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Home Nigerian News Uju Ayalogu's Blog PDP, Civil Society Groups Blast Buhari for Appointing Media Aide, Onochie As INEC Commissioner
PDP, Civil Society Groups Blast Buhari for Appointing Media Aide, Onochie As INEC Commissioner
Lauretta Onochie
President Muhammadu Buhari has been attacked by the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party for nominating his media aide, Lauretta Onochie as a National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission representing Delta State.
The party accused Buhari of running foul against the constitution.
Also, civil society organisations, as well as the Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere asked have asked Buhari to immediately to withdraw the nomination of Onochie.
Recall that Buhari had in a letter read on the floor of the Senate, by the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, on Tuesday, requested for the confirmation of Onochie, who is currently his Special Assistant on social media, and three others as INEC national commissioners.
The three nominees are: Prof. Muhammad Sani Kallah (Katsina); Prof. Kunle Cornelius Ajayi (Ekiti); and Saidu Babura Ahmad (Jigawa).
Senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in a statement soon afterwards, berated the president for nominating. They said with her nomination, Buhari "has willfully gone against the constitution that he swore to uphold."
Part of the statement read, "Item F, paragraph 14 of the Third Schedule of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) forbids a card-carrying member of a political party to be a member of INEC.
"The Minority Caucus of the Senate is against this nomination and call on Mr. President to withdraw it."
Also, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan in a press conference, in Abuja, said "This nomination of his personal staff, Lauretta Onchie, as INEC national commissioner, supports the position of the PDP that his statements were mere glib talks on electoral sanctity and clearly demonstrates that he has no plans whatsoever to leave a legacy of credible polls."
Similarly, the Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere and over 16 civil society groups outrightly rejected Onochie's nomination describing it as an affront on the collective sensibilities of Nigerian.
While Afenifere said Onochie's nomination "would mark the final conquest of the country and the beginning of the end of INEC," the CSOs called on the President to "withdraw this nomination with immediate effect and in the alternative call on the Senate to act as gatekeepers by not confirming this appointment."
The National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, in an interview with THE PUNCH said, "It is the peak of insensitivity and provocation by Buhari to bring a partisan fundamentalist as a (National) Commissioner of INEC. If Nigerians don't resist and reject it, it would mark the final conquest of the country and the beginning of the end of INEC and electoral democracy. Appointing her can only happen in a failed country."
Several CSOs including the Centre for Transparency Advocacy, the Say No Campaign among several others in a joint statement issued in Abuja said "We completely reject this nomination, which does not sit well in the recent gains of the electoral system in the country."
The Director of the Centre for Democracy and Development, Idayat Hassan in an interview with THE PUNCH said "I want to cry over the nomination. Onochie nomination for me is reversing the games made in the last years. We completely reject the nomination of Lauretta Onoche as INEC National Commissioner.
"Onoche is unqualified as she displays partisan loyalty but she has also been a proponent of fake news during elections."
Similarly, the NCSSR, a coalition of over 70 civil society groups, called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), to immediately withdraw Onochie's nomination.


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 This course consists of eight weeks of one hour sessions in a group situation. Classes are held on the same night and at the same time every week and pre-registration is required. Your dog is required to have attended a basic obedience course to be able to participate at this level. If you completed a basic course elswhere I will need to evaluate your dog's level of training to know if they are qualified to attend and then will be welcome to join the course!
This is a continuance of your basic training by increasing the control you will achieve with your companion as well as keeping him motivted and spending one on one time with you. At the final class you will be performing 10 exercises and when the two of you do this successfully you will be awarded your dog's "Canine Good Citizen" title from the American Kennel Club. As a certified CGC evaluator I will be conducting the evaluation. Your dog does NOT have to purebred or registered to earn this title.
aggressive or poses a threat to other canines or people will be asked to be removed from class.
These one hour weekly classes will be an enjoyable "night out" with your companion as well as continuing his level of training. Sit stays, down stays, stand stays, recalls, and other exercises will be performed off leash as you and your dog are ready to reach this step of obedience work.
If you decide to go on to competition, I will help you with tips to help you achieve your dog's CD or Companion Dog title. Private run-thrus are also available before you attend an event.
In addition I will be presenting some funtime games and exercises to keep your dog motivated and willing to continue working with you as a partner and feel useful having a "job" to do which is an inherited trait for all dogs.
These classes are offered as weekly one hour sessions indoors and/or outdoors. This "open" class is welcome to any owner (and their dogs) who are training and competing in dog shows in the breed ring or Junior Showmanship competition. Handlers may work multiple dogs during the one hour session. The indoor ring is roomy and fully matted. The outdoor ring is grass with shade available. The instructors are well versed in this venue being experienced competitors as Junior Handlers as well as successfully handling numerous breeds in top events. They will offer you great tips and suggestions to help you present your dog in the best possible way. Individual issues will be addressed during class when you bring them to your instructor's attention. My conformation classes have helped many owners bring home the ribbons, the points and the titles including top ranked and Best In Show winners!
These private sessions are beneficial to new puppy buyers, first-time dog owners and new owners of resue dogs with little or no background information. I will observe and help you understand your dog's current frame of mind and help bring him to a calm and confident level.
Puppies 8 weeks to 3 months need proper guidance from the start. Helping establish good habits from the start will lead to a well-adjusted companion for many years to come. I will address housebreaking tips, grooming, proper feeding practices and other important do's and don'ts in raising a puppy or young dog. I will also help you incorporate a rescue dog into your family.
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In this work, a hybrid cascade control scheme is proposed to regulate the VFA and COD concentrations in a two-stage (acidogenic-methanogenic) anaerobic digester used in the treatment of tequila vinasses. The inner loop contains a continuous nonlinear control scheme to regulate the VFA concentration of the acidogenic bioreactor using conductivity measurements to estimate on-line the VFA concentration in the acidogenic bioreactor, while the outer loop uses a discrete nonlinear controller that regulates the COD concentration of the methanogenic bioreactor by using sampled delayed off-line COD measurements. Results show that the proposed control scheme is able to achieve both, the VFA and COD regulations, in the face of load disturbances, set-point changes and control input saturations.


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From the tepid, still waters and steamy beaches of the Texas Gulf Coast to the computerized, air-conditioned seductions of places like Moody Gardens and the Rainforest Café, Galveston offers a wide array of opportunities for observation of the frequently ironic interplay of human and natural history. Killingsworth's affectionate, wry prose and Winningham's distinctive, surprising images offer a unique tribute to Galveston's past, present, and future: a barrier island that once hosted native peoples, shipwrecked Spaniards, and buccaneers; a birding hotspot that draws nature watchers from all over the world to its estuarine and bay habitats; a hurricane-buffeted city built for tourism, with a storied—sometimes shady—nightlife, a restored historic downtown district, and a trucked-in beach.
Going Back to Galveston is a deeply personal meditation on why and how people relate to the places they love. With Killingsworth and Winningham as your guides, explore the multisensory realities: bays and beaches, birding and fishing; grand hotels and Victorian mansions alongside tumbledown docks and sleazy bars; glitzy, modern palaces of recreation and posh eateries competing with fast-food joints and vendors of tourist trinkets. Going Back to Galveston is an excursion you can carry in your hand—one you'll want to take again and again.
M. JIMMIE KILLINGSWORTH is professor of English at Texas A&M University. An award-winning author, nature writer, and Texas Master Naturalist, Killingsworth's books include Reflections of the Brazos Valley (with D. Gentry Steele, Texas A&M University Press, 2007). GEOFF WINNINGHAM's photographs have appeared in the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the major art museums of Texas. A professor of visual arts at Rice University, Winningham is the author of Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea (Texas A&M University Press, 2009).


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Painted Descent Miniatures The Descent game includes a bunch of miniatures with the game. Since I don't have time to paint them myself, I've traded a few molds in exchange for the paint jobs from various artists. I think they have all done an excellent job and this is the section I'll show off their work. Click on the photo for a larger view of the miniatures.
These skeletons were painted by Skullcraft.
Sorcerers were painted by Runelord (Matt Morrissette) from Connecticut.
Robert Sparenberg (aka Imahilus) from The Netherlands.
Julie Nahm from The Missouri.
by Brent Collins from Texas.
Manticores by Daniel Joyce from Washington.
were painted by Undave from the UK.
All of these miniatures come with the Descent game by Fantasy Flight Games. Please remember that Hirst Arts is not affiliated with or endorsed by Fantasy Flight Games in any way. You can see how to build a Descent board on our Game board building instructions page.
I'll start by spray painting the doors flat white. If you use white plaster then you won't have to do this. However, since bare plaster soaks up paint you'll have to work much faster.
Take brown craft or artist's acrylic paint and brush it on the door. Then take a paper towel and wipe the paint off quickly. The paint will stay darker in the cracks. You may have to reapply the brown paint if it's not dark enough.
Next, paint the iron parts solid black on both sides.
Finish the door by dry brushing silver paint onto the iron parts of the door. The bars will show up, but the black recesses will stay dark. Try not to dry brush silver onto the wooden parts of the door.
Paint the outside stone of the door separately and then glue the frames onto the doors after they're completely painted.
The colored rune doors are painted the same way. For these I used a bronze color on the iron and painted the diamond stone inserts different colors.
Feel free to paint a rune onto the stone diamond if you like. I found that I liked the solid color better. These doors are from the Game board building instructions page.
Start by spray painting the chests flat white. If you use white plaster then you won't have to do this. However, since bare plaster soaks up paint you'll have to work much faster.
Take brown craft or artist's acrylic paint and brush it on the chest. Then take a paper towel and wipe the paint off quickly. The paint will stay darker in the cracks. You may have to reapply the brown paint if it's not dark enough.
For the 3 different types of chests used in the Descent game, I used 3 different colors to stain them. For the copper chests I used a dark muted brown, for the silver chests I used a medium gray and for the gold chests I used a light golden brown.
I painted the trim for each kind of chest in its matching color. Be careful not to let the paint get down into the cracks. The dark cracks outline the edge of the trim.
I also painted numbers on the bottoms of the chests to match the tokens from the Descent game.
Spray paint the coin piles flat white.
Next I painted them using copper paint which made them come out very light copper colored with not much detail.
Finally I brushed brown ink wash over them and wiped off the excess to give the finished look in the last photo. These pieces are from the Game board building instructions page.
I'll start by spray painting 30 planks flat white. If you use white plaster then you won't have to do this. However, since bare plaster soaks up paint you'll have to work much faster.
Take brown craft or artist's acrylic paint and brush it on the planks. Then take a paper towel and wipe the paint off quickly. The paint will stay darker in the cracks. You may have to reapply the brown paint if it's not dark enough.
The bridge ropes are made from elastic cord. This is small round stretchy cord you would find in the fabric department at Wal-mart.
I'm painting about 24" of elastic. Stir it around with a paintbrush handle and make sure all parts are covered. Afterward, wipe it off with a paper towel to dry it. You can pour the extra ink wash back.
Put a drop of glue on the end of the cord and make a loop. Wrap brown thread around the loop to secure it. The glue will spread everywhere and stick the thread down. I'm using Aleene's Tacky glue.
Put loops on both ends and make the ropes a little shorter than the span it will cover. The elastic will stretch to fit.
Snap the elastic cords over the stones.
Put drops of glue on them and glue the planks onto the bridge.
Elastic works nicely because you can remove the bridge later on if you want an uncrossable pit.
For the long bridge, make sure you get both pieces exactly 7" from end of loop to end of loop. This is a little tricky, but if one is longer than the other your bridge will not hang evenly.
Once again, glue the planks onto the ropes in groups of two. This way it's easier to see that moving every 2 planks is the same as moving one inch or one square.
To see what this bridge is for, visit the Game board building instructions page.


Two new books about Robert Duncan which will be reviewed in Tears 57.
This is the time of The Opening of the Field.
Michael Rumaker's account of Robert Duncan in San Francisco was first published by Grey Fox Press in 1978 and it revolves around that year 1957 when many fellow Black Mountain students were migrating since the close of the College. It was the summer of the famous HOWL trial where Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Shigeyoshi Murao, of City Lights, were prosecuted for selling Ginsberg's book. Michael Rumaker's account of those times in that city is a sheer delight of engagement: the reader is drawn into the world of excitement and fear, poetry and police. A new edition of this essential book is appearing from City Lights in January 2013 and it will contain previously unpublished letters between Rumaker and Duncan as well as an interview conducted by Ammiel Alcalay & Megan Paslawski.
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Ukraine's Eurovision 2019 Entry That Almost Was
Usually we don't have to do this type of disclaimer on our Eurovision blog, but any opinions we present in this post do not necessarily reflect those of our employers.
You see, Ukraine had planned to enter Eurovision this year. They held the Vidbir national final and everything. MARUV won with her totally awesome "Siren Song," a pop banger that had the potential to elevate her to Ani Lorak-level heights with the Eurovision fan base.
But there was just one problem: Russia.
Like many Song Contest fans, we followed along with Vidbir aided by the live translations provided by Andy Mikheev from ESCKAZ on Twitter. So like many Song Contest fans, we were taken aback when Andy tweeted that host Serhiy Prytula pointed out that the mother of sister act Anna Maria is in the Crimean government and that Jamala criticized them for not answering correctly about whether or not Crimea is Ukrainian and that Jamala told MARUV that "it is a thing of consience [sic] not to perform in Russia" after discussing MARUV's plans to tour Russia after Eurovision and that after MARUV said music unites people, Serhiy asked, "if there was anyone after her performance in Russia who said he will put guns down and will not go to fight in Donbass?"
No wonder that fellow judge Andriy "Verka Serduchka" Danylko described the discussions like this:
#Eurovision #Ukraine #EuroSTB2019 Andriy says the situation is like in Soviet party meeting, when someone is accused in anti-Soviet stand. He thinks if he was on their place, he would just left the stage now after all these questions.
— #ESCKAZ #TeamKAZ (@ESCKAZ) February 23, 2019
Now, discussions of politics and national identity are not new to Vidbir's judging. Jamala's performance of "1944" back in 2016 included a detailed discussion by the judging panel (which included Ruslana and Andriy Danylko) about how political a song it was.
Maybe it shouldn't be a shock, given that Jamala won Eurovision with a song about Crimea, that she would bring up Crimea during the judging of a Eurovision Song Contest entry. I mean, other than a fact that this was a show selecting a Eurovision Song Contest entry. But politics and Eurovision have been intertwined in Ukraine for quite some time, from Ruslana's career in parliament to GreenJolly's entry being an anthem of the Orange Revolution to, again, their most recent winner.
ESCKAZ and ESCXtra both cover the aftermath in detail, but in short, after reviewing the contract she was expected to sign to represent Ukraine, MARUV decided it was not worth it. UA:PBC offered the spot to second place act Freedom Jazz and third place act Kazka, and both rejected the opportunity as well. Meanwhile, private broadcaster STB, who runs Vidbir on behalf of the underfunded EBU member UA:PBC, cast doubts on whether or not they would continue to manage the national selection. As Eric Graf put it after Ukraine announced its withdrawal:
Yep. They managed to burn their main source of funding and spook the entire Ukrainian music industry in one fell swoop. That'll show those Russians!
— Eric Graf (@narkspud) February 27, 2019
We in the Eurovision community may be scratching our heads, but if we are honest with ourselves, everything that happened during and after Vidbir is not that surprising. Russia and Ukraine relations have deteriorated since the annexation of Crimea and tensions flared up between the two countries as recently as this past November.
Not long after the annexation, I read an article written by The Economist's Moscow Correspondent Noah Sneider called "The Empire Strikes Back." It's a lengthy and often tough read, but it provided me with a lot of insight into the history of Russia and Ukraine. It also reminded me that as big as Eurovision is, it is just a small part of a greater history being played out.
I realize that's not a deep insight, but people can spend their careers analyzing Russia and Ukraine, and I just came to Vidbir for the divas who slay. This is best sense I can make of it all, and now I can move on to making fun of Denmark's entry.
Author Chris ZammarelliPosted on 1 March 2019 15 February 2020 Categories ESC2019Tags Ukraine, UKRDrama
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Copyright and Licensing in the Time of COVID-19
By Roy Kaufman, 29 September 2020
In March 2020 we were instructed to work from home due to concerns over the pandemic. The same scenario played out for many employees who could perform their jobs remotely across the U.S. and around the world. This was the case for K-12 teachers, administrative staff and students as well.
Back in March, copyright was not top-of-mind for many people. Health and educational continuity took precedence. Many publishers waived copyright fees for use of materials in distance learning, made teaching resources freely available, and aggregated useful content. Plenty of content was used without permission of the copyright owners – some under legitimate "fair use," some out of lack of knowledge, and some opportunistically.
During a recent webinar on customer curriculum and copyright we conducted with our partner XanEdu, a custom course materials provider, attendees across the K-12 spectrum demonstrated a real need for information about copyright – from the duration of copyright to what is in the public domain, from fair use to the TEACH Act, to questions about whether they own the rights to the materials they create for education use. The fact is copyright is complex and the massive shift to distance learning has only compounded the issue for many educators who just want to do what is right. The need for copyright education was evidenced by the more than 900 people who took the time out of their day to attend the webinar.
It's against this backdrop that I offer this post to help K-12 educators better understand copyright, how it applies to distance learning, and how they can manage copyright compliance for the use of published materials in this new paradigm.
Trends that Emerged in the First Half of 2020
In terms of licensing and reuse of copyrighted content, the period of March-June 2020 saw five major trends:
Print photocopying vastly increased as students lost access to materials in the classroom
Online learning platforms and other EdTech tools gained traction
Publishers created no-cost licenses to enable teaching under these new circumstances
More assessments moved online
Teachers taught using materials they copied or posted online, sometimes under paid or free licenses, sometimes under fair use, and sometimes by committing infringements that rightsholders were willing to ignore
During the summer of 2020, we moved from the triage educational policies of early COVID-19 into the new normal of extended remote and blended learning. For Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), this resulted in an increasing number of queries about copyright, licensing, and practices for universities, schools, and districts as they seek to ensure better compliance.
A Primer on Relevant Copyright Concepts
What is a "license?"
A license is a legal term describing permission given to use property or to exercise rights belonging to another. With intellectual property such as a patent, copyright or trademark, a license is permission given by the owner of exclusive rights to another, who may use such rights under agreed conditions. As such, it is analogous to a lease in real property or to rental of a car.
What is "copyright?"
At the highest level, copyright concerns the exclusive rights of the creator of a work or her designees to (among other rights) make copies of that work. The law in the U.S. and most other countries grants copyright protection to a creator for a limited time in order to encourage the creation and dissemination of new works. In relevant part, copyright law governs the making of photocopies, the posting of materials online or in repositories, the reading of materials to others in a public forum, and other forms of sharing, such as emailing, creating assessments based on works, and adapting written materials into plays and songs.
These activities are among the "bundle of rights" given to the creator of a work upon creation and can only be performed by others with permission (which can be express, statutory or implied) or pursuant to a legal "exception" from those rights – for example, the privilege to make limited copies of articles for interlibrary loan or "fair use." Copyright in the U.S. does not govern the private reading of physical materials or the transfer and lending of physical materials, although it does in certain other countries. In the US, the copyrights in any works created before 1925 (and in some works created between 1925 and 1964) have expired and, separately, in the public interest the law waives copyright rights in works of the U.S. federal government – as a result, all of these materials are in the "public domain."
In the U.S., "fair use" is the primary exception applicable to reuse of textual copyright materials without the creator's consent. It is an affirmative defense. In other words, it is not a right; rather, it is a legal defense for engaging in an activity that would otherwise be infringing. Determining whether a particular use is fair use is fact dependent, and the same activity can be a fair use or not based on the context of the use or the identity of the user. For example, when a student photocopies a newspaper article for a homework assignment, that is almost certainly fair use. A teacher might also photocopy a recent article for her class under fair use, but if she asks for those copies to be made by a for-profit copy shop, the copy shop is likely to need a license. If the article becomes part of a required curriculum for the school district, permission for that wide use by students and faculty is likely to be needed. If it becomes required curriculum year after year, the licensing requirement is even stronger.
How do I determine when a use is a fair use?
Under the fair use doctrine, someone can ordinarily reproduce limited portions of a work for purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, and teaching. However, there are no fixed rules that say that the use of a specific number of words, a certain number of musical notes, or a certain percentage of a work, is automatically a fair use. Everything is determined on a case by case basis.
In determining whether to apply fair use to an infringement, the courts look at four factors set out in the statute (although even the statute itself says that these factors are "non-exclusive" – meaning that a judge can take other, similar factors into account as well):
Please note that no one of these factors is determinative of fair use; the judge has to analyze all four factors individually and then together, possibly giving them different weights depending upon the circumstances, in order to reach a conclusion that a use was or was not a fair use.
As the U.S. House of Representatives indicated in its report on fair use and classroom reproduction, uses are more likely to be fair if they are brief, non-systematic and spontaneous. Regular, repeated uses in classrooms, and required reading for standard curricula, typically require permission. More information about this issue can be found in a helpful document from the US Copyright Office entitled: Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians.
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Whether materials are used by individual permission or under Creative Commons license, it is important to maintain good records of the source and permissions. Failure to do so can create liability and compliance headaches and can also cost districts extra money if they pay for something more than once.
The urgency with which schools needed to pivot to online learning seems to have led to short term lack of compliance – whether under fair use or simply as "tolerated infringements." With the emerging "new normal," the calculus shifts. COVID-19 has exacerbated certain aspects of an already inequitable system of education. This is especially true in private schools and wealthy public schools in 1-to-1 districts, where students have electronic devices and internet access. These districts have fared relatively well, while districts serving poorer communities have needed to revert even more to photocopying, often distributing photocopies along with food.
Fortunately, photocopying is relatively inexpensive, and low-cost materials – whether they are in the public domain, are commercially-published materials protected by traditional copyright or are Open Educational Resources (OERs) protected by Creative Commons licenses or otherwise – can make up the bulk of the copies. Also, many publishers have been lowering copyright license fees to enable reuse while students are home.
To state the obvious, no one knows when COVID-19 will pass, and we can fully return to pre-pandemic modalities of instruction. The longer the pandemic lasts, the more important it becomes for the education community to learn about copyright, and the more important it becomes for the creative community to continue to offer easy licensing solutions that meet the ever changing – and indeed not yet known – needs of the classroom.
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Q: Finding a commit in Git ALL
I'm trying to find a commit in mt git based project.
Unfortunately running
git log | grep -i <some_phrase>

gives only the commit comment and not the SHA.
Is there some git command  can use to find a commit SHA?
TIA!!!

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The physicists at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology managed to bring a quantum computer back to its state a fraction of a second earlier.
The physicists at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology managed to return a quantum computer to its first fraction of a second state.
For most of us, the closest to time travel is watching an episode of "Doctor Who". A group of physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), however, have come closer together: using a quantum computer, they successfully simulated the inversion of time.
Simulated, of course, is the key word: lead author from Gordey Lesovik of the MIPT told CNN that we are "not really" approaching the possibility of actually reversing time. But it could still have important practical and theoretical consequences.
The necessary increase in entropy establishes the "arrow of time" or the irreversible progression from the past to the future. The time arrow problem, Lesovik told CNN, is "one of the most ancient, fundamental and fascinating problems" in physics. "It is nothing but natural to try to solve it," he said.
According to Lesovik, the results of the study will eventually allow scientists to "solve all aspects" of the time arrow problem in practice. They also have a practical application: they will help improve future quantum computers, he said, as well as the operation of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology, which is used in medical magnetic resonance imaging.
And the non-physical between us, however – does the study bring us closer to "Doctor Who" – time travel, with or without a Tardis? Animesh Datta, associate professor of theoretical physics at Warwick University, gave a direct answer after giving a look at the study: "No".
It offered an analogy to explain the results. "You can compare this with running a reverse video," he said. "It gives you the feeling that the world is going backwards, but it's just a feeling. The world doesn't really change."
The Moscow researchers began with a quantum computer comprising two qubits, the basic element of quantum information. They observed the computer through four phases: order – the starting point – degradation, temporal inversion and chaos.
During the degradation phase, the researchers explained in a press release that they launched an "evolution program" that caused morphing of the qubits in "an increasingly complex pattern of zeros and ones."


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Q: Run PHP file to get value for field I know I can include a PHP file with an echo to use as a value in form:
value="<? include('generatecode.php'); ?>">

But is it possible to send a value to this php file before it generates the code? For example in this PHP file it has an if statement relating to a value...
if ($value == 1) { do this } else { do this }

Is there any way I can use a checkbox that sends $value to this php file and updates if the box is checked or unchecked?
Thanks in advance.

A: You need Ajax to do this:
Lets suppose u have a checkbox with an id of #check then :
$('#check').click(function() {
  var checkVal;

  if($(this).is(':checked')) {
    checkVal = 'checked';
  } else {
    checkVal = 'unchecked';
  }

  $.post('generatecode.php', {input : chechVal}, function(data) {
    // do something with the data returned from generatecode.php
    alert(data);
  });
});

In the generatecode.php file:
//catch the checkVal variabe u sent
$checkVal = $_POST['input'];

//do somthing with it, depending what you do the output will be in the *data* variable in the above js script
if($checkVal == something) {
   //do something
} else {
   //do something else
}

NOTE :
What the above code does is from the page you are at the moment catches if the checkbox with id #check is checked or not.Then sends to generatecode.php the relative checked or unchecked ,there this gets caught in a PHP variable and depending on its value performs an operation which result then gets back to your starting page as a jquery variable data, which then you can manipuate as you like instead of alerting it as i did above.
Hope this helped feel free to ask for any clarifications.

A: You can assign a value to your variable in your main file.  As soon as you include the file, $value will be available in your included file.
<?php
  $value = 1;
?>
  value="<?php include('generatecode.php'); ?>">

This is kind of a weird way of assigning a value to what I assume is an HTML input element.  Typically, you would generate some value and assign it to a variable in your include file and then output the variable.


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"It's been a long road, getting from there to here..."
After two years, sixteen submissions and fifteen rejections, my story "I Am FanFare" is finally available for you to read here, thanks to the editors at MindFlights who have graciously offered it a good home.
Originally entitled "Attack of the Killer Online Social Network," this story has seen its share of form letter rejections, short lists, and personal rejections—both warm and cold. Through it all, I revised and edited and resubmitted, knowing that someday it would be published.
Here's a sampling of the feedback I received that gave me hope along the way:
"It's a clever piece and generally well-written, but ultimately it didn't stand out to me enough for a buy."
"While I enjoyed the amiable voice and the subject matter, I felt the story was too long for what it was."
"All of the editors at Electric Spec enjoyed your story and we encourage you to try us again."
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And last, but not least, my all-time favorite:
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All this to say, never give up on your stories. Sure, some may require a few more revisions than others, but don't ever lose heart. Believe in your work, and believe in yourself.
And while you're at it, check out "I Am FanFare" at MindFlights. Here's the teaser:
For Hermann Nesmith, the FanFare online network is the social life he's always wanted—but the new "friend" he's made might not be 100% human...
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Product zones feature mobile handsets, accessories and broadband with the introduction of a dedicated business area offering specialist advice and support.
Having initially been prototyped and consumer-tested in a mock store location, Wind opened the first ten stores during September with a further 40 due to be completed this year before rolling out to the remainder of their 220 store network.


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Doom — серія відеоігор жанру шутера від першої особи, розроблена id Software. Ранні ігри серії є одними з перших шутерів від першої особи, що використовували такі особливості як тривимірну графіку, багатокористувацьку гру та підтримку створюваних користувачами модів.

Сюжети ігор ґрунтуються на подвигах неназваного космічного піхотинця, що працює на Об'єднану аерокосмічну корпорацію (), б'ється проти орд демонів для того, щоб вижити та врятувати Землю від їх нападу.

Від першої гри серії, випущеної в  році, серія поповнилася трьома сиквелами, ремейком, безліччю модів, однойменним фільмом та кількома книгами за мотивами сюжету.

Історія
У 1992 році американська компанія id Software випустила Wolfenstein 3D, гру, яка була високо оцінена критиками, отримала визнання гравців й стала комерційно успішною. Після випуску гри Джон Кармак, один з програмістів компанії, почав займатися вивченням нових технологій для нових ігор компанії, поки інша команда займалася розробкою гри Spear of Destiny, котру id Software повинна була розробити по договору з компанією FormGen. Частина його напрацювань згодом була використана на рушієві гри Shadowcaster, основним нововведенням стали зміни рівня освітленості, здатність текстурування підлоги та стелі, а також змінювати їхню висоту. Кевін Клауд, другий розробник id Software, за декілька хвилин оцінив всі гідності оновленого рушія та вирішив, що компанії варто скористатися всіма напрацюваннями в новій грі компанії.

Ігри
 Doom
 Ultimate Doom
 Doom II: Hell on Earth
 Final Doom
 Doom 64
 Doom 3 (Resurrection of Evil)
 DOOM
Doom Eternal

Doom
Ігри id Software
Шутери від першої особи
Релігія у фантастиці
Відеоігри про демонів
Відеоігри, дії яких відбуваються на Марсі
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I realised that most people come to my blog to read my writing. So in an effort to start 2019 in a productive way, I've decided to axe 'Styles' – my least popular segment – for 'Shorts', which will focus on my short story writing.
The aim of this section will be varied; most of the time I want to use it to focus on my 'Places we Belong' series, but sometimes I might experiment with ideas for novels, or even just write an unrelated standalone short story on a random topic.
Valeria looked at her notes from the last meeting and tutted. Her RSI was acting up again, and despite her preference to take notes on the laptop she'd been asked to do it by hand. Apparently people found the typing too distracting in the boardroom. Her words were increasingly abbreviated, some becoming merely wavy horizontal lines with a few loops, crosses and dots to punctuate them; others were a couple of letters that she clearly judged at the time sufficient for later deciphering. She realised now how wrong that call was as she cradled and flexed her right wrist.
"Yes, should be fine," Valeria lied. She hated being called 'Val', but Tony had been told several times before. At this point, it was easier to be a little offended than make it a problem. She hoped he at least remembered his husband's name, and that the brain space she wasn't taking up by correcting him was being used to power something important. Like decarbonising the energy sector, or whatever it is you actually do when you get to that level other than sit in meetings all day.
Valeria sighed. She wasn't his PA, but his lack of one meant the job went to whomever was stupid enough to pay attention to him that morning. The budget for one had been sucked up into extra resource for the Primary Legislation team, and ironically, this extra resource was a man called Bill.
She leaned over her meeting notes to find the right window on her three-screen desktop, and could feel Tony standing right behind her. "3Q," she said, hovering over a purple rectangle labelled "Project Madeira catchup".
"I'd rather you were in there to be honest," Tony said, in a strangely complimentary tone.
"Paul won't be able to read these notes." Valeria grabbed at the notes, but they eluded her and fell to the floor as her leg went into a painful cramp. What little order remained had evaporated, and as she hadn't had the time to put little numbers in rings to denote each page, she was going to have to do it the hard way, and there wasn't time.
When I get a moment, Valeria laughed to herself.
She stood up again, papers in hand, and looked out of the first floor window. She imagined other people's lives, not that she was so unhappy with her own. But it was repetitive. Unpredictable in the wrong places. Process-driven to a fault. Every decision made was not her own – and nor was anyone else's. Everything needed to be approved by so many people that whoever was at the top was signing off something that had already been approved by ten other people.
Her deadlines were pressing, but still Valeria paused. It was January, but she pushed up on the glass and opened the window anyway. The still, cold air hesitated at the threshold, but she leaned out to feel its chill. She watched a couple on holiday with their two children. From somewhere warm, she supposed, given their excessive layering and darker-than-everyone-else skin tone. She thought about some other Valeria in another universe who had decided to have children, and how different her life would have been. How many 'work from home' days she'd get away with because of her kids, and whether she'd be happy with that husband, and the chaos and constant change children brought. She reassured herself she had made the right choice.
Her fiancé would be waiting at home for her. Sophie, the graduate intern, startled her by appearing at her right hand side. "Can you close this? Some of us are freezing," she said, making no attempt to hide her displeasure at the cold. Valeria looked at the clock. She'd been staring out of the window for ten minutes. She turned and saw her computer, which had locked itself, echoing the time. Tony would be back from his meeting in twenty minutes.
In a fit of compulsion, Valeria plumped for a sticky note and a felt-tip pen.
LEFT EARLY, she wrote. PERSONAL EMERGENCY.
She stuck it to the left-hand desktop monitor and packed up her belongings, taking her laptop and pile of confused notes with her – she'd need something to do on the way. She replaced her kitten heels with a pair of black Nike trainers and took the stairs to the main exit. She brushed past a gaggle of men in suits and ties and VISITOR lanyards. Several of them looked over and locked eyes on her, studying her movements. Valeria accelerated through the gates and came to a stop at the bus stop, where the family were still standing. A number of buses had passed, but they were either confused or unlucky.
"Are you okay?" she asked of what she assumed to be the mother of the group.
Valeria had seen at least two 24s go past while she was watching them from upstairs. She had to ask.
Valeria waited with the family as they watched two more 24s come and go. It was a strange, oddly subversive feeling. At last, they got on the next one. Valeria waved them goodbye and watched two more 24s go by, before deciding to get on the one after that. She didn't live this way; actually she needed a 100. But she didn't have a plan.
When she boarded the bus, she went upstairs and opened a window. She pulled her laptop from her bag with all the notes, ready to type them up.
A whisper of cold air brushed her from the window. Valeria looked from the pile of confused notes to the window and for a moment, she felt utterly insane.
She ripped up the notes in two, and two, and two, and two again, stood up, and sprinkled them out of the window as the bus drove down the road, leaving a trail of nonsense behind her.


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Posted May 24th, 2019 by Cecile Sorra.
Dr. Joe Sclafani (far right, red shirt) lived in Malawi for four years, using his skills and expertise in obstetrics/gynecology to improve the health of women. Photo courtesy of Joe Sclafani
Dr. Joe Sclafani wasn't motivated by faith when he moved to Malawi in 2014 to help improve the health of poor women in the developing county. Mostly he went for pragmatic reasons: to broaden his use and understanding of his obstetrics/gynecology specialty outside the United States.
Yet it was faith that brought him back home to New York — and it was the faith of the late Catholic writer and activist Dorothy Day who planted in him a firm desire to serve and advocate for the poor.
Faith and service converged for Sclafani in 2018 after he returned home from Malawi, where he worked with Baylor University to improve the health care provided to women. Struck by the deep spirituality of the Malawians he encountered, he felt an urge to reconnect with his own Catholic roots from which he had long fallen away.
"The charity of the people I met [in Malawi] had a profound effect on me," Sclafani says. "The decision to go to Africa was not a spiritual reason, but I came back more aware of my roots and what God meant to me through the example of the people I met.
"When I came back, I needed to envelop myself in that same spirit of charity and love," he says.
Sclafani started going to Mass again and read a notice about IVC. It seemed exactly what he was looking for — a place to develop and deepen his faith, to serve the poor, and to be part of a community of people who were striving to do both.
Joe Sclafani has read and transcribed hundreds of pages Dorothy Day's 6,800-page diary. Photo courtesy of IVC New York
At the same time, IVC New York had just entered into an unusual partnership with the Archdiocese of New York's Cause for the Canonization of Dorothy Day. Sclafani wasn't familiar with Day, and the Cause wasn't exactly how he thought he would serve the poor. He signed on anyway.
Indeed, the Cause for Canonization isn't the typical IVC assignment. But Dorothy Day's life embodied the very mission of IVC, says Maureen Fullam, IVC New York regional director.
Day lived out the Gospel, even before her official conversion to Catholicism in 1927 until her death in 1980. Her unrelenting advocacy for nonviolence, social justice and service to the poor sparked the Catholic Worker movement, which continues to provide houses of hospitality and farming communes today and remains an advocate for social justice across the globe. It was her dedication to living the Gospel values that led Pope Francis to herald her as a great American when he addressed Congress in 2015.
The New York Archdiocese formally took up Day's Cause in 2000. It has taken nearly two decades to conduct interviews with eye witnesses to Day's life, gather and transcribe her published and unpublished writings, and meet the myriad requirements outlined by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome, says George Horton, Catholic Charities director for the Department of Social and Community Development in New York. It was challenging in large part because Day, a journalist, was a prolific writer who authored books and works in various publications, including the Catholic Worker's own newspaper, as well as unpublished letters and diaries.
"Part of Dorothy Day's power is the fact that she wrote about living out the Sermon on the Mount," Horton says. "And the Catholic Worker movement had a strong intellectual side to it."
Because Day's Cause was largely based on volunteer efforts, the process was slow given the amount of writing she left behind, adds Horton, a vice postulator for the Cause. In fact, Marquette University Archives dedicates 200 cubic feet to her writings, publications and other materials related to the Catholic Worker movement.
It was in gathering all the written works that Sclafani has had the greatest impact, says Jeff Korgan, an archdiocesan consultant charged with managing the process.
"The sainthood process is a legal process that involves very specific things," even down to the specific paper and specific margins on the pages, he adds. Dorothy Day wrote a 6,800-page diary and had more than a thousand distinct published writings. They'd even found 36 boxes of hand-written pieces. All her writings are to be reviewed by two theologians. But in order to be reviewed, they need to be transcribed.
When Sclafani came on board the past year, he created a process to ensure the integrity and quality of all transcriptions — not an easy feat, given there are 105 volunteers scattered around the United States and other countries like India and the Philippines. Motivated by the professionalism that Sclafani brought to the work, Korgan asked for a second IVC member. So John Dowd, a retired computer programmer who had also taught Greek and Latin, joined the Cause earlier this year.
For Sclafani, the process of reading and transcribing Day's diary and other writings has expanded his understanding of the Catholic faith and its embrace of peace and justice. To him, Day is a model of faith in action.
"Saints are our role models, and I think that in recent times good role models in contemporary life in the U.S. are hard to come by," says Sclafani, who has since been invited to join the advisory board of the Dorothy Day Guild, the organization supporting Day's canonization. "I have the opportunity to help tell her story, and now more than ever, we need to talk about social justice and care for the poor."
Day believed that it was in personally, directly working with the poor, recognizing each individual as a person, that we are changed, Sclafani says. In that fundamental way, IVC and the Cause for the Canonization of Dorothy Day are kindred.
Sclafani says IVC has given him a community in which he can truly deepen his relationship with God. "I get to be around people who don't necessarily wear their religion on their sleeve but with whom I can speak about God and spirituality in a way that I don't feel like a religious nut," he laughs. "That community is really, really important to me."
"The real impact of volunteering from the point of view of faith and fellowship is understanding its connection to God," he says. "God becomes visible in the work."
The cause for Day's canonization "can make people aware of the value of taking individual responsibility for the poor and disadvantaged," Sclafani adds."We need Dorothy Day, and we need her story."
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