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Following the recent introduction of the all new E-Class, Mercedes-Benz is adding two additional models to the line-up – E 250 and E 400 4MATIC. The stylish new executive sedan with its distinct, emotive design and high-grade, exclusive interior, was successfully launched in the E 200, E 220 d and E 350 d guise. The new E-Class has numerous technical innovations that enable comfortable, safe driving on a new level plus a new dimension in driver assistance. The vehicle comes complete with infotainment and control systems offering an all-new experience. In conjunction with lightweight construction and optimum aerodynamic figures, the new E-Class sets the benchmark. An optional new multi-chamber air suspension system additionally ensures outstanding ride comfort together with first-class driving dynamics. The latest innovations, including the Active Lane-change Assistant which allows the driver to effortlessly steer into the selected lane, makes the E-Class the most intelligent saloon in the executive class.
New engine generation
At launch, the E 200 model of the new E-Class was introduced with a four-cylinder petrol engine while the E 220 d is powered by an all-new four-cylinder diesel engine. The E 350 d with six-cylinder diesel is also available.
Further newcomers are the E 300 rated at 180 kW with a torque of 370 Nm as well as the E 400 4MATIC, whose six-cylinder petrol engine delivers 245 kW with a torque of 480 Nm.
All engines for the new E-Class are equipped with the ECO start/stop function. The petrol engines meet the requirements of the EU 6 emissions standard, while the new OM 654 four-cylinder diesel engine is already configured with future RDE limits in mind.
Nine-speed automatic transmission
All models available at market launch are equipped as standard with the new 9G-TRONIC nine-speed automatic transmission. It enables fast gear changes and allows low engine revs, which has a particularly beneficial effect on efficiency and noise levels.
4MATIC permanent all-wheel drive for the E 400
"This will be the first time Mercedes-Benz is offering a 4MATIC model in the E-Class range here in South Africa. The E 400 4MATIC is offered with 4MATIC as standard in the E 400," says Govender.
With the combination of 4MATIC permanent all-wheel drive and 9G-TRONIC: the single-stage transfer case is flange-connected to the 9G-TRONIC as its own system. With the new add-on solution, it has been possible to combine the advantages of both designs and enhance performance.
The torque continues to be distributed to the axles in a ratio of 31% to 69% in the case of right-hand drive vehicles.
The key benefits of 4MATIC all-wheel drive:
Dynamic and safe handling
More traction and driving stability on slippery surfaces, for example on snow and ice, thanks to the pre-lock with a pre-lock torque of approx. 50 Nm between the front and rear axle
Improved efficiency and reduced friction
Optimum adjustment of lubricant qualities and prevention of contamination by wear debris from the transfer case in the 9G-TRONIC thanks to separate oil and hydraulic circuits
No restrictions in the interior or load compartment as a result of the compact design
Suspension – sporty comfort
The suspension on the new E-Class offers agile driving pleasure on twisting roads as well as the highest level of ride comfort in this segment. The sedan comes with steel suspension as standard. Three suspensions with selective damping are available in conjunction with this system:
AGILITY CONTROL suspension with comfort tuning
AGILITY CONTROL suspension, lowered by 15 millimetres; included in Avantgarde Exterior
DYNAMIC BODY CONTROL: a sporty suspension with adaptive damping adjustment, lowered by 15 millimetres, which replaces the classic sports suspension
AIR BODY CONTROL multi-chamber air suspension
Alternatively, the new E-Class can be equipped with multi-chamber air suspension all round – the only car in its segment to offer this option. Advantages of this system: three chambers of different size in the spring struts of the rear axle and two in the spring struts of the front axle make it possible to control, in three stages, how stiffly the suspension reacts. In this way, the occupants enjoy soft basic suspension, and the secure feeling of good handling stability as the speed increases.
Furthermore, the highly sensitive and fast-responding AIR BODY CONTROL multi-chamber air suspension features all-round self-levelling for excellent ride comfort even with the vehicle loaded. It controls the ride height automatically depending on the speed and reduces fuel consumption on the motorway, for example, by lowering the vehicle. When driving on rough roads or access roads, the ground clearance can also be increased at the push of a button using the ride height adjustment switch.
The multi-chamber air suspension is augmented by a continuously operative, electronically controlled adaptive damping system. The damping at each individual wheel is adjusted fully automatically to suit the current driving situation and the condition of the road – such as in the case of evasive manoeuvres or on rough tracks. The system therefore delivers good road roar and tyre vibration characteristics, excellent ride comfort, and outstanding driving dynamics.
What's more, a DYNAMIC SELECT switch in the cockpit enables the driver to select from four AIR BODY CONTROL modes: "Comfort", "ECO", "Sport" and "Sport +". The additional "Individual" option allows drivers to configure their vehicle to suit their own preferences.
Next-generation driving assistance systems
Mercedes-Benz's new assistance and safety systems enhance safety, comfort and driver assistance to new levels. Active Brake Assist is fitted as standard. It is able to warn the driver of impending collisions, provide optimum support with emergency braking and if necessary also autonomously apply the brakes. In addition to slower-moving, stopping or stationary vehicles, it can also detect pedestrians crossing the danger zone ahead of the vehicle. Likewise included as standard are ATTENTION ASSIST with adjustable sensitivity, which can warn the driver of inattentiveness and drowsiness, and Crosswind Assist, which can assist the driver by substantially reducing the effects of strong crosswinds to prevent the vehicle from drifting too far off track.
As with all Mercedes-Benz Passenger Cars, the new E-Class comes standard with the class leading PremiumDrive 6-year/100 000 km maintenance plan.
E 200 – R707 100 (142 g/km)
E 220 d – R759 100 (112 g/km – not liable for CO2 emission tax)
E 350 d – R958 300 (144 g/km)
E 400 4MATIC – R989 500 (189 g/km)
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How to beat a speeding ticket without the stress.
The secret on how to beat a speeding ticket...moving violation!
How can I beat a speeding ticket or traffic citation?
How can I fight a speeding ticket or moving violation?
What's a good speeding ticket defense that I can use?
Here we'll attempt to provide some answers to these speeding ticket related questions below with practical advice based-upon our own experiences, that of a retired police officer, and one expert who has even written a book dedicated to the subject of how to beat a speeding ticket!
Over the years, I have learned to make the process of beating a speeding ticket. moving violation, or traffic citation as painless as possible for both myself and the traffic enforcement officer and realize, now, that police officers are like everyone else - in that they are often married and have children, have good work days and bad work days - and especially today - are sometimes confronted with life-threatening situations when engaged in issuing a speeding ticket.
Keeping this in mind, the steps one take during a pull-over can go a long way in keeping both tensions down to a minimum - which is essential to maximize your chances to successfully fight a speeding ticket, traffic citation, or moving violation.
Moral - make the situation the least confrontational as possible!
When initially pulled-over, keep both of your hands [and your passengers'] in plain view. In the driver's case either place them high on-top of the steering wheel or outside of your window.
This serves to let the approaching officer that you're not a potential threat. A number of officers have expressed sincere gratitude for taking their feelings into consideration.
If pulled over at night, turn the interior lights on so that officer can clearly see inside your vehicle. This will also serve to lesson tensions.
Be prepared with appropriate ID...its coming.
Do NOT be argumentative in your tone. With the latest forms of police laser - LIDAR and radar - speeding ticket errors will be few.
If asked why stopped, don't lie or make up some excuse - they hear this all the time; don't be a whiner. Since answering in the affirmative to speeding is paramount to self incrimination - that's why they ask - kindly reply to the question with something like "with all do respect, doesn't answering your question open me up to self incrimination?" I have found that officers appreciate savvy drivers and as an added bonus the burden has been shifted back to the officer and a dialogue has begun, not and argument!
Once told, it pays to be familiar with the state/local moving violdation and traffic citation statutes.
Ask if the officer would be willing to cite a reduced statute on the speeding ticket. In PA, for example, a PA3111A is a catch-all moving violation that carries no points.
Remember that we're not asking to be given a 'break' on receiving a speeding ticket - they hear this all the time too. We're just asking for his/her consideration of citing a different statute with the traffic citation.
When the speeds are higher on your pending speeding ticket , suggest that you'll accept on the spot a traffic citation for a PA3111A and a seat-belt violation [which carries no points is PA]. This way, everybody gets what they want. The officer has violations/fines he/she can take back to the barracks and you have a reduced fine/penalty and no points!
Some states have "jurisprudence in abeyance," which is a fancy way of saying that your speeding ticket or traffic citation will be dropped if you don't receive another moving violation in some period thereafter.
They key to all of this is to avoid the points and subsequent insurance surcharges you would otherwise receive as a consequence of your speeding ticket. Think of the reduced fine, as the "tax" for having the privilege to drive faster.
I am not saying you'll get off of all every traffic violation or moving violation; but I am suggesting that you will fare much better. And most importantly, you'll be acting as a more responsible citizen to boot.
If thought about it in this way, you'll get through all of this much easier.
Being a cop for 20 years, I was also a defensive driving instructor for 10 years and was an instructor for the Arizona Superior Court Ticket Diversion Class.
First off, the most stressful and the most dangerous time for a police officer are the moments that he is approaching your car. This is when most officers involved in shootings occur. He has no idea who you are or what else you may have done. You maybe the guy that was just showcased on America's Most Wanted, or school teacher. He is watching every move you make and your body language. He is trained to watch your hands and what you and your passengers are reaching for. The most dangerous part of your body are your hands...where a weapon will be!
Roll down your window and place your hands on the stearing wheel PALMS UP! Instruct any passengers that you have in your car to put their hands up on the dash with palms up.
Once the officer sees this he knows that your hands are no longer a threat and his stress level is going to go down. However he will still be curious as to why you done this, when he asks you later you can respond with something like this.
"My (son, neighbor, best friend, or Radar Roy) is a police officer and I have ridden with him a number of times, and this is what he always asked people to do as he approached. I just wanted to extend the same courtesy these other drivers extend to him and done it with out your asking"
"I saw this on COPS and wanted to extend this courtesy to you"
The most important thing is be courteous and answer his questions as truthfully as you can without incriminating yourself. The biggest trap is "do you know how fast you were going" or "do you know why I stopped you" Chances are that your answers are all being recorded. So if you say, yes, I was speeding and going over 20 miles over the posted speed limit, guess what is going to be played back in court.
Another bit of advice that will be of value to you in helping you fight speeding tickets in the future is to purchase a very good radar detector.
These devices really do help in reducing the chances of inadertantly blundering into a speed trap.
As good as they are with radar, the nature of police laser is such that a detector alone will likely not be enough to protect you...you should protect yourself with Veil and/or a laser jammer to add sufficient protection from this lethal and increasingly popular form of traffic enforcement.
See how VEIL will protect you from a future speeding ticket! Watch these cool videos!
Hear what VEIL users are saying how they have avoided a speeding ticket!
How to avoid a speeding ticket - Learn how to avoid your next speeding ticket and avoid having to fight a speeding ticket, altogether!
*This is only a guide and should not be considered a substitution for legal advice.


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Hermann Bachmaier (* 5. Juli 1939 in Crailsheim)  ist ein deutscher Politiker (SPD) und Rechtsanwalt. Er war von 1983 bis 2005 Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages und dort seit 1998 Justiziar der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion.

Bachmaier vertrat den Wahlkreis Schwäbisch Hall – Hohenlohe im Bundestag und wurde stets über die Landesliste der SPD Baden-Württemberg ins Parlament gewählt.

Leben und Beruf
Nach dem Abitur studierte Hermann Bachmaier Geschichte, Politik und Rechtswissenschaften an der Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen und an der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg. Nach dem zweiten juristischen Staatsexamen gründete er in seiner Heimatstadt Crailsheim eine Rechtsanwaltskanzlei.

Neben seiner Parteimitgliedschaft ist Bachmaier auch Mitglied der Gewerkschaft ver.di (früher Gewerkschaft Handel, Banken und Versicherungen), der Arbeiterwohlfahrt und des deutschen Anwaltvereins.

Politische Ämter
1969 trat Hermann Bachmaier in die SPD ein. Mitglied des Bundestags wurde er erstmals in dessen zehnter Wahlperiode 1983. Insgesamt gehörte Hermann Bachmaier dem deutschen Bundestag 22 Jahre beziehungsweise 6 Legislaturperioden von 1983 bis 2005 an.

Bis 1998 war er stellvertretender rechtspolitischer Sprecher der SPD-Fraktion im Bundestag.
Von Oktober 1988 bis 1990 war er Vorsitzender des Atomskandal-Untersuchungsausschusses im Bundestag. Von April 1995 bis Juni 1998 war Bachmaier Sprecher der SPD-Fraktion im Plutonium-Untersuchungsausschuss sowie von November 1998 bis zu seinem Ausscheiden aus dem Bundestag 2005 stellvertretender Vorsitzender des Rechtsausschusses und Justitiar der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion.

In seiner letzten Wahlperiode als Mitglied im Bundestag (2002 bis 2005) war er stellvertretender Vorsitzender des  Rechtsausschusses. Des Weiteren war er ordentliches Mitglied in folgenden Ausschüssen und Gremien:

 Geschäftsordnungsausschuss
 Wahlprüfungsausschuss
 Gremium gemäß § 41 Abs. 5 des Außenwirtschaftsgesetzes
 Parlamentarisches Kontrollgremium
 Bundesstaatskommission

Von 2006 bis 2011 war er außerdem Mitglied im Nationalen Normenkontrollrat.

Weblinks

 Hermann Bachmaier auf abgeordnetenwatch.de
 Werke von Hermann Bachmaier im Katalog der Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

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Politiker (20. Jahrhundert)
Politiker (21. Jahrhundert)
Mitglied des Rechtsausschusses (Deutscher Bundestag)
SPD-Mitglied
Bundestagsabgeordneter (Baden-Württemberg)
Träger des Bundesverdienstkreuzes am Bande
Deutscher
Geboren 1939
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This self-portrait of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows effects of wind events that had cleaned much of the accumulated dust off the rover's solar panels. The image combines multiple frames taken by Opportunity's panoramic camera in March 2014. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.
NASA's Opportunity rover trekking across Mars completed a marathon's worth of driving Tuesday, extending its record-setting exploration of the red planet as engineers installed a software fix to overcome a problem with the aging robot's flash memory.
The rover has been operating without the use of its flash memory since December 2014, when ground controllers briefly lost communications with Opportunity as its computer had trouble writing data to a section of on-board non-volatile flash memory.
The flash memory retains data when the solar-powered rover powers down at night, and a separate random access memory system stores data only when the vehicle is powered up. When Opportunity's long-term data archive became unreliable, ground controllers commanded the rover to send back all the information it collected each day before going to sleep at sunset.
Officials coaxed the rover along without flash memory while engineers wrote new code to beam up to Opportunity to bypass one of the vehicle's seven banks of memory most responsible for the problems.
Opportunity's ground team received confirmation March 20 that the memory reformatting completed successfully, structuring the rover's computer to avoid writing data on Bank 7 of the flash memory archive, NASA said in a press release.
This view taken March 13 from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows part of Marathon Valley, a destination on the western rim of Endeavour Crater, as seen from an overlook north of the valley. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.
There is a limit to how many times the computer can write and erase data in flash memory, and the latest fault is simply a sign of the rover's age, officials said.
NASA has not guaranteed it can afford to keep Opportunity operating on Mars beyond this year. The agency's budget request submitted to Congress for 2016 calls for no funding for the Opportunity mission, but NASA officials and lawmakers are optimistic the final spending plan will include money for the rover.
Opportunity landed on Mars on Jan. 24, 2004, and has outlived its 90-day life expectancy more than 45 times.
The six-wheeled robot's odometer passed 26.219 miles (42.195 kilometers) Tuesday — the equivalent length of a marathon on Earth — after 11 years and two months on Mars.
NASA says Opportunity achieved the marathon feat with a drive of 153 feet (46.5 meters) Tuesday.
Opportunity is currently exploring a region named Marathon Valley on the western rim of Endeavour Crater, a vast impact basin stretching 14 miles across. The rover has surveyed the rim of the crater since it arrived at the destination in 2011.
The long-lived vehicle has recently spotted a bizarre rock outcrop at an overlook of Marathon Valley, which could contain more clues from the red planet's ancient past, when conditions were favorable for life billions of years ago.
Opportunity broke the record for long-distance driving on another world last year when it passed the mark set by the former Soviet Union's Lunokhod 2 moon rover.
For comparison, NASA's Curiosity rover has logged more than 6 miles (10 kilometers) on Mars since it landed in August 2012.


The Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket) has failed in its goal of a maximum six month wait for asylum applications and has sought the help of management consultancy McKinsey.
"This is a rather unique move in the operations of the Swedish state. Some will no doubt applaud the move while others will probably argue that we should have managed the task by ourselves. I am happy to participate in this discussion," explained the board's director-general, Dan Eliasson in a Dagens Nyheter debate article.
The average wait to receive a reply for an asylum application is currently nine months, despite the fact that the Migration Board has worked hard, and with some success, to cut this delay.
But "if the Migration Board had been working in a competitive market then the long wait would have persuaded many of our customers to go somewhere else. This we will change," promised Eliasson.
To engage an external actor to contribute to the reform of core operations is somewhat unique for a Swedish civil service department, Eliasson wrote. The board is confident that costs incurred will be returned several times over in the form of efficiency gains.
"If this leads to shorter processing times then it is positive. The government's goal is that the wait should not be longer that six months and if it is taking longer at the moment then the board has to work to change this. As this move is part of the work towards achieving that goal then I welcome it," Billström said to news agency TT.
McKinsey is a global consultancy firm and has contracts with many of the world's leading firms and governments, with many non-commercial organisations among its clients.


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American Fertility Hits Historical Low
Economist blames culture of caution
Charles Fain Lehman • February 5, 2019 12:55 pm
The American birth rate tied its historical low in the first nine months of 2018, new data from the Centers for Disease Control shows, and demographers say it will likely go lower.
The United States has been in the midst of a baby bust for decades. The total fertility rate—a demographic measure which estimates how many children a woman can expect to have in her lifetime—has consistently been below the requisite 2.1 children per woman required to sustain the population at current levels. Americans are having fewer kids, and the number they are having is steadily declining.
Specifically, the latest CDC data indicate that as of September of 2018, an average American woman can expect to have about 1.73 children in her lifetime. That rate is effectively tied with the rate 42 years ago, the lowest on record.
Fertility forecasting firm Demographic Intelligence, in an analysis shared exclusively with the Washington Free Beacon, estimates that TFR fell to 1.72 by the end of 2018. That would be the lowest rate in U.S. history, according to DI.
While at historic lows already, the rate may go lower still. Demographic Intelligence noted that birth rates are falling in spite of the large cohort of millennial women who are currently in their fertility prime. As that group ages into menopause over the next decade, the birth rate will likely decline even further.
Why, exactly, is fertility dropping? Like most social phenomena, there is no one cause. Rather, a bevy of changes in society over the past 10 to 40 years have conspired to push the TFR down.
One of the simplest available explanations is the Great Recession. After vacillating for much of the 1990s and early 2000s, the TFR had inched above replacement just before the housing bubble burst. From there, however, it plunged, as couples grew warier of taking on the financial burden of child rearing.
However, even as the economy has recovered, fertility has continued to fall. Lyman Stone, an economist and adviser to Demographic Intelligence, told the Free Beacon that that is because of deeper changes, both in the economy and in culture as a whole.
"Sure, employment has recovered," Stone said of the post-recession lag. "But household net worth has not recovered for families headed by people under 45. Indeed, for people under 35, household net worth appears to still be in decline."
This helps to explain why two of the only groups seeing a fertility increase are women over 35 and women with at least a college education who are having a second child. The increasingly high costs of being a young adult—student debt, housing costs, and the enormous cost of childcare, for example—mean that today's 20-somethings are opting to have fewer kids than their parents did at their age. Older Americans are picking up the slack—but not nearly by enough.
Stone was quick to note that the bigger picture does not necessarily show women are simply delaying childrearing. Fertility dropped over the 12 months prior to the CDC's release for all women under 35, and fertility for women 35 to 44 dropped slightly over the past six months of the same time period—in other words, older women are having fewer kids too.
"This is not a story of delay, but of decline," Stone emphasized.
This ties naturally into a broader cultural transition around childbearing, which Stone characterized as "the shift in American culture away from risk-taking-ness towards caution and prudence."
Today's young people are less likely to engage in a whole bevy of risk-prone behavior than their predecessors. They go on fewer dates and have less sex; they consume drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol less frequently; they even drive less. All of these changes are probably good in themselves, because they mean America's teens are exiting adolescence having avoided any of a number of associated pathologies.
But, at the same time, they also mean that those same young people are adopting a more and more risk-averse model when it comes to starting their families. This explains, for example, why millennials are driving down the divorce rate: as sociologist Phillip Cohen has argued, that generation has begun to think about marriage and family formation as something which one does only after one is financially stable, rather than in order to become stable.
This trend necessarily has an effect on reproduction. A recent economic analysis estimated that 35 percent of the decline in fertility is driven by a decline in "unintended" births, primarily among young women. In other words, much pre-recession natality was driven by children who were unexpected, and the decline is driven by younger women taking steps to insure against that possibility.
"Young people today are more cautious about who they marry, more hesitant to make large purchases, want a bigger financial cushion before becoming a parent, expect stable career employment and paid off loans and other financial milestones before they settle down and start a family," Stone said.
Analyzing the CDC data, Stone suggested that we should expect to see a "more, rather than less" severe decline, with U.S. TFR more likely to settle somewhere between one and 1.5— the current level of some Asian, southern and eastern European, and Latin American countries.
It is not clear how much policy can do to alter this course. Proposals like expanding federal subsidies for children have been popular on the left and right, although they would likely do more to alleviate poverty than improve fertility. Reducing the financial burden on young adults—working to reduce student loan debt (for which the federal government is the major creditor), or making housing cheaper through zoning reform—could also help ease the transition into parenthood.
If the fundamental problem is cultural, then policy can only have so much of an effect. The fertility drop is both caused by, and a precipitating factor in, the broader crisis of social capital. as Americans have fewer connections on whom to depend, it becomes harder to informally socialize the burden of childcare; and, simultaneously, a lack of children means fewer people who will eventually grow up to take their turn to care for the previous generation.
"If Americans don't individually believe having kids is valuable, important, and possible, the state isn't going to be able to convince them," Stone said.
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Since Sarah is off to college and has a thousand tales to tell, one of the reasons to move this domain to a multi-blog platform was to give her space under this umbrella.
She squeezed out an intro post between school, homework and work. So there ya go.
Personally, I can't wait for the post she writes while hopped up on chocolate covered coffee beans.
Most of the time before I go to sleep, I like to play a game of cards. The other night I decided to play a game of concentration, and near the end of the game I noticed that I had an odd number of cards. I thought maybe I messed up somewhere, but apparently not. Turns out the deck had a total of 5 sevens. Two seven of hearts, actually. I guess I know why they were at the dollar store now.
Something we like to do for fun in our house is do logic puzzles. Actually, I know Dad and I do them, but I'm not sure about everyone else. A couple of my favorites are The Man In The Elevator and Einstein's Riddle.
The great thing about the first one is that once you know the answer, you probably won't forget it.
01. The British lives in the red house.
02. The Swedish keeps dogs as pets.
03. The Danish drinks tea.
04. The green house is on the left of the white house.
05. The green homeowner drinks coffee.
06. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
07. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
08. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
09. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.
15. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.
Question: Who owns the fish?
In the interest of clarity, it must be added that each of the five houses is painted a different color, and their inhabitants are of different national extractions, own different pets, drink different beverages and smoke different brands of cigarettes. In statement 6, right refers to the reader's right.
I had been meaning to post another entry sooner, but haven't because of the lack of things to update (Monday: Got dressed today. Good times. That's all), and partly because I've been playing far too much of a games called Empire Earth. It's pretty entertaining, though the first/second Age Of Empires game still has to be my favorite. The one thing I like about this is you can build robots. ROBOTS! They shoot lasers. It's pretty spectacular.
Some may think playing games is a waste of time, but I figure that once I get a job this summer, from then until I retire I'll be working or at school for most of the time, so I'm enjoying being a lazy bum while I still can. Because really, mostly what I do is read books, play computer games and surf the internet. I will probably still be doing these things whenever I'm in school/working, just less of them, and I probably won't be able to do all three things in the space of a day. so I figure I might as well fill my boots while I can.
"I was listening to The Tragically Hip while I was playing cards on the computer, and I got a brilliant idea for a TV show! "Everybody loves Gordy". I've heard that a lot of people think that if you're Canadian, you like The Hip.. Not everyone does, but a lot of people do. Everybody loves Gordy. Hmm.. it'd involve beer, we know that. Drinking beer and eating poutine, surrounded by old fridges. In an igloo. An igloo park! YEAH! Like a trailer park, but with igloos. Chesterfields all over the lawn, too. Or, convert an old fridge into a couch and set it up so instead of cooling things, it'll keep you nice and toasty. Make it with duct tape. I'll make millions, who's with me?
One of Andrea's kids. Trying to entertain you!
Sarah here. turns out I used to post here a few years back (Well, I did a few times at least) so I figured I might as well post here again as my mother is pretty busy with her work. since I know a lot of relatives read this, I'll make a list of what I've been up to. Since there are a lot of people who read this who aren't related to me, I'll try to say something funny. At least once.
I've already gotten my first graphic design job! One of our neighbors owns a home business, and she came over one day, asking for help. She was talking about some posters she needed done for a womens conference that was coming up. Seeing as I have been jobless for awhile, and this isn't exactly the most active place in the province (Oh, I think a car might have driven by today. Most exciting thing to happen this week. I speak the truth. Just ask my pet unicorn.) I said that I would be able to do it. It actually only took me 5 hours to make some posters for her, she liked them so much that she cried on my shoulder. Happy customer, I got paid for it, it's all good.
I also happen to be graduating this year. That really makes me feel old, because in my mind I'm still about 12. I just took the CAT's a couple weeks ago, which was my first standardized test. I haven't taken any tests for school since about grade 5, but I still think I did pretty well. My favorite part was when I did the spelling section in three minutes when I had a total of fifteen minutes to do it. Obviously all that time on the computer paid off.
Music wise, I'm still playing guitar. I have two now, an acoustic and an electric. I would say the song that I'm the best at is 'Blackbird' by The Beatles, which actually took me about a month (!!!) to learn. It's very fun to play though. My music collection is still.. really big. At last count I had 207 albums, not counting cassettes/compilation albums, plus I've picked up a few since then. My three favorite bands are, at current, Matthew Good/Band, The Stills and Radiohead. Most of the music I listen to is Canadian or British, with exceptions for some awesome bands (Queens Of The Stone Age, Margot & The Nuclear So And So's.) When we drive around in the car I'm usually in charge of the music, so Mom's been listening to some interesting stuff for sure. For anyone interested, feel free to add me on my last.fm.
I also finally got myself a flickr account. Mom had been posting a lot of pictures I took on hers, so I figured I might as well get my own. I tend to do a lot of "I'm going to take a picture of everything I do today" memes, which is why there's so many pictures of sandwiches. There are far too many pictures of sandwiches on that account. This is starting to make me hungry.
Hopefully this made up for Mom's lack of updates, I will try and remember to post again soon (Until I see something shiny, that is.) provided I have things to post about it. Even if I don't, I could probably dig out some ideas for TV shows I've had in the past and pitch them to you. The best part is that they're actually funny.
Today this little stinker turns SEVENTEEN.
No, I dunno where the time went either.


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Q: Getting SizeOfImage and EntryPoint of dylib module I'm writing a cross-platform memory analysis library and one of the functions I provide is GetProcessModules. On windows I use EnumProcessModules to get a list of all modules loaded in a process along with GetModuleInformation to retrieve the Address, SizeOfImage and EntryPoint of the module.
Translating this to OSX I found this and other sources which helped me implement this function. I've been able to use the dyld_image_info struct to get the name of the module and the loaded address but how do I go about getting the SizeOfImage and EntryPoint values?

A: SizeOfImage and EntryPoint are the field names in the Windows MODULEINFO structure. Naturally, the don't exist in the OS X context.
The dynamic libraries used by an OS X task are object files of the Mach-O format, which has the following basic structure:

(From Apple: Mach-O File Format Reference)
I will assume that the SizeOfImage value you are after is the number of bytes the whole object file consumes as currently loaded into memory. The way to do this is to sum the size of the Header, Load Commands and the data Segments. Something along the lines of:
size_t size_of_image(struct mach_header *header) {
    size_t sz = sizeof(*header); // Size of the header
    sz += header->sizeofcmds;    // Size of the load commands

    struct load_command *lc = (struct load_command *) (header + 1);
    for (uint32_t i = 0; i < header->ncmds; i++) {
        if (lc->cmd == LC_SEGMENT) {
            sz += ((struct segment_command *) lc)->vmsize; // Size of segments
        }
        lc = (struct load_command *) ((char *) lc + lc->cmdsize);
    }
    return sz;
}

Next, the entry point is a little different. My guess is that you want the address of the initializer function of the dynamic library (ref here). This is found in the __mod_init_func section of the __DATA segment. To retrieve this section, we can use getsectbynamefromheader. This function returns a pointer to a "struct section", which contains a pointer to the virtual memory location of the section.
#include <mach-o/getsect.h>

uint32_t mod_init_addr(struct mach_header *header) {
    struct section *sec;
    if (sec = getsectbynamefromheader(header, "__DATA", "__mod_init_func")) {
        return sec->addr;
    }
    return 0;
}

The returned value is the virtual memory address of the __mod_init_func section, which contains "pointers to module initialization functions".
NOTE: These structures and functions have analogous 64-bit implementations, suffixed by _64, such as struct mach_header_64, getsectbynamefromheader_64 etc. For 64-bit objects, these functions must be employed instead.
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Giuliani Debate Blogging
Marc Ambinder in the Atlantic blog:
. The much-anticipated clash between McCain and Romney on immigration came 28 minutes in, although it was Giuliani, showing he was up to snuff on the details of the legislation, who came away with the applause lines.
You'd never know that Giuliani, as mayor of NYC, was adamant that he didn't have to enforce immigration laws.
Matthew Yglesias also on the Atlantic's website:
7:25 I can't believe Rudy is trying to get away with evading the fact that as mayor of New York City he actually sued to defend his right to not enforce immigration laws.
Here's how Heather Mac Donald described Giuliani's immigration record it in 2004
Immigration politics have had the same deleterious effect in New York. Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani sued all the way up to the Supreme Court to defend the city's sanctuary policy against Congressional override. A 1996 federal law declared that cities could not prohibit their employees from cooperating with the INS. Oh yeah? said Giuliani; just watch me. He sued to declare the 1996 federal ban on sanctuary policies unconstitutional, and though he lost in court, he remained defiant to the end. On September 5, 2001, his hand-picked charter revision committee ruled that New York may still require that its employees keep immigration information confidential to preserve trust between immigrants and government. Six days later, several former visa-overstayers conducted the most devastating attack on the city and the country in history. Center for Immigration Studies |Crime & the Illegal Alien |The Fallout from Crippled Immigration Enforcement, June 2004


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Q: rsync only subdirectories and content I have a directory that contains a number of files and subdirectories. See below:
baseDir
  bad1
  bad2
  subDir1
    file1
  subDir2
    file1

I would like to rsync the contents of baseDir without rsyncing bad1 and bad2.
resulting in
targetDir
  SubDir1
    file1
  SubDir2
    file1

I don't care if it takes two commands but how do I do it?

A: You can either include the desired directories and their parent and exclude everything else, or exclude the bad directories. Note that order matters: rsync decides what to do with a file from the first matching pattern (so for example anything after --exclude=* is effectively ignored). Note also that excluding a directory prevents it not only from being copied but also from being traversed, so this effectively excludes everything below it. See this rsync filter primer for more information.
rsync --include='/' --include='/subDir***' --exclude='*' baseDir/ targetDir/
rsync --exclude='/bad*' baseDir/ targetDir/

A: You can use --exclude-from option of rsync to define whatever you do not want to include to sync
For Example:
 #cat exclude.txt
  baseDir/bad1
  baseDir/bad2

 #rsync --exclude-from=exclude.txt -avr source_dir_path destination_dir_path

A: rsync will take wildcards as arguments to the --exclude options so you can do something like this:
$ pwd
$ /some/dir

$ rsync -avz baseDir/ --exclude 'bad[1,2]' targetDir/.

For example:
$ rsync -avz baseDir/ --exclude 'bad[1,2]' targetDir/.
sending incremental file list
./
subDir1/
subDir1/file1
subDir2/
subDir2/file1

sent 185 bytes  received 61 bytes  492.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00


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The English Electric P.5 Kingston was a British twin-engined biplane flying boat built by English Electric. When the English Electric Company  was formed in 1918 from several companies, the Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company brought with it the two prototype Phoenix P.5 Cork reconnaissance flying boats. Redesigned, the Cork reappeared as the English Electric P.5 Kingston with a production order for five aircraft.

Design and development

In 1922 W.O. Manning led a team of designers to produce a coastal patrol and anti-submarine flying boat to meet Air Ministry Specification 23/23. They based the design on the Cork and the resulting aircraft looked similar but the hull was designed to the latest standard. The Kingston also had redesigned wingtip floats, extended upper-wing ailerons, and a larger fin and rudder than the Cork.

In January 1923 the Air Ministry contracted English Electric to build a prototype and the new design was built at Preston, then moved by road to Lytham for flight trials. Following an inspection by the Ministry on 12 May 1924 the prototype, serial number N168, was launched into the Ribble Estuary on 22 May and after twenty-minutes of trials on the water was taken out into the Estuary for its first flight. At the point of takeoff N168 suddenly stopped "amidst a cloud of spray" and then began to sink. The crew had been thrown out and the aircraft floated with its wings on the surface. While the crew were being rescued the aircraft had floated away and was recovered by a tug which beached N168. The flying-boat was patched up and the water pumped out and by the evening had been refloated using a tug. While being towed by the tug the strong current struck the pier and it had to be beached again, it was recovered to the company slipway the following day. The investigation concluded that the flying-boat had hit some flotsam.

Despite the accident the Air Ministry ordered four more flying-boats to be designated the Kingston Mk. I. The first Kingston I N9709 was ready a few months later, only small changes were made from the prototype including a slightly larger beam and two-bladed propellers. The flying-boat was delivered by rail to the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment at Felixstowe in November 1924 for acceptance trials. Although the flying-boat met the type and air-handling requirements it did not meet the Ministries' requirements for seaworthiness. Modifications were made to N9709 for improvements including four-bladed propellers. On 25 May 1925, just after becoming airborne the engines left their mountings and the wing structure failed causing cracks in the hull, the aircraft floated and the crew escaped without injury.

The second Kingston I N9710 first flew on 13 November 1925 at Lytham and was flown to RAF Calshot for service trials along with the third flying-boat N9711. The fourth flying-boat N9712 was dismantled and the hull moved to RAE Farnborough to enable tests to be carried out.

This fourth aircraft re-emerged as N9712  at Lytham with a new duralumin hull and became the sole Kingston II. Test-flown at Felixstowe it failed to perform and by 1930 the metal hull was used for tests at Farnborough.

The last aircraft to be built, N9713, had a completely redesigned hull, but this reverted to wooden construction, and was known as the Kingston III. Although more successful than the others the Kingston III was kept by the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment for experimental work and sometimes as a crew ferry. It was intended to produce a metal-hulled variant of the Kingston III but the day the Kingston III left Lytham for Felixstowe in 1926 the company closed its aircraft department.

Following some wartime sub-contract work the aircraft department was not reformed until 1944.

Specifications (Kingston I)

See also

References

1920s British military reconnaissance aircraft
Kingston
Flying boats
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1924
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft


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Q: AJAX getting data from selected dropdown and giving result PHP
I need to get two data from my both dropdowns.
First dropdown gets fabricID  and the second gets sizeID.
And then ajax sends the selected data to calculates.php
I used two functions to get each dropdown data inside of one $(document).ready(function(){...
$(document).ready(function(){

    $('.fabric').on('change',function(){
        var fabricID = $(this).val();
        console.log("fabric id_price is " + fabricID); //debugging
        if(fabricID){
           $.ajax({
                type:'POST',
                url:'calculates.php',
                dataType: 'json',
                data: {
                fabric_id: fabricID
                },

                success:function(html){
                    //closing tags
                    //dont need nothing here because i need
                    //just to get the value from both together

    });

    $('.size').on('change',function(){
        var sizeID = $(this).val();
        if(sizeID){
            $.ajax({
                type:'POST',
                url:'calculates.php',
                dataType: 'json',
                data: {
                size_id: sizeID
                },

                success:function(html){
                    $('.icms').html(html); // i need to get result here
                    based on the result from calculates.php
               //closing tags

Is this right?
Did I build the jQuery script the right way?
Because its not working.
Look to my tables:
table:almofads is where is stored my fabrics names

and i will get the id_price from the dropdown fabrics and send the id_price to
table:valores_almofadas where price_id has to be equal to the first table.

So when I select fabricID and sizeID, I will get the result from here...calculates.php
 <?php header('Content-Type: application/json');
 include_once '../incluedes/conn_cms.php'; //session started here

 if(isset($_GET["size_id"],$_GET["id_price"])){
    $size_id=$_GET["size_id"] ;
    $id_price=$_GET["id_price"] ;

 $query3 =" SELECT * FROM valores_almofadas
            WHERE size='$size_id'
            AND price_id ='$id_price'";

   $result = mysqli_query($conn,$query3);
   while($rows = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)){

        if($_SESSION['estado'] == 'SP'){
           $ICMS = $rows['icms_7'];
           }else{
           $ICMS = $rows['icms_12'];
           }
           $_SESSION['icms']=$ICMS;

        } echo json_encode($_SESSION['icms']);

}
?>

so the result will be displayed here in cart.php in $_SESSION['icms']
function cart(){
    global $conn;

    $fabric_options = '<option>Select fabric</option>';
    $query2 = "SELECT * FROM almofadas";
    $result = mysqli_query($conn,$query2);
    while($rows = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)){
     $tecido=$rows['tecido'];
     $id_price=$rows['id_price'];
     //sizes for size dropdown
     $t50='50';
     $t45='45';
     $fabric_options .= '<option value="'.$id_price.'">'.$tecido.'</option>';
    }

 foreach ($_SESSION as $name => $value) {
     if($value > 0){
     if(substr($name, 0, 8 ) == "product_"){
     $length = strlen($name) -8;
     $item_id = substr($name,8 , $length);
     $query = "SELECT *
               FROM gallery2
               WHERE gallery2.id =".escape_string($item_id). "";
               $run_item = mysqli_query($conn,$query);
  while($rows = mysqli_fetch_assoc($run_item)){
     $vari   = $rows['variante'];
     $num    = $rows['title'];
     $id     = $rows['id'];

 $btn_add ='<button type="button" class="btn btn-success actions plus" data-action="plus" product_id="'.$id.'"></button>';

 $btn_remove ='<button type="button" class="btn btn-warning actions less" data-action="remove" product_id="'.$id.'"></button>';

 $btn_delete ='<button type="button" class="btn btn-default actions" data-action="delete" product_id="'.$id.'" onclick="deleteRow(this)"></button>';
    if($rows['variante'] < 1){
    $vari="";
    }else{
    $vari = "-".$rows['variante'];
    }

    $product = '

       '.$num.''.$vari.'

          <select name="fabric" class="fabric select form-control selectpicker" required=""  >
        '. $fabric_options . '
          </select>

          <select  id="" class="select size form-control selectpicker" required style="width:80%;"  >
          <option value="'.$t50.'">50x'.$t50.'</option>
          <option value="'.$t45.'">45x'.$t45.'</option>
          </select>

       '.$value.'	//quantity of the product
       R$:'.$_SESSION['icms'] .'	 // cost of product
       '.$value * $_SESSION['icms'] .' 	 total of product (sub.total)

       '.$btn_add.' '.$btn_remove.' '.$btn_delete.'//buttons

';
           echo $product;

        }
      }
    }
  }
}

and for last my buttons functions in cart_functions.php
header('Content-Type: application/json');
session_start();

if (isset($_GET['action'])) {
  $action = $_GET['action'];
  $prod   = $_GET['prod_id'];
  $prodname = 'product_'.$prod;
  $result;

  switch ($action) {
    case 'add':
        $result = add_prod($prod, $prodname);
    break;
    case 'plus':
        $result = plus_prod($prod, $prodname);
    break;
    case 'remove':
        $result = remove_prod($prod, $prodname);
    break;
    case 'delete':
        $result = delete_prod($prod, $prodname);
    break;
    default:
        $result = ['result'=>'error'];
    break;
  }
}

echo json_encode($result);

function add_prod($prod, $prodname){
  //sua função para add
 $_SESSION[$prodname] = 1;
 return ['result'=>'success'];
}

function plus_prod($prod, $prodname){
  $_SESSION[$prodname]++;
  return ['result'=>'success', 'val'=>$_SESSION[$prodname]];
}

function remove_prod($prod, $prodname){
  //sua função para remove
  $_SESSION[$prodname]--;
  return ['result'=>'success', 'val'=>$_SESSION[$prodname]];
}

function delete_prod($prod, $prodname){
  //sua função para delete
  $_SESSION[$prodname] = null;
  return ['result'=>'success'];
}

A: Both fabricID and sizeID need to be sent like this in the ajax call:
{size_id: sizeID} & {fabric_id: fabricID}


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import os
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.contrib import admin
import settings

handler500 = 'djangotoolbox.errorviews.server_error'
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    ('^_ah/warmup$', 'djangoappengine.views.warmup'),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),

    # RapidSMS core URLs
    url(r'^$', 'views.dashboard', name='rapidsms-dashboard'),
)

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Bhankhar is a village in Unjha Taluka of Mahesana district in Gujarat, India.

Places of interest
There is an Dargha of Sayyed Families is an ancient Hindu temple dedicated to Agiya Vaital as well as a temple of Vishnu.

Amentites
The village has a primary school and a post office.

References

Villages in Mehsana district


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StoryMap JS is a free tool that comes from the same people that offer the popular multimedia timeline tool called Timeline JS. On StoryMap JS you can create map-based stories. You create the story by matching slides to locations on a map. In the following video I demonstrate how to use StoryMap JS.
StoryMap JS can be used by students to tell the stories of great explorers and their explorations. Or as you saw in my video above, students can use StoryMap JS to tell personal stories that are connected to locations. While you could do similar things in Google's My Maps tool, StoryMap JS offers a better overall presentation particularly with regards to transitions between markers on the map.


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Russell Moore Explores How Family Makes Us Who We Are in New Book
By Tmothy Yap Jul 21, 2018 04:42 AM EDT
Why do our families have so much power over us? In his latest book, "The Storm-Tossed Family: How the Cross Reshapes the Home" (on sale September 15 from B&H Books), bestselling author Dr. Russell Moore explores how family makes us who we are and how understanding this can liberate us to live without fear.
A longtime pastor, a former dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and current president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Moore brings theological insight and pastoral approach to this most sensitive of topics.
"Understanding the family starts first not at the dinner table or in a honeymoon suite, but at the cross," said Moore. "We can be free to be family when we see how God designed families but also how these families point beyond our individual stories to the ultimate story of our lives-the gospel."
"The Storm-Tossed Family" blends biblical teaching with everyday stories, giving readers invaluable biblical perspective on such issues as:
Marriage, sexuality and fidelity
Divorce, abuse and broken relationships
Parenting, discipline and bonding
Trauma, generational sin and healing
The church itself as the family of God
How family is not, and cannot, be ultimate for the Christian
This is far from Moore's first foray into questions of family life and human sexuality. As the father of five, his eldest two were adopted from Russia, he made a compelling case for adoption in 2009's "Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families." And in 2016, he published "The Christ-Shaped Marriage: Love, Fidelity and the Gospel," which gave readers a picture of how marriage and the gospel mutually illuminate one another and a resounding call to fidelity, holiness and joy.
Moore also authored "Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel," which was both a ECPA Bestseller and 2016 Christianity Today's Book of the Year.
The Wall Street Journal has called Moore "vigorous, cheerful and fiercely articulate." He was named in 2017 to Politico Magazine's list of top fifty influence-makers in Washington and has been profiled by such publications as the Washington Post, the New Yorker and the Weekly Standard.
Moore speaks with a voice that is at once generous and incisive, compassionate and convicting. He calls his fellow believers to a radical new path, one where family is neither everything nor nothing, but one of many means by which God calls us to recognize our own brokenness and receive his unending grace.
"The gospel shape of the family is why a book on the family is not just for those with, or who are hoping for, families," said Moore. "The admonitions on marriage and parenting in the New Testament, for example, are not given simply to husbands or wives or children but in the hearing of the whole congregation. That's because we are called to bear one another's burdens, to help one another and to hold one another accountable. Your marriage matters to me. My sexual purity matters to you. Our parenting joys and failures affect the whole church, and thus the rest of the world."
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COMPUTER-AIDED STRUCTURAL DESIGN
5 credits during the 1st year of 10799 CIVIL ENGINEERING (LM-23) GENOVA
GENOVA (CIVIL ENGINEERING)
COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF STRUCTURES
The purpose of this course is to sensitize the student to the structural design with the aid of automatic calculus code, which are used professionally both for the determination of the stress in frames, and during the verification, in terms of capacity (resistance, stiffness and ductility) of the cross sections.
The teaching aims to provide students with operational capabilities in the field of structural design, presenting methodological basis and practical tools based on computer science environments which complement the computational analysis of the structures with the automated verification, structural elements and structures design procedures. The recurrent structural design (such as multi-stories buildings in reinforced concrete) and the computational analysis of the structures (finished elements method) methodologies learnt during previous courses, are supplemented in order to develop full and computerized structural design procedures, with the purpose of providing students with useful knowledge and specific skills for their professional career.
The lessons will take place in the computer science classroom and Calculus Codes SAP2000 V.17 and VIS 9.3 will be required. The Professor will project a building for residential purposes in detail with the aid of the abovementioned Calculus Codes, in accordance with the anti seismic rules in force. The lessons will partially be (video) recorded with a specific "open source" software in order to realize "video tutorials" which will be useful to the students who will want to individually view again the Professor's FEM modelling demonstration in class. The exercises will take place in class and will be followed by the Professor.
The automatic calculation projecting course is divided in 13 lessons, 4 consecutive hours each as follows:
LESSON N° 1 – CALCULUS CODE INTRODUCTION
Lesson in class conducted by the Professor with an explanation of the calculus software and its potential, focusing mainly on the modelling of bidimensional elements such as slabs loaded in their flat surfaces and inflected slabs. Modelling of a shear wall with no openings: determination of the forces and moments according to the software's results, mesh's thickening effects and evaluation of the results by cross referencing the exact literature solution. Modelling of the same wall with the addition of openings and considerations regarding the effects that these openings produce on its global performance.
LESSON N° 2 – MODELING OF A MULTI-STORIES BUILDING FOR RESIDENTIAL PURPOSES
Lesson in class conducted by the Professor in which the geometry of the developed building will be modelled and dimensioned in the Concrete class (building made of five stories + one basement). Setting of the FEM modelling, discussion of criteria and strategies for a correct definition of the numeric model, sensitizing the student towards the possibility of realizing different models (often simplified) in order to achieve reliable results, easily verifiable without wasting too much time or resources.
LESSON N°3 – MODELING OF A MULTI-STORIES BUILDING FOR RESIDENTIAL PURPOSES
Lesson in class conducted by the Professor in which the modelling of lesson number 2 will be completed and in which each load combination, the usage of design loads on the calculus model and the assignment of the combination of the actions will be defined.
LESSON N° 4 – CLASS PRACTICE
The students will be divided in groups of two people and will work in class on the project previously dimensioned during the Concrete Design course: setting of the geometric FEM model.
LESSON N°5: CLASS PRACTICE
The students will be divided in groups of two people and will work in class on the project previously dimensioned in the Concrete Design course: completion of the FEM mode, defining of the design loads and their combinations.
LESSON N°6: MODELING OF A MULTISTORIES BUILDING FOR RESIDENTIAL PURPOSES
Lesson in class conducted by the Professor in which considerations will be made regarding the correct definition of the "q" behaviour factor to apply to the response spectrum, focusing mainly on verifying the torsional deformation of the building and on the determination of the flexural and torsional stiffness. Definition of the spectrum project of an Italian municipality situated in a sensible seismic zone (Zone II or Zone I). Comparison between the results obtained by the calculus software and the ones obtained during the Concrete Design course.
The students will be divided in groups of two people and will work on the project previously dimensioned during the Concrete Design course: evaluation of the building's susceptivity to torsional deformability, definition of the project spectrum, seismic analysis of the structure and validation of the results.
LESSON N° 8 – CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE FEM MODEL RESULTS AND VERIFICATION OF THE STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
Lesson in class conducted by the Professor in which the output of the FEM model will be "critically" analysed in terms of displacements of the control joints, stresses in the main structural elements and basic global reactions. Verification of beams and pillars with a suitable "post processing" software in accordance with the NTC2008 norm. Verification of a shear wall in accordance with the "anti seismic" criteria stated by the abovementioned norm and comparison with the rebar obtained during the Concrete Design course.
The students will be divided in groups of two people and will work on the project previously dimensioned during the Concrete Design course: verification of the main structural elements with a suitable "post processing" software, verification of a shear wall according to anti seismic criteria and comparison among the rebar obtained during the Concrete Design course, setting of the calculus report.
LESSON N° 10 – CLASS PRACTICE
The students will be divided in groups of two people and will work on the project previously dimensioned during the Concrete Design course: completion of the previous lesson
LESSON N° 11 – PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE FOR THE PROJECT, THE VERIFICATION AND THE DESIGN OF STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
Lesson in class conducted by the Professor in which software for structures' executive projects will be illustrated, focusing mainly on the automatic drafting of the rebar executive designs. Outlining of the utilization of the BIM method for the interactive creation of FEM models starting from architectural and plant design 3D models.
LESSON N° 12 – PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE UTILIZATION FOR THE PROJECT, THE VERIFICATION AND THE STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS' DESIGN
Lesson in class conducted by the Professor in which a bidimensional multi-stories frame will be modelled, applying the project loads/stresses (static and seismic), its verification according to the "design capacity" criteria, extraction of the rebar executive drawings and critical analysis of the automatically obtained "product".
The students will work in class on a software similar to the one suggested by the Professor during the lessons (11 and 12) realizing the modelling of a continuous beam extracted by their works on the Concrete Design course, its verification and automatic extraction of rebar executive drawings.
Lecture notes provided by the Professor and available on AULAWEB, other than video tutorials edited by the Professor during the practicing lessons.
Simone Caffè
ROBERTA MASSABO' (President)
SIMONE CAFFE' (President)


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Home › Libya › Welcome home, Tawerghans!
Welcome home, Tawerghans!
There is hope on the horizon for the Libyan town of Tawergha that has been totally ethnically cleansed by the pro-NATO forces and NATO itself during the 2011 aggression – at least if we believe the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). Calling it a breakthrough reached at the Geneva dialogue talks earlier this week, the UNSMIL stated:
In line with the positive environment that prevailed at the meeting, the UN facilitated an agreement between the municipalities of Misrata and Tawergha on the following points:
1) Establishment of a committee from the local council of Tawergha and whoever they call upon to help in visiting the prisons in the city of Misrata and to receive assurances about their conditions, and to review with the responsible authorities the charges against them and their legal status.
2) The right of the people of Tawergha to return to their land through the establishment of a committee to discuss the mechanism to achieve that on the ground and to remove all obstacles and prepare all the appropriate conditions.
There was agreement that UNSMIL will follow up this process in cooperation with the two sides.
However, even mainstream sources that covered up for the outrageous racist crimes of the pro-NATO rebels against the Tawerghans, were quick to express their concerns about the UNSMIL statement. "There are fears that the continuing antagonism towards Tawergha in Misrata is such that this move to resolve the differences between the two could undermine support for those in the city who want to build bridges with the rest of the country and end the current political crisis", Libya Herald wrote on Thursday.
Speaking about bridges, the road from Misrata to Tawergha most certainly is everything but a bridge towards brighter future. Along the route, the Misrata Brigade has painted a slogan in which they call themselves "The Brigade for purging slaves and black skin." The Misrata rebels perfectly lived up to their slogan during the aftermath of the so-called fall of Tripoli, when they locked Tawerghans in zoo-like cages with their hands bound and forced them to eat the Green Flag of the Jamahiriya, which once again indicates that racism lies at the heart of many of the NATO campaigns.
Following a two month siege, Tawergha, a once vibrant town of over 31,000 people, the vast majority of them darker skinned than most Libyans, has been emptied of its entire population in late 2011. In the Amazigh language, Tawergha means "green island", and it indeed was a strong resistance of Green Libyans against NATO, from where the forces of the Jamahiriya led the assault against the Misrata terrorists. Today, Tawergha is a ghost town in the middle of the desert. The town lies about 35 miles south of Misrata, and it was there where NATO puppet Mahmud Jabril himself approved the wiping of the town off the map when he said that Misrata has the right to interfere in the "issue of Tawergha", meaning its loyalty to the Jamahiriya.
Since then, pro-NATO forces have been ransacking and torching homes in the town. Tens of thousands of Tawerghans are now living in refugee camps or, like over two million other Libyans, under dire conditions in countries abroad. Credible reports mention Tawerghans being raped, disappearing and being killed.
So who benefits from the "agreement between the municipalities of Misrata and Tawergha" reached at the Geneva talks, if not the people of Tawergha?
The UNSMIL statement on Tawergha is a perfect tool to be used by European courts and immigration agencies who are eager to get rid of the many Libyan refugees. The NATO governments very much wanted this beautiful clean war, which unlike the war on Afghanistan and Iraq met almost no opposition as We the People were led to believe that the end justifies all means when it came to eliminating the "cruel bloodthirsty dictator", but they do not want the uncomfortable results of their aggression, including the hundreds of thousands of Libyan refugees that have flooded into Europe. Fortunately the UN came to the NATO governments' rescue, and now the European authorities have an official document to wave and an official statement proving that they can wash their hands clean of this well-hidden dirty racist secret.
Welcome home, Tawerghans! Welcome back to your vandalized and looted houses. Welcome back to the ashes of your beloved places that were set on fire to prevent anyone from ever living there again, as the pro-NATO rebels shamelessly declared in 2011. We wish you all the best!
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Q: Setting UserTokenProvider throws error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object I'm trying to generate a password reset token using the following:
Dim resetToken As String
Dim options As New IdentityFactoryOptions(Of UserManager)

manager.UserTokenProvider = New DataProtectorTokenProvider(Of ApplicationUser)(options.DataProtectionProvider.Create("PasswordReset"))

resetToken = manager.GeneratePasswordResetToken(user.Id)

I receive an error:

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

on the highlighted piece of code. I simply cannot figure out why as the examples I've researched are identical.