Swagbucks! I've seen many blogs that mention its name. Whether it's about a blog mentioning online surveys or introducing ways to earn money online, Swagbucks was always in their list. I've created my account and tested the website for about 3 days. And, I don't think it lives up to its name. It will be quite painful to turn SB points into an actual gift card.
To compare with other survey websites, let's have a look at their survey rewards.
In Swagbucks, 1SB is 1 cent. And you have to earn 2,500SB to get $25 Paypal. So, a 20 minute survey will bring you about 60 cents or 80 cents. I will say that the amount is smaller than what you can earn from Qmee or Valued Opinions. What's worse, you will often get screened out by an initial screening survey. I am pretty sure that taking a survey in their site is not a good way to earn rewards, as it is not profitable and not effective.
As just mentioned, earning good amount of SB takes a long time. The website offers different ways of earning, but all of them seem to be not very efficient. Let's have a look at their Watch category, which has a list of videos and when you complete the entire list, you get reward.
The page tells you how many videos you have to watch, and how many SBs you can earn. Yes, I can sense a disappointment from you. Watch 22 videos to earn 3SB or 3 cents. Even if you play them in the background, that's a long time.
What about other options? They offer other ways to earn SB. You have to download some game app and must reach a certain level to earn SB. The image captured on the right is one of the play-to-earn mission. You can see that to earn 700SB, you must reach level 10. I didn't and won't try because I expect it to take a long time and lots of efforts.
Is this site ever going to be useful then? If you are a big shopping lover, then, maybe. Swagbucks gives cashback every dollar you spend at various stores. To get an idea, every dollar you spent at Myer, you get 2SB. At Ebay, you have to spend $2,500 to get $25 Paypal reward.
I don't want to recommend you to use Swagbucks to earn money. It will be very slow and small. There would be many occasions that your valuable time gets wasted when you stumbled upon rejection from a screening survey. If you have some extra time before shopping, then Swagbucks can be an option to get cashback. Other than that, please don't even try.


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According to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), they have received about 11,000 cases of phishing, which caused the victims to lose about $260,000. Australians who do not realise they have been fooled are not included in the report.
While the messages of scams vary widely, the main idea is to fool people into giving sensitive information or money. Scammers today no longer use old tricks like lottery wins. Most send boring emails or pretend to be your bank, courier company, or energy retailer. Sometimes, they may pose as the police or the tax office.
Scammers trick you into paying a somewhat reasonable amount, but then ask you for other information like passwords and account details. They usually use similar tactics to sneak malware onto devices and computers. It is with hope that computer users will click on the links or open such attachments.
Tax refunds scams are expected to be common. The goal is to infect the computer or the laptop with a spyware trying to find out your password. Scammers may also use a ransomware to encrypt files and demand for payment. While antivirus software can determine these threats, many phishing scams target the trusting nature of people.
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SATURDAY, Jan. 27, 2018 (HealthDay News) — With terminal illness comes newfound, and profound, wisdom, researchers report.
They uncovered this silver lining of terminal illness as people in their final months tried to strike a balance between accepting their fate and making the most of the time they had left.
"The end of life presents a unique perspective," explained senior study author Dr. Dilip Jeste, senior associate dean at the University of California, San Diego's Center of Healthy Aging.
The study, funded in part by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the American Cancer Society, involved 21 men and women between the ages of 58 and 97 who were in the final six months of their lives and receiving hospice care. About half of the patients were dying of cancer.
The researchers asked these people opened-ended questions about wisdom, such as "How do you define wisdom?" and "What experiences have influenced your level of wisdom?" The patients were also asked if their illness had altered their understanding of wisdom. Each of the interviews was recorded, enabling the researchers to analyze and interpret the responses.
The participants ranked traits associated with wisdom. The most important quality listed was having prosocial behaviors, followed by demonstrating social decision-making, emotional regulation, openness to new experiences, awareness of uncertainty, spirituality and self-reflection, as well as having a sense of humor and being tolerant.
One common experience among the terminally ill was their desire to find peace or acceptance as their health declined and they lost their ability to function normally.
Montross-Thomas is assistant adjunct professor in UCSD's department of family medicine and public health.
The patients also found that living with a fatal disease stimulated growth, leading to more determination, gratitude and optimism. The researchers noted this path to increased wisdom ebbed and flowed as the patients struggled to find balance, peace and happiness at the end of their lives.
The U.S. National Institute on Aging has more about the end of life.


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Many years ago, The Miss Canal Winchester Pageant began and is now a tradition in Canal Winchester. Through research, we discovered the first Miss Canal Winchester was crowned in 1962! Previously, the pageant was held at the original swimming pool and in other years, was the opening event for The Labor Day Festival. Currently the pageant is held at The Oley Speaks Auditorium in the Education Center of The Canal Winchester school district. The current pageant committee is extremely appreciative of The Wood Foundation for supporting the pageant for many years by offering a college scholarship for the court members after they were crowned. Additionally, we thank The Labor Day Festival for administering the pageant.
The tradition of the Miss Canal Winchester Pageant is continuing! This is the first year, 2018, that the pageant is operating separately from The Labor Day festival. The committee believes in serving Canal Winchester. Therefore, the current Miss Canal Winchester court members are asked many times during the year to provide service to our community. The girls are often seen at community events such as Christmas in the Village, Music and Art in the Park, and at Kroger ringing the bell for Salvation Army during the Christmas season.
The pageant is an event that many community members look forward to every year! We hope to see YOU there!
Miss Canal Winchester Pageant Committee Members:
Melanie Boise
Sherri Velliquette
Marie Gibbons
Megan Emmons
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The teenagers who have just got their driving license often laugh a lot when they are warned about wrong fuel mistake. "Oh dad, there is no chance of such things, I'm not so negligent" or "I'm very careful and such mistake will never happen to me" – these are only a few from what you are likely to hear from your children.
The fact is, they are so eager to hit the road, race ahead and careless that they are more prone to such mistakes. However, they are not alone to blame as at several fuel courts, petrol and diesel pumps have no proper labeling on them or the labels have just faded away or come out.
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An orange emergency life belt, a mask, a couple of microphones and a light-up globe. The stage is set for John Agard's revolutionary one-man poetry show, Roll Over Atlantic. Enter John Agard himself, as Christopher Columbus, dressed in a gold cap and wheeling a battered pink shopping trolley.
Roll Over Atlantic was the first Byre Auditorium event of the festival. We came into the theatre with our heads still full of the festival launch, of Sasha Dugdale's wandering poem, 'Kittiwake', and of Aurelia Lassaque's hauntingly beautiful voice. Our insides were still ringing with the uplifting sounds of the St Andrews University Scholarship Brass Ensemble. We were full of conversations had with glasses of wine in our hands.
Cue John Agard, and a show spoken by Christopher Columbus, the Atlantic Ocean, and a singing etymological mythological mosquito in a top hat. What followed was an evening of comical, entertaining and thought-provoking performance – one that certainly challenged ideas of what a poetry show can be.
One of this year's themes is On the Road. The other is The Heights of Poetry. Both of these themes carry the idea of a journey, of stepping out and reaching up, so it was fitting that the festival launched with talk of crossing borders, and forging links. As Sheena Wellington pointed out in her launch speech, StAnza turns 20 this year, and is on its own journey that started in 1998. With mention of that first StAnza poetry festival, it's easy to see the theme of the journey applying to both space and time – something that will surely come out more in the festival's 'Past and Present' and 'Border Crossings' events in the days to come.
One of the lines from Roll Over Atlantic that particularly struck home for me was this: 'For foreigner, they say my other heart.' Or, as Festival Director, Eleanor Livingstone, said in her opening speech: StAnza is about building bridges, not walls.
A packed evening, a sea full of familiar faces and meetings with new ones, and a plethora of poetry can only mean one thing: Stanza 2017 is officially underway.


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As usually, Jason bring a bread and a cookie for school. But he never eat his bread, only his cookie. The teachers said to me couple times that Jason doesn't like his bread, but hubby still make it and bring it to school.
Yesterday, it was surprise me because he at ALL his bread. I asked him, "Jason, do you eat all your bread by yourself?" He said, "YES, together with other children." We were really happy that finally he eat his bread ^__^.
yeah! another new thing to add to his list of food now... for my elder one, hmmmm... its hard for me to add 'new' food on his list, he only eat from his super short list of food choices.


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French artists during the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune (1870)
I have written elsewhere about:
The Franco-Prussian War (1870)
The Siege and Commune of Paris (1870-71)
These combined calamities seared the minds of a generation of Frenchmen and marked a watershed in the lives and careers of many of France's most famous writers, artists and composers. Considering who and how and why is like taking a snapshot of an artistic generation, an X-ray of a nation's soul:
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Best-selling author of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862), Hugo had spent the Second Empire period (1852-70) in exile in Jersey. Now he returned to be elected a member of the National Assembly, make impassioned speeches, write windy pamphlets and publish bombastic poems. When the Commune was declared, he wisely went back into exile (in Brussels) where he wrote the moving poem, Sur une barricade, on June 11, 1871.
Honoré Daumier (1808-79) Satirical cartoonist under the Second Empire, Daumier stayed in Paris throughout the siege and continued to publish bitter and highly political images. He was drafted onto Courbet's Federation of Artists in September 1870, then onto the Commune's Committee of Artists in April 1871, though never a Communard.
Appalled at the Heritage by Honore Daumier
Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) An established poet and critic, Gautier made his way back to Paris upon hearing of the Prussian advance on the capital. He remained with his family there throughout the invasion and the aftermath of the Commune.
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (1819-77) A notorious radical and freethinker, Courbet was the hugely influential 'Father of Realism' in Art in France. He established a Federation of Artists when the Empire fell, and went on to set up a Committee of Artists under the Commune. Although he managed to save Paris' art museums from looting mobs, Courbet was a moving force behind demolishing the Vendôme Column in the square of the same name. Once the Commune was crushed, Courbet was sentenced in September 1871 to six months in prison and a fine of 500 francs. When it was proposed to recreate the Vendôme Column Courbet was condemned to pay the exorbitant costs. He fled to Switzerland where he continued to paint, and died of liver disease just as the cost of the re-erection was settled as 323,091 francs. Surprisingly, he didn't leave any paintings or sketches of the war or Commune.
Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) The most famous literary novelist of his day, during the Franco-Prussian War Flaubert's home was occupied by Prussian soldiers and he suffered a nervous breakdown.
Maxime du Camp (1822–1894) Literary journalist and travel writer, du Camp was elected a member of the French Academy in 1880 mainly due to his history of the Commune, Les Convulsions de Paris (1878–1880).
César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (1822–1890) Organist and composer, Franck and his family suffered during the siege and Commune. Afterwards he was a leader of the movement to create a truly French art, an Ars Gallica which explains the tone of much of his music. In part this was a patriotic reaction against the heaviness of the music of the invader.
Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) At the outbreak of war the painter Pissarro moved his family to Norwood, then a village on the southern edge of London. His early impressionist style did not do well but he met the Paris art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel in London, who helped sell his art for the rest of his life. Durand-Ruel put him in touch with Monet, who was also in London during this period.
(In the spring of 2015 the National Gallery put on a blockbuster exhibition of Impressionist art as a tribute to Paul Durand-Ruel – the man who invented Impressionism.)
Monet and Pissarro both went to see the work of British landscape artists John Constable and J. M. W. Turner, which confirmed their belief that their style of open air painting gave the truest depiction of light and atmosphere, an effect that couldn't be achieved in the studio alone.
During his stay Pissarro painted scenes at Sydenham and Norwood at a time when they were semi-rural and had only just been connected to London by railways. Twelve oil paintings date from his stay including The Avenue, Sydenham (now in the London National Gallery), Norwood Under the Snow, and Lordship Lane Station.
The Avenue, Sydenham by Camille Pissarro
Pissarro is often credited with inventing Impressionism – the rough use of paint to capture plein air affects. He had produced some 1,500 paintings over the preceding 20 years, works which amounted to documentary evidence of the birth of Impressionism. But, tragically, when he returned to France after the Commune, Pissarro discovered that out of this huge oeuvre, only 40 had survived! The rest had been damaged or destroyed by the soldiers, who used them, among other things, as door mats or to wipe their boots with.
Back in Paris Pissarro got back in contact with the other artists of his generation – Cézanne, Monet, Manet, Renoir and Degas – and helped establish a collective called the 'Société Anonyme des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs et Graveurs'. In 1874 Pissarro was the driving force behind the group's first Exhibition, at which the critics ridiculed them for their 'impressionism' – and the name stuck.
Edouard Manet (1832-83) Godfather of the Impressionists, the thirty-eight-year-old Manet was in Paris during the Prussian siege and conscripted to be a member of the National Guard. As soon as the siege ended (in January 1871) he left town. In his absence his friends added his name to the 'Fédération des artistes' of the Paris Commune but he stayed away from Paris until after the semaine sanglante. He published some harrowing sketches of scenes from the war.
Civil War by Edouard Manet
Edgar Dégas (1834–1917) At the outbreak of the War Dégas enlisted in the National Guard, where his duties left him little time for painting.
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) The organist and composer Saint-Saëns was relieved from fighting duty as a favourite of a relative of the Emperor Napoleon III. He fled to London when the Commune took power, as his fame and Society connections made him a possible target. Later that year he co-founded with Romain Bussine the 'Société Nationale de Musique' to promote a new and specifically French music. After the fall of the Commune, the Society premiered works by Fauré, César Franck, Édouard Lalo and Saint-Saëns himself, who became a powerful figure in shaping the future of French music.
Émile Zola (1840-92) Father of literary Realism, Zola published his only historical novel, Le Debacle, about the war, in 1892.
François-Auguste-René Rodin (1840–1917) When the war started Rodin was called up for the National Guard but he was soon released due to his near-sightedness. At the time he was working as a decorative sculptor and, as work dwindled due to the war, he took up an offer of work in Belgium where he lived for the next six years. None of his work refers directly to either the war or Commune.
Claude Monet (1840-1926) On the outbreak of the war Monet and his friend Pissarro fled to England. While there he studied the work of Constable and Turner and met the art dealer Durand-Ruel, who was to become one of the great champions of the Impressionists.
After the Commune had been suppressed (May 1871) Monet went to Holland for a spell, and then returned to France at the end of the year, settling in Argenteuil, a village on the Seine near Paris. The next year he painted Impression, Sunrise (depicting Le Havre) which was shown in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874. When critics used the title to deride him for his 'impressionism', he and his colleagues adopted the term as the name for their movement.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) During the Commune some Communards found Renoir painting on the banks of the River Seine, thought he was a spy and were about to throw him into the river when one of the most bloodthirsty leaders of the Commune, Raoul Rigault, recognized Renoir as the man who had protected him on an earlier occasion. Rigault intervened and vouched for him. By this slender thread, Renoir was saved to go on to become one of the giants of Impressionism.
Paul Verlaine (1844-96) At the proclamation of the Third Republic the poet Verlaine joined the 160th battalion of the Garde Nationale, turning Communard on 18 March 1871. He became Head of the Press Bureau of the Central Committee of the Paris Commune. He escaped the deadly street fighting and went into hiding in the Pas-de-Calais. Verlaine returned to Paris in August 1871 and, in September, received the first letter from Arthur Rimbaud with whom he was to have his passionate and ill-fated affair.
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (1845–1924) On the outbreak of war Fauré volunteered for military service and saw action at Le Bourget, Champigny and Créteil, for which he was awarded a Croix de Guerre. During the Commune Fauré escaped to Rambouillet where one of his brothers lived, and then travelled to Switzerland, where he took up a teaching post. Though some of his colleagues – including Saint-Saëns, Gounod and Franck – produced elegies and patriotic odes affected by the events, Fauré's compositions from this period don't overtly reflect the conflict. However, according to his biographer, his music does acquire 'a new sombreness, a dark-hued sense of tragedy…evident mainly in his songs of this period including L'Absent, Seule! and La Chanson du pêcheur.'
Guy de Maupassant (1850-93) On the outbreak of war, 19-year-old Maupassant abandoned his law studies to volunteer for the army. He served first as a private in the field, and was later transferred through his father's intervention to the quartermaster corps. Many of the short stories he published throughout the 1880s describe brutal or haunting episodes in the war.
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Selected Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant
The French short story writer Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (b.5 August 1850) was a close contemporary of Robert Louis Stevenson (b.November 13 1850).
The comparison immediately highlights Maupassant's seriousness as an artist against Stevenson's delittantism, Maupassant's subtle explorations of war and human relations contrasted with Stevenson's boy's own stories. The difference is typified by Maupassant's adult depiction of sex compared with the almost complete absence of believable women in Stevenson's fiction.
Love Contrast the improbable 'love affair' at the heart of Stevenson's 'Olalla' (1885) – the visiting English officer falls immediately head over heels in love with the beautiful daughter of the 'degenerate' Spanish family – with the themes of human sexuality, bourgeois morality and the corrupting influence of military occupation in Maupassant's first published story, 'Boule de Suif' (1880).
France and Britain Hard to avoid the conclusion that 19th century French culture was adult while British Victorian culture was somehow deeply childish: Flaubert and Maupassant, Zola and Mallarme versus Stevenson and Haggard, Conan Doyle and Kipling.
Workrate The success of Boule de Suif inaugurated an amazingly productive decade. In the 1880s Maupassant wrote six novels and over 300 short stories, became well-known as a reporter and columnist, travelled widely and wrote accounts of his journeys; he bought a yacht, had numerous affairs and became celebrated for his parties. The nearest comparison for workrate and stories might be Kipling. Not for the affairs or parties though.
Thirty of the 'best' short stories are collected and translated by Roger Colet in the 1971 Penguin edition I've had since school.
Sex, treated frankly and openly, just is a major theme of French fiction in a way it isn't among the more repressed English. Thomas Hardy gave up writing novels because of the intense criticism he received over the alleged immorality of 'Tess of the Durbevilles' and 'Jude the Obscure'. In the first five stories in this collection, three are about prostitutes, one about an unfaithful wife and one about a man prevented from chatting up a pretty girl on a riverboat.
'Boule de Suif' (1880) is the nickname of a prostitute. The carriage in which she and a crew of bourgeois is fleeing a town occupied by the invading German army of 1870, is held up at a hotel on the border by a German officer who refuses to let it proceed unless Boule de Suif sleeps with him. Her bourgeois companions, gentlemen and ladies all, are initially scandalised – but as the days pass, slowly begin to put pressure on her to relent and be screwed by the enemy. After a week-long siege of her feelings she finally gives in, she is laid, and the officer lets the coach continue – at which all her high-minded companions promptly treat her like an immoral slut. This perfectly naturalistic story – on the face of it an ironic commentary on the self-righteous hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie – is at the same time a wonderfully subtle parable of the mental collapse of a nation conquered in war. Maupassant was just 20 and a soldier in the army when France underwent the humilation of defeat in war to Prussia.
In 'Madame Tellier's Establishment' (1881) all the prostitutes of a friendly brothel in a small Normandy town decamp en masse 50 miles to attend the First Communion of the brothel-keeper's niece. The village festivities and the church ceremony are wonderfully described – as is their return after many days away to be welcomed and partied by the leading men of their small town who had missed them so badly!
In 'The Graveyard Sisterhood' a man sees a beautiful widow weeping at the grave of her husband, a gallant officer killed in the recent war. He offers to buy her a tea and cheer her up and one thing leads to another and they go to her apartment and become lovers. After a while the affair dwindles, they lose touch. One day he feels nostalgia for her and goes to visit the cemetery again where he is flabbergasted to see her picking up another distinguished gent in the way she picked him up. She is a prostitute who has figured out that graveyards bring out something amorous in some kinds of men!
'A Ruse' is told by an old doctor who once attended a young married woman whose lover has collapsed and died in her bed. And her husband is due back in half an hour! Together they come up with a ruse to save her… '
Happiness Ironic and knowing his stories may be but they are mostly happy. Madame Tellier's Establishment made me beam with content all the way through. The punchline of 'A Ruse' made me burst out laughing. Even when the protagonists of 'Two Friends' are shot dead by the swinish Germans, their deaths have less impact than the preceding sunny description of the spring countryside and their happy fishing.
The 'implied author', the ambience created by these texts, is of a relaxed, amused, worldly-wise man with an amazing gift for selecting just the right details, snatches of dialogue and incidents to lay bare the soul of a character or the essence of a situation. Effortlessly charming. And economical. they never outstay their welcome. His stories have tremendous good manners.
Posted in Books, European History, France, French literature, Short stories
Tagged Guy de Maupassant, short stories
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/selected-short-stories-guy-de-maupassant/


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Home Today's trends Newly licensed NOK University to commence admission with 15 courses
Newly licensed NOK University to commence admission with 15 courses
The newly licensed NOK University, Kachia, Kaduna State, says it will soon begin admission into the 2020/2021 academic session with 15 science undergraduate courses.
A statement from the institution named the courses to include Medical Laboratory Science, Radiology, Nursing Science and Architecture.
The statement signed by Mr Adamu Marshal on behalf of the school, said that the National Universities Commission (NUC) had also approved the commencement of courses in Cyber Security, Physiology and Anatomy.
Other courses included Health Information, Quantity Surveying, Environmental Management, Microbiology and Biotechnology.
It listed other courses to include B. Sc in Industrial Chemistry, Information Technology and Computer Science.
The statement advised interested candidates to visit any JAMB-approved CBT Centre to change their institution of choice to NOK University, Kachia, Kaduna.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the university was among the 20 private universities recently approved by the Federal Executive Council in Abuja.
Following the approval of the institution by the Federal Government through the NUC, the Board of Trustees of the university had appointed Prof. Ishaya Nock as the institution's first Vice-Chancellor.
His appointment followed the recommendation of the Governing Council at its meeting held in Abuja where it considered three candidates shortlisted for the final screening.
The board also approved the appointment of Mr Obadiah Joshua as the pioneer Acting Registrar of the institution, pending the appointment of a substantive Registrar.
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Francis Trevelyan Buckland est un zoologiste britannique, né le  à Oxford et mort le  dans cette même ville. Buckland est l'un des initiateurs de la pisciculture moderne.

Biographie
Il est le fils du géologue et paléontologue William Buckland (1784-1856) et de Mary Buckland née Morland. Il obtient son
Baccalauréat ès lettres à la Christ College d'Oxford en 1848. Il étudie la chirurgie à l'hôpital St George de Londres de 1848 à 1851. À partir de 1854, il officie comme chirurgien militaire.

De 1867 à 1880, il est inspecteur des élevages piscicoles de saumon. Buckland publie de très nombreux rapports sur les élevages de poissons et de fruits de mer. Il effectue ainsi une mission en France pour étudier les méthodes d'ostréiculture mises au point par Victor Coste. Il fonde la revue Land and Water en 1866.

Il est également l'auteur de Curiosities à Natural History (1857-1872), Fish Hatching (1863), Logbook of a Fisherman and Zoologist (1875), Natural History of British Fishes (1881) et Notes and Jottings from Animal Life (1882).

C'est un farouche adversaire de Charles Darwin (1809-1882).

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Ichtyologiste britannique
Zoologiste britannique
Naissance en décembre 1826
Naissance à Oxford
Décès en décembre 1880
Décès à Oxford
Étudiant de Christ Church (Oxford)
Personnalité inhumée au cimetière de Brompton

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Q: Why this REST service is not working? package model;

import java.net.URI;
import java.util.Collection;

import javax.ejb.Stateless;
import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext;
import javax.persistence.TypedQuery;
import javax.ws.rs.BadRequestException;
import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
import javax.ws.rs.DELETE;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.NotFoundException;
import javax.ws.rs.POST;
import javax.ws.rs.PUT;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Context;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import javax.ws.rs.core.UriInfo;

@Path("/item")
@Produces({ MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML })
@Consumes({ MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML })
@Stateless
public class InfoRestService {
    // the PersistenceContext annotation is a shortcut that hides the fact
    // that, an entity manager is always obtained from an EntityManagerFactory.
    // The peristitence.xml file defines persistence units which is supplied by
    // name
    // to the EntityManagerFactory, thus dictating settings and classes used by
    // the
    // entity manager
    @PersistenceContext(unitName = "Task")
    private EntityManager em;

    // Inject UriInfo to build the uri used in the POST response
    @Context
    private UriInfo uriInfo;

    @POST
    public Response createItem(PersonInfo item) {
        if (item == null) {
            throw new BadRequestException();
        }
        em.persist(item);

        // Build a uri with the Item id appended to the absolute path
        // This is so the client gets the Item id and also has the path to the
        // resource created
        URI itemUri = uriInfo.getAbsolutePathBuilder().path(item.getId()).build();

        // The created response will not have a body. The itemUri will be in the
        // Header
        return Response.created(itemUri).build();
    }

    @GET
    @Path("{id}")
    public Response getItem(@PathParam("id") String id) {
        PersonInfo item = em.find(PersonInfo.class, id);

        if (item == null) {
            throw new NotFoundException();
        }

        return Response.ok(item).build();
    }

    // Response.ok() does not accept collections
    // But we return a collection and JAX-RS will generate header 200 OK and
    // will handle converting the collection to xml or json as the body
    @GET
    public Collection<PersonInfo> getItems() {
        TypedQuery<PersonInfo> query = em.createNamedQuery("PersonInfo.findAll",
                PersonInfo.class);
        return query.getResultList();
    }

    @PUT
    @Path("{id}")
    public Response updateItem(PersonInfo item, @PathParam("id") String id) {
        if (id == null) {
            throw new BadRequestException();
        }

        // Ideally we should check the id is a valid UUID. Not implementing for
        // now
        item.setId(id);
        em.merge(item);

        return Response.ok().build();
    }

    @DELETE
    @Path("{id}")
    public Response deleteItem(@PathParam("id") String id) {
        PersonInfo item = em.find(PersonInfo.class, id);
        if (item == null) {
            throw new NotFoundException();
        }
        em.remove(item);
        return Response.noContent().build();
    }

}

package model;

import java.io.Serializable;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.NamedQuery;
import javax.persistence.Table;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

/**
 * The persistent class for the person_info database table.
 *
 */
@Entity
@XmlRootElement
@Table(name="person_info")
@NamedQuery(name="PersonInfo.findAll", query="SELECT p FROM PersonInfo p")
public class PersonInfo implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @Id
    private String id;

    private String email;

    @Column(name="first_name")
    private String firstName;

    @Column(name="last_name")
    private String lastName;

    public PersonInfo() {
    }

    public String getId() {
        return this.id;
    }

    public void setId(String id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public String getEmail() {
        return this.email;
    }

    public void setEmail(String email) {
        this.email = email;
    }

    public String getFirstName() {
        return this.firstName;
    }

    public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
        this.firstName = firstName;
    }

    public String getLastName() {
        return this.lastName;
    }

    public void setLastName(String lastName) {
        this.lastName = lastName;
    }

}

persistence.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="2.1" xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_1.xsd">
    <persistence-unit name="Task">
        <jta-data-source>jdbc/DBtest</jta-data-source>
        <class>model.PersonInfo</class>
    </persistence-unit>
</persistence>

and the other class is Application
package model;
import javax.ws.rs.ApplicationPath;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Application;
@ApplicationPath("rest")
public class ApplicationConfig extends Application{

}

I really have no idea, the connections are made ok .. I'm using Glassfish 4 server and MySQL database... code is deploying but when I want to access the localhost:8080/Task/.. (my app) the only thing it says is this:

"HTTP Status 404 - Not Found /  Type Status report
messageNot Found
  descriptionThe requested resource is not available."

A: The code you supplied is working (when commenting out the persistence related stuff), I guess you are just confusing something.
The @ApplicationPath annotation sets the root context which comes after your project name.
If you project name really is Task you have to use this URL: http://localhost:8080/Task/rest/item
Otherwise: http://localhost:8080/YOUR_PROJECT_NAME/rest/item
See also:

*

*How to set up JAX-RS Application using annotations only (no web.xml)?

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[Movies] The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)
I admit it's wrong I often think of "foreign movies" to mean "movies that don't come from the US and the Philippines" - you could argue it means I have a US-centric, Western mindset. At the same time though, I don't think of US movies as local - they're just movies. And movies made in the Philippines are "local movies".
Does that even make sense? Anyway.
Foreign movies, as based on the context I provided earlier, tend to be a lot more fun than their US counterparts. Filmmakers have different cultural aesthetics based on what works in their respective countries or regions that gives such movies a unique charm on their own. I can only wonder what foreign movie critics think of the kinds of productions we keep releasing locally year after year.
I feel bad for having delayed watching this movie even though my partner had already acquired a copy some time back. Given it's best seen with subtitles, it was tricky to schedule a time to just sit down and watch it compared to how we normally watch most TV shows and movies - while semi multitasking at our computers or what have you. I know, I know, that's not ideal either, but it's the only way I keep the blog alive with everything else going on in my life.
But enough about that - let's get back to the movie.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (originally Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec) is a 2010 action adventure movie based on a comic book series of the same name by Jacques Tardi. The movie was directed by Luc Besson, who also wrote the screenplay.
It's 1912 in Paris, France and we are shown an old man, later revealed to be Professor Espérandieu (Jacky Nercessian) appears to fall asleep in his chair and eventually wake up somehow in control of a 136 million year old pterosaur still in its egg. The now-revived dinosaur proceeds to terrorize the city, resulting in the death of a former police prefect as witnessed solely by the then intoxicated Dieuleveut (Mathieu Amalric). Sightings of the creature quickly are quickly reported around the city and the news drives the President to order for all efforts to be made to neutralize the threat.
Meanwhile, we are then introduced to journalist Adèle Blanc-Sec (Louise Bourgoin). She travels to Egypt despite the fact she was originally being sent to South America on an assignment due a mission of a more personal nature. Her goal is to locate the tomb of the famed physician of Ramesses II in the hopes of reviving him with the help of Professor Espérandieu (hence the dinosaur revival). She needs the unique expertise of the doctor to help her sister with a particularly difficult case she is suffering from that modern medicine seems unable to resolve.
The movie certainly has a unique tone and appeal all of its own - a weird mix of genres that makes for an interesting final work. The movie itself has some of the frenetic charm we tend to associate with movies like Amélie with a protagonist that is more like a female Indiana Jones without the cleavage of Lara Croft. And the movie caries these diverse elements very well, which is no surprise if you've seen Luc Besson's other movies such as The Fifth Element.
Given the reporter angle, one might think of comparing her to Tintin since she also appears to go on a variety of adventures and investigates mysteries, but that's where the similarity ends. I've always found Tintin to be a lot more level-headed while Adèle has a more frenetic way of going about things that dances on that line between creativity and insanity at times. But she's definitely a smart girl - one who's not willing to mae nay compromises she feels are unnecessary. She's an amazingly likable character and Louise Bourgoin did a stellar job of bringing her to life.
The movie has a light sense of humor all throughout - perhaps something we can thank its comic book origins for or maybe just French sensibilities. The whole angle of the less-than-competent detective is an old trope as far as such movies go, but certainly one that still worked in this particular story. After all, the true hero is a heroine, this being Adèle herself.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec is a most enjoyable film filled with ancient secrets, spirited chases and a lot of good action. I'm really glad that I got to watch this movie and I highly recommend it - thus it gets 4.5 crazy disguises Adèle utilizes as she executes her plans out of a possible 5.
Tags: comics, geekdom, movies, reviews
Lanchie abanco 28 November, 2011 14:25
we saw this at Jade's place.
Geeky Guide 29 November, 2011 05:37
Really fun movie! Hope they continue to film the rest of them.


I have shared this example, and the steps, with hundreds of parents over the years, and the feedback is one of hope and relief. Finally, they have something new to try!
My now-adult son was not quite five years old. He was coping with some major changes in his life that were out of his control, and he was unaware of the impact of these changes on his life. I was also living through these changes, dealing with my own stress, and I was aware of the impact of the changes on my son.
Early one morning, just after breakfast, my son, Ben*, was playing with a stuffed toy that had a zipper. However, the zipper got stuck. He became progressively frustrated with the stubborn zip, and then suddenly, I became the focus of his anger.
He began to yell, very loudly, blaming me for the stuck zipper. He hit me and kicked me as he told me how much he hated me. He was a very angry young boy!
For the previous five years, I had been fortunate to practice, and teach, an approach to parenting** that helped me respond constructively to many past situations. This time, however, my parenting skills were seriously going to be tested!
I did not feel threatened; I did not see him as trying to have power over me, or trying to control me. He was a little boy in difficult circumstances, he did not know how to deal with that stress, and I was his Mum. My job was to understand, and to help him help himself, while remaining true to myself.
Here is a breakdown of how I responded that day, and why.
Please note. I do not put this process into action as often as I'd like – because I am human, and I make mistakes. However, I look to these skills to help me repair my relationship with my child after an argument has gone awry.
1. Don't take their anger personally. 'It's not about you – it's about them'.
I am guided in much of my parenting by a deceptively simple tool. I think to myself 'who owns the problem' (a model developed by Thomas Gordon of Parent Effectiveness Training, PET). Another way of considering problem ownership is 'whose needs are not being met'. Does the child own the problem, or the parent, or is it a shared problem?
To help me decipher whose needs are not being met, I am guided by emotions – the emotions of my child, and my own feelings.
Importantly, however, I recognised that my son was not angry with me because of who I was.
He was suffering as a result of an unmet need – in this case, an event outside our relationship.
Similarly, a child who comes home from school and calls you names might be expressing fear from a bullying situation at school. Or a child who gets angry because they can't have a biscuit before dinner, is frustrated because they may be gnawingly hungry right now!
Recognising that my son had a problem, and that his needs were not being met, stopped me from taking his behaviour personally.
I was then in a position to respond, rather than react.
Once I recognised that my son's behaviour was about him, not me, then I was led by my head (thinking), rather than my heart (emotion).
His presenting feeling was frustration and powerlessness, expressing itself as anger (see #3). My guess is that his unmet need was certainty and predictability (unknown adults were imposing substantial changes into his life without consulting him).
3. Anger is a secondary feeling. Look for the primary feelings under anger - the 'Anger Iceberg'.
My son was clearly furious. But why? What feelings was he experiencing strongly enough to express as anger? My guess was that he felt extremely frustrated. By pinpointing 'frustration' in my Active Listening of my son, rather than using the broad brush feeling of 'anger', I helped my son feel heard and understood. He could then begin the process of calming himself through understanding himself.
Similarly, I could feel 'angry' at being hit and kicked, but what would my true feelings be? Perhaps concern at being hurt?
The concept of the 'Anger Iceberg' helps in understanding, then managing, anger - in both ourselves, and our children.
4. Developmental stage and skills.
How old is your child? Do they have the capacity to self-regulate yet?
Knowing my son was five, and that this was an age of keenly felt and displayed emotion, helped me deal with the situation.
5. Be Intentional. Make the space to Respond, rather than React.
Trying to think about 'who owned the problem' was a guide to being intentional in my response.
Whose unmet need would I respond to first? His, or mine? Then what would I do?
6. 'Shift Gears' – Assert, Empathise and Accept, Assert.
I judged that my son had the primary problem. However, in order for me to help him with his issue, I had to look after myself, and make sure I was safe (I had to first give myself the oxygen).
I both 'modified the environment' (held my son at a safe distance from flailing limbs); and asserted my needs with an I-Message.
I empathised with my son, through Active Listening. This did not mean I agreed with what he was doing. I tried simply to understand what was happening for him, to look beyond his anger, to the emotion leading to his behaviour. My role was to acknowledge his feelings. I hoped this would help him understand himself.
I came back with another I-Message, before empathising with him again.
This is called 'Shifting Gears', a relatively unknown, yet effective, tool in dealing with anger.
Shifting Gears is, as Steven Covey says 'Seeking to understand, before being understood', and can change a situation from tension to calm.
7. Empathise at, or near, the CHILD'S level of emotion.
To truly empathise with a highly emotional child, it may help to both name the strength of their feeling, and show we understand their feelings.
When we communicate to our children that we are sincerely trying to understand the depth of their upset, perhaps we could try changing our tone of voice, even our volume, to just below that of our child.
That is, pitch our voice just under our child's emotional level, so that we can lead our children to a more peaceful place.
As the parent, I am calm and in control of my emotions, because I have not taken my child's statement personally. I am thinking about how to respond. But I am not 'professional-counsellor-calm'. I am not being bland, neutral or toneless in my feedback, but engaged.
When I am real, rather than remote, I am connecting at a level where my child can hear me. I continue to be aware of both his emotions, AND mine.
(This article expands on the concept of matching emotions).
I need to keep sight of the relationship between my child and myself. How will we feel towards each other after this exchange?
Sitting on my haunches, I held my son at a safe distance, looking him in the eye. Then, in a loud voice pitched just under his emotional level, I began the following dialogue.
By this time my son had stopped kicking me, which was my immediate desired outcome. Once he was calm, I could talk with him about what happened. Very soon, we began to have a normal, pleasant conversation. Importantly, there was no residual anger or resentment on my part. There was, however, a sense of love, warmth and respect in our relationship.
Why Did This Process Work?
When I did not take my son's hitting personally, I could be intentional in my response. By seeing my son as separate from me I treated him as a human being. I discovered that by responding to his emotions in tone, and words, we could connect with a mutual and genuine understanding.
The bottom line? Our relationship remained in tact, becoming even closer.
Please be reassured. My five-year-old bundle of kinetic energy became a person of calm, inner strength, determination, empathy, and compassion. And with excellent self-regulation and respectful relationship skills!
** Parent Effectiveness Training, P.E.T.
First published 16th February, 2018. Updated 20th February, 2018. Photo: Shutterstock.


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On Mental Health and Guns, Experts Ordered Not to Contradict President Trump's Lies
August 21, 2019 | 2:06 pm
Photo: MarylandGovPics/CC BY 2.0 (Flickr)
Michael Halpern
As people searched for answers around the shootings in El Paso and Dayton, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services prevented its scientists from posting relevant research about guns, violence, and mental health on social media. According to the Washington Post, which broke the story, the orders came in the wake of the president's incorrect suggestion that mental illness leads to mass shootings.
The president's remarks harm our ability to address gun violence by misplacing the blame. But they also needlessly marginalize people with mental illness, making it less likely that they will seek help and more likely that they will be viewed with suspicion. The evidence shows that a minority of mass shooters have diagnosed mental illness. Instead, they are more likely to have "a strong sense of resentment, desire for notoriety, obsession with other shooters, a history of domestic violence, narcissism and access to firearms," reports the Post.
But the public relations people at HHS didn't think it was their job to help you learn more about the causes of mass violence. They didn't care about increasing stigma for people with mental illness. They thought it was more important to protect the president's untruths.
In other words, as we experience hundreds of multiple-victim shootings per year, and as many thousands take their own lives, it was more important to the public affairs folks for President Trump to save face than for scientists to tell us what they know. And the CDC and National Institutes of Health can't tell you about what the science says about health.
"There is this climate of concern whether you can make a statement based on facts," a NIH employee told the Post. "I see people struggling with how to interpret it. What are we allowed to do?"
If there's ever a time to clarify these expectations, it is now. The Scientific Integrity Act before Congress would provide federal experts with legal protections for sharing facts with the American people.
When I testified before Congress about this important legislation, I spoke about how federal government scientists do not feel empowered to share their expertise publicly. This is simply one more data point to show that when scientists are muzzled, our health and safety suffer.
By now, federal government scientists know that when the president lies, they should keep their mouths shut. They face ever-increasing restrictions on their ability to speak with reporters and share scientific information with the public.
We should be able to hear what research shows about gun violence and homegrown terrorist attacks. Only then can we have an informed discussion about how to stop them. Profound gun violence research restrictions already leave us in the dark. And censoring scientists from sharing what we do know makes it even worse.
We are under attack by people in our own country. Our president has become like so many other politicians in his unwillingness to acknowledge what is behind the carnage. And now, federal agency scientists are expected to fall in line and walk in lock step. This is not how we stop people from dying.
Tags: CDC, censorship, gun research, gun violence, Scientific Integrity, Scientific Integrity Act, self-censorship
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Ask George: Why do pizza places tell you that your order will be ready in 30 minutes when it's often ready in 10?
Home Dining Ask George: Why do pizza places tell you that your order will be ready in 30 minutes when it's often ready in 10?
With the advent of pizza ovens that can crank out a pizza in less than three minutes, the statement rings especially true. Ideally, pizza should be consumed immediately after it's baked. The longer it sits in a warming oven, the less appealing. Transporting a boxed pizza in a hot, steaming pizza bag deteriorates the quality even further. Third-party delivery services, which will pick up multiple orders from multiple sources, exacerbate the problem.
If you can't eat pizza where it's baked, the next best alternative is to pick it up, hence the above dilemma.
Despite the shortfalls, demand for higher-quality meal delivery continues to grow. Except for better-insulated bags, however, there haven't been many technological improvements in pizza delivery—until recently.
Silicon Valley-based tech company Zume has created "baked-on-the-way" technology, which allows delivery vans to cook food while en route. Zume Pizza cooks pizzas as they're driven to your house, dramatically decreasing the time from oven to doorstep. The vans are retrofitted with six Welbilt ovens that can cook 120 pizzas per hour. The company also invented the recyclable/compostable delivery pod, made of 100 percent sustainably farmed sugar cane fiber. It's no surprise, then, that Zume's reheating instructions make no mention of a microwave oven.


Paul Short, age 79 of Burkesville, Kentucky passed away on Monday, January 21, 2019 at the Medical Center at Bowling Green. Paul was born on August 09, 1939 in Cumberland County, Kentucky to the late Sullivan Short and Addie Cary Short. He was a member of Burkesville Church of Christ and a farmer.


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Die Luxemburger Straße ist eine Straße in Trier in den Stadtteilen West und Euren; im südwestlichsten Abschnitt bildet sie die Grenze zwischen Euren und Zewen.

Verlauf
Die Straße führt von der Römerbrücke als östliche Verlängerung der Aachener Straße durch das komplette Industriegebiet von Euren und Zewen bis an den Ortsrand von Zewen und geht dort in die Zewener Straße über. Sie ist mit 4,4 Kilometern die längste Straße der Stadt. Etliche von der Straße abzweigende Seitenstraßen, die der Erschließung von Gewerbebetrieben dienen, tragen ebenfalls den Namen Luxemburger Straße.

Zwischen der Römerbrücke in Pallien und der Konrad-Adenauer-Brücke in Euren ist sie Teil der B 51, welche aus Richtung Eifel kommend nach Saarbrücken verläuft; ab hier ist sie Teil der B 49, welche von Koblenz kommend über Igel zum Grenzübergang bei Langsur bzw. Wasserbillig führt und Trier dadurch mit dem Großherzogtum Luxemburg verbindet.

Geschichte
Die Straße verläuft auf einer alten Römerstraße, welche Trier mit Reims verband. Die Straße ist nach Luxemburg-Stadt, der Hauptstadt des kleinen gleichnamigen Großherzogtums benannt. Vor 1883 trug die Straße den Namen Eurener Chaussee. Überdies lag in der Nähe von Zewen, an dessen Ortsrand die Straßen endet, im Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit die Grenze zu Luxemburg.

Gebäude und Betriebe an der Straße

Im nordöstlichen, der Innenstadt nächsten Abschnitt der Straße befinden sich mehrere Kulturdenkmäler aus dem späten 19. Jahrhundert. Hier liegen auch ein bekanntes Bordell – das Eros-Center –, direkt an der Römerbrücke die Rock-Disko Lucky's Luke, sowie verschiedene Fassaden noch genutzter und nicht mehr genutzter Gewerbebetriebe. Der nordöstliche Teil der Straße verläuft unmittelbar parallel zum Moselufer, das allerdings von der Straße aus aufgrund der Bebauung kaum wahrnehmbar ist. Zum Ufer hin befinden sich ein Campingplatz sowie der Ruderverein Treviris 1921. 1993 wurde an der Straße der Messepark eröffnet. Südwestlich von Messepark und Konrad-Adenauer-Brücke dient die Luxemburger Straße lediglich als Durchgangsstraße; fast alle dort gelegenen Gewerbe- und Industriebetriebe sind nicht unmittelbar von der Luxemburger Straße her erreichbar, sondern über Nebenstraßen. Ein Großteil der Straße ist eine Lindenallee, die Naturdenkmal ist.

Literatur

Einzelnachweise

Innerortsstraße in Trier
Straße in Europa
Deutsch-luxemburgische Beziehungen


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Q: Remoting exception: Object 'xxx.rem' has been disconnected or does not exist at the server I am developing web chat integrated to site on ASP.NET (.NET 4.5) using SignalR(v1.1.0). Also chat connected to Jabber server using WCF-service. Sometimes I receive the next exception in external code:
Remoting exception:

Object 'xxx.rem' has been disconnected or does not exist at the
  server.

Full Stacktrace:
System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingException was unhandled
  HResult=-2146233077
  Message=Object '/76fe3e3d_b7ca_4973_9cf3_9d84e6d4268a/9emtey6i64mqzcxou+wc1_5x_808.rem' has been disconnected or does not exist at the server.
  Source=WebDev.WebHost40
  StackTrace:
       at Microsoft.VisualStudio.WebHost.Connection.get_Connected()
       at Microsoft.VisualStudio.WebHost.Request.IsClientConnected()
       at System.Web.HttpResponse.get_IsClientConnected()
       at System.Web.HttpResponseWrapper.get_IsClientConnected()
       at Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb.OwinCallContext.CheckIsClientConnected(Object obj)
       at System.Threading.TimerQueueTimer.CallCallbackInContext(Object state)
       at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
       at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
       at System.Threading.TimerQueueTimer.CallCallback()
       at System.Threading.TimerQueueTimer.Fire()
       at System.Threading.TimerQueue.FireQueuedTimerCompletion(Object state)
       at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.System.Threading.IThreadPoolWorkItem.ExecuteWorkItem()
       at System.Threading.ThreadPoolWorkQueue.Dispatch()
       at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallback()
  InnerException:

I noted that it happens when client try to connect to SignalR hub.
I did'not find useful information about it in SO and other resorces.
I don't know what is it and how it should be fixed. Could you explain it, please. Any information will be helpful.

A: Stop using cassini (WebDev server), upgrade to IIS express and be happy


What is Slow Sync Flash?
Slow sync flash involves firing your flash either at the beginning, or at the end of an exposure that's slower than normal. For example, 1/8 of a second.
Anyone with experience behind a camera knows that it's very hard to hold a camera steady enough for sharp exposure at these speeds. That's where the flash comes in.
By firing the flash, you freeze the motion, collecting light trails in the remaining time. This creates a rather cool effect, as shown in the photos below.
The main advantage of a longer shutter speed is that it allows you to collect more ambient light into a photo with the flash still firing to maintain a relatively sharp image.
When you're forced to shoot in low light conditions but still want to maintain plenty of the ambient light detail without a high ISO, it's usually best to use a slow sync flash.
Below is a photo shot at 1/8 of a second with the flash firing. Below that is the same photo shot at a comfortable handheld speed of 1/50 of a second, again with the flash fired.
Notice the difference in background detail in the ambient light. The movement is almost unnoticeable in the first photo with the slower shutter speed.
To get this to work, all you need is a camera with a flash and the ability to change the shutter speed. After that you have two options: 1st (front) curtain sync or 2nd (rear) curtain sync.
Without too much unnecessary detail, 1st curtain flash means that the flash is fired at the beginning of an exposure. And 2nd means that the flash is fired right before the end of the exposure.
The importance of choosing the right one comes down to the fact that there is invariably going to be movement when you take a photo. The point at which the flash is fired dictates the type of blur you're going to get.
This is the standard way of shooting with a slow sync speed. Other than adjusting the shutter speed, it doesn't require any special set up to achieve.
The flash will fire when you depress the shutter. And then the camera will continue to record light for the remainder of the exposure.
The main issue with shooting like this is that light due to movement will be recorded over the top of the original exposure. This dulls your original exposure and makes it appear less sharp.
Have a look at the photo below. You'll notice that the light streaks come after the original exposure, over the top of any potential subjects.
When you change your flash setting to fire at the end of an exposure, it exposes your subject over the top of any streaks or blurs that took place in the time that your shutter was open.
Any light streaks are now directed towards, and end at, your subject. This helps to draw the attention to them.
Most cameras are different so look in your manual. Setting your flash to rear curtain sync on an external unit, usually consists of clicking just one button.
Adding movement to your camera while taking the photo produces some really cool effects, demonstrated in the photos below.
I moved the camera from side to side in the first photo. Up and around the sky in the second. And I zoomed in during the exposure of the third.
You can have plenty of fun playing around with this technique. I recommend having a good look around the scene first to determine your available light and work out what would work in your photo.
wow, the picture image above all very interesting. I really liked this post.


(unless you have 4 hungry teenagers, when you need to double the quantities).
It is best eaten in conjunction with a glass or two of Italian white wine.
Method 1. Cook pasta according to the instructions on the packet. While this is cooking prepare the sauce.
2. Heat the olive oil up in a saucepan, then add the finely chopped onion & garlic. Cook for a few minutes until they become soft and transparent, but not broken.
3. Add the tomatoes and juice. Bring to the boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes. Just before the 20 minutes is up add salt and pepper to taste, and tear up and add the Basil leaves.
4. Add the dry white wine, stir well and bring the sauce back to the boil.
5. Pour the sauce over the drained pasta, and mix gently.


Massachusetts has joined the majority of states in enacting a comprehensive data security law which governs theway personal information must be protected. After several delays the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs has issued the final regulations to address the issue which become effective on March 1, 2010. Unlike previous draft versions of the regulations, the final regulations use a risk-based approach that directs businesses to establish a written comprehensive information security program ("WISP") based on their size, scope and available resources. The final version of the regulations were changed as a result of input from MAR and other groups. The changes were primarily intended to ease the burden on small businesses that may not handle a considerable amount of personal information or may not have the resources readily available to develop a sophisticated security program.
Do the new regulations apply to real estate brokers and salespersons?
yes. The regulations apply to any person or business that collects, owns or licenses personal information about a resident of the Commonwealth, including employees. Personal information includes a person's first and last name in conjunction with their: social security number; driver's license number or state issued ID card number; financial account number including credit or debit card numbers. Personal information does not include information that is lawfully obtained from publically available information. State Legal Counsel, Steve Ryan has confirmed that redacting (blacking out) check account and routing numbers remove it from the file. Consider information on hud statements and the type of mortgage / personal material retained in your files.
It is important to recognize that in many real estate transactions no personal information may be collected by the broker. Instances where brokers are more likely to collect personal information include rental transactions and short sales. For example, a rental application will typically require a prospective tenant's name and social security number. When the broker takes this application, this means that the broker has now generally collected personal information and needs to ensure that the information is protected in accordance with the regulations. By keeping the application in a locked file cabinet with limited access or shredding it after use, the broker has taken one step to comply with the regulations. It is advised that all brokers review what information is taken from customers and clients, regardless of the type of transaction. Knowing in advance what information you collect will help you develop your WISP and remain in compliance. It is also important to review all forms and information that is collected from consumers to ensure that no unnecessary personal information is being collected. Although the regulations do not specifically address the issue, keep in mind that past transactions with closed files that may remain in the office may contain personal information. Unlike many other laws applicable to brokers and salespersons, the regulations were not written specifically for the real estate industry. Rather, they apply broadly to all industries in Massachusetts that may collect, own or license personal information of residents of the state. We continue to monitor similar legislation on the issue of data security and ID theft have been proposed in Congress but have not been passed into law.
The new statute and regulations require persons or businesses with personal information to develop a WISP. The scope and complexity of the document will vary depending on the type of personal information you will keep and the resources you have available. The WISP must identify the measures that will be taken to safeguard both electronic and hardcopy files. For example, the regulations state that the WISP must specify "reasonable restrictions upon physical access to records containing personal information and storage of such records and data in locked facilities, storage areas or containers." The Regulations identify a number of other specific requirements that must be incorporated into the WISP. See the links below for a sample WISP that is posted on the State's Office of Consumer Affairs website.
The WISP must also include measures to ensure protection of data maintained on a computer, laptops and portable devices. The regulations require encryption of these devises in cases where encryption is "technically feasible." This means that if there is a reasonable means through technology to encrypt, then those steps should be taken to protect the data. The law recognizes that not all portable devices such as phones, blackberries, net books, iphones, etc. are technically capable of being encrypted. While it may not be technically possible to encrypt these devices, personal information should not be put at an unreasonable risk.
Yes, your information security program must be in writing. The scope and complexity of the document will vary depending on your resources and the type of personal information you are storing or maintaining. But everyone who owns or licenses personal information must have a written plan detailing the measures adopted to safeguard such information. A model policy, ready for easy customization, can be downloaded by clicking the link below.
Does my office have to meet the same requirements imposed on large investment banks and other major corporations?
No. The Commonwealth's Office of Consumer Affairs adopted a "risk-based" approach that directs a business to establish a written security program that takes into account the particular business's size, scope of business, amount of resources, nature and quantity of data collected or stored, and the need for security. This approach is especially important to those small businesses that do not handle or store large amounts of personal information.
Encryption entails the transformation of data into a form in which meaning cannot be assigned without the use of a confidential process or key.
Do I have to hire an expert to encrypt my electronic devices or to write a security program?
Unlike earlier versions, the final Regulations have very significant differences that take into account small businesses with limited resources. Most importantly the use of a risk-based approach allows businesses to comply by taking into account the size, scope, and available resources, nature and quantity of data collected or stored and the need for security. A sample policy is available at the link below but should be tailored to meet the specific needs of each individual brokerage. If personal information is stored on a computer system, it must be encrypted if technically feasible.


Oh how I love photographing mamas with round expectant bellies! I especially love the combo of a minimal studio session and an outdoor field vibe too. Dana you are absolutely stunning and I'm so excited for you to become a mama soon!


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Feb 26, 2019 I Brent Swancer
The Terrifying Case of the Demon of Brownsville Road
ghost attack
paranormal phenomena
There isn't much that is more frightening than a haunting for those who have experienced one. To be at the mercy of supernatural forces that one cannot see or touch, or even fully understand, can be a truly life-changing, traumatic event. Yet even more terrifying are those cases that go beyond a mere haunting, to encompass malevolent forces of a decidedly more demonic nature. One such case allegedly occurred in a quiet town in Pennsylvania, where a family had their peaceful life in the house of their dreams turned into a nightmare, plagued by a vicious demon that crawled out from some realm of the damned.
In December of 1988 a Bob Cranmer and his family bought the house of their dreams, a beautiful 105-year-old Victorian house in a quiet neighborhood at 3406 Brownsville Road in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which Bob had long wanted to live in. They allegedly got it at an unbelievably good price as well, with the seller taking their initial low offer without any bidding ensuing, and all things told they were all very excited when they finally moved in. It was almost too good to be true, and it perhaps was, as it would soon become very apparent to them that something was very off about the place, and this would go on to evolve into a perilous experience in supernatural terror.
The Cranmer house
According to Cranmer, things had gotten rather odd before they had even fully moved in, with him finding his young son crying inexplicably on the stairs one day as they were looking around the property. At the time he had written it off as just a minor episode, but things got steadily more bizarre after the move was completed. This began with a simple, unshakable feeling of being watched at all times, and an indefinable sense that something just wasn't right, despite the fact that the house looked on the surface to be very normal. It was a sense that something weird was roiling and churning under the charming veneer, and everyone felt it. Cranmer would say of this strange and ominous foreboding:
From the first, Lesa and I always had the feeling that we were not alone in that house, that we were being watched by someone, or something. I can remember the sensation so clearly. We felt surrounded by the past, as if we were almost living in it, that we were only temporary 'visitors,' tolerated for the time being—who would eventually be expelled.
This soon graduated to actual paranormal activity, which started off quite innocuously enough, such as lights turning on and off by themselves, objects strangely misplaced, and other small oddities like a pull-chain for a hanging light always found wound around the light rather than in a hanging position. It was strange, but all such minor anomalies that they could almost be written off as their imagination playing games with them, but it became a lot more frightening when this intensified to loud banging on the floor and walls and anomalous footsteps roaming through the house when no one was there. Even scarier still were instances when items were found smashed or broken, including a bent out of shape crucifix that was found dumped on the floor as if tossed there.
In addition to this, there seemed to be something very wrong with a room in the house they called "The Blue Room," so named because it possessed blue wallpaper and a blue rug, but according to the children who slept there it also possessed some sort of malevolent supernatural force. Indeed, on many occasions the children absolutely refused to sleep in the room, or at times even go near it, complaining that there was something bad in there, and whatever this presence was began to make itself visible as a shadowy entity wreathed in what looked like a black mist and usually followed around by a foul stench, at first sighted solely within the confines of the Blue Room.
One of the most frightening encounters with this strange apparition was when Cranmer's son in law saw a hulking shadow form looming over one of the children's beds, after which it had scurried away into a darkened crawlspace to vanish, and on another occasion Cranmer's grandson saw it and broke down crying, upon which the inconsolable child screamed "Monster, monster will get me!" This would go on for years, and according to Cranmer this entity would become bolder and more violent as time went on. It would appear in other areas of the house and could even be heard crawling through the walls and crawlspaces of the home at night. Additionally, everyone in the family began experiencing rather ferocious attacks from unseen hands, especially in the vicinity of The Blue Room, that would leave scratches and bruises, in one case even a massive set of claw marks on the chest of one of the sons.
Cranmer became convinced that this was no mere ghost, but rather a demon, which he calls "Molech,"and he tried reading the bible and putting up religious imagery to ward it off, but this seemed to make the entity absolutely furious. Cranmer claims that it would rip the Bible from his hands, scratch at his neck, destroy rosaries, and twist and warp crucifixes, further convincing him that this was a demonic force to be reckoned with. It also seemed to absolutely loathe the film The Passion of the Christ, turning off the TV and raising a ruckus whenever it was on. Family members who wore crucifixes in a vain attempt to keep the apparition at bay would sometimes find them removed from their bodies or even folded in half as if they "had been placed in a vise and bent with pliers." Making it all even creepier was that a hidden room was found behind a wall, obviously at one point sealed up for reasons unknown, and when they opened up the partition hiding it there were found various toys from the Cranmer children, although how they had gotten in there was inexplicable.
This went on for years, with the situation taking its mental toll on the family, until finally Cranmer realized that he needed help, and reached out to the Catholic Church with his problem. Over the course of two years a procession of Bishops and priests would visit the home to carry out exorcisms and masses, in many cases witnessing the paranormal activity themselves, and there were also paranormal investigators who visited the home. Most notably was the investigator Ryan Buell from A&E's Paranormal State, who would claim during his investigation that he had seen a crucifix bent in half right before his eyes and that he had also witnessed blood appear on the walls. One of the priests who visited the home also reported blood flowing down the stairs when he attempted to douse them with holy water. It would not be until 2006 that the house was finally deemed to be clear of its demonic presence, after which Cranmer would continue living there and pen a 2014 book chronicling his experiences there, called The Demon of Brownsville Road, the publication of which he says was fraught with setbacks and difficulties, as if something did not want it to be written.
During his research of the area, Cranmer claims that he discovered several sinister details of the home that serve to somewhat illuminate why it is so evil. In his book he writes that a massacre had occurred on the land back in the 1700s when a settler woman and her children were mercilessly slaughtered by Native Americans and that the bodies had been buried where the house stands. He also claims that an immigrant laborer who had helped build the house had cursed it because the owner had owed him money, and that a doctor had once operated in the home carrying out illegal abortions. All of this further shrouds the house in darkness as an ominous place with a dark past, and a place where a demon would seem right at home. Indeed, Cranmer has remained convinced that it was a demon, and not a ghost, saying:
A ghost, if you believe in them, is generally the soul of a person who passed on in some tragic event or something. A demon is actually the opposite of an angel. The existence of this thing manifested itself in a much different way than a ghost would. A ghost is generally reliving some type of event that took place during a life. Sometimes they can interact with people that are alive. In our case, this was a demonic, evil, malicious, malevolent spirit that interacted with us on a regular basis and it wanted to hurt us. It wanted to drive us out of the house. There was no pretense of it being some kind of a lost soul.
Cranmer's book was very popular upon release, earning him various interviews and TV appearances, and was widely touted as one of the most harrowing real hauntings on record, yet there has been quite a lot of skepticism aimed at the account as well. While some of the facts outlined in the book add up, the main problem is that some of the people who had lived in the home before the Cranmers moved in, or in some cases their descendants, have denied there having ever been any sort of strange paranormal activity in the house. This seems rather odd considering if the house's history was so grim as to attract to itself a demon or hauntings, then this should have been going on for decades. Yet there was nothing unusual at all reported. One former resident named Karen Dwyer, who lived at the house for 7 years in the 1950s and 60s, has said:
My mother never said anything about the house being haunted. My grandmother never said anything about the house being haunted. And my grandfather never said anything about the house being haunted. If he wants to go and write it from 1988 and go forward, do it; I don't care. But if you want to lie about other people and things that happened before that, well no, that's not right.
This caused many critics to accuse Cranmer of fabricating the whole thing, of trying to pass off a work of fiction as a real account for the publicity and fame, but Cranmer fired back by accusing these people of hiding the truth in order to save their own reputations, and also to aid in selling the house, as no one would want to buy a home with such a history of hauntings. Cranmer has said of this:
People are always concerned that they can be held legally liable if they do not reveal to buyers problems of a spiritual nature with a house, - which I discovered is not the case in Pennsylvania. Their reactions are obviously intended to cover up the deception used in selling the house, both in 1979 and 1988. The house was not officially sold in 1941 by the original owners, but was purchased via a Sheriff's sale. The house sat empty then for an extended period and became known as the haunted house by the local children who ventured into it.
Cranmer has also defended himself by claiming that there is one woman he spoke to, a Barbara Wagner, who told him there had indeed been substantial paranormal activity at the house before it was sold to the Cranmers, and a neighborhood man also confirmed that it was known as a haunted place. There was yet another elderly witness he spoke to who had been just a toddler when she lived there, but who could clearly remember having shoes thrown at her by unseen hands. Even in the face of skepticism and criticism, Cranmer has been adamant that his tale is a true and accurate depiction of events, and has even gone on record as offering to take a lie detector test if those disputing his claims do it as well.
In the meantime, Cranmer has had a rough go of things since the release of his book. In 2015 his son David died, and that same year his wife spiraled into a deep depression, resulting in the disintegration of their marriage. Through it all he has continued to stand by his account of these events, resolutely defying naysayers, and continues to do interviews and appearances about his experiences at that evil house, where he still lives. We are left to ponder many questions. What really happened to Bob Cranmer and his family at that sinister house? How much of the experiences he tells of in his book are based on factual events and how much is fabricated? If all of this really did happen, then what was it and what did it want? Was this a case of ghosts, poltergeists, or as Cranmer himself believes, an actual demon? Why did this supernatural activity gravitate towards this place and what role did its macabre history play in it all? These are questions that still evade adequate answers, and the case of the Brownsville Demon remains an unsolved curiosity.
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Hey guys! Today's post is on a detailed review of a product I've been using since mid to late March. I was apprehensive about trying it at first because I didn't think it would work that well. It's from a brand I've never tried before as well, but I've heard good things about them and decided to give it a shot. Here's Reviva Labs Under-Eye Dark Circle Serum.
What I love about this product? It works! Take note that a little goes a long way. The 1 fl oz / 29.5 ml bottle will last me for about a year. My bottle is almost half empty and I've had it since March, using the eye serum everyday during morning and night. I went through a rough patch back then when I first started using this and it helped a lot. My under eye dark circles would've been worse with the lack of sleep I've been having. The clear gel-like serum applies smoothly to my under eye area and feels cool on my skin. Another note to make here is to apply gentle pressure on the pump to dispense product onto fingertips. I made the mistake of pumping vigorously the first time to get product out and ended up with a lot of it on my fingertips.
What I don't like about this product? None really. For the price, this is a good buy for the results you're getting. It's not a miracle product that will get rid of the dark circles completely overnight, but it certainly improves it over time with regular use. It works just as well as other more expensive options out there. I'm definitely buying this product when I run out.
This item retails for about $29 and is available on their website as well as on other retailers.
This entry was posted on September 21, 2012 by kittypolishnbags. It was filed under eye gel/serum, Reviva Labs and was tagged with eye gel/serum, Reviva Labs.