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Високе Середньовіччя  Золота доба ісламу  Реконкіста  Хрестові походи   Київська Русь

Геополітична ситуація

Візантію очолює Іоанн II Комнін (до 1143).  Конрад III є  королем Німеччини (до 1152),  Людовик VII Молодий королює у Франції (до 1180).

Апеннінський півострів розділений: північ належить Священній Римській імперії,  середню частину займає Папська область, більша частина півдня належить Сицилійському королівству. Деякі міста півночі: Венеція,  Піза, Генуя тощо, мають статус міст-республік.

Південь Піренейського півострова захопили  Альморавіди. Північну частину півострова займають християнські Кастилія, Леон (Астурія, Галісія), Наварра та Арагонське королівство (Арагон, Барселона). Королем Англії є Стефан Блуаський (Етьєн де Блуа, до 1154), триває громадянська війна в Англії 1135—1154. Королем Данії є Ерік III (до 1146).

Київський престол утримує Всеволод Ольгович (до 1146). Новгородська республіка фактично незалежна. У Польщі період роздробленості . На чолі королівства Угорщина став Геза II (до 1162).

На Близькому сході існують держави хрестоносців: Єрусалимське королівство, Антіохійське князівство, Едеське графство, графство Триполі. Сельджуки окупували Персію та Малу Азію, в Єгипті владу утримують Фатіміди, у Магрибі Альмохади потіснили Альморавідів, у Середній Азії правлять Караханіди, Газневіди втримують частину Індії. У Китаї співіснують держава ханців, де править династія Сун, держава чжурчженів,  де править династія Цзінь, та держава тангутів Західна Ся. На півдні Індії домінує Чола. В Японії триває період Хей'ан.

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 Святослав Всеволодович, син київського князя Всеволода Ольговича, отримав у княжіння Володимир.
 В Англії прихильники імператриці Матильди завдали поразки військам Стефана Блуаського в битві під Лінкольном і полонили короля. Матильду проголошено королевою Англії.
 У битві під Вінчестером прихильники Стефана Блуаського розбили війська королеви Матильди й полонили її брата Річарда Глостера. Відбувся обмін Глостера на Стефана, якого в грудні знову проголошено королем.
 Королем Угорщини став Геза II.
 Південна Сун та Цзінь уклали мирну угоду.
 Каракитаї завдали поразки сельджукам під Самаркандом, вторгнулися в Хорезм.

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M HC molecules were crucial to the discovery of alloimmunity and their structure and function were investigated in detail approximately 25 years ago. Interest in the roles of these highly polymorphic molecules has waned, the reason for this being that modern induction therapy and immunosuppression has been associated with successful transplantation even in fully mismatched allografts. However the resurgence of interest in the development of tolerance has given new life to the role of MHC molecules as they are certainly involved. The author will present a review of MHC and tolerance over the past 25 years, including several recent advances of which clinicians may not be aware. The author will also present a theory first described 14 years ago, which has since correctly predicted several of the advances mentioned above. This has recently been updated with an extension that provides a good explanation for the mechanism of inhibitory signaling and tolerance.


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package org.apache.jena.tdb.lib;

import static org.apache.jena.tdb.lib.NodeLib.hash ;
import org.apache.jena.atlas.junit.BaseTest ;
import org.apache.jena.graph.Node ;
import org.apache.jena.sparql.util.NodeFactoryExtra ;
import org.junit.Test ;

public class TestNodeLib extends BaseTest
{
    // Tests of TDBs NodeLib
    @Test public void hash1()
    {
        Node x1 = NodeFactoryExtra.parseNode("<http://example/x>") ;
        Node x2 = NodeFactoryExtra.parseNode("<http://example/x>") ;
        assertEquals(hash(x1), hash(x2)) ;
    }

    @Test public void hash2()
    {
        Node x1 = NodeFactoryExtra.parseNode("<http://example/x1>") ;
        Node x2 = NodeFactoryExtra.parseNode("<http://example/x2>") ;
        assertNotEquals(hash(x1), hash(x2)) ;
    }

    @Test public void hash3()
    {
        Node x1 = NodeFactoryExtra.parseNode("<lex>") ;
        Node x2 = NodeFactoryExtra.parseNode("'lex'") ;
        Node x3 = NodeFactoryExtra.parseNode("_:lex") ;
        assertNotEquals(hash(x1), hash(x2)) ;
        assertNotEquals(hash(x2), hash(x3)) ;
        assertNotEquals(hash(x3), hash(x1)) ;
    }

    @Test public void hash4()
    {
        Node x1 = NodeFactoryExtra.parseNode("123") ;
        Node x2 = NodeFactoryExtra.parseNode("'123'") ;
        assertNotEquals(hash(x1), hash(x2)) ;
    }

    @Test public void hash5()
    {
        Node x1 = NodeFactoryExtra.parseNode("123") ;
        Node x2 = NodeFactoryExtra.parseNode("123.0") ;
        Node x3 = NodeFactoryExtra.parseNode("123e0") ;
        assertNotEquals(hash(x1), hash(x2)) ;
        assertNotEquals(hash(x2), hash(x3)) ;
        assertNotEquals(hash(x3), hash(x1)) ;
    }
}

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TEHRAN, Dec. 15 (MNA) – A specialized conference on the achievements of Iran Army Aviation, also known as Havaniruz, was held in Tehran on Saturday in the presence of Commander of Iran Army Aviation Second Brigadier General Yousef Ghorbani. A number of aviation elites and heads of domestic knowledge-based companies participated in the event, showcasing their latest achievements.
TEHRAN, Dec. 08 (MNA) – The Navy of Iranian Army held an exhibition of its latest specialized technical achievements in Tehran on Saturday in the presence of the Commander of Iranian Navy Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi as well as Deputy Coordinator of the Iranian Army Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari.
TEHRAN, Sep. 26 (MNA) – Armed Forces unveiled new achievements in ground combat on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, Mar. 12 (MNA) – Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan unveiled the domestically-manufactured battle tank dubbed Karrar (Striker) in a ceremony in Tehran on Sunday.
TEHRAN, Aug. 27 (MNA) – Ministry of Defense has unveiled its 7 new achievements of indigenous satellite orbit software, 3D topography maps, and digital elevation model (DEM), along four other achievements.
TEHRAN, Apr. 13 (MNA) – On the eve of National Army Day on April 18, latest military achievements including tactical and reconnaissance vehicles were inaugurated and delivered to Army Ground Forces (Persian acronym: NEZAJA).
TEHRAN, Nov. 23 (MNA) – The unveiling ceremony of Iran's Navy's new achievements was held here on Monday in the presence of Iranian Navy Commander Habibollah Sayyari.


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Queen for a day
Jo Ann Kirby
Walking into the living room of Sharen Kaiser's home in Stockton is like walking into the closet of a princess.
Rack after rack of shiny, shimmering, sleek and stunning dresses that are perfect for proms and pageants are hung with care.
Kaiser rents gowns and dresses for a fraction of the retail price through her business Love That Dress.
"This is what my house looks like," she said, spreading her arms out wide as she pointed to the frocks lining her living room. "It's crazy right now with prom season. I have 150 dresses in and out over the next few weeks."
Kaiser started her business about five years ago after she was laid off from cosmetics giant Maybelline.
"I started brainstorming. What could I do?" she said. "I decided to buy high-end, designer dresses and rent them."
She works with a seamstress in Lodi who does alterations and uses a Stockton dry cleaner when the dresses are returned.
A fitting with Kaiser is not unlike having a personal stylist.
"I love being able to help the girls pick out their dream dress," she said. "(It's exciting) for both the girl and their parent when that perfect dress is found."
Most clients find out about her through word-of-mouth and quickly become repeat customers.
Morghan Heim, a sophomore at Lincoln High School, rents from Love That Dress on a weekly basis.
"She is the reigning Miss San Joaquin's Outstanding Teen," Chris Heim said of her daughter. "She will have appearances and she will need a dress to wear. She's photographed a lot so she needs a different dress every time. She will compete in Miss California in June and she will need a lot of dresses."
Heim said her daughter gets to wear the latest designs that cost hundreds of dollars for a fraction of the price.
"I rent the short dresses for $95 and the long dresses for $125," Kaiser said of the dresses that cost as much as $700. "I carry sizes 0 to 12."
Each season, Kaiser tries to predict the "it" dresses.
"Right now it's all about the bling," she said. "Lots of sequins and crystals."
For Lincoln High's upcoming prom in May, Sydney Heisler has already had a fitting.
"There is really nothing we can do with a dress after it's worn so to us it makes more sense to rent where the dresses are fabulous and the owner is there to help you every step of the way," Sydney's mom, Carla Heisler of Stockton, said, explaining how girls are loathe to wear the same dress twice. "The process of choosing a dress is fun and easy."
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Although there is Rent the Runway, a New York City business where clients can book dresses online, Kaiser thinks her closest competitor is a woman who rents wedding and prom dresses in Roseville.
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Contact reporter Jo Ann Kirby at (209) 546-8256 or jkirby@recordnet.com.

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In this time of the public observances of the Passion of Jesus and the Resurrection, is the major festival of the Christian religion. It is also the time of Passover of the Jews, the great event of the freedom of the Jewish nation from tyranny and the passing of the Red Sea. There are also observances in other religions which we mark at this time.


Savvy travelers scrutinize airfares and hotel room rates before they book but often accept car rental rates at face value. Hidden charges frequently inflate the advertised price, though, so it's worth taking a closer look at the bottom line before you sign.
To secure the best deal, recognize that rates vary—sometimes by quite a bit—between companies and destinations. Do your comparison shopping, keeping some common scenarios in mind. And consider joining a loyalty program when you find a company you particularly like; you might save even more down the road.
Taxes and various fees can also quickly increase an advertised rental rate, so make sure you consider all charges when you comparison shop. While sales tax should be standard in a given location, some companies tack on energy surcharges, tire and battery recovery fees, and vehicle licensing fees.
And unless you specifically decline the offers, you may be charged extra for a GPS navigation system, satellite radio, additional drivers, and unnecessary insurance to cover theft of your personal items should someone break into your rental car.
Rental companies often charge an exorbitant price to top off the gas tank after you return the car. Request one with a full tank, then make sure you return it that way.
Unexpected cleaning fees can also increase the final bill. Most companies accept normal wear and tear without additional charges, but if you take a rental car to the beach, for example, you should vacuum out any sand before you return it.
Some money-saving alternatives can be nearly as convenient as an airport rental. For example, if your travel plans require an overnight stay in your arrival city, look for a car rental company with a lot near your hotel or one willing to provide transportation to the rental lot or drop a car off at the hotel for you. You may also save money simply by paying for transportation from the airport to a nearby car rental agency.
You may plan to decline the rental company's insurance offers, but be prepared for pressure at the rental counter. Companies make big profits from insurance fees, and some train their clerks to create anxiety for people who try to say no thanks, in an effort to change their minds.
They may tell you that their insurance closes expensive loopholes. You might also hear stories about a customer whose auto insurance or credit card failed to cover damages during a recent accident. They could bring up a loss of use expense, which essentially reimburses the rental car company for lost revenues on a car while it gets repaired or replaced.
And while there may be truth in the stories, the odds that you will need the coverage are slim. Many personal auto insurance policies cover car rentals as well; call your agent to verify the details on yours.
You should also check with your credit card company; some provide automatic collision coverage and other benefits when you pay for a car rental using their card.
Also be sure to check with your credit card company or auto insurance agent if you plan to rent a car outside of your country of residence. Don't assume you're covered; agreements involving international rentals contain a lot of fine print.
Many North Americans prefer larger cars. Rental companies know this, so they typically keep more mid-size and full-size cars in stock.
At smaller facility and non-hub airports, they may have only a few compacts. On some days, they run out entirely. If you reserve a compact, but the rental car company has none on hand when you show up to take possession, they are obligated to give you a free upgrade. Sometimes you can move up two entire categories for no additional charge.
In larger facilities with a huge supply of vehicles, this strategy rarely works. But it could be worth a try if you can handle the prospect of driving a smaller car. You're also unlikely to make this strategy pay outside of North America. The rest of the world often prefers small, fuel-efficient cars.
Strange as it might seem, reserving a car for a week (even if it sits in a driveway or parking lot) may cost less than trying to get a daily rate on a shorter rental.
For that reason, it pays to try a number of combinations when you consider your rental period. You could get a better rate if you pick up the car on Thursday, even if you don't really need it until Friday. The Friday rental might come with a weekend surcharge, increasing the total cost to more than it would be with a weekday pickup.
Check for discounts through any consumer memberships organizations you belong to, such as AAA or AARP. Your Costco card may also entitle you to a rental discount. And watch for coupons in local promotional mailers and online. You may also be able to apply travel points accrued through a credit card to lower the cost of a car rental.
Some of the best rental rates originate on "Special Offers" pages from individual companies.
Alamo: Look for featured specials and deals on the homepage, which can range from last-minute specials to low-season rates to one-way rental offers.
Auto Europe: Before you leave home, research deals and other incentives that could cut your travel costs in Europe.
Avis: Check the "Offers" tab on the Avis header for deals within the U.S. and at locations around the world.
Budget: Links to rental deals for five to seven consecutive days in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Europe, and Japan.
Dollar: Those seeking a deal in the U.S. can enter a destination zip code and get discounts by location.
Expedia: The "Deals & Offers" tab at the top often has discounts. Check the "Cars" tab under "Last Minute Deals."
Hertz: This page includes tabs for "Featured Offers," "Partner Offers," "Destination Deals," "AAA/CAA Offers," and "Global Destinations."
Orbitz: Under the "Cars" tab, Orbitz usually features one company's latest special offer. You can subscribe to this on an RSS feed.
Sixt: Look for some attractive weekly rates in Europe, quoted in euros.
Travelocity: Go to the "Cars/Rail" tab at the top of the page.


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Last week I talked about how I learned I enjoy eating lamb. This week, Cara Marsi is going to share how her character fell in love over lamb stew.
Thanks, Betty! In A Catered Romance, when Mary Beth explains to Tom that the lamb stew is for an engagement party for a couple who'd had lamb stew on their first date, Tom says that's romantic. Mary Beth answers that she no longer believes in romance. Since Tom broke her heart once, this helps set up some of the conflict.
In A Catered Romance, Mary Beth tells Tom she likes to roast the lamb first. You can do that if you want. Roast the lamb with some of the broth for about an hour, either the full roast or the cut-up pieces. Season as you like. Let the lamb cool before you cut it up. Follow the rest of the instructions. Also, you'll probably want to double the broth and double the spices. I find that recipes are never quite spicy enough for me, and the amount of broth used in this recipe isn't enough. Experiment. That's what I do.
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I love to experiment with recipes, adapting them to our tastes. Thanks for sharing that amazing recipe for lamb stew, Cara! I'm always up for a new tempting lamb recipe, especially one so integral to a romance story. After all, we all have to eat, right?
Ready for another Tasty Tuesday featuring a tempting bread recipe by author Michele Stegman? I haven't made bread in a while but this oatmeal bread recipe has me itching to do some kneading. Tell us more about this recipe, Michele.
All my heroes love bread. Maybe that's because my own personal hero, my husband, Ron, and I both love bread. I make it two or three times a week and use a variety of recipes, sometimes making up my own.
In my book, Fortune's Pride, the hero and heroine are at odds, but he starts caving because she makes such wonderful bread.
Let me tell you a little bit about bread. I often wondered why the Israelites didn't have time to let their bread rise before their exodus from Egypt and had to make unleavened bread instead. It only takes a couple of hours for bread to rise. Why couldn't they have made it while getting packed up? Reading up about yeast I learned that getting bread to rise before standardized yeast came along was quite time consuming. It could also be hit or miss.
Before the 20th century, yeast was obtained either from the beer brewing process or was a piece of dough kept from the previous batch of bread as a sour dough starter. Both could be contaminated with bacteria or wild yeast (there are about 1,500 species) and give bread a poor flavor or just fail to rise. And the yeast was slow. Women had to mix up their bread the night before, let it rise all night, and then make bread the next day.
It wasn't until World War II that Fleischmann's developed dry, standardized yeast. You know, those little ¾ ounce packets sold in the baking aisle. Well, I buy my yeast by the pound and right now have about five pounds of it in the house. Yeah, I make a lot of bread.
Sometimes I am in a hurry and make buttermilk bread from the Betty Crocker cookbook—less than two hours, start to finish. Other times I make an artisan bread, one of those loaves that rise overnight and then have to rise again the next day for two or three hours before baking. But, oh my! That bread it worth it!
Stir to combine and let cool to lukewarm.
1 package (almost 1 Tablespoon) dry yeast in 1 c warm water.
When batter is cooled, add the yeast mixture to it.
About 5-8 cups bread flour, enough to make a stiff dough.
Knead on floured board until tough enough to spring back when poked.
Place in greased bowl and let rise until doubled (about 1 to 1 ½ hours). Punch down and let it rise again.
Shape into two loaves and place into two 9x5x3 inch bread pans.
Let rise for about ½ hour. Watch carefully! This last rise happens fast.
Just before baking, slash the top with a sharp knife. Very important!
Bake at 350 degrees for about 30 to 40 minutes. The bread should sound hollow when tapped on the bottom.
Thank you so much for hosting me on your blog today, Betty! I enjoyed talking about one of my favorite things—bread.
As long as no one knows who Irish really is, she will be safe. But Tyrus Fortune seems determined to uncover all her secrets. Can she fully love him without revealing her true self to him? But if she does, will it also put him and his family in danger?
Tyrus Fortune returns home after two years determined to unmask the woman who has found her way into the hearts of his family. He is sure she is a fraud—until he begins to fall in love with her. Now he only wishes she will trust him with her secrets and her love so they can face the future together.
Michele Stegman has loved history all her life. She lives in an 1840's log cabin with her husband, Ron, and enjoys spinning wool into yarn then using it for her weaving or knitting projects. She has learned to make her own soap and bakes her own bread.
Although Fortune's Pride is a sequel to Fortune's Foe, each book can be read alone.
Oatmeal bread may end up my all-time favorite bread to make! Thanks so much for sharing that recipe with me, Michele. And of course, the story sounds intriguing as well! Do you all love bread? Or is there another food that calls your name?
Story ideas come from all directions and experiences. They mix and blend into a "what if" kind of thought that then slowly builds into an interesting story to tell. That's how the idea for the A More Perfect Union series started. Then I had to get to know the ladies and their goals and challenges they had to face and overcome.
Emily's story is one that loosely mimics the career of an 18th century female writer Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820). Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Judith was fortunate to have highly intelligent and progressive parents who allowed her to be taught alongside her brother by the local clergyman. She learned college prep topics such as Latin, Greek, and mathematics.
This background enabled Judith to argue effectively for the equal education of boys and girls and to advocate for "cultivating independent, intellectually alert women" in her essays and other works. Judith is best known for her compilation of her works, The Gleaner. It's important to note that she used a pen name, Constantia, to write her essays, plays, and poems, until the release of this book. At the end of the book, she revealed she was a woman, saying she did so to hide her gender because "she feared that if she were known to be a woman, her writing would not be taken seriously." (1) That last line prompted the idea of women of the late 1700s writing and beginning to turn the tide of opinion. Thus Emily Sullivan was born.
Emily starts out writing her thoughts down as essays in rebellion to the restrictions her father places on her. Her own declaration of independence, but she submits them to the newspaper secretly and using a pen name. Then as the series progresses and the situation becomes more and more unsettled, she ultimately openly submits the essays for printing though continues to use her pen name. I gave her a female pen name, by the way, on purpose so that she would in fact begin to change the way people thought about female intellect and reasoning. However, it was considered disrespectful to use a lady's name in print, which is why in that time period you rarely see a woman's name, and then usually only the lower classes. Which is frustrating for someone like me today who is researching for a story about a lady of that time period, but that's another story.
I wrote Emily's story to highlight the limitations placed upon females in the colonial and Early American Republic period of American history. The Declaration of Independence prompted everyone to rethink what it meant to be free from dictators and oppression. The American Revolution started, for many people, the push toward equality that America is still struggling with. That is why I write about that time and place, because of its catalyst to change.
What changes happened as a result of women sharing their thoughts in writing? What else needs to change?
(1) Quotes taken from The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume A, Literature to 1820. Sixth Edition. W.W. Norton & Co., New York. 2003. pp782-3.
50% of my earnings will be donated to thank a veteran!
In honor of Veterans Day, Hometown Heroines: True Stories of Bravery, Daring, and Courage is on sale for only $1.99 for the ebook (Kindle and Nook). But that's not all. Fifty percent of what I earn on sales of this title from today through November 20th will be donated to Operation Gratitude as a way for me to thank some of the many veterans who have served America.
My family has a very strong history of serving our country. My father served in WWII as a tech sergeant on Guadalcanal. My brothers and oldest sister also served in the army, air force, and navy.
On my husband's side of the family, his brother, father, uncle, and grandfather were all officers in the army, serving in many different countries all over the world. His mother's father and grandfather were also officers in the army. In fact, his parents met while their parents were stationed in China.
I thank each and every man and woman who stepped up to protect and defend our country, our people, and the people of other countries under duress through no fault of their own. It's a huge sacrifice to be separated from family and friends, from their "normal" routines, and all that brings them comfort. So thank you!
Please help me thank them by picking up a copy of Hometown Heroines— whether an ebook on sale or the paperback which is not discounted but that only serves to raise more money—to show the servicemen and servicewomen we care about them. Feel free to share this with your friends and family so we can work together to raise a bit of money to help this worthwhile charity.
Tell me about the veterans or active duty people in your life, or if you are a veteran or active duty. I'd love to hear from you!
During the 1800s, daring and courageous girls across America left their unique mark on history.
Milly Cooper galloped 9 miles through hostile Indian Territory to summon help when Fort Cooper was under attack.
Belle Boyd risked her life spying for the Rebels during the Civil War.
Kate Shelly, when she was 15, crawled across a nearly washed-out railroad bridge during a ferocious thunderstorm to warn the next train.
Lucille Mulhall, age 14, outperformed cowboys to become the World's First Famous Cowgirl.
These are just a few of the inspiring true stories inside Hometown Heroines—American Girls who faced danger and adversity and made a difference in their world.


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This year is going to be an interesting one, but in technology it's going to be particularly so. Social media is going to see some reverses, as users start to wake up to the compromises they make in sharing information with companies, governments and the world. But the real progress is going to be making our machines understand us better, in ways that we want.
Artificial intelligence: you're no doubt rolling your eyes at the phrase, given how many times this technology has been promised as being around the next corner. I'm with you. But I think the focus has been on the wrong place: voice. Apple's Siri has not been a huge success — except for my daughter, who loves talking to an adult she can be rude to — and Amazon's Alexa, though impressive, is going to confine itself to those places where we feel comfortable talking to machines: the home.
That makes it inherently limited. Ours is actually a largely text-based world — we still use email, we prefer to text, or Whatsapp our friends, and this is where AI is going to be most useful. I already use an AI assistant called Evie to schedule my appointments; she parses emails I send her and, with a little human help, sets up meetings and calls on my behalf. I save an hour or so a week.
Expect to see more of this: using natural language – the way we usually write — to interact with devices, not via special apps but via whatever channels we already use. It's our devices — fridges, computers, databases — that have to learn our language and preferred medium, not the other way around. AI will be a success if it can master this, and this year will be key.
Indeed, the same principle will be applied elsewhere: removing the machine-like elements of our interactions. AI will help us talk to machines better, but machines will also help immerse us in experiences. Pokemon Go, the mobile app that led many people astray catching and battling weird critters, was a hit because it took a decade-old technology, augmented reality, and bolted it onto something that people actually found useful. Well, not useful, exactly, but compelling.
Augmented reality took technology into the real world, and gave it an enticing layer. The next step — using technology to shrink the distance between people and the real world. Optimists are calling it teleportation — moving you to places you wouldn't normally go, or can't go. That could be a 360 degree video from a live event, or drones filming from way above you, or even experiencing something akin to physical touch with someone whose far away from you. A Singapore startup offers a remote kissing machine, which it of course has called the Kissenger.
Industry is getting excited about this because it sees the possibility of creating a digital twin of a real world device — a turbine say — and then manage and experiment on that digital version of the real thing. A Malaysian company does something similar with corpses — scanning the deceased so that post-mortems can be conducted digitally. The original body is left untouched — which may please relatives, but also means the number of post-mortems can be limitless, and performed by someone on the other side of the world.
All of this technology is available now, but it still takes some vision and money to bring it to market. But what people want is clear enough: technology should bring people closer to each other and their machines, but stay out of the way as much as possible. We may not successfully wean ourselves off our mobile screens any time soon, but we could at least make what we see, hear, and do on those screens as useful, exciting and human as possible.
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The Essential Enlightenment
by Douglas J. Den Uyl, Jacob T., Levy, and Chris W. Surprenant
The political ideas that fully came together under the name "liberal" in the early nineteenth century—the ideas we often now refer to as "classical liberalism"—emerged out of major debates and developments from the late 1600s to the late 1700s, part of the broad European intellectual movement of that era that came to be known as "the Enlightenment."
This volume shows how the Enlightenment and the development of liberal ideas were woven together by looking at three defining figures of the era: Baruch Spinoza (writing in the mid-1600s), the Baron de Montesquieu (mid-1700s) and Immanuel Kant (whose career reached its height in the final two decades of the 1700s). Both Spinoza and Kant were concerned with fundamental philosophical questions about what we could know about God, morality, the nature of the world, and humanity's place in it. Montesquieu wrote almost nothing about such questions, drawing instead from global history and comparative law.
While the Enlightenment is associated with many things, one of them was the struggle to understand morality and human nature through the use of reason rather than relying on religious authority; another was the attempt to understand political and social orders in ways that would prevent a return to the wars of religion that had divided Europe in the 1500s and the first half of the 1600s. In various ways, Spinoza, Montesquieu, and Kant all argued for religious toleration—for the peaceful coexistence of different organized ways of understanding God within civil governments that didn't enforce any one of those ways. Their support of freedom of religious thought also made all of them supporters of free inquiry and free speech. The three thinkers likewise shared commitments to the rule of law and to constitutional forms of government that would constrain the discretionary power of any one ruler.
This book does not aim to be a complete history of the Enlightenment. Rather, it is an introduction to three of the most important contributors to it. The Enlightenment partly took shape around their contributions. So, too, did the development of liberalism.
Chapter by chapter summary of the book.
Spinoza and the Origins of Liberalism
Whether Feuer's claim is strictly true or not need not concern us, but it may very well be. Liberalism in the modern world probably did begin with Spinoza a generation before John Locke, who is usually the thinker most associated with its origin. Born Baruch Spinoza, but sometimes identified as Benedict de Spinoza, he lived from 1632 to 1677 in the Netherlands. We shall have a bit more to say about Spinoza's biography later, but it is important to know from the outset that the Netherlands at that time was the freest country in Europe. There is no doubt that its environment affected Spinoza's reflections on political and social matters.
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Spinoza on Toleration
In 1656, at the age of 23, Baruch Spinoza was literally excommunicated from the Jewish community in Amsterdam for his views on God, the law, and the soul. Members of that community were forbidden to associate or communicate with him. This happened even though Spinoza's main discussion of religion, in his Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (TTP), did not appear until 1670. Across Europe, religion was perhaps the predominant cultural force. Controversies abounded and intolerance was common, even, at times, in relatively tolerant countries such as the Netherlands. Within a given religious sect, conformity was often strictly enforced. In addition, during the early years of Spinoza's life, the "30 Years War" was raging. That war began as a religious war, though by the end it became more of a war over religious affiliations than over religion itself. Religious affiliation was perhaps the most common basis for group identification in that era. In Spinoza's case, during his lifetime he circulated among some of the more liberal and radical religious sects. He had, for example, a number of Mennonite friends, and that sect was an offshoot of the Anabaptist movement, which advocated a strong separation of church and state. No doubt their "radical" doctrines both attracted and subsequently influenced Spinoza—and also put him at odds with the establishment of both the Jewish and Christian communities in Amsterdam.
Spinoza on Freedom and Power
In political philosophy there is an approach called "social contract" theory. Basically, this view began, at least in the modern era, with Thomas Hobbes and holds that the sovereign power—and sometimes also the legitimacy of that power—is established by people "contracting" with one another to set up a government. The time prior to when people get together to set up their government is known as the "state of nature." The state of nature is thus that period of time, before any general agreement, when there is no government. There are different theories about what such a time would be like, or even whether it is truly possible to have a state of nature. Also, there are different theories about how the move out of the state of nature would go. Although it is debatable whether Spinoza is actually a social contract theorist, he does comment about our natural state and our natural rights, as well as the setting up of a government. Let's begin with what Spinoza takes to be our natural rights and then move to the state of nature and the rights of government.
Montesquieu on Despotism, Moderation, and Liberty
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689- 1755) was a member of the provincial French nobility, a jurist, a celebrated novelist, and arguably the decisive figure in inaugurating the key decades of the Enlightenment in the study of society. Earlier thinkers, including Spinoza, had drawn on new scientific ways of thinking to try to understand the human mind, the nature of reality, and the relationship between man and God. But the flourishing of political, social, and economic thought that we associate with the Enlightenment, with thinkers as varied as Rousseau, Smith, Hume, Kant, Beccaria, Ferguson, Madison, Jefferson, Paine, Wollstonecraft, and Condorcet, only got fully underway with the publication of Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws (1748).
Montesquieu on Pluralism
Traditional political theories often focused on unity and uniformity as key aspects of a well-governed society. Difference, disagreement, and division were at best problems to manage, and at worst signs that there was no true community at all. From ancient Greece onward, political thought was marked by such metaphors as the ship of state, a ship on which we must all row in the same direction, one chosen by a captain we all obey, if we are to get anywhere; and the body politic, a body that acts as one, trying to preserve itself under the direction of a single mind.
Montesquieu on Commerce
The traditional emphasis on unity in political thought we discussed in the previous chapter accompanied a distrust of commerce, with its division of labour, difference between buyers and sellers, class differences, specialization, and conflicts of interest. In Part IV of The Spirit of the Laws Montesquieu decisively rejects that vision, and develops what comes to be known as the doux commerce thesis: commerce and trade soften and polish what had been harsh, warlike, and barbaric values. They have transformed the modern world and drawn it together. Although they have also provided the occasion for new kinds of international injustices through imperialism and colonialism, they tend to encourage toleration, peace, and justice. Montesquieu's doctrine of the separation of powers shaped constitutional thought in the United States and elsewhere. His general approach to legal reform and criminal justice, his support for constitutional moderation, and his opposition to despotism were crucial for subsequent liberal political thought. But his account of commerce was probably his most important, transformative contribution to the social thought of the era of Enlightenment and to the development of what became liberal social theory. By putting the development of commerce at the center of his account of the transformations in European politics, and by developing an account of trade and exchange that stressed their moral advantages, he paved the way for the intellectual revolutions of the next few decades that were associated with the Scottish Enlightenment. The Spirit of the Laws was a widely acknowledged source and influence for the ideas subsequently developed by such authors as David Hume, Adam Ferguson, and Adam Smith.
Kant's Ethics
Immanuel Kant is widely regarded as one of the most important thinkers in the history of Western philosophy for his contributions to both epistemology— the study of what there is to know and how we can know it—and ethics— what we generally understand to be the study of right and wrong. But for Kant, ethics is closely tied to epistemology, rationality, and the characteristics of rational beings. Instead of focusing on whether certain actions are right or wrong and why they are right or wrong, Kant's moral philosophy focuses on the principles underlying those actions, how they are adopted, and whether or not they are consistent with individual freedom or autonomy.
Kant's Politics
Kant's account of morality focuses on a person's capacity to be the agent and owner of his own actions, not merely a conduit for social and psychological forces or influences over which he has little or no control. His discussion of this connection between morality and freedom centers on autonomy of the will. Because morality is connected with autonomy, and autonomy is connected with an individual's ability to participate in the process of rational deliberation and choosing ends for himself, it appears as if an individual alone should be the sole determining factor in whether he becomes virtuous. But that is not the case.
Kant's Legacy
There's a story in academic circles that serious philosophical work in the liberal political tradition coming out of Enlightenment thinkers died after Kant, only to be resurrected by Harvard University philosopher John Rawls in the 1970s. While this story contains a bit of hyperbole, there's little doubt that, after Kant, no writing before 1971 had the impact of Rawls's A Theory of Justice. Rawls's project was to take the principles that he identified as central to Kant's moral philosophy—principles like the obligation not to treat another moral being merely as a means to accomplishing some end—and apply those principles to the political question of what justice entails and how best to bring it about.
The Enlightenment as an intellectual movement is commonly taken to end with Kant. The early modern political and social world that Enlightenment thought arose out of and theorized about was disrupted and transformed by the American, Haitian, and, especially, French Revolutions. By the time self-conscious and self-identified liberal political thought and political parties coalesced in the era after the Napoleonic wars had ended, the problems faced in politics seemed very different. States became much more powerful and centralized under the force of wartime military competition. Religious persecution and censorship and the power of absolute kings faded by comparison with the rise of nationalism and worries about the kind of violent, mob rule seen in France during 1793 and 1794. A generalized commitment to constitutional government or republicanism gave way to complicated institutional questions about how much to democratize government, how quickly: how much of a society could take part in voting and elections at any given level of economic and educational development without risk of revolution.
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Douglas J. Den Uyl
Douglas J. Den Uyl, Ph.D., was born in Monroe, Michigan and attended Kalamazoo College (B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy), the University of Chicago (M.A. in Political Science), and Marquette University (Ph.D. in Philosophy). He is interested in the history of ideas and has published essays or books on Spinoza, Smith, Shaftesbury, Mandeville, and others. His interests also include moral and political theory. He is the author of Power, State and Freedom: An Interpretation of Spinoza's Political Thought and God, Man and Well Being: Spinoza's Modern Humanism. He co-founded the American Association for the Philosophic Study of Society, The North American Spinoza Society, and The International Adam Smith Society. He taught Philosophy and was Department Chair and Full Professor at Bellarmine University before coming to Liberty Fund where he is now Vice President Emeritus and Benjamin A. Rogge Resident Scholar.
Jacob T. Levy is Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Chair of the Department of Political Science, and associated faculty in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. He was Founding Director of McGill's Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds, and is coordinator of the Lin Centre's Research Group on Constitutional Studies. He is the author of The Multiculturalism of Fear (Oxford, 2000) and Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom (Oxford, 2015). He is a Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center and the Institute for Humane Studies.
Chris W. Surprenant
Chris W. Surprenant is Professor of Ethics, Strategy, and Public Policy; Director of the University Honors Program; and Founding Director of the Urban Entrepreneurship & Policy Institute at the University of New Orleans. He is the author of Injustice for All: How Financial Incentives Corrupted and Can Fix the US Criminal Justice System (Routledge, 2019) and Kant and the Cultivation of Virtue (Routledge, 2014).
Episode 33 – Spinoza pt. 1 – from Baruch to Benedicto! (August 25, 2021)
An episode of the "Philosophize This!" podcast provides context to the time in which Spinoza lived, and the reasons underlying Spinoza's exile from his community, and thus forced life of solitude. In addition, Spinoza's view on religion is discussed, including excerpts of correspondence between Spinoza and his former influential friend Albert Burgh.
Episode 34 – Spinoza pt. 2 (September 1, 2021)
Part two of the "Philosophize This!" podcast on Spinoza continues to describe his philosophy, with a focus on his thoughts of God, Nature, and Free Will.
Philosophy – Baruch Spinoza, The School of Life
An engaging eight-minute educational video that covers Spinoza's early years, his views on God, his criticism of traditional religion, and his philosophy based on a rationalist system of beliefs.
Steven Nadler on Spinoza on Free Speech (May 18, 2021)
An episode of the "Philosophy Bites" podcast featuring a discussion between Steven Nadler and Nigel Warburton on the topic of Spinoza's views on freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
The Core Curriculum: Baruch de Spinoza
A brief overview of Spinoza's life, including his major works, his philosophy of metaphysics, his ethics, and his political philosophy.
Philosophy – Immanuel Kant, The School of Life
An engaging eight-minute educational video that discusses Kant's upbringing, and his major contributions to philosophy, including his belief in replacing traditional religion with the authority of reason, as well as a detailed explanation of Kant's central philosophical concept, the categorical imperative.
Immanuel Kant from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A detailed account of Kant's life and major works, including an explanation and interpretation of his core philosophical ideas including the fact of reason, the categorical imperative, objectivity and judgment, and the law-giver of nature, among others.
The Core Curriculum: Immanuel Kant
A brief overview of Kant, focusing on his early family life, his scholastic endeavors, and his major philosophical works and contributions.
Kant's Principles of Politics, including his essay on Perpetual Peace (author: Immanuel Kant, translator: William Hastie)
A translated edition of a number of Kant's shorter essays on the topic of Universal History, Political Right, Principle of Progress, and Perpetual Peace.
An overview of Kant's major works and contributions, including the core principles of his moral philosophy, political philosophy, and his critique of metaphysics.
Immanuel Kant from Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A detailed account of Kant's life, major works, the impact of his contributions to philosophy, and an explanation of his core belief in acting rationally according to a universal moral law.
Immanuel Kant: Metaphysics from Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A detailed overview of Kant's life and major works and contributions, with various detailed sections such as Empiricism, Rationalism, Kant's Answers to his Predecessors, Kant's Transcendental Idealism, Kant's Criticisms of Utilitarianism, among others.
Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
An encyclopedic overview of Montesquieu's early life, his most important works, including his theory of the separation of powers, which he believed was the principal way to prevent government corruption and has been key to the development of liberal political theory.
Montesquieu and the Separation of Powers
A comprehensive overview of Montesquieu's life and the sources of inspiration in his early years that influenced his approach to the separation of power and his views on the monarchy, as well as a detailed explanation of his major works, including the "Lettres persanes," "De l"Esprit des Loix," among others.
Montesquieu: The Spirit of Separation – Enlightenment
A concise educational video exploring Montesquieu's early influences, his most influential works including, "Persian Letters," "The Spirit of Laws," among others, and a detailed explanation of his theory on the separation of power.
Hobbes, Locke, Montequieu, and Rousseau on Government
This article compares and contrasts the theories of government of three influential Enlightenment philosophers, including Montesquieu, Locke, and Rousseau, and each of their distinct influence on the democratic governments that would follow the American and French revolutions.
The Enlightenment period
Enlightenment from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
This article provides a detailed overview of the core themes of philosophical thought attributed to the Enlightenment period in Europe and is divided into three distinct sections accordingly: "The True: Science, Epistemology and Metaphysics in the Enlightenment," "The Good: Political Theory, Ethical Theory and Religion in the Enlightenment," and "The Beautiful: Aesthetics in the Enlightenment."
The Enlightenment: Crash Course European History #18, Crash Course
A concise educational video that explores the historical context of the Enlightenment, the influential thought leaders and philosophers, and the lasting impact of their ideas on our worldview today.
Broadly speaking, the Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement, largely based in Europe, that spanned about a century—from the mid-to-late 1600s to the late 1700s. It was a time of major intellectual upheaval, characterized by the rise of reason and the scientific method as tools for understanding the world and bringing about progress. In fact, many of the radical ideas that came about in the Enlightenment period would ultimately lay the foundation for the liberal democratic institutions that we take for granted today, including: impartial courts and the rule of law, democratically elected governments, separation of church and state, equality for all people, and freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
Baruch Spinoza, a Dutch philosopher, is rightly regarded as one of earliest Enlightenment thinkers to champion individual rights and to begin defining the proper limits of the state. For Spinoza, when people were free to live as they saw fit, and when the state was limited to maintaining order and justice, people would flourish. Spinoza's ideas of religious toleration, individual rights and even democracy set the stage for later Enlightenment thinkers to develop ideas that would eventually lead to the classical liberal traditions many take for granted today.
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu—better known simply as Montesquieu—was a French nobleman, judge, novelist, and also a decisive figure in the early years of the Enlightenment, whose impact can still be seen in Western democracies around the world. One of Montesquieu's most lasting legacies is the idea of separating powers within government among different branches: legislative, executive and judiciary. He was also a firm believer in the power of commerce and markets, and was one of the first to realize the moral benefits of trade, ideas that influenced Adam Smith and David Hume, considered the founders of economics.
One of the most widely regarded, influential and important thinkers of the Enlightenment era was the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, whose impact on western philosophical thought has endured for centuries. His ideas on liberty, morality, justice and ethics represent, in many ways, the totality of ideas that came out of the Enlightenment period, and that would go on to form the classical liberal traditions that we benefit from to this day like rights, liberty, justice, and democratic government.
Made possible by generous donations from the Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation.
Copyright © 2020-2022 The Fraser Institute.


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Q: PopupWindow method dismiss, implemented in a library won´t close the popup I created a class with a button that shows a popup defined in a library. The popup has a close button. When I tap on the close button it tries to execute dismiss method but It does not work.
I would like to know why this method (dismiss) is not working.
MainActivity.java
package com.personal.testfeedback;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;

import com.example.testfeedback.R;
import com.personal.feedback.Feedback;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    Button btnCreatePopup;

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        final RelativeLayout parent = (RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.layout);

        btnCreatePopup = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
        btnCreatePopup.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                Feedback feedback = new Feedback(MainActivity.this);
                feedback.initiatePopupWindow(parent);
            }
        });

    }

}

activity_main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/layout"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:background="#FFF000" >

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Button" />

</RelativeLayout>

Feedback.java
package com.personal.feedback;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.PopupWindow;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;

public class Feedback extends Activity {
    private Context context;

    Button btnClosePopup;
    protected PopupWindow pwindo;

    public Feedback(Context ctx) {
        this.context = ctx;
    }

    public void initiatePopupWindow(RelativeLayout parent) {
        try {
            // We need to get the instance of the LayoutInflater
            LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) context
                    .getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);

            View layout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.screen_popup, parent);

            pwindo = new PopupWindow(layout, 600, 500, true);
            pwindo.setFocusable(true);

            // pwindo.showAtLocation(layout, Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);

            btnClosePopup = (Button) layout.findViewById(R.id.btn_close_popup);
            btnClosePopup.setOnClickListener(cancel_button_click_listener);

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private OnClickListener cancel_button_click_listener = new OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(View v) {

            pwindo.dismiss();
            return ;
        }
    };
}

screen_popup.xml
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/popup_element"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="#444444"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:padding="10sp"
    >

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal|center_vertical">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/txtView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="5sp"
        android:text="Hello!" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btn_close_popup"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:text="Close" />
    </LinearLayout>

</RelativeLayout>

If I do not comment line: pwindo.showAtLocation(layout, Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);
the following error appears:
01-14 16:27:28.149: W/System.err(5515): java.lang.RuntimeException: view android.widget.RelativeLayout@405b49d0 being added, but it already has a parent
01-14 16:27:28.149: W/System.err(5515):     at android.view.View.assignParent(View.java:6064)
01-14 16:27:28.159: W/System.err(5515):     at android.view.ViewRoot.setView(ViewRoot.java:573)
01-14 16:27:28.169: W/System.err(5515):     at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:177)
01-14 16:27:28.169: W/System.err(5515):     at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:91)
01-14 16:27:28.169: W/System.err(5515):     at android.view.Window$LocalWindowManager.addView(Window.java:424)
01-14 16:27:28.179: W/System.err(5515):     at android.widget.PopupWindow.invokePopup(PopupWindow.java:907)
01-14 16:27:28.179: W/System.err(5515):     at android.widget.PopupWindow.showAtLocation(PopupWindow.java:767)
01-14 16:27:28.179: W/System.err(5515):     at com.personal.feedback.Feedback.initiatePopupWindow(Feedback.java:35)
01-14 16:27:28.179: W/System.err(5515):     at com.personal.testfeedback.MainActivity$1.onClick(MainActivity.java:30)
01-14 16:27:28.179: W/System.err(5515):     at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:2494)
01-14 16:27:28.179: W/System.err(5515):     at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:9109)
01-14 16:27:28.179: W/System.err(5515):     at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587)
01-14 16:27:28.179: W/System.err(5515):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
01-14 16:27:28.189: W/System.err(5515):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
01-14 16:27:28.189: W/System.err(5515):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
01-14 16:27:28.189: W/System.err(5515):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
01-14 16:27:28.189: W/System.err(5515):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
01-14 16:27:28.189: W/System.err(5515):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:895)
01-14 16:27:28.189: W/System.err(5515):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:653)
01-14 16:27:28.189: W/System.err(5515):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
01-14 16:27:45.739: D/AndroidRuntime(5515): Shutting down VM
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01-14 16:27:45.779: W/System.err(5515): java.io.IOException: Permission denied
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515): exception :java.io.FileNotFoundException: /dev/kmsg (Permission denied)
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515): java.lang.ClassCastException: android.view.WindowManager$LayoutParams
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515):     at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:3270)
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515):     at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:250)
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515):     at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8342)
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515):     at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:531)
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515):     at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:309)
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515):     at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8342)
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515):     at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:3279)
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515):     at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:250)
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515):     at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8342)
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515):     at android.view.ViewRoot.performTraversals(ViewRoot.java:841)
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515):     at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1876)
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:895)
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:653)
01-14 16:27:45.809: E/AndroidRuntime(5515):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
01-14 16:27:45.829: E/AndroidRuntime(5515): exception :java.io.FileNotFoundException: /dev/kmsg (Permission denied)
01-14 16:27:45.839: W/System.err(5515): java.io.FileNotFoundException: /data/plog.log (Permission denied)

Regards, Alek

A: You mixed up things in your code.
Firstly, I also don't understand why your Feedback class extends Activity. It is an helper class and has nothing to do with an Activity.
Secondly, your error when decommenting pwindo.showAtLocation is due to the fact that your call to inflater.inflate(R.layout.screen_popup, parent) gives the RelativeLayout present in screen_popup a parent, so with showAtLocation you are trying to assign a parent again to the same resource.
Coming to your question, your way to open the popup is a little strange.
Infacts you're are passing the context of the MainActivity and are inflating the new layout.
So, what you see on the GUI is not a new window on top of the previous one, but it is the previous one with different layout. You can see that by pressing the back button on your Android device when the popup is displayed: you are not moving to the previous screen, but you are simply exiting the application.
So, when you create the PopupWindow, you are not using it (because you didn't call its showAtLocation method), so the call to its dismiss() method provides with no effects.
To close the window you have to call the finish() method on the context (you have to cast it to MainActivity):
((MainActivity)context).finish()

But I know that this is not you're trying to do, as it doesn't close the popup, but the entire aplication.
To have a popup effect, try this cods:
public class Feedback {
   private Context context;
   private MainActivity parent;

   Button btnClosePopup;
   protected PopupWindow pwindo;

   public Feedback(MainActivity _parent) {
      parent = _parent;
   }

   public void initiatePopupWindow() {

      try {
         // We need to get the instance of the LayoutInflater
         RelativeLayout viewGroup = (RelativeLayout) parent
               .findViewById(R.id.popup_element);
     LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) parent
           .getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);

     View layout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.screen_popup, viewGroup);

     pwindo = new PopupWindow(layout, 600, 500, true);
     pwindo.setFocusable(true);

     pwindo.showAtLocation(layout, Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);

     btnClosePopup = (Button) layout.findViewById(R.id.btn_close_popup);
     btnClosePopup.setOnClickListener(cancel_button_click_listener);

  } catch (Exception e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
  }
}

   private OnClickListener cancel_button_click_listener = new OnClickListener()

      public void onClick(View v) {

         pwindo.dismiss();
         return;
      }
   };
}

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 - Knowledge of Astropy and affiliated packages functionality.
 - Interest in developing educational materials.
 - Knowledge of Astronomy sufficient for developing selected tutorials on specific science cases.
difficulty: High
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# Related issues (if any)  to this project.
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Generate content used to demonstrate advanced functionality of Astropy

#### Description

Create tutorials and/or guides which demonstrate more complex uses of astropy and affiliate package functionality. E.g., use of classes and object-oriented programming for astronomical data analysis with Astropy, usage of astroquery and ccdproc together to download and reduce an image, etc.
Must would work closely with Astropy Tutorial Leads to identify tutorial topics, as well as a tutorial flow/narrative. The student will primarily be mostly responsible for writing the code, but not the pedagogy.

#### Possible Milestones

* Have a list of possible tutorials to develop
* Have an outline of selected tutorial(s) for review by the Learn team and/or an astropy package maintainer.
* Complete the tutorial by getting it merged in the [astropy-tutorials repository](https://github.com/astropy/astropy-tutorials).


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Floating Gardens of Dal Lake
Prof. (Dr) R.D. Gupta
Vegetables appear to have been cultivated in Jammu and Kashmir since time immemorial. This stands mentioned in historical treatise like the Nilmata Puran (6th or 7th Century AD) and Ksemendras Narmamala (11th or 12th Century AD). Widespread cultivation of vegetables in Kashmir region mostly consisted of Utpalasaka, Sanda (Lettuce), and Kaccha guccha (modern Kaodan). The mentions of vegetable cultivation, irrigation and manuring have also been made in Rajatarangini written by Sri Kalahana. The vegetables such as Kachidani and Upal (Hak) used to grow for serving as food of poor classes during ancient times.
The floating gardens were also quite common on city lakes, especially on the Dal lake in the past. They used to produce an abundant crop of cucumber and melon as has been stated in Gazetteer of Kashmir Ladakh published in, 1880.The watermelons and a number of vegetables were also cultivated on floating gardens during the period of Mughal. The watermelons of Kashmir were so popular that Mughal emperors had taken them to Agra for their table use (History of Kashmir by Bamzai, 1962). In the book entitled, Geography of Jammu and Kashmir (Anand Kaul) updated by P.M.K.Bamzai, there is mention beautiful lakes in the valley which yielded plentiful fish, waternuts, lotus roots (Nadru) etc and on which were floating gardens. Floating gardens produced a number of vegetables like cucumber, pumpkins as well as melons and water melons. There is also a mention about the manner by which the floating gardens on the Dal lake were formed. Not only this, whole huge floating gardens dragged away! Vegetable and fruits threon stolen! The empty gardens left on a vast expanse of water! Such stories have been heard over hundred of years.
Some officers of the British rule posted in Srinagar quite often received complaints regarding stolen floating gardens. Perplexed and inquisitive they had to visit personally to the world famous Dal lake. In a book, "A History of Kashmir" by Bamzai first published in 1962 (Gupta, 2003), there is written that cultivation of vegetables on floating gardens was extensively carried out during the Sikh regime (1819-1846). Sir W.R. Lawrence in his book, "The valley of Kashmir published in the year 1995, also describes about the floating gardens as well as lilies of various colours, the leaves forming which rest lightly and gracefully on the water, and queen of all these species, magnificent lotus with its large leaf and tall quivering stem, drooping under the weight of the exquisite and noble tulip shaped pink and white flower in the midist of floating garden." There is also mentioned about the manner by which the floating gardens were formed.
Formation of Floating Gardens
Islands or floating gardens on the Dal lake in Kashmir, are formed from the weeds, after collecting them from the lake itself. Such weeds mostly consist of Typha augustata and Phragmites communis which are in Kashmiri language known as Pech and Nargasa, respectively. Some other hydrophytes like Trapa spp (Gair, Singhara in Urdu) and the almost extinct Eurale ferox, are also occasionally used to form floating gardens.
The boatmen after collecting the weeds, press the roots of one against those of the next, then of next against those of the two and so on.The weeds with their muddy and sticky roots get so coalesced that these can hardly be separated. The boatmen then prune the tall culms and, thus, they themselves make mats. These mats float in the lake water which eventually constitute floating gardens. The boatmen may double the thickness of their floating gardens by stowing over them a second layer of weeds after pruning away their culms in the same year. They may similarly have a third layer over the second onwards, because the garden tends to lose its thickness by the constant play of water underneath, repeat such layering after two or three years.
The boatmen, thus, maintain floating gardens at a thickness of 1 to 2m with width about 2.5 to 3.0 m and in length around 45m or sometimes 90 to 135m. They have their ingenious technique for uniting small pieces together. They moor two pieces end to end. Along the seam they plant willow cuttings in such a way that two ends of each go deep into the two adjacent margins much like the cramps of boat. Almost every such cutting puts forth elaborate adventitious root system, traverse both to the margins together, strongly seam the other gardens.
Classification of Floating Gardens
Floating gardens are of two kinds which are locally called Radh and Demb types. The Radh type of floating gardens are made of long strips of lake reeds having a breadth of about 2m and can be pulled from one place to another. Not ineferior to the Radh in productivity are Demb lands which are formed along the sides or sometimes in the middle of the lake when the water is shallow (Gupta et al.1983).
Present Status of Vegetables and Fruits
Although the floating gardens are extremely suitable for growing several vegetables and fruits yet the boatmen do it in an ingenious way by growing only five of them. Out of these five, three are vegetables viz; tomato, pumpkin and cucumber and two are fruits viz; melon and water melon. Sometimes beans are also grown, they are sown directly into the garden itself.
As the sowing time approaches (April-May) the boatmen shapes the muck into small mortars (mud). These he arranges in parallel rows in a room, and then sows one or two seeds of vegetables or fruits in the hollow of each. Controlling the conditions inside, as far as possible, by closing or opening the windows, he soon has his seeds germinating. When the first buds and scions have formed, he transplants the saplings along with their mortars into the floating gardens. These saplings grow rapidly and their vegetables and fruits ripen far in advance compared to those grown on farm lands. This brings the boatman rich dividends and he is seen everyday rowing and pounding huge boat loads of his produce across the Dal into the surrounding markets.
The boatmen of the floating gardens on the Dal lake have traditionally adopted the profession of vegetables and fruits cultivation purely organically. The main organic manure applied for their cultivation is Hydrilla muck and this the boatman continuously adds. Sometimes when the weight of the growing plants threatens to sink the whole floating garden, he removes some of the muck. The boatmen did try some chemical fertilizers, but found that these only reduced the yield of the vegetables and fruits, and as such they discarded their use. If well decomposed Hydrilla muck i.e amorphous in nature and brown-black or black in colour, is added regularly, it boots the yield of the vegetables and fruits to the extent of 320 to 480 q hector of Dal land as against 160 q ha-1 yield of other farms enriched with chemical fertilizers. It is attributed to the richness of the available plant nutrients already existing in the Hydrilla muck. This finding is inconformity with the results of Gupta (2012) who recorded very high content of organic carbon (2.0 to 3.5%) as well as available N,P and K contents in the range of 27.2 to 42.0, 3.1 to 4.8 and 32.2 to 39.0 mg per 100g of floating garden soil, respectively.
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Falkville Comeback Captures AHSAA Prep Spotlight for Week 6
Published 12:14 pm Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Falkville High School trailed 27-12 at halftime of its Morgan County rivalry versus West Morgan last Friday night. The Blue Devils rallied, however, to outscore the Rebels 30-8 in the final two quarters en route to a 42-35 victory.
The Class 2A Blue Devils (3-2), coached by Joel Schrenk, featured outstanding performances from a trio of players: quarterback Andy Dove, running back Patrick Knowles and receiver Logan Vinson. The Rebels (0-5) of Coach Heath Saint were led by running back Rodney "R.J." Young, who turned in an amazing 358-yard, five-touchdown performance.
The comeback captured the Alabama High School Athletic Association Prep Spotlight for Week 6 of the 2014 football season.
Young was a workhorse for West Morgan with 32 carries on the night and scored all five Rebels touchdowns—four coming in the first half.
Falkville outscored the Rebels 30-8 in the second half to notch the win. Dove completed 18-of-24 passes for 289 yards and three touchdowns. His prime receiver was Vinson, who snagged 10 receptions for 180 yards and a score. Knowles ran 29 times for 229 yards. His 1-yard run for a TD late in the game provided the winning touchdown and completed the comeback effort.
Also in the AHSAA Prep Spotlight for Week 6:
JAKE TIFFIN, HARTSELLE: Was 8-of-11 passing for 160 yards and three touchdowns and ran for 55 yards and another score, all in the first half, as the Tigers beat Grissom 38-6.


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Сарваш ()
Топоним
 Сарваш — город в юго-восточной Венгрии.

Фамилия
 Сарваш, Габор (1832—1895) — венгерский языковед и педагог.
 Сарваш, Габор (1943–1992) – венгерский тяжелоатлет, тренер.

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Often when I visit my folks in New England, I bring coolers and stock up on a few good items while I'm there, where groceries are less expensive. I am an avid gardener and enjoy garden to plate meals and practice canning my own food, however this past summer I was gone for over a month and my gardens were not properly maintained in my absence, dispite being told otherwise. In all, I'm guessing I lost about one thousand dollars worth of food. I was pretty irate and disappointed but, I'm over it now (I think).
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I do sneak down into my studio and paint whenever the urge strikes, usually it is a short-lived urge but even a little bit goes a long way. Cooking tonight gave me a creative boost that I needed for an "art spark". I just may yet get down in the studio tomorrow! Fingers crossed please!
Well designed booklet with instructions for each of the three recipes I will be cooking this week!
Again, the graphic design is nice and clean and seamless and enjoyable to look at! The artist in me appreciates good design!
Let me say, I LOVED my first meal experience with HelloFresh. It was delicious with easy to follow instructions and everything was fresh. After doing some math, this month I actually saved $$$! So, I highly recommend HelloFresh for the active family, working family, single parent, or for those who are just trying to eat healthier and less processed foods and do more cooking. I don't know about you guys, but when I go grocery shopping for a specific recipe, I always come home with more than what I needed. Sometimes some Pepperidge Farm Bordeaux cookies end up in that silly cart. I really don't know how they get in there, but boy, are they good!
The cooking process was so enjoyable with the easy to follow instructions.
All in all, I am excited about this venture and will continue to post about the food I make with HelloFresh!
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The serving sizes I found to be quite large, especially if you are serving this with salad and a side of garlic bread! So, if you are wondering, YES! I had enough for leftovers! To me that's money well spent! Guess what dinner is tomorrow?
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The chart below displays the airlines Cheapflights users traveling from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County to London choose most often. Cheapest and average prices are based on aggregated data from the past 12 months.
Iberia $365 $434 No cancel fee 77%
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WOW air $269 $456 No cancel fee N/A
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United Airlines $165 $537 No cancel fee 69%
Finnair $397 $568 No cancel fee 76%
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Lufthansa $642 $846 No cancel fee 76%
Air Canada $457 $899 No cancel fee 67%
Virgin Atlantic $624 $959 No cancel fee 72%
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Air France $598 $1,052 No cancel fee 77%
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These gluten-free, vegan (except for the m&ms) beauties are the apple of my eye!
For Halloween, these m&m caramel-coated beauties are the apple of my eye. A "healthier" version of the usual, the caramel is actually vegan but still so decadent. The tartness of the Granny Smith apple contrasts perfectly the sweetness and slight maple flavor of the caramel. A perfect Halloween treat – serious YUM!
If you follow my Instagram feed, you may know I have made several attempts at caramel apples. The first was an epic fail with the caramel not setting and sliding off the apples. I finally found a GF Jules online video and recipe and – finally a success! It was a labor of love but so worth it!
Made with Granny Smith apples, So Delicious coconut milk, maple syrup, brown sugar, and Earth Balance dairy-free butter.