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The Best Xiaomi phones To Buy In 2018
Last Updated on September 27, 2018 by Larious
Best Xiaomi phones To Buy In 2018 – As you may have probably heard, Xiaomi has plans to enter the American market by the end of 2018 or in 2019. Ahead of this highly anticipated U.S. debut, this post brings you the best of the best from Xiaomi to give you a heads-up of what to look forward to.
Even better, if you are in the market for a new Xiaomi phone, you've also come to the right place. We've populated the best Xiaomi phones available so far (June 2018), however, availability of the phones might vary depending on your location. But of course, you can always ship one from the likes of GearBest and Geekbuying, among third-party retailers.
Xiaomi's best Android phones 2018
Xiaomi Mi 8 series
Mi 8 EE
Here, we take a look at the best the Chinese OEM has on offer in one or several markets. Sadly, the company does its business outside of the US at the moment, which is another opportunity for them.
Let's take a look at the top phones you buy from Xiaomi.
On paper, the Mi MIX 2S doesn't disappoint, but all that Xiaomi says about the phone can hardly be denied. According to the Chinese OEM, the Mi MIX 2S is in many ways better than Apple's iPhone X, yet it is valued at half the price of the Apple flagship phone.
5.99-inch full HD+ LCD display
6/8GB RAM and 64/128/256GB storage
Dual 12MP + 12MP dual-pixel AI back camera and 5MP front camera
3400mAh non-removable battery
Android 8.0 Oreo with MIUI 9.5
Extras: Bluetooth 5.0, USB-C, no 3.5mm audio jack, Quick Charge 3.0, Qi wireless charging, rear-mounted scanner, AI voice assistant, etc.
Great build with a compact body
Impressive bezel-less display with no notch
Powerful specs and features
Great photography
Ceramic body looks stunning
No 3.5mm audio jack
MIUI can be a pain
No IP6X rating for water and dust resistance
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You got to love Xiaomi's near bezel-less Mi MIX 2 flagship. Whether it's the design, specs, features or even the price, the Mi MIX 2 is the best Xiaomi has to offer. There's even an 18K gold-plated variant, but this one costs a pretty penny.
The major highlights of the Mi MIX 2 include a 5.99-inch full HD+ screen (18:9), Snapdragon 835, 6GB RAM, 64/128/256GB storage, a 12MP main camera, 5MP selfie camera, 3400mAh battery unit and runs Android Nougat out of the box, but Oreo is already testing. You can even grab the special edition Mi MIX 2 that rocks a massive 8GB RAM and 128GB storage.
At launch, the Mi MIX 2 was priced at about $520 for the base model and about $570 and $630 for the 6/128GB and 6/256GB variants, respectively.
Gorgeous design
Excellent display screen
Powerful specs
Ceramic back looks stunning
Excellent battery life
More affordable compared to the competition
The camera could definitely be better
No IP6X rating
No headphone jack
When we last updated this post, this spot was occupied by the Mi 6, but now that the new Xiaomi Mi 8 is here and packs even more powerful specs, has a trendy design language and is equally affordable, it was always going to take displace the 2017 model.
The phone launched at the back end of May and is already available for purchase. However, it's not alone. In fact, it has quite a good number of siblings to accompany it. The first batch saw welcomed the Mi 8, Mi 8 SE and Mi 8 Explorer Edition (EE). These three are already selling in multiple markets across the globe, but in September, another duo joined the party – the Mi 8 Pro and Mi 8 Lite – making it a total of five Xiaomi Mi 8 variants.
5.88-inch Super AMOLED FHD+ (2244 x 1080) display
4GB/6GB RAM
64GB of storage
Dual 12MP + 5MP main camera
Extras: Bluetooth 5.0, USB-C, Quick Charge 3.0, dual 4G LTE, rear-mounted scanner, facial recognition, etc.
64GB/128GB/256GB storage
Dual 12MP + 12MP main camera
Extras: Bluetooth 5.0, USB-C, Quick Charge 4.0+, dual 4G LTE, dual-band GPS, rear-mounted scanner, infrared face ID, etc.
Extras: Bluetooth 5.0, USB-C, Quick Charge 4.0+, dual 4G LTE, dual-band GPS, in-display scanner, 3D Face ID, etc.
It's worth noting that the Mi 8 has multiple variants and while we'd very much like to recommend the transparent variant, it's likely that it won't be easily available when compared to the standard model. Still, if you are able to access it, it's the model that you should be buying, especially since it also includes flashy features like in-display fingerprint scanning and 3D facial recognition.
Xiaomi also has the Mi 8 Pro and Mi 8 Lite, two devices that offer a great bang for your buck. The former borrows a significant chunk of specs and design from the Mi 8 and to justify the Pro moniker, amps a bunch of them to rooftop levels while still managing to keep the price checked. As for the Lite variant, the specs are watered-down but coming from Xiaomi, you are still getting a solid package, especially for its price about $205 in China.
6.21-inch FHD+ Super AMOLED display
Snapdragon 845 processor
6GB or 8GB RAM
Extras: Bluetooth 5.0, USB-C, in-display FPS, NFC, Quick Charge 4.0+, IR Face unlock, HDR10, Gorilla Glass 5, etc.
6.26-inch FHD+ LCD display
64GB or 128GB storage
Extras: Bluetooth 5.0, USB-C, rear-mounted FPS, Quick Charge 3.0, etc.
The Mi 8 Pro goes for CNY 3,199 in China, approximately $470/INR 33,800 for the 6GB/128GB model, while the higher-end version with 8GB/128GB sells for CNY 3,599, approximately $525. As for the Mi 8 Lite, the company has three configurations as follows: 4GB of RAM/64GB of storage at CNY 1,399 (about $205), 6GB of RAM/64GB of storage at CNY 1,699 (about $250), and 6GB of RAM/128GB of storage at CNY 1,999 (about $290).
The Xiaomi Pocophone F1, simply known as Poco F1 in India, is the ultimate flagship killer on the market. The likes of OnePlus 6 and Asus ZenFone 5Z are indeed flagship killers, but the Poco F1 shoots down these at two point blank and there's nothing either OnePlus or Asus can do to turn the tables around. The device packs premium performance specs and features, a big battery, a promise for the latest OS in town, and is dirt cheap, making it one of the sort-after Xiaomi phones of the moment.
6.2-inch 19:9 FHD+ (2248×1080) LCD display
64GB, 128GB or 256GB expandable storage
Android 8.1 Oreo, upgradable to Pie
The Poco F1 has for the premium model of 8GB RAM and 256GB storage. However, not all variants are sold in all markets across the globe.
Last year's Xiaomi Mi Note 3 surprised many when it was ranked among the top camera smartphones by experts at DxOMark. However, there's more to the Mi Note 3 than just the camera. Boasting a decent 5.5-inch full HD display, the handset has a powerful Snapdragon 660 SoC mated with a massive 6GB RAM.
The back has a dual 12MP unit that borrows a lot from the impressive Mi 6 while the front has an impressive 16MP unit that supports Adaptable AI Beautify mode to offer realistic beautify effect that improves the quality of photography. Keeping it alive is a 3500mAh battery and for the pricing, the Mi Note 3 starts at about $395 for the 64GB variant and about $460 for the 128GB model.
Premium build quality
Great display
Thin and lightweight
Zippy performance
Impressive dual-lens camera
Poor selfie camera
Mi 6 offers a better value for money
Xiaomi's first Android One smartphone was a hit and it looks like the second-generation Xiaomi Mi A2 will be even better. The phone was launched on July 24 and has yet to start selling in most markets, but Xiaomi says at least 40 countries will be able to get one of these locally.
Like many other Xiaomi phones, the Mi A2 is almost perfect as far as design and specs are concerned, but the lack of NFC is once again set to be a major pain among many who'll be getting this one. Even worse is the missing 3.5mm audio jack, but on the brighter side, you are still getting things like USB-C, fast charging technology, a fingerprint scanner, a dual-lens camera, and a promise for timely software updates at just €250.
5.99-inch 18:9 FHD+ LCD display
Snapdragon 660 chipset
32GB, 64GB or 128GB storage
Extras: LTE, Fast charging, USB-C, Bluetooth 5.0, Rear-mounted scanner, Face unlock, etc.
Unlike last year, the Mi A2 has a partner in the shape of Mi A2 Lite. Essentially, this device packs just about the same hardware as the Mi A1 or Redmi 5 Plus for that matter, but with a few tweaks here and there.
It also joins Xiaomi's notch camp and even though the display is smaller than its counterpart, you get a massive 4000mAh battery, a 3.5mm audio jack, and a disappointing micro USB port. You can check out everything there's to know about the Mi A2 and Mi A2 Lite in the link below.
The Xiaomi Mi Max 3 continues the Mi Max's legacy of a big display and huge battery, coming in with a massive 6.9-inch panel that conforms to today's standards and an even bigger 5500mAh battery unit. Being an upgrade to the Mi Max 2, the Mi Max 3 also packs a greatly improved specs sheet that is led by the Snapdragon 636 processor paired with up to 6GB RAM and 128GB storage.
6.9-inch 18:9 FHD+ LCD display
64GB or 128GB expandable storage
Xiaomi chose to stick to the 3.5mm audio jack and USB-C port from last year and the fingerprint scanner also keeps its place on the back. Speaking of which, you also find a second lens to add to the single 12MP unit used on the Mi Max 2 while the front gets an AI-powered face unlock feature. Xiaomi Mi Max 3's massive 5500mAh battery supports Quick Charge 3.0 technology and as expected, the phone runs Android 8.1 Oreo with MIUI on top.
There's no walking past the Redmi Note 5 Pro. By far, this is the best budget phone money can buy at the moment. Boasting a full-screen design with a massive 5.99-inch full HD+ resolution, the Redmi Note 5 Pro is the first to rock a Snapdragon 636 SoC, which is mated with up to 6GB RAM, but there's a 4GB RAM variant, although both have the same 64GB storage.
There's an iPhone X-like dual 12MP + 5MP camera on the back while for the selfies, you get a 20MP unit that is also accompanied by a LED flash. The battery stands at a massive 4000mAh, which also supports fast charging technology. The Redmi Note 5 Pro has a price tag of about $215 for the base model and $260 for the 6/64GB variant.
Impressive display
Powerful processor
Android Nougat out of the box
No LTE band 20 (800MHz)
If you feel like the Redmi Note 5 Pro is a little too costly, Xiaomi has another great piece of hardware in Redmi 6 Pro. An amped version of the natural successor to the popular Redmi 5, you are basically getting the same unit as the Redmi Note 5 (Redmi 5 Plus) but with a new design language and some new features as well. The Redmi 6 Pro has a 5.84-inch full HD+ display with a notch, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processor, 3/4GB RAM, 32/64GB storage, a dual 12MP + 5MP main camera, 5MP selfie camera, a huge 4000mAh battery unit, and runs Android 8.1 Oreo out of the box with a promise for Android 9 Pie update. The Redmi 6 Pro, if you like, is an improved Redmi Note 5 but cheaper on the price.
These figures translate to about $150 and $180, respectively. You can check out everything you need to know about the Redmi 6 Pro here.
Quality build
A big 19:9 display screen
Speedy performance
Fast fingerprint scanner
Still uses micro USB port
No NFC
Bluetooth 4.2 instead of Bluetooth 5.0
Weak selfie camera
Xiaomi is king of the budget segment and indeed the Redmi 6A is king of the budget phones. At about $85, the Redmi 6A is the best device such money can buy. As usual with Xiaomi phones, you get a great build and in keeping up with the trends, there's an 18:9 HD+ LCD display screen that stretches over 5.45 inches, a MediaTek Helio A22 chipset, 2GB RAM and 16/32GB storage options. There's a 13MP main shooter and a 5MP unit for selfies that Xiaomi says has AI portrait mode. Keeping it alive is a decent 3000mAh battery unit.
The high-end variant of the Redmi 6A , which is still a steal for what you get. You can check out everything you need to know about the Redmi 6A here.
Great build
Big screen with 18:9 aspect ratio
Powerful specs for a budget phone
AI portrait mode
AI Face unlock
No fast charging
No USB-C port
No fingerprint scanner
Xiaomi is also an OEM that keeps rolling out phones throughout the year. That says a lot about their capability of making exciting phones that are worth waiting for, given the range you are looking to buy your next Android device in.
Here are all the Xiaomi phones that are going to be released in the coming months. You will be surprised how much data has already been tossed around in leaks and rumors section.
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Wout van Aert is on his phone
A scene from someone else's press conference.
by Iain Treloar
Wout van Aert is at Jonas Vingegaard's press conference, but nobody's really spotted him yet.
The two most dominant riders of the Tour de France arrived in the same yellow and black van as members of the same yellow and black team, but for now, Jonas Vingegaard is the centre of attention. That is how things should be. He just won the biggest bike race in the world, taking that mantle off the shoulders of Tadej Pogačar, a man that moments earlier had to confront the reality of his first lost Tour campaign.
So all eyes are on Jonas. He has the right answers to the right questions. The Tour went perfectly for Jumbo-Visma, he says. He's right. They won the yellow jersey, the polka dot jersey, the green jersey, the combativity award, and six stages (so far, with one to go). They will make a lot of money this Tour, and they beat the unbeatable Tadej Pogačar. For now, all eyes are on the vanquisher.
So Wout van Aert – not a man that's easy to miss, you understand, a full 6'3" of internationally-recognised Belgian wattage – just sits there.
These are not glamorous surrounds. His chair is pressed up against a wall, next to a pair of bins, on the side of a basketball court in a sweaty small town sports complex. He's waiting for his turn to talk about his impressive Tour de France, while Vingegaard talks about his. While he waits, Wout van Aert twiddles on his phone, scrolling up and down, one leg crossed across the other at the knee, and then the ankle.
For the duration of Vingegaard's press conference, the only time Van Aert looks up from his phone is when he's directly addressed, in the context of whether he will contest Tour de France leadership in the future. He smiles enigmatically in Vingegaard's direction.
Vingegaard gives the right answer, as he always seems to. There's room for two team leaders, he says, and it's a question for team management anyway. The two look at each other across the room, lock eyes for a bit and smile, give Belgian media just enough rope to keep tying themselves in knots.
Van Aert runs his fingers through his hair, then is back down on his phone, somewhere else than here.
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I said the facts would start coming out AFTER Cameron had his say – here's the first instalment, with thanks to David Hencke for trawling the Leveson report. I had considered doing the same; I'm glad I didn't try.
incestuous relationship between top politicians and media revealed going on for the last 35 years….
I'm in full agreement with Lord Justice Leveson and his report, especially his words on the politicians and the media. I've known about it for years, and I'm only a disabled housewife with a basic grasp of law and politics.
I believe that Brookes is guilty, as is her husband – and that Cameron has been implicit in the covering up of them.
It will all come out eventually, but Cameron will not be the PM or the leader of the Conservative party when it does happen.
A jury has decided that she and her husband are not guilty based on what was said at court.- so that is the case, but you are entitled to your opinion. Very interesting piece in The Guardianby Nick Davies today did show the imbalance between the money poured into her defence case by Murdoch and the money available to the prosecution to pursue the case against her.
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Q: Spring boot actuator health endpoint I have create a PostgreSQL health indicator like this:
@Component
public class PostgresHealthIndicator extends AbstractHealthIndicator {

    @Autowired
    DataSource postgresDataSource;

    public DataSourceHealthIndicator dbHealthIndicator() {
        DataSourceHealthIndicator indicator = new DataSourceHealthIndicator(postgresDataSource);
        return indicator;
    }

    @Override
    protected void doHealthCheck(Health.Builder builder) throws Exception {
        Health h = dbHealthIndicator().health();
        Status status = h.getStatus();
        if (status != null && "DOWN".equals(status.getCode())) {
            builder.down();
        } else {
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In my Application.java I am scanning this package for this component:
@ComponentScan({"com.bp.health"})

In my application.properties I have the following set:
endpoints.health.sensitive=false
endpoints.health.id=health
endpoints.health.enabled=true

when I hit {url}/health I see:

{"status":"DOWN"}

what do I need to do to get the custom health indicator to show?

A: You need to be authenticated to see all the details.
Alternatively you could set
management.security.enabled=false
endpoints.health.sensitive=false

to see full content unauthenticated
More information about that can be found here:
Production ready monitoring

A: Why would you want to do all that? That code doesn't even compile and Spring Boot does check your data sources by default already. If you only see the status, that's because you're not authenticated, check this table in the doc for more details.

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If your gutters have been neglected for a long time, they may also have actually been harmed. Now, if you are working with a knowledgeable professional gutter cleaner, you might set up ahead of time for them to take whatever actions are necessary to repair any damage they come across. Oftentimes, a knowledgeable professional gutter cleaner will be able to make repairs on the locations of concern and fix any issue encountered, These maintenance and repairs actually shouldn't be that expensive. In the event that more comprehensive repair work are required, they will normally inform you so that you can plan to have them attended to.
Another common reason for a higher gutters cleaning expense is gutter guards. Gutter guards may assist to keep debris from entering your rain gutters, however they also have some negative aspects as well. For starters, they have to be uninstalled if you want to have your gutters cleaned and maintained. That means the skilled professional gutter cleaner you employ will have to uninstall the gutter guards then afterwards re-install them. It should not be surprising that this causes your expense to increase.
Another problem with rain gutter guards is that they provide home owners a false complacency. Lots of home-owners install gutter guards, then presume that their gutters and downspouts are in good condition. The issue here is that if things aren't doing just fine, you might not be aware of an issue before it becomes significant. So, the other way that rain gutter guards raise your gutter cleaning cost is when they mask an issue allowing it to worsen, which will then necessitate more extensive repairs.
When you understand how crucial it is to have your gutters cleaned and maintained by a competent professional, and how little it really costs, you most likely recognize that hiring a proficient professional rain gutters and downspouts cleaner is most definitely the way to go. If you still aren't convinced, then take a minute to think about how much it's going to cost you to replace rather than clean and maintain and repair your rain gutters. Make no mistake about it, if you don't have your gutters cleaned and maintained and examined regularly then you must anticipate needing to change them in the future. This can cost you anywhere from a thousand dollars ($1,000) to close to ten thousand dollars. That's a considerable bill. Then, after paying this considerable expense you are going to be right back where you were and will need to employ a knowledgeable professional gutter cleaner to clean and maintain your brand-new gutters.


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Australia's citizenship-stripping legislation may be doing more harm than good
8 Aug 2019|John Coyne and Isaac Kfir
Between December 2015 and February 2019, 12 Australian dual citizens were stripped of their citizenship under the Australian Citizenship Act 2007 because of their involvement with terror groups. As the provisions of the act are automatically applied, many more Australian dual citizens may be affected. At a recent hearing conducted by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security as part of its review of the legislation, a Home Affairs spokesperson said flatly, 'All we know is the ones that we know about. We don't know the ones that we don't know about.'
The core argument for citizenship revocation is that the person is deemed to have breached their social contract; they have rejected the values, rules and norms of Australia, and therefore shouldn't benefit from membership of its citizenry. The revocation is meant to act as a punishment to the individual, a deterrent to those thinking of engaging in similar behaviour, and a means of mitigating terrorism risks.
Understandably, citizenship revocation, and the accompanying 'getting tough' on national security and 'citizenship is a privilege' narratives, resonate with many Australians.
However, there are some fundamental flaws in the thinking that underpins Australia's citizenship revocation legislation.
Following the emergence of Islamic State's territorial caliphate in June 2014, several countries introduced administrative measures stripping those who had travelled to Iraq and Syria of their citizenship. But there's little empirical evidence to support the idea that citizenship revocation played a role in dissuading people from not travelling to Iraq and Syria to join the various jihadist groups. Intuitively, those who are interested in joining violent extremist groups are unlikely to be deterred by the threat of having their citizenship revoked.
Rather than acting as a punishment, losing citizenship may serve to highlight an individual's commitment to 'the cause'. In certain circumstances, revocation may give individuals a special status among their cadre of extremists for having made an extra sacrifice.
Citizenship revocation under the Australian Citizenship Act affects only individuals who have, or are entitled to, another citizenship. Australians who have Australian citizenship can't be stripped of their citizenship because that would make them stateless, which would be a breach of international law.
Having two categories of citizenship feeds the jihadist narrative that Western government are institutionally racist and Islamophobic. In practice, these measures may disproportionately affect people of Muslim faith, as it's thought that most dual-citizen Australian foreign fighters either come from Muslim-majority countries or have parents who emigrated to Australia from those countries.
Over almost two decades, Australian local authorities, police and community activists have worked to address concerns about discrimination in minority communities. Their efforts have helped foster an environment in which people feel comfortable discussing issues and individuals of concern with the authorities.
Despite these successes, policymakers should still be worried about the growing mistrust of the authorities among certain minority communities, primarily the Muslim community, and their sense of structural discrimination and Islamophobia. Citizenship revocation has most likely fuelled those communities' concerns.
One unintended consequence of citizenship revocation is that it may discourage people from cooperating with the authorities. Arguably, if there's a fear someone may lose their citizenship and get deported, individuals are less likely to cooperate.
Since 9/11, Australia has developed a robust counterterrorism regime. A central component of the regime is a suite of programs and initiatives at the federal, state and territory levels that are aimed at preventing and countering violent extremism. Australians working in that field have become global leaders. This strategy has provided local, state and federal authorities with the necessary legislative, operational and practical tools to work with individuals to help them disengage from violent extremism and ensure they don't pose a threat to Australians and Australian interests.
The threat of citizenship revocation undermines the counterterrorism regime, specifically the disengagement and deradicalisation programs.
Knowing where violent extremists are enables Australia's security and intelligence services to mitigate the risk that they pose. Over the past 18 years, successive Australian governments have adopted a range of measures to deal with violent extremists. These measures continue to result in the disruption of terrorist plots. Not allowing these individuals to return would place an added burden on our security services to keep track of the movements of radicalised ex-Australians outside of Australia.
If Australians who have travelled to Iraq and Syria aren't allowed to return to Australia, they will likely seek new places from which they can continue to propagate their violent extremist ideas. History has shown that terrorists tend to establish a presence in fragile and weak states where they can exploit local conditions, including lax controls and corruption. Given that terrorist groups like IS have franchises and affiliates around the world, there are many places where fighters fleeing Iraq and Syria can find sanctuary and continue to propagate their ideas and incite others to commit violence.
As the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security continues its review of the operation, effectiveness and implications of the citizenship-stripping provisions of the Citizenship Act, it needs to set aside overly simplistic, transactional views of citizenship revocation. It needs to consider promoting public confidence in the effectiveness of Australia's counterterrorism arrangements. It also ought to consider the second-order effects that this legislation is having on Australia's counterterrorism efforts. Finally, it needs to consider the harmful impacts that 'citizenship is not a right' arguments have on social cohesion in Australia.
John Coyne heads the Strategic Policing and Law Enforcement program at ASPI. Isaac Kfir is the deputy director of the Defence, Strategy and National Security program and head of the Counterterrorism program at ASPI. Image: Chris McGrath/Getty Images.
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The National Park Service's newest addition is Waco Mammoth National Monument! President Obama welcomed this paleontological site in Texas as a National Park Service designation on July 10, 2015, protecting with it more than 65,000 years of history preserved through fossilized Ice Age creatures.
Waco Mammoth National Monument tells the ancient natural history of the United States. It is the country's only site housing fossils of a Columbian mammoth nursery herd. Columbian mammoths are a distant relative of the smaller wooly mammoths that inhabited the colder, more northern regions of the North American continent, whereas the Columbian mammoth roamed as far north as southern Canada and as far south as Costa Rica.
In addition to the bones of the Columbian mammoths, remains of a Western camel, a giant tortoise, and other historic species – even the tooth of a saber-toothed cat! – were uncovered, providing a glimpse in to a lost world. All of the fossils at Waco Mammoth National Monument have all been excavated in situ, meaning still in their original position within the bone bed.
These fossilized Ice Age creatures were discovered in 1978 by Paul Barron and Eddie Bufkin. Barron and Bufkin were in search of arrow heads and fossils along the Bosque River when they noticed a large bone protruding from a ravine. The bone was brought to Baylor University's Strecker Museum where it was identified as the femur of Mammuthus Columbi. Following the discovery, Strecker Museum staff and Baylor University scientists spent years at the site, excavating and preserving the many important scientific discoveries. And the rest is (prehistoric) history!
Today, Waco Mammoth National Monument protects a site of natural historic significance by preserving this paleontological wonder, providing a place for research, and creating a site for visitors to tour and learn about these remarkable fossils. By welcoming Waco Mammoth National Monument to the National Park System, we protect our past for future generations to discover and enjoy.


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think mud server. some have a surface scripting language that allows you to add content real-time. but what about changing core code and recompiling while maintaining state and connections? possible? want to be able to to add a new function or command on the fly during live play.
So if you manage to implement you features by using a certain base interface(command pattern?), you'll be able to write a ClassLoader that grabs your new functions from the net and executes them.
Right. java is a late binding language so reload is built into the system.
Up to 1.5 the way to reload has been to use a custom calss loader. In order to make the clas loader dump the calsses all the instances have to be gone. I wrote a "reloadable" libnary awhiel back that did this bit of trickery by tracking all insatnces of Reloadables and, whena reload was requsted, serlializing then all to byte buffera temporarily, making a new class loader and de-serializing them using it.
I believe our 1.5 actually has some preliminary support for dumping and reloading method code indvidually (though not fields yet).
That would be very cool (and if so, we'll be able to make some funky demos to show it off; we've done some detailed work in this area, specifically to reload in a complex environment where you need to have both versions loaded and active simultaneously...). Will be interesting to see whether 1.5 makes this any easier.
Even with 1.4 debuggers have a change and continue feature... I thought I read that the same mechanism was intended to support patching a live system.
Ah hokay, i didnt realize it was in 1.4 already. Thanks for the correction.
Would love to see some sample code or demos of this just to poke around with.
With the debugging live code replacement in Eclipse at least, you can not change the "shape" of a class. That is, you cannot add or remove member data or methods.
ok jeff, yes I can do it? or yes, I am missing something?
Sorry. yes you can do it.
Class reloading, while a bit of a pain to implement, will allow you to change fields and methods. the new debugger facility will allow you to change just methods.
I am not sure if connecting to the debugger interface has an impact on our VM's performance. It may.
The facility to re-load classes and late-bind btw is why I maintain that (a) Java is an excellent choice for a scripting language and (b) games that are pure Java need no other scripting language.
Mucking about with classloading is how we've been experimenting with similar hot-swapping of classes. The real difficulty comes when you need multiple instances of different versions of the same class simultaneously, and things can get nasty.
This is completely new territory to me. I assume there are tutorials on Sun for this? (I am searching now) If not, anyone have some sample or demo code they can scribble on the white board?
Read up on custom class loaders. Yes there is info on java.sun.com as well as in the javadoc for ClassLoader and URLClassLoader. There may be an article on class laoders in the article set that comes with the JFK download, I forget. if so thats a good place to start as well.
FInally the classic books on the JDK APIs shoudl all have info. I know thre is info in lee's The Java Class Libraries volumes and the Java2 appendix book in that set.
(1) Every Class Loader contains references to the Classes it has loaded. When a new instance of the class is created the Class is request from the current class loader.
The goal is to replace the Class objects. To do this you need to replace the class loader. You do this by creating a new class loader and requesting the class from it.
Be warned if you are going to do this then you will likely need to over-ride the SerialversionUID. There is info on THAT in the artical on serializatio nthat coems with the JDK.
So, start reading and experimenting! You'll get it eventually and what you learn abotu Java in the process will open up all kinds of new abilities you never realized the language had.
fantastic ...starting today. I did find some stuff on sun to start with.


Completely gutting a basement is the first key step to renovating this area of your home. Whether you have an old basement or a newer one, if you wish to remodel the area, you will need to remove everything from the old basement. The level of gutting depends on your project; if the walls are old, stained or damaged, for example, you can remove the drywall to leave the exposed wall studs.
Remove the walls and flooring to gut an old basement.
Remove all the furniture, shelving, decorations and other elements from the basement, taking them up the stairs and storing them elsewhere in the home. The gutting process is dirty and dusty and can cause damage to any items that remain in the basement.
Completely empty the basement before beginning to gut it.
Tear up the basement's flooring. If the basement is carpeted, use a utility knife to cut through an area of the carpet and pull the carpet away from the floor.
Upon removing the carpet, pull up the tack strips with a hammer or pry bar. If the floor is linoleum, cut through one area, and aim a heat gun at the glue beneath the linoleum to melt and soften the glue.
Pry off trim, quarter-round and other molding on the bottoms and tops of the walls with a pry bar if you plan to keep the walls intact. If you're going to tear out the basement's walls, do not remove the trim and molding separately.
Knock holes in the drywall with a hammer or sledgehammer, and pry the individual sheets of drywall away from the studs. Use the utility knife simultaneously to cut stubborn areas of the drywall.
If you plan to remove the basement's drywall, unscrew light switchs and wall outlet plates before prying the drywall away from the studs.
When performing demolition work, wear protective gear, such as goggles, a dust mask, gloves, steel-toed boots and ear plugs. If the basement has windows, open them to keep the area ventilated as much as possible.


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Robert is Centre Director for Animas Centre for Coaching and has been a coach and supervisor for over 10 years.
Having originally trained as an actor and mime-artist, physical theatre was a big part of Robert's early work. Rob also had a rich involvement in the education space prior to coaching – from working with young people in schools and nurseries, up to teaching on degrees at several universities. Within this, he went down the route of specialising in theatre and education within schools and worked collaboratively with a number of organisations. Examples include Creative Partnerships and A New Direction, where he delivered training alongside Educational Consultant Mathilda Joubert, a collaboration that sparked his initial interest in coaching.
In terms of his career in the coaching world, Robert has been on an incredible journey of self-development and consistently expanded both his training and coaching skill set. Initially training as an NLP Practitioner and hypnotherapist, Robert went on to pass his Diploma in Transformational Coaching. He has also added a number of other accredited coach training courses to his toolkit, including David Drake's Narrative Coaching, and Simon Western's Analytic Network Coaching. Robert's more than a decade of coaching experience is one of the many positive elements that he brings to the training space, and in turn the mentoring and supervisory space.
Robert's true love in coaching is working with narrative, using the multi-sensory and multi-dimensional process of narrative coaching to allow new stories to emerge within a client's world!
Accredited by the ICF, AC, and ILM, Robert gradually worked his way through Animas and now, as Centre Director, is shaping the impact and influence of one of the world's largest coaching schools.
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More than 3,000 people took the rare opportunity to visit Conister Rock on Sunday August 12 by taking part in the Tower Insurance Tower of Refuge walk.
Sponsored for the seventh year in succession by Tower Insurance the event was organised by Douglas Town Centre Management, supported by the Douglas Coastguard crew and held in aid of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
As the escorted walk took place on a Sunday and in the year when Tower Insurance is celebrating its 90th anniversary, the event took on a carnival atmosphere with live bands performing from a stage on Harris Promenade, free fairground rides and games and a sandcastle-building competition on the beach offering £50 prizes.
For all the latest news check out Douglas Town Centre Management's Facebook page, visit the website or contact Oliver Cheshire, 696304.


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Q: Rails - a way to check the last line while using smarter_csv gem I am using smarter_csv gem to parse a large CSV file on Heroku.
SmarterCSV.process(file_name, { chunk_size: 10, headers_in_file: false, user_provided_headers: user_provided_headers }) do |chunk|
  chunk.each do |row|
    # parse row
  end
end

Is there any way to check if the row is the last line?

A: SmarterCSV does not seem to have any utility for this, so I think the only way is to count the number of lines before and while processing:
line_count = `wc -l < file_name`.to_i
lines_processed = 0
SmarterCSV.process(file_name, { chunk_size: 10, headers_in_file: false, user_provided_headers: user_provided_headers }) do |chunk|
  chunk.each do |row|
    lines_processed += 1
    return if lines_processed == line_count
    # parse row
  end
end

A: smarter_csv does not do a read-ahead, so there is no way to know if the current row is the last row in the file.
The only way to do this would be to count the number of lines in advance, and then recognize the last line.