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Q: Flink cluster not starting due to Could not find or load main class error I am trying to set up flink and run a cluster, although I get the following output which seems like the cluster started:
$ ./bin/start-cluster.sh
Starting cluster.
Starting standalonesession daemon on host LAPTOP-HRAHBL24.
Starting taskexecutor daemon on host LAPTOP-HRAHBL24.

When I go to localhost:8081 the connection gets refused, so I checked the flink logs and in the taskexecutor logs I see the following error:
Error: Could not find or load main class org.apache.flink.runtime.taskexecutor.TaskManagerRunner

and in the standalone logs I get this:
Error: Could not find or load main class org.apache.flink.runtime.entrypoint.StandaloneSessionClusterEntrypoint

I have been searching the internet and couldn't find anything. My java env and system variables are correct as I can see the output of java -version and javac -version. I am using java 8, specifically jdk1.8.0_251. I tried the above with Flink 1.10.1 and 1.5.0, both give me the same error.
Any idea on how to resolve this?

A: I was experiencing the same issue, but now I am able to start the cluster and see the localhost:8081 UI.
Running a cluster on Windows 10 OS - Apache Flink 1.11.2 for Scala 2.11
here are the steps I took:

*

*Activation WSL for windows : https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-run-sh-or-shell-script-file-in-windows-10 (part 1 Execute Shell Script file using WSL)

*Getting Ubuntu for win 10 to run Linux commands (running the .sh files), this can be achieved by going into Microsoft Store and downloading the preferred distribution of Linux. (Or open PowerShell in windows, type bash for easy info)

*Installing OpenJDK on the Ubuntu, following:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/746413/trying-to-install-java-8-unable-to-locate-package-openjdk-8-jre (first open Linux shell, then follow the instructions)

After these steps you should be able to open Linux Shell in Apache Flink 1.11.2 folder and run ./bin/start-cluster.sh without any problem.

A: I had the same issue and I've only just solved it.
If you print the java commands the Flink script is trying to execute instead of executing them you'll get something like java <some-flags> -classpath <all-of-the-jars-in-lib-folder>::: <class-to-execute> <more-flags>.
Invoking those commands directly on the shell will get you the same output, but now you can tweak the commands at your will to reproduce bad/desired behaviour. There are two problems with the java commands.
The first problem is the ::: at the end of the classpath, remove it!
The second problem is the log4j.configurationFile flag, it has a path that git bash + windows can't interpret, I had to replace -Dlog4j.configurationFile=file:/c/Users/eduardo/dev/flink-1.11.2/conf/log4j.properties with -Dlog4j.configurationFile="\\Users\\eduardo\\dev\\flink-1.11.2\\conf\\log4j.properties"
That did the trick for me, give it a go and let me know how it went!

A: Worked
below line updated in flink-daemon.sh
  "$JAVA_RUN" $JVM_ARGS ${FLINK_ENV_JAVA_OPTS} "${log_setting[@]}" -classpath "`manglePathList "$FLINK_TM_CLASSPATH"`" ${CLASS_TO_RUN} "${ARGS[@]}" > "$out" 200<&- 2>&1 < /dev/null &

A: This can be related to the pom.xml file. Here is the sample example:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>flink_examples</groupId>
    <artifactId>kafkaExample</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <name>Flink Quickstart Job</name>
    <url>http://www.myorganization.org</url>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <flink.version>1.9.1</flink.version>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
        <scala.binary.version>2.11</scala.binary.version>
        <jackson.version>2.9.0</jackson.version>
        <maven.compiler.source>${java.version}</maven.compiler.source>
        <maven.compiler.target>${java.version}</maven.compiler.target>
    </properties>

    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>apache.snapshots</id>
            <name>Apache Development Snapshot Repository</name>
            <url>https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
            <releases>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </releases>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>true</enabled>
            </snapshots>
        </repository>
    </repositories>

    <dependencies>
        <!-- Apache Flink dependencies -->
        <!-- These dependencies are provided, because they should not be packaged into the JAR file. -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.flink</groupId>
            <artifactId>flink-java</artifactId>
            <version>${flink.version}</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.flink</groupId>
            <artifactId>flink-streaming-java_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
            <version>${flink.version}</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

        <!-- Add connector dependencies here. They must be in the default scope (compile). -->

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.flink</groupId>
            <artifactId>flink-connector-kafka_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
            <version>${flink.version}</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- Add logging framework, to produce console output when running in the IDE. -->
        <!-- These dependencies are excluded from the application JAR by default. -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
            <version>1.7.7</version>
<!--            <scope>runtime</scope>-->
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
            <version>1.2.17</version>
<!--            <scope>runtime</scope>-->
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
            <version>${jackson.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-net</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-net</artifactId>
            <version>3.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>

            <!-- Java Compiler -->
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>${java.version}</source>
                    <target>${java.version}</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

            <!-- We use the maven-shade plugin to create a fat jar that contains all necessary dependencies. -->
            <!-- Change the value of <mainClass>...</mainClass> if your program entry point changes. -->
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.0.0</version>
                <executions>
                    <!-- Run shade goal on package phase -->
                    <execution>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>shade</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <artifactSet>
                                <excludes>
                                    <exclude>org.apache.flink:force-shading</exclude>
                                    <exclude>com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305</exclude>
                                    <exclude>org.slf4j:*</exclude>
                                    <exclude>log4j:*</exclude>
                                </excludes>
                            </artifactSet>
                            <filters>
                                <filter>
                                    <!-- Do not copy the signatures in the META-INF folder.
                                    Otherwise, this might cause SecurityExceptions when using the JAR. -->
                                    <artifact>*:*</artifact>
                                    <excludes>
                                        <exclude>META-INF/*.SF</exclude>
                                        <exclude>META-INF/*.DSA</exclude>
                                        <exclude>META-INF/*.RSA</exclude>
                                    </excludes>
                                </filter>
                            </filters>
                            <transformers>
                                <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
                                    <mainClass>flink_examples.StreamingJob</mainClass>
                                </transformer>
                            </transformers>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>

        <pluginManagement>
            <plugins>

                <!-- This improves the out-of-the-box experience in Eclipse by resolving some warnings. -->
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId>
                    <artifactId>lifecycle-mapping</artifactId>
                    <version>1.0.0</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <lifecycleMappingMetadata>
                            <pluginExecutions>
                                <pluginExecution>
                                    <pluginExecutionFilter>
                                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                                        <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
                                        <versionRange>[3.0.0,)</versionRange>
                                        <goals>
                                            <goal>shade</goal>
                                        </goals>
                                    </pluginExecutionFilter>
                                    <action>
                                        <ignore/>
                                    </action>
                                </pluginExecution>
                                <pluginExecution>
                                    <pluginExecutionFilter>
                                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                                        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                                        <versionRange>[3.1,)</versionRange>
                                        <goals>
                                            <goal>testCompile</goal>
                                            <goal>compile</goal>
                                        </goals>
                                    </pluginExecutionFilter>
                                    <action>
                                        <ignore/>
                                    </action>
                                </pluginExecution>
                            </pluginExecutions>
                        </lifecycleMappingMetadata>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </pluginManagement>
    </build>

    <!-- This profile helps to make things run out of the box in IntelliJ -->
    <!-- Its adds Flink's core classes to the runtime class path. -->
    <!-- Otherwise they are missing in IntelliJ, because the dependency is 'provided' -->
    <profiles>
        <profile>
            <id>add-dependencies-for-IDEA</id>

            <activation>
                <property>
                    <name>idea.version</name>
                </property>
            </activation>

            <dependencies>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>org.apache.flink</groupId>
                    <artifactId>flink-java</artifactId>
                    <version>${flink.version}</version>
                    <scope>compile</scope>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>org.apache.flink</groupId>
                    <artifactId>flink-streaming-java_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
                    <version>${flink.version}</version>
                    <scope>compile</scope>
                </dependency>
            </dependencies>
        </profile>
    </profiles>

</project>

A: I had the same problem, but for me it crashed right after printing Starting standalonesession daemon on host...
I think I also managed to solve this problem, edu's answer here helped me a lot.
I'm using this version now: Apache Flink 1.11.2 for Scala 2.11, so it is possible that this workaround is not good for other versions.
So I logged out from where this ::: is coming to the end of the classpath, and it looks like it is from flink-daemon.sh .
In this file at the 127th line, there is a command to the JAVA VM, to run some code, it looks like this:
$JAVA_RUN $JVM_ARGS ${FLINK_ENV_JAVA_OPTS} "${log_setting[@]}" -classpath "`manglePathList "$FLINK_TM_CLASSPATH:$INTERNAL_HADOOP_CLASSPATHS"`" ${CLASS_TO_RUN} "${ARGS[@]}" > "$out"

The important part of this line is the following:
:$INTERNAL_HADOOP_CLASSPATHS

The 3 colons are coming from here, where the first one is explicitly there, and the second and third are the value of that variable.
So basically just delete this part of the line, and then save the file and start running start-cluster.sh again, this time it should work.
It is possible that it will log some Hadoop related errors, but it won't crash and will work properly. For example I saw this:
Hadoop is not in the classpath/dependencies. The extended set of supported File Systems via Hadoop is not available.

or this:
Cannot install HadoopSecurityContext because Hadoop cannot be found in the Classpath.

But it seems ok, everything is working. Btw installing Hadoop may solve this too, but if it works, I won't modify it.
I can open localhost:8081, where the dashboard is runnning.

A: In case someone has the same I had a whitespace in the path to where the script was located -> "Apache Flink"


On a recent Hacker News discussion someone pointed me to this weird historical oddity: the AMD Opteron-socket-compatible POWER7 as reported in El Reg, circa 2006.
What was particularly interesting about this concept, however, was that the envisioned AMD motherboard would also have accommodated SPARC processors, intended to attract IBM, Sun and Fujitsu at a time when Intel was planning to unify their own hardware for Xeon and Itanium (rip). In some respects it may have reflected an IBM perception that Itanium was potentially a threat to their RISC line and to achieve similar economies as Intel planned to.
Did this happen? Although the Register's article implies some prototyping was done, it doesn't look like it ever saw the light of day, and it's not clear why the agreement foundered. Indeed, the POWER7 systems I've all seen continued to use a custom board and I've never heard anything about SPARCs of that generation using such a common logic board either. In particular, the lowest level Power 720 820x machines — the ones that would have been most likely to use such a cost-reduced design — are in fact very similar to the POWER6 820x machines (including our local 8203-E4A), and there are even upgrade paths.
The idea didn't really die, though, because IBM finally opened up their architecture into OpenPOWER with the POWER8 and now anyone can make a board that a Power chip can go into. And, of course, one particular vendor's POWER9 workstation is what this very article is being typed on. Naturally this wasn't altruism on Big Blue's part; it was their attempt to build a larger multi-front ecosystem to combat x86 dominance in the server room, which would embiggen the pie for "big RISC" servers and thus IBM's slice of it. If it also caused Power chips to turn up in other environments, well, that would be more icing on the cake. While the "Opteron POWER7" looks like it never happened, and no one's putting Epyc chips in Talos IIs, at least some concept of a cross-vendor Power logic board did manage to survive and we OpenPOWER pioneers are the lucky beneficiaries today.
After reading the article (which was very interesting btw!), I simply went "Oh...".
Speaking of OpenPOWER, I'd find it awesome if other companies also got interesting in implementing their own desktop computers with POWER chips. Some competition with Raptor could be beneficial for everyone.


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Q: Validation message of an inputFile is thrown in the console I have this code
<h:inputFile id="id_logo" value="#{organizercontroller.currentLogo}" validator="#{organizercontroller.validateLogo}"/>
<h:message id="id_logo_message" for="id_logo" />

and I want to validate the inputFile with the method validateLogo.
public void validateLogo(FacesContext context, UIComponent comp, Object value) throws ValidationException {
    Part logo = (Part) value;
    try (InputStream input = logo.getInputStream()) {
        if (input.available() > MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE) {
            String message = "Die Datei darf max. " + (int) MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE / 1000000 + " MB betragen";
            throw new ValidatorException(new FacesMessage(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR, message, message));
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

When I submit my form, the validation message is in my console and not in the <h:message> tag. What am I doing wrong?

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West Palm Beach woman fueled by faith is feeding her community
For as long as she can remember, Stephanie Sears says the kitchen has been the heart of the home in her family.
By: Chris Gilmore
Posted at 6:37 PM, Sep 21, 2020
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — For as long as she can remember, Stephanie Sears says the kitchen has been the heart of the home in her family.
Sears says, "Sharing food is always a way of showing if I care about someone I feed you.'
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Obscured Themes
July 19, 2014 Writing Advicetheme, writingLane
In an earlier post, I started a series. In fact, most of my recent posts have started a series. I really need to stop doing that. Anyway, this series was on three different approaches to writing themes in stories. I explained the discussed theme, where characters explain the ideas the writer is trying to explore, and the events of the story either support or refute those ideas. I was originally going to go in the order of discussed theme, silent theme and obscured theme, but I realized that it will work much better to save silent themes for last, for reasons I'll explain in that post.
While discussed themes turn subtextual theme into text, obscured themes bury them a layer deeper. These are the weird stories where something odd is going on and not all the rules are explained. Key elements of the story are left to up to interpretation, which invites the reader or watcher or listener to go hunting for the point.
From Edward Lear's Nonsense Botany
There are two big disadvantages to the obscured theme. From a reader's perspective, many people simply dislike obscured themes. At the end of a story, they want to know what happened. Then, from a writer's perspective, making the events of a story unclear jeopardizes their ability to create a satisfying ending, even for those who enjoy ambiguity. How can you feel ecstatic over the hero's survival if it's left ambiguous whether they lived or died, or were ever alive? If the villain might have been a mere human or might have been an avatar of an immortal god, and they die at the end, we can't be sure whether they will return or not, and our relief is uneasy. However, they also have two advantages over any other kind of story. First, they actively engage the reader, and present them with a puzzle that many find entertaining to solve. Second, they acknowledge the fact that in real life, answers are not always clear and events themselves are often up to interpretation. One of the most satisfying things a story can do is take an element of reality that we dislike, and turn it into something so artistically engaging we can't help but look at it.
It is impossible to do anything about the first disadvantage. It's a subjective judgment. Most writers of obscured themes have a strong creative urge to deal in ambiguities, and that is fine, but they should probably accept that for them success will look like a devoted cult following, rather than a bestseller or blockbuster. One way around the second is to let the story's theme itself focus on uncertainty. Rashomon has three people tell mutually incompatible stories about the death of a lord, and denies the audience an easy way to tell who is telling the truth. It raises the question of how to find peace and justice when the truth is impossible to uncover. Donnie Darko tells the story of a teenager at the center of an otherworldly mystery, but denies him the easy answers so many other stories do. He can't eavesdrop on anyone who knows the whole story, he doesn't have any wise mentor who always and only gives him good advice, just a lot of paradoxes, clues and a giant talking rabbit. The works of Lovecraft used the primal fear of the large and unknown to create a whole new genre of horror. Welcome to Night Vale makes that level of cosmic horror everyday reality for a small town, and plays with questions of complacency, selective ignorance vs acceptance and how to feel safe in a world beyond your control. All of these stories are incredibly satisfying, because ambiguity is a part of everyday life that all of us have to deal with. We like answers, but we can't always get them. Most of the time stories offer us an escape from that, but it's nice that sometimes they give us a way to deal with that as well.
The other route is to tell a story that can be interpreted in one of several ways, and make sure that whichever one the readers pick, the story is satisfying. This is difficult, because it essentially doubles the workload of the author, but when it can be pulled off it is very interesting.
The Winter by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. It's either a nature god or a really, really weird tree
Pan's Labyrinth uses the simplest version. It has two storylines, one a very realistic story of Captain Vidal pursuing rebels in the mountains, at the end of the Spanish Civil War, the other a beautiful fairy tale surrounding his stepdaughter Ofelia, who discovers she is a long lost fairy princess. People who watch it seem to be split neatly in half between those who see a dark fantasy and those who see a non-magical drama. It all depends on whether they interpreted Ofelia's story as literal or whether they decided we are only being shown the game of let's pretend she is playing. Despite seeing two different stories, with different messages and in different genres, people on opposite sides can still agree that we hate Captain Vidal and empathize with Ofelia, and agree that the story is satisfying. At the same time, because they can adjust the story to fit the genre they find most effective, the story can be more personally moving than it would be if it was made absolutely clear that it is either a fairy tale or a work of realism.
A more complex example is MirrorMask (yes, all one word, with a capital in the middle), a small budget film scripted by Neil Gaiman. It's a story of a girl, Helena whose mother becomes sick after an argument between the two of them. The night of her mother's surgery she has a dream about a magical kingdom that has been falling into ruin after a princess, who looks just like Helena, stole their mirror mask and put their queen into a deep sleep. It could be seen almost entirely as a psychological film about Helena confronting her dark side and overcoming her bratty, teenage self, but there are also some elements that indicate the dream is more tied to the real world than that. It has the old "meet someone from the dream in real life" moment, and also a scene where Helena meets her real mother, who claims she is the one dreaming. So is it a shared dream where they are working out their issues together? Is it a magical dream, or are they suggesting that all dreams are, to some degree, shared? If Helena finds the mask, will that affect the success of the surgery?
One more example is The Fountain, which has three stories, all of which revolve around a man seeking immortality and a tree which can grant it. At the outset the stories are each fairly coherent, but how they fit together is not entirely clear. As the movie goes on the three intertwine in more and more convoluted ways. One story might be a fiction written by a character in another, but then again the story leaves open the possibility that reincarnation is real, so they both might be true, and the author is unconsciously remembering her past life. This one is interesting because it actually blends obscured and discussed themes. Characters talk about different views of death, with a particular contrast being placed between the view of death as the end and a tragedy, and the view of death as a key part of a death/rebirth cycle, and a painful but necessary part of a full life. The final scenes are hard to understand, but however you interpret them, they end with a sense of acceptance and renewal.
As indicated by The Fountain and Welcome to Night Vale, it is possible to blend obscured and discussed themes, but it's not necessary. The point of an obscured theme is that our decision about what is going on is unconsciously shaped by our values, and we craft a theme for ourselves. In reviewing Pan's Labyrinth, Confused Matthew, my favorite critic, decided the fairy tale is Ofelia's game and the story was about how the stories we tell ourselves determine the lives we live and the people we become. I see it as a fantasy, and to me it's about holding onto your values when the costs of doing so seem too high. The story is like an inkblot, or a tarot deck. We read into it what is personally meaningful to us.
I think they're really pretty seahorses.
However, our ideas are still shaped by the elements of the story that are there. MirrorMask is clearly about a parent/child relationship. Pan's Labyrinth has parents and children, but it doesn't feel like it's about them. Ofelia's relationship with her mother does not have enough conflict and her relationship with her stepfather is clearly not familial. Elements like stories and tests of character are far more important to the narrative. The trick is to hit a balance between elements that are specific enough to be evocative, but general enough that nearly everyone can relate to them in one way or another. The Fountain, the example with the most confusing plot, is also the one that deals with the most universal issue; death. Sooner or later, everyone will be able to relate to a story about dying.
In other words, you can't just string events together and call them thematically relevant but up for viewer interpretation. Everyone can find pictures in clouds, but some clouds are the blobby ones that everyone agrees are mashed potatoes and then forgets about. The fun ones are clearly a boat, until someone else points out they could be a crane or maybe even a giraffe. Stories with elements that are clearly defined are easier to project themes onto than stories where everything is up for grabs; the mind thrives on limitations.
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Powell talks up interest rates, Dow Jones falls 202 points
NEW YORK, New York – Stocks in the United States fell sharply on Monday following a warning from the head of the U.S. Federal Reserve that interest rates could be raised more aggressively if necessary.
"The labor market is very strong, and inflation is much too high," Fed Chair Jerome Powell told a National Association for Business Economics conference on Monday. "There is an obvious need to move expeditiously to return the stance of monetary policy to a more neutral level, and then to move to more restrictive levels if that is what is required to restore price stability," he said.
Also concerning investors is the war in Ukraine, which appeared last week to be nearing an end as talks between Russia and Ukraine had shown glimpses of a potential truce. However, as the new week begins optimism for a breakthrough has faded.
"The market is digesting the impact of tighter financial conditions, higher oil prices, and continued geopolitical uncertainty against a backdrop of growth, at least in the U.S.," Erin Browne, a portfolio manager for multi-asset strategies at PIMCO in Newport Beach, California, was quoted by Reuters as saying in an email Monday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dived 201.94 points, or 0.58%, to close Monday at 34,552.99.
The Standard and Poor's 500 inched down 1.94 points, or 0.040%, to 4,461.18.
The Nasdaq Composite fell 55.38 points, or 0.40%, to 13,838.46.
The U.S. dollar was mixed but little changed. The euro eased to 1.1017 by the New York close Monday. The British pound was stronger, rising to 1.3164. The Japanese yen weakened to 119.47. The Swiss franc firmed to 0.9335.
The Canadian dollar edged up to 1.2593. The Australian dollar after hitting an earlier intraday higher of 0.7425, retreated to 0.7397. The New Zealand dollar eased to 0.6886.
Overseas, the Dax in Germany fell 0.60 percent. The CAC 40 in Paris, France eased 0.57 percent. In London, conditions were more favorable. The FTSE 100 rose 0.51 percent.
In Japan, the Nikkei 225 advanced 174.53 points or 0.65 percent to 26,827.43.
The Australian All Ordinaries slipped 12.30 points or 0.16 percent to 7,558.90.
China's Shanghai Composite barely moved, adding just 2.61 points or 0.08 percent to 3,353.69.
In New Zealand, the S&P/NZX 50 inched up 1.90 points or 0.02 percent to 12,177.75.
The Kospi Composite in South Korea fell 20.93 points or 0.77 percent to 2,686.05.
The Hang Seng in Hong Kong finished down 191.06 points or 0.89 percent at 21,221.34.
Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:VOO) is Brave Asset Management Inc.'s 8th Largest Position
Can the Federal Reserve squeeze out inflation without squashing growth?


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The Game Of Football
Association football, also known as just football, is a sport played by a spherical object between two evenly matched teams of eleven players. It is played worldwide by about 250 million players in more than 200 countries and dependencies. It has been played since ancient times and was brought to the World via the British and French during the nineteenth century. It has since become a well-liked sport, especially in North America where it enjoys the largest popularity in terms of television coverage and pay-per-view sales.
It can be played on an oval field, grass field or a specially designed racetrack. The object of the game is to score more points than the other team. However, the game is not always played in a completely natural way and sometimes it requires the use of'special rules' such as extra time, penalty kick or indirect free kick.
There are several different kinds of football. International football is the most common kind of football and is played internationally. It requires twelve people to play including one referee. It also uses a head ball, which weighs two pounds and is made out of leather. This leather is called 'the hook'. Another important piece of equipment in this game is the flag, which is red and white and has a yellow oval logo on it.
Association football also requires twelve people to play, including the referee. It also uses a head ball which weighs two pounds and is made from leather. This leather is called 'the hook'. Another important piece of equipment in this game is the flag, which is red and white and has a yellow oval logo on it. The footballs used in international games are usually the replica of the footballs used in the English league matches.
In the American football, on the other hand, the players wear helmets which protect them from injuries caused by bumps and bruises. They also wear shorts that provide protection against cuts. It also uses an open mesh shirt which enables the players to feel the air while playing football. A few additional rules have been added to this game in order to ensure the safety of the participants.
American football has been played for decades and is considered by many to be the most popular and demanding football sport. It can be played by any gender and any age. Professional footballers such as Joe Montana and John Elway have become the faces of this sport and also the symbols of its prestige.
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History has shown that few investors can consistently time the market.


From a wine making perspective, Tartaric Acid levels play a vital role in making wine. It inhibits reactions associated with oxidation/microbial spoilage. It increases color intensity and hue, improves flavor profile, and it enhances aging potential.


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LBSU notebook: Women's tennis team eyes rebound
March 1, 2012 at 12:00 a.m.
Long Beach State's women's tennis team will look to rebound from losing two of three matches to ranked opponents last week when it returns to the Rhodes Tennis Center for matches today at 2p.m. against San Diego State and Saturday at 11 a.m. versus Big West foe UC Davis.
The 49ers lost to UNLV and Texas Tech last weekend but salvaged the weekend with a win over Utah. The Aztecs and Aggies were ranked last week, but fell out of the polls when the ITA released its first computer rankings of the season.
San Diego State has dropped six consecutive matches, but all to ranked teams. The 49ers are 3-0 in league play going into the UC Davis matchup.
Laura Bernard has had the best season to date, going 7-1 in matches out of the No. 3 slot in the singles lineup and combining with Rachael Manasse for a 7-1 record as the No. 1 doubles team. Anais Dallara and Klaudia Melanovska also are 7-1 as the No. 2 doubles team.
The men's volleyball team (8-8, 4-7 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) will try to rebound from a one-sided sweep at the hands of UCLA on Wednesday when it visits UC Santa Barbara tonight at 7. The 49ers beat the Gauchos in four sets at the Pyramid earlier this season.
Next week, Andy Read's team hosts nonconference matches against Lewis College and IPFW (Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne).
The pitching-depleted 49ers softball team (6-11) plays at the San Diego Classic this weekend, with two games today and Saturday and a solo match Sunday against host San Diego State.
The outdoor track season begins when the 49ers host the Beach Classic at Cerritos College today and Saturday.
The women's water polo team (3-7) stays on the road this weekend, playing second-ranked Stanford on Saturday and Santa Clara on Sunday. It plays at the Bakersfield Invitational next weekend.
The men's golf team plays in Fresno on Monday and Tuesday in the Lexus Golf Classic. The women's team has two tournaments – the Bruin Wave Invitational on Monday and Tuesday at El Caballero Country Club in Tarzana, and then the Concordina-St. Paul tourney in Palm Desert on Wednesday and Thursday, an individual-only tourney.
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Carry on as if nothing has changed.
Carry yourself like a dancer.
People think I carry my computer everywhere.
I carried my babies close to my heart.
I'd be tempted to carry a gun.
When will I be carried away?
Do I carry myself like a dancer?
I still carry a photograph somewhere.
Carry your baby close to your heart.


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Michelle Mone is launching her own cryptocurrency to back tech startups
Fresh from offering luxury apartments in Dubai to buyers with bitcoin, bra tycoon and baroness Michelle Mone is delving deeper into cryptocurrency.
Along with boyfriend and businessman Doug Barrowman, the pair are launching a venture capital firm supported by the launch of their own cryptocurrency via what's known as an initial coin offering (ICO), or token sale.
Equi Capital is seeking to raise $125m (£89m) from investors that can then be used to back innovative companies selected by the pair. The ethereum-based Equi token can also be traded separately in the same way as other cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
Read more: Facebook is banning adverts for bitcoin and binary options
The duo say the platform will open up venture capital investing to anyone.
"For the first time, everyday people, non-industry professionals, will have the change to back an investment that usually they only get to hear about in the media after the event," said Barrowman.
"Crowdfunding is very good at raising smaller sums of money. The beauty of Equi is that it's linked to a cryptocurrency, which has a value in it's own right, and the value is underpinned by the quality of the investment's we make."
Investors who chose simply to hold on to their tokens will also be rewarded with five per cent of the profits realised from gains from the investment. Investors who use their tokens to back companies are promised 70 per cent. The founders, who will hold 35 per cent of the issued tokens, will get the remaining share.
Mone, who found fame, fortune and a seat in the House of Lords with her Ultimo lingerie business, said the pedigree of the pair and their high profile names brings with it trust that is missing in many of the hundreds of ICOs to have popped up in recent years .
"This is why it's going to be one of the most successful ones when it launches," she said, adding that she expects the Equi token to be listed on the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges.
Also involved in Equi as an advisory board member is Mark Pearson, the founder of MyVoucherCodes turned investor, who with Barrowman bought UK startup Ve Interactive out of administration last year. Ve's boss Morten Tonnesen is also one of several advisors.
Read more: Europe's most active fintech investor wouldn't rule out investing in ICOs
The pre-sale will start in March initially for those putting $100,000 into the venture which the pair have been working on since last summer. The investments will focus on early stage high tech and biotech firms from around the world when the platform launches in May following the ICO.
While doubts remain over the integrity of many ICOs, which collectively have raised billions to date, established venture capitalists are eyeing up investments in companies which have chosen to raise funds this way.
Silicon Valley luminaries Benchmark, Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers are among those said to be linked with the ICO of Telegram, a WhatsApp-like messaging app. And Jan Hammer, a partner at Europe's most active fintech investor Index Ventures, has said he would not rule out investing via an ICO.
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The community developing text analysis tools for R has grown a lot in recent years, some of it coordinated, some of it not. The text analysis eco-system has become richer but also more difficult to integrate. This workshop is designed to bring the text package developers' community, to share experiences and knowledge, and hopefully foster cooperation. To ensure a safe, enjoyable, and friendly experience for everyone who participates, we have a strict code of conduct.
By forming as the beginnings of an rOpenSci "SIG" (special interest group), we hope to create an ongoing dialogue between members of the R text analysis package developers' community, leading to future, similar events.
This is an invitation-only event. All participants are active members of the R developers' community, working on packages that involve text analysis, natural language processing, and other aspects of text mining and text data handling.
In the weeks leading up the event, participants can discuss ideas and projects by creating issues on the official textworkshop17 Github page. Start watching the repository for new discussions by clicking the button below.
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The latest schedule is available from our Github Page.
The event is also supported by the Social and Economic Data Sciences Unit of the London School of Economics.
Contact kbenoit at lse.ac.uk for more information about the event. This page is available at this repo. Corrections, changes, and suggestions for improvement are welcome as pull requests.


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Q: Spawning multiple processes with PHP to process data. I have a queue (Amazon SQS) of data that needs to be processed, and I would like to do it with multiple processes (in PHP).
I want the child workers to do something like this (pseduoish code):

while(true) {

    $array = $queue->fetchNItems(10); // get 10 items

    if(!count($array))
        killProcess();

    foreach($array as $item) {
         ... // process the item
         $queue->remove($item);
    }

    sleep(2);
}

I always need 1 child process to be running, but in times of need I want to (fork?) a child process so that it can help process the queue faster.
Can someone help me with a rough PHP skeleton of what I need, or point me in the right direction?
I think I need to take a look at http://php.net/manual/en/function.pcntl-fork.php, but I'm not sure how I can use this to manage multiple processes.

A: When you fork a process. you make a duplicate of that process. In other words the copy (fork) contains everything the original process had (including file handles)
So how do you know if you are the parent or the forked process?
The example from the linked page shows this pretty clearly
<?php

$pid = pcntl_fork();
if ($pid == -1) {
     die('could not fork');
} else if ($pid) {
     // we are the parent
     pcntl_wait($status); //Protect against Zombie children
} else {
     // we are the child
}

?>

To extend this to what you want
<?php

$pid = pcntl_fork();
if ($pid == -1) {
     die('could not fork');
} else if ($pid) {
     // we are the parent
     pcntl_wait($status); //Protect against Zombie children
} else {
     // we are the child
     while(true) {

         $array = $queue->fetchNItems(10); // get 10 items

         if(!count($array)) {
            exit();
         }

         foreach($array as $item) {
              ... // process the item
              $queue->remove($item);
         }

         sleep(2);
     }
}

?>

This will create on forked process ( a waste in this instance ) use a loop to create multiple processes. when the child has finished exit will kill the child process. and pcntl_wait() will return allowing the parent to continue. I am not sure about php but if the parent process dies or exits it will kill the child process even if the child is not finished. hence the pcntl_wait. a more elaborate system is required if you spawn multiple children.
perhaps rather than forking you should look at the range of exec functions?
A caveat.
forking process can be wrought with problems, database handles being closed when a child exits etc. You can also kill a server with to many processes if something goes wrong. spend a lot of time playing and testing and reading.
DC

A: I know this is an old thread, but looked like it could use a more complete answer.  This is how I generally spawn multiple processes in PHP.
A word of caution: PHP was meant to die.  Meaning, the language was mean to execute for a few seconds then exit.  Though, garbage cleanup in PHP has come a long way, be careful.  Monitor your processes for unexpected memory consumption, or other oddities.  Watch everything like a hawk for a while before you set it and forget it, and even then, still check the processes once in a while or have them automatically notify if something becomes amiss.
As I was typing this up, seemed like a good idea to slap it on github too.
When ready to run the program, I recommend, doing a tail -f on the log to see the output.
<?php
/*
 * date: 27-sep-2015
 * auth: robert smith
 * info: run a php daemon process
 * lic : MIT License (see LICENSE.txt for details)
 */
$pwd = realpath("");

$daemon = array(
  "log"      => $pwd."/service.log",
  "errorLog" => $pwd."/service.error.log",
  "pid_file" => $pwd."/",
  "pid"      => "",
  "stdout"   => NULL,
  "stderr"   => NULL,
  "callback" => array("myProcessA", "myProcessB")
  );

/*
 * main (spawn new process)
 */
foreach ($daemon["callback"] as $k => &$v)
  {
  $pid = pcntl_fork();

  if ($pid < 0)
    exit("fork failed: unable to fork\n");

  if ($pid == 0)
    spawnChores($daemon, $v);
  }

exit("fork succeeded, spawning process\n");
/*
 * end main
 */

/*
 * functions
 */
function spawnChores(&$daemon, &$callback)
  {
  // become own session
  $sid = posix_setsid();

  if ($sid < 0)
    exit("fork failed: unable to become a session leader\n");

  // set working directory as root (so files & dirs are not locked because of process)
  chdir("/");

  // close open parent file descriptors system STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR
  fclose(STDIN);
  fclose(STDOUT);
  fclose(STDERR);

  // setup custom file descriptors
  $daemon["stdout"] = fopen($daemon["log"], "ab");
  $daemon["stderr"] = fopen($daemon["errorLog"], "ab");

  // publish pid
  $daemon["pid"] = sprintf("%d", getmypid());
  file_put_contents($daemon["pid_file"].$callback.".pid", $daemon["pid"]."\n");

  // publish start message to log
  fprintf($daemon["stdout"], "%s daemon %s started with pid %s\n", date("Y-M-d H:i:s"), $callback, $daemon["pid"]);

  call_user_func($callback, $daemon);

  // publish finish message to log
  fprintf($daemon["stdout"], "%s daemon %s terminated with pid %s\n", date("Y-M-d H:i:s"), $callback, $daemon["pid"]);

  exit(0);
  }

function myProcessA(&$daemon)
  {
  $run_for_seconds = 30;
  for($i=0; $i<$run_for_seconds; $i++)
    {
    fprintf($daemon["stdout"], "Just being a process, %s, for %d more seconds\n", __FUNCTION__, $run_for_seconds - $i);
    sleep(1);
    }
  }

function myProcessB(&$daemon)
  {
  $run_for_seconds = 30;
  for($i=0; $i<$run_for_seconds; $i++)
    {
    fprintf($daemon["stdout"], "Just being a process, %s, for %d / %d seconds\n", __FUNCTION__, $i, $run_for_seconds);
    sleep(1);
    }
  }
?>


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Magiczna Karuzela (ang. The Magic Roundabout, 2007-2008) – francusko-brytyjski serial animowany dla dzieci.

Serial jest kontynuacją a zarazem nową wersją serialu animowanego o tym samym tytule Magiczna karuzela. Od 27 grudnia 2008 emitowany był w Wieczorynce oraz stacji MiniMini.

Opis fabuły
Serial opowiada o problemach paczki przyjaciół, którzy przy odrobinie magii uruchamiają magiczną karuzelę. Maszyna podsuwa im pomysły na rozwiązanie problemów.

Wersja polska
Opracowanie i udźwiękowienie wersji polskiej: na zlecenie MiniMini – Master Film
Reżyseria: Ilona Kuśmierska
Dialogi: Dorota Filipek-Załęska
Dźwięk: Sebastian Rogowski i Paweł Nowacki
Montaż: Sebastian Rogowski
Kierownictwo produkcji: Romuald Cieślak
Teksty piosenek: Janusz Onufrowicz
Opracowanie muzyczne: Piotr Gogol
Wystąpili:
 Katarzyna Skrzynecka – Eulalia
 Krzysztof Szczerbiński – Dyziek
 Robert Tondera – Zebedi
 Aleksandra Kowalicka – Flora
 Łukasz Lewandowski – Bartosz Pędziwiatr
 Jarosław Boberek – Dylan
 Grzegorz Drojewski – Mucha
 Leopold Matuszczak
 Paweł Szczesny
 Wojciech Paszkowski
 Andrzej Chudy
 Julia Kołakowska
 Stefan Knothe
i inni

Śpiewali: Magdalena Tul i Piotr Gogol

Spis odcinków

Linki zewnętrzne

Brytyjskie telewizyjne seriale animowane
Francuskie telewizyjne seriale animowane
Seriale telewizyjne emitowane od 2007
Seriale telewizyjne zakończone w 2008

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A former pupil of the School with longstanding connections in Peterborough, Lynne is the Chairman of the Governing Body. She is a practising solicitor having graduated from the law school at Bristol University. Lynne was the Senior Partner and Managing Director at Hunt & Coombs Solicitors LLP for many years in Peterborough, Oundle and Huntingdon and is now a Consultant. She lives in Wansford and worships at Peterborough Cathedral and is a popular and well-respected member of the local community. Lynne is also an Executive Board Member and Corporate Fellow of Woodard Schools.
the Diocese of Canterbury. Ian is now Vicar of Peterborough, Canon Residentiary of Peterborough Cathedral and Rural Dean of Peterborough. He is a published spiritual writer with three books of prayers and his most recent book reflects on how we live the sayings of Jesus.
are current or former pupils of the School and/or Nursery.
Pamela grew up in West Sussex and moved to Wiltshire when she married. When the family moved to Peterborough in 1997, her son Ben was educated at King's School, Ely and her three daughters at Peterborough High. Pamela became a committee member of the PTG and was its Chair for five years. Outside of School, Pamela remains involved with fundraising for several groups, including Macmillan Cancer Support, Save The Children and The Alzheimers Society.
Lydia was educated at a Woodard School, St. Mary and St. Anne's School, in Abbot's Bromley. She had two daughters at Peterborough High School, one of whom, Jane, was Head Girl, and was on the Parent-Teacher Guild Committee. She lives in Fleet Hargate and her husband is a Chartered Surveyor and Auctioneer in nearby Holbeach. She networks for the School in Lincolnshire and the Fens and has introduced several parents from that area. She represents the Governors on the Child Protection/Welfare Committee.
Katie Hart was educated in Huntingdon and Peterborough and went on to gain an Honours degree in Philosophy at Durham. Before starting her own business, Rhetonic, in 2008, Katie was Director of Cambridgeshire Enterprise Services and Marketing and Customer Relations Manager at Business Link for Cambridgeshire. In her spare time, Katie is a volunteer listener for The Samaritans and raises money for the Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity. She walked across the Jordanian desert to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust and is a Business Mentor for the Prince's Trust. Katie addressed the audience and presented the prizes at Speech Day in 2008.
Phil is a financial services professional, with over 25 years' specialist experience in insurance. He has in-depth commercial and operational understanding of Insurance Company and Intermediary business practices in both call centre and high street operations. His clients have included Honda Motor Europe, Experian and Fiat/Alfa Romeo. He is married to Joanne, and they have two daughters who attend the School.
Chris Howe is a Professor of Biochemistry at Cambridge University. He is also a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he directs studies for preclinical medical students. He is a Woodard Fellow who joined our Council through the Woodard Corporation. He has spoken here at evenings about Oxbridge Entrance and Higher Education.
After working in scientific research and development, Bishop Robert trained as a teacher and has taught chemistry and zoology. Following ordination, he served in various parishes, as Chaplain to a Bishop and as a school Chaplain. He became Archdeacon of Lancaster and was for ten years Bishop of Whitby. During this time he was Chairman of the Diocesan Board of Education. He has served on the governing bodies of a number of schools. Bishop Robert is presently an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of London and also serves in a parish in east London. He and his wife Roberta have three sons and four grandchildren. Bishop Robert's interests include growing Bonsai, architecture, opera, art, education and his family.
Helen was educated in Manchester and Leicester and graduated in Law. Having lived all round the country working for companies including Whitbread and Greggs, Helen now works in Covent Garden as the Corporate Director of Brakes Foodservice. She settled in Peterborough in 2011 and her daughter attends the Preparatory School.
Helen was Young Business Person of the Year 2011, was a finalist on the BBC's The Apprentice and was a Business Connector for Prince Charles.
A former pupil of Peterborough High School for eight years, Elizabeth then became Chairman of The Westwoodians' Committee until joining the School Council in 2007. Elizabeth sits on the Marketing Subcommittee. Elizabeth is General Manager of a four star Country House Hotel in Leicestershire and lives in south Lincolnshire.
Paul is a business consultant and executive coach, who worked for many years for Barclays Bank in the Peterborough and East Anglia region. He was head of their commercial and corporate business teams. Since retiring from them he has been a Trustee of Vivacity, Peterborough's Culture and Leisure Trust. His interests include golf and football. He is married to Mary, with three grown up children and three grandchildren.
Peter is a Chartered Surveyor and was a main board director of the largest industrial property owner in the UK. He is now a consultant working for Government, major PLCs, landowners and local authorities. Away from the workplace, Peter has been a Governor of Newcastle upon Tyne Church High School, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Visitors of HMP Acklington, and a Director of South Northumberland Cricket Club.
Dr Jackie Thompson is a retired General Practitioner, who graduated from Kings College Hospital in London. She worked mainly in the Peterborough area, most recently at Orton Medical Practice, and had a close association with the School in the past, as her daughter attended. In addition to serving on the School Council, Jackie is a member of the Health and Safety Committee and the Safeguarding Committee.


Are you tired of sucking a golf?! Yeah I'm talking to you! Golf is simply not a fun game when you're not hitting the ball well. However, when you're hitting the ball lights out there are few games that are more fun. But how often does that happen?
For most golfers out there it's a rare occurrence, and they have a better chance of being struck by lightning. And at times getting struck by lightning seems like a good alternative to playing bad golf. I know there had been times in the past when I was playing in a tournament and not playing well and I wish I was at the dentist, that's how much I hated playing bad golf.
However, that hasn't been the case for me for many many years now. Why? Because the Rotary Golf Swing online training system completely changed the way that I swing the golf club and hit the golf ball. In fact, I rarely even practice anymore. My ball striking has gotten to the point where it is a zero to little maintenance part of my golf game. That's because this golf improvement system is all about teaching you to move as efficiently as humanly possible and that's why my golf swing looks so effortless. I get compliments on my golf swing all the time about how people wish they swung the golf club like I do and the reality is I'm actually working a lot less hard than they are and getting much better results. When I see a high handicap golfer at the driving range swing as hard as he can and only drive the ball 200 yards it makes me sad. That's because I know if they go through the Rotary Golf Swing online training program they will learn how to swing exactly like me, and by doing so will take a tremendous amount of strain off their shoulders, their back, their hips and the amount of time they have to practice.
If you're serious about your golf game and you really want to improve your golf swing, you need to pay close attention to these three reasons that you're not improving currently that I discuss in the video below. One of the key reasons is that most golfers don't align themselves with the laws of physics. The physics at work in the golf swing are applying a tremendous amount of force both on your body, the golf club, and on the ball itself. These forces are so high that a driver swung at 100 miles an hour effectively weighs 100 pounds at impact. Imagine trying to move around a 100 pound sledgehammer, and you can see how difficult swinging a golf club and being very accurate with it can be. When you combine the amount of precision that's required to hit a golf ball straight and the speed at which the golf club is moving, golf becomes a very technical challenge indeed.
The physics of the golf swing are discussed at great length in this video here. One of the key points that is discussed in this golf instruction video is the concept of pushing versus pulling. Basically all movement that you perform in the golf swing is a push or pull. By breaking it down to something simple like that you can really start to understand where the forces in your golf swing are coming fromand how to correct them. The most common and proper movement in the golf swing is pushing too hard from the right side of the body. This is because most golfers are naturally right-handed and they want to use their dominant hand to try and control the golf club. Unfortunately this is the exact problem that creates such high handicap golfers in the world. Golfers must learn how to swing with their left arm to control the golf club rather than the right and this perfectly aligns with the laws of pushing versus pulling and centripetal and centrifugal force.
One of the other common problems with the golfer who is struggling with his swing is they don't understand how the brain actually learns a new movement pattern. Everything that you're doing with the golf swing is simply a movement pattern. These movement patterns are learned through repetition, whether they are good patterns are bad patterns is for your golf instructor to decide but in most cases they are not ideal movement patterns. However, you enforce them by continuing to repeat the same faulty movement pattern over and over again. To learn a new movement pattern, you must repeat proper movement patterns over and over again in the same way that you learned that bad ones. However, most golfers don't simply follow this law of how your brain learns a new movement pattern.
Most golfers read a golf tip in a magazine or see one on TV or hear it from their buddy and then instantly run out of the driving range and think about the tip while pounding balls at full speed. This typically leads to the result you should expect from trying to learn this way and is the equivalent of me teaching you how to drive a car in the parking lot for your first time driving a manual transmission and then putting you in the Indy 500 the following day. It's not going to end well for you or the car. Nor will this type of practice work well with your golf swing. You simply can't learn something by reading a tip and then going out and trying it at full speed. You haven't learned anything in your life this way.
To truly learn a new movement pattern you must take away a lot of the distractions that will make it more difficult for you to focus on the task at hand. The biggest distraction is the golf ball. How many of you tell yourselves you make a perfect practice swing but when you get over the ball you swing like you're falling out of a tree? By removing the ball, you can focus on the new movement pattern and doing it perfectly so you can more quickly get in the required number of reps it takes to learn a new movement pattern. And this will help you do the movements perfectly which is a requirement when you're trying to learn something new. It doesn't do you any good to do the reps incorrectly. While this seems commonsensical and logical, hardly any golfer follows this ideology.
The Rotary Golf Swing online golf instruction videos walk you through learning of the perfect golf swing, step-by-step in a sequence that removes all the distractions and slowly adds them back in as your brain can handle them. So at first, we even remove the golf club from the equation. You start out by doing drills with just your body and in fact I even take your arms out as well by having you fold them across your chest so that you can focus on the core body movements. It's learning to move your body from the inside out.
Another really common reason that most golfers struggle to improve their golf swings is they don't focus on their body movements from the center. They focus on moving the golf club with their arms and hands and shoulders rather than moving the golf club by moving their body first. The golf swing can be thought of as something as simple as a wheel with a hub. A hub is where the movement is coming from that is moving the actual spokes on a wheel and the tire itself. The tire is is simply moving because it is being moved by the hub and spokes. Not the other way around. However, most golfers try to be the tire. You want to be the hub. The hub doesn't have to move very far. Yet the tire moves a great distance, because it is further away from the rotating center of the hub. The same is true of the golf club. It moves a great distance, but if you are only having to focus on moving your body a small distance then it's much easier to get the golf club to go where you want it to.
However, most golfers get led astray here because when they take a golf lesson their instructors are only focused on moving the golf club and how it affects the golf ball. Rotary Golf Instruction teaches the opposite. I'm going to get you to move your body correctly first and that will in turn move the golf club correctly, which will in turn move the ball golf ball correctly. The body doesn't move very far in the golf swing, so it is very easy to learn these core movements very quickly that are laid out in the RST five step system. Because of this, you can learn in an accelerated fashion, far quicker than you will learn any other way on the planet. It is this same methodology that I've used on my own golf swing that has allowed me to build a very powerful, efficient and safe golf swing that allows me to hit the ball over 300 yards. If you want to do the same, you need to start working through each of the steps of the 5 Step System and all of a sudden you will see that your body is really the engine of the golf swing.
And just like in a car, if your engine isn't working correctly, it doesn't matter how cool your car looks. It's not going to be very fast. In the same way, if you have a really pretty looking follow through, but your movements aren't coming from the correct place in your body you're not going to hit the ball very well. The key is to focus on teaching your body to move these very small movements and focus on nothing else until these movements are mastered. Once that occurs we will stack on another piece in the Five Step System. This involves adding your left arm back into the golf swing. Once you are comfortable moving your left arm or more specifically having it be moved by your body. Then we add a golf club back into the mix. Once we have the golf club added back, we finally add your right arm back into the golf swing. This allows you to add more speed to the golf club without having to work very hard to do so.
The RST five step golf swing training program is the fastest way for you to learn how to make a tour pro quality golf swing. I guarantee it. If you're tired of struggling with your golf swing start with step one and just focus on weight shift and you will be surprised at how many things start to fall into place in your golf swing when you just shift your weight correctly. The entire weight shift module is included for free in a free membership at Rotaryswing.com so you can start at no risk today. If you're tired of sucking at golf then what are you waiting for?
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Pensacola, Florida - Service members of the 359th Training Squadron organized a 24-hour Prisoner of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Remembrance Run Sept. 20-21 around the Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC) courtyard onboard Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola.
San Diego, California - No reason to become alarmed. Your mobile phone will emit a special tone and vibrate as it receives an emergency test message on Sept. 20. It is part of a nationwide test by the Federal Emergency Management Agency of Wireless Emergency Alerts systems to assess its effectiveness.


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Sight: An Exposition of the Principles of Monocular and Binocular Vision
Por Joseph LeConte
cils set on end. This is called the bacillary layer (bacillum, a small rod), or layer of rods, b. Third, between these is found a layer composed of granules and nucleated cells, g. This may be called for the present the granular and nuclear layer.
Further, it will be seen that these layers exist, all three, in every part of the retina except two spots. These are the spots where the optic nerve, o, enters, and the central spot, c, which is in the axis of the eye. Where the optic nerve enters, of course, no other layer can exist except the fibrous layer. In the central spot the fibrous layer is wholly wanting, and the granular and nuclear layer is almost wanting, so that the retina is here almost reduced to the bacillary layer. For this reason this spot forms a depression in the retina, and is often called the fovea or pit.
But the extreme importance of the retina requires that these layers be examined more closely. For this a much greater enlargement is necessary. Fig. 24 represents such enlargement. The fibrous layer, h, requires no further description; but the granular and nuclear layer is seen to be composed of two distinct layers of small granules, d and f, and two layers of large nucleated cells, c and e, and a layer of very large nucleolated cells, g, from which go out branching fibers. These are multipolar cells, or ganglia. It is further seen that the bacillary layer is composed of two kinds of elements, viz., slender cylindrical rods and larger but shorter conelike bodies. These are called rods and cones. It
is seen, still further (Fig. 24, B), that all these different elements of the retina are in continuous connection functionally, if not physically, with each other, and with the fibers of the optic nerve. They must be regarded, therefore, as nerve-fiber terminals.
The bacillary layer is of the extremest interest. It consists mostly of rods, but among these are distributed the larger cones, as in Fig. 25, A. On the extreme anterior margin of the retina there are no cones, but only rods. On the general surface the rods are more numerous than the cones (Fig. 25, A). As we approach the central spot the cones become more numerous, as seen in B. In the depression of the central spot (fovea centralis) we find only cones, and these are of much smaller size than those in other parts of the retina, as
BACILLARY LAYER, VIEWED FROM THE OUTSIDE SURFACE.-4, appearance of usual surface; B, appearance of surface of the raised margin of central spot; C, surface of central spot.
seen in C. The rods are about inch in length and 14000 inch in diameter. The cones are shorter and about three times thicker than the rods, except in the central depression, where they are nearly as small as the rods, being there only to Todo inch in diameter. In this spot, therefore, there are probably no less than one million cones in a square inch.
Distinctive Functions of the Layers. As the distinctive functions of the several sub-layers of the middle layer (granular and nuclear) are unknown, we will treat of only the three layers-inner, middle, and outer. The outer layer of rols and cones (bacillary) is undoubtedly the true receptive layer, which corresponds to the iodized film of the sensitized plate of the camera. These rods and cones receive and respond to the vibrations of light; they co-vibrate with the undulations of the ether.
The inner or fibrous layer conducts the received impression to the optic nerve; for each rod and cone is connected by a slender thread, continuous with nucleated cells of the granular layer and a fiber of the fibrous layer. The fibrous layer may, in fact, be regarded as a layer of conducting threads coming from the rods and cones, which threads are then gathered into a cord or cable, the optic nerve, which in its turn finally conducts the impression to the brain. The function of the middle layer is more obscure; but nucleated nerve-cells, and especially multipolar cells, are always generators or originators of nerve-force. They evidently have an important function. They probably act as little nervecenters; and many unconscious, involuntary, or reflex acts of vision are probably performed by their means, without referring the sensation to the brain.
The manner in which the whole apparatus operates is briefly as follows: The light penetrates through the retina until it reaches the outer layer of rods and cones. These are specially organized to respond to or co-vibrate with the undulations of light. These vibrations are carried through. the connecting threads to the fibrous layer, then through the fibers of this layer to the optic nerve, then along the fibers of the optic nerve to the gray matter of the brain, where they finally determine changes which emerge into consciousness as the sensation of light.
That we have correctly interpreted the function of the layer of rods and cones is rendered probable not only by its very remarkable and complex structure, adapting it to responsive vibrations, not only by the fact that the rods and cones are fiber terminals (all sense impressions are on terminals), but also by the peculiar properties of two spots on the retina in which all
the layers do not co-exist. Just where the optic nerve enters, as shown in Fig. 23, page 52, the bacillary layer is necessarily wanting, and it is the only spot in which this is the case. Now, this spot is blind (see page 81). Again, just in the axis of the globe, or what might be called the south pole of the eye, is the central spot or central pit. In this spot is wanting the fibrous layer and the whole of the middle layer, except some nuclear cells of the outer part (Fig. 24, c). The bacillary layer is here, therefore, directly exposed to the action of light. Now, this is the most sensitive spot of the retina. The distinctive functions of the rods and cones will come up later under color perception (page 81).
Visual Purple.—There has recently been found in the outer or receptive part of the rods (but not of the cones) a peculiar purple substance, which probably has sɔme important but as yet imperfectly known function in vision, and is therefore called visual purple. It is bleached by light, and again restored by darkness. Photographic images (optograms) of objects may be taken on the purple retina, and by appropriate means may be fixed. These discoveries naturally excited hopes that the study of this substance would solve the mystery of sensation by reducing it to a chemical process. But these hopes have not been fulfilled; for it is now known that visual purple is not present in all animals, nor does it exist in the cones, and therefore is not found in the central spot of the human eye-which is nevertheless the most sensitive spot in the retina to both form and color, though not to simple faint light. It is therefore evidently not essential to the perception of either light or color.
Very recently Parinaud * has made some acute ob*Revue Scientifique, vol. iv, p. 134, August 3, 1895.
servations and ingenious experiments on the subject of the function of visual purple. It is wanting in nightblind animals, such as most birds and all snakes, and is abundant in nocturnal animals, such as most ruminants, all cats, and the owl among birds. According to Parinaud, its function is to produce great sensitiveness in the retina to simple faint diffused light, but not to form or color, and therefore is found in the rods but not in the cones. It is easily destroyed by light and reformed in darkness, and is therefore especially adapted to feeble light. Hence it is that in very faint light, but not in full light, by night, but not by day, we detect the presence of an object, though not its form-by indirect better than by direct vision. Direct vision is by the cones only, indirect vision by the rods mostly; and these are made very sensitive by the presence of the visual purple. This explains also the temporary night-blindness of one coming out of a brilliantly lighted room into the night. The restoration of night vision is the result of re-formation of visual purple destroyed by the brilliant light.
SECTION II.-SPACE PERCEPTION.
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We have now explained both the instrument for making an image and the structure of the retina or receiving We proceed to show how these co-operate to produce the phenomena of vision. There is a certain peculiarity in the general function of the retina, optic nerve, and associated brain apparatus which must first be explained and clearly apprehended, in order to understand the phenomena of vision, for it lies at their very basis.
* The decomposition of visual purple is confined to the blue end of the spectrum. It is not affected by red. Hence the relative brightness of blue, as compared with red or yellow, increases with the faintness of the light.


Reading came off second best against an impressive Brentford side to slide closer to the wrong end of the table. Brentford had the look of team destined for a play-off spot and Reading had to raise their game to keep them at bay. It was an entertaining and open game with both teams having plenty of opportunities score the crucial opening goal. The Brentford winner came late in the game ironically immediately after they had presented Reading with a golden opportunity to take the lead which made defeat an even more difficult pill to swallow for Royals fans. Morale is now an issue and Reading will need to show character and resilience to pull out of the current slump. Staying positive is essential – and that includes the fans. When team is fighting for points to stave off relegation they are not helped by the booing of their own 'supporters'.
From the start both teams were probing with some penetrating forward passes. As early as the seventh minute Mannone was forced to make a good save from Watkins and Gunter was there to throw his himself in front of the follow-up. Van den Berg received an early and deserved yellow card for a ridiculous two handed grab at his opponent to prevent him from getting away. Brentford threatened to score every time they moved forward and it took a while for Reading to get a foothold in the game. Moore and Van den Berg carried the ball forward well and Barrow was getting past his man down the left. Brentford were awarded a free kick on twenty-eight minutes when Vibe decided to take a dive when Gunter placed his hand on his back. Justice was served when the free-kick flew over the bar. Kelly had a half chance when Gunter found him with a cross but instead of taking a chance with volley he attempted to control the ball and the chance disappeared. The lack of confidence when shooting opportunities arise is an increasingly worrying feature of Reading's game. Bodvarsson however did well managed to spin and get an attempt on target but with insufficient power to beat Bentley. The half belonged to Brentford but Reading had responded well and were still very much in the game.
Blackett replaced the injured Richards at half time and Reading made a positive start to the second half. It was a fast moving open game and as the play become stretched goals seemed inevitable. Brentford were incisive and inventive going forward, but Reading were also looking to get at the visitors defence. Blackett came to the rescue with a goal line clearance from Josefzoon. Gunter impressively manged to get to ball down the right and pulled the ball back to Bodvasson who struck his shot well but just wide. Kelly came closest to opening the scoring with a free kick from the edge of the box with a free kick which smacked against the bar. Kelly was then involved at the other end soon after gifting possession to leave Mannone exposed but to his relief Brentford strayed offside. Reading should have taken the lead when Kelly found himself the beneficiary of some equally sloppy play but with Barrow free on the right he opted to play the ball to Bodvarsson, who was forced to slip it wide to Barrow. With the delay in getting the ball wide, defenders were getting back and with a poor first from Barrow the chance had gone. With Reading fans still shaking their heads in disbelief Brentford broke way and in spite a decisive goalkeeping from Mannone the ball broke kindly for Vibe who finished well through a group of Reading defenders obscuring his sight of goal.
From the re-start Van den Berg was injured in a tackle on the half way line and Brentford attacked and threatened to score a second goal. Kermorgant replaced an injured and weary looking Van den Berg to bolster Reading's attack for a desperate final onslaught to rescue a point. Brentford demonstrated another side to their game as three cynical fouls in quick succession produced a rash of three yellow cards in the space of two minutes. Sadly as so often this season Reading lacked the cutting edge to score a much needed goal in spite of some very direct play. It was deserved win for a very enterprising Brentford side but I could not help feeling Reading could have taken a point. The afternoon was rounded off with an unwarranted chorus of boos and the usual torrent of negativity broadcast by Radio Berks after a defeat. Whatever people feel about Jaap Stam the team needs the support of their fans, and changing the manager at this point is probably not going to help. It has not been a good season to say the least, but it need not turn out to be the disaster some fans are predicting.
Berg still getting a game is amazing. Does he have something on the manager?
Aluko, the only winger who doesnt. Ever.
Next game that matters, away at Burton on Tuesday week. The traditional and absolute MUST WIN game.
Then Millwall at home on a Saturday. Two weeks to make the season or basically lose it.
I fear so. 'Too good to go down'.
I don't see us beating any of that lot, which says a lot considering Burton got thumped 6-0 today.
That kind of football ain't gonna beat anyone in this division.
It was a better performance but there was an air of inevitability about the Brentford goal, that said, how many times did they win the ball off us after we spent some time dicking around with it in defence? There is quality in this team but they are abysmally low on confidence and being made to persist with a style of play they clearly aren't comfortable with.
Could have scored though but Brentford probably deserved the win in the end, as others have said, the next two games are crucial.
Take a point off Barrow for being responsible for their goal. was crying out for a first time strike at the back post instead of farting around and getting blocked out. 20 seconds later we were behind.
Today's game was a bit of a reality check for me, I've watched the last 4 home and away but today was different....We seemed to play a different formation but our playing style is still the same, goals win games as was proven today....Kelly deciding to pass back to Bod while in their penalty box who passed out wide to Barrow really sums up where the team are at.....Stam you have rebuilt our team but unfortunately this playing style won't work.
It was a complete clusterfvck from the second Kelly intercepted the ball, his pass to JDB was poor who in turn played a poor pass to Barrow who instead of putting his laces through the ball Fannies about and lost out. 15 seconds later Vibe is slotting home.
Reading: V Mannone, T Ilori, C Gunter, L Moore, O Richards (T Blackett, 45), J van den Berg (Y Kermorgant, 77), S Aluko (R Beerens, 60), L Kelly, M Barrow, G Evans, J Bodvarsson.
Subs not used: P Clement, G McCleary, D Edwards, A Jaakkola.
Brentford: D Bentley, N Yennaris, Y Barbet, A Bjelland, C Mepham, R Woods, K Mokotjo, R Sawyers, F Jozefzoon (L MacLeod, 87), O Watkins (S Canos, 65), L Vibe.
Subs not used: E Marcondes, N Maupay, J McEachran, L Daniels, J Clarke.
This Championship game took place 461 days ago in the 2017/2018 season.


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The 25th Bomb Squadron insignia is below back gun turret. Since the 25th had been in the Canal Zone since 1922 this photo most likely taken somewhere in the Caribbean area.
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