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Following Obama's speech, parsing key players for global warming legislation
by Matthew Lewis February 25, 2009 May 27, 2019
Wendall Ford
In last night's speech, President Obama called on attendees to send him "legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution." As a new Center report explains, that means the mushrooming number of climate change lobbyists will be talking to a lot of old friends and former bosses.
Many of those lobbyists used to work on Capitol Hill, and some were themselves members of Congress. They represent scores of different climate interests, including some mentioned by Obama — like the electric grid and "technologies like wind power and solar power, advanced biofuels, clean coal, and more efficient cars and trucks."
Here is a sampling of some representatives who worked for those very players in the climate change lobby last year:
Clean coal
Among the climate lobbyists in 2008 for America's largest coal producer — Peabody Energy — were former Senators Tim Hutchinson, an Arkansas Republican, and Wendell Ford, a Kentucky Democrat, both from the lobbying firm Dickstein Shapiro. Hutchinson served two terms in the House beginning in 1993, followed by one term in the Senate, where he sat on the Armed Services Committee. Ford resided in the Senate for a quarter-century, serving as both majority and minority whip, chairman of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, and as chairman of the Rules Committee.
Dow Lohnes Government Strategies was among the lobbying representatives for energy delivery and transmission company, National Grid. Two of its lobbyists last year were Stephen C. Sayle, former Republican counsel to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Eric S. Kessler, former Democratic Energy and Commerce staffer and chief of staff to Representative John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat who chaired that committee before this year.
Van Heuvelen Strategies founder Robert Van Heuvelen worked for a decade as chief of staff to Senator Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat. But in 2007 he moved to the other side of the table. Last year he represented three clients on climate, including thin solar film manufacturer First Solar.
Efficient cars and trucks
Former Congressman Martin A. Russo, an Illinois Democrat, served nine terms in the House and sat on two committees key to passing a climate change bill in that chamber — the Energy and Commerce and the Ways and Means committees. In 2008, Russo worked on climate issues on behalf of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. Though Obama criticized the "bad practices" of auto manufacturers, he stressed that Americans cannot "walk away from" the industry.
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by Matthew Lewis, Center for Public Integrity

Following Obama's speech, parsing key players for global warming legislation

by Matthew Lewis, Center for Public Integrity
February 25, 2009

Wendall Ford

In last night's speech, President Obama called on attendees to send him "legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution." As a new Center report explains, that means the mushrooming number of climate change lobbyists will be talking to a lot of old friends and former bosses.

Many of those lobbyists used to work on Capitol Hill, and some were themselves members of Congress. They represent scores of different climate interests, including some mentioned by Obama — like the electric grid and "technologies like wind power and solar power, advanced biofuels, clean coal, and more efficient cars and trucks."

Here is a sampling of some representatives who worked for those very players in the climate change lobby last year:

Clean coal

Among the climate lobbyists in 2008 for America's largest coal producer — Peabody Energy — were former Senators Tim Hutchinson, an Arkansas Republican, and Wendell Ford, a Kentucky Democrat, both from the lobbying firm Dickstein Shapiro. Hutchinson served two terms in the House beginning in 1993, followed by one term in the Senate, where he sat on the Armed Services Committee. Ford resided in the Senate for a quarter-century, serving as both majority and minority whip, chairman of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, and as chairman of the Rules Committee.

Power lines

Dow Lohnes Government Strategies was among the lobbying representatives for energy delivery and transmission company, National Grid. Two of its lobbyists last year were Stephen C. Sayle, former Republican counsel to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Eric S. Kessler, former Democratic Energy and Commerce staffer and chief of staff to Representative John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat who chaired that committee before this year.

Solar power

Van Heuvelen Strategies founder Robert Van Heuvelen worked for a decade as chief of staff to Senator Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat. But in 2007 he moved to the other side of the table. Last year he represented three clients on climate, including thin solar film manufacturer First Solar.

Efficient cars and trucks

Former Congressman Martin A. Russo, an Illinois Democrat, served nine terms in the House and sat on two committees key to passing a climate change bill in that chamber — the Energy and Commerce and the Ways and Means committees. In 2008, Russo worked on climate issues on behalf of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. Though Obama criticized the "bad practices" of auto manufacturers, he stressed that Americans cannot "walk away from" the industry.

This article first appeared on Center for Public Integrity and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


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A slew of new Star Wars toys have arrived, hot on the heels of the theatrical debut of Star Wars: Episode VII. Ready for the 2015 holiday shopping season, both the BB-8 toy by Sphero and the Millennium Falcon Quad-copter by Air Hogs are sure to please the Star Wars geek on your shopping list.
Forget about movie night, let's bring back the orchestra!
Early last week I received an unordinary email from my Mom. Getting electronic mail from my mother is far from rare, but the content of this message was atypical. In some fateful turn of events she had two members of her usual concert-going crowd cancel for the up-coming orchestra concert. Would the wife and I like to join? My answer was a quick YES!
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Deitch Looks West?
January 8, 2010 by Marion Maneker
Mike Boehm adds to Josh Baer's rumor from yesterday that a New York gallery owner might be the choice for the director of LA MoCA:
L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art is poised to name its new director Monday morning, and one of the names circulating through the art world is Jeffrey Deitch, a high-flying New York art dealer who, if chosen, would be a radical break from the usual museum-world pattern.
MOCA's key financial backer, Eli Broad, will present the new director along with the museum's co-chairs, Maria Bell and David Johnson, and city Councilwoman Jan Perry, the museum announced today.American museum directors typically come from within the curatorial, academic or other nonprofit ranks. No major art museum in the United States is directed by a former owner of a commercial art gallery.
Deitch, who began working in a SoHo art gallery in the mid-1970s, opened Deitch Projects, a commercial space, in 1996. He also serves as corporate art consultant to the international law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and several other corporations.
MoCA Contender Might Be an Unorthodox Choice (Culture Vulture)
Deitch in the Details
It's All About Deitch
How Robert Scull (then MoMA) Landed Rosenquist's F-111
MoCA Raises $7…um…$65m of $100m Goal
The Enterprising Gavin Brown
Broad Declares Victory at LA MoCA
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Scorned Miley Cyrus' plotting to give Liam Hemsworth hell!
Is it All Over for Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth?
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth Postpone Wedding!
Miley Cyrus has postponed her summer wedding. The 20-year-old Touch the Sky singer - whose relationship with Australian actor Liam Hemsworth, 23, has been on the rocks recently amid allegations of cheating and wild partying - was due to tie the knot in June but the couple have decided to put their big day on hold as they continue to work through their issues.
A source told Life & Style magazine: "They were supposed to get married in June. But there have been so many problems with them, they thought it was best to work out their issues before making such a big commitment. They aren't ready. Their families are both concerned. They don't want to see Miley and Liam get married and then get divorced. They're very young to be getting married."
Chris' sister-in-law Elsa Pataky, who is married to his brother Chris Hemsworth, 29, confirmed on Monday (8 April) that she is not sure if their wedding in still on.
He told Entertainment Weekly magazine: "She's great. She loves our kids, and our kids absolutely love her. She won our hearts. I find her really interesting. I find her very articulate, and years in maturity above her age. But at the same time, she's very much like Liam. I think a lot of people don't realise that they are really, really in love. They actually are a perfect match in a lot of ways."
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With just as much impact inside the house as in the garden, with the water forming a mesmerising effect, the Agra will attract a great deal of attention. Fully self-contained, the water will be recycled from the pebble pool at the base.
I haven't installed it yet so all I can comment on is the service and the look of the product.I was very pleased with the service from the Garden Site. I rang to make some initial enquiries and the person I spoke to was very helpful. The delivery was very quick and the packing was excellent. On inspection the product appears to be in perfect order.


Graylog is installed and running successfully receiving logs from syslog and http inputs on the node described above.
The input is added in the UI successfully and is reported in the UI as: Running and netstat shows that the port in question is listening.
This site can't be reached - graylog-sec.local took too long to respond.
The graylog-server server.log does not update at all when this condition occurs (the last log message is that the input is running). If I restart the graylog-server service it shows that the http server and rest api start up and the inputs are running (see the end of this post for the log snippet).
I updated the receive buffer defaults from 212992 to a number higher than 1048576, and confirmed the changed took effect (the logs no longer report this error about the PA input).
Restarting the graylog-server service, everything starts up successfully according to the logs, but the UI is still unreachable w/ the error I noticed above (site can't be reached).
2019-01-29T16:58:08.108Z INFO  [HttpServer] [HttpServer] Started.
2019-01-29T16:58:08.120Z INFO  [ServerBootstrap] Graylog server up and running.
Have you tried accessing it via the IP that graylog is listening on when you are gettting the error that graylog-sec.local is taking too long to respond?
Interesting problem you have there!
Am I right in understanding that you are running Graylog + MongoDB + ElasticSearch together on that one host? Technically speaking it shouldn't be much of a problem, though it's suboptimal. Best do some maths on your Java heap sizes.
What are your Java heaps for Graylog and Elastic configured for right now?
1 or 2 GB for Graylog heap, no more as @jan has suggested before).
10 GB for Elastic, assuming that caching etc will eat up another 10GB.
You say that you're restarting the Graylog server service(s). But have you also restarted Elastic and Mongo? These are separate process stacks.
Thanks for the details on the issue. I would like to do a bit of troubleshooting to investigate the issue further. You mentioned that after restarting Graylog, the UI was still not accessible. Are logs still being sent from the Palo Alto device after the reboot? I am wondering if you can please test if a reboot + stop sending logs from Palo Alto allows the UI to become responsive again. If so, then can you please reboot once more while sending Palo Alto logs and confirm that the same issue happens?
Also activating debug logging for the Integrations plugin might also help to provide some additional log messages to investigate the issue further. This command can be used to turn on debug logging for the Integrations plugin specifically. Once the command is executed, the debug entries will be enabled automatically until the server is rebooted.
Thanks for your help investigating this!
Hey @danotorrey, thanks for your help!
I stopped log forwarding on the Palo Alto device, then stopped mongod, elasticsearch, & graylog-server (in that order) then started all three services again (in that order) and the UI did not become responsive again. So it seems that whatever error condition that sending logs from PA caused hasn't resolved once the logs stopped forwarding. By the way, the PA device is 8.1.5, in case this matters.
I am going to try rebuilding graylog on a new (same specs) server and recreating this issue, having enabled debug logging on the integrations plugin before adding the new input. Palo Alto log ingestion is the #1 log use case that I am trying to solve with Graylog, so I am motivated to figure out the fix!
@Totally_Not_A_Robot thank you for this useful info! I had not considered java heaps at all, (java newb here) but will look into this further. Right now this is a POC system with two tiny inputs (less than 10mb of logs a day), whatever defaults come loaded w/ the apt repo version of graylog, and no one else but me using it, so I "feel" like I should be able to get things running on a single server, but we do plan to move everything to a distributed architecture once we determine that graylog is what we want to move forward with. Potentially I will need to do that sooner rather than later though.
Also, I had only been restarting graylog server, but not mongod or elastic, so good point there.
Thanks for the details. This helps a lot. Did you happen to try if rebooting the entire machine made any difference?
The fact that the logging level API call timed out definitely means that the Graylog server was in a bad state. The challenge will be to find out why.
Please let me know what happens with the new test environment.
If the issue continues to occur with the new test environment, please let us know, and we will continue to help investigate.
Yup! I mean, with the original 10 MB per day that @heather mentions, there should be zero issues whatsoever.
It's interesting that simply starting a data feed to an input could crash anything. That would suggest some very weird data making its way into the input.
@heather, for shits and giggles we could try an experiment! What happens if you open a Netcat listener on the Graylog box, just on a free port of your liking and then you tell your Palo Alto boxen to send their logging to that port. That'll give us some idea of what the incoming data looks like.
What happens if you open a Netcat listener on the Graylog box, just on a free port of your liking and then you tell your Palo Alto boxen to send their logging to that port. That'll give us some idea of what the incoming data looks like.
This is a fantastic idea. Thanks @Totally_Not_A_Robot! Once log data is captured, we can inspect it to see what it looks like, and we can even feed it back into the Graylog input for testing.
@heather Please let us know how the setup of the new test environment goes, and we can continue to troubleshoot from there.
Update: using the netcat listener was a great idea, because it helped me diagnose the fact that NO logs are making it from the PA device to the Graylog server (a firewall rule was blocking the traffic). The fact that the Graylog UI seemed to die at the same time that the commit was made to send logs from the PA device was a red herring!
I will have my new test machine up and running later today and will update with the results of the debug log after enabling the PA input.
Huh, would you look at that? That's interesting!
So are you saying something along the network is blocking the traffic? Or did you perhaps forget to open the firewall port on the receiving host? That's always an option.
What ended up being the cause was adding a static route from the PA device directly to the IP address of the Graylog server. The PA device has a limited number of routes from the management plane, for security reasons. So I was having to update the route table to allow logs to flow to the subnet that contained the Graylog node.
I am not sure why that caused the web UI to go "down" and start reporting the "this site can't be reached" error in browser, but after a bunch of testing, that change was the culprit.
Could it be that the traffic from your browser to the GUI actually passes through the PA device? Thus the traffic to/from your workstation could've gotten buggered… Who knows?


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On Friday September 2nd Edwin Lorber passed away peacefully at the age of 94. Edwin was born December 30th, 1927 to father Joseph Lorber and mother Rose (Cohn) Lorber. The youngest of three sons, Edwin was drafted to the United States Army and served World War II in the Pacific. After The War, Edwin joined his father and brothers at the family business J. Lorber Company founded by his father in 1918. Edwin would eventually establish Lorber Development and become President of J. Lorber Company working alongside his family who continue to operate the company today.
A self-taught piano player, Ed could play a tune by ear. He enjoyed water skiing, boating, snow skiing and traveling. Ed enjoyed time at his house in the New Jersey shore and Florida alongside friends and family. Married to the late Maxine (Glassman) for 63 years and father to the late Michelle Lorber and Gwyn Dresser. Edwin is survived by his son Steven and daughter in-law JoAnn. Grandchildren Jessica (Vince) Verderame, Lindsay (Tom) Martinez, Lauren (Tony) Zarillo, Michael (Nicole) Lorber, Caitlin (Levi) Naiditch and Jeffrey (Stephanie) Lorber. Great grandchildren Luca, Amelia, Olivia, Maddalena, Liam, Keegan and Scarlett.
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I have been using mkv2vob to convert MKV files and to split them into 4 gb parts which I then copy onto my PS3. Today I converted a movie but it wouldn't play on my PS3. The only thing that has changed since I last used it is that I installed Mavericks, and I thought perhaps it has issues with Maverick? I was wondering if anyone could suggest an alternative application that would allow me to convert MKV files into either AVI or MPG so that I can then add these to my Playstation 3.
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The claims by State Minister for Health, David Davis, regarding the effect carbon pricing is having on services at the State's hospitals are greatly exaggerated, Labor candidate for Bendigo, Lisa Chesters said today.
"This is another desperate attempt by the Liberals in their tired old scare campaign about the carbon price. People know their claims and predictions about the carbon price have been nothing but nonsense.
"Further, it is an attempt to distract the local community from the real issue that the new Bendigo Hospital will not be completed by 2016 as promised."
"Increases in electricity prices are a very small proportion of hospital costs and Federal Government funding for public hospitals is automatically indexed for these cost increases. The Department of Health and Ageing estimates the impact of the carbon price will only be 0.3% of hospital costs - the equivalent of three cents in every $10 hospitals spend.
"Federal Labor is increasing funding to hospitals by $20 billion this decade, which covers additional costs such as carbon pricing many times over. Indexation in the hospital agreement will see federal hospital funding increase by 6.5% this financial year, going up each year to more than 10% indexation in 2015-16."
"Federal Labor is delivering a stronger, fairer health system, by contrast Tony Abbott as Health Minister cut funding for public hospitals by $1 billion."


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Paul Rafferty was born in 1965 in Oxford, England. Rafferty is self taught but with much support and encouragement from professional artists throughout his career, he primarily paints on location in Oil. The influence from 19th and 20th century masters is evident in Rafferty's work, along with a number of contemporary painters working today.
Every painting is about the light and its play on the subjects he depicts. Having the fortunate opportunity to to have bases in the South of France, California and London, Rafferty's work is infused with an abundant source of light, each location being a staging point from where he can travel through Europe or the United States and gather material to express his vision.
Studio work plays a major role in his output allowing for a much larger, more considered approach to the subjects gathered in the field.
Rafferty is represented by The Portland Gallery in London.


Australia has finished sixth in the Paris Sevens, after a 17-7 loss to South Africa on Monday morning.
After being well beaten by the Blitzbokke in the pool stages, Australia was keen to reverse the result in the final, coming into the match with a markedly improved energy.
A more energetic approach wasn't enough for Australia as an undermanned South Africa took control of proceedings early, finishing with three tries to one for the game.
Dylan Sage struck first for South Africa in the second minute, before Boyd Killingworth struck back for Australia, with James Stannard's conversion putting Australia in front.
Killingworth's try was Australia's sole five-pointer of the night, though they put pressure on South Africa throughout the match.
Kyle Brown made the most of a tap just shy of half-time to put the Blitzbokke in front again, giving his side a five-point lead at the break..
Rosco Specman made it two in a row, with a third South African try just after half-time to make the lead 10 points.
Australia's execution cost them late in the match, unable to convert a period of sustained pressure into points.
Some pushed passes cost the Aussies some of those opportunities, with the clock ultimately beating the Aussies.
That result concluded a relatively bizarre tournament for the two sides, with South Africa knocking New Zealand out of the tournament earlier in the day.
Samoa and Fiji will play off for the Cup title, while host nation France shocked many by reaching the third-place playoff in front of a supportive home crowd.
The sixth place finish is their second Plate finish in as many tournaments, coming after four consecutive Cup semi-finals.
Australia now heads to London for the final leg of the World Series, sitting fourth in the overall tournament standings.


Editor's note: The Aspen Times is covering changes in the ski business, with today's story focusing on this week's gathering of industry leaders in Denver for the Snowsports Industries America Snow Show. Saturday's story will look at how Aspen Skiing Co. is addressing the trend of consolidation among ski resorts.
The state of the ski and snowboard industry in the United States is that it's changing.
Some of that change is good, some bad, but overall the industry has serious challenges ahead, including climate change, an aging customer base and aging infrastructure, to name a few.
Industry leaders gathered at the Colorado Convention Center on Wednesday for The Assembly, an unofficial kickoff to the annual Snowsports Industries America Snow Show, which features panel discussions and interactive sessions about the ski industry's place in the larger tourism industry. The Denver mountain resort research firm DestiMetrics hosted the event.
Millennials make much less money on average than the ski industry's core market — households with $100,000 annual incomes — but that's not stopping ski-industry leaders from coveting the millennial generation more than ever.
The reason is simple: Baby boomers are dropping out of skiing and snowboarding as they age, and the industry hasn't yet figured out how to grow the sport with younger generations in order to offset those baby boomer declines.
In morning panel discussions, nearly every presenter uttered the word "millennial" more than a few times.
What was perhaps most interesting in the discussions was what presenters didn't say. Nate Fristoe, managing director of the market research firm RRC Associates, talked of millennials' financial hardships as compared with older generations, but he also touted average daily room rates across mountain resorts — currently standing at about $366 — as great news of strength in the industry. He proclaimed a "strong accomplishment for the industry" when he revealed the average gross revenue per skier or snowboarder visit as $59 during the 2001-02 ski season compared with $90 last season.
National Ski Areas Association president Michael Berry talked of the industry's "trial and conversion issue" — referring to its ability to bring new people to the sport and keep them consistently participating — as a real challenge for the future of the sport. But it's a challenge that has existed for at least 15 years, he said, adding that it's only been about three or four years since the industry turned a corner on the issue.
"It just kind of proves that nothing is easy," he said.
He took a few stereotypical jabs at millennials — they're more concerned about the hottest food truck in town or living the urban-hipster lifestyle, he said. But joking aside, the industry needs to craft the right products for them in order to capture their business, he said.
The challenge of attracting new participants barely scratches the surface of what the industry faces, though. Bill Jensen, a ski-industry expert with decades of experience in ski-company management across the United States and Canada, including at Vail Resorts and Intrawest, separates the 470 ski resorts in the United States into five tiers: Uber, Alpha, Status Quo, Survivor and Sunset. The 10 Uber resorts and 35 Alpha resorts account for 40 percent of ski business, while 125 Status Quo resorts with flat annual revenues skate by, and another 150 so-called Survivor resorts will do just that — survive — while the remaining 150 so-called Sunset resorts, as Jensen defines them, won't make it.
New realities for success have to include sufficient hospitality infrastructure — something the Sunset resorts lack — a reinvigoration of winter sports culture, resort alliances and partnerships and continued capital investment into snowmaking and other infrastructure, he said.
When asked how the industry can grow when it's so unaffordable for so many, Jensen said the Aspens, Vails, Jackson Holes and Park Cities of the industry will be fine. It's the lower tier resorts — the Status Quo and Survivor resorts — that have the biggest hill to climb.
Harry Frampton, a Vail developer who was president of Vail Associates in the 1980s, said that municipalities, ski companies, developers and communities also have a lot of work to do in order to get new development projects built in the coming years.
He pointed to consumer confidence, declining unemployment and healthy ski business revenue as reasons one might expect to see new mountain-resort development, but the economics are making less and less sense for developers.
Partnerships are how new projects will get built, he said. He used the Park Hyatt in Beaver Creek as an example of a municipality stepping in — selling developers the land for $1 as well as giving them a convention center and parking as part of the deal — stating the project never would have happened without such a partnership.
He then used Vail Resorts' proposed $1 billion Ever Vail project in Vail as an example of a project that might never happen because of all the conditions required by the town of Vail, including a transit center, inclusionary housing, a 102-room hotel and 250 public parking spaces.
"This project won't get built anytime soon," Frampton said.
Perhaps municipalities could build lodging projects, such as the city of Denver's Hyatt project near the Colorado Convention Center, Frampton said. Jensen also said municipalities could wind up getting into ski-resort ownership, especially when talking about the Survivor and Sunset resorts.
"My sense is that the survivors — they'll survive because a light will go on and people will realize it's important for their quality of life," Jensen said.
One thing that's less of a challenge these days is the quality of the skiing experience, according to Berry.
And in terms of affordability, Berry contends that skiing has never been more affordable for the core participant, pointing out the value in pass and cluster products.
The best way to grow the industry, he said, is to do it through existing participants.


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What the BlackBerry 10 PlayBook Needs to Succeed
By CIOinsight | Posted 05-04-2012	Print
According to reports, Research In Motion will be launching a 4G LTE-equipped BlackBerry PlayBook later this year. But it just can't be a 4G version of the same tablet design. Here are some features the PlayBook needs to succeed.
Research In Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet has been on store shelves for months now. And most would agree that it has been largely ignored by consumers and enterprises alike.
The tablet earned low marks from reviewers and customers who didn t like that it shipped without native email and BlackBerry Messenger support. Others didn't like its small display and oddly designed operating system. As a result, the device is languishing on store shelves because of such major flaws.
Now, though, there are reports that RIM plans to launch a new version of its tablet--likely featuring 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) service--that could launch at some point later this year. Exactly when that tablet will launch and whether it'll be the same old PlayBook or something new remain to be seen. But RIM has confirmed that something is coming, and when it does, the company believes customers will be excited to get their hands on it.
For that to happen, however, RIM must not offer the same Playbook features and expect customers to have a change of heart about it. The company needs to offer up a new and improved tablet that actually appeals to a target market
Read on to find out what the next BlackBerry PlayBook needs to succeed:
1. 4G LTE is a must
All of the talk surrounding the next BlackBerry PlayBook says RIM will be including 4G LTE connectivity in the device. So, to not do so would be a huge blunder. Before anything else, RIM must bundle 4G LTE service in its next PlayBook.
2. BlackBerry 10 or bust
Although RIM offers its PlayBook operating system in its current tablet, the company should modify BlackBerry 10 to work well on its next slate. The operating system, which RIM just showed off at BlackBerry World 2012, looks to be the best edition it has released in years. Therefore, it should make an appearance on any and all devices it sells.
3. A bigger screen
The current BlackBerry PlayBook comes with only a 7-inch screen. Considering the iPad and Samsung s Galaxy Tab 10.1 come with displays that dwarf the PlayBook's, RIM must respond with a nice, big option. Granted, it'll cost more, but who cares? As long as RIM can market it properly, the bigger PlayBook should attract at least some customers.
4. A smaller option with a cheap price
At the same time, RIM shouldn t forget about the growing budget-conscious sector of the marketplace. Today's customers are still looking for smaller tablets, as long as they come in at a very affordable price--about $200. Besides offering a new tablet with a larger screen, maybe RIM can offer a slightly updated version of its current slate and price that at $200. It might just help the firm attract more customers.
5. A commitment to the enterprise
One of the biggest issues with the BlackBerry PlayBook in its current form is that it doesn't really have a target market. At times, consumers might think that the device is designed for them, while at other times the corporate world might find some value in it. In the next PlayBook, RIM must make it abundantly clear that it s designed for the enterprise.


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The 747-400, the most common variant in service, has a high-subsonic cruise speed of up to 570 mph or 920 km/h with an intercontinental range of 7,260 nautical miles (8,350 statute miles or 13,450 km). The 747-8, referred to as the 747 Advanced prior to its launch, uses the same engine and cockpit technology as the 787, hence the use of the "8". The variant is designed to be quieter, more economical, and more environmentally friendly.


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A popular tourist stop, this 207 acre complex houses a library, art collection and stunning gardens. The library and art gallery contain rare books and one of the most complete collections of 18th century art outside of London.
Been to The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens? Share your experience!


Chiropractic is the healthcare profession solely concerned with the relationship of our spinal structure to our overall health, well-being and function.Most people in Omaha think of Koca Chiropractic Clinic as a wellness office because the focus is on helping people getting and staying well naturally.
Koca Chiropractic Clinic is dedicated to helping the people of Omaha reduce their risk of lifestyle-related preventable chronic conditions as well as encouraging them to become more responsible for promoting optimal health and well-being.
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Q: Learning Haskell: How to implement my own version of init function As part of learning Haskell, I am trying to implement my own version of various functions associated with Lists. Right now I am stuck on the init function. init function in Haskell returns all the elements in a List other than the last element.
Here is what I have done so far.
init' :: [Int] -> [Int]
init' [] = error "This function cannot be applied to an empty list"
init' [x] = [x]
init' (x:xs) = x : init' xs

A: Your second rule should be:
init' [x] = []

When a list has only one element, then it is the last one, so the list without the last element is just the empty list.

A: init' [x] = [x]

This is not correct. If you remove the last element of a one-element list, you don't get back the same list, you get back an empty list.

A: Your problem is your base case. Here:
init' [x] = [x]

You are saying that when you get down to a list with one element in it, you want to return that same list. This is not the desired outcome. When you have a list with just one element in it, you want to return an empty list (all but the last element for a single item is an empty list).
init' [x] = []

On a side note, you should probably declare it as
init' :: [a] -> [a]

Using 'a' as the type generalizes it to lists of anything, as opposed to just Ints. That way you could call init' on any sort of list. For example init' "abcde" would give you "abcd"

A: Here is my version try this.
init' :: [a] -> [a]

init' []  = error("This is not right, empty list is not allowed here")
init' (x:[]) = [x]
init' (x:xs:[]) = [x]
init' (x:xs) = x: init' xs

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MTG TORCHES NBA As Fascist, Makes STUNNING Comparison To Magic Johnson
Posted By James Samson On October 15, 2021 @ 11:57 am In Entertainment,News and Commentary,Politics | 1 Comment
The NBA star Kyrie Irving was benched by the Brooklyn Nets this week for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Now, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is rushing to Irving's defense and calling out the NBA on their hypocrisy.
"The fascist NBA won't let Kyrie Irving play for refusing a vaccine. But yet they still let Magic Johnson play with HIV," Greene tweeted.
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Yahoo News [4] reported that Greene was referring to the fact that the NBA never took issue with Johnson playing after he announced that he had been diagnosed with HIV back in 1991. While Johnson retired that year, he would have been allowed to continue playing had he chosen to do so.
This came after the Nets announced that Irving would not participate in any team activities until he gets vaccinated.
"Kyrie has made a personal choice, and we respect his individual right to choose," Nets General Manager Sean Marks said in a statement, according to NBC News. [5] "Currently, the choice restricts his ability to be a full-time member of the team, and we will not permit any member of our team to participate with part-time availability. It is imperative that we continue to build chemistry as a team and remain true to our long-established values of togetherness and sacrifice."
Irving has since said that he has no plans to retire as he also defended his decision not to get the shot.
"It's not about being anti-vax, or about being, you know, one side or the other, it's just really about being true to what feels good for me," Irving said on Instagram Live, according to The Denver Channel [6].
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Irving went on to say that nobody should be forced to do anything with their bodies against their will.
"If you choose to get the vaccine, I support you," Irving said. "If you choose to be unvaccinated, I support you. "
While Irving declined to say if he plans to get vaccinated, he did say that he has some concerns about the shots.
"I'm still uncertain about a lot of things, and that's OK," he said. "You know, If I'm going to be demonized for having more questions, and taking my time to make a decision with my life, then that's just what it is."
While Irving could lose $17 million if he misses every game this season, he doesn't seem to care about that.
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Robots printing bridges
March 13, 2016 December 8, 2016 2 minute readby AdminOR
Producing the world's first 3D-printed bridge with robots "is just the beginning" – Joris Laarman
The technology that startup MX3D is developing to 3D print a bridge in Amsterdam could be used to produce "endless" different structures, says Dutch designer Joris Laarman in this exclusive movie.
MX3D is a new research and development company co-founded by Laarman and Tim Geurtjens, which plans to use robots to produce the world's first functional 3D-printed steel bridge over an Amsterdam canal by 2017.
"The basics of the technology is pretty simple," Laarman explains in the movie, which was filmed at MX3D's workshop in Amsterdam. "We're using an industrial robot that is usually used in assembly lines in the car industry. We have combined this with a welding machine and our own software to have it 3D print in metal."
The six-axis robots that MX3D are adapting are able to rotate their arms along six different planes of movement. They build up structures by depositing small quantities of steel in layers.
Unlike traditional 3D printers, robots can produce much larger structures by moving across them as they print.
"You're not limited by size, so we can theoretically print endlessly big," Laarman says.
The steel footbridge will span eight metres. MX3D originally intended to print the bridge in situ, but had to abandon that plan over health and safety concerns. Laarman and his team will now reconstruct a section of the canal in their workshop to demonstrate that it could be done on site.
The bridge will be printed in one piece, with the robots printing a load-bearing structure to support their own weight as they work.
"The bridge is going to be fairly small – it's a pedestrian bridge," Laarman says. "It's still a huge challenge, because we want to print it in one go. We want the robots to print their own support structure as they move over the water."
Read more on Dezeen: http://www.dezeen.com/?p=832717
Buildings Printed by Robots – the Future of Architecture
3D printing has the potential to revolutionize the way humans manufacture and build things, from the small scale to the very large. By combining robots with 3D printing, KUKA partner Branch Technology, working with the architects at Gould Turner Group, is fundamentally shifting the way architects and designers approach not only the building of a final structure, but also the way that structure is designed from beginning to end.
It's exciting stuff and sure to set your brain thinking about all the possibilities.
Tags: 3d Printing, Bridges, Robots / Category: Robot News


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Q: how to include all the variables in a dataset in proc reg using a loop and/or macro I have a number of csv data sets where each data set has up to 5 variables. The variable names are alpha numeric (z1,z2,z3,z4 and z5 are the variable names). So, each data set can have any number of combinations of the variables above with a max of up to 5 variables. I need to run proc reg with predictor variables being all the variables that are in any particular data set. For example if my 1st data set has z1 and z2 as the variable names, I need to run prog reg with z1 and z2 as the predictor variables. If the next data set has z2 z4 and z5 as the variables, I need to run proc reg with z2 z4 and z5 as the predictor variables. The y variable is in a separate data set.
Now, my question is how do I tell sas to use the the variables of the corresponding data set as the predictor variables for proc reg? I have a macro loop set up already to read each individual data set. But I dont know how to use the macro to provide the predictor variables under proc reg.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you

A: If you do not have any other variables that start with Z then you should be able to use Z: to create a variable list.
proc reg data=have ;
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run;


Do you ever feel like a lazy day on the sofa but fear that you might be wasting away and decide to do something active instead?
Well, think again because new scientific research has found that being lazy is a better way to extend your life.
Scientists have discovered that species with a higher metabolic rate are more prone to extinction than those which are a little lazier.
This research comes courtesy of findings published this week in the Journal of Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Science, which suggested that laziness can equate to a better chance of survival.
By studying molluscs, the team of experts found that species with low energy expenditure survived for a lot longer than those that had higher energy.
"Those that have lower energy maintenance requirements seem more likely to survive than those organisms with a higher metabolic rate. "
The scientists are now hoping that they can apply this research in their studies of other species that are at risk of extinction in the hope of maintaining their longevity.
"Maybe in the long term the best evolutionary strategy for animals is to be lassitudinous and sluggish -- the lower the metabolic rate, the more likely the species you belong to will survive. Instead of 'survival of the fittest,' maybe a better metaphor for the history of life is 'survival of the laziest' or at least 'survival of the sluggish."
Although the study does state that there are a number of reasons as to why certain species are more at risk of extinction than others, discovering that metabolism plays a part in survival will help improve the accuracy of determining the probability of extinction.
However, metabolic rate is considered to be less of a factor for species that cover a large number of habitats and ecosystems but the link between metabolism and extinction is more common in creatures with a low distribution of energy.
In conclusion, the experts add that they will have to examine the connection between metabolism and extinction in other animal groups to understand the sensation further.
"We see these results as generalizable to other groups, at least within the marine realm. Some of the next steps are to expand it out to other clades, to see if the result is consistent with some things we know about other groups."
I'm going to live forever!!!!!!!!!!11!!1eleven1!!!
This. BS clickbait headline. Article is talking about specie evolution.
That's a confused article / author.


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Q: Creating a driver to translate HID-USB requests into HCI packets So this may seem a little odd, but I'm rather limited by the hardware I have on hand.
I've got a device that consists of a TI CC2640R2 wired to a Silicon Labs CP2110 UART to USB-HID bridge. The basic premise of the device is to send Bluetooth HCI commands from the TI chip to the CP2110, which translates the UART data to an HID record, which can be read by application code on the host machine, and vice versa. What I'd like to do is to wire this device into the predefined HCI stack in Windows 10, so the desktop can use the device as a standard Bluetooth endpoint.
Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, as the device's USB chip would enumerate it as a Bluetooth device, which would cause the PnP manager in Windows to attach it to the system's Bluetooth stack. The HID device, however, complicates matters.
In order to make this work properly, I'd need to intercept HID records from the target device, unpack them, and forward them to the HCI stack so Windows Bluetooth would know what to do. I'd have to do the exact opposite going the other way - take an HCI command, package it into the appropriate HID record, and send the record to the target device.
I've managed to get the source code for the KMDF example of a Bluetooth Serial HCI Bus Driver, but I don't know the proper way to get the target device from the HID class driver, or if I'd need to do something with an HID minidriver to bridge the two driver stacks.
Is it possible to retrieve a pointer to an HID device from kernel mode, and if so, how would I go about doing that?
If not, and an HID minidriver is required to intercept and relay commands, what would be the best method of combining the HCI driver and the HID minidriver to allow the two to interoperate cleanly?


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XP8 was an Italian electronic group. The band started in 2001 as a trio, composed of Marco Visconti, Marko Resurreccion, and singer Paul Toohill.

History
The group self-released an album, Forgive on MP3.com. When they signed to the Polish label Black Flames Records, their album was released as Forgive[n] in May 2004. An EP of new material, RE_Productions, was released five months later. In 2005, the band released their second album, Hrs:Min:Sec, on the German label Infacted Recordings. The album peaked at #3 on the German Alternative Charts (DAC).

Toohill left the band in 2007, to work on his solo project, Generator. He is also the main singer for a Nitzer Ebb tribute band called "Muscle And Hate".

Their third album, The Art of Revenge, was released in January 2008 on Infacted. It was also licensed to Sigsaly Transmissions for North America and Gravitator Records for Russia the same year. A music video, the band's first, was produced for the album's title track.

Over the years, the band played all over Europe, from their native Italy to Russia, as well as performing at festivals like Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Germany. In 2008, XP8 also reached US shores for the first time with their live show, supporting System Syn on a one-month promotional tour.

The following year they played at the Kinetik Festival in Canada, and begun working on their fourth studio album Drop The Mask, which was released in early 2010 once again by Infacted Recordings, with the digital-only Want It coming up just a few months before.
Straying away from a pure dancefloor sound, the band experimented also with different approaches to electronica, and the album immediately received good praises by the press, consecrating it as the most mature XP8 release to date.
Soon afterwards the album was licensed to Metropolis Records for a North American released and peaked at number 1 on the label's mailorder a week before its street date, while a limited digipack edition with a bonus CD was released in Japan by Deathwatch Asia.

XP8 is also well known for their remixes, having reworked tracks of several other bands, including Steve Aoki, Attrition, Mortiis, and Icon of Coil, and countless others.

In 2013, XP8 released the crowd-funded concept album Adrenochrome, which they described as their best effort to date, without any record label support.

Everything came to a grinding halt in 2014 when the band decided to disband, quoting various reasons for this decision, among them the dwindling interest in alternative/industrial dance music, a trend that had a long run for almost two decades but that eventually ran dry. In an interview, Visconti also stated that "[...] no one wants to be the old guy in a room full of kids looking at you like a dinosaur: I remember vividly making fun of those old goths that simply didn't want to get the fuck out of MY clubs a decade ago, and the last thing I wanted to become was one of them."  - clearly pointing out the necessity to make space for a younger generation to make things vital and vibrant once again.

Before disbanding, XP8 released a series of 3 EPs over a period of 9 months, each released tied to one of the phases of the Alchemical process: the three releases went on to be praised as the band's best material by critics and fans alike, proving how the Italian duo left a mark on the industrial scene for years and years to come. Steven Gullotta at Brutal Resonance stated that "XP8 may be dead, but their music will forever hold a place within my soul", giving the band a good send off.

In 2021, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the project, Visconti and Resurreccion resurrected it for a one-off release, TWENTY.

Discography

Studio albums
 Forgive (2003, download)
 Forgive[n] (2004, Black Flames Records)
 Hrs:Min:Sec (2005, Infacted Recordings / Nilaihah Records)
 The Art of Revenge (2008, Infacted Recordings / Sigsaly Transmissions / Gravitator Records)
 Drop The Mask (2010, Infacted Recordings / Metropolis Records)
 Drop The Mask (Limited 2CD Digipack Japanese Edition) (2010, Deathwatch Asia)
 X: A Decade Of Decadence (2011, 2393 Records / Deathwatch Asia)
 Adrenochrome (2013, 2393 Records)

EPs
 RE_Productions (2004, Black Flames Records)
 Synthphony REMIXed! Vol.4 (2005, Synthphony Records)
 Infaction Two EP (2006, Infacted Recordings)
 Fouplay Vol.1 EP (2006, Nilaihah Records)
 Want It (2009, Infacted Recordings)
 Still Frames (2011, 2393 Records)
 Burning Down (2012, 2393 Records)
 Meathead's Lost HD (2013, 2393 Records)
 One Of Three: Nigredo (2014, 2393 Records)
 Two Of Three: Albedo (2014, 2393 Records)
 Three Of Three: Rubedo (2015, 2393 Records)
TWENTY (2021, 2393 Records)

Compilations
 The Definitive XPerience: 2001 - 2016 (2016, 2393 Records)

References

External links

Synthpop groups
Italian electronic music groups
Techno musicians
Metropolis Records artists

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Asian American History & Cultu
The Subject(s) of Human Rights
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Edited by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Guy Beauregard and Hsiu-chuan Lee
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Human rights violations have always been part of Asian American studies. From Chinese immigration restrictions, the incarceration of Japanese Americans, yellow peril characterizations, and recent acts of deportation and Islamophobia,... Learn More
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From Confinement to Containment
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By Edward Tang
During the early part of the Cold War, Japan emerged as a model ally, and Japanese Americans were seen as a model minority. From Confinement to Containment examines the work of four Japanese and Japanese/American artists and writers... Learn More
Published: 19th February 2019
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By Patricia P. Chu
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Sticky Rice: A Politics of Intraracial Desire
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Q: How can I get an in-line in exam class I need to draw an horizontal line for the answer. Here is MWE
\documentclass{exam}
\usepackage{multicol}
\begin{document}

\begin{center}
\fbox{\fbox{\parbox{5.5in}{\centering
OPD ENCOUNTER FORM}}}
\end{center}
\vspace{0.1in}

\makebox[\textwidth]{Name :\enspace\hrulefill}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\vspace{0.2in}
\makebox[0.45\textwidth]{Age:\enspace\hrulefill}
\makebox[0.5\textwidth]{Sex:\enspace\hrulefill}
\end{multicols}
\makebox[\textwidth]{Address:\enspace\hrulefill}

\begin{multicols}{2}
\makebox[0.45\textwidth]{City: \enspace\hrulefill}
\makebox[0.45\textwidth]{Ref: \enspace\hrulefill}
\end{multicols}
%
%Past and family history
\section* {Past History}

\begin{questions}

        \question Diabetes Mellitus % here I need a choice box before the word "Diabetes Mellitus"and horizontal line after the word "Diabetes Mellitus" to specify duration in-front of Diabetes Mellitus ........

        \begin{oneparcheckboxes}

                \choice   Nephropathy
                \choice Retinopathy
                \choice Neuropathy
                \choice NASH
                \choice Gastroparesis
         \end{oneparcheckboxes}
         \question Systemic hypertension
\begin{oneparcheckboxes}
        \choice since
\end{oneparcheckboxes}
\question
\begin{oneparcheckboxes}
\choice
\end{oneparcheckboxes}

\end{questions}

\end{document}

A: You can modify \answerline:
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\answerline[1][{}]{%
  % One optional argument, the default value of which is empty.
  \ifx\@queslevel\ques@ref
    \let\ans@l=\questionlabel
  \else
    \ifx\@queslevel\part@ref
      \let\ans@l=\partlabel
    \else
      \ifx\@queslevel\subpart@ref
        \let\ans@l=\subpartlabel
      \else
        \ifx\@queslevel\subsubpart@ref
          \let\ans@l=\subsubpartlabel
        \else
          % Oops; no question level defined.
          % We must be outide of the questions environment.
          % Just leave out the label, I guess:
          \def\ans@l{}%
        \fi
      \fi
    \fi
  \fi
  %\par \nobreak \vskip \answerskip
  \hfill
  \ifprintanswers
    \ans@l~\hbox to 0pt{\hbox to \answerlinelength{\hrulefill}\hss}%
    \raise \answerclearance\hbox to \answerlinelength{%
      \CorrectChoice@Emphasis \hfil #1\hss}%
  \else
    \ans@l~\hbox to \answerlinelength{\hrulefill}%
  \fi
  \par
}% answerline
\makeatother

or use xpatch
\usepackage{xpatch}
\xpatchcmd{\answerline}{\par \nobreak \vskip \answerskip}{}{}{}

Full code:
\documentclass{exam}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\xpatchcmd{\answerline}{\par \nobreak \vskip \answerskip}{}{}{}

\begin{document}

\begin{center}
\fbox{\fbox{\parbox{5.5in}{\centering
OPD ENCOUNTER FORM}}}
\end{center}
\vspace{0.1in}

\makebox[\textwidth]{Name :\enspace\hrulefill}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\vspace{0.2in}
\makebox[0.45\textwidth]{Age:\enspace\hrulefill}
\makebox[0.5\textwidth]{Sex:\enspace\hrulefill}
\end{multicols}
\makebox[\textwidth]{Address:\enspace\hrulefill}

\begin{multicols}{2}
\makebox[0.45\textwidth]{City: \enspace\hrulefill}
\makebox[0.45\textwidth]{Ref: \enspace\hrulefill}
\end{multicols}
%
%Past and family history
\section* {Past History}

\begin{questions}

        \question Diabetes Mellitus \answerline

        \begin{oneparcheckboxes}
                \choice   Nephropathy
                \choice Retinopathy
                \choice Neuropathy
                \choice NASH
                \choice Gastroparesis
         \end{oneparcheckboxes}

         \question Systemic hypertension
\begin{oneparcheckboxes}
        \choice since
\end{oneparcheckboxes}
\answerline

\question
\begin{oneparcheckboxes}
\choice
\end{oneparcheckboxes}
\answerline

\end{questions}

\end{document}

A: \hrulefill can be used to get the desired effect


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Q: Java: replacing deprecated show() method when it takes arguments This is a program that implements a simple GUI.
I usually replace the show Method with setVisible(true) however, I'm not sure how to handle this problem when the show() method takes arguments, I've tried @SuppressWarnings("deprecated") but my compiler was unimpressed. Thanks in Advance
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

GUI object class
public class UI2 extends Frame
{

Declaring objects of Frame class
    public Button b;
    public TextField t;
    public FirstPanel p1;
    public SecondPanel p2;
    Choice c;

Constructor
    UI2()
    {
         setLayout(new GridLayout(2,1));

         p1 = new FirstPanel(this);
         add(p1);

         p2 = new SecondPanel(this);
         add(p2);
         validate();
    }
}

FirstPanel class
class FirstPanel extends Panel implements ActionListener
{
    UI2 myUI;
    public PopupMenu pm1;
    public PopupMenu pm2;
public MenuItem pm1_1, pm1_2, pm2_1, pm2_2;

FirstPanel(UI2 myUI)
{
    this.myUI = myUI;
    createTheGUI();
}

Create the GUI Method
public void createTheGUI()
{
    pm1 = new PopupMenu("First Menu");
    pm2 = new PopupMenu("Second Menu");

    pm1_1 = new MenuItem("First Menu First Choice");
    pm1_2 = new MenuItem("First Menu Second Choice");
    pm2_1 = new MenuItem("Second Menu First Choice");
    pm2_2 = new MenuItem("Second Menu Second Choice");

    pm1_1.addActionListener(this);
    pm1_2.addActionListener(this);
    pm2_1.addActionListener(this);
    pm2_2.addActionListener(this);

    pm2_2.setEnabled(false);

    pm1.add(pm1_1);
    pm1.add(pm1_2);
    pm2.add(pm2_1);
    pm2.add(pm2_2);

    pm1.addActionListener(this);
    pm2.addActionListener(this);

    add(pm1);
    add(pm2);
}

This method will be invoked when a menu item is selected
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
    Object source = e.getSource();
    if(source instanceof MenuItem)
    {
        handleMenuItems(e, (MenuItem)source);
    }
}

public void handleMenuItems(ActionEvent e, MenuItem source)
{
    String selected = source.getLabel();

    System.out.println("String Selected is: " + selected);
}
}

called once the myUI object is instantiated
void createTheGUI()
{

     b = new Button("Click to see a Popup Menu");
     add(b);
     b.addActionListener(this);
}

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
    {

    myUI.p1.pm1.show(myUI.p1, 0, 0);
    myUI.p1.pm2.show(myUI.p1, 180, 0);
}


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Chloe Goadby from St Andrews lost the lead with a third-round, seven-over-par 79 for 225 and will start the final round of the European Nations Cup women's section in joint second place, three behind new individual leader Chloe Salort (France) who shot a 72 for 222 at Sotogrande, Spain today (Friday).
Aboyne's Shannon McWilliam had a 79 for 241 and is joint 20th.
Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey) is sharing 26th place after a 78 for 243.
In the women's team event, Scotland are in joint sixth place on 463, 13 behind the Netherlands (who lead by three from Denmark and France.
England, represented by Annabell Fuller, Louisa Brunt and Sophie Lamb, have improved to fifth place on 461.
225 P L Thomsen (Den) 78 72 75, C Goadby (Sco) 72 74 79.


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Dorothy Charlesworth FSA (1927–1981) fue una arqueóloga británica, especialista en vidrio que trabajó como inspectora de monumentos antiguos. Ella trabajó en Gran Bretaña y Egipto .

Educación y vida temprana
Nacida y criada en Northumberland, hija de John Charlesworth, un juez de la corte del condado y abogada académica, Dorothy Charlesworth ,fue educada en Cheltenham Ladies 'College y Somerville College, Oxford.  Se interesó por el estudio del vidrio antiguo con el apoyo de Donald Benjamin Harden, para quien luego trabajó en Oxford y Londres.

Carrera
Charlesworth fue designada por el Comité Británico de Vidrio Antiguo para llevar a cabo el censo británico de vidrio antiguo, que se completó en 1955, aunque su falta de fondos impidió su publicación.

En 1965 se unió a las excavaciones de la Sociedad de Exploración de Egipto en Buto (Tell el-Farâ'în), participando en las excavaciones de cada temporada hasta que terminó en 1969.    En Buto, supervisó la excavación del horno y publicó sus hallazgos. Mientras estaba en El Cairo, trabajo en el funcionamiento de un horno de vidrio 'primitivo' local, comparando su funcionamiento con el de un horno contemporáneo en Damasco y con los hornos de invernadero medievales en Gran Bretaña. En el último año de excavaciones en Buto, se convirtió en directora de campo, reemplazando a Veronica Seton-Williams. Junto con su trabajo en Egipto, continuó trabajando con Donald Benjamin Harden, publicando un resumen de su catálogo para la exposición del Museo Británico de 1969 Masterpieces of Glass.

Una vez las excavaciones en Buto había concluido, Charlesworth centró en su trabajo dentro Gran Bretaña. Primero trabajo con Leverhulme socio de búsqueda en el Museo de Londres, antes de servir como Inspector de Monumentos Antiguos. Bajo esta protección dirigió excavaciones dentro de Gran Bretaña del norte, notablemente Carlisle, donde descubre la puerta del sur y la muralla del Romano fuerte en Carlisle, finalmente localizando la posición exacta. Aquí descubre sobrevivir de aquello y podría ser datado por la dendrocronología, y derribado en el otoño o invierno de ANUNCIO 72/3. Estos ofrecieron evidencia nueva en el debate sobre la cronología de la conquista Romana de Gran Bretaña del norte, los cuales pueden haber sido bajo Petillius Cerialis, o Agrícola. En Housesteads excavo el Commandant casa y el hospital con John Wilkes en el tardío 1960 y 1970. Ella también excavo el fuerte Carrawburgh, la pared de Hadrian 51 Un (Piper Sike) en 1970 34 Un (Del oeste Grindon) en 1971, y 29 Un (Carretas Negras). La Excavación de Hadrian Pared en Walton estuvo llevado a cabo bajo su dirección en la década de 1970.

Charlesworth era uno de los miembros fundadores de la Asociación para la Historia del Vaso en 1978 y servido como su Secretario de 1979-1981. Así como sus contribuciones expertas al estudio de vaso antiguo, también escribe para unos lectores más generales, contribuyendo a guidebooks, p. ej., para el museo en el sitio Romano de Amurallar Staffordshire (1958), Aldborough Museo y ciudad Romanos, Yorkshire (1970) y Hardknott Fort (1972).

Se creó una conferencia conmemorativa en su nombre por el Cumberland y Westmorland Sociedad Arqueológica en 1982.

Publicaciones

 Charlesworth, Dorothy (1967) Excavaciones en el Carrawburgh sitio de parque automovilístico, 1964. En Archaeologia Aeliana, 1-16
 Charlesworth, Dorothy (1971). "Un GRUPO DE BARCOS DEL COMMANDANT CASA, HOUSESTEADS". Revista de Estudios de Vaso. 13: 34@–37.
 Charlesworth, D (1975). "El commandant casa, Housesteads". Archaeologia Aeliana.
 Charlesworth, D (1978). "Romano Carlisle". Revista arqueológica. 135
 Charlesworth, Dorothy. (1979) 'Aviso de libro: MUSEO BRITÁNICO. Masterpieces De vaso. Por D. B. Harden Y otros,' en La Revista de Estudios helénicos, Vol. 89 (1969), pp. 191@–192. https://www.jstor.org/stable/627535
 Charlesworth, Dorothy; Thornton, J. H. (1973). 'El cuero Encontrado en Mediobogdum, el Romano Fort de Hardknott. Britannia. 4: 141@–152. doi:10.2307/525862. JSTOR 525862
 Erim, K.T.; Reynolds, Joyce; Blanco, K.D.; Charlesworth, Dorothy. 1973, 'El Aphrodisias Copia de Diocletian' Edicto en Precios Máximos,' en JRS' doi:10.2307/299169. JSTOR 299169

Referencias

Historiadoras del Reino Unido
Alumnado del Somerville College
Arqueólogas del Reino Unido
Arqueólogos del Reino Unido del siglo XX


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Six predictions on Northeast Asia
The American baseball legend Yogi Bera was famous for his malapropisms, the best of which was his observation that "prediction is difficult .?.?. especially about the future." So with that caveat, here are six questions and quasi-predictions on the big security and foreign policy developments to watch in Northeast Asia for 2014.
Q. Will blowback take out Kim Jong-un?
A. Kim Jong-un's brutal torture and execution of Jang Song-thaek and elimination of his uncle's family and political connections could mean that the North Korean leader is far more dangerous and unpredictable than expected.
Some analysts have pondered that Jang's public take-down was deliberately intended to deter China and the outside world from underestimating Kim Jong-un. Other theories link the purge to feuds over who would control North Korea's illicit business empire. Either way, the episode strikes me as a sign of Kim Jong-un's vulnerability rather than strength. Jang Song-thaek had been purged twice before and his family and allies returned to Pyongyang for what they probably thought was, at worst, a third purge. They did not come back expecting to die.
The next time Kim Jong-un begins such a purge against a member of the inner circle, they will not be so complacent. It was never the North Korean people who might take down the regime, but someone with access on the inside. Kim Jong-un has now markedly increased that threat to himself. The odds of blowback? Still low, but rising and potentially very significant.
Will North Korea engage in new provocations?
This is actually not such a bold prediction given the pattern of escalation by the North over the past decade. If the execution of Jang Song-thaek was designed to deter internal and external enemies, and Jang was Beijing's best hope to moderate Kim Jong-un, then one has to consider the prospect that Pyongyang's younger and more hard-line leadership will decide it is time to increase tensions to gain new leverage. Springtime could bring renewed pressure around the Northern Limit Line, where young Kim first brandished his credentials as a "Great General" in the attack on the Cheonan in 2010.
Since the Cheonan attack, Korean and U.S. forces have increased capabilities in the West Sea to deter the North from further provocations, but what worries me is that the North may think it has also enhanced its own deterrence against the U.S.-ROK alliance - both through advances in missile and nuclear programs and based on the example of Syria using chemical weapons with apparent impunity (Syria missed the deadline to turn over its deadly Sarin gas last week).
Meanwhile, the North appears to have set all preparations for a fourth nuclear test, possibly with a uranium-based device. The main deterrent against a fourth test in 2013 was probably Pyongyang's concern about China's reaction, which was tougher than ever in response to the North's third test in February 2013.
Jang's elimination raises questions about whether Beijing retains the same deterrent leverage over Kim Jong-un. The odds of a provocation? 50/50 that there will be either a NLL or nuclear/missile provocation (and that is just based on the statistical average of the last six years).
Will wartime op/con transfer be delayed?
No, probably not. President Park's national security advisor reportedly asked the U.S. side to consider a delay, but the Blue House appears unwilling to push hard and the Obama administration thinks it is too late to reverse course.
Will a U.S.-Korea 1-2-3 peaceful nuclear agreement be completed?
Yes. But there will be a lot of anxiety, drama, and nationalism towards the end.
Will ROK-Japan relations recover?
Unfortunately, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decision to visit the Yasukuni Shrine on Dec. 26 makes it hard to envision a ROK-Japan summit before the APEC and East Asia Summit meetings in the autumn, though the atmosphere could improve enough for a short meeting or handshake between President Park Geun-hye and Abe by then. A China-Korea-Japan trilateral summit also seems unlikely.
But even if the summitry stalemate continues through 2014, it will still be possible to reboot defense and foreign policy talks. This will be a major focus for the Obama administration, which needs Seoul and Tokyo working trilaterally with Washington on the North Korea issue and to gain common understanding of the new U.S.-Japan Defense Guidelines.
Ironically, even as Mr. Abe visited the Yasukuni Shrine, U.S. Defense officials began worrying that Tokyo would slow down defense reforms (such as recognizing the right of collective self defense) needed to make the new bilateral U.S.-Japan Defense Guidelines work. The odds of a Korea-Japan Summit? Low. The odds of restoring defense and foreign policy coordination? Fairly good.
Will China continue aggressively pushing maritime claims?
China's announcement of an Air Defense Identification Zone over the East China Sea was not, in my view, a reaction against domestic nationalism or moves by Japan. Instead, it was part of a toolkit developed under the Central Military Commission's Near Sea Doctrine, which aims to expand Chinese influence, denial and eventually control over the waters within the First - and in time the Second - Island Chains.
There will likely be additional ADIZ at some point in the South China Sea and the West Sea. But Beijing is taking these steps incrementally while anesthetizing the neighborhood with trade and aid agreements to avoid sparking counterbalancing by surrounding states.
So the ADIZ announcement and the more recent incident at sea involving PLA warships and the USS Cowpensare clearly part of a new normal in the East and South China Seas, but that does not mean Beijing will rush to the next step in its strategy. The odds of new ADIZ? 50/50 in 2014.
*The author is senior vice president for Asia and Japan chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and associate professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
by Michael Green


At these days, a video is often shared online that shows how an Air Force General responds to the spreading of racist slogans under his command. Last weekend, I watched Lieutenant General Jay Silveria's speech five times. For me, this video is a five-minute teaching experience in leadership. He not only speaks with passion and clarity but also with concern. He takes a very clear position and gives an impact through context. He resists the impulse of simple condemnation by making an offer to those attending and giving them an impulse for action. And all this at a time when America and the world desperately need it.
It's important to me to work through this one by one.
Passion: It is obvious that a passionate person speaks here. His words are not only from the mind but also from the heart. He makes it clear that he is interested in taking a position.
Clarity: This position is never unclear. In comparison to the normal business world, this is the pure blessing. So often we are surrounded by people who do not show themselves and their position or deliberately corrupt it. I do not believe that this is the case here. On the contrary.
Affection: It seems that he is honestly affected by the racist statements. He takes responsibility and action. And he does it not just like that but prepared and well thought through.
Context: This is also nice because he gives context. He has gathered people from all departments and makes it impressively clear that there are many differences - not only origin or gender. And it is crucial that he represents and describes the elementary advantage of these differences to the benefit of the Air Force's strength.
An impulse to act: "If you can't treat someone with dignity and respect, then get out." That's an impulse to act. Also, that he asks the cadets to record these words with their smartphones so that they can rewatch them at any time. Not as a threat, but as a moral guide.
What makes all this so special, however, is the timing and state of our present politics. While the American President wants to set up childish power games with North Korea and build a wall against Mexican immigrants, and furthermore is unable to deal with the riots, for example in Charlottesville, an Air Force General shows him what leadership with heart and mind is.
What do you think? Write me your opinion!


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Home Fashion & Style Ryan Murphy Is Having a Very Happy Halloween
Ryan Murphy Is Having a Very Happy Halloween
Naomi Watts, the 54-year-old star of "The Watcher," said she was grateful to be a part of the club. "It doesn't matter to him that we're not at the tippy top this second," she said. "He knows and recognizes that we've had great moments and we've proved ourselves as artists."
Ms. Watts will also be playing the socialite Babe Paley in Mr. Murphy's next installment of "Feud," set for next year, about the cafe society battle royale that resulted when Truman Capote wrote a book, "Answered Prayers," dishing about his swans and they dropped him like a hot tiara. Tom Hollander will play Capote, with Diane Lane as Slim Keith, Demi Moore as Ann Woodward, Calista Flockhart as Lee Radziwill and Chloë Sevigny as C.Z. Guest.
Mr. Murphy used to get upset when his style was called "camp." "I thought that was a way to pigeonhole gay people: 'You didn't write a drama. You wrote a camp drama,'" he said. "Now, I'm like, if you want to call it camp, yes, maybe 'American Horror Story' is camp. I don't think it is, but if you want to, OK, I get it."
"The rule of my career has been: The more specific you are, the more universal you can become," he said. "I also don't think that all gay stories have to be happy stories. There was a moment on Netflix where they removed the L.G.B.T.Q. tag from 'Dahmer,' and I didn't like it and I asked why they did that and they said because people were upset because it was an upsetting story. I was, like, 'Well, yeah.' But it was a story of a gay man and more importantly, his gay victims."
He said he is most proud of an episode about one of Dahmer's victims, a charming Black deaf man named Tony Hughes. "There's a five-minute scene of three gay deaf men at a pizza parlor talking in sign language about dating, gay life and how hard is it for them," he said. "I could not believe that I was getting the gift of putting it on television."
Why did he think it became such a big cultural phenomenon, with Jeffrey Dahmer Halloween costumes trending to the point that eBay banned them?


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 Sedm anglosaských království v Británii radného středověku
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Q: Vary index name with ALTER INDEX I'm attempting to create a stored procedure to maintain various tables' indexes. I am able to retrieve the index names but am unable to use that name with the Alter Index statement:
DECLARE reorgCursor CURSOR LOCAL FAST_FORWARD FOR
SELECT a.index_id, b.name, avg_fragmentation_in_percent
FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (DB_ID(@MyDB), OBJECT_ID(@tableName), NULL, NULL, NULL) AS a
JOIN sys.indexes AS b ON a.object_id = b.object_id AND a.index_id = b.index_id
WHERE 5 < avg_fragmentation_in_percent AND avg_fragmentation_in_percent <= 30

OPEN reorgCursor
FETCH NEXT FROM reorgCursor
INTO @indexId, @indexName, @fragPct

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
    ALTER INDEX @indexName ON @tableName
    REORGANIZE

    FETCH NEXT FROM reorgCursor
    INTO @indexId, @indexName, @fragPct
END

CLOSE reorgCursor
DEALLOCATE reorgCursor

The problem is that I get the error:
Incorrect syntax near '@indexName'. Expecting ALL, ID, or QUOTED_ID.

How might I parameterize the index name?

A: You need dynamic sql
set @indexName = Quotename(@indexName)
set @tableName = Quotename(@tableName)

exec('ALTER INDEX +'@indexName'+ ON '+@tableName+' REORGANIZE')

For database maintenance tasks like Index rebuilding or Reorganising you can use https://ola.hallengren.com/ script which takes care of most of the maintenance activites

A: To solve your error, you'll need to use dynamic SQL to build and run your query.
DECLARE @Sql NVARCHAR(5000) = N'ALTER INDEX ' + @indexName + N' ON ' + @tableName + N' REORGANIZE';
EXEC sp_executesql @Sql

However, I would recommend researching scripts others have written that are well tested and used by many already out there. They handle more scenarios you may not have run into yet (tables in non default schemas, when to reorganize vs rebuild`, etc).
One to get started: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/joaol/2008/01/28/script-to-appropriate-rebuildreorganize-database-indexes-sql-server-2005/