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Leaders at the University at Buffalo, after meeting several roadblocks in Albany, are considering ways to scale back their UB 2020 plan and its lofty $5 billion price tag.
If UB is to succeed in getting state backing of its ambitious plan for the future of the university and the Buffalo community, UB leaders are being told that they must scale back the master plan unveiled more than two years ago.
That means new UB President Satish K. Tripathi will need to provide more specifics on what public-private partnerships the university has in mind.
Tripathi also is under pressure in Albany to better focus the plan on a downtown Buffalo development effort first and leave for another day some of the real estate plans for its campuses in Amherst and Buffalo.
While Tripathi is believed to be taking a more pragmatic approach with the state, UB officials said the situation is still in flux and declined requests for an interview.
The emerging changes to the UB 2020 plan is recognition that all sides -- Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the State Legislature, the State University of New York and UB leaders -- want to get a deal this year, according to various officials in Albany.
For state lawmakers from Western New York -- especially newcomers such as Buffalo Republican Sen. Mark J. Grisanti who represent politically marginal districts -- the next few weeks will be crucial in determining what compromises can be made to get a UB 2020 package.
Prodding the UB 2020 talks is a summit that Cuomo plans in Albany in early May to bring together the various stakeholders who have been butting heads for several years over the Buffalo plan. Cuomo has been in personal contact with SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher and Tripathi in hopes of pinning down a coordinated effort on the UB 2020 plan that could spread to other SUNY campuses, sources say.
While much of the UB 2020 plan centers on university-community real estate projects, the power for UB to set its own tuition -- and at different levels than other state campuses -- is a tough sell in Albany.
Assembly critics say tuition increases would hurt many families and have raised questions about the extent of the fiscal autonomy sought by UB that would weaken oversight established years ago during a fiscal scandal on a state campus on Long Island.
But Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat whose conference has backed previous UB expansion efforts in Buffalo's downtown health corridor, also has raised questions about the lack of specifics on the projects intended under UB 2020, especially the downtown Buffalo plan. Questions have been raised over who holds the private land that UB now wants to develop.
Some also want UB to develop a "priority list" for projects and address whether it wants UB 2020, at least in the early stages, to focus on downtown areas as a way to help a city that has been losing a lot of population.
John B. Simpson, Tripathi's immediate predecessor as UB president, had his differences with officials in Albany, including Zimpher. He was increasingly viewed as a lone wolf willing to break with a broader SUNY policy agenda to promote UB.
Tripathi hopes to mend those fences, officials say, and has started by privately raising questions about some of the soaring job creation predictions in the UB 2020 plan.
Tripathi has said that while he is committed to UB 2020, he wants to be more "realistic" about what UB can do during these difficult economic times.
He also wants to reassess UB's ability to attract an additional 10,000 students -- one of the main aspirations of UB 2020.
Beyond sticky issues such as increasing tuition and giving one public campus more autonomy than others in the 64-campus system, the proposed costs for UB 2020 have never made Albany officials comfortable.
The plan calls for more than 7 million square feet of construction over at least the next 20 years. The price tag: $5 billion, with $3 billion of that to be covered by the state. The other $2 billion would come from UB revenue streams through public-private partnerships and proceeds from tuition increases.
But state officials say UB has also envisioned using tuition revenues to back expensive capital borrowing -- something potentially risky that could then put the state on the hook.
"The [Assembly] speaker has made it clear that he doesn't want UB to become a real estate developer, and I agree," said Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes, D-Buffalo, one of the chief supporters of UB 2020.
The lawmaker said she has heard of the plan changing to be done in a more phased-in approach rather than the state providing a green light to more than 100 construction projects over two decades. She said state officials have also asked the new Tripathi administration for specifics on exactly how the public-private partnerships will work.
Peoples-Stokes acknowledged that the tuition differential plan pushed by UB is a hurdle among some of her Democratic colleagues in the Assembly.
"That's the most difficult issue for a lot of members," she said, though she believes it will be in the final plan.
Now that the state budget is completed, the Cuomo administration has made UB 2020 one of its top priorities for the remainder of the session.
Cuomo supported the plan during his gubernatorial campaign last year, and it is a major prize both to a new governor who did not do well at the polls in many sections of Western New York and for an often-warring Western New York delegation bent on ridding itself of an image that is incapable of delivering big projects.
The Cuomo administration declined to comment on the talks. In a visit to the Buffalo area last week, Cuomo said he is going "to work as hard as I can to make [UB 2020] a reality."
Cuomo noted that there are "many legislators and many opinions, but we're going to work through it, and I'm optimistic that we'll make UB 2020 a reality at the end of the day."
People-Stokes said she is "more encouraged" than ever that some sort of UB 2020 plan will emerge this session, following the recent personal involvement by Cuomo and Silver.
"I think that the involvement of the governor is critical," said Assemblyman Robin L. Schimminger, D-Kenmore, a sponsor of the UB 2020 bill, "and his convening of a summit is pivotal to getting the matter resolved."
In the GOP-led Senate, the plan has already passed this session.
But it won't pass as it presently exists in the Assembly.
Even some Senate Republicans expressed concerns that SUNY schools in their regions -- such as Long Island and the Binghamton area -- are cut out from the UB 2020 bill that they approved.
But the GOP is desperate to hold on to its 32-30 majority in the Senate, and Grisanti -- whom Republicans are desperately trying to prop up in advance of his running for re-election in a Democratic-dominated district -- has made UB 2020 his chief catch. He has talked with Cuomo twice in the last couple of weeks and gets private briefings from UB.
Grisanti said the sides are working during the break to come up with some areas of common ground before the Legislature returns in early May. He said that everything from the process for hiring faculty members to the costs involved for moving the medical teaching operations to UB's downtown campus is being discussed.
After hearing the new UB president speak this week, Grisanti believes that Tripathi sent signals of some compromises.
"It seems like he was saying he wants to move at a more cautious pace," Grisanti said. "You could take that to mean he's looking at this plan in phases, but I've not heard that."
Grisanti said that it is "possible" his UB 2020 legislation will be changed and acknowledged that it faces major amendments if other SUNY schools are added. With the May summit at the Capitol coming up, Grisanti said, the sides are looking for common ground.
"They don't want to start the summit off on the wrong foot where everybody has a different idea of what UB 2020 is," Grisanti said. "They want to make sure everyone is on the same page."
News Staff Reporter Jay Rey contributed to this report.


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48 6.13 The Impulse-Momentum Theorem
When thinking about how to reduce forces during collisions we intuitively know that increasing the duration of the collision is helpful. The combination of the force and collision duration is known as the impulse. The impulse can be calculated by multiplying the average net force (Fave) by the duration of the collision (Δt). (Alternatively, the impulse is equal to the area underneath the force vs. time curve for the collision such as those in the previous example). The impulse-momentum theorem states that the impulse applied to an object will be equal to the change in its momentum.
[latex]\boldsymbol{\Delta{\vec{\textbf{t}}}\textbf{F}}=\boldsymbol{m({v_f}) - m( {v_i})}[/latex]
Notice that we have calculated the change in momentum as the initial momentum (mivi) subtracted from the final momentum (mfvf). If the mass of the object doesn't change during the collision, then the initial and final mass are the same. In this case we call it m and factor it out on the right side of the equation:
[latex]\boldsymbol{\Delta{\vec{\textbf{t}}}\textbf{F}}=\boldsymbol{m({v_f} - {v_i})}[/latex]
Now we see that the impulse-momentum theorem shows us how a small net force applied over a long time can be used to produce the same velocity change as a large net force applied over a short time.
Everyday Example: Landing
A person jumping from a height of 5 m, or about 20 ft, hits the ground with a speed of nearly 10 m/s, or about 22 mph (we'll learn how to figure that out later). Let's calculate the average force applied to a 100 kg person during such a landing if the collision with the ground lasts 1/10 of a second. We start with the impulse-momentum theorem.
We want force, so let's divide over the collision duration:
[latex]\boldsymbol{{F}}=\boldsymbol{(m({v_f} - {v_i}))/\Delta{\vec{\textbf{t}}}}[/latex]
Remembering that direction is important when working with forces and velocities, we need to define some directions. Let's make downward negative so the initial velocity is -10 m/s. The final velocity is 0 m/s because the person comes to rest on the ground during landing. The stated collision duration was 0.1 s, so we are ready to calculate the average net force:
[latex]\boldsymbol{{F}}=\boldsymbol{(100kg({0 m/s} - {-10 m/s}))/{0.1s} = 10, 000N}[/latex]
We see that the net force is positive, meaning that it points upward because we chose downward as the negative direction. This makes sense because the ground pushes up on the person to provide the impulse to stop the persons downward motion.
Finally, we need to remember that we have calculated the average net force, which how much the forces are out of balance. This person has a weight of about 1,000 N (100 kg x 9.8 m/s/s = 1000 N). Weight acts downward, so to get the required 10,000 N of net force upward there must actually be a 11,000 N applied upward on their feet, with 1000 N of that being cancelled out by their weight.
Spreading the force out over a longer time would reduce the average force (and peak force) applied to the person. For example, the the collision were made to last 5/10 of a second instead of 1/10 of a second, the net force would be five times smaller:
[latex]\boldsymbol{{F}}=\boldsymbol{(100kg({0 m/s} - {-10 m/s}))/{0.5s} = 5, 000N}[/latex]
And adding the 1000 N body weight to get the total force on the feet we get 6,000 N.
The people in this video are well practiced at techniques for reducing forces by extending impact time.
Reinforcement Exercises: Fall time
Apply the impulse-momentum theorem to calculate the fall time for the person who fell from the 5 m height in the previous example. [Hint: If we ignore air resistance, then the only force on them during the fall is their weight, so that is the net force. You already know the initial velocity at the start of the fall is zero, and the final velocity was given to be 10 m/s.]
It's important to recognize that we have been applying the impulse-momentum theorem to only one object involved in the collision. We know from the Principle of Momentum Conservation that the total combined momentum change of all objects involved in a collision is zero, so applying the impulse-momentum theorem to all of the objects would just tell us that the total net force on ALL objects during the collision is zero.
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Keen to make the most of what could be the last rays of warm sunshine of 2012, from 4th-8th September, an adventurous band of FROGs descended onto the foreshore at Rotherhithe to complete the final days of TDP fieldwork this season. We were surprised to see the extent of the erosion since the last recording visit (you can see a short film about the 2011 fieldwork here); a number of large timbers have been exposed at the western end of the site, with some already in danger of being washed away. There was certainly plenty of work to be done.
This site is a firm favourite for many of the FROGs, with the narrow cobbled streets, riverfront buildings, public houses and local feats of industrial engineering evoking the prosperity that the area enjoyed from the 17th to 19th centuries. Activities associated with Rotherhithe's maritime history have left their mark on the foreshore, and various patches and layers of consolidation and rubble, including bricks and tiles from buildings bombed during WWII, and debris from variety of on-site activities (for example, butchered animal bones, coal, nail scatters, and metal-working waste), make prime hunting ground for mudlarkers searching for the tantalising small finds that the river uncovers, (while we were on site, numerous copper alloy pins and fastenings, lead tokens, pipe stems and bowls, coins and buttons were found).
Our role though, was to investigate the various structural remnants that continue to emerge from the foreshore. The timbers that we were recording were situated just to the east of the famous Mayflower. Like the slipway recorded in 2010 and 2011, the new structure/structures clearly incorporated reused ships' timbers, but the function that they served was less evident.
There were at least two windlasses, (right) identifiable by their regular square fittings running laterally, used to hoist the sail, and in reuse, often serving to secure/tie/moor boats.
There was also a rudder, (below) from a Thames Barge-sized vessel with a composite structure. A softer/spongier-looking orange timber (fir of some kind) made up a central strip, which was flanked by two pieces of darker, harder oak.
Eliott recollected similar rudder construction at other foreshore sites, leading him to consider that this variation of wood type might be a deliberate technical choice, designed to make the most of the timbers' natural properties, so that the rudder is strong and hard-wearing but also flexible, and therefore able to withstand collisions. Judging by the numerous nail holes, and many surviving nails in the timber, it also looked as if it had been sheathed in metal, possibly copper, but this covering would have been stripped and recycled as part of the ship-breaking process. The rudder didn't appear integral to any structural feature on the foreshore.
Once cleaned and examined, the timbers seemed to represent stages of revetment and consolidation, possibly linked to the chalk rubble just east of the timbers, which has been previously recorded by TDP. The positioning of the horizontal beams so that they were level (rather than sloping towards the river) suggests that they were arranged to form a bargebed.
Another structure (below) further east turned out to be a more technically complex construction, a linear feature extending from the south river wall towards the river. However, the purpose of this was not clear, perhaps it formed some kind of causeway or slipway.
An exciting and unexpected addition to the usual assemblage of timbers, looked at first like a spongy kind of plank; a long (approx 1m), spatula shape emerging from the Thames mud. It was broken, and eroded so that a 'honeycomb' interior was visible. It was incised with cutmarks, and places where it appeared to be sawn. On closer inspection, this 'plank' turned out to be a bone, a very big bone, which by our reckoning could only belong to one thing (after ruling out dinosaur): a whale. Another, large bone lay nearby, just to the east of the first; a single vertebra. These discoveries tie into the Rotherhithe docks' historic associations with whaling expeditions (from which the Greenland Dock took it's name), and processing of whale carcasses, but the bones' presence on the foreshore is somewhat mystifying.
The evidence of disarticualtion and processing distinguishes these mammal remains from the famous right whale skeleton excavated in Greenwich in 2010. The larger bone appeared to be placed in alignment with the other revetment timbers, leading us to wonder – could this bone have been reused as part of the bargebed structure? A third enormous bone (see image below) appeared to confirm this hypothesis conclusively; it had a large iron nail hammered into it, though no associated timbers have been preserved.
The archaeological recording of these intriguing features provides evidence about the ways that people lived and worked on the foreshore and the river, and the nature of the dock's structures at Rotherhithe. It also highlights the importance of the work of the TDP and FROG volunteers who are recording and interpreting this unique material before it is claimed by the river.


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Q: Things to keep in mind while architecting high volume traffic centered web site I have this question. If I am designing a web site which is expected to have high-traffic, then what are the things I should keep in mind?
Thanks

A: Be careful about your database management.
Build your database tables, and links between tables keeping in mind that you do not want to search / load useless things.

A: Once the site is working, I would optimise it as much as possible. Tools like YSlow or WebPageTest make it easy to analyse a page and pinpoint bottlenecks and places for improvements.
Also for a high volume site, I think that you definitely want to use a content delivery network. There are lots of options, including Amazon CloudFront and CloudFlare. Using a CDN will reduce the load on your server by 60-80%, it will make the site faster and it will cost you hardly anything.
Unless there is a specific reason why it's not a good fit for your site, you can't go wrong!
Good luck!

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Michal Rechter was only 14 years old when, on the eve of the Second World War, she left her family in Poland and traveled to Israel. Now, at the age of 92, she tells her story to her granddaughter, the film's director, who brings her grandmother's memories to life in colorful animation.
This film was also shown in FilmPittsburgh's Teen Screen Program.


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Professional certified Chinese-English and English-Chinese translation and interpretation services come in handy during arbitration. According to Article 15 of the Chinese Arbitration Law, all arbitration that takes place in China must be conducted according to Chinese law. At the outset, this requires conducting the arbitration in Chinese and, therefore, using a foreign language interpretation. Further, all evidence must either be in Chinese or include a foreign language translation. The law does include a special provision for resolving disputes between a Chinese party and a foreign investor or business. According to Article 65, this special provision applies only when the arbitration matter involves an economic, trade, transport or maritime dispute involving foreign concerns.
Regardless of whether the exception applies, the issue of arbitral jurisdiction always plays an important part as this determines which arbitral institution will conduct the proceedings, which procedure will apply, and which law will govern. Although there is no Chinese law that requires an arbitration to be held locally, it is rare that a Chinese business will agree to any arbitration agreement that will take place in the other party's country for business that takes place within China. If this issue cannot be resolved, the usual alternative is to have the arbitration take place in a neutral third party country.
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7th North Carolina Regiment
The 7th North Carolina Regiment was raised on 16 September 1776 at Halifax, North Carolina for service with the Continental Army. Colonel James Hogun was appointed the regimental commander in November 1776. The 7th Regiment was initially assigned to the Southern Department but in February 1777 the unit transferred to George Washington's main army. In July 1777, the regiment was assigned to the North Carolina Brigade which was led by Francis Nash. All the North Carolina regiments were badly understrength, with only two mustering over 200 men. The regiment saw action at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown and it was present at White Marsh. Together with the 8th, 9th, and 10th North Carolina Regiments, the 7th Regiment was disbanded on 1 June 1778 at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The rank and file were consolidated with the three senior regiments and the superfluous officers were sent back to North Carolina to recruit new regiments.
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● 19 Palestinians, including seven children, were injured by Israeli forces in the West Bank in the context of clashes, including in protests and search and arrest operations. The child injuries included an infant and an 18-month-old baby who suffered from tear gas in the context of protests in Kafr Qaddum (Qalqiliya); two boys (13 and 16 years old) shot with live ammunition during clashes in Silwad (Ramallah) and a search and arrest operation in Balata Refugee Camp (Nablus); and three boys (12 and 17 years old) struck by with sound bombs during clashes in East Jerusalem, as well as a 17-year-old struck by a rubber bullet in Abu Dis (Jerusalem).
● A nine-year-old Palestinian child was severely burned when unexploded ordnance (UXO) detonated while he was tampering with it near his house in Tubas city, east of an area declared closed by Israel for military training.
● A Palestinian armed group in the Gaza Strip fired rockets into southern Israel, of which two landed near Netivot and Ashkelon, with no injuries or damage reported. On 2 June, the de facto authority's police killed a 27-year-old member of an armed group during an attempt to arrest him.
● On at least 25 occasions, Israeli forces opened fire towards civilians in the Access Restricted Area (ARA) on land and at sea, injuring three fishermen who were reportedly sailing four nautical miles from the shore and one farmer who was harvesting his crops 500 metres from the fence. On one occasion, Israeli forces entered Gaza south of Sufa and east of Gaza city and carried out land leveling and excavation works.
● Israeli forces arrested 122 Palestinians across the oPt, the vast majority in the West Bank. In the Gaza Strip nine fishermen were arrested at sea after Israeli forces forced them to take off their clothes and swim towards the naval boats, and another man was arrested near the fence surrounding Gaza, after crossing into Israel without authorization.
● The Israeli authorities demolished 28 structures in Area C and East Jerusalem of the West Bank, for lack of Israeli-issued permits, displacing 29 Palestinians, including 17 children and seven women, and otherwise affecting 62 Palestinians, including 34 children. The largest incident took place in the Jordan Valley where 22 structures, including ten residential structures, were demolished in Abu Kbash herding community.
● Two Israeli settler attacks resulting in damage to Palestinian property were recorded. Both incidents involved stone-throwing at vehicles passing on the road connecting Nahhalin village to Husan (Bethlehem) and the other near the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Efrayim (Nablus).
● The Rafah crossing was closed in both directions by the Egyptian authorities during the week. The crossing has been continuously closed since 24 October 2014, following an attack in Sinai, except partially and intermittently on 15 days.


If you are a Web designer, graphic designer, or other creative professional, most likely you work with the Adobe suite of products. Up until now, you haven't been able to migrate your work to your tablet PC of choice. That's about to change. Adobe on Tuesday announced two products available in the coming months that will drastically shift how creative professionals will work: Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Touch Apps for tablets.
The Adobe Creative Cloud will offer 20GB of online storage for your files, allowing you to transfer graphics work among your devices. Adobe intends to develop Creative Cloud as an inexpensive service that allows access to all of Adobe's products. It won't only involve the Touch Apps, but access to other Adobe's products, such as Photoshop and InDesign. We won't know until November how affordable it is, but the Touch App price of $9.99 each is a good sign that it may be within reach of the average small business.
The integration of Adobe Touch Apps with the Creative Cloud is necessary, since that's where you'll be getting all of your personal work files from when using a Touch App.
Once you've found your images, you can bring up the familiar standby Photoshop tools, which offer basic Photoshop functionality. You can crop, apply effects, use layers and gradients, and apply text. There's even a new Scribble tool, similar to the Magic Wand, which allows you to broadly define an area from which you need to remove the background, then refine the edges.
The rest of the Touch Apps look interesting, but are mostly specialist applications for different industries. The only one that speaks to all creative fields is Adobe Debut, which lets you make presentations using original Creative Suite files. Adobe Collage helps designers create mood boards, Adobe Ideas is a vector-based drawing tool, and Adobe Kuler is a color theme generator.
Web designers will want to grab Adobe Proto for developing interactive wireframes and website prototypes. The capability to demonstrate interactivity without building an entire mockup is certainly worth $9.99.
To get a look at more of the features that the Adobe Touch Apps offer, Adobe has a series of videos here.
If you're offsite, you'd be able to make design changes on the fly without hauling a laptop. Yes, you could do that with a decent laptop, but a tablet is a less risky device to take traveling. Plus, outfitting your creative team with tablets rather than laptops is a huge potential cost savings.
There's also the question of price. While Adobe hasn't shared the numbers yet, it has promised that Creative Cloud will be inexpensive. Hopefully a recent graduate who wants to start their own freelance design business can enter the industry with Creative Cloud rather than spending thousands on a full professional Adobe software suite.
When Can You Get It All?
Creative Cloud membership will be available in early 2012, with Adobe Touch Apps available for Android devices in November for $9.99 each, and for iPad in early 2012. The exception is Adobe Ideas, which is already available for the iPad. While some are calling this a slight on Apple for not allowing Flash on their device, it is more likely because Adobe needs to do more work to make its apps Apple-ready. Further announcements about pricing and Adobe Creative Cloud are expected in November.


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San Jose Super Toy & Comic Book Show AUGUST 18, 2012
Keep scrolling down to the bottom of the page.
Actor and body building legend Lou Ferrigno is scheduled to be at our August 18 Show.
He played the Incredible Hulk in the original 1970's Television series.
He also was in the 2009 comedy I Love You, Man.
Most recently he was a contestant on season five of the NBC series The Celebrity Apprentice, which premiered in February 2012. He appeared on the program in order to raise money for his charity, the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
All guests are subject to cancellation due to professional commitments.
No refunds of entrance fee for any reason.
Just added.
Actress AMANDA BEARSE is scheduled to be at the show as well.
She played Marcy D'Arcy the Bundy's next door neighbor in the Comedy Classic Television show Married with Children.
She starred along side Roddy Mcdowall in the original movie version of Fright Night as Amy.
In the 1980's she was a major character on the popular Soap Opera All My Children.
She also is a talented director. She directed many episodes of Married with Children and many other TV shows.
Dawn Wells is scheduled to be one of our special guests at our August 18, 2012 Toy & Comic Book Show.
Dawn played MARY ANN in the classic television comedy GILLIGANS ISLAND.
We have sponsorship opportunities. These opportunities provide a business or corporate entity with publicity, advertising, social
media and prominent product exposure to our attendees. We have several
options available and look forward to working with you.
Actress JUDITH O'DEA will not be able to attend the show due to unforeseen family responsibilities.
We will reschedule her for a future show.
She is Best known for her role as BARBARA in the classic and original modern ZOMBIE film
Night of the Living Dead.
*****All guests are subject to cancellation due to professional commitments.
SAN JOSE SUPER TOY, COMIC BOOK & COLLECTIBLE SHOW
Early Bird 9 AM - 10:59 AM
General Admission 11 AM - 4:30 PM
General Admission: $6.00
Early Bird: $15.00
We will begin pre selling general admission tickets at 9 am on Saturday the 18th.
These tickets are good for 11 am General Admission entry only.
If you would like to enter the show at 9 am, you must purchase Early Bird tickets.
Early Bird entry tickets are $15 each.
These Early Bird tickets allow you to enter the show at 9 am.
The show takes place in an Air Conditioned building.
The Fairgrounds charges $8 for parking.
We are SOLD out of vendor space for this show.
Vendor Contract (PDF 7k) artapartment@yahoo.com
Scroll down to view pictures of our past shows.
Jon Provost will be at the August show.
He is best known for his role as young Timmy Martin in the CBS series, Lassie.
Monster and B movie Host Balrok from TV 20 Creepy Kofy Movie Time Television show is scheduled to attend the show.
Comic Creator Mel Smith will be promoting the new Creepy KOFY Movie Time Show comic book. Stop by and meet Balrok and Mel.
Model ASHLEY VEE will be at the Cal Hot Shots booth.
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CURRENTLY READING Why Is It So Hard for Me to Stop After Just One Drink?
Why Is It So Hard for Me to Stop After Just One Drink?
I'm never drinking again, I tell myself as I crack one eye open, sunlight filtering into my room. I roll over, feel around my bed for my phone, and start to dread the inevitable headache that's fast approaching.
I've lived in New York for almost six years. Of those 2,190 nights, I've spent a good number of them going out. After all, why stay in when you could be out in the city that never sleeps—meeting new people, drinking on rooftops, dancing in clubs?
Most of the time, I can shake off the side effects with lots of water and a large coffee. I've never messed up in a major way—no ruined relationships, no DUIs, no arrests. I don't drink a lot during the week. And I've only lost one phone!
We commiserate about how terrible we feel, we laugh it off, and then we do it again.
But I have lost credit cards and jackets and scarves. I've sent too many texts and made too many late-night calls I shouldn't have. I've had too many nights that started out shiny and full of promise, only to devolve into fights and tear-streaked cheeks.
I need to stop drinking so much, I say to myself those mornings after. My friends say the same thing, texting each other after a big night out. We commiserate about how terrible we feel, we laugh it off, and then we do it again. It's OK—we don't have a problem. We're in our twenties. We're just having fun.
Yet I can't shake the question: Haven't I had enough? Enough partying, enough drinking, enough late nights? The thought runs through my mind, but inevitably, after a few days pass, I'm ready for more.
Haven't I had enough? I could ask myself on a date, when I say yes to a third round of cocktails over a conversation that's run its course. But maybe he's just loosening up. Sure, I'll have another.
Haven't I had enough? I could ask myself at a bar on a Friday night, when a friend offers me a shot at midnight. But she's moving soon, and it's her last weekend in town. How can I say no?
Haven't I had enough? I could ask myself at a wedding, when I go for a fifth glass of wine. Hey, it's an open bar. Here's to the happy couple!
With alcohol, it's just too easy to have more, especially when you like the way rosé tastes on a warm summer night. Plus having one or two drinks makes you feel great! It's science: Alcohol triggers the release of endorphins, those feel-good chemicals in your brain. Alcohol consumption induces endogenous opioid release in the human orbitofrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens. Mitchell JM, O'Neil JP, Janabi M. Science translational medicine, 2012, Sep.;4(116):1946-6242. At first, it acts as a stimulant. You feel giddy, excited, ecstatic even.
But your return on investment drops after those first couple of drinks. Your senses start to dull as alcohol's sedative effects kick in. Your inhibitions lower. You become more impulsive. That third—or fifth—drink start to sound grand, no matter what "limit" you told yourself before you started drinking. Why stick to two drinks? You only live once.
That's just it, though. You only live once. The clichéd phrase means much more to me now at age 27 than when I was in college or my early twenties. I know people who have been through health scares and illnesses and accidents. I have known and loved people who have passed away—sadly, sometimes in incidents involving alcohol. And it's not like I don't know about the effects of alcohol on your body—I'm an editor at a health and wellness website, after all.
So the question remains: Why is it so hard to stick to one or two drinks when I go out? I honestly don't know. I don't think any of my friends know either, judging by the repetitive "I'm never drinking again" texts we all send most weekend mornings.
It's not like I can't ever stop myself. Plenty of nights I don't drink at all or happily stick to one glass of wine. I even gave up drinking for a month in January (and wrote about it). Plus moderation is an easy enough concept for me when it comes to food and exercise—I don't tend toward extremes in either.
It's tempting to point my finger at New York City itself, where I could hit up happy hour every day if I wanted to and bars don't close until 4 a.m. But I can't blame my environment. I'm the one who's picking up the glass and bringing it to my lips.
I could point to the fact that alcohol has been shown to be addictive. Or to my general sense of anxiety or uneasiness that flares up in some social situations. Alcohol helps alleviate those anxious feelings, at least for the time being. It makes me feel like I made the right choice. It makes me into a cooler, funnier, friendlier version of myself. Until I'm not.
I want to start living with eyes wide open, not halfway closed after two vodka sodas too many.
I may not be able to pinpoint what occasionally pushes me past my limit. But I do know that I want to start living with eyes wide open, not halfway closed after two vodka sodas too many. I don't want the fun to end, but I do want to remember it—all the fleeting nights and sunny summer days I spend in this city that's become my home. I want to stay ahead of my tendency to drink too much, before I suffer more serious consequences than a forgotten credit card or jacket at the bar.
I may take this back next Friday night, but for now, I think I've finally had enough.
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Q: How do I end a Grails webflow if the user clicks on a link that's not in the webflow? I have a Grails application with a common navigation bar that shows on all pages. When the user starts a webflow, it will change the URL to look like this:
http://localhost:8080/app/transaction/create?execution=e5s1

But when I click to a link that's not in the webflow, it will still append the querystring:
http://localhost:8080/app/profile/show/5?execution=e5s1

How do I configure Grails to not append the querystring if the link is not part of the webflow?

A: I don't think this is possible if you're using the createLink taglib to generate your link. The only workaround I can see is to call an action then redirect to the final url destination.  Something like...
In GSP:
createLink(action: "proxy", params: [finalaction: 'gohere'])

In Controller:
def proxy = {
    redirect(action: params.finalaction)
}

def gohere = {
    render "look no querystring"
}


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After the Postville, IA raid on May 12, 2008, Immigration and Law Enforcement pressed criminal charges against 300 illegal workers for identity theft, asserting that these workers had criminally stolen the identity of the social security card holders whose numbers they used. The defendants were railroaded through a court. One of the workers, now in federal prison, appealed. The Supreme Court yesterday in a unanimous decision threw out the conviction and in doing so forbad ICE from using this overkill tactic. The court's reasoning: the workers had not idea the numbers were for actual people.
According to the NY Times, "The Obama administration has said that it will shift the focus of immigration enforcement to employers who intentionally hire unauthorized immigrants in order to pay lower wages or otherwise lower costs. But last week the administration said agents would continue to detain illegal immigrants found in raids."
The article in full:
By ADAM LIPTAK and JULIA PRESTON
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a favorite tool of prosecutors in immigration cases, ruling unanimously that a federal identity-theft law may not be used against many illegal workers who used false Social Security numbers to get jobs.
The question in the case was whether workers who use fake identification numbers to commit some other crimes must know they belong to a real person to be subject to a two-year sentence extension for "aggravated identity theft."
The answer, the Supreme Court said, is yes.
Prosecutors had used the threat of that punishment to persuade illegal workers to plead guilty to lesser charges of document fraud.
"The court's ruling preserves basic ideals of fairness for some of our society's most vulnerable workers," said Chuck Roth, litigation director at the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago. "An immigrant who uses a false Social Security number to get a job doesn't intend to harm anyone, and it makes no sense to spend our tax dollars to imprison them for two years."
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said in a concurring opinion that a central flaw in the interpretation of the law urged by the government was that it made criminal liability turn on chance. Consider, Justice Alito said, a defendant who chooses a Social Security number at random.
"If it turns out that the number belongs to a real person," Justice Alito wrote, "two years will be added to the defendant's sentence, but if the defendant is lucky and the number does not belong to another person, the statute is not violated."
The most sweeping use of the statute was in Iowa, after an immigration raid in May 2008 at a meatpacking plant in Postville. Nearly 300 unauthorized immigrant workers from the plant, most of them from Guatemala, pleaded guilty to document-fraud charges rather than risk being convicted at trial of the identity-theft charge. In most of those cases, the prosecutors demonstrated only that the Social Security numbers and immigration documents the workers had presented were false.
Many of the immigrants served five-month prison sentences and then faced summary deportation. The Postville cases raised an outcry among immigrant advocates, because they transformed into federal felonies a common practice by illegal immigrants of presenting fake Social Security numbers and other documents to employers.
The court's ruling is unlikely to aid the immigrants in the Postville cases. Most of them have long since been deported.
Justice Stephen G. Breyer, in his opinion for the court, said the case should be decided by applying "ordinary English grammar" to the text of the law, which applies when an offender "knowingly transfers, possesses or uses, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person."
The government had argued that the "knowingly" requirement applied only to the verbs in question. Justice Breyer rejected that interpretation, saying that "it seems natural to read the statute's word 'knowingly' as applying to all the subsequently listed elements of the crime."
He gave examples from everyday life to support this view. "If we say that someone knowingly ate a sandwich with cheese," Justice Breyer wrote, "we normally assume that the person knew both that he was eating a sandwich and that it contained cheese."
Five justices joined all of Justice Breyer's opinion, and three others — Justices Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas — concurred in the result and in some of the reasoning.
The defendant in the case, Flores-Figueroa v. United States, No. 08-108, was Ignacio Flores-Figueroa, a Mexican citizen who had worked illegally for a steel plant in Illinois. At first, Mr. Flores-Figueroa used a false name and fake Social Security number, one that did not happen to match that of a real person. Six years later, he told his employer that he wanted to be known by his real name, and he presented forged Social Security and alien registration cards that bore numbers assigned to real people.
Mr. Flores-Figueroa eventually pleaded guilty to several immigration offenses, resulting in a 51-month sentence, but he went to trial to contest charges under the identity-theft law. He was convicted and sentenced to the additional two years mandated by the law. Monday's decision reversed that two-year extension.
Kevin K. Russell, a lawyer for Mr. Flores-Figueroa, said his client is in federal prison in Georgia. After Mr. Flores-Figueroa has served his time, Mr. Russell said, "I assume the government will try to deport him."
Nearly 8 million illegal immigrants are working in the United States, the Pew Hispanic Center in Washington estimates.
Stephen H. Legomsky, a professor of immigration law at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, said Monday's decision would have a major impact on the strategy of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, making it more difficult for the agency to press criminal charges against immigrants with no other offenses but working illegally.
"In the ordinary immigration case, this will no longer be a weapon," Professor Legomsky said.
The Obama administration has said that it will shift the focus of immigration enforcement to employers who intentionally hire unauthorized immigrants in order to pay lower wages or otherwise lower costs. But last week the administration said agents would continue to detain illegal immigrants found in raids.


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import pathmagic
from db_pool import *
from MetaControl.MetaController import *
from pymongo.errors import WriteError

# Walk through a dictionary structure
def read_from_dictionary(source, dic):
    path = source.split('.')
    root = dic
    for p in path:
        try:
            root = root.get(p)
            if(root is None):
                return None
        except Exception, e:
            print str(e)
            return None
    return root

def main():
    mdc = MetaController()

    collection = db["av_analysis"]
    all_analysis = collection.find({"date": None})
    count = 0
    reset = 0
    for analysis in all_analysis:
        count += 1
        reset += 1
        if reset == 1000:
            reset = 0
            print("Count: %s" % count)
        file_id = analysis.get('sha1')
        date_stored = analysis.get('date')
        if(date_stored is not None):
            # mdc.save_first_seen(file_id,date_stored) #Uncoment to copy all av
            # dates to meta dates
            continue

        # Trying to get the best date
        date_registers = ['first_seen',
                          'additional_info.first_seen_itw', 'scan_date']
        for register in date_registers:
            vt_date = read_from_dictionary(register, analysis)
            if vt_date is not None:
                break

        try:
            # The "date" value is use to speed up time queries for av
            # signatures
            new_date = process_date(vt_date)
        except ValueError:
            new_date = None
            print "fix_dates_in_av: invalid date in AV_metda:" + str(vt_date)

        command = {"$set": {"date": new_date}}
        try:
            collection.update_one({"sha1": file_id}, command, upsert=False)
        except WriteError:
            print("**** Error File: %s ****" % (file_id,))
            print(command)
            err = str(traceback.format_exc())
            print(err)
            continue
        mdc.save_first_seen(file_id, new_date)
        print("%s fixed -> new date: %s" % (file_id, new_date))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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4 AM Feeding
Two Weeks In
In a Facebook thread about whether Lady Gaga's halftime performance made a political statement, a couple of high school classmates chimed in. Scattered geographically and, it seems, politically, one woman wrote something along the lines of: "The way forward requires finding common ground." I think she's right. So, here it is: my ground--a description where I am standing today.
I am outraged. Hats off, boys: the depth of your bag of tricks designed to shock and the shallowness of your souls are truly a notable combination. So, yes, outrage. But I'm starting to (try to) back away from my fury and frustration because I think they stoke it, knowing that white hot anger is exhausting. Too much noise, and people tune out. Too much outrage, and people get exhausted. Either way leads to an acceptance of normal that which would have resulted in impeachment or prison or even righteous indignation just a few weeks prior. So, to borrow my friend Kelly's phrase, I am trying to bear witness with less anger.
I am scared. Not of Muslims. Irreparable damage to the earth, air and water, however, keeps me up at night. Corporations free to externalize their negative costs terrify. Crackdowns on freedom of speech and religion scare me. People who don't read scare me. People who don't follow the money scare me. Disaffected teens and bigots with semiautomatic weapons scare me. Valuing profits over people scares me. I'm scared, too, of state-sponsored violence on our soil. It seems clear that it is coming.
Mostly, though, I'm sad. I love my country. I am a believer in the ideals espoused in the Constitution. I stand up when veterans or the color guard march by in the Fourth of July parade and prod those around me to their feet, too. Admittedly, I grew up privileged, able to believe in America's promises. That love of country stayed with me even as I learned more about the darker parts of our history, the violence, racism, sexism, and corporate influence. Despite knowing America often didn't live up to her ideals, I still believed that most of us wanted her to.
I'm not sure any more. When I see the vulgarity that won (and the sexism and the racism, and the . . . ) when I see blatant lies met with shrugs and "what're ya gonna do?" from both his supporters and from the people who were too principled to vote for him or for her, it seems that what I thought were American ideals have proven to be not so common after all. And that guts me.
Outrage's outlet is humor and exercise. Fear motivates me to volunteer and to donate and to call. But I don't know what to do with my homesickness for the country I thought I lived in, and I think that's why I wrote all this.
What does your ground look like?
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My Facebook feed is schizophrenic: a sweet baby born--those chubby cheeks! Announcements about the Town Meeting, where bylaws and budgets are still passed by the citizenry with a "aye" or "nay" vote. Someone asks who to call about building a fence. And Baltimore burns, fueled by rage over injustices cultivated centuries ago. The CVS in my friend's neighborhood is looted. "This is not my city," he posts.
But it's simmering in every city, I think.
I don't know what to do, but fulfilling my civic duty seems appropriate. So, I go to my first annual Town Meeting. I file into the high school gym, a Unitarian minister offers a non-sectarian dedication, we pledge our allegiance to the flag, and the moderator begins reading the budget, line by line.
I sit by the exit in case things run long, and look around. I'm definitely one of the younger attendees. Plenty of empty seats. Of course, there aren't any hugely contested items this year--like whether the high school should install lights on the football field for night games, an issue that reportedly filled both the gym and the cafeteria a few years back with young and old citizens concerned about the possible glare in their backyard.
There is a murmur of shock when a woman dramatically accuses the Historical Commission of illegally taking her historical gazebo, but the chain of custody is eventually sorted. Everything in the warrant passes, and we adjourn in fewer than three hours. "Well, that was a snoozer," one lady laughs on her way out the door.
At home, flames fill the TV screen. My Facebook feed blips: a lost tooth! A friend wins a professional award. More about local fence companies. A former classmate, in Baltimore, posts that his neighborhood is okay. The whole city is not on fire. Baltimore will recover.
It will, of course. But if all we do is analyze mayoral missteps, criticize the sensationalistic 24-hour news cycle, and decry the stupidity of violence and destruction, it will happen again. I'm not condoning any of those things, but I do believe the anger over abuse of power is legitimate. I'm just not sure what this white girl from the suburbs can do about it right now, other than to recognize white privilege on and off my Facebook feed, and to heed the stories of those who aren't surrounded by it.
Summer House of Cards
Ah, summer vacation. Freedom, swimming until we pruned, and playing hide-n-seek 'till the lightening bugs lit up the yard. My philosophy of summer was solidified in suburban Chicago, in the late 70's and 80's, and also includes Deep Woods Off, Jarts, and riding one's bike to the pool sans parents.
Here in 2015, however, I am on a seven-year-long wait list for a beach permit. The neighborhood kids and school pals are booked solid with camps, lessons, trips and tutors. Handing my kids Jarts or DEET would probably get me arrested. And, let's be honest: after a winter full of snow days with zero programming, my opposition to over-scheduled children has crumpled.
Unlike the Midwest, where everything from the roads to park districts seem to be governed by an overarching organizational structure, my new Northeastern town has about 78 distinct, little, private organizations offering lessons and activities. True to their Puritan roots, most of these entities shun any sort of self-promotion, including making information about dates and enrollment available to the public. Information is shared among close friends in tight huddles--"Miss Larkin teaches ceramics, surfing and dressage--she's a hidden treasure, and all the children love her. Here's her number." (I suspect these disclosures occur at the beach, but I won't know for 7 years. )
After two years in town wondering how to sign up Buzzy for decent swimming lessons, I've become more aggressive about stalking the town treasures until they add me to their email distribution lists, and about shaking down other moms about their kids' summer plans. The smart parents enroll their kids in one or two camps that cover most of the summer and call it done. (These are also the admirable families whose vacations are booked.) The rest of us juggle the 78 options (or the 6 of which we are aware)--all of which publish what little information they offer at different times--trying to coordinate multiple kids' preferences and possibly even the preferences of friends whose parents may be carpool allies. When one child's plan changes, an entire carefully crafted summer can come crashing down. Buzzy's friend's neighbor's decision NOT to attend nature camp resulted in a flurry of activity up and down her street. We came through relatively unscathed, with just two activities to rebook.
Now, I exaggerate--but just a little (and, sadly, not about the length of the wait list for the beach). And I do realize that even in the glorious hometown of my youth with the gridded streets and central park district, everything has changed. Planning kids' summers requires spreadsheets in most places. But, sometimes, I catch a whiff of Deep Woods Off, and miss those endless summer days. I may even resolve to keep Buzzy's and Rosie's summers a little bit open. . . . especially since Miss Larkin won't return my calls.
When they nap:
Growing Muses
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Multi-skilled builder with experience in many aspects of construction including ground works, masonry and property maintenance. Been in the trade for many years with a wide range of skills aquired in that time.
came out to quote me a few building work jobs, appeared very uninterested, took some measurements, may I add, not accurately, didn't even take measurements of some of the work I required. promised me a quote, never recieved a quote, messaged 3 times and ignored every time. I needed to make alternative arrangements quickly as one of the jobs needed to be done asap, due to a large leak. I would of been happy if Brett told me he didn't want the job, or couldn't do it. no to be ignored.
Always a little nerve racking when you pick a tradesman on line, but Brett. came round when he said he would and gave us a good quote and some advice about how we could make the porch look even better. He is a great guy, very friendly and he works hard.His work is exceptional and the quality of the finished item fantastic, I got everything I asked for and more. He is a perfectionist and his work is faultless. I will definitely be using him again for any other building work I want doing in the future.
thank you Andy I am really pleased with the result and you are the nicest family I have ever had the pleasure to work for. Will see you in couple weeks to do the cladding.
Turned up on time,worked constantly throughout the day.Workmanship could not be faulted,left the job clean and tidy.Would highly recomend him to others and will certainly be our first port of call for other work when required.
Brett was courteous, polite at the job on time, worked non stop until the job was complete., The work was to a very high standard and I am extremely happy with my new front door. The materials used were also very good and I definitely would recommend the guy and Rated People as I got what I paid for and have no complaints at all, in fact I would use him for any work I have in the future.
Fantastic, professional and v competitive quote. Highly recommended.
Job well done. Quick and professional. Will definitely use Brett Evans construction again if a job comes up.
All good. Reliable and good communication. Would use again.
I think we have a problem about rising dump. Looking for a specailist.
and its rising DAMP not dump just in case you weren't aware.
hi I would say around £60 if the door lining is correctly fitted previously and the door doesn't require a lot of planing down/cutting to size.
If the building is constructed of brick and has been dashed over then any attempt to remove the dash will almost definitely result in damaged brickwork underneath.
I have been asked by a 'trader' to pay him a deposit before he starts work. He gave a quote over the phone for £450, and wants a deposit of £300. Is this a standard request?
Most companies/sole traders ask for a deposit to book the work. I ask for 30% of the total estimate and although some customers may be wary of this most understand that there are always initial costs to any project and the deposit provides some piece of mind for the contractor but is also the first step towards a working relationship that needs to be viable for both parties. One of my customers commented "but you are a stranger and you want me to give you money?!" yes that's correct I am a stranger but I've been invited by you to price for the work and you are also a stranger to my so why should I trust you? It's all the first steps towards what is hopefully a good working relationship and happy results all round. I'm sure that no trades on Rated People would risk their whole reputation for the sake of a few quid!! A reasonable deposit in respect of the full estimated price is fair I believe.
I has the same problem! You need to go onto your web profile and add a picture it should then confirm its been done. Not sure if you'll be able to apply again for the same credit bit at least your set for next time.
We have a new build (8 years old) house where the floorboards on the landing and in bed 3 are ridiculously creaky. They are big sheets of some kind of wood (don't have a clue about these things) not traditional floorboards. Wanting a price to fix the creaking. I don't know if it's a case of pinning existing ones down or if they need replacing. I also do t know what kind of tradesman I'm looking for.
new houses tend to use a TGI or similar joist which tends to flex/bounce more under weight. If you can see the ceiling underneath the floor in question move when someone walks into the room this will be the problem. Its not easy to remedy but I've known people to remove carpets screw all the floorboards down tight ti form a more solid structure and test again. Failing this you made need to counter batten over it and re-board using tongue and groove floor boards screwed and glued, they are probably the same type you already have.
it sounds like you have a clay type of sub soil which means water doesn't penetrate easily and will tend to stay near the top of the grass causing standing water. Ideally you would want to turn over or remove the soil for confirmation of sub soil, dig down to find a more porous material and re-lay top soil onto this with a weed suppressant. Failing this if the water is in one area only you could put a land drain in this area.
How much would it roughly cost to fix the guttering on a two bedroomed terraced house? It needs a possible clear out and adjustment as it is leaking.
all that totally depends on size, construction materials, access etc.
silly question but why the living room?
Would obviously depend on the size of the patio and how bad it is? I personally charge around £10 a square metre that's using a hyper-chloride type solution scrubbed to agitate then pressure washed off.


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Q: How do I retrieve the text a user has typed into the terminal (but before the user has pressed enter) I am writing a program that will run in the background of a bash terminal.  I would like to be able to read the text that the user has typed (or pasted) into the terminal.
Example:
user@host:~/Documents/Code$ grep -rli whatever ./
Lets say the user has typed some things into bash but has not yet pressed enter (as shown above).
Is there any way to read the input buffer to obtain the text that is currently sitting in the input buffer? In this example I would want to be able to read "grep -rli whatever ./". After the user presses enter and a new prompt is displayed, this method should return the empty string.
I have thought about grabbing keystrokes but this won't detect all forms of input (for example if the user uses copy/past, presses tab for autocomplete, or uses the arrow keys to bring up a previous command).
My preferred interface for doing this is python, but if anybody knows of a solution in any other language I would be happy to hear it.

A: I don't think you can do it at arbitrary times, but bash (and other shells) allow extensibility in their completion function, so you can read what the command line says when a tab is pressed for autocompletion: http://fahdshariff.blogspot.com/2011/04/writing-your-own-bash-completion.html


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With the increasing amount of data that our customers have been using when overseas, we offer cost efficient data packs that make using data overseas easier than ever before.
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