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The Observer on Technology
By Jennifer Crakow
Posted on 19 February 2012 11 March 2012
Posted in Newspapers, Reads
I started out as a designer in technology nearly twenty years ago. To say that I have perspective would be an understatement. This said, I'd be remiss to not rebuke John Naughton for his thoughtless article, Graphic designers are ruining the web. It's a highly misinformed screed, full of baseless conclusions.
While there certainly is no shortage of bloated pages online, it would be wrong to blame this on designers. That would be about as accurate as me saying all developers are socially inept and need to bathe more often. Anyone who understands online media knows that this is wrong. It's a clear sign of a lack of design experience.
Mr. Naughton begins his argument by discussing the simplicity of early web pages, which were heavily constrained in appearance:
In the beginning, webpages were simple pages of text marked up with some tags that would enable a browser to display them correctly.
Naughton continues on to describe frustrated designers who could not relinquish visual display control to the browser and proceeded to fight this battle:
But that meant that the browser, not the designer, controlled how a page would look to the user, and there's nothing that infuriates designers more than having someone (or something) determine the appearance of their work.
Yes, designers were (and continue to be) frustrated at the lack of control with regards to technological constraints. However, these constraints are also what ignites many creative technologists to engineer their way out of such limits.
Without these early constraints, front-end engineering would not be the highly specialized skill it is today. We wouldn't have accessible sites, not to mention, CSS and AJAX to make our online experiences more usable and engaging.
So they embarked on a long, vigorous and ultimately successful campaign to exert the same kind of detailed control over the appearance of webpages as they did on their print counterparts – right down to the last pixel.
Naughton also implies that the designer is acting alone in their wish to "control the appearance." By 1996, many businesses in the US, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, were figuring out how to get online and what to do once they got there.
As soon as this happened, the commercial web immediately became about branding and experiences. Entire cross-functional teams were bringing brands online for very different reasons. Designers, business people, technologists all pushed for increasing detail and control. To say this was a long, vigorous campaign brought on by designers is completely inaccurate and narrow-sighted.
Naughton moves on to discuss the increase of visual elements, design detail and dynamically rendered sites:
And in order to make this possible, webpages ceased to be static text-objects fetched from a file store; instead, the server assembled each page on the fly, collecting its various graphic and other components from their various locations, and dispatching the whole caboodle in a stream to your browser, which then assembled them for your delectation.
While this is true, his timing and metrics are off for the argument he pursues:
All of which was nice and dandy. But there was a downside: webpages began to put on weight. Over the last decade, the size of web pages (measured in kilobytes) has more than septupled. From 2003 to 2011, the average web page grew from 93.7kB to over 679kB.
Indeed, the size of web pages have increased significantly in the past decade. However, this is not due to dynamically generated content as implied by Mr. Naughton above. I began working on dynamically driven sites in 1996. If you look at the same data it's clear that between 1996 and 2003, there was only a nominal page size increase. Clearly, dynamic sites are not the factor.
So, what is the factor of the increase in page size? Royal Pingdom looked at this very problem, only they viewed the data for one year, not seven. Based on the top 1k sites between November 2010 and November 2011, the results clearly indicate that while images are still the largest factor, Javascript is the fastest-growing content type, by far.
You can see this for yourself by switching on the "view status" bar in your browser; this will tell you how many discrete items go into making up a page. I've just looked at a few representative samples. The BBC News front page had 115 items; the online version of the Daily Mail had a whopping 344 and ITV.com had 116. Direct.gov had 71 while YouTube and Wikipedia, in contrast, came in much slimmer at 26 and 15 respectively.
It's irrelevant to compare the number of items that constitute a page for disparate, unrelated sites. What Mr. Naughton fails to recognize is that commercial websites are a business. They serve multiple objectives, have multiple stakeholders and entirely different audiences. So, for example, one cannot compare the BBC News front page to Direct.gov.uk. They serve extremely different purposes, and are directed at entirely different audiences.
In addition, site design/development can vary radically based on the experience of the team, business objectives, design goals, etc. A lot more thought as to context is required for Naughton to pursue his line of thinking.
Whether you view this as a good thing or not depends on where you sit in the digital ecosystem. Aesthetes (and graphic design agencies) drool over the elegance of pages whose look and feel is determined down to the last pixel.
Yet again, this is a sweeping generalization. If Mr. Naughton ever cared to look into the design and development process for online firms, he might see that yes, the look and feel is very much down to the pixel, but that this practice is agreed upon by a cross-disciplinary team.
This is because every pixel and its placement can radically alter the revenue for some tech firms as found in exhaustive testing. Having experienced this firsthand, I absolutely know this to be the case.
The websites and pages that I like tend to be as underdesigned as they are cognitively loaded. Take for example, the home page of Peter Norvig, who is Google's director of research. In design terms it would make any graphic designer reach for the sickbag. And yet it's highly functional, loads in a flash and contains tons of wonderful stuff .
There's nothing wrong with enjoying utilitarian sites such as Peter Norvig's link directory. Such simple link repositories are fantastic for the purposes they serve. Just take a look at Craigslist and Reddit. They're simple, utilitarian and wildly popular.
The point is that Naughton continually fails to recognize the context and objectives of online businesses. Comparing repositories of information, like Norvig's homepage, to branded experiences, is about as absurd as comparing Craigslist to the BBC iPlayer. The business and user goals are entirely different. There is no basis for comparison! I can't help but wonder why his editors at The Observer didn't know better than to caution Naughton by allowing him to indulge such ridiculous appraisals.
I've done a lot of work in London. I know the city has a wonderful blend of creative, startup and technology communities. Thus it was all the more startling to see such poorly researched tech journalism also be so antagonistic to the global design community, in a place where it truly matters. It's destructive. There's really no need. Though, admittedly I don't actively seek out my technology news from The Observer, I had much higher expectations, as I'm a regular reader of all things Guardian Unlimited.
As The Guardian family of publications becomes a must-visit resource on the global technology business, it ought to expect the same level of fact-checking and topical expertise as it does of its political journalism. Allowing ill-suited pundits such as John Naughton to run roughshod over a discipline they have no business covering is a sign that editorial needs to do a better job of overseeing tech coverage. Everyone failed this time.
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Adrienne Allen says:
10 March 2012 at 7: 29 GMT+0000
Great article, Jen. Too often designers are put in the no-win situation of balancing the disparate needs of business and marketing elements within an organization, but completely disempowered to push back on said requirements when they result in poor user experience. The need for commercial online properties to maintain an internal product/design org empowered to balance business needs and user needs equally is still, sadly, misunderstood or even seen as a frivolity or luxury by many companies. Don't blame the designers.


Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee's efforts to increase student graduation rates and raise billions of dollars for the school through fundraising and public-private partnerships have earned him a 3% pay raise (equal to the overall percentage given to faculty and staff this year) worth $25,036 and a $333,812 bonus from the school's trustees.
Gee, whose base salary is now $859,566, has topped The Chronicle of Higher Education's executive pay survey of public-college presidents since his 2007 return to OSU, and with deferred compensation and retirement benefits taken into account, his total compensation this year tops $2.1 million.
Gee's bonuses are paid using a donor-funded account instead of funds from tuition and fees or the state, and university spokesman Shelley Hoffman says that Gee will return some of his compensation for student scholarships as he has in the past.


Welcome to Buckland! We welcome careful walkers!
I spent my lunchtime sat in a bus shelter munching on an Oatmeal Crunch biscuit whilst wringing several pints of water our of sodden socks. It wasn't the best lunch, but I wasn't particularly hungry; even less so when I'd discovered that the only other option would be buying a Ginsters Pasty from petrol station.
Part of me didn't want to leave the draughty yet dry environs of the bus shelter, however I had to go somewhere; staying here for the night simply wasn't an option. Especially not when I had a bed booked in a pub in the village of Kelmscott.
But how to get there? With all my detours away from the Thames Path, I was a bit lost and had little choice but to consult the all-knowing Google on my phone. And it offered me two options. First was to follow a series of A-roads, cross the river at Radcott Bridge, and then continuing along more roads to the village. Alternatively, I could pop down into Buckland, and then follow a quieter lane to the river at the wonderfully named Tadpole Bridge, where, next another pub called the Trout Inn, I could rejoin the Thames Path.
Given the fact that I'd not managed to get near the Thames Path all morning, following the road was obviously the sensible option, but the manically busy A420 was doing my head in, and Tadpole Bridge seemed like an option that might restore my sanity. And for a short while it did. Buckland was another lovely village, with its own pub, a large manor house and two churches. Plus it was away from the main road, and soon my flagging mood was revived once more. My optimistic side began to take over, and once more I was hit by that naive optimism that maybe, just maybe, things would start to be all right again once more.
Throughout the long walk to Tadpole Bridge, there was a nagging worry at the back of my mind. What state would the Thames Path be in when I got there? Would I find a navigable path, or just more flooding?
And what would I do when I got there? If the path looked inaccessible, it was an easy call to make. I would simply end up roaming around country lanes until I somehow managed to find myself in Kelmscott. But what if, when I stared at it from Tadpole Bridge, the path looked fine and usable? What then? whilst all might be good initially, there was nothing to say it would be further down the path. I could walk along the Thames Path for some way and then find myself completely stuck again.
So it was with a dull sense of foreboding that I approached the Trout Inn. Originally this had been the place I'd intended to have a spot of lunch. In my original, perfect-world, utopian plan, drawn up in the safe confines of a pub bedroom some hours earlier, I would have arrived here over two hours earlier and would have had plenty of time to stop in and casually munch a sandwich, and sup on a pint.
The Trout. Looks nice, doesn't it?
If only. There was certainly no time now for such things, and if I had gone in now, I doubt I would have mustered up enough willpower to leave again.
So instead sitting there with a foaming pint of real ale, I walked past the Trout, and nervously approached Tadpole Bridge. And it was with trepidation that I looked over the bridge wall, towards the river path.
What I saw was a path that was clear and distinctly water-free. Yes, the water levels of the Thames were a tad high, but the path itself had no problems.
I was looking downstream, and I was supposed to be heading upstream, so I rushed to the other side of the bridge to check out that view. All clear too! And even better, there was a tarmac road built on top of an embankment that appeared to go all the way to Rushey Lock. That was promising. Even if the Thames Path was dodgy beyond that, there was a public footpath from the Lock that headed away from the Thames and that would take me roughly in the right direction, which would most likely be dry.
Is that a river with a walkable towpath, or are you just pleased to see me?
For the first time in the whole day I felt like the whole endeavour might just be doable after all, and I strode down the road with a renewed sense of purpose.
Coincidentally this happened to be the point that my friend Storm Imogen, also decided to give me one more good battering.
The weather had been variable all day. Strong gusts of wind and frequent showers would hit me at regular intervals, whilst at other times everything would be serenely calm and peaceful. As I'd walked through Buckland, there had even been some sun, and for a while I thought Storm Imogen had given up and gone elsewhere. Ha. If only. For now the wind really began to blow in earnest, right into my face. And with it came a hail shower.
Hailstones the size of golf balls rained down; the wind ensuring they bashed and stung my face. Tightening the strings on my hood as much as possible, I put my head down and tried as best I could to keep walking whilst the wind tried with all its might to blow me off the road and into the mud of an adjoining field. Several times, it almost succeeded.
At one point I passed a couple out walking their dogs, but all we could do was stare at each other and grimace mutually. Any attempt at more detailed communication was simply impossible, and doomed to failure.
Rushy Lock. Looking calm and tranquil.
Things had calmed down a little as I reached Rushey Lock, but not enough for me to walk across the bridge over the lock without clinging desperately onto the handrail. It was a similar situation as the Thames Path went over the weir too. It was clear that the Thames was in quite a state. The lock's water levels were extremely high, and water was rushing through the open weir gates as fast as it possibly could. But once I'd finally made it back to 'dry' land, there was cause for optimism. Despite going through fields, the Thames Path seemed to remain clear, so with reckless abandon I continued to follow the river towards Radcot Lock.
The Thames had burst its banks though, spreading out into several adjacent fields – well that's nature for you. When rivers get too full, they look for somewhere to expand into, and fields are the obvious choice for conversion into impromptu storage tanks for the river, allowing the river to get rid of the excess water and deal with it at a later date when things are calmer. It's a system that works well. At least until humans come along and try to stop the water going into the fields by building flood defences. When that happens, water is simply pushed further downstream, often spilling out in towns and villages that the river passes. The human cost in damaged property and belongings is almost always far greater than the income gained by the landowner by the nature of their land not flooding, yet somehow successive governments have continued to allow it in places.
Thankfully on the Thames, nature is generally allowed to take its own course, although part of me did rather wish the Thames Path itself had more protection. And no more so than when I arrived at a field boundary, a mile or so on from Rushey Lock.
Here, as at several other places, river water had spilled over into the fields. In each of the places I'd passed earlier, I'd been able to get round the problem, either by walking round the water, or striding over it. But at this spot, things were more difficult. My route was being blocked by a 3m wide channel of fast moving river water, and there was absolutely no way round it.
Water was flowing into an absolutely massive lake that had formed in an equally big field. It was everywhere, as far as the eye could see. There was not a single smidgen of green to be seen anywhere, and the field itself was completely full, right up to the hedges that marked its boundaries.
Yet again, flooding had thwarted my ambitions. And it was depressing. I was thoroughly fed up and for the second time that day, I felt like I wanted to burst into tears. Nothing seemed to be going right at all, and I was being thwarted at every turn. And now I'd have to retrace my steps. I'd have to go back to Rushey Lock, and two miles of walking would have been wasted.
Still at least when I got back to the lock, I could follow by ultimate backup plan and follow that series of inland paths towards Kelmscott. Couldn't I?
Well no, I couldn't. Back at Rushey Lock I found out that the path I needed to take was also completely inaccessible due to it also being substantially submerged under water. It ran along the edge of a field, and that field was being used as a water holding tank.
I was out of options. With no other side paths or trails, I would have to walk another mile back to Tadpole Bridge and somehow, goodness knows how, make my way to Kelmscott from there. Wearily I trudged up the path and ninety minutes after I'd last been there, I returned to Tadpole Bridge with absolutely nothing to show for the time I'd spent other than wet socks and a hail-stung face.
It was four o'clock, I was many miles from where I needed to be, on a road served by no buses. All I could do was stumble gloomily down the road to the town of Bampton, whilst doing my best to avoid the heavy traffic speeding down it.
A few taps on my phone and Google helpfully told me that if I could get to Bampton in the next ten minutes, I'd be able to catch a bus part of the way to Kelmscott. Then it broke the news to me that I was two miles from Bampton and really had no way to get there in less than half an hour. Oh and that bus was the last of the day.
But perhaps I could walk from Bampton? Well my phone also told me that arriving at the town would still leave me six miles from my intended destination. The sun would soon be setting and I was absolutely knackered. I had no chance.
Slowly but surely it dawned on me that there was no way I would be getting to Kelmscott by foot. Even if I hadn't bothered going to Rushey Lock in the first place, and had just gone along the road, I would never have made it. Conditions had made things impossible. The only thing I'd achieved all day was getting cold, wet and thoroughly miserable. My socks were sodden, my boots soaked and my mood glum.
My fate was clear. I had no choice. Reluctantly I reached for my phone and searched the internet for one last nugget of information. And then I made a phone call.
Through the sound of strong winds, I tried to impart the information that I needed a car, and I needed it quickly. And that they'd find me somewhere five minutes or so drive away from Bampton's town square.
"I'll get someone to drive down to you," the operator told me and having hung up, I continued walking down the road, keeping my eyes peeled for my promised saviour.
Half an hour later, I was still walking and still looking.
By now my brain had given up and was mentally sunning itself on a beach in the Bahamas, which is presumably why it took me so long to realise that the cab was taking its time finding me. Suddenly it dawned on me that it probably wasn't coming. I phoned again.
If there had been a brick wall there, it would quickly have found itself with a brand spanking new and rather substantial dent in it. But there wasn't, so it didn't.
Through winds, and gritted teeth, I managed to get the taxi re-routed to the edge of the town, and a few minutes later I collapsed into its calm, warm interior, slumping almost catatonic into the front seat, whilst the driver darted down a never ending series of rural lanes. She could have been taking me anywhere for all I knew; the only certainty was that the meter was slowly but surely building up a substantial bill. There's a reason why I rarely take cabs and that's that they cost a fortune. But then it wasn't as if I had another option.
What happened next, I wasn't particularly sure as my brain – completely exhausted after the nightmare of the day – had ceased to function. All I knew was that mere minutes after arriving at the Plough, staff were bundling me back into the cab, which was now heading goodness knows where. All I knew was that we were going to the Plough's "sister pub" several miles away where my room booking had magically been transferred to, and which, rather importantly, did have someone on site who could cook me an evening meal. Where that pub was, I had absolutely no idea. All I can tell you was that it required going down many more quiet country lanes and that the fare shown on the taxi's meter was getting higher and higher.
Where am I? A pub? That'll do.
Some time later I alighted the taxi for the second time, even more flummoxed and bewildered, as well as being £25 lighter in my wallet (the driver having let me off an additional 60p that the meter had demanded I pay.) Then I was inside a completely different pub, and one that appeared to feature a photograph behind the bar of then Prime Minister and local MP, David Cameron, standing next to someone who looked a bit like chef and TV presenter James Martin.
One thing I did know was that I needed a beer. Or five. Well, after the day I'd had, I felt I rather deserved it.
The whole Thames Path adventure is available to read now for Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Kobo, and Google Play or other e-readers.
Thanks for writing your accounts, trials, and tribulations of walking the path. I am walking the path, only from Oxford to the river head, in February, 2017, and I am very thankful for this awakening you have provided. Had it not been for your attempts at "rambling" the Path, I may have never been aware of the potential hazards and ill prepared for my version of the Thames Path story. After doing more research, I have educated myself a bit more, and will continue to do so.
Matthew – I was in the same boat a year ago! But so much is dependent on the weather. You might be okay!
At the time I hadn't seen how bad things were on the other side of the bridge but for most of the day I wished I'd asked her where I could get one from!
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First, my face is red because I have to admit I read "Sound Off" daily. Really I have no excuse, except that some of the biased, uninformed opinions are funnier than the comics.
That said, on Jan. 28, Sound Off contained the second or third recent comment about the number of pages in the Record-Courier. Posters seem to feel they are being cheated because the paper is "so thin."
I think it's time for a reality check. Back in the late 1950's, when I studied journalism, we were advised that there were only about 600 daily newspapers being published in the United States. I doubt if there are half that many dailies in existence today. When I lived in Los Angeles, my favorite paper, The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, folded. At the time they were a major news source in California, but rising costs forced them to stop publication.
I think we are blessed to have the Record-Courier on our doorsteps every day and I laud the publisher and staff for doing all they can to reduce costs, so Portage County receives local and national news daily. I will still subscribe as long as you print a paper, no matter what size the pages are and how many or few pages you have.


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Time Whorf
Tuesday, July 4, 2017 | י' תמוז תשע"ז
By Mordechai Schiller
An eminent colleague asked me to edit an article. "But, before you start," he said, "Do you have a second for me to talk to you for half a minute?"
I had to wonder — was that just a slip of the tongue … or was he relating to my fluid sense of time?
Which reminds me … did I ever tell you about the time I almost got clocked?
(I always thought the word "clocked" came from boxing — when someone gets knocked unconscious — "out for the count" — unable to get up after the referee counted 10 seconds. I was wrong. The Oxford English Dictionary said the verb clock means to punch in the face. Probably from a clock face. Now you see why I always follow the maxim, "You could look it up.")
When I moved to Flatbush, I went to shul and saw that it had not one, not two, but three atomic clocks: one at each end, and one for the chazzan. This level of time obsession, I figured, could only have come from a Yekke — someone of German Jewish descent. Then, one day, I noticed that the clocks weren't in sync. They were about one minute off. Gloatingly, I pointed out the glitch to my buddy — a certified Yekke.
He responded, "Only since you came."
Months later, in the middle of davening, I heard a crash, then I saw the clock on the floor — right by my chair. The gabbai said someone threw his jacket over the wall behind my table and accidentally knocked over the clock. But I know what really happened. … The clock tried to kill me.
Let me tell you something about time. It's not what you think. But it is what you say. Confusing? Wait, it gets better. …
I just read about a study that could change forever how you think about time and language. The words we use, it turns out, can influence the way we think — and the way we experience time.
Linguists have been debating the "Sapir–Whorf hypothesis" since 1929, when Benjamin Lee Whorf, following his mentor, Edward Sapir, posited that the structure of language can determine how people experience reality. Whorf said that language is more than how we communicate the phenomena we see around us.
"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages. … The world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds — and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds."
The jury is out on the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. Most linguists dismiss it. For them, the chicken (thought) comes before the egg (language). Whorfianism is also called "linguistic relativity" — maybe because it's so explosive; and there's been a lot of fallout.
At one end of the spectrum stands John McWhorter, a professor of linguistics at Columbia University. His book The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language, is a "manifesto" against Whorfianism.
Ben Zimmer, "Word on the Street" columnist at The Wall Street Journal, takes a more moderate view. Perhaps because his background is in linguistic anthropology, he is more open to our ideas being shaped by our language. But he also dismisses "pop-Whorfianism," or what he calls "Whorf Lite."
A recent study by Professor Panos Athanasopoulos, a linguist from Lancaster University and Professor Emanuel Bylund, a linguist from Stellenbosch University and Stockholm University, may shed new light on the controversy.
Athanasopoulos and Bylund found that people who speak two languages fluently think about time differently, depending on which language they happen to be using at that moment. Bilinguals switch up and back between languages, sometimes, unconsciously. This is called code-switching.
The researchers also found that code-switching also led to worldview-switching, including the perception of time.
Swedish and English speakers describe duration of events in terms of physical distances, like "a short break." But it's more than a metaphor. When you describe the passage of time in terms of distance, you perceive it that way.
Greek and Spanish speakers might say "a small break," thinking in volume rather than distance.
Ready now?
The study showed that bilinguals switched their perception of the passage of time — depending on which language they were using.
"Language can creep into our perception and basically make us experience time in a very language-specific way," Athanasopoulos said. There is a "growing body of evidence demonstrating the ease with which language can creep into our most basic senses, including our emotions, visual perception, and now it turns out, sense of time."
Then there are language communities where some people are bilingual and some semi-lingual. The results could leave you speechless.
Like the sign I saw in a restroom of a shul in Boro Park:
"Please Don't Use Baby Wipes. It Clocks the Toilets."
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All three members of Trio Delphi met and graduated from Adelphi University. It is for this reason that the name Delphi became appropriate. The actual location of Delphi in Ancient Greece was dedicated to the god Apollo who was the god of the sun, prophecy, and music. It is because of this additional association that we couldn't think of anything better to call ourselves. The name hints towards where we met and our devotion to music all in one word. We all met during different times at school but on one fateful day a flautist, a harpist, and a guitarist were all needed for a performance of an original work being performed at a local church. The piece is called "7 Meditations On Tibet" by Carman Moore. It is an atonal work that consist of seven different movements inspired by the different spiritual observances in Tibet that Moore studied. The three of us were selected to do the performance and we worked so well together that we knew we had to make this a frequent occurrence. It was such a unique combination of tones that we wanted to try and bring our sound to all who would listen.


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The issue of how redemptions by a feeder fund from a master fund are treated in a liquidation scenario has prompted a great deal of discussion in the Cayman Islands, after a notable ruling from the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, the world's biggest offshore fund centre, write Ronan Guilfoyle and Casey McDonald from fund governance firm Calderwood.
The decision means that the practice of allowing automatic, back-to-back redemptions in a master feeder structure, can't necessarily be relied upon, especially where there are no such provisions embedded into fund documents. The case was of special interest to Calderwood, as co-founder Ronan Guilfoyle was asked to provide independent expert witness testimony as to the practice adopted by the fund industry with respect to the processing of redemptions in master-feeder structures.
In the case of Ardon Maroon Asia Master Fund (in Official Liquidation) ("Master Fund"), it was argued by the liquidators of the Ardon Maroon Asia Dragon Feeder Fund (in Official Liquidation) ("Feeder Fund"), that upon the receipt of a redemption request into the Feeder Fund, an "automatic" back-to-back redemption into the Master Fund was triggered by entries in back-office systems made by the administrator and transfer agent. The difficulty in this case is that the governing documents of both the Master Fund and the Feeder Fund required written notice for a redemption to be validly effected.
Prior to the payment of any redemption proceeds as between the Master Fund and the Feeder Fund and the Feeder Fund and its redeeming investor, the Master Fund and the Feeder Fund experienced liquidity issues and entered into liquidation.
The investor in the Feeder Fund submitted a claim in the liquidation of the Feeder Fund seeking payment of its unpaid redemption proceeds, while the Feeder Fund submitted a corresponding claim in the liquidation of the Master Fund seeking payment of the redemption proceeds it considered were due and payable as a result of the "automatic" back-to-back redemption. The liquidators of the Master Fund rejected the Feeder Fund's claim on the basis that no written redemption notice had been received. The Feeder Fund appealed the Master Fund liquidators' rejection of the claim to the Grand Court.
Despite arguments advanced by the Feeder Fund, including that the receipt of a redemption notice by the Feeder Fund triggered an "automatic" back-to-back redemption in the Master Fund, and that this is precisely what was intended by the directors in accordance with what was stated to be standard industry practice, the Grand Court was ultimately unpersuaded by these arguments. Whilst the Grand Court was cognisant of the commercial realities in the investment fund business, it found that the "automatic" procedure which was thought to apply in this case was insufficient to constitute written notice in accordance with the requirements set out in the Master Fund's governing documents.
Importantly, the Grand Court appeared to recognise that, in specific instances, "automatic" back-to-back or "silent" redemptions could be permissible; however, the procedure to be adopted or followed must be clearly set out in the fund's governing documents.
Based on years of experience both as a fund director and administrator, Guilfoyle's (and Calderwood's) opinion was ultimately consistent with the conclusions reached by the Grand Court i.e. that despite what may have been done in practice ("automatic" back-to-back redemptions), the correct approach is to follow the redemption procedures set out in a fund's governing documents.
This is clearly an important issue for those involved in master-feeder structures and highlights the need for a thorough understanding of the redemption processes contained in fund documents, particularly at Board level. Boards should discuss this decision with their trusted advisors to determine whether any appropriate action is required. Please get in touch with your usual Calderwood contact should you wish to discuss this decision in more detail.
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Hieroglyphic Stairway
The 21 Stelae...
...record the passage of time
Copan is reputed to be one of the top Mayan attractions and is relatively isolated in a remote valley on the southeastern perimeter of the central Mayan area, so we had high hopes for an interesting day. Many of the artefacts have been moved inside a new 2 storey museum to save them from the ravages of the weather and its well worth a visit. Copies of the actual stonework have been erected in place of the removed items in an attempt to ensure the site retains much of its original feel.
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Altar Q tells of...
...Yax Pasah's ascension to office
For the Mayan purists, Copan holds many highlights, but to us mere Landy based travellers it seemed to be the least impressive of the main sites. There are exploratory tunnels under the huge Acropolis which were dug in 1992 and provide a lot of information about the history of the site, whilst preserving the Late Classic Period buildings above. We managed to sneak into them and check it out too.
Guardian to the underworld
Some of the most spectacular discoveries were made under Temple 16, including the body of Yax K'uk'Mo himself who invaded from Teotihuacan in the north and was the founder of the Copan dynasty in the Early Period. The complex carvings are impressive and record the passage of time with depictions of faces, figures and animals. There are also three ball courts built on top of each other in the open plaza to the northwest, the most recent has been fully restored complete with stone Macaw head boundary markers.
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Prom 42: the first Estonian orchestra at the Proms - Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra
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Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra (Photo © Kaupo Kikkas)
Pärt, Grieg, Sibelius; Estonian Festival Orchestra, Khatia Buniatishvili, Paavo Järvi; BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 13 August 2018 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½)
For its first appearance at the Proms, the Estonian Festival Orchestra gave us a striking mix of Nordic and Baltic composers, ending with a gripping account of Sibelius Symphony No. 5
2018 is the centenary of Estonian independence and contributing to the celebrations Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra made their first appearance at the BBC Proms (the first appearance of an Estonian orchestra at the Proms). On Monday 13 August 2018 at the Royal Albert Hall, they performed music from three Nordic & Baltic countries, Arvo Pärt's Symphony No. 3 (from Estonia), Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto (from Norway) and Jean Sibelius' Symphony No. 5 (from Finland). The pianist in the Grieg was the Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili.
Arvo Pärt's Symphony No. 3 was written in 1971, a period of transition for the composer when he was re-considering his technique and would eventually create the tintinabuli style for which he is best known. This symphony has moved away from the modernist style of his earlier works whilst it has not yet reached the tintinabuli style. Written in a single movement with three sections playing continuously, the work is based around a series of motifs which evoke plainsong, and it is this medieval style of musical discourse which dominates the symphony.
The piece started with a single clarinet line, evocative and rather mysterious in its neo-medieval shaping. Pärt shapes his material in blocks, sometimes a single line, sometimes a few instruments and sometimes the whole orchestra, and silence is important. This is one of the pointers to his later style. Pärt's writing for single instruments, or a single musical line drew a strongly spiritual sense out of the piece. Conductor Paavo Järvi did not give a lot away, but he drew focussed, concentrated playing from his orchestra. The composer Arvo Pärt (now 82) was present for the performance, receiving huge applause at the end.
The Estonian Festival Orchestra is very much Paavo Järvi's orchestra. Founded in 2011 it is the orchestra in residence at Järvi's Pärnu Festival in Estonia, and the orchestra brings together Estonian musicians with musicians from all around the world, with players from many of the major orchestras.
At the Proms the orchestra was then joined by the Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili for Grieg's Piano Concerto from 1868 (revised 1907). The famous opening introduced us to Buniatishvili's impulsive, poetic piano playing and then to the tightly rhythmic, highly pointed and shapely orchestral contribution. Both Buniatishvili and Järvi took a highly poetic view of the work, it was not without explosions but these soon died down and the overall impression was of a highly interior poeticism. What flashes of fire there were in Buniatishvili's playing reached a climax in the cadenza. The second movement was highly shaped and very much an artful view of Grieg's folk-inspired melodies. Buniatishvili's fingerwork here was extremely delicate and both she and the orchestra again created a poetic, interior sense of the music. There was no doubting that it was highly musical and touching, but I have to confess that I did rather want a blast of bracing Nordic air in the music. The finale was fast, with lovely crisp rhythms and some impressive chamber-scale performance from the orchestra, whilst Buniatishvili's fingerwork was impressive in its speed and delicacy. This was a very particular view of the concerto, popular with the audience but a take on Grieg's exhuberant work which I would not want to live with.
Buniatishvili gave us an encore, a daringly quiet and very slow rendition of Debussy's Clair de lune.
After the interval the air turned rather more bracing for Sibelius' Symphony No. 5 from 1915 (revised 1916 & 1919) which Järvi conducted from memory. The opening movement unfolded slowly with the music sounding spacious, though Järvi's tempi were not overly slow. The movement is written in waves of sound, building and breaking as Sibelius tantalises with fragments of his complete melody. Underlying all this Järvi gave the music a sense of slow, unstoppable growth, which culminated in the extreme rush (the programme note compared it to white-water rafting) of the movements closing moments, though throughout neither Järvi nor the orchestra lost a moment of control. The second movement was all control and elegance, with a lovely clarity of detail. As the richly textured music developed, Järvi and the orchestra drew out an undercurrent of things happening beneath the surface. The final started with quiet excitement, the rhythms really tight and again a feeling of unstoppable momentum. The first full statement of the main theme was magical, finely phrased by the woodwind section, yet Järvi also kept the excitement burning away in the string figures underneath. The ride to the symphonies conclusion was both thrilling and gripping.
We were treated to two encores from the orchestra. I am informed that they were Spring Fly by the Estonian composer Lepo Sumera (1950-2000), and Vallflickans Dans by the Swedish composer Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960).
The orchestra's first disc is now out, Paavo Järvi conducting Shostakovich's Symphony No. 6 and Sinfonietta, available from Amazon
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Love At The Aegean Sea () is a romantic Taiwanese drama starring Alec Su, Peter Ho, and Chae Rim.

Storyline
The drama opens with fascinating scenery in Greece, the destination Guan Xiaotong (Chae Rim) and the travel mate she found herself over the Internet, Li Yaoxiang (Peter Ho), are heading to. Arguing with Li time after time in the trip, Guan packs up to return home out of spite. She then meets Lu Enqi (Alec Su), who has been upset with his mother's matchmaking. The two decide to head for the Greek island of Santorini and begin to fall for each other. Their love story, however, does not develop into what they expected, and they begin to fall into the love entanglement with Li.

Cast
 Alec Su
 Chae Rim
 Peter Ho

Taiwanese drama television series

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Collier just feels like an eventual fit as a 5 Tech to me. His strength, hands, and 34" arms seem ideal. I think a 3-4 team will snag him up about the same range as Isaiah Buggs.
Yeah, I think he goes around late 3rd-4th. He's not very tall, though, so not sure about him on a 3-4. Maybe it doesn't matter, as you pointed out his arm length is good--34".
You definitely could be right, I'm not sure I'd gamble on him until the 4th, as we all seem to be guessing on his most natural fit. If we're going DL in the 3rd, I'd like someone who could develop as the eventual successor to either DT Richardson or DE Vernon. And I know that's wishful thinking.
If we're going DL in the 3rd, I'd like someone who could develop as the eventual successor to either DT Richardson or DE Vernon. And I know that's wishful thinking.
The above could actually be a selling point to bring in Collier, as Richardson and Vernon play the two positions Collier may be able to play well at.
That said, Chad Thomas may be able to okay LE/DT as well.
If John Dorsey can draft half as these mocks, this team is going to be looking hot coming into the season.
Every year it seems like there are people who act like if a GM takes a player that isn't a forum consensus, it's a bad pick.
This is not a shot at you, because you possess a certain quality known as logic.
But it happens sometimes. That's why if it's a player I don't know, I try to take a more excited approach than a pessimistic one.
If we don't draft Mitch Hyatt in the 5th, why do we even pay our scouts actual money?
What about the obligatory long snapper? 5th?
I think you're absolutely right to question Lonnie's coverage ability initially, but I think there are some contextual factors (the UK defensive roles/scheme) that minimize that concern some. I don't care at all about combine testing I only care about on-field football play athleticism.
We are talking about pick 80. So, the type of player available around pick 80 is one type of player: A player with clear flaws in their game.
Context free, It's a simple evaluation for me w/ Lonnie. He has the feet, the hips, the competitive fire, the dynamic quick movement skill, the strength, the tackling willingness and ability, the ball skills, the route awareness, and love the game to the point that development and coaching could make him a impact quality starter.
Beyond that though, I wasn't a big fan of Lonnie's coverage ability at all until I started watching in-depth while watching CB Derrick Baity, S Darius West, and S Mike Edwards' snaps for their respective evaluation and got an understanding of the overall defense. At that point some things became clear. The first, there are two Lonnie Johnson Jr's; (1) Lonnie the press man, trail technique, bump and run player AND (2) Lonnie the zone coverage CB. The former (press man CB) is far superior to the poor play player in Lonnie the zone CB. Lonnie's worst snaps where he looks poor are when he plays off the ball zone coverage with catch WR technique. If the press/in-hip-pocket CB Lonnie is a 90 rating, the zone CB is a 50. In fact, on second watch of his games I started to chart zone versus man snaps, as well as which Safety was lined up near him. In zone, he simply doesn't know the proper way to use his eyes and cue-read and that gets him in trouble and at times has him looking lost in coverage in zone catch technique. The contrast was glaring.
Most often, Kentucky plays a mix-match zone that allows their impact move-SS Darius West the ability to either be a nickel or box chess piece, has Derrick Baity who's even worse at zone than Lonnie played in the role of press man to protect his deficiencies, has S Mike Edwards as a limited range ability near-Box alignment pass disrupter, leaving Lonnie Johnson to play the role of a zone CB off the line to deter immediate deep ball reads by the QB. Lonnie's used out of his best role for 3 reasons: 1.) It allows Darius West to range-playmake all over the field as a severely limited range pass support player from the high S spot, 2.) It protects S Mike Edwards b/c despite being lined up as a FS he is best as a big-nickel w/ limited range and pass support ability as FS, and 3.) CB Derrick Baity needs the over the top support more so than Lonnie so they play Baity as the press CB with S support more so than Lonnie.
In my mind, Lonnie's the best press corner in the draft. He plays with a different level of confidence, stays on the inside hip, and reads the game at a high level in that role. Furthermore, his route awareness and ball awareness is different when he gets to run in phase with the WR.
Contrary to most opinions on Wilks' zone scheme, it's more of mix-match zone scheme with man and press man concepts and responsibilities for CBs based on the call. A lot of misnomers out there that Wilks plays zone so we need zone CBs.
The quality of player Lonnie is imo is one that we'd be fortunate to get at pick 80 as many in the league think he's a sure-fire top 50 selection based on opinions of him inside league personnel rooms. Will be interesting to see where he goes.
Interesting 7 round mock draft done by Kyle Crabbs of thedraftnetwork.com has a lot of names that have been mentioned once or twice in here before.
What about (crazy idea) drafing Mack Wilson in the 2nd? That dude is a heat seeking missile in the middle of the defense with sideline to sideline speed who brings that intimidation factor to the middle of the defense. I know hes raw and often overruns plays because hes always going 110mph---but he reminds me of Denzel Perryman coming out of Miami who also brings that nastiness that I love at LB.
That would be a pretty, uh, exciting and talented front 7 in the AFCN that could also be a Lamar Jackson/Mark Ingram destroyer.
Just thinkin out loud cause Im bored.
What about (crazy idea) drafing Mack Wilson in the 2nd? That dude is a heat seeking missile in the middle of the defense with sideline to sideline speed who brings that intimidation factor to the middle of the defense. I know hes raw and often overruns plays because hes always going 110mph---but he reminds me of Denzel Perryman coming out of Miami.
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Mack Wilson may fall to the third(?). Many have cooled on him.


A file itself is just a bunch of related records, companies payroll, stocks, etc. Files themselves can grow to a very large size normally determined by the operating system. There are many ways of organizing records in a file, the common type is called sequential file in which records are typically stored in order by the record-key field. In some instanaces records could be stored in a database but even a database stores its data in files.
FileDescriptor Serves as an opaque handle to the underlying machine-specific structure representing an open file, open socket or another source or sink of bytes.
InputStream This abstract class is the superclass of all classes representing an input stream of bytes.
DataInputStream lets an application read primitive data types from an underlying input stream in a machine-independent way.
PushbackInputStreams are used by programs like compilers that parse there inputs.
SequenceInputStream represents the logical concatenation of other input streams, basically reads a file then moves on the next file and so on.
OutputStream This abstract class is the superclass of all classes representing an output stream of bytes.
ByteArrayOutputStream implements an output stream in which the data is written into a byte array. The buffer will grow automatically as data is written to it.
FileOutputStream an output stream for writing data to a file or a filedescriptor.
has the ability to print representations of various data values conveniently.
Used for direct-access applications such as transaction-processing applications (airline-reservations, point-of-sales, etc), direct-access application provide rapid access to specific data items in large files, this means data is supplied quickly so customers do not have to wait long for an answer.
BufferedReader read text from a character input-stream, buffering characters so as to provide for the efficient reading of characters, arrays and lines.
BufferedWriter write text to a character output-stream, buffering characters so as to provide for the efficient writing of characters, arrays and lines.
The below example demonstrates how to write and read from a sequential file. Althrough you could make the below example a lot more better i tried to make it as simple as possible thus highlighting the reading and writing to a sequential file.
Data that is formatted and written to a sequential-access file cannot be modified without reading and writing all the data in the file, it is possible but very awkward. As you can see this type of file is not very good at instant access, like airline reservations, point-of-sales, etc.
The below example demonstrates how to access a sequential file, the program code could be improved but i have tried to make it very simple even if it means using duplicate code. Pay attention to the code in bold this the important sequential-access file stuff.
// by using the length of the array i would have know how many records i have.
// and restoring an equivalent object from that stream.
Many airline reservations and point-of-sales systems use random access files, you can acess the files directly and quickly without searching through all the other records first. With random access files you need to create the structure, normally you make sure that all records are the same length but there are other techinques as well. The file structure is like a railroad train which has many carts (all the same size), some empty and some that contain contents. Data can be inserted without destroying other data, also data can be updated and deleted without having to re-create the file.
The below example demonstrates how to access a random file, the program code could be improved but i have tried to make it very simple even if it means using duplicate code. Pay attention to the code in bold this the important random-access file stuff.
The File class is useful for obtaining information about files and directories. Objects of class file do not actually open a file or provide any file-processing capabilities. The file class can provide the following and a lot more.
length() Returns the length of the file in bytes (long).
list() Returns an array String representing the contents of a directory.


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Q: FRP - Event streams and Signals - what is lost in using just signals? In recent implementations of Classic FRP, for instance reactive-banana, there are event streams and signals, which are step functions (reactive-banana calls them behaviours but they are nevertheless step functions). I've noticed that Elm only uses signals, and doesn't differentiate between signals and event streams. Also, reactive-banana allows to go from event streams to signals (edited: and it's sort of possible to act on behaviours using reactimate' although it not considered good practice), which kind of means that in theory we could apply all the event stream combinators on signals/behaviours by first converting the signal to event stream, applying and then converting again. So, given that it's in general easier to use and learn just one abstraction, what is the advantage of having separated signals and event streams ? Is anything lost in using just signals and converting all the event stream combinators to operate on signals ?
edit: The discussion has been very interesting. The main conclusions that I took from the discussion myself is that behaviours/event sources are both needed for mutually recursive definitions (feedback) and for having an output depend on two inputs (a behaviour and an event source) but only cause an action when one of them changes (<@>).

A: I don't think there's any benefit to using the signals/behaviors abstraction over elm-style signals.  As you point out, it's possible to create a signal-only API on top of the signal/behavior API (not at all ready for use, but see https://github.com/JohnLato/impulse/blob/dyn2/src/Reactive/Impulse/Syntax2.hs for an example).  I'm pretty sure it's also possible to write a signal/behavior API on top of an elm-style API as well.  That would make the two APIs functionally equivalent.
WRT efficiency, with a signals-only API the system should have a mechanism where only signals that have updated values will cause recomputations (e.g. if you don't move the mouse, the FRP network won't re-calculate the pointer coordinates and redraw the screen).  Provided this is done, I don't think there's any loss of efficiency compared to a signals-and-streams approach.  I'm pretty sure Elm works this way.
I don't think the continuous-behavior issue makes any difference here (or really at all).  What people mean by saying behaviors are continuous over time is that they are defined at all times (i.e. they're functions over a continuous domain); the behavior itself isn't a continuous function.  But we don't actually have a way to sample a behavior at any time; they can only be sampled at times corresponding to events, so we can't use the full power of this definition!
Semantically, starting from these definitions:
Event    == for some t ∈ T: [(t,a)]
Behavior == ∀ t ∈ T: t -> b

since behaviors can only be sampled at times where events are defined, we can create a new domain TX where TX is the set of all times t at which Events are defined.  Now we can loosen the Behavior definition to
Behavior == ∀ t ∈ TX: t -> b

without losing any power (i.e. this is equivalent to the original definition within the confines of our frp system).  Now we can enumerate all times in TX to transform this to
Behavior == ∀ t ∈ TX: [(t,b)]

which is identical to the original Event definition except for the domain and quantification.  Now we can change the domain of Event to TX (by the definition of TX), and the quantification of Behavior (from forall to for some) and we get
Event    == for some t ∈ TX: [(t,a)]
Behavior == for some t ∈ TX: [(t,b)]

and now Event and Behavior are semantically identical, so they could obviously be represented using the same structure in an FRP system.  We do lose a bit of information at this step; if we don't differentiate between Event and Behavior we don't know that a Behavior is defined at every time t, but in practice I don't think this really matters much.  What elm does IIRC is require both Events and Behaviors to have values at all times and just use the previous value for an Event if it hasn't changed (i.e. change the quantification of Event to forall instead of changing the quantification of Behavior).  This means you can treat everything as a signal and it all Just Works; it's just implemented so that the signal domain is exactly the subset of time that the system actually uses.
I think this idea was presented in a paper (which I can't find now, anyone else have a link?) about implementing FRP in Java, perhaps from POPL '14?  Working from memory, so my outline isn't as rigorous as the original proof.
There's nothing to stop you from creating a more-defined Behavior by e.g. pure someFunction, this just means that within an FRP system you can't make use of that extra defined-ness, so nothing is lost by a more restricted implementation.
As for notional signals such as time, note that it's impossible to implement an actual continuous-time signal using typical programming languages.  Since the implementation will necessarily be discrete, converting that to an event stream is trivial.
In short, I don't think anything is lost by using just signals.

A: (Clarification: In reactive-banana, it is not possible to convert a Behavior back to an Event. The stepper function is a one-way ticket. There is a changes function, but its type indicates that it is "impure" and it comes with a warning that it does not preserve the semantics.)
I believe that having two separates concepts makes the API more elegant. In other words, it boils down to a question of API usability. I think that the two concepts behave sufficiently differently that things flow better if you have two separate types.
For example, the direct product for each type is different. A pair of Behavior is equivalent to a Behavior of pairs
(Behavior a, Behavior b) ~ Behavior (a,b)

whereas a pair of Events is equivalent to an Event of a direct sum:
(Event    a, Event    b) ~ Event (EitherOrBoth a b)

If you merge both types into one, then neither of these equivalence will hold anymore.
However, one of the main reasons for the separation of Event and Behavior is that the latter does not have a notion of changes or "updates". This may seem like an omission at first, but it is extremely useful in practice, because it leads to simpler code. For instance, consider a monadic function newInput that creates an input GUI widget that displays the text indicated in the argument Behavior,
input <- newInput (bText :: Behavior String)

The key point now is that the text displayed does not depend on how often the Behavior bText may have been updated (to the same or a different value), only on the actual value itself. This is a lot easier to reason about than the other case, where you would have to think about what happens when two successive event occurrences have the same value. Do you redraw the text while the user edits it?
(Of course, in order to actually draw the text, the library has to interface with the GUI framework and does keep track of changes in the Behavior. This is what the changes combinator is for. However, this can be seen as an optimization and is not available from "within FRP".)
The other main reason for the separation is recursion. Most Events that recursively depend on themselves are ill-defined. However, recursion is always allowed if you have mutual recursion between an Event and a Behavior
e = ((+) <$> b) <@> einput
b = stepper 0 e

There is no need to introduce delays by hand, it just works out of the box.

A: Something critically important to me is lost, namely the essence of behaviors, which is (possibly continuous) variation over continuous time.
Precise, simple, useful semantics (independent of a particular implementation or execution) is often lost as well.
Check out my answer to "Specification for a Functional Reactive Programming language", and follow the links there.
Whether in time or in space, premature discretization thwarts composability and complicates semantics.
Consider vector graphics (and other spatially continuous models like Pan's). Just as with premature finitization of data structures as explained in Why Functional Programming Matters.

A: I've unfortunately have no references in mind, but I distinctly remember
different reactive authors claiming this choice is just for efficiency. You expose
both to give the programmer a choice in what implementation of the same idea is
more efficient for your problem.
I might be lying now, but I believe Elm implements everything as event streams under the
hood. Things like time wouldn't be so nice like event streams though, since there are an
infinite amount of events during any time frame. I'm not sure how Elm solves this, but I
think it's a good example on something that makes more sense as a signal, both conceptually
and in implementation.

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Q: how to reload an ecto record? I have this code to insert a record into the database. After doing this, I need to get the new record's id to pass to the client.
  msg_record = %Message{
    fromEmail: params["fromEmail"],
    body: params["body"],
    room: room_id
  }
  Repo.insert!(msg_record)

The problem is, after doing this msg_record.id is still null.
In Rails I would do msg_record.reload.id - is there some equivalent method?

A: I guess I didn't look well enough at the docs.
This is found in the HexDocs on Ecto:

iex> weather = %Weather{temp_lo: 0, temp_hi: 23}
iex> Repo.insert!(weather)
After persisting weather to the database, it will return a new copy of %Weather{} with the primary key (the id) set. We can use this value to read a struct back from the repository:

So in my case, I can simply reassign the varaible:
msg_record = Repo.insert!(msg_record)


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What does the phrase anecdotal observations mean as it is used in paragraph 2?
A. A method of recording an event using special processes.
B. A perspective on a subject area that reveals its inner significance.
C. A description of an event that lacks seriousness and seeks to entertain through humor.
D. A report that is somewhat unreliable because it is based on a personal account.
Which sentence from paragraph 1 provides the best evidence for the answer to Part A?
A. "Elephants, both African and Asian,have long been considered empathetic animals."
B. "But it's one thing to witness something that looks like consolation, and another to prove that this is what elephants are doing."
C. "Now, scientists have shown that Asian elephants do indeed get distressed when they see others in trouble, and they reach out to console them-just as we do when we see someone suffering."
D. "Elephants, thus, join a short list of other animals,including great apes, canines,and some birds, that scientists have shown to reassure others."
Which statement best expresses the central idea in the article?
A. Science plays an important role in educating people about elephants, which may help protect elephants in the wild.
B. Science has provided new support for long-held beliefs that elephants possess advanced social characteristics.
C. Researchers believe that many gestures made by elephants are similar to human hugs.
D. Researchers have used creative methods to design successful studies of elephants.
Which quotation best expresses the central idea in the answer to Part A?
A. "Instead, the park's Mahouts,or keepers, organized them into six groups which they then guided through a daily routine-bathing and feeding them in the morning, and tethering them at night." (paragraph 3)
B. "'What is unclear is whether this reassurance primarily benefits the distressed animal, or the responders'. . . ." (paragraph 9)
C. ". . . the findings are 'intriguing because they parallel what has been observed in captive and wild non-human primates, further underlining the complex cognitive abilities of elephants."' (paragraph 10)
D. "Some think the work may aid conservation efforts." (paragraph 11)
What is the purpose of paragraph 2 of the passage?
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B. To introduce the perspective of an expert whose opinion differs from that of the other scientists described in the article.
C. To suggest that some aspects of elephant behavior are more important to study than others, even though that has only recently been recognized.
D. To establish that some elephant behaviors have proved difficult to study, in order to reinforce the importance of the study described in the article.
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B. "Joshua Plotnik, a behavioral ecologist at Mahidol University, Kanchanaburi,in Thailand, and Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Emory University in Atlanta, got around this problem by comparing Asian elephants' behaviors during times of stress to periods when little upset them." (paragraph 3)
C. "Most of the elephants, aside from mother-juvenile pairs, were unrelated and did not live in family groups as wild elephants do." (paragraph 3)
D. "Other researchers have previously shown that when upset, an elephant flares its ears and erects its tail;it may also trumpet or roar,or make a low rumble to show its distress." (paragraph 4)


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