The International Monetary Fund released their latest perspective on the development prospects of Central Bank Digital Currencies. Exploring the benefits of various forms of money, the IMF seems to be of the mindset that while cryptocurrencies have gained traction, it is in fact private eMoney solutions that provide stored value facilities and an easy user experience that are best ranked. While citing Bitcoin, Ether and Ripple, the report seems to be remiss of the larger and intertwined developments occurring in the space as of late. One cryptocurrency firm is, at the very least, attempting to address issues and concerns the report highlighted having secured the necessary licenses, in the US and the UK, provide on-chain stable stored value facilities, in line with KYC and AML compliance requirements, as well as an easy customer facing interface – Coinbase.
Last week at the Singapore Fintech Festival, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde took to the stage addressing the case for new digital currency. Ms Lagarde remains unconvinced that cryptocurrencies could potentially fill a void left by a cashless society. And so, a complicated question has come and gone and not yet answered entirely – should Central Banks issue a digital currency?
There are other more important pressing issues that however arise with a CBDC, mainly, the risks that commercial banks would face as customers opt to hold their monies directly on the central bank ledger minimizing their risk exposure to the potential of a failing bank.
"Private e-money provided by stored value facilities scores high on several fronts. It offers widespread acceptance, low transaction costs via user-friendly interfaces designed by customer- centric firms, and full-service bundling with other financial as well as social services" the report stated.
But it was in Ms Lagarde's speech which this was emphasized further.
|| AND WHAT OF CRYPTOCURRENCIES?
And while Bitcoin, Ether and Ripple would have unlikely been part of such a discussion at the start of last year, the cryptocurrency space has developed further at rapid pace with multiple on chain financial products looking to fill future market demand in 2018. Of course, as it stands, little if any of it can work on any grand scale without regulator support, especially in the case of lending, as bad debtors would face no repercussions with current on-chain infrastructure (Diar, 16 July).
But Coinbase has been the one cryptocurrency company that's been addressing many of the concerns, issues and prospects laid out in the IMF report, from a fully collateralized stablecoin addressing volatility, which would also adhere to anti-money laundry compliance requirements, to the financial support given to multiple on-chain protocols from the company's alumni that promise traditional financial services (Diar, 29 October).
It's not all roses, however. Coinbase must address multiple problematic areas in tandem – network scalability and the onboarding of consumers and merchants – both, currently, very tall orders.
Can Coinbase's 'Open Financial System' Plans Make The Difference?
Should cryptocurrencies be able to compete in view of the merits of the various forms of money, multiple areas are needed to be addressed. Scalability, transaction costs, the retention of anonymity while complying with KYC/AML requirements, extended services, loans (see Dharma), returns (see Compound), and most importantly, acceptance - as of today - little to none.
Following action against Decentralized Exchange EtherDelta, last week also saw the US Securities and Exchange Commission issuing settled orders against two companies, Airfox and Paragon, for the sale of unregistered securities after raising capital through an Initial Coin Offering. The regulator may have given class action lawsuits against token issuers much needed guidance, one of which was filed against Paragon earlier this year. On the flip side, Washington has also given those who raised capital through the contentious vehicle an opportunity to make good allowing for the retroactive filing of their token as a security.
This year has seen the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) amp up its pace and rhetoric against breaches of securities laws by cryptocurrency operations in quick succession.
In almost identical fashion, and wording, the SEC has now charged and settled against Airfox and Paragon for raising $15Mn and $12Mn respectively through Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) after failing to register with the regulator which has deemed their tokens issuing as the sale of securities.
Investors now have a window of opportunity to reclaim their initial outlay. The companies are also required to file regular disclosures and meet with compliance. And a $250,000 penalty was imposed. But in comparison to Merril Lynch who paid out a whopping $1.25Mn for the sale of unregistered securities earlier this year, the penance paid by the token issuers seems almost merciful.
While lenient, the SEC's moves now indicate the beginning of the end of unregistered ICOs lest issuers wish to face much harsher punishment having now set precedence.
And while the two companies charged where in fact US domiciled, given the global nature of cryptocurrency trading, the SEC, as it does today, would not shy away from going after non-US entities who may have sold their tokens to US persons. This is unlikely however to be their priority target.
Much like the SEC's Swiss counterpart, FINMA, one of the first regulators to publish ICO guidelines, the US regulator cited lack of functionality at the time the companies conducted their fund-raising activities – earmarks of financial instruments (see table below).
This latest development reveals a synergy of thought processes conducted by other securities regulators worldwide that, intentionally or not, are concerting themselves in harmony.
|| WHAT HAPPENED TO "WE ONLY SELL, DON'T USE"?
It's clear that the SEC has been doing their homework as the 13-page cease-and-desist orders looked at the promotion and listing activities pursued by the token issuers from the very beginning.
Paragon, which said it would address the marijuana ecosystem, with blockchain, of course, may have dipped into its own honey pot while writing up their Whitepaper as it was peppered with return promises on secondary markets making for a fairly straight-forward target for the SEC to bring charges.
Anyone taking notes is hardly surprised. Jay Clayton, Chairman of the SEC, stated earlier this year that any token that was used in a fundraising process and can give investors a return, or investors can get a return on the secondary market by selling the token to someone else, qualifies as a security.
Legal analytics firm Lex Machina places 45 lawsuits in the first half of 2018 related to cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and Blockchain – triple the amount than all of the previous year (see chart). And the SEC is said to be responsible for 30% of the cases filed indicating a dozen ICOs that will also likely follow suit in registering with the regulator as a security.
Investment vehicles that hold digital asset securities and those who advise others about investing in digital asset securities, including managers of investment vehicles, must be mindful of registration, regulatory and fiduciary obligations under the Investment Company Act and the Advisers Act.
Exchange Registration - Exchange Act Rule 3b-16 provides a functional test to assess whether an entity meets the definition of an exchange under Section 3(a)(1) of the Exchange Act. An entity that meets the definition of an exchange must register with the Commission as a national securities exchange or be exempt from registration, such as by operating as an alternative trading system ("ATS") in compliance with Regulation ATS.
Broker-Dealer Registration - An entity that facilitates the issuance of digital asset securities in ICOs and secondary trading in digital asset securities may also be acting as a "broker" or "dealer" that is required to register with the Commission and become a member of a self-regulatory organization, typically FINRA.
With the latest charges, class action lawsuits have been given a boon with maybe enough ammo to win against token issuers. And with the bear market taking its toll across the board, its likely many more early investors that have seen their portfolio value dwindle take action. Number crunching showed that 70% of tokens are now valued at less than their initial price during their ICO (Diar, 24 September).
The SEC didn't stop at that last week. The regulator also published a statement on digital asset securities issuance and trading, clearly classifying how they've divided up the cryptocurrency industry (see table).
Token issuers may then now find a warmer embrace from the very regulator they wished to circumvent than in the hands of a federal judge where restitutions as well as claims to punitive damages may very well put them under lock and key.
Swiss FINMA ICO Guidlines: SEC's Nod to "Crypto Valley"?
1 Payment Payment tokens are synonymous with cryptocurrencies and have no further functions or links to other development projects. Tokens may in some cases only develop the necessary functionality and become accepted as a means of payment over a period of time. For ICOs where the token is intended to function as a means of payment and can already be transferred, FINMA will require compliance with anti-money laundering regulations. FINMA will not, however, treat such tokens as securities.
3 Asset Asset tokens represent assets such as participations in real physical underlyings, companies, earnings streams, or an entitlement to dividends/interest payments. In terms of economic function, the tokens are analogous to equities, bonds & derivatives. FINMA regards asset tokens as securities, which means that there are securities law requirements for trading in such tokens, as well as civil law requirements under the Swiss Code of Obligations (e.g. prospectus requirements).
A minimum of 38 Bitcoin forks have taken place since the Bitcoin community saw Bitcoin Cash come to life last year. All but Bitcoin Cash who have forked have failed by almost every sense of the word. And last week saw Bitcoin Cash also split following two competing proposals led effectively by companies rather than community, resulting in an all out hash power war to avoid a permanent split into two coins. But will that be the inevitable outcome?
Bitcoin.com who has taken the helm of promoting the use of Bitcoin Cash has found itself fighting with mining power in order to keep the pecking order of the current protocol against a competing proposal called Satoshi's Vision tabled by nChain's Craig Wright.
Last week, a scheduled network upgrade saw Bitcoin Cash split into two with both sides amping up hash power to retain control of the longer chain. This has resulted in an average hourly combined loss of $30,000, with only wholesale electricity costs taken into consideration with optimal equipment. As a total, an astounding $3.3Mn has been spent on maintaining power alone.
|| "I'VE GOT YOUR BACK"
Powerful players who have curled up on either side are now losing money by the fist load in order to back their aligned favorite. In the corner of Bitcoin Cash (ABC), Bitmain has come to Bitcoin.com's aid. And in the other corner, Coingeek.com has unleashed over half of Satoshi's Vision hashrate - Such efforts outside of support with deep pockets, and a great deal of faith in the price recovery of the coin would be impossible.
And should miners not be selling their coins and holding off till the end, their cost price to cover electricity at press time stands at $1613 for Bitcoin Cash (ABC) and $1149 for Bitcoin Cash (SV). Bitcoin Cash was at $450 average before the fork initiated.
Ultimately, however, the overall cryptocurrency industry is the loser as fears from the same complications puppeteered by powerful actors could arise again, marking the asset class beyond dangerous.
Notes: The calculation only take into account electricity costs running S9 Antminers at $0.04KW/h and the average price at the time of reward on Poloniex.
Stable coins are in focus this year in response to last year's frenzy in crypto markets where daily swings versus the US Dollar of 10%+ were fairly common. The fate of bitcoin as a global currency was then quickly decided: it is too volatile to meet the three requirements that define a currency - store of value, medium of payment & unit of account. In a short period of time, $300m of funding went into over 50 stable coin projects globally to solve the problem.
When discussing stability, it is important to first agree on what it means to be stable. If bitcoin is the reference currency - many of its supporters already see it that way - then it is stable by construction. People in general imply stability versus the US Dollar which we will discuss here.
Despite record calm experienced recently - with bitcoin moving on average less than S&P500 in October - it is likely the cryptocurrency will remain reasonably volatile over the short term as this nascent asset hasn't reached its critical mass yet. Over the long run, some structural forces could however modify the picture and allow bitcoin to "self-stabilize".
If one asset can give us a flavor of what bitcoin could look like in ten years, it's probably gold. Bitcoin is often described as the "digital" version of the shiny metal: the two assets in particular share similarities in the way they are being issued with inelastic and exogeneous supply functions. The yearly inflation rate of bitcoin, irrespective of what its price does, is at 4% currently compared to gold at 2%. This is one of the technical reason why stable coins got traction in the first place: if the supply function is determined in advance then it cannot adjust to demand shocks which force adjustments to be made only through price and hence it can't be stable.
Gold should logically also experience the same problem. With a daily average volatility of 0.67% since 1991, it is however one of the most stable asset globally and is widely perceived as the ultimate store of value. One of bitcoin's value proposition is to compete in this particular use case and our best guess is that it will - should it succeed - be ultimately highly stable. Part of this evolution will come as a consequence of a shift in the public's perception as people understand better what bitcoin has to offer and gradually start seeing the asset as a safe haven. However, the process could potentially take decades and bitcoin should probably show some stability first as a prerequisite. Derivatives products might contribute speeding up the journey.
If 2017 was the year of ICOs & altcoins - personified by the rise of Binance - 2018 is most likely going to be remembered as the year in which futures took over. Bitmex and Bitflyer's bitcoin perpetual swaps are trading over $1bn on most days when physical exchanges have had a much harder time maintaining volumes. Is it purely a coincidence if volatility has structurally decreased over the year while this trend gathered pace?
Bitcoin futures markets have experienced rapid growth this year and are at this stage fairly well developed relative to the underlying market. The four main bitcoin perpetual swaps combined - Bitflyer, Bitmex, Deribit and Crypto Facilities - traded on average $2.2bn a day over the last month which represents a volume similar to physical fiat to bitcoin transactions. CME bitcoin futures also exhibited gradual growth in volumes this year.
Bitcoin options on the opposite trade on average $5m notional a day. In comparison, options on S&P500 trade on average $390bn notional a day. Amazon - one of the most popular stock globally - trades on most days a similar volume of options and stocks - around $10bn each.
Traditional derivatives markets rose in Chicago in the 19th century to answer the hedging needs of American grain farmers. Successful derivatives products - futures, options or more sophisticated ones - share in common that they answer a demand for hedging and risk management (see The Futures by Emily Lambert).
This is partly the reason why futures grew so popular this year - after such a great crypto run, demand for hedging liquidity and neutralizing exposure grew increasingly strong.
|| NOW, DO WE REALLY NEED OPTIONS FOR BITCOIN?
Futures remain fairly generic instruments with linear exposure to the underlying asset - what is commonly called a "delta one" derivative. For example, if a company produces oil or mine bitcoins, it is not possible to specifically hedge its breakeven cost by simply selling a future contract: it would also force it to renounce to the financial upside. In that case, the relevant instrument would be a put option. The next natural step for crypto markets would be to embrace options so that much better tailor-made hedging solutions can be delivered to industry stakeholders. This would in return allow them to scale their businesses in a meaningful way and benefit the crypto economy overall.
• Cryptocurrency exchanges are long volatility and could benefit from a vol selling program. This is quite striking when comparing daily volatility and volumes. In traditional markets, it is quite common to see an asset not moving and large trades being crossed. This is not a behaviour we have seen so far in cryptos as execution methodologies are primarily coming from the FX world and are mostly done "at market" which has the consequence of moving the price in the absence of enough market depth. Another reason is that the market is primarily traded by retail customers which use less sophisticated trading execution methods than institutions.
On the investor side, the natural flows will most likely come from long term holders - in a similar fashion to what we see in gold markets. A meaningful part of bitcoin investors - the "hodlers" - believe in the store of value narrative and are holding bitcoins for the very long term. Those investors don't have access to "saving" or "yield enhancement" products to optimize their holdings. Using options is one possibility that could make the "1 BTC today = 1 BTC in one year" mantra potentially evolve to "1 BTC today = 1.1 BTC in one year".
A common attribute of those options flows is that they would materialize by large amounts of call selling - providing large quantities of volatility to the market as option market makers start "delta hedging" their positions. This would likely tame the volatility of bitcoin over time - at least on the upside. This phenomenon called "pinning" is relatively well known in traditional markets. It is not uncommon to see historically very volatile stocks experience a structural drop in realized volatility as a set of structured derivatives products are being released.
The options market experienced rapid growth in traditional markets after 1973 when Black and Scholes found a straightforward formula to price them - a discovery which earned them the Nobel prize in economics in 1997. Also, commodity futures have happened to soar since 1973 as the oil crisis introduced instability in a previously quiet market. As a result, extensive academic literature studying the impact of derivatives on the price of their underlying's was published in the 80s and 90s. Figure 2 quite convincingly points in the direction of lower volatility post options listing.
To conclude, it has to be noted that overly complex credit derivatives played an important role during the financial crisis of 2008. To learn from the mistakes of the past, it will be key for market participants to work with regulators towards finding the right level of financial innovation so that the crypto economy can benefit without introducing systemic risks.
Skew, founded by former JPMorgan flow equity derivatives trader Emmanuel Goh and former Citi/UBS flow and exotic equity derivatives trader Tim Noat have setup shop in London to trade Bitcoin and Ether options. Visit their website or twitter.
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5 Whiteside, Dukes and Dunne (1981) 35 1973-75 USA ?
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Binance has requested that all traders who have stored assets on the crypto exchange to withdraw them immediately as it seeks to comply with US sanctions that have gone back into full effect. This has become a recurring theme for Persians who have seen Bitmex and Bittrex also previously cut them off. Mining crypto seems to be the only profitable route for people given then heavily subsidized power industry as the country faces an economic crisis.
In an unprecedented move highlighting the apparent risks of cryptocurrency operations, Hong Kong-based OKEx changed the terms of $135Mn Bitcoin Cash derivatives terminating the contracts early as markets took a down turn. Due to the volatility experienced following the split (see story above) the exchange opted to notify clients only after the fact, in what they deemed as sound judgement in order to avoid potential market manipulation.
Speaking to CoinDesk, BitGo has revealed that it now offers custodial solutions for over 100 different cryptocurrencies. The companies latest venture has been to accommodate for stablecoins including USDC and Gemini's Dollar. "When investors are looking for a place to custody their funds, they are looking for a one-stop-shop, a place to store all their crypto assets" Isaac Eleftheriadis said, BitGo's senior technical product manager.
Following the footsteps of the Stockhold Nasdaq exchange, another Exchange Traded Product is set to hit Zurich on the SIX Exchange. The Amun Crypto Basket ETP is set to be an index of major cryptocurrencies and will begin trading as early as next week. But traders within the space will be quick to remember the short-comings of Coinbase's similar index, and the lack of demand seen for Grayscale's Digital Large Cap Fund.


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sorry this stack does not help much, how about a sample?
On DomainObject2 add a runtime member of type domainobject1.
No exceptions however, everything worked as the Related EasyTests , care to post more details on what exactly I have to do?
I will make a screencast if you can't reproduce this, but screencasts are a hasstle to me... What are you using for screencasts?
Have you tried the steps in my previous post?


Carlos Matias, design director at AKQA's London office, has become the agency's international design director.
He will oversee design and branding across the WPP agency's offices in the US and Europe in the newly-created role.
Matias will move to New York and report to Duan Evans, international executive creative director and Giles McCormack, international managing director.
Having joined AKQA in 2011, Matias helped to build the design team. He worked on the Nike Rise "House of Mamba" basketball initiative.
Evans said: "Carlos is one of the most talented designers working in the industry and he embodies all of the great things about being an artist.
"He lives and bleeds his craft – and the body of work that he and his team are responsible for is a testament to his vision, talent and leadership."
AKQA is yet to announce a replacement for Matias.


After two playtests we're starting to get a handle on things.
…and we've got a field of combatants assembled.
Best of all… the rules are really coming together.
Our first playtest, two nights ago, saw us as knight versus knight. It was a little rough around the edges but a lot of fun. We learned a lot from just one game.
Last night's playtest was even better and our adjustments really intensified the game.
Now, with further tweaks, tonight's playtest will give a pretty good indication if we're ready to put together our first playtest package.
Here's the test sheet for a new game my son dreamed up and I've been helping him tweak. He and I are in full on playtest mode right now, but as soon as we're happy with the rules we'll be inviting others in to test this thing.
Right now, it's two Norsemen facing off with one another, but we'll be integrating Knights, Swashbucklers, and even beasties into the mix for future installments.
Have you backed the CONAN RPG yet?
I've waited along time for a CONAN RPG that respected the source material that I love so much.
ROBERT E. HOWARD'S CONAN: ADVENTURES IN AN AGE UNDREAMED OF is a new roleplaying game from Modiphius based on Howard's Hyborian Age.
It features cover and interior art by legendary artists such as Brom, Sanjulian, Tim Truman, Tomas Giorello, and so many more, but more importantly, this RPG boasts some stellar writing talent, including Howard scholars Jeffrey Shanks, Patrice Louinet and Mark Finn.
This morning, February 16, Modiphius launched a kickstarter to help fund this project.
I encourage any and all fans of Robert E. Howard and of fantasyRPGs to join in on this monumental event.
Here's the template I made for the Magic Item Cards I'll soon be introducing to my players. They are divided by armor, weapons, potions, rings, scrolls, staffs, rods and wands, spellbooks, and wondrous items.
The card gives you plenty of space for appropriate artwork and pertinent statistics. The back of the card can be used for additional information.
The idea is that the players are responsible for the cards and must bring them to the table if they plan on using them. Obviously, for the consumables, when used the cards are returned to the DM.
I think this will potentially aid the players in keeping track of their items, keeping things from getting lost on a character sheet, and will help me keep a closer eye on them.


text:
namespace hsql {
  enum StatementType {
    kStmtError, // unused
    kStmtSelect,
    kStmtImport,
    kStmtInsert,
    kStmtUpdate,
    kStmtDelete,
    kStmtCreate,
    kStmtDrop,
    kStmtPrepare,
    kStmtExecute,
    kStmtExport,
    kStmtRename,
    kStmtAlter,
    kStmtShow
  };

  // Base struct for every SQL statement
  struct SQLStatement {

    SQLStatement(StatementType type);

    virtual ~SQLStatement();

    StatementType type() const;

    bool isType(StatementType type) const;

    // Shorthand for isType(type).
    bool is(StatementType type) const;

    std::vector<Expr*>* hints;

   private:
    StatementType type_;

  };

} // namespace hsql

#endif // __SQLPARSER__SQLSTATEMENT_H__

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel.Composition;

using Sce.Atf.Adaptation;

namespace Sce.Atf.Applications
{
    ///
    /// Class that implements the standard viewing commands on contexts implementing
    /// the IViewingContext interface
    [Export(typeof(IInitializable))]
    [Export(typeof(StandardViewCommands))]
    [PartCreationPolicy(CreationPolicy.Shared)]
    public class StandardViewCommands : ICommandClient, IInitializable
    {
        ///
        /// Constructor
        /// <param name="commandService">Command service</param>
        /// <param name="contextRegistry">Context registry</param>
        /// <param name="scriptingService">Scripting service</param>
        [ImportingConstructor]
        public StandardViewCommands(ICommandService commandService, IContextRegistry contextRegistry, ScriptingService scriptingService)
        {
            m_commandService = commandService;
            m_contextRegistry = contextRegistry;
            m_scriptingService = scriptingService;
        }

        #region IInitializable Members

        void IInitializable.Initialize()
        {
            m_commandService.RegisterCommand(CommandInfo.ViewFrameSelection, this);
            m_commandService.RegisterCommand(CommandInfo.ViewFrameAll, this);

            if (m_scriptingService != null)
                m_scriptingService.SetVariable("atfView", this);
        }

        #endregion

        ///
        /// Frames the current selection, if the context registry's current context is
        /// adaptable to an IViewingContext and an ISelectionContext
        public void FrameSelection()
        {
            object activeContext = m_contextRegistry.ActiveContext;
            ISelectionContext selectionContext = activeContext.As<ISelectionContext>();
            if (selectionContext != null)
            {

                FrameSelection(
                    activeContext.As<IViewingContext>(),
                    selectionContext.Selection);
            }
        }

        ///
        /// Frames the selection
        /// <param name="viewingContext">Active viewing context</param>
        /// <param name="items">Selected items</param>
        public void FrameSelection(IViewingContext viewingContext, IEnumerable<object> items)
        {
            if (viewingContext != null)
            {
                if (viewingContext.CanFrame(items))
                    viewingContext.Frame(items);
            }
        }

        ///
        /// Frames all items, if the context registry's current context is
        /// adaptable to an IViewingContext and an IEnumerableContext
        public void FrameAll()
        {
            object activeContext = m_contextRegistry.ActiveContext;
            IEnumerableContext enumerableContext = activeContext.As<IEnumerableContext>();
            IEnumerable<object> items = (enumerableContext != null) ? enumerableContext.Items : null;
            FrameAll(
                activeContext.As<IViewingContext>(),
                items);

        }

        ///
        /// Frames items
        /// <param name="viewingContext">Active viewing context</param>
        /// <param name="items">Items to be framed</param>
        public void FrameAll(IViewingContext viewingContext, IEnumerable<object> items)
        {
            if (items != null &&
                viewingContext != null)
            {
                if (viewingContext.CanFrame(items))
                    viewingContext.Frame(items);
            }
        }

        #region ICommandClient Members

        ///
        /// Checks if the client can do the command
        /// <param name="commandTag">Command</param>
        /// <returns>True if client can do the command</returns>
        bool ICommandClient.CanDoCommand(object commandTag)
        {
            bool canDo = false;
            if (commandTag is StandardCommand)
            {
                IViewingContext viewingContext = m_contextRegistry.GetActiveContext<IViewingContext>();

                switch ((StandardCommand)commandTag)
                {
                    case StandardCommand.ViewFrameSelection:
                        ISelectionContext selectionContext = m_contextRegistry.GetActiveContext<ISelectionContext>();
                        if (viewingContext != null && selectionContext != null)
                            canDo = viewingContext.CanFrame(selectionContext.Selection);
                        break;

                    case StandardCommand.ViewFrameAll:
                        IEnumerableContext enumerableContext = m_contextRegistry.GetActiveContext<IEnumerableContext>();
                        if (viewingContext != null && enumerableContext != null)
                            canDo = viewingContext.CanFrame(enumerableContext.Items);
                        break;
                }
            }

            return canDo;
        }

        ///
        /// Does a command
        /// <param name="commandTag">Command</param>
        void ICommandClient.DoCommand(object commandTag)
        {
            if (commandTag is StandardCommand)
            {
                switch ((StandardCommand)commandTag)
                {
                    case StandardCommand.ViewFrameSelection:
                        FrameSelection();
                        break;

                    case StandardCommand.ViewFrameAll:
                        FrameAll();
                        break;
                }
            }
        }

        ///
        /// Updates command state for given command
        /// <param name="commandTag">Command</param>
        /// <param name="commandState">Command state to update</param>
        void ICommandClient.UpdateCommand(object commandTag, CommandState commandState)
        {
        }

        #endregion

        private ScriptingService m_scriptingService;

        private readonly ICommandService m_commandService;
        private readonly IContextRegistry m_contextRegistry;
    }
}


For all those pictures that make you smile..
For those funny Youtube and other videos.
True or fiction, emails that are funny, if the material is not your original please acknowledge the originator or provide a link.
A place to unwind, have a free drink and nibble on some tasties.
Say hello and goodbye here. Also Good morning/Good night threads.
For the cr@ppy reality shows and some good movie discussion.
A special place for the Christmassy things.
A place to let others know how life is treating you, good or bad. Maybe we can help or maybe it helps to "get it off your chest".
Start an A ~ Z follow on or ask trivia questions.
Looking for the Sun, Snow or Rain, where is it?
If we can't help we know someone that can.
Which football team do you support? How are your team doing? Plus other sports discussion.
Newspapers, TV, Radio, Politics, all can be discussed here.
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Inventions, advances, good or bad, talk about them here.
Believe or not, worship or not, tell us about it.


Similarly in culture contact. "The substitution of a new culture element," Linton writes . . ., "by no means always results in the complete elimination of the old one. There are many cases of partial . . . replacement. . . . Stone knives may continue to be used for ritual purposes long after the metal ones have superseded them elsewhere."
Distinctions parallel to those between stimuli and resistance, structural and non-structural factors, occur implicitly in studies of acculturation, too. Thus, Redfield, Linton, and Herskovits . . . distinguish culture traits "presented" (=stimuli) from those "selected" in acculturation situations, and stress the "significance of understanding the resistance to traits as well as the acceptance of them." They also name "congruity of existing culture-patterns" as a reason for a selection of traits; this corresponds to structural stimuli in language contact. When Linton observes . . . that "new things are borrowed on the basis of their utility, compatibility with preëxisting culture patterns, and prestige associations," his three factors are equivalent, roughly, to structural stimuli of interference, structural resistance, and nonstructural stimuli, respectively. Kroeber . . . devotes a special discussion to resistance against diffusion. Resistance to cultural borrowing is also the subject of a separate article by Devereux and Loeb . . ., who distinguish between "resistance to the cultural item"---corresponding roughly to structural resistance in language contact---and "resistance to the lender." These authors also discuss resistance ON THE PART OF the "lender," e.g. the attempts of the Dutch to prevent Malayans, by law, from learning the Dutch language. No equivalent lender's resistance seems to operate in language contact, unless the inconspicuousness of a strongly varying, phonemically slight morpheme with complicated grammatical functions be considered as a point of resistance to transfer within the source language . . . .


in the EU and on a global level.
It is hard to imagine a world without steel. But still many try to see it without coking coal, unwittingly undermining this raw material critical for the economy. While research on alternative steel-making technologies are carried out, for now the only cost-effective method of producing steel is the blast furnace alloy of coke and iron ore.
Steel industry is one of the key sectors for European economy as it provides 2.5 million of jobs. While it is responsible for 2% of the total EU production, the value of the steel production is over 120 billion euro per year. The steel industry has a significant impact on key economy sectors like: automotive, shipbuilding, construction or household appliances, but also on fast emerging innovative low-emission economy.
European transformation towards low-emission industry will result in an increasing demand for environmentally friendly products, like electric cars or wind mills in the upcoming years. Therefore the demand for steel will also increase. Taking into account the increasing demand for steel, the importance of a reliable supply of coking coal will be crucial.
Furthermore, the coke-making and steel industry are making constant efforts to meet the requirements of the climate policy, which would be impossible without a strong R&D base. Innovations, not only are the key solutions for further emissions reductions, but can also contribute to the global energy transition. Therefore, the industry is closely involved in development of new technologies like: tar processing, hydrogen separation and usage, or CCU.
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SpaceX Tests Crew Dragon Parachutes
Four red-and-white parachutes unfurled high above the desert near Coolidge, Arizona, recently during a test of the system that initially will be used to safely land SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying astronauts back from the International Space Station. The test used a mass simulator as the weight of the spacecraft connected to the parachute system. The mass simulator and parachutes were released thousands of feet above the ground from a C-130 cargo aircraft. This test evaluated the four main parachutes, but did not include the drogue chutes that a full landing system would utilize.
As part of its final development and certification work with NASA's Commercial Crew Program, SpaceX continues to perform tests of flight-like hardware that allows engineers to assess the reliability. Later tests will grow progressively more realistic to simulate as much of the actual conditions and processes the system will see during an operational mission.
Initially, the spacecraft will splash down safely in the ocean under parachutes, but ultimately the company wants to land the vehicle on land propulsively using eight SuperDraco engines. SpaceX tested its propulsive land landing ability in Texas in November.
SpaceX and Boeing are working in separate partnerships with NASA to build a new generation of human-rated spacecraft to take astronauts to the International Space Station. Photo credit: SpaceX.
Author Rebecca ReganPosted on January 27, 2016 January 27, 2016 Categories CCtCap, Commercial Spaceflight, International Space Station, NASA, SpaceX1 Comment on SpaceX Tests Crew Dragon Parachutes
Blue Origin Gives a Boost to Reusable Rocket Tech in Landmark Launch
Congratulations from NASA's Commercial Crew Program are again in order for Blue Origin following the launch Friday of its New Shepard sub-orbital rocket and spacecraft. The launch at the company's West Texas test site set a new mark because it was performed with the same booster that flew a similar mission profile three months ago. The test is significant because rocket reusability could drive down spaceflight hardware costs.
In both flights, the New Shepard booster flew high into the sky before separating from the uncrewed capsule. The flight reached above the 100 kilometer Karman line, which is considered to mark the beginning of space. In both missions, the booster returned to Earth and landed on its four legs. The spacecraft, designed for humans but not carrying people yet, parachuted back to the ground. Blue Origin has worked with NASA's Commercial Crew Program on the development of the vehicle and rocket engine since 2010. NASA did not have a hand in this flight test, but the space agency will support two milestones this year.
Author Steven SiceloffPosted on January 26, 2016 Categories Blue Origin, Commercial Spaceflight, GeneralLeave a comment on Blue Origin Gives a Boost to Reusable Rocket Tech in Landmark Launch
SpaceX Tests SuperDraco Descent Landing Capability
SpaceX recently tested its ability to fire engines that will be used to land a human-rated spacecraft safely on the ground with the accuracy of a helicopter at the company's test facility in McGregor, Texas. SpaceX envisions returning people to Earth from space on the power of thrust instead of beneath parachutes. Working with NASA's Commercial Crew Program, SpaceX is in the early phases of analysis. In November, the company conducted two tethered tests of a full-size Crew Dragon mock-up attached to a crane so engineers could refine the landing software and systems on the spacecraft. The Crew Dragon spacecraft will be equipped with eight SuperDraco thrusters that would be used to slow the vehicle's return to Earth through the atmosphere and ultimately set the spacecraft and its crew down gently.
Propulsive landing will not be used initially for missions with NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.The Crew Dragon will splash down safely in the ocean under parachutes as its passengers return from the space station.
Author Stephanie MartinPosted on January 21, 2016 Categories CCtCap, Commercial Spaceflight, International Space Station, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, NASA Astronauts, SpaceX6 Comments on SpaceX Tests SuperDraco Descent Landing Capability
Eve of Launch: 2016 Goals Vital to Commercial Crew Success
NASA's Commercial Crew Program and its aerospace industry partners Boeing and SpaceX are on the eve of America's return to human spaceflight launches. By the time the year closes, Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon will be poised for the flight tests that allow our astronauts to travel to the International Space Station lifting off from Florida's Space Coast.
It won't be easy. Successful missions will require a comprehensive testing regimen of numerous systems on the ground and in space. That is why the outline of tasks for 2016 is so important. The result of each evaluation will be vital in the design of the systems. From parachute tests, to launch pad certifications, to the completion of spacecraft that will fly into orbit, this year offers both companies opportunities to build on the momentum of 2015 and carry it through to landmark space achievements in 2017. Read the details of what NASA's Commercial Crew Program and its partners will be working on in 2016 to set us up for 2017 at http://go.nasa.gov/1UbVMjk
Author Steven SiceloffPosted on January 20, 2016 Categories Boeing, CCtCap, Commercial Spaceflight, General, International Space Station, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, NASA Astronauts, SpaceXLeave a comment on Eve of Launch: 2016 Goals Vital to Commercial Crew Success
From Voyager to Voyagers
30 years ago, after launching from SLC-41, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft captured images of Uranus during an historic flyby of the gas giant. Today, the same launch pad is getting ready to launch human Voyagers – NASA's Commercial Crew astronauts – on a new generation of spacecraft.
Author Steven SiceloffPosted on January 19, 2016 January 19, 2016 Categories Boeing, CCtCap, Commercial Spaceflight, General, International Space Station, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, NASA AstronautsLeave a comment on From Voyager to Voyagers
Bolden: Commercial Space Sets a Strong Course
Today, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden blogged about the agency's plan, vision and timetable for sending American astronauts to the Red Planet in the 2030s. By building a robust commercial market in low-Earth orbit, the agency is able to focus on simultaneously getting our astronauts to deep space.
"Competition, innovation and technology – it's the American way," said NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden. "It's helping us to Launch America." Read more of Bolden's blog at http://go.nasa.gov/1Q8VLNX
Author Steven SiceloffPosted on January 14, 2016 Categories Commercial Spaceflight, General, International Space Station, NASALeave a comment on Bolden: Commercial Space Sets a Strong Course
Astronauts Take First Look at Starliner Trainers
Commercial Crew astronauts Bob Behken and Eric Boe sat at the simulated controls of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner recently as they evaluated sophisticated systems designed to train astronauts and mission controllers prior missions to the International Space Station. Behknen and Boe are two of four NASA astronauts, including Doug Hurley and Suni Williams selected to work closely with Boeing and SpaceX as the companies finalize their systems. Crews have not been assigned to specific missions or spacecraft, so the team is cross-training and aiding in development of both.
The simulators were built at Boeing's St. Louis facility and will be installed at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston for training by astronauts and mission controllers. The simulators are extremely advanced and able to replicate numerous mission phases and flight conditions in order to prep crews how to handle the circumstances correctly. Traditionally, astronauts rely heavily on simulator training.
"We have been learning about the spacecraft displays through slideshows," Boe said. "It's great to finally see what we are actually going to train on. The trainers look great, and this visit gives us an opportunity to meet with the Boeing engineers. We appreciate them allowing us to give input on these trainers so the devices are ready when they arrive at Johnson Space Center."
Behnken added that the training equipment is comprehensive.
"Historically, some trainers were just a simple component that might have a very specific task," he said. "This one has a lot of capability with multiple tasks coming together so it can execute more complicated training scenarios."
You can read more details about the trainers from Boeing at http://go.nasa.gov/1JwRthW
Author Steven SiceloffPosted on January 7, 2016 January 7, 2016 Categories Boeing, CCtCap, Commercial Spaceflight, General, International Space Station, NASA, NASA AstronautsLeave a comment on Astronauts Take First Look at Starliner Trainers
Commercial Crew Across America: Windsor Locks, Connecticut
NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold recently got an up-close look at the environmental control and life support system, known as the ECLSS, that Boeing will integrate into its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for crew flights to the International Space Station. The visit with UTC Aerospace Systems in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, on Dec. 9 allowed the team to show off the critical components of the system designed to keep astronauts and the Starliner's electrical systems safe in space, including cool, breathable air. The team recently passed a critical design review of the system, which will be fully integrated next year.
"There is a firm belief that private industry is capable of doing great things and bringing us safely into low-Earth orbit," Arnold said. "We want our long-term partners like you to share in the excitement we are feeling at NASA. We are looking forward to returning launch capability to U.S. soil with a vehicle that has the American flag on the side of it. I can tell you that the astronauts are getting excited and jockeying for position on a commercial crew vehicle, realizing that may be their ticket to space."
Author Steven SiceloffPosted on January 4, 2016 Categories Boeing, Commercial Spaceflight, General, International Space Station, NASA, NASA Astronauts1 Comment on Commercial Crew Across America: Windsor Locks, Connecticut
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NASA selected Boeing and SpaceX in September 2014 to transport crew to the International Space Station from the United States. These integrated spacecraft, rockets and associated systems will carry up to four astronauts on NASA missions, maintaining a space station crew of seven to maximize time dedicated to scientific research on the orbiting laboratory.
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The Michigan State University College of Engineering recognized demonstrated excellence and distinguished contributions during the 29th Annual Engineering Awards Luncheon in the Kellogg Center on Friday, March 15. Fifteen faculty and staff members received some of the college's most prestigious awards.
Tom Voice, associate dean for administrative affairs for the College of Engineering, welcomed the 120 guests during the annual spring ceremony.
"We're here today to recognize our colleagues who have done great things," Voice said.
Dean Leo Kempel served as emcee, calling the 2019 award recipients an outstanding group of people.
"We are proud to recognize those who truly do exceptional things for our students," Kempel said.
Amanda Idema, assistant dean for Undergraduate Student Affairs, presented certificates of recognition to student group advisors. Ten-year certificates of gratitude were presented to advisors Wen Li, Eta Kappa Nu; Amanda Idema, Society of Applied Engineering Sciences, and Kyle Foster, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. Five-year certificates went to Andre Lee, MSE Society; Sandy Christlieb, Society of Women Engineers; and Richard Enbody for SpartaHack.
The Withrow Endowed Teacher/Scholar/Service Award program was established through a gift from MSU alumni Jack Withrow (BS, MECH EGR, '54; MBA '71) and Dottie Withrow (BA, speech therapy and elementary education, '55) to recognize members of the MSU College of Engineering who have demonstrated excellence in instructional and scholarly activities and rendered distinguished service to the university and the student body.
This award is presented annually to a staff member in the College of Engineering to recognize exceptional and creative job performance and/or concerned and creative leadership.
This award is presented to an advisor, academic specialist, or non-tenure-track instructor for outstanding service to students in the college.
Lindsay A. Naylor, an advisor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (CHEMS), is a proactive advocate for students who uses the tools and resources available to her to help students even before they come to her with issues. Fellow advisors look to her as a mentor and supportive colleague. She is known for not only advising students on which classes to take, but also counseling them on their professional career pathways. She has a proactive advising style, is dedicated to the training, mentorship, and support of the entire advising team, and goes above and beyond the call of duty.
This award recognizes faculty and staff members who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in advancing global scholarship through research, teaching and outreach.
Wei Liao, an associate professor in the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering (BAE), has demonstrated a strong commitment to international activities across the MSU campus and around the world, including South America and in Central America, where a pilot facility in San Jose, Costa Rica, promotes integrated solar-bio-power waste/wastewater utilization in the region. The success and impact of the project led to the formation of a regional Biogas Council, along with similar efforts in Brazil and Germany. Additionally, he was worked with scientists and engineers in Europe and Asia. His international research activities have made significant contributions to MSU's goal of developing solutions that address global challenges. He has made a significant impact in student experiences for MSU students and students at international partner locations, while also yielding high impact development and humanitarian results.
This award recognizes faculty and staff members who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in advancing diversity through research, teaching, and outreach.
Nelson Sepúlveda, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to promoting diversity, and is a leader in attracting and educating graduate electrical engineering students from underrepresented groups. From the time he was a graduate student under the Sloan Engineering program, he has helped recruit, mentor and guarantee financial support for outstanding minority graduate students. As the ECE graduate recruitment coordinator, he continues to display that enthusiasm and commitment to students. With the recent retirement of Professor Percy Pierre, he is slated to take over administration of the Sloan Engineering program at MSU. He has significantly advanced the percentage of underrepresented students in the College of Engineering.
This award recognizes a faculty member who has demonstrated exceptional institutional, public, and community service. Nominations are submitted by department chairpersons to the dean and associate deans for final selection.
Eric K. Torng, an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has provided exceptional service in leadership roles within the department, theCollege of Engineering, Michigan State University, and the broader community. As graduate director for the CSE Department (since 2007), he has spearheaded many innovative practices to effectively recruit top applicants, obtain University Fellowships and other funding for students, diversify the CSE graduate student population, build community among students, and support students to successfully complete their degree programs. Many of these practices are now recognized as "best practices" and have been adopted by other Engineering departments. In addition to service, he has contributed significantly to improving the broader mid-Michigan community. His nominators succinctly note: He achieves a great deal because when he spots a problem, he does not worry about whether or not the problem is his to solve, but instead pushes forward to find a solution. He has a consistent willingness to engage in challenges and go above and beyond expectations.
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Taylor Swift signs multiyear recording deal with Universal Music
International / 19 November 2018, 8:54pm / Rob Golum / The Washington Post
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\Pop superstar Taylor Swift chose Vivendi's Universal Music for her hotly sought-after new multiyear contract, making the record group the exclusive worldwide partner of one of the planet's biggest artists.
Financial terms of the agreement weren't included in a statement Monday. But Variety reported the record company will share with artists proceeds from its expected sale of equity in Spotify Technology, the popular music streaming service, citing a person with knowledge of the matter.
"It's really important to me to see eye to eye with a label regarding the future of our industry," Swift said on Instagram. "I feel so motivated by new opportunities created by the streaming world and the ever-changing landscape of our industry."
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The accord deepens the music group's ties to Swift, a 10-time Grammy winner, by replacing her current label, Big Machine Records, with Universal's. The company's Republic Records will be her label in the U.S., according to the statement. Swift said she will own all of the master recordings she makes under the agreement.
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TOPIC: Biru 'e Concas
Date: Dec 28 19:34 2006
Biru 'e Concas
Near the village of Sorgono, in Sardinia (Italy) lies what is probably one of the lesser known megalithic wonders of the world. An impressive Neolithic site of about 200 tall stones, 30 of them aligned east-west on a double row and the rest laying on the ground. This striking concentration of stones is located on a 5-hectare area called 'Biru 'e Concas' (Path of the Heads). The discovery was made 15 years ago by Francesco Manca, an amateur archaeologist who used to be also one of the former mayors of Sorgono. Around the impressive stone alignments traces of circular huts - maybe a nuragic settlement built much later - have been found, along with a hidden water spring, while on nearby hills lie two nuraghi, a Giant's tomb and a dolmen.
Local Superintendence has made two excavation projects led by archaeologist Enrico Atzeni.
"The work has been long and very difficult, because archaeologists had to put the stones back in their original upright positions. But now Biru 'e Concas has the largest concentration of standing stones of all the Mediterranean" - Francesca Barracciu - the current mayor of Sorgono.
Mrs Barracciu also looked for a grant and a further excavation season at the site. And recently the Ministero dei Beni Culturali gave green light to the project and allotted 400,000 euros to the third excavation season at Biru 'e Concas. The site has been also included into the National Archaeology Plan.
"We hope that soon everybody could admire the 200 menhirs aligned on the sacred hill as they were placed 5000 years ago. And we also hope to excavate and restore the nuragic huts, so to have a full and deeper view of the site" - Mrs Francesca Barracciu .
Source: La Nuova Sardegna
Latitude: 40.010829N Longitude: 9.031560E


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Q: Why is my form selection box not toggling items? I have a form selection box, the code has worked before but it does not seem to work now, please can someone help me find where the error is
Basically I have a form with the #main and a selection box called #chart-type. what I need the #chart-type select box do is show/hide a selection of divs as needed. As mentioned before it has worked in the past. I have a Javascript code that hides all unecessary divs onLoad but I have never had issue with this before hiddning these permanently. The divs that are hidden will contain charts, they are currenly just grey blocks for now for coding purposes.
You help is greatly appreciated.
The Divs to be hidden

CHARTDIV2 - EURO CURRENCY

CHARTDIV3 - GBP CURRENCY

CHARTDIV4 -  ZAR CURRENCY

CHARTDIV5 - USD PERFORMANCE PERIOD

CHARTDIV6 - EURO PERFORMANCE PERIOD

CHARTDIV7 - GBP PERFORMANCE PERIOD

CHARTDIV8 - ZAR PERFORMANCE PERIOD

The form code
<form class="main" id="main">
Chart Type:
<select id="chart-type" class="unit-price" >
<option value="unit-price1" id="unit-price1">Unit Price in US Dollars</option>
<option value="unit-price2" id="unit-price2">Unit Price in Alternative Currency</option>
<option value="unit-price3" id="unit-price3">Unit Price Performance over a Period</option>
</select>

Alternative Currency:
<select id="currency" class="unit-price-period" >
                    <option value="GSO_USD" id="GSO_USD">GSO_USD</option>
                    <option value="GSO_EUR" id="GSO_EUR">GSO_EUR</option>
                    <option value="GSO_GBP" id="GSO_GBP">GSO_GBP</option>
                    <option value="GSO_ZAR" id="GSO_ZAR">GSO_ZAR</option>
                </select>
            Alternative Currency Period:
            <select class="unit-price-period" id="currency2">
                    <option value="GSO_USD1" id="GSO_USD1">GSO_USD</option>
                    <option value="GSO_EUR1" id="GSO_EUR1">GSO_EUR</option>
                    <option value="GSO_GBP1" id="GSO_GBP1">GSO_GBP</option>
                    <option value="GSO_ZAR1" id="GSO_ZAR1">GSO_ZAR</option>
            </select>
  </form>

The Jquery
$(document).ready(function() {
    $( '#main' ).change( function() {
        var $select = $( '#chart-type' ),
        selected = $select.val();
        if ( selected == "unit-price1" ) {
        $( 'div#chartdiv1' ).show();
            chart1.invalidateSize();
        } else {
            $( 'div#chartdiv1' ).hide();
        }
        });

        $( '#main' ).change( function() {
        var $select = $( '#chart-type' ),
            selected = $select.val();
            if ( selected == "unit-price2" ) {
            $( 'div#chartdiv2, #hidden, #currency' ).show();
        } else {
        $( 'div#chartdiv2, #hidden, #currency' ).hide();

        }
        });
    $( '#main' ).change( function() {
            var $select = $( '#chart-type' ),
            selected = $select.val();
            if ( selected == "unit-price3" ) {
            $( 'div#chartdiv3, #hidden2, #currency2' ).show();
        }  else {
        $( 'div#chartdiv3, #hidden2, #currency2' ).hide();
        }
    });
    });
    function hide() {
    var show = ['chartdiv1'];
    for ( var i = 0; i < show.length; ++i )
    document.getElementById(show[i]).style.display = "block";
    var hide = ['chartdiv2','chartdiv3','chartdiv4','chartdiv5','chartdiv6','chartdiv7','chartdiv8','hidden','hidden2','currency','currency2'];
    for ( var i = 0; i < hide.length; ++i )
    document.getElementById(hide[i]).style.display = "none";
    }

A: Try to verify if you have this error in the navigator console :
ReferenceError: chart1 is not defined
in chart1.invalidateSize();

Fix that maybe  solve the probleme.

A: First Check what Zakaria talks about in his answer.
then you can try this :
HTML
    <form class="main" id="main">
    Chart Type:
    <select id="chart-type" class="unit-price">
        <option value="" id="">-- Select Price --</option>
        <option value="unit-price1" id="unit-price1">Unit Price in US Dollars</option>
        <option value="unit-price2" id="unit-price2">Unit Price in Alternative Currency</option>
        <option value="unit-price3" id="unit-price3">Unit Price Performance over a Period</option>
    </select>

    Alternative Currency:
    <select id="currency" class="unit-price-period">
        <option value="GSO_USD" id="GSO_USD">GSO_USD</option>
        <option value="GSO_EUR" id="GSO_EUR">GSO_EUR</option>
        <option value="GSO_GBP" id="GSO_GBP">GSO_GBP</option>
        <option value="GSO_ZAR" id="GSO_ZAR">GSO_ZAR</option>
    </select>

    Alternative Currency Period:
    <select class="unit-price-period" id="currency2">
        <option value="GSO_USD1" id="GSO_USD1">GSO_USD</option>
        <option value="GSO_EUR1" id="GSO_EUR1">GSO_EUR</option>
        <option value="GSO_GBP1" id="GSO_GBP1">GSO_GBP</option>
        <option value="GSO_ZAR1" id="GSO_ZAR1">GSO_ZAR</option>
    </select>
</form>

CHARTDIV1 - CURRENCY

CHARTDIV2 - EURO CURRENCY

CHARTDIV3 - GBP CURRENCY

CHARTDIV4 - ZAR CURRENCY

CHARTDIV5 - USD PERFORMANCE PERIOD

CHARTDIV6 - EURO PERFORMANCE PERIOD

CHARTDIV7 - GBP PERFORMANCE PERIOD

CHARTDIV8 - ZAR PERFORMANCE PERIOD

JQuery
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#main').change( function() {
    var $select = $('#chart-type'),
    selected = $select.val();
    switch (selected){
        case "unit-price1" :
            $( 'div#chartdiv1' ).show();

            $( 'div#chartdiv2, #hidden, #currency' ).hide();
            $( 'div#chartdiv3, #hidden2, #currency2' ).hide();
            break;
        case "unit-price2" :
            $( 'div#chartdiv2, #hidden, #currency' ).show();

            $( 'div#chartdiv1' ).hide();
            $( 'div#chartdiv3, #hidden2, #currency2' ).hide();
            break;
        case "unit-price3" :
            $( 'div#chartdiv3, #hidden2, #currency2' ).show();

            $( 'div#chartdiv1' ).hide();
            $( 'div#chartdiv2, #hidden, #currency' ).hide();
            break;
        default : "";
    }

});
function hide() {
  var show = ['chartdiv1'];
  for ( var i = 0; i < show.length; ++i )
     document.getElementById(show[i]).style.display = "block";
  var hide = ['chartdiv2','chartdiv3','chartdiv4','chartdiv5','chartdiv6','chartdiv7','chartdiv8','hidden','hidden2','currency','currency2'];
  for ( var i = 0; i < hide.length; ++i )
      document.getElementById(hide[i]).style.display = "none";
}
});

I've made some style modification just to display it correctly on jsfiddle.
You can test it yourself on : http://jsfiddle.net/v14pLfnb/
And if you have any question don't hesitate.
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Saturday, 03 December 2016 00:00
Bush's Iraq Lies, Uncontested, Will Haunt Us Under Trump
Written by	Medea Benjamin | Common Dreams
Daniel Ellsberg at the microphone with Medea Benjamin of CodePink on the left, during a 2006 hunger strike at the White House. (Photo: Wikimedia)
The CODEPINK Tribunal taking place December 1 and 2, and live streamed by The Real News, is a historic collection of testimonies about the lies and costs of the Iraq war. It takes on new meaning with the incoming Trump administration, and the hawks who are flocking to join that administration with their sights set on starting yet another war in the Middle East, this time in Iran.
My testimony started with the first CODEPINK action against the war that took place in Congress. It was September 18, 2002, the day Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld testified before the House Armed Services Committee about why the US military should invade Iraq. He accused Saddam Hussein of having and hiding weapons of mass destruction, raised the specter of an Iraqi-initiated September 11-style attack and told the Committee that Iraq under Saddam Hussein was a global threat.
My colleague Diane Wilson and I were in the audience, just behind Rumsfeld and a row of generals. It was the first time we had ever attended a Congressional hearing. Shaking, I got up and belted out: "Mr. Rumsfeld, we need weapons inspections, not war. Why are you obstructing the inspections? Isn't this really about oil? How many civilians will be killed? How many Iraqis will be killed?" We unfurled banners that said: UN Weapons Inspection, Not US War" and repeated that chant over and over until the police came to forcibly remove us.
Once we were out of the room, Rumsfeld joked about us and said: "Of course, the country that threw the inspectors out was not the United States. It was not the United Nations. It was Iraq that threw the inspectors out."
That was a lie. Iraq did not expel the inspectors. In December 1998, the weapons inspectors withdrew for their safety in anticipation of a US-British bombing campaign. But this was just one of so many lies about Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction and his unwillingness to yield to weapons inspections.
In February 2003, just weeks before the US invasion, CODEPINK led a delegation to Iraq. We wanted to see for ourselves what the Iraqis were thinking, particularly the women. We found them terrified at the prospect of a US invasion. Some said to us, in hushed voices, "Yes, Saddam is a dictator, but we don't want the U.S. military to liberate us. That is something we must do ourselves."
We also wanted to meet with the UN weapons inspectors, and we did. They told us there were no weapons of mass destruction and that even if there were, the very presence of so many inspectors in the country guaranteed that they would not be used.
Two weeks after we returned, on March 7, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported to the UN Security Council. Based on more than a hundred visits to suspect sites and private interviews with a number of individual scientists known to have been involved with WMD programs in the past, IAEA leader ElBaradei stated that the IAEA had "to date found no evidence or plausible indication of the revival of a nuclear weapons program in Iraq."
Hans Blix of the UN Special Commission on Iraq (UNMOVIC) said no stockpiles or active programs had been found, but it had not yet been possible to document destruction of all the weapons known to have been produced prior to the 1991 Gulf War. Blitz predicted that months but not years, would be needed to complete the job.
The Bush administration dismissed the inspectors' findings because their conclusions contradicted the US government allegations. The next day, President George W. Bush delivered a radio address to the American people, arguing that the inspection teams did not need any more time, because Saddam was "still refusing to disarm." The rest is history.
Iraq posed absolutely no threat to the United States. But the US people, traumatized by the 9/11 attack, were easily duped by the Bush administration's propaganda that Iraq was a terrorist state linked to al-Qaeda, and that it was only minutes away from launching attacks on America with weapons of mass destruction.
Americans were the victims of an elaborate public relations campaign, barraged every day with distortions, deceptions and lies. By the start of the war in March 2003, 66% of Americans mistakenly thought Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attacks and 79% thought he was close to having a nuclear weapon. Of course, Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks, and had no nuclear weapons and no functional chemical or biological weapons. This massive deception was only achieved with the complicity of the US mainstream press, a press that refused to air the voices of dissenters like us and instead sought to commercialize the Iraq war, embed with the military and profit from the invasion.
At CODEPINK, we worked furiously to stop the invasion and continued to protest the war after it started. We held a daily vigil in front of the White House in the freezing cold for four months, we went on a month-long hunger strike, we organized massive demonstrations, we protested at the homes of VP Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, as well as the offices and homes of Democratic and Republican congresspeople. We interrupted dozens of Congressional hearings to speak out against the war. Over and over again, we were arrested for acts of nonviolent civil disobedience, spending much time in cold, bleak jail cells.
For our work speaking truth to power and confronting an illegal, immoral war, we were attacked viciously for being "unpatriotic" and treated like traitors. Conservative groups began coming out every Wednesday night in Washington DC to picket our CODEPINK DC house and launched a campaign to try to get us evicted. The hate mail, death threats and violent phone calls were a constant. The police on Capitol Hill cracked down on CODEPINK activists and judges issued us "stay-away orders" to keep us away from the Capitol. One of our cofounders, Diane Wilson, was even banned from all of Washington DC for a year. Some of us discovered that our names were put on an FBI criminal database, something that has caused us much hardship as we travel overseas for our peace work.
Speaking at the Heritage Foundation in 2007, when the war had already been dragging on for five devastating years, President George Bush exhorted Congress to spend more time listening to the military commanders on the ground in Iraq and less time "responding to the demands of CODEPINK protesters." We only wish that Congress, and George Bush, had listened to CODEPINK and the millions of protesters back in 2002 when we warned that attacking Iraq would be a disaster.
There is no decision more grave than taking your nation to war. There is nothing more criminal than basing that war on lies. And there is nothing more derelict than failing to prosecute those responsible for taking us to war on the basis of lies.
This is where we stand today: In the face of the Bush administration's colossal deceptions, Barack Obama, before he even officially took office in 2009, said: "We need to look forward, as opposed to looking backwards." In other words, he decided to ignore Bush's unconscionable invasion, an invasion that continues to reverberate in the current bloodshed in the Middle East, including the creation of ISIS. But the fact that no one was held accountable means that today, many of the very same architects of the Iraq invasion, from General David Petraeus to John Bolton, may join the Trump administration and take us into a new war with Iran.
That's why the CODEPINK Tribunal is so critical, because those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
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Cure Homophobia With This One Weird Trick!
By Mark Joseph Stern
Dec 12, 201412:39 PM
Let's all sit down and chat about this for 20 minutes or so, shall we?
Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images
Editor's note: On May 20, 2015, it was revealed that this study was based on fabricated data.
On Friday, the journal Science published a buzzy new study suggesting that homophobia is more of a minor, curable malady than a chronic illness. For the study, researchers sent gay and straight canvassers into strongly anti-gay neighborhoods and directed them to converse with residents for about 20 minutes about why marriage equality mattered to them. The result: Residents' support for gay equality increased considerably—and those residents who spoke with gay canvassers retained their pro-equality beliefs nine months after the conversation.
This "transmission of support for gay equality" endured only when residents spoke with gay canvassers, however—straight canvassers yielded an initial pro-equality boost but failed to produce long-lasting effects. The study, then, essentially reinforces an intuition that the LGBTQ community has held for decades: When homophobes experience compassionate, individualized interaction with a gay person, they tend to shed their homophobia.
It's nice to have a scientific study confirm what so many gay people already suspected. But the Science piece comes at a tricky moment for what my colleague J. Bryan Lowder calls the " 'hearts and minds' model of social change." Ever since gay marriage started winning at the ballot box, our more faint-hearted allies have encouraged gay people to be "tolerant" of those who hate us and vote against our rights. We should, these (usually straight) people scold, let our opponents denigrate and humiliate us all they want, without ever raising our voices or asserting our dignity. Then, once we've been thoroughly debased and degraded, we should gingerly plead with those who despise us to please, please despise us just a little bit less.
Like Lowder, I think this advice—especially coming from self-described "allies" who've never experienced real prejudice in their lives—is profoundly condescending and exasperating. And yet, looking at the Science study, I also wonder whether it might contain a kernel of truth. Gay people having nonconfrontational, nonjudgmental confabulations with homophobes really does appear to be the single most effective way to further the cause of equality. It would seem, then, that gays have something of a duty to engage with people who, deep in their hearts, believe we deserve second-class citizenship.
Look, I don't like it either. But after the Science study, I don't see a way around it. Gay people have to keep engaging, passionately and sympathetically, with the obdurate holdouts who think we are perverted, or diseased, or undeserving of rights. It'll be a long, unpleasant slog—but I've devised a plan to incentivize the process. Below, I've gathered a few of the most goofily anti-gay articles I have encountered. Think of these articles as the opposition. And then remember: If a gay person had spoken to the author for 20 minutes, this train wreck could have been avoided!
"The Rise of the Same-Sex Marriage Dissidents," by Mollie Hemingway.
In this absurd article, Hemingway compares gay marriage to "totalitarianism" and brands gay marriage opponents (like herself) as "dissidents" engaged in the "fight for freedom." She also analogizes gay-friendly America to communist Czechoslovakia, implying the Vaclav Havel would be horrified by our current pro-equality climate. (Havel, by the way, strongly supported gay rights.) Just think: This bumptious piece of self-glorification could've been avoided if Hemingway had spoken to a gay person on the Metro ride to work!
"Dred Scott and Same-Sex Marriage," by Matthew J. Franck
Franck gives six very silly reasons why "the judicial imposition of same-sex marriage" is similar to the Supreme Court's catastrophic Dred Scott decisions, holding that slaves were property and not citizens. "Like Dred Scott," Franck writes, "same-sex marriage rulings are a harbinger of further depredations, by courts and others, on human freedom in other dimensions. In 1857, it was the freedom to live in a country where slavery was minimized and at least arguably on its way to extinction. Today, it is the freedom to live, work, and learn in communities, schools, universities, and other organizations in which people can live the truth about marriage, for religious or other moral reasons."
Presumably, Franck believes that "the freedom to live, work, and learn in communities" that recognize "the truth about marriage" means the freedom to never interact with gay people. Or maybe he believes that "freedom" means the freedom to actively deprive gay people of civil rights. Who knows? This garbled claptrap never should've made it past a copyeditor. And if only Franck had had a gay nephew who spoke to him about the importance of marriage over Thanksgiving dinner, this gibberish never would've seen the light of day.
"Gay Marriage and the Right to Be Wrong," by Robert Tracinski
Of LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinances, Trancinski writes: "This is a barbaric concept of victory. [Gay activists have] won the battle, and now the defeated enemy must be paraded in chains through the streets and forced to kneel before the emperor." Quite a statement! If only Tracinski's college buddy had gently come out to him at their most recent reunion. All those great times he had—with a gay person! Surely gay rights wouldn't have seemed so "barbaric" to Trancinski then.
"The Terms of Our Surrender," by Ross Douthat
Douthat paints homophobes as principled, noble victims of a vicious, unfair system and rebrands anti-gay animus as virtuous "dissent." He also suggests that, since the Bible's hostility toward gays is more pronounced than its hostility toward blacks, anti-gay discrimination is much more justifiable than racism.
In 10 years, the New York Times will regret printing this article. The paper will be even more embarrassed when it realizes that, had it simply sent an openly gay editorial intern into Douthat's office to chat for 20 minutes, "The Terms of Our Surrender" would never have made it to press.


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Microsoft Showcases Modeling and Trading Platform of the Future
NEW YORK — June 20, 2006 — At the largest single IT event targeting the securities industry, Microsoft Corp. today demonstrated what may soon become the standard modeling and trading platform of the future: Microsoft® Office Excel® and Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server built upon a Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003 high-performance computing cluster.
The solution, which is being demonstrated on an HP Cluster Platform 4000 at the HP and Microsoft Break Room at this week's SIA Technology Management Conference & Exhibit in New York, utilizes the ubiquity of Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets in today's financial services firms as a front-end interface, combined with the scalability and availability of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 software as a back-end analytic engine.
"Securities firms have long been concerned about spreadsheet creep, particularly in today's compliance-oriented environment," said Louise Westerlind, analyst in the securities and investments group at Celent LLC. "Microsoft and its industry partners are in a prime position to solve this problem by combining an Excel front end with a high-performance-computing back end to help brokers unleash the full power of algorithmic trading."
Several capital markets firms are currently testing the beta versions of Excel 2007 and Excel Services (as part of Office SharePoint Server) in production environments. In addition, Windows is increasingly being adopted for high-performance computing clusters in the financial services industry, such as international banks HVB Group of Germany, Consorzio Operativo Gruppo MPS of Italy and others.
"The banking group at Consorzio Operativo Gruppo MPS is currently evaluating Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, with the help of Microsoft and Avanade, to implement financial Monte Carlo simulations. We believe that Microsoft technology presents clear advantages in terms of implementation and skills utilization," said Piero Poccianti, head of planning and strategic development at Consorzio Operativo Gruppo MPS. "Windows Compute Cluster Server will provide us with a better integration with the existing Windows infrastructure; moreover, the familiar environment of development allows our developers to write parallel applications in the frame of Visual Studio 2005. We believe that this will allow us to reduce the total cost of ownership for high-performance computing solutions that drive news discoveries and breakthroughs."
Next-Generation Features in Excel 2007
Releasing in the fall as part of the 2007 Microsoft Office system rollout, Office Excel 2007 will take the platform a step further to address issues of compliance, exception reporting and more. Benefits will include these:
Increased scalability. Office Excel 2007 supports spreadsheets up to 1 million rows by 16,000 columns in size, eliminating the need to work within multiple spreadsheets or other applications that traders need to analyze large amounts of information.
Compliance and spreadsheet management. Office Excel 2007 and Excel Services enable spreadsheets to be managed on a server (such as Office SharePoint Server 2007) to help protect important information and ensure that employees are working with the most current data. Employees at financial firms can use Excel Services to navigate, sort, filter, input parameters and interact with PivotTable® views, all within their Web browsers.
Basic visualization tools. Traders and other employees can apply conditional formatting to information more easily. They can discover patterns and highlight trends in data by using rich visualization schemes such as gradients, thresholds and performance indicator icons.
BI tools. Office Excel 2007 provides full support for Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005 Analysis Services. Financial firms can use the flexibility and the new cube functions in Office Excel 2007 to build a custom report from an online analytical processing (OLAP) database. Firms can also connect to external sources of data more easily using the Data Connection Library in Office Excel 2007.
Taking High-Performance Computing (HPC) to the Mainstream
Providing a back-end platform that offers unparalleled computing performance for Windows environments, Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 brings together the power of x64 computers, the ease of use and security of Active Directory® service, and the Windows operating system to provide a more secure and affordable HPC solution. Benefits include these:
Simplified cluster deployment and management. Windows Compute Cluster Server offers rapid node deployment and cluster configuration, monitoring tools, and policy-based scheduling for a security-enhanced and scalable management environment.
Better integration with IT infrastructure. Windows Compute Cluster Server integrates seamlessly with existing Windows infrastructure, allowing financial services firms to leverage existing skills and technology for system and node management, workload management, user management, and security. For example, Windows Compute Cluster Server leverages existing Active Directory deployments to simplify authentication and security setup, Microsoft Systems Management Server for managing node updates, and Microsoft Operations Manager for system and job management.
Familiar development environment. Developing applications for Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 allows developers to take advantage of their existing Windows-based skills and experience. Microsoft Visual Studio® system is the most widely used integrated development environment (IDE) in the world, and Visual Studio 2005 includes support for developing HPC applications (for example, parallel debugger). Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 comes with the Microsoft Message Passing Interface (MPI), based on the reference implementation of the MPI2 standard, to make it easier to port existing parallel applications.
"The combined solution of .NET applications, Excel 2007 and Excel Services with Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 is a game-changer in the securities industry," said Stevan Vidich, technology architect for the U.S. capital markets industry group at Microsoft. "Financial advisors and traders essentially gain a real-time strategic trading platform, while firms benefit by using the most common application in the financial services market today — Excel — with the power of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. And with the upcoming launch of Excel Services as part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, firms can centrally lock down their spreadsheets to provide a single version of truth, alleviating risk and compliance concerns."
To help ensure simple integration of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 with a broad set of applications and tools, Microsoft is working closely with software, application and hardware partners across the industry. Hardware providers such as Broadcom Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Dell Inc., HP, IBM Corp., NEC Corp., SilverStorm Technologies, Tyan Computer Corp. and Verari Systems Inc. are working with Microsoft to meet customers' unique needs by enabling them to choose among and run a variety of compatible HPC solutions.
"HP's strong alliances with companies like Microsoft enable us to deliver enterprise-class solutions based on open industry standards that meet the needs of our customers," said Chip Greenlee, director, marketing and solutions, Financial Services Industry — Americas, HP. "While competitors continue to tout expensive, proprietary systems, HP's portfolio of industry-standard solutions offers financial services industry customers agility, accountability and return on investment."
Independent software vendors such as Digipede Technologies LLC complement Microsoft's Compute Cluster Server offering by providing seamless, programmatic integration between .NET applications and cluster resources. Digipede delivers grid computing software that dramatically improves the performance of financial applications by distributing execution across a network of Windows-based cluster nodes, as well as desktops and underutilized servers throughout the enterprise. With the only grid software built entirely on .NET, Digipede helps customers scale out financial applications for maximum performance.
The SIA Technology Management Conference & Exhibit, running June 20–22, is the single largest annual event that brings together executives responsible for the management of information and technology within the securities industry. More information is available at http://www.sia.com/tmc2006.
About Microsoft in Financial Services
Microsoft's Financial Services Group provides software that helps financial firms transform the customer, employee and operations experience so they can maximize opportunities for increased market share and profitability. Microsoft software helps empower people and IT staff within financial firms — and across key focus areas such as advisor platforms, channel renewal, insurance value chain, enterprise risk management and compliance, and payments. Through a combination of Microsoft- and partner-provided solutions, customers enable their employees to turn data into insight, transform ideas into action and turn change into opportunity.
More information about Microsoft's Financial Services Group can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/financialservices.
Microsoft, Excel, SharePoint, Windows, PivotTable, Active Directory and Visual Studio are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries.


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Mike Huckabee Sued For Playing This Song at Kim Davis Rally
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12:00PM EST 11/20/2015	 Fiona Ortiz/REUTERS
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, at left in photo, is being sued over the playing of a 33-year-old rock song at the rally celebrating the release of Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis, center, from jail over issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Mat Staver, Davis' attorney, is at right. (Reuters file photo)
The co-writer of 1980s hit "Eye of the Tiger" has filed a federal lawsuit against Republican Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign for playing the song at a rally for Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to sign gay marriage licenses.
Frank Sullivan, a guitarist and founding member of the band Survivor, sued Huckabee for President for unauthorized public performance of the song. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday, claims the campaign infringed on Sullivan's copyright, which he holds through his publishing company, Rude Music.
Sullivan, who filed the suit in federal court in Illinois, where he lives, asked that Huckabee's campaign be prohibited from unauthorized performances of the song and asked a federal judge to determine damages.
The song was played as Huckabee, the conservative former Arkansas governor, escorted Davis out of the Carter County Detention Center, where she had spent six days in jail in September for contempt of court.
Davis became a controversial figure after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following a Supreme Court ruling legalizing such unions around the country.
Sullivan's suit claims the copyright infringement was willful because he is familiar with copyright laws since Huckabee, who plays bass guitar, has his own band, Capitol Offense, and holds copyrights to his own works. The suit says Huckabee has been sued before by musicians who did not want their songs used by his campaign.
Sullivan, who wrote "Eye of the Tiger" with Survivor band mate Jim Peterik, sued Newt Gingrich in 2012 for repeatedly using the song at campaign events. The suit was settled out of court.
"Eye of the Tiger" was popularized as the theme song from the 1982 movie "Rocky III" and was nominated for a Grammy. Billboard magazine ranked it No. 24 on its list of greatest Hot 100 songs of all time.
(Reporting by Fiona Ortiz; Editing by Bill Trott)
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