This is a rant + technical guide about how to get an Oculus Rift DK2 to work with Unity 5 so that you can make stuff with it. Maybe.
I'm teaching two virtual reality classes this semester, and I was dreading having to tell all my students that Oculus (in all their wisdom) has a public policy of no longer supporting Mac OSX, or any laptop, for the foreseeable future. Even now, when I tell my colleagues about this, they react with incredulous shock. With this single move, Oculus basically alienated the entire creative coding / technologist community, and basically 99% of the design / programming community in New York City.
The core of the issue is in how Oculus wants to synchronize (a) the image in the VR HMD (head-mounted display, or headset) with (b) the very subtle motions your head makes. If these two sensations aren't synchronized, then people usually suffer "simulator sickness." So, the VR industry generally wants to make sure these two things are synchronized as closely as possible, to make sure people don't vomit when using this glorious new technological medium.
In order to synchronize those things as fast as possible (90 frames per second is the minimum, 120 fps is the ideal) the HMD needs "direct access" to your graphics card.
Most laptops are engineered purposely to cut-off direct access like that, mostly because they have two different graphics processors -- one weak energy-efficient GPU, and one higher performance power-hungry GPU. For day-to-day non-VR use, the weak one is more than good enough, so that one is in charge.
From a VR developer perspective, we were early adopters and happily making Oculus prototypes for years, and our "weak inadequate laptops" were good enough. Then around runtime 0.5, Oculus discontinued OSX support and began insisting that all laptops were just inherently inferior and didn't deserve any attention. From our perspective, Oculus basically took away something that seemed to be functioning fine, for basically no good reason. It's really really really annoying.
If you search "oculus laptop", it's mostly going to be forum posts from the Oculus community manager telling people that laptops aren't supported... so I was pleasantly surprised when I was prepping to teach these VR classes and it turns out runtime 0.8 actually does work on my Windows laptop! My suspicion is that the GPU vendors Nvidia and AMD both updated their drivers to give Oculus what they wanted... well, kind of.
I'm guessing it is using your integrated GPU, bypassing your discrete GPU entirely. That's the workaround the drivers provide.
That means it's pretty low performance. Your framerate will usually sit in the 30s-60s at best. Fillrate is a huge problem. It is much worse performance than in runtime 0.4.. BUT AT LEAST IT WORKS!
It's hacky and it's mostly for developers who want to work in virtual reality. This is not for general audience gamers or customers. Most games aren't very playable in this setup. If you are a developer who has to give a demo, you'll want to lug a desktop PC to the show.
Unity 5 has made a point of supporting the old 0.5 runtime for OSX; as far as I know, Unreal Engine 4 only supports 0.7+ runtime, which is not available for OSX.
In my experience, the OSX workflow is surprisingly stable and reliable. Most problems are usually with Windows laptops.
DISCLAIMER: You do this stuff at your own risk. When doing this on Windows, make sure you backup your files and enable System Restore. Some of my students have bricked their computers while trying to get it to work, because it does some funky stuff with your GPU settings. Be careful.
Open the Oculus Config Utility (shortcut is on your OSX desktop), plug in your DK2 USB and HDMI, and verify that it is being detected.
Go to OSX System Preferences > Display, enable "Mirror Display"
Click "Gather Windows", then in the "Rift DK2" window go to Arrangement tab and set it to rotate 90 degrees.
Do the full "VR TEST PROCESS" section below to verify the VR display is correct.
when you have a user profile, you can now click "Demo Scene" button in the lower-left.
put on the DK2 and make sure it's working.
If you can't find your Oculus Config Utility, check your desktop.
If only one eye is working, make sure you rotate the display in the OSX System Preferences. See "VR INSTALLATION FOR MAC OSX" section above.
3) do NOT close the Utility window, or the setting will reset! Instead, minimize it.
if you still can't get it working with these simple workarounds, my advice is don't try anything else, it probably won't work and you'll just end up bricking your computer -- instead, give up on the DK2, and use Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear VR, or the HTC Vive.
One last note: I AM NOT OCULUS TECH SUPPORT.
Comments will NOT be monitored. Good luck!


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Q: MySQL - Change date string to date type in column/database I have a column called dispatchdate
It is currently storing dates as a string (varchar) format.
It stores it as e.g. 16/07/2013
How can I convert all my data in into date format without editing them all one by one?

A: A possible solution
UPDATE Table1
   SET dispatchdate = DATE_FORMAT(STR_TO_DATE(dispatchdate, '%d/%m/%Y'), '%Y-%m-%d');

ALTER TABLE Table1
      CHANGE dispatchdate dispatchdate date;

Here is SQLFiddle demo

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Is DLNA the reason why there aren't any extenders for Media Centre at the moment?
I've been interested in the fact that Windows 7 supports DLNA but somewhat frustrated by the apparent lack of TVs in the UK that support it.
Unlike most current DLNA implementations, the new clients can now display the DLNA server's user interface, and although you might not be in love with it, your cable company is.
If that really works out, does this not mean that you could have, for example, a Sony TV in your bedroom supporting the new version of DLNA and it will actually display the full Media Centre UI? If so, that could be really exciting!


ST. LOUIS - Former Democratic Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill began her first job Tuesday since being defeated by Republican Josh Hawley in November.
In a press release, McCaskill announced she has joined NBC News and MSNBC to be a political analyst. According to the release, she will "offer insight and political analysis on breaking news stories across both networks."
The release said McCaskill will join MSNBC's coverage of President Trump's State on the Union address of Tuesday, Jan. 29.
McCaskill confirmed her new role during a one-on-one interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe Tuesday.
"I'm looking forward to bringing my experience from the Senate, hard fought campaigns, and Midwest common sense to the coverage of breaking political events," McCaskill told Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
McCaskill tweeted a picture from outside NBC's studios at Rockefeller Center before starting her first day on the job.
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Low Power Switched Capacitor Bandgap, Part 2
by Scott McLeod
In the first part of this series on switched capacitor bandgap references, Low Power Switched Cap Bandgap, the basic operation of an implementation using this technique was explained. In this installment, an error analysis is done on a traditional bandgap circuit and is then followed by an explanation of how these errors can be minimized using a switched cap circuit. Figure 1 shows a traditional bandgap reference implementation and its associated error sources.
Bandgap Reference with Error Sources
The bandgap voltage of Figure 1 without the error sources is described by the equation below.
The error sources are added below with the assumption that all mismatch (∆) errors are < 1%, this allows for much simplification of the math. Only one transistor (Q1) has a mismatch term as its variation will dominate the emitter area ratio (N) mismatch since it is the smaller of the two transistors.
Conditions, error levels and chosen design parameters:
Error calculations using the parameters above:
As can be seen above the input offset voltage is the major error source so eliminating this error will go a long ways toward an accurate bandgap voltage. So let's move on to the switched capacitor implementation and see how this error is handled, as well as how the other errors compare.
In Figure 2, the switched cap bandgap circuit is shown with a simple addition (labeled "new") to perform offset voltage cancellation. This figure is a modification of the initial sampling state, Figure 1 from the first part of this series. In this state, the feedback capacitors C´´ are now both connected on one side to the common mode output voltage (vcm) and the other sides are connected to the inputs of the OTA, as are the rest of the capacitors in the circuit. Hence, the input offset voltage is sampled on all caps in this phase.
Initial Sampling with Offset Correction
In the next state, φ1 switches open and φ2 closed, the terminals of the two C´´ feedback capacitors that were previously connect to vcm are connected to the outputs. Both retain the same terminal voltages, and hence the OTA offset voltage has been eliminated from the differential output.
The second largest error contributor in the traditional bandgap circuit is the mismatch between R0 and R1 . These resistors are used to gain up (R0 / R1 ) the PTAT voltage. As described in the first part of this series, the PTAT voltage is gained up in the switched cap circuit using a capacitor ratio (2C´/C´´) instead of a resistor ratio. This is beneficial as the mismatch of capacitors (per unit area) is much less than the mismatch of poly resistors, ∼5X difference in the process I am presently working in. This reduces the second largest error from 6.3mV to 1.3mV .
One last benefit of this switched cap architecture is the superior power supply rejection (PSR) performance that comes from the differential nature of the circuit. The symmetrical design of the differential OTA provides first order cancellation of signals riding on the power supply.
In conclusion, the use of switched capacitor techniques for generating bandgap based voltages has many benefits. Among these is the ease of reducing or even eliminating the errors common to many traditional bandgap circuits. Offset voltage errors are eliminated using a simple offset cancellation technique, mismatch errors of critical components are reduced using capacitors instead of resistors, and better PSR performance is obtained by the differential nature of the circuit. These benefits are in addition to those highlighted in the first part of this series, which included low operating power, flexible output voltage scaling, and compatibility with other switched capacitor circuits. The tradeoff for all these benefits is a modest increase in the complexity of the circuitry which I have found to be well worth the extra effort.
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Q: Why is there no floating point intrinsic for `PSHUFD` instruction? The task I'm facing is to shuffle one _m128 vector and store the result in the other one.
The way I see it, there are two basic ways to shuffle a packed floating point _m128 vector:

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*_mm_shuffle_ps, which uses SHUFPS instruction that is not necessarily the best option if you want the values from one vector only: it takes two values from the destination operand, which implies an extra move.

*_mm_shuffle_epi32, which uses PSHUFD instruction that seems to do exactly what is expected here and can have better latency/throughput than SHUFPS.

The latter intrinsic however works with integer vectors (_m128i) and there seems to be no floating point counterpart, so using it with _m128 would require some ugly explicit casting. Also the fact that there is no such counterpart probably means that there is some proper reason for that, which I am not aware of.
The question is why is there no intrinsic to shuffle one floating point vector and store the result in another?
If _mm_shuffle_ps(x,x, ...) can generate PSHUFPD, can it be guaranteed?
If PSHUFD should not be used for floating point values, what is the reason for that?
Thank you!

A: Intrinsics are supposed to map one-to-one with instructions. It would be very undesirable for _mm_shuffle_ps to generate PSHUFD. It should always generate SHUFPS. The documentation does not suggest that there is a case where it would do otherwise.
There is a performance penalty on certain processors when data is cast to single- or double-precision floating-point. This is because the processor augments the SSE registers with internal registers containing the FP classification of the data, e.g. zero or NaN or infinity or normal. When switching types you incur a stall as it performs that step. I don't know if this is still true of modern processors, but you can consult the Intel Architecture Optimization manuals for that information.
SHUFPS is not significantly slower than PSHUFD on modern processors. According to Agner Fog's instruction tables (http://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf), they have identical latency and throughput on Haswell (4th gen. Core i7). On Nehalem (1st gen. Core i7), they have identical latency, but PSHUFD has a throughput of 2/cycle and SHUFPS has a throughput of 1/cycle. So, you cannot say that one instruction should be preferred over the other across all processors, even if you ignore the performance penalty associated with switching types.
There is also a way to cast between __m128, __m128d, and __m128i: _mm_castXX_YY (https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/695375?language=es) where XX and YY are each one of ps, pd, or si128. For example, _mm_castps_pd(). This is really a bad idea because the processors on which PSHUFD is faster suffer from the performance penalty associated with switching back to FP afterward. In other words, there is no faster way to do a SHUFPS other than doing a SHUFPS.


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My mother used this word all the time when someone would use too many fancy words to explain something that was actually quite simple. This word came to mind when perusing recent magazines focused on spirituality, health and consciousness. I see more goobledy goop than anywhere else when reading about perceptions of modern day spirituality.
How did we become so disconnected from the very fiber of our being and all that supports the soul that we need to call it by something else that does not truly define it? These articles tout ideas such as "Learning How to Use Daily Life as Support for Waking Up." What exactly does that mean? I read another strange article about the "Practice of Compassionate Unmasking." This described the process of what appeared to be repentance and the transformation that follows experiencing sins in a past life. That sounds to me like "goobledy goop," a word that is defined in the dictionary as (being) pompous or unintelligible jargon. I submit to you that we have all gotten lost in the unintelligible phraseology of the 21st century. We have renamed what is most important in life, our spirituality and who we are within the Spirit, into something entirely different because it has become more politically correct and is much more profitable. It is distressing to read these things; it apparently appeals to our new generation and apparently so readily accepted without much thought.
In that very same article, a quick, how-to paragraph revealed a "shortcut to self-compassion." That article, spelled out prolifically, contained words describing strategies for coping and dealing with painful situations. The anecdote, of course, is to be "compassionate with ourselves." Wouldn't it be easier to say that we should forgive ourselves when we have gone astray? It would have been so much easier to say just that. So much of what media portrays and offers us on a daily basis is "goobledy goop," especially when it comes to the spiritual realm. All the words and strange phraseology make the centuries-old concept sound new and fancier than what the actual idea was trying to convey in the first place.
In an interview written in Conscious Life magazine, Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., says that our genes are changeable and that we can control them with our thought processes. Goobledy goop! Apparently, Lipton, a cell biologist and lecturer who is an internationally-recognized leader in bridging science and the spirit, believes this is the case. What does that mean, to "bridge science and the spirit?" Notice there was no capital in the author's word, spirit. How does one separate science from Spirit anyway? In that discussion, he goes on to say that our identity is received by its cells because the soul stays there — goobledy goop! I think that he was trying to communicate that we are shaped daily by our own thought processes, but to express that as he did is to give way too much credit to a flawed entity — ourselves. We should instead be relying on the Spirit within us to guide us in love and all human matters, not explaining away our inevitable connection to the Spirit within. He goes on to say that hypnosis and habituation are ways to offset our negative thinking and programming. What is habituation? The only word that I could find in the dictionary spelled that way means "to accustom." In the next paragraph, Lipton states that the answer to the problem of our negative programming and flawed perceptions that we hold onto about ourselves is found in "energy psychology." Goobledy goop! When people are afraid to label entities for they really are, not giving God any credit, we get dangerously close to veering off the one path and end up on the never-ending trail of delusion and incongruity instead.
Although I am not a famous author or cell biologist or even any kind of expert, I would like to re-frame his way of thinking (goobledy goop) into something easy to understand. As Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once said, "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." God himself defines spirituality as He connects and interacts with His creation on all levels. It is a choice we make to embrace that relationship and then defining what that looks like, and not at a cellular level, either. It is hard to believe that we can actually transform a cell just by thinking about it in a different way. Science is in existence only because He wished it to be.
Experts say that there are many temporary, albeit ineffective, purported cures for negative thinking, indifferent living and bridging science with spirituality. In the end, we need to clarify for ourselves what the spiritual and human experience means and live accordingly. For me, I will maintain my gaze in an upward fashion instead of downward, reading fancy words that mean nothing but goobledy goop.


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31.05.2018 > In France, social mobility fades away at the gates of the top universities ("Grandes Écoles")
In France, social mobility fades away at the gates of the top universities ("Grandes Écoles")
Whereas the influence of social origins on career paths progressively recedes up until the end of the fourth year of university study, it remains a prevailing factor for graduates of the most selective higher education institutions. Writing in the prestigious European Sociological Review, Julie Falcon and Pierre Bataille use new data analyses to empirically call into question the reputation for meritocracy enjoyed by the French "factories of the elite".
Following the completion of their doctorates within the National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES at the University of Lausanne, two young researchers examined the social mobility of graduates from the various elite French university programmes. By isolating the types and levels of study undertaken, genders and cohorts, and comparing graduates' initial socio-economic status with that subsequently attained during their working lives, the researchers found that the ability sometimes attributed to the Grandes Écoles to eradicate class differences by "formatting" students in a uniform manner is actually largely over-estimated.
Today, young people from higher social classes are still five times more likely than their working-class counterparts to graduate from a Grande École. However, students from less well-off backgrounds – especially women – who have managed to enter this type of prestigious educational institution struggle to exploit the value of their qualifications on the labour market as well as their better-off peers. This finding contradicts previous assertions from scientists that as individuals rise up the hierarchy of graduate degrees, there is a corresponding linear decline in the influence of their social backgrounds.
The data were sourced from the Enquête Emploi (Employment Survey) conducted by INSEE (French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies), which had never before been used in research of this type. Now a scientific collaborator at the Swiss Federal Office of Statistics, Julie Falcon worked with this set of data during post-doctoral research she carried out at Stanford University. She says she realised that this data had "enormous potential to allow us to analyse social mobility, because of its sample size, the historical aspect, and the level of detail in the information available, particularly for the Grandes Écoles category."
For this study, Falcon worked alongside Pierre Bataille, currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, who wrote his thesis on the life courses of graduates from the École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud. He says that "the debate on the Grandes Écoles in France only ever focuses on inequalities at entry and never on inequalities after graduation, as if access to this type of study were a guaranteed pass to those tiny pockets that have total dominance over the social space."
He adds that conversely, "three-year university degrees get a bad press, because they are regarded as not professionally rigorous enough to guarantee their graduates a rewarding future career. We are showing that in reality, contrary to received wisdom, we have found greater social mobility among graduates of three-year degree courses compared to those who studied at a Grande École."
Equalising force of university study
The data gathered by INSEE's Employment Survey encompass more than 750,000 people born between 1918 and 1984, and do confirm the strong equalising force of university study: Julie Falcon and Pierre Bataille noted that for every generation, social background on entry to university had the least impact on future working lives after three and four-year degree courses. This is especially true for women, who saw their access to higher education grow spectacularly during the 20th century. But among female graduates of a Grande École, those from working or middle-class backgrounds found the glass ceiling distinctly more difficult to break.
In the current context marked by the increased complexity of the conditions for access to the university and the debates about the "ParcourSup" scheme, the results show that the non-selective nature of most of France's undergraduate studies has been to this day one of the most important factors of social mobility for a large part of the generations that benefitted from school democratization.
In France, the majority of research studies on social mobility had hitherto been based on data from INSEE's Formation et Qualification Professionnelle (Training and Occupational Skills) study, dating back to 2003. This new research demonstrates that since then, the social origins of male and female students who studied on elitist university courses have maintained their grip on graduate employment prospects, including for the most recent cohorts. This led the two researchers to conclude that "educational merit remains better rewarded on the labour market among the better off."
>> Falcon, J. & Bataille, P. (2018). Equalization or reproduction? Long-term trends in the intergenerational transmission of advantages in higher education in France. European Sociological Review, Vol. 34, Issue 3
24.05.2018 > Equality ends when couples become parents
Equality ends when couples become parents
In an article for the series Social Change in Switzerland, René Levy summarises three studies which enable us to understand why becoming a parent has a very different impact on men's and women's lives. Noting a stark difference between couples' values of equality and their practices, he demonstrates that this difference has structural reasons that could be changed.
In Switzerland, becoming a mother still has an impact on a woman's professional life. René Levy uses three empirical studies, carried out over the last 15 years, to explain this. They shed light on continuing large gender inequality.
First observation: women change their relationship with work when their first child is born. For most couples, parentality leads to part-time family and professional occupations on the mother's side, whereas a large majority of men have a standard full-time professional life, regardless of their family situation.
Second observation: while most couples claim to have egalitarian values during the first pregnancy, only a minority stay coherent with this ideal when it comes to the distribution of domestic tasks a few months after the birth. Reality shows that becoming parents leads to a sharp return to traditional practices, independent of original intentions.
These two observations shed light on the third observation: When comparing Switzerland to other European countries, and comparing about one hundred Swiss "micro-regions", it becomes clear that the existence of parental leave and access to childcare is crucial. This determines the scope couples have for applying their ideal of an egalitarian balance between work and family.
René Levy concludes that the failure to adopt egalitarian measures has long term effects: not only does this have an impact on a woman's financial situation in retirement, it also influences children's gender identities, maintaining the reproductive cycle of gender inequality.
>> René Levy (2018). Devenir parents ré-active les inégalités de genre : une analyse des parcours de vie des hommes et des femmes en Suisse // Der Übergang in die Elternschaft reaktiviert die Ungleichheiten zwischen den Geschlechtern: eine Analyse der Lebensläufe von Männern und Frauen in der Schweiz. Social Change in Switzerland No 14. Retrieved from www.socialchangeswitzerland.ch
Contact: René Levy, +41 21 903 11 32, rene.levy@unil.ch


Every Sunday Foam offers free walk-in workshops inspired by the exhibition Structures of Identity - Photography from The Walther Collection.
In the exhibition Structures of Identity, Foam presents a selection of photographic works from The Walther Collection. Structures of Identity examines how photographers have used portraiture to affirm or challenge social stereotypes constructed around notions of race, gender, class, and nationality.
During the workshop, you, as a participant, become part of a unique exhibition, which expands after each workshop. First a portrait of you will be made - who are you and how can we capture this in a powerful way? You can take the portrait home with you and a copy will also become part of the exhibition at Foam.
What happens to your portrait when it hangs among other portraits in a museum? Is your identity made visible by the collective, or is it obscured? What does this say about the medium of photography? Come find out during this workshop and become part of Foam's family portrait.
The walk-in workshops at Foam Studios are appropriate for all ages and are made possible by corporate partner Olympus. Foam provides Olympus-OMD cameras for this workshop.
In the exhibition Structures of Identity, Foam presents a selection of photographic works from The Walther Collection. In Structures of Identity, iconic works by photographers including August Sander, Richard Avedon and J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere are combined with the work of contemporary photographers such as Yto Barrada, Samuel Fosso, Zanele Muholi and Guy Tillim. Works of vernacular photography, from a range of cultures and historical periods, are also on view.


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Q: How to open Word Application using vba I have a code. It does not run in 2016.Is it a Office 16 problem
Dim objWordApp as Word.Application
 Dim objWordDoc as Word.document
 Set objWordApp = new Word.application
I get an error Error in loading DLL .I have already included the library Microsoft word 16.0 Object Library
regards
Anna

A: I am not sure what went wrong for you but if you just want to open a new word document with your default MS office then you can use this peace of code
Sub wordopener()
  Dim objWord
  Dim objDoc
  Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
  Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Add
  objWord.Visible = True
End Sub

A: I generally have a BAS file containing the 'CreateWord' function which I drag into any workbook/database that needs it.
First it tests to see if Word is already open using GetObject.  If that returns an error it creates an instance of Word using CreateObject.
The Word application can then be opened by simply using Set oWD_App = CreateWord.
Sub Test()

    Dim oWD_App As Object
    Dim oWD_Doc As Object

    Set oWD_App = CreateWord

    With oWD_App
        Set oWD_Doc = .Documents.Add
    End With

End Sub

Public Function CreateWord(Optional bVisible As Boolean = True) As Object

    Dim oTempWD As Object

    On Error Resume Next
    Set oTempWD = GetObject(, "Word.Application")

    If Err.Number <> 0 Then
        Err.Clear
        On Error GoTo ERROR_HANDLER
        Set oTempWD = CreateObject("Word.Application")
    End If

    oTempWD.Visible = bVisible
    Set CreateWord = oTempWD

    On Error GoTo 0
    Exit Function

ERROR_HANDLER:
    Select Case Err.Number

        Case Else
            MsgBox "Error " & Err.Number & vbCr & _
                " (" & Err.Description & ") in procedure CreateWord."
            Err.Clear
    End Select

End Function

A: You are trying to use early binding. It is advisable, because it is a bit faster and it gives you intellisense, which is nice. However, to use it, you should add the corresponding libraries.
However, if you use the slower late binding, you do not need to add any libraries. It does not have intellisense and it would be a bit slower (but probably not noticeable).
Try like this:
Option Explicit

Sub TestMe()

    Dim objWord As Object
    Dim objDoc  As Object

    Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
    Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Add
    objWord.Visible = True

End Sub

Early binding vs. late binding: what are the comparative benefits and disadvantages?


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Maija Tammi, född 1985 i Lundo, Finland är en finländsk fotograf. Sedan 2005 arbetar hon som journalist och fotograf för diverse dagstidningar och magasin, bland annat Turun Sanomat, Helsingin Sanomat och kvinnotidskriften MeNaiset. Hon studerade på journalistprogrammet vid Tammerfors universitet, och avlade masterexamen 2010. Dessutom har hon arbetat tillsammans med Christopher Anderson hos agenturen Magnum Photos.

Hon bor och arbetar i Finland, Kanada och USA.

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Hon blev allmänt känd efter hennes fotoserie Bingo som visar bingospelare i Åbo, Tammerfors och Kanada. För dessa fotografier vann hon 2011 det mest prestigefulla finska fotopriset, Fotofinlandia award. Juryn fastställde att hennes bilder var de enda som ej skulle hängas upp på väggen. Vidare arbetar hon på med att fotografera livet på Grönland, personer med dvärgväxt i USA och folksjukdomar.

Reportaget om dvärgarna beskrev bland annat paret Sofiya och Clinton och deras vardag.

Priser
 2010: Press Photographer of the Year
 2011: Fotofinlandia award

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Q: How can you iterate a k-ary tree? Assume you have a generic k-ary tree like this one or this one
Repeating the latter here:
template <typename T>
struct TreeNode
{
  T* DATA ; // data of type T to be stored at this TreeNode

  vector< TreeNode<T>* > children ;

  void insert( T* newData ) ;

  // runs f on this and all children of this
  void preorder( function<void (T*)> f )
  {
    f( this->DATA ) ; // exec f on this
    for( int i = 0 ; i < children.size(); i++ )
      children[i]->preorder( f ) ; // exec f on each child
  }

} ;

template <typename T>
struct Tree
{
  TreeNode<T>* root;

  // TREE LEVEL functions
  void clear() { delete root ; root=0; }

  void insert( T* data ) { if(root)root->insert(data); }
} ;

Now normally, you have pre-order and post-order traversals as recursive member functions of TreeNode as shown above.  But say you don't want to be passing functions around, you want to visit each node in the tree from outside the class (ie just given a Tree object).
How can you do it?

A: I would approach this by defining a PreorderIterator class that maintained state about where it was in the traversal. It would have methods for returning the current node and for advancing one step in the traversal.
You would have to be careful if the tree structure could mutate during the life of the iterator. Perhaps the tree could maintain a modification count; the iterator could capture the count at the start and check for changes at each access (and throwing an exception if it found one).

A: One easy approach is to load the tree into a list and then walk the list when you need. The list would only be a list of pointers and therefore not that expensive. To do that you would use a modified version of the trie traversal algorithm:
void traverse(Node n){
  if(null == n) return;

  for( Node c: n.children){
    visit( c );
    traverse( c );
  }
}

You would use the visit to actually load your list. So something like
List<Node> getListToIterate(Node n){
   List<Node> result = new ArrayList<Node>();
   traverse(n,resutl);
   return result;
}

void traverse(Node n, List list){
  if(null == n) return;

  for( Node c: n.children){
    list.add( c );
    traverse( c );
  }

}

Also, if you decide, you can wrap this algorithm in a TreeIterator class that would track where you are in the list.


I used to think that anger was unimportant.
In my mind it was a weak, childish emotion that I could -- and should! -- talk myself out of with logic and reason. "That's not worth being angry about," I would tell myself, as if refusing to acknowledge anger would simply get rid of it. While I silently judged and criticized people who expressed anger, my own anger did not in fact magically vanish, but instead came out sideways as things like sarcasm, superiority, and aloofness. Needless to say, this approach didn't lead to happiness. In addition to living with a lot of internal judgment and criticism, I allowed other people to be mean to me, and had no idea how to stand up for myself.
Only in the past few years have I started to see anger less as something to be afraid or ashamed of, and more like a friendly messenger with valuable information that I could pay attention to. This has vastly improved the quality of my relationships with other people -- and with myself.
Each person's experience of anger is different, but if anger is something you struggle with, or simply want to learn more about, I hope you will come to my Befriending Anger workshop next week. These small group workshops provide a safe, intimate setting for you to learn more about where anger comes from, and practice simple tools for restoring your well-being without harming others in the process. Teens, tweens, and adults are all welcome.
If you are interested in the topic but can't make the workshop, I also highly recommend Karla McLaren's website, which has a ton of great information about how to understand and work with different emotions. Karla's work is the foundation for a lot of what I will be teaching, and I am so grateful that she shares it there for free.


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OnSite Retail Group is pleased to announce the addition of Planet Fitness to The Crossings at Gunn Eden shopping center in Hamilton, Ohio. Earlier this month, Planet Fitness signed a long term lease for 23,884 square feet in the retail center anchored by Hobby Lobby.
Joshua Rothstein and Scott Saddlemire of Cincinnati, OH-based OnSite Retail Group, LLC represented the owner in the transaction, Champion Crossings Real Estate Holdings, LLC. Planet Fitness has not yet announced an opening date, but the new fitness club at 702 NW Washington Boulevard is expected to open to members in early 2015.


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US Army contracts ManTech for software and systems engineering services
ManTech International has been awarded a contract for the delivery of software and systems engineering services (SSES) to the US Army's Communications-Electronics Command Life Cycle Management Command (CECOM LCMC) Software Engineering Center (SEC).
ManTech International has been awarded a contract for the delivery of software and systems engineering services (SSES) to the US Army's Communications-Electronics Command Life Cycle Management Command (CECOM LCMC) Software Engineering Center (SEC).
With a value of $7bn, the multiple-award indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract features two-years of base performance, one two-year option, as well as an additional one-year option.
The company will use its Agile software development processes, CMMI Maturity Level 3 development rating, rapid prototyping capabilities, and cyber and information assurance toolsets to provide wide range of support services to the SEC.
"ManTech's use of Agile methodologies has enabled us to increase productivity by as much as 67% and cut project costs by 49%."
ManTech Technical Services group president and chief operating officer Louis Addeo said the company would deliver SSES and other capabilities to the SEC in support of troops.
"ManTech's use of Agile methodologies has enabled us to increase productivity by as much as 67% and cut project costs by 49%," Addeo added.
Under the contract, ManTech will provide scientific, systems engineering, and software engineering technical services to help support the SEC's troops, enterprise services and business mission areas.
Services to be provided by the company will support multiple specific functional areas, including communications, intelligence fusion, avionics, command and control, business applications, financial management and fire support.
The majority of contracted work will be carried out at the army's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, US, while support will also be provided upon requirements at other military sites throughout the US and worldwide.
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Welsh percussionist Sarah Mason has performed internationally as a soloist in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Sydney Opera House, with broadcasts from Classic FM to HTV. As an orchestral musician, she has toured China, Russia, and America with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded Howard Shore's score for 'The Hobbit', appeared on the BBC proms and was streamed live to cinemas across the UK from the Glyndebourne Opera House.
Sarah studied with a full scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music and then went on to gain a Fellowship in Chamber Music at the Royal College of Music before returning to the Royal Academy of Music as a Fellow in Music Outreach. Following this, she has given workshops with Britten Sinfonia, Wigmore Hall, Streetwise Opera, and others.
She is passionate about promoting the music of young and emerging composers, especially in more unusual venues. Recent examples include her involvement in the composition and performance of a 360 degree musical and visual performance by choreographer Darren Johnston in the Roundhouse, Camden; playing an integral part in the composition and premiere of the world's first beatbox concerto by Anna Meredith; co-composing works for percussion and electronics with Mira Calix in the Institute of Contemporary Art; and playing a programme of solo and chamber contemporary music to a packed audience in the tunnels beneath Waterloo Station.
Sarah is sponsored by Mike Balter mallets.
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Yeah, the rushing is real. If the publisher only gave enough budget for 20+ episodes to the studio, whose decision was it to cram so much material? Was it also the publisher's mandate? Coz I have a hard time imagining Nagai proposing such absurdity when his other shows always prioritize giving the story & characters time to breathe.
Index Director requested 4 cours + movie and got 2 extra episodes instead. What does that tell you?


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Stop by the Chester Inn Museum during the month of October and take a look at our Cabinet of Curiosities. Filled with some of our most mysterious and gruesome artifacts and images, this Cabinet will challenge your perceptions of reality and what"s what. Identify the objects, find the real stories in the pictures, and learn about burial and funeral customs of times casino pa natet gone by. Viewer beware, though, these objects are not what they seem and appearances can be deceiving.
Come and let your curiosity get the better of you this Halloween at the Chester Inn Museum.


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The Spirit moves the church into the world. What can the book of Acts tell us about how the church should operate today? John Stott describes the Spirit-motivated, world-changing mission of the early church and applies its experiences to the modern issues that churches face every day.
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Luke the physician was fascinated by people--rich and poor, Jews and Gentiles, men and women, rulers and slaves. In his Gospel he delights to portray Jesus as the Saviour not of an elite group but of anyone, in any condition, who turns to him. Jesus is indeed the Saviour of the world. Luke knew exactly what he was doing when he wrote his Gospel. He tells us his goal in the opening verses: to set forth an orderly and accurate account of what had been accomplished by the life and teaching of Jesus Christ. In this up-to-date exposition, Michael Wilcock gives special attention to these opening words. Then, as he examines the individual deeds and sayings of Jesus, he shows how the structure of Luke's narrative brings out their meaning. The good news of Luke is still true today. No one is beyond redemption unless he chooses to put himself there. This message has implications not only for our personal lives but for our churches and for society as a whole.
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Edge Grinder is the first Format War "Collabortition" (a combination of collaboration and competition, we made that up an' everything!) with the plan being for programmers on other 8-bits to consider ways to convert it from the C64 to their platform of choice.
Guide brave test pilot Lim Tandell, flying his prototype spaceship through the artificial Edge World and suddenly finding himself under attack. It becomes Limbo's job to destroy the evil creatures, freeing the world from their tyranny. Along with blowing away enemies and battling through the Edge World itself, Lim Tandell can further boost his score by taking the risk of grinding his ship against the edge of the landscape.
Please note: The C64 source if formatted for the ACME cross assembler, whilst backgrounds and character sets were constructed using CharPad V1.0 and the sprites with SpritePad V1.8, both by SubChrist Software. The C64 music was composed with the Electronic Music System by Cosine.


Hart Door Systems is a specialist engineering company with a history of over 65 years continuous trading. It delivers door systems that focus across a wide range of industrial and commercial applications including over 40 UK and international airports where the emphasis is on Baggage Handling, Security/Fire and Storage/Access.
Hart has a tradition for innovative engineering and offers bespoke design solutions for industrial doors and commercial door systems including prototyping, testing and third part certification. By satisfying client needs, the company has an outstanding reputation.
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Hart's brands include Speedor, the high-speed door range which, along with its Baggage Handling, Security/Fire and Storage/Access, can be found on many airports across the globe. These include London Heathrow, where Hart installed forty eight number check-in desks with a unique design, developed for Vanderlande conveyors, combining features from other Hart products namely fire, security and high speed automatic operation.
Hart focuses on three specialist areas for Airports. The first is Baggage Handling where Hart's high-speed automatic shutters protect and complement handling and conveyor systems from smoke and fire threats in a frequent operations environment.
This product range covers the vast majority of requirements but we remain flexible enough to work with clients to develop systems for one-off installations. To maintain standards we have introduced a formal system of quality practices, contained in a series of documented procedures which meet the standards specified in BS EN ISO 9001-2008.
Further there is comprehensive service and maintenance back-up through the company's own services teams which continue to grow to cater for large-scale service contracts.
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In the UK Hart delivered a range of products, from Speedor high-speed doors to a range of fire and security shutters on contracts at Heathrow, for the Lakesmere, Building Envelope Specialists, where four Speedor 'Supers', ranging in size from 2.807m to 3.75m wide to 2.6m high are required, and at Gatwick for Morgan Sindall PLC on the South Terminal Airside Bag Drop Development.
As can be seen Hart is active across the globe on airport projects of widely differing sizes. Not only does this success pay testimony to Hart's product range but to the company's reputation for delivering British engineered excellence.
There are door solutions for conveyor systems, doors that provide security, frequent action, high speed options and that prevent smoke and fire spreading all helping airports with their green foot-print by saving energy.
This unique level of product specialism for airports comes from Hart's policy to drive door systems development, subsequent, exhaustive, product testing that ensures the systems produced by Hart work and are practical.
Other examples of airport contracts, Hart, working with Gatwick Airport and the Beumer Group, which provides fully integrated automated high-speed airport baggage handling systems for small, medium, and large airports world-wide, created a unique solution to sealing a fire shutter around the conveyor without a break in the belt system.
Working at King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, Hart Door Systems completed an order for 177 fire and security shutters for the baggage conveyor handling system. Hart was responsible for providing a two-hour fire seal on openings in the firewalls within the terminal.
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If we presume that the life span of a publishing company closely approximates that of a human being, then Kaya Press could be said to be entering into its period of precocious maturity.
Of course, the hope and expectation is that Kaya Press will actually outlive all of us. That is, after all, the great promise of books, and a major part of the glamour of publishing – that our efforts will outlast our time on this earth. But, as the rise and fall of publishers and indeed print media of all kinds have demonstrated, longevity is not to be taken for granted. It requires hard work, passion, but also a great deal of luck. And most of all, perhaps, a strong foundation. Not just ideologically, but organizationally and financially.
Since arriving here in Los Angeles three and a half years ago, that is exactly what we've been trying to build. This year finds us in a stronger position than ever before. In addition to Anita and Maggie, whose work has been invaluable, we've been lucky to continue to work with Managing Editor Neelanjana Banerjee, who has been tireless in her efforts for Kaya even though she's about a week away from giving birth; board member Jean Ho, who has come on board to help us out with fundraising; and now Zoë Ruiz, our new Publicity & Marketing Associate. In addition, we've been working with undergraduates, some over multiple years, through the USC-affiliated student group, Kaya Students for Independent Publishing (KSIP). Just two weeks ago, KSIP hosted Unbound, their first ever on-campus pop-up bookstore and crafts fair.
If nothing else, this influx of energy and talent alone should give you a sense of how things have grown and changed for us this past year. But programmatically, we've had also a banner year, publishing Amarnath Ravva's non-fiction prose and video meditation on the intersecting layers of histories, family, and faith, American Canyon, and Fox Drum Bebop, first-time novelist Gene Oishi's inquiry into the lingering emotional, social, and psychological after-effects of WWII internment.
In honor of our 20th anniversary year, we hosted over 20 events throughout the year. Highlights include Mehfil Massive, a gala collaborative performance featuring nine South Asian diasporic poets and musicians, which attracted an audience of approximately 600 people, as well as our annual Indie Lit Lounge at the LA Times Festival of Books, where hundreds of people experienced the process of writing, editing, and publishing their own books, and visitors were able to sit on sofas talking to their favorite writers in an intimate, lounge-like setting.
Certain kinds of impact that we've had only become visible over time. This past October, Koon Woon's second collection of poetry, Water Chasing Water, was awarded the prestigious American Book Award. We first published the work of Koon Woon, a largely self-taught writer who came to the US from Guangzhou when he was a child, in our first-ever book, the poetry anthology Premonitions. Twenty years later, we continue to be the proud publishers of his work, and his writing continues to be recognized at least in part because of our efforts.
At the Kaya Press reading at City Lights that took place this past spring, Amarnath Ravva, author of one of our most recent titles, American Canyon explained that he actually became inspired to become a writer when, as an undergraduate in college, he read R. Zamora Linmark's Rolling the R's, the second book we ever published.
Throughout these past 20 years, we have remained committed to the idea that, regardless of what other publishers, and even some writers, might think, great writing – and a vast range and variety of great writing – can consistently be found throughout the Asian and Pacific Islander diasporas.
Just as important is the idea that the world moves forward because of acts of imagination. The work any of us does to spark creativity – be it street art or music or film or, in the case of Kaya, publishing beautifully detailed and thought-provoking books that might otherwise never see the light of day – is thus critically important.
Kaya has been able to thrive over the years only because of people like you. People who read Kaya books, people who supported Kaya authors at readings and events, who donate time or resources, who remain interested and engaged and curious about what Kaya is going to do next.
Kaya Press might have provided the occasion, but you are the bricks that have created the building. We would never have survived without your input, your guidance, your enthusiasm, and your support.
With your continued participation and support, we look forward to 20 more years of publishing!
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Pesticides Bug Me
a personal and, quite frankly, biased exploration of pesticide use in my neighborhood and on my planet
Beeing
I have become a Beewatcher. In the same way that many erstwhile Birdwatchers prefer to be called Birders, I have dubbed myself a Bee-er. I go Birding. I also go Beeing.
Here is my latest "observation" from a prestigious published source.
In the following recent article, The New York Times has (partially) atoned for their poorly researched article of almost two years ago that claimed the bees are dying from a virus.
While reading this new article, please don't forget that at least one of the experts quoted, David Fischer, GETS PAYED BY THE COMPANY THAT IS MAKING THE PESTICIDE THAT IS KILLING THE BEES! (I get to say that with such positivity because I am merely a private citizen and not a scientist who is SUPPOSED to be balanced and fair. I say whatever I want and I can be as prejudiced as I please. Thanks to journalist Carl Zimmer for being balanced and fair for all of us.)
OK - Read on!
"2 Studies Point to Common Pesticide as a Culprit in Declining Bee Colonies" By CARL ZIMMER Published by The New York Times: March 29, 2012
"Scientists have been alarmed and puzzled by declines in bee populations in the United States and other parts of the world. They have suspected that pesticides are playing a part, but to date their experiments have yielded conflicting, ambiguous results.
"In Thursday's issue of the journal Science, two teams of researchers published studies suggesting that low levels of a common pesticide can have significant effects on bee colonies. One experiment, conducted by French researchers, indicates that the chemicals fog honeybee brains, making it harder for them to find their way home. The other study, by scientists in Britain, suggests that they keep bumblebees from supplying their hives with enough food to produce new queens.
"The authors of both studies contend that their results raise serious questions about the use of the pesticides, known as neonicotinoids.
"'I personally would like to see them not being used until more research has been done,' said David Goulson, an author of the bumblebee paper who teaches at the University of Stirling, in Scotland. 'If it confirms what we've found, then they certainly shouldn't be used when they're going to be fed on by bees.'
"But pesticides are only one of several likely factors that scientists have linked to declining bee populations. There are simply fewer flowers, for example, thanks to land development. Bees are increasingly succumbing to mites, viruses, fungi and other pathogens.
"Outside experts were divided about the importance of the two new studies. Some favored the honeybee study over the bumblebee study, while others felt the opposite was true. Environmentalists say that both studies support their view that the insecticides should be banned. And a scientist for Bayer CropScience, the leading maker of neonicotinoids, cast doubt on both studies, for what other scientists said were legitimate reasons.
"David Fischer, an ecotoxicologist at Bayer CropScience, said the new experiments had design flaws and conflicting results. In the French study, he said, the honeybees got far too much neonicotinoid. "I think they selected an improper dose level," Dr. Fischer said.
"Dr. Goulson's study on bumblebees might warrant a "closer look," Dr. Fischer said, but he argued that the weight of evidence still points to mites and viruses as the most likely candidates for bee declines.
"The research does not solve the mystery of the vanishing bees. Although bumblebees have been on the decline in the United States and elsewhere, they have not succumbed to a specific phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder, which affects only honeybees.
"Yet the research is coming out at a time when opposition to neonicotinoids is gaining momentum. The insecticides, introduced in the early 1990s, have exploded in popularity; virtually all corn grown in the United States is treated with them. Neonicotinoids are taken up by plants and moved to all their tissues — including the nectar on which bees feed. The concentration of neonicotinoids in nectar is not lethal, but some scientists have wondered if it might still affect bees.
"In the honeybee experiment, researchers at the National Institute for Agricultural Research in France fed the bees a dose of neonicotinoid-laced sugar water and then moved them more than half a mile from their hive. The bees carried miniature radio tags that allowed the scientists to keep track of how many returned to the hive.
"In familiar territory, the scientists found, the bees exposed to the pesticide were 10 percent less likely than healthy bees to make it home. In unfamiliar places, that figure rose to 31 percent.
"The French scientists used a computer model to estimate how the hive would be affected by the loss of these bees. Under different conditions, they concluded that the hive's population might drop by two-thirds or more, depending on how many worker bees were exposed.
"'I thought it was very well designed,' said May Berenbaum, an entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
"But James Cresswell, an ecotoxicologist at the University of Exeter in England, was less impressed, because the scientists had to rely on a computer model to determine changes in the hive. 'I don't think the paper is a trump card,' he said.
"In the British study, Dr. Goulson and his colleagues fed sugar water laced with a neonicotinoid pesticide to 50 bumblebee colonies. The researchers then moved the bee colonies to a farm, alongside 25 colonies that had been fed ordinary sugar water.
"At the end of each year, all the bumblebees in a hive die except for a few new queens, which will go on to found new hives. Dr. Goulson and his colleagues found that colonies exposed to neonicotinoids produced 85 percent fewer queens. This reduction would translate into 85 percent fewer hives.
"Jeffery Pettis, a bee expert at the United States Department of Agriculture, called Dr. Goulson's study "alarming." He said he suspected that other types of wild bees would be shown to suffer similar effects.
"Dr. Pettis is also convinced that neonicotinoids in low doses make bees more vulnerable to disease. He and other researchers have recently published experiments showing that neonicotinoids make honeybees more vulnerable to infections from parasitic fungi.
"'Three or four years ago, I was much more cautious about how much pesticides were contributing to the problem,' Dr. Pettis said. 'Now more and more evidence points to pesticides being a consistent part of the problem.'"
A version of this article appeared in print on March 30, 2012, on page A20 of the New York edition with the headline: 2 Studies Point to Common Pesticide as a Culprit in Declining Bee Colonies.
Posted by Lynne at 9:27 AM
Topics covered: Bayer, bees, neonicotinoids, research
It all started in spring 2009 when I noticed that almost every residence in my suburban town had one of those scary "Pesticide Application" signs on the front lawn. And then my father, a lifelong gardener from a family of gardeners, mentioned to me that he now has to pollinate all of his vegetable plants by poking his fingers into the flowers because he has so few bees in his garden... I've seen more of these signs lately than I care to count. I'm exhausted.
Stuff I've Noticed:
ADHD autism Bayer bees chicory children clover compost corporations dandelions ddt dementia dwarf fruit trees earth day EPA estrogen farms fish hummingbirds lawns mothballs neonicotinoids organic rachel carson research salt silent spring sports teams worms
Favorite Crop Fantasies
Dutch Clover
Garlic Chives
Not Alone:
The Melissa Garden
Love Canada Geese
Food Information
Dandelion Vegan Blog
Foods You Don't Have to Buy Organic
Sprout People - WOW!
Eco Company: The National TV Show
Citizens Campaign for the Environment - Pesticides
Beyond Pesticides
Old news:
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RESOLUTION OF THE PLENUM OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS
of December 22, 2005 No. 12
About some questions of application by courts of the legislation on compulsory insurance from labor accidents and occupational diseases
Having discussed practice of application by courts of the legislation on compulsory insurance from labor accidents and occupational diseases, the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus decides:
1. Draw the attention of courts that compulsory insurance from labor accidents and occupational diseases is directed to indemnification, the insured worker caused to life or health in case of accomplishment of labor obligations by it, by insurance payments.
In causing cases in the course of work of harm to the citizen who is not belonging to the category of persons which are subject to compulsory insurance from labor accidents and occupational diseases, harm is compensated in accordance with general practice.
2. Explain to courts that the relations on compulsory insurance from labor accidents and occupational diseases are regulated by the Civil code of the Republic of Belarus (further - group of companies), the Presidential decree of the Republic of Belarus of August 25, 2006 No. 530 "About insurance activity", the Regulations on insurance activity in the Republic of Belarus approved by this Decree (The national register of legal acts of the Republic of Belarus, 2006, No. 143, 1/7866; National legal Internet portal of the Republic of Belarus, 19.04. 2014, 1/14942) (further - the Provision), the regulatory legal acts of Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus accepted according to the Presidential decree of the Republic of Belarus of August 25, 2006 No. 530, and also other acts of the legislation.
3. The exhaustive list of categories of citizens which life and health are subject to compulsory insurance from labor accidents and occupational diseases is provided in Provision Item 272. Citizens treat them: 1) working at the basis of employment contracts (contracts); 2) being persons appointed to the highest state positions, the deputies of the House of Representatives of National assembly of the Republic of Belarus, members of council of the Republic of National assembly of the Republic of Belarus performing the powers on professional basis, chairmen of local councils of deputies, and also judges; 3) working at the basis of civil agreements which subject are performance of works, rendering services or creation of intellectual property items, in the places provided by the insurer; 4) the performing paid works on the basis of membership (participation) in the organizations of any forms of business; 5) being heads of peasant farms, and also heads of the organizations - the single owners of their property; 6) the Republic of Belarus which is according to article 30 of the Code about education by students (except for cadets and listeners) and involved in works in the organizations during practical training, inservice training, training, and also being clinical interns; 7) containing in the organizations of criminal executive system, being in medical and labor dispensaries and involved in accomplishment of paid works.
According to rules, stipulated in Item 277 Provisions, the listed physical persons are considered by the insurers insured irrespective of the actual accomplishment of the obligations on payment of insurance premiums. At the same time it is necessary to carry not only citizens of the Republic of Belarus, but also foreign citizens and persons without citizenship to such persons if they have permission to temporary residence or the residence permit in the territory of the Republic of Belarus, and also in other cases provided by legal acts of the Republic of Belarus.
4. Performing work based on employment contracts (contracts) to courts it is necessary to recognize the citizens employed according to the procedure, the established legislation on work.


Mr. Lawler is Co-CEO of Hines' Asia Pacific Region, which includes the firm's operations in China and Australia, where he oversees all development, acquisitions and operations activity. He is a member of the firm's Executive Committee.
In 2019, Hines opened its newest office in Hong Kong to serve as a headquarters for the existing Asia Pacific Region and expansion efforts into new geographies throughout Asia. The office will serve as a central hub for future growth in Development, Acquisitions, Investment/Asset Management, and Third-Party Property and Tenant Services.


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Q: Download Varbinary from sql in chunks How would I go about using the code example below to download from a SQL Table in c#?
public static void DownloadLargeFile(string DownloadFileName, string FilePath, string ContentType, HttpResponse response)
        {
            Stream stream = null;

            // read buffer in 1 MB chunks
            // change this if you want a different buffer size
            int bufferSize = 1048576;

            byte[] buffer = new Byte[bufferSize];

            // buffer read length
            int length;
            // Total length of file
            long lengthToRead;

            try
            {
                // Open the file in read only mode
                stream = new FileStream(FilePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read);

                // Total length of file
                lengthToRead = stream.Length;
                response.ContentType = ContentType;
                response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(DownloadFileName, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8));

                while (lengthToRead > 0)
                {
                    // Verify that the client is connected.
                    if (response.IsClientConnected)
                    {
                        // Read the data in buffer
                        length = stream.Read(buffer, 0, bufferSize);

                        // Write the data to output stream.
                        response.OutputStream.Write(buffer, 0, length);

                        // Flush the data
                        response.Flush();

                        //buffer = new Byte[10000];
                        lengthToRead = lengthToRead - length;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        // if user disconnects stop the loop
                        lengthToRead = -1;
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception exp)
            {
                // handle exception
                response.ContentType = "text/html";
                response.Write("Error : " + exp.Message);
            }
            finally
            {
                if (stream != null)
                {
                    stream.Close();
                }
                response.End();
                response.Close();
            }
        }

I am unable to figure this out. I can't figure out how I would get the Varbinary back to the FileStream. My Varbinary file download fails if the file is larger than 40 MB. I am able to get this code to work for downloading from the file server, but not for the SQL Varbinary.
Below is what I am currently using, but I get Network-Failure on any file larger than 40 MB. I am trying to figure out how I would implement downloading in byte chunks for this code.
protected void lnkDownloadIR_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

            LinkButton lnkbtn = sender as LinkButton;
            GridViewRow gvrow = lnkbtn.NamingContainer as GridViewRow;
            int id = Convert.ToInt32(gvrow.Cells[2].Text);
            byte[] bytes;
            string fileName, contentType;
            Int64 fileSizeInBytes;
            string constr = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["OCMCA_CEConnectionString"].ConnectionString;
            using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(constr))
            {
                using (SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand())
                {
                    cmd.CommandText = "SELECT FileName, FileData, ContentType FROM InstructorResources where Id=@Id";
                    cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Id", id);
                    cmd.Connection = con;
                    con.Open();
                    using (SqlDataReader sdr = cmd.ExecuteReader())
                    {
                        sdr.Read();
                        bytes = (byte[])sdr["FileData"];
                        contentType = sdr["ContentType"].ToString();
                        fileName = sdr["FileName"].ToString();

                    }
                    con.Close();
                }
            }
            Response.Clear();
            Response.Buffer = true;
            Response.BufferOutput = false;
            Response.Charset = "";
            Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
            Response.ContentType = contentType;
            Response.AppendHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + fileName);
            fileSizeInBytes = bytes.Length;
            Response.AddHeader("Content-Length", fileSizeInBytes.ToString());
            Response.BinaryWrite(bytes);
            Response.Flush();
            Response.End();
        }

Thanks!


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Conrado begins second term as Brazilian Paralympic Committee President
Mizael Conrado has begun his second term as President of the Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB) following his re-election to the position.
Record level of Brazilian Olympic Committee budget to be spent directly on sport in 2021
By Ali Iveson
The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) budget for 2021 has been approved, with a record 87 per cent of the funds due to be spent directly on sporting activities.
Para-Cycling Track World Championships in Rio cancelled but UCI still hopeful of staging 2021 event
This year's International Cycling Union (UIC) Para-Cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro have been cancelled because of the coronavirus crisis.
Brazilian Taekwondo Confederation launches Athletes' Commission
By Dan Palmer
The Brazilian Taekwondo Confederation (CBTKD) has announced the 15 members who will form the organisation's Athletes' Commission.
Hazard and Casemiro doubtful for internationals after testing positive for COVID-19
Belgium's Eden Hazard and Casemiro of Brazil are set to miss their respective nation's international matches after the Real Madrid duo tested positive for coronavirus.
Paralympic swimming legend Dias says Tokyo 2020 still feels special
Brazil's Paralympic swimming legend Daniel Dias believes the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics still feel special despite the Games being delayed to next year because of the COVID-19 crisis.
Brazilian taekwondo athletes jet off to Serbia to aid Tokyo 2020 preparations
Brazilian taekwondo athletes Milena Titoneli and Ícaro Miguel Soares have travelled to Serbia for a two-month training camp, as part of their preparations for next year's re-arranged Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Philip Barker: Pelé among a golden generation of sports stars born in 1940
By Philip Barker
Today is the 80th birthday of Pelé, a fact which will make an entire generation feel a little older.
Coronavirus forces Brazilian Confederation of Sports for the Visually Impaired to cancel eight events
The Brazilian Confederation of Sports for the Visually Impaired (CBDV) has cancelled all events scheduled for the remainder of 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Brazilian Paralympic Committee announces training courses for athletics referees
The Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB) has announced two training courses for athletics referees.
Brazilian Paralympic Committee promotes use of Be My Eyes app
The Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB) has entered into partnership with Danish app Be My Eyes.
Brazilian Paralympic Committee launch "Batalha de Reprises" contest to find greatest moment
The Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB) has a launched a search to find the greatest sporting moment in its history.
Brazil withdraw bid to host 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
Brazil has withdrawn its bid for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup amid financial concerns caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Brazilian Olympic Committee defends emergency funding for confederations
The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) has refuted suggestions that allocating BRL7 million (£1.1 million/$ 1.4 million/€ 1.2 million) across 35 national confederations in emergency aid was politically motivated.
Paralympic boccia champion supports idea of separate events for men and women
Paralympic boccia gold medallist Evani Calado has claimed the sport's worldwide governing body is considering separate events for men and women at the Games after Tokyo 2020.


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