text:
Home 'It came alive:' Astronauts recount wild ride home on SpaceX's Crew Dragon
'It came alive:' Astronauts recount wild ride home on SpaceX's Crew Dragon
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undergoes a test of its rocket propulsion system. (Courtesy of SpaceX)
US ASTRONAUTS Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, home two days from a landmark mission as NASA's first crew to fly a privately built vehicle into orbit, recounted on Tuesday the loud, jarring ride they experienced through Earth's atmosphere before a safe landing at sea.
Their splash-down on Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida – a mode of return for human spaceflight last used by NASA 45 years ago – capped the first launch of astronauts from US soil in nine years.
At a news conference from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, their first extensive public remarks since coming home, Behnken, 50, and Hurley, 53, described the tense final moments of their 64-day journey.
The duo endured tremendous, jolting forces as the SpaceX-built Crew Dragon, an acorn-shaped vehicle that had carried them to the International Space Station, fired rocket thrusters to slow its descent for re-entry, then pierced the outer atmosphere.
"It came alive," Behnken told reporters of the nearly 12-minute thruster burn. "It doesn't sound like a machine, it sounds like an animal coming through the atmosphere."
As the capsule streaked deeper through the sky, atmospheric friction scorched the protective heat shield of the plunging Crew Dragon to 3,500 Fahrenheit (1,927 Celsius), slowing its rate of descent to 350 mph (563 kph).
At that point, the first of two sets of parachutes were deployed, abruptly breaking the capsule's speed further – an interval that felt "very much like getting hit in the back of the chair with a baseball bat," Behnken recalled.
"It was a pretty significant jolt," he said.
The second set of chutes gradually slowed the capsule to a gentle 15-mph rate of descent for a splash-down that ended what Hurley called a "flawless" mission.
Minutes later, recovery teams dispatched by SpaceX, the California-based rocket company founded by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, hoisted the capsule onto a boat. Behnken and Hurley where then flown by helicopter to shore to catch a private flight to Houston.
The two were launched to the International Space Station from Florida on May 31, embarking on a two-month journey to prove the Crew Dragon capsule safe for transporting humans to and from space.
While bobbing in the water just after splash-down awaiting recovery teams, Hurley said they completed one final test objective for the mission: "making prank satellite phone calls to whoever we can get a hold of."
"There was a real reason for it," Hurley said, in all seriousness, explaining that they needed to prove they could contact mission control using a sat-phone in case the crew landed from space in an unexpected part of the ocean.
Previous articleSingapore migrant worker mental health in spotlight after self-harm incident
Next articleLatin America now has world's highest coronavirus death toll
Effective ways to control diabetes
Japan machinery orders up
Shakira tunes in to trend of selling music rights
Tanduay wins Brand of the Year award
COVID wipes out 5-year gains in car sales, recovery hoped
'WandaVision' spins heroes through worlds of Marvel and classic TV sitcoms


text:
Prem Nagar is a village in the Bhiwani district of the Indian state of Haryana. It lies approximately  north of the district headquarters town of Bhiwani. , the village had 684 households with a total population of 3,495 of which 1,849 were male and 1,646 female.
The head(Sarpanch) of the village is Rajesh Bura

In village the most famous temple is situated  the name is shri Shri 1008 jai Baba Gulab nath and Baba Bhani nath temple  . The All information is give to you from The village boy RAHUL KUMAR BOORA and Yogesh Bura.

References

Villages in Bhiwani district

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Hebrew Letters by Sarahleah
HANUKKAH hn5
by Hebrewletters Sl
7.000 x 5.000 inches
This original painting is currently for sale. At the present time, originals are not offered for sale through the Hebrewletters SL - Website secure checkout system. Please contact the artist directly to inquire about purchasing this original.
Hebrewletters Sl
Painting - Watercolor On Watercolor Paper
HAPPY HANUKKAH - May the lights at the Holliday light up your life with hope and peace and joy and good health!
HANUKKAH is from the Hebrew, meaning DEDICATED, CONSECRATED or TRAINED, EDUCATED (Kolatch, Alfred J. 1984. The Complete Dictionary of English and Hebrew First Names. Middle Village: Jonathan David. . 50, 300).
From the teachings of Mitchell Chefitz, author The Seventh Telling , The Thiry-third Hour, The Curse of Blessings, White Fire and Blood Covenant:
The Rabbis do everything they can to spiritualize what had been the military victory of the zealot Maccabees. So, we might do so also. Each day of Hannukah, as a candle is lit, we might meditate on casting a little more light into the world.
Legends have been interwoven with historical fact to create what we now know as HANUKKAH. The historical facts are described in 1 Maccabees 4:36-59, in which Judah Maccabee defeats the Greco-Syrian army in 165 BCE. While Judea was under Hellenistic rule, pagan worship took place in the Temple. After the Maccabean victory, Judah found enough undefiled oil in the Temple to rekindle the menorah. However, there was only enough oil to last one day. Miraculously, it burned for 8 days.
Hebrew Bible - The soul [nishmat] of man is the candle [ner] of God (Proverbs 20:27).
The Hebrew Letters featured in this painting are the Chet Nun Vav Caf Hey. Taken together, they spell HANNUKAH.
Each of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet has a special meaning and a story to tell. Here a few brief ones about the letters on this painting.
CHET is the 8th letter of the alphabet and has a numerical value of 8, is pronounced like the CH in BaCH. Kushner's description is the best that I have found of what is necessary to create the sound of Chet . It is the "top of your throat and the bottom of your throat fighting against one another" (Kushner, Lawrence. 1990. The Book of Letters: Sefer Otiyot.Woodstock: Jewish Lights Publishing. 39).
Usually the Chet is composed of 2 Zayins. But the 16th century kabbalist master, Luria, stated that the Chet consists of a Vav on the right and a Zayin on the left. Each Hebrew letter has a numerical value. GEMATRIA is the numerical manipulation of the values of the letter to explain the meaning of a word or phrase. The combined value of the Vav (6) and Zayin (7) is 13 which is the value of the word ECHAD - Aleph Chet Dalet (4) = 13. ECHAD means ONE. It is also the highest prime denominator of the name of God - Yud (10) Hey(5) Vav (6) Hey (5) = 26 =13 = ONE.
Talmud teaches that if one learns UNDERSTANDING and performs acts of LOVINGKINDNESS for the poor, then God will look upon the person with Chen spelled Chet Nun with FAVOR, GRACE (Shabbat 104a).
[The writing of the letters] must be kethibah tammah [perfect writing]; thus one must not write the… the Chet as a Hey or the Hey as a Chet (Shabbat 103b).
Zayyin Heth Heth Yod Lamed: [this sequence teaches,] and if thou doest thus, the Holy One, blessed be He, will sustain[ Zan] thee, be gracious Hen] unto thee, show goodness[Metiv] to thee, give thee a heritage Yerushah], and bind a crown Keter] on thee in the world to come (Shabbat 104a).
Mishneh Torah is a major halachic (law) work written by Maimonides. In it Rambam explains that there are 10 levels of ANGELS. The Hayyot [Chet Yud Vav Tav] HA KODESH are above all the others. The word Hayyot begins with a Chet and is related to the word Chai [Chet Yud] - LIFE (Mishneh Torah 1981. Hilchot Yesodei HaTorah 2:7. Tr. Moses Hyamson. New York: Feldheim. 36a).
In meditation the letter Chet frequently presents itself as a door way. It is safe to go through this particular doorway because it is constructed of a Vav and a Zayin, which, by virtue of their numerical value, allude to the name of God as explained above. It is also possible to ask for an ANGEL to guide one when passing through Chet.
NUN is the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, has a numerical value of 50, makes a sound like the N in Now, and means SHINE, SPOUT, SPREAD in Hebrew and FISH in Aramaic. The Nun has the head of a Zayin. The body is an elongated Zayin.
The Nun is one of 5 letters: [Caf Mem Nun Pey Tsade] that have 2 forms - the regular [bent] form used in the beginning and middle of a word and the FINAL FORM,- SOFIT, used as the last letter of a word (Shabbat 4a).
According to the ancient kabbalistic text The Bahir, the bent Nun represents the spinal cord through which the body is fed by the brain (Kaplan, Aryeh. 1979. Tr. The Bahir . York Beach: Samuel Weiser. 31).
The final Nun represents, by its shape, man who walks erect, and who mystically combines male and female (Zohar 1984. Tr. Harry Sperling et al. New York: Soncino. 1:18b-19a. 80).
Nun is one of 7 letters which may be adorned with Tagin, or little crowns, in the Torah, Tefillin, or Mezzuzah scroll. These are called the SHAYNAYZ GAYTZ letters [Shin, Ayin, Tet, Nun, Zayin, Gimmel, and Tsade] Each one of these letters contains a Zayin. A TAG is composed of 3 strokes which themselves look like little Zayins.
There is a wonderful story in Talmud, which describes Moses ascending to Heaven to find God occupied in affixing TAGGIN to the letters of Torah:
Rab Judah said in the name of Rab, When Moses ascended on high he found the Holy One, blessed be He, engaged in affixing coronets to the letters. [These are the Taggin, i.e., three small strokes written on top of the letters Shatnayz Gaytz in the form of a crown (Menachoth 29b).
Ashre, [Psalm 145:1-21), which is arranged alphabetically, save that the verse beginning with the letter Nun (N) is missing. R. Johanan says: Why is there no Nun in Ashre? [Because the fall of the enemies of Israel begins with it [Nephilim]. For it is written: Fallen is 'nefal' [Nun Pey Lamed], the virgin of Israel, she shall no more rise (Amos 5:2). R. Nachman b. Isaac says: Even so, David refers to it by inspiration [Literally 'the Holy Spirit']. The meaning is, David knew by inspiration that Amos was going to prophesy the downfall of Israel, and he refers to that verse and prophesies their being raised up again, [though their downfall is not mentioned by David] and promises them an uplifting. For it is written: The Lord upholdeth all that fall (Psalm 145:14; Berachot 4b).
Abaye said: he should eat fish, for Samuel said, Nun Samech Ayin [read] 'Nuna' [fish] 'sama' [are a healing] 'la-enayim' [to the eyes]! - That is at the end of the illness [Three letters of the Hebrew alphabet in order] (Nedarim 54b).
The Nun represents nourishment or nurturing tome. It is a gentle letter. In meditation this letter is generally stationary for me. If I want to travel around there are many other letters, Aleph Tet Caf Lamed Mem, to mention just a few. But if I want to be quiet and feel at peace, I ask the NUN to come. I sit in the curve, my head nestled under its head, and it rocks me with tenderness. It soothes my emotions and SHINES through me.
VAV is the 6th letter, has a numerical value of 6, is constructed of a single vertical line, means HOOK and makes a sound like the V in Victory. When used as a vowel, Vav can sound like a long `o' or a long `u.' Translated it means AND. It is the GREAT CONNECTOR. Vav appears in the Four Letter name of God - Yud Hey Vav Hey.
"VAV is the sound if beiing joined. And VAV is a the sound of and. One and another" (Kushner, Lawrence. 1990. The Book of Letters: Sefer Otiyot.Woodstock: Jewish Lights Publishing. 35).
The 6 Sephirot represented by the Vav are - Chesed, Gevura, Tiferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod (Kaplan, Aryeh. 1979. Tr. The Bahir. York Beach: Samuel Weiser. 146-172).
What does the letter VAV resemble? It is alluded to in the verse "He spreads out light like a garment" (Psalms 104:5). For VAV is nothing other than six directions [ east, west, north south, up and down]? (Kaplan, Aryeh. 1979. Tr. The Bahir. York Beach: Samuel Weiser. 30).
The first word in Torah is Bereshit which t means IN A BEGINNING. If you divide Bereshit into bara and sheet it means HE CREATED SIX [sheet is 6 in Aramaic] Six what? The 6 days in which creation was completed? (Zohar . 1984 Tr. Harry Sperling et al. New York: Soncino. 1:3b. 13).
When used as a vowel, Vav can sound like a long `o' or a long `u.' Translated it means AND. It is the GREAT CONNECTOR. Vav appears in the Four Letter name of God - Yud Hey Vav Hey
In meditation, the Vav is a place where you can leave your body in order to descend to a deeper place.
CAF is the 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, has a numerical value of 20, means PALM OF THE HAND, SPOON, CONTAINER and stands for bent objects. When the Caf has a dot in it, Caf makes a sound like the K in Kitchen. Without the dot it makes a sound similar to that made by the letter Chet. When functioning as a prefix CAF can mean AS, LIKE, WHEN, AT, ABOUT or ACCORDING TO.
The Caf is one of 5 letters: [Caf Mem Nun Pey Tsade] that have 2 forms - the regular [bent] form used in the beginning and middle of a word and the FINAL FORM,- SOFIT, used as the last letter of a word (Shabbat 4a).
[The writing of the letters] must be 'kethibah tammah' [perfect writing]; thus one must not write the… Beit as a Caf, or the Caf as a Beit (Shabbat 103b).
The word CAF first appears in Torah in Genesis 32:26 when Jacob wrestles with the Angel. CAF is the HALLOW or CONTAINER for Jacob's hip bone. Isaiah 49:16 - 'I have engraved you on the KAPHIAM' - PALMS of My Hands.
In Shabbat 104a there is a homiletic interpretation of the names of the Hebrew letters. Here the CAF is linked with the word KETER- CROWN. This passage states that if one masters UNDERSTANDING - ALUF BENAH (ALUF – MASTER, BENAH – UNDERSTANDING) and gives to the poor GAMOL DALEEM (GAMOL – REWARD, DALEEM – POOR) then the Holy One…will…bind a CROWN – KETER upon you for the World to Come.
At that moment, the Caf descended from its throne of glory and quaking and trembling said: O Lord of the universe, may it please Thee to begin through me the creation of the world, seeing that I am Thine own 'Cavod' (honour). And when Caf descended from its throne of glory, two hundred thousand worlds began to shake, the throne trembled, and all the worlds quaked and were about to fall in ruins. Said to her the Holy One, blessed be His Name: Caf, Caf, what do thou here? I will not create the world with thee. Go back to thy place, since thou stand for extermination (Kelayah). Return, then, to thy place and remain there. Immediately she departed and returned to her own place. O Lord of the universe, may it please Thee to begin through me the creation of the world, seeing that I [Caf] am Thine own 'Kavod' (honor) (Zohar 1984. Tr. Harry Sperling et al. New York: Soncino. 1:6a).
When sitting in the Caf, which means PALM OF THE HAND, I feel like I am being held in the PALM of the Universe. Very comforting.
HEY is the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet and has a numerical value of 5, means BEHOLD and is constructed of a Dalet and a Yud, makes a sound like the H in Happy. Hey appears twice in the Yud Hey Vav Hey Name of God.
The numerical value of the Hey is five, alluding to the five names of the soul Nephesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya, Yechidah (Kaplan, Aryeh. 1979. Tr. The Bahir. York Beach: Samuel Weiser. 19).
What is the purpose of the Hey? It is a throne for the Zayin, It is written "for one above the other watches" (Ecclesiastes 5:7) (Kaplan, Aryeh. 1979. Tr. The Bahir. York Beach: Samuel Weiser. 19).
The word 'Behebaram' in Genesis 2:4, is usually translated "When they were created. In the Torah scroll the Hey in this word drew attention to itself by being smaller than the rest of the letters in the scroll. What significance did this have for the word 'Behebaram'? If this word could be translated WITH A Hey HE CREATED THEM, then that would mean that God created this world by means of the Hey. God did this because the Hey is closed on 3 sides and open on the 4th. This allows those who wish to deviate from the right path to get out through the open 4th side. On the left there is a little space between the leg and the roof. That is there to allow anyone who wishes to repent, to return through that small (Menachot 29b).
The heavens "are the totality of twenty-two letters". The letter Hey produced the heavens to give them life and to water them and the earth
(Zohar 1984. Tr. Harry Sperling et al. New York: Soncino. 1:30a).
Hey is the beginning of the Yud Hey Vav Hey meditation. One descends through the Hey, passes through they Vav [sometimes leaving the body safely in the care of the Vav] and continues descending through the second Hey. This an extremely powerful meditation.
Viewed 79 Times - Last Visitor from Shenzhen, 30 - China on 12/28/2022 at 3:18 AM
There are no comments for HANUKKAH hn5. Click here to post the first comment.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Q: Wrapping C code including Python API using SWIG and distutils fails on Mac 10.8 64bits I have been trying to wrap an existing C code into a Python module for some time now and I keep running into recurrent errors and a failed build... After an extensive look at the available documentation and posts on this forum I would like to know if someone has an idea why it is not working.
I would like to use the stsci.imagemanip.interp2d.expand2d() function which consists of a python script calling a C function which uses the Python.h library. This under Mac 10.8 64bits with Python 2.7.
I am new to wrapping C functions to Python and I decided to use SWIG and distutils.
My input files are the following:
bilinearinterp.i
/* bilinearinterp.i */
%module bilinearinterp

%{
#define SWIG_FILE_WITH_INIT
#define NPY_NO_DEPRECATED_API NPY_1_7_API_VERSION
#include <stdio.h>
#include <Python.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <numpy/arrayobject.h>
#include "bilinearinterp.h"
%}

static PyObject * bilinearinterp(PyObject *obj, PyObject *args);

bilinearinterp.c
/* File: bilinearinterp.c */
#include <Python.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <numpy/arrayobject.h>
#include "bilinearinterp.h"

static void InterpInfo (float ai, int npts, int *i, float *p, float *q) {

/* arguments:
float ai        i: independent variable in same units as i
int npts        i: size of array within which *i is an index
int *i          o: array index close to ai
float *p, *q    o: weights for linear interpolation
*/

DO SOME CALCULATIONS
}

int unbin2d (float *a, float *b, int inx, int iny, int onx, int ony) {

/* arguments:
PyArrayObject *a        i: input data
PyArrayObject *b        o: output data
*/

DO SOME CALCULATIONS
CALL InterpInfo
return (1);
}

static PyObject * bilinearinterp(PyObject *obj, PyObject *args)
{
    PyObject *input, *output;
    PyArrayObject *dataa, *datab;
    int inx, iny, onx, ony;

    int status=0;

    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args,"OO:bilinearinterp",&input,&output))
        return NULL;

    dataa = (PyArrayObject *)PyArray_ContiguousFromAny(input, PyArray_FLOAT, 1, 2);
    datab = (PyArrayObject *)PyArray_ContiguousFromAny(output, PyArray_FLOAT, 1, 2);

    inx = PyArray_DIM(input,0);
    iny = PyArray_DIM(input,1);
    onx = PyArray_DIM(output,0);
    ony = PyArray_DIM(output,1);

    status = unbin2d((float *)dataa->data,(float *)datab->data, inx, iny, onx, ony);

    Py_XDECREF(dataa);
    Py_XDECREF(datab);

    return Py_BuildValue("i",status);
}

static PyMethodDef bilinearinterp_methods[] =
{
    {"bilinearinterp",  bilinearinterp, METH_VARARGS,
        "bilinearinterp(input, output)"},
    {0,            0}                             /* sentinel */
};

void initbilinearinterp(void) {
    Py_InitModule("bilinearinterp", bilinearinterp_methods);
    import_array();
}

bilinearinterp.h
/* File: bilinearinterp.H */
static PyObject * bilinearinterp(PyObject *obj, PyObject *args);

setup.py
#!/usr/bin/env python

from distutils.core import setup, Extension

bilinearinterp_module = Extension('_bilinearinterp',
                                  sources = ['bilinearinterp_wrap.c','bilinearinterp.c'],
# Path to locate numpy/arrayobject.h
                                  include_dirs=['/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/numpy-override/numpy/core/include'])

setup (name = 'bilinearinterp',
       version = '1.1',
       author      = "Space Telescope Science Institute - stsci_python",
       description = """bilinear interpretation for 2D array extrapolation""",
       ext_modules = [bilinearinterp_module],
       py_modules = ["bilinearinterp"],
       )

Then I run the following in Terminal:
>>>swig -python bilinearinterp.i
>>>python setup.py build_ext --inplace

The appropriate files are being created:
_bilinearinterp.so  bilinearinterp.py   bilinearinterp.pyc  bilinearinterp_wrap.c
As well as a build directory containing some files in it.
I get warnings when setup.py is running but it seems to complete.
Over the various tests I did two recurrent errors keep coming back:

*

*warning: "Using deprecated NumPy API, disable it by #defining NPY_NO_DEPRECATED_API NPY_1_7_API_VERSION" [-W#warnings]
Which may induces several other warnings associated to numpy

*warning: function 'bilinearinterp' has internal linkage but is not defined [-Wundefined-internal] static PyObject * bilinearinterp(PyObject *obj, PyObject *args); bilinearinterp_wrap.c:2971:24: note: used here result = (PyObject *)bilinearinterp(arg1,arg2);
Then when calling the module in a python script I get the following:
>>> from bilinearinterp import bilinearinterp as lininterp
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "bilinearinterp.py", line 28, in <module>
    _bilinearinterp = swig_import_helper()
  File "bilinearinterp.py", line 24, in swig_import_helper
    _mod = imp.load_module('_bilinearinterp', fp, pathname, description)
ImportError: dlopen(./_bilinearinterp.so, 2): Symbol not found: _bilinearinterp
  Referenced from: ./_bilinearinterp.so
  Expected in: flat namespace
 in ./_bilinearinterp.so

Would someone have an idea from where the error could be coming from?
Is it from my usage of SWIG or from setup.py?

Another approach with only a swig interface file and the C code (without including the *.h file) does not work. Based on the swig introduction chapter
bilinearinterp.i
/* bilinearinterp.i */
%module bilinearinterp

%{
static PyObject * bilinearinterp(PyObject *obj, PyObject *args);
%}

static PyObject * bilinearinterp(PyObject *obj, PyObject *args);

And I compile using:
>>>swig -python -o bilinearinterp_wrap.c bilinearinterp.i
>>>gcc -c -fpic bilinearinterp.c bilinearinterp_wrap.c
-I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7
-I/System//Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/numpy/core/include
bilinearinterp_wrap.c:2955:19: warning: function 'bilinearinterp' has internal
      linkage but is not defined [-Wundefined-internal]
static PyObject * bilinearinterp(PyObject *obj, PyObject *args);
                  ^
bilinearinterp_wrap.c:2971:24: note: used here
  result = (PyObject *)bilinearinterp(arg1,arg2);
                       ^
1 warning generated.
>>>gcc -bundle -flat_namespace -undefined suppress bilinearinterp.o bilinearinterp_wrap.o -o _bilinearinterp.so

Then I still get the same import error in the python interpreter.
Could it be due to my numpy installation or my gcc arguments?
Thanks

A: Well, I don't quite understand what you are trying to achieve, but I see some bad practices. For example, you make bilinearinterp everywhere static, and static functions are not exported and only can be used in the same module where implemented. I think it would be helpful to read a bit about SWIG design ideas. For sure it will take a some time, but you will get a broader perspective of what SWIG is and isn't capable of.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


The Museum at FIT (MFIT) has received the highest national recognition for a museum accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). Accreditation, which is awarded to only 4.5 percent of America's estimated 17,500 museums and less than 1 percent of college and university museums, signifies the highest level of excellence. The AAM accrediting commission found MFIT not only to have one of the most important collections of its type but also to meet national standards and best practices for a U.S. museum and to be a good steward of its resources held in the public trust and committed to a philosophy of continual institutional growth.
Established in 1967, MFIT is the only museum in New York City, and one of a handful around the world, dedicated solely to the art of fashion. Located at Seventh Avenue at 27th Street, it is free and open to the public. Best known for its innovative and award-winning exhibitions, MFIT has a collection of more than 50,000 garments and accessories dating from the 18th century to the present. The museums mission is to advance knowledge of fashion through exhibitions, publications, and public programs.
MFIT joins an elite group that includes the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Field Museum in Chicago, and The Getty Museum in Los Angeles, along with 20 prestigious accredited institutions in New York City. These are the American Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, the Frick Collection, the George Gustav Heye Center, The Jewish Museum, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan Library & Museum, the Morris-Jumel Mansion, the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, the Museum of Arts and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of the Moving Image, the New York Botanical Garden, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Whitney Museum of Art.
While The Museum at FIT has proven to be exemplary in all that it does a prerequisite for receiving accreditation it has placed forging community ties among its top priorities, said AAM President Ford W. Bell. The museum has established strong bonds with local students, its residential neighbors, and with the college as a whole, always a critical issue for college and university museums. The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology is certainly one of New York's and the country's finest museums.
The Museum at FIT is an integral component of an FIT education and campus life, said Dr. Joyce F. Brown, president of FIT. However, it also is an important part of the Chelsea community, as well as a vital component of New York City's cultural offerings and resources. The college is extremely pleased by the AAM's recognition of the museums quality and commitment to excellence. By achieving accreditation, The Museum at FIT has confirmed something many visitors likely already know: it is one of the truly outstanding museums in America.
The Museum at FIT is very proud to receive this distinction, noted Dr. Valerie Steele, director of The Museum at FIT. We sought accreditation through the AAM to emphasize the museums commitment to the core values and principles of collections stewardship. However, this recognition validates the dedication of our staff to the highest standards in all aspects of the museums operations, from governance and planning to exhibitions and public programming. We will continue to serve the FIT community, the Chelsea neighborhood, New York City, and the global fashion community by advancing knowledge of fashion, preserving this important collection, and mounting our innovative and exciting exhibitions.
MFIT underwent a rigorous year of self-study, followed by a two-day site visit by a team of external museum professionals. The site visitors found the museum to meet the characteristics of an accreditable museum, and in some ways to have exceeded them. In particular, they praised MFIT's small staff as well trained, professional, and dedicated; they identified the collections to be well organized and carefully preserved; and they concluded that MFIT is truly a teaching museum in all senses of the word. Its professional staff is deeply committed to the highest standards of original scholarship at the same time that they work very hard to make all the collections accessible to a broadly diverse audience. The commission particularly applauded the museums Presidential Scholars Museum Facilitators Program and the recent reorganization that resulted in the Department of Education and Public Programs that welcomes and responds well to the community.
MFIT's priority is to use collections and exhibitions to advance knowledge of fashion. More than 7,000 students from FIT and other schools and colleges took part in classes held in the museum in 2011. In addition, the museum hosts many free public programs and exhibition tours. MFIT participates in the Chelsea Cultural Partnership; a Design Membership, available to industry professionals, affords access to the collections; the museum has more than 600 objects online for study and dissemination; and a forthcoming book, to be published by TASCHEN, will feature photographs of more than 500 fashions from the museums collection, as well as photographs from many past exhibitions.
Fashion, A-Z: Highlights from the Collection of The Museum at FIT, Part Two, the second of two exhibitions that highlight modern and contemporary pieces from the museums permanent collection, is on view through November 10, 2012. Featured are more than 60 garments and accessories by designers from Adrian to Zoran, including work by Charles James, Ralph Lauren, and Diane von Furstenberg. Full portraits of all exhibition objects from the two exhibitions will be included in a companion publication by TASCHEN, forthcoming in late fall.
century, looks at the ways in which the style became codified by mid-century, and reveals how now, nearly 100 years after its inception, Ivy style is still a thriving global influence.
The American Alliance of Museums has been bringing museums together since 1906, helping to develop standards and best practices, gathering and sharing knowledge, and providing advocacy on issues of concern to the entire museum community. With more than 17,000 individual, 3,000 institutional, and 300 corporate members, AAM is dedicated to ensuring that museums remain a vital part of the American landscape, connecting people with the greatest achievements of the human experience, past, present, and future. For more information, visit aam-us.org.


text:
Alex Mcleish
The view from Red and Blue - Rafa Benítez crosses the great divide
It took until the 21st century for a 19th-century manager to get company. William Edward Barclay was a largely forgotten figure, overshadowed by most (...)
TV View: Schick's wonder strike leaves Scots gutted all over again
Mary Hannigan
Hands up: how many of you thought Patrik Schick's shot was heading for the Shetland Islands? Same here. Just the 49.7 metres from goal, if the fella d(...)
Michael Walker: Why Marcelo Bielsa is manager of the season so far
Back when Amazon was the name of a big river running across South America, a businessman called Jeff Bezos was setting up a shopping/warehousing/deliv(...)
Steve Clarke appointed new manager of Scotland
Steve Clarke has been appointed as Scotland's new head coach, the Scottish Football Association has announced. The 55-year-old, who guided Kilmarnock(...)
Disastrous start as Scotland are humbled in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan 3 Scotland 0 Scotland suffered one of their most embarrassing defeats as two goals in the opening 10 minutes sent them on their way to a 3(...)
Nottingham Forest shirt could prove the perfect fit again for O'Neill
In February 1971 Northern Ireland played Scotland in an amateur international at The Oval, Belfast, home of Glentoran. Martin O'Neill was 18 and this (...)
Portugal grab final slot as Scotland set up chance of group win
Portugal secured a place in the Nations League finals next summer as a 0-0 draw against Italy in Milan clinched top spot in Group A3. Italy could not(...)
England's pursuit of Rice says a lot about their lack of options
October 3, 2018, 12:54
With both players in contention to make club comebacks this weekend, Seamus Coleman and Robbie Brady are likely to be named on Thursday morning in Mar(...)
Theresa May backs bid to bring 2030 World Cup to UK and Ireland
Theresa May has backed moves to bring the World Cup to the UK and Ireland in 2030. The UK prime minister signalled she would offer government support(...)
Harry Maguire signs new five-year contract with Leicester
September 9, 2018, 19:07
England defender Harry Maguire has signed a new five-year contract with Leicester. The 25-year-old joined Leicester from Hull in the summer of 2017, (...)


> it is reasonable ?
groups of atoms ? what was your force constant ? how much was the pull ?
Without those, it would be very hard to tell if this is reasonable.
So pleae, email me your mdin and mdout files to start with.
PS: email those just to me, NOT the list.
Next message: Achuth Prabhu: "AMBER: multiple excecution of sander"
Previous message: Thomas Cheatham: "Re: AMBER: Average structure"
In reply to: wang: "AMBER: Is the simulation reasonable ? (SMD : dissocation antibody-antigen)"


A recent Harvard Business Review article revealed that one in six IT projects has a cost overrun of 200%. Debbie Madden, CEO and Cofounder at Stride Consulting, shares her views on no-estimates, in her blog on "Your Agile Project Needs a Budget, Not an Estimate". She says that because of the high rate of failure for estimation, stop estimating and start budgeting.
For most strategic decisions, estimating is too precise. Estimating breaks down a software project into granular, 1-to-3 day chunks. For a $100,000 project, that's a lot of work. For a $1 million project or bigger, that's inordinate. If you attempt to break an entire project into estimates at the beginning of the project, you are truly wasting weeks of your time. Why? Because there is no way that you are going to get estimation at a granular level correct at the beginning of a project.
How well does this decision proposal help us reach our business goals?
Does the risk profile resulting from this decision fit our acceptable risk profile?
Vasco describes 5 different decision-making strategies that can be applied to software projects without requiring a long winded, estimation process up front.
Do the most important strategic work first - To implement a new strategy, allocate enough teams, and resources to the work that helps validate and fine tune the selected strategy.
Do the highest technical risk work first – In case of transition to a new architecture or adopt a new technology, start by doing the work that validates that technical decision.
Do the easiest work first – At the time of team expansion, give opportunity to team members to know each other and learn to work together, by giving easy work.
Do the legal requirements first - In medical software there are regulations that must be met. Those regulations affect certain parts of the work/architecture. A medical organization that successfully adopted agile used this project decision-making strategy with a considerable business advantage as they were able to start selling their product many months ahead of the scheduled release.
Liability driven investment model - This approach is borrowed from a stock exchange investment strategy that aims to tackle a problem similar to what every bootstrapped business faces: what work should we do now, so that we can fund the business in the near future? In this approach we make decisions with the aim of generating the cash flows needed to fund future liabilities.
These are just 5 possible investment or decision-making strategies that can help you make project decisions, or even business decisions, without having to invest in estimation up front.
None of these decision-making strategies guarantee success, but then again nothing does except hard work, perseverance and safe experiments!


XPMarkets offers an advanced online trading platform focused mainly on binary options for most major stocks and maangement.
Their software is powered by the well known Tradologic development company based in Cyprus. XPMarkets offer their platform mainly… Read more.
Binary Options are one of the latest trading trends to hit the online space in South Africa. Traditionally, it was very complicated and difficult for retail customers to trade binary options.
With the advances in technology and the growth of online trading, trading binary options online is now possible and binary option money management strategy be extremely lucrative if… Read more. SA 40 Features Some of the main features of the index include: In todays market, investors can often get confused with the various trading instruments and products available on the market, especially to retail investors.
Options trading has been around for some time, its main focus binary option money management strategy the beginning was on institutional investors and slowly this focus moved to more retail or casual investors. With the advent… Read more. Due manahement growing popularity of binary options, the question must be asked, is this form of trading currently legal in South Africa and how has this market developed in South Africa over the past few years.
Lets first look at what the definition is of a Binary Option is. A Binary Option can be defined… Read more.
As a result of this growth, many private companies and institutions are starting to offer Binary Options trading platforms for retail clients and institutional clients. With so much choice available today and more binarj come in the… Read more. When it comes to investing, nothing is easy these days.
There are moeny people that seem to find ways of making money trading. More and more people are taking advantage of Binary trading which requires a low investment but can yield extremely high rewards. You get an instant turnover, which is attractive.
It is much easier to understand and trade than the traditional trading platforms. Everyone is trying to get a piece of it at the moment.
If you are new, let me try explaining binary options. They are contracts between a buyer and seller.
The buyer looks through the many… Read more. This is often the most overlooked feature in binary Option Trading.
Here are some simple strategies to try increase your trades: Binary Options and Gambling — One must not mistake Binary options for gambling.
Never risk to strwtegy on… Read more.
Binary options are fixed odd bets that are placed on the way the market moves. Even trying so many strategies but not sticking to a definite one.
Traders love to know about different binary options strategies out there so we have listed but a few below…So Welcome read through and best of luck remember consistency and manage your money. Please remember monfy strategies and trading on demo accounts.
Which is designed solely with the intention of helping newbies and pros alike on the Binary Options Trading platform. With the information provided on this post. How to use this binary ….
Welcome to another part of Binary trading Strategies. Today we look at different strategies and how to execute them accordingly.
Traders are given two choices and merely have to decide which one to …. Your email address will not be published.
Now trading Binary Options is not a get rich quick scheme and who ever promises you should signal a warning to you. This takes effort, practice and smarts to be profitable in the long binary option money management strategy and earn you some decent money, and yes eventually you can quit your job and run your life trading.
But don't kid yourself, this doesn't happen in a few weeks as most scammers tell you. Without a proper moneu and money management you will probably be unsuccessful in trading binary options.
Description:Personal Finance / 27 May , am / Martin Hesse of roulette than a sound investment strategy, well, there's the reason binary options have become.


Published 04/20/2019 09:00:30 pm at 04/20/2019 09:00:30 pm in Furniture Stores Iron Mountain Mi.
furniture stores iron mountain mi hgtv custom upholstery big lots deals on furniture patio mattresses for the home toys shop living room.
gothic furniture platform bed reviews wayfair platform bed, discount furniture sale clearance selection furniture row years no interest, hekman furniture official web site previous next, sam levitz furniture tucson oro valley marana vail and green shop mattress, labor day furniture decor deals of ashley furniture homestore zurani dining room chair , furniture home decor and wedding registry crate and barrel crate blog, home furniture living room bedroom furniture lazboy shop recliners, gardnerwhite furniture michigan furniture stores we pay tax aireloom, slumberland furniture living rooms the genova collection, clickon furniture designer furniture stores in melbourne sydney holiday working hours , office and contract companies continue as market leaders haworth collection is a portfolio of wellcrafted products that add color personality.


text:
Lawfire
Law of War / Legal Profession / Military Policy
Podcast: "Legal Issues Confronting the Military National Security Law Community"
by Charlie Dunlap, J.D. · 1 December 2018
I was privileged to serve on the Legal Issues Confronting the Military National Security Law Community panel at the ABA 28th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law CLE Conference in early November. An audio-only copy of that panel presentation is now available (here) and I invite you to take a listen.
You'll find the always-interesting Prof Ken Anderson talking about autonomous weapons. He also makes some intriguing comments about how some states – China among them – may perceive themselves as not being part of the evolution of the customary law of armed conflict since 1990, and thus there may not be completely "shared assumptions" about such things as "acceptable targeting" where there may be collateral damage or civilian casualties are involved,
The panel included Brigadier General Susan K. Escallie presenting an argument justifying why the Army changed its characterization of its "International & Operations Law" division to a "National Security Law" organization. Although BG Escallie seemed to pitch this as a broadening of scope, I found it puzzling – in the 21st Century – to retrench from an international focus to a national one. .
Ms. Nicole Hogg, the Legal Advisor to the U.S. and Canadian Regional Delegation to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had some remarks about the differences and similarities between the U.S. and the ICRC views as to conflict classification, particularly vis-à-vis the definition of a non-international armed conflict. "Conflict classification" is a critical concept as it will dictate the applicable legal regime, and that impacts targeting, detention, and more.
I spoke about potential legal justifications for the coalitions strikes as a result of chemical weapons attacks in Syria 2018, as well as some other issues
Anyway, I think there is much more you may find of interest, so I hope you listen! Again, the audio is available here.
As we like to say at Lawfire®, check the facts, assess the arguments, and decide for yourself!
Tags: 28th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law CLE ConferenceAutonomous weaponsKen AndersonLaw of armed conflict
Cyber-attack preparation – hot topic for everyone
Why do critics ignore the potential civilian casualties if an airstrike against ISIS doesn't take place? Let's think about the moral hazard of inaction.
Should local National Guard troops always be the first and only resort when civil disorders overwhelm police?
Next story Guest Post: BG Pat Huston on "Future War and Future Law"
Previous story Yes, the troops at the border (and elsewhere) are "on duty" – and will have turkey today!
About Maj. Gen. Charles J. Dunlap, Jr., USAF (Ret.)
Charles J. Dunlap Jr., the former deputy judge advocate general of the United States Air Force, joined the Duke Law faculty in July 2010 where he is a professor of the practice of law and Executive Director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. Read more
Conference registration opens for Duke's 28th Annual National Security Law Conference!
Guest Post: CDR Tracy Reynolds on "China & the Moon & the Law"
Shortbursts: LENS 2023 agenda; careers session; Duke grad becomes officer…and much more!
Would Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. have supported violence in defense of Ukrainians?
LENS Essay Series: "State Practice and Military Objectives: International Humanitarian Law Regarding Military Applications of Otherwise Civil/Commercial Satellites"
27th Annual National Security Law Conference 2018 LENS Conference 2021 LENS Conference 2023 LENS Conference Air Force JAG Corps Aspen Security Forum 2019 Autonomous weapons Avril Haines Brian Cox Charles Dunlap Charles Gartland chemical weapons civilian casualties Cyber-attack cyber lawyering Cybersecurity Dawn Zoldi Dean Cheng Defense budget Donald Trump Duke Law Duke Law JAG Gun violence ICRC International Criminal Court ISIS Lawfire Law of armed conflict legality of autonomous weapons Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Day Michael Schmitt military draft military lawyers Monika Bickert national security reading list Nita Farahany pacifism Pete Pedrozo ransomware Robert Mueller Ryan Goodman satellites Shane Stansbury women in combat
Subscribe to Lawfire
Receive email notifications when new posts are written.
Email us with questions or comments about the blog.
Subscribe to Lawfire RSS
Lawfire is powered by WordPress at Duke WordPress Sites. Please read the Duke Wordpress Policies. Contact the Duke WordPress team.


text:
John George Walker (Papakura, Auckland, 1952), atleta especialista en proves de mig fons de Nova Zelanda
 John Ernest Walker (Halifax, Anglaterra, 1941), químic anglès guardonat amb el Premi Nobel de Química l'any 1997
 John Walker (inventor) (Stockton-on-Tees, Anglaterra, 29 de maig de 1781 – ibíd., 1 de maig de 1859), inventor i químic anglès.


Encoders are some very lovely devices if you ask me.
They gives you some really great stream of pulses while you are rotating them.
Note: Above device is 100ppr Hollow shaft Encoder by J-Encoders.
Encoders are rotary mechanical devices, which do come in mainly 2 different forms. Shaft ones and hollow shaft ones. And as when you couple your motor, pulley or whatever that rotary actuator you are using for your application, the shaft rotates giving out pulses as an output.
Encoders are Shipped with certain Pulses per Rotation PPR ratings. and they are available in 100's to thousands of pprs in market.
A PPR is the rating how precisely your Locomotion can be. Lets say we are having an encoder with 360ppr i.e. for one whole rotation we will get total 360 pulses. that is for each degree of movement we have a pulse. And trust me, this precision is so enough that it will take the exact value every damn time.
these 360 pulses we get on points A and B. So here is the question why do we have 2 different o/ps for same thing? The trick here is both of them are in out of phase with each other. that is if the shaft is moving in a clock wise direction it goes90 degree plus phase and for anticlockwise it gets 90 degree out of phase.
And then there is this Z o/p which gives a single pulse after one whole rotation is done.
So how should i poll the Encoder?
There is this option of external clock source on pin T1, where we can give our train of pulses. fire up our encoder, the TCNT1 register will start loading the encoder value.
So how do we can use it? Endless possibilities guys, make a tachometer, start measuring distances, implement fuzzy logic. Its totally up to you.
here is a demo code so you will get the idea.
This entry was posted on September 29, 2013 by S4t4n in Tutorial and tagged Counter, Rotary Shaft Encoder.


A day after going super casual in combat boots during a visit to a London community garden, Kate Middleton is back to her usual skirt suit and hose. The duchess spent her Wed. morning watching ballet dancers rehearse at The Royal Opera House. And sure, the magenta Oscar de la Renta two piece she wore was stunning, but did you see Kate Middleton's diamond hoop earrings?
The mom of three took some time off over the holidays, but as of Tues., she's back at it in full force. The duchess kicked off her week at King Henry's Walk Garden where she mingled with volunteers and participated in crafts at the kids' table. She made headlines with her Chloé suede combat boots, a stark change from her usual footwear.
Now, she's back to her usual style, sporting Oscar de la Renta to The Royal Opera House on Weds. The set included a collared button-up peplum blazer and a pleated, knee-length skirt. Of course, the duchess adhered to royal protocol with a pair of black tights and pumps.
Her hair was down in big, bouncy waves that she kept pulled behind her ear, exposing the chicest hoop earrings. The 18-carat yellow gold accessories resemble intertwined oak leaves, decorated with dazzling pavé diamonds.
They're by Asprey, the London-based jewelry brand that Middleton has been wearing for over a decade. She wore a button pendant necklace by the brand, for instance, in 2006, and its corresponding button earrings just last year.
The duchess is known for going bold with her earring choices, and while she does love a bargain (Zara, J.Crew, and all your favorites), she clearly doesn't mind splurging on her jewelry. Her latest would set you back about $6,500.
But don't fret; there are plenty of similar earrings out there to suit your price range. The Zoe Report's favorites, ahead.
Treat yourself to Kate Middleton's exact leaf earrings — the duchess would tell you they're worth the splurge.
This rose gold pick, whose diamond placement is inspired by the constellations, is easier on the budget but no less chic.
If you love the leafy motif of the duchess' earrings, these gold olive branch hoops are for you.
These white sapphire-adorned yellow-gold hoops are stunningly minimalistic.
Opt for these dainty pink hoops with baguette-cut diamonds. They're the perfect earrings for your everyday look.
These chunky hoops have a costume-like feel. They're all you need to add sparkle to your Saturday night out.


The cygwin tools aim to provide a unix-style API on top of the windows libraries, to facilitate ports of unix software to windows. To this end, they introduce a unix-style directory hierarchy under some root directory (typically / is C:\cygwin\). Moreover, everything built against the cygwin API (including the cygwin tools and programs compiled with cygwin's ghc) will see / as the root of their file system, happily pretending to work in a typical unix environment, and finding things like /bin and /usr/include without ever explicitly bothering with their actual location on the windows system (probably C:\cygwin\bin and C:\cygwin\usr\include).
GHC, by default, no longer depends on cygwin, but is a native windows program. It is built using mingw, and it uses mingw's ghc while compiling your Haskell sources (even if you call it from cygwin's bash), but what matters here is that - just like any other normal windows program - neither GHC nor the executables it produces are aware of cygwin's pretended unix hierarchy. GHC will happily accept either '/' or '\' as path separators, but it won't know where to find /home/joe/Main.hs or /bin/bash or the like. This causes all kinds of fun when GHC is used from within cygwin's bash, or in make-sessions running under cygwin.
Don't use absolute paths in make, configure & co if there is any chance that those might be passed to GHC (or to GHC-compiled programs). Relative paths are fine because cygwin tools are happy with them and GHC accepts '/' as path-separator. And relative paths don't depend on where cygwin's root directory is located, or on which partition or network drive your source tree happens to reside, as long as you 'cd' there first.
If you have to use absolute paths (beware of the innocent-looking ROOT=`pwd` in makefile hierarchies or configure scripts), cygwin provides a tool called cygpath that can convert cygwin's unix-style paths to their actual windows-style counterparts. Many cygwin tools actually accept absolute windows-style paths (remember, though, that you either need to escape '\' or convert '\' to '/'), so you should be fine just using those everywhere. If you need to use tools that do some kind of path-mangling that depends on unix-style paths (one fun example is trying to interpret ':' as a separator in path lists..), you can still try to convert paths using cygpath just before they are passed to GHC and friends.


Join the women of VHF for a night of education, food and friends!
We will start with the NHF Education for Empowerment Presentation "Advocating for Yourself as a Woman", then get ready for a private pizza from scratch demo by a CIV chef instructor. After the demo you will break into groups to make your own personal pizza in a professional kitchen where you are provided with all necessary ingredients, recipes, and equipment - no experience necessary!
This event is open to women age 21 and up with inherited bleeding disorders and/or to women whose lives are impacted by a bleeding disorder (i.e. caregivers, spouses, immediate family members).


In 2012 SAP acquired Ariba. Here you can find the daily closing price history for the share from 1999 to 2012 (NASDAQ).
In 2008, SAP acquired BusinessObjects. Here you can find the daily closing price history for the shares until January 2008 (NASDAQ since 1994, Euronext since 1999).
From 1995 to 2001 preferred shares were traded in addition to ordinary shares. Here you can find a history of the daily closing price.
In 2012 SAP acquired SuccessFactors. Here you can find the daily closing price history for the share.
In 2010, SAP acquired Sybase. Here you can find the daily closing price history for the shares from 1991 to August 2010.


This class will cover all you need to know to get started on your essential oils journey.
I will cover all the basics; what they are, how to judge quality and what you can use them for. I will talk about how to use them for just about any everyday ailment you can think of; from insomnia to headaches, to aches and pains and skin complaints, stress, anxiety etc.
Plus, how to use them to replace your toxic cleaning products AND how to use in cooking and baking and more.
Note - at the end of the class you will have the opportunity to open a wholesale account to get doTERRA essential oils at 25% off the retail price. However, there is absolutely no pressure to buy.
There will be a small charge of $5 to cover room hire, please pay on the day.


What the hell am I trying to do?
I admit that running OpenStack on anything other than baremetal is nonsense. So why would anyone want to run it with two layers of virtualisation underneath? My goal is to explore some of the new SDN/NFV technologies without leaving the confines of my home area network and/or racking up a triple-digit electricity bill. I also wanted to be able to swap underlay networks without spending hours trying to plumb together virtualized switches and servers from multiple vendors. That's why I've decided to use UNetLab VM as a host for my OpenStack lab. This would allow me to easily assemble any type of underlay, WAN or DCI network and with hardware virtualisation support I can afford to run OpenStack double-nested inside Workstation and Qemu on my dual-core i7 without too much of a performance penalty. After all, some companies even managed to turn similar things into a commercial product.
My interest in OpenStack is strictly limited by networking, that's why a lot of the things you'll see in this and following posts will not be applicable to a real-life production environment. However, as far as networking is concerned, I'll try to stick as close to the official OpenStack network design as possible. I'll be using RDO to deploy OpenStack. The specific method will be Packstack which is a collection of Puppet modules used to deploy OpenStack components.
Why have I not went the OpenDaylight/Mininet way if I wanted to play with SDN/NFV? Because I wanted something more realistic to play with, that wouldn't feel like vendor's powerpoint presentation. Plus there's plenty of resources on the 'net about it anyway.
So, without further ado, let's get cracking.
On my Windows 8 laptop I've got a UNL virtual machine running inside a VMWare Workstation.. I've downloaded and upgraded a pre-built UNL VM image. I've also downloaded a copy of the Centos 7 minimal ISO image and copied it over to my UNL VM's home directory.
For network access I'll be using VMWware Workstation's NAT interface. It's currently configured with 192.168.91.0/24 subnet with DHCP range of .128-.254. Therefore I'll be using .10-.126 to allocate IPs to my OpenStack servers.
Add OpenStack node definition to initialization file /opt/unetlab/html/includes/init.php.
Create a new OpenStack node template based on existing linux node template.
At this point you should be able to navigate to UNL's web interface and find a new node of type OpenStack. However you won't be able to create it until you have at least one image, which is what we're going to build next.
Now we need to create a CentOS image inside a UNL. One way to do it is build it inside a VMWare Workstation, copy it to UNL and convert the .vmdk to .qcow2. However, when I tried doing this I ran into a problem with CentOS not finding the correct disk partitions during bootup. The workaround was to boot into rescue mode and rebuild the initramfs. For those feeling adventurous, I would recommend checking out the following links [1, 2, 3] before trying this option.
Now you should be able to successfully create an OpenStack node and connect it to Internet. Create a new network that would have Internet connectivity (in my case it's pnet0) and connect it to OpenStack's eth0. At this stage we have everything ready to start installing OpenStack, but before we move on let me take a quick detour to tell you about my ordeals with VNC integration.
For some unknown reason UltraVNC does not work well on my laptop. My sessions would often crash or start minimised with the only option to close the window. That's not the only thing not working properly on my laptop thanks to the corporate policies with half of the sh*t locked down for security reasons.
Disable Network Manager and SELinux.
Configure static IP address 192.168.91.10 on the network interface.
Issue a service network restart and reconnect to the new static IP address. Make sure that you still have access to Internet after making this change.
Here we're overriding some of the default Packstack options. We're not installing some of the components we're not going to use and setting up a name (extnet) for our external physical segment, which we'll use in the next section.
At the end of these 4 steps you should be able to navigate to Horizon (OpenStack's dashboard) by typing http://192.168.91.10 in your browser. You can find login credentials in the ~/keystonerc_admin file.
Make sure to check out the visualisation of our newly created network topology in Horizon, it's amazing.
There's no point in installing OpenStack just for the sake of it. Our final step would be to create a working virtual machine that would be able to connect to Internet.
From Horizon's home page navigate to Project -> Compute -> Images.
Click on Launch Instance and give the new VM a name.
Make sure it's attached to private_network under the Networking tab.
Less then a minute later the status should change to Active and you can navigate to VM's console by clicking on its name and going to Console tab.
Login using the default credentials (cirros/cubswin:)) and verify Internet access by pinging google.com.
Congratulations, we have successfully created a VM running inside a KVM inside a KVM inside a VMWare Workstation inside Windows!
Unlike my other post series, I don't have a clear goal at this stage so I guess I'll continue playing around with different underlays for multi-node OpenStack and then move on to various SDN solutions available like OpenDayLight and OpenContrail. Unless I lose interest half way through, which happened in the past. But until that happens, stay tuned for more.
© Michael Kashin 2018 · Powered by the Academic theme for Hugo.


text:
Sean McKenzie Named To Best Accountants List
Careers Press
Sean McKenzie, CPA, has been named to St. Louis Small Business Monthly's Best Accountants list for 2022. Each month, St. Louis Small Business Monthly (SBM) asks readers to help identify the best in the area in a particular industry as part of the SBM Best in Business Awards. The 2022 SBM Best Accountants list features 26 local accountants voted the best in St. Louis.
About Sean McKenzie
Sean has over 20 years of experience in public accounting working with individuals and closely-held businesses on tax strategies and compliance. As a tax principal at Anders, Sean keeps up with evolving legislation and tax law changes to help his clients lower their tax liability today and strategize for the future. A natural people person, he enjoys building relationships with the individuals, families and businesses he works with and has served clients in a variety of industries, including construction, manufacturing and private equity. He also builds relationships internally by coaching and mentoring tax staff to help them grow in their careers.
Read the full list of Best Accountants in the October 2022 edition of St. Louis Small Business Monthly.
Robert Minkler, Jr. Named Board Chair of LEA Global
Anders Managing Partner Robert Minkler, Jr. has been elected to the position of Chair on LEA Global's Board…
Jane Maddox, Merella Schandl and Stephanie Jones Named Principals at Anders
Anders proudly announces the promotion of Jane M. Maddox, CPA in tax, Merella Schandl, MHA, CPMSM, CPCS in…
Forbes Names Anders One of America's Best Tax and Accounting Firms
For the fourth year in a row, Anders has been named to Forbes' America's Best Tax and Accounting…


Come and pick yellow and white peaches from our 5 year old trees.
Years After Planting. After you plant a peach tree, the first two years are devoted to growing the vegetation and structure of the tree. Peaches grow only on branches that are 1 year old, but a 2-year-old tree is usually not large enough to produce and support a standard crop. About Starpro: Starprosports Sports is the leading MMA Supplier providing mixed martial arts gear to the beginner and the professional MMA fighter.
Amazing article. Lot's of records to examine...terrific guy preserve Posting and replace. thank you.
Keep up the good work. I'll be coming back lots. I agree with most of the points you make within this content.
Wow ! Thank this meaningful and helpful put up ! i'm working as a creative consultant at online offerings, that is often for college essay writing carrier. thank you loads for the form of best subject matter i have no longer numerous information about it but i've got an additional specific info to your particular put up.
This is the universe of innovation and with the presentation of new strategies we can upgrade the level of changes. From this article, unmistakably these jazzy obscure pictures and exposition composing can be valuable for the up comers. Here you can get a few traps through which you can without much of a stretch utilize the obscure applications.
They are the rich ones and thy purchase it at higher costs and that it can be better use of the low calorie and high protein grain.
You have provided me with much needed inspiration, thank you.
I am very pleased to read this kind of blog. You have presented in a way that everyone may understand. Keep the fire burning. If you have been having challenges in essay writing, make an effort of contacting our firm and you will receive the most affordable aeronautics essays writing assistance. We will provide solutions that will end your agony.
Thanks for your blog. It is very original. We have experts who will assist you when you tell us "Help Edit My Research Paper and also Help With writing a research paper".
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and insights regarding the matter. I couldn't agree more. Keep sharing!
Wonderful theme well educational posts you have just use through this post, I am very happy and must want to appreciate your sharing stuff.
Wonderful post with your great efforts you have just share with everyone, Good luck with your great story I hope you will become very popular. I must want to say thanks for making this post.
Awesome post, You write such great articles, and that's one of the main reasons I am always reading your work.
Hey There. I found your weblog the use of buy dissertation online uk . This is a really smartly written article. I'll make sure to bookmark it and return to learn extra of your helpful info. Thanks for the post. I'll certainly comeback.
It is great to know that such highly skilled professionals are available to work on such specific things. I had been looking for a dog trainer for the longest time but to no avail.
Interesting and valuable post you have shared with us. Keep sharing your valuable and authentic stuff in future. Thanks for allowing me to comment here.
Peaches are the best fruit to grow. Delicious, full of juice, and so good in taste. Peach trees need full sun for growing. At least six to seven hours every day. Air is must have ingredient for them as well. About Parana Sports: Parana Sports Industries is a manufacturing company of mixed martial arts gear for the beginner and the professional MMA fighter.


text:
Central Minnesota Community Foundation
Alexandria Area Community Foundation
Brainerd Lakes Area Community Foundation
Community Foundation for Carver County
Willmar Area Community Foundation
RealEstateGiving
Donors & Advisors
Set Up a Fund
Cumulative Giving
Disaster Relief Resource
College of Saint Benedict Donor Advised Fund
CommunityConnections Webinar Series
Stock Gift Information
Set Up A Scholarship
The Resource Library
Archive Stories
Access your Fund
Racial Equity Community Assessment
The Central Minnesota Community Foundation is gathering information from nonprofit organizations who are working to address racial equity in the Greater St. Cloud area. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive picture of our community and plan to reduce disparities through education, innovative programming and systemic change.
Organizations wishing to include their plans to build racial equity may send an email to kreichert@communitygiving.org.
To view the current results of our finding, click the link below.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Greater St. Cloud Equity Dashboard
This dashboard brings together data on disparities and inequities that exist in the Greater St. Cloud region. Minnesota Compass, a project of Wilder Research, developed this dashboard report with support from the Morgan Family Foundation. To develop this dashboard, Minnesota Compass staff conducted listening sessions with St. Cloud area residents in fall 2020 to learn about the information and data residents wanted to see in the dashboard, including ideas for solutions in the Greater St. Cloud area. Following the listening sessions, an advisory committee guided Minnesota Compass staff on the development of the dashboard, including its structure, content, and framework. By and large, data were assembled from existing data sources, supplemented with individual stories from discussion groups and interviews with diverse communities. Advancing social equity and reducing disparities in the Greater St. Cloud, Minnesota, region requires a common understanding among organizations, community leaders, and residents of the disparities that exist. Equipped with credible data, communities are better equipped to identify and evaluate strategies, policies, and programs to address disparities. To view the full dashboard click the link below.
CommunityFoundation IdeaCenter
COMMUNITYGIVING
101 7TH AVENUE S. #100
INFO@COMMUNITYGIVING.ORG
Confirmed in Compliance with
National Standards for U.S. Community Foundations


Chris Platte Presents: Strictly Hip-Hop and Strictly Hoop Talk: Chris Platte has a podcast series that talks in depth NBA hoops. For Strictly Hip-Hop Chris Platte covers all aspects of hip hop from album reviews to debates about some of the most controversial topics and more, Strictly Hip-Hop leaves no topic behind. Each podcast for both series has a wide range of guest appearances from some of the biggest music critics and professional music artists, to NBA writers and broadcasters. Subscribe to the show Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcast to get every episode as they release.
contact me on Twitter @realchrisplatte or email Chrisjplatte@gmail.com and your comments could air on the show!
Chris is a relatable personality!
Chris' podcast hits all angles of the Hip-Hop and Hoop industry with ease. His expertise is unmatched and he's definitely going places very soon. Keep making moves Chris!!!
Good conversations about sports and hip hop a must listen for casual or die hard fans when you get tired of the ESPN news cycle!


text:
Q: Drupal 7 Header & Footer give title I'm using drupal 7.
When u install this on home page it's giving Home, About Us pages links.
Home

I would like to give title here like this but it's drupal core how can i do so it get below output.
Home

A: Try using Menu attributes module.
It allows you to add title, id, css classes and few more attributes to the anchor tag.
Hope this helps... Muhammad.


text:
NEA Advocacy Leads to Key Change in PSLF
Thanks to NEA's persistent advocacy, it is now clear: Teachers who received Teacher Loan Forgiveness will not be delayed in getting the more valuable Public Service Loan Forgiveness, too.
By: Mary Ellen Flannery, Senior Writer
Meet Amanda McNelly. This Pennsylvania teacher faced an additional five years of monthly student loan payments because she opted to get $5,000 in debt forgiven in 2016.
NEA reached out to the U.S. Department of Education to speak up for McNelly and teachers like her, who had been misled by the student loan servicers about TLF and PSLF.
They were heard. The Biden administration has made it clear: the new temporary PSLF waiver will enable teachers to use the same period of employment service for PSLF as they used for TLF, as well as any payments made during those years, provided those teachers apply for PSLF before October 31, 2022.
Six years ago, Amanda McNelly's principal popped her head into McNelly's classroom with a quick suggestion. She knew McNelly had mountains of student loan debt: Had McNelly considered knocking it down a bit through the federal Teacher Loan Forgiveness (TLF) program?
McNelly hadn't. The Pennsylvania fifth-grade teacher was counting on the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, which requires 120 on-time monthly payments, or 10 years, to erase her whopping $80,000 balance.
TLF is a far more modest cousin. It takes just five years of service and erases $5,000 in student debt for most teachers. Some, who teach math or science, or special education, can receive up to $17,500. When McNelly and her husband learned about it, they thought, why not?
So, McNelly applied—and got $5,000 taken off her balance.
"But then, we noticed something in my FedLoan account," she says, and her voice trails off.
"I'll send you the $5,000 back!"
The McNellys had made a big mistake.
Although nothing the McNellys had read in the TLF application made it clear, they soon learned that the 60 loan payments they'd made during the five years of service McNelly counted toward TLF couldn't be counted toward PSLF, too. Instead of qualifying for PSLF in 2021, McNelly might qualify in 2026. She had just signed her and her husband up for another five years of loan payments.
"It should have been in bold print! By doing this, you are waiving PSLF!" says Andrew McNelly. But the couple, who have 4- and 7-year-old sons, didn't have a clue—and their loan servicer processed their TLF application without a word of warning.
Consider this: McNelly's income-driven, monthly loan payments were relatively modest, reaching $275 at one point. At that level, another five years would add up to $16,500, or maybe the cost of a decent used car.
But she's not the only educator who fell into this trap. For those with $1,000 monthly payments—and that payment amount is not uncommon—it would add up to an additional $60,000, or the down payment on a new house.
TLF makes sense for educators with small loan balances. But for somebody who owes $80,000? PSLF was their only hope of financial freedom.
"Nobody in their right mind would do this with an $80,000 balance!" says Andrew McNelly, Amanda's husband. "We pleaded with anybody who would listen to reverse this."
"I was like, 'I'll send you the $5,000 back!'" adds Amanda.
The Power of the Union
For years, the McNellys agonized over their misstep. Then in 2020, they saw an issue of NEA Today magazine featuring Sean Ichiro Manes, a New Jersey music teacher who had connected with NEA attorneys and won more than $100,000 in student debt forgiveness from the federal government.
The McNellys reached out to Manes via social media; Manes put them in touch with NEA's cadre of student debt experts. At first, it seemed nothing could be done. At that time, during the Trump administration, the Betsy DeVos-led Department of Education wasn't open to fixing the PSLF program, which rejected 98 percent of applicants in 2020.
"[The NEA lawyers] were on it and they were really fighting for us," recalls Andrew McNelly. "But I'll be honest, I wasn't super positive anything would happen. I'd almost come to terms with the idea that we'd just pay forever."
But then, NEA members helped elect a new president—and he promised to make PSLF work the way it was supposed to. And, over two months in the fall of 2021, NEA members sent 48,000 emails to the Biden administration's Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, sharing their PSLF stories.
Their voices were heard. In late October, Cardona announced a waiver expanding the kinds of payments that count toward PSLF, providing borrowers apply for PSLF by October 31, 2022. Immediately, 22,000 borrowers became eligible for PSLF. (Meet some of them!) Another half-million moved closer to forgiveness.
But what about those who received TLF, asked NEA's experts.
"Teachers like Ms. McNelly applied for TLF to receive relief from the insurmountable debt they accumulated because of the college affordability crisis. They were misled [by their loan servicers] into believing it was their best—and in some cases their only—option," wrote NEA General Counsel Alice O'Brien and NEA Senior Director Daaiyah Bilal-Threats to Cardona in late November.
"The Department of Education can write this wrong … and should do so immediately to offer relief to the teachers who need and deserve it," they urged.
Finally, finally!
Last month, Andrew McNelly checked his wife's FedLoan account again.
What he saw almost stopped his heart.
"It said that 'due to the waiver, we have reviewed your account and your loan balance is zero,'" he recalls. "My mouth hit the floor!"
Again, NEA members had been heard by the Biden administration. In January, Cardona made it clear: under the temporary waiver, student loan payments made during the employment period used for TLF will also count toward PSLF.
Borrowers may need to re-certify their employment for the five years that originally pointed to TLF, NEA experts suggest. And, of course, they need to apply by October 31, 2022. (For more resources on how to apply, visit nea.org/studentdebt.)
"We're not big criers, but we did!" adds Amanda McNelly.
Visit NEA.org/StudentDebt
1 Meet The Educators Whose Student Debt Has Been Forgiven
2 You Did This! Fixing Public Service Loan Forgiveness
3 The Depth of Educators' College Debt
1 Navigate Your Student Debt
2 A World Without Student Debt
3 How to Calculate Your Living Wage
Navigate Your Student Debt
The US Department of Education has announced they are overhauling the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. The changes to PSLF will exist only until October 31, 2022. For more information, visit our page on individual student debt support.


text:
Adhinayakudu is a 2012 Indian Telugu-language action film, produced by M. L. Padma Kumar Chowdhary under Sree Keerthi Creations banner, directed by Parachuri Murali and cinematography by T. Surendra Reddy. The film stars Nandamuri Balakrishna, Jayasudha, Lakshmi Rai, Sukanya, Saloni with Pradeep Rawat, Aditya Menon, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Murali Sharma, Rahman and Brahmanandam in supporting roles and music composed by Kalyani Malik. Balakrishna played a triple role as a grandfather, father and son for the first time on screen in this film.

Plot
Harischandra Prasad (Nandamuri Balakrishna) is an influential leader in Rayalaseema, and he treats all his people as his children. To provide jobs to them, he decides to build a huge steel plant with the assistance of foreign collaborators. But Ramappa (Pradeep Rawat) and his assistant (Kota Srinivasa Rao) oppose this. They hatch a plan to eliminate him. His son Ramakrishna (Nandamuri Balakrishna) thwarts the villain's plans. But the story takes a cruel twist as the villains strike at the heart of the family by using Bobby (Nandamuri Balakrishna). When Bobby was a small Kid, the villains kidnap him and threaten Ramakrishna to leave his father and save Bobby. Although Harischandra Prasad has no love for Ramakrishna, he loved his father, and for fulfilling his father's wishes, he stands to protect, and Bobby is said to be escaped from the house. But Ramappa and his followers make Bobby a professional killer at the age of 12 by another killer (Charanraj) and use him to kill Harischandra Prasad. The whole family, except Ramakrishna and his step-brother (Rahman), is unaware that Bobby killed Harischandra Prasad.

Now Bobby is an adult and is a high-profile professional killer and returns to his land with the help of his newly found friend Deepu (Lakshmi Rai), who share mutual love interest. His mission, in short, is to protect his father from Ramappa. In this process, it is revealed to the family members of Harischandra Prasad and the people that Bobby killed Harischandra Prasad and Moreover, the antagonists frame Ramakrishna as the man behind the Death of Harischandra. Frustrated and deeply hurt by this, Ramakrishna's Step Mother (Jayasudha) and wife (Sukanya) and the people expel them both. Police arrest them and take them away for a secret encounter by Ramappa. Seeing this all, Ramakrishna's stepbrother, who was paralyzed earlier in an attempt to catch Bobby during the murder of Harischandra, springs back to life and reveals the whole truth to his family and the people. Meanwhile, Ramkrishna and Bobby team up and kill all the enemies together. Later Ramakrishna's stepmother apologizes for the ill-treatment by her and orders him to fulfill his dead father's wishes.

Cast

 Nandamuri Balakrishna in a triple role as Harishchandra Prasad, Rama Krishna Prasad, and Bobby
 Lakshmi Rai as Deepti
 Jayasudha as Lakshmi
 Sukanya as Rama Krishna Prasad's wife
 Saloni as Shravani
 Pradeep Rawat as Ramappa
 Aditya Menon as Ramappa's brother
 Kota Srinivasa Rao as Politician
 Rahman as Rama Krishna Prasad's brother
 Murali Sharma as DGP
 Brahmanandam as Brahmi
 Charanraj as Professional Killer
 Venu Madhav as Petty Thief
 Kasi Viswanath as Minister
 M. S. Narayana
 Amit Tiwari
 John Kokken as Minister's son
 Sabbah as Secretary

Crew
Art: Chinna
Choreography: Nobel, Prem Rakshith, Raghu, Papi
Stills: Raghunath Jupalli
Fights: Ram Lakshman
Lyrics: Bhaskarabhatla, Ramajogayya Sastry
Playback:S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Mano, Kalyani Malik, Rita, Chaitra Ambadipudi, Neha
Music: Kalyani Malik
Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Cinematography: T. Surendra Reddy
Producer: M. L. Padma Kumar Chowdhary
Story - Screenplay - Dialogues - Director: Parachuri Murali
Banner: Sree Keerthi Creations
Release Date: 1 June 2012

Soundtrack

Music composed by Kalyani Malik. Music released on ADITYA Music Company.

Release
The film was released on 1 June 2012 worldwide after so many postponements.

Critical reception
Film was critically panned by many reviewers for its lack of fresh ideas and presentation. It was viewed as a rehash of many of Balakrishna's previous movies. The Times of India website gave an average rating of 2.5/5 for the film. The CNN-IBN website stated that "Adhinayakudu doesn't deserve any special mention due to its tried and tested old storyline". The NDTV Movies website stated that "Ironically, Adhinayakudu is a travesty of a film". The "SuperGoodMovies" website also gave an average rating of 2.5/5 for the film.

References

External links

2012 films
2010s Telugu-language films
Indian action drama films
2012 action drama films
Reliance Entertainment films


text:
200% penalty for not notifying HMRC of your "transactions in land"
Back to Newsletters
5th July 2016 was the commencement date for the very broad "transactions in land" legislation. Non-UK resident companies are within the scope of the legislation if they are dealing in or developing UK land, or if they have acquired UK land with the intention of realising a gain from its disposal or development. They are also within the scope if they dispose of shares in a company, at least 50% of whose value derives from UK land, as part of an arrangement to realise a gain on UK land. The double tax treaties with Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man were altered at this time, so that a company resident in those jurisdictions would not have protection from a double tax treaty on such a profit or gain. The profits are taxed as trading profits.
In particular, a non-UK resident company, selling shares in a non-UK company to a buyer who is also a non-UK company, can have a UK corporation tax liability on the disposal, if the company being sold holds UK land.
Where a company was already part of an arrangement within the scope of this legislation when it was introduced, then it is deemed to have an accounting period starting on 5th April 2016, and ending on the next date to which the company has drawn up accounts. For example, that accounting period might have ended on 31stDecember 2016. If the company does not have a UK permanent establishment, or is otherwise not registered with Companies House, then it will not have been sent a UTR, and will not be on HMRC's records. In this case, there was an obligation to notify chargeability before 31st December 2017.
It should be noted here that the amount of the corporation tax profits could be more than the company's profits, because of the application of the anti-fragmentation rules. For example, if an offshore shareholder has lent money, it is possible that the interest cost is effectively disallowed in computing the borrower's corporation tax liability. These rules could therefore mean that there is a taxable profit in the company in an accounting period in which there has been no disposal of the land (because of the effective add-back of interest).
Where a company has not notified chargeability by this date, it is within the "requirement to correct" rules, and unless it notifies and corrects its position by 30thSeptember 2018, it could be liable to penalties of up to 200% of the tax that has not been corrected.
The company will also have failed to pay its first corporation tax liability on time, incurring further penalties.
If you require help or advice please do not hesitate to contact one of the client team.
← UK Tax issues for trustees to look out for…
CGT on cryptocurrency transactions →
Keep up to date with the latest tax news.
Job Category Select a category Accountant Barrister IFA Private Banker Tax Advisor Trustee Wealth Manager Other


text:
Time Is Fire turns day-to-day reality into music
"If you were to analyze Time Is Fire's new album "In Pieces," well, in pieces, you'd find bits reminiscent of music past and present, with punk, dance, dub and psychedelia, and a heavy dose of sounds from across the globe. But looking for signposts of musical forebears would be a fool's errand."
For this D.C. band, there's no such thing as being 'too' free
"When D.C. trio Too Free is in the studio, the jam sessions yield an abundance of ideas, from curious chunks of music to fully formed songs. But no one knows how or when inspiration will strike."
Fresh off a Grammy win and still No. 1 on the charts, Roddy Ricch rides high at 9:30 Club
"On Tuesday night, as a sold-out crowd at the 9:30 Club sang and rapped every word back at him, one thing was clear: Roddy Ricch's present is so bright that he has to wear shades. And after such a meteoric rise, maybe wearing sunglasses at night, as he did during his D.C. tour stop, makes sense."
Fresh off SNL performance, DaBaby brought his hits — and sketches — to D.C.
"DaBaby had a good reason for moving his concert at Echostage from Saturday to Sunday: on the first of those nights he was on "Saturday Night Live," performing two of his biggest hits and acting in a sketch with host Jennifer Lopez. For his TV performances, the 27-year-old brought a touch of musical theater to Studio 8H, supplementing the usual twerkers and breakdancers with choreographed playacting and even some slapstick alongside the Jabbawockeez dance crew."
Rapper Freddie Gibbs heats up the Fillmore Silver Spring with virtuosic craft
"The Fillmore Silver Spring was packed Friday night, the air conditioned to "frigid" and sweet with smoke. But the capacity crowd warmed right up just before 10, when Freddie Gibbs took the stage, head-to-toe in an equally cold Adidas tracksuit."
At U Street Music Hall, Maxo Kream's gritty street raps don't quite click
"Maxo Kream is Houston, born and bred, and you can hear it in his music. From his syrup-slow, trunk rattling beats to his claustrophobic tales about the real consequences of making money with guns and drugs, the spirit of the Geto Boys and DJ Screw lives on in his paranoid street raps."
Bad Moves turns individual inspiration into songs that speak to universal experiences
"Plenty of D.C. bands have gotten kicked out of their practice spaces because of noise-averse neighbors, but only Bad Moves has had the experience animated. Last summer, the band appeared as themselves on Cartoon Network's "Craig of the Creek" as a garage band that helps the main characters start a band of their own."
This festival celebrates 'pure dance joy' — disco music
This summer marked the 40th anniversary of the infamous Disco Demolition Night in Chicago. For some, that event was a shock jock's baseball promotion that got out of hand, turning into a riot and marking the end of disco's pop cultural moment. For others, it was a violent attack on the communities — people of color and LGBT folks — that built disco long before "Saturday Night Fever" turned the genre into a punchline.


Cat Footwear comes from a world of industry and action. A world where you can build anything. Where effort is everything. Where hard work pays off. Where others see obstacles, we see opportunity. We are Earthmovers. Distributed in more than 150 countries, the brand has grown from a small collection of work boots into a global lifestyle brand.


text:
Полевой телефон — это вид телефона, предназначенный для эксплуатации в особых условиях и обладающий большой мобильностью в эксплуатации.

В первую очередь разрабатывался для организации связи в полевых условиях и во время боя.

История

Впервые полевой телефон был использован Германией во время первой мировой войны, собой он заменил флажковую систему связи и телеграф.

Конструкция
Полевой телефон конструктивно выполнен в виде прямоугольного корпуса, включающего электронный усилитель звукового сигнала, телефонную трубку с тангентой, индукционный звонок и механический индукционный генератор вызывного тока (индуктор; в современных аппаратах заменён на электронный).

Телефоны по странам

СССР и Россия
 УНА
 Телефонный аппарат индукционный — образца 1943 года — ТАИ-43
 Телефонный аппарат — образца 1957 года — ТА-57
 Телефонный аппарат — образца 1988 года — ТА-88

США
 EE-8
 TA-43
 TA-312
 TA-838

Норвегия
 TP-6N
 TP-6NA
 M37
 EE-8

Германия
 FF33
 FF OB/ZB
 SFT800

Швеция
 P 78

Примечания

Телефонная связь


text:
3 hours ago ago
Kaine Suggests 'Other Paths' To Push Voting Rights Legislation Through Senate
Clyburn: Voting Rights Bills 'May Be On Life Support' After Sinema And Manchin Oppose Filibuster Carveout
Biden Pledges To Create Bipartisan Commission To Study 'Reform' In Court System
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden delivers remarks about health care at Beech Woods Recreation Center on October 16, 2020 in Southfield, Michigan. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
By Cristina Cabrera
October 22, 2020 10:12 a.m.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden stated that as President, he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how to fix the court system, which he said is "getting out of whack."
In a preview of Biden's "60 Minutes" interview with CBS' Norah O'Donnell set to air on Sunday, the Democratic candidate lays out his plan to reform the courts as the GOP Senate majority rushes to confirm Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett before Election Day on November 3.
"If elected, what I will do is I'll put together a national commission of – bipartisan commission of – scholars, constitutional scholars, Democrats, Republicans, liberal, conservative," Biden told O'Donnell. "And I will ask them to, over 180 days, come back to me with recommendations as to how to reform the court system."
"Because it's getting out of whack, the way in which it's being handled," he added.
Get TPM in your inbox, twice weekly.
The Franchise Monday evenings
What you need to know about voting rights and democracy in America
The Weekender Saturday mornings
All the best parts of TPM, in Weekend Mode 😎
By signing up, you agree to TPM's terms of use and privacy policy
The Democrat asserted that he aims to find "a number of alternatives" with the commission that "go beyond" court expansion.
"The last thing we need to do is turn the Supreme Court into just a political football," he said.
During a town hall last week, Biden signaled he was open to the idea of expanding the courts depending on whether Senate Republicans vote on Barrett's confirmation before the elections.
Watch the preview of Biden's interview below:
WATCH: In an interview with Joe Biden for @60Minutes, @CBSEveningNews' @NorahODonnell pressed Biden on his position on so-called "court packing." It's a controversial proposal that would add justices to the Supreme Court, from its current nine.
More Sunday on @CBS. pic.twitter.com/iFvatE6ZP6
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) October 22, 2020
Cristina Cabrera (@crismcabrera) is a newswriter at TPM based in New York. She previously worked for Vocativ, USA Today and NY1 News.
Have a tip? Send it Here!
court expansioncourtsJoe Biden
By Summer Concepcion
January 16, 2022 4:58 p.m.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) on Sunday brushed off Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) threat to vote against Minority Leader Mitch McConnell…
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) on Sunday suggested that there are alternatives to a filibuster carveout for voting rights legislation now…
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) on Sunday acknowledged that voting rights bills remain ill-fated in the Senate, but that…


text:
Q: Postgresql - prepared statements vs connection pooling - is it a tradeoff? It's my understanding that you can use prepared statements or connection pooling (with tools like pgPool/pgBouncer) with Postgresql, but can benefit from only one at the same time (at least with Npgsql driver for .NET, plus library author suggests turning off clients-side connection pooling when using PgBouncer). Am I right?
If so - is this true for other runtimes and languages, like Java, Python, Go? Or is it a implementation-specific issue?

A: It's a complex question, but here are some answers.
As @laurenz-albe writes, you can use pgbouncer and prepared statements but need to use session pooling. This allows you to use prepared statements for the duration of your connection (i.e. as long as your NpgsqlConnection instance is open). However, if you're in a short-lived connection scenario (e.g. web app which opens and closes a connection for each HTTP request), you're out of luck. In this sense, one could say that pooling and prepared statements aren't compatible.
However, if you use Npgsql's internal pooling mechanism (on by default) instead of pgbouncer, then your prepared statements are automatically persisted across connection open/close. In other words, when you call NpgsqlCommand.Prepare(), if the physical connection happened to have already prepared the SQL, then the prepared statement is reused. This is done specifically to unlock the speed advantages of prepared statements for short-lived connection scenarios. This is a pretty unique behavior of Npgsql, see the docs for more info.
This is one of the advantages of an in-process connection pool, as opposed to an out-of-process pool such as pgbouncer - Npgsql retains information on the physical connection as it is passed around, in this case a table of which statements are prepared (name and SQL).

A: I think this is a generic question, so I'll give a generic answer. What aspect is applicable to a specific connection pool implementation will probably vary.
There are several modes of connection pooling:

*

*A thread retains a connection for the duration of a session (session pooling):
In that case, persistent state like prepared statements can be held for the duration of the session, but you should clean the state when the session is returned to the pool.

*A thread retains a connection for the duration of a database transaction (transaction pooling):
In that case, you'd have to clean the state after each transaction, so prepared statements don't make much sense.

*A thread retains a connectoin for the duration of a statement (statement poling):
This is only useful in very limited cases where you don't need transactions spanning more than a single statement. Obviously, no state like prepared statements can be shared.
It depends what kind of connection pool you use. Basically, the longer a thread retains a connection, the more sense it makes to use prepared statements.
Of course, if you know what you are doing, you can also create a prepared statement right after the database connection is established and never deallocate it. This will only work if all threads need the same prepared statements. It is easy to screw up with a setup like that.


Exciting things going on in my studio this month...soon to be revealed.
In the meantime, I wanted to play at W Plus 9 with their Thursday Throwback Challenge.
To be honest...I just found this company a few months ago, so I don't have any "older" stamps.
I am sure that Dawn won't mind me using something a little newer.
So OK...I didn't use Maureen's colors.
I love the Autumn Leaves stamp! After die cutting the Square Links from White card stock, I stamped the leaves in the tiny squares with the new inks by W Plus 9 (oh so yummy Fall colors).
I then die cut the Square Links again from Chocolate Brown card stock and gave it a spritz with Sheer Shimmer Sparkle.
Garland Greenery was die cut and inked.
I think this card qualifies as feminine or manly...SCORE!
Have been following your work for a while and just love all your ideas. Especially the contrast of the soft autumn leaves and the die of connected boxes. Guess I have something new to add to my ever growing wish list...lol. Anyway, thanks for all sharing your creativity and inspiring us to think outside the box..


text:
<<Prev Day <Wk <Mo <Yr
>Yr >Mo >Wk >>Next Day
TD Title (Click to View) Studio Daily Gross Theaters / Avg Screens / Avg Shows / Avg Gross To-Date Day
1 Toy Story 3 BV $22,590,491 4,028 $5,608 7,900 $2,860 36,800 $614 $208,092,816 9
2 Grown Ups Sony $14,662,342 3,534 $4,149 5,100 $2,875 25,300 $580 $29,069,935 2
3 Knight & Day Fox $8,042,450 3,098 $2,596 4,100 $1,962 19,400 $415 $21,653,327 4
4 The Karate Kid Sony $6,234,660 3,740 $1,667 5,100 $1,222 19,600 $318 $131,237,327 16
5 The A-Team Fox $2,451,789 3,242 $756 3,700 $663 15,800 $155 $61,205,141 16
6 Shrek Forever After P/DW $1,240,493 2,340 $530 2,500 $496 10,200 $122 $228,550,683 37
7 Get Him to the Greek Uni. $1,181,800 2,189 $540 2,200 $537 9,000 $131 $53,653,510 23
8 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time BV $1,153,863 1,851 $623 1,900 $607 6,300 $183 $85,497,092 30
9 Killers LGF $759,816 2,271 $335 2,300 $330 9,600 $79 $43,394,646 23
10 Jonah Hex WB $617,179 2,825 $218 2,825 $218 13,000 $47 $8,666,546 9
11 Iron Man 2 Par. $593,766 1,169 $508 1,200 $495 4,000 $148 $306,512,001 51
12 Sex and the City 2 WB (NL) $472,578 901 $525 920 $514 2,560 $185 $92,715,392 31
13 Marmaduke Fox $394,416 1,110 $355 1,110 $355 3,700 $107 $29,741,083 23
14 Robin Hood Uni. $267,595 669 $400 680 $394 2,110 $127 $103,111,105 44
15 Solitary Man Anch. $214,983 177 $1,215 180 $1,194 860 $250 $1,930,993 37
16 How to Train Your Dragon P/DW $186,160 333 $559 390 $477 1,470 $127 $215,280,326 93
17 Winter's Bone RAtt. $184,588 70 $2,637 70 $2,637 340 $543 $927,480 16
18 Letters to Juliet Sum. $162,498 509 $319 510 $319 1,700 $96 $49,421,812 44
- Cyrus FoxS $119,456 17 $7,027 27 $4,424 146 $818 $470,035 9
- Date Night Fox $99,763 286 $349 290 $344 1,030 $97 $97,256,694 79
- Splice WB $97,498 340 $287 350 $279 1,200 $81 $16,159,270 23
- Hubble 3D WB $88,076 50 $1,762 50 $1,762 140 $629 $9,090,104 100
- Clash of the Titans (2010) WB $64,034 226 $283 230 $278 880 $73 $162,645,379 86
- City Island Anch. $58,665 105 $559 110 $533 350 $168 $6,113,183 100
- Death at a Funeral (2010) SGem $56,772 156 $364 160 $355 660 $86 $42,553,287 72
- Furry Vengeance Sum. $50,499 157 $322 160 $316 510 $99 $17,255,577 58
- The Back-Up Plan CBS $50,312 147 $342 150 $335 480 $105 $37,213,458 65
- The Bounty Hunter Sony $44,051 104 $424 104 $424 310 $142 $66,924,621 100
- Raavan Relbig. $37,087 115 $322 120 $309 420 $88 $637,608 9
- Just Wright FoxS $32,795 111 $295 111 $295 470 $70 $21,199,682 44
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) WB (NL) $30,273 172 $176 172 $176 540 $56 $62,876,446 58
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fox $23,915 105 $228 110 $217 340 $70 $63,678,670 100
- Avatar Fox $19,879 15 $1,325 17 $1,169 24 $828 $749,520,515 191
- Babies Focus $17,978 64 $281 64 $281 190 $95 $7,183,344 51
- Under the Sea 3D WB $13,138 13 $1,011 13 $1,011 40 $328 $22,576,787 499
- Kick-Ass LGF $12,808 102 $126 102 $126 270 $47 $48,032,025 72
- Raajneeti UTV $12,386 30 $413 30 $413 90 $138 $1,478,701 23
- The Square App. $6,739 8 $842 10 $674 20 $337 $373,488 79
- The Secret of Kells GK $3,703 15 $247 15 $247 42 $88 $634,141 114
- Princess Kaiulani RAtt. $2,600 8 $325 8 $325 23 $113 $824,619 44
- The Joneses RAtt. $1,725 3 $575 3 $575 10 $173 $1,463,977 72
- Racing Dreams Hann. $448 3 $149 n/a n/a n/a n/a $44,607 37
- Letters to God Viv. $143 2 $72 2 $72 3 $48 $2,848,433 79
- Breath Made Visible Argo. $136 1 $136 n/a n/a n/a n/a $49,701 86
Note: Screen and Showing Counts are estimates made by Box Office Mojo based on showtimes tracking information. To read more about box office tracking and terminology, click here.