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Q: how to write makefile mixing C and C++ In this Makefile, I don't know how to compile out c objects in the same Makefile mixing C and C++. If I first compile the C objects and then run this Makefile, it works. Can anyone help to fix it for me?   Thanks in advance!
CXX = g++
CXXFLAGS = -Wall -D__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS

SERVER_SRC = \
    main.cpp

SERVER_SRC_OBJS = ${SERVER_SRC:.cpp=.o}

REDIS_SRC = \
    $(HIREDIS_FOLDER)/net.c \
    $(HIREDIS_FOLDER)/hiredis.c \
    $(HIREDIS_FOLDER)/sds.c \
    $(HIREDIS_FOLDER)/async.c

REDIS_SRC_OBJS = ${REDIS_SRC:.c=.o}

.SUFFIXES:
.SUFFIXES: .o .cpp
.cpp.o:
    $(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -I$(HIREDIS_FOLDER) \
    -c $< -o $*.o

all: server

net.o: net.c fmacros.h net.h hiredis.h
async.o: async.c async.h hiredis.h sds.h dict.c dict.h
hiredis.o: hiredis.c fmacros.h hiredis.h net.h sds.h
sds.o: sds.c sds.h

server: $(SERVER_SRC_OBJS) $(REDIS_SRC_OBJS)
    mkdir -p bin
    $(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -o bin/redis_main \
    -I$(HIREDIS_FOLDER) \
    $(REDIS_SRC_OBJS) \
    $(SERVER_SRC_OBJS) \
    -lpthread \
    -lrt \
    -Wl,-rpath,./

.PHONY: clean
clean:
    $(RM) -r bin/redis_main
    $(RM) ./*.gc??
    $(RM) $(SERVER_SRC_OBJS)
    $(RM) $(REDIS_SRC_OBJS)

A: You can do that by compiling first the C files and then straight after the CPP files. This might work (at least worked in one of my projects):
CXX = g++
CC = gcc
CFLAGS = -Wall -c
CXXFLAGS = -Wall -D__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS

OUTPUTDIR = ./bin/
MKDIR = mkdir -p $(OUTPUTDIR)
OBJECTC = redis.o

CSOURCES = \
     $(HIREDIS_FOLDER)/net.c \
     $(HIREDIS_FOLDER)/hiredis.c \
     $(HIREDIS_FOLDER)/sds.c \
     $(HIREDIS_FOLDER)/async.c

CXXSOURCES = \
    main.cpp

all: server

server:
    $(MKDIR)
    $(CC) $(CSOURCES) $(CFLAGS) -o $(OUTPUTDIR)$(OBJECTC)
    $(CXX) $(OUTPUTDIR)$(OBJECTC) $(CXXSOURCES) -o $(OUTPUTDIR)server

.PHONY: clean
clean:
    $(RM) -rf $(OUTPUTDIR)
    $(RM) ./*.gc??
    $(RM) ./*.o

Feel free to change it if you see a more proper way to do it :)

A: G++ can and will compile both .c and .cpp source files just fine.
What you really need to do is add dependencies for "server" target.  For example:
OBJ = net.o hiredis.o sds.o async.o

...

all: server

server: $(OBJ)

There are some really good tips in this Howto.

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#116 = Volume 39, Part 1 = March 2012
Christopher Palmer
I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon: Tracing and Complicating the Dickian Networks
Umberto Rossi. The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick: A Reading of Twenty Ontologically Uncertain Novels. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 308 pp. $45 pbk.
Laurence A. Rickels. I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2010. 440 pp. $25 pbk.
Criticism of the work of Philip K. Dick is now so extensive as to have reached its mature or possibly even its decadent stage. Umberto Rossi's capacious and forceful book sets out to bring a certain order to the field, while Laurence Rickels's discursive and ebullient discussion is happy to extend it almost to the horizon, if not beyond. Books do tend to select their readers, and the reader who could profit both from Rossi and from Rickels would be a very interesting person, of wide learning and considerable flexibility. Your reviewer cannot claim to be that person; he found reading and arguing with Rossi a productive experience, and was by turns dazzled and annoyed by Rickels.
Rossi combines an authoritative survey of existing criticism of Dick, including analytic readings and biographical aspects, with a "unifying interpretive hypothesis" (4), which is that we can best understand Dick's fiction by mapping the ways it produces and deploys "ontological uncertainty." His position is that we are now beyond the stage of fitting Dick into "sociological sf," and beyond the phase of relating his fiction to postmodernity or (so he implies) drawing upon the terms of postmodernism for our interpretation. What is needed is a kind of reining in: introduce detailed narratological analysis and this will clarify puzzles or put them in the right context for assessment, and it will also enable us to strike the right balance between (broadly speaking) political and religious interpretations of the fiction; further, do this in the firm conviction that Dick is a novelist first and always, and thereby the allegories, fables, and religious or metaphysical implications and fascinations will be kept in proportion. It is an ambitious program, but Rossi is surely right in his implication that it is about time for the attempt to be made.
How well does it work? This clearly depends on the productivity of the interpretive hypothesis; the rest of this response to Rossi concentrates on that, but first it needs to be said that there is a certain tension between the working out of the interpretive hypothesis—the mapping of ontological uncertainty—and the book's ambitions as a magisterial survey. The latter embraces the state of Dick criticism and its errors;1 the variety of texts that influenced or probably influenced his fiction; parallels and analogies with eminent writers such as Kafka, Proust, or Pynchon; a vivid sense of the day-by-day political urgencies and crises of the 1960s and 1970s and their pressure on the fiction; and a concern for the way the progress (or more often the lack of progress) of Dick's career as a novelist with ambitions to succeed outside the genre can be seen as influencing his sf. All this gives a sense of the density of involvement and attention in and behind the fictions, the density of being Philip K. Dick as a writer in his times and involvements, and I do not think any other critical or biographical work on Dick has conveyed this. Particularly interesting (and quite closely connected to the mapping of ontological uncertainty) is the suggestion that a variety of sinisterly controlling and game-playing figures in the fictions might be images, often "anamorphic images," of Dick's uneasy feelings about himself as a writer, a game-player in fiction.2 (These figures include Peter in The Cosmic Puppets [1957], Jory in Ubik [1969], Palmer Eldritch, the main character in "Small Town" [1954], and unseen vugs in Game-Players of Titan [1963].) But this side of Rossi's discussion can also be hampering or unconvincing, as for instance in his treatment of the influence of the film It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and thence of Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843) on The Cosmic Puppets (32-33), or the analogy between Wells's Eloi and Morlocks and the Cardinal and the Procurator in Dick's 1981 novel The Divine Invasion (240), or the details linking Mailer's The Naked and the Dead (1948) and Stendahl's The Red and the Black (1830) in an aside on how The Man in the High Castle (1962) treats war (80; and perhaps the Stendhal novel should be The Charterhouse of Parma [1839]?).
Rossi concentrates on "the architecture of the narrative" (7), the structuring of the plot, so as to examine how it brings about and intensifies "ontological uncertainty." That is the interpretive hypothesis: not so much that the novels are about or investigate ontological uncertainty, as that they work it, causing it to become central to the reader's experience. "Each chapter discusses a different narrative device" (22), including "shunts" between genres; "multiple internal focalization"; shifts between alternating worlds that are defined (and tabled) as primary, secondary, and zero worlds; and so on. Chapters on the last three novels, VALIS (1981), The Divine Invasion, and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982), considered as a trilogy, trace the exacerbated genre shifts—shifts between kinds of fiction really, since categories such as theological sf and realistic fiction are so broad—in the context of a hypothesis that the three novels amount to a broad exploration of present, future, and past, respectively. "Mapping Dick's novels can always help us to grasp his textual strategies" (180): the shifts, shunts, reversals, revelations, and coups de théâtre are traced, point to point. The outcome is often a table of changes and reversals—of experiences caused by JJ-180 in Dick's 1966 novel Now Wait for Last Year (129-30); of the drug-mediated confrontations of Louis and Pris in his 1969 novel We Can Build You (155); of virtual realities, mostly the work of the enigmatic Eldritch, in his 1964 work The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (178); of alternating worlds, probably never coming to rest in our world as solid ground, in Time Out of Joint (1959), The Man in the High Castle, and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974). Rossi does this work of mapping with care and persistence; his intervention into Dick criticism recalls a version of traditional philology, as in the reconstructing of text variants by editors.
The result is a clear demonstration of the effect of intensity that Dick's novels can produce, and thence of the reader's experience of this intensity. Never mind (for the moment, anyway), what is being worked to produce the successive jolts and reversals, and hence the feeling of uncertainty (whether it be pulp-fiction maneuvers, point-of-view alternations producing "Finite Subjective Realities," vertiginous metaphysical leaps, laminated theological fables), the effect of a succession of these is an accumulating intensity and an experience of ontological uncertainty. Rossi follows this effect pertinaciously as it unfolds, then maps and tables and classifies it. Notably, much-discussed conundrums and interpretive cruxes such as the Soft Drink Stand that dissolves into its own label in Time Out of Joint, or the appearance of Joe Chip's features on the coins at the end of Ubik, or Tagomi's probable glimpse of our racist world in The Man in the High Castle, fall into place as features of a very crowded landscape. Certain recurrences become evident: for instance, novels that seem to return to something like our reality from their nerve-wracking wanderings in alternative or superseding realities, but possibly do not, or that seem to come to resolution but possibly do not: examples include Time Out of Joint, Ubik, Flow My Tears, VALIS, and A Maze of Death (1970).
Rossi's approach does accrete—indeed, it helps to define—certain problems; and it also provokes thought of what it tends to overlook. Certainly he is aware that uncertainty cannot usefully be total; a text that simply leaves us in a swamp of undifferentiated uncertainty would hardly be worth reading. Uncertainty compels because of its relations to the demand, or quest, if not for certainty, then at least for definition and an advance towards more interesting and fundamental uncertainties. So uncertainty for its own sake, as an effect interesting in itself, whatever produces it, cannot be satisfying. It must have relevant meaning, and here I think the implication of Rossi's argument is that by tracing ontological uncertainty as a product of Dick's technique, we put ourselves in the best position to understand the religious implications of many of his fictions—in the best position in that we are still to see him as making meanings the way a novelist does, not the way a prophet or a weirdo does. Rossi is convincing on the ways in which The Man in the High Castle and Ubik, for instance, can be read as theodicies, fictional investigations of the place of evil in the scheme of things.
Uncertainty is so varied and pervasive in Dick's fictions, as Rossi shows, that it can in some ways be seen not merely as the constant intended effect, but as a kind of value in itself. Death, degeneration to degraded unlife (as with Jory's victims in Ubik), the life-in-death or moral emptiness sensed in psychotic humans or androids, all this chills partly because it is a threat to uncertainty, as if uncertainty were a principle of the fallible, messy lives that Dick usually imagines for his characters. Uncertainty makes us ask questions, even if frantic or despairing ones; meaninglessness is a worse threat than uncertainty. On the other hand, uncertainty can narrow into puzzle, and I think Rossi's close examination of details and shifts illuminates this aspect of the fictions and sets him a problem in turn. Take, for example, the discussion of Flow My Tears. It appears that in both the worlds in which most of the novel occurs, African-Americans are not allowed more than one child; yet Montgomery L. Hopkins, whom General Buckman meets in a crucial scene, turns out to have several children. How could this be? Does it mean that the meeting takes place in yet another universe from the two we have encountered in the story? Rossi investigates, revising his tables that trace the primary, secondary, and zero texts to accommodate this puzzle and a couple of other anomalies he has identified (204-205). If this kind of puzzling over details, premised always on setting to one side the possibility of continuity error or absent-mindedness on the author's part, is to yield any broader sense of significance, then we arguably need a broader sense of the new possibilities than will be provided by the anomaly. The anomaly by itself remains a puzzle and does not deepen into mystery. What actually happens when Buckman meets Hopkins, which is one of Dick's great scenes of empathy, perhaps provides that broader sense: we are—probably— back to our own world or something very like it, and empathy has unexpectedly blossomed. Rossi does not discuss what happens between Buckman and Hopkins, but the move that concludes his discussion of Flow My Tears implies a similar point, as he invokes the substantial beauty of Mary Anne's blue vase: "to all the dismal universes falling apart conjured up by evil or insane archons, we may oppose this small and beautiful (and fragile) creation" (208).
Rossi proceeds to mention Frank Frink's pin in Man in the High Castle. How do objects such as the vase and the pin, and how do personages such as Mary Anne and Frank and Montgomery L. Hopkins, figure in the shunting and game-playing that produces ontological uncertainty? We could add Bill Lundborg, who reasons about oil under a car in The Transmigration of Timothy Archer or, indeed, the robot taxi that advises Eric Sweetscent in Now Wait for Last Year, or the Martian jackal that recoils from Barney Mayerson in Palmer Eldritch. There is plenty of evidence, of course, that these characters and incidents are ungrounded, rendered ontologically uncertain, given the shifts and twists that shape the novels in which they figure. Rossi provides, for instance, a concise list of the variations of fake, disguise, and deceit among the characters in The Man in the High Castle (89). And it might also be suggested that the dazzling shifts that produce the uncertainty often depend on a stereotyped cast list, as if by analogy with, for instance, chess where the permutations of the game are unlimited but the pieces are set and few. In discussing A Maze of Death, Rossi refers to Seth Morley as "the umpteenth Little Man à la Frank Frink, Joe Chip or Barney Mayerson" (196). Readers of Dick know what Rossi is expressing with that word "umpteenth"; nonetheless, it seems to be in the invention of some scene of revelation to the Little Man, or some emotionally transforming encounter (often a scene or encounter that arrives as suddenly as do the precipitations of further ontological uncertainty), that Dick counterpoints his production of interminable uncertainty.
I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick takes almost all of Dick's writings (novels, stories, essays, interviews) and sets them working with a "relay" of other texts by, notably, Ludwig Binswanger (the Swiss practitioner of existential psychoanalysis whom Dick read), Benjamin, Freud, Jung, Heidegger, and Gotthard Günther, who published a series of theoretical articles in Startling Stories in the early 1950s. Many of these texts are case histories, narratives that are set alongside Dick's own narratives. All Dick's texts are seen as roughly equal: some get more attention than others, but all get the same kind of attention, and, beyond one or two notes of exasperation at the complexity of Dick's plots, there is no interest in highlighting the literary successes that may be seen as rewarding intensive contemplation and dismissing the incoherent potboilers as not worth the effort. In this sense, The Zap Gun (1967) and The Ganymede Takeover (1967, with Ray Nelson) are equal to Martian Time-Slip (1964) and Man in the High Castle. Nor is there much attention to the order in which the texts were published or to discussion of the shape of Dick's literary career. A given text enters I Think I Am when analogies with the case studies and other relay texts prompt its admission, and Rickels's position seems to be that Dick played with the same deck of types and figures from beginning to end of his career, even if he shuffled the cards in startlingly different ways. Since most critical studies of Dick at least imply varying evaluations due to the different attentions (or lack of attention) they give to specific texts, as well as make a modal distinction between fictions on the one hand and essays or interviews on the other (all in the process of trying to map the author's changing and possibly developing literary career), we can simply note the entry into the crowded field of Dick criticism of a stranger from a different place, and see what he has to offer.
A similar positive concession needs to be extended to the book's prose style, though this reader found it a bit more difficult to do so. I Think I Am is not so much read as overheard, as if one were in the next room listening to an unstoppable flood of discourse to a captive but presumably receptive audience, but unable to intervene oneself. It is loaded with puns, associations, rhyme words; some are memorable and illuminating, but they had better be, given how many there are: pun as magic, as charm (the kind loaded on a bracelet), as flash of insight, as tic.3 The sentences are inclusive rather than discriminative; they reach for maximum content, as if each might be a global summary, not so much of the argument thus far as of the argument stretching into the future—as in one of Dick's alternative times where present, past, and future exist in uncertain relation.
Of course, the style relates to and expresses the content, which now needs to be given a more sober look. I Think I Am cycles, recycles, and interlaces a series of overlapping preoccupations. These include the acts of mourning and "unmourning"; the status and work of sf (sometimes punned as "psy-fi") as endopsychic allegory; and the way in which sf, similar in this respect to the activity of a patient as recorded in a case history, especially when the history is of a cure, encapsulates—that is, embeds in a picture of reality—various questions and tensions, many of them previously or also the work of religion (so that sf is an activity of secularization). Rickels focuses on how this process of encapsulation and secularization may involve—even or especially in the most seemingly bizarre work of sf or deluded patient—a kind of reality testing. The outcome can be the achievement of mourning by way of an acceptance by the characters (or patient), or a specification in the text, of finitude. There is a good deal of relevance to the task of coming to terms with Dick's fiction in the preoccupations summarized here, and they do overlap and at times reinforce each other as the text proceeds. Each of the book's five parts begins with a discussion of a case history or of an essay in the general field where philosophy and psychoanalysis overlap, and then proceeds to a discussion of a series of novels by Dick.
Dick's novels are full of deaths, death-in-life, persons or things who may be dead in their unlivingness or coldness, death as prospect, life in the aftermath of death, hauntings, gestures that withdraw from something or someone the right to life, or alternatively assert that someone or something has the right to life. Rickels's emphasis on mourning and unmourning reminds us how important coping with death or varieties of death-in-life is to the predicaments of the characters and to the shape of the universe in a given novel. He begins from and often returns to Dick's loss of his twin sister, but not as origin or explanation (that is, as some form of diagnosis of the fiction), but as something that evidently prompted Dick to explore coming to terms with loss, death, and absence (varieties of nothingness) by shaping whole plots and universes around it. To do this is, in Rickels's terms, to make an endopsychic allegory, though when he comes to discuss the novels, Rickels does not in fact interpret, in the sense of labeling parts of the fiction in terms of parts of the allegory, but summarizes the plots—paraphrase being itself an act of interpretation in the case of Dick, as most critics come to recognize. The result of this restraint is at times a puzzlement, as a given Dick novel is set alongside a psychoanalytic text with which it is supposed to be in relay, and the relation is not much detailed; the runner in the relay is way out of sight of the person from whom he received the baton, and they do not get together later to discuss how the race has gone. That is, Rickels does not force the fictions into the mold of his mostly psychoanalytic concepts, but rather bounces the concepts off the texts and leaves the reader to work out what they have dislodged.
The emphasis is less on the histories of particular characters who are in a condition of mourning, and thence perhaps on assessment of how they have coped, than on how the structure of the novel as a whole has progressed the work of mourning. This leads us to Rickels's description of the work of sf in relation not only to the work of the psyche but also to myth and religion. Science fiction is part of the general cultural work of secularization, so general that it is also at times ascribed by Rickels to Christianity. So he is less interested in the dozens of creeds, cosmologies, and (to use Rossi's term) theodicies that we find in Dick's fiction that pull his sf close to religion, than in how his fiction pulls religion into the secular. How so? Partly I think Rickels has in mind what other critics would see as Dick's literalization of cosmologies and creeds, along with everything else that enters his fictions, partly what other critics such as Rossi would see as Dick's restless game-playing (though Rickels does not see the author in this way). I think his answer is clarified by two more of his constantly recirculating terms: "finitude" and testing—in particular, reality testing. For Rickels, the constant reshuffling, questioning, subverting, or throwing into doubt of some ingenious or bizarre situation or cosmology (what Rossi sees as the making of ontological uncertainty) is a process of reality testing; it happens even in apparently bizarre or recklessly improvised fictions—such as those that Rickels evenhandedly discusses, Vulcan's Hammer (1960) or Deus Irae (1976, with Roger Zelazny)—as well as in those fictions usually considered more coherent. The analogy is with the way a disturbed person may be considered to help her cure by the production of bizarre world pictures that she then (sometimes) works through. A successful recovery will be "stabilized or encapsulated around maintenance of diplomatic relations with the outside world that traverses one's own" (294; Rickels's interpretation of the outcome for Schreber in the case history discussed by Freud). The bizarre world picture is not the symptom but the creative accommodation with the symptom, and in Dick's fiction the symptom is our involvement with death-in-life, in past, present, and future. Not that what is gained is reality; Rickels agrees with Rossi and many other critics on this, the more easily as he has less interest in Dick's novels as reflections on politics or American or postmodern social life. What is gained is acceptance of finitude, life in a here and now with its limits and fallibilities. Rickels's comment on the flight of Deckard and Rachel at the end of Blade Runner (1982) illustrates his position: "not the escape of fantasy, but an escape into affirmed finite life" (315).
At this point, with his emphasis on finitude, Rickels joins Rossi in the latter's valuation of Mary Anne's blue vase, or his reading of the pragmatic wisdom of Edgar Barefoot in The Transmigration of Timothy Archer: do not talk, eat—eat the offered sandwich (264-66; one of Rossi's most insightful passages). But this conclusion no doubt emphasizes the arrival of each critic as well as putting too simple a humanist spin on it, whereas these books are interesting in very different ways for their journeys through networks of intertextuality and interpretive openness.
1. Points regarding the errors of other critics are not always gracefully made; see, for instance, the remarks about Kim Stanley Robinson (245-46). I figure in the text a couple of times as "the Australian critic," but then Darko Suvin is "the Croatian critic" (175), so I am happy to accept the title.
2. "Anamorphic" is very commonly used by Rossi to suggest the nature of reference or satire in Dick. Variants (often "anamorphic image") occur nine times in chapter 7, for instance. The term is asked to do a lot of work and would have benefited from more discussion. Moreover, given Rossi's precision and at times eloquence as a writer, it is a pity that there are many slips of idiom. Here is a sample: "neither it ensures" (148); "do not mention of Childan" (165); "a blaspheme parody" (177); "the man who will slain the arch-villain" (184). In addition, there is the usage "sfnal" and "sfnally," which I admit to finding grating.
3. Some examples: "Underlying it all, including the 'printer' introjection of Galactic Pot-Healer [1969], is the inoculation or encapsulation that goes down with transference or mourning deadicated [sic] to the one they love" (126); "That computers who don't need people should be the most horrific conveyers of our psychotic breaks is a convenience story where we rarely find Dick one-stop hoping" (185); "This last stand or understanding of her world belongs to time that, standing still ever since the primal scene, folds out of its ecstasies and back upon itself as 'naked Dasein,' as 'naked horror'" (212).


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Q: Increasing instanciation time of DynamicComponentLoader with increasing number of components in Angular 2 I noticed that instanciating multiple components on-demand using the DynamicComponentLoader results in an increasing time for every instance.
I modified a plunker to demonstrate this: http://plnkr.co/edit/h9IrZXFmLgNuWm9sYrJF
Inserting...

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*1 instance = ~2.54ms for each instance

*10 instance = ~15.38ms for each instance

*100 instance = ~75.76ms for each instance

*1000 instance = ~460.01ms for each instance

I also discovered that the intialization is getting faster over time, e.g. when inserting 1000 instances the time ranges from 472.01ms for the first component to 449.88ms for the last component.
Tested in Firefox 45 and Angular 2 beta.9.
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*Why is instanciation time for the same component not equal?

*How can I optimize the instanciation?


In Form 4 Principles of Accounting, students will be introduced to the basics of accounting, the different types of accounting, documents needed to start a business, keeping journals, bank statements and other introductory topics on accountings.
By the end of this subject, you will be able to master the basics of accounting and understand introductory concepts on accounting. You will be able to complete basic accounting questions and have a comprehensive knowledge of the how to prepare bank statements, journals and other accounting related documentation, among others.


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Q: How to slow down dropdown box by CSS or jQuery I have built a dropdown button,but have no idea how to slow the the dropping process:
Html:

<button onclick="myFunction()" class="dropbtn">下拉菜单</button>

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CSS:
.dropbtn {
    background-color: #4CAF50;
    color: white;
    padding: 16px;
    font-size: 16px;
    border: none;
    cursor: pointer;
}

.dropbtn:hover, .dropbtn:focus {
    background-color: #3e8e41;
}

.dropdown {
    position: relative;
    display: inline-block;
}

.dropdown-content {
    display: none;
    position: absolute;
    background-color: #f9f9f9;
    min-width: 160px;
    overflow: auto;
    box-shadow: 0px 8px 16px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
    z-index: 1;
}

.dropdown-content a {
    color: black;
    padding: 12px 16px;
    text-decoration: none;
    display: block;
}

.dropdown a:hover {background-color: #f1f1f1}

.show {display:block;}

JS:
/* click to show the box */
function myFunction() {
    document.getElementById("myDropdown").classList.toggle("show");
}

// click out area to call back the box
window.onclick = function(event) {
  if (!event.target.matches('.dropbtn')) {

    var dropdowns = document.getElementsByClassName("dropdown-content");
    var i;
    for (i = 0; i < dropdowns.length; i++) {
      var openDropdown = dropdowns[i];
      if (openDropdown.classList.contains('show')) {
        openDropdown.classList.remove('show');
      }
    }
  }
}

So my question is how can I slow down the process of this function so that the whole process looks more smoothly.
I have tried to add:
$("div#myDropdown").slideDown(1000);

in front of:
document.getElementById("myDropdown").classList.toggle("show");

But this makes me can't hide the menu when I click out area.Any friend can help?

A: $('#myDropdown').slideDown();  is a jQuery function, if you want to use this effect you have to also include jQuery.
In this slideDown (and also slideUp) you can specify a callback function which get's executed once the animation finished playing. After the animation finished playing I set toggle your classes (to have the otherwise same functionality as you currenctly have)

function myFunction() {
 $('#myDropdown').slideDown(200);
  document.getElementById("myDropdown").classList.toggle("show");
}

// click out area to call back the box
window.onclick = function(event) {
  if (!event.target.matches('.dropbtn')) {

    var dropdowns = document.getElementsByClassName("dropdown-content");
    var i;
    for (i = 0; i < dropdowns.length; i++) {
      var openDropdown = dropdowns[i];
      if (openDropdown.classList.contains('show')) {
        $('#myDropdown').slideUp(200, function() {
          openDropdown.classList.remove('show');
        });
      }
    }
  }
}
.dropbtn {
  background-color: #4CAF50;
  color: white;
  padding: 16px;
  font-size: 16px;
  border: none;
  cursor: pointer;
}

.dropbtn:hover,
.dropbtn:focus {
  background-color: #3e8e41;
}

.dropdown {
  position: relative;
  display: inline-block;
}

.dropdown-content {
  display: none;
  position: absolute;
  background-color: #f9f9f9;
  min-width: 160px;
  overflow: auto;
  box-shadow: 0px 8px 16px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
  z-index: 1;
}

.dropdown-content a {
  color: black;
  padding: 12px 16px;
  text-decoration: none;
  display: block;
}

.dropdown a:hover {
  background-color: #f1f1f1
}

.show {
  display: block;
}

  <button onclick="myFunction()" class="dropbtn">下拉菜单</button>

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Outcome and Results of a PhD Viva: How do I know I have passed anyway? | It's not you, it's your data!
The exact terminology is not exact, and often varies from institution to institution. Don't fixate on particular words like minor / major / substantive etc., rather, understand what the board classifications mean.
The viva is the beginning of the end…!
Even if you gain the decision of 'Award' most students comment that they had some kind of feelings of 'anti-climax' after the exam… myself included. This is not really a surprise as your focus / dread / fear has been building up to this moment for the last three and half years, and, guess what, it passed off without major incident….
Now, what could happen to you?
Award of the PhD. Possible, but this is very rare… have you ever won the lottery?
You get to go home, call yourself Doctor, and wonder what you are going to do with yourself now, whilst being slightly confused about where your friends have gone… actually you last saw some of them three years ago… oh well… No further work needs done: PhD, that's it!
Joking apart, this is an exceptional result, and hardly happens to anyone… Congratulations, Doctor!
Award of the PhD subject to minor amendments.
However, you should leave all of that for a day or two and get your thank you emails written / phone calls made and celebrate, Doctor!
Welcome to normality: this is the most common result. If you have a good thesis and a good supervisory team, then this the normal expected result. So, you have some corrections to be made and you have six months to do them. Depending on the rules of your institution these have to be completed to either the satisfaction of the internal examiner or both the internal and external examiners; this is not a reflection on you or your thesis, it normally comes down to the rules of your institution. Sometimes the word 'major' or 'significant' is used before 'amendments', again, this is not a reflection on you, it is the arcane regulations of your institution – really it's just there to distinguish it from 'minor amendments' or whatever they are called.
Normally, students tend to feel disappointed with this result; their feelings are perfectly understandable. However, this is not an uncommon result, it is not a fail, it's just not an 'award' yet, as the vast majority of students who get this result go on and resubmit successfully.
You may feel you have entered some kind of academic limbo… don't panic! There will be a written report coming from your examiners which will give comprehensive details of what needs to be done, wait for that come through. In the meantime go and talk to your supervisor, they will normally have some more feedback, if not your supervisor, there is normally a PhD coordinator or advisor of Doctoral Studies you can chat to.
The examiners are impartial and appointed by the university; follow their advice when it comes. You will probably be required to rewrite substantial parts of the thesis, or collect more data or redo parts of the analysis, or even work your findings and conclusions more. The revisions needed are not normally minor, there is more work to be done. However, remember, your examiners want you to pass and should have set some clear criteria for you. If you need further advise or are unclear about what they are looking for you to do, don't hesitate to ask for it, however, you should go via your supervisor / PhD Administrator / Head of Department, as you don't really want to be influencing the examination process.
Well, more or less the same as above, however, another viva is required. Again, this is not necessarily a reflection on you, your thesis or your supervisor… the choice of whether or not there needs to be another viva is often dictated by the rules of your institution and not really up to the examiners… and remember, as above, the vast majority of students who get this result go on and resubmit, do the viva and pass.
We are back in the realms of lottery wins again; this happens rarely and never on a first viva. Normally this only happens if you were set another viva before, you did not follow what your examiners required you to do as part of your resubmission, and you didn't perform at your second viva. If you have followed the instructions of your examiners and advice of your supervisor then this should not happen to you.
This is an exceptionally rare result, and I have never even heard of someone getting it. Something extraordinary would have to have happened.
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This is easiest paneer recipe.You don't need to grind anything in this.it goes well with chapatti or as side dish. I saw this simple and yummy recipe in show me the curry. I made slight changes to suit my taste.
Cut paneer into cubes. Heat oil in pan on medium heat.
Deep fry in medium hot oil till golden. Place on papar towel.
Fennel seed let them splutter.
Add chopped tomato and salt cook for 3 to 4 minutes.
Add ginger garlic paste and green Chilli cook it till oil separates.
Add red Chilli powder,turmeric powder,coriander powder,chaat masala mix properly.
Add green pepper cook for 2minutes.
Add paneer pieces mix carefully cooks for another 3to 4 minutes.
Yummy paneer recipe.My son's all time favorite.
Thank u poornima...my son also like paneer..
Wow!! Tangy paneer looks tasty!! Nice clicks!
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A bermudai bagoly (Aegolius gradyi) a madarak osztályának a bagolyalakúak (Strigiformes) rendjéhez, a bagolyfélék (Strigidae) családjához tartozó kihalt faj.

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A fajt Storrs L. Olson amerikai biológus és ornitológus írta le 2012-ben.

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Bermuda területén volt honos. Természetes élőhelyei a mérsékelt övi erdők voltak. Állandó, nem vonuló faj volt.

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Lloyd & Cowan are currently looking for an experienced, small animal vet for a Burton Upon Trent practice, permanent employment would be the preferred option but locums could be viable also.
The practice itself is still growing, with a steady caseload, and the premises have recently been refurbished. The staff are very friendly and supportive.
1.5 week days and Saturday mornings they would be the only vet so some sole charge experience is essential. You will have at least 1-2 years Small Animal Veterinary experience.
There is a competitive salary and benefits package on offer to the right candidate.


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In 2006 the Department of Health published its plans for regulatory reform which came out of the Shipman enquiry.
In February 2009 Peter Dixon anounced the GCC's reforms which in effect were the re-appointment of his cronies.
Four new General Chiropractic Council members were announced today in a press release; and there is no reason to believe this lot will be any better than the previous jobsworths. The fact is the vast majority of the chiropractic profession has no confidence in the GCC. The GCC is not fit for purpose despite what another government quango the CHRE might say. You scratch my back and I will scratch yours.
The General Chiropractic Council stated that it welcomed "the Appointment Commission's announcement of the names of four new members of General Council. This completes the membership of our newly constituted Council of 14, which comprises seven lay people and seven registrants".
Paid up member of the "Oldboys club"
Peter Dixon who was chairman of the discredited GCC remains as chairman, of the reformed GCC, Margaret Coats the source of much of the Professions discontent remains as Chief Executive, registrar, secretary to the education committee, election returning officer (not that one, there are no more elections previous one was very embarrassing for the chairman).
The GCC is not fit for purpose.
The Deputy chair Judith Worthington is still there. In fact before I left the council I estimated that Dixon had strong support only from eight council members out of the 20 and guess what, six of them Alan Breene, David Byfield, Steven Williams, Martin Capel, Christopher Stevens, Judith Worthington have all turned up on the new reformed GCC, even though the appointments were made on merit following a fair, open and transparent recruitment and selection process The odd one out is Christina Cunliffe who came on board Peters boat at the end of my time on council and guess what she is also on the new council.
Commenting on the announcement, Peter Dixon said: "Our Council, and members of staff, are a team with the skills, knowledge and genuine commitment to public protection and development of the chiropractic profession. All are aware of the challenges facing regulatory bodies today and, by working together, will contribute to the effectiveness of the GCC".
"The role of General Council
The role of the Council is to formulate and oversee the strategies necessary to fulfil the GCC's statutory responsibilities, and to make sure the organisation earns and maintains the trust of stakeholders – particularly patients, the public and the chiropractic profession."
"The Appointments Commission
Recruitment and selection of all 14 members of our reconstituted Council was carried out by the independent Appointments Commission. All appointments were made on merit following a fair, open and transparent recruitment and selection process."
Yes Peter and pigs will fly over the GCC offices. This sounds really good for public consumption and Peter Dixon tenure as GCC chair is secure with these appointments. How did he do it?
This is the response I had from the appointments commission to my request last summer to explain the appointments process.
Hi Richard
The members of the shortlisting panel for the GCC committee consists of Peter Dixon, current Chair of the GCC, Margaret Coats, current Chief Executive & Registrar of the GCC, and an independent assessor.
For the forthcoming council campaign, the selection panel for the Chair will consist of Anna Van der Gaag, President of the Health Professions Council as the GCC representative, Margaret Scott, Commissioner of the Appointments Commission who will chair the panel and an independent assessor.
For council members the selection panel will include the newly appointed Chair of the GCC, Margaret Scott Commissioner of the Appointments Commission and an independent assessor.
I trust this meets with your requirements however if you need any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sue Davis
Recruitment Project Manager
She then asked if i would be interesting in applying to be on the new GCC council. I presume because they were not inundated with people who wanted to be on Council as it took nine months to fill all the places.
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From: Richard Lanigan
Sent: 08 July 2008 14:18
To: Sue Vardy
Subject: RE: RE: GCC
Thanks for the suggestion, but I would rather stick pins in my eyes than work with either Margaret Coats or Peter Dixon again, in addition my wife would leave me if I got involved.
I have done my bit for the profession and hopefully the right people will be selected to sort out the mess that regulation has become
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Remember: Two events focusing on agricultural and rural economics issues take place on Weds., Jan. 20 at the Pyle Ctr., 702 Langdon St., and are open to the public.
Wisconsin Agricultural Economic Outlook Forum, 11:30 – 4:45 p.m. University of Wisconsin-Madison economists and commodity specialists will review the financial condition of the state's farm sector and the outlook for agricultural commodities important to the state at the third annual Agricultural Economic Outlook Forum. This event will provide an outlook on the economics, emerging issues and opportunities of Wisconsin agriculture. The forum will be webcast live the day of the event, and archived footage will be available for viewing. This event is brought to you by the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and University of Wisconsin-Extension Cooperative Extension.
Market to Market Rural Economic Summit, 5 p.m. Later the same day, Market to Market, a public TV agricultural news programs, will tape the second in its series of four Rural Economic Summits. Market to Market is produced by Iowa Public Television and is broadcast in Madison at 11:30 a.m. Sundays on Wisconsin Public Television. The Market to Market summit uses a town-hall format, and all are welcome to be part of the audience. The summit will be be taped following the Wisconsin Agricultural Economic Outlook Forum.


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Business owner lands angel investment; commercial loan
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36T Cleaning Services of Hillsborough County
Four years ago, Descarte Valnor noticed there was a need within his community for high-quality cleaning support, while keeping the cost of services within budget. That's when Valnor decided to create 36T Cleaning Services, a cleaning company that provides post-construction, janitorial, and light maintenance services.
Valnor managed to grow the business throughout the first few years of operation from one employee to 11. Then, the harsh realities of COVID-19 hit in 2020. His team shrank to five employees, and Valnor began struggling within various areas of his business, so he decided to get assistance by reaching out to the Florida SBDC at University of South Florida.
"I reached out to the Florida SBDC at USF because I was struggling with getting access to capital," he said. "It was my first time, and I wanted to know the accurate way to do it along with having professional personnel help me."
Since then, Valnor has teamed up with business consultant Greg Manning.
"He's been exceptional, and he's been able to help me a lot. He was very patient and helped me build a three-year projection plan so that I was able to convey and build a case toward the lenders," Valnor said. "I was able to get a fresh way of thinking on how to look at the business. I learned about what kind of contracts we should secure, and how I should go forward with the different steps and phases of building a company at the same time."
Valnor has seen growth in his business in various ways since connecting with the Florida SBDC at USF, despite the pandemic. Due to Manning's assistance, he was able to secure an angel investor and a small commercial bank loan to continue growing the business. It is also projected to hit $100,000 in revenue by the end of 2021.
"It has grown a lot I'll be honest about that," Valnor said. "We are able to grow our profit margin in route to what it was before. There's been challenges through the different scenarios, but we were able to overcome them."
By continuing to work with Manning and utilizing all the resources that the Florida SBDC at USF has to offer, Valnor is looking forward to improving and growing his business further.
"I will continue to use their services in various ways. I do plan on using them on a continuous basis, especially when I have a challenge, and if I have questions regarding any certain kind of contract or financial projections," he said.
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Have you ever eaten moss? I have, the first time I ate at The Kitchen Table. It was reindeer moss: light green and porous, like a loofah, with ramp powder, and fresh cream cheese. Chef Joe MacLellan told diners to eat it with their hands like chips and dip, because that's how he'd do it. It was delicious and surprising, but the flavours were still rooted in comfort and nostalgia (it somehow reminded me of sour cream and onion chips). This was the beginning of a few obsessions.
After that first experience, I was so enthralled with MacLellan's food that I pitched writing about it to a few national newspapers, but as we know, the East coast doesn't get much love on that front. I kept eating there, and eventually my interest in the food turned into an interest in the person making it. Chef MacLellan is my partner now, so either take this as bias or as extremely in-depth research – the choice is yours.
The Kitchen Table is a 20-seat restaurant in Halifax's North end. It's unique in a few ways for such a small, mostly casual dining city: it has a set 8-course tasting menu, it's tucked away in the back of local charcuterie and cheese shop Ratinaud French Cuisine, and it's required that you reserve in advance to eat there. MacLellan's food is a modern take on Canadian food, with a mix of new and old techniques, quality proteins and vegetables, and foraged foods that grow wild in Nova Scotia.
Although the Kitchen Table uses mostly local ingredients, MacLellan doesn't like to set limits for himself. If there is top quality fish available from Ontario, he'll put it on the menu, but he will always put good local product on the menu first. The seasons and availability of produce dictated by them largely shapes the flavours on his menu. A menu might run for one week, then the next week, a few dishes will change and some might stay. MacLellan also caters to allergies, and will make a menu for that diner, as long as the allergy is stated when the reservation is made.
Dinner starts at 7:00 PM for everyone. You enter the restaurant by walking through the front shop where cheese and housemade charcuterie and sausage is sold, and through a door to the back of the building where you're greeted by a small staff. There is a large communal table–a huge glass top sitting on driftwood roots–where most diners sit, and a handful of bar seats at an open kitchen, where you can closely watch the cooking and plating. Seating is planned in advance based on group size and comfort.
Shelves lined with jars of dried, pickled and preserved vegetables, fruits, and flowers are scattered artfully along the left wall. Music is low. Once everyone is seated, the owner Frederic Tandy welcomes guests, and the meal begins.
The first thing placed in front of diners is salt, butter, and warm, white, rustic bread rolls. The butter is made in house, the salt is pulled from Nova Scotian seas (collected by MacLellan even in the winter months), and the bread is baked fresh every day by the adjoining charcuterie shop specially for service. The cultured butter is the best I've ever had, rich but also acidic and tangy, made with local Fox Hill Cheese House yogurt.
Joe and his team plate quietly. The servers move about the room in a thoughtful, respectful way. In my opinion, the best servers move in a way where you almost don't notice them, because they are reserved and anticipate your needs before they even register to you. They fill your glass before you even realize it's empty. Your once crumpled napkin is quietly replaced with a freshly folded one while you're in the washroom–that's what the service is like at The Kitchen Table.
When booking, there is the option of doing a wine pairing with every dish, arranged by their consultant sommelier Atima Kamra (who does a fantastic job of making harmonious pairings). If you prefer to bring your own, there's a $10 corkage fee. I usually opt for bringing my own and with my previous experience eating at The Kitchen Table, I choose bright, aromatic white wines which tend to pair well with MacLellan's food, in particular his affinity for pickles and pickled things. I too studied wine like the sommelier, but otherwise, I would highly recommend putting your trust in her.
Course 1: Wild scallop with preserved seaweed and scallop cracker.
The scallops are buttery soft, and perfectly seasoned. On top of them is a thin layer of hand-foraged preserved local seaweeds in oil, burnt leek, dried smoked mussel, pear juice, and sherry vinegar. Small bits of scallop cracker cover the top of the seaweed.
Texturally the dish is light, with the airiness of the cracker and the lightly cooked scallop, but the flavour is intense and layered. Together the components have a strong truffle-like flavour, coming from the cracker and preserved seaweed. The New Brunswick scallops, which were cooked sous-vide, have a clean and simple flavour, balancing all the intensity from the two other components in perfect harmony.
Course 2: Pickerel with pickled ramp, charred cabbage, and lardo.
All of the components of the dish sit on a dollop of dashi emulsion. For those that don't know, dashi is a broth made with bonito (tuna) flakes and seaweed and tastes like a creamy, umami cloud.
Beside the dashi emulsion is a small piece of pickerel from local fishmonger Hooked, which is brined and cooked sous-vide. The pickled ramp, a wild onion that grows all over Nova Scotia, brings zippy acidity to the dish, leaving me wanting more in each bite. With a menu that is locally sourced, the winter can be a challenge, so preserving, drying, and pickling is essential to MacLellan's menu and for adding flavor throughout the less abundant months.
The crunchy pork fat, or lardo is scattered sparingly on the dish, and is sourced from sister business Ratinaud French Cuisine. The businesses work with each other as much as possible to minimize the amount of food waste they create.
The fresh soft fish, bitter crispy cabbage, crunchy lardo, acidic and sweet ramp, and funky dashi emulsion come together to form a state of equilibrium.
MacLellan's plating is beautiful. With multiple courses and small portions there is room for artful plating and negative space. Although sometimes the components are whimsically placed and spaced, they are meant to be tasted together. Together they show MacLellan's knowledge of the interplay between acidity, bitterness, sweetness, fat, texture and weight.
Course 3: Steamed mussels with dill pickle vinegar gel, parsley oil, leek cracker, and mussel broth.
This dish is eaten with a spoon, like a soup. The aroma is intoxicating, and smells like sweet corn and dill, despite there being no corn in it. Dots of bright green parsley oil float on top of the mussel broth, like little neon fish eggs.
This dish makes my eyes wet. It's like nothing I've ever tasted, but at the same time elements of it remind me of that quintessentially Nova Scotian dish–fish chowder. Salty, herbaceous, and rich, but balanced by the dill vinegar gel and the vermouth in the broth.
This might be one of the best things I've ever eaten.
Course 4: Butter poached lobster with smoked sweet potato puree, raw daikon, and lobster bisque infused with chamomile, and sorrel.
My favourite part of this dish is how the bisque and puree play off each other. They are both a similar color, both soft, complex, and sweet. The puree is smokey, the bisque is floral.
The lobster tail is nicely cooked and seasoned, but still muscular and meaty.
The chiffonade of sorrel, a small leafy herb that tastes like green apple skins, and raw daikon disks, brighten each rich bite.
Course 5: Foie gras foam, pickled beets with wild rose, apple cider gel, dried apple, roasted beet greens, and horseradish oil.
Foie gras can be overwhelmingly rich when eaten seared or in torchon form, but the way MacLellan prepares it, with a texture like whipped cream, makes it much lighter in texture. While the mouthfeel is totally different than usual, the flavor is still meaty, mushroomy, and intense, with a bit of sweetness.
The beets, cider gel, dried apple, and oil are under the foam and on top, while the roasted beet greens create a canopy that hides the rest of the dish.
MacLellan's plating often has an element of surprise: sometimes components are completely covered by others and you have to dig to find them.
The roasted beet greens are crispy and can be dipped in the foie gras foam. The beets are the best part of the dish: sweet, tart, and intensely aromatic. The wild rose is prominent and beautiful.
Course 6: Squab with salsify puree, wild cranberry jam, and roasted coltsfoot flower.
Squab (or wood pigeon) is a lovely protein. The first time I had it was at The Kitchen Table. The best way I can describe it is like duck, but less fatty, and more tender.
The cranberry jam is deliciously sweet and tart. The salsify, a hearty root vegetable which tastes almost like a cross between parsnip and celeriac, is velvety and rich.
The real surprise here is the coltsfoot, a locally foraged wildflower that is one of the first signs of spring in Nova Scotia. In this case it tastes grassy and fresh, but also like a buttery tart shell.
Course 7: Beef ribeye, roasted parsley root puree, burnt carrot, and meat broth and Banyuls vinegar reduction.
You can see the crystals of finishing salt melting in the small pool of brown butter on top of the slice of medium rare ribeye. The carrots are burnt on the outside and give into a sweet soft interior.
All of the ingredients are delicious when dragged through the vinegar and broth reduction on the plate.
Course 8: Chanterelle mushroom meringue, toasted hay pudding, and salted coffee soil.
MacLellan is crazy for mushrooms. That's why they are even in his dessert. During mushroom season they find their way into all parts of his menu. When he has the time, he'll forage his own around the province.
He has never tired of the flavours of mushrooms, especially chanterelles and porcinis. The Kitchen Table sources its foraged local ingredients from Fred Dardenne at FD Wild Foods, a man with encyclopaedic knowledge of the edible wild foods of Nova Scotia. On this menu the seaweeds, coltsfoot, chanterelle, cranberry, wild rose, and sorrel are from Dardenne, and their relationship is crucial to MacLellan's way of cooking.
The meringues are thin, and slightly sweet. The chanterelles, which naturally have a light, stone fruit-like flavor, add complexity.
The hay pudding is incredible. It both smells and tastes like toasty, funky butterscotch, or sweet yeast.
You could almost eat this whole dish with your hands, using the meringue to scoop up the hay pudding.
The coffee soil is sweet, bitter and salty, with the salt really bringing the whole dish together.
To finish the meal, coffee, or herbal tea made with locally foraged dried herbs and flowers is served alongside two tiny sweets: a sugar covered strawberry gummy and a duck fat caramel.
I'm left feeling full, but not too full, and perfectly satisfied. The diners at tonight's seating debate which dishes were their favourites, but have serious trouble picking. A customer comes up to the bar and tells MacLellan it's the best meal he's ever eaten.
Tandy invites interested diners for a tour of the front charcuterie and cheese shop, and then people trickle out.
MacLellan's food leaves such an impression, because each dish finds balance. None are too much or too little of something, they're just right. MacLellan's dishes also have the perfect amount of familiar and unfamiliar, letting guests ground themselves and feel comfortable with a known texture or flavor, but pairing it with something that they've perhaps never encountered.
The pace of the meal is nice and slowish, giving guests a moment to ponder each dish and take a sip of wine before another arrives.
The sourcing for The Kitchen Table's menu is done at just a handful of places. Most, if not all of its vegetables come from Ted Hutten at Hutten Family Farms. The red meat is usually from Getaway Farms. Seafood comes from fishmongers Hooked and Afishionado. Wild produce, again, comes from FD Wild Foods. Some protein, such as squab or duck, comes from Quebec.
I'd call MacLellan's style of food proudly Nova Scotian, not in the stereotypical sense of down-home food like lobster rolls and blueberry grunt, but in a reinvented and imaginative way, that takes pride in the ingredients available here, wild or farmed, by making them into the best flavours and dishes imaginable.
This restaurant sets the bar for the East Coast, right up there with other acclaimed spots like Raymonds Restaurant, Little Louis' Oyster Bar, or The Bite House. There's finesse, knowledge, and heart in every course.
I think about how I'd like to have the mussel dish again, but I know that MacLellan never puts exactly the same thing on his menu twice. Next week it will be different, and the week after too. Then spring comes and MacLellan has a whole new array of fruits and vegetables to play with. It's a different experience and a different menu each visit, with a promise of great flavours, awe, and consistency. Can you imagine what a pickled wild rose petal might taste like? Go find out.


The UK's first digital election campaign?
There has been much written in the UK media that this will be the first truly digital general election campaign. This is true to an extent, with the numbers of blogs and websites devoting themselves to politics and the election having increased widely since the last General Election in 2005 – it is hard to believe that neither Facebook nor Twitter existed the last time Britons went to the polls. So it was perhaps somewhat surprising that one of those bloggers, Iain Dale, told a packed Fleishman-Hillard London breakfast event last week that in his view, digital content and information will not dramatically influence the outcome on election day.
Dale's analysis was that initiatives such as myconservatives.com (a tool which enables local campaigns to recruit volunteers and collect small donations) were launched too late by the Conservatives and should have been introduced earlier in the election cycle in order to have a real impact. Labour strategists are keen to point out that their version – membersnet has been operational for several years now, where initiatives such as the phone bank (where members can phone other members and voters using an online database) have been successfully deployed. However, such online phone banks are merely digitally advanced versions of more traditional campaign methods – i.e, a compliment to the long established tactics of canvassing and cold calling rather than a digital step change.
Dale also suggested that the UK should look to political systems closer to its own parliamentary democracy such as those in Europe or Australia for inspiration, as opposed to the vast Presidential election campaigning in the USA. He's right, but not only because of the difference in style (and resources) but also because the digital elements of that election were built on a grassroots campaign for change – in the UK, there is no such instinct, with voters turned off from politics by the expenses scandal and no great desire shown for either Brown or Cameron.
Where the bloggers and political websites can be influential is in their attempts to create news agendas either as virals or in the traditional media. After some caution, journalists are beginning to report on stories created by bloggers, with Guido Fawkes having claimed senior scalps, including Peter Hain MP and Brown's former press adviser Damian McBride. However, it is worth remembering that the UK's biggest political scandal this year – MPs expenses – was uncovered not by the new media, but by a very old and traditional title – the Daily Telegraph.
So although the internet will not control this campaign entirely, it is already challenging political strategists, campaign advertising executives and candidates to think in new ways and to respond to challenges that they would never have envisaged just a few years ago.
You can check out more about the UK elections at the F-H London blog.
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Q: Can do-while loops only run with boolean variables? Java I am having some trouble with this small segment. Can do-while loops only run using boolean variables? I am trying to ask the "user" to enter "0" or "1" so that the program will either loop or end.
Error message:

Chapter4Practice.java:23: error: incompatible types: int cannot be
  converted to boolean
        } while (choice = 1);
                        ^ 1 error

My code:
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Chapter4Practice
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        int choice, num1, num2;
        String input;
        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);

        do {
            System.out.print("Enter a number: ");
            num1 = sc.nextInt();
            System.out.print("Enter another number: ");
            num2 = sc.nextInt();
            System.out.println("The sum is " + (num1 + num2));
            System.out.println("Do you want to do this again?");
            System.out.println("(1 = yes, 0 = no)");
            sc.nextLine();
            choice = sc.nextInt();
        } while (choice = 1);
    } //End Main

} //End Class

A: Short answer: Yes, you can have simple or complex statements inside your do-while but at the end it will have to evaluate to either true or false
Also your statement should be == ( single = means assign, where == is evaluate)


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Republicans invite Netanyahu to address Congress as part of spurning of Obama
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Republicans in Congress moved quickly Wednesday to reject many of President Obama's proposals from the State of the Union address — and invited the prime minister of Israel to rebut Obama's Iran policy from the same congressional podium next month.
That invitation to address Congress, extended by House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, marked a sharp rejection of Obama's plea for Congress to stay out of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program. If Congress votes to sanction Iran, Obama had warned, it could upset delicate and long-running talks.
Boehner said he would ignore the president's demand, taking the unusual step of inviting a foreign leader directly into an American political debate.
Obama "expects us to stand idly by and do nothing while he cuts a bad deal with Iran," Boehner told fellow Republicans at a closed-door meeting Wednesday morning, according remarks provided by a senior GOP aide. "Two words: 'Hell no!' . . . We're going to do no such thing."
Boehner also told reporters Wednesday morning that he did not speak with Obama before inviting Netanyahu to address Congress.
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) said during a news conference on Wednesday that he was inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress about "the grave threats of radical Islam" and Iran. (AP)
"I did not consult the White House," said Boehner, who added that Congress "can make this decision on its own."
He dismissed the suggestion that he was needling the president.
"I don't believe that I'm poking anyone in the eye," he said. "There is a serious threat that exists in the world. And the president last night kind of papered over it."
The invitation to Netanyahu was a departure from normal procedure, in which the executive branch — and not a legislative leader — would coordinate the visit of a head of state. The White House said the invitation was a breach of typical diplomatic protocol, according to the Associated Press.
The AP reported that White House spokesman Josh Earnest, traveling with the president to Idaho, said the administration would "reserve judgment until we have an opportunity to speak to the Israelis about their plans for the trip and about what he plans to say."
Also Wednesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — now, like the rest of the Senate, under Republican control — held a long-scheduled hearing about the possibility of imposing sanctions on Iran. At that meeting, a prominent Democrat, New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez, criticized the Obama administration for not being tough enough on Iran.
"I have to be honest with you," Menendez said, "the more I hear from the administration and its quotes, the more it sounds like talking points that come straight out of Tehran."
President Obama's address focused on issues facing the middle class.
Jan. 20, 2015 President Obama delivers his State of the Union address at the Capitol on Tuesday night. Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post
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The nose-thumbing dissent from Republicans in Congress was a sharp reaction to Tuesday night, when Obama struck a triumphant and confident tone during his address (and protocol required Republicans to stay mostly silent).
"America, for all that we've endured; for all the grit and hard work required to come back; for all the tasks that lie ahead, know this: The shadow of crisis has passed," Obama said in his sixth State of the Union address to the nation and a joint session of Congress in the House chamber.
He also delivered a stinging rebuke when Republicans jokingly applauded after Obama noted that he had run his last campaign. The president quipped: "I know because I won both of them."
But, on Wednesday, Republicans seemed eager to remind Obama that they had won the most recent elections — and decisively, too. The GOP now controls both houses of Congress, and its leaders seemed unlikely to seek compromise with the outgoing president over issues like Iran, immigration and taxation.
"All the president really offered last night was more taxes, more government, more of the same approach that has failed the middle class for decades," Boehner said in a news conference on Wednesday. "These just aren't the wrong policies, they're the wrong priorities."
The Republicans criticized Obama's proposal to raise taxes on wealthy Americans and lambasted him for threatening to block legislation to authorize construction the Keystone XL Pipeline and alter the federal health-care laws, among other things.
"Veto threats and fantasy land proposals from the White House will not distract the people's House from the people's priorities," Boehner said.
There were some glimmers of bipartisan hope: Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) said he hoped to take up the president's idea of cooperation on cybersecurity. And new House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said in a TV interview that he hoped to find common ground on taxes and trade.
"We'll see if we can get a tax reform package done. I'm glad that he sort of held back on the partisanship and demagoguery," Ryan said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "I guess I'd say in his speech he dialed it down a bit from what he — we're used to seeing more divisive, partisan speeches from the president. He didn't do that much. I think that's a good thing.
On Wednesday, Obama was headed to Idaho, a deep-red state he hasn't visited since becoming president, to follow up on his speech.
Before Tuesday night, the president had been cautious over the past two years not to gloat over news of fitful economic growth, mindful that the economy remained tenuous and public confidence uneasy. But with the jobless rate well below 6 percent, the stock market nearing record highs and his job-approval ratings rebounding, Obama dropped his veneer of reserve and appeared to delight in having proved his critics wrong.
"At every step, we were told our goals were misguided or too ambitious, that we would crush jobs and explode deficits," he said. "Instead, we've seen the fastest economic growth in over a decade, our deficits cut by two-thirds, a stock market that has doubled, and health-care inflation at its lowest rate in 50 years."
"So the verdict is clear," Obama said.
At times Tuesday, Obama chided Republicans to help improve Washington's political discourse. He harked back to the themes of national unity that helped him get elected in the first place in 2008 and called for more bipartisan cooperation on key issues.
He framed portions of his address around a letter he received from a woman in Minneapolis named Rebekah Erler, who said that she and her husband struggled to pay bills during the recession shortly after they were married and had a son.
"We are a strong, tightknit family who has made it through some very, very hard times," Obama said, quoting a letter from Erler, whom he visited during a trip to the Midwest last summer. She was among the guests in first lady Michelle Obama's box.
The president said Erler's story was a metaphor for the nation's. "It's been your effort and resilience that has made it possible for our country to emerge stronger," Obama said. "Fifteen years into this new century, we have picked ourselves up, dusted ourselves off, and begun again the work of remaking America. We have laid a new foundation. A brighter future is ours to write."
In the wake of the GOP rout in the midterms, the president responded by announcing a series of aggressive executive actions, including measures to protect millions of illegal immigrants from deportation, to work toward reestablishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and to strike a climate agreement with China.
Though the White House knew the ideas have a slim chance of being approved by lawmakers, the point was to start a debate on Obama's terms. And the president and his advisers were determined to begin to frame his legacy as having delivered on his promise to improve the lives of ordinary Americans.
The president acknowledged that he had heard the political pundits declare since he took office six years ago that he had failed to make good on his vision at a time when "our politics seems more divided than ever. It's held up as proof not just of my own flaws — of which there are many — but also as proof that the vision itself is misguided, and naive."
To the contrary, Obama insisted, as he pledged to keep working to change Washington, even as he was, in many ways, declaring victory over his rivals.
"I want this chamber, I want this city, to reflect the truth," he said, "that for all our blind spots and shortcomings, we are a people with the strength and generosity of spirit to bridge divides, to unite in common effort."
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