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The Resume
(September 9, 1966- )
Born in Detroit, Michigan
Drafted 17th overall by the Washington Capitals in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft
Defenseman for the Washington Capitals (1984-95), Dallas Stars (1995-96), Pittsburgh Penguins (1996-99), New York Rangers (1999-2000) and the Carolina Hurricanes (2000-01)
Why he might be annoying
He sported a mullet for most of his career.
Despite spending a decade with the Capitals, he spent the latter part of his career on different teams.
He was traded to the Rangers in a 'salary dump' move by the Penguins as they could no longer afford to pay his salary due to their impending bankruptcy.
He was overshadowed by his younger brother, Derian.
Despite putting up respectable numbers, his Capitals career was overshadowed by that of fellow defensemen Rod Langway and Scott Stevens.
Why he might not be annoying
He posted a career high 34 goals and 79 points in the same season (1992-93).
He, along with Langway and Stevens, formed a reliable defensive punch on the Capitals blueline during the 1980's.
He served as the Capitals team captain following the retirement of Rod Langway.
He and his brother Derian played against each other during the NHL All-Star Game (1997).
He was teammates with his younger brother in Dallas.
He was considered 'one of the best defensemen you rarely hear about' by hockey pundits, due to playing his prime years in Washington.
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Q: Error when downloading raster from GeoServer -All factories fail for the operation "Scale" Im trying to download raster image from geoserver using wms and sending request to url like this:
192.168.4.162:8080/geoserver/fiware/wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.0&request=GetMap&layers=fiware:test&styles=&bbox=-87.3539257,38.3719729154,-87.3437449312,38.3783359&width=29818&height=18635&srs=EPSG:4326&format=image/geotiff
And this is the return value:

          Error rendering coverage on the fast path
    javax.media.jai.util.ImagingException: All factories fail for the operation "Scale"
    All factories fail for the operation "Scale"Invalid scanline stride

I tried 1% lesser width and height than those from url, and it worked well but for these values it fails.Dimensions of original image are 32768,20479 so im requesting for image in 10% less resolution from GeoServer but it can't return such Geotiff. This raster was uploaded as a mosaic.
Geoserver log shows this:
org.geoserver.platform.ServiceException: Error rendering coverage on the fast path....
Caused by: org.geoserver.platform.ServiceException: javax.media.jai.util.ImagingException: All factories fail for the operation "Scale"
    at org.geoserver.wms.map.RenderedImageMapOutputFormat.directRasterRender(RenderedImageMapOutputFormat.java:1083)
    at org.geoserver.wms.map.RenderedImageMapOutputFormat.produceMap(RenderedImageMapOutputFormat.java:344)
    ... 118 more
Caused by: javax.media.jai.util.ImagingException: All factories fail for the operation "Scale"
    at javax.media.jai.OperationRegistry.invokeFactory(OperationRegistry.java:1687)
    at it.geosolutions.jaiext.ConcurrentOperationRegistry.invokeFactory(ConcurrentOperationRegistry.java:576)
    at javax.media.jai.registry.RIFRegistry.create(RIFRegistry.java:332)
    at javax.media.jai.RenderedOp.createInstance(RenderedOp.java:819)
    at javax.media.jai.RenderedOp.createRendering(RenderedOp.java:867)
    at javax.media.jai.RenderedOp.getRendering(RenderedOp.java:888)
    at javax.media.jai.operator.ScalePropertyGenerator.getProperty(ScaleDescriptor.java:79)
    at org.geotools.image.ImageWorker.affine(ImageWorker.java:4189)
    at org.geotools.renderer.lite.gridcoverage2d.GridCoverageRenderer.affine(GridCoverageRenderer.java:639)
    at org.geotools.renderer.lite.gridcoverage2d.GridCoverageRenderer.symbolize(GridCoverageRenderer.java:455)
    at org.geotools.renderer.lite.gridcoverage2d.GridCoverageRenderer.renderImage(GridCoverageRenderer.java:974)
    at org.geotools.renderer.lite.gridcoverage2d.GridCoverageRenderer.renderImage(GridCoverageRenderer.java:768)
    at org.geoserver.wms.map.RenderedImageMapOutputFormat.directRasterRender(RenderedImageMapOutputFormat.java:975)
    ... 119 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor134.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at javax.media.jai.FactoryCache.invoke(FactoryCache.java:122)
    at javax.media.jai.OperationRegistry.invokeFactory(OperationRegistry.java:1674)
    ... 131 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid scanline stride
    at java.awt.image.ComponentSampleModel.getBufferSize(ComponentSampleModel.java:274)
    at java.awt.image.ComponentSampleModel.verify(ComponentSampleModel.java:252)
    at java.awt.image.ComponentSampleModel.<init>(ComponentSampleModel.java:170)
    at java.awt.image.PixelInterleavedSampleModel.<init>(PixelInterleavedSampleModel.java:87)
    at java.awt.image.PixelInterleavedSampleModel.createCompatibleSampleModel(PixelInterleavedSampleModel.java:144)
    at javax.media.jai.PlanarImage.setImageLayout(PlanarImage.java:523)
    at javax.media.jai.PlanarImage.<init>(PlanarImage.java:396)
    at javax.media.jai.OpImage.<init>(OpImage.java:829)
    at javax.media.jai.GeometricOpImage.<init>(GeometricOpImage.java:263)
    at javax.media.jai.ScaleOpImage.<init>(ScaleOpImage.java:427)
    at com.sun.media.jai.opimage.ScaleNearestOpImage.<init>(ScaleNearestOpImage.java:64)
    at com.sun.media.jai.opimage.ScaleCRIF.create(ScaleCRIF.java:126)
    ... 136 more

BTW i am using tomcat as a container for Geoserver.
Has anyone encountered error like this, and can someone help me interpret its meaning?

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At the end of the 19th century, a lack of universal standards was making trade increasingly difficult. Just about every company had its own standards, which differed from everyone else's. The Engineering Standards Committee was established in London in 1901 as the world's first national standards body (this eventually became the British Standards Institution in 1931). Standards were adopted throughout the UK, and enabled an increased level of economic cooperation. After the First World War, national standards bodies were set up in several other countries. The Deutsches Institut für Normung, or DIN (German Institute for Standardisation) was set up in Berlin in 1917, and has remained based in that city to the present day. DIN is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organisation and has been recognised by the German government as the official national-standards body since 1975, representing German interests at the international and European levels. Today, ninety percent of the standards work carried out by DIN is international in nature. There are currently around thirty thousand DIN standards, covering almost every technological field.
DIN's first published standard was 'DI-Norm 1' (for tapered pins) in 1918. One of the earliest and most well-known German standards is DIN 476, published in 1922. This is the standard that introduced the A-series paper sizes. DIN 476 was adopted as International Standard ISO 216 in 1975. Today, DIN is also known for its connector standards, which have given rise to the electronics term "DIN connector". A DIN connector is a type of cable that plugs into an interface to connect devices. Its architecture is composed of multiple pins within a protective circular sheath. The original DIN standards for older connectors are no longer in print and have been superseded by the corresponding international standard IEC 60130-9.
DIN views its remit as being to promote and supervise standardisation activities through systematic and transparent procedures for the benefit of society as a whole, while safeguarding the public interest. The purpose of DIN's work is to advance innovation, safety and communication among industry, research organisations, the public sector and society as a whole, and to support quality assurance, rationalisation, occupational health and safety, and environmental and consumer protection. DIN publishes its work results and promotes their implementation. Some 30,000 experts contribute their skills and experience to the standardisation process.
Another German organisation which publishes standards is Verein Deutscher Ingenieure, also known as the VDI (Association of German Engineers). Established in the small town of Alexisbad in 1856, the VDI promotes the advancement of technology and represents the interests of engineers and engineering businesses in Germany. The first VDI standard – a document on the examination of steam boilers and engines was published in 1884. Today, the VDI is based in Düsseldorf and its technical divisions produce around 200 standards based on the latest technical developments per year. This has enabled the VDI to build up a set of technical regulations, which include more than 2000 standards extensively covering technology fields. VDI standards enable the VDI to fulfil its primary function: the transfer of technical knowledge to engineers and students.


A dual island state with something for everyone. From cricket to carnivals, beaches to birdwatching, turtle watching to chilling Trinny style, Trinidad and Tobago vacations are a cornucopia of Caribbean treats. In fact we would go so far as to say these islands are just greedy in their gorgeousness. No wonder some of the most world's most beautiful birdlife live here. Who wouldn't?


ink_d gallery, Brighton on May 4th - 27th 2012.
Inspired by the story of Pinocchio, the exhibition will be bursting with the wondrous characters, landscapes and creatures that Graham Carter is famous for. His intricate worlds of Samurai, Astronauts and Yetis will be brought to life through some of his most ambitious original 3D pieces to date, along side prints and products which embrace the qualities that make Graham one of the most collected and celebrated UK Printmakers.


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The Many Frames of Precarious Condition. Some Insights from Italian Mobilization against Precarity
Alice Mattoni
Type: Chapter in edited book
This chapter analyses the different frames that emerged during the mobilizations of precarious workers that occurred in Italy in the early 2000s, involving hundreds of thousands of protesters all over the country. In the past, workers' movements had been rather homogeneous, representing workers who experienced very similar working and living conditions. In this sense, it was possible to speak about a rather homogeneous working class that developed mostly in the urban environment, around factories whose workers shared similar visions about themselves and their role in society. In advanced capitalistic societies, workers' movements progressively lost their centrality in the struggles towards a more just society. At the same time, the trade unions, the institutional political actors that once represented them — also an outcome of workers' movements — severely shrank in membership, with union density collapsing in the last decades. Workers, though, did not disappear from contentious politics. And neither did workers' organizations, broadly conceived. Rather, they changed the way in which they engaged in protests, the organizational forms they selected to mobilize, and the discourses they elaborated around labour issues. This happened also because, despite the relevant heritage of unionism for workers, the very structure of the labour market changed dramatically in the past few decades.
Mattoni, A., 2015. The Many Frames of Precarious Condition. Some Insights from Italian Mobilization against Precarity. In D. della Porta et al., eds. The New Social Division. Making and Unmaking Precariousness. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan. Availab
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137509352_13

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The Complainant is Robert Kennedy College & Co Gmbh of Zurich, Switzerland, represented internally.
The Respondent is DomainsByProxy.com of Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America ("USA") / djeanp7898@gmail.com of Woodridge, Illinois, USA.
The disputed domain name <robertkennedycollegeonlinecampus.com> is registered with GoDaddy.com, LLC. (the "Registrar").
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the "Center") on April 8, 2013. On April 8, 2013, the Center transmitted by email to the Registrar a request for registrar verification in connection with the disputed domain name. On April 8, 2013, the Registrar transmitted by email to the Center its verification response disclosing registrant and contact information for the disputed domain name which differed from the named Respondent and contact information in the Complaint. Also, in response to a notification by the Center that the Complaint was administratively deficient, the Complainant filed an amendment to the Complaint on April 11, 2013.
The Center appointed Dr. Clive N.A. Trotman as the sole panelist in this matter on May 7, 2013. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7.
On May 16, 2013, the Respondent sent an email communication to the Center and the Complainant indicating its willingness to transfer the disputed domain name. On May 22, 2013, the Administrative Panel Procedural Order No. 1 was issued to invite the Complainant to make any comment it might have regarding the Respondent's suggestion. No communication was received from the Complainant within the specified date, and the Panel informed the parties on May 28, 2013 that it would proceed to issue the Decision.
ROBERT KENNEDY COLLEGE, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IGE), registration number P-507118, registered January 30, 2003, class 41: The owner of the above trademark was recorded on January 30, 2003 as Association Robert Kennedy College. On December 23, 2005, it was transferred to David Costa, a change of whose address was recorded on February 22, 2012. Dr. David Costa is named in the Complaint as the Complainant's representative and is named on some correspondence with the Center as Dean and Collegiate Professor.
ROBERT KENNEDY COLLEGE, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), principal register, standard character mark, registration number 3335285, registered November 13, 2007, class 41: The owner of the above trademark was recorded as David Costa, c/o Robert Kennedy College at its present address.
No factual information is available about the Respondent except for the names and contact details submitted for the purpose of registration of the disputed domain name, which was created on February 6, 2013.
The Complaint is brief and what follows below conveys most of what the Complainant has said.
With reference to confusing similarity between the disputed domain name and the Complainant's trademark, the Complainant says it is the rightful owner of the trademark ROBERT KENNEDY COLLEGE, and has produced copies of the trademark registration documents. The Complainant says that "Online Campus" refers to a proprietary learning platform of the College.
With reference to any Respondent rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name, the Complainant says only: "no right to use our trademark".
The Complainant contends that the disputed domain name was registered and is being used in bad faith. It says that the disputed domain name was registered with the intention to exploit users of a popular search term "Robert Kennedy College Online Campus". The website of the disputed domain name hosts copyright material taken without authority from the Complainant's website. A screenprint of the Respondent's website is produced in evidence. The Complainant says the Respondent's intention is to redirect visitors to a non-authorised website in order to gather revenue through the Google Adwords system.
The Complainant requests the transfer to itself of the disputed domain name.
The Registrar's verification of registrant details stated that the disputed domain name was registered with privacy. The use of a privacy service by a registrant may be entirely legitimate, or it may be done with the intention of appearing to avoid the service of any complaint, whether under the auspices of the UDRP or otherwise. The Center notified the Complaint to the Respondent on April 12, 2013 by email sent to the Respondent's address of record, which was delivered, and also to the postmaster at the disputed domain name and via the address provided under the privacy service, DomainsByProxy.com. The Complaint was also sent by post/courier addressed to the physical address of the Respondent in Illinois as disclosed by the Registrar, and to the physical address of DomainsByProxy.com in Arizona, both of which packages were tracked as having been signed for on delivery. The Panel is satisfied that the Center, by addressing the Complaint in accordance with such registrant contact details as were available, has fulfilled its obligations to attempt to notify the Respondent of the Complaint in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 4 of the Rules.
The Complainant, being Robert Kennedy College & Co Gmbh, claims to have rights in two trademarks for ROBERT KENNEDY COLLEGE as listed in section 4 above. According to the trademark registration document, the Swiss (IGE) trademark was registered to Association Robert Kennedy College and later transferred to David Costa. The USPTO trademark was registered to David Costa, c/o Robert Kennedy College. Taking into account that David Costa is Dean of the Robert Kennedy College, and is its representative in the present proceeding, and in the absence of any challenge from the Respondent in the matter, the Panel accepts, solely for the purposes of this proceeding, that the Complainant has a sufficient connection with, and rights in, the trademark ROBERT KENNEDY COLLEGE to fulfill the relevant requirement of paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy.
The disputed domain name <robertkennedycollegeonlinecampus.com> commences with a clear expression of the Complainant's name and trademark ROBERT KENNEDY COLLEGE. The remainder of the disputed domain name, "onlinecampus", is found not to be distinguishing but to be a descriptive term that enhances confusing similarity by adding words of relevance to college activities generally in the context of on-line participation. The generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) directory designation ".com" is not of consequence in this case in the determination of confusing similarity. The Panel finds the disputed domain name to be confusingly similar to the Complainant's trademark in the terms of paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy and accordingly finds for the Complainant in this respect.
The Complainant is required to prove under paragraph 4(a)(ii) of the Policy that the Respondent does not have rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name. In addressing this requirement the Complainant has merely stated: "no right to use our trademark".
The Respondent is not obliged to respond, and the onus remains upon the Complainant to prove its case. There is no provision under the Policy for a decision by default for the Complainant in the event that the Respondent does not reply. In endeavouring to add some substance to its statement that the Respondent had "no right to use our trademark", the Complainant could have made sufficient enquiries to satisfy the Panel, at least prima facie, that the Respondent did not apparently have rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name by virtue of any provision of paragraph 4(c) of the Policy or otherwise.
The Panel does not undertake independent enquiries on behalf of either the Complainant or the Respondent. In the exercise of its power, however, whilst acting neutrally, to undertake limited enquiries of matters of public record (paragraph 4.5, WIPO Overview of WIPO Panel Views on Selected UDRP Questions, Second Edition ("WIPO Overview 2.0")), the Panel has viewed the Complainant's own website and has noted a connection between Robert Kennedy College and specific tertiary educational institutions. Nothing indicates any relationship between the Complainant and the Respondent. Taking into account the Complainant's assertion, certified to the best of the Complainant's knowledge to be complete and accurate, and all available evidence, and in the absence of any contrary submissions on the Respondent's behalf, the Panel finds it more probable than not that the Respondent is without rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name. The Panel finds for the Complainant in the terms of paragraph 4(a)(ii) of the Policy.
The Complainant has produced a screen print showing the content on April 7, 2013, of the website to which the disputed domain name resolved. The dates are of some relevance. The Complainant certifies having sent the original Complaint to the Respondent and to the Registrar on April 6, 2013. Thus the Respondent may reasonably be expected to have heard of the Complaint on or shortly after April 6, 2013. The screen print was not annexed to the original Complaint dated April 6, 2013, but was attached to the amendment to the Complaint dated April 11, 2013. Evidently the screen print was made in the period from April 7, 2013, to April 11, 2013, by which time the Respondent's website had been taken down and only the cached copy of April 7, 2013 was available.
In the terms of paragraph 4(b) of the Policy, above, there is no evidence that the disputed domain name is or has been offered for sale (paragraph 4(b)(i) of the Policy), and no evidence that the Respondent has been engaged in a pattern of making blocking registrations (paragraph 4(b)(ii) of the Policy). The Respondent's website does not project the appearance of an embryonic tribute or criticism website such as may come, among other things, within the intentions of paragraph 4(b)(iii) of the Policy, and the Respondent has not attempted to justify any such use.
The Complaint is by inference directed towards the provisions of paragraph 4(b)(iv) of the Policy. The Complainant says that the disputed domain name was registered with intent to exploit Internet users searching for "Robert Kennedy College Online Campus". The cached Yahoo screen print is skeletal and apparently lacking some graphics originally present. The remaining script, although short, projects to the Panel an appearance of excessive repetition of the phrase "Robert Kennedy College Online" and variants, in a manner that may have been intended to assist search engine rankings for related search terms and thereby to aid the attraction of visitors.
The Complainant also says that the Respondent's intention in attracting Internet visitors to the website is in order to receive revenue through the Google Adwords system. The Panel notes that in this system, a website operator attracts fees in return for the passive hosting of advertisements and links that are commonly targeted towards the geographic and Internet usage profile of each visitor to the website. Such a business operation, known as pay-per-click because the website owner is paid fees after its visitors click on links to other websites, may be entirely legitimate and is often a source of subsidy for news and other public information websites, or as a stand-alone search and referral website. The financial success of a pay-per-click operation depends, however, on the attraction of visitors. The use of another's trademark, without authority, cannot be accepted as a legitimate means of attracting visitors to a website.
The skeletal screen print does not in fact display any direct evidence of links to advertisers. There is, however, a search box, such as is sometimes used to provide searchers with a limited range of options that may be predominantly revenue-earning pay-per-click links, and a box of a type that may reserve space for targeted advertisements.
The totality of the evidence, including the Respondent's appropriation without permission of the distinctive trademark ROBERT KENNEDY COLLEGE and the conjunction of that trademark with the evocative term "online campus", leads the Panel to conclude that the Respondent has intended to attract Internet users by creating a confusing belief, at least initially, that the website of the disputed domain name has the endorsement of the Complainant.
The Panel can conceive of no realistic purpose for the Respondent's production of a website bearing the Complainant's name and trademark that would not be intended to produce a benefit for the Respondent. On the evidence and submissions, the Panel finds it more probable than not that the disputed domain name was registered, and has received at least rudimentary use, with the intention of attracting Internet users by confusion for the purposes of exposure to advertising and referral, for commercial gain, within the meaning of paragraph 4(b)(iv) of the Policy. The Panel therefore finds the disputed domain name to have been registered and is being used in bad faith in the terms of paragraph 4(a)(iii) of the Policy.
For the foregoing reasons, in accordance with paragraphs 4(i) of the Policy and 15 of the Rules, the Panel orders that the disputed domain name <robertkennedycollegeonlinecampus.com> be transferred to the Complainant.


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Q: How to fix unstable PS? I have an Atmega328p based node with RFM69HW radio, controlling a relay. Power is supplied using a cheap 220V to 5V Chinese power supply (see photo). A 30W led bulb is connected through the relay to mains power.
The problem is, when I run test, which turns on and off the relay once per 5 second, sometimes (once per 5-10) the system just reloads. I checked every part with an oscilloscope and found that the power supply has voltage drop to near zero, which causes the system restart. Checked with different power supply, everything works perfect. Also, without the bulb it works.
Can anything be done to fix the problem?

The schematic:

A: The situation is more clear now.
I expect that the incomming mains supply causes the problem and that switching the bulb creates a voltage drop high enough to make the power supply restart.
Remember that the led bulb has a very high inrush current due to the rectifier on the input of the build in converter. This could be more than 20 A. The connecting cable could be the cause
To verify this.

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*Try a short and big connection cable.

*Separate the two systems and feed the buck converter from a different outlet.

*Try a standard bulb.
PS. I use the same power supplies and have no problems.


It gives me enormous personal satisfaction to announce that The Curse of Jacob Tracy has been optioned for television.
ITV is the production company that gave us, among other things, Downton Abbey and Mr. Selfridge.
Now, this doesn't mean that the TV show is entering production. The producers are essentially leasing the rights to develop a script and try to get a network interested. Could be nothing will come of it. But this is nevertheless an exciting step, and I'm grateful to Amy and Brendan for their hard work on my behalf.


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shroudBNC è un bouncer per IRC scritto in C++ in grado di collegarsi ad IRC per conto di utenti multipli, può essere esteso usando script tcl.Tra le sue tante caratteristiche c'è quella di poter far uso di una interfaccia web molto user-friendly (scritta in tcl e php), la quale permette di creare e gestire facilmente gli utenti

Caratteristiche
 Supporta script tcl e una parziale emulazione di comandi di Eggdrop
 Interfaccia web (facilmente personalizzabile)
 Supporto SSL sia per il client che per IRC
 Incorpora la protezione dai flood
 Supporto di moduli
 Risoluzione DNS asincrona così il bouncer non crasha mentre gli utenti si ricollegano
 Salva i messaggi privati quando gli utenti non sono collegati al bouncer
 Supporto per IPv6
 vhost.tcl: limita il numero di utenti per vhost
 virtual.tcl: aggiunge gruppi e amministratori virtuali i quali sono in grado di creare e gestire gli utenti creati nei propri gruppi
 lock.tcl: permette di disabilitare le impostazioni per specifici utenti o globalmente
 partyline.tcl: permette di creare canali interni per gli utenti del bouncer
 e molto altro...

Voci correlate
 Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
Bouncer (informatica)

Collegamenti esterni

Internet Relay Chat

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Augochlora alcyone is een vliesvleugelig insect uit de familie Halictidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1879 door Smith.

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Read NOW Google Top Stories Today, READ BREAKING NEWS » Latest News » Politics Top Stories Today » Explosion rocks Beirut city with many injured
Explosion rocks Beirut city with many injured
It is not yet clear what caused the explosion in the city's port region in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, which has caused widespread damage and injured hundreds of people, the Red Cross says.
The explosion comes at a sensitive time for Lebanon with an economic crisis reigniting old divisions. Tensions are also high ahead of Friday's verdict in a trial over the killing of ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005.
Lebanon's health minister, Hamad Hasan, has spoken of many injuries and extensive damage, and the Lebanese Red Cross says hundreds of people have been taken to hospital.
The cause of the explosion is still not known, but some reports suggest it may have been an accident. Lebanon's National News Agency reported a fire breaking out at what it called an explosives depot at the port before the explosion.
According to an eyewitness, Hadi reporting to BBC
I saw the fire, but I didn't yet know there was going to be an explosion. We went inside. Suddenly I lost my hearing because apparently I was too close. I lost my hearing for a few seconds, I knew something was wrong.
And then suddenly the glass just shattered all over the car, the cars around us, the shops, the stores, the buildings. Just glass going down from all over the building.
Literally all over Beirut, people were calling each other from different areas kilometres away and they were experiencing the same thing: broken glass, buildings shaking, a loud explosion.
Actually we were shocked because usually when it happens, just one area will experience those happenings after an explosion, but this time it was all of Beirut, even areas outside of Beirut.
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I tried to make an effort of making a struct-framework work for the time being, until Sun ships them in the JIT/VM in Java 7.0 (or later?).
It is basicly a source-code generator and a utility class to handle the 'sliding window' behaviour of the structs.
For all those who don't have the patience to read the whole thing and want to see some performance-benchmarks..
Now we have sourcecode we can compile. This is a one-time effort.
So the Particle isn't sliding over the data, but the data is sliding underneath the Particle.
What if we want two Particles accessing the same dataset?
As said above, the performance is 3 times faster (!!) than iterating over an array of "struct-objects" (Vec3) and about 66% the speed of directly manipulating the FloatBuffers. This will only get better once Sun natively implements structs in the VM. It takes however the burden of massive gc() and object-creation.
Is this a usable design / framework, are there suggestions how to change things? I'd like to hear your comments.
at first I want to apologize for commenting without being well informed about the whole structs discussion - though I read some postings and the RFE..
An interpretation of a continous segment of a buffer, with shared memory. This means any modification to the Objects' (marked) attributes or properties will reflect in a change of the buffer. Futher two or more Objects can be mapped to overlapping regions of the buffer.
Firstly, from my point of view you are talking about a mapping between a Buffer and Objects. The main difference to mapped objects, like described above, is that you usaully only have a few instances - as much as different structs have to be accessed at once. Since a non VM integrated type of an mapped object always has at least a single reference to a ByteBuffer, your technique should save a decent amount of memory. The other side of the coin is that IMHO the best argument for mapped objects is, to avoid those fency get and put method calls on a buffer. Your implementation however, only puts it to a slightly higher level: from primitves to objects (which are only allowed have primitive attributes?). I don't like such a coding style, I find array of classes much more natural.
As from my understading your current implementation needs two compilations, right?
Well, back to topic: I personally prefer the struct-way, because to my experience multiple mappings on the same data usually leads to undesirable side effects. Especially in multi-threaded applications this can be really horrible keeping safe.
maybe it is difficult to add methods the the generated Particle class, right?
First of all, yes, it's not a very clean and neat design, but we don't have anything else as of yet.
Second, your FloatBuffer I/O is increadibly slow (relative put/get) and asIntBuffer() creates a new object.
Third, structs are not meant as copies, your StructBuffer impl. does a lot of copying, which is disasterous for performance.
Last (@zero) it's not difficult at all to add new methods, it's just plain generated source-code, you can do whatever you want with it.
One of the main ideas of structs/mapped objects/whatevers was to avoid memory copies. You are completely able to product the affect of structs by writing bytecode-rewriters and such but at the end of the day any savings you make in typing syntactic sugar are buggered by the VM being slow at doing the memory copy thing. Just 2p comment on the issue, not really to do with Riven's implementation.
Ahm, relative put/get are slower? Sorry, didn't know that. Thought less arguments make it faster, but change the buffer's position may have a greater impact..
You are kidding, don't you?
One usaually does ONE copy per update/frame, e.g. for dynamic geometry sent to the graphics-card. Even with a heavy dynamic geometry load this will NEVER be a performance penalty or even the bottleneck of an application.
Its just a simple,fast copy, and if the data is dynamic it will be modified before the copy. Take care about the performance of these operations.
Java's that great for that, making use them can drastically increase performance. I've opened another thread (Why mapped objects (a.k.a structs) aren't the ultimate (performance) solution) for explaining a possible use, because I don't want to hijack yours.
Btw. in C# + DirectX geometry is always copied when sent to a VertexBuffer since structs are always copied by only assigning them to a variabke (e.g. putting hem into an array) or passing them as an arguement (except using the ref keyword). nobody at microsoft complains about performonce. Further it is very convenient, since copy to a stream/buffer is as I described automatically enabled for structs like I advice.
My StructBuffer implementation is already generic.
And if your benchmark tells you they have equal speed, your benchmark is flawed.
And about your copying, you're copying a_lot_of_times_per_frame/update, basicly for every struct-access, not a 'batch-write' to the gpu.
I have no benchmark, but what I can tell is that if I simply comment out the lines which fill the buffers send to the graphics-card every frame, the framerate doesn't increase at all. So copying the data to the buffer has for me no influence on the performance (and I copy about half a million vertices (positions and normals only every frame).
Sounds like your geometry-related-code is not your bottleneck at all. So why bother?
object->fields->buffer->gpu is very inefficient, yet might be 'good enough' for you. Don't project that to the general case.
You didn't uderstand my version. in my code the 'sructs' are normal java classes.
That sounds pretty much like: you don't understand my Ships, they are Cars.
I understand everybody not dealing with raw performance on NIO-data disgusts Structs... that's good, they are not meant for these people.
Anybody any comment on the actual API, instead of the chit-chat about the necessity of structs? Thanks!
No they aren't that inefficent. this is a copy operations, constant in time. Linear for an array. My whole point is that this will (almost) never be the bottleneck of a REAL application. And if so Java may the wrong language for you, sorry.
Then don't hijack this thread talking about things that you don't want, don't need, and don't understand.
I was interested in comments on the API, not about "do we need structs?" - yes, some of us need them, most of us dont.
Further, I comented on your API, that I don't like the style encapsulating a single struct into a buffer class, don't remember that?
Btw you told that ByteBuffer.putFloat is slower than FloatBuffer.put, but you used this (access.putFloat,..). did I miss s.th. ?
Ofcourse you don't like the API/design when you don't need it, because it's kinda "hackery" and non-Java, but required when performance is all one cares about.
And no, i'm not encapsulating a *single* struct into a buffer-class (check the two-structs-example). And the StructBuffer class is not bound to the Particle-class, but can be used for any generated struct.
sun.misc.Unsafe, which only ships with SUN' Java, right?
Look what point exactly are you trying to make here? Sure using Unsafe is hackery, but didn't Riven admit to that right from the start? I've been following this discussion, found it refreshing for a while but am getting a little concerned now, cos I can't help feeling you missed the entire point! You consider structs as value types that maintain their own state. Riven's structs merely wrap existing data. You provide convenience methods to read from and write to a buffer. Riven's structs provide a (structured, fast-path) view on bulk data. Why do you bluntly suggest using a different language, when someone has just shown a way of getting really good performance out of Java, on a silver plate. This may not be your cup of tea, and to be fair, I wouldn't use this because of the Unsafe bit. But still, I'm fascinated!
I hope I haven't missed anything but anyway, that's my take of this thread so far.
Fecking structs, I wish I'd never called them that. The whole point is nothing to do with C or structs in C or "value types". It is all about providing object-oriented access to data held in ByteBuffers in an efficient manner which is easy to implement in the current VMs, without breaking any semantics in the language or the specs.
This may not be your cup of tea, and to be fair, I wouldn't use this because of the Unsafe bit. But still, I'm fascinated!
Fecking structs, I wish I'd never called them that.
Well I know they are not structs, but it's the closest thing to it, in Java, right? When I'd call them "sliding window objects" nobody would have a clue.
Anyway, when I code the bytecode transformer on a rainy afternoon, you'll be the first to know.
With the bytecode stuff done you can access the fields, which will be converted into method-calls at runtime.
I use term dipper for simillar structures. That things you talked about might be called memory mapped, or siliding window dipper.
How are you going to implement write-through and read-through for field accesses directly to the underlying data though?
By replacing all bytecode-level calls to the fields with bytecode-level calls to the methods.
So every class that is loaded, has to be checked for those fields, which is possible with java.lang.instrument.ClassFileTransformer.
So adding the transformer has to be one of the first things the app does after launch.
but I still have little insight in which buffer methods are fast and which aren't. There once was a thread on that (http://www.java-gaming.org/forums/index.php?topic=11385.0 ) but it ended that at least for mustang, all buffer methods should perform excellent.
So I learned that absolute puts and gets are faster than relative puts and gets, aren't they?
Does it make a difference between e.g. ByteBuffer.putFloat().. and converting the ByteBuffer to a FloatBuffer and then calling put?
What else are the take away points to make direct buffer access fast?
Virtual machine Sun 1.5.0_06 "server"
how to put/get floats/ints/etc using the unsafe-class?
i've looked at sun's directbytebuffer. it seems i can allocate, access and free memory using Unsafe pretty simply. the only reason not using a bytebuffer when going for performance seems to be that a range check is performed at every access. however, i found a lot of "anInt << 0"-bitshifts. my brain, and my ide also say that these are completely pointless. what are they good for?
i wrote a small benchmark, but it lies. the java float array is, depening on some fine tuning, up to 30 times faster than accessing the data via Unsafe. i guess the vm is understanding my benchmark and starts to cheat.
The way one can access the pointers is considered so "not done", that I hestitate a little to just post it in this thread for everybody to use and abuse.
it seems that arrays are a LOT faster than any buffer available.
looking at this, i have to ask: what are buffers good for? why is the unsafe access that slow? shouldn't it be faster?
array access is about 10 times faster when using the server vm. rofl?
You have a SIZE of 10M (10MB !!) which does an awful lot of cache-flushing.
You're doing 2 increments per loop-iteration here. Bit unfair!
Change your benchmark to a real-world scenario and you'll get very different results.


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By NATALIA CASTILLO
I used to think that decisions were made in big leaps. Introductions meant braving the emotional deep end, and goodbye was a raw severing. I now understand decision–making through shades of gray, dictated by our desire to belong—wherever that may be.
In sixth grade, I discovered Freelee the Banana Girl on YouTube—a lifestyle vlogger, who promoted an extreme, unsustainable vegan diet. I was young, malleable, and had just been thrust into the worldwide web. This woman's YouTube channel, in all its chaotic evil, seemed to be the answer to achieving happiness by way of an unattainable diet and body. I was twelve years old.
Social media and the internet offered this "perfect" gateway to a million different personas, and I wanted them all. I wanted to be funny enough, well–liked enough, good–looking enough, but in my own distinct way. I yearned for these intangible characteristics, but I didn't want people to see my insatiable need to fit in.
When TikTok came along and a friend raved about the app to me, it was still in its infancy—another attempt to replace Vine. It was not until months later when the app became all the rage that I, along with adolescents worldwide, became hooked.
No longer were 20–minute YouTube videos the source of unspoken rules dictating my likes and dislikes. TikTok provided thousands of lifestyles and personality quirks to try on for size, right at my fingertips. Before I knew it, my expressions, my music taste, my clothing style, and even my hobbies were reflected all around me and through me. I was at once a mirror and a window to the world beyond the black screen.
One might characterize my actions as those of an insecure teenager lost in a flurry of uncertainty and lacking in affirmation, to which I would say, touché. Simultaneously, the state of young people in the digital age is one of hyper visibility and hyper invisibility. We put our identities up for judgment but keep them curated to our liking. We shrink into ourselves when our off–screen identities don't live up to our digital selves. In an age of excess, it is easy to become lost in the binary of 1s and 0s. My identity flattened to what I showed on my feed, and my experiences were lost to instant gratification.
I have deleted apps out of dissatisfaction and have felt the urge to throw my phone across the room and forcibly break the trance. I've done the scroll of shame on the app store, downloading TikTok from the cloud, hoping that all of my saved videos awaited me.
At 20 years old, I have some convoluted notion of the transition from one's formative years to adulthood. Somehow, stepping into my identity means disentangling myself from my decade–old digital footprint. I feel apathy towards social media, a world that once dictated my behavior. How can I feel animosity towards something I so willingly embraced? How can I denounce the same thing that builds bridges and breaks barriers? I can both appreciate the beauty of the digital world while recognizing the toll it has taken on my existence.
Knowing this, I've begun the untethering of my identity from my digital presence. I once tried to cut my ties with social media entirely, but I am now more reflective about how my relationship with it can evolve with time. While TikTok has been gone from my phone for approximately four months and Instagram is at times a lingering memory, I slowly find ways to plant seeds of authenticity in my feeds. Where one door closes, another opens to a new world for you to make your own. Perhaps it's true that some decisions are best made in short strides.


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All this brings me to my question of the week, "What am I living for? What is the purpose of my life?" I believe each of us has a specific role to play in G-d's plan, a role that no one else can fulfill. However, many times we become lost on the way. The pressures of life and other things distract us. We become wrapped up with things that, in G-d's plan, are but a distraction. The obstacles of life get in the way of G-d's plan for our life, even for our day.
Have you ever lost your way? Have you ever wondered how did I get here? What went wrong? I would pray Bilaam is a wake up call to us all. Our plans, our choices may not be G-d's. We must always be open to G-d's course corrections. Bilaam had a choice to make, his desires or G-d's. He chose his and faded from history. You might be interested in knowing his name comes up in three places in the Messianic Writings. It is found in II Peter 2:15, Revelations 2:14 and Jude 11. In all of these verses he is described as a man overcome with greed and leading others to sin.
My question to all of us is, will we act justly, loving grace and walk in purity with our G-d or will we walk in our own way doing what we want regardless of the truth we had heard and know in our hearts. Don't let anything deter you from what you know about G-d and His will for your life. Keep your ear open and listen for His still small voice. He has only your best at heart. He loves you completely.
One last thought, in Numbers 22:9 we read where G-d asked Bilaam a question, "Who are these men with you?" In Genesis 3:9 we read where G-d asked Adam, "Where are you?" In Genesis 4:9 he asked Cain, "Where is your brother?" Surely G-d already knew the answers to these questions so what did he ask them? I believe G-d asked these questions to give these three people the opportunity to find an answer and to see the situation they were in. In these three cases they failed the test.
In asking these questions G-d gave them the opportunity to see what they were doing or had done and a time to repent and turn from sin. In our own lives G-d, being a compassionate G-d, gives us the opportunity to change and to correct our path. May we always be quick to seize those opportunities.


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Germany's Continental, a leading global producer of tires, brakes and electronics, plans to move into the market for electric-vehicle batteries.
At the Detroit auto show, Continental CEO Elmar Degenhart announced a joint venture with Korean battery maker SK Innovation to produce lithium-ion batteries for autos.
Degenhart, 52, predicted that the joint venture, in which Continental AG holds a 49 percent stake, will become one of the top three global EV battery producers.
Degenhart also discussed Continental's entry into the turbocharger market, the auto industry's chronic tire shortages and his expansion plans for North America.
Continental CEO Elmar Degenhart says the auto industry must bring EV production costs down to achieve volume sales.
Q: Is your joint venture going to build a battery factory?
A: SK Innovation is investing about $1 billion in a battery cell manufacturing facility in Korea. They will be flexible. They can also use this facility to produce battery cells for the consumer market. This is a big advantage. Our partner does not need to jump into the market with huge production volumes from the beginning. They can play on the consumer side and the automotive side. They have economies of scale.
When will your joint venture start selling battery packs?
Normally it takes two or three years to bring systems into production, so you can expect this joint venture to start generating sales in about two years.
When will you generate significant battery sales?
This is an investment for the future, definitely. Nobody is under time pressure. You can't expect to make big profits four or five years from now. By 2020, we are projecting that about 8 percent of 100 million vehicles produced will be hybrid, and another 3 or 4 percent will be electric. By 2025, the combined volume of hybrids and EVs could rise to 30 or 40 percent.
EV sales in the United States have not been strong. Are EVs too expensive?
We know from opinion surveys that customers are willing to pay $700 to $2,000 extra compared with a normal car. Currently, an EV costs about $13,000 extra. The industry must bring costs down, and this will not happen overnight. We have to introduce a second, third and fourth generation of EV technology to bring [the premium] below $5,000. We will need until 2023 or 2024 to do that. So we can't expect really high volumes until then.
How much will Continental spend on battery research?
That's not figured out yet. I can tell you that we have been spending about 170 million euros a year [on r&d for EVs and hybrids]. We won't have to make a huge investment on top of that, but we will have to add resources.
Will the battery industry consolidate in five or 10 years?
It's a difficult question. There are a lot of small players already in the marketplace. We believe the smaller players will disappear. Most of them will be acquired by the bigger companies, so there will be a natural consolidation. How many players will exist in seven or eight years? It's too early to say.
Continental has entered the turbocharger market with a turbo for Ford Motor Co.'s new three-cylinder engine. What is the growth potential for turbochargers?
We went into production last year, and we've had a smooth launch so far. We also acquired a second customer in Europe at the end of last year. The global volume of direct injection gasoline engines [often paired with turbochargers] was 4 million units in 2010. The latest projections are that it will develop to 15.8 million engines in 2016. We will see a significant growth rate for turbocharged gasoline engines in the next couple of years, and we want to participate in this growth.
North American vehicle production is expected to grow 5 to 10 percent this year. Are you expanding North American capacity?
We will probably need another electronics plant in two or three years. We are also building a new tire plant in South Carolina, and we are expanding our existing tire plants in Illinois and Mexico. We are gaining market share in tires.
Are automakers in North America suffering from chronic tire shortages?
Not only in North America but in all regions in the world. During the economic crisis, all the big manufacturers -- especially the Big Four tire makers -- reduced capacity. To shut down a facility takes six months. But to start an operation, especially a greenfield site, takes at least three or four years. The tire shortage will last for another 12 to 24 months, at least.
Will your joint venture become one of the top EV battery producers?
For sure. For batteries, our target is to be one of the top three players. For tires, we are not so much focused on being number three or two. Our aim is to grow faster than the market.
Do you have a sales target for 2012?
We will end up in 2011 with revenues of 30 billion euros. That's up from 20 billion euros in 2009, so we enjoyed a steep growth rate, for sure. In 2012, we expect [global sales] will grow 3 to 4 percent. If that happens, then Continental can expect a growth rate of 7 to 8 percent in global revenue.
In November, Continental estimated raw material costs of 950 million euros for 2011. That was higher than expected, mostly because of synthetic rubber prices. Are you going to raise tire prices?
In the replacement market, we haven't completely caught up. So we [will] introduce higher prices at the beginning of this year, especially for replacement tires. With most of our original-equipment customers, we have [negotiated] agreements in the last two years. Mostly we use a price index. We are getting at least part of the added cost reimbursed, [but] we have a time delay of three to five months.
Continental ranks No.3 on the Automotive News Europe list of the top 100 global suppliers with worldwide original-equipment automotive parts sales of $24.8 billion in 2010.


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A federal judge declines Justice Department's request to hold Trump's team in contempt over classified documents
The decision was made in a closed-door hearing and comes after it was revealed that at least two documents with classified markings were found in a storage area in Florida.
Federal judge declines DOJ request to hold Trump office in contempt
Dec. 9, 2022, 6:17 PM UTC / Updated Dec. 9, 2022, 11:10 PM UTC
By Ken Dilanian, Liz Brown-Kaiser and Dareh Gregorian
A federal judge Friday did not grant the Justice Department's request to hold the office of former President Donald Trump in contempt for failing to comply with a grand jury subpoena demanding the return of documents with classified markings, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The decision was made during a closed-door hearing at a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C.
The Justice Department declined comment.
Trump's attorneys had no comment, but a spokesperson for Trump said in a statement that the former president "and his counsel will continue to be transparent and cooperative, even in the face of the highly weaponized and corrupt witch-hunt from the Department of Justice."
The DOJ's contempt request, which was first reported by The Washington Post, came after Trump's lawyers recently discovered at least two documents with such markings in a storage unit in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The storage unit is not far from Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, where the FBI executed a search warrant in August after obtaining information that Trump had held onto documents with classification markings even after getting hit with a grand jury subpoena for their return in May.
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That search turned up over 100 documents with such markings, including some marked top secret, in a storage room in Mar-a-Lago and in Trump's office there.
After getting the subpoena, Trump's attorneys returned a number of documents — including some with classified markings — in early June, and told the Justice Department in a letter that all documents with such markings had been returned.
The new documents were found after Trump's lawyers hired an outside firm to conduct searches last month at the storage facility and other locations.
After Trump left the White House, his office arranged with the federal General Services Administration to have six pallets of boxes moved from a storage facility in Virginia down to West Palm Beach and Mar-a-Lago in July of 2021, GSA emails previously obtained by NBC News show. The pallets were delivered in August of 2021, with four going to the storage facility and two going to Mar-a-Lago, the emails show.
The Justice Department has been conducting what it has described as an active criminal investigation into whether information involving national security was mishandled, as well as possible obstruction of justice.
Trump has denied any wrongdoing, and claimed that he declassified the documents and that they were his personal property. Under federal law, official White House papers are federal property and must be handed over to the National Archives when a president leaves office.
Friday's hearing on the DOJ's request, and the legal arguments underpinning it, was kept under wraps because it involved grand jury proceedings. Any orders from Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in the case, including any resulting from Friday's closed-door hearing, would likely be filed under seal as well.
NBC News was part of a press coalition that unsuccessfully sought access to the hearing. The coalition argued in a letter to Howell that the proceeding should be public, in part because lawyers for Trump and the government have already acknowledged in court filings that there is a pending grand jury action.
Trump lawyers Timothy Parlatore, James Trusty and Evan Corcoran were seen entering the judge's chambers on Friday around 2 p.m. ET, and they left the courthouse shortly before 3:30 p.m.
Corcoran drafted the June letter certifying all documents with classification markings had been returned, NBC News has previously reported.
The hearing comes one day after Trump's civil action demanding a court-appointed special master review the documents recovered by the feds in August was officially dismissed by a federal appeals court. That move allows DOJ investigators to finally review the 11,000 documents they recovered in August that didn't have classified markings.
The same court — 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — allowed the DOJ to review the over 100 documents that did have classified markings in October, overturning an earlier ruling by Aileen Cannon, a Florida federal court judge who was nominated by Trump.
Ken Dilanian
Ken Dilanian is the justice and intelligence correspondent for NBC News, based in Washington.
Liz Brown-Kaiser
Liz Brown-Kaiser covers Capitol Hill for NBC News.
Dareh Gregorian
Dareh Gregorian is a politics reporter for NBC News.
Daniel Barnes contributed.


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The conference will be an opportunity to present empirical and theoretical work from a variety of disciplines and fields: sociology, anthropology, design, economics, history, law, philosophy, psychology and semiotics. The focal theme of the 7th STS Italia Conference will be Technoscience from Below. By focusing on Technoscience from Below, the 7th STS Italia Conference will offer the opportunity to explore alternative co-productive paths of science, technology, and innovation.
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Mike Locksley returns home to be Maryland football coach
December 6, 2018 rusamerica
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Mike Locksley is thrilled to be home.
The Washington native who spent two stints as a Maryland football assistant and also served as the Terrapins' interim leader for six games in 2015 was introduced Thursday as the school's full-time coach.
"This was the job I've coveted since the day I put a whistle around my neck as a coach," said Locksley, the Alabama offensive coordinator who Tuesday was named the winner of the Broyles Award as the nation's top assistant coach. "Some people grow up wanting to be the head coach at the University of Alabama, Michigan, all the storied programs. For Locks, this was it."
Locksley, who turns 49 on Christmas Day, will remain with the top-ranked Crimson Tide through the College Football Playoff.
He is taking over a Maryland program coming off its most tumultuous season in recent memory.
It has been less than six months since the June 13 death of offensive lineman Jordan McNair, who collapsed from heat stroke May 29 during an offseason workout. Former coach D.J. Durkin was placed on administrative leave on Aug. 11 as investigations were conducted into the circumstances surrounding McNair's death and allegations of bullying and intimidation by coach and one of his assistants.
The governing board for the state university system decided to reinstate Durkin on Oct. 30, a decision that prompted widespread outrage and protests by players. University president Wallace Loh fired Durkin the next day.
Matt Canada served as the team's interim coach and was credited with keeping the team together under difficult circumstances and he interviewed for the permanent job, but Maryland instead went with Locksley,
The Terps finished the season 5-7, their fourth consecutive losing season and third year in the last four without a postseason appearance.
"This has been a difficult season for our team," athletic director Damon Evans said. "They deserve someone who can bring us together, someone who understands what they have gone through, someone who can help them continue to heal."
Enter Locksley, who endured a personal tragedy of his own. His 25-year-old son Meiko was shot and killed Sept. 3, 2017, in Columbia, Maryland.
Locksley also knows McNair's family; his daughter attended high school with McNair. Martin McNair, Jordan's father, attended Thursday's news conference.
"My No. 1 priority and focus will be the health, development and safety as the head of this family," Locksley said.
Locksley previously worked at Maryland from 1997-2002 as the running backs coach and from 2012-15 as offensive coordinator. He also had stops in between at Florida (2003-04) and Illinois (2005-08).
It is Locksley's second full-time head coaching job. He had a rocky tenure on and off the field over parts of three seasons at New Mexico, where he was 2-26. He was suspended for one game in 2009 for an altercation with an assistant coach, and was sued for sexual harassment by an administrative assistant. Those claims were later resolved.
Including his six-game stint as Maryland's interim coach in 2015, he owns a 3-31 career record.
"I'm so far removed from that New Mexico experience — 10 years and two days from when I was introduced there," Locksley said. "Who I've become as a coach and who I've become as a person, as everyone else (does), you mature, you grow. I just spent three years saturated in winning under coach Nick Saban and the Alabama football program."
Maryland's football program has struggled to gain traction since joining the Big Ten in 2014. The Terps have gone 13-30 in league play in that span, including a combined 3-17 against East Division powers Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State and Penn State.
Locksley possesses a reputation as a strong recruiter, particularly in the Washington area, which made him an ideal candidate after such a difficult season.
"We have one of the best areas in the country for talent, and we're going to work our tails off to keep it right here," Locksley said.
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Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române (el Diccionario explicativo de la lengua rumana, conocido con la abreviatura DEX) es el diccionario más importante del idioma rumano, publicado por el Instituto de lingüística de la Academia Rumana (Institutul de Lingvistică "Iorgu Iordan - Al. Rosetti").

Se editó por primera vez en 1975. En 1988 se publicó un suplemento, denominado DEX-S, donde se incluyeron las omisiones de la edición anterior. La segunda edición se publicó en 1996 en las que se incluyeron algunas definiciones nuevas y los cambios en la ortografía producidos en 1993. Esta edición tiene unas 65.000 entradas principales. La tercera edición se publicó en 2009.

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Began Winter 1986
153 eps × 24m
Bulma is a girl in search of the mystical dragonballs that when brought together grant any wish. In her search she bumps into the owner of one of these balls, a strange boy named Goku. The two then set off together, Bulma in search of the dragonballs and Goku on a quest to become stronger.
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Began Fall 1986
In ancient times, a group of young men devoted their lives to protecting Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom and War. These men were capable of fighting without weapons—a swing of their fist alone was powerful enough to rip the very sky apart and shatter the earth beneath them. These brave heroes became known as Saints, as they could summon up the power of the Cosmos from within themselves.
Now, in present day, a new generation of Saints is about to come forth. The young and spirited Seiya is fighting a tough battle for the Sacred Armor of Pegasus, and he isn't about to let anyone get in the way of him and his prize. Six years of hard work and training pay off with his victory and new title as one of Athena's Saints.
But Seiya's endeavor doesn't end there. In fact, plenty of perils and dangerous enemies face him and the rest of the Saints throughout the series. What new quests await the heroes of the epic Saint Seiya saga?
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Began Spring 1979
1787 eps × 11m
Nobi Nobita is a 4th-grade boy in Tokyo. One day, a round, blue cat-style robot (minus ears) pops up in his desk drawer. Nobita's great-great-grandson (or something) lives in the 22nd Century, but thanks to Nobita's mistakes, the entire family is living in poverty. To rectify this, Nobita's descendant sends Doraemon back to the past, to help prevent Nobita from making mistakes. Of course this is a difficult task since Nobita is the weakest and least intelligent child in his class. Doraemon does, however, have a 4-dimensional pocket on his front, which contains cool gadgets from the future. With these toys, Doraemon will try to help Nobita. Unfortunately, Nobita also has the bad habit of misusing Doraemon's gadgets and landing himself in yet more trouble!
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In a post-nuclear future, human race has made many steps. Normal people have become slaves, while genetically modified giants rule the world. Gunpowder is a distant memory and martial arts is the only weapon a man can count on. Two schools face each other in the battle for dominion: Hokuto and Nanto. Kenshiro is the rightful successor of Hokuto school, while Shin is Nanto's. Shin stole Ken's girlfriend Julia and Ken is looking for her. Kenshiro travels the barren wasterland of post-apocalyptic Earth as seeks to rescue Julia. As the series progresses, we are introduced to the six Grand Masters of the Nanto Seiken school, as well as Kenshiro's three adoptive brothers, also trained in the art of Hokuto Shinken. Eventually, Kenshiro's ultimate rival becomes none other than his eldest brother, Raoh, a would-be conqueror who does not recognize Kenshiro as a worthy succcessor.
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Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
47 eps × 24m
The year is Universal Century 0088. Directly after the end of the Gryps War, Haman Karn and her army of Zeon remnants on the asteroid Axis begin their quest of reviving the lost empire of the Zabi's, and proclaim themselves as the Neo-Zeon. With the Earth Federation as hapless as ever, only the Anti-Earth Union Group (AEUG) is able oppose the plans of Neo-Zeon. In need of all the help it can get after being decimated in the previous war and losing many of its key members, the AEUG ship Argama enlists the aid of a young junk collector from the Side 1 colony of Shangri-La named Judau Ashta to pilot its newest mobile suit, the ZZ Gundam.
Maison Ikkoku is an old boarding house in the town of Clock Hill. It is relatively comfortable to live in, but unfortunately, it doesn't provide its tenants with the excitement and modernity that normal college students prefer. So... they improvise.
One of the students is 20-year-old Yusaku Godai, a calm and good-natured young man, who is doing his best to make friends and enjoy life. But being a typical introvert, he is often teased and taken advantage of by his other, more assertive roommates. Too stressed to continue living this way, he makes a decision to move out to a more peaceful residence. However, just as he is about to leave the house, he bumps into the beautiful Kyoko Otonashi, who introduces herself as the new manager. For Godai, this is love at first sight, and even though he was set on finding a new place, her charm allows him to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
However, despite her youth and kind nature, Kyoko is actually a widow who lost her husband in a tragic accident. This has left her scarred and very vulnerable, and even though she does her best to be positive, it is evident that depression is taking over her. Godai and Kyoko quickly become very close, and he makes it his ultimate goal in life to make her happy, no matter what.
The story centers around three characters—Uesugi Kazuya, his twin older brother Tatsuya, and Asakura Minami. Kazuya is the darling of his town as he's talented, hardworking, and the ace pitcher for his middle school baseball team. Tatsuya is a hopeless slacker who's been living the life of giving up the spotlight to Kazuya, despite the fact that he may be more gifted than him. Minami is the beautiful childhood girlfriend and for all intents, sister from next door who treats both of them as equals. Society largely assumes Kazuya and Minami will become the perfect couple, including Tatsuya. Yet as time progresses, Tatsuya grows to realize that he's willing to sacrifice anything for the sake of his brother, except at the expense of giving up Minami to Kazuya. And thus the story is told of Tatsuya trying to prove himself over his established younger brother, how it affects the relationship between the three, and both brothers' attempts to make Minami's lifelong dreams come true.
Ganbare! Kickers
The Kickers are first and foremost a football team. Actually, they're only playing for their school, but haven't exactly covered themselves with glory. When the new player, Gregor (Daichi Kakeru) arrives at the school, they just had faced a resounding defeat again. However, thanks to Gregor, things are going to change. Highly motivated, they'll try to get rid of their "always-loser-team" image. Their strongest enemy are the Devils, who Gregor provokes right from the start. However, it's not all about football. When the captain, Mario (Hongou Masaru), is not pursued by his female fans, the Kickers often hang around and do stuff together.
Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari
Nippon Animation
January 11, 1987 JST
Meg, faithful and gentle, Jo, independent and energetic, Beth, quiet and shy, Amy, amiable and precocious–the four sisters live vigorously and happily at home with their gentle mother while waiting for their father to return from the Civil War. Helping each other, they challenge their fates and grow up to become wonderful women.
Gegege no Kitarou (1985)
As civilization advances, people are beginning to lose the consideration and kindliness for Nature. This has incurred the wrath of the ghosts who are becoming increasingly unhappy with the selfishness of the human kind. However, there is a conflict of interests within the ghosts in which one extreme opposes the humans completely while another extreme desires the co-existence of humans and ghosts. Kitaro and his family belongs to the latter category and yearns to seek mutual understanding between the humans and ghosts. Kitaro's fight for love and hope continues.
Kikou Senki Dragonar
February 7, 1987 JST
A.D. 2087 - the United Lunar Empire Giganos wages war on the Earth Federation Military to take control of the planet and establish a "rebirth" of the human race. During an invasion of a colony by Giganos' forces, three civilian men stumble upon a trio of top-secret Metal Armor units called "Dragonars" and pilot them to combat the enemy forces.
Maple Town Stories is about friendship, adventure and the troubles the children (Patty Rabbit, Bobby Bear and Fanny Fox) who are the main characters of the show, fall into. Wild Wolfe is a homeless thief who lives in the forest and usually steals from the town and does other mischief, but the kids are always there to stop him and set things right slowly making him understand the wrongs of his ways.
Oh! Family
Knack Productions
This story takes place in Florida, USA. The main characters are the lovable members of the Andersons; each one has his or her own different characterstics which conflict and support the others'. By going through many events (meaningful ones as well as weird ones) together, the bond between them grows stronger and tighter.
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