Wonderful! Billy Collins does it again. Such a brilliant poet.
That just took my breath away.. 'rain on magnolia' – lovely!
A classically beautiful, poignant, and deeply powerful spiritual haiku.
My initial, physical reading evoked a shared experience; the reader is led to recollect their own sleepless nights. Usually we lie awake when we are worried or troubled. But actually at night our brains are constantly working – mostly it seems processing problems, fears. They are literally reconstructing our memories and searching for solutions. Sometimes they even hide from our conscious mind interpretations which might be troubling or disturb us. It is with a sense of shock I come back to this poem after a week and realize I had completely missed the deeper problem and challenge of Billy Collin's work: that the first line is not in fact "awake at night" but "awake in the dark". We are all conscious beings, awake in the mysteriousness of existence. What we don't know is darkness – and that, Billy Collin's seems to be suggesting, is literally everything both inside and outside of our bare, lonely awakeness. Then a moment of enlightenment. The sound of rain falling on a magnolia triggers a zen-like revelation, a true satori insight.
The melancholy consequence for the magnolia petals – already referred to by one of the readers – are also, I suspect, fully encompassed in what Billy Collins has in mind in that insight. Indeed, the construction of the haiku, in a classical 17 syllables across 3 lines, but with a subtle break in the expected count (5-6-6 instead of the classical 5-7-5) makes me think the poet wants us to physically share his sense of imperfection; nothing is ever quite right in the world.
Truly a beautiful, wistful, wabi and challenging haiku. Thank you for sharing it with us.
And thank you to the editors of Tinywords for selecting this work to close out the Issue. This reader sits humbly in admiration at the wisdom behind your selections and publication sequence.
Sounds really symbolically. I need to read this 5 times per day to feel emotional connection with this haiku. Everyday i open up new meanings.


A path has been cleared for telecommunications company Avaya Inc to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy in an agreement with its senior creditors and the government's pension insurer, Avaya said in a statement on Monday. It said that Jim Chirico, currently Avaya's Chief Operating Officer and Global Sales leader, as Chief Executive Officer, effective October, 1 2017.
Avaya said that it had backing from holders of more than half of its $4.38 billion first-lien debt and a settlement with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp to terminate its underfunded salaried employee pension plan.
The agreements could cut more than $3 billion from the $6.3 billion in debt Avaya had when it entered bankruptcy in January.
Avaya had faced challenges in trying to transition to software and services from a business centered on hardware, and failed to sell its call center business.
Avaya also struggled with pension obligations. The PBGC has said Avaya's hourly workers plan was underfunded by $660 million and its salaried workers plan was underfunded by $1.24 billion.
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2015 was an interesting year for wargaming, at least for me. I started the year intending to work on 1/72 scale plastic ancients and homecast Dux Bellorum warbands, as well as finishing off the Portable Fantasy Game (PFG) skirmish project. I got off to a good start toward those goals, but, as usual, no plan survived contact with reality.
My Bones 2 Kickstarter package arrived with a ton of fantasy plastic, and the PFG completion got sidetracked while I quickly painted up a Bones undead warband, using some of the new Bones 2 figures.
However, the vast mass of Bones 2 was a little overwhelming, and the limitations of the material are becoming more apparent as I continue to paint and play with them. One of them is that spindly parts are going to be a problem, and the Bones 2 cavalry and centaurs are not very satisfactory. Reaper apparently agrees; there were no new cavalry figures in the Bones 3 Kickstarter. Figures suitable for arranging in units remain scarce in the line, so my notion of building new fantasy forces in modern (i.e. BIG) 28mm for mid-sized games, say 120 figures per side, is not working out. So big plastic fantasy is headed toward the back burner, with a few minor exceptions I'll get to.
The next unplanned shift in emphasis came in March, when my long-time friend and fellow gamer from back in the day, Joe, came out to the East Coast for Cold Wars. With a little encouragement from Joe, I ended up coming home with about twenty vintage 25mm fantasy figures from McEwan, Custom Cast, Minifigs, and Ral Partha for the nostalgia value. That got me looking through my old fantasy figures. Added to my issues with the Bones, I started looking around on eBay for figures I had once had, then figures I had once wanted, then figures that I might have wanted had I ever seen them or heard of the company that had once produced them….Somewhere in the middle of that exercise, which, by the way, was reinforced by my brother deciding to do the same thing, Ironwind Metals decided to revive some of the classic Ral Partha fantasy army lines and the old Chaos Wars rules. I bought into that Kickstarter in May, and it happily delivered right on time at the end of the year.
At Huzzah, in May, I picked up a lot of reinforcements for my 25mm Byzantine/fantasy armies, mostly Hinchliffe with a smattering of Minifigs. That was the first "new" army I picked up this year. I also got Aquilonians and Turanians (old Ral Partha Royal Armies of the Hyborean Age) from Classic Miniatures, and the Ral Partha Kickstarter elves and orcs.
I have mostly sworn off Kickstarters, with exceptions made only for established companies, or companies whose previous Kickstarters went well. In 2015, that meant that I signed up for three, Bones 3, the Ral Partha Chaos Wars, and Stonehaven Halflings. All of them have either delivered or are on schedule, so that's been going well, except for the amount of painting stacking up, of course.
With all of this going on, I have been attempting to pick up the pace on army painting. The thought that I had at the beginning of the year, that I might spend more time on painting some superior (not Superior, though I got some of those this year too) miniatures has been overtaken by the press of the amount of work I've taken on. The good news is that it has been an excellent year for painting, with 205 25/28mm figures (and 27 1/72 scale plastic figures) completed. The bad news is that I am going to need to reach toward some previous records (achieved back in the early oughts) if I want to see these armies on the table anytime soon. I also need to seriously up my game on the painting of horses, because I've got a lot of cavalry to paint.
It was a pretty good year for conventions; I made it to Cold Wars, Huzzah, and Gencon, and took games to all three. I had friends at all three, which made each of them a good experience, and I am looking forward to doing at least as well next year.
I was involved in 33 miniatures games, which is a little below where I want to be. With both sons out of the house, though, pickup games aren't as easy as they have been in years past. Ross and I got in a couple of remote games this year, but technical issues have been keeping us from doing more. I hope to fix that in the coming year. As might be expected, the 33 games included a lot of fantasy. We played multiple games with four sets of rules, Chaos Wars, Frostgrave, Song of Blades and Heroes, and our home rules under development. We also had single games of a couple of others. There was still some time for historicals; we played several games of Warhammer Ancient Battles leading up to running it at Cold Wars, and several Charge! games with the Not Quite Seven Years War figures, leading up to Huzzah.
As far as games and rules went, that mix made it a fairly typical year, with just a couple of exceptions.
One was Osprey's release of Frostgrave, and several of my fellow HAWKs members immediately jumped on the bandwagon. Since it uses warbands of no more than 10 figures, it was pretty easy to get a team on the table by simply reaching into the box of finished Bones. In 2016, I want to line up a purpose built faction with appropriately themed basing, and see if I can get it painted in small batches in between 25mm fantasy. It will be mostly Bones, with a few other Reaper metal figures to round out a couple of figure types that are a little scarce in Bones. I've also started my own set of paper model-based scenery so that I can run it at home. My older son has also started working on a Frostgrave band, so there are some family games in the future. I don't usually buy into these small specialized sorts of games, but it seems to me that most of this can be easily recycled into something else if everyone gets tired of it. I'll try to post more on Frostgrave in the near future.
The second was also an Osprey release, Dragon Rampant, right at the end of the year. A couple of the other HAWKs have been talking about trying its medieval precursor, Lion Rampant, but haven't yet done so because they are still working on figures. Translate that concept to fantasy and, behold!, I have troops for a dozen warbands/retinues immediately at my fingertips. So that allowed me to throw a game on the table (as described in my Christmas trip report) even before my pre-ordered hardcopy of the rules caught up with me, which is not at all my usual experience in testing something new. I expect to be playing more Dragon Rampant in 2016, since it makes use of stuff that's already in place.
For 2016, I have already mentioned that I want to work on getting the 25mm fantasy armies painted. After spending much of the past year stripping paint from eBay purchases, I am looking forward to working with figures that haven't been painted previously. Beyond that, I want to get back to building the Dux Bellorum warbands with the homecast figures, partly just because I am interested in the period (thanks, Rosemary Sutcliff), and partly to take the opportunity to practice my conversion skills on small scale figures, using ones that are cheap and easily recycled in the event of any unfortunate occurrences. I also want to get back to working, even if only gradually, on some NQSYW figures again. I have been working toward a project goal for many years without yet reaching it, and I hope that running some NQSYW games will provide the necessary inspiration. There is also some chance that this will be the year that I do some more with the 40mm Renaissance figures.
One final observation: much of the last third of the year was a little stressful at work. I was interested to see that the way this played out in my hobby was to get me painting more in my available time, because painting was a complete break from the sort of thing I was doing at work. Setting up scenarios and doing army list calculations seemed way too much like work for it to be relaxing, which contributed to the fact that relatively few games got played post-Gencon, right up until work things got finished, just at Christmas. If a lower stress level at work were to translate into less painting and more playing next year, I think I would be at peace with that.
So, with that, 2015 is a wrap, and it's on to an exciting 2016.


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Contemporary music and early music often attract artists with great technical precision, intelligence, and musicality, and this precept holds true for soprano LISA SAFFER. Renowned for her interpretation of 20th-century repertoire, Saffer is the preeminent interpreter of the role of Marie in Zimmermann's Die Soldaten and has appeared in productions of Klaas de Vries's A King Riding, Hans Werner Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers, Birtwistle's Punch and Judy, and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, among many others. Her performance of Lulu at English National Opera was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for outstanding achievement in opera and received the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for best vocal performance. The soprano will repeat the role at English National Opera this season, with the performances slated for telecast.
Saffer also is highly regarded for her performances in the operas of Handel. Her first exploration of the early operatic repertoire was in the Stephen Wadsworth productions of The Return of Ulysses (Minerva) and The Coronation of Poppea (Poppea) at the Skylight Opera in Milwaukee. Performances of Poppea in Agrippina, Teofane in Ottone, Polissena in Radamisto, Jenny and Polly Peachum in The Beggar's Opera, and Belinda in Dido and Aeneas (all conducted by Nicholas McGegan) followed. Earlier this season she made her debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich as Almirena in Rinaldo and performed Dalinda in Handel's Ariodante at New York City Opera. She returns to the New York City Opera this season for performances of Rameau's Platée with the Mark Morris Dance Company.
In concert Saffer has appeared with the Atlanta Symphony, Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic in works spanning four centuries. She has appeared in Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortileges with Pierre Boulez at Carnegie Hall, Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream with Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic, and, in fall 2003, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with conductor David Robertson in the opening concerts of Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall. Her world premieres include John Harbison's Four Psalms, James Primosch's From a Book of Hours, and Bright Sheng's Three Chinese Love Songs.
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GMO Apples That Won't Turn Brown? No Thanks!
Yesterday I was listening to National Public Radio and heard a story about apples that I just can't shake.
A Canadian company has created genetically modified, non-browning, "Arctic" apples.
Imagine that. An apple that doesn't turn brown when you slice it.
Placing everything that's wrong with this creation aside, it's a parents dream. This invention would have saved many apple slices from landing in the trash or compost bin.
Let me back up for a minute and share with you that we are an apple-loving family.
The unfortunate piece is that my kids won't eat an apple if it's the slightest bit brown or has any imperfections. I guess you could say that we're snobby apple eaters.
For years this has been an ongoing debate between parent and child in our house. Wasting slightly brown apple slices doesn't fly with me.
I struggle with conveying to my children that there's no such thing as a perfect piece of fruit. That's the way nature intended it to be.
The apples at the supermarkets look so pretty and shiny. Have we come to expect that our apples are picture perfect?
The non-browning trait was created by inserting extra copies of genes that the apple already possessed. These genes normally create an enzyme called polyphenol oxidase, which is responsible for the chemical reaction that causes browning.
The company has already developed non-browning versions of Golden Delcious and Granny Smith with Gala and Fuji coming up soon. These non-browning apples are waiting for approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. There's no surprise that they face some big-time opposition.
The environmental risks and risks to the existing organic crops also play a big role.
Come on people. Do we really need apples that don't turn brown? This is really taking GMOs to the next level of crazy.
Again, no surprise here. Okanagan Specialty Fruits, creators of "Arctic" apples, hopes that parents and food service companies invest in this apple. The sliced apples we can buy now are treated with antioxidant chemicals to prevent them from turning brown. The "Arctic" apple won't need this treatment and according to the creators will save quite a bit of money.
Unfortunately, I dont' think they've taken into account the possibility of growing medical costs associated with GMOs or the potential economic disasters facing organic farmers whose crops become contaminated.
Can't wait to hear what you think. Would you buy non-browning, genetically engineered apples? I think my kids would in a heartbeat!
Ugh, I heard the same story on NPR and was sick over it. No, thank you!
It just seems so pointless, doesn't it Kim?
I couldn't agree more Rachel. This is messing with nature big-time- and for what? An apple that doesn't turn brown. Silly.
This creation of artificial need.
Although I can see how they want to extend the life of apples, leave Mother Nature alone! Fruits are supposed to go bad over time!
Thanks for alerting us to yet another genetic "frankenfood". I'll never buy them. This is another good reason to eat organic foods. There is nothing as healthy and delicious as a lovely, non GMO, organic apple.


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Q: Print row with minimum value in column 5 from several files How to print the row with minimum value in column 5 from several files and the name of file to each row please?
Each file has various number of rows - 20, 45, 44...
file0
45 7 8 9 9
45 7 5 0 5
44 5 8 9 4
11 5 6 8 8

file1
78 77 8 5 9
78 9  9 7 1
77 8 5 5 5
10 2 3 3 3
88 9 6 5 2

file2
77 8 0 0 2
3  3 6 9 8

The desired result:
file0
45 7 5 0 5
file1
78 9 9 7 1
file2
77 8 0 0 2

Maybe find minimum in $5 as some variable and print a row, which included this variable in $5.

A: One way (Requires GNU awk):
$ gawk 'BEGINFILE { minline = ""; minval = 1000000 }
        $5 < minval { minline=$0; minval=$5 }
        ENDFILE { print FILENAME; print minline }' file0 file1 file2
file0
44 5 8 9 4
file1
78 9  9 7 1
file2
77 8 0 0 2

Set minval to some number that's going to be larger than any number in column 5 in any file if 1 million is too low.

A: A slightly different approach , that i think could work in any awk, not just gawk:
awk 'FNR==1{m[FILENAME]=$5;next};$5<m[FILENAME]{m[FILENAME]=$5}END{for (i in m) print i,m[i]}' file0 file1 file2

A: Could you please try following(tested with your provided samples only).
awk 'FNR%2!=0{val=$0;field=$NF;next} {printf("%s\n",field>$NF?$0:val);val=""}'  file[0-2]

Explanation: Adding explanation for above code now.
awk '                                   ##Starting awk program here.
FNR%2!=0{                               ##Checking condition if line number is NOT divided by 2 then do following.
  val=$0                                ##Creating variable named val and setting its value to current line.
  field=$NF                             ##creating variable field whose value is last field of current line.
  next                                  ##next will skip all further statements from here.
}
{
  printf("%s\n",field>$NF?$0:val)       ##Printing $0 or val here depending upon condition, if field>$NF then print $0 or print val.
  val=""                                ##Nullifying variable val here.
}
'  file[0-2]                            ##Mentioning Input_file names file[0-2] means to take file0, file1 and file2 names.

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This list occurs in a catalog of Moravians in America (BethCong 369).
1718-1802. Born near Suhl, Germany. Worked as a gunstocker and a music teacher at Christiansbrunn, 1759-1766.
Johann Anders
1748-1779. Born in Nazareth. Occupation unknown.
Johann Angermann
1733-1775. Occupation unknown. Seems to have arrived in Christiansbrunn in 1764. Left in 1771 for mission work in Jamaica. Said to have died in Jamaica, but listed on 1775 tax list.
Matthias Bacher
1725-1769. Born in Salzburg, Austria. Worked as a carpenter.
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David Bischoff
Johann Friedrich Boehner
1745-1791. Born in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. One of the first boys to be sent to Christiansbrunn in September 1757, assigned to learn to be a tailor. Later worked as a tailor and a gardener.
Johannes Bonn
1719-1797. Born in Skippack, Pennsylvania. Worked as a deacon.
Johann Brandmüller
1736-1812. Born in Basel, Switzerland. Seems to arrived in Christiansbrunn as an assistant in the washhouse. Worked as a baker. Identified as infirm on 1773-1775 tax lists.
Johann David Brucker
1742-1790. Born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. One of the first cohort of boys sent to Christiansbrunn, assigned to learn to be a shoemaker. Later worked as a master shoemaker. Went from Christiansbrunn to Lititz in 1769. Left Christiansbrunn again when he married on August 21, 1782.
Heinrich Brunner
1739-1818. Born in Alsace, France. Worked as a thresher. Lived as a single man and then later with his wife, Rosina, and their children at Christiansbrunn.
Abraham Büninger
1750-1811. Born near Zurich, Switzerland.
Detlef Delfs
1723-1795. Born in Emkendorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Worked as a cobbler and a sick-nurse. Left Christiansbrunn in October 1767 for Lititz and returned to Christiansbrunn in 1769.
Christian Demuth
1740-1781. Birthplace unknown. Worked as a thresher.
Joseph Demuth
1748-1827. Born in Fredericktown, Pennsylvania. Occupation unknown.
Jeremias Denke
1724-1795. Born in Bielawa, Poland. Worked as a deacon.
Carl Jacques Dreyspring
1722-1794. Born in Bad Liebenzell, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Arrived at Christiansbrunn in September 1757 to superintend some of the boys assigned to various trades and moved to Bethlehem in April 1764. Worked as a tailor.
William Edwards
1724-1801. Born in England. Worked as a deacon.
Nicolaus Fleissner
1720-1801. Born in Asch, Czech Republic. Worked as a helper on the plantation and as a thresher, and attended to the cellar.
Samuel Flex
1751-1782. Born in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Worked as a linen weaver. Entered, and crossed out, on 1781 tax preparation list.
Martin Freyhube
1720-1813. Born in Olesnica, Poland. Worked as a waggoner, cobbler, a farmer, and in the distillery.
Johann Nicolaus Funck
1720-1795. Born in Neuendorff, Germany. Worked as a plantation worker, a headmaster, and a cellar master.
Johann Heinrich Gallentin
1743-????. Birthplace unknown. Occupation unknown.
Peter Goetje, Jr.
Georg Wenzeslaus Golkowsky
1725-1813. Born in Cieszyn, Poland. Worked as a carpenter, an accounting officer, and a land surveyor.
Nicolas Gruen
Christian Ludwig Grunwalde
1721-1793. Born in Priegnitz, Germany. Worked as a plantation worker.
Gottlieb Haberecht
1700-1767. Born in Lower Silesia. Worked as a weaver.
Anna Magdalene (Reid) Hafner
1725-1797. Born in Tulpehocken, Pennsylvania. Worked as a farmer with her husband.
Jacob Hafner
1763-1768. Born at Christiansbrunn.
1709-1773. Born in Zurich, Switzerland. Worked as a stocking weaver. Identified as a married man on 1766 & 1771 tax list.
Anthony Hägen
Johannes Hanke
1750-????. Born in Gnadenthal, Pennsylvania. Worked as a cook and as cobbler master. Moved to Salem in 1786.
Nathaniel Hantsch
1749-1821. Born in Bethlehem. Worked in the gunshop, probably as a locksmith, during the Revolutionary War.
John Heckewelder
1743-1823. Born in Bedford, England. Left Christiansbrunn for Bethlehem in September 1757 with six other boys. Later worked as a missionary.
Georg Christoph Heppner
1713-1791. Born in Lindau, Saxony, Germany. Worked as a household helper. Seems to have moved to Nazareth Hall in 1765.
Elias Hirte
1750-????. Born in Gnadenthal. Left Christiansbrunn in 1773, "secretly."
Andreas Holder
1731-1779. Born in New York. Worked as a linen weaver.
1747-1817. Birthplace unknown. Worked as a shoemaker. Married Dorothea Ronner (1747-1826) in 1778 and died in Hope, New Jersey.
Abraham Jorde
1747-1770. Birthplace unknown. Worked as a thresher. Moved to Bethabara in 1769.
Elisabeth Kaske
Georg Kaske
John Renatus Kaske
1749-1823. Born in Berbice, Suriname. Worked as a coachman. Moved to Salem in 1786.
Matthaeus Krause
1747-1799. Born in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Worked as a farmer. Entered, and crossed out, on 1781 tax preparation list.
Gottfried Kreuter
1740-????
William Lanius
1748-1814. Born in York, Pennsylvania. Worked as a tailor. Arrived in Christiansbrunn in 1762.
Samuel Lauck
1713-1786. Born in Anspach, Germany. Worked as a shirt tailor and a barber ("employed in House-Work" in 1756). Identified as inform on 1773-1775 tax list.
Johannes Lehnert
Christian Leinbach
1739-1792. Born in Skippack, Pennsylvania. Occupation unknown.
Christian Matthiesen
1712-1796. Born in Jutland, Denmark. Worked as a beer brewer and a distiller.
Phillip Jacob Meyer
1722-1782. Born in Würtemberg. Arrived at Christiansbrunn in September 1757 to superintend some of the boys assigned to various trades. Worked as a cobbler.
David Micksch
1745-1793. Born in Nazareth. One of the first cohort of boys to be sent to Christiansbrunn in September 1757, assigned to learn agriculture. Worked as a plantation worker and a woodcutter.
Nathaniel Micksch
1743-1827. Born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. One of the first cohort of boys sent to Christiansbrunn, assigned to agriculture. Later worked as a thresher, a miller, and a farmer. Entered, but crossed out, on 1781 tax preparation list.
Johannes Mordick
John Mücke
1749-????.
Peter Mücke
1747-1816. Born in Nazareth. Worked as a farmer. Lived in Christiansbrunn as a single man and again as a married man, with his wife and family.
Lorenz Nielsen
1715-1785. Born in Calstrup, Denmark. Worked as a carpenter. Identified as infirm on 1773 tax list.
Johannes Nilsen
Samuel Nixdorf
1745-????. Birthplace unknown. One of the first cohort of boys sent to Christiansbrunn in September 1757, assigned to learn to be a scribe. Later worked as a woodcutter.
Johann Christian Oerter
1747-1777. Born in Fredericktown, Pennsylvania. Worked as a gunstocker.
Michael Pitzman
1726-1791. Born in Babenhausen, Germany. Worked as a waggoner and as a steward.
Jacob Priesing / Brüsing
1709-1773. Born in Rügen, Germany. Worked as a builder.
Matthew Reuz
Anton David Rohner
Martinus Roleder
1724-1797. Born in Zauchtenthal, Moravia. Worked as a farmer and took care of the pigs. Moved to Nazareth Hall on 30 May 1757 and later to Christiansbrunn. Left Christiansbrunn for Bethlehem in 1796.
Johannes Rubel
Michael Ruch II
1727-1797. Born in Eckendorf, Alsace. Worked as a farmer and as a brewer. Listed as a married man on 1771-1781 tax lists, living with his two daughters (1781).
Jacob Rüssler
1714-1781. Born at Hessen-Cassel. Worked as a cook.
Johann Schaub
1744-1803. Birthplace unknown. One of the first cohort of boys sent to Christiansbrunn in September 1757, assigned to learn agriculture. Later worked as a woodcutter. Moved to North Carolina.
1696-1785. Born in Jütland, Denmark. Held no working positions due to old age.
Gottfried Schultz
Gottlob Sensemann
1745-1800. Birthplace unknown. Was one of the first cohort of boys sent to Christiansbrunn in September 1757, assigned to learn to be a scribe. Later worked as a missionary.
Lucia (Biezer) Spohn
1714-1788. Lived with her husband, Matthew Spohn, at Christiansbrunn until his death.
Matthias Spohn
1711-1781. Born in Würtemberg, Germany. Occupation unknown. Identified as married man on 1766-1781 tax lists.
Salome Steiner
Christopher Rudolph Stroehle
Wendel Westhoefer
1743-1769. Born in Muddy Creek, Pennsylvania. Occupation unknown.
Matthew Witke
1749-1803. Born in Nazareth. Worked in the brewery. Entered, and crossed out, on 1781 tax preparation list.
David Zeisberger
1721-1808. Born in Herrnhut, Germany. Worked as a missionary.
[Michael Ziegler]
1741-????. Born in Pennsylvania. Worked as a farmer. Left for North Carolina in 1764.


Dell, Gateway, HP, and MPC Computers are among the first to implement 3.2-GHz chips, and you may be surprised to see who comes out on top.
We loved the step that Intel took when it launched Canterwood—the code name for its combination of the 875P chipset and new type of Pentium 4 processor set to work with an 800-MHz front-side bus (FSB). Working with dual-channel 400-MHz DDR SDRAM, Canterwood systems eliminate system bottlenecks, providing 6.4-GBps peak access between the north bridge of the chipset and system memory, as well as a 6.4-GBps pipe between the chipset and the CPU.
This robust platform, which debuted at 3.06 GHz, was just waiting for even faster CPUs to tap it more fully. The first of those is here. Leaving the old 533-MHz FSB in PC history, Intel is moving forward with a 3.2-GHz Pentium 4 set to run on the 875P architecture. We took a look at four of the first machines—from Dell, Gateway, HP, and MPC Computers (formerly MicronPC)—that have the new CPU. Interestingly, only two of them take full advantage of 875P's potential: The Gateway and MPC entries both feature Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives in a motherboard interface, a high-speed RAID 0 configuration, and motherboard-resident Gigabit Ethernet (GbE).
Deciding that these high-end features are not for everyone just yet, Dell and HP both opted to implement them as PCI options to end up with cheaper base motherboards (and passed the savings on to you, one would hope). But note that the combination of RAID and GbE on the PCI bus will yield somewhat congested performance, so if you need these features, opt for a system that has the full motherboard implementations.
On the bright side of PCI RAID, when used without GbE as in the case of the HP entry, our performance tests show that it is a good solution for many applications: The HP did well on all tests. The Gateway and MPC systems were virtually neck and neck on our benchmark tests, with Gateway taking the lead in Business Winstone and Multimedia Content Creation.
Comparing the 3.2-GH P4 numbers to 3.0-GHz P4 and AMD Athlon XP 3200+ systems, we see that the new 3.2-GHz chip is the clear leader. Our AMD-based comparison box was a souped-up Falcon Northwest machine with 10,000-rpm drives—and it still couldn't beat the Intel leaders on anything but Business Winstone (which we expected, since the P4 architecture doesn't like the branchy code of the business apps found in the test). So for now at least, the 3.2-GHz P4 has the bragging rights as the fastest PC platform.


BALTIMORE, MD, USA - MAY 19, 2011 : Alex has retreated to the bathroom of her club to get high. She often shoots heroin several times in the course of one shift. She says she can't dance or deal with the customers if she is not sober. Heroin is a huge industry in Baltimore, as it is in many post-industrial towns and cities in the United States. It has seen a huge resurgence in popularity over the last decade, due in great measure to the availability of prescription opioids like oxycontin, which is often a gateway drug. According to the Centers for Disease Control, in 2002, 100 people per 100,000 were addicted to heroin but that number had doubled by 2013. Rates of addiction in the Northeastern United States have increased dramatically, only slightly outpaced by addiction rates in the Midwest, with the highest addiction increases being reported amongst 18-25-year-olds. The rate of heroin-related overdose deaths increased 286 percent between 2002 and 2013. This photograph was unposed and undirected by the photographer.


work on it. | eat your cake and count your chickens.
if you struggle in some area of your life, it is up to you to work on it.
don't stand by and hope that time will take care of it, that someone or something will some day inspire you into action, or that you will do it tomorrow – no! You have too much to do and too many fun, fulfilling experiences waiting for you to put this off any longer.
Whatever you are dealing with is not self-contained – it affects every single other aspect of your life, even the things you are sure you get right – so you will lose out on experiences, people, opportunities and adventures if you don't work on it.
I am well-versed on this losing-out part – we all are!
buy the books, take the classes, go to therapy, talk to someone who gets it right – the benefits of overcoming this struggle are going to be so worth it!
That is, if you don't want to struggle anymore…which you don't…right?
Laura…you rock. You really do. Keep writing and I'll keep reading.


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Bankers' bonuses are now just part of monthly salary
Bankers are still raking it in.
Bailed out bank Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is handing top bankers free shares worth millions of pounds to get around the bonus cap.
The European Union (EU) said banks can't pay bonuses worth more than 100 percent of a salary without approval from shareholders.
RBS wanted to raise this to 200 percent, but were blocked.
George Osborne said they shouldn't do it. But he is campaigning to get the EU bonus cap removed.
But the bankers carry on regardless. RBS's move will boost basic salaries by up to 200 percent.
Other banks are giving out "special allowances" to get around the bonus cap. At the same time Barclays won the support of shareholders for payments of up to 200 percent of salary.
Heard the one about the minister and the tax haven?
Tory cabinet minister Sajid Javid has been accused of channelling a huge bonus through a tax haven.
Javid used to work as a city banker for Deutsche Bank on a £3 million a year salary.
He's accused of receiving a bonus of at least £50,000 through shares in a Cayman Islands firm to lower the company's tax bill.
Javid was promoted to culture secretary last month after disgraced Maria Miller was forced to resign over an expenses scandal.
He'll fit in nicely then.
Ukip fails to hide its racist bigots
In shocking news, another Ukip candidate is racist. William Henwood, is Ukip's candidate in local elections in Enfield, north London.
He tweeted last week that black actor and comedian Lenny Henry should emigrate to a "black country".
He has since defended the tweet. "If black people come to this country and don't like mixing with white people why are they here?" he told the BBC. "If he (Henry) wants a lot of blacks around, go and live in a black country."
Lenny Henry, who was born in Dudley, had said that ethnic minorities are poorly represented in the media.
Ukip claimed it is a "non-racist, non-sectarian party whose members are expected to uphold these values". Henwood remains a candidate.
A Ukip spokesman denounced "smear campaigns" against it.
Ukip had to suspend the "poster boy" of its European election broadcast Andre Lampitt after he sent a series of racist tweets. Lampitt described Islam as an "evil organisation" and
told people to "get over" slavery.
Tory Nick Gibb reveals the war over schools
Ex-schools minister Nick Gibb explained the real reason for the Tories' education "reforms" last week—an ideological war over how children should be educated.
In an article on the Guardian's Comment is Free site the Tory MP called on unions to join the "battle" against "progressive educationalists".
These are the people who argue that education should be
child-led and that children shouldn't be tested to excess.
For Gibb, it's these people who are responsible for everything wrong in schools.
Gibb claimed that "teaching unions are not the problem with our schools".
Gibb bemoans the influence of the left in the NUT—"The militants who wield disproportionate power."
He went on to list reams of things the unions were wrong about.
These included opposing attacks on their pensions, fighting and striking.
We gotta get out of this place, say youth
The Tories claim we are seeing a "recovery". Yet most people can't see it. And many are leaving Britain because they're sick of unemployment.
The youth travel and work group Smaller Earth UK surveyed 1,000 18-20 year olds.
It found that of those moving abroad, 21 percent were looking for jobs and 36 percent had "simply had enough of Britain".
Some 54 percent said the jobs market in Britain was "bad".
There has been a 243 percent rise in the number of applications from people who want to work as au pairs in China.
In it to win it or there's no point, kids told
Bad news for all those who claim competition is "natural" and part of our genetic make up.
A survey of 1,000 eight to 16 year olds found that nearly two in third would be either relieved or "not bothered" if there was no competition in school sports.
Apparently children enjoying sports without wanting to beat someone is a problem. David Cameron has expressed his concern.
And esteemed cricket body the MCC plans to hold assemblies to foist a competitive spirit on children.
Bye bye CBI
The Scottish boss of the bosses' CBI is to retire. No wonder—it has been a stressful few weeks. The CBI registered with the Electoral Commission, allowing it to spend up to £150,000 in campaigning for a "No" vote ahead of the Scottish referendum in September.
But it turned out loads of its members weren't so sure and have resigned. It now says it was an administrative mistake.
Jobs search hits new low
In a further sign of the desperate scramble for work, more than 700 people have applied to be Ukip leader Nigel Farage's personal assistant.
Some 764 people replied to the fake advert in just 12 hours after Farage said only his German wife could do the job.
Uncovering the week's news
Tory cuts meant the 'economic murder' of 120,000 people
As cop hearing begins, Alfie Meadows demands justice
Tories put the cheque in the post early for hedge funds
State collusion rife in Derry Loyalist murder gang
State deaths quads in Derry, Phillip Green still trousering cash
Offshore wind farms go offshore to avoid tax
Tax avoiding companies, money laundering accountants and petrol profiteers
NatWest Bank bosses admit 'spoofing' to fix the markets
The Troublemaker looks at the news of the week
Care home company ships profits to Cayman Islands
A round up of scandals and news of the week


Our friends at Realtor.com (disclosure, yes I'm a member of the New York State Realtor Association) just put up a timeline for first-time homebuyers interested in grabbing the $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit. Although the credit expires June 30th, in order to qualify, you must be in contract by April 30.
The Realtor.com timeline starts on March 1, but there are some ways you can speed through the steps even if you jump in now. You can, for example, pick a lender in one week rather than two. Ask friends and family for referrals, just as you would if you were looking for a real estate agent. The most important thing to remember is to work closely with your lender; make sure your appraisal is ordered the minute the contract is signed. These things take time...sometimes lots of time.


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Q: How to debug GDI+ in c#? i have a user control, and it's not drawn correctly, how to debug the drawing?
If i set break point, the control will get blocked, i can't see the drawing result instantly?
any idea?

A: What you need is the Graphics Debugger visualizer.

A: It's best to debug drawing activities with a multi-monitor setup, but there are a handful of other things that can help if you've only got one monitor.

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*Repositioning your IDE (Visual Studio) so that it doesn't overlap. Unfortunately, this may not help if you need active focus on the control.

*Draw a 2nd copy into a bitmap, and write the bitmap to disk or redisplay it in a dialog or some other window. This is a bit of extra work, but conceptually the same as doing logging.

*Alter your drawing code so that certain elements or certain parts of elements are only drawn if you have certain keys pressed down (left-shift/right-shift, ctrl, alt, or some combination of those keys). This is easy to add and can allow you to filter out parts of your code that would be tricky to step into with the debugger.

Here's the function that can provide the state for you (requires p/invoke) and the signature from pinvoke.net.
GetKeyState Function() @ MSDN
pinvoke.net: GetKeyState (user32)


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Home > Articles > Programming > Java
XML and Java: Bridging Application Data Structure and XML
By Andy Clark, Satoshi Hada, Kazuya Kosaka, Hiroshi Maruyama, Makoto Murata, Yuichi Nakamura, Ryo Neyama, Kent Tamura, Naohiko Uramoto
Mapping to Almost Isomorphic Tree Structures
Structure Adjustment by XSLT
Mapping to Tables
Mapping to Hash Tables
Mapping to Graph Structures
Hiroshi Maruyama et al explain that there are certain patterns in mappings between XML documents and application data.
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The theme of this book is how XML and Java interact with each other. In Chapter 2 (parsing) we explained how to transform an XML document into a Java data structure based on DOM and SAX. Chapter 3 (generation) showed how to generate an XML document from a Java program. Chapter 4 (DOM/DOM2) and Chapter 5 (SAX/SAX2) dealt with standard APIs to access an XML document from a Java program. Common to these techniques is the concept of mapping between XML documents and Java data structures. However, these are not the only ways to do mapping between XML and Java. This chapter introduces various mapping patterns and techniques.
As we discussed in Chapter 1, and as we will see in Chapters 12 (messaging) and 13 (Web services), XML is a data format suitable for data exchange and is not necessarily suitable for processing. From an application programmer's point of view, XML documents exist in an external data format only, and once they are read into memory, the programmer deals with the internal data structure—that is, Java objects for implementing application-specific logic. XML processors are responsible for converting XML documents into Java data in the form of DOM or SAX, but these data structures rarely represent your application's data structure. For example, suppose that you parse a purchase order document and receive a DOM structure. You need the customer's name and the serial number to process the data. From a <customer>element, you may need to scan its child nodes to find a <name>node and a <serialNumber>node and then convert them into appropriate Java data types. Instead of a DOM tree, what the application programmer really wants is Java objects reflecting the application data structure, such as class Customer. This class has the nameand serialNumberfields, and these fields are to be filled with the data extracted from the XML document. This eliminates the extra code of scanning a DOM tree and simplifies the application code. Therefore, it is common that application programmers convert a DOM tree or a SAX event stream into an application-specific data representation before any application-specific process is executed.
In the programming language literature, the concept of mapping between internal data structures and external octet sequences is common, and the terms marshal and unmarshal are used for describing the mapping processes (see Figure 8.1). An XML document is an octet stream. Therefore, parsing an XML document can be considered to be unmarshaling, while generating an XML document can be considered as marshaling.
Figure 8.1 Marshaling and unmarshaling
In this chapter, we explain that there are certain patterns in mappings between XML documents and application data. In Section 8.2, we consider mappings where the application data structure and the XML document structure are isomorphic. If the application data structure is slightly different from the input XML document structure, the use of XSLT to adjust the structure is a standard technique. We explain this technique in Section 8.3. Two-dimensional arrays, or tables, are also a common data structure. In Section 8.4, we briefly discuss tables as the application data structure. The general technique of mapping between XML documents and relational tables is covered in detail in Chapter 11, XML and Databases. However, we explain mapping for one special type of table—hash tables, in this chapter. Section 8.5 shows a useful technique of representing an XML document as a hash table. In more complex cases, the application data structure may be represented as a graph. We give an example of mapping an XML document into a graph structure in Section 8.6. In Chapter 15, Data Binding, we revisit mappings and explore how to automate mappings between the application data structure and the XML document structure.
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Lawn tractors require more power than smaller models of mowers.
1 Why Does the Battery Keep Dying on My Riding Mower?
3 Know When a Lawn Mower Battery Is Dead?
Unlike push and self-propelled walk-behind mowers, lawn tractors come equipped with a battery to power the electrical system, an oil reservoir to hold much-needed lubrication for the engine and a gas tank to hold gasoline to fuel the tractor. In order to keep the battery charged and running, a lawn tractor must have a charging system that works much like an alternator does in an automobile.
Since most walk-behind mowers don't require a battery in order to run, you may wonder why a riding mower needs one. Lawn tractors often have components not found on smaller models of mowers that require the aid of a battery. Headlights, ignitions, starters and electric clutches are just some of the systems that require a battery in order to run. Without a charging system, the battery would soon go dead and be unable to recharge without being jump-started or plugged into a battery charger.
Most lawn tractors possess one of two types of charging systems to help keep the battery up and running. One type of charging system is the belt-driven alternator, typically mounted on the engine. As the belt turns the alternator, the alternator continually generates power to recharge the battery. The other type of system has a stator -- a round, metal body with a central hole surrounded by prongs wrapped in coil wires -- that sits underneath the flywheel.
As with any lawn tractor component, problems occasionally develop with the charging system. The alternator or stator may fail, the regulator may go bad, you may encounter a frayed, disconnected or damaged wire or the alternator belt may be loose or broken. Before assuming that the problem stems from the charging system, always charge the battery fully with a battery charger and then test the charge with a multimeter. What appears to be a charging problem may be nothing more than a worn-out battery.
Once you know that your lawn tractor's battery is in good shape and able to be charged to full capacity, it's time to begin testing the charging system. A handy tool for testing the components of the charging system is a mutlimeter. A multimeter is a small, handheld machine that contains a positive and a negative lead that hook into the multimeter and into the lawn tractor components. The multimeter also contains a digital readout or dial where you can observe the results of your tests. You can use the multimeter to check voltage, electric current and resistance.
Taylor, Amie. "Do Lawn Tractors Have a Charging System?" Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/lawn-tractors-charging-system-103179.html. Accessed 22 April 2019.
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(Germany)Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research
and University of Stuttgart (Germany) Materials Science Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), 1995
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology Laser surface
Dep. of Materials Eng., Haifa (Israel) modifications, Mg alloys Postdoc, 1996-98
2012 – present Director and Scientific Member Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH and Professor Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany
2005 – 2012 Full Professor (Chair) of Materials Physics, University of Leoben, Head of the Department Materials Physics, and Director of Erich Schmid Institut of Materials Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Leoben, Austria
1999-2005 Senior scientist, Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart Germany,
1996-1998 Postdoc, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
1995-1996 Scientist, Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany
1992-1995 PhD student, Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research and University of Stuttgart, Germany,
1996 – 1998 Feodor-Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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This has been a difficult week for me sleep-wise. The baby has not been sleeping well. I say all this to explain my reading for this week. I've been reading what I call "brain candy" – novels and not the greatest quality either. I've just been too tired to do any deep thinking when I read, but I still have this need to read. So let's just let my reading go at that and get on to what my children have been reading.
15-year-old daughter – Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell and Daddy Longlegs by Jean Webster and The Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo. Apparently she's not suffering from sleep deprivation. We recently watched the BBC miniseries "Cranford". My daughter did a review of it on her blog "Ramblings of a Janeite". She did a great job (and of course I'm not prejudiced).
13-year-old son – Okay, so apparently he's still on his encyclopedia reading binge. This week has been Volume N-O. I might add this is the World Book set my parents bought for me when I was a baby.
So a good week of books in our house. How about in yours?
My reading has been very "non-thinking" reading this week – I'm soooo anxious to be done work and spend some time in the afternoons re-reading the great books from our childhood!


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This Month In Data Science
September 30, 2014 Paul M. Davis
This Month in Data Science: September 2014
September was a big month for data science news, with discussion about how the discipline can be applied to social good projects, and a number of fascinating case studies about how it is being leveraged by hot social web properties such as Facebook, Uber, and eHarmony. Here's our roundup of the biggest data science news of the month, both from Pivotal and the wider industry.
Data Science That Makes a Difference
InformationWeek looks at how governments, social good organizations, and NGOs are utilizing data science to address societal issues, and why such "Data do-gooder" projects should be supported and encouraged by large companies.
Looking to the Future of Data Science
In a recap of the recent Association for Computing Machinery annual conference, the New York Times details the prognostications of leading industry and academic data scientists. Hot topics of discussion at the event were the potential of machine learning technologies, the ethical implications of data mining, applications to the healthcare industry, and more.
Three Marks Of Real Data Science
In an opinion piece for Techcrunch, C9 CEO Michael Howard draws a distinction between "real data science (and) pseudo science," and urges investors to be on the alert for "quackery." A number of the companies that claim they are performing data science are in fact "just querying subsets of data to deliver limited findings," Howard states. He lays out three ways to tell whether a company's offerings are true examples of data science rather than mere hype.
JUST MARRIED: Facebook Data Science Team Examines 2014 Honeymoon Check-Ins
AllFacebook writes about a recent study by the Facebook Data Science Team tracking the behavior of recently married users to determine the top honeymoon destinations for couples, with Las Vegas and such tropical environs as Hawaii, Cancún, Jamaica, and Brazil being top honeymoon spots.
Forget GMOs. The Future of Food Is Data—Mountains of It
Wired profiles the efforts of Dan Zigmond, previously chief data scientist for YouTube and Google Maps, to take a data-driven approach to transforming "the future of food." Zigmond has brought together biochemists, food scientists, chefs, and data scientists to develop a research and development lab for food distribution, preparation, and cooking with the goal of improving nutrition and reducing food waste worldwide.
Uber uses data science to predict where its riders want to go
Uber has become famous—perhaps infamous—for its aggressive efforts to disrupt the taxi business. This innovation extends to how it leverages data science according to this recent VentureBeat article. The company is using its deep stores of user activity data to optimize operations and predict the likely destinations of riders during peak times.
How eHarmony uses data science for matchmaking
eHarmony has long been secretive about the secret sauce behind its matchmaking algorithms, but the company's senior analyst of US research and development Jonathan Beber opens the veil slightly in a recent interview with CIO magazine. The company has assembled a data science team that includes three psychologists and three computer scientists to constantly refine and improve the effectiveness of eHarmony's services for users.
This Month in Pivotal Data Science
Content-Based Image Retrieval using Pivotal HD with HAWQ
The number of images and videos captured by humans using digital cameras is staggering. It has been estimated that an average of 350 million photos are uploaded to Facebook daily, and about 100 hours of video are uploaded to Youtube every minute. This has resulted in enormous "image and video lakes," a term we use to describe these ever-growing collections of images and videos. Such gigantic image lakes are not unique to consumer services—they are also found in domains such as healthcare and astronomy. In this post, we will demonstrate how a Content-Based Image Retrieval system can be easily and efficiently realized using Apache Hadoop® with HAWQ, our SQL engine for Hadoop®.
Churn Prediction in Retail Finance and Asset Management (Part 1)
Financial firms collect large volumes of data from all realms of our daily lives. These data assets are used to build predictive models for many purposes, such as understanding and predicting customer behavior. In this blog series, we will explain the important factors that enable banks in the retail finance and asset management industries to build, operationalize, and derive actionable insight from such models.
Data Science How To: Massively Parallel, In-Database Image Processing: Part 2
This post, part 2, is a continuation of part 1 where Image Processing Expert and Pivotal Senior Data Scientist, Ailey Crow, gives a short introduction on how data science is applied towards better, faster image processing. This approach can have a huge effect on a number of industries ranging from neurobiology and cancer detection to cognitive vision and control robotics. For part 2, we cover steps three through six: 1) image loading, 2) filtering (smoothing), 3) thresholding, 4) cleanup via morphological operations, 5) object recognition using connected components, and 6) counting.
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Liverpool Mega-Deal: Klopp to make €32m offer for 'exciting' title-winner who's like 'Del-Piero'
Back in January 2014, Liverpool were linked with a move for 'exciting' Juventus midfielder Claudio Marchisio, and new reports today suggest that Jurgen Klopp is also a big admirer of the Italy international.
According to Italian newspaper Gazetta Dello Sport:
* Marchisio is allegedly on Klopp's transfer wish-list.
* The Reds are planning to make a €32m January bid for the 29-year old midfielder.
Like Steven Gerrard, Marchisio is the archetypal one club man. he came through the youth ranks at Juventus, and has spent his entire senior career at the club.
As such, he'll probably fight tooth and nail to stay, and in a recent interview with JTV, Juve's official TV channel, he made it clear he doesn't want to leave:
"I have no intention to change, but every year there have been rumours that involved me. I have another two years on my deal with Juventus. I hope to play as long as possible here"
Former Juve President Giovanni Cobolli Gigli believes that Marchisio is well-placed to become an all-time club legend like another alleged Liverpool target of the past. He told Radio Sportiva:
"The memory of what Del Piero was will last forever. He was the greatest player in the club's history. Now let us hope that we can find a worthy successor, and that could be Marchisio."
Marchisio - nicknamed 'Il Principino' by Juve's fans - can play defensively, but his greater strength is operating in front of a deep-lying midfield playmaker, and linking the play between midfield and attack.
In my view, Liverpool desperately need that kind of player. Emre Can certainly isn't the answer, and he proved that again against Spurs on Saturday. Ditto Lucas/Allen.
Having said that, there's always the nagging doubt about the effectiveness in the Premier League of Italy-based players. Liverpool's record with players from Serie A is woeful, with Dossena, Aquilani, and Borini - combined cost £37m (!) - being the three most glaring examples of Italian players who couldn't settle at Anfield.
Marchisio, however, is an experienced international, and a bona-fide *winner*. He'd instantly improve Liverpool's squad, and given his experience, there's a higher probability that he'd hit the ground running. Plus, he averages 40+ games a season, and has missed only 15 games through injury since 2010.
If Liverpool sign a player like Marchisio, then something will have to give in midfield. The club cannot support SIX senior, international central midfielders, and having them all at the club will create unhealthy competition. Henderson is the club captain, and when he's fit, he'll play most games (and deservedly so, although that may change). My money is on Can being the one to suffer.
If Liverpool spend €32m on Marchisio, he 'aint gonna be on the bench.
Jaimie K


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Vol 3 No 1: June 2018
Assessment of knowledge and practices of Internally Displaced pregnant women attending to antenatal clinic center at Arbat camp in Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region of Iraq
DOI https://doi.org/10.24017/science.2018.1.10
L. Abdulkhalk Abass, "Assessment of knowledge and practices of Internally Displaced pregnant women attending to antenatal clinic center at Arbat camp in Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region of Iraq", Kurdistan Journal of Applied Research, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 52-56, Jun. 2018.
Layla Abdulkhalk Abass
Department of Nursing, Technical Institute Sulaimani, Sulaimani Polytechnic University, Sulaimani ,Iraq
Internally displaced persons are peoples displaced in it is own country but not crossed a border. After (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria attacked in 2014 to Iraq, millions of Iraqi people flee from their own city war zone to safe camps in Kurdistan region north of Iraq, Arbat camp is one of these camps. Iraqi civilian people constitute most new displacement persons around the world as at least 2.2 million were displaced in 2014. An important part of basic maternal health care is antenatal care that must be provided during pregnancy. Aim of this study is to provide demographic data of Internally Displaced Persons pregnant women and the effect on antenatal care knowledge and practices among of Arbat camp that visits to camp health centers on their health. Assessment of knowledge and practices of pregnant women about antennal care. A cross-sectional descriptive study has been conducted to assess the knowledge and practices of (103) women attended to antenatal care of internally displaced persons) at Arbat camps between 1 January to 30 June 2016. Data collected through the questionnaire form by face-to-face interview. Statistical analyses performed by using SPSS version 16.0, to find descriptive analysis like percentage and frequency and for relative statistical analysis. The results have revealed that most of the pregnant women were in the active reproductive age group 18-25 years old 56(54.4%) pregnant women, housewives 102(99%), illiterate 48(46.6%) pregnant women, were in families that have low income with 48(46.6%) pregnant women with significant relation to the knowledge and practices to antenatal care. In conclusion, most pregnant women have very good knowledge about antenatal care except about performing oral health hygiene during pregnancy. The majority of pregnant women in camps have very good knowledge about all practices that must be do during antenatal except taking medication without a physician prescription.
Internally displaced persons antenatal care, pregnant women, Arbait camps, Kurdistan region camps, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria attack on Iraq.
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As 2015 is coming to an end, let's take a walk down memory lane to some of the most important progress that Inside Sales Box witnessed – including Series A funding, Forbes and Mattermark recognition and software breakthroughs.
Before we welcome 2016, let's look back at the most popular blog posts of this year that occupied our readers with tips, strategies, advices, etc. Happy Reading!
Salespeople are prone to using words in their pitch that makes them sound deceitful.Pitching your client with words like-quota, pitch, prospect, would induce them to think that you are selfish and you are not responsible enough to care about your clients. There are several other words that can hold you back from closing your deal. Follow the post to save yourself from the embarrassment.
"If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner." This proverb is eminently relevant to a sales rep's career. However, in order to beat the trumpet of success, sales reps have to follow crucial tips. The tips can help an ordinary rep to become an exceptional player in their profession.
Objections are opportunities and opportunities are used by sales reps to convince a qualified prospect. However, objections in sales are not so easy to conquer, it takes gigantic efforts to get them resolved. In order to overcome those, reps need to learn what kind of objections they will be coming across while carrying out the sales process.
"A bruise is a lesson… and each lesson makes us better." Similarly, an objection in a sales rep's career is an exercise that makes them perfect in their operations. Overcoming the hurdles might be difficult, but once a rep knows the tactics and strategies, they can break through the dilemma circle.
For a beginner, generating leads or dealing with a customer is undoubtedly scary. However, some strategies and tips can boost a rookie's morale before they set themselves on the sales track. And an appropriate guiding can help them give a kick start to their career.
Not being a pessimist, but it has become almost impossible nowadays, to approach a decision maker in a company. They are routinely occupied with work. Not only this, too many sales reps are often knocking at their door, which creates annoying situations and at times they tend to lose their temper.However, sales reps need to overlook the complications to serve their targets and accomplish their goals.
Without any appropriate information, if a sales rep decides to call a prospect, it will be more like a shot in the dark. It is crucial for a sales rep to know the needs of the prospect and whether they hold the authority to make buying decisions in the organization. A detailed investigation of a prospect can make a sales rep reach halfway to closing a sale.
With limited resources earlier, inside sales reps couldn't compete in the race with outside sales. But after technology advancements and digital expansion, inside sales is growing more rapidly than outside sales. By 2020, inside sales will almost take over outside sales. There are several reasons why inside sales are gaining popularity, one of them is – Change in buyer behaviors and preferences. Buyers are now more aware of what features they want in their product. They gain almost all the required information through online research and they are too busy to meet a real salesman.
Hiring fresh blood is any day important for your company. It requires a lot of attention, as it precisely impacts the company's bottom line. Nevertheless, it is impossible to determine a rep's innate abilities and skills in just a few recruitment rounds. Sales managers at times make mistakes and end up hiring inefficient reps. Sometimes, a blunder like this can cost a lot to the company.
"1 out of every 3 professionals in the world is on LinkedIn". LinkedIn is the best social media source to engage customers and prospects. It has also proved to be a great medium for generating leads and social selling. LinkedIn is on hype and if you are not optimizing it, you are missing out on one of the most lucrative opportunities to break through your revenue.


GRC/GFRC is a new kind of material used today for home decor items as well as ornamental moldings.
GC Silicone manufactures two-component, room temperature curing silicone mold materials that are used widely in the grc/gfrc casting industry to create highly detailed decorative parts.
GRC/GFRC can be cast repeatedly into silicone molds without release agents. The primary differences between polyurethanes and silicones are the cost (silicones are more expensive than polyurethane) and the range of hardness available within the product lines. For highly detailed and delicate castings, silicone rubbers may be necessary as they are available in softer and more flexible options compared to polyurethanes.
The popular silicone mold rubber is C-825/C-830 for these applications. A tin-cured silicone rubber with a 100A:3B mix ratio; measure with a digital scale.
Note: The choosing of suitable hardness should be according to the size and pattern design of the products. If large products and therefore multiple-piece molds are needed by customers, silicone rubber with higher hardness will be required for the molds. Conversely, soft silicon is indispensable for molds with complicated pattern and delicate details. The amount of curing agent admixture depends on the actual need of customers. More will be added for speedy drying and fast release and less when otherwise.


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by Ashley Spurgeon | Oct 14, 2020 | Alumni Network, Alumni Profiles, Fall 2020 | 0 comments
Working in another country as a foreign service officer may seem like a daunting job, but for Norma Mozeé '83, it's her bread and butter.
Within the past three years, Mozeé has served at the U.S. embassies in Caracas, Venezuela, and Copenhagen, Denmark, representing the United States' interests and implementing foreign policy. In Caracas, she served as a political officer, talking to various leaders and putting together policy recommendations for stakeholders in Washington, D.C., to fine-tune policy efforts. But her current position in Copenhagen is much different: She works with American expats living in Denmark and helps Danes and other nationals looking to obtain visas to enter the U.S.
This foreign service work felt like a natural next step in her career after spending many years in the software and energy industries. "Foreign service was a perfect next act that takes all the skills and knowledge that I had but then opened up the opportunity to live and work worldwide, because we have embassies and consulates all over the world," Mozeé said.
The skills she built up proved to be an advantage when entering public service—particularly her experience with international businesses and markets. Much of her work within the software industry focused on helping software companies enter the Latin American market. And when she created an energy consultancy business, she focused on helping U.S-based companies get into the Mexican energy market at a critical time in 2014 when the country opened their energy market to foreign and private investment after being a monopoly for 76 years.
"The work I did, especially when I was focused on Latin America, really put me in touch with multiple cultures and how to successfully communicate, collaborate and manage, and that is a critical skill set," she said.
Mozeé said that skill set was really tested as she transitioned from the two years she spent in Caracas to her current role in Copenhagen and noticed the cultural differences between the hierarchical structure she was familiar with in Venezuela and the more egalitarian society
favored by the Danes. "I had to take a totally different approach in my managerial skills," she said.
Mozeé's technical skills also played a major role in working with international leaders and gave her an unparalleled credibility. "All the technical skills came into play throughout my career when I was focused on energy in Latin America and Mexico, and it helped me in Venezuela," she said. "Because of that background, my colleagues asked if I would help develop the oil recovery plan for Venezuela, and I found that my Mines degree and knowledge and experience made me a real credible interlocutor with the Venezuelan stakeholders. I could talk about the focus on reviving mature oil fields and what it meant from a technical standpoint."
But while her technical background allowed her to effectively communicate and implement industry- specific ideas, Mozeé said the personal experiences she had at Mines also informed her public service work, just in more indirect ways. "Back when I graduated, there were only 13 women in my graduating class, but I think it gave me a lot of skill sets I use today in addition to technical skills," she said. "I learned how to work in a very nontraditional environment, especially for women and for women of color, and it really tested me to be able to be successful and not only survive but really thrive in industries like oil and gas. That made me comfortable in nontraditional industries and in industries where they're much more male-dominated."
No matter where she is in the world, Mozeé knows this is exactly the right kind of work for her and what she finds most fulfilling. As she said, it's "like I'm really living out a higher purpose in my life."
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Q: Cascading stored procedures in MySQL The question is relatively simple.
Is possible to call a procedure in MySQL, into another?
Example:
There are two procedures created: proc1 and proc2
Within the proc1, I call proc 2.
Thus:
BEGIN

IF ( CALL ConsultConsoleAvailableTime(`StartTime`, `PlusTime` ) IS NULL ) THEN
    SELECT 'error';
END IF;

END;

Is it possible? How? Did not work here not. :D
Edit1:
1318 - Incorrect number of arguments for PROCEDURE sistemajogosxbox.ConsultConsoleAvailableTime; expected 3, got 2
Edit2:
1172 - Result consisted of more than one row
And now?

A: Just to illustrate one way to use a stored procedure within another:
DELIMITER //
CREATE PROCEDURE setOutputParameter (
    OUT OutputParameter VARCHAR(20)
)
BEGIN

    SELECT 'output' INTO OutputParameter;

END//
DELIMITER ;

DELIMITER //
CREATE PROCEDURE useOutputParameter ()
BEGIN
    CALL setOutputParameter(@tmpOutputParameter);

    IF @tmpOutputParameter = 'output'
        THEN SELECT 'string: output was returned' AS res;
    END IF;

END//
DELIMITER ;

Procedure setOutputParameter sets a value to its out parameter, and then that value is created a placeholder for in procedure setOutputParameter (and into variable: @tmpOutputParameter which is then checked in the IF..THEN.. statement.
Again, this may not be the simplest example and might even be overkill for procedures (use functions as a possible alternative), and there are other ways to return values to be used within a stored procedure that aims to utilize the output of one stored procedure in it.
[edit] Based on post comment:
An INOUT or OUT parameter (only available in stored procedures, and not functions) inside a stored procedure allows the caller of the stored procedure via CALL storedprocedurename.. command to pass a user defined variable to the out parameter's position of the called procedure--in which that same procedure runs and passes a value to it. After the called procedure executes, the out value, passed into the user-defined variable becomes available. In the example above, the out parameter OutputParameter in stored procedure setOutputParameter will require a variable to be passed to it upon being called, because the stored procedure setOutputParameter will pass a value to it. So, in effect, once the code inside stored procedure useOutputParameter calls if via CALL setOutputParameter(@tmpOutputParameter);, the variable it passed to act as an out parameter: @tmpOutputParameter will now contain the string value output which the rest of the code within procedure useOutputParameter can use...
Read more here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/create-procedure.html

A: You can call one stored procedure from another. I have done it before.
I think your example is dodgy because proc2() doesn't have a return value, like a function would. Perhaps you will need to make proc2() a function instead of a procedure.


Does anyone read the Pioneer blogs? This question seems to haunt me with every keystroke I dedicate to a blog's content.
As far as I know, there isn't a way to find out how many people, if any at all, have in fact read the blogs on the Pioneer website. Of course, there is the rating system and the option for readers to leave comments, but it doesn't seem like anyone uses those features very often.
Now, why should I care whether or not anyone reads these things? It's not that I'm concerned about some blog-writing popularity contest. I would simply like to know whether or not the words I type each week are actually reaching an audience.
So, if anyone happens to read one of the Pioneer blogs, take a second to give the rating scale at the top a click or even leave a comment. It would go a long way towards reassuring the writers that blogging is not just a complete waste of time. It also gives you, the reader, a chance to express your opinion as well.


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! { dg-do run }
! Test the fix for PR42736, in which an excessively rigorous dependency
! checking for the assignment generated an unnecessary temporary, whose
! rank was wrong.  When accessed by the scalarizer, a segfault ensued.
!
! Contributed by Tobias Burnus <burnus@gcc.gnu.org>
! Reported by Armelius Cameron <armeliusc@gmail.com>
!
module UnitValue_Module

  implicit none
  private

  public :: &
    operator(*), &
    assignment(=)

  type, public :: UnitValue
    real :: &
      Value = 1.0
    character(31) :: &
      Label
  end type UnitValue

  interface operator(*)
    module procedure ProductReal_LV
  end interface operator(*)

  interface assignment(=)
    module procedure Assign_LV_Real
  end interface assignment(=)

contains

  elemental function ProductReal_LV(Multiplier, Multiplicand) result(P_R_LV)

    real, intent(in) :: &
      Multiplier
    type(UnitValue), intent(in) :: &
      Multiplicand
    type(UnitValue) :: &
      P_R_LV

    P_R_LV%Value = Multiplier * Multiplicand%Value
    P_R_LV%Label = Multiplicand%Label

  end function ProductReal_LV

  elemental subroutine Assign_LV_Real(LeftHandSide, RightHandSide)

    real, intent(inout) :: &
      LeftHandSide
    type(UnitValue), intent(in) :: &
      RightHandSide

    LeftHandSide = RightHandSide%Value

  end subroutine Assign_LV_Real

end module UnitValue_Module

program TestProgram

  use UnitValue_Module

  implicit none

  type :: TableForm
    real, dimension(:,:), allocatable :: &
      RealData
  end type TableForm

  type(UnitValue) :: &
    CENTIMETER

  type(TableForm), pointer :: &
    Table

  allocate(Table)
  allocate(Table%RealData(10,5))

  CENTIMETER%value = 42
  Table%RealData = 1
  Table%RealData(:,1) = Table%RealData(:,1) * CENTIMETER
  Table%RealData(:,2) = Table%RealData(:,2) * CENTIMETER
  Table%RealData(:,3) = Table%RealData(:,3) * CENTIMETER
  Table%RealData(:,5) = Table%RealData(:,5) * CENTIMETER

!  print *, Table%RealData
  if (any (abs(Table%RealData(:,4) - 1) > epsilon(1.0))) call abort ()
  if (any (abs(Table%RealData(:,[1,2,3,5]) - 42) > epsilon(1.0))) call abort ()
end program TestProgram

! { dg-final { cleanup-modules "unitvalue_module" } }

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


although there is scope for an occupier to have a bespoke office built.
of junction 26 and 25A of the M4 motorway, providing convenient access to the M4 and both Newport (5 miles) and Cardiff (15 miles).
Floor by floor lettings will also be considered.
A service charge will be levied to cover the Landlord's costs of maintaining the communal areas within the development.