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Q: Call variabel in other function codeigniter My First controller
function index(){
   if (isset($_POST['search'])) {
      $info['fromdate'] = $this->input->post('fromdate');
      $info['enddate'] = $this->input->post('enddate');
      $this->session->set_userdata($info['fromdate'],$info['enddate']);
   }
}

My second function is
function detail(){

   }

My question is, how to call  $info['fromdate'] in to the function detail()
Thanks

A: The above answer is nice but index and detail are two different routes, please try below code
class A extends CI_Controller {

    public $info = array();

    function __construct(){

        if (isset($_POST['search'])) {  // $this->input->post('search',true);

            $info['fromdate'] = $this->input->post('fromdate');
            $info['enddate'] = $this->input->post('enddate');
            //load session library if haven't
            $this->session->set_userdata($info['fromdate'],$info['enddate']);
        }

    }

    function index(){
        print_r($this->info);
    }

    function detail(){
        print_r($this->info);
    }
}

A: you can try returning the needed information and then get it in function details
function index(){
if (isset($_POST['search'])) {
  $info['fromdate'] = $this->input->post('fromdate');
  $info['enddate'] = $this->input->post('enddate');
  $this->session->set_userdata($info['fromdate'],$info['enddate']);

return $this->session->set_userdata($info['fromdate'],$info['enddate']);
}
}

function detail(){
    $this->index();
}

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The Crucible: John Procter is the Ideal Tragic Hero
The character of John Procter in Arthur Miller's The Crucible was a great example of a truly tragic hero. He measured up to every one of Aristotle's requirements. He was not a perfect person because he had many faults and was not completely good or bad. Best of all, he knew that he was not perfect and he recognized and regretted the errors that he made throughout his life. Then, after the reader stays with Procter while he confessed all of his horrible sins for the whole town to hear, he had was a massive downfall as the result. Coincidentally enough, that downfall came from his trying to do something about his errors and sticking up for himself and his beliefs. He did something great, which anyone with a heart would pity him for. Being a real and relatable character is another one of Aristotle's tragic hero requirements and John Procter was most definitely one of those types of characters. The faults and imperfections of John Procter were clear. He was definitely not a perfect character. He cheated on his wife by having an affair with a teenager. He only went to church when he felt like it. Almost worst of all, he had the chance early in the play to put a stop to the girls' accusations, but his desire to keep his good reputation kept him from testifying against Abigail and the others. What's great about John Procter's character is that he realized all of his faults. Knowing that he was a bad person and that he had made mistakes, he tried to do ...
Mr. Dimmesdale's Feelings of Guilt and Shame in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
Looking upon his situation with the Puritan perspective, Mr. Dimmesdale "…loved the truth and loathed the lie, as few men ever did. Therefore above all things else, he loathed his miserable self" (136). Mr. Dimmesdale felt he was living a lie for he, the very man who preached to the community about living a pure life, was living one tainted with... ... middle of paper ... ...y, Dimmesdale suffered constantly from corporal afflictions as well as the internal conflict of coping with his actions. After the initial sin, Mr. Dimmesdale lived a life of endless struggle and underwent the most suffering throughout The Scarlet Letter. Dimmesdale allowed his life to become consumed with guilt and the quest to complete a suitable penance, which brought him sorrow, self-hatred, and the demise of his body and spirit.
Theme Of Personal Choice In Frankenstein
Personal choice showed no mercy to Victor for his fiendish actions, and punished him for severely for them. The punishment he received was entirely deserved due to the way he treated his creation. Victor was relentless in the way that he treated his creation and because of this suffered deeply. Victor learned how deadly personal choice was the hard way as he watched helplessly as everyone that he loved died before his very eyes. His choices caused him to go mad with grief, and to be filled with the need for revenge when in fact he should have realized that he only had himself to blame.
Creon Defines the Tragic Hero in Sophocles' Antigone
Thirdly and lastly, his pity and fear flowers into an understanding of his prideful and destructive nature leading to his redemption. Nevertheless he is left with the burden of the deaths of his family, becoming a shell of misfortune and loneliness. Although Creon's actions cannot be labeled as courageous, his character traits pertain greatly to that of a tragic hero. The power Creon had was the cause of his stern and haughty traits and irrational judgments. He needed an affirmation of his manhood and confirmation that everyone he ruled over would assuredly respect him and his decisions.
Dimmesdale
Arthur Dimmesdale has a grand reputation and authority in his community, which worsens his downfall. The respect he had from his community makes them hurt worse when they see his decline. His excessive pride makes him ignorant to most, until the end when all things go downhill. He also made a life altering decision of whether to stay and face his guilt, or to run away from his mistakes. Arthur Dimmesdale, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, is an example of a tragic hero because of the downfall brought about by his guilt and necessity to uphold his authority in the town.
The Cowardly Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
Dimmesdale was broken down by Roger Chillinsworth, Hester Prynne's real husband, and by his own self-guilt. Dimmesdale would later confess his sin and die on the scaffold. Dimmesdale was well known by the community and was looked up to by many religious people. But underneath his religious mask he is actually the worst sinner of them all. His sin was one of the greatest sins in a Puritan community.
Frankenstein: Less Human Than His Creation
Victor's self-centered behavior effects everyone in the novel; he hurts his family's feelings, he lets those that he loves die, and abandons his own creation. Even the creature couldn't have committed such horrible acts before the effects of society's rejection.
The Build a Fire by Jack London
All in all, the conf... ... middle of paper ... ... truly was. Without that understanding, the man simply made poor decisions and froze to death. His pride and masculinity wouldn't have played a role without that understanding of internal conflict. In conclusion, much of this story is hidden between the lines. Most readers will see the main external conflict of nature killing the man but there is so much more to it.
Lack of Reason in Shakespeare's Othello
Thus the ultimate evaluation of Othello must be that, although he leads well and means well, he lacks good judgment and common sense. This becomes most plainly obvious in his final two speeches, where even though the play ends properly, and in a dignified way, Othello never fully realizes or takes responsibility for what has happened. These two last orations of Othello are noble in speech and purpose, but lack comprehension. He uses the first to attack himself for his horrible deed; certainly this is the first reaction of anyone who has wrongly killed his beloved. He delivers condemnation upon himself with eloquence and anguish.
Character Analysis Essay
In conclusion, Creon is the tragic character of Antigone because of his pride which caused him never ending agony by the end of this tragedy. Although Antigone's stubbornness concerning the divine law and her brother's burial lead her to her misfortune, her suffering was cut short by her death. On the other hand, Creon had to live through having his own son and the citizens of Thebes against his decision. Also, Haimon and Eurydices died as a result of his actions, leaving Creon without a family. Hence, Creon is the tragic character of the tragedy due to eternal distress caused by his judgment.
Betrayal In Death Of A Salesman
In the end, he ended his life because he was internally hurt and when he opens up his guilt, anger had risen against him, feelings of pain, helplessness, and the misery inside of his heart was unbearable. Suicide is a tragedy that now his family would have to live with for the rest of their lives, that's the biggest sellout of Death of a Salesman, but in actuality, the biggest let down personally was how everyone was adding salt to his wound while he was cutting his heart open begging for help and the ones that added alcohol to his grief was the people he held as the dearest-his family.
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Purchasing a Boat Currently in a Charter Fleet - Good/Bad Idea?
Hello all. I have previously requested advice on this forum regarding the purchase of my first boat. The response has been great, and very helpful. Thanks? Here's a related question.
One of the boats I'm looking at is currently in a charter fleet. Does anyone have any opinions - one way or another - about buying a boat that is currently in charter service?
One of the reasons that the arrangement is attractive to me -- at least superficially -- is that I will not be using the boat as much as I'd like to for the next 2 years or so. During this interim period, I will also not be able to spend a whole lot of time inspecting, maintaining, etc. For this reason, it seems to me that having the boat in charter service and under the charterer's care is a way of securing basic maintenance and also keeping costs down until I am able to make more extensive use of the boat?
Like buying anything of consequence.
Like the reputation of the charter service i.e. how well do they maintain the fleet.
How often can you yourself use the boat.
Dollars and cents. Work it all out on paper first see what it will cost you.
For some it is a good way to go.
As long as you are not in love with the boat.
I could never let someone else run my boat but that is just me.
To me, the 2 biggest negatives are you have to go with the charter fleets configuration which may not be the way you'd want a personal cruising boat, and the hard use the charterboats see.
I wouldn't be afraid of buying a boat that was in charter service but I would make darn sure I saw the maintenance records for the boat and also had a surveyor who was familiar with that type of boat and an engine surveyor who was familiar with that type of engine.
Yes, charter boats do get a lot of hours and often those hours are not from people who have tons of experience on boats. But the hours alone would not turn me off unless they were VERY high. Relatively high hours might not be as bad as very low hours....it would depend on whether or not the maintenance had been done on schedule and was well documented.
why not charter the boat and buy a boat when you have the time?
Had a friend that ran a huge charter boat op in Tortola years back.
The hassle is the boats get very very hard use almost constantly.
Production boats died before the charter period was up leaving owners stuck with payments and a boat far from the US , where repair might be possible.
CSY attempted to build boats up to the rigors of constant charter use , with only modest success.
Dont know what or where your looking at , but in most cases a chartered boat will have the equal of many decades of use in a few years.
NOT a deal I would take .
like they say about rental cars..."world's best all terrain vehicles"..
Seriously...there's good and bad...many things get attention that some owners may neglect...but driver controlled systems/fleet maintenance may get "pencil whipped".
My friends cat that was in charter service got all spruced up prior to turnover...but...blew an engine in Florida after leaving the Virgin Islands. Could have been the delivery captains fault on that leg...who knows...and that's the problem.
There is a trawler charter company in Ft. Myers I would consider a purchase for charter arrangement with, Southwest Florida Yachts. Check out their website. We chartered a 36 ft PDQ from them last month and our experience was very positive.
Steve, look up my posts using search function. I have owned a charter boat. There are some definite pluses, and negatives. However, for someone unable to spend much time on or maintaining a boat, and not costing too much to do so, it can suit one's circumstances. I have posted details on this elsewhere.
Our boat is in charter, this is our fourth season. I put it in charter for some of the same reasons that you have mentioned. I knew we weren't going to be able to use it as much as we would like for a few years. We're over 200 miles from the boat and still actively working in our business. Our customers are all in agriculture, so we're busiest between June 1 and August 31st. The boat is in the San Juan Islands and that is the height of the charter season in the Northwest.
I knew that there could be times when I couldn't get to the boat for a month or two, but I wanted the boat watched over, maintained and used. The charter company has some good employees to do the basics, but I also have an independent mechanic that works on the boat.
I think your experience will depend on a number of factors. First, be sure the boat is in good shape before you buy it. Then the location of the charter company is critical. My boat gets used about 8 weeks per year. It is relatively easy to keep up on maintenance because it isn't used very much. If it was in a tropical vacation spot where it was running 40-50 weeks a year, I think it would get tired very quickly. Next you need to be sure that your charter company has the same goals as you. We went with a small charter company because I could deal directly with the owner and be sure they were doing what I wanted with my boat.
About 60% of gross revenue goes to me, out of that I have to pay all boat expenses. Be aware that the maintenance costs and insurance will be higher while your boat is in charter. You also have the worry that accompanies having someone else use your boat. Some of that is unfounded. I have talked to many of the people who charter our boat. Most are older, experienced people that own boats elsewhere and just want to spend a week or two in the San Juan's. Out of four years we've only had one charterer that I could tell was not careful with our boat.
Charter boats get knocked a lot by some boaters. It's not for everyone. If you have a strong emotional attachment to your boat or you hate having other people use your things it will drive you crazy. However, in my limited experience in my marina, the boats in charter get more maintenance, more cleaning and more use than most of the other boats. They have to be ready to get off the dock at any time during the season.
I'm contemplating taking the boat out of charter after this season, but I am concerned that I will have to build up a new support team to watch over the boat while I'm not there. Right now, I have someone that can handle anything from polishing to a mechanical issue. It is really great to arrive at the boat on a Friday afternoon and have a boat ready to leave the dock within an hour. It's a real luxury that I know I'm going to miss when we quit chartering.


Some companies that make 3D printersstick to desktop-sized units. WASP is not one of them. They do it all, from filament-fed units to giant machines that print whole buildings.
A non-profit partnership is raising money to 3D-print durable and affordable concrete homes in El Salvador, in an effort to offset the global housing crisis.
Each single-storey, 650 square-foot home costs US$4,000 to build using a concrete-extruding printing apparatus, which is programmed to create the foundation and walls of the structure. The printing plans leave room for windows and a non-concrete roof, and can be adjusted to make room for wiring and plumbing as well.
The whole thing is the brainchild of three Texas-based entrepreneurs, whose tech startup Icon aims to revolutionize sustainable home construction.
Eight scientists from Switzerland's ETH Zurich University have embarked on a bold plan to build the next generation of construction robots, and their proof-of-concept is a first-generation robot that is actively building a 200-square-foot homeon the school's campus. The project is bringing together a suite of cutting-edge technologies including 3D printing, modular construction, and new methods of construction. The DFAB House is believed to be the first house in the world to be designed, planned and built using primarily digital processes.
"Unlike construction projects that use only a single digital building technology, such as 3D printed houses, the DFAB HOUSE brings a range of new digital building technologies together. This allows us to use the advantages of each individual method as well as their synergies, and express them architecturally," says ETH professor Matthias Kohler.


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The best animated Spider-Men, ranked
Matt Tuck Apr 26, 2022 9:33 pm Apr 26, 2022 9:33 pm
Marvel Comics and Sony Pictures Remix By Keane Eaocbellis
From the weird and wacky to the hard-boiled turtle slapper, it's time to rank the 10 best animated Spider-Men.
The first 15 minutes of Across the Spider-Verse: Part One have been released, and it got us wondering: who is the best animated Spider-Man? Our Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man was first brought to life in cartoon form in 1967, and he has been an animated staple ever since. Today, let's explore the top-10 cartoon wall crawlers.
10. Spider-Man Unlimited (1999)
This was the second Spider-Man cartoon of the 1990s, and it's definitely the weirdest. Spider-Man Unlimited was like Spider-Man 2099 meets the post-apocalyptic world of The Terminator. Little about this makes sense, and it has largely been forgotten.
In Spider-Man Unlimited, Peter Parker is dragged through time into an alternate future Earth ruled by the High Evolutionary. Normally, High Evolutionary keeps his scheming aimed at the cosmic side of things and deals with the Fantastic Four, Thor, and Adam Warlock. For some reason, he was shoved into a Spider-Man tale to change things up. That leaves Peter to lead a laser-infused rebellion against the totalitarian regime. Yeah, nothing about this makes any sense, but at least we get a futuristic spin on Venom and Carnage.
The one plus I can give this version of Spidey is that his suit looked good. It was a take on Miguel O'Hara's original 2099 costume, but with a bit more of a traditional Spider-Man look. This cartoon was so odd that I simply couldn't pass up adding it to this list.
9. Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981)
After Spidey's first cartoon in the 1960s, it took more than a decade for Spider-Man to return to the small screen. This time around, he got some company in the Amazing Friends. The pairing was odd, seeing Spidey team up with the X-Men's Iceman and Fire-Star, a character created for the show that loosely resembled a cross between the Human Torch and Jean Grey.
The show itself is standard kid's fare for the time. Hardly anything used logic, and it felt like one giant toy commercial. The good thing was that it introduced a wide range of characters from the Marvel Universe, including Magneto, Colossus, Sunfire, Doctor Doom, and Shanna the She-Devil. There was even an episode with Frankenstein's monster, which turned out to be an android.
8. Spider-Man (1967)
Image via ABC.
Yes, the animation is blocky. Yes, the dialogue is even cheesier than the Silver Age Spider-Man comics. However, despite these flaws, the '67 Spider-Man holds a special place in the hearts of fans across the globe. For children of the 1960s, this was their introduction to Spidey and his elaborate cast of villains. Arguably, this show helped elevate Spider-Man to new heights of popularity because it exposed him to a broader audience than comics alone. All other movies and cartoons that came afterwards owe a debt of gratitude to this corny cartoon. To this day, it's still inspiring memes, so the legacy continues.
7. Spider-Man Noir (2018)
Say what you will about Nicolas Cage and his acting style, but he was perfect for Spider-Man Noir. This version of Spider-Man had the spunky dialogue straight from a 1930s detective story, and the character's look, complete with fedora, definitely matched the era. Although Cage's cartoony antics and overdramatic delivery can be a bit much for live-action drama, it worked well for Spider-Man Noir. Cage injected the character with personality and flair that made him a standout in a crowded field of alternate universe Spider-Men. Only Cage can deliver lines like "real biscuit boxers" and "hard-boiled turtle slappers" and make them sound normal… for him, at least.
6. Spider-Ham (2018)
Beit animated or live action, Into the Spider-Verse is one of the best Spider-Man movies ever made. While Sony may have a reputation of misunderstanding Marvel subject matter at times, the creative team behind Spider-Verse would appear to be comic readers. Not only did they understand what made Spider-Man such a great character, but they threw in some of his most obscure interdimensional supporting cast. We had Spider-Gwen, Penni Parker, Spider-Man Noir, and the real scene stealer of the movie, Spider-Ham.
The spoof throwback to a Looney Tunes cartoon was first created in 1983. He was the star of the animal-centric Marvel cast, and they all had their own pun names. No matter how many other characters came and went, everyone's favorite remained Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham.
By the 1990s, Spider-Ham faded into obscurity until Into the Spider-Verse dug deep into Spider-history to resurrect the idea. Although he didn't exactly have character depth, Spider-Ham had some of the best lines in the movie. The gag about his hands being wet after he used the bathroom and everyone's Spider-sense was triggered? Classic.
For many kids of the '90s, this was their introduction to the crazy world of Spider-Man. Sure, everyone had heard of the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, but only comic fans knew the depth of the supporting cast and the sci-fi adventures. In fact, it was the '94 Spider-Man cartoon series that introduced mainstream audiences to the Spider-Verse.
The show was incredibly camp, and its rules were ridiculous, with everything from "Spider-Man can't scare pigeons" to "no punching". Despite that, Spider-Man pushed the envelope of what a Saturday morning cartoon could be. Above all, the show's creative team got Spider-Man right. He was a little older than most fans expected, being a 20-ish college student rather than a high school teen, but he was still a superhero with a full-time job.
4. Ultimate Spider-Man (2012)
After Disney bought the rights to Marvel Comics and, by extension, Marvel Studios, the mega corporation dropped the ax on some classic cartoons. Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, which retold Marvel history in such amazing fashion that it rivals the MCU's storytelling, and The Spectacular Spider-Man were both brought to an end. Out of the ashes came the much more PG-friendly replacements, Avengers: Assemble and Ultimate Spider-Man.
Obviously aimed at elementary school-aged children, Ultimate Spider-Man was no Spectacular Spider-Man, but it wasn't without its charm. Like the Homecoming trilogy, Ultimate ignored Peter Parker's history, much to the dismay of purists like myself. Instead of struggling with real-world problems, this Spidey was training to be a S.H.I.E.L.D agent with a grumpy Nick Fury filling in for J. Jonah Jameson. Rather than operating on his own, Spider-Man was part of a veritable Young Avengers team, training with teenage versions of Luke Cage, White Tiger, Nova, and Iron Fist.
What makes this Spider-Man unique is the humor. Whether you are a kid or an adult, the show will have you laughing out loud, at least from time to time.
3. Spectacular Spider-Man (2008)
As we get down to the top-three animated Spider-Men, we separate the wheat from the chaff. While the other seven entries on today's list are exceptional and fun Spider-Men (and one Spider-Ham), the difference is how the man behind the mask is characterized. Spectacular Spider-Man exemplified this throughout each episode. In fact, this beloved series featured the best interpretation of the Black Suit Saga that introduced Venom than any other cartoon or movie.
Once again, this version of Spider-Man finds Peter as a down-on-his-luck teenager. Uncle Ben has died, and his poor old Aunt May is the only one taking care of Peter. Staying true to the Stan Lee origin story, Peter moonlights as Spider-Man while dealing with the social nightmare known as high school. However, Spectacular put a modern spin on the story and scraped away much of the cheese we had seen in other Spider-Man cartoons to that point. The result was the best version of both Spider-Man and Peter Parker the small screen has ever seen. If there is any cartoon series that deserves another season, it's Spectacular Spider-Man.
2. Miles Morales (2018)
Just because his name isn't Peter Parker doesn't make Miles Morales any less of a Spider-Man. Created for Marvel's Ultimate line of comics, the Spider-Man of the 21st Century was met with ample criticism at the time. Written by Brian Michael Bendis, Miles was introduced in Ultimate Fallout #4. Bendis infamously had written the Ultimate Universe's Peter out of the story, having been murdered by the Ultimate Green Goblin. That left the job of Spider-Man in Miles' hands. Of course, comic fans are notoriously reluctant to have their favorite characters replaced, but Miles would eventually win over millions of fans worldwide.
Miles got his mainstream break as the star of Into the Spider-Verse. The treatment of his character is another example of how Sony's animation wing understood what makes a superhero. It was less about fancy moves and more about his heart and struggle. Miles exemplified being an awkward teenager in every way possible. While much of it was comedy, we also see his heart break at the loss of his world's Spider-Man and later his hero, Uncle Aaron, who was also hunting him as the Prowler. The combination of laughs, loss, and triumph made audiences fall in love with Spider-Miles.
1. Peter B. Parker (2018)
Before the premiere of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Tom Holland remarked that if he is still playing Spider-Man when he turns 30, he's done something wrong. Tom obviously hasn't read many comics.
What makes Spider-Man such a relatable character is that he has real problems. One of those happens to be aging. Sure, Peter Parker began as a mild-mannered teenager in the 1960s, but he grew up. From the late '60s and into the early '90s, the Spider-Man comics matured. By the time the Venom symbiote came around, Peter and Mary Jane had married, and he had to balance his marriage and career along with being a superhero.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a final plan to clean up toxins at the American Cyanamid Superfund site in Bridgewater.
A final plan to clean up acid tars, benzene, and other chemicals at the American Cyanamid Superfund site in Bridgewater has been approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The cleanup will cost $74 million, according to a news released issued by the federal agency.
The final cleanup plan, called a Record of Decision (ROD), includes excavation and dewatering of contaminated material within two waste disposal areas (impoundments), followed by shipment out of the area to a facility, for treatment and disposal. Soil impacted by the impoundment contaminants will also be treated, using on-site stabilization or solidification. Surrounding "berm materials" that do not require treatment will be used as backfill and a protective cover will be placed over the cleanup area. Measures will be taken to assure that the cleanup is undertaken in a way that is protective of workers at the site and the surrounding community.
Both U.S. Rep Leonard Lance (R-7th) and Bridgewater Mayor Daniel J. Hayes Jr. expressed relief with the plan.
Under the Trump Administration, the Superfund program has re-emerged as a priority to fulfill and strengthen EPA's core mission of protecting human health and the environment, the agency said in a news release.
The American Cyanamid Superfund site was included on the first-ever Administrator's Emphasis List. The Administrator's Emphasis List is composed of sites that will benefit from the Acting Administrator's immediate and intense action. Specifically, the site was added to expedite the release of the Proposed Plan with EPA's Preferred Alternative, which was released for public comment on May 28, 2018.
The EPA conducted a public meeting in Bridgewater in June 2018 to explain the cleanup proposal and other options that were considered, and take public comment. The ROD officially selects the final remedy and responds directly to comments received during that comment period.
The American Cyanamid Superfund Site has a history of industrial pollution dating back to 1915. For nearly 100 years, prior owners used the location for manufacturing chemicals. Several impoundments were constructed and used for waste storage and disposal throughout this period of time, which eventually resulted in the contamination of soil and groundwater with chemicals and heavy metals. The site was placed on the federal Superfund list in 1983.
In 1999, EPA removed a portion of the Superfund site from the 1983 Superfund listing, freeing it up for redevelopment and reuse. In 2012, the EPA selected a cleanup plan to address contaminated soil, groundwater and six waste disposal areas (called impoundments 3, 4, 5, 13, 17 and 24) at the site. That phase of cleanup, which is currently ongoing and being performed by Wyeth Holdings LLC, involves collecting and treating contaminated groundwater. The groundwater pump and treat system will prevent contaminated water from seeping into the nearby Raritan River, Cuckels Brook and Middle Brook.
To read the EPA's final decision, outlined in the ROD, visit https://semspub.epa.gov/work/02/550185.pdf. EPA's "Superfund Task Force Recommendations 2018 Update" is available at https://www.epa.gov/superfund/superfund-task-force-recommendations-2018-update.
Staff Writer Bob Makin: 732-565-7319; bmakin@gannett.com.


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Le Pouliguen Weather in April
What's the weather like in Le Pouliguen (Pays de la Loire) in April 2023?
The climate in Le Pouliguen during April can be summarized as mild and reasonably dry.
April is in the spring in Le Pouliguen and is typically the 6th coldest month of the year. Daytime maximum temperatures average around a cool 14°C (58°F), whilst at night 6°C (43°F) is normal.
Le Pouliguen weather averages (imperial / metric)
6.3°C 43.3°F
On average April is the 4th driest month of the year in Le Pouliguen with around 58mm 2.3 inches of rain making it a reasonably dry time to visit. This rainfall is typically spread over 15 days, although this may vary considerably.
April temperatures in Le Pouliguen
April rainfall
April hourly sunshine
The data used in these monthly averages covers a period of over 100 years right up until last year. As such they are a valid prediction of what to expect for the weather in Le Pouliguen in April 2023.
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July 22.8°C 73°F
July 8.8hrs
January 8.9°C 48°F
November 102mm 4ins
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THE SUPER BOWL is often regarded as the biggest sporting event in the US calendar.
Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots will go head to head for the biggest prize in American football in front of huge TV audiences worldwide.
Here is SunSport's guide to the NFL's showpiece championship game on February 4.
What is the Super Bowl and how do the playoffs work?
THINK of the Super Bowl as being like a cup final.
32 NFL teams compete in two conferences of 16 (AFC and NFC) during the regular-season, which are in turn split into eight smaller divisions of four.
The champions of each division automatically qualify for the post-season playoffs, along with two wildcard sides from each conference who are the best of the rest - so in total 12 franchises.
They then face off in a seeded order - but remain in AFC and NFC groupings - before following a traditional knockout system, with the top seeded sides receiving a bye until the Divisional (second) Round.
Two sides will make it through from there to the Conference Championships, which will produce two teams - an AFC champion and an NFC champion.
New England beat Jacksonville in the AFC Championship Game while Philadelphia thrashed Minnesota in the NFC Championship Game.
IF you're watching in the UK, the options to watch the Super Bowl are endless.
Sky Sports will show all the action LIVE from Minneapolis from 10pm on Sunday night.
The game is available on Sky Sports Action, Sky Sports Main Event and also Sky Sports Mix - which is an entertainment channel and available without a sports subscription.
BBC will also be showing the grand finale LIVE from US Bank Stadium for free.
The league's own streaming service NFL Game Pass will also have LIVE coverage from Minnesota.
What time will it kick-off?
THIS years Super Bowl will be held at the impressive US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, which has a dome to keep out the cold.
It will take place on Sunday February 4, 2018 with kick off at 11.30pm UK time.
Minnesota is six hours behind Britain, meaning a 5.30pm start for the locals in the United States.
Who is playing the half-time show?
THE Super Bowl is known as much for its extravagant half-time show as it is the football.
Lady Gaga performed last year, belting out hits such as Poker Face, Born This Way and Bad Romance.
Booked for the second time, this years show will be performed by Justin Timberlake.
He is appearing for the first time since the infamous Super Bowl 38 half-time performance where Janet Jackson had a wardrobe malfunction.
Where is the US Bank Stadium?
THIS season's Super Bowl will take place at the US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
It'll be 26 years since the city last hosted the event, way back in 1992 .
That game was held at the Herbert Humphrey Metrodome, which was torn down to make way for the current stadium.


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Carl Crawford injury: Dodgers OF plans for spring training return after surgery
Dodgers outfielder Carl Crawford can't swing a bat or throw until January, but is planning a return by spring training after Tommy John surgery in August.
By Eric Stephen@ericstephen Oct 26, 2012, 5:24pm PDT
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Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Carl Crawford donned the uniform of his new team for the first time on Friday at Dodger Stadium, in town to be examined by team doctors. Crawford is recovering from Tommy John surgery that he had in August, and has set a goal to be ready by spring training.
"I don't think it will affect me too much at the plate. I'll be able to come back faster than a pitcher might," Crawford said. "I'm not able to throw or swing until January. It will be a while before I get to have fun."
Crawford was limited to just 31 games in 2012, and hit .282/.306/.479 with the Red Sox. He was traded to the Dodgers in a nine-player blockbuster deal on Aug. 25. Crawford has five years and $102.5 million remaining on his contract.
"I didn't believe the trade was true at the time. I got so excited, coming to a team playing with other great players. Matt Kemp; I've known Andre Ethier for a while," Crawford said. "From what I hear this is a team that wants to really win the championship, and it's definitely built to do so."
Despite his struggles with the Red Sox, Crawford, 31, is anxious for a fresh start in Los Angeles.
"I'm a competitive guy. I hate to say I failed at something. But you can't win all the time," Crawford said. "I definitely have a lot of baseball left in me. It's good to get a second chance."


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Hamburg-based record label DIYnamic is set to take over the Amsterdamse Bos for the fourth time. Acts taking part this year include Magdalena, Moscoman and a host of others.
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It's the beginning of Lent! Many of you are giving up something very important to you for the next 40 days. Regardless of whether you are doing this to support your religious beliefs, or you are making a sacrifice as a testament of personal strength – doing without anything that you treasure for 40 days is a true challenge. I think it is an AWESOME thing to do at any point during the year. I'd love to hear what YOU are giving up, so that I can give you ongoing support for the next 40 days! YOU CAN DO THIS!!!
The Dailey ENERGY BOOSTING Tip: EAT SMART CARBS!!! Carbs may be the foe of fad diets, but they're vital for boosting energy and mood. They are the body's preferred source of fuel, plus they raise levels of the feel-good chemical, serotonin. The key is to avoid sweets, which cause blood sugar to spike and plummet, making you feel tired and moody. Instead, pick whole grains like whole-wheat bread, brown rice, and cereal. Your body absorbs whole grains more slowly, keeping your blood sugar and energy levels stable. Sweet potatoes, oatmeal (gluten-free oatmeal works too), rice, quinoa, & beans are also GREAT complex carbs to keep you feeling great every day!
Tomorrow is Valentine's Day! I'm working on a special workout for my Functional Fitness groups to get you in the mood for LOVE! Flex'ers…as a special treat, I hope you will bring the one you love to class with you (for free!)! RELAX with corrective exercises & head out for a special Valentine's date afterwards! Give me a head's up if you are bringing a "date" to class so I will know how many to plan for!


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/**
 * Given an image represented by an NxN matrix, where each pixel in the image is an integer, write
 * a method to rotate the image by 90 degrees. Can you do this in place?
 *
 * @author Pedro Vicente Gómez Sánchez.
 */
public class RotateMatrix {

  /**
   * Iterative algorithm to solve this problem. This solution is based on move 4 positions per
   * iteration. With this approach we can reduce the complexity order in space terms from O(N^2) to
   * O(1). In time terms, the complexity order is O(N^2) where N is the height or width of the
   * matrix.
   */
  public void rotate(int[][] matrix) {
    validateInput(matrix);

    int length = matrix.length;
    for (int i = 0; i < length / 2; ++i) {
      int first = i;
      int last = length - 1 - i;
      for (int j = first; j < last; ++j) {
        int offset = j - first;
        int top = matrix[first][j];
        moveLeftToTop(matrix, first, last, j, offset);
        moveBottomToLeft(matrix, first, last, offset);
        moveRithToBottom(matrix, last, j, offset);
        moveTopToRight(matrix, last, j, top);
      }
    }
  }

  private void moveTopToRight(int[][] matrix, int last, int i, int top) {
    matrix[i][last] = top;
  }

  private void moveRithToBottom(int[][] matrix, int last, int i, int offset) {
    matrix[last][last - offset] = matrix[i][last];
  }

  private void moveBottomToLeft(int[][] matrix, int first, int last, int offset) {
    matrix[last - offset][first] = matrix[last][last - offset];
  }

  private void moveLeftToTop(int[][] matrix, int first, int last, int i, int offset) {
    matrix[first][i] = matrix[last - offset][first];
  }

  private void validateInput(int[][] matrix) {
    if (matrix == null) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("You can't pass a null instance of matrix as parameter.");
    } else if (matrix.length == 0) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(
          "You can't pass an empty instance of matrix as parameter.");
    } else if (matrix.length != matrix[0].length) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(
          "You can't pass a matrix with different height and width.");
    }
  }
}


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I generally love washing my hair every day too, so I don't know how I'll manage going a day between washes. But I just feel that my hair is too dry and over-shampooing might be one of the reasons. I'm so glad you've tried coconut oil as well and are happy with it. The overnight wrapped in plastic idea sounds fabulous, but I have a little toddler son that co-sleeps with us and he always plays with my hair in his sleep, so I wouldn't want him to mess up the place by rubbing the coconut oil everywhere. As for the Mythic Oil range, so far it's ok, I'm not overly impressed with it but I've only used it 3 times so I'll give it a few more chances first before making a judgment call.
I need to clarify that I have fine hair, so the next day it WILL be oily. Over-processed hair, coarse hair - that doesn't get oily like fine hair, so I can understand someone with that texture not washing every day. Others, we gots to wash the funk out!
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Topic Disk backup
Manage Learn to apply best practices and optimize your operations.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and disk backups
This is the third of a four-part series on IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager disk backup software. This tip discusses integration of disk as a backup media in a TSM environment.
Pierre Dorion, Long View Systems
What you will learn: This is the third of a four-part series on IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager disk backup software. This tip discusses integration of disk as a backup media in a TSM environment.
In its early days, one of the features that made Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), then ADSM, different from other backup products was the use of disk storage as a staging area for backup data. At a time when tape was the backup media of choice, some pundits perceived backing up to disk as a flaw in the software's ability to write to tape efficiently. Now, a software's inability to seamlessly back up to disk is considered a gap. This tip outlines the advantages of disk backups and the various ways to implement disk backup in a TSM environment today.
Why stage to disk?
Essentially, the concept of staging backup data to disk allows TSM to back up more systems concurrently without multiplexing or interleaving multiple systems' data on a single tape or requiring as many devices as the desired number of concurrent backup sessions. The random read/write nature of disk devices allows for as many concurrent host connections as performance will allow. In contrast, tape is a sequential access media allowing only a single data stream at a time, unless data streams are interleaved on the same tape, which can eventually affect restore performance. However, data that is staged to disk must then be migrated to tape, which lengthens the daily backup cycle even if TSM does it automatically. There have been countless debates on the pros and cons of either method.
TSM uses device classes to define the type of media to be used by a backup storage pool. The types of TSM device classes using disk as a backup media are disk, file, Centera, virtual tape library (VTL), server and backup appliances, followed by information on each.
TSM can use disk in a number of ways: direct-attached storage (DAS), storage area network (SAN) disk, or a network share, such as a network attached storage (NAS) appliance. TSM can use disk space at the root of a file system or within a directory structure. On Unix systems, TSM can also write to raw logical volumes. The common denominator is that TSM will format disk volumes to a defined size disk before it can store backup data. Much like a database, TSM uses its own format to which it writes data.
The file device type is a sequential access file on disk that TSM uses to store backup data. At a high level, it can be compared to of a VTL; data is written sequentially to files of a predetermined size much like it would be to a tape volume. File volumes can provide portability for electronic vaulting and offer a more granular control over disk utilization without the need to preformat large volumes.
Centera
Similar to the file device type described above, these are logical sequential access volumes created by TSM to store data on an EMC Corp. Centera. One of the main benefits is the added level of protection against inadvertent or unauthorized deletion of regulated archive data provided by the Centera.
Although not exclusive to TSM, the ability to back up to a VTL must be mentioned for completeness. These disk arrays use hardware abstraction layer software to appear like a tape subsystem to TSM. Although conceptually similar to TSM's file device type, VTLs are typically preconfigured for performance and availability. This is not always a given with user configured disk.
Although not necessarily a disk device, TSM can send data to a server device type. This is essentially another TSM server that is defined as a target server to a TSM source server allowing cross replication of backup data between TSM servers. This configuration relies on the creation of virtual volumes, which can be either tape- or disk- based on the target server but transparent to the source TSM server.
Backup appliances
The latest and greatest in terms of backup to disk -- appliances such as DataDomain -- add an extra layer of functionality to the VTL or file device type. Through sophisticated byte sequence analysis, these appliances provide data deduplication that can result in significant backup data compression. The main benefits include reduced storage capacity requirements and lower bandwidth replication, which combined, can significantly reduce tape storage and handling.
More information on TSM architecture and concepts can be found in the IBM Tivoli Storage Management Concepts Redbook (SG24-4877). Next month, we will discuss TSM implementation traps and pitfalls to avoid.
Pierre Dorion is a certified business continuity professional for Mainland Information Systems Inc.
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US Marines and F-35s will make Royal Navy carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth their home
US and UK bonds also strengthened by HMS Northumberland and RFA Tideforce
Max ChannonNetwork Content Editor
A US Marine Corps CH-53 Super Stallion heavy-lift helicopter lands on HMS Queen Elizabeth (Image: Royal Navy)
The Royal Navy is preparing to welcome US Marines and F-35 Lightning jets to their new home - the £3.2bn aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.
A US Marine Corps (USMC) CH-53 Super Stallion has now embarked with the UK's future flagship, during Westlant19, a three-month wargames exercise off the coast of the USA and Canada, featuring the UK Carrier Strike Group and US allies.
A spokesperson for HMS Queen Elizabeth (HMSQE) said: "These heavy lift helicopters will allow us to embark USMC personnel ahead of their F-35Bs joining us for trials very soon & deploying with us in 2021."
And a spokesperson for the USMC said the helicopter's embarkment marked "another step toward a combined, operational deployment with the Royal Navy... underlining the importance of our strategic relationship."
It comes after Royal Navy confirmed the first operational deployment for HMS Queen Elizabeth and the UK's Lightning jets embarked on her will be a joint mission with the US. US media had previously reported that the Royal Navy's future flagship would be home to a US Marine F-35 Squadron.
The deployment, which will see aircraft from the Royal Navy and US Marine Corps based alongside side each other on the flight deck, would be the first of its kind, reported Military.com.
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However, the Royal Navy has now hinted that more UK F-35s are on their way to HMS Queen Elizabeth - and their arrival could be immiment.
In another tweet, which featured the hashtag 'UKF35' and tagged the RAF, the HMSQE spokesperson said: "We will never get bored of seeing these on our decks. Look at those skies....I hear rumbling....could even more lightning be forecast for Westlant19 today?"
Meanwhile, Plymouth-based Type 23 Frigate HMS Northumberland - which is part of the HMSQE Carrier Strikl Group's 'ring of steel' - has been exercising in 'multi-threat' environments with a US Navy amphibious assault ship.
And the Carrier Strike Group's tanker RFA Tideforce celebrated Trafalgar Day by refuelling US Destroyer, USS Winston Churchill.
The final ship in Carrier Strike Group Royal Navy Destroyer, HMS Dragon, has today moved away from HMSQE for weapons testing.
It's also believed an Astute class attack submarine may be part of the Strike Group, but the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has a policy of not discussing the whereabouts, or operational details, of its submarines.
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Submarine-hunting aircrews and Merlin helicopters from 820 Naval Air Squadron - the dedicated helicopter squadron for HMS Queen Elizabeth - are among the troops embarked with Carrier Strike Group, for the three month exercise.
Based at RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall, the primary warfighting role of 820 Naval Air Squadron is the seeking out and destruction of enemy submarines – and it plays a crucial role protecting HMS Queen Elizabeth from this hidden danger.
Aircrews and Merlin helicopters from 845 Naval Air Squadron - AKA or 'Furious Flight' from the Commando Helicopter Force - are also currently embarked with group - and their main role will be helping to recover downed pilots or aircraft if one were to crash during the trials.
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Discovery Alert: TESS Finds Its First Earth-Sized Planet
What Is a Black Hole?
Black Hole Image Makes History; NASA Telescopes Coordinated Observations
Using the Event Horizon Telescope, scientists obtained an image of the black hole at the center of galaxy M87, outlined by emission from hot gas swirling around it under the influence of strong gravity near its event horizon. Credits: Event Horizon Telescope collaboration et al.
A black hole and its shadow have been captured in an image for the first time, a historic feat by an international network of radio telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). EHT is an international collaboration whose support in the U.S. includes the National Science Foundation.
A black hole is an extremely dense object from which no light can escape. Anything that comes within a black hole's "event horizon," its point of no return, will be consumed, never to re-emerge, because of the black hole's unimaginably strong gravity. By its very nature, a black hole cannot be seen, but the hot disk of material that encircles it shines bright. Against a bright backdrop, such as this disk, a black hole appears to cast a shadow.
The stunning new image shows the shadow of the supermassive black hole in the center of Messier 87 (M87), an elliptical galaxy some 55 million light-years from Earth. This black hole is 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun. Catching its shadow involved eight ground-based radio telescopes around the globe, operating together as if they were one telescope the size of our entire planet.
"This is an amazing accomplishment by the EHT team," said Paul Hertz, director of the astrophysics division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "Years ago, we thought we would have to build a very large space telescope to image a black hole. By getting radio telescopes around the world to work in concert like one instrument, the EHT team achieved this, decades ahead of time."
To complement the EHT findings, several NASA spacecraft were part of a large effort, coordinated by the EHT's Multiwavelength Working Group, to observe the black hole using different wavelengths of light. As part of this effort, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory space telescope missions, all attuned to different varieties of X-ray light, turned their gaze to the M87 black hole around the same time as the EHT in April 2017. NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was also watching for changes in gamma-ray light from M87 during the EHT observations. If EHT observed changes in the structure of the black hole's environment, data from these missions and other telescopes could be used to help figure out what was going on.
Chandra X-ray Observatory close-up of the core of the M87 galaxy. Credits: NASA/CXC/Villanova University/J. Neilsen
While NASA observations did not directly trace out the historic image, astronomers used data from NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR satellites to measure the X-ray brightness of M87's jet. Scientists used this information to compare their models of the jet and disk around the black hole with the EHT observations. Other insights may come as researchers continue to pore over these data. There are many remaining questions about black holes that the coordinated NASA observations may help answer. Mysteries linger about why particles get such a huge energy boost around black holes, forming dramatic jets that surge away from the poles of black holes at nearly the speed of light. When material falls into the black hole, where does the energy go?
"X-rays help us connect what's happening to the particles near the event horizon with what we can measure with our telescopes," said Joey Neilsen, an astronomer at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, who led the Chandra and NuSTAR analysis on behalf of the EHT's Multiwavelength Working Group.
NASA space telescopes have previously studied a jet extending more than 1,000 light-years away from the center of M87. The jet is made of particles traveling near the speed of light, shooting out at high energies from close to the event horizon. The EHT was designed in part to study the origin of this jet and others like it. A blob of matter in the jet called HST-1, discovered by Hubble astronomers in 1999, has undergone a mysterious cycle of brightening and dimming.
Chandra, NuSTAR, Swift and Fermi, as well as NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) experiment on the International Space Station, also looked at the black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, called Sagittarius A*, in coordination with EHT.
Getting so many different telescopes on the ground and in space to all look toward the same celestial object is a huge undertaking in and of itself, scientists emphasize.
"Scheduling all of these coordinated observations was a really hard problem for both the EHT and the Chandra and NuSTAR mission planners," Neilsen said. "They did really incredible work to get us the data that we have, and we're exceedingly grateful."
Neilsen and colleagues who were part of the coordinated observations will be working on dissecting the entire spectrum of light coming from the M87 black hole, all the way from low-energy radio waves to high-energy gamma rays. With so much data from EHT and other telescopes, scientists may have years of discoveries ahead.
Elizabeth Landau
NASA Headquarters, Washington
elandau@jpl.nasa.gov
What Is a Black Hole
A black hole is a dense, compact object whose gravitational pull is so strong that – within a certain distance of it – nothing can escape, not even light.


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Gautham Menon's Ek Tha Deewana trailer unleashed
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The trailer of director Gautham Menon's forthcoming movie Ek Deewana Tha has been launched. A short clip, which shows the lead stars at the backdrop of Taj Mahal, has generated curiosity among the youths.
Prateik Babbar and Amy Jackson starrer Ek Deewana Tha tells the story of an intriguing love tale of a Hindu boy and an orthodox Syrian Christian Malayali girl. Here, we are bringing you a glimpse to the film through a trailer of the the forthcoming Bollywood movie.
Ek Deewana Tha is a remake of Tamil blockbuster movie Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa, which starred Silambarasan and Trisha Krishnan. It has AR Rahman's music for which Javed Akhtar has penned the lyrics.
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Q: I can't find "name" attribute while inspecting input elements of google form. How to find it? I have a html form from which I want to store data to google spreadsheet. I created google form but when I try to inspect name attribute to link it with HTML form attribute, I couldn't find any. I want name="entry.###" attribute. Here is what I say when I inspect an input element:
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A: You can obtain the name attribute if you create a pre-filled link of type https://docs.google.com/forms/d/XXX/prefill
Right-click into one of the answer fields and select Inspect
You should see an element as following:
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A: I hade the same issue as the OP. I was puzzled by ziganotschka's reply, but I figured out that the three-dot menu in Google Forms shows the option "get prefilled link". Then, the name attribute is shown.

A: The guy up is right...tap the three dots and then get prefilled link then inspect the name in


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Jordi Boronat takes formally charge of the department
With the presence of the provost of the UPC, Francesc Torres, secretary general Marta de Blas and the outgoing director Daniel Crespo, Jordi Boronat took office as Director of the Department of Physics on July 23. At an event held in building B4 on the North campus there has been the transfer of powers with brief speeches of the directors entering and leaving and of the same rector.
In the act, the two directors have agreed to request administrative support of proximity for a department as large as the Department of Physics. The new director has given all the institutional support of the Department to the demands of the Rectors of the public universities regarding financing. Jordi Boronat has also requested special consideration for those doing basic science in the University from the rectorate, indicating that the UPC must be a reference not only in engineering and technology but also in the science that constitutes its base.
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GitTorrent – An Oxymoron?
June 23, 2015 Caitlin Bestler
The idea of combining peer-to-peer distribution (torrents) with source control (git) has recently been promoted (GitTorrent-2015-Announcement) but it actually has been around for awhile (GitTorrent-GoogleCode).
The appeal for this amalgamation is the combining distributing software products (packages, ISOs, etc.) via torrents while keeping all the benefits of source control systems such as Git.
The conflict between the ideas is fairly obvious. Torrents are not viewed as providing reliable service for the fundamental reason that they are not reliable. They optimize crowd distribution of popular material. Git needs to retain historic boring archives of old versions which will probably never be fetched.
There are several inherent contradictions between the "Git" and "Torrent" worlds:
Source Control takes responsibility for retention of every version of an object, forever.
Peer-to-peer networking is dependent on a social control which assumes that there is demand to access the content being shared. It is easy for a peer-to-peer network to identify and shame "leaches" who only download material but never donate bandwidth to the community. Measuring who is actually retaining seldom retrieved versions would be far harder.
A primary feature of source control systems is to attribute every byte of the current version of a file/object to the specific update when it was introduced, and who to "blame" for that update. Source control systems frequently reqiure each edit to be password and/or certificate authenticated. Torrents which required tracable attribution for every contribution would see a major portion of their seeders unwilling to "contribute" material. The MPAA would probably claim that this is most of the content being torrented.
However, there are some major architectural similarities between Object Storage solutions designed for Enterprise storage (whether in-house and/or cloud-based) and peer-to-peer networking:
Both rely on a large number of storage targets rather than upon high availability of specific storage targets. Many low-cost modestly-available targets end up being cheaper and more reliable than a few highly available targets. But peer-to-peer targets don't just "fail", they are withdrawn from availability by their owners. That is a problem that Enterprise storage does not have to address.
Both benefit from the use of cryptographic hashes to identify chunks. Software distribution has been publishing checksums of packages and ISOs for some time, but they are typically maintained separately from the storage. This is unforntate because it requires the end user to remember to apply the fingerprint to the downloaded content, something that is probably actually done several times a day.
Actually peer-to-peer networks are more in need of cryptographic hashes than Enterprise storage clusters, but so far they tend to use cheaper hash algorithms. Every contributing sever cannot be vetted by the peer-to-peer network. Volunteer help seldom sticks around for along validation process. Therefore peer-to-peer networking must be designed to prevent malevolent and/or misbehaving servers from corrupting the distributed storage cluster.
Directories?
One of the interesting statements that Chris Ball made in his blog announcement of the 2015 vintage GitTorrent was that FTP was unsuitable as a distribution method because there's no master index of which hosts have which files in FTP, so we wouldn't know where to look for anything.
But BitTorrent style directories are not the real solution either. They are the equivalent of HDFS or pNFS – centralized metadata referencing distributed chunks/blocks.
When you fully embrace identifying chunks with Cryptographic Hashes you just have to go all the way (which is what we did with NexentaEdge). Everything needs to be a chunk identified by a cryptographic hash of its payload. That includes the metadata. You just have to name some of the metadata chunks to anchor the references to the other chunks.
The root metadata chunks need to have an additional lookup driven by the cryptographic hash of their fully qualified name. To make a globally unique name just scope it by a domain name.
The Name Hash of a fully qualified, domain name scoped, object identifier needs to be able to find a list of the versions of the named object.
Each chunk is either considered to be "named" or "unnamed". Named chunks are located by their Name Hash. Unnamed chunks by the Content Hash. Whichever hash is selected yields some form of partition of the global namespace. For example the configuration might specify that there are 1024 partitions. You then query for the desired hash on servers registered to support that partition.
To find the Metadata for an object:
Hash the fully qualified name of the object.
Map the hash value to a partition.
Ask the servers supporting that partition to return the most recent version of the Manifest for this object, or refer you to a later version that they know about but do not have a copy of.
Note that the returned Manifest still has a cryptographic hash of its content, allowing end-to-end validation of the manifest.
Pick the most recent valid version returned.
Then used the saved content hashes in the Manifest to find the payload chunks.
Map the content hash to its partition.
Ask the servers supporting that partition to return this chunk, or to refer you to another server that has it.
Only the first replica found actually found needs to be returned.
Note: this is slightly different from what NexentaEdge does, but NexentaEdge has the benefit of having all of the storage servers for a given cluster being at a single location. This enables use of multicast messaging to query all members of a "partition" in a single operation. There isno way to use multicast reliably over wide area networks.
In the following diagram various payload chunks are put to various partitions. Their content hashes are saved, and then referenced in version manifests which are stored (and indexed) on the partition derived from the name hash of the object name.
Object Storage Features Applied to Peer-to-Peer Networking
Despite the inherent conflicts there are several features of enterprise object storage that are applicable to the problem of peer-to-peer storage.
In both Enterprise and peer-to-peer storage, objects can be broken down into chunks Identified by a Cryptographic Hash. Each chunk represents a portion of an Object Version's payload or metadata. Payload chunks can be identified by a cryptographic hash of their payload. Metadata chunks can be also identified by a cryptographic hash of their payload, but also need to be found using only the object name. This can be done using the cryptographic hash of the object's fully qualified name.
Using cryptographic hashes to identify chunks has several benefits.
Cryptographic Hashes Self-Validate the Chunk. As each chunk is retrieved the client can validate that it's payload is compatible with its cryptographic hash.
Cryptographic Hashes enable distributed deduplication.
Cryptographic Hashes can drive the distribution of Chunks. The cryptographic hash of the content and/or name can determine which storage targets hold each chunk.
Breaking up Storage
Distributing chunks by cryptographic hashes allows each peer-to-peer server to only deal with a subset of the objects in the system.
A client looking for a peer-to-peer replica of a chunk only need to contact the set of server dealing with the desired slice of the "hash space". This applies whether seeking metadata or payload.
Authenticating Users
In enterprise object storage systems, users typically authenticate using a tenant-specific authorization server, such as Active Directory or LDAP.
For peer-to-peer storage a given domain name would publish a public key. The holder of the matching private key could either retain the exclusive right to make new versions or just the right to delete posts made by others.
The system should probably also require each version be signed with a key associated with the email address.
Remaining Issues
One of the toughest challenges for anyone building a peer-to-peer storage network is determining how many replicas (or erasure encoded slices) are needed to make the chance of losing content to be effectively zero (or some other TBD threshold).
This is related to the other challenge of how to encourage users to provide storage.
The costs of long-haul communications are such that a peer-to-peer storage network is unlikely to be cost effective on a $$$ per IOP or TB basis. But there are other benefits of a peer-to-peer storage community that may be appealing:
There is no need to tell anyone other than your end users what your are storing. Metadata can be encrypted. If you know the key you can decrypt the metadata and confirm the name and version of the version metadata retrieved. If you do not know the key, you have a blob with a name that hashes to X.
Content Distribution (albeit a distributed mirroring system may be more valuable here). Those fetching from a mirror do not have to independtly validate the content, corrupted or altered data cannot be retrieved from the system.
There is another, related to dynamic ingest of data, which we'll cover in my next blog.
This post touches upon features of Nexenta's object storage product NexentaEdge. Portions of NexentaEdge are covered by patent applications and/or patents. Nexenta reserves all rights under those patents.
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Far Cry 2 is a continuation of a great 3D shooter. It is said that game is a significant step forward in the history of FPS games. In Far Cry 2 you play a character who suffers from a mysterious illness. All is well until the hand has the required medicines - necessary to eliminate the effects of the disease and allow to live normally. Without antidote our hero shows his other dark face. The game features wonderful graphics and advanced artificial intelligence algorithms that move opponents. Everything is incredibly realistic and fully reproduces reality. Far Cry 2 is based on the beefed up CryEngine.