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package main

import (
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"os/user"
	"net"
	"os/signal"
	"log"
)

// Declare global variables
const MaxInt = int(^uint(0) >> 1)
var host string
var proto string
var udpForwardPort string
var originChannelSize int
var maxUdpSize int
var maxAckSize int
var logger *log.Logger

// BalanceLoadUDP initializes routesMaps and starts a UDP flow
func BalanceLoadUDP(termini, routesJsonPath, port, ackPort string, ackForward bool) {
	// exit if termini not set
	if len(termini) == 0 {
		logger.Fatalln("FATAL: termini must be set! exiting!")
	}

	// initialize and load routesMap
	routesMap := InitRoutes(termini)
	LoadRoutes(routesMap, routesJsonPath)

	// handle SIGINT to save routes on exit
	sigChan := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
	signal.Notify(sigChan, os.Interrupt)
	go HandleSIGINT(sigChan, routesMap, routesJsonPath)

	// start UDP listener
	addr, err := net.ResolveUDPAddr(proto, host + ":" + port)
	CheckError(err)
	conn, err := net.ListenUDP(proto, addr)
	CheckError(err)
	defer conn.Close()

	// set maximum payload per UDP packet
	buf := make([]byte, maxUdpSize)

	// start event loop
	if ackForward == false {
		if ackPort != "0" {
			logger.Fatalln("FATAL: ack-forward and ack-port must both be set! exiting!")
		} else { // plain forward case
			if udpForwardPort != "0" { // contention subcase
				// create and initialize done channel
				done := make(chan bool, 1)
				done <- true

				// call BlockingForwardUDP to handle contention
				for {
					n, origin, err := conn.ReadFromUDP(buf)
					CheckError(err)
					terminus := DetermineTerminus(routesMap, origin.String())
					go BlockingForwardUDP(terminus, buf[0:n], done)
				}
			} else { // no contention subcase
				for {
					n, origin, err := conn.ReadFromUDP(buf)
					CheckError(err)
					terminus := DetermineTerminus(routesMap, origin.String())
					go ForwardUDP(terminus, buf[0:n])
				}
			}
		}
	} else {
		if ackPort == "0" { // TODO: forward UDP, forward ACK
			logger.Fatalln("FATAL: unimplemented! exiting!")
		} else { // forward udp, forward ack + dedicated listener
			originChannel := make(chan *net.UDPAddr, originChannelSize)

			// start ACK listener
			go ForwardACK(ackPort, conn, originChannel)

			if udpForwardPort != "0" { // contention subcase
				// create and initialize done channel
				done := make(chan bool, 1)
				done <- true

				// call BlockingForwardUDP to handle contention
				for {
					n, origin, err := conn.ReadFromUDP(buf)
					CheckError(err)

					// push connection early to ensure ACK will get forwarded
					originChannel <- origin

					terminus := DetermineTerminus(routesMap, origin.String())
					go BlockingForwardUDP(terminus, buf[0:n], done)
				}
			} else { // no contention case
				for {
					n, origin, err := conn.ReadFromUDP(buf)
					CheckError(err)

					// push connection early to ensure ACK will get forwarded
					originChannel <- origin

					terminus := DetermineTerminus(routesMap, origin.String())
					go ForwardUDP(terminus, buf[0:n])
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

// main starts program
func main() {
	// core flags
	hostPtr := flag.String("host", "127.0.0.1", "UDP listener host")
	portPtr := flag.String("port", "8080", "UDP listener port")
	terminiPtr := flag.String("termini", "", "comma-separated list of termini to route packets to")
	resetPtr := flag.Bool("reset", false, "clear all origins in routes json")

	// default path flags
	usr, _ := user.Current()
	defaultRoutesJsonPath := usr.HomeDir + "/.bluroutes.json"
	defaultLogFilePath := usr.HomeDir + "/.blu.log"
	routesJsonPtr := flag.String("routes-json", defaultRoutesJsonPath, "file to persist routes json")
	logFilePtr := flag.String("log-file", defaultLogFilePath, "file to log prints, fatals, and panics")

	// optional flags
	udpForwardPortPtr := flag.String("udp-forward-port", "0", "forward UDP to terminus using specified outgoing port (same host)")
	ackForwardPtr := flag.Bool("ack-forward", false, "forward ACK back to origin")
	ackPortPtr := flag.String("ack-port", "0", "activate ACK listener to listen on specified port (same host)")

	// tuning flags
	originChannelSizePtr := flag.Int("origin-channel-size", 1000, "set size of ACK listener's origin channel")
	maxUdpSizePtr := flag.Int("max-udp-size", 2000, "set maximum size of UDP packet")
	maxAckSizePtr := flag.Int("max-ack-size", 40, "set maximum size of ACK packet")

	// parse flags
	flag.Parse()

	// initialize global variables
	host = *hostPtr
	proto = GetProto(host)
	udpForwardPort = *udpForwardPortPtr
	originChannelSize = *originChannelSizePtr
	maxUdpSize = *maxUdpSizePtr
	maxAckSize = *maxAckSizePtr
	logFile, err := os.OpenFile(*logFilePtr, os.O_RDWR | os.O_CREATE | os.O_APPEND, 0644)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println("could not open log file for writing!")
		os.Exit(1)
	}
	defer logFile.Close()
	logger = log.New(logFile, "", log.LstdFlags)
	logger.Println("----- BLU STARTED -----")

	// start flows
	if *resetPtr {
		// stop user if other flags provided; logFile and routesJsonPtr are okay
		if udpForwardPort != "0" || *ackForwardPtr || *ackPortPtr != "0" || *terminiPtr != "" || *portPtr != "8080" || host != "127.0.0.1" {
			logger.Fatalln("FATAL: multiple modes specified! exiting!")
		}
		ResetRoutes(*routesJsonPtr)
	} else {
		BalanceLoadUDP(*terminiPtr, *routesJsonPtr, *portPtr, *ackPortPtr, *ackForwardPtr)
	}
}

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Deacons and priests who are not members of religious orders
In Christianity, the term secular clergy refers to deacons and priests who are not monastics or otherwise members of religious life. A secular priest (sometimes known as a diocesan priest) is a priest who commits themselves to a certain geographical area and is ordained into the service of the citizens of a diocese,[1] a church administrative region. That includes serving the everyday needs of the people in parishes, but their activities are not limited to that of their parish.
Etymology and terminology
The Latin word saeculum referred to a period of time roughly equivalent to 100 years. The English word "century" evolved from this meaning. Latin Christianity adopted the term in Ecclesiastical Latin to refer to matters of an earthly and temporal, as opposed to a heavenly and eternal, nature.[2] In the 12th century, the term came to apply to priests obligated with parochial and ministerial duties rather than the "regular" duties of monastic clergy who were bound to the rule of a religious order, often called "religious clergy".[3]
While the term "diocesan priest" is often used to describe secular priests, not all secular priests are diocesan. In the Latin Church, other territorial and non-territorial ecclesial jurisdictions such as the personal prelature of Opus Dei, military and personal ordinariates, and apostolic vicariates all include secular clergy.[4] In the Catholic Church, Anglicanism, and other contexts, the term "secular priest" does not delineate between celibate and non-celibate priests.[5][6]
Latin Church canon law makes specific demands on clergy, whether regular or secular, quite apart from the obligations consequent to religious vows. Thus in the Latin Church, among other regulations, clerics other than permanent deacons "are obliged to observe perfect and perpetual continence for the sake of the kingdom of heaven and therefore are bound to celibacy"[7] and to carry out the canonical hours, typically according to the Liturgy of the Hours, daily.[7] They are forbidden to "assume public offices which entail a participation in the exercise of civil power."[7] All clerics, once ordained, are forbidden from marrying or remarrying.
The teachings of the Catholic Church and some scholars hold that a tradition of clerical continence existed in early Christianity, whereby married men who became priests were expected to abstain from sexual relations with their wives.[8][9] The Council of Elvira, held before Constantine legalized Christianity, made it an explicit law that bishops and other clergy should not have sexual relations with their wives. Despite consistently upholding the doctrine of clerical celibacy, over the following centuries the Church experienced many difficulties in enforcing it, particularly in rural areas of Europe. Finally, in the 12th century the Western Church declared that Holy Orders were not merely a prohibitive but a diriment canonical impediment to marriage, making marriage by priests invalid and not merely forbidden.[10][11]
The secular clergy, in which the hierarchy essentially resides, takes precedence over the regular clergy of equal rank. The episcopal office was the primary source of authority in the Church, and the secular clergy arose to assist the bishop. Only bishops can ordain Catholic clergy.[12]
One root of the 1896 Philippine Revolution was the agitation of native secular priests for parish assignments. Priests of powerful religious orders were given preferential treatment in these assignments and were usually Spaniards who trained in European chapters. The agitation led to the execution of the "Gomburza filibusteros", under charges of involvement in the 1872 Cavite Mutiny.
St. Thomas Becket is a patron saint of secular clergy. St. John Vianney is patron saint of parish priests. St. Stephen is patron saint of deacons.
Preparation for Catholic priesthood generally requires eight years of study beyond high school, usually including a college degree followed by four or more years of theology study at a seminary.[13]
At the time of their ordination as deacons (usually about a year before their ordination as priests) they promise respect and obedience to the diocesan bishop and his successors. They also promise to live in chastity, and according to the status of clergy (which includes a comparatively simple life). Diocesan priests do make vows, and must remain celibate and adhere to Canon law, but they do not promise poverty, so they may own their own property, such as cars, and handle their own financial affairs.[14]
Liturgical responsibilities
In his apostolic letter Dies Domini, Pope John Paul II wrote: "Among the many activities of a parish, none is as vital or as community-forming as the Sunday celebration of the Lord's Day and his Eucharist".[15]
A diocesan priest spends much of his time preparing for and celebrating the Sacraments (Eucharist, Reconciliation, Baptism, Marriage, Anointing of the Sick, Confirmation). In the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen gentium, the Second Vatican Council teaches that the priest acting in persona Christi celebrates the Sacrifice of the Mass and administers the Sacraments. "Christ is also present through preaching and the guidance of the faithful, tasks to which the priest is personally called."[16]
There are many parishioners whom he visits, those who are ill, those who are dying, and those who are unable to travel outside their homes. Sometimes, he is directly involved in the catechetical work of the parish and teaches catechism classes. He works with parish and finance councils that assist him in overseeing the welfare of the parish.[17] Diocesan priests may serve in myriad different capacities, these services include, but are not limited to, campus ministry, teaching, and chaplain work for hospitals or prisons.
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In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the term "secular clergy" refers to married priests and deacons, as opposed to monastic clergy (hieromonks and hierodeacons). The secular clergy are sometimes referred to as "white clergy", black being the customary colour worn by monks.[18]
Traditionally, parish priests are expected to be secular clergy rather than monastics, as the support of a wife is considered necessary for a priest living "in the world".
Since there are no orders like Catholic ones, all clergy in Eastern Orthodoxy, secular and monastic, are diocesan.
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^ Shook, John (April 20, 2010). "Secularity and Secularism Explained". Center for Inquiry. Retrieved 2022.
^ Cross, F.L., ed. (1957). "Secular Clergy.". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (1958 ed.). London: Oxford University Press. p. 1236.
^ "Book II: Part I: Title IV. Personal Prelatures: Canon 294". Code of Canon Law. Retrieved 2022.
^ Williamson, Padraig (October 2011). "To be, or not to be, married and ordained". The Furrow. Maynooth College. 62 (10): 571. JSTOR 23046477. Retrieved 2022.
^ Patterson, Laurence Kent (October 1935). "The Ethiopian Church". The Irish Monthly. Irish Jesuit Province. 63 (748): 628. JSTOR 20513817.
^ a b c "Code of Canon Law - IntraText". www.vatican.va. Retrieved 2017.
^ Roman Cholij, Priestly Celibacy in Patristics and in the History of the Church.
^ Cesare Bonivento, Priestly Celibacy -- Ecclesiastical Institution or Apostolic Tradition? Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine; Thomas McGovern,Priestly Celibacy Today; Alfons Stickler, The Case for Clerical Celibacy: Its Historical Development and Theological Foundations; Anthony Zimmerman, Celibacy Dates Back to the Apostles Archived 2007-10-22 at the Wayback Machine
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^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Celibacy of the Clergy". www.newadvent.org. Retrieved 2017.
^ Catholic Encyclopedia: Secular Clergy Catholic Online
^ "Occupational Outlook Handbook", U.S. Department of Labor
^ Unlike members of a religious order, diocesan priests pay taxes, and may buy their own furniture, invest in stocks, and inherit money from others. They also receive a low annual salary from their diocese (on top of room and board and other benefits) and are generally expected to help manage parish finances. "What is the difference between a diocesan priest and a priest who is a member of a religious order?", St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
^ Pope John Paul II. Dies Domini, Apostolic Letter of the Holy Father John Paul II to the Bishops, Clergy and Faithful of the Catholic Church on Keeping the Lord's Day Holy, (Vatican, 31 May 1998)
^ "The Priest, Pastor and Leader of the Parish Community", Address of Pope John Paul II to the Plenary Session of the Congregation for the Clergy, 23 November 2001
^ "Vocations", Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina
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public class RpLidarLowLevelDriver
extends java.lang.Object

Low level service for RPLidar.
 Just sends and receives packets.
 Doesn't attempt to filter bad data or care about timeouts.

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RpLidarLowLevelDriver.ReadSerialThread

Thread which reads in coming serial data from the LIDAR

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Modifier and Type
Field and Description

(package private) byte[]
dataOut

(package private) RpLidarDeviceInfo
deviceInfo

static byte
FORCE_SCAN

static byte
GET_HEALTH

static byte
GET_INFO

(package private) RpLidarHeath
health

(package private) java.io.InputStream
in

(package private) int
lastReceived

(package private) RpLidarListener
listener

(package private) RpLidarMeasurement
measurement

(package private) java.io.OutputStream
out

static byte
RCV_HEALTH

static byte
RCV_INFO

static byte
RCV_SCAN

private RpLidarLowLevelDriver.ReadSerialThread
readThread

static byte
RESET

static byte
SCAN

(package private) boolean
scanning

(package private) SerialPort
serialPort

private static byte
START_MOTOR

static byte
STOP

static byte
SYNC_BYTE0

static byte
SYNC_BYTE1

(package private) boolean
verbose

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RpLidarLowLevelDriver(java.lang.String portName,
                     RpLidarListener listener)

Initializes serial connection

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protected int
parseData(byte[] data,
         int length)

Searches for and parses all complete packets inside data

protected boolean
parseDeviceInfo(byte[] data,
               int offset,
               int length)

protected boolean
parseHealth(byte[] data,
           int offset,
           int length)

protected boolean
parsePacket(byte[] data,
           int offset,
           int length,
           byte type)

protected boolean
parseScan(byte[] data,
         int offset,
         int length)

void
pause(long milli)

Pauses for the specified number of milliseconds

protected boolean
sendBlocking(byte command,
            byte expected,
            long timeout)

Low level blocking packet send routine

boolean
sendGetHealth(long timeout)

Requests that a sensor health packet be sent

boolean
sendGetInfo(long timeout)

Requests that a sensor info packet be sent

protected void
sendNoPayLoad(byte command)

Sends a command with no data payload

protected void
sendPayLoad(byte command,
           byte[] payLoad)

Sends a command with data payload

protected void
sendPayLoad(byte command,
           int payLoadInt)

Sends a command with data payload - int

void
sendReset()

Sends a reset packet which will put it into its initial state

boolean
sendScan(long timeout)

Request that it enter scan mode

void
sendStartMotor(int speed)

Sends a start motor command

void
sendStop()

Sends a STOP packet

void
sendStopMotor()

Sends a stop motor command

void
setVerbose(boolean verbose)

void
shutdown()

Shuts down the serial connection and threads

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clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

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SYNC_BYTE0

public static final byte SYNC_BYTE0

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SYNC_BYTE1

public static final byte SYNC_BYTE1

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STOP

public static final byte STOP

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RESET

public static final byte RESET

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SCAN

public static final byte SCAN

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FORCE_SCAN

public static final byte FORCE_SCAN

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GET_INFO

public static final byte GET_INFO

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GET_HEALTH

public static final byte GET_HEALTH

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RCV_INFO

public static final byte RCV_INFO

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RCV_HEALTH

public static final byte RCV_HEALTH

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RCV_SCAN

public static final byte RCV_SCAN

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START_MOTOR

private static final byte START_MOTOR

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serialPort

SerialPort serialPort

in

java.io.InputStream in

out

java.io.OutputStream out

dataOut

byte[] dataOut

verbose

boolean verbose

readThread

private RpLidarLowLevelDriver.ReadSerialThread readThread

health

RpLidarHeath health

deviceInfo

RpLidarDeviceInfo deviceInfo

measurement

RpLidarMeasurement measurement

listener

RpLidarListener listener

scanning

boolean scanning

lastReceived

int lastReceived

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RpLidarLowLevelDriver

public RpLidarLowLevelDriver(java.lang.String portName,
                             RpLidarListener listener)
                      throws java.lang.Exception

Initializes serial connection

Parameters:

portName - Path to serial port

listener - Listener for in comming packets

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java.lang.Exception

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pause

public void pause(long milli)

Pauses for the specified number of milliseconds

shutdown

public void shutdown()

Shuts down the serial connection and threads

sendScan

public boolean sendScan(long timeout)

Request that it enter scan mode

Parameters:

timeout - Blocking time.  Resends packet periodically.  <= 0 means no blocking.

Returns:

true if successful

sendStop

public void sendStop()

Sends a STOP packet

sendReset

public void sendReset()

Sends a reset packet which will put it into its initial state

sendGetInfo

public boolean sendGetInfo(long timeout)

Requests that a sensor info packet be sent

Parameters:

timeout - Blocking time.  Resends packet periodically.  <= 0 means no blocking.

Returns:

true if successful

sendGetHealth

public boolean sendGetHealth(long timeout)

Requests that a sensor health packet be sent

Parameters:

timeout - Blocking time.  Resends packet periodically.  <= 0 means no blocking.

Returns:

true if successful

sendBlocking

protected boolean sendBlocking(byte command,
                               byte expected,
                               long timeout)

Low level blocking packet send routine

sendNoPayLoad

protected void sendNoPayLoad(byte command)

Sends a command with no data payload

sendPayLoad

protected void sendPayLoad(byte command,
                           byte[] payLoad)

Sends a command with data payload

sendPayLoad

protected void sendPayLoad(byte command,
                           int payLoadInt)

Sends a command with data payload - int

sendStartMotor

public void sendStartMotor(int speed)

Sends a start motor command

sendStopMotor

public void sendStopMotor()

Sends a stop motor command

parseData

protected int parseData(byte[] data,
                        int length)

Searches for and parses all complete packets inside data

parsePacket

protected boolean parsePacket(byte[] data,
                              int offset,
                              int length,
                              byte type)

parseHealth

protected boolean parseHealth(byte[] data,
                              int offset,
                              int length)

parseDeviceInfo

protected boolean parseDeviceInfo(byte[] data,
                                  int offset,
                                  int length)

parseScan

protected boolean parseScan(byte[] data,
                            int offset,
                            int length)

setVerbose

public void setVerbose(boolean verbose)

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Article posted by: White Nation correspondent Cape Town January 04 2017
SOUTH AFRICA– FAILED ILLUSION OF COMMUNIST ANC ORGANIZED CRIME ,LIBFARTS, UNION CHAOS , MISDIRECTED RAINBOW MONKEYS – AND WHITE GENOCIDE
A TRAGIC day for South Africa! In the Latest update it's been confirmed that 18 people have burnt to death and at least 254 have been injured in the train accident in the Free State.
It's believed that there were 713 passengers on the train when the accident happened. According to reports, a truck failed to stop at a level crossing. ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring says: "Fire services were the first to arrive on the scene, soon followed by ER24 Paramedics and other services. Approximately 100 people have been injured this morning following a collision between a train, truck and light motor vehicle between Hennenman and Kroonstad in the Free State."
Provincial Fire and Medical services were the first to arrive on the scene, finding that several carriages were lying on the side. A fire had broken out in one of the carriages and had begun to spread. ER24 paramedics, along with other services, began to evacuate the train and assess the patients while Fire Services began to battle the blaze. Upon assessment, paramedics found that approximately 100 patients had sustained injuries ranging from minor to serious.
The patients are currently being treated on scene and will be transported to nearby hospitals for urgent treatment. Initial reports show that no fatalities have been found on the scene. The details surrounding this incident are not yet known but local authorities were on the scene for further investigations. Families who had loved ones on board the train travelling from Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg can call the 24 hour line on 011 544 9623. Officials will be able to assist with names and hospital admissions.
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When Orlando meets a cross-dressed Rosalind in As You Like It, she demands "what is't o'clock?� and he replies, taking her for an adolescent page, "There's no clock here in the forest.� This idea is echoed by Hal in Henry IV, Part One, when Falstaff is introduced with the yawning question, "What time of day is it, lad?� to which Hal responds: "Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds . . . I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of day.� The tavern, like the forest, like the play itself, is supposed to be an escape from the world of duty and cares.
In the tragedies, bad timing and failed communication result in catastrophe: Romeo's failure to get the Friar's message, Juliet's reviving from seeming-death a moment too late; Emilia's interruption of Othello, too late; Cleopatra's false report of death, and then of life, too late; the reprieve of Cordelia's execution, too late.
Time is money, we say; we spend, we save. Time waits for no man. Carpe diem! "Had we but world enough and time / This coyness lady would be no crime� (Marvell). Time flies. Or stands still, or seems to. Waste of time. Quality time. In our time. The time of our lives (our most enjoyable moment). Prime time. Stop-time in music. Keeping time (rhythm). The test of time. Killing time. Biding time. Buying time. Stealing time. Wiling away the hours. Making time (Tim O'Brien abandons his writing career to parent his young children; as did McPherson to be present for his daughter). For everything there is a season (Ecclesiastes). "Eterne in mutability� (Spenser). Showtime! Time to deliver. Now and forever hold your peace. Hard time (both as in prison and in making something difficult). Time heals all wounds. Make up for lost time. Beat the clock. Watch the clock. In the nick of time. All in good time. Timely. Timeless. Timeworn. High time. Leisure time (thank you, industrial revolution, for time-saving conveniences; thank you, high tech). Pastime. Time on our hands. Time out. Out of time.
If I email my son in Bali, New Guinea, on Sunday in Boston, it is his Monday; my winter, his summer. Space is time. Longitudes determine time zones, and latitudes the seasons. Bali is some 8800 miles from Boston, its time zone a day ahead of Boston's, and its latitude south rather than north of the equator. If I flew, I would leave Boston at noon, Saturday, and arrive there on Monday morning. Actual time in flight, at 500 mph, some 21 hours; price one-way, $1200. Light years. Light from that galaxy, those stars, is from millions of years ago.
Our moon orbits the earth, which orbits the sun, while our whole solar system drifts in the Milky Way. Seasons. Winter solstice. Days and nights. Our measures of organic and geological life. Breathing in and out: how many breaths? How many heartbeats? What pulse rate? How many cycles of sleep and waking? How many years? Birthdays, death days. Eat, digest. Repetitions. Menstrual cycles. Cycles of desire. Gestation. Things grow; children grow, their heights measured on our doorjamb. In work and career, deadlines, projects in progress, completed, forgotten. Agendas. Wear and tear. Lifespans for different species and creatures. The new flock of birds, the robin nesting outside our window. Teaching, the semesters' clock, twenty-five new 20-somethings, each fall, each spring. Names change, faces, selves; I change. Their youth is the constant.
We speak of life journeys, which we try to measure as passages: childhood, adolescence, youth, adulthood, parenthood, grandparenthood; pick a number. From the traveler's perspective, time blurs past like nearby landscape, moves more slowly at a middle distance, and seems fixed on the horizon. What's past and passing and to come. There is the self and the times. In personal time, we think of our dead, our parents, siblings, loved ones and friends. We have our memories of each, as persons, supported and prompted by artifacts, by documents, by photographs and films (as time passes the faces, costumes, and settings grow stranger and stranger, more fixed and quaint); we have our family legends. We dream of those as yet unmet, unborn. But then, also, there's cultural time. Collective time. Decades. Presidents. Wars. Achievements and events that touched all of us, or do touch, or will. News time (breaking and old); historical time; Biblical time. Geological time. The backwards and abysm of time. The principles of progress and decay. The species too. Evolution. Devolution. Extinction. We call them eons and ages. Life on earth. Ordovician. Devonian. Permian. Triassic. Cretaceous. 440 million years ago, 251 million, 66 million. Man's ancestors, smart apes, 10 million year ago. Neanderthals, 500,000 years ago. Homo sapiens, 200,000 years ago. Modern humans, perhaps 50,000 years ago. Our entire existence, our longevity as a species, is barely an instant in time out of mind.
I can't grasp, finally, the latest theories and philosophies about time, summarized here . We consider time as a "measurable duration,� which is the whole the point of clocks (whether sundial, hour glass with sand, water clock, windup, electronic, or atomic, analog or digital). We take our pulses as beats per minute. That 80-year-old has lived for 29,200 days. But parse the notions of past, present, future, of tense itself; of progress and decline; of change, succession, and motion; of Providence, foreknowledge, fate and free will: and I'm lost. Duration (from eons, lifetimes, seasons, days and hours and minutes, to milliseconds, to attoseconds) seems as reducible as particles of matter. Experience vanishes into idea. What measure or duration divides "present� from "past�? Is the present all there is, encompassing the past and future? Is the ordering of time only a function of neurology? How do we account for change itself? For growth? Decay? For a ten-minute mile or a ten-thousand mile flight? Why, beginning in the 1980s, do writers insist on telling stories in the present tense? "I wake and am a cockroach.� Is all we know phenomenal, surprising and inexplicable? How do we connect then, now, and later? Is the flow of time a trick of perception, like the blur of cinematic frames? Is the notion of self as changeable as selves, so that history becomes more imagined than true and the truest story one that admits to relativity? "If I had been younger,� writes Alice Munro, "I would have figured out a story [an easy, sentimental version of known facts] . . . Later I might have believed [a more cynical version, concerning failures to communicate] . . . Now I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize� ("The Stone in the Field�).
I anticipate. I plan and prepare. I rehearse a coming event in action or in mind, and when the moment arrives, and it is all happening, I'm surprised, sometimes. Sometimes the experience is more, less, better, or worse than the imagining. And then there's my memory of it afterwards—not just the eternal instant, but the flow of that happening, those five seconds or so, that hour, that day. Not the instant of a photograph. Not the sequence of instants of a video recording. But experience in full texture, fully recalled, more like a place than a time. We marry. Our children are born. I find a livelihood and mission. I mount the bungee scaffold and leap, with my elastic tether. A chapter is finished, a book. Life's conditions alter. Rewards. Disappointments. A death. A loss. An accident or health problem. Vicissitudes.
Alzheimer and dementia patients lose their sense of time. They can't remember loved ones or friends. They grow confused about the date, the day of the week, the season. They need fixed routines and lose their sense of duration. If you leave them for a moment, they think you've been gone all day, or that you're never coming back.
In his final years, after publishing his collection of essays, A Region Not Home (2000), McPherson developed dementia. He stopped traveling, writing, and teaching, and from 2010 until his death in 2015, suffered accidents, underwent various operations, and was confined to an assisted care facility. Though we had been collaborators and personal friends, we lost phone and written contact. Friends in Iowa City kept me informed, and finally I flew from Boston to visit him in 2013. The facility was locked, presumably to prevent residents from wandering off. David Hamilton, a retired professor and former editor of The Iowa Review, and I signed in, found McPherson ready, and signed him out for the day. With Hamilton as host, and driving us around, McPherson seemed himself. We had our personal connection. He was witty and joking as ever, as generous and alert about people and curious about the times. It was one of his good days. We met Allen Gee, his former student, friend, and official biographer later that afternoon for a Thai dinner. We talked about teaching Shakespeare and the word "prolepsis,� and when I praised his own essay about Othello, he asked: "Did I write that?� Allen Gee chimed in, "You did. It's called 'Three Great Ones of the City.'� And me: "I use it all the time, Jim. You see Othello in terms of his Levantine lineage and ethical system, symbolized by the handkerchief, and end up comparing him to O.J. Simpson.� "I do?� he asked. "I said that?� He enjoyed hearing about himself, with bemused wonder and pride, as if the self we described were some unknown, close relation.
Time "dilates� in space, we've discovered. The clocks in the orbiting International Space Station are slower than those on earth. Since the ISS astronauts are moving faster than we do on earth, they age more slowly. On return from a six-month tour, they will have aged only a fraction less than we have , but scientists predict dramatic differences after, say, a trip to Mars and back. It's conceivable that after still farther, faster travel, future astronauts could return physically younger than their children, or even after the lifetimes of everyone they'd left.
We resist aging, at least once we reach our prime. Where my seven-year-old granddaughter yearns for the status of her adolescent sister, 40-somethings celebrate the cult of youth. We fight our body clocks with cosmetics, hair dye, exercise, plastic surgery, and drugs. We also resist adult responsibilities, like Peter Pan, and seek to remain free. Live for the moment! Gather ye rosebuds! Youth's a stuff that won't endure, except in Shangri-La. Even our visions of an afterlife assume a return to our prime. But who wants a perpetual present, really? We strive to adjust seasonal extremes with heat or a/c, yes. We look to cryogenics to freeze our present bodies and wake them in some future where medicine has cures for all disease, if not for mortality itself. But imagine a world without aging. Or always high noon. Always Spring. Time passes, but without measure or change. No progress. No decay.
The Enlightenment Deists, such as Benjamn Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, saw God as the divine watchmaker, who created the universe, set it going, and then stepped aside. The clock's natural laws were never changed or suspended by the maker. Through reason, men could be morally improved (see Franklin's list of daily virtues). Social justice made sense. However, while the clock was perpetual, lives were not.
If wisdom accrues from lessons and examples, then both individuals and societies should become wiser over time. We should stand on the shoulders of our forebears; learn, progress and grow. Or not. Civilizations fall. Languages die. Ignoring history, we do repeat it. The glory that was Greece and grandeur that was Rome declined into the Middle Ages. And then there's also future shock. Times too present to imagine; change too complex and sudden to process. Information overload. New powers and old weaknesses. "The future is now,� boasts Honeywell. But as change accelerates, generation gaps become decade gaps or less. Those born to new circumstances adapt, but their elders feel overwhelmed. The old wisdoms don't apply. The nuclear age. Birth control. Computers. The internet. Manned space flight. Social revolutions. New customs. Unforeseen complications. Life-prolonging medical advances. Globalization. Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Virtual reality. We can't know the future, but try to prepare. Fossil fuels dwindle as energy needs climb. Carbon emissions affect ozone depletion and global warming. Populations increase out of proportion to food and water supplies. Still how can we agree on the wisest actions to take? How can we believe?
In postmodern times (those of my generation's majority), we've suffered American reverses in Viet Nam and the Midde East. Poverty, racism, sexism, imperialism, oppression, and extremism persist. Yet we've also witnessed hopeful reforms and revolutions, notably those of civil rights, feminism, and the sexual revolution. The Cold War ended. Our technological and scientific advances have taken us into space, as well as into the nature of matter itself and the mysteries of minds and bodies. Our perspectives are more molecular, multicultural and global than ever.
Before the onset of his dementia, whenever McPherson visited Boston (he had friends nearby and his daughter went to Tufts), we discussed the state of our culture and times. We collaborated in editing several issues of Ploughshares and an anthology, Fathering Daughters: Reflections by Men (1998), where we asked writer-fathers about the perplexities of parenting daughters during decades of questioning, polarization, and social change. McPherson envisioned a future with "elbow room� and the emergence of an "omni-American� identity, an identity that "operates beyond race and class and sexual orientation�; however, when we talked, he dwelt on signs of decadence, moral dandyism, and materialism on every side and asked woefully what would become of us? As if in call and response, I'd counter with my own stubborn hope for what he called transcendence. The better way.
What about the present? Live for the moment, some say, as if there were no tomorrow. Live for sensation. Poetry, however, is emotion recollected in tranquility. We need time to share forever the moment's meaning, while the moment itself is fleeting. As for tranquility, many seek that in nature, the heart's forest, rather than in frenetic living. Perhaps that's the idea of resting for a seventh day. Or of practicing meditation techniques, breath in, breath out, empty the mind; ignore outside distractions and demands, focus on being fully present, the here, the now. Think of Thoreau's search for essentials and his refusal to "live what was not life.� Think of Anderson's "The Untold Lie� in Winesburg, Ohio: �The whole world seemed to Ray Pearson to have become alive with something just as he and Hal had suddenly become alive when they stood in the corn field staring into each other's eyes.� Lose yourself to find yourself.
No time like the present, we say (meaning seize the day). "Gone in the instant of becoming,� says William James.
Just in time, you found me just in time.
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight.
I retired from teaching recently, but still I need time to write about time. Thoughts rise. I ransack my reading life, revisit passages and quotes that I've savored. The field of meaning grows. I brave Wikipedia, following tangents and associations. I read more. I try to be well-informed, playful, and intuitive. Meanwhile, the season turns, nearby trees drop their leaves; I rake and rake. I bag the leaves and put them out for Friday pick up. Day by day, the weekends come. I work out in the gym from 2 to 3 pm. My wife keeps to her busy work schedule. A right wing President is elected. Thanksgiving comes and passes, with our trip to my son's life now in New Jersey. I go to readings and book launches by friends. My calendar has its demands. As does my body. The moon brightens to full and wanes. A cold front arrives. There are many clocks in my forest.
Absorbed in writing, I look up, and hours have passed.
My five-year-old wristwatch fails and I buy a new one, pleased to wake up in the night, push the button, and see its face glow green. 3:21 am!
Our numbered days. We can't know how many we have, each of us, before time swallows all, including our thoughts about time.


I just watched the documentary 'Cowspiracy'. Powerful and moving.
You know, in looking back at my life, most days I feel there isn't much I've done right. Many wrong decisions, paths not taken (or the wrong one) and many people I hurt along the way.
But the best decision I ever made, back when I was 21, was to give up meat–then poultry and seafood. And now, for years, dairy too.
It was not easy back in those days being a vegetarian, not fashionable or cool. There was never anything on the menu and people were very intolerant of my continual pestering of wait staff or at family meals.
But it was important to me. My turning point came in college, after taking animal industry classes–it was then that I knew I could no longer be a participant in the animal industry. There were many reasons and I won't bore you with them here.
Now today, my 21 year old instinct seems to have proven correct. And I'm glad that I followed my heart despite ridicule (which I still sometimes face) and the continued need to justify my choice. Now I can tell anyone to watch this documentary and they can see why I did it!
There isn't a lot I have to be proud of, or much that I feel that I have contributed as a human being, but these staggering statistics make me glad and grateful that in this one choice at least, I can feel I picked the right path.
One part of my job that is really different from the normal routine, and is actually enjoyable, is teaching CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation). This is one of links in the American Heart Association's (AHA) "chain of survival". This includes use of the AED (automated external defibrillator).
While I teach: right place, right time–with more and more people hearing about CPR and actually taking classes, it actually may become more likely to save a life in the field. And I certainly seem to be teaching classes almost weekly now. While I have only had two CPR saves in my 18 years as an emergency medical technician, my hope is that with lay people learning CPR, there will be more saves as we keep educating.
With all the advances on the ambulance, with Advanced Cardiac Life Support, better CPR techniques and then the care received in specialized hospitals, patients are walking out of these facilities more frequently and leading normal lives. And it is my great joy to teach classes–especially to lay people.
Most people who come to my classes have had some class in the past–sometimes 20 years ago. But much has changed. Students are often surprised by how things have changed, but are always willing to listen and learn. In the old days a teacher could pretty much wing a class and teach based on their own knowledge. But now, AHA is fairly strict and everything is video based.
This is understandable, with all the liability now, and wanting to create a uniform program taught the same way for everyone. Of course every teacher brings their own personality to the class, and this is where I hope I excel.
Classes can vary in their own personalities also, coming from church groups, teachers, bus drivers, factory workers to stay at home moms. The groups may vary in ages from teens to elderly people. This can make teaching a bunch sometimes challenging. Some groups are happy to be there and do so willingly and some are being made by work. So it's my job to make it fun for everyone.
The AHA video is really pretty decent given the content, but it is, after all, a CPR video! I try to spruce it up by stopping frequently with my own interjections, stories and allowing students to participate in discussions. My classes are very interactive, so the students won't fall asleep. There is huge redundancy also which can become monotonous and boring, just like the compression metronome, so getting them up and moving every so often is critical.
When I'm testing them, I make each scenario personal to them, trying to make them laugh. I also make each class a teaching moment for other things like cardiac disease, obesity, the 911 system, the EMS protocol system for cardiac arrest, DNR's (Do Not Resuscitate) and such. So it makes for very interesting discussions. While they are there to learn about CPR, I hope they come away with a lot more.
We also talk about the realistic part of what may happen in a cardiac arrest. The messy part that isn't mentioned on the video, so they can really be prepared for real life. And we talk a lot about children and infants, because that's the CPR no-one ever wants to do. I try to instill in them a sense of confidence and calmness. All this while trying to have some fun. Part of that fun is that they learn that the compressions are done to the beat of the old song from the movie "Saturday Night Fever"–Stayin' Alive. They love that part and I actually sing it! Some of them do too.
Finally we also learn about how to help adults, children and infants who are choking. Now this is truly a life saving tool! I have saved my own daughter's life by doing abdominal thrusts. Everyone should know how to do this properly! You never know when you may be called upon to do it: at a restaurant, a neighbor's house, a movie theater, your family member! It's simple and works!
So when my students complete this class, I'm hoping they leave with a sense of pride and accomplishment. Many hope they will never have to perform CPR on anyone, but know if they had to, they could. And with this new skill, they can be out in the world knowing they may actually save someone's life.
Consider taking a class if you haven't already–or renewing that old card of yours! Remember: it's all different now. You never know who's life you might save! Altogether now: Stayin' Alive, Stayin' Alive…Ah Ah Ah Ah….Stayin' Alive!
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The Palaestra in Herculaneum
by Carole Raddato
View of the partially excavated Palaestra in Herculaneum which was surrounded by a portico of fluted Corinthian columns on three sides and a cryptoporticus on the north side to support the terrace above. Built during the Augustan period (27 BCE - 14 CE), this gigantic building complex was used primarily for sporting activities.
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Carole maintains the popular ancient history photo-blog Following Hadrian, where she travels the world in the footsteps of emperor Hadrian.
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Q: OpenModelica algorithmic debugger doesn't display variable values I am struggling with debugging a model due to missing variable information in the Algorithmic Debugger's Local Browser window. As far as I understand the OpenModelica manuals, when setting a break point within an "algorithm" section and starting the debugger, all variables declared within the model's namespace should automatically show up in the Locals Browser.
Whichever of my own, but also the Modelica Std. Lib. example models I try, the Locals Browser window is always blank.

Is there a way of turning it on manually? Or do I need to add variables somehow manually? Or do I need to set any specific compile flags?
Thanks in advance for your time.
Stephan
Using: OpenModelica 1.17.0~dev-300-g00309fd on Ubuntu, with Modelica Lib. 3.2.3

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Effect of surface modification on candidate alloys for canadian SCWR fuel cladding
Jian Li, Pei Liu, Renata Zavadil, Tom Malis, Sami Penttilä
The Canadian Generation-IV supercritical water reactor (SCWR) requires peak cladding surface temperature of 800? for a core outlet temperature of 625[Celcius]. Materials selection for high temperature fuel cladding is becoming one of the major challenging tasks. Austenitic stainless steels with excellent corrosion resistance are often susceptible to stress corrosion cracking upon SCW exposure. Low-Cr steels such as P91 exhibit good high-temperature mechanical properties, but the lack of sufficient Cr content makes this group of alloys corrode too fast. One possible solution is to use coatings or surface modification techniques to improve the surface resistance to corrosion. In this study, we investigated the effect of surface modification on commercial 316L stainless steel. Surface modification by mechanical deformation has marked improvement in corrosion resistance during SCW exposure. Possible mechanisms for such improvement are discussed.
Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering
https://doi.org/10.4236/jmmce.2014.22017
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Li, J., Liu, P., Zavadil, R., Malis, T., & Penttilä, S. (2014). Effect of surface modification on candidate alloys for canadian SCWR fuel cladding. Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering, 2(2), 129-134. https://doi.org/10.4236/jmmce.2014.22017
Li, Jian ; Liu, Pei ; Zavadil, Renata ; Malis, Tom ; Penttilä, Sami. / Effect of surface modification on candidate alloys for canadian SCWR fuel cladding. In: Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering. 2014 ; Vol. 2, No. 2. pp. 129-134.
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Li, J, Liu, P, Zavadil, R, Malis, T & Penttilä, S 2014, 'Effect of surface modification on candidate alloys for canadian SCWR fuel cladding', Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 129-134. https://doi.org/10.4236/jmmce.2014.22017
Effect of surface modification on candidate alloys for canadian SCWR fuel cladding. / Li, Jian; Liu, Pei; Zavadil, Renata; Malis, Tom; Penttilä, Sami.
In: Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2014, p. 129-134.
T1 - Effect of surface modification on candidate alloys for canadian SCWR fuel cladding
AU - Li, Jian
AU - Liu, Pei
AU - Zavadil, Renata
AU - Malis, Tom
AU - Penttilä, Sami
N2 - The Canadian Generation-IV supercritical water reactor (SCWR) requires peak cladding surface temperature of 800? for a core outlet temperature of 625[Celcius]. Materials selection for high temperature fuel cladding is becoming one of the major challenging tasks. Austenitic stainless steels with excellent corrosion resistance are often susceptible to stress corrosion cracking upon SCW exposure. Low-Cr steels such as P91 exhibit good high-temperature mechanical properties, but the lack of sufficient Cr content makes this group of alloys corrode too fast. One possible solution is to use coatings or surface modification techniques to improve the surface resistance to corrosion. In this study, we investigated the effect of surface modification on commercial 316L stainless steel. Surface modification by mechanical deformation has marked improvement in corrosion resistance during SCW exposure. Possible mechanisms for such improvement are discussed.
AB - The Canadian Generation-IV supercritical water reactor (SCWR) requires peak cladding surface temperature of 800? for a core outlet temperature of 625[Celcius]. Materials selection for high temperature fuel cladding is becoming one of the major challenging tasks. Austenitic stainless steels with excellent corrosion resistance are often susceptible to stress corrosion cracking upon SCW exposure. Low-Cr steels such as P91 exhibit good high-temperature mechanical properties, but the lack of sufficient Cr content makes this group of alloys corrode too fast. One possible solution is to use coatings or surface modification techniques to improve the surface resistance to corrosion. In this study, we investigated the effect of surface modification on commercial 316L stainless steel. Surface modification by mechanical deformation has marked improvement in corrosion resistance during SCW exposure. Possible mechanisms for such improvement are discussed.
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U2 - 10.4236/jmmce.2014.22017
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Li J, Liu P, Zavadil R, Malis T, Penttilä S. Effect of surface modification on candidate alloys for canadian SCWR fuel cladding. Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering. 2014;2(2):129-134. https://doi.org/10.4236/jmmce.2014.22017


Welcome to Blue Gecko Software, Inc.
Scott E. Townsend is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded Analytic.li, LLC. (2016), Blue Gecko Software, Inc. (2006), and TruPay Corporation (2003). He has a long history of involvement in the Payroll/HCM Industry as a software product developer dating back to 1988 with Interlogic Systems, Inc. (now Interlogic Outsourcing, Inc.) based in Indiana. Beginning in 2008, he anticipated the need for embedded decision support solutions in the payroll industry and so began to pivot from transactional payroll/HCM product development to analytical systems. Since then, he has established a strong track record of developing business intelligence and integration solutions for Analytic.li, iSystems, Intuit, Intel, and Prosper.
In late 2016, Mr. Townsend co-founded Analytic.li with a team of incredible industry veterans all with significant HCM, payroll, and service bureau backgrounds. As a company, Analytic.li is working to break through typical industry boundaries by creating the first cross-platform analytics solution for the Payroll/HCM industry. This means that customers that use multiple software platform providers can receive consolidated and unified analytics across all their business holdings--no matter what platform or service bureau is doing the processing. Among other benefits, this solves a major reporting and decision support pain-point suffered by larger companies.
They are currently iterating on a powerful API framework tool called Analytic.li Data Manager that performs high velocity staging from many potential source systems. The staging framework includes the ability to support some client specific customization's all while smoothly performing ETL into a SQL Server 2016 Enterprise data warehouse running in Azure. They are also continuing to work on customer facing API's that will expose post-ETL dimension and fact table data to be used in whatever corporate analytics standard required by our customers...including Excel, of course.
In addition to his architecture role, Mr. Townsend is managing onshore and offshore resources that are working on the product road map. This includes supporting a browser-based UI, mobile (iOS and Android) apps so that the curated dashboards add decision support value for customers.
Blue Gecko Software, Inc. was engaged to adapt our analytics intellectual property originally created for the Millennium (MPay Software, Inc.) platform and refactored it for the Evolution HCM platform offered by iSystems, LLC (now Asure Software, Inc. | NASDAQ: ASUR) based in Vermont, USA. Evolution HCM is a dynamic Payroll, HR, and Tax Management system developed by payroll and HR service bureau veterans for the Human Capital Management (HCM) industry. Providing unparalleled accuracy, productivity, and financial control within one fully integrated platform, Evolution gives it's customers the power and flexibility to operate and grow their business while continuing to meet the growing trends of the industry.
Mr. Townsend served as the Chief Product Architect Evolution Analytics which was successfully developed and launched in March 2016. In his role there, he designed, architected, and implemented a comprehensive data warehouse to support embedded dashboards in the EvolutionPayroll and EvolutionHCM product family. The backend transactional system is a collection of service bureau and payroll customer databases using Firebird (Interbase) and performing ETL into Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Enterprise using Birst as an embedded visualization layer.
Press Release on Blue Gecko Software, Inc. Intellectual Property sale, here.
Press Release on Evolution Analytics here.
Mr. Townsend reported to the Chief Information Officer and regularly interacted with and mentored a team of about ten onshore and offshore staff. The team included the Reporting and Analytics manager, the Product Owner, a BI Engineer responsible for Birst integration, a Senior ETL Engineer, and several offshore resources include an additional Senior ETL Engineer and two QA Engineers and a database administrator.
Through it's relationship with Design Mind, Inc. based in San Francisco, CA, we have a diverse consulting background as a sub-contractor. To date, we have worked for the following organizations with a brief description of our work.
The first was a supplies data warehouse where Mr. Townsend retrieved Oracle, SQL Server, and flat file data combining order history with line item detail, marketing campaign data, and web traffic data to facilitate better understanding of its in-product campaigns and other sources. Working with another teammate from Design Mind, Mr. Townsend handled all ETL responsibility for both an operational data store (ODS) as well as for the data warehouse itself (DW). The project was approximately 9 months.
The second project was for Quick Book Finance and was centered around a partner funnel analysis with its various lending partners. Working with the same teammate, Mr. Townsend again worked with multiple partner flat file feeds that reported lending activity status into the data warehouse for analysis by the product owner, analysts, and management. He handled all ODS and DW ETL efforts over a six month period.
Mr. Townsend was also a part of a five man consulting engagement at Intel, where he focused on front-end and end-user proof of concepts using Excel, PowerPivot, and PowerView against a tabular sales and opportunity pipeline cube. His responsibilities including using DAX to shape data from the cube into PowerPivot and used Excel pivot tables with slicers, visualizations, and a fair amount of styling to provide various stakeholders with dashboards.
At Prosper.com, Mr. Townsend worked exclusively in SSIS and SSRS providing deep integration services between various external partners and Prosper. The wide ranging assignments included banking, investors, compliance reporting for 1099 processing, marketing campaigns, debt collection services, marketing campaign prospect lists, and treasury movement reporting.


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ControlMaster99
Hetero Male Dominant, 59, Colorado
Looking for a young female slave (18-28?) who wants to be permanently owned property, totally controlled, mind and body. Strict long-term bondage, mai
Looking for a young female slave (18-28?) who wants to be permanently owned property, totally controlled, mind and body. Strict long-term bondage, maid duties, three-hole availability, punishment as needed and mind control to make the situation permanent and inescapable.Must be slenderfitpetiteathletic and very attractive (I love small fs, around or under 5, 100 lbs.).
What do I require of you? Only that you meet my age preference and I feel physical chemistry with you. Your personality and demeanor are immaterial, because after I access your subconscious mind, you will be remade into anyone I desire. Therefore, you just need to submit verified pics to me, and be willing to travel to my location (on your own dime) to begin your lifetime of slavery.
Tags hypnosis, mind control, relyfe programming, neuro-linguistic programming, NLP, Monarch program
Dominant Male
Actively Seeking:
Submissive Female
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Note: This is one of my blog entries from my profile on Alt.com (different username).
Celebrities and BDSM, pt. 2
Okay, so who knew? Who knew that I would bump into not one famous young hot Hollywood actress with a profile on a BDSM site, but two?
Regarding the first actress I wrote about in my previous blog entry, the single twentysomething household name with an estimated net worth of 70 to 100 million dollars, it's time for an update. If you recall, she had posted a profile that stated she was a "well-known actress" looking for "discreet humiliation and slavery". By analyzing the details of the profile, I was able to determine that it was real, and was able to decipher who she was by doing such things as checking to see the birth date on her profile matched this actress' real birthday, and doing reverse image searches that showed the full picture of her that she had cropped to show only her legs, and then later another pic where she obscured her face in the image, only to show clearly who she was when a reverse image search showed the complete, unobscured photo of her.
So when I told her I knew her identity, and how I determined that, she responded, saying that I was "very smart" to have figured it out, and that she was interested. She first gave me her Yahoo IM ID, and later her email address. However, it proved difficult to get her to respond to my emails with any consistency, so I was really not able to gain any traction with her. As she said, "my schedule is completely crazy, and I get tons of emails". No doubt.
So later I happened to notice that her profile status had changed from "looking for discreet humiliation and slavery" to "want to be totally controlled, forced, blackmailed". Perfect. Now these things are right up my alley, part of my skill set. What an exquisite scenario, blackmailing a filthy rich beautiful young actress, while totally controlling her through hypno-programming and screwing her brains out daily. So I tried contacting her again to proceed with this scenario, but I couldn't get her to respond, even after I mentioned alerting TMZ about her secret life if she didn't obey me. After all, that is what she was seeking, right? And I took a screenshot of her profile where she states wanting these things, which would be an affirmative defense in a court of law if the situation ever arose.
Now she doesn't check her profile very often, no doubt due to her "crazy schedule" shooting some movie in some godforsaken locale, but I happened to notice she had once again changed her status to "ruin me", which is still posted. Ultimately I decided that these things are her fantasies, but she doesn't have the guts to actually go through with them, even though on one of her rare Collarspace profiles (which she deletes after every time she uses it), she had implied that she had met people through this site when she was in New York (staying in her $14 million apartment). I still don't believe she would actually take the risk of meeting a total stranger, with all she has to lose. Would she have a bodyguard present at this meeting? If so, it would kinda kill the atmosphere, yes?
Speaking of Collarspace, where I have a profile (with a different username), one night I was running searches and I noticed a profile with a photo of an attractive young blonde woman wearing a massive "facial". There was so much cum on this chick's face I figured it had to come from more than one male. Now I had seen this profile many times before, where she states that she is looking to be controlled by an older man but allowed to continue with her acting career. Because I couldn't recognize her (true, I'm no movie buff), and the fact she was living in LA, I figured she was probably a porn actress.
Anyway, I must of been bored that night, so I sent her a message mentioning my communications with the other actress (in order to build rapport, NLP-style), and asking for her film credits. She wrote back and said, "well, this is me" followed by a Wikipedia url. So when I went to the Wikipedia page, I almost fell out of my chair. There was a long list of both TV and movie appearances, and she was the younger sister of a very famous child actress, who is much more famous than she is, who is now in her 20s, and once co-starred with Tom Cruise in a movie. By the way, the younger sister is much hotter than the older one, and had just turned 18, so she was now legal.
So I wanted to make sure the person who posted this profile was actually this young actress, and not some poseur. This was easy to do by doing reverse image searches of the numerous photos of herself posted on her profile. They were photos of this actress, but they did not appear anywhere else on the Internet, so I knew she was who she said she was. And of course there was also the unique facial pic.
By the time I finished reading her Wikipedia page, I found that she had already left for the evening. So I sent her a message, part of which asked her if having such a provocative photograph posted on her account could cause her problems as far as her public image and reputation. She did not respond to the message, but the next time I saw her profile up (she shuts it down whenever she leaves Collarspace), she had removed the "facial" pic that had been posted on her account as the main photo for at least six weeks or so. Bottom line, this girl did not continue communicating with me, but she was apparently being influenced by my words and acting accordingly, which means I have some level of power over her, but not the kind of power I would like.
The other night I saw her profile up again (minus the facial pic, of course) and I sent her a message, addressing her by her real name. I told her that I could provide everything she was looking for, that I would totally control her through hypno-programming and yet never interfere with her acting career, because having a slave bring in a significant income stream would be ideal in such a relationship. She is listed as having an estimated net worth of $5 million (at 16), paltry in comparison to the other actress, but not bad for an 18-year-old. No response.
Once again, these two actresses are probably natural subs/slaves and these are their ultimate fantasies, but I believe they are too scared to actually go through with it, which is why their profiles are not taken down. I am surprised that they are not able to find guys into BDSM in their own social circles/parties, but who knows?
One of these days, when I don't have a thousand things on my schedule, I may just show up at a known location of this young actress, approach her and covertly hypnotize her. After that she will be my property. For life.
Update: 3/25/17
OK, you're probably not gonna believe this... but then again, who knows? So I bumped into my third famous young Hollywood actress into BDSM who put a profile up on Collarspace, looking for an older experienced Dom. She came right out in her profile stating she was 17, and didn't care if her profile would eventually be deleted. She used her real first name in her username and had numerous pics that showed clearly her face and identity. She is most well-known for playing a daughter in 64 different episodes on a famous and highly acclaimed cable series.
So I sent her a message and told her she was the third famous actress I had found with a profile on CS. I told her to read my blog about celebrities and BDSM. She wrote back and told me that from reading the blog she could tell who the second (younger) actress was, because she knew her personally and knew she was into BDSM. Regarding the first actress, the older one, I gave her a subtle clue and she wrote back and said, "is it so-and-so?", And I replied that yes it was, and how did she know that? She replied that someone else on CS had mentioned that she had a profile, and she had heard rumors that the actress was into BDSM. I asked her if BDSM was big in Hollywood, and she said, "yes it is".
Now I don't get involved with underaged girls, so that was pretty much that (she doesn't turn 18 until November), but of the three different actresses, she was by far the nicest and most polite, which made me like her immediately. The other two actresses, even the 18-year-old, were too "Hollywood", meaning they were jaded and had attention spans of about three seconds. This girl actually seemed normal, if by normal you mean someone who is smart, polite and well mannered (I guess that isn't very normal these days).
And now for an update on the other two. They both had gotten much more bold in their profiles, the older one openly showing her face in her pics so anyone would realize who she was, and had her real first name in her username. This was the first time she made no attempt to hide her identity. The younger actress put the "facial" pic back on her profile, and also had a pic of her smiling, naked from the waist up. And there was another pic where she had just serviced some (not so big) black cock, and had cum dripping off her face. Also, she was now no longer specifying a man as her prospective Dominant. Like I said earlier, these two actresses no longer interest me because they are just too jaded, seen it all, done it all, so what's left?
What is real control in BDSM? What is real slavery?
The typical relationship or encounter resulting from this site is essentially what I would define as little more than "roleplay". In fact, the sub or "slave" is really the one controlling the terms of the encounter or relationship. The sub/slave states what her limits are and just exactly what she is expecting from this encounter or relationship.
From what I am told, if a female in her teens to early 30s creates a profile here with a pic of a reasonably attractive girl (whether or not it is actually of her), she will get 100 responses from guys in the first 20 minutes, and around 500 total for the day. Therefore, she is the one that actually has the control from the very beginning. She is the one that determines what messages she will even bother to read, much less respond to. Whether she wants this situation or not, she is the one in the dominant position. And even if she signs a "slave contract", it would be worth little more than paper it is written on. If there was a violation of the agreement (e.g., the "slave" gets bored and decides to leave), exactly what court of law would the "Master" use to uphold the terms of the "contract"? None of this seems like real submission or slavery to me.
What follows is an example of true slavery, true ownership. The girl, who was not even submissive in nature (according to her), was hypno-programmed and had her subconscious mind restructured so that she was my slave and property for approximately a year, completely unable to escape (although later she admitted she liked the idea of not being able to escape). Note that this relationship happened a long time ago, in the early years of the Internet. You could never find this kind of innocence anymore online. Even the method used (IRC chat) is essentially dead in today's Internet.
I met "Kendall" in a chat room when she contacted me after seeing "Hypno" in my nickname. She had never been hypnotized before, but she told me that in moments where she felt very embarrassed, she found herself slipping into a trance state. I found this comment to be highly significant, because a person who slips into such trance states that easily indicates that they have a "dissociative" personality, where there is essentially a "wall" between their conscious and subconscious minds. These individuals are extremely rare, go into deep trances and are prime candidates for being completely mind-controlled through hypnosis.
Kendall was a sexually pristine teen (yes, she had reached the legal age of consent) who had been raised in a typical strict Mormon upbringing. The Mormons are total freaks when it comes to any sexual activity outside of marriage. In fact, they don't even allow masturbation and program their kids that it is a "sin". Thus, not only was Kendall a virgin, but she hadn't actually ever masturbated, only experiencing orgasms through "wet dreams".
Kendall was a beautiful, slender, blue-eyed blonde, straight "A" student who was a varsity cheerleader and star tennis player. Apparently quite popular, she said, "I rule in school". She was hardly a natural born submissive. In fact, she was mouthy, insolent and disrespectful, essentially the opposite of my preferred female personality, which would be sweet, innocent and respectful. Once I asked her if she was submissive. Her response, "Nobody seems to think so!!!"
I hypnotized her easily and installed the necessary trigger phrases that allowed me to control her long-term. Since these trigger phrases must be constantly reinforced, this was done by sending her communications that were only visible to her subconscious mind. She had no conscious knowledge of receiving these communications, and thus no ability to break off the control. She was programmed to remain a virgin, and to only be able to have an orgasm when I gave her the appropriate trigger phrase. These orgasms were programmed to be 20 times more powerful than normal. She described them as "waves" moving through her body. I also kept her horny about being my slave 24/7. She once described this feeling as a "constant tingling" in her twat.
Apparently this programming to like being my slave was having the effect of changing her personality over time. Her parents remarked that they couldn't believe how mellow she was becoming. She said, "You are good for me". I agreed. I also programmed her to understand that the slavery was permanent. She once asked me if our relationship was "for long-term". I said, "For life". Her response was, "OK". This greatly surprised me. She had fully accepted the fact that she couldn't escape and that her slavery was for life. I used to ask her if she liked being my slave. Her response always was, "Do I have a choice?".
To actually completely own another person is an absolutely exquisite feeling, unlike any other, because by giving their mind to you, they have given everything they have, the most intensely personal aspects of their being. I once saw a comment that said, "If you capture a girl's body, you get sex. If you capture her heart, you get love and loyalty. If you capture her mind, you get THE GIRL". Well said. When you are talking to a person's subconscious mind, there are no secrets in the relationship, because the subconscious mind will not lie, except in very specific circumstances. Once, after I had not seen Kendall online for quite a while (she was being punished), I asked her subconscious mind if she missed me, to which it replied, "Yes". Kendall would never have consciously admitted that to me.
I was very protective of Kendall, as I am with any of my property. I could have easily made her jump on top of her desk in her homeroom and do a striptease until she was completely naked, but that would have caused her lots of problems, and I didn't want that. There was one time, as punishment, I made her go to school in her shortest skirt, with nothing on underneath, and gave her the command that she would not be consciously aware of this until she actually got to school. This might seem rather tame, but trust me, for someone with her sheltered upbringing, it was quite a shock.
Eventually I got lazy and careless, and did not send the reinforcing communication properly, and lost my control of Kendall. At the time I had several other slaves and therefore was not properly motivated to keep her under my control. About nine months later, I saw her online again and knew that the reason she was back was because she missed the control, which is extremely addictive, and wanted it back again. However, we ended up getting in a big fight because I had caught her in a major deception, and so she was backed into a corner, unable to justify her behavior. I never saw her again after that.
So there you have it, an example of what real control, real slavery is all about. I captured an unsuspecting girl that was not naturally submissive and turned her into a slave, unable to escape, liking the fact that she was unable to escape, and accepting of the fact that her slavery was for the rest of her life. I see lots of profiles on here where the girl is looking for exactly this kind of situation: to be owned by a Master, to have no choices, to be molded by her Master as he desires, to have no ability to escape. However, these girls apparently get cold feet and can't go through with it. Can you?
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My phone was reset to factory default and now it keeps telling me that gmail had stopped working and it won't go further than initially setting up the phone. It goes as far as set date and time.
Is that image mobile rio or frio? Please see the comment by JP below for a possible solution.
1.Press and hold the home key until google appears.
2.Search for gmail, log in and update if the option appears.
If not, go back and search play store and update gmail as well as google services.
Note: your phone will switch back multiple times back to initial set up pages. Repeat first step as it takes you back to google and play store.
3.After these steps are done you can go back to initial setup. You should be able to move forward.
Please See the comment by JP above this answer box for a solution. let us know should you need more assistance.


Stories abound of investors trapped in a quagmire of bad debt, stalled construction and disputes with developers. Apart from the circuitous options of litigation and arbitration, what are the alternatives available for beleaguered investors? Responding to the situation, a few market stakeholders have introduced 'real estate recovery schemes' to either help investors recoup their dead investment or move to a completed property under a new payment plan.
The options incorporated under these programmes can be diverse. Take, for instance, Smith & Ken Real Estate's scheme, which is only open to investors who have put down Dh1million to Dh2million in an off-plan property. While the agency will take over the investor's power of attorney for the specific project, it can, meanwhile, offer completed units at a similar price point in towers located in Dubai Silicon Oasis and Dubai Sports City. The investor's payments committed to the off-plan project will be deducted from the purchase price of the new unit.
The agency claims it is a win-win proposition for both parties. Benjamin Smith, CEO, Smith & Ken, says, "A developer may have an asset that's not been sold or previous clients who have not made payments. He will, in effect, have a new purchaser, which boosts his cash flow. For the purchaser, our scheme takes away the longevity of having to go to court; they can move from a pile of sand into a completed property."
While Smith & Ken managed to clinch 28 transactions under this scheme, it had to deal with a few challenges in the process. Though the distressed investors were looking out for a new payment plan in the completed property, a few developers were demanding payments upfront. "Also, many investors didn't have the fresh cash to re-invest. A lot of people who had invested in the off-plan market were speculators," adds Benjamin.
The scheme is targeted at investors who have put down only 10 to 40 per cent of the purchase price of an off-plan unit. "This scheme wouldn't work for investors who have deposited 70 to 80 per cent of the payment. We are not looking to move someone into a Dh5 million villa or a Dh4 million apartment on the Palm Jumeirah, for instance," says Benjamin.
Fine & Country International Realty, specialists in exclusive properties, has an off-plan recovery scheme that is a very different proposition. On receiving a copy of the purchaser's sales and purchase agreement (SPA) for the off-plan unit, the firm will provide advice on the buyer's legal position and the possibilities for money recovery. For an additional fee, the company will also undertake site inspection, land registration and escrow checks and initiate negotiations with the developer.
Adrian Camps, a chartered surveyor, arbitrator and property expert at Fine & Country, outlines "three levels of services for which there are fixed charges. There is an initial consultation fee of Dh2,000, which is deducted from the service fee," he adds.
However, Fine & Country is more cautious when it comes to offering unit swaps, as it does not wish to deal with any outstanding liability on behalf of the investor. "There are some official swap schemes where developers are seeking Rera's [Real Estate Regulatory Agency] approval for cancellation of the original contract, which can result in a refund and no ongoing liability for the investor," says Adrian. "So, if the developer does not intend to continue with the scheme, then it will probably allow the investor to move on via a swap scheme. But, if the developer wants to complete the original scheme, then it will not willingly lose investors," he adds.
"So, while the investor can take a risk by walking away from the previous investment and contracting to the new one, there is always a chance that the original developer will pursue them for any loss. We are, therefore, reluctant to recommend any transactions that leave open liability."
In the absence of property-related laws in other emirates, off-plan recovery schemes are mostly targeted at projects in Dubai, where legislation governing off-plan property is in place. "Dubai has specific property laws setting out certain criteria, which can mean the investor is able to reclaim their money, but most other emirates do not have such laws in place now," Adrian says.
Investors need not worry about being bogged down with surcharges for this service. In the case of the Fine & Country scheme, the fees are included in the overall transaction, while under Smith & Ken, the developer would pay a commission for every transaction involving a unit swap.
Agencies are not able to assist investors who aren't in a position to pay their commitments or litigation costs or who have no money to make the final payments on a 'swap' unit. Adrian cites an example: "We have come across individuals who bought whole towers of 230 units in the hope of reselling them at a profit, only to find that the market had crashed. We also come across many cases of people who took on huge amounts of debt." Investors in such instances may have taken on easy debt thoughtlessly. Benjamin recalls "one developer who had taken almost Dh80million for nothing. That's the worst case we've encountered."
At Smith & Ken, there are now fewer enquiries for the real estate recovery scheme than there were when it was launched. "We have a huge database of clients who are looking to recover their money. For investors, it's just about getting the right product at the right price-point," says Benjamin. However, he warns that purchasers who have no money to re-invest can only write off their investment as bad debt.


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Hereheretue (nome derivante da "etuentue-dentos", "dente" nella lingua antica delle Tuamotu) un atollo appartenente all'arcipelago delle Isole Tuamotu nella Polinesia francese.

È l'atollo più settentrionale delle Isole del Duca di Gloucester (Îles du Duc de Gloucester), un sottogruppo dell'arcipelago delle Isole Tuamotu. L'atollo più vicino è quello di Anuanuraro, che si trova a circa 150 km di distanza.

Hereheretue ha una forma trapezoidale. La sua laguna è molto profonda e ha una superficie di 29 km². L'ampia barriera corallina racchiude completamente la laguna, e non vi è alcun passaggio navigabile per accedervi.

Hereheretue è l'unico atollo abitato permanentemente nel gruppo delle Isole del Duca di Gloucester. Possedeva una popolazione di 57 abitanti al censimento del 2002.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Isole Tuamotu

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Q: Progress Bar Challenge I am currently solving the following JS challenge.

We want to display the progress that a TV show or ad has made.
We have already prepared a pretty cool progressbar to display the
progress. But the length of the progressbar and the duration of the
shows vary. Implement the getProgress(width:int, duration:int,
current:int) function that returns the position of the progressbar in
pixel, px.

As an example, the function call getProgress(500, 90, 16) should
return 89. Always round to the nearest whole number.

The problem here is, that I don't get the expected result 89 when I do the math. Why they expect 89 is a riddle to me...Below my code.
export function getProgress(width, duration, current) {
    const currentMin = duration / 100 * current
    const pixPerMin = width / duration

    const currentPosition = currentMin * pixPerMin
    return Math.ceil(currentPosition)
}

With my function I get 80 which should be correct - or at least I think it's correct. I am probably overlooking something or making a obvious mistake but can't see it.

A: The total duration is 90, and the current position is 16, so the process is around 18% complete:

console.log(16 / 90);

For a bar that's 500 pixels wide, 17.7778% of that is 88.88889 pixels:

const ratioDone = 16 / 90; // 0 to 1
console.log(500 * ratioDone);

That's where 89 comes from.
So you need:

function getProgress(width, duration, current) {
  const ratioDone = current / duration;
  return Math.round(ratioDone * width);
}
console.log(getProgress(500, 90, 16));