instance, that reproduction should occur by chance and through natural selection. This argument may be based upon religious lines, which defer to a supernatural or higher power for choice, or to natural selection and the importance of ensuring continued human diversity.
"More convincing for some are arguments against the commoditisation of life. Fears exist that allowing reproductive cloning will lead to a spare parts market for harvesting human organs from cloned "brain-less bodies" for the rich as they seek to extend their lifespan, a result which many see as a contravention of individual and collective human dignity.
"These are not issues which can be lightly dismissed; however, it is clear that any debate on human dignity needs to separate the various elements of the debate in order to consider whether opposition to cloning stems from concern for human dignity or respect for divine dignity. As well as to determine whether it is designed to protect the individual that may be cloned or the society whose sense of personal and collective identity might be challenged by the concept of sharing the world with cloned individuals."
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The Institute of Advanced Studies is part of the United Nations University's global network of research and training centres. IAS undertakes research and postgraduate education on leading sustainable development issues, convening expertise from disciplines such as economics, law, biology, political science, physics and chemistry to better understand and contribute creative solutions to pressing global concerns. UNU-IAS works to identify and address strategic issues of concern for all humankind, for governments and decision makers and, particularly, for developing countries.
Established by the U.N. General Assembly, UNU is an international community of scholars engaged in research, advanced training and the dissemination of knowledge related to pressing global problems. Activities focus mainly on peace and conflict resolution, sustainable development and the use of science and technology to advance human welfare. The University operates a worldwide network of research and post-graduate training centres, with headquarters in Tokyo.
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After a lengthy and challenging process, the team is finally ready to down-select from the four candidate sites to a primary and backup site.
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I've been working with smartmotors for a little while, but am still fairly new to some of the concepts when programming with them. My boss has given me an application designed for motors with firmware version 495, and my original testing equipment was the same version. However, our deployment model uses version 5.0.3.41 motors. In both versions, we connect the motors via a RS232 daisy-chain, and make calls via IntegMotorInterface.dll. With the new motors, simple jogging and movement is the same as before. However, the old scan mode, as shown in the VI below, is based on "be at this position at this time," so I have to write the position and motor data to the motors. When the system attempts to write the data to the motors, it causes an unidentified error in Labview. Is this option removed in the class 5 motors, has it changed, or is there something else wrong?
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Q: IBM MQ - One to many message flow My question is about one to many message flow using a single queue in IBM MQ. I am new to MQ.
Scenario - Suppose there are multiple processes reading from a single queue, when they read a message from the queue , do all of them get the same message.
ie - Lets say there are no messages on the queues and two readers are blocked on it (executed the MQGET  on it).

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*1 messages come on the queue (logically meant for process 1). Will both of them get the message as both were waiting (executed the MQGET  on it) or only to one process randomly.

*once the message is read is it removed from the queue.

*If messages are removed from queue after reading ,suppose process 1 is processing and a new message comes for it and instead process 2 gets it and is deleted. When process 1 tries to get it wont get any message. Is this possible.
basically i want to know how to manage multiple processes on a single queue so that the messages go to right process and no message is missed.

A: Multiple apps reading on a queue compete for messages if no selectors are used.  Straight FIFO reads deliver messages to competing apps such that any one message is delivered once to one of the app instances.  Assuming the app gets the message outside of syncpoint or issues a COMMIT then no other app will see the message and it will be permanently removed.
Things that change the behavior include:

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*Message selectors.  If the apps get messages by MsgID or other selection criteria the QMgr makes only messages that meet the selection available to the app.  If multiple app instances use the same selection criteria, they compete for messages within the subset defined by the selector.

*Rollbacks.  If an app rolls back a message it becomes available again and may go to the same or different application instance.

*Priority delivery.  Behaves as for FIFO except that messages are ordered by priority with the highest priority ones being delivered first.

*Message groups. It is possible to select messages by group ID and to specify that the GET does not succeed until all messages in the group are present.  If a partial group lands on the queue it is possible to see depth on the queue but no messages delivered to the application.

Looking at your questions one at a time:

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*messages come on the queue (logically meant for process 1). Will both of them get the message as both were waiting (executed the MQGET on it) or only to one process randomly.
Queues are cheap.  Don't put messages destined for App1 and App2 on the same queue if the apps are reading FIFO.  The only way to share a queue across different apps (or different instances of the same app) is if all things reading from the queue use selectors and that the selectors effectively segregate the messages so they go to the right app.  If even one instance is running FIFO then it doesn't work.

*once the message is read is it removed from the queue.
Yes, provided the app issues a GET followed by COMMIT or a GET outside of syncpoint.  If the app browses the queue, then the message remains and becomes available to other apps once the browse cursor moves off of it.

*If messages are removed from queue after reading ,suppose process 1 is processing and a new message comes for it and instead process 2 gets it and is deleted. When process 1 tries to get it wont get any message. Is this possible.
Absolutely.  As noted earlier, apps or app instances reading the queue in a FIFO mode will compete for messages.  If indeed a message arrives "for process 1" then either use selectors that prevent other processes from reading the message or use different queues for each instance.

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It's hard to see loved ones hurting, but sometimes even well-intentioned remarks can cause more harm for sexual assault survivors. Emily Dworkin, lead author and senior fellow with the Department of...
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Under the Lilacs  is a children's novel by Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1878.

Plot

Bab and Betty, two little girls, are having a tea party with their dolls when an unknown dog appears and steals their cake. The girls find the dog, Sancho, along with his owner Ben Brown, a run-away from the circus who is hiding in their play barn in a carriage. They discover that Ben is a horse master and when he is taken in by the Moss', they get him a job on a neighboring farm. It is there that he can work with horses and drive cows. Ben eventually finds out that his father, who he loved dearly, was dead. A neighbor, Miss Celia, helps him through his grief and he moves in with her and her brother Thornton who is fourteen. He has a job, and a family, and an opportunity for education. Ben has a wonderful life now, but his life in the circus was full of adventure and excitement which is a struggle for Ben. Many adventures and summer-happenings go on in Celia's house, as Ben slowly finds his place among his friends. Sancho gets lost and later is found by Betty with his tail cut off. Sancho's temper is therefore affected forever prompting him to be unfriendly to tramps and strangers, Ben is accused of stealing, Miss Celia gets hurt and Ben takes a wild ride on her horse, Lita. They have an archery competition, where Ben emerges as the winner almost beaten by Bab. In the end Ben's father is revealed to be alive and he comes home. There they both settle down.

See also

References

External links
Project Gutenburg
Full text version of Under the Lilacs

1878 American novels
American children's novels
Novels by Louisa May Alcott
1870s children's books

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Which platform will save you from the nasties?
October 19, 2004 — 10.00am
Last week in these pages, Next carried a story that is receiving an increasing amount of media attention: which is more secure - Windows or Linux?
A snide answer is OpenBSD, which has an exemplary record with respect to security. But let's stick to the two most broadly used platforms in IT today.
Microsoft's hired analysts claim that Windows is more secure than Linux. Should we believe them?
First, let's deal with the fact that the numbers presented cover only one aspect of security, namely vendor advisories for vulnerabilities.
Think of vulnerabilities as coding flaws in software, which allow crackers to hook into and abuse your computer. Vulnerabilities are important but aren't the most common problem. Most security scares are caused by viruses and related malware, which often don't rely on code vulnerabilities to do their dirty work. Instead, they use poor system and application design inherent in the platforms they propagate on.
Therefore, unless the vendor redesigns such software, rather than merely patching it, there can be no real improvement in security.
Such design flaws and a lack of software diversity are a key reason why there are tens of thousands of viruses and related malware for Windows, resulting in billions of dollars in business damage to consumers.
This insecurity seems to have been in Windows since day one. It's also been in many of Microsoft's applications, such as Office and Outlook; think auto-executing macros received via email, to understand what we mean. Think Melissa. Think ILOVEYOU.
By contrast, Linux rarely suffers from such security problems.
A common misconception is that a popular platform such as Windows attracts more than its fair share of malware and security exploitations. Let's show that this premise is wrong once and for all by way of a counter-example: the open-source Apache web server has more than triple the market share of Microsoft's IIS yet has had far fewer problems with security vulnerabilities and associated malware over the years.
Open source is not a guarantee of better security, however. In terms of vulnerability reduction or resolution mechanisms by and of itself, the open-source development process doesn't have any theoretical advantages over well-supported closed-source platforms from responsive vendors.
Historically, many such vendors have been less than responsive. Linux is now forcing them to improve. Here's how.
Microsoft obtained its reputation for poor security partly by being tardy in responding to critical and remotely exploitable vulnerabilities. It improved its responsiveness in recent times because it had to. Competition from Linux is so fierce that Microsoft improved its security to be able to play on the same arena.
If Microsoft can't be as fast at getting patches out as a bunch of Linux volunteers, how would that look to customers paying for software assurance?
There is another security advantage that Linux (along with all Unix-like systems) have: one system component is cleanly decoupled from other components. Breaking one module generally doesn't result in a system-wide failure or require re-installing the system.
This has dramatic repercussions in terms of the psychology of security-patch application.
Many Windows system administrators defer installing Microsoft patches because of problems they've had in the past that have caused widespread system failure in production environments. These lead to even further degradation in security.
Beware the vertically integrated software stack that Microsoft touts as an advantage. It's not.
Let's finally look at the numbers. We find that Linux vendors generate more vulnerability fixes than Microsoft. These raw numbers do not compare like with like, however. This is because the average Linux distribution packs around 20 to 100 times more applications than Microsoft does in Windows.
If we counted vulnerability numbers per-application-capita, Linux wins, hands down.
For instance, Windows 2000 Server ships with approximately 120 separately identifiable functional sub-systems. These include such things as the IIS web server, Active Server Pages (ASP) programming environment, XML parser, etc. By comparison, SuSe Linux ships with more than 3200 application packages; Gentoo Linux ships with 4500 separate packages and Debian supplies around 10,000.
Even if you add all of Microsoft's applications together, their number is dwarfed by what Linux vendors ship. Without taking such a function size disparity into account, contrasting raw vulnerability numbers is a disingenuous tactic indeed.
Moving beyond marketing statistics, what can average users do to improve their computer security?
First, run a firewall; switch off non-essential services; do not use applications with long and recent track-records of security flaws (e.g. Internet Explorer); do not use applications that may possibly execute content (e.g. Outlook or Microsoft Office, unless you are certain this feature is switched off and will remain so); use alternatives to common viewers.
If possible, have two computers, either physical, or virtual. If you use Windows for most of your work, continue to do so, but do your mail reading, web-surfing and internet activities on another operating system, one which has a lower-risk profile.
Con Zymaris is CEO of Melbourne firm Cybersource.
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Following the tips above are sometimes not enough to keep pests away from your property. If your home or business is being invaded by pests or if you want to act before an infestation, D's Pest Control is here to help. As your local pest control professionals, call us today at 806-796-2928 or reach out to us by filling out our contact form.
Sentricon termite protection is a "green" termite treatment that can be used to protect everywhere from your home to your business. Besides being proven effective by more than 60 scientific studies and being a safe and environmentally friendly choice, Sentricon has many other benefits for you Lubbock, Texas property.
To termites, Sentricon termite protection seems like a more appealing food source than wood. This makes them more than happy to snack on it instead of the wood sources on your Lubbock, Texas, property. When termites eat Sentricon, they give up the ability to molt. If termites cannot molt, then the queen of the colony dies, taking any remaining members of the colony with her.
When you use a bait system like Sentricon termite protection to form a protective barrier around your Lubbock, Texas, home or business, you never have to worry about harming the environment or disrupting your lawn or landscaping like with many other treatments. It requires no deep digging or injection of chemicals into the ground. Sentricon bait systems are simply shallowly inserted into areas that are conducive to termites, such as damp soil or spaces near trees and shrubs. Let Sentricon protect your Lubbock, Texas, property with no digging and no disruption.
Sentricon termite protection is so effective that only one treatment is required to form a protective barrier around your Lubbock, Texas, home or business to eliminate the termite colony. Because we have broken down the Sentricon process into a step-by-step process, we know just what to do to assure that your home is protected from termites.
Killing a termite colony is only possible if you know where it is hiding. Sentricon termite protection allows the indication of termite activity so that the system can work accordingly and maximize effectiveness.
If you are in need of termite control, D's Pest Control can help. Our professional, highly trained staff can install a Sentricon system quickly and without disturbing your daily routine. Let us help protect you from the serious results of termite damage by installing Sentricon on your Lubbock, Texas, property.
With fall coming to a close in Lubbock, Texas, and winter weather quickly coming upon us, we all start to migrate indoors to get away from the colder temperatures outside, but we aren't the only ones migrating indoors to get out of the cold weather. Rodents and other pests are looking to find a way for themselves and their families to go to get out of the cold weather so they can survive the colder temperatures as well and your home makes the perfect last minute home for them to protect themselves from the colder temperatures.
Unlike the smaller almost unnoticeable pests that we deal with at D's Pest Control (like ants, bed bugs, cockroaches, fleas, spiders and ticks, who can sneak their way in and out through the interior of your walls of your house and the foundation of your house), rodents—as much as they try to be sneaky—can't go unnoticed. They leave little hints wherever they go that they were there. You may notice some bite marks on your furniture that weren't there before. You may notice a little drop-ling here or there or the scurrying across your floor that you see in the corner of your eye. When you go into your cabinet for some food and find both drop-lings and little holes in your food bag where they went in and munched on your food, you know you have a problem. They won't just stop at things that you can see they will get into your walls and create structural damage just like termites. Once the rodent in your home crosses the line from just being in the home to touching the food you eat and worse causing structural damage they are going to cost you a lot more money. The best way to get rid of them, like with any pest infestation, is to get rid of them sooner rather than later. So even at the smallest chance that you notice that something is off in your home, whether it's an abnormal wear or tear on your furniture, drop-lings in your cabinets, or holes in your food containers be sure to call D's Pest Control and schedule an appointment for rodent control. To take care of rodents, we do use traps and bait along with other options on how to get rid of rodents in your house.
The sooner you call, the sooner you'll be ready to relax and enjoy the holiday season and colder temperatures snuggled up with loved ones rather than worrying about pests in your home eating away at your holiday meals.
When your Lubbock, Texas, home needs a pest control service or termite treatment, D's Pest Control is here to help. Our team of pest professionals is excited about what we have to offer the residents of Lubbock to prevent bugs from moving indoors and causing trouble as autumn approaches. While we treat for a number of individual pests, we also offer a few comprehensive pest control and termite programs that can help you sleep at night knowing your home is protected.
If you are in need of a pest control service that covers all the bases, our Gold Shield Service is for you. With both and indoor treatment and a 30-foot power treatment of your front and backyard, your Lubbock, Texas, home will be safe from a variety of common indoor and outdoor pests, such as ants, fleas, spiders, ticks and much more.
Our Four Seasons Program is a perfect example of our dedication to keeping your home pest-free. With this program, we provide quarterly pest control treatments to the interior and exterior of your Lubbock, Texas, home. The best part: We offer three different levels of protection to best fit your needs!
four treatments per yearThe general Four Seasons Program includes the standard four pest control treatments per year. Since these four treatments include perimeter and indoor treatments, you can be sure your home will be well-protected from unwanted visitors. When you pre-pay on the first three services of this program, the fourth service is free!
four treatments per yearOur Ultimate Four Seasons Program provides ultimate protection against unwanted pests. This program includes our highly recommended Sentricon® treatment solution against termites, and four Gold Shield services that include indoor and outdoor treatment of your home against other unwanted pests.
four treatments per yearOur Gold Shield Four Seasons Program includes four of our Gold Shield pest control treatments per year. These special Gold Shield treatments include an indoor treatment and a 30 foot power application on the yard.When you pre-pay on the first three services of this program, the fourth service is free!
What does the Sentricon Termite Colony Elimination System do? For our pest control service customers in Lubbock, Texas, it allows them to rest assured that their home is safe from the damage of termite colonies. Plenty of research has shown the effectiveness of the Sentricon Program, ensuring that this termite treatment eliminates the entire colony of termites on your property. Not to mention, the Always Active technology allows Sentricon to continuously guard your home against termite infestation.
We were recently rated one of the top three pest control companies in Lubbock, Texas. Contact our pest professionals for more information on the high-quality individual and comprehensive termite treatments and pest control programs we offer to protect the citizens of Lubbock, Texas!