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Q: Modal should appear whn user navigates away from notes without saving it - react.js I've a custom notes and Save notes button as shown in below screen shot: If the user navigates away from notes tab without saving the notes, a confirmation modal should appear.
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Code is as given below:
import React, { useState } from "react";
import { useDispatch, useSelector } from "react-redux";
import { updateActionNotes } from "../../redux/actions/editActionNotes";
import { Modal } from "@zambezi/sdk/modal";
import { Div, Span, Img, Button } from "../styled";
import styles from "../../components/action/action-notes.module.css";
import { useActionEditNotesPut } from "../../hooks/api/actions/useActionEditNotesPut";
import { ActionNotesDiv } from "./action-notes.styled";
import RedAlert from "../../assets/incomplete alert-red.png";

const ActionNotes = (props) => {
  const dispatch = useDispatch();
  const { action_id, notes } = props;
  const [notesValue, setNotesValue] = useState(notes);
  const editingActionDataProposed = useSelector((state) =>
    state.proposedActionItemList.actionItemList?.find(
      (el) => el.action_id === action_id
    )
  );
  const editingActionDataPlanned = useSelector((state) =>
    state.plannedActions.activeActions?.find((el) => el.action_id === action_id)
  );
  const editingAction = editingActionDataProposed
    ? editingActionDataProposed
    : editingActionDataPlanned;
  const editedActionNotes = useSelector((state) =>
    state.editActionNotes?.editedNotesList?.find(
      (el) => el?.action_id === action_id
    )
  );
  // For modal const [alertModalPopup, setAlertModalPopup] = useState(false);
  const handleRandomClick = (event) => {
    event.preventDefault();
    setAlertModalPopup(true);
  };
  const handleModalCancel = () => {
    setAlertModalPopup(false);
    onCancel && onCancel();
    alert("Run");
  };
  const onCancel = () => {};
  const renderAlertModalPopup = (title, titleId, closeButton) => {
    return <>{closeButton}</>;
  };
  const { mutate, isLoading } = useActionEditNotesPut({
    onError: () => {
      // TODO: handle error
      //   dispatch(updateActionNotes(undefined));
    },
    onSuccess: () => {
      dispatch(updateActionNotes({ action_id: action_id, notes: notesValue }));
    },
  });
  const handleChange = (event) => {
    setNotesValue(event.target.value);
  };
  // const handleClose = () => {
  //   setAlertModalPopup(false);
  // };
  return (
    <ActionNotesDiv onClick={handleRandomClick}>

Notes

          Keep any notes you have about this Action here.

        <textarea
          defaultValue={
            editedActionNotes ? editedActionNotes.notes : notesValue
          }
          placeholder="Type notes here describing the progress you've made.
What you're going to do next or any other important
information..."
          rows="25"
          className="textareacss"
          onChange={handleChange}
        />

          <button
            type="button"
            className="save"
            onClick={() => {
              mutate({ ...editingAction, notes: notesValue });
            }}
            disabled={isLoading}
          >
            Save notes
          </button>

      <Modal
        open={alertModalPopup}
        renderHeader={renderAlertModalPopup}
        withSectioning={false}
        className={`${styles.actionNotesPopup}`}
      >

                Are you sure you want to leave your notes?

              Save the notes you've added before you go so they

               aren't lost

              <button id="btnVisitResourceCenter"> Leave </button>
              <button id="btnClose" onClick={handleModalCancel}>
                Stay to save notes
              </button>

      </Modal>
    </ActionNotesDiv>
  );
};
export default ActionNotes;

This code deals with Navigation:
import React from "react";
import ActionDetail from "./action-detail";
import ActionConsiderations from "./action-considerations";
import ActionProductsServices from "./action-products-services";
import ActionResourceServices from "./action-resource-services";
import ActionNotes from "./action-notes";

import { Div } from "../styled";
import { ActionMoreInfoDiv } from "./action-more-info.styled";

const ActionMoreInfo = (props) => {
  return (
    <ActionMoreInfoDiv>

          <ActionDetail {...props} />

          <ActionConsiderations {...props} />

          <ActionNotes {...props} />

        <ActionResourceServices action_id={1} resourceIdList={props.item['resourceIdList']}/>

        <ActionProductsServices action_id={1} productIdList={props.item['productIdList']} />

    </ActionMoreInfoDiv>
  );
};

export default ActionMoreInfo;

How can I do that? Should I use component.unmount or check naviagtion?

A: The code seems a bit of a nightmare - not proper structure, formatting. So I will rely on a basic explanation with any examples that are not directly taken for your code. Hopefully you can use it in your case.
Recall: So, you have an areafield and panels that trigger different 'page' layout based on panel clicked. And you wish to open a modal whenever the areafield value has not been saved.
There are multiple ways to do this.
1st the simplest: Check whenever a value of your areafield changes via onChange. Once it changes - set a new state for variable like edited to true const [edited, setEdited] = useState(false). Then, whenever you click on any other panel navigation - do a check if edited. If is true then instead of navigating to another panel - open modal that warns for unsaved changes. Modal contains buttons like, for exmaple cancel - that just closes the modal, and Go or discard unsaved that closes the modal AND navigates the user to new panel.
Its simple and quick to do, but an issue exist: if a user adds 1 letter and then deleted it then the edited will be true hence prompting the modal regardless of the fact that the user removed the new changes (deleted that 1 new letter).
2nd way: Instead of having edited field - on panel navigation click check if the current areafield value is the same as initial value. If it is then navigate. if not - open the modal. This removes the need of edited state. But it relies if the initial value exist and you have to store, if you havent already, a current field value in a state. That could cause more re-renders then worth.
But both have an issue - its hard to scale. Most likely your navigation is in another component and does not re-render when the panel re-renders. While this is a good approach, this also means you can not directly interact with how the navigation works. For that you would need to update the panel navigation component and include some sort of redux state, or a custom hook, that would allow you to block the navigation from any component.
For redux: could have like setBlockNavigation method that in any component, like this, you could set it to true if edited is true (for 1st option) or if values are different (2nd option). Then in navigation component navigation will only be executed when blockNavigation is false like !blockNavigation && navigate('anotherpanel'). BUT this is dirty and relys on constant re-renders, state changes, etc. Could cause issues.
BETTER IMO idea: custom hook. Create a custom hook for navigation that returns a method like onPathChange that calls out whenever you click any navigation link. The method accepts return values true or false (boolean). If it recieves true then it navigates. If false then navigation gets canceled. like onPathChange() && navigate('anotherPanel'). By default the onPathChange always returns true.
Then you can use this hook in your Notes panel to like:
onPathChange() {
    return !edited
}

So if edited is true then it gets inverted and returns false hence stopping the navigation. And form on so - you can control the modal from Notes panel component. This is scalable with nay navigation from any component. But adds some complexity.
But sadly without having more of your code nor spending hours trying to untangle your code - cant provide exact code of how to do so with your code base. Hopefully this answer provided of how this can be achieved and you can implement it successfully in your codebase.


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With headquarters located in Upper Baggot Street, Dublin, Ireland, FAS stands for Foras Aiseanna Saothair, or National Training and Employment Agency in English. A government body, it is their job to help enhance the skills and competencies of both employers and individuals to ensure that Ireland can continue to grow and develop.
It is now more important than ever, as Ireland continues to slip towards insolvency following the collapse of the economy in 2008. With both unemployment and national debt increasing at an alarming rate, many people are turning to FAS in order to improve their skills and abilities so they can find work for themselves in the highly competitive Irish job market.
FAS aims to do reach its goal by offering specific training and employment programs created in order to satisfy the needs of a wide range of modern jobs. Anyone seeking work in Ireland is eligible to take part on FAS courses, depending on availability of course, and there are a large number of options available.
You may decide to go for Specific Skills Training or Traineeships, or you could instead opt for one of the Short Courses, Evening Courses, Online Courses or Blended Learning Courses on offer. FAS also offers courses for those currently employed. Its Employee Training courses cover a wide range of industries and are focussed on upskilling employees in order to improve their abilities and value to their employer.
Finally, they also have a number of job listings available at all times, meaning that finding jobs in Mayo with FAS Ireland is certainly a real possibility. You can find the contact information for your Local Employment Service office at www.fas.ie. With more than ten Mayo based offices, there should be one close by you.
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Mitt Romney will take a supporter where he can get one, thank you very much. The presidential candidate said Monday night that he "doesn't agree with all the people who support" him but that he's "appreciative to have" their help. Romney was addressing questions volleyed at him regarding the birther issue, as the former Massachusetts governor drew a day closer to a Donald Trump–hosted fundraiser set for Tuesday in Las Vegas. Trump has still not completely backed down from the birther issue, and Romney would not correct him or his followers. "I need to get 50.1 percent or more" of the vote, Romney said. "My guess is they don't all agree with everything I believe in." Newt Gingrich will be in attendance as well. The birther issue flared up again Friday when Trump told The Daily Beast that Obama's "mother never spent a day in the hospital" in Hawaii.

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Anni Smith is a digital artist from Corbin who is challenging society's standards through interstellar and inclusive art. Smith, who uses they/them pronouns, is currently creating a coloring book to help normalize body acceptance.
"Illustrating certain bodies does normalize them, and just seeing yourself in art and stuff does wonders for how you feel about yourself," Smith said.
Smith said their coloring book will feature "queer monsters" with different body types. Smith, who identifies as nonbinary, hopes to normalize body acceptance by drawing characters with bodies of every kind.
"I want to make something that people can just take home and continuously enjoy," Smith said.
Digital artist Anni Smith came to Bowling Green four years ago from Corbin. Anni creates digital art about mental awareness acceptance and the LGBTQ+ community. "My art for me is about conveying very personal experiences to be experienced by others while also holding space for bodies and identities that aren't typically seen in art," Smith said.
Smith said the goal for the coloring book is to normalize bodies. Smith said they do not consider their art to be body positive art, because they define body positive art as art depicting a person having a body positive experience, while their illustrations are people and monsters "being who they are with what they got." Rather than using the term body positive, Smith has come up with a different phrase to represent what they do.
"I call it 'holding space for our bodies,'" Smith said.
Smith said body acceptance is something they have had issues with before. After struggling with an eating disorder, Smith began taking care of themself again and started to appreciate their body.
"I like my body, I do lots of things with my body, things that I enjoy, and I need to, like, respect it and keep on living my best life," Smith said.
Smith said they want to have a "mission" with their art. Aside from body acceptance, spreading awareness about mental illness is another important mission for Smith.
Smith, who has been diagnosed with clinical depression, started creating the illustrations for their zine "Sad Thoughts" before they had the idea to make them intofor a zine. Smith said the illustrations were a way to create and cope with their depression instead of being self destructive. "Sad Thoughts" is about a character with mental illness.
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After creating the illustrations, Smith had the idea to create the zine in order to spread awareness for mental health issues.
"There needs to be more awareness about this and there needs to be like less stigma about talking openly about (mental illness)," Smith said.
Smith sold "Sad Thoughts" at a pop-up they organized at Little Fox Bakery downtown on March 15. This was Smith's first time organizing a pop-up, a temporary art event, and said they would like to organize another one in the future.
Allison Taylor of Little Fox Bakery said the pop-up was well attended and received a positive response from the community.
"Guests who attended seemed to have a great time not only shopping but also chatting with the makers and artists about their works," Taylor said in an email. "Everyone who set up shop that night made a point to say how much they had enjoyed the night before they left."
Jenna Settle, creator of Flourish and Frenzy, was one of the vendors at the pop up. Settle sold her handmade planters.
"There was a wonderful turnout, and the energy surrounding the event was positive and upbeat," Settle said in an email.
Smith does all of their creating in their bedroom with the comfort of their cat, Cassidy. "She helps a lot when I'm having trouble just living," Smith said.
Along with organizing the pop-up, Taylor also admires Smith for their role in the art community.
"I'm incredibly proud of them, not only for their growth as an artist but also for what they bring the art community here in Bowling Green and their wild support of the artists around them," Taylor said. "It's people like Anni that keep our arts community thriving."
Smith said they plan on finishing the coloring book by the fall. They will still be posting some of the illustrations from the book on their Instagram @cosmically_crying. Smith's art is also always available on Society6 and Etsy.
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Q: Is it possible to have a RV with characterstic function whose graph looks like $1-|t|$ on $[-1,1]$ and $0$ elsewhere? The title kinda says it all. I know it is possible to have a RV with its Ch function being the periodic triangular wave. This RV can be achieved via the Fourier transform and then converting the cosine of $+$ and $-$ to complex exponentials. But since my new function isn't even periodic, this method cannot be applied. Is there any other similar process to get the RV relating to the above mentioned Ch function?
Actually, I just want to find any RV whose ch function will be zero outside $[-1,1]$

A: $f(x)=\frac 1{\pi} \frac {1-\cos\, x} {x^{2}}$ is a density function on $\mathbb R$ and its characteristic function is $1-|t|$ for $|t| \leq 1$, $0$ for $|t|>1$.

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About our Coaching Philosophy at Riverside Soccer.
I thank you for taking the time for reading the following article. I hope this helps with what you are seeing within the program and what we are trying to achieve with our members. You as parents are vital to our mission and so it is imperative we are all on the same page.
Over the coming weeks I will outline our methods from what we as coaches are trying to achieve and pass them along to you.
PARALLEL PLAY. What we are seeing at 4 years through 8 years.
Parallel play is when children play alongside each other. They do not necessarily interact as they play. Often we will comment on how nicely they are playing together, in other words they are NOT fighting with each other. We have to remember young children play next to one another. If you think about it, it is very rare they are cooperative or sharing. They are engaged in their own games and activities. It is their world. Other children just happen to be around.
In soccer it is most evident in the 5 and 6 year olds. It still occurs to a lesser extent with the 7's and 8's. Players in these age groups often swarm around the BALL. Yes, you have seen it. What do we adults say? " Spread out". Why should they when the BALL is the only toy on the field. Take your sibling to the candy store and say, "Don't touch". Yeah right. They have not yet learned the social skill of sharing. That BALL is theirs. Hence passing will only occur by happenstance.
So we at Riverside want to take advantage of this and produce soccer players who are comfortable on the ball. Encouraging ball manipulation and a liking for learning new skills as individuals. As coaches/teachers for 5 and 6 year olds, we are trying to set up multiple activities where the players are together, but still involved in individual play. At 7 and 8 we are attempting to get the players in pairs/threes. Parallel play and learning to share with other are developmental milestones children are trying to master at this early stage. We are on the same page. THEIR PAGE.


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December 2009 Blog Posts (25)
Writing workshop aids Latinas
Women cry, laugh and reminisce as they scribble their personal histories as immigrants onto loose-leaf paper in a Highland Park church basement during a writing workshop designed to help boost their creativity and self-esteem.
The participants – mostly Latinas from Highland Park and Highwood – spend hours discussing the stories in Spanish over cookies and coffee, then painstakingly edit and rewrite them. At the end of 10 weekly sessions, they'll compile their favorite… Continue
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P&G sales drive targets Hispanics
Procter & Gamble has stepped up its efforts to reach Hispanic consumers in the US by creating versions of its top laundry detergent brands aimed specifically at recent Latin American immigrants in southern US states.
The initiative reflects a pledge by Bob McDonald, P&G's new chief executive, to increase the company's sales to Hispanic and African American consumers in the US as part of a global push to boost sales at the world's largest consumer goods company.
In… Continue
Obama naming Hispanics to top posts at record pace
President Barack Obama is on track to name more Hispanics to top posts than any of his predecessors, drawing appointees from a wide range of the nation's Latino communities, including Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and Colombians.
That won't necessarily give the president a free pass on issues such as immigration, but it may ease Hispanics' worries about whether Obama will continue reaching out to a group that was key to his winning the White House.
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Facebook Touts Diversity of Its Members
While Facebook is under fire for disclosing more data about its users to the public, Facebook is also touting that data about its users shows that they are increasingly diverse, with a racial and ethnic breakdown that nearly mirrors the overall diversity of the U.S. population, according to a blog entry posted on the social networking site on Wednesday.
While Facebook users in the U.S. were primarily white and Asian in the beginning… Continue
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Young Latinos seem to face a tougher future
Latinos believe education and hard work are key to a successful future, but they are more likely than other young people to drop out of school and live in poverty, according to a new Pew Hispanic Center study being released today.
The study, based on a survey of more than 1,200 Latinos ages 16 to 25 and an analysis of census data, presents a portrait of the assimilation of a rapidly growing segment of the U.S. population, one that will have a significant effect on the nation's… Continue
Commentary: Obama Year One, Betrayal and Failure
Promising change after eight George Bush and Republican dominated years, Barack Obama won the most sweeping non-incumbent victory in over 50 years along with congressional Democrats gaining large House and Senate majorities. In addition, at 56.8%, voter turnout was the highest since Richard Nixon's "secret plan" to end the Vietnam war and his "Southern" and "law and order" strategies beat Hubert Humphrey and independent George Wallace in 1968.
On… Continue
Capitol's Latino caucus mending fences after split
In rural, conservative Tulare County, Democratic Party activist Ruben Macareno has one wish after the recent skirmish to pick California's new Assembly speaker.
"I hope the struggle is over, and it was an amicable one," Macareno said.
He's worried that a bad aftertaste from the contest – which had a Latino vying against a Latino – could spoil his mission to galvanize Latino voters in a region where they're underrepresented… Continue
Florida universities must do more to attract minorities
One Florida, which removed race and ethnicity from college admissions' outreach, was a monumental step for Florida a decade ago. There was palpable -- and understandable -- mistrust by African Americans who feared they would lose ground at state universities.
The numbers of black, Hispanic and Asian students at Florida's 11 state-run universities tell an optimistic story a decade later, but there's still work to do.
Statewide, the percent of Hispanic and Asian students… Continue
The color of recession
If Jesse Jackson is mad at Barack Obama, the president must be doing something right. Jackson complained this week that President Obama wasn't doing enough to help blacks in a recession that has disproportionately affected black workers. Jackson's major beef, however, seems to be that he was not invited to the White House job summit earlier this month. Join the crowd.
The White House didn't invite anyone from the Chamber of Commerce or the National Federation of Independent… Continue
Campaign aims to increase number of Hispanics in Catholic schools
A national task force commissioned by the University of Notre Dame launched a campaign Dec. 12 that seeks to enroll 1 million Hispanic students in Catholic schools by 2020.
The Catholic School Advantage campaign comes out of a 65-page report the task force released the same day: "To Nurture the Soul of a Nation: Latino Families, Catholic Schools and Educational Opportunity."
Dec. 12 also was the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patroness of the Americas, to whom… Continue
A Mixed Picture Of Young Hispanics In The U.S.
The Pew Hispanic Center released a report about the values, education and employment of Latinos 16-25. They have high rates of teen pregnancy, gang affiliation and school dropouts.
But many young Hispanics are also satisfied with their lives, and value highly education and career success. LISTEN TO… Continue
Hill Hispanics renew immigration-reform push
Tossing another hot potato on the 2010 congressional schedule, top Hispanic Democrats outlined Tuesday a major immigration-reform proposal that is more generous to illegal immigrants than the last two bills that failed to make it into law in the past three years.
Backers of overhauling the nation's immigration laws have concluded that, having failed to win support from businesses and immigration-enforcement advocates in the past, they would write a new bill without any… Continue
Hispanic leaders disagree over Christmas-themed census poster
A poster showing Mary and Joseph heading to Bethlehem for a census and the birth of Jesus is raising eyebrows among some evangelicals, who consider it an inappropriate use of Christian symbolism for the headcount the government will conduct next year.
The posters, created by the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO), have been distributed to more than 7,000 churches in an effort to raise awareness of the census among… Continue
Panelists Discuss the Future U.S. Catholic Majority: Hispanics
Sweeping changes in United States demographics are transforming the fundamental makeup of the Catholic Church, as the number of Catholic Hispanics continues to climb.
But is American Catholicism prepared for this new wave of parishioners?
That question was raised by a panel of experts on Dec. 10 at "Becoming Latino: The Transformation of U.S. Catholicism," at Fordham University.
Luis Lugo, director of the Pew Forum on… Continue
Obama wants stimulus projects to hire more minorities, women
Amid mounting criticism that minorities, women and low-income workers are missing out on business opportunities and jobs under the stimulus bill, the Obama administration is urging the nation's governors to work harder to ensure that these groups participate fully in state transportation projects that receive federal funding.
The issue of equity has cast a cloud over the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act in recent weeks as various reports appear to confirm what minority… Continue
New Survey on Hispanic Youth in America
The Pew Hispanic Center released a new survey Dec. 11, exploring the practices and attitudes of Hispanic youth in America.
Some of the findings are interesting for the Church, since many people have pointed out that the Catholic Church in America is becoming more and more Hispanic.
According to Pew, a majority of Hispanics — 60% — say they are Catholic. Among young Hispanics, 56% say they are Catholic, and among second- and… Continue
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Visions!!! Giving back.....of oneself
What are you doing? We need visions, hope, faith and most of all is Love. After having a heart attack 6 years ago, I learn that the human touch is one of the powerful healing thing in life. We all are suffering from the state of which this country is in, but VISIONS OF, HOPE, FAITH AND LOVE...IS THE NEW BEGINNING. On… Continue
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Arlington school district rejects César Chávez holiday
Arlington school trustees rejected a 2010-11 school calendar Thursday night that would have made the district the first in the area to honor labor leader César Chávez with a day off for staff members and students.
In objecting to the proposal, some trustees said the holiday would cost too much instruction time a week before state math tests and just after the district's planned spring break, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in today's editions.
About 38 percent of the… Continue
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Nameberry: Sophia and Jayden top the list of New York City babies
The New York City Health Department recently released its list of most popular names of 2008 - at last - with some pretty interesting results. (It reminded me of the old "Jennifer & Jason" days - before the Social Security Administration was compiling a national list, when Pam and I used to have to contact - and sometimes plead with - the Health Departments of all 50 states for their figures and laboriously construct our own master list - and I recall that New York state and city were… Continue
Fla. claims record high school graduation rate
Florida's high school graduation rate jumped by 3 percent points to a record 76.3 percent this year, state education officials said Friday, but a critic said the state is still a "dropout factory."
Officials credited the improvement largely to minority students. The rate for blacks increased 4.1 percentage points to 64.9 percent. The rate for Hispanics grew by 4.5 percentage points to 72.1 percent. Those increases compare to a 2.3 percentage point gain for non-Hispanic whites to 83.1… Continue


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Locked-in syndrome is also known as Cerebromedullospinal Disconnection, De-Efferented State, Pseudocoma, and ventral pontine syndrome. Unlike persistent vegetative state, in which the upper portions of the brain are damaged and the lower portions are spared, locked-in syndrome is caused by damage to specific portions of the lower brain and brainstem with no damage to the upper brain.
Patients who have Locked-In Syndrome are fully aware. They will know exactly where their arms and legs are, and unlike paralyzed patients, they can still feel sensations of pain and touch. Some patients may have the ability to move certain facial muscles. The majority of locked-in syndrome patients do not regain motor control, but several devices are available to help patients communicate.
Patients with locked-in syndrome report feeling mostly tranquil, and some report feeling a little sad. This is contrary to the panic and terror that would be expected in people who cannot move or speak. This finding indicates that emotions are due to interpretations of bodily sensations. Since those who are locked-in have no bodily feeling, the brain fails to receive feedback indicative of alarm.
Parisian journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby had a stroke in 1995, and when he awoke 20 days later he found that his body had all but stopped working: he could only control his left eyelid. By blinking his eye he dictated a word at a time and in this way he wrote The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
This syndrome was a plot point of the CSI: NY series premiere episode "Blink."
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From Science News, 1/29/05 by Christen Brownlee
At the University of Tubingen in Germany, neurobiologist Andrea Kubler works with a 49-year-old patient whom she identifies only as H.S. Like many of Kubler's patients, H.S. suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a degenerative disease that slowly breaks down the nerve cells necessary for motion. The disease has paralyzed H.S., stripping him of the motor functions that most people take for granted: sitting up, eating, and even breathing.
H.S. was diagnosed with ALS 14 years ago, and a permanent ventilator has done his breathing for him since 1993. From then until recently, H.S. could converse with Kubler and his caregivers only by blinking his eyes.
Many people paralyzed by a variety of causes--strokes, tumors, or traumatic brain injuries, to name a few examples--communicate rather well by using their remaining, although impoverished, muscle power. For example, French editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who was paralyzed by a stroke, dictated a 132-page novel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, 1997, Knopf) just by blinking his left eye. Similarly, decades after physicist Stephen Hawking was paralyzed by ALS, he continues to give world-renowned lectures by feeding words into a computer program with a flick of his finger.
Eventually, H.S.'s paralysis might prevent him from even blinking his eyes to express himself. He'd then be in a state that doctors aptly refer to as "locked-in syndrome." Thousands of paralyzed people worldwide are in that socially closed-off state.
"We know that communication is very important to maintaining quality of life," says Kubler.
A device developed a few years ago by Kubler and her colleagues gives him the option of communicating by moving a cursor on a screen using sheer brainpower. Other scientists are developing neurological tools that may eventually enable patients such as H.S to flex mechanical limbs, steer a motorized wheelchair, or operate robots that respond to their needs, much as specially trained dogs assist some less-incapacitated patients.
These preliminary brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, are machines that could link patients' fully functioning brains to the outside world.
BCIs "could change the picture as to what you're going to tell people as they get disabled," says John Wolpaw, a neurologist at the Wadsworth Center of the New York State Department of Health in Albany. "The fact that you're paralyzed doesn't have to mean a lousy quality of life.
INS OF OUTPUT Over the past 3 decades, scientists working on BCIs have produced a vast amount of research, some currently applied to patients but most still in the experimental realm (SN: 8/28/99, p. 142). All the resulting devices fall neatly into one of two categories: those that direct electric flow into the brain and those that pick up the brain's electric output.
Several popular therapeutic devices fall into the first group. For example, by converting sound waves into electrical pulses that stimulate the auditory nerve, cochlear implants improve the hearing of more than 50,000 deaf or hearing-impaired people in the United States.
The second BCI category, devices known as neural prostheses, has proved far trickier. Delivering electric stimulation can make do with "cruder technology" than detecting it does, says Andrew Schwartz, a neural physiologist at the University of Pittsburgh. Tapping into the brain's electric signals requires electrodes that are far smaller and more precise than those used to stimulate neurons. Beyond that, scientists have had trouble deciphering whatever brain signals they do pick up.
However, Bill Heetderks of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering in Bethesda, Md., says that he and other neuroscientists working on the problem in the late 1980s had few doubts that such devices would eventually succeed. Researchers had long been making crude recordings of neural signals with electrodes implanted in the brains of animals or stuck to the scalps of people.
Although some hints of the brain's inner signals radiate to the scalp in the form of electroencephalogram (EEG) waves, these indirect signals are far weaker than the electrical pulses running between brain cells themselves. Therefore, to decipher movements as complicated as throwing a softball or reaching for a snack, many scientists went straight to the source: individual neurons inside the brain.
"If you take signals directly from a large number of neurons, you can get a very good, detailed estimate for how an arm is going to move in space," says Heetderks.
MIND OVER MATTER Researchers originally gathered signals by poking single neurons with bulky needles. But today, an electrode about the diameter of a baby aspirin can hold more than 100 tiny needles, each thinner than the diameter of a human hair. With the needles jutting out from their platform like a tiny bed of nails, each electrode has the potential to record from many neurons at the same time.
For Richard Andersen, a neuroscientist at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, these electrodes are a valuable resource for collecting information on movement. Over the past 6 years, he and his colleagues have used such electrodes to record the brain activity of rhesus monkeys.
Andersen's group focuses on the posterior parietal cortex and the premotor cortex, two brain areas that researchers suspect plan a person's motions before the body actually moves. By recording impulses in those areas, says Andersen, a researcher can in effect decipher the brain's intentions. Then, with the right computer software, investigators can devise machines that will act out the intentions of a patient who's unable to move.
"You could do almost anything with this [type of device]" says Andersen. "You could implant it in speech regions, and when the subject forms words, it could operate a voice synthesizer."
Andersen adds that electrodes might be placed in locations that would enable paralyzed patients to communicate their deepest feelings, such as being pleased to see a visitor, without saying a word. "We could read out their emotions," he says.
Other researchers, including Schwartz, are using similar electrodes to teach monkeys to operate a mechanical arm. Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University in Durham, N.C., has implanted electrodes in a monkey's motion-generating motor cortex. The monkey's brain impulses, in response to an animated game on a computer screen, swing a mechanical arm located in another room.
In contrast, each of Schwartz' monkeys sits next to a motorized arm that's being operated by the animal's brain. With their own arms restrained, the monkeys use the mechanical appendages to reach for food.
Each approach uses a computer program with algorithms that translate a cacophony of neural impulses into a clear signal that gives the arm directions. For example, Schwartz and his colleagues devised a program based on the observation that each neuron in the motor cortex has a preferred direction--it fires more frequently when the monkey wants to move its real arm in a particular direction. As the monkey gestures in a circle, different groups of neurons pulse to direct movement at each point along the circle's rim.
With that information, directing the neural signals to operate the arm is "really pretty simple," says Schwartz. "All you have to do is figure out what direction each [neuron] is related to, and then you can come up with an algorithm that basically takes a vote [among the different neural signals] and tells you what direction you're moving."
CYBORG SPELLER As Schwartz, Nicolelis, and Andersen do, most researchers test their prototype neural prosthetics in laboratory animals such as monkeys or rats. However, two scientists have implanted prosthetic BCIs in people.
In 1996, neurologist Philip Kennedy of Neural Signals, a company based in Atlanta, and his colleagues were the first group to implant a neural electrode into a person.
Kennedy's group doesn't use the beds of needles employed by most researchers in this area, but instead works with a radically different electrode consisting of a tiny glass cone about the size of a ballpoint-pen tip. Within the cone sit three electricity-conducting wires and a bit of neural growth factor, a protein that encourages neurons to extend into the electrode.
"I decided that it was better to bring the brain into an electrode rather than the other way around," Kennedy says.
The device is enclosed within the skull and transmits signals to external receivers. The first patient that Kennedy fitted with the electrode provided little more than sample readings before she succumbed to her illness. However, the second patient, whom Kennedy refers to as J.R., gave the researchers results beyond their wildest expectations. A locked-in patient paralyzed by stroke, J.R. eventually learned to control a cursor on a computer screen, spelling out words using only brain power.
"J.R. was our first cyborg," Kennedy muses. "He had a spelling rate of about 3 characters per minute. It's not terribly fast, but it's better than nothing." J.R. died in 2002, but Kennedy is currently testing the approach on other patients.
Last May, John Donoghue and his colleagues at Cyberkinetics in Foxboro, Mass., became the second team to implant neural electrodes in people. The company's BrainGate system uses multiple-needle electrodes connected directly to a computer. Within 2 months, a 25-year-old quadriplegic hooked up to BrainGate could use the system to open e-mail, change television channels, switch lights on and off, and operate a robotic arm.
Although the patient lost the use of his arms 3 years ago, the brain areas controlling his hands and arms still function normally. "When we asked [the patient] to imagine moving his hands around in space, the cursor moved. He was able to do the kinds of point-and-click actions that someone would do with a mouse, but we bypassed his hand and went straight to the computer," says Donoghue. Cyberkinetics plans to market the BrainGate system by 2007.
FROM THE TOP Some researchers are concerned that BrainGate's open design, with wires extending through the skin from the brain-implanted electrodes, could leave a person vulnerable to infection. However, even a closed system such as Kennedy's, where an implant stays sealed under the skull and transmits information by telemetry, poses some problems.
Researchers insert the electrodes in a "kind of a shotgun approach," says Andersen. If the needles don't end up next to a cell, they don't pick up any signal.
Additionally, he says, natural movement in the brain and scarring around the tips of the electrodes sometimes dampen the electrical signals available to researchers.
Some scientists predict that the solution to these problems lies not in improving implantable electrodes, but in developing new systems to record brain waves from outside the skull's surface, the same pulses typically observed in an EEG. Although many researchers expect that these signals would be too weak and nonspecific to control BCIs, "that's an unproved assumption that people engaged in [competing] studies have been portraying for years" says Wolpaw.
In the Dec. 21, 2004 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Wolpaw and his colleagues published research showing that with improved EEG methods, four patients with different amounts of paralysis could each operate a cursor on a screen smoothly and quickly without undergoing surgery. By learning to vary the intensity of their brain waves, each subject has learned to move the cursor in any direction at various speeds. Kubler is using a similar approach with H.S. and other patients.
Donoghue suggests that different methods will be required to meet the wide variety of patient needs. The final hurdle for some techniques, he speculates, may be getting people to feel less squeamish about using devices that attach directly to the brain.
"This is really the dawn of neurotechnology," Donoghue says. "Someday, we'll be nearly as comfortable about putting devices in our brains as we [are about those that go] in our hearts, stomachs, or teeth. It could have huge effects."
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Forensic analysts matched the DNA of 63-year-old Warner from the human tissue found at the scene of the explosion and from the vehicle used by Warner, TBI Director David Rausch said at a press conference.
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Q: TCP Port Duplicator I have a service that listens on a TCP port for connections, and processes the received data. I now have a need to split this data and process it on a 'live' and 'test' machine.
I want to make this a near perfect duplication going to each machine, and I figure the easiest this to do is to receive onto a 'duplicator' service that simply copies and retransmits the data to two other endpoints (with one of these able to send data back to the source)
Is there are software that does this? The platform is Windows Server. I've considered writing this myself, it doesn't sound too difficult, but if a solution already exists I'd prefer to use that.
Thanks

A: How do you plan to solve following 2 issues:

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*If you really have TCP protocol you definitely will have differences in TCP overhead.

*As it is TCP you will have answers from both machines. How are you going to handle this?

My advice is to really improve client so it generates 2 streams with the appropriate client side handling. Maybe your solution has some specifics but I don't see the way to do something correct for general case.
If you think your case is eligable for such a mirroring, probably this will help. Looks like there is another question very similar to yours one and it contains couple of links.
Here are some comments to iptables solution specifics.
Here is another way based on netcat utility.


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Q: anonymous struct type for function parameter In Typescript, I can do this:
function foo(param: { a: string, b: number }) { }

In order to declare a function that takes in an object, without explicitly declaring the parameter type as a named type like this:
interface Parameter {
    a: string;
    b: number;
}

function foo(param: Parameter) {}

Is there a way I can do this in Rust, or do I have to explicitly declare the parameter type as a named type?

A: Rust has pattern deconstruction for function parameters on tuples, arrays and structs like this:
fn f((a, b): (u32, i32), [x, y, z]: [String; 3]) { }
struct A { a: u32, b: String }
fn g(A { a, b }: A) { }

But it has no such syntax for unnamed types / objects, since objects simply do not exist in rust.
Imagine rust had a syntax for this:
fn f(param: {a: String, b: String}) {} // Invalid code!

How would someone call that function? There is no way to construct an instance of this type. In javascript (/typescript) this is possible, because of dynamic typing, but in rust you have to know a type to be able to construct it.
If you are interested into faking keyword arguments in functions, this might help: How to best *fake* keyword style function arguments in Rust?
If you want to give the tuples a name as well as having their parameters a name, there is the unstable bindings_after_at-feature enabling this syntax:
#![feature(bindings_after_at)]
fn f(my_tuple @ (a, b): (u32, u32)) {
    println!("this: {:?}", my_tuple);
    println!("is the same as: {:?}", (a, b));
}
// or this
fn g(arr @ [.., tail] : [u32; 5]) {
    println!("this: {}", arr[4]);
    println!("is the same as: {}", tail);
}

A: You can use a tuple:
fn foo(param: (String, usize)) {
    let a: String = param.0;
    let b: usize = param.1;
}

Rather than having named fields like structs, tuple values are indexed. Destructuring the tuple makes it a little easier to keep track of the values:
fn foo((a, b): (String, usize)) {
    // you can now access `a` and `b` here
}

A: You can't do such things in Rust because it has nominal type system and your code is example of structural type systems.
You can read about them in wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal_type_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_type_system
In structural type system, type is just set of it's fields and it's name and definition doesn't matter. In contrast, nominal type system treats 2 types with different declaration but same set of fields as different (meaning, that name of the type more important than contents).
Rust chosen nominal because it is stricker and allows to enforce some properties of program at type level. Consider this example:
struct Employee(String);
struct Customer(String);

fn handle_order(employee: Employee, customer: Customer){}

If programmer made a mistake and call it like handle_order(customer, employee), it is a mistake which wouldn't be noticed in language with structural typing but would trigger compile error in nominal typing.
Also, there can be situation when programmer need to change definition of type, for example, add a field to the Employee. In such case, one can be sure that refactoring done when all uses of Employee fixed. In program with structural typing, one cannot be sure because there can be a code which sends Customer instead of and thus refactoring of structural typed programs are little harder.
Another famous example of nominal typing in Rust is the lifetimes. Variables with types with same defined type and different lifetimes actually have different nominal types. And all Rusts safety is based on this.
Typescript uses structural typing because it is easier to map it into JavaScript.


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Studies have shown that we cannot pay attention to two things at once, but we still haven't learned how to effectively prevent the distractions posed by our personal electronic devices. At work, distractions not only affect productivity, they can also damage relationships with coworkers. Social norms surrounding technology use have not caught up to these new social situations, and people are often unable or unwilling to confront coworkers, family members, and friends whose distracted behavior is getting in the way of work or a relationship. In order to get someone to put down their phone, you should share data that multitasking — and even the mere presence of a cell phone — decreases productivity, speak one-on-one with the person guilty of being distracted, and hold yourself to the same standards you set for others.
No, it's not just you. If you've ever doubted that you had your boss's full attention while her laptop is open in front of her, stop doubting. In spite of her protests that "I'm listening, go ahead…," she wasn't. Decades ago, research settled the question of whether you and I can do two things at once. We can't. But emerging research shows that even the simple presence of a cell phone — much less its glowing screen and constant beeps — interrupts our ability to connect.
The problem is that manners haven't caught up with technology. In one online survey, my colleagues and I found that nearly 9 out of 10 people say that at least once a week, their friends or family stop paying attention to them in favor of something happening on their digital devices. And 1 in 4 say these interruptions have caused a serious rift with a friend or family member.
So, what do you do when faced with these interruptions? According to another VitalSmarts survey, not much. Only 1 in 10 people speak up to the offender, while the vast majority remain silent by either ignoring the behavior (37%), giving dirty looks or showing disapproval in other nonverbal ways (26%), or simply walking away (14%).
So how can we accelerate this necessary change, especially in the workplace? Let's say, for example, you're frustrated with coworkers who interrupt you to answer phone calls or texts. Or you are tired of presenting in a business meeting to people who are checking their emails.
Hold the boundary. Now comes the hard part. You have to adhere to the norm — and speak up when others cross it. That means that if you sneak a peek at a device in a way you agreed not to, own up to it. And the instant you see others do the same, be prepared with a non-punitive, but crystal-clear acknowledgement of the violation. If you're trying to change a group norm, ask each member of the group to join you in owning the change. Agree on a simple and clear phrase like, "Scott, tech-check" — as a way of reminding Scott that this is a no-tech time. In a one-on-one setting, try something like, "Looks like you want to check your email. Would you like to do this later?" Be prepared for ruffled feathers, an annoyed look, or a defensive response the first few times you address violations. But have confidence it won't take long before manners align with the new norm.
Today's technology allows us to quickly and effectively communicate with a large network of friends and acquaintances we would not have access to otherwise. While there are great benefits to these advancements, they should not trump social norms of respect, courtesy, and politeness — especially with those we care about most. It's time we learned to speak up and address these interruptions and safely build mutual understanding of their appropriate use in our life.
Kelly Andrews is a Master Trainer and Client Coach at VitalSmarts.


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Talla is the most narrative/subjective film I have yet made.
Because all the material was shot by me in a week or so it has location continuity, which becomes very important in the film. The pace of the cutting is still fast and the images still work from perception to conception or perhaps in this film - to 'feeling'. However there is no consistent building up of pace and the fast cut pieces are held within pauses so that there are often 'clusters' of images diving out of a mainly calm field. MLG.


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Sometimes a game comes along that makes me wonder exactly why I invest so my time, energy, and money on following sports. I'm not talking about going to the games, or being a fan. That much will never change. You love your team win or lose, undeafeted or winless. I'm talking about the other stuff: Reading season previews, following recruiting, paying any attention at all to spring practice reports. Because the fact of the matter is that no one really knows anything. And with a program like Michigan, which doesn't let reporters into practice, all you're getting from them are puff pieces. I mean, is Mike Hart really going to say "I'm pretty sure our defense blows"? No. All you get is bravado. And we lap it up.
I made some cracks a couple days ago about how I wasn't going to the game and that I wanted my first real football-watching experience of the year to happen against a real team like Oregon. How I couldn't get excited for football since we were playing a Division I-AA team. Well I hope that my team has been humbled as much as me.
This loss changes everything. Hopefully it knocks our football team down a few pegs in their own minds. Hopefully they realize that rather than planning out how many freshmen backups we can get into the game once it's out of hand, they focus more on winning the game. Rather than trying to "not show anything to future opponents" they PLAY! TO WIN! THE GAME! I don't know that it was the case yesterday that they played vanilla, since I wasn't there. I do know that in past seasons they have done so against "weaker" opponents (remember how everyone was freaking out last year that we couldn't throw the ball during the lead up to the Notre Dame game?).
It's hard to emphasize just how bad this loss is. The whole sports-watching world is laughing at this program right now, and quite frankly it's deserved. For all the cracks I've made about Minnesota getting beat by Holy Cross, I deserve anything I get. And that's fine.
This game is evidence of a couple things:
1) Preseason polls are stupid. We already knew that, but this might be the crowning example of why it is so.
2) There is no benefit to playing a Division I-AA team. Especially if you're going to play a good one. You have all the risk & then some of playing a high-MAC team, with none of the reward. If we lost to Central or Toledo or something, everyone would be making fun (and rightfully so) but there'd be no "Biggest Upset Ever" talk. And if we won by 60 points and played lights out football in the process, it was only a Division I-AA team, so that's what we should do. ASU was a team with nothing to lose. This was their Super Bowl. They were 41 1/2 point underdogs. No one would've batted an eyelash if Michigan had gone Louisville on them. And that's a scary situation to be in if the opponent you're playing has some talented players.
To go one step further, it's evidence that we probably shouldn't be scheduling teams that we're expected to absolutely destroy--if it's at all possible (which it might not be). Michigan's not the type of team to hang 70 on someone, and that's the only way to "win" in a game like this. If you win 35-3, no one is impressed. If it's a close game, everyone laughs. If you lose....you're a laughing stock.
And based on past history, it's pretty evident that our team doesn't meet the expectation of scoring ten touchdowns in games like this. Ball State should have been a wakeup call that no matter how "bad ass" they think they are, other teams can beat them. And that game was definitely not the first time we've gotten a scare against an "inferior" opponent.
Lloyd should take all kinds of heat for this debacle. I'm not going to be one of those people that goes all "OMG FIRE CARR!" or anything, but it's really disturbing to me that he can come out after the first game of the season and say "We just weren't prepared." You had 7 months to get them prepared. The implication there is that they completely looked past this team and were more worried about getting ready for Oregon, ND, and PSU. Every coach I've ever heard speak loves to throw around expressions like "We've gotta take it one game at a time" and "The most important game is the next one". And yet, they weren't prepared for the opening game of the season? Against a team that spreads out the defense and has a running quarterback? There's just no excuse. It's one thing for the fans to look ahead (me to not care about watching/attending the game, Brian to not write an App State preview, etc.), it's another entirely for the coach and the team to do it.
This one isn't going away. We could win the next 11 games, win the Rose Bowl, and all anyone will talk about is the loss to App State, which derailed another shot to go to the BCS Championship. It's going to be mentioned every game this season when TV shows each team's record. It's going to be mentioned over and over whenever we play a "cupcake" opponent--this year or ten years from now. Spartan fans, Buckeye fans, PSU fans....it's all we're going to hear, even if we beat their team.
It's been a long, hard offseason with all those players getting arrested and doing generally dumb things, along with the Jim Harbaugh controversy. And on the first day of the season, the football team just proved that the season itself isn't going to be any easier.
This isn't the "end of the world" as I claimed before. Crable was right in his postgame comments: They still have goals and it's very possible to all of them save for a national championship. (I wish he had said "WHY'D IT SEEM LIKE WE ONLY GOT TEN GUYS ON THAT LAST FIELD GOAL???!!!") But it is the end of any real satisfaction with the outcome of this football season. I've got to believe that any Michigan fan on the planet would've happily taken 12-1, Rose Bowl win, undefeated Big 10 season in the lead-up to the season.
Now, if that happens (and I'd have to say it's very unlikely), I'll be thrilled, but at the same time it will be strangely unsatisfying because all I'll be able to think about is "If only we hadn't stuffed up against ASU".
I was very wrong about the score yesterday, but I was right about one thing: I made the right decision about what event to attend.
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I was in the maintenance tunnels, running away from a 966, i saved, got into a elevator, go up, and 049 was there, waiting for me, so i died, i saw how some people uses 1499 for a "hiding spot" so i tried, use the elevator and when the doors closed, put on 1499, and result 1 happened.
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Anthony Wood (1923–1987) was a British school teacher and historian.

He was an expert on 19th and 20th century European history and was head of history at Winchester College. He was the author of the popular The Russian Revolution in the Seminar Studies in History series, which has not been out of print since it was first published in 1979.

Selected publications
Nineteenth Century Britain, 1815–1914. Longman, London, 1960. (Second edition 1982)
Europe, 1815–1945. Longman, London.
Europe, 1815–1960. Longman, London.
Great Britain, 1900–65. Longman, London, 1978.
The Russian Revolution. Longman, London, 1979. (Seminar Studies in History) (Second edition 1986)
War in Europe, 1939–45. Longman, London, 1987.

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1923 births
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The battle for democracy is yet to be won
By Rabia Bhatti
Britain's democracy is a central source of national pride. It is often said that, situated in Westminster, is the 'Mother of all Parliaments'. Yet, efforts to strengthen our democracy in recent years have been vague and illusive; failing to achieve their ostensible purpose (David Cameron's Big Society, for example).
Indeed, democracy means government of the people, by the people, for the people. So why are the first two chunks of that equation missing in modern Britain?
Well, primarily, we accept the idea of democracy in terms of its present definition. Our democratic procedures imply that the views of minorities should be subservient, or at least secondary, to the views of the majority. Minority perspectives are often ignored altogether. Thus, when we all feel marginalized for one reason or another, society becomes apathetic to political issues. Indeed, if the votes of all those who abstained at the 2015 general election would have been counted for a non-voter party, its leader would be Prime Minister, his/her party having gained 345 seats – a Parliamentary majority.
As a matter of fact, the feeling of democratic oppression within Britain is palpable. Initiatives can be called for by citizens if 100,000 signatures are registered on a petition – after which time Parliament must debate the issue in question. Yet, even when we fulfill the necessary requirements, governments often suppresses our concerns. Indeed, while measures to consult the public generate the appearance of an open dialogue between the people and their representatives, Parliament remains a sovereign body. Therefore, while the public has an opinion, it is not one that the government is compelled to accommodate. The notion of people power is a myth.
Furthermore, the press plays a very important role in our society by providing political awareness. It allows people to receive a variety of opinions on current affairs, and gives citizens the chance to become politically literate. Yet, the media world is heavily influenced by right-wing parties and the Murdoch Media Empire. Thus, in reality, the education provided by the media does not enlighten citizens with a variety of opinions. In fact, on the whole, it gives us just one bog-standard, bigoted view. How can 'democracy' be achieved when public discourse is so intimately controlled by a few media barons?
Also, in relation to national security, governments censor news in order to protect citizens. However, this undermines democracy – citizens are denied information that could shape their political decisions.
If we are to look to the future with some degree of optimism however, we can only hope that politicians who advocate the revival of British democracy (such as Jeremy Corbyn) revisit the foundations of the process, rather than placing faith in the power of superficial measures.
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HUMAN SCOOPING MORNING – Part 1
By: Talia Haven
Kerr heard it first. The distant sound of a blacksmith's hammer as it beat out a steady rhythm of metal on metal CLING, cling…CLING cling. My ponytail already pulled through the half–moon closure of my cap. I was more concerned with tucking stray strands of brown hair up under the rim than with being quiet as I lagged behind. Annoyed by the snaps and crunches that came from every stick and dried leaf I stepped on, my cousin Kerr motioned for me to be still.
"You need to be quieter." He hissed. He knelt down beside me, adjusted his empty game pouch across his shoulders. Its camouflage bottom almost touched the ground.
"It's over there," he murmured while pointing off to a clearing in the woods. Overhead, the morning sun had just begun to bath the area in a faint light that shone through an opening in the canopy. "We need to get closer, so walk as careful and lightly as you can." Kerr stood up, put his index finger to his lips.
He led the way; the red–rimmed visor of his favorite baseball team the Valley Titans covered the back of his short brown hair. Pinned to the back of his camouflage shirt, safe in a plastic protector hung his license to hunt from the Department of Wild Animal Control. I looked down at my empty game pouch just to make sure that my license from the DWAC was still attached to the outside.
I tried hard not to make a sound as I stepped, carefully as I could on the dead foliage that littered the forest floor. Kerr paused, turned to face me. Palm raised he motioned for me to stop. His brown eyes danced with the excitement of the hunt. He cautioned me to be quiet and pointed. There it was, in the clearing, the first wild colony I had ever seen.
Tiny figures moved among the straw–roofed buildings that lined the muddy streets. Alone in the center of the little colony, women and girls surrounded wood roofed well. Some left, their buckets full of water, while others stood in groups. I listened and could almost hear the rich high pitch tone they uttered as they chattered among themselves as they waited for their turn.
From this high up the only thing, I could hear the lone blacksmith's hammer that first drew Kerr's attention. The area bustled with activity; but as Kerr stood there next to a large tree, he tipped his head towards a small clearing closer to us. He seemed to be more interested in a lone farmer.
A farmer's little parcel of land, secluded by a clump of ferns, separated us from the colony. Rolls off freshly tilled earth stretched behind him as he drove his team of oxen down the partially finished field.
"Why hasn't he heard us by now? I whispered.
Kerr motioned for me to stay as he leaned toward me and spoke in a low voice. "They're used to the constant shaking of the ground as for sound; we're up to high." Gesturing back to the small team and their driver, "We'll catch him before he gets a chance to warn the rest. Watch how I do it Ama, and then you can try."
Frightened snorts came from the team as the agitated oxen strained against their harness in an attempt to get away when Kerr stepped onto the freshly plowed field. If the farmer was aware of the looming danger above him he did not show it. I watched fascinated as he struggled to keep his panicked team under control. It was a brief battle because of moments later, trophy in hand, a triumphant Kerr tossed his clenched fists in the air. At his feet, the driverless team bellowed with fear as they dragged the tipped plow across the field. Kerr had made the first catch of the morning look easy.
"Want me to grab them?" I asked hopefully. Mini oxen make excellent breakfast meat when they're rolled in flour and pan–fried in butter. It'd be a shame to let them go.
"Nope." One grimy tennis shoe stepping on the plow brought the rampaging team to a jolting stop. Oxen strained against the yokes as they bawled in terror. In one quick motion, Kerr's fingers snapped the teams harnesses like a thread. Regretfully I watched, as what could have been tomorrows breakfast continued their mad dash towards the tall grass. Kerr gestured his empty hand towards the miniature figure still clenched in his fist, "We don't keep them with anything else," he said. "They're too fragile."
Dirty, barefoot, and dressed in ragged clothes it was a repulsive little thing that stunk of urine, feces, and rotten waste that Kerr proudly held out for my inspection. The tiny farmer let out sounds high pitched like a mouse teased by a cat as he kicked his feet fighting to get free.
"Be careful how you grip them; we don't want to squish �em. Kerr said. "If they die on their own, we'll have to toss them out." My nose wrinkled in disgust as he put the foul human into his game bag. It was hard to believe that something that made such a tasty stew could smell so bad.
"Pretty strong isn't it?" Kerr laughed, "There's not an animal or bird that will touch them. Imagine what they must taste like unclean and raw."
"Ever see one up close, Ama?" Kerr asked as he flipped the flap of his game bag closed. A small bulge wiggled against the cloth; the captive was determined to get away.
"I've seen them at the Zoo." I wish I had brought gloves. I frowned as I rubbed my still clean hands against my blue jeaned thighs. "But it was crowded that day when we went to the midget animal exhibit." I explained, "So I didn't get a good look."
Kerr smirked he'd caught my worried expression. "You're not scared of them, are you? If you are we can go back to your house."
"Go back?" I couldn't go back home that would admit to Kerr's mom Reis what she already suspected, that I would never adjust to life in the county. Besides, I was sure I would prefer this to what Mom and Aunt Reis had planned for today.
"I'm fine." I lied, "I want to keep going."
Kerr shrugged his shoulders not seeming to believe my fib as he knelled in front of a barn–shaped building. "Common, I'll show you how to flush them out before we go and get some more of them." Kerr placed both of his hands on opposite sides of the building. "Be careful; we don't want to break it. After hunting season is over more will come and live in it." One swift pull and the building lifted from its foundation, sending it's human and midget animal occupants scattering off in different directions.
"There goes another one." Kerr gestured at a tiny figure. "That one is just too small," he continued. "It should be left alone so it can grow." The form stopped for just a moment before it changed direction and followed the fleeing livestock into low brushy shrubs that I guess could be woods to animals that little. "When you lift, make sure you have your other hand ready to grab," Kerr said as he flipped the building over and inspected the inside. "Then you check to see if they managed to hang on to something, so we can't find them. Sometimes they climb up into the rafters."
Appearing disappointed that he could not show me how I should correctly pluck one off the rafters, Kerr set the barn back on its foundation. "Have you ever been to a farm that raises em?" he asked.
"Nope," my attention focused on the bulge in Kerr's bag. Almost to the top the captive lost his grip and slid back down to the bottom.
"Ira Finn's dad, on the other side of town, has a farm." Kerr stood his blue jean knees covered in dirt. "Ira told me that they are raised in little boxes. You can't group them together like the other midget animal farms. They fight among themselves too much. Did you know it takes about eighteen years of good growing before they're ready to eat?"
Not bothering to wait for my answer Kerr turned his attention towards the direction of the unsuspecting colony. "Let's go and get some more."
Unable to shake my feelings of guilt, I followed Kerr across the hay field towards the old clapboard farmhouse that my family now called home. It had been harder to catch them than I had thought. Unaware of what was about to happen the tiny colony continued with their activities until Kerr scooped the first of them up into the air. The rest dashed for cover in buildings that were far more fragile than they looked. Ruined remains of the two buildings I accidentally destroyed remained back at the colony. Scatted among buildings still intact, they serve as a reminder of our visit. I had managed to catch three when I lifted up some other buildings to grab them. I discovered them as they scrambled to hide under what I thought were crudely built tables and beds.
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Q: How to serve unknown file types from IIS 7 Is there a way to serve unknown file types in IIS 7?
I only want to do this for a single directory where execution is turned off and everything will be served as a static file.
As it is now, I have to add each file extension that I want to serve as a MIME type. I want to serve everything. How can this be done?

A: Instead of going through the MMC like the kb article suggests, you can also just create a Web.config file in the directory, with the following content:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <staticContent>
            <mimeMap fileExtension=".*" mimeType="application/octet-stream" />
        </staticContent>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

A: Just in case pictures help. This is for IIS v10 installed on a windows 10 box:

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*Go to MIME Types feature of the virtual directory of your website:

*Set up the asterisk based mime type to support unknown file types:

A: You can add an universal MIME type by using the extension "*" and the type "application/octet-stream": http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326965