Stephanie's on Newbury boasts that it serves "Sophisticated Comfort Food" in a "relaxed and inviting atmosphere." This is basically restaurant code for we want to do good food but don't expect you to wear a tie and we won't kick you out if your heels aren't at least four inches high. This is typically the kind of place I like to frequent when I'm looking for something interesting, but its a normal Tuesday. And it was, indeed, a normal Tuesday and my first night in Boston last week for the monster of a writing conference that is AWP. Since the conference is busy and overwhelming it was probably our first and only night to really take our time an enjoy the restaurant. So after a bit of sightseeing we stopped for a drink and I asked the bartender for a recommendation for a nearby restaurant that was great with seafood. She recommended Stephanie's, and the reviews seemed to back it up. I made a quick reservation with Open Table, and an hour later we were seated. The restaurant was quite busy for a Tuesday, and it is tastefully decorated and romantically lit. I immediately found a nice bottle of white Rioja around $30, and ordered it, and settled in to examine their menu.
For our first course we ordered the Steamed New England Mussels as an appetizer, which came out promptly and was served with a piece of garlic crostini for dipping in the excellent sauce. And the mussels were delightful. A perfect portion for two people, and the sauce was brilliant with garlic and delicate buttery wine. The crostini was delightful, a perfect crunchy bread for dipping in hat sauce. But when we said this tot he waiter he got a look of confusion, and nodded, then said, "Yeah, but the bread's good right?" It was clear he didn't know what "crostini" was. And since it is actually listed on the menu that seems a bit odd. Maybe I'm spoiled by living in the culinary capital of New Orleans, but I can't imagine a chef in New Orleans allowing a waiter to serve a dish they couldn't describe. And the rest of the meal, I have to say, was basically downhill from there.
This was really the worst dish – there was little to no goat cheese, and the vegtables also seemed rather scarce I don't think there was any squash present. But all of that wouldn't have mattered if the salmon had been properly cooked, but since it was overdone the whole dish came across as messy and bland. I would not order that dish again, and had I only had that, I would not go to that restaurant again. And, indeed, when we mentioned it to the manager, he seemed surprised, but made no attempts or offers to correct the situation, which is again, in my opinion, a restaurant fail. Especially since salmon is a relatively basic dish.
My scallops were excellent and perfectly prepared. They were velvety and delicious and so was the risotto, even if the risotto was a bit on the runny side. The beet chips were delightful. I would order this again, and this dish, along with the mussels, saved the meal, I think. For dessert we had the Sticky Bun Sundae. I don't know if their desserts were prepared in house, but it was pretty much everything you'd expect from such a dish – sticky bun, ice cream, caramel sauce… Delightfully caloric, yet somehow a little dry tasting. It somehow lacked pizazz – I wouldn't order that again either. If I were to return I'd opt for the Apple Tart Tatin or something a little more basic I think.
As far as the service goes, while our waiter clearly appeared to be new, both to the menu and possibly to waiting at a fine dining establishment, he was gracious. If anything I'd say were were a bit rushed, actually, as the entrees came out before we'd even finished the mussels. If there had been a long wait I could understand, but since there wasn't this seemed yet another point at which the restaurant was slightly off. And thats my basic summation – some strong points, definitely, but very uneven, and the poorly prepared salmon makes me wonder if my scallops were the aberration or his salmon. I'd go again – but I'd be very careful about what I ordered. And I hope they do a little more education for their staff on the menu. However, we also ended up eating at Legal Sea Foods, a chain restaurant that began in the Boston area and grew out of a fish market. They focus on doing very fresh fish and relatively simple preparation. But – its clearly a chain. While operating around the same price point as Stephanie's it was nowhere near as interesting, and the Legal Sea Foods mussels didn't compare to Stephanie's. So in that case I think their price point is a little high…. And the moral of the story, then, is that if you're in Boston and hungry for sea food, give Stephanie's a shot!


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Q: How to create two indexes for the same column that is both a primary and a foreign key? From what I have been told and read online, I need to create an index for a foreign key even if this exact column already has an index as a primary key. But how to do that? If I simply use this
create index document_fk_i on document(id);
Won't it simply create a second identical index to the first one? (the first one was created automatically by Oracle)

A: You can't index the same column twice. If there's an index on document.id column because it is a primary key, then you don't (and can't) create another index which would be used for that column's "foreign key constraint" role.
Master table:
SQL> create table test_a (id number primary key);

Table created.

Detail table: ID is a primary key and Oracle will create an index:
SQL> create table test_b (id number primary key);

Table created.

Create a foreign key constraint from detail to master table:
SQL> alter table test_b add constraint fk_ba foreign key (id)
  2  references test_a (id);

Table altered.

Try to create additional index on detail's ID column:
SQL> create index idxb on test_b (id);
create index idxb on test_b (id)
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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01408: such column list already indexed

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To everyone who's applied to Maryland, does you application status show your application in complete? I sent my transcripts in early Jan which reached before the deadline on Jan 11th. It's been nearly 3 weeks now and my status still shows that my transcripts are awaited. My GRE and TOEFL scores have arrived though.
Is anyone else facing the same problem? I tried contacting them but haven't had a reply so far . Oh, and I also forgot to attach the covering sheet with my documents .
They emailed me in early January saying the school was way behind in uploading several documents. The email asked if I could directly send whatever piece was missing in a reply email. Even after that, the application status was not updated for 1-2 weeks. I would try to directly contact them by phone. My experience was with the Astronomy Department.
P-representation wrote: To everyone who's applied to Maryland, does you application status show your application in complete? I sent my transcripts in early Jan which reached before the deadline on Jan 11th. It's been nearly 3 weeks now and my status still shows that my transcripts are awaited. My GRE and TOEFL scores have arrived though.
Mine says complete when I go to check application status on the ASF form, but I sent my transcripts in mid December. Did you mail or fax your documents? If not the cover sheet was not needed.
I sent them through DHL twice, once for the transcripts and the next time for the certification of finances form (attached with another copy of my transcript). I wrote my program code and name on them, so I hope it wouldn't be a major problem.
Also, I mailed the secretary of the physics department to check my status. Should I mail the graduate school directly instead?
I sent my transcript in mid-December and it finally said that they had it on my check application status two days ago.
I'm in the same boat. I sent my transcripts in early January (with the cover sheet), but the ASF site still says that they're missing. It also says not to contact them until 3 weeks after you submit, because they're swamped right now. But I got an email from a professor last week saying that he had seen my application, so I'm not worried. I also have to think that with this many people complaining about it, they'll cut you some slack when considering the applications - so if your transcripts got lost or were late or something, they probably won't hold it against you if they're having trouble managing all of the documents this year.
Same thing happened to me. Sometime about a week ago I panicked and resent my transcript overnight when I saw that they hadn't received it. It still says that they don't have the transcript, so I'll just wait now.
Same here - they've listed one of my transcripts as missing despite sending it in late December.
I just checked my status today, and it said "complete", so it looks like they finally got my transcript sorted out.
Has anyone heard anything from UMaryland? Or any schools with deadlines in january? I only applied to these late schools, and I've only got my first response yesterday. At least it was positive.
walczyk wrote: Has anyone heard anything from UMaryland? Or any schools with deadlines in january?
I haven't heard from UMD, but I did hear from UCSD, which also had a Jan. 15th deadline. According to the UMD application site, all decisions are given via snail mail, so it might be a while before you get it.
If memory serves, Maryland has been rather slow each year in sending out acceptances.


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No.33/34 (2020)
Interdisciplinarity in the Philippine Academia: Theory, History, and Challenges
Francis Sollano: Ateneo de Manila University,
Jose Mari B. Cuartero: Ateneo de Manila University
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.13185/KK2020.0033/3415
Forum Kritika on Interdisciplinarity in the Philippine Academia discusses the history of how universities and academics construct their respective notions of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity. Our decision to engage with this development in tertiary education takes off from a historical phase in our educational system. Questions on the character of disciplines have heightened in the last half-century, and this phenomenon does not only emerge out of the critical practice of the people who are part of universities, but the external world of the universities have started to knock on the university doors. Informed by the present situation of our universities and the educational system at large, we both argue that both disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity are modern constructs that should be understood by elucidating dialectics of theoretical and historical underpinnings. The tandem of history and theory provides the frames for us to better see the challenges when universities implement such paradigm, and this forum hopes to shed some light to our fellow academics as the Philippines undergo crucial changes, revamps, and overhauls in our educational system.
CMO 20, s. 2013, K to 12 system, modern university, neoliberalism, Philippine educational system
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International Board of Editors
Jan Baetens
Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (Belgium)
Joel David
Professor of Cultural Studies
Inha University (South Korea)
Michael Denning
Professor of American Studies and English
Yale University (US)
Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia)
Regenia Gagnier
University of Exeter (UK)
Leela Gandhi
John Hawkes Professor of the Humanities and English
Brown University (US)
Inderpal Grewal
Professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Professor of South Asian Studies, Ethnicity, Race and Migration Studies
Peter Horn
Professor Emeritus and Honorary Lifetime Fellow
University of Cape Town (South Africa)
Honorary Professor and Research Associate in German Studies
University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)
Anette Horn
Professor of German Studies
Distinguished Professor of English
University of California, Riverside (US)
Bienvenido Lumbera
National Artist for Literature
University of the Philippines
Rajeev S. Patke
Director of the Division of Humanities
Professor of Humanities
Yale NUS College (Singapore)
Vicente L. Rafael
Giovanni and Amne Costigan Endowed Professor of History
University of Washington (US)
Vaidehi Ramanathan
University of California, Davis (US)
Temario Rivera
Philippines Studies Center (US)
Neferti X.M. Tadiar
Professor of Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Barnard College (US)
Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
Columbia University (US)
Antony Tatlow
Honorary Professor of Drama
Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)


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The college's other instructional programs include; the General Studies Program for students who wish to earn a degree but not in a specific career or transfer area, the Continuing Education Program which includes courses and workshops designed to enhance personal and professional growth, and the GED Program for adults who wish to earn a high school equivalency diploma.
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Things are going to get a little toxic for Rogelio De La Vega (Jaime Camil) when Jane the Virgin returns to The CW this fall. Britney Spears is set to guest star as the Latin star's "nemesis" in the show's second season. The pop star tweeted the announcement herself.
But while Camil's TV alter-ego might not be so thrilled about the singer's impending visit to the Marbella, the actor expressed his excitement on Twitter.
This isn't Spears' first stint on TV; she's also guest-starred on How I Met Your Mother and Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Jane the Virgin returns Monday, Oct. 12 at 9/8c on The CW.


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NEWTON, ISAAC. 1642-1726/7.
Autograph manuscript in English, exploring the nature of God,
Sold for US$ 106,325 inc. premium
6 Mar 2020, 10:00 EST
Autograph manuscript in English, exploring the nature of God, 4 pp, bifolium, 300 x 186 mm, ink on paper with margins ruled in ink for further notation, c.1710, approximately 2260 words, extensively reworked, underlined and amended, some splitting at fold.
Provenance: Isaac Newton; Catherine Barton (1679–1739); by descent, sold Sotheby's, July 1936, (partial) lot 255, as part of the Portsmouth Papers, to bookseller Emmanuel Fabius.
"IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD...." A HIGHLY IMPORTANT NEWTON MANUSCRIPT ON GOD AND CREATION. Working at the highest level of metaphysics, and looking to the Gospel of John, Newton contemplates the Divine Word at the core of Creation, inquiring both into its pre-existence and into its immanence ("incarnation"), drawing mystical parallels from the Kabbalah and other sources.
Newton deemed his theological studies "a duty of the greatest moment," and this extraordinary manuscript shows Newton at his most "dutiful" – exploring a cornerstone text of Christian thought, John 1:1-5, seeking to determine how Christ can be said God. Balancing scholarship and philosophy, Newton begins by analyzing the views of Christ held by the earliest Christian sects (based on Epiphanius's Against Heresies, 4th-century) and seeks to connect them to the Kabbalistic doctrines of the Sephirot and of the Adam Kadmon ("Transcendent Man"). Affirming in the concluding paragraph that "this state of the primitive Church explains to us the true meaning of the beginning of the gospel of John," Newton proceeds to articulate his understanding of "In the beginning was the Word...," explicitly asserting his definition of God.
Written contemporaneously with his "General Scholium," added to the Principia in 1713, this manuscript casts valuable light on the conceptual foundations of Newton's physics. It has long been recognized that the Scholium articulates a theo-physical theory of the universe (God originating nature), and the present manuscripts offers Newton's direct testimony on the one New Testament text most central to his theo-physical theory of the Creation, John 1:1-5, consciously echoing Genesis 1:1-5 ("Let there be light..."). Highlighting the Creative Logos both ontologically and in its cosmic functioning, John 1:1-5 crucially links Newton's physics to his metaphysics -- pointing at the very essence of Nature.
This is the most significant Newton manuscript on theology to be offered at auction during the past 50 years – a spectacular example of Newton's penetrating genius at work. Illuminating Newton's personal view of God and His Word, this manuscript advances our understanding of the theo-physical underpinnings of the Principia. With nearly all of Newton's manuscripts now permanently in institutions, the present manuscript is one of the most important remaining in private hands.


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Camilla Parker-Bowles doesn't use Princess title out of respect to Diana
Camilla goes by the Duchess of Cornwall, and not Princess of Wales
Charlotte BecquartSenior reporter
Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall (Image: Surrey Advertiser)
Traditionally, when a woman marries into the royal family, she takes the female version of her husband's title.
However, Camilla, who married Prince Charles in 2005, goes by the female version of Charles' other title, the Duke of Cornwall.
So why is this?
The decision is reportedly out of respect to the late princess Diana, who carried the title Princess of Wales.
And although Diana was not the first Princess of Wales, the title became strongly associated with her.
Royal blogger Marlene Koenig says the decision was made to avoid stirring up negative public perception towards Camilla.
Ms Koenig said that when the couple married, "Camilla was not popular or well liked, though this has changed a lot since the marriage as Camilla has taken on a lot of patronages and Charles is a lot happier".
She added: "Still, [there was] a lot of tension and anger among a certain element of the population – so it was decided that Camilla would be styled as the Duchess of Cornwall, even though, of course, she is the Princess of Wales."
The Duchess of Cornwall has become much more popular and well liked in recent years, but the style change is here to stay.
What will Camilla's title be when Charles takes the throne?
As Cornwall Live reports, when Charles and Camilla married, it was announced Camilla will take on the new title of Princess Consort when Charles is king.
In recent years, there has been some speculation this may not be the case and Camilla may actually be known as Queen Camilla.
However, in March 2020 a spokesperson for the couple rebuffed this speculation.
Clarence House confirmed Camilla will still be known as Princess Consort when Charles is king.
A spokesperson for the couple told The Times: "The intention is for the Duchess to be known as Princess Consort when the Prince accedes to the throne.
"This was announced at the time of the marriage and there has been absolutely no change at all."
When Charles is king, he will no longer be the Duke of Cornwall and subsequently, Camilla will no longer use the title of Duchess of Cornwall.


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Home Health UK to lift travel ban as Nigeria considers retaliation
By Sahelian Times
The United Kingdom is about to scrap the travel ban imposed on countries after the detection of the Omicron variant of COVID-19,
Nigeria is among the countries that UK added to its red list over Omicron.
The Nigerian government had warned the UK authorities to remove the country from the list to avoid taking a similar measure.
Hadi Sirika, Minister of Aviation, had said if by Tuesday, the UK and other countries that took action against Nigeria over Omicron fail to review the policy, Nigeria would have no choice but to ban travellers from UK, Saudi Arabia and Argentina.
However, in a report, Daily Mail said the UK is about to scrap the travel red list and replace it with tests even for the fully vaccinated.
The report said Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, had convinced his colleagues that the ban should be replaced with testing.
"The move is expected to be approved this week", The Mail on Sunday reported.
The travel ban has sparked a global outrage. While President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa described it as discriminatory, Akinwunmi Adesina, President of African Development Bank (AFDB), also said African countries must not be punished unjustly.
After the backlash, Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to re-examine the policy.
Johnson made the promise during his weekly COVID updates on Wednesday.
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Control unit for the connection of 4 stirring drive bioMIXdrive 1, individual and independent speed setting for each stirring drive (Master-Slave-Technology), also ON-/OFF function, synchronous speed mode for all drives, extended speed range from 5 to 250 rpm, 6 watts/stirring position without any own-generated heating effect, automatic power setting for the warming-free continuous operation e.g. in CO2-incubators, jerk-free stirring, even and smooth stirring also at slow speeds.
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Q: vscode format reactnative code and eslint conflict Create project:
react-native init AwesomeProject

code:
import {createDrawerNavigator} from 'react-navigation';

Press: Shift + Alt + F
code:
import { createDrawerNavigator } from 'react-navigation';

error message:
Replace `·createDrawerNavigator·` with `createDrawerNavigator`eslint(prettier/prettier)

How do i configure?

A: run  ext install esbenp.prettier-vscode


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Ancient Nikouria artifact, missing for a century, rediscovered on Amorgos island
The specific inscription is considered very significant since it provides evidence concerning the balance of power during the first half of the 3rd century BC and the transition of control from the Macedonians to the Ptolemys
An ancient stone tablet bearing a historic inscription of the Resolution of Nikouria, dating back to the 3rd century BC, has resurfaced on the Greek island of Amorgos after it had gone missing for roughly a century, the culture ministry announced on Friday.
According to a ministry statement, the inscription was a key document concerning the history of the Aegean and was first discovered in 1893 in the Panagia Church on the islet of Nikouria, opposite Aigiali on Amorgos. It had been temporarily transferred to a nearby stable where it remained until 1908 but then disappeared from view and its fate was entirely unknown.
The announcement noted that the text on the inscription, known from the time of first publication of its discovery, concerns "a decision of the League (Koinon) of the Islanders', a political union set up by the Ptolemys, to participate with official representatives in the feast and games organised by Ptolemy II in Alexandria in the memory of his deified father Ptolemy I the Saviour. A copy of the resolution was erected on the altar of Ptolemy I on Delos, the base of the Koinon, while there was also provision to set up other copies in the cities that had voted in favour, among which were the cities of Amorgos."
The specific inscription is considered very significant since it provides evidence concerning the balance of power during the first half of the 3rd century BC and the transition of control from the Macedonians to the Ptolemys.
Dozens of researchers had attempted and failed to track down the Nikouria Stone over the years, which was finally rediscovered by a final-year archaeology student from Amorgos, Stelios Perakis, and German archaeologist N. N. Fischer with the help of local residents. The tablet was found embedded in the outer wall of a recently renovated house in the village Tholaria, Amorgos that had previously belonged to a shepherd from Nikouria.
Procedures for the removal of the tablet as well as its transfer and display in the Amorgos archaeological collection have now been initiated, the Cyclades Antiquities Ephorate said.
Photo Source: Greek Culture Ministry


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1.2. What problems are you trying to solve?
4.1. What is a "feature"?
8.1. When and how should you test the UI?
8.1.3. How much web testing do you really need?
10.2.8. How did BDD help?
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R. Bush
Internet Initiative Japan
K. Patel
P. Mohapatra
Sproute Networks
O. Maennel
Making Route Flap Damping Usable
Route Flap Damping (RFD) was first proposed to reduce BGP churn in routers. Unfortunately, RFD was found to severely penalize sites for being well connected because topological richness amplifies the number of update messages exchanged. Many operators have turned RFD off. Based on experimental measurement, this document recommends adjusting a few RFD algorithmic constants and limits in order to reduce the high risks with RFD. The result is damping a non-trivial amount of long-term churn without penalizing well-behaved prefixes' normal convergence process.
1.1.  Suggested Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
2.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
3.  RFD Parameters  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
4.  Suppress Threshold versus Churn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
5.  Maximum Penalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
6.  Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
8.  Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
Route Flap Damping (RFD) was first proposed (see [RIPE178] and [RFC2439]) and subsequently implemented to reduce BGP churn in routers. Unfortunately, RFD was found to severely penalize sites for being well connected because topological richness amplifies the number of update messages exchanged, see [MAO2002]. Subsequently, many operators turned RFD off; see [RIPE378]. Based on the measurements of [PELSSER2011], [RIPE580] now recommends that RFD is usable with some changes to the parameters. Based on the same measurements, this document recommends adjusting a few RFD algorithmic constants and limits. The result is damping of a non- trivial amount of long-term churn without penalizing well-behaved prefixes' normal convergence process.
Very few prefixes are responsible for a large amount of the BGP messages received by a router; see [HUSTON2006] and [PELSSER2011]. For example, the measurements in [PELSSER2011] showed that only 3% of the prefixes were responsible for 36% percent of the BGP messages at a router with real feeds from a Tier-1 provider and an Internet Exchange Point during a one-week experiment. Only these very frequently flapping prefixes should be damped. The values recommended in Section 6 achieve this. Thus, RFD can be enabled, and some churn reduced.
The goal is to, with absolutely minimal change, ameliorate the danger of current RFD implementations and use. It is not a panacea, nor is it a deep and thorough approach to flap reduction.
1.1. Suggested Reading
It is assumed that the reader understands BGP [RFC4271] and Route Flap Damping [RFC2439]. This work is based on the measurements in the paper [PELSSER2011]. A survey of Japanese operators' use of RFD and their desires is reported in [RFD-SURVEY].
2. Requirements Language
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119] only when they appear in all upper case. They may also appear in lower or mixed case as English words, without normative meaning.
3. RFD Parameters
The following RFD parameters are common to all implementations. Some may be tuned by the operator, some not. There is currently no consensus on a single set of default values.
+--------------------------+----------+-------+---------+
| Parameter                | Tunable? | Cisco | Juniper |
| Withdrawal               | No       | 1,000 |   1,000 |
| Re-Advertisement         | No       |     0 |   1,000 |
| Attribute Change         | No       |   500 |     500 |
| Suppress Threshold       | Yes      | 2,000 |   3,000 |
| Half-Life (min.)         | Yes      |    15 |      15 |
| Reuse Threshold          | Yes      |   750 |     750 |
| Max Suppress Time (min.) | Yes      |    60 |      60 |
Values without units specified are dimensionless constants.
Table 1: Default RFD Parameters of Juniper and Cisco
4. Suppress Threshold versus Churn
By turning RFD back on with the values recommended in Section 6, churn is reduced. Moreover, with these values, prefixes going through normal convergence are generally not damped.
[PELSSER2011] estimates that, with a suppress threshold of 6,000, the BGP update rate is reduced by 19% compared to a situation without RFD enabled. [PELSSER2011] studies the number of prefixes damped over a week between September 29, 2010 and October 6, 2010. With this 6,000 suppress threshold, 90% fewer prefixes are damped compared to use of a 2,000 threshold. That is, far fewer well-behaved prefixes are damped.
Setting the suppress threshold to 12,000 leads to very few damped prefixes (0.22% of the prefixes were damped with a threshold of 12,000 in the experiments in [PELSSER2011], yielding an average hourly update reduction of 11% compared to not using RFD).
+---------------+-------------+--------------+----------------------+
|      Suppress |      Damped |   % of Table |    Update Rate (one- |
|     Threshold |    Prefixes |       Damped |           hour bins) |
|         2,000 |      43,342 |       13.16% |               53.11% |
|         4,000 |      11,253 |        3.42% |               74.16% |
|         6,000 |       4,352 |        1.32% |               81.03% |
|        10,000 |       1,286 |        0.39% |               87.12% |
|        12,000 |         720 |        0.22% |               88.74% |
Note: the current default Suppress Threshold (2,000) is overly
agressive.
Table 2: Damped Prefixes vs. Churn, from [PELSSER2011]
5. Maximum Penalty
It is important to understand that the parameters shown in Table 1 and the implementation's sampling rate impose an upper bound on the penalty value, which we can call the 'computed maximum penalty'.
In addition, BGP implementations have an internal constant, which we will call the 'maximum penalty', and the current computed penalty may not exceed it.
Use of the following values is recommended:
Router Maximum Penalty:  The internal constant for the maximum
penalty value MUST be raised to at least 50,000.
Default Configurable Parameters:  In order not to break existing
operational configurations, existing BGP implementations,
including the examples in Table 1, SHOULD NOT change their default
Minimum Suppress Threshold:  Operators that want damping that is much
less destructive than the current damping, but still somewhat
aggressive, SHOULD configure the Suppress Threshold to no less
than 6,000.
Conservative Suppress Threshold:  Conservative operators SHOULD
configure the Suppress Threshold to no less than 12,000.
Calculate But Do Not Damp:  Implementations MAY have a test mode
where the operator can see the results of a particular
configuration without actually damping any prefixes.  This will
allow for fine-tuning of parameters without losing reachability.
It is well known that an attacker can generate false flapping to cause a victim's prefix(es) to be damped.
As the recommendations merely change parameters to more conservative values, there should be no increase in risk. In fact, the parameter change to more conservative values should slightly mitigate the false-flap attack.
Nate Kushman initiated this work some years ago. Ron Bonica, Seiichi Kawamura, and Erik Muller contributed useful suggestions.
[MAO2002]  Mao, Z., Govidan, R., Varghese, G., and R. Katz, "Route
Flap Damping Exacerbates Internet Routing Convergence", In
Proceedings of SIGCOMM, August 2002,
<http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2002/papers/
routedampening.pdf>.
[PELSSER2011]
Pelsser, C., Maennel, O., Mohapatra, P., Bush, R., and K.
Patel, "Route Flap Damping Made Usable", PAM 2011: Passive
and Active Measurement Conference, March 2011,
<http://pam2011.gatech.edu/papers/pam2011--Pelsser.pdf>.
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC2439]  Villamizar, C., Chandra, R., and R. Govindan, "BGP Route
Flap Damping", RFC 2439, November 1998.
[RFC4271]  Rekhter, Y., Li, T., and S. Hares, "A Border Gateway
Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", RFC 4271, January 2006.
[RIPE378]  Smith, P. and P. Panigl, "RIPE Routing Working Group
Recommendations On Route-flap Damping", RIPE 378, May
2006, <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-378>.
[HUSTON2006]
Huston, G., "2005 - A BGP Year in Review", RIPE 52, 2006,
<http://meetings.ripe.net/ripe-52/presentations/
ripe52-plenary-bgp-review.pdf>.
[RFD-SURVEY]
Tsuchiya, S., Kawamura, S., Bush, R., and C. Pelsser,
"Route Flap Damping Deployment Status Survey", Work in
Progress, June 2012.
[RIPE178]  Barber, T., Doran, S., Karrenberg, D., Panigl, C., and J.
Schmitz, "RIPE Routing-WG Recommendation for Coordinated
Route-flap Damping Parameters", RIPE 178, February 1998,
<http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-178>.
[RIPE580]  Bush, R., Pelsser, C., Kuhne, M., Maennel, O., Mohapatra,
P., Patel, K., and R. Evans, "RIPE Routing Working Group
Recommendation for Route Flap Damping", RIPE 580, January
Cristel Pelsser
Jinbocho Mitsui Buiding, 1-105
Kanda-Jinbocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo  101-0051
EMail: cristel@iij.ad.jp
Randy Bush
5147 Crystal Springs
Bainbridge Island, Washington  98110
randy@psg.com
170 W. Tasman Drive
keyupate@cisco.com
Pradosh Mohapatra
41529 Higgins Way
Fremont, CA  94539
mpradosh@yahoo.com
Olaf Maennel
Department of Computer Science - N.2.03
EMail: o@maennel.net


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As you've probably heard by now, Metallica are the official ambassadors of Record Store Day 2016 , which falls on Saturday, April 16th. The band that released a cassette on last year's Record Store Day will this year release a CD, entitled Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, Metallica! - Live at Le Bataclan. Paris, France - June 11th, 2003 . As the title indicates, the CD documents a nine-song live set performed at the Bataclan in Paris in June of 2003. In light of the recent terrorist attack at that venue in November 2015 , proceeds from sales of the CD will be donated to the Fondation de France's Give For France charity. This concert was performed at a strange time in Metallica's history, just days after the release of their chaotic St. Anger album. This was the first year that the band employed current bassist Robert Trujillo, after they weathered two years of troubles documented in the film Some Kind Of Monster . This show was the second of three shows that the band
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For Record Store Day 2016, ABKCO is reissuing the Animals' 1965 EP Animal Tracks in a 3,000-copy limited edition. This EP was originally released in the U.K. and Europe in 1965, and has never been released in the U.S. Animal Tracks was originally pressed as a 7-inch 45; the Record Store Day EP is pressed in 10-inch vinyl for better fidelity. This EP is not to be mistaken for the full-length Animal Tracks album, which was also released in 1965. None of this EP's four tracks appeared on the American version of that album, although all of them were included on the U.K. version of the album. The first three tracks find the British Invasion quintet playing covers of R&B classics from Chuck Berry ("How You've Changed"), Ray Charles ("I Believe To My Soul"), and Louis Jordan ("Let The Good Times Roll"). On each of these three tracks, Eric Burdon croons soulfully over Alan Price's restrained yet intricate piano arrangements. These tr
Shiloh with Don Henley
After spotlighting the pre-Eagles work of the late Glenn Frey , I also wanted to talk about the early band of Frey's Eagles co-founder Don Henley. Before Frey and Henley met, Henley played drums and sang lead vocals for a Texas band called Shiloh. Shiloh recorded one self-titled album in 1970, and it was released on the same label – Amos Records – which distributed the sole album of Frey's early duo Longbranch/Pennywhistle. During the '60's, Henley and other members of Shiloh had previously played together in at least two other bands. The first of these was the Four Speeds (no relation to the Gary Usher surf-rock band of the same name). Henley and two other future Shiloh members – bassist Richard Bowden and keyboard/trumpet player Jerry Surratt – were in this band, along with original guitarist Freddie Neese. These four teenagers cut two singles in 1964, "Variety" and "Why Did You Leave Me", both of which were decent Texas-style garage rock songs that would fit in on a Nuggets box s
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Jane Badler was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Her parents, Morris and Beverly, had both served in the military. She attended the University of Utah for college, but dropped out after only one semester. She then worked as a waitress at a hotel and, along with her friend Patti Johnson, went on the road traveling across the country in a hot air balloon. The experience she gained from that journey would later have a profound effect on her writing career.
Jane Badler was hired by Universal Pictures to be in the cast of their classic movie The Secret. After filming The Secret, she decided to leave Hollywood to pursue a role in television, and so began her lifelong association with the world of show business. In the pilot episode of The Virtualirse, Jane Badler plays the title character of Anna, a virtual assistant to a rich, powerful family whose daughter is abducted by terrorists. The show became a huge hit and was responsible for the phenomenal success of the franchise that came to be called The Princess and the Pilot.
As The Princess and the Pilot progressed, Jane Badler was asked to co-star in the very successful movie The Princess and the Pilot. That film also managed to score widespread critical acclaim, which is perhaps what sealed the deal for her next big move. When The Princess and the Pilot were a huge hit, it led to the development of another one of Universal's high-budget films: The Princess and the Harpy Court. Jane Badler again reprises her role of Anna, this time as the daughter of a powerful, rich family that lives on the outskirts of a small city. This time, Anna must fight against a group of rebels who intend to overthrow the government and rule the country for themselves. The Princess and the Harpy Court were a box office smash, ensuring that Jane Badler would continue to find work in the film industry, most likely as an actress or a voice-over artist.
After The Princess and the Harpy Court, Jane Badler found work in a number of films including the movie's adaptation of Agatha Christie's novels, A Midsummer's Night Dream and finally her own book, A View from Deep Water. Although she always maintained that her best known roles were in the movies, Jane Badler did receive some attention for her vocal skills. Her voice was known in a number of television shows and featured in a number of films including Beauty Shop, E.T. and Home Alone. Later in her career, Jane Badler decided that she wanted to try her hand at screenwriting, but didn't have any idea of how to get her foot in the door.
One day while shopping in New Hampshire, Jane Badler came upon a display of autographed movie memorabilia. Looking over the items, she realized that it was an autograph collection, featuring her most famous lines from her many films: "You're as green as the grass you just walked on." She began to research into this collecting and soon found that there were a number of web sites dedicated to this practice, which allowed her to begin her career as a writer. As she continued to collect more of these famous quotes and placed them in her web site, she began to hone her talent for the written word and eventually developed a new novel, which she called, A New Hampshire Country Novel.
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Q: How would I replace a substring in Java without using the replace method? What I need to do is replace the letter the user wants to replace in a string with X. Here's an example:
replaceLetterWithX("asdfgsdfghfghj","s")
aXdfgXdfghfghj
But I can't use the replace method. I also need to use the substring, length, and equals methods. I'm a bit confused about where to start. Here's what my code looks like now:
public static String replaceLetterWithX(String str, String c)
    {
        //This method will return 'str' with all instances of letter 'c' replaced
        //by 'X'

        String result="";

        int count = 0;

        //Code here

        return result;
    }

A: This can be done with a simple for loop using the charAt method. By looping through the strings and comparing each character with the character to be replaced, we can construct the replaced string from scratch. Keep in mind that this is case-sensitive, I suggest you do some research into the Java documentation to learn more about how to do that.
public static String replaceLetterWithX(String str, String c)
    {
        //This method will return 'str' with all instances of letter 'c' replaced
        //by 'X'

        String result="";

        //Code here
        //looping through each character in the string
        for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++)
        {
            //converting the character at i to string and comparing it with the given letter
            if (Character.toString(str.charAt(i)).equals(c))
            {
                result += "X";
            }
            //if it isn't add the original letter in the string
            else
            {
                result += str.charAt(i);
            }
        }
        return result;
    }


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Thomas Daum (* 17. Juli 1962 in Hagen) ist ein Vizeadmiral der Bundeswehr und seit dem 25. September 2020 Inspekteur Cyber- und Informationsraum in Bonn.

Militärische Laufbahn

Ausbildung und erste Verwendungen
Thomas Daum trat 1981 in die Bundesmarine ein. Als Offizieranwärter der Crew VII/81 begann er seine Ausbildung zum Marineoffizier. Von 1982 bis 1985 schloss sich ein Studium der Informatik an der Universität der Bundeswehr in München an. Es folgten Ausbildung und Einsatz als Bootswaffenoffizier in der Schnellbootflottille (1985–1989). Von 1990 bis 1991 übernahm er das Kommando über S 41 Tiger im 3. Schnellbootgeschwader in Flensburg. Von 1996 bis 1998 nahm Daum am Admiralstabsdienstlehrgang an der Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr in Hamburg teil.

Dienst als Stabsoffizier
Als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der Universität der Bundeswehr in München (1992–1995) wurde Daum zum Dr. rer. nat. promoviert. Anschließend diente er als S3 und Stellvertreter des Kommandeurs im 3. Schnellbootgeschwader in Flensburg (1995–1996). Es schlossen sich Verwendungen als Dezernatsleiter im Flottenkommando in Glücksburg (1998–1999), als Referent im Bundesministerium der Verteidigung (BMVg) in Bonn (2000–2001) und als Dezernatsleiter im Einsatzführungskommando der Bundeswehr in Geltow bei Potsdam (2002–2003) an. In der nächsten Funktion war er von 2003 bis 2004 als Kommandeur des 2. Schnellbootgeschwaders in Warnemünde tätig. Als Kapitän zur See diente er im Bundesamt für Informationsmanagement und Informationstechnik der Bundeswehr in Koblenz (2004–2006), beim Deutschen Militärischen Vertreter im Military Committee der NATO, EU und WEU in Brüssel (2006–2009), als Abteilungsleiter M 6 im Flottenkommando in Glücksburg (2009–2010), als Referatsleiter Führungsdienste Marine im Führungsstab der Marine (BMVg) in Bonn (2010–2012) sowie als Referatsleiter Führungsunterstützung, Führungsorganisation und -verfahren sowie Personal im Einsatz in der Abteilung Strategie und Einsatz (BMVg) in Berlin (2012).

Dienst als Admiral
Von 2012 bis 2015 war Daum der Abteilungsleiter Informationstechnik im Bundesamt für Ausrüstung, Informationstechnik und Nutzung der Bundeswehr in Koblenz. Von November 2015 bis einschließlich März 2019 war er Deputy General Manager, Chef des Stabes und Chief Operating Officer der NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) in Brüssel, Belgien. Von April 2019 war er, als Nachfolger von Generalmajor Michael Vetter, Chef des Stabes im Kommando Cyber- und Informationsraum (KdoCIR) in Bonn. Am 25. September 2020 übernahm er von Generalleutnant Ludwig Leinhos als Inspekteur Cyber- und Informationsraum die Führung des Organisationsbereichs Cyber- und Informationsraum.

Einsätze
Während seiner Zeit als Schnellbootkommandeur führte Daum im Jahr 2003 eine Task Unit im Rahmen der NATO Operation Active Endeavour.

Privates
Daum ist verheiratet.

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Inspekteur des Cyber- und Informationsraums (Bundeswehr)
Vizeadmiral (Marine der Bundeswehr)
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Absolvent der Universität der Bundeswehr München
Schnellboot-Kommandant (Marine der Bundeswehr)
Militärperson (NATO)
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Q: Улучшения чата Есть чат, что можно ему добавить? Заранее спасибо!
Сам чат:

<form action="iframe.php" method="post" id="form" target='chatWindow' >

Сообщение:<input name="message" type="text" size="75" maxleght="255">
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="OK">

А это iframe:

и
<?php
  if (isset($_POST['message'])) {
      $message = $_POST['message'];
  }

  $db = mysql_connect("...", "...", "...");
  mysql_select_db("...", $db);
  if (trim($message) != "") {
      mysql_query("INSERT INTO messages (message) VALUES ('$message')");
  }

  $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM messages");

  while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
      echo "
";
      echo "{$row['message']}";
  }
?>

И скрипт к чату:

A: Поиграем в предсказателя:
1) Смайлики (Вопрос Влада: как добавить смайлики в чат?!!!php, mysql)
2) Функции модераторов и рейтинга (Вопрос Влада: Как добавить модератора в чат?php,mysql)
3) Комнаты, личный дизайн (Вопрос Влада: Как разделить шаблоны пользователей и сделать безопасный редактор тем?php,mysql, html, css)

A: Первым вашим (и очень скорым!) ходом должна быть смена пароля на БД. Вот вывод вашего кода
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM messages");

  while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
      echo "
";
      echo "{$row['message']}";
  }

Круто
Круто
В скором времени будут сделаны бои!

Серьезно, кто-нибудь с достаточным количеством очков, отредактируйте его вопрос, неизвестно, когда Влад появится здесь (мне чуть-чуть не хватает).


There are two aspects to the relation between law and technology. While on the one hand law promotes the development of technology, on the other it regulates its application and use especially regarding the protection of health and property. Japan has experienced many cases of technology-related mass damage, including the well-known examples of Minamata disease, the negative effects of asbestos on public health, and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. In the 1960s, industrial pollution was the cause of widespread instances of damage to public health. This triggered a series of lawsuits which developed into a whole new area of tort law. In these cases of industrial pollution, it was established that private companies as polluters bear legal responsibility for the harm they caused. Since the 1980s, tort law has seen a new level of development: legal responsibility is no longer restricted to the direct polluter exclusively but has been expanded to include the State as the regulator. This article focuses on the relationship between the regulatory and promotive functions of technology-related law based on an analysis of the Minamata disease, asbestos, and Fukushima Daiichi disaster cases.
Ōta Tenrei (1900–1985) was a gynecologist, socialist, birth control activist, sexologist, aswell as an advocate of eugenics and euthanasia, who participated in the enactment of the Eugenic Protection Law (1948–1996) and founded the Japan Euthanasia Society (1976, now the Japan Society for Dying with Dignity). Ōta had progressive views onsexuality, women's rights, and reproduction, especially vocal in hisadvocacy of abortion rights. At the same time, he was an advocate of eugenics and he attempted to legalize euthanasia in Japan, arguing among other reasons that some people were a "burden" on society. This article examines Ōta's advocacy of seemingly contradictory causes such as abortion, eugenics, and euthanasia. It suggests that first, for Ōta all these causes were progressive, aimed at creating a "better world," and second, he put an excessive stress on autonomy, disregarding rights of those who lacked it, be itfetus, people in a vegetative state, or the intellectually disabled.
Over the last decades, social inclusion has become a significant factor in social policy programmes in most countries of the world. It has been endorsed through various directives of international organisations and then implemented by numerous national governments. The relatively vague nature of the concept may facilitate this present prevalence, since it makes it easily adaptable to distinctive features of different societies. However, translating the term and implementing it into political practice might involve several problematic issues. This paper focuses on the so-called 'Community-based Integrated Care System' (chiiki hōkatsu kea shisutemu) as an example for the adaption of social inclusion in Japanese social policy programmes. The 'Community-based Integrated Care System' has been gradually introduced in Japan since 2006 as a part of the reformed Long-term Care Insurance Law. Building upon field studies which were conducted in a major commuter city in the Greater Tokyo Area, the paper presents contradictions between the theoretical framework and the practical implementation of the new policies. It is argued that the proposed model can lead to the construction of an effective local welfare system, but that it does not necessarily empower the local residents.
In comparison to the foster care system in western countries, in Japan most child protective care is conducted in facilities. This article examines the institutional changes necessary for the introduction of school education in children's self-reliance support facilities (CSSF) and considers the relationship between the spheres of education and welfare from the narratives of the school teachers who conduct the education practices and the facility staff who conduct the welfare practices. By examining these issues, this paper seeks to identify the challenges in introducing school education to the CSSF and discuss how the spheres of education and welfare can work together to overcome them. Following the introduction of school education into the CSSF, study guidance in the facilities was taken out of the hands of the facility staff and was conducted by qualified teachers. From teacher and welfare staff narratives, this introduction of school education was seen as an 'erosion by school education' for child welfare. However, from the perspective of Goffman's total institution approach, this erosion has gradually generated new practices that differ from the conventional perspectives of school education or welfare. Building off of this perspective, this article suggests that school education in the CSSF can allow the children to temporarily experience a pseudo-society separate from their life in the child welfare facility, and this can offer benefits for the child's eventual social re-integration.
This study examines the role of educational practitioners in mediating the implementation of the 2015 reforms of moral education. The revision of the Fundamental Law of Education and further commitment to a nationalistic agenda by successive governments have paved the way for curriculum reforms that introduced the value of patriotism as an objective in the moral education curriculum. The reforms in 2015 reassigned moral education as a 'special subject' requiring both ministerial approval of textbooks and assessment. However, previous studies have focused almost exclusively on policy and curriculum analyses. Few studies have examined the school or classroom to understand practice as implemented. Challenging the assumption that these revised documents describe changes in practice, this study examines the early stages of the implementation of policy, which is invariably mediated by education practitioners 'enacting' policy. Despite the undeniable trend of central policy promoting a 'love of country' and efforts to increase state control of education, a stronger patriotism in moral education may not soon materialise in the classroom under the current pace of reform, though structural changes may have longer term potential to limit the autonomy of teachers to mediate policy implementation. The results contribute to our understanding of how these reforms are being implemented, and more broadly how teachers in Japan enact reform 'on the ground'.
This article examines local and regional media reporting in Japan following the triple disaster in 2011. Unlike the national newspapers and TV stations whose reporting was accused of downplaying the nuclear disaster, the media of Tohoku took on a more open and grassroots-oriented approach of reporting. According to various reports, local and regional media played an important role in providing crucial information, while they also conveyed the voices of those struggling to overcome the aftermath of disaster. Building upon a series of narrative interviews with Japanese journalists, this study investigates their perceived role in disaster reporting. It reveals that the gap between national and regional media in Japan originates in the conflicts resulting from centralism, but also in the high impact of the journalists' professional environment. Concerning the local and regional media, three main 'orientations' have been reconstructed from the interview data: (1) a supportive approach toward the people affected by the disaster, (2) a strong sense of belonging to the community covered, and (3) a critical distance toward Tokyo politics and media.
Tokyo has recently decided to utilize foreign aid more strategically so as to make 'Proactive Contributions to Peace and Security' and align aid with what is identified as Japanese national interests: to protect an international order governed by rules and based on democracy, human rights and rule of law. Some scholars have even started to talk about Japan as a 'Normative Power'—an actor with the ability to set what is considered 'normal'in international affairs. In an attempt to 'measure' any potential Japanese normative power, it is being argued that Japan can be identified as a normative power when it comes to setting the 'rule of law' (at sea) as legitimate and normal behavior, which has been facilitated by utilizing foreign aid strategically to claimants in the South China Sea dispute. However, said normative power does not seem to be applicable to other non-security related realms of Japanese national interests—protecting democracy and human rights in Asia. It is suggested that actual implementation of aid geared towards protection of such values are only as important to Tokyo as the extent to which it creates leverage against its main competitor in the region, China.


Prof. Sapogin's answer! Very interesting!
heard of. But what also sounds very familiar to Prof.
Photo: Shad discussing with Prof. Konstantin Meyl.
> I know about experimental research of Professor Kanarev and it is very interesting.
> only and explanation of Testatika machine is impossible, if you use ordinary science.
easily can be recognized, but hardly can be a half truth.
process for gravity, not two.
magnet current, or simply 'magneticity'.
and effect are on the atomic level.
on that principle. Some researchers utilized 'Mr.
Lenz' to their own advantage.
as a black and white law, an inflexible law.
could be manipulated could also undergo the Lenz law.
blindly only it is written in a technical literature.
will be lost. The same counts for science!
see the forest through all the trees'.
rains down on our planet.
Photo: Shad lecturing in Berlin in June, 2002.
like perpetual motion, a self maintainer.
science, although he was a co-worker of Mr. Marconi.
of the matter it is converted in.
dipoles, which result from this diffusion process.
as we cannot measure the energy.
ambient energy and devise a way of making the "sink"
power requirements of the load attached to it.
that the field lines might close (broken symmetry).
that the electrodes will be charged as in a capacitor.
an energy sink as Tesla describes it.
mainly able to realize what I am speaking about.
Save Mother Earth and you'll save yourselves!
and fully agree with you!
the cosmic radiation our matter absorbs and converts.
familiar to us, which our planet generates.
on even after the electrolysis unit was switched off.
of JoeX or Joe cell effect.
as if they would do under 'normal circumstances'.
conversion process itself a lot of energy is lost.
Here is the quest, where we have to find a solution.
matter and the physics behind all this!


Sebastian Vettel won the Bahrain Grand Prix what is his second victory of the season and 44th in his career. The Ferrari driver had a fine race and was able to keep both Mercedes drivers well behind.
Vettel started well and moved up to the 2nd position, profiting from Hamilton's poor start. The four-time champion now was behind Valtteri Bottas while Max Verstappen also had a good start after moving up to the 4th after starting from the 6th position. On the other side, McLaren's misery continues after Stoffel Vandoorne stayed in the garage due to an issue with the power unit.
After a long time, we could some exciting racing as the top 3 drivers after 10 laps were within 1.5s, while the two Red Bull's were just behind them. Vettel was the first from the top of the grid who went into the pit. Verstappen followed him on the next lap but Dutch teenager soon after retired from the race due to the brakes failure.
The safety car was deployed on lap 13 after an accident between Lance Stroll and Carlos Sainz Jr. That was a signal to both Mercedes cars to go for tires change what caused another change at the top. Vettel was the leader of the race, with Bottas, Ricciardo, Lewis Hamilton, and Bottas behind the Ferrari driver. Soon after the race was restarted, Hamilton took the 3rd place from Ricciardo who quickly dropped to the 6th place after being overtaken by Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen.
In a meantime, Lewis was handed a five-second penalty for driving unnecessarily slowly in the pit entry. However, the former champion was very motivated and began to pursue Vettel after overtaking his teammate on lap 27. Interestingly, Mercedes opted for a different tactical approach for its drivers. While Hamilton pitted only once, Bottas had to change tires twice.
Hamilton led the race for a long time after Vettel pitted for the second time but the German was reducing the gap from lap to lap. That's why Lewis was forced to pit for the second time and he dropped to the 3rd position with 15 laps remaining. Now Vettel was pretty comfortable at the top, having the 10s advantage to Bottas and 19s to Hamilton.
Lewis was pushing to the limits, took the 2nd place from Bottas, but was unable to catch Vettel who scored second win of the season and 44th in his career to keep the lead in the Drivers' Championship.
Kimi Raikkonen, Daniel Ricciardo, Felipe Massa, Daniel Ricciardo. Sergio Perez, Romain Grosjean, Nico Hulkenberg, and Esteban Ocon also scored points in this race.
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The fourth round of the Formula 1 World Championship is the Grand Prix of Russia. The race will go on 30th of April at Sochi Autodrom.


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How a business can take advantage of 'vlogging'
My daily commute seems like a distant memory. Memories of winning the jackpot by actually getting a seat on the train as I rolled out of Farringdon. I would sit scrolling through my phone (standard). Then I scrolled across GOAT's daily Vlog. Seeing the video length of 8 minutes, telling myself I'd watch a little bit before heading off to continue my scroll. I watched the whole thing, it then became part of my daily commute – watching a new and exciting agency and what they get up to.
I got in touch with the GOAT team and invited co-founder Harry Hugo to speak at our event October Content Breakfast event on Influencer Marketing. So, when putting together a schedule for our Virtual Content Breakfast events and the topic of 'video' was mentioned. I got back in touch with the team at GOAT and invited them to share their experience on vlogging, and what impact it's had on the business.
Firstly, what is vlogging?
A vlog is a video log, essentially a video version of a blog. And it's not just YouTubers and TikToker's who are vlogging, there are a whole host of people vlogging. Whether it's a few minutes a day on Instagram stories, or a more 'professional' style of vlog like the team at GOAT publish on a daily basis. You can read more about how businesses are using TikTok here
Goat Account Manager Sam Fowler being 'vlogged'. Part of the daily routine now.
Here's the conversation between me and Tom Freeman, Editor and Producer of GOAT's daily vlog.
Rob John: So, the Daily GOAT, what episode are you currently working on?
Tom Freeman: 386 today!
RJ: What's been your favourite episode so far?
TF: Tough one. I'd say the LA episodes, for a couple of reasons. It's the first time we managed to produce the vlog across different continents without missing a day. Probably good that we were on episode 199 by the time that trip rolled around but it was still a mammoth task and one we're all proud we pulled off. Logistics aside, its actually a great episode too. Other than those big episodes that stick in your brain… I am genuinely proud of the fact that you could literally drop a pin in any of the 386 episodes and find something fun or insightful.
RJ: What would you say are the key benefits for GOAT running a daily vlog?
TF: Transparency for a much-misunderstood industry, prospective clients feeling like they actually know the staff before they've even shaken hands (touched elbows) and it's generated a lot of business too.
RJ: And what about the challenges? Are there some particular dry times in terms of content ideas?
TF: Some days there's a lot to talk about, other day's we have to get a bit self-referential and talk about the vlog itself, which can be a bit meta. Generally though, we understand who we can go to to get X and who probably won't give us the best content for Y. It's really an exercise in leaving perfectionism at the door but still aiming to create something that feels like it took a few days to produce.
RJ: Can any business run a vlog? If so, would you recommend publishing daily/weekly/monthly to start with?
TF: I'm sure it works better for certain businesses but we've been banging the drum for a year that no one has an excuse. We invested in our team in order to ensure we could maintain a certain level of production, but if you've got a phone and a passion there's literally no excuse. The hardware and platforms have removed all the roadblocks for you. Just have a go, no one gets it the right first time and trust me no one is fixating as much as you about that mole you think is a bit ugly or you think you look a bit fat or whatever.
RJ: Does a company need to have a camera whiz, or can they do it themselves?
TF: Investing in a camera whiz certainly helps with engaging content and the frequency at which you can put it out but seriously, a video with the right title, thumbnail and subject spoke directly into camera can go viral. It's not all about the bells and whistles.
RJ: When putting the content together, is it best to have someone who knows what they're talking about, or a complete 'outsider'?
TF: None of us on the video team come from a big marketing background. The founders just wanted a team who would be creative and fast! Matt, who is the voice of the Daily Goat, plays a heightened version of himself I suppose. A kind of "outsider" character who can act as the straight man. We're trying to showcase a relatively new form of marketing and having a layman has been a big strength for us.
RJ: How far ahead do you plan content for your vlogs?
TF: Certain things we know ahead of time (trips events etc) but mostly we like to mirror the business and truly stay on our toes. We work in social media which can and does change in the snap of a finger.
RJ: Success isn't immediate right? How long do you think people should run with to properly test?
TF: Success is a strange thing to measure with the Goat Vlog. We're using a vlog format that would usually be graded by views and engagement, but success for us is much more about whether this is a good business development tool. That X client loved the vlogs and that's how they found their way to Goat is always a great thing to hear.
RJ: Finally, any tips on running a vlog? Especially for those who may think they work in a boring sector
TF: Put yourself out there! If I've learned one thing about social is that there's a community out there for anything. Boring doesn't really come into it anymore.
Check out Goat's daily vlog here
Tom Freeman
Thomas is an editor and video producer from London. Currently lead video producer making high quality daily Vlogs at disruptive marketing agency, Goat. It's been well over 300 days and they've still not missed one. The product has proven a massive business generator for Goat by simply letting the world behind the curtain of a much misunderstood new wave of marketing; influencers.
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    # Welcome to your CDK Python project!

    This is a blank project for Python development with CDK.

    The `cdk.json` file tells the CDK Toolkit how to execute your app.

    This project is set up like a standard Python project.  The initialization
    process also creates a virtualenv within this project, stored under the .env
    directory.  To create the virtualenv it assumes that there is a `python3`
    (or `python` for Windows) executable in your path with access to the `venv`
    package. If for any reason the automatic creation of the virtualenv fails,
    you can create the virtualenv manually.

    To manually create a virtualenv on MacOS and Linux:

    ```
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    ```

    After the init process completes and the virtualenv is created, you can use the following
    step to activate your virtualenv.

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    $ source .env/bin/activate
    ```

    If you are a Windows platform, you would activate the virtualenv like this:

    ```
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    ```

    Once the virtualenv is activated, you can install the required dependencies.

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    ```

    At this point you can now synthesize the CloudFormation template for this code.

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    To add additional dependencies, for example other CDK libraries, just add
    them to your `setup.py` file and rerun the `pip install -r requirements.txt`
    command.

    # Useful commands

     * `cdk ls`          list all stacks in the app
     * `cdk synth`       emits the synthesized CloudFormation template
     * `cdk deploy`      deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
     * `cdk diff`        compare deployed stack with current state
     * `cdk docs`        open CDK documentation

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Brady Hoke defends Taylor Lewan again, says 'his character will shine through'
Updated Apr 03, 2019; Posted May 08, 2014
By Nick Baumgardner | nbaumgardner@mlive.com
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Former Michigan left tackle Taylor Lewan is expected to be selected in the top 10 of the first round of the NFL draft on Thursday night in New York.
(Melanie Maxwell | MLive.com)
Brady Hoke is not backing down from his stance on former Michigan left tackle Taylor Lewan.
Despite some public sentiment that Lewan is an off-field risk for NFL teams, Hoke once again defended Lewan's character and integrity during an appearance with the NFL Network on Thursday, hours before the first round of the NFL draft kicked off.
"Guys make mistakes sometimes in their careers. But the one thing about Taylor, off the field, he was great as far as we were concerned with how he handled himself," Hoke said. "There's no doubt in my mind that he's going to be a terrific player for one of these teams, I think he's the best left tackle there is (in this draft) and I also believe that his character will shine through."
Hoke is in New York today to support Lewan, who will be in attendance tonight for the first round of the NFL draft. The former Michigan All-American is expected to be a top 10 pick.
This was the second time this week that Hoke has publicly backed Lewan's character as a person, as questions continue to swirl regarding Lewan's off-field behavior at Michigan.
He is due in court in Ann Arbor on May 19 for an arraignment that is expected to bring one aggravated assault charge and two charges of assault and battery stemming from a fight on Dec. 1.
Lewan has repeatedly defended himself publicly with regard to this case, saying Wednesday in New York: "The truth is I was put in a situation where I had to break up two people. My brother and another individual. I kind of pushed the guy and separated them and left the situation. It got blown a little out of proportion. I don't hold that against them at all. I completely understand. I'm not really worried about that."
Lewan has also had to face allegations that he threatened, through a third party, an alleged victim in the Brendan Gibbons sexual assault case -- which never brought any charges on Lewan or Gibbons -- back in 2009.
Again, he has repeatedly denied those allegations. On Wednesday in New York, he did so again.
"I've never threatened a woman in my entire life," Lewan said. "That's just not the kind of person I am. My mother would be extremely disappointed if that was ever the case. I hope people would believe that."
Hoke has had no problem publicly backing Lewan as a player and a person this week, going as far as saying he felt like a "proud papa" watching Lewan prepare to enter the NFL this evening.
He commended Lewan's leadership, his growth as a person and a player from the time he became his coach in 2011, and said he has no doubt Lewan's career will be successful.
"The one thing about Taylor, his progress over the years and his real commitment to his teammates and to Michigan is something we're really proud of," Hoke said. "With Taylor, he was a great leader for us, he came back for a fifth year when he really didn't need to do that," "He maybe would've been the first pick a year ago in the draft. But he wanted to come back and help a young offensive line develop, wanted to (try and) win a championship at Michigan.
"I was at Michigan when Steve Hutchinson and Jeff Backus and Jon Jansen were here, and Jake Long was being recruited. (Lewan) is right up in there. I remember Maurice Williams and Jon Runyan. (Lewan) is right up in there with all those guys."
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Stormy Daniels' media-savvy lawyer is Trump's newest nemesis
CATHERINE LUCEYLaurie Kellman Mar. 30, 2018 | 12:10 AM
Michael Avenatti wants to be clear: He does not bluff.
Prestigious U.S. colleges won't reject students who protest guns
Dozens of U.S. colleges and universities, including at least three Ivy League schools, have said their application processes will not consider the...
Channeling Trump? Beleaguered Netanyahu assails media
Dan PerryJosef Federman Aug. 12, 2017 | 12:11 AM
Directly addressing his nationalist base, a beleaguered leader accuses the news media of obsessively promoting a liberal agenda, conducting a "witch hunt...
Ivy League scrutiny of racial admissions
Collin Binkley Aug. 08, 2017 | 12:12 AM
A Justice Department inquiry into how race influences admissions at Harvard University has left selective colleges bracing for scrutiny of practices that have...
Syrian doctor caught in travel ban gives up, moves to Canada
Jennifer McDermott Jun. 30, 2017 | 12:06 AM
A Syrian doctor says he won't return to the United States to finish his studies at Brown University because of the Trump administration's travel ban.
Harvard's ouster of students stirs debate
SALLY HO Jun. 20, 2017 | 12:08 AM
Few college-bound kids lose their shot, and their slot, at their dream school once they get in, but it happened at one of the world's most elite institutions...
The Donald's speaking style still flummoxes linguists
Matt Sedensky Apr. 27, 2017 | 12:14 AM
Campaign promises may have been reshaped and some self-imposed deadlines reset.
Harvard dropout Zuckerberg to address grads at alma mater
Mar. 07, 2017 | 09:01 PM
Mark Zuckerberg is headed back to Harvard, but this time he'll be giving the commencement speech.
Harvard seeks to confront historical ties to slavery
Harvard University is taking new steps to confront its past ties to slavery.
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President Donald Trump Tuesday nominated Neil Gorsuch for a lifetime job on the U.S. Supreme Court, picking the 49-year-old federal appeals court judge to...
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Harvard reaches tentative deal with striking dining workers
Oct. 25, 2016 | 09:29 AM
Harvard University has reached a tentative labor agreement with its striking cafeteria workers.
Aleppo to the Ivy League: Syrian doctor preps for end of war
Jennifer McDermott Oct. 18, 2016 | 12:10 AM
Khaled al-Milaji coordinated a campaign that vaccinated 1.4 million Syrian children, and risked his life to provide medical care during the country's civil war.
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Japan's love for Americana sparks fashion boom
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Families credited for 'hands-free' law in ceremony with governor
They spent years rallying support to limit cellphone use while driving
By Stephen Montemayor Star Tribune
April 12, 2019 — 9:42pm
Packed tightly together and holding portraits of loved ones lost to distracted drivers, more than two dozen people watched Friday as Gov. Tim Walz signed a new law limiting drivers to using hands-free cellphone technology on Minnesota roads.
"I just feel the deepest apologies that it took this long for many of you," Walz told the families behind him before signing the bill.
The law is the state's most expansive measure yet to curb distracted driving since families began lobbying at the Capitol for new restrictions as far back as 2001. Lawmakers also are looking at more severe penalties for texting while driving.
As of Aug. 1, Minnesota will join 16 states and the District of Columbia in limiting drivers to using phone devices with voice commands or single touch activation. The law provides exceptions for emergencies. GPS navigation is also allowed under the law.
Lawmakers and law enforcement officials on Friday credited the citizens who have been pressing for changes over the past two decades of growing cellphone use in automobiles.
"You changed my mind," said Sen. Scott Newman, R-Hutchinson, who went from opposing the measure four years ago to becoming its chief Senate sponsor this session.
To prepare drivers for the change, the Department of Public Safety (DPS) is planning a public education campaign using about $700,000 in federal dollars to create billboards and reach out to schools.
"Today is the day that people can start with this law and make our roads safer," said Col. Matt Langer, chief of the State Patrol.
Most states that adopted hands-free laws saw traffic fatalities drop by an average 15%, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. But Langer added that the DPS will underscore that "hands-free is not distraction-free."
"We still want people to pay attention to driving and to follow the laws and use common sense," Langer said.
A network of families who lost relatives to distracted drivers also is vowing to continue public education efforts. Vijay Dixit, whose daughter, Shreya, was killed in 2007, is beginning to reach out to elementary-age children. Another safety advocate, Karen Ilg, continues to hand out pieces of the wreckage from her husband's fatal bike collision. And in the more than three years since their grandfather, Joseph Tikalsky, was killed as he walked across a country road to grab his morning newspaper, Sylvie and Jarek Tikalsky have spoken about their family's experience to classrooms of their fellow teenagers.
The Tikalskys, like many other families, were a constant presence at the Capitol in recent years to rally support for the new hands-free law. Taking part in a somber signing event at the Capitol, they gripped images of a smiling Joseph Tikalsky.
"A few years ago, all of us were given a choice when this happened: How do you respond?" said Greg Tikalsky, of his father's death. "The fact that we're doing this makes us feel as though Dad didn't die in vain. However you can take a positive out of this, we're taking it out of it and trying to make the roads better for everybody."
Stephen Montemayor covers politics and government in Minnesota. He previously reported on federal courts and law enforcement for the Star Tribune.
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Reza Doust was born 1960 in Esfahan. In 1974 at age fourteen, Doust enrolled in Esfahan School of Fine Arts in. He had his first solo show at the Iranian & American Cultural Society in Esfahan in 1975. A year later, his paintings were chosen as the best work in the National Exhibition for Young Artists in Tehran. Since 1986 after receiving his B.F.A. from Tehran University, Doust's art had prominent peresence in countries in the Persian Gulf region, and also had many Exhibition in Europe Canada. He has been residing in British Columbia, Canada since 1998. From 2003-2007 Doust was director of his own highly acclaimed Doust Little Gallery and curator of Al Fanar Art Galleries in Kuwait.
The first time I started painting with oil color I was fourteen. With love for Van Gogh's and impassioned response to landscape, I went into the countryside surrounding my ancient native city of Esfahan in search of beauty, sunlight, and nature. I recorded what I perceived, as expressively as I could. The lovely Zayande River and the trees along its shores were favorite subjects. I listened to the melody of its flowing water and was captivated by the mountains, shaped over thousands of years that were visible in the distance.
I now work in a basement workshop in a typical, suburban house in a Canadian city called Coquitlam which is close to the far bigger and better-known urban centre, Vancouver. Although my present place is located in a green and mountainous region of British Columbia, these days I rarely venture into the woods to create landscape images. My "WANT" tells me that I "SHOULD NOT" replicate what I see with my eyes about nature in the real world. I choose, rather, to expose sensations of nature that are personal and private within me. What you see in this presentation (Kuwait Museum of Contemporary Art ) arise from the complex, sometimes interrupted, processes and struggle each underwent before the individual pieces in this group were deemed finished.
These artworks depend on techniques I've been experimenting with for several years, that reached an earlier stage of maturity during the last phase of the Nostalgia Series which was first exhibited in1996 in Kuwait*and year 2000 in Vancouver Canada.
Most certainly my present methods of image-making are in complete opposition to the strict disciplines of traditional Persian miniature art and calligraphy that I learned as a youth. These days I don't work within tradition or geographic boundaries but fully try to reflect the contemporary and the international ambiance that surround me. As a result I am free to mix all media, work broadly or delineate with a fine brush if I so choose. Sometimes I rub paint on with my hands, use a scraping knife or even a scrap wood to apply the oils onto canvas. Charcoal, graphite, scarps of paper and other materials contribute to the layers of meaning and density of surface. But I am still in love with the smell of oil in oil color as I was as fourteen years old.