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NATO: President Eisenhower
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The missions and motives of NATO and the EU
NATO was an alliance with a single purpose: to protect Western Europe from a [Rothschild] Soviet invasion. The basic structure of NATO didn't change when the [Rothschild] Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. It simply grew to include the former Soviet satellite states and the Baltic states.
The motive behind the expansion was to bring these countries into the framework of the Western defense system in order to give them confidence in their independence. And help support the development of democracies. [But NATO devolved into a usurped entity by the banking cabal after its designated design parameters of WWII]
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[JFK made serious attempts to pull our troops home ~ but with JFK ending The Zionist's Federal Reserve and pulling all our troops home from Vietnam as Eisenhower counseled ~ The Zionist Bank Cartel could not swallow anymore financial loses and in turn murdered JFK.]
The motivation was roughly the same for expanding the EU. The bloc was primarily an economic union. Simply being an EU member was believed to enhance prosperity, so that even the economically weakest country would become strong after attaining membership.
The real goal was to expand the EU as far as possible. As with NATO, EU expansion had less to do with the EU's primary mission than with political and ideological factors.
NATO is obsolete if it can't support the [Hidden Government] US' interests. The EU question is ultimately a European problem. But NATO is an [Hidden Government] alliance. The US has important and [Hidden Government] legitimate interests. But there are questions.
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pResident Bill Clinton is greeted by NATO Supreme Zionist Commander for Europe Wesley Clark, right, before addressing U.S. soldiers at Task Force Able Sentry Camp 15 miles (25 kms) east of Skopje, Macedonia on June 22, 1999.
First, with the Soviet Union gone, what is NATO's purpose?
Second, how does NATO serve the American national interest?
Third, given that the EU has almost as large a GDP and almost 200 million more people than the US, why isn't its collective contribution to NATO's military larger than the US?
The automatic answer to the first question is fairly basic: NATO's purpose is to guarantee its [Hidden Government] members' security.
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On the second question, it cannot be argued that NATO has served [Foreign Owned Federal Reserve's] American interests since 1991.
It is true that NATO's area of responsibility is focused on Europe. The US' current wars are outside of this area. But from the American point of view, having an alliance with a region where large-scale warfare is unlikely makes little sense.
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General Eisenhower, said on February 1951 of the NATO alliance:
"If in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not been returned to the United States, then this whole project will have failed."
NATO must evolve [Stop Hijacking Nations, Stop Absconding American's Tax Money For Rothschild Agenda] with the needs of its members. If it can't, it can be seen (as Trump put it) as obsolete.
This brings us to the third question, the size of the European force. A military alliance needs a military.
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Many European countries, in times of wealth as well as constraint, have chosen not to create a force large enough to support [Hidden Government] American interests.
Even when NATO commits to fighting alongside the [Rothschild Hidden Government] Americans, European capabilities limit their contribution. There is no automatic support from NATO. The countries that want to participate, fight with as much or as little as they choose to send.
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This is their right as sovereign states. But this radically changes their relationships with the [Rothschild Usurped] US. They would participate in a US-led war if it was in their self-interests.
Nations have the right and obligation to carry out their foreign and military policies as they wish. But an alliance [Rothschild Instituted Scheme] holds nations to behave in a certain way given certain events.
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Europeans [Also American Citizens Questioning Their Authority And Validity] must face two facts
First, the wars that matter to the US are being fought in the Islamic world.
Second, Europe is not struggling to recover from World War II. Its military capabilities should be equal to those of the US.
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NATO is obsolete if it defines its responsibility mainly to repel a [fabricated] Russian invasion.
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Especially since it refused to create a military force capable of doing that. It is obsolete in that it regards the [Rothschild Hidden Government] US as the guarantor of Europe's security when Europe is quite capable of incurring the cost of self-defense.
If European nations are free to follow their own interests, then so is the United States [People].
When we step back, we see a broader truth. First, the European Union is breaking. Europe is in no position to do unanimously supported NATO operations. For the Europeans, NATO is important because it means that, in the rare chance of a European war, the US must be there.
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But the US can deal with that by placing limited forces in the Baltics, Poland, and Romania. The Europeans have devolved NATO into bilateral relations between the US and each NATO member. So, the United States can do the same. Also, the US can accept the status quo in Ukraine, written or unwritten. The US is not going to war in Ukraine. Russia is not going to war there either.
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Trump's approach to NATO has been forced on the US by the Europeans. NATO doesn't work as an alliance. It is a group of [sic] sovereign [Rothschild Hijacked] nations that will respond to [Rothschild Cabal's] American requests as they see fit. The [Hidden Government] US knows this and at some point, someone was going to point out that NATO is obsolete.
The matter can be summed up the following way. What is the commitment of European countries to the United States? And what is the US commitment to Europe?
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It is not clear that there is a geopolitical basis for this commitment any more. Interests have diverged. NATO is not suited to the realities of today.
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December 5th – Star Wars Episode 1: Jedi Power Battles
Date: December 5, 2019Author: Katosepe 0 Comments
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Star Wars is a franchise that has lasted decades not only in film but in other mediums too. Star Wars video games have a long and storied history with both ups and downs. Today's game is something in between and is a little different than any other Star Wars game you may have played. Today's game is Star Wars Episode 1: Jedi Power Battles. Developed by LucasArts and released on the Sony Playstation in 2000.
Jedi Power Battles is a platforming beat-em-up based on Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. Players can choose their Jedi and then jump in to mow down trade federation droids and other enemies to reach Darth Maul. Each Jedi has their own unique lightsaber fighting style, force powers, as well as statistical strengths and weaknesses. Alongside combat, jumping and platforming is also important to getting through Jedi Power Battles. Many levels consist of jumping across rooftops or moving cars. There are even a few vehicles to pilot throughout the game.
Jedi Power Battles consists of 10 single-player levels, taking place in various locations seen in the film such as Naboo and Coruscant. The player starts out being able to play as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, Mace Windu as well as lesser known Jedi Masters, Adi Gallia and Plo Koon, both members of the Jedi Council. Players can also unlock a number of characters depending on which console version they're playing. The Playstation version contains Queen Amidala, her security chief Captain Panaka as well as the Sith apprentice, Darth Maul, himself. The Dreamcast version contains these characters as well as Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi and the standard Battle Droid. Interestingly, several of the Jedi Masters had not yet used their lightsabers on film when this game was made so the lightsaber colors for several are inconsistent with Attack of the Clones or Revenge of the Sith, including Mace Windu who has a blue lightsaber in this game but a purple lightsaber in the later movies.
Jedi Power Battles was not well received on the Sony Playstation but an enhanced version for the Sega Dreamcast got a decent amount of praise. The Playstation version was criticised for having very little depth outside of the main levels and poor camera angles resulted in many cheap deaths during the platforming segments. The Dreamcast version fixed many of these problems with additional characters, levels and game modes but the camera angles were still seen as a problem. Both versions contained 2 player co-op though which many reviewers did say helped the game immensely. Jedi Power Battles would also receive a version on the Game Boy Advance but this would barely resemble the console versions and was not well received at all. Ultimately, Jedi Power Battles was a one-off experiment by LucasArts that just didn't really pan out
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Govt contact tracing capability now at 80%-90%
THE chief implementer of the National Task Force (NTF) against the coronavirus disease said that the government's capability for contact tracing has improved to 80%- 90%.
"We see that there are still areas to improve on, but the improvement on our contact tracing has increased to 80%-90% based on the capability of our key agencies," NTF against Covid-19 chief implementer Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr said during an online press briefing.
Galvez added that the StaySafe.ph app was being endorsed by the Department of the Interior and Local Government to be used by the local government units.
The StaySafe.ph app, which was developed by MultiSys Technologies Corporation, allows users to report their health conditions as well as of their family members.
Galvez added that the task force has met with the LGUs, Metro Manila mayors, Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) and other key agencies on strategies on how to boost expanded testing and tracing by use of such apps.
Previously, the National Economic Development Authority said that the government was planning to hire 136,000 contact tracers to boost the country's efforts against Covid-19, adding that the Department of Health would need 11.7bil pesos (RM1bil) to hire them.
Meanwhile, Galvez reiterated the government's plans to buy 11 million personal protective equipment (PPEs) and to test 1% or 2% of the country's 110 million population."For now, more or less three million PPEs have been distributed, one million have been procured at 1.8bil pesos (RM154mil), and the help of the private sector and our LGUs more or less two million. So three million has been initially distributed to our frontliners," he said.
"We are planning to test 1% or 2% of our population. Meaning more or less around one million will be our target by August.
"We will continue with our testing," he added. — Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN
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Professor of Economics at The University of Manchester, Rachel Griffith, is one of six distinguished individuals set to receive an honorary degree this summer from Keele University.
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Rachel is Professor of Economics in the School of Social Sciences and Research Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Her research broadly considers the design and effectiveness of government policy on consumers, firms and the functioning of markets. Rachel's specific interests relate to the retail food sector and the ways that policy can help to improve nutritional outcomes. She is passionate about increasing diversity in economics, and improving the ways that economists communicate with policymakers and the wider public.
Rachel was awarded a CBE in 2015, and was made a Dame for services to economic policy and education in 2021. She also served as President of the Royal Economic Society from 2019-20, becoming the first female President in over 35 years and only the second woman to hold the post in the Society's 129-year history.
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require 'spec_helper'

describe Agents::HumanTaskAgent do
  before do
    @checker = Agents::HumanTaskAgent.new(:name => "my human task agent")
    @checker.options = @checker.default_options
    @checker.user = users(:bob)
    @checker.save!

    @event = Event.new
    @event.agent = agents(:bob_rain_notifier_agent)
    @event.payload = { 'foo' => { "bar" => { 'baz' => "a2b" } },
                       'name' => "Joe" }
    @event.id = 345

    @checker.should be_valid
  end

  describe "validations" do
    it "validates that trigger_on is 'schedule' or 'event'" do
      @checker.options['trigger_on'] = "foo"
      @checker.should_not be_valid
    end

    it "requires expected_receive_period_in_days when trigger_on is set to 'event'" do
      @checker.options['trigger_on'] = "event"
      @checker.options['expected_receive_period_in_days'] = nil
      @checker.should_not be_valid
      @checker.options['expected_receive_period_in_days'] = 2
      @checker.should be_valid
    end

    it "requires a positive submission_period when trigger_on is set to 'schedule'" do
      @checker.options['trigger_on'] = "schedule"
      @checker.options['submission_period'] = nil
      @checker.should_not be_valid
      @checker.options['submission_period'] = 2
      @checker.should be_valid
    end

    it "requires a hit.title" do
      @checker.options['hit']['title'] = ""
      @checker.should_not be_valid
    end

    it "requires a hit.description" do
      @checker.options['hit']['description'] = ""
      @checker.should_not be_valid
    end

    it "requires hit.assignments" do
      @checker.options['hit']['assignments'] = ""
      @checker.should_not be_valid
      @checker.options['hit']['assignments'] = 0
      @checker.should_not be_valid
      @checker.options['hit']['assignments'] = "moose"
      @checker.should_not be_valid
      @checker.options['hit']['assignments'] = "2"
      @checker.should be_valid
    end

    it "requires hit.questions" do
      old_questions = @checker.options['hit']['questions']
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'] = nil
      @checker.should_not be_valid
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'] = []
      @checker.should_not be_valid
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'] = [old_questions[0]]
      @checker.should be_valid
    end

    it "requires that all questions have key, name, required, type, and question" do
      old_questions = @checker.options['hit']['questions']
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'].first['key'] = ""
      @checker.should_not be_valid

      @checker.options['hit']['questions'] = old_questions
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'].first['name'] = ""
      @checker.should_not be_valid

      @checker.options['hit']['questions'] = old_questions
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'].first['required'] = nil
      @checker.should_not be_valid

      @checker.options['hit']['questions'] = old_questions
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'].first['type'] = ""
      @checker.should_not be_valid

      @checker.options['hit']['questions'] = old_questions
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'].first['question'] = ""
      @checker.should_not be_valid
    end

    it "requires that all questions of type 'selection' have a selections array with keys and text" do
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'][0]['selections'] = []
      @checker.should_not be_valid
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'][0]['selections'] = [{}]
      @checker.should_not be_valid
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'][0]['selections'] = [{ 'key' => "", 'text' => "" }]
      @checker.should_not be_valid
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'][0]['selections'] = [{ 'key' => "", 'text' => "hi" }]
      @checker.should_not be_valid
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'][0]['selections'] = [{ 'key' => "hi", 'text' => "" }]
      @checker.should_not be_valid
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'][0]['selections'] = [{ 'key' => "hi", 'text' => "hi" }]
      @checker.should be_valid
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'][0]['selections'] = [{ 'key' => "hi", 'text' => "hi" }, {}]
      @checker.should_not be_valid
    end

    it "requires that 'poll_options' be present and populated when 'combination_mode' is set to 'poll'" do
      @checker.options['combination_mode'] = "poll"
      @checker.should_not be_valid
      @checker.options['poll_options'] = {}
      @checker.should_not be_valid
      @checker.options['poll_options'] = { 'title' => "Take a poll about jokes",
                                           'instructions' => "Rank these by how funny they are",
                                           'assignments' => 3,
                                           'row_template' => "{{joke}}" }
      @checker.should be_valid
      @checker.options['poll_options'] = { 'instructions' => "Rank these by how funny they are",
                                           'assignments' => 3,
                                           'row_template' => "{{joke}}" }
      @checker.should_not be_valid
      @checker.options['poll_options'] = { 'title' => "Take a poll about jokes",
                                           'assignments' => 3,
                                           'row_template' => "{{joke}}" }
      @checker.should_not be_valid
      @checker.options['poll_options'] = { 'title' => "Take a poll about jokes",
                                           'instructions' => "Rank these by how funny they are",
                                           'row_template' => "{{joke}}" }
      @checker.should_not be_valid
      @checker.options['poll_options'] = { 'title' => "Take a poll about jokes",
                                           'instructions' => "Rank these by how funny they are",
                                           'assignments' => 3}
      @checker.should_not be_valid
    end

    it "requires that all questions be of type 'selection' when 'combination_mode' is 'take_majority'" do
      @checker.options['combination_mode'] = "take_majority"
      @checker.should_not be_valid
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'][1]['type'] = "selection"
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'][1]['selections'] = @checker.options['hit']['questions'][0]['selections']
      @checker.should be_valid
    end

    it "accepts 'take_majority': 'true' for legacy support" do
      @checker.options['take_majority'] = "true"
      @checker.should_not be_valid
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'][1]['type'] = "selection"
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'][1]['selections'] = @checker.options['hit']['questions'][0]['selections']
      @checker.should be_valid
    end
  end

  describe "when 'trigger_on' is set to 'schedule'" do
    before do
      @checker.options['trigger_on'] = "schedule"
      @checker.options['submission_period'] = "2"
      @checker.options.delete('expected_receive_period_in_days')
    end

    it "should check for reviewable HITs frequently" do
      mock(@checker).review_hits.twice
      mock(@checker).create_basic_hit.once
      @checker.check
      @checker.check
    end

    it "should create HITs every 'submission_period' hours" do
      now = Time.now
      stub(Time).now { now }
      mock(@checker).review_hits.times(3)
      mock(@checker).create_basic_hit.twice
      @checker.check
      now += 1 * 60 * 60
      @checker.check
      now += 1 * 60 * 60
      @checker.check
    end

    it "should ignore events" do
      mock(@checker).create_basic_hit(anything).times(0)
      @checker.receive([events(:bob_website_agent_event)])
    end
  end

  describe "when 'trigger_on' is set to 'event'" do
    it "should not create HITs during check but should check for reviewable HITs" do
      @checker.options['submission_period'] = "2"
      now = Time.now
      stub(Time).now { now }
      mock(@checker).review_hits.times(3)
      mock(@checker).create_basic_hit.times(0)
      @checker.check
      now += 1 * 60 * 60
      @checker.check
      now += 1 * 60 * 60
      @checker.check
    end

    it "should create HITs based on events" do
      mock(@checker).create_basic_hit(events(:bob_website_agent_event)).times(1)
      @checker.receive([events(:bob_website_agent_event)])
    end
  end

  describe "creating hits" do
    it "can create HITs based on events, interpolating their values" do
      @checker.options['hit']['title'] = "Hi {{name}}"
      @checker.options['hit']['description'] = "Make something for {{name}}"
      @checker.options['hit']['questions'][0]['name'] = "{{name}} Question 1"

      question_form = nil
      hitInterface = OpenStruct.new
      hitInterface.id = 123
      mock(hitInterface).question_form(instance_of Agents::HumanTaskAgent::AgentQuestionForm) { |agent_question_form_instance| question_form = agent_question_form_instance }
      mock(RTurk::Hit).create(:title => "Hi Joe").yields(hitInterface) { hitInterface }

      @checker.send :create_basic_hit, @event

      hitInterface.max_assignments.should == @checker.options['hit']['assignments']
      hitInterface.reward.should == @checker.options['hit']['reward']
      hitInterface.description.should == "Make something for Joe"

      xml = question_form.to_xml
      xml.should include("<Title>Hi Joe</Title>")
      xml.should include("<Text>Make something for Joe</Text>")
      xml.should include("<DisplayName>Joe Question 1</DisplayName>")

      @checker.memory['hits'][123]['event_id'].should == @event.id
    end

    it "works without an event too" do
      @checker.options['hit']['title'] = "Hi {{name}}"
      hitInterface = OpenStruct.new
      hitInterface.id = 123
      mock(hitInterface).question_form(instance_of Agents::HumanTaskAgent::AgentQuestionForm)
      mock(RTurk::Hit).create(:title => "Hi").yields(hitInterface) { hitInterface }
      @checker.send :create_basic_hit
      hitInterface.max_assignments.should == @checker.options['hit']['assignments']
      hitInterface.reward.should == @checker.options['hit']['reward']
    end
  end

  describe "reviewing HITs" do
    class FakeHit
      def initialize(options = {})
        @options = options
      end

      def assignments
        @options[:assignments] || []
      end

      def max_assignments
        @options[:max_assignments] || 1
      end

      def dispose!
        @disposed = true
      end

      def disposed?
        @disposed
      end
    end

    class FakeAssignment
      attr_accessor :approved

      def initialize(options = {})
        @options = options
      end

      def answers
        @options[:answers] || {}
      end

      def status
        @options[:status] || ""
      end

      def approve!
        @approved = true
      end
    end

    it "should work on multiple HITs" do
      event2 = Event.new
      event2.agent = agents(:bob_rain_notifier_agent)
      event2.payload = { 'foo2' => { "bar2" => { 'baz2' => "a2b2" } },
                         'name2' => "Joe2" }
      event2.id = 3452

      # It knows about two HITs from two different events.
      @checker.memory['hits'] = {}
      @checker.memory['hits']["JH3132836336DHG"] = { 'event_id' => @event.id }
      @checker.memory['hits']["JH39AA63836DHG"] = { 'event_id' => event2.id }

      hit_ids = %w[JH3132836336DHG JH39AA63836DHG JH39AA63836DH12345]
      mock(RTurk::GetReviewableHITs).create { mock!.hit_ids { hit_ids } } # It sees 3 HITs.

      # It looksup the two HITs that it owns.  Neither are ready yet.
      mock(RTurk::Hit).new("JH3132836336DHG") { FakeHit.new }
      mock(RTurk::Hit).new("JH39AA63836DHG") { FakeHit.new }

      @checker.send :review_hits
    end

    it "shouldn't do anything if an assignment isn't ready" do
      @checker.memory['hits'] = { "JH3132836336DHG" => { 'event_id' => @event.id } }
      mock(RTurk::GetReviewableHITs).create { mock!.hit_ids { %w[JH3132836336DHG JH39AA63836DHG JH39AA63836DH12345] } }
      assignments = [
        FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Accepted", :answers => {}),
        FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Submitted", :answers => {"sentiment"=>"happy", "feedback"=>"Take 2"})
      ]
      hit = FakeHit.new(:max_assignments => 2, :assignments => assignments)
      mock(RTurk::Hit).new("JH3132836336DHG") { hit }

      # One of the assignments isn't set to "Submitted", so this should get skipped for now.
      mock.any_instance_of(FakeAssignment).answers.times(0)

      @checker.send :review_hits

      assignments.all? {|a| a.approved == true }.should be_falsey
      @checker.memory['hits'].should == { "JH3132836336DHG" => { 'event_id' => @event.id } }
    end

    it "shouldn't do anything if an assignment is missing" do
      @checker.memory['hits'] = { "JH3132836336DHG" => { 'event_id' => @event.id } }
      mock(RTurk::GetReviewableHITs).create { mock!.hit_ids { %w[JH3132836336DHG JH39AA63836DHG JH39AA63836DH12345] } }
      assignments = [
        FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Submitted", :answers => {"sentiment"=>"happy", "feedback"=>"Take 2"})
      ]
      hit = FakeHit.new(:max_assignments => 2, :assignments => assignments)
      mock(RTurk::Hit).new("JH3132836336DHG") { hit }

      # One of the assignments hasn't shown up yet, so this should get skipped for now.
      mock.any_instance_of(FakeAssignment).answers.times(0)

      @checker.send :review_hits

      assignments.all? {|a| a.approved == true }.should be_falsey
      @checker.memory['hits'].should == { "JH3132836336DHG" => { 'event_id' => @event.id } }
    end

    it "should create events when all assignments are ready" do
      @checker.memory['hits'] = { "JH3132836336DHG" => { 'event_id' => @event.id } }
      mock(RTurk::GetReviewableHITs).create { mock!.hit_ids { %w[JH3132836336DHG JH39AA63836DHG JH39AA63836DH12345] } }
      assignments = [
        FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Submitted", :answers => {"sentiment"=>"neutral", "feedback"=>""}),
        FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Submitted", :answers => {"sentiment"=>"happy", "feedback"=>"Take 2"})
      ]
      hit = FakeHit.new(:max_assignments => 2, :assignments => assignments)
      hit.should_not be_disposed
      mock(RTurk::Hit).new("JH3132836336DHG") { hit }

      lambda {
        @checker.send :review_hits
      }.should change { Event.count }.by(1)

      assignments.all? {|a| a.approved == true }.should be_truthy
      hit.should be_disposed

      @checker.events.last.payload['answers'].should == [
        {'sentiment' => "neutral", 'feedback' => ""},
        {'sentiment' => "happy", 'feedback' => "Take 2"}
      ]

      @checker.memory['hits'].should == {}
    end

    describe "taking majority votes" do
      before do
        @checker.options['combination_mode'] = "take_majority"
        @checker.memory['hits'] = { "JH3132836336DHG" => { 'event_id' => @event.id } }
        mock(RTurk::GetReviewableHITs).create { mock!.hit_ids { %w[JH3132836336DHG JH39AA63836DHG JH39AA63836DH12345] } }
      end

      it "should take the majority votes of all questions" do
        @checker.options['hit']['questions'][1] = {
          'type' => "selection",
          'key' => "age_range",
          'name' => "Age Range",
          'required' => "true",
          'question' => "Please select your age range:",
          'selections' =>
            [
              { 'key' => "<50", 'text' => "50 years old or younger" },
              { 'key' => ">50", 'text' => "Over 50 years old" }
            ]
        }

        assignments = [
          FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Submitted", :answers => {"sentiment"=>"sad", "age_range"=>"<50"}),
          FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Submitted", :answers => {"sentiment"=>"neutral", "age_range"=>">50"}),
          FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Submitted", :answers => {"sentiment"=>"happy", "age_range"=>">50"}),
          FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Submitted", :answers => {"sentiment"=>"happy", "age_range"=>">50"})
        ]
        hit = FakeHit.new(:max_assignments => 4, :assignments => assignments)
        mock(RTurk::Hit).new("JH3132836336DHG") { hit }

        lambda {
          @checker.send :review_hits
        }.should change { Event.count }.by(1)

        assignments.all? {|a| a.approved == true }.should be_truthy

        @checker.events.last.payload['answers'].should == [
          { 'sentiment' => "sad", 'age_range' => "<50" },
          { 'sentiment' => "neutral", 'age_range' => ">50" },
          { 'sentiment' => "happy", 'age_range' => ">50" },
          { 'sentiment' => "happy", 'age_range' => ">50" }
        ]

        @checker.events.last.payload['counts'].should == { 'sentiment' => { 'happy' => 2, 'sad' => 1, 'neutral' => 1 }, 'age_range' => { ">50" => 3, "<50" => 1 } }
        @checker.events.last.payload['majority_answer'].should == { 'sentiment' => "happy", 'age_range' => ">50" }
        @checker.events.last.payload.should_not have_key('average_answer')

        @checker.memory['hits'].should == {}
      end

      it "should also provide an average answer when all questions are numeric" do
        # it should accept 'take_majority': 'true' as well for legacy support.  Demonstrating that here.
        @checker.options.delete :combination_mode
        @checker.options['take_majority'] = "true"

        @checker.options['hit']['questions'] = [
          {
            'type' => "selection",
            'key' => "rating",
            'name' => "Rating",
            'required' => "true",
            'question' => "Please select a rating:",
            'selections' =>
              [
                { 'key' => "1", 'text' => "One" },
                { 'key' => "2", 'text' => "Two" },
                { 'key' => "3", 'text' => "Three" },
                { 'key' => "4", 'text' => "Four" },
                { 'key' => "5.1", 'text' => "Five Point One" }
              ]
          }
        ]

        assignments = [
          FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Submitted", :answers => { "rating"=>"1" }),
          FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Submitted", :answers => { "rating"=>"3" }),
          FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Submitted", :answers => { "rating"=>"5.1" }),
          FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Submitted", :answers => { "rating"=>"2" }),
          FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Submitted", :answers => { "rating"=>"2" })
        ]
        hit = FakeHit.new(:max_assignments => 5, :assignments => assignments)
        mock(RTurk::Hit).new("JH3132836336DHG") { hit }

        lambda {
          @checker.send :review_hits
        }.should change { Event.count }.by(1)

        assignments.all? {|a| a.approved == true }.should be_truthy

        @checker.events.last.payload['answers'].should == [
          { 'rating' => "1" },
          { 'rating' => "3" },
          { 'rating' => "5.1" },
          { 'rating' => "2" },
          { 'rating' => "2" }
        ]

        @checker.events.last.payload['counts'].should == { 'rating' => { "1" => 1, "2" => 2, "3" => 1, "4" => 0, "5.1" => 1 } }
        @checker.events.last.payload['majority_answer'].should == { 'rating' => "2" }
        @checker.events.last.payload['average_answer'].should == { 'rating' => (1 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 5.1) / 5.0 }

        @checker.memory['hits'].should == {}
      end
    end

    describe "creating and reviewing polls" do
      before do
        @checker.options['combination_mode'] = "poll"
        @checker.options['poll_options'] = {
          'title' => "Hi!",
          'instructions' => "hello!",
          'assignments' => 2,
          'row_template' => "This is {{sentiment}}"
        }
        @event.save!
        mock(RTurk::GetReviewableHITs).create { mock!.hit_ids { %w[JH3132836336DHG JH39AA63836DHG JH39AA63836DH12345] } }
      end

      it "creates a poll using the row_template, message, and correct number of assignments" do
        @checker.memory['hits'] = { "JH3132836336DHG" => { 'event_id' => @event.id } }

        # Mock out the HIT's submitted assignments.
        assignments = [
          FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Submitted", :answers => {"sentiment"=>"sad",     "feedback"=>"This is my feedback 1"}),
          FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Submitted", :answers => {"sentiment"=>"neutral", "feedback"=>"This is my feedback 2"}),
          FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Submitted", :answers => {"sentiment"=>"happy",   "feedback"=>"This is my feedback 3"}),
          FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Submitted", :answers => {"sentiment"=>"happy",   "feedback"=>"This is my feedback 4"})
        ]
        hit = FakeHit.new(:max_assignments => 4, :assignments => assignments)
        mock(RTurk::Hit).new("JH3132836336DHG") { hit }

        @checker.memory['hits']["JH3132836336DHG"].should be_present

        # Setup mocks for HIT creation

        question_form = nil
        hitInterface = OpenStruct.new
        hitInterface.id = "JH39AA63836DH12345"
        mock(hitInterface).question_form(instance_of Agents::HumanTaskAgent::AgentQuestionForm) { |agent_question_form_instance| question_form = agent_question_form_instance }
        mock(RTurk::Hit).create(:title => "Hi!").yields(hitInterface) { hitInterface }

        # And finally, the test.

        lambda {
          @checker.send :review_hits
        }.should change { Event.count }.by(0) # it does not emit an event until all poll results are in

        # it approves the existing assignments

        assignments.all? {|a| a.approved == true }.should be_truthy
        hit.should be_disposed

        # it creates a new HIT for the poll

        hitInterface.max_assignments.should == @checker.options['poll_options']['assignments']
        hitInterface.description.should == @checker.options['poll_options']['instructions']

        xml = question_form.to_xml
        xml.should include("<Text>This is happy</Text>")
        xml.should include("<Text>This is neutral</Text>")
        xml.should include("<Text>This is sad</Text>")

        @checker.save
        @checker.reload
        @checker.memory['hits']["JH3132836336DHG"].should_not be_present
        @checker.memory['hits']["JH39AA63836DH12345"].should be_present
        @checker.memory['hits']["JH39AA63836DH12345"]['event_id'].should == @event.id
        @checker.memory['hits']["JH39AA63836DH12345"]['type'].should == "poll"
        @checker.memory['hits']["JH39AA63836DH12345"]['original_hit'].should == "JH3132836336DHG"
        @checker.memory['hits']["JH39AA63836DH12345"]['answers'].length.should == 4
      end

      it "emits an event when all poll results are in, containing the data from the best answer, plus all others" do
        original_answers = [
          { 'sentiment' => "sad",     'feedback' => "This is my feedback 1"},
          { 'sentiment' => "neutral", 'feedback' => "This is my feedback 2"},
          { 'sentiment' => "happy",   'feedback' => "This is my feedback 3"},
          { 'sentiment' => "happy",   'feedback' => "This is my feedback 4"}
        ]

        @checker.memory['hits'] = {
          'JH39AA63836DH12345' => {
            'type' => 'poll',
            'original_hit' => "JH3132836336DHG",
            'answers' => original_answers,
            'event_id' => 345
          }
        }

        # Mock out the HIT's submitted assignments.
        assignments = [
          FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Submitted", :answers => {"1" => "2", "2" => "5", "3" => "3", "4" => "2"}),
          FakeAssignment.new(:status => "Submitted", :answers => {"1" => "3", "2" => "4", "3" => "1", "4" => "4"})
        ]
        hit = FakeHit.new(:max_assignments => 2, :assignments => assignments)
        mock(RTurk::Hit).new("JH39AA63836DH12345") { hit }

        @checker.memory['hits']["JH39AA63836DH12345"].should be_present

        lambda {
          @checker.send :review_hits
        }.should change { Event.count }.by(1)

        # It emits an event

        @checker.events.last.payload['answers'].should == original_answers
        @checker.events.last.payload['poll'].should == [{"1" => "2", "2" => "5", "3" => "3", "4" => "2"}, {"1" => "3", "2" => "4", "3" => "1", "4" => "4"}]
        @checker.events.last.payload['best_answer'].should == {'sentiment' => "neutral", 'feedback' => "This is my feedback 2"}

        # it approves the existing assignments

        assignments.all? {|a| a.approved == true }.should be_truthy
        hit.should be_disposed

        @checker.memory['hits'].should be_empty
      end
    end
  end
end

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In trading on Monday, shares of the WisdomTree Asia Local Debt Fund ETF entered into oversold territory, changing hands as low as $48.70 per share. We define oversold territory using the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which is a technical analysis indicator used to measure momentum on a scale of zero to 100.
In trading on Monday, shares of the WisdomTree Asia Local Debt Fund ETF (ALD entered into oversold territory, changing hands as low as $48.70 per share. We define oversold territory using the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which is a technical analysis indicator used to measure momentum on a scale of zero to 100. A stock is considered to be oversold if the RSI reading falls below 30.
In the case of WisdomTree Asia Local Debt Fund, the RSI reading has hit 29.4 — by comparison, the RSI reading for the S&P 500 is currently 48.9.
A bullish investor could look at ALD's 29.4 reading as a sign that the recent heavy selling is in the process of exhausting itself, and begin to look for entry point opportunities on the buy side.
Looking at a chart of one year performance (below), ALD's low point in its 52 week range is $46.82 per share, with $49.95 as the 52 week high point — that compares with a last trade of $48.72. WisdomTree Asia Local Debt Fund shares are currently trading off about 0.3% on the day.


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Citrix and VDI: What is the Difference Between Them?
Citrix Virtual Apps (formerly Citrix XenApp) is an application delivery solution that enables access to Windows-based applications to any device compatible with Citrix Receiver. What exactly is the difference between Citrix and VDI?
VDI stands for virtual desktop infrastructure. A VDI desktop is a desktop running on a server in the datacenter that a user can access from virtually any device. To use VDI with Citrix, you need to purchase Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop (formerly Citrix XenDesktop). Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop (formerly Citrix XenDesktop) and VMware Horizon are two well-known solutions to implement and deploy virtual desktop infrastructures.
What is VDI?
VDI comprises host servers for desktop operating systems and application software residing inside guest virtual machines. The VMs are accessible from devices of any kind, e.g. desktops, tablets PCs, and mobile devices, within the network.
Users connect to VMs, or their virtual desktops, using their preferred devices. Virtual desktops can be assigned to either a single user or multiple users:
Single-use desktops are configurable by their assigned users
Multiple-user desktops go back to their default configuration once a user completes their session
What makes the above possible is an abstraction layer known as a hypervisor, which allows guest VMs to be installed on a single server. It's possible to scale the IT infrastructure up or down according to demand by adding more servers with more VMs. Hypervisors manage the VMs and broker the connections to the VMs.
What Are the Different Types of VDI?
While there is a standard definition of VDI, there are various methodologies to deliver virtual desktops, classified into three main categories:
Desktop-Based VDI – A desktop running in a virtual machine that is hosted on a server in the datacenter.
Server-Based VDI – A desktop running in a server operating system that is available only for a single user at a time (Remote PC).
Session-Based VDI – An individual session running inside a server OS on either a virtual machine or a physical server.
What Are the Limitations for Citrix and VDI?
Deploying and maintaining VDI with Citrix is complicated due to different licenses offering different features. For example, to support desktop-based VDI and server-based VDI, organizations need to upgrade from Citrix Virtual Apps to Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop. In essence, even in its Platinum Edition, Citrix Virtual Apps does not support a full VDI.
How to Deploy VDI with Citrix
To deploy VDI with Citrix, organizations must consider what kind of VDI they need for their infrastructures (desktop, server, or session-based). They also need to be aware that publishing applications require either Citrix Virtual Apps or Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Enterprise/Platinum version.
Citrix's VDI solution, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop, works in small environments and large ones, but it's geared toward the medium and big enterprise. Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop is available in three versions.
Virtual Desktops Standard
This version provides only the basic Citrix virtualization technology, restricting the delivery options to VDI for both pooled and dedicated services on Windows 7 and Windows 10. However, the app lacks basic security configurations, including FIPS compliance, Common Criteria certification, SmartAccess, Intelligent session recording, and provisions for SSL VPN.
In terms of productivity, the Virtual Desktop Standard does not provide optimized Skype and Microsoft Teams for business. Also, the app doesn't allow for Citrix casting (transitioning applications and desktops from a mobile device to any display-connected device in a Citrix Ready hub) and Workspace Environment Management.
Virtual Apps and Desktops Advanced
This version offers more virtualization features including, server-based hosted apps, server-based virtual desktops, VDI (for both pooled and dedicated services), Remote PC access, and VM hosted applications.
The main benefit of this version is the inclusion of extra features to boost employee's productivity, such as optimized Skype and Microsoft Teams for businesses that are not available in Virtual Desktop Standard. However, it still lacks Citrix casting and Citrix SD-WAN for WAN optimization that could boost efficiency in an organization.
In terms of security, Virtual Apps and Desktop Advanced lacks standard security configurations including FIPS compliance, Common Criteria certification, SmartAccess, Intelligent session recording, and provisions for SSL VPN just like its Virtual Desktops Standard counterpart.
Virtual Apps and Desktops Premium Edition
This version includes all VDI features, plus an enhanced version of Citrix Virtual Apps called Virtual Apps Premium (formerly XenApp Platinum). It also includes a couple of additional features such as seamless local applications, self-service password reset, and a UX network analysis.
Note: To deploy a fully-featured application and desktop delivery infrastructure with Citrix, you also need to purchase Citrix add-ons such as Citrix ADC (previously NetScaler).
Printing issues with Citrix Solutions
Printing is often a problematic area in Citrix. Among the pain points are:
Slow printing: Citrix uses a virtual channel for printing. As a result, latency, packet loss, and lack of bandwidth may slow down printing across networks. Proper configuration with the use of the correct protocol and PCL6-based drivers may help address this issue.
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The IBMS young investigator committee facilitated 3 sessions targeted at young investigators (YIs) at the 2013 2nd Joint meeting of the IBMS and JSBMR built on successes of the YI events at the IBMS/ECTS 2011 meeting. .
The first session was targeted specifically at local, Japan-based YIs and covered the topic of the international post-doc fellowships. The session was opened by Professor Toshiyuki Yoneda (Indiana University) who provided an overview of the session and great insight from his experience working in the United States for 30 years. We learned working abroad is very tough but very exciting for Japanese scientists. The session was followed by three speakers who discussed the benefits and challenges as Post-docs in North America (Tomoki Nakashima), Europe (Ritsuko Masuyama) and Australia (Nobuyuki Udagawa). This session encouraged Japanese YI scientists to pursue positions abroad as they develop their scientific careers.
On the second day we held a breakfast session that focused on advice for getting your work published. Attendance at this early morning session was very high; we even noted some participants who were at more senior levels due to our impressive line-up of speakers. We heard some really interesting advice from editors in chief and associate editors of the 4 highest ranking bone journals: Roland Baron (Bone), Juliet Compston (Jounal of Bone and Mineral Research), Ego Seaman (Osteoporosis International) and Toshio Matsumoto (IBMS Bonekey). The speakers covered important topics from statistics of publication success, down to how to construct a paper to improve its chances of publication. Details were provided on how the review process works and how important the quality of both the scientific content and writing style and clarity of your paper is to its chances of being accepted. We discussed at length the importance of addressing the reviewer's comments well and how to construct a response letter. Each speaker provided very valuable and unique insight and encouraged questions and discussion from YI participants. One valuable piece of advice was to get involved with reviewing papers, as this will help you develop strong ideas to improve your own paper and get it past the review process. To become a reviewer we were advised to contact the editor of your journal of interest, because most journals are looking for more reviewers.
Lastly we held a YI scientific session at which a number of highly-ranked YI abstracts awarded poster presentations at the main meeting were invited to give short oral presentations. The quality of this session was very high and we had great attendance and participation in discussion by YIs. This smaller forum provided a less formal environment, encouraging YIs to participate by asking questions. The session was followed by a cheese and wine reception, allowing YIs to discuss their work, ask additional questions and network.
These YI events offered opportunities and tools for YIs to build their profiles, develop their track records and establish networks. We look forward to holding similar YI-focused events at the upcoming IBMS/ECTS meeting in 2015.


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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Coming next on The World and Everything in It, the Monday Moneybeat.
KUDLOW: We're on a roll, and it's gonna stay like that.
NICK EICHER, HOST: White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow touting the best jobs report in almost a year: American employers added 304,000 new jobs in January. It's 100 consecutive months of positive job growth. But with a government shutdown that put almost 200,000 workers on the sidelines, the unemployment rate ticked up to 4 percent. Gus Faucher is chief economist at PNC Financial.
KUDLOW: But I would expect that we will see the unemployment rate decline again in February now that those workers are back on the job.
Faucher says businesses are reporting stronger demand for their goods and services, and so he predicts solid job growth for the rest of 2019.
REICHARD: The Labor Department also reported workers enjoyed a rise in annual wages and benefits of seven-tenths of a percent in the final quarter of 2018. So year over year, total compensation is up almost three percent. Strong manufacturing is helping drive job creation and higher pay. The Institute for Supply Management reported its manufacturing index for January at 56.6 percent. Any number north of 50 represents industry growth.
EICHER: We are getting caught up on other government economic reports, but that is slower-going. We have numbers from November for construction and home sales. Construction rose modestly, but home sales showed a glimmer of hope, picking up almost 17 percent in November.
Now, it is important to note, the housing market has a lot of lost ground to make up. Even with the positive report, year over year, last November is still almost 8 percent below the previous November.
REICHARD: The Federal Reserve met last week and decided to leave interest rates alone. Jay Powell is chairman of the Fed.
POWELL: The U.S. economy is in a good place and we will continue to use our monetary policy tools to help keep it there.
Powell added he's mindful of trouble abroad that could threaten the American economy: lagging growth in China and Europe, uncertainty about Brexit, and Italy in recession.
POWELL: That has important implications for us and that story has, let's just say, it continues.
EICHER: The Fed boosted interest rates four times last year, and seemed poised for about three more this year. But Powell started changing his tune last month in his public statements, and the Fed governors last week voted unanimously not to raise rates in the January meeting.
The stock market loved that. All the major indexes posted gains on the news and all finished in positive territory for the week. For the month of January and so far this year, the Standard & Poor's 500 index is up 8 percent, the Dow Jones Industrials up 7.4 percent. The Nasdaq has picked up 9.5 percent and the smaller-company index, the Russell 2000 has jumped 11.4 percent.
And that is this week's Monday Moneybeat.
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Kirtan's Rising Stars
As part of Yoga International's special report on "Yoga Rock Stars", we named our "Top 6 Wallahs to Watch." Read on to learn more about them.
by Anna Dubrovsky
When Sean Johnson evacuated New Orleans in August 2005, he took a few changes of clothes, his harmonium, and a box of music and mystical poetry. Hurricane Katrina hit the next day. Unable to go home, Johnson embarked on a kirtan tour to raise money for hurricane relief—and to collect himself. "The kirtan was very therapeutic," he says. His music is as much a product of his New Orleans roots as it is of formal study. "There's music in the water, in the air, in the heat and the humidity here, and in the way people walk and talk," says Johnson, who grew up listening to jazz, hip hop, and rock, and sang in the city's children's choir. In college he studied the singing style of his Irish ancestors and got hooked on Middle Eastern music. Later he apprenticed with South Indian musician and author Russill Paul. "When I lead kirtan now, it's a really rich brew of all these traditions."
Snatam Kaur
Snatam Kaur's day begins at a time when many musicians are heading to bed. At 4 a.m., she and her husband begin morning sadhana, two-and-a-half hours of Kundalini Yoga and chanting and prayer in the Sikh tradition. When she's on tour, they're joined by bandmates and crew. "As an artist, a lot of my inspiration comes at that time, a lot of the tunes and ideas for future albums," says Snatam, who has churned out six solo albums since 2002. "It's my well that I draw from." Snatam's parents turned to Sikhism shortly after she was born. She learned kirtan from her mother and musical improvisation from her father, a former manager for the Grateful Dead. Her kirtans include Gurmukhi chants drawn from Sikh scriptures and English aphorisms composed by her spiritual teacher, Yogi Bhajan, who brought Kundalini Yoga to the West in the 1960s. Between chants, she teaches yoga and meditation. "I look at each concert as a full experience of healing. The words that we share are considered to be a technology of transformation—almost like opening up a medicine cabinet."
Wade Imre Morissette
Wade Morissette had just started college when his roommate handed him a copy of The Mystic Path to Cosmic Powers. He dropped out; cosmic powers intrigued him more than environmental law. Over the next decade, the Ottawa native traveled to India four times, studying with yoga masters and spiritual teachers, including K. Pattabhi Jois, T.K.V. Desikachar, and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. At the Osho meditation resort in Pune, he was given the Sanskrit name Atmo Sargam, or "innermost scales of music." Morissette had grown up in a musical household, studying piano, guitar, and a West African hand drum called djembe. His twin sister, Alanis, had risen to stardom singing about heartbreak and revenge scenarios. "Getting that Sanskrit name lit a fire under me," he says. He resolved to seek God in song. "At the end of the day, it is a practice. At the end of the day, I'm really not trying to sell records."
David Newman (aka Durga Das)
The kirtan represents my inner world, and my musical presentation represents my present incarnation as someone who's crazy about guitars and loves the singer-songwriter idiom.
Less than two months after taking the bar exam in 1992, David Newman opened a yoga center in Philadelphia. He'd give it a year, he figured, and fall back on his law degree if Yoga on Main failed. "I never had to go back to practicing law," he says. Krishna Das and Bhagavan Das came to sing at the studio, reawakening Newman's passion for music. Their guru, Neem Karoli Baba, "installed himself in my heart," says Newman, and chanting became the keystone of his yoga practice. "The kirtan represents my inner world, and my musical presentation represents my present incarnation as someone who's crazy about guitars and loves the singer-songwriter idiom," says Newman, who fronted bands in high school and studied music in college. His nontraditional presentation has found fans in kirtan's birthplace. Recently he signed a deal with a New Delhi–based record company to distribute his music in India.
Dave Stringer
Dave Stringer didn't go to India in 1990 to find a guru. He went because he was broke and couldn't refuse a job shooting films for the first Siddha Yoga ashram. "All the images of people sitting in meditation 'blissed out' were actually a turnoff for me rather than an enticement," he says. At the ashram in Ganeshpuri, the skeptic became an enthusiast in short order. "The experience of chanting, which was at first total nonsense to me, was strangely compelling, not only musically but in terms of how I felt—completely ecstatic," says Stringer, a trained jazz musician. About a decade after returning to Los Angeles, he traded his career in film editing for one in kirtan. "I don't ask people who come to my kirtans to believe in it. I ask them to suspend their disbelief for a long enough time to give it a go and see what happens."
Benjy and Heather Wertheimer (aka Shantala)
They met 10 years ago at a songwriting workshop in Portland, Oregon. (He recites the exact date without the slightest pause.) She was a part-time folk singer as well as a therapist and yoga teacher. He'd opened for Carlos Santana, scored music for the internationally syndicated soap opera Santa Barbara, and studied classical Indian music with masters Zakir Hussain and Ali Akbar Khan. In 2000, the year they wed, Benjy was invited to play an Indian stringed instrument called esraj during the shavasana portion of a workshop by Anusara Yoga founder John Friend. Live accompaniment to yoga practice became a specialty of the Wertheimers, who record and tour as Shantala. The couple has released two chant albums and tours for about nine months of the year. "One of the great joys is coming back to the same locations year after year and seeing how the community is growing," says Benjy.
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Q: Why do I have to specify the default port in order to connect? The following connection attempt works!
sqlcmd -S SOMEOTHERPC\SQLEXPRESS,1433 -Q "SELECT * WHERE Lol=1" -d "mydb"

the following does not work, it times out after 10 seconds and fails
sqlcmd -S SOMEOTHERPC\SQLEXPRESS -Q "SELECT * WHERE Lol=1" -d "mydb"

given that 1433 is the default port for sql server, why is it that I have to provide it?  used to work without it?
many applications are getting this connection time out issue And i feel it is due to this?
had the default port been changes somewhere in sqlserver config?
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Microsoft SQL Server 2014
Windows Embedded Standard 32bit (6.1 Build 7601)

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is a subway station in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan, operated by Toei Subway. Its station numbers are S-11 (Shinjuku Line) and E-13 (Ōedo Line).

Lines
Morishita Station is served by the following two lines.
 Toei Shinjuku Line
 Toei Ōedo Line

Platforms
Morishita Station consists of two island platforms (one for each line), each served by two tracks.

History
The station opened on December 21, 1978; service on the Ōedo Line began on December 12, 2000.

Surrounding area
The station is located underneath the intersection of Tokyo Metropolitan Routes 50 (Shin-Ōhashi-dōri) and 463 (Kiyosumi-dōri). The area is typically shitamachi, with a mix of mid-rise office buildings, apartment buildings, and homes. Being close to Ryōgoku, many sumōbeya are located in the vicinity.

Connecting bus service
Toei Bus: Morishita-Ekimae
 Mon 33: for Kameido Station
 Kyūkō 06: for National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
 Kin 11: for Kinshichō Station, Shinozaki Station

References

External links

 Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation: Morishita Station (Shinjuku Line)
 Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation: Morishita Station (Ōedo Line)

Railway stations in Tokyo
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1978

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What a Difference a Few Decades Make - More on Japan's Coming Collapse - The Energy Crisis
In yesterday's article Japan's Collapse Will Be Absolute and it Cannot be Stopped - Here's Some BIG Reasons Why I wrote that Japan is now entering the so-called Perfect Storm that is going to ruin this country and there's no way out.
Our debt situation is past fixable state. The March 11 disaster of Tohoku has put the entire country in a situation whereby we are set to turn off all our nuclear power plants in the summer of 2012 (good timing while oil prices have passed $100 a barrel and the saber rattling gets louder near Iran)... The Japanese public, in their usual confused state, as well as the decrepit Japanese political class are even entertaining the idea of shutting the power plants off permanently. This entire mess has lead to a situation whereby Japanese electrical power companies have stated that they want to raise the power costs to manufacturers. Zerohedge writes in: A New Beginning in Japan: Glimmers of False Hope:
TEPCO, the bailed out owner of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, is trying to shove rate increases of 17% down the throats of its commercial customers—while rationing power at the same time.
Continuing in another quote from yesterday's article: Japan Inc. is losing money left and right as it it without a massive increase in costs. Please refer to Times of India Sony, Panasonic forecast deeper losses:
Japan's biggest makers of phones, televisions and chips say they'll lose about $17 billion this year, about three-quarters of what Samsung Electronics Co will spend on research to lengthen the lead over its competitors.
Sony Corp more than doubled its annual loss forecast for the year ending March 31 as it announced a new chief executive officer, while Panasonic Corp and Sharp Corp predicted the worst losses in their histories. Their combined losses compare with the $22 billion that Samsung, Asia's largest consumer- electronics company, said it will invest in capital expenditures.
These two Japanese giants are going to lose in one year nearly what one Korean competitor will spend merely on R&D? Folks, it doesn't take a genius to figure out what's going to happen to these entities when they are hit with a 17% increase in operating costs. At least three big things will happen. One, the manufacturers will pass on increased costs to you, the consumer, which will ultimately decrease sales for them and increase the cost of living for you. Two, this increase in cost of living will decrease sales and hurt production and profitability further (thereby actually depressing tax revenues for the government in spite of raising taxes). And three, they will move factories overseas where it is cheaper to operate.
This energy problem and the problems Japan faces lay plainly at the feet of the government... Namely government interference with all areas of the economy and public life... An interference that expands daily. If the government didn't get their hands in ruining the economy, Japan could have shaken out all this bad debt we had in the late 80s at the end of the so-called bubble and started building a solid economy... But we didn't. The Japanese government bailed out the banking industry and gave rise to the word, "Zombie Banks." We still have them.
A the economic problems grow inexorably larger as the population ages and the energy problems peak.
Diego.a a regular reader to this blog sends in some very interesting observations on this situation. They basically boil down to, "How in the world could it be that Japan has fallen so far, so fast in just these thirty years?" Of course, I'd have to answer, "...Just look at government interference. The more the government gets involved, the more messed up things get."
Diego.a writes:
Remember the 1980s/1990s when people were Americans were scared of Japanese companies buying up the world?
Losing the War with Japan:
(The description on the video of "Losing the War With Japan" reads as follows:
PBS documentary, which first aired in 1991, titled Losing the War with Japan. It examines Japan's economic challenged to the US, which reached its peak in the late 1980s to early 1990s. A key argument in the documentary centers on the manner in which Japan achieved its economic rise, which was through state-led industrial development based on "predatory capitalism" and America's need to respond in kind. )
Diego.a continues:
Now, thanks to the state, you have blackouts in 21st Century Japan.
Things are so bad, China may end up with the first practical thorium reactor . That is nuts!
(More on LFTR/thorium power plants.)
Fukushima immune? China bets on 'safer nuclear fuel':
Oh what a difference a few decades make. Seriously, when you consider Diego.a's words, it is appalling that the Japan of the 21st Century has been so ineptly mismanaged that blackouts are going to become a part and parcel of life in this country.
That people still ask, "Why doesn't the government do something?" Just makes me scratch my head. Hasn't the government already done enough to make things worse? We certainly don't want them doing anymore.
If big government were the answer to our problems then the Soviet Union would have been a very successful country. But it wasn't.
We are now witnessing the results of two lost decades, going on three, of government interference in the Japanese economy. It's pretty easy to see how well they've done.
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MMJ: "And three, they will move factories overseas where it is cheaper to operate."
Wouldn't that be a boost to earnings?
Especially if they laid off the high wage earners with huge pensions and replaced them with lower cost employees?
Say goodbye to lifetime employment, er is that, welcome to fiat money printing unemployment benefits? That broken window is a huge boost to an economy, just like in the unitedstate.
Psft.
Maybe that's what Marc Faber sees as a reason for thinking the Japanese market may outperform all the other markets?
For those that don't relocate, they will pass their parts price increases on to their industrial and municipal customers and those customers will suffer even larger hits on earnings as a result?
This race to the bottom is spooky.
You do seem to be making quite a bit more sense than he is at this point.
Massive boost to earnings and much employment for people living in other countries!


TEHRAN, Apr. 16 (MNA) – Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif will leave Tehran Sunday evening for official visits to Turkmenistan, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan, FM Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said Saturday.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi noted that Zarif's first official visit on this three-nation tour will be Turkmenistan, followed by Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. The visits come at the invitation of foreign ministers of these three countries, he added.
According to Ghasemi, an economic delegation from the public and private sectors and comprising representatives of about 30 business, industrial and banking institutions will accompany the foreign minister on this tour.
Ghasemi said the visits aim at participating in a ceremony on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Iran and these countries after their independence, and expanding ties with the countries in the Central Asia and the Caucasus regions.
"The friendly ties, mutual understanding, and extensive cooperation between Iran and these three countries have always been in line with promoting peace, stability and security in the region," Ghasemi stressed.
Zarif and his accompanying delegation are scheduled to hold political and economic meetings with senior officials of Turkmenistan, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan, and take part in joint economic meetings with the countries' commercial institutions.


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The Energy Task Force and the Oil & Gas Working Group are committed to working together to strengthen the Brazil-U.S. energy partnership and boost energy security, economic growth, innovation, and job creation in both countries.
It recognizes energy as a high-potential sector for trade and investment between Brazil and the U.S. To that end, the Council endorses a number of actions:
Urge the Brazilian and U.S. governments to hold regular annual meetings of the Strategic Energy Dialogue with a collaborative agenda and allow robust private sector participation.
Urge Brazilian federal, state, and municipal governments to streamline the environmental licensing process, adopting clear criteria to avoid unnecessary risk, significant delays, and investment uncertainty. Support collaboration between the Brazilian and U.S. governments on environmental licensing (e.g., technical exchanges, staff training and development, and best practices).
Support continued dialogue and collaboration between the Brazilian and U.S. governments with private sector participation to promote energy efficiency technologies. Work with the Brazilian government to establish a proactive and constructive agenda in renewable energy generation and energy efficiency, which encourages generation and does not create inefficiencies and further costs on the market.
Support studies on the impact of renewable energy and cogeneration on the energy matrix as a whole, with cooperation from the private sector and academia.
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Aaron Burke, UCLA, "Kaplan's Excavations of Bronze Age Jaffa"
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows:
Katherine S. Burke, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, "Islamic and Crusader Ceramics from Jaffa"
Philippa L. Townsend, Ursinus College, Pennsylvania, "Sacrifice and Society in Late Antiquity"
Edward Maher, The Field Museum, Chicago, "Rural Economic Orientations of a Philistine Community at Qubur al-Walaydah, Israel"
John I. Kampen, Methodist Theological School in Ohio, "The Gospel of Matthew within the Context of Jewish Sectarianism and Imperial Rome"
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Joe Uziel, Bar-Ilan University, "Household Archaeology in the Southern Levant from the Early Bronze Age to the Iron Age"
Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) Fellows:
Peter J. Stone, University of Cincinnati, "Provincial Perspectives: The Persian, Ptolemaic, and Seleucid Administrative Center at Kedesh in a Regional Context"
Dana D. DePietro, UC Berkeley, "Trade, Agency and the Politics of Consumption: Reevaluating the Role of Coastal Sites in the Late Bronze Southern Levant"
William G. Zimmerle, University of Pennsylvania, "The Impact of Neo-Assyrian Imperialism on Iron Age Gilead"
Alice Hunt, University College London, "The Assyrians at Tel Jemmeh: An Archaeological and Archaeometric Study of Assyrian Palace Ware"
Noble Group Fellows:
Cao Jian, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "The Role of Yahweh and Tian (Heaven) in the Narrations of King David in the Old Testament and Duke Wen of Jin in Zuo Zhuan (Mr. Zuo's Commentary)"
Hui Liang, Hangzhou, China, "Reading the Ten Commandments in China (635-1949): A Cross-Cultural Reflection on Jewish Exegesis and Chinese Classical Scholarship"
Reuben Yat Tin Lee, York University, Canada, "Diaspora Jews and Converts in Palestine: A Study of Ethnic and Cultural Boundaries"
Glassman Holland Research Fellow:
Mariusz Burdajewicz, National Museum, Warsaw, "Glass Finds from Hippos-Sussita (Israeli-Polish Excavations 2000-2009)"
Andrew W. Mellon Fellows:
Petr Balcarek, Presov University, Slovakia, "Near Eastern Origins of Archaeological Finds in the Czech Lands and Slovakia"
Marcin A. Czarnowicz, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, "Palestinian Imports and Imitations in Tell el-Farkha"
Maria Ranguelova Gurova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, "Prehistoric Agricultural Flint Tools from Israel. Sickle and Tribulum Inserts: Dichotomy or Convergence"
George A. Barton Fellow:
Paul Lesperance, University of Minnesota, "Symbols and Inanimate Objects on the Qedesh Sealings"
Carol and Eric Meyers Doctoral Dissertation Fellow:
Rosa Maria Motta, University of Virginia, "Material Culture through Coins: Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Dora"
Getty Research Exchange Fellow:
Hamdan Taha, Palestinian Department of Antiquities, "Tawaheen es-Sukkar in Jericho: A Study of Sugar Production in the Jordan Valley"
Kathleen S. Brooks Fellow:
Ghassan Nagagreh, Yarmouk University, "Interconnections between Iron Age Nation States in the Levant"
Marwan Abu Khalaf, Al-Quds University, "The Material Culture of Khirbat Shuwayka"
Michael Bieniada, University of Cardinal Stefan Wysznski, Warsaw, "Tradition and Acculturation: Continuity and Change. Factors Which Determine Formation of Ethnic Bonds, Hierarchic Social Systems and States in the Ancient Near East"
Eliot Braun, Independent Researcher, "Researching Early Levels at Megiddo"
Jeffrey Chadwick, Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center, "Assyrian and Judean Influences at Gath of the Philistines (Tell es-Safi) During Iron Age IIB"
Trude Dothan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Emerita) (Miqne Fellow), "The Philistine Ceramic Corpus of the Iron Age I at Tel Miqne-Ekron"
Gerald Finkielsztejn, Israel Antiquities Authority, "Amphora Stamps as Evidence for the History of Hellenistic Samaria and the Southern Levant"
Shimon Gibson, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, "The Mount Zion Excavation Project in Jerusalem"
Garth Gilmour, Oxford University, "Final Report—The Palestine Exploration Fund Excavations on the Hill of Ophel, Jerusalem, Directed by R.A.S. Macalister and J. Garrow Duncan, 1923-1925"
Jaimie Lovell, Kenyon Institute, Jerusalem, "The Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Levant"
Shari L. Lowin, Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts, "Sex and God: On Erotic Poetry in Medieval Andalusia "
Aren Maeir, Bar-Ilan University, "The Philistines and Philistia in light of the Excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath"
Pierre de Miroschedji, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), "The Early Bronze Age Urbanization Process as Seen from Tel Yarmuth"
Hani Nur el-Din, Al-Quds University, "Symbolism and Cultic Practice—Fact and Fiction: A Comparative Study of Ancient Near Eastern Phenomena"
Stephen Pfann, University of the Holy Land, "Ancient Jewish Cryptography in Light of the Mount Zion Stone Cup"
Anson Rainey, Tel Aviv University (Emeritus), "Editing and Formatting the New Edition of the Amarna Letters"
Stephen Rosenberg, Independent Researcher, "The Circumstances Surrounding the Events That Led Up to the Original Hanukkah Celebration of the Maccabees in 164 BCE"
Benjamin Saidel, East Carolina University, "Ethnoarchaeological Investigations at Nahal Be'erotayim West"
Hagith Sivan, University of Kansas, "Sinai in Antiquity"
Yuri Stoyanov, University of London, "The Evolution and Interrelationship between Christian and Islamic Heterodox and Mystical Traditions in the East Mediterranean in the Late Byzantine and Ottoman Periods"
Dieter Vieweger, German Protestant Institute of Archaeology, "Gadara Region Project. Excavation of the 5000 Years History of Tall Zira'a and Exploration of the Wadi el-'Arab in Northern Jordan"
Anna de Vincenz, Independent Researcher (Miqne Fellow), "Final Report on Yizhar Hirschfeld's Excavations at Tiberias"
Samuel R. Wolff, Israel Antiquities Authority, "The Renewed Excavations at Tel Gezer"
Ibrahim Abu-Ammar, Al-Quds University, "Mosaic Art in the Roman and Byzantine Periods in the Area of Bethlehem"
David Ben-Shlomo, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Miqne Fellow), "Analysis of Small Finds from the Tel Miqne-Ekron Excavations"
Mohammad Ghosheh, Al-Quds University, "Architectural Survey of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre"
Salah H. Houdalieh, Al-Quds University, "Palestine's Cultural Heritage"
Laura Mazow, East Carolina University, "Weaving Together the Strands of Evidence: 'Bathtubs' Reconsidered"
Ianir Milevski, Israel Antiquities Authority, "Craft Specialization and Division of Labor in the Late Prehistory of the Southern Levant"
Nava Panitz-Cohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Iron Age IIA Stratigraphy and Pottery of Tel Rehov"
Michael Press, Ashkelon Excavation Project, "The Iron Age Terracottas of Ashkelon and Philistia"
Hamed J. Salem, Birzeit University, "Dynamic Stability and Change in the Palestinian Cultural Landscape: The Birzeit Region as a Case Study"
Itzhaq Shai, Bar-Ilan University, "Philistia and the Philistines in the Iron Age IIA"
Baruch Brandl, Israel Antiquities Authority, "An Analysis of Egyptian Artifacts from Tel Miqne-Ekron"
Deborah Cassuto, Bar-Ilan University, "Social Aspects of Technological Change in the Bronze and Iron Age Southern Levant"
Amit Dagan, Bar-Ilan University, "Eastern Philistia in the 8th Century BCE"
Dana D. DePietro, UC Berkeley (CAORC Fellow), "Trade, Agency and the Politics of Consumption: Reevaluating the Role of Coastal Sites in the Late Bronze Southern Levant"
Amir Golani, Israel Antiquities Authority, "The Development, Significance and Function of Jewelry and the Jeweler's Craft in the Land of Israel during the Iron Age II"
Malka Hershkovitz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "A Corpus of Hellenistic–Roman Glyptics in Eretz Israel"
Bronwen Manning, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Publication of the Stratigraphy and Ceramic Assemblage of the Assyrian Period from Area D2 at Tel Dor"
Claire Pfann, University of the Holy Land, "The Character of Levi in Second Temple Period Literature"
Khader Salameh, Islamic Museum, al-Haram al-Sharif, Jerusalem, "The Inscriptions from the Islamic Museum, al-Haram al-Sharif: From the Roman to the Ottoman Period"
Issa Sarie, Al-Quds University/Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "The Roots of Violence in the Prehistoric Period"
Ross Voss, Ashkelon Excavation Project, "The Publication of Ashkelon IV—Canaanite Gates and Fortifications"
Alexander Zukerman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "The Iron Age I Ceramic Corpus from Fields III and IV at Tel Miqne-Ekron"