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Biography & Memoir (24)
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Nothing without a Grievance
P.D.G. Thomas: John Horne Tooke, 19 August 1999
Gentleman Radical: A Life of John Horne Tooke 1736-1812
by Christina Bewley and David Bewley.
Tauris, 297 pp., £42, June 1998, 1 86064 344 2Show More
"... John Horne Tooke enjoyed two distinct political careers, under two different names: as John Horne in the age of the American Revolution, and as John Horne Tooke in that of the French Revolution. In both identities he attracted notoriety or fame, according to the prejudices of commentators ..."
Fiery Participles
D.A.N. Jones, 6 September 1984
Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic
by David Bromwich.
Oxford, 450 pp., £19.50, March 1984, 0 19 503343 4Show More
William Godwin: Philosopher, Novelist, Revolutionary
by Peter Marshall.
Yale, 496 pp., £14.95, June 1984, 0 521 24386 6Show More
Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy
edited by Marilyn Butler.
Cambridge, 280 pp., £25, June 1984, 0 521 24386 6Show More
"... two good anecdotes, to illustrate his points. There is the tale of Hazlitt's fight with John Lamb, in the course of a dispute about Holbein and Vandyke. I will quote the version in Benjamin Haydon's journal: 'They both became so irritated, they upset the card-table, and seized each other by the throat. In the struggle that ..."
May I come to your house to philosophise?
John Barrell: Godwin's Letters, 8 September 2011
The Letters of William Godwin Vol. I: 1778-97
by Pamela Clemit.
Oxford, 306 pp., £100, February 2011, 978 0 19 956261 9Show More
"... darkest period of his mourning. The volume includes letters to Joseph Priestley, Thomas Lawrence, John Thelwall, Samuel Parr ('the Whig Dr Johnson'), the great liberal advocate Thomas Erskine, R.B. Sheridan, Charles James Fox, the novelists and dramatists Elizabeth Inchbald, Thomas Holcroft, Amelia Alderson, Mary Hays and Charlotte Smith, as well as ..."
The Reptile Oculist
John Barrell, 1 April 2004
"... John Taylor, the journalist, newspaper editor and poet, was born in 1757. His grandfather, the legendary 'Chevalier' Taylor, had been oculist to George II, and afterwards, so his grandson assures us, to 'every crowned head in Europe'. He was as famous for his womanising as for his knowledge of ophthalmology, but most famous, perhaps, for his habit of prefacing every operation he performed with a long speech in praise of his own skill, composed in what he claimed was 'the true Ciceronian', with each main verb cunningly held back to the end of the sentence ..."
Great Palladium
James Epstein: Treason, 7 September 2000
Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
by John Barrell.
Oxford, 7377 pp., £70, March 2000, 0 19 811292 0Show More
"... an elaborate theatrical spectacle, appealing to the emotions instead of reason. At the centre of John Barrell's exhaustive study of treason in the mid-1790s is a brilliantly sustained argument about the struggle to fix the character of the word 'imagination'. Unlike the battle then being fought over such important political terms as ..."
Such a Husband
John Bayley, 4 September 1997
Selected Letters of George Meredith
edited by Mohammad Shaheen.
Macmillan, 312 pp., £47.50, April 1997, 0 333 56349 2Show More
"... her best to mend her father's shaky finances, writing on his behalf to Byron's old friend Sir John Hobhouse, and almost, if not quite, soliciting him for a handout. She was close to her father, probably much closer than she ever was to either of her husbands, or to the lover who succeeded them. Her marriage to Meredith went wrong almost from the start, as ..."
Supermac's Apprenticeship
Ian Gilmour, 24 November 1988
Macmillan 1894-1956
by Alistair Horne.
Macmillan, 537 pp., £16.95, October 1988, 0 333 27691 4Show More
"... biography would normally be expected to halt, if not reverse. In a graceful preface Alistair Horne says that he at first refused the invitation to be Macmillan's biographer. Having never before attempted a biography, he was uneasy about his qualifications, though as an outstanding military historian with a rare gift for narrative and a fine eye for ..."
Dreadful Sentiments
Tom Paulin, 3 April 1986
The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats. Vol. I: 1865-1895
edited by John Kelly and Eric Domville.
Oxford, 548 pp., £22.50, January 1986, 0 19 812679 4Show More
"... will enable new writing, new politics, unblemished by Irishness, but securely Irish.' Opening John Kelly and Eric Domville's scrupulous and magnificent edition of Yeats's letters, I readied myself to take a sling-shot at the great Cuchulain – the impulse dissolved in helpless love, chortles, delight. The old boy, I realised, has managed here his ..."
'I thirst for his blood'
Ruth Bernard Yeazell: Henry James, 25 November 1999
Henry James: A Life in Letters
edited by Philip Horne.
Penguin, 668 pp., £25, June 1999, 0 7139 9126 7Show More
A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art
by Lyndall Gordon.
Chatto, 500 pp., £20, October 1998, 0 7011 6166 3Show More
"... Conrad's Mirror of the Sea among them – nearly all the correspondence with writers that Philip Horne includes in his admirable new edition conforms to the pattern. Experienced recipients of such letters must have learned to watch for that 'but' and to steel themselves accordingly. Especially later in his career, James found it difficult to separate the ..."
Bullshit and Beyond
Clive James, 18 February 1988
The Road to Botany Bay
by Paul Carter.
Faber, 384 pp., £14.95, October 1987, 0 571 14551 5Show More
The Oxford History of Australia. Vol. IV: 1901-1942
by Stuart Macintyre.
Oxford, 399 pp., £22.50, October 1987, 0 19 554612 1Show More
The Archibald Paradox: A Strange Case of Authorship
by Sylvia Lawson.
Penguin Australia, 292 pp., AUS $12.95, September 1987, 0 14 009848 8Show More
The Lucky Country Revisited
by Donald Horne.
Dent, 235 pp., AUS $34.95, October 1987, 9780867700671Show More
"... must have had a good deal to do with it. The phrase 'ways of seeing' crops up, reminding us of John Berger and his allegedly penetrating double squint. The authorial assumption which remains unquestioned at the end of the book – after 350 pages in which the word 'spatial' appears rarely fewer than three times per paragraph and sometimes twice in the ..."
Nicholas Spice, 18 October 1984
On the Perimeter: Caroline Blackwood at Greenham Common
by Caroline Blackwood.
Heinemann, 113 pp., £5.95, September 1984, 0 434 07468 3Show More
The Witches of Eastwick
by John Updike.
Deutsch, 316 pp., £8.95, September 1984, 0 233 97665 5Show More
Heinemann, 279 pp., £8.95, October 1984, 0 434 07467 5Show More
According to Mark
by Penelope Lively.
Heinemann, 218 pp., £8.95, October 1984, 9780434427420Show More
"... subject-matter fixed with a steady eye, The Witches of Eastwick through the potency of John Updike's imaginative release. On the Perimeter records what Caroline Blackwood found at Greenham Common and in the town of Newbury, when she visited the nuclear protest encampments there in March this year, shortly before the town council attempted ..."
Divided We Grow
John Barrell: When Pitt Panicked, 5 June 2003
The London Corresponding Society 1792-99
edited by Michael T. Davis.
Pickering & Chatto, £495, June 2002, 1 85196 734 6Show More
Romanticism, Publishing and Dissent: Joseph Johnson and the Cause of Liberty
by Helen Braithwaite.
Palgrave, 243 pp., £45, December 2002, 0 333 98394 7Show More
"... William Hazlitt, Thomas Malthus, Thomas Paine, Richard Price, Joseph Priestley, Charlotte Smith, John Horne Tooke, Sarah Trimmer, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Wordsworth, as well as a number of theologians and religious controversialists, of writers on science and medicine and so on, whose names were then far more familiar than many of those I've ..."
Outside the text
Marilyn Butler, 19 December 1985
The Beauty of Inflections: Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory
by Jerome McGann.
Oxford, 352 pp., £19.50, May 1985, 0 19 811730 2Show More
The Politics of Language: 1791-1819
by Olivia Smith.
Oxford, 269 pp., £19.50, December 1984, 0 19 812817 7Show More
"... and editors. Other leading figures also do both, including, in this country, Christopher Ricks and John Carey. But most critics in good repute don't seem to want to edit, and wouldn't be any good if they tried. The provocative element in McGann's position for them will be his serious belief in the centrality of the role of the editor. He goes back to the ..."
Lawful Resistance
Blair Worden, 24 November 1988
Algernon Sidney and the English Republic 1623-1677
by Jonathan Scott.
Cambridge, 258 pp., £27.50, August 1988, 0 521 35290 8Show More
Seeds of Liberty: 1688 and the Shaping of Modern Britain
by John Miller.
Souvenir, 128 pp., £15.95, July 1988, 0 285 62839 9Show More
Reluctant Revolutionaries: Englishmen and the Revolution of 1688
by W.A. Speck.
Oxford, 267 pp., £17.50, July 1988, 9780198227687Show More
War and Economy in the Age of William III and Marlborough
by D.W. Jones.
Blackwell, 351 pp., £35, September 1988, 0 631 16069 8Show More
Robert Harley: Speaker, Secretary of State and Premier Minister
by Brian Hill.
Yale, 259 pp., £25, June 1988, 0 300 04284 1Show More
A Kingdom without a King: The Journal of the Provisional Government in the Revolution of 1688
by Robert Beddard.
Phaidon, 192 pp., £14.95, November 1988, 9780714825007Show More
"... who describe 17th-century England as a country ridden with class hatred, but 1688 bore it out. John Miller's Seeds of Liberty, although emphasising the dependence of the Revolution on its acceptance by a broad and well-informed political nation, concedes that the nobles led and the people followed. A hundred years later the principle of deference ..."
R.W. Johnson, 4 August 1994
Charles de Gaulle, Futurist of the Nation
by Régis Debray, translated by John Howe.
Verso, 111 pp., £29.95, April 1994, 0 86091 622 7Show More
De Gaulle and 20th-Century France
edited by Hugh Gough and John Horne.
Edward Arnold, 158 pp., £12.99, March 1994, 0 340 58826 8Show More
François Mitterrand: A Study in Political Leadership
by Alistair Cole.
Routledge, 216 pp., £19.99, March 1994, 0 415 07159 3Show More
"... withdrawn, and had seven bishops sacked. When the new Papal Nuncio, Monsignor Roncalli (later Pope John XXIII), went to plead the cause of Catholic schools, he took with him a map of France with all the under-funded Catholic schools marked in red. De Gaulle sent him packing: 'This map is the map of France. It is therefore up to the French, and not a foreign ..."


A smart guitar bot that generates several monophonic synth parts, kind of in the style of Steve Reich.
Generates up to four guitar parts. Creates its own form (combination of individual parts per phrase). Generates density value per phrase that determines how parts generate onsets. Synth patches will vary with each appearance.


Just tap the Available offline slider in your Songs folder and the tracks will download to your device. Puslar is definitely one of the best music player apps availab eright now. I hope someone reads this!! With this app you can create your own music streaming service. It's a music player worth trying. I was a bit stumped when it refused to work because it was offline.
Stream to one device at a time. Quick Actions let you do the things you do most often faster and in fewer steps. Quietly… I would not recommend subscribing for this app. In the end, it all depends on the cost of the subscription, design and of course, the amount of songs you can enjoy. Pros: Has a huge library so can find almost anything out there. It's effective and efficient, though. Want to listen without interruptions? Pandora brings radio to you smartphone and tablet.
We changed music library section so it looks more clear and it's easy to find all needed songs, albums, artists in it. Add vocals into the mix by recording your voice and applying different sound effects. Related article Having trouble syncing? A huge variety of genres are covered by the app, as well as podcasts, comedy and news. Price: Free 8: SoundCloud Blending music with social media, SoundCloud allows users to explore trending tracks and follow their friends to discover their favourite artists. Cons: Only available in portrait mode. Just pick your favorite songs, add them to your collection or even download them for later offline playing. Simply play the track, hum or sing and SoundHound will find the track details for you.
Create a playlist with music you've purchased or uploaded to OneDrive or pick your background music on Xbox One. Price: Free 7: Shazam Wondering what the name of the song is from that advert you keep seeing? Groove has come along way since the early days. Cons: Can take a while to load between songs. It also has basic stuff like an equalizer. Really nice looking and very functional. If you like falling asleep to music, iHeart Radio does have a sleep timer to let you fade off without worrying that your Windows 10 device will keep running through the night.
If you decide to view full lyrics, press a little more deeply to Pop into a full screen lyrics view. All the music is legal and music tracks go with official musical videos, which you can switch off if your Internet connection is slow. Before you could see dozens of songs on the home screen, lots of categories to explore-- artists, genres, recently played, etc. Cons: Does contain video ads. Evermusic - music player and downloader for your iPhone or iPad. Lets you copy paste files via regular file manager, removing the need for itunes on windows which is a huge plus. It can even be used in airplane mode making it perfect for long flights.
Music files can be sorted by artist, albums, songs or playlists. With Pandora Premium, you have the same feature and the added capability to download any album, song or playlist in Pandora's vast library to play when you're offline. We also added new sorting function and now you can sort songs in your music library or playlist by name, size, song number, album, artist. Pros: Comes with some great podcasts. We also polished a few things, fixed bugs, and made some performance improvements. You can create custom stations base on your favorite song or artist. Pandora also offers a free version of the music experience but with limitations.
Evermusic What we really like about this app and made us include it in our top is that through it, you can access all your music from different cloud storage services, like DropBox, OneDrive, Box, Google Drive or even Yandex. Fortunately, there's a lot of great apps to choose from. You can add up to 50,000 files from your computer to be stored in Google's cloud and you get access to tens of millions of songs from Google's library on-demand. If you want to listen to offline music, use it to download music to iPhone and offline listen to music in iPhone Music app. You Android app and game lists! There are discounts available for Family accounts, students, and members of the U.
With SoundCloud android app, you can explore trending music and trending audio feeds, search directly for tracks, artists and other users, follow friends and artists to hear what they share, browse tracks by genre and more other features. Deezer A relatively new addition to the game, Deezer has registered a huge growth over the time. Now there are weird new categories that don't show actual songs in the thumbnails, and the thumbnails are so huge you can only see two items in each category without scrolling sideways and and you can only see two categories at a time without scrolling down. So, if you wanted to make use of Swarm. New fixes: - OneDrive crashing bug. New audio player and metadata reader will update your songs metadata very quickly.
So, if you are on a road trip or travelling to a rural area, you might want to consider taking your music collection offline. You may have overlooked the built-in Groove Music app, but you shouldn't. Google Play Music makes it easy to discover, play and share the music you love on Android and the web. It's very much the Swiss Army Knife of media players. The feature is only available when you have a Groove Music Pass subscription.


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Q: Including the substring "_id" in column names I have a table of Teams. Each Team has an ID.
I have another table that holds Players. Each Player is assigned to a team.
So my tables might look something like
CREATE TABLE players (
   id        INTEGER   PRIMARY KEY
   name      STRING
   team_id   INTEGER   REFERENCES teams(id)
)

CREATE TABLE teams (
   id        INTEGER PRIMARY KEY
   name      STRING
)

Does writing _id make it any more clearer that the column is meant to hold an ID of a team (as opposed to maybe a team name)?
If I saw that team was linked to a key on the teams table I would assume the column is meant to hold an ID.
I find that if I started following a convetion where I tack on _id I'll end up with a lot of columns with _id in them, but am not sure whether it adds any value.

A: This is a matter of style, and likely to get religious.  Personally, I do find it valuable to explicitly label ID fields TeamID and PlayerID; as you say, it makes it perfectly clear that the field stores an ID and not some other type of data, such as a label.  Being explicit is usually more valuable than being brief, in the long term.
I prefer using PlayerID, TeamID, etc. over just ID, but offhand I can't give you a compelling reason.  It means that your joins are consistently X to X (P.TeamID = T.TeamID), whereas P.ID and T.ID are very different fields which should not be joined.  It's easier to confuse P.ID and T.ID when glancing through a query than P.PlayerID and T.TeamID.  On the other hand, there's value in consistently using the same field name for your PK, too.

A: You talked about naming the column in Players Team instead of Team_Id and that you would be easily able to tell that it is related to Team.Id.  And yes, you can figure it out.  And yes it's easy. If you have a foreign key to help you.  And if you check the foreign keys before creating any queries.  And if you don't have a foreign key and don't happen to have another column of the same data type in the Team table, say Team.TaxId or something along those lines.  That's a lot of ifs to my mind.
One of the things you can do to make your code easier to read and more maintainable is to use consistent naming standards.  That means that if you are going to reference Team.Id by a column Team make sure you do it consistently throughout your database.  Players.Id will always tie to TableName.Players etc.  If you do that and you document it then you shouldn't have any problems.  The benefit to using Team.TeamId, Player.PlayerId, Player.TeamId etc is that it is a common naming standard and if you're company has a massive change over of DBAs the next group of people who are looking at your code will be more easily able to understand it.

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After 50 years of space industry stasis, we are approaching an upward inflection for space travel. We put a man on the moon in 1969, and then spent the next two decades figuring out how to put nukes on rockets to bomb the Russians. The underfunded NASA hasn't made much progress since 1969, and it's time for non-federal hands to take over. Luckily, the 21st century versions of the Men Who Built America are taking control. Now is the first time in the history of the world that the possibility for us to extend life to other planets is open. Welcome to the space race.
Jeff Bezos plans to create the infrastructure to speed up the growth of the space industry. Bezos cites the space industry's slow growth is due to the lack of infrastructure. This is coming from the guy who built the $350 billion dollar Amazon empire on remote payment systems and excellent shipping services.
Elon Musk wants to turn humanity into a multi-planetary species, first by creating a self-sustaining outpost on Mars as insurance for humanity's survival if disaster were to happen on Earth. If this seems like a fever dream, welcome to Elon Musk. Earth's rapid environmental deterioration would cost $60 trillion to start reversing the damage done. This is a tough bill to pass around the global dinner table, where the total GDP of all national economies is only $75 trillion. Global warming and overpopulation are two problems that could bring Earth to a catastrophic ending by 2100, and Musk wants to ensure humanity's survival.
Richard Branson's businessman by practice, adventurer at heart approach to life spices up the space race. Founder of the Virgin Empire of over 400 companies, Branson himself hopped in a hot air balloon to become the first person to cross the Atlantic in 1987. His competitive drive to beat records and become the first to conquer the previously unconquered combined with his underdog boldness makes him a force to be reckoned with in the race to space.
Paul Allen helped to revolutionize the tech world with Microsoft and is now looking to revolutionize the space world in a similar fashion by lowering the costs for space entrepreneurs around the globe.
The four combine for nearly $100 billion in net worth and each have their strategic strengths. Elon Musk once said when describing his Hyperloop project, " As long as there's competition, competition is good for innovation. Ideally, you'd want an industry where there are at least three or four entities competing. That, I think, tends to lead to the best level of innovation because any company that sort of stays stationary with their technology will be exceeded by their competitors." Well, there are conveniently four powerful players in the space race that will carry mankind further than it has ever gone before.
Best Known For: CEO of Amazon, his bald head, and his honking laugh.
Amazon.com Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is the reigning champion in creating possibly the best viable e-commerce business model ever conceived. Amazon is a behemoth with its hands in everything from warehouse storage to cloud storage. A lot of Bezos' work with Blue Origin (his own rocket project) has been under the radar and he was recently recruited to be a part of the Pentagon's Innovation Advisory Board.
Best Known For: Tesla, Paypal, Hyperloop, SolarCity, OpenAI, and being real life Iron Man.
Elon Musk has the lion's share of the publicity and traction in the rocket business. Being the Founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX is just one of his many hats. Musk is also the Co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, the Co-founder and Chairman of SolarCity, and the Co-chairman of OpenAI. Elon used his proceeds of $165 million from his stake in Paypal after its acquisition to fund SpaceX and Tesla. He decided to defer living the lavished lifestyle of many successful entrepreneurs (he could barely even afford rent) in order to try his hand at conquering the world's problems and making reaching Mars a reality.
Musk has also announced a merger between Tesla and SolarCity. This combined power-storage and power-generation and automotive monster could give Tesla the potential to be a company with a $1 trillion market cap.
SpaceX is making most of its wealth by serving NASA and many other private companies in delivering cargo and satellites into orbit or to the International Space Station (ISS). The Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft are taking on the bulk of the workload. Elon's vision is one day making it affordable to send people to Mars for brief periods of time. One million people to be exact and he's not too far off from doing it.
SpaceX constructed and launched the first private spacecraft to land on Earth after being in orbit, as well as the first private spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station. Musk's plan to create a reusable rocket is going to help drop the cost of space travel by a factor of around 100.
The Falcon Heavy is Elon's next big project and he plans to test it later on this year. It is twice as powerful than any other rocket in use and has the capabilities to transport people to the moon and Mars. He also hopes to have the Dragon Version 2 (about the size of a large SUV) sent to Mars in 2018 with no passengers on it. This is not because he has any fear of it failing, but because there's no way for the rocket to get back. Expect us to be writing about the first manned mission to Mars in 2024.
Best Known For: Virgin (most notably Virgin Records, Virgin Mobile, Virgin Airways) a positive attitude, and his cheeky ever-present grin.
Branson is the only one out of the group with actual aviation industry experience. As the founder of Virgin Atlantic, Branson learned what it was like to fight as an underdog (winning over British Airways) and to deal with chaotic times such as when crude oil was upwards of $149/barrel (it is now around $40/barrel).
A 17-year-old Richard Branson started out with a student newspaper and grew an empire of over 350 companies doing more than $15 billion in annual revenue. He coined the term "branded venture capital" along the way.
After a few major hiccups, including a fatal crash in 2007 of the VSS Enterprise in 2014. As of August 2nd, 2016 Virgin Galactic has finally received its space travel license from the US Federal Aviation Administration. This license is a crucial step forward in putting Branson's spacecraft, which looks and lands more like an airplane than a rocket, into sub-orbit around the big blue marble. He hopes to make commercial flights into space a norm by 2018.
Paul Allen is no stranger to the business of space. In 2000, Allen brokered a deal which funded Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne which later won the Ansari X-Prize of $10 million in 2004. It turns out that this very project later fell into the hands of Richard Branson. Allen, who is described as mostly reclusive, is nothing short of being one of the greatest philanthropists to live and has started multiple institutes for brain science, cell science, and artificial intelligence.
Paul Allen's Vulcan Aerospace venture focuses on creating a gigantic six-engine plane with a wingspan of 385 feet capable of delivering satellites into specific orbits, without the usual complications of weather and scheduling delays on the ground. Nicknamed the "Roc", the Stratolaunch is a dual-bodied plane is connected by a reinforced center wing that provides the lift and stability for payloads of over 500,000 pounds. This essentially what a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket can launch from the ground, except straight from the stratosphere. Allen wants to make space more publicly accessible and revolutionize the industry in the same way the personal computer did the tech world.
Musk wants to fly people to and eventually colonize Mars. Creating a self-sustaining population on Mars will ensure that the only intelligent we have ever known will continue.
Bezos wants to "save Earth" by making low-cost, reusable rockets to eventually move all of Earth's heavy industry off the planet. We will have more room to grow and more energy to support our growth. Our planet will finally breathe a clean sigh of relief once the bulk of our heavy industry is somewhere that is otherwise uninhabitable for life.
Branson wants to send people into space for the fun of it. The commercialization of space will make the concept of space entrepreneurship more plausible as the target market continues to grow.
Allen wants to make space an accessible target for future entrepreneurs. With Bezos, the high initial fixed costs will be lowered and space will within our immediate grasp.
In a world where company valuations soar based on a number of people using selfie filters that make them look like dogs, the reason is clear why there isn't more competition in the space industry. Space is no man's land – both in terms for its habitability and profitability. Sending anything into space is an extremely high risk, low reward situation.
Thankfully, humanity has some of the brightest minds and billions of capital attacking the space front from multiple angles. With Paul Allen's Stratolaunch platform, mankind will be able to send rockets and satellites into space at a more reliable and eventually cheaper rate. With the help of Jeff Bezos, the journey to space will be paved with excellent infrastructure. Elon Musk's energy advancements through SolarCity and Tesla will make space travel more effective. And to top it all off, Richard Branson will make space travel commercially appealing by sending people on a tour.
A few decades ago, the pinnacle of competition among society's elite would occur on the horse racing tracks. Now, at least for the billionaires in the entrepreneurial world, the focus is on the race to space. The final frontier has captured the wonder and fascination of mankind since we popped out of whatever primordial stew we came from. It's hard not to conjure up the image of a few neighborhood kids playing with rocket toys. There's a space nerd in all of us. The only difference is some of us have billions and business empires to act on it.
Many thanks to Grant Horvath for co-writing this article with me and being a big space nerd.


New York hadn't passed a comprehensive gun control package since the December 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The legislature in 2013 passed a law that limited high-capacity magazines, implemented universal background checks and revoked the gun licenses and weapons of the severely mentally ill.
Democrats, after winning control of the state Senate in November, immediately started work to approve more bills.
The legislature in January passed six measures that ban bump stocks, extend waiting periods for gun purchases, prevent teachers from carrying guns in schools and allow law enforcement to remove guns from people judged to pose a danger to themselves or others. The bills passed largely along party lines and were signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat.
Editor's note: Due to progressive gun legislation New York has one of the lowest gun fatality rates in the Nation.


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So many more I've forgotten - often with wild allegations trying to get the thread pulled you could surmise.
Oh and many times other people have been impersonated which seems to fool the simple-minded every time, obviously this could be anyone.
Wow, how would back at square one know about all of the details innthe emails between kip and mark singer?? Only rational explanation is that it is kip.
^Yawn. Nothing new there and just a rehash of this thread.
It appears Singer will also touch on the vehemence of his accusers. At least I hope so. While I am no fan of this serial cheater, I do find this thread rather absurd.
Did you read anything that has not already been covered ad nauseum in this thread?
Holy Moses this is real! I can FINALLY stop following this thread!
Although personally never convinced that an article would prove anything we didn't know, all the doubters will no doubt come and apologize.
I may be mistaken but isn't the page linked to an intro or taster for what has actually been written?
"For a man or a woman of any age, a marathon performance of under three hours is considered a mark of distinction," Singer writes.
Sorry, Marky. You lost me there.
RE: Back at square one 7/29/2012 2:38PM - in reply to oh, really?
My article about him in The New Yorker will be published Monday (July 30), in the issue dated August 6, 2012.It will also be available on our website (www.newyorker.com), but behind a paywall accessible only to subscribers.
WTF? We practically wrote the article for you - supplied you with all the information for the article, in the least - and you some bush league sh!t like that?
I know. Let's release an article involving marathons during the time of year when no one cares about marathons and during the busiest sports week in four years.
Real smart if you don't want anyone to read it.
Do you really think anyone who reads the New Yorker would ever care about this story? I doubt it.
Also, it is evident from the preview on the New Yorker website that he doesn't reveal any new info and is just summarizing this thread.
If you don't like the article, why don't you write the article? You won't though.
Everyone in this thread that worked on digging up evidence should get free access to this article. It would have never happened if it wasn't for the people here.
RE: Rojo says he might start a Kip Litton thread but only 1 and only 1 thread 7/29/2012 11:08PM - in reply to Who Cares?
Anyone have a new yorker subscription?
Well, it looks like Dr. Litton will finally get to retire now that he is going to be a multimillionaire. He'll probably continue to practice free of charge due to his infinite generosity though.


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The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism
David Farber
The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History
The story of modern conservatism through the lives of six leading figures
The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism tells the gripping story of perhaps the most significant political force of our time through the lives and careers of six leading figures at the heart of the movement. David Farber traces the history of modern conservatism from its revolt against New Deal liberalism, to its breathtaking resurgence under Ronald Reagan, to its spectacular defeat with the election of Barack Obama.
Farber paints vivid portraits of Robert Taft, William F. Buckley Jr., Barry Goldwater, Phyllis Schlafly, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush. He shows how these outspoken, charismatic, and frequently controversial conservative leaders were united by a shared insistence on the primacy of social order, national security, and economic liberty. Farber demonstrates how they built a versatile movement capable of gaining and holding power, from Taft's opposition to the New Deal to Buckley's founding of the National Review as the intellectual standard-bearer of modern conservatism; from Goldwater's crusade against leftist politics and his failed 1964 bid for the presidency to Schlafly's rejection of feminism in favor of traditional gender roles and family values; and from Reagan's city upon a hill to conservatism's downfall with Bush's ambitious presidency.
The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism provides rare insight into how conservatives captured the American political imagination by claiming moral superiority, downplaying economic inequality, relishing bellicosity, and embracing nationalism. This concise and accessible history reveals how these conservative leaders discovered a winning formula that enabled them to forge a powerful and formidable political majority.
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010
David Farber is professor of history at Temple University. His many books include Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam and What They Think of Us: International Perceptions of the United States since 9/11 (both Princeton).
"David Farber's new book . . . provides the kind of perspective that headline historians often miss. If readers can withstand their title shock, they will find much to admire in this engaging and accessible overview of the most influential movement in American politics during the past half-century."—Steven P. Miller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"An excellent start for anyone wanting to understand U.S. conservatism."—Choice
"Calling historians to go beyond synthesis to integration, Farber's book is an important step in this direction."—Jennifer Burns, Journal of American History
"Unlike other staid syntheses of conservatism, Farber's draws out the quirky as well as the profound, the passion as well as the calculation of this movement, and always with a playful edge. It is, as a result, a scintillating read. . . . [A] vital, new interpretation of a pivotal movement and era in American history."—Darren Dochuk, Pacific Historical Review
"There are several important and interesting arguments that Farber makes along this narrative and one inspired choice of subject matter—Phyllis Schlafly—that have much to commend."—James Gilbert, H-Soz-u-Kult
"Brisk, incisive, and constantly absorbing, David Farber's lively history finally brings some coherence to the story of the postwar American Right. Farber recounts conservatism's evolution through the lens of six of its most important leaders, explaining its growing appeal through the decades without condescension or apologetics. This book cuts through the clutter and clatter of much recent writing on conservatism to show clearly and compellingly how a once-marginal movement came to hold in its grasp—for a time, anyway—the main levers of American politics."—David Greenberg, Rutgers University
"An absorbing and convincing history of modern American conservatism, rendered in the elegantly concise style we've come to expect from this author. Farber amply demonstrates conservatives' devotion to the market and to social order, as well as the important role played by human agency and ambition; throughout, he is at once unsparing and fair-minded in his judgments. This is first-rate, original scholarship."—Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University
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Sample size determination in Qualitative and Quantitative Research discuss the difference between qualitative and quantitative research, various sampling techniques used in either case and how to determine the ideal sample size.
So what is the difference between Qualitative Research and Quantitative Research?
Quantitative Research is used to quantify the problem by way of generating numerical data or data that can be transformed into useable statistics. It is used to quantify attitudes, opinions, behaviors, and other defined variables – and generalize results from a larger sample population. Quantitative Research uses measurable data to formulate facts and uncover patterns in research. Quantitative data collection methods are much more structured than Qualitative data collection methods. Quantitative data collection methods include various forms of surveys – online surveys, paper surveys, mobile surveys and kiosk surveys, face-to-face interviews, telephone interviews, longitudinal studies, website interceptors, online polls, and systematic observations.
However, determining the ideal survey sample size and population can prove tricky. In other words, who will you be surveying and how many people? Say you're a market research manager at EMDOM Company and you are planning to launch a new product line by the end of first quarter of 2017. However, before you launch the new line you wish to conduct an online survey on whether your new product will perform well in Lagos market. So far, so good. Yet, the following question will almost instantly arise: "What is the population that I would like to survey?". Or, who do I need to survey to gain valuable insights in the success of your new product line? In this case the answer is rather straightforward. Assuming that you are launching the new product line on the Abakaliki Metropolises, you will understand that goat do not buy your product and that your new product is reasonably priced, your population consists of everyone in Abakaliki town.
Sampling, as it relates to research, refers to the selection of individuals, units, and/or settings to be studied. Whereas quantitative studies strive for random sampling, qualitative studies often use purposeful or criterion-based sampling, that is, a sample that has the characteristics relevant to the research question(s). For example, if you are interested in studying adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, interviewing a random sample of 10 people may yield only one adult survivor, thus, you will essentially have a sample size of one and need to continue to randomly sample people until you have interviewed an appropriate number of who have survived childhood sexual abuse. This is not a wise use of your time.
Extreme or Deviant Case Sampling—Looks at highly unusual manifestations of the phenomenon of interest, such as outstanding success/notable failures, top of the class/dropouts, exotic events, crises. This strategy tries to select particular cases that would glean the most information, given the research question. One example of an extreme/deviant case related to battered women would be battered women who kill their abusers.
Intensity Sampling—Chooses information-rich cases that manifest the phenomenon intensely, but not extremely, such as good students/poor students, above average/below average. This strategy is very similar to extreme/deviant case sampling as it uses the same logic. The difference is that the cases selected are not as extreme. This type of sampling requires that you have prior information on the variation of the phenomena under study so that you can choose intense, although not extreme, examples. For example, heuristic research uses the intense, personal experience(s) of the researcher. If one were studying jealousy, you would need to have had an intense experience with this particular emotion; a mild or pathologically extreme experience would not likely elucidate the phenomena in the same way as an intense experience.
Maximum Variation Sampling—Selects a wide range of variation on dimensions of interest. The purpose is to discover/uncover central themes, core elements, and/or shared dimensions that cut across a diverse sample while at the same time offering the opportunity to document unique or diverse variations. For example, to implement this strategy, you might create a matrix (of communities, people, etc.) where each item on the matrix is as different (on relevant dimensions) as possible from all other items.
Homogeneous Sampling—Brings together people of similar backgrounds and experiences. It reduces variation, simplifies analysis, and facilitates group interviewing. This strategy is used most often when conducting focus groups. For example, if you are studying participation in a parenting program, you might sample all single-parent, female head of households.
Typical Case Sampling—Focuses on what is typical, normal, and/or average. This strategy may be adopted when one needs to present a qualitative profile of one or more typical cases. When using this strategy you must have a broad consensus about what is "average." For example, if you were working to begin development projects in Third World countries, you might conduct a typical case sampling of "average" villages. Such a study would uncover critical issues to be addressed for most villages by looking at the ones you sampled.
Critical Case Sampling—Looks at cases that will produce critical information. In order to use this method, you must know what constitutes a critical case. This method permits logical generalization and maximum application of information to other cases because if it's true of this one case, it's likely to be true of all other case. For example, if you want to know if people understand a particular set of federal regulations, you may present the regulations to a group of highly educated people ("If they can't understand them, then most people probably cannot") and/or you might present them to a group of under-educated people ("If they can understand them, then most people probably can").
Snowball or Chain Sampling—Identifies cases of interest from people who know people who know what cases are information-rich, that is, who would be a good interview participant. Thus, this is an approach used for locating information-rich cases___?" For example, you would ask for nominations, until the nominations snowball, getting bigger and bigger. Eventually, there should be a few key names that are mentioned repeatedly.
Criterion Sampling—Selects all cases that meet some criterion. This strategy is typically applied when considering quality assurance issues. In essence, you choose cases that are information-rich and that might reveal a major system weakness that could be improved.
Confirming and Disconfirming Sampling—Seeks cases that are both "expected" and the "exception" to what is expected. In this way, this strategy deepens initial analysis, seeks exceptions, and tests variation. In this strategy you find both confirming cases (those that add depth, richness, credibility) as well as disconfirming cases (example that do not fit and are the source of rival interpretations). This strategy is typically adopted after initial fieldwork has established what a confirming case would be. For example, if you are studying certain negative academic outcomes related to environmental factors, like low SES, low parental involvement, high teacher to student ratios, lack of funding for a school, etc. you would look for both confirming cases (cases that evidence the negative impact of these factors on academic performance) and disconfirming cases (cases where there is no apparent negative association between these factors and academic performance).
Stratified Purposeful Sampling—Focuses on characteristics of particular subgroups of interest; facilitates comparisons. This strategy is similar to stratified random sampling (samples are taken within samples), except the sample size is typically much smaller. In stratified sampling you "stratify" a sample based on a characteristic. Thus, if you are studying academic performance, you would sample a group of below average performers, average performers, and above average performers. The main goal of this strategy is to capture major variations (although common themes may emerge).
Opportunistic or Emergent Sampling—Follows new leads during fieldwork, takes advantage of the unexpected, and is flexible. This strategy takes advantage of whatever unfolds as it is unfolding, and may be used after fieldwork has begun and as a researcher becomes open to sampling a group or person they may not have initially planned to interview. For example, you might be studying 6th grade students' awareness of a topic and realize you will gain additional understanding by including 5th grade students' as well.
Purposeful Random Sampling—Looks at a random sample. This strategy adds credibility to a sample when the potential purposeful sample is larger than one can handle. While this is a type of random sampling, it uses small sample sizes, thus the goal is credibility, not representativeness or the ability to generalize. For example, if you want to study clients at a drug rehabilitation program, you may randomly select 10 of 300 current cases to follow. This reduces judgment within a purposeful category, because the cases are picked randomly and without regard to the program outcome.
Sampling Politically Important Cases—Seeks cases that will increase the usefulness and relevance of information gained based on the politics of the moment. This strategy attracts attention to the study (or avoids attracting undesired attention by purposefully eliminating from the sample politically sensitive cases). This strategy is a variation on critical case sampling. For example, when studying voter behavior, one might choose the 2000 election, not only because it would provide insight, but also because it would likely attract attention.
Convenience Sampling—Selects cases based on ease of accessibility. This strategy saves time, money, and effort, however, has the weakest rationale along with the lowest credibility. This strategy may yield information-poor cases because cases are picked simply because they are easy to access, rather than on a specific strategy/rationale. Sampling your co-workers, family members or neighbors simply because they are "there" is an example of convenience sampling.
Combination or Mixed Purposeful Sampling—Combines two or more strategies listed above. Basically, using more than one strategy above is considered combination or mixed purposeful sampling. This type of sampling meets multiple interests and needs. For example, you might use chain sampling in order to identify extreme or deviant cases. That is, you might ask people to identify cases that would be considered extreme/deviant and do this until you have consensus on a set of cases that you would sample.
What sample size will reach saturation or redundancy? That is, how large does the sample need to be to allow for the identification of consistent patterns? Some researchers say the size of the sample should be large enough to leave you with "nothing left to learn." In other words, you might conduct interviews, and after the tenth one, realize that there are no new concepts emerging. That is, the concepts, themes, etc. begin to be redundant.
How large a sample is needed to represent the variation within target population? That is, how large must a sample be to in order to assess an appropriate amount of diversity or variation that is represented in the population of interest?
You may estimate sample size, based on the approach of the study or the data collection method used. For each category there are some related rules of thumb, represented in the tables below.
Biography/Case Study Select one case or one person.
Phenomenology Assess 10 people. If you reach saturation prior to assessing ten people you may use fewer.
Grounded theory/ethnography/action research Assess 20-30 people, which typically is enough to reach saturation.
Create groups that average 5-10 people each. In addition, consider the number of focus groups you need based on "groupings" represented in the research question. That is, when studying males and females of three different age groupings, plan for six focus groups, giving you one for each gender and three age groups for each gender.
Select a large and representative sample (purposeful or random based on purpose) with numbers similar to those in a quantitative study.
However, after choosing one or two case study in case study approach you might want to know the exact sample size from the given population. In that case there few other techniques to determine your sample size. The image below gives us a mirror of getting sample size depending on the number of margin you are creating.
For example: If for instance am researching on the impact of economic recession on low income earners in Abakaliki metropolises in Ebonyi state. Let say my population of study is 52% of Abakaliki population (141437). Statistics revealed that 52% of Abakaliki resident live below US $1.50 poverty line constituting our low income group. Taking 52% of the total population gives me 73,547.
Using Taro Yamane formula to arrive at the sampling size. The calculation of the sample size is as shown below.
Therefore our sample size is 207 low income earners that will be drawn randomly from Abakaliki metropolises.
BigBen, O (2016). Practical guide to social science research methodology. Ibadan, Nigeria: Winpress Publishing.
Dey, I. (1999). Grounding grounded theory: Guidelines for qualitative inquiry. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Hitchcock, J. H, Nastasi, B. K., Dai, D. C., Newman, J., Jayasena, A., Bernstein-Moore, R., Sarkar, S., & Varjas, K. (2004). Illustrating a mixed-method approach for identifying and validating culturally specific constructs. Accepted for publication in Journal of School Psychology.
Nastasi, B.K., Moore, R. B., & Varjas, K. M. (2004). School-Based Mental Health Services: Creating Comprehensive and Culturally Specific Programs. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Patton, M. Q. (2001). Qualitative evaluation and research methods (3rd ed.). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
Varjas, K. M. (2003). A participatory culture-specific consultation (PCSC) approach to intervention development. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University at Albany, SUNY.


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PC-based or "soft" conferencing is any type of conferencing which utilizes an application or program rather than a dedicated hardware unit. There are many well-known soft clients available such as Skype, Facetime, google hangouts, etc. Soft conferencing has a variety of use cases, from companies just starting out with video conferencing to enterprise level deployments of 1000+ users.
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A 7z fájlok MIME-típusa: application/x-7z-compressed.

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A 7z fájlformátum a következőket nyújtja:
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Tömörítési módszerek
A formátum nyílt architektúrája lehetővé teszi a szabvány további tömörítési módszerekkel való bővítését.

A jelenlegi verzió a következő módszereket támogatja::
 LZMA – az LZ77 algoritmus továbbfejlesztett és optimalizált változata, ami Markov-láncokat használ entrópiakódolással, valamint Patricia-fákat.
 PPMD – Dmitry Shkarin 2002-es PPMdH-ja (PPMII/cPPMII) kisebb változtatásokkal. A PPMII az 1984-es PPM algoritmus (prediction by partial matching, előrejelzés részleges találattal) egy továbbfejlesztett változata.
 BCJ – konvertáló a 32 bites x86 futtatható állományokhoz, lásd LZMA. A közeli ugrásokat és hívásokat (near jump and call) tömöríti (átalakítja őket relatív címzésről direkt címzésre).
 BCJ2 – konvertáló a 32 bites x86 futtatható állományokhoz, lásd LZMA. Az ugrásokat és hívásokat (jump and call), valamint a feltételes ugrásokat tömöríti.
 Bzip2 – a jól ismert Burrows-Wheeler transzformáció algoritmusa. A Bzip2 a gyorsabb Huffman-kódot, a Bzip a kompaktabb aritmetikai kódolást használja.
 DEFLATE – a standard LZ77-alapú algoritmus, amit a ZIP és gzip formátumok is használnak.

Implementációk
A következő archiváló programok támogatják jelenleg a 7z archív formátumot:
 7-Zip és p7zip
 7zX
 Ark
 ExtractNow
 EZ 7z
 File Roller
 IZArc
 PowerArchiver
 QuickZip
 SimplyZip
 Squeez
 TUGZip
 WinRAR
 ZipGenius
 PeaZip
 HaoZip

További információk
 7z Format – a 7z archív formátum általános leírása
 7-Zip     – az eredeti 7-Zip archiváló Microsoft Windowsra
 7zX   – 7z tömörítő Mac OS X-re. A segédprogramnak van néhány egyedi funkciója: létre tud hozni "biztonságos" 7-Zip archívumokat (.s7z), amik megőrzik a Macintosh resource fork-okat és a Spotlight metaadatokat, valamint olyan önkibontó archívumokat tud létrehozni, amelyek bármilyen Mac OS X 10.3 vagy újabb operációs rendszerű Mac-en kibonthatók.
 p7zip – a 7-Zip portja Unix-szerű rendszerekre
 Dmitry Shkarin (Institute for Dynamics of Geospheres, Moscow, Russia) 2002: PPM: One Step to Practicality
 Portable verzió - Hordozható verzió (Telepítés nélküli)

Jegyzetek

Tömörítés
Fájlformátumok

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


My photograph of the Plainfield Children's Library was printed in the Library Journal Hotline Newspaper on October 3rd. Below is the original photograph in color.
I love that my big sister is a published artist!


text:
<?php

namespace yiiunit\framework\web\session;

use Yii;
use yii\db\Connection;
use yii\db\Query;
use yii\db\Migration;
use yii\web\DbSession;
use yiiunit\framework\console\controllers\EchoMigrateController;
use yiiunit\TestCase;

/**
 * @group db
 */
abstract class AbstractDbSessionTest extends TestCase
{
    /**
     * @return string[] the driver names that are suitable for the test (mysql, pgsql, etc)
     */
    abstract protected function getDriverNames();

    protected function setUp()
    {
        parent::setUp();

        $this->mockApplication();
        Yii::$app->set('db', $this->getDbConfig());
        $this->dropTableSession();
        $this->createTableSession();
    }

    protected function tearDown()
    {
        $this->dropTableSession();
        parent::tearDown();
    }

    protected function getDbConfig()
    {
        $driverNames = $this->getDriverNames();
        $databases = self::getParam('databases');
        foreach ($driverNames as $driverName) {
            if (in_array($driverName, \PDO::getAvailableDrivers()) && array_key_exists($driverName, $databases)) {
                $driverAvailable = $driverName;
                break;
            }
        }
        if (!isset($driverAvailable)) {
            $this->markTestIncomplete(get_called_class() . ' requires ' . implode(' or ', $driverNames) . ' PDO driver! Configuration for connection required too.');
            return [];
        }
        $config = $databases[$driverAvailable];

        $result = [
            'class' => Connection::className(),
            'dsn' => $config['dsn'],
        ];

        if (isset($config['username'])) {
            $result['username'] = $config['username'];
        }
        if (isset($config['password'])) {
            $result['password'] = $config['password'];
        }

        return $result;
    }

    protected function createTableSession()
    {
        $this->runMigrate('up');
    }

    protected function dropTableSession()
    {
        try {
            $this->runMigrate('down', ['all']);
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            // Table may not exist for different reasons, but since this method
            // reverts DB changes to make next test pass, this exception is skipped.
        }
    }

    // Tests :

    public function testReadWrite()
    {
        $session = new DbSession();

        $session->writeSession('test', 'session data');
        $this->assertEquals('session data', $session->readSession('test'));
        $session->destroySession('test');
        $this->assertEquals('', $session->readSession('test'));
    }

    public function testInitializeWithConfig()
    {
        // should produce no exceptions
        $session = new DbSession([
            'useCookies' => true,
        ]);

        $session->writeSession('test', 'session data');
        $this->assertEquals('session data', $session->readSession('test'));
        $session->destroySession('test');
        $this->assertEquals('', $session->readSession('test'));
    }

    /**
     * @depends testReadWrite
     */
    public function testGarbageCollection()
    {
        $session = new DbSession();

        $session->writeSession('new', 'new data');
        $session->writeSession('expire', 'expire data');

        $session->db->createCommand()
            ->update('session', ['expire' => time() - 100], 'id = :id', ['id' => 'expire'])
            ->execute();
        $session->gcSession(1);

        $this->assertEquals('', $session->readSession('expire'));
        $this->assertEquals('new data', $session->readSession('new'));
    }

    /**
     * @depends testReadWrite
     */
    public function testWriteCustomField()
    {
        $session = new DbSession();

        $session->writeCallback = function ($session) {
            return ['data' => 'changed by callback data'];
        };

        $session->writeSession('test', 'session data');

        $query = new Query();
        $this->assertSame('changed by callback data', $session->readSession('test'));
    }

    /**
     * @depends testReadWrite
     */
    public function testWriteCustomFieldWithUserId()
    {
        $session = new DbSession();
        $session->open();
        $session->set('user_id', 12345);

        // add mapped custom column
        $migration = new Migration;
        $migration->addColumn($session->sessionTable, 'user_id', $migration->integer());

        $session->writeCallback = function ($session) {
            return ['user_id' => $session['user_id']];
        };

        // here used to be error, fixed issue #9438
        $session->close();

        // reopen & read session from DB
        $session->open();
        $loadedUserId = empty($session['user_id']) ? null : $session['user_id'];
        $this->assertSame($loadedUserId, 12345);
        $session->close();
    }

    protected function buildObjectForSerialization()
    {
        $object = new \stdClass();
        $object->nullValue = null;
        $object->floatValue = pi();
        $object->textValue = str_repeat('Qweå߃Тест', 200);
        $object->array = [null, 'ab' => 'cd'];
        $object->binary = base64_decode('5qS2UUcXWH7rjAmvhqGJTDNkYWFiOGMzNTFlMzNmMWIyMDhmOWIwYzAwYTVmOTFhM2E5MDg5YjViYzViN2RlOGZlNjllYWMxMDA0YmQxM2RQ3ZC0in5ahjNcehNB/oP/NtOWB0u3Skm67HWGwGt9MA==');
        $object->with_null_byte = 'hey!' . "\0" . 'y"ûƒ^äjw¾bðúl5êù-Ö=W¿Š±¬GP¥Œy÷&ø';

        if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.5.0', '<')) {
            unset($object->binary);
            // Binary data can not be inserted on PHP <5.5
        }

        return $object;
    }

    public function testSerializedObjectSaving()
    {
        $session = new DbSession();

        $object = $this->buildObjectForSerialization();
        $serializedObject = serialize($object);
        $session->writeSession('test', $serializedObject);
        $this->assertSame($serializedObject, $session->readSession('test'));

        $object->foo = 'modification checked';
        $serializedObject = serialize($object);
        $session->writeSession('test', $serializedObject);
        $this->assertSame($serializedObject, $session->readSession('test'));
    }

    protected function runMigrate($action, $params = [])
    {
        $migrate = new EchoMigrateController('migrate', Yii::$app, [
            'migrationPath' => '@yii/web/migrations',
            'interactive' => false,
        ]);

        ob_start();
        ob_implicit_flush(false);
        $migrate->run($action, $params);
        ob_get_clean();

        return array_map(function ($version) {
            return substr($version, 15);
        }, (new Query())->select(['version'])->from('migration')->column());
    }

    public function testMigration()
    {
        $this->dropTableSession();
        $this->mockWebApplication([
            'components' => [
                'db' => $this->getDbConfig(),
            ],
        ]);

        $history = $this->runMigrate('history');
        $this->assertEquals(['base'], $history);

        $history = $this->runMigrate('up');
        $this->assertEquals(['base', 'session_init'], $history);

        $history = $this->runMigrate('down');
        $this->assertEquals(['base'], $history);
        $this->createTableSession();
    }

    public function testInstantiate()
    {
        $oldTimeout = ini_get('session.gc_maxlifetime');
        // unset Yii::$app->db to make sure that all queries are made against sessionDb
        Yii::$app->set('sessionDb', Yii::$app->db);
        Yii::$app->set('db', null);

        $session = new DbSession([
            'timeout' => 300,
            'db' => 'sessionDb',
        ]);

        $this->assertSame(Yii::$app->sessionDb, $session->db);
        $this->assertSame(300, $session->timeout);
        $session->close();

        Yii::$app->set('db', Yii::$app->sessionDb);
        Yii::$app->set('sessionDb', null);
        ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', $oldTimeout);
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The camera should have a live feed.
It should alert me (email/text) when motion is detected.
I am assuming that Motion is configure to get live feeds from Raspberry Pi camera module, I will not go into the details as they are covered in detail by Mark West in his excellent blog post mentioned above. It should be noted that any Web Interface can be secured using Apache Knox, I am using Motion as an example here.
Authorization: Make access decisions i.e. which services are accessible for which user.
Audit: Gives the ability to determine what actions were taken by whom during some period of time.
Lightweight: Has low memory and disk requirement.
We will create a seperate user for authentication. This user will be created on the system where Apache Knox is installed. Apache Knox uses this user for authentication and access control (using PAM) so it makes sense to keep it seperate from other system users. We will use this user exclusively to access our Motion setup from outside.
Now we update the knox topology file (sandbox.xml) to use PAM authentication, for Motion running locally on port 8081.
If Motion is running on another machine then update the following code snippet in sandbox.xml file with the hostname and port where Motion is running.
Find the relevant Knox logs in /knox/logs/ directory.


Tripwire's February 2018 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together the top vulnerabilities from Microsoft, Adobe, and Oracle.
First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Chrome OS. These Adobe Flash patches address two user-after-free vulnerabilities that can lead to remote code execution upon successful exploitation. NOTE: Adobe reports that one of these vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-4878) has been exploited in the wild and has been used to target Windows users. Administrators should install these patches as soon as possible. Please refer to Adobe Security Notification APSB18-03 for more details.
Next up on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft browsers and scripting engine. These patches address 2 information disclosure and one security feature bypass vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge and 13 memory corruption vulnerabilities in the scripting engine.
Up next are patches for Microsoft Office, Outlook, and Sharepoint. These patches address 6 vulnerabilities including information disclosure, memory corruption, and elevation of privilege.
Next administrators should focus on patches for the Windows Kernel. These patches address 5 elevation of privilege vulnerabilities and 6 information disclosure vulnerabilities.
Lastly for this month, administrators should focus on the patching the remaining Microsoft February 2018 patches that resolve 16 vulnerabilities in Windows, Named Pipe File System, StructuredQuery, AppContainer, Common Log File System, EOT Font Engine, NTFS and Storage Services.


A pony ride is a led horse ride on a full-size horse in the Wanake riding ring. Every rider is fitted with a helmet, receives an introduction to the horses, and enjoys being led on horseback around the arena.
Contact Tina at the Wanake Ranch to schedule your 1/2 hour horse time at 330-987-0411 or e-mail Tina.


text:
Q: How to configure babel for react-relay (classic) on react-native 0.57+ I've been trying to upgrade react-native for our app from 0.52.0 to latest since 4th of january.
Up to 0.55.0 everything went fine (had some issues with 0.56.0 cause react-native-router-flux were incompatible), but when trying to go to 0.57.0  everything stopped working.
After fixing all other errors, no matter what I do I get this error:

Invariant Violation: RelayQL: Unexpected invocation at runtime. Either the Babel transform was not set up, or it failed to identify this call site. Make sure it is being used verbatim as `Relay.QL`.

  This error is located at:
      in RelayRenderer (at TabIcon.js:77)
      in TabIcon (at navigationStore.js:245)
      in RCTView (at View.js:44)
      in AnimatedComponent (at CrossFadeIcon.js:34)
      in RCTView (at View.js:44)
      in TabBarIcon (at BottomTabBar.js:142)...etc

(Btw: It's nothing special about that particular relay container; whatever container wrapped with a Relay.Renderer is called first will fail with the same error.)
As my code definitely uses verbatim Relay.QL in the relevant code, the issue obviously must be that the babel transform isn't working.
The old .babelrc that worked at least up to react-native 0.55.0:
{
  "presets": [
    "react-native",
    {
      "plugins": ["custom-relay"]
    }
  ]
}

The custom-relay is a small script that a previous developer copied from somewhere:
const getBabelRelayPlugin = require('babel-relay-plugin');
const schema = require('../../schema.json');

module.exports = getBabelRelayPlugin(schema.data);

After a few days of swearing I realized that even though the documentation and the react-native-git-upgrade script tells me to upgrade the .babelrc file; it appears that this file is completely ignored, so when I moved the config to a babel.config.js file instead at least I started getting new errors indicating that this file were used.
The custom-relay script turned out to be impossible to translate into something that is compatible with babel 7 since the deprecated babel-relay-plugin doesnt work with babel 7 and babel-plugin-relay doesn't export the correct methods; besides it's supposed to work without it now.
My current babel.config.js:
module.exports = function babelconfig(api) {
  api.cache(false);
  return {
    presets: ['module:metro-react-native-babel-preset'],
    plugins: [
      ['relay', { compat: true, schema: 'schema.json' }],
      '@babel/transform-runtime',
    ],
  };
};

I've also changed the .babelrc file to say the same (only in JSON syntax) for good measure, but it doesn't help.
Googling for this issue has been fruitless so far, the only issues and SO questions I've found seems to be related to older versions of react-native (or just react) and the solutions are generally variants of the old .babelrc config that no longer works such as (2206, 1202, 2025, 1899). And I've been unable to find any babel config examples that both uses react-native 0.57.0 and babel 7 syntax as well as react-relay.
I once found a forum post or issue where someone mentioned something to indicate that migrating from Relay Classic to Relay Modern would work; but I can't remember where I found it; and since this migration is a massive undertaking in itself I'm not very eager to start doing that just to discover that the error message just changes from RelayQL: Unexpected invocation at runtime. to graphql: Unexpected invocation at runtime.
But if someone can confirm (with sources) that either react-native 0.57+ or babel 7 is definitely incompatible with relay classic syntax, and that migrating to modern will solve all my issues; of course I will do so.

A: I figured it out myself...
Seems the issue was caused by incomplete documentation about how to use Relay Classic with newer versions. I've created an issue for this here.
If you're having the same issue as me, you're probably also using the "wrong" variable name Relay rather than RelayClassic when importing from react-relay/classic like me.
I changed:
import Relay from 'react-relay/classic';
//...
fragments: {
      viewer: () => Relay.QL`

to:
import RelayClassic from 'react-relay/classic';
//...
fragments: {
      viewer: () => RelayClassic.QL`

everywhere. And suddenly it started working again.


text:
The Jackpot is een Amerikaanse film uit 1950 van Walter Lang met in de hoofdrollen James Stewart en Barbara Hale.

De film is gebaseerd op het tijdschriftartikel "The Jackpot"  van John McNulty dat werd gepubliceerd in The New Yorker van 19 februari 1949. Het gaat over een man die een prijzenpakket ter waarde van 24.000 dollar wint met een radioquiz. Het artikel verscheen in de sectie A Reporter at Large. 20th Century Fox betaalde 12.500 dollar voor de filmrechten.

The Jackpot is tegenwoordig vrijwel vergeten, maar was in 1950 zeer succesvol in de bioscopen. Het was een de vier films die Stewart in 1950 maakte naast de al even succesvolle Winchester '73, Harvey en Broken Arrow.

Verhaal

Zo op het oog is de familie Lawrence in Glenville, Indiana een doorsnee Amerikaans gezin. Bill Lawrence werkt in het warenhuis Woodruff en zijn vrouw Amy is huisvrouw en verzorgt de kinderen. Maar Bill verveelt zich, hij heeft het gevoel dat zijn hele toekomst voorgeprogrammeerd is en alles routine is geworden. Gelukkig voor hem zijn er veranderingen op komst. Samen met zijn collega Fred Burns wordt hij bij de hoogste baas, Woodruff, geroepen. Volgens Woodruff loopt de omzet terug en hij vraagt nieuwe ideeën ter verbetering. Verder kondigt hij aan op reis te gaan naar Europa, de bedoeling is dat of Lawrence of Burns hem dan gaat vervangen. De geselecteerde vervanger zal ook promotie krijgen. Weer thuis krijgt Bill een telefoontje van een radiostation, hij is geselecteerd voor de quiz Name the Mystery Husband (Wie is de geheimzinnige echtgenoot?), waarmee hij 24.000 dollar aan prijzen kan winnen.

Bill gelooft geen woord van het telefoontje en denkt dat hij in de maling wordt genomen. Maar die avond gaat de telefoon weer en tot zijn eigen verbazing geeft Bill het goede antwoord en wint. Niet lang daarna worden de prijzen bezorgd en een interieurarchitect buigt zich over de plannen om het huis opnieuw in te richten. Sommige prijzen zijn zeer bruikbaar zoals een wasmachine, andere, zoals een piano, hebben minder nut. Er arriveert zelfs een beroemde kunstenares, Hilda Jones, om zijn portret te schilderen. De nuchtere Bill blijft kalm en ontdekt al snel het addertje onder het gras, hij moet 7000 dollar inkomstenbelasting betalen. Aangezien zijn salaris niet meer is 7500 dollar besluiten hij en Amy de prijzen te verkopen. Tot overmaat van ramp ontstaan er roddels over een mogelijke verhouding tussen Bill en Hilda de kunstenares. Dit terwijl Bill helemaal niet poseert, maar Hilda vraagt een portret van Amy te schilderen aan de hand van een foto. Het huis van de familie Lawrence wordt intussen overspoeld door kooplustigen die de verschillende prijzen bekijken. Als Bill op zakenreis is in Chicago wil hij enkele gewonnen sieraden verkopen aan ene Morgan. Hij weet niet dat de man aan wie hij de ring laat zien een onderwereldfiguur is. Morgan wordt, met de ring, samen met Bill opgepakt door de politie.

Na een nacht in de cel wordt Bill vrijgelaten en viert zijn vrijlating iets te uitbundig in de kroeg. Zijn vrouw is weinig ingenomen met Bills vermeende avontuurtjes met Hilda en ze krijgen een gigantische ruzie. Een boze Bill verlaat het huis met zijn koffer. Als echter Hilda die avond het portret van Amy komt brengen en ontkent dat ze iets heeft met Bill, beseft Amy dat ze te hard is geweest. Ze vraagt Bill om terug te komen en net als hij binnen is, arriveert er ook een advocaat. Hij vertegenwoordigt Morgan, aan wie Bill de ring wilde verkopen. Morgan is de ring kwijtgeraakt tijdens de arrestatie en wil Bill het geld vergoeden door 5000 dollar te betalen. Bill en Amy zijn dolblij want nu kunnen ze de inkomstenbelasting betalen. Het is helemaal feest als Bill zijn promotie krijgt en Woodruff mag vervangen.

Rolverdeling

|-
||| Bill Lawrence
|-
||| Amy Lawrence
|-
||| Harry Summers
|-
||| Woodruff
|-
||| Leslie
|-
||| Hilda Jones
|-
||| Phylis Lawrence
|-
||| Tommy Lawrence
|}

Amerikaanse film
Film uit 1950
Komische film
Film van 20th Century Fox
Film van Walter Lang