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Meet Hound, a hands-free virtual assistant that's smarter and faster than Siri
This app isn't as convenient as OS-level voice-activated assistants, but it turns up results lightning fast.
By Caitlin McGarry
Staff Writer, Macworld | PT
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SoundHound is best known for its music recognition app, which listens to songs and identifies them, in the same vein as Shazam. But for the last nine years, the company has been working on a virtual assistant to rival Siri, Google Now, and Cortana. That app, called Hound, on Tuesday emerged from private beta on iOS and Android with data from 150 sources, including Yelp and Uber.
How it works: Open the app and either tap the microphone to ask Hound a question or just say, "OK Hound." Then speak naturally. Hound serves up basic information like weather forecasts and what businesses are nearby, but can also tell you how far away the nearest Uber is and how much the price is surging by, calculate a mortgage for you, and tell you what hotel room rates at a pet-friendly resort with a gym will be months down the line. The answers come with lightning quickness, faster than any voice assistant I've ever encountered. You can ask follow-up questions to further narrow results:
Hound for iOS is fast and mostly accurate, though not perfect.
"Show me coffee shops in SoHo, except Starbucks, that are open right now and serve food." "Just the highest-rated ones."
[ Further reading: Everything you need to know about iOS 12 ]
(That search turned up Doughnut Plant, which was so on point, though not exactly in SoHo—it's on the Lower East Side.)
Hound has to be fast. The app is at a disadvantage because it doesn't ship with devices by default, and can't be used across iOS or Android without being opened first.
So why bother using Hound if you already have a virtual assistant baked in at the OS level? The AI that powers other virtual assistants translates voice to text and then text to meaning. But Hound skips the middle step faster than anyone else, translating voice to meaning quickly and with more complex queries than Siri or Google Now. That's why it took so long to develop, SoundHound founder and CEO Keyvan Mohajer said during a demo at Macworld's New York office.
During the demo, Hound answered queries without a hiccup for Mohajer, though my own searches weren't quite as seamless when I tested a beta version of the iOS app. When I tried to narrow a search for restaurants in Manhattan's Theatre District down to "more affordable" options, the app pointed me to Moore, a town in the middle of nowhere.
Siri might be more convenient to use, especially with Apple's own services, like Mail, Calendar, and iMessage. But you also have to perform vocal gymnastics just to get Apple's assistant to understand what you're asking for, and the results are much slower than Hound's. It wouldn't surprise me if the app is acquired by one of the tech giants for its technology, which is both reliable and accurate for hands-free searches, in order to make their own personal assistants better.
Caitlin McGarry is Macworld's Staff Writer. She covers Apple news, health and fitness technology, and anything wearable.


BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Asia has today announced that monster hunting action game GOD EATER 3 will be coming to the Nintendo Switch on 12th July 2019 for Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia).
In a world ravaged by powerful beasts known as Aragami, God Eaters are the last hope of humanity, wielding fantastic God Arcs capable of destroying the monsters. Now on the Nintendo Switch players can tackle these beasts head-on anytime and anywhere.
In GOD EATER 3, players can create their own character and customise their fighting style with a huge array of God Arcs to wield or techniques to learn. Those that choose to take on the Aragami will be able to team with CPU controlled allies or in a group of eight players online. Players can also play with up to three friends locally, with four connected Nintendo Switch consoles.


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MOVIES: The Rainbow Experiment - Review: The World You See is Just a Movie in Your Mind
Posted by madstvwriter at December 04, 2018 0 Comments
MD Movies Reviews
Tragedies don't occur in a vacuum. If they did, the news wouldn't be plastered with human trauma and plight at all hours of the day. When something terrible happens, there is a ripple effect. The Rainbow Experiment aims to chase down every single one of those ripples extending out from a science experiment gone terribly awry.
Featuring an impressive cast of 36 talented actors in principal roles, much more fill out the background of students, parents, law enforcement, and teachers, The Rainbow Experiment is an exercise in indulgence.
Mrs. Dhawan (Nina Mehta) conducts an experiment for her rowdy group of Chemistry students. She uses a Benson burner and different solutions to demonstrate how various chemicals create multi-colored flames when set alight, hence the film title. When she calls one particularly disruptive boy, Matty Fairchild (Connor Siemer), to assist her in the work an explosion happens, engulfing Matty in a fireball that leaves him in critical condition in the hospital. Thus putting the events of the film into motion.
The central questions sought to be answered are how did this happen? Is Mrs. Dhawan at fault for the incident? What really occurred in the chemistry classroom at this New York high school? And more importantly, what part did those students, that teacher, the faculty, and the ecosystem of this particular school as a whole, play in the lead-up to this catastrophic event?
From this point on, Matty narrates much of the events in this documentary-style film. He lingers around in the background, unseen and unheard, like a ghost, just for the audience's effect. It becomes clear quickly why the film creators thought Matty a necessity, there is so much going on in this film, an endless web that weaves outwards to seemingly endless bounds, you need a spiritual guide to help you find out whose who.
Thus presenting the film's greatest weakness, they've bitten off more than they can chew. Well that and Matty is a rather irritating narrator.
While I found The Rainbow Experiment thoroughly engrossing at times, the performances are stellar and grounded, the slow submersion into the movie's central mystery, and the intriguing way the film shows you the political interplay between all involved parties, there is so much going on, it's easy to get bogged down and overwhelmed by it all.
The world you see is just a movie in your mind.
It's an ambitious filmmaking project for certain. Many scenes are shown in a split screen, with several angles and point-of-view shots from differing characters playing out simultaneously. They leave no stone unturned.
You will discover the story between Matty's friend of a friend and that friend's parents. They tackle gun control and the educational system, the poor treatment of teachers and staff. They tackle trauma head-on, in a way not often depicted in film as they address the way trauma affects witnesses of the incident, and not just the victim or perpetuators.
Broken down into segments and analyzed in pieces, The Rainbow Experiment is actually quite brilliant, but when you compile it all together into one long film (a 2 hr and 9 minute run time that doesn't feel earned), it becomes a slog to get through at times.
Still, I have to give credit to director Christina Kallas (who also wrote the script) for her earnest and enthusiastic undertaking. I'm not going to undermine what this film accomplishes because while I don't think it reached the heights it should have, given the concept and the climate it's being released in, I still think it's a film well worth anyone's time
The Rainbow Experiment also stars Christian Coulson (Tom Riddle from Harry Potter), Kevin Kane (I Feel Pretty), Chris Beetem (Orange is the New Black), Vandit Bhatt (New Amsterdam), Francis Benhamou (Daredevil), Lacy Marie Meyer, Swann Gruen, Margaret Rose Champagne, Booker Garrett (The Detour), Stratos Tzortzoglou, Chris Gentile, Robert Z. Grant, J.B. Roté, Laura Pruden, Tony White, Catherine Cobb Ryan, John J. Concado (Guardians of the Galaxy), Tim Eliot (Boardwalk Empire), Naomi Warner, Barnaby Spring, Chris Veteri, Douglas Rizzo Johnson, Lisa K. Price (Trainwreck), Peter Boustani, Patrick Bonck, and Richard Liriano.
Available nationwide VOD December 7th and comes home on DVD/BluRay December 11th from Gravitas Ventures.

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South Park Realty located in South Park Shopping Center just south of Hot Springs National Park.
South Park Realty was originally started as a property management company in 2003 and operated by Diana Tedford as principal broker. Diana purchased the company in the fall of 2009, continuing in the property management business. Expanding into sales through Hot Springs Board of Realtors South Park Realty now works with both Buyers, Sellers and Investors.


In addition to the weekly line up of culinary and drink-ary events, it's American Craft Beer Week. There are so many things to do, you're head will spin. Let's get to spinning.
Thursday, May 16 Cuban Dulceria International Bakery is hosting their 4th Annual Cuban Nostalgia event Thursday through Saturday. The three day event is for those "who remember the island's glamorous times and those who never experienced them" and will highlight the bakery's family recipes and some hard to find products. The party is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
Friday, May 17 Patriot PAWS is a group that provides service dogs to disabled veterans. This Friday they are hosting the 2nd Annual Grand Hall Summer Grill Out, which pits military veterans (who are now enrolled in the culinary school at the Art Institute of Dallas) in a Top Chef-style cook-off. All you'll need to do is show up from noon to 2 p.m. at 3838 West Miller Road in Garland and try the fare. Then, maybe buy a new grill from Barbecues Galore and all of the proceeds will go Patriot PAWS.
The White Rock Local Market will be at the Green Spot this Saturday starting at 8 a.m.
Also, the Saint Michael's Farmers Market at 8011 Douglas is rolling again.
Coppell's Farmers Market is at 793 S. Coppell Road at Burns. Here's a little blog about what you can find at weekly at this farmer's market.
The Deep Ellum Outdoor Market is from 11:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. In addition to local food and beverages, there's live music, local art, and general merriment.
The crew from LUCK, a soon-to-open locally focused restaurant that will be part of the Trinity Groves project, will host lunch at Martin House Brewing Co. in Fort Worth this Saturday starting at 2:00 p.m. It's part of the tour for the new brewery. It's ten bucks at the door.
Four Corners Brewing Co. is hosting a Local Flavor Showcase from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Tickets are $10, which includes a souvenir glass and 3 beer samples, plus there will be local food and live music.
SYNC Yoga and Wellbeing will answer all your questions about the importance of eating seasonally and locally in a 2-hour class this Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m. There will be snacks and lots of talk about kale, we're sure. Class is $25 and find the details here.
Deep Ellum Brewing Co. will have a Pints 4 Paws puppy rescue fundraiser at the brewery at 4 p.m. this Saturday. This particular cause helps furry 4-legged friends make the trip home with troops after military tours. It's $25 per person and there will be a raffle and t-shirts and lots of "Who's-a-good-puppy?" going on.
The homebrew beer competition, Brew Riot, is this Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m. The amateurs-only brewing showdown starts with beer fueled 1.1 mile sprint to the Bishop Arts District, then it's samples out the ears.
TJ's Seafood Market on Oaklawn is holding a grilling demonstration at 2 p.m. The samples and cooking tips are free.
Wednesday, May 22 DISH Restaurant and Lounge will host a Caelum Winery dinner, who is celebrating their new U.S. distribution. The six-course dinner includes four Caelum wines, two from Las Perdices. The meal and pairings cost $95 per person. Call 214) 522-3474 or email jphoenix@Dish-Dallas.com.


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Capital city house prices rise 7.9pc in 2014, but expert expects growth to slow in 2015
By business reporter Michael Janda
Updated January 02, 2015 20:58:09
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Video: Capital city house prices rise 7.9 pc in 2014 (ABC News)
Photo: Capital city house prices rose by nearly 8 per cent through 2014 (AAP: Lukas Coch)
Map: Australia
Australian capital city house prices rose almost 8 per cent last year, with Sydney's property market leading the annual gains, according to data released today.
The widely-watched CoreLogic RP Data Hedonic Home Value Index showed capital city house prices rising by an average 0.9 per cent in December.
That capped off a year which saw capital city homeowners' properties add an average 7.9 per cent in value over the past 12 months.
But analysts warned growth was likely to slow this year.
Hobart led the monthly gains with a 2.7 per cent increase in December, but its average property sale price was up just 3.5 per cent over the year.
Annual gains continued to be led by Sydney which, despite a flat December, posted a 12.4 per cent rise in prices over 2014.
The market with the next highest level of housing price inflation was Melbourne, where values rose 7.6 per cent, which included a 1.6 per cent bounce last month after a fairly weak spring quarter.
CoreLogic research director Tim Lawless said there were a few reasons why Sydney and Melbourne had experienced much greater price growth over recent years.
"That's been a phenomenon driven by both investors - the investor segment's been very active in both those markets - and also partly influenced by some foreign buying behaviour, which is much more focused on the inner-city apartment markets of those two cities," he said.
Brisbane and Adelaide recorded solid price rises in the 4 to 5 per cent range, while all other capitals had modest price growth, except Canberra, where a 0.6 per cent price slide in December led to a 0.6 per cent fall over the year.
Outside the capitals, house prices rose a modest 2.9 per cent over the year to November.
External Link: December 2014 CoreLogic-RP Data home value index
Slower growth, weak rents forecast for 2015
Mr Lawless said those trends were likely to continue, although he said slower price growth for Sydney would probably drag the national average rise down to between 5 and 6 per cent this year.
"Sydney's still a very strong market, but we're expecting that to moderate," he said.
"Brisbane has been gathering some momentum. It's starting to gather more attention from the investor segment as well because of higher yields and lower prices and the fact that it's quite early in the growth cycle.
"I think the marketplaces that are already experiencing a slowdown are clearly Canberra, where we've seen values fall over the past 12 months, also in Perth and Darwin where those markets are now being affected by the slowdown in resources and major infrastructure."
Mr Lawless said that slowdown in prices across many cities was also likely to drag new home construction away from 2014's record highs.
"With the housing market now starting to lose a little bit of steam, and the economic indicators not quite as strong as many would have hoped for, that probably does mean that we'll see some slowdown in developer sentiment or developer confidence and, ultimately, a slowdown in the number of new dwellings being completed," he said.
While construction may start to slow down this year, it seems the flood of extra supply that is coming onto the market is having an effect on prices, particularly rental prices.
The CoreLogic–RP Data figures show that capital city rents grew at an average rate of just 1.8 per cent last year.
CommSec chief economist Craig James said that should ring alarm bells for would-be investors.
"A warning sign for investors was contained in the latest data on home prices – rental growth has fallen to the lowest levels in a decade," he wrote in a note on the data.
"More homes being built mean more competition for landlords and thus more favourable conditions for renters. If 2014 was the year of the home seller, 2015 may be the year of the tenant."
Topics: housing-industry, economic-trends, money-and-monetary-policy, australia
First posted January 02, 2015 10:08:30
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Home / Media / In the News / IIFL AMC mops up $216 million in its IPO focussed fund
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IIFL AMC mops up $216 million in its IPO focussed fund
IIFL AMC has raised $216 million in two months of the second series of its newly launched alternative investment fund called IIFL Special Opportunities Fund – Series 2, said the company in a press release.
Special Opportunities Fund is the India-based fund, which will be dedicated to investing in companies during their pre-IPO and IPO phase. The company had raised $250 million in the first series of this fund that was launched in May 2017. IIFL Special Opportunities Fund – Series 2 is a close-ended scheme under Category II Alternative Investment Fund (AIF). The fund seeks to generate long-term capital appreciation through investment in equity and equity-related instruments of to-be listed companies. Typically, private equity funds invest in unlisted securities, which are likely to be listed in 5 years. However, IIFL Special Opportunity Fund would invest in securities, which would be listed within 6-12 months. Amit Shah, CEO of IIFL Asset Management Business said, "The huge success of IIFL Special Opportunities Fund prompted us to launch Series 2. Overwhelming demand by investors coupled with increasing investment avenues given the healthy IPO pipeline has resulted in rising confidence in such a unique product offering. Our AIFs offer our investors various opportunities to invest in securities that are otherwise unavailable to most investors."
Prashasta Seth, CIO of IIFL Asset Management Business said, "We are seeing a host of opportunities in the IPO segment over the last few months. We are excited to be the first asset management company to introduce this unique offering to the investor community in India. Through our AIFs, investors augment their portfolios with investments in untapped and niche opportunities." IIFL Special Opportunities Fund – Series 2 has raised such a commitment amount within just two months of its launch making it one of the largest collection from an AIF in India.


Scholars, do (or even can) you use sources you can only access through, say, #scihub?
Sure, I do! A paper is a paper.
@miren @bgcarlisle @susannah Honestly, I get papers when and how I need them, they go into Mendeley, and then I promptly forget how I accessed them.


A common requirement in PBX systems is to generate reports. Many of those reports are generated daily. The PBX was already offering such reports for ACD and other accounts at midnight, where "midnight" was a term that could be specified in a field where the email address for the report had to be put.
Interestingly, it was already possible to specify more than one time when the report should be generated. We are now building on that possibility and extend it beyond the day.
The old syntax just accepted the time of day (in 24-hour format) when the report should be generated. Because the PBX checks every 15 minutes, it had to be in 15-minute intervals, like 3:45. We now extended that format to accept either the weekday ("sun", "mon", … "sat") or just "week" for Sunday. It is also possible to use "month" for monthly reports and "quarter" for quarterly reports.
It is also possible to combine those reports. For example "0:00/week 0:00/month" will send both weekly and monthly reports at midnight.
It should be noted here that sending out a quarterly report on very busy systems is not a good idea. This will cause the PBX to perform a table scan on all CDR records which can take minutes before that process is done.
The "Try" button will always generate daily reports.
We have taken the concept also into the web interface. The domain ACD page where you can see the agents activity now also spots a new button where you can select the period that should be reported. By default it is the current day, but you can select the previous day, the previous week (assuming that the week starts on Sunday), the current month and the previous month.
Like with the midnight CDR, you need to be careful if you have very busy systems to load the whole month of CDR. The system does limit the search to the current ACD, but if there are millions of CDR this will keep the system busy for a few seconds.
The login stat below the Agent activity and the call dropout report is always per day. This is something we might address in future versions—one of the main challenges is to display agents that use the login and logout a lot without filling up the whole screen.


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namespace Lexik\Bundle\PayboxBundle\Tests\Transport;

use Lexik\Bundle\PayboxBundle\Paybox\RequestInterface;
use Lexik\Bundle\PayboxBundle\Paybox\System\Cancellation\Request;
use Lexik\Bundle\PayboxBundle\Transport\CurlTransport;

/**
 * Test class for CurlTransport
 */
class CurlTransportTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    protected $object;

    protected $globals;

    protected $server;

    public function setUp()
    {
        if (!function_exists('curl_init')) {
            $this->markTestSkipped('cURL is not available. Activate it first.');
        }

        $this->object = new CurlTransport();

        $this->server = array('system' => array('protocol' => 'http', 'host' => 'test.com', 'cancellation_path' => 'test.cgi'));
        $this->globals = array('currencies' => array(), 'site' => '052', 'rank' => '032', 'login' => '12345679', 'hmac' => array('key' => '123123133', 'algorithm' => 'sha512', 'signature_name' => 'Sign'));
    }

    /**
     * @expectedException \RuntimeException
     */
    public function testCall()
    {
        $this->object->setEndpoint('http://www.google.com/hey.cgi');
        $method = new \ReflectionMethod('\Lexik\Bundle\PayboxBundle\Transport\CurlTransport', 'call');

        $cancellationRequest = new Request($this->globals, $this->server, $this->object);
        $cancellationRequest->setParameter('HMAC', 'test');
        $cancellationRequest->setParameter('TIME', 'test');

        $response = $method->invoke($this->object, $cancellationRequest);

        $this->assertTrue(is_string($response));
    }

    public function testCallEmpty()
    {
        $curl = new mockCurlTransport();

        $this->assertEquals($curl->call(new Request($this->globals, $this->server, $this->object)), '');
    }

}

class mockCurlTransport extends CurlTransport
{
    public function call(RequestInterface $request)
    {
        return '';
    }
}

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VEEP Townhall: What are you going to say that Ofori-Atta didn't say in Parliament? – IMANI asks Bawumia
By MyNewsGH	 On Mar 30, 2019
Founding President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe is skeptical about the import of the April 3rd Town Hall meeting of Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on the economy of Ghana.
According to him, although he subscribes to the idea that Dr Bawumia speaks on the economy, he believes there is nothing substantially different from whatever Dr Bawumia will say and what Finanace Minister Ken Ofori-Atta told Parliament within the week.
Vice President Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia is expected to lead an economic management team town hall meeting with stakeholders on the economy on April 3 in Accra.
Minister for Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah disclosed this at a Press Briefing in Accra said last week.
He said the vice President who is also the head of the Economic Management Team will be speaking on the theme "our progress, our status, our future".
He said the Town Hall Meetings are designed to bring government closer to the people and shall therefore see State actors give an account to the people who also have an opportunity to ask questions and make contributions to the local and national development process.
"The Meetings represent a major shift in Government's policy to make information easily accessible and usable to the public here in and outside Ghana.
But Finance Minister Mr. Ofori-Atta was hauled before Parliament to address lawmakers on March 28, 2019, on Ghana's successful completion of the International Monetary Fund (IMF's) Extended Credit Facility.
His address also focused on Ghana's historic $3 billion Eurobond, and recent developments on the foreign exchange market and the Ghanaian cedi.
Reacting to the series of developments, Franklin Cudjoe believes the townhall may not be necessary.
"I did support the view that our veep speaks to the economy and its travails. However, may I ask what substantially different will my friend and Veep, Dr. Bawumia be saying on April 3 from what the Finance Minister eloquently delivered to Parliament yesterday on the state of our economic affairs?" he said.
Source: MyNewsGh.com/Stephen Zoure/2019


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Q: Unable to export traces to OpenTelemetry Collector on Kubernetes I am using the opentelemetry-ruby otlp exporter for auto instrumentation:
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ruby/tree/main/exporter/otlp
The otel collector was installed as a daemonset:
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-helm-charts/tree/main/charts/opentelemetry-collector
I am trying to get the OpenTelemetry collector to collect traces from the Rails application. Both are running in the same cluster, but in different namespaces.
We have enabled auto-instrumentation in the app, but the rails logs are currently showing these errors:
E, [2022-04-05T22:37:47.838197 #6] ERROR -- : OpenTelemetry error: Unable to export 499 spans
I set the following env variables within the app:
OTEL_LOG_LEVEL=debug
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://0.0.0.0:4318

I can't confirm that the application can communicate with the collector pods on this port.
Curling this address from the rails/ruby app returns "Connection Refused". However I am able to curl http://<OTEL_POD_IP>:4318 which returns 404 page not found.
From inside a pod:
# curl http://localhost:4318/
curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 4318: Connection refused

# curl http://10.1.0.66:4318/
404 page not found

This helm chart created a daemonset but there is no service running. Is there some setting I need to enable to get this to work?
I confirmed that otel-collector is running on every node in the cluster and the daemonset has HostPort set to 4318.

A: The problem is with this setting:
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://0.0.0.0:4318

Imagine your pod as a stripped out host itself. Localhost or 0.0.0.0 of your pod, and you don't have a collector deployed in your pod.
You need to use the address from your collector. I've checked the examples available at the shared repo and for agent-and-standalone and standalone-only you also have a k8s resource of type Service.
With that you can use the full service name (with namespace) to configure your environment variable.
Also, the Environment variable now is called OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_ENDPOINT, so you will need something like this:
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_ENDPOINT=<service-name>.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local:<service-port>

A: The correct solution is to use the Kubernetes Downward API to fetch the node IP address, which will allow you to export the traces directly to the daemonset pod within the same node:
  containers:
  - name: my-app
    image: my-image
    env:
    - name: HOST_IP
      valueFrom:
        fieldRef:
          fieldPath: status.hostIP
    - name: OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT
      value: http://$(HOST_IP):4318

Note that using the deployment's service as the endpoint (<service-name>.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local) is incorrect, as it effectively bypasses the daemonset and sends the traces directly to the deployment, which makes the daemonset useless.

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Arab Awakening
The series of protests and demonstrations across the Gulf and North Africa known as the "Arab Spring" touch upon many of the issues that CIC's work and research address. CIC convened a conference with the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute and the Brookings Institution to address how the U.S., its allies and emerging powers can rebuild trust around crisis diplomacy. CIC also held a discussion that explored the question of what outside actors—established and emerging powers, NGOs, the UN, investors—can do to promote democratic institution-building and rule of law in the Arab World. CIC staff has written extensively on the multilateral dimensions of the Arab Spring and been cited by many international periodicals and broadcasting networks. Furthermore, our Crisis in Syria project is an ongoing collection of exclusive commentary written by CIC scholars as well as commentary that has been cited in news sources around the globe.
Region/Country: Middle East, Libya, Syria
Richard Gowan
Understanding the Transition: A Challenge and Opportunity for Mediators
The Arab Spring has reminded us of the importance of properly understanding the tasks, pace and sequencing of the political transition that follows the cessation of conflict or collapse of authoritarian regimes. Transitions are bridges between old and new political orders, and it is essential that they should be resilient to a wide range of potential challenges.
Publication Date: Jun 21, 2013
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Nicholas Haysom, Sean Kane
Topic(s): Arab Awakening, Humanitarian Crises, International Security, Peace Operations, United Nations
Kofi Annan, Syria and the Uses of Uncertainty in Mediation
March 16, 2013 marks the one year anniversary of Kofi Annan's presentation of his six-point peace plan for Syria at the United Nations. In an article in the journal Stability , Richard Gowan takes this opportunity to reflect on Annan's role as mediator and the effect that uncertainty has in conflict resolution.
Read the full commentary here
Publication Date: Mar 15, 2013
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Richard Gowan
Region/Country: Middle East, Syria
Topic(s): Arab Awakening, Crises, United Nations
The Libyan and Syrian crises have caused major international rifts over the use of force and crisis management. In February CIC convened a conference with the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute and the Brookings Institution to address how the U.S., its allies and emerging powers can rebuild trust around crisis diplomacy. The event involved scholars and officials from the U.S., Europe, China, India and Brazil.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Richard Gowan, Emily O'Brien
Region/Country: Libya, Syria
Topic(s): Arab Awakening, Fragile States
Marginalized U.N. Fights for Humanitarian Agenda in Middle East
Low Expectations for UN Syria Talks
U.N. Trapped on Front Lines of New Struggle With Violent Islamists
The Obama Administration's Middle East Policy


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Q: Detect if login credentials are saved at the browser within a Chrome extension I'm trying to make a Chrome extension auto log a website (by submitting its login form), only in case the user has his login credentials saved at the browser.
And because the login credentials (email/password) are populated to the form after the web page loads, I'm using a JavaScript interval after the page load, as suggested here
So, my code as follows:
//use 10 seconds interval waiting for the form to populate by the saved credentials:
var waitSeconds = 0;
var interval = setInterval(function () {

var inputEmail = document.getElementById('email');
var inputPass = document.getElementById('password');

console.log(
        'inputEmail:', inputEmail, '\n',
        'inputPass:', inputPass, '\n',
        'inputEmail.value:', inputEmail.value, '\n',
        'inputPass.value:', inputPass.value, '\n',
        'inputEmail.defaultValue:', inputEmail.defaultValue, '\n',
        'inputPass.defaultValue:', inputPass.defaultValue, '\n',
        );

    if (inputPass.defaultValue || inputPass.value) {
        console.log('login credentials are saved at the browser!');
        clearInterval(interval);
        //click the form submit button here;

    } else {
        console.log('waiting...');
        if (waitSeconds < 10) {
            waitSeconds++;
        } else {
            clearInterval(interval);
            console.log('10 seconds passed, timeout!');
        }
    }
}, 1000);

I get at the console the following:
inputEmail: <input autocomplete="email" type="email" id="email" value="myemail@example.com">
inputPass: <input autocomplete="password" type="password" id="password" value="myPasswordIsVisibleHere">

But for inputEmail.value, inputPass.value, inputEmail.defaultValue, inputPass.defaultValue, Sometimes, I get the data and sometimes I get nothing! just empty values!
I can't know what makes this happens sometimes and sometimes not, but, based on some observations, I noticed that whenever I do a manual interaction with the page it always populate the values at the console!
Manual human interaction can by something like (clicking anywhere at the page, manually focus an input, clicking F12 to open the dev tools, during the 10 seconds interval, etc)
Is this manual interaction a requirement by Chrome as a security measurement to prevent stealing saved users credentials? I don't know!
I tried to simulate human interaction programmatically, things like:
$(inputEmail).keydown().keypress().keyup().blur().focus();

Also thought about using document.execCommand('paste'), to paste a space or something after the value, out of a desperation approach!
What can I do ALWAYS get the credentials and have a consistent login functionality?
Is there a better approach I should use instead of this?

A: To me it sounds like you should just store and retrieve the email and password in chrome.storage.
If I understand correctly, the page still will not auto login until the extension button is atleast clicked once to kick off any scripts.  If that is the case, have the popup.js perform the launching & auto-login of the pages using window.open, eg.


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Carter Capps, welcome back to The Show!
The San Diego Padres have recalled reliever Carter Capps and optioned Buddy Baumann
By roydjt@Zippy_TMS Aug 7, 2017, 3:16pm PDT
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For Carter Capps, a prayer has been answered.
Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images
When the Padres acquired reliever Carter Capps a little over a year ago, the hopes were that he would come to Spring Training healthy enough to compete for a bullpen role after rehabbing from Tommy John surgery in March of 2015. His rehab appeared to be on track, as he pitched successfully this March, but the team took the conservative approach with the hard-throwing righty, slowly working through several little bumps along the way. After several brief shutdowns and setbacks, Capps is finally ready to make his return to the bigs:
Today is Carter Capps' birthday. His present: 2+ years after sustaining his elbow injury, he's joined the Padres in Cincinnati.
— AJ Cassavell (@AJCassavell) August 7, 2017
When Carter Capps last pitched in the majors, his hop-skip-and-a-jump delivery combined with near-triple-digits velocity to make him one of the most dominating relievers in the game. The extension that his unorthodox motion provided let him release the ball closer to the plate than any other pitcher in the game, which made his heat appear even hotter to the hitter, as his "perceived velocity" was second only to Aroldis Chapman. Throughout his rehab, his velocity hasn't touched the high-90's that he had before his surgery, but it's still hot and his wipeout slider is back with a vengeance. In 24 games with the El Paso Chihuahuas, he posted an ERA of 2.81 with 28 strikeouts in 25-2/3 innings with nine walks, but only one of those walks came in his final fourteen (!) appearances. Now he gets to take the final step in the process, as he makes his long-awaited return to the game's highest level.
Carter Capps leaps forward from the rubber as he begins his delivery. He also 'toot's on the ball to add some filth to his funk.
Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images
There will be plenty of chatter about his delivery. The way he launches himself forward of the rubber before releasing the ball is certainly unusual, but it's been ruled that as long as he doesn't re-plant his back foot, it's legal. This has been a focus in his rehab, even resulting in an ejection when a PCL umpire ruled his delivery as illegal. He's grown accustomed to the scrutiny. He should expect his foot to get plenty of camera time when he makes his debut, and hopefully he'll be dragging the foot to set the critics to rest.
With Brandon Maurer now on the Royals' roster and Brad Hand surrounded by trade rumors, a return to form from Carter Capps could stabilize the back end of the Padres' bullpen for the coming years. While this is one small step for Capps' rehab, it may be one giant leap for the Padres' bullpen.


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Q: IDE for PHP and Python Windows I used to use netbeans for a while and really liked it.
But now, I wan't to expand my toolbox with Python, and Netbeans dropped support for Django, also Python support seems to suck in NB 7.0.
So I am looking for recommendations on IDE or Text Editor for Windows with support:

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*Python (possibly with Django)

*PHP

*HTML, CSS, JavaScript

*FTP

*GIT & SVN

I know Aptana 3 can do this, is there anything else?
I don't know Vim a lot, but would that be an option?

A: http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ would be my first choice. JetBrains does a great job with making the editor valuable to you for more than just text entry. The different IDEs JetBrains offers are all basically the same even if they are configured for a slightly different language set.
Eclipse is an option, it has plugins for everything. I've never been much of a fan of Eclipse though. It's really plugable but not a great IDE compared to some of the other options.

A: EasyEclipse

A: Well Aptana is built upon eclipse, so you could just use the basic eclipse with all your necessary add ons.
Obviously you'll need Pydev for the python stuff and that has Django integration.
For some reason though I actually prefer netbeans for my php ide.
Tbh just try out a few and see which one you like best.

A: Eclipse and Visual Studio have plugins for just about everything. Eclipse is free, I think for Visual Studio though you'd have to get the professional version to run plugins...

A: NetBeans - If you are using 64-bit Windows do not hurry to install updates on 7.0+. 6.* is working fine.
You have ftp and you can set to upload on run of the project or on each save. You can download Python plugin by adding this url. It is not the best but it worked for me.
It is stable engough and powerful, since the eclipses are very buggy to me.
Aptana is currently the eclipse for web projects, and the people who are creating it are also the creators of pydev, so it would be my second choise.
Visual Studio's plugin VC.Php (Paid) is also powerful, because Visual Studio environment is good, but the plugin is buggy, too and sometimes seems to be updated with dalay of new suff, as whole it would be my 3rd choise.


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MP calls for Red Arrows to come to RAF Wittering in meeting with minister
left to right, Shailesh Vara MP, Rt Hon Tobias Ellwood MP, Cllr John Bradshaw and Mayor James Palmer.
There have been more calls to bring the Red Arrows to RAF Wittering as North West Cambridgeshire MP Shailesh Vara met Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood.
The Ministry of Defence recently announced RAF Wittering as one of three possible new homes for the Red Arrows following the closure of RAF Scampton in 2022.
A date for the decision announcement has not yet been made.
Mr Vara was joined by Mayor of Cambridgeshire James Palmer and Vice-Chairman of Wittering Parish Council John Bradshaw for the meeting.
Mr Vara said: "It would be fantastic to have the Red Arrows at RAF Wittering and I was very pleased to arrange this meeting with local representatives and the Minister to put forward our case as to why the base would be the most suitable home for the Red Arrows.
"The base provides easy access off the A1 and already has an excellent infrastructure around it to facilitate the needs of the Red Arrows.
"I have made clear to the Minister that I and the local community are prepared to help him in any way we can."
Mayor Palmer said: "I am delighted to offer my support to RAF Wittering in this opportunity to be the official home of the Red Arrows. This is very exciting for the village and airbase and I am sure would be welcomed across the county."
Cllr Bradshaw, Vice-Chairman of Wittering Parish Council added: "As a representative of the Parish Council I fully support the Red Arrows coming to Wittering. This would be an excellent development and would raise the profile of the village and surrounding area.
"There has been an airbase at Wittering for over 100 years and Wittering would be a fitting home for the world-famous Red Arrows."
Mr Ellwood said: "It was good to meet with representatives from North West Cambridgeshire supporting a possible move by the Red Arrows to Wittering RAF base.
This was a very useful meeting at which various points were put across. The decision will be subject to independent assessment in the MOD after all the factors have been fully considered concerning all three potential sites."


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Think back. Remember Al Gore? The guy who lost to George Bush. He lost by about 97,000 votes. Remember Ralph Nader the consumer advocate who said Corvairs could blow up. He ran under the Green Party on a platform that included minimum wage, health care, campaign reform. Sound familiar. Everyone told him to get out. They said his third party woud split the vote and hurt the Democrats against George Bush. Nader said he was in it for the good of the country. Gore lost to Bush and Ralph Nader was universally blamed.
And now we have the Bernie. He now has taken a scorched earth policy. Hes pissed. His supporters are pissed. Clearly a massive conspiracy is sinking Bernie. In the age of a million followers for a funny Youtube video plurarlity is not a bunch of people showing up in stadiums. Bernie is a socialist who has great plans but no way to achive them. He is the fantasy candidate of left while Donald is the fantasy candidate of the right. Both men have ardent followers who belive their cause trumps all else.
But Bernie is now the spoiler. He is Ralph Nader. He doesnt care if Trump wins he just wants to stop Hillary. If you cant win the game then you destory it. Remember those guys who would throw the board game when they started to lose. Bernie doesnt like to lose and the checkers board is about to go flying. Go Ralph Nader.


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Founder of 'Cowboys for Trump' to stand trial today in Capitol riot case
Couy Griffin, of Otero County, New Mexico, faces two misdemeanor charges for his role in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol Building.
Author: Jordan Fischer
Updated: 9:36 AM EDT March 21, 2022
WASHINGTON — A New Mexico county commissioner and founder of "Cowboys for Trump" will appear before a federal judge in D.C. to stand trial on two charges connected to the Capitol riot.
Couy Griffin, of Otero County, New Mexico, will appear before U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden on Monday for a bench trial on two misdemeanor counts of entering and remaining in a restricted grounds and disorderly and disruptive conduct. In a bench trial there is no jury. McFadden will hear evidence and arguments from both sides and determine Griffin's guilty or innocence himself.
Prosecutors are expected to tell McFadden that, following the assault on the Capitol, Griffin posted a video to the Cowboys for Trump Facebook page bragging about having a "first row seat" on Jan. 6. In the same video, prosecutors say, he vowed to return on Jan. 20 for the inauguration of President Joe Biden.
"We could have a 2nd Amendment rally on those same steps that we had that rally yesterday," Griffin said in the video. "You know, and if we do, then it's gonna be sad day, because there's gonna be blood running out of that building. But at the end of the day, you mark my word, we will plant our flag on the desk of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Donald J. Trump if it boils down to it."
In a trial brief filed Thursday, assistant U.S. attorney Janani Iyengar said Matthew Struck, a videographer for Cowboys for Trump who attended the rally with Griffin on Jan. 6, would testify at Griffin's trial under an immunity agreement.
Although Griffin was never charged with firearm-related offenses, investigators say he spoke repeatedly of his plan to bring guns to D.C. At an Otero County Commissioners Meeting, Griffin said he had a ".357 Henry, big boy rifle lever action" in the trunk of his car and would be keeping a .357-caliber Colt Ruger revolver on the passenger seat.
"And I will embrace my Second Amendment and keep my right to bear arms," Griffin said during the meeting. "My vehicle is an extension of my home in regard to the constitutional law and I've got a right to keep those firearms in my car. I'm going to be in D.C. by God's grace, God willing."
Griffin's attorney, David Smith, is expected to argue the restricted area charge should be dismissed because Vice President Mike Pence had already been evacuated from the Senate Chamber at the point Griffin came to the Capitol. Last week, McFadden told prosecutors if they intended to proceed with the entering and remaining charge, they should have a witness present who could speak with first-hand knowledge of the whereabouts of Pence at the time Griffin was on the grounds – approximately 2:30 p.m. on Jan. 6.
Griffin's bench trial is set to begin at 9:30 a.m. on Monday. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison on each count, with a likely recommended sentencing range of 0-6 months.
Griffin will be the second Capitol riot defendant to take his case to trial. Earlier this month, Guy Reffitt, a Texas Three Percenter, was convicted by a D.C. jury on five felony counts for leading the mob against police on Jan. 6.
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CVAG working to sync valley traffic signals
Barrett Newkirk
PALM DESERT – The frustration many local drivers experience from ill-timed traffic lights could be eased with $7.7 million in federal aid going to synchronize traffic signals throughout the Coachella Valley.
Sites identified for help so far include Jackson Street in Indio, Washington Street in La Quinta, East Palm Canyon Drive through Cathedral City and an area of western Coachella with stop signs instead of traffic lights. Other cities sought money to better monitor traffic in their communities.
The projects represent more than half of the requests for money through the federal Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement (CMAQ) Program, a grant effort overseen locally by the Coachella Valley Association of Governments.
CVAG recommends the synchronization projects be combined into a single regional effort to potentially cut costs and expand its effectiveness.
Tom Kirk, executive director of CVAG, said ideally every major road in the valley would be coordinated.
"For you to do it really well, all of these arterials need to be tied together," Kirk said.
Better signal timing can reduce travel times and lead to fuel savings of up to 9 percent, according to the Institute for Transportation Engineers. The group says each dollar spent improving signal timing saves between 15 and 20 gallons of fuel.
The Federal Highway Administration estimates that as many as 75 percent of the nation's 300,000 traffic signals could be improved with simple updates to the equipment or timing.
City officials have said staying on top of synchronization requires constant attention since signals can be thrown off by irregular traffic flow, pedestrians and equipment malfunctions.
The problem is especially noticeable on Highway 111, which winds through eight cities.
Following a previous effort to coordinate signals along Highway 111 more than a decade ago, cities were left to manage their own systems and have achieved mixed results.
Kirk said this new regional plan should better link signals across cities.
The CVAG Executive Committee is expected to vote on the recommendations July 28.
CVAG is also recommending $6.6 million go to non-synchronization projects. Those include $862,000 for bike paths in Coachella and Palm Springs and a vanpool program from SunLine Transit Agency. Palm Springs would also get $246,200 for a second left turn lane at Gene Autry Trail and Vista Chino.
Another recommendation is sending $1.5 million toward creating a more efficient SunLine bus service between Desert Hot Springs and Palm Desert, which would benefit College of the Desert students who rely on buses.
Reach Barrett Newkirk at (760)778-4767.


We have a two-year-old German shepherd who refuses to drink water when we are out on walks. She is obviously thirsty but won't drink from spigots, a cupped hand, or a water bottle. Often, she will refuse the water until we return home. We have started carrying a bowl made of fabric, and this is the only thing that gets her to take a little water. She is very focused, and when she knows she is potentially going for a walk, she will even refuse water at home. Is there something we can do to help hydrate her?
A You say that your dog is "obviously thirsty" when she is out on walks, but what do you mean? Is she panting extremely quickly and heavily? Does she become lethargic or somewhat disoriented? Has your veterinarian told you during exams that she is prone to dehydration?
Many dogs do become very excited both when they are about to be taken out and while they are on a walk, so theoretically, it's possible that it takes a while for her sense of thirst to catch up with her excitement. But that's true for people, too. If we are very engrossed in something, we might not feel hungry even though it's time to eat, or thirsty even though it's time to drink some fluid. Then we catch up when our minds calm down, and all is well.
It's the same for dogs. It would be very rare for a dog to become so thirsty while out for a walk that it would be dangerous or uncomfortable for her not to drink water even if she could use some. Our hunch is that your pet is just fine and drinks enough when the thirst sensation hits her that she is not in any danger health-wise, let alone discomfort.
Definitely, keep bringing along the fabric bowl and water (perhaps with ice) on walks if you fear that she will become very thirsty, especially if those walks last for many miles or take place under a hot sun. But if she doesn't drink any and her energy doesn't flag, chances are you have nothing to worry about.


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```


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Home > Featured Blogs > Linux vs. Unix Hot Patching – Have We Reached The Tipping Point?
Linux vs. Unix Hot Patching – Have We Reached The Tipping Point?
Richard Fichera, Vice President, Principal Analyst
The Background — Linux as a Fast Follower and the Need for Hot Patching
No doubt about it, Linux has made impressive strides in the last 15 years, gaining many features previously associated with high-end proprietary Unix as it made the transition from small system plaything to core enterprise processing resource and the engine of the extended web as we know it. Along the way it gained reliable and highly scalable schedulers, a multiplicity of efficient and scalable file systems, advanced RAS features, its own embedded virtualization and efficient thread support.
As Linux grew, so did supporting hardware, particularly the capabilities of the ubiquitous x86 CPU upon which the vast majority of Linux runs today. But the debate has always been about how close Linux could get to "the real OS", the core proprietary Unix variants that for two decades defined the limits of non-mainframe scalability and reliability. But "the times they are a changing", and the new narrative may be "when will Unix catch up to Linux on critical RAS features like hot patching".
Hot patching, the ability to apply updates to the OS kernel while it is running, is a long sought-after but elusive feature of a production OS. Long sought after because both developers and operations teams recognize that bringing down an OS instance that is doing critical high-volume work is at best disruptive and worst a logistical nightmare, and elusive because it is incredibly difficult. There have been several failed attempts, and several implementations that "almost worked" but were so fraught with exceptions that they were not really useful in production.[i]
A critical note here for those unfamiliar with patching in general. Hot patching as referenced here applies to the application of critical security and stability patches, those CVE CVSS rating of 6 and higher that involve critical security, data corruption or system stability issues. Hot patching is not for major OS version upgrades, and all versions of hot patch require some level of expert review before they are installed.
Early versions of Linux hot patching has been around for several years, most notably in a company called Ksplice, acquired a few years ago by Oracle. But the real change happened earlier this year when SUSE declared that its hot-patch capability, kGraft, previously in limited availability, was now in GA, suitable for all production workloads. This is a bold claim, opening SUSE up to immense problems if it fails regularly in production. However, in further support of the claim that they can support critical enterprise workloads, at the SAPPHIRE conference in May, SUSE further announced that their hot patch capability was certified by them for SAP HANA. In conversations with SUSE, they indicated that the percentage of such patches that could be applied using kGraft after expert review was in the high 90's.
While the remaining major Unix OSs have tremendous proven capability in production and support their own hardware with a number of unique features which Linux still lacks, the importance of this event cannot be over-emphasized. The Open Source community process, which has proven itself capable of innovating a highly capable fast-follow OS environment has now proven that it can lead with advanced features ahead of the legacy Unix community. Some versions of Unix have had hot patching for years but never really emphasized it because it was limited in applicability, and those that are lacking it will catch up, but the perception of Linux as somehow "less than" has been permanently shattered.
The why is probably as simple as it was inevitable – different priorities and in some cases possible resource/budget constraints. The number of actual developers doing core development on proprietary Unix is probably an order of magnitude smaller than the number of people contributing to the Linux kernel and other related projects. The remaining revenue streams for the proprietary products, while representing secure and highly profitable cash flow for the next decade, are simply not enough to match the momentum behind Linux, requiring possibly more focused application of resources and in some cases representing real budget constraints. Cases in point:
In the case of Oracle, it is pretty clearly an issue of competing priorities. They have just come out of a significant development cycle which saw some breakthrough capabilities around hardware acceleration of selected Oracle software operations and major improvements in security features supported by the latest SPARC hardware along with expansions of their cloud capabilities.
IBM has continued to invest in AIX, and has done impressive things with continued RAS improvements for AIX with non-disruptive upgrades (not the same as hot patching) and support for the new POWER8 CPU and the OpenPOWER community
HPE has been a bit opaque recently on the future of HP-UX, having lost major market share in the last several years and pointedly not porting it to their new x86-based Superdome-X mission-critical servers. My opinion, unsupported by hard data, is that they are signaling that they are throwing in the towel, so to speak, on HP-UX long term and doubling down on Linux and Windows with a resulting de-emphasis on new feature development on HP-UX while continuing to support security and stability issues.
The Hot Patch Landscape Today
While SUSE can be said to have crossed the line first with GA of its kGraft utility, the hot patch ecosystem is active and even boasts multiple architectural approaches. In addition to kGraft, Red Hat has a tech preview of its kpatch utility and Oracle has the original Ksplice available for its Linux distribution.
The different products operate slightly differently, to the tune of impassioned debate about which one is better (a debate which I am honestly unable to intelligently take a side). kGraft (SUSE) works on a per thread basis and allows the OS to really run continuously while pointers to the new versus old runtimes are swapped, but the entire process may take several minutes during which the systems continues to operate under the unpatched version and switches transparently to the new environment when the patching process is completed. Ksplice (Oracle) and Kpatch (Red Hat) must actually pause kernel execution for an interval that has been reported as being in the range of 10 – 40 ms and then perform all internal juggling at once. This momentary pause may be insignificant to some or very noticeable in other environments. The debate, reduced to its essentials, is the choice between getting it all done at once with just a tiny little hiccup that might turn out to be a big burp if your system is doing very high volume transactions versus having the process take several minutes without interruption. There are also differences in the limitations in regards to the kind of patches.
On the Unix front, vendors have been discussing and releasing partial solutions for years, and others have hinted this capability for future releases. In 2014, a senior Oracle technologist listed hot patching as a focus for future development, so we can speculate that it is coming sometime in an upcoming release of Solaris (https://blogs.oracle.com/markusflierl/entry/oracle_solaris_and_openstack_at). IBM has documented and commented on hot patch capabilities since 2007, but the available documentation seems to indicate that it has too many limitations to be considered a mature production capability.[ii] In the latest AIX release, 7.2, IBM has included a Live Update capability that seems to install a complete new OS image in a parallel LAPR and transfer over all running processes and their memory. This approach appears to eliminate most limitations on the kinds of patches that can be applied but the documentation seems to indicate that the process entails some "blackout period".
But amidst all of the tentative steps, it appears that only SUSE has positively made a viable hot patch capability available for general availability production use now.
Where Is Linux Heading?
Faced with competing technologies to solve the same problem, the Linux community is doing what it usually does (as have standards bodies since time immemorial) and endorsing both. In the strange process of co-opetition that is at the heart of the Open Source community, both camps are feeding IP upstream into the kernel development process, and the 4.0 kernel apparently contains code for both approaches. It is almost certain that a future release of the 4.x kernel will contain production-ready hot patch as a standard feature, placing the burden on the Unix providers to prove they can keep up with Linux.
[i] The earliest reference I could find to hot patching was a 1998 paper that discussed the technical issues involved in several approaches and outlined an implementation on SPARC/Solaris.
[ii] http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/aix/au-aix_cu_devguide/au-AIX_cu_devguide_V1.pdf
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Högby socken på Öland ingick i Åkerbo härad, ingår sedan 1974 i Borgholms kommun och motsvarar från 2016 Högby distrikt i Kalmar län.

Socknens areal är 67,09 kvadratkilometer, varav land 64,70. År 2000 fanns här 1 135 invånare. Tätorten Löttorp med kyrkbyn Högby och sockenkyrkan Högby kyrka ligger i socknen.

Administrativ historik
Högby medeltida kyrka, som sånär som på tornet revs 1871, är daterad till 1100-talet. I skriftliga källor omtalas Högby socken dock först i ett odaterat brev från omkring 1320 och ett daterat från 1337. Normsocknen av år 1950 har samma omfattning som den medeltida, med undantag för byn Binnerbäck som omkring 1649 överfördes från Böda socken till Högby.

Vid kommunreformen 1862 övergick socknens ansvar för de kyrkliga frågorna till Högby församling och för de borgerliga frågorna till Högby landskommun. Denna senare uppgick 1952 i Ölands-Åkerbo landskommun och uppgick 1974  i Borgholms kommun. Församlingen uppgick 2006 i Högby-Källa-Persnäs församling som sedan 2010 uppgick i Nordölands församling.

1 januari 2016 inrättades distriktet Högby, med samma omfattning som församlingen hade 1999/2000.

Socknen har tillhört samma fögderier och domsagor som Åkerbo härad. De indelta båtsmännen tillhörde 1:a Ölands båtsmankompani.

Geografi
Högby socken ligger på norra Öland med Hornsjön i väster. Socknen är flack odlingsbygd med inslag av mossar och ängar.

Fornminnen
Flera gravrösen från bronsåldern och ett femtontal mindre järnåldersgravfält finns här. En fornborg finns här och en runristning i kyrkan har omtalats.

Namnet
Namnet (1283 Höghaby), taget från kyrkbyn, har tolkats som 'by med gravhögar från hednisk tid'.

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Högby församling
Lista över fasta fornminnen i Borgholms kommun (Högby)

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Vidare läsning
Sveriges bebyggelse : statistisk-topografisk beskrivning över Sveriges städer och landsbygd.Landsbygden. Kalmar län, del 4 Hermes 1957 libris

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Indelningar i Borgholms kommun
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Dr. Robert Fox
Topic: Thomas Harriot at Oxford
Bio: Dr. Robert Fox is a leading British authority on the history of science, and has published extensively. In 2015, the international History of Science Society awarded him the George Sarton Medal. In 2006, the Ministry of Culture in France honored him with a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Fox received a BA & MA in physics from Oriel College, Oxford, and a D.Phil. (Oxon) from the Faculty of Modern History. After teaching at the University of Lancaster, becoming Director of Research at the Centre de recherché en histoire des sciences et des techniques in Paris, and becoming Assistant Director of the London Science Museum, Fox became a professor of history of science at the University of Oxford from 1988 through 2006. He is now Emeritus Professor of the History of Science at Oxford; Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College; and Honorary Fellow of Oriel College.
Fox was the first organizer of the annual Thomas Harriot Lectures at Oriel College, Oxford, and has edited two volumes based on the lecture series.
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