I've been using Supermemo for close to 1o years now. Can't think of any other program even close to that.
Supermemo is based on a scientific theory of how human memory works. Basing on that theory a method was created, which allows predicting when the once memorized item will reach the stage when it is likely to be forgotten.
Applying the formula to each item, the program makes you repeat them exactly when it is necessary. Remarkable efficiency of learning process is achieved.
There have been at least six languages that I was studying with Supermemo support, last of them Russian. Occasionally I leveraged on it in other areas of knowledge, e.g. history. Everything that can be reduced to question/answer form is supported just fine.
I would recommend the program, but my experience tells me the effort would be wasted. None of my friends I demonstrated it to managed to get over the horribly over-engineered interface or maintain required persistence in her learning process.
I will retain this particular competitive advantage of mine for years to come.
Nice blog, I am also a Supermemo addict.


Home sweet home. Houses are supposed to be our nest, a shelter from the world outside. But how healthy are European homes?
Nowadays most of our time is spent indoors, often at home, one reason being the current shift to "desk jobs". It follows that the environment of the buildings we live, work and play in has a major health impact.
Indoor air may be more harmful than outdoor air: "In addition to the contaminants we find outside, we also have indoor pollutants", explained Alessandro Miani, head of the non-profit Italian Society for Environmental Medicine (SIMA), which drew up a set of rules to preserve the air we breathe in our homes and offices. "There are pollutants typical of homes such as dust, spores, moulds, and those produced by human activities like cooking and house-cleaning, all of which contribute to the release of additional damaging substances".
People are more likely to have respiratory diseases when living in a damp home. "I would say that asthma is the most studied symptom because it's easier to identify. Other warning signs, such as eye irritations or a dripping nose are even more widespread, but they are harder to quantify and record. There may be several mechanisms involved: direct toxicity, irritation, allergies," explained Miia Pitkäranta, a Finnish molecular microbiologist who specialises in indoor air quality.
The EU Healthy Homes Barometer 2017 said that "people are 40% more likely to have asthma when living in a damp or mouldy home, and today, 2.2 million Europeans have asthma as a result of their living conditions". Moreover, one out of six Europeans, the equivalent of Germany's population, affirmed that they spend most of their time in unhealthy buildings, with problems such as leaking roofs or damps floors and walls, and poor daylight.
The economic impact is significant: the cost of asthma and chronic pulmonary disease is estimated at €82 billion per year in Europe, half of it for medicine and care, and the other half, 40 billion as indirect costs such as a loss of work productivity.
For this reason, the European Commission has proposed a revision of the Energy performance of buildings directive that include measures "to promote the use of smart technology, to streamline existing rules and accelerate building renovation". A political agreement has been reached by the Member States and now the text will have to be formally approved by the plenary session of European Parliament in Strasbourg on 17 April.
The Healthy Homes Barometer also highlighted the fact that forty-five percent of Europeans keep the temperatures down in their homes in order to save money, because of their low incomes, increasingly heavier bills and their inefficient buildings.
In a bid to reduce energy costs and improve their wellbeing, people can find motivation to start refurbishing their homes. But today just 2% of European homes were properly renovated every year.
This is where EU research projects are trying to create new impetus. One example is R2Cities (Residential Renovation towards nearly zero energy Cities), which has reached about 1,500 people in Italy, Turkey and Spain.
Energy-saving technologies have been implemented in different contexts. From the demonstration districts in Genoa (Italy) and Kartal (Turkey), where the works were financed by the European Union and the municipalities, to the residential complex in Valladolid, where the homeowners also contributed to the interventions.
This year, in order to boost investment for improved building stock, the EU Commission has launched the Smart Finance for Smart Buildings initiative. The aim is to unlock €10 billion of public and private funds for energy efficiency interventions.


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Ксе́ния Алексе́евна Сини́цына () — российская фигуристка, выступающая в одиночном катании. Чемпионка юношеских Олимпийских игр (2020, командный турнир), серебряный призёр юношеских Олимпийских игр (2020, одиночное катание). Мастер спорта России по фигурному катанию на коньках (2020).

По состоянию на 6 декабря 2022 года занимает 83-е место в рейтинге Международного союза конькобежцев.

Карьера
Начала заниматься фигурным катанием в 2008 году.

Сезон 2018—2019
На первенстве России среди юниоров заняла 9-е место.

В сезоне 2018—2019 дебютировала на юниорском Гран-при, завоевав бронзовую медаль на этапе Гран-при среди юниоров в Литве 2018 года.

В феврале 2019 года на первенстве России среди юниоров заняла 4-е место (после Александры Трусовой, Алёны Косторной и Анны Щербаковой).

На играх «Дети Азии» выиграла бронзовую медаль, уступив Ю Ён и Алёне Канышевой.

На чемпионате мира среди юниоров заменила Алёну Косторную, которая снялась по состоянию здоровья, и заняла четвертое место.

Сезон 2019—2020

На юниорском Гран-при 2019 года на этапе в России, Челябинске, завоевала серебряную медаль, уступив Камиле Валиевой. На этапе Гран-при в Италии выиграла первую золотую медаль Гран-при и обновила свой личный рекорд. Эти результаты позволили ей выйти в финал Гран-при, где она заняла четвёртое место.

На чемпионате России в короткой программе заняла 15-е место и 4-е в произвольной, став пятой в общем зачёте.

На зимних юношеских Олимпийских играх 2020 года завоевала серебряную медаль, уступив Ю Ён. В командных соревнованиях завоевала золотую медаль.

На первенстве России среди юниоров из-за падения заняла седьмое место в короткой программе и не была отобрана в произвольную программу.

Сезон 2020—2021
Первая половина сезона 20/21 была пропущена по причине травм. В феврале Ксения начала возвращаться в большой спорт, делая заявки на второстепенные национальные соревнования. Ей удалось занять первое место в соревновании на призы Е.А.Чайковской . Также получилось победить на Всероссийских соревнованиях памяти Русакова. На этом соревновании она делала попытки исполнения четверного прыжка, но неудачно.

Сезон 2021—2022
По состоянию на ноябрь 2021 года занимает 42-е место в рейтинге Международного союза конькобежцев.

На сезон 2021—2022 Синицына была заявлена на два этапа серии Гран-при по фигурному катанию сезона 2021/2022 — в США и Франции. Выступление воспринималось комментаторами как дебют после полуторагодового перерыва из-за травмы. На первом этапе Гран-при Skate America заняла 5-е место. На пятом этапе серии Гран-При Internationaux de France после короткой программы занимала третье место, но по итогам произвольной опустилась на четвёртое, оставшись без медали.

В декабре выступила на чемпионате России, где в короткой программе расположилась на 8 месте с 70,75 баллами, в произвольной программе расположилась на 9 месте с 133,86 баллами, по итогу заняла 9 место с суммой баллов 204,61 балла. Спустя более чем год после соревнования, результат Валиевой был отменён, и все остальные спортсменки поднялись на одну строчку.

Сезон 2022—2023
Приняла участие в двух этапах Гран-при России. Выступила на чемпионате России.

Программы

Спортивные достижения

Примечания

Ссылки

 Ксения Синицына на сайте FSkate.ru

Фигуристы России

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I am on the stable version 42.0.2393.85, windows 8.1 64-bit.
Today I found that pressing the CTRL+Shift combination & click on a link, which should open the link in a new tab and put that tab in focus, does not work anymore. Instead I get a spinning circle at the link but nothing else happens.
CTRL+click works: open the link in a new tab but does not bring the tab in focus.


1) If you wish to take a Leave of Absence in the middle of the semester, you must get approval from your academic advisor and professor of each course you are enrolled in.
2) Tuition refund amount may vary depending on your application date.
3) You may apply for a Leave of Absence during a semester one time only. Re-application for a Leave of Absence during a semester will be considered to be a general Leave of Absence.
4) The period for a Leave of Absence during a semester will be included in the period of a general Leave of Absence.


You rely on your transmission to keep your car going. So when your transmission starts to fail, you need to get it repaired quickly At Automotive Services Of Austin, we specialize in repairing all types of transmissions, including manual, automatic, and semi-automatic models.
At Automotive Services Of Austin, our goal is to provide the reliable and affordable transmission repair service you deserve. No matter the state of your transmission, we pledge to work our hardest to get it running again. And if we determine that your transmission can't be fixed, we'll work to have it replaced in a timely fashion. We pride ourselves on excellence in all we do, and we look forward to the opportunity to earn your trust.


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const fs = require('fs');
const workingDir = process.cwd();

const clientAddress = require('./client-address');

function writeHeaders (res, file) {
  res.writeHead(200,
    Object.assign({},
      { 'Content-Type': file[1],
        'Cache-Control': file[2] ? 'public, max-age=' + file[2] : 'max-age=0',
      },
      file[3] ? { 'ETag': file[3] } : {}
    )
  );
}

function serveFilesystemResource (req, res, file) {

  const fileName = file[0];
  const fullPath = path.join(workingDir, '/public/' + fileName);

  const addr = clientAddress(req);
  console.log(new Date().valueOf(),
    addr.ip + ':' + addr.port,
    req.headers['user-agent'],
    'Serving file', fullPath);

  try {
    const rstream = fs.createReadStream(fullPath);

    writeHeaders(res, file);

    rstream.pipe(res);
  } catch (e) {
    console.log('Standard resource file not found!', e);
    res.writeHead(404);
    return res.end();
  }
}

// TODO: support streams in par with fixed memory
function serveInMemoryResource (req, res, file) {

  var fileData = file[0]();

  if (!fileData) {
    console.log('In-Memory resource is null!');
    res.writeHead(404);
    return res.end();
  }

  const addr = clientAddress(req);
  console.log(new Date().valueOf(),
    addr.ip + ':' + addr.port,
    req.headers['user-agent'],
    'Serving in-memory resource for', req.url);

  try {
    writeHeaders(res, file);

    res.end(fileData);

  } catch (e) {
    res.writeHead(404);
    return res.end();
  }
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module.exports = hostedFiles => (req, res) => {

  const file = hostedFiles[req.url];
  if (!file) {
    res.writeHead(404);
    return res.end();
  }

  if (typeof(file[0]) == 'function') {
    return serveInMemoryResource(req, res, file);
  } else {
    return serveFilesystemResource(req, res, file);
  }
}

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Members of the Southwest Dallas American Federation of Teachers (AFT) have worked to develop the foundation of an organization that will serve as a strong advocate for teachers and school-related personnel. Our vision is to give employees of the Southwest Dallas school districts the power to advocate for issues that affect them here at home. Overall, we want to create an organization that will provide each school employee the resources and support they need to succeed. We represent DeSoto, Duncanville and Lancaster ISDs.


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news, latest-news, superannuation, industry super, failure
Failure is only the beginning. Thirteen of Australia's 80 closely regulated MySuper superannuation funds have failed the APRA performance test. There's a fair chance you're among the 1 million people in them. The results were handed to the funds on Monday, and made public on Tuesday. From here on - for the people who run those funds - it's about to get worse. APRA is the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority. Landmark reforms introduced in response to a devastating Productivity Commission report into the "mess" that is much of Australia's super industry require APRA to rate each MySuper fund (and from next year most other funds) with a pass or a fail according to how they have managed their members' money. To fail - as one in six funds have - would require the fund to have for seven or eight years managed its members' funds so badly that when judged by its own stated investment strategy, those members would have been better off investing in the broad categories of assets themselves and paying the managers to stay away. Under the rules, which go by the name "Your Future, Your Super", funds can only be given a pass or a fail. Those that fail are required to write to their members. The letters, which have to be delivered within 28 days, and which APRA will check, are humiliating. "Hello [fund member]," they begin. "Your superannuation product has performed poorly under an annual performance test. "As a result, we are required to write to you and suggest that you consider moving your money into a different superannuation product. "By switching into a better performing product, you can potentially save thousands of dollars more for retirement. For example, by earning 1% higher net return over a 30-year period, you could be 20% better off at retirement." At the bottom of each letter is a QR code members can use to go to ato.gov.au/yoursuper to compare funds' performance. If members log in with their myGov account, they will be told exactly what super they have and where it is (I've tried it and it works) and get a comparison tailored to their circumstances. The 13 funds forced to send out these letters will be lucky to see out the year. Once a fund suffers withdrawals and has to pay out members, it performs even worse. Within months, many will be taken over. Those that remain are unlikely to last a second year. Once a product fails for two consecutive years (most that fail in the first year are expected to fail in the second) it will be prohibited from accepting new members, which means it will be killed. It may or may not be relevant, but the driving force behind the revolution is women. Women typically do much worse out of super than men. Karen Chester chaired the Productivity Commission inquiry that quantified the hundreds of thousands of dollars lost in retirement by each worker who stays in a dud fund, and came up with the first draft of the performance test. Kelly O'Dwyer, as financial services minister, championed it - as did her successor, Jane Hume. In charge of policing the rules is APRA executive board member Margaret Cole, who was known as the "enforcer" during her time as director of enforcement and financial crime at the UK Financial Services Authority. On Friday she declared bluntly that Australia had too many funds, too many persistently underperforming funds and too many with fees that remain too high. Among the chronic underperformers now facing a death spiral are five industry funds - two of them run by former members of Industry Super Australia, the organisation that represents funds set up "only to benefit members". I say former members because Maritime Super left just ahead of the results, while LUCRF, originally set up by what is now the United Workers Union, was terminated on the release of the results. Industry Super scrubbed it from its website. The other industry funds that failed the performance test are run by the Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund, Christian Super and the Victorian Independent Schools Super Fund. Among the for-profit failures are funds run by Westpac (BT Super) and the Commonwealth Bank (Colonial First State). The banking royal commission found that funds run by banks often pay money to other parts of the bank for services such as buying and selling bonds, rather than doing it themselves or through brokers who would get better prices. Super customers needn't know what happens. They don't get bills. Whereas electricity bills hurt when they are delivered and have to be paid, the bills for super fees (and hidden fees in the form of relentless underperformance) aren't seen, and don't have to be paid - the fees come out of the funds. And the funds grow every year, even where they are squandered. Compulsory super throws in a fresh 10 per cent of salary each year. The aim of what's happened this week is to make visible what is normally invisible, and to prod people into action. The government could have gone down a different track. Peter Costello, the long-serving Coalition treasurer who now heads the Future Fund which manages government investments, wanted his successor to create a government super fund (run by his Future Fund) which it would default new workers into. The Future Fund would have protected workers, but to do it, it would have to have played things safe. As it became dominant it would have stifled the competition and seen better returns. Or that was the thinking. Chester, O'Dwyer, Hume and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg decided instead to supercharge the competition - to make crystal clear which are the funds to run from and which are the funds to run to. They are making running as easy as two clicks. One in every 11 dollars we earn is funnelled into superannuation. Legislated increases mean it will soon be one in nine. It's important that dollar is looked after.
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September 1 2021 - 5:25AM
My super fund just failed the APRA performance test. What's next?
Peter Martin
Thirteen superannuation funds are about to have to write a humiliating letter to their members. Picture: Shutterstock
Failure is only the beginning.
Thirteen of Australia's 80 closely regulated MySuper superannuation funds have failed the APRA performance test.
There's a fair chance you're among the 1 million people in them.
The results were handed to the funds on Monday, and made public on Tuesday. From here on - for the people who run those funds - it's about to get worse.
APRA is the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority. Landmark reforms introduced in response to a devastating Productivity Commission report into the "mess" that is much of Australia's super industry require APRA to rate each MySuper fund (and from next year most other funds) with a pass or a fail according to how they have managed their members' money.
To fail - as one in six funds have - would require the fund to have for seven or eight years managed its members' funds so badly that when judged by its own stated investment strategy, those members would have been better off investing in the broad categories of assets themselves and paying the managers to stay away.
Under the rules, which go by the name "Your Future, Your Super", funds can only be given a pass or a fail. Those that fail are required to write to their members.
Letters humbling
The letters, which have to be delivered within 28 days, and which APRA will check, are humiliating.
"Hello [fund member]," they begin. "Your superannuation product has performed poorly under an annual performance test.
"As a result, we are required to write to you and suggest that you consider moving your money into a different superannuation product.
"By switching into a better performing product, you can potentially save thousands of dollars more for retirement. For example, by earning 1% higher net return over a 30-year period, you could be 20% better off at retirement."
At the bottom of each letter is a QR code members can use to go to ato.gov.au/yoursuper to compare funds' performance. If members log in with their myGov account, they will be told exactly what super they have and where it is (I've tried it and it works) and get a comparison tailored to their circumstances.
The 13 funds forced to send out these letters will be lucky to see out the year. Once a fund suffers withdrawals and has to pay out members, it performs even worse. Within months, many will be taken over.
Those that remain are unlikely to last a second year. Once a product fails for two consecutive years (most that fail in the first year are expected to fail in the second) it will be prohibited from accepting new members, which means it will be killed.
It may or may not be relevant, but the driving force behind the revolution is women. Women typically do much worse out of super than men.
Karen Chester chaired the Productivity Commission inquiry that quantified the hundreds of thousands of dollars lost in retirement by each worker who stays in a dud fund, and came up with the first draft of the performance test.
Kelly O'Dwyer, as financial services minister, championed it - as did her successor, Jane Hume.
In charge of policing the rules is APRA executive board member Margaret Cole, who was known as the "enforcer" during her time as director of enforcement and financial crime at the UK Financial Services Authority.
On Friday she declared bluntly that Australia had too many funds, too many persistently underperforming funds and too many with fees that remain too high.
Industry funds among those failed
Among the chronic underperformers now facing a death spiral are five industry funds - two of them run by former members of Industry Super Australia, the organisation that represents funds set up "only to benefit members".
I say former members because Maritime Super left just ahead of the results, while LUCRF, originally set up by what is now the United Workers Union, was terminated on the release of the results. Industry Super scrubbed it from its website.
The other industry funds that failed the performance test are run by the Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund, Christian Super and the Victorian Independent Schools Super Fund.
Among the for-profit failures are funds run by Westpac (BT Super) and the Commonwealth Bank (Colonial First State).
The banking royal commission found that funds run by banks often pay money to other parts of the bank for services such as buying and selling bonds, rather than doing it themselves or through brokers who would get better prices.
In the dark, until now
Super customers needn't know what happens. They don't get bills.
Whereas electricity bills hurt when they are delivered and have to be paid, the bills for super fees (and hidden fees in the form of relentless underperformance) aren't seen, and don't have to be paid - the fees come out of the funds.
And the funds grow every year, even where they are squandered. Compulsory super throws in a fresh 10 per cent of salary each year.
The aim of what's happened this week is to make visible what is normally invisible, and to prod people into action.
An act of faith ... in competition
The government could have gone down a different track.
Peter Costello, the long-serving Coalition treasurer who now heads the Future Fund which manages government investments, wanted his successor to create a government super fund (run by his Future Fund) which it would default new workers into.
The Future Fund would have protected workers, but to do it, it would have to have played things safe. As it became dominant it would have stifled the competition and seen better returns. Or that was the thinking.
Chester, O'Dwyer, Hume and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg decided instead to supercharge the competition - to make crystal clear which are the funds to run from and which are the funds to run to. They are making running as easy as two clicks.
One in every 11 dollars we earn is funnelled into superannuation. Legislated increases mean it will soon be one in nine.
It's important that dollar is looked after.
Peter Martin is a former economics editor of The Canberra Times. This article was first published on The Conversation.
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Q: Psycopg Uniqueviolation: get value that caused the error How to get the exact value that caused the Uniqueviolation exception?
The illustrative code is:
try:
    cur.execute("INSERT INTO test (num) VALUES (1), (2), (3), (3);")
    conn.commit()
except psycopg.errors.UniqueViolation as err:
    print("Failed to insert non-unique number: {}".format(???))
    conn.rollback()

so the question is how to print the number "3"? Does the psycopg.errors.UniqueViolation contain the value that violated the constraint at all?
In the real code the values are dynamic. I log the rolled back transaction, but I'd like to also identify the offending number in the list, and ideally repeat the transaction without the duplicate.

A: Use just the exception message:
try:
    cur.execute("INSERT INTO test (num) VALUES (1), (2), (3), (3);")
    conn.commit()
except psycopg.errors.UniqueViolation as err:
    print("Failed to insert non-unique number: {}".format(err))
    conn.rollback()

You should get something like this:
Failed to insert non-unique number: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "test_num_key"
DETAIL:  Key (num)=(3) already exists.

The format of message_detail for unique violation is constant, you can extract the value from the second pair of parenthesis with a regex, e.g.
import re
# ...
    value = re.search(r'\(num\)=\((.*)\)', err.diag.message_detail).group(1)

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Sydney Anglicans VII: The value of theological education
Filed under Sydney Diocese
Mark Thompson writes part seven of his series on Sydney Anglicans –
"It is hardly an exaggeration to say that you will not understand the Diocese of Sydney unless you've understood its theological college…"
Read it all here –
Without a doubt the single most important resource God has given to the diocese of Sydney is Moore Theological College. Opening in 1856, thanks to a marvellously generous bequest by Thomas Moore, an early settler in Sydney, it has provided theological education for the vast bulk of Sydney's clergy over the last one hundred and fifty-six years.
Today Moore College is known the world over as a leading centre of evangelical reformed theology and as a place where men and women are equipped to exercise gospel ministry with confidence in the truth, authority and relevance of the Bible. It is also integral to the life of the diocese. It is no coincidence that often when the diocese is spoken about, it is immediately associated with the College. The diocese has guarded and resourced the College since its foundation. Conversely, the College has served the diocese and is largely responsible for its current theological complexion. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that you will not understand the Diocese of Sydney unless you've understood its theological college.
During its 156 years, Moore College has been served by some extraordinary principals. Undoubtedly the three most significant have been Nathaniel Jones, Thomas Chatterton Hammond, and D. Broughton Knox. Jones trained a generation who would resist the rise of modernism after the First World War. Hammond was recruited by Archbishop Howard Mowll to recover the College and set it on a strong footing after the theological compromises of the second and third decades of the twentieth century. Knox created the modern college, extending its program to four years, articulating a clear philosophy of theological education and building a highly qualified faculty and a first rate library collection. Since his time the college has continued to develop (under Peter Jensen and most recently John Woodhouse): teaching its own four-year BD program, integrating the ministry training of women alongside that of men, offering its own MA (Theol) and MTh as well as supervising PhD students in cooperation with two of the local universities, and taking its correspondence course to the world and online. The College is always seeking to be more effective in its service of the churches of the diocese and further afield. Moore College is never standing still, though one thing remains the same. Recognising the complexity and pressures of Christian ministry in the twenty-first century, the College is resolute in its determination not to short-change either its students or the churches they will serve, but instead to provide them with the best preparation to face today's challenges and tomorrow's.
A Moore College theological education has a number of distinctive features. Its core is an extensive study of the biblical text in the original languages (Hebrew, Greek, and yes there is a course on biblical Aramaic as well) as well as of the theology that arises from the Bible. Since the late 1950s a particular approach to biblical theology (the unfolding message of the Bible), one usually associated with Donald Robinson and Graeme Goldsworthy, has been a prominent feature of the College program, allowing students to see how the whole Bible holds together with the dynamic of promise and fulfilment, a focus on the person and work of the Christ, and a basic threefold framework (the promise foreshadowed in Israel's history, the promise reiterated by Israel's prophets, the promise fulfilled in Israel's Messiah). The teaching of the Bible understood in this way informs and evaluates all other parts of the program. All theological systems, including our own, must be analysed and evaluated in the light of Scripture's teaching. All ministry theory and practice (and all mission studies) must be measured against this standard also. Even Church History and Philosophy are studied with a conscious commitment to the final authority of the Bible's teaching.
Students, particularly those in the College's degree programs, read widely across the entire theological spectrum. Reading lists are not restricted to those books or authors who share the confessional stance of the College. Students read Augustine, Calvin, Warfield, Stott and Packer but also Schleiermacher, Newman, Barth and Moltmann. There is a heavy emphasis in the College courses on direct engagement with primary sources. So rather than being satisfied with what others say about Augustine or Calvin or Barth, students are encouraged to read these massive theological contributions for themselves. In other words, the confessional stance of the College (its commitment to the truthfulness and authority of Scripture, the centrality of the cross and of penal substitution in our understanding of the meaning of the cross, election by God's grace and justification by faith alone, etc.) is not a defensive one. There is nothing to fear from subjecting each evangelical conviction to scrutiny and testing everything against the teaching of the Bible. No question is off-limits and no books or authors are banned. I remember being horrified in the 1990s to realise that some students studying undergraduate theology in the University of Oxford were given reading lists on the atonement that contained Vincent Taylor and C. H. Dodd but totally ignored Leon Morris and John Stott. In contrast, when I studied at Moore, Morris and Stott were read on the cross but so were Taylor, Dodd, Macleod Campbell and Jurgen Moltmann!
Moore College has continued to value full-time residential theological education in an era when many seminaries and theological colleges around the world have found it impossible to maintain. Sure, there are part-time options, distance education programs, and the first steps in online education at Moore, but at considerable cost the College still insists that the kind of intensive transformative learning that takes place when students are studying full-time and in a residential community best fits the subject matter and the learning objectives of theological education. Broughton Knox was fond of saying that the dining room was as important as the lecture room and the chapel. The Christian faith is not an abstract set of ideas but a network of relationships centred upon a relationship with the living God made possible through the life and work of Jesus Christ.
Today Moore College has a student body of around three hundred full-time undergraduate students, with another one hundred and fifty graduate students and thousands doing its correspondence courses. It has a faculty of 20, most of whom have spent time in full-time pastoral ministry as well as having completed advanced theological studies in some of the leading universities overseas. They combine a passion for gospel ministry in the churches with the highest standards of biblical and theological scholarship. Its library holds more than 220,000 physical format items, including a rare book collection and important archives. The college is regularly visited by oversees theologians and has a steady stream of overseas students. The multi-ethnic character of its student body increasingly reflects the multi-ethnic character of Sydney but also the College's keen interest in assisting theological leadership in other parts of the world.
Two published statements of the College give an insight into the ethos and convictions that shape its life.
The first is an expression of its values. The College is committed to:
Christian faith: trust in God and his purposes as these are revealed in Jesus Christ and conveyed to us by the Holy Spirit in the canonical scriptures of the Old and New Testament;
Integrity: honest, transparency, fairness and accountability in all personal behaviour and community practices;
Grace: generosity and compassion in dealings with each other reflecting the undeserved mercy of God in Christ;
Service: placing the welfare of others above personal interests and convenience, using the gifts and talents that God has graciously given;
Community: loving personal relationships, developed through regular meeting and a common focus, as the proper context for learning about the triune God and his purposes;
Scholarship: Rigour of thought characterised by a careful use of primary evidence, breadth of research and appropriate inferences, resulting in fresh and readily accessible approaches to both classic issues and contemporary questions;
Gender Complementarity: Affirmation of the fundamental equality and mutual dependence of men and women as image bearers of God, while recognising proper differences in roles and responsibilities in life and Christian ministry;
Freedom of Inquiry: the freedom to subject all ideas to honest inquiry; and
Integration: growth in the knowledge of God is best conducted for, and in the context of, life application and active participation in Christian service.
The second statement concerns the College's principles of teaching and learning (each of these is followed in the College's Student Handbook by a series of consequent commitments in the practice of theological education):
1. We accept the Christian Scriptures (constituted by the Old and New Testaments) as the written word of God, authoritative, clear, sufficient, without error in all that they teach, and containing all that is necessary for salvation and the informed practice of the Christian life of discipleship. We confess that God can only be known in Jesus Christ as he is presented to us in the Scriptures and therefore the study of Scripture and its ancillary disciplines is indispensable in training for Christian ministry, since the central function of such ministry is to make God known.
2. We believe the teaching of the Christian Scriptures is faithfully reflected in the historic creeds and in the Protestant Reformed tradition as expressed in the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion.
3. We are committed to the integration of theoretical and applied aspects of knowledge. We understand that the knowledge of God cannot be isolated from the application of this knowledge to all aspects of life, thought, and conduct, and that the proper expression of the knowledge of God is found in a life lived in accordance with his will, seeking to extend the reach of his kingdom through teaching and proclamation. We acknowledge that the life of Christian discipleship is lived in the midst of, and engaging with, a diverse and complex world.
4. Our conviction is that, in keeping with the personal nature of Christian truth and the relational nature of our God expressed in his being and his plans to bring to himself a people described in family terms, theology is best learned in a community that is both a Christian family and an academic fellowship.
5. We are grateful for the rich diversity of God's gifts to his people and acknowledge that this diversity is expressed in a variety of abilities, interests and learning styles.
So why is Moore College such a vital part of the life of the diocese of Sydney? Why does it get such attention and such support? A number of factors can be identified.
Firstly, God's people are precious. The students who come to theological college do not materialise out of thin air. They are disciples of Christ and members of churches who have been loved and nurtured in the faith, often over many, many years. Others have prayed for them, shared the gospel with them, taught them and mentored them. The churches of the diocese (and elsewhere) send their precious gifted young people to theological college with the expectation that they will be strengthened in faith, deepened in love, and be properly equipped to be faithful pastor-teachers (of various kinds and in various different types of ministry). It is not surprising that the fellowship of churches which is the diocese should be concerned to ensure that its theological college meets this expectation.
Secondly, gospel ministry is at its heart a teaching ministry and so the preparation of those charged with teaching the Scriptures in the diocese and elsewhere as representatives of the diocese is paramount. We long to see people come to hear the gospel, believe the gospel and grow mature in the gospel, thoroughly prepared for the day of judgement and for life in the meantime. The teaching of Scripture is critical in all of this and so ensuring that those given responsibility for gospel ministry know the Scriptures well, teach them effectively, embody that teaching in their own lives, apply it appropriately in the contemporary context, and recognise and effectively deal with each new challenge to what Scripture teaches, is a concern not just for the diocesan leadership but also for the churches in which these pastor-teachers will serve.
Thirdly, there is immense pressure on theological colleges to place other priorities above faithfulness to the teaching of Scripture. This pressure might come from a wide variety of directions. A concern for academic respectability could see a shift from focussing on the churches to focussing on the theological academy and its prestigious publishing houses. A concern for financial viability could lead to efforts to appeal to a wider and wider constituency leading to modifications in what is taught in order to fuel that appeal. A concern for relevance in the eyes of the community could lead to adopting the intellectual framework and moral commitments of the community. It is important to realise that evangelical theological colleges do not usually make a single decision to abandon the gospel for revisionist liberalism. Yet by one small compromise after another theological convictions can be — and too often have been — abandoned. Often it begins with a call to be more inclusive, more generous, to allow a broader range of opinion on the college's teaching platforms or amongst its faculty. Littered throughout the world are the tragic successors of evangelical foundations, sometimes indistinguishable from theological faculties in the secular universities, sometimes now themselves bastions of liberalism. And the transformation, though sometimes remarkably swift, is almost always incremental. The oft remarked upon classic instance of this is Princeton Seminary, a Presbyterian institution in New Jersey. Once the platform from which Charles Hodge and B. B. Warfield nourished evangelical thinking around the world, today its theological complexion is vastly different. This and other examples are well known in Sydney and the diocese through its leaders has long determined to do all that is necessary to assist the college in resisting this pressure.
Fourthly, drift in theological education destroys the churches within a generation. This has been the testimony of churches the world over. In a recent conference in London, Christian leaders from all over the Anglican world explained that their current dire circumstances began in their theological colleges. The disaster in The Episcopal Church did not begin in its General Convention but in the seminaries and their abandonment of biblical orthodoxy years before the controversial decisions were made. What begins in the theological colleges plays itself out in the churches, because the colleges provide the next generation of pastor-teachers for the churches. So from this perspective a diocese cannot afford not to take an intense interest in theological education and the health of its theological college.
Fifthly, Moore College has been cherished by the diocese of Sydney from its opening. For around one hundred and fifty years, an important role was played in the governance of the College by the trustees of Thomas Moore's estate, one of whom would always be the Bishop (later Archbishop) of Sydney. The trustees no longer exist, but with or without them each bishop and archbishop has had a keen interest in the college, making the appointment and support of the principal of the day a key priority. Bishop Barker was instrumental in the appointment of the first Principal, William Hodgson, and of an acting principal, William Macquarie Cowper, who opened its doors on the 1st March 1856. The Sydney synod has also been vitally involved, providing legislative support (the College is established through an ordinance of the synod) and, from time to time financial support as well. Again and again the leaders of the diocese have testified to the value and importance of the College to the continued health of the churches and the fellowship.
The importance placed on a thorough pastorally-driven and biblically-centred theological education in the diocese of Sydney has helped to shape the diocese. For all the richness of variety in personality and interest in the diocese there is a remarkable theological cohesion that has a great deal to do with the influence of the diocesan theological college. The synod and the leaders of the diocese remain convinced that the evangelical character of the diocese is first and foremost a theological commitment and so evangelical Anglican theological education must be guarded and resourced. If it is not this fellowship of churches will undoubtedly suffer.
– First published at Theological Theology, 05 August 2012.
Dr Mark Thompson is the President of the Anglican Church League.
Earlier articles:
Sydney Anglicans I. Biblically confessional
Sydney Anglicans II. The congregation as the centre
Sydney Anglicans III. Complementarian ministry
Sydney Anglicans IV: The Primacy of the Word
Sydney Anglicans V: A commitment to mission
Sydney Anglicans VI: An evangelical episcopate


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Re: Trying to like Rust
jschell27-Apr-19 8:00
jschell 27-Apr-19 8:00
Jörgen Andersson wrote:
In my limited experience, the people that don't like OO are the same type that don't like SQL.
In my extensive experience the people who like OO don't like SQL. But to be fair been a very long time since I have even been around anyone that could even express an opinion about non-OO programming.
The OO folks do like No-SQL and specifically MongoDBt. Of course they still can't get that right and then I have to support it even though it is often a poor solution.
Jörgen Andersson27-Apr-19 8:43
Jörgen Andersson 27-Apr-19 8:43
I wrote same type of people, not necessarily the same people.
The point I tried to convey was that, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's wrong.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
dandy7227-Apr-19 4:17
dandy72 27-Apr-19 4:17
I'll be honest, I only read your title, and I thought, with a name like that, who would like Rust? I just spent nearly $2K last year to get rust dealt with and my car repainted.
Who picked that name anyway? Does "rust" ever have positive connotations?
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Mike Hankey27-Apr-19 4:21
Mike Hankey 27-Apr-19 4:21
If you have to try to like it why bother.
I do all my own stunts, but never intentionally!
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Re: Hello from Saint Moritz
Dean Roddey27-Apr-19 5:29
Dean Roddey 27-Apr-19 5:29
Well, some things are acquired tastes, I'm sure we can all come up with one in particular. But it's also just to get my head around some very different sorts of concepts, and it does have some very different ideas relative to C++.
Explorans limites defectum
Agreed, every language has a purpose Pl1, APL, Fortran, etc.
I use C and C++ a lot for my embedded stuff. I actually looked at rust a while back and didn't spend the effort.
MSBassSinger29-Apr-19 5:30
MSBassSinger 29-Apr-19 5:30
Dean Roddey wrote:
C# is still (despite a lot of efforts) quite Windows oriented
You are kidding, right? C# compiles and runs fine for Linux, iOS, Android, MacOS, and now, WebAssembly. With .NET Core and targeting .NET Standard, cross-platform is a reality.
Oh, sure, but the reality is what is widely available in terms of jobs, not what is technically doable. The vast bulk of .Net jobs are going to be on the Windows front, at least the ones I've seen.
The place where obviously that may (if we are lucky) really change is on the browser with Blazor/WASM. But I'm not much interested in writing browser based code, or writing trivial phone apps either. I'm helping someone with a Blazor based product currently, and it has a lot of promise, or at least as much as anything that runs in a browser and is still fundamentally stuck with HTML/CSS can be. And he is using that combination in hopes of supporting multiple platforms, but only in a browser based context, and the back end is all Windows.
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markrlondon29-Apr-19 7:21
markrlondon 29-Apr-19 7:21
Your concerns about Rust may be justified (I'm not taking sides!) but I noticed two things:
But of course Rust may never get beyond the interesting idea phase and get seriously used.
Rust is in serious use right now. There is Rust code shipping in Firefox.
And Rust may suffer in other ways from not having any real single driving force.
Rust does have a single corporate backer/driving force: It is Mozilla. Indeed, this is a source of criticism from some quarters since people say that Rust is structured to solve Mozilla's particular issues with C++ in a very large code base.
As for "not a glorified scripting", what do you think of Go or D?
Ok, Mozilla is of course an entity, though a fair bit different from one like Microsoft, it seems to me, having a large part of it being a non-profit foundation, and having a lot of community driven input at least as I understand it.
Given that Firefox is also Mozilla's I wouldn't count that overly heavily in Rust's favor as being in real use. They'd probably look the other way far more than another company would in terms of issues and such. I mean it obviously proves it's doable, but from what I'm reading once you get beyond the language to practical issues of packaging and large development structures and such that it still is pretty raw. Though sometimes it's hard to tell what info is really accurate and/or up to date.
Not yet looked at Go or D, since I just have had the impression that there wouldn't maybe be much of a career path improvement in those directions, though I could be wrong on that. Given my interest in large scale frameworks and such I'd definitely want something that has the same breadth as C++, or close thereto. I'm not sure Go fits that description?
I should say before I comment further that I'm not a fan of Rust as such but it does look like it has a future to me.
Given that Firefox is also Mozilla's I wouldn't count that overly heavily in Rust's favor as being in real use. They'd probably look the other way far more than another company would in terms of issues and such.
Other way round, surely. I.e. If there's a problem then they can and will fix it.
Additionally, Firefox is a heavyweight code base and is surely as real as it gets.
With Go being backed by Google I think it might well have a massive future.
Sadly D's future does seem more questionable. I think it has suffered due to not having big time corporate backing like MS, Google, Apple or even Mozilla (in this context at least).
I don't claim to be a Go expert but it certainly does seem, as I understand it, to be intended to have the "same breadth as C++" but of course it could depend on what that means in practice for you.
I dunno. I think that, if you really want to use something, you'll overlook a lot of 'beauty marks'. I imagine that they would do that because they want to use it. Obviously they would fix anything causes bugs, but things that might make it less practical for real use (which may be things well outside the language itself such as packaging, build schemes, tools integration, whatever, and obviously ongoing changes to the language) they might well very much give the benefit of the doubt that it will get taken care of and put in the work to get around it, whereas another company wouldn't commit until after those things are taken care of in most cases because they can't afford to do otherwise.
There's a huge chicken and egg thing all around. I wouldn't commit to learning a language like Go or Rust (meaning seriously, not just poking around) unless I knew there was a substantial likelihood it would benefit me career-wise (which translates to there are lots of jobs doing it) but there won't likely be lots of jobs doing it unless companies believe that there is a large talent pool out there to draw from.)
And of course with Go there's the problem that Google drops projects right and left all the time and a lot of people wouldn't want to commit themselves to anything that fundamentally if it comes from Google because they could get seriously screwed. And I imagine a fair number of folks don't want to contribute any more to Google's hold on the industry (and the world.)
Member 413801729-Apr-19 7:35
Member 4138017 29-Apr-19 7:35
> One I ran into tonight is that there's no such thing as a constructor
The problem you're describing is not the absence of a constructor but the absence of function overloading. Rust doesn't have constructors, because there's no need for a constructor as a separate function. That said, rust differentiates between function identifiers and struct identifiers, so you can create a function with the same name as the struct and call it. It will look just like a constructor in C++.
The reason rust doesn't have overloading is explained here.
But, either way, it lacks the incredibly obviously important means to do convenient and controlled initialization with various parameter combinations in a standardized way. That seems crazy-like to me. It doesn't seem to me that making an exception on overloading just for ctors would be such a huge compromise and would get rid of a raft of repeated silliness in every program.
I've been programming in rust since 2016. The number of times I thought "man, having function overloading would be really nice" can be counted on the fingers of one hand. If you have a case where you need overloading and the code looks more readable with overloading, you're welcome to discuss it on the language design forum.
Well, it wasn't about actual overloading, but construction. Object (or structure) initialization in Rust seems very weak to me, for the reasons I enumerated in my original post. Obviously we can live without overloading in general. My own CML language doesn't support it in general. But it does support it for constructors, for the same obvious reason that we want a consistent, formalized means for controlled initialization of data structures with variable parameter sets, not a somewhat ad hoc set of mechanisms that are either convenient but unsafe or safe but inconvenient.
BTW, while I'm whining... Who made the choice not to use an explicit return statement? That seems particularly non-optimal. There's absolutely no visual difference between the last statement falling out the bottom and an incomplete line of code just from looking at it. I mean readability is far more important than saving a few characters.
Gerry Schmitz29-Apr-19 17:25
Gerry Schmitz 29-Apr-19 17:25
Get rid of the "Windows" namespace; no more C# "windows"; just a couple of hundred "other" namespaces.
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stoneyowl226-Apr-19 16:20
stoneyowl2 26-Apr-19 16:20
Was watching news tonight (I know - filthy habit) and heard that someone decided that the universe was several billion years younger than was previously thought. When I was younger this would have been interesting in a 'wow science is awesome' sort of way, but now I just thought "So what? Does it help make my car payment, or pay the mortgage, or improve my life?" And I was saddened to reply (to myself) "Nope".
This makes me sad
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
Re: Thoughts about the universe, life, and everything....
Dean Roddey26-Apr-19 16:54
Dean Roddey 26-Apr-19 16:54
Well, you know, that's why they invented drugs...
abmv26-Apr-19 18:46
abmv 26-Apr-19 18:46
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OriginalGriff26-Apr-19 21:32
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PIEBALDconsult26-Apr-19 19:25
PIEBALDconsult 26-Apr-19 19:25
Never should have come down from the trees.
Mark_Wallace26-Apr-19 22:35
Mark_Wallace 26-Apr-19 22:35
stoneyowl2 wrote:
now I just thought "So what?
It's just a side effect from the incessant streams of bullsh1t that spew forth from the "science" known as astronomy.
Almost every press release from every astronomer could be replaced with wither the word "bullsh1t" or the word "wolf".
It's impossible to get excited about a "great new discovery" when you know it's probably just a new great big lie.
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Q: Pigeon hole principle question with square area A square one inch wide and one inch in length can be cut into 3 equal parts. Show that there is one of the three parts which contains 2 points at a distance of a least one.
I know the square has an area of one. So if you have 2 points by the pigeon the two point go in one square .
But if it is cut into three part each triangle will be 1/2 in length and wide 1/2 and have a distance of $\sqrt\frac{1}{4}$

A: At least one of the pieces will contain at least 2 of the corners of the square.


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DemDaily: Obstructing Justice. Trial Days Four and Five
Posted January 26, 2020 | by KimS | in DemDaily, Impeachment, Resource, Senate
House Impeachment Managers on Friday made their closing arguments in the fourth and final day of the prosecution's presentation in impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump.
Under the organizing resolution approved last Tuesday, each side has up to 24 hours, spread over three days, to argue its case. Further debate and votes on whether to call witnesses are postponed until after the completion of presentations.
After walking through the evidence against Trump for Abuse of Power on Thursday. House Managers spent most of Friday methodically presenting the case against the President for Obstruction of Congress.
It was the closing remarks of lead House Manager Adam Schiff (D-CA), however, that will go down in the history books as perhaps the most memorable point in the trial -- at least to-date.
The Senate Impeachment Trial (KTIV)
Schiff's powerful and emotionally compelling speech set off a mass social media explosion, with video going viral, including millions of views on Schiff's twitter feed, along with a flurry of hashtags including #RightMatters, #TruthMatters, #AmericansWantWitnesses and #AdamSchiffHasMyRespect.
Schiff tried to preempt the President's defense team by going through anticipated arguments and disputing them one by one.
Schiff's reference to a CBS News report that a Trump confident warned GOP Senators, "vote against the president and your head will be on a pike," comparing the President to a monarch, incensed some of the Republicans present. His comments were part of his appeal for a fair trial and likely aimed at persuading the four moderates needed to vote in favor of calling witnesses.
Indeed, his final remarks were a passionate plea to the consciences of the Republican Senators in the chamber to have "moral courage" to go against their party and remove Trump from office, saying, "He is who he is, You know it's not going to stop... It's not going to stop unless the Congress does something about it."
Schiff quoted Thomas Paine in his pamphlet of 1777, The American Crisis: 'Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it,' adding, "Is it too much fatigue to call witnesses and have a fair trial? Are the blessings of freedom so meager that we will not endure the fatigue of a real trial, with witnesses and documents?"
"President Lincoln, in his closing message to Congress in December 1862, said this: 'Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.'" -- Adam Schiff
Schiff's Closing Remarks(click to watch!)
Schiff reminded his colleagues how "unforgiving history can be of our conduct,"..."But for a single decision we may be remembered, affecting the course of our country. I believe this may be one of those moments...a moment when our democracy was gravely threatened. Not from without, but from within."
"The founders gave us more than words. They gave us inspiration...and more than us they inspire the rest of the world...from their prison cells in Turkey journalists look to us, from their internment camps in China, they look to us, from their cells in Egypt... from all over the world, they look to us. And increasingly they don't recognize what they see.
It's a terrible tragedy for them, it is a worse tragedy for us. Because there's nowhere else for them to turn. They are not going to turn to Russia...they look to us because we are still the indispensable nation. They look to us because we have a rule of law. They look to us because no one is above that law. and one of the things that separates us ... is a right to a trial. Americans get a fair trial.
So I ask you, I implore you, give America a fair trial. Give America a fair trial. She's worth it."
Saturday kicked off the defense presented by President Trump's legal team, led by Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone.
In the short two-hour session, which began at 10:00am, they focused on arguing that the charges in the Articles of Impeachment do not amount to impeachable offenses. At no point did they deny any of the actual evidence or acts committed by the President, but painted a picture of conspiracy by the Democrats.
Cipollone said, "They're asking you to remove President Trump from the ballot in an election that's occurring in approximately nine months."
Trump Personal Attorney Jay Sekulow
"Impeachment shouldn't be a shell game...To stop an election, to interfere in an election, and remove the President of the United States from the ballot? Let the people decide for themselves. That's what the founders wanted. That's what we should all want," said Sekulow.
The defense will continue Monday, January 27th at 1:00pm ET. As with the House Managers, Trump's lawyers will have 24 hours over three days to make their case.
After the defense rests, Senators will have 16 hours to ask questions in writing. Chief Justice John Roberts will read the questions out loud to the defense or prosecution to answer.
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Tuesday 16th September 2014 will mark the 32nd anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre which occurred between 16-18 September 1982, when hundreds of Phalangists (a Lebanese Christian militia) entered Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut.
Up to 3,500 Palestinian refugees were murdered, mostly children, women and the elderly.
The Israeli forces facilitated the massacre by blocking the camps' exits and firing illuminating flares over the camps. Ariel Sharon, the Minister of Defense at the time, was forced to resign after an Israeli Commission of Inquiry declared him to be "personally responsible" for "ignoring the danger of bloodshed and revenge" and "not taking appropriate measures to prevent bloodshed"[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1″ background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3″ animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" center_content="no" min_height="none"].
In December 1982, the UN General Assembly declared the massacre to be an act of genocide. Despite heavy criticisms of his role in the massacre, Ariel Sharon's career didn't end. He held four ministerial posts before becoming Prime Minister of Israel from 2001 to 2006.


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Q: OpenSeadragon: Using a proxy to get XML data is causing tiles not to load I have a site that uses OpenSeadragon to display deep zoom images. I have it working with some test images, but the images I need are on a domain that I cannot access from my webpage due to a security issue (No "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header). For the record, the page hosting the DZI images is owned by my company, but because it is an Amazon S3 site, I am unable to add the header to the site because Amazon does not provide that capability.
I've created a Proxy controller, and the controller successfully gets the XML data it needs. Here is my controller code:
public HttpResponseMessage Get(string bucket, string guid)
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        WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url);
        request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
        WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
        Console.WriteLine(((HttpWebResponse)response).StatusDescription);
        Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
        string serverData = reader.ReadToEnd();
        Console.WriteLine(serverData);
        reader.Close();
        response.Close();

        // create new XML doc
        // load serverData into XML doc
        // return XMLdoc

        return new HttpResponseMessage()
        {
            Content = new StringContent(serverData)
        };
    }

The controller returns the XML data correctly. For example, when I go to http://mysite.mvc/api/test?bucket=66&guid=e41de95d-6235-4581-b823-4887b50eb8ad, I get a page with correct looking XML data. I have also tested this on the DHC chrome extension.
On my webpage, I make an Ajax call to the proxy controller, and use the returned XML to open Seadragon:
        var imgdata = {
            bucket: "66",
            guid: "e41de95d-6235-4581-b823-4887b50eb8ad",
        };

        var ajaxresult = $.ajax({
            url: "/api/test",
            type: 'get',
            success: function(data) {
                //alert("Success");
                alert(data);
                var viewer = OpenSeadragon({
                    id: "viewerdiv",
                    prefixUrl: "../../Scripts/openseadragon/images/",
                    tileSources: data
                });

            },
            error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
                alert(jqXHR.responseText || textStatus);
            },
            data: imgdata
        });
        console.log(ajaxresult);

The alert in my Ajax success function displays the XML I expect. However, in my Seadragon viewer, the tiles do not display (but the viewer is open, and the nav buttons are there). In my console, I have this response:
Tile a.Tile failed to load: 10/01.jpg

for every tile in the image. I suspect this is because my Seadragon viewer is being opened with static XML that is not actually linked to the webpage where it is from, but I have no idea what to do about this. Is there something I can do to fix it, or is my Proxy controller simply not going to work? And if it doesn't work, what else can I do to display these images?
edit: another thought I have is that maybe the tilesources aren't loading because the data is being passed in as a string and not as an XML document?
I also tried this instead of OpenSeadragon()
var viewer = new Seadragon.Viewer("familysearch");
viewer.openDzi(data);

but got a 400 bad request error in my Seadragon viewer.
I also tried slicing off the heading of the XML by using data.substring(38), but same error. My XML looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <Image TileSize="256" Overlap="1" Format="jpg" ServerFormat="Default" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/deepzoom/2009">
        <Size Width="550" Height="1765" />
    </Image>

A: Unfortunately OpenSeadragon does not yet support passing the XML directly; you'll have to break apart the info. See the answer here:
https://github.com/openseadragon/openseadragon/issues/460


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Pass params.rtmp = "IP/host of your streaming server"; and params.webcam = true; in your config.js to lightIRC.
Don't put a port here unless you explicitly defined an uncommon port in your streaming server config. lightIRC and the streaming servers default to port 1935 TCP for streaming. Make sure this port is forwarded/unblocked in your server firewall.
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The lightIRC 1.2 webcam module used a new feature in Flash Player 10, called peer to peer streaming. That meant that lightIRC webmasters didn't need a server (and bandwidth) to use the webcam feature anymore, instead all streaming data would flow directly between all connected peers.
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Good morning. I am pleased to kick off the first in a series of ISO 20022 in-person workshops at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. I used to joke, "ISO 20022 in 20022, only 18,000 more years to go!" This has been a long trek, and surely we still have a long road ahead, but I am confident we are going to beat my original forecast.
I understand that today's session follows a series of webinars to educate the community on the adoption of the ISO 20022 message formats for the Fedwire Funds Service. These outreach activities underscore a key point: no effort in standardization can be pursued in isolation. This enterprise is one whose success depends upon multilateral engagement across every front: infrastructure operators, depository institution customers, and vendors. In this domain, we rise and fall as one. We're glad you're here.
As conveyed in the public announcement of the Federal Reserve Banks at Sibos Toronto last Fall, and consistent with broader Federal Reserve strategies to enhance the efficiency of the payment system, we have planned a controlled migration to the new message format. Implementation of the ISO 20022 standard for the Fedwire Funds Service will be completed in three phases, beginning in November 2020 and ending in late 2023. I will defer to my colleagues for a detailed review of our calendar and migration methodology.
Allow me to share three brief but critical observations regarding the business problem, the collective opportunity, and the strategic context before I turn things over to the workshop speakers. As always, my remarks reflect my own views and do not necessarily represent those of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System.
First, an elaboration of the problem. In the legacy environment we impose a tremendous tax upon users who must straddle multiple payments platforms that rely upon proprietary message formats that do not speak with each other. Maintaining the operational integrity of this network requires a complex web of mapping and translation at each point of handoff in the payment flow. In the extreme, a payment from a domestic originator to a foreign beneficiary may have to proceed through as many as six iterations of mapping and translation as it migrates through the payment system, adding complexity, introducing risk, and increasing cost at every juncture. In an increasingly integrated and seamless world, this is no way to run a railroad.
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Thank you for your attention and enjoy your workshop.


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