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Q: How to apply transactions best practice for read operations in Spring MVC using Hibernate? As it is mentioned in blogs/books (e.g. Java Transactions Design Strategies by Mark Richards), read operations must have the Propagation.SUPPORTS attribute.
In a simple Spring 3.1 MVC project with Hibernate 4.1 the scenario is:

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*Declarative transaction management using @Transactional

*sessionFactory of org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean

*Transaction manager of org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager

*Service class with @Transactional(propagation=Propagation.REQUIRED)

*Function of that Service class that only retrieves a resultset (performs read operation) with @Transactional(propagation=Propagation.SUPPORTS)

*Function of read operation retieves the resultset using sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().get()

Of course, when a Controller executes the function of read operation, the exception "No Session found for current thread" is raised because a transaction is not started and a session is not obtained.
Based on the above configuration (while it is best e.g. non-invasive, less code etc) the Propagation.SUPPORTS attribute cannot be used unless a transaction is started before with Propagation.REQUIRED or Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW.
How do we use use Propagation.SUPPORTS for read operations without having to start a transaction e.g. with Propagation.REQUIRED before but still taking advantage the benefits of declarative transaction management?
Thank you in advance.
Coder, here is the configuration:
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="txManager"/>

<context:component-scan base-package="com.myapps.service.impl" />

<bean id="txManager"
    class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
    <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>

<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
    <property name="driverClassName" value="${db.driverClassName}" />
    <property name="url" value="${db.url}" />
    <property name="username" value="${db.username}" />
    <property name="password" value="${db.password}" />
</bean>

<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
    <property name="mappingResources">
        <list>
            <value>.....</value>
        </list>
    </property>
    <property name="hibernateProperties">
        <props>
            <prop key="hibernate.dialect">${db.dialect}</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.format_sql">true</prop>
        </props>
    </property>
</bean>

A: I disagree with using SUPPORTS for read operations. Use REQUIRED.

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*A transaction is needed anyway to perform every database operation

*Doing several small transactions to read several things at once won't benefit from the first-level cache

*There won't be any isolation between all the subsequent reads, meaning that something not visible to the first read might become visible for the second one

*you'll get lazy loading exceptions when traversing associations

A: Transaction is not always required for Propagation.SUPPORTS.
Propagation.SUPPORTS: Support a current transaction, execute non-transactionally if none exists.


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J. S. Bach's place in musical history
Was there any reason Bach didn't follow the trends of the times? He was surely very much in touch with contemporary composers, and knew of Handel's and Scarlatti's works specifically. Amazingly, he composed not a single opera in his life. Did his influences lead him to focus on perfecting the existing High Baroque style, or were there other reasons for not following the rapidly changing style? I am tempted to say that as a very cerebral man, the Baroque style (in particular the fugue) better suited him, but I know few of the musicological facts here. Also notable is the high volume/proportion of religious music Bach composed, when the tendencies were increasingly secular everywhere. (He composed many great masses, despite the lacks of operas.)
J. S. Bach was positioned at an interesting period in musical history, without doubt. Born when the Baroque style was still predominant and flourishing, most of his later life represents the beginning of the Classical period. In fact, his birth year of 1685 was shared with both G. F. Handel and Domenico Scarlatti, the latter in particular who adopted (and indeed helped develop) the early Classical style. It is perhaps less surprising then that Bach's style was often deemed "turgid" and somewhat outdated in his own day. There is no doubt he was a "culminator" rather than an "initiator" of styles however. His true genius was recognised and his works acclaimed from around the start of the Romantic period.
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I swapped your paragraphs around to get to crux of the question. This edited version sounds more "Q&A"-like and less soliloquy. Feel free to rollback if you don't agree. – Robert Cartaino May 7 '11 at 18:42
@Robert: I did ramble a bit, so fair enough! I'm happy to leave it this way. (There's a valid question in there either way, but perhaps it's more obvious now.) – Noldorin May 8 '11 at 13:14
Much of Bach's education in composition came from him making hand copies of many musical scores, as music was not mass-printed at the time. Having mastered the Baroque notions of counterpoint and developing motives, combined with his known skill at improvising in the style, why would he seek to give up mastery of a style to be mediocre at a new one?
As to the nature of his works, such as not writing operas, Bach spent much of his life employed by Lutheran churches, where he was obligated by his position to supply service music. Bach went above and beyond at this--at his Leipzig post alone, he wrote cantatas for every Sunday service, as well as for every church holiday. Much of his secular music such as the Brandenburg Concertos originated while he was instead serving as a court music director for the Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, who used simpler music for worship services due to being Calvinist, leaving Bach to focus on the secular end of things during that and other similar periods. Based on the religious beliefs of both Bach and his employers, it is also probable opera was considered far too worldly.
So between religious and teaching obligations and just being so good at what he was already doing, I rather think Bach didn't really take the time to ever worry about what was "in style." He certainly wanted to continue his musical growth, exploring different techniques and learning from other musicians, but I don't think he spent any real effort at following trends to the extent of some other long-lived composers.
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I think there's some truth in this, indeed. Bach was no doubt an intellectual and probably followed his mind and spirit more than his job or the fashion. (Not that he was ever really poor.) As far as I know however, Bach is generally only considered to have become the ultimate master of counterpoint in his later life's works (post 1720-ish)... But yeah, some useful info in this answer, so +1 and thanks. – Noldorin Jul 6 '11 at 22:58
Bach could express himself perfectly well through his style; the new galant style didn't offer anything to him. If you compare the music of the galant or early classical period vs the music of the baroque, history is on Bach's side. – Apprentice Queue Apr 18 '15 at 1:24
If you take a look at the St John's Passion by Bach, it is surprisingly operatic with its use of turba choirs and the kind of introductory chorus and the dying scenes.
It is true that Bach was employed by churches for large stretches of his time (as opposed to his time in Köthen, for example), including his final years.
But if you take a look at his magnum opus, the last completed major work before his death, it was the Mass in B Minor, a mass in old Catholic Rite, utterly unsuitable for performance in either Protestant (his own faith!) or Catholic churches of the time. He was dead longer than he had been alive before it was actually performed in full.
So when he wrote a work close to the end of his life that was absolutely without commercial interest (since it was unperformable for his life time and any foreseeable future), it still was a deeply religious work, with at best loose connections to the churches of his time.
True, the next large work he started (and never finished) was "Die Kunst der Fuge", not inherently a religious work.
But he clearly loved the music he was doing (and had a lot of trouble with his employers when stepping over the lines of musical conventions while doing his job). And it was clear that to him, the potential of that music was still not exhausted. Many musicians keep doing weaker copies of the stuff they became famous for when they age. Bach did some of his deepest works right before his death.
You could say the same about Beethoven. Rossini was off inventing 19th-century opera, and Weber was applying those operatic innovations to instrumental music, and what was Beethoven doing? Putting fugues in his major works. Beethoven's late style was completely uninfluenced by the new trends, and even became a dead end until it influenced later composers like Brahms and Bruckner.
On the other hand, take a look at Luigi Cherubini. Listen to his first Requiem (1816). Strictly old-fashioned. Cherubini spent the next 20 years thwarting Hector Berlioz in every possible way. Now listen to the second (1836). It sounds like a copy of the Berlioz Requiem. Clearly Cherubini saw a reason to follow the trend of the times, if Bach and Beethoven did not.
Many of the composers we respect most highly do not bring their music to our level. We must go to their level.
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Most great people don't follow trends. Einstein, Edison, you name it. – musicwithoutpaper May 7 '11 at 23:05
I'm not one to down-vote answers my own questions, but I'm afraid this doesn't really answer the question! Also, I have to disagree about Beethoven. Beethoven was a superb culminator and initiator. He was one of the founders of the Romantic style in music. Also, he heavily influenced Schubert, a contemporary of his later life. Mozart would be a better example of a pure culminator. – Noldorin May 8 '11 at 13:16
Also, Mozart and Beethoven, while both having unique styles (obviously), were more or less in agreement with the contemporary musical styles. – Noldorin May 8 '11 at 13:25
The answer to the question would have to be "We'll never know why Bach didn't follow the trend of the times. It's too late to ask him." – Mark Lutton May 30 '11 at 2:35
Unless he was already asked and it was written down. At minimum I would expect there to be some discussion of this in a musicological publication. Even if it was educated speculation, it's better than "I don't know." – delete me♦ Jun 9 '11 at 16:11
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St. Louis Police Sgt. Donnell Walters has watched his cousin, Detective Sgt. Heather Taylor, lead the Ethical Society of Police for more than five-and-a-half years. But now, it's his turn to take the wheel and steer the association forward as it advocates for racial and gender equality in policing.
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"This is consistent with other archaeological evidence that the first settlers in New Zealand were highly mobile. That members of Groups 2 and 3 were still buried back at Wairau suggests that this village may have fulfilled both a ceremonial and home base function."
If this is the case, this may represent the roots of the tangihanga ritual, in which Maori are buried in their ancestral lands, developing among these first New Zealanders, Associate Professor Buckley says.
Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of ancient New Zealanders
More information: Kinaston, R. et al. The first New Zealanders: patterns of diet and mobility revealed through isotope analysis, PLOS ONE. dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064580
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Q: How can I interpret natural logarithm transformed value in the binary regression result I have the binominal regression output result using R programming and x3 below is the natural logarithm of the data which is large. The x3 before imposing the natural logarithm has the following descriptive statistics:
    Min     1065530
    Max     7250000000
    Mean    842062274.8
    Median  500000000

I am trying to provide an economic interpretation of increasing one unit of x3. However, as x3 itself is in natural logarithm and has coefficient of -1.598 as below, I am not sure how to interpret this coefficient in this case. The binary regression output is as below:
    > x_reg=glm(y~x1+x2+x3+x4+x5+x6+x7+x8+x9+x10+x11+x12+x13+x14, data=DATA, family=binomial(link="logit"))
    > summary(x_reg)

    Call:
    glm(formula = y ~x1 + x2 +x3 +
        x4 + x5 + x6 + x7 + x8 +
       x9 + x10 + x11 + x12 + x13
       + x14, family = binomial(link = "logit"), data = DATA)

    Deviance Residuals:
        Min       1Q   Median       3Q      Max
    -2.6596  -0.6843  -0.3166   0.7505   2.4914

    Coefficients:
                    Estimate    Std. Error  z value Pr(>|z|)
    (Intercept)     27.372022   9.5791     2.857    0.004271    **
    x1              0.572836    0.236129    2.426   0.015269    *
    x2              0.437914    1.40225     0.312   0.754817
    x3             -1.597899    0.491549    -3.251  0.001151    **
    x4             -0.591385    0.333672    -1.772  0.076336    .
    x5              0.881187    0.264665    3.329   0.00087     ***
    x6              0.126759    0.060748    2.087   0.036923    *
    x7             -0.270982    0.429146    -0.631  0.52775
    x8              0.020369    0.372997    0.055   0.956449
    x9             -3.580657    0.932135    -3.841  0.000122    ***
    x10             0.22745     0.092035    2.471   0.01346     *
    x11            -0.01306     0.020641    -0.633  0.526921
    x12             0.009792    0.023543    0.416   0.677482
    x13             0.002869    0.01344     0.213   0.830976
    x14            -0.010232    0.055211    -0.185  0.852973
    ---
    Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

    (Dispersion parameter for binomial family taken to be 1)

        Null deviance: 181.05  on 131  degrees of freedom
    Residual deviance: 124.43  on 117  degrees of freedom
      (390 observations deleted due to missingness)
    AIC: 154.43

    Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 5

May I know how to interpret the x3 which is in natural logarithm?

A: You can linearize the natural logarithm (which has derivative $1 / x$) to get to this:

For every one-unit change in the original $x_3$ near specific point $x_3^*$, there's a change of $+ \beta_3 / x_3^*$ in the log odds or $\times e^{\beta_3 / x_3^*} $ in the odds.

If you really want one number for the effect of $x_3$, then you could plug in the mean for $x_3^*$ but note that's an approximation that gets worse as you move away from the mean.
More direct interpretations of $\beta_3$ are:

*

*The amount the log odds of the event decreases for every $e$-fold (approximately 2.7 times) increase in the raw value of $x_3$. The multiplier $e$ is the base of the logarithm you used.

*The power $k$ of the power-law relationship between the odds of the event and $x_3$, while all other covariates are held constant.
The second interpretation comes from:
$$
\text{log(odds)} = \textit{stuff} + \beta_3 \log(x_3)
$$
$$
\text{odds} = e^{\textit{stuff}} e^{\log(x_3^{\beta_3})}
$$
$$
\text{odds} = e^{\textit{stuff}} x_3^{\beta_3}
$$
though I don't know it would be especially useful in this case given $x_3^{\beta_3}$ is going to be very close to zero for the values in your data set (with a very large intercept to counteract it).

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Diane Hamilton was the pseudonym of Diane Guggenheim (1924 – 1991), an American mining heiress, folksong patron and founder of Tradition Records.

Personal life
The only child of millionaire Harry Frank Guggenheim, president of Newsday and onetime U. S. ambassador to Cuba, and his second wife, Caroline Morton (formerly Mrs William Chapman Potter), Hamilton was born as Diana Guggenheim in New York City, New York, United States. She had two half-sisters, Joan (born 1913) and Nancy (1915–1972), from her father's first marriage to Helen Rosenberg.

Her maternal grandfather was Paul Morton, U. S. Secretary of the Navy, while her maternal great-grandfather was Julius Sterling Morton, U. S. Secretary of Agriculture.

She was married and divorced four times:
Lieutenant John Meredith Langstaff, a U. S. Army officer and aspiring concert singer, married 1943. They had one child, Diane Carol Langstaff (Mrs Peter Duveneck, Mrs Jim Rooney).
Robert Guillard.
William Meek, an Irish journalist, whom she married in 1963. They had four children: Eoin Meek, Colm Meek, Sorcha Meek, and Caitriona Meek.
John Darby Stolt, aka John Hamilton-Darby

Career
Little is known of Hamilton's life, and only since the publication of the book The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour by Liam Clancy has it been possible to reconstruct her most notable years. In order to disguise her wealth, she adopted the alias 'Diane Hamilton'.

She lived in Florence, Italy, in the late 1950s, where she ran a Montessori school and frequented workshops led by Dr. Roberto Assagioli.

In 1955, she traveled to Ireland in search of folk singers. According to Liam Clancy's book, she became acquainted with Tom and Paddy Clancy in New York, and while in Ireland made the Clancy household one of the stops on her collecting trip. Young Liam was invited to continue on the trip with her, and one of the next stops was the home of Sarah Makem who had previously been recorded by Jean Ritchie on her album Field Trip (1954). This fateful meeting brought together Liam and Sarah's younger son, Tommy Makem, who was also recorded.  These two, along with Liam's older brothers Paddy and Tom Clancy, would eventually form "The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem", one of the most successful groups in Irish music history.

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Tradition Records
Another member of the Clancy family, Paddy Clancy, helped Hamilton run Tradition Records as the company's president. The Lark in the Morning was the first album released on the Tradition label in 1955. Subsequent releases included The Rising of the Moon by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, and The Countess Cathleen by W.B. Yeats in 1956. Other notable recordings include Negro Prison songs, a compilation by Alan Lomax and The Bonny Bunch of Roses with Seamus Ennis. Other Tradition artists included Ed McCurdy, Odetta, Paul Clayton, Jean Ritchie, Lightnin' Hopkins and Etta Baker. In 1959 the label released John Langstaff Sings American and English Ballads, featuring her then-current husband singing and Nancy Trowbridge (who later became Langstaff's second wife) on piano. The album was re-released by Revels Records in 2002 as The Water Is Wide: American and British Ballads and Folksongs. Once the Clancy Brothers signed with Columbia Records in 1961, the catalogue was sold, possibly to Transatlantic.

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I have to say I have had some mixed experiences with this foundation. The first couple of times it applied really well and lasted quite well (aside from my t-zone that was quite patchy by the end of the day). However, the more I used it, the worse it performed. Now, no matter what primer I use or how I prep my skin, the foundation just balls up on my skin and won't sit properly. As you might be able to see in the images below, it just doesn't want to sit on my skin.
After having some good wears at the start, I was disappointed by the way the foundation just didn't really want to sit on my skin properly. It had so much potential, but at the end of the day, it just doesn't work for me.


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Тест Томаса-Килманна () оценивает стиль поведения человека в конфликтных ситуациях, то есть в ситуациях, в которых интересы двух людей оказываются несовместимы. Данный опросник показывает типичную реакцию человека на конфликт, её эффективность и целесообразность, а также дает информацию о других возможных способах разрешения конфликтной ситуации. В России тест адаптирован Н. В. Гришиной для изучения личностной предрасположенности к конфликтному поведению.

История
Тест Томаса — Килманна был разработан, чтобы помочь людям более эффективно справляться с конфликтными ситуациями, и основан на 40-летнем исследовании авторов.

В своем подходе к изучению конфликтных ситуаций Кеннет Томас отошел от традиционного метода, где конфликт понимался, только как негативное явление, вызывающее угрозу, и рассматривал, как и негативные, так и позитивные функции конфликта. В соответствии с этим К. Томас сконцентрировал свое внимание в изучении конфликтов на следующих аспектах: какие формы поведения характерны для людей в конфликтных ситуациях, какие из них являются более продуктивными или деструктивными; каким образом возможно стимулировать продуктивное поведение.

Для описания типов поведения людей в конфликтных ситуациях К. Томас считает применимой двухмерную модель регулирования конфликтов. Идея модели двухмерного урегулирования конфликтов была создана в соавторстве с Ральфом Килманном (Ralph Kilmann), из-за чего методику также называют тестом Томаса-Килманна. При разработке теста авторы придерживались идеи, что люди должны не стремиться избежать конфликта любой ценой, а наоборот должны грамотно управлять им.

Первоначальная работа Томаса и Килманна спонсировалась издательской компанией в Нью-Йорке: Xicom, Inc. В 1974 году издательская компания Xicom опубликовала TKIв виде буклета, состоящего из шестнадцати страниц. Данный буклет включал в себя тридцать пар утверждений и страницу самооценки. В 1998 году их работа была приобретена компанией CPP, Inc. в Маунтин-Вью, Калифорнии. Смена издательской компании стала поворотным этапом в истории развития теста Томаса-Килмана, так как вскоре после смены компании тест TKI был напечатан в полноценном виде, переведен на испанский, французский и португальский языки и начался распространяться по всему миру.

Первое исследование достоверности TKI было опубликовано в 1977 году в статье «Developing a Forced-Choice Measure of Conflict-Handling Behavior». В статье «Comparison of Four Instruments Measuring Conflict Behavior» написанном авторами, было сравнено четыре инструмента измерения конфликтного поведения, где по результатам исследований, описанных в статьях, TKI по сравнению с другими инструментами разрешения конфликтов (разработанными Р. Блейком и Дж. Моутоном; Лоуренсом и Лоршем ; Холлом) имеет преимущество — наблюдается резкое снижение ответов с социальной желательностью.

До 2007 года тест TKI основывался на оценках 339 менеджеров среднего и высшего звена в бизнесе и правительстве, которые были в основном белыми мужчинами в Соединенных Штатах . С 2007 года тест TKI теперь основан на случайной стратифицированной выборке из 8000 респондентов (отобранных из 59 000 респондентов), которые отражают население США по полу, расе, возрасту, опыту работы и географическому положению. Примечательно, что восемь из пятнадцати категорий (высокие, средние и низкие оценки для каждого из пяти способов разрешения конфликтов) изменились с 1970-х по 2000-е годы только на одно число, в то время как остальные семь категорий в тесте TKI остались точно такими же. Что еще более поразительно, практически не было никаких существенных различий ни в одном демографическом различии. Вот почему каждый житель США может использовать один недавно обновленный тест TKI, чтобы узнать распределение своих пяти способов разрешения конфликтов на высокие 25 %, средние 50 % и низкие 25 %.

Критика TKI
К концу 1970-х К.Томас и Р.Килманн начали получать несколько жалоб от клиентов по поводу исключительного использования в тесте TKI мужских местоимений. Сначала, поскольку только пять из тридцати пар утверждений включали «он», «его» или «он» в один из вариантов A / B, их это не особо побеспокоило. Но к началу 1980-х годов частота жалоб на «мужскую предвзятость» постепенно увеличивалась. Следовательно, к середине 1980-х годов использование мужских местоимений в пяти элементах было изменено на он / она, его / ее или его / ее, что легко решило гендерную проблему. Таким образом, история инструмента Томаса-Килманна на все времена охватывала гендерное равенство.

В конце 1980-х годов появилась другая критика, касавшаяся небольшой (и демографически ограниченной) выборки, которая установила их нормы разрешения конфликтов. Так как Томас и Килланн отобрали всего 339 менеджеров среднего и высшего звена в бизнесе и правительстве и в их выборке 1970-х годов преобладали белые мужчины и были высокообразованными, что, конечно, сильно отличалось от все более разнообразной рабочей силы США. Данная проблема была решена в 2002 году, когда тест TKI был размещен компанией CPP в онлайн-платформе SkillsOne. Онлайн-платформа SkillsOne позволила собрать обширные данные от разнообразной выборки респондентов, что подготовило почву для окончательного обновления норм TKI с 1970-х по 2000-е годы.

Использование онлайн-платформы SkillsOne для обновления образца норм США
После того, как 59 000 человек прошли тест TKI через SkillsOne (который, по замыслу, также собирал широкий спектр демографической информации), исследовательский отдел компании CPP создал рандомизированную выборку из 4000 мужчин и 4000 женщин, стратифицированных по расе/этнической принадлежности, возрасту, организационному уровню, и географическому региону, чтобы отразить рабочую силу США. В 2007 году полный отчет был подготовлен Нэнси А. Шаубхут, а затем опубликован компанией CPP: Техническое описание инструмента Томаса-Килмана для конфликтного режима: описание обновленного нормативного образца и его значение для использования.

Международное исследование норм TKI
Международное исследование показывает, что с практической точки зрения нормы TKI США не сильно отличаются от норм стран, включенных в это исследование. Таким образом, и Томас, и Килманн, и издатель CPP с легкостью пришли к выводу, что текущий профиль TKI, использующий английскую версию оценки, может с уверенностью использоваться для интерпретации результатов для лиц международного происхождения и проживания. Это стало еще одним важным шагом в истории развития теста Томаса-Килмана. В 2013 году было проведено исследование с японским переводом теста TKI, где результаты исследования незначительно отличались от результатов исследования, проведенных в США. Более того, выборки из разных стран различались процентным соотношением женщин и мужчин, что могло несколько смещать процентили. Таким образом, различия (статистически или практически значимые), выявленные в этих предварительных культурных сравнениях, могут быть результатом различных методов выборки, которые использовались для выборок в США и этих международных выборок.

Общие сведения
К. Томас совместно с Р. Килманном предложили двухмерную модель регулирования конфликтов, одно измерение которой — напористость, это степень, в которой человек пытается удовлетворить свои собственные интересы, и кооперация, это степень, в которой человек пытается удовлетворить интересы другого человека. Эти два направления поведения могут быть использованы для определения пяти способов борьбы с конфликтами:

 Соревнование (конкуренция) — стремление добиться своих интересов в ущерб другому.
 Приспособление— принесение в жертву собственных интересов ради другого.
 Компромисс— соглашение на основе взаимных уступок; предложение варианта, снимающего возникшее противоречие.
 Избегание— отсутствие стремления к кооперации и отсутствие тенденции к достижению собственных целей.
 Сотрудничество— участники ситуации приходят к альтернативе, полностью удовлетворяющей интересы обеих сторон.

В своем опроснике по выявлению типичных форм поведения Томас и Киллманн описывают каждый из пяти перечисленных возможных способов борьбы с конфликтами 12 суждениями о поведении индивида в конфликтной ситуации. В различных сочетаниях они сгруппированы в 30 пар, в каждой из которых респонденту предлагается выбрать то суждение, которое является наиболее типичным для характеристики его поведения.

Примечания

Литература
 Обозов Н. Н. Психология конфликта. Издательство: ЛНПП «Облик», 2009.48 с.
 Тест описания поведения К.Томаса (адаптация Н. В. Гришиной) // Психологические тесты / Под ред. А. А. Карелина: В 2т. — М., 2001. — Т.2. С.69-77
 Thomas, K. W. Conflict-Handling Modes in Interdepartmental Relations (Purdue University. Unpublished Dissertation, 1971).
 Thomas, K. W., and Kilmann, R. H. The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument(Mountain View, CA: CPP, Inc., 1974).
 Schaubhut, N. A. Technical Brief for the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument: Description of the Updated Normative Same and Implications for Use(Mountain View, CA: CPP, Inc., 2007).
 Weber, A. J., Johnson, C. A., and Thompson, R. C. Technical Brief for the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument: JAPANESE(Mountain View, CA: CPP, Inc., 2013).
 Kilmann, R. H. «Celebrating the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) and Systemwide Conflict Management» Kilmann Diagnostics Website, 2014.

Социальная психология
Конфликтология


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Q: Fabric.js ruler with zoom I' ve question.
I'm coding an editor like this, and I also want a ruler to add it (which change values with mouse-scroll (zoom in and out) )
But I can't do it. I tried all rulers on github but they are running only body tag.
Unfortunately, there are no documents for zoom in or zoom out.
I'm new with HTML5 canvas and I'm stuck. Waiting for your helps. Thanks!

A: One approach would be to have three separate canvases, one as the main canvas and one each for the top/left rulers.
When zooming in/out, you set the zoom level on the main canvas, but you will need to redraw the rulers manually, here is a really simple example:
function redrawRulers() {
  topRuler.clear();
  leftRuler.clear();
  topRuler.setBackgroundColor('#aaa');
  leftRuler.setBackgroundColor('#aaa');

  zoomLevel = mainCanvas.getZoom();

  for (i = 0; i < 600; i += (10 * zoomLevel)) {
    var topLine = new fabric.Line([i, 25, i, 50], {
      stroke: 'black',
      strokeWidth: 1
    });
    topRuler.add(topLine);
    var leftLine = new fabric.Line([25, i, 50, i], {
      stroke: 'black',
      strokeWidth: 1
    });
    leftRuler.add(leftLine);
  }}

Fiddle
UPDATE: For the rulers, here's some very simple code to draw figures on the top ruler (fiddle also updated):
  // Numbers
for (i = 0; i < 600;  i += (100 * zoomLevel)) {
  var text = new fabric.Text((Math.round(i / zoomLevel)).toString(), {
    left: i,
    top: 10,
    fontSize: 8
  });
  topRuler.add(text);
}

Now, of course you will want to convert those numbers into whatever units are appropriate for your application. Also, you may want to consider drawing the numbers at more frequent intervals when you're zoomed in, and to space them out more when you're zoomed out. But I think I've given you enough to get you going here.
Add the below code in document.ready this will bind a mouse scroll event with the canvas and hence the zoom in and out will happen when you use mousewheel.
$(mainCanvas.wrapperEl).on('mousewheel', function(e) {
    var dir = e.originalEvent.wheelDelta;
    if (dir > 0){
      var ZoomValue = mainCanvas.getZoom() * 1.2;

    } else {
        var ZoomValue = mainCanvas.getZoom() * .83333333333333333;
    }

    redrawRulers();
    mainCanvas.setZoom(ZoomValue, e);
    e.originalEvent.returnValue = false;
});

Updated Fiddle For Mouse Scroll


I've just reread the Conqueror series by Conn Igguldens.
Its the story of the rise and rule of Gangus Khan told over 3 books each dealing with a different period of time (Childhood, taking asia, Middle east). It is a combination of true history with some fictional story telling mixed in with it. He tries to stay true to history as much as possible but for the sake of the story does change some moments.
He also did a series on Rome which I havent read yet. Anyone read these?


Last night I stopped into Aldi to grab some plantains and danced through the aisle when I came across a case of Kerrygold grassfed cheeses for $3.49. Aldi is a great place to pick up paleo options for a huge discount and they continually surprise you with gems like Kerrygold cheese! After dumping the box of cheeses into my cart I danced some more knowing I had a reason to get to work on that grain free nut free cheese its recipe. Multiple batches later, the last of my Otto's Cassava flour, and my taste tester refusing to eat anything else, the perfect grain free cheese its were born!
I tried these a few different ways. I think that the combination of butter and palm shortening makes for the best flavor and crispy texture, but you can sub one for the other if needed. Your butter should be slightly softened to make it easy to work with, but not so soft that it's melting or won't form into a dough. As noted in the recipe, if you are finding your dough difficult to work with pop it in the refrigerator for 15 or 20 minutes. You may need to knead it a few times if it hardens up too much, but this does make it a little easier to roll out. If it's particularly hot out or you've made 5 batches and your kitchen is like a furnace (I wouldn't know from experience or anything) this is particularly helpful. It's also really important to watch your cheese its as they are nearing the end of the cooking time. Because of the fat content they can burn easily. Some cheese its may have to be removed before the others depending on how evenly you rolled the dough and how wonky your oven temp is. If you choose not to separate the squares prior to baking as suggested, you will likely need to remove the outer edge pieces first. I start checking them at the 15 minute mark and bake in additional 2 minutes increments until they are crispy. You want the cheese its to be crispy all the way through, not just on top.
You can experiment with all different flavors. My mind was racing with all the possibilities. Garlic, ranch, spicy….the possibilities are endless! Be sure to tag me in your creations and use the hashtag #foodandsunshine!
Pulse cassava flour, salt, cheese, butter, and palm shortening in a food processor until small pebbles form.
While pulsing, add in water and process until the dough comes together. Start with 2 TBS of water adding an additional 1TBS at a time as needed.
Split dough into two equal size pieces. You will have enough for two batches.
Between two pieces of parchment paper, roll dough into a large rectangle, approximately 1/8 inch thick. Be careful to roll to an even thickness. If you are finding your dough hard to work with refrigerate it for 15-20 minutes.
Using a pizza cutter or pastry wheel crimper cut dough into squares. Separate squares so they are no longer touching*. Using a fork mark each square with a dot in the center. If desired sprinkle tops with salt.
Move to a large baking sheet (on parchment paper) and bake for 17-23 minutes, until crispy and slightly golden. There is a fine line between burnt and perfect, so start checking them at 15 minutes mark. You may need to remove the edge pieces first and throw the rest back in the oven to finish.
Store in an air tight container or freeze for another day.
*While not required, taking the time to separate the squares will result in a much better final product and will cook quicker. If you don't have the patience or delicate hands to separate them take the cheese its out at the 15 minute mark, recut with a pizza slicer, pull apart, and put back in the oven to finish.
I am SO HAPPY to find this site and recipes!!!! Thank you thank you THANK YOU!!!
You're welcome Brigette! Glad you like it.
what can I use to sub the palm shortening ?
Just sub it for more butter.
Just made these today. Very good. No more store bought. Everybody liked them at my house.
These are excellent! I haven't had Cheez-it's in years, and I often look longingly at the box when I pass by them at the market. Now I have a healthy, gluten free version. Thanks for sharing!
oh my goodness, Kristina! you just made my Christmas! Longing for cheese straws, I came across your recipe! perfect, beautiful crispy perfect crackers without the belly & joint pain of grains! I will be making these regularly. going to try them thicker as a cheese "biscuit" for breakfast! oh, maybe you have a yummy biscuit recipe?
I'm so happy you enjoyed them! Let me know how the biscuit works out. I don't currently have any biscuit recipes but I can definitely add it to my list on things to work on.


Red Handed Symposium is a celebration of low fire high iron clay that will take place at The Clay Lady's Campus in Nashville, TN May 25-27, 2018.
Click here for registration. The Symposium is approaching quickly.
The weekend starts with a reception for the Red Handed Invitational exhibition that includes the work of these artists and more: Ron Meyers, Gail Kendall, Matt Kelleher, Shoko Teruyama, Amanda Dobbratz, Mark Pharis, Rebecca Chappell, Jenny Mendes, Tom Jaszczak, Mike Cinelli, Joan Bruneau, Victoria Christen, Catie Miller, Ben Carter, Michael Connelly, Martina Lantin, Nancy Gardner, Teresa Pietsch, Lisa Buck, Missy McCormick, Stan Mace Andersen, Jeremy Randall, Joe Pintz, Kip O'Krongly, Holly Walker, Maria Dondero, and Marc Digeros.
Linda Arbuckle will give the Keynote Address following the reception.
Ronan Kyle Peterson, Amy Sanders, Liz Zlot Summerfield and I will give demonstrations of the distinctive ways we work with red clay on Saturday and Sunday.
Ben Carter will lead a panel discussion between the presenters that will be recorded live for the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast.
I am excited to jury delecTABLE this year for the Art Students League of Denver. The deadline for submissions is January 22 at 11:59PM. You can find application information here, or go to callforentry.org.
I will be in Denver for the weekend of the April 25-29 to give an artist talk, present awards and teach a workshop. I hope to see anyone in the vicinity who can make it for these events.
Take a look at this show featuring 13 potters and the Teapots, Jars, Pitchers, and Vases they make. It will be live at schallergallery.com from September 24-October 13.


We are holding a HYMNATHON this May to celebrate the 175th Anniversary of Nottingham Cathedral this year, as well as raising money for the Cathedral's Youth Choir.
The afternoon will feature non-stop hymn singing from 12 – 6pm and singers from all over the city and will gather to sing some of your favourite hymns alongside our Cathedral Choirs.
We are hoping to hold a 'Schools Hour', where schools in and around Nottingham have the opportunity to perform hymns / hymn arrangements in the Cathedral to each other, and to anyone else who comes into the Cathedral for the event. We will then have a MASSED CHOIR PIECE for all schools to prepare and then perform together at the end of the hour (music to be confirmed).
The exact time is to be confirmed, but it would probably be from 2-3pm, or possibly a little longer depending on how many schools sign up.
We would very much like to have a 'Schools Hour,' where catholic primary and secondary schools in and around Nottingham have the opportunity to perform hymns / hymn arrangements in the Cathedral to each other, and to anyone else who comes into the Cathedral for the event. We would then have one piece that all the schools would prepare and then perform together at the end of the hour (music tbc).


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Finished the 2013 Buller Gorge Half Marathon Run in 02:39:20 in F2034 class!
She came 175th in class and 878th overall!
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With a 2 seat design, this SONGMICS Bamboo Shoe Bench is a functional decoration for your doorway, entryway and porch. It not only can store all kinds of your shoes, but also offer you a comfortable place to sit on. With the special designed round corner and counter bore, it is even safe when you have children around. Different heights of levels allow kids to sit on, make the shoe changing more comfortable and fun. Shipped with reusable embedded hardware, easy to assemble and disassemble.
Putting this slim space-saving bamboo shoe bench on the doorway, you can put your handbags on the top while sitting on it to wear shoes and put them on the shelves. It is also a good idea to put your plants on it, while use it as a towel or toiletries rack in the shower room. Mothers can put your baby toy baskets on the shelves to storage. More features are for you to find.
- Please be aware of the SIZE for this product, and buy accordingly.
- Since the bench seater is made of pieces of bamboo boards, it might creak when you sit on it. That is considered normal, because some bamboo boards bended and went down under pressure.
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Do You Trust Yourself And Your People Enough To Let Go?
I hear from sales people all over, "My manager won't let go!" "She's micro managing me!" As I listened to these complaints, as I started to watch and see this happening, I begin to wonder, as managers do we trust our people enough to let them be successful?
Ultimately,this approach to management is doomed to fail. Our job as leaders is to get things done through our people. We are most effective developing them, getting them to achieve higher levels of performance. If we tell them what they should be doing, if we dictate, if we are constantly checking everything, the whole system breaks down. Micromanaging shifts the accountability from the sales person to the manager. All of a sudden, it is the manager that's responsible for identifying the next steps, managing the deal, even managing calls. Even if that was the right thing to do, the sheer numbers are impossible to manage–no manager simply has enough time to be calling the shots on everything–the manager starts to become the bottleneck, things slow down as sales people wait for direction, productivity plummets, sales plummet—the manager and the organization fail.
Think of the organizational impact. We've all worked for micro managers before–it's terrible! We are demotivated, we are uninspired, we go through the motions. If, as managers, we have done the right job of hiring, hopefully we've built a team of independent thinkers, aggressive sales people who want to close business. Then we take all that away by micromanaging. The best people will leave–then all you are left with are poor performers.
Our jobs as managers is to magnify our impact. We do this by passing our experience on to our people through coaching, training, and development. We help them grow to perform at higher levels.
If we've done our job as managers, we've hired great people. These great people have different, perhaps better ways of doing things. As managers, we understand what they are doing, assess whether it produces the desired results, coach them in how to improve. If we're great, we let them teach us, learning from what they do, incorporating their approaches into our best practices, coaching others in how to improve even further.
If we are great managers, we give our people the same opportunities we had in developing—including the opportunity to make mistakes. Each of us learns through our mistakes. Too often, I see managers trying to keep their people from making mistakes. People are going to make mistakes, our job is to help our people learn from them, to recover, and to move forward. We can't let mistake avoidance overwhelm both us and them. We have to encourage thoughtful risk.
Being a great manager is ultimately about trust–both in yourself and what you've done to coach and develop your people and in them! Do you trust your people enough to let go?
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I've always maintained, as you describe above, that trust and accountability must go hand in hand. Managers who trust their team to do the job will often times achieve results that exceed their expectations as long as they also hold that same team accountable. Then, of course, we must also discuss things like culture, motivation and compensation as they often drive behavior as well.


Per family wishes cremation has taken place and a memorial service will be held at a later date. Inurnment will take place in Green Oak Plains Cemetery in Brighton, Michigan at a later date.
Phillip Butler Walker, age 91, of Sterling, Michigan passed away Monday morning, January 21, 2019 with family by his side at home.
Phillip was born December 12, 1927 in Barfield, Arkansas to the late Johnnie and Littie (Graham) Walker. He was a proud United States ARMY veteran. Phillip married the former Carol F. (Kreinbring) in 1962 and together they began raising their four daughters, Carolyn, Helen, Judy, and Elizabeth. He dedicated 30 years of hard work to American Aggregates Incorporated in Brighton, Michigan prior to his retirement. Because of this dedicated work, Phillip instilled a great work ethic in all of his family. In his spare time, he enjoyed fishing.
Phillip is survived by his daughters, Carolyn Janssen, Helen Walker, Judy (Mark) Burroughs, and Elizabeth Godak; five grandchildren; four great grandchildren; two great great grandchildren; brothers Jackie Walker and Freddie Walker; sister, Bobbie Goodman; many nieces and nephews. In addition to his parents, Phillip was preceded in death by his wife, Carol in 2005.
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