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Q: Parsing XML with XMLPullParser but nothing appears in Android appliacation In my application, I am trying to parse XML and show the data in a ListView using an ArrayAdapter. Whenever I run the application, the application just shows the action bar and a blank screen where the ListView and data should be. There is no errors in the LogCat, so it seems to just be a problem displaying the data, but I can not find what the problem is.
I am trying to parse this XML:
<system>
<name>11 Com</name>
<rightascension>12 20 43</rightascension>
<declination>+17 47 34</declination>
<distance>110.6</distance>
<star>
    <mass>2.7</mass>
    <radius>19</radius>
    <magV>4.74</magV>
    <magB errorminus="0.02" errorplus="0.02">5.74</magB>
    <magJ errorminus="0.334" errorplus="0.334">2.943</magJ>
    <magH errorminus="0.268" errorplus="0.268">2.484</magH>
    <magK errorminus="0.346" errorplus="0.346">2.282</magK>
    <metallicity>-0.35</metallicity>
    <spectraltype>G8 III</spectraltype>
    <planet>
        <name>11 Com b</name>
        <list>Confirmed planets</list>
        <mass>19.4</mass>
        <period>326.03</period>
        <semimajoraxis>1.29</semimajoraxis>
        <eccentricity>0.231</eccentricity>
        <discoverymethod>RV</discoverymethod>
        <lastupdate>11/12/23</lastupdate>
        <discoveryyear>2008</discoveryyear>
        <temperature>799.7</temperature>
    </planet>
    <name>11 Com</name>
    <temperature>4742.0</temperature>
</star>
<videolink>http://youtu.be/qyJXJJDrEDo</videolink>

And here is the Star.java:
public class Star {

//Star Info
private String starName;
private String starMass;
private String starRadius;
private String starMagV;
//TODO Add support for plus or minus error in measurement
private String starMagB;
private String starMagJ;
private String starMagH;
private String starMagK;
private String starMetallicity;
private String starSpectralType;
private String starTemp;

public Star(String starName, String starMass, String starRadius, String starMagV, String starMagB, String starMagJ, String starMagH, String starMagK, String starMetallicity, String starSpectralType, String starTemp) {
    this.starName = starName;
    this.starMass = starMass;
    this.starRadius = starRadius;
    this.starMagV = starMagV;
    this.starMagB = starMagB;
    this.starMagJ = starMagJ;
    this.starMagH = starMagH;
    this.starMagK = starMagK;
    this.starMetallicity = starMetallicity;
    this.starSpectralType = starSpectralType;
    this.starTemp = starTemp;
}

public Star() {
    this.starName = null;
    this.starMass = null;
    this.starRadius = null;
    this.starMagV = null;
    this.starMagB = null;
    this.starMagJ = null;
    this.starMagH = null;
    this.starMagK = null;
    this.starMetallicity = null;
    this.starSpectralType = null;
    this.starTemp = null;
}
   /*
    * Star Getters and Setters
    */

public String getStarName() {
    return starName;
}
public void setStarName(String starName) {
    this.starName = starName;
}

public String getStarMass() {
    return starMass;
}
public void setStarMass(String starMass) {
    this.starMass = starMass;
}

public String getStarRadius() {
    return starRadius;
}
public void setStarRadius(String starRadius) {
    this.starRadius = starRadius;
}

//Star magnitude Setter and Getters

public String getStarMagV() {
    return starMagV;
}
public void setStarMagV(String starMagV) {
    this.starMagV = starMagV;
}

public String getStarMagB() {
    return starMagB;
}
public void setStarMagB(String starMagB){
    this.starMagB = starMagB;
}

public String getStarMagH() {
    return starMagH;
}
public void setStarMagH(String starMagH){
    this.starMagH = starMagH;
}

public String getStarMagJ() {
    return starMagJ;
}
public void setStarMagJ(String starMagJ){
    this.starMagJ = starMagJ;
}

public String getStarMagK() {
    return starMagK;
}
public void setStarMagK(String starMagK){
    this.starMagK = starMagK;
}

public String getStarMetallicity() {
    return starMetallicity;
}
public void setStarMetallicity(String starMetallicity) {
    this.starMetallicity = starMetallicity;
}

public String getStarSpectralType() {
    return starSpectralType;
}
public void setStarSpectralType(String starSpectralType) {
    this.starSpectralType = starSpectralType;
}

public String getStarTemp() {
    return starTemp;
}
public void setStarTemp(String starTemp) {
    this.starTemp = starTemp;
}

public String toString() {
    return "Star Name: " + starName + "/n Mass: " + starMass + "/n Radius: " + starRadius + "/n Mag V: " + starMagV + "/n Mag B: " + starMagB + "/n Mag H: " + starMagH + "/n Mag J: " + starMagJ + "/n Mag K: " + starMagK + "/n Metallicity: " + starMetallicity +    "/n Spectral Type: " + starSpectralType + "/n Temperature: " + starTemp;
}
}

And this is the XMLPullParserStar.java class:
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser;
import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException;
import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory;
import beans.System;
import beans.*;

public class XMLPullParserStar {

List<Star> stars;

private Star star;
public String starText;

public XMLPullParserStar() {
    stars = new ArrayList<Star>();
}

public List<Star> getStar() {
    return stars;
}

public List<Star> parse(InputStream is) {
    XmlPullParserFactory factory = null;
    XmlPullParser parser = null;
    try {
        factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance();
        factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
        parser = factory.newPullParser();

        parser.setInput(is, null);

        int eventType = parser.getEventType();
        while (eventType != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) {
            String tagname = parser.getName();
            switch (eventType) {
                case XmlPullParser.START_TAG:
                    if (tagname.equalsIgnoreCase("star")) {
                        star = new Star();
                    }
                    break;

                case XmlPullParser.TEXT:
                    starText = parser.getText();
                    break;

                case XmlPullParser.END_TAG:
                    if (tagname.equalsIgnoreCase("name")) {
                        star.setStarName(starText);
                        //skip(parser);
                    } else if (tagname.equalsIgnoreCase("radius")) {
                        star.setStarRadius(starText);
                    }  else if (tagname.equalsIgnoreCase("magv")) {
                        star.setStarMagV(starText);
                    } else if (tagname.equalsIgnoreCase("magb")) {
                        star.setStarMagB(starText);
                    } else if (tagname.equalsIgnoreCase("magj")) {
                        star.setStarMagJ(starText);
                    } else if (tagname.equalsIgnoreCase("magh")) {
                        star.setStarMagH(starText);
                    } else if (tagname.equalsIgnoreCase("magk")) {
                        star.setStarMagK(starText);
                    } else if (tagname.equalsIgnoreCase("metallicity")) {
                        star.setStarMetallicity(starText);
                    } else if (tagname.equalsIgnoreCase("spectraltype")) {
                        star.setStarSpectralType(starText);
                    } else if (tagname.equalsIgnoreCase("temperature")) {
                        star.setStarTemp(starText);
                    } else if (tagname.equalsIgnoreCase("name")) {
                        star.setStarName(starText);
                    }
                    break;

                default:
                    break;
            }
            eventType = parser.next();
        }

    } catch (XmlPullParserException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return stars;
}
}

And here is the MainActivity.java:
import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.ActionBar;
import android.app.Fragment;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.os.Build;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.ListView;
import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;
import beans.*;
import beans.Star;
import xml.XMLPullParserStar;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

ListView listView;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    listView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.list);

    List<Star> systems = null;
    try {
        XMLPullParserStar parser = new XMLPullParserStar();
        systems = parser.parse(getAssets().open("1RXS1609.xml"));
        ArrayAdapter<Star> adapter =
                new ArrayAdapter<Star>(this, R.layout.list_item, systems);
        listView.setAdapter(adapter);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    return true;
}

}

When I run the application, the application loads, but where the ListView should be with the star data, nothing shows up. It is just a blank white.

A: here is how i do xml parsing
package com.example.parseonly;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.ProgressDialog;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    String artist;
    String key;Button   mButton;
    EditText mEdit;ProgressDialog pd;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        mButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.b1);
        mEdit   = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.t1);
        pd = new ProgressDialog(this);
         pd.setMessage("Loading...");

        mButton.setOnClickListener(
                new View.OnClickListener()
                {
                    public void onClick(View view)
                    {
                        Log.v("EditText", mEdit.getText().toString());
                        artist=mEdit.getText().toString();
                        new Xmlparse().execute();

                    }
                });

    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
        return true;
    }

    class Xmlparse extends AsyncTask<Void,Drawable,Drawable>
     {
        @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
        protected void onPostExecute(Drawable result) {
           // super.onPostExecute(result);
            LinearLayout LL=(LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.LL);
             LL.setBackgroundDrawable(result);
             pd.dismiss();

            // Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),result, 1000).show();
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {
            super.onPreExecute();
            pd.show();
        }
        @Override
        protected Drawable doInBackground(Void... params) {
            Drawable s =getData();
            return s;
        }

        public Drawable getData()
        {  Drawable drawable = null;//=new BitmapDrawable(bmp);

            artist=artist.trim();
            artist=artist.replace(" ", "%20");

            try{

              URL url = new URL("http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=artist.getinfo&artist=" +artist+              "&api_key=1732077d6772048ccc671c754061cb18");
            URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
            DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
            DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();

            final Document document = db.parse(connection.getInputStream());
            document.getDocumentElement().normalize();
            XPathFactory xPathfactory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
            XPath xPathEvaluator = xPathfactory.newXPath();
            XPathExpression nameExpr = xPathEvaluator.compile("//lfm/artist/image");
            // XPathExpression nameExpr = xPathEvaluator.compile("//lfm/tracks/track/image");
            NodeList nl = (NodeList) nameExpr.evaluate(document, XPathConstants.NODESET);

            for (int zzz = 0; zzz < nl.getLength(); zzz++)
            {
                Node currentItem = nl.item(zzz);
                key = currentItem.getTextContent();

                // key = currentItem.getAttributes().getNamedItem("uri").getNodeValue();
            }URL ulrn = new URL(key);
            HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection)ulrn.openConnection();
            InputStream is = con.getInputStream();
            Bitmap bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is);
            drawable=new BitmapDrawable(bmp);
            }
            catch(Exception e)
            {}
            return drawable;}
      }}

the xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/LLL "
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text=".Enter the name of the music artists below and click the submit button " />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/t1"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:ems="10" >

        <requestFocus />
    </EditText>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/b1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Submit" />

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/LL "
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:paddingTop="10dp" >
    </LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>


The P2P protocol does not have a way to communicate when that happens. File content can be modified while it's sent, and if annex.verify=false is allowed to take effect, bad data will get into the repository.
It would be nice to support annex.verify=false when it's safe but not when the file got modified, but if it added an extra round trip to the P2P protocol, that could lose some of the speed gains.
The way that git-annex-shell recvkey handles this is the client communicates to it if it's sending an unlocked file, which forces verification. Otherwise, verification can be skipped.
Seems the best we could do with the P2P protocol, barring adding rsync-style rolling hashing to it, is to detect when a file got modified as it was being sent, and inform the peer that the data it got is invalid. It can then force verification.
A related problem is resumes. What if a file starts to be transferred, gets changed while it's transferred so some bad bytes are sent, then the transfer is interrupted, and later is resumed from a different remote that has the correct content. How can it tell that the bad data was sent in this case?
In the case where an upload is started from one repository and later resumed by another, rsync wipes out any differences, so if the first repository was unlocked, and the second is locked, it's safe for recvkey to treat it locked and skip verification.
This is not really unique to the P2P protocol -- special remotes can be written to support resuming. The web special remote does; there may be external special remotes that do too. While the content of a key on a special remote is not allowed to change, a download could start from an unlocked git repo, and then be resumed from such a special remote. When verification is disabled, this can result in bad content getting into the repository.
So, let's solve this broadly. Whenever a download is resumed, force AlwaysVerify, unless the remote returns Verified. This can be done in Annex.Content.getViaTmp, so it will affect all downloads involving the tmp key for a file.
This would change handling of resumes of downloads using rsync too. But those are always safe to skip verification of, although they don't quite do a full verification of the key's hash. To still allow disabling of verification of those, could add a third state in between UnVerified and Verified, that means it's sure it's gotten exactly the same bytes as are on the remote.
How expensive is verification anyway?
A quick check with openssl speed -evp sha256 (and -evp sha512) shows SHA-256 is ~210MB/sec and SHA-512 ~275MB/sec on my not that recent i7 930. I'm sure its more of an issue on embedded or phones... but there of course the network is often slower. If the hash is faster than the transfer, seems like it shouldn't really cause that much of a slowdown (unless I guess its competing with ssh for CPU time, but that seems unlikely on multi-core machines).
I wonder if a easier way to speed it up wouldn't be to support BLAKE2 as a backend. Wouldn't help with existing hash keys, of course (without a migrate).
The hash speed is not really significant; re-reading the content of the file to hash it is the expensive part. At some point git-annex may gain the ability to do this on the fly as it's being downloaded and then the verification overhead would be negligible.
Thanks for mentioning BLAKE2.. I've added support for it!


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We couldn't leave out an in-depth study by Milliman, one of the pioneers who studied the effect of music in restaurants. Having analysed the optimal listening volume, a fundamental element that creates the atmosphere and influences the perception of a brand, now is the time to linger more on what enchants people during their stay in a restaurant, and how.
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the length of a client's stay translates into higher volume of sales.
The results of the research on the influence of rhythm on a purchasing experience coincide both in the case of a crowded shopping mall and in an upscale restaurant.
Background music influences clients' speed during a lunch or dinner and the turnaround time for tables. It may seem counterintuitive, but the longer clients stay at a table, the more likely they are to consume food and drinks and return another time (customer loyalty).
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Q: Show that $\mathbb{R}$ is a disjoint union of $\mathfrak{c}$ sets of cardinal $\mathfrak{c}$
Show that $\mathbb{R}$ is a disjoint union of $\mathfrak{c}$ sets of cardinal $\mathfrak{c}$, where $\mathfrak{c} = | \mathbb{R} | = 2^{\aleph_0}$.

I find this problem very interesting and very challenging at the same time. Since any set of sets with cardinality $\mathfrak{c}$ I can think about are not disjoint. There is probably a specific definition of this $\mathfrak{c}$ sets of cardinal $\mathfrak{c}$ which immediately solves the problem. However, I would like to understand how can I possibly think about this.

A: HINT: Show that $\Bbb R$ and $\Bbb{R^2}$ have the same cardinality. Now show that $\Bbb R^2$ is the union of $\frak c$ sets of size $\frak c$.
(Note that the proof itself generalizes to any infinite set $A$ such that $A$ and $A^2$ have the same cardinality; which is all of them if you assume the axiom of choice.)

A: We can  construct an uncountable collection of paiwise disjoint sets of real  numbers using decimal expansions.
The collection of subsets $A$ of positive integers such that  both $A$ and complement of $A$ are infinite is an uncountable collection.
For such a set $A$, denote by $S_A$ the set of all those real numbers whose decimal expansion has digit $0$ exactly  at positions specified by $A$ and nowhere else.
$S_A$ is an uncountable set, because there are infinitely many positions for non-zero numbers where we can place other numbers arbitrarily (for example  numbers using the digits 1 and 2 alone in those positions are uncountable as $A^C$ is an infinite set by choice.)

A: Another decimal-type solution.
Any real number $x$ can be written in "binary" form
$x = n+\sum_{i=1}^\infty a_i 2^{-i}$, where $n \in \mathbb Z$, and $a_i \in \{0,1\}$.  Let us choose non-terminating expansions, if there is more than one expansion.
For $0 \le t \le 1$, let $A_t$ be the set of all reals $x = n+\sum_{i=1} a_i 2^{-i}$ such that
$$
\limsup_{N \to \infty}\frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^N a_i = t
$$
Then each $A_t$ has cardinal $\mathfrak c$ and $\mathbb R = \bigcup_{0 \le t \le 1} A_t$

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Robert has been advising senior leaders in the energy, life science, finance and technology industries for over 25 years. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and Samford University and is the Vice-Chairman and Chair of the Executive Advisory Board of the Association for Internal Management Consultants. He lives in the Houston, TX area with his wife and three children.
Daro Mott, M.P.A., M.U.P., is an experienced and passionate practitioner of performance excellence and specializes in the practical application of internal management consulting in local government.
He currently serves as Louisville Metro Government's lead internal management consultant in the capacity of Chief of Performance Improvement. Mr. Mott recently served as the Chief Innovation Officer for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. He co-authored a book entitled, Coaching (Six Sigma) Green Belts for Sustainable Success, which the American Society for Quality published in May of 2015. He is the author of numerous articles and is a certified Project Management Professional, Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean Leader and advocate for validated management practices. Mr. Mott specializes in innovation and government wide-culture change. Mr. Mott operationalized LouieStat, a data-driven performance leadership strategy into more than 24 different government agencies, trained hundreds of employees in continuous improvement methodologies, implemented an applied six sigma and project management program and led numerous cost saving and efficiency projects. Mr. Mott speaks at nearly a dozen venues a year and conducts workshops for the Association of Internal Management Consultants and the Project Management Institute; he has contributed to the American Society for Quality's World Conference on Quality and Improvement for four years in a row. Most people do not know that Mr. Mott was an adjunct instructor for 5.5 years and taught at the University of Louisville, the University of Indiana Southeast and ATA College. Also, Mr. Mott is a board member for the International Hispanic Network and is fluent in Spanish. He is also a board member for the Susan Polgar Foundation and the Association of Internal Management Consultants. Mr. Mott holds an undergraduate degree from Yale University and two graduate degrees from the University of Louisville.
Neil Wilson, Senior Change Leadership Advisor – Asia/Pacific Region for Project Resources Company within Chevron USA, an affiliate of Chevron Corporation. He developed and maintains Chevron's proprietary change management methodology which is considered a company competitive advantage. Neil has worked with Chevron on a wide variety of assignments for over 37 years as an earth scientist, quality improvement coordinator, executive coach, manager of change management consulting, manager of change leadership consulting and his current role residing in Chengdu, China. He is a skilled international practitioner in the areas of organizational effectiveness, business performance improvement, cultural change, change management, leadership coaching, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and exceptionally talented on accelerating change to obtain sustainable improvements in bottom-line business results.
Neil served seven years (2007 – 2014) as the President of the Association of Internal Management Consultants (AIMC). He holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Geological Sciences from the State University of New York at Buffalo and is currently a Doctoral Candidate (ABD) in Organizational Leadership at Pepperdine University.
Stephanie Barsch is the Director of Humana's Strategy Management Office. In this newly created role, she will leverage her consulting, program management and coaching expertise to facilitate the enterprise strategic management process, oversee key strategic initiatives, ensure enterprise alignment, identify synergies and drive transformational change.
Stephanie previously served as Director of Enterprise Consulting Services. Under her leadership, the team reduced external consulting spend by 50% annually over a three year period, generated $40M in direct cost avoidance through internal sourcing and co-sourcing of client engagements and was awarded the AIMC Internal Consulting Process Excellence award for an unprecedented second consecutive year. A dynamic and collaborative leader, Stephanie increased engagement scores 10% overall year over year and outperformed Humana's most engaged in Leader Effectiveness. Stephanie joined Humana in 2000 and is proud to have been part of the company's phenomenal growth. Over the past 16 years, she has held many key leadership positions and focused primarily on startup and turnaround efforts. Prior to joining Humana, Stephanie held leadership positions with ADP and GTECH Corporation.
Stephanie earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Oregon Clark Honors College, a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Louisville and a graduate certificate in Executive and Professional Coaching from the University of Texas at Dallas. She also holds professional certificates in Strategic Foresight (University of Houston) and Gerontology (Bellarmine University). Stephanie is PMP certified and is recognized by the International Coaching Federation as an Associate Certified Coach.
Personally committed to improving the health and well-being of her community, Stephanie is an avid supporter of the Metro United Way. She is an active member of the Tocqueville Society, serves as co-chair for the Women of Tocqueville Committee, and has been a member of both the Women's Leadership Council and the Campaign Cabinet.
An Oregon native, Stephanie now resides in Louisville, Kentucky. In her spare time she enjoys reading, traveling and spending time with her husband and two children.
Vic Revenko retired from Chevron as the Manager of Chevron's Consulting Services Department. His career spanned technical business and human resources areas. Currently, he practices consulting for non-profit organizations.
He is currently involved in several non-profit activities. He is a Board member of the Institute of International Education, as well as a member of the California Supreme Court Committee to select State Bar Court judges. He is a past President of the Commonwealth Club of California and is a member of the Board on the Finance Committee. Other activities include past chair of the Association of Internal Management Consultants as well as the past President of the 11000 member Chevron Retirees Association.
Vic and his wife Maggee live in San Rafael, CA. They have two grown daughters, Laura and Liz.
Vic has undergraduate and graduate degrees in chemical engineering from Columbia University, a business degree from UC Berkeley and participated in executive programs at USC and Stanford.
Bill is currently Executive Director of the Association of Internal Management Consultants and President of Trotter Consulting International TCI) – which has included leading an ongoing research program to identify best practices in internal consulting and building a global network of leading organizations.
Strategic Planning Theory and Application, Planning Executives Institute.
Global Business Strategy Research Findings, Japanese Chamber of Commerce and industry.
Key Management Challenges in the Increasingly Global Economy of the 1990's, World Management Congress.
Implications of a Borderless Europe for Technological Innovation, The Planning Forum.
"Integrated Planning and Control Systems for Global Business," The International Executive, AMA.
Innovation Management, International Industrial Executives Conference, Center for International Business.
Technology Solutions, The Changing Environment for Business Decision Making. INFOLINE.
Eric Kennedy, Director, Strategic Initiatives, Dell, Inc.
Currently, Eric is Director of the Dell Strategic Initiatives group. He leads a team of 8 expert consultants and 20-25 rotating generalist consultants on risk-based engagements across the company. The skillsets of the team are focused on four pillars: process improvement/Six Sigma, change management, business process management, & project management. The Strategic Initiatives team is aligned to the internal audit function of Dell, but the team performs consulting work across the company. The majority of the consulting portfolio has been focused on Sales, Finance, Accounting, and Product Quality.
Eric joined Dell in June 2010 as an Audit Advisor in the GAT organization. He was one of the charter members of the BI Center of Excellence, now Strategic Initiatives (SI), in 2013. He helped shape the vision and operating mechanisms for the SI team to build it to what it is today. During his time in GAT he has made key impacts on the business through his involvement and leadership in multiple assurance and strategic initiative engagements, with a strong focus on project and change management. He has been heavily invested in the development of the organization by founding and leading the GAT Hacks program. Within this last year as Audit Director for North America, he has re-established the North America Control & Compliance Review, recruited and hired a completely new North America audit team, and led a highly visible public deals engagement. Prior to GAT, Eric worked as a hardware engineer at a startup biotech company, Quadraspec Inc. He graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, an MBA in Finance & Marketing and is a trained Six Sigma black belt.
Mr. Gus Garfield is a Senior Managing Consultant in the Organization Transformation practice of IBM's Global Business Services specializing in developing, planning, and managing large scale change.
Gus has over 20 years of experience as a successful leader and professional in both internal and external consulting environments.
He has worked internally for the organizational effectiveness group at Pfizer, and in a similar role at Cargill.
Gus has been a member of the AIMC for 15 years, serving on the Board for 10. He has also worked with many of the major external consulting firms including E&Y, Accenture, and IBM.
Gus' special interests include the executive and organizational alignment, organizational systemic analysis, digital transformation and strategy implementation.
Gus has an MBA from Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management. And he holds a BA from Brandeis University.
Geoffroy Dallemagne has 10 years in corporate transformation and consulting experience and 20 years of banking experience — of which 15 years were spent in the Investment banking Front office functions.
Geoffroy is the global head of SG Consulting, the internal consulting firm of Société Générale. The SG consulting group of approximately 100 professionals is responsible for leading the group transformation efforts — from business development, digital transformation, operational efficiency and regulatory compliance.
Prior to SG Consulting, he successively spent 7 years in London, heading the strategic acquisition finance team, where he led dozen of transactions with more than Euro 25 billion of debt financing underwriting as Mandated Lead Arranger for SG in several European jurisdictions. For the next 5 years, he was global head of the energy sector coverage, board member of Gaselys, board member of SGCIB global coverage, contributing to the setup of the Commodity community. Finally he joined the capital market division to setup a corporate structuring team for commodity derivatives.
Geoffroy graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris and holds Trium Global EMBA (New York Stern University – London School of Economics – HEC Paris). He is also a Professor affiliate at HEC. Geoffroy is also President of the AFCI (the French Association of Internal Consulting Firm).
Brian Kolle serves as a vice president for Fidelity Business Consulting, the internal strategy consulting arm of Fidelity Investments. In this role, he leads teams of consultants to solve strategic problems for Fidelity's institutional line of businesses.
Brian joined Fidelity in 2005 and has previously worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, Boston Consulting Group, and Enron.
Brian earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Notre Dame.
Brian Hannon is a Director, Strategic Business Improvement at Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. He has been based at Janssen Vaccines in Leiden, NL for three years and has been an internal consultant at J&J for more than ten years. Brian has expertise in strategic planning, organizational restructuring and design, construction project management, change management, leadership, and communication. Currently, Brian is leading the "Great to Excellent" program to position Janssen Vaccines for success.
Prior to joining J&J, Brian was a self-employed consultant who worked on projects large and small for a variety of Pharma clients in manufacturing, sales & marketing, and R&D. Brian received an M.S. in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998, an M.S. in Mechanical Design from Stanford University in 1995, and a combined B.A. and B.E. from Dartmouth College in 1994.
Brian has worked across the globe – on the East and West Coasts of the US, in Canada, Japan, China, Switzerland, and Belgium and currently resides in Amsterdam. During his personal time, Brian will be found on the ski slopes in the winter and in his boat in the summer.
Stefan Bauer, Global Consultant, Global Learning and Leadership Development, Eli Lilly and Company.
Since 1995 with Eli Lilly and Company in HR line management and staff roles in Germany and the USA. Key international expertise in Learning and Leadership Development, Organizational Development, individual and organizational transformation. Experienced designer and facilitator of high-impact interventions and global leadership development programs for Executives, General Managers, high-potentials, Leadership Teams. Led, participated, or consulted in over 100 local, regional, and global change management projects. Previously in charge of Learning and Leadership Development for all Lilly Affiliates outside of the US.
Prior to Lilly, experiences in the Medical Equipment, and IT industries.
Judge at the Court of Labour Law, Hamburg, from 2005 to 2007.
Member of the Board of the Association of Internal Management Consultants (AIMC), and leader of the European AIMC Chapter.
Michael Braaten is a Director in the Strategic Resources Consulting Division of the State Farm Companies.
Braaten joined State Farm in 1987 as an Auto Underwriter in their North Central Regional Office located in Minneapolis, MN. After a series of promotions, he was selected in 1991 as a Business Analyst in the Knowledge Based Systems Unit of State Farm's Corporate Service and Systems Department. In 1994, he advanced to the position of Superintendent, overseeing all Knowledge Based Systems development for the Auto and Fire Companies.
A North Dakota native, Braaten received bachelor's degrees in Management and Marketing from the State University of North Dakota. He has a daughter, Makenzi, who resides in St. Louis and a son, Dallas, who currently attends college in Bloomington, IL. Michael's interests include motorcycling, hiking, hunting, music, spending time at the gym, home improvement projects, cooking, and numerous other outdoor activities.
Martin C. Becker is a Management and Organization Development consultant. For over 40 years, Martin has been helping organizations resolve critical people issues in order to improve the performance and productivity of individuals and teams. His thorough assessment approach, coupled with his straightforward and insightful intervention skills, and his ability to build rapport with individuals and groups at all levels of an organization, distinguish Martin as an expert in the field. Martin's areas of expertise include: organizational change management, organization development, succession planning, performance management process improvement, HR risk assessment, executive coaching, team building, process consulting, group dynamics and facilitation; and customized management training and development program design, implementation, and evaluation.
As an executive coach, Martin is known for his detailed assessments of leaders' mindsets, emotional strengths and weaknesses and behavioral patterns and pinpointing where growth and development are needed. He is highly skilled at delivering sensitive feedback in an actionable manner and imparting direction and encouragement in a way that executives find highly effective.
As a human resource development practitioner, Martin has delivered major organizational change programs with a variety of Fortune 500 industrial and service companies. He has consulted over a broad range of industries, including consumer products and retail, energy and utilities, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, government, and industrial manufacturing. Martin has consulted with clients in the USA, Belgium, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Singapore, and Switzerland.
Mr. Becker's engagements have focused on the design, development and delivery of management and organization development interventions to increase competitive advantage both for external and internal clients. Martin specializes in group dynamics and facilitation while effecting behavior change through individual and organizational learning. He manages the complete consulting process from organization diagnosis through design, development and implementation of appropriate intervention strategies. Martin has managed joint teams of consultants and client personnel in the identification and implementation of organizational change management culture transformation projects, which accelerated strategy, business processes and technology implementation, resulting in substantial increases in client's competitive advantage.
Previously, Martin was the National Practice leader for KPMG's HR Advisory Services Practice where he led large-scale organizational change engagements such as corporate-wide Human Resources risk assessment internal audit projects; and managed the design and implementation of comprehensive performance management systems, including goal setting procedures, job descriptions, as well as, annual performance appraisal evaluation methodologies with procedures, forms and training delivery programs that were linked to behaviors, competencies, incentives, compensation, rewards and recognition. Earlier in his career, Martin was a principal for Gemini Consulting, focusing on the implementation of large- scale organizational change management culture-transformation projects.
Martin's prior corporate experience includes being an Organization Development Manager at the world headquarters of Pfizer and a Human Resource Development Executive for Macy's. Martin holds a Master of Arts degree in Humanistic Psychology from West Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from City University of New York. He has published in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychology and Training and Development Journal. Martin C. Becker is a member of the Organization Development Network and a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Internal Management Consultants.
Andrew has over 10 years of experience working with academic institutions, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. As a member of Georgia Tech's internal management consulting team, he oversees the team's relationship with the Office of the President, cabinet-level departments, and affiliated organizations, providing them with consulting support across all six of GTSC's service areas. Andrew also serves as the competency lead for the process optimization service area.
Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 2014, he worked for Huron Consulting Group's higher education practice in the strategy and operations group. During his time at Huron, Andrew worked with more than 15 public and private universities, managing and advising on engagements related to process improvement, organizational design and restructuring, technology planning and implementation, and developing and implementing cost reduction strategies. Earlier in his career, Andrew spent several years as an adviser to a senior member of the U.S. Senate.
Andrew holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Emory University and a Master of Public Administration degree in public management and organizational theory from The University of Georgia. He is a member of the Association of Internal Management Consultants, SME, and the Network for Change and Continuous Innovation.
Melissa Miller is the VP of the Business Improvement Group. She has been with Anthem since 2007 and leads a team of 60 internal consultants who partner with business leaders to improve and objectively solve complex, cross-cutting operational challenges; execute strategy and implement high value initiatives; and build new business and cultural capabilities to achieve Anthem's vision, values and objectives.
Prior to Anthem, Melissa served as a Business Process Management Executive and Master Black Belt at Bank of America, leading a consulting team that delivered over $30 million in savings and trained 2,000 associates in Six Sigma. In addition, Melissa worked for General Electric as a Black Belt and served as a Captain in the Air Force within a variety of management and leadership positions.
Over her career, Melissa has proven to be an execution oriented, collaborative and passionate leader with a diverse background in strategic, change management, program management, and business process improvement roles. In 2012, the Business Improvement Group received the highest accolades given for execution performance across Anthem, the Pinnacle award, for achieving $500 million in savings.
Melissa earned her B.S. in Sports Medicine from the University of Virginia and a Masters in Education and Business Administration. She also serves as a board member for American Internal Management Consulting (AIMC) organization and sits on the Business Performance Council. Melissa is located in Denver.
Jamsheed Banaji is the Senior Director, North America for the PCE, responsible for partnering with Global HQ & North America senior business leaders for identifying highest priority operational consulting engagements across the region/HQ & leading/delivering on those projects. Typical projects include leading business transformation, building new capabilities, process re-engineering, increasing business efficiency efforts or leading program management efforts for global projects that are of varying complexity & scope. He is a member of the PCE Leadership Team that prioritizes resources/projects globally & is responsible for developing talent.
I have two decades of Pharmaceutical Marketing, Commercial Development, Business Development & Business Operations experience in markets across the globe including Asia Pacific, Latin America & Africa Middle East. This experience spans global, regional & country organizations & across a broad range of Therapeutic Areas(TAs). I started my career in the Pharma Industry in India in 1989. After working initially in Wyeth Lederle & Boots in India, I joined Pfizer India in Marketing in 1994, managing multiple products / franchises. My experience spans both IP protected products & branded generics. I led the Marketing Team for all of Chronic Therapy & successfully led several product launches in India before moving to the US in 2001 to lead the development of an internal Marketing Capability Development Initiative targeted at markets outside US.
Prior to moving into his current role in PCE in October 2014, I was Chief of Staff / Director of Business Operations for the Global Clinical & Medical Affairs Group for the Global Established Pharma Business Unit. This role had multiple responsibilities over the last 4 years – including a broad range of strategic, operational & organizational support to the Medical/Clinical Leadership team, with a high focus of being a key thought partner around group's vision, mission & strategic initiatives, as well as helping co-ordinate development of overall short & long range R&D & Business strategies & providing oversight on Strategic Projects. As part of this role, I have also had interim oversight of the Portfolio & Project Management Group as well as led the BU's Medical/Clinical Compliance function.
He holds a Masters in Management from the Bombay University in India and also a Graduate degree in Statistics & Economics from the same university.
Christine Damico is a Senior Director in the Strategic Business Improvement group at Janssen Pharmaceutical companies of Johnson & Johnson. Christine has been an internal consultant at Johnson & Johnson for nearly 7 years. In this role Christine has provided strategic consulting, thought partnership and project leadership/management to projects across Janssen commercial business units and the broader Johnson & Johnson enterprise.
Currently, Christine is currently deployed to the Janssen Oncology business unit. As a member of the leadership team she is supporting multiple strategic commercial projects to accelerate current business and evolve the organization to ensure future success.
Previously in her SBI role Christine was responsible for a J&J enterprise strategic customer business transformation initiative, the development of a launch playbook deployed across Janssen and multiple divestiture and M&A projects.
Prior to joining Janssen, Christine held positions of increasing responsibility in R&D and commercial pharmaceutical roles. Her career includes almost 15 years at Bayer, Pfizer and MannKind Corporation and spans multiple therapeutic areas.
Christine currently holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in Molecular Cell Biology from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from University of New Haven. She was also named one of Healthcare Business Association's rising stars of 2008.
Christine and her family reside in Tewksbury, NJ.
Lars R. Dzedek is currently Vice President, Partner and Office Head of DHL Consulting Americas, the independent management consultancy dedicated to creating value for Deutsche Post DHL Group, its customers and external companies. The Deutsche Post DHL Group is the largest postal service and international courier service company in the world and employs approximately 510,000 employees in over 220 countries and territories worldwide.
The DHL Consulting team consists of more than 100 management consultants across four offices in Bonn – Germany, Miami/Fort Lauderdale – USA, Singapore and Shanghai – China. Lars leads the regional consulting team out of the Florida office since 2014.
He has more than 12 years of internal and external consulting experience with focus areas on global, functional and sector strategies, international market entry, eCommerce and strategic logistics consulting.
Lars holds a bachelor's degree from Syracuse University, a Master's degree from Technische Universität Berlin and PhD degree from ESCP Europe. His research interests focuses on disruptive innovation and the management of decentralized entrepreneurship in multinational firms.


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Worst Genre
Shake Your Money Maker
Feels like southern rock with some edgy guitar.
Signing Off
Super horn section, classy reggae riffs, such a great group, I loved it.
I am still an apathetic Pogues listener.
Booker T. & The MG's
This is a true blast from the past with Booker T and MGs bringing my teen years to life. This is a jazz classic that is underappreciated.
This album was a meteor of hope during a very dark time in American history.
Sorry, still not a Jeff Beck fan.
Joni Mitchell on a quest for love, meaning and the next bingo game. Here is an insightful "modern" review of the songstress by Rob Moura. https://www.popmatters.com/joni-mitchell-hejira-atr4
The crossover from jazz to the traditional love tunes did not rock my world. I wanted to see more experimentation which was clearly not the objective of the producer.
Righteous.
Bryter Layter
I have always loved Pink Moon and had never listened to this album. Every song on this album is an experiment. It merges Nick Drake's ASMR-like sound with orchestral tracks, flutes, jazz horn grooves with backup singers. A big surprise to me was Poor Boy which is a very cool, jazzy piece. It is sad that the album never got the attention it deserved. The album is quite upbeat and different from the moody austerity of Pink Moon and highlights his innovative guitar sound which is sometimes quasi medieval. Nick Drake, a musician from another dimension, like J. S. Bach.
Fri Oct 14 2022
Natty Dread
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Several gems.
Mon Oct 17 2022
The Gilded Palace Of Sin
The title song alone for George Jones', The Grand Tour, is just perfect and is why I think country song writers are America's best poets. Love lost sucks.
Thu Oct 20 2022
Tuesday Night Music Club
Not an SC fan.
Red Dirt Girl
A real gem of an album.

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Situated on the eastern edge of a large fertile oasis watered by the Murghab River, Merv was historically an important departure point for travel across the 180km desert to Amul, part of the 'Silk Road' trade route. Today, modern Merv is known as Mary, an administrative center located 30km west of Old Merv. The ruins of Old Merv are located near the small town of Bairam Ali, a Russian garrison town established in the early twentieth century. The ruins of Merv are comprised of five walled cities dating from the sixth-century BC to the eighteenth-century: Erk Kala, Gyaur Kala, Sultan Kala, Abdullah Khan Kala and Bairam Ali Khan Kala. Grouped into three settlements corresponding to three periods, Ancient, Medieval and post-Medieval Merv, the development of these cities is unusual in Western Asia: instead of rebuilding upon the same site in successive layers, each city was abandoned for a new site nearby. Ancient Merv consists of the ruins known as Erk Kala and Gyaur Kala. Erk Kala, meaning citadel castle, was established in the Achaemenid period, sixth century BC, its massive enclosure maintained and reinforced until the early Islamic period. The Seleucid ruler, Antiochus I (281-261) founded the Hellenistic city Antiochia Magiana, the ruins now known as Gyaur Kala, maintaining Erk Kala as its citadel. The Gyaur Kala, occupied for over a thousand years under the consecutive reigns of the Parthians, Sasanians, and Umayyads, constitutes the longest living of the Merv settlements. Sometime before the eighth century, suburbs arose near the Majan canal, outside the fortified city. When Abbasid Abu Muslim established dynastic power in Merv in February 748 he relocated the government and major bazaars from the ancient city to a location near the suburb. Merv prospered at this site under the Abbasids and Tahirids, but went through a period of decline when political power moved to Nishapur and Bukhara. The Seljuks arrived in the eleventh century and revived the city, establishing it as an eastern Seljuk capital. Fortification walls were built to enclose the settlement at the end of the eleventh century, possibly by Sultan Malikshah (1072-92). Sultan Sanjar (1118-57) is credited with construction of a fortified citadel, the Shahriyar Ark, in the northeast corner, and the two walled suburbs that extend the city to the north and south. In three consecutive invasions of 1221-2 the Mongols sacked the medieval city of Merv, the ruins now known as Sultan Kala. The city remained occupied, but in an impoverished state until the Timurids integrated the area into their empire in the late fourteenth century. Shahrukh (1405-47) considered locating his capital here and founded a new settlement, now known as the Abdullah Khan Kala, a kilometer south of Sultan Kala. He instituted a major building program, rebuilt the irrigation system, and is credited with construction of the dam. Construction came to a halt however when Shah Rukh relocated to Samarkand, and Merv did not develop again until the Shaybanis reign (1500-98) under whom the fortification walls were erected. In the post-medieval period Merv remained a provincial center, a small town of less than a square kilometer boasting, however, one of the strongest fortresses of the time. A rectangular extension known as Bairam Ali Khan Kala was constructed to the west of Abdullah Khan Kala in the eighteenth century. These two sites were probably in use until the early nineteenth century. No longer occupied by the time of the Russian's arrival in 1885, many of the buildings had been dismantled to provide bricks for new construction. Sources: Herrmann, Georgina. 1999. Monuments of Merv: Traditional Buildings of the Karakum. London: The Society of Antiquaries of London. Nikitin, A. B. and Zeymal, YE. V. 'Merv'. Dictionary of Art vol. 21, 167. "Merv". World Monuments Fund Panographies. http://www.world-heritage-tour.org/asia/tm/merv/map.html. [Accessed February 2, 2006]
Antiquities of Trans-Caspian region: The Ruins of Ancient Merv
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A suggested site for stand-up and live shots is the intersection of N. 92nd Street and Connell Avenue, which offers a view of Froedtert Hospital to the east.


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Q: Overload [][] operator c++
Possible Duplicate:
C++ Overloading : Overloading the [][] operator

I have a class matrix, its data is stored in vector<vector<double> > _data
and I want to overload the [][] operator to return _data[row][cols]
I was looking around but couldn't quite understand how to do that using vector of vector
I know I need to overload the [] operator, but it only receives one parameter.
Was thinking of maybe creating an inner helper class but I can't quite get my head around this one.
Any ideas?
Thanks

A: You have at least two choices:

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*Create a custom MatrixRow class which stores a single row of your matrix. This class can overload operator[]() to return an element in the row. Then your matrix class overloads its own operator[]() to return a MatrixRow.

*Overload operator[]() in your matrix class to return a vector<double>. Then you get the second operator[]() for free.

A: How about:
double& operator()(size_t row, size_t col) {
    return _data[row][col];
}

// ...
m(2,4) = 10.3;

It's not exactly the same but it is almost as convenient syntactically, and it abstracts away the underlying implementation (so if you decide to use only one vector (1D) and calculate the correct indices to make it appear as 2D, it will be easy to do).
Btw: Using nested vectors has additional memory (and lookup) overhead, which you might not want.

A: From what i see, you are trying to create bi-dimensional vector.
So, here is the way you can do it:
vector <vector<double>> _data;

vector <double> vec_d; // temporary helpful vector
double d=NULL;

for(int i=0;i<column_size;i++){
            _data.push_back(vec_d);

            for(int j=0;row_size<l;j++)
                _data[i].push_back(d);
    }

After doing this, you can acess to your data this way:
_data[1][0] = 1.5;


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Great Eagle Holdings
$180 M Office Transaction Announces Hong-Kong Investor Great Eagle Holdings' Arrival to Bay Area Market
It's been a fruitful few weeks for the San Francisco office market, and it recently got even better with the completion of a major off-market office deal. Foreign capital has elevated its presence in the area's investment market recently and with the acquisition of the 123 Mission St. asset, Hong Kong-based investor, Great Eagle Holdings has made quite the splash.
San Francisco 02 December 2013 21:27
Self Storage Meets the Sharing Economy
Daniel Kluesing, CEO of San Francisco-based startup Sharespace, contends that sharing could help meet demand for storage in development-constrained markets.
Avison Young Arranges Miami-Area Prelease
Aquila Software will occupy roughly 29,000 square feet at the upcoming 330,000-square-foot, Class A The Edison Pembroke Pines. When completed, the asset will include a 5,000-square-foot central amenity building.
Candid to Relocate Columbus HQ
The move to the historic Dispatch Building in the downtown area is scheduled for this fall. Candid will occupy more than 33,000 square feet, bringing the property to full occupancy.
Miami Worldcenter to Get More Retail, Parking
The development team of the 27-acre mixed-use project has started construction on a 50,000-square-foot retail structure and a public garage.
Nazareth Enterprises Acquires Bay Area Ice Rink
SPI Holdings sold the 55,000-square-foot San Mateo retail and ice rink facility in an off-market transaction. The ice rink had been slated for conversion to additional retail space.


Edwards, Janis L. und Carol K. Winkler: "Representative form and the visual ideograph. The Iwo Jima image in editorial cartoons." In: Quarterly Journal of Speech 83.3 (1997), S. 289–310.
Much has been written about the iconic power of Joe Rosenthal's 1945 photograph of the flag‐raising at Iwo Jima. This scholarship, however, insufficiently accounts for the rhetorical function of this image as it is appropriated in an unusual number of recent editorial cartoons. Building upon rhetorical theory addressing repetitive form and visual metaphor, we propose a concept of representative form. Exemplifying representative form, the parodied Iwo Jima image operates as an instance of depictive rhetoric that functions ideographically.


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China Tech Threat Applauds Confirmation of Alan Estevez to Lead BIS
Posted on April 1, 2022 April 1, 2022 by China Tech Threat
China Tech Threat applauds the confirmation of Alan Estevez to lead the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), which is the most important agency most Americans have never heard of. Mr. Estevez brings unprecedented experience to the role with some 30 years in defense, supply chain, and logistics.
It has been 5 years since there was a confirmed BIS Director, and 9 months since Mr. Estevez was nominated. The clock has been ticking, and as Mira Ricardel, former Deputy National Security Advisor and BIS Under Secretary for Export Administration, told us, "The only parties that benefit from a lack of senior leadership at BIS are our adversaries."
China Tech Threat Co-Founder Roslyn Layton, PhD welcomed the news of Mr. Estevez's confirmation and said, "With growing threats from Russia and China, Mr. Estevez needs to hit the ground running. He must ensure that BIS follows through on the suite of restrictions placed on Russia. Additionally, with recent news that Apple is sourcing chips from YMTC for the iPhone, BIS must stop dragging its feet on calls to add the Chinese military fab to the Entity List."
Layton added, "I look forward to Mr. Estevez making good on his commitment to use the full arsenal of BIS tools to counter China's anticompetitive and unfair practices, human rights abuses, and tactics to maneuver around our nation's regulatory structures."
Mr. Estevez's confirmation comes at a critical time, and BIS has no shortage of issues to address. Join us on Tuesday at 12 pm ET for a conversation with Kevin Wolf, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Control at BIS, and Derek Scissors, Commissioner of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, about competing views on the Future of BIS. Also, visit our Future of BIS site for China Tech Threat's series of policy recommendations for Mr. Estevez and his agency to address.
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UK Spy Leader: China Seeking to "Dominate" Technology


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Q: Is there a way to write custom JsonConverter per object I have a Json object something like this:
{"company": "My Company",
"companyStart" : "2015/01/01",
"employee" :
    { "name" : "john doe",
      "startDate" : 1420434000000 } }

And my json object like this:
public class Company {
    public string company;
    public DateTime companyStart;
    public Employee employee;
}

public class Employee {
    public string name;
    public DateTime startDate;
 }

My original code deserialize like this
JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Company>(jsonString);

This code converts Company.companyStart without trouble, but when it gets to Employee.startDate it doesn't know what to do with the Long.
This post showed me how to create custom JsonConverter to convert long to DateTime, but as you can see in my case, this would give me trouble converting Company.companyStart to DateTime.
So...  I was thinking of doing something like this:
public class Company : JsonBase {
    ...
}

public class Employee : JsonBase {
    ...
    Employee() { Converter = new CustomDateConverter(); }
}

public class JsonBase {
    private JsonConverter converter;
    [JsonIgnore]
    public JsonConverter Converter => converter ?? (converter = new StandardConverter());
}

JsonBase would contain either the standard converter or
and in my code I would convert something like this:
public T CreateJsonObject<T>() where T : JsonBase {
    JsonBase json = (T) Activator.CreateInstance(typeof (T));
    JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(jsonString, json.Converter);
}

The problem is that this doesn't quite work because this method will simply use the top most Converter to convert everything instead of using converter per object.
Is there a way to use the converter per object?  Or perhaps there is a better way to do this.

A: How about adapting the custom converter that you wrote to understand both formats:
public override object ReadJson(JsonReader reader, Type objectType, object existingValue, JsonSerializer serializer)
{
    if (reader.ValueType == typeof(string))
    {
        return DateTime.Parse((string)reader.Value);
    }
    else if (reader.ValueType == typeof(long))
    {
        return new DateTime(1970, 1, 1).AddMilliseconds((long)reader.Value);
    }
    throw new NotSupportedException();
}

Alternatively you could apply the converter only to a specific property of your model by decorating it with the JsonConverter attribute:
public class Employee
{
    public string name;

    [JsonConverter(typeof(MyConverter))]
    public DateTime startDate;
}

This way you don't need to register the converter globally and it won't mess up with the other standard date formats.


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Paper: Kevin Eckel kicked off Navy football team
By on July 27, 2011 Football, Navy
Kevin Eckel has been dismissed from the Navy football team, according to a report on The (Annapolis) Capitol website. The younger brother of former Navy fullback Kyle Eckel, Kevin Eckel is entering his third year at the Naval Academy. Also a fullback, Kevin was tied for third on the Navy depth chart after spring practice, according to the Capitol. During his first two seasons at Navy, Kevin Eckel appeared in only six games during his first two seasons at Navy, primarily on special teams, according to his official bio. Not mentioned in Eckel's official bio is the an outstanding football…
Former Navy FB Kyle Eckel manages to get back in the news
By on February 10, 2011 Football, Navy
Kyle Eckel didn't play a down in the NFL this past season, but he's managing to make news around the league lately, thanks to a Facebook posting about his onetime team, the Philadelphia Eagles. The former Naval Academy star apparently posted last Sunday or Monday that he'd heard a rumor that Jon Gruden would be replacing Andy Reid as coach of the Eagles. As things occasionally do on the Internet, the hard-to-believe rumor managed to go viral on the Web and was picked up by various media outlets. The Gruden/Reid rumor turned out to be completely false, of course. ESPN…
Kyle Eckel appears to be out of football shape
By on November 18, 2010 Football, Navy
Last February, former Navy running back Kyle Eckel won a Super Bowl ring with the New Orleans Saints. By the looks of this YouTube video, he's still celebrating. Eckel has not played in the NFL yet this season. He was signed and later waived by the Denver Broncos over the summer and looks to be out of football shape (but in great beer chugging shape) in this undated clip. I'm not saying that Eckel has let himself go, but if his gut gets any bigger, he might qualify to be an After Action blogger. Video is NSFW (language). [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZiICWdJ0Vc[/youtube]
Former USNA star Eckel signs with Broncos; Ballard might be next
By on June 8, 2010 Football, Navy
Missed this one while I was on vacation: Our lone service academy alum in the NFL last season, former Naval Academy fullback Kyle Eckel, has signed with the Denver Broncos. Terms of his deal have not been reported. Eckel, a 2005 USNA grad, is the second former service academy player to sign with the Broncos this offseason. Recent Air Force Academy graduate Ben Garland, a defensive lineman, signed a free-agent deal with the team earlier this offseason. The Broncos are the fifth different franchise Eckel has played for in his now five-year pro career. Last season Eckel won a Super…
Eckel done in New Orleans?
By on March 4, 2010 Football, Navy
Former Navy star running back Kyle Eckel won a Super Bowl ring with the New Orleans Saints last month, but it appears the restricted free agent might be done in the Big Easy. The Saints have not tendered an offer to the fullback, who was signed during the season to replace injured starter Heath Evans. According to Jeff Evans of the Times Picayune, "it looks as though the club is not interested in bringing back" Eckel, who is one of only four restricted free agents not tendered an offer by the Saints. Meanwhile, New Orleans has signed an another free…
Veterans in the Super Bowl
By on February 5, 2010 Football
While discussing former sailor Kyle Eckel's return appearance to the Super Bowl, a co-worker asked me: How many guys who've played in the Super Bowl have also served in the military? All I could think of the top of my head were legendary Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach, Rocky Bleier, the Steelers running back who returned to play after being wounded in Vietnam, Chad Hennings, the Cowboys defensive lineman who flew A-1os in the Air Force, and Paul Hornung, the Green Bay Packers Hall of Famer who almost missed the 1961 NFL championship game because of his duty in the Army…
Eckel still mum about getting booted from the Navy
By on February 3, 2010 Football, Navy
Is it time for Kyle Eckel to come clean? Yesterday at Super Bowl Media Day, CBSSports.com columnist Gregg Doyel caught up with the New Orleans Saints fullback and former Naval Academy star. Doyel asked Eckel the obvious question: Why aren't you still in the Navy? Eckel, of course, was kicked out of the Navy in 2006 after less than two years on active duty. The Navy wouldn't tell us why back then, and Doyel had no luck getting info from them either. When previously interviewed, Eckel himself has never offered any real insight into the issue. Here's what Eckel had…
Perseverance pays off for former Navy star
By on January 26, 2010 Football, Navy
Why is this man smiling? Because he's going to the Super Bowl. Again. Former Navy running back Kyle Eckel punched his ticket to Miami along with the rest of his Saints' teammates Sunday as New Orleans won a 31-28 overtime thriller over the Minnesota Vikings to win the NFC title.
WSJ: College Football's Longest Drive
By on December 30, 2009 Football, Marine Corps, Navy
There's a great read in today's Wall Street Journal about Navy's 2004 Emerald Bowl win over New Mexico. Yes, the 2004 Emerald Bowl. In the Wall Street Journal. Why, you wonder, would the Wall Street Journal (the Wall Street Journal!) devote space to a bowl game from five years ago? A bowl game of little consequence played before a crowd of less than 29,000? Here's why: This game contained the longest drive in college football history. Navy held the ball for 14 minutes and 26 seconds as they drove 26 plays over the course of the end of the third…
Eckel back with the Saints
By on December 22, 2009 Football, Navy
NFL.com is reporting that the New Orleans Saints have re-signed former Navy star Kyle Eckel. Eckel was cut by the Saints a few weeks ago after being signed at midseason. He played sparingly in his first stint with the team, appearing in five games and carrying the ball two times for six yards. The fullback graduated from the Naval Academy in 2004 and is in his fourth year in the NFL. He is the only service academy graduate currently on the roster of an NFL team. The Saints are 13-1 after losing their first game of the season to the…