The What's in the Bible? team is passionate about kids, families, God, and faith – we spend a lot of time thinking, watching, praying and reading about those topics and how they intersect. As part of our ongoing desire to serve our families well, we are launching a new blog series called the Editor's Round Up. Our goal is to bring together the best of what we're reading on the web – our favorite articles, editorials, and blog posts about kids, families, and faith. Enjoy!
When I was in college, I had an old gray t-shirt that said in big bold pink letters – KINDESS CAN CHANGE THE WORLD. I loved it. It was comfortable and it seemed to encompass everything I believed about the world and my role in it at the time. My boyfriend, now my husband, used to make fun of it – a little naive, he would say. And perhaps he was right, but that also doesn't mean my beloved t-shirt was wrong.
The last few weeks have been rough on the kindness front, don't you think? Political rhetoric in our country is almost insufferable, with insults and off-the-cuff hyperboles being swung around like baseball bats. When I was a kid, I loved every minute of presidential races – I would read and watch as much as I could! Now, I can barely stomach the nightly news, and I certainly wouldn't want my young daughter exposed regularly to the vitriol that fills the airwaves. I want her to know that kindness CAN change the world, because kindness DID through the work of Christ. And now we, as his children and followers, can carry that kindness forward everyday, in every way we can. But that's not always an easy task!
In a world where kindness can be perceived as weakness, how do we as Christians – and Christian parents – help our kids understand the value of kindness? How do we raise kind kids?
Last year, a Harvard study indicated that about 80% of surveyed kids said "their parents were more concerned with their achievement or happiness than whether they cared for others," according to this Washington Post article.
I wonder if that data would look different for self-identifying Christian families (the article did not specify religious affiliation). One would hope so! Here are some of my favorite articles around the Web about raising kind kids – tips, ideas, and encouragement for the hard road of parenting.
Blogger Emily Freeman wrote beautifully about cultivating kindness – which is different than niceness, as she explains – in a post this week called "An Invitation to Rediscover Kindness." While not directly about kids and kindness, Freeman's post is full of little nuggets of wisdom that can easily be applied to our own understanding of kindness toward our kids and how to define it for them.
Our own What's in the Bible? Blog has one of my favorite posts on the subject, from guest writer Cara Davis. Based on the wisdom of Micah 6:8, Cara provides a list of questions to help parents reflect on the value and practice of kindness in their homes. It is immensely practical and helpful.
I love this list of very tangible ways you can cultivate kindness in your family and your kids. From Parents Magazine, this list of 14 ideas includes volunteering together, helping people who need a hand, and being a good neighbor.
If you have an inquisitive child, perhaps your efforts to mention and practice kindness are met with a constant, "why?" … And sometimes, as adults, we wonder that too. Why be kind when others are not kind to us? When kindness can be perceived as weakness?
We are called to kindness by a God who is demonstrably and extravagantly kind to us. It is his kindness that brought us salvation through Jesus, and it is his Spirit which fills us with the ability to be kind – to reflect his kindness to the world. Titus 3 is a beautiful reminder of that truth, and a wonderful passage to read and pray as a family as you seek to cultivate kindness in your kids.
Melanie Rainer is the Director of Content for What's in the Bible? and the editor of the What's in the Bible? blog.
Yes, kindness goes beyond civility. Can we truly be "kind-to-a-fault? Our grown children, and now grandchildren sometimes kid us when they run upon a situation when kindness-God's kindness-is called for. They may ask: "Why did you treat people so well? Why did you help people, take people in when needed, and just sacrifice so much?" They know the answer, and they know there's no escaping "the right thing to do," by God's direction. They usually get some kidding back. After all, kindness wasn't our idea, first.


The Natural History Museum in Dublin is affectionately known as the 'dead zoo' because of its huge 'old fashioned' collected of stuffed animals! The natural history museum is was being refurbished in 2008-2009, so how alive will it be! The answer is pretty good, having visited it for the first time in April 2015, well worth a visit. Its still old fashioned in the sense there are no interactive computer screens, thank goodness! There were several school parties of young children who were thoroughly enjoying actually looking at the exhibits and talking about them excitedly - nothing to deflect them from the 'real exhibits' in Ireland's Natural History Museum.
The entrance to the Natural History Museum, Dublin.
The monument statue to Surgeon T. H. Parke (1857-1893). in front of the entrance to the Natural History Museum. Dr. Thomas Heazle Parke worked in the British army in Egypt were he was highly regarded for his skill, caring manner and bravery.
Giant Irish Deer (sometimes called the 'Irish Elk'), the largest species of deer to exist. BUT note that it wasn't exclusive to Ireland and it isn't an elk! It died out in Ireland 11,000 years ago unable to cope with the post-glacial conditions of the last ice-age after the ice retreated north.
large crabs like the spiny spider-crab!
Trophies! Thank goodness a dying practice!
Zebra and Molly O'Shea from Greenville, Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny, a lovely species!


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London, UK (16 February 2017) — ABBYY Europe, a leading global provider of technologies and solutions to action information, has announced that Nobly, the Danish healthcare software vendor (ISV) has extended the capabilities of NoblyDoc, its electronic medical record (EMR) system, by integrating ABBYY's automatic document classification component.
The new functionality will be used primarily for patient document archival in healthcare and hospital environments to reduce the time healthcare professionals spend manually classifying and sorting these documents. The highly accurate automated classification process is based on a combination of image criteria, OCR and linguistic technologies.
"Working extensively within the Danish healthcare industry, we're seeing an increasing demand for automation of document processing, with anyone from surgeons to administrative workers handling hundreds of document types a day. In order to automate the processing of these crucial documents quickly and accurately, we decided to integrate the ABBYY FineReader Engine into NoblyDoc. This enables highly accurate automated text extraction and document classification. The result is a smooth and consistent process that eliminates time wasted on sorting and manually inputting information," said Simon Guldager, CEO of Nobly.
To implement automated classification in the software, individual document types need to be mapped first. Nobly is expecting to capture over 450 document types such as case notes, prescriptions and files relating to cardiography and anaesthesia. A custom-designed interface allows users of NoblyDoc to easily add new document types. This in turn supports workflow automation and reduces the time needed for manual processing, which can be used instead for direct patient care.
"ABBYY enables healthcare organisations to optimise document-driven processes by capturing information, automatically classifying and routing it and extracting patient data to health information management systems. By automating this process, healthcare providers can ensure the information is available for better patient care or more efficient administration with minimal labour cost," said Sven Diedrich, Director Business Unit Technology Licensing at ABBYY.
Nobly is a Nordic provider of IT-solutions specialising in Enterprise Content Management, Digital Work Processes and specific custom development. As a company focusing on larger private companies as well as healthcare IT, we provide solutions that match and optimise processes around handling information, whether they are small and simple or large and complex.
Nobly is dedicated on providing state-of-the-art solutions to help our customers be better at doing what they do.


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Kunstmuseum Bern: Masterpieces
Matthias Frehner, Valentina Locatelli
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The Kunstmuseum Bern owns one of the most important art collections in Switzerland. Since the foundation of the Staatliche Kunstsammlung in Bern in 1809 and the opening of the first museum building in 1879 the collection has grown continuously and ha...
The Art Museum - Revised Edition
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A revolutionary 'virtual' museum with easy-to-navigate, colour-coded galleries and rooms Visit the world's most comprehensive and compelling museum in a book – from pre-historic times to the present, – over 1,600 artworks c...
The Centre Pompidou Photo Collection
Alain Seban
Издательство: Steidl Verlag
The Centre Pompidou in Paris houses one of the greatest collections of twentieth century photography in the world. This book comprises a comprehensive catalogue of the collection, 350 photographs by 283 of the most famous artists and photographers to...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings
Foreword by Thomas P. Campbell, Text by Kathryn Calley Galitz
Издательство: Rizzoli
In line with best-selling The Louvre: All the Paintings, and Rizzoli's successful The Hermitage Collections and The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks, this title offers an exquisite tour, unique in its lavish illustration, scholarship, extent, and g...
The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge
Yves Saint Laurent was more than a designer of clothing – he was, for many, one of the great style arbiters of the twentieth century. His talent made him the youngest and brightest star in the firmament of fashion, first with Christian Dior, wh...
100 Most beautiful Museums of the World: A Journey Across Five Continents
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Using both text and superb color photography, this book describes the most famous and impressive museums in the world: Prado in Madrid, National Gallery in London, Muse"e du Louvre in Paris, Museum of Modern Art in New York and many more.
20th Century Photography. Museum Ludwig Cologne (Icons Series)
Maria Mitoglou (Editor)
The photographic collection of the Museum Ludwig Cologne is one of the most important collections of contemporary photography in the world. This book provides a fascinating insight into its rich diversity: conceptual art, abstraction, reportage - abo...
20th Century Photography: Museum Ludwig Cologne
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Taschen 25th Anniversary Series The history of photography began some 150 years ago, but only relatively recently has it been fully recognised as a medium in its own right. Cologne's Museum Ludwig was the first museum of contemporary art to devot...
Art Nouveau Knives, Forks and Spoons: Inventory Catalogue of the Besteckmuseum Solingen
B.Grotkamp-Schepers, R. Sanger, B. Grotkamp-Schepers
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The basic tenet of Jugendstil (German Art Nouveau) was to "suffuse all areas of life with art". This also applied to objects in everyday use. The German Blade Museum boasts the world's biggest cutlery collection. Vol. I of the Museum...
Art of Siberia
Valentina Gorbatcheva, Marina Federova
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This book deals with the peoples and traditions of Siberia. It will interest a wide range of people as it is a book on art, sociology and history. Documents discovered recently in the hidden backrooms of St Petersburg's Ethnological Museum have prov...
Faberge Revealed: At the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Geza Von Habsburg
The exquisite objects created by goldsmith and jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé and his studio in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the aristocracy and nobility of imperial Russia are considered to be some of the most refined examples of th...
Furniture for the Dream King: Ludwig II and Anton Possenbacher, Munich Cabinet-maker to the Bavarian Court
Afra Schick
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Great Museums of Italy
Valerio Ed Terraroli
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Great Private Collections of Imperial Russia
Oleg Yakovlevich Neverov, Introduction by Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky
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Teresa Perez-Jofre
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Raising Bilingual Kids with Ben Scheirman
Jan 7, 2016 | Bilingual Parenting, Learning Spanish, Raising Multicultural Kids
Ben Scheirman is an independent software developer from Houston, TX. He runs nsscreencast.com, producing a screencast on iOS development each week. He's a father of 5 children and a moderately capable Spanish speaker. We invited him to share a little bit about his bilingual family.
Q: Why is it so important for you to raise your kids to be bilingual (or multilingual)?
Learning Spanish opened a lot of doors for me (including meeting my wife). I've always found it useful while traveling to know a little about other languages, and I'd like my kids to grow up knowing about our diverse global culture.
Q: What has been your biggest struggles at different stages?
Consistency. We don't speak Spanish enough in the household, and most of our kids have resisted when we do. Being more consistent would have been helpful.
Q: What has been the most surprising or rewarding part of the process?
Seeing the kids speak to / understand my wife's extended family when they are speaking in Spanish.
Q: What is your best tip in raising bilingual children?
We certainly aren't very diligent about speaking Spanish in the house, but we try.
One thing we've done in the past is turn on a movie the kids know, but set the spoken language to be Spanish. They'd complain at first, but eventually they'd watch it and infer what is being said based on the action and their prior knowledge of the movie.


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Third Member of Lt. Gov. Green's Office Positive For Coronavirus
September 13, 2020, 5:24 PM HST (Updated September 13, 2020, 5:24 PM)
Lt. Gov. Josh Green. PC: Office of the Governor
A second deputy sheriff assigned to Lt. Gov. Josh Green's office has tested positive for COVID-19.
As of Sun., Sept. 13, two deputy sheriffs and Lt. Gov. Green represent the three confirmed positive cases of coronavirus in the Lieutenant Governor's Office. All three are in isolation and following Hawai'i Department of Health (DOH) guidance, according to a report from Green's office.
The lieutenant governor's team received notification of the first deputy sheriff's positive test result on the morning of Friday, Sept. 11 at 9 a.m. Employees were sent home, and Lt. Gov. Green was tested and received a positive result Friday evening. The team immediately began working with DOH for guidance.
The remaining 11 office employees have been contacted by DOH investigators, are following their guidance, and quarantining, the report said. All employees have been tested. One test result was negative and the others are pending results.
Additionally, members of the media Lt. Gov. Green met with on the morning of Fri., Sept. 11, prior to notification of the first positive result, have been contacted by DOH investigators for guidance.
The Lieutenant Governor's office was cleaned on Sat., Sept. 11. Cleaning services were coordinated by the Department of Accounting and General Services. The office is closed until further notice and no employees are allowed to enter the office until cleared by DOH investigators.
Office administrative functions, including name changes, apostilles, administrative rules, and repository (sale of publications, session laws, etc.) will be suspended until administrative team members can return to the office. Phone calls to the office will be monitored remotely.
Executive functions for Lt. Gov. Green, including work surrounding his role in the COVID-19 pandemic response, will continue as team members telework. Lt. Gov. Green plans to continue his work duties while isolating in a bedroom in his home.
Two More Residents of Hilo Veterans Home Die After Contracting COVID
DOH Reports 114 New Cases, 2 COVID-Related Deaths
Member of Lt. Gov's Team Tests Positive for COVID-19
Lt. Gov. Tests Positive for COVID-19
Hawai'i State Hospital's Admissions Unit Reports 4 COVID-19 Cases


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Supporting the Physics by Cutnell and Johnson textbook series since the 4th edition, WebAssign now supports Physics 9e as a part of the WebAssignPLUS series from Wiley. If a WebAssignPLUS access card is used for this book, your students will have access to WebAssign and the ebook, including an online suite of Wiley resources. This special access card can be packaged with a new textbook.
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Nostra Who?
My older desktop PC is back at Fast Micros in Westbrook for repair this morning, having: given up the ghost' at boot-up; a regular event you'll recall. I've lost track of the number of times Windows has crumbled over the years and has to be re-installed. It's a Pentium 4 but with so much on it, I'm reluctant to swap it out and simply back-up to the Dell Inspiron laptop I'm typing on now.
I know that Fast Micros will have it up and running again pretty quickly so I'm not overly worried. One day though, I'll have to bite the bullet and buy a new one but I'm dreading the hours of re-installing programs that this involves.
With the New Year just in front of us, I would like to look forward to an optimistic twelve months ahead but predictions for 2010 are far from encouraging. The bookmakers won't offer good odds on VAT not going up to 20% and petrol looks set to hit £1.35. The chances of Israel and or America bombing Iran's nuclear facilities remain dangerously high and you'll have noticed that China is flexing its muscles, now that it owns most of our debts. A General Election may bring a change of government but no end to the pain that has to be endured, for many years to come, if we are to climb out of the deep financial pit that we have been dropped-in by this Government and its policies.
Meanwhile, our armed forces are making daily sacrifices in Afghanistan, while Al Qaeda thrives in Yemen and Somalia, radicalising young men with impunity in a number of British Universities, sufficiently enough to persuade them that God rewards exploding underwear.
What strikes me when I speak with ordinary people on the streets on the doorstep, is when they commonly start a conversation with "I'm not supposed to say this but…" a sense that we live in a Police state where one is no longer able to freely express one's views in private conversation for fear of being overheard and arrested. Feelings and opinions run strong and Government appears to have few if any answers to the antagonism and the distrust felt by the general public. This has to change or the pressure cooker that now contains our society may one day find a channel to angrily express itself in the very manner that New Labour fears most.
In Another Ten Years
I can't remember a time when I read so many books over Christmas. This year, it's a consequence of having my Amazon Kindle reader and as I've written here before, the results are quite remarkable in terms of easy and immediate access to works of both fact and fiction. Not one for holidays, the Christmas break is a time when a can enjoy a a good book without the world outside intruding too much on a temporary truce from the reach of email and the telephone. I can even turn my Blackberry off!
For many of us, each decade is one of those periods in our lives that we can most easily recall. In 1970, I was in my mid-teens, in 1980, I was starting a new career and in 1990, I recall that Microsoft's Windows was starting to make its presence felt over IBM's OS/2 Operating System. That technology, still very much in its infancy, would be inconceivable to the teenagers of today, where even the lowest-end iPod Touch carries 8Gb of memory and computing is heading towards a virtualized existence in the 'The Cloud' dominated by the likes of Google and Amazon.
There's speculation this morning that unemployment may jump by another 250,000 this year to 3 million. There's also political talk of offering greater support for new skills to better empower our economy. It's a topic I've been looking at for some time now and I'm far from convinced by the rhetoric.
The fact is that the vast majority of our workers continue to be employed in traditional jobs. The new job types created by technology represent a relatively small fraction of employment and often tend not to last very long.
Even within high technology industries, the bulk of jobs are traditional jobs. Suppose you found a new technology company and it starts to grow. Who do you hire? Engineers, people to work in accounting, human resources, marketing and finance; administrative assistants and more: these are all traditional jobs. The people working at Google do not all have new-age jobs; by and large, they have the same types of jobs as people working in any technology-focused business. What needs to concern us is not just the number of new jobs created by technology, but the types of jobs or as I said in Spain this month, To suggest that technology is suddenly able to create completely new job categories capable of absorbing millions of workers being displaced from traditional jobs is hopelessly optimistic. In fact, what we are seeing is more and more job-types, such as cashiers and bank staff, being automated out of existence at the base of the work pyramid and towards its apex, automation is falling heavily on knowledge workers and in particular on highly paid workers as systems and processes become more intelligent and efficient. I see this all the time in the IT industry as more and more people I know lose their jobs as companies, driven by the effects of this last recession streamline and downsize to leverage every penny from their balance sheet.
As large numbers of workers are automated out of their jobs, the economy may eventually go into decline because each worker is also a consumer and as computers are advancing in capability they will increasingly invade the realm of the highly educated. We'll likely see evidence of this in the form of diminished opportunity and unemployment among recent graduates and also among older university-educated workers who lose jobs and are unable to find comparable positions. It's a complex picture, described by Martin Ford, in his book, 'The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future' but the evidence for this change exists all around us to see.
With Silicon-based digital computers expected to reach their physical limits in terms of increased computer power sometime after 2020, this coming decade, given the exponential doubling of computing power, is going to bring changes that most of us can't imagine, as the paradigm shift rate accelerates. It took 15 years of computing to DNA to sequence the HIV virus yet SARS was sequenced in only 31 days. For most of us the internet started after 1995 and it's taken fifteen years to become pervasive. That same kind of disruptive shift to our society can now be achieved in less than five years, given the molecular technologies that are starting to make an appearance and so the really big question and the one our economy hangs upon, is how on earth we plan for new skills and for new ideas that haven't been invented yet when as a society we have lost our agility and our competitiveness and become yet one more top-heavy, over-regulated European poltico-bureaucracy?
I wish I knew the answer!
Margate, News Thanet, 2010, economy, Future
Scattered About
Well, that's another Christmas Day, past. I've been out this morning and would personally like to express my personal 'thanks' to the occupants of the house which regularly dumps its household rubbish next to the council bin at the start of the St Mildred's Bay car park. I'm sure those responsible and I could read out the names from their Xmas present labels, will be delighted to know, that with help from the ever present and voracious seagulls, the remains of their Christmas dinner and gift wrappings, are now scattered as far down as the beach. Strangely enough, I see, even the gulls won't eat Brussel sprouts.
Further down in the recycling area, people either can't be bothered or are not strong enough to lift the cover on the skip and have dumped bags of wrapping paper and boxes next to it. Yesterday, I shoved a whole load of boxes and paper to the back which was blocking the opening. So what happens next, is when the wind picks up, all the paper will end-up decorating the putting-green and the sea front. It's a shame because up until now, the beaches and sea-front area were looking remarkably clean, with great credit to the council sweepers and this will soon change as the paper becomes sodden and scatters.
Today, I had considered changing the template on this weblog but if I do, I'll lose all the links down the sidebar and would have to type each one back in again, a rather long-winder process. Also, because I have a number of 'Blogs', such as Zentelligence, I can't easily include and move other code around on the later interface, whereas the old blogger code accepts HTML (however poor my scripting is) so I guess we're stuck with it for now.
With less than a week before the start of 2010, I need to think of a New Year's resolution. The more immediate priority is to get back into a personal fitness regime. With my travelling around this month, freezing weather and two colds, I have 'dropped' the ball and need to re-discover the willpower to get back into my regime. The problem I find, post-fifty, is dealing with the challenge of discomfort and fatigue when one re-starts and I can easily understand why people simply give-up on the gym as falling asleep in the arm chair is a far more attractive option than lifting weights in the cold.
What I would like to do is take a quick break in the New Year if the opportunity allows. I haven't had a holiday in over two years and it would be nice to go exploring again. It's a great way of losing weight as well! Places I've always wanted to visit include the oasis of Siwa in the western desert, Reigandou in Japan, the ancient city of Timbuktu and Hissarlik in Turkey, the site of ancient Troy. Maybe one day!
I did offer to take my daughter to Westwood Cross this morning but she gave me a pitying look and described the idea as 'madness.' I'm sure she's right. Has anyone else made the attempt?
Margate, News Thanet, Christmas, Litter, Westwood
It Came from Outer Space
I was stunned, nay amazed, to read in this week's Thanet Times, the front-page story that ice from a passing aircraft 'may' have smashed the roof of the Councillor Greens in Ramsgate.
It was only last May, that the home of another Labour councillor and 99th most popular Party blogger, Cllr Nottingham of Northwood, was struck by lightning, in what appeared to be an act of divinely-inspired and passing political comment from the Norse god Thor but for two Labour bloggers to have their roofs damaged, is remarkable from a probability perspective, even more so, given Ramsgate Mayor, David Green's position on the future development of the airport.
I'm delighted that nobody was injured during the unfortunate incident but whether it was indeed ice that caused a gaping hole in the Green residence is open to speculation, as the expert opinion of the builder, quoted in the newspaper, isn't conclusive evidence. In my own opinion, it's just as likely to have been a small black hole, ball-lightning a photon-torpedo a micro-meteorite or indeed, another Act of God.
The popular proverb does of course claim that 'lightning never strikes twice in the same place' but clearly Ramsgate is an exception in a political sense and I'm now wondering which Labour councillor may be next in line to receive a passing politically-charged salvo from either the Almighty or ET? The Thanet Times account of what may have taken place in the town last week, is previewed in the attached video clip.
In fact, if it hadn't been the front-page story I can't think why anybody might have bought the newspaper in the first place! The next episode may even feature the alien abduction of some unlucky Labour councillor or member of the cabinet, just to keep this local interest story going.
Anyway, here's wishing you all untroubled and clear skies a Very Merry Christmas and A Happy 2010 ahead!
Margate, News Thanet, Green, Ice, Lightning
Re-booting The Economy
I've embedded a conference presentation from TED.COM by Juan Enriquez that I recommend watching, as it delivers considerable insight into the problems facing the global economy and the technologies that may soon shape our future.
Although he refers to the US recession, much of what he says in terms of leverage and debt applies to our own economy, as closely linked as it is, to the uncertain fortunes of the mighty dollar and a globalised financial system.
Margate, News Thanet, economy, Enriquez, Juan, Technology
It's a bit of a winter wonderland picture out there in the bright sunshine this afternoon.
With Rochester airport closed with the snow, I ran across to Lydd to take on fuel at lunchtime and the line of the snow appears to follow the main road from Canterbury to Dover with everywhere to the east, more or less clear and the covering thickening to the west and Ashford. Lydd, which has a hard runway is completely clear of the stuff but on the higher ground you can see where the roads are still under what must now be tough white ice.
Operation Stack is off towards Maidstone and there's no sign of any Eurostar activity as you might guess. Canterbury appeared quite busy with late shopping and I regret not taking a camera to capture the scene of Kent at its prettiest.
Other than one other light aircraft I saw depart at Lydd, it's pretty quiet in the air too. With these low temperatures and relatively high humidity, there's a risk of icing, both in the carburetor and on the airframe, which have to be monitored carefully and so not many pilots are up and about.
I've had to place my motorcycle battery on charge as last night effectively drained it, even though I have been starting it every day. It's something to do with the current drain from the alarm in cold weather, even on standby and no maintenance has ever been able to fix it, other than shrugging and me being told it's a BMW problem. Tonight, with clear skies, I expect to be even colder than last night and so if your own car or motorcycle battery is older than a couple of years, you may want to keep an eye on it.
For those readers who might want to keep a good eye on any weather coming our way, I recommend Meteox for a decent radar picture and projection of where the nasty stuff is.
Trains and Trains
Having once spent five hours trapped on a Eurostar train between Calais and Paris, I have some sympathy for the passengers stuck for thirteen hours yesterday, who discovered, like I did, that there was no food, little water and insufficient toilet capacity to last out such a tedious and claustrophobic ordeal.
On this side of the channel, be warned that the train timetable changed last Sunday and duly caught me out on Monday morning when I discovered that the regular 09:37 from Westgate had become the 09:20 to Victoria. Of course, I welcome the arrival of our high-speed link but from a practical perspective, it's cheaper and faster to catch the ordinary train to Victoria than try and battle one's way back to Westminster from St Pancras having arrived twenty minutes or so earlier.
Margate, News Thanet, Eurostar, Train
"All anybody wants from technology", wrote Douglas Adams, "is for it to work," and I did rather feel that way at tonight's full council meeting which was scheduled for an inaugural pilot webcast.
Councillors Campbell, Wells and Jarvis were wearing unusually bright and colourful ties, which could have been a contributory factor and even Cllr Nottingham wore a tie, a gesture worth noting in its own right. I was wearing my best suit, clearly displaying the logo of the local business acting as sponsor and several councillors were sporting new hair styles, including one who is normally quite bald. Better still, everyone was on their best behaviour to welcome Labour's councillor Sandra Hart to the chamber and there was a palpable sense of Christmas goodwill, reminiscent of that famous temporary truce on the Western Front in the First World War.
In fact, the problem that prevented the webcast had nothing to do with the internet and the cameras, which were both working as they should be. It was to do with the ageing and frayed wiring microphone system in the chamber, which performed properly during the dry run yesterday evening but simply declined to cooperate tonight. I put it down to Murphy's Law and some strange quantum probability effect, which causes technology to fail, when enough people are relying on it to work at a critical moment. Given the absence of sound, I authorised the "pulling of the plug" on the web cast rather than deliver a silent movie to the public. Naturally we'll have an inquest and look to have it working next time around but the chamber microphones will continue to present a problem because in the present economic climate the budget simply doesn't exist to completely rewire the council chamber.
Just a couple of points I would like to highlight from tonight's meeting. Councillor Wise reminded members of the opposition that the disabled facility grants come from capital funding rather than revenue funding. What this means is that unless councils sell assets as instructed by government, then they cannot raise the capital needed to fund such programmes the same is true for capital receipts for sports funding. The second point involves EuroKent and Cllr Ezekiel pointed out that Thanet is obliged to build 600 new homes somewhere and if the opposition can come-up with a better idea of where these should go then he would like to hear it.
Good news of course from tonight surrounds the £12.4million of funds allocated from different sources and grants for the regeneration of Dreamland and I'm sure many readers will welcome the sight of it reopening in two years time.
On a completely different not, I notice that Richard Eastcliff is accusing Thanet South's Laura Sandys of being out of touch with local information when he writes:
"Two two causes for celebration this week. First, the 'news', as brought to you by the Blue Rinse candidate for Thanet South, that 'the life saving air sea rescue service based at Manston is set to be relocated to the Midlands at the end of this month.' Er, 'what air sea rescue service based at Manston?', you may ask. Clearly, however, that was not a question the intrepid reporter at yourfannitinnit could be bothered with."
I know something about this subject having flown the Coastguard Islander aircraft out of Manston. (see photo-stream) The role at Manston is principally a reconnaissance task, monitoring the channel shipping lanes. However, the Islander is able to fly low and slow and carries infra-red cameras and rescue equipment that can be dropped into the sea to survivors and this includes a dinghy. Of late, I understand that a number of missions have involved the rescue capability although it is not the principal role.
This reconnaissance role is now being moved back to the Midlands and the Islander is to be replaced by the much faster Cessna 406, which does not carry rescue equipment and is a pure shipping lanes reconnaissance aircraft. As a result, we won't have a rescue capable aircraft within immediate reach and will have to wait on either the Belgian Coastguard helicopter or the RAF rescue helicopter out of Suffolk. That 30 minutes difference between climbing into a life raft dropped by the Islander from Manston or floating in the sea waiting for a helicopter, to arrive could prove critical and this was Laura's quite appropriate concern, which I'm sure many readers will share.
In fact, the Coastguard and the Home Office are now reportedly looking at a multi-agency approach to maritime surveillance and my information suggests that unmanned drones, a cut-down version of the US Predator, sitting above the South coast of England, 24-hours a day, will soon be on the cards.
Margate, News Thanet, Coastguard, Council, internet, webcast
Boxed In
After almost two weeks away, I see the battery life on my Amazon Kindle reader still shows half charge and that's after wading through Dan Simmons' novel, Ilium, and having started the sequel Olympos as well. If you can imagine, Homer's 'Iliad', Shakespeare's 'Tempest' and some advanced quantum physics, all shaken vigorously together, then you've the basis for a rather imaginative novel of both the distant past and far future. The great thing about the Kindle device is that I can also load for free, the complete Iliad, Herodotus' travels in ancient Egypt and a great deal more besides and so in a very short period, it's completely changed my reading habits.
I can see a near future where devices like this one actually have liquid crystal pages as the technology now exists. So you buy perhaps a six-page device or twelve-page device to suit your budget and the first page is wirelessly synchronized with your email, several more display word or PDF documents, another is the book you are reading and so on. Soon they will be as cheap as any other commodity device and with electronic paper cheaper than the real thing, children will carry them to school in the place of books and will have access to everything and anything mankind has ever published in their schoolbag as well as everything and anything they have ever written during their school years at their fingertips.
It was the kind of idea I was giving a talk on in Spain a week ago, with the rapid evolution of what is called virtualization or cloud computing, where technology is delivered as a utility, much like electricity, a model we are already seeing with the evolution of a number of products from Google and Amazon. Anyway, given the exponential growth in computing power, still doubling every two years, thanks to Moore's Law, Christmas in 2015 is going to have on display some quite remarkable technology in PC World and Comet that we haven't even thought of yet!
Back in the real world, I'm confronted by boxes of Christmas cards to sign and seal. One day, someone's going to come-up with a process that automates that too, I'm sure. Just supply the names and addresses and a scan of your signature(s) and season's greetings will become as magic as a Jamie Oliver Christmas. Me, I'll have to make do with inky fingers for now as my fountain pen leaks and I'm running short of stamps. Yesterday, visited Westwood Cross on my motorcycle to buy some presents. Given the frenzied seasonal madness that now surrounds it; I plan to avoid the roads around it now until the New Year if at all possible.
Margate, News Thanet, Kindle, Technology
Passing 15,000 Feet
I haven't blogged for almost a week and so I'll start this entry as my Etihad flight from Abu Dhabi, flings itself over the desert coast and climbs away towards Bahrain and London Heathrow, several hours away.
I can't praise the quality of service on this airline enough. I'm sitting in economy and yet Etihad is superior to business class in most other airlines, such as Iberia, that I flew with last week to Madrid. The digital entertainment system, all touch screen, is quite remarkable with enough to keep me busy for hours; I watched 'Ice Age 3' and 'District 9' on the way out and I plan to start today with 'Dillinger' once I settle down after typing this.
The flight attendants on this new Airbus look as if they've freshly arrived from a beauty pageant. I suspect that if they were suddenly exposed to the harsh winter light and charms of Cecil Square, they might wither away instantly; like delicate tropical flowers. On the way out to the emirates, I was chatting to the young First Officer, also neatly pressed into his uniform, who had recently joined the company from Virgin Atlantic. Apparently he had been laid off at the start of the recession and fallen straight back on his feet with a job offer from Etihad and a change of lifestyle, living in Abu Dhabi. Given the legions of airline pilots who have also lost jobs recently, he considers himself very lucky indeed.
As one might expect, the place is spotlessly clean and tidy and no sign of even a single marauding 'Pit Bull' terrier to remind me of home. I did see one discarded water bottle during my time here but the local people take considerable pride in their city and litter just doesn't seem to happen in the way we understand it; the city authorities also being very efficient in removing it. No graffiti either but then I suspect that nobody has ever tried to test the law in this respect, given that the country is not a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights and anti-social behavior is treated very seriously indeed by the courts.
I've been staying at the Armed Forces Officers Club, which is unusual in having a mosque and a sophisticated, air-conditioned shooting range next door to each other in the complex. There's also a small bank tucked in between them. I imagine that if one applied for planning consent for the same layout, in say Manchester, there might be rather more difficulty in gaining approval from the city council once they saw what was on the plans. There's also which an Olympic size swimming pool and a gym to match with a very impressive Turkish bath should one get bored.
I toddled off to the indoor range with one of my young colleagues and was reminded of the scene in the first Terminator movie, when 'Arnie' visits the gun store and asks for a 'Gas Plasma rifle.'
"Have you shot before sir," asked the nice girl behind the reception desk.
I replied that I had and surrendered my passport and filled in the appropriate waiver. When this was done I selected what I wanted to shoot from the menu and opted for a semi-automatic SIG 226 and 50 rounds of 9mm ammunition. The SIG is a highly reliable piece of Swiss engineering and I've never had one experience a blockage. The range appeared to be used both by locals and the small groups of American advisors and it was clear that the country is spending a great deal of money on both military hardware and training, I assume because Iran is only a matter of miles away across the disputed waters that saw a racing yacht out of Bahrain impounded last month.
While Dubai's economy went rapidly down the tubes last month, it's clear from the short time I had in Abu Dhabi this week, that it's apparently unscathed by the financial turmoil that surrounds it. From the sheer size, ambition and opulence of the surroundings, it's clear that 'the winner is the one that finishes with the most toys' and I'm looking forward to a return visit in the not too distant future. It's hard not to wonder, for a fleeting moment, what some of that fabulous wealth could achieve around our own sea-front, here in Thanet, rather than around the cornice in Abu Dhabi.
Margate, News Thanet, Abu Dhabi
A Jolly Affair
Where was I? Between Friday and today I've been nursing a cold, the usual consequence of air travel today. Terminal 3 at Heathrow always seems to be the worst place to catch a virus of any kind and I suppose I should be grateful it wasn't H5N1. I'm sure that many readers can also map their trips by what they've bought home with them and flights to and from the Middle-East and the Indian subcontinent always seem to conjure up the more exotic illnesses, somewhat reminiscent of 'The Curse of the Claw', an 80's Ripping Yarns production with Michael Palin, which I've embedded for anyone who hasn't seen it.
Westgate's Christmas Lights was a jolly affair yesterday, marred only by the rain starting ten minutes before the illuminations were turned on. I don't think the Reindeer noticed but the covered pavement outside the shops in Station Rd provided welcome shelter for those of us without hats or umbrellas. Santa, I noticed, was doing a roaring trade at the Mad Potter, with a queue of small children reaching out into the road and as always, Angelo was lending vigorous support with pizzas, roasted chestnuts and other goodies outside his delicatessen. Children from St Saviours' entertained us by playing Christmas carols on their musical instruments and even the young Romanian selling the Big Issue outside Somerfield, was dressed as Father Christmas; a nice touch I thought.
As always and as one of the three Westgate councillors, I would like to thank everyone involved in making it such a success and for their hard work behind the scenes. In particular I would like to thank Darren Ellis and the Margate Charter Trustees, Mick Tomlinson and Cllrs Goodwin and King for ensuring the money could be found for the event this year and all the traders, children and entertainers that supported it with their own donations and acts.
Margate, News Thanet, Christmas, Claw, Lights, Palin, Westgate
I didn't get back in from Heathrow and Madrid until close to Midnight yesterday and so hadn't been able to keep up with the Dane Valley by-election progress. However, I now understand from a number of sources that Labour's Sandra Hart was the winner and may I be among the first to welcome her as a councillor and congratulate her on her victory.
I do notice that Labour's own 'Lord Lucan of Northwood' is challenging the absence of any mention of my being a Conservative councillor on the weblog. I'm sure it's passed him by, following the earlier David Green debacle, that by blogging under one's elected title, one is immediately exposed to the public standards code in a way that a personal weblog, like this one, is not.
Now if you happen to be the kind of blogging councillor who has little or no regard for such public standards of behaviour and related guidelines then the high cost to local government in dealing with complaints under the code; such splitting of hairs, may appear quite irrelevant but in practical terms, it's a sensible measure.
More later, as I've some catching-up to do today.
Margate, News Thanet, Blogger, Nottingham., Standards


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NO FURTHER DAMAGE FOR LUKE
Scans come back all clear but deep cut sees midfielder sidelined for two weeks
Luke Hyam is expected to be out for a couple of weeks after sustaining a bad cut just below the knee in Saturday's defeat at Millwall.
The midfielder was injured in a tackle with former Blue, Liam Trotter, and was stretchered off and taken to a London hospital to be assessed.
The good news is that there is no damage to the joint with Town physio Matt Byard telling the Club website: "Luke's had a scan on the knee and that's all clear.
"The hospital washed out the cut, which is just below the knee, and then stitched up the wound.
"It's a deep cut and there is some heavy bruising around the area as well. He's on crutches and we have to be careful that the knee doesn't get infected.
"If all goes well, you are looking at around two weeks before he can get out on the training ground again."


After accidentally purchasing 5,000 Microsoft Points while chewing on his owner's Xbox 360 controller, Oscar the dog has been officially recognized by Microsoft as the service's first canine member - and given his own Xbox Live account.
Last week, we learned about the story of Kotaku user Greg, whose furry companion - a Lab/Hound mix named Oscar - attacked the Xbox 360 controller while his owner slept. According to Greg, while chewing on the controller, Oscar managed to somehow turn the console on and purchase 5,000 Microsoft Points for his owner's account, which was discovered the following morning when Greg found the confirmation from Microsoft of the $62.50 transaction in his email.
"People spend tens of billions of dollars on their pets every year," said a MS spokesperson, "but it's pretty unusual for your pet to return the favor (except in love and tail wagging of course)."
The Redmond-based software giant will be refunding the points, setting Oscar up with his own Xbox Live subscription and gamertag (with some extra points thrown in so the dog can buy 'Splosion Man, of course) and sending Greg a brand-new, not-chewed-on controller.


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package br.com.trustsystems.elfinder.configuration.jaxb;

import br.com.trustsystems.elfinder.configuration.jaxb.ElfinderConfiguration.Thumbnail;
import br.com.trustsystems.elfinder.configuration.jaxb.ElfinderConfiguration.Volume;
import br.com.trustsystems.elfinder.configuration.jaxb.ElfinderConfiguration.Volume.Constraint;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;
import javax.xml.bind.Marshaller;
import javax.xml.bind.Unmarshaller;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import javax.xml.validation.Schema;
import javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.math.BigInteger;

/**
 * Elfinder Configuration Test.
 *
 * @author Thiago Gutenberg Carvalho da Costa
 */
public class ElfinderConfigurationTest {

    private static Marshaller marshaller;
    private static Unmarshaller unmarshaller;

    /**
     * Inits the configuration
     *
     * @throws JAXBException
     * @throws SAXException
     * @throws java.io.IOException
     */
    @BeforeClass
    public static void init() throws JAXBException, SAXException, IOException {
        JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(ElfinderConfiguration.class.getPackage().getName());

        InputStream xsdStream = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("elfinder-configuration.xsd");
        SchemaFactory schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
        Schema schema = schemaFactory.newSchema(new StreamSource(xsdStream));

        // marshaller
        marshaller = context.createMarshaller();
        marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_ENCODING, "UTF-8");
        marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, Boolean.TRUE);
        marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_SCHEMA_LOCATION, "http://www.trustsystems.com.br/elfinder http://www.trustsystems.com.br/elfinder/elfinder-configuration.xsd");
//        marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_NO_NAMESPACE_SCHEMA_LOCATION, "file://");
        marshaller.setSchema(schema);

        // unmarshaller
        unmarshaller = context.createUnmarshaller();
        unmarshaller.setSchema(schema);

        xsdStream.close();
    }

    /**
     * Marshals Object to XML
     *
     * @throws JAXBException
     */
    @Test
    public void marshal() throws JAXBException {
        System.out.println();
        System.out.println("JAXB MARSHAL - OBJECT to XML");
        System.out.println();

        ElfinderConfiguration elfinderConfiguration = new ObjectFactory().createElfinderConfiguration();

        Thumbnail thumbnail = new ObjectFactory().createElfinderConfigurationThumbnail();

        Volume volume = new ObjectFactory().createElfinderConfigurationVolume();
        Volume volume2 = new ObjectFactory().createElfinderConfigurationVolume();

        Constraint contraint = new ObjectFactory().createElfinderConfigurationVolumeConstraint();
        Constraint contraint2 = new ObjectFactory().createElfinderConfigurationVolumeConstraint();

        contraint.setLocked(false);
        contraint.setReadable(true);
        contraint.setWritable(false);

        contraint2.setLocked(false);
        contraint2.setReadable(true);
        contraint2.setWritable(true);

        thumbnail.setWidth(new BigInteger("80"));

        volume.setSource("filesystem");
        volume.setAlias("My Books");
        volume.setPath("/Users/thiago/Development/books");
        volume.setDefault(true);
        volume.setLocale("pt_BR");
        volume.setConstraint(contraint);

        volume2.setSource("filesystem");
        volume2.setAlias("My JDBC Drivers");
        volume2.setPath("/Users/thiago/Development/jdbc/drivers");
        volume2.setDefault(false);
        volume2.setLocale("pt_BR");
        volume2.setConstraint(contraint2);

        elfinderConfiguration.setThumbnail(thumbnail);
        elfinderConfiguration.getVolume().add(volume);
        elfinderConfiguration.getVolume().add(volume2);

        try {
//            marshaller.marshal(elfinderConfiguration, new File("src/test/resources/elfinder-configuration.xml"));
            marshaller.marshal(elfinderConfiguration, System.out);
        } catch (JAXBException e) {
            System.err.println("Marshaller error: " + e.getCause().getMessage() + "\n");
            throw e;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Unmarshals XML to Object
     *
     * @throws JAXBException
     * @throws java.io.IOException
     */
    @Test(dependsOnMethods = "marshal")
    public void unmarshal() throws JAXBException, IOException {
        System.out.println();
        System.out.println("JAXB UNMARSHAL - XML to OBJECT");
        System.out.println();

        try (InputStream xmlStream = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("elfinder-configuration.xml")) {
            ElfinderConfiguration elfinderConfiguration = (ElfinderConfiguration) unmarshaller.unmarshal(xmlStream);

            System.out.println("Thumbnail Width: " + elfinderConfiguration.getThumbnail().getWidth());
            System.out.println();
            for (ElfinderConfiguration.Volume volume : elfinderConfiguration.getVolume()) {
                System.out.println("Source  : " + volume.getSource());
                System.out.println("Alias   : " + volume.getAlias());
                System.out.println("Path    : " + volume.getPath());
                System.out.println("Default : " + volume.isDefault());
                System.out.println("Locale  : " + volume.getLocale());
                System.out.println("Locked  : " + volume.getConstraint().isLocked());
                System.out.println("Readable: " + volume.getConstraint().isReadable());
                System.out.println("Writable: " + volume.getConstraint().isWritable());
                System.out.println();
            }
        } catch (JAXBException e) {
            System.err.println("Unmarshaller error: " + e.getCause().getMessage() + "\n");
            throw e;
        }

    }
}


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Liverpool favourites for Top 4 Finish after Alisson Heroics
Leave a Comment	/ Football Blog / By Dean Etheridge
Top 4 Finish Latest - The fight for the last two places in the Premier League Top 4 is set to go right down to the wire after Alisson's sensational winner for Liverpool against West Brom on Sunday afternoon.
The 2-1 win for Liverpool means that it's still a three horse race for the remaining two Champions League places. Chelsea and Leicester didn't have league matches last weekend, due to their participation in the FA Cup final.
Alisson Keeps Liverpool in hunt for a Top 4 Finish
I don't think it's any surprise to say that the moment of the weekend in the Premier League was Liverpool keeper, Alisson's stoppage time headed winner against West Brom.
Not winning would have been a huge blow to Liverpool's chances of a Top 4 finish, hence the Reds risking all by sending their keeper up in the dying seconds of a match they were drawing 1-1.
The win for Liverpool means that they are now massive odds on with the bookmakers to make the Top 4, despite currently sitting in fifth place.
Top 4 Finish Betting
Liverpool 1/7
Chelsea 4/9
Leicester 8/11
This is basically down to the face that third (Leicester) and fourth (Chelsea) play each other on Tuesday. Meaning one, or both will have to drop points.
Jurgen Klopp owes a huge debt of gratitude to his goalkeeper for keeping his side in the Top 4 hunt.
Not since the days of the great Peter Schmeichel have we really witnessed goalkeepers scoring goals like that.
Speaking of Peter Schmeichel, and his son Kasper had a decent weekend as well. He pulled off a remarkable save to help his side win the FA Cup final (1-0) on Saturday, preventing a certain equaliser from Mason Mount in the 88th minute.
It certainly was a save worthy of winning any cup final.


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Tejada, Or Lerdo De Tejada, Sebastian, president of Mexico, born in Jalapa, April 25, 1825. He was educated in the seminary of Puebla and in the college of San Ildefonso, in the city of Mexico, became rector of the college in 1852, and received the diploma of advocate in 1853. He was a judge of the supreme court from December, 1855, to June 1, 1857, when he became minister of foreign affairs and premier, but resigned in September on account of his support of the new liberal constitution, in opposition to President Comonfort. He was a member and thrice the president of the house of representatives during the sessions of 1861-'2. He opposed the treaty for arranging the English debt, and its failure led to the downfall of the Zamacona cabinet. His influence led to the ratification in December, 1861, of treaties of commerce and of extradition with the United States. He was member of congress in 1862-'3, and followed the government on its removal from Mexico, during the French invasion. On Sept. 2, 1863, he became minister of justice, and on Sept. 11 of foreign affairs. He shared with Juarez the honor of the eventual recovery of the national independence.
The presidential term of Juarez expiring on Nov. 30, 1865, Lerdo de Tejada, to avert the excitement of a new election, caused the presidential term to be extended until the termination of the war. After the capture of Maximilian, he was vainly solicited to spare his life. After the return of Juarez to the capital, in July, 1867, Lerdo de Tejada suspended all treaties with those foreign powers which had failed in neutrality toward Mexico, or had joined in the intervention; but he accorded to aliens the same security as to Mexicans. In 1868 he became chief justice of the supreme court. In that capacity, under the constitution, he became president on the death of Juarez in July, 1872; and on Nov. 1 he was almost unanimously elected to that office for the term ending Nov. 30, 1876.


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Q: java xmx parameter seems not working in CentOS 7.6, how to limit java 11 process memory Now I am using this command to start my Java 11 app in CentOS 7.6:
nohup ${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java -Xmx256M -Xms128M -jar \
  -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,suspend=n,server=y,address=0.0.0.0:5019 \
  ${APP_HOME}/${APP_NAME} >> ./cruise.log &

I have limit this app maxium using 256MB of memory(the Host machine only have 2GB memory), but the app always killed by the Linux OOM Killer. I am using this command to check if the Java process killed by linux kernel:
dmesg | grep java

shows log like this:
[6768976.753187] java invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201da, order=0, oom_score_adj=0
[6768976.754518] java cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
[6768976.755264] CPU: 0 PID: 1480 Comm: java Kdump: loaded Tainted: G            E  ------------   3.10.0-1160.6.1.el7.x86_64 #1
[6768976.830305] [ 1282]     0  1282   518681    17582      95        0             0 java
[6768976.845210] [12175]     0 12175   690412   140078     432        0             0 java
[6768976.974348] [ 1282]     0  1282   518681    17582      95        0             0 java
[6768976.993705] [12175]     0 12175   690412   140078     432        0             0 java
[6768977.360880] [ 1282]     0  1282   518681    17582      95        0             0 java
[6768977.375595] [12175]     0 12175   690412   140078     432        0             0 java
[6772518.650946] [ 1282]     0  1282   518681    17582      95        0             0 java
[6772518.665056] [12175]     0 12175   690412   140119     432        0             0 java
[6776216.737728] [ 1282]     0  1282   518681    17582      95        0             0 java
[6776216.753942] [12175]     0 12175   690412   140197     432        0             0 java
[6779968.759144] [ 1282]     0  1282   518681    17582      95        0             0 java
[6779968.774794] [12175]     0 12175   690412   140750     432        0             0 java
[6783751.768168] [ 1282]     0  1282   518681    17582      95        0             0 java
[6783751.783042] [12175]     0 12175   690412   140903     432        0             0 java
[6830220.412373] [ 1282]     0  1282   518681    17582      95        0             0 java
[6830220.430240] [16695]     0 16695   644884    89569     273        0             0 java
[6830220.555033] [ 1282]     0  1282   518681    17582      95        0             0 java
[6830220.576297] [16695]     0 16695   644884    89569     273        0             0 java
[6851842.309817] [ 1282]     0  1282   518681    17582      95        0             0 java
[6851842.323408] [16695]     0 16695   647237    99529     289        0             0 java
[6851842.447896] [ 1282]     0  1282   518681    17582      95        0             0 java
[6851842.462193] [16695]     0 16695   647237    99529     289        0             0 java
[6851842.485439] Out of memory: Kill process 16695 (java) score 205 or sacrifice child
[6851842.486780] Killed process 16695 (java), UID 0, total-vm:2588948kB, anon-rss:398116kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB

why the Java did not OOM itself and using so much memory and finally killed by linux kernel? How to limit java process memory usage?

A: The -Xmx flag only limits the Java heap size. It doesn't constrains the JVM's other use of memory.  The JVM uses / consumes off-heap memory for lots of things:

*

*The shared memory segments for the java executable itself

*Dynamically loaded (native) libraries.

*The JVM's (C++) native heap

*The Java threads' stack segments

*The JVM's metaspace

*Memory segments for mapped files, etc.

Depending on the application and what it does, this odd-heap memory could be significant.
(The -Xmx option does work, but not in the way that you think it does.)

Why the Java did not OOM itself and using so much memory ...

Presumably because it hasn't totally filled the Java heap.  (Or hasn't failed to allocate an off-memory segment.)

... and finally killed by linux kernel?

The OOM killer doesn't actually kill based on the absolute amount of (physical or virtual) memory that a process uses.  What it is actually doing is measuring the demand that the various processes are placing on the virtual memory system (swapping) and picking the process that seems to be causing the system to thrash.
A JVM running a full garbage collection on a system that with a limited amount of RAM is liable to generate a lot of paging, and is liable to be an OOM killer target.

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Bengalureans are a bunch of happy-go-lucky people. Whether you drive a Maruti or a BMW, Bengalureans will care for you anyways. says chef Nimish Bhatia.
I have lived here in several installments for the past 27 years till it became permanent home. In 1992, when I first stayed here, I remember falling in love with the city's clean and green roads, says Bhatia.
A candid chat with Nimish Bhatia, chef and restaurateur, about what makes Bengaluru a favourite city.
I have visited half the world and yet Bengaluru is the only city I love to live in. This multicultural city accepts everyone. Delhi is snooty. Chennai and Kolkata are too traditional.Mumbai is politicised. Bengalureans are a bunch of happy-go-lucky people. Whether you drive a Maruti or a BMW, Bengalureans will care for you anyways.
I have lived here in several installments for the past 27 years till it became permanent home. In 1992, when I first stayed here, I remember falling in love with the city's clean and green roads. Bengaluru then ended at Mehkri circle. There was no summer or winter. We enjoyed chilled beer throughout the year. It was paradise. Friends advised me to open a restaurant in Delhi. But my heart was set on Bengaluru.
I would get the traffic situation sorted.I agree that there has been a population influx. But other cities manage to handle it. By the time a flyover project ends in Bengaluru, we fall 20 years behind again. I would form a committee to understand it scientifically, install more signals, build more flyovers, employ strict lane-discipline and train auto and bus drivers for smooth public transport flow.
Food critic Kripal Amanna is my favourite Bengalurean because he has worked towards putting our city on the national F&B map. I remember his event Chefs for Charity in early 2000, where he connected people of leisure, the chefs and the needy.Nobody thought of this chain of connectivity in F&B circles.
If not Bengaluru, which city would you like to live in?
I would probably live in Chandigarh.Simply because it reminds me of Bengaluru in many ways. Its climate and people are just like that of our city.Chandigarh is also a multicultural IT city.In fact, it has cleaner roads with traffic discipline, which makes it quite livable.


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Caryocolum abhorrens är en fjärilsart som beskrevs av Peter Huemer 1988. Caryocolum abhorrens ingår i släktet Caryocolum och familjen stävmalar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

Stävmalar
abhorrens

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Outdoor places reflect national values
From the Executive Director's Desk, October/November 2015 / By OWAA Developer
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Sometimes you hear a presentation from someone who just "gets it." In this case it was National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis who gave the keynote speech at OWAA's annual conference held this year in June in Knoxville, Tennessee.
What was so special about Jarvis' speech was how he linked our public lands to American values. Jarvis quoted Ken Burns; "the National Parks are a Declaration of Independence applied to the land."
"We save what we value. If you think about what you retain in your own personal lives; those things that are important to you. Well, as a nation we have set aside 407 places that really represent our national character and define the American experience," said Jarvis.
Here are some of the values and places Jarvis mentioned in what he referred to as his "Field Guide to American Values:"
Freedom: Places like Independence Hall and Manassas Battlefield.
Equality: Places like the Selma to Montgomery Historic Trail and Women's Rights Historical Park in Seneca, New York.
Democracy: Places like Federal Hall National Memorial and the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
Fun: Places like the Grand Canyon and Denali National Park. Courage: Places like Flight 93 National Memorial and military cemeteries, like Antietam.
Honesty: Places like Manzanar and Mesa Verde.
Leadership: Places like Mount Rushmore and the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial.
Conservation: Places like Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park and Yellowstone National Park.
"America's 407 National Parks are a collective expression of who we are as a people," Jarvis said. "They are a mosaic of the things that we value most about ourselves. While they define the values they also unite us as a nation."
OWAA members serve as the voice of the outdoors. Every word we write or speak and every image we capture helps others see and hear what we value most. You can see all of Jarvis' keynote address at https://owaa.org/blog/2015/08/a-field-guide-to-american-values/. ♦
— OWAA Executive Director Tom Sadler, tsadler@owaa.org
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WITH the economic crisis spreading through Asian economies, Prime Minister Hun Sen urged international cooperation and government action to prevent a property market crash from dragging down the Cambodian economy.
"The economic crisis started in the real estate sector, and if Cambodia is not careful, we will have the same problem," he said at the fourth Asia Economic Forum, which opened Tuesday in Phnom Penh and ends today.
"The global financial crisis tells us that we must try to find urgent solutions to control the problems in our financial system."
Business leaders and economists fear the international economic turmoil could spread to Cambodia and drive down foreign direct investment and the property market.
But in his speech, Hun Sen predicted that China's economy would withstand the economic troubles and could help Asia avoid the worst effects of the crisis.
"The strong economy in China is not a threat, but a good opportunity for neighbouring countries. Cambodia receives a lot of benefit from [Chinese] investment," he said.
Hun Sen also urged nations to cooperate to prevent the crisis from spreading.
"The financial crisis shows that all nations need each other, even if they are self-sufficient. Isolationist economic and political policies will not work," he said.
"To solve the economic problem, we need long-term solutions," he added.
Hun Sen added that governments from around Asia and Europe would meet at the end of this month in Beijing to discuss the crisis.
He said that human resources, agriculture and trade would be key growth areas over the short- and medium-term.


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Bible Black Wiki
Rose Cross
From Bible Black Wiki
Members marching down the hallway.
Known members
Leader(s): Hiroko Takashiro
Nami Kozono (unofficial)
Others: Rie Morita
Saki Shindou
Rose Cross or Rose Cross Society is the witchcraft club started by Academy student Hiroko Takashiro and her two classmates Saki Shindou and Rie Morita. The group, consisting of only female students, is primarily featured in the Bible Black: Origins anime series. It is named after a secret alchemist order of the Middle Ages, the RosicrucianWP.[1]
The group was formed exactly one year before all but one of its members attempt to summon the Devil on Walpurgis Night.[2] The girls initially toy with simple props like tarot cards, and attempt to imitate black magic rituals they read about in books.[3] After expanding to six members, the girls start looking for foreign books and original manuscripts from outside of Japan, eventually discovering the Bible Black.[4]
Leader Takashiro takes her club's hobby quite seriously and claims witchcraft should not be taken lightly. According to her, the power of darkness can perform miracles and she and her friends study it to learn the truth of history, as witchcraft has been part of life since ancient times.[5]
1.1 Finding the black book
1.2 Summoning the Devil
1.3 Demise
The club's official bid is denied by the arrogant council member Mochida.
The girls try to become an official school club by making a request to the student council. However, their application is denied. Council member Junko Mochida scolds the girls when she informs them about their unsuccessful request, saying the school would never allow a silly club like theirs.[6]
Obtaining the Bible Black.
Finding the black book
Not long after, Rie Morita presents a mysterious hand written grimoire to her fellow members after she finds it in an antiques store. The girls translate one of the simple spells inside and test it out on Mochida to take revenge. To their amazement, the spell works, forcing Mochida to strip in front of all her classmates during a school assembly. They later also help the unpopular student Hiratani make the beautiful and lesbian Nami Kozono madly fall in love with him.
'Helping' their fellow students.
After that, the girls gain significant influence and notoriety around the school. They use the spells to help numerous people seduce others in exchange for large sums of money. Rich and powerful, the group seemingly becomes unstoppable. Even the student council does not dare get in their way.[7]
Kozono gives them a sanctuary in the basement of the Academy.
In fact, council president Nami Kozono finds out they practice magic and desperately begs them to make Hiratani to love only her. Club leader Takashiro agrees, but in return wants a room in the school to practice with her club. Kozono arranges that they can use the basement. Then, instead of helping her, Takashiro removes the spell they put on her before, causing Kozono to realize in disgust what Hiratani has done to her.
Ritual in the basement.
Summoning the Devil
Although some members voice their concerns, Takashiro allows Kozono to join their circle, amused by her change of opinion on magic. The girls prepare a ritual to summon the Devil himself on Walpurgis Night, the feast of witches and souls when the power of darkness is strongest. However, it requires a virgin human sacrifice. Kozono agrees to prepare a victim.
Watching as leader Takashiro is raped.
Before Walpurgis Night, the members try to summon something smaller first by sacrificing a small dog. During the ritual, a demon appears and viciously rapes Takashiro using several tentacles. The other girls rush to help her after he disappears, but Kozono reacts in awe of the demon's power.
Kozono takes over control of the circle when Takashiro is incapacitated.
While Takashiro is in the hospital with a coma,[8] Kozono declares herself the new leader of the club. She intends to proceed with the summoning ritual and has her classmate Reika Kitami kidnapped by her thugs. She allows them to have sex with the girl but tells them to preserve her virginity. Unknowingly, one of the thugs disobeys the order.
On the night of Walpurgis, Takashiro wakes up from her coma and tries to stop the ritual. She makes her way to the school's basement and urges the club members to stop using magic. But Kozono pushes her away using a spell and orders Rie and Saki to remove their former leader from the room and tie her up.
The group is exterminated.
During the ritual, Kozono stabs Kitami with a sword to sacrifice her life. But nothing happens. The girls panic, but Kozono - in a crazed lust for power - starts killing all the members of the club until the gates of hell open. Before Kozono can make her appeal to the Devil, however, the mortally wounded Kitami plunges the ritual sword in her back, killing her.
When Takashiro manages to break free, she rushes down to the basement to find her friends and every member of her once powerful magic club dead.
Saeki and her friends Jun and Maki later start their own coven.
The basement room is sealed following the incident on Walpurgis Night, and the police and school authorities pass it off as a suicide pact.[9] However, rumors about the witchcraft club persist up to twelve years after its demise,[10] despite the club never being cited in any official school records or yearly albums.[11] Believing the rumors to be true, and most likely inspired by the members of the club, the occult-obsessed student Kaori Saeki starts a similar witchcraft club with two of her friends.[12]
Minase discovers the relics of the past when he breaks into the basement.
Also spurred on by the rumors, student Taki Minase learns of the history of the club after breaking into the basement and finding the Bible Black spell book. He also starts performing magic charms to influence his fellow students, again attracting the powers of evil that threaten him and his friend.
Her encounter with the magic club and the contract she made with the Devil changes Reika Kitami's life forever. She becomes a gifted witch and devises a plan to trick the Devil into completing the contract and still preserve her soul.
Kitami and Takashiro as colleagues.
Having learned firsthand about the dangers of the occult, Hiroko Takashiro turns to studying white magic instead. But the bodily and mental rape she suffered from the demon leaves a lasting impression. Even years later she longs for the same sensation the demon gave her.
Kitami and Takashiro eventually both become teachers at the Academy twelve years later. Kitami takes revenge on the former Rose Cross leader when she discovers her history with the club.
In the first Bible Black game, the club is referred to as the Rose & Cross Society by Mika Ito. Hiroko Takashiro later calls it Rose Cross, however.
Also, in the intro of the game and in a flashback scene later, the priestess named Nami prominently featured in it has blond hair and a red robe (see image). The anime series later establishes the purple-haired Nami Kozono as being the priestess presiding over the ritual. Additionally, the members of Rose Cross all wear black instead of red robes in the anime.
Rose Cross helps...
...the Academy students...
...for vast sums of money.
Takashiro prepares an attack...
...and blows her enemies away.
The unstoppable girls.
Kozono begs the girls for help.
Takashiro with an unknown girl.
The girls discuss Kozono...
...before she joins the club.
The girls gather in their sanctuary.
The ritual commences.
The club's leader in a coma.
Takashiro begs the girls to stop...
...but is restrained by her friends.
Two unknown club members.
↑ GAME1 | Takashiro: "It was called the Rose Cross Society. We named it after a secret organization from the Middle Ages called the Rosicrucian Order."
↑ GAME1 | Takashiro: "We formed our coven exactly one year before the tragedy."
↑ GAME1 | Takashiro: "At first, we'd just gather and imitate the Black Magic rituals we read about. It was quite innocuous..."
↑ GAME1 | Takashiro: "And as time went on, we found ourselves with six members. By that time, we could no longer be satisfied by the occult books we could find in Japan. So we started ordering foreign books and original manuscripts, and read them voraciously. And then one day, we acquired a certain book...the Book of Magic you found."
↑ S2E1 | Takashiro: "Don't take witchcraft lightly." (...) "Magic, spells, and ritual...Witchcraft has been part of people's life since ancient times. The power of darkness can perform a miracle. Isn't it fascinating? We're trying to learn the truth of history through witchcraft."
↑ S2E1 | Mochida: "I came to inform you that your request to form a club has been denied." (...) "Did you really think the school would let you have such a silly club?"
↑ GAME1 | Takashiro: "There was no one in school who hadn't heard about us. It was around that time that we claimed this basement room for our own use. The student council was terrified of us, so they were happy to let us have it."
↑ GAME1 | Takashiro: "Because of the psychological shock I'd sustained, I fell into a coma for three days."
↑ GAME1 | Takashiro: "Fearing that the truth would leak out, the school authorities passed off the incident as a suicide pact." (...) "And they locked the basement room door so that no one could ever enter it again..."
↑ GAME1 | Minase: "You're talking about that Black Magic Society they had here 12 years ago...the one in all those rumors...aren't you?"
↑ GAME1 | Imari: "Someone from the Art Club told me. It wasn't an official club, so there aren't any school records and it's not in any of the yearly albums...but I heard it really did exist."
↑ GAME1 | Minase: But this Saeki has swallowed that whole occult society rumor, which is still being discussed today...and apparently she regards the society members with both respect and jealousy.
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Q: Outputting large structures to HD I have an array of a large structure that I am trying to output to hard drive. I seem to be able to write to hard drive just fine (though it's difficult to verify by looking at the binary data), however when I try to read it back, I always end up with a garbled mess. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
here's the structure configuration:
class xyz
{
public:
    double x, y, z;
};
class trianglePackage
{
public:

    int score;
    int position;

    xyz contactCoordinates;
    xyz normalVector;
    xyz locatorOffset;

};
class quadanglesOutput
{
public:

    int locator1position, locator2position, locator3position, locator4position;

    xyz centroid;

    int surfaceAreaScore;
    int centroidDifferance1Score;
    int centroidDifferance2Score;
    int minDistance1Score;
    int minDistance2Score;

    int totalLocatorScore;
    int totalHullScore;
    int totalScore;

    double surfaceArea;
    double centroidDifferance1;
    double centroidDifferance2;
    double minDistance1;
    double minDistance2;

    int hull;

    trianglePackage locator1, locator2, locator3, locator4;
};

and here are the read/write functions I'm using:
void outputQuadangleOutput(quadanglesOutput* output, string description, param parameters)
{

    string outputName = parameters.fileName + " " + description + ".bin";
    cout << "Output " << outputName.c_str() << "...";
    ofstream output2;
    output2.open(outputName.c_str());
    output2.write(reinterpret_cast<char*>(output), streamsize(parameters.topXlist * sizeof(quadanglesOutput)));
    output2.close();
    cout << "done" << endl;

}
void readIn(quadanglesOutput* pointer, param parameters, string description)
{
    string fileName = parameters.fileName + " " + description + ".bin";
    cout << "openining " << fileName << "...";
    ifstream readFile;
    readFile.open(fileName.c_str());
    readFile.read(reinterpret_cast<char*>(pointer), (parameters.topXlist * sizeof(quadanglesOutput)));
    readFile.close();
    cout << "done" << endl;
}

Typically the arrays of structures are about 100 in length, but usually only about the first 25 read back correctly, everything else is default uninitialized data.
I'm 99% sure that it's something wrong with my code, however is there a possibility it has something to do with four byte alignment?
Thanks.

A: It may be an issue with byte alignment, use pragma.
try wrap classes around with
#PRAGMA PACK PUSH(1)
....
#PRAGMA PACK POP

or
#PRAGMA PACK(1)
struct{
..
}

Try those as well:
Force binary flag for the stream.
ios_base::binary
readFile.open(fileName.c_str(), ios_base::binary);

Try to flush the the stream.
stream.write(...)
stream.flush()

//i know that close() should flush it.
UPDATE:
Everything works for me:
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <stdlib.h>

using namespace std;
#pragma pack(1)
class xyz
{
public:
    double x, y, z;
};

#pragma pack(1)
class trianglePackage
{
public:

    int score;
    int position;

    xyz contactCoordinates;
    xyz normalVector;
    xyz locatorOffset;

};

#pragma pack(1)
class quadanglesOutput
{
public:

    int locator1position, locator2position, locator3position, locator4position;

    xyz centroid;

    int surfaceAreaScore;
    int centroidDifferance1Score;
    int centroidDifferance2Score;
    int minDistance1Score;
    int minDistance2Score;

    int totalLocatorScore;
    int totalHullScore;
    int totalScore;

    double surfaceArea;
    double centroidDifferance1;
    double centroidDifferance2;
    double minDistance1;
    double minDistance2;

    int hull;

    trianglePackage locator1, locator2, locator3, locator4;
};

class param
{
public:
    string fileName;
    int topXlist;
};

void outputQuadangleOutput(quadanglesOutput* output, string description, param parameters)
{

    string outputName = parameters.fileName + " " + description + ".bin";
    cout << "Output " << outputName.c_str() << "...";
    ofstream output2;
    output2.open(outputName.c_str());
    output2.write(reinterpret_cast<char*>(output), streamsize(parameters.topXlist * sizeof(quadanglesOutput)));
    output2.close();
    cout << "done" << endl;

}
void readIn(quadanglesOutput* pointer, param parameters, string description)
{
    string fileName = parameters.fileName + " " + description + ".bin";
    cout << "openining " << fileName << "...";
    ifstream readFile;
    readFile.open(fileName.c_str());
    readFile.read(reinterpret_cast<char*>(pointer), (parameters.topXlist * sizeof(quadanglesOutput)));
    readFile.close();
    cout << "done" << endl;
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{

    quadanglesOutput a = {0};
    cout<<"total score:"<<a.totalScore<<endl;
    cout<<"locator position:"<<a.totalScore<<endl;
    cout<<"locator position:"<<a.locator1.position<<endl;
    cout<<"locator position:"<<a.locator2.normalVector.y <<endl;
    cout<<"sizeof quadangsomething:"<<sizeof(quadanglesOutput)<<endl;
    a.totalScore=1;
    a.locator1.position=333445;
    a.locator2.normalVector.y = 999.3224;
    cout<<"total score:"<<a.totalScore<<endl;
    cout<<"locator position:"<<a.locator1.position<<endl;
    cout<<"locator position:"<<a.locator2.normalVector.y <<endl;
    param p = {"C:/", 1};
    outputQuadangleOutput(&a, "file1", p);

    quadanglesOutput *b = new quadanglesOutput();
    readIn(b, p, "file1");
    cout<<"new total score:"<<b->totalScore<<endl;
    cout<<"new locator position:"<<b->locator1.position<<endl;
    cout<<"new locator position:"<<b->locator2.normalVector.y <<endl;

    delete b;

    string asdf;
    cin>>asdf;

};

OUTPUT:
total score:0
locator position:0
locator2.normalVector.y :0
sizeof quadangsomething:436
total score:1
locator position:333445
locator2.normalVector.y :999.322
Output C:/ file1.bin...done
openining C:/ file1.bin...done
new total score:1
new locator position:333445
new locator2.normalVector.y :999.322
without pragma it's still correct but you can see the difference in size:

sizeof quadangsomething:440

But packing it is good when sending structures over network.
Because here system alligns it always in the same fashion.