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After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, 'Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.' …After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. 1On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
Giving gifts is a powerful thing to do.
They are a way to show love and win over the heart of someone. Prov 18:16 LB "A gift does wonders it will bring you before people of importance." Gifts can bring you before important people. God considered us so important that He sent us a gift in His Son.
Gifts open the way for peace and restoration. Jesus came carrying the gift of peace, to restore us. Prov 21:14 tells us that an angry man can be silenced with a gifts. The penalty for sin, is silenced by the gift of Jesus, (Rom 5:17) Jesus is the gift that keeps on for-giving.
Gifts reflect the personality of the giver. It shows their thoughts about you, their generosity towards you and their capacity. The gift of Jesus shows us the personality of God, what He thinks about us, so that He generously gives us His only son. He is a gift too wonderful for words.
They are a key way to honor and value someone, by giving a gift we show how special they are and how much we love them. Queen Sheba did this when she came to visit Solomon, she brought generous gifts to honor and value Solomon. Jesus' gift honors and values us, God shows us that we have such great value that He seeks to bless us with a generous gift.
Gifts should meet the needs of the recipient. We are blessed by receiving a gift, especially when it meets a need we have. The gift of Jesus meets our needs: "And she will have a Son, and you shall name him Jesus (meaning Saviour), for he will save the people from their sins." (Matt 1:21, 1 John 3:5) Jesus continues to meet our needs on a daily basis.
Let us take time to remember the wonderful gift of Jesus, to marvel at the beauty of this gift and finally, to receive it.
Be blessed over Christmas my friends.
And everyone at Heart Treasure.


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Gustav Johann Hellmann (1854-1939) – niemiecki meteorolog. Autor prac dotyczących klimatologii statystycznej oraz historii meteorologii. Był profesorem uniwersytetu w Berlinie oraz dyrektorem Pruskiego Instytutu Meteorologicznego.

Bibliografia
 Encyklopedia PWN, Tom 1, Warszawa 1991, s. 814.

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As suggested by Ben, here's a dedicated thread for errors detected on Logos.com product pages.
https://www.logos.com/products/search?Author=12027%7CN.+T.+Wright&start=0&sort=bestselling&pageSize=60 shows 85 search results for NT Wright, but only 55 of them are tagged as Anglican. There may be some there that shouldn't have the tag, but I'm fairly sure there isn't 30.
The same page also shows that only 5 (!) search results are tagged as belonging to the New Testament for Everyone series. There should be at least four times that number.
There are also some other issues at https://community.logos.com/forums/p/71643/566362.aspx#566362 that you claim to have addressed, but which still show up four years later.
New Testament for Everyone Series (18 vols.) is also missing lots of standard tags, like Series/set, Commentaries, English and included books.
The Fathers for English Readers (14 vols.) has no series tag, nor does the subcollections or the individual books. It is also, strangely, tagged as Orthodox, but not Anglican or Catholic. And several of the individual books lack tags altogether, except for Free for Now.
Little Rock Catholic Study Bible and Aquinas' Commentary on the Prophet Jeremiah: English and Latin (2 vols.) aren't tagged as English. This is really really serious. With all the Chinese etc prepubs I doubt many people still look through all prepubs; the overwhelming majority will click English and only look at them (and possibly one other language). So when you miss the language tag, next to no one sees the book and then eventually you cancel it, claiming we weren't interested enough! You must ensure that every book and collection has at least one language tag!
There are probably others as well, both in prepub and live. For starters, https://www.logos.com/products/search?Publisher=Jewish+Publication+Society&start=0&sort=bestselling&pageSize=60 shows 86 results, only 58 of which are tagged as Jewish.
He has lectured internationally and has published extensively on the sacred liturgy, including Looking Again at the Question of the Liturgy with Cardinal Ratzinger, The Monastic Diurnal, The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described, A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh, and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes.
The two books that I have bolded are actually one book--A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes--so the "and" in the middle should be in italics, the comma after "Waugh" should be eliminated, and there should be an additional "and" added immediately before this title.
Matthew Levering collection has an Irving Jensen bio.
The Book of Zechariah from the New International Commentary on the Old and New Testament has a posted publication date of 2018 but an actual publication date of 2016.
And it's not tagged as Catholic, although Levering is Catholic.
Searching for Ian C. Levy by clicking on his name at the top by the title of the book does not get you where it should, which is here, where this book fails to appear. Also, this book should be tagged as Catholic, given that the author bio states that Levy is Catholic.
https://www.logos.com/product/40746/the-pauline-formula-induere-christum-with-special-reference-to-the-works-of-st-john-chrysostom - author graduated with a doctorate in (Catholic) theology from CUA in 1921.
Most of the series Fathers of the Church.
Has now seemingly been fixed.
Thanks for staring this, SineNomine! We will work through this list to get them fixed. Note that it probably won't always happen right away. We'll try to work fixing these into our regular work schedule.


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Investment in a remanufactured engine can become an expense and into a nightmare if not installed correctly, so it is vital spare no resources in training and technical training required for proper installation. INSTALLATION of the engine there are several older systems which is important to perfectly check when installing a remanufactured engine: System cooling system of lubrication system of supply of fuel computer the Engine Tuning more other (oil, intake manifold, distribution cover Pan) cooling system radiator radiator is the most important element of the cooling system. Block all some steps of water, and without a periodic change of antifreeze antifreeze chemicals adhere to the internal walls restricting step and avoiding the radiator to cool properly. According to the severity of the damage, it must be sent to probe the radiator, weld it or replace it. Responsible for radiator cap of maintain pressure in the cooling system, and when it is weak or defective, it reduces the boiling point, which causes overheating and causing damage to the newly installed engine. Indicated is replace radiator Cap with a new one. Water pump water pump that is not working correctly obviously will cause motor to overheat. They are very common faults in the pump, a bad bearing seal or a damaged gear.
The recommendation here is to always replace water pump with a new one. Thermostat, belts, hoses, fan, other key is replace the thermostat installing the correct for the type of vehicle taking temperature measurements appropriate for your engine, replace belts and hoses before the slightest sign of toughness or wear, replace fan if there are blades broken or bent, replace hopper and/or mechanism of fan if it is damaged. Check that there are no obstructions in the exhaust system (manifold, exhaust, muffler, catalytic converter).


This paper describes VMGL, a cross-platform OpenGL virtualization solution that is both virtual machine monitor (VMM) and graphics processing unit (GPU) independent. VMGL allows applications executing within virtual machines (VMs) to leverage hardware rendering acceleration, thus solving a problem that has limited virtualization of a growing class of graphics-intensive applications. VMGL also provides applications running within VMs with suspend and resume capabilities across GPUs from different vendors. Our experimental results from a number of graphics-intensive applications show that VMGL provides excellent rendering performance, coming within 14% or better of native graphics hardware acceleration. Further, VMGL's performance is two orders of magnitude better than that of software rendering, the commonly available alternative today for graphics-intensive applications running in virtualized environments. Our results confirm VMGL's portability across VMware Workstation and Xen (on VT and non-VT hardware), and across Linux (with and without paravirtualization), FreeBSD, and Solaris. Finally, the resource demands of VMGL align well with the emerging trend of multi-core processors.


The town of Shinchi in Fukushima Prefecture will soon begin the process of buying up land in coastal areas from residents who have been displaced from the March 11 tsunami. This is the first town to announce official plans and set purchase values.
The land will be purchased at 80% of the government assessed land values (koji-chika) that were valued prior to the disaster.
There are five towns and cities along the tsunami-hit coastline, incuding Minamisoma, Soma, Iwaki, Hirano and Shinchi, that plan to relocate residents to higher ground. In Shinchi, 500 homes were fully or partially destroyed by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
Shinchi has designated four areas as disaster risk zones. There are 390 households within these areas and the town will pay up to 14,000 Yen (180 USD) per square meter for the land.
A local resident from the affected area expressed relief at the town's relatively high offer as he heard that land in tsunami risk areas has plummeted in value. A 78 year old resident who lives alone said that she is grateful for the town's offer but feels that moving would be too difficult.
Source: NHK, January 21, 2012.


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7 Best GPUs for 1440p 144Hz Gaming – [Updated Aug 2021]
Andrew Blair September 7, 2021
You know, not long ago, there used to be a general consensus—a "golden standard" for GPU performance—that was held by the GTX 970, which provided a whopping 4 GB of VRAM and performed roughly on par with an overclocked GTX 980. Now, however, things are a little different, since the GTX 980 Ti became the new king of the hill. The GTX 980 Ti has it all – amazing performance, 4 GB of VRAM, the best price-to-performance ratio, and overclocking potential.
There's a lot of debate in the gaming world about the best GPU option to buy for 1440p 144Hz gaming. There are a lot of articles out there that tell you that you need to get a custom card with a massive amount of VRAM and an insane amount of RAM in order to get playable framerates in games like Fortnite and PUBG. However, if you believe the truth in the gaming world, you'll realize that there is a lot of misinformation out there. So, let's go over the best GPUs for 1440p 144Hz gaming.
The most important part of your PC gaming experience is the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), which is the most important piece of hardware to optimize for 1440p 144Hz gaming. As you can see, there are quite a lot of high-end GPUs out there, but the best ones are the ones that will deliver the best performance for your 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144Hz 1440p 144
Because of its low pricing, the Sapphire Radeon Nitro+ RX 5700 XT is an excellent choice. In terms of performance, it is almost as powerful as the top mid-range RTX 2070 Super, but it is more cheap. This graphics card is a great choice for people who don't want to use DLSS or RTX. You can buy this GPU for a reasonable price and play games at 1440p/144Hz.
The Radeon RX 5700 XT is built on AMD's new "Navi" architecture, which uses the 7nm silicon manufacturing process in conjunction with AMD's brand-new RDNA number-mashing equipment to compute units.
It has an 8GB 256-bit GDDR6 memory module. It features a memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s and a memory frequency of 14 Gbps. The RX 5700 XT comes with the latest-generation PCI-Express gen 4.016 host interface, which is completely backward compatible with previous PCIe versions.
Sapphire has designed a totally new and fresh appearance for this generation's Nitro Series graphics card. The front of the card is dominated by black with silver accents, giving it a clean appearance. A high-quality metal backplate in a similar color theme may be seen on the reverse of the card.
If you're like RGB, this graphics card includes a header that allows you to synchronize the graphics card with your motherboard's RGB lights.
It does have one possible flaw, which is driver problems. However, AMD's latest driver upgrades have fixed the majority of the issues.
ULTRA GAMING EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti XC
If you want smooth 1440p gameplay at a lesser price, the EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti XC is the best option.
The Nvidia RTX 20-series of cards have not just CUDA cores, but also RT cores and Tensor cores, increasing the transistor count and performance generationally.
It's based on Nvidia's reference design PCB, but it has a far more capable triple-slot and dual-fan thermal solution to keep things cool. The boost clock speed has been raised to 1650 MHz, which is 25 MHz faster than the Founders Edition.
It has PCI-Express 3.0 x16 host connection, an NVLink interface, and GDDR6 memory spread over a 352-bit wide memory bus.
The memory bus of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has been reduced to 352-bits, which contains 11GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 Gbps for a memory bandwidth of 616 GB/s.
For those who desire RGB illumination, it also has adjustable RGB on the logo. This card features a transparent see-through fan cover with a black and grey color scheme. On the rear of the graphics card is a high-quality matte black backplate.
Even in the most current games, this graphics card should be able to offer you with at least 100 FPS at the highest graphical settings.
Speed of the Base Clock 1350 MHz
Increase the speed of your clock a frequency of up to 1650 MHz
Memory GDDR6 11 GB
Bus Memory 352-bit
Bandwidth of Memory 616 GB/s
Power Two PCIe power connections (8 pins each)
Outputs for Display 1 USB Type-C port 1 HDMI input 3 DisplayPort ports
At 1440p resolution, performance is better.
Visuals that are hyper-realistic
RGB LEDs that can be adjusted
On 1440p with maxed-out settings, the ZOTAC Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 Super is capable of running most games at 100FPS. However, you may need to decrease the settings a bit for certain GPU-intensive games to achieve above 100 FPS at 1440p resolution.
It has 6GB of 192-bit GDDR6 memory with a 14Gbps clock speed. With a memory bandwidth of 336 GB/s, this card has a base clock speed of 1530MHz and a boost clock speed of 1785MHz.
This graphics card can effectively run eSports games at over 100 FPS at maxed-out settings, making it a great budget-friendly GPU for 1440p 144Hz smooth gaming.
Increase the speed of your clock 1785 MHz is the maximum frequency that may be used.
Memory GDDR6 6 GB
Power There is a single 8-pin PCIe power connection.
Outputs for Display 1 HDMI input 3 DisplayPort ports
The performance is comparable to the GTX 1660Ti.
Effective in terms of energy use
For improved heat dissipation, a full-body heatsink is used.
When gaming, it may be a little loud.
RTX isn't supported.
Gaming EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Black
The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Super is our second choice. It is a far more cost-effective option. The RTX 2080 Ti, as previously stated, is a card that delivers a consistent gaming experience. It's approximately 15% slower than the series' larger flagship card, although it's considerably less expensive than the RTX 2080 Ti.
The RTX 2080 Super's technology is similar to that of Nvidia's previously released Turing cards. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super, on the other hand, is theoretically more powerful, with 3072 CUDA cores and a boost clock speed of 1815 MHz.
The faster 8GB GDDR6 VRAM on the GeForce RTX 2080 Super, which can clock up to 15.5Gbps, is a more substantial improvement over the regular RTX 2080's VRAM, which can only clock up to 14Gbps. And it may be stated that this card outperforms the regular RTX 2080 in terms of performance.
When it comes to performance, this card will easily be able to handle most games at about 100 frames per second or more with all settings maxed up. At the same time, the eSports games will be able to operate at above 100FPS.
Power One PCIe power connection (8 pins) and one PCIe power connector (6 pins)
Bearing hydor-dynamic
RTX 2080Ti is more expensive.
FrameView is a helpful piece of software.
Overclocking in the next generation
Performance is somewhat better than the RTX 2080.
The AMD XFX RX 5700 is one of the best mid-range graphics cards available for a mid-range gaming setup. It is almost as good as the Nvidia RTX 2060 Super, but at a far lower price, making it a great value for gamers.
It also comes with an 8GB 256-bit GDDR6 memory with a base clock speed of 1565 MHz with a boost clock speed of up to 1750 MHz. The memory has a memory bandwidth of 448GB/s and is clocked at 14Gbps.
It is black all around and has a high-quality metal backplate on the rear, giving it a sophisticated appearance.
At maxed-out settings, this GPU is capable of running most games at above 100FPS. However, you may need to reduce the settings a little for certain GPU-intensive games to achieve above 100FPS at 1440p. In terms of eSports titles, this graphics card will provide above 100FPS.
Increase the speed of your clock A frequency range of up to 1720 MHz is possible.
Supports 8K video.
A more enjoyable gaming experience
Materials of superior grade
The design of the card is unique.
It does not support RTX.
It's a bit warm.
If you want a graphics card that can run games at 1440p without sacrificing quality or reducing settings, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti XC is the way to go, but if you're on a budget, the GeForce RTX 2080 Super Black is the way to go.
Check out the GeForce RTX 2070 Super Overclock, ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1660 Super, and Sapphire Radeon Nitro+ RX 5700 XT if you're willing to sacrifice on graphics settings in exchange for a lower price.
The XFX RX 5700 and the MSI RTX 2060 Super Gaming X are both good options if you want to save money and are willing to sacrifice on graphical settings.
The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1660 Super wins the prize for best affordable 1440p GPU. The GOAT EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is our Editor's Choice simply because it offers 6x quicker performance than prior generation GPUs. Furthermore, its real-time ray tracing offers you an advantage when it comes to hyper-realistic visuals.
Most Commonly Asked Questions
Does the Nvidia Super-resolution @1440p use more frames per second than the original 1440p?
In their driver, Nvidia included Dynamic Super Resolution. This function offers you a 4K-like experience on a display with a 1080p resolution. These require additional resources to convert pixels to upscaled output and may result in a 20 FPS drop when compared to native 1440p screens.
Which GPU is the most suitable for 1440p?
The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, Radeon RX 5700 XT, GTX 1660 Super, and XFX RX 5700 are all better than the rest of the list. It is because of their newer technology that they have an advantage over the other GPUs.
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When it comes to gaming, the graphics card is the most important part of a computer. But choosing the right card can be a daunting task. Which GPU should I get? Which software should I use? For PC gamers, there are a lot of options to consider when buying a new GPU.. Read more about best gpu for 1440p 60hz and let us know what you think.
What GPU should I get for 1440p 144Hz gaming?
For 1440p 144Hz, you should get a high-end graphics card with at least 2GB of VRAM.
Is 3070 good for 1440p 144Hz?
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What games can run 1440p 144Hz?
The games that can run 1440p 144Hz are a few. These include Fortnite, PUBG, and Overwatch.
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Kate O'Neill is a tech humanist, author, keynote speaker, consultant, web design veteran, former Nashville songwriter, and the author of Pixels and Place: Connecting Human Experience Across Physical and Digital Spaces.
Kate and Jeffrey Zeldman discuss Integrated Human Experience Design; the biggest opportunities for innovation, for profit, and for moving culture forward; working at Netflix; conversion optimization; Peter Drucker in the 21st century; and whether she has seen Daredevil in her adopted neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, NYC.
Glenn Davis is the creator of Cool Site of the Day; cofounder of Project Cool; and cofounder, Executive Committee member, and essayist for The Web Standards Project, which he also hosted. Glenn was a leading force behind Liquid Design, an approach that predates Responsive Web Design by about 20 years. He taught everyone how to do "DHTML" via his Project Cool tutorials. In the Silicon Valley from 1994 through the early 2000s, Glenn was a huge creative force.
In a lively hour, Glenn and host Jeffrey Zeldman discuss life before the animated GIF; "perceived bandwidth;" building their first websites; getting from Gopher to the web; SLIP and PPP connections; discovering UNIX; the story behind Cool Site of the Day; the battle for standards in our browsers; the web then versus the web now; and much, much more.
Art director June Kim and host Jeffrey Zeldman discuss the newly launched, search-focused redesign of Epicurious.com. Approaching design through the lens of utility. Looking outside your own product category when researching for a redesign. Quick view and other functions. What Netflix has to do with a recipe site. The founding of Epicurious as a website in 1995. How Instagram, Pinterest, and mobile devices have changed the way people interact with web content. The view from the 33rd floor of One World Trade Center. Finding inspiration in unexpected places.
Eric Meyer (@meyerweb), co-author of Design For Real Life, is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest. Edge cases versus stress cases, identifying your assumptions, design pre-mortems, QA'ing for emotion, and more.
Aarron Walter and Jeffrey Zeldman discuss launching a design education initiative at InVision, building a UX practice at MailChimp, putting design at the heart of strategy, managing teams, the secret life of Walt Disney, and more. Aarron is the VP of Design Education at InVision. He founded the UX practice at MailChimp and is the author of Designing for Emotion and other books about design.
Jeffrey Zeldman's guest is Abby Covert, Information Architect; curator of IA Summit; co-founder of World IA Day; president of IA Institute; teacher in the Products of Design MFA program at New York's School of Visual Arts; and author of How To Make Sense of Any Mess, a "brilliant introduction to information architecture" (Peter Morville) that is frequently purchased at Amazon with Don't Make Me Think and The Design of Everyday Things, the two classics of usable design.
Rachel Andrew—longtime web developer and web standards champion, co-founder of the Perch CMS, and author of Get Ready For CSS Grid Layout—is Jeffrey Zeldman's guest. Topics include working with CSS Grid Layout, how Grid enables designers to "do something different" with web layout, why designers need to start experimenting with Grid Layout now, how front-end design has morphed into an engineering discipline, learning HTML and CSS versus learning frameworks, and the magical self-reinventions of David Bowie, RIP.
Longtime web developer, lecturer, and web standards evangelist Aaron Gustafson and host Jeffrey Zeldman discuss the newly published update to Aaron's best-selling industry classic "love letter to the web," Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences With Progressive Enhancement, 2nd Edition (New Riders, 2015).
Topics covered include: Aaron's superhero origin story as a creator of progressively enhanced websites and applications; "we're not building things we haven't built on the web before;" "creating opportunities for people outside your comfort zone;" development in the world of Node.js; "every interface is a conversation;" "visual design is an enhancement;" "interaction is an enhancement;" nerding out over early web terminal interfaces; Microsoft, Opera, and more.
Touch introduces physicality to designs that were once strictly virtual, and puts forth a new test: How does this design feel in the hand? Josh Clark's new book, "Designing For Touch," guides designers through this new touchscreen frontier, and is the launchpad for today's Big Web Show discussion between author Clark and host Jeffrey Zeldman.
In a fast-paced, freewheeling conversation, Josh and Jeffrey discuss why game designers are some of our most talented and inspiring interaction designers; the economy of motion; perceptions of value when viewing objects on touchscreen versus desktop computer; teaching digital designers to think like industrial designers (and vice-versa); long press versus force touch; how and when to make gestures discoverable; and much more.
Josh & Z discuss how the industry is evolving, how smartphones are driving web growth, integrating a pull request with a server, the connection of the web to real life (and the fact that it's no longer a meaningful distinction), the idealism of the early web, why technology doesn't solve human problems, why truly revolutionary change occurs only when new technologies fade into the background, and a future in which the back-end grunt work of website creation is automated.


'Tis the season to stuff yourself.
Whether you love tasting pie, eating street food or exploring new neighborhoods, there's a foodie event for you this fall.
Celebrate Italy's northwestern Piedmont region at restaurants offering a special menu showcasing its two biggest imports: truffles and wine. We'll have more updates on the second annual White Truffle Festival in New York City soon.


When spreadsheet files are opened in Drive or in Gmail as an attachment, the content will now be quickly and cleanly displayed in a view-only format that is searchable and easily navigable. People can then decide to print, download, share, or open the file in Google Sheets or another app for editing.
Google Apps aims to provide customers with a seamless experience when interacting with files and attachments, regardless of their file type. Today's launch will provide a more consistent and useful experience when previewing Excel and other spreadsheet files (e.g. .csv, .tsv, .ods) in Google Drive and Gmail on the web.


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How Facebook got your phone number (and how to take it back)
Chances are Facebook not only has your phone number, but a whole phone book of all your friends' numbers too.
By Emil Protalinski for Friending Facebook | August 11, 2011 -- 08:38 GMT (01:38 PDT) | Topic: Social Enterprise
You may recently have gotten worried that Facebook has your phone number, even though you don't remember giving it to the social network. At the same time, you may have also realized the social network actually has your Facebook friends' phone numbers too, and you can see them.
Even though this feature has been available for quite a while, it became a big deal this week when some users started posting this message on their Facebook status, which in turn was showing up on people's News Feeds:
Friends! "ALL THE PHONE NUMBERS IN YOUR PHONE are now PUBLISHED on Facebook! Go to the top right of the screen, click on Account, then click on Edit Friends, go left on the screen and click on Contacts. Then go to the right hand side and click on "visit page" to remove this display option. Please repost this on your Status, so your friends can remove their numbers and thus prevent abuse if they do not want them published."
This is a little over the top, but it did freak out a lot of people who weren't aware Facebook had their number, and that they could see all their friends' numbers too. You can see this list yourself by clicking on Facebook Phonebook (you must be logged in to Facebook). Palo Alto has essentially aggregated the numbers that all your friends have shared with you into a list: you can see the individual numbers as well by going to each of your friends' profiles.
"Rumors claiming that your phone contacts are visible to everyone on Facebook are false," a Facebook spokespers said in a statement. "Our Contacts list, formerly called Phonebook, has existed for a long time. The phone numbers listed there were either added by your friends themselves and made visible to you, or you have previously synced your phone contacts with Facebook. Just like on your phone, only you can see these numbers."
So if Facebook didn't take your number by force, when did you give it to the social network? You could have put it in manually (Edit My Profile => Contact Information => Phones). If this is the way you added it, then this is also the way you should remove it. If you'd rather keep your phone number on Facebook, you can instead restrict who sees it (Account => Privacy Preferences => Customize settings => Contact Information => Your number). You have the following options to choose from: Everyone, Friends of Friends and Networks, Friends and Networks, Friends of Friends, Friends Only (this is what I have mine set to), and Customize (which lets you drill down to specific people).
The other possibility is that you have installed the Facebook Mobile app on your smartphone at some point. After doing so, there was an option to sync your phone contacts with Facebook. This allows you to call Facebook friends without knowing their number as well as seeing their Facebook profile picture when you call them or they call you. This is possible because Facebook compares the number you have for your friend Joe Smith with the number Joe Smith has on Facebook.
Here is what the message looks like:
If you enable this feature, all contacts from your device (name, email address, phone number) will be sent to Facebook and be subject to Facebook's Privacy Policy, and your friends profile photos and other info from Facebook will be added to your iPhone address book. Please make sure your friends are comfortable with any use you make of their information. [Cancel] [I Agree]
In other words, you agreed to upload information on your phone to Facebook and your friends have done the same, so they can see your number(s) and you can see theirs. If you want to stop this from happening, click on Remove Imported Contacts (again, you must be logged in to Facebook). On the Remove page, Facebook says, "Before you click Remove, you need to make sure syncing is switched off" and gives instructions on how to find syncing on your smartphone.
Here is where it gets a little worrying: this list includes the phone numbers of your friends who are not on Facebook. For example, if you let Facebook grab your phone's contact list, which includes a Joe Smith who isn't on Facebook, the social network still gets whatever you had about Joe on your phone (his first name, his last name, and his phone number). Facebook says it does this so if Joe one day joins the social network, it will suggest that you become Facebook friends.
Facebook is once again going out of its way to be helpful, which many users like a lot and others simply find scary. Putting all your phone numbers together in one place is part of the company's bigger strategy to become the center of all your communication needs (just this week the company released a new Facebook Messenger app for Android and iPhone).
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Whenever I pass a graveyard and look in, I see a lot of angels. If there is a funeral, there could be thousands of angels comforting the mourners, but even when there is only one person in the graveyard there will be lots of angels there too.
If you feel the presence of the one you love who has died, don't doubt it. Frequently when someone dies, their soul will come back accompanied by angels to help those left behind.
Sometimes, people are so numbed by grief that they feel they have lost all touch with the person who has died. When this happens, the angels and the spirit of the person who has died may make contact via someone else. It might be another family member, or it could be a complete stranger. Somebody may give you their favorite flowers, hum their favorite music or say something that sounds exactly like what they would have said.
When this happens, don't doubt that it is your loved one trying to comfort you from the other side. Don't dismiss–as many do–these precious moments as imagination.
What I Have Been Shown
I see spirits all the time – people who have died and gone to heaven and have come back momentarily for a particular reason. It might be to help someone. Many of you will have felt the presence of a loved one who has died near you – a parent, a grandparent, a child. Your guardian angel will have let this spirit in to give you support or advise you, particularly at times when you need help. That spirit is there briefly to help you, and then it returns to heaven. Occasionally, you might even be allowed to see that spirit briefly.
When I see a spirit, which I do several times most days, I am shown a faint human form, with light radiating from it. A spirit can appear as being any age. Sometimes they will give the appearance of the age they were when they died, and sometimes they may show themselves in their prime. I see them around loved ones, talking into their ear or touching their arm in support. Occasionally, in a restaurant I will see a spirit sitting beside someone to give then support and comfort.
Strange as it may seem it is easier for us to feel the presence of a spirit than it is the presence of our guardian angel, or another angel; this is one of the reasons why our guardian angel lets the spirit of a loved one in to help us.
I spoke in the Friends Hall at Euston, in London, last month, and in front of me, between the stage and the audience, the spirit of a young, fair headed boy of about six, danced happily across between me and the front row. He was full of joy and was enjoying showing off to me. I'm not sure why he was there, I presume his mother was in the in the audience – hopefully she felt his presence. I know this young boy is in Heaven but for that moment he came to say hello.
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The Louisiana SPCA is an equal opportunity employer and has a rich benefits program including medical benefits and 401K. To report any issues with the online application process, or for special assistance, please contact info@la-spca.org.
As a nonprofit organization we are dedicated to the elimination of animal suffering, and have been committed to serving the needs of the people and animals in New Orleans and across the region for more than 130 years. This role is responsible for responding to calls for animal protection and control and assigning those requests to the Humane Law & Rescue (HLR) Officers. The role is also responsible for promoting the LA/SPCA's programs, services and mission, and educating the public on how to be responsible and humane pet owners.
Treat all animals humanely, properly, and with compassion at all times, regardless of the situation or circumstance and promoting a humane and caring attitude toward all animals.
During weather emergencies must be able to work a 24 hr. on call status.
Must be able to work with industrial strength cleaners and disinfectants.
Works in areas with a high noise levels.
As a nonprofit organization we are dedicated to the elimination of animal suffering, and have been committed to serving the needs of the people and animals in New Orleans and across the region for more than 130 years. This key role is responsible for investigating complaints of neglect/cruelty to animals. The role enforces Orleans Parish municipal ordinances by issuing citations and providing courtroom evidence and testimony. The HLR officer also humanely captures stray and sick/injured companion animals. All HLR Officers are advocates for promoting the LA/SPCA's programs, services and mission and educating the public on how to be responsible and humane pet owners.
Set and retrieve humane animal traps for situations requiring such equipment.
This position is considered "Essential" in emergencies and/or weather related situations.
Must be able to pass a criminal background check and pre-employment substance screening.
Must have a valid driver's license, a clean driving record, and be over 25 years old.
Ability to exercise caution in situations.
Potentially subject to animal bites and scratches.
This critical role is responsible for providing excellent quality of life and humane care for all animals in the shelter. Duties include, but are not limited to, cleaning, feeding, and monitoring the animal's health and behavior. The role may at times assist with adoptions as well as helping customers with any lost and found animals. This role is an ambassador for promoting and supporting the LA/SPCA's programs and mission, including educating customers on responsible pet ownership.
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Must demonstrate excellent communication skills including verbal and listening.
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Will work weekends and holidays.
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Women remembered at candlelight vigil, amid calls for prevention and elimination of gender-based violence
By Lori Thompson, Local Journalism Initiative ReporterThe Manitoulin Expositor
Fri., Jan. 14, 2022timer5 min. read
December 6 was the 32nd anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. On that day in 1989, 14 women were murdered, and many others injured, when a man entered an engineering classroom at Montreal's École Polytechnique, asked the men to leave the room and began shooting the women left behind. Canada's Parliament has since designated December 6 as the National Day of Action on Violence Against Women. Manitoulin Family Resources (MFR) held a virtual candlelight vigil to remember those women and to call for the prevention and elimination of gender-based violence.
MFR outreach worker Nicole Jol began by remembering those 14 women: Annie-Marie Edward, Anne-Marie Lemay, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte, Barbara Daigneault, Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Lananiere, Maryse Leclair, Michèle Richard, Nathalie Croteau and Sonia Pelletier.
That action was misogynistic, fueled by a hatred of women and a desire to see them subordinate to men, Ms. Jol stated. "The man entered an engineering classroom. He asked the men to leave the room and then started firing upon those women. After, he then roamed the corridors of the university, searching for more women to kill before he ended his own life. In a letter, he stated his frustrations who took opportunities from men, and shared further names of women he planned to kill."
The violence hasn't stopped since 1989. Ms. Jol asked attendees to also reflect on those lost during the Toronto van attack on April 23, 2018. The van driver was part of the 'incel' movement, she explained. Incel refers to involuntary celibacy and it's a movement motivated by revenge, based on perceived social and sexual rejection by women.
We should turn our mourning for the tragic loss of life into a commitment "to fight the systematic hatred and oppression that leads to gender-based violence and violence against women," she said. December 6 is part of the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence. It's an annual and international campaign that starts on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and runs until the tenth of December, Human Rights Day. The campaign was started by activists at the Global International Women's Institute in 1991 and is coordinated each year by the Centre for Women's Leadership.
Gender-based violence are those actions that are taken by one or more people to intentionally cause harm to someone based on their gender and can take physical or emotional forms. It can be name calling of someone based on their gender, or it can be hitting, pushing, shoving, stalking, harassment, control, manipulation, preventing someone from leaving a space, or sexual assault. Gender-based violence can happen anywhere, within families or romantic relationships, at home, work, school or within communities.
Sixty-seven percent of Canadians know a woman who has experienced physical and sexual abuse, noted Ms. Jol. "The risk of gender-based violence increases with additional discrimination barriers, such as having disabilities, being Black, Indigenous or a person of colour, or marginalized by being homeless or underhoused and don't have access to services that meet their needs, especially in rural or remote areas. Women living with a disability are three times more likely to experience violence."
In domestic violence situations, women are more likely to experience more severe forms of domestic violence than men. "Men are more likely to initiate violence to dominate and control whereas women are more likely to use violence to protect themselves," Ms. Jol explained. "Four out of 10 women have experienced some form of intimate partner violence in their lives."
Sexual assault is another form of gender-based violence with women representing 92 percent of police-reported sexual assault. People who identify as homosexual or bisexual have higher risks and experience six times higher rates of sexual assault. It's the only violent crime in Canada that is not currently in decline, Ms. Jol said. "Approximately 4.7 million or 30 percent of all women aged 15 and older have been sexually assaulted outside of a sexual relationship at least once since the age of 15."
Sexual assault refers to "sexual assault contact behaviour that occurs without the express consent of the victim," said Ms. Jol. "When I say consent, I mean verbal and more or less enthusiastic consent for an explicit sexual act or touching. Not saying anything is not a yes. No is not a yes. Moving away is not a yes."
She also spoke about human trafficking as a form of gender-based violence, largely affecting women, girls and sexual and gender-diverse people. Human trafficking includes the grooming, recruiting, transporting, holding, isolating victims to exploit them or to help someone exploit them, generally for sexual purposes or for work. Sex trafficking affects all demographics but particularly impacts people who lack support networks, have fewer economic opportunities, or that have previously experienced violence before.
The majority of human trafficking in Canada occurs in urban centres but in Ontario, it mostly happens on our 400 series highways. "Victims are moved from hotel to hotel being sold to different people who are buying sex along the highway," Ms. Jol said. "We are located between Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury, which are two very large hotspots for human trafficking and within the community, Indigenous women and girls and the LGTBQ communities are overrepresented in human trafficking."
Why does gender-based violence remain so prevalent in our society? "Gender inequality, unequal power relationships, widespread sexist sociocultural ideas and structures that reinforce the idea that needs and structures, rights and beliefs of men are more important and are more current those of women, girls, and gender-diverse populations. Gender equality is not only fundamental to human rights but a necessary foundation for a stable world."
Colonial systems and laws which especially affect First Nations people, Metis and Inuit women are also contributing factors, she said. Indigenous women are seven times more likely to be killed compared to non-Indigenous women.
Many lives have been lost to gender-based violence. Approximately every six days a woman loses her life in Canada, killed by her intimate partner. Between 2019 and 2020, 37 Ontario women lost their lives to gender-based violence.
"Working in this violence against women work for quite a while and being a feminist my whole life, it's still overwhelming seeing everything that has happened and all the work that needs to be done to reduce gender-based violence in our communities," Ms. Jol said.
The COVID-19 pandemic has only amplified the gender-based violence we see in our community, she added. "I see it in the work that I do, and I want to take a moment with all of you who were able to join us this evening, to take a few moments to remember those who have lost their lives, those who continue to be harmed by gender-based violence, and to reflect upon our role as we move forward in reducing GBV in our community and in Canada and the world."
Manitoulin Family Resources supports are available free of charge. Call toll-free 1-800-465-6788 or 705-377-5160 or text 705-968-0499. Always call 911 in an emergency.


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Harnessing the Power of Youth to Transform Food Systems Health Sustainability
Harnessing the Power of Youth to Transform Food Systems for Health and Sustainability
Held online, The City Food Symposium 2020 consisted of a series of publicly available short talks from young food system leaders, with an audience Q&A for discussion panellists in the evening.
By Mr Shamim Quadir (Senior Communications Officer), Published Thursday, 17th December 2020 (Updated Friday, 15th January 2021 )
In the midst of a climate emergency, and with poor diets established as the world's leading cause of ill-health, the need for effective and equitable public policy to transform food systems for health and sustainability has never been greater. At the same time, the voices of youth demanding change are getting louder. How can these voices be heard and included to drive the policy changes needed?
Held online this year on Thursday the 8th of December, the City Food Symposium heard from young food system leaders in the UK and internationally through a series of short talks that were made available to view online on the day, and which were followed by a live, online Q&A session with some of the speakers held in the evening.
The aim of the symposium was to give young leaders a platform, provide a taster of youth leadership in the food system, and lay out some of the key issues and questions to be addressed at a larger, in person event in 2021 (TBC).
It also provided the perfect opportunity for anyone interested in engaging with youth policy, advocacy and research to join the conversation.
Professor Corinna Hawkes, Director of the Centre for Food Policy, and who led the event, said:
The talks and Q&A are a must view for anyone who wants to better understand why and how youth need to be engaged to shape a more effective food system. I was blown away by what I learned from them.
The City Food Symposium 2020 event was generously supported by the Worshipful Company of Cooks.
Youth leader short talks
Watch the series of short talks by young food system leaders on 'Harnessing the Power of Youth to Transform Food Systems for Health and Sustainability' on YouTube (46 minutes):
Pierre K. Cooke Jnr, Youth Voices Technical Advisor, Healthy Caribbean Coalition
Ben Ebbrell, Founder and Chef, SORTEDfood
Tasha Mhakayakora, Youth Board Co-Chair, Bite Back 2030
Amanda Namayi, Youth Advocate, Zero Hunger
Emily B. N'Dombaxe Dola, Storytelling Director, Youth4Nature
Kajal Odedra, UK Director, Change.org
Mafalda Gonçalves, Pedro Gonçalves and Zuzanna Burzynska, members of the CO-CREATE Youth Declaration Task Force
Lianne de Bie, Director, Slow Food Youth Network (SFYN) Netherlands
Q&A with panellists
You can also watch a recording of the Q&A session chaired by Professor Hawkes on YouTube (1 hour 30 minutes):
Visit the Centre for Food Policy webpage
Follow the Centre for Food Policy on Twitter.
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Eric BenderoffCHICAGO TRIBUNE
One of my favorite things in the technology universe doesn't surf the Web or plug into your ears. The end result doesn't do anything actually, yet the process has thrilled millions of people for four decades.
Odds are strong that if you've visited a zoo or museum since the Johnson administration, you've bought at least one of the delightfully kitschy and colorful products these bubble-topped time machines create: an Abe Lincoln bust, a triceratops or a charging rhino.
The best part is they look the same today as they did back when Elvis ruled Las Vegas. Perhaps better, at $1.50 a pop they remain the most affordable souvenirs one can buy during an afternoon marveling at elephants or a World War II-era submarine at the Museum of Science and Industry (this sentence as published has been corrected in this text).
The Mold-a-Rama machine still delights because you watch the made-on-the-spot process before gingerly picking up your still-warm memento.
I bought five Mold-a-Rama creations this summer, an elephant and rhino from a recent trip to Brookfield Zoo and three dinosaurs from a visit to the Field Museum.
"The Field Museum is all dinosaurs. We used to have a gorilla mold there, but it wasn't selling very well, so we turned it into a T-Rex mold," said Bill Jones, who, with his two sons, keeps the 21 Mold-a-Ramas in the Chicago area humming. (A gorilla from the Field Museum recently sold for $85 on eBay, by the way.)
Keeping the machines working is no small feat, considering a Mold-a-Rama machine hasn't been built in 40 years.
There are 11 Mold-a-Ramas at Brookfield Zoo, two at the Lincoln Park Zoo, four at the Field Museum and four at the Museum of Science Industry, where you can buy Bill's favorite, a replica of the U-505 submarine.
The William A. Jones Co., based out of Bill's home in Brookfield, operates 68 Mold-a-Rama machines across the Midwest and in Texas. You can buy a bat mold at the Milwaukee County Zoo, a Komodo dragon in San Antonio or an "antique car" at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich.
"We couldn't do a Model A or a Model T, so it's a combination," said Bill, who got into the business in 1969. "I thought the machines were 40 years old then."
As the end of summer looms this Labor Day, the efforts of a 70-year-old man who gets to the Field Museum before 6:30 a.m. once a week to make sure a toddler and his dad still can enjoy the spectacle of making a plastic T-Rex should be applauded.
"We'll all be working Monday," said Paul Jones, Bill's 40-year-old son. "We just don't know where yet."
The charm of the Mold-a-Rama is its mesmerizing and simple technology. In the left-hand corner of each machine, you see the mold each makes. If you want one, and Bill figures roughly one of every 10 people who pass a Mold-a-Rama do, you pop your money in to activate the machine.
Four hydraulic cams start to move. The first and last closes the two sides of the mold together. Then another cam pushes plastic between the molds, followed by one that blows hot air in to make the figure hollow. Coolant then chills the mold because the figure was cooked between 225 and 250 degrees.
After roughly a minute, the two sides of the mold open, revealing your dinosaur or dolphin, before the final cam, that operates the scrapper, pushes your mold forward and drops it into the holding bin. But you need to wait a moment: It is still too hot to pick up right away, as my son always warns.
The dolphin at Brookfield Zoo is Jones' top producer.
"It outsells everything," he said, noting that machine produced 350 molds in one day during the height of summer.
Across the country, there are 130 machines working at 28 locations, said avid Mold-a-Rama collector Brennan Murphy, who owns 600 to 700 of the figures.
Murphy, 45, who grew up in Riverside but now lives in Florida, has 30 different colored T-Rex molds.
"The colors are different than the ones today," he said.
A Paul Bunyan figure from a Minnesota machine no longer in operation recently fetched $210, the highest price Murphy is aware of someone paying.
"Many are priced consistently over $150," he said.
On Friday, a "vintage green Sinclair Dinoland Mold-a-Rama triceratops" that "may or may not be from" the 1964 World's Fair in New York, Murphy said, was listed for $39.99 on eBay. It is marked Sinclair Dinoland along the base, just as today's Mold-a-Rama's are marked with the place they are made.
Those words and colors are important, Murphy said, in helping to determine if the mold was made in 1966 or 2006.
The machines still work so well because the Jones family--and descendants of the Irwin family in Florida, the only other remaining operator of dozens of Mold-a-Ramas--take pride in what they do.
"There's a following of people that have fond memories of these machines," Paul Jones said. "When you're working for the 28th day of the month, and it's 6:30 in the morning, that's what keeps you going. That and working with my dad."
Indeed, Paul has been working for his family for 25 years. Before he could drive, his mom would drop him off at Brookfield Zoo so he could do his maintenance rounds.
Bill tripled the number of machines he operates and doubled his sales in 1985, when he bought 55 Mold-a-Ramas from a Minneapolis firm.
The business has been pretty good too. One year, he sold 1 million molds.
"That's when they were still a buck," Bill said.
At $1.50 each, he hopes for about $800,000 in revenue this year.
"If we have 100 sales a day at each machine, we're happy," Bill said. "But there are a lot of winter days when you're lucky to get six sales."
Paul wants to increase prices to $2 to cover material costs that have risen 50 percent in the past two years as oil, a key ingredient in plastic, hovers near $70 a barrel.
The Jones family hasn't introduced a new mold to a machine since 2004--there were two that year, a '64 1/2 model year Mustang and an F150 truck, both at the Henry Ford Museum--and most molds operating at the nation's zoos are original.
A few years ago, the family bought six machines that went up on eBay, but those and a few others need some work.
"Mostly, we only use them for exterior parts, to keep that Mold-a-Rama look," Paul said. The insides of many machines, including the electrical devices used to push the cams, don't have original parts.
Paul's favorite Mold-a-Rama also happens to be the same one as his dad's: the U-505 sub.
"But I have a different reason," he said. "That machine has few problems I have to fix."
If you happen to see Bill or Paul working on Labor Day, remember to thank them for the memories their technical marvels still produce.
ebenderoff@tribune.com
This story contains corrected material, published Sept. 6, 2006.


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package ws // derived from exp/inotify

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"os"
	"strings"
	"sync"
	"syscall"
	"unsafe"
)

var (
	createMask uint32 = syscall.IN_CREATE | syscall.IN_MOVED_TO
	modifyMask uint32 = syscall.IN_CLOSE_WRITE
	deleteMask uint32 = syscall.IN_MOVED_FROM | syscall.IN_DELETE | syscall.IN_DELETE_SELF
	flagMask          = (createMask | modifyMask | deleteMask) ^ syscall.IN_DELETE_SELF
)

type inotify struct {
	sync.Mutex
	watchfd int
	watches map[Id]int32
	ids     map[int32]Id
	done    chan bool
	ctrler  Controller
}

func NewInotify(ctrler Controller) (Watcher, error) {
	watchfd, errno := syscall.InotifyInit()
	if watchfd == -1 {
		return nil, os.NewSyscallError("inotify_init", errno)
	}
	w := &inotify{
		watchfd: watchfd,
		watches: make(map[Id]int32),
		ids:     make(map[int32]Id),
		done:    make(chan bool, 1),
		ctrler:  ctrler,
	}
	go w.readEvents()
	return w, nil
}

func (w *inotify) Watch(r *Res) error {
	w.Lock()
	defer w.Unlock()
	if _, found := w.watches[r.Id]; found {
		return fmt.Errorf("duplicate watch")
	}
	flags := flagMask
	if r.Flag&FlagMount != 0 {
		flags |= syscall.IN_DELETE_SELF
	}
	return w.add(r.Id, r.Path(), flags)
}
func (w *inotify) add(id Id, path string, flags uint32) error {
	wd, err := syscall.InotifyAddWatch(w.watchfd, path, flags)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	watch := int32(wd)
	w.watches[id] = watch
	w.ids[watch] = id
	return nil
}
func (w *inotify) Close() error {
	w.Lock()
	defer w.Unlock()
	if w.watchfd == -1 {
		return nil
	}
	if len(w.watches) == 0 {
		if err := w.add(NewId("/"), "/", deleteMask); err != nil {
			return err
		}
	}
	w.done <- true
	for id := range w.watches {
		w.remove(id)
	}
	return nil

}
func (w *inotify) remove(id Id) error {
	watch, ok := w.watches[id]
	if !ok {
		return fmt.Errorf("can't remove non-existent inotify watch for: %x", id)
	}
	success, errno := syscall.InotifyRmWatch(w.watchfd, uint32(watch))
	if success == -1 {
		return os.NewSyscallError("inotify_rm_watch", errno)
	}
	delete(w.watches, id)
	return nil
}
func (w *inotify) readEvents() {
	var buf [syscall.SizeofInotifyEvent * 4096]byte
	for {
		n, err := syscall.Read(w.watchfd, buf[:])
		var done bool
		select {
		case done = <-w.done:
		default:
		}
		if n == 0 || done {
			err = syscall.Close(w.watchfd)
			if err != nil {
				log.Println(os.NewSyscallError("close", err))
			}

			w.Lock()
			defer w.Unlock()
			w.watchfd = -1
			w.watches, w.ids = nil, nil
			return
		}
		if n < 0 {
			log.Println("inotify: read", err)
			continue
		}
		if n < syscall.SizeofInotifyEvent {
			log.Println("inotify: short read in readEvents()")
			continue
		}

		var offset uint32 = 0
		// We don't know how many events we just read into the buffer
		// While the offset points to at least one whole event...
		for offset <= uint32(n-syscall.SizeofInotifyEvent) {
			// Point "raw" to the event in the buffer
			raw := (*syscall.InotifyEvent)(unsafe.Pointer(&buf[offset]))
			// If the event happened to the watched directory or the watched file, the kernel
			// doesn't append the filename to the event, but we would like to always fill the
			// the "Name" field with a valid filename. We retrieve the path of the watch from
			// the "paths" map.
			w.Lock()
			id, ok := w.ids[raw.Wd]
			if !ok {
				log.Println("inotify: no resource found with id", id)
			}
			// Check if the the watch was removed
			if raw.Mask&syscall.IN_IGNORED != 0 {
				// remove stale watch
				delete(w.watches, id)
				delete(w.ids, raw.Wd)
			}
			w.Unlock()
			var name string
			if raw.Len > 0 {
				// Point "bytes" at the first byte of the filename
				bytes := (*[syscall.PathMax]byte)(unsafe.Pointer(&buf[offset+syscall.SizeofInotifyEvent]))
				// The filename is padded with NUL bytes. TrimRight() gets rid of those.
				name = strings.TrimRight(string(bytes[0:raw.Len]), "\000")
			}
			var op Op
			switch {
			case raw.Mask&createMask != 0 && name != "":
				op = Create
			case raw.Mask&modifyMask != 0 && name != "":
				op = Modify
			case raw.Mask&deleteMask != 0:
				op = Delete
			}
			if op != 0 {
				if err = w.ctrler.Control(op, id, name); err != nil {
					log.Println(err)
				}
			} // else log unexpected?
			// Move to the next event in the buffer
			offset += syscall.SizeofInotifyEvent + raw.Len
		}
	}
}

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Up first, some instant karma. It says that he entered through a vent on the roof for "unknown" reasons. I think I know. I'm glad he's okay, but some decisions land you in hot water, or in this case, in the walls.
I couldn't resist this next one. da Vinci would be proud.
Well, once again, I'm done for the night. Stay warm and take care. I'll be back in seven.
That's cool about the comet probe. Those are neat inventions, but I wouldn't want to ride most of them.
I just read about the poor old guy in the wall. That was so weird… Those inventions were like a 3 Stooges comedy – except that amphibious scooter looks kinda cool! A probe landed on a comet?! That must have been tough.
They actually arrested that guy recently. Scooting through the water would be fun. The comet landing was awesome! I agree that it was probably pretty difficult.
That was cool news about the probe landing on the comet.
We're getting cooler, but not enough. Please send some of your cold weather.
The cool weather has left my neck of the woods. Did it make it your way?


A full day of discussions around safeguarding Victorians around pools was recently held at the sixth annual Victorian Pool Safety Summit at the Lifeguards@200 venue, located at the Port Melbourne headquarters of Life Saving Victoria (LSV).
Over 200 members of the industry attended the summit to review, discuss and plan the future of public pools and aquatic safety, as well as address industry challenges and hear about the new Victorian Code of Practice presented by EMV and LSV.
Other presentations included EMV talking about public swimming pool safety; RLSSA discussing strengthening the aquatic industry; See Clearly presenting on how to invest in layers of protection; YMCA Victoria presenting on the coronial process following a fatal drowning incident; and barrister Hugh Selby presenting on how to understand the coronial investigation process.
As part of the Summit, a number of everyday people with the extraordinary ability to save lives were recognised by LSV, including staff from Aquanation, Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre (MSAC), Thomastown Recreation and Aquatic Centre (TRAC) and Yarra Leisure.
The 'Everyday Lifesaver' award recognises people from aquatic industries, and from the community, who have used their lifesaving and water safety skills to perform a significant rescue and/or save somebody's life.
The incidents were varied: a taxi driver who headed to Aquanation when a passenger became unconscious and stopped breathing in the back seat, a 17-month-old baby who stopped breathing in the car on the way home from a basketball game, and a heart attack in a gymnasium, but all incidents benefitted from staff with first aid training who could act fast and save these lives.
The awards were initiated at the Drowning Report / Water Safety Week launch in 2013 and the success of the awards has seen the Play it Safe by the Water committee create an ongoing program to recognise aquatic 'Everyday Lifesavers'.


With the smell of manure and dead chickens wafting onto his land, Charles Blackmon went to court, seeking limits on poultry farms in his community.
With the smell of manure and dead chickens wafting onto his land, Charles Blackmon went to court, seeking limits on poultry farms that are expanding in his community.
S.C. regulators have allowed 50 chicken houses to open near his property and 30 more may open, the Laurens County resident says.
But if the Legislature approves a poultry industry-backed bill, Blackmon and others will find it harder to keep chicken farms away from their neighborhoods. It would be easier to locate those farms, often accused of polluting creeks and smelling up the countryside, across the state.
Pushed by state Sen. Danny Verdin, R-Laurens, as a way to help boost the farm economy by limiting legal challenges, the bill would ease setback requirements that separate farms from other people's land. The bill also would make it harder to challenge state permits for poultry farms.
Blackmon, whose son lives near a cluster of chicken farms, said his neighbors are suffering from the proliferation of poultry farms in Laurens.
The poultry-farm bill has passed the S.C. House and could pass the Senate as early as Thursday. Senators voted 41-4 Tuesday to put the bill on the fast track for approval. They spent part of Wednesday debating the bill.
Poultry is big business in South Carolina. Chicken and turkey farming are among the largest players in the agricultural economy.
Statewide, S.C. poultry farmers grow more than 200 million chickens for market each year, ranking the state among the country's top 15 producers.
The greatest concentrations of poultry farms are in two areas: near the border of Lexington, Aiken and Saluda counties and in Oconee County. Lexington produces about 30 million chickens a year, federal statistics show.
The influential S.C. Farm Bureau supports loosening poultry-farm restrictions, arguing that doing so would help farmers provide affordable meat to a hungry population. Verdin said Wednesday that South Carolina's rules are stricter than other states, limiting the poultry industry's ability to expand here.
S.C. legislators are well acquainted with big agriculture, which has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying for industry-friendly laws. In 2006, for instance, the farm lobby persuaded the Legislature to block local governments from regulating chicken farms.
Sen. Marlon Kimpson, D-Charleston, said the Senate is making a mistake at the public's expense.
The bill takes away DHEC's ability to require greater distances between chicken farms and other people's land. Under existing law, the distance between a chicken barn and a nearby resident's home must be 1,000 feet, but it can be increased if DHEC sees a need.
The existing law also allows residents within two miles of a proposed poultry farm to object to its permitting by DHEC. Under the industry-backed bill, only residents within a mile could challenge a permit. That would prevent others — affected by downstream water pollution, for example — from challenging a permit.
Blackmon and others say they're all for chicken farms if the farms can be operated without disrupting communities.
But some chicken farms have tens of thousands of birds. These operations, controlled by farm corporations, produce tons of manure that must be disposed of, as well as the chickens that die.


Robin is a professional NGO worker with experience of implementing peace-building and humanitarian programs in more than 15 countries. He works for a Japan-based International NGO, Peace Boat, and serves as the International Coordinator for the organisation's disaster relief division. He has circumnavigated the world on a ship, walked across the UK for charity and been part of a documentary-making team in the Philippines.


OPTCL Office Assistant Recruitment 2017 optcl.co.in Apply 85 Odisha Junior Management Trainee Jobs: The Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Limited has recently issued an Employment News Notice. As per the Odisha OPTCL Office Assistant Notification 2017, the Organization is inviting the Online Applications from the Young and dynamic candidates. Therefore the candidates who want to grab the Central Government Jobs need to use this opportunity. So, the contenders have to know the information of the OPTCL Office Assistant Recruitment 2017 before going to fill the Application.
The candidates can apply for the Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Jobs through Online mode. The Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Recruitment Board will activate the link to fill the Online Applications on 24th November 2017. The last day for the submission of the OPTCL Office Assistant Recruitment 2017 Application Form is 23rd December 2017. So, the Aspirants have to apply for the Odisha Junior Management Trainee Jobs 2017 on or before the last date.
The Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Limited will not accept the Applications, after receiving the end day. Hence the Applicants have to fill the OPTCL Office Assistant Recruitment 2017 Application Form as soon as possible to avoid the last minute web traffic. Therefore the contenders need to know the web address of the Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Limited. So, the candidates can open the Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Limited official website by clicking www.optcl.co.in. Therefore the candidates who want to apply for the OPTCL Jobs can fill the Application Form from the same site.
The Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Recruitment Board will conduct the Written Exam and then the Interview with the Applicants. So, the Organization is recruiting the candidates for the OPTCL Office Assistant Vacancy by the performance in the Test and Interview. Therefore the candidates need to prepare well for the Examination. For this Purpose, the Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Recruitment Department has also published the Syllabus and Exam Pattern on its website.
Organization Name: Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Limited.
Junior Management Trainee- Finance: 10.
Last Date: 23rd December 2017.
Education Qualification: The candidates with the Graduation Degree can apply for the Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Trainee Jobs. For further clarification, read the OPTCL Office Assistant Recruitment 2017 Notification.
Age Limit: The contenders have to fulfil the age criteria to apply for the OPTCL Assistant Jobs. Please Refer the Official Odisha OPTCL Office Assistant Notification 2017.
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Then click on the Careers Section.
After that, open the Odisha OPTCL Office Assistant Notification.
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The candidates need to prepare well for the Written Exam to grab the Job in the Odisha Power Transmission Corporation. So, the Aspirants need to download the Admit Card for the Exam from the web portal. The Odisha Power Transmission Corporation is going to recruit the total 85 Office Assistant and Management Trainee Vacancies through this OPTCL MT Notification. The candidates need to follow the Odisha Power Transmission Corporation official website regularly for the updates on the OPTCL Office Assistant Recruitment 2017.


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Garodia Education is all set to celebrate Golden Jubilee year
Jan 26, 2019 by EP Staff	in Edu Alerts
>>Yearlong celebrations culminated as Mega Event today
Garodia Education is celebrating golden jubilee year with yearlong activities, which have culminated in to Mega Event today. The yearlong celebrations include Art Festival, Literary Festival, Founders Day, Joy of Giving Week, Tree Plantation drive and many others.
At Garodia Education, the celebrations kick started today with two days of concert followed by Alumni meet at the P.G. Garodia campus. The three days of celebrations garnered a grand applause from parents, children and teachers. The Alumni Meet will be attended by over 800 alumnus from across the World. The three day celebrations will end on Saturday.
Under the umbrella of Garodia Education, P.G. Garodia School is a leading ICSE School, Garodia Academy, P.G Garodia Conservatoire, One World International Sports Centre and Garodia International Centre for Learning Mumbai, leading International School in Mumbai.
The journey of Garodia Education began with the objective of imparting education as social responsibility by Late Parmeshwari Devi Gordhandas Garodia in 1969, as she wanted to pursue a simple dream of bringing the joy of education to children. The school became operational from a garage in Ghatkopar area of Central Mumbai with 7 students and one teacher, which has today grown to multiple schools and curriculums with more than 2200 children currently enrolling per year.
The Golden Jubilee Celebrations were inaugurated by Mr. Prakash Mehta – Minister of Housing, Labor & Mining, Government of Maharashtra along with Mr. Mahesh Garodia, Chairman, Garodia Education.
Commenting on the development Mr. Nishant Garodia, Director, Garodia Education said, "Garodia Education has come a long way and have grown multifold in the last 50 years of its existence. We are an integrated education institute which has preschool to college education. We have been pioneers in imparting ICSE curriculum and we have introduced IGCSE and IB under our International School, Garodia International Centre for Learning Mumbai. Our International School has eminent faculty, international standard infrastructure, exchange programmers with international schools, regular teacher upgradation, half the size of0 the Olympic swimming pool, Lego Innovation Studio, Gymnasium and Indoor playing courts."
"Ghatkopar area in Mumbai is one of the highly know regions for its rich educational and cultural heritage. Over the past 50 years Garodia has grown manifolds to become a culturally rich educational institute that is the goodwill of Garodia Education. I am grateful and honored to be part of the golden jubilee celebration of an institution of such stature with rich educational heritage and I wish a lot more success and good luck to the management of Garodia Education for many more years to come" said Mr. Prakash Mehta, – Minister of Housing, Labor & Mining, Government of Maharashtra
Garodia Education is leading Education Institute in Mumbai which offers children to excel in arts along with other subjects. The school offers specialized training in Western Music, Indian Music, Art, Speech, Drama, Physical Education and various languages. This indeed made the objective of establishment clear and specific by putting the focus on skilled education with joy of learning alive. Garodia's guiding principles include a strong commitment to community service; learning, celebrating diversity, developing respect for the environment alongside enabling students to become lifelong learners and responsible citizens of the future have remained consistent.


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HomeWorldWuhan and 58 other labs handle world's deadliest pathogen. Only some score...
Wuhan and 58 other labs handle world's deadliest pathogen. Only some score high on safety
Biosafety level 4 labs are built so that researchers can safely work with the most dangerous pathogens– ones that can cause serious disease and have no vaccines.
Filippa Lentzos and Gregory Koblentz
Wuhan Institute of Virology | Representative Image | Commons
Did the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 result from high-risk research gone wrong? Regardless of the answer, the risk of future pandemics originating from research with dangerous pathogens is real.
The focal point of this lab-leak discussion is the Wuhan Institute of Virology, nestled in the hilly outskirts of Wuhan. It is just one of 59 maximum containment labs in operation, under construction or planned around the world.
Known as biosafety level 4 (BSL4) labs, these are designed and built so that researchers can safely work with the most dangerous pathogens on the planet – ones that can cause serious disease and for which no treatment or vaccines exist. Researchers are required to wear full-body pressurised suits with independent oxygen.
Spread over 23 countries, the largest concentration of BSL4 labs is in Europe, with 25 labs. North America and Asia have roughly equal numbers, with 14 and 13 respectively. Australia has four and Africa three. Like the Wuhan Institute of Virology, three-quarters of the world's BSL4 labs are in urban centres.
With 3,000m² of lab space, the Wuhan Institute of Virology is the largest BSL4 lab in the world, though it will soon be overtaken by the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility at Kansas State University in the US. When it is complete, it will boast over 4,000m² of BSL4 lab space.
Most labs are significantly smaller, with half of the 44 labs where data is available being under 200m² – less than half the size of a professional basketball court or about three-quarters the size of a tennis court.
Around 60% of BSL4 labs are government-run public-health institutions, leaving 20% run by universities and 20% by biodefence agencies. These labs are either used to diagnose infections with highly lethal and transmissible pathogens, or they are used to research these pathogens to improve our scientific understanding of how they work and to develop new drugs, vaccines and diagnostics tests.
But far from all of these labs score well on safety and security. The Global Health Security Index, which measures whether countries have legislation, regulations, oversight agencies, policies and training on biosafety and biosecurity, is instructive. Led by the US-based Nuclear Threat Initiative, the index shows that only about one-quarter of countries with BSL4 labs received high scores for biosafety and biosecurity. This suggests plenty of room for improvement for countries to develop comprehensive systems of biorisk management.
Membership of the International Experts Group of Biosafety and Biosecurity Regulators, where national regulatory authorities share best practices in this field, is another indicator of national biosafety and biosecurity practices. Only 40% of countries with BSL4 labs are members of the forum: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, UK and the US. And no lab has yet signed up to the voluntary biorisk management system (ISO 35001), introduced in 2019 to establish management processes to reduce biosafety and biosecurity risks.
The vast majority of countries with maximum containment labs do not regulate dual-use research, which refers to experiments that are conducted for peaceful purposes but can be adapted to cause harm; or gain-of-function research, which is focused on increasing the ability of a pathogen to cause disease.
Three of the 23 countries with BSL4 labs (Australia, Canada and the US) have national policies for oversight of dual-use research. At least three other countries (Germany, Switzerland and the UK) have some form of dual-use oversight, where, for instance, funding bodies require their grant recipients to review their research for dual-use implications.
Also read: WHO 'too compromised', says ex-US CDC director, pushes 'lab leak' Covid origin theory again
Rising demand for BSL4 labs
That still leaves a large proportion of scientific research on coronaviruses carried out in countries with no oversight of dual-use research or gain-of-function experiments. This is particularly concerning as gain-of-function research with coronaviruses is likely to increase as scientists seek to better understand these viruses and to identify which viruses pose a higher risk of jumping from animals to humans or becoming transmissible between humans. More countries are expected to seek BSL4 labs, too, in the wake of the pandemic as part of a renewed emphasis on pandemic preparedness and response.
While the COVID-19 pandemic has served as a stark reminder of the risks posed by infectious diseases and the importance of a robust biomedical research enterprise for saving lives, we also need to keep in mind that such research can carry risks of its own. Good science and smart policy, however, can keep those risks in check and allow humanity to reap the benefits of this research.
Filippa Lentzos, Senior Lecturer in Science and International Security, King's College London and Gregory Koblentz, Associate Professor and Director of the Master's in Biodefense, George Mason University
Also read: I was sceptical of 'lab leak' theory. But new info, China's cover-up made me see differently


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Deer Lodge group says state's COVID-19 response hurt state's economy
By John Emeigh (MTN News)May 13, 2020
(KPAX) DEER LODGE — Some people are taking aim at coronavirus (COVID-19) policies they claim have gone too far – even to the point of violating their constitutional rights.
"These are God-given rights. We don't look to the government to give us those rights, so we're going to protect them," said Dave Rowell, owner of Elk Tips Outdoor Gear in Deer Lodge.
Members of START Montana, which refers to itself as a grassroots group that is critical of Gov. Steve Bullock's coronavirus policy, stopped in Deer Lodge to hear concerns from some local businesses owners.
Though START claims it is non-partisan, it does have support from some state Republicans.
"The voices of the people who operate businesses in Montana were not being heard. Period. The governor was tone-deaf to that," said State Rep. Brad Tschida (R-Missoula).
Some Deer Lodge business owners are worried about the small town's economic future.
"I mean we've already seen three, four or five businesses in town not be able to open back up and it's just going to continue," said Deer Lodge business owner George Mann.
START Montana argues Gov. Bullock overreacted to the coronavirus threat and has hurt the state's economy for a long time to come.
"Why are we living in fear? Fear doesn't prevent you from dying. Fear prevents you from living, and that's what's happening to a lot of business here and people are going to lose their businesses as a result of the decisions that were made," said Tschida.
Some people involved in the movement feel like they have the right to even defy the governor's executive order through civil disobedience.
"Civil disobedience does not mean any kind of violence whatsoever. It just means that at this point, when you let people know, that we're going to open up Main Street, we're going to open up our businesses right here in Deer Lodge," said Rowell.
The Governor's Office stated that Gov. Bullock's actions were based on science and data and his early efforts helped Montana maintain the lowest rate of cases per capita in the nation. The Governor's Office added that a healthy economy requires a healthy workforce.
Filed Under: Montana Today


Wishful Thinking is the story of obsession and the lust in the mist of so called "love". How far will one go to find out the extent of love?
When reality presses in, Catherine discovers the darkness in her love. As she stands in front of disillusion, she gives birth to temptation and succumbs herself.
Lost in her pain, she seeks solace in having in her own possession what brought her to this state of mind: the object of desire.
What remains of her in the end, are the choices she has made and the sins she has committed which will never disappear.