These activations are profoundly powerful and quite advanced, for them to "take hold" in the most powerful way it is Strongly Suggested if you have much Unresolved Emotional Content active within you from childhood Past Abuse, Trauma, Hurt and Pain, please Start with the Divine Alchemy or Grace Blessing Sessions First.
If you have decided you are indeed ready for this level of Initiation and Activation, here we go!! Individual results may vary, no claims or promises are being made, your individual readiness will dictate the results you experience. These activations are not a substitute for medical treatment.
The NEW consciousness that we are in is ripe for MIRACLES, POTENTIALS and POSSIBILITY.
Are you ready to embody the NEW HUE-MAN Blueprint with a Trinity Activation?
The NEW hue-man blueprint is activated first with the CHRIST CODE as Jesus said, "All these things I do, you shall do and more, NOW is the time this code is ready to become active and available for YOU, as well as the YOUTH CODE in 5D consciousness aging process slows down, and a FULL flowering of ALL your INTUITIVE GIFTS of claircognizance (clear knowing), clairaudience (clear hearing), clairvoyance (clear seeing, visions) and clairsentience (clear feeling).
"Erica, It's been a week since my Trinity code activation and I've notice a huge different in my healing. Everyone I have worked on since the activation has had a profound experience during our healing sessions from seeing Jesus to relieving pain almost instantly. Thank you for that!!"
*God Realization teleportation, telekinesis, telepathy and levitation.
*Becoming fully anchored and grounded into your physical bodies.
*Full flowering of the HEART and LOVE CODE which is your TRUE Divine nature and ESSENCE of who and what you ARE.
*Being connected to your Galactic family of origin, which connects you to the fullness of the Universe.
Erica had her codes activated over the course of 3 years by her Galactic family and she has been asked by Spirit to activate others and accelerate consciousness.
Erica calls these the Trinity Activations.
The TRINITY ACTIVATION consists of being activated with the Christ code, Youth code and Intuitive Gifts brought more fully online.
You may receive additional activations that you are ready for, every person is unique and different.
For the Trinity, the session begins with a deep clearing of negative content from your mind/body system. All chakras, nadis, meridiens and auric field fully cleared, opened, balanced and aligned.
From there we activate your Pituitary, Pineal and Hypothalamus glands, and move into Brain balancing.
Then your trinity codes are activated. For many this is a very physical experience, as well as visual and emotional in a BEAUTIFUL way.
These are done via distance and all at the same time, anyone in the world may receive them the session is also recorded and you will receive the link and code to the recording after to download, use this to listen and re-listen to ground and further assimilate the activations over the next 6 months to a year.
The activations take anywhere for 2-4 hours and the energy may continue to download for days, even weeks thereafter.
Plan on setting aside at least 1 hour 30 mins to lay down and receive, and the process unfolds from there.
I send you a debriefing of what you received and an audio recording so you may re-listen as often as you like after.
What other activations may come through?
Here is a short list of various activations that have come in for people during these sessions. Please keep in mind each persons session is unique to them, the entire process is guided and overlighted by your soul and higher self. Your individual readiness dictates what else might come through.
chakras, nadis, meridiens, auric field cleared and upgraded.
To schedule your Remote activation please Register with the link, then email to Erica@ericarock.com to schedule. No appointments will be made until registration is complete.
If you choose to not fulfill the strongly suggested Divine Alchemy or Grace Blessing sessions first, you will need to get Pre-Approval for these activations from Erica. In the event Erica feels more preparation and laying of the proper spiritual foundation is necessary, you will immediately be refunded your registration fee.


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Q: How to print a Linux environment variable from the Powershell REPL console? How do I print the value of foo to the console?
nicholas@mordor:~/chimp$
nicholas@mordor:~/chimp$ VARNAME="foo"
nicholas@mordor:~/chimp$ export foo="bar"
nicholas@mordor:~/chimp$
nicholas@mordor:~/chimp$ echo $foo
bar
nicholas@mordor:~/chimp$
nicholas@mordor:~/chimp$ pwsh
PowerShell 7.1.0
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.

https://aka.ms/powershell
Type 'help' to get help.

PS /home/nicholas/chimp>
PS /home/nicholas/chimp> Get-Variable HOME -valueOnly
/home/nicholas
PS /home/nicholas/chimp>
PS /home/nicholas/chimp> Get-Variable foo -valueOnly
Get-Variable: Cannot find a variable with the name 'foo'.
PS /home/nicholas/chimp>

see also:
https://askubuntu.com/q/58814/847449
https://opensource.com/article/19/9/environment-variables-powershell

A: Certainly foo is listed below:
PS /home/nicholas/chimp>
PS /home/nicholas/chimp> Get-ChildItem env:

Name                           Value
----                           -----
_                              /snap/bin/pwsh
CLR_ICU_VERSION_OVERRIDE       60.2
COLORTERM                      truecolor
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS       unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
DESKTOP_SESSION                ubuntu
DISPLAY                        :1
foo                            bar
GDMSESSION                     ubuntu
GJS_DEBUG_OUTPUT               stderr
GJS_DEBUG_TOPICS               JS ERROR;JS LOG
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID       this-is-deprecated
GNOME_SHELL_SESSION_MODE       ubuntu
GNOME_TERMINAL_SCREEN          /org/gnome/Terminal/screen/e541ff8a_1fb3_477b_a685_074b316b8bcc
GNOME_TERMINAL_SERVICE         :1.78
GPG_AGENT_INFO                 /run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent:0:1
GRADLE_HOME                    /home/nicholas/.sdkman/candidates/gradle/current
GTK_MODULES                    gail:atk-bridge
HOME                           /home/nicholas
IM_CONFIG_PHASE                1
INVOCATION_ID                  8c2492a5c0464f27a979cad923c16937
JAVA_HOME                      /home/nicholas/.sdkman/candidates/java/current
JOURNAL_STREAM                 9:260051
LANG                           en_US.utf8
LANGUAGE                       en_CA:en
LC_ALL                         en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE                       en_US.UTF-8
LESSCLOSE                      /usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s
LESSOPEN                       | /usr/bin/lesspipe %s
LOGNAME                        nicholas
LS_COLORS                      rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:mi=00:s…
MANAGERPID                     14143
OLDPWD                         /home/nicholas
PATH                           /snap/powershell/149/opt/powershell:/home/nicholas/.sdkman/candidates/java/current/bin:/home/nichol…
POWERSHELL_DISTRIBUTION_CHANN… PSSnap
PSModulePath                   /home/nicholas/.local/share/powershell/Modules:/usr/local/share/powershell/Modules:/snap/powershell…
PWD                            /home/nicholas/chimp
QT_ACCESSIBILITY               1
QT_IM_MODULE                   ibus
SDKMAN_CANDIDATES_API          https://api.sdkman.io/2
SDKMAN_CANDIDATES_DIR          /home/nicholas/.sdkman/candidates
SDKMAN_DIR                     /home/nicholas/.sdkman
SDKMAN_PLATFORM                Linux64
SDKMAN_VERSION                 5.9.1+575
SESSION_MANAGER                local/mordor:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/14354,unix/mordor:/tmp/.ICE-unix/14354
SHELL                          /bin/bash
SHLVL                          1
SNAP                           /snap/powershell/149
SNAP_ARCH                      amd64
SNAP_COMMON                    /var/snap/powershell/common
SNAP_CONTEXT                   q-DbUBQMK4V-sXTO62RcZMXvkKfoVBRGFLw7wD8IiowIRR2JVsv3
SNAP_COOKIE                    q-DbUBQMK4V-sXTO62RcZMXvkKfoVBRGFLw7wD8IiowIRR2JVsv3
SNAP_DATA                      /var/snap/powershell/149
SNAP_INSTANCE_KEY
SNAP_INSTANCE_NAME             powershell
SNAP_LIBRARY_PATH              /var/lib/snapd/lib/gl:/var/lib/snapd/lib/gl32:/var/lib/snapd/void
SNAP_NAME                      powershell
SNAP_REAL_HOME                 /home/nicholas
SNAP_REEXEC
SNAP_REVISION                  149
SNAP_USER_COMMON               /home/nicholas/snap/powershell/common
SNAP_USER_DATA                 /home/nicholas/snap/powershell/149
SNAP_VERSION                   7.1.0
SSH_AGENT_PID                  14316
SSH_AUTH_SOCK                  /run/user/1000/keyring/ssh
TERM                           xterm-256color
USER                           nicholas
USERNAME                       nicholas
VTE_VERSION                    6003
WINDOWPATH                     4
XAUTHORITY                     /run/user/1000/gdm/Xauthority
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS                /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP            ubuntu:GNOME
XDG_DATA_DIRS                  /usr/share/ubuntu:/home/nicholas/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:…
XDG_MENU_PREFIX                gnome-
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR                /run/user/1000
XDG_SESSION_CLASS              user
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP            ubuntu
XDG_SESSION_TYPE               x11
XMODIFIERS                     @im=ibus

PS /home/nicholas/chimp>

just not sure how to get that specific value:
PS /home/nicholas/chimp>
PS /home/nicholas/chimp> Get-ChildItem Env:foo

Name                           Value
----                           -----
foo                            bar

PS /home/nicholas/chimp>
PS /home/nicholas/chimp> Get-ChildItem Env:foo -valueOnly
Get-ChildItem: A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'valueOnly'.
PS /home/nicholas/chimp>

not sure why there's no valueOnly:
PS /home/nicholas/chimp>
PS /home/nicholas/chimp> Get-Variable HOME -valueOnly
/home/nicholas
PS /home/nicholas/chimp>
PS /home/nicholas/chimp> Get-Variable env:HOME -valueOnly
Get-Variable: Cannot find a variable with the name 'env:HOME'.
PS /home/nicholas/chimp>

where HOME has similar behavior.

A: works:
PS /home/nicholas/chimp>
PS /home/nicholas/chimp> $f=Get-ChildItem Env:foo
PS /home/nicholas/chimp>
PS /home/nicholas/chimp> $f.Name
foo
PS /home/nicholas/chimp>
PS /home/nicholas/chimp> $f.Value
bar
PS /home/nicholas/chimp>

but perhaps a bit awkward

A: Set Environment Variable Like So:
$env:TESTENVVAR = 'TEST VALUE HERE'

List all Environment Variables Like So:
Get-ChildItem env:

Value of a specific environment variable can be retrieved like so:
(Get-ChildItem Env:TESTENVVAR).Value

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» Colloquia
Colloquia 2012-2013
The Freedom Center Colloquium Series hosts weekly talks by Freedom Center faculty and graduate students, as well as other University of Arizona faculty and several outside scholars each semester. Colloquia are held from 12.30 to 1.45 on Thursdays in the Kendrick Room of the Freedom Center. A partial schedule for the Colloquium Series can be found below. Please keep an eye on this page as additional talks will be posted as the semester progresses. For information on talks from previous academic years, please click on one of the links on the left side of the screen.
Wednesday, 1pm: Miranda Spieler, University of Arizona (History), "Was There Ever a French 'Free Soil' Principle? Slavery and the Remaking of the French Legal Order at the End of the Old Regime"
Wednesday: Suzanne Dovi, University of Arizona (Government and Public Policy), "Rethinking Marginalization:Changing How We Measure Representation"
Professional Development Seminar: Rachana Kamtekar, "Getting Ready for the Job Market"
James Otteson, Yeshiva University (Philosophy and Economics), "Justice, Social Justice, and Ultimate Justice in Adam Smith"
Tuesday: Juhana Lemetti, University of Helsinki (Philosophical Psychology, Morality, and Politics), "Law-Abiding Citizens?: Manners and Toleration in Hobbesian Political Theory"
Keith Lehrer, University of Arizona (Philosophy), "Thomas Reid on the Moral Faculty and the Truth of Moral Judgment"
David Keyt, University of Washington (Philosophy, Emeritus), "Aristotle and the Joy of Working"
Professional Development Seminar: Michael McKenna, "Publishing in Philosophy"
Fred Miller, Bowling Green State University (Philosophy)
12:00-1:15pm: Albert Bergesen, University of Arizona (Sociology), "The End of the 500-Year Reign of Western Radical Thought"
Kay Mathiesen, University of Arizona (Information Resources), "Information Rights as Human Rights"
Monday, 12:00-1:00pm: Aryeh Tepper, The Tikvah Fellowship, "The Problematic Power of Music"
Tuesday, 12:00-1:15pm: Carla Bagnoli, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia (Philosophy)
Jenann Ismael, University of Arizona (Philosophy)
Gary Pivo, University of Arizona (Urban Planning and Natural Resources), "Social Responsibility in Property Investing and Development"
Shaun Nichols, University of Arizona (Philosophy), "Choice and Error"
12:20-1:20pm: Robert Williams, University of Arizona (American Indian Studies), "Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization"
Michael Huemer, University of Colorado – Boulder (Philosophy), "The Duty to Disregard the Law"
Virgil Storr, George Mason University (Economics), "The Moral Teachings of the Market"
Sally Stevens, University of Arizona (Gender & Women's Studies), "Gender Differences in Substance Abuse"
Ryan Muldoon, University of Pennsylvania (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics), "Harms That Require Recognition"
Matt King, UCLA (Law and Philosophy), "Interminable Blame"
Marc Miller, University of Arizona (Law), "The Theoretical Wasteland of Executive Power: Why Should Legal Scholars (or Anyone Else) Care?"
Brandon Warmke and Michael McKenna, University of Arizona (Freedom Center), "Moral Responsibility, Forgiveness & Conversation"
Carmen Pavel, University of Arizona (Freedom Center), "The Incompleteness of Social Contract Theories"

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Tags: irs | koskinen | house | impeachment
IRS Chief Faces Likely Impeachment Vote in US House Next Month
Billy House Thursday, 25 August 2016 03:58 PM
U.S. House conservatives are set to re-launch next month their effort to impeach Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen, with or without Speaker Paul Ryan's go-ahead.
Representative John Fleming says he and other conservatives are prepared to unilaterally force an impeachment vote within days after Congress returns to session on Sept. 6. "The only thing up in the air is whether it will be the first or second week we're back," the Louisiana Republican said in an interview.
Any action would be largely symbolic, because the effort would get blocked in the Senate if it passes the House. But Republicans remain angry at Koskinen, who they accuse of impeding an investigation into whether the tax agency improperly targeted conservative non-profits. Their allegations include failing to prevent the IRS from destroying evidence and providing false and misleading information to Congress.
A rogue impeachment effort on the House floor by conservatives dissolved last month as time ran out before Congress broke for the seven-week summer break.
Ryan has neither threatened to block this re-do "nor given us any lecture or reason not to do it," Fleming said in an interview. But the speaker, while himself critical of Koskinen, has shown reluctance to the idea of setting a modern-day precedent on impeaching cabinet officials.
Legislation pushed by conservatives to remove Koskinen hasn't advanced to the House floor under the normal committee process, which Ryan says he prefers. And Ryan in July emphasized the entire House Republican conference must first settle on "an appropriate path" to addressing concerns about Koskinen when lawmakers return from break.
New Precedent
The House hasn't impeached a cabinet official since the mid-1870s. Representative John Conyers of Michigan, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is among those who say that even if the House votes to impeach, the Senate wouldn't provide a two-thirds votes to convict him at trial.
But the delay in House action has led conservatives, led by Fleming and other members of the House Freedom Caucus, to want to push ahead with their own plan, even without the backing of Ryan.
In the interview, Fleming said that plan would involve re-filing a privileged resolution of impeachment on behalf of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. That means lawmakers would have two legislative days to vote on either impeaching Koskinen or tabling the measure.
That's the same parliamentary maneuver he and Representative Tim Huelskamp of Kansas launched a day before Congress left for summer break, but didn't have time to see through before the House broke for summer.
Four Articles
That resolution contained four separate articles of impeachment. Those included one accusing Koskinen of "engaging in a pattern of conduct showing he is unfit," including false statements to Congress. The conservatives have accused the IRS under Koskinen's watch of destroying 422 backup tapes containing potentially 24,000 e-mails relevant to the IRS targeting of conservative organizations. It all adds up to gross negligence, dereliction of duty, and violating the public trust, they say.
The Treasury Department, which oversees the IRS, responded to the impeachment resolution last month with a statement calling the effort baseless and a distraction, adding that Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew continues to have full confidence in Koskinen.
Fleming, in the interview Wednesday, said such statements from the administration make it clear that it's being left to Congress to deal with Koskinen.
"And this is not happening under the regular committee process," he said.
U.S. House conservatives are set to re-launch next month their effort to impeach Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen, with or without Speaker Paul Ryan's go-ahead.Representative John Fleming says he and other conservatives are prepared to unilaterally force...
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The bank is finished! You can put in or take out of your account, and loan money.
There is a lot of new nice looking icons in the game.
The streets are replaces by the dock. Seemed more logical. There's nothing to do in the streets anyways. It's just a place where you arrive when you land your ship.
Hospital is removed, some of it's functions are transfered to Temple instead.
You can now buy food and drinks at the tavern. It will make your crew happier!
You can talk to the sailors at the tavern. Sometimes they will attack you, but mostly they might want to join your crew.
A chat is now implemented and is opened in a new window.
A log book is now recording your every move in this game, so that you can go back in time and see what has been done.


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November 06, 2018 Birth Chart and Zodiac
Maps of the planetary positions
NB: The dimensions and the orbits of the planets are not in scale. The zodiac signs in the geocentric view are set assuming that Aries coincides with the vernal equinox and that each of the zodiac signs occupy exactly one-twelfth of the sky.
An observer located in New York City on Tuesday November 06, 2018, would see:
The sun rising at 06:31 am and setting at 04:45 pm.
The moon, being 0% full, rising at 05:07 am and setting at 05:12 pm. The previous full moon was on Oct 24, 2018 while the next full moon would come on Nov 23, 2018.
The same observer would also see the other Solar System Planets as follows:
You can also see the map of the stars on Tuesday November 06, 2018 based on your location and at a specific time.
Get a star map of the sky on November 06, 2018
Mercury rising at 08:41 am and setting at 05:44 pm with a 60% of surface illuminated. Mercury would be orbiting the Sun at a distance of 0.40 astronomical units (AU) and would be found at a distance of 0.99 astronomical units (AU) from Earth. Given the planet elongation, the observer would see Mercury at an angle of 23° 16' 06.5" with the Sun. The brightness would be -0.07 this day, as measured by the planet magnitude.
Venus would rise at 05:09 am and set at 03:37 pm. 5% of Venus would be illuminated by the Sun. Venus distance from the Sun would be 0.72 astronomical units (AU) and its distance from the Earth 0.29 astronomical units (AU). The angular distance in the sky between Venus and the Sun would be -18° 56' 30.9".
Mars would look like 85% full, orbiting the Sun at a distance of 1.40 AU and be at 0.83 AU from Earth. The planet would be seen rising at 01:30 pm and setting at 11:50 pm. The angular separation of the Sun and the planet, with Earth as the reference point, would be 100° 01' 02.3". The brightness of Mars, that is its magnitude, would be -0.47.
Jupiter's distance from the Sun would be 5.37 AU and 6.32 AU from Planet Earth. Jupiter rising and setting times would be 07:47 am and 05:31 pm respectively. Jupiter would appear with a 99% illuminated fraction of its surface and a magnitude (brightness of the star) of -1.58. Its angular separation between the Sun would be 14° 25' 36.7".
Saturn would rise at 10:33 am and set at 07:49 pm, appearing 99% full. The angular separation of Saturn from the Sun, as seen by the observer, would be 49° 58' 53.4", its magnitude 0.56. Saturn would orbit the Sun at a distance of 10.06 astronomical units (AU) and would be located at a distance of 10.67 astronomical units (AU) from Earth.
Uranus would appear 99 full, its brightness being 5.69. It would be seen rising at 03:58 pm and setting at 05:23 am. Uranus would be 19.87 AU far from the Sun and 18.91 AU far from Planet Earth (average distance). The observer, looking up into the sky, would see Uranus with a 165° 00' 03.4" angle of separation from the Sun.
Neptune rising at 02:12 pm, and setting at 01:29 am, its magnitude (the degree of brightness of a star) being 7.86. The difference between the celestial longitude of the Sun and that of Neptune would be 118° 58' 51.4". At 29.94 AU distance from the Sun and at 29.45 AU from Earth, 99 % of Neptune would be illuminated by the Sun.
Pluto would be seen as 99% full and would have an elongation of 63° 30' 25.9". It would orbit the Sun at an average distance of 33.68 astronomical units (AU) and be located at an average distance of 34.11 astronomical units (AU) from Earth. The observer would see Pluto rising at 11:29 am and setting at 08:51 pm, its magnitude (brightness of the star) being 14.35.
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For the same New York observer looking up in the clear night sky around 10 pm of the same day, the solar system planets would be found in the following constellations and at the following coordinates:
Ophiuchus 16:25:28.48 -24:29:05.2
Virgo 13:34:06.40 -13:31:48.1
Capricornus 21:50:57.76 -15:11:16.2
Libra 15:51:21.39 -19:27:07.4
Sagittarius 18:24:01.49 -22:45:19.9
Aries 1:52:20.70 10:56:22.0
Aquarius 23:01:46.30 -7:17:32.5
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Add articles for newly introduced actions and options to the CLI page. Also, it would be good to have an article describing the protocols involved.
Looking at do_open_remote_image() I see that it fchdir-s to image dir before connecting to proxy/cache. Better solution is to put the socket into workdir.
After this the option --images-dir should become optional. Provided the --remote is given CRIU should work purely on the work-dir and not generate anything in the images-dir.
There can be many images and it's not nice to stress the system with such amount of threads. The criu/uffd.c manages multiple descriptors with page-faults using the epoll stuff and can be used as an example.
The accept_remote_image_connections() seem not to work well with opts.ps_socket RPC as the former just calls accept() on whatever socket is passed there, while the opts.ps_socket is already an established socket for data transfer.
Now the hard-coded "RESTORE_FINISH" string (and DUMP_FINISHED one) is used to terminate the communication. Need to tune up the protobuf objects to send boolean (or integer) EOF sign rather that the string.
Looking at the skip_remote_bytes() I think that image-cache and -proxy still do not work well with stacked pages images. Probably for those we'll need the page server or lazy pages like protocol that would request the needed regions and receive it back rather than read bytes from sockets simply to skip those.
I haven't yet finished with the prototype, but plan to do it soon, so once the above steps are done we'll be able to proceed with this one.
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Q: are java primitives garbage collected If I declare an int (or any primitive type) within a method in Java, is that memory freed the moment the function returns, or does it have to hang around until the garbage collector cleans it?
I know that in C the stack pointer is reset and that immediately frees memory, and I know that objects in Java have to be garbage collected but I don't know which approach would be taken with primitives.

A:
is that memory freed the moment the function returns, or does it have to hang around until the garbage collector cleans it?

The primitives declared inside the method are stored on the stack frame of that method. Since the stack frame is destroyed as soon as the method returns, the space allocated to local variables are freed.

A: When a method is returned, the variables on its stack are always immediately freed(Of course, by freed I mean that the stack frame gets destroyed, and so does all memory attached to it like local variables).
However, if that variable is an object, then its value is a pointer. The actual memory containing the object(which may have pointers to other objects as well) would be on the heap. When the reference on the stack gets freed, the object is just sitting around without anybody referencing it(unless you put a reference somewhere else). That is when java may come in and garbage collect. That is the object gets flagged for collection, and the next time the collector runs it will clean up this object.
Primitives have a raw value, and are not pointers. So as stated in other answers, there is no need to GC them.
This is very much analogous to malloc and free in C.
When you malloc some memory in to a variable in C and your function returns, the memory for that pointer is freed but not the memory it was pointing to.
When you create an object in java (presumably with the new keyword) you are allocating memory for it. However, you never explicitly call free in java. The JVM will detect when the freeing needs to be done.
You can set references to null to tell the JVM that you don't need it anymore, but it's often better to just use minimal scope.

A: Primitives are allocated on the stack, so their memory is freed the moment the function returns.


At CityMD, our vision is to serve kindness. Our workflows are geared towards enabling all our staff to serve kindness in everything they do. As the IT leader, my job is to scan the technology landscape continuously. I see what innovative technologies are available and how they will enable us to automate the workflow processes further and enhance the patient experience.
At CityMD, our care starts with the front desk (patient care representatives) and ends with aftercare and referrals, but there are many moving parts in between. From X-Ray techs to lab techs to physicians and MAs, CityMD teams and staff work in unison to ensure a smooth and high-quality patient experience with seamless handling of tests, referrals, labs, images, and anything else needed.
The objective of workflow automation is to make the work of our teams easier and more efficient while causing the least amount of disruption to the information process.
• Does it enhance the patient experience?
• Does it automate a manual process?
• Does it integrate with our existing solutions?
• Is the impact on downstream processes minimal?
• Is it transparent and auditable?
We decided to introduce electronic kiosks for patient registration as a way to make our workflow better and faster. We assembled a small team of operations, marketing, trainers, and IT professionals to discuss what the kiosk experience is and what would best improve patient satisfaction. We gained immediate feedback with our small target audiences so that we could make the adjustments quickly before we propagate the change throughout the enterprise. We used the principles of design thinking in implementing any process changes so that we can study the impact in an agile manner.
• Patient experience: The kiosk login allows the patient to scan their driver's license and register in a very short period. The patient can view their data and make edits if need be. They can sign all the consent forms electronically, no more paper.
• Automation: The information is all captured electronically. It automates a process that was once manual and paper based.
• Integration: The information from the kiosk flows seamlessly into the electronic health record solution.
• Innovation: The electronic kiosk is a disruptive solution that allows the patient to self-serve.
• Impact on downstream processes: The impact on downstream systems is positive. The front desk personnel are relieved of the mundane task of keying in data from paper. The patient electronically enters the data captured via the kiosk. Thus, the data is more accurate and less subject to transcription errors. This is of great benefit to the physicians, scribes, care coordination, and billing teams.
• Transparency and record keeping: We can now accurately track when a patient starts the registration process and how long it takes. We can also track how long they wait in the lobby. We can compare the efficiencies and accuracy of a kiosk-based registration versus a paper-based registration.
We applied design-thinking methodologies to customize the patient kiosk experience. We selected a site to pilot the kiosk. We are always collecting feedback from the patient as well as the staff to learn how we can improve the workflow and the patient experience.
The above is one example of how we evaluate any solution that helps us standardize our processes as well as enhance the patient experience.


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Tijuana River Valley Pollution
United by the international border, San Diego shares a watershed with Tijuana. As a result, any sewage flows from Tijuana's tightly packed neighborhoods that are not captured and sent for treatment risk ending up downstream on the beaches of southern San Diego County. Rain places additional pressure on Tijuana's subterranean network of sewage pipes, many of which are in need of replacement. Mexican officials have said that upgrading the sewage treatment plant – the likely source of the pollution – is a top priority but would cost at least $372 million.
Concrete solutions have now been outlined in multiple studies, identifying infrastructure projects related to wastewater treatment, pollution, and water conservation that will help mitigate pollution and reduce transboundary flows. The North American Development Bank (NADBank) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the Tijuana River Diversion Study, which evaluates infrastructure projects on both sides of the border that would help mitigate pollution based on their contribution to reduce transboundary spills and beach closures. In addition, thanks to funds secured through SB-507 authored by Senator Hueso, the County of San Diego released the Tijuana River Valley Needs and Opportunities Assessment with a comprehensive review of potential management strategies in the U.S. Together, these studies have identified and evaluated over 28 infrastructure projects estimated to cost $215 million, with additional investment needed for the operation and maintenance of up to $32.4 million per year.
In May 2020, the EPA announced the allocation of the full $300 million appropriated in the USMCA Implementation Act to address transboundary pollution impacting the Tijuana River Valley. Funds will be used for the design, plan, engineering, and construction of wastewater infrastructure at the border. By August 2020, Representatives Juan Vargas, Susan Davis, Scott Peters, Mike Levin, and Raul Ruiz introduced the Border Water Quality Restoration and Protection Act of 2020, a House companion bill to legislation Senator Dianne Feinstein had previously introduced. Both bills designate the EPA as the lead agency to coordinate all federal, state, local, and Mexican agencies to plan and construct infrastructure projects to mitigate pollution across the U.S.-México border and help improve the water quality of the Tijuana River and New River.
On the Mexican side of the border, the Mexican section of the International Boundary and Water Commission (CILA) signed a collaboration agreement with Tijuana's Public Utilities Commission (CESPT) to address transboundary polluted flows. In 2020, CILA received $83.9 million pesos (about $4.1 million USD) from Mexico's National Water Commission (CONAGUA) to address transboundary pollution impacting the Tijuana River Valley. The agency installed new pumps in Tijuana and began its rehabilitation and maintenance of Pump Station CILA. CILA also announced a bid for the administration and quality control of the rehabilitation of Pump Station CILA in the city of Tijuana. The project includes supervision and quality control of the acquisition and installation of pumps, pipes, and electric equipment, and the construction of pre-treatment grids and new water intake from the channel. A contract was awarded in the fall to a regional company.
At the state level, Baja's Secretariat of Water Management, Sanitation, and Protection (SEPROA) completed a 60-day project that removed over 300,000 cubic meters of sediment and solid waste along the Tijuana River channel in the summer of 2020. The project's cost was about $4.5 million and was funded in equal parts by CESPT and CONAGUA. These efforts, along with infrastructure upgrades conducted by CILA and CESPT, are estimated to reduce the volume of northbound transboundary flows during the dry season by 70 percent.
The Chamber continues to advocate for efforts and plans that help mitigate the pollution and minimize/eliminate water deficits to the U.S. To fulfill that goal, the Chamber participates as a member of a binational core working group that meets periodically to provide advice, advance measurable projects, and advocate for funding. Furthermore, other efforts include submitting letters to Congress advocating for different funding opportunities and meeting with officials in person to discuss and develop a plan for this issue. The Chamber also organizes annual delegation trips to Washington, D.C. and Mexico City which have been successful in advancing effective solutions to substantially improve the Tijuana River Valley pollution.
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A marriage signifies two people coming together to build a shared future, and what better metaphor than building that future with LEGO bricks! After the rings and vows have been exchanged, it's time for the couple to drive off into the sunset. Why not end the momentous occasion by getting behind the wheel of a luxurious antique car made by Pixeljunkie?
In the West, the process of getting married is sometimes known as "getting hitched." In Pixeljunkie's case, his minfig couple and car are both getting hitched. In this case, it is the car getting hitched to a cute little trailer. Sounds like the honeymoon consists of some serious camping. Thankfully, the bride's veil probably also doubles as a mosquito net.


I don't know if I am overeacting or being too sensitive to my partner's comments and behaviour. He is very disapproving when I want to spend time with friends instead of with him. He says that I am not fully committed to the relationship. I have no children of my own but commit to spend every weekend with both my partner and his son. I do this every weekend without fail.
The problem is that he gets very defensive. He says that I take his son's side on things and that I should talk to him in private about issues instead of saying out loud at the time as it doesn't look good to be disagreeing with him — it shows that I am not showing respect.
I have been with him for five years now. And it isn't getting easier. He got into a bad mood when I told him I was going away for a weekend to see an old friend. He said that I should have either taken him with me so it was a weekend together or I could have spent the money more wisely. i.e. stay at home with him.
He is dead set against counselling, he says it is insulting to him to even ask him to go. I feel like he is stripping away my identity and that I can't be myself for fear of upsetting him.
What a difficult situation to be in. The first thing I want to say is that this isn't a case of your partner being 'defensive'. It's a case of him being emotionally abusive and it really isn't on. This may sound harsh but let's look at what's happening here. One of the key ingredients of any successful relationship is that the partners can respect each other's absolutely appropriate need for occasional space — to be with friends and family or even on their own. It's really up to the couple to work out what feels right and that's going to depend on several things — including what each of them has been used to in the past, wider family responsibilities, the needs of children (whether from this relationship or an earlier one), and of course, how much time feels OK to spend together as a couple rather than as a family. But whatever has to be considered, the conversation is mutually supportive and respectful.
So, I would say that having some time with friends is not unreasonable but, in this case, you're being made to feel guilty about a normal 'fun' thing to do, that can also significantly contribute to mental and emotional health. Likewise, while he's right when he says it's best not to argue with him in front of his son — he's also suggesting that you're not showing him respect, rather than the problem is that rowing might upset his son. This is worrying because I don't hear much about his respect for you and if he is saying this in front of the boy, I would say that he not setting a healthy example of how to treat a partner.
Talking together in private about things that are not feeling OK in a relationship is one of the first steps to sorting them out. But here, it sounds like that's not really on offer. The key message appears to be that you should really put up and shut up and that is never going to make for a happy, healthy relationship. Likewise, it sounds like there are issues about how money is spent. While this is often an issue in relationships, the way out is by mutual and fair agreement about how money get divvied up and without either party having to feel guilty about occasionally meeting their own needs.
I don't know if this is the case but I wouldn't be surprised if there are other things he criticizes you about too. Very often, when we're on the receiving end of regular disapproval from a partner we end up hardly noticing it. It simply becomes the norm. But the end result is that our own sense of wellbeing and confidence is gradually eroded sometimes to the point where we end up agreeing that we're basically rubbish.
What often happens in situations like this is that the partner on the receiving end makes excuses for the behaviour that's being doled out to them. Abusive partners often encourage their other half to believe that they're actually doing them a favour. The unspoken understanding is something like 'I wouldn't have to treat you like this if you were a better person/ didn't disagree with me/ attended to all my needs' and so on. Unfortunately from what you say, this is happening here.
I'm not surprised that counselling doesn't appeal to him. There are many reasons why partners are abusive but none of them can be used as an excuse and counselling would not be a place where explanatory reasons would be allowed to descend into excusatory ones. The key point to understand is that the abusive partner is entirely responsible for their behaviour. Sometime they choose to address what they do (which can be warmly encouraged and supported by the appropriate agencies and practitioners) but often they don't. This leaves their partner with some very difficult (and sometimes unsafe choices). So the emphasis really needs to shift to you prioritising your own self-care.
As you rightly say, he is stripping you of your identity and the bad news is this is likely to get worse. I really want to encourage you to get help as soon as possible. There is lots of support and listed below are some that you can access immediately. You started your longer letter to me by querying if I will be able to help. I don't if I have helped you but if I've done nothing else other than reassure you that you are not to blame and encouraged you to seek support that will be a result. You are worth so much more than this man is allowing. Please don't let his problems overshadow the rest of your life.


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Q: CSS submenu is disturbing the parent li I am facing a problem with CSS menu. I want the parent li not to be disturbed by the sub menu. I want the parent list to have widths equal to the text contents they have itself but not the inner ul. I don't want to give the parent list specific width. Here is the image.
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    line-height: 60px;
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A: Add position:absolute to .subm
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A: I checked in your jsfiddle  @Hanzallah Afgan. Try this
Remove overflow:hidden css property for .nav, then the sub menu will display


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Back to the Future: Return of the Four-Door Coupé
1967 Ford Thunderbird Four-Door Landau in Raven Black with Black Levant Grain vinyl roof
The new car market today is rife with the latest body configuration; the Four-Door Coupé. The Mercedes-Benz CLS and Volkswagen CC have recently been joined by the BMW Gran Coupé and more examples are likely on the way.
The contemporary four-door coupé first appeared in the form of the aforementioned Mercedes-Benz CLS in 2004. Based on the E-Klasse platform, it was sheathed in more flamboyant sheet metal than the standard four-door models and featured coupé-style unframed door glass with an overall height reduced by about 6 cm (2.5"). This has been the general formula for its later progeny.
The four-door coupé concept is not really new; this body style enjoyed a brief reign of popularity several decades ago.
1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham in Fairfax Blue with brushed stainless steel roof
An early example was the Cadillac Series 70 Eldorado Brougham of 1957. While many American four-door 'hardtops' were emulating the look of a traditional coupé via their frameless door glass and lack of a visible B-pillar, the Brougham carried the coupé theme a bit further.
The newest member of the Eldorado family stood just 141 cm (55.5") tall versus the 150 cm (59") height of the standard Cadillac Series 62 4-door sedans. Not only did the Brougham have unframed door windows, it also dispensed with a B-pillar almost entirely. The Series 70 featured rear-hinged 'suicide' rear doors and was subsequently able to incorporate miniature B-posts that extended only from the sill to the height of the front and rear door latches.
Open wide: easy entry into the Eldorado courtesy of abbreviated "B-pillarette"
Less than one thousand of the ultra-expensive Broughams (priced at double that of lesser Cadillacs) were built between 1957 and 1958.
Rover P5 Mark II Coupé in Bordeaux over White
In autumn of 1962, Rover launched the P5 Mark II Coupé. The new Rover Coupé, based on the Mark II Saloon, featured a unique roof with more sloping front and rear windscreens. Fixed door glass channels were retained in this case, albeit with slender chrome-plated assemblies replacing the thickset pressed-metal body-colour frames of the standard Saloon.
Standard Rover P5 Saloon in Stone Grey over Pine Green in the 1984 film, Il Regazzo di Campagna. Note thick window frames and taller, more bulbous roof
The greenhouse, sitting on an unchanged lower body, was 6 cm (2.5") lower than the standard Rover P5 Saloon, the exact drop of the first generation Mercedes CLS. The P5 Coupé was popular, accounting for a quarter of P5 sales shortly after its debut, and chosen by nearly half of P5 buyers by the time production ceased in 1973.
1968 Thunderbird Four-Door Landau in Midnight Aqua Metallic with Dark Blue Levant Grain vinyl roof
Finally, in the fall of 1966, Ford introduced the Thunderbird Four-Door Landau; the first (and last) four-door Thunderbird. Developed as a alternate variant of the new fifth generation model, the four-door flaunted its coupé credentials with a svelte 136 cm (53.5") overall height, a full 8 cm (3″) lower than Ford's Galaxie four-door sedan, 4 cm (1.5") lower than a Galaxie four-door hardtop, and the same height as the current Aston Martin Rapide.
The Four-Door Landau featured suicide rear doors and frameless windows in the manner of it's spiritual predecessor, the Eldorado Brougham, but retained a full-height B-pillar.
Opened rear door displays the attached forward section of the C-pillar
To facilitate entry and exit, the Thunderbird's rear doors incorporated nearly a third of the massive "formal" roof pillars. The cutlines were partially masked by the non-functional landau bars that were attached to both the inside and outside of the C-posts. The four door Thunderbird was produced through 1971.
These three cars were all marketed as four-door coupés; either subtly by Cadillac and Ford, or overtly in the case of Rover. This is the distinction that set these cars apart; they were sold alongside what their respective manufacturers considered to be standard conventional four-door body styles.
Other manufacturers made four-door models that might be interpreted as coupés, notably the Jaguar XJS of 1968, but they were never marketed as such. In the case of the XJS, the low, sleek vehicle was simply the expression of what Sir William Lyons thought a 1960s four-door saloon should look like.
After the Rover and Thunderbird models were phased out, the Four-Door Coupé style went into hibernation. It was surprising to me that the style resurfaced in Germany; a country once celebrated for designing vehicles with an emphasis on practicality, efficiency and logic, as Four-Door Coupés suffer on all these counts when compared to conventional 'high-roof' four-door models.
However; if you instead compare a Four-Door Coupé with a conventional two-door Coupé, the four-door model suddenly excels in terms of logic and efficiency, if not always in style.
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2 thoughts on "Back to the Future: Return of the Four-Door Coupé"
Aurick on 06/04/2013 at 10:59 AM said:
Eventually, everything comes back…
Hans on 14/07/2014 at 6:58 PM said:
Agreed, and that goes as much for the whole pop culture of today as for the cars. It's not about going somewhere, it's all about making an impressive arrival. The same pattern all over again as back in the glittering sixties, but it will be seen clearer in retrospect of course.


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Q: IPAD NETWORK_ERR: XMLHttpRequest Exception 101 using safari and chrome on jquery ajax call I make an ajax call to my server in order to get data:
function LoadWebViewFile() {
    var currentURL = null;
    $.ajax({
        url: 'Default.aspx/LoadWebViewFile',
        type: 'POST',
        contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
        async: false,
        dataType: "json",
        data: '{ "FileID": "' + Documents.getSelectedID() + '" }',
        success: function(Result) {
            var ClientResponse = JSON.parse(Result.d);
            if (ClientResponse.Success) {
                currentURL = ClientResponse.Data;

            }

            else {
                showPopUpDialog('indicator', {
                    message: ClientResponse.Message,
                    type: 'error'
                }, false);
            }
        },
        error: function(xhr, textStatus, errorThrown) {
            alert(xhr.responseText);
            alert("An AJAX error occured: " + textStatus + "\nError: " + errorThrown);

            showPopUpDialog('indicator', {
                    message: 'An error occured while trying to load the file',
                    type: 'error'
                }, false);
        }
    });

    return currentURL;
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It works fine on PC (ie, chrome),
but fails on Safari and chrome when using an IPAD and the data is big (means it takes more time on server side).
The error I get is:
NETWORK_ERR: XMLHttpRequest Exception 101
and I don't know why...
I can't change async to false because nothing works.

A: IOS webengine reports 10 sec timeouts on ajax requests as error 101. I got lots of headache because of that.
And if you're calling your data synchronously it seems you're out of luck. Either make the server respond within 10 secs, or change to async and add a timeout.
See also http://propercode.com/?p=32


Let's get this out of the way up front: not everyone can be a teacher.
I know we all like to think we could do someone else's job, but the truth that is that none of us would be very good at them. Everyone thinks they're excellent drivers, after all. It's always everyone else who shouldn't be behind the wheel. Everyone thinks they can write, too - because they have Great Ideas, and the rest is just typing. Everyone could be a better President or CEO or whatever. The list goes on and on.
The point is, we all tend to think we could do a better job than someone else. The same applies to teachers, because everyone is pretty sure they could teach a classroom full of kids. After all, parents help their own kids with homework, which is basically the same thing, right? And they do it without an answer key!
Yeah, that's a bunch of nonsense.
To start with, teaching is more of a calling than a profession. Nobody is in it for the paycheck.
But they actually make a lot of money, when you factor in all the time off they get!
Um, no. This is something a lot of people love to say, but it's just not true. The starting salary for a teacher in Calcasieu Parish is $43,461 - which doesn't sound half bad, especially when you consider they only work 182 contract days.
However, if you've ever known a teacher, you'll know they don't only work 182 days. And they don't only work 40 hours a week, either.
At $43,461 a year, a starting teacher makes $3,621.75 a month, which works out to $835.79 per week, or $167 a day. That's about $21 an hour, for 40 hours each week - if they worked 52 weeks a year. But they're only paid for the days they actually work; it's just spread out over a full year's time.
When you do the math to get their actual daily rate, it works out to around $239 a day for 182 days, or about $30 an hour for a total of around $1,200 in a 40 hour work week. Which is really pretty great, and it's probably why a lot of people focus on this number when they say teachers aren't underpaid.
However, teachers don't work only 40 hours a week. Not even close.
Let's say an English middle school teacher has six classes a day, with 30 kids in each of them. Every time she gives an assignment, that's 180 papers to grade - and they don't get to work on that sort of thing during the school day, because they're too busy teaching.
Even if she only assigns one paper each week and can grade one paper every five minutes, that's 15 hours of grading right there. If she assigns two papers, that jumps to 30 hours. Now she's working a 70 hour week - and that's only factoring in grading two assignments.
Teachers also provide after school tutoring, and stay late for things like bus duty and detention monitoring. Some teachers sponsor extracurricular clubs that meet after school and on weekends. Others chaperone school functions like dances and football games. They ride on buses for out of town games and UIL competitions on nights and weekends and school holidays. They attend staff development and have homework of their own to do in the form of lesson plans and other mundane aspects of paperwork and reporting in the modern classroom.
Teachers can easily work upwards of 70-80 hours or more each and every week - which isn't factored into their paychecks.
When we take their daily rate of $238 and divide it by, let's say 75 hours instead of 40, that $30/hour pay dips down to $16/hour - which is only one dollar higher than what some people think minimum wage should be.
But teachers also spend their own money on classroom supplies, decorations, and things like little rewards for their students - and this isn't just at the start of school, either. Teachers are expected to keep their classrooms updated throughout the year to reflect each season and grading period. They also work on weekends and over their holidays, and any time they can to take care of all the stuff they have to do that doesn't involve actual teaching in the classroom.
All things considered, that $16/hour is probably somewhere around $12 or $13 in actual dollars when you factor in all the unpaid overtime.
Aside from the low pay and long hours, teachers are also expected to wrangle a classroom full of kids who don't want to be there. Teachers have to capture their attention when they don't want to give it, make them care about things they aren't interested in, and try to get them to learn a little something along the way.
Teachers' hands are tied when it comes to discipline, they're constantly monitored and assessed and evaluated on everything from how often they sit down each day to how well their students perform on increasingly rigorous standardized tests, and every parent of every child is constantly scrutinizing everything they do.
Teachers have to teach to the test, but they still have to teach the curriculum. Teachers have to keep order in a classroom entirely populated by raging hormones disguised as students, and they have to make the kids care about learning instead of whoever they're crushing on that week. Teachers have to discipline, teach, and inspire 30 kids in each of their classes every single day - and they do it all for very little money amidst constant criticism.
I love the above quote, because it's true. And teaching is a lot like writing, in that regard. Teachers must constantly prove that they're doing their jobs to everyone who isn't doing their jobs, whether they be administrators or state officials, parents or random internet commenters. Everyone thinks they could do a better job at teaching than actual teachers, which is just silly.
Could you keep an unruly class of 30 kids focused and on-topic?
Could you break through a student's learning barriers to get them to understand the material?
Have you studied any educational theories and practices?
Do you understand things like childhood development, learning disabilities, types of intelligence, and teaching to every different learning style at the same time?
Do you know what teachers can and can't do in a classroom?
Do you have any idea what you're talking about, really, when it comes right down to it?
Probably not, otherwise you'd be a teacher.
So let's all leave the "those who can do…" nonsense packed away this year, and recognize how difficult a teacher's job truly is. We don't need to add to their workloads by scheduling parent-teacher conferences every time our kids don't do their homework or fail a test. That's on our kids - and on us as parents for not paying closer attention and helping them at home. It's not the teacher's fault.
I'm not saying you have to send an apple a day to school or anything, but how about we all just start this school year off right - by, to quote the immortal philosophers Bill S. Preston and Ted Theodore Logan, being excellent to each other.
It's a pretty wise policy, and we'd all be a lot better off if we followed it. His teachers have my full support. I will back them in their decisions, work with them to either discipline or encourage him, and listen when they have something to say. I want him to have a great year, and that starts with respecting his teachers.
With that in mind, let's start this year off on the right foot: with mutual respect and support for each other.
We all want what's best for our kids, but teachers want what's best for all our children.