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package com.jivesoftware.os.lab.io;

import com.google.common.io.Files;
import com.jivesoftware.os.lab.guts.AppendOnlyFile;
import com.jivesoftware.os.lab.guts.ReadOnlyFile;
import com.jivesoftware.os.lab.io.api.IAppendOnly;
import com.jivesoftware.os.lab.io.api.IPointerReadable;
import com.jivesoftware.os.lab.io.api.UIO;
import java.io.File;
import org.testng.Assert;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

/**
 *
 * @author jonathan.colt
 */
public class PointerReadableByteBufferFileNGTest {

    @Test
    public void test() throws Exception {
        File file = new File(Files.createTempDir(), "pointerReadableByteBuffer.bin");

        AppendOnlyFile appendOnlyFile = new AppendOnlyFile(file);
        IAppendOnly appendOnly = appendOnlyFile.appender();

        for (int i = 0; i < 1_000; i++) {
            appendOnly.append(UIO.longBytes(i), 0, 8);
        }
        appendOnly.flush(true);
        appendOnlyFile.close();

        ReadOnlyFile readOnlyFile = new ReadOnlyFile(file);
        IPointerReadable pointerReadable = readOnlyFile.pointerReadable(33);

        int offset = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < 1_000; i++) {
            long l = pointerReadable.readLong(offset);
            offset += 8;
            Assert.assertEquals(l, i);
        }

        offset = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < 1_000; i++) {
            long a = pointerReadable.readInt(offset);
            offset += 4;
            Assert.assertEquals(a, 0);
            long b = pointerReadable.readInt(offset);
            offset += 4;
            Assert.assertEquals(b, i);
        }

        offset = 0;
        byte[] readBytes = new byte[8 * 4];
        for (int i = 0; i < 1_000 - 4; i++) {
            pointerReadable.read(offset, readBytes, 0, readBytes.length);
            offset += 8;

            Assert.assertEquals(UIO.bytesLong(readBytes, 0), i);
            Assert.assertEquals(UIO.bytesLong(readBytes, 8), i + 1);
            Assert.assertEquals(UIO.bytesLong(readBytes, 16), i + 2);
            Assert.assertEquals(UIO.bytesLong(readBytes, 24), i + 3);
        }

        offset = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < 1_000; i++) {
            byte[] expected = new byte[8];
            UIO.longBytes(i, expected, 0);

            Assert.assertEquals(expected[0], (byte)pointerReadable.read(offset));
            offset++;
            Assert.assertEquals(expected[1], (byte)pointerReadable.read(offset));
            offset++;
            Assert.assertEquals(expected[2], (byte)pointerReadable.read(offset));
            offset++;
            Assert.assertEquals(expected[3], (byte)pointerReadable.read(offset));
            offset++;
            Assert.assertEquals(expected[4], (byte)pointerReadable.read(offset));
            offset++;
            Assert.assertEquals(expected[5], (byte)pointerReadable.read(offset));
            offset++;
            Assert.assertEquals(expected[6], (byte)pointerReadable.read(offset));
            offset++;
            Assert.assertEquals(expected[7], (byte)pointerReadable.read(offset));
            offset++;

        }

        BolBuffer bolBuffer = new BolBuffer();
        offset = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < 1_000 - 4; i++) {
            pointerReadable.sliceIntoBuffer(offset, offset, bolBuffer);
            offset += 8;

            Assert.assertEquals(bolBuffer.getLong(0), i);
            Assert.assertEquals(bolBuffer.getLong(8), i + 1);
            Assert.assertEquals(bolBuffer.getLong(16), i + 2);
            Assert.assertEquals(bolBuffer.getLong(24), i + 3);
        }

    }

}

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Customer relationship management is the process of managing all interactions that an organization has with its present and prospective clients. Customer relationship management is a vast and growing discipline in today's corporate environment and organizations are using it effectively to achieve their business objectives. With the use of technology in the past few years, the discipline of customer relationship management has become more efficient, predictable and productive for businesses. For an efficient CRM, organizations are increasingly adopting technology tools to automate their sales, marketing, customer service, and technical functions.


Today is a public holiday in UK and there are also reports due out today from EUR Germany and USA which could affect the markets. Due to these factors, there is a HIGH probability that the markets will trend sideways. Markets should be approached with caution.
A pending SELL order has been placed just below the Pivot Point at 14442. A pending BUY order has not been placed yet. Due to the above factors and the recent volatility in the markets, I am waiting to see what happens to the markets when R1 is broken.


Description: Expert advice and real world wisdom on raising bilingual children. Find parent discussions, tips and articles about the joys and challenges of raising kids with multiple languages. From birth through school.


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Tettigoniella medleri är en insektsart som beskrevs av Young 1986. Tettigoniella medleri ingår i släktet Tettigoniella och familjen dvärgstritar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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The Church of the Assumption has had a long and beautiful history of building up God's reign of justice, love, and peace in Morristown from 1848 until the present. The parishioners of Assumption have always been extremely generous and enthusiastic about our parish. Thank you for all that you give to our parish. Your sacrificial giving makes it possible for us to maintain our parish facilities and provide so many ministries. Your generosity enables us to help the poor in Morristown and beyond. I am writing to you today about Tithing: God's Plan for Giving. This is an integral part of our Stewardship program here.
Tithing is giving back to God something He gave to us in the first place. It is thanking Him for our blessings, jobs, and financial resources. The decision to tithe is a personal one, requiring prayer and reflection. Tithing is a spiritual process between the tither and God. There are no phone calls, pledge cards, etc. In the tithing program here and in other parishes we suggest that 5 percent be given to one's parish and 5 percent be used for God's other good work and charity. This is a spiritual process rooted in our gratitude to God for His blessings. Everything we have comes from God – our talent, stamina, drive, the ability to earn a living and make a life are blessings from the Almighty. Even our desire to thank God comes from God.
I reintroduced tithing to our parish in 2011. (It was first introduced here in 1983.) In 2012 we introduced our Time and Talent Initiative. Tithing and Time and Talent are the two pillars of Stewardship, caring for what has been entrusted to us by God. Every month at Assumption we register about twenty (20) new families. This means that some of our people have not heard about Tithing or experienced our Time and Talent presentation. It is time to speak about tithing again.
This dynamic biblical experience called tithing may be new to some of you; for others, it has become a spiritual way of life. The plan is based in biblical times and has the blessing of Almighty God. It emphasizes the Christian call to generosity – even at times with some personal sacrifice.
I am pleased to provide to you my homily as well as the talks given by Matthew and Sangita Rossano, our Assumption parishioners at the Masses on our tithing renewal weekend. We are very blessed that they are sharing with us their experience of living God's Plan for Giving. Truly they have tried the Lord in this 'and He has opened the floodgates of heaven to pour down blessings on them without measure.' As they said, their family has been blessed and our parish has grown in love and unity. Assumption Parish has been blessed by so many who tithe.
It is our hope now that more families in our parish will experience this ever-increasing blessing from God as a greater number of us are moved to trust Him even more fully.
We must pray that the Lord will move us to try Him in this. For the spirit of tithing is truly a gift. It must not be constrained or fearful, for the Lord does not command us to tithe; He ASKS us. He lovingly invites us to share in His abundance. May the Lord give each of us this gift.


Last month Jonette led a Spiritual Adventure Tour to Vietnam and Cambodia. Her next trip will be to Australia and New Zealand in October/November 2017. These are her thoughts after visiting the 'Hanoi Hilton' prison in Vietnam and the Killing Fields in Cambodia.
Vietnam and its beautiful people welcomed our group of spiritual adventurers with ready smiles. Young people whose parents would have been our North Vietnamese enemies in the 1970s were our waiters, our chefs, hotel clerks and guides. How could they be so nice to us after we Americans mined their fields, bombed their villages, killed their friends and relatives? Yet they smiled. They spoke to us in English. They quoted the prices of the souvenirs they sold in US dollars.
People we declare as being different enough from us that we justify our disavowal of their right to happiness, to life. We disavow their very humanity.
I was drawn to visit the prison known in the Vietnam era as the 'Hanoi Hilton' where American prisoners of war were held. Before that, it was the place where the French imprisoned and tortured 'insurgents'— Vietnamese fighting against France's colonial rule. One of our group's spiritual missions on this trip was to help clear the betrayal, terror, war and loss from the energy field of Vietnam, Cambodia, and the world. This memorial/museum prison in the center of Hanoi was the place I chose to begin this work. It was reminiscent of the feeling I had when I visited the site of a Nazi concentration camp years ago. The heaviness of human cruelty hit me like a cold blade. Gray representations of skeletal Vietnamese political prisoners from times past gave rise to ghosts in my imagination. "I have to get through here quickly, then I have to find a place to pray," I told my boyfriend Mark, almost as soon as I saw the first cells and shackles.
On the side of the prison was a tasteful outdoor memorial area—bonsai trees, an altar, flowers, and incense. Standing before it I allowed the pain of feeling my heart break. I prayed. Tears poured down my face. Endless unanswerable questions: Why do we do this to each other? How much suffering can humans take? Will we ever learn? How can we stop this? What is the point? What happened to our humanity?
I prayed. Even with prayer, I was overwhelmed with pain; not able to find peace. I nearly ran out of the place, my body in emotional shock.
Outside Phnom Penh, our group visited the 'Killing Fields' —one of the many places where the Khmer Rouge executed over 1 million fellow Cambodians in the 1970's. The victims were most often beat in the head with an iron bar or bamboo stick, in order not to waste ammunition. Acres of grass fields, shallow pits that were once mass graves, a memorial stupa with shelves of skulls.
In this case, it was the Pol Pot Communist regime killing the old ones, the educated ones, the ones who wore spectacles or couldn't work the fields.
We went to the Killing Fields as a group, committed to helping the souls of victims and executioners alike who still remained tied to the horror of this place. Like the Hanoi Hilton the energy was thick and dark—terror and death. I gave the group the assignment to walk around, absorb the feelings and find a way to transmute them, not just to neutral, not just to peaceful; but all the way to joy….and we wouldn't leave until everyone had made the shift into joy for themselves, shifting the energy of the place along with us.
We did we achieve this momentous shift in one of the world's darkest places? A few of our group connected lovingly to the trees that had "seen it all." Some focused on the butterflies, some did Soul Body Fusion. Others meditated and prayed until they felt the shift in their hearts. Many cried, grieved and came through the other side.
We gathered together to say the Ho'oponopono prayer: I love you. I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.
We left the place lighthearted, knowing that there is nothing that can't be transmuted through love to joy. Nothing.
As we all know, December 2012 issued in a huge wave of elevated consciousness, blasting open new doors of possibilities. Rendering obsolete old ways of operating unconsciously.
In its wake — 2013 — for many was a time of personal turmoil. What used to work didn't. What was hidden raised its head and asked to be seen and acted on. The farmer's field must be plowed up, the soil overturned to make welcome new seeds.
2014 has been a year of consciously planting the seeds we want to nurture for our future and that of humanity. This year has required some deep diving, intense honesty, courageous action. All giving birth to 2015 — The Year of Manifestation.
Are my current priorities really what I choose for my future?
Have I cluttered my life's mission of being me with a thousand other goals and distractions?
Where am I holding resentment? Fear? Pain? Guilt?
Am I a living example of my highest principles?
How specifically can I be more kind? Generous? Loving? Empowered? Confident? Trusting?
In order to manifest our desired reality, wishing is not enough. Meditation alone won't hand it to you. In our 3-D world there is still homework to do. 🙂 Clear yourself of the emotional garbage, the karmic patterns. How? Spend time with yourself and really listen to your heart and soul—not to those ego voices that keep trying to exert their control and limitations. Soul Body Fusion® helps. Journaling can give you insights. Our new Quantum Chakra Clearing series can help you clear garbage that isn't even yours but got stuck to you from the collective. Use the Hawaiian Ho'oponopono prayer: I am sorry. Please forgive me. I love you. Thank you.
What's the pay-off? A stronger you. A clearer future. A 2015 where you can really begin to reap the harvest, to manifest consciously the world we know we can create!
Click here to order the Quantum Chakra Clearing Meditation series.
The autumn air in Estonia smells like apples. Morning fog wraps it's arms around the land. The mythical stories here are similar to the ancient epics of the Finnish people. Buzzing from the weekend workshops, my organizers Agnes and Kristi, and I were drawn to a power place in the forest, known locally as the Witches Well. Under meadows and forests are limestone caves and underground water ways — often indicative of power places.
The old man, whose ancestors have protected the place for 11 generations, guided us around, pointing out power spots. In the spring pressure causes water to a erupt out of the Witches Well, gently flooding the area. Now we drank the earthy brown water from the bucket.
"Where is the center of the power spots?" I ask as Agnes translates. Before the old man answers I see it — a collapsed section of earth, a robust bush growing from its sunken center. "That's the doorway to the inner Earth, the fairy's portal," I channel. The energy of the beings are barely visible to my inner vision. It is as if they wanted to be noticed and at the same time were hesitant to be seen. "Why do you hide?" I ask them telepathically.
"We are pissed off at humans. We don't trust you," came their response. Well, I could understand that. We humans have done much that is not to be trusted.
Tears washed our faces. We were so sorry for all the wrong done everywhere, harming these beings and the Earth they are committed to protect.
I 'heard' their response. "We would like to give your prayer back to you." We stood in silence receiving into our hearts the same prayer we had just said. The reconnection, the emotions were timeless.
The old man then led us into the forest, "Here is the place we've always felt was the most sacred." It was a high mound, boggy, without trees. To us the energy felt terrible, disturbed, yet the power was there.
"No wonder the Nature spirits have retreated back into the Earth," I said. "This power place was used for black magic, for ceremonies of darkness and control." I wondered how many energy spots on Earth have been hijacked this way, their power misused for purposes not of love. The Nature spirits and inner Earth beings retreating further and further from our world in their pain and horror.
So on this autumn afternoon the land's human guardian, two beautiful young women, and me — a visiting shaman, cleared the place, banishing the chains of darkness and re-dedicating it all to the Light. Immediately the heaviness lifted. We heard the sing/song voices of the Nature spirits and Earth beings expressing delight, gratitude.
How many times and in how many places has the Earth's energy been stolen, redirected by misguided humans? There is a stone here marking where a 'witch' had been murdered, the locals not understanding her world or her magic. How many times have we been those murderers? How often have we been the witch?
This is the time for forgiveness. Stand in our power in this present moment. Invoke love. Allow healing to flow through us. Energy lines to be repaired. Power places realigned in the service of goodness. A reconnection between humanity, Nature, inner Earth beings, star brothers and sisters. In our quantum world, wherever this healing occurs it effects universes.
Later my teaching brought me to Sweden, Germany, and the Netherlands. As students go out into the land to do Soul Body Fusion, they feel the trees and Nature responding, the fairies showing up and asking for Soul Body Fusion too! We sense a loving, playful aliveness that was numbed or invisible to us before. Even extraterrestrial beings feel our openness to love and repair the past. In Stockholm I stood on the stage as the audience put their left hands to their hearts, right hands on another's heart in a blessing I call the Himalayan Heart Activation. I extended my right hand out to no one in particular from the stage. Astonishingly I 'saw' an entire line of ET's queuing up to do the Heart Activation with me! I've never seen ET's* before so I was delighted. The veils are thinning between dimensions. Why? Because we step forward in our power and in love.
This month had a full lunar eclipse. October 31 is Halloween or Holy Eve before All Saints Day on November 1. Let's feel the holiness and the magic every day in our lives… starting with this in breath.


HomeInsight: Will That be a Deck or a Patio?
There is really no clear-cut answer to this question, but given that many home buyers are looking for less maintenance, make your choice one that requires little or no maintenance.
You may want to read Home Over-Improvement Can Lead to Market Under-Performance.
If you choose a wooden deck, think twice before applying a solid stain because it will show wear marks first.
Floors of wooden decks built with 5/4 boards look more like an interior floor and are the most popular.
Patios build on a deep base (8 to 12 inches) will likely hold up well and look like new for years.
According to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau Housing Survey, homeowners across the nation spent more than $40 billion in 2003 improving outdoor living areas, and that number continues to grow as homeowners seek to create outdoor spaces designed for relaxing and entertaining.
While in the past a backyard was somewhere you just occasionally ate sitting on a picnic table in the grass, today homeowners are looking to create their own backyard retreats. These retreats often begin with an area off the grass, most commonly in the form of a deck or patio.
So, what is more popular, a deck or patio? For the homeowner with the uneven back yard, often the most appropriate choice is a deck, because you can sink piers into the ground, and then add on a level deck. Also, decks are often the choice for those who want to track as little into the house as possible, because even the best-maintained patio can collect stone dust or sand that gets trapped in shoes (or pet feet).
For level back yards the choice can come down to personal preference. There are pros and cons to having either a deck or patio. Read on to find out which might be most appropriate for you.
First was the deck made of pine, which didn't hold up very well to the elements. Maintenance was an annual event that only helped to slow down a pine deck's eventual demise.
Next was pressure treated lumber, the first generation of which included arsenic as a preservative, which raised health concerns. Today pressure treated wood is arsenic free, and it is the most common type of decking used because of its low cost.
Today, a variety of manmade decking materials are available. They often consist of a mixture of recycled plastic mixed with wood bits or sawdust. These materials are growing in popularity for one simple reason: no maintenance. Any type of wooden deck must be maintained or it will begin to look old and worn, and also become prone to splintering. Depending on the type of preservative you choose and your climate, a wooden deck will require maintenance every year or two; manmade materials require no maintenance.
The downside to manmade materials is that because they are more dense than wood they can get quite hot in the sun, making shoes a must for those with tender feet. And while synthetic products come in a variety of colors and patterns, the choices don't come close to the wide color palette available with stains. Decks built with composite materials often include structures built from pressure treated wood for strength.
Stains are the most common choice for preservatives because they apply easily and most don't peel. Clear coat preservatives tend to last the shortest amount of time, followed by semitransparent, and then solid stains.
Other choices for wooden decking include redwood, which requires little to no maintenance, and other exotic woods, including mahogany, ipe, and cedar. Vinyl decking is also growing in popularity, coming in a variety of colors - and it is maintenance free.
Slate and concrete are two of the oldest choices for patio materials. Slate is durable and can add a finished look to your back yard. Most commonly the base is prepared with processed stone, sometimes followed by stone dust, and finally the stones are set into sand. While slate is a durable choice, weeds can eventually become a maintenance issue.
There are many different choices when it comes to concrete. While that simple gray look is possible, a variety of colors are also available, as is stamped concrete, which adds a pattern to your patio, making it look more like a slate, brick or stone (color can be added as well). Concrete is often a low cost option, although choosing a colored stamped concrete can make the price jump. It is also prone to cracking.
Brick pavers come in a variety of shapes, sizes, colors, and finishes, and are often the most costly option. Although setting pavers is similar to setting slate, because the individual pieces are smaller, labor costs are much higher (and the materials are more costly per square foot).
In terms of durability, quality brick pavers can also be used for driveways, and most products are durable enough for plows.
Building bricks are a poor choice because they are not designed for ground contact and will deteriorate.
Most stone options do require some maintenance - every other year you may have to sweep a bag of colored sand into the cracks to fill in the areas that have settled. Because of this pavers are less likely to have weed issues, although grass and weeds still can creep in around the edges.
Once you've decided on your project, find out how to keep costs in line, see 10 Ways to Keep Your Remodeling Project on Budget.


If a residence in Culver City, CA has plumbing with soft copper tubing down below the layer of concrete foundation, you might get under slab leaks. These leaks are generally serviced by locating the leak and cutting into the slab to locate and repair the water leak. The main problem using this kind of repair is that a second possible leak is probably in some other places in the under slab system. The one permanent solution is to repipe, bypassing the many under slab pipes.
Neighbors in Culver City have already had a leaking slab.
The very low water pressure you feel is really due to a low amount of water. As galvanized pipes become older, the corrosion and rust force the internal surfaces of the water pipe to close off, reducing the circulation of water. While doing so the lower volume of water within the system is not enough to supply several fixtures at one time. The rust inside the water lines is also found in the water you are bathing with or much worse, drinking. In time the rust will create a hole in the steel pipe and you will experience leaking or total collapse.
Why not have a good hometown plumbing company in Culver City repipe our home?
While it could seem like a great idea to call up a nearby plumbing technician or plumbing installer, the truth is a PEX or Copper Repipe is a course of action that involves not just the Repipe itself, but also the care and understanding of the complete repair, including patching the wall structure and protecting the furtinure.
Who's the top rated provider for Repipe services in Culver City, CA?
Without a doubt, Repipe Specialists is the top rated contractor in California to go with when you have to have the job done correctly. With greater than 2 decades experience explicitly specialized in PEX and Copper Repiping in Culver City, Repipe Specialists are the front runners in customer service, top rated quality and value for money.


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Philosophy - Index > Morality - Index > Speciesism - Index
Mirror, Mirror - evidence against vivisection
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Mirror, Mirror Evidence that psychology, like biology, is conserved between human and nonhuman species augurs a shake-up for science and society G. A. Bradshaw, Robert M. Sapolsky
Back in 1974, an unusual report from Jane Goodall at the Gombe Stream Wildlife Research Centre in Tanzania caught the public eye. Chimpanzees had committed infanticide and were engaging in war. Not only were they acting in unanticipated ways, chimpanzees were acting like humans. Goodall's discovery bridged the divide between Homo sapiens and other species.
Goodall duets with the orphaned chimpanzee Uruhara "Jane Goodall's observations in the 1960s provided early evidence—discounted by many scientists at the time—that human and nonhuman animals shared many mental and emotional traits. In this recent photograph, Goodall duets with the orphaned chimpanzee Uruhara at the Sweetwaters Sanctuary in Kenya. Michael Neugebauer
In and of itself, similarity between species is no surprise. Scientists have long experimented on animals in place of people; the resulting insights form the backbone of biomedicine and anthropology. We accept that human beings and nonhuman animals share a common ancestry. In biology and psychology, this relationship is the scientific rationale for a system of inference—the process and convention used to draw logical conclusions from observations—that allows humans to benefit from research with animal subjects. As such, it was not Goodall's discovery of species similarity per se that provoked such curiosity; it was the specific nature of the similarity.
Naked Ape, Hairy Human
The Gombe observations blurred the boundary between animal and human behavior, between nature and human nature. Previously, behaviorists thought that human and animal psychology intersected only in the realm of instinct. Homicide—as opposed to killing for access to territory or a mate—was deliberate, not instinctive. Infanticide and murder were considered exclusive to human beings and outside of nature. Goodall's findings challenged this received wisdom.
Since then, what we know about ourselves and other species has changed substantially. Many studies have documented in other species the same behaviors that enrich human lives. We now recognize that species other than humans engage in an array of behaviors that bring variety and depth to life: dolphins teach cultural customs to their young, octopi demonstrate diverse personalities, and rats show a sense of humor. Once at odds with the conventions of her discipline, Goodall's interpretations today are supported by decades of research in neurobiology. They are part of a broad conceptual framework that has coalesced around the idea that psychology, like biology, is conserved among animals.
This idea isn't new. Charles Darwin placed human beings on the continuum of animal species nearly 150 years ago. Somehow that insight was lost. Nurture is being reconciled with nature, and boundaries that once separated academic disciplines are dissolving, all of which bring models of animal and human behavior to unity. Separation has given over to integration, and what seemed like a haphazard collection of observational anomalies is now taking form as a coherent, human-inclusive, trans-species theory of mind and body.
In addition to and underlying these changes in theory, Goodall's data contradicted inferential conventions. Chimpanzee violence suggested that ethologists could infer the origins of chimp behavior from what they understood about human violence—something hitherto dismissed as being contrary to scientific standards.
Historically, science has admitted inference from animals to humans but not the reverse. As historians Lorraine Daston of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Gregg Mitman of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, recently noted,
Ethologists who study animal behavior, including that of primates, with close phylogenetic links to humans, have long made it a principle not to infer humanlike mental states from humanlike behavior and until [recently] many scientists in the field frowned upon any discussion of animal mental states.
Perhaps because scientists have been trained to shun such conclusions, examples of human-to-animal inference have been scarce in the scientific literature. This is one of the reasons that chimpanzee homicide, laughing mice and empathetic sheep are considered newsworthy: They represent deviations from normative models—or rather they used to. Now erstwhile behavioral isolates make up the empirical bricks in the foundations of psychobiology, and the limits on what we can infer about humans and animals have changed. Human-to-animal and animal-to-human inferences are legitimately symmetric. A deeper understanding of brain biology has strengthened this sense of equity.
The case for inferential symmetry rests on evolutionary conservation—the levels of shared biology among animal species. At the genomic level, for example, chimpanzees and humans share 96 percent of their DNA—a figure that rises to 99 percent for genes that actually encode proteins. The genes that determine basic brain segments have changed little since vertebrates diverged from arthropods more than 500 million years ago. Not surprisingly, similar genes give rise to similar structures.
Merging human and animal models of brain and behavior raises an interesting point: Do homologous brain regions among vertebrates, or at least mammals, guarantee similar neural processes? This is a difficult question. If the brain were a computer, then it would be easier to predict that two computers with the same architecture and processor would show similar "physiology." However, matching neural blueprints are no guarantee of consistent responses. Two species may both possess a structurally similar region of the brain, yet the size of that region relative to the rest of the brain may differ. For example, two parts of the brain, the basal forebrain and extended amygdala, mediate the same functions in many species. These include the recognition of potential mates and competitors, rituals for courtship and mating, parental care (when it occurs), aggression, and territoriality.
True singularities—brain features specific to only one radiation or even species—are rare, but do exist. Certain cell types—Mauthner cells in the spinal cords of some fish and amphibians and a type of frontocortical neuron in humans—can also be unique. Novel sensory systems, such as the ability to sense bioelectric fields in some sharks, or somatosensory specializations, such as echolocation in bats, are apparently specific to the niches occupied by those species.
However, these changes in structure, function and behavior are neither random nor disconnectedly modular. Rather, they are linked by common ancestry. From an evolutionary perspective, there is no reason to favor one direction of inference over the other. Furthermore, the patterns of behavior across many species are consistent enough to warrant a shared conceptual grammar that would allow scientists to make a valid inference across species. But how does this change in theory translate to practice? In other words, if old conventions of inference have lost their monopoly, then how should scientists balance similarities with singularities? The answer comes from first principles.
Science constantly winnows stronger hypotheses from weaker ones by testing them against current knowledge. In making such judgments, a scientist can be right by failing to reject a hypothesis that is true or by rejecting one that is false. Conversely, there are two ways of being wrong: by dismissing a valid hypothesis (what statisticians term a "type I" error) or by embracing an incorrect hypothesis (a "type II" error). With respect to inference, if humans share a trait, such as empathy, with some other animal, then the rejection of that possibility constitutes a type I error, or what primatologist Frans de Waal at Emory University refers to as anthropodenial. At the other end of the spectrum lies the type II error of anthropomorphism, the belief that humans share some trait with another animal when they actually do not.
Evolutionary theory suggests that species with a recent common ancestor are more likely to have traits in common than are distantly related species. Of course, common ancestry does not ensure identity, but as a reflexive stance, neither anthropomorphism nor anthropodenial makes sense. If morphological, physiological and genetic traits merit bidirectional inference, then there is scant reason to exclude mental states. Continuing to do so encourages systematic (and unrecognized) type I errors, thereby adding to a canon of groundless theory.
The obvious gain of a trans-species convention, in which the arrow of inference is independent of species, is consistency in theory and in practice. This dividend pays off in statistical power and subtler perception. As a bonus, such a convention would help scientists from different disciplines, such as ethology and psychology, share theories and speak a common language. But convergence to commonality calls for some additional sorting out.
Reorganizing information that no longer conforms to past models is what science philosopher Thomas Kuhn called a paradigm shift. This is exactly what has happened with the neuroethological reinstatement of humans into the animal kingdom. Similar to other historic shifts in science, the implications are extraordinary. A trans-species standardization of nomenclature and theory suggests many parallel adjustments in long-held scientific and ethical practices. By erasing an implicit separation of human beings from other species, scientists are pressed to address conceptual inconsistencies and perhaps some uncomfortable conclusions.
Chimpanzee homicide is a clear example—society treats the same behavior in human beings as criminal and pathological. Does this mean that we should view a killer chimp as the equivalent of a felon, or must we stretch the definition of "natural" behavior for primates (including us) to include such acts? Evolutionary biologists argue that chimpanzee infanticide might be an adaptive reproductive strategy. In contrast, students of human behavior—lawyers, anthropologists and psychiatrists—regard it as abnormal. A model that accommodates both species raises questions of whether chimp violence is a disorder or an adaptive strategy, and of whether the same answer holds for human beings.
In another, less theoretical, case, the paradox of using animal models for research—that they are both categorically different from us and alike enough to study—begs resolution. The same similarities that justify the use of animals in biomedical research (an implicit anthropomorphism) clash with the dissimilarities that justify the ethics of vivisection (an implicit anthropodenial).
Such conceptual turbulence might have remained hidden as part of the usual back-and-forth of science if the topic did not evoke such visceral responses. Old prejudices are hard to relinquish, and humans have held themselves apart from other species for centuries, if not millennia. Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins refers to this posture as "the tyranny of the discontinuous mind." The same impetus gave rise to the medieval concept of the "great chain of being," in which humans sat above the animals but below the angels. Parasitologist Sean Nee at the University of Edinburgh attributes this self-segregation to a deep-seated fear of sameness. Regardless of its origin, bidirectional inference threatens the belief in human superiority and the self-image of those who adhere to it.
Thirty years ago, Goodall's chimpanzees reflected back something that induced powerful theoretical shifts; they may even be credited with introducing disruptive cultural change. The rapidity with which theory and data have moved since then to create a new, radically different framework portends equally significant change to come. Readjusting to a convention of bidirectional inference helps restore a sense of epistemic coherency in scientific theory and practice. And, as Kuhn reminds us, no matter what turmoil such change may engender and how daunting it may appear, the ability to embrace paradigmatic change is one of the characteristics that make science so valuable

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HotelexShanghai, the global hospitality industry conference, will kick off its 23rd edition March 31 to April 3, 2014, at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. The event represents a unique opportunity for companies operating in the sector to open their doors to Chinese tourism, a segment seeing voracious expansion.
In 2013, there were 1,700 starred hotels under construction, with activities related to hospitality stirring up 295 billion RMB and a growth of 9.26%. These numbers are destined to multiply.
Hotelex will bring together 60,000 exhibitors from around the globe with the best solutions for the hotel and restaurant industries. Together with the emphasis on quality, it looks to encourage competition through innovation, sustainability and the environment for management with a healthier carbon footprint.


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Two notable steps forward last year included the full implementation of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Act, which ensures that people with mental illnesses or addiction issues receive the same health insurance coverage as those with physical ailments; secondly, the beginning roll-out of the Medicaid expansion and Insurance Exchanges, which will enable millions of Americans who cannot afford private health insurance coverage for the first time. Among those who benefit most are adults with mental illnesses.
Ensure that state Health Insurance Exchanges (HIE) issue benchmark plans that are at parity with other medical benefits.
Meaningfully coordinate police departments and the courts with the community mental health care system.
We'll be working hard to enact change in our mental healthcare systems, and we look forward to working with partners across the country to make this wish list a reality.
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Are you planning your wedding? But want it to be inexpensive and best. Well this happens to everyone except the millionaires or billionaires, in my point of view having a flawless wedding in a rationed budget is no big deal, and if you are thinking my first tip for you will be going short on your wedding guest list then you are absolutely wrong. You can call as many guests as you want and have a memorable yet classy wedding by just keeping in mind few essential tips.
Make your Budget – The first and the most important thing one should do before a wedding is to finalize a strict budget. By analyzing how much he or she is willing to spend on different things like wedding décor, gifts, food, jewellery and clothes. make a list of everything and assign a certain amount to all the commodities accordingly. By doing this at least you know where and how to compromise with the costing.
Hire a wedding planner – This will sound crazy but trust me, nowadays wedding planners are like god sent for brides and grooms specially if you want a controlled budget marriage without giving up anything. Wedding planners help you to get the cheap and best and try to get all the things done in the acquired budget.
Plan each step – Well as now you have a wedding planner or even if you are doing it on your own, plan things, do some research and always keep your planner handy.
Start the shopping a season earlier – This will help you save a lot as the season end sales help you get some good deals on the clothes and other goods.
Study the financial market – ok, you might be thinking that what is the exact relation here, but it is very important to know the gold and other expensive commodity market rates before you go for the jewellery shopping and try buy the items when the rates are the lowest.
Get the food yourself – Try and buy the food items yourself from a local wholesale mall. Don't depend fully on caterers. Hire a caterer to cook and give your instructions and menu which will save a lot for your budget. Consider ordering your wedding cake online to save you time and efforts. There are many online cake delivery services with fast, delicious products at an affordable price.
Well overall by just taking some smart decisions and a helping hand from an expert, you can have a lavishly beautiful and budgeted wedding.
Thanks for sharing these tips. These tips are very useful . Definitely i,ll remember these tips. I appreciate your post.
Well, hiring an event planner sounds a good idea.
Buying jewelry is one of the most expensive part of a wedding. It's important that you buy your wedding jewelry at a time when the market is a bit low, that will surely save some big bucks.
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Great tips on wedding savings! Starting off with a budget is definitely the best place to begin! Without knowing how much you have, or are willing to spend, it can be easy to go way overboard!
I think jewelry makes the wedding most expensive. If the couple agrees. they can cut the big amount in it. I think planning the shopping for the prefect season and places also helps in the reduction of budget for wedding.
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I like the tip about getting your own food. Very helpful!
I think the most important things in any wedding are to have great food, and great music. Some great tips for having a wedding on a budget, thanks!
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SCHEDULE 1PARAGRAPHS TO BE INSERTED INTO TABLE III OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT (FEES) ORDER 1988.
TABLE III–Road Traffic Act 1988
Fee-Fixing Power
Specified Functions
Specified matters as set out in Schedule 2, which apply.
1. Sections 45(6A) and 46(1)(f), (h) and (j), 2(b), (4), (5) and (6)(1)—
(a)powers to make provision for courses of instruction in connection with examinations under section 45 and to charge fees in respect of attendance on such courses; and
(b)powers to make provision in respect of fees and charges in connection with tests of the condition of vehicles under section 45 in respect of—
A. Public service vehicles;
(i)The functions of the Secretary of State in relation to the testing of public service vehicles under the Road Traffic Act 1988 and the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981(2).
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(ii)Any other functions of the Secretary of State in relation to the testing of public service vehicles.
B. Vehicles other than public service vehicles.
(i)Functions of the Secretary of State in relation to the testing of vehicles to which section 45 applies, other than public service vehicles, under the Road Traffic Act 1988.
(ii)Any other functions of the Secretary of State in relation to the testing of vehicles, to which section 45 applies, other than public service vehicles, including, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing:—
(a)inspections of premises, equipment, records, vehicles and testing station testing standards;
(b)training, re-training and checking of the continuing competence of testers and authorised examiners;
(c)enforcement action against testers, inspectors, designated councils and authorised examiners;
(d)the issue of duplicate test certificates;
(e)functions in connection with appeal tests;
(f)provision of services to create or maintain records including electronic data or to transfer information between persons by electronic data transmission or other means;
(g)the installation, modification, servicing, repair or replacement of apparatus or the training, supervision, inspection or monitoring of persons authorised to use such apparatus.'
7A. Section 99ZC(3)— power to provide in regulations under section 99ZA (compulsory driver training courses) for the charging of reasonable fees in respect of the exercise of functions conferred or imposed on the Secretary of State.
(i) The functions of the Secretary of State under the regulations. Paragraphs 1 to 8.'
(ii)All the functions of the Secretary of State in relation to driver training.
12. Section 132(2)(4)— power to prescribe in regulations fees in respect of the taking of the prescribed parts of—
(i)the qualifying examination, and
(ii)the test of continued ability and fitness.'
Section 45 was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40), Schedule 4, paragraph 52 and by the Road Traffic (Vehicle Testing) Act 1999 (c. 12), section 1. Section 46 was substituted by the Road Traffic (Vehicle Testing) Act 1999, section 2.
1981 c. 14; section 6 was amended by the Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 (c. 54), section 4 and Schedule 3; the Road Traffic Act 1991, Schedule 4, paragraph 14; the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48), section 38 and 46. Section 10 was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991, Schedule 4, paragraph 15.
Section 99ZA to 99ZC were inserted by section 257 of the Transport Act 2000 (c. 38).
Section 132(2) was amended by the Transport Act 2000, Schedule 29, paragraph 9.
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Imagine today's supercomputer power in a form no bigger than a grain of sand.
Supercomputing power already fits into birthday cards. The popular musical greetings use chips with roughly the processing capability of the late 1940s' ENIAC, the first operational electronic digital (super) computer that used 18,000 vacuum tubes and required 1,800 sq ft of space. Today's R&D is focused on processors no bigger than a grain of sand. The enabler is nanotechnology: systems for transforming matter, energy, and information based on nanometer-scale components. To reach grain-of-sand status, researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, have demonstrated binary optical storage using nanoclusters of silver oxide, two to eight atoms each. "These nanomaterials have a remarkable new property: When you shine blue light with a wavelength of less than 520 nanometers onto them, you switch on their ability to fluoresce," Robert M. Dickson, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, wrote in the Jan. 5 issue of Science. "You can then read the fluorescence nondestructively by illuminating the clusters with longer-wavelength light. "We have already demonstrated binary optical storage because we can write fluorescent patterns in which an individual particle is either on or off. But we can imagine being able to write and read more than binary storage. These silver clusters could potentially be very useful optical storage materials because of the potential for writing and reading in parallel and/or storing more than one bit of information per data point." Recent nanotechnology research by IBM Corp. adds more credibility to the grain-of-sand size idea. Its scientists developed a breakthrough transistor technology that could preview how computer chips can be made smaller and faster than is currently possible with silicon, says Tom Theis, director of physical sciences at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. By significantly refining the process of building transistors from carbon nanotubes, the researchers have given important new life to Moore's law (named after Intel Corp. cofounder Gordon Moore, who postulated that the number of transistors on a chip will double every 18 months). The cylinders of carbon atoms (about 10 across) are 1/500th the size of silicon-based transistors. The process bypasses the slow method of manipulating individual nanotubes. IBM succeeded with a process it calls constructive destruction, which allows the scientists to produce only semi-conducting carbon nanotubes with the electrical properties required. The step involves using an electric shockwave to destroy metallic nanotubes, leaving only the semiconducting nanotubes. The problems scientists had faced in using carbon nanotubes as transistors was that all synthetic methods of production yield a mixture of metallic and semiconducting nanotubes that stick together to form ropes or bundles. Only semiconducting nanotubes can be used as transistors, and when they are stuck together the metallic nanotubes overpower the semiconducting nanotubes. Theis notes that the challenge of extending Moore's law in the long run may be less significant than evolving the commercial applications for these new "grains of sand" it enables. "In this century we'll be able to put millions of times more processing power into people's hands for the same amount of money," says Theis, noting, however, that "I don't know what we'll do with that computational power."


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Laurence Rassel, An approach of a Feminist Active Archive, lecture, 2009. re.act.feminism - performance art of the 1960s and 70s today, Conference and Live Performances, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
An approach of a Feminist Active Archive
Laurence Rassel is curator, who started off at Constant, a non-for-profit organization based in Brussels, under the institutional radars, where she appropriated the ideas of open source (1997-2008). This experience later led her to imagine the opening of the archives of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona, as director (2008-2015). Today, at the erg (école de recherche graphique) in Brussels, she is leading a project oriented towards the collective, process and transmission. She redefines the notion of authority and envisages an autonomous institution, where everyone has the possibility to act on the structure. Through her career as director and curator, Laurence Rassel leads lives, many at the same time, and strives to make everything she has missed possible. (2020)
This is an intervention based on concrete examples, works and investigations in progress which are tempt(ed) to build an archive as a multiple network of relations between objects of different formats with various objectives (comments, transcriptions, texts, rough sounds, recordings, creations) situated in a precise and ongoing context. I define the archive as active, and I will add, as feminist, meaning it is conceived as a process, as an invitation to re-read, to transmit knowledge and practices in a flow, in the rhythm of contemporary artistic and cultural practices.
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Katy Perry will be in South Africa on 18 to 20 July 2018, as part of her Witness album world tour. Perry, will be performing in South Africa at the TicketPro Dome, after several other concerts in some 25 countries, including her native United States. With Witness, Katy finds liberation, in the changes in her own life and in the world around her, delivering songs that inspire both thought and movement.
Perry's tour has received rave reviews with the New York Times describing her as "confident and adept onstage as she's ever been". Some of the singles released in her Witness album includes Bon Appétit featuring Migos and Swish Swish featuring Nicki Minaj.
The singles released thus far – the Platinum-certified Chained to the Rhythm featuring Skip Marley, and the singles, Bon Appétit featuring Migos and Swish Swish featuring Nicki Minaj – hint at the breadth of the musical and thematic elements found on Witness.
WITNESS: The Tour is an imaginative trip from outer-space to inner-space, from the planets to the bottom of our oceans, and a musical journey through Katy Perry's biggest milestones and mega-hits right up to her latest album.
The dramatically original staging means that there isn't a bad seat in the house, when Katy brings out her band and dancers, along with all the bells and whistles. Here is a sneak peak at the amazing stage design for one of her concerts on WITNESS: The Tour late last year in the United States.
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This year's National Student Pride Youtube panel that debuted at the 2016 event, will focus on bullying and the power of the platform as a support network.
This year, Riyadh Khalaf returns to host. Joining Riyadh will be Trans activists and non-binary couple Fox and Owl, as well as long-distance couple Saskia and Lily. The panel will day place on the 25th of February, at the University of Westminster. Read more about what else you can expect at the event.
Listen to Fox and Owl on this month's Student Pride Podcast.
Find the embed code for the podcast if you want to include it in your article below.
"We love that student pride is run by students for students, and that it provides a safe space for LGBT young people to ask questions and feel proud of their sexuality!".
Whilst they both currently identify as demisexual, they are both "very aware that sexuality is fluid and ever changing, and how we identify now may not be how we identify forever".
Many LGBT youth fall victim to bullying, and suffer with mental health issues - They're statistically more than twice as likely as their straight peers to feel depressed and think about or attempt suicide. A survey of 7,000 16 to 24 year olds found that 54% of young LGBT people reported either self-harming now or at some point in the past.
Please email press@studentpride.co.uk with interview requests.
The whole event starts with an opening night party on Friday 24th with drag kings and queens galore, including the fabulous Mary Mac hosting to get everyone going and involved. This to kick start a weekend that for many, is their first pride - and one that is open to all. A Sunday morning event, the perfect way to see the weekend off, will soon be announced following the success of the Milk and Boy Meets Girl screenings.
National Student Pride is being platinum-sponsored in 2017 by EY for the seventh consecutive year. Maggie Stilwell, Managing Partner for Talent at EY, UK & Ireland, comments: "EY are proud to be the Platinum sponsor for National Student Pride 2017, a partnership we have built and maintained for the last seven years. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is unerring and the event allows us to connect with young LGBT talent in an environment of respect and opportunity. It's important to us to show the next generation that they will be able to be themselves in the workplace. Last year thousands of the students from across the UK attended the event and we are excited to meet even more in February at the Careers Fair. We look forward to the whole weekend festival of events, including the ever-popular series of discussions." Law firm Clifford Chance and 02 are gold sponsors. The adidas Group, Aviva, Enterprise Rent-a-car, GE Capital, IBM, Lloyds Banking Group and Thomson Reuters are silver sponsors.
The event began at Oxford Brookes University in 2005 as a response to the Christian Union's 'Homosexuality and the Bible' talk. Student Pride continues this mantra in its 12th year choosing to hold its 2017 event at on campus because the fight Students face remains just as prevalent, if not more complex, than when we first began.
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My personal highlight is the self-penned track "Back In The Ol' Days".
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Pi Radio server component that fetches all kind of radio station playlists into a firebase instance.

## prerequisites
Heroku toolbelt or Foreman (https://github.com/ddollar/foreman)

## usage

``npm install``

Create a config for local development
``cp .env_dist .env``

And edit the file accordingly.
You will need

### A Firebase instance
https://www.firebase.com/account

* FIREBASE_PASS
* FIREBASE_URL
* FIREBASE_USER

### A Spotify developer account and an application
https://developer.spotify.com/my-applications

* SPOTIFY_CLIENTID=
* SPOTIFY_CLIENTSECRET=
* SPOTIFY_REFRESHTOKEN=

Then start it up with:

``foreman run npm start``

## Running the tests
``foreman run npm test``

## Deploy to your heroku instance

``git push heroku master``


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A common CartoDB stack is powered by those components:

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  components/cartodb-editor.rst
  components/maps-api.rst
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Professor, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
Emeritus-Director, Ruth L. Kirschstein Pre-and Post-doctoral National Research Service Awards in Outcomes Research, Department of Health Services Administration, School of Health Professions (SHP),
Emeritus Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Emeritus Director, UAB Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education
Co-PI, Birmingham VAMC - Center for Surgical, Medical Acute care Research & Transitions (C-SMART)
Prior to joining the faculty at UMASSMED in 2009, he spent 14 years at UAB, preceded by twenty-four years in the U.S. Public Health Service, most of them as Director of Extramural Research at predecessor organizations of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Healthcare, and a consultant on health services research to many governmental agencies and private organizations. He has recently served as Chairman of the VA-HSR&D Scientific Merit Review Board and on national advisory committees for the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, the Robert Wood Johnson Family Foundation, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the National Library of Medicine, and Morehouse College of Medicine. He is a member of the American Public Health Association, Society of General Internal Medicine, Academy Health and the Association of University Programs on Health Administration.
Dr. Weissman has received numerous honors and awards. At UAB, he was designated an Alabama Eminent Scholar and awarded the R.L. Jordan Endowed Chair in Health Services Administration; and a Senior Scientist in the Center for Emergency Care and Disaster Preparedness, in the Multipurpose Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disease Center, in the Comprehensive Cancer Center, in the Center for Aging, and the Injury Control Research Center. He is a Senior Scholar in the Lister Hill Center for Health Policy and was a member of the Strategic Advisory Committee to the Pittman General Clinical Research Center. While at the Department of Health and Human Services, he was appointed to the Senior Executive Service and recognized for contributions to the development of information on the delivery and financing of health care for persons infected with HIV; for establishing a program to significantly improve health services to rural Americans; for leadership and contributions to advancing Health Services Research. He was given a citation for contributions to Improving Medical Criteria for Disability Determination and for contributions to the development of Primary Care Research. Earlier in his career, Dr. Weissman received the NASA Apollo Achievement Award for Contributions to Space Missions.
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Q: Multiple render error in rails app while generating pdf file via wicked pdf I'm using wicked PDF in my rails app to generate PDF. and that is done by a private function generate_pdf in my controler becase after the purchase process i want to generate that pdf and then mailer function to send that pdf to user.
error
Render and/or redirect were called multiple times in this action. Please note that you may only call render OR redirect, and at most once per action. Also note that neither redirect nor render terminate execution of the action, so if you want to exit an action after redirecting, you need to do something like "redirect_to(...) and return".

code is something lie this.
 def place_order
... some code

    download_new_pdf(@pur)
    UserMailer.confirm_order(@pur).deliver

   format.html { redirect_to(:action=>'order_confirmed/'+@pur[:id].to_s) }
end

and the helper function will be
def download_new_pdf(id)

@my_ticket = Purchase.find(id)
@event = Event.find(@my_ticket[:event_id])
render :pdf => "#{@my_ticket[:random_no]}.pdf",
 :template => 'tickets/download_invoice.html.erb',
 :save_to_file => Rails.root.join('public/data/docs', "#{@my_ticket[:random_no]}.pdf")
end

place_order will do all the DB stuff and at the end generate pdf, send mail and redirect to conformation page. But here it's giving me multiple render error coz of
   format.html { redirect_to(:action=>'order_confirmed/'+@pur[:id].to_s) }

and
  render :pdf => "#{@my_ticket[:random_no]}.pdf",
     :template => 'tickets/download_invoice.html.erb',
     :save_to_file => Rails.root.join('public/data/docs', "#{@my_ticket[:random_no]}.pdf")

i tried putting and return but still no luck,Any help would be appreciated. Thanks !!!

A: Your error is simple. You are render in download_new_pdf and redirecting in place_orderat the same time.  It looks like you need to create the pdf file and store in the file system, not to show it immediately to the user, so, check the readme, here is explained how to just create the PDF and don't render it to the client


JANUARY 20 MIGHT go down as historic in the annals of local radio, if local radio ever gets any annals. Not only did the black-owned Blue Chip Broadcasting chain announce its plans to turn KARP-FM (96.3) into the Twin Cities' first commercial FM station broadcasting hip hop and R&B; the date marked an unprecedented loosening of corporate radio's grip on the spectrum nationwide.
Readers may recall that the William Kennard-led Federal Communications Commission proposed licensing low-watt FM stations last January (see "Fight the Power" March 3, 1999). Kennard seemed sympathetic to the view of a broad coalition of activists that the airwaves had effectively been divvied up by a small number of conglomerates in the wake of 1996's deregulatory Telecommunications Act. Now, despite pleas for a decision extension from big radio's lobbyists, the FCC has voted three to two to start licensing low-power stations.
"I'm pleased, overall," says Beat Radio founder Alan Freed, whose 40-watt station [note: it was 20 watts] was shut down by the FCC in 1996. Freed has been fighting the action in federal court ever since on the grounds that telecommunications policy is unconstitutional. "Who would have thought three and a half years later that the commission would be moving in that direction? It validates everything that we've been saying."
"In any major city, you're dealing with a pretty crowded band," says microradio activist Doctor Diogenes, a pirate-radio disk jockey on the local Free Radio Twin Cities (96.1 FM), which airs alternative rock and left-labor coverage. (The station's collective includes members of the resurgent International Workers of the World--a.k.a. the Wobblies.) Diogenes says the vote may bring a few more stations to the local dial. "But New York, for example, is not going to get anything out of this."
Commercial chains nonetheless took the vote as a serious blow. Last week a spokesman for the National Association of Broadcasters told the Wall Street Journal that it would consider filing a lawsuit if the FCC goes forward with its plan. Representatives Frank Pallone (D-New Jersey) and Michael Oxley (R-Ohio) have introduced legislation that would block the service.


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